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recognize its advantages and are glad to quote lower prices where it is
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Winder, Ga.
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If you want a Cooking Stove we
: : :Have the BEST MAKES. : : :
It will soon be cold weather, you will need a
Heater, We put these ranges and stoves in
your house anywhere in the city ready for
you to make a fire.
Come and See Us
Smith Hardware Cos.
Look ! Listen!
Today will be yesterday tomorrow. \ou can t turn tlie
wheel with the water that ha§ passed. Now is the time to
get busy before building material advances too high, which it
is bound to do. Yours to serve. Prices Right.
Winder Lumber Company.
REV. OXFORD EXPLAINS
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Says There Is No Truth in Statement
That None but Baptists Will Be
Permitted to Enter Perry*
Rainey Institute.
Editor Winch r News —It affords
me very great pleasure to give to
your readers the good news of a
glorious success in our educational
rally on September 11, the details
of winch will appear elsewhere, but
amid our joys and successes in life
we have more or less of things un
pleasant to deal with, but our Lord
had them and we may expect to
have them, 1 understand from
some of the citizens that it has been
told that it lias been decided that
there would he no children admit
ted into IVrry-Rainey school unless
they are Baptists or of Baptist fam
ilies. We wish to say in all kind
ness this is untrue. In the first
place the trustees and president of
the school know that they would be
charged with profound ignorance to
he guilty of such a decision as that.
The Methodists and Baptists own
and control nearly all the secondary
high schools in Georgia and in
every school we have all denomina
tions represented in the scholarships
of the school. 1 wish to. call at
tention to four other schools. Our
Methodist brethren have at Sparks,
Ga., a large- denominational high
school that's doing a great work in
that part of the state. If necessary
1 can publish over a hundred names
of scholars out of Baptist families
that have attended that school in
the past two years. Similar con
ditions prevail at Mcßav. The Bap
tists have at Aley and Alt. Vernon,
also at Norman Park, two denonr
national high schools. If any of
the readers of this article wish to
investigate, they can write to the
president of either one of the above
mentioned schools. They will find
that the student body of the, four
schools mentioned and other evan
gelical denominational high schools
are composed largely of children of
Missionary Baptists and Methodist
families and from all other denom
inations and girls and boys who
have no denominational relation
ship at all.
Trusting that this will give’ sat
isfaction and that the Holy Spirit
shall enlist our hearts and hands
and money in Christian education
in this section of Georgia, 1 am
sincerely your servant in the work,
J. I. Oxford.
Kinan. Agt. Berry-Rainey Institute.
Auburn, Ga., Sept, lb, R.XiK.
Found a Spider
In Mis Copy
of the Paper.
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tita-jnd— ii " 1 ii.A
When Mark Twain was editing the
Virginia City Enterprise he received
from a superstitious subscriber a let
ler stating that the writer bad found
a spider in his copy of the paper aud
wanted to kuow whether that was good
or bad luck. Mark replied in his “An
swers to Correspondents” column:
Old Subscriber—The finding of a
spider in your copy of the Enter
prise was neither good luck nor
bad. The spider was merely look
ing over our pages to find out what
merchant was not advertising, so
that it could spin its web across
his door and lead a free and un
disturbed existence forever and
ever.
And Mark hit the mark. Does it hit
you?
JIIHAN MAKES DECISION
Will Not Run for Mayor, But Pro
fusely Thanks iiis PieAud
Supporters.
Winder, S >ty. to, l'.litS.
Editors Winder News, Pity.
Gentlemen —In your issue of the
10th there appeared an article in
which I was mentioned as proba
ble candidate, for mayor, and my
name followed by the statement
that you were authorized to say
that 1 had the mailer under serious
consideration and in all probability
would announce this week.
This statement has been widely
quoted, and the warm assurance of
loyal support, should 1 decide to
enter the race, from my kind and
pjH’tial friends, has made it diffi
cult for me to arrive at my duty re
garding the matter, and my action
in the premises is hut based on
what 1 conceive to he for the best
inti rest of the town without regard
to luv own ambitions or to the very
flattering and highly appreciated
loyalty of my friends.
The issues involved in the coining
campaign are of far more impor
tance to the welfare of Winder than
is the consideration of the person
ality of the candidates, whoever
they may he.
The present condition of the city ’s
affairs, the large ami varied new
interests that have been recently
added to her departments, and the
increased demand that her proper
cart 1 and government will entail
upon the authorities during the
next two years, with a system of
waterworks almost completed, her
electric light plant, a school that
is fast outgrowing its facilities, with
a larger number of miles of streets
than ever before, and many other
new iuiprovements that will from
time to time be made, demands
not only the close attention of her
authorities, hut the consideration
of every citizen in the selection of
the mayor and council.
The city’s interests have been
well conserved and carefully guard
ed in the past and if her progress
and development is to continue in
a greater way the mayor and coun
cil will be largely responsible for it.
In her present condition there
are many things tint might he im
proved; there are several defects
in some of the systems employed
that should be remedied in her
government, and with perfect eorr
tidence in her next city fathers, I
believe they will be.
Who these men "are remains to
be seen. That the candidates who
offer will be worthy there can he
no doubt. But let the voter think
for himself, look at the men and
what they stand for, then go to the
polls and vote his convictions.
After serious consideration 1
have decided not to offer as a can
didate for mayor, 'and beg to ex
press to my friends and pledged
supporters my appreciation for their
confidence and to assure them that
1 stand with them for a clean, bus
iness-like, economical administra
tion and shall watch the outcome
of the campaign with zealous hope
that its result shall bring us to that
alone. 1 have the honor to be sirs,
your friend, Ben A. ,Jfiian.
NOTICE.
On and after Oct. oth we intend
keep.ng on hand a good supply of
fine Tennessee hogs and will price
them reasonably. Call on us when
in need. SIIEATS A BATM AN.
lucredulcus.
“I am sorrf* to have to tell you
that your wife’s mother is threaten
ed with lockjaw. ’
“You don’t say so! I can hardly
■ believe there's that much force
1 nature.— Boston Tanscript.,„
THE LEGITIMATE WORK
OF THE W.'H. M.S.
This Society is first and always a
missionary Society. Its purpose is
missionary and its administration
is on missionary lines. The idea
involved in this use of the word
“missions" is that of a Society
sta king to raise funds and employ
workers to establish institutions for
the purjiose of evangelizing, educa
ting, or reforming people who, on
account of personal or local con
ditions, need tins kind of work and
are unable otherwise to obtain it.
In line with this idea the Society
has inaugurated work among the
mountaineers, aliens, friendless
girls, fallen women, and in city
slums and mills, the need of each
being far beyond thediiuinoial ability
of the Society. Indeed, the greatest
diflieulty the Board has to meet is
to restrain effort that would involve
the Society in debt, and yet it.
grieves to see so much of pitiful
need left unsupphed.
There are a great many good en
terprise* —church schools, orphan
ages, hospitals, etc. —that on ac
count- of their character appeal to
tin- philanthropic impulse, yet do
not come under the class of work
for which the Society was organized.
They should be cared for otherwise.
Many such institutions —usually
conference schools —have been of
fered to the Woman's Horne Mis
sion Society from time to time,
sometimes as a gift, sometimes at
a low price, but invariably looking
for a large future outlay of
money to finish the building or pay
a debt on it or equip it and calling
for an annual appropriation for
maintenance. These st bools have
their place in the church lift —that
is, if they are religious in teaching
and conduct, which, alas! some of
them are not —but they cannot Ur
included in the legitimate work of
a missionary society. The pupil
age is not dependent upon the So
ciety. or iced not be, for educative
or religious opportunities, and there
fore are not the proper subjects of
the missionary effort by which do
nations are secured and expended
for the needy lasses mentioned.
Conference enterprises offered t
the Board have as a general thing
been proven failures through seme
kind of handicap that the Board is
expected to remove and win a suc
cess. They are pressed upon the
Board by those deeply interested in
securing the success of tire institu
tion,and sometimes enthusiastically
backed by the Conference Society.
This is always unfortunate, espe
cially when the Board investigates
and finds conditions that make it
(inadvisable for it to undertake the
work. Sometimes the Board is
severely criticised for ‘'a lack of
wisdom’’or “partiality for another
section,” and preachers and people
of that Conference feel aggrieved
and lose interest in the work of the
Society.
If the W. 11. M. S. accepted all
these institutions and tried to run
. %
them properly, it would require a
thousand dollars when* it now has
one and hundreds of additional
workers. The question naturally
arises: “Where would the money
and workers come from?” —Our
Home.
Kern Has fun with Graves.
Chattanooga, Term. —In reply to
a challenge for joint debate John W.
Kern, the democratic nominee for
vice president, wired aft follows:
“Hon. John Temple Graves,
Chattanooga —My engagement for
tomorrow afternoon is for non-par
tisan address Cannot be in Louis
ville at night. Have pleasant
memory of long conversation with
you in July. We agreed perfectly
on everything but baptism, and
that is no longer a pSramout issue.
Come and visit me at Indianapolis.
I’nueisi: you good time, *
;i r ,r Jr , ,