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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, July 8, 1909.
Always speak well of yourself.
Your friends will tell your faults
and more.
A Nebraska bachelor says women
and newspapers should not Ik* judged
by their wrappers.
East year’s purchase of ties by!
the country’s railroads wen* only
two-thirds as large as 11)07.
Some people say that night rid
ing” is excusable because it is too
hot to ride in the day time.
The owl may not be as wise as, he
looks, but he is wise enough not to
try to work hoth the night and day
shifts.
An exchange says Mrs. Gould had
plenty of chance to show her $->OO
stockings in gettir.g on and off the
water wagon.
Twas not port rates which gut
Gyrt in had, but as he says, a little
“Happy II ooligan” stunt for the
Smith administration.
How would you like to be a
school teacher and spend s’>() dur
ing the present hot month to qual
ify fur a $35-a-month teaching job
for next winter?
No, Girtrudc, dear, Hoke never
fired McLendon for dealing in rail
road bonds, and surely be would
not bold this as a club over Me s
head for eight months.
Don't suspect everything and
everybody. There aren't so many
hypocrites as you think, and to
judge by one’s self is radically
wrong, says a paper away down in
Florida.
Over twenty eases of pistol wounds
and knife stabs were treated at
Grady hospital, Atirnta, Monday
night. And we suspect that “nigh
b ‘cr ' was at the bottom of all of
if
The Georgia legislature has been
in session about ten days and there
has been nothing accomplished
either to the benefit or detriment
of the state. Tin* people are be
coming tired of paying politicians
logo to Atlanta and juggle, and
biennial or triennial sessions would
be more to their liking than the
present state of affairs.
We wore not willing to condemn
McLendon for his attitude in the
Atlanta pint rate question, which
was the > >le grounds upon which
■Governor Smith suspended the rail
road commissioner, hut now that
bhe ‘legislature's subsequent invest
*tiga*ions have unearthed n strong
suspicion of crooki and (leadings in
street railway bonds, \n arc ready
to hack up the legislature with a
hearty amen should it prove the
charges and impeach the enthusias
tic “refawner.'
Wonder il Jackson eonntyV
ordinary looked up the grand jury
presentment- relative to “White
Hops” lMore issuing a nigh-beer :
license for Winder s border? lint 1
that is ‘ immaterial. Where then
is a will there is a way- We have
already heard of women s tears on
account of this joint, and it is up to
the good people of the neighborhood
to put it out of business and do it
now. The people of \\ inder are
depending upon you for concerted
action. Will she be disappointed?
AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS.
With the automobile, as in n ost
everything else, the many must
bear the approbium which attaches
to the sins of the few. For a
thousand automobile drivers there
may be half a dozen reckless fellows
who will reflect discredit on and
engender prejudice against all.
Asa rule the mobile owners of
Winder are very considerate of the
farmers and bring their machines
to a stand-still in cases of frightened
stock. They realize that the road
is a public institution and each man
has his rights thereon, but we learn
recently swell-headed mobilists
have been passing through this sec
tion solely upon the assumption
that the earth and its right of way
belongs to them and all else must
get out of the way, not stopping
or earing in which direction fright
ened stock took their flight-
Thi-re is no disposition on the
part of farmers and drivers of spirit
ed animals to deprive automobiles
of any of their rights to the roads,
but something must he done to stop
reckless driving, and it is certain
that too much lineancy on the part
of the authorities will not have that
effect. When a driver can speed
his machine on'the main highways
regardless of life or liifib to others
it is high time to inquire of the
courts what they consider danger
ous conduct.
And then, on the other hand,
there arc a few real dog mean fel
lows in the country who will drive
a horse or mule which is not scared
of “Old Nick” himself in the mid
dle of the road for half a mile and
pay no attention to the “honk
honk” of tho mobilist who is at
tempting to pass.
The mobiles are here to stay and
it will he a long time before young
stock will not prick up their ears
upon their approach, so let’s adapt
ourselves to conditions as they exist
and show a liberal consideration for
our felloivmen.
NO CHINAMEN CONVERTED.
Referring to the recent murder of
Hide tSigel in New York by a China
man she was trying to convert, one
is tempted to asg whether the bu-u
--ncss of msssions among the Chinese
is worth while, since the history of
t he movement shows that the China
man is more likely to convert the
mission worker to opium than the
mission worker is to convert the
Chinaman to Christianity.
Sir l’ohrct Hart, for many years
in charge of the Chinese customs
on behalf of the British Govern
or'll t, and piobably better acquit in t
t and with China and the Chinese than
any other white man, has made
the frank statement that, no matter
what missionaries may believe and
say,not one ('hinaman has ever been
really converted to Christianity.
lie contends that the sole object
of attending English-speaking
schools is to learn English and to
pick up foreign methods, and that
.John Chinaman's pretense of con
version is pretense and nothing
more-
There are more white heathen in
New York than all the Chinamen
mission will ever convert, here or
in China. And such girls as Elsie
Sigel can find better employment
for their energies among the chil
dren of the American poor than
among the almond-eyed devils of
tin Chinese hells, infested by the
very worst ol the underworld. —
Saturday Dade,
Say, Mr. Police and Members of
the City Council, don t you think it
is about time to clean up? First re
move the cause of unpleasant talers
and it won't take quite so much
lime in the future.
A man tells us lie was siek two
weeks and not a soul called on him.
lit ordered a jug by express the
next week and live came to see
him the night it arrived.
With the Paragraphers.
Governor Brown brought to the
capitol with him a gourd to install
at the water cooler in the executive
office. First time we are in Atlanta
we are sure going around and take
a drink with him —Oglethope Echo.
There is a man in Decatur county
who is reputed to he such a liar that
when the time comes to feed his
hogs he has to get some one else to
call them for him. — Bainbridge
Search Light.
It's suprising how much a six
teen-yea l-old son can tell his father
that the old man won’t believe. —
Exchange.
Miss Buzzard of Cincinnati, aged
20, changed her name last week by
marrying a young man named Bird.
We could say more, hut will allow
the thoughts to take wings.— Ex
change.
The Charleston News and Courier
is trying to break the girls from
wearing white shoes. It says they
make a girl's feet look larger. —
Augusta Herald.
Mr Smith while Governor, re
commended that the prison bo rad
he increased from three to Hive.
The legislature carried out the re
quest, and then he would not he
governed by these five men who in
vestigated mattters and reported
under oath. —Duhloncgo Nugget.
The daily papers are full of horri
ble stories of crime, scandals, mur
ders and many things unfit for fami
ly Derusal. The Macon Nows advo
cates a censorship of the press in
order to suppress such stories.
Something ought to be done.
OLD-TIME BASEBALL.
John Michael, of Oconee county,
the famous pitcher of the old “Pop
an,-Go” baseball team, was visiting
friends in Winder this week. It is
said that for live years he never lost
a game. In his day the rules re
quired delivering the ball from be
low the hip, and he could hurl the
pig skin hi) yards on a level with
this handicap, and was the first man
to successfully use a curved ball
hereabouts. Mr. Michael is a left
hander. When the subject of has ball
was mentioned he remarked to the
editor: “There i- not a man in the
game today who can steal a base on
me and bob (AirithersA The
“Pop-an ’-Gos ; ' were the champions
of this section of the state for five
years hack, in the days when ton
na n composed a team. Mr. Mi
chael pitched his last game in ISTh.
The team was composed as follows:
John Micnael, pitcher.
boo C’arithcrs, catcher.
Jim Jackson, first base.
Joe Jones, second base.
< lold ii t'arithers, third base.
Jim t'arithers, shortstop.
A. (i. t 'oop('i, right field.
Granby Jackson, left field.
Frank Gritfeth, center field
lack (JritToth, backstop.
bills of varying si/e and impor
tance are blillging the pockets of
our new legislators —Klberton Star
Yep and it may be that they
have “buliged the pockets’’ of some
of our old ones.
TRY IT.
From the Sterling bulletin:
“Newspaper men, as a rule, have
but two things to sell —space and
subscription —and it would he just
as consistent to ask your grocer for
a dozen oranges ‘ju>t to fill up, as
to ask the editor for a dozen lines
m his newspaper just to boost your
business with tin idea you are doing
a kindness in helping to ‘till up
space. Try getting a free dinner at
the hotel just to till up.”
We have been requested to pub
lish notice of the fern pie Baptist
church, Allanta, Ga., to he held
Sunday, July 11. Ail ex-mem
bers are urgently requested to make
an extra effort to attend.
IF YOU WANT A GOOD FARM
HEKE YOU A(<E!
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You may talk about your western
farms==(Jklahoma, Texas and elsewhere,
and they aremighty fine. We sell them
and know all about their worth.
.But never will the Georgia farm or the Georgia home
cease to be the dearest spot on earth to the vast majority,
of Georgia’s patriotic men and women. They are content
ed and satisfied to live beneath her blue skies, to drink her
cool and pure water, breathe her health-giving air and
work for her industrial and agricultural advancoment.
This advertisement is about Georgia farms. We
have some that are worth seeing in point of value, fertil
ity, desirability and healthfulness.
Take the fine farms we have for sale around Winder
and Statham, and also in Oglethorpe, Wilkes, McDuffie,
Taliaferro and Green counties.
To give you a full description of all of them, to tell
you all about their values and many advantages would
take too long.
Really,' if we could tell you all in this advertisement,
still, to appreciate them as they deserve, you would have
to see them, and we are ready to show you now at any
time you desire to go and look.
50-ACRE FARMS 300-ACRE FARM*S
75 - ACRE FARM-5 500-ACRE FARM 5
100-ACRE FARM-5 i 000-ACRE FARMS
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We have any size farm you want; can give you the
best of terms, and all these farms are in healthy sections
in middle and northeast Georgia, convenient to schools
and churches; clever citizens and kind neighbors.
As to prices, we believe we can give vou the greatest
ever offered. We can settle any number of families in
one community, if they want to be together, where they
can all be neighbors and patronize the same school. """
We sell from five to 8,000 acres of fine farm lands
every year, and know what Georgia people want, and
always satisfy them.
LET U 5 SHOW YOU THESE FARMS AND
CHOOSE YOURS FROM AMONG THEM. IN A
-SHORT WHILE YOU WILL 5E THROUGH WORK,
AND YOU SHOULD LoSE No TIME IN MAKING AN
ENGAGEMENT. WRITE OR CoME To GEE U 5, WE
ARE READY To -SERVE YOU.
Lamar & Perry,
WINDER. GEORGIA.