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Pianos,
Organs, Buggies.
VOL. XX.— -10 Pages
WINDER’S POSTOFFICE
MAKES FINE SHOWING.
.New Parcel Post Weights and
Rates Mean Much to This
Section.
DurJUg the year 1913, the itn
crease in postal receipts at the*
Winder postoffiee has been phe-<;
nominal
The money order business has
increased in December 60 percent
over previous months. The public
has learned thii is’ the safest and
cheapest way to transmit money.
Postmaster McCants and his ef
ficient crew are to be congratu
lated upon the manner in which
the business has been handled.
While trying on the force, the
parcel post busines.'j which was
enormous just before and during
th e holidays, was handled with
dispatch, and Uncle Sam’s ser
vants in this neck of the woods
have been highly comp}, mentcd,
and the patrons Of the office are
well pleased with the service.
The esteem in which the rural
carriers are held alorjg the routes
was attested Christmas morning
l>y many presents from patrons
along the routes!
The parcel post rates which
go into effect today will mean a
bigger volume of business for
this office, and a big saving to
its patrons. A package we;gk
ijug'vfour ounces or less can be
sent anywhere in the United
states for four cents. In the
first and second zones one to
fifty pounds can be sent at a
nominal cost. The weight in the
to eighth zones has been
raided to twenty pounds.
To illustrate what this means
to the people, a one pound pack
age can be sent from Winder to
■New York for only eight cents.
Another thing the people shonh
know is that parcel post insur
ance is the cheapest insurance on
earth. The department will m
| su r<4 a $25 package for 5c and a
• SSO package for 10c.
The Doming Show.
“Paid In Full,” the most suc
cessful of all plays, will be pre
sented at the Lyric theater for
one night only, January sth.
Paid n Full is from the Pen
of Eugene Walters and is consid
ered by all who are competent
to judge, as the best play ever
written by an American play
wright. It hafc the distinction of
making the longest run of any
play ever presented in .Yew York,
be ng played for over two yean;
at the Astor theater on Broadway
winter and summer, without the
loss of a night; over one year in
Chicago. Over six million pleased
playgoers liave laughed and cried
with Jimsey and Emma, have de
spised (’apt. Williams and felt sor
m for Joe Brook i. Every inteiii
/ lent playgoer or magazine reader
flows the worth of “Paid in
Mil," and in the hands of this
k i yver company, headed by Eiley
■pvb’onnor, a performance worth
H. Ie is guaranteed.
for this engagement will
Hr 25c, 50c, 75c and SI.OO. Scats
r®re now on sale at Wages Drug
<o. Curtain will rise promptly at
8:30 o’clock.
There were 47 homicides in At
lanta during 1913. Barborous At
lanta is indeed great.
.eijc wiiiucr ixtm.
PICKFOCKETS PLACED
UNDER SIO,OOO BONDS.
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Twp Winder Men Fleeced by the
Nimble Fingered
Gentry.
Probably the highest bond ever
exacted of prisoners in police
court was imposed by Recorder
Nash. R. Broyles, of Atlanta,
upon three pickpocket suspects
who had been identified by a
large number of victims who had
suffered frisking of the pockets
dur ng the holiday season.
The trio were Max Fine, New
York; Louis Gozzollo, Baltimore,
and William Hoffman of South
Bend, I ml., and their bond was
placed at SIO,OOO each. The re
corder, upon asserting the bfarl,
said: .
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“I'll ’b.’n'd you crooks over to
a higher court that should hold
you. I think ten thousand will
suit the case ot l each of you.
Messrs. W. A. Watson ami ’W.
11. Elrod, farmers of Jackson
county, were victims of these
the ves, and Went down to At
lanta Tuesday to testify against
them.
■NEW EQUIPMENT FOR
LOCAL MILITIA
As rapidly as it is received by
the Btat*e from the ’War Depart
ment, the new field equipment is
being issued to the Nat.oaai
Guard, and the Winder company
has .just received a part of it;
supplies consisting* of new field
kits, new tents, signal flags,
camp .cans and anew lot of field
ierviee uniforms are on the way.
for some weeks past the At
lanta regiment has been bnqy re
ceiving ami becoming familiar
with the article* that have l*en
furnished it, and it is now fully
and completely equipped tor -Ser
vice.
The Winder tittanils is one o
the companies making up thr -3t(
Separate Battalion, and will in
a short time have all the acces
sary supplies for active service
should they W cal Led into ithe
f eld. .
The annual inspection of like
company has been set for April.
'jjE OLD YEAR BROUGHT-,
Mwy Changes In America’s
Political and Economical
System.
Wash mg ton,. Dec. 31- Nineteen
tlirteen brought clmngex Tn the
American government, polit eat,
economical and financial, prob
ably more far-reaching than any
other year in the last quarter or
a century.
Among the clianges were:
Democratic admin stration
ruled the nation for the first time
since Cleveland; the first! con
stitutional amendments since 1870
were perfected, providing for an
:neome tax and direct election oi
I'nited States Senators; na
tional bank and currency >system
devised to float the civil war debt
was.reorgan zed into a federal re
serv system and a vast financial
reform effected, the first since
’Wilson bill of 1.893, one of the
most comprehendve ever enacted
th e parcel post system was in
stalled ; the Interstate Commerce
Commission ordered a decrease
in express rates wh'.'ch was ex
pected to save partons millions at
nually; the last'steps in building
the Panama Canal were taken;
practical control of the l Philippine
was g.ven naitves; hloodlses and
suitless dissolution of the soealled
telephony trust is expected to
bring a new era in the govern
ment s relations to “big bus : -
ness. ’ ’
Winder, Jackson County, Ga., Thursday, January 1, 1914.
LOVE IS BLIND
V
—Ketten tn New York Evening WorWL
MORE OITY FATHERS
SOON TO BE ELECTED
t ■ t ' f ,, 1
Vacancy in Second Ward To Be
Filled Wednesday—Two
Candidates for Place
This is to be “polticaJ” year
ajid while it is quite young yet,
the pot is already be. ig con
siderably—locally.
While the mayor and council
of "Winder are eelcted for two
yeaiv, tile charter provides that
the terms of three of the six al
dermen shall expire at the end of
each year, and the election to be
held Wednesday, the 7th. i.f to
ratify tile nomination of the three
gentlemen chosen at the Novem
ber primary. They are Messrs. R-
D. Moore, First w-ard; G. S. Mill
saps, Th rd ward, and Kj O. Rwf
at large.
The removal from his ward to
another of Mr. R. L. Sharpton re
cently, made his resignation as
councilman necessary, according
to the charter leaving a vacan
ay from the Second ward. An
election for hi- successor lias been
called to be held on the *an,(
date of tin* general election and
there are two 'in the
race for the honor, Messitj B. ('•
Hill and H. ,J. Garrison. Both
are well known c tizens popular
with the voters of the Second
ward and the entire city, and
tlie battle of ballots, should the
race remain between the two;
will furnish more than ord nary
interest to the citizens on elec
tion day.
As soon as tin* vote i.s* consol
idated by council the old mem
bers will vacate, and the body
will be reorganized and Mayor
Ferguson and his cabinet start
on the administration of city
affairs for the new year.
Baesball Attacked as Trust.
Dispatchhhes istate tliatj organiz
ed baseball is to be attacked as
a trust und"r th • Sherman law,
if the blacklisting of players is
to continue, according to Edward
Gates, counsel for the Federal
League.
MEXICAN FEDER'ALS
ARE SLAUGHTERED.
Hueifta’s Soldiers Are Victims
of Bullets, Shells and
Shrapnel.
Presidio, Texas, Dec. 31.—Al
ter withstanding bullets, shell
and shrapnel poured in on them
from the rebels, th Mexican fed
eral* at Oflinaga, j Ixieo, tonight
still was entrenched within the
village, but in the opinion
of in litary experts with small
hope of bfeatmg back the attack
ing force.
Gen. Ortega’s army of '6,000
scattered over the surrounding
hills after driv ng 4,000
from all their outposts and into
the shelter of the adobe build
ings and inner trenches, at sun
down were beginning to advance
their artillery with a veiw of
demolishing the horse corral and
oth-r loophole buildings where
the bulk of federals were housed.
Many federal officers includ
ing General Marcello Oharaveo,
commander of volunteers, were
reported killed or wounded.
Much of the rebel cavalry fire
ol no effect, but when Gener
al Ortega put field pieces into
action the outlying adobe houses
crumbled into heaps of-dry mud,
leaving , a clearer range into life
heart, of fife Vetfleineqt.
The nurjrbeJ* of dead and
wounded is not known, but loss
es wer e not heavy, most of
(, ‘e huts had been abandoned by
%‘ le federals for safer pos tjon-|.
Will Go on Kb ad.
J. (i . .Nowell, popular prescrip
tion clerk at Dr. and T. Wage,
Hnijr Company, will leave next
Sunday morning for Balt more,
where In goes to accept a posi
tion with Park-Da vis & Cp.,
Detroit and Baltimore, to trav
el for that firm. Mr. Nowell's
headquarters will he in Ashe
v he, N. C. Gibson has many
triendfe in this section who wish
him success in h s new field of
labor.
W. E. Young,
—the-
Shingleman.
10 Pages.—No. 38
WOODRUFF BROTHERS
SERVE DUTCH) SUPPER.
Sixty Employees and a Few
Invited Guests Enjoy
Their Hospitality.
Last night those live, energet
ic hardware merchants and ma
chinery manufactures, the *Wood
ruff enterta.ned their
employees and their families, to
gether with a few invited guests,
at a Dutch supper, and right here
We wall to state that if the feast
served by the Dutchmen is a sam
ple of the way the Dutch table
is set, w T e are sorry we were not
born Dutchmen.
Mr. G. VV. ’Woodruff, president
of the company, was master of
ceremopies.
The luncheon was spread' in
the store-room. Long counters
and show eases served as ta
bles. The menu consisted of
oysters, stewed and fried, pork
chops, boiled ham, pickles, ba
nanas, grape juice and many oth
or things \v t . didn’t reach ow
ing to the crowded condit on
of our bread baskets.
A Billy Bryan toned was drunk
to the New Year and to the
Woodruff Brothers.
After the luncheon, Mayor Fer
guson, mounted the platform in
the center of the room and fa
vored the audience with a stir
ring, eloquent address, in wlr'ch.
he paid h igh tribute to his hosts
for putting 'Winder on the map
saying that you might write
Woodruff’’ on a postal card
in Kalamazoo, drop it in the posts
office and it would travel post
haste to Winder, lie shed tears
at the passing of Jhe good year*
1913, but indicated his willing
ness to bury it. Up smiled h. a
approval of Baby Fourteen and
predicted that the youngster
would be as good to this action,
the garden spot of the world,
as the old gentleman was draw
ing his labt breath. 1 f- • t ’t
Mr A. L. Smith also paid al
tribute to his host, saying that
he had bfcen with the firm twen
ty years, and had -*en it grow
from a babe in swaddling clothes
to its present place among the
manufactures of the south, and
; n all that time there had neven
been a jar between the firm and
himself.
Then it was that Mr. George
Woodruff mounted the rostrum,
told a few pointed jokes on h'.’q
employees and invited one and
ail to accompany him to the
Bush theater, where a special
program was awaiting them.
Winder Mascjhs Elect.
At the D< eeinher. meeting of
Winder lodge, No. :m, Free and
Accepted Masons, the following
representat ve Mai tins were elect
ed as officers for the year 1914:
W. T. Robinson, worshipful mas
ter, 11. N, Rteiney dr., senior war
den; W. M. Fliasty ti, junior
warden; ,J. S. Settle, chaplain;
W. J. Smith, secretary; K. D.
Moore, senior deacon; 1. and.
junor deacon; 11. A. Caritherg,
dr., • enior steward; W. D. Mea-
Jor, junior steward; A. P. Guf
f n. tylcr.
Lost.
Gentleman’s Signet ring. Fin
der return to News off ee and re
ceive reward. <
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