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Volume 28
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The Wheeler County Singin?
Convention will meet at Bethel
Baptist Church the sth Sunday
in June for an all day session.
We have arranged with the Wal
Sisters, of Willocoochee and
possibly the August Quartet, of
Augusta, to be with us along
with many singers, leaders,
quartets, etc., from this and
adjoining counties. Everybody
invited to come out and enjoy the
day.
Every thing in shape for the
big convention at Bethel Baptist
church next Sunday. August
Quartet and the Wall Sisters
Quartet will sure be there. These
quartets are among the outstand'
ing quartets of the state.
All singers and lovers of good
gospel singing in the county and
all other sections of the state are
especially invited to come out
‘ and spend the day in sang
W. E. Currie.
Ordination Service
Alamo Baptist Church
The Alamo Baptist church, of
which Rev. W. P. Spivey is
pastor, held an ordination service
for three additional deacons last
Sunday, June 23. Those ordined
were M. C. Hartley, W. H.
Thomas and L. E. Tanner. The
presbetry was composed of Rev.
W. P. Spivey, Chairman, Rev.
Gower Latimer, of Vidalia, and
Rev. R. L. Robinson, of Mount
Vernon, assisted by the local
Deacons, J. F. Hattaway, W. R.
McDaniel, E. S. Hartley, and G.
L. Hattaway of the local church,
and Brother Paul Calhoun, of
Mt. Vernon church.
The annual revival at Alamo
Baptist church will begin the
second Sunday in July, with
Rev. Spivey doing the preaching.
The public is cordially invited to
attend.
W. A. Varnadoe
Buried Friday
Mr. W. A. Varnadoe, age 58, di
ed last Thursday at his home
near Lumber City, the cause of
his death being paralysis.
Mr. Varnadoe was a native of
this county, being born on Sept
ember 18, 1881, sori ot the late
W. 11. and Nancy Kay Varnadoe,
ami was a well known farmer of
this section. He was married Mar
ch 6, 1902, to Miss Sarah Redden.
He was a member of Fishing
Creek church.
Funeral services were held at
Fishing Creek church last Friday,
with Rev. J. C. McLeod officiat
ing, and interment in Fishing
('reek cemetery; pall bearers be
ing : Aubery Harris, Ollie Floyd,
.Jerry McGhee, Cecil Brew, Bruce
Cobb and Albert Whatley. Har
ris and Smith Funeral Home had
charge of Funeral arrangements.
Survivors are six daughters:
Mrs. Jerry McGhee, of Alamo,
Mrs. Mamie Floyd, of Lumber
City, Mrs. J. P. Laßoche, of San
ford. Fla., Mrs. Roy Haymons, of
Jacksonville, Mrs. L. E. Seabolt,
of Pahokee, Fla., Miss Mabel
Varnadoe, of Lumber City: three
sons, E. Fred and Willie Varna
doe, of Lumber City, three broth- j
ers. Arthur, Allan ami John Var- '
nadoe, of Lumber City, two sist
ers, Mrs. Luke Bohannon and
Mrs. G. C. Clements, of Towns.
Telfair Free Press.
Heyward Myers and his tar
heels ” ill be at the Princess
Theater in Mcßae Saturday,
everybody invited to hear them.
Wteto Ctamtu Biair
ATLANTA YOUTH
I KILLEDNEARM’RAE
An automobile accident occuring
on the outskirts of Mcßae Tues
। day morning brought death to one
Atlanta youth and seriously in
juries to his three companions
when the car in which they were
। riding overturned about a mile
. south of Mcßae.
L. C. Fitts, Jr., 18, was killed in
stantly; Burke Rudolph and Wil
liam Wrigley, Jr., suffered sev
ere injuries, while Ben Aycock es
caped with minor bruises.
The youths, whose ages range
from 18 to 20, were on their way
home from a week’s stay at St.
Simons, when their convertible
coupe automobile skidded on a
curve during a heavy rain and
turned over. Mr. Fitts was killed
instantly and Rudolph, driver of
the ear, suffered^a broken back.
Aycock and Wrigley, who were in
the rumble seat with cover pulled
down, escaped fatal injuries. Ru
dolph and Wrigley are in Dr.
Mann's Hospital, and Aycock was
able to return to Atlanta Tuesday
afternoon after being treated for
minor injuries.
Mr. and Mrs. Wrigley, and Mr.
and Mrs. Rudolph, parents of the
injured youths, are here at their
sons bedside.
Telfair Free Press.
Curtis Clark Accepted
In United States Army
The United States Army an'
nounces with pleasure the ac
ceptance for enlistment of
William Curtis Clark, of Alamo.
This young man has expressed
a preference for service with
the Bth. Q. M. Bn. and will be
stationed at Camp Jackson,
South Carolina.
This demonstration of Patrio
tism by Curtis Clark is to be
commended, and may well be
followed by other young men in
your community.
A limited number of other
desirable vacancys for Service
may be obtained from the United
States Army Recruiting Office,
202 Post Office Building, Sa
vannah, Georgia.
Gone! But Not
Forgotten
Mr. E. D< Clegg, left Monday for
Gulfport, Miss., where he goes to
buy watermelons for the R. H.
Dietz & Co., of Chicago; the fol
lowing graders and packers went
with him: Messrs, Billy Kent, O.
■I. Hinson, Mack Ryals and Fred
Wright, of Alamo.
Mr. Clegg states that this com
pany has contracts for a large
acreage of melons in Miss, La.,
Texas and Mo., and that pros
pects look good and they antici
pate loading 1000 cars. Mr. Clegg
and loading.
and loading. Julius Purvis re
turned from Gulfport, Mississippi,
Wednesday morning, about day
break. He accompanied them to
Mississippi.
Twenty Wheeler County
Youths to CCC July 2
Wheeler county’s quota for
CCC enrollment has been re
ceived by the local Welfare office
and twenty young men have been
I given notices to report to Soper'
; ton for recruitment July 2.
NOTICE
We have been authorized to ask
j all Red Cross Fiance committees
to please send in their reports to
the proper authorities just as
quickly as possible.
ALAMO, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 1940
COL. O. J. FRANKLIN
ANNOUNCES FOR JUDGE
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■MI
0. J. FRANKLIN
O. J. Franklin, prominent
Eastman attorney, this week
announces his candidacy for
Judge of the Superior Courts of
the Oconee Judicial Circuit in
the Democratic Primary election
to be held on September 11th,
1940.
Mr. Franklin is descended
from an influential Bulloch
County family, but moved to
Eastman in 1906, where he began
the piactice of law, after having
graduated at the University of
Georgia, where be received both
the degree of Batchelor of Arts
and the degree of Batchelor oi
Law.
He served for a number of
years as clerk to the Dodge
County Board of Commissioners
of Roads and Revenues, served
as mayor of the city of Eastman;
also served as a member of the
City Board of Education, and for
sixteen years was Judge of the
City Court of Eastman. In all
these positions he served with
Circle No. 2 Meeting
Circle No. 2 of the Baptist W.
M. U. met on Monday afternoon,
June 24, at the home of Mrs. W.
E. Gilder with 10 members pres
ent.
After a very short business
hour the following program was
given:
Subject: The Soveriegnty of
Christ.
Devotional —Mrs.D.N. Achord
1. Responiablity to Him—Mrs.
J. F. Hattaway.
2. Equality before Him —Mrs-
D. N. Achord.
3. Obidince to Him —Mrs. M.
C. White.
4. Poem: A creed for living—
Mrs. J. O. Perdue.
5. Poem: A prayer for peace—
Mrs. D. W. Wright.
After the program, two very
interesting contest were held
Mrs. D. N. Achord being winner
of first, and Mrs. J. O. Perdue
winner of second.
We were then served delicious
refreshments by the hosteses.
Our next meeting will beat
Mrs. J. F. Hattaway’s with Mrs.
D. W. Wright hostess.
—Reporter.
i signal ability, and from which he
retired with an untarnished
record.
Mr. Franklin announced his
1 candidacy for the Judgeship four
yearsago, but was ruled out on
a technicality by Hugh Howell,
who was then Chairman of the
State Democratic Executive
Committee, payment of the en
• trance fee having been tele
graphed on the closing date, but
was received by the Secretary of
said Committ in due time.
Announcement
Yielding to a long cherished and
laudable ambition to become Judge
of the Superior Courts of the Oconee
Judicial Circuit. I now announce my
self as a candidate for this position,
subject to the rules for the Democratic
Primary election for same to be held
on the 11th. day of September, 11)40.
The influence and support of the
people of this Circuit will be greatly
appreciated.
O. J. Franklin
County Barn Is
Destroyed By Fire
On last Monday morning about
seven o’clock the stock barn,
located near the prison camp
here was destroyed by fire. It is
understood that someone there
getting feed for the day to carry
out on the road must have drop*,
ped a cigarett and shortly after,
the fire was discovered. There
was no stock lost in the fire,
however, it is said that about
200 bushels of corn was destroy
ed."
Mrs. E M. Fowlerand daugh,
ters, Misses Laynettand Bonnelj
and son, Colson, and Mrs. B. R.
McNair, of Macon, left Tuesday
morning for several days visit
with friends and sight seeing at
Miami, Florida and other points
of interest in Florida. Mrs. M. >
A. Holland, of Miami, Florida, :
who has been visiting her father,
Mr. J. D. McDaniel, of Stuckey
returned home with them.
Mr. Earl Ryals and daughter,
Earline, of Akron, Ohio, are
spending a couple of weeks here
as the guest of Mrs. L. H, Ryals
and family.
Sample Copy 5c Number 13
GENE TALMADGE
OPENS CAMPAIGN
BYJ ALBANY
EUGENE TALMADGE
Albany, Ga.—Eugene Talmadge
once again will face his country
men in a race for Governor, an
office he has held for two terms,
in his campaign opening at a
state wide rally of the people at
11:30 o’clock (EST) Thursday
morning, July 4, on the Legion
Golf Course at Albany.
Drawn into the race by public
demand that manifested itself in
no uncertain measure when a
crowd of friends took him to the
State Capitol and paid his en
trance fee, Talmadge will begin
the campaign in the traditional
Talmadge way with free barbecue
on Independence Day.
Public reaction to Talmadge’s
definite entry into the race has
exceeded even the most optimis
tic expectations of those friends
who have been insisting for
nearly two years that he should
return to office and lead Georgia
out of the maze of debt and high
taxes into which she has been
driven since he turned over the
State government —with a cash
balance in the treasury —to his
successor.
“Broadened by experience and
strengthened by the way in which
he has taken defeat, Eugene
Talmadge’s outlook on life has
benefited and the soundness of
his vision and views has increased
so that he will make an even
better Governo-i than before,”
Talmadge leaders declare as they
prepared for the campaign.
Talmadge’s friends pointed
out that “Georgians don’t have
to guess at what Gene Talmadge
will do about such matters as
high taxes and waste in the State
Government.”
Talmadge leaders said therein
nothing surprising in Eugene
Talmadge’s announced determi
nation to work with the National
Administration for the safe
guarding of the country, inas
much as Talmadge has always
been ready and willing to work
with anybody for the best inter
ests of the country.
Talmadge’s opening speech at
Albany will be broadcast from
11:30 a. m. to 12:30 p. m. (EST)
over radio stations WSB, WAYX,
WPGC, WKEU, WPAX and
WSAV.
Many thousands of Georgians,
including the starwart old Tais
madge standbys who have sols
lowed Gene through thick and
thin since he served as Commis
sioner of Agriculture, and other
friends who have been won by
his courageous and determined
stand for less expensive and bet
ter government, are expected to
attend the Independence Day
rally at Albany.
Other thousands who are un
able to get to Albany will follow
Local and Personal News
That Will
Interest and Inform You
Wallace Adams May
Offer For Representative
It is rumored that Mr.. Wallace
' Adams, of Glenwood, is consid
ering offering for Representative
of Wheeler County. Mr, Adams
is a young progressive naval
stores operator in this county
and would no doubt make
Wheeler county a splendid Rep
resentati /e. Should he decide to
offer for this post in our state
government, his many friends
would rally to his support,
Several Cars Melons
Shipped This Week
This section started the roll of
watermelons Monday when the
first car was loaded by Jimmie
Harris and George Hartley. The
melons were small, but brought
a good price here on the tracks.
I’hey left for Northern markets
late Tuesday night. Several other
! cars are being loaded by B. M.
Dope, Met Anderson and others.
The crop over the county is re
ported in good condidition. A
single car shipped on June 24
' this year against three on June
24 one year ago.
Ocmulgee Bridge
To Be Approved
Abbeville, June 25. —State
. highway officials were assured
, today the War Department likely
I would grant permission for con
, struction of a bridge spanning
the Ocmulgee river near Abbe
। ville on State Highway 30.
i At a hearing conducted by
, Lieut. J. A. Smedile, War Depart
, ment engineer stationed at Sa
vannah, no objection was made
to specifications for the proposed
, structure, and it was indicated
the government soon would
grant its approval.
State Highway 30 links Savan
nah and Columbus.
State Candidate
Here This Week
Mr. H. B. Smith, candidate for
Public Service Commission
against the incumbent, Hon. Jud
P. Wilhoit, and daughter. Miss
Ruth Smith, of Dahlonega, were
in Wheeler county shaking hands
and meeting as many people as
possible yesterday. Mr. Smith
. stated that lie would like to see
, all the people personally and
i would see all that he could before
• September 11, and that all be
failed to see would appreciate
। them remembering him on that
> day.
1 US PEOPLE
- By G. C. Barnhill
3 We are getting in a real fix with
r so many things’happening. Can’t
even get up any excitement about
this political year we are in, and
it is almost out of the question
for a fellow to decide on a plat
> form, because things may be
) changed so by voting time that
, it might be out of date. There
j are some things tho, al] of them
can do that wil) sound natural
and old-timey, they can talk
about the other fellow, and advo
> cate some laws that will help the
, down trodden farmer.
him on the radio and through the
newspapers. Talmadge head
quarters urges those unable to
attend to form radio parties in
their homes and offices and listen
। to “01’Gene” as he outlines on
July 4 what the people of Geor
gia need for a return to sane and
. economical government of this
■ State.
