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PIANOS,
Organs, Buggies.
Vol. XX.—lO Pages.
, f WINDER HIGH SCHOOL
>, _
Hcncrs at Ninth District
Contest Meet.
]n the contests
inson and Miss
Emma, Ola Heed, and in rec
itation by Miss Willie Man Sh.eah
These young people did great
credit to themselves and won hon
ors tor the Winder school. Mis:
Reed having won first honor in
tile girls’ essay contest and Miss
Sheats second honor in recita
tion. The fact that they were
pitted against the most talented
high school pupils in the Ninth
speaks well for the Winder
school.
On account of an unfortunate
accident to one of the boys who
had trained for athletics, and iIT
n* j ss of another, our boys did not
enter any iof these con less t .
/ Th.os ■ going from Winder were
Supt. Iluffaker, Vernie Sharpton.
William P. Robinson. Erastus
Smith and Misses Millie Mae and
Jewell Sheats. Emma Ola heed.
Vallie Mae Woodruff, Ruth Hale,
and Anna Eavens-n.
The association will meet next
wear at Jefferson, the hot&e of 010
time oratory,with Superintendent
Sydner. of Martin Institute, pres
ident; Superintendent Bible of
Commerce, vice president:; and
Prof. Aubrey Mathews.of Gaines
ville, secretary.
Miss Amy Childs, of Toccoa,
won first prise in recitation, and
Toccoa was in evidence in nearly
*':■ very event.
The following is a eoaaplete
list'Of the winners this year:
Athletics
100 yd. Dash. —Ist. Prize, %’<ble
Patrick, -Jefferson, 11 see.
2nd.. Like Couch, Toecoa, 11
2 5 seconds.
High -Jump—lst Charlie Merck
Gainesville, 5 feet 2 inches.
Ist, Carlton Tanner, P, R. 1.,
sfeet, 2 inches. ' 1 i
' 2nd, -John Itofhelle Toecoa, 5
ifeet.
%
Running Broa*s .-lump,—lst, 'N*
hie Patrick, -Jefferson 18 ft. 11
inches.
.2nd, Sylvia Ray, 9th A. & M.
feet 2 inches. (
3rd, Loui Brown, P. R. It., 17
fed 2inehes. <
Shot Put. —Ist, Walter Ne
ville, 9th A. & M., 36 ft. 8 in,
2nd, -John Rothelle, Toecoa,
36 feet 2 inches.
3rd, Ray Flannigan, P. R. It.,
33 fe<*t 3 inches.
k 220 yd. Dash—lst, Sylvia Ray,
A A‘ & M. f 28 sec.
Loui Brown, P. R. 1., 2-8,
seconds.
Clarence McDorman, Toe
eoa, 28 2-5 seconds.
100 yd. Low Hurdle —Ist Puck
ett, P. R. It., 14 1-2 sec.
John Rothelle, Toecoa, 15
.Wconds.
3rd. Orville Davis. 9th A. &
JVL, V 5 2-5 seconds.
(Continued on last page)
wje xuuuicr %\&m.
MR. T. A. HASLETT DEAD
Former Gwinnett County Sheriff
Passes Away at His Home
in Lawrenceville
Mr. T. A. llaslett, ex-sheriff of
Gwinnett county, died at his
jliome in Lawrenceville early
Tuesday morning after a short ill
I ness.
die was a member of the. Bap
tist church and was about 60
years of age.
For twelve years he was sher
iff of Gwinnett county and was
counted one of that county's
best officers.
11.- was 11)o father of Mrs. J.
11. Oakes, who is remembered
here as Mrs. Blanche Pentecost
By marriage he was an unde of
Mrs. G. N. Bagwell, Mrs. P. A.
Flanigan and Mrs. -J. T. Wages.
A widow and eight children
survive him.
The funeral and interment <>c
eurred Wednesday at Prospect.
HARRIS BEING FOUGHT
FOR CENSUS DIRECTOR.
Friends close to William J Har
ris. chairman of the state deni
ocratic executive committee, feel
confident that he will not resign
Ihe chairmanship in tin* event oi
his e.onfirmation and removal to
Washington to take up the dutic
of director of the census.
Colonel Harris is not saving
anything now, of course, because
his appointment as director ol
the census has been temporarily
held up by the republicans in
the senate, who are making ;
fight on him. Those dn the in
side say there is more in tb.b
fight on Harris than appears on
the surface.
A large number of employees
of the census bureau under civ
il service will have to be appoint
ed again in May. The apparent
object of this fight therefore . is
to retain E. Dana Durand in of
fice until this large list of em
ployees has been reappointed
the civil service making them se
cure in their places, unless
charges are made and sustained
to oust them.
McCants Named.
Mr. W. B. McCants; h;rs bfctfi ap
pointed by President Wilson as
postmaster of Winder. Mr. Mc-
Cants, has the endorsement of
both Congressman Bell and Sen
ator Hoke Smith, and an early
confirmation of his appointment
by the senate is predicted.
-Mr. McCants is a good business
man, courteous and attentive and
his appointment no doubt will
prove pleasing to the patrons of
the office.
Boosters for Georgia
Among the Georgia boosters
from this eity who took in the
Georgia-Vanderhuilt hall game
Monday were G. W. Smith, Roy
•Smith, Ralph Smith. Robert Camp
Dr. E. F. Saxoij, If. O. Hill, 11.
A. Carithers, Jr., Judge G. A.
Johns, George Thompson. Cliff
Wages, T. C. Dunn and J. Herrin
O-Cedar Mops and Polish, sold
by Smith Hardware Cos.
Winder, Jackson County, Ga., Thursday, May Ist, 1913.
WINDER CLUB TO PICNIC
Former Windentcs New Living
In Atlanta Organise Club.
Atlanta. Ga.. April 20. —Editor
News: Owing to the fact that
so many families who formerly
lived in Winder now reside here,
Messrs. Albert Woodruff, E
Lloyd Thomas, -V. G. Cooper and
others consulted together and
have decided to have Winder Re
union at Grant Park on Sunday,
May 4th. Each family’ has been
requested to come, bringing well
filled baskets, a,ml we will all
spread dinner together.
We also wish to take this op
portunity of extending the good
people of Winder an invitation
and a hearty welcome down to
Atlanta to join us on that day.
We have decided to call this
“The Winder Reunion "and hav
appointed Mr. E. Lloyd Thomas
as president and Mrs. Frank
Cooper secretary, endeavoring to
make this an annual affair.
Again extending to friends in
Winder a very cordial invitation
to join us, very respectfully,
E. Lloyd Thomas, Pres.
Mrs. Frank Cooper, Sec'y.
MR. W. O. HARRISON
DIES IN GAINESVILLE.
News has reached Winder < f
the death in Gainesville last
Tuesday of Mr. W. O. Harrison,
formerly one of Jackson Conn
ty's prominent, citizens.
His remains were carried to
Pendergrass Wednesday and in
terred with Masonic honors.
Few men had more friend.*-
in Jaekon county thans 51 r. Hat
rison, and they wlil learn of h
death with regret.
NEW BILL IS DRAWN
THAT SUITS BRYAN.
Sacramento, Cal., April 29
Possibility of an arnica! !e adjust
ment of the alien land ownership
by means of anew hill drawn in
strict conformity with the treaty
between Japan and the 1 nited
States confronted tonight the
third secret conference of Secre
tary Bryan with Gov. Johnson
and the California legislature.
The conference was called for
8:30 o 'clock.
Attorney General Webb draft
ed the new measure at the sug
gestion of Gov. Johnson, and a
copy was placed immediately- in
the hands of Secretary Bryan.
The term “ineligible to <*iti
zenship” which is declared by
Secretary Bryan to be odious to
the Japanese is not included
and leaders are confident, that
they arrived at a solution of tin
problem that will receive the in
dorsement of President Wilson.
Secretary Bryan declined to com
ment on the new bill except in
the conference.
New Counties
lit is amusing to observe the
efforts of a few editors of papers
published in dried up tow 1 ; is
whose only distinction is being
a county site, trying to throw
cold water on new county propo
sitions. Topography, not
is responsible for their own situa
tion.
JIM HARDEMAN
Draws Saventy-Five Days for
Too Much Attention tc His
Spouse.
•Jim Hardeman, a Winder negn
who had raGier heat his wife
than work, drew seventy-five
days on the streets at a special
session of the mayor's court
Wednesday morning, and now
Jim is one of Captain Hill's reg
ulars.
Jim will now have an oppor
tunity to serve tile eoninmnit.'
and Captain Hill will furnish al
j the instructions necessary to
I Jim s success as a street hand.
At the rate Mayor Ferguson is
going we will soon have a ban
of road w irkers I hat can accom
plish something. The mayor's mot
to seems to he" Do Eight, >r Build
•Streets.”
FARMERS’ UNION LANDS
ON COTTON SCHEDULE.
New Orleans, Apr. 40. The cot
eon schedule of the democratic
tariff revision hill now pending ii
congress null result in heavy fi
nancial losses to the cotton plant
ers and cotton manufacturers, ac
cording to statements made by
representatives of these interests
today at a special hearing being
conducted here by a committee
representing the National Far
iners’ union
.J. 1). Brown, member of a spot
cotton firm of New Orleans,stat
ed that, the pending hill already
had resulted in a decline of near
ly $5 a hale in price of of raw eo<
ton,representing a loss of millions
of dollars to the planters.
BOARD OF TRADE
ELECTS NEW OFFICERS
At a postponed meeting of the
Winder Board of Trade at the
City Hall last. Tuesday evening,
the following officers were elect
ed for the ensuing year. '
W. H. Toole, President.
R. L. Carithers, First Vice Pres
ident.
11. N. Rainey, Jr., Second We
President. 1
Lee S. Radford, Secretary and
Treasurer. ) I
As executive Commit tee,Geo.W
Woodruff, Chairman,A. A. Camp.
C M. Ferguson, W. A. Brooks,
W. B. McCants, W. E. Young,
and A. S. Morgan,
There was a large and enthusi
astic attendance on the meetin
and a number of other interest
ing items of business were dis
posed of.
The naming of several standing
committees is already ufodcr eon
sideration by the President, -Mr.
W. 11. Toole, and will he given
out at the regular meeting of the
body, which is to he 'next Thurs
day at 8:30 P. M. at the City
Hall.
Had to Stay with it.
The northbound train on the
Gainesville Mdiland was rattling
along the other day near the city
limits, und a passenger who was
getting a hit nervous over mis
sing connection here with a
Seaboard train for Atlanta, call
ed th<* conductor and asked:
“Can’t you make better time?’
“I could,'” said that official,
“but my duties force me U> re
main with this train.”
W. L. I UUING,
—the—
SHINGLEMAN.
10 Pages. No. 3
MARY PHAGAN MURDERED
Pretty Fiftaen-Yeai-Old Atlanta
Girl Meets Horrible Fite.
Atlanta, Ga.. May I.—No crime
has so stunned and appalled this
more or less hardened old town
than tin* cruel and wanton mur
der of pretty Mary Phagan,
whose lifeless body was found in
the basement of the National Pen
oil company plant on Forsyth St.
early Sunday morning.
The Grace affair, title Apfple
baum ease had only (dements of
mystery dealing with wordly wist
people, whose lives perhaps had
not been all they should have.
But Maw Phagan, an innocent
child of 14, whose home was in
an humble section of the city.who
had worked to help keep the
wolf from the family door, and
whose character was unassailable
brought all the elements of in
tense interest. Mingled with pro
found pity for the brutal assault
and her horrible death, there stir
red in everyone deepest anger
and the desire to see the demon
or demons in the (oils.
Four men have been arrest'd
and are being detained with
a charge of suspicion marked up
against them.
Leo Frank, the superintend* nt
of the factory in which the girl
worked; New't Lee, the negro
night watchman, Gantt, a dis
charged bookeeper and a young
fellow by the name of Mullinax/
But as the evidence crystali/.cs
Ihe .finger of suspicion is point
ing toward the superintendent
and the negro.
The only m w bits of evidence
in the Phagan murder ease Wed
nesday afternoon were brought
out by the testimony of Gus
Hopes a white boy of about fif
teen years, who swore that some
time before the day ot the
killing of Mary Phagan,
whom lie knew 'veil, had
told him that Frank, superinten
dent of the factory, had been
trying to flirt with her, that he
had become holder in his atten
tions, and that she was beginning
to he afraid f him. She asked
him to call for her at the factory
he said, and see her safely home.
He further stated that he had ar
eiigagem nt with her to see the
Memorial Day parade together
and that they were to meet on
the street down town. He sa'
that h** waited.two hours after
two o’clock and she did not come
Tin the impiest the negro, Lee,
told practically what was known
already -confessing nothing, and
implicating no one directly. Much
of his testimony was varying in
accuracy. Ih* said that Supetim
tendent Frank let him off for
two hours Saturday afternoon,
and told of other unusual things
Frank did on the day and even
ing—but nothing to tie him to
the killing directly.
Extra for Tcnight
Manager Hharpton, in addition
to flic regular program at the
Lyrie tonight has arranged with.
Howard and Nelson, two noted
vaudeville singers, to appe; .
Home early and enjoy the ent'ie
pert* >rmance.