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STOKE AT RED STONE
BURNED
From Jackson Herald
About ten o‘ clock Tuesday
night, fire was discovered in the
store of the late Guy Hardy, at
fced Stone, and in a short time the
■uilding, with its contents, was a
•rnass of coals. It was a one-story
wooden building, practically new,
and was filled with a line of mer
chandise usually kept in country
stores. It belonged to the Guy
Hardy Estate, M. N. Jones, Ad
ministrator, and was managed by
Mr. J. D. Pike.
Mr. Clyde Williamson, of Win
der, visited relatives here this
week.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Smith
allr three children, and Miss
Smith, of Winder, were visiting
relatives in Jefferson, Sunday.
Friends of Mr. W. T. Wills will
regret to know that he was taken
seriously ill on Sunday, and for
several hours was in a critical con
dition. He is reported much bet
ter.
THE RACE QUESTION
From Covington News
As long as we have white men in
the South who know no laws in
their treatment of negroes just so
long will we have the negro prob
lem to solve. In six counties in
< teorgia we-read that negroes have
been intimidated, beaten and kept
in bondage, and that the “race
question” is again the leding ques
tion to be answered in many sec
tions of the state.
Our duty toward the negro is a
ve#. solemn one and it behooves
yJMiigiit thinking white people to
stand together in stamping out
this vicious class of our own color.
The negro is entitled to a square
deal by our laws, both civil and
moral, and until we in the South
see that lie gets it we shall have
the negro question ever befor us.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF
LAWRENCEVILLE OR
GANIZED
From Gwinnett Journal
f
The government has approved
the application for charter of the
First National Bank of Lawrence
ville, and the company hopes to be
ready for bussiness the first of
February.
The government sent a man
here several days ago to investi
gate the local situation, and on a
favorable report from him the au
thorities at Washington approved
the application.
The capital stock will be $50,-
000, with a $5,000 surplus. A
(Jfe has been issued for a payment
ofs6o per share and when this a
mount is in hand the institution
will be ready for business.
They will use the building and
fixtures of the Bank of Lawrence
ville, but the new bank will be
separate and distinct from the for
mer, the old bank to be wound up
by the state superintendent of
banks.
From Commerce News
During the past three weeks, we
have been rather ashamed to send
the News to our. exchanges, for
the reason that its advertising col.
umns have been almost blank. It
mortified us to give the town in
which we live and love most such
an advertisement. We have had
considerable comfort however, in
the fact that most of our ex
changes are in the same fix, which
VVinds us of an experience that
an aged man gave during a pro
tracted meeting, when he said:
“Bruthrin, sometimes I’m cp and
sometimes I’m down; sometimes
I’m on the mountain top and some
times I’m in the valley; sometimes
I’m on my way to heaven, and
sometimes on my way to lieli, but
thank God I’m not by myself.
From Milledgoville Nows
Social Circle, in Walton county,
is planning to make a fight at the
next session for new county with
that town as county seat. It is
proposed to cut a slice from New
ton, Walton, Jasper and Morgan
counties to form the new one but
they will likely have hard sailing
for these are four of the leading
counties of Middle Georgia and
will fight before consenting to an
operation on their boundary lines.
From Banks County Journal
We are informed that revenue
officers captured two whiskey
automobiles in Busliville district
Monday night. There were three
cars but one escaped. It may be
that liquor runners are going to
run trains of automobiles. It
used to be one, then two now three
in a bunch.
Mr. John M. Garrison of Gilis
ville, visited his brother in Okla
homa recently and saw the great
wealth piling up from the oil
fields of that state. He came
home, studied over the matter un
til he could stand it no longer, so
bought a quarter section of land
in the oil fields We hope John
will strike it rich, and he ma.y
A young man by the name of
Thomas came to Banks last week
on business, fell ill and died in
about six hours. His remains
iwere carried to bis home at Dil
lard Monday.
PROPERTY BROUGHT GOOD
PRICE LAST TUESDAY
Last Tuesday was public sale
day and several parties were pres
ent in front of the Courthouse to
bid on property that was adver
tised by the administrator.
The bidding was quite brisk on
the Garrison property.
This is one of the valuable brick
buildings of Winder, being a two
story corner lot fronting on Broad
and Athens streets and will always
be in demand.
A part of it is the home of the
Farmer’s Bank and is one of the
best structures in our city.
On account of the tightness of
money and general depression it
was thought by some that this
handsome building would sell way
below its value, but it was bid off
by Mayor G. N. Bagwell atsl7,ooo.
Under normal conditions it
would have brought $20,000 or
more.
This sale should inspire confi
dence in Winder real estate, as it
clearly showed there was no dan
ger here of property ever selling
at sacrifice prices and we may now
expect a healthy and gradual in
crease of values.
The Collier land did not sell,
and some lots at Statham conclud
ed the sales for the day.
Strang* Street Nam**.
Whet is the quaintest stre*t Drn
you know of In London, past or pres
ent? It would probably b* bard, re
late* th London Chronicle, to boat
Bhaltlgonaksd street, which, according
to tha late Sir Laurence Oomme'i rP
dence before the local records com
mittee, appears as the name of a street
In Wapplng In a sewers rate book for
1748. In those days the naming of a
street was not in the hands of a sedate
public authority, hence the oddity of
some of these 'M names.
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Doing One's Best.
There need be no comparison In ths
ways of duty, if each docs simply the
best that occasion allows him. Our part
may be watching from far off, declares
a writer, waiting In days of suspense
and anxiety; even that part can be
done well or may be shirked. And the
moment in which we have done ouf
will appear, as we look back at It,
like a mountain peak on which the
sun is shining, though at the time it
! seemed only the sad corner of a 11m
, ited and feeble life.
THE BARROW TIMES, WINDER, GEORGIA.
HISTORIC HOUSE IN MARKET
Shakespeare Hotel at Stratford-ofw
Avon Recently Put Up at Auo
tlon in London.
On Thanksgiving day there was '/l*
fered at auction In London the Shake
speare hotel at Stratford-on-Avon, a
beautiful specimen of Fourteenth cen
tury architecture, which for years has
been the main resort of Americans
and other tourists to Btratford-on-
Avoa.
The history af Btrst£ord-00-Aon
may be traced beck for a period at
1.000 years, and sa the Mrthplacs
the great poet It has become a dasapt
center rial ted annually by some 60/100
people. The Guard house, whsrs
ghaknapeare was born; Bhottery, whsrs
he courted Anne Hathaway; diarkxts
Park, once the seat at dir Thoms*
Lacy, whom displeasure SkakeM>Oßrs
Incurred by stealing his deer; the
Shakespeare Memorial theater, on the
banks of the Avon, and Shakespeare’s
monument, are all places worthy of
visiting in the old market town of
Stratford-on-Avon.
The Shakespeare hotel, situated In
the center of tho town and close to
the Shakespeare Memorial Theater,
was erected In the Fourteenth century,
and has been In the hands of the late
Mr. Justins’ family since 1870. A.few
doors from the Shakespeare hotel is
the Harvard house, which was the
early home of the Harvard family,
founders of Harvard university,
MUST PAY TRIBUTE TO ART
"
Not In Admiration, But In Current
Coin, Is the Edict of the French
Authorities.
After all those years of luxurious
Idleness the Venus de Milo must be
come a wage earner. The authorities
of Franca have so decreed. And not
only Venus, but Mena Ll® and all the
other celebrities gathered In the
Louvro, and In the Luxembourg *nd
other galleries as well. For the flat
has gone forth recently that hereafter
those who have been accustomed to
visit the museums af Paris day after
day, finding their treasures free a*
air, must pay an admission too. If
you want to go to admire Venus In her
crimson velvet seclusion you must pay
for the privilege. To be sure, she is
worth any price, you must admit. And
when you go Into the Salon Carre of
the Lonvre and stop to meditate about
what the enigmatical Mona Lisa is
meditating, yon must pay for that, too.
Not a separate admission for each de
partment. No, they are all banded to
gether In one big union, as It were,
all those priceless treasures of each
museum, and hereafter they will earn
their keep.
Rafts May Cross Pacific.
Swedish lumbermen are on this coast
investigating the possibility of rafting j
lumber from British Columbia to i
Europe. Lumber rafts of large size,
called rafanutes, have been success
fully towed from Sweden to Great
Britain, says the Scientific American.
The Ocean Jtafanute Syndicate (af
London, England, has sent William
Olsson of Stockholm, an experienced
rafanute builder, here to Investigate
the possibility of adapting that method
to British Columbia timber exports.
The rafanutes are made of square
timbers. Mr. Olsson, though express
ing nothing definite, believes that the
tremendous timbers of the British Co
lumbia forests will make possible the
construction and successful operation
of rafanutes far larger than the rafts
now shipped out of the Baltic. Swedish
structures carry 4,000,000 or 5,000,000
feet each. It Is proposed that the
British Columbia rafts will contain
15,000,000 to 20,000,000 feet.
Rothschild’s Best Tip.
La 1871 a friend approached Baron
Rothschild, the great financier, who
was a firm believer In the maxim “Buy
when everybody else is selling and
sell when others are buying,” and
asked what the banker considered a
first-class investment.
“Buy French rentes,” said Roths
child ; “you can get them cheaply
now.” French bonds were then selling
at 03.
"But the streets of F’nrls are run
ning with blood,” objected hLs friend.
“That's the reason you can buy
them cheaply," replied the money
baron.
A quarter of a century later In 1806
these bonds were selling at 106 and
were considered as perhaps the most
conservative tuwvetiuent Id the wrtd.
—Wall Street Journal.
New American Industry.
establishment of anew Eaattrn
tor> with 50,000 square feet of floor
space, for the manufacture of arti
ficial pearls from fish scate essence
marks the beginning of anew Amen
lean Industry, formerly dependent ok
Imports from France, Germany and
Italy, says Popular Mechanics Maga-
I zine. The common herring is th*
base of supply for the iridescent ma
terial used, and removing it is an
arduous task, because each scale, taken
from certain parts of the yields
only a tiny speck of luster.
Suction Tube Unload* ttic 3oat.
A big suction tube Is used at Oak
land, Cal., in the operation of unload
ing crufts of their cargo of copra. The
material Is thrown into the hold loose
and the end of the tube js thrust
down the hold. The material Is light
and the current of air readily picks
it up and carries through the pipe to
the bins on the wharf where it l*
stored. Copra is lighter than cork
and comes from tropic*! count-ris*-
Real Estate
A Safe Investment
When Bought Right
1921
Is the Y ear to Buy Real
Estate While There Is
A Depression
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We will have some fine farms
to offer this year and are simply
running this ad to let you know
where to come if you expect to
be in the market during the next
six or eight months.
Also if you have a farm to sell,
get in communication with us,
Lamar & Perry
winder, ga.
THURSDAY; FEB. 3,1921.