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Volume 18
DEATH CLAMES A
NOBLE CITIZEN.
It caused much sorrow in the
community when the announce
ment ot the death of Mr. William
F. McVay was giving out. which
occurred at his home about three
miles we tof Alamo last Friday
evening at 8:30. Mr. McVey had
been confined to his bed for some
time and no hopes o uis recov
ery were held out, suffering
from a stomach trouble that be
gan about five years ago.
He was 57 years of age at th £
time of his death, moving hen)
from Washington county about ]
thirty years ag and was one of
the most industrious and respect
ed citizens of this commulity. 11
was a member of the Methodis
church and was an exception
ally fine Christian chara ter, b
loved and highly respect d b.\
all who knew him, and his death
was a source of mucn so row.
lie is survived by lr • widow,
j^rs. Ella McVey and ;e child
.’^en, as follows: N. E McVey,
Miami, Florida, Mrs. L L. Lind
sey, of Fitzgerald; S.F.ai.d J. P.
McVey, of Mcßae, and Miss
Louella McVey, who lives with
her mother; eight brothers and
sisters, A. T. Rhodes, Mrs. J. H,
Jackson, Mrs. Jeter Hertz, and
Mrs. S.W. Hughes, of Wheeler
county; Mrs. T. J. Cooper, of
Tampa, Florida; Mrs. J.M. Kemp
of Mcßae; Mrs. H.H. Kemp, of
Chauncey, Mrs. H. G. Cuning■
ham, of Cliftonville, Miss.
Elven grand children survive
Funeral services were held
from the Christian Church at
Erick on Sunday afternoon, con
4ucted by Rev. Roy Gardner,
pastor of the Alamo Methodist
Church, assisted by Rev. Cason,
pastor of the Mcßae Baptist
Church. Interment was in the
church cemetery.
The pall bearers were his neph
ews, W.R.Rhodes, H.G.Rhodes,
J.T.Hughes, Reuben Jackson,
Rhodes Rawlins, and J.O.Hinson.
Murchison Undertaking Com
pany, of Vidalia, in charge of
funeral arrangements.
A Memphis announcer fell in
love with a female radio artist’s
voice and married her. But it
will sound like static the first
time she bawls him out.
They are talking of deporting
Mr. Ponzi. Another good idea
. t)>t came rather late.
■WRI!--—
I LUMBER FOR SALE.
For quick sale I’m offering lumber
at $15.00 and down. You can [build
and repair at low cost
Shingles $2.5 0 and $3.50 |
Can arraug% to pay your taxes, |
large or small. Larger the better.
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I W. E. CURRIE I
| ALAMO, GEORGIA ||
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RjSSELLPREDICTS
FULL UPWARD SWING
Atlanta, Jan. 23.—Governor
elect Rdhard B. Russell, Jr., to
night Uld the Atlanta Freight
Bureau at its twenty-ninth an
nual meeting here that he would
take cilice ‘‘about the same time
that business is taking a full up
ward swing after a period of de
pression which has been felt
keenly within the state’s bord
er, and I am going to see that
every agency of the state gov
eminent co operates >6 the full
)< >t extent in making the state’s
) . asperity the utmost.”
Mr. Bussell becomes governor
ni June.
The Governor-elect also prom
ised that his administration
w euld do everything possible "to
plane Georgia products on every
possible market and to see that
•he state leads the way for her
ib.iuufacturersto derive all bene
fit a obtainable from her vast
natural resources.”
‘‘ln the last forty years,” he
continued. “Georgia’s manufac
tured products have leaped from
a value of four and one half mill
ions cf dollars in 1890 to some
thing over $609,000,000 annually
today. We have not yet touched
the surfaceof many of our great,
est natural resources or the
value of our manufactured pro
ducts would be much greater. It
is up to the leaders of our state
to see that every dollar possible
is obtained from these resources
and I pledge to you and to the
state that my-administration will
do everything possible toward
the fullest industrialization of
Georgia.
“Georgia has brilliant leaders
in nearly every line of endeavor
and there is no doubt that we
have business leaders too. If
they come to the front and assert
that leadership the state’s pros
perity will know no bounds.”
P. T. A. Meeting
T..e P. T. A. of Wheeler County
H gh School will hold its regular
r nthly meeting in the school
; ditorium Thursday afternoon
< :15 o’clock February 5.
The public is cordially invited
to attend. A special program has
been arranged and refreshments
will be served.
Our quota is 75 mothers and
fathers. Come and bring a friend
or friends.
ALAMO, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY >O, 1931
In Memory of Mrs. Blizzard
On Monday, January 12th, at
six o’clock A.M., the death angel
visited the home of Mrs. H. G.
Smith and took form them their
wife and mother, Mas.L.R,Bliz
zard. She had been sick for a
number of years, although she
did not suffer much pain during
her sickness.
I visited her home in Septem
ber and saw she needed my care;
and I persuaded her t® come and
Jive with me, thinking a change
would help her, which it did to
some extent. We all stood by her
from that time on through those
few months and did all we could
for her, but at last we could do
no more for her, for God had a
better place prepered. Although
her passing darkened my home
so much, I do hope and trust
that I did my part toward her
here on earth, for she was so
faithful to the end, saying she
was ready and waiting for her
time to come.
She may have been a little old
fashioned in her ways in this
rushing world today, but the love
light in her life was pure devine.
When I was but a baby how
many times I’d run to mother to
kiss andmake it well,all my child
ish sorrows, she’d always drive
away. She was always ready
with a loving heart at any time to
help me, and I do pray that I
may be ready to meet her in a
wor’d where there is no sorrow,
for in her arms once more to be,
would be joy indeed for me, for
she was the dearest, sweetest
mother in all this world to me.
Our precious mother has passed
away
To realms of bliss we know;
How hard to see death’s awful
sway,
On loved ones here below.
And Oh, how sad it makes our
hearts,
To see her vacant chair,
With one we loved so much to
part,
Brings for the bitter tear.
MRS. H. G. SMITH.
Services Alamo M.E. Church
Sunday School —10:30 every
Sunday.
Preacaing service 8—11:00
clock and 7:30 on fourth Sundny.
7:30 o’clock on first Sunday even
ing.
Epworth League —7:30 P. M.
every Tuesday.
Prayer services—7:3o P. M.
every Thursday.
Boys an iris World Friedd
Club—4:oo e. M. each Friday.
Sunday nighn, February first,
the pastor will preach on “The
Outflowing Love of Christ.”
The W. M. S. will meet at the
home of Mrs. W. B. Kenton Mon
day afternoon, February second,
at 4:00 o’clock.
Dollar a year men, widely
known in Washington duringthe
war, have been supplanted by
bottle a day men, according to a
capitol bootlegger.
Members of Congress ought
to be in better humor after col
lecting mileage for their holiday
trips back home.
Renew Your Health
by Purification e
Any physician will tell you that
] “Perfect Purification of the System
is Nature’s Foundation of Perfect
Health.” Why not rid yourself of
chronic ailments that are undermin
ing your vitality? Purify your en
tire system by taking a thorough
course of Calotabs,—once or twice a
; week for several weeks—and see how
Nature rewards you -with health.
Calotabs are the greatest of all
system purifiers. Get a family pack
age, containing full directions. Only
35 cts. At any drug store. _ (Adv.)
Pastor to Lecture at
Methodist Church.
Next week Rev. Roy Gardner
will giye a series of lectures at
the Alamo Methodist Church
on the work of the Methodist
Church throughout the world.
Monday night he w : ll speak on
“Methodism Evaugelizing the
masses and Christianizing Amer
ca.” Tuesday night the subject
will be ‘‘Kingdom Extension and
Foreign Missions.” Thursday
night he will speak on “Educat
ion and Church Building and the
Kingdom.” Friday night, the
closing lecture will be “Kingdom
Extension and Healing.”
The Monday, Thursday and
Friday night services will be at
7;30 o'clock. The Tuesday night
service will be at 8:00 o’clock.
Every one is cordially invited to
attend.
January Birthdays
Probably no month marks the
birthday anniversaries of more
famous people than does January.
Among those born in first month
of the year were the following
distinguished Americans:
. Paul Revere, Revolutionary
patriot; Lucretia Mott, Quaker
preacher and pioneer suffragist;
Stephen Decatur,naval command
er; Cyrus Hamlin,famed mission
ary; Charles Sumner, Abolition
ist; Israel Putnam and Ethan
Alien, Revolutionary comman
ders; Alexander Hamilton, first
Secretary of the Treasury; Wil
liam James, psychologist; John
Winthrop, colonial governor;
John Singer Sargent, painter;
M.F. Maury, pathfinder of the
seas; Benjamin Franklin, printer
scientist, journalist and states
man; Daniel Webster, statesman
and oator; Robert E. Lee and T.J.
“Stonewall” Jackson, Confeder
ate generals; Edgar Allen Poe,
author; John Hancock, states
man; Joseph H. Choate, diplomat;
Samuel Gompers, labor leader;
William McKinley, presdent;
Robert Morris, financier of the
Revolution, and others.
' A few British notables whos
birth occurred in January are
General James Wolfe, hero of
Quebec; Sir Isaac Newton, as
tronomer; Edmund Burk, states
man; James Watt, inventor;Fran
cis Bacon, philosopher; Lord
Byron, poet; Robert Burns, poet.
Great Frenchmen barn in Jan
uary include Marshal Joffre, who
has just died; Pierre Loti, nove
list; Moliere, dramatist; Andre
Ampere, physicist; Francois
Mansard, architect; BenoitCon
stafft Coquelin, actor.
German birthdays of the month
include those of Jakob Grimm,
philologist and publisher of fairy
tales; Gotthold Lessing, drama
tist; Frederick the Great; former
Kaiser Wilhelm. The great
Austrian composers, Mozart and
Schubert, were also barn in Jan
uary.
Senior 8.Y.P.1L Program.
o
Scripture reading— G.L.Hat
taway.
Introduction—Comer Jenkins.
The three fold purpose of
Christ’s mission on . earth —O.P-
Hartley.
Christians are to proclaim God
—Miss Sible Sterling.
Christians are to live the Christ
life—G.F. Hartley.
Christians are to spread the
gospel —Miss Anna Baker.
Comer Jenkins, Group Captain
We await the sequel to the
story of burglars who recently
stole germinoculated rabbits
from a Pittsburgh hospital labo
ratory.
Felton Barlow.
The eleventh of November
1918, marked the end of the act
ual fighting in the great world
war, and many were of the opin
ion that those who had escaped
death on the battlefield would
not have to pay the price, but we
were mistaken, there has been a
steady passing on of those who
were in this line of duty, and
from our community went Felton
Barlow on January the I3th to
join that great company of com
rads of the dead.
It is a bit unusual to ask for
the privilege to say the last
words but oeing a boyhood com
panion, and one oi the little coun
try school bunch, I did. Our lit
tle farms joined and we could see
the June dust rise as we fought
the grass, in an effort to get
caught up so that we could go to
the river and put out some set
hooks on the willows to be re
warded by the catch of the chan
nel cat. There were many things
in common between Felton and
our little community bunch. We
all had the jeans britches and the
hickory stripe shirts, the good
old strong cane syrup that when
the weather began to get hot
would foam like it was mad and
how we could hem that in the
short time that we had at the
noon hour so we could play town
ball, these days stand out in
memory.
There was one thingthat Feiton
had it on us, and that was grit.
Ido not ever recall the time that
he ever called for the calf rope
as we boys used to say. When
the time came to shear the sheep,
he would tie up with the biggest
ram in the pen, and there was no
shaking him loose, and we find
that this was withjhim until the
end. The twenty five operations
that he underwent without the
least murmer is proof enough.
The years passed. I worked
passed his home every day. I
saw him when he fell in love, I
knew he would win ’cause he
bad the grit. I carried bim many
a letter, I saw them get thick
and fast, and he told me one day
‘‘All about the victory.” This too,
was in common with our little
bunch, as we all have gone the
same way. One day he leaned up
on my car and told me that he
had to go to the hospital, and
many were the months that he
spent there. I walked down those
great halls of Walter Reed Hos
pital one evening until I found
his bed. I thought that the end
could not be many moons away.
I talked to him about many
things and last I heard him say
“All is well with my soul.” This
I believe is the successful life.
His testimony of the goodness
of God to him under such cir
cumstances, tells me that he was
in daily communion with him. So
one more of the boys that made
ip one of those little bunches of
the early boy hood days steps
behind the curtain in triumph.
G. C. Barnhill.
CARD OF THANKS.
It is through this medium we
wish to thank all those who so
willingly assisted us during the
illness and death of our husband
and father. Words are inade
quate to express to you how
grateful we feel to you all. Your
words of consolation and acts of
assistance, the flowers and all
helped us to bear the great sor
row in our home. May the Master
reward each and every one of you
is our prayer.
Mrs.W.F. McVey
and Children.
Number 49
SQUATTERS HELD
- FORTRESTPASSING
1 Atlanta, Jan. 23 —The four
“squatters,” Ray A. Wilson,
W.O. Murrell, Thomas B. West,
and Martin P. Fishback, who are
1 seeking possession of the million
dollar site of the old City Hall by
1 the simple process of staying on
it, were bound over to the City
Criminal Court today on charges
of trespassing on the property
of another without showing title.
Hearing today in the Recorders
Court with Murrell, who also is
an attorney acting as counsel for
himself and codefendants. Mur
rell sought continuance of the
case on the grounds that Mayor
James L, Key had refused to
recognize a summons to testify.
Murrell further demanded that
the witnesses present be segre
gated and Chief of Police James
L. Beayers objected, remarking
that “that man crazy.”
Murrell asked that the chief’s
remarks go into the records, but
Judge Cone ruled that “you don’t
know who he was talking about
and he might have ment any
body.”
All the defendants pleaded not
guilty to the charges.
Four city officers testifying in
the case would not say who owns
the City Hall site, it having^been
leased some time ago to the Car
ling Hotel Company which now
claims the lease is invalid. I(js
this angle of the case that is
proving a puzzle to city officials.
The city attorney has advised
that no step be taken which
might be interpreted as repos
session of the lot, since that
. would brake the lease, to which
the city is seeking to hold the
: company.
1 After the hearing before Re
corder Cone, Mayor Key abrup-
. tly terminated an interview with
the squatters, saying he would
not dignify them” by discussing
> the matter.
“You have no right to that lot
and you know it,” tile Mayor told
Murrell. “I did not tell police ofli
i cers to make a case against you,
, but I think if they would catch
you by the ear and lead you -off
■ with the assistance of a No. 11
shoe it would help,”
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Notice
— ■
[ The Georgia Carolina Agri
, cultural Corporation has been
formedin Savannah for the pur
pose ot lending money to the
farmers for making a crop this
year, and the undersigned has a
supply of temorarpy application
। blanks. The Company at Sa
, vannah is contributing one-half
. the capital stock of this organiza
• tion and the counties where it is
operating are expected to contri
bute the other half This money
is loaned the farmers through
the Intermediate Credit Bank at
Columbia, S. C., the security
given being a crop mortgage and
live stock mortgage.
* The borrower can purchase
, stock in the organization and
> borrow at the rate of $300.00 for
] every $25.00 worth of stock, the
. money for the stock, however,
j will have to be paid in before the
r loan is accepted but the Corpora
s tidn in Savannah will refund the
j money paid for stock if for- any
. reason the loan is not approved.
r If you are interested please '
3 call on the? u ndersigned at the
Clerk’s office. Interest rate is
six per-cent.
J. A. Pope,