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PWA ROLLS DROP
GEORGIA WORKERS
Atlanta, Sept. 7 Orders issued
by Miss Gay B. Shepperson,
Works Progress Administrator
for Georgia, resulted today in
droppiggof 6,000 workers from
relief rolls in South Georgia,
with the prospect that othtr
thousands would be dropped as
the cotton season advances into
the northern section ot the state.
Acting to prevent any short
age of farm labor during the
cotton harvest season. Miss
Shepperson notified all district
relief administrators she expect
ed able bodied persons on relief
to accept this type of work
where it was aviliable.
“Those who accept work in the
cotton fields or other private
employment will retain their
eligibility for the Works Pro
gress Adm'nistration,” she said.
“If they r.fuse this work, they
will be dropped from the relief
rollsand lose their WPA eligi
bility.”
“The rate of pay offered by a
private employer has nothing fb
do with relief.” Miss Louisa Dep,
Fitzsimmons, FERA admini
strator for Georgia, explained,
“that is a scrap between the
cotton pickers and their employ
ers.
“But the lowest rate of pay 1
have beard of in this state is 35
cents per hundred pounds and
the average will be between 60
cents and $1 per hundred. So
tar, I have received no com plaints
of labor shortages because of
FERA activities.”
Telfair County to Hold Early
Primary
November sth is the date set
by the Democratic Execttive
Committee of Telfair county for
nomination of county officers,
whose terms begin January Ist,
1937. Candidates for any of the
offices only have until October
sth to qualify. There will be no
run over, the high man gets the
nomination.
Entrance fees for all county
officers except coroner and
surveyor were fixed at SSO each,
coroner and surveyor at $5.
NOTICE
Mr. Stockmen:
It seems that we are growing
tc be somewhat careless, and
are not following instructions, as
to the screw worm eradication.
For your information, screw
worm infestations are much
heavier now than hereto r ore, and
the information given me shows
that you are opening up pasture
fields for fattening purposes,
and to carry out your plans to
the above extent, you are going
out and catching your hogs with
dogs, and also marking them at
the same time. I wish to state
that you are taking all of the
risk when you do this, for the
screw worm fly cares for no bet
ter or fertile wound than those
just mentioned.
My records show that we have
had wonderful luck, and if you
will only leave off the above
markings for a few more days
you will find that you will profit
more from several stand-points,
for instance, fear trouble, time,
and a great risk of loosing the
animals. Cold weather is just
around the corner, so I urge you
to eliminate such markings as
above stated for a few more
E. C. THOMPSON,
County Superviors.
Sardis Baptist church will
hold its regular Annual Rally the
third Sunday i n this month
which is September 21st Rev. L.
A. Kelley, the pastor, will be in
charge.
Wheeler County Btgfc
Wheeler County Tax
Levy For Year 1935.
GEORGlA—Wheeler County.
After a tabulation and consideration of th e
legitimate erpense o f said County o f
Wheeler for the year 1935. and an estimate Os
the expense of the County for the balance
of the year, and to take care of the legal and
properly accumulated expense and indebted
ness. We find that it will take and require a
tax levy on all the taxable property of said
County in the amount of Eight .SB.OO. Dollars
on the thousand of taxable property of the
County.
It is therefore. Ordered that a tax levy for
the year. 1935. on all the taxable property in
said County for County purposes, current ex
penses and accumulated indebtedness agains^
said County of Eight .SB.OO. Dollars on the
thousanl of taxable property in said County
be and the same is hereby levied .exclusive of
School Tax. be divided as follows:
Ist. To pay debts . . 112 Mills
2nd. Repair for Public Buildings . 1-1 Mills
3rd. Badges .... 11-2 Mills
4th. Sheriff . , . 112 Mills
sth, Coronor ... 1-8 Mills
6th. Bailiffs 1-8 Mills
7th. Jury Expenses . . . 3-4 Mills
Bth, Paupers . 11-4 Mills
9th. Roads .1 Mill.
Alamo. Georgia Sept, 3rd. 1935.
The Board of Education
of Wheeler County does hereby recommend to
the Comu?issioner of Roads and Revenues of
Wheeler County that the following levy be
made on all taxable property for educational
purposes.
County Wide Tax . . 5 Mills
Local District Tax for
Alamo School District, Maintenance. smills.
Bonds, 6 mills. Total, 11 mills.
Glenwood School District, maintenance 5
mills, bonds. 10mills, total. 15 mi ls.
Graham School District, maintenance. 2 mills
bonds, ,0. total. 2 milts.
Shiloh School District, maintenance 5 mills,
bonds. 8 mills, total. 13 mills.
Spring Hill School District, maintenance 2
mills, total. 2 mills.
Union school District, maintenance. 5 mills,
total. 5 mills.
Scotland school District , maintanence 4 mills
total. 4 mills.
Mrs. H. R. Hill. Superintendenlof W. Co. Ga.
schools,
Further ordered that when said funds have
been collected by the Tax Collector as said
County that same be properly disbursed to the
Treasure of the respective districts bonded to
receive said funds.
Also that the County wide schools funds be
immediately paid to the hurt, of County
schools, and the County Tax funds be paid im.
mediately to the County Treasurer of said
County as provided by law.
so ordered in open Court this 10th. day Os
September. 1935.
J. A. Mcßae,
Commissioner of Roads & Revenues
Wheeler County, Georgia.
Attested: J. F. hikes. Clerk of Commissioner
Notice To The Voters of
The Union School District
GEORGlA—Wheeler County:
UNION CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL DISTRICT
To The Qualified Voters of Said Schoo l
District.
Notice is hereby given that on the 14th, day
of October, 1935, an election will be held in and
for Union Consolidated School District of said
County of Wheeler.at which will be submitted
to the qualified voters thereof for their de
termination the question whether o r not
bonds of said district shall be issued and sold
bj' said school district in the aggregate amount
of Ten Thousand ,$10,000.00, Dollars, all of
which shall be applied to the purpose of pay
ing the expense of constructing and equipping
a schoolhouse in said district for the schooj
for the white school children therein, said
bonds to bear date the first day of January.
193 C. to bear interest at the rate of four .1, per
cent per annum, the same being payble an
nually on the Ist. day of January in each year,
to be in denominations of Five Hundred
,$500.00. dollars each, and the piincipal thereof
to be payable the sum of Five Hundred XOO.OC-
Dollars on the Ist. day of January. 1937. and a
like amount on the Ist. day of January each
year thereafter until the whole of said princi
pal is paid, the principal and interest to be
payable in lawful money of the United States
of America at the banking offices of The Mer
chants & Citizens Bank. Mcßae. Georgia.
The polls will be opened at 8 o’clock A. M ,
and will be closed at 3 o'clock P. M.. at the
present schoolhouse in said district used for
the school for the white children therein.
Those desiring to vote in favor of the issu
ance of said bonds will do so by casting
ballots having written or printed on them the
words. “For Schoolhouse, ' and those desiring
to vote against the issuance of said bonds wiJj
do so by casting ballots having written or
printed on them the words. Against School*
house. ”
This 11th. day of September 1935.
H.E. COLEM AM
Presidedt Board of Trustees.
Attestt:
J. L. Johnson.
Secretary & Treasurer.
Notice to Debtors
Through this medium I wish
to ask everyone owing the late
Dr. T. H. Nelson to see me or
Dr. J. D. Peebles at the drug
store, and arrange to settle up!
their accounts. If this is not
possible at this time come in and
make some arrangements so that
the accounts may b e adjusted
satisfactory. Please give this
your attention at once.
i MRS. T. H. NELSON.
ALAMO, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1935
NOTED SENATOR
LOSES STRUGGLE
Baton Rouge, La.. Sept. 10.—
Senator Huey P. Long, builder
of a political empire in Louisiana,
died today from a assassin’s
bullet.
The versatile Long, political
“dictator” of Louisiana and a
potential presidential candidate
in 1936, diedat 4:06 a. m.,central
standard time, surrounded by
his family and close political
associates. Long was 42 years
old.
The senator was shot by Dr.
C. A. Weiss, Jr., Baton Rouge
eye specialist, as Long was walk
ing along a corridor after leaving
the house of representatives
Sunday night during a special
session.
Dr. Weiss, an opponent of
Long’s politics, immediately was
filled with bullets by Long’s
body guards.
“1 want to Jive,’’ Long was
quoted as saying by Seymour
Weiss, a close tr end and treas
urerof Long’s political organiza
tion.
Weiss said Long had been un
conscious since near midnight
and he could not remember the
last thing he said while consci
ous.
“Yes, yes,” broke in Governor
O. K. Allen, Long’s boyhood
friend and political lieutenant,
“the last thing he said when he
was still conscious was, ‘I wonder
what will happen to my poor
university boys.’ ’’
Long had been proud of Louisi
ana’s State University and had
led the cadet band and cheered
the football team from the side
lines.
Afterward, with tears in his
eyes, Governor Allen issued the
following statement:
“This maiks with the death of
Huey P. Long the passing of the
greatest builder of economics in
the history of Louisiana in 225
years. It also marks the passing
of the greatest hero for the com
mon rights of all the people in
America. His will exist and be
remembered in the annals of the
state of Louisiana and all
America.”
Earl J. Christenberry, Long’s
secretary, said the senator’s
body would lie in state in the
ornate $5,000,000 skyscraper
capitol building constructed,
when Long was governor.
It was announced that a com
mittee composed of Governor
Allen, Christenberry, Weiss and
Earl Long, brother of the senator,
would meet in the governor’s
office at 10 a. m. today to com
plete funeral arrangements.
When he was struck down,
Long was in the midst of his
latest legislative session to
strengthen his dictatorship and
to write laws at the Roosevelt
administration, which he bad
opposed in the senate and on the
stump.
Sunday night, as he emerged
into a corridor at 9:30 p. m. leav.
ing a session of the state house
of representatives. Dr. Weiss
wa'ked up to Long and fired.
The bullet pierced the colon in
two places and injured a kidney
as it passed through the senator's
body.
Grasping his side, the senator
walked down stairs to the base
ment of the state house where
his friends took him in charge
and rushed him to the hospital.
Justice John B. Fournet of the
state supreme court probably
saved the senator from immedi
ate death when he struck Dr,
MRS. LYLES PASSES
AT GLENWOOD HOME
Mrs. Linnie May Wood Lyles,
one of the most beloved women
in the community, died at her
homeia Glenwood last Saturday,
after a short illness. Before her
marriage she was Miss Linnie
May Wood, of Hazlehurst. She
was a member of the Glenwood
Methodist church, a true and
loyal worker in all religious and
civic Activities of her home.and
community.
She is survived by her hus
band, W. B. Lyles and one son,
Delmas, of Glenwood, parents,
Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Wood, of
Hazlehurst; five sisters, Essie
Bell Wood, Mrs. Lucile Horton,
Mrs. Mattie Bracewell, Mrs.
Selma Brown, of Hazlehurst;
Mrs. L zzie Bracewell, of Dublin-
Four brothers, Woodrow Wood
and Gordon Wood, of Hazlehurst;
Leonard Wood, of Glenwood, and
Willie Wood, of Pearson.
Funeral services were held from
the Glenwood Methodist church
Monday afternoon at three o’-
clock, conducted by Rev. H. H.
Heisler, pastor of the Vidalia
Methodist church. Interment
was in the Glenwood cemetery.
The pall bearere were: L. S.
Coleman, E T. Warnock, W. E.
Pope, E. T. Rowland, H. M.
Anderson and H. G. Roberts.
Fox Hunters Will Meet
The annual ssssion o f the
Happy Fox Hunters Association
will bt/held at the court house
in Alamo, Friday, September 20
at one o’clock. All members are
urged to be present. At this time
it will be determined where and
when we will hold our annual
Field Trials in October. We ai
looking forward to a great hunt
this fall and we don’t want any
one left out so be present and
help us arrange for this hunt.
H. B. Montford, Sect’y-Treas.
MRS. PEEBLE’S
BROTHER DIES
Swainsboro, Sept. 7. —Albert
L. Minton, 33, local garge owner,
died here today of injuries re
ceived when Jost control of his
car on the highway near Porta).
Surviversare his mother, Mrs.
Missouri Minton of Kite; widow,
formerly Miss Myrtle Henry,
one child, Lanier, three brother s,
Theron and Alton, both of New
York city; Dorsey of Blooming
dale; two sisters, Mrs. J. D.
Peebles of Alamo; Mrs. Zora
Moxley, of Swainsboro.
He was a member of Mintons
Chapel Christian Advent church,
wherefunere) services were held
at 3 o’clock Sunday afternoon.
Rev. W. F. Jamison of Swains
boro officiated. Interment was in
the church cemetery.
Weiss’ arm and deflected his
aim.
One of Long’s bodyguards
struggled with Dr. Weiss, then
backed away and together with
about a dozen other persons sent
a fusillade of shots into the body
of the physician and he dropped
dead face downward. The body
lay there until the coroner ar
rived.
Several minutes elasped be*
tween the time the senator died
and the official announcement
from the physicians. Mrs. Long
and her children left the hospital
at approximately the time the
official announcement was made-
All four appeared to be control
ling their grief bravely<
COLL ELLIS POPE
MAY.SEEK OFFICE
Atlanta, Sept. 11—Senator J
Ellis Pope, of Lyons, said here
today he is “seriously consider
ing” running for the office of
lieutenant governor in 1936.
“My friends are urging me tc
make the race,” the senator said
“and I am giving it serious con
sideration. However, Ido not
think this is the proper time t<
take a definite position.”
The office is created in a pro
posed amendment to the state
constitution which the people
will ratify or rejectin the election
next year.
Several other state officials
have been mentioned as potential
candidates. These include Sena
tor Fred Scott of Thomasville,
Rep. Ellis Email of Newnan,
speaker pro tern of the house;
Rep. Guy Jackson of Bleckley
county, and others
Wheeler County High Opens
With Largest Attendance
The Wheeler County High
school opened its fall session last
Monday morning with the largest
attendance in the history of the
school.
Superintendent R. D. Pullium
hazing devoted his time during
the summer months to repairing
and otherwise beautifying the
groundsand buildings, new life
appeared to have been inspired
and both teachers and pupils
began work with renewed in
terest.
The faculty is composed of the
following:
Superintendent, R. D. Pullium.
T. H. Ingram, principal.
High school teachers:
Mrs. J. S. Ridley, home eco
nomis, Miss Harris, tenth grade,
Miss Elizabeth VI alker, Macon;
ninth grade; MissßachelPartian,
music; Miss Jewell Green, eighth
grade; Miss Ruth Morris,
seve ’h p ade.
Grammar grade teachers:
Mrs. L, M. Pope, fifth grade;
Miss Gladys Perdue, fourth
grade; Miss Nell Wynn, third
grade; Miss Nina Mae McQuaig
second grade; Mrs. T. H. Ingram,
fl i st grade.
Aged Colored Man
Dies Suddenly Thursday
Baxter Cates, colored, was
found dead near his home late
yesterday afternoon. He lived
with his daughter in law on the
Jordan turpentine property near
the school building, and it is said
that he went out to gather some
wood for the stove to cook the
evening meal, and when he did
not return a search was begun
and he was found dead in th°
woods near his home. Cates was
a very trusty and dependable
colored man, having worked for
Mr. R. F. Jordan for many years
as teamster and later came to
Alamo, where he continued the
same work until recently when
his advanced age prevented
further work, he has resided on
the still quarters since.
Jury Revisors Concluded
Their Work Thursday
The jury revisors of Wheeler
county, recently appointed by
the Judge of Superior court were
in session at the court house
here several days this week.
The new board is composed of
the following:
Alamo district —K N. Adams.
Erick district —J. N. Clark.
McArthur district —K. N.
Sears.
Spring Hill district —L. N.
Harbin.
Glenwood district—E. M.
Fowler.
Landsburg district —N. A.
Wynn.
Number 30
THE FALL TERM
OF COURT JURORS
The following is the Grand
Jurys, to serve at the September
term, 1935 Wheeler Superior
Court:
T M Moses, Max L Segall, W
G Hartley, J T Clark, Noble W
Jones, H B Montford, W A
Rivers, T N Hartley, J N Clark,
Sr., C M Anderson, C M Jordan,
J F Hattaway, BA Irwin, ZO
Thomas, G FClarke, E M Fowler,
A W Bohannon, A J Fowler, J B
White, R N Wood, Monroe Clem
ents, W P Owens, C E McDaniel,
W E Honeycutt, Sr., L C Hinson.
Traverse Jury, First Week-
Traverse Jury, Wheeler Sup
erior court September term, first
week:
I F Pitts, David J Jones, W B
Harrelson, N E Rowe, A D Guin,
W E Watson, RL Harrelson, J B
Sumner, S A Ray, II D Rivers, J
Hobson Walker, U F Sears, R H
Braswell, C M Mir ison, A B
Grimes, Henry J Johnson, J C
Martin, J G Snellgrove, J P Mor
rison, Sr , J S Avant, W T Screws,
J P Pitts, M H Clements, Fred
Clements, C W Sellars, J C
Fowler, H R Freeman, V S
Ussery, M C Horne, W E.Craw
ford, Jr., F B Barker, MC Ryals,
Jr., SA Clark, D C Colson, LG
Reynolds, Martin Johnson, Wal-,
ter M Pope, N H Sears, H C
Reynolds, W C Morrison, J W
Patterson, C L Galbraith, LN
Harbin, N A Wynne, D E Row
land, II R Purser, G G Horton.
Traverse Jury, Second Week
Traverse Jury second week,
Wheeler Superior court Septem
ber term, 1935:
J A Palmer, B M Pope, Oscar
Brown, H 11 Toler, Lee Bass, W
H Kent, H R Clark. G F Johnson,
C R Dixon, B O Chambless, G C
Barnhill, D H Durden, G C Josey,
C I Josey, Sr., C A Stewart, J I
Palmer, S LLowe, W T A Bras
well, G L Wynne, R L Smith, W
C Pittman, Arthur Tarpley, R A
Hogan, J F Geiger, Neal T Clark,
W C Riddle, B H Purvis, W T
Burgess, M C Hartley, Joe E
Bracewell, W W Neal, Samuel A
Clark, Dewey Joyce, O A Row
land, E C Elkins, J O Perdue, J
W Hinson, W B Butler, C C Mc-
Allister, H G Mimbs, J Alvia
Barlow, F A Irwin, S P Reynolds,
W J Clarke, F B Elam, John A
Maddox, J F Clark, A L Joyce.
Ed Mead, L W Kent, J L Cooper,
David Hartley, J H Leggett, O H
Joiner, J S Morris, Guy S Cox,
H C Rowland, Wallace Adams,
J W Clements, Eugene Caldwell,
W B Crafton, R D Jenkins, K W
Currie, Luke Tootle, J 1 Mc-
Daniel, O S Windham, J W Hearn,
H G Funderburke, M C Mc-
Allister, H C Gibbs, R Mellie
Maddox, Short Tootle.
C. A Stewart Will Make
Race for Tax Receiver
o
Mr. C. A. Stewart, of Glen
wood, was among those having
their subscription to the Eagle
marked up this week. Mr. Stew
art can always be counted on to
look after all of bis obligations
on time. He is contemplating
announcing in the near future as
a candidate for tax receiver for
Wheeler county. Should he de
cide to enter the race his scores
of friends througout the county
can be counted on to rally to his
support.
Seville Oranges
The Seville orange is a sour variety,
named for Seville, Spain; the fruit is
s»ed largely for making marmalade.
