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THE STRAND THEATER PROGRAM
THURSDAY, Sept. 16—Constance Tal
madge in “A Lady's Name."
FRIDAY, Sept. 17—“Everywoman.”
Twelve star cast.
SATURDAY. Sept. I* Eddie Polo in
“The Vanishing Dagger." Western
VOL. XXVII.
STREET PAVING
IN WINDER BEGINS
Contractors Start Building Good Roads
Toward the City m Cotton
Begins to Move.
At last, at last, at last—the first
gallon of concrete has been poured
and street paving in Winder started.
For several weeks our city streets
have been in a deplorable condition.
Cars have stuck on our main thorough
fares and rain and mud has given our
citizens many uncomfortable hours.
Jtut the past few sunshinny days
have renewed life, and with a few
weeks of pretty weather Winder will
bloom forth prettier than ever.
Contractors have broken dirt for the
building of good roads from the Wal
ton county line to the Mulberry river
on the Jackson county line.
One contractor has pitched camp
near Bethlehem and started work. He
wil/build the road from the new line
bridge being erected across the Apa
lachee river into Winder, and the other
contractor yesterday selected his camp
ing ground and will soon start the high
way leading from the Jackson county
line to Winder.
FORMER WINDER CITIZEN
DIES AT WHITE PLAINS
Mr. J. M. Wills, formerly of Winder
but recently living at White Plains,
died suddenly Tuesday afternoon from
heart trouble.
Mr. Wills was nearly 72 years of
age at the time of his death. He is
the father of the Wills girls of this
city and an uncle by marriage of the
Kilgore boys.
' The body was brought to Winder
Wednesday and the funeral occurred
this afternoon at the residence of Mr.
Guy H. Kilgore.
The deceased was a widower, but
he is survived by four children —Misses
Ode, Nora, Ethel and Aubry Wills.
The News joins hosts of friends in
sympathy for these striken daughters.
SHARED SLEEPING SPACE
WITH RIVAL CANDIDATE
Millen, Ga. —At Millen, on the Cen
tral of Georgia railway, the train from
Savannah to Atlanta passes at mid
night. It is always necessary for a
passenger here to wire ahead to Sa
vannah in order to procure a sleeper
to Macon, Atlanta and other points.
Two or three days before the close
of the gubernatorial campaign ex
,Senator Hardwick, who spoke here in
thj* foi’enoon and at Sardis hi the
afternoon, wired to Savannah for the
drawing room on the Central train
from here to Atlanta.
The same day Clifford Walker, who
spoke in Swainsboro in the morning
and Sylvania in the afternoon, wired
to Savanah for a lower berth on the
midnight train on the Central from
Millen to Atlanta.
Mr. Hardwick secured his reserva
tion and Mr. Walker did not. The
agent at was notiiied that all
berths for Atlanta were taken and hence
Mr. Walker was too late.
Both Mr. Hardwick and Mr. Walker
dined at the Hotel Estelle here that
night and both went to Atlanta on the
midnight tram. Mr. Hardwick and
Mr. Walker for the night discarded
Bolsheviem, inheritance taxes and hur
ried the hatchet and went to bed to
gether in Mr. Hardwick's room.
' WINDER’S FIRST BALE.
Pea Hill again is first with new cot
ton to Winder. Monday Mr. A. I)
Chapman brought to this city the first
bale of the season.
It weighed 558 pounds and was pur
chased by the Farmers Warehouse at
34 cents.
FINE POTATO.
Mr. C. C. Eskridge, our popular ex
press man, looms up this week as a
champaion sweet potato raiser. He
brought to our office a five and a half
pound potato. Not so long ago Clyde
became a benedict, and as he was never
previously known to'figure prominently
in the agricultural field, we suspect the
credit for this fine potato is due to his
beter half. Nevertheless, we shall en
joy the potato custard made from the
five-pounder.
Little Miss Carolyn Sorrow has been !
sick for afew days but is better.
Wittier Mews.
Untrammeled by Prejudice and Unawed by Fear We Speak the Truth and Contend for the Right
GREGOR Y-WOODRI'FF CO.
BUY HENSON BROTHERS
£ FULBRIGHT COMPANY
Messrs. C. C. Gregory, G. W. Wood
ruff, W. F. Reeves and Arthur Perry
have joined forces and taken over the
wholesale grocery business of Henson
Brothers & Fulbrigfft.
These gentlemen will incorporate un
der the name of the Gregory-Woodruff
Company.
Mr. Gregory, head of the new corpor
ation, has been In business in Winder
for twenty-three years and he numbers
his friends by the thousands. He did
a commission brokerage business until
about eight years ago when he decided
to launch out into the wholesale grocery
field, and he has been doing a fine busi
ness since making that decision. Asso
ciating others with him he lias now
taken over the growing business of
Henson Brothers & Fulbright and the
prestige of the two organizations under
the leadership of Claude Gregory means
much to this community.
Mr. Arthur Perry will be shipping
clerk and Mr. Paul L. Davis will be the
traveling salesman. The transfer will
take place October loth.
The rooms now occupied by Henson
Brothers & Fulbright will be used by
the new corporation.
The Messrs. Henson, it is under
stood, will devote their personal atten
tion to the flourishing manufacturing
plant known as the Klirnax Overall
Company, in which they are largely in
terested.
BOMB WRECKS
MORGAN OFFICE
New York, Sept. 10. —There was a
big explosion in the J. P. Morgan office
just after noon Thursday.
The interior of the Morgan offices
was wrecked.
Trading on the stock exchange was
suspended. An ernormous crowd surg
ed around and the police reserves were
called to clear the way for ambulances.
At least fifteen people were killed
and a number injured. It was believed
it was a bomb explosion.
Later tlie board of governors of the
New York Stock Exchange ordered the
exchange closed on account of the ex
plosion.
It was dettnetly learned that none
>f the Morgan firm were injured. A
police officer leaving the Morgan of
fice said “It was a bomb explosion.”
URGING EXTRA SESSION
OF GEORGIA LEGISLATURE
Heads of Georgia educational insti
tutions who face a serious shortage of
funds because of refusal of the Legis
lature to pass the usual appropriations,
have requested Governor ,;Dorse.v to
call a special session, and he lias taken
the matter under consideration.
While the governor was in Athens
Tuesday to deliver a speech in the in
terest of the “Advertise Georgia” cam
paign, a committee composed of Chan
cellor Davi'd C. Barrow of the Univer
sity of Georgia, Dr. A. M. Soule of
the State Agricultural College, Dr. .1.
M. Pound of the State Normal School
and Harry Hodgson, who is conduct
ing a money-making campaign for the
State institution, called upon him to
take some action to avert the impend
ing fiuanciap crisis.
MRS MARTHA LOONEY
IS BACK FROM TEXAS
Mrs. Martha Looney is back in Win
der after a four months’ visit to rela
tives in Texas.
She reports a pleasant time in the
Lone Star State, and she is full of the
Texas fever, and declares that if she
were a young man she would locate
in the black belt of Texas, where hogs
grow larger, chickens hatch quicker
and taste sweeter and where it is no
trouble to make things grow on a farm.
She spent some time near Alvarado,
and she says that the farmers in this
section are prosperous, their stock fat
and greasy and that their barns and
smokehouses are full of good things
for man and beast.
She says that Irish potatoes sell in
Alvarado for 10c per pound and
potatoes are plentiful.
Mrs. Looney also spent several weeks
in Oklahoma. After a few days’ visit
ing friends ire sue wiT return to her
home in Atlanta.
Mr. Huert Stewart has accepted a
position with L. E. Herrin Grocery
Company.
WINDER, BARROW COUNTY. GA., THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 16, 1920.
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This popular little star will he seen at the Strand Monday,
September 20th in “A i’lior us Girl’s Romance/’
LICEUM COURSE FOR
WINDER CITIZENS
About twenty-five of the progressive
citizens of Winder, realizing that high
class attractions are of great value* in
the formation of character, have con
tracted with the Uedpath Lyceum and
Chautauqua Association for a scries of
entertainments to be given at intervals
of thirty days or less during the fall
and winter months.
These entertainments are of the very
highest class and are booked in all the
large cities of the state and South. For
a very small price the people of \V inder
will he given the same class of enter
tainment as the cities.
The list of attractions is as follows:
The Yoddlers, September 24th.
M. Berry 1 Buckley, October 29th.
Laurant k Cos., November 26th.
St. Clair Four. December 17th.
Opie Read, date not yet assigned.
Ott—The Second John McCormick —
date not yet assigned.
The Proctor Company —date not yet
assigned.
Season tickets for these entertain
ments will be on sale now in a few
days and we feel that the i>eople of
Winder appreciate good things so
much that they will rally to the guar
antors in this undertaking and make
the course a great success financially
and otherwise.
These entertainments will be given
at the school auditorium.
PAINFULLY HURT.
Mrs. Byrd Harris, popular Winder
lady, while in Athens Monday fell Hnd
sustained painful injuries to her foot,
the bone being broken in two places.
Medical assistance was secured and
the bones set. Mrs. Harris is getting
along nicely, although it will be sev
eral weeks before she can use her
foot
MRS. J. N. SMITH DEAD.
Last Tuesday afternoon Mrs. J. N.
Smith, an aged and highly respected
woman died at her home near Bethle
hem, surrounded by her loved ones.
The funeral occurred Wednesday.
Rev. J. W. Brinsfield preached the fun
eral. The interment was in tlie Bethle
hem cemetery.
The deceased leaves a husband and
a large family of children to grieve at
her passage.
KEEPING IT SECRET.
One day this week Uncle John Mash
burn performed a marriage ceremony,
bur for some reason the young couple
pledged the pastor to secrecy. They are
among our most popular young pimple
and all Winder wishes them all kinds
of happiness.
Mrs. Mary N. Sorrow and two lit tie
children, Thomas, Jr., and Caroline,
will leave Saturday morning for Berk
ley to visit her people for a few days.
! CITY POLITICS
FOR MAYOR.
j
‘To tlie Voters of Winder:
j I hereby announce myself a camli
> date for the office of Mayor of Winder
i subject to the action of the qualified
! voters at tlie primary to be held No
vember 3, 1920. If elected I promise
j the taxpayers tlie best there is in me—
| a faithful, conscientious administra
tion—fairness to all in the enforcement
of tlie law and the administration of
civic affairs. Respectfully,
GEORGE THOMPSON.
FOR COUNCILMAN SECOND WARD
l To the Voters of Winder:
' I respectfully announce myself a can
didate to succeed myself as Council
man from the Second Ward. If elected
I will in the future, as I have done in
the past, bring to the office the best
service of which I am capable in the
interest of the public weal. I will ap
preciate your support in my race.
8. C. KINNEY.
MR. FAUST AT STEPHENS.
Rev. W. H. Faust closed a series of
revival services last week with Pastor
John D. Mell at Stephens.
D. L. Spooner of the Atlanta Tab
ernacle led the singing.
Twenty-nine were added to the mem
bership of the church and the citizens
of the community say it was the great
est meeting in the history of the
church.
PRESIDENT OF FRANCE
W ILL RESIGN THIS WEEK
Paris, Sept. 15.—President Deschanel
is to resign this week, the French for
eign office admitted today. The pres
ident is suffering from neurasthenia,
it was said, and his mental condition
is worse than bis physical.
Alexander Millerand, French pre
mier and foreign minister, is promi
nently mentioned as the probable suc
cessor to President Deschanel, says the
Figaro. Some of M. Millerand’s friends
declare he will refuse to become a can
didate, hut, nevertheless, there is a
tendency to lielieve he may he induced
to accept, if the office is offered him
unanimously.
STATHAM BAPTIST C HURC H
Preaching Sunday at 2:45 p. m. Bap
tizing at Bethabara church, Oarithers
Mill, 4 :30 fast time. All members urged
to Ik* present as business of importance
is to be transacted.— W. H. Faust
Pastor.
FINE STALK OF SYRUP CANE.
Mr. T. O. Pendergrass sent to our
< ffice Tuesday a fine stalk of syrup
cane. It measured nearly 13 f ?et in
’eneth and its largest joint measured
four 'inch's in circumfereice.
FEDERAL RESERVE
BANK DENIES AID
TO COTTON MEN
Washington, Sept. 15.—Requests of
the American Cotton Association for
governmental aid in financing the mar
ketig of the cotton crop of the south
were denied today by Governor Hard
ing, of the federal reserve board.
The representatives of the associa
tion asked extension of credit on cot
ton loans estimated at approximately
$500,000,000 in order to permit grow
ers to hold their cotton and prevent
dumping on the market at a loss.
The solution of the problem facing
southern cotton producers, Governor
Harding said, lies with the prducers
themselves and in their home banks.
“Go back home and tell the people
to quit talking calamity,” the governor
declared, suggesting that the cotton
men sell their high-grade stock to meet
demands as they arise, which would
enable them to gradually liquidate then
debts aml hold their low grade cotton
for a better market.
The federal reserve board is keenly
alive to the Importance of doing ev
erything to sustain agriculture iu all
sections of the country, the governor
told the association members, but he
added that the board was not autboriz
*sl to deal in priees, though its actions
might have an effect on them. Recent
estimates of the vaule of this year's
staple crop was $22,000,000,000, the
governor stated, and expansion of
credit to assist producers in all parts
of the country would mean about $3,-
(00,000 in loans.
RED CROSS NURSE
IS NOW ASSURED
Miss Beatrice Daniels, field super
visor of public health nursing bureau
of the department of nursing, Southern
division, Red Cross of Atlanta, is in
Winder to work with Mrs. Ruby Wor
sham who has just been assigned as
permanent public health nurse for the
Red Cross chapter here.
Mrs. Worsliap succeeds Mrs. Carring
ton who for the past few months lias
worked unceasingly to stimulate inter
est in public health both in the town
and county. Mrs. Carrington instructed
a number of successful classes in home
hygiene and care of the sick and so im
pressed the people with the valuable
contribution that a nurse could make
to this work that the appointment of
Mrs. Worsham is the result. Mrs.
Carringou only took the work on a per
fectly temporary basis, but the appoint
ment of Mrs. Worsham gives perma
nence to the service. Mrs. Worsham is
a graduate of the Cincinnati General
Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio, and she
served for three years as surgical nurse
at St. Luke’s Memorial Hospital at
Ponce, Porto Rico, with an additional
public luealth service as a member of
Unit No. 14 of the United States Pub
lic Health Service. She is eminently
well fitted for local public health work.
During Miss Daniel’s stay in Win
der she will make with Mrs. Worsham
a survey of the most urgent needs of
the community witli a special view to
securing the physical examination of
school children. The contribution
which a nurse can make to this work
is most valuable, for in addition to as
sisting the local physicians she is also
in position to explain to parents the
need for their co-operation in correcting
such defects as may be discovered and
also in arranging with physicians for
giving the necessary treatments. The
County Health Officer, the Countf Phy
sicians' and all interested in the general
subject of improved public health will
welcome Miss Daniel’s to Winder and
will co-operate in every way with her
and Mrs. Worsham for a practical con
tinuation of the work so well begun by
Mrs. Carrington.—Harrow County
Chapter American Red Cross.
BARROW (OLUNTY SINGING
CHOIR AT NEW PENTECOST
The Barrow County Singing Choir
will meet at New Pentecost church next
Sunday afternoon. A big crowd is ex
pected. This neighborhood furnishes
many goed singers and some fine music
is expected next Sunday afternoon. Ev
erybody who loves the old-fashioned,
soul-stirring melodies are urged to be
present. H. E. Haynie, President.
Miss Jurelle Fulcher is back after
visiting in Atlanta for a few days.
Miss Jurelle Fulcher spent the week
end in Monroe with relatives.
THE STRAND THEATER PROGRAM
MONDAY, Sept. 20 —Viola Dana in “A
Chorus Girl’s Romance."
TUESDAY —“The Lost City." Gladys
Brockwell “Mother of His Children."
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 22 —Wanda Haw
ley in “Miss Hobbs.”
IS MONUMENT TO
OFFICIAL WASTE
Office Supplies Worth Million and Half
Dollars Kill Deserted Barracks
in Washington.
Washington, D. C.—Taxpayer visi
tors in Washington, who are interest
ed in the present cost of maintaining
the government, can glean more infor
mation from a visit to Potomac park,
supposedly one of the show spots of
the city, than by any inquiries they
may make at the treasury department.
In a series of dilapidated barracks in
that park there are stored more than
$1,500,000 worth of office supplies that
would delight the heart of many a
business man.
There are difficulties to be surmount
ed, however, if a close inspection is
to be made. Signs warn visitors away
from certain of the buildings. Sagging
and bulging walls point to an early
collapse, but they still are tilled with
material acquired by the various gov
ernment departments during the war,
and now regarded as surplus. Those
buildings that are not approaching a
state of dilapidation leak in places,
and all are more than a mile from
the nearest fire station, with nothing
but a hand extinguisher in euch in case
of fire.
Building after building is filled with
desks, used by the men who fought
the “Battle of Washington” but now
surplus. There are nore than 4,000
typewriters stored in two buildings
alone, yet the business man who wishes
to buy a typewriter now finds he may
have to wait a week or two before
lie can get delivery.
There are thousands of chairs, in
numerable waste baskets, squads of
filing cases and other forms of office
equipment, apparently in sufficient
quantity to fit out all of the offices in
an average size city. Only so much of
this material as the government final
ly classifies as junk reaches the mar
ket ; tin- rest is being held for some in
definite day when it may be needed by
one of the departments. Stored as it
is, it is more likely to return to dust.
And that does not include all of the
surplus of that character owned by the
government. Officials, to whose atten
tion the condition of the barracks has
been called, complain because they are
not empowered to build an adequate
storehouse, where 600 truckloads of
such equipment, now resting in the
(tails of various government buildings,
may be placed.
McSWTNEY NOW MUCH WEAKER
London, Sept. 16.—Terence Mac-
Swiney was in great pain when he
began tlie thirty-fifth day of his hun
ger strike in the Brixton jail infirm
ary Thursday. His condition was
officially reported "unchanged'’ at 4
o'clock.
MacSwlney was still conscious. He
spent u restless night, but dozed at
intervals.
Friends who visited him at noon
said he had spent a had night. He
was very weak, completely worn out.
INFURIATED POSSES BURN
NEGRO LODGES IN SEARCH
Macon, Sept. 15.—Posses pursuing
John Hollers, negro, who is sought
on a charge of killing James Faulk
ner and wounding his brother, John
Faulkner, in Jasper county Monday,
have burned four negro lodge halls
in Jasper, according to reports here
tonight.
DR, "AM CARTLEDGE PREACHES
T PRESBYTERIAN TONIGHT
Dr. Sam Cartledge, of Athens, will
fill his pulpit at the Presbyterian church
tonight.
A cordial invitation to members of
other cliurehes is extended to come
it and worship with the Presbyterian
congregation.
A good sermon is assured all who
come.
DECATUR CASE BEFORE BOARD
Evidence which teuds to show
Thomas W. Hardwick led all oppon
ents in Decatur County by twenty
seven votes in the race for governor
in the primary September 8, was as
sembled Thursday morning for sub
mission to the subcommittee of the
Democratic State Executive Commit
tee, in session at the Kimball House.
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