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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. >l.* _____ 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: . > .. < i*• T. *■ ’ “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. < 1 i