Volume 19
COLEMAN BUILDING
DESTROYED BY FIRE
The H. A. Coleman residence,
occupied by the family of Mr.
R. M. Walker, opposit the
Methodist Church, was destroy
ed by fire Wednesday afternoon
about seven e’clock. The blaze
was first discovered coming from
the roof of the kitchen, and
burned rapidly. It is supposed
to have caught from a spark from
the stove, as a large range had
just been installed, and the even
ing meal was being prepared
when the fire was discovered.
The building had been vacant
up to about two month? ago. when
the family of Mr. Walker moved
in. It was one of the oldest homes
in town, built by the late H. A.
Coleman, more than twenty-five
years ago. Large pecan and oak
trees surrounded the building,
'and were a great protection to
■other property near by in con
the shower of sparks that
would have otherwise endanger
■ed other buildings.
Practically all of the contents
of the building were rescued,
while much of the furnishing
was badly bruised and broken,
as is the case under similar
circumstances. The water sup
ply was unusually weak at this
time, though a bucket brigade
did some heroic work, and the
flames could have been managed
with just a little more water pro
tection.
Mr. Walker carried insurance
on his furniture, but it is not
known whether the building was
insured.
Deeds to Right-of
Way Being Closed.
Deeds to the right-of way on
-.route 30, from Glenwood through
Alamo are closed up, prepara
tory to letting the contract dur
ing the coming month. Where
deeds cannot be closed condem
nation proceedings will be at
once instituted, when the matter
will pass from the county au
thorities into the court, to say
what the owners of the property
shall receive.
Where it can be agreed upon,
it possibly will be best, and will
be closed sooner, to close out the
matter with the county author,
ities. Most of the right of way
however, on this route has been
c' ^d,and the deeds will be mail
ed -o the State Highway Board
in Atlanta.
It is thought that the contract
will be let about the twentieth of
June, but the delay in getting
up right-of-way may result in
some delay. The contract will be
let during the coming month,
however, and within a short time
■work will begin.
Mrs. Grady Garrett, Swainsboro
Dr. J. D. Peebles received a
message yesterday afternoon an
nouncing the death of his eldest
sister, Mrs. Grady Garrett, of
Swainsboro. He and Mrs. Peebles
left immediately,and will remain
over for the funeral today, which
will be in the old family cemetery
at Oak Chapel, in Emanuel coun
ty.
News of her death came as a
severe shock to her brother as it
was not known that she was ill.
No particulars of her death were
(Contained in tbe message. She is
survived by her husband and
several children. She was also a
niece of Mrs. J. L. Sumner of
•this place.
Read The Eagle but dont Wait
•*o borrow your neighbors.
Mheeler tonty lEagb
Policeman Clears $75
Daily on Gladiolus
Vidalia, Ga , May 26—A new
agricultural diversification plan
has been developed in Toombs
County by Night Policeman, Sam
Blana, of Vidalia, who is a farm
er when not engaged in policing
the city.
Bland has a two-acre ranch of
gladiolas on his farm and he is
now shipping buds to New York,
the ranch yielding 100 to 150
dozen “glads” per day, which are
cut in the bud, packed and ex
pressed. The express time to
New York is about 36 hour- and
the buds open while in transit,
being ready for the market on
arrival.
Bland says he makes $75 to
SIOO per day on two acres, in
dicating commercially success
ful development of the industry.
Organization Meeting
Increased Use of Cotton
Wednesday, June, 3rd, 10 A.M
in the Senate Chamber of the
State Capitol, Atlanta.
To restore profit in cotton
growing,by extending the use of
cotton and in so doing to pre
serve American predomination
in the production and manufact
ure of cotton.
Under consumption, aided bj
overproduction, has accumulated
the largest surplus in cotton
history and destroyed price,
Georgia cannot progress on 7 to
9 cent cotton.
Bankers, cotton is Georgia's
money crop, yielding 1,597,248
'bales in 1930.
Merchants, cotton is the basis
of trade in Georgia. When cotton
is low in price, trade is paralyzed.
Co’-ton men, unless cotton is
profitable, our farmers must re
duce production; already cotton
is produced in 51 countries and
foreign staples are displacing
American cotton from the mark
ets of the world.
All agricultural agencies; and
all others who are desirous ol
bringing depression to an end.ol
preventing recurrent low price,
and of fostering permanent and
profitable agriculture.
Our purpose; to formulate
definite and constructive plans
for a militant Georgia Division of
the Association for the Increased
Use of Cott >n, which has as its
purpose, "to encourage and pro
mote the use of cotton in the
wrapping of cotton bales; for
sacking fertilizer, sugar, feed
stuffs, cement and other pro
ducts in cotton bags; to encour
age the use of cotton in drape
ries, house furnishings, wearing
apparel, paper, twine, rope, and
all other uses to which it may be
put.”
Your presence, attention and
counsel earnestly desired and
urged.
Mrs. L O. Freeman, Pres. stb
District Federation of Woman’s
Clubs.
A promise to buy every child
in town an ice cream cone failed
to elect Mrs. Julia Kolze, presi
dent of the village of Schiller
Park, 111.
Because he feared his 30-year
old automobile might fall into
unkindly hands, Dr. Francis
Pearse of London buried it with
all honors near a cemetery.
After a divorce period of 23
years, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Ma
ther of Ridgebury, N.Y,, havs
remarried.
’ Our grist mill is running every
Friday and Saturday. E.D. Towns
Towns, Ga.
ALAMO, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1931
WHEELER COUNTY
SINGINGCONVENTION
The Wheeler County singing
convention will convene on next
Sunday May 31st, at Bay Springs
church.
The over all quartet has prom
ised to be with us along with
other local and out of county
singers.
The public is cordially invited.
W. E. Currie.
Girl Struck by Lightning.
The seven year old girl of Will
Hopkins, colored, was struck by
a bolt of lightning Wednesday at
their home about a mile north of
Alamo. The child was inside cf
the house and was knocked down
but recovered some time later.
Nothing serious is expected to
develop from the stroke.
There was a considerable cloud
over north west portion from
Alamo Wednesday morning, with
heavy thundering and some light
ning, indicating that the dry
spell was soon to be broken, but
it passed over for the time being.
When President Hoover had
some teeth pulled recently an
enterprising hospital orderly hit
upon the idea of sel'ing them as
souvenirs. The demand was good
so he gathered up all the pulled
teeth he could find around tbe
dental office and peddled them
as Hoover’s. It is said that about
200 molars, bisuspids, incisors
and the like were disposed of be
fore the fake was discovered.
THOUSAND DISASTERS
RECEIVED RED CROSS
AID IN 50 YEARS
American Society to Celebrate
Its Birth Year With Nation
wide Observance
Tornadoes, floods, forest fires and
other calamities and upheavals of na
ture have visited the United States
more than one thousand times in the
last half century.
All of these were of severe Intensity,
causing loss of life and great property
damage. Minor catastrophes were not
counted in this list of disasters, which
has been made public by the American
Red Cross, in connection with the cele
bration this year of Its fiftieth birth
day.
It was on the evening of May 21,
1881, in the modest home of Miss Clara
Barton In Washington, D. C., that the
American Association of the Red Cross
was first formed. Before the year was
out, and before. Indeed, the United
States Government had officially
moved to approve the Treaty of
Geneva, adding this nation to the com
pany of thirty-two others adhering to
the treaty to protect wounded in war
fare, Miss Barton had plunged the small
society into a disaster relief task.
First Red Cross Unit
This was In the north woods of
Michigan, where forest fires swept the
homestead farms of pioneering fam
ilies. Miss Barton, as president of the
Red Cross, had organized a branch In
Dansville, New York, where she was
sojourning. This little group imme
diately raised money, food, clothing
and other supplies and sent them to
the forest fire victims. In Rochester
and Syracuse, New York, nearby, word
spread of this charitable enterprise,
and Red Cross auxiliaries were organ
ized there to help. So began the disas
ter relief work of the Red Cross fifty
years ago. In the Intervening years,
millions of men, women and children
have been aided. Thousands of homes
have been restored. Thousands of
persons, overwhelmed by floods, tor
nadoes, and fires until all they pos
sessed had been wiped away, have
been rehabilitated and prosperity and
happiness again smiled upon them.
This year has been dedicated by the
Red Cross and its chapters In 3,500
communities to commemoration of the
events which led to the birth of the
society In the United States.
President Hoover Speaks
The celebration of the anniversary
was inaugurated In Washington at a
dinner, attended by many distin
guished men and women, at which
Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes
W
Fifth Sunday Baptist
Meeting May Thirty First
On the fifth Sunday, May the
31st at 3, P. M. at Brewton Park
er Auditorium, there will be a
rally held for all the Baptist
churches in the Daniel Associat
ion. Every body is invited to be
present and particularly are the
members of all the Baptist
churches, invited urged and re
quested to be present.
Large delegations from every
church in the Association are ex
pected to attend this meeting.
Rev. J. A Riser, of Soperton
will speak on the subject, “Can
the Baptist Solve Their Prob
lems.”
Rev. J.D. Rabun, of Lyons,
will speak on the subject, “God’s
Ownership and Man’s Steward
ship.”
There will be other interesting
and important matters to come
before the meeting.
J. W. Palmer Chairman
Cooperating Program.
presided, and President Hoover, who
is the president of the American Red
Cross, was the chief speaker. Judge
Max Huber of Geneva, Switzerland,
the president of the International Com
mittee of the Red Cross, in which fifty
seven nations are joined in a Red
Cross brotherhood, also was a speaker,
as were Chairman John Barton Payne
of the American Red Cross, and Mise
Mabel T. Boardman, secretary, and
veteran leader of the society.
The Red Cross standard, which files
all around the world where mercy it
needed, was ilrst introduced as an
Ideal In our modern civilization Jr.
Geneva in 1864, when the international
Red Cross convention, afterward to bi
known as the Treaty of Geueva, was
signed by twelve countries agreeing
that on the battlefield the wounded
should be given aid by doctors, nurses
and others, who should wear the sign
of the Red Cross, and be treated as
neutrals in tbe warfare.
Two Americans attended this firs:
convention, the American Miniates
George C. Fogg, and Charles 8. P
Bowles, representative in Europe o’
the United States Sanitary Commis
slon, a volunteer organization of sym
pathizers with the North in our Civil
War Facts they gave resulted in adop
tion of some of the American Ideas.
Returning to the United States. Fogg
and Bowles sought recognition of th(
Geneva Treaty, but the Grant admin
istratlon took no interest. Undei
Hayes, the same lethargy was eu
countered.
Clara Barton Founder
But there bad emerged from tiie Civil
War period a middle-aged woman whr
had seen much service on the battle
fields around Washington. This was
Clara Barton. 11l health caused her tc
make a trip to Europe In 1869. There
she became Interested in the Reo
Cross idea, and joined a unit which
saw service in the Franco-Prussian
war. Upon her returu home, sht
launched an active campaign for the
treaty, but met the same opposition
as her predecessors. However. Presi
dent Garfield, when be came into of
flee, recognized the merits of the
movement, and when death by assassl
nation removed him, his successor
President Arthur, sought approval b?
the U. 8. Senate of the treaty. Thus
was consummated a seventeen-yeai
fight tn this nation for a humanitarian
ideal. Clara Barton was recognized at
the society’s founder and was its presi
dent for twenty-three years. She died
in 1912 at the age of 90 years.
It is not generally thought of, but
tbe flag so familiar in every civilized
nation as the emblem of the Red Cross
had a simple derivation. Because the
originator of the movement, Henri
Dunant, was a Swiss, and the first
treaty to protect wounded in battle
was drafted and signed In Switzerland,
the flag of that Republic—a white cross
upon a red background—was reversed,
and the Red Cross came into being.
A few days ago an article came
to the desk of Sumner Blossom,
editor of the American Magazine,
written by a boy serving a 55
year sentence for banditry in a
state penitentiary. In it the au
thor made no maudlin appeal for
sentiment; just cold facts as to
why so many boys become gang
sters and criminals. Mostly, he
says, it is the desire to “show
off.” The article, which is to be
.published next month, promises
a new angle on the crime wave.
FOUR MEN JAILED
IN PYRE DEATH
Dublin, Ge.., May 27. —Follow-
ing a trail that led here from
Swainsboro, detectives today ar
rested four Dublin men and
charged them with the “pyre
murder” of Ellis B. Mcßride
three weeks ago.
Those under arrest are Cliff
Hightower, Erwin Davis, H. L.
Dixon and George Clay.
All four denied any knowledge
of the crime.
Detective Lee, of Swainsboro,
<aid that Clay had made state
ments implicating himself and
the other three in the robbery
and murder.
Snider Sees Rain
And Heat in June
Griffin, Ga., May 27. —Prof.
Albert Snider, Griffin’s long
distance weather man, says there
will be some very warm and even
hot weather in June, as well as
frequent showers. Here is his
forecast for the month:
June I—Fair1 —Fair and warm; 2
showers; 3, fair and cooler; 4, fair;
5, showers; 6, showers; 7-8, fair;
9, partly cloudy; 10 partly cloudy;
11, thundershowers with high
winds; 12 13, showers; 14, partly ’
cloudy; 15, fair; 16, fair and hot;
17, partly cloudy; 18, showers;
19, partly cloudy; 20, showers;
21, partly cloudy; 22, fair and
very warm: 23 24, showers; 25,
fair; 26 27 showers; 28, fair; 29,
fair and hot; 30, thundershowers.
Me^.yriai Day.
The beautiful custom of setting
iside one dav in the year for the
decoration of soldiers’ graves
is said to have origainated in
Petersburg, Va., where Memofi
d Day was observed for the first
i.ime on June 9, 1865, in honor of
Confederates who were killed in
battle there just one year before.
In 1868 the wife of General
John A. Logan, then commander
>f the G. A. R.. happened to be
in Petersburg on its Memorial
Day, and was so impressed with
the tributes of Howers and Hags
vith which the graves were de
corated that t he suggested to the
general that this be made a natio
nal custom. General Logan ac
cordingly issued an order to the
G.A.R. “that every post of the
Grand Aarmy should hold suit
able exercises and decorate the
graves of their dead comrades
with flowers,” on May 30 each
year.
The idea spread throughout
the South, also, and Confederate
Memorial Day is observed in va
rious states on the following
dates: Mississipsi and Florida;
May 10 in North and South Caro
lina; the second Friday in May
in Tennessee, on June 3 in Louis
iana. In the South the national
Memorial Day of May 30 is more
generally observed since the
World War, the exercises being
conducted by the American Le
gion.
At the national cemetery of Ar
lington, near Washington, the
grave of American’s Unknown
Soldier is decorated with special
ceremonies, usually participated
in by the President and other
high officials, on Memorial Day.
It is highly fitting that all citi
zens should join in the observance
of this most beautiful and sacred
, of our national holidays.
While Constable Charles Arlin
ger of Fairmount City, 111., slept
. at his home a thief entered, took
i his cadge and $26 from a baby’s
bank, and escaped.
Number 14
Funeral Services of
Mrs. Vergie Browning.
Mrs. Vergie Browning, 81,
died at the home of her daugh
ter, Mrs. Gordon Newton, in the
Bruce sec t i o n in this county,
last Monday night. She had been
confined to her bed for a month.
She was a member of the Shiloh
Methodist church, and was a
good Christian lady.
She is survived by five child
ren, three daughters, Mrs. Susie
Ray, of Telfair county; Mrs. L.L,
McAlum, Mrs. Alma Newton, of
this county; two sons, J.S. and
A. C. Browning, of this county.
Funaral services were conduct
ed Tuesday afternoon, by Rey.
L. S. Barnett, of Mt. Vernon, at
the Browning cemetery, near
Sardis church, where the re
mains were laid to rest in the
family cemetery.
B.Y.P U. Convetion
And Encampment.
Young people from this county
are planning to attend the State
B. Y. P. U. Convention and En
campment which is to be held at
Riverside Military Academy near
Gainesville, June 20-27. Some
three hundred Baptist young
people from over Georgia'attend
ed each of the past two years.
Speakers from this state and
many other Southern states ap
pear on this year's program.
The convetion and encamp
ment will begin with supper and
an informal reception and inspi
rational address Saturday night,
June 20bh. Three services will be
neld Sunday and then for the
rest of the week there will be
class work and a brief address
each morning and recreation all
afternoon. Fine facilities are pro
vided for tennis, golf, swimming,
volly ball, basket ball, baseball
and hiking.
Each night, Monday through
Friday, there will be a vesper
message immediately following
supper and an address at the
close of the day. Stunts and
special features at meal time and
elsewhere in the program will
add to the happy time of those
who attended.
Coi. Sandy Beaver, president
of Riverside Military Academy,
has made his whole school plan
available for the delegates to this
convention. Dr. Roland Q. Leavell
and Dr. W. A. Keel, pastor-hosts
of Gainesville, will lead in wel
come and cooperation from local
church and town people.
Noted sneakers to young peo
ple are expected,including James
W. Merritt, Atlanta, Dr. Harry
Clark, Dr. John L Hill, Nash
ville, Tenn.; Miss Winnie Riekett,
Raleigh, N.C.; Miss Edna Hen
drix, Bessie Tift College; Sibley
C. Burnett, Louisville, Ky.;Miss
May D. Yarbough, Blue Moun
tain, Miss.; Mrs. Adam Sloan,
McDonough; Mrs. E.S. Preston;
Pastor-Hosts W. A. Keel and Ro
land Q. fjeavell, Gainesville; Mrs.
Parks R. Warnock, Atlants; Miss
■ Ethel McConnell,Nashville, Tenn.
Dr. Kyle M. Yates, of the South
ern Baptist Theological Semi
nary, Louisville, Ky.; E. E. Lee,
Dallas, Texas and many others.
Registrations are being receiv
ied daily at the State B. Y. P. U.
Office in the Palmer Bldg., At.
| lanta.
Charging that a nasal injury
which caused her to snore was
the'result of a street car accident,
M rs. Rube O’Connor of San Fran
cisco is suing the municipal
street car line for $10,192.
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