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TFFT'RSDAY. JUNE 22. 1022.
GUES WHO ?
About liulf mile west of Surdis cburcli
between the mountains, Pine Log. an<i
J'oleeut, in Cherokee county, La., was
born in the year 1804, a boy.
That year was one of unusual activ
ities of the gorillius which was one
way of carrying on a war aguinst the
women, children and innocent men.
The mother of this boy knew not to an
swer every knock or call at the door.
The only response by her wus when a
niello* whistle penetrated her ear from
the keyhole.
It was a very common thing to hear
tlie stamping of the feet of horses as
they gal lopped up or down these hills
with sometimes a rope around the body
of a man dragging him to some more
lonesome spot to lie left until found by
friends, or eaten by fowls or varmints
of that section.
One dark and dreary night, Col.
Sharp, whose wife was a lUiinehaidt,
was arrested by these gorillas who
tried to get him to divulge some secrets
that they thought lie knew, lie know
nothing and could tell nothing, so they
blindfolded him, tied a rope around his
neck and hoisted him in the air. This
was done several times but nothing
could lie tell. Finally he was left more
dead that) alive. When they were gone
he Anally removed the bdhdage and af
ter much effort reaehed home.
One day a widow Bird, who lived two
or three miles from Waleska was told
that the soldiers were coming. She had
a lot of meat and knowing she was like
ly to lose If she had it punctured with
knives and flour sprinkled on it and
the meat thrown carelessly around in
the yard. When the soldiers came up
and asked why the meat was thus
thrown around she replied that the pes
ky gorillas had passed that morning
and poisoned all they could not carry
off. So they passed on and left her meat
to he placed back in the smoke house.
Col. Sharp married a cousin of the
mother of this boy horn in 18t>4. Lur
ing this year the father of this mother
was killed by the railroad up in Ten
nessee. Her mother had died several
years prior to this date. The children
were left alone, one married, and no
one to take the lead of the family of
three girls and two hoys in their teens.
About this time the oldest brother was
arrested and carried off and placed in
prison for not enlisting in the war.
These are a few of the burdens this
mother had to bear during the spring
and summer before her boy was born
in the fall of ISO 4.
This boy was Riven the nnme of the
discoverer of America and for months
only one name was ills. One day while
traveling they met a lady carrying n
babe and its name was asked; liking
the name they added it to our boy’s
name and he bears it to this day.
When this boy was only a few months
old, the parents were refugeeing to
Tennessee and In Chattanooga in a
freight car box sat the mother with the
hoy in her lap and in a bundle of
<iuilts beneath her was all the parents
possessed, while on top of the freight
ear sat the father, bare-headed and hat
less for lys hat had blown away.
This family made their way safely
Into middle Tennessee to his people.
Here he rented a farm on little Suey
river, near the fork of Big Suey and
Tennessee rivers. Here the house was
a log cabin and the cracks large enough
to throw a cat through without disturb
ing a hair by its contact with the logs.
Here liig Suey hacked up Little Suey
until the water entered the outbuildings
and got under the floor of the cabin.
Here, one rainy day, the father lay
down upon a table and the mother upon
long, red cedar chest and went to sleep
and slept until midnight: they awoke,
looked out and the water was in the
yard. They thought of moving.
At three years of age this boy was
back in Cherokee county playing with
it nttle brother who had come to keep
him company. They stuck sticks into
n bee hive on one occasion and were
soon covered with lan's The mother
and an aunt ran to them, carried them
t jto the house and picked the bees out
of their hair.
At four years old back in Tennessee
at tlie Duektown copper mines. They
bad for playmates two pretty little
girls. Moetia and Pfcfcr. The writer
would be glad to know of them today,
about this time a doctor by the name
of Ketcherside Wrought a brother and
they numbered three in place of two.
At five years of age the father and
mother with three boys migrated to
Jackson county. Here my boy was put
in school at Rockwell, the teacher was
j,o U l’itman. At six. the father took the
mother, three boys and now one girl
to his father's and went off to Texas
and was gone only six months.
This boy, owing to a peculiar palate
of the mouth, could not and cannot yet
articulate .very distinctly. He was ask
ed by his parents what lie wished to
do. His reply was. “I be a cool teacher.’’
At six he was sent to school to Miss
Maggie Wilson, daughter of G. .T. N.
Wilson, and at the close of the school
he was presented with anew begin
ner's arithmetic for good conduct and
punctuality. This teacher only gave
Prof. J. L. Moore In A
Revival in Cobb County
Editor Winder News:
I will call off long enough to give you
a few items, which I hope may be read
with interest by some of your constitu
ency.
Last Sunday found me at Lost Mt.
In Cobb county, at one of those old time
all day singings. It wus a great day,
lug crowd and some stirring songs
with a tine dinner dropped in to All the
noon recess. I am here now, in a
splendid revival.
Kov. O. A. Norton, of East Point, is
doing the preaching, and to say he is
cleaning up things is not telling it all.
oh, my, what a preacher lie is. The
singing is moving along nicely, hut a
eold caught me for a day or so, hut 1
i,n hack on the job with the same old
hallelujah lick.
The condition of the country here is
not different to other sections where I
have been. Rain has retarded the prog
ress on the farms and the farmers are
uneasy for fear of being too late. I
tim] Austell is a very nice little city,
•.nucli better than one would think in
passing the railroad. They claim eight
hundred population.
1 hope the editor and the news force
are happy and enjoying life to the ful
lest. Tru, y’
J. L. MOORE.
Services At The
Presbyterian Church
Sunday from 10 to 10:30 A. M. Jun
ior choir song service ~ on
Sunday school from 10:30 to 11:30
A. M., F. C. Graddick, Supt.
Christian Emleavou - Society meets
nt 3:30 p. m.
Preaching by the Pastor Ist and 3rd
Sunday mornings at 11:30, and evening
nt 8 :30.
Prayer meetings every Wednesday
evenpig beginning promptly at 8 P. M.
conducted by elders, deacons or lay
members. ’
You are most cordially invited to
attend all of these services and join
with us in the service of the Master
Come. I’* •
CHRISTIAN CHURCH SERVICES
10:15 A. M. Sunday School.
11:30 A. M. Preaching and Lord's
Super.
7:30 P. M. Christian Endeavor.
8:30 P. M. Preaching.
E. L. SHELNUTT, Minister
SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH.
J. B. Brookshire. Pastor.
1. Preaching every fourth Sunday
morning at 11:30 and every Sunday
evening at 8:00 o’clock.
2. Conference Saturday night be
fore every fourth Sunday.
3. Prayer meeting every Wednes
day evening nt 8:00 o’clock. The 8.
S. lesson for the foUowing Sunday al
ways discussed.
4. Sunday school every Sunday at
2 ;30 o'clock. S. C. Kinney, Supt.
5. W. M. S. every fourth Sunday
P. M. at 3:30. Mrs. T. W. Ash, Pres.
0, Community longue on FViday
night before every fourth Sunday. S
(’. Kinney, chairman.
him three licks with a switch* and they
were the only ones he ever got in his
school days.
From seven to eighteen, some of his
teachers were A. L. Barge, B. F. Lyle,
Mrs. Joe Hill and Sherwood McCarty.
At 18 years of age he went to school in
Jefferson, and in August of this year
he joined the Methodist church. At 20
he began teaching, nt 21 he clerked for
a merchant in Winder, no Jug luv
ern.
In his 22ml year he was made a Mas
ter Mason. For 13 years in succession
lie taught school in winter and sum
mer. fished in the spring, and looked
after the accounts of his uncle in the
fall. About the age of 2S lie connected
himself with the Odd Fellows and then
joined the Encampment of Odd Fel
lows.
He was Initiated into the mysteries
>f the Royal Arch Masons when he was
about 24. He lias tilled every office
in a Blue Lodge and served as W. M.
or two years and attended the Grand
Lodge at Macon at one time when the
masons were meeting, the farmers con
gress was in session, Barnum and Bai
ley's big show was .on hand and the
State fair in full blast. He saw
men act with as little sense as sheep
in a crowd, when the hall shook and
trembled with its thousands of pounds
of flesh and bones.
This boy lias been what some call a
man for many years, hut a boy he is
vet, and a boy he will be to the end.
Age may impair the body and mind,
age may gray the hair, dim the eyesight,
■nfeeble the limbs and weaken the will
>ower. but his love for youth lias such
hold upon him that he clings to it
with n determination to hold it to
death's door.
You who see him stroll the streets
can justly call him an old man. for the
mind of man can only see the surface
iml judge by nppearnnees only. He
is a citlz.n of Barrow county.
GUESS WIIO?
SHARON NEWS
Rev. J. R. Burell, of Auburn, filled
his regular appointment at this place
Saturday night and Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Lancaster, of Stat
ham, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
W. I). Lancaster.
Miss Annie MeEver, of Hoschton, was
the guest of Miss Viola Mauldin Sun
day.
Misses Ruth, Stella Mae and Hazel
Burell, of Auburn, spent Sunday with
Miss Lois Davis.
Misses Eva and Laura Lancaster had
as their guests Sunday afternoon Miss
es Lois and Gladys Bengali, and Misses
Ermine and Ethel Simpson, and Messrs.
Itoyce Vermillion, Oswell Elrod, Ar
thur Elrod and Howell Parks.
Miss Gladys Elrod Is on the sick list
this week; hope to report her better
next time.
Messrs. Ralph Evans, Curtis Elrod
and Ernest Parks were out riding Sun
day afternoon for their health. Ha! ha !
Mr. Zed Jones, of Thompson’s Mill,
was the guest of Miss Viola Mauldin
Sunday afternoon.
Mr. Hubert Lancaster visited Miss
Gladys Mitchell, of Mulberry, Sunday
afternoon.
Mrs. J. M. Simpson spent Sunday
with Mrs. Mattie Deaton.
COUNTY LINE
' Mi\ and Mrs. O. R. House spent Sun
day afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Tom
Sells.
Mr. Henry Wood and family si>ent
Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs.
G. W. Hardy.
Mrs. E. J. McDonald lias returned
home after a two week’s visit with her
sister, Mrs. E. I). Murphy.
We are glad to know that Mrs. F. M.
Hardy is improving, though slowly at
this writing.
Miss Bertie House had as her guest
Sunday afternoon, Misses Willie Mae
Greeson and Girtie Maxey and Ollie
Murphy and Mr. Will Maxey.
Mr. Clyde Haynie is spending a few
days with his sister, Mrs. Jewell House.
Mr. Charlie Clark and wife spent
Saturday night with his parents, Mr.
pud Mrs. E. E. Clark.
Air. and Mrs. Arthur House spent
Saturday and Sunday with her parents
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Allen.
Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Hall spent Sun
day afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Will
Hall.
Miss Annie Clark and her mother
spent Saturday afternoon with Mr. and
Mrs. Jessie Sims.
Mrs. E. A. Castleberry is spending a
few days with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. E. D. Murphy.
We are sorry to hear that Mr. Clyde
Patrick is ill at this writing with ap
pendicitis.
Mrs. Oflie Flanigan is quite ill at
this writing.
Mr. Horace Maynard motored to Jef
ferson Saturday night.
The Home of the Soul.
In olden times, it was believed that
the seat of the soul was the stomach,
most likely for the reason that a man
is never so completely used up as when
his stomach is out of order. For the
cure of ordinary stomach troubles,
there is nothing quite so prompt and
satisfactory as Chamberlain’s Tablets.
They strengthen the stomach and enable
it to perform its functions naturally.
Give them a trial. They only cost a
quarter. . Advt.
Strand Theatre
Thursday, June 22nd.
MADAME X
A Special, but regular price.
Children 10c Adults 20c
Matinee 4 :00 Night Show 8 :30
Friday, June 23rd.
ELAINE HAMMERSTKIN
in
“WHY ANNOUNCE YOUR
MARRIAGE?”
Also
A" REAL GOOD COMEDY
Children 10 Adults 20c
Matinee 4:00 Night Show 8:30
— 'mr
Saturday, Jtuie 21th
A brand new picture featuring
TOM MIX OR BUCK JONES.
Come and find out.
Monday, June 26th.
ALICE JOYCE, in
“SLAVES OF PRIDE”
Don't Miss It.
only
Children 10c Adults 20c
Matinee 4:00 Night show 8:30
THE WINDER NEWS
A Discouraging View.
Mr. Editor.
I have been worrying myself for
some time trying to figure out how we
can pay our taxes if the boll weevil
gets iu his destructive work.
1 have failed, and I think I am a
pretty good mathematician.
While studying ulong any one line
it’s best to take a vacation and forget
your study for awhile, then grasp your
line of thought again and possibly you
may more readily reac-li a solution.
During a vacation I saw a neighbor
who had bought a hog, and I asked
him if he wasn’t throwing away his
corn when feeding it. “No sir," says
he. "That pig cost money and I must
not rob him of the tilings he needs if
I would have a nice piece of meat.”
Now, thought I, this government is
keeping corn from its pigs in its heavy
taxes and various burdens put on the
common man. It looks like any man
or lot of men could see far enough
ahead to'know that if you take all tlie
milk, the calf will dwindle away and
die.
Uncle Sam’s men are suffering with
a tax burden and when the common
people become bankrupt then will U.
S. bonds become as cheap as those of
tlie European countries. It pays to
feed the pig. It pays to give plenty
of milk to tlie calf. It will pay Uncle
Sam to take care of the common peo
ple, and in some manner cut the taxes.
A few years ago Uncle Sam wanted
a few houses, a lot of machinery and
other labors performed. Prices uncall
ed for and unheard of were paid to
common men for services rendered. Tlie
common man dreamed of himself as a
retired financier. The one time slave
pocketed bis 87 to $lO per day. Many
jobs went begging. Men would not
work. Those who did. many of them
laid up enough in two days to give
them more than sufficiently for the re
mainder of the week.
The world went money mad. Taxes
were raised in these inflated times.
Now, why not descend in proportion.
A dollar will buy more than a bushel
of corn now, and our taxes are just
as high as when corn sold for two dol
lars per bushel.
Cotton has sold for from 7 to 23c
per pound the past year. When cotton
was selling for from 35 to 45 cents per
pound this tax burden was weighty, but
now it’s bringing bankruptcy, poverty
and ruin. One fellow, in writing a pri
vate letter from South Georgia said:
“When the boll weevil and high taxes
get in their work the tax hunter will
have a fine time in Winder. The owls
will hoot in your empty barns and your
streets will grow up in weeds. The tiny
hare will bed on your sidewalks and
the hound will tree the fox in the de
serted banks and manufacturing blocks
'of your pretty city. Your children will
walk to church if you have the heart to
go. No mobile joy rides ; no gas to burn;
no cash with which to buy it. Your
diet will be corn bread with little salt,
washed down with water; no soda nor
sugar.”
Then we will resort to any means for
that which feeds the body. Murder will
hold sway; theft will be a very com
mon practice. Come on, tax collector,
ake my lands of desolation and see
what you can make of them.
This is but a drop in the ocean of
misery awaiting if oppression contin
ues and I fear to prophecy further.
C. M. THOMPSON.
Tuesday, June 27th, 1922
CONWAY TEARLE
in
•‘WIDE OPEN TOWN”
A Good One
Wednesday, June 28th.
James Kirkwood and Russell
Simpson, in
“BRANDING IRONS”
In a jealous rage a rancher
brands his bride with his mark.
Children 10c Adults 20c.
Matinee 4.00 Night show 8 :330
Thursday, June 29th
John Sainpolis and Claire Adams
in “THE GREAT LOVER.”
Don't miss this picture if you
like ’em good.
10c 20c
Matinee 4:00 Night 8:30
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has been successful in the treatment ’’of
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Yes, in one way or another, we all do it—not literally, but figura
atively speaking. We all know we shouldn't do certain things, yet we
keep on doing them until the inevitable happens.
You know you shouldn’t carry large sums of money about, and you
shouldn’t leave it in your safe or hide it away—yet how many do it?
Carelessness, sometimes; uimecessary tardiness in starting for the
bank—there are many excuses. The “inevitable” may never happen to
you, and it may happen the very next time.
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CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $224,000.00
insurance
Your neighbor’s home burned only a few days or months ago and a cyclone
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insures his property in a reliable insurance company so that when calamity
comes he can build again. He owes the protection that it gives, to his peace
of mind and the care of his lovedones.
Kilgore, Radford & Smith
Insurance Bonds
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interest and commissions reasonable
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