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3i?r Winbtr Nrm*-
THE ONE PAPER
IN EVERY HOME
-In Sarrotß County
VOL. XXIII.
UNITED STATES TO
ENTER WORLD WAR
U-Boat Outrages No Longer
Tolerated
NAVY MAKING READY
$115,000,000 to Be Utilized at Once
to Hurry Warship Construction.
Hundreds of Submarine “Chasers”
Will Be Afloat in a Few Weeks.
The time for talking has passed.
That was the position taken by the
national capital following the latest
German submarine outrage in sinking
the City of Memphis, the Illinois and
the Yigilancia.
There was little disposition any
where to lessen the gravity of the
situation. The few officials who have
been hoping against hope that the
German announcement of unrestrict
‘ ed warfare did not mean what it said,
and that the American ships would
be spared, admitted that they had
been in error. No American ship is
safe anywhere on the high seas, of
ficials said, unless adequately armed
for defense. Had the City of Mem
phis and the Illinois been armed they
would not have been sunk. The.
Vigilancia saw no trace of the subma
rine which destroyed her, and there
fore armament would have made no
difference in that case.
The president is being urged to call
congress together next week instead
of on April Id, as already directed.
He also has been urged to announce
that a “state of war” between Ger
many and the United States exists.
He may do both, but officials said that
he was carefully weighing all of the
facts before acting and would make
no hasty judgment.
Preparing For Aggressive Action.
Preparations for aggressive action
to KiTbtect American rights began
when the president visited the navy
department personally, and directed
Secretary Daniels to utilize the $115,-
000.000 made available by congress
to hasten naval building plans. The
New York navy yard was directed
to begin the construction of sixty
submarine chasers, and announcement
was made that bids for 200 more will
be opened Wednesday. Through the
early graduation of two classes at An
napolis, and the mobilization of re
serves, it is proposed to make it pos
sible to man quickly all ships of the
navy.
The question was also taken up of
getting into communication infor
mally with Great Britain and France,
to discuss co-operation in the protec
tion of commerce lanes across the
Atlantic.
* A COSTLY YOUNGSTER.
$75 a Day Spent on Little John Jacob
Astor.
Little John Jacob Astor is being
well provided for. at the rate of $75
a day. according to C. .T. Sullivan,
special guardian of the infant heir,
who filed a report in court at New
York on the accounting of Mrs. Made
line Astor Dick’s guardianship of her
son.
Sullivan completely approves her
expenditures for the child’s mainte
nance. which have averaged more
than $75 a day since his birth, three
years ago, and adds a word of com
mendation for her care of the son of
t the late Col. John Jacob Astor.
AFFECTS 400,000 MEN.
New Wage Scale Costs Roads $50,•
000,000 Yearly.
The agreement perfected at New’
York between the railroad employes
and executives affects, it is estimated,
more than 400.000 men directly.
The new wage scales will cost the
railroads of the country approximnte
’ly $50,000,000 annually. The back
pay from January 1, which the men
will receive, will total in the neigh
borhood of $12,000,000 or $13,000.-
000.
Postoffice Robbed.
The postoffice at Carl was robbed
Monday night of about SS O worth of
stamps. Nothing was taken from the
store room where the postoffice is
located. When Mr. W. J. Ethridge,,
the proprietor, opened up Tuesday
morning every door was locked and
the windows fastened down.
®te Winter Jfews.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF BARROW C OUNTY.
SOME IMPORTANT CASES
SET FOR MARCH TERM
Court Calender Reveals Heavy Dock
et and a Splendid Array of Local
Talent l s Expected.
When Judge Cobb formally opene
Superior Court here next week he
'will face a heavy dock t of both civ
il and criminal cases.
Among the importa :t civil cases
are the following:
Angie R. Bradley et al vs Mrs. Ed
Sparks. Suit for land.
L. C. Russell vs. City of Winder.
Suit for salary.
H. R Hunt vs. City of Winder.
Suit for damages. G. D. Ross foi
plaintiff and R. H. Kimball for city.
W. D. Hardesty is suing the Sea
board Railway fer a total of sixty
thousand dollars and J. W Peppers i
suing for fifty thousand dollars. At
kinson & Bond, of Atlanta, and G
A. Johns, of Winder, represent the
plaintiffs and Cobb & Erwin and T.
J. Shackelford, of Athens, and W. H.
Quarterman, of Winder, represent the
defendants.
Mrs. G. F. Littlefield is suing the
Staboard for $35,560; H. A. Little
field for $15,000 and H. L. Little
field is suing the same railroad for
$20,000.
These suits resulted from the ac
Cident some months ago which occurr
ed a few r miles above Winder in
w'hicli Mr. George Littlefield, Mrs. J.
W. Peppers, Mrs. \V. D. Hardesty
and little daughter lost their lives.
Represetning the plaintiffs in the
Littlefield cases are Frank Shackle
ford, of Athens, P. Cooley, of Jef
ferson, and G. D. Ross, of Winder.
Cobb & Erwin, T. J. Shackleford and
W. H. Quarterman will look after the
interests of the road.
Judge Cobh, being disqualified in
these cases, Judge Walter L. Hodges,
of the Northern Circuit, will pre
side.
The next case of importance it
that of Miss Ruby Bradberry, by her
next best friend, W. S. Bradberry, vs
Woodruff Brothers doing businesss a
the North Georgia Fair. The suit is
for ten thousand dollars.
It will be remembered that during
the fair last October, the Ocean
Wave collapsed and Miss Bradberry
sustained damages. The suit fo
damages resulted. G. D. Ross, Judge
J A. B. Mahaffey representing the
plaintiffs and Judge G. A. Johns rep
resents the defendants.
Another suit of importance is that
of W. B. McCants, G. W. De La Per
riere and W. L. De La Perriere, pro
pounders cf the will of the late J
C. De La Perriere vs. Mrs. Ella De
La Perriere, cavetrix.
The criminal docket includes man}
cas The most important of which
is that of a negro named Watson for
murder.
Charley Tanner, who for nearly
two years lias been confined in jai
and has faced two juries on the
charge of murder will not appear at
the March Term. His case is now be
fore the Court of Appeals.
AT PENTECOST SUNDAY
Editor Ed A. Caldwell, the pastor,
requests us to state that there will
be special services at Pentecost
church, four miles east of Winder
next Sunday morning at 11 oclock
and requests t at the Sunday School
and the song service in the morning
be largely attended, the crowd con
gregating early. There will be a song
service in the afternoon at 2:30 (sun
time) at which a number f good
singers will be cn Land to take part
inciuTng messrs. Dial, Thompson
and Bridges. , c , £
WILL PRACTICE MEDICINE
Having confidence in the future of
Winder and the surrounding territory
and being solicited by my friends
to resume the practice of medicine
here I have decided to offer my serv
ices to the public on or after March
26th, 1917. My office will be as forn
erly on the third floor of the Winder
National Eank Building.
E. F. SAXON, M. D.
Winder, Barrow County, Ga., Thursday, March 22, 1917.
GEORGIA NEWS IN ■
SHORT Sim FORM
Covering All Sections
of the State
FROM LATEST 7 REPORTS
Up-to-Date Condensation of State,
County and City Intelligence Pre
pared For the Perusal of the Busy
Reader.
Announcement was made that the
new $30,000 clubhouse of the Savan
nah Golf club will be open for use
on April L *
The Gordon Institute, of Bartles
ville, was designated by the war de
partment as a unit of the reserve of
ficers’ military training corps.
The president sent to the senate the
following nominations as Georgia
postmasters: J. D. Howard, Milledge
ville, and M. C. Shadburn, Buford.
Robert Hall McCormick, Chicago
capitalist, died in Augusta after an
illness of two weeks. He was 70
years old.
The nomination of Dr. Carey T.
Grayson, President Wilson’s friend
and naval as medical director
and rear admiral in the navy, was con
firmed by the senate.
By a vote of 137 to 3. Smyrna
school district declared in favor of
Issuing bonds to the amount of $15,-
000 to build anew school building
and auditorium.
Frank Carter, guard on the At
lanta Athletic Club basketball team
during the past season, was elected
captain for the 1917-18* campaign
at the banquet given in honor
of the club squad at East Lake.
The sailors of the Interned German
cruisers Kron Prinzess Wilhelm and
Prinz Eitel Friedrich, now at Phila
delphia. were ordered removed to Forts
McPherson and Oglethorpe, in Geor
gia. for confinement.
The fourth annual teachers’ normal
school will open at the Piedmont in
stitute April 10. according to an
nouncement made by President M. O.
Carpenter. The school will continue
for six weeks.
The criminal docket of the DeKalb
county superior court was cleared and
fifteen misdemeanor prisoners were
added to the county’s ehainganjj*force,
bringing the number on the gang up
to 85.
Bankruptcy in the Southern district
of Georgia shows a decrease for the
last fiscal year. There were 928 vol
untary cases and 59 involuntary cases
filed, as against 1,162 voluntary and
79 involuntary cases the year before.
The Church Record, a monthly mag
azine published by Rev. Alexis 1). Ken
drick. pastor of the First Baptist
church at Americus. has made its ap
pearance and is a neat publication de
voted to the interests of the church.
The federal reserve board has ap
proved for the Atlanta Reserve bank
a discount rate, effective March 15,
of 3V a per cent on commercial, live
stock, agricultural and commodity pa
per, 15 days or less.
The Hawkinsville chamber of com
m rce, in executive session, gave Its
hearty endorsement to the Dixie Over
land highway. Every necessary co
operation will he given this highway
by the local citizens and the chamber
of commerce.
Two hundred cars of seed peanuts
have been sold by Moultrie dealers
to farmers of Colquitt county during
the past few weeks. The peanut crop
of the county this year will total al
least six thousand acres, according to
V. L. Collier, farm demonstrator.
Bijah Nuckolls, charged with mur
der for the killing of Henry M. Live
ly. at Norcross, was found guilty of
involuntary manslaughter and was
sentenced by Judge Andrew Cobb to
three years in the penitentiary, the
limit of the law. Motion hr.s been
made for anew trial.
Miss liattie Stevens, one of the
most active church women of south
Georgia, for years a teacher in Brooks
county and universally known and
loved through that section of the
state, was stricken with paralysis at
Quitman, dying without regaining con
sciousness.
Men in dry territory are not wait
ing for their ship to come in—they
go to the express office.
BIG GEORGIA SENATOR
TO SPEAK AT WINDER
Wilt Deliver an Address in the Court
House Monday, March 26th at
Noon Hour.
Hon. Hoke Smith, Georgias senioi
eenatcr, will deliver an address in
Barrow county court house at the
noon hour next Monday, March 26th.
Senator Smith comes to Winder at
the request, of many of his friends
in this section, and his talk to the
people will be interesting.
Few men in the national congress
stand as close to President Wilsoi
as Hoke Smith, of Georgia, and few
men in public life today can as ac
curately forecast the future nation
al events as he.
No doubt a large crowd will be
here next Monday to get first hand
information about nath-nal affairs.
GERMANY TO DECLARE
WAR ON UNITED STATE!
London, March 21. —According tt
private telegrams from Berlin t<
The Amsterdam Bourse, t is v pect
e;i that a state of war with the United
States will be an accomplished fac>
within 48 hours, says a dispatch tc
the Exchange Telegraph ccmpan}
from Amsterdam.
American Journalists in Berlin, the
dispatch adds, have been warned tc
this effect 'by the foreign office.
Preisdent Wilson today met the
constantly increasing probability c
war with Germany byl summenin*
congress to meet April 2.
Property Changes Hands.
This week Dr. S. T. Ross traded
the house and lot occupied by Dr.
C. B. Almond and Mr. Roy Jackson
to Mrs. Annie Wood, of Atlanta, for
h( r cottage on Candler street. The
Wocd let is one of the prettiest in
the city and is located just across
the street from the Methodist church
The lot extends almost through to
Athens street and fronts about 400
feet on Center street.
METHOD TO ABATE
CHICKEN NUISANCE
A popular Elberton lady yesterday
morning tried out the suggestion
found in the magazine section of Sun
day’s Atlanta Journal about how t<
keep your neighbors chickens of
your garden. The lady in questio;
had just had her garden plowed, ant
had many seed beds planted,
noon she noticed several neighboring
hens scratching industriously in th
seed beds, and she forthwith carriec
out the suggestion already referred
to as followe:
She sewed several grains of corn
to pastboard cards, leaving aboul
twelve inches of thread between the
card and grain of corn. On boti
sides of the card were written in i
bold and legible hand: “Please keei
your chickens at home." This corr
attached to the cards was scattered
over the garden, and in a few min
utfs squawking hens, one by one
were trudging home clawing ail the
at the cards hanging at the end
of their bills in a futile effort to
get craw-comfort. The hens have
not returned to that garden.—Elber
ton Star.
GREAT DAY AT FIRST BAPTIST.
Rev. T. W Callaway, of Dublin,
spoke at the first Baptist church
at both morning and evening sericei
to splendid congregations.
A committee appointed to canvass
the membership Sunday afternoon re
ported that about S9OO had beer
raised on the fund of one-half mil
lion that the Baptists of the ctat.
are expecting to raise.
Dr. Callaway is a strong and plcar
ing speaker. The night service was
an illustrated stereopticon lecture o
the schools, colleges, hospitals am
orphans homes supported by the de
nomination in the state.
Wtndrr Nrwa—
THE ONLY PAPER
IN MANY HOMES
—ln Sarrotn (Cmntli)
ROMANOFF DYNASTY
IS SHORN OF POWER
Autocracy Gives Way to Dem
ocracy.
PEOPLE RULE RUSSIA
Shackles of Intrigue, Superstition and
Ignorance, Which for Ages Hava
Bound Russia’s Millions, Have at
Last Been Broken.
Russia is ridden today of the high
tide of democracy. The shackles of
dark intrigue, superstition and ignor
ance which for ages have bound her
millions to the feet of an autocratio
government have been rudely broken.
Today for the first time in the his
tory of the great empire, the people
are governing themselves.
“Dark Russia” is fast disappearing
under the liberating blows of the new
regime.
Every incoming dispatch from the
Russian capital told of the progress
being made by the new government
and tlie generous acclaim with whfMi
it is being received by the people. Tha
old pro-German ministers of the Czar’s
cabinet have either fled the country
or are under arrest.
Ministry Swept From Office.
The Russian ministry, charged with
corruption and incompetence, has
been swept out of office. One minis
ter, Alexander Protopoff, bead of tha
Interior department, is reported to
have been killed, and the other minis
ters, as well as the president of tha
imperial council, arc under arrest.
Anew national cabinet ls nn
nouuced with Prince LvoiT as presi
dent of the council and premier, and
the other offices held by the men who
are close to the Russian people.
For several days Petrogrnd lias boon
the scene of one of the most remark
able risings In history. Beginning
with minor food riots and laboi!
strikes, the cry for food reached tha
hearts of the soldiers, and one by ond
the regiments rebelled, until finally
those troops that had Fir a time stood
loyal to the government took up their
arms and marched into the ranks of
the revolutionists.
Czar Abdicated.
Emperor Nicholas abdicated on be
half of himself and the heir apparent*
Grand Duke Alexis, in favor of Grand
Duke Michael Alexandrovitch.
The house of Romanoff is descended
from Andrei Romanoff, who 1r said to
have gone to Moscow from Prussia in
the fourteenth century. Mikhail Feo.
dorovitch Romanoff was the first ol
the family to succeed to the throne.
This was In 1613, when he was 17
years old. He died In 1045. The di
rect male line of the Romanoffs t< r
minated in 1730 and the female line ! n
1702, when the llolsteln-Gottorp
branch came into power and has sim-d
ruled.
The government, pending a meet
ing of the constitutional assembly, H
vested in the executive committee of
the (luma and the newly chosen coun
cil of ministers.
Grand Duke on Throne.
Grand Duke Michael, brother of tin
Czar, has agreed to ascend the thron*
of Russia, if the people desire it.
Regardless, however, of whether
Grand Duke Michael accepts tha
throne, the most sweeping liberal re
forms of government are now assured*
Grand Duke Michael himself reeeg
nlzes this in a statement.
ARCHIVES BURNED.
Documents of Russian Police Wcrd
Destroyed.
Practically the entire archives ol
the Russian secret police were burned
by the revolutionists, according to
a London Times dispatch from Petro
grad.
When the building in which the no
torious third section had its head
quarters was captured eager crowdd
Racked the offices, blasted open safes,
wrecked strong boxes and rushed into
the streets carrying masses of docu
ments, which were quickly converted
into blazing bonfires. Not all the doc
uments, however, were destroyed. Thd
new government has obtained posses
sion of lists of spies and lnformers (
who are being fast run to earth.
Mr. T. P. Williams, of Winder, who
has been the guest* of bis brother,
G. W. Williams, has returned home.
—Gwinnett Journal.
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