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GOOD PRINTING
IS
AN ESSENTIAL PART
OF
GOOD BUSINESS.
VOL. XXII.
CAUGHT HURL AND THERE.
BY A VOLUNTEER REPORTE R
Now, Mr. Editor, I know that I
am treading upon dangerous ground
when 1 begin to quote the caustic re
marKN of a certain Winder bachelor.
lie says what he thinks and many
times his thoughts are rather hard.
It might be best that they were left
unsaid.. Should you print this, your
readers must kindly consider the
source, and take it ais coming from
him, -not me. There may 'be enough
truth in what he says to cause some
one to stop and think.
This bachelor was standing on a
Winder street corner gazing into
space, as if he were looking out into
the far distant future. I approached
him and said:
“You are the meanest looking man
I ever saw. What are you thinking
about.”
With a half cynical smile he re
plied:
"You will be surprised when I tell
you that I was thinking of marriage.
“Well, isn't it about tine you were
giving that (subject some thought.
You are no spring chicken.”
“Maybe so, hut the longer I live
the more firmly 1 become convinced
that marriage is a darn dangerous in
stitution. If some married men had
given the subject as much thought
as I have before they took the leap
I believe they would have turned and
run the other way as fast as they
could.”
‘The other fellow’s troubles are
\ oth’ng to you. The people of Win
der ’V.e generally well pleased with
their wives, and I can see no reason
why you bachelors should grumble.
You should become qualified before
giving lectures upon wifely behavior.’
“That is 'straight talk, but, my
dear sir, it is hard to qualify in a
card-crazed environment. The picture
of a little home in Winder all my
own is not a very beautiful one, com
paratively speaking. The habitual
card players are the young women
church members of the town. Few
men play cardie in Winder, but the
women seem to have gone crazy on
the subject. Each one is familiar
with the other's financial circumstan
ces, yet some of them are bursting
their husband’s galluses pulling off
swell porch parties and serving elab
orate spreads in honor of the card
InKib. The member! all know that
the hoste s has borrowed the rugs,
rockers, ferns and crockeryware of
the neighborhood, including the punch'
bowl, but the high standard set for
the club mi>~t be sustained. T have
no criticism for those members who
pass their leisure time in innocent
pleasure, but when wifely and moth
erly duties are neglected by the wife
and mother becoming fascinated with
a card table, my advice is mighty
free and blamed cheap, and I -would
advise such a wife and mother to
stay at home enough to get well ac
quainted with the children. I saw
a young woman playing cards on a
certain front porMi when at the very
time I knew that her children were
at home dinnerless and hungry. Of
course it is none of my business.
However, there is no law against me
thinking of what would happen w-ere
I tied to such a woman.”
He had been to the Winder News
office and demanded of the editor
the name of Volunteer Reporter. I
was leaning back in a chair against
the little tree in front of Albert
Camp’s warehouse, when he came up
and said:
“I want to see you a minute.”
He was a well-built, <srtalwart, mid
dleaged farmer with a look of seri
ousness which caused the reporter
to glance back over sins, both of
omission and commission. After draw
ing me to one.side be remarked:
and I)c UHnkir Mai®.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF BARROW COUNTY AND THE CITY OF WINDER.
“Did you write up what that olu
gentleman of Jontis’ district said
about building a courthouse and jail
in Barrow county.”
“Yles, sir.” |
“Well, 1 want to know- his name.
I want to meet him and shake his
hand. That old felolw hits the bull’s
eye to the situation . I live in the
section known, as County Line and i
beileve fuly 90 per cent of the far
mers! are heartily iin favor of the im
mediate building of a jail and th*
perfecting of plans to have a court
house completed and ready for occu
pancy when the lease upon the pres
ent building runs out. But I want
to add to that o’d fellow ’s talk.”
“And what is that.”
“1 want to see some soiled roads per
manently built thirty feet w-ide.”
“Like the old gentleman of Jones,
you are getting beyond strict econo
my. The grand jury recommended
one road scrape not to cost more
than $l5O, you know.”
“Yes, and at the same time they
recommended that the judge’s charge
be printed in pamphlet form and
placed in the door for every man in
the county, but I have not receiv
ed mine as yet. The two items do
not appear consistent. It would nev
er do to carry out the recommenda
tions of the grand juries to the let
ter. They are in session so short a
time and so many questions come be
fore them upon the spur of the mo
ment that they have not the time to
give all matters serious thought be
fore action. I agree with the gen
tleman of Jones that it is an expen
sive waste of time for Barrow coun
ty to be paying railroad fare, double
turnkey fees and board bills for the
prisoners to foreign sheriffs, and be
sides, it is not treating our own of
ficer right. If we are not going to
spend but one hundred and fifty dol
lars working roads, and we
are not going to build a courthouse
and jail and we are going to keep
the prisoners at Jefferson, Lawrence
ville and Monroe, what did we want
with a county. Was it for the pur
pose of giving faithful men empty
offices.”
“You are stronger than my friend
Jones, hut you must remember that
there is nothing surer than death
and taxes, and it takes money to
d> the ih tigs you are talking abou .”
‘‘l know- it. And it takes 1 the
things I am talking about before Bar
row is a real good county which will
compare favorably with her neighbors
Through ten years of designed and
systematic neglect Barrow now has
the least mileage of good roads oi
any county in this; section of the
state. With two mi*les I can pull
six bales of cotton along the Jackson
county road from my home to Bras
elton in a trot and the same pair ot
mules could not pull three bales from
my home along the road to Winder.
Improvement means progress and it
double pays for itself in comfort,
pleasure and general enhancement
of values, to say nothing of the sat
isfied pride of the citizens of a coun
ty defined to be one of the foremost
in Georgia.”
“Times are hard, my friend, and to
inaugurate the extensive improvement
you propose would necessitate the is
suing of bonds and fasten a high tax
rate upon the citizens. I feel my
self that the first grand jury should
have been more liberal and recom
mended the building of a jail and a
larger expenditure upon the public
roads, but you are going to the oth
er extreme.”
“'I may be an extremist, hut I be
lieve in issuing bondist to make the
needed public improvements, and 1
believe in working the convicts upon
Continued ol Editorial Page.
Winder, Barrow County, Ga., Thursday, August 26, 1915.
LARGEST GEORGIA LOAN
PLACED ON FARM LANDS.
$103,000 Loan Secured By 10,000
Acres of Farm Lands in Jackson,
Hall and Barrow Counties.
Col. Samuel Gb Brown, who has of
fices in the Winder Banking Cos.
building, this city, has just complet
ed the negotiations for a client of the
largest farm loan in the history of
Georgia.
Mr. Brown maintains offices in
Winder, Law reuceviile, Monroe and
Jefferson, and is extensively engaged
in the money loaning business, and
is to be congratulated in pulling off
the largest deal ever consumated in
the state.
To The News yenterdav he gave
the following facts regarding this
transaction:
Tne loan was for SIOO,OOO and it
is secured by 10,000 acres of land
located in Jackson, Hall and Barrow
counties.
T.ie party' who owns this land is a
well known business man residing in
this section of the state.
The loan is to run five years and
the.rate of interest si 0 per cent. Af
ter paying all costs the money will J
not cost him over 7 per cent for the
entire period. The money was fur
nished by the Peri Mutual Life Insur
ance Company of Philadelphia.
It required able and efficient ser
vices to abstract the titles to this
10,000 acres of land, but the wmrk
has been satisfactorily done and the
SIOO,OOO has been paid over to the ap
pi i cant.
A SUICIDE PACT ENDS
STARVING FOR TWO SISTERS.
Washington, August 24. —Penniless
and hungry and without friend®, Ma
ry and Maude Burrows, sisters, took
the “easiest way out” of their mis
ery. Their bodies were found by po
lice early today in bed in their little
home here. Clasped in each others
arms, they turiitd on. the gas and lay
down to await death.
The bed on which they lay was al
most the last bit of furniture in the
hour", the rest having been sr. ril'ie
ed to stave off starvation. A note
addressed to the police stated that
sickness and poverty had li <1 to tile
double suicide.
“There is little left for us to live
for,” it read. “We want to be bur
ied by th; side of relatives in the
Hock City Park.”
Their pet dog and cat joined the
sisters in death, the bodies of the
anima’s being found near the foot of
the bed.
Just think of that. Starving right
under the dome of the nation's capi
tol. Glorious land of the Free and
Home of the Brave —land of liberty
and death. Death rather than star
vation is common in this grand old
nation while millions are s.nt abroad
to feed the hungry and cloth* C.
naked of foreign lands.
AT THE NO-NAME.
The No-Name theatre is to be con
gratulated for the first-class feature
attractions with which it has been
furnishing Winder movie patrons for
the past two months’. The droll hum
or of Charlie Chaplin is the regualr
Friday evening bill, and invariably
large audiences attend when
this picture is flashed upon the can
vas. Manager Sharpton supplements
the feature plays with three or four
extra reels all of which are good. He
asks us to thank the general public
for their liberal patronage and to an
nounce that he is preparing to use
the day current and will furnish mat
inees in the near future to accomo
date the children and those who can
not attend the evening
Charlie Chaplin tomorrow evening.
WINDER SOLDIERS GET
MEDALS IN STATE SHOOT.
Georgia Militia Making Fine Scores
on State Range This Week.
Under the idea that a soldier’s first
duty is to shoot, and 'shoot straight
the Georgia State militia is plunking
the target right in the bulHsi e>e
from morning to night at Fort Mc-
Pherson. Nine teams, making 72
crack shots, are on the range th t
week. They are the Pick of four
regiments of infantry, the cavalry,
coast artillery and field artrllciy
They are competing in preparation tor
the national rifle matches at Jackson
ville next October.
The Winder Guards have four men
competing in the matches and each
of them are doing splendid shooting.
Tuesday Sgt. W. S. Hale Was only
three iKiints below the leader-in ag
gregate score. Sgt- Euell Ha’ei made
the high score at 600 yards l with 4u
out of 50. In the team matches the
l Sat tall ion team isvore was 4tli with a
score of 2,205.
In the individual matches' Wednes
day Sgt. Otis Hale tied w ith six of li
ens turn a perfect score at 300 yards
rapid fire, and in the final round won
out over Hudson of Atlanta with a
score of 4!* to 42, giving him the
Scott medal.
Today the shoot is being continued
at 600 and 1,000 yards, and thj Win
der boys are expected to come out
with the winners.
COMING.
Team That Has Made Good in East
Will Reach Winder This
Week.
Anybody who can shine among the
stars on IJroadw'ay for two whole
weeks, has “arrived” in theatrical
circles.
And it’s “one best bet” that when
the trio of buyers for the big depart
ment store of J. T. Strange Cos., roll
into the city this week, they will have
succeeded in “bringing home the ba
con,” so to speak, in selecting a line
of goods for flic fall trade that will
both surprise and id aeie their large
and growing patronage.
Messrs. J. T. Strange, A,. D. Mr-
Curry and Miss Gertrude Lipscomb
.have been in the Easetrn markets for
the past ten days on this mission for ;
their firm, and are expe ted to return |
koine tomorrow or Saturday.
Letters to tilt ir firm indicate that
this has been a most successful buy
ing seanon, and the optimistic out
look all over the country for a fine
business in spite of European condi
tions gives promise tha tthe South,
and especially Georgia, is not to suf
fer greatly on account of the war.
Advance shipments of new fall
good® are already coming in, and
this firm is. looking forward to a
splendid business during the ap
p roac 11 in g season.
DIES SUDDENLY.
Mr. Frank Bell, prominent marble
dealer, died suddenly at his place
of business in Athens Wednesday.
He was a brother of Congressman
Thos. M. Bell, and had many friends
in this section of the state.
The laxly was carried to Cleveland
in White county Thursday where the
funeral and interment took place.
While Humans Starve.
Wilmington, Del. —Mrs. M. K.
Grant, a wealthy woman, gave a
horse party in honor of the 14th
birthday of her pet carriage horse,
“Prince Grant.” A luncheon was
served in the stable, and an orches*
tra played throughout the festivities.
OUR BUSINESS
IS
TO GET BUSINESS
FOR YOU
LET US DEMONSTRATE
ATLANTA BANK READY
TO LOAN MONEY ON COTTON.
Several Warehouse Points in State
To Advance 75 Per Cent of
Market Value.
Atlanta, August 25.—Not with stand
ing the contraband order and such
other restraints as have been plac
ed on cotton in the past or may be
in the future, farmers in Georgia and
throughout the south find their crop
well taken) care of this fall and win
ter.
Plans to this end by the federal
government and by private individuals
already have been made public, and
Wednesday the Fourth National bank
of Atlanta announced that until fur
ther notice it will make approved
loans on cotton to farmers and mer
chants to the amount of three-fourths
of th ‘ market value for any l>eriod
to sfx months at 6 per cent rate of
disccmt at twenty concentration
points in three southern states.
Tli's readiness lo co-operate with
Hie producer in disposing of his crop
does away with apprehension that the
cotton market will suffer depression
this year and assures Georgia farmers
of plenty of ready money on their
crop, no matter what its size.
The Fourth National lank places nt
limit on the amount of money it is
ready to loan. All applicants must
have the recommendation of the cor
respondent banks of the Fourth Na
tional and must insure the cotton and
store it in Georgia, Florida and Ala
bama.
Loans w ill be made for any time
thai may be desired up to a period'
of s.x m onths, with discount rate of 6
per cent.
The storage prices will be 25c lor
the first month and 15c each month
thereafter.
HAITIEN CONGRESS
THREATENS TO RESIGN.
Port An Prince, Haiti, August 25.
Tliie government and congress having
threatened to resign if the American
government refused to permit a dis
cussion of the proposed treaty which
would allow the United States ten
year i control,of,the.'s and government
finances, Washington has agreed to
a dis in ion of the convention.
The population, which has been
agitated, is now more tranquil.
SCHOOL BOARD ARRANGING
FOR OPENING OF FALL TERM.
The Board of Education has closed
devils with the Athletic Park associa
tion and Air. J. It. Lay for roomfcs to
care for the children who will attend
school this fall.
Several of the primary grades will
oe taken care of in the two houses
at the park, while sevreal others will
be taught in rooms on the si cond
floor of the Lay building.
The plumbers and carpenters are
busy making the necessary repairs
and the board reports that every
hing will be ready for the opening
m September 6th.
Notice of Dissolution .*
Notice is hereby given that the
Irm of Bentley and Cummings here
tofore engaged in the business of law
and farm loams in the city of Win
ter, State of Georgia, is this day dis
solvedl by mutual content, Richard P.
Bentley retiring therefrom. The
bus lo ess will be conducted at the
same place by -John L. Cummings
who will settle all firm liabilities
and receipt for all debts due the
firm.
This 25th day of August, 1013.
John L. Cummings.
No. 20