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STRAND THEATER PROGRAM THURSDAY & FRIDAY. DEC. 22. 23. BEBE DANIELS IN “Ducks & Drakes’ SATURDAY, DEC 24.—“ SKIRTS” & 75 SINGING MIDGETS AND SUN SHINE WIDOWS. OH! BOY! VOL. XXVIII. •MARSHAL FOCH TOUCHED BY THE RECEPTION ACCORDED IN WINDER Major Geo. N. Bagwell Has Received A Splendid Letter of Appreciation From the French General WHEN MARSHAL FOCH was ou bis way back to Washington City from recent visit to Atlanta, his train stopp ed in Winder about ten minutes, and many of our citizens and all the school children were at the depot to meft him. He came out on the platform of the train and through an Interpreter made a short speech to the large crowd that had gathered there hoping to catch a glimpse of the distinguished soldier. Winder must have made a splendid impression upon him for Mayor Hag well has received a sjflendid letter ora Marshal Foch in which he ex presses his life long gratitude to the people of this city for the consideration shown him. His reception in Winder was alto gether Impromptu. No preparations had been made, as it was not known r ihat he would show himself to the peo pie here. Winder had not been put down as a stopping place on his jour ney. The train stops here for a few minutes and the great throng that had gathered at the depot hoping to catch a glimpse of the General were delight ed when he came out on Ihe platform and made a short speech. We under stand that Athens made elaborate prep arations for the stop of Marshal Foch in that city, but he did not show him self. Those who had gathered at the station in Athens were greatly disap pointed. The following is the letter received by Mayor Bagwell from the French General: Le 13 Decembre 1921. Monsieur le Maire: L’empressment de la population et en particnlier des enfants des ecoles de Winder a veuir me saluer lors du pas sage demon train dans votre ville le 9 Decembre dernier m'a prefondemeut. touche. Je tiens a vous en exprimer tous mes remerciments en vous demandant and etre aupres de la genereuse population de votre Cite l'interprete de ina tres vive gratitude. F. FOCH. Irentillez agreer, Monsieur le Maire, I'assurance de n>a consideration le plus Vlistinguse. (Translated by Miss liun tte Benton of Winder High School.) Dec. 13, 1921. Mr. Mayor: The impression of the people and par ticularly the school children of Winder who came to greet me on the passage of my train through your city Dec. 9. last, touched me profoundly. I wish to express to all my thanks. I ask you to lie near to the kind people of your city and to interpret to them my very life long gratitude. F. FOCH. Wishing to extend to you. Mr. Mayor, the assurance of my most distinguished consideration. Gainesville Midland Ry. To Be Scrapped Larry Gantt, in the Athens Banner, < n iikes the following statement regard ing the Gainesville Midland railroad : “Torn J. Shackelford tells me that a petition has been filed with the author ities for permission to scrap this road, or at least that portion of it running from Belmont to Athens passing thru Jefferson.” If Mr. Gantt’s information is correct, this will mean that Jefferson must get busy or she will be without any rail road facilities. Jefferson is a good town and the tearing up of this road would mean injury to that thriving city, as well as to other towns along the line. The owners of the road claim that it is losing money, and that it does not pay operating expenses. This state of affairs is brought about by heavy tax es, motor trucks hauling freight at a cheaper rate, and high prices that they are forced to pay labor. Athens will be affected by whatever disposition is made of the road and we can expect that Athens, Jefferson and other towns along the line to enter a vigorous protest against the scrapping of the property. Messrs. L. Love and Hawthorne Ware have rented I. E. Jackson's beau tiful residence on (’enter Street and will take, possession at an early date. Sic VDinfcr Mem AND THE BARROW TIMES OPENING SERVICES OF THE NEW CHURCH WAS A GREAT DAY FOR THE METHODISTS Methodist Congregation Back Home After An Absence of 20 Months, While Church Was Being Rebuilt and Enlarged. Great Christmas Pageant, “At The Door of The lim,” Was Put on Sunday Night. SUNDAY was a great day for Winder Methodism, the occasion lieiug the opening services in the enlarged church building, after a vacation of 20 months. Immense crowds attended the services, taxing both sections of the new spa cious auditorium to capacity. At the Sunday school hour there was the rec ord attendance of 529 present. The pastor, Rev. L. W. Collins, preached the opening sermon on tie.- text. "I will build my church,” striking the keynote for the work of the congregation in the future, placing the emphasis on broth erhood and service, a holy brotherhood built on Christ, the foundation stone. The church was created, he declared to carry on the work of Christ and to live in the spirit of Christ. It’s au thority was its power to help and save, and only when these qualities were hi evidence was it part of the true church of Christ. This church had had a tri umphant past, a glorious present, and a roseate future. The declaration of Christ was that “the gates of Hell should not prevail against it.” As the depository of spiritual power, divinely ordained it was still the one hope of humanity. At the night service, seventy-five members of the choir and Sunday school presented the beautiful Christ mas pageant. “At the Door of the Inn, an audience that filled every available inch of room, sat, or stood spell-bound as the various Christmas scenes we.ro unfold and. The picture pf Joseph and Mary turned away from the door of the inn, while the wealthy aud proud 1 jjuosts were admitted, the Shepherds in the fields aroused by the tangel cho rus, the manger scene with the Virgin's lullaby, the King Herod scene and the presentation of gifts by tin* wise men will net soon lx* forgotten As the beau tiful story was read the various char acters pantomimed their parts, and the effect upon the audience was magical. ,’The choir accompanied the pageant with incidental Christmas carols, and with the participants crowded the two front platforms as in a blaze of color, they all broke into the last great cho rus, “Jioy to the world the Lord is •Come.” I The processional was also very ef fective, when all of those taking part marched into the church singing the hymn that run all through the pageant, “() Little Town of Bethlehem.” Such a service helps t>oth young and old to juake Christ the center of Christmas. A spirit of great enthusiasm perme ated the congregations throughout the day. The Sunday school overflowed into all the new rdmus filling all the extra space provided for them. Se\- eral classes reported one hundred per cent present and a large number of new members were enrolled. The teach ers and officers ot the school for the coming year were also installed for mally at the Sunday school hour. I)r. Walter Anthony, of Athens preached the League Anniversary ser vice on Monday night, to a delighted congregation, as he pictured the church as a spiritual mother. The pastor an nounced that Kev. J. 11. Mashburn, a former well-beloved pastor, would preach on January 1. taking part in the opening exercises and that Bishop War ren A. Candler would occupy the pul pit on January Bth. Altogether it was a happy home-coming of a loyal, en thusiastic and united congregation, and because they have been far from idle during their absence from home, be cause of the large increase in member ship, and the doubling of the Sunday school it can wfdl be said in the words of the Psalmist, “They that sow in tears shall reap in joy”—“they shall come again with rejoicing bringing their sheaves with them.” Miss Lila Moore is home from Agnes Scott to spend the holidays. Winder, Barrow County, Georgia, Thursday, December 22, 1921. COTTON GINNINGS TO DEC. HT. 1921 THE total amount of cotton ginned in Georgia up to December Ist, 1921, is 803.898 lmles us compared with 1,255,- S7l bales up to the same time in 1920. The following is the report of counties in this section of the state: ■County— 1921 1920 Barrow 11,313 15,193 Clarke 8,137 13,711 Greene 1.409 12,603 Gwinnett 13,615 17.427 Hall . 13,510 11,076 Hancock 1,468 11,009 Jackson . 22,877. 28,634 Jasper 1,944 13,753 Jones 176 2,944 Madisota 17.714 25.066 Monroe ; 1,147 9,423 Morgan 7,106 2<|845 Oconee 7,596 15,371 Putnam 214 5,833 Walton 20.138 29.698 FINE CHRISTMAS STRAND-PROGRAM The program Manager Love has ar ranged at the Strand Theater during the holidays Is extra interesting. Today he lias Belie Da-niels in a very good picture suited to her peculiar type of beauty and loveliness. Saturday the attreation is “Skirts” with seventy-five singing Midgets, aud tin* Sunshine Widows, about three score or more in number. Monday and Tuesday William Far num will he seen in “If I Were King.” Tliis is a very fine picture. On Wednesday, Dec. 28, Mary Miles Mintin' will lie seen in “Don’t (’all Me Little Girl.” Bazar Given by; Ladies Aid Christian Church Successful Undertaking Given by the Ladies Aid Society of the Christian church proved to be a most successful undertaking. Each member of tin* society contributed liber ally in fancy work and articles dear to feminine beart, which met with ready sale. Carithers Bank building was be seiged with ladies from the hour the Bazaar was opened on Friday morn ing. until 'sold out on Saturday. The Ladies Aid Society is grateful to all of their friends for the patron age accorded them, also to Mr. Par ham of Athens, for his donation of Cbickainauga Blend Coffee, which found such ready sale. The Society ex tends to Mr. It. L. Carithers and Mr. H. A. Carithers a unanimous vote of thanks for their kindness and courtesy in permitting them to use their build ing. Plans are already being made for tin* Bazar at this season next year. L. A. S„ Sey. Barrow Pensioners Being Paid This Week Ordinary Parker has received money for the Barrow County pensioners and they are now being paid off The amount of the cheek received amount ed to $7,800 Atlwho are interested can get their money by coming to the ordi nary’s office. CARD OF THANKS We wish to extend our sincere thanks to our neighbors, friends and physicians who were so kind to us during the sickness and deatli of our little babe. May God bless them all. Mr and Mrs. P. A. Bell, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Bell. 9 “UTTERLY FALSE,” SAYS CRAWFORD OF WALLIS CHARGES Ralph (’rawftrd, Policeman of This City Says Man He Shot Was Advancing on Him With Hickory' Stick. RALPH Crawford, member of the po lice department of this city, gives ills version of the charges, brought against him by Marion J. Wallis, of Athens, to to a News man recently. Wallis charges that Crawford shot and killed a soldier named Holley at Camp Wheeler while a M. I*, without just and proiier cause and is now in Washington to go before the Senate in vestigating committee. "I did not shoot Holley ill the back,” says Craw ford. The man was shot in he side when he advanced on me with a hickory stick. I ordered him to stop taree times mid when he failed to heed I shot him in the side “The trouble started,” continued Mr. Crawford, ‘when Holley knocked- an other guard down and was about take his pistol from him. I jerked him off the guard and ne turned on me. If l had not shot I believe he would have killed me and the other guard too.” Mr. Crawford said the man was a desperate character, had given the au thorities much trouble in his home town and was constantly in trouble in the camps. Mr. ‘Crawford continued. “An in vestigation of my case was made and I had a fair trial before a general courts martial. Holley’s father wus not present at the trial. I was not given a thirty-ndy furlough hut a ten day furlough and was promoted to a sergeancy upon my return not because of my act but because I had been doing the duty of a sergeant us supervisor of the men at the stockade.” “In regard to the charge that only men serving 25 and 30 year sentences in the division prison were allowed to tes tify in the trial I would like to say that also is untrue. The only man of 20 year sentence who testified in the cast*, testified 1 against me.” Mr. Crawford further stated that Col. Bill Phillip (, of Gainesville, hud re quested him for the court martial rec ords n copy of which he held and both, he and Mr. Phillips were ready to pro ceed to Washington to testify in answer to Wallis’ charges—those of a disgrunt led soldier and who tried to frame him twice. Mr. Crawford is a member of the Winder police department and has ren dered satisfactory service as far as we know. We are informed that Marion J. Wallis is being sent to school at the University of Georgia and his wifi* is being cared for at the expense of the government. In response to a telegram from the investigating committee in Washington for him to appear before that body at a per diem of $3.00 per day Wallis wired back that he could not come for $3.00 per day as the U. H. Veterans Bureau pays $4.50. HON. CLARENCE OUSLEY SPEAKS Hon. Clarence Ousley, of Texas, made a splendid address to the farmers and business men of Barrow county at the Strand Theater last Friday morning at 10:30 o’clock. He showed what the Cotton Growers Co-operative Associa tion was doing for the farmers of Tex as. and Okalhoma, and urged tin* farm ers of Georgia to fall in line and reap the beifefits that are sure to come to the farmers that join the association. The pull for membership in the asso ciation is going strong in Barrow coun ty and it is pretty sure that this coun ty will sign up its required quota. Hon. Claud Mayne introduced Mr. Johnson, of Jefferson, who in turn in troduced Mr. Ousley to the audience. A fine audience greeted the* speaker and he was often applauded during his remarks. THE NEW STORE The New Store is offering some fine bargains for today and Friday and Saturday of tills week. If you are looking for bargains go in and see what they can give you, for your mon ey. Bead the specials that they are putting on for Friday and Saturday in this issue of The News. GRANDJURY FINDS A “NO BILL” IN KILLING OF KENEDY AT CARL LIFE OF PAUL GIVEN IN PICTURES AT IST BAPTIST SUN. NIGHT Prof: J. P. Cash Gave Interesting lect ure in Connection With Picture. THE members anil visitors at First Baptist church were given a treat Sunday night at the 7:30 service in the nature of a picture ilepictiug the events in the life of the Apostle Paul, and in connection u lecture by Prof. Cash on tiie same subject simultaneously us the slides were shown. For the past several months Sunday school goers have been studying the life of Paul and this lecture and edu cational pictures came at an oppor tune time. Paul, the Apostle, is one of the strong Biblical characters and one can find much food for thought in the study of his life. RESOLUTIONS OF APPRECIATION (Unanimously aodpted hy the board of Stewards of the M. E. Church of Win der, (la, December 14th, 1921.) WHEREAS, by the grace of Almighty (Jod, the membership of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, of Winder, (la., has been permitted to assemble for worship in anew temple, erected by labors of love in times that try men’s ouls, and, Whereas, each and every member of our Sunday school and congregation is under everlasting gratitude for the kindness and courtesy extended to us by the Mayor and Council of the City >f Winder, the Board of Education, and our Presbyterian brethren, therefore, be it, Resolved, That we first give thanks to the Su preme Ruler of the Universe for sur rounding us with loving friends, blessed with the spirit that causes mankind to dwell together in Christian fellowship; for His tender mercies to us—in crow n ing our labors with success at a time when the business interests of the en tire world were floundering upon the receding tide of a turbulept, financial sea. 2nd. That we extend To the Mayor and Council and the Board of Educa tion of the City of Winder, our heart felt thanks for the use of the commo lious school building for Sunday school mrposes and Sabbath services, when we were without shelter, though the 'foxes have holes and the birds of the dr have nests.” May the Day Stur or abide in their hearts, and "what soever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things ure pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatso-j ever things are of good report,” come unto them all. ,'hd. That we thank our Presbyte rian brethren for their solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty in permitting the Methodist congregation to me t with them so often in Christian wor ship. The still small voice of grati tude goes to them, for they have de posited upon the silent shores of our memory, precious thoughts that ean t be deceived. We say not “good bye,” but with an abiding faith in the innocent blood that was spilled on Cal vary’s brow for tin* remission of sin. we hope and trust that in some bright er clime, we may bid them “good morn ing.” Ith. That these resolutions be spread upon the minutes of this Board; that a copy tie furnished to the Winder News for publication, and a copy be mailed to the Board of Deacons of the Presbyterian church. A. A. CAMP, H. P. QUILLIAN, A. I). McCURRY, K. L. ROGERS, G. I). ROSS. Committee. I)r, E. W. Oliver lias rented the Me- Nitbb bungalow on East Avenue, and will move in the first of the yeai. STRAND THEATER PROGRAM MONDAY & TUESDAY, DEC. 26 & 27. . WILLIAM FARNUM, in IF I WERE KING.” Special Fox Feature. , WEDNESDAY, DEC. 28.—Mary Miles M? liter, in “Don’t (’nil Me Little Girl,’’ Policemen McClure and Chesser Are Re leased. THE Di*eember term of Burrow Su period Court convened in city hail in Winder last Monday morning. Judge Fortson opened court for the trial of several civil eases. The grandjury that served at the last term of court was called together for the purpose of investigating the cases of the state against W. M. Mc- Clure and J. C. Chesser, who were in jail charged with murder. It will lie* remembered that these men who were officers of the town of Carl, iti the wes tern part of Barrow county, shot Mr. W. F. Kennedy ou Monday, December 12th. The trouble grew out of a ease that had been made by the marshal of the town of Carl against Will Kennedy, a soil of W. F. Kennedy, fbi' demolish ing a speed limit sign'. Will Kennedy lunl I tee) i placed under bond for his ap pearance at the mayor’s court on Mon day inoriinig, December 12th. (hi ttiat. day the parties were in Carl attempt ing a settlement. Much feeling had arisen about the matter and in trying to settle the matter both Mr. Kennedy and Mr. McClure drew their pistols. Mr. Chesser, who had been sworn in just a short while before also appear ed on the scene and took part in the shooting. Several shots were firel by both policemen. Mr. Kennedy got his pistol out but it seems that he neten fired, it being held by a brother of the deceased. The grandjury that was in session Monday and Tuesday of this week fail ed to find a true Gill against Messrs. McClure and Chesser and they were liberated Tuesday. They returned to tiieir homes in Carl. Much interest has been manifested in the unfortunate occurrence. Grandjury Recommends Straight (haiiigaiig Sentences. The grandjury that was in session Monday and Tuesday of this week in this city, passed some strong recom mendations in regard to pistol toting and selling liquor. They reconnnend : efd that Judge Fortson impose straight ( chaingang sentences upon all pistol tut ors and liquor sellers that come up be fore liim. Judge Fortson in reading the recommendations stated that lie was in hearty sympathy with the spirit? of the recommendations but that he could not commit himself on the ques tion realizing that it was necessary for tiie court to have discretion in dealing with all such matters. WINDER HIGH WINS Winder High school defeated the fast Braselton High school basket hall club liere Tuesday night, by the score of 30 to lb. At the end of the first half Braselton was leading by the score of 11 to 8. In the second half Winder clearly outplay*d them, and piled up a large score. Stars for Winder were Maxwell and McWhorter, for Brasel ton A. White. MASONIC NOTICE A regular Communication of Winder Chapter No. 84 Royal Arch Masons will bo held in Masonic Lodge rooms on Friduy evening, Dec. 23rd. M E. M. and K. A. Degrees will Ik* conferred* All qualified Companions are invited td in: et with us. Candidate for the de grees named, will present themselves at the lodge room uot later than seven thirty o'clock. This is our last meet ing this year, and a full attendance is desired. REFRESHMENTS. L. A. BRADLEY, II P. L. A. COOK, Secretary Rev. L. A. Henderson Resigns Lawrenceville Rev. L. A. Henderson, pastor of the. Baptist church at I>awrencevlHe, has resigned the pastorate of that church and has accepted a call to a church ati Columbus, Mr. Henderson is a strong preacher, and his friends in this part [of the state regret to see him leave. No. 36.