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VOL. XVII, AS SEEN IN THE GARAGE Incredulous Critics Cause Us To Give Owners and Maks of Winder Mobiles. There has been some (Joubt ex pressed in the state press as to whether Winder really owns as many automobiles as is claimed for this town, other sections of the state failing to realize that this is no longer a tavern, but a thriving, prosperous city, forging her way on to the front as the business center of northeast Georgia. The foremost found rymen of Georgia are citizens of our town. The leading contractors of the state have their headquarters here. We have one of the largest overall plants in the south, the best mobile garage outside of Atlanta and a rich and prosperous territory for our merchants to draw from. We are no longer a little town, but a live, wide-awake, hustling city. But we diverge. It was our intention to give the names of mobile owners in Winder. To the best of our mem ory they are as follows, including four which come here for repairs: .J. 1. -J. Bell —Six cylinder racer made at Winder, one Ford, one Cadi lac, one auto buggy. G. W. Smith —Buiek touring car. W. L. Oliver —Buiek touring car. Ernest Bush —Ford run about. Dr. Hall Turner —Ford Tun about. Frank Bondurant —Ford run about. Dr. Saxon — Ford run about. Dr. Hodges —Frod nui about. Lamar A: Perry —Buiek touring car. •J. 0. Whitehead —Buiek touring car. R S. D. Lanier —Buiek touring car. W. B- McCants —Cadi lac. Dr. Ross —Ford run about • Briscoe Williams —Buiek touring car. Winder Lumber Cos. —Buiek tour ing car. Col. Louis Russell—Mitchell. E. E. Jackson —Cadilac. Jack Weil —Maxwell. Pink Flanigan Double-seated Maxwell. Hiram Flanigan —Maxwell run about. R. L- Carithers —Thirty horse power Buiek touring car. H. A- Carithers —Ford run about. Mr, Panin 11 —Oldsmobile. Di. Lee DoLaperrrere —Double- seated Reo. * Winder Mobile Cos. —Buiek tour ing car. T. C. Dunn —Buiek touring car. F. W. Camp, Campion —Buiek touring car. Dr. Adams, Bethlehem —Scbaeht. Prof. Walker, Commerce —Ford. Herschel DeLaperricre, Hoschton —Buiek touring ear. UNIVERSALIST MEETING. Rev- J. M- Rasnak is conducting a series of meetings in Winder and will preach each night at the opera house up to and including Friday at 8:00 p. m. His subjects for the remaining services will be: Tonight “Salvation; What It Is and How We Obtain It.” “Tomorrow night “Hell, What and Where- It Is.” You are cordially invited to attend these meetings. Missed the Train by not buying one of them alarm Clocks at W. T- Robinson’s. toitt&cc toceh lii Jfes. the expiration of my term of office you will hold me in as high -esteem as you do today, and 1 trust you will never have cause to regret your action of this morn ing in making me the presiding officer of this housm ‘‘l know that I will make mis tak s, but. gentlemen, I ask you to look upon those mistakes with as much charity as y<m possibly can. I will endeavor to enforce the rules of the house hom-stly and impartially, for next to be ing honest it is my desire to be fair. There is no reason why I should not be absolutely fair, for I have no enemies to punish and no special interests to serve. The political debt J owe is one of gratitude to you for having elected me to this position, and the other debt I owe is a duty to the groat state of Georgia to exercise all the powers of this position for the welfare and progress of this great state of ours. ‘‘ln all our deliberations let us look to God for wisdom and for guidance that we may guide our steps aright. “Gentlemen, I again thank you for this honor and assure you that I will discharge the duties of this position to the very best of my ability.” WOOD-CROZIER. Rev. John IT- Wood left Winder Sunday night bound for Grand Rap ids, Mich., where he was united in marriage Wednesday evening to Miss NanaCrozier, of that city. Miss Crozier was a Sunday school mis sionary of the Christian church, and Brother Wood formed her acquaint ance in Winder last summer just before the national convention at New Orleans. They wf*re both de legates and it was at this convention where their friendship ripened into love. Mr. and Mrs. Wood will spend a few days at Ann ITarbor, Mich., coming to Winder the early part of next week. WINDER, JACKSON COUNTY, GEORGIA. THURSDAY, JUNE 24,1909 REV. W. T. HUNNICUTT To Preach Series of five Sermons at the Methodist Church. Begining next Sunday, Rev. W. T. Hunnieutt will preach a series of tiva sermons on “The Platform of Christ or the Program of Chris tianity.” These sermons will he preached at 11 o’clock each day. This se" ries of sermons promises to he in tertaining. The public is cordially invited to attend. SPEAKER HOLDER’S REMARKS. When escorted to the chair as speaker of the house of represen tatives of Georgia Hon. John N. Holder, of Jackson, said: “It is impossible for me to find any words strong enough to ex press to you my sincere apprecia tion and profund gratitued for elect'ng met' preside over the de liberations of this bouse of repre sentatives. To be elected speaker of the house is a compliment to any man, but to he elected by the unanimous vote of tin represen tatives of the pe pie of Geoagia is an honor of which any man should feel proud, and 1 desire to state now that I have no hesitancy in saying that I am proud ot this distinction you have just con ferred up n me. I trust that at Brief News. George Burge, who on the night of May 17, murdered his wife in the suburbs of Atlanta, has been sentenced to bang July 11- A negro by the name of William Car raker was taken from the jiil at , Talhotton Tuesday night and lynched- He had killed a white man by the name of Leonard. lion. John M. Slaton, of Fulton, senator from the thirty-fifth senato rial district, was on Wednesday chosen without opposition to pre side over the upper house of the Georgia general assembly. At 10:00 o’clock Wednesday morning the 1000 general assembly of Georgia was convened in both houses. At that hour the gavels fell in th(' senate and the house of representatives, and the sessions were formally begun. While her two little daughters played and prattled on the porch outside, Mrs. Katherine J- Baker, of Atlanta, ended her life by drink ing tlie contents of a two-ounce bot tle of carbolic acid. 11l health and grief over her husband’s death are the causes given for the deed. A terrific explosion occured at 8:30 o’clock Wednesday morning in amine located at Web run, Pa. Over 100 men are known to have entered the mine just before the ex plosion occurred. Seventeen wen 1 killed and sixteen injured. You enn quote me ns saying that it looks to me as if Governor Smith, in his good-heartedness and wishing to reward a faithful servant for services rendered, provided someone else pays for it, has in stituted this suit in order that Hon. Hooper Aledander may receive a contingent fee for his efforts in endeavoring to extend the Western and Atlantic railroad to the sea,” said John L. Tyc, an attorney for the X. C. and St. L. railroad,-le ak ing of a suit filed aganst that road by tin' governor on the eve of bis retirement from the executive chair. DEATH Of MRS. TLNIE WARE-IRWIN. IF r hosts of friends here will be grieved to learn ot the death of Mrs. J. It. Irwin, who was so well known to our people as Miss Tt nie Ware. Her death occured at Woodbury hist night and the body will be interred at that place tins afternoon. Wo extend sympathy to the young husband and relatives. WADING PARTY. Miss Gussie O’Neal gave a break fast at White’s mill Monday morn ing in honor of her guest-, Misses Mobley and Willingham. Noth ing of the season has been so en joyed as wading in the creek. Those invited were Misses Cannon, Ruth Carithers, Starr Blasingame, Kath leene Coker, Fannie Caldwell, Ora Lee Camp, Pauline Camp, Mrs. Niblack and Mrs. W. H. Quarter man . SUMMER VISITORS. I)r. and Mrs. J. C. Clark, of Atlanta, are in Winder for the sum mer months. Dr. Clark is one of the foremost horse dealers in the state and brought with him one of his fine buggy animals to drive out our country roads while here. Dr. Clark was called to Macon this week by the death of a relative. Mrs. Clark is a graduate of the Normal School at Nashville and well ac quainted with prominent Jackson county men who recieved diplomas from that institution. SHOOTING AT OAK GROVE Jim Booth and Byrt Boyd Engage in Pistol Duel and Booth Is Mor tally Wounded. News comes to Winder of the shooting of James Booth by Byrt Boyd in front of the former’s house near Oak Grove Wednesday morn ing. The two men were neighbors and there had been ill feeling be tween them, it is said, for the past three years. One version of the difficulty which culminated in a j pistol duel Wednesday morning is I to the effect that the men quarreled Monday ever a trivial matter and Boyd drew an ax on Booth ,deinand - ing that la 1 retract something said, which the latter did and a fight at that time was avoided. It is alleged by Boyd that when he passed along the road Wednes day on his way to work for a neighbor, Booth came out from behind his house carrying a revolver in a tin bucket, and remarked: “You had the drop on me, but I’ve got you now, d —u you,” and began firing at him, shooting three times before he could draw bis own weapon. Boyd returned the lire, one bullet taking effect in Booth’s stomach. Yest< rday morning, according to the-statement of Mrs. Booth and her young daughter,who was present at the time of the shooting, Mr. Booth bad started to bis carriage bouse with a tin bucket and some plows in his hand. He also had Ids pistol with him. Mr. Boyd was coining along the road which runs very close to the carriage house. As lie approached the two men got into a conversation and Mr. Booth asked him to take back some offensive language he had used to him a few days previous. To this 15 >yd replied that he would take it hack all right, that lit' would kill him, and with that drew his pistol and began firing. Booth then drew his pistol and also began firing. Each man fired three shots, hut only one took efe ct. The young daughter of Booth had hold of him at the time he was shot down. It is then said that Boyd remarked as he went away that Booth would not bother anybody else. Mr.Boyd,on the other hand claims that Mr. Booth was the aggressor in every respect, that Booth had for tne past two days bo< n carrying his pistol around laying for him, that when he passed along with his little ten year old boy near Booth’s home yesterday morning, he was accosted by Booth, who pulled his pistol out of a tin bucket he had in his hand and began firing at him, at the same time referring to the previous difficulty, that Booth fired at him three tims before* lie returned a shot and that Booth fired twice more before he fell, Boyd says he shot twice at Booth, one of the shots taking effect. Drs. Fnllerlove, of Athens; Dan iel, of Statham, and Hodges, of Winder, were called and an opera tion was decided upon as the wouned man’s only hope for life, his intestines having been punctured in several places by the bullet. Booth died at 7 o'clock yester day afternoon on the operating table. Mr. Booth was forty-eight years of age ajd is survived by his wife and seven children. They have the deep sympathies of many friends in this PROF. REYNOLDS AT LYRIC. Will Discuss flat Eart 1 and Moving of the Sun and Moon. Prof. T. H. Reynolds will be the attraction at the Lyric theatre next Tuesday night. Prof. Reynolds’ subject will be “The Stability of the Earth, orthe Moving of the Sun and Moon.” I hose- \\ indcr astronomers who hold different views should be pres ent. From the Bible and bis own scientific deductions be will under take to prove the fallacy of the views of the would-be scientists as to a stationary sun and a moving earth. Come out and hear him. BACK FROM TEXAS. Mr. J. B. Lay returned Tuesday from attendance upon the old sol diers convention. When at Mem phis lie took advantage of the op pornunity to take a Tittle spin through Texas and visit relatives and friends in the I,one Star State. He speaks enthusiastically of the fine crops owned by Green Martin and Henry Lay, but says Lige L;y is the fancy farmer of all the old Jackson county hoys. Texas is a grand farming state and the corn the finest he ever saw, hut the hold weevils are playing havoc with the cotton. Small hoys are making 81.30 per day killing them at a cent apiece. \\ ben asked if he was thinking of moving to Tex is he re plied, My goodness no! 1 would not leave ‘Old JugTnv rn’ for any place on earth!’’ PUCK rut EAGLE [Will. IJOYS. 1 lie \\ ind r baseball team met In r Waterloo- in Elberton, being defeat ed four out of the six games played. That would seem to indicate that the Queen C ity is a wise old bird, and the little streak of yellow which caused her to refuse to me t the Elberton bids is all that kept them from plucking a handful of her tail feather. Elberton brought to Winder the best aggregation of all-round ball players ever seen on our lot. We don’t know whether they live at Elberton or Kankakee, but they seemed to be well acquainted with each oth r, as well as with the game of baseball. However, that is ancient history. The proud eagle bird of the moun tains is now Hopping around at Val iev Park, an 1 it is said she hasn't lost a tail feather this season, but we have heard as how she has been giving her attention to the lambs and rabbits. This time she has mudr a mistake and ac.vlcu a wea sel. So come out ’saftorno >n, Fri day and Saturday and witness the battle to a finish between Winder and Gainesville. hour of great bereavement. The funeral will be held at the residence this afternoon at three o’clock. No warrant was sworn out against Boyd during the day, as it was not known what would be the termina tion of the wound, but a warrant was sworn out about dark last night. The defendant made no attempt to get away. He has retained Messrs. Shackelford & Shackelford, of Athens, to defend him in the courts. His plea will be that of self defense. The state will contend that Boyd was the aggressor and will fight the plea of self defense when the case ‘come ß to trial- NO. 14