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ODD FELLOWS.
Postpone Meeting to Occur in Mon
roe September 22.
Division No, 20, I. O. O. F.,
called to meet at Monroe Wednes
day, at the request of the local
1 nlge, was postponed to September
22. The twentieth division iscom
posed of Jackson, Walton and Gwin
nett counties. Monroe lodge is ar
ranging a program and no doubt
will entertain the delegates and
visitors royally. The public ex
ercises will occur at the court house.
GOVERNOR OFFERS REWARD.
Reward of 1150 each for the arrest
of Olin M. Thomason and George
W. Durden, wanted in Walton
county, the former for subornation
of perjury and the latter for per
jury, have been offered by Governor
Brown.
These men were recently indicted
by the Walton county grand jury in
connection with the killing of J. H.
Brown by Olin Thomason in Mon
roe on July 4, 1908. Thomason
w is acquitted of the murder charge
but it was discovered later, it is
alleged, that hi acquittal was se
cured through perjured testimony.
Four men, Alvin Evans, \V. R.
Hunt, Troy Thomason and B. F.
Towler, have already been convicted
and sent up in connection with this
cast*.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS OPEN.
Winder public schools opened
Wednesday with a full attendance.
The exercises in the chapel were
largely attended and the capacity of
the roo.n was taxed. Rev W. T.
Hunnicutt conducted the devotional
services and made a short talk. The
lxiard of education was represented
by Rev. S. W. Arnold and Col. W
H. Quarterman, both of whom
made interesting addresses.
All the teachers ware in their
places and with Professor Robeson
have entered heartily into their
work.
With everybody pulling together
this will l>c the best year of the
school.
WANTS ROAD MAPS.
Now that Georgia has taken up
goods roads in earnest and the con
victs are putting in time where it
will do the taxpayers some good,
conditions in the country districts
will show very decided changes.
Farm lands will of course increase
in values, comforts ami conveniences
will multiply. It will not l>e long
until the narrow-minded ideas of
opposition to the little necessary
changes in the roads to get letter
grades will vanish awav and proper
ty owners will welcome instead of
opposing these changes.
And now that equntry public
roads are becoming not only pass
able, but are 1m ing put in a con
dition where it is even some pleas
ure to travel, a knowledge of the
public roads and distances will be
useful and welcome information to
all of the people; the younger gen
eration, and those moving in, es
pecially.
State maps showing the public
and rural mail routes should be not
only in the county < ourt houses, but
in the public schools.
Jackson county is such a large
county, as are also Gwinnett and
Walton, that for th se counties to
have county maps showing all the
public Mads, postoffices and the
county schools, will furnish very
useful information, not only to their
own citizens, hut to many others
who would like to become citizens
of these splendid counties. Re
spectfully, W. J. Rl sskll.
New Timothy, Sept. 1.
DR. FRED COOK,
United States Army. Discovers the
Nort'i Poie.
New York, .Sept- 1. —The north
pole, the most coveted of all explo
rations for a century,has been dis
covered and by an American. Word
was received in New York today
stating that Dr- Frederick A. Cook,
of Brooklyn, reached the northern
tip of the earth’s axis on April 21,
1908. 4
This r< port was confirmed short
ly after it was received by word
from Dr. Cook himself, in the fol
lowing cablegram to his wife, for
warded by wayof Copenhagen,Den
mark :
“Mrs. Frederick Cook, No. 670
Bushwick avenue, Brooklyn, U. S.
A., care of Mrs. Robert Davidson,
No. 693 Bushwick avenue. Suc
cessful and well. Telegraph ad
dress, Copenhagen. “Fred.”
This dispatch con funs the dis
covery of the north pole by Dr.
Cook.
Mrs. Davidson is a friend of
Mrs. Cook. She immediately wired
the latter at South Hartswell Island
Casco Bay,Maine, where she is spend
ing the summer with her two chil
dren,of Dr. Cook’s succes and mail-
ed the original cablegram. Mrs.
Cook left Brooklyn last June a year
ago. This is the first word to her
from her husband since March a
year ago last spring.
The first word received in New
York of Dr. Cook’s tremendous feat
was sent by him to members of the
Arctic Club of America and came
from Ixrvik, Norway. It was re
ceived by the colonial office of the
Norwegian government and was
signed by Dr. Cook. Lervik, Nor
way, is at‘he mouth of the Kris
tianna[ford and about 75 miles south
of the capital of Norway.
Praises Miss Kimsey.
I don't think I would do my
duty if I did not say a few words
in honor of Miss Kimsey. She is
one among the best teachers in
Georgia. I have heard of her work
at other places. She is a Christian
teacher and one that every body
1 >yes. Her intertainment Friday
night at Patrick’s Academy was a
success all the way through. She
has worked faithfully with the
children. I wish Miss Kimsey suc
cess wherever she may go, for she
is an honor to any community, and
will be greatly missed where she has
worked so long. We need more
true workers. A Friend
fATALY HURT.
Wednesday afternoon, two milles
from Bogart, Charlie Brewer, the
six teen-year-old son of Mr. J. T.
Brewer, a farmer in that section,
ieccived injuries from which he will
probably die.
He was driving a team of mules
along the road,on his father’s farm,
wi.on the animals became frightened
and started to run. Young Brewer
was thrown from the wagon, and
in some way was caught in the
wheels. He was dragged a consider
able distance before his body was
released.
CAMPED NEAR MULBERRY.
The Jackson county road gang is
encamped near Mullx*rry and will
Ih‘ engaged in rebuilding the bridge
across the river at that point and
grading the new higeway between
Wilder and Hoechton for the next
month or so. The bridges in that
section 1 ave long been in a danger
ous condition, and the roads are
badly in need of attention. Mr.
Bennett the engineer says that he
intends to make of the Winder and
Hosehton road <ne of the finest in
this section of the state.
THREE HUNDRED TITTY DOLLAR PIANO CIVIN AWAY RY THE NEW.S.
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WILLIAMS N. MITCHELL.
Must Serve Time In Pen—Governor
Titrns Down Commissioner's
Recommendation.
Willian H. Mitchell mu3t serve
twelve months on the chaingang.
Governor Brown Wednesday
shortly after noon reached a con
clusion on the famous case and an
nounced that he would allow the
sentence of the court to stand un
disturbed, thus ignoring the recom
mendation of the prison commission
to change the sentence of twelve
months on the chaingang to a like
period on the state prison farm at
Milledgeville.
Mitchell is the wealthy South
Georgia man convicted of kidnap
ping a young girl and irying to forci
bly carry to her to his den on one
of his plantations. In a desperate
struggle on the way the young
woman escaped.
In denying clemency the govern
or said: “Should the clemency
asked for in the present case lx* ex
tended, there is grave danger that
it would bear fruits of sorroiv in
every section of the state. It would
set an example pernicious beyond
compare, an example embodying a
daily menace to Georgia’s woman
hood. It would say that we have
one law for the rich, another for
the poor; one law for the highly
educated, another for those too poor
to enjoy the privileges and immu
nities consequent upon education;
one law for the classes, another for
the masses.”
A Card.
About tin 1 time J. H. Evans was
sent off, his father and Mrs- Evans
asked me to try to rent his house
for them. I did what I could to
find someone who would rent.
little later, 1 asked Quartemian &
Toole to list the property for rent.
Neither Mrs. Evans nor any one
else authorized me to sell or offer
the property for sale. Some par
ties spoke to me about buying the
property. I told them that I did
not know that Mrs. Evans wished
to sell the property, but that 1
would write her that they wanted
to buy. This statement is made at
Mrs. Evan’s request. 1 suppose she
has her reasons for writing me to
state the facts. H. P. Quillian.
Appoint Postmaster at Statham
Mr, J. B. Cheek, who for the
past few months has been with the
Winder Lumber'Co., and who for a
number of years has been a resident
of Winder,has been appointed post
master at Statham, Ga., to fill the
vacancy caused by Mr. Chambers'
resignation.
IN MEMORIAM.
Asberry Crow was one of the
brightest pupils of the Statham
High school. He was the cher
ished and admirable little son of
Mr. and Mrs. Will Crow who lives
in two miles of our school building.
He had been a pupil in our school
for about three years. He leaves
a mother, father, two sisters and
two little brothers to mourn his
loss.
It is with sad hearts that his
schoolmates and teachers begin the
work of this term, because there is
a vacancy that can never lx filled.
Little 'Berry is not here to greet
us with his cheerful, pleasant, and
brilliant smiles.
During the vacation months in
his boyish adventures he was
drowned. A great boy has gone to
his reward. I say great! Some
might challenge such a statment
made about a boy fifteen years old,
but he did have a great will power,
and his emotional nature was strik
ingly prominent.
I never taught a fifteen-year-old
boy whose mind was more devel
oped. He could discuss abstract
points in history and civil govern
ment equal to the average man
who has posted himself on the sub
jects and studied them from a prac
tical point of view.
He read much. He could reason
in mathematics away above the
average. His understanding of the
lessons in all text books was clear.
He was intellectually as well as
morally honest, a great thing for
any one. He was unassuming,
which fact made him more admir
able, hut his knowledge of facts and
I his reason for anything could al
most always he depended upon.
He was very accurate. But few
errors were marked against him
during tho two years that he was
under my instruction. lie thought
and read too intensely to be !< and far
away into the low ai.d trivial things
of this world.
11 is will powei was strong. He
resisted like a man the temptations
thrown in his pathway at school.
He never to my knowledge indulged
in a bad and degrading habit. He
stood for the right and would fear
lessly declare himself against the
wrong. “I can and I will” seemed
to be his motto and he never failed.
Would that we all had such mot
tos and would carry them out as
our sweet little friend, Asberry
Crow did. His d*per nature —
spirituality could be understood in
teaching him literature. In the
study of the ‘‘Pilgrims Progress,”
for example, one could see that his
interpretation of the characters was
correct and that lie had a deep con
ception of the lessons taught.
His Interpretation ol a declama
tion was splendid. His imper
sonation of a character in a play
was excellent. In debating and
reciting upon topics specially suited
for showing the love of God and his
greatness and goodness, Asberry
always showed that he was think
ing of things worthwhile; showed
that he conceived the goodness and
love of our heavenly Father. Pu
pils tell me that they never heard
’Berry indulge in the use of profane
or obscene language. They said so
before he left us and now they de
light in saying so, because they
loved him and love to speak of his
gentleness, manliness and great
ness.
’Berry was little in stature,
though athletic, tender in age, but
great in mind. We miss his form
in our midst, his intellect in aiding
in the discussion of problems, the
influence of his will power in its
activity in resisting evil, and his
deeper emotional nature in inspir
ing us to better and more useful
lives, but we will profit by the
good examples he set for us and
will meet him some day in that
happy place of reality that he had
such a deep conception of while
living such a brilliant, sweet, and
helpful school life here among us.
May God’s richest blessings rest
upon his bereaved mother, father,
sisters, little brothers, and us all.
May we emulate his virtues and so
iive that we will meet little 'Berry
in heaven where \vc will give the
great Triune God praise for all his
goodness and for putting such a
character as our little friend’s in our
midst to help us live better, more
useful lives and reach a home that
Jesus has prepared for us in the
Eternal lxyond. God bless and
save us all. His devoted teacher.
A. P. Watkins.
Statham, Ga., Aug, 30, 1909.
A Keen Lad.
‘‘lliad always heard that New
Englanders were ‘smart,’” a young
physician, who had ‘‘graduated'’
from a villiage practice remarked
the other day,“but I hardly thought
it developed at such an early age.”
He smiled reminiscently, then
continued:
“Just after I settled in Dodds
Corners a twelve-year-old boy call
ed on me one evening.
“ ‘Say, Doc.’ I guess I got meas
les, ‘he remarked, ‘but nobody
knows it ’eept the folks at home,
an’ they ain’t the kind that talks,
if there’s any good’ reason to keen
quiet-’
“1 was puzzled, and I suppose I
looked it.
“ ‘Aw get wise, Doc,’ my small
visitor suggested. ‘What will you
give me to go to school an’ spread it
among all the kids in *the villiage?”
Lippincott’s.