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VOL. XV!.
Second Floor Sale.
Our buyers picked up many good things for
this department while in New York. Our reason
for not placing these lines before the people un
til now is that the season is just on for buying
your new floor coverings.
ART SQUARES.
A lot of 5. 6x10.6 Tapastry Art
Squares,oriental and floral flirt Hfl
designs. Yours for OIUiUU
9xl 2 oriental Art Squares tfj Q Cft
“Smith’s,” good value, for SZiUU
Smith's Axministers, beautiful de
signs 9x1210.6x13.6, at ooc nn
$18.50, $20.00 and OZJ.UU
CARPETS.
300 yds. 36-inch Granite IKp
Carpet at IVU
450 yds. 36-inch Granite ORn
Carpet at Zvll
# 375 Y ds - 36-inch Ingrain On
one-half wool Carpet at 37 and
250 yds. 36-inch all wool
filling and chain 01/C
A solid car load of Matting in all designs.
Trunks, Traveling Bags, Hand Satchels, Etc.
If you contemplate taking a trip soon you should
get one of these hand satchels.
We make it to your interest to look and see the
merchandise we offer before buying.
J. T. STRANGE & CO.
Leaders in Styles; Regulators and Controllers of Low Prices.
FIERCE PERFORMANCE.
A “Star” Actor Some Distance From
His Rightful Territory.
In last week's issue of The News
appeared two display advertise
ments heralding the coming of an
attraction to the Lyric theater. The
company held the boards Friday
and Saturday nights. The little
girl in the cast pleased her auditors,
but the monologue with which the
head of the company humiliated the
small gathering of young ladies and
gentlemen was too utterly vile to ad
mit of clear criticism (only to those
unfortunates who happened to be
present) and was evidently written
to amuse the tougher element in a
Bowery dive which panders to the
patronage of men only.
For the small part we had in ad
vertising this particular perform
ance we extend a most humble
apology.
Winder is large enough, and her
people will support clean, first-class
productions, but so long as cheap-
'"UNO -- ■
John companies headed by men
whose only asset is nerve and ideas
of propriety lamentably warped are
permitted to appear at the Lyric
the dwindling in attendance is to
be expected, and justly so.
It is to be hoped that the local
management will place a strict cen
sure on the shows in the future and
we will be given* a class of enter
tainments self-respecting citizens
can afford to witness.
BOX PARTY AT EBERNEZER.
\Y T e call attention to the box sup
per to be given at Ebernezer school
house Saturday night, November
7th The good people of that com
munity are entertainers surpassed
by none in Jackson or any other
county, and we have no hesitancy
in guaranteeing a royal good time
to all who attend. Everybody cor
dially invited.
Dynamite Explosion.
Gadsden, Ala-, October 28, —One
man dead, one missing, one dying
and four injured, are some of the
results of a dynamite explosion at
the Hammond mines, seven blocks
from the business section of the city,
shortly before 9 o’clock tonight.
WINDER, JACKSON COUNTY. GEORGIA, THURSDAY. OCTOBER 29, 1908
RUGS.
100 Tapastry Rugs 12
yds. long, nice designs,
fringed, at
50 Velvet Rugs 36x72,
bright, attractive color- it* O Or*
ings, $2.98 and y J.ZO
50 Moquette Rugs 25X ' it* 1 Or*
1 G yds., good value.. *p 1 •& O
50 doz. 36X7-foot Window r T£T
Shades, blue, tan and green
36 pair Mercerized For
tiers, red and green, $5 O CA
values, per pair
LACE CURTAINS.
*
45x3 yards long, Notting
ham. Per pair g
yards long, Not- £ , -
tingham. Per pair *k**-^^
A beautiful line of Ecru and white
yards long, $1.50, $2.00
ALEC HARVILL PARDONED.
Man Convicted of Murdering Edward
Wright Liberated After Serv*
ing Ten Years.
Alec Ilarvill, of .Jackson county,
who was serving a life sentence at
the Chattahoochee brick yards for
the murder of Ed Wright, just out
side the city limits of Winder, in
May, 1807, has been pardoned by
the governor upon the recommen
dation of of the prison commission.
Harvill and Wright were paying
court to the same girl and Wright
was waylaid and murdered on a
Sunday evening while en route to
this young ladv’s home. Jealousy
was assigned as the cause of the
crime, and there was no middle
ground, Harvill being either guilty
of the foulest of murder.-; or entirely
innocent.
The most reliable evidence upon
which the prisoner was convicted
was circumstantial, and the jury
recommolded him to-The mercy of
the court. The grand jury which
indicted him, ter members of the
jury which convicted and one of the
prosecuting attorneys urged the
pardon.
THE MYSTERIOUS HAND.
Initials Appear Upon the Forehead of
the One-Year-Old Child of Mr.
Mrs. VV. F. Reeves.
Sonic hx week* ago this entire
section bad the latent feeling of su
perstition which tills the breast* of
all humans thoroughly aroused by
the appearance of wiered pictures
on the wall of a residence in Social
Circle, placed there by a mysterious
hand. People flocked to that town
in droves to see the picture and at
tempt to sdve the mystery, hut
their efforts were futile and the sec
tion of the wall containing the pic
tures was taken out and is now on
exhibition in Atlanta.
None daunted by the efforts of
man to thwart its purpose, the
mysterious hand moved on to Win
der. Friday morning a week ago
the dim outlines of lettering liegnn
to appear upon the fo:c' c and of
Elvira, the one-year-old child of
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Reeves. The
mother, believing the child bad
slept upon doth which had left an
imprint upon its face, used lu r
every effort to wash the stain away.
Each succeeding day the lettering
became dearer and dearer, until
now there is written across the fore
head of little Elvira, as plan as the
headlines of this article the initials
“S. N. A.”
Mr. and Mrs- Reeves brought the
child to Winder Sat urday for exam
ination by physicians and to have
photographs taken. The doctors
informed the parents that it was
impossible to remove the initials
without injury to the child, as they
were inibeded in the skin.
A.look into Elvira's smiling face
will convince any one that the let
ters across her forehead are not
tattoo work or the result of stians.
If the parents will give their con
sent and we can obtain a cut from
the Atlanta lithographers in times
we will reproduce the photograph
that was taken in Winder in our
next issue.
MISS COKER ENTERTAINS.
Miss Kathleen Coker entertaiind
the members of the Jolly Joker club
Wednesday afternoon from 4 to G
o’clock. Miss Coker is one of this
season's popular debutantes, and
proved herself a most charming
hostess upon this occasion. Those
present were Misses Manche Stan
ton, Ruth Carithers, .Susie Dowdell,
Ethel Jackson, Emma Cooper, Bes
sie Ham, ()ra Lee Camp.
ELECTION RETLRNS ON CANVAS.
Winder to Give Results in Presidential
Race by Hash Light Nov. 3.
\ ———————
The citizens of Winder are tak
ing a great interest in the Presi
dential election, an 4 their enthusi
asm has reached that point whereby
arrangements have been made with
the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany to furnish this town with the
election returns on the night of
November 3. Mr. F. E. Durst has
the matter in charge, and authoiizes
us to notify the public that a full
report of the election re urns will
be flashed upon canvas suspended
in front of J. T. Strange <fc Co.’s
store. Winder wi.l give you the
same news you would learn in At
lanta, so don’t fail to read the first
reports from New York, Indianna
and Illinois, the deciding states in
the contest, as well as from those
not considered doubtful.
JACKSON COUNTY LEADS
Her Representatives at State Univer
sity Reorganize Club and Se
lect Officers.
Athens, (la., Oct. 20, 100*.
Editor News: The Jackson Coun
ty Club of the University, which
has been reorganized he re, requested
me to obtain your permission to
publish its proceedings in your
paper, which will keep them in
touch with the home-folks.
The club has a membership of
•0, 24 from the academic and
0 from the law department, which
gives Jackson county the leadership
of county clubs. She'is well repre
sented from center to borders, and
we point with pride to her sons who
are so fortunate as to hold her ban
ner to the inspection of a critical
world, and someday when we come
marching 1 o ne may it Ik* to cheer
those who have felt an interest in
the youni, man who lias struggled
so persistently.
By acclamation Mr- M. I*. Pente
cost was elected president; Scott
Sells, vice l ..sidont; J. L. Smith,
str retary t reasurer; Chester Cannon,
historian; H. A Nix, poet, and S.
H. Titshaw, chaplain, ggf
Committees were appointed to
draft resolutions and by-laws which
are to be reported at the ensuing
meeting. Following several good
talks were made which pointed to
a direction of posterity for the club.
I pon motion tin* club adjourned to
meet on the Ist of November.
Y< ry truly, Cj..u i> Mahakfkv,
OffICERS ELECT CAUGHT NAPPING.
N. B. Lord and G. G. Robinson Make
Flying Trip to Atlanta.
M essrs N. B. Lord and George
Robinson, county officers--elect of
Jackson and Gwinnett, respectively,
went to Atlanta Tuesday to confer
with the comptrolcr of state rela
tive to the new law which requires
oflicers-elcct to file affidavit to the
expense account of their campaigns
within twenty days after election.
They learned that county officers
must file their reports with the
clerk of the superior court and state
officers with the comptroller gen
eral. The majority of the officers
elect of the state have failed to com
ply with the law. This neglect is
termed a misdemeanor and tin
penalty attached thereto is a fine of
81 to 01,000 or from one to twelve
month in the chaingarg.
Messrs. Lord and Robinson tele
phoned from the comptroller’s of
fice to their respective county sites
and woke up the officers of Jackson
and Gwinnett, and it is supposed
the scoflicers-elect immediately com
plied with the law, Tuesday being
the last of the twenty days after
the regular election.
If there- are those in Jackson
who believe Bee Lord can’t get a
move on himself they should have
seen him make the Seaboard Tues
day. He has skinned his nose in
some manner, but declares he ran
into a well bucket before leaving
home.
Sold Interest in firm.
I have this day,by mutual consent,
sold my int< rest in the firm of Grif
feth, Smith tfc Cos. to Messrs, J. G,
and G. W. Smith and A. E. Bush,
who will assume all liabilities, and
to whom all outstanding accounts
must be paid. J. W. Millsaps.
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