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VOLI MK . NO. 11
FACTS OF INTEREST ABOUT
'WINDER AND BARROW COUNTY
GIVEN FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE REPRESENTATIVE
WOMEN DELEGATES HERE NEXT WEEK TO THE W C.
T. U STATE CONVENTION WHO BELIEVE IN
PROGRESS ALONG ALL LEGITIMATE
LINES OF ENDEAVOR
The Times wishes 1o give a few facts of interest about Winder and
Harrow county in this issue, more for the benefit of the representa
tive delegates of the Georgia Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
in the annual convention here next week.
These intelligent women from all sections of the State are progres
sive and public-spirited, feel an interest in the development of every
section of their state and we are sure will be glad to know what Win
der and Barrow county are doing on all lines of endeavor for the
betterment of society.
Forty years ago the present city
of Winder was a cross roads with
two or three homes and was called
dug Tavern.
A few years afterwards the O
and. & S. railroad, now known as the
Gainesville Midland, was built,
opening up new possibilities and
the cross roads or dug Tavern
soon grew to be a town of two or
three hundred persons.
In the fall of 1891 the Seaboard
Air Line, one of the systems of
Southern loads reached here on
its wav to Atlanta, and the little
town took on renewed growth.
[t had live and progressiwe cit
izens. who felt and believed it bad
a bright future and were ready
1( do all in their power to help
make it what it is today.
< )ne of the great factors in build
ing a town is a newspaper to en
courage and enthuse those who
wish to do big things for their
town also to get others to come in
and help build and develop. A im
pel'that will keep eternally preach
ing the advantages and the possi
bilities of a town instead of knock
ing it. There was little to en
courage one to engage in an enter
prise of this kind in a town so small
and which, under the circumstan
ces, would require much sacrifice
w ith little hope of reward.
A. G. Lamar, with the assist
ance of friends over Jackson coun
ty, organized and began the pub
lishing of a paper here in Februa
ry. 1893, starting the first issue
with 900 subscribers.
.Jug Tavern was then a town of
only 500 inhabitants and during
the twelve years following he bad
many difficulties with which to
contend and many sacrifices to
make.
The paper continued to grow in
prestige and circulation and never
failed to tell of the wonderful ad
vantages of Winder and this sec
tion of Georgia and that wo would
eventually have a prosperous and
magnificent little city.
In a short while the name was
changed from Jug Tavern to Win
der a name that gave il a push
and new impetus and it began to
grow by leaps and bounds.
What Is The Result?
Now it Inis all the advantages of
the larger cities—eleetric lights, a
perfect water and sewerage sys
tem, the main business streets all
being paved, a public school sys
tem equal to any in the state, with
one of its school buildings erected
:i few years ago under the admin
istration of W. O. Perry as mayor,
worth $125,000.00, and a credit to
a city of ten times our population.
•\Ve have three church buildings
that will compare with those of
any city of 25000 inhabitants, the
Methodist, Baptist and Christian
churches, as well as magnificent
homes and business houses, and a
population which has grown trom
500 to 35000 in twenty-seven years.
THE BARROW TIMES
Public Enterprises.
Twenty-seven years ago we had
no banks, no handsome churches,
no electric lights, no water and
sewerage system, no beautiful
school building, no costly residen
ces, no attractive business houses
and no manufacturin enterpries.
Now we have three strong hanks,
and mercantile establishments
ranking with the largest in the
State.
Barrow County Cbtton Mill
We have the Barrow County
Cotton Mills with 10,000 spindles
and dOO automatic looms and 300
operatives, with dno. M. Williams
president. T. A. Maynard, and G.
W. DeLaPerriere, vice presidents;
and L. S. Radford, secretary and
treasurer.
This is an industrial institution
worth much to Winder and Har
row county, the pay roll per week
amounting to $6,500.
Bell Manufacturing Cos.
The Bell Manufactcroing Cos.
manufacturers of overalls,' pants,
and shirts, has an authorized capi
tal of $1,000,000.00. It is one of
the long established plants of our
city, having started in 1907 and
continuing to grow and expand.
It has three large plants, the one
here, one at Gainesville and one at
Charleston, S. C. Winder is the
home plant and through it the oth
ers arc managed.
The three combined plants have
450 operatives and all three have
proven a most remarkable success
with W. C. Horton, president; R.
L. Havenson ami W. L. DeLaPer
riere. vice presidents; J. J. Horton,
secretary; W. L. Jackson, treasur
er; and L. A. Fortson, general man
ager.
The Winder Manufacturing Cos.
We have The Winder Mfg. Cos.,
another overall plant which has
made a wonderful success with its
Wimco brand of overalls. The vol
ume of business for the first nine
months of this year exceeds the
volume for the entire year of 1919.
This plant works over 30 opera
tives and lias as president, <i. W.
Woodruff; vice president, H. A.
('anthers; secretary and treasurer,
11 A. Perry.
The Klimax Oveall Cos.
We also have the Klimax Over
all Cos., with O. M. Henson, presi
dent; R. J. Bates, vice president ;
and B. 11. Meadow, secretary and
treasurer.
This company w as organized the
first of the present year and began
operation March 1. It has. too,
proven successful and become one
of the established industrial insti
tutions of Winder, employing 50
operatives.
These three overall plants pay
good wages, and give employment
to about 225 young ladies and
women of our city.
Winder Oil Mill Company.
The oil mill is also one of the
big concerns of Winder, employing
a number of hands anti in eonnec-
WINDER, HARROW COUNTY. GA„ THURSDAY. OCTOIIHR I 1, 120
tiou with il runs a large ginnery.
This is one among the first maim
factoring plants of the city and
has always prospered. Mr. dno. A.
Thompson, the president, has suc
ceeded in this line of manufactur
ing and besides lots had time to en
gage in hanking and other enter
prises. Mr. Clair Harris is secre
tary. and M. George Thompson is
superintendent.
Wooduff Manufacturing Company
The Woodruff Manufacturing
Company, G. W. Woodruff, pres
ident; A. L. Jacobs, manager; is
one of the thriving industries of
our city, manufacturing webbing
harness, backhands and cotton
pickers’sacks and its products are
sold all over Georgia, South and
North Carolina and Alabama.
Woodruff Mchy. & Mfg. Company.
The Woodruff Machinery & Mfg.
Cos., owned bvy G. W. and A. J.
Woodruff and A. P. Guffin, does a
large business all over this section
of the state and is one of the very
important industries for Winder
and Barrow county.
The Winder Marble & Granite Cos.
The Winder Marble and Granite
Cos., J. W. Nichols, manager, is
another enterprise that has made
great progress and does a large
business all over northeast and
middle Georgia.
The New Winder Lumber Cos.
The New Winder Lumber Cos., is
a strong concern furnishing build
ing material for all the surround
ing country and contracting and
building fine homes and business
houses not only in Winder, but in
many adadjoining towns and also
in the country districts.
Williams-Thompson Company.
Tbe Williams-Thompson Cos., al
so big contractors and lumber deal
ers. carry building material of all
kinds, carrying a tremendous
stock and extending their field of
operations as the months pass by.
W. E. Yeung.
Mr. W. E. Young is also a great
lumber man and contractor and is
known all over this and adjoining
counties as “The Shingle Man.”
He buys shingles in earload lots
and sells them in every nook and
corner of this territory.
The Winder Bottling Works.
Tbe Winder Bottling Works, es
tablished here 2G years ago, when
a small town by A. H. O’Neal, and
now owned by R. 11. Pirkle, ships
its products all over Barrow
Gwinnett and parts of Jackson
and Hall counties. 11 has become
one of our large and successful en
terprises.
Summerour's Ginnery.
Another big ginnery other than
the one owned by the Oil Mill ( o.
is that, of G. W. Summerour which
is kept to its full capacity during
the season and owned and operat
ed by one of Winder’s live wires.
Winder has three large cotton
warehouses operated by gentlemen
of known business integrity and
who do all in their power to han
dle the thousands of bales of cot
ton stored by the fanners and
buyers.
The Smith-Mayne Mfg. Company.
The Smith-Mayne Manufactur
ing Cos., is one of the big concerns
of the South manufacturing high
class office furniture exclusively,
and its products go into every
state in the union.
Mr. R. A. W. Smith is president,
Jno. M. Williams, vice president;
(’laud Maync*. secretary and W. C.
FOOTBALL SATURDAY.
OFFICIAL. ORGAN OF BARROW COUNTY
J. L. SAUL IS SLASHING
PRICES AS NEVER BEFORE
J. L. Saul’s great Pre-War Price
Sale was on in full blast t his morn
ing at 9 o’clock.
The Saul Stoic has had many
sales in the past to clean up old
stock, reaise money, and for va
rious reasons, and made very at
tractive prices, hut there is no
doubt that this sale is a real bona
fide sale w here prices have actual
ly been marked down below cost;
than any previous sale ever held in
Ihis city.
In conversation with Mr. Saul
a Times reporter was convinced
1 hat .1. L. Saul had the prices that
would move the goods, everything
being marked down to pre-war
prices. Mr. Saul stated to us that
he intended selling these goods, he
needed money to pay up and Un
people needed the goods and one
way to dispose of them was to sell
them dirt cheap or give them away
and hence the prices elsew here in
this issue was the result, head
this advertisement and note the
prices; if it don't sound like old
times we miss our guess.
Horton treaurer.
The Winder Compress Cos.
The Winder Compress < ’o.. is on
ly <i few years old, hut this com
press lias had phenomenal success
jand an important factor to Win
der’s commercial development.
Uottonjs shipped here from differ
ent pails of the state to be com
pressed and exported.
The Winder Post Office is an in
dex to what Winder is doing and
the postal receipts show a large in
crease every year.
Postmaster W. P. McCants has
worked hard to keep this office up
to standard required by the pub
lic. The postal receipts for the
year ending June 30, last, amount
i
eel to over SII,OOO. There are no
towns in this part of Georgia
whose postal receipts exceed Win
der, except Athens and Gaines
ville.
The lied Cross lias a nurse for
Barrow county. There are only
seven counties in the state with a
Red Cross nurse and Winder and
Barrow county are proud to know
we are one of them.
in 1915 Barrow county came in
to existence being formed from u
small part of each of the splendid
old counties of Jackson, Walton
and Gwinnett.
It is a small county in area, but
one of the very productive sections
of the state and having as up-to
date and progressive farmers as
any part of Ihe union.
It lias in its territory the thriv
ing towns of Statliam, Bethlehem.
Carl and Auburn with Winder as
'the county scat.
A beautiful court house is under
course of erection and many firsl
class public roads have already
been built, with Ilie hope that in a
few more years there will not he a
bad road in its entire territory.
It is Imped the delegates will he
given the opportunity of seeing as
much of our county as possible
during their visit here next week
and Iliut they will take a look into
our beautiful and well kept stores
and see the high class goods our
merchants handle and when they
get back home will feel they were
fully repaid for having seen Win
der and Barrow county.
| FOOTBALL SATURDAY—WIN
'DER vs G M A.—3:30. Valley Pk.
PROGRAM W. C. T. U. CON
VENTION HERE OCT. 19-22
PROGRAM
Thirty-Seventh Amiunl Convention of
the Georgia Woman’s Christian Temper
ance Union, Baptist church Winder,. Ga.
October 19-22, 1020.
State Motto: “Speak Into the Chil
dren of Israel That They Go Forward.”
Exodus XIV, 15.
NIM: “To abolish ignorance by
knowledge; to eradicate vice try virtue;
to displace disease bv health: to dispel
darkness by light.”
Membership Conditions: Payment of
Annual Dues and Signature of the fol
io wing:
Pledge: “I hereby solemnly promise
God helping me, to abstain from all dis
tilled, fermented and malt liquors, in
cluding wine, beer, cider and to employ
all proper means for the enforcement of
the Kigtheenth Amendment.”
STATE OFFICERS.
President —Airs. Bella Dillard. Em
ory Eni versify.
Vice President —Mrs. Marvin Wil
liams. 522 Ponce de l.eon Ave., Atlanta.
Recording Secretary—Miss Theresa
Griffin, 1550 Third Ave., Columbus.
Corresponding Secret art Mrs. .luluts
Magath, Oxford.
Treasurer —Mrs. August Burghard,
-131 dohnson Ave., Macon.
EX PRESIDENTS
Mrs. William C. Sibley. Augusta, IS,S3
,1900.
Mrs. .Tcnnie Hart Sibley. Piiion Point
11)00-1905.
Mrs. Mary Harris Armour, Eastman,
1905-1909.
Airs. Thomas E. Patterson, Griffin,
1909-1916.
STAATE FIELD SECRETARY
Airs. Mary Harris Armour. E. L. D.,
Crawfordville.
BRANCH SECRETARIES
Loyal Temperance Legion Mrs. Paul
Roberts, Winder.
Young People's Branch: College- Mrs
Bella A. Dillard, Emory University.
STATE MUSICAL DIRECTOR.
Mrs. A. B. Cunyutt, Carters! file.
I’IANIHT.
Mrs. Annie Jones Pyrou, Cartersville.
PRESIDENTS OF BOARD OF SUPER
INTENBENTS
Mrs. Marvin Williams, Atlanta.
AGENTS
For I In' Union Hignni: Mrs. Bessie S.
Aired, Sandersville.
For the Young Crusader: Mrs. Paul
Roberts, Winder.
LITERATURE TABLE
Mrs Harriet Sears, Mnenn, Assistant
Mrs. 11. IT. Segars and Mrs. V\ 1.. Mat
thews.
On Homes; —Mrs. John Aikin and
Mrs. W. L. Jackson.
RECEPTION—Mrs. A. A. Camp.
PUBLICITY—Mrs. John H Wood.
CITY DECORATIONS—Mr. A. V.
Ea veil son.
MUSIC —Mrs. T. A. Maynard.
PAG ES - Members of E. T. L.
POSTMISTRESS .Miss Annie Thom
as.
KEYNOTE OF CONVENTION
“Enlarge the place of thy tent and
let them spread forth the curtains ot
thy habitation; spare not. lengthen thy
cords, and strengthen thy stakes; for
thou shult break forth on the right hand
and on the left.”
WINDER NIGHT, TUESDAY, OCT. 19,
7:45 P. M.,.BAPTIST CHURCH.
Music —Methodist Sunday School or-
chest ra.
Chorus —Winder L. T. L., Mrs. Paul
Roberta, LeadeT.
Scripture —Rev. .1. 11. .Washburn.
Prayer.
\j us i ( ,_Anthcni. Combined choirs of
nil the churche’s.
Greetings —From the ( ity, Mnvoi .L
11. Maynard. From the churches, Rev.
\V. 11. Faust. From the schools, Prof.
.T. I’. Cash. From Women’s Societies
and clubs, Mrs. A. T>. MeOurry.
Music —Trio, Mesdames Land, Potts
and MeCurry.
Greetings From the W. ('. T. 1 . Mrs.
.loh n 11. Wood.
Music—Hong. Congregation. “All
Hall the Power of Jesus Name.”
Introduction of State President bv
Mrs. VV. Horton.
Response and Greetings from State
President. Mrs. Leila A. Dillard.
Solo. Mrs. A. B. Cunyus, State Mu
sical Director, with Aecompainent by
Mrs. Annie Jones Pyron.
Announcements.
Benediction: “The Lord bless thee
and keep thee; the Lord make His face
to shine upon thee and be gracious unto
thee; the Lord lift up His countenance
upon thee and give thee peace.”
WKDNLSDAV MORNING, OCT. 20.
H. 20. Meeting of Executive Com.
$1.50 IN ADVANCE
WESLEY HIGGINS TAKES
OWN LIFE.
Mr. Wesley Higgins, son of Mr.
S. F. Higgins, of Bold Springs,
Walton county, was found uncon
scious and at the point of death
Monday night near Loganivlle.
■He was carried to the above
town hilt only lived tt few minutes
after reaching there.
The coroner’s jury brought in a
verdict that Mr. Higgins’ death
was caused from a pistol wound in
his side committed by himself.
He leaves his wife and two small
children. The funeral was at Bold.
Springs Tuesday afternoon, con
ducted by Rev. Goss, of Monroe.
VERY LITTTLE HOPE FOR
REV. R E. MOSS..
A card received yesterday from
the mother of Rev. R. Iv Moss, of
Nashville, Tenn., gives the sad
news that Mr. Moss has been in a
very critical condition for the past
three weeks and little hope is en
tertained tor him.
This news will he learned with
much regret and sadness by Bit 1
people of Winder w here he lived
for one and a half years and up to
the time of his illness in July.
DEATH OF MRS. W. E.
ROBERTS TUESDAY NIGHT
Winder was shocked and sadden
ed Wednesday morning early
when tbe news went out that Mrs.
W. K. Roberts was dead.
She bad been ill for a few weeks
bid not considered at all serious.
Sin* grew worse Tuesday and
bretatlied her last about 8 o’clock
Tuesday night.
Mr. and Mrs. Roberts came Imre
from Grayson about one year ago
and bad in this brief time made
many strong friends.
She leaves her husband and eight
little children. Her remains were
carried to Grayson today for bur
ial Ibis being the place where most
of Iter life bad been spent.
Mr. Roberts and the children
have the warm sympathy of all our
people in their sad bereavement.
DEATH CLAIMS MRS. N. E.
McCURRY, MOTHER
OF MR A. D. McCURRY.
Mrs. A. I). Met furry died at her
home in Hartwell last Saturday
morning at three o’clock.
The funeral was at Bethcsada
church in Hart county.
She came up in the antebellum
days, a period quite different from
the present period.
Mrs. McGurrv was 90 years old
and bad been a member of the M.
Iv Church for 7fi years.
Sin* leaves five sons: F. G. Me
Curry, Hart well; C. S. MeCurry,
Montana: A. W. MeCurry, Atlan
ta; A D. MeCurry, Winder, and
T. L. MeCurry, Detroit. One daugh
ter, Mrs.. M. <>. Jones, Columbus,
Ohio.
Sin* was a good and noble Chris
tian woman and left an impress
on all who had tlie pleasure of
knowing her.
9.50. Call to Order by State Prcsi
dent.
Crusade Hymn, “Give to the
Winds Thy Fours.”
Crusade Psalm, 1 Pi, read in con
cert.
Adoption of Program.
10.00. Memorial Service, frur Promot
ed Comrades: “These all died in taith,
not having received the promises, but
having seen them afar off, and were
persuaded of them, and embraced them,
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