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808 JONES
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f HEREAFTER.
A few years ago while I was
engaged in an evangelistic cam
paign in a West Virginia city I
heard the following story. It was
told to me by the pastor of the
First Methodist Church. lam
giving it in almost the very words
of the minister.
“When I came here as pastor
two years ago I was unpacking
my things at the Methodist
parsonage. A man came in. My
name is John and I want to talk
to you.’ That is the way the man
began his conversation. 1 want
to join the church next Sunday.
That is What I want to talk
about.’ I told him that I would
be glad to receive him and I be
gan to write his name in my little
book. ’Before you write my name
down I want to tell you my
story.’
“'You are pastor of a wonder
ful church in this town. I know
because they have turned me out
numbers of times. They won t
let anybody stay in that church
who gets drunk and I am awfully
weak. 1 was born with a craving
for whisky. Every time I got
drunk they turned me out and
then I joined again and they
yvould take me in. The last time
they turned me out they told me
they weren’t ever going to take
me in any more, but I’ve been
sober for a month and I’ve been
praying hard. I don't believe I
am ever going to fall any more.
I told him to come to church
Sunday and I would take him
and that I would pray for him.
“A few minutes lator the
Chairman of the Board called
me. I told him that I was going
to receive the man next Sunday.
'I hope you don’t, ’he said. He
;has disgraced us many a time.
You’ll have to turn him out with
in a month. ’All right, we 11 turn
him out and then take him m
again if he wants to join, I re
plied.
“The next Sunday I opened
the doors of the church. The man
came toward. I gave him the
vows of membership. The people
bowed their heads as if they
were embarrassed. Only one man
r "Oke to him. He came by at the
close of the service, ’Well, John,
I hope you’ll stick this time.’
“The man stuck. He lived a
sober, manly Christian life for a
year. He was always at prayer
meeting, at Sunday School, and
at preaching service. People
learned to believe in him and re
spect him. One day he was taken
ill. Several days later he died.
Just before he passed away he
said, ’I am dying. I want you to
conduct my funeral. Tell the
people I am sorry I ever got
, drunk. Tell them there was no
(excuse for it. Tell them I fell
.because I took my eyes off of
.'Jesus, and that their hope of
-.victory ever temptation is in him.
’When you have told them that, I
want you to say one good word
for me. I want them to kno w that
I didn’t fall every time I was
tempted. I was tempted every
conscious moment day and night.
During the last twelve months I
stayed sober, but many a night
when everybody else was sleep
ing I have walked the floor and
Wtehr bounty
SCHOOL FOR SERVICE
OFFICERS AT MACON
Capt A. L. Henson, State Veterans
Service Officer, estimates that ap
proximately twenty live thousand
veterans of the Spanish War and the
World War who have been receiving
compensation will bedroppedfrom the
rolls on July first. He states that a
majority of this number are suffering
from disabilities which have not been
proven to be of service origin but
which can be proven to be the result
of war service.
The Service Officer states that fifty
odd thousand tiles in the office of the
Veterans Administration in Georgia
will be reviewed and those who have
been placed on the rolls because of a
presumption of service connection
will be removed. Over twenty thousand
of these have requested the Veterans
Service Office to represent them in the
presentation of their claims and in
securing the proof necessary to pre
vent their being cut off.
Veterans who claim that their dis
abilities were the result of their
service are urged by the Service
Officer to initiate their claims with the
nearest organization of The American
Legion, The Disable American Vet
erans of the World w ar, The Veterans
of Foreign wars or the United Veter
ans of the Spanish war. One or more
of these organizations will have a
Post, Camp or Chapter in most of the
counties of Georgia and they each
have a Service Officer who is co-oper
ating with the state service officer to
the end that every claim will be pre
sented with all of the evidence availa
ble, These Service Officers, over two
hundred in number, will do the field
work, prepare the affidavits and forms
and send them to the State Service
Office and representativesof that office
will personally argue each case be
fore the rating board. Capt. Henson
says that if the veterans will first
contact these Service Officers their
ease will be more quickly handled as
they, with all evidence available, will
be sent to the State Service Office to
be checked against the file in the
offices of the Veterans Administration
and if further evidence is necessary
the veterans will be advised.
A school for Service Officers will be
held in Macon on June eleventh and
instructions will be given by rep
resentatives of the National offices of
the war organizations as to how the
evidence and claims should be pre
pared. This school will be followed
be ten others to be held one in each
Congressional District.
Bird Bound Over
For Selling Opium
Savannah, May 29 —Tom Bird,
60, was bound over to the federal
grand jury on a charge of selling
opium following a preliminary
bearing before a United States
commissioner this afternoon.
Bond remained at $3,000.
At the preliminary hearing W.
J. Sikes testified he bought some
gum from Mr. Bird. The defend
ant asked the witness why he
bought it and the witness said
he bought it for the “narcotic
folks.’’ The defendant said he
desired to “bring that out.’’ The
narcotic agent who made the
arrest said this gum was tested
by government chemists and in
three different methods it showed
high percentage of alkaloids of
opium.
Bird was arrested several days
ago by federal agents who
charged he was was growing
poppies near Cobbtown form
which he obtained raw gum
which he sold to narcotic users.
prayed God to save me. I do want
my friends to know that while I
fell I didn’t fall every time I was
tempted.”
My preacher friend told me
that this incident gave him a new
appreciation of the battles the
average man fights. Only God
knows the struggle that often
goes on in the souls of the purest
men and the best women whom
i we meet everywhere.
ALAMO, GEORGIA FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 1933
MBS. L v. mis
PASSES Bl M’BJE
The entire city was shocked
and saddened Thursday morning
when it was learned that Mrs.
Victor Ryals, a popular young
matron of the city, had passed
away at her home about 7 o’clock.
It was known that Mrs. Ryals
was in a serious condition but
her passing was entirely unex
pected as she had only been ill
since Monday.
She was before her marriage
to Mr. Ryals in 1925, Miss Jessie
Lee Hall, of Alamo, daughter of
Dr. and Mrs. John F. Hall and
would have been 30 years of age
had she lived ’til June 19th.
She was a member of the Meth
odist church and an ardent
worker in the Womans Mission
ary Society and one of its most
valued members.
The funeral will be held from
the Mcßae Me^hodsist Church,
Friday morning at 11 o’clock,
with Rev. J. Lytle Jones, her
pastor, officiating, assisted by
Rev. P. Q. Cason, of the Mcßae
Baptist church.
She is survived by herhusband
and one small son, Leon Ryals;
her parents, Dr. and Mrs. John
F. Hall, of Alamo; one brother,
Mr. W. K. Hall, of Atlanta and
i sister. Mrs. E. M. Auld of
Vidalia. —Telfair Enterprise
Many friends in Alamo were
shocked to learn of the sudden
death of Mrs. Victor Ryals. She
spent her childhood days here
and her untimely passing cast
gloom over the entire community.
Her parents, Dr. and Mrs. Jno.
F. Hall, residents of this place,
have the sympathy of all in their
bereavement.
Georgia Claims Twelve
,Firsts’
Georgians urge many claims of
distinction, but the following are
never successfully challenged:
1. Eli Whitney invented the
cotton gin near Washington
Georgia.
2, Longstreet propelled a boat
by steam on the Savannah river
seventeenyears before “Fulton’s
Folly” was operated on the Hud
son river in New York.
3. The steamship “Savannah”
was the first that ever crossed
the Atlantic with steam power.
4. The first passenger train in
the world was said to have been
run from Augusta to Charleston,
S. C.
5. Georgia university was the
first state university in United
States.
6. Wesleyan was the first char
tered female college in the world.
7. Girl Scout movement origi
nated in Savannah.
8. Confederate memorial day
celebration originated in Colum
bus by a Georgia woman.
9. Mis. Rebecca Latimer
Felton was the first woman
senator in a United States con
gress.
10. Dr. Crawford W. Long
made first use of anesthesia
11. Lancelot Johnson discovered
process of extracting oil from
cottonseed.
12. Preserving of fruit by
using dry ice was perfected in
Georgia.
Dogs For Sale
I have three pointer pups, four
months old, females, will sell for
$2.50 each. Good stock. Will take
| in exchange produceof any kind,
i Apply to R. E. TUTEN, Alamo,
I Ga., route 2.
AN OLD CITIZEN
PASSES TO BEYOND
Mr. C. A. Mcßae, 76, died at
the home of his nephew, C. C.
Purvis, five miles west of Alamo
Tuesday afternoon at five o’clock.
Mr. Mcßae was one of the best
known citizens of the county. He
was up to a few months ago a
resident of Alamo, where he had
lived for many years. After the
death of his wife, he went to live
with his nephew, his old home
place. Mr. Mcßae was always
quiet and unassuming, honest
and upright in all of his dealings
and if he ever did an injustice it
was not from the heart, but his
whole life was characterized in
attending to his own affairs and
according others the same privi
lege.
He is surrived by one sister
and three brothers, Mrs. Mary
C. Burkhalter, of Brunswick,
Dr. A. B. Mcßae, of Perry,
Florida; Lovis P. Mcßae, of La
fayett, Lousiana; James Mcßae,
of Clint, Texas. Dr. Mcßae was
the only brothei- attending the
funeral.
Funeral services were con
ducted Wednesday afternoon by
Rev. H. L. Avery, of Mcßae, and
interment was in the Purvis
cemetery, near his home.
The pall bearers were: Roy
Brooks, Joel Brooks, J. R. Hall,
Hubert Dent, Wright Purvis, J.
C. Martin, W. H. Thomas and H.
E. Burkhalter.
W. E. Currie, local funeral
director, in charge.
hi Memory of Mrs.
Mattie Mae Joyce
On May 6th. God spoke to bis
loving angel and took from our
midst Mrs. Mattie Mae Joyce,
who before her marriage on Nov
ember 20th., 1917, was Miss
Mattie Mae Murphey.
In early life she joined the
Missionary Baptist church, of
which she was a consistent mem
ber. From early childhood she
showed that she was destined to
be one of the sweetest, best and
dearest of all women, aud she
came up to every indication. It
is sad to see such a good woman
pass away, but God spoke and
His word must be obeyed. A
purer, dearer and sweeter life
never lived.
It seems hard to give her up,
but God is too wise to make a
mistake and too good to be un
kind.
We cannot call her back, but
can so live that we can go to her
in God’s own appointed time. We
feel that she is returned in
heaven with her husband, father
and brothers, who have gone on
before.
She was buried in Glenwood
May 6th, 1933 Funrral services
conducted by Rev. W. J. Williams,
her pastor.
Besides a host of relatives and
friends, she leaves the following
to mourn her* passing: One
daughter, Christine Joyce, her
mother, Mrs. A. F. Murphey, one
brother, O. E. Murphey all of
Vidalia; four sisters. Miss Ruby
Murphey, Vidalia; Mrs. J. B.
Holten, Dublin, Mrs. Otis Butler,
Glenwood; Mrs. Hamp Carpen
ter, Vidalia.
A drop of almost $5,000,000 in state
revenue during the first five months
of the year, as compared with the
same five months in 1932, was report
ed Thursday by State Auditor Tom
Wisdom. Approximately $3,000,000 of
the drop was due to the reduced price
of automobile license tags which Gov.
Eugene Talmadge by executive order
fixed at $3 instead of from sll 50 to
•1,126, the schedule charged in 1932.
WHEELER WS Off
TO FOREST CAMP
Wheeler county’s quota of nineteen
boys, left Wednesday for Tifton,
where they were inducted into the
forest camp, made possible by the
United States Department of Labor
for the relief of unemployed. They
were transferred from Tifton to
Columbus, Fort Henning, whore they
will be sent out in the different fields
of labor.
Those composing the party were:
Glenwood—Carl Mcßae, Carlton
Brooks, Vivian Harrison, Morris
Bridges, Tillman Matthews, Wilburn
Pope, Mitchell Riner, Willard
Wright, Victor Adams, Bernice Mc-
Daniel, Ernest Shaw, Hurbert Gay.
Alamo—Walter Padgett, Grady
Register, Melvin Smith, Carl Brown
ing, I'arcus Padgett, Cavada Miller
and Bennett Achord.
Each man will receive a cash al
lowance of thirty dollars a month,
most of which will be alloted his
dependants back home. Beside this
cash allotment, they will receive food,
clothing and shelter in camps for a
period of six months.
This is an unusual opportunity for
these young men. It gives them a
chance of seeing new and interesting
sights, a course in the conservation
of our forests.
We wish for these industrious
young men a profitable and pleasant
six months.
Farm Board Ends Career
With 350 Million Loss
Washington, May 26. —The
Farm Board, created as a major
life saver for agriculture at the
outset of the Hoover administra
tion, passes out of existence Fri
day.
Its usable function have been
salvaged for merging into the:
new farm credit administration,
run by Henry Morgenthau, Jr.,
one of President Roosevelt’s big
units in the “new deal” for the
farmer.
The Farm Board’s great wheat
and cotton price stabilizing ad
venture is over and Morganthau
has estimated a loss to the gov
ernment of $350,000,000 of the
original $500,000,000 revolving
fund.
Coley-Lang
o—.
Tennille, Ga. —Announcement
is made today by Mr. and Mrs.
Emory Hartley, of Tennille of
the marriage of their sister.
Miss Bessie Coley, to Mr. George
Willis Lang, of Valdosta, which
was solemnized Saturday, May
20, in Valdosta, with the pastor
of the First Methodist Church,
officiating. The bride was gowned
in a suit of gray crepe with
matching accessories. He r
flowers were a shoulder bouquet
of sweetheart roses and valley
lillies.
Mrs. Lang has spent some
time in Tennille with her sister,
Mrs. Hartley, and has many
friends here. She is a sister of
William Coley, of the United
States Engineering Corps in the
Panama Canal Zone.
The bridegroom was born and
reared in Valdosta. After their
return from a short wedding
trip, Mr. and Mrs. Lang will re
side at his ancestral home in
Valdosta. —Atlanta Journal.
Miss Coley is a former resident
of Helena and has visited here
on several occasions, and has
many friends who will read of
her marriage with interest.
Notice
We will be closed for business
Saturday June 3rd. Southern
Holiday Jefferson Davis’ Birth,
day.,
. J. F. Darby Bank, Alamo.
Number 15
YOUNGEST REFEREE
NAMED FOR DUBLIN
Dublin, May 27.—Stanley
Reese, 24 year old Dublin attor
ney, today became the youngest
federal referee in bankruptcy
ever appointed in Georgia, so
far as could be learned here. His
appointment order was signed
by Federal Judge W. H. Barrett
in Augusta today.
Mr. Reese succeeds Judge
John S. Adams, who resigned to
accept a position as attorney for
the United States treasury in
charge of litigation involving
suspended national banks, and
who will move to Washington, D.
C., to take up his new duties on
June 15.
Mrs. Herman Balsley, who has
been secretary to Judge Adams
for the last seven years while he
has been referee, will continue
in that capacity under Referee
Reese.
Mr. Reese has been in the
office with Judge Adams for
sometime and is thoroughly
familiar with the work of the
referee, and in commenting on
the appointment Judge Adams
spoke in terms of the highest
praise of Mrs. Balsley and Mr.
Reese.
Alamo School News
May 21th was a red letter day
for the chapel period. Mr. Shell
gave an inspiring talk to the boys
ind girls about the use of leisure
Jme during vacation. This mess
tge was very much appreciated
md enjoyed,’because’ Mr. Shell
has the wonderful ability to
make his audience feel that he
is a “buddy” discussing some
matter of mutual importance.
May 31st Miss Lee presented
the music pupils in an interest
ing music recital.
After the recital the Home
Economics department was open
to the friends of the school with
an exhibit of some of the work
done during the past school year.
There were clothes of all kinds
—school and home projects that
were worthy of the highest
praise. There were cakes, pies,
posters, a display of nutritious
foods and the rats —to be seen.
I’he rats that were to show that
some foods promote and others
hinder growth.
Then to prove that the Home
Economics girls have ability and
skill in practicing what they have
been taught, delicious punch and
cakes were served to the ob
servers in the department. No
better work has been or can be
carried on in a school than that
done by these girls with Miss
Matthews as a leader. Practical
things of this type serve to
balance the academic work and
make for a well rounded develop
ment.
On June 2nd, at 8:15 o’clock
the grammar grades will present
an operetta, “The Stolen Flower
Queen’’ in which seventy five
children will take part. Charges
of 5 and 10 cents will be made.
Concluding the evening will be
the delivery of the seventh grade
certificates and the perfect at
tendance, the latter are given to
those pupils who attended school
seven months or more without
having been absent or tardy.
Grover Gillis has caught up
with fishing, for the present at
last, until he gets some relief
from the effects of having a cat
fish fin pierce his arm. He is
suffering considerable from the
wound.