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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. * 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. f „ , • mitchel lewis MiTCHtrtt lewis v , Friday, Sept* ."Slli l j \HIIDRFN t/BAN!SHMLNf IN : a r 1 * “Children of Banish- I— l "ByWgfclof Prctase" 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— I 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,