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DEVOTED. TO THE HEALTH, HAPPINESS AND PROSPERITY OF THE HOMES, SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES OF ALAMO AND WHEELER COUNTY-
Volume 30
DAN k MSKISON
WES AT HIS HOME
On October the 20,1948.' after
fifteen months illness, God called
from this earth David Angus
Morrison, son of the late Alex*
ander and Anne Galbraith Mor
rison.
The entire community feels
the loss of this good friend and
neighbor, for “Uncie Dan,” as
he was affectionately called, was
highly esteemed and respected
by all who knew him.
Mr. Morrison was born on May
Ist, 1875, in what was then part
of Montgomery, but now Wheeler
County, where he spent his en
tire life among his relatives ano
friends.
He was a member of the
Methodist Church of Glenwood.
Besides a host of friends, Mr.
Morrison left a wife, the former
Mary Pearl Reynolds, of Glen
wood; four daughters, Mrs. Ada
btoue, Glenwood; Mrs. Kate
Go an, Columbus; Mrs. Edna
Selpb, and Mrs. Myrtle Raffidd,
of Glenwood; two sons, Reynolds,
of Savannah, and Hermon, ot
Jacksonville, Fioi id#;broth
ers, John L , and Patrick, both
of Glenwood; two sisters, Mw.
Etta Browning, and Mrs. Vickie
Williamson; and nite grand
children.
Funeral services were held at
the Glenwood Methodist Church
at four o’clock, October 22nd,
Rev. J. H. Allen and Rev. 0. A.
Morrison conducted the services.
Active pall bearers wore: J. P.
Morrison, Jr., Emmit Morrison,
Frank Morrison, Walter Pope,
Bishop Pope and Jareile Mc-
Daniel.
Honorory p&U bearers were:
J. A. Palmer, C.|L. Galbraith, W.
A. Rivers, D. C. Colson, Thomas
Kent and A. J. Grimes.
Funeral arrangements were in
charge of Murchison Funeral
Parlor, of Vidalia.
Sunbeam Band Honors
Little Naomi Hattaway
The Sunbeam Band held its
regular monthly meeting Wed
nesday afternoon, at the heme of
Mrs. Mauney.
The president being absent
Betsy Joe Pope, vice president,
toak charge of the meeting. Helen
Moray was appointed acting
secretary. *
The Bind was happyJto enroll
Wynell Pickle as a new member.
Dorothy Hattaw ay and Francis
Sharpton were very welcom e
visitors to the meeting.
Alter the program a love gift
was given to little Naomi Hatta
way as a ‘‘going away” present.
Betsy Joe Pope made the speech
of presentation. The Band will
miss Naomi for she has been a
faithful member, but we know
that where evea she goes she will
be a little Sunbeam.
t
Union School 4-H Club
Heid Interesting Meeting
The Union 4 H Club met last
Tuesday afternoon, at 2:00 o’-
clock in the auditorium at Union
School, Alamo. Mr. Leckie and
Miss Godbee were with us. Mr.
Leckie gave a good demonstra
tion on treating oals for the
emut disease. Miss Godbee
sho wed the girls some caps which
she crocheted. She is going to
teach the girls how.
We have made our plans for
the school year.
—Reporter.
Grapes were introduced to China
from Western Asia in the second
century B. C.
WHEELER MEN LEFT
FOR ARMY THURSDAY
The following white men left
’ here yesterday morning for Fort
McPherson for their final physi
cal examination before being in
ducted into the army:
Clarence L. Williams,, Dexter
J. T. Manus, Alamo
Owen Colson Fowler, Stuckey
Charles McArthur Jordan, Jr
Glenwood.
William Colen Gillis. Glenwood
Joseph Pu Ma, -1 «Utw.
I AM NOT PLAYING
FOR MARBLES
We are headed straight for the
open doors of hell.
And when we get inside, they
will slam them abut and lock
them. •
Maybe I’ll come out alive and
maybe 1 won’t.
I’ll take that chance—lll take
it, because I know now what I’m
Playing for ovl r here—and it isn’t
marbles.
I’m not fighting for the right
to waitjn line foe my *daily bread’
I’m not using a bayonet and
knife to carve a hole fi r myself
where I’ll bide for the rest of
my days, I’m not belling my life
out here so anyone back thei e
can tell me where, what, or how
to worship.
I’m not outguessing mad mtn
with machineguns in their hands
for the privilege of being told
what to say and when to say it.
I’m Fighting for Freedom.
I’m fighting for thu things
that made America the greatest
place in the world tolive in aud
for the things that are going to
seep America the greatest place
to live in.
Sodan’t anybody tell me I’ll
find America changed.
Don’t anybody, tell me there’s
no future any more in America.
Don’t any body tell me ther’s a
ceiling over my opportunity to
make a million or be president.
Don’t any body tell me there’s
a bridle and bii waiting for me
with my name on it. Tbat’s wtiai
cook the humanity out of the
men I’m up against now—and I
don’t want any part of it.
I want to go back to the same
America I left behind me, where
our way of living has always
orought its new and better
things—and always will. The
America where there’s clean
Uard work to do.
Where there’s Freedom and
Justice and Opportunity for all.
Where, if you can think and
plan and act on your own. There
are ne limits on how high you
can rise—bow far you can go.
Tbat’s what I’m fighting for.
Tbat’s America to me. Keep it
that way until I get back.
■ Many thanks,
EdgarjH. Sightie,
C. M. 3 c.
88tb Batt. Co. Pl. 3
(Seabees)
C. f Fleet Post Office
San Francisco, California
Farm Repair Coarse
Glenwood Colored School
A course of instruction to
teach farmers how to repair farm
machinery has been started at
the Glenwood Colored High
school by W. T. Barnard, Voca
tional agriculture teacher.
Classes are free and taught on
Monday, Wednesday and Friday
nights, by J. B. King. Your
presence will be appreciated.
ALAMO, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1943
WALLACE ADAMS
’ FOR RE-ELECTION
t The Eagle calls your attention
i to the formal announcement of
, Wallace Adams for re election
to the office of Representative of
Wheeler County in the General
Assembly of Georgia, in the
coming Slate Primary of 1944-
Tbiß is Mr, Adams’ second term
ue is seeking, in his first, term,
while the General Assembly was
in session be ^as on some us the
mo«t impu.iant committees
luui. ue was ourn ana teaieu
here in this County, his parents
before him, Mr. aud Mis. K. N.
Adams are also natives of this
County. He was elected bis first
term with out opposition and
ne goes back for bis Second term
with out opposition, as tbe time
set by the County Democratic
Executive Committee closed tbi 8
week leaving him with out op
position.
For Representative
■ f
I hereby announce my candidacy
for re-election to the office of Repre.
sentatiye from Wheeler County in the
General Assembly of Georgia, sub
ject to rules and regulatins of tb #
State Democratic White Primary t 0
be heldin September, 1944.
1 greatly appreciate the support
given me for this position by the
people of this my native County in
the past aud your continued support
is earnestly solicited.
Respectfully,
WALLACE ADAMS.
Home Demonstration Club
At Stuckey Met Friday
The Stuckey Home Demonstr
ation club met with Mrs. Wallace
Ryals Friday night, October 22,
with twenty present. Each lady
invited their husband.
Games were played and enjoy
ed by all.
Miss Godbee gave out pamph
lets and receipts on Soy Beans,
Mrs. Ryals bad prepared three
dishes of dried Soy Beans and
each member brought a covered
dish of cooked food, with coffee
and some sweets had a full meal.
The guest departed at late
hour, men saying: “Wish the
ladies would invite them again
soon.”
The November meeting will be
with Mrs. Charlie Anderson on
Friday afternoon the 19th.
US PEOPLE
By G. C. Barnhill
Here we are getting all tangled
up with this strike business again,
when we thought we had all decided
to go to work, and work right
straight thru until this war is won.
It is very interesting to watch the
way we people handle the problem
from time to time. It must be a
real sure enough frightening propo
sition in a political way to say or do
much about it. Looks like one good
way the strikers could manage would
be to decide on how much they
should have then charge the balance
up to the fellow that they were
working for. As soon as the war
is won, have a free for all strike and
collect the back pay. Not much use
to even try to give all of us what
we call a real square deal while we
are in this war, because we have to
put most of the thinking on whip
ping the other fellow, and not so
much on us folks who are here all
protected from shot and shell.
I .
Harold Gilder, of the United
( States Navy, stationed at Melton>
। Florida, apeutthe week end wilb
; bis parents, Mr. and M rs. Walter
Gilder. He was transferred this
week to Norfolk, Virginia
Harold will be 18 years old on
1 November 2nd.
f Wanted—Cane mill at on’ce, 60
p ga’lon capacity. Apply Eagle
office.
W. E. WRIGHT DIES
I ATHOMENEAR UVALDA
I William Everett Wright, a plan
[ ter of near Uvalda, was stricken
with a heart attack and diet! at his
P home last Friday, He was 77 years
. of age and a native of Montgomery
county, having been born on the
1 Hiliary Wright place about two and
one-half miles from Glenwood in'
what is now Wheeler county.
He was the son of the late Hiliary
Wright and the late Mrs. May Currie '
Wright and had spent most of
his life in this immediate section. He
was a member of the Masonic order
and active in fraternal work.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Julia McQuaig Wright; four daugh
ters, Mrs. A. D. Guin of Alamo, Rt.
8; Mrs. F. M. Driggers of Jackson
ville and Misses Dessie and Ruby
Wright of Uvalda; three sons, Lon
nie of Uvalda Clarence of Akron,
Ohio, and John W. of Jacksonville,
Fla. A brother, George W. Wright,
lives in Alamo and three sisters are
Mrs. H. S. Williamson of Alamo;
Mrs. T. 0. Martin and Mrs. A. R.
Ricks of Glenwood. Surviving him
are also seven ■grandchildren and
three great-grandchildren. It will
be remembered here that he was a
brother to J. Flournoy Wright, a for
mer sheriff of Wheeler county.
Funeral services were held at
Beulah church in Wheeler county
Sunday afternoon, conducted by
Rev. W. B. Taylor of the Uvalda
Methodist church, with burial in the
church cemetery.
Mr. Wright was a good citizen, a
loving husband and father and his
passing will be mourned by a host of
relatives and friends in this his na
tive section.
Remember
Although, my dear, we’re apart
I know that deep within
your heart,
You miss me, just the same as I
Miss you, and sometimes cry.
I understand and know, that one
fine day
I’ll hear your voice, your laughter
gay.
And then together as we planned,
Through life we ll go hand in
hand.
Yes, my sweet, please hold on
fast
To dreams, for parting can’t las^
Forever ants the day surely dawn.
When I return to see the ripen
ing corn
In country fields once more with
you.
Beside me and, skies above a
wondrous blue,
While over head in lofty tree
A bird will sing for you and me,
For, my darling, this love of ours
Is like the buds into the
flowers,
That blossom forth with
fragrance rare
And lift their heads into the
air,
To show that God can plant
a seed
In human hearts and then
to feed
With tender thoughts caresses
sweet
Lovely memories till we meet
Cpl. Thomas L. Dixon,
A. S. N. 34085300
2nd Aux. Surg. Gp.
A. P. O. 534
Care Postmaster
New York, N. Y.
SIO.OO Reward
I will pay $lO 00 reward for
information, who the parties
were that went to my bouse and
set the wood pile ontireThurs
j day, October 21st, while I was
gone from my home.
) C F. McGee, Alamo, Ga., Rt. 1.
) FOR SALE—Several goad
j milch cows. If interested. See
Mrs. U. L. Gilder, Alamo, Ga.
GUY 0. STONE FOR L
1 STATE SENATOR
We call your attention to the
formal announcement of Guy O,
Stone, in thjs issue of the Eaglt
for State Senator of’ tbe Fii
teenth Senatorial district, com
posed of the counties of Wheeler,
Montgomery and Toombs, under
che rotation system it is Wheelei
’county’s time to furnish the
■senator from this district.
Mr. Sh ne needs no intei due-
Jou to the people of this county,
tie having been born and rearea
in this county. He is a son of the
late Mr. aud Mrs. A. P. Stone, of
this county, > who before this
lining statesman was a leadei
for the betterment of this countj
and this section of Georgia.
Mr. Stone is a young mamii
/ears yet, bis life is lying befon
him yet, and with hh ability to
do something as a leader the
reople not only of this county,
>ut of the State will hear moo
about this brillant young man in
upper house of the law making
>ody of this great State.
He is past Commander of ti e
State America.- Legion, having
served in the World War No. 1,
as a Lieuteant under Captain
Fiorella H. La Guarnia, now
mayor of New York, in the days
when die Army Air Corps was
n its infancy, and he was woun<
rd in Italy.
He is tbe first member of lb<
1915 General Assembly to bi
•.hosen, b.cause he has no op
>osition in Ihe primary. Tin
Ragle heartly endorses Mr. Stone
for thlS“ iimportant place In tht
law making body of this Stale.
With growing of the American
Legion of both wars, we predict
bat he will go higher up in th<
future.
«
For State Senator
I hereby announce my candidiacy
for Slate Senatoi of the Fifteenth
Senatorial District of Georgia, sub
ject to the rules and regulations ol
the State Democratic Executive Com
mittee in the State Democratic Pri.
mary to be held in September 1944.
I deeply appreciate all past consider,
ations shown me and solicit the vote
and influence of the voters of Wheeler
County in the coming State Primary.
GUYO. STONE.
t
Bigger State Fair Started
For Ten Day Ran in Macon
Macon, Oct. 18—Streamlined
to the war theme in every way,
the 88th annual exhibition of the
Georgia State Fair started here
on Wednesday, October 27th
Overcoming, all hindrances of
war time operation, this year’s
Victory Fair is expected to have
the largest number of agricul
tural, home science and livestock
exhibits in history.
Under the operation of tbe
Macon Exchange Club, the big
Fair has been substantially en
larged in practically every de
partment.
The annual educational and
entertainment treat will have a
longer run thi-i year than form*
erly. Gates opening on October
27 will not be shut until Saturday
night, November 6th.
*
i TWO COUNTY SINGING
CONVENTION SUNDAY
Laurens-Wheeler singing con
vention will meet at Oak Dale
i church 4 miles north west’ of
e Ceda Grove on sth Sunday. W.
|E. Currie.
Sample Copy 5c Number 22
BANIfII BAPTIST HOLD
SUCCESSFUL MEETING
The Daniell Baptist Association
which was held in Lyons last week
re-elected the following officers:
Gower Latimer, moderator;
Or- J. W. Palmer, vice-moderator;
Kev. J. D. Rabun, clerk; M. N. Rog
ers, treasurer; M. E. Hall, auditor.
Rev. John H. Haldeman, pastor of
the First Baptist Church, Brunswick,
La., preached the missionary sermon
and represented the Co-operative
-•i>iam, Rev. C. C. Maples, pastor
of the Lyons Church, preached the
doctrinal sermon.
Rev. Z. E. Barron, pastor of the
first Baptist Church, Hapeville, Ga.,
-poke on the Georgia Baptist Or
"ans ’ Mome. Four Bessie Tift Col
lege students who had been in the
Georgia Baptist Orphans’ Home be
-101 e entering college were present
md rendered special music. One of
th.se girls, Miss Margaret Little, is
oenig supported at Bessie Tift by the
Men’s Bible Class of the First Bap
tist Church, Vidalia.
Ihe moderator represented The
Christian Index and Mercer Univcr
dty. President R. L. Robinson rep
•esented Brewton-Parker Junior Col
lege.
Encouraging reports were made
luring the two-day session on the
various phases of the work of the
churches of the Daniell Association
and the work of Georgia Baptists
and Southern Baptists.
Among those attending this session
of the Association were the following
who were present at the first session
•vhich was held in Vidalia in 1890; J.
■ Calhoun, Mrs. V. B. Herring and
Thomas Kent.
The following chairmen of com
-nittees to report next year were an
nounced: Missions, Dr. L. H. Darby,
lr.; Religion and Morals, James Wal
er; Every Member Canvas, Rev. C.
C. Maples; God’s Acre Plan, John A.
Bool; Hundred Thousand Club, Dr.
I. W. Palmer; Sunday Schools, Dr.
W. Palmer; Woman’s Missionary
Union, Mrs. J. J. Winburn; Chris
tian Education, Col. Chalmers Chap
man; Baptist Training Union, Hilery
Sightier; Georgia Baptist Orphans’
Home, V. B. Herring; Georgia Bap
tist Hospital, Mrs. L. S. Barrett;
Ministerial Relief and Annuity, Rev.
H. T. Blount; Finance, Lamar Wells;
Nominations, J. M. Phillips, Jr.;
Obituaries, L. B. McCall; Resolu
tions, C. G. Thompson; Requests and
Queries, D. F. Warnock; Committee
on Committees, R. W. Winham;
Evangelism, President R. L. Robin
son; General Workers’ Council, Rev.
Gower Latimer.
The 1944 session of the Associa
tion will be held at the Glenwood
Baptist Church on Wednesday and
Thursday after the third Sunday in
October.
STATE AND HOME AGENTS
MEET IN MACON THIS WEEK
The annual joint meeting of the
Georgia County Agents’ Association
and Home Demonstration Agents’
Association will be held in Macon
Friday and Saturday, Oct. 29 and
30 at the Dempsey hotel, it was an
nounced Saturday by Earl M. Var
ner and Sue Stanford, Swainsboro,
.presidents of the respective organi
zations.
Home demonstration and agricul
ture agents will review the year’s
accomplishments, make plans for next
year, and formulate plans for the
post-war period. New officers and
directors of the association will be
elected and delegates named to at
tend the national convention in Chi
cago, to be held Nov. 29 and 30.
The annual meeting will open Fri
day at noon, Miss Frances Lowe,
Bibb home demonstration agent, said,
and registration will be held until
,2 p. m. in the Dempsey lobby. An
organization meeting is scheduled
frem 2:00 p. m. until 2:30 p. m.,
after which time district committee
meetings will be held.
A. H. Ward, district agent, will
, speak at the banquet to be held at
7 p. m., and a recreational period
will follow from 8:30 p. m. until 10
p. m.
> Opportunities for Home Demon
j stration Workers is the topic on
f which Miss Lurline Collier, state
demonstration agent, will speak
Saturday at 10 a. m., after committea
reports and discussion are given.
