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VOL. XVII. GRIM REAPER CLAIMS RICHARD A. CROSS. Richard A. Cross breathed his M Sunday afternoon at 3:80 <rclock, and his spirit passed into the presence of his Maker • For several weeks Mr. Cross had heen seriously ill,and little hope was entertained for his recovery, and his friends were in a measure pre pared for the sad intelligence. Asa boy Richard Cross was full of energy and counted that day lost when his hands found nothinig to do. By pluck and self-sacrifice he worked his way through college. About three years ago young "Cross moved to Atlanta and ac cepted a position with the Clothing firm of M. R. Emmons & Cos. The devotion in which he was held by this firm was attested by the presence here at the funeral of rep resentatives of the company and the beautiful tribute paid to him by one of the gentlemen at the grave. Some five weeks ago Mr. Cross was attacked with lung trouble and placed himself under the care of physicians at the Presbyterian hos pital, Atlanta, from which place he was moved to his father’s home, near Winder, about three weeks ago. In spite of all physicians and skillful nursing could do, young Cross continued to grow worse until 'the end came Sunday afternoon. He was about 21 years of age and the oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. \V. 11. Cross. His remains were hurried at Nazareth church Tuesday in the presence of a large concourse of sorrowing friends and relatives. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. R. S. McGarity, of Jeffer son. Besides his parents he leaves one brother and two sisters and many relatives to mourn his demise. The News offers condolence in this hour of affliction- HAS KEEN RECAELED. A. I). MeCurry, charge de affaires and plenipotentiary from J. T. Strapge & Cos., to Baltimore, Phil adelphia and New York, has been recalled, and reached home Sunday wreathed in smiles. When seen Thursday morning Mac was too busy engaged marking up goods to talk advertising. Have a good time Mac? “Sure, Took in Coney Island Sunday. Say, there were one mil lion and one people on the island that day. You should have seen that bunch. ‘‘Bob,we got what the trade wants this trip, and when we get the goods, which are arriving every day, in shape, I will tell the people about it through The News,” and he went on calling out forty-four two, thirty-six, etc. Atlanta to Richmond by Automobile. Special to The News: The large Franklin touring car leaves Atlanta for Richmond on Monday morning, August 23, fol lowing the ollicial Herald-Journal Highway, and will .-top in passing here next week- The party con sists of Messrs Geo. l\ Burdh'k and Joe S. Harrison, salesmen of Steph ns-Putney Shoe Company, and is in charge of X. K. Smith, who has the Atlanta office of the Battle Axe Slice line and also opor ales a large shoe -tore. The car will be known as the official Battle Axe Shoe Car and is driven by Mr. H. T. Wells. ißtttdcr wcclilg J\ T CWB* WINDER. JACKSON COUNTY. GEORGIA, THURSDAY. AUGUST 19,1909 LOCAL OVERfLOW. - Mrs. Melisa McCoy is the guest of the family of Mr. R. X. Pen tecost. For Rent —Five-room house on Broad street. Apply to L. M. Leathers. Mrs. L. .T. MeElhannon who has been ill for several days is much improved. Carpet Slippers for Gentlemen and Ladies 2k\ a pair at J. L. Saul's. Messrs. P. A. Flanigan and J. B. Williams are ir. Chicago on busi ness. House Shoes in all sizes for La dies and Gentlemen 25c. ji pair at J. L. Saul’s. Mr. IL X. Pentecost has moved into 1 iis handsome now residence on Sage street. Misses Annie and Clyde Patman, of Athens, are the guests of Miss Clco Bush. Miss Nina Ware, of Lawrcnce vi Il*, spent several days in the city recently with friends. Miss Pamelia Spencer, of Atlanta, will arrive soon to ix* the guest of Mrs. .J. T. Strange. M:s. J. T. Strange and little daughter, Louise, have returned from Indian Spring. Mrs. E. 1), Wyley and little son, Robert De Lain, will be the guests of Mrs. A- L. Smith this week. Have you seen those good Mow ers and Ilakes at Smith Hardware Company? They are the best. Miss Irene McWilliams is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. DeLa.- perriere, on Candler street- Messrs. Daughtry and Floyd, of Atlanta, are the guests of Misses Ora Ix-e and Pauline Camp. 'Misses Annie Thomas and Blanche Smith have returned from a pleas ant visit to Watkinsville. Just think! The well known Clarandon Counterpane can be bought for $1.20 at -J. L. Saul’s. Messrs. Sidney Thomas and Her shel Hill were the guests of relatives and friends in Watkinsville last week. Fruit Jars, Fruit Jars, Fruit Jars, Fruit Jars, Fruit Jars. Thousands of Fruit .Jars, at Smith Hardware Company. Mr. -T. E. Carrington and sister, Annie, are visiting in Athens and Clarksboro this week, the guests of relatives. Miss Doris Phillips, a very charming young lady, of Savannah, is visiting her cousins, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Brooks. Mr A. G. Cooper spent Tuesday and Wednesday in Commerce and witnessed the sham battle of the old Confederate Veterans. The little child of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Cooper is seriously ill. The little fellow is thought to be some better at this writing Mr. and Mrs. J. 11. Wright, were called to Rosewell Tuesday to the bed.-’.de of Mrs. Wright’s mother, who is seriously ill. Mr. Luther Steel, Route 19, is the first to send us a full grown, ■open cotton boll of the 1999 crop. It r ach<’d our desk Wednesday afternoon. Mr. J. 1.. Lanier and son, Golden, are visiting in Monroe. Miss Maye Kelly is tie* gu-*st of friends near Bethlehem this week. Mr. and Mrs. (). S. Hayes and children were the guests of friends in Statham, last week. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Mathews visited relatives in Orglothorpe county last week. Mrs. A. I>. MeCurry, after sever al week’ visit to Mrs. John Martin in Gainesville, returned home Tues day. Mr. and Mrs. J. M- Pool have returned from a ten days’ trip to the mountians. While away he took in the Young People’s Baptist Assembly at Blue Ridge, Ga. Mr. F. E. Weatherly, who has heen with the Bell Overall Company since it began operation, has resign ed his position and with his wife, moved to Montogmery, Ala. A delightful affair of Tuesday afternoon was the lawn party at which the MissesCaritthers enter tained in honor of their guests Misses Brightwell and Boswell. We are pleased to report the complete recovery of Mr. J. A- Sugars from his recent illness. lie is passing the sultry summer days singing his usual lullaby. It is a girl. A little girl arrived at the home of Mr- and Mrs. John Maness. Mr. Maness is car inspector of the Gainesville Midland and has recent ly moved to our city. The many friends of Mr. John B, Williams will be pleased to learn that In* lias entirely recovered from Ins recent illness and has assumed his old position with 11. Mendel & Cos. Mr. R. L. Rogers left Sunday night for South Carolina, where his mother lies dangerously ill. Latest reports from the bedside state Mrs. Rogers is not expected to recover. Miss Mary Russell has as guests at her house party, Misses Mamie and Sarah Hansell, of Thomasville, Mrs-T. B. Gay, Miss Eloise Gay and Miss Hattie Blackford, of At lanta- Misses Annie Wilson, Clara Pharr, Ruth Hood and Anna Lee Hinton, of Uaeula, who have for the past week been the admired guests of Mrs. J J. Willson, returned home Wednesday. We are indebted to Mr. J. P- Hardigree for a nice sweet Kircus watermelon. Mr. Hardigree lives on route 22, and knows how to raise watermelons, and what is bet ter still knows how to dispose of them. Thanks. Miss Thelma Woodruff enter tained a number of her little friends Monday afternoon in celebration of her tenth birthday. Many interest ing games were played on the lawn, after which punch, cream and cake were served (>n the broad veranda Miss Thelma proved herself an ideal hostress- Miss Mary Russell entertained at an informal “Forty-Two” party on Wednesday morning in honor of her gicst, Mrs. 1 . It. Gay, of At lanta. Thos* present were Mrs. W. 11. Quartenuan. Miss Kite Gresh am, of Atlanta; Mrs. Gay and Miss Eloi.'t Gay, of Atlanta; MG Munie and Sarah Hui-dl, of Thonuisyille; Miss Blackford, of Atlanta, and Misses Mary Wdiie and Ina Russell. COUNTY LINE. Sager Gives liis Idea of Poverty as a Blessing -Two Sad Deaths in His family Only few Hours Apart. In connection with our last epistle we would sav that poverty is one of the greatest blessing ever bestowed upon man. One of the wealthiest men in this country, who owns his broad acres of land; whose bank account has reached its thousands, and whose mansion now stands as a monument to the workman's handicraft, once lived in a littlt* log hut and begged bread at our father’s door. Take the great men of today and trace them hack to childhood and you will find them fed and sheltered in the house of of poverty. Not in town always, either, hut many times far hack in the recesses of the hills beside some spring, where the purr water comes gurgling forth from the bosom ot the earth as clear as crystal and ns pure as God could make it. Take the men who have failed in business. Little by little, step by step, round by round they would climb. Only a few years passes un til they are hack doing business at the same old stand, better epuippod to climb the hills than ever before. So, when we get to where we think we own it all, and know it all- and don’t want anybody else to own or know anything, God drops his seal of poverty upon us. Few of the rich today hut who have gone through the dark tunni 1 and spent many restless nights. Th'*re were times when all the world seemed dark and dreary. Friends and loved ones ceased to come to their rescue; their cheeks were pale, their eyes sunken and their brain racked. The smile that once played over his face as bright as the noon-day sun had transform ed itself to express grief and sor row, and when the bottom of this condition is reached, God sends His comforter, as He sent Elijah to the widow of Xain, and across the un bound acres In* looks, and a little ray of hope is seen and fostered. .Still there is a chance to he redeem ed in the kingdom of wealth. Slow ly hut steady he begins to move, 1 tetter equipped to battle against misfortune than ever before. More energy and zeal is put forth as he fosters the thought —“I can, I will.” Only a few years pass and we see him sitting on the front porch of his new home painted white and striped in green. So, we would say to the hoys that arc forced into exist ence in the homes of the poor and needy, there is something in store for you of which you have novel Mrs. J. T. Hutchinson, after several weeks’ visit to her daughter, Mrs. Marvin Maynard, will leave Sunday. Before returning to her home in Opelika, Ala , she will visit her daughter, Mrs. Anderson, in Westminister, S. C- Mr. 0. M. Hudgins, president of the Hosehton Property Club and leading merchant of that t wr., left for Balt/, more and New York Satur day. Curl i a hustler and knows a . . I thing when he sees it, and of eo.rr-e, will .-ee many good things while in th • east, an 1 what is better till, will s. cur * many of them for his customers this fall. dreamed. The only thing needful for you to do is to beleive you can if you will try, and then back up your belief with action. Belief alone availeth nothing, neither in this life nor in the life to come. But if we will stay close in behind it with action, energy and power, it will glide us safely over the stream of poverty and lead us into green pastures and along beside the still waters. And some sweet day when Ga briel shall plant one foot upon the sea and the other upon the land and give the alarm that time shall he no more, it will carry us through the nearly gates into the new Je rusalem,and will land us safely into the arms of an Omnipotent God, and with the redeemed we shall live forever. So let me repeat my text then, “Poverty isthegreatest blessing that ewr come to man.” L.ytkh—Our heart feels hut little like thinking, our hand less like penning the locals in this section at this time,for on yesterday, Sunday, our dear nephew, Richard A. Cross, breathed his last, and his spirit wended its wav to the home of the soul, and this evening while we were gone to carry tin* sad intelli gence to our sister, an old loving aunt, Marguerite Muynard, who lives only a few feet from our door, died very suddenly. Her life went out like a lamp blown out by the gentle breezes of the wind. Though her death was expected, yet when the news reached us it was as sudden as a clap of thunder on a cloudless day. So we feel sad and lonely to think that tomorrow we must see one laid away much younger than we, and the next day we must take the last look at one who has lived out her three score years and ban. But while all alone at our table with tear-stained eyes and broken heart, we are made to wonder if our name} be the next that is called would ul be well as we sometimes sing, “Is My Heart Right With God.” We think our arrangement? are made. We are standing at the depot. We purchased our ticket without mon ey or price, and the bulletin tells us to he ready,the train may arrive at any time. In silent prayer to God alone we go pleading that if not ready we may get ready before to morrow's sun may rise, and not only get right, but to help me to stay right till the train arrives, for we are slow to believe that we cav. fet'd th<‘ hungry, clothe the naked and visit the sick after the whistle blows. “Be ye (and that means you and me) also ready, for in such an hour as you think not the Son of Man shall come and as a shepherd devided his flock so shall we be de vided.” On which side will you stand, d* ar reader? Are you ready for that day to conic, when down the road the wheel? of the chariot is heard. Two white lwrscs with mourning on is -lowly moving nearer, and before \ our door the halt is made. The cries of loved ones is heard weeping Yc, Oh how sad, but we must let the curtain fall. The prayer of your humble scribe lis that ell who are not ready may I got ready while time and oppor tunity lasts. IVli ving we will have the sym pathy of The New and its readers in this sad hour of death we re main ..sever, your loying friend, SaoEH. NO. 2 2