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VOLUME 5, NiO. 9
MR. GUY RILGORF,
THE WINNER
(iuy Kilgore, president of
Mr Farmers Bank and also repre
sentative at this place for Alassa-■
chusetts Mutual Life Insurance Cos '
spent first of the week in Atlanta i
attending the meeting of the At
lanta Agency of tills company.
Mis friends will be proud to
know that this meeting he won
the handsome prize that hud been
offered, having made the best per
centage allotted to each agent of
the company in Georgia.
You can’t down a young, active
business man who lives in Winder
when he enters a competitive race,
especially one who has recently
married and knows lie has a good
wife to support. uSS
M L. BURKHALTER DEAD.
Last Sunday at the home of his
parents, M r . and Mi’s. D. L. Burk
halter. occurred the death of Mr.
flff. L. Burkhalter.
He was 34 years of age and pass
I'd away as the result of “flu
and pneumonia.
The funeral services were con
ducted by Rev. W. H. Faust at
Bethahara church Monday after
noon at 3:00 o’clock.
ON A VISIT TO TEXAS.
Mrs. S. F. Graham and Albert
Page left Saturday for a visit of
several weeks to Texas.
Airs. Graham has a number of
relatives in that state and it is
Loped her visit will he a pleasant
| ne with a safe journey there nd
hack home.
M rs. I. V. Mil am and children !
and Miss Orvelle Milam, of Atlan
ta, were the guests the past week
ed of Mrs. Frances Harolson and
Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Maddox.
’roa DMEETING MARCH 1.
Mr. Frank Reynolds an author
ity on road matters will address
the citizens of Barrow county at
the court house on Friday, March
12th, at 3:00 p. m.
Mr Reynolds is a forceful speak
er and will interest you on this
important question oi building
roads.
DEATH OF MRS W. B. HOLT.
Mrs. W. B. Holt, a former resi
dent of Winder, died at a sanita
rium in Richmond, Va. last Friday
February 20th.
Her remains were brought here
for burial Sunday February 22nd.
Mrs. Holt was a true Christian
character, and she had many
friends who mourned her depart
ure.
Besides a loving husband, she
leaves three devoted daughters.
Myrtle, Mary Nellie and Florine.
Rev. Cartledge, of Athens, con
flicted the funeral service from
the Presbyterian church, after
which she was laid to rest in Rose
Hill cemetery by the side of her
two children, who died several
years ago.
LODGE NOTICE.
Winder Ghapter, No. 84. R. A.
M., will meet Friday evening, Feb.
27th, at 8 o’clock.
Work and refreshments. AH
qualified companions invited to at
tolUl W. A. BRADLEY, H. P.
NOTICE. \
Owing to so much sickness the Sun
day school convention was to be held
at Bethahara church next Sunday has
been postponed until some future dnte.
J. H. Wheeler.
Mr. R. A. W. Smith is out again
after several days confinement to
his room. _ . .
The friend of Miss -Too Smith
will be glad to learn she is eonva
ffescing.
Dr. E. F. Saxon has been indis
posed for several days.
The many friends of Mrs. Harold
Herrin will be glad to learn that
she has been carried to the home
of her parents in Pendergrass, af
onpndinf* cpv oral weks in a san-
Sum . Gainesville. She ia -
I girted as getting along nicely.
THE BARROW TIMES
BELL MFC. CO. PLANS
BIG IMPROVEMENTS
Mr. R. L. Eavenson, vice-presi
dent of the Bell Manufacturing
Company with plants in this city,
Hainesville, (!a., and Charleston,
S. C„ reports that the company
figures on making extensive im
provements at an early date.
Among them will he a two-story
plant at Winder, with floor space
for at least 500 machines and the
erection of at least 50 new cottag
es during the year.
To complete this work it will take
from 30 to 40 cars of brick and Mr
J. Roy Jackson, superintendent of
the New Winder Lumber Cos., left
Wednesday afternoon for Chatta
nooga. Tenn., for the purpose of
buying the brick.
Mr. Eavenson reports that the
company is now shipping around
$175,000.00 worth of goods per
month, which he proposes to in
crease to at least $200,000.00 in a
short time.
The Bell Manufacturing Cos. is
now one of the largest manufact
uring concerns of the kind in the
south, and Winder is justly proud
of the fact that she has the head
quarters office of this well known
concern.
The company has recently se
cured the services of Mr. Z. F.
Farmer, of Dallas, Tex., as super
intendent. Mr. Farmer was up
to about a year ago government
superintendent of the factory at
Charleston, and comes recommend
ed as an expert in his line.
ON VISIT FROM SOUTH GA.
Mr. Guy Maddox, of Rebecca,
Ga., spent Sunday in Winder with
his brother, Mr. C. O. Maddox.
He is one of the big farmers ol
Turner county and his experience
in the growing of cotton and con
tending with the boll weevil
should he an object lesson to our
farmers.
In 1918 without the boll weevil
he made 35b hales of cotton.
(n 1919 with the Loll weevil he
made 85 bales of cotton. He did
much better last year than many
of his neighbors by reason ol the
fact he pushed his cotton crop,
worked it last, and used every pic
caution possible.
From 350 in 1918 to a cut of 85
hales in 1919 tells the tale and
should be a warning to us to pre
pare in time.
NOTICE EX-SERVICE MEN
AND MEMBERS OF
AMERICAN LEGION.
The John Rich Pentecost Post
No. 53 of he American Legion is
hereby called to meet at the < ity
Haihf Winder, on Friday, Feb.
27th, a. 7-30 o’clock. This is an
important meeting to every ex
sei vice man, and especially Legion
Members. If you arc inerested
in what the government is doing
and in getting \ 4 to do more in re
... ynition of the service- render * 1
by the iren who served in I' l '
armv. nr.vw c r marine corps and .r
-ing 1- * p*-nod of the* war, be • *
hand. . A • ed important
to YOU.
J C. PRATT, Comdr.
I. E. JACKSON. Adjt.
YOU ARE INVITED
To attend the regular meeting of
1. O. 0. F. next Tuesday night.
March 2nd. Hood news for all
that come. Out of town brethren
are asked to attend.
A. L. JACOBS, D. D. 0. M.
JIM FULLER BADLY HURT
Mr. Jim Fuller was badly hurt.
Tuesday afternoon at the sawmill
of Judge Hill, out a few miles
from Wider.
The accident occurred while
handling some heavy lumber and
he is still confined to his bed.
Sgt. William Turpin of the Ist.
Division, 16th Regiment of Infant
ry is in Winder on a recruiting
detail.
Sgt.. Turpin is a Jackson county
boy, having served with the regu
lar armv for the past nine years
his regiment was one of the first
to arrive in France.
WINDER, BARROW COUNTY. GA„ THURSDAY, FKBRI’ARY 36, 1920
THE BONDED COTTON
WAREHOUSE
THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS.GREAT UNDERTAKING FOR BAR
ROW COUNTY WHICH WILL BENEFIT ALL CLASSES.
(By Mr. R. L.jKiiodiuff.
There are many reasons why
we should build a bonded ware
house big enough to eare for our
cotton crop.
We cannot afford to let cotton
rot on the streets or in your yards
at the high price of the staple.
It takes ten times as much ware
house capacity now to store cotton
as it did a few years ago when it
was trucked in today at the front
door and out at the back door, to
morrow and shipped. Then we
did not need many warehouses;
now the farmers are able to hold
a lot of this cotton with a bonded
warehouse 90 per cent of the crop
could he held. In fact it would
make the cotton grower independ
ent ami able to do just what he
has always to do.
1 was reared on a farm jind still
have farming interest and as much
a farmer as anything else. From
my boyhood days I have heard it
said that the government ought
to do something for the farmers;
thal it was always helping the
classes. Now the government has
in the last few years done its part
to help the farmer. It has enact
ed and placed in operation the
lending of money oil farm lands
enabling every farmer who desires
to get money on his land at the
low rate of 5 per cent ineres.
How many are taking advant
age of this and fair law instead of
paving 8 per cent?
Do you dislike your gvernment
lending you money on your land
at 5 per cent and reany like your
banker or friend more to loan
to you at 8 pei cent, and go on
.paying- a pew ceait-iaovA.. -
No, it is simply habit and in
difference and a failure to take
advantage of a good law' and great
government.
Now, our government is offer
ing to convert your cotton into
currency and you have the oppor
tunity of selling it any month in
the year. .Just think of this; If
1 nad known when on the farm
this would have become a reality,
1 v. ould have stayed there and
waited for it. Now the opportun
,tv is knocking at our doors —the
governniet has done its part and
are we going to ae.ept the bene
fits offered?
How much would you give to
he able to know .just what grade
your cotton was? How much will
it. he worth for you to be able to
j get 75c in he dollar on your cot
j ion receipts? -Just think, every
| lin e vou put $lOO worth of cotton
in bonded warehouse you place
$75.00 of currency in your/pocket,
Now. gentlemen, this is what
Iwe have been dreaming of for
! years and years. It used to seem
like a fairy tale, but now it is a
real fact. A bonded warehouse
offers all these assets to us. All
we have to do is shell the corn. Are
we going to accept it. or let it p-ss
rather than do our duty?
If we had a bonded warehouse
in Winder we could drive our cot
ton there, get it weighed and grad
ed by a dis-interested. competent
grader under bond, get a ware
house receipt for 500 pounds lint
cotton,grades 3’s or 4’s as the case
may he and you will know what
you have.
Ttiis goes a step further than
Vhe farm loan law an a tenant has
cotton to sell and can get the bene
eflts derived from a bonded ware
house when only the land owner
can get money from the farm loan
law. So it is time for every ten
ant to take stock in the bonded
warehouse as it is as much his
anyone else and will benefit him
in proportion to his crop as mneh
as any other farmer. Five hales
to a five bale farmer means eg
much as 100 bales to a hundred
bale farmer.
It is time the stock was subscrib
ed and the warehouse started in
order to get ready for the fall
crop.
1 am not taking stock in this
warehouse beeause I have mo* ev;
i am paying interest every day,
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF BARROW COUNTY
but %tn taking it because 1 think
it. " dl help every man, woman and
chilijHn Barrow county. You can
not ficlp the masses without the
Hasses being bonefiitted but when
you help llie classes alone the mus
es suffer.
You see, therefore, that the
warehouse bill took in the tenant
together with the land owner so
as to benefit the masses and every
body. When an opportunity to
help all is lost, all our people are
hurt and now is the opportunity
in the warehouse. You can safely
for every one to take some stock
count on a reasonable dividend
and safe investment and will pay
more than ordinary interest to you
in dividends, help the farmers and
all of us and you will be doing
what you have always wanted to
do. If you cannot take much'stock
you should take a sma 11 amount—
as much as you are able. Every
business man should take stock;
but the farmers should own a ma
jority of the stock.
A number of. business men are
standing back now waiting for the
farmers to buy the majority of the
stock and they take the remain
der but if the farmers do not wish
the stock is it fair to the people
for the business men to stand back
and let the warehouse suffer and
fall through? Let the cotton rot
on the streets gain next fall? It
is time, gentlemen, that we were
all up and doing something.
If you just have one share of
$50.00 you have one vote anil have
as much say as any one as to the
manngemnet, according to your
stock*?* None know jnst who will
manage it. It will be managed by
good men, however, and all our
interests will be the same. I, as
a stock-holder, cannot hurt you
without hurting myself and we are
all in this movement for our own
gooil for the good of all.
When S6O 000.00 of the stock Is
taken the subscribers will be call
ed together and elect a president,
other officers and a board of di
rectors to manage and operate the
business.
If you are not able to take stock
you should-talk, plead and encour
age your landlord and others to do
so that you may receive some of
the benefits the same as the man
who is able to hold his cotton.
Lay down any little petty ideas
and objections and get into this
big enterprise good and strong. In
union there is strength; in co-op
eration there is power.
It was said once there was
enough co-operation in one hor
net’s nest to whip a pasture full
of mad bulls. The same co-opera
tion will whip a New Y T ork bunch
of bears. They are the fellows,
all of us Barrow county folks are
after, whether we be farmer, mer
chant or banker. We all want cot
ton to sell high.
Hunt up some man on the com
mittee and tell him how much
stock you will take.
STILL IN FLORIDA.
The Times received a card this
week from Mr. Z. F. Jackson,
stating he and Mrs. Jackson were
having a great time in Florida.
Mr. Jackson’s health is improv
ing, eating oranges, fish and other
good things and getting the ben
efit of the delightful climate of
that wonderful state.
The friends of Prof, (’ash will
learn with much sorrow that,
pneumonia has taken hold of him
after an attack of “fln” and that
he is quite ill at his home on Ath
ens street,.
Earl Ki'gore has been confined
to his room for the Dast week with
“flu.”
Mr and Mrs. Homer Baird, vis
ited friends and relatives in Stat
ham Sunday.
Mr -T A DoLrv has been quite
iff • f t’ <> • with influenza and
is not doing so well today.
THE VALUE OF GOOD
SCHOOLS
Nothing contributes more to
tiie best interest of our citizenship
than does our public schools. They
are the benefactors of our chil
dren and the hope of our countr\.
.Many of us will nol be able to
'leaveto our children an inlieii
tance in the way of property, but
all of us may leave to them some
thing far more valuable. We as
parents need not worry as to what
else we shall leave to them if we
make sure that they receive the
rich legacy of moral and mental
training. These are the qualifica
tions that demand the very best
in life; anil that boy or girl will
make his or her own way with as
sured reasonable success, and will
he able to meet all the buffs and
rebuffs of life with admirable
equanimity.
It has been when an uneducat
ed man could gel along pretty
well, mainly because the times did
not demand such talent as novi.
Tlie present time demands the ap
plication of the slogan “Do wel
what you do.” This age demands
specialists along all lines and only
the educated man is a specialist.
It is true the educated n.. at
present is not paid for his sc”, i. e
as he should he, hut this is because
of 11 e unsettled conditions <if si
f.iir.s, Comb'ii ns will not al.v.iys
remain in this way but wil: a.ii•
settle down when the mu if
v. i.vth will be commensviruoly
compensated.
A county with a good public
school system is good drawing
card for a good citiznship. One
reason why Bibb county for the
last several years has been settling
up with such a splendid citizen
ship is, that for several years the
school system of that county has
been one among the best in the
state. Many far-sighted men look
ed for location where their chil
dren could have.the best advan
tages and here they found it.
| What Bibb county did, and many
[others have done, all others may
do.
J. B. BROOKSHIRE,
Auburn, Ga.
BACK FRCM FLORIDA.
Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Sell stopped
over here a short time Wednesday
on their return home from a pleas
ant trip of several weeks in Fla.
They report a delightful time
and Florida crowded with visit -
ors.
BACK HOME AGAIN.
Dr. and Mrs. H. P. Quillian
reachedr home yesterday afte
spending two months in South Ga.
and Florida.
They come back much improv
ed in health and report a pleas
ant time while away.
Dr. Quillian is now ready to re
sume his practice.
FIRST METHODIST.
Sunday school 10:20 a. m., W.
T. Robinson, superintendent.
Preaching 11:30 a. m., anil 7 :30
p. rri. by the pastor. Subject, morn
ing, “Casting out Devils.”
Evening, “Pressing Onward.”
Young Peoples Missionary So
ciety 6:30 p. m.
We purpose beginning a meet
ing the 2nd Sunday in April with
an evangelist pastor, Rev. L. W.
Collins, of Jefferson assiting. As
our Baptist brethren begin their
meeting Ist Sunday in May, wc
I will close so as to allow at least a
week’s interval between the two
meetings.
J H MAKHBURN, Pastor.
Misses Mabel Rone, and Clyde
Chick, two attractive young ladies
of Monroe passed through Winder
Tuesday morning on their way
home after a few days visit to
Miss Chicks’ sister, at the State
Normal School.
Mr. Marshall Ried is confined
to his room this week with “flu.”
Mrs. Styles Reynolds, has re
turned from Gainesville where she
was called to the bedside of her
father who has been seriously ill.
Me TT. J. Stewart left this week
to visit his mother, of Gate City,
Va., who is seriously ill.
#1.50 lIS ADVANCE
WINDER SCHOOL
CLOSED WEDNESDAY
< >n account of the illness of sev
eral of the teachers and many of
of the pupils, school here lias clos
ed until conditions improve.
Over 100 of the boys and girls
are kept away on account of sick
ness.
PENTECOST.
Mr. Wil lie Lee Prickett has been
confined to his room with “flu”
for several days.
Miss Loise Couch was flic guest
of Miss Norma Hardigree Sunday
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Grady
Segars on the 23rd, a son.
M rs. A. I). Mincey and children
of Gainesville, spent Sunday
with Mr. and Mrs. Guy Mincey.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Wall have
been on the sick list for the past
week.
Miss Viola Hardigree "returned
home Thursday after a ten days
isit to Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Ilardi
gree of Montreal.
Mrs. W. T. Prickett is the guest
of Mr. anil Mrs. Howard Prickett,
of Monroe.
Mrs. Ada Segars of Winder,
was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. 11.
G. Segars Monday.
Miss Zorn Hammond has been
very ill with influenza.
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Prickett were
the guests of relatives here Sun
day afternoon.
Marion Couch spent Sunday"
with Charles and Henry Ila fili
gree.
The Valentine party given by
Miss Grace Prickett was very
much enjoyed by all who were so
fortunate as to be present.
There will be preaching here
next Sunday morning. We hope
to have a large crowd.
Mr. F. S. Royster, who founded,
built up and still controls the well
known F. S."'Royster Guano Cos.,
is quoted as saying that the suc
cess of his business is due primari
ly to his belief that the farmer is
the fairest of men, and that he will
stand faithfully by those who
study his needs and give him al
ways the best. The great growth
of the Royster business is due to
the recognition on the part of the
farmer of the efforts of a lifetimo
devoted to giving him the utmost
in plant food for his crops, and
his appreciation of the fact that
through good times and bad, in
war and peace, measured by what
ever standards Royster Fertilizer
“have stood the test.”
WIRELESS STATION IN
COMMERCE.
It will, o doubt, he a surprise
to many people here to know we
have a wireless radio station in
our city which has been inopera
tion for many months. You may
also be interested to know the
operator is Wendell Roberts, the
17 year old son of .Mr. and Mrs.
M. C. Roberts. Wendell is a
sprightly little fellow with keen
black eyes and an intelegent ex
pression, wears knee trousers,
but sits and operates the intri
cate mechanism of his wireless ns
composedly as if he were doing
nothing out of the ordinary.
From early childhood he has
shown great interest in electrical
mechanism and saved his spare
money to buy books on the sub
ject keeping them concealed from
his parents and friends until he
had learned enough to construct
with his own hands a receiving
station. Using designs and in
structions found in the literature
he constructed a wireless on
which he received messages and
when war was declared, he, with
all others was forced by the gov
ernment to take it down. After
war was over he added a trans
mitter to bis outfit arid put iri all
his spare time after school hours;
as a result of his dilTigent study
he was offered a position by the
government several months ago
at an attractive salary. This
was declined on account of his
youth. He has license from the
government to operate and is a
trnemher of America’s [foremost
radio Leagues.—The Commerce
News.