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Wheeler County Eagle
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sl,ooolnGold
Offered by the Wheeler County Bank
to each depositor that will start the
Month with one cent and double the <
amount deposited each day for3odays
Get the saving habit and the depositing l
habit by depositing with the
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Wheeler County Bank.
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CHAS. W. LANCASTER, J. DOUGLAS STEWART,
Cashier, Assistant Cashier.
Prof. Auld in Athens
All of Next Week.
Superintendent Auld will leav e ;
Monday for Athens, where he |
will spend the week, in attend-'
ance upon the Superintendents’।
Conference and Rural education.i
The county superintendents of ■
schools are to meet in a four days’ i
conference on this important
cause July 21 to 24th. Theie
will be some noted educational
leaders present todeli ver lectures
at night, among them United
States Commissioner of Edu
cation, P. P. Claxton and Mr. J.
L Mcßrien, specialist in rural
education for the United States
Bureau of Education.
To Eradicate
The Hook Worm.
Wheeler county has appropri
ated money to eradicate the hook
worm disease from the county.
The work will begin August 3rd,
next. Watch this paper for an
nouncement of points and dates.
Public Speaking
.1. E. MATHEWS
The Red-Headed, Silver-
Tongued Orator, Will De
liver an Address in Alamo
on next Saturday Afterz
noon at 4.'3# P. H., in the
INTEREST OF
Judge Waller M.Clements
OF EASTMAN,
Candidate for Congress from this
District. He will speak in open
air. Everybody invited to hear him.
Larsen Named to Fill
Judge Hawkins’ Place
I
I W.W. Larsen of Dublin, was!
'on Tuesday appointed judge of
! the Dublin circuit to succeed the
! late Judge K. J. Hawkins.
Governor Slaton announced
I the selection just a short time
j before he left his office to go to
Commerce, wherh he spoke to
to editors of the Georgia whekl
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There was sharp rivalry . for 1 bis “
appointment pet ween Mr Larsen I
and Col. J. E. Burch, also of
Dublin f Heads of both aeu were;
on hand yesterday and to day
urging their claims.
Mr Larsen had recived the
indorsement of the Dublin bar.
Mr Burch running him a close
second in that particular, Both
are good men, making the choice
rather a difficuit one for Gover
nor Slaton to determine. How
ever the weight of indorsement
seemed to be back of M r. Larsen,
also his eminent fitness proved
a strong factor in his eminent
fitness proved a strong factor in
his favor in the final selection I
ALAMO. GEORGIA. FRIDAY. JULY 17, [914.
Work on Court House
to Begin by Sept. 25.1
Elsewhere in this issue we
publish the advertisement, I
signed by the Honorable Board j
of Commissioners ol otir county, I
asking for sealed proposals for
the erection and completion cf a ;
court house for Wheeler county.
The building will be modern in ;
every particular, and will reflect
credit upon the county, Alamo;
and the commissioners, whose
duty it will be to superintend its;
construction.
The ten thousand dollars do-I
nated by the people of the town !
of Alamo and elsewhere, was;
satisfactorily raised, and tercb^
ered the Board by the chairman,
Mr. J. F. Sikes, at a called meet
ing of the Board on last Monday
and accepted, and steps were!
immediately taken to start the;
preliminary work towards the
erection of a court house. The;
building will cost $30,000, and
with the ten thousand dollars
of this amount donated, it will
only leave twenty thousand dol-i
lars to be paid by the county, !
and will be included in the next
tax levy.
Every ciUzen of Wheeler hve!
treason to be proud, and they are;
proud, that the authorities have!
gotten together and we are!
Ito so soon have completed a I
| modern county court bouse. A
great start has been made, and
means that the county will take
on new life, cast aside past dif
rerences, and soon attain to its
place in the front ranks along
with the other progressive
counties of the state.
Alamo stands ready, with
outstretched arms, to forget and
forgive, all the past, and it is
hoped that every section of this
great and fertile connty will
respond in the same spirit, which
I will result in a great reunion of
(the people, all battling together
| for one common cause—Greater
I Wheeler County.
With an increase of a half
million dollars in tax values over
last year, it will be felt in an ap
preciable Jway by the tax payers
this fall, when the levy for the
| courthouse is made.
Our hats off to the county
commissioners of Wheeler coun-
Ity ■ They are men of ability and
(good judgment, amino other
I act could they have done that
would have served the people:
more, than what they have done.
We need improvements made on ;
our public roads, as well a jail,:
but in time, after the present
undertaking has been completed
these things will be looked after
and it will not be very long un
til we will have them all.
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Notice.
Branch session of Vaughens |
j Modern School of Music, at Sardis I
church July 6th to 18th. Kudi-
I mental course $1.20.
A. M. PACE, Principal.
EASES TORMENT OF ASTHMA
AND HAY FEVER.
For the discomfort and misery »f I
asthma and hay fever use Floley’s i
Honey and Tar compound. It puts a j
healing, soothing coating over the
swollen, tickling membranes, and eas- ' I
e« thick and choking sensation. Helps ; ;
you to breath easily and naturally. In j;
the yellow package. Alamo Drug Co i ;
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Normal Music School
Beginning MONDAY. July 20th, at Browng
School, 6 miles South of Alamo and last
ing for 12 days, I will teach Beginners as
well Harmony and Composition also In
strumental. Everybody invited.
Prof. JNO. T. GAY, Principal.
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Mr. Clark Replies lo
Mr. Fulford’s Card.
To the People of Wheer County:
! There appeared an article in
; the Wheeler Ccunty Eagle some
weeks ago, over the signature of
: Mr. S L. Fulford, in which he
takes the tax equalizers of this
county to task and proceeds to
! handle them with “gloves off.”
While it is generally under
stood that Mr. Fuilord is not the
real author, yet I charge no
j negligence to Sam in t he matter,
: for he did write something, but
alter submitting his epistle to
his learned Counsilor, he was
informed that his document
would not । ass, but he would fix
it, to which Sam agreed, with a
hearty amen any one can read
between the linesand guess the
real author.
The question stems to be
among the people, why don’t you
reply. I will say that as this
lamentable howl of Mr. Fulford
was directed to the tax payers
of the county. I waited to see if
h >y would come to his assistance
in this, his sad hour of offliction.
Uncle Sam takes occasion to go
into very minute details in re
gard to the arbitrations, and in
reply to bis accusation that the
tax equalizers used undue infin
ence over their arbitrator, is a
falsehood of the deepest dye.
The questie n is ask: d, what is
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the matter with Mr. Fulford?
Theansweris very simple. With
out some unforseen remedy is
discovered, he is going to have
to pay his just share of the tax
of Wheeler county.
His letter is intended to reflect
on my personal character, and I
' would invite Mr. Fulford to come
into my settlement and ask those
' who have known me from
1 boyhood days, as to my personal
' character. lam glad of the fact
that 1 live on the same plot of
■ ground that I first saw the light
! of day.
' Mr. Fulford, through his
energy, discovered the fact that
I returned my little home last
1 year at $6 per acre. Oh, my,
1 what a startling revelation.
1 where is the great offense?
Speaking of record, as has al
ready been shown, Mr. Fulford
returned his lands, in the grow
ing town of Alamo, the county
seat of our county —lands that
he told me he would not take
SIOO per acre for, at $5 per aere.
Now I ask the people of this
county to say which of us has
committed the greatest crime,
as it is known that I live in the
the remote part of the county,
; Why did’t this great apostle of
; a fair deal tell the whole truth-
I He forgot to tell you that he
( runs something like 16 or 18
plows and returns his farming
implements at $25. Under the
light of these .facts, do you, Mr.
Sara, think you can make the
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