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CRABGRASS PLAINS *
I ain’t got much schooling and I’m
glad you fixed my letter before you
printed it.
I am glad you sent me a paper. M.v
brother's wife don't like it when I get
liis first. Women that ain’t been in the
family don't know how brothers feel
about things that way. They think
when a fellow gets married he ain’t got
tin folks but their folks.
News is about the same as it was
last week. The women and children
went to Sunday school Sunday evening,
boys and girls went riding up and
down the road and the men set around
the barns on their hunches digging in
the dirt with sticks and talking about
the war.
I think this cooking business is run
ning backwards. A town woman made
up a cooking club out here and give
the women something to talk about.
The women in the settlement joined to
find out what the others had to cook.
The country women can give the town
women cards and spades and beat them
cooking any day in the week. They
know how because they’ve been raised
to it. One old lady, said she knew how
to cook before the teacher was born.
She said if they'd give her something
to cook she'd show them a thing or
two. She said all she needed was for
the old man to do as he should do.
She said he would hang around in the
way until breakfast was nearly ready
and when she got the table set then
he would walk off and the whole fam
ily had to wait for him to come to his
meals.
You wrote it up last week about
some cows. They ain't going to get me
in that cow business. The water I
drawed for a cow last summer would
float a two-story house, and the toad
frogs ruined my well. Folks that ain’t
tried it don’t know how much water a
cow can drink. I don't think the cow
and hog business pan out in this coun
try.
I don’t believe in this prohibition,
but fellows that ain’t got no homes
ain’t got no right to fill up on liquor
every Sunday and cus other folks. I
think woman laws do more harm than
good. When a fellow gives the
church what they tell him to, pays liis
taxes and makes a living attending to
his own business he has got all he can
do, and women ain’t got nobody to stop
folks from selling liquor.
I tried to buy a cigar hi Winder
Sunday. The man wouldn’t sell it to
men and a drunk fellow standing in
the door said he thought it was a
“and m shame” that a man couldn’t
get o “dope.” I thought it was a shame
that them fellows in blue clothes with
brass buttons didn’t make him shuf his
mouth or put him in the callaboose.
I hired a man to work for me for
twenty dollars a month and give him a
garden and patch around his house.
He's off working by the day and won’t
move. I saw a lawyer about it and he
said I couldn’t put him out in six
months. His wife’s got a baby and the
lawyer said I could not start to put
him out for thirty days. I don’t like
this law business, and the next fellow
who gets a patch from me will know
it.
Niggers ain’t no account, but they
are better than some white folks.
Branch niggers don’t think about what
they are doing and don’t care. I found
one of my mules standing in the field
with the traces unhitched and brought
it to the house. Come to find out the
nigger boy was up the branch looking
for go-devils. He ain’t going to catch
no fish and it’s no use to fuss. It's one
tiling after another, anyhow.
Some folks are mean and others
ain't got no sense. I heard about a
fellow in town who said the cats
scratched up his beans and kept piling
dirt on them and the rows looked like
potato hills. The gump didn’t know
that the beans come up on top. Anoth
er fellow stretched a rope across his
garden and tied strings from it to his
bean vines and when it rained the rope
pulled them up.
If is the same way out here. We
give rations and firewood to no account
fellows through the winter, and when
time comes to go to work they go off
and hire for cash and leave us high
and dry. They ain’t got nothing but
children and all they want is what they
get out of us. They stay in the same
settlement and beat people every year,
and they don’t care what they owe.
The ones that stay through the year
back off from fence corners and ter
races. The women and little fellows
tramp down the crops running after
polk sallit and blackberries. The men
spenil more time beating their dir!y
socks on plowstocks and coming after
rations than they do working. There
ought to be some way to head these
fellows.
If you send me the paper and any
thing happens around here I’ll let you
know it.
Atlanta and Georgia’s
Problem.
The stock holders of the Georgia Railway and Power Com
pany want to eo-operate with the citizens of Atlanta and North
ern Georgia in building up the manufacturing interests.
Every town in Northern Georgia would be benefited by hav
ing a plentiful supply of electric power to offer to manufacturers
and to serve its residents.
Owing to the extraordinary demands caused by the war, the
entire output of electricity produced by the company is now in
use, and the government and many other industries are demand
ing electric power as a substitute for high priced coal.
The Georgia Railway and Power Company has been progres
sive and lias rapidly extended its service to the smaller towns
and rural districts, and its programme of additions and exten
sions had only begun.
Without ample electric service for lights, for driving ma
chinery or for operating interurban railways, it will be impossi
ble for Northern Georgia to attract factories or enjoy the com
forts of living which follow the electric service. Marble quar
ries. stone quarries, gins, pumping plants, cotton mills, hoisery
mills and many other industries are waiting for our service and
we are anxious to give it, but
Georgia Railway & Power Company
Atlanta, Georgia
THE WINDER NEWS, THURSDAY, May 16, 1918.
HOSCHTON SOCIAL NEWS
Mesdames (juarterman, Ross, Rad
ford and Ferguson, of Winder, assist
ed the ladies in the Red Cross work
room Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Roberts and chil
dren, of Pendergrass, were the guests
Sunday of Mrs. Jane Pirkle.
Mrs. Parks, of Athens, is the guest
of friends here.
Miss Myrtice Allen, of A. & M. col
lege, near Monroe, is at home for the
summer vacation.
Miss Lona Sell was the guest of Miss
Nina Stewart in Winder Sunday.
Airs. Arthur De La Perriere and lit
tle daughter, Margaret, spent Monday
in Winder.
BETHEL
Mr. and Airs. Earl McDaniel were
week-end guests of Air. and Mrs. Jesse
Harris.
Alessrs. John and Bob Hill were the
guests of Air. and Airs. A. C. Perry
Sunday.
Airs. Ernest Bridges had as her
guests Sunday her brother, Air. Phil
lips, of Talmo.
Air. and Airs. W. F. Reeves and Aliss
es .Mavis and Willie Alae Stewart re
turned home Sunday after spending
several days in Americus.
■ Mrs. George Griffetli visited her
daughter, Airs. Starnes, in Alonroe Jiast
week.
Air and Airs. A. E. Perry spent the
week-end with relatives in Statham.
Proper Food for Weak Stomachs.
The proper food for one man may be
all wrong for another. Every one
should adopt a diet suited to his age
and occupation. Those who have weak
stomachs need to be especially careful
and should eat slowly and masticate
their food thoroughly. It is also im
portant that they keep their bowels
regular. When they become consti
pated or when they feel dull and stu
pid after eating they should take
Chamberlain’s Tablets to strengthen
the stomach and move the bowels.
They are easy to take and pleasant in
effect.—adv.
Ihe Quinine That Does Not Affsct the Head
Because of its tonic and laxative effect, I.AXA
TIVK BkOMO QUININE is better than ordinary
Quinine and does not cause nervousness nor
ringing in head. Reinember the full name and
took for the signature of E. W. GROVE. 30c.
FOODRULES
All merchants, both wholesale and
retail, are notified not to sell sugar to
any manufacturer of candy, confec
tions or soft drinks after May loth
without a permit from the state food
administrator. All such manufacturers
in Barrow county will write state food
administrator’s office, 414 Chamber of
Commerce Building, Atlanta, Ga., make
necessary showing and get certificate
for a limited amount of sugar.
All manufacturers and dealers in ice
are notified that they cannot sell ice
at a higher price than last year with
out making satisfactory showing and
obtaining permit for same. Any one
Interested may write to Hon. G. Og
den Persons, who has charge of this
work. Address him at Forsyth, Ga.,
or 414 Chamber of Comerce Building,
Atlanta, Ga.
Millers are notified that they may
grind home raised wheat for farmers
in Barrow county in any quantity de
sired, but it is expected that they con
serve according to the present rule on
flour.
The people are requested to refrain
from killing small chickens. The meat
supply can be augmented by allowing
the chickens to grow to what is known
as large friers. This is not compulsory
but is recommended as a patriotic duty
of everyone who has chickens.
All retail merchants are advised that
the administration considers 80 cents
to $1.20 per barren a legitimate profit
on flour except when sold in broken
packages of less than 24 pounds. Then
one cent per pound will not be exces
sive. Furthermore, all wheat flour
substitutes must be sold on the same
basis. Corn meal must be sold for less
money than wheat flour and all sub
stitutes at approximately the same per
centage of profit as wheat flour. All
prices must be based on the price of
goods when bought and not on present
day market values. To base the price
on present market values would be to
give the speculator full reign, a thing
that the administration is opposed to
doing.
President Wilson said that profit and
patriotism should not be uttered by
the same voice, which is to say that a
man who desires to speculate on food
stuffs during the present war is not pa
triotic.
Some merchants in the county are
not making weekly reports of flour
sales. Please bear in mind that you
During the past twelve months the cost of material and
labor used by the company has increased to such an extent that
during the year of 1917 the company's operations showed a loss
of $4(57,104.00.
The company had already begun the construction of addition
al dams to produce the increased electricity needed to meet the
war conditions. These undertakings must be curtailed until the
company’s net earnings produce the money necessary to pay the
interest on their cost.
The company has filed a petition with the Railroad Commis
sion of Georgia for increased rates and fares. The increase is
necessary to enable the company to continue its policy of good
service and continue extension of its usefulness.
In more than 500 cases applications for increased revenue
have been granted to public utility corporations in the United
States and Canada.
President Wilson has expressed himself on the subject as
being in favor of reasonable increases in rates to meet increased
expenses.
Every citizen of North Georgia is interested in this question
and it is the wish of the officers of the company that every citi
zen should be fully advised of the facts. Any inquiries will be
promptly answered.
Why
Suffer?
Mrs. J. A. Cox, of Al
derson, W. Va., writes:
“My daughter . . . suf
fered terribly. She could
not turn in bed ... the
doctors gave her up, and
we brought her home to
die. She had suffered so
much at. .. time. Hav
ing heard of Cardui, we
got it for her.”
The Woman’s Tonic
"In a few days, she be
gan to improve,” Mrs.
Cox continues, “and had
no trouble at.. . Cardui
cured her, and we sing
its praises everywhere.
We receive many thou
sands of similar letters
every year, telling of the
good Cardui has done for
women who suffer from
complaints so common to
their sex. It should do
you good, too. Try
Cardui. E-77
are to keep a record of all sales on
flour, the record must show the follow
ing : the date, name of person, num
ber in family, amount of flour sold,
what plan, 50-50 or card permit. When
you have kept this record copy it off
on a sheet of paper, you keep the origi
anl and mail a copy to the county food
administrator every Monday morning.
If no sales are made during the week
no report is necessary, but make a re
port, even if sales are few.
Respectfully,
G. W. WOODRUFF,
Federal Food Administrator for Bar
row county.
The largest and best stock of buggies
ever shown in Winder —Columbus, Nor
man. Summers, John Deer, Ames and
Hercules. All at Woodruff Hardware
Cos.
PRICE OF ICE
i MUST BE FAIR
The law department has ruled that
the manufacture and distribution of
ice comes under the food control act.
The food administration is concerned
that there shall be no profiteering in
ice and especially that the cost of ice
shall be fair and reasonable to those
elements of the community which are
least able to protect themselves.
No manufacturer fo ice has the right
to increase prices over last year unless 1
absolute proof can be given as to the
necessity therefor. Every ice dealer in
Georgia must file with the federal food
administrator any proposed schedule of
increased prices before these increases
are put into effect. This entire depqrt
.inent in Georgia is in charge of Hon.
G. Ogden Pearsons, former president of
the state senate, field agent for the ad
ministration in Georgia, who is patri
otically devoting his time to the gov
ernment work.
Under no circumstance will an un
reasonably low price to commercial
users than to domestic consumers be
allowed. Ice manufacturers and deal
ers should take note of these rulings
and be careful to submit any proposed
increase in prices to the federal food
administrator before attempting to put
them on.
CONQUEST OF AMERICA
PLANNED BY GERMANS
“I have seen first hand the German
plans, including their designs against
America and my own land, and for pro
claiming this truth to all the world,
on my return from Berlin to Palestine,
but four months before the war, I was
thrown into irons and a price is nowt
on my head by the Turkish and Ger
man governments. The governor of
Jerusalem who made possible my es
cape is now himself in chains, a pris
oner,” said Ittamar Ben Avi, Judean
stateman, in a startling recital of Ger
man intrigue against America recently
at a banquet' in his honor in Atlanta.
“Were it not for France and England
and their steadfastness in arms you
Americans would now be fighting a de
fensive war on your own soil.”
Just received a carload of the old re
liale Columbus buggies made at Colum
bus, Ohio, known the world over as the
best. Woodruff Hardware Cos.