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Entered at the Postoffice af Winder, Ga.,
as Second Class Mail Matter.
Thursday, March ,11 1909
No more new cases of smallpox.
—Jackson Herald, March 4.
We cheerfully excuse our County
Line correspondent this week. It’s
a 1 K>y. v
The Atlanta Journal is becoming
seasick before Little Joe takes charge
of the ship of state.
Our devil says he winds the clock
before quitting time in order to l>e
sure that it is not slow the next
morning.
W. C Cole, postmaster at Law*
renceville, against whom a bitter
light was made, will succeed him
self.
Judges of the United States Su
preme Court and trustees of Martin
Institute are appointed for life. Once
a trustee, always a trustee.
Chicago is to have a real ‘‘hug
house” in which will he confined for
purposes of experiment certain in
sects suspected of destroying plant
life.
Fifty persons were tried in At
lanta Monday and fined $5.75 each
for drunkenness. This beats the
local option record for Saturday
tekdit drunks.
PfffTjKVK
The Chicago dress makers’ con
vention lias sent out the edict that
woman's waist line is to be near
the knees, which means that there
>is to be no such thing as a waist
line. With this and the Cabriolet
hat we are to have the toad stool
e tf ee t.
Assistant General Passenger Agent
J. J Puller, one of the best known
officials of the Seaboard Air Line
Railroad company, and one of the
most popular and efliieient railroad
men in this territory, who has been
in charge of the Atlanta office since
NovemUw 18, 1907, lias resigned,
effective March Id.
The chickens are chicking —'New-1
jv>rt News Times-Herald.
They could hardly be exp(*cted to j
♦luck - —Norfork Land mark.
That ought to egg-hurst the sub
jvet. —Savanali News.
Fowl thought, that; but it will
feather out again when the eggs
shell. —Hartwell Sun.
Anyhow those chicks produced a
tremendous cackle. —Elberton Star.
After all of which they should
llay well. —Dalton Citizen.
Ljßut at last they may he expected
home to roost. —Augusta
wliole hrood sufh ring
the pip-
lice
• HARK! • GHOSTS! GHOSTS!
"here is trouble among the patrons of Martin Institute!
While I am averse to entering family rows or school contentions,
I make bold to have my say in this connection, and I most humbly ask
our readers to pardon me should I make statements which appear too
personal.
Once I suffered a real or fancied wrong through the method or lack
of method practiced at this institution which was so close akin to the
present trouble that I feel licensed to talk.
Jefferson is not a town full of discord and contention, but is blessed
with some of the most generous, hospitable, law-abiding citizens on
earth, whom I love and would not dare to criticize, and whom I hope
not to offend.
But there are others there, with a goodly following, who will not
brook opposition to their plans based upon an assumed right- They
impress me as self-appointed dictators, determined to rule light oi
wrong.
In the assumption of their own infalibility they may ignore custom
and disregard law, if their plans or interests are promoted thereby. The
younger ones of this tribe at school will say, “You hush; you will
make me mad.” The old ones will cry “Hush—harmony—you will
offend the dignitarhs and hurt the school or church,” in both of which,
for reasons satisfactory to themselves, they become very active
periodically.
To that former class of citizens I lift my hat and say: All honor to
you gentlemen of my native town.
To the latter class I would state frakly: Gentlemen, a change in
your methods and in your idea of the rights of others and your disregard
for law would not only benefit you, but would redound to the welfare of
.Jefferson and the school within her borders.
Now what is the trouble at the Jefferson school location? That is
district No. 1 of the part of the county laid out in the public school map.
This district has three trustees elected and sworn to look after the
schools of the district. It is subject to the same law and entitled to all
the rights of any other district in the county. It appears that the
county board of education contracted with the trustees of Martin Insti
tute (a private school) to teach and control the public school of this
district, using the intstitute building and teachers employed by the trus
tees of this institution. This institution, through its trustees, imposes a
matriculation fee of 81.50 per term or 8.5.UU per year.
The fee question is the bone of contention and has involved the
parties in law. Children of public school age claim the right to attend
’ ' --'blic senool in district No. 1 free of charge six months in the year,
at Sun- ny the right of trustees or teacher to exclude them on refusal to
A fee- They deny the right of the board of education to trade
**** to teach this public school and assess a fee
Lr capita amount given by the state for public schools.
I can charge and enforce its fee, then every district in
ULo same, and with equal legal justice double and
t f,;:! | 1,. ■
m
g % , V ' '
n<*t !><• till!.- CM n . and appeal- and l" to.- b.ar-l <>f t-du-
Prto pay the state’s money to the institution, where they could
not get the benefit of it- Others may have failed to enter on account of
r
the fee, I don’t know,
Now to the methods of these dignitaries. Do you hear a word from
them as to the law and the right?
The private school certainly has a right to charge a fee. The public
school certainly has not. But through trade and mixing of forces they
have made a mess that courts can hardly adjust, and now they have
reached that most detestible third stage of “harmony—don’t hurt the
school —don’t you love the dear old institute?”
Hush, says the sage of Athens, “don’t hurt the school.” Oh, how
familiar to our oars is that coercive, deceitful plea. Though conversant
with the situation, and possibly versed in school law, this sage of Athens
says nothing of custom, nothing of law, nothing of justice, nothing of
right, but springs at once to the tear-stained, hypocritical plea “Don’t
hurt the school.
Hear him: Yield, yield to every injustice, but “don’t hurt the
school.”
That gaff pierced my rights as I saw it, and it may quiet the
present kickers, but it won’t build a school- DUKE ROSS.
WILLIAMSON LOR COMMISSIONER.
Speaking of the probable resigna
tion of Commissioner of Agriculture
Hudson, John Shannon, of The
Commerce News, says there will l>e
a strong effort made to secure the
appointment of Mr \V. L. \\ illiatn
son, of that place, says The News:
“Already his friends here are dis
cussing the matter, and if there is
a vacancy, no stone will be left un
turned, in order to have him ap
pointed to the position- lhan Mr.
Williamson there is not a more
competent man in the state. He
has never been a politician, but has
always been an agricultural student.
We doubt if there is a better posted
man in the state in all things that
pertain to scientific and practical
agricultural affairs. It is due Mr.
Williamson to state that he has no
■ knowledge whatever of such a move
ment. He has been out of town
for several (lavs and this movement
IS hi. outgrowth of the efforts of his
friends here”
Mr. Williamson is peculiarly fitted
for the important office, and should
l his friends he successful in securing
his appointment, this section will
he honored and the whole state will
receive the services of a well posted
agriculturist.
T " ry Steton
1
Anywhere in the world —and you’ll have the hat
accepted in that particular centre, and everywhere else,
as the standard of style and hat value.
We are leaders, not only in Hats, but if you
be well dressed, you must get a Strouse Suit.
What constitutes a hat, suit or shoe is the maker
behind it and the seller who gets the style and
never misrepresents it. Stetson has stood the test
for a century and his hat is better today than ever.
Strouse suits have been here for 50 years and
nearly every other manufacturer follows them.
Strange guarantees satisfaction or your money
back. Could a man be well dressed with an ill
fitting shoe? Boyden is the perfection of shoes.
They fit, they wear and no better made under
heavens. Remember that Strange’s 17 years cf
successful selling in Winder is positive assurance
that everything you purchase from this firm is
right.
J. T. Strange & Cos.
Leaders in Style; Regulators and Controllers of
Low Prices.
SENSATIONAL LOW PRICES
ON BIGGIES.
Never before has such low prices
been printed in a paper. The original
Barnesville Buggy, which has always
sold for $75.00 to $85.00, to go at
$67.50 for cash.
The Carmichael Buggy, a strictly
high grade Buggy worth $75.00, to go
for $67.50 for cash.
Sechler Buggies, a first-class medi
um grade buggy, to go at $60.00.
This is 20 per cent off of real value,
but we have them and we are going
to sell them. This price will last until
our present large stock is exhausted.
Do not fail to come at once and get one
of these bargains. With each bug
gy we will give FREE a good Whip
and summer Lap Robe, and will give a
fifteen-dollar set of Harness for ten
dollars. Come while they last.
Yours for honest dealings,
WOODRUFF HARDWARE & MFG. GO.,
Winder, - Georgia.