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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.