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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. NO 30