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THT RSDAY. NOVEMBER .TO, 1022.
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Winder, Ga.
And THE BARROW TIMES, of Winder, Ga., Consoli
dated March Ist, 1921.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
J. W. McWHORTER—A Editor
J. B. PARHAM Business Manager
Entered at the Postoffice tC Winder, Georgia as Second
Class Mutter for Transmission Through the Mails.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE CITY OF WINDER
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE COUNTY of BARROW
Member Ninth Georgia IMstrict Press Association.
SUBSCRIPTION KATES IN ADVANCE: f
ONE YEAR **
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112 Candler Street Telephone No. 73
Editor John Shannon, of Commerce, says that
Tuesday, November 21, was the shortest day in the
year. We have always been of the opinion that De
cember 21 was the shortest day But ns Editor
Shannon is older than we are, we suppose he is cor
rect.
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We recently received a letter from a propagandist
with four cents postage due, which we paid, asking us
to publish free of charge about two columns of stuff
that nobody is interested in. We arc doing our best,
not to let tliis propagandist class ride us but the one
mentioned above slipped over one on us to the tune of
four cents.
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Henry Ford says spend your money freely. We have
been doing that very thing buying Ford cars and
parts and gasoline and oil, and Ford and the oil com
panies have gotten rich while we are still just a leap
ahead of the sheriff.
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Business Outlook For 1923
BABSON, the statistician, summarizes the business
outlook for 1923 as follows: There will !e an
increase in the price of commodities for a year or
more, then there will be a long pull downward.
There will he substantial progress made in the satis
factory solution of general labor troubles. The in-,
dioat ions jxiiiit to 'fewer strike's in 1923. Babson
recommends the cultivation of the retailer in an effort
to increase distribution. He recommends as a slogan
for 1923: “Bite off more than you can chew, then chew
it; plan for more than you can do, (hen do it.”
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. A Libel On Love
THE Savannah Press says: “The number of scandals
and murders played up in the news columns in
volving the ‘eternal triangle’ and the man and Om
an relationship is nauseating.”
We agree with the Press heartily. The victim of a
murder in the middle west is called a "perfect lover.”
The victims in a murder in an eastern town are called
the victims in a "love tragedy.” Another man in the
west who had any number of illicit relations with
women was called the "ideal lover.’”
All of this stuff is a libel on "love.” It isn’t love
at all. Love Is pure, uplifting It would protect its
object. These cases mentioned above means thnt
men and women gave way to their baser passions
and let these baser passions lure them on to death.
There was not one spark of pure, clean, genuine love
in it all.
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What Is This?
TIE Savannah News, in a recent issue, expressed
itself as follows about a food product that can be
raised in abundance tn this state.
"They art' actually selling—advertising ’em in big
type in the papers, too —’Canadian rutabagas’ in the
Georgiu retail grocery Sturt'S. As if there could not
he grown on the soli of half of one Georgia county
enough rutabagas to feed the people of two or three
states the size of Georgia. And we ship them into
Georgia from Canada by the carload.”
We have often wondered why Georgians cannot raise
this delightful food product and thus keep Georgia
money in Georgia. But we haven’t been doing it in
the past. If Canadians can grow these turnips and
ship them to Georgia at a profit, surely we can grow
them in this state and sell them at a profit.
We suggest that a few Barrow eounty farmers try
their hands with a patch of rutabagas next year.
Hardy Bedingfield, a Burrow county farmer, lias
raised rutabaga turnips successfully for several
seasons, one season making and selling SSOO worth
from a small patch less than an acre.
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Well, weathelvis one think you can talk about with
out running afot\ of some fool listener’s prejudices.
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Merely finding th.* guilty won’t discourage crime.
The thing to do is t\flnd them guilty.
THANKSGIVING
TO-DAY we give thanks. It’s good to give thanks
every day, hut to-day our nation is supposed to
give thanks We hope the people of Winder and
Barrow county will honor this day in a fitting way.
We hope we will think over our past lives, the many
blessings that have come our way, and that we will
render unto the "Giver of every goo<l and perfect
gift” the thanks that are due unto Him. There is
no finer attribute than gratitude. It shows a noble
spirit to he gratiful for aity favors however small.
And to manifest gratitude enlarges our natures and
makes us ready to receive and properly use greater
favors. Hence, the manifestation of gratitude makes
for our growth. A proper spirit of thankfulness will
call for greater blessings in the future, while ingrat
itude means a dwarfing of the liner attributes of our
nature. *
Men and women of big natures, with whom things
always go well, are always of a grateful nature. Grat
itude is a part of greatness. It is Godlike. We can
greatly improve our natures and thereby improve
our condition by lifting our hearts to-day in real
thanksgiving unto our God.
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Winder Public Schools
Winder lias just cause to be proud of her public
schools. They are not exceeded by any in the state.
In the district contests it has become an old saying
all over the Ninth district that the school that wins
in the contests must beat Winder. V inder has led
in the literary contest for years. And she always
stands high in the athletic contests. Last year she
was right at the top in the basketball contest in
Athens. This year her football team is winning fiine
all over this section, beating all comers. The boys
are now organizing a basketball team that we aic
counting on winning the championship for Northeast
Georgia in the tourney which will be held in Athens
in the early spring.
The superintendent, the principal and all the teachers
are thoroughly prepared for their work and they are
giving Winder tine service.
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A Sad Story
OF all the crimes committed in Georgia in recent
years, the most horrible as well as the saddest
was that committed by Marshal Bass in Laurens
county some months ago. He came home drunk on
potash liquor, drove his wife with her infant in her
arms out of doors, then seized a shot gun, and over
taking them in the road, killed his wife while she was
trying to protect her infant tints' Editor Brown, of
the Cordele Sentinel, recently wrote an editorial on
this case and we are reproducing it this week. What
a condemnation of the moonshine liquor traffic is this
sad case in Laurens county:
We’ve noted trag<*ly after tragedy in Laurens
county this year and last—the result of moonshine
liquor traffic. We do not want to assume that there
are no people in Crisp county engaged in this business.
We might be advised to keep our own yard clean—
but this happens to be a tragedy of particular sad •
turn. A young husband went home one night in a
drunken stupor^—overloaded with potash poison—took
his shotgun, drove his wife and little children into
the road and they fled to a neighbor for protection
he came after them and fired a load (ft shot into the
breast of his life companion, the mother of his chil
dren, even as she clung to them in her arms! When
that crazed brute came to his senses and hilly ri'aliz
ed what he had dome a death sentence stared him in
the face. He would have already have stretched his
portion of the hangman’s hemp had not Governor
Hardwick respited him.
Here he is pictured now, after all appeals have been
taken in the court and denied —here he is standing
over the grave of his old mother, dead from grief
and worry, weeping for the first time with his little
fellows clinging about his feet—not a soul left in the
world to fliom they can look but a murderer father
whose days are numbered.
We watched the case of Marshal Bass with no lit
tle interest. It is (inn* of the saddest in the history
of potash moonshine liquor. It has progressed from
its stages of poor husband and wife working for the
maintenance of happy homes to tfiat of the funeral,
the prison, the hangman’s rope. It must mean two
little orphans, a mother murdered and a father ex
ecuted for it. And all of It due to weakness for potash
moonshine liquor—and a consequent moment of crazed
fiendishness for a man who would otherwise have been
harmless and protecting his wife, his little ones—his
home!
This thing may be lightly passed by the moonshiner
and his customer, it may not hang on the mind of
the average citizen very long—but all the same it is
n tragedy—the worst that moonshine liquor ever held
up to the gaze of an innocent public. How long are
men going to pay tribute to such a thing as this—
how long are they going to encourage it by buying an
using it?
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The new government of Italy has one advantage.
Black shirts don’t show dirt.
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Still, the gnashing of teeth in the hereafter won’t
be any novelty for the American gum-ehewer.
THE WINDER NEWS
A Sacrifice Sale
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WE have got to have some money. Our entire stock is on the market
"at the following prices this week only.
13 POUNDS
Granulated
SUGAR
98c
10 Lbs. Silver Leaf
LARD
$1.68
5 Lbs Silver Leaf
LARD
85 c
Sunshine Flour Per Sack $1.90
Sunshine Flour per Barrel $7.50
All other Flours in proportion to grade. v
We also have plenty of Cotton Seed Meal and Hulls, Peanut Meal, Shorts
and Chicken Feed, Salt to Salt your Meat, Beet Pulp to Feed your cows.
In fact, anything you want to eat or feed reduced in the same proportion.
Watson-Glover & Cos.
Phone 80
7 Big Nickel
Pkgs Arm &
Hammer
SODA
26c
J. B. SHELNUTT CO’S
After Thanksgiving Bargains
We are very thankful to the good people of Winder
Barrow county and adjoining counties for the very lib
eral business that they have given us since we opened
our store here. Our sales have been very gratifying,
and we hope to merit a continuance of your valued pat
ronage.
It will be our desire at all times to give you the very
best values that money can if you will come
in now and let us show you the wonderful bargains that
we have in Ladies and Misses Coats, Suits, Dresses, etc.
Men’s and Boys’ Suits, Overcoats, Hats, Shoes and ev
erything to wear, we will convince you that we mean
just what we say. We have new goods coing in every
week and will have new bargains to show you all the
time.
These good, all wool Blankets at $6.95 and $7 95 the
pair will keep you mighty comfortable while you sleep
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these cold nights.
Another shipment of these growing girls shoes at the
pair $1.99.
Come to see us and save.
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J. B. SHELNUTT CO.
Successors to The WINDER DRY GOODS STORE
WINDER, GEORGIA
7 Big Cakes
Octagon
SOAP
29c
6 POUNDS
Old Time
Coffee
99c
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Subscription Price: $1.50 Per Year.
7 Big Boxes
Washing
Po'wder
29c
No. 10 Compound.
LARD
$1.23
No. 5 Compound
LARD
65 c
Tea 5c Cakes
Star Soap
38c