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Organs, Buggies.
Vol. XX.—l2 Pages.
WINDER’S HIGH SCHOOL GRAD
UATES GET DIPLOMAS TUESDAY
Exercises at Opera House Tuesday Evening Will
Mark Close of Successful Term of City Schools
and Vacation Will be On In Earnest.
The graduating exercises to be held in tlie Lyric theatre Tues
day evening will close the commencement of the Winder Public
schools, and teachers and pupils will begin to enjoy a well-earned
rest from duties and studies.
The following is the program furnished the News for the ex.
erciseg at the Lyric, and its attractive features will doubtless draw
a crowd of the friends of the young people who make up the list
of participants: '
Chorus.. ..Soldier’s Song High School
Solo.. ..Voices of Spring.. . .Bohm Nell McCants
Pantomine. . ..Lotos-Eaters Poem by Tennyson
Grecian warriors, returning from Trojan war, stop at
lotos-land, and lose desire 1o return home,
Duet.. ..Feathered Songsters Haenens
Mrs. Potts and Evelyn Radford.
Oration Hero Worship Erastus Smith
Violin Quartette.. ~Waltz Kelly
Ist. Violin, .. ..[Willie Mae Eavenson and Alton Young]
2nd. Violin,.. ..[Bertram Radford and Frank Huffaker]
Essay.. ..The Beauties of Natuie Lena Stovall
Music The Bull Dog Glee Club
Essay.. .. Evolution of the American Girl.. Mary Alice Strange
Solo.. ..Loye’s Oracle.. ..Bohm Sarah Hayes
Essay.. ..The Twentieth Century Jennie Smith
Solo.. ..II Trovatore. . ..Verdi Evelyn Radford
Essay.. ..At the End of the Rainbow Lottie Sikes
Delivery of Diplomas
Music.. ..The Reason Why Glee Club
Motto “Ad astra per aspera”
YOUNG SANDERS WALKER
DIED THIS MORNING
Several Days Ago Prominent Ma
con Man Took a Bichloride
* of Mercury Tablet, Mis
taking It for Aspirin.
Macjn. Ga., May, 22 B. h>an-
Walker died at 2 o’clock
this morning from the effects of
a tablet of bichloride of mercury
which he took a week ago by
mistake for aspirin to relieve a
headache. 1 1
Mr. Walker was unconscious
when he died? and had been
since 4 o’clock in the afternoon.
With him wihen he passed away
wire his wife and is immediate
relatives.
Physicians predicted when Mr.
Walker became unconscious in
the afternoon that th e end of hi?
brave struggle a gainst the poison
wtos approaching. They said In
would die in a feW hours and
would not regain consciousness,
and their predictions w*ere veri
fied. I
The news of the death of 1
Sanders Walker, who died at his
home in Macon at 2 o’clock this
morning, has cast a deep sorrow
over this city, where he and his
family have hundreds ol friends.
, Mr. Walker was the son o Hon
B. S. Walker, of Monroe, a broth
er of Col. Clifford M. Walker, for
mer solicitor general of the Wes
tern circuit, and was himself pro-i
inent and popular in social and
business affairs 'of the State.
•Messrs. W. T. Robinson, W. J.
jtfp-rin, W. C. Ilorton,. Lee S.
fUdtird and G. B. Mat lie vis .mo
pe red to Gainesville Tuesday
Giight to attend the Bridgers-T/ill.-
in!an services.
Agents for one of the best lane
dries in the South. "W ho . Ai
thhr Childs.
JACKSON SCHOOL CENSUS
Gain of 502 In Children of School
Age Since 1908 Shown by
Commissioner’s Report
In a tabulated report of the
school census sent out by Com
missioner Elrod this week, the'
gain in number of children in
Jackson county since 1908 is shov
to' be 502. The figures are
Whites, 5502. comprised of 2839
males and 2663 females; colored,
2514, comprised of 1278 males
and 1236 females.
Bid ATHENS FIRM
Believes in Doing Things, ani*
Have Something to Say
In This Issue
There is a firm over in Athens
that believes in doing things, and
letting folks know about what
they intend doing, and in this is
sue Davison-Nicbolson Cos., of
that city, has a half-page an
nounemeenf in which they say
some interesting things to the
trading public. Read it, and pro
it thereby. '
COUNCILMAN SHARPTON
\
Second Ward Councilman Elect
ed and Sworn in Tuesday
______ *
The election to fill the /vacan
cy in the aldermanic board cause*
lay the death of S. E. Sjtiarpton.
recently was held pursuant to an
order of council Tuesday, and
Mr. R. L. Sharp ton, brother of
the deceased councilman, was
elected to fill his unexpired term.
There was no opposition to Mr.
Sharpton, which accounts for
the small Vote polled. There wer
only 52 ballots east, he receiving
ing 52 votes. ’ *
Th#mayor called his board to
gether for tlie purpose of qualify
ing the newly elected member
Tuesday evening, and administer
ed the oath to Mr. Sharpton
and he is n o w actively discharg
ing his duties as one of the city
fathers. ; /
Winder, Jackson County, Ga., Thursday, May 22nd, 1913.
JAMES B. NEVIN
Has Kind Words for the Creation
of Barrow County
James B. Nevin, one of the
most brilliant newspaper men
in Georgia in Monday’s Atlanta
Georgian had some very kind
words to say for Winder and the
probable success of the proposi
tion to create Barrow county. Mr.
Nevin is the broad-minded polit
ical editor of the Atlanta Geor
gian, wide-avvake and pretty
well versed in the trend of things
Political or otherwise. ILi e is
how he sizes up the proposition o J
new counties:
“There will he many new coun
ty propositions submitted to the
Georgia Legislature at its forth
coming summer session. Some
of them are likely to go thru.
“There generally is a disposi
tion upon the part of the Legisla
ture to give favorable ear to
new county proposals, where the
showing made is commendable,
for it is recognized as a fact that,
same counties in the State now
are both fearfully and wonderful
ly made, particularly, as concerns
the convenience of the peoph
thereof in the matter ot getting
to and from the county seats.
“One new county proposal, for
instance, that the Legislature like
ly vvill consider with favor# is
that of the new 1 county of Bar
row. Barrow will be created of
slices of Walton. Gwinnett am.
Jaekson, with the hustling and
altogether substantial town of
Winder as the county scat.
“It generally is recognized
that this proposition is a £°°d
one. Winder now is neither fish
nor flesh, nor good red herring,
ft is located right where Gwin
nett, Jackson and Walton conn
ties corner.lt’s many miles from
the county scats of all .three conn
ties, and it is the most important
town in its vicinity..
“If any new county proposi
tions will look good to the in
coming Legislature, seemingly
the proposed c o unty of Barrow
should. And many members ol
the new General Assembly al
ready have expressed themselves
as ready to vote for it.
“It seems safe enough to say,
itherefore that any new county
proposition that frames up as
reasonably as Barrow, likely will
receive attention to its backers
satisfaction, even though numer
ous new county propositions un
doubtedly will receive Cold com
fort at the hands of the Legisla
ture.
JAP SITUATION
LOOKING BETTER.
President Wilson Greatly En
couraged—President Urges Sis
son Not to Make a “Jingo”
Speech.
Washington, May 21. Reassur
ing advices reached the state de
partment from .Japan late today,
indicating that the American re
ply to the protest against, the
California land law was received
in good spirit by the Tokio gov
ernment, and that the situation
had taken 0 n a much more favor
able appearance than at any time
since negotiations began. Oft io
jals here admitted their satisfae
ition ofver the turn of events.
ARE STILL SEEKING
FOR BETTER SERVICE
Interested Citizens Meet in Win
der to Discuss Service on
Gainesville Midland
Railroad.
Pursuant to a call from G. W.
Woodruff, temporary chairman
of what might be called a griev
ance committee, interested busi
ness men from Monroe, Campfon
Bethlehem, Hoschton and Bras
elton met in the City Hall in Win
der Wednesday afternoon to dis
cuss the miserable service be
ing handed out to us by the
Gainesville railroad and to plan
a fight for better service.
Mr. Woodruff made an inter
esting report of what steps had
already been taken and a commit
tee composed of gentlemen from
all along the narrow gauge
branch was selected to push our
grievances before the railroad
eommsision and federal authori
ties. The committee is composed
of G. W. Woodruff, chairman;
Roy Nuunally, secretary ;Burkett
R. Barrett, of Monroe. Broach of
Campton; Toole of Winder, W. P.
DeLaperriere of Hoschton and W
11. Braselton, of Braselton.
GOV. BROWN APPOINTS
BOARDS OF VISITORS
Governor Brown has announced
the appointment of new hoards of
visitors to the state university at
Athens, school for the deaf, at
Gave Spring; Georgia academy
for the blind, at Mac on. They
are as follows:
Board of visitors to the Univer
sity of Georgia—Prof. A. W. Van
I loose. Rome: Prof. Otis Ash more
Savannah; B. W. Hunt, Eaton
t.,)ii; Judge S. B. Brewton, Ilines
ville and A. Homer Carmichael,
..Jackson.
Board of visitors to the School
for the Deaf —John Awtrey, Ma
rietta; Dr. J. C, Bennett, Jeffer
son; Ernest Camp, Monroe; Dr. J
S. Daniel, Danielsville, Dr. W. B.
Tate, Cassville; Dr. E. 11. Rich
ardson, Cedartown; James B.
Nevin, Atlanta ;W. A. Wood, Dub
1 in; R. O. Ross, Winder; John L
Herring, Tifton.
Board of visitors to Georgia
Academy of the Blind —E. E. Cox
Camilla; Leroy Hirschburg, Bu
ena Vista; .J. 11. Holland, Madi
son; A. L. Miller, Edison; J. Bun
ter Johnson. Jeffersonville; P. F.
Bauknight, Atlanta; C. D. Roun
tree. swainesboro; John C. Reese
Atlanta; .Joe Hill Hall, Macon; E.
H. Griffin. Bainbridge.
BLOW TO LOCKER CLUBS.
Illegal for Culb Employee to- Sell
Liquor Even Without Any
Profit.
Atlanta, May 21. —The State
Court of Appeals has handed
down a decision in the case of
Ike Rotbchild, steward of the
Brunswick Oglethrope club, set
ting forth that, it is illegal tor
an employee of a social club to
sell whiskey, even though he does
not derive any profit from th<*
sale.
W e have just received a large
shipment of (hit Glass and Silver
ware, when getting a present for
the June Bride it will pay you to
see us. Smith Hardware Cos.
SHINGLEMAN.
12 Pages.—No. 6
CASE OF J WYLIE SMITH
Solemn Warning that the “Way
cf the Transgressor Is
Hard’’
Atlanta, Ga., May 21—
Thoughtless people who make a
joke of the solemn warning that
the “way of the transgressor is
hard,’’ will never hear from any
pulpit a more striking illustra
tion of that truth than is present
ed to the world by the person of
J. Wylie Siniht, who has come
back to Atlanta a living skele-
ton after having suffered terrible
a fugitive from jus
tice for more than two years.
Two years ago Wylie Smith
was a prosperous and respected
Atlanta business man He had a
happy family and was proserous
among his friends. But he yield
ed to the temptation to get mon
ey faster than it could he made
honestly, and wrecked the Com
mercial Loan & Discount Compa
ny, of which lie was president,.
His thefts were immediately dis
covered. and he fled to Mexico.
Since that moment to this his
life has been a hell o earth. For
a while he rotted in a Mexican
jail. Later he was impressed in-
to the army of Orosco. Broken
in body and spirit by privatio'
and disease, with the shadow of
death hovering over him, lie final
Jy crawled hack to American ter
ritory and surrendered. Today he
occupies a cell in the hospital
ward in the Fulton County jail
a mental and physical wreck.
His wife, a broken hearted
woman, unable to live in this
city where her husband is accuse*
of betraying the trust of some of
his best friends, has disappeared
from Atlanta, to live with rela
tives in another part of the coun
try.
Gees to Mesom
Prof. J. P. Dendy, principal of
Hoschton High School, has been
elected principal of Mesom Acad
emy, in Lexington, and has sig
nified his intention to accept.
Prof. Dendy, who came from
South Carolina two years ago,
has taught tw G splendid schools
of -Jacks n county, in both in
stants declining re-election < n
account of the patronage received
in both schools over-erow(ding the
school buildings. ’ {
When will the time come in
the history of our schools or prog
rcss of our schools, when all of
our smaller towns and thickly
settled rural communities, con
struct modern school buildings
with spacious rooms and audito
riums.
Why should Jackson lose an
aggressive teacher, who* can en
list the entire patronage in a dis
triet? I
Inadequate and poorly equip
ped school buildings causing a
hustling school principal to with
draw or retire, does not speak
well for a community.
Heinz Sweet Mixed, Sour, and
Dill Pickles at Baugh & Maughon
9 - -
Grain Cradles with Bloods
Blade at Smith Hardware Cos.
ARE THEY YOURS? Tw 0
bunches of Keys at the News of
fice. Owner please claim them.