Wheeler county eagle. (Alamo, Ga.) 1913-current, November 13, 1931, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextWHEELER COUNTY EAGLE. J 1.50 A Year, In Advance OFFICIAL ORGAN WHEELER CO PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY — J. i GROSS, Propretor. Ent< at the Post Office at Alamo, Georgia, as second class mil matter, May 16th, 1913, under of March 3rd, 1879. Baseball’s Old Roman. In the death of Charles A Comiskey, owner of the Chicago Wnite Sox, a few days ago, at the age of 73, organized baseball lost 01.e of its few remaining pioneers. The “Old Homan,” as he was affectionately called, was the only man in major league histo-y to rise from player to sole owner of a team, franchise and park. Comiskey began hi s major league career 50 years ago as fi rut baseman for the St. Louis Browns of the old American Association at $125 a month. He later become manager of the team and won Jou/straight league champion ships; also one world’s champion ship, and tied for another. He was one of the founders of the American League in 1900, from which time until his death he led the White Sox as manager or owner, winning five league pennants and two world’s series. Comiskey’s greatestdiaappoint ment came in 1919, when seven members of his team were con victed of throwing the world’s series to the infrior Cincinnati club of the National League, hav ing been bribed by gamblers. This scandal for a time threaten ed to wreck professional base ball, but Comiskey’s prompt action in firing the offending players was the deciding factor in restoring public confidence in the game. Among the many tributes paid to Comiskey at his death was thia from President Heydler of the American League: “Noone ever did more to preserve the honesty and integrity of base ball than Comiskey. He took a courageous stand after the 1919 world series in prosecuting the dishonest players of the White Sox. He sacrificed his health ai d much of his wealth in that vigor ous action that did much to help the national game.’’ Armistice Day. November 11 marked the 13th anniversity cf the Armistice which ended the world’s greatest tragedy. Yet the effects of tht war are still fait every where,and unrest is as widespread as it was before that great struggle. In spite of the efforts which have been made since 1918 in tin interest of peace, the outlook for future is not reassuring. The needs and aspirations of nations are unsatisfied, and the desires of one nation can not be met without encroachment upon its neighbors. Just now a striking example of these unsatism d ambitions is seen in Manchuria and Mongolia, where the conflicting interests pf China, Japan and Russia men see the peace of the Far East. While les« acute for the moment, the racial and economic antagonisms among European nations still exist, and the poli tical atmosphere is tilled with distrust. In view of these conditions Armistice Day this year should remind all people of the horrors of the last war, and' cause them to pause before taking any’ ag gressive step which might lead to another.. v_ ■ California daily papers will ban the use of bicycles by carrier boye if rfecommenda|ions of the state association of circulation managers are adopted. When you SEE When you HEAR this new Atwvteir Kent SUPER HETERODYNE Mm few sm Com pl etely Installed $5 down $6 a month Because of its magnificent per formance, its beauty, its solid quality and low price, the Compact 82 (shown here) has jumped to leadership with our customers. Tone control, automatic volume control, 7- tube super-heterodyne arc fea tures of the set. Nine Atwater Kent models from which to choose. All on specially easy terms —until November 21. Georgia IOWKR COMIANT A Citizen Wherever We Serve Year’s Baseball Hero Robert “Lefty" Grove NOW that the World Series is over, the Hot Stove League can settle down to a hard winter’s work of revising records broken by the tall, wiry young Philadelphia Athletics pitcher from Lonaconing. Md.— "Lefty" Grove. The biggest record to go by the boards this season is "Smoky" Joe Wood’s percentage record of .872. made when he won 34 games for Boston and lost 5 in 1912. Grove's percentage, with 31 wins and 4 losses is .885. But the cracker-box sages will discover many other new high marks. The tall Marylander is the first pitcher in history to lead both leagues in percentages for three years in succession. His three year average is .834, which is the highest three year average ever made in the big leagues. It took three pitchers to set the 1911- 1913 record of .825. Grove has won more games in a season than any left-hander in baseball history. Other "notable performances" with which he is credited include that of striking out five batters with 17 pitched balls In a game between the Ath letlcs and Cleveland, Aug. 22, 1928. Ue pitched 14 clean strikes, a foul, a ball and another strike. No one weald be more fatigued by such st. . tics than Robert Grove. The mar. 1.0 has taken his place with 7 oung, Alexander, Walsh, Matthew-en, Johnson and other historic pitcl ;s talks freely en two subjects—cigars and hunt ing. Like many other prosperous young men Grove prides himself on his connotsseurship cf fragrant Havana cigars; like many of his colleagues en the diamond he keeps an arsenal of hurjing equipment and spends the winter tramping the hills after game. WHEELER COUNTY EAGLE, ALAMO, GEORGIA BAKKERS KO NEW FINANCE AID President of American Bankers Association Describes Plan and Services of National Credit Corporation NEW YORK—The National Credit Corporation, a billion dollar coopera tive institution, is the method worked out by bankers to put into practical effect the central point in President Hoover's plan for renewing the com mercial and industrial activity of the nation as proposed in his statement to the nation of October 7, Harry J. Haas, president of the American Bank ers Association stated in a recent inter view. The corporation is strictly coopera tive in character, he said, to unite the entire banking system and increase the effectiveness of the financial ser vices of banks to their communities in rural districts as well as the cities. The plan will marshal the banking re sources of the country, he explained, by creating a national Institution whose funds will be loaned when nec essary to banks which have assets in their portfolios that are thoroughly sound but are not eligible for loans at federal reserve banks. To Benefit Everybody "Thore is no citizen in the United States but will benefit In very practical ways from the results of the operation of this forward-looking plan of cooper ation, which may be regarded as one of the most constructive steps that havd been taken toward revival of sound business activity," Mr. Haas declared, adding: “The National Credit Corporation represents an instrumentality that should have far-reaching effect in re storing the confidence of the public. The plan not only has been formulated by the country’s leading banking au thorities, but also will be carried out locally as well as nationally by bank ing representatives who have given their time and thought to this under taking as a real public service. “The American Bankers Association convention was in session at the time the plan was proposed and unanimous ly endorsed It in principle. I have ex amined the detailed formulation of the working plans as developed by the incessant labors of some of the Na tion's leading bankers who have under taken to put it into practical operation in single-minded devotion to the na tionul welfare, and I am able to say without reservation that the National Credit Corporation as set up by them constitutes a practical, sound and effi cient means tor carrying out President Hoover's proposal." * HARD TIMES RENEW BANKEOOPTIMISM Former Bankers’ Chief Finds Much in Past Year to Inspire Confidence in Financial Reliability ROME C. STEPHENSON, retiring president of the American Bank ers Association, declared tn an address on the expiration of his term of office that. In travelling about among the banks from < na end of the country to the other dur.ng the past year, he had "come out of it with a renewed faith in the strength of our banking struc ture and our banking situation, and a renewed faith particularly in the spirit and courage of the men in the banks that have enabled them to rise uncon quered over difficulties such as men never had to face before, or to accept with fortitude misfortunes that were beyond human power to prevent." When he reflected, he said, that the "entire human economic structure has been brought to the verge of ruin un der the difficulties that have swept over not only the nation but the entire world, and that the results of events of this kind react with particular di rectness upon the stability of our banks, and yet how few have suc cumbed, we may well renew our confi dence in the banks of America; when we think also of how many of our bankers have stood up under the stress and storms of these times and how relatively few of them have been proved wanting in the series of crises that have assailed them, we may well feel a sincere pride in our fellow bank ors.” Ho added: "So J come out of this year of som ber experiences not as a pessimist, but as an optimist—as one with a renewed faith and confidence in the spirit of ills fellow men under overwhelming difficulties. And particularly do I come out of this year as a banker who is proud of his fellow bankers for the un daunted way in which they have met their part of the great test through which the times have put the nation. I believe that this year has brought new honor to our banking traditions and our banking profession and has won for the banker new title to the faith and trust of all classes of his fellow citisens.” Wise Spending Careful and wise spending will help volye our economic problems and will be of untold benefit to the farmer, Our troubles are not caused by th* spend ing of money, but because it wu spent unwisely. NOTICE OF SALE. Whereas, Mary J. Clark of Wheeler County, Georgia, by her warranty deed dated December 29, 1919, and duly recorded in book 4at pages 49-50 of the land records of Wheeler County, Georgia, conveyed to the Pearsons-Taft Land Credit Company, a corporation, the following- described real estate in Wheeler County, Geor gia, to-wit: The Northwest half of lot fifty-one (51) in the sixth land district, con taining 101 1-4 acres, more or less. To secure the promissory note of said Mary J. Clark for the sum of Two Thousand Dollars ($2000.00) and in said deed provided that in event of the default in the payment of said note or interest according to the terms thereof, said Company might sell said land for the payment of said note; and Whereas, said note matured Decem ber 1, 1929 and was extended to ma ture November 1, 1934, on condition that the interest annually accruing thereon would be promptly paid and in event of non-payment of said inter est, the entire principal amount of said note with all accrued interest thereon might be declared at once due and payable; and Whereas, the interest due December 1, 1930 on said note as extended was not fully paid when due and part thereof has not yet been paid and the entire principal of said note with all accrued interest thereon has been de clared due and payable; Now, Therefore, Taft and Company, formerly the Pearsons-Taft Land Credit Company, under and by virtue of the power and authority in said Company vested by said warranty deed, will proceed to sell the above described real estate and appurtenan ces thereunto belonging, at public sale to the highest bidder for cash at the door of the county court house in the city of Alamo, State of Georgia, between the hours of 10:00 A.M. and 4:00 P.M., on the 24th day of Novem ber, 1931, for the purpose of paying said indebtedness and the costs of said sale. In witness whereof, said Taft and Company has caused these presents to be executed by its President and corporate seal to be affixed, this 24th day of October, A.D. 1931. TAFT AND COMPANY. By 0.-en E. Taft 1 President (CORP SEAL) LAND SALE GEORGlA—Wheeler County. Under and by virtue of the power rad authority contained in that cer tain loan deed made by Sarah Erne line Burch to Walter D. Lamar, dat. ed July 7, 1923, and recorded in deed book 5, page 307 of the deed records d Wheeler County, Georgia, will be sold before the court house door of • aid Wheeler county, on Tuesday, November 24, 1931, next, within the legal hours of sale, to the highest bidder for cash, the following- prop erty, to-wit: All that certain tract or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the Town of Alamo, Wheeler County,G»., consisting of lots numbers seven and eight, in block “H” in the Town of Alamo, Georgia, each fronting fifty feet on Lucile Avenue and extending h*ckone hundred fifty feet to an alley, and being a part of lot of lard numb er fifty-one in the Eleventh District of Wheeler County, Georgia, and being the place whereon the said Sarah Emetine Burch resided in 1923. Deed will be made to the purchaser and proceeds applied, as in said loan deed provided. This Octobee 26, 1931. WALTER D. LAMAR. By C. L. Smith, Attorney. Tax Collector’s 2nd Round I will be at following places on dates named below for the purpose of col lecting state, county and school taxes f or the year 1931: November 16, Erick, W O Harrel son, 9:30 t,o 9:45; School house, near Harrelson old home place. 10 to 10:15; Wants siding, 10:30 to 11; Sumner’s store, 11:15 to H:3(; Spring Hill, 1:30 io 2; Clubhouse, 2:30 to 2:45. November 17. McArthur. Shiloh, 10 to 10:30: R F Jordan's, 10:45 to 11: J W Clements, 11:15 to 11:30; B Z Swains store, 12 to 1:30; Glenwood, 2 to 5. November 18. Landsburg, Wynn’s store, 9:30 to 10; Honeycutt's stote, 10:15 to 10:30; C w Clarks, store, II to 11:30; Glenwood, 12 to 4: Stuckey, 4:30 to 5. Alamo every day except when on my rounds. I J. L. SUMNER, T. C„ W.C, NATIONAL-BEN FRANKLIN Fire Insurance Company oi Pittsburgh, Pa. JOSEPH A- POPE, Agent ALAMO GA. : - ?! F ilu —I J You are coruiaHy invited to visit OUR NEW STORE which opens November ISth located at 116-118-120 Whitehall, S. W. Atlanta, Georgia STERCHI’S The rv cc-p>t Hou^eforniihirg Stere in th? Southeact. ON V/ITH THE DANCE rxtHREE of the country's most i X famous dance orchestras will | be heard on the pi ngrams of one I sponsor, beginning November 3rd. when the Lucky Strike Dance Hour] inaugurates one of the must unusual ■ and elaborate presentations of . dance music tn the history of radio! broadcasting. Wayne King and i His Orchestra. bn dcasting from] Chicago, will lead off Tuesday eve ning, November 3rd, playing from I 10 to 11 E.S.T., over a nationwide , NBC network On Thursday eve-i < ning, at the same time Andy San-1 uella and His Orchestra take the I! NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC “Smitty’s” Shoe Shop Is now offering prices that will please every one. Listen folks, lam not able to charge accounts, for rpy_supplies come C, O. D. This notice is ment. Ali work de!i« JNO. S. STAMPS INSURANCE Mcßae, Ga, air from New Yorn,and Satcrtfay evening will find the music of th® Lucky Strike Dance Hour tn the hands cf Cus Arnheim and His Or ch< stra, pleying from the Cocoanut Grove in the Ambassador Hotel in Les Angeles. These three or chestras will alternate for the first w ik after which othei dance or • hestras of equal prominence will fallow them. It was also announced that plans are now being made to broadcast orchestras from Europe on short wave, re-broad tasting their music as features of future Lucky Strike Dance Hours.