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THE STRAND THEATER PROGRAM
THURSDAY, Feb. 19.—Olive Thomas,
In ‘THE GLORIOUS LADY”
FRIDAY, Feb. 20. DOUGLAS FAIR
BANKS, In “Knickerbocker Buckaroo”
SATURDAY, Feb. 21.—The Invisible
Hand; Marie Walcamp; Comedy.
•VOL. XXVI.
A SPIRIT OF COOPERATION AND CIVIC
' ZEAL MANIFESTED BY WINDER CITIZENS
to Pave Broad Street From
the Seaboard Air Line to the
Gainesville Midland
Depot.
Thfc, enthusiastic gathering of Win
der’s property owners and representa
tives of her business Interests at the
court house last week to consider the
paving of Broad street from the Sea
board Air Line to the Gainesville Mid
land depots should convince the most
skeptical or pessimistic citizen that
when our people approach a subject
worth while, they are ever ready to
meet the issue with the old-time unity
of spirit ahd civic zeal for which Win
der and Barrow county have been made
famous throughout the state.
The meeting demonstrated beyond a
shadow of a doubt that there dwells
in the breast of every Winder citizen
a .pardonable pride and an unfaltering
faith in the city’s future growth. The
citizens responded readily to the call
of the Mayor and Council on short no
tice and did not fall to let them know
that, Winder is in favor of progress
As is usual at such meetings, there was
divergence of opinion as to the most
urgent civic needs, but each speaker
was enthusiastic in his presentation of
his views for extensions and develop
ment in some department of our city
government
The discussion ranged from increas
ed pay for school teachers to paving the
whole town, the extension of sewers,
the purchase of a fire-fighting engine,
and one fellow from a distance let us
know that in the near future farmers
would have electric lights upon their
barns and their wives would be churn
ing with electricity. He did not say
how thew were going to avoid making
up their beds, sweeping the floors and
picking chickens.
But the old-time co-operative spirit
for pep and progress is still alive in
Winder, and a few gatherings of the
kind held last week to detract the at
tention of our business men for an, hour
or two from their private affairs to
consider the city’s immediate interest
will result in activity and a healthy
growth ajong municipal lines.
WeHfavor development along those
lines which will meet the least, resis
tance, a'nd which appear to be the most
imyt The teachers in our schools
should receive suffcient pay, and if no
less drastic remedy will serve the pur
pose, they should be required to give
a bond not to jump their contracts. We
can conceive of no more flagrant, and
deplorable breach of faith than for a
school teacher to deliberately abandon
classes in term time and take French
leave for home.
, The extension of our water mains
and the purchase qf an up-to-date Are
fighting aparatus is the matter which
we consider of next, importance, for the
water and light system is the only self
sustaining and money-making depart
ment of our city government. For
years the' surplus derived from this
source has been dumped into the gen
eral treasury to be used for other pur
poses.? *Wis fund should have been
used and should now be used to extend
this profitable system to our citizens
who are anxious for water and light
and cannot get them, and a fire appar
atus should be purchased to lower our
insurance rates and protect the proper
ty of those within the fire limit.
As to street, paving. Winder is for
tunate. With a little attention the
streets can be kept in fairly good con
dition, rain or shine. They dry out in
a few hours after a rain, and paving a
little strip'in the center of town at a
time when cement is at the crest of
high prices and the laborer dictates the
price of his hire is not going to elle
viate the dust in the stores or in any
dody’s home. We have seen paved spots
in small cities, and during a muddy
season you cannot tell they are there.
There is a cement walk way across
Athens street (the National Highway)
and we venture the assertion it is the
muddiest spot in Winder during real
bad weather.
Let’s pay our school teachers a living
wage and demand that they stay on the
job. Let’s the sewerage sys
tem and give to our citizens a guaran
tee of healthy surroundings and the
conveniences and comforts they have
been praying for since we have had a
water works system. Let’s get away
fVom the hazardous position in which
the city is now standing, unmindful of
approaching danger to millions of pri-
ffljc iUinkr Woos.
Untrammeled by Prejudice and Unawed by Fear We Speak the Truth and Contend for the Right
AERIAL CO. SEEKING
A LANDING FIELD
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This week Mr. L. Montague Rolfe, of
the Rolfe-Epps Flying Company, of
Athens, was in Winder seeking a land
ing field for airplanes. The company
has sent a representative to many towns
in sections where they have seldom deen
should the agents succeed in securing
suitable landing sites, the passing of
a flying machine will become common
in sections where they have seldom ben
seen. Mr. Rolfe will be remembered as
a bird-man who thrilled visitors to the
Woodruff North Georgia Fair a few
years ago. At that time he made his
landing on a strip of ground near Pea
Hill, and made every flight included
In his contract with Mr. Woodruff.
NEGRO TAXABLE PROPERTY
IN GEORGLAT INCREASES
According to a tabulation of returns
from all counties in Georgia as com
piled in the comptroller general’s office,
negroes returned for taxes in 1919,
$54,858,301 as against $47,423,499 In
1918. This represents an increase of
nearly 15 per cent.
BE PATIENT WITH
PHONEJOMPANY
Winder Telephone Exchange Will Soon
Be in Better Shape to Give Sat
isfactory Service.—A Run of
Hard Luck.
Operating a telephone exchange is
not conducive to very pleasant day
dreams, and there is not always a bag
of gold to be found at the end of its
many-colored rainbow.
For the past several months the own
ers and managers of the Winder ex
change have been up against a series
of hard luck jolts that threw service
out of gear, but all the while they have
been spending time and money and do
ing their dead level best to bring the
service up to a satisfactory standard.
It became necessary the first of Jan
uary for the company to purchase an
exchange building and move headquar
ters. This is no small undertaking, and
cannot be done as readily as one can
pick up an little black suitcase and
change his sleeping quarters.
Then, too, just at the season when
the company was making the change
the bad weather butted in and sleet
tore down many of the wires. With
inexperienced girls in a torn-up ex
change and such a run of hard luck,
the management is to be commended
for keeping the exchange in partial op
eration. True, the Bell Telephone Co
might have done better, but the Bell is
equipped with unlimited resources,
both in material and labor, and when it
gives first-class service the patrons are
expected to foot the bills.
The Winder telephone service has
been on the blink, and no one knows it
better than Manager Smith, but the
patrons should exercise patience and
not. ‘ball out” the poor hello girls.
DEATH OF MR. WILLIAM ARNOLD
Mr. William Arnold died at Indian
Springs Sunday and was laid to rest
in Atlanta Tuesday. He was seventy
one years of age and the only surviv
ing brother of the late S. W. Arnold,
of Winder. Mr. Arnold was reared in
Walton county and married Miss Mary
Winburn, of Jefferson. Ga. His wife
and four children survive him. three
daughters and one son. His nieces of
Winder. Mrs. Lavada Holsenbeck and
Mrs. Olevia Hodges, attended the fun
eral.
vate and public property, by purchasing
an up-to-date fire-fighting apparatus.
It has been said in favor of paving
Broad street that the charter provides
property owners on each side shall -be
required to pay one-third of the cost,
and it will not cost, the tax-payers but
one-third. Yes, and the charter also
provides, if we mistake not, that the
street car company shall pave in be
tween the tracks. There is nothing
said in the charter, however, about or
dering a few men to pave in front of
their places of business.
Winder. Barrow County, Ga., Thursday, February 19, 1920.
JUDGE NEWMAN
PASSES AWAY
Judge W. T. Newman’s death, which
occurred Saturday morning at his res
idence in Atlanta, has occasioned deep
est sorrow among a host of friends
throughout the State. No judge on any
bench in Georgia ever was held in high
er esteem and affection. He was a
Judge of the finest type. In point of
service he was the oldest United States
district judge in the United States.
He was appointed in 1884 by President
Cleveland, and since his appointment
the name Newman has been a house
hold word.
A majority of the cases on his crimi
nal docket were against men of the
mountain districts charged with making
moonshine whiskey. In dealing out the
law Judge Newman gave the law a lat
itude fitted to the peculiar elements of
human nature. His custom of giving
the moonshine prisoners their liberty
to spend the holidays at home with
their wives and children was seldom
abused by them. Judge Newman was
held in the highest esteem by all who
came in touch with his court for his
impartial administration of justice
tempered with mercy.
THE BONDED WAREHOUSE.
A permanaut organization having
been perfected for the erection of the
Government Bonded Warehouse, re
newed interest is being shown from all
sides. Additional amounts of stock
have been subscribed and in other ways
it is shown that the interest is beginn
ing to grow. Your neighbor and all
who are interested in the growth and
sale of cotton are talking and wishing
that this warehouse be built. It is no
longer necessary to impress upon the
cotton farmers’ mind the necessity of
proper storing of his cotton.
It is hoped that this interest will
continue to grow until every man who
raises cotton in this section will come
around and ask that he be given stock
in this proposition. Now is the time
to make a good investment. Aside
from the advantage that the investor
will get from a good place to store his
cotton, he will get a good return upon
the money placed in this warehouse.
Such warehouses in this and other sec
tions are paying dividends from fif
teen to twenty-five per cent.
This project is being fostered and
pushed by the best farmers and busi
ness men of Barrow comity, which
guarantees that it is not a gold brick
or a fake proposition. Your invest
ment will be safeguarded by the honor
and the best business ideas that these
men as farmers and business men have
attained is enough evidenc that they
will make this adventure a surcess.
The limit that is placed on the
amount of stock is low enough that no
man or set of men can control the af
fairs of this warehouse in such way
that it will be an injury to any stock
holder. One thousand dollars being
the limit gives every man in the coun
ty an opportunity to co-operate with
his fellow cotton raisers and business
men towards making Barrow county
the foremost county of North Georgia.
Concerted action is necessary at
once, so that this stock can be raised 1
and the warehouse started and made j
ready for the cotton crop in the early
fall. Turn this matter over in your j
mind, talk with your friends and do all
you can to make this thing go.
DEATH OF “UNCLE JACK BENNETT
Mr. Bennett was familiarly known
by his close friends as “Uncle Jack,”
died at his home in Winder Thursday
of last week and was buried with Ma
sonic honors in Rose Hill cemetery.
Mr. Bennett was about, sixty-five years
of age. When a young man he was
united in marriage to Miss Neely Bur
nett, of Oconee county, and of this un
ion two children were born, Mr. Em
ory Bennett, of Winder and Mrs.
Pearl Statham, of Atlanta. When Mr.
Bennett came to this section he was
possesed of very little of this world’s
goods, but by hard work and honest
dealings he had accumulated consider
able property at the time of his death.
He was a good citizen and this com
munity was made better by his having
lived amoung us.
About two years ago Mr. Bennett
contracted a second marriage with
Miss Brown, and his second wife and
two children survive him.
Winder News Want Ads 5c a line.
THE PEACE TREATY
IS STILL ON ROCKS
(Holloman in Constitution.)
Washington, Feb. 18. —When the
treaty of peace failed to evoke oratory
on the floor today, the spectators gath
ered around to survey the field and
speculate on the outcome of the docu
ment’s second trip to the senate.
There is a general under-current of
nonchalant expressions on both sides
of the chamber that the treaty is no
nearer ratification than in July of last
year, or even November, and yet, de
spite the new and unforeseen condi
tions that have entered into the treaty
situation, hope for ratification with
compromise reservations has by no
means waned. The statement of Sen
ator Hitchcock was in reality an adroit
move, as any student of the senate fight
could discern.
A mild sensation was created when
members were informed of the govern
ment’s action in confirming its threats
to the allied powers to withdraw from
the treaty of Versailles if the Adriatic
settlement was consummated on the
lines proposed.
Among republicans who have been
opposing the treaty and who will insist
that it could not be ratified there was
a disposition to ridicule the threat as
an empty one.
The democrats have placed them
selves in the position of readiness to
assist in the ratification, despite the
fact, that some of the commentators are
today attributing a purpose of delay to
Senator Hitchcock and President Wil
son in the hopes that the treaty goes
into the campaign.
ED ARNOLD NOW IN
WALTON COUNTY JAIL
Ed Arnold, who it is alleged, took
an automobile from the streets of
Monroe in August of 1919 and made
good his escape, is now behind the
bars of Walton county jail to answer
for the crime of which he has been ac
cused. He was brought here last week
from Atlanta by Sheriff Stark who
has been apprised of his arrest. Arnold
took the car, it, is claimed, from near
the court house square and it belonged
to a man by the name of C. J. Cain.
He carried it to Athens. In Athens
the car was recovered, but Arnold kept
“hiking” and was not seen by the local
officers any more until his arrest was
accomplished.
Arnold protests his innocence—says
he did not steal the car, etc. He is well
known to many of the people here,
at Winder, Social Circle and other
places, having served as a mill opera
tive. The outcome of the case will be
watched with interest. —Walton News.
NOTICE AUTOMOBILISTS
All automobile drivers and dealers
will take notice that it is made my le
gal duty to enforce the license tag law
and that it is also a misdemeanor for
anyone to use the car in violation of
the law, punished by a fine of one hun
dred dollars and costs. See Act 1919,
page 258. Under my sworn duty as
sheriff I am compelled to ask and to
insist that all parties comply with this
law, users as well as dealers. Dealers’
tags are for ten days only from time
of sale of car and use after that time
is violation of the law. I hope to have
the help of all concerned so that I will
not have to enforce the law as against
any party, but I give this notice to all
concerned that they may have proper
tags by March Ist, 1920, for after that
date all persons using cars in violation
of law in this county will be subject to
arrest and punishment in the courts
and will not be permitted to operate
their cars until the law is complied
with. February 19, 1920.
2t. H. O. CAMP, Sheriff.
MISS HILL RETURNS
Miss Florine Hill, the head milliner
for J. L. Saul, who has been in Atlanta
for a few weeks studying the new spring
styles, has returned to the city, and is
busy arranging for the reception of
her purchases. Miss Hill says the
spring hats for my lady will be pret
tier than ever with a wide range in
shapes to please the individual purchas
er. J. L. Saul will carry this season
a complete line of millinery and ladeis’
ready-to-wear. Miss Hill will be in
charge of the millinery department and
will be pleased to have her friends call
and inspect the line she has to offer.
IN CLOSE FINISH W. T. APPLEBY WINS
IN RACE FOR COLLECTOR OF SHORT TERM
TO HEAD GEORGIA
ATHLETIC TEAMS
Lawrenceville and Winder Boys Elected
To Assist in Steering the Universi
ty Athletes to Victory.
At the elections held by the Athletic
Association of the State University at
Athens the following selections were
made;
President of the Association —L. K.
Betliune, of Pavo, Ga.
Vice President—W. K. Rivers, Val
dosta.
Secretary and Treasurer —T. W. Hill,
Statesboro.
Manager Track Team —J. T. Rutland,
Lawrenceville.
Managers Football Team —M. O. Ru
dolph, Douglas; Julian Ross, Winder;
C. It. Fitzpatrick, Madison and W. W.
Alexander, Thomasvllle. Assistants,
Rudolph Inman, Valdosta; It. W. Har
ris, Wrens; George Evans, Savannah,
and Don Hastings, Atlanta.
All of the men are popular in col
lege and have made good records in
scholarship.
MASOMCTEMPLE
PLANS PERFECTED
Masons to Meet Friday Night to Re
ceive Reports of Committees and
Arrange Details of Construction
A matter that will prove of interest
not only to the membership of the
Masonic fraternity, but to the citizen
ship of Barrow county, is the fact that
all arrangements for the erection of a
Masonic Temple at Winder have been
perfected, and dirt will be broken nt
an early date.
The building will occupy the lot on
Athens street opposite to the store of
Autry, House & Cos., and between the
store of J. N. Summerour and the only
remaining landmark handed down to us
by Jug Tavern —the old grain house.
The wall adjoining the old grain
house is to be a party wall, and it is
said that Mr. J. W. Smith will begin to
improve this property as soon as the
Masonic Temple is completed.
The Temple is to be of pressed brick,
three stories in height and equipped
with all modern conveniences for Ma
sonic purposes. The lower floor and
basement will be rented for the con
duct of some clean and sanitary mer
cantile business.
The Masons will assemble in their
hall Friday flight to receive reports of
committees and perfect details of con
struction.
TO THE VOTERS OF BARROW CO.
I hereby announce myself a candi
date for re-election for Tax Collector
of Barrow County subject to the com
ing Primary, to be held April 20th,
1920.
If elected I promise to fulfill* the
duties of the office to the best of my
ability.
I solicit the help of every citizen
in Barrow county.
Respect fully,
W. T. APPLEBY.
FOR TAX COLLECTOR
TO THE VOTERS OF BARROW CO.
I herewith respectfully announce my
candidacy for the office of Burrow
County Tax Collector, subject to ac
tion of the primary to be held April
the 20th. For several months I have
had the matter of announcing for this
office under advisement, and have in
timated to a large number of friends
who have asked about it, that I would
be a candidate. In this, my first for
nal announcement, I respectfully solicit
the influence and votes of all classes
of citizens of Barrow County. If elect
ed I shall go into the office, not as a
successful candidate of any crowd or
any faction, but as a free unhampered
office holder who recognizes his al
legianse to all people, and who will do
his full duty by everyone. As the
time is short, I may not have time to
get around to see all the voters as I
would like to do, but I expect to see as
many as possible.
Respectfully,
M. H. LOWE
THE STRAND THEATER PROGRAM
MONDAY, Feb. 23 CHARLIE CHAP
LIN, in ‘A DAY’S PLEASURE.”
TUESDAY, Feb. 24.—Pearl White in
Black Secret. Emy Wehlan 5-reel feat.
WEDNESDAY, February 25. —Blanch®
Sweet, in "A Woman of Pleasure.”
Williams Ran Remarkable Race
Took Final Count to Settle
Result Between These Two
Candidates.
The special election called by Or
dinary Hill jto fill the unexpired
term of Tax Collector Alonzo Wil
liams, deceased, was held Saturday
and proved to be the closest political
contest since the county was created.
Early in the day it, was conceded
that the race lay between Appleby
and Williams, the youngest son of
the deceased tax collector. The con
test was uncomfortably close all the
way, and not until the official count,
was declared was the winner made
certain, Mr. Appleby being given a
five vote victory in the entire county.
Young Williams ran a remarkable
race, and it is to his credit that he
showed the least strength in dis
tricts where he is not personally
well known.
Mr. Appleby is an experienced tax
collector, having held that office for
a number of years in Jackson county.
Hp will be a competent and popular
official and the duties of the office
will be well performed until the people
name a successor. Mr. Appleby has
won the quarter-mile dash by a very
small mnrgin and elsewhere in this
issue makes formal entry in the free
for-all sweepstakes that will be run off
the 20th of April.
Mr. W. E. Moore pot, wedged into
a three-corner race where a spirited
contest was on between two of the
candidates, and the small vote he re
ceived, is not a true test of his per
sonal popularity. “Rat” Moore is
pood, clean fellow who has many
warm personal friends in Barrow
County, and under different circum
stances he would have received a
much larger vote.
We give below the returns by dis
tricts :
Appleby Williams Moore
Houses 224 23(1 52
Pentecost 28 9 7
Cains 30 1 2
Auburn 1!) 22 4
Ben Smiths 23 22 12
Bethlehem 40 57 2
Stathain 32 57 5-
Jones 22 25 O
Chandlers 33 17 O
Totals 451 440 84
DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS
AND CHARLIE CHAPLIN
Coming Features at the Strand The
ater Friday and Monday.
On Friday, tomorrow, Douglas
Fairbanks will be the attraction at
the Strand, in the “Knickerbocker
Buckeroo.” A brand spank new one
of 7 reels and a suit, case full of new
stunts. This picture takes him out
west where an effort to do things for
other people and be unselfish, gets
him into various melodramatic mix
ups. In one stunt he leaves the win
dow of a flying train, climbs over the
car side to the roof, runs along the
roof to the mail coach, is swung from
the car to the station by the mail con
veyor like a sack of fourth class mail,
dropping onto the back of a horse
that gallops madly off.
On next, Monday Charlie Chaplin
will be shown in his last production,
“A Days Pleasure.”
Charlie only works when the spirit
moves, so the spirit evedently has
moved and kept moving, judging from
this picture. You’ll say it is a days
pleasure.
A. L. DELAPERRIERE MAY RUN
FOR COMMISSIONER OF ROADfi
The friends of Mr. A. L. DeLaPer
riere, of Hoschton, are endeavoring to
induce him to make the race for com
missioner of roads and revenue in
Jackson county. Mr. DeLaPerriere is
a hustling young farmer and business
man possessed of all the qualifications
for making an energetic and first-class
road commissioner. We have not
learned the names of other aspirants
to the positions, but the voters of Jack
son county will make no mistake should
they place Arthur DeLaPerriere upon
the Board of Commissioners of Roads
and Revenue.
Douglas Fairbanks at the Strand
Friday, February 20.
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