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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1922.
THE LEGEND OF
CHEROKEE ROSE
„ (By Mrs. F. Fuller)
During the time that Governor Nat
E. Harris was governor of Georgia be
decreed that the Cherokee Rose should
he official stute flower of our state,
.other countries and states had their
flowers; the Iris or Flag Lillies for
France, the Golden Rod for the United
States: New York the Rose; California
the Poppy; Rhode Island the Violet
and so on through the list, but Georgia
had never adopted a flower for her
own until the legislature met in 1910.
Here is the legend of the Cherokee Rose,
said by the historian-general to have
been taken from ‘Georgia Land and
People” by Frances 8. Mitchell, of
thefts.
‘‘A proud young chieftain of the Sem
finoles was taken prisoner by his en
emies, the Cherokees, and doomed to
death by torture; hut he fell so se
riously ill that it became necessary to
wait for his restoration to health be
fore committing him to the flames.
“As he was lying prostrated by dis
ease in the cabin of a Cherokee war
rior, the daughter of the latter, a Qark
eyed maiden, was his nurse. She ri
valed in grace the bounding fawn and
the young warriors of her tribe said to
her that the smile of the Great Spirit
was not so beautiful.
'“Was it any wonder that, though
death stared the young Seminole in the
face, he should l>e happy in her pres
ence? Was it any wonder that they
tshould love each other?
' “Stern hatred had stifled every kindly
feeling in the hearts of the Cherokees
and they grimly awaited the time
when their enemy must die.
As the color slowly returned to the
cheeks of her lover and strength to his
limbs the dark-eyed maiden eagerly urg
ed him to make his escape. How could
she see him die? But he would not
agree to seek safety in flight unless she
went with him. He could better endure
death by torture than life without her.
“She yielded to his pleading. At the
midnight hour they silently slipped into
the dim forest, guided by the pale light
of the silvery stars. Yet, before they had
gone far, impelled by soft regret at
leaving her home forever, she asked her
lover’s permission to return for an in
stant that she might bear away some
memento. So, retracing her footsteps
she broke a sprig from the glossy-leafed
vine whidh climbed upon her father s
cabin, and preserving it during her
bight through the wilderness planted it
by the door of her new home in the land
of the Seminoles, where its milk-white
blossoms, with golden centers, often re
called her childhood days in the far
away mountains of Georgia.
“From that time this beautiful flower
has been known throughout the South
ern states as the Cherokee rose. The
Indians have passed away* from this
beautiful laud they loved so well, but
the memory of them still lingers and
will linger forever in melodious names
of Georgia’s mountains, fivers and
vales.”
Tallasee Dots
School at this place is progressing
nicelv. . ,
Mr and Mrs. Harry Thurmond and
children were the dinner guests of Mr
and Mrs. J. C. Sikes, Sr., Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Sikes were
the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar
Fleming Saturday night.
Miss Mozelle Hartley was the guest
of Miss Ludia Martin Sunday after
noon. , , - ...
Mr. Bose Potter was the guest of Mi.
It L. Sikes Saturday afternoon
Mr and Mrs. Jessie Wages were the
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lee
Mable Sunday.
The guests of Miss Mozelle Satur
dyu were Misses Bird and Prudie Bell
Master Edgar and Anther Booth of
Stafhaui were guests of their uncle and
aunt, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Sikes.
Mr. Escow Hill was the guest of Mr.
Homer Draper Thursday night
We are sorry to report that Mr.
Homer Draper is right sick at this
writing; also the little babe of Mr.
Will Wilson; we hope for both an ear
ly recovery. _ , ,
Let everybody come to Sunday school
next Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock;
bring your new song books.
Teachers of Barrow
Gather at Winder;
Field Day Planned.
Representatives of the thirty-seven
schools of Barrow county met here Fri
day in the auditorium of the Winder
High School, at the call of Superinten
dent of County Schools J. B. Brooksher,
in a monthly institute.
A good, program had been arranged
and strong and practical addresses
were delivered by Prof. J. P. Cash, of
the Winder High School; Professor L.
p (Sjreen, superintendent of the Au
burn schools; Prof 11. B. Thompson,
superintendent of the Bethlehem school,
Prof. J. W. Williams, superintendent
of the Statham schools; Rev. W. H.
Faust, pastor of the First Baptist
church of Winder, and Mrs. Robert J.
Pentecost, of Cedar Hill, on important
phases of rural school work.
Superintendent Brooksher has over
sixty well trained teachers co-operat
ing with him in the educational work of
the county.
Barrow has a strong and aggressive
board of education, consisting of Dr. J.
C Daniel, Statham; J. B. Thompson,
Hoschton; G J. Parrish, Auburn; L.
W. Leslie, Bethlehem, and R. W. Ilay
nie. Winder.
Arrangements were mndu at this
meeting for “Field Day, to he cele
brated in the early spring, all the
schools of the county participating.
1 W. M. Holsenbeck, attendance officer
of tlie county, was present and -stated
that practically every child of school
age in the county was in school and
doing’ good work.
Tanlac Vegetable Pills are sold on a
positive guarantee to give perfect sat
isfaction. Try them tonight and you
will he delighted to find the results you
have obtained.—G. W. DeLaPefriere
& Sons.
SNAP SHOTS
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By W. H. Faust.
‘Mv life is like the prints which feet
Have left on Tampa's desert strand;
Soon as the rising tide shall beat,
All trace will vanish from the sand;
Yet, as if grieving to efface
All vestige of the human race;
On that lone shore loud mourns the sea
But none, alas! shall mourn for me.
—Richard Henry Wilde.
§
The gracious God of the universe
gave us life and at the same time he
bestowed upon us the inestimable gift
of The latter should be as
dear to a true patriotic American as
the former *
§
The hien who engage in lotteries, and
pursue the alluring phantoms of the
enticing wine-glass can but go to a fer
ritic wreck on the bare, bleak shores
and rock-bound coasts of folly.
§
We should thank God for our memo
ries; they are the golden strings that
tie us to the splendid past, and hold
us to the even more glorious blessings
and joys of the eternal future.
§
A rich and cultivated mind is earths
most puissant and worth-while posses
sion. All the robbers of earth cannot
deprive of its blessings, and the com
bined misfortunes, injustice and folly of
earth cannot steal it away.
§
Every foolishly ignorant monocrat
should be sent to college for six fresh
man years in order that the stupendous
folly of his self-assertive egotism
should be permanently and finally re
moved.
§
“Tift name thou wearest does thee gen
erous wrong.
No mimic, thou! That voice is thine
alone! -
The poets sing but strains of Shake
speare's Song,
The birds, but notes of thine imperial
own.” .
Henry Jerome Stockard in Mocking
Bird.”
§
One of the most apt and physiologi
cal definitions of music extant is that
given by that incomparable poet, Sub
ney Lanier; “Music is love in search ol
a word.”
§
Judging from the speeches of many
senators during the trial of Mr. New
berry recently, the idea that the es
sence of free government consists in
considering offices as public trusts be
stowed for the good of the people is ab
solutely obsolete, and as .ar behind
the times as a wheelbarrow would be
in an auto contest.
8 , ,
“I have such reliance on the good
sense of the body of the people and tlie
honesty of their leaders that I am not
afraid of their letting things go wrong
to any length in any cause. —lhos.
Jefferson.
§
Puritanism may not be minus faults
but it can J,e said of her that she fos
tered Yale and Harvard and Prime
ton, produced such orators as Patrick
Henry and Daniel Webster, such in
ventors as Morse and Edison, such
poets as Bryant and Whittier and such
presidents as Washington and Lincoln.
Tlie teacher or the preacher who
stresses the text above everything else
is not following in tlie footsteps of the
Masteh Teacher who took a little child
and set him in the midst. Jesus placed
the emphasis upon the child and not
the book.
§
Condemn Senator Watson all you
will, it still remains to be said that he
has attracted more newspaper notice
and has drawn more bifiod in his keen
debates than any man who ever repre
sented Georgia in the U. S. Senate
during the first year.
§
If you like this column as tlie weeks
pass tell the editor of the News. If
you don’t like it have as much sense
as Sam Jones’ cow. Read the other
part of the paper which is good and
leave off the vaporings of a fellow who
because lie is human occasionally dif
fers from you. -
First Baptist Church
Services for Sunday.
Sunday school 10:15. S ; F. Maughon,
superintendent.
Preaching at 11 :30 “Tlie Wonderful
Word.”
Junior B. Y. P. U. :?(*. Ernestine
Bush, Leader.
Senior B. Y. P. U. 6:30. Josephine
House. President.
Preaching 7:30. “Sheep and Salva
tion.”
The custom of Christ was to attend
divine worship. By precept and exam
ple he taught us.
Heed his teachings and worship in
his sanctuary Sunday.
W. H, FAUST, Pastor.
If you once give Tanlac an honest
trial, you will add your voice to the
thousands of others who are praising it.
Dr. G. W DeLaPerriere & Sons.
Mr. John Shields Has
Some Old Papers
I am forced to think I have more
friends than any in Winder. They are
ever so ready to help me in my various
researches and studies. I have been
kindly permitted to use books, old pa
pers, various articles, souvenirs and
antiques.
Now comes John Shields with some
ancient land grunts, plots and deeds.
One is just ttye days older than the pa
per of which I wrote last week. It is
a tract of land at thb fork of Mulberry
and Oconee rivers. If was granted for
2700 acres but when re-sure.ved in 1804
there were 3302% acres Daniel Stur
gis, surveyor general, who surveyevd
the land\is the same who surveyed my
tract.
Another old deed was made by Wil
liam I‘otts to James McUieskey, date
10th day of September, 1816.
He showed me a land grant date
1788. The writing had so faded and
the paper so moth eaten we could not
discover the name of the parties to
whom it was granted.
A second land grant was to Ethelred
Wood (this man the father of Mrs.
James McKleske.v and brother of Wy
att Wood.) This grant was dated Oc
tober 3rd, 1803, and signed by John Mil
ledge, Governor. It contained 67V 2
acres and from the map it crossed both
Mulberry and Oconee rivers, and the
whole lot lay up stream from tin forks
of these rivers. The surveyor was J.
M. Carroll. J. Bozman was on the mar
gin. It was recorded Nov. (J. 1803,
An old deed made to Joseph Hamten
(Hampton), sheriff to James McKles
key containing (550 acres dated 1823.
This land was sold at the property of
John A. Verdell and James Tate, de
fendants in li fa, which brought about
the sheriff’s sale. The attests were by
Thomas Perry and George Shaw, J N.
This was a part of the 2700 acres grant
to Newell. C. M. Thompson.
Another Old Letter.
The following letter was written to
Miss Fannie Hill by J. M. Tucker, who
were afterwards married ;
Camp Near Gaines Mill, la., June
4th, 18(54. —My Dear Friend Fannie: •
1 reply to your kind and welcomed
letter which I received several days
ago. I haven’t any news more than
to relate some of the particulars of the
battles which have been going on for
the last month. Frank, wc have had
a miserable time of it in the fights Our
brigade has been in five or six engage
ments and we have lost a goodly nuin
ber of men, but nothing to compare to
the loss of the Yankees. The Yank<>eß
are a great deal nearer to Richmond
now than when the fighting began, but
they did not get here by fighting. They
would charge our breastworks and we
would repulse them, and when they
would become convinced that they
could not move us, they would whip
around our flank, but the next thing
they would know Lee would be in their
front and well fortified.
On the Ist day of this month, there
was a space left open between our brig
ade and, tlie Yankees flanked around
and got in that open place and just
moved along up our line on both sides
and we were obliged to fall back or be
captured. So we fell back about three
hundred yards and rallied, but there
were a good many of the brigade who
gave up. Our company lost five miss
ing and two wounded in that fight, w u
lie Treadwell was wounded slightly in
the heel and Tom Vickers was wound
ers in the foot. The missing are led
Patrick, H. B. Treadwell, J. 1- < arl
ton, J. M. Jackson, T. A. Forester and
Zack Ellifion which makes six les
terdav the Yankees assaulted our works
most all along the whole line and were
repulsed everywhere witli thousands of
their dead lying in front of our breast
works. I expect the Yankees lost yes
terday 35 or 40 thousand in killed and
wounded, and I don’t have any idea we
lost over one thousand m killed and
wounded. Our company got one man
wounded, Mac Vicker : he will lose his
right arm; perhaps you know linn. On
the 6th of lust month the first day we
fought we got several Wounded Alex
Timmons, Hiram Bailey and and
Williams and one missing, Billie Hate,
but Bill has gotten back to us again.
On ttie 12th we got some wounded,
James Davis and Joe Towler. 1 be
lieve that Is about all.
From your friend,
J. M. TUCKER.
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COME TO THE REAL ARMY STORE
A Few Items Listed Below Will Convince You.
SIO.OO Officers Dress Shoe at QPj
SIO.OO U. S. Russet Shoes at (JPJ
All sizes U. S. Field Shoes, (Special) (jjj
All Wool Coats yg
U. S. Overalls (Special) :. .pair .
WE HAVE A FULL LINE OF ARMY GOODS
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STORE
Under The Telephone Exchange
WINDER, GA.
NOTICE!
COTTON SEED HULLS
60 cents
Per 100 Pounds
22pounds Hulls for
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1 pound of Seed
High Grade Cotton Seed Meal; 8 per cent Amonia,
$2.30 Per 100 Pounds.
On Exchange for Seed $2.20 per 100 pounds for Meal
SEED $1.50 PER 100 POUNDS
/
We pay 50 cents per bushel, cash
for Corn
Jersey Cream Flour, per sack of 48 poundss2.oo
$7.50 per barrel
Com Meal, per bushel 80c
Plenty of Shorts and Bran on Hand.
Winder Oil Mill
Phone 65
Subscription Price: $1.50 Per Year.