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WINDER. GEORGIA
STATE OF TEXAS IS PROS
PEROUS.
The Greatest Crops In Many Years
—Wheat, Hay, Oats, Grasses
and Fruits In Abundance.
LETTER FROM FORMER CITI
ZEN.
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The letter below from a former
citizen, who left Murfreesboro
many years ago and located in
Texas, will be read with interest:
Dallas, Texas, Aug. 8, 1919.
Editor News-Banner:
Perhaps some of your readers
might like to bear from the Lone
j-ttar State, its people, it crops, etc.
Texas has the best crop of grain
known in its history and is all
made. Some farmers report from
25 to 40 bushels, some 12 to 30
bushels of wheat, and from 40 to
90 and 125 bushels of oats per acre.
Also all of the hay from sorghum
cane and Johnson grass that they
need for tl .if sto-k. Owing to !i.e
late spring and rains almost e\ery
day in May, June and a week or
more in July the cotton crop will
be late. Even with this drawback
some farmers are figuring on one
to one and a half bales per acre.
In some counties the wheat was
damaged in the shock. The fiuit
peaches, plums and apricots is as
fine in quality, quantity and size
as ever raised in Texas. Two far
mers report peaches weighing H
and 13 ounces, of the Elberta vari
ety.
Texas, and especially Dallas
county and the city of Dallas, has
never experienced such a wave of
prosperity for the farmers and
hucksters have the greatest crop
of melons and canteloupes ever
grown.
The saw and hammer is heard on
almost every street, and the whir
ring of machinery is heard from
the mills and manufactories about
the eitv. It is impossible to fmd a
vacant residence for rent. Stores,
wholesale and retail, are enlarging
their roomspace. There are no idle
mechanics in the eitv. The strike is
on here as almost everywhere.
Whenever the country and gov
ernment is turned over to the la
bor unions strikes may cease. In
the beginning of the wheat harvest
the daily pap'ers reported that the
threshermen would demand 40 per
cent of the crop for Their services.
Why not take all the wheat and
give the “poor” farmer the straw?
Then I might tell you of the
great oil fields into which millions
in money is pouring from all parts
of the country, not excepting your
beautiful little city, as I noted in
the last issue of your newsy paper
that two of your prominent citi
zens have invaded the oil fields to
look it over. 1 hope they are too
wise to be taken in by wildcat
Ktock. It is reported that Quite a
number of the boys from the rural
districts and villages have come
here poor who expected to go back
to their homes millionaires. But,
sad to say, they gave up their little
wads and weift back to their
homes wiser and poorer men, uess
ing the whole bunch of oil men. It
is a true saying that the sharks are
always looking for the feeding on
suckers.
I did not tell you that the far
mers and ranchmen are improving
their herds of dairy stock and j
hogs. The dairymen are buying j
mostly from lowa and Indiana and j
Illinois the Holstein stock for
dairy purposes. I inclose herein a
■description of one • bought' several
months since. One of the hunch
gives 109 pounds of milk a day,
.which is worth sl2*or sls at the
present price.
This you perhaps may say is
enough from Texas. There is a
great future for Texas. Lands are
rich and plentiful as well as pro
ductive. but not so high priced as
your Tennessee lands. The mer
chants have about all the business
they can handle and the traveling
salesmen are having the greatest
sales they ever had.
I would like to again visit my :
KS INSURANCE
Your neighbors home burned only a few days or months a e o, and a
cyclone is likely to strike this section at any time, so INSURE with Ufe
anl lie down at night with a clear conscience and a peaceful mind. Don t
DELAY. It may mean the loss of your home. Any man can build a home
once. A WISE man insures his property in a reliable insurance company
so that when calamity comes he can build again. He owes the protection
that it gives, to ihs peace of mind and the care of his loved ones.
Kilgore, Radford & Smith
boyhood home—to go over the
scenes of my childhood—to see the
familiar old playground where I
spent so many happy hours. Yes. I
still love the Old Volunteer State,
her red hills, her rich valleys and
her hospitable people and their
beautiful homes; but nearly all
whom I knew, such notable and
aristocratic families as the Pal
mers. Keebles, Wendels, Ridleys,
Ransoms, Ewings and others, and
nearly all their children, l am
sure, time lias wrought changes. I
learn that the old home of one of
the pioneers, E. L. Jordan, is being
offered for sale. That family left a
record that your little city should
lie proud of. II is was a most hospi
table family; both he and his chil
dren were always ready and will
ing to entertain their friends and
relatives. The doors of their hospi
table homes were ever open to wel
come their friends and relatives.
Their lives were most exemplary.
This is enough for this time, so
adieu, with best wishes for you
and your newsy paper. I am,
PAT MALLOY.
Murfreesboro (Tenn.) Banner.
COUNTY SINGING CONVEN
TION.
The Barrow County Singing
Convention will meet at Pleasant
Hill church one mile north of Sta
tham, (la., the second Sunday in
September and Saturday before,
13th and 14th, two days session.
All good singers cordially invited.
J. L. Moore, Pres.
John B. Williams, Sec.
end Tres.
OLD TIME SINGING.
There will he an old time sing
ing on the second Sunday, Sept.
14th, at the First Methodist
Church of Winder, beginning at
2 o’clock eastern time.
Old and young are invited to
come and take a part in singing
those gospel songs our fathers and
mothers sang and rejoiced over.
We are looking for good singers
from a distance.
Get the guaranteed tool its bore*>
faster and easier, and lasts longer.
Wooruff Hardware Company.
We rent and recharge Automo
bile Storage Batteries. Smith
Hardware Cos.
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MiTCHtrtt lewis v , Friday, Sept* ."Slli
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A. CORRESPONDENT WRITES
KINDLY OF OUR POLICE
FORCE AND SHERIFF
CAMP
Editor The Times:
The most important factor in
the existence and progress of ev
er v town and city is its p< lice
force, for lie peace and cafe'j. of
i,s (ilizcnship depends upon the
efficiency and integrity of its po
lice It ir and sweet assurance that,
while we are engrossed in Ihe la
hors of our various vocations, or
reposing in sleep after ten of the
day, that these exponents of the
law are safe-guarding our homes
and property. There is no grander
calling in this world than that of
a police, the man who spends his
life protecting the lives, liberties
and interests of bis fellow men.
And the citizens of the City of
Winder are greatly indebted to
the city fathers for their excellent
selection of the present police
force of this city. There is not a
town in the State that can boast a
force composed of better qualified
officers than Winder now possess
es. The personel of the Winder Po
lice Force is splendid from every
standpoint; every officer on our
force is a man above the average
intellegence, unusual physical and
moral courage, and sterling char
acter. And it is not only a fact
that these gentlemen are well fit
ted for their offices, but we find
them at all times diligent, con
scientious. and faithful in the dis
charge of their official duties. To
be impressed with the untiring vi
gilance of these splendid officers
one only needs to attend the Ma
yor’s Court of our City. The cases
tried their, founded upon arrest
by our police, are more numerous
than might ordinarily he expected
in our peaceful and law-abiding
city, yet there are barring some
cases made on “information”
practically no cases, that are not
sustained by ample evidence of
the violation of the law on the
part of the defendant.
Then too, our police force is to
he highly commended for its loyal
cooperation with our good sheriff
in the enforcement of the State
laws. The perfect harmony and
accord in which the entire force
works with our sheriff has made
them. Jogether with the sheriff, a
“team” more than formidable to
law-breakers of every sort. And in
THE BARROW TIMES
AUBURN HIGH SCHOOL
OPENS.
Auburn High School will open
September the eighth. In order to
enter every pupil must pay an en
trance fee of fifty cents. Tuition
will he the same es last term. This
will be due and collectable at the
end of each month. The first three
months will be altogether private
term. The public term will begin
about December the first. After
tlie public term begins one dollar
per month will be subtracted from
the tuition of each pupil.—J. B.
Brookshire, Prin.
BOGART HAS GENUINE RE
VIVAL.
One of the most helpful meet
ings in the history of the Bogart
Baptist Church came to a close
last Saturday morning.
The preaching was done by Rev.
\Y. H. Faust, the song service led
by Mr. Asa Knight,
The crowds were large from
the very beginning and, at night
towards the last the house would
not seat the people.
Twenty seven new members
were enrolled. Two splendid
purses were given the workers for
their efficient services. The church
and community were greatly
helped and revived.
passing, we wish to say that the
members of our police force are in
exceptional good company when
they are associating with Sheriff
Camp, for he is every thing that
a gentleman and a sheriff ought to
he. and nothing that neither ought
not to he.
This little article is not written
for the reason that there is any
lack of appreciation of these offi
cers fine work, on the part of the
citizenship our city, for the com
ments we hear in private conver
sations in reference to them and
their official conduct-, evidences
the fact that the general citizen
ship of our city holds them in the
very highest esteem. But it seems
appropriate and fit that some pub
lic praise should be given these
excellent officers, who render to
our (Tty and community such in
valuable and faithful service.
A Friend to Law and Order.
THE MOGUL WAGON—
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Made in Old Kentuky
The last wide track Mogul Wagons. Get one
while they last; next will be narrow track and
bodies, and wider price, as wagons advanced 15
per cent last week. Come now. Get a wide track,
wide body, at a narrow price instead of waiting
and getting a narrow wagon at a wide price.
Woodruff Hardware Cos.
Winder, Georgia
GIRLS WANTED
One hundred gifls wanted to make Overalls. Highest wages
paid. Steady work. Apply
SUPT. BELL OVERALL CO., Winder, Ga.
WATCHES
We arc showing a most complete line of fine, high grade
watches this season, and every watch we sell or repair is
carefully and skillfully adjusted by our expert watch
maker, before it leaves our store. Therefore, we can guar
antee you a reliable timekeeper at prices you ean afford to
pay.
We carry
Elgin, Waltham,
Hamilton, South Bend.
Illinois, Howard,
fitted in gold and gold tilled cases, plain or engine turned,
also some beautifully engraved, suitable for all walks of
life.
E. A. MORGAN, Jeweler and Optician
10 E. Hunter Street, xXtlanta, Ga.,
There is economy in a few steps around the corner.
One DozenSecondHanded, Slightly Ujei
FORDS
For sale at Bell Home in edge of
Winder on Bankhead Highway.
W. F. Bell & Son
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4,