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WINDER WEEKLY NEWS
Published Every Thursday Evening
Itoss Bros. Editors and Proprietors
Entered at the I’osti'fTice at Winder, Ga,,
as Sec >nd Class Mail Matter.
Thursday, June 10, 1909.
Well, yes, but how a k.ut the pig
pen ordinance?
The Winder News is strictly non
sectarian. We have with us repre
sentatives of every church in town,
Lord and the devil included.
Brother Flanigan, of The Gwin
nett Journal, is a mighty close
reader. He has begun to see “hung
ers” Itetwecn our lines. Baptist,
eh, Jim.
Two fatalities occurred among
the veterans attending the reunion
at Memphis yesterday —H. Guy,
of Grenada, Miss., and I). L. IYli
rin, of Beaux Bridge, I,a.
Every citizen tried before the
mayor for violation of the drainage
ordinance was a subscriber for city
water and there was not a council
man among them. Why?
No doubt the man who introduced
\\ inder’s drainage ordinance did so
with the purest motives, but we arc
inclined to think that in his haste
he took too many liberties with com
mon sense.
The people do not care arapabout
the politics of a violator of the
law. What they demand is the
punishment of the violator, and
they will suspect the sincerity of
all who try to hinder efforts to bring
this about.
We are too poor to buy an auto
cut, but if we can steal one, we’ll
pop it in the paper and show how
the Commerce News is turning the
world up side down. —Commerce
News.
Why, we will loan you one, John.
Which kind do you prefer—Buiek,
Maxwell or White Steamer?
Congressman Hardwick has been
selected by the firemen and Hon.
Hilary A. Hertx rt, of Montgomery,
Ala., named by Manager Scott to
arbitrate the troubles on the Geor
railroad- These gentlemen are giv
en five days in which to select the
third man-
A dispatch from Rome, Ga., says
a chip has been discovered in a
potato patch at Lindale that had a
growth of hair on one side of it.
The growth is on one side of a
small pine chip and is about two
and a half inches in length. It is
of a very dark hue lightly touched
with gray.” This is not the first
blockhead which has k en unearthed
in Georgia recently.
Thonty-one young ladies passed
through Winder Monday en route
to Washington, New York, Nia
gara Falls, etc., chaperoned hy Mr.
and Mrs U. F. Duckworth. The
trip was tendered hy the Farmer's
Ihiion in a suhseription ion
test and the members oi the party
Tailed from different sections of the
states. The ninth con
gressional district of Georgia was
represented hy Miss t’lara White
head, of liuford. Mr. ,T. K. lod
enhamer, business manager of the
Fnion News, accompanied the
young ladies as far as Winder and
gave us a call while waiting for the
return train. “Boad.v" is an old
side-partner of ours who went wrong
in politics several years ago, and
we were glad to see him. He says
that ho and Tom Watson are out
of politics, and it is his intention to
give the farmers of the south an up
to-date agricultural paper.
BETTER GET BUSY.
It is interesting to see the wild
eyed enthusiasm created among the
substantial citizens of Jackson coun
ty every time the Journal-Herald
pathfinding cars pass through the
c unity and watch them plunge
and tug at the chains which bind
them. On May 11 the .Jackson
county grand jury recommended
that the county commissioners put
the road from Winder to Commerce
in first-class condition, meaning of
course to get the road in shape be
fore the first trip of the pathfinders
was made, but cars have been
through twice and not a shovelful of
dirt has k*en thrown nor a rock
moved on the road. Listen to this
from Monday’s Journal:
“In the meantime county author
ities would do well to put in good
shape those roads that they hope
to contribute to the big system of
the highway. Observation upon
the roads as they find them are
being made by the scouts, and
while pledge of betterment necessa
rily brings great weight to hear in
conclusion upon had stretches, still
the system that as a whole offers the
best facilities as it stands will he
the one selected for the great high
way-
“As soon as the further survey
have been made,the pathfinders will
make their run establishing defi
nitely the course of the highway.”
If Jackson county is to hare this
through highway it is up to Winder,
Jefferson and Commerce to get to
gether and sec to it that the recom
mendations of the grand jury arc
obeyed and so notify The Journal
authorities. As matters now stand,
as far as this section is concerned,
the good roads agitation is no more
than hot air on paper pure and sim
ple.
MANY THANKS.
Robert Ross, editor of The Win
der News, one of the brightest and
most successful weekly publications
in the state, was in Atlanta yester
day, a guest of W. Y. Zimmer, of
the Kimball. Bob Ross as he is
familiarly known, was for a long
time connected with The Constitu
tion, and during his residency here
made many friends, all of whom
gave him the glad hand and a warm
greeting when he was encountered
on the streets. —Atlanta Constitu
tion.
Randolph county,the largest coun
ty in West Virginia, has been ad
ded to the “dry” list.
Dr. W. N. Ainsworth, of Savan
nah, has been elected president of
Wesleyan Female College, Macon,
to succeed Hon. DuPont Guerry.
Kd Callahan, former sheriff of
Breathitt county, Kentucky, and
a member of the Hargis faction
throughout the ten-year feud, was
shot by an assassin Monday, and is
said to !>e dying.
A small pier, at Mandeyille, La.,
collapesed Sunday afternoon when
a boat pulled up to board a picnic
party, and sixty people were thrown
into the lake. Kleven dead bodies
have thus far been discovered.
1 he confederate reunion convened
at Memphis Tuesday and will cul
minate with the unveiling of the
Stephen 1). Lee monument at Vicks
burg Friday. It is estimated that
•ld,0(K) visitors are in the conven
tion city. Quite a number of the
old soldiers took the Seaboard at
Winder Monday on their way to
the re-union.
One of the several reasons why
men stay away from church is them
dadblamed things women wear on
their heads. IPs no pleasure to
hear a man talk unless you can see
him. —Yonah Laud Enterprise.
Will RE IGNORANCE IS BLISS.
It isn’t true in all cases that
“Where ignorance is bliss” tis folly
to he wise.” A recent editorial in
the New York Tribune is proof of
this.
That paper has also joined the
discussion anent the good qualities
of corn bread. But its editorial
writer is evidently restricted in his
knowledge on this subject, for he
expatiates on the “beautiful golden
colored meal” of which it is made.
This is to laugh. The man who
finds bread made out of yellow corn
meal palatable would surely eat
himself to death were he set down
to bread made out of well matured
white corn. Asa matter of fact
meal ground out of yellow corn is
totally unfit for food except for hogs.
No Northern grown corn can
make good meal. To make good
meal requires that the corn out of
which it is ground lx* perfectly ma
tured, and in Northern latitudes
the seasons are t<x> short to allow
nature to complete this process.
Meal that is ground out of corn im
perfectly ripened can never be
“round”meal,and without this gran
ular quality no meal is good-' Then
also meal ground out of imperfectly
matured corn goes through a stage
of fermentation which destroys its
quality, and imparts that principle
which produces the disease known
as pellagra. This applies -to all
Northern grown corn, but in addi
tion the yellow meal has the same
sickening taste as is imparted by
frost bite to Irish potatoes. It has
tlu- “beautiful golden color” all
right, but it is unwholesome, un
palpatable and entirely unfit for
human food.
The upland corn grown in the
South is planted early in the spring.
It fully matures before it is housed
in tln> fall. It will not heat or fer
ment when put in bulk, and in the
mill, slowly ground, the hard
grains are cracked and converted
into dry round meal, instead of the
semi-paste into which the unma
tured Northern com must l>e
ground. This Southern corn meal
preserves all the natural flavor of
the corn, without aquiring the
musty taste inseparable from meal
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.
ground out of unripened corn.
If Northern writers, who know
nothing of Southern corn meal, can
find something to commend in the
“beautiful golden-colored” of the
North, words would fail to ring
the praise of the white water ground
meal of the South. Blissful in their
ignorance it would he rendering
them a great service to lead them
into the right knowledge regarding
corn meal.
The New York Sun writer in his
knowledge of corn bread probably
represents fairly tin* knowledge of
Northern, people generally in this
regard. There can l>e little doubt
that, if the best quality of Southern
meal k* introduced among them, it
would grow popular in all Northern
cities. Not only because it is
cheaper than Hour would it be
largely used by people of moderate
means, hut even the wealthy people
would use it in preference to some
of the patent breakfast foods that
are now on the market.
A large trade could he built up
if proper efforts were made to in
troduce high grade Southern corn
meal in the cities of the North —
Augusta Herald.
A DENOMINATIONAL FIGHT.
An article in the Winder News
relative to the election of a school
superintendent shows that a bad
state of affairs exists in that city-
It is charged that denomina
tional matters enter into the elec
tion of teachers, and that a fight
for or against a man is made aeord
ing to whether he belongs to this or
that denomination-
A board of education who looks
at a man’s religious belief rather
than his fitness, should be abolish
ed. A member of a board of edu
cation who cannot see anything
good in a man who does not agree
with him religiously, is not fit to
serve on the board.
The least possible qualification of
a teacher is the church that he affil
iates with. Catholic, Presbyterian,
Baptist, Methodist, Congregational,
Christian or what not should be
put upon the same plane in the
election of teachers.
It is well perhaps, all things be
ing equal to divide up the, teachers
among the different denominations,
but we are not sure that even this
is correct. The fact that a man is
a Methodist or Baptist or belongs to
any other denomination, as for that
matter, should not weigh either for
or against him in the election.
The religious belief of a man is
his private property. If he parades
it, you can rest assured that he has
a reason for it, and that there is
more pretense than genuineness in
his profession.
If boards of education would re
quire applicants to leave out any
and all information regarding the
| church that they affiliate with, bet
! ter and more satisfactory teachers
; might he secured.
In speaking of the election of a
| superintendent at Winder, the News
states that the past year the schools
have been conducted with more har
mony and better discipline than ever
and yet the board, although the
memliers individually and collect
ively declared the superintendent's
work very satisfactory, refused t°
re-elect him. The News intimates
.that the reason this was done was
because two of the members of the
church to which the superintendent
belongs were displaced by two men
of a different faith and order.
The News says that when it was
known that the board wanted anew
superintendent, petitions and coun
ter petitions were circulated which
resembled very much the church
rolls of Winder.
Bad, very bad, is this state of af
fairs. It will continue to be bad
until a board of education is select
ed, the membership of which is
independent of any church govern
ment or better feeling among the
churches of Winder is brought
about. —Dublin Courier-Dispatch.
church Bosses.
Below we give a chiping from
The Winder News.
1 he people of that town are stirred
up over their school teachers.
Reading between the lines, it is
simply an attempt of one church to
ran the school of the town That
particular denomination in Winder
has had its own way for a longtime.
It flatters itself that all the brains
and all the religion are confined to
its members and lienee none other
than one of their belief is fit to teach
in the Winder school. The other
churches, having been bossed in
this manner long enough, are sim
ply asking fair treatment and are
fighting the devil witr. his own
weapon.
Nor is \\ inder the only town
that has felt the touch of the Ital
ian hand that receives its cunning
from Rome.
It makes us heartily tired to sec
such a disposition in any one set of
people to rule or ruin. We are
glad that the other churches in
\\ inder are tired of being imposed
upon and are shewing that there is
some manhood among them yet.—'*’
Gwinnett Journal.