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Important County News
That Will
Mean Money To You
Volume 26
All Amendments Passed
Georgia Drys Win By 8,277 Majority
MR. JOHN SEARS
DIES IN CORDELE
Many friends throughout the
county were grieved to learn
of the untimely death of Mr.
John Sears, which occurred in
Cordele on Sunday night, May
30th. He was the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Peter Sears, of the Shiloh
community in this county. He
was for a number years with the
Grindle Drug company at Lum
ber City, but was in business at
Cordele when he died.
He was 31 years of age and is
survived by his wife and several
children, father and mother and
a host of relatives.
Funeral services were con'
ducted at Cordele and interment
was in the Shiloh cemetei y.
Little Miss Leah Ryals
Celebrates sth Anniversary
Little Miss Leah Ryals was
hostess of a birthday party,
celebrating her fifth anniversary
Saturday afternoon, May 29th at
5 o’clock at her home.
The little girls played on the
lawn until afternoon fruit and
punch was served them. Later
ice cream and cake was served
and the pretty birthday cake
imbossed in pink and white icing
was cut.
They were called into the bouse
which was beautifully decorated
with quantities of colo re d
garden flowers where she re"
ceived many nice gifts. len in
vited guests were present.
Funeral Services Held
For Charlton Clements
Funeral services were held
from the Towns Methodist
church last Saturday morning
for Charlton Clements, 19 year
old son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert
Clements, who was killed by
lightning at his home last week.
Pallbearers were, Oren Towns,
Forest Towns, Hanson Tiwns,
Jodie Pitts, Arnold Stephenson
' and Calfrey Clark, with Harris
and Smith Funeral Home, o f
Mcßae, in charge.
Surviving are his parents; two
brothers, John Clements and
Carlton Clements; four sisters,
Misses Nettie and Thelma
Clements, Mrs. Willie Lee
Adams and Mrs. Lester Adams,
of Wheeler county.
Interment was in the cemetery
at Spring Hill.
Mr. Ralph Macon Visitor
In County Last Week
Mr. Ralph Macon, of Macon,
has been appointed field repre
sentative by the Bureau of Un-!
employment Compensation of,
Georgia, for thirty counties,!
Wheeler county being in his field, |
he has asked us to notify you
that anything pertaining to this
Bureau that you do not under
stand he will be glad for you to
contact him by letter at his office
in Macon, address Ralph Macon,
Re-employment Office, Macon,
Georgia, and that he will be more
than glad to explain any misun
derstanding you might have.
Whnkr bounty Eagl?
COUNTY HEALTH
1 WEEKLY LETTER
Two weeks ago Rickets and
। Scurvy were discussed, there
cause and how to prevent. Now
we will discuss, pellagra and
Xerophthalmia.
These diseases can be pre
vented by having the proper
. elements in our food as vitamines.
Pellagra is caused by the lack
of vatimine “G”, which is found
in eggs, liver, lean cuts of beef,
pork on lamb. Whole milk (fresh
or evaporated) butter milk and
cheese. Vegetables as mustard,
turnip tops, collards, spinach
and other vegetables. Bananas ।
wheat crem and yeast. These ।
foods are essential for growth ।
and well being at all ages.
Xerophthalmia, better known
as night blindness or “moon
eyed” is caused from lack of
vatimine “A" and other eye dis- ;
eases. It also prevents the mem
brain of the nose, throat, sinus, .
and lungs from developing prop
erly. Vitamine “A” is needed at
all ages, particularly with preg
nant and nursing mothers and
among smaller children. Many
people have developed chronic
nose,throat and ear diseases,
because of the lack of this vita
mine. Vitamine “A” is found in
cod liver oil, liver, butter, cream,
egg yolk salmon cheese, milk,
vegetables as: Spinach, lettuce, 1
snap beans, carrots, tomatoes, ‘
squash, peas, sweet potatoes,
turnip tops, collards and others.
Fruits as banans, apricots, yellow
peach, pineapple, oranges,
prunes and watermelons.
All vitamines are essential to
growth and well development of ,
human beings.
What the mother can do to pro- (
tect the small child.:
1. Keek the child away from
sick people. ।
2. Isolate a sick child in the
home, and do not allow the other ]
children to come near.
3. Teach the child to wash his
hands before eating, and after
using the toilet, by having him
do this faithfully day by day.
4. Keep the child in the best
health possible, that h'e may
build u p a strong resistance
against germs.
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* Library News
।
In connection with the library 1
work, Alamo has one of the best
book mending projects in the ‘
district. Librarians from other (
libraries are sent to Alamo where
they receiyeexcellent training in
book mending. Miss Lizzie Smith,
Librarian at the Shiloh Com- J
munity Library, has recently ,
completed a three day course in
’ book mending. Mamie Maynard,
I District Libraryian Supervisor, '
jand the Alamo Library is in
(charge of Mrs. Veda Rowland. — (
'Library News.
For Sale
Improved, treated and state :
inspected P. R., potato plants,
for sale by W. G. Hartley, Alamo, '
through June and July. Price,
SI.OO per M.a
ALAMO, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 1937
GIEHOW sms
mi CAPITOL
Sixteen members of the gradu
ating class of the Glenwood High
school, accompanied b y four
others, were welcomed to Wash
ington June 2 by Congressman
Hugh Peterson of First District.
The grouge motored to Wash
ington in a school bus driven by
A. S. Davis, of Oak Park, and
were in charge of their teachers,
Miss Johnnie Peterson and Mrs.
Foy Kent, Mr. Kent also accom
panied the party.
The groupe assembled at the
office of Congressman Peterson
and were conducted by members
of his staff through the capitol.
Seniors in the groupe were:
Misses Robbie Simpson, Delores
Palmer, Mary Frances Barnhill,
Alma Le e Morrison, Louise
Screws, Freida Windham, Rachel!
Atchison, Alma Mcßae, Eiinore
Joiner, Katie Mae Fowler, Eva
Morris, Elizabeth Moran, and
Misters F. C. Peavy, Jimmie
Bridges and Dorsey Jainer. Eu
gene Kelley.
CURRIE TO HEAD
CEDAR GROVE SCHOOL
At Cedar Grove, one of the
consolidated schools in Laurens
county, teachers have been elec
ted:
Superintendent, G. E. Currie,
Macon; principal, John Ghral,
Americus; high school. Wendell
Lindsey, Rentz
Grammer school teachers are
Mrs. Lamar Gilder, Mrs. Felder
Sears, of Cedar Grove; Miss
Ruth Chance, Statesboro; Miss
Christine Collins, Miss Bessie
Dawkins, of Dexter; Miss Betty
Alley, Harlem, and Mrs. G.E.
Currie, of Macon.
Russell Introduces Bill
For Farm Tax Refund
Washington, June B,— Senator
Richard B. Russell, Democrat,
Georgia, introduced in the senate
today a bill to refund taxes col
lected under the Bankhead cotton
act of 1934, the Kerr tobacco act,
and the potato act of 1935.
The measure is patterned after
the measure refunding process
ing taxes collected under the
invalidated Agricultural Adjust
ment Administration and would
allow refunds only to those who
did not “shift”the burden of the
tax.
“It is designed to insure the
refunding of the taxes to the per
sons who actually bore the
burden of the payment of the
“tax,” Russell said.
Under the terms of the pro
posal, refunds will be made only
to those who make claim for the
return after enactment of the
bill and prior to July 1, 1938.
The Eagle office is in receipt
of anumber of cotton blooms this
week. Among the first ones to be
received came from farms of Mr.
Monroe Clements, Mr. U. L.
Gilder. The cotton outlook this
season is the most promising in
a long time.
(GLENWOOD SEVENTH
. GRADEJXERCISES
Twenty-four seventh grade
i pupils received their certificates
r at the graduation exercises held
* in Glenwood school auditorium
i Friday morning, May 28.
The following program was
‘ rendered:
' Devotional —13th chapter of 1
I Corinthians--Lords prayor.
. Song—“ How FirmaFounda-
. lion”.
Welcome address—Sara Helen
Jones.
i Introduction of each member
1 of the class with limericks —
1 Caro’y Morrison.
Class Poem —“Diamonds” —
' Betty Jane Rivers.
1 Tap dance and buck dance —
> Lynette Fowler.
1 Be what you is—Jean Williams.
I The greatest thing —Harvey
! Williams.
• Contributions—Robert Joiner.
Duet—-“ Living For Jesus”—
! Misses Gladys Wommack and
■ Addis Towns.
Farwell address —Edgar O’-
Quinn.
i Tho certificates were delivered
by Miss Gladys Wommack.
Those of the honorary circle
were, Edgar O’Quinn, Sara Helen
Jones and Carolyn Morrison.
CARDFROMCOL ’
iW. NALLEY
Well the commencement ora
tors that were appointed by
trust magnates to deliver com
mencement orations have nearly
all come and gone. Everywhere
he has been turned loose on this
year’s high school graduates;
and while this in some way is
tough on the graduates, it is also
getting to be pretty tough on the
orator too. The good old days of
the commencement add resses are
gone with snows of yesteryear.
There was a time when har
anguing a bevy of high school
graduates was the softest of all
soft jobs. All the speaker had to
do was to remind his helpless
young audience, that this is a
land of equal opportunity, and
that success comes through hard
work. Then after reciting a few
well chosen incidents and acciden
nts from the lives of Abraham
Lincoln, Thomas A. Edison and
Henry Ford, he could resume his
seat with the satisfaction that
comes from a good job well done.
Nowadays it is a little differ
ent. Success, still comes through
hard work —if you can get the
work, and if the work doesn’t
evaporate after you get it.
Opportunity is still equal
unless you happen to be one of
the unlucky ones who get de
posited on a relief line or a WPA
job. And what happened to the
Fords and Edisons when the
country was young and expand
ing, may not have much bearing
' on the problem of youth afloat in
1 a land that is older and that
shows a frightening tendency to
contract ever so often with
’ crooked bank panics.
1 So what is the poor commence
ment orator to do? He can’t sing
Amendments Fared Well
j In Wheeler County Tuesday
- Saturday Last Day To
J Sell Your School Books
Approximately S7OO worth of
books have been bought in
Wheeler county by Superinten
dent W. H. Kent, this week.
Superintendent Kent stated
yesterday that all books for sale
in Wheeler county must be in by
Saturday, June 12.
the old song or the youngsters
will hoot at him. What tune can
he sing? What material are the
monopolies going to load him up
with now?
Perhaps his best bet would be
to admit the worst, and then to
offer that worst to the young
.graduates as a chalenge. He
might say somethin’ like this, (or
that is what I would say if I was
a commencement orator)—
“Young graduates, it is a queer
sort of world you are going out
into, and I can’t honestly tell you
■ that you are going to find it an
easy one to handle. It is the kind
' of world that invents machines
to relieve man of drudgery, and
’ then lets those machines deprive
1 him of a chance to make a living;
the kind of world that destroys
surplus crops while people are
going hungry and actually starv
ing; that lets factories and work
' ers He idle while men are suffer
ing for want of things those
factories workers could produce;
into a world which seeks to cure
the ills foisted on it by war by
preparing for a bigger and more
disastrous war in the near future.
“My young friends a world
like that is pretty cockeyed. Yet
the very fact that it is so cock
; eyed is your big chance. For a
, state of affairs like thatisn’t go
, ing to last forever. There are
■ going to be big changes, and the
. changes are going to be accom
plished by young people like
yourselves.
“Sometime during the next
few decades, the world is going
,to remake itself. It is going to
find some way of avoiding starva
tion and want in the midst of
plenty. It is going to find some
way of dodging the mass suicide
of war. Just how it is giing to do
these things, I have some pretty
good idea, but you are the ones
who are going to decide that. The
job will call for the best brains,
courage and grit you can muster-
You look as if you have what it
takes; Good luck to to you.”
A commencement oration like
this might not be orthodox, but
it might at least be better than
the old fashioned string of empty
platitudes.
H. W. Nalley.
Telfair Coroner
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; Mcßae, June 9.—F. M. Alli
' good, with 481 votes, was elected
’ coroner of Telfair county in
1 yesterday’s election. W. H. Taye
' received 298 votes; O. O. Snell
’ grove, 238, and J. H. Jons, 78.
i
Mrs. T. H. Nelson is visiting
relatives in Douglas.
Local and Personal News
That Will
Interest and Inform You
Sample Copy 5c Number 16
GOVERNOR RIVERS IS
GRATIFIED WITH RESULT
Very quiet election for Wheel
er County, less than 600 voters
endorsed the first four, 6th,
and 10th, Amendments to a sub.
stantial majority, The five of
which were “New Deal” meas
ures of Governor E. D. Rivers.
Constitutional Amendments,
No. 1, for, 285, against, 209; No.
2, for 279, against, 209; No. 3. for,
270, against, 213; No. 4, for 271,
against 212. Amendment No. 5,
which would authorize theclassi.
fication of property for taxation,
was defeated in Wheeler by a
vote of 226 for and 240 against.
Amendment No. 10 was carried
by a vote of 252 for, 212 against.
The other amendments were
of local nature and were not vot
ed on so strong.
Atlanta, June 9. —Complete,
unofficial returns tonight showed
defeat of a proposal to repeal
Georgia’s 22 year old prohibition
law in Tuesday’s referendum by
8,277 votes.
The vote:
For repeal 94,652; against re
peal 102,929.
In the sameelection, Georgians
gave a heavy majority to 26 con
stitutional amendments spon
sored by Georgia’s pro-Roosevelt
governor, E. D. Rivers.
Rivers advocated adoption of
the amendments to “put Georgia
in line with Roosevelt,” on old
age pensions and other phases of
the social security program.
The final, unofficial tabulation
on the vote on constitutional
amendments showed the most
popular amendment, number one
on the ballot, received 135,574
votes for, and 53,741 votes
against.
This amendmet permits the
state to levy taxes for the old
age pensions and other social
security benefits.
The next amendment, giving
counties similar authority, polled
the next heaviest vote, 132,383
for and 53,740 against.
Reese Is Elected
To Dublin Office
Dublin, June 9.—Stanley A.
Reese, referee in bankruptcy for
the Dublin division of U. S.,
district today held a 27 vote lead
for city court solicitor over W.
H. White, assistant solicitor gen
eral of the Dublin judical circuit,
A. L. Hatcher ran third.
The official returns gave Reese,
953; White, 926; Hatcher, 839.
Among the candidates for
graduation on Tuesday morning,
June 15, at the University of
Georgia is Delton H. Harden,
of Glenwood, candidate for the
degree of bachelor of science in
agriculture. Delton, is a son of
Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Harden, of
near Alamo.
Wonder who will be the first
to bring ina watermelon. Reports
are that they are forward and
fine for the season.
