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WINDER WEEKLY NEWS
Published Every Thursday Evening
Kohs Bros. Editors* and Proprietor*
Entered at the Pobtofliee at Winder, Ga.,
as Second Class Mail Matter.
Thursday, August 12, 1909.
lxt Ur* hope that freaks*, like suck
ers*, are not horn every minute.
Well,it’s over and the i>< ople may
now breathe freely for a year at
least.
We suggest to Governor Brown
that he pardon the prison eommis
sion, if Hie confined criminal list
has been exhausted*
A hired attorney, a few signatures
and a governor is all that is needed
to set criminals free. Alsolish the
prison commission.
Wallace Miller, a negro, was
lynched by a Kentucky mob Tues
day night. The negro had assault
ed the 11-year-old daughter of a
prominent Kentucky planter.
Workmen at the Gary, Ind., steel;
plant, declare that beer is a necessi
ty and that unless they be allowed
to purchase what they need in Gary
they will go where the beverage
ma\ be had.
\\\ A. Belcher, a wcll-to do plan
ter living near Baxley, Ga., was as
sassinated Tuesday. He was given
no chance for his lift l , being shot
from ambush. Suspicion points to
one B. S. Taylor.
The general appropriation bill, as
finally passed yesterday by house
and senate,carries a total of spous
SCO for the year 11)10, and an ad
dition of .$250,000 to that for tin
common school fund It 101 1
Special appropriations carry the
amount to considerably over •$.,-
000,000.
Captain Bon Millikin, representa
t-ivt* of Wayne county in the gener
al assembly, was in Winder Sunday
the guest of his nephew, Mr. 11. B.
Millikin. Captain Millikin was
well pleased with Winder, and was
impressed with the need of anew
county here. (apt. Millikin lives at
Jesup.and is one of the lending men
of South Georgia.
Wednesday’s Gwinnett Journal
carried an article on its editorial
page, the verbiage of which is too
indecent for reproduction in this
sheet. The author says he is com
ing again. Next time la- intends to
speak plainly. If conditions are as
had in his community as he pictures
lie should give a few lectures to
men only at some convenient school
house.
Governor Brown Tuesday sent to
the senate the appointment of T-
Hicks Fort to he solicitor of the
city court of Columbus, Ga. At
torney General Hart having held
the appointment of W. Cecil Neill
by formei Governor Iloke Smith to
bo illegal, there was nothing for the
senate to do hut confirm Mr. Fort's
appointment. Some people are cru
el enough to contend that this is not
the only illegal act the Big One has
boon guilty of.
Representative Edwards, of Wal
ton county,in explaining his vote in
the McLendon case to his constitu
ents is quoted hy The Walton News
assaying: “I lielievo in tracking
the law, and with the evidence be
fore me, I could not do other
wise.’* Vet hy his vote he denied
to McLendon the right guaranteed
hy the constitution to the meant st
(thicken thief the right to be heard
in his own defense before a fair and
impartial jury.
rut GOOD ROADS 01 JACKSON.
Those of our readers interested
in the movements of Jackson coun
ty's road gang will l>e pleased to
learn that it has crossed tLit- Mul
lterry and is camped near old Beech
Greek Primitive Baptist church, in
('handler’s district. The old church
house still stands, but the con
gregation long since ceased to wor
ship then*, and for many years the
building lias lieen used as a barn.
We have not visited the camp
and have passed over only a few
miles of the roadbed worked by the
convicts, but from the many criti
cisms reaching our ears we judge the
substantial improvements naturally
to Ik- expected from well managed
convict labor is not being done. We
expected some improvement over the
old system of pulling a little dirt
to the middle of the road. We
learn that no hills are being graded,
and that water furrows are not even
given a cleaning or scraping. We
arc told that the road overseer when
asked to make some little change,
answers that lie is under orders
from his superior officer to give the
roads a general old-time working
unless special work is laid out by
the superintendent. The gang has
been in camp at this place two weeks
and we are informed that said
officer lias made only one trip to
the scene of activity, and that of
very recent date. We have not had
time to look up the law on the
duties of road superintendent, and
presume he is busily engaged look
ing after the various matters com-
ing before him. In Walton county
the road boss is the whole cheese —
his own foreman, road boss and
surveyor —and keeps right with the
gang. Wouldn't it he tine if Bud
O’Shields could come over into his
home district and show these
novices how to build roads?
To my mind this good roads
movement means much to the
farmer. Some weeks since we pub
lished a letter from Washington
calling ath lit ion to the relation
good roads bore to the rural tree
delivery system. It was a note of
warning, and assure as we fail to
keep good roads for our carriers
they will he discontinued. The
records show many routes being
suspended because the carrier was
unable to make tin* trip of thirty
miles or more over bad roads.
This should appeal to our farmer
friends,’’’and instead of going on
the road and “staying out their
time’’ they should lix a part of the
road in good first class condition
and patch the balance for the time
being, and next road working time
fix another section,and so on. This
system, it seems to us, would in a
a few years place all the roads in
good condition, easy to keep so
and a pleasure to travel.
Reverting hack to the brainery
which steers the convict road work
ing machinery, we suggest that he
take the advice of the lamented
Sam Jones to a Jefferson audience
and travel and see something of the
world. Get on the train and go to
Athens, come to Winder, go to
Monroe, Graddis and Bethlehem
and learn what is going on.
Manly Hazzard, a fifteen-year-old
hoy of Atlanta, met a tragic death
Tuesday in Bad Branch, a treacher
ous stream about a mile above the
Bodge at Tallulah.
John Simpson,a well-known farm
er living fcear Seottsville, Ky., was
called to the door of his home Tues
day night and shot to death by six
marked men.
And now a Company has lx on
organized and a plant will 1h i put in
lat Cordelc for the manufacture of
, paper from the pulp of cotton stalks
We have known for the past fifty
, year* that it could be done but the
I lack of sense and cent prevented the
: venture. —CofTei County News.
With the Paragraphers.
It seems certain that Georgia will
have to cut expenditures, raise rev
enue or go bankrupt. —Dublin
Courier-Dispatch.
What Mr. "‘Whoopcr” Alexan
der seems to want is a multiplica
tion and vexation of prohibition.
Augusta Chronic-ale.
The Macon Telegraph says that
“hen-pecked men must rise.’
That’s right, and very early in the
morning, too. —Hatrwell Sun.
Georgia needs a constitutional
amendment to make donkeys in
eligible to memliership in her legis
lature. —Anderson Daily Mali.
An inquirer wants to know where
the liars go, hut up to date there is
no evidence that they have gone
anywhere. —Valdosta Times.
A conundrum: If DeKalb is
consolidated with Fultnn, what will
Ixrome of Representative Alexan
der? — Dublin Courier-Dispatch.
.Just like to ask some members of
the legislature if in taking their
oaths they swore allegiance to the
state or to an ex-governor. —Ogle-
thorpe Echo.
It is not the number of Dills a
legislator introduces that makes him
useful, but the number he is in
strumental in killing after they are
introduced. —Marietta Join mil.
Some scientist now says that a
man’s great toe wiggles every time
he tells a lie. We suppose t hat is
the reason our great-grandfathers
took to wearing shoes. —Elbert-on
Star.
It has been decided by scientists
that when the tempi ratine is above
t)(), the brain is incapable of normal
action. To prove this assertion,
we suggest that our legislature hold
its next session during the winter
months.
S. 'Veil states, it has Been discover
ed, are named after the fair sex.
The genius who made the discovery
classifies them as follows: Mary
Band, Della Ware, Mrs.Sippi, Miss
Ouri, Bou Siana, Minne Sola and
Ida 110. —Bx.
Tin' senate refused to re-consider
the McLendon ease. How could it
“re-consider’ something it had
never considered? iloke Smith’s
wishes have only been considered
thus far. —Bawreneivlle News-Her
ald.
They are going to make paper
out of corn stalks. Now if we can
manufacture good printing ink out
of poke berries, there’ll be some
chance for the country papers to
make ends meet. —Sylvania Tele
phone.
If you happen to meet one of this
city’s ladies on the street and she
appears very nervous and pale,
don’t get the idea that she is suffer
ing form pellegra. She is appre
hensive of another freak Hill in the
legislature. —Covington News.
An Illinois man by the name of
Joe Junette has solved tin* problem
of getting a living easily. He has
trained twenty ducks to catch and
eat potato bugs, and hires them out
to the farmers at fifty cents a day
each. Nowall .Toe has to do is to
sit in the shade and watch his ducks
work for him. And yet they say
the dav of opportunity for genius is
past- —T<>ceoa Recard.
It was hoped that the legislature
would give the poor man a chance
to vote hy knocking out that six
months in advance registration law.
But tie* poor man catches it in the
neck every time, and if wo know a
thing or two many of tin- present
legislators and senators will never
again have a voice in these deliber
ations, but will be retired to the
shades of private life, where tiny
belong. —Clark County Courier.
Lamar & Perry
Real Estate,
Winder, Georgia.
We have 1620 acres of land in
McDuffie county, Georgia, that is
worth your investigation.
This is one of the prettiest farms
to be found in Middle Georgia. It is
in one of the healthiest sections of the
state, good water, fronting for one
mile on Georgia Railroad and only
three miles from Thomson. There are
not 20 acres of waste land on the en
tire 1620 acres and all of it lies beauti
fully. 500 acres in cultivation and
the balance in woods. Most of this is
a very fine grade of land, with clay
subsoil, and is an ideal tract for divid-
ing into a number of small farms.
There is on the place a magniffieent
residence, well kept that cost over
$5,000. One nice five room residence
that cost over $1,200 and one good 4-
room house and 12 substantial tenant
houses.
Get your map and look up McDuf
fie county. It is not low down; it ad
joines Wilkes and Warren. This is the
best bargain m Middle Georgia as the
price is only SIB.OO per acre and terms
given to suit purchasers.
We would like to show this valua
ble and pretty farm to some man who
has the nerve to back his judgement.
We know it is being offered way below
its value and the opportunity to get it
will not remain open very long.
We have a number of desirable
farms for sale in Middle and North
east Georgia and are selling now from
two to four every week, but this week’s
ad. is intended to specially call your at
tention to this attractive farm of 1620
acres near Thomson, McDuffie county.
It will pay you to see us.
LAMAR & PERR Y,
WINDER GEORGIA.