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Kf;NDER WEEKLY NEWS
Published Every Thursday Evening
Ross liras. Editors and Proprietors
Entered at the I’ostoffice at Winder, Ga.,
as Second Class Mail Matter.
Thursday, June 3, 1909.
Plans are being perfected for the
erection of a $100,001) Presbyterian
hospital in Atlanta.
Anyway, it pays to advertise.
The Georgia Railroad succeeded in
turning the eyes of the nation upon
Georgia.
The hypocraey of some people is
so palpable that their antics in an
endeavor to keep a wise public bun
coed is really amusing.
No matter what sacrifice a man
will make, there is always someone
who will seek for a selfish motive.
Many people judge others by them
selves.
A house divided amongst itself
cannot stand. Neither can a city,
and it would be well for some of our
citizens who are pulling apart to fall
into line.
fount Zeppelin, of Germany, has
surpassed all airship records to
date, having gone fob miles without
landing. The journey lasted nearly
twenty-two hours.
We can’t understand it, but it is
a fact that we have inadvertently
wounded the feelings of some who
are noton our subscription list. We
have resolved to be more careful.
All this gush of the Atlanta pa*
p rs over a prospective automobile
road is little short of disgusting;
what we want is more roads on dirt
and fewer on piper; since the
wagon is the vehicle of business,
and the automobile simply of pleas
ure; we want better wagon roads
and less fuss over automobile roads.
—Mairetta News.
Democracy as a school of political
thought and party principles is as
obsolete as the cave man and the
dodo. There is not a single so-called
democratic newspaper that harmon
izes with any other so-called demo
cratic newspaper in the enunciation
of political principles, fnder Bryan
domination the disorganized forces
of the old democracy have stum
bled into chaos and the battlefield
is strewn with the wrecks of isms
and party issues. The honored
banner of Jefferson and Jackson has
been lost in the jungles of social
ism.— Kansas City Journal.
The troubles between the Georgia
mil road management and the fire
men on that line lias been handul
over to arbitration. This Col T.
K. Scott refused to do until forced
by national officials. The arbitra
tion agreement was signed by Col.
Scott, representing the road, and
K. A. Ball, sponsor for the fireman.
The full text of the agreenu nt
was not given out, it being under
stood that the board of arbitratois
would be selected in accordance
with the Ardman law, which makes
full provision for their appointment.
A tornado of great fury struck
the little village of Zephyr, Tex.,
Sunday morning and left a path of
death and destruction seldom par
alleled. The death list reached
thirty-two and the number (f
seriously wounded were over fifty.
Zephyr is located in the eastern
portion of Brown county. Nearly
fifty houses were entirely demol
ished. Lightning struck a lumber
yard and started a conflagration
which destroyed one entire business
block. No effort was made to tight
the fire, as the care of the dead and
wounded victims demanded all at
tention.
A JUDICIAL LARGE.
Was the judicial farce enacted in
the mayor's courtroom Monday
night the entering wedge to force
a sewerage system in Winder?
We are heartily in favor of sew
ers, yet we enter a vigorous protest
against a coercive policy. We can
all realize that the waterworks sys
tem is practically useless without
sewers, and it is not necessary to
brand good men as criminals to im
press lis of the fact.
The evidence introduced in the
three test cases tried Monday night
showed that the sanitary conditions
of the premises in question is even
better now than when the water
works were installed, yet his honor,
the mayor, sentenced three promi
nent citizens to work ten days on
the public streets or pay a fine.
These men are loyal to their town
and have shown their loyalty by
i spending their money to help make
the waterworks system a success.
We are all interested in Winder's
future and none would go further
to subserve her interests than thone
who were branded as law-beakers
Monday night.
What is the situation?
About two years ago a campaign
for waterworks was on, and water
for your bath tub, yard, garden and
kitchen was held out as an induce
ment to vote for bonds. These men
who have been branded as law
j breakers fell in line and pulled for
; bonds. When the waterworks were
I completed they hastened to connect
| with the city’s mains and began to
pay the price demanded for the use
of city water.
The council met and passed up
an ordinance, found elsewhere in
this issue, which says in substance,
as interpieted by his honor the
mayor, “Cut your water out and
pay us for the presence of the pipes
on your premises.”
What is the remedy?
Repeat 1 this after-thought and
have your board of health condemn
those places that are foul and a
a menace to the public health, pun
i hi ng those responsible for such a
condition under the public health
ordinance.
Let the mayor proceed in each
case according to the evidence and
not sit serenely by giving his offi
cial sanction to an ordinance, which
to say the least, is ill-advised.
There is but two sides to any
quertion, the right and the wrong.
Let’s strive to do the right, •and if
we must build sewers to accomplish
the right, then order a bond elec
tion and let’s build them.
TO CORRESPONDENTS.
It will be noticed that sonic of
jour communications are marked
“Last Week’s Locals.” This oc
curs on account of the fact that our
entire force were desirous of attend
ing the Lnion Sunday school picnic
held in Atlanta last Thursday, and
we printed the paper Wednesday
night in order to give tlie boys that
privilege. It was absolutely neces
sary to hold over these communica
tions to accomplish the desired end,
and right here we take oecassion to
j call our correspondents’ attention to
the importance of sending incommu
nications early in the week. When
one week's issue has gone to press
we immediately begin preparations
for the next, and should the corre
spondent find his communication
left out and the paper tilhd with
articles credited to exchanges, it
is no sign that the editor
deems the clippings more worthy
of print, but is rather an indi
cation i hat lie has had to hustle j
to keep the printers busy and get |
things in shape for publication on
Thursday. It is no small task to
compile an eight-page paper, and
when all the news furnished us by
our friends, both local and com
municative, reaches the office.
Thursday morning it is a practical
impossibility to get it into type.
Unless done to accomplish a special
purpose, we have not varied two
hours in the time of mailing The
News on Thursday since taking
charge of the paper, and it is our de
sire to be as punctual in tin* future
as we have been in the past. There
fore, we ask our correspondents to
assist us as best they can by send
ing their communications at the
earliest possible moment.
NEWS IN LUMPKIN.
From Dahlonega Nugget.
Rev. 1). W.‘ Coldwell, while in
t >wn last Monday informed us
that lie put up a shoat and it
jumped and butted its head against
the pen until it died. This is the
first hog we ever heard of commit
ting suicide before.
Emory Edmonson, or “Ruck
shot,” as he is known here, got on
a “bender” last Tuesday and shot
some dynamite out about “Last
Chance,” causing him to be arrest
ed by acting City Marshal Ricketts.
Fine -fl and cost.
It was intended to have an old
time foot washing at the colored
church here last Sunday, but the
pastor was opposed to it and all
got to keep their socks on. We
guess that the pastor’s feet are
ticklish 1 ike ours. We can scarce
ly hear touching them ourselves
and couldn’t have any one else to
handle them, especially any of the
ladies.
Out in Pickens county the dogs
arc living, causing a man from the
state department at Atlanta, look
ing after animals, to he sent up to
investigate. The dogs are dying
here too. Four were poisoned in
Dahlonega this week and only a
few days ago five died out in Da
vis' district, from the effects of
lead discharged by Bill Woody’s
gun while they were killing one of j
his sheep. It is very wrong to j
poison harmless dogs, which will
likely cause trouble.
Wonder if the politicians who are
looking after their fences will have!
them all pig tight and hull strong.
—t'artersville News.
If it is a Buggy
If it is a Carriage
If it is a Wagon
If it is an Organ
If it is a Piano
See
Flanigan & Flanigan,
Winder, - Georgia.
With the Paragraphers.
Nothing much in the papers n< w
bat good roads. Let us hope they
will not always be in the papers. —
Madisonian.
/
The good roads movement is
about the only tiling in Georgia
j that is getting a boost these days.
—A ugusta Ch ronicle.
Hay is now worth twenty dollars
a ton, hut that doesn’t seem to im
press the farmer whose hardest work
of the year is killing grass. —Au-
gusta Herald.
Tom Bell voted for a tariff on
lumber, notwithstanding the dem
ocratic platform demanded that it
la* placed on the free list. —Gwin-
nette Journal.
The farmer who sells his cotton
crop before it is chopped out, may
next fall find plenty of reason to
hire someone to kick him. —Dub-
lin Courier-Dispatch.
Governor Smith stands ready to
pardon anything that comes along
except the members of the prison
commission and “Little Joe”
Brown. —Valdosta Times.
Judging by the press reports, they
don’t have any law against hunting
on Sunday in Africa. “Roosevelt
and son, Nimrods,” seem to find
Sunday their lucky day. This is,
of course, a fine example for an ex-
Rresident to lx* setting for young
men back home in America. —Ce-
dartown Standard.
SUITOR I YOUR I’APUR.
When a town does not support its
Nocal paper properly, you need not
look for any great progress in that
locality. Local newspapers are the
signboards that tell strangers who
the people are, and the class of busi
ness in which the people are engag
ed. Take a business man who never
patronizes his local paper, and you
can scrape enough moss off his hack
to pad a sofa. His ideas have more
than enough room in a teacup, and
he cannot stay far enough ahead of a
funeral procession to keep the corpse
from running over him. —The Har
poon .
FARMS
FOR SALE!
In and around Jersey,
Walton county, Georgia,
containing from 40 to
510 acres each. Terms
easy ::::::
APPLY TO
W. L. Blasingame,
Winder, Ga.
"" OR
Josiah Blasingame,
Jersey, Ga.
DIES IN TEXAS.
Francis Marvin Arnold, brother
of our fellow townsman, Rev. S. W.
Arnold, died at his home near
Whitney, Texas, May 21.
Mr. Arnold was born in Walton
county, Georgia, April 21, 1854,
and lived there until he reached
manhood. In 1804 he moved to
Texas and located in the western
portion, where he remained until
his death. He leaves a large family
in Texas, as well as many relatives
i in Georgia.
It is stated that Mr Arnold had
I amassed a considerable fortune in
his new home.
THANKfIIL.
Mr. Editor: —Please alllow me
space in The News to thank each
and every one who so nobly and
generously came to my assistance
when the recent cyclone razed my
home to the ground and swept away
all I had. We are thankful that our
lot is cast among a sympathetic and
charitable people. May God’s
richest blessings abide with them.
Again thanking all for their kind
words and material relief, I am
yours to command.
E. A. Parkeh.