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THE STRAND THEATER PROGRAM
THURSDAY, August s—Alice Brady
in “The World to Live In.”
FRIDAY, August 6—Margurite Clark
in “Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch.”
SATURDAY, Aug. 7 —William Duncan
“Silent Avenger.” Western Feature.
VOL.jXXVII.
MANAGERS SHOUID
CURB THE REEFERS
And (he Police Should Make It Warm
for the Tough and Professional
' Gambler.
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When we Had reasons to believe
that the Southern League was juggled
several years ago, we quit taking in
terest in professional baseball. So
far we have nothing to say conceru
iiig the baseball craze that is sweep
ing this territory. At first we throught
it was no concern of ours if the people
preferred to squander money in the
national pastime.
We have changed our mind. The
Million Dollar League is proving to
be easy pickings for some very infer
ior professional ball players. The
flag+of Winder is in the league, and
everything that carries the name of
Winder is our business. There is
more beneficial to mankind
than clean sport for the purpose of
developing young men, but when the
gambler, the bully of the profession
tough appears upon the scene they
rob the game of all health-giving joy
and place it upon a degrading plane.
VThe managers of the clubs in this
league must curb the beefers or the
Million Dollar League is gone forever
before of the present season.
All of the towns are donating money
that the ball players may give them a
few hours of pleasant diversion from
business during the summer afternoons
but thby are not going to spend their
money to witness eternal rows with
the umpire.
Rough-neck baseball can only create
bitter prejudice and hatred among a
'certain element of the citizenship of
flip rival municipalities composing the
league. The money expended by the
directors of the clubs and the fans
in attendance can be used for a more
beneficial and lasting purpose.
"• However, the club is drawing well
at Winder, and the local players have
proven themselves gentlemanly and
submissive to dicipliue at times when
we delieve they were handed raw deals
at the hands of prejudiced umpires.
We believe, and we think our fair
minded manager, Bob Higgins, agrees
with us—that it is better to lose an
old ball game than to have it broken
up in a row.
But the games. After Winder had
shoved Monroe to the bottom of the
cellar, and had received u number of
casualties that had put the team in
ft crippled condition, the league lead
ers went down to Washington and
dropped two out of three and kept
on down the shoots by handing Madi
son the first two out of three at home
this week.
The games lost to Madison were
comedies of errors and solid ivory on
the part of both teams. In the first
stanza, Sir Robert selected a healthy
looking recruit from the swamps of
Morgan to go on 'the mound and fail
ed to throw out the life line before he
went under for the third and last time.
This experience caused the manager
to bring his derrick in action while
Cothran was paddling near the shore
in the second game, and the slosh
was something awful to behold. We
had “much” kinds of baseball that
day. Two runners were put out at
third at the same time by one man.
Joe Guyon and Red Barron each drop
ped a fly ball, things that never hap
-1 pencil before. Bevo Webb made a home
run on a bunt and White went to
third on a strike out. ’Twas SOME
ball game.
Wednesday the locate turned thei
tables by defeating the visitors.
We hope the luck will come our
way for awhile.
„ The feature of this game was the
first home run on the local diamond
1 ecause of the ball being butted over
the fence.
Old Frank Thrasher, of big league
fame, was the guy to put one over
the fence. It was some hit and went
over the high fence with inches to
spare.
This morning the boys left for Elber
ton for three games with that team,
returning home Saturday for three
puiies—Monday, Tuesday and Wednes
day—with Thompson.
Mrs. J. H. Ford will accompany
home her sister, Miss Wilma Grant,
who has been her guest for a week.
Mrs. Lois Boon and young son, Fos
ter, have returned to Stone Mountain
after a two weeks' visit to her mother,
@l)c iUinicv Mem
Untrammeled by Prejudice and Unawed by Fear We Speak the Truth and Contend for the Right
WILL SOON START WORK , j
ON BIG ROAD SCHEME
We learn that the contract
has been let for the building of
a' standard road from O'shield’s
bridge at the Jackson county
line, to the County Line bridge
of Walton.
The contractor has already
struck camp at Bethlehem, and
we are told that work is to start
at once.
The contract also includes the
building of a first-class bridge
across the Appalacliee river at
the line, Walton county paying
its pro rata part.
Not having seen the contract
we are unable to give the price
per mile. We learn, however,
that the contract calls for a
i soiled road. ,
WILL LEAVE AUGUST 10TH
FOR A VISIT TO JAPAN
Rev. John W. Ham, who has many
friends in Winder where he has con
ducted several successful meetings, will
leave about August 10th for Tokio,
Japan, where he will deliver an ad
dress at one of the greatest Sunday
School conventions ever held.
Wednesday's Atlanta Journal says
of the intended visit.
“Mr. and Mrs. Ham will leave At
lanta about August 10th to visit the
Orient as the guests of Mr. and Mrs.
H. N. Rainey, of Fairview road. The
party has alreay applied for passports
and secured reservations on the Em
press of Russia, which will sail August
21 from San Francisco. After seeing
the Philippines, the four Atlanta peo
ple will spend fifteen days in China,
then will go to Japan for the world
wide Sunday School convention at
Tokio. On the return trip, the party
will reach Vancouver, British Colum
bia, about the middle of November.
WINDER PASTOR AT LEXINGTON.
Rev. W. H. Faust leaves Saturday to
begin a series of revival services at the
Salem Baptist church in Oglethorpe
county five miles east of Lexington,
to last for a week.
This church called Mr. Faust as pas
tor and requested his ordination to the
ministry.
He will assist Judge P. W. Davis,
who is the pastor.
CURTIS BARRETT CALLS
DOWN LEGION TRADUCERS
Curtiss Barrett, brother of Charles
Barrett, President of. the National
Farmers Union, and a young man who
saw service overseas, called down Gro
ver Edmondson, a Watson Amener, at
Barnesville Wednesday.
Watson had paid his respects to the
Legion and the young man stood for
it, but when Edmondson, a Georgian
who wore the uniform during the war,
covered the same ground, young Bar
rett rose, and asking permission, de
livered hemself as follows.
“Your statement, sir, is a wilful
and a deliberate misrepresentataton.
In war you would be guilty of trea
son ; in peace you are guilty of un
speakable cowardice. I enlisted in
the war as a private soldier in 1917,
and I spent twenty-three months in
France ready and willing any day to
sacrifice my life for m,v country, No
man knows better than you, who has
dishonored the uniform you wore, that
you wilfully and deliberately state an
untruth in what you say of the Ameri
can Legion. I don't propose to sit
silently by and have your statements
unchallenged, and here and now I
denounce them as false.”
Immediately the large audience, con
sisting perhaps of a thousand people,
was in an uproar.
Tom Watson quickly arose and
asked:
“What right have you to interrupt
our meeting?”
“I have the right of an American
citizen to speak for the truth and I
only rose after I obtained permission
from the speaker to interrupt him,’'
said Barrett.
Some of the strong partisans of the
audience stared towards him, but he
stood his ground without flinching an
inch.
Then Tom Watson moved that the
meeting adjourn and the great crowd
filed out of the house, leaving Barrett
just where he stood, and leaving in
Edwoudson an speech.
WINDER, BARROW COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY AUGUST 5, 1920
CHALLENGES BELL
FOR JOINT DEBATE
This seems to be a year for “J’int
disputes.”
This morning's mail brought to us
the information that John 1. Kelly,
candidate for congress to succeed Hon.
Thos. M. Bell, had challenged the Con
gressman for a discussion of the issues
of the campaign.
As Mr. Bell is going to make several
speeches in this district, giving an ac
court of his stewardship, we may have
chance to see the old warhorse in uctiou
with an opponent sitting by.
Pohn Kelly is a bright young sprout,
but he is biting off a big chew when
he attempts to twist the record of Bell.
Bell has a record, aud it is a good
one from every angle, and this record
will stand the acid test.
Personally, he is a lovable charac
ter, and few men in public life hold
*he affections of his people in a strong
er grasp than does Bell of the Ninth.
While we are of the opinion that
little good ever comes from joint de
bates, we confess that we ove to wit
ness them.
If personalities are brushed aside
end the speakers confine themselves to
issues and facts, the voters might be
enlightened. •
But debates of the latter-day brand—
debates of spleen, villiflcatlon, charges
and denials without proof save gossip,
are disgusting and encourage preju
dice and cause men to think less of man
kind iu general and public servants
in particular.
Speaking of Mr. Bell in last week's
issue, The Gainesville Eagle, says:
“Mr. Bell's record in congress does
not need exploiation. It is an open
book; a series of years of faithful
service to his people; a period of un
selfish labor for his constituency.
“No district of any state in the
union lias a representative better liked
or more influential in Washington
than Thomas M. Bell. His fidelity to
trust, tireless energy, seasoned judg
ment in congressional matters, and
magnetic personality have enabed him
to win an enviable place in Washing
ton where he is loved for the same rea
sons that the people of the Ninth dis
trict lo_ve him.
"lii this age of political unheavals,
unrest and disturbances the congress
of the United States needs steady, re
iiabe, right thinking congressmen of
Thomas M. Bell’s type.”
SUFFER FROM POISONING
Mrs. F. W. Bondurant, Frank Bon
durant, Parks Stewart and Miss Mon
tine Robinson have about recovered
from a severe illness caused by poi
soning.
Last Sunday these people drove over
to Oxford to spend the day with friends
Mrs. T. A. Robinson and family.
Shortly after leaving Oxford for
home the Winder people became des
perately ill, and as soon as they reach
ed home summoned physicians. Miss
Montine Robinson remained with her
relatives inf Oxford. Hearing of the
illness of the returning Winder folks,
Mr. Robinson, father of Miss Montine,
phoned to Oxford to his daughter, and
learned that practically all those who
had partaken of cream and bananas
luncheon were ill. He drove over for
Ills daughter and brought her back.
I’bysicians gave it their opinion
that the had results caused from too
ripe bananas.
Word comes from Oxford that all
those attacked have about ’recovered.
DEATH OF .MR. H. N. SELLERS
After an illness of more than two
months Mr. H. X 4 Sellers died Wed
nesday, July 28.
Along in June, Mr. Sellers was strick
en with phneumonla, but after a brave
fight, was thought to be our of dan
ger and that it was only a question of
time until he would again be in his
usual good health.
But complication set in and he began
to grow worse until the death.
Mr. Sellers lived in Chandlers dis
trict, near the home of W. J. Jones.
He is a son of Mr. Charles’ L. Sell
ers and a brother of Mr. Sain Sellers.
Tile funeral was preached last
Thursday by Rev. John 11. Wood. The
remains were hurried in Rose Hill
cemetery, this city, Thursday after
noon with Masonic honors.
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The deceased was 42 years of age
and leaves a wife and several children
a father and several brothers and sis
ters to grieve at his departure.
BRIEF NEWS NOTES
THE WORLD OVER
All advices indicate that the situa
tion in Poland, from the Polish stand
point, is approaching a crisis. The
armistice plans have been halted.
The Georgia house has killed the
state budget bill and passed the bill
increasing the fees of ordinaries 25
per cent in all counties with 50,000
population or less.
Georgia may get two more congress
men if the rule is not changed. Ac
cording to the census report the pop
ulation of the state has increased suf
ficiently for one and may give us two.
The timid housewife, who has been
making blackberry and scuppemotig
wine and other home brews with one
eye on the brewing jar and the other
on the front door with uneasy expec
tation that a prohibition enforcement
officer might appear need have no
further fear. The internal revenue
bureau has rendered a decision that
in effect lifts the government ban on
manufacture of drinks for home con
sumption.
MOBLEY AND WALL REUNION
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST ELEVENTH
The date has been set for the Mob
ley and Wall reunion.
There is always in store for those
who attend these annual gatherings
u fine time and plenty of good tilings
to eat.
This year will be no exception.
Plans are being made for good talks
and addresses, from well known speak
ers. Candidates will be on hand to
mingle with the voters, and the boys
will court the girls and the good wom
en will furnish the pies, cakes and
fried chicken, while the best in coun
try ham.barbecued meat and bruns
wick stew and hash will satisfy the'
large crowd that always attend.
A cordial invitation is extended to
everybody, and it is hoped no one will
forget to bring well-filled baskets of
good things to eat.
AMERICAN LEGION MEETING
The most important meeting of rhe
John Rich Pentecost Post of the Amer
ican Legion of the entire year will
be held in the Court House at Winder.
Friday afternoon, August *J, at 4:30
p. m. Let every member he present.
Let 11s have a hundred per cent attend
ance. Let every ex-service man who
is interested in keeping up the spirit
of' comradship and mutual helpfulness
come and join at this meeting. The
Legion was organized by ex-service
men for ex-service men. It is officer
ed and maintained for the most part
by enlisted men. Thousands of sol
diers have been assisted by the organ
ization. Many in this county. Our
interests are common; let us stick to
gether.
Officers will he elected. Delegates
to the State Convention are to be
elected. This meets in Augusta the
lit and 20 of this month. The future
policy of the Legion is being made. It
is our organization. Let us have a
voice in it. Come promptly.
J. C. PRATT, Chairman.
BARROW COUNTY LAND LOST
ACCORDING TO L. A. HOUSE
According to Mr. L. A. House, Bar
row county is short something over
a thousand acres of good farming land.
And Mr. W. L. Greeson called at our
office Tuesday morning and put in a
claim for something like 300 acres. He
says that during the recent campaign
he was understood to own about 500
acres of good fertile soil, and as he
he can find only 99 acres of that
amount Ik* is sure that 401 acres of
this lost ’ land belongs to him. He
is willing to pay the taxes and collect
the rents if the wise ones will point
it out to him.
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CLUBS Won Lost Pet.
Elherton 8 -I *672
WIXDER <5 *s9o
Madison 6 6 .500
Washington 6 6 •■"‘(Mi
Thompson 5 7 .420
Monroe • 5 7 .420
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What has become of the o. f. man
who wore thick, round, detachable cuffs
that were attached to his shirt by
means of a nickel-plated crowbar with
two clips on it?
ARE YOU BACKING
BOARD OF TRADE?
Are yob backing the Barrow
County Board of Trade?
Have you enrolled as one of
the County Boosters?
Tlie Board needs you and you
not'd the Board. Come in and
join the forward march.
Winder and Barrow county
are both growing. House's are
going up, streets are being paved
and roads are being worked,
still there is much that needs
tt> l)e done.
Join the Board of Trade and
lend the Board your influence
and assistance.
ELECTION OF STATE TAX COM
MISSIONER BY PEOPLE IS URGED
Representative George A. Johns, of
Barrow, yesterday introduced in the
house a bill to make the state tax com
missioner elected by the people. The
commission is now appointed by the
governor for a term of four years.
Mr. Johns is a strong advocate of dem
ocratic rule and he feels that the office
should be tilled by the people at the
polls.—Atanta Constitution.
The State Tax Commissioner is now
appointed by the governor for a term
of six years. He administers the tax
equalization law and that is a grow>
ing sentiment throughout the state
that this office should he elected by the
peope as are other State House Officers
This office has no authority to refuse
the tax returns of the various counties
anti to call for increased assessment.-,
a- he has recently done. At'pr -smt
he is in no way responsible to the
voters for tin* manner of his admin
"tration of this improtant office.
ALLEN-WALKER.
Last Sunday afternoon at the Bap
ist parsonage occurred tie* marriage
f Miss Maude Allen and Mr. Carl
Walker. At 4:30 promptly Rev. W. 11.
Faust performed the ceremony.
This attractive and popular couple
have the best wishes of a large num
ber of friends on tli. ir lnntrimohla)
venture.
DEATH OF MRS. J. L. PAGE
Mrs. J. L. Page, an aged and highly
respected woman, died at her home
just above Winder Monday night.
Just about a year ago Mrs. Page
lost her husband. She leaves several
children and grand-children to sorrow
her going away.
The funeral was preached Tuesday
afternoon, Revs. Cantrell, Ely and
Haynie speaking a few words of com
fort to the sorrowing relatives.
The interment was in Graham ceme
tery and tile body of Mrs. Page was
laid to rest beskl that of her hus
band who had gone before.
FARMERS BANK IN
TEMPORARY QUARTERS
For a few days, while the finishing
touches are being put on the Farmers
Bank building, tin* banking force will
transact business at the Carithers cor
ner, using the banking room and fix
tures of the Carithers Bank. This
tempomy move is made necessary be
cause of the improvments being made
for permanent quarters.
Guy Kilgore, Carlton Pentecost and
Robert J. Smith make a working team
for popularity that you will have to
travel miles to equal. Call on them
at their temporary quarters and re
ceive the glad hand and witness the
-mile that" sticks.
COUNTY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
CALLED TO .MEET SATURDAY
The Barrow County Democratic Ex
ecutive Committee is hereby called to
meet in the Superior Court room of
the Barrow County Court House at
Winder, Ua., on Saturday, August 7,
1920, at three o’clock p. in., for the
purpose of arranging for holding the
Democratic Primary Electfbn on Sep
tember 8, 1920; for levying assess
ments against the various candidates
not assured by the State Committee
in said primary election; and for the
transaction of such other business as
may properly came before the said
Committee.
It. O. ROSS, Chairman,
J. C. PRATT, Sect.
THE STRAND THEATER PROGRAM
MONDAY, August O—Tom Mix in
Three Gold Coins.”
TUESDAY, August 10—Gladys Brock
wel in “Devil’s Kiddle.”
WEDNESDAY, August 11— Constance
Binney In “Erstwhile Susan.”
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PREPARE TO BUCK
COTTON GAMBLERS
Active Steps Should Now Be Taken
to Overcome the Usual Fall Bear
Raid on Cotton
Atlanta, August 5. —The State De
partment of Agriculture believes av
tivo steps should be taken now to over
come the usual fall heat 1 raid on cot
ror, whit h always develops about the
time the new crip Is coming on the
market. Speaking on that
Commissioner J. J. Brown to-day said:
“Bear speculators are now selling
cotton futures many hundred points
below the spot market, in an effort
to hre. k down the latter just about
the time preparations tire being ma le
G,r uiarKcting the new crop. This
effort stresses more than ever the
necessity for warehousing facilities
under which there may be issued gilt
edged certificates which could be used
in financing the new crop.
“We must finance the new crop, at
least to the best of our ability, until
a price is reached which will give the
farmer a fair margin of profit above
the cost of production. It is the only
way to check the bear speculators who
are selling millions of bules short in
their desperate effort to break the
market.
"I am convinced that if we had a
system of bonded warehouses such as
is now being urged through the State
Bureau of Markets in conjunction with
federal government, we would have
no difficulty in protecting ourselves.
This plan is worthy of careful consid
eration and co-operation of every
wideawake farmer and business man
in Georgia.
“If the producers of cotton will show
to the world once more that they are
capable of financing and pricing their
*)wn cotton, they will have solved the
question of the distribution and mar
keting of the South’s great crop, in
a way to bring the farmer a fair margin
of profits for many years to come. The
Cotton States Advisory Marketing
Board and the American Cotton Asso
ciation are now doing all within their
power to assist the South along these
very lines.”
QUARTERMAN MAKING
AGGRESSIVE CAMPAIGN
Col W. H. Qnurterman, candidate
for solicitor general of the Western
• ircoit, is having a busy week with
lhe voters.
He d 1 qiped into the N iw- office
Thursday morning and in annvwr to
enquiry stated that he had been shaking
hands with Jackson county voters for
the past week, that the glad hand was
being given cheerfully and that pros
pects for success in his race m that
county were indeed flattering
Below he has a few words to say to
his home people:
“To the Voters of Barrow County—
Owing to the short time before eh? pri
mary election, September Sth, and the
large territory that I have to canvas,
it will he impossible for me to *>uike a
house to house campaign in my mice
for solicitor general. I am relying oa
my home people for their active support
in my race and want them to know I
will appreciate it jnst as ranch as :f I
cad time and opportunity to grasp to
hand of each one and than*! him indi
vidually. I have lived iu Winder 1 an 1
among you for over 27 years and I trust
that my life and dealings have been
such that you may endorse me at the
polls in September.
“My years of practice in my c rofes
sion and especially my expedeice in
assisting Judge Russell mil Judge
Brand as solicitor general aqd ray trim
as solicitor of the City Court <".f Jef
ferson, (should qualify me for this
work. The present solicitor asked lor
the office 'For four years.’ Ho has now
held it for that term and I your
help in making me his successor in
‘office, assuring you that I will grate
fully appreciate your upport. Yours
for service, W. .H. Quarter man.”
NEW COUNTY OF BRANTLEY
IS CREATED BY LEGISLATURE
The legislature lias passed a consti
tutional admeinlment creating the
county of Brantley. It had previous
ly passed the senate.
Brantley county will have an area
of 435 square miles, to he taken from
three counties as follows: 215 square
miles from Pierce. 235 square miles
from Wayne ami 23 square miles from
Charlton.
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