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THE ATL ANTI AN
CENTRAL BANK
AND TRUST CORPORATION
Candler Building
Capital, One Million Dollars. Deposits
Three Million and Five Hundred Thousand
Dollars
A STRONG, WELL EQUIPPED, CON
SERVATIVELY MANAGED BANK
4* on Savings Deposits
.Your Account is Invited.
BRANCH, CORNER MITCHELL AND FORSYTH STREETS
Asa G. Candler, President.
— 'J
W. T. WINN
Ex-Councilman and Public Spir
ited Citizen
IN THE RACE FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER
A BRIDE WHO DID NOT UN
DERSTAND.
“Oh, dear 1 ’’ lamented the bride to
her best friend, “I wish Will wouldn’t
work so hard. He looks so. pale and
worn, and has scarcely any appetite
at all.”
“Why, is that sol” asked, the friend.
“I thought 1 saw you out in the au
tomobile just before dinner every night
for the last week.’’
“Oh, yes, you did,’’ said the young
wife gayly. “You see, I just make him
take me out every clear evening before
we eat, because it is so sweet to have
him alone that long. I have him to
myself so seldom.”
The friend said nothing, but she
thought that perhaps a few minutes of
rest in a quiet room, with the loving
little woman soothing the tired head to
induce a tiny nap before dinner, might
be better for the pale and tired Will
than running the automobile that had
been carrying him about on business
all day.
KNOW.
Johnny had been told to sit down and
study his lesson quietly. In a few min
utes his mother heard a fretful voice
exclaim:
“Mother, didn’t you tell me the other
day that God knows everything!”
“Why, of course, my son,” she an
swered.
‘ ‘ Well, ’ ’ he responded dubiously, “ I’ve
been waiting for ten minutes for him to
tell me how much ten times five is, and
I don’t believe he knows.”
HIS PROOF.
A large boarding house caught fire dur
ing dinner and much confusion resulted.
After the worst was over the land
lady, who was a philosophical soul, re
marked that it was a blessing that the
fire had not happened at night, as some
life might have been lost.
A little later the colored boy,. who
heard this, mysteriously called her aside
and cautiously exhibited a great bunch
of dark, tangled hair. * 1 * Don’t say noth
in’, Miss Nora,” he whispered. “Dis
fiah is worse than it ’pears. One o’ dem
ladies in der room ovah de liberry done
got burnt up. I ben up dar to sec, an’
I found her hair. ’ ’
HOW IT WAS TO BE DONE.
A colored blacksmith recently an
nounced a change in his business as fol
lows: “Notice—De co-pardnership here
tofore resisting between me and Mose
Skinner is hereby resolved. Dem what
owe de firm will settle wid me, and dem
what the firm owes will settle wid Mose. ’ ’
BET IT WAS A GOOD ONE.
(From Fun.)
A South Missouri man recently was
tried on a charge of assault. The State
brought into court as the weapons used
a rail, an ax, a pair of tongs, a saw
and a rifle. The defendant’s counsel
exhibited as the other man’s weapons a
scythe blade, a pitchfork, a pistol and
a hoe. The jury’s verdict is said to have
been: “Resolved, That we, the jury,
would have given $1 to have seen the
fight”
W. T. Winn, the well known insurance
man and member of the firm of Smith,
Thornton, Winn and Company, has em
tered the race for one of the two places
on the board of County Commissioners.
As a member of the City Council for
three years from the Fifth Ward, Mr.
Winn,displayed unusual'interest in.street
work, having been an active member of
the Council Street Committee for his
entire three years, and even since leaving
Council in January, 1911 he has devoted
considerable time, to the, project of wid
ening, relocating and repaving of Ma
rietta street, which work he started while
representing the Fifth Ward in the gen
eral Council.
This improvement of Marietta street,
which will probably be completed by the
end of this year, will represent a total
cost of about $400,000 in money expend
ed and land donated, and the cost has
been borne by the property owners, the
city, the county and by. the street rail
way company.
It has taken two and one-half years
to work out the plan and those interested
headed by Mr. Winn have expended, a
great deal of time and energy in bring
ing the work to the present stage, realiz
ing the great benefits that will accrue to
the big west side of the city and county
in having a spacious, well paved thor
oughfare capable of accommodating the
immense traffic that lias to come and go
in this thickly populated section.
• Mr. Winn was also actively interested
in the development of Luckie street,
Chestnut and West Simpson streets,
whero the grades woro changed making
it possible for much more substantial im :
provements, and enhancement in values,
and advocated the repaving of several
other business streets, personally getting
up the petition to repave with wooden
blocks Marietta street from Peachtree to
Foundry street.
His announcement for County Commis
sioner follows in full:
To the Citizens of Atlanta and Fulton
County:
I have been approached during the last
two months by a considerable number of
my friends from various sections of the
county in reference to standing for one
of the two positions on the county board
to be filled at the coming primary on
May 1st.
I confess that after thinking the mat
ter over and realizing the great amount
of street and road work that is being
done and that will be done in the next
ten years, and having been interested to
a small degree'iu some of the general
development of the city for four years,
the position of County Commissioner ap
peals to me, and without any intention
to antagonize or disparage any member
of the present board, I have decided to
“cast my hat into the ring” and ask
that you support me for .one of these
places, should: you deepi m.O worthy and
at.. ■ & c?-•••.
I wish to say in all sincerity that I
have no personal or selfish motive in
seeking this place, nor shall I align my
self or tie up with any individual or
interest, but will hold myself free ito act
as my best judgment and conscience
would dictate in all matters that may
come up.
I am frank to say that the great
west side of this city and county, in
which I resided for 29 years, strongly
appeals to me and I would do my ut
most to be of some benefit , to that sec
tion as a county commissioner, and yet,
I wish to emphasize at the same time
that I would endeavor to be' fair and
•square with every other section of the
County, South side and North side.
As a citizen I have tried to be pro
gressive, public spirited, and of some
benefit to my community; in other words
I have tried to exemplify the “Atlanta
Spirit, ’ ’ and if my fellows have trusted
me m office I have endeavored not to
betray that trust.
I have been intensely interested for
years in good roads and good streets,
and I am firmly convinced that nothing
adds to the general development, the en
hancement in values, the public conven
ience, the saving on wear and tear, and
saving in time, and the comfort and
happiness of a community, than well
paved roads and streets leading into ev
ery section, allowing each section to keep
pace with every other section; and I
pledge myself to help in bringing this
about.
I have observed and studied to some
extent various methods of building roads
and paring of streets in a number 'of cit
ies from Hartford, Conn., to San Fran
cisco, and I feel that my experience
along this line would entitle me to qual
ify as a commissioner. and fit me to be
of some service to the community that
I .love more than any place I have ever
been privileged to see.
Assuring you of my sincerity of pur
pose and my appreciation of support,
I am, Respectfully,
W. T. Winn.