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VOL. XVII.
J. T. Strange & Cos.
Making Room Sale.
When we cast our lot with the
good people of this section, things
were quite different from the progress
of today.
At that time a small room was
sufficient; we had fewer people; their
wants were less. But now things are
on wheels; we all have more; our peo
ple are making more, and life is worth
living.
We are all glad to be here during
these good times, pushing forward to
greater achievements in material oper
ations as well as spirtual uplift.
Mother Earth is weighted down
and just full of resources. Think of
the boundless store of coal in this land
of ours! The human mind cannot con
ceive of the vast supply—2,ooo billion
tons yet unmmed. At 7c per ton it is
worth more than the entire possessions
of these United States.
Lut us all be happy—enjoy life —be an optimist.
Only the narrow and miserable say that future genera
tions will freeze —be without lumber to cover their heads.
All the wonderful comforts we enjoy today have been
ever since God finished his sixth day’s work. We
.must search for and grasp them and then enjoy our efforts.
Strange & Company have tried to follow this rule:
Push forward —lead the procession in our line—grow or
decrease, wither and pass out. To this end we are now
pulling down the old steps, moving the office,
new easy stairs and landings to the second floor of our
building, whereby we may make a swell, up-to-date de
partment for millinery, ladies’ ready-to-wear, carpets and
various lines carried on second floor.
We will spare neither effort nor means to make
this store the best, most attractive of any in north Georgia.
Our carpenters are now at work and we must make
room for this extensive improvement-
All summer goods are reduced way
down and must be sold before our fall
purchases begin to arrive. It will be
worth your time to call and see what
we are offering. For the success we
have attained we are modestly proud,
but truly thankful to our friends and
patrons, who have helped us to our
present growth.
J. T. STRANGE & CO.
Leaders in Style; Regulators and Controllers cf Low Prices.
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WINDER, JACKSON COUNTY. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 1,1909
IN BRIEF ADDRESS
Governor-Elect Pledges Himself to
Administer the Duties of
High Office.
The address of Joseph M. Brown,
in accepting the cilice of chief ex
ecutive of the state, was breif and
impressive. lie did n>t enter into
political issues, but confined him
self to making a pledge to the peo
ple of Georgia to administer tho af
fairs of the state as a faithful servant
and according to the law. The ad
dress follows:
Gentlemen of the General Assembly,
Ladies and Fellow Citizens:
In obedience to the mandate of
the soverign people, I appear be
fore you for the purpose of taking
the oath which binds me to the du
ties of chief executive of this com
mon wealt h •
Before taking this oath, I pause a
few moments to invoke the blessing
of Almighty God upon not only the
state we love so well, hut also upon
every human creature whose life
lines are cast within her borders,
and to voice a few words of good
will and of cheer to all.
It i< true that clouds of discord
have for a time obscured the sky of
our peace, that paralysis lias stag
nated the warm blood of manly
endeavor; but, emerging from the
shadows into the radiance of the
rising sun, we know today as we
have ever believed that the heart of
Georgia still beats true to the mu
sic of progress; that the hand of
Georgia wielding righteous power
will ever protect impartially and
completely all who with sincere
souls place themselves and their in
terests under her shield.
In this hour when our state’s
sons have assembled to do homage
to her laws, let us look not back
upon the checkered past, hut face
the future and its opportunities
with the will to do justice and to
dwell together in amity.
I must here express the conviction
that our fathers, in framing the or
ganic law of our commonwealth,
fixed the excutive, legislative and
judicial departments as the balance
wheel of government. Interference
of either with the others was forbid
den, and each within its circle was
supreme, save that the governor, by
the ordely exercises of the veto,
was invested with the power to stay
hasty or ill-considered legislation
1 pledge my obedience to the
constitution in its entirety. Ishall
understand to execute every duty it
imposes upon me. I shall not at
tempt to grasp any power it directly
or by inference denies to me.
Each citizen filling an office 1 es
tablished under the constitution is
responsible for the administration
of its functions, and no one in an
other department is authorized to
interfere with the exercise of such
admistrative powers.
Equality under th" laws is the
common right of our citizenship,
constitutionalism is the pass-word
of the patriot, justice weilds the
sword which strikes down the wrong,
which protects the pure, and the
voice of reason we perforce must
heed, for we can not ignore the
truth that reason coerces while it
coaxes- In obedience to the con
stitution we fulfill duty, we secure
pleasure,for while that great instru
ment commands, it protects.
I will not today consume time in
proposing specific plans of procedure
lin our governmental labors. You
! who are here assembled know the
'problems which confront us; and
at an early day we will counsel to
j gather, wo will co-operate in the
endeavor to lessen the burden of
the people, and to restore econom*
; ic conditions which will enable all
who work to prosper.
In the meantime, if there have
been differences let us put them be
j bind us; let harmony guide our
| thoughts and accord characterize our
acts; let us bear in mind that we
Jure Georgians, and that the interest
;of each Georgian is the interest of
! all Georgians, and let us prove to
the world that wisdom-endowed
constitution-obeying and honor
loving Georgia holds forever sacred
the guarantee that under her aegis
abide ns regnant forces justice, faith
and truth. 1 ask of you therefore
to remcmlxT that as great as
are our opportunities, so great
are our obligations that the
laws of our state are not enacted to
confer more power on those named
as officials, but to furnish and apply
the machinery whereby the officials
can protect in equality of rights all
the people, thoir peers. And in the
application of those laws we can not
eliminate the personal equation from
the problem,for both the official and
private citizen are hound to mu
tually responsive action in the pro
tection of society, to the extent that
in all matters affecting the interest
of the public, the piivate citizen
should hold his word to be as weigh
ty with fidelity to fact as the offi
cial holds his oath. Let us then to
safeguard that protection discard
haste and impulse and with faith in
God and in ourselves promulgate
instead the propaganda of delibera
tion and reciprocal rights of conver
satism and common sense. And in
promulgating that propaganda we
ever face the fact that the people
are the power, not the head-spring
only,hut the great rolling river,clear
with intelligence and masterful
with might, shining with justice
and sweet with truth, controlled by
no one but controlling every one.
My countrymen, love is not an
empty idea, and fraternity not a
dream. All things peaceable are
possible to those who.-e will is to do
the right. The glory of Georgia
car. be found in a united manhood.
If, then, in the exercise of the
faculties with which the Deity ha
endowed us, we acquire prestige,
rank or power, let us cast them at
the feet of our great mother state,
and to her say: “These are thine,
and we are thine I”
Finally, I pray that all of us into
whose hands the sovereign people
have entrusted their governmental
affairs may hold in mind that we
are here to reconcile, not to antag
onize, to confer with our con
sciences while we confer with each
other, and so realizing, that we
may move forward, harmonious
and loyal, with the lamp of reason,
not the torch of discord, to light
onr way.
I am now ready to take the oath.
SURPRISE PARTY.
A few boys and girls gave Miss
Starr Blasingame a surpri.se party
Saturday night. After many in
teresting games were played delicious
fruits were served. Those invited
were Misses Ruth Carithers, Marie
Smith, Kathleene Coker, Gussie
O’Neal, Kathrine Suddath, Sara
Cannon, Messrs. Hipp, Potts, Ca
mbers, Colby and J. K. Orr-
A BONDED WAREHOUSE
R. L. Rogers Building New Warehouse
and Buggy Reposilory Near
Seaboard Depot.
Mr. R. L. Rogers has broken dirt
for his new cotton warehouse ard
buggy repository. It will he located
on the Seaboard Air Line railroad,
between the old foundry and the
depot, and will occupy a space of
90x268 feet. It will be built in
accordance with the standard ware
house specifications of the South
eastern Tariff Association and will
he equipped with a complete auto
matic sprinkler system, thus ren
dering it almost incombustible. It
will he constructed in sections, two
stories high, and will have a storage
capacity of 1,000 to 5,000 hales of
cotton. The upper story in front
will be a buggy repository, where a
complete line of all kinds of ve
nicles will be carried.
The lower story in front will he
used for weighing and handling
transient cotton, while the rear sec
tion will he used as bonded ware
houses, in which cotton will he
stored by parties who wish to hold
their cotton and draw money on it.
The bonded feature of this enter
prise is something new in this sec
tion, and will not only be of great
advantage l to the farmers of this
vicinity, but also to the cotton mills.
Mr. Rogers shows his confidence
in the continued progress of our
little city by putting eight or ten
thousand dollars in this new enter
prise and then hacking it up with
his efforts to make Winder the
most attractive cotton market in
north Georgia.
FORMING INSURANCE COMPANY.
There are few cities in Georgia as
progressive as is Winder.
We are informed that plans are
under wav to organize immediately
an old line life insurance company
with headquarters here.
We understand that the capital
sffick will he SIOO,OOO.
It is a well known fact that all
the old line life insurance compa
nies have to make a deposit of SIOO,-
000 with the state of Georgia be
fore they can do business in this
-date. It is the purpose of the par
ties interested to select probably
100 men from Jackson, Walton and
Gwinnett counties to compose this
company, selecting from each
county ten leprcsentative citizens
as directors.
The probabilty is that of recent
years there has not been a more im
portant subject brought to the at
tention of our southern people than
the great question of life insurance
and the amount of money that is
sent to the cast that never returns
to the southland. There are no
men anywhere with higher ideals,
better business judgement nor more
straight-forward in their dealings
than the men of the south. There
fore there is no argument necessary
to present to the people the sound
ness and importance of this enter
prise. We trust that the public
will become at once interested in
the proposition and lend the pro
moters whatever encouragement
may be necessary.
Among those whoare primarily in
terested in theforming of this corpo
ration are Messrs. J. B. Williams,
W. L. Blasingame, S. W. Arnold,
W. H. Toole and others-
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