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WINDER WEEKLY NEWS Published Every Thursday Evening Itoss Bros. Editors and Proprietors r- Kutcrcd at tlic I’ostofTice at Winder, (it., as Second Class Mail Matter. SUHSCKIPTIOX HATES One Year, ... SI.OO Six Months. ... ;>0 Three Months. * - -o Thursday, December 3, 1908. The 800 Pangs could make no headway in Atlanta, lait the dang dudes elected a mayor. Johnson, of the Henry (out tv Weekly, was in Winder Monday. Madisonian take notice. Atlanta’s headless city govern ment is to have a real mayor Jan uary I. This is a long step from a “eypla r with the ring ruhhed off. The fumes of Atlanta's cleaning up process has effected the whole state of (ieorgia. She should have sprinkled the floor and begun earlier. Our sentiments: We are glad Jim Woodward was defeated for mayor of Atlanta, hut we are no* overjoyed at the selection of a society dttde for the position. It is to he hoped that all the walking delegates who have heeti sucking the life's blood out of or ganized labor in Atlanta went down to defeat with Jim Woodward. It is much more pleasant with an energetic salesman who is anxious to please than to Iniv got ds in' a jam from a clerk who is so tired hu,eau scarcely stand. So do Christmas shopping early and avoid the rush. A •nickson is a good county —a good farming county, the first cotton growing county in the state. There arc a number of I fall citizens, farm ers, who are moving to Jackson. They are attracted by the cotton yield —Cainesvile 1 lerald. K'. ■ \ (ir 1 Hudgins, of llosehbon, has a p rftM-t right to work The \>€s force night and day on tvvn-pagt circulars and large ’display cards, hut when he takes our correspon dents ti* act as clerk* at his big carnival sale we protest. The postal deficit is just #lb,* b7-V-J-. The shortage is the larg est in the history of the depart meld . No wonder the government can print siainped ' return envelopes cheaper than we can hu.v them blank. The people are taxed to keep up ihc deficit while this ’gigantic printory is being used to put the small printing firms out of business. And the little merchant who sends to Washington for his printed envelopes is going to b< greatly surprised if all new-papcr d m doesn's climb upon the house tops and wave a rial rag against the •adoption of the special parcel post. Th< parcel post will receive a trv out during this administration, and if adapted as a permanent, institu tion it might diminish the bank ac count of “me and my wife, my son John and his wife. ' 'flic question that so astounds us is how the fellow who never takes the paper always knows what is in it —and another tiling, whv he stul tifies himself by reading something *Uv>t id to read” and ‘immoral." Dalton *' it in. mail The ejection for Mayor of At lanta ctnne off yesterday. K. F. Maddox! J\ 110 Was -'selected bv a committee ’of, citizens to oppose Woodward, the nominee of the white primary, was elected bv a majority of iJ.IU) vote's. Wood ward went on a spree after Ins nomination for muvor and his conduct was so shameful that the good people of the (fate Oil v rose en masse to overthrow him in the name ot decency. They have ac complished their purpose, and nil (ieorgia extends congratulations to Atlanta. It was claimed by Woodward and some of the edi tors of the state press that Hindi a course would sound the death knell to the white primary. Well, what of it? The white primary has served its purpose, and it is time to build a few pnr t v lines am*wav. HE WAS PREPARED. Brother Flanigan, of the (ivvin mtt Journal, has been giving much time and study to the sub ject of conveyances. In the Inst issue of his paper he ha- a lengthy editorial reaching hack into the days of pack horses and stage coaches. With great descriptive genius he tells us how the stage coach was supplanted by the wagon and the buggy, which in turn was forced to make room for the locoinotive and automobile The editor’s research into the suhj et has been painstaking and careful. Jl is said there is no vehicle on wheels w tli which he i* not making himself familiar. W hen last heard from our brother was inves* igat ing the modus operandi of laby cribs and car riages. \\'e suggest that the sup plement he christened Jim, Jr. MONUMENT FORTY. VV. S. McGARTY Sunday afternoon. at Madison, a beautiful monument erected to t lie memorv of tin* late Kev. W. S. McCarty was unveiled. The monument is n magmlicent gran ite shaft about IS feet tall, and was unveiled by the children of M ad ison. Kev. \V. S. McCarty was round at .letfcrson. Jackson county, and in young manhood served as prin cipal of Marlin Institute before being called to preach the gospel, lb left many friends and rela tives in this section who will be pleased to learn licit bis memory is to bo t litis perpetuated. SPOT COTTON LtTTIK. BY W. K. LYLE & CO Cotton market is in a waiting condition for the giuners report to be issued by the government on the Sth inst. and also the government estimate on the total crop which, will he made public <u Dee- b. These reports out of the way, we look for 1 letter demand. However, interior stocks an* enormous, the largest on record, and we see little prospect of much advance until stocks are reduced. M’indci —Weak, s to-1 lie Liverpool —Spots, t.4>d. New Orleans —Quiet, S' <->*e. New York —Quiet, Id. Moltih —Steady, S 7-Sc. Savannah —Steady, S d-Se < ’harleston; —Quiet, Sc. Norfolk —Steady, Oc. Baltimore —Normal, b l-Sc. Houston —Steady, b 1-Sc. Augusta —Steady, be. One of the habits a man acquire.- by U*ing marrii* I is lying to bis friends down town about all the good things his wife gives him to eat at home .that he can t stand theoi>A in the l 'P Qn „ ;) / v V—f’lirke GoJ i BRIEF NEWS ITEMS. The Baptist convention goes to Ihtblin next .year. The governor lias appointed B. K. Trasher solicitor of the county court of ()conoe county. Mr Thomas C. Maiighon, coun ty treasurer of W alton county, died at his home in Monroe Tuesday afternoon. The annual session of the South (ieorgia Conference is in session at Quitman. The conference repre sents 20,00 members with ldO local preachers. As the result of two days' rain and the overflow of northern Texas ami Oklahoma rivers and tributa ries thousands are homeless and hundreds of residences arc flooded. The Klberton railroad, with all its assets, was sold to H. \ . Poor, of New York, for the sum of 80S 1,- 2A2.15. The road will he operated as an independent line between El herton and Toeeoa, under the name of the Klberton Southern. The receivers of the Seaboard Air liine Bailway Company have asked for bids on new rolling stock in volving an expenditure of $!)()( 1.000. Fifteen locomotives and 700 cars are included in the items for new rolling stock. President Nurd Alexis has been deposed and is now safe on hoard the French trailing ship Puguay Trouin, and Port-au-Prince is in thejhamls of the revolutionists. (Jen ernai Antoine Simon, the leader of the insurgents, is marching up the peninsula with an army of A,OOO, and anew pit sident, (Tenoral 1 fiegitime, has been proclaimed. Mrs. Sarah C. Smith died at the (irady hospital in Atlanta Tuesday morning of pellagra, a disease re sulting from eating of corn improp erly cured. She had been under treatment at the hospital since Oc tober lt> for the curious disease, which,though known to th ennuiical profession since 17 do, is very un common and said to he in most eases fatal. A sensational pistal duel occurred Tuesday on the Nowhere road, about six miles from Athens in Clarke county. The parties to the duel were l’ieh Huff, a young man of Athens, and Wilkes Hall, a young farmer of Sandy Creek dis trict. Both men were seriously wounded. The light was brought about through statements made by Hall concerning Huff and Miss Mat tie'Bee Bailey, of Athens, to whom Hu ft* is engaged. Howard G loosen. a C winpett tarmeV, was found bruised and un conscious near Decatur Sunday morning and died Monday at De catur. Glossen left his home* with twelve hales of cotton, driving through the country to Atlanta. He also wore a handsome gold watch. When picked up in the road lie had neither money nor watch. His mules and empty wagon were standing near by. lie is lielievcd to have met his death at the hand.- of highwaymen. Pointed Parckjraphs. (Chicago News.) W< men seem to regard charity work a.- a stepping stone into society. The kind of photograph a woman thinks i- good of her is one her own mother couldn't guess who it was When a girl's hair is a golden halo instead of Lung just plain red it's a sign it's lu r mother describing it. R. L. Rogers Will open his Bug gy business on January Ist, occupying the McCants & Math ews building, running from Can dler street back to the Gainesville Midland Railroad. A full line of the best Buggies, Surreys and Wagons ever shipped to Georgia will be on exhibition. In buying one of these Bug gies, Surreys or Wagons you stand a good chance of getting your purchase FREFj. R. L. ROGERS, WINDER, - GEORGIA. Ruby Ranges and Regal Stoves are world headers. You get your monej’s worth every time. We tmve a car load in stock. If you see us you will save money. If you fail to see us you have tost money. Come at once. t ' WOODRUFF HARDWARE & MANUFACTURING GO. Wirfdspf, - George *'■)' ■*