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Volume 19
HIGHWAY SURVEY
THROUGH ALAMO
The survey from Glenwood to
Alamo over route thirty begun
some few aays ago, reached Ala
mo yesterday, coming through
the eastern section of town
making a curve coming through
the main business section of the
town on'Hail road A ven lid; far*ll
- the railroad to Mill Branch,
making another curve south to a
point, where a direct route will
be followed to Mcßae.
Deeds for the right of way
from Glenwood to the river
bridge have been secured by the
county and the contract for this
portion of the grading and pav
ing are in order to be let. As soon
as the survey from Alamo to Me
Rae h^s been made and the deeds
for the right of way have been
secured this section of the road
work will be in order to be let.
The route of the highway
through the eastern section of
Alamo will come throug a port
ion of the farm of Mrs. A. E.
Cox and will also necessitate the
removal of a couple of small buil
dings in that section of the
town, as well as the home of the
section formeman, which hap
penes to be located in the center
of the right of way. The damage
will be light, however and this
may be overcome at a small cost.
Epworth League Fish Fry
The Alamo Epworth League
entertained with a fish fry near
Alligator creek on Tuesday night,
March 17th. The affair celebrat
ed the end of a contest in the
League between the “Gold” and
“White” sides the gold side win
ning the hard fought race. The
white side entertained. Fried
fish, corn bread and coffee were
served.
Among those attending and en
joying the occasion were: Messrs
R. A. Hogan, F. W. Elarbee,
C. H. Barineau, J. B. Purvis,
Roy Gardner, Clyde Hinson,
Ed Walker, Billie Kent, Wade
McDaniel, Buford Hartley, Wal
ter Ussery, Barkwell Couey,
Wright Purvis, Joe Pope, Hob
son Walker, and Raymond John
son; Mrs. Roy Gardner,’and Mrs.
C.B^arineau, Misses Ruth Leg
gett Ag' ne s Ranson, Clifford
GriZev, Ora Parker, Alice Pur
vis, Lena McAlum, Lucile
Adams, Mettie and Selma Sears,
Margaret McDan ie 1, Louise
Walker, and Bert Rollison.
World Friendship News
The world Friendship club
Iheld their regular weekly meet
ing last Friday afternoon at four
o’clock. Josephine Eelarbee con
ducted the program
We practiced Easter songs,
had the first story in our new
mission study book, “The golden
sparrow,” checked up our honor
roll and then adjourned out of
doors, where Brother Gardner
conducted some games.
The world Friends each have
been giving a gospel of St. John,
and scon they are going to get
each one a Testament. Many of
them read their Bible daily.
The honor roll for this week is
as follows:
Elizabeth Pope, 100 per cent.
Annie Maud Sears, 100 per cent
Lois Pope, 100 per cent.
Louise Barlow, 80 per cent.
Josephine Elarbee, 80 per cent
Geneva Sears, 80 per cent.
Wrapped in newspaper, S2O,
■ 000 stolen from a bank official by
motor bandits was found hidden
in a hen house in Chicago.
WhMer Cnuntu £aab
COMMANDER EMORY
WINSHIP TAKES LIFE
According to news dispatches
from San Francisco, Cmmander
Emory Winship killed himself in
his appartment in California last
Sunday, when his estranged
wife was entering their appart
ment that she might take away
a fe'W personal belongings.
Mr. Winship was 59 years of
age and a member of a prominent
American family. He was born
in Macon, and for many years
made his home there. He served
in the Spanish-American war,
and the Philippine insurrection,
and after being placed on the re
tired list, was put into service in
the World War.
He was marrid in 1904 to Miss
Katherine Dillon, a wealthy re
sident of San Francisco. She
died in 1920 and Commander
Winship was married to Miss
Dorothy Blount, of Macon, in 1929
and he maintained a residence in
Macon part of every year.
He owned the large and mag
nificent estate in Wheeler county,
once known as the McArthue
estate, but purchased several
yearsago by Mr Winship, where
he operated one of the largest
farmes in the county. On this
plantation stands one of the most
palatial country homes perhaps
in the state.
Many friends made during his
visits to the county learn with
deep sorrow his untimely death.
Death of Mrs. S. Dixon.
Funeral services for Mrs. S.
Dixon, of near Glenwood, were
held at Glenwood Saturday after
noon.
Mrs. Dixon is survived by her
husband and seven children,
Mrs. P.H. Towns, Dublin; Mrs.
P.J Towns, Glenwood; Mrs. D.
M. Morrison, Glenwood; Mrs. C.
J. Adams, Lumber City; Mrs. J.
A. Scarbrough, Dudley, and
Charley and E. W. Dixon. Three
brothers and a numper of grand
children also survive.
Mrs. Dixon was 65 years of age
at the time of her death, and was
before her marriage Miss Wal
den of north Georgia.
A host of friends extend sin
cere sympathy to the bereaved
family.
CARD OF THANKS
Through this medium we wish
to express our deep appreciation
tor the many kindnesses and
expressions of sympaty shown
us during the recent death of
our dear wife and mother, Mrs.
S. Dixon.
The use of the cars and the
beautiful floral offerings were
truly appreciated.
May God’s richest blessing
rest on each one whose kindness
and love was revealed in both
thought and deed.
S. Dixon.
E. W. Dixon.
C. R. Dixon.
Mrs. D. M. Morrison-
Mrs. P. H. Towns.
Mrs. P. J. Towns.
Mrs. J. A. Scarborough.
Mrs. C. J. Adams.
Hoboes in the jail at Willard,
0., have asked permission to
move, complaining that occa
sionally the dances held in the
community hall over their quar
ters are so noisy they can’t
sleep.
Members of the country Club
in Belmont, Calif., found their
144 missing golf balls in a single
hole where rats had been drag
ging them.
ALAMO, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 1931
HARDMAN SIGNS
FOR $1,234,538
Checks drawn on the general
tax fund totaling $1,234,538 were
signed Wednesday morning by
Governor Hardman. A warrant
drawn on the Governor for pen
sions due Confederate veterans
in February was not honored
due to the fact that revenue for
the purpose is derived from the
cigarette and tobacco tax and
this fund has not the required
amount at this time.
Checks were made out to the
Highway Department for SIOOO,-
000 to the State Sanitarium at
Milledgeville for $65,000, to the
University of Georgia for sll2,
783, to the State Tuberculosis
Sanitarium at Alto $15,922, to the
State Agriculture College S3O,
833 and to the Albany’ State In
dustrial School at Albany $lO,-
000,
Baptist Meeting.
Cooperative Program and God's
Acre Plan Meeting at Glenwood
Baptist Church on fifth Sunday
in March at 3 P. M.
All the members of the Bap
tist Churches of the Daniel Asso
ciation are : nvited and expected
to be present. The Pastors,
Church officers and the Group
and Church chairmen are requst
ed and urged by all means to be
present even if it requires sacri
tiaing to do so.
There will be no ' selected
speakers. The subjects before
the meeting will be open for dis
cussion by all who may wish to
participate.
Barbee Case Appealed
Hawkinsville March 24. —A bill
of exceptions to the ruling of
Judge Escbol Graham, of Pulaski
supeior court, in refusing to
grant a change of venue in the
trial of James F. Barbee, charg
ed with the murder of his son-in
law of three weeks, Delmar Can
non, 22, of Macon, was filed with
the Georgia court of appeals
Tuesday.
Barbee is alleged to have lured
his young son-in-law from Macon
to Hawkinsville and to have fired
the shots which resulted in his
death. Barbee’s attorney, How
ard Coates, who prepared the
bill of exceptions, asked for a
change of venue on grounds that
the public's mind had been
poisoned by newspaper accounts
of the alleged murder and that
Barbee could not obtain a fair
trial in Pulaski county.
Judge Graham denied Coates’
petition last week, and Coates
gave notice that a bill of except
ion would be filed.
Applications For Gov.
Loans Being Made
The local committee, composed
of Messrs J. H. Murhison, Hugh
Hill and Dr. T. H. Nelson, assist
ed by County Agent Whitaker,
have been busy for the past few
days receiving applications for
a portion of the farm loan fund
allotted to this county.
Only $8,000,00 having been al
lotted to Wheeler county, appli
cations aggregating $32,000 have
been filed with the committee.
Without overstepping the allot
ment, applicants cannot expect
more then twenty five cents in
the dollar, if all applications go
through.
Mrs. J. H. Bennett of Los An
geles had her son arrested for
burglarizing her home and steal
ing $3,000.
LACK OF FOOD
CAUSES DEATH
Miami, Fla., March 24. —Three
Seminole Indian hunters today
solved the riddle of Florida’s
trackless Eeverglades to find the
body of Thomas H. Wentz, 47,
wealthy Norristown, Pa., busi
ness man, after police, science,
and the airplanes of the white
man had failed.
The Indians who ended a 19-
day search were Willie and Mack
Osceola, veteran hunters of the
tribe, and a lad known as Young
Buck. They found the partly de
composed body of Wentz, slump
ed in a lonely open savanna of the
glades, a victim of starvation and
exposure during a dazed but
frantic hunt for assistance after
in automobile accident.
With other braves under the
directions of Chief Cory Osceola,
the hunters started their trail
seeking after white searchers,
peering through binoculars from
in airplane, located Wentz’ ex
pensive automobile bogged in an
everglade marsh six miles west
of Homestead.
The Seminoles picked up the
trail of the wealthy winter visitor
at his automobile and hunted the
area immediately surrounding
the car. They followed a dim trail,
marked by infreqent prints of
Wentz’ pointed shoes in the
marsh mud. Yesterday they
found a bloodstained handker
chief, a packet of paper matches,
ind Wentz’ sun glasses at a point
where he apparently stopped to
rest in his despairing search for
help, i .
Toady they found his body, with
the coat collar turned as if for
shelter from the elements, a
scant mile from a farmhouse
where he might have gained food
shelter and medical aid.
The trail of the injured man
led them through approximately
10 miles of dense Everglade foli
age and marsh as broken twigs,
crushed plants and an occasional
footprint told the keen Indian
eyes of his passage, but the body
ws located only four miles by
air line from the spot where his
automobile was found.
Police who answered the call
of the Indians to day found sl,
099 in cash in pockets of Wentz,
clothing. It was part of $2,000
that friends said he had shortly
before he left Homestead 19 days
ago.
Mrs. R. H. Duggan
Dublin. Ga., March 20. —Fune-
ral services for Mrs. R. H. Dug
gan, who died yesterday morn
ing at 2 o’clock in a local hospital,
was held this morning at II
o’clck at Middle Ground Church
near Chester, Rev. J. Evans and
Rev. J. S. Hartsfield officiated.
Mrs. Duggan was 61 years of
age. She had been ill for 10
weeks. She was a member of the
Baptist church of Chester.
She is survived by her hus
band, R. H. Duggan, of Chester;
four sons, A. H. Duggan, of At
lanta; B. C. Duggan, of Jackson
ville Fla.; O. S. and C.R Duggan,
of Chester; four daughters, Mrs.
F. R. Morris, of Eutawville, S.C.;
Mrs. C. G. Moye, of Brewton;
Mrs. J. C. Rowe, of LaGrange;
Miss Ruby Duggan, of Athens;
three sisters, Mrs. 8.8. Jackson,
of Alma; Mrs. T. E. Sikes, of
Vidalia, and Mrs. S. E. Young,
of Chauncey.
Apply in g to a hospi tai for treat
ment, Philip Skinter, a water in
Chicago, reported that a biscuit
thrown by a customer broke his
jaw.
WINSHIP “BROKE”,
ATTORNEY STATES
San Francisco, March 26 —
Charles W. Slack, attorney for
the estate of Emory Winship, re
ported today the retired naval
commander and San Francisco
capitalist was “virtually broke”
when he killed himself last
Saturday.
Slack said Commander Win
ship was receiving financial aid
from his two children by his
first marriage, that a plantation
he owned near Macon, Ga., was
heavily mortgaged; and property
he was supposed to have owned
in San Francisco belonged to the
estate. Commander Winship,
Slack said, also was m danger of
losing automotive patents he
owned.
“The two children” the attorn
ey commented, “have been very
kind and generous to their
father.”
He declined to comment on the
possible effect of Commander
Winship’s financial sfMus on the
claims of Miss Helen Elizabeth
Thompson, whose attorney says
she will sue for S2OO a month
from the estate for the rest of
her life if she is not provided for
in the former capitalist’s will.
Her claim is based on a assert
ed promise made by Commander
Winship at the time of his last
iparriage to provide for her the
rest of her life.
Superior court Convened
Monday Morning
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The spring term of Wheeler
superior court convened Monday
morning with Judge Eschol Gra
ham presiding and Solicitor Boy
er present in the interest of the
state.
The grand jufy o r ga n i z ed,
electing Mr. B. Z. Swain,
foreman, C. E. McDaniel, clerk
and Mr. J. M. Bridges, bailiff.
They returned to the court room
when Judge Graham delivered
his charge The Judge had just
gotten up from a case of the flu,
and was showing signs of weak
ness from the attack, but gave a
very strong charge to the body.
The civil docket was taken up.
It is understood that there were
more than 150 suits filed Mon
day, which concluded the busi
ness of the week, court recess
ing Mondoy afternoon untill next
Monday morning, when the
criminal docket will be taken up.
Three white boys, Earnest and
Lamar Roberson, and Boob
Williams, charged with burglariz
ing the store of Mr. John Hin
son at Avant’s siding last fall,
plead guilty to the charge and
were given from three to five
years each on the State Farm-
Lamar Roberson’s sentence,
however, was reduced to two
years, he being the yonger of
the three charged with the of
fense.
The grand jury was in session
through Tuesday, then they re
cessed until Monday, when they
will reconvene again.
Singing Convention News
The Wheeler county singing
convention, which convenes at
Mt. Olivet church next Sunday,
is taking on some color.
Arrangements have been
made with one or more quartets
to be present, along with other
local and out of the county lead
ers. If you care to spend an en
joyable day, go to the convention
prepared to spend all day.
Number 5j
HILTON KENNEDY
KIILLED IN DUEL
W ; > ■ o ’
Lyons, Ga., March 22. —In
what officers said was a pistol
duel, Hilton A. Kennedy, 42, of
Glennville, Tattnall county, was
shot to death in this (Toombs)
county, at 3 o’clock this after*
noon by Clio Strickland, 21.
Strickland surrendered to the
officers and was placed in jail
here by Deputy Sheriff Coleman.
The latter said that Strickland
claimed that he shot in self-de
fense.
Kennedy, who is married and
the father of several children,
drove over to the home of Marvin
Pierce, 12 miles south of here, in
Toombs county, this afternoon,
accompanied the officers said, by
Miss Mary Banks, pretty young
daughter of a farmer of the lower
part of Toombs county.
The officers said that Kennedy
and Miss Banks went inside the
Pierce home, where Kennedy be
came boisterous, the officers
were told. They said he had been
drinking.
The Pierces, the officers said,
proceeded to eject Kennedy from
the premites and called on
Strickland, who was employed
by the Pierces and who resided
in their home, to aid.
Kennedy was pushed onto the
front porch, the officers stated.
Then he is alleged to have drawn
a pistol Strickland drew his gun
at the same instant. Both men
began firing at about the same
instant, the officers ascertained.
Several shots were exchanged.
Kennedy fell dead, a shot
through the head and another
bullet through the heart. Strick
land was untouched by bullets.
Immediately after the shoot
ing Strickland notified Toombs
county officers and he was
brought here and locked up.
The officers who investigated
picked up Kennedy’s pistol, it
was stated, and found four new
ly discharged cartridges and
two loaded ones in the chamber.
There will be no inquest, it
was announced, but on Monday
Strickland, who has obtained
Wimberly Brown as his counsel,
will have a hearing before a just
ice of the peace here at which
time a commitment hearing will
be arranged.
Fifth Sunday Services
at Oak Grove Church
Rev. Roy Gardner will preach
at Oak Grove Methodist Church
at eleven o’clock next fifth Sun
day, March the 29th. All of the
people of the Oak Grove com
munity are urged to be present
at this special service. On Sun
dany night at eight o’colock,
there will be a special preaching
service at Bay Springs Church.
At this time the pastor will de
liver his Easter message. The
people of the community are
invited to attend.
Quarterly Conference
to be Held at Shiloh
The second quarterly confer
ence of the Alamo charge meets
at Shiloh on Thursday, April 2nd
The presiding elder Rev. J, C.G,
Brooks, will preach at eleven
o’clock.
A fine dinner will be served on
the grounds by the Shiloh people.
In the afternoon session the
business of the conference will
be handled, and several import
ant matters will be discussed.
The officials and people of the
charge are urged to be present.