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Wheeler County Eagle
Offieij Organ Wheeler County
Publish Every Friday.
C. M. .METHVIN, Owner
J. H. GlU>*S. Editor and Pub Usher
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Entered at the Post Office at . Alamo
Geoig.a oa bicunu eiuss mail jnutlei.
May 16, 1913, under the act of March
3rd, 1879,-
Si.oo Per Year in Advance.
MUFFLED KNOCKS
When In doubt It Is always safe to
say that the baby Joo^s like hia fa
ther.
Any old kind of a cloud looks good
to a man who has just purchased a
new raincoat.
Some women Imagine they are not
In style if they wear the same com
plexion t-wlce.
Money looks mighty bfr to a wom
an who has to rely on what she can
beg from her husband.
Many a well-meaning little calf Is
destined to wind up on a menu card
wider the. t^ead of "chicken salad.”
Ms soonlas ^iRIUaLs a bad cold
he Imagines ew^SSß^the United
States wants to know now he caught
it.
)You can’t dodge the high cost of '
living by dying. The funeral and
the monument are right on your
.trail. »•
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The fool killer isn't attending to
his job. A New York man wants a
divorce because his wife hasn’t spok
en to him In nine years.
• The trouble with Eve was that she ,
had uo next door neighbor whose !
wash she could criticize when it hung I
on the line, and nobody ever moved
into the garden and gave her a chance
to rubber at the furniture.
। , When mother starts telling about
the handsome and wealthy admirers
she had courting her before she met
the mutt she married, father always
says: ‘"Well, why In Sam Hill didn’t
You marry them?” And mother comes
right back with: “I wish I knew then
what I know now.” —Cincinnati En
quirer
FOREST NOTES
’ Washington stands first in lumber
induction, with Louisiana second.
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It is said that 90,000,000 broom
handles are used annually in the Untt
dp States, one for eaclr man. woman
and child.
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The land's burned over during the,
fines on the Idaho national forests in
1910 are now largely covered with a
thick growth of young tree seedlings,
by natural reseeding.
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Manufac.turgrajat artificial limbs are
seeking substitutes for English willow. ,
used because of its combined light- |
nesS and strength. It is claimed that
the Port Orford cedar of the Pacific
coast will prove equally serviceable.
In the open yellow pine forests of
Washington and Oregon a collapsible
plow is being used in digging fire
lines to stop surface fires. The plow
can be dismantled and folded into a
compact form so that it can be packed
on horseback, and weighs only 40
pounds. When in use one man with a
horSe can do the work of 20 or more '
men working with shovels.
MARKETS BION
WELL UNDERW
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Greit Things Expected of New Bureau
In the National Department
of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C„ *
The division of markets in u.e de- .
partment of agriculture Is getting un
der headway with good prospects that
it will attain the degree of usefulness
hoped for by the men at whose sug
gestion it was established. There are
already twenty-four persons at work,
with Charles J. Brand at the head of
on, Jt Js doubtful if any
> movement of similar importance in
the interest of agriculture was ever
• put into operation in so short a time
after it was planned. It has been I
only about a year and a half since the i
‘ officers of the Farmers’ Union first i
conferred with Senator Hoke Smith I
and Congressmen Callaway of Texas
and Webb of North Carolina, and yet
the division, backed by a fifty thou
sand dollar appropriation, has been
organized for months.
The First Suggestion.
1 In the meetings of the. Farmers’ Un
ion. the members, in their discussions,
were brought face to face with the
fact that all over the country food
, teas rpttlng in the fields and <#chards
because it could not be gotten to
market. Potatoes were twenty-five
cents laj buslief in one state and a dol
lar and a quarter bushel tn another,
and sd with other products.
It was found that while the con
suming public wai paying the highest
possible prices the farmers were not ,
getting over, say, forty per cent., of ।
what the consumer paid. It occurred |
to the delegates at these national I
gatherings that if the government was
to spend millions in teaching scientific j
production it might spend something
on scientific marketing^, and this was
the germ of the division of markets. ■
One day in the early spring of last
year five men called at the office of
Senator Hoke Smith. They were
Charles Barrett, president of the
Farmers’ Union; R. F. Duckworth, a
member of the legislative committee; i
J. H. Patten, attorney for the organ- |
Izatlon; T. J. Brooks and A. C. Da- :
vis, prominently identified with the
Union. They laid the proposition be
fore the senator. President Barrett
said:
“The best thing you could do for
the farmers of this country would be
to pass a bill establishing a division
of markets in the department of agri
culture, which would help the farmers
to market their crops. To make a
crop is one thing, but to market farm
products at a profit Is really more im
portant than increasing the ylem.”
i Senator Smith entered at once into
j the plans and it was decided to enlist
i the interest of Congressmen Callaway
I and Webb to press the bill in the
house.
The Fight l« Quickly Won
The bill was introduced in the sen
ate by Senator Smith and was passed
without much delay, but it met op
! position in the house, where it did
not get out of the committee, although
Senator Smith did succeed in getting
through an appropriation for a pre
liminary investigation. At the next
session a report covering five hundred
pages was made by the department
of agriculture endorsing the plans of
i the bill. For a second time Senator
| Smith put the measure through the
: senate as a rider on the agricultural
' department appropriation bill. The
house conference committee still
fought it. but Senator Smith forced
Looking For Something New.
WE hAuE IT IN
! GENERAL MERCHANDISE
Ghrirtmas Toys and Dolls
And Fruits of AU Kinds.
We are not going to put on a sale for we have a nice business
all the time, and sell goods as cheap as possible all the time.
We are a!so expecting in a few days a nice line of Coffins and
Caskets and Robes. We also do a LIVERY BUSINESS furnish
good teams at moderate prices.
We appreciate past favors of our Customers, and
solicit a continuance of same,
f I SPELL & COMPANY,
WHEELER COUNTY EAGLE, ALAMO, GEORGIA.
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a compromise by which $50,000 was
Included In the appropriation bill for
! the preliminary work of starting the
■ division, so that in about a year as
! ter the first meeting was held at
; which the officers of the Farmers'
’ Union suggested the bill the depart
ment was In operation.
Is a G-eat Undertaking.
The task of establishing and work
ing put the division of markets is far
more difficult than would be suppos
ed. At first glance it seems easy—
-1 merely keeping the farmers advised
as to prices and supply conditions at I
various points.
That is not the problem at all. It
will take several years to bring the
division to'the'state of usefulness con- j
templatcd and in time it may almost
rival th^^^eparlment of agriculture j
itself in importance. When it is re- :
membered that the agricultural prod- i
ucts of the country run into the bil
lions and that we have foreign as
■ well as domestic markets and that
j the division will concern itself.with
I everything from the marketing of but-
I ter and eggs to the marketing of cot
ton, the great crops of wheat and corn,
I its field of usefulness is almost with- :
; out limit. It means such organiza
tion and co-operation among the farm
; ers that the man who produces will
be afforded shipping facilities with
such reduction of expense between
producer and consumer that both will
be benefited.
A Big Country and a Big World.
. The country is »so large and the i
population so scattered as compared
with parts of Europe that the prob
lem is much more difficult than would
be the case over there. Germany is i
only about two and a half times larg- |
er than Kansas. Our country is three [
thousand miles across and twelve hun- I
dred miles from north to south. Pro
ducer and consumer are further apart.
Expense of transportation is greater. I
Yet we see some strange sights. The j
division of markets wishes to know
just now', for instance, why Chicago is
eating cauliflower from Long Island
and California while the vegetable
should be produced in the immediate
vicinity of the Windy City.
Denmark is the most highly organ
ized agricultural country in the world, I
It is about the size of four or five
ordinary counties. It produces but
ter, eggs, Miiik and bacon for the
London and Liverpol markets. Being
so small and devoting itself to these I
few things it, of course, has a stand
ard product of known quantity and
all arrangements for shipping and mar- :
keting can be definitely planned. Con- i
trast such conditions with those that |
surround a Georgia farmer who only
occasionally has a few eggs or a little j
butter to sell, with no definite or or- ;
ganlzed system for getting them to the
market. A source of supply is almost j
as important as a market, for in no
other way can transportation arrange- '
ments be made on good terms. The
parcels post destined to greatly fa
cilitate these short hauls and small
transactions, but the big business of
farming has got to look to more ex
tensive co-operation among the farm
ers. In that way they will provide a
. definite source of supply in such quan
tity and so standardized as to make
marketing easier.
Investigating Cotton.
There are men in Georgia from the
markets divisions at this time making
an investigation to see if the farmer
: who produces a high grade of cotton,
j or who handles his cotton with cpr^
receives the actual increased value,
i or if his cotton is paid for on practi-
I caliy the same basis as inferior
I grades. Samplers are taking samples
jof individual bales, and they will be
■ followed through to the mills that will
I use the cotton.
Information will be gathered as to
what kinds of cotton can be best
produced in a given section and the
farmers will be advised so they can
produce the kind best suited to that
section and thus help to standardize
i the product of that locality.
J Along with that will be furnished in
formation as to the kinds of cotton
the various manufacturing points de- :
sire. Augusta, for instance, has a rep- 1
utation for desiring a high grade of
cotton. The division of markets is in
vestigating to see if Augusta really ■
pays the higher price for the fine ,
grades shipped there. Atlanta takes
I a different grade, and so on. This sort
of information will put the farmers
wise to marketing conditions.
Community Marketing.
Marketing in community units will ;
' be kept in mind. The consumption end ‘
1 of the problem will be carefully looked
। into. The whole Idea is to bring '
the producer and consumed together ;
j with the least possible amount of ■
j waste.
Just now, to illustrate, the division !
i wants to know why the cotton oil ;
mill men of South Carolina are over :
In Georgia buying seed, while the Geor-|
gia cotton* oil mill men are over in i
South Carolina doing the same thing, j
But is that any more remarkable !
than that the farmers in Denmark |
who are shipping butter and eggs !
to England are buying canned corn
from America at forty cents a can
that is selling In this country at 12
cents? It is said that the farmers
in Denmark are raising so few vege
tables that as a people they are suf
fering in health on that account.
City Marketing.
The division of markets is also in
vestigating the matter of city market
i ing, which Includes wholesaling, re
< tailing, auction sales, the utilizing of
trolley car service, etc.
Mr. Brand mentions as an illustra
. tion of what preparation will do the
’ method of the Long Island railroad.
ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE
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: GEORGIA. Wheeler County.
By virtue of an order of the court of
Ordinary of said county, will be sold at
public outcry, on the first Tuesday in
February. 1914, at the court house
where court is held, in said county,
1 between the usual hours of sale, the
following real estate, situate in said
county, to-wit: All es lot of land No.
260 in the sixth land district, and in the
1531stdistrict, G. M .contain ng 2021 2
acres more or less, and known as the
Mitchell Brinkley old homestead. Said
property is sold as the property of
I Mitchell Brinkley and sold for the
purpose es paying off and distribution
among the heirs. Said property will
be sold to- the highest and best bidder
far cash. This thesthday of January,
1914 JNO. W. ADAMS,
Administrator of the estate of Mitchell
Brinkley. •
CITATION FOR GUA RDIHNSHIP
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GEORGIA, Wheeler County.
To all whom it may concern;
R. R. McAllum, a resident of said
state, having, in proper form, applied
Ito me for permanent letters of guar
। dianshipof the person and property of
Mrs G D. McAllum, a minor of jno.
iW. and Mrs. M. C. McAllum, of said
county Notice is hereby given that
said applicntion will be heard at the
next court of Ordinary for said county
on the first Monday in February, 1914.
Witness my hand and official signature
this the 4th day of January, 1914.
Wm B . KENT
Ordinary, Wheeler County, Georgia
, CITATION FOR GUARDIANSHIP.
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I GEORGIA, Wheeler County.
To all whom it may concern:
j C. A. Adams, a resident of said county
having, in proper form, applied to me
for permanent letters of guardianship
t of the person and property of G. F,
: Bass, a man incapable to manage his
j estate. Notice is hereby given that
;said application will be beard at the
; uext court of Ordinary for said county,
|on the first Monflay in February, 1914.
; Witness my hand and official signature
; this the sth day ot January, 1914.
Wm. B. KENT
Ordinary, Wheeler County, Georgia.
ON AND AFTER THIS DATE
NO I EGAL ADS WILL BE PUB.
LISHED- WITHOUT THEY ARE
ACCOMPANIED BY THE CASH,
OR EQUIVOLENT, IN THE EAGLE
F. & A. M. No, 585
ALAMO, GEORGIA
Meeting Night, Friday before
first and third Saturday in < ach
month.
Visiting members extended a
cordial welcome.
Wm. B. Kent, W. M.
D. L. Graham, S. W.
S. E. Mauney, J. W.
J. L. Hightower, Treasurer.
W. H. Spell, Secretary.
J. T. Dixon, Chaplain.
B. R. Hartley, S. D.
A. L. Elkins, J. D.
G. M. Elkins, Marshal.
J. P. Johnson, S. S.
C. G. Hightower, J, S.
D. A. Coleman, Tyler.
$ 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
Mcßat. ... Georgis
~T H. NELSON
Physician and Surgeon
ALAMO. GEORGIA
B, W. YAWN
Physician and Surgeon
Office in Wheeler County Bank Building
Residence Phone No. 38
Office Phone No. 39
ALAMO, GEORGIA
