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VOLUME 4, NO. 1 1 PRESTON HOUSE KILLED IN TEXAS Telegram Received by His Father Saturday Night of His Death at Longview, Texas. Mr. W. P. House was shot and killed at his home iu Longview. Texas last Saturday night—his father receiving a telegram late the same night telling him the sad news. Preston House was reared in this county a few miles east of Winder and was known by most all our people. He was the oldest son of Mr. Jno. W. House, of Bar row County and was 28 years old. He went to Texas about six years ago and soon after married in that State. He leaves his wife and one little girl five years <old. The particulars of his death had not been learned when this was writ ten. He had a fine position with the Texas Pacific railroad at Long view and was very popular with the officials of that road. His remains reached Winder Tuesday afternoon and were in terred at Chapel Church Ceme tery, three miles’ out from Winder near where he was born and rear ed. Revs. R. E. Moss and Jno. 11. Wood conducted the funeral [ where hundreds of friends and relatives met to mourn the death of one they loved and had known from childhood. .FARMERS’ UNION MEETING. Important Notice to All Farmers . and Members of the Union. There will be a meeting of the Farmers Union for Barrow coun ty Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock in Winder. The heavy rain last Saturday prevented the regular meeting for that day and you are urged to come out next Saturday. Don’t forget the day and hour and be on hand. Respectfully, C. W. PARKER. President. BAPTIST ENLISTEMENT CAMPAIGN BEGINS. Monday, March 17 the Enlist ment Campaign begins for the Ap palachee Association at Winder. Dr. John D. Mell, President of the Georgia Baptist Convention preaches the opening sermon at 11 o’clock. Services begin at 10 a. m. Revs. J. Fred Eden and three teams of speakers will be present to present various phases of the Enlistment work. Steriopticon lectures at night —views of Mission fields. All the citizens of Winder and Barrow County invited. The members are requested to bring baskets. Make your plans to attend and if you have prob lems bring them along and have experts assist you in solving them. NOTICE. A meeting of the stockholders of The North Georgia Fair will be held Saturday, March 15th, at 4 o’clbck p. ra. in Prof. Holsen heck’s office. Every stockholder is requested to be present. C. W. Parker, President. LOST OR STOLEN. My car number 59803. The finder of this number will be re warded by returning to me. F. L. Sims. Winder, Ga. Mrs. W. B. McCants spent several days in Atlanta last week. THE BARROW TIMES WINDER HOME DESTROY ED BY FIRE The residence of Mr. W. P. Stew art, on Center street, this city, was destroyed by fire Tuesday night about 12 o’clock, the building and contents being a total loss. The home was occupied jointly by Mr. Stewart and Mr. Pidkle Jackson, and was the property of Mr. I. E. Jackson, of the North Georgia Trust Company. Although in one of the most thickly populated residence dis tricts of the city the prompt work of the firemen confined the flames to the one building. The loss is thought to be cov ered by insurance. FOOD PRODUCTION IN BARROW COUNTY. Since peace has come again, many of us have thought only of the return of our boys from across the seas, and that now we can have as many biscuits as we like, and put two spoonfuls of sugar in our coffee instead of one. This is all very nice of course, but the more thoughtful of us have realized that all our battles are not yet over. While the bat tles with the Germans have been fought and won, there is still an other terrible battle to be fought against hunger. Millions of peo ple in Europe are dying because there isn’t food enough over there to feed them. In Poland one per son out of every four dies of hun ger ; in Sribia one out of every two; in Armenia more than half of the people have died of starva tion. There isn’t a country in all Europe that has enough food to keep its people from going hun gry. It will be months before these people can help themselves. Some of their best farming lands have been torn and practically ruined by sharpnel and shell. It will take time to get the land back jin condition to cultivate. There is a shortage of labor too, because millions of their men have been killed, and all their people are weakened from the long, hard struggle. It has been said in the past that the United States is “The hope of all who suffer, The dread of all wrong.” We are very proud of this tribute, and our country must contribute a generous part to our suffering neighbors across the sea, in this their present hour of sore need. Experience has taught us that people who are hungry are dis contented, and have very little re spect for law and order. Lawless ness, as a result of starving peo ple, has spread over the countries of Europe, and even reached some parts of our own country. We have spent billions of dollars and sacrificed thousands of the lives of our “glorious laddies” in the effort to make the world a safer and better plac to live in. This disregard for law and order threatens to destroy the very things we have gained by the tre mendous sacrifices. Therefore, to protect ourselves and our country from this peril we must send a generous share of food to hungry Europe. In order to meet these needs, our country is asking every one of us to get busy and produce food stuffs. Every garden planted now will help to replace the food that has been destroyed, or would have been produced had it not been for the war. We can help too by “religious ly” observing the Gospel of the Clean Plate. Surely none of us would be so thoughtless or care- WINDER, BARROW COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY', MARCH 13, lttl UNION SERVICE TO WEL COME REV. R. E. MOSS The union services at the Chris tian church last Sunday night to welcome Rev. R. E. Moss, the new minister, were certainly up to the standard. A large audience filled the church. The spirit of cordial fellowship was felt by all. Every one seemed to enter into the wor ship heart and soul. All the churches were represented in the impressive circle of prayer. The entire congregation in song and re sponsive reading manifested deep interest. The special music ar ranged by Mr. Claud Mayne and Mrs. W. A. Bradley who presided at the piano, was a quintette com posed of Airs. Mack Potts, Mrs. A. I). McCurry, Airs. J. W. Griffeth, Messrs. S. C. Potts and Claud Mavne, who sang “I Am a Pil grim,” in their usual excellent way. Rev. •J. 11. Mashburn pronounced the invocation and Rev. W. 11. Faust read the 27th Psalm as the evening lesson. After expressing his heartfelt gratitude for the fine spirit of Christian fellowship, and his ap preciation of the impressive occa sion, Mr. Moss read the profound words of Christ in John 12:24 and 25, as his text: “Verily, verily I say unto you, except a grain of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth by itself alone; but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. He that loveth his life losetli it, but he that losetli bis life for my sake in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.” “Victory through adversity,” said the minister, “is the law of the natural and spiritual world. Life throug death is a fundamental principle in the physical and the moral realm. The snowflake, the flower, the dewdrop, the star, the soul, are all subject to the God ordained laws of growth, struggle and discipline toward maturity and success. Our greatest charac ters have been strengthened and refined through hardship and suf fering. So with worlds, nations and civilizations. Thus we tri umph.” This was an interesting theme and the large audience seemed deeply interested throughout the sermon. Dr. Moss handles a sub ject in a manner to hold the close attention of his hearers and charm ed them by his superb delivery and graceful maimer as a pulpit ora tor. ,less as to go back to our extrava gant ways of living before the war just because peace has ccwne. May it never again be said of America that she is the most ex travagant nation on the globe. It is very necessary- also that we produce a surplus of food stuff this year, because there is much uncertainty as to food prices in the future. The Girls’ Canning Clubs, and the Boys 1 Agricultural Clubs of fer splendid opportunities to the wide-awake girls and boys in Bar row County who want to help in this time of need. It is well to remember that when doing most for others one is doing most for himself. A girl or a boy who is a member of one of these Clubs is not only helping his “Hunger ing Neighbor” across the sea, but he is helping himself in a wonder ful way too. If you have not al ready joined one of these Clubs see or write to your farm demon strator or to your County Home Demonstration Agent at once, while there is yet room to get your name enrolled. Rose Dillard, County Home Dem. Agt. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF BARROW COUNTY DIES AT NINETY YEARS OF AGE Mrs. L. A. Chapin, mother of Air. J. P. Chapin of Athens, and grandmother of Mr. C. C. Gregory of Winder, died Tuesday morning ,at the home of her son She was a native of Courtland, New York, hut came to South Carolina with her husband fifty or more years ago but for the past eight or ten years had resided in peorgia. She has been a remarkably ac tive woman until the last few years of her life and had reached the advanced age of 90 years. Mrs. Chapin was one of those splendid and lovable old women who always make the world bet ter and brighter. She resided in Winder with Mr. Gregory a large portion of her time spent in this state and had many friends here to regret her death. Her remains were carried to Chapin, S. C., a town built by her husband and interred in the sum lmsband and interred in the Sum- APPALACHEE S. S. CONVENTION. Bethabara Church, Oconee Cos., March 29-30, 1919. 10 :00 a. m.. Organization, Elec tion of Officers. 10:15 Bible Authority for Hav ing S. School, A. J. Goss, J. P. Cash, Robt. Thompson. 11:15 Sermon. I). W. Key, D.D. Dinner on the ground. 1:30 o. m., Is it the Duty of Churches to Have S. Schools. Why Should Every Member Attend? J. J. Nunnally, S. V. Cofield, E. S. Rogers. 2:15, How to Overcome Indif ference of Our People, W. 11. Faust, J. F. Haygood, H. A. Har dy. 3:30, Who Should Be Teachers and What Their Qualifications, J. E. Prather, W. S. Walker, C. T. Duggan. Sunday, March 30th. 10 a. in., S. S. In Charge of a Blue Seal Superintendent. Adult Class Taught by Blue Seal Teach er. Intermission class taught by Blue Seal Teacher. 11:00, Address, Geo. W. An drews. Dinner on ground. 1:30, Question Box and Prob lems. 2:30, Open Conference on S. S. Work. Adjourn. B. H. Jenkins, Chm. Prog. Cora. CHANDLER’S ACADEMY. School at this place is holding up nicely, continuing to use two teachers. There will be a singing here on next Sunday afternoon. Every body invited. Misses Hillie and Zillie Chand ler were the guests of Miss Gladys Elrod Sunday. Mr. H. R. Kilcrease and family spent last Sunday with Mr. J. H. Whitley and family. Miss Abbie Attaway spent the week-end very pleasantly with home folks. Misses Bartoo Lovin and Mark Head from Rockmart spent the past week with the former’s parents. Miss Lessie Shelton, our prin cipal, spent Saturday and Sunday with her sister at Lawrenceville. The singing at Mr. Sara Rut ,ledge’s Sunday evening was large ly attended and greatly enjoyed by all. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Chaplain are receiving the congratulations of their friends on the birth of a lit tle girl at their home. COME OUT TO MEETING TOMORROW NOTICE! FARMERS, BANK ERS, COTTON MERCHANTS, AND OTHER BUSINESS MEN We have been asked by many farmers. bankers, cotton-mer chants, and other business men to call a mass meeting to be held in the courthouse next Friday after noon. March 14th, 1919 at two o’clock. This meeting is for the purpose of discussing and making plans for reducing this year’s cotton acreage and increase our acreage* in feed and food crops and other important questions. One very important question to be discussed at this meeting is the planting of Half and Half cotton. ( At the present time the Cotton Mills and Brokers are not paying as much for cotton here in this territory as they are in other sec tions. Several of our best buy- <ers are now out of the market be cause their companies will not buy short staple cotton and in the fu ture if we continue to plant this cotton more of our buyers will be out of the market. If we con tinue to plant this short staple cotton we are going to have to take a reduced price for it and too it Mill he hard to get buyers. If we can make more money growing short staple and selling it at a reduced price then it may be alright for us to grow it but if not we should stop the growing of this cotton. Now is the time for the Farmer and Cotton Buy ers to get together and discuss these questions. Tell everyone you see about this meeting and be sure and be pres ent yourself. Very respectfully, C. W. Parker, A. A. Camp. W. C. Horton, W. Hill Ilosch. VICTORY The singing at this place Sun day afternoon was enjoyed by those present. Messrs. Shad man and Forrester of Buford were in our midst on Friday. Miss Alice Fleeman, who has a position at the Bell Overall Cos. spent the week-end with home folks and attended the singing here. Mrs. Malinda Timms has return ed home after spending a few days with relatives here. Mr. James Stancil of near Sell’s Station passed through our burg Sunday. Let everybody come out and help in the Sunday School here. Mr. Jim Boss our Superintendent is a good man and he wants and should have the cooperation of the people, both old and young. Let all who want their community to have a Sunday School prove it by attending and taking a part in it. One cannot expect to have a successful Sunday School where ithey depend almost entirely upon the younger people. With Mr. J. A. Boss, as Supt., Mr. J. M. Simpson, assistant, and Mr. Pasco Carter and Luther Al len Chorister and the number of other good singers near here, there should be nothing to hinder us from having a successful Sunday School. So let everybody come out every Suuday afternoon. 51.50 IN ADVANCE ! MIRACULOUS ES CAPE FROM DEATH Freight Train Runs Into Automo bile of J. J. Whitehead Last Saturday. On last Saturday afternoon at Statham there was a miraculous escape from death of Air. J. J. Whitehead, of Oconee county, and Air. -I. R. Jones and daughter, Miss Geneva, of Winder. The above parties had just got ten in tho car of Mr. Whitehead near the cotton warehouse a short, distance from the railroad and were in the act of crossing the track when a freight train came along, the engine striking the au tomobile and carrying it a distance of about 100 feet up the track. It was raining and the curtains down and they did not see or hear the train until struck. One side of the automobile, the one next to the train, was completely demolish ed and it is mystery how any of the occupants escaped instant death. Mr. Whitehead had one eye bad ly bruised. Mr. Jones received a bad cut. of three inches on the head which required five or six stitches. Miss Geneva, while slightly bruis ed, came out better than her father and grandfather. VISITS SCHOOLS. Mcsdames .John 11. Wood, W. visited Z\lill School and colored C. Horton and W. B. McCants scliool last week, carrying litera ture for the Scientific Temperance instruction in public schools. A hearty approval of the work was given by all the teachers, conscientious work was assured and a public program will also be given. May the W. C. T. U. ladies and all who are interested in humani ty attend these programs for a two-fold reason, to observe the work being done for the en couragement of all concerned and because there is no greater mis sionary work. S. T. I. teaching has been in corporated as a law in all the states, Georgia being the last one to adopt the law. Our teachers in the town schools have respond ed beautifully in this work from primary grades on up. They will soon put the annual prize essay contest on. The Union has offer ed two gold medals again. Let every contestant study the sub jects thoroughly and do their very best. Respectfully, Mrs. W. B. McCants, Supt. S. T. I. Dept. ELKS vs. EAGLES. One of the most interesting of the games of the series was the basket ball game Friday after noon between the Eagle Patrol and the Elk Patrol. The final score resulted in the victory of the Eagles, fifteen to eight. At the end of the first half, the Eagles had the lead and by hard iwork kept it. Strickland played a good game as guard for the Elks, while Young was the star of the Eagles. The line up was: Eagles— Hill, r.f., 2. Young, 1.f12. McDonald, c. •< ; Brooksher, g., 1. Turpin, g. Elks— V ' Russell, r.f., 4. j t Maxwell, 1.f., 4. Autrey, c. j 1 Strickland, g. Bagwell, g. #