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VOL. XXIII.
CONFUSION IN GOVERNMENT
E'STIMATE OF COTTON CROP
Winder Firm Wires Census Bureau in
Washington for an Explanation —
Telegram Given Below.
The recant government report con
corning the estimate output of the
cotton crop In the United States this
year has caused no end of confusion
among cotton dealers. The issuance
of the report upset the figures of
cotton dealers and caused a wild
slump in the cotton market. J. M.
Williams & Cos., of Winder, detemiin
ed to wire tire Census Bureau at
Washington for information concern
ing the basis of the report only t (
learn there is really no material dif
ference between the government es
timate of this year’s production cf
cotton and the amount conceded by
e
c ttcn dialers generally.
The cotton market was on the tobog
and going Monday when
Germany’s Ktup gun report fer peace
fell among the bears and sent them
scampering for cover. Winder cotton
men have telegrams today assuring
the sincerity of Germany’s desire for
peace, and that Liverpool is strong
and active with the market steadily
climbing.
The telegram cf Mr. William’ and
the answer thereto are given below:
Winder, Ga., 11-12-16.
Census Bureau, Washington, D. C.
“In arriving your estimate cotton
crop do you take four hundred and
seventy-eight pounds lint for bale cot
toh ton allowingtwenty-two pounds for
bagging and ties, or do you estimate
fuming bales as ginned, which last
rep ><t shows about five-liundred and
twenty-three pounds gross? Please
afiswer.
J. M. Williams & Cos.”
* Washington, D. G. 12-11-16:
‘‘J. M. Williams & Cos., Winder, Ga.
Bureau estimate eleven million,
five hundred eleven thousand bales
relates to five hundred pounds gross
weight of bales of approximately,four
hundred seventy-eight pound# net
of lint, making total production es
timate five billion, five hundred six
million, eight ninety-six thousand
pounds lint.
Leon M. Estabrook,
C ief Bureau Crop Estimator.”
BROOK'S LAWRENCE
AT THE FIRST BAPTIST
Dr. Brooks Lawrence, superintend
e®t of the Anti-Saloon League of
Georgia, will speak at a union serv
ice of all the churches of the city at
the First Baptist Church Sunday af
ternoom at three o’clock on ‘‘The
olden Buie and Temperance”
MASONS ELECT OFFICERS
Friday evening of last week atj
their regular session the Masons
elected the following officers for
1917,
W. M., R. D. Moore.
S. W., W. M. Chastain.
J. W., J. K. Miller. |
S cretary, Claude Patat.
Treasurer, L. A. House.
Tyler, John Hill.
j Senior Deacon, G. J. Allen.
Junior Deacon, R. D. Couch.
Chaplain, Rev. J. S. Settle.
Senior Steward, A. Y. Evanson.
Junior Steward, Albert William#.
A large crowd was present. St.
Johns Day will he appropriately ob
served on December 27th.
SPEAKING AT MADDOX ACADEMY
Friday night, December, 22, 19D
Messrs. A. J. Fleming and F. T.
Bridges, tae secretary and assistant
state secretary of the Farmers Edu
i cadonal and Co-operaive Union of
t
America, will speak at Maddox Acad
emy. Public cordially invited; some
thing good in store. Come.
£lj c witter Maws.
, , OFFICIAL ORGAN OF BARROW COUNTY.
SAM J. TRIBBLE DEAD
Georgia Congressman Expires Follow
ing Stroke of Apoplexey.
Buried in Athens.
Representative Sam J. Tribble died
In Washington, December the Bth,
and was buried last Sunday morning
in Athens.
A congressional committee, com.
posed of Senators and Congressmen
accompanied the remains to hig home
also a large crewd of the dead con
gressman’s Georgia friends.
R?pr sentattive Tribble became se
rlour'y ill in the house office build
ing Monday afternoon. He was rush
ed to a hospital, but never rallied.
Representative Tribble was serving
his third term in congress, and had
just been re-elected to a fourth
When his death was announced to
day, iLotli licuses adjourned out of
respect. He ( was born in Franklin
county, Georgia, and was a graduate
of the University of Georgia. As s
lawyer he served two years as sclic
tor of the Athens city ec%uit and
four years as solicitor of his dis
-sip siq jo imrauaS uojpii° s -moj
trict.
J. H. CLACK PASSES AWAY
Sunday morning at his home on
Broad Street Mr. J. H. Clack quietly
breathed his last. He was a good
cit'z n and leaves a wife and nine
children to mourn Iris loss. He was
bo n Ajr 1 8, 1819, in Walton county.
Jily 28, 1887 he married Miss Emma
Austin. Nine children were born oi
this union as follow-s: Mrs. Minnie
Austin, of Walton county; Mrs. Ada
Ward of Ocone? county; Clifford, Lu
La, Luther, Allie, Gladys and Mem
p is Clack of Winder.
Funeral services were conducted
by Rev. W. H. Faust, of the First
Baptist Church, of which he and his
family were members, and the body
w r as buried by the Odd Fellows at
the old Clack burying ground about
five miles out from the city.
His hosts of friends sympathize
with the family in their bereavement.
MINISTERIAL ASSSCCIATION
ELECTS NEW OFFICERS
The Barrow County Ministerial As
sociation met in its regular session
Monday at the Christian Church.
The following officers were elected
to serve for the year 1917.
President, Rev. John H. Maahburn.
Secretar}', Rev. John H. Wood.
Chairman of Comanittee on Char
ity and Benevolence, Rev. W. H.
Faust,
The ministers agreed to meet on
Mondays during 1917, at the Christ
ian Church. A welcome was extend
ed to Rev. Bhinsfield the new pas
tor of the Bethlehem circuit of the
Methodist Church.
IMPROVEMENTS MADE ON
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Tie Winder Presbyterian Church
has undergone extensive frepairs
during the past few weeks. The
house has been given anew coat
o' paint both inside and out. The
walls have been tinted, woodwork
painted and a choir loft added.
The ladies of the church have
been actively assisting in this work
cleaning, beautifying and making
comfortable the church house.
Friends net members of this
church have assisted materially by
contributions to the work is much ap
predated by this small congregation.
FERGUSON UNIT TRUCK.
The Summerlin Buggy Company
has secured the agency in this terri
tory for the Ferguson Unit Truk for
Ford cars. They will tell you all
about it through The News within
the next few weeks.
Winder, Barrow County, Ga., Thursday, December 14, 1916.
DR. J. C. De La PERRIERE
PIONEER CITIZEN, DEAD
Breathed His Last Saturday Night-
Buried Sunday Afternoon With
Masonic Honors.
Saturday night at 11 o’clock at his
home here, surrounded by the mem
bers of his family and friends, Dr
James Cochran Bolivar De iJa Per
riere breathed his last.
Dr. De La Perriere was one of Win
der’s pioneer citizens, and a man cl
considerable means. He was born
June 7, 1832. He was twice, married
November 26, 1856, he was joined in
wedlock to Miss Marion Eliza Head
She wms a faithful and loving wife,
the mother of his nine children
t' r: e of whom are living to mourn
t e loss of these splendid parents
They are Dr. George W .De La
Perriere, Mrs. W. B. McCants and
Dr. W. L. De La erriere, all of this
city. His first wife died at St. Pet
ersburg, Fla., February 21, 1 90 6.
Dir. De La Perriere was a grandson
of Madame Rosalie Gouvan who
years ago fled from the Revolution
in France and lived many years in
Athens, Ga. She first Married C.en
eral Ange De La Perriere who was
promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-
Colonel in the Florida war when he
was only seventeen years old.
Dr. Ange De La Perriere, the
grandfather cf the deceased, left
Paris the night of the second mar
riage of Napoleon. He did not meet
Marie Louise, but was intimately ac
quainted with Empress Josephine,
being often in her palace and at her
receptions.
For 84 years the subject of this
sketch lived, and during that period
saty many changes. He has seen
the administrations of all the presi
dents of the United Sttates save
seven, and has watched our nation
grow from its very beginning to the
place and influence among the pow
ers of the world.
In 1908 he married Mrs. Ella
of Atlanta. She was a loyal and de
voted wiife, and the sympathy of the
entire community goes out to her in
her great sorrow.
The funeral services were con
ducted from the Methodist Church
at 3:30 o’clock. Rev. John H. Mash
burn the pastor, presided, and appro
priate and touching tributes were
paid the deceased by Dr. S. R.
Belk, of Athens, Revs. William Dun
bar, of Lawrenceville; W. H. Faust,
of the Baptist Church and John H.
Wood of Winder. Dr. Quillian oi
Gainesville and Rev. N. E. Mcßiray
er participated in the services. He
was buried with Masonic Honors in
Rose Hill Cemetery. The large
crowd in attendance upon the funeral
obsequies showed in what high es
teem the departed was held by the
entire city.
He was regarded as one of the
leading business men of this sec
tion, was prominently connected with
all the financial interstes oi
Northeast Georgia and was also not
ed as being one of the leading medi
cal prtaictitioners.
The floral offerings were many and
beautiful.
FINE BUSINESS
The City Council has ordered a
cement sidewalk from the Granite
Hotel to the Seaboard depot. This
is a much needed improvement and
the city fathers are to be commended
for putting it through. Work has al
ready begun, and if the weather per
mits, pedestrians will soon be gliding
along this thoroughfare without fear
of mud and slush.
Cedar Creek Bafptist Church.
Preaching Sunday by Rev. W. H.
Faust at H o’clock. Subject; “A
Call to Bible Study.” Sunday at 3
p. m., ‘‘Thoughtlessness.” All the
members are urged to be present.
FIRST TEACHERS INSTITUTE
NEXT SATURDAY MORNING
%
The first white Teachers’ Institute
for the teuc ers of Re’row county fo
the school year 1916-17 will be held
in Windre’s new school building on
next Saturday morning at 10 o'clock.
Nearly all of the schools of the coun
ty are in session now, and as all the
teachers are required to attend these
institutes, a large number of teachers
will be present. As was the custom
last year, all who are interested in
school work will be welcome to attend
and a special invitation is given
them. An interesting program has'
been arranged for the day. “School
Santitaticn” will be discussed by Dr.
’
S. T. Ross, the New School Book
Law will be explained by Prof. Cash i
superintendent cf the Winder Pub-
Schools and the Compulsory Educa
tion Law will be discussed by Prof.
W. M. Holsenbecky superintendent of
county schools.
MOVES TO COMMERCE
Mr. R. F. Hosch, for thirty years a
resii.net of this section, Wednesday
morning moved to Jackson county,
mar Commerce. Mr. Hcsch is a
good citizen and we are sorry that
lie has decided to leave us. But he
go s to a fine section in a good
county. He called ,in to make sure
he would net miss an issue of The
News, a paper he has been taking
for fifteen years.
BLASINGAME—SMITH
The marriage of tyliss Amy Plagin
gime and Mr. Ralph Smith was an
interesting event of last Thursday,
taking place at high noon at the
home of the brides parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Josiah Blasin,game of Jersey.
The home was artistically decorat
ed with palms, ferns and cut-flowers.
The ceremony took place in the
living room where the wedding party
Was grouped before before a bank of
greenery and vases of narcissi.
The Ibride was lovely in her wed
ding gown of duchess satin with
silver trimmings; her veil being or
namented with orange blossoms
Miss Mary Mobley was maid of honoi
and wore white tule with kings blue
trimmings with silver slippers. Miss
es Marie Smith and Robbie Blasin
game were maids and wore becoming
gowns of kings blue satin and gold
trimmings and wore gold slippers;
they carried red carnations.
Mr. Hcmer Smith was best man,
and Messrs. Fred Barnes and Gus
Williamson acted as groomsmen
Rev. McGarity cf the First Metho
dist Church officiated. An informa
reception followed the ceremony.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith left for a trip
to Florida and Cuba where they will
spend about ten days. On their re
turn they will make their home with
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Smith on Broad
Street.
FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD
Will Smith, colored, 22 years oi
age escaped Saturday night, Decem
ber 9, from Blarrow county chaingang
He is very black, weighs 150 pounds,
has a scar under left shoulder
blade, also oar In right eyebrow and
is five feet and four inches in height.
Fifty dollars reward will be paid for
his capture.
Phillip Remembers Us.
We are feasting this week. Tues
day afternoon, Tom Wood, our
nephew brought us some spareribs,
backbone, sausage, and liver, and our
friend Phillip J. Lamar brought us
some liver and backbone. Yes, we
are living high, we thank you.
Mrs. Mary Harris Armor predicts a
“bone dry” nation within two years.
We hope she is right, but still we
are from Missouri.
AUTOMOBILE CLAIMS
ANOTHER vrCTIM IN
BENJAMIN WOOD
Killed Instantly ’Monday Afternoon
W en Car Turns Topsy-Turvy
on Broad Street.
Bin Wood, a white man about
forty years of age, was instantly
killed Monday afternoon when hts
car was turned over on Broad Street,
iu this city.
Three negroes were in the car with
Wood wlven the accident happened,
and some of them 1 were more or less
injured.
The dead man was taken in charge
by C. M. Ferguson, tire undertaker
and his relatives notified.
No one seems to know how the ac
cidmt happened. It is said that all
the occupants of the car were drink
ing.
Ben Wood was a son ol' that vene
ar abb Jacksi n county citizen who
donated the land cn wl ich Woods
Camp ground was located, wJTere
in the eighties many souls were?
brought to Christ under the preach
ing of that old line -erf Methodist mi ro
isters who have'become extinct and
have,been supplemented by the mo-re
modern and progressive exponents
of free salvation.
This is a sad ending of the son of
a good man, but when whiskey, gaso
line and automobiles mix the const?
queue s a e often tragic.
“THE COMBAT”
A Bara ca Benefit Picture Coming
on December 21st.
On tie 21st. c:f December, “The
Com' at” a ’big six part Blue Ribbon
feature of extraordinary power will
be shown at the Strand by the Barac
ca Class of the First Baptist Church.
Manager Love lias procured this pic
ture for the Baraccaa because of Us
high quality and popularity. Its
star is America’s daintiest actress,
the charming Anita Stewart. Don’t
fail to see this picture. Proceeds go
to help the Baptist Orphans Home
in Hapeville.
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SMASHED \
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Prices On Leading Magazines
Cut in Half.
Cosmopolitan, 2 years $2.00 i
Metropolitan, 2 years $2.00
Can handle your subscriptions to
1 ading periodicals and save you mon
ey. Can arrange almost any kind of
club. Phone 22G or 73, and I wil
call to see you. Julian Ross.
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M aff et-Wi 11 iam s.
On la t Sunday afternoon Miss Rn>
by Maffet, daughter of Mr. Word Hal w
Maffet, was given in marriage to
Mr. Jobe Williams. The happy young
couple are now at home to their
friends on Athene St., at the home
of the groom’s father.
Presbyterian Services
Rev. Sam Cartledge, of Athens will
fill his pulpit at the Presbyterian
church tonight. A cordial invitation*
is extended the public to come out
and hear a good sermon.
Miss Sulu Jennings was tthe guest
of friends and relatives in Bethle
hem last week-end.
Mrs. Aiken had as her guest Mon
day night Miss Susie Medkand of
Monroe.
Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Benson and
little son were the guest of friends
in Auburn last week-end. •
Mrs. A. H. Strickland, of Union
Springs, Ala. was the week-end guest
of Mrs. W. C. Horton last week.
Misses Lila Dell Stanton, Esther
and Maude Henson and Mr. Cart
Henson motored to Loganville Sun
day and spent the afternoon with
friends.
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