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Things Caught Here and There.
(Ry the Volunteer Reporter.)
Mr. Editor: Since volunteering to
write for your columns i have team
ed something. Never again will 1
quote a bachelor. They are useless
trespassers in the homes trf the com
munity and the harbingers of trouble.
The bachelor I quoted in reference to
card-playing matrons now says he
did not mean to say hard things
about the Matrons’ club. He had in
mind only those women, w<ho strain
their husband’s credit in an effort
to play the social game beyond their
means to the neglect of the husband
and the home. It was a sad picture
to him to see a young husband sit
ting upon the doors.eps nursing the
baby and waiting for the wife to re
turn. lut the Matrons’ club is all
right. Sum • of ills best personal
friends are among its membership.
Thm the other bachJora of the
tow'n are demanding that I give the
l.ame of the* one who talked too much
and thereby threw stumbling; blocks
in their matrimonial paths. They
say they are not expecting girls to
leave* the parental roof to become
cooks and house keepers. Should
young wom< n agree to share their
miserable lots they shall expect them
to have a goixl time. One of these
bachelors went so far to say tlint if
he was not financially able to hire a
<*ook, lie wujld be willing to make
up tlie beds, sweep the floors and
wash the dishes that liis vvHfc* might
have the time to enjoy herself. They
wou'd have me believe that the Win
der bachelors, save one, are the em
bodiment of big-hearted lib* rality and
sympathetic thoughtfulness. And
they are not a bad lot, Including the
one, but they are Winder’s homeless
assets, and tin* young women should
effect a plan for their conservation.
Ibijtead of playing auction pitch, it
mig'it be well for the young women
to inaugurate the Babylonian system
In the reverse order.
An auction of unmarried ladies
used to take place annually at Bab
ylon. In every district, .says the hi
torlan, they assembled on a certain
day of the year all virgins of ai mar
riageable age. The most beautiful was
put up, and (he man who bid
the highest or the largest sum, gain
ed the possession of tier. The sec
ond in p ‘rsonal apjvearanee followed
till'd the bidders gratified themselves f
with handsome wives according to th j
depth off their purses. Hut, alas, it.
seenw there wen* in Babylon soim*
ladies for whom no money was like
ly to Ik* offered. Yet these were
also disposed of, so provident were
the Babylonians. When all the
beautiful virgins were so’d, the crier
ordered tli * most deformed to stand
ami openly demanded who would
Marry her with a small sum. She was
at 1 ag'hh adjnnated to the man who
wvmld be satisfied with the least moil
ey, and In this manner the money
arising from the sale of the hand
served us.a portion to those who were
of disagreeable looks or that had any
other imperfections. The custom
prevailed about four hundred years
before Christ.
Should the young ladies of Winder
adopt tills plan the sale of John Kil
gore, Guy Kilgore, ()l>e Smith, Col.
L/ewis Bussell and Hr. Mathews
might net enough cash to dispose of
either Hiram Flanigan, I hike Ross or
Ben Julian and thereby rid the town
of six bachelors at the first sale.
Winder is becoming cityfied in mao/
v.ays. it is not an unusual sight
for blind men and cripples to be so
liciting alms in return for the music
they afford the passing populace, juik
men loading their wagons, peddlers
vending their wares along the promi
nent thogrouhfares of the town. lHike
Boss tells ns this one:
I*ist week a be whiskered Israelite
took in the town pushing a grimi
stone and ringing a bell. Jle ar
rived at the home of <!. P. Smfth
whan the members of the family wer
seated at the dinner table and gave
the do rhel! three vigorous rings. Mr.
Smith answer-d the call, returned
and took his seat at the table in
silene°. Silence was broken by the
fo lowing:
Mrs. Smith. — Well, wlhat did th< \
want, Garrett.
Mr. Smith.—He wanted me to ask
tny mo.her if she had any knives or
seissirs she wanted ground.
Mrs. Smith.—And w-hat did you
tell him.
Mr. Smith. —J told him ma wasn’t
at home.
While Garrett Smith has the ap
pearance of being simply a boy, he
is the city’s youngest energetic mer
chant, sole proprietor of a thriv
ing business, including the Winder
Bakery, and the owner of his own
home and the adjoining building. His
parents live in Oglethorpe county.
(lirrett left his mother several years
ago and formed a binding contract ii
Winder, Miss Emma Ola Reed be
ing tiie party of the second part.
Ordinary Hill has had a force of
hands and teams working at Rogers
creek, just, beyond the Rocky ridge,
on the Winder to Loganville or Win*
and r to Atlanta road via Stone Moun
tain.
A long fill from hill to hill is be
ing put in, the dirt being taken from
the lands of Dee Jackson on the one
side and Dr. Dee DeDaPerriere on
Die other.
The bridges will be raised dome
fve or six feet, the stone abutments
have already been builded and the
work is nearing completion.
For several years the ford across
Rogers creek has been almost im
passable during tlie winter mouths.
Ordinary Hill is devoting much
tone and Hie small resources at his
command in an effort to keep the
roads in a passable condition. But a
small force of hands hired for a few
(’ays to do a dab of work here and
a dab of work there will never place
tie roads of Barrow county in first
class shape. In some instances patch
work does not pay, and when applied
to roads it never results in a com
pleted article.
When the Volunteer Reporter quot
ed the gentlemen of Jones district
and County Lino in reference to the
building of a court house and jail and
the placing of convicts upon the road
lie never knew that they were voic
ing a popular sentiment of Barrow
county.
And I do not know it now, but I
do know that since placing their
sc aliments into print numbers of
prominent men of various districts
in die county have called upon your
correspondent to express themselves
upon this subject.
Not one lias opposed the issuing
of bonds for t lie purpose of building
a jail and good roads. One or two
have said that the temporary court
house will do for a while. A gentle
man from Carl District ex
pressed himself as favoring the issu
ing of thirty-year bonds to cover
the expense of all of these improve
ments, and showed that lie had given
the subject considerable thought in
-summing up the situation.
He said that he thoroughly agreed
wlltli the old gentleman of Jones dis-
trict; that an up-to-date courthouse
and jail would lend prestige and dig
nity to the county; that with three
million dollars worth of taxable prop
erty an issue of SIOO,OOO in thirty
year bonds would cause only a nomi
nal increase in the tax rate; that
the work could be done by Harrow
county contractors and laborers; that
if the improvements are not made
until the county has saved up the
cash to pay for them the members of
the ten-year new county committee
will be in their dotage or dead and
gone when the courthouse and jail
are built; taxes were collected in
Barrow county territory in I!H4 and
dropped into the Jackson, Gwinnett
and Walton treasuries, and it did not
sy well upon his sttomach to know
that checks are still going from the
ordinary of Barrow county to the
officers of those counties; the loss
of the taxes forced the county to
start a year in debt, then why not
accept the situation, issue bonds and
get down to business on business
principles.
As to roads, he said he wits jn fa
vor of a chaingang; that when the
county was first created there was
some enthusiatic road working, and
With the grand jury, he believed that
the old road system was the best
one to adopt, but he had changed his
mind; that the enthusiasm had wan
f
cJ; that one experienced hired man
The Winder New*, Thursday Afternoon, September 9, 1915.
upon the public roads was worth
three putting in time and trying to
boss the job; that wiiat was every
body’s business was nobody’s busines,
that the old system would cause the
ordinary to have expensive tools scat
tered over the county in idleness;
such a system might keep a road in
condition after it has been properly
constructed, but to have good roads
the county must employ an experienc
ed road builder. Take a ride over
Jackson’s road from Jefferson to
Commerce; from County Line to
Braselton; over Clarke’s road after
you have passed Bogart; over Oconee
roads; over Walton’s roads, and now
over Gwinnett’s roads; come home
over Barrow’s roads, and then go
home and hang your head. For years
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her land was the cheapest in this sec
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her land is rising in leaps and
bounds.
Mr. Editor, as I said in the begin
ning, I do not know- the real public
sentiment upon these important' ques
tions. I would like for the ordinary
and the next grand jury to feel the
pulse of the people on thje subject of
bonds, and, with your permission, I
will be pleased to publish the letters
of those interested pro and con in
the next two issues of your paper.
Letters addressed to "the Volunteer
Reporter, care Winder News,” will
reach me.
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