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COTTON
Winder Market
42 Cents
VOL. XXVI.
xPAYS RESPECTS TO CARNIVAL SHOWS IN
OPEN LETTER TO MAYOR AND COUNCIL
T&X PAYER GIVES VIEWS
Figures Assets and Liabilities and
Then Makes Report to the Public.
Takes Side Rap at Fakirs
and Street Preachers.
To the Honorable Mayor and Council:
It is said that there is a time when
“forbearance ceases to be a virtue.”
It is the decided opinion of this writer
that Winder has fully reached that
stage concerning carnivals, fake med
icine venders, long-haired street
preachers, etc.
To begin with, it appears that all
the above mentioned fakirs consider
Winder an “E. Z. Mark.” Our Mayor
and council are worked, and our cit- j
izens, both town and county, appear to
be easy, so here we go:
The advance agent of one of these
cheap-skate grab-all shows hits our
town; puts up a splendid story that
his show is the best ever (very clever
fella#' this advance agent) ; our city
fathers get their heads together and
decide that they will grant a license
for the week for SIOO (and on the side
fiery confidentially we will get $250
in police fines, total $350 perfectly good
dollars in the city treasury.) Fine
business forsight. The show comes.
It is absolutely rotten, but just ex
actly what the average fifteen-year-old
boy and sometimes girl want, to see—
the '(various kinds of modern dances,
some of which would absolutely shock
the Bowery in New York. There is
with the show a cheap tin-horn band
apd some men and women on the side
who will bet you that the sun will
not rise tomorrow.
The whole works stays here one
week, pays the city SIOO license, takes
away fifteen or eighteen hundred for
tickets and et cetera, and a question
able amount for gambling.
Well, let’s take stock of the trans
action :
ASSETS
Citv Treasury (license) SIOO.OO
City Treasury (fines) $250.00
Total $350.00
LIABILITIES
Tickets'* tind etc $1,600.00
Lost on games of chance . 500.00
“Old man’s expense to recover
runaway boys 150.00
Extra lights by mothers waiting
foi return of kids from show 75.00
Doctors’ bills account flu 250.00
Total disbursements $2,575.00
Less income 350.00
Banlance to debit citizens $2,22;>.00
Some money making scheme. Make
$350 at a cost to the tax payers of
$2,575 besides all of the risk and wor
ry of mothers and fathers.
Now, gentlemen, I admit that the
foregoing is purely guess work, but if
any of you can prove by figures or
otherwise that these infernal tent
shows, Btre* corner medicine shows
with the regulation painted negro ac
tors who should be in the cotton patch
or the Irfng-baired fake preachers are
a benefit to our town this writer will
take a back seat and admit that he
is a crazy dunce.
Atmitting that, the foregoing has a
semblance of fact and truth. I say
that it is high time that our city fa
thers were considering the 'welfare
of Winder’s citizens (especially the
vounger set) rather than the measly
little* three or four hundred dollars in
cash received from this source, license
and fines both included.
Finally, V I would ask: Has it come
to the point that it is necessary to
sell the peace and happiness of our
fathers and mothers and the well be
ing of our younger and girls for
a few hundred dollars to keep the city
soing? If we mustl have the CBSh ’
raise our taxes a few mills to get the
money rather than to debauch our
splendid little city.
Now gentlemen, all this is written
in the best of spirit, but I insist, that
these cheap tent shows and carnivals
are a menace to our town. Therefore.
I sgy stop them, and I also insist that
vou do notion a lot of Saturday ev
ening fakirs loose on our streets. They
are a public nuisance and in my judg
ment should be run out of town and
forced to £o to work at some decent,
honorable occupation.
It is a crime for well informed men
(churcl iSfcials) such as we have at
the head of our city government to
turn loose a bunch of blood-suckers on
an unsuspecting public. It is y° ur
tfKnfcr Mews.
Untrammeled by Prejudice and Unawed by Fear We Speak the Truth and Contend for the Right
CLOSE SCHOOLS
AND THE STRAND
The board of Mayor and Council con
vened Tuesday night and by resolution
ordered the schools and the Strand
Theater closed on account of preva
lence of the influenza. Of course the
welfare of the community is a matter
that should always be uppermost in
our minds, but. we are of the opinion
that the mayor and council on this oc
casion suddenly became unduly ex
cited. The good ladies of the town are
circulating a petition condemning the
street carnivals, and this seems to have
had a sudden and drastic effect upon
our city fathers. It is to be hoped
that the carnivals will not merely
postpone their dates until the “flu epi
demic” blows over.
There is really no more cause for
alarm in Winder now than there was a
month ago, when the light form of in
fluenza, colds and grip first made its
reappearance here. We keep in pret
ty close touch with deaths and funerals
and serious illness in the community,
and so far we have not had the un
pleasant duty of chronicling the death
of any one in this community from the
effects of flu or from pneumonia fol
lowing this disease. Town people are
going to congregate somewhere, and if
the mayor and council are going to
put a stop to it, they should be impar
tial in their edicts. However, let us
hope the good ladies will succeed in
their efforts to put street carnivals
out of business in Winder.
HOOVER REFUSES
TO FILEHIS NAME
Hiram L. Gardner, Secretary of the
Georgia Democratic Committee ,has re
ceived the following reply from Herbert
Hoover. The Atlanta Journal and sev
eral Georgia papers have been boost
ing Hoover for president:
New York, Feb. 26, 1920. Hon. Hiram
L. Gardner, Secretary Dem. Ex. Com
mittee, Eatonton, Ga.
I feel confident, that it is not neces
sary to dwell at length upon my grati
tude to you for the honor implied in
your letter of February 22.
I especially appreciate it, since I was
not identified with the democratic par
ty before the war, and my official con
nection with the government has been
solely a war service, and consequently
not of a partisan character.
I have not been able to persuade
myself at all that any real public ser
vice will be performed by injecting my
self into the race for the nomination to
the greatest honor at. the disposal of
the American people.
Therefore, aside from any oth?r rea
son. I do not intend to file my name.
HERBERT HOOVER.
“I’M NOT PARTY MAN”
SAYS HERBERT HOOVER
Baltimore, Md„ Feb. 2*— Herbert
Hoover here for the Johns Hopkins
anniversary answered inquiries about
the status of his presidential boom as
follows:
‘I am not a candidate. I have made
that statement to the newspapers of
the courttry every week from the time
my name was first mentioned, but
thev won’t believe it. I am not a
party man. and I have no organization
working for me. Now. how can a
man without a party and a man with
out an organization be a candidate
for president?”
RECRUITING STATION AT
COURT HOUST BUILDING
Sergeant William E. Turpin, of the
United States Army, is here in charge
of a recruiting station. The station
is upstairs in the courthouse building.
Sergeant Turpin wears two wound
stripes and any one desiring to learn
the benefits to be derived from an en
listment in the army should call to
see him.
job to protect us against the wiles of
these “smart alecs,” and here’s hoping
that this will be a sufficient hint to
you honorable gentlemen.
If it is not, yop will hear more later.
TAX PAYER.
Winder, Barrow County, Ga., Thursday, February 26, 1920.
MR. WILSON NAMES
NEW YORK LAWYER
Washington, February 25. —President
Wilson again upset the expectations of
official and political Washington today
by naming as secretary of state Bain
bridge Colby, a New York attorney, who
left the republican party with Theo
dore Roosevelt in 1912.
The selection caused scarcely less
of a sensation than the dismissal of
Robert Lansing from the state portifo
lio two weeks ago, and was received
with such unrisguLsed surprise in the
senate, where the president's choice
must be approved before Mr. Colby can
take up the duties of office, that none of
the leaders cared to predict when con
firmation might he voted.
Not even among those on the inside
of the administration circles had there
been any expectation that the selection
would fall on Mr. Colby, who told in
quirers today that he himself had been
given only a very brief notice of the
president’s intention. Summoned to
the white house he spent an hour with
Mr. Wilson, announced that he would
accept, with a deep appreciation of tne
responsibility imposed upon him, and
said he would have no further comment
to make until the senate had acted.
■Word of the nomination reached sen
ators just as they were assembling for
the day’s session, and in their private
talks during the day they discussed lit
tle else. Virtually all of them, howev
er. preferred to withhold public com
ment until the subject, came up formally
for action.
SWALLOWS STAPLE
SHOWN BY X-RAY.
A few days ago the little six-year
old son of Mr. Tom Morrow, who lives
a few miles from Winder, swallowed
a wire staple. The little fellow began
to complain of excruciating pains, arid
Tuesday the father brought the child
to Winder, wjhere an x-ray was taken
of his stomach. The wire staple shows
up in the photograph in a crossed con
dition. It is more than likely 7 that
it-will be necessary for the child to
undergo an operation.
NOTICE EX-SERYICE MEN
AND MEMBERS OF THE A. L.
The John Rich Pentecost Post No.
53 of the American Legion is hereby
called to meet at the City Hall of Win
der on Friday evening, February 27th,
at 7 :30 o’clock. This is an important
meeting to every ex-service man, and
especially Legion Members. If you are
interested in what the government is
doing, and in getting it to do more, in
recognition of the service rendered by
the men who served in the army, navy
or marine corps during the period of
War. be on hand. This is vital im
protanee to YOU.
J. C. PRATT, Comdr.
I. E. JACKSON, Adjt.
DEATH OF MRS. MAMIE PATRICK
Mrs. Mamie Patrick, wife of R. L.
Patrick, died at. Bishop Sunday at 4
o’clock and was laid to rest Monday
at 11 o’clock at Mount Vernon church
in Walton county. Mrs. Patrick was
a sister of Mr. R. E. Sheppard, of
Winder. She was fifty-two years of
age and had been a consistent member
of the Christian church for twenty
nine years. Her husband and eight
children survive her. ~
FOR COUNTY TREASURER
I respectfully submit my claims to
the voters of Barrow county for the of
fice of County Treasurer and ask your
support and influence in the primary to
he held April 20th.
This is my last, appeal to the people
of my county and I will feel profound
ly grateful for your endorsement.
Most of you know me and I cannot
help but feel you are willing to con
fer this honor on me for the next
four years.
Sincerely yours,
JAMES W. NOWELL.
FOR CORONER.
I respectfully announce myself a can
tidate to succeed myself as Coroner of
Barrow county, subject to action of the
qualified voters at the coming primary
-lection. I wll apprecate an endorse
nent. Yours truly,
W. P. THOMPSON.
MICHIGANDERS
BOLT DRY LAW
Iron River, Mich., February 25, —
Thirty-five federal agents and members
of the Michigan state constabulary who
arrived last night under Major A. V.
Dalrymple, prohibition commissioner
for central states, to “clean up" Iron
county, tonight were en route back
home, while Major Dalrymple was
bound for to confer with
Prohibition Commissioner John Kra
mer.
Major Dalrymple who led the armed
expedition to Iron River with the
avowed purpose of arresting county and
village officers on charges of conspira
cy to obstruct enforcement of the pro
hibition law, was called off by Mr. Kra
mer, and ordered to meet the opposing
side and seek a compromise without
legal action.
Worsting the federal agents in the
first clash with state opcers in the en
forcement of the eighteenth amendment
of the dry law, Major Dalrymple de
clared before his departure.
Martin S. McDonough, prosecuting
attorney of Iron county, and leader of
the county authorities who, Major Dal
rymple declared, were in “open revolt,”
against the United States, received a
telegram today from District Attorney
Walker at Grand Rapids advising him
to take Ho action until the district at
torney could come to investigate.
Mr. McDonough had obtained a war
rant for the arrest of Major Dalrym
ple charging him with malicious libel,
and had planned to have it served by
Chief of Police Sensiba at the railroad
station last night.
A telephone message from Chrystal
Falls, fifteen miles away, however, no
tifiied MsDonough that Majoy Dalrym
pel, in anticipation of trouble, had is
sued fifty 7 pounds of ammution to each
man in his party. The prosecutor then
advised Iron River citizens to go home
and avoid any demonstration.
Today Mr. McDonough warned Ma
jor Dalrymple that if he carried out
his plan and arrested any one in Iron
connty without a warrant or searched
any private homes for liquor, the coun
ty offcers would “arrest every man
in your party and put them in jail.”
MATTRESS FACTORY IS
READY FOR BUSINESS
Messrs. R. A. Johnson and It. E.
Nash, of Monroe, were in Winder the
early part of the week. These gentle
men are opening a mattress factory in
the top story of the C. H. Stewart, build
ing. Thursday morning they were mov
ing in and installing machinery, and
Mr. Johnson tells us that the plant will
be ready for business next Monday
morning.
MRS. SARAH J. HOLT
DIED FEBRUARY 20TH.
Mrs. Sarah J. Holt, of Rosemary, N.
(’., died at a sanitarium in Richmond,
Va., February 20th and was laid to
rest in Rosehill cemetery at Winder
February 23rd. Mrs. Holt was a fine
Christian character who made many
warm personal friends at Winder dur
ing her residence here, who learned
of her death with much sorrow. Her
husband, Mr. W. B. Holt, took the man
agement of the cotton mills at Winder
in 1904, and the family resided here
until the latter part of 1910. Many
people of Winder have kept in close
touch with Mr. Holt and his good
wife ever since, and all of their ac
quaintances here join with us in ex
tending to the family heartfelt sympa
thy. Mrs. Holt was forty-eight years
of age and a native fo North Carolina.
Besides hosts of friends she leaves a
husband, Mr. W. B. Holt and three
daughters to mourn for her.
KELLY A CANDIDATE
FOR HALL OF FAME
New York, Fell. 15.—Unable to think
of anything else to do with the $5
and $7 monthly rental increases his
tenants forced upon him over his pro
test. George C. Kelly, an anti-profi
teer. today set electricians at work wir
ing his eight family apartment in West
106th street for electricity. Mr. Kel
ly had steadfastly maintained his pre
war rental schedule of S3O a month for
his apartments until yesterday and
voted him the increase.
ICE CREAM
From a quart to 250 gallons per
day. Will deliver anywhere in city.
H. L. Bently, phone 106.
BROAD STREET PROPERTY OWNERS
CALLED TOGETHER AT CITY HALL 1
PRIVATE OWNERS
GETTING BUSY
The owners of central property have
already begun to dress up the fronts
of their stores with coats of new paint
and getting things in readiness for
the approaching activity in building
that will be going on in Winder dur
ing the spring and summer months.
The Segars building has had a touch
of paint that makes this front give a
pleasing appearance that adds much
to the looks of that part of the city.
Dr. W. I* DeLaPerriere is having
the building occupied by .1. L. Saul
and Hargrove Bros., with offers above
painted and renovated. The window
facings and doors will be painted and
the front walls have been retouched
with cement and the brick work will
be white panelled. When completed
the building will have anew appear
ance.
Mr. J. A. Thompson has let the con
tract for the rolling of the old Autry
house to the rear, where it will be ov
erhauled and installed with modern
conveniences, and the site upon which
it now rests will be converted into
an up-to-date filling station.
Mr. J. K. Miller Ims let the contract,
for the erection of a home on his lot
on Athens street, and dirt for the
foundation will be broken next week.
With these improvements going on
in the center of town, in conjunction
with the activity about the new court
house, the Masonic Temple and the
work to be done by the city fathers,
Winder will present a busy scene in
the month of May.
LEADERS WORRY
OVER SENTIMENT
(Barry in Constitution)
Washington, February 25.—Prohibi
tion leaders in congress are begifming
to worry over the anti-prohibition sen
timent spreading throughout the coun
try. Some of them are alarmed. Many
acknowledge that far from being dead
as a political issue, the light wine and
beer question is apt to be a very vital
factor at the national conventions.
Expressions of satisfaction over the
reactions from the drastic legislation
enacted by congress have come from the
“wets” for several weeks. They didn’t
carry conviction for obvious reasons.
But such statements are being made in
Washington now by senators who were
leaders in pressing prohibition legisla
tion and ardent champions of the con
stitutional amendment. They come
from states which had “bone dry” state
laws long before the war-time ban was
applied. They are prohibitionists now,
but they are not so fanatical as to re
fuse to recognize what they describe as
actual conditions.
FRANK T. HARPER
DEAD AT BOGART
Mr. Frank T. Harper, of Bogart
died last Friday and was buried at
that, place Saturday afternoon with
Masonic honors, Rev. J. H. Wood offi
ciating ns minister. Mr. Harper was
aliout thirty-six years old. He married
Miss Rubye Wise, niece of Mrs. M. C.
House, of this city, and his wife and
two children survive him. He was a
brother of Mrs. Spurgeon Williams' of
Winder, and Mrs. W. A. Nunnally, of
Statham.
J. L. BURKHALTER DEAD
AT HOME NEAR STATHAM
Mr. M. L. Burkhalter, 34 years of
age, died at the home of his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. I). L. Burkhalter, near
Statham, last Sunday and was buried
at Bethabara church, after appropri
ate funeral ceremonies conducted by
Rev. W. H. Faust at three o’clock on
Monday afternoon.
FIRE AT CHRISTIAN COLLEGE
We learn that fire broke out at the
Southeastern Christian College at. Au
burn Thursday morning, caused by a
defective stove. The heroic work of
the negro janitor saved a serious con
flagration. The piano was damaged,
but the loss will be slight.
WEATHER
Cold and Clear
BOND ELECTION CALLED
To Pave Broad Street, Extend Sewer
age System and Build City Hall.
Meeting Harmonious—Other
Improvements Discussed.
Following up the concensus of open
ion expressed at the recent mass meet
ing of the property owners and busi
ness men of the City of Winder, the
Mayor and Council called the propertr
owners along the business section of
Broad street before them at the City
Hall Friday afternoon.
At this meeting civic improvements
were discussed with those most vitally
interested. Mayor Maynard says' the
meeting was very harmonious and suc
cessful beyond his most sanguine ex
pectations. The property owners
present expressed a willingness to. bear
their share of the expense of paving
Broad street from the Seaboard to the
Gainesville Midland, and the meeting
developed a progressive spirit along
other lines of municipal improvement.
It was decided by the Mayor and
Council to call a bond election asking
for the privilege of issuing about Fifty
Thousand Dollars’ worth of municipal
bonds for the purpose of paving Broad
street, extending the sewer system and
building a city hall. The mayor also
spoke of paving Candler and Athens
streets, but when we reminded him
that the city would have to raise more
funds hi order to do this, Mayor May
nard conceded that the project rests
almost exclusively upon the will of the
property owners along these streets.
The city attorney has been instructed
to advertise the call for the bond elec
tion at as early date as it can be held
in accordance with the law, and it is
expected that the registered voters of
Winder will express at the polls their
hearty approval of the project. When
sifted to its last analysis there is no
objection on the part of property own
ers to progress along civic lines. No
one wants Winder to stand still in a
waiting attitude while her neighbors
are going forward and doing things.
Our neighbors are cementing their
factional differences and forming
chambers of commerce that are bidding
for manufacturing interests, and they
are having telling effects. They are
putting houses on vacant lots by lending
money to those who desire to he home
owners, and the houses are being filled
as fast as they are erected. Even the
little town of Braselton has a live
chamber of comuerce. Winder must
get together and pull together, if she
is going to be behind in the after-the
war progressive march that is just
now 7 beginning to move all around us.
Look toward Athens, and what do wo
see? Look toward Monroe, and what
do we see? Look toward Braselton
and what do we see? And then, look
toward Atlanta. If there be personal
animosity, this should be laid aside
when the welfare of all is at stake.
But, our trolley Jumped the wire.
We were writing of
The Mayor and Council have made ar
rangements to broaden Athens street
from the top of the rise at the Granite
Hotel to the flat near the Garrison
home, the property owners along the
south side of the street agreeing to
donate the right-of-way to the city.
To build a city We must have ac
tion. We must have ginger and pep.
We must have argument pro and con.
We must bestir ourselves. Still wa
ter becomes stagnant, but the bounding
stream purifies the air.
BENNETT MARKET
CHANGES HANDS
This week Mr. D. O. Carrington pur
chased the Bennett Cash Market on
Candler street. The new management
promises to handle the best of western
and native meats. Mr. J. W. Carring
ton, Sr., will be associated with the
business and the firm will sell for cash.
The Carringtons are well-known mar
ket men of many years’ experience,
courteous and clever, and their motto
has ever been “quick service and
prompt delivery.” They request their
friends to call to see them at the E.
S. Bennett stand.
Mr. Grady Segars happened to a
painful accident tnis week. In cutting
wood the axe glanced and cut a deep
gash in Mr. Segars’ foot. While Mr.
Segars will be lame for some time, it is
not considered serious.
No. 46.