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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. # .\, ' ~ j 5 v! jafr jjjpr fcußkfc-V- 1 ~i ; ii iitii 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.