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THE STRAND THEATER PROGRAM
THURSDAY, Feb. 5 Elain Hammer
stein in Greater than Fame. Comedy
FRIDAY, Feb. 6 Dorothy Gish in
“BOOTS”. Also comedy.
SATURDAY.FEB. 7. “INVISIBLE
Hand; Marie Waleamp; Comedy.
VOL. XXVI.
DEMOCRATIC MASS
MEET GOES OVER
Next Saturday Afternoon on Ae
* count of Weather Conditions Last
Tuesday—New Committee To
lie Named Also. ,
Owing to the small gathering of
Democrats at the Court House last
Tuesday, Clmirman Quarterman, of
the Executive Committee suggested a
postponement of organizing anew com
mittee.
The weather was rainy and the roads
In such condition that the county and
even the city was not represented at
the meeting to any extent.
On motion, adjournment was taken
until Saturday afternoon, Februray
7th.
It is hoped that next Saturday ev
ery militia district in the county will
be represented by large delegations.
Each district has the selection of its
omnmitteemau, besides participating in
the selection of a County Chairman
and a County Secretary.
. This is a year of politics, and many
prospective candidates for county of
ficers are only waiting the naming of
the primary date before putting in
their official announcements for the
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places.
The State Democratic Executive
Committee is expected to meet Friday,
the 6th, and if a preferential presi
dential primary js decided on in Geor
gia the date will be named.
And no doubt, all counties that can,
■will hold their county primaries on
the same date. The fact that this
date had not named was a factor
in the postponing of Tuesday’s meet
ing in' Barrow.
The chairman of our county com
mittee is anxious that a lrage and
representative number of Barrow coun
ty citizens be on hand next Saturday
afternoon at 3 o'clock to help put the
Democratic machinery in motion for
the various primaries for 1020. ,
Speaking to Mr. Muller McElroy this
week he informed us that he was in
the race for Tax Receiver, and that,
his official announcement would ap
pear at the proper time.
Mr. J. G. Cooper, of Winder, in all
probability, will be in the race for
Tax* Collector for the full term. He
hqa the matter under serious consider
ation. and he is being urged by many
tawarin personal friends to dash his
mit in the ring.
And Mr. W. L. Greeson authorizes
us to say that he is in the race for
Treasurer. He doesn’t want the job
but one term and that he will be per
fectly satisfied with the easy money
arising from this office. He wants
the job, and wants every one to vote
for him. His announcement will ap
pear at the proper time, signed, seal
ed and delivered.
And there are others, but we will
wait. The electric current has just
come on, and we must get busy in the
composing room. It is so uncertain
there is no guarantee that this will
ever-sec- print.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
* ORGANIZED AT BRASELTON
}
W. H. Braselton, mayor of the town,
called a mass meeting which was held
Saturday night, January 31, 1920, and
after discussion and good talks by dif
ferent ones present the followng offi
cers were elected for 1920.
John O. Braselton, President.
C. C. Richardson, Vice President.
W. K. Si vor. Sec.
T. C. Langford, Treasurer.
W„ W. Hosch, Chin. Entertainment
Committee.
H. F. Braselton, Chm. Publicity Com
mittee.
John C. Baird, Chm. Membership
Committee.
A good membership was enrolled and
meetings will be held every Friday
night during February.
The meeting was very enthusiastic
and we hope to interest people for
miles around in our town and commu
nity.—Pub. Com.
A CALL TO U. D. C.’S
All , interested in reorganizing the
p ic. chapter here in Winder will
please meet at the School Auditorium
next Tuesday afternoon, February 10th ■
at 3:30 o'clock.
BOX SI PPER
There will be a Box Supper at Har
mony Grove church on Saturday even
ing. Feb. 14th. Everybody invtied.
®jc TOittkr Xerns.
Untrammeled by Prejudice and Unawed by Fear We Speak the Truth and Contend for the Right
MARY PICKFORI) BAITS OWN
FISH HOOK WITH WORMS.
Mary Bickford’s latest picture, ‘Heart
o’ the Hills,” adapted from the story by
John Fox, Jr., will be shown at The
Strand Theater*Friday, February 6th.
In this story Miss Bickford takes the
part of a mountain girl whose family
relations are unsatisfactory, whose ed
ucation is limited and whose sweet
heart insists on making her bait her
own hook with worms.
On Monday, February Oth, Dorothy
Gish will be seen in “Boots,’ a very
clever actress in a very fine cpmedy.
On Wesdnesday, Felj. 11, Crighton
Hale and June Caprice will be featur
ed in “A Damsel in Distress.”
On Tuesdays and Saturdays of each
week serials are run together with
good comedies. ,
Be sure to see those good pictures.
WINDER KEEPING
PACE WITH CLASS
The 1920 census will be disappoint
ing to many Winder citizens, but it
takes folks to count, and folks must
have houses to live in before they can
he counted us citizens.
The census of 1910 gave us 2443,
and the one just closed will show be
tween 3,100 and 3,500, a respectable
gain, but not near enough.
But this showing is fine, when you
compare the effort that is being made
here to efforts of other municipalities.
For the past, few years stragglers have
just come our way anyway.
When a stranger comes to look us
over, all the attention paid to him is
individual, and that individual atten
tion is confined principally to the job
ber in real estate.
The board of trade is long since dead.
We should revive the board and make
it a factor during the next ten years.
There is no good reason why this city
should not show ten thousand inhab
itants in 1930.
Braselton, Ga., a town of a hundred'
inhabitants, has a live Board of Trade,
as will be seen from an article in an
other column, and if Winder continues
to sleep on the job of going forward
you had better keep an eye on the
little town to the north of us. How
ever. there is room for many towns
of “bigness” in this section, and we
should follow the lead of Monroe,
which is organizing for a drive for
ten thousand in 1930.
GREY LETTER AROUSES
THE IRE OF PRESIDENT
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4. —President
Wilson regards Viscount Grey’s letter
on the peace treaty as but another
step in the campaign to force him to
accept strong reservations to the treaty
it was learned at the White House.
The President has read t.he letter
of Viscount Grey, which declares res
ervations are agreeable to Great Brit
ain, and has informed his friends that
his position will not he swerved by
the letter or the report coming from
London that the statement had been
approved by the cabinet of Great Brit
ain before being made public.
The President takes the view that
Viscount Grey has been won over to
the viewpoint of Senator Lodge by
close personal contact, with the Re
publican leader and has reported to
his government that endorsement of
the treaty with the Lodge reservations
is the only possible way to gain rati
fication of the peace treaty by the
United States Senate.
PARENT TEACHERS TO
HOLD VALENTINE MEET
Beginning at 7 p. m, on the evening
of February 13th, and lasting through
out the evening, the Parent Teachers
Association will hold their annual Val
entine meeting.
The meeting will be held in the W in
der School building. The members of
the association urge all the citizens of
the town to attend and help to make
the occasion one of great interest to
everybody.
HOUSE BURNS.
Sunday nigl t fire destroyed a dwell
ing house on t.he plantation of Mr. Jas
per Thompson, in the upper part of
Barrow. The house was occupied by
Mr. McDonald, clerk in the big Thomp
son store. It. was completely destroyed
and but few of the household articles
belonging to Mr. McDonald were saved,
we are informed.
Winder, Barrow County, Ga., Thursday, February 5, 1920.
PERSONAL NOTES
OF MOVING VAN
Mesdames S. T. and R. O. Ross spent
Friday in Atlanta.
Col. W. H. Quarterman made a bus
iness trip to Atlanta Monday.
Misses Ora Lee and Bauline Camp
are spending a few days in Atlanta.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Williams and
baby are spending awhile in Florida.
Miss Cleo Bush spent a few days in
Atlanta last, week.
Mrs. Ed Bedingfleld and Miss Bert
Birkle spent Friday in Atlanta shop
ping.
Mr. Fitts, principal of the Winder
High School, spent the past week-end
in Atlanta and College Bark.
Mr. E. A. Starr and family spent the
week-end in Loganville with relatives,
a speedy recovery.
Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Morgan, of Atlan
ta, spent the week-end with Mr. and
Mrs. S. F. Birkle.
Mr. and Mrs. Edd Bedingfleld have
apartments at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Camp on Church St.
Mrs. J. W. Carrington and Mrs.
Wooten attended the State Missionary
meeting in Atlanta this week.
Miss Grady Baggerly, of Atlanta,
spent a few days last week with Mrs.
J. W. Carrington, Jr.
Mrs. Robert Camp ha*'returned from
a visit to friends and relatives in At
lanta.
Mr. and Mrs. Rastus Smith spent
last Sunday in Jefferson with rela
tives.
Mrs. Kathleen Smith, with her fam
ily, have moved to Athens, where she
will make her future home.
The many friends of Miss Nina Stew
art will regret to learn she is confined
to her room with illness.
Mrs. Harold Herrin, who has been
quite ill for the past ten days, is re
ported much better.
Mr. and Mrs. Homer Baird spent
Sunday with the latter’s mother, Mrs.
Tom Blackstock, year Jefferson.
Mr. E. L. Williamon, of Jefferson,
was in Minder a short while last Fri
day eu route to Atlanta.
Col. G. I). Ross is in Jefferson this
week in attendance upon the Superior
Court of Jackson county.
Mrs. A. C. Kelly, of Monroe, and
Miss Julia of Atlanta,
were the w r eek-end guests of Mrs. Lee
S. Radford.
• Mrs. Elmer McKinney, who has been
confined to her home with illness for
the past several weeks, is reported to
be improving.
Mrs. Mary Harris Armour, who
! spoke in the interest of the W. C. T. IT.
i last Friday evening, was the guest of
! Mrs. A. A. Camp, while in Winder.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Shields and chil
dren motored to Jefferson last Sunday
•and were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Wil
' liite.
Mrs. J. T. Strange is spending a few
days in Athens with Mr. and Mrs. E.
Hulme Kinnebrew, who are ill with in
flenza. Their friends here wish them
The many friends of Mrs. A. I’. Car
> rington will be glad to learn that she
i is convalescing from a recent attack of
■ influenza.
Miss (’allie Saunders spent several
days last week with Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Jackson in Atlanta..
The many friends of Mr. P. A. Flan
igan will regret to learn of his illness
in New York, where he was called on
business several days ago. He is suf
fering with influenza,
i The many friends of Mrs. Tom Bur*.
| son will be delighted to know that she
! is rapidly recovering from a recent op
eration at a private sanitarium in At
lanta. She will be able, it is said, to
j return home the latter part of this
j week.
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Strange motored
down to Athens Sunday afternoon to
be with Mr. and Mrs. Carter W. Dan
. iel and Mr. and Mrs. E. Hulme Kinne
brew. Mr. and Mrs. Kinnebrew are
both confined to their room with ill
ness.
Card of Thanks.
We would thank our neighbors and
‘friends for their kindness shown us
I during the sickness and death of our
father, Mr. I). P. Roberts. We also
[ wish to thank the undertakers who
! were very kind. —Mr. and Mrs. Jas. IV.
Summerour.
CURRENT EVENTS
THE WORLD OVER
• The worst storm of the winter has
New York in its grip. A terriffle gale
prevails.
Humming birds are replacing cana
ries as drawing room pets in fashion
able Parisian homes.
Mary Elizabeth Garner, the disclaim
ed baby in the Atlanta baby mix-up
case, is reported to be very ill with
pneumonia.
The Senate in open session Wednes
day afternoon passed the house bill
providing for the salvaging of Camp
Gordon after June 1, 1921.
Owitjg to liquidation by longs the cot
ton market declined more than SB.OO a
bale Wednesday, due partly to a sensa
tional decline in foreign exchange.
One death from influenza, and four
deaths from pneumonia following in
fluenza, and 218 new cases, was the
record Wednesday in Atlanta.
The Allied Council, sitting in Baris,
has decided to wire to Berlin for war
criminals, following the resignation of
Germany’s representative in Baris.
Agreement on the railroad bill was
announced Wednesday by Senator Al
bert Cummings, of lowa. There is no
strike clause in the compromise meas
ure.
Bending a decision by the supreme
court of the United States, on the con
stitutionality of the farm loan act, all
applications for loans from federal
farm loan banks are held in abeyance.
President Wannamaker, of the Amer
ican Cotton Association, announced a
postponement of the convention to
March 9-12. The convention will be
held in Montgomery, Ala.
“Don't buy American goods,” reads
a headline in the London Star. The
article argues that England should now
confine her trade with America to sell
ing and buy everything she can from
Germany and Austria.
Additional anti-sedition legislation,
simple in character and guarding the
guarantees of the bill of rights, but cov
ering “hiatus in present statutory laws”
was urged by Attorney General Palmer
Wednesday before the house judiciary
committee.
Ellen B. Uhivers. a stenographer
testifying before the New York leg
islature in the trial of the suspended
socialist assemblymen, said she had
seen Charles Solomon, one of the men
on trial, spit on the American flag
in wartime.”
The Black Star steamship Yarmouth
has been seized in the New York harbor
with a cargo of wiskey valued at
four millions eight hundred thousand
dollars. The ship had sailed for Cuba
but returned to the harbor for repairs
when it was seized by federal officers.
Mrs. Mary Harris Armour, at Macon
Wednesday, sounded the keynote of the
work of the W. C. T. IT. when she* de
clared that the advancement of Amer
icanism along broad lines and the work
ing out of social morality problems will
he the chief duties of the organization
in the future.
Another revolution has occurred in
Vladivostok, the Siberian port through
which the American expeditionary
forces are being returned home. The
outbreak is purely local, according to
Major General Graves. The platform
declares against civil war in Siberia
and for the end of foreign interfer
ence in Siberian affairs.
After sitting as foreman of a super
ior court jury, concurring in several
verdict of guilty for violation of the
prohibition laws of Harris county,
Georgia, John W. Rozler, a church
deacon, was himself made defendant
in a moonshine case. He was con
victed and sentenced to twelve months
on the chaingang.
CHRISTIAN CHURCH
R. E. Moss, Minister
Sunday School 10:30. Claud Mayne
Supt. Church services: Morning, 11:30
Evening,*7 :3o. Morning subject: “The
Keys of the Kingdom.” Evening sub
ject, “An Old-time Hero.”
A cordial invitation to every one.
Notwithstanding! the bad weather
last Sunday, our Sunday School and
church services were well attended.
It was good to have Brother Wood
with us, and his sermon at night was
enjoyed by an attentive and apprecia
tive audience.
FOR RENT. —Good one horse crop
on halves. See W. G. Elder, Winder.
MR. AND MRS. 11. N. RAINEY
WILL TOUR THE ORIENT
Mr. and Mrs. 11. N. Rainey and their
beautiful young daughter, Louise Rain
ey, will leave Atlanta Friday to attend
the World's Sunday School Conference
to be held in Tokio. Japan, in May. Be
fore sailing for Japan the party will
spend a fortnight at Hot Springs, Ark.,
tour California and spend the month
of May in Japan, attending the confer
ence, which will assemble some of the
most notable church people in the
world.
Following the World’s Sunday school
convention, Mr. and Mrs. Rainey and
daughter and the Rev. and Mrs. John
W. Ham, will go to Hongkong, and then
on through the Holy Land, returning
to Atlanta some time in August.
Mr. and Mrs. Rainey have recently
come to Atlanta to make their home,
having formerly resided at Winder.—
Sunday’s American.
STARTLING STORY
OF WANTON WASTE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—Reckless
extravagance in the construction of the
government, nitrate plant at Muscle
Shoals, Alabama, was charged in a re
port by Colonel Fred 11. Wagner, for
merly director of operations at the
plant, tiled today with the house war
expenditure committee.
Of all evidence presented to the com
mittee since its investigation was be
gun months ago, the Wagner charges
went deeper into detail, tilling more
than one hundred pages and touching
every possible phase of the building
and operations of the seventy-million
dollar war project. It was too much
for Chairman Graham to read in a
day, but. he declared the conclusions
revealed “astounding conditions.”
Backed away in the bulky document,
examined only casually today by the,
committee. Colonel Wagner related
what he alleged to he the story of Mus
cle Shoals, built on the cost-plus plan
with war-time speed as the only con
sideration. Big items were put down
with little items, running all the way
from the charge that the accounting
system was so bad no business, how
ever efficient, “could tolerate it and
exist,” to the tale of the head barber
in a company shop who raked down
$5 a day extra for changing five times
that much money flowing into a cash
register.
CROOKEDNESS CHARGED TO
LABOR SEC. BY CONGRESSMAN
Washington, February Six
thousand strikes occuring during the
war were settled in favor of the striclv
ers, Representative Blanton, democrat,
Texas, told the house today, charging
that the labor department, always
sent out conciliators who were pre
judiced. He was opposing a deficiency
appropriation to pay conciliators.
“If the executive of that department
is crooked, and we know it, are we
responsible when we continue to put
funds in his bands?” Blanton asked.
“I would not charge that the sec
retary of labor is crooked,” Chairman
Good, of the apporpriations committee,
interjected. “I served with him in
the house. I would not make that
charge. I thought he was a very able
and straightforward man.”
“You are not keeping up with his
record in the labor department.” Blan
ton retorted. .
An organized clique of 5,000,000
men, headed by Samuel Oompers, is
running the government, Blanton con
tinued, adding “Congress has always
bowed to the dictator of the slaves of
the country.”
NEW MATTRESS PLANT
TO OPEN IN WINDER
Messrs. R. A. Johnson and It. E.
Nash, of Monroe, have completed ar
rangements to open a mattress plant in
the top story of the Stewart building on
Park street.
The factory will manufacture for
public sale as well as renovate old ones.
The company will be ready to throw its
doors open by Tuesday, February 10.
* LERSNER QUITS
PARIS, Feb. 4.—Making good his
threat to quit if the allies pressed their
demand for high German state and mil
itary officers for trial, Baron von Lers
ner today announced he had resigned
as head of the German pmce delega
tion.
THE STRAND THEATER PROGRAM
MONDAY, Feb. 9. MARY BICKFORD
HEART O’ THE HILLS
TUESDAY, Feb. 10. —Bearl Whte in
“The Black Secret.” Comedy.
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 11.—A DAMSEL
IN DISTRESS —Caprice and Hale.
MASS MEETING IS
CALLEDBY MAYOR
City Fathers Desire Adviee of Citizenry
on Subject of Paving Our Streets.
You Should Be There,
Our city fathers are anxious to sound
the sentiment of the Winder public on
the advisability of paving at once our
principal thoroughfares.
Every citizen interested in this pro
gressive move—either for or against—•
is urged to be at the Court House next
Tuesday evening at 8 o’clock.
We are glad city council has taken
this step. It is time that something
is done for our streets and sidewalks.
Few towns in our class in Georgia have
so many pedestrians and so few paved
streets.
If you are behind council in this
move lie at this meeting and let coun
cil know where you stand, and give
them the benefit of your advice.
If you are satisfied with your civic
station in life, be there, so the more
progressive citizens may have an op
portunity to take the kinks out of
your think-tank. This meeting means
a step forward or a continuance of
the stand-still policy pursued for the
last few years. Which shall it be?
The answer is up to Winder citizens
next Tuesday night.
ALLIES ABANDON PRESIDENT
WILSON SAYS PARIS PAPER.
Paris, February 4.—Commenting up
on tlie letter of Viscount Grey, British
ambassador to the United States to The
London Times with regard to the Amer
ican position on the peace treaty, the
Echo de Paris says:
“The allies are abandoning President
Wilson.”
The newspaper adds that Viscount
Grey succeeded in persuading Premeir
Lloyd George of Great Britain and for
mer Premier Clemenceau to adopt his
viewpoint when in Paris some weeks
ago and the letter to The Times will, it
asserts, probably be forwarded by an
official note along the same lines from
the French and British cabinets.
The Echo de Paris continues: “It;
simply means that the allies are aban
doning President Wilson and are trying
to come to terms with congress.”
EXTRAORDINARY MOTION
FILED IN LANDERS CASE.
Jefferson, Feb. 4.—ln the case of
Hollis Landers, convicted of the mur
der of Sheriff C. D. Barber and sen
tenced to be hanged here Friday, ail
extra ordinary motion for anew trial
has been filed in the Superior Court.
The hearing will be before Judge An
drew J. Cobb.
A further respite to the prisoner
will likely be granted, tliut he may
have time to carry the case back to
the Superior Court, should anew trial
here be refused.
A. E. CASTLEBERRY JOINS
ROYAL BROTHERS, BARBERS
Mr. A. E. Castleberry, who for some
time has been with Chastain & Rwfcs,
has purchased an interest in Royal
Brothers barber shop, where he is giv
ing a warm welcome to his numerous
friends.
PROPERTY CHANGES
Mr. 11. G. Hill has sold his. Athens
street home to Messrs. J. T. and J. A.
Perry, and purchased the Saxon home
on Broad street from Mr. G. W. Smith.
Mr. Paul N. Autry has purchased a
bouse and lot from I)r. S. T. Ross
fronting Center street, it being a part
of home lot occupied by Dr. and Mrs.
Ross at present.
Mr. Marian Lay has about eompleb
the erection of a cottage on Kimbal
street.
Mr. .T. W. Nichols has sold the Atl
'etlc Park property to J. T. Perry, ami
he. in turn has sold it to Mr. Willis
Brown.
CALLED TO TEXAS.
G. N. Bagwell, clerk Barrow Supe
rior Court, and H. O. Camp, sheriff of
Barrow comity, are in Texas this week,
lieing called there as witnesses.
It wiil be remembered that Freston
House, originally from this county, was
glain in Texas about a year ago. The
slayer was to go to trial in that state
this week, and this is the case that
calls the Barrow county officers to the
Lone Star State.
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