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DEVOTED TO THE HEALTH, HAPPINESS AND PROSPERITY OF THE HOMES, SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES OF ALAMO AND WHEELER COUNTY.
Volume 27
Mrs. J. H. Faulk
Funeral Rites
Tues. Afternoon
Funeral', services for Mrs. J. G.
Faulk, 70, pioneer Laurens counti
an, who died at her home here Mon
day after an illness of about a week,
were held Tuesday afternoon at 3
o’clock from Cedar Grove Church,
the Rev. Lum Morrison, of Alamo,
officiating.
Mrs. Faulk was born in Laurens
county, but had resided here for
the past seven years. She was a
member of the Baptist Church.
Surviving are four daughters, Mrs.
J. C. Scarbrough, of Alamo; Mrs.
B. A. Gay, of Rentz; Mrs. P. H.
Gay, of Dublin, and Miss Clyde
Faulk, of Alamo; four sons, E. C.
Faulk, of Blackshear; H. P. and A.
C. Faulk, of Alamo, and A. H. Faulk,
of Dublin; three brothers, J. E.
Faulk, of Dublin; H. G. Faulk, of
Soperton and A. A. Faulk, of Alamo;
two sisters, Mrs. W. C. Bowden and
Mrs. J. A. Gay, of Dublin, and twen
ty-seven grandchildren and nine
great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers were J. C. Scarborough,
B. A. Gay, P. H. Gay, D. H, Dur
den. Dr. R. S. Benson, C. J. Ader
holt.
NOTICE
There will be no more receipts is
sued or honored this season for fish
ing license. All persons fishing ex
cept in their home counties with pole
and line without live bait and those
under fifteen years of age must have
license.
Mr. Charles N. Elliott newly ap
pointed Director of the Division of
Wild Life, requests that all license
agents and fishermen comply with
the above request.
Please run this in your paper this
•week for me. Thanks.
Sincerely,
C. L. HARRELL,
Deputy Game Protector.
Snow Hili Ladies Club
Meeting
The Ladies Snow Hill Club met
at the home of Mrs. Willie Gillis the
first Wednesday of this month. The
meeting was called to order by the
president. The roll call and min
utes read and approved by the club.
There were thirteen members and
four visitors present. Estelle Fos
ter, member of the 4-H Club gave
a. demonstration on Candling, Clean
ing and Grading Eggs. Mrs. W. E.
Humphrey and Alma Smith had
charge of the recreation. We all
enjoyed a contest, Mrs. Otis Coney
■winning the prize. With no other
business we adjourned to meet with
Mrs. W. R. Sumner the first Wed
nesday in July.
—Reporter.
MR. McRAE ABLE TO BE OUT
County Commissioner James A.
Mcßae who has been confined
to his home for about two months,
in which time he underwent an op
eration in an Augusta hospital, was
able to be at the court house on
Tuesday of this week. The Eagle
joins the many friends of Mr. Mc-
Rae who are proud to see him able
to be out again.
CARD OF THANKS.
Through this means we wish
to thank al!, for the words of
sympathy and deeds of kindness
shown us during the illnes and
death of our ' dear mother. Es
pecially do we thank the Womens
Missionary Society of Alamo,
for their kindness rendered.
May Gods richest blessings rest
upon each of you, is our prayer.
Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Faulk
Clyde Faulk
H. P. Faulk.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Gross will
leave today (Friday) for Atlanta,
where Mr. Gross will receive
medical treatment at Dr.
Calhoun's Hospital.
Whelrr bounty Eagle
Peterson Bill For
Homesteads Gets
Approval of House
SUBSISTENCE BASIS FOR
FARM FAMILIES SEEN
BY GEORGIAN
WASHINGTON, June 19. — Rep
resentative Hugh Peterson (Demo
crat, Georgia) Monday heard the
House committee on public lands
make a favorable report on his bill
to homestead farm tenant families
“and place these families on at least
a subsistence basis.”
Peterson’s bill would empower the
secretary of interior to buy up lien
secured obligations on farm lands
and distribute homesteads to needy
families through the general land
office.
Country People Want It
“This is one piece of legislation
you can't charge up to brain-trust
ers or believers in planned econo
my,” Peterson said. “This bill came
from the country and it is what
the country people want and need.”
“It does not seek special privi
lege for the farm families, but only
an opportunity to earn an honest
living through their own individual
efforts,” he continued. “It does not
seek special favors, but the God
given right to live in equality with
all men and all other groups of
workers.
The measure would give mort
gagers living on encumbered lands
at the time of liquidation of indebt
edness the prior right to acquire
homesteads within the bounds of
such lands.
The secretary of interior also
would be authorized to purchase
fee-simple title to farm lands in lien
under foreclosures concluded after
January 1, 1930.
All lands acquired by the gov
ernment would become part of the
public domain and the secretary
would classify them according to
their adaptability for farming pur
poses.
Cheaper in Long Kun
In a favorable report on the bill,
prepared for submission Monday,
the Public Lands Committee esti
mated that it would cost the gov
ernment less than one-half as much
to help the farmer through keeping
on the farm he still owns as it is
costing the government to resettle
him after he loses his farm and be
comes a tenant.
“Under this act,” the report set
out/ “for a total cost of $120,000,-
000, or $2,000 per unit (as compar
ed with a cost of $300,000,000, or
$5,000 per unit, under the Farm Se
curity Administration), the 60,000
farms now annually reduced from
owner-operated farms to tenant-op
erated farms will be enabled to re
main in the owner-operated group
and 60,000 American families an
nually saved from tenantry.”
The report stated further that ad
ministration of the act would be “in
bold contrast to our present pro
gram of giving only temporary re
lief. And the permanent relief af
forded through this program brings
definite hope for reduced federal
expenditures in future years.”
“Common Sense” Cited
Discussiong his bill, Representa
tive Peterson, said:
“Since I entered Congress five
years ago I have seen Congress a
dopt numerous theories advanced as
a solution to our farm problems,
and we have spent three or four
billion dollars on these experiments.
Yet none of them have proven sat
isfactory to the American farmers,
and most of them are very imprac
tical as well as exceedingly expen
sive.
“In this bill there is set up a com
mon-sense, long-range land program
designed to regain for the average
American farm family a position
of economic independence and place
these families on at least a subsist
ence basis —a program designed to
re-establish and preserve the family
size farm homestead in its rightful
place as a conerstone of our free
institutions.
“The principle of this legislation
has been steadily gaining support in
Congress and throughout the nation
since I first initiated it during the
steventy-fourth Congress. And as
the American public becomes more
familiar with its purpose and ideal
there is no doubt but that more and
more R Uwn who inlfr tn
ALAMO, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1939
Toombs Primary
Planned in Fall
VOTERS APPEAR TO FAVOR
NOVEMBER ELECTION
LYONS, June 17.—Toombs coun
ty politics was shaping up today
for the Democratic primary in the
fall to nominate county officers.
For the past several county elec
tions the primary has Been held in
the late fall ■ preceding the general
electioh year when "ifleer are nom
inated to run in the general elec
tion.
During court sessions in Lyons
the past few weeks much was heard
about the approaching election. The
county committee has not indicated
what action will be taken regard
ing the early primary but there is
considerable sentiment in favor of
a primary election about Novem
ber or early in December. C. A.
Rogers of Lyons is chairman of the
county commit'' e and R. E. Ledford
of Vidalia is ecretary. The body
sets the date and makes the rules
for said election.
DRIVERS WARNED
TO GET LICENSES
Commissioner Phil Brewster Fri
day reiterated his warning that
there will be no extension of the
deadline for renewal of drivers’ li
censes beyond June 30, leaving only
12 more week days in which Geor
gians may obtain licenses for the
next 12-month period,
“We are going to abide strictly
by the drivers' license law this
year,” the commissioner said, “and
any person who does not have a
valid driver’s license after June 30
will be subject to arrest. All li
cense expire on June 30 unless they
were issued since May 1.
Nearly 200,000 Georgians already
have received their renewed licens
es, the department said, and 100,-
000 more are now in the process
of preparation.
FOR SALE—Several pointer
bird puppies for sale. Dog pup
pies sll eacb;gips $8 each. Come
and look them over. Carry
Armstrong, Alamo, Georgia.
ested in preserving our great Amer
ican institutions will rally to its
support.
“There are some professional
Washington agriculturists who tend
their crops from behind mahogany
desks and reap their harvests
through government salaries who
don’t like this bill because it takes
their land out of the farmer’s pock
et and the voice out of the farmer’s
business.
“The greatness of America as the
land of opportunity rests upon the
fact that distressd humanity found
here free land, affording each fam
ily an opportunity to obtain a free
farm homestead and earn a liveli
hood in freedom and independence.
Not Radically New
“The lack of a definite national
land policy has permitted these free
homesteads to become consumed by
mortgages and debt. And today the
ownership and control of financial
interests and absentee landlords. As
a result free land families have been
driven to tenantry.
“This measure revives and amends
this nation’s traditional free home
stead policies so as to regain for
farm families title to and possession
of their farm homes. The plan is
appealingly simple and presents no
radically new idea.
“It simply affords to distressed
families in our own country today
the opportunity to again acquire a
plot of free soil upon which to earn
for themselves an honest living.
Furthermore it safeguards and pro
tects these homesteads against fu
ture mortgage indebtedness.
“No now federal agency is bought
into being and no army of employes
and supervisors will be required in
the administration of the act. It is
prectical, simple and most econom
ical when compared to the vast ex
penditures now being made and
from which we are deriving slight
permanent benefits.
“This measure offers a sound con
servative, democratic and American
approach to our basic farm prob*
ion/’
DIPTHERIA PRESENT
IN OUR COUNTY
The Telfair-Wheeler Health
Department now has a health
mobile trailer to better serve the
interests of the people of these
two counties. Any service dis*
pensed from the central offices
in Alamo and Mcßae will be of
fered on this trailer, in other
words, it is an office on wheels.
The following is the tentative
schedule for Wheeler county:
TUESDAY—9 to 12 oclock,
Alamo health office. 2 to 4 Scot
land (Callanan’s store.)
THURSDAY—9:3O to 10:30.
Stuckey (Jenkins’ store) 11:00
to 12:00, Glenwood (C. I. Josey’s
filling station) 1 to 2 Landsburg,
(Grier's store) 2:30 t o 3:15,
Horsseshoe Farm (office) 3:30 to
4«80, Crossroads (Wynn’s store)
’FRIDAY— 9:30 to 10:30, Union
District (Harrelson’.- store) 11 to
12, Bill Farm; 1:30 to 2:15, Jor
dan’s commissary (Shiloh diet.)
2:30 lo 3:15, Shilsh School; 3:30
to 4:30 McArthur Church.
It is hoped that this additional
servi e will be taken advantage
of by the citizens of these eoun-
Healthmobile Trailer
A case of diptheria lias just
been discov. red in Wheeler
County, and all persons having
children six month to six years
old should have them inoculated
immediately. See your private
physician, or come to the Health
Department for tois service.
The Health Department is open
on Saturday mornings until noon
for this purpose.
Health office.
“Miss Atlanta” Bath
ing Beauty Contest
At Lakewood. Who
Will Be “Miss ।
Atlanta 1939?”
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Lakewood Park, in Atlanta, will
be the scene of the annual “MISS
ATLANTA BATHING BEAUTY
CONTEST" on the night of July
4th in the grandstand at 8 P. M.,
according to Mike Benton, Presi
dent of the Southeastern Fair,
sponsoring this event. Professional
Automobile Races, Motor Cycle
Races, Speed Boat Races, begin
ning at 3 P. M„ will comprise tha
greatest Racing Program ever as
sembled at Lakewood. Annual In
dependence Day Firework* apecta
ale riU feliew Uw Beauty Contest.
Jobs Found for Wheeler
Unemployed Workers
Jobs were found for 24 unem
ployed Wheeler County workers
by the Georgia State Employme
ment Service during the month
of May Commissioner of Labor
Ben T. Huiet has announced. Os
the number, 1 were placed in
private employment and 23 on
public works projects.
The county is served by the
Dublin office, which reported
total placements of 242 during
the month. Throughout the state,
local Employment offices found
jibs for 7,897 unemployed men
and women.
Manager Aubrin U. Hogan
cordially invites the people of
city and county to avail them
selves of the service offered by
the free public agency.
Principal functions of the Em
ployment Service are to find jobs
for unemployed men and women,
and to assist insured workers
under the Georgia Unemploy
mentcompensation Act in tiling
iheir claims for unemployment
compensation benefits if and
when they lose their jobs th’ough
no fault of their own and meet
legal requirements.
wheeIIHS
HEALTH CONTEST
The Wheeler County Health
Department has just completed
its annual health contest which
is open to all 4-H Club girls who
are 10 years of age or older. Dr.
John D. Stillwell, the Health
Commissioner for Wheeler
county, is charge of the physical
examination which follow the
plan devised for the State as a
whole by the Agricultural Ex
tension Service, and are when
completed, through and excellent
check up.
Immunization against typhoid,
smallpox and a negative Schiek
test —a check given to determine
one’s susceptobility to diphtheria
and being insisted upon, as pro
tection against these three dise
ases, is available free of charge
io all citizens of Wheeler county.
This year’s winner was Mary-
Elizabeth Stone, of Glenwood.
Theother contestants were Eloise
Hinson, Montine Gilder, Audiey
Humphrey, Catherine De Loach,
Gloria Watson, Carolyn Morrison
and Bernice LaFavor. Tne con
test was a close one. Mary Eliza
beth Stone winning out over the
others by only a few points. This
means that she goes to tne
Southeast District 4-H Club
Health contest to be held in
Douglas, sometime in July.
Should she be fortunate enough
to win there, she will be eligible
for the State contest. The girls
placed first in the State contest
will receive as a reward a trip to
some interesting place, the deti
natjon of which has not yet been
announced.
The physical rating of the in
div dual counts only 75 per cent.
The person’s club rating, and
her essay on “My 4-H Club
Experiences,” including suppli
mentary statement of improve
ments made in health habits —
making up the remaining 25 per
cent. The “H” in the 4-H Club
emblem that stands for Health,
is not being slighted, but is be
ing pushed to the fore where it
rightfully belongs, as one of the
most important of all the‘’H's”.
Gaskin-Smith
A marriage of much interest
to * large circle of friends was
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HRS. MIN POPE
HIES AI MACON
Funeral services were held
Wednesday morning, June 21, at
the Alamo Methodist Church
for Mrs. Marvin Pope, age 43,
member of a prominent Wheeler
County family’, who died Monday
night at her home in Macon
alter an illness of two days.
The Rev. J. D. Rabun, of Lyons
and Rev. C. A. Morrison, of
Alamo officiated, and burial was
in the Glenwood cemetery in the
Pope family lot.
Mrs. Pope, the former Miss
Jewell Geiger, was a native of
Wheeler County, but bad resided
the past nine years in Macon.
Sue was a daughter of the late
James T. and Columbia Geiger,
and a devoted member of the
Methodist church.
Mrs Pope was stricken with a
heart attack Saturday aftei noon.
A physician was summond and
everything possabie was done
for her. Her physician pro
nounced her much better Mon
day afternoon, but she passed
away at 11:30 Monday night, as
she lay quietly sleeping.
Surviving are her husband,
Marvin Pope, and five children’
William, Eleanor, Howard,
Annette and Martha, of Macon;
one brother, J. F. Geiger, and
one sister, Mrs. J. Otis Perdue,
both of Alamo.
B. Y. P. U. Rally At
Glenwood Baptist Church
The District B. Y. P. U., rally
was held at the Glenwood Baptist
Church Tuesday, June 6. The
following program: ‘‘On a Re
vival” was rendered by the
Glenwood B, Y. P. U.
Song—‘‘Revive Us Again.”
Devotional—Hazel Slewart.
Prayer—Mr. Henry Montford.
Solo: ‘‘Break Throu The Bread
Life —Elise Montford.
Some facts concerning a revival
—Ray Nita Stewart.
Whole hearted cooperation —
Jean Williams.
How to look on a revival —
Hazel Stewart.
Talk: ‘ Life’’ —Col. Under wood,
of Mt. Vernon.
The churches of the District
which were represented at our
rally were: Alamo, Glenwood,
Sardis, Spring Hill and Stuckey.
After the program, we went
into our business meeting taking
up both old and new business.
We selected ‘‘Loyalty to
Christ’’ as the theme song for
our rallies.
Robbie Simpson was elected
Reporter for our rallies.
The Alamo B. Y. P. U. invited
the ocher Unions to meet at
Alamo for the next rally, which
wiil be held in J uly.
We were then dismissed by
prayer after which we all went
out to the lawn and enjoyed
games and refreshments.
Robbie Simpson, Reporter.
that of Miss Aubrey Gaskin to
Beverly Smith, which event was
solemnized June 18.
The bride is from Bartow,
Florida, and is quite and indus
trious and attractive young lady.
The groom is a son of Mr. and
Mrs. A. P. Smith. He is very
industrious young man. They
will make their home in Altmas,
Florida, where Mr. Smith holds
a position.
The Eagle joins many fr ends
in wishing the young couple
much happiness through life»