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DEVOTED TO THE HEALTH, HAPPINESS AND PROSPERITY OF THE HOMES, SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES OF ALAMO AND WHEELER COUNTY.
Volume 28
TWO POLITIAL LEADERS
IRON OUT DIFFERENCES
Washington —After a chat
Tuesday with President Roose
velt about Georgia polities, two
Democratic leaders of that state
said differences between Gov
ernor-elect Eugene Talmadge
and the national administration
had been ironed out.
Talmadge, during an earlier
term as governor, was often
outspoken against the Roosevelt
administration.
“There are no differences be
tween them now,” said Ivan
Allen of Atlanta, Georgia cam
paign manager for the president,
after the conference. “Every
thing has been ironed out.”
J. S. Peters, of Manchester
chairman of the slate Democratic
executive committee, said Tal
madge was ready to to co
operate with the national admini
stration fur the good of his
country and his state.”
Petersd scribed himself as “a
New . > aler 100 per cent and for
Governor Talmadge 100 per
cent.” Allen said he was selected
to his post because he was an
ardent supporter of both Roose
velt and Talmadge.
Peters said the governor elect
and his staff planned to attend
the presidential inauguration
January 20. Talmadge, who
served two earlier terms as gov
ernor, was elected to a third
term Nov. 5. He will succeed
Governor E D. Rivers, who four
years ago succeeded him as
governor.
Advertising is Unfair
to Cats
Time was when a cat had a
pleasant berth in a grocer’s
cracaer barrel. It was comforta
ble place for nappins. Convenient,
too, for a between meal snack.
Only occasionally was he dis
turbed, when Mrs. Jones came
in for a pound of crackers, and
the cat bad to get down while
the groc r got the crackers to
put in a bag
Life has changed for cats.
There aren't any more convenient
cracker barrels to sleep in. There
aren't any more crackers avail
able for occasional nibbles. The
cats have gotten a rotten deal.
They can blame advertising for
it. Advertising bas taught the
women of America to demand
crackers in a sanitary package,
kept crisp and whole as they
come out of the shining clean
bakeries where they a^e baked.
Advertising has given the women
of America variety as well as
cleanliness in packaged foods.
Instead of one barrel of stale,
broken crackers, the average
grocer no w carries over 50 differ
ent kinds of crackers for Ameri
can tables.
As with crackers, so also with
automobiles, soap, radios, cloth
ing. Ad vertising has shown us
the better things in life, and by
creating a demand for them, hrs
enabled mass production to make
them cbeip±r and more accessi
ble for us all. This is the way
that. Advertising pays you,
WE PAY $6 for selling ten $1
boxes. 5j beautiful assorted;
Christmas Cards. Sell for $1 —
your prolit 60. Greeting Card
House, 160 Main, Ossining, N. Y
Established First Zoo
The first emperor of the Chou dy
nasty in China is regarded as the
founder of zoological gardens, for his
park, established around 100 B. C.
Is the first ’‘zoo" about which there
are any records.
: bibs ufcm
mu mu peas
County Agent Whitaker has
distributed to the farmers of
। Wheeler county 103,000 pounds
: of Austrian winter peas, togeth
er with 375 pounds of super
phosphate to be used on approxi
mately 350 acres of land in this
county. The peas are used as soil
builder under the AAA program.
All of this comes free to the
farmers of the county from the
government. The peas have been
planted and now in growing con
dition. This is only one of the
benefits received, and it is very
gratifying to know that so many
have taken advantage of this op
portunity to improve their lands.
Facts on Georgia’s
Bee Industry
Manning Yeomans, State Ento
mologist, has just released
Georgia’s 1940 Bee Inspection
Report. The following was taken
from the report.
Georgia is the largest combined
honey producing and bee ship
ping state.
Georgia’s bee industry brings
in over §1,000,000.00 annually,
which is derived as follows:
honey $700,000.00; package bees
$175,000,00; queens $75,000.00;
and wax and orchard rentals
$50,000.00.
Georgia produces over 30 dffer
ent floral types of honey, and
from these honeys a flavor may
tie found to suit every taste.
Georgia’s largest honey pro
ducer operates over 7,000 col
onies. There are 20 Georgia’s
beekeepers who operate over
1,000 colonies.
Georgia has over 1000 bee
keepers who operate an esti
mated 200,000 colonies.
Georgia beekeepers rent bees
for orchard pollination in the
•following states Georgia, North
Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania,
Delaware, New York, Michigan,
Ohio and Indiana.
Georgia bas 31 certified bee
keepers who operate 24,000
colonies for producing package
bees, and 31,000 queen nueclei
f6r producing queen bees.
Georgia’s largest bee producer
sells 20 tons of bees annually. It
takes 4000 bees to weigh a pound
and they sell for approximately
75 cants per pound.
Georgia produces over 150,000
queen bees which sell for ap
proximately 75 cents each.
Georgia ships live bees to 29
states, 9 Canadian Provinces and
over 6 foreign countries.
The 1940 inspection report
shows that Georgia is one of the
few states which has less than
one half of one per centof Ameri
can Foulbrood. (American foul
brood is the most destructive bee
disease. It is a disease of the
young developing bees which
prevents their development.
Foulbrood diseases have no effect
on the quality of honey, nor do
they affect man). Thorough bee
; inspection accounts for this low
per cent of bee diseases.
Systematic, cereful inspection
is necessary to maintaining a
thriving profitable bee industry.
The Georgia Department of En
tomology inspects over 75,000
colonies of bees annually.
Hope 4-H Club News
The last meeting of our 4-H
club was held at Hope School
Friday, November 15. Officers
elected for the coming year were
ALAMO, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, November 29,1940
SUPERIOR COURT TO
i CONVENES MONDAY
1 The recessed term of Wheeler
superior court will convene next
1 Monday morning. Jurors that
were not dismissed will serve
this time and are expected to
appear also.
The apparence docket will be
called. No civil cases will be
taken up that requires a jury,
and only criminal cases will be
tried before a jury, we are in
formed.
ENTRIES CLOSE IN RACE
FOR ALAMO COUNCIL
Entries have closed tor candi
dates in the race for the three
places on the City Council, which
includes six members The
election will be held Tuesday,
December 3. Councilmen L. G.
Whitaker, Candler Hogan, and
C. E. Hinson complete their two
year terms this year. Hogan
and Whitaker have qualified for
re-election, but Hinson declined
to offer. J. H. Gross, editor of
the Eagle, also has qualified for
the race.
Mayor J. D- Peebles stated
that there were approximately
225 qualified voters.
Other members of the Council
are M, C. Hartley, H. R. Clark,
and L. A. Braswell.
US PEOPLE
By G. C. Barnhill
All of us enjoy the news, any
way we can get it, and much
effort is made in order that we
are informed. This modern
radio method really puts fellow
through the thrird degree while
he is getting informed. Set the
clock, watch the time, turnon
the air, and you have to wash,
doctor a cold, and brush your
teeth. About this time news
comes in from Europe, told by
each side that both are winning.
Then take some chewing gum,
hear from the Nation’s Capitol.
Wind up with reports from the i
latest labor strike, and take dose i
of medicine, in order to be able
to hear about the world the next
day. Good thing for change, get i
a chair by a warm winter fire and
get your local paper, enjoy the i
home town news.
Olen Couey Killed in
Laurens County
Dublin, Nov. 25—Olen Couey
38, Laurens county farmer, died
in a hospital here early today of
injuries suffered when he was
struck by an automobile as he
walked alone a road near his
home several miles south of here
late Sunday.
Sheriff I F. Coleman reported
the automobile was driven by
Festus Edge, a neighbor of
Couey's, and that it apparently
was an unavoidable accident. No
charges were preferred.
Surviving are three brothers
Claud and Obey Couey, Dublin,
and Loye Couey, Fort Benning.
as follows:
President— Guy Clark.
Vice Pres. James Clark.
Sec.—Lila Clark.
Reporter —Myrtie Cla k.
After officers had been elected
we were given lectures and
manners by Miss Godbee.
Myrtle Clark, Reporter.
Almonds Are Not New
It was in the Middle ages that al
monds began to figure prominently In
'trade In Central Europe.
LOCAL SCHOOL PAPER
BE PUBLISHED SOON
Miss Beatrice Autry, commer
cial teacher in the Wheeler
County High school, announced
the publication of a school news
paper named the “Whe-Co-Hi-
Echo,” which is to be published
by students who are taking
their second year course in com
merce, The paper will be pub
lished twice monthly and a
subscription rate will be fifty
cents per school year or ten
cents per month.
The staff officers elected to
serve include: Nina Coleman,
Editor-in-chief; Eloise Hinson,
Business Manager; Edsel Joiner,
News Editor; Morris Jenkins,
Sports Editor; Vivian Harrelson,
Jokes and Gossip Editor; and
Tena Avery Circulation Manager
Each class in the school will
choose a reporter to correspond
with the newspaper and help to
inform the people of Alamo and
the county of school happenings.
The first issue is planned to be
published on December 12.
No More Cotton for
Farmer J. M. DaAis
Vidalia, Nov. 24.- J. M. Davis
Toombs county farmer for 40
years has operated a farm on
which cotton has been planted
and harvested annually, told
friends today that no cotton
would be planted on his farm for
the 1941 harvest.
Mr. Davis said he had decided
after comparing the yield of
cotton with that of peanuts,
onions, potatoes and other di
versified crops, together with
livestock through which corn
and grain could be marketed and
he could find no reason to plant
another hill of cotton on his
farm.
Miss Godbee Leaves
Today for Chicago
Miss Esther Godbee, Wheeler
county ho m e demonstration
agent will leave today (Friday)
for alO day trip to Chicago
which has been awarded her for
outstanding4-H club leadership.
Miss.Godbee is the firstand
only home demonstration agent
that bas been employed by
Wheeler county, having been in
this county for the past 13 years.
Miss Godbee will be accom
panied on her trip by a Wheeler
county girl, Estelle Foster, of
Alamo, who was a winning con
testant in egg-grading at the
Southeastern fair held in
Atlanta.
Other 4-H club leaders of
Georgia also are making the
trip.
Week’s Specials
Suits Cleaned, Pressed,
40 cents each
Pants Cleaned, Pressed,
20 cents each
EAGLE DRY
CLEANERS
Alamo, Georgia
Sample Copy 5c Number 34
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1 10 MEET DEC. 6
The Wheeler County Teachers’
I Association will meet at the
. court house on P’riday afternoon,
■ December 6, at 3 o’clock. All
[ white teachers are requested to
; be present and answer to roll or
, furnish Superintendent W. H.
Kent with a legal excuse for
their absence.
The program committee has
arranged a panel discussion of
Rural Education, which will be
directed by Mr. J. M. Gooden, of
the State Department of Educa
tion. Devotional by Rev. J, F.
Snell.
The following are requested to
be present, representing differ
ent phases of educational work in
the panel group:
Dr. W. A. Rivers, M. E.
Thompson, Rev. George F.
Erwin, Prof. Reddrick, of B. P.
I. faculty, Miss Ann Dudley,
Miss Esther Godbee, Mr. J. F.
Nicholson, Supt. E. R. Hallford,
Mrs. Virginia Rainey, Mrs. Lee
Evans, Supt. W. A. H. Flynt.
Mrs. L. M. Pope, Miss Gladys
Thompson and others.
Mr. Eubanks, the president of
the Wheeler County Teachers
Association, has put lots of
thought into the programs and
other activities of the Association
and deserves the whole hearted
support of every teacher in the
county.
Under the administration of
Superintendent W. H. Kent, the
following progressive moves have
been made in the educational
field-
The construction of two new
and modern Vocational buildings
and the purchase of two new
buses.
Outstanding aebivements by
students have gained not only
state wide but national recogni
tion in 4-H club work.
Don’t forget—Teachers—Dec
ember 6,3 P. M. at the court
house.
Union School News
Wc are very glad we have our
long hoped for lunch room, and
it is operating satisfactory.
The P. T. A. will hold its
regular meeting next Thursday,
December fifth.
The fifth grade will sponsor a
program on “I Am An Ameri
can.” This program seems to be
very appropriate for this time. A
time when we all should be glad
that we are Americans. Think
of the suffering, horrors, and
hardships the people of Europe
are having to endure. The people
of America wish with all their
hearts, that we may never have
to bear these horrors, hardships
and sufferings.
Bobby Evans, who was six
years old, had a birthday party
in the Union school lunch room
on November 12. His guests in
cluded the first grade, of which
he is a member.
Tanner-Brice Building
Store, Service Station
Tanner-Brice Company of
Vidalia are building a filling
station and store in the northern
section of Wheeler county at the
intersection of the new paved
highway from Soperton to East
man with Route 15.
This is in a prosperous part of
the couuty where most of the
farmers own their own homes
and have telephones and electric i
lights.
'PROHIBITION IS
ON«BACK
Excerpts from and address by
Mrs. Mary Scott Russell, presi
dent of the Georgia W. C. T. U.,
delivered to the state convention
held in Athens on October 29.
Prohibition is on the way back.
First: There is already a deep
underground swell of resent
ment throughout the nation ove r
the evils of repeal has brought.
Organized liquor has always
defied the law. Their leaders once
made the statement: No matter
what law is passed to control
our business we will not obey it.
No such prosperity as swept
this country during the first ten
years of prohibition has ever
been experienced on the globe.
And not one cent of liquor reve
nue to bring it about,
When the Georgia prohibition
law went into effect January I,
1908, there was a panic on. The
Atlanta Constitution, wet said,
November 1908, “There has not
been a serious business failure
this year, and more money has
passed through the clearing
houses than in any 20 years be
fore. In the light of these facts,
the saloon is gone from Georgia
forever.”
But now we have repeal.
The trial it has started cannot
be measured. The widespread
drinking of women; murder on
the highways, due to drinking
drivers; but more dangerous
than all the rest is the powerful
money control these subversive
activities are gaining over our
national and state governments.
God calls individuals to repen
tance. He also calls nations to
repentance. Loyd George has
said, We cannot buiid any nation
on an impregnable basis until we
cleanse its foundations from the
rot of alcohol.”
America it is not too late yet,
not if we repent; butonly through
repentance can salvation come.
Lord God of Hosts, be with us
yet.
Lest we forget; Lest we forget.
Donkey Basket Ball Game
Held in Alamo Gymnasium
The Junior Class of the Whee
ir County High school sponsored
a Donkey Basketball game in the
school gymnasium here Monday
night. The game was played on
donkeys and consisted of five
on each of the two teams, The
Alamo Junior boys engaged a
Glenwood team in the first game
and the Junior girls competed
with the Alamo school faculty in
second.
The money taker, in by the
Juniors will be used for a Junior
and Senior class trip next
summer.
CARD OF THANKS
We take, our humble way in
express’ng our many thanks to
our friends and relatives for
their kindness and help during
the sickness and death of our
dear wife and mother, Mrs. G. L,
Lane, and also the beautiful flo
ral offerings and every word of
sympathy. May God’s richest
blessings be with you all.
G. L. Lane,
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Braswell,
Mrs. J. G. Burnett,
Mrs. H. F. Camp,
Mrs. J. M. Yancy.
FOR SALE —Wood or coal
; heater, good as new, for parth
I culars apply at Eagle Office.
