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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF BARROW COUNTY AND CITY OF WINDER
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ROBERT O. ROSS - Editor.
VOL. XXI. Thursday, April 8, 1915. No. 52.
A girl with a dimple will laugh at
anything a man says.
Kniv.v is the drippings from the
engine of success.
The one who hesitates may lose
a good opportunity.
If a man refuses to be consoled
he is a hopeless case.
Die German cruiser, Prinz El tel
Friedrich, lias interned for the war.
The path to success is paved with
good intentions that were carried
out.
' Kir Oliver Lodge is not the only
■man who has talked with a dead one,
but the others are not bragging about
it.
There is no attempt to disguise the
fact that Japan’s interest in Eas
tern Asia than its Interest in Eu
rope.
Anew invention, called the wire
less telephone, can be list'd on a mov
ing train to talk with another person
fifteen miles away.
The bungalows erected on Athene,
street by Mr. Garrett Smith are
about completed and ready for oc
cupancy. Mr. Garrison’s two-story
residence being erected on the lot
next to them is being pushed to com
pletion. Down on Midland AiVemto
the brick residence of Mr. Emory
Bennett is being given the finishing
touches, and will be occupied In a
few weeks. Several new cottages an
going up In the Eastern part of the
city, and Dr. Ross’ Candler street
bungalow will lie ready to live in in
a very short time. Virily, “We are
building a city here.’’
THIS SHOULD HAVE SUPPORT.
Though no official notice has
been received by the members of
the National Guard in this city, the
report in the newspapers quoting tho
adjutant General as saying that
there will be no summer camp for
the State troops this year, has caused
much comment among the militiamen
here. These annual camps, lasting
about ten days, are the only occa
sions on which the entire National
Guard of the State is mobilized into
one body, and while they are held
for the purpose of field instruction,
much pleasure and benefit is de
rived from them by both officers and
men, and great good is done for the
service. Under strict discipline the
troops spend the time in simulating
actual conditions in the field, ma
neuvering just as though face t >
face with an enemy, and as it is prac
tically the only time when even so
small a force as a battalion is gath
ered together, the citizen soldier gets
more real good out of the training:
than he can acquire during a year's
service in a company, with a mini
mum of twenty-four drills.
The officers and men of thd Win
der Guards are anxiously awaiting
the order definitely determining the
question, and it is quite likely that
if no State or Federal funds are
available for a camp this year, that
the company will have a week's camp
near the city in June or July.
The hospital corps, 2nd Squadron
of calvary, Capt. Mathews command
ing, will also join them, ft is hoped
in this, as his branch of the Georgia
troops will not go into camp either.
This camp would be both pleasant
and profitable to the boys, and the
citizens and business men will no
doubt be glad to further the move
if the officers and men decide to
make it.
Date Called Off.
Just as we go to press we are in
formed that the North Georgia Ag
ricultural Band, booked to play here
Monday night, has called, off its
engagement.
SWAT THE FEE SYSTEM.
Soon now the papers, doctors and
women’s clubs will be howling about
the dangers of the common house
fly and advising us all to “swt the
fly.*’ He should be “swatted.”
Sentimentalists and notoriety seek
ers will be extolling the hardships
of prison life and calling for reforms.
Possibly there are prison abuses that
should be corrected.
Dut in our judgment one of the
"reatest evils of the day in Geor
gia is its pernicious fee system.
In hs operation today it is abu
sive to the public, detrimental to so
ciety and robbery to the unfortunate.
Owing to the fee system many a
criminal escapes justice and many
an innocent man is bled because the
perquesites go to swell the bank ac
counts of prosecuting attorneys.
Hack In the days wdien court
sessions were infrequent and small
dockets the rule, the fee system may
have served a purpose, but in this
day of graft and greed, when solici
tors general will draw bills of in
dictment on the flimsiest kind of evi
dence for the insolvent fee that goes
with the bill whether an Indictment
or "no bill*’ is found, it is a public
robbery. The taxpayers must bear
the cost of jurors to investigate and
try numerous cases that wiould nev
er have found their way to a court
room but for the fact that a greedy
solicltor general had a heart for
greed and a hand for fees.
It is not right that counties should
maintain court houses and jails, ju
rors and bailiffs while all the reve
nue is gobbled up by solicitors,
clerks and sheriffs. These officers
should lie paid, and paid well for
their services, but they should not
have all the revenue arising from
fines and forfeitures unless they bore
the expense of the courts which
made these fines and forfeitures pos
sible.
The fee system has served Its day
in court and should be abolished.
The next legislature should see to
it that solicitors general and coun
ty officials are placed on 1 a salary
basis. Justice to the taxpayers de
mand it. It would be better for
society, it would be more economical
while at tlie same time it would be
harder for the criminal to escape
and It would make the path winy of
the innocent easy.
Kissing the President.
Of course, nobody claims that Sen
ator Hardwick did not go back on
the president in the ship purchase
bill matter, but he did not do it
in secret. He was open and above
board in his opposition and he gave
reasons for his faith. That is better
than betraying the president with a
kiss, as some others did. —Valdosta
Times.
If the Judas you have in mind is
who we think he is, the mystery is
that the president didn’t kill him
when he saw' the salute coining.—
Macon Telegraph.
Now, we don't want any of Hoke
Smith*® friends making faces at us
because we give space to the above.
His name is not mentioned.
Correcting Ernest.
Application for anew bank at
Winder has been made to Secretary
Bhilip Cook. Winder already has
three banks and this will make the
fourth. —Walton Tribune.
Winder already has four banks,
“and this will make the fifth."* They
are all strong institutions, and we
are too proud of them to see either
one left out of a news notice, so we
just had to "see justice done.’*
Writ® On One Side of Paper.
We receive an article occasionally
written on both sides of the paper.
We have repeatedly run notices ask
ing that correspondents use only one
side of paper, and we will not insure
the publication of articles of news
written on both sides.
A “SHOEMAKER’S CHILD."
Years ago the city council rightlj
prescribed fire limits restoring
the building or repairing of frame
buildings within the area so desig
nated. The growth in the business
section has been so substantial and
rapid since that time that the few
standing within these lines, with two
hazzardous exceptions, have given
way to modern brick buildings One
of these is owned by private parties,
and has been ‘next-door neighbor to
two disastrous fires within a short
time of each other, and came out
unscorched —as tho defiant of the
flames, while the other Is the prop
erty of the city itself, and used to
house its fire-fighting apparatus
and also as a sort of storage room
for electrical and waterworks sup
plies.
Right in the heart of the city, in
tlie center of the business and resi
dential districts, it stands mute evi
dence of by-gone days—born of thei
step of progress from the log tavern
to the boarded store-room, serving
now to shelter the equipment that
guards the property and lives of a
municipality of forty-five hundred
souls, a veritable fire-trap itself —an
eye-Bore as well as a menace —the
“Shoe Maker’s Child” of Winder. A
twin sister to her dilapidated school
house, which is about to be replac
ed by an up-to-date house of learn
ing.
Let’s have the school house and
get rid of these other old shacks,
too.
MAKING STREETS A SPEEDWAY,
Madam Rumor says that two reck
less young men and the daughters of
a prominent family in a ne-ar-by town
have been "risinhell” in an automo
bile during the past three weeks.
Winder was in the repertoire Wed
nesday night and they joy-rode prom
inent streets of the towtn from 11:30
to 12 o’clock at the rate of about for
ty-five miles per hour.
The entire police force was in a
hump in an effort to head them off,
for fear that they might jostle some
beer bottles from their machine
which would puncture the tires of
more considerate drivers.
This Is to give them notice that
they had best mark Winder off their
joy-riding program.
The automobile is all r!;ght in i f s
place, but it would be best for the
community if some people would swap
their machines for mules and plow
stocks.
Are A Few More Of Us.
I)r. Shaler Mathews says the Jap
an *se are pained at the unfriendly
attitude of the American naton.
Somebody should tell them that Cal
ifornia and Hobson aren’t the whole
show.—Pittsburg Gazette Times.
No man ever acquired a lasting
brand of popularity by knocking.
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The Ford—a great utility because it serves all the
people. The popular choice, because it gives bet
ter service at a lower cost. Popular again, be
cause it is simple and easily understood by every
body. And with all the refinements, it is still
the same dependable Ford, and sells for SOO less
than last year—besides the plan of sharing profits
with the buyers.
Buyers will share in profits if we sell at retail
300,000 new Ford cars between August 1914 and
August 1915.
Touring Car $490; Runabout $440; Town Car
$090; Coupelet $750; Sedan $975, f.o.b- Detroit
with all equipment. On display and sale at
FLANIGAN & FLANIGAN,winder.
A SENSATIONAL DISCOVERY.
It is characteristic of the great
American mania for investigating by
congressional commission everything
from the Charity Trust to the new
est evolution in the drop-stitch in
its relation to Irish linen, that when
wheat commenced to climb past nor
mal plateaus immediately some gen
tlemen were delegated to probe that
circumstance.
Sttrange to say these gentlemen,
after some time spent in sizing up
the situation and talking to some
people who know something about it
have come to the conclusion that
wheat is high because people are
anxious to get it and are willing to
pay a high price for it. These, peo
ple, they intimate and hint, are in
Europe and the wheat is being taken
across to them in ships. Therefore
it is not considered advisable to mar
an anti-trust suit under the Sherman
law against anybody.
This momentous and ponderous
conclusions having been arrived at
through the exercise of keen percep
tive faculties and analytical genius
of the investigators, it s now sug
gested that everybody adjourn for
tea at five o’clock, as per usual. It's
a great land we live in.—Macon Tel
egraph.
What Do You Think of This.
It is reported that an editor in Vir
ginia registered a vow that he would
never live in a State that has pro
hibition or w'omen suffrage. If he
keeps his vow, it is now/ moving day
in Virginia, and these very questions
will likely keep him on the move
until he gets off the earth.—Georgia
Commonwealth.
Tiddlewink Hardwick attempted to
explain his attitude on the ship pur
chase bill at Moultrie the other
night. No explanation is necessary.
The whole state now' realizes what
a miserable mistake was made at
Macon and will hasten to rectify it
at the first opportunity. —Walton
Tribune.
Gifford Had to Go.
Gifford Pinchot, ex-chief forester
of the United States, who, it is un
derstood, has been acting as special
agent for the state department at
Washington in the European war
zone, has been expelled from Bel
gium by the German authorities.
Real Prizes.
Throw a bone into the street and
there will be a great snapping and
snarling among the dogs. Cast a
pretty girl or a bunch of gold into
the arena and man will outdog the
dogs.—Pembroke Enterprise.
Every Little Bit Helps.
About the only thing Woodrow! Wil
son has saved the American taxpay
er is that $25,000 for traveling ex
penses. —Boston Transcript.
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Oldest Residents
Mr. Editor: ' I
I see some claim presented f or I
most aged citizen of Parrmi, I
fOW 1
I have one I wish to present, J
being of such age I take thi. J II
ure in giving you some fact* „ I
a,ais *ortw|
to be remembered by both old I
young of the man. I
On the headwaters 0 f M ari I
creek there settled one Jon at S I
Sell, whose wife was Rebecca j o !*|
They came from North o*3
hundred years ago i o \
ren county, Ga., thence to the pi I
which I first named.
The character in whose interest il
wish write is the son of j oKar ,, I
and Rebecca Sell He is j
Sell, born in 1830, on the west siJ
of Winder, just a short distance f r <J
the incorporate limits. !
Mr. Sell’s boyhood days were
as boys generally did in those pj on J
days, but little chance for learning!
not more than eight or ten weefe!
in the year. His time was spent atl
home on the farm doing all kinds ull
work but that which seemed to ap-l
peal to him most wuas the saw, ham-l
mer and plane. In this he became!
very efficient. In after years he fol.|
lowed the mechanics trade whickl
helped him along fairly well with hijl
farming interest. Mr. Sell, in speak-l
ing of himself, said: “I could hav|
been a wealthy man had I slighted I
my work as some men, by turning!
off more of it, but I would work un i
til I had a good job ere I turned ;t|
loose." I
The writer, years ago, often pass-1
ed by Mr. Sell’s home and was at-l
tracted by the straightness of the I
old rail fences. There was no ziz
zag lines, but straight as an arrow
to a desired turning point. A lot of
young people of today didn’t know of
the difficulty in getting the locks of
rail fences to make a perfect line.
If you did you could see more of the
precise in Mr. Sell.
On the east side of Winder and
about the same distance resided an
interesting family. They came from
South Carolina and settled on the
head waters of Beech creek. This
man w r as David Mobley, who wed Lu
cinda Wright. Tb this couple were
born other children, but their daugh
ter, Nancy, wed Jones Sell.
To them were born several childrei
among them are Mrs. W. A. Wall.
Mrs. James Jones, Mrs. Wm. Henry,
Mr. Jones Sell has been a very act-
ive and industrious man, Not very!
outspoken on matters for the public*
good, but when he had spoken mwß
knew where he was and what to de-l
pend upon. I
In politics he was firm as the Rook!
of Gibraltar and no scheming political!
spieler need waste hot air on him. II
remember sevral years when po;-l
itics were so hot. There was quite!
a gathering at a secret organization!
assembly and Mr. Sell was out. No*!
there was the “calamity howler I
spurting cut hi? hard time spiel fo ■
a political haul. Mr. Sell sat and!
listened for some time hut seeing!
such dogged imposition on the morel
ignorant, arose to the emergency and I
took the spieler to task, and to do*n I
him he drew from his pant’s pockets I
several hundred dollars in gold. • I
friend expostulated with Mr. Sell I
for thus showing his gold. He glanced I
around and saw his company an I
knew them all, replaced his mone} I
IJy this time the spieler had ' a I
ished as did the accusers when 1 I
sus said: "Ye that are without I
cast the first stone, at the woman
Yes, they were gone as swiftly a
the morning mist before a rising
1 could tell you more of this S
and Interesting man; how simple a ■
pleasing, how' plain and
in his demeanor to those with who
he comes in contact.
His manhood days w'ere spent
the waters of Beech. Creek nea.
iday's bridge. His home is no*’
the city of Statham, with his
law, Wm. Henry. He has now'
with us 83 years, and may see ®
more yet to council those ° oU t
It and his days be pleasant wit
pain as much so as possible.
The Sell family, as tar
can go was from dascow,
The grandfather on the ™a
line was Nickn’es Jones, a
tionary soldier