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WINDER WEEKLY NEWS
Published Every Thursday Evening
Ross Bros. Editors and Proprietors
Entered at the Postoffice at Winder, Ga ,
as Second Class Mail Matter.
Thursday, June 24, 1909.
Mrs. Carrie Nation is now mak
ing plans to build a tabernacle on
her farm in Arkansas, where she
will hold the greatest temperance
revival ever known.
John X Holder, of Jackson, was
chosen speaker of the house of re
presentatives without opposition,
Roland Ellis, of Jiibb, having re
tired from the race.
Prof. George Burman Foster, of
the E’niversity ot Chicago, who
denied the divinity of Christ, was
dropped from the Baptist Ministers’
Conference <>f Chicago Tuesday.
A committee from the Young
Men’s Club went out Sunday after
noon in search of beauty spots in
Winder. They awarded the prize
to a small section of boggy bottom
in Woodruff's pasture, though there
were other spots which they voted
handsome indeed.
The convention of the National
Cotton Association is in session at
Monte Nr-, Ark., and large dele
gations from all the cotton growing
states arc present. John 1). Walker,
of Sparta, (la., president of 25
southern hanks and a prominent
cotton planter, will in all probability
he made permanent president.
Commissioner lhaselton and JacJ
licnncu,. oerintendent of .Jackson
county’s road gang, ~assid through
Winder Tuesday on route to Allvnta
to purchase another road scrape.
Jack said the gang would he placed
upon the Winder-to-Commercc road
immediately upon their return,
beginning at Jefferson and working
this way.
The expected has happened. At
lanta has a witness in the Gould
divorce mess. She h a society
woman who testifies that “Mrs.
Gould never drank more that the
average society lady drinks.”
According to this statement and
the evidence in the Gould case
“society ladies" must ho a drunken
lot.
Harriet Walker, a wealthy girl of
Wellington 0., astounded her class
mates by appearing for high school
graduation in a calico gown. In
explanation her rich uncle said:
‘‘Our object is to begin a campaign
for more sensible gowns at com
mencement exercises. Many poor
people spend comparatively large
sums on such gowns. If every one
could afford it the custom would be
all right.”
We are all human, and the fate
of the young American girl in New
York who met her death by play
ing lover to two Chinamen at the
same time points out that the cus
tom of young women going among
foreigners alone is fraught with per
sonal danger as well as a likelihood
of becoming accustomed to and con
taminated with their vile habits.
In saving one “Chink" American
ideals are dwarfed in the minds of
many pure girls.
Twill be a sad day in Georgia
when jol s are dished out to the
lowest bidder, or boards of control
exact a commission from their ap
pointees. The strict opposition of
organized la I >ol'to this kind of thing
is its best asset. The salaried man
who would a tree to yield up a cer
tain ja r cent of his wages in order
to obtain a job is an undesirable
citizen and a detriment to healthy
prosperity. This item may not be
understood by all of our readers,
but there are come few who will
know full well its meaning. 1
SUFFICIENT GROUNDS.
Our readers will pardon us for
permitting two reverend gentle
men to air the current street gossip
in the last two issues of The News.
It will 1m- remcmliercd that a few
weeks ago The News intimated that
it was just barely possible that sec
tarian jealousy was interfering with
Winder’s board of education, and
to substantiate our suspicions that
the denominations had it in for
each other” and were using every
means at their command to gain an
advantageous foothold in the town,
we reproduced a clipping from the
Georgia Christian Messenger which
tended to show conditions as viewed
by one of our leading ministers.
His charges met with denial, and
since that time the official boards
of the two churches involved have
1m cn called together to censure page
articles to be printed in the News,
and the congregations are lined up
against each other as tight as Dick’s
hat band, while the other denomi
nations hold the balance <>f power.
We feel that the gentlemen have
proved without a doubt that we had
sufficient grounds for our intima
tion. In their sober deli lx* rations
the clear-headed men of the board
of education rose above the petty
sectarian bickerings and selected a
corps of teachers solely upon their
worth as instructors, not knowing
nor caring to what denomination
the most of the applicants belonged.
Winder's school is alb right, eve
rybody satisfied and pulling for its
success.
The waterworks muddle has been
settled to the satisfaction of all con
cerned, four new automobiles pur
chased this week, business picking
up,“everything lovely and the goose
bangs high.”
Preachers differ! Yes, they always
do when they don't belong to the
same denomination.
IIIE CROP REPORT
A portion of the weekly cotton
report as published in the Memphis
Commercial- Appeal follows:
“in all states east of the Mis
sissippi river and Arkansas, cultiva
tion is backward, and the plant is
small. Some progress was made
during the past week, but in many
districts of this territory heavy to
moderate local rains fell and kept
the labor from the fields There is
much grass. On some of the low
lands it is still too wet for cultivation,
and on such lands the cotton will he
abandoned.
“There an- only limited local ex
ceptions to this general condition.
“Some of the cotton worked out
early has again become foul, and
correspondents are of the opinion
that with the best of weather,
cultivation will not he normal be
fore July.
“In Oklahoma and Texas, rain
fall was beneficial. The crop dur
ing the week made rapid advance
ment. It is generally in a good
LOS’ DL ROAD !
Steeples a-p’intin’ to de sky,
Tellin’ a doleful story ;
Prayrs ain’t reachin’ eben nigh
De pearly gates o’ glory.
Flocks a-wand’rin’ in de night,
No one near to feed ’em ;
Los’ uns lookin’ for de light,
Ain’t no shepherds to lead ’em.
Los’ de straight an’ narrow road,
0 gib us faith to tin’ it !
He’p de meek uns b’ar de load,
An’little uns not to min’ it.
Fro’er Johnson uncubber de lamp,
An’ show us dat narrow way—
Taint no use to r’ar an’ vamp,
Taint no use to pray !
state of cultivation and is regarded
by correspondents as promising.
The 'Texas crop is still late, and
boll weevils are becoming more
numerous.
“Cotton in Louisiana is doing
v.’cil now, and conditions in Okla
homa and northern Texas arc above
the average.”
WERE SATE, ANYWAY.
We reproduce to the best of our
memory a conversation among some
negroes seated on the Gainesville
Midland platform one day last week.
Their names we do not know, but
an old-time antebellum negro was
being quizzed by a young buck
whose general hearing seemed to
indicate how proud he was of his
self-importance. The conversation
ran:
Johnson —Uncle Hast us, what am
dis ’ligioUs ’sturbance gwine on
twixt de white brudren?
Uncle Kastus —Well, 1 hears de
Baptis" an ’de Cambulites done gone
an’ jinc togedder to put de Mefodis
outen laziness, an’ dey jes’ well
fob dere tents an’ go, coz dey talk
in' water an’ de Mefodis am short
on water, if it am rainin’ ebry day.
Johnson —Well, haint dat little
Terian church obi r hv de school
house got nuffin to do wid it?
Lucie Rastus —Which? Mr. Lewis
Russuls little oT church? No! Dey
don’t care whai no one jinc ’em or
not. Haint jam read in de Good
Book whar it saj’, “Many called
an’ few chosen?” Pat’s dem.
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.
Roads.
We are not so sure that the state
or the government will ever take a
stand in building good roads, hut if
either or both in the future fur
nishes any money towards good
road building, in our opinion the
communities which do most for
themselves will he the ones to get
the most aid. —Dublin Courier-
Dispatch.
A potent force which is indorsing
the movement in our sister state is
the Georgia Farmers’ Union- When
thi' farmers who are vitally inter
ested in better roadways, take a
hand in movements of this kind
they have it in their power to do
much in the way of choosing men
to office who will champion the
cause. —Nashville American.
The Columbia State in a long ar
ticle upon the subject of the path
finders, sums up the situation in
the following paragraph:
“Dr. E. M. Whaley is in receipt
of a letter from Secretary Frank
Weldon, who say that the Georgia
counties are falling in line. Mr.
Weldon is doing practical work,
lie is going from county to county,
investigating, interviewing the road
officials and representative citizens,
and is arranging for and organiza
tion in each county. He expects
to reach South Carolina next week.
From report which Mr. Weldon
submits, the location of the route
will be determined. What Frank
Weldon says is officially authorita
tive.”
The Chronicle prints today the
tentative bill to be introduced in the
United States senate providing for
a national system of highways-
It is understood that President
Taft will approve a bill along these
lines, lu fact, it is believed that
the only measure to which lu* will
give approval would he one which
authorized the making of a survey
and of the gathering of information
with relation to roads and the
actual building of only sample roads
having reference to the variations
in topography, soil, etc., which the
various parts of the country present,
as well as the work incident to the
co-ordination of the plans of the
various states with the plan resul
tant from a government survey, so
that there may he one comprehen
sive national system of roads. —
Augusta Chronicle.
Congressman f?ulzer,in urging na
tional aid, said, in part:
“Good roads mean progress and
prosperity; a lienefit to tlie people
who live in the cities, an advantage
to the people who live in the coun
try, and it will help every section of
our vast domain- Good roads, like
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FARMS
FOR SALE !
lii 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.
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