WILKINSON COUNTY NEWS
IRWINTON, GEORGIA.
| ELI B. HUBBARD Editor and Publisher.
Mrs. T. A. Gibbs, Representative for The News, at Gor
don, Georgia.
| Entered at the Post Office at Irwinton, Ga., under the
' Act of Congress of March 3rd., 1879, as second class
g matter.
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ALEX S. BOONE REPLIES TO THE BULLETIN
Why Bullington Man! Why Bullington Man! Why
B do you meet the evidences of your many and your proven
“Gits,” with a few, forty-leven, faked up questions ? And
® not even a denial of “Gits,” as numeroues as the sands of
the sea.
Did we attack you? Fact is, we hardly thought of
ft* you when same was writ. We didn’t expect you to ans
wer, knowing full well that any answer you might make
would only amount to a pitiful confession.
- And we will admit, too, that that was a powerful
E load, with which to burn down a sparrow. Sparrow, did
if we say? Mouse! Mouse!
And Bullington Man, don’t delude yourself with the
. > idea that any sparrow could stop that load. And we’ve
got this to say too; that when a Joree gets between us
and what we are shooting at, then it is just so much
worse for said Jorea.
No Bullington Man! That charge went clear through
ft ‘ y° u > and on into the heart and vitals of that Gorilla Sys-'
p tem which crushes the political life out of oil who do not
do its biddings. That Accursed System which crushes
what ought to be a man, into the semblance of a chip-,
ped Taw apd true Ring Marble for said system. That
1 Cursed System which has bled our county out of an Hun
dred Thousand dollars, within the memory of this genera
tion. An Tundred Thousand Dollars that ought now to be
on the public roads, in the schools, yea,in the heads of this
jw , present generation. That System, Cursed in Heaven,
! and we do curse it here on earth.
Ki Bullington Man! Did we attack you? Why the only
? way to effectively attack and to coop you up, is to put
some syrup (Gits) in a fly trap, and when you do march,
crawl in, then scald you with hot water. Now that is all
that we did before. Just caught you licking “Gits” in a
fly-trap, and then over you we did pour the holy waters
of, scalding truth. And your answer thereto: Boone
bought stationery, not for his use, but to be used in the
Ml Chanty Business. Not even a denial of the things charg
■ ed and proven on you.
K . Sho fly! Quit your crawling! We havn’t been berry
■ picking! Off from our ear, Seed-tick!
■v ' Did we attack you. We are told that when Dempsey
■ is preparing-to' fight, that he always collects up a few
| plug-ugly fighters to practice on and thus prepares for
£ the Main Bout. Bullington Man! We were just practicing
Kaan you. See! Some day we might meet the “Wild Bull of
S Hip Pampas”, even Firpo. And some night, on the back
■ ^Bd fence, at midnight’s stilly hour, we might meet a real
■Bawling, fighting, clawing Thomas cat, and then when
fthat happens, this bit of setting-up exercise, which we
. g have gotten out of you will be of great help in the saving
Bk of hide, hair and fur.
g . And still you talk of alternating. Say, Bullington
tl. Man! Not a string but a great big grass rope is dangling
" RAo all that alternating talk. The rope is this: You must
pfirst pay back all that money which you ought not to
Fhave gotten. You must do that before we ever vote for you
|r to get another legal ad. For instance to Mrs. Josie
KE Wright (widow), you know her husband and our Old Dad
, B<“Fit” in the G1 war, together. Have you paid any of
w" that money back yet ? Folks he means to keep it all and
B just brass it out.
B K Are you mad because in addotion to all your other
■■-“Gits” We didn’t let you get our stationery printing too?
Üb? Wouldn't the Records look like something 40 years from
■ now, and printed on your Chenp-John get-up?
aQ? Bullington Man! We flatly deny the truth of your '
■&aked-up questions and every insinuation conveyed therein.
M ^ou remember that you gave no proof, only your word,
gM -of course everybody believes your word, you know that,
mß. don’t you?
M B Now Bullington Man! Keep a death-grip on your
and you now have our permission to travel on to
Court House fire, where you will be asked other and
g^B|rther questions which may properly burn and brand you.
IP’' Bullington Man! Are you still mad .’ And is there a pine
? D - oes y° ur abdomen still ache because the ballots
■ burr under the saddle? And a cuckle burr under the crup-
Alßwere not burned before being consolidated? Is that what
:Hvou be kicking about? Keep Kicking. Who can tell? You
■ might get something out of it. A mule once got mention
■ed in Holy Writ,by reason of his ability to talk and to
■kick- Yessir! Old Balaam’s critter has been read and
Mfeeached about for lo these 19 centuries, all because- he.
Bcould talk, talk, and kick, kick.
£ But you%sk us what would we say "if the records were
burned now ? Ask us a hard one, that’s dead easy.
BWhat would we say in case of fire now ? Why, we might
■^Y that you burned them. Say are you preparing for
■Knything ?
was ourr reason, cause or warning to save the
BSikllots ? Easy too! We just knew you, knew also your deep
■discontent wdth the c</unt of those ballots.
•V bring the Sheriff into this? Are you attacking
K?im tool Our recollection is that the Sheriff had his
Blands .about full that midnight time. And if he, the sheriff
|»uWt keep the court house from burning, why are you
SBHms that he would have kept the ballots from burning?
■^■jpldes he knew o. ought to have known you as well as we
I ■Ed: You and your discontent
Bullington, Man! Lets you and I agree on some
' things, to-wit: there were three ways to protect those bal
' lots, viz; pul them in the vault for one. Put them in the
safe for another (you had access to both)), or else sit
over them with a shotgun. We chose the shotgun and cer
tainly have no apologies to make, in as much is they were
0. K. on the next morning
Lets agree further, and to-wit: That the ballot box
was turned over to us by the managers of Irwinton Dis
trict, and with a request to safely keep them until next
morning. Are you mad because we kept them safe and
wouldn’t let you have them BEFORE DAY, IN THE
NIGHT TIME, AFTER YOU FOUND THAT THE COURT
HOUSE WAS BURNED, AND THAT THE BALLOTS
WERE NOT BURNED? Own the corn, Bullington Man! j
You knew how to get into that vault, and you also had j
the combination to our safe. Yes you did and we knew
it and we knew you.
But here is your big question, lets print it in full:
“Why was it that Boone refused to give the ballots
(BEFORE DAY, IN THE NIGHT TIME AFTER THE
FIRE,) to the manager when he first demanded them?” (
That’s easy. Ask us a hard one. And we don’t belong to
the “BEFO DAY CLUB.” And when you wanted them
the next time. Why we hadn’t got up. But Bullington
Man! when the sun was high, when all could see your
discontent, then were the ballots turned over to the
hands from whence they came, and with the same cqunt
of the night before.
Really! Bullington Man! Don’t you believe that the
court-house would be standing yet had it been known that
said ballots were not therein? Not saying that might
have happened to that house where the ballots actually
were.
Bullington Man! We had no motive to do anything
wrong and you did have a motive. You were so deep in
dicontc-nt that you went everywhere trying to work up a
contest.
Now then we are done with joshing you. We are
done with showing how your own questions may be turn
ed to your own discredt, and the following is not for you, i
but is our real statement to the public: W'e never said i
that we apprehended that the court house would be burn
ed on that night. But we did apprehend that those bal
lots would be tampered with. And why did Iso appre
hend? Simply because on a previous occasion the ballots
had been broken into, and other people, including The
Bullit Man knew the combination of the safe and also
the vault. If wo had suspected a fire, certainly we would
have used every precaution to prevent and not only pre
vented the fire, but would have saved the ballots as
we did. Is he still mad because the fire failed to get the
ballots ?
In conclusion Bullit Man! We always stop when the H
other fellow gives up and owns up. And now confessedly !
you have given up. You no longer tell how you are going
to law us. We made our charges. You have not desproved ■
them, in fact not even denied them.
So, now , Goo-by. Gouger Man! You are a good little,
sweet little fellow when we make you be (tears starting,)
Good Bye Lord of the Loan World (tears arickling.) !
win. this lingering bit of paitirg advice: Don t ever, any- ;
' ore, go off half-cocked apd hop on tw> officers for
d:cng their duty. Don't do that, lest you hit into a saus
age mill or onto a circle saw and be-left a pile as man
gled giblots (steady flow-tears.)V
Shoo fly shool And don’t bother us any more. Goo-by.
P. S. In what part of the Code does the law say that
we must leave the ballots in a vault or in a safe, both j
of which you know how to get into? Not saying that
you w r ould do so. Bam! Goo-by!
ALEX S. BOONE. - ■
THE NON TAX PAYING pRGAN ;
The distinguishe editor the Bulletin in its lask week’s
issue makes the grave charge that The Wilkinson County
News is a “non tax paying official organ.” Ile al, o sa,s
‘Why do you make a paper official organ that has never
paid one cent of taxes whereas The Bulletin has paid tax- j
es since it was created.”
The Wilkinson County News has been pictured by
the editor of The Bulletin in his previous able editorials as
being without any property, visible or invisible, and
therefore having nothing to pay taxes on, but in his last
week’s edition he intimates that we have evaded a legal
duty, and that we have failed to return for taxation l"r;?<
amounts of property. How inconsistent art thou reason
ings “Mr. Newspaperr Man!”
We really take no offense at the many slurs that our
rich contemporary has repeatedly heaped upon us with
reference to ourr poverty, but when he makes the very
serious charge that we have evaded a legal duty, we feel
that an explanation on our part with reference to the .
taxes of The News and a publication of the public records ;
relative to the taxes of The Bulletin will not be out of
I
place at this time. We have noticed particularly the
reckless and wanton manner in which our distinguished I
contemporary has handled his statements recently with
reference to The News, and feel that although his
charges are absolutely unwarranted that a distinguished
young man, even tho he has been very greatly disappoint
'd in the recent past, should strictly confine his state
ments to the truth.
The Wilkinson County News owns no property, ex
cept accounts for subscriptions and advertisements, and
the editor of The News is the sol^ owner of thepaper and
those accounts were returned for taxation in the name of
the editor, and we want to say that before the 20th day
of December of that year and each year we have managed
to pay those taxes. We returned those accounts at a
j . arid fair market value, and we t.sk you “Mrr. Newsp
per Man” have you returned the property of The Bulletin
at its just and fair market value ? Whether you answer
this question or not, we present hope for consideration of
our readers what the tax digest of Wilkinson county for
. A-/.’
THE WILKINSON COUNTY NEWS, Irwinton, Ga., March, 14, 1925
the year 1923 discloses with reference to the amount of
property returned by The Bulletin and also by the editor
ofThe News, and the readers can form their own con
clusions;
The digest of 1923 shows that we returned for tax
ation accounts valued at SIOO.OO, and swear that we be
lieved that those accounts of The News was valued at
ICO per‘cent on the dollal. Not a fair market value; but
we believe that we returned them at just what amount
as was shown by the accounts. These accounts were the
only property that The News owned. We returned them
for we believed that it was our legal duty to return
them. We paid our taxes because we felt that it was
our legal duty to do so.
The Bulletin returned for taxation in the year 1923 the
following: Market value of real estate, buildings, etc.,
of manufacturing company, including notes, goods, stock,
etc., §600.00. Market value of town property S3OO. To
tal amount returned $900,000. Great God, Mr. Newspaper
Man, did you raise your right hand toward Heaven and
swear before the tax receiver that the above amount was
the fair market value of all the property of The Bulletin?
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FOR SALE—One Maxwell Piano.
Cheap for quick sale. Terms to right
party.—Apply to MRS. A. S. BOONE
Irwinton, Ga.
Spring is Dress-up Time
§ And with the coming of Spring the LEE CHAIN OF STORES
A THROUGHOUT GEORGIA are loaded 1 with New Spring Merchan
dise. Every day the past few weeks, every express from the Style
T J Centers of America carried merchandise for the Lee Chain of Stores.
I, SPRING DRESSES, SPRING COATS, SPRING
E MILLINERY.
LADIES’ AND MISSES’ WEARING APPAREL
A MEN’S SUITS BOYS’ SUITS MEN’S
J AND BOY’S APPAREL.
PIECE GOODS NEW SILKS & NOTIONS.
L SPRING SHOES FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY.
p ALL AT LEE’S NEW LOWER PRICES.
EThat we have prepared well for your Spring wants is a tele that
tells itself best in our new showings.
. Gt to your nearest LEE STORE, you’ll enjoy seeing the new Styles
of Spring 1925.
- Travel Lee-ward and Save.
Lee’s Department Stores
Macon,. Milledgeville, Fort Valley, Columbus
HOLD YOUR BASE Hardware
and , ’
Service Don’t Go To Florfda O h d
Orchard Supplies
ivn rionrv GROW QUALITY
FARM AND GARDEN — ~ , . - • GROWFR’s: onj Dirvvnio
Twa Fruits and Vegetables by use of UKUWDKb and PACKERS
Good Equipment and Good Ma- SUPPLIES,
terials.
:H mess Cultivators Harrows Spray Hose
W o e ^ e " c,ng PACK PROPERLY Plows Spray Materials
r ' >WS tee By use of Good Crates and Good Pruners Dusters
I eders Gates ' Baskets. ' Sprayers Dust Materials
loes Sprayers Crates Nails
’2d' I-ecticides gELL pROFITABLy Cushions . Strippers
forks Vitam^na By Makin ’ * em Want ‘em. Baskets Box Straps
orks Vitamma Ringers Dry pagte
GET THE STUFF FROM US
CARTER IMPLEMENT COMPANY '
Hardware and Orchard Supplies
Wholesale and Retail
553-555 Poplar Street Macon, Ga. Phone 4803
You are estopped from denying this, and tell your read
ers that this amount is a fair market value, for in your
editorial in which you accused^us of NEVER HAVING
PAID ONE CENT for" taxes, * you say: That you sold
This city property consisting of one store house and lot
for $1,40000. This was the market value of it for that is
the amount that you say you sold it for, and yet in your
tax returns for 1923 you have valued it at only $300.00,
You have valued your other property in your returns at
$600.00, and we presume that those items consisted of
your machinery, accounts, notes and money. You did not
sell your accounts, your machinery and the ether proper
ty listed in the tax digest, but only the real estate which
you returned for the sum of only Three Hundred dollars.
Now readers, pass judgment on . ho is the tax paying or
gan, and who has evaded the legal duty of paying taxes.
Now, Mr. Newspaper Man, write some more slurring
remarks about (he poverty of The Wilkinson County
News, but when jfou return the monumental riches of
The Bulletin be careful to return it for a just and fair
ir-arket value, and if you do not you know that the tax
equalizers are liable to investigate your returns.
You Always Want the Best Gasoline and
Motor Oils for Your Car and Trucks.
Always ask for and Take no Other.
There is None so Good as . Standard Oil
Company's Products.
R. L LORD, Agent
STANDARD OIL COMPANY
Toomsboro, Georgia.
