Wheeler County Eagle.
Official Organ Wheeler County.
Published Every Friday.
J. U. GHOSS, Editor and Publisher
SI.OO Per Year in Advance.
We cannot stress the importance of
remedying our poor water system in
Alamo Uk> strongly. It is one of
the greatest needs of our town and
should not be neglected any longer.
Alamo is growing rapidly and that fact
alone should impress us with the need
of better water facilities, to say noth
ing of the health of our people.
The argument that the surface wells
have been used heretofore with no bad
results does not speak for the future,
and ano argument with an increased
population. To continue to use <.he old
wells will serve to retard the growth
of our town and produce sickness that
otherwise could be avoided
Good water, good school and churches
will make of any town a desirable place
to live, and we hope that steps will be
taken at once to supply the town with
this essential need.
With this issue we begin printing
the Eagle at home. Our office is lo
cated near the depot, where will be
pleased to have our friends call on us.
We are prepared to serve you and ask
that you assist us in making this paper
one of the befit country weeklies pub
Jished in this part of Georgia.
We are prepared to do your job print
ing—anything from a visiting card to a
page hand bill. Before placing your
next order see us.
Governor Blease continues to cut his
eapers. Now he is threatening to put
the city of Columbia under martial law
because the municipal authorities ar
rested his chauffeur for speeding.
Woodrow Wilson Sold.
Athens, Ga., March 11—
“Woodrow Wiison” has been
sold. The Woodrow Wilson who
has been made the object of sale
and the subject of comment there
fore is a specially fine, eight
months old Percheron colt raised
at tde state College of Agricul
ture, as much pains proportion
ately having been given him in
the selection of his parents and
the attention to his diet as many
human babies receive. The colt
was sold to a Middle Georgia
stockman who will raise him and
breed from his stock. The price
received was more than has been
paid for a colt of that age in this
part of the state.
Notice
This is to notify the public that I will
not pay the $250 subscribed to the court
house fund. J. A. Hinson
This March 12, 1913.
. Statement Town of Alamo
Statement of collections and expendi
tures for the Town of Alamo for
the month of February, 1913
Collections
Special tax _...; SIO.OO
Advalorem tax 1912 16.00
Fines 42.50
Total ~ s6<so
Cash on hand February Ist 383.88
Expenditures 77.25
Balance $375.13
Total $452.38
Expenditures
February, 1013
J. W. Clements, st - $ 2.00
J. D. Ethredge, st 6.50
Lige Allen, st 10.30
J. W. Lowery, salary 35 00
Lamar Sears, st 4 00
C. R. Outlaw, st - 2 £5
J. W. Lowery, cost B.CO
H. L. Sears, cost .. 5.C0
A. L. Elkins, st 1.70
G. M. Elkins, cost 2 50
Total $ 77 25
Balance ,$37& 13
$452.38
Approved by
H L. SEARS, G M. ELKINS, I
Mayor. Clerk.
GREAT PUBLICITY
VOTING CONTEST.
Young Ladies of Wheeler County Have
Opportunity to Compete for Valuable
Prize Offered.
In presenting this our fourth issue of the Wheeler County
Eagle, we call your attention to the voting contest we have arrang
ed to put on, under the auspices oi the United Contest Advertising
Company. This contest offers the young ladies of Wheeler county
an opportunity to compete for tne beautiful and useful capital prize
offered in this contest—a handsome piano valued at $450.00.
The plans and details of this liberal offer will be announced in
our next issue Remember, young ladies, we are going to award
the piano, absolutely free, to some one of you, and as the time will
be short, you should ho'd yourself in readiness and as soon as the
arrangements can be perfected, to get busv, and enter the contest
with a determination to win. Information cheerfully furnished to
those contemplating entering the contest.
The contest will be fair and under the management of one of
the largest contest companies in the United States.
GOV. PROPOSES TO
END LAWLESSNESS
Atlanta, March 11.—Governor
Brown proposes to try the effi
ciency of rewards for breaking
up the lawlessness in Forsyth
county, from which the negroes
have recently been driven in
large numbers.
He has offered a reward of
S2OO for the party who recently
dynamited the home of an inof
fensive negro and drove him and
his family away, and says be will
offer rewards in all sucn cases
when requested by the proper
authorities.
The governor is seeking infor
mation with regard to the situ
ation in Forsyth, but owing to
the political situation there has
been able to secure very little
that is of value regarding it.
WANEED.
To list a farm somewhere near a good
town, in or about 4 miles of town. Place
containing anywhere from 100 to 200
acres, more or less; good forming lands
and some improvements and near a
town that has good market for country
produce. A cash deal. Write A. F.
Conner & Co., Alamo, Ga., or A. F,
Conner & Co., Rochelle, Ga.
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STYLE HO
2034
WE ARE ALWAYS READY
WITH THE GOODS
Anything in General Merchandise Line.
Graham & Hightower
ALAMO. GA
Penniless, Hungry
Edna Johnson Stole
Atlanta, March 13. —Declaring that
she was forced to steal out of sheer
desperation, and that though she was
garbed in a silk and velvet dre o of the
latest fashion, she actually did not have
a nickel to buy sorrethi-'g to eat with,
Edna Johnson, an uhusuaily pretty
girl, who says she c me from Kansas
City, broke a >wn in police court yester
day afternoon and plead guilty to shop
lifting charge. After spending a sleep
less night in a cell at police headquart
ers, she was in a hysterical condition
and wept pitifully. She said that she
was penniless and starvinand that
unable to obtain work, she preferred
theft to tie only other alternative.
Sentence has been su-pended in her
case, and Jhe^Do’ice are making an
effhrt to get in ^mmunication with her
family The girl shows every evidence
of edtcition and refinement
Landsbur^ New'S
Everybody in this rection is getting
ready to plant.
Mrs. J. A. Barlow visited her niece,
Mrs. Eddie ArmfieW at Mt Vernon
Saturday at d Sunday hist.
Mrs. J. A. Watson has return'd home
after spending the we. k with ler
parents, Mr. and Mrs Dave Gillis.
Mr. and Mrs. T. I Johnson visited
Mr. and Mrs. N. Miller Sunday last.
Mr. N. E. Barlow was in Alamo last
Saturday and Sunday.
V r . Jack Watson visited Mr. N,
Miller Sunday afternoon.
Mrs J N N Gillis visited Mrs. T. I.
Johnson Friday last. Gray Eyes.
mm so
fRIHIDS OF 0. S.
Expressing himself with re
gard to the nation wide move
ment to make him Secretary of.
Agriculture in the Wilson cabinet,
President Charles S. Barrett, of
the Farmers’ Union, says:
“I would be lacking in the pri
mary elements of gratitude did I
not express heartfelt thanks to
friends throughout the United
States who have so vigorously
exerted themselves in an effort to
have me named as Secretary of
Agriculture in the Wilson ad
ministration. Those who know
me intimately, and they are le
gion, wiil understand that I am
concerned less over the fact that
lain not to go into the cabinet,
and most over the revelations of
affection and loyalty that have
come to me, and, greater than
all, over the clearer view the
nation has been given of the ac
complishments and purposes of
the Farmers’ Union.
“The movement in my behalf
started without my knowledge
or consent. Beginning with a
few friends and newspapers on
the Pacific coast where. I am free
to admit I thought it would end,
it quickly attained nation-wide
proport ons. No orc been
more amazed than myself over
the spontaneity and breadth of
sentiment quickly developed
over the suggestion. At no s'agc
have I given the movement mv
encourageipeni. My mental and
physical energies have been so
coin] 1 tely absorbed by my work
in behalf of the farmers of
Amer’ea that I baxehad neither
time nor incimim to intrigue
or labor to promote my selfish
intere ts. Yet, deso t: h- far.
the movement to place me in the
cabinet gair.el ground with mar
velous rapidity.
There is no state in the coun
try that has not taken it up with
earnestness and enthusiasm.
Newspapers that I thought ig
n >rant <>f oar etuse, as well as
those Unit have show M steady
and intelligent devotion to it,
took up the movement and in
dorsed.iteditorially with warmth
and sincerity. I would be less
than human did I not confess to
gratification at a development
the dimensions of v h ch startl'd
even myself. Uncp. lifted a ■
proval came not only frpmoir
own people, but from men of
prominence outside the ui i m
and from all the partes
In the last analysis. I regard
this avalanche of indorsements
as a tribute, not to myself per
sonally, but to the Farmers’
Union and to the pre-eminent
importance of the work in which
it is engaged. The Union is the
chief beneficiary of these evi
dences of friendship to me. The
nation has been shown, with an
overwhelming force never before
approximated, that thisorgm
ization is a living, vital purposeful
b idy of farmers, the most power
ful and the most achieved in the
history of the whole world. I
hold it as a matter of high pride
that my name is linked indissolu
bly with this organization, its ac
complisbm mts, its tried by-fire
principles and its underlying,
sacred mission for the true
emancipation of the American
farmer.
“Sections and states that here
tofore have proven indiffere it to
our propaganda, ane now alive to
it. They will easily be brought
into line. From the moment my
friends launched my name, I
.lave been in receipt of thousands
of h ftoin '-c v 'rton < f
ibe culm o, iIQ ..ring sto lu
Fanners Union, asking for in
formation, for literature and for
organizers. The Union is, there
fore more conspicuous in the
national eye than at any time
since its founding.
“This fact wi lalso bring to us
many more men of force, initia
tive, means and ability, who have
heretofore held aloof because
they were not convinced, or be
canse they feared this organ i
zation would go the downward
path of all its predecessors- We
have come a long way. We have
eonqured many obstacles. Others
great and small, are in the way.
But we have beeh tried by disas
ter, proven by failure here and
there, and we face the future
confident th a we are equipped
as never before to carry on the
mighty work of the organization
“To those who know and ur
derstand me, it is not necessary
to state th it the delegation of au
thority to me by three miliior
American farmers constitutes
one of the greatest tasks and re
sponsibilities that has ever come
to a man in this country. It is v
source of deep seated joy tome
that my mental energies, my
very life, are lastingly wrapped
up in and consecrated to this
labor of making easier t, e paths
of the must important < lass of
American citizens. If ever I han
doubt that 1 enjoy the co-oper
ation of my people, and that I
will henceforth enjoy their whole
hearted support in our mutual
aims-, it has been removed by this
movement. No man could fail to
dedicate himself to his life-work
with renewed sense of humility
an 1 hope when inspired, as I
have been, by such universal ana
unsought expressions of esteem
and approval.”
Charles S. Barrert.
Union ' Try, Ga., March Bth 1913.
OBJECT OF SUSPICION
By OLIVE WENGLER.
As Ointlly sat huddled on the top
ttep leading to his house and felt the
niety rain against his face he wish-
I “<i he had not been so everlastingly
'efec-TVed. He wished he had been
■ vont to mingle with his fellow men.
। especially since coming to the snb
! urbs a few weeks previous to live.
These raff actions were surging
through his soul because GUllHy was
locked out. In addition to this fact.
It was after 12 o’clock, his wife was.
uway on a visit, and he didn’t know
j the people next door.
He couldn’t go to a hotel, because
I there wasn’t a hotel In the suburb,
i He couldn’t take a train back to town,
because the trains had stopped run
ning by that time. It grew colder and
colder.
Gillilly felt that he must do some
thing. So, tumbling down his steps, he
strode across the wet lawn to the
neighboring house, where be rang the
b”H.
■ lood evening," said Gillilly to the
; clue pajamas that finally opened the
door. "I’m Mr. Gillilly, and I live next
door. I’m locked out. Would you.
mind lending me all the door keys you
have? Perb>p3 one of them will fit
my door.”
The blue pajamas laughed a cold,
sarcastic laugh. "You have your
nerve,” he said. "Quite likely that I'm
: going to help you break into a neigh
bor’s house on any such yarn as that!
i I happen to know that the people next
door are away visiting!"
“I saw the trunks go!” floated tri
umphantly down the stairs in fem
inine tones.
“Mrs. Gillilly went away, but I’m
at home,” explained Gilli Hy.
The blue pajamas laughed again.
“Good night,” ha said. But Gillilly
thrust his foot Into the crack of the
door
"I don’t blame you," he said, 'tut
I’m telling you the truth. Here are let
ters and cards—”
"He may have murdered Mr. Gillilly
and taken his papers to help along his
story!” excitedly called the fem
inine voice. "Don’t you believe him,
George!”
"I can't hang around outdoors on
a night like this!" protested Gillilly,
“Come along with me and I’ll prov- I
to you that I know the house!”
The blue pajamas wavered, the: <
slipped on an overcoat and tramped
across the lawn with Gillilly. In the
porch behind them the owner of the
feminine voice stood watchfully.
“I’ve got the hatchet, George, if h«
does anything to you!” she called.
The third key the neighbor tried
turned tn the lock of 0111111/8 front
door, but the blue pajamas stopped
him. “What wood.” be demanded, “is
tn the dresser in the back bedroom on
your second floor.
