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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF BARROW COUNTY AND CITY OF WINDER
Published Every Thursday Afternoon by R. O. Ross V Sons, and Entered at
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ROBERT O. ROSS. Editor
VOL. XXI. Thursday, March 25, 1915. No 50
WE SHOULD HAVE A COMPRESS.
Winder should have a cotton com
press .
Why.
Because more than one hundred
thousand bales of cotton are pur-'
chased here annually through our
local cotton buyers. A compress
"would save 45 cents on each bale
pressed, and this money would circu
late through the local avenues of
trade and benefit us all.
The final ginners report recently
published shows 16,640,000, including
linters, being the largest number of
'bales of cotton ever raised in the
United States. It would seem that
this, report, coupled with war con
ditions, would have sent the price of
cotton downward, but such is not the
case. Since the report was publish
ed cotton has steadily advanced
and lias reached a figure representing
about three dollars a bale.
Mr. J M. Williams, one of Win
der’s largest cotton buyers, tells
us that on the day the report was
(published that he 1 ought 820 bales
and that he has averagdd 100 bales
per day since. It takes about 25,00
hales to supply his own demand in
his cotton mill.
(rood cotton today is selling on the
streets of Winder at from 9 to 9 1-2
cents per pound.
When Is a Booster a Booster.
Dear Mr. Editor:
A bunch of us girlc want to be
come Boosters, and we want you to
toll us when a Mxoster is a Booster
PAUdNE.
Well, Pauline, my dear, you have
got our gaat. Our idea of a Booster
is that he is a man (or girl, w -man
or child) who has something good ir>
say for his state, his county, his
city, his brethren. He is a man who
believes in peace, obeys the law,
and every' morning turns his face to
the rising sun with a new-born hope.
He lias a smile for his neighbor, a
pleasant good morning for those he
meets, he mingles with the jostling
crowd, a contributor of his means
for the good of the whole, is devoid
of selfishness and full of public
spirit. When one boosts only when
the dough comes his way and knock*
when it goes the civic way, he be
comes a Bucker and is obnoxious to
nil harminous progressive communi
ties.
Who Has Lived Here The Longest.
We would like to know who has
lived longest in Barrow county. Write
ns a letter, if you are an old resi
dent, and tell us some facts about
your early days. We wi 11 publish the
letters from the oldest residents. We
wish to secure as many interesting
facts as possible. The publication
of one incident w ill remind other old
timers of other incidents, so let the
letters coma.
To the person showing the long
est continuous residence in the coun
ty, absence of less than one year, or
service in the army or i.nvy not to
be counted against the pioneer, we
will send The News free for the re
mainder of his or her life. To the
second oldest pioneer we will send
the paper for "ive years free, and
to the third, one year free.
County Board of Health.
The (Irand Jury Wednesday named
Dr. S. T. Ross as the third member
of the County Board of Health. The
Ordinary and the Superintendent of
schools are the other two members.
The law- requires one of the members
to be a physician, and must be
named by the grand jury.
Store Rooms for Rent
For Rent. —Twib large store-room?,
rent reasonable; possession at once,
in Courthouse building. Apply to H.
G. Hill, Ordinary.
the needs of our town.
The city is the Gibraltar of civili
zation. it is a mixture of the best
and the worst things in the world
It is the greatest success and the
greatest failure. It Is a great bat
tle ground between the good ant' the
had, between light and darkness, ig
norance and wisdom, cleanliness and
dirt, righteousness and crime.
About its three great functions of
production, distribution and personal
service are gathered most of the ac
tivities of modern society. About the
first gather the farmers, the carpen
ters, the masons, the painters, ma
chinists, factory men and day labor
ers,. About the second gather the
merchants, railway men, street car
men, livery men, post men and ex
press men. About the function of per
sonal service gather the teachers,
preachers, doctors, lawyers, dentists,
policemen, firemen, undertakers, grave
diggers and many others. Among all
these gather the gamblers, the dere
licts, the harlots and the parasites
Who suck a living from the life blood
of the city and return for it nothing
hut destruction and death.
The chief difference between the
city and the town is one of size. The
problems and needs are the same in
the town except they are not so
great.
Tlie town is more important than
any private enterprise in it. If the
tow n does not succeed the people
who live in it cannot succeed as
they ought.
What every town needs is a great
er spirit of co-operation, more peo
ple who will unite to make their
town a success. Every town needs
leaders. If the people of vision and
aggressive spirit could see this and
would throw aside their timidity load
up with patience and go to work to
develop the latent powers of lead
ership within them they would do a
great thing for their town and would
get a greater benefit to themselves.
There is coming to our town a
Booster Chautauqua Festival, that af
fords a fine opportunity for the peo
ple of our town to get together and
demonstrate that they can unite Wn a
work of community uplift; and if the
stronger men of our town, and the
men and women who are now occupy
ing positions of leadership in smal
ler groups, such as the schools, the
churches and the lodges will arise
and uuite with our strong and capa
ble business men and professional
men to make this festival the succe s
it ought to be, it will advance our
town and impnove our citizenship.
There is nothing that will pay us
so welWas getting together and work
ing together for higher and better
things.
District Notaries Public.
The grand jury Wednesday an
nounced recommendation of the fol
lowing to be appointed notaries pub
lic and Ex-Officio Justices of the
Peace of Barrow county.
Houses District —R. O. Ross-
Bethlehem —J. T. Harrison
Auburn —J. O Hawthorne.
•Jones—M. A. A. Perkins.
Statham —T. J Sikes.
Pentecost —John A Robinson.
Chandler’s —Muller McElroy.
Ben Smith—W. J. Ethridge.
•
Cain's —J. H Parks.
Carload of Fords.
Flanigan & Flanigan have just re
ceived a carload of Ford automo
biles. They have yours, and if you
want the best car on the market for
the money, call and get it.
Evidently.
A wife in Missouri advertised her
husband as ‘‘A loafer, a liar, a drunk
ard and a Bull Moose.” It is under
stood they had quarreled.—Mac o n
Telegraph.
fine grand jury.
Barrow county has thousands of
good people —fine business men, but
in our opinion, no finer, energetic
more intelligent body of men will be
called to serve her as in a
decade than the twenty-three citizens
who served her as grand jurors this
week.
Their presentments were brief, clear
and distinct, their work harmonious
and their conclusions logical.
These men went on record as fa
voring the gang for the pistol toter
add the blind tiger. They endorsed
the old system of working the
commended the efforts of our citizens
in that direction in the recent past,
urged economy in county affairs, and
were highly commended by Judge
Brand for the amount of constructive
work they had done in so short a ses
sion. Here is the line up:
W. H. Toole, J B. Khans, J. T. Har
rison, G. W. Giles, J. L. Wib/in, J.
T. Perry, H. N. Rainey, Jr. Foreman;
J. A. Robinson, W. J. Ethridge, T.
Cl 'Flanigan, J. H. Giles, L. W. Les
lie, Dr. J. C. Daniel, J. T. Strange,
B. P. Wages, J. T. Maynard, J. P.
Filey, J. H. Wright, T. W. Perkins,
T. J. Sikes, Claud Mayne, Clerk; J.
E. Anderson, J. H. Harwell.
THE VALUE OF CIVIC
ADVERTISING.
“As you may have surmised. I have
been making a thorough canvass of
possibilities, not only in Georgia, but
in the entire South; and the result
of my iniquiries has been a source
of amazement and satisfaction. Geor
gia has been by far the most respon
sive, and the character ctf the infor
mation furnished, as well as the uni
formly cordial invitations, have prac
tically determined the matter.’’
The foregoing is from a letter to
•he secretary of the Brunswick
hoard of trade from a _n>an of im
portant business and professional in
terests in Cleveland, Ohio, who wish
ed to indentifv himself with some
Southern community. His remarks
attest the value of organized public
spirit and show, as the Brunswick
Evening Banner observed, that Geor
gians specially alert in adertising its
“esources. He studied the opportu
nities of a number of Southern States
and was impressed by them all. But
h<; was most impressed by the re
ports frean Georgia, “the character
of the information furnished and the
uniformly cordial invitatSdns.’ He has
decided accordingly to hocate at
Brunswick, and to join the contsruc
tive forces of the state.
There is r. reckoning the good
that an efficient board of trade or
chamber of commerce may accom
plish. Atlanta is continually secur
ing new industries through the in
dustrial bureau of its chamber of
commerce. Georgia is continually at
tracting new capital and citizens thru
the State Chamber of Commerce.
Brunswick has good reason to be
proud of its own board of trade; and
scores of towns throughout Georgia
are growing in wealth and prestige
because they are wise enough to
maintain organizations of this kind
says the Journal.
BOARD OF EDUCATION.
The Grand Jury elected the fol
lowing Barrow county citizens to com
pose the County Board of EJducation:
Dr. J. C. Daniel, of Statham; L. W
Heslie, Bethlehem; R. "W. Ha>nie,
rf Chandler’s district; J. B Thomp
son, of Pentecost district, and J. R.
Burel, of Auburn.
In Race for Constable.
Air. W. L. Greeson, for skjane time
one of the efficient Constables of
Ben Smith's district, old Gwinnett,
announces as a candidate for Con
stable ixf the £43 district', subject to
the approval of the people. If elect
ed he promises prompt service oi
all papers intrusted to him.
Kinney Not a Candidate.
Mr. Bailey Kinney, whpse announce
ment for Constable of this distiict,
appears in this issue, requests us to
state that is not a candidate. He
is grateful to those friends wh|p ha\e
urged him to make the race, but says
he has secured* a more lucrative po
sition, and that he will leave the coa
stableship to others.
Pot Plants for Sale
All my pot plants, ferns, begonias fuchsias
sultanas, geraniums, and colens for poarch boxes’
are grown in paper pots. The bottom of pots onlv
to be removed when planting out and not one will
fail to grow. See plants and get prices before
ordering your flowers.
Mrs. R. D. MOORE, Phone 52.
The Ford is lighter than any other car
of its size and power. Yet stronger,
sturdier, longer lasting. Vanadium
steel, that's why. Vanadium is the
hardest, strongest, toughest steel made.
It is the only steel that is hard and
tough at the same time. It is the high
est priced steel that is used in automobile con
struction. Yet the Ford is very low in price.
Its quality, terms, price and small cost of opera
tion and upkeep, less than two cents a mile,
have made it the universal necessity in town and
country.
Buyers will share in profits if we sell at retail
300,000 new Ford cars between August 1914 and
August 1915. liunabout §440; Touring Car $490;
f. o. b. Detroit with all equipment. On sale at
FLANIGAN & FLANIGAN, WINDER, GEORGIA.
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DOMESTIC COAL
Phone 65. Quick Delivery any Part of City
PEOPLES FUEL CO.
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Opened January ist Closes December ,rl>
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turn limit three months from date of sale, not to exceed December
1915.
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