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Wheeler County Eagle
Vol. 2
Don’t Be Extravagant
Wheeler County Bank-
0. J. MAY, Cashier
Two Colored Sisters
Meet After Fitly Years
Editor Wheeler County Eagle:
Please allow me space in your
valuable paper to say a word
about the meeting of two sisters
after being apart for fifty years,
and during slavery time, both
girls belonged to Mr. Sam Hall-
When freedom was declared in
1865, these two girls became
separated, the ages of them being
12 and 18, respectively. During
this time one of the girls mar
ried, but the older girl married
later and is the mother of nine
clftldren and thirty grand chil
dren, they all living withm ten
miles of each other These two
slavery time women a> - e still en
joying good health and can do all
their housework and can pick
from 50 to 75 pounds of cotton
per day- The meeting of these
two sisters came about in tuis
way: On Monday, November
l(5lh of this vear, a kind old
white lady, byinquirv, who knew
they were sisters met one of
them in Albany and told of the
lost sister, and arrangements
were made and she came down
to Wheeler to meet her long-lost
sister. This was a happy time
with these sisters, who had not
seen each other since they parted
when the slaves were all set free.
Ina few a ore years these two
sisters, who had lived so many
years separated, would have died
and never experimented the joys
they experienced in meeting
again, even though it was in the
evening time of their sojourn on
this earth.
They are grateful to the white
lady that made their meeting
possible. The slavery-time dar
gies will soon have crossed over,
and when they are gone, their
places will be hard to fib. They
have filled many places of trust
and when they shall have crossed
over the river, they will be miss
ed not only by their race, but the
white race as well
D. J. Cecil,
Towns, Ga., Route 1
BEST FOR KIDNEYS—SAYS
DOCTOR.
Dr. J. T. L. Neal, Greenville, So. C.,
savs that in his 30 years experience he
he has found no preparation for the
kidneys equal to Foley Kidney Pills. In
50c and $1 sizes Best you can buy for
backache, rheumatism, kidney and blad
der ailments
Three boys were seriously in
jured at Waycross Monday by;
the accidental discharge of a gun '
in the hands of a ten-year-old.
boy
If you would be rich. Ask the
opinion of any rich or successful
man and he will tell you that
careful judicious expenditure en
abled him to
Start a Bank Account
early m life, and from this has!
grown bis present fortune. To
day is the time to start —not
next week.
A Ham and Bacon Show.
। Why doesn't one of our enter-1
prising merchants or a group of !
them —organize a county Inin and i
. bacon show to be held at some
convenient place within the next
. few weeks? It could easily be
made so attractive that it might
, become an annual early-winter
, event. There are manv farmers
who are curing their own hams
. and bacon and these could be in
, duced to exhibit. It might lie
possible to secure the services of
. a demonstrator from the agncul
[ tural college who would instruct
, other farmers and their sons,
wives and daughters in the best
methods of home-curing. The
, smoke house, so long a neglected
. adjunct to the farm, is coming
[ into its <>wn once more and the
: I farmers who are overlooking this
, source of profit are just a bit be
. hind the times. There is a brisk
; । market for home cured hams
- and bacon in the larger towns
I and in the cities and this market
- may easily be cultivated to the
■ great advantage of the farmer.
, jLet us make this section of the
J country famous for its home
t! cured hams and bacon. The way
Jto start the thing is to organize
. I an exhibit, offer attractive prizes,
J work up plenty of enthusiasm.
11 This paper will do its share. —
J Who’s for the first annual ham
, and bacon exhibit
r
I Infant's Death.
>' 1 ■
r| Yesterday morning the seven months
; I old little child of Mr. and Mrs. W. M.
! Dopson died at the Elkins hotel where '
I they are boarding. It had been sick '
■ । all of its life. It will be buried in :
- । the cemetery here this morning.
i
> I The same old headlines about
i the war appear daily in the pa
pers and one knows no more
I about the situation after reading !
; than before. It is a case of give !
Hand take, with neither side gain
ing an advantage. Germany says (
she is prepared to carry on the I
war for years and will triumph I:
eventually, while the allies pre-!
! diet an early downfall of that,
country,
| FOR SALE.
<
Corn and hay, two good brown
j two-horse wagont,four good farm j t
mules, good cuttaway harrow,!«
| cotton stalk cutter. These arti-!
. cles can be found at my hom:
place. J. M. Meeks. i
ALAMO, GEORGIA, DECEMBER 18 1914
Concert and Recital
Friday, Dec. 25
The Grand Concert and Recital
under the direction of Miss Han
nah Bright will be held at the
Methodist church next Friday
evening, Dec. 25th.
This will be the last opportu
nity our citizens will have for
some time of listening to this
gifted musician, both in vocal and
instrumental music as she will
soon leave for Florida.
She will be assisted by other
vocal talent, and the Alamo Cor
net Band will also be present and
show the progress they have
made in seven weeks practice.
This will be a concert that all
music lovers should listen to, and
as the proceeds will go to purch
! ase new instruments for the band
lit insures our people of reaping
I future delight in music from the
| band on pleasant summer even
ings. The largest expense to a
band is the instruments, and the
boys are working t° have them
become the property of the band
instead of individuals. Bj' so
doing if a member leaves the in
strument will remain and thus
the band will be perpetuated-
Presbytery Organized
Editor Eagle: —By the request
of Portal Baptist church the
church of Bethel, Glenwood, Rt.
3, assembled for the purpose of
setting apart to the full work of
the gospel ministry, Bro. ILL.
Avery. Rev. S R. C. Adams, Rev
,1 E. Taylor and Rev. J. D. Ra
bun were elected Presbytery.
The Presbvtery organized by
electing Bio. Adams, moderator,
and Bro. .1. E Taylor, secretary.
Then Rev J. E- Taylor preach
ed the ordination sermon, after
which Bro. Avery stood a very
satisfactory examination made
by Rev. J. D, Rabun, and was
then set apart to the work of the
Gospel ministry by prayer led by
Bro. S. R. C Adams and the lay
ing on of the hands of the pres
bytery.
Bro. Avery is a young man of
sterling worth and ns such we
commend him to the Baptist
brotherhood for the work of the
Master. Cor
Talk about the war hurting this
country the showing made in
Chicago does not bear out that
statement. In one day fourteen
hundred cars of corn were re
ceived in that city to send abroad,
being the largest shipment ever
recorded. This is a gentle hint
to our Georgia farmers that such
shipments will soon mean a
scarcity of corn in this country,
and hence higher prices The
right thing to do is to plant more
corn and less cotton. Follow the
! markets and t e markets will
I follow you.
Clements^Ste wa rt
Last Sunday morning at the home of
the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. bow
ery Clements at Towns,Miss Gustarver
Clements and Mr Quincy Stewart were
married. Miss Clements was one of the
most lovable young ladies of that sec
tion and Mr. Stewart is proprietor of
a drug store at Towns.
Mr. Grady Walters was a vis-[
itor to Lumber City last Sunday.
Takes Exceptions I
Editor Eagle;—Referring to an arti- ’
cle in your paper under date of Nov. *
20th, would say:
The article in question is misleading!
and is evidently written for the pur
nose of injuring the Tax Receiver, and ।
the unendoes therein might lead those,
inacquainted with the facts to surmise ,
that the article in question was founded!
>n facts and would have a tendency to,
cause the public to think the Receiver
either incompetent or dishonest.
As to the Dodge land in question the
records are conclusive and correct. [
whether they appear on wild land, di- '
gest or on improved, and the taxes are
paid thereon in accordance with the
law, and the taxes are fully paid there
on consequently there can be no loss i
to the county or state.
As to the relief of the Farmers’ Bank
of Glenwood, Ga,, would beg to attach
hereto the affidavit of W. J. Futral,
Cashier of said Bank, which fully ex
plains itself, and is a refutation of the
charges appertaining thereto. You
will find by records that the Bank was
1 relieved by act of the assessor in not
; complying with the law, and I had no
, right as receiver to do anything further
in the premises after such relief by I
them and consequently the censure
1 must fall on them and not on me.
Hoping you will give this article the
l same prominence you did to article re
| ferred to,
( I am yours respectfully,
W. T. Hadden,
Receiver Tax Returns, Wheeler Co.
Georgia, Wheeler County:
Personally appeared before me, W.
-J. Futral, Cashier of the Farmers Bank
of Glenwood, Ga,, who being duly
sworn, savs that the Taxes of said
L Bank was raised the Tax Equalizers
’ and that, he demanded an arbitration of
said returns and that he has not been
" notified as the law prescribes. He fur
|. ther certifies that he gives notice of
his intention to arbitrate and that he
' gives (he said equalizers the mime of
S. F. Reynolds as his arbitrator;
Sworn to and subscribed to before me
this luly the Bth, 1914.
W. J. Futral,
A. A. Galbrath, Cashier.
N. P. & Ex. oil. J. P.
Why the Women Lost.
Indignation is expressed at the
, National Woman’s Suffrage head
quarters over the reports that are
coming in from Ohio, where an
equal suffrage amendment to the
constitution was defeated in the
recent election. A formal state
ment from the Ohio suffragists
will show that while they sup
ported the dry cause in the elec
tion, the drys did not reciprocate.
! An informal report issued bo the
suffragists of Summit county,
Ohio, states that the figures in
dicate that some of the wets vot
> ed for the suffrage amendment.
Although there were 12,234
votes cast in the county for home
rule, an out an out wet amend
ment, there were only 11,279
votes cast against suffrage —
Nearly a thousand men voted wet
' bnt did not oppose suffrage and
, some of them actually voted for
it, savs the report.
And what were the drys doing?
They cast, 14,621 votes for pro
hibition, while suffrage received
only 9 215 votes in the county. It
looks as if more than 5,500 voted
against us or what is just as bad,
did not vote at all.
. “And these figures stand out
in the face of the fact that we
talked prohibition every chance
we got and did all the work we
! possibly could for the cause.
“We were afraid of the wet
vote. From the looks of things 1
we might have looked for more '
trouble from those we thought
were our friends. It really seems
that prohibition and sufftage do
not go together after all.”
The report concludes with the
assertion that an analysis of the 1
I state results will show a similar J
’ situation throughout Ohio. j i
! Getting the Cart Before
the Horse.
i —‘“
' An editorial in the Athens
I Banner, in an effort to uphold
। and smooth over the present ad
ministration the editor gets his
■ wires badly crossed, but before
jhe gets through he lets out tne
. real secret of hard times in this
country. He first says:
“Democracy has just one
i chance to get back into power at
I the next presidential election,
and that is for better times to
come to this country before elec
tion day. We do not believe that
the hard times are due to the
democratic administration. Had
there been no Europeon war the
country’s business would bellow
ing along just as smoothly as
ever. ’ ’
In toe above he tries to shield
the administration by layinp the
blame up the war, when it is a
। recognized fact that, the war is a.
benefit to this country. Look at
the calls being made upon us by
the warring nations for nearly
every kind of supplies. Wheat
is in great demand at good prices.
Beef is being eagerly sought for,
to be canned and sent abroad,
our horses and mules are being
bought up, and there is a contin
ual cry for more. Cotton is the
only article not, bringing a top
price, and that is not alone be
cause of war. An over produc
tion of anything will bring down
the price, and with five million
bales more than can be used in
1915 the low price cannot be won
dered at Now he savs:
“If congress will let business
alone and not seek to pass any
other radical laws,it may bethat
in twelve months the conditions
will begin to change.”
Right there he is on the right
wire if he doesn’t get switched
off again. Congress at its last
session reminds one of the Okla
homa legislature, which has pass
ed more fool laws than all the
other states put together. And
now congress is in session again,
and it looks as though they were
going to devote their time to
chewing over prohibition, woman
suffrage and how much of the
people’s money they can spend
building warships to paddle
around in the water with. It
begins to look as though when
the present war is ended there
will be no other nation to fight
against at the rate they are being
anhilated, and more battleships
will not be eeded,
FOR SALE.
A five year old, well broken,
gentle mare. For particulars
write or see, J, R. Auld,
Alamo, Ga.
Alamo ooasts of having the
best cotton seed market in this
section, The buyers are paying
$22.00 per ton.
Miss Charlotte Johnson of
Normantown, who has been
spending some time here with
the family of Mr. J, P- Johnson,
returned to her home Wednesday.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox says “Wo
man’s clothes should reveal her
temperament.” They probably
do, but generally under other
names.
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