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WINDER WEEKLY NEWS
Published Every Thursday Evening
Ross Bros. Editors and Proprietors
Kntered at the Postoffice at Winder, Ga.,
as Second Class Mail Matter.
Thursday, May 20, 1909.
We heard a man say that auto
mobiles frighten horses,but the au
tobuggy was simply an insult to the
noble animal.
11. 11. Rogers, oil magnate, and
right-hand man to John I). Rocke
feller, died suddenly Tuesday at his
home in New York-
A Haiti more contractor has
erected a monument to Adam. It
took a long time to find a man who
appreciates that snake story.
As if its burdens were not heavy
enough, Mrs- Ruth Bryan Leavitt
and her Jane Jefferson clubs will
attempt to reorganize the demo
cratic party.
Full up on Atlanta near beer, N.
Szebonva, a Hungarian, imagined
his head a phonograph. The ordi
nary of Fulton county will examine
the wheels of this instrument.
An exchange, answering the ques
tion, What Isa Democrat? says he
is a man kept in office by the trusts
to assist Republican senators to pass
laws favorable to said trusts.
John Walker, a Nort li ('arolinan,
raised Ids gun to fire into an auto
mobile party, and fell dead before
h a finger pressed the trigger. Ex
citement over what he was about to
do is said to have caused his death
The good roads question no doubt
will find receptive minds all over
the state. Therefore, papers must
talk good roads. But what tickles
us is to watch our friends, the At
lanta newspaper enemies, strive to
create and ride a separate wave.
Earnest Willie I'pshaw wants to
debate with 'Pom Watson on foreign
missions. And this on the eve of
Ids marriage. Willie is making a
mistake. He should r< ad up on
home missions and save all his en
ergies for debates that will be com
ing bis way.
Some mighty sweet talk lias been
going on over the phones along
Broad street. A swarm of bees lo
cated in the telephone box at the
corner of Broad street and Midland
avenue, and for the past several
days the linemen have been having
the time of their lives in an attenij t
to shoo tlfi'in away.
A minister not a thousand miles
from W inder had been housed up
for several months on aeeount of
the prevalence <>f smallpox, and
scrambled quotations from the Hood
Book, “Mind my sheep,” “look
after the dock," “get into the vine
yard" had worried the parson con
siderably, l>ut his frail earthly body
continued to shrink from the shad
ow of danger until the otlicial ga
zette announced that all was safe.
'Then he dunned his Jim swinger and
sauntered forth to “do it unto the
1< ast of these. ” He bad gone far
into the outskirts when he was met
by a man with a scarred face who
told him that the road back to town
was lined with eases of smallpox.
The preacher exclaimed: “What
in the world am Ito ‘do?” His
informant being an old time “Hill-
Billy,” replied: “Parson, get in
the middle of the road, don’t look
to the right, don't look to the left.
It’s your only salvation! ” This is
a Hue story. We leave the reader
to guess where it happened.
AROUSING INTEREST.
The Journal-New York Herald path
finder fora good road from New
York to Winder and The (’>n.stitn
tion’s agitation for better roads
leading from all the larger cities of
the state to Winder are mighty
good propositions and are bound to
result ultimately in better road
building.
The path finder passed through
our town Friday. The party was
met at Carl by five automobile loads
of Winderites and escorted on to
Jefferson and the tourist party
seemed greatly pleased with their
reception here.
We see that Toeeoa has promised
to work the road through Stevens
county if that route is selected.
Well, the Jackson county grand
jury has made a similar prom is pro
vided the Winder, Jefferson, Com
merce route is taken, and it is ex
actly what all counties are expected
to do.
but that is not all.
The whole question in a nutshell
is simply how much have you got
to offer for the road through your
territory and build it yourselves,
and it is up to Lawreiiceville, Win
der, Jefferson and Commerce to get
busy if they intend to outbid
Gainesville and Toeeoa. In other
words, Frank Weldon will be seeing
you again.
The great benefits to be deiived
from tbe good roads which are go
ing to be built by The Journal and
1 In' Constitution are too plain to
need comment. However, beyond
a hearty amen to any movement
which will' create good roads, we
are not inclined to split our shirt
until we learn what The Atlanta
Georgian has to offer.
TYRO.
Tyro is anew school location in
two hundred yards of old Beech
Creek. You remember going to
school there, Bob?
The removal of Beech Creek be
fore the war created an uproar, as
is always the ease. It was moved
from near where Pentecost now
stan<ls to when* Bill Elrod now
lives. It was owned and controlled
hy the Primitive Baptists and the
membership was composed of such
men as Rev. Ham ('handler, Willie
Hinton, a Mr. .Jennings, (’. M.
1 lamnu n 1 and Bee Hammond, all
of whom are dead except the last
two named.
Soon ; ft r the war, or probably
in IS(‘>, J. 11. 1). Mcßae taught the
first school at this place. Jack Ryle
followed in IN(>(>, Kirkpatrick in
’(>7, Hr. Nance in ON, closely fol
lowed by (>. J. N. Wilson, our first
county school eommisioner, who
served so faithfully for a number of
years. Rev. Freeman 11. Attaway
taught in INTO and was followed by
Mies Maggie Wilson Johnson in
IX7I, the same being a daughter of
(I. J. X. Wilson. The memory of
Miss Mag will linger long in my
mind, for she gave me an arithme
tic at the close of school. Willie
McElhannon assisted Miss Maggie
Wilson. Willie was a brother to
our neighbor, J. X. McElhannon,
commonly known as Rud.
In IX7-2 Mis.; Jo Hill taught, and
just a few years later she married a
Mr. Brooks Burson. Miss Callie
Pitman Ride r was the next. This
was the year some called harel
times, Ix7;’). Re v. R. S. McCann-I
ty, se> well known tee us all, taught j
ill IN< 1. lie spa reel met the- reiel
norspoihd the child. A E. Barge-!
the last, lent not the least, was a fine
scribe as well as a gentle-man ami
scholar. fo use 1 bis own words
when speaking of himself, ho was
“the big Indian.” When lie' wot del
say this it would frighten little' fe 1-
le e ws like' myself then almost intee
fits. He re lie preside el for three
years —’To, 7(j and 77.
In 77 or 7X there was some dif
ferenees between tile church people
and the school was moved to Steeds,
among the bills, branches, creeks,
and swamps, very inaecessable.
If I liael tile space 1 wemld Jove
to give the names of the l*oys and
girls who attended this series of
schools. They are scattered east, 1
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On account of our wonderful Clothing trade we
find our stock broken up in sizes and we are going
to offer for a few days our two-piece Suits at
The sizes run 35, 36, 37, 39, 40.
Good Swagger Styles. Come in fancy Serges and
Tropical Worsteds in Grey, Dark Ground with hair
line Stripes. A GREAT OPPORTUNITY.
Shoes
We have few sizes left in Job Shoes. Come in and
find your number. The prices run 25, 50, 75,1.00
up to $298.
Straw Hats
Come in and take a look at the new Merry
Widower, the Senate, the Yacht, the Bachelor.
They come in the new soft brim, made of fine
Milan Straw, 75 to $1.50.
Lace Curtains
25 pairs Lace Curtains, 3to 3 1-2 yards long, 50 to
58 inches wide, all slightly soiled, but good as new,
as long as they last 1-2 off.
Remember that we have many things to offer that
will surely interest you.
LEADERS IN STYLES: REGULATORS AND CONTROLLERS OE LOW PRICES
west and evt rywhere, some gone to
their long home.
Ten or twelve years later the
people saw their mistake in part
and moved to Pentecost church or
Chandler's court ground —too public
a place; too much attention ;too near
B.eeeli ( reek.
In 1909 the people have open
ed their eyes and see the necessity
of getting half way between Mul
berry river and the creek, where,
old Beech Creek stood or a near
neighbor to it. This same place is
Tyro. 1 could write much of its
advantages, but space forbids. It
is the center of the school popula
tion of a section mapped out by one
who knows the hills, paths, creeks,
and pig trails. There is a good
sum ready and good men interested
Our SIO.OO Suits £ ggy
Our $12.50 Suits Q *>n
at 0.01
Our $15.00 Suits ||j
Our $17.50 Suits J 1 67
Our 320.00’Suits 13 35
at ; •
are pushing. This being located,
you can see at once Pleasant Hill
territory needs to get busy. She can
do the same. Then let Patrick's
section unite and build near .John
A. Sogars. Stop quarreling is the
way to get help from the outside.
I We have got folks around u> just
: like our neighbors. Some of them
went to Sunday school la<t Sunday
at Ebernezer ands mie didn’t;some
went to Pentecost and some didn’t.
Our prettist and most charming
young lady is visited by a courtly
and handsome young gentleman
any old day in the week.
The sick are improving, we can
gladly tell you.
Xo use to tell you that it’s dry or
it’s hot or the rain was refreshing.
You know it if we get it.
3 It is no surprise that chopping
cotton is tin* order of the day, for
it is the time of year for that kind w
of work.
I am not criticising anybody’ cor
respondence, for we all love to see
ouy names in the paper. Though
old and ugly and of course cranky,
I like it, but please don’t print it
on the same page with this.
Tyrant
WANTED
Reliable agent to sell monuments
and tombstones in Jackson and ad
joining counties. Exclusive terri-,
- tory and good proposition to right
i party. Address the Monumental
Marble Cos., lot Whitehall street,
| Atlanta, ta.