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Wheeler County Eagle
Official Organ Wheeler County.
Published Every Friday.
J. U. IIHOSS, Editor and Publisher
SI.OO Per Year in Advance.
We would not offend anyone or any
thing-, but there is a nuisance in the
shape of a drove of sheep that annoys
and kicks up much disturbance on the
streets of Alamo every night. This
pest is not tolerated in other towns,
and why here? We ara living in an
incorporated town and the streets are
1,0 place to herd cattle, hogs and sheep
and their kind. Think of the mournful
cries and bleats that arise trim the
herd of sheep, any hour in the night.
One not accustomed to suc’i cr es
would think that some child had won
dered away and crying out for help.
The cry is veiy doleful Suppose the
city council get together and devise
some, remedy whereby the streets of
Alamo will be freed of this nu since.
The fatmers of Wheeler county
are making good in the way of pre
paring for this year’s arop. They can
only be seen in town when they come,
for a load of fertilizer or somethii g '
that they have absolutely got to have, i
The prospects are bright for a got d
crop and the farmers feel bright and
cheerful. Since the court house quei tion
has ceased everybody has got down to
business, and with good seasons. the
end of the present year will find the
people of Wheeler county in the best
shape they have been in in a long tin e.
Lansbur# News
Everybody in this section is
busy trying ?o to get their Crops
planted.
Mrs. J. N. Gillis made a busi
ness trip to Towns Tuesday last.
We are glad to see Mrs. W. T.
Hadden is out again after a case
of the m easels.
Mrs. Culpepper spent Saturday
night with Mrs N. Miller.
Mr. and Mrs, T. I. Johnson
visited the home of Mr and Mrs
N. Miller Sunday last.
Mr. Eugene McNair was rid
ing around Saturday on his new
bicycle.
Miss Elese Barlow was home
Saturday and Sunday. She is
attendidg school at Alamo.
Mr. Stephen Sutton visited Mr
J. A. Bi row Sunday hst.
Mrs. T. I. Johnson spent Sun
day with Mrs. J. N. Gillis.
Look out girls for Coney and
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WE ARE ALWAYS READY
WITH THE GOODS
Anything in General Merchandise Line.
Graham & Hightower
ALAMO, GA
Notice to Contractors
OFFICE OF THE ORDINARY OF
WHEELER COUNTY, GEORGIA.
Sealed proposals will be received in
this office until ten o’clock a. m., of
May the 6th, 1913, and then opened for
the construction complete of a court
house for Wheeler county, Georgia,
at Alamo, Georgia, in accordance
with plans and specifications on file in
this office and in the office of I. P.
Crutchfield, architct, 805 Germania
bank building, Savannah, Ga. The
building to be of brick with concrete
foundation and to be two storiei high
with four entrances, with offices for
the ordinary, clerk of the superior
court, sheriff, tax receiver, tax col
lector, treasurer, surveyor, superinten
dent of education and a justice court
and county commissioner’s room on the
ground floor; and with a grand jury
room, solicitor’s office, witness room,
two petit jury rooms, and a superior
court room, a prisoner’s room, judge’s
retiring room, a consultation room and
a gallery on the second floor; and to oc
cupy a ground space of about 65 feet
and 8 inches by 100 feet and 8 inches;
all of which is more particularly shown
in detail by reference to said plans and
specifications, which are hereby made a
part hereof. Said court house is toj
cost not more than thirty thousand
dollars, but the contract for the con-
I s.ruction of the same will be awarded
|to the lowest and best bidder. The
right is hereby reserved to reject any
and all proposals, Each bidder will be
required to enclose with his proposal a
cert fled check payable to Wm. B. Kent,
ordinary of Wheeler county, Georgia,
in the amount of two per cent, of his
estimate, which will be retained by said
ordinary until bond in an acceptable
Surely company for an an o .nt in double
the amount of the bid is accepted, and
all such checks accompanying rejected
bids will be promptly returned
Work on said court house shall begin
within thirty days after contract there
for is executed, and said building shall
be completed on or before the 31st day
of December, 1913. Payment under
said contract shall be made as follows:
Ten thousand dollars on December Ist,
1913; ten thousand dollars on December
15th, 1913, and the balance when said
court house has been completed and
accepted.
Drawings and specifications will be
ready for inspection at any and ail
times, and may be obtained from said
architect and said ordinary.
Witness my band and official signa
ture, this the first day of April, 1913*'
Wm. B KENT.
Ordinary, Wheeler County, Georgia,
sitting for county purposes
WANEED
To list, a farm somewhere near a good
, town, in or about 4 miles of town. Place
. containing anywhere from 100 to 200
I acres, more or less; good forming lands
I and some improvements and near a
i town that has good market for country
produce. A cash deal. Write A. F
Conner & Co., Alamo, Ga., or A. F.
I Conner & Co., Rochelle, Ga.
REAL USE FOR QUEUE
QUITE GOOD REASONS WHY
CHINAMAN CHERISHED IT.
Was Believed to Promote Health, and
Certainly Was a Protection to
the Head Both in Summer
and Winter.
A great many people have, no doubt,
wondered just why the Chinese should
cultivate queues. It has been claimed
that the queue was sacred to them,
that it was a disgrace to injure those
long braids of shiny black hair, just
as it was considered nearly a sacrilege
in Bible times to injure the beard.
No doubt the Chinaman took pride
in his long braid of hair, because his
fathers before him took pride in it,
but, according to several authorities
who have long studied the customs
and history of China and the Chinese,
there were other reasons for the
queue, and apparently quite good rea
sons at that.
Tn the first place, the Chinaman be
lieved that it was far more healthful
to wear his head shaven, except at
the top of fits head, and let it grow in
a long mass to be braided. One be
lief was that wearing the hair in this
manner increased the circulation of
blood in the brain and therefore made
the Chinaman healthier and keener.
Then again, during cold weather the
queue could be braided about the
head, giving the protection of a thick
warm cap. And in extremely hot
weather the queue was again braided
about the top of the head, this time to
protect the wearer from sunstroke.
The long queue is also used as a
sort of neck cloth, to wrap about the
neck, and it is bound loosely on the
back of the head to serve as a pillow
at night. Perhaps one of the most pe
culiar uses attributed to it is in sud
den illness or injury, especially in the
old days of warfare when swords were
the general weapons. Then it was
used as a turnijuet to bind about the
injury and prevent too great a loss
of blood.
It was for these reasons as well as
for any reasons of sentiment oA relig
ion that the Chinamen hesitated so
long before agreeing to sacrifice their
queues, but it is evident that the cus
tom of wearing queues was not what
might be termed a “foolish habit,” as
it was really made to serve a number
of uses.
Fable of a Dog That Misunderstood.
Once there was a motley little yel
low dog that was picked up th the
street by a kind man. The man, feel
ing sorry for him and being afraid
no one else would be good to such
a homely cur, kept Mm and bought
him a handsome collar and treated
him so well that the dog soon began
to strut and grew very proud and
vain.
“Surely,” he said to the house cat,
"I must be a very fine dog to be so
much admired and pettaj/’ and with
that he began to bark at the solemn
old Persian cat, which Ignored him
entirely.
“She is rather a well trained old
thing," thought the dog. “She knows
enough not to talk back to her bet
ters."
Then he ran out In the street and
barked at a beautiful horse that was
passing the house, but neither the
driver nor the horse paid any atten
tion to him.
“Ah,” said the dog, “I must be a
very fine dog. indeed —they, too, real
ize they must not reprove their su
periors.”
Moral: To the conceited all signs
are compliments.
Romantic Salute.
The young lieutenant in his trim
and elegant uniform saluted in the
stiff and yet somehow graceful mili
tary manner, a pretty matron promen
ading the hotel plazzl at Old Point
Comfort
“The military salute.” he said, “is
peculiarly appropriate to you, madam.
Do you happen to know its origin?”
“No.”
“Well, its origin goes back to the
days of chivalry, to the tournaments
of the Middle Ages. In those tourna^
ments the knights before the combat
began rode past the queen of beauty
lon her throne. As they caracoled by
' her they simultaneously brought the
hand to a horizontal position above
; the brows, then dropped it to the side
: again—a genuine military salute. And
i this they did, in their chivalrous way,
| to protect their eyes from the blinding
i rays of the queen of beauty’s loveli
ness. That, madam, is the origin of
' the military salute, and that is why
the military salute is so appropriate
- to one like you.”
H. S Hurwitz knows about a good shoe;
H. S. Hurwitz is in ths shoe business,
H. S. Hurwitz is a shoe man;
H. S. Hurwitz gives good advice
To buy shoes from him.
Millinery Department
I have opened a millinery department in
connection with my line of General
Merchandise. Owing to the sickness of
my trimmer I could not get in shape to
give a formal opening before Easter,
but my doors are now open to the public
and I will appreciate your patronage.
Miss Myrta Clements will look after
this branch of my business and J feel
sure you will be pleased with her work.
A good many of my customers already
know the class of work that she turns
out and I hope it wi'l not be long before
many more wid know by experience.
We are also prepared to make dresses.
Give us a trial.
T. N. GL&MENTS
TOWNS, GEORGIA
SHERIFF SALES
GEORGIA, Wheeler County.
I will sell at public outcry, to the
highest bidder for cash, on the first
Tuesday in May, 1913, between the
legal hours of of sale, before the court
house door, in the town of Alamo,
Wheeler County, the following described
property, to-wit: One white cow with
brindle spots and one white bull calf
with yellow head, unmarked. Cow
marked split in each ear. Said property
levied upon as the property of Frank ,
Horne to satisfy a certain fl fa. issued
from the superior court of Montgomery
county, in favor of the R.verstde
Fertilizer Company against Frank
Horne and turned over to me for ad
veitisenienl and sale, under the ter r s ■
of the law. This 25 th day of March,
1913. J. F. WRIGHT,
Sheriff. Wheeler County. Georgia
GEORGIA, Wheeler County.
W’ill be sold before the court house
door in said county on the first Tuesday
in May, 1913, between the legal hours
of sale the following described property,
to-wit: All of the East one half of lot
of land No. 211 in the 11th land district
of Wheeler county, Georgia, andh und
ed north by lands of Mrs. M rha
Couey, east by lands of L S. McD nie)
aouth’by lands of Mrs Vary Johrron
and west by lands of the Dodge Co
known as the J. H. Neundcrier h -m
place, ai d containing one hundr <1 apd
one i n I one-four h acres, more < r
with ia e uiq reverm ns therein. Said
land levied on as the property of J B.
Neundorfer to satisfy an execution is
sued on the 2nd day of April, 1913, from
the superior court of said county, in
favor of Thomas Kent and against J.
B. Neundorfer. This April 4th, 1913.
J. F. WRIGHT,
Sheriff, Wheeler County, Georgia.
Livery Stables For Rent
Good livery, feed and sale stables for
rent or sale reasonable. Located near
depot. No other business in town.
Apply to Mrs. S. J. St Ciair.
Alamo, Ga.
Paynes Rhenmatone for
' Rheumatism.
THE GREATEST KIDNEY AND
BLADDER REMEDY ON
THE MARKET
What it has done for others it will do
for you.y Cures and strengthens the
Kidneys and frees the system of uric
acid. By its use your daily tasks will
become a pleasure instead of a drudgery
life will be brighter, and your health
extended for many years. Satisfatcion
guaranteed or monev refunded. Price
SI.OO per bottle. Sold by
Alamo Drug Co.
$ Professional Cards. $
C. P. THOMPSON
Attorney at Law
ALAMO, - - - GEORGIA
E. P. DELL
Attorney at Law
ALAMO, - - - GEORGIA
J. P. TOMLINSON
Attorney at Law
ALAMO. - - . GEORGIA
HAMILTON BURCH
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Mcßae, - Georgia
L. P. FORDHAM
Physician and Surgeon
ALAMO. GEORGIA
T. H. NELSON
Physician and Surgeon
ALAMO, GEORGIA
County Directory.
COUNTY OFFICERS:
ORDINARY, W. B. Kent—Court Ist
Monday in each Month,
CLERK SUPERIOR COURT, J. D.
Brown.
SHERIFF, J. E. Wright.
1 AX COLLECTOR, J. A. Martin.
TAX RECEIVER, W. T. Hadden.
TREASURER, Daniel Pope.
CORONER, J. J. Brantley.
BOARD COUNTY COMMISSIONERS:
THOMAS KENT, Chairman.
T. F. WILLIAMS, Clerk.
J. R. SUMNER.
Court Ist Tuesday in each month.
SUPERIOR COURT:
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E. D. GRAHAM, Judge.
W. A. WOOTEN, Solicitor.
Court convenes Ist Monday in March
and September.