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VOL. XXV.
SUFFRAGISTS
IN WAR WORK
By MRS. JAMES LEES LAIDLAW,
Vice Chairman New York State Wo
man Suffrage Party.
The New York State Woman Suf
frage party, since it finished its great
task of carrying New York state for
' V ° m a , D suffrag ®’
firms of civic and
man’s hospital unit
L % j United States.
4 This unit is the
, o N • “War Baby” of the
A National Woman
"" * J Suffrage Associn-
Mrs. J. L. Laldlaw. tlon - with whlch
we are affiliated.
We have just held a great naval and
military meet at Madison Square Gar
den, where a large sum was raised for
this remarkable unit, which has -sailed
to do such valuable work in France.
Every person in it, even to the plumb
ers and mechanics, are women, and
they volunteered for dangerous service.
Other branches of our war service
have been an intensive food conserva
tion campaign and the War-Savings
Stamps campaign. In all this active
patriotic work we feel inspired with
the thought of our own chairman,
Mrs. Norman deR. Whitehouse, abroad
on an important government mission
and many others of the rank and file
of our women who are engaged in de
voted service “over there.”
Citizenship Schools.
Another Interesting branch of onr
work is the great university extension
of citizenship. Schools are being held
throughout the state under our Educa
tional Committee.
Another line of work is that of our
Intelligence Committee, which lists of
ficials of all political parties and all
men in every township and county in
the state who have run or are to run
for office. It is believed this commit
tee will become extremely intelligent
as time goes on, and its intelligence
will react on the civic welfare of the
state most tellingly.
Our Americanization Committee has
Issued some very effective and educa
tional literature and is organizing in
•very center and community where
there are foreign groups.
, i Maintaining Morale.
We realize that a great part of a na
tion's war time efficieicy is in keeping
life normal and efficient at home. In
the last analysis that nation which
keeps most nearly steady and normal
in its industrial and domestic life will
maintain that morale which will win
the war for it.
The work of the Rural Problems
Committee perhaps is of particular in
terest in this publication which is be
ing sent out by the National Security
League. Very few people in the coun
try have stopped to realize how in our
body politic the rural committees are
discriminated against in the matter of
socializing forces. Our great cities
have their amusements, their munici
pal halls and baths, their community
kitchens, their public libraries and lec
ture courses ana innumerable settle
ments and clubs where people are
drawn together and stimulated men
tally and spiritually. We feel that
some of these advantages should be
brought to the country districts.
Any rural who wants to be
put In touch with our legislative bul
letin, with our correspondence courses
in civic education or any Information
In reference to the work of the Wo
man Suffrage party should write to
that organization at 303 Fifth avenue,
New York city.
RED (ROSS NEEDS FINDS;
WILL YOU GIVE DAY’S W AGES
Our boys “over there’’ are fighting
for us three hundred and sixty-five
days in the year. Will you at home
give your salury—your wages—your in
come—for just one day to help guard
and care for them on their drive for
victory and the freedom of the world?
This is what the Red Cross asks you
to do. Subscription cards will be dis
tributed during the Red Cross Cam
paign Week, May 20 to 27, on which
you can pledge just that much —the
money you get from one day’s work.
Will you do it?
DISTRICT DRAINAGE MEETING.
At the court house next Saturday all
parties interested in the drainage of
lW< ;h Creek, are called to meet at 2
O’clock in the afternoon.
Reports are to be made by outstand
ing committees and further organiza
tion perfected, looking to election and
issuing bonds for the undertaking.
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FRENCH RE-WIN
VANTAGE POINTS
Germans Suffer Heavy Casual
ties and Lose Many Prisoners
—T hr e e German Planes
Downed by Americans.
(By Associated Press.
Still another day has passed with
out the Germans renewing their offen
sive in Flanders or Picardy. Nowhere
have the infantry operations by either
suit* on these battle fronts, or, for that
matter any front, in any numerous
theaters of war risen in importance
above patrol engagements.
North of Kemmel, where the Ger
mans on Tuesday gained a footing on
Hill 44. one of the bloodiest sectors on
the western front, the lost vantage
points have been retrieved through the
persistent counter attacks of the
French, who succeeded in expelling the
enemy from the shell holes along the
slopes to which he had been tenacious
ly holding. Not alone were the Ger
j mans forced to recede, but the French
advanced their line and took prisoners.
Likewise south of Hailles, in the
Amiens region, the French have taken
another bite into the German line and
successfully warded off German coun
ter attacks launched in an endeavor to
j recapture the lost ground. The Ger
! mans in these maneuvers suffered
| heavy casualties and also lost men
made prisoners. Throughout Wednes
! day the British were left severely alone
! by the German infantry.
Although the enemy is keeping his
infantry to their trenches he continues
to use his artillery vigorously against
salient positions held by the British
and French all along the front, espe
cially against Field Marshal Haig’s
forces south of Albert and against the
French north of Kemmel. The French
nortli of Montdidier and along the
curve of the battle front between Mont
didier and Noyon also have been under
an intensive fire from the German
guns.
French troops yesterday evening at
tacked German positions near Hailles,
on the front below Amiens, and captur
ed a wood on the west bank of the
Arve river, it is officially announced.
The Germans made a counter attack
and were beaten off with severe losses.
During the night there was a violent
bombardment north of Montdidier and
between Montdidier and Noyon.
American aviators today shot down
three German planes in the Tout sec
tor.
Five American aviators were later
decorated with French war crosses.
A heavy barrage was laid down by
the Germans on American positions
northwest of Toul this morning, but
no infantry attack developed. The
Americans in the line at all times dur
ing the firing were ready for the ene
my.
SPARE THAT SNAKE
From The Dawson News.
From along about the time that
Adam and Eve moved out of the Gar
den of Eden human beings have held
a grudge against the snake.
They have sought to make this a
snakeless world, and have not succeed
ed in doing so, excepting in Ireland.
Because they have not succeeded we
may give thanks. We need snakes,
more, apparently, than w r e have, for
snakes are an invaluable asset as ro
dent destroyers.
“Only 17 out of the 111 varieties of
snakes in America are poisionous.”
writes Glayne K. Norton in American
Forresfry. “None,” he asserts, “will
attack a human being except in self
defense. All of them destroy rodents
that injure crops and carry communi
cable diseases.”
The United States department of
agriculture places our annual crop loss
due to rodents at over half a billion
dollars, or something like $5 a person.
Just how many more snakes we need
in America to save this $500,000,000
of food no one claims to know, but it
may be a good idea for snake haters
to permit the wiggling reptiles a long
er lease on life —a reprieve, you might
say, until all the rodents are gone.
Then, on with the snake slaughter!
Every Georgia member of the house
voted for the Overman bill granting
blanket war power to President Wil
son.
During the last week the British re
port 41,612 casualties, 5,606 being kill
ed.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF BARROW COUNTY
Winder, Barrow County, Ga., Thursday, May 16, 1918.
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PERSONAL.
Rev. W. H. Faust made a business
trip to Atlanta Monday.
Mrs. IV. A. Brooks spent a few days
in Atlanta with relatives last week.
Mrs. I). I. Gaines left Tuesday for
a two weeks’ visit in Sumter, S. C.
Mr. and Mrs. Emory Ylennett are the
proud parents of a fine boy.
Rev. and Mrs. R. W. Wallace and
Mrs. li. S. I). Lanier leave early next
week for Valdosta to spend two weeks.
Sgts. Marshal Rives and T. B.
Strange, of Camp Wheeler, spent the
week-end in Winder.
Mr. N. A. Sharpton, of Camp Wheel
er, spent the week-end here with his
pa rents.
Mr. W. G. Graham returned Satur
day from an extended trip to Hot
Springs, Ark.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Fortson had as
their dinner guests Sunday Rev. and Mrs
W. H. Faust and Miss Ellen Mattox,
of Elberton.
Miss Ellen Mattox, an accomplished
young lady, of Elberton, spent the
week-end in Winder the guest of Mr.
and Mrs. Lee A. Fortson.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kilpatrick, of
Atlanta, have returned home after a
pleasant, visit to Mr. R. L. Carithers
and Miss Ruby Cariethers.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe House, Mrs. W. G.
Elder and Mrs. L. A. House spent Sun
day at G. N. and I. C. going hi Mr.
House’s new car.
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Mathews. Miss
es Johnnie Lou Smith, Ada Hancock
and Elllen Mattox and Mr. Everett
Patmon motored to Athens Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Maynard and
children, Mr. and Mrs. Dick Harris and
baby and Mrs. Lena Chandler, of Ath
ens, spent Sunday here with relatives.
Mr. Claud Daniel, of Newport, 11. 1.,
and Mr. Jack Daniel, of Camp Wheel
er, have been visiting their sister, Mrs.
Robt. J. Smith and other relatives in
Winder the past week.
Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Millsaps and Misses
Frances Brooks, Reunette Woodruff
and Mary Louise Johns motored to
Milledgeville Sunday and spent the day
at G. X. and I. C. with Miss Sybil Mill
saps.
Mrs. Annie Belle Hheats spent last
week in Athens at the state college of
agriculture attending lectures and dem
onstrations on canning, drying and
preserving, also conservation cooking, in
preparation for her summer work.
Misses Gertrude Rogers, Willie Mae
Sheats and Pearl Saunders and Mrs.
Annie Belle Sheats attended the gradu
ating exercises of Miss Jewell Sheats
at the Peidmont Sanitorium in Atlanta
recently.
Mrs. Annie Belle Sheats attended
the county woman’s club meeting of
DeKalb county at Decatur, Saturday,
May 4, where she made a talk on wom
an’s part in the war and judged an ex
hibit of liberty breads.
Mr. Jack Sheats, who has been very
ill with pneumonia at Camp Wheeler,
is reported to be rapidly convalescing.
Mrs. Annie Belle Sheats is confined
to her home with nervous prostration
and will be off duty fo rtwo weeks to
regain her strength for the strenuous
summer sesaon
Rev. and Mrs. W. H. Faust, Mr. Hbl
senbeck and Mrs. J. F. Sheats were
guests of the primary domestic science
class of the Winder High School in the
cooking labarutory at a delicious lunch
eon last Friday afternoon at 2:30.
This class is composed of Sara Wat
kins, Ruby Hammonds, Edna Appleby
and Florence Craft. These young la
dies proved themselves gifted in the
culinary art and their three course
luncheon was certainly enjoyed by all.
Miss Lane is doing a wonderful and
very constructive work with thes girls.
They are getting things there that will
really prove a blessing to them in after
life. Of all the people to be pitied in
this world, is a woman who does not
know how to cook.
CITY OF W INDER WINS SI IT.
The Court of Appeals on Tuesday af
flremd the case of It. J. Smith against
the city of Winder. This matter was
passed upon by Judge Cobb who de
cided the issue in favor of the City of
Winder and the case then went
to the Court of Appeals and the final
decision by that court was in favor of
the city. Judge G. A. Johns represent-!
ed the city and Mr. Smith was repre
sented by Col. R. 11. Kimball.
WILL STAY AT WHEELER.
Sergeant T. B. Strange, the only
member of Cos. B, 121st Infantry, who
was recommended to an officers train
ing camp recently, will train at Camp
Wheeler. While he was selected to go
to Camp Sevier and had also passed
at Macon, it was arranged for Mr.
Strange to continue his training at
Wheeler.
T. B. Strange is the son of Mr. J.
T. Strange, head of J. T. Strange Cos.,
and has many friends in and uround
Winder who are interested in his ca
reer, and they are confident that he
will leave the training camp a commis
sioned officer.
DISTINGUISHED VISITORS.
Last Monday night Winder was visit
ed by three distinguished visitors,
classmates of our fellow citizen, Mr. It.
L. Rogers, with whom they spent the
night. They were Bishop Mouzon, of
Dallas, Tex.: Dr. J. M. Workman,
president of Henderson-Brown College,
of Arkadelphia, Ark., and Dr. A. M.
Maekenfilss, of Emory university. These
gentlemen were graduates of the same
class with Mr. Rogers in 1880 at Wof
ford College. Dr. Mouzon is presiding
at the big Methodist conference in At
lanta. and came down Monday to see
hLs college chum in this city.
TOLD IN TABLOID
Henry Clay Johnson, colored, an al
leged deserter, from Camp Gordon, was
shot and killed Thursday night by Hu
bert or Bird Martin, of Jackson coun
ty. The Martins were deputized by
the marshal of Jefferson to help arrest
the negro. The tragedy occurred at
Tuckstou.
Because the counting of noses in the
United States senate makes it clear
that the house resolution proposing
submission to the states of an equal
suffrage amendment to the federal con
stitution is short of a two-thirds ma
jority in that body, indefinite postpone
ment is likely.
America’s first aero mail service was
inaugurated Tuesday between Wash
ington, Philadelphia and New York.
Army aviators piloted the machines for
experience in the cross-country flying.
Mrs. Willie Lou Anthony, formerly
of Winterville, but who for some years
had been a nurse in Atlanta, met a
tragic fate at the Davis-Fischer sani
torimn Tuesday. She fell three stories
down the elevator shaft, and died with
out regaining consciousness. Just how
the accident occurred no one will ever
know.
After forty years of effrot, the wom
of the Methodist Episcopal church,
by action of the general conference
now in session in Atlanta, have been
granted full lay membership. The bish
ops vetoed tiie proposition, but the con
ference passed the resolution by the
necessary two-thirds majority.
The lord mayor of Dublin, Ireland,
has received passports for America and
arrangements for his immediate depar
ture are in progress. He comes for a
conference with President Wilson in
which he will present the Irish state
ment against conscription.
Sophomore Class Entertains
For Seniors.
The Sophomore class of the Winder
High School entertained the Senior
Class last Friday night, May 10th, at
the attractive home of Miss Gertrude
Rogers, a popular member of the Soph
omore class. The Junior Class was al
so invited to help honor the Seniors.
The house was beautifully decorated
with Dorothy Perkins, Paul de Ron
and white roses, carrying out the pink
and white colors of the class. The lawn
was quite a place of enchantment with
Jack O’ La liters peeping out of the
branches of the trees and the soft light,
shed from them made quite a pic
turesque scene of the fair invaders in
light colors and the boys in their dark
suits.
The punch tHble was hanked with
pink and white roses and proved one of
the most popular places of the evening.
Pink and white cream and cake was
served by the dainty hostesses.
The chaperons were Mr. and Mrs. R.
L. Rogers and the high school faculty.
The gracious and charming manner
In which the Sophomore Class enter
tained certainly gives promise for the
future hosts and hostesses of Winder.
Celebrates Ninth Birthday.
Little Miss Evelyn Moore, tile bright
little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. V'c/non
Moore, celebrated her ninth hirfhday
Tuesday afternoon. The young guests
enjoyed an hour or more of games on
the shady lawn and later w r ere carried
to the Winder Soda Company where de
licious cream and cake were served.
An auto ride over the city completed
a most enjoyable afternoon. Those
present were Sunie Johns, Mary Lamar
Jackson, Mary Ross, Gertrude Young,
Dorothy and Marcia Smith, Harriet
Segars, Gladys Eavenson, Virginia
Cooper, Sarah Joe Roberts, Pauline
Roberts and Helen Graddick.
Birthday Party.
One of the happy occasions of last
week was that of Thursday afternoon
when Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Jackson en
tertained twenty of the future belles
and heauxs in honor of their popular
three-year-old daughter, Barton. The
guests were Nannelle Starr, Dorothy
Smith, Mary Quarterman, Marcia
Smith, Elise Starr, Mary Julia Reid,
Harold Starr, Henry Bradley, Gibson
House, Urania Hayes, Carlton Nib
lack, Imogene Herrin, Harriet Segars,
Evelyn Herrin, Helen Graddick, Mary
Ross, Sunie Johns, Mary Lamar Jack
son and Annie Lambacb.
Mr. Ralph Harris leaves today for
Warrenton where he has accepted a
position.
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FORD CAR BRINGS t
A SHOWER BATH
EVERY AFTERNOON
Babies Grow Whiter as Doctor and
Nurse Serve Daily Baths From
Door to Door.
“Good morning. We have come tai
give the children their bath,” this, o|
course, said in good French. Then
from off the motor car slides a porta
ble shower bath, carried into the house
by doctor and nurse.
For the next half hour that little
cottage boasts of a bathroom in active
service, for when the water is heated
the blessing of a warm, clean shower,
pumped by the doctor falls on the head
of Young France, while the nurse
scrubs religiously and the darkening
water bears witness of a whiter, clean
er child.
And as you might well Imagine, the
kiddles like it, except the last cold
dash thnt the doctor slyly engineers
by quickly transferring the supply,
pipe into a bucket of cold water —for,
hygienic effect.
And what a blessing It is to these
meek, tortured people, who for months
have been without all of life’s com
forts and most of life’s necessities, to
be ministered to In this fashion
It is perhaps understandable to
them that “les Americalns" out of
sheer pity might offer them that mea
ger thing that civilization calls “char
ity.” But to be clothed, fed, sheltered
and cheered as they have been by our
Red Cross is more than they can un
derstand.
For they hnve seen a great miracio
grow out of the darkest pit of human
experience. They have seen a bright
light out of which hus stepped the
ministering angel who has taught them
to smile again. They are no longer
sick. They are no longer cold nor hun
gry, and now, wonder of wonders, this
same good friend has contrived in
some magic way—within the sound of
the guns—to give them —baths.
MRS. MARY HARRIS ARMOUR
TO TALK AT FIRST BAPTIST-
Next Tuesday night, May 21st, Mrs.
Mary Harris Armour will lecture at
the First Baptist church.
Mrs. Armuor is known as the “Geor
gia Cyclone,” and she is one of the
leading prohibition workers of the
country. Someone has said of her:
“Mrs. Armour is always Mrs. Ar
mour, invincible and irresistible. Filled
with enthusiasm that is contagions,
baptized with the Holy Spirit.”
Hear this Joan of Arc of the temper
ance crusade. Her address will he in
spiring, thrilling and decidedly emphat
ic.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH TO
BEGIN SERIES OF REVIVALS
Beginning June .’ld, the First Baptist
church will have its regular revival
meeting. The hours for service will
be 10 a. m. and 8:.10 a. m.
The preaching will be done by the
pastor, Rev. W. H. Faust. The mem
bers of the various churches of the city
have ls*en invited to assist in the serv
ice of song. Rev. L. E. Dutton, of
Greensboro, will have charge of the
music.
All the citizens of Winder are cordial
ly invited to attend and assist in these
meetings and in making them a real
spiritual uplift to the entire communi
ty.
I>aFAYETTE SIMS ILL.
Many friends were alarmed yester
day morning by the sudden illness of
Mr. La Fayette Sims. Mr. Sims was
taken with rheumatic pains in his
shoulder and his ailment developed in
to extreme nausea. For a time Mr.
Sims was unconscious and his family
and friends became fearful that the at
tack would prove fatal. We learn that
Mr. Sims is much better this morning
and his physician expresses the opin
ion that he will be out again in a few
days.
NO. 7.