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Flanigan & Flanigan
Pianos,
Organs, Buggies.
VOL. XX.—l6 Pages
INDUSTRIAL MOTION
PICTURE MEN HERE
Mr. Carl Rioflndtree, manager
of the Scenic -Film Cos., has been
here lor the past two clays mak
ing arrangements to produce a
moving picdure of the town to
be used in Boosting Winder and
vicinity. All the principal
streets, stores, churches manu
facturing plants and public build
ings will be photographed % the
moving picture camera, and as
many people as possible should
be on the streets when the pic
tures are made.
This is anew idea in the mov
ing picture business and no
doubt will prove beneficial to our
community, as it will enable a
distant public to see what activ
ity is going on here, thereby in
teresting capital, maniifaetur : ng
plants and new people.
The pictures taken the last two
days will be shown Friday and
Saturday night at the Lyric thea
ter by Manager Sharpton. Re
memlber Bobby Bunas once wrote
“Oh, wad tome power the
giftie gie a*s
To see ourselves as ithers see
us.’”
Mc&dern science and the movies
have furnished that power. Corne
to the Lyric Friday night and
take a look at yoneself.
Hie Fire Still -Burning.
It has been said that truth is
stranger than fiction but in this
/ age of pipe dreams and brain
torms, we hesitate to chronicle a
rruth .that has reached us through
reliable sources for fear of being
-classed with that bunch who
dream dreams all day long. But
here go^s:
Back in the days of witchcraft
.or about the time Georgia put on
statehood, a young man wended
his wijy through the forest in
search of a location to start life
anew. He left the pine hut of
his parents near what is now
known as .the South Carolina line,
•and .along beaten Indian paths
trudged his weary way. After
many adventures and narrow- es
capes this young man reached a
big, boll bubbling spring and
pitched Lis tent and buiit his
camp-f re in what is now known
as Walton county. *
Be has passed away, his child
ren have all crossed the great
divide and his grand-children
have followed, but the fire is
still burning.
On this spot he built a modest
log cabin,and as time passed the
cabin gave way to a more pre
tentious building The govern
ment grant to this young man
has p*ssed down from generation
to generation, but the fire burns
oa
~ From the chimmey of this old
■house, winter or summer, you ean
i'Bee the^ little blue smoke issuing
forth Old man Moore's fire is
still burning. Storms have come
■Land beat upon the house; snows
|Wve banked around the doors;
blizzards have kept the inhabi
tants in for days, but old man
Moore's fire is still kept burning
Matches are unknown here. The
fire first kindled from an old
.flint and spunk, is still serving as
kindling wood and it will burn or
until the lamp of the Moores
burift out. ,
®)C tumocr mem;
K'ELP THE NEEDY
December 21st Set as the Day of
Collection for Hospital
Funds
Both the Georgia aud
th e South Georgia Conferences
have ordered Dec. 21st set as the
day for collection of funds for
Wesley Memorial Hospital in all
Methodist churches of the state.
Bishop CailFr's report for the
past year should int-; r '’st every
one in the State.
The Institution is nonsectarian
in its ministrations. Sufferers
from 1 103 counties from all
denominations.
Read below The Bishops report
in part:
After eight years of the most
blessed results a majority of
the Method.'st people of Georgia
have not come to any proper ap
preciation of the magnitude and
value of thiL great benevolence.
During the year from Novem
ber 1, 1912, to November I, 1913
there have been treated in the
Hospital 957 patients, of whom
only 370 were able to pay for
their treatment. Charity patients
who were unable to pay any
thing .at .-all numbered lib; and
there were 471 patients who
could pay only a part of the c°st
of their treatment. For charity
work 1-he Hospital has expended
4>8,603.14 during the year, or $4,
784.36 more than the total
anmuitf .of the thinistmas eollec
j Hang Hr am both of the Annual
in Georgia.
The total number of patients
treated in the Hospital during
[ the year is four more than were
Ireakafl last year. This is about as
great number as can be treated
in a year by the institution with
its present capacity. All the
rooms and wards have been occu
pied jnearly every day in the
year. v
The patients treated in the lfos
p tal came froiu all quarters; and
they represent all religious de-
The institution is
neither local nor sectarian Ti its
merciful ministrations. Sufferers
came to it from 103 count es in
Georg is al.ogm, mot. to mention otJi
ter states; and members of four
teen denominations were found
;ajong alhem.
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JUDGE R. B. RUSSELL
To Be Candidate to Succeed Him
self c,n Appellate Bench.
Athena, <Ga., Dae. 15—-1 udge R.
1 8. htussell, of tlie court of ap
peals, ,jt is understood, will he a
candidate for re-election in the
primary next simmer. Already
there is much speculation over
j the contest as there will be two
I judges for that court to he elect
ed!
I in Clarke county and in this
seet:on of the state, Judge Rus
sell will receive a warm support
and the usual large majority in
Clarke for him will, so doubt be
’rolled up agaj/n.
For many years Judge Riussell
livedi in Athens, in fact since his
early childhood days. Here he
spent the better part of his life.
He has represented Clarke for
several terms in the Georgia leg
islature and was judge of this c ; r
cui* for several terms.
Ivanihoe.
All who witnessed the presenta
tion of “Ivanhoe” at the Lyric
last Friday night were loud in
their praises of the management
of the playhouse and the h'gh
class picture put on.
Winder, Jackson County, Ga., Thursday, December 18, 1913.
HON. J. J. BROWN IS
KEEPING IN LIMELIGHT.
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 17 —Certain
movement of Hon. J. 3. Brown in
filling numerous speaking engage
ments over the state ; n th e inter
est of agriculture, and the oft-re
peated statement by Thomas L-
Watson that Brown “was cheat
ed out -of his office at the MaeoP
convention,” are taken by poli
ticians here to mean that Air-
Brown will be a candidate for
commissioner of agriculture at
the next election, and that his
candidacy will be sponsored by
the Red-1 leaded One.
If this is true it will bring up
an extremely interesting state
wide question as to just what
part Old Man County Unit will
play in future elections .
Mr. Brown in the last campaign
I ran on an avowed county unit
platform, but at the Macon con
vention his two opponents com
bining their strength, and he was
defeated. Since that time Air.
Watson has missed few chances
to refer to the way Air. . Brown
wa.s “cheated” as he terms it*
out of Ids office, “after having
been elected by a majority of the
voters.” Thru all this advocates
of the state-w.de system are mere
ly smiling and saying nothing.
NEW TRIAL REFUSED
BY JUDGE JOHNS.
Judge Johns of the City, Court
of Jefferson has refused anew
trial in the ease of 11. C. Bark vs.
Y. A. Daniel and others. This
case consumed about, three days
m the trial and then resulted in
| a verdict for the defendants. A
: motion for new trial was made
and this has been refused. It is
very probable that the case w 11
go to tlu* court of appeals as the
amount involved is large and the
-legal questions nice.
Card of Thanks.
To our fr ends of Winder.—
You can never know until the
[great uny of God, how much J.
i anq n,y *^l.appreciate
!you as friends and brethren,
four many expressions of sympa
thy a nd ev deuces of true friend
ship and love will go through, life
wnn each of us in sweet memory
ol our sad and sudden bereave
ment. Having received so many
letters, telegrams, phone messages
and expressions of sympathy and
love from you all and others all
over the state and' even out of
the state, J have decided to take
tliis means of extending to you
all our sincere thnaks and grati
tude for all you have said
and done to lighten the stroke
which came so suddenly upon ins.
I tli ink you will understand us
in th s. The God whom we serve
and the Christ, whom I have been
preaching to others, is always
near us, and while we do not un
derstand now this tragedy it wHI
all be understood some day. Our
fa th in God is strong and unshak
en. We look forward to the time
when we shall see her who was
the light of our home from the hu
man side, in her glorified life
and he with her and others who
have gone before forever. May
the peace of God ever he upnri all
of you and yours! Truly and
gratefully your brother.
W lliam Dunfyar.
THE GROUCTK'
Quits the Sticks and Casts His
Lot with the Horse-Swap
pers of Statham.
The Grouch dropped hi to see
us this week to order his paper
changed to Statham, the best ham
let on the line of the Seaboard
according to his reasoning.
“Tired of the verdant meadow,
the lowering cattle, the braying
mules and nickering horses,
Grouch!”
“No, Bob, hut life is too short
to waste it. feeding mules and
horses for negroes to drive to
death. Times have changed
since you were a lad on the farm
Then the negroes fed the mules,
watered the pigs, drove the cat
tle to pasture and cut the stew
wood while you chased the mol
ly-cotton-tail with your dog and
gun. Now you have to pet, beg
and foot the bills to get a negro
to do anything. Then scheme like
the devil to get the money hack
in the fall you have advanced the
scoundrel to make a crop.’ 1 ’ve
got the meadow, all right, but I
shall let others list to the melody
of tin* Lowering cattle and carry
water to the squaling pigs.”
“But, Grouch, if you just had
to move to town why didn’t you
come to Winder!”
“Winder. Oh, no; you folks
are too busy here. Always in a
racket. I want quiet. Go ng to
Stahtam, where, should I become
morose and melancholly I can
beat Charlie Chambers playing
checkers and east off the spell,
and if I get to feeling good l
can swap horses with Guy Thur
mond or dim Burson and get bad
to normal.”
Say, Grouch, I have it by
grapev lie that the Statesman
from The Hub will positively be
in the race for congress, and that
your boyhood friend, the Side
stepper from Minishes, will make
the race for representative from
.Jackson as an out and out ant -
new county candidate.”
“You don’t say. But I am
out of politics, Boh. In all probia
liilily then; will he no new comi
ty issue n August. You see tile
legislature failed to pass that
bill making it mandatory to hold
primaries before the 15th of June
I would not like to make a race
on an issue'that might prove to
be uo issue. I might find my
self in August, like a ship wili
out a rudder. But I sbn n’t dis
cuss politics, it is too early.”
“Didn’t know your judicial
friend, R chard Brevard, was go
ing to try to hang on to his job,
did you.”
“50, but I expected as much.
Running for office has, become a
chronic habit with Richard. When
he Croaks he’ll announce for door
keeper of the celestial mansion as
soon as he crosses the Dark Val
ley.”
“•Say, Grouch, come to think
of it, I am rather glad you are
going to Statham. 1 need a boos
ter down there for The News.
The cap fits you splendidly if I
can keep you straight when pol
itics liven up and the bid I wethers
in the political game begin to tell
us what state-savers they are.”
"You let The News do its own
boosting, Bob. Stick to facts.
Try to do something worthy for
W. E. Young,
-—the—
Shingleman.
16 Pages.—No. 36
ATLANTANS PREPARING
FOR WET CHRISTMAS.
Atlanta, Dec.. 17—Th sis go
ing to he a “wet” Christmas ou
Decatur street in Atlanta as well
as at the exclusive clubs. .Thous
ands of gallons of whiskey are
pouring into Atlanta by express,
and the police though do ng their
best find the blind tiger situa
tion too big for them to cope
with.
by tbe number of drunken ne
groes picked up every night now
on Decatur street they know the
booze s flowing free from some
where, but though they oecasion
ally arrest a lone blind tiger, the
liquor continues to flow, and un
der flu* conditions which exsit it
is doubtful if any police regula
tions could stop it.
Atlanta today is about as lit
tle of a probihibit on eity as it
ever was in the old saloon days.
There are more clubs that sell
whiskey to members than ever
before in tbe city's history, in
every part of the city are thriv
liave thrown off all pretense of
selling beerf’* *
7
Possums in! His Smoke Houses
ba s t Tuesday morning, Mr., (J*
W. Smith, one of our well-fed fi
nanciers, whose smoke-houses are
always packed and jammed with
good things to appease the appe
tite of the hungry man, went
down into one of them where he
had hilled up some potatoes, and
in a box in one corner he discov
ered two fat possums. He quick
ly threw a plank over the box
and captured them,
i They had gained an entrance
through, a hole under a sill. Me.
Smith had recently missed sever
al chickens, and now believes he
has caught the thieves, lie does
not mind the chickens so long as
the thieves will fill a long-felt
want . , ‘ r '^
I
mankind. Always be willing to
give and take. Don’t blow- off
| when a man doesn’t see things
Ike you do. You have no copy
right on brains. .Many a time the
other fellow is right and you are
wrong. When you find you are
wrong, acknowledge the corn like
a man. The folks will soon find
you out.. Everybody adra res a
fair, conscientious rd tor who
fights for what he believes to he
best for his people and who con
demns that which he believes to
be hurtful whether they agree
with his conclusions or not.” *j
“Thank you, Grouch. That is
a pretty good lecture. Still, 1
an e,count ng on you to help me.
iStathajn should grew, and if she
grows she must advertise, and if
her merchants advertise they ex
pect results. And to get results
1 must have more subscribers in
that section. So you pitch in and
boost Hjtatham through fh'ti
ums of The. News. Let the folks
know that it s you that is doing
the boosting, and things will hum
around that little town, and I
w 11 double my subscription list
there in three months, and every
body will be pleased for miles
around.”
“Well, I’ll think of what you
say, Bob. Anything in it for mo.”
“Yes, glory.”
“I thought so, Goodbye. Come
to see me.” .
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