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vol: xv!. PICNIC AT WHITE'S MILL. Young Ladies Tender Fleasani Out ing in Honor cf Messrs. Stan ton and YonierHih. , { Tuesday aft: .rnoon a party of young folks, qhap'run "1 by Mrs. Z. F. Stanton, ‘picnicked at White’s mills, t’nre? mill s from the city, the most pietur sque spot 1 in this whole Th.e c Yfing was given by the,young ladies in honor of Messrs. Stanton and Y< n derielth. The affair was immensely enjoyed by all, and especially are the young men guests profuse in their expressions of appreciation of the great treat tendered them. Mr. Stanton has recently returned from Panama and Mr. Vondcrleith leaves this week for Columbia, S. C. Those composing the merry party were Mrs. Z. F. Stanton, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bondurant, Mr. and Mrs. C- F. Wagner, Misses Manci e Stanton, Reba Whitehead, Laura Arnold, Ruby Chandler, Edith Mayfield, Emma Moore', Messrs. Malcolm Stanton, Neb Vondcrleith, Guy Kilgore, Edgar DeLaperriere, '(iuy Pledger, Ed Herrin, Claude Cook and Duke Ross. WANTED TO SEE THE EDITOR. Wednesday morning a man six feet tall and weighing some two hundred pounds stepped into our office and demanded to scathe ed itor. We referred him to tmr as sociate, who in turn pointed out the office boy as the perpetrator of any meanness which might have crept into the paper, but when Mr. W. ■it. Kimbell presented us with a sack of the finest peaches we have yeea this season the whole office force immediately joined the smile club and explained that there are five who do some writing and each and every one is responsible for the paper’s utterances. On behalf of the editors we thank Mr. Kimbell and extend to him a pressiiig invi tation to call again. GRAY WILL REFUSE SECOND PLAGE. Wilmington, Del. —In reply to a question from a representative of the Associated Press, Judge Gray this morning stated that he had just sent a telegram to the New York Evening Journal as follows: “I have your telegram saying that it is stated positively that 1 will accept the vice presidential nom ination, and asking whether this is true “As I have said, repeatedly,! w r ould not consent to being placed in nom ination as a candidate for the presi dency, I now say with equel empha sis that I will under no circum stances consent to a nomination for the vice presidency. “George Gray.” July-Rally. The Farmers' Union will meet at the court house in Jefferson, July 11, 1908, at 10:00 o’clock. Every body invited, non-union as well as union. Be sure and come. Do not forget the date, and remember to bring along a well filled basket. One or two good speakers of the state union will be on hand and give us a talk. Dets have a good attendance. Respectfully, T. T. Cooper. Cos. Pres. T. F. and C. U. of A. CCfif Jjl BRIEF NEWS ITEMS Bishop Potter, of Ne’w York is not expected to live. Several persons met death in New York Tuesday from the he; t and accidents accuring from efforts to keep cool. Harry lv. Thaw is still battling for freedom. The last order of court sends him hack to Matteawan asylum for. the criminal insane. ( Hon. Joseph M. Brown, of Marietta, Cobb county, will be officially notified of his nomination for governor on Saturday morning, •July 11, at 11 o’clock. / William A. Bonne 1 :, bailiff of the recorders court and known to almost every citizen of Atlanta, having served on the police force of that city for thirty years, was rup over by a street car Monday. Both of his feet were cut off at the ankles. Fie died Wednesday. By direction W President Roose velt, Secretary of War Taft has issued orders to'the commanding general of tlifc Department of Texas at San Antonio to send a sufficient nurrfber of troops to Del Rio, El Paso and other points in Texas to aid the civil authorities in preserv ing order. A general agreement was reached in Atlanta Tuesday by parties in terested looking to the reorganisation of the $80,000,000 Southern Steel Company. This company owns 50,000 acres of iron and coal prop erties in Bartow and Dade counties and a large iron furnace at Rising Fawn, Ga. The Georgia Farmers’ Union is to launch a great educational cam paign on July 2, when ten speakers will start out to be heard in each of the 135 counties of Georgia in which there are local unions. While the particular plea of these speakers will be for such education as is most needful for the farmer, the whole cause of education will in benefited by their work. The Americans in Panama have had cause for heated protests re cently,not on account of the Panama elections, but because of an incident which called in action a portion of the Panama army. A foreign com mercial house in Colon insulted the American flag, using it to wash the windows of the establishment. Wayne O. Adams, of the canal zone, as the storv goes, witnessed the desecration of the Stars and Stripes, and engage* 1 in a hardfought battle for the possession of one of the flags which was being used to clean win dows. WINDER, JACKSON COUNTY. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 2, ISO3 -. k f r >. & • ?SP&- fs*'jSfs .Sm,-. 8 '* C .'tt."*** -■ '.*£■& T™ -• •. - :^-* White’s Fills, Wleie Picnic Was Fe and Tuesday. The Southern Railroad has in creased the salaries of its employes 10 per cent. The increase means that all salaries will be restored to the former bads in force before the reduction March 1. A bill placing a special tax upon all “near-beers” or other drinks of similar nature probably will he in troduced by Seaborn Wright, of Floyd county, in the house within a short time, the proceeds to be de vote 1 to the University of Georgia “ The senate passed enough pro hibition bills last year. . I think we had better let prohibition alone and see how it works out.” Senator Brock, of tluv Forty-fourth district, spoke these words when Abe Over street bill to make the securing of a Federal liquor license prima facit evidence of the violation of the pro hibition law, came up in the senate Wednesday morning 'for a third reading. Mr. Brock made a motion to have the bill tabled, which was carried bv a vote of 22 to 18. This means that the till is practically dead. Harry Orchard, the self-confessed fiend incarnate, who plead guilty to wholesale murder and the spe cific slaughter of Governor Stounen berg, of Idaho, and was sentenced to hang tomorrow, has had his sen tence commuted to life imprison ment by the state board of pardons. Orchard will he remembered as the monumental, liar taken from the chaingang to serve the purposes of the coal barons of Idaho in an ef fort to put to death the officers of the Western Federation of Labor? Arid the pardon board has saved his nock on account of his services! ?) to the state. House Bills Introduced. This session of the legislature is proving a record breaker in the inumber of bills introduced- Among those introduced yesterday were the following: Burwell of Hancock —To exempt from punishmenT the seller of a vote. Barrett of Stephens —To make payment of pensions annually. Hinds of Baldwin —To section of code to define how county lines shall he run. Mundy of Polk —To make it un lawful to bet on elections. Price of Oconee —To extend school hook contract to 1911. Slade of Muscogee—To exclude police and firemen from provision of anti-free pass order. Orr and Couch of Coweta —To lay off counties into school dis . tricts. Blackburn of Fulton —To close registration books in Atlansa thirty days {>efore primaries and elections. h IN. ini S'H Ell Of POSES t:ie fertilizer tag tax Hun. James M. Smith, the mil lion fire farmer of Smithonia, has written Senator P. M. Hawes at length giving his objection to the proposed increase in the fertilizer tag tax froffi 10 to 25 cents per ton. He says that he is opposed to the tax and believes that the majority of the furriers of the state are. lie says: “As to the argument that a ferti lizer will cost the farmer no more when a tax of 25 cents per ton is paid than if there were no tax at all, is all nonsense. lam sure the man who uses this argument has never stopped to think a moment about the matter. To say that it does not increase the cost of the fertilizer to the consumer is as absurd as to say that two and two do not make four. All dealers in fertilizers change every item of cost, even down to the twine with which the sack is sewed. ’ ’ Colonel Smith contends that the price of fertilizers in various sections of the state is affected largely by the freight rates from the point of ship ment. He denies that there is any substance to the charge made that fertilizers sell in South Carolina and Alabama, when the tag tax is 25 cents, as cheaply as in georgia, aucFsays that freight rates are the controlling factors. \ “It is a great out rage to undertake to raise additional amounts of money required out of one class of people, ’ : he declares. Fie adds that he believes it is unconstitutional. Colonel Smith says the farmers of Georgia are using one million tons of fertilizer a year, but new burdens should not l>e placed on the men who till the soil. Fie believes the state went too fast in establishing the district agricul tural schools, and methods of caring fur them should have been provided in advance without placing the full obligation on the fanner. Fie ar gues that these schools will benefit other classes just as much as they do the farmer. He concludes with the statement that “it is inconceivable to me how any one who is a friend to the farm er can advocate this billJ ’ —Atlan- ta Georgian. 4 REVIVAL SERVICES. 4 X The revival services at the Methodist church are drawing good sized audiences. Fiev. Walker Lew is, of Atlanta, who is conducting the services, is preaching some strong, logical sermons. The sing ing is being led by Mr. Coleman, of Atlanta. The meeting will con tinue fur several days yet. OF! m ENCAMPMENT. Winder Guards Completing Arrange ments for Trip to Chicka* manga Park. The Winder Guards have about completed arrangements for their dt partuiv, July 13, for theencamp m nt at Chickaimugn Park. Oapt. G. -V. Johns will take' with him fifty-eight men by special ear to Atlanta, win re they will join the famous Fifth regiment of Georgia and proceed by special tuiin to the eaimfing grounds. Ta re will he a special drill of the company in Winder Friday and Tuesday Colonel Pomeroy, of At lanta, will I** present to inspect the company. It is compulsory that all mem bers of the guards attend the en campment, hut this order is super fluous when applied to the Winder boys, as they have their hearts in the work and are anxious to perfect themselves in all tin- routine of camp life as well as the manual of arms. We bespeak for the members of the company an instructive and en joyable trip. It was along the line of Tennessee and Georgia that many of the hard-fought battles of the war between the states were waged, and no doubt the scenes among the hills of Tennessee will recall to the memory of members of the com pany the vivid stories told them of : the hardships and privations suf ! fered by their fathers as they climbed | those same rugged mountain sides. The various battle grounds around Chattanooga are marked with cast iron sheets, giving the positions of regiments and pointing out where those prominent in the ranks of each army met the reaper, while on the mountain sides mammoth monu ments lift their lofty heads in honor of those who fell in the fierce con flict, and none more conspicuous than that erected in memory of the sleeping sons of Georgia. God’s sun does not shine on more historic or picturesque scenery than that surrounding Chickamauga Park, Ga. May each member of the com pany avail himself of the glorious opportunity to visit these famous battle grounds of the sixties. A Card Of Thanks. We ask space in your paper to express our heartfelt thanks to our friends and neighbors for the ser vice rendered andHhe many acts of kindness shown us during the ill ness of my husband. Also the phy sicians. May God bless each and every one of them, is the prayer of Me. and Mrs. C. L. Giikeson. * “THE STARRY FLAG.” Last Friday night, according to promise, local talent was seen in “The Stariy Flag,” a military comedy drama. Their performance deserved a better patronage by theatregoers. While the parts were all in good hands, Miss Lucy Jack son deserves special mention in the interpretation of the character as signed to her, and of course, the playing of Earnest Bush was easily worth the price of admission. Fish fries are now the order of the day. All of Winder went to the different rivers yesterday . NO. 13.