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THE .STRAND THKAITR PROGRAM THURSDAY & FRIDAY, Sept. 15 and 16.—Louise Lovely in “Partners of Fate.” SATURDAY, Sept. 17.—Buck Jones in Western Feature. White Horseman and Two Reel Comedy. VOL. XXVIII. THE BELL OVERALL CO. TO RESUME OPERATION BARROW COUNTY SINGING CONVENTION OCCASION FOR GALA AND GLADSOME DAY AT UNION CHURCH LAST SUNDAY Another gala and gladsome day has passed and gone. The occasion was the v assembling of the lovers of music in the Barrow County Singing convent tion which came off last Sunday at Union church about three miles north east of Winder In the early morn we went down there to visit the old tramping ground and to mix and mingle with those left on the farms; yes, and those who have moved or grown up. The day was a goodly one except for the excessive heat By the time the singing began there was a large assembly and by the dinner hour there was an extremely large crowd There were between 150 and 200 automobiles, some 75 or 100 bug gies and wagons on the grounds. There were near a thousand people present In strolling through the crowd I found men and women from quite a distance, Will J. Wallace, from Sparta. Hancock county; Mr. Waters and family from near Atlanta; J. A. Crook and wife from Pendergrass; J. L. Moore from Bethlehem and many oth ers that I wish I had space to name. They came from Jackson, Walton, Gwinnett, Hall, Clarke, Oconee and Hancock counties. heard old visitors to the convention say heard old vistors to the convenitou say they never heard better. The noon hour was one feast in more ways than one A feast of cakes, pies, meats and stews and a social feast that helps so much to bring a communi ty into one brotherhood of power and influence. Then a feast that begets a better state of religious sentiments. Thus more good is sometimes accom plished than you may have dreamed of. Now, would you ask the question, “Why all this, with such hailstorm that destroyed the crops and the boll wee vils reaping half of what was finally made?” The only reason I can give is that those God-fearing people trust God and are bold enough to succeed. They are proud of their church and school, and have just enough to run a nine months school at Liberty and are only waiting for a teacher. This community, like its sister, Tyro, is filled with as good citizens as you will find in Barrow county. They are always in the front with those that strive for better things. In 1892, the writer was walking from County Line school to his home one Saturday morning and on mounting the in front of where Union church now stands he heard an axe and some voices off a little way in the original forests. He strolled over there and fund Rev. Frank Jackson, and several neighbors, John L. Page, Morgan, It. M. Patrick, Graham, James Peppers, Ben Pressley and James Magness cut ting and clearing off and building an ar bor under which they could worship God. This was the beginning of the what you can see at present. In 1898-4-5, the writer taught school there. There once stood oil the road near James Foster’s u log cabin; in this house he taught two years; they built a school house il<X) feet south of the preseht church, and in this building was organized Union Baptist church. Greater ambition and prosperity came, and to show their gratitude they built tie present church and school building. I must not forget to state that in this school there were some twenty-odd ages ranging from t> to 15 who barely knew their a, b, cs. Now, what? Had you stood on the ground Sunday and gazed in all direc tions, you would have seen automobiles, buggies, claered fields of fline growing crops, a highway, pretty homes owned ty a people worthy of the Christian position they occupy. Where just 30 years ago were poor highways, rotted and tumbling down homes surrounded by forests and old field pines, and where the timid hare jumped and the squirrel frisked and the owl hooted, the hawk screamed and the birds sang, now you find splendid homes and well tilled farms. The laud was worth from six to eight dollars per acre then, now buy it, if you can. There is a pretty story or two of this place I may some time tell you; the hanging of two negroes near where the ggggggg Winder Has Good Cotton Market Winder is sustaining her rep utation as the best cotton market in this section of the state. The buyers were giving 22Vi cents for the staple Wednesday and they are giving 22% cents today. You can always rest assured market for your cotton when you that you can get the top of the bring it to Winder. The fleecy staple is coming in to the gins rapidly now and some of it is being sold. Some are holding ex pecting a higher market. NORTH GA. FAIR TO BEGIN OCTOBER 4TH One of the most important events that will occur in Winder this fall is the North Georgia Fair that will open its doors on October 4th and will con tinue through October Bth. Fairs are great boosters for every community and Barrow should not neglect this great opportunity for helping our section. Preparations have been made to give the people one of the best fairs we have ever held in this city aml*the interest oq the part of the public will be as great as ever. Barrow county should remember that he has the reputation of being one of the best counties in this section of the gate, and she should hold to this rep utation by making her fair one of the :est to be held In the state. LET’S KEEP OUR STREETS CLEAN We have heard some criticism of the streets of our city by visitors passing through. A visitor was in the city just he other day from Florida and he said mf he was impressed with our city, but that we did not keep our streets and alleys clean. We want to keep ,ur city looking spick and span all he time. It makes a fine impression n visitors and also conserves the health of our people. t has also been reported that the cemetery needs attention. We hope >ur city authorities will give attention (> these matters so that adverse criti m may be kept down. FIRE BURNS BARN AT CARL TUESDAY The barn belonging to Mr. J. E. Smith, at Carl, was burned Tuesday night about 11 o’clock. It was a total loss and but for the timely help of the neighbors his dwelling ami other near by houses would have been destroyed. His lass was three bales cotton, lot of fodder and old corn, two hogs, and his cow was badly burned. In the barn was stored a lot of canned fruit, meat and other pantry supplies and some clothing which was destroyed. Mr. Smith has no idea how the fire origi nated. We did not learn whether he had any insurance on the building or not. His friends sympathize with him in his loss. BANK STATEMENTS In this issue of the News appears statements from the three banks of this city and one from the hank at Sfatham. These statements show that Winder’s and Barrow county’s financial institu tions are in"good shape and that they are rendering splendid service to the people of this section. Look over these statements as they carry impor tant information to all our people. Rockwell road intersects the highway; Indian graveyard on the Patman lands •north of Union church; a ghost in the fence corner that freightened the writ er ; a noise of a dog walking by the side of a man. the animal being invisible. All this near Union. C M. THOMPSON AND THE BARROW TIMES Winder, Barrow County, Georgia, Thursday, Seotember 15. 1921. Meeting of the Directors Friday to Complete Organization. We are glad to state that the Bell Overall Company, one of Winder's splendid enterprises, has emerged from its troubles of the last ten months and will be ready in a few days to resume operations. The settlement that has been up be tween the company and the creditors tas been accepted and the court has passed upon the same. The directors will meet Friday and complete arrangements for an early re sumption of operation. Judge G. A. Johns and Judge C. H. Brand have rep resented the company throughout the time it has been in the courts. The directors that have been named in the reorganization are J. M. Wil liams. president; W. L. DeLaPerriere, vice president; J. H. Hoscli, vice pres ident ; It. L. Eavenson, vice president; C. O. Niblack, secretary; A. A. Camp. J. T. Strange. L. F. Sell, W. C. Horton, Claud Mayne, W. T. Robinson. Everybody in Winder will rejoice to know that this company has gotten through its troubles and is ready to take its place as one of Winder’s hus tling enterprises. The manufacturing enterprises of Winder have played an important part in the growth of the city and the Bell Overall Company has been one of these important manufact uring plants. That it will soon again begin to add its volume of business to the other businesses of the city is good >ews. The News wishs it the best of success. MRB.P CLEVELAND KILLED BY A TRAIN Was Honest, Upright Citizen and Had Many Friends iu Winder Who Deplore Tragedy. Mr. B. P. Cleveland, an aged citizen of this place, was killed by a Seaboard freight train near the Barrow county cotton mill last Monday morning. He attempted to crawl under a standing freight train which had blocked the crossing while on his way to the mill to begin work. The train moved off while he was under the train and lie was caught under the wheels and both legs were crushed just below tlie knees, he died in a short time. Preparations were under way to rush him to an Ath ens hospital when he died. Mr. Cleveland was about 70 years of and had been living in Winder for several years. He had many friends here who deplore the tragedy that cost him his life. He was a faithful em ployee in the Barrow County Cotton Mills and highly regarded by his asso ciates. He leaves two sons who live in South Carolina, one brother near Cedar town, one brother and one sister in Tex as and one brother in Lavonia. The lat r. Mr. R. F. Cleveland, was the only one that could be reached and was the only one present at his funeral. He was buried in the cemetery at this place, Rev. J. B. Brookshire conducting the funeral exercises. DR. A. R. MOORE TO HEAD SOUTHEASTERN COLLEGE. Dr. A: R. Moore, (or several years su perintendent of missions for the Chris tian church in four southern states, will move to Auburn this week to take up his new duties as president of the Southeastern Christian college. He was elected to that position at a recent meeting of the trustees. Dr Moore is well known in the south. Prior to his connection with the mission department, he was minister in Sa vannah for eight years. Before as suming the Savannah charge he was pastor of a Birmngham church. We are glad to welcome Dr. Moore as e citizen of Barow county and trust that his administration of the affairs of this splendid educational < Institution may be eminently successful. Prof, and Mrs. Floyd Field and lit tle son, of Atlanta, were the guests last Wednesday night of Mr. and Mrs. N. G. Parker. Prof. Field has for the past several years held the chair of mathe matics at the Georgia Tcb. SEVERAL ARRESTS MADE IN THE M. J. DOSTER MURDER Jim Kesler, W. T. Allen, Scott Allen and Sam Manders Locked Up. Since the murder of M. J. Doster, h Barrow county farmer, at his home near the bridge on the Jefferson road, an account of which appeared in our last week’s Issue, several arrests have been made. On Monday and Tuesday of this week W. T. Allen, Scott Allen, his son; J. W. Kesler and Sam Manders were arrest ed and placed in jail. W. T. Allen was [daced in the Jefferson jail. Sam Man ders in the Athens jail, and Scott Allen and J. W. Kesler in the jail at Winder, ’hey will doubtless be given a prelrn inary hearing in the next few days. The coroner's jury sat on the case for several days before adjourning. The entire county Is interested iii the outcome of the case. If n preliminary hearing is held, no doubt mahy things connected with the ease will be brought out. As yet, nobody Is doing any talk ing and none of the facts can be se cured for publication. Mr. Kesler will be given a hearing Saturday. BOND ELECTION ON OCTOBER THE BTH. The citizens of Barrow county should not forget that Saturday, Oc tober Bth, is the date set for the elec tion for bonds for Barrow county. The News wants to keep this question eon nutly before our people so that they will express themselves on the ques ion. Those who realize the importance of voting bonds should interest themselves iu the question and form an organiza tion in each district for the purpose of getting the voters out to the polls. From the last election it seems that very few are opposed to bonds hut here is a great amount of carelessness in the county about the question. BILL SUNDAY CLUB TO VISIT WINDER A notable event in the religious life of the city is the forthcoming visit of the Billy Sunday club of Atlanta. This organization is composed of laymen mostly business men, some of them converts of the famous evangel ist and others who were stirred to action by his fervent appeals. The club is said to contain some live wires who have made a great impression on the religious life of the cities where they have held services. Great crowds have gathered wherever they have gone and men and women have been held spell bound as they gave their personal tes imony to the miracle of redeeming graep. It is exiiected that Winder will e this company from neighboring city a royal welcome, and that every one who is'interested in the work of . church will help to advertise their coming throughout the county. Members ,of the party will speak at the morning hour at the Baptist, the Christian and Methodist churches, also at Second Baptist church at 11 :30 o’clock. In the afternoon n great mass meeting for men will be held at the Christian church and one for women at the Baptist church. The night ser vice will he in the form of a union meet ing of all the congregations of the city ,nd will be held at the First Baptist church. The club consists of members of all lenominations, and this will be n grea, co-operative get-together day for the churches of our city. There will be several ladies in the party, who will speak at the Woman’s Rally at four o’clock in the afternoon. Rev. J. 8. Settle has returned from South Georgia, where he has been en had good meetings for several weeks, gaged in meetings for several weeks. He had good meetings at all of his churches in that section of the state. Mrs. Wallace Wilson, of Villa Rica, was the guest of Mrs. G. W. DeLaPer ricre first of the week. “DON’T GAMBLE IN COTTON FUTURES, FOR YOU CANNOT BEAT THE BOARD,” SAYS JOHN M. WILLIAMS, IN ARTICLE Mr. Williams Says Statistics Show That 85 Per Cent of All Spec ulations Are Losses. My attention has been called to the assumed supposition by quite a lot of my friends and others that I huve made u lot of money in the last few weeks in cotton futures. I do not know how this information got to the public mind, but it is rather embarrassing to me to be pointed out as a fellow, who “beat the board,” for it can’t be done. I am not confirming or denying the fact that I have made money but if I have made it, I made it in spot cotton, but I always use the board to protect my interests, as well is the mill of which I am president, and have never made one dollar in my life in futures. Quite a number of people have come ro me the past weeks and asked me to send orders for them and I have in many instances refused to do so, especi ally when the persons did not have noney enough to back them in their contracts, or needed it to pay their debts. I want to say in the first instance, hat I have never in my life advised any one to gamble in cotton futures and specially young men, as it is one of the most demoralizing things any one •an do. I want to say right here that ny rule is that 1 will not permit any of my employees to speculate iu cotton. If 1 find it out and they know it also, that they will at once be dis barged from my service. 1 have seen people who were speculating in cotton and would act like crazy men and were not fit to attend to business and were no pleasure in their homes or to their families. X have been in business twenty-seven , ars and bought my first cotton twen y-seven years ago and 1 believe flint there is a living in it for any one who will go at it in a merchandising way hut you cannot gamble on the board find get away with it; so my advise to every one is not to gamble in cotton and the best citizens of the country are against it. You occasionally and often pick up a newspaper and find where some bank official has committed suicide. Trace the cause and you will find many of them are due to gambling in cotton futures and many of them today are in the gang from embezzlement and in almost ev ery case homes are broken up and women and ehldren are made to suf fer the balance of their lives on ac count of this speculation by using oth er people's money. I wish to add further that any man, who will speculate some time or other, will do rash things that he would not do when he had no interest in specu lating propositions, and when we think of the suicides that have been caused ven in Georgia, this should tie warn ing to all to refrain from it and my ad vice again to all is “don’t speculate in cotton futures.” I am quite sure that a great many II question me on the point that here can’t be money made in cotton fut ures, imt I want to say right here that every time you sell or buy a bale on the board, there is another fellow, on the other end of the line, that thinks he is just as smart as you are and takes the other end. The only difference in gamtiling in cotton futures arid poker is hat you see the fellow across the ta ble and you know he got your money, but in cotton futures you do not know it, and you stand about as good a chance in a game of poker, us you do in gambling in the cotton futures. Sta tistics show that 85 per cent of specula tors lose, so you have a slim chance to win. I want to say again that 1 have never advised any one to speculate but ad vised them against it, although my bus iness is a cotton business and 1 have to buy and sell cotton futures to pro tect my sales and purchases and it is not every time that the sales arid pur chases even then protect my interests. That is what the cotton future market is really for, for the cotton trade to hedge themselves against purchases and sales of spot cotton. I want to <ay further that one of the greatest objections to the cotton business is the temptation to speculate. But a young man who thoroughly (“quips himself can make some money in the cotton busi ness if he will let the gambling alone. I trust this letter will be of interest to some, if they do not take my advice, as the wave of speculating just now in THE STRAND THEATER PROGRAM MONDAY AND TUESDAY, Sept. 19 and 20. ISOBEL, by CURWOOD. WEDXESDY, Sept. 21.—BENEFIT PICTURE. ATHENS AND BTH DISTRICT EDITORS By W. H. FAUST. Saturday was red letter day with the editorial fraternity of the Eighth and Ninth districts in Georgia. Athens is 'always an ideal hostess to any sort of I organization, and it seems that she out : did herself on the occasion of the quar i terly meeting of the pen pushers of the two finest district press conventions, in the state. The addresses of welcome and the speeches made by the editors, them selves, were gems and will be comment ed on at length by other writers. Two of the outstanding feutures of the day were the dinner at the State Norrnul school and the visit to Costa’s. The people of Athens and vicinity do not realize what a magnificent institution they have in the State Normal School. Prof. Pound is the efficient bead of one of the most potentially influential schools in this or any other state. And such a student body! Hundreds of our brightest girls, and a few boys among the number, equipping themselves for usefulness in the state, j Certainly the fare is tine and no one can complain of the table’end of the Normal. Preach ers and editors know what is good to eat, from Editor Shannon, of Com merce, with liis famous yellow-legged chickens at home, to Fuust and his fa mous ones abroad. Each editor pres ent was delighted with dinner and hosts. One could but feel as he looked upon this fine array of future citizens and mothers that the great old Empire State is not retrograding at all in the educational world. Editor McWhort er, of the Ninth, and Editor Camp, of the Eighth, made happy and appropri ate after dinner speeches conveying to lie school the profound thanks of the body for their generous hospitality After tliis bountiful luncheon, the 1 editors were carried to Costa’s fa mous ice cream plant, the most thor ■ onghly modern and up-to-date in the South where tons of the summer deli cacy is sliipp and out monthly It is worth anyone’s time to look through this splendid plant. In the refrigera tor we were cooled off for the first time this summer, doors closed and temper ature at zero The Costas Hie a live hunch of business men. And cream! You should have seen Caldwell, of Mon roe, and Bacon, of Madison. No hearty growing school boys ever did more jus tice to an occasion than did these writ ers to the ice cream. And then Mr. Costa handed out cigars and candles to the gentlemen and ladies. Keep your eyes on the Costas. When it comes to'business and cordial hospi talty they have no equals in the entire -ret ion. We fellows of the Ninth thoroughly enjoyed the day. Our hosts were su p Datively kind and gracious to us and we are just tugging at ihe tether o return the courtesies of the charm ingly delightful day. Athens, with her fine dailies and her great educational institutions and de this splendid plant In the refrgera atong every line and it is always good to visit the Classic City. GEORGIA’S TAX VALUES OFF. Tax values in Georgia for 1021 fell <iff $78,811,181 as compared with the returns for 1020. The taxable values In 1020 amounted to $1,181,471,008, and values in 1021 amounted to $1,102,159,- 877. The depreciation is represented chiefly in livestock, money, notes, ac counts and other personal property. The loss is confined mostly to the rur al counties of the state, in which the depreciation has more than offset the gains shown by the counties in which there are located large cities. -mall lots, of from 10 to 50 bales on the board all through the cotton belt from Mexico to Carolina in appalling. Even clerks, merchants and many oth ers are tendering their deeds for loans o buy cotton futures and this will spell ruin to those engaging in it. so if yon ire engaging in this nefnrious business s op it at once and if you are contem plating going into it, forget it and try >d lead a happy life. Itespt. yofirs, J. M. WILLIAMS. No. 22