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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF BARROW COUNTY AND CITY OF WINDER
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ROBERTO. ROSS. Editor.
VOL. XXII. Thuraday, June 10, 1915. No. 9.
ADVANTAGE
Adam one advantage had
The husband these days lack
Eve never cried in pleading tones
“Come book me up the back."
—Florida Times-Union.
Old Adam was most fortunate
Indeed a lucky wight
Eve never swiped change from his
pants
While he soundly slept at night.
—Allentown Democrat.
Also a lucky was Eve,
Despite above exposed;
She never had to darn the hales
In lucky Adams hose.
—Roller Monthly.
Unfortunate were both Adam and Eve
Their hard luck caused our pain;
No prison board was there to com
mute
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The sentence cast on Cain.
Safe and Sane Mobilization
Kansas is beginning to talk of
soon needing men for the harvest
fields. That’s a much better call
than a call to the trenches.
Tyrus Cobb, the famous Georgian,
la again leading the baseball players
of all leagues in batting, bases stol
en and runs scored the present sea
son.
A dispatch states that anarchy pre
vails in Trieste. It puzzles us to
understand the distintion amidst the
havoc being wrought in the old
world.
Commencement exercises are being
held and the young graduates are
proudly marching forth with their
diploma*. Now comes the hard les
sons of life, boys.
The only way to distinguish the
most recent war news is to look at
the date line of the paper you are
reading. “Three Battleships Sunk”
seems to be a standing head line.
Fire insurance companies refuse to
Dstie policies to the liquor dealers in
Alabama. ’Tis rather a hazardous risk
as high-powered chemicals are likely
to kindle a blaze at most any
moment.
The horrors of the eastern war im
presses upon our mind the remark
of Prospero, the rightful I Mike of Mil
an, in Shakespeare’s “Tempest:”
“HHI is empty and all of the devils
are on earth,”
We have it upon good authority
that two mowers were in operation
Tuesday in a corn patch on the farm I
of Mr. A. A. Camp, near Mulberry.
Our informant tells us the corn was
too small to be clipped by the blades.
The world seems to be floppin’
about like a bob-tailed hen on a rick
ety hen roost. —Greensboro Herald-
Journal.
And the V. S. is staggering like a
gander hit upon the neck w ith a cob.
Waycross is to be a hogless city.
The city council has passed an ordi
nance prohibiting the keeping of hogs
within the incorporate limits. Not
only swine, but all manner of hogs
should be banished from well regu
lated towns.
An extremely heavy rain fell near
Mulberry Monday night. Ordinary
Green Hill says the downpour wash
ed logs' out of the woods into the pub
lie roads and he has employed an ex
tra force of hands to replace bridges
and clear the highways. Mr. Charles
Simpson declares lie left an empty
five-gallon dishpan sitting in the yard
and the cloud rained it full. We have
received no reports from those living
in the main path of the cloud-burst
WHAT JIM WILLIAMS MEANT
"The people of a rural community
as a whole, tolerate In their favorite
daily paper that which they will not
tolerate in their local weekly. That
is wrong as well as Inconsistent.”
Some of tlie members of the week 3
press have been poking fun at Editor
Jim Williams, of the Greensboro Her
ald-Journal by reason of his publica
tion of the above paragraph, but it
is as true as gospel, Jeems.
The past week we refused to accept
a contract to publish one hundred dol
lars’ worth of whisky ads. at our
highest space rates. There was no
man to slap us upon the back for the
commendable act. It never gained us
a subscriber nor made us a penny.
The Atlanta Sunday papers carried
the ads., and of course it Is all right
for them to do so. They need the
money and their pious and charitable
ruralist readers readily concede to
them tiie special privilege to adorn
their pages with a handsome picture
of Randolph fbo.se. His finely etched
lithograph likeness lends tone to the
prohibition homes in the small towns
throughout Georgia on these bright
summer Sunday mornings while the
little children are studying their Cate
chisms, or signing long petitions to
Congress asking old hoary-headed Sei
ators to favor national prohibition.
Tlie dailies charge 30c per line for
obituary notices, and w hen one pass
es away without a tragic death his
relatives are fortunate should they
see his name and age in daily press.
We printed a half-column eulogy of
a good woman who died some nine
months ago in the issue of our paper
which came out the same week of
her u* mise. Recently we refused to
publish a column obituary concerning
Iter death free of charge and lost
four subscribers.
We failed to continue to use our
space in boosting a certain man’s pri
vate busines and, as be had no finan
cial patronage to withdraw from the
paper, he shipped his job work to
Atlanta.
Yes, it is all wrong, Jeems, but we
rejoice in the fact that the days of
the patent outside, the white-pine
whittler and the milk and cider edf
tor are fast drawing to a close among
the weekly press of Georgia.
The people of rural communities
are also refusing to tolerate the mis
erable half sheets which have been
such a menace to the creditable week
ly press of the state. They are de
manding readable weeklies or none ?:t
all, and those of us who cannot furn
ish them with the goods had best be
selecting our mules and plowstocks.
THE SAFETY FIRST FAD.
There are too many accidents in
the nature of collisions of railroad
trains and autoraobilies. Some meas
ures should be adopted in the “safe
ty first” program for prevention of
tins ela s of fatalities.—Athens Ban
ner.
The railroad rails indicate to the
mobile driver the .exact route the
train is likely to go and the engineer
will not run off the track after auto
mobiles. An automobile in charge
of a careless or reckless person is a
dangerous piece of mechanism, and
the driver who is not watchful of
what he is doing is bound to suffer
the consequences of his rash acts. A1
of the “safety first” rules that may
be written cannot save him. Railroad
trains have very little of the right-of
way in this country, and it does seei
that chauffeurs could afford the time
to "stop, look and listen" at their
crossing.
The Texas legislature passed reso
lutions to be sent to Gov. Slaton to
commute Frank’s sentence. The Mil
ton County News rises to a>k what
became of the Nelms girls, and re
marks that Texas should attend to
her own criminals without butting in*
to Georgia.
The Winder New*, Thursday Afternoon, June 10th, 1915.
NOT HEARD AT THRONE
OF GRACE.
Resolutions endorsing President
Wilson’s foreign policies were unani
mously adopted at a meeting of the
Alanta Evangelical Ministers.
We are not well enough posted in
the history leading up to this terri
ble war to take sides in the matter,
but our sense of Justice rebels at the
idea of standing by the ringside and
handing weapons to one of the scrap
pers and throwing sand in the eyes
of the other.
When the chips have been knock
ed from the shoulders of the afore
said ministers they can be depended
upon to continue to turn the leaves
of their Bibles with lily white fingers
while many stalwart sons of Ameri
can mothers are being sent to watery
graves. Their prayers for the murder
ing of Germans can have little effect
at the throne of grace.
President Wilson’s first note to
Germany was a hasty stride which
went too far, and no government
could accede to all of its demands
and maintain the respect of nations.
The step threw off America’s balance
wheel, William Jennings Bryan.
The old ship of state is in a wob
bly condition and if she does not
clear the reefs of war the Atlanta
Evangelical Ministers will take their
positions to the rear with the wom
en and children.
WORDS, MEANING NOTHING.
For the maximum of words and the
minimum of information commend us
to the title of an act introduced in
the New' Jersey legislature. It reads
as follows: “An act to amend an
act which is suplemental to an act
to amend an act applying to courts,
having criminal jurisdiction.” The
sample is typical of many and New
Jersey is not the only offending state
But New Jersey now proposes to
make such absurdities unlawful. A
measure lias been drafted requiring
the introducer of a bill to file with
it a brief setting forth its purpose
including the name of the law, if any
it is designed to amend. That should
help. Anything that contributes a
greater intelligence in lawmaking is
welcome. But what is needed more
than such contrivances is some meth
od for providing the average legis
lator with intelligence or compelling
him to use honestly what little he
has.
IT CAN’T STING.
The editor of an Illinois exchange
is a public benefactor and when he
dies the people of his county ought
lo erect a monument to the honor of
his memory. Hie has discovered a
new way to get rid of mosquitoes.
He tells you simply to rub alum on
your face and hands. When the mos
quito takes a bite it puckers his
gazoopie so it cau’t sting. Then it
sits down in a damp place, tries to
dig the pucker loose, catches its
death of cold and dies of pneumonia.
Efforts are being made to bring
about peace in Mexico. In the lan
guage of Old Uncle Dan. “There’s no
use; it can’t be did.”
Winder Bar Growing
Col. Holland H. Kimball, for the
past eight years prominent in the
Atlanta legal fraternity has come to
Winder to live entering partnership
with Col. Iv. P. Carpenter.
Mr. Kimball is a former student
of law under President Wilson.
It is indeed a most unfortunate
state of affairs when a crowd of
white men, some heads of families,
will so far forget themselves and
God's holy day as to go into the
woods or anywhere else as for that
and drink, carouse, gamble, quarrel
and fight each other like demons.
Walton News.
Yes. and it is still more unfortu
nate that it is impossible to selfci t
grand jurors who ever heard of such
a thing.
Toledo O.—Mrs. Henry Carr recent
ly received a mysterious sealed pack
et, which when opened proved to be
twenty love letters sent by her to
Robert Budlinger, of Cleveland. The
young man died recently, and believ
ing Mrs. Carr to be still unmarried,
provided in his will that the letters
Ibe returned to the writer
MANY SEE MIRACLES
IN GEORGIA.
Sufferers Rescued Swiftly After
Hope Had Failed and Long
Treatments Failed.
Sufferers all over the State of
Georgia have found a ready deliver
ance from the ills of stomach trou
bles peculiarly common in the South.
Remarkable stories of health re
gained are told by hundreds who
have used Mayr’s Wonderful Remedy.
It is a remedy with a record. The
first dose is always proof to any
stomach sufferer who tries it. It is
quick. Here’s what two users say:
Rev. J. Powell, Statesboro, Ga.
—“I just escaped the operating ta
ble. Now I can eat what I please. I
would be glad if everybody suffer
ing with stomach trouble could learn
of your remedy.”
Salista Thomas, 55 La France St.,
Atlanta, Ga.—“l have taken your
remedy five w'eeks. It has done me
much good. I feel like I hardly know
my strength—my appetite is fine.”
Mayr’s Wonderful Remedy gives
permanent results for stomach, liver
and intestinal ailments. Eat as much
and whatever you like. No more dis
tress after eating, pressure of gas
in the stomach and around the heart.
Get one bottle of your druggist now'
and try it on an absolute guarantee —
if not satisfactory money will be re
turned. - Advt.
First Baptist Church
Across the fly-leaf of the pastor’s
Bible, over the 33rd chapter of Ezeki
el is written “The Responsibility
chapter —Read it.”
“No man liveth unto himself.”
Our lives are vitally dependent upon
each other. The stewardship of op
portunity and the impressiveness of
responsibility has not yet had full
recognition among all peoples.
Time, said quaint old Ben Franklin
is of value; it is the stuff life is
made of.
While ou forefathers were at the
front fighting for their homes, the ne
gro race was at home caring for our
women and children, and looking
after the fields and crops to provide
food for the fighting men at the
front. Not a single case of misbehav
ior was reported during the struggle.
What a debt we owe to the black
race for clearing our fields and work
ing for our interests.
When the white race landed on
American shores they owned not a
foot of land. The Indians roamed the
forests and owned it all. They gave
it up to us. What a debt we owe
them. Our forefathers toiled and
struggled in the realm of world
achievement and left us a priceless
heritage. What a debt we owe them
Christ died for us that we might
have eternal life. What a debt we
owe to Him. Our obligations are
vast. The doors of opportunity have
no* only swung wide open but they
have been pulled completely off the
hinges. Common honesty compels us
to pay what we owe to others —to
be willing to give to future genera
tions what past generations have
done for us.
Sunday 11:30 A. M. “Our Obliga
tions to Others.” Ezekiel 33.
No services Sunday night on ac
count of revival services at Method
ist church. You are earnestly invit
ed to be present.
Birthday Party.
One of the happiest birthdays for
Mrs. Margaret Eetts was spent on
last Sabbath, following her surprise
birthday party of the afternoon be
fore. She has alwyas been remember
ed on such occasions by a large cir
cle of friends, but this year these
mentioned the date to others and
they to others until when the hour
arrived to surprise Aunt Margaret
and her family, many devoted friends
including babies, children, young peo
pie, grown-ups, and sweetest of all
those who through long years of un
broken ties wended their ways to
happy hopes Though unprepared as
far as knowing before hand of the
plans, Mrs. Betts, with Mr. and Mrs.
Lyle, and the Misses Wills, met each
guest with cordial hospitality and
amid tears and smiles, a delightfully
pleasant afternoon was psased.
The cry of hard times keeps going,
but Flanigan & Flanigan have sold
several automobiles and a number of
Fords during the past two weeks.
HASH
AND RE-HASH
(By Julian Ross.)
Last week’s joke. 1 *
What girl did the most damage in
the civil war.
Minnie Ball.
Looney .Engagement*
We announce with pleasure the
marriage of Mr. Frank Day to Miss
Samantha Knight. Their future looks
very streaked.
You know once I was an actor in
a Shakesperian company. We play
ed Hamlet, Egglet, Eyelet, Omelet
and Tolet. Every time I played
Hamlet I got an Eigglet in the Eye
let and I saved them up and made an
Omelet. The landlady told me my
room was To-let so I changed my ho
tel. Next day I thought I would
make a bluff. I walked into a hotel
and asked what they charged for a
room. The clerk said Five Dollars
and up. "Oh come off" I replied “1
am an actor,” Well, said he, it will
be five dollars down. I got a room
in another hotel. I had a visitor in
my room and from the way he was
scratching I think he must have had
visitors, too. We got under the bed
to hide from them. Along came a
lightening bug. No use, he said they
have got a light and are coming af
ter us. Then I married the fat wo
man in the circus. We drove up in
front of a hotel. The proprietor told
me to move her as no one could
see the hotel while she was there.
I took her bathing once. The mo
ment she got in the water the tide
went up three feet. She asked me
to float her but I told her I was not
a derrick. I don’t speak to her now
for she wanted me to take her to a
masquerade ball disguised as a pipe
stem. Then I married a thin girl.
When w'e would play Hide and Se^, v
she would hide in the gas pipe.
was waltzing w'ith her once and
floor manager told me I would have
to leave my cane in the hall. I
bought her a balloon and she went
up.
It has been said that music charms
the savage. But we want folks to
understand that we are civilized. Now
this is meant for your next door
neighbor.
Teacher. What letter comes after
H
Small boy. Dunno
Teacher. I have one on either side
of my nose.
Small boy. Freckles.
The best way to catch a rat is to
go down in the cellar and make a
noise like a piece of cheese.
Haven’t you a horror of dying un
married. 1
No, its the horror of living *at
way.
Next weeks joke.
Where was the first game of ten
nis played.
MR'. VIRGIL McELHANON
DIED SATURDAY NIGHT.
Mr. Virgil MeElhannon, after an
illness lasting for more than a year,
died at the home of his father here
last Saturday night.
Mr. MeElhannon was nearly 37
years of age and had been a shut-in
for many months. Virgil spent his
life in his native county neac. his
father and mother, and has many
warm friends w'ho will grieve at his
departure. A number came over from
Jefferson to attend the funeral Sun
day, which was preached at the resi
dence. The Rev. Dubose, of Jeffer
son, assisted by Rev. John F. Yar
brough. conducted the services. The
interment was at Rose Hill cemetery.
The deceased leaves a wife, father
and mother, a sister and brother to
mourn his departure.
Patent Medicine Sucker
If the man who is his own lawyer
has a fool for a client, what kind/if
%
a patient does a man who is his •
patient have. —Rome
Easy.—All kinds of a fool.