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Volume 19
PIONEER OF WHEELER
PASSES TO BEYOND.
On Sunday morning, Feburary
22nd at seven minutes to three
o’clock the spirit of Henry War
ren Calder passed from earth to
heaven. He was sick for a long
time, but he was never heard to
murmur. He seemed resigned
to his Master’s will.
He was born March 28th, 1858,
the son of Wm. Henry Calder and
Sarah Jane Clements. In his early
life his father died and he was
reared by his grand father, the
late Gabriel Clements, at Spring
Hill, and his life was exemplified
by the strict rearing of this good
man. In early life at old Spring
Hill he joined the Methodist
Church under the matchless
preaching of Rev. C. C. Hines, one
of the real leaders of Methodism
in South Georgia.
He remained a true and loyal
member of this church till the
davpf his death. He moved his
me * Jership to Shiloh and
then to Alamo, being one of the
charter members of the Alamo
Methodist Church, and filled
many places of trust in this
church, and died one of its most
devout and consistent members.
His first wife was Miss Emma
Ruth Browning. He then married
Miss Maud Manira McMillan,
who is left to mourn his going
away. No children survive him,
but he was very attentive to all
children, many of whom stood
around his bier to mourn the loss
of their good friend. He was like
a child in his religion, one of the
most humble, meek, gentle, noble
and pure men that ever lived in
any community.
Every one loved this good man
who were so fortunate to know
him. He always carried a smile
on his face, and as he lay cold in
death that same sweet smile
beamed on his angelic face. He
is truly in heaven where they all
smile all the time.
Just about midnight not long
before he died he called his good
wife to him and told her that un
less there was a great change he
had to die, and that he was ready 5
that his best friend had been his
Jesus, and that he would soon be
with him in heaven. He asked
that she and his near and dear
ones meet him there. His three
nieces, Mrs. W.E. Mitchell, Ame
ricus; Mrs. Fred Towns, Towns;
Mrs.T. E. McLeod, Fitzgerald,
remained true and loyal to him
& 9 <4 re present when the Mast
er called him home. Such devo
tion has seldom been known as
was exemplified between these
good people.
He leaves his wife, one brother,
A. M. Calder and nephew, Mark
Calder, of Titusville, Florida; one
sister, Mrs. J. G. Sanford, of
Towns; and one niece, Mrs. Fran
ces Towns, as his nearest rela
tives.
His funeral was preached in the
Alamo Methodist church by Rev.
Roy Gardner, his pastor, at elev
en o’clock Monday morning, and
he was laid to rest in the Alamo
Cemetery amidst a large con
course OiJrjends, who stood with
bowed h Curtls;: id tear-stained
,lng 7,2t,v. . . a
faces as tl t also be. m a flower
bedecked f AmencL. -qi who knew
him tbai acc€ptance oi Ae life of
this gOOcts by foreign
One be-
fore he died should makeSfl who
love Christianity feel good, is
“That he had never done a hu
man being an unkind act, and
that be could face his maker with
an assurance that all was welt
•with him.” Such a life is a bene
diction to every one who learns of
his pure living.
Wheeler county eagle
SOUTHERN FARMER
ANDHISCOTTON
Besides showing his name and
address, the buisness card used
by Farm Agent G. C. Smith, of
Baton Rouge, La, bears the fol
lowing good humored but very
much to the-point comment:
The average Southern farmer gets
up to the alarm of a Connecticut
clock, buttons Chicago suspenders to
a pair of Detroit overalls, washes his
face with Cincinnati soap, sits down
to a Grand Rapids table, eats Chica
go meat and Minnesota flour cooked
on a Sears-Roebuck stoye, goes out
to his barn and puts a New York
bridle on a Missouri mule fed with
Colorado alfalfa and Kansas oats;
plows improverished land covered by
a Vermont mortgage with an Indiana
plow, in an effort to make cotton for
New England gamblers to speculate
on. When bedtime comes, he reads a
chapter in a Bible printed in Boston,
says a prayer written in Jerusalem,
crawls under a New Bedford blanket,
only to be awakened by the bark of a
hound dog, the only home product on
the farm. Then he wonders why in the
hex he can’t make money raising cot
ton.
This little skit was handed tb me by
a friend. It may be a little bit over
drawn, but contains suggestions for a
lot of sound thinking. Hens, hogs,
milk cows, feed crops, u home garden
and orchard coupled with soil im
provement is the best insurance there
is against b bare cupboard and the
inability to buy baby a new dress in
which to get dirty on Sunday.
A fertile soil means a prosperous
people. Get greater yields from smal
ler fields Improving the soil is like
courting a widow, you cannot overdo
it. Insarie people do not cooperate,
neither do shifdt is farmers. It is no
harder to farm than it is to hunt or
fish and there is as much sport in the
one as there is in the other if we take
that view of nt. Safe farming—safe
eating.
Death Miss Nealy Clements
Funeral services of Miss Nealy
Clements were held at Shiloh
church yesterday afternoon at
three o’clock, conducted by Rev.
Roy Gardner, and interment
was in the church cemetery.
She was the sister of Mr. J. W.
Clements, with whom she made
her home, also a sister of Mrs.
C. C. White and Mrs. W. H. Pad
gett of this county. She died
last Wednesday afternoon, after
aprolonged illness.
His nephew by marriage, B. C.
Pierce, of Columbus, who was
unable to come to his bedside,
called constantly to learn of his
condition.
He died on Sunday in his home,
where just 17 years before his
great niece, Mary Ruth McLeod,
of Fitzgerald, was born on-Sun
day, and none loved him more
than she.
In telling him good by, all of
who loved him join in with the
immortal poet:
"What is this mystery that men
call .death?
Our friend before us lise; in all
save breath
He seems the same as yesterday.
Hi* face so like to life,-so calm,
bears not a trace
Os that great change which all of
us so dread. :
We gaze on him find say: Heis
not dead,
But sleeps, and soon he will arise
and take
Us .by the band; we know he will
awake
And smile on us as he did yes
terday;
And he will have some gentle
word to say,
Some kind deed to do; fcr loving
thought
Was warp and woof of which his
life was wrought.
He is not dead; such souls forev
er live
I boundless measure of the love
they give.”
MRS. L. M. POPE
C. H. BARINEAU
Wm. B. KENT
Com. M. E. Sunday School.
ALAMO, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1931
Streets of Town Being
Improved by Committee.
Not in many year have the
streets and side walks of Alamo
presented more healthful appear
ance than at present. The street
committee outlined a program at
the beginning of the year that
materialized in the building up
all sidewalks in the town, which
had run down, and in some
places had been abandoned. This
project proved up splendidly and
pedistrains have no trouble in
reaching their homes via a nice
elevated walk.
Through the courtesy of Coun
ty Commissioner Mcßae, the
streets of town are being work
ed up with a tractor, and where
completed they too, present a
very neat appearance, and when
the summer comes it is the in
tention of the street committee
io keep the weeds down, pre
parations for this having been
made by use of tools devit ed by
Li. Purvis, chairman of the strhet
committee.
Death Mrs. Cornelia Guest.
Mrs. Cornelia Guest, 73, died
at her home at Graham, last
Tuesday morning..
She was before her marriage
Miss Cornelia Seigler, daughter
of the lute Rev D. Seigler, a
Baptist minister. Her husband,
the late Benjamin Guest, was
one of Wheeler county’s leading
planters.
Children surviving her are
Austin Guest, of Punta Gorda,
Fla; H.H. Guest of Graham; Roy
A. Guest, of Brunswick, Mrs. C.
C. Moseley, of Keysville; Mrs.
Myrtle Cowart, of Graham, and
Mrs. G. Hinson, of West Palm
Beach, Fla., and nine grandchild
ren.
Funeral services were held at
Graham Methodist church at
Graham Rev. Robert E. Water
man, fticiatea, and interment
was in the church cemetery,
Mrs. Guest was up to a few
years ago a resident of this coun
ty, being a widow of the late Ben
Guest. Many friends here regret
to learn of her death.
Force Your Garden
to Do Its Part.
Financial conditions are bad, but
regardless of conditions, you must
eat. Force your garden to do its part.
If these things have notbeen done, do
them now.
Bed sweet potatoes in clean sand.
Just before bedding sosk them for
eight minutes in a poison solution
made by dissolving 1 oz. of corrosive
sublimate in 8 gallons of water. This
is to kill the disease spores on the
skins of the potatoes. After treating
three batches, make up a new solution.
Do not let the potatoes touch each
other in the beds.
Prepare seed beds well before plant
ing. Plowing or spading in rotton
manure or compost and raking the
rows before dropping the seed will re
move clods and help prevent packing.
Plant these bardy vegetables several
times.so they will not all be ready to
use at once: English peas, lettuce,
spinach, turnips, mustard, beets, car
rots, onions and cabbage.
Irish potatoes require cool weather.
Plantearly.
Transplant bo cold frames. Space
them 3 inches each way.
When frost is over, plant beans,
com, cucumbers, okra, squash, wa
termelons and cantaloupes.
Set sweet potato slips in the field.
Tomatoes, peppers and eggplants
can be transplanted, to the garden and
the seed planted in the open as soon
as the soil warms.
Manure, fertilizer, good seed, care,
vegetables, more vegetables, plenty,
ESTHER GODBEE,
County Agent.
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Cross Roads Home
Demonstration Club.
The Cross Roads Home De
monstration Club met at the
home of Mrs. N.A.Wynn Mon
day afternoon. Miss Proctor,
state nutrition agent, of Athens,
met with the club and gave a de
monstration of the value of nu
trition, and stressed the impor
tance the nutrition program
for the* Tub woman of 1931. The
nutrition program for 1931 is as
follows: rt* .
Spring gar , 15 bomts-.
Fallgrden 15 points/
Fruits (at least 2 kinds-requir
ed) 10 points.
Canning ,-.20 points.
Poultry 10 points.
Cows 15 points.
Attendance at meeting, 15
points.
Total 100 points.
Each woman who makes a score
or more points shall be award
ed at the end of the year a certi
ficate t»f merit by the extension
division of the Georgia State
College of Agriculture.
The Ki wanis loving cup shall
be awarded for 1932 to the coun
ty having the greatest percent
age of women enrolled in the nu
trition project' completing the
work satisfactiory.
Miss Protctor’s talk we s great
ly enjoyed by the club. We wel :
come Miss Procter’s visits.
Mrs. Tom Martin, Mrs. George
Johnson and Mrs. J. F. William
son were appointed the nutrition
committee.
Those presant at the meeting
were: M rs - J.F. Williamson, Mrs.
Tom Martin, Miss Godbee,“Miss
Proctor, Mrs. Delia Bright, Mrs.
George Bright, Mrs. George
Johnson, Mrs. Henry William
son, Mrs. Mary Harrison, Mrs.
John Harrison, Mrs. E L.Moss,
Mrs. W.F. Anderson, Mrs. N.A.
Wynn, Miss Wright and Mrs.
Mallory Goss-
The next club meeting is to
meet at the home of Mrs. Omar
Nelms on the first Friday in
March, at three o’clock. All
members ate urged to attend.
Mrs. W.F. Anderson, "
Reporter.
Dr. W. W. Terrell, Douglas
Douglas, Ga., Feb. 25. —Dr. W.
W. Terrell, who died in Augusta
a few days ago, was brought to’
Douglas for burial Monday after
noon, where his body wasjalaced
beside the grave of his wife who
died several years ago.
For several years Dr. Terrell
had lived in other parts of the
state, but for many years he was
a leading physician of Douglas.
He married Miss Alice Clem
ents, of Alamo, and in their early
married life, they moyed to
Douglas. .. ■
Three children were born to
them and all of . them survive,
They are Mrs. Herman Parra
more^ of Valdosta, Lieut.. Wil
liam Terrell, of the Naval Base,
sn Portsmouth, Va., and Ruell
Terrell. ■ ~ - .
Dr. Terrell was the brother-in
law of Mrs. John R. Slater v ot
this cjty, and an uncle in-law of
Sidney and Francis.Stubbs.
Dr. Terrell Was a former resi
dent of AlamoJ and practiced
medicine in this county many
years ago, and news of bis death
brings sorrow to many warm
friends throughout the county.
He was a brother-in law of
Mrs. T. H. Nelson and Mr. J.
I Mcßae Clements of this place.
Mrs. Jesse Mitchell
Died Saturday Suddenly.
The entire Shiloh community
was shocked and grieved last Sat
urdayat the sudden death of
Mrs. J. I. Mitchell, which fol
lowed a stroke of paralysis.
She had finished her day’s
work, and was sitting quitely by
the fire about six o’clock, when
the attack came, from which she
never regained consciousness.
She died about 7:30,- before the
summoned nurse could arrive.
Her husband and sister, Miss
Adelia Clements, were with bar
all the time and several others
of the family arrived shortly aft
er her death.•
Funeral services were held at
Shiloh Methodist Church, of
which she was a member. The
pastor Rev. Roy Gardner, was
assisted by Rev. L. A. Kelley, of
the Baptist Church.
The church was beautifully de
corated and the floral 'offerings
on the casket were very lovely.
The favorate songs of the deceas
ed, “Asleep in Jesus,”/’Saved
by Grace,” and "Gathering
Home” were sung aquartet com
posed of Mrs. Mracus Bussey, of
Macon, Mrs. Henry ; Lowery,
Mrs. Fred Clements, find Mr.
Ben Harvell, of Lumber City, ac
companied by Mrs. J. C. Wilcox,
at the piano.
In the services, Rev. Gardner
affectionately likened the decas
ed to Mary, whome Chriat said,
“She hath done what she could.”
She always had time to be about
her Father’s business'. She up
held her pastor in the work he
had to do. She was a conscien
tious church member and a sin
cere Christian. She was devoted in
her home ties. Inber early years
she joined the Methodist church,
and was for a number of years a
steward at Spring Hill. <For the
past two years she served as a
steward at Shiloh, a faithful and
devoted worker. As yet it is im
possible to realize the bigness
of the “lonesome place against
the sky’’ left by the passing of
this good woman, clean citizen,
, helpful neighbor, true , friend,
and active Christian.
Interment was in the Shiloh
cemetery. The pall bearers were:
Messrs R.F. Jordan, C. M. Jor
dan, John Nox, J. H. Leggett,
R. C. Livingston, and C. L.
Mcßae- /
Mrs. Mitchell was formerly
Misg Susie Clements, daughter
of the late John B. and Mary
Dent Clements. She is survived
by four sisters, Mrs. L.J. Clegg,
of Scotland; Mrs. Hoke Sharp,
of Alston; Mrs. G. C. Keen, of
Glenwood, and Miss Adelia Clem
ents, who made her home., with
Mrs. Mitchell; two brothers,
Moproe Clements, of Spring Hill,
and Howell Clements, of Odum,
all of whom were present at tfoe
uneral
Mrs. Eugene Rowland
Adrian, Ga., Feb. 23.—^Mrs.
Eugene Rowland, died at noon
Saturday after several days’ ill
ness of ^double ^swimonia.
Before her marriage she was
Miss Lula Bell^ < Pullen and is
survived By her . husband, two
children' 'and several z brothers
and sistets.
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Mrs. Rowland Visited Alamo
while, her “bnpther;- Mr. W. G.
Pullen resided; ^faeje, .-and w^s
quite wcirknow’n to.friends here.
She is survived - , by Mr. W^ G.-
Pnli^n, formerly f^siding here;
Mrs.fL. G: Whitaker, 'of Alamo;
M^JU.W. S H. Gross, of-Thomas
vHie; Mrs, Frank Floyd,of Floyd'
Dale, S. C., Miss Juljapulien and
Toni Pullen ‘ of Miajni,. - Florid^
allformer residents Os Alamd.
Yi J Hill
Rente Thirty to Be 'Paved .
It is tearhdd that fdd£e thirty;
from- Montgomery -so Savanriah,
through Alamo, Glenwood on
ME. Vernon, is-next in;, order to
bb paved. It is understood tbftt
preliminary work bn t^e road is
to begin in the next softy days.
This does -not mean that the
road will be paved right away,
but the jvprk of straightening;
grading and the like will shortly
be started.
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Number 1
STATE GAME LAW
QUESTION RAISED
Brunswick,Ga., Feb.23—Attor
ney for defendants charged with
violating the state game laws in
a recent case here said today in
city court there is no penalty for
hunting without license. The de
fendants were released, but their
cases were left on the docket.
The defense contention was
that section 18 of the act of 1911
making hunting without a license
a misdemeanor*was specifically
repealed by an act of 1925. Hunt
ers under the law'^now are re
quired to have licenses, but at
torneys said there is no penalty
if they do not have.
PeterS. Twitty, state commis
sioner of game and fish, said he
would notjmake a statement re
lative to the contention of Sa
vannah attorneys that there was
no penalty for hunting in Geor
gia without a license until he had
time to study the statutes.
Mr. Twitty said he had no
comment to make on the subject,
t was contended today that de
fendants in Brunswick, Ga.,
court could not be penalized for
hunting without a license be
cause, of an act of the legislature
of 1925. The attorneys said this
act repealed the one of 1911 in
which a penalty was provided for
the crime, which was classed a
misdemeanor.
The hunting season in Georgia
has just closed.
Home Mission Week
of Prayer Progam.
The B.W.M U., with all of its
organizations, will observe the
Home Mission week of prayer,
begining Monday, March 2nd,
in the afternoon at 3:30 and con
tinue through Friday afternoon.
The ladies have prepared a spec
ial program for each afternoon.
Monday’s program—B.W.M.U
Tuesday’s program —Y.W.A,
Wednesday’s program—G .A.
Girls.
Thursday’s program —R. A.
Boys.
Friday’s program—Sunbeams.
The program for Monday is as
follows:
Devotional by Mrs. M. C.
White.
Prayer.
Song.
Topic—Home Missions.
Trails, what Home Missions
did in 1930—Mrs. W. C. Riddle.
First part—o. P. Hartley.
Second part—Mrs. J.D.Peebles
Third part —Mrs. W.G. Hart
ley. ,
Fourth part—Mrs. W. R. Mc-
Daniel.
Prayer, Song, offering.
„ All members urged to be pres
ent. ■
Program Committee.
Services at Alamo M.E. Church
i-:
--Beginriing Sunday night, Meh.
l#t, all night services at the
; Methodist church will be at eight
.o’clock. Every one is urged to
come to church Sunday night.
Other services of C-fe :hurch
are: ■' '
Sunday School, 10:30 A. M.,
-Epworth Lop r ue, Tuesday night
at eight o’ez^k; Prayer service.
Thursday night at eight o’clock;
World Friends, Friday afternoon
at four o’clock,
The Woman’s Missionary So
ciety meets at the home of Mrs.
W. B. Kent at 3:30 Monday after
noon, March 2nd.