The Courant-American. (Cartersville, Ga.) 1889-1901, February 28, 1901, Image 1
THE COURANT AMERfCAN.
VOL. XX.
CARTERSVILLE
COTTON MILLS.
Company Has Been Organized to
Build a Mill.
ASK FOR SMALL DONATION.
J jdge J M- Noel Writes of the En
terprlse and Asks All to Help
It Along,
Editors Courant American:
I am authorized to state that our
community can now secure, if de
sired, a $50,000 cotton mill, with a
reasonable prospect of one four or
five times as large.
After waiting on outside capital
in vain, a few of our citizens, who
have the financial ability to make
their promise good, have decided
to build a cotton null and operate
it, without asking the balance ol
us tQ. subscribe for a dollar of stock,
provided we will encourage the en
terprise by raising a fund of $2,500
to be donated to the company and
paid when the mill is built and
ready for operation. This is asked
by the few gentlemen who propose
to build the mill, as some com
pensation for the risk they run by
the investment of their capital in a
business with, which they are un
familiar, and for the idleness of
their capital during the progress
of the erection and equipment of
the mill. The balance ot us, who
are not called on for stock sub
scription, incdr no risk beyond our
donation, and yet will enjoy the
fruits of tne active prosperity which
it is hoped will accrue to the com
munity from the successful opera
tion ol the mill and from other en
terprises which may follow.
I am in favor of inviting sub
scription for the donation asked.
I have no interest in the enterprise
other than as a citizen of the com
munity, and do not own
any stock in the company. Never
theless, I believe that the erection
and operation of such a mill in our
midst will benefit me much more
than the a mount I propose to do
nate. It makes the difference be
tween living in a live progressive
community and living in a stag
nant non-progressive one. I think
every merchant, every property
owner and every laboring man in
the town, and also every farmer
who has his market here will be
benefitted by the enterprise. For
this reason I think we ought not
to hesitate, but should subscribe to
the donation fund at once, and let
our friends who propose to engage
in the venture make haste to build
and set tlie machinery in motion.
In times past we donated money
to strangers to get enterprises loca
ted here, and failed because we
trusted unwisely. The men who
now make us the proposition are
not strangers and are able and whi
ling to perform their promises.
Heretofore I have favored the idea
of attempting to build a mill by
popular stock subscription,to which
all of our people would be expel
led to subscribe to the limit of their
ability. On reflection, however, I
am not sure out that the plan now
proposed will be better for us. If
the mill makes no profits, or small
profits, these few citizens who have
risked a considerable capital, will
bear the loss, and not we who mere
ly donate without taking stock.
A committee consisting of W.
H. Howard, Henry Milner, J. M.
Field, Will Young and myself,have
undertaken to ask the people to
subscribe to this donation fund,
which will not be payable until the
util! is ouilt and ready for opera
tion. In order to raise this amount,
we will need the active help of our
farmer friends, who make this their
cotton market. Outside of the
men who propose to build the mill
there are not many people in Car
tersville possessing surplus capital,
and witnout the help of the farm
ers around us I tear we could not
raise the amount needed. It seems
to be demonstrated that those
towns in the south having cotton
mills afford the best cotton mar
kets, and Uence the sure benefit to
all farmers of the adjacent territory.
This of course results in large
benefit to the merchants of the
town in drawing to them a larger
trade by reason of the enlarged
market thus afforded to farmers.
Believing this to be an opportune
time, I hope that our entire com
munity, both town and country,
will join in a strong pull together
Tor this common benefit which
CARTERSVILLE. GEORGIA, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 28. 1901.
seems to be within easy reach.
Following this article may be
seen a copy of the subscription
agreement for the signature of
donors with the amounts of their
respective donations. I shall cheer
fully sign the subscription myself
for the donation of such an amount
as I am able to make, and I trust
that every man who reads this will
without waiting to be solicited sub
scribe in like manner such an
amount as he is able, and thus se
cure the success of the enterprise.
It was my desire to spend a portion
of the present week in connection
with other members of the commit
tee in calling upon many of our
people peisonally, but being com
pelled to be absent during the
week on business. I have procured
Mr. W P. Larauiore to act in my
place, who will receive the sub
sciiption of any one willing to help
the movement along. I trust that
every citizen will study this mat
ter caretully but promptly and act
at once. I tru-d that no one will
throw cold water on the enterprise
but r ither help it on to success and
let our citv and community take
its proper place as one of the pro
gressive cities and communities of
the state. Respectfully yours.
J. M. Neel.
SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT.
We, the undersigned, subscribe
the amounts set opposite to our
names as a donation to induce the
erection of a cotton factory in or
adjacent to Cartersville, Ga., pio
vided, however, that not less than
fifty thousand ($50,000) dollars
shall be invested in said enterprise
and provided that said factory,
be ready for operation by July 1,
1902; and these subscriptions are
not to be due and payable until the
factory is built and ready for opera
tion. These subscriptions are made
payable to J. H. Vivion and IT. E.
Carey as trustees for Cartersville
Cotton Mills, a corporation to be
chartered for the purpose of erect
ing and conducting said cotton fac
tory.
DR. WILLINGHAM TO COME-
Will Preach at the Baptist Church
Next Monday Nisrht.
Cartersville is to have quite a
distinguished visitor next week in
the person of Rev. Dr. R. J. Wil
lingham, of Richmond, Va. He is
the corresponding secretary of the
Foreign Mission Board of the Sou
thern Baptist Convention, and is a
man who has been remarkably suc
cessful in his work.
Mr. Beaier, the pastor of the
Baptist church, been trying to
get Dr. Willingham to visit his
people ever since being here and
has at last succeeded.
“Dr. Willingham,” said Mr.
Beaier in speaking of him “is a
Georgia boy. He is the son of the
late B. L. Willingham, of Macon.
He was pastor of the Baptist church
in Barnesville when called to pre
side over the work of the Foreign
Mission Board. He is one of the
strongest men we have in the de
nomination, and one of the most
powerful preachers. His strength
seems to be in his-complete forget
fulness of self. It is the strength
of the spirit, and I have seen him
have a wondeiful effect ever a con
gregation, moving it as no other
mail could do. We have asked
him here to speak for us but we
want others to enjoy his sermon
also. With -this end in view we
extend a cordial invitation for all
Christians to come out and hear
him. It will be the fourth of
March when the president is being
inaugurated in Washington, and
we are seeking to inaugurate a reign
of more perfect conformity to God’s
word in our church and commun
ity.”-
Dr. Willingham will preach on
Sunday in Chattanooga and from
there will come to Cartersville to
be here Monday night.
“THE MAN BEHIND THE PLOW.”
A Sermon Next Sunday to the Far
mere of Bartow County.
At the Baptist church next Sun
day morning Rev. Alex W. Beaier,
the pasicir, will preach a special
sermon to the farmers of Bartow
co inty. His subject will be “The
Man Behind the Plow.”
Mr. Beaier having spent most of
his life in the city, has formed
some new ideas of the farmers
since he has spent two years among
them. He will give some of them
in his sermon on Sunday.
At the eveningservice the fourth
of the series of sermons on the
life of Jesus will be preached, the
subject being “Jesus as a Sufferer.”
The public and especially stran
gers in the city, are cordially invit
ed to attend these services.
THE SOUTH
SNOWBOUND.
Land Covered all the Way From
Carolinas to Texas-
TH£ HEAVIEST FALL OF ANY
',VS St Qi ; , Whorn It
Reached Ten Inches—Consider
able Damage Reported.
Atlanta, Feb. 23. —The southern
states, from Texas to the Atlantic
coast was given the first taste of
winter last night and this morning,
the snow falling in many places
from Charleston, S. C. to Central
and Northern Texas, and almost to
the gulf.
The storm, which was over the
west gulf coast last night moved
rapidly to the east during the
night and is central today over
northern Florida, where snow is
expected during the next twelve
hours.
The line of freezing temperature
as reported bv the local weather
bureau this morning extends to
the south portion of Georgia and
to the coast of Alabama and Louis
iana.
In some portions of the south
the snow storm brought on its
wings high northwest winds which
wrecked all telegraph and telephone
communication.
The heaviest snow fall reported
is at LaGrange, Ga., where the
precipitation is ten inches. At
Birmingham, there were about six
inches. Montgomery reports a
similar depth and very cold. South
ern Mississippi reports the first
snow in some places in two years.
There is none at New Orleans.
The percipitatiou reported at
Dallas is three inches, and in
Northwestern Texas from three to
six inches. Snow is of course of
great benefit to growing wheat, but
it is feared may cause severe loss
to live stock.
In Atlanta the snow began fall
ing last night and by 10 o’clock
this morning the ground was cov
ered to a depth of five inches.
All trains were from twenty min
utes to two hours late, causing
consequent delay to mails.
Street car companies called out
their men at 2 o’clock this morning
and put cars into service for the
purpose of keeping the tracks open.
This served in a measure to avert
a complete suspension of service
this morning.
F"air and much cold weather is
predicted for tonight and Sunday.
The Official Advertising-
The recommendation of the last
grand jury on the subject of the
o licial advertising I think meets
the approval of nine-tenths of the
people of Bartow count)’, and I am
sorry to see that our sheriff and
his deputies have disregarded that
recommendation and have decided
to make the News the official or
gan not only of the sheriff but of
the ordinary as well, as the ordi
nary is bound to follow the sheriff
in the matter of official advertising.
If nobody except the sheriff and
his deputies were interested in this
matter, and they paid the adver
tising fees out of their own pock
ets, there would not be so much
cause for complaint, although, the
publication of the advertisements
in both papers is far preferable to
t' epublication of them in only one
paper, as it inures especially to the
benefit of the unfortunate whose
property is advertised, giving it
more publicity and increasing the
chances of the property bringing
its full value. But I submit that
the sheriff has no right to select
one newspaper in preference to an
other at the expense of the people
whose property is advertised and
who have to pay the advertising
tecs. Your proposition of week be
fore last, in reply to the letter of
Mr Griffin, to continue the publi
cation of the legal advertisements
under the arrangement as hereto
fore existed, an<l as recommended
by the grand jury, commends it
self to all fair-minded men; and
the concluding part of that pro
position to continue to publish the
advertisements for one-half the
regular fees in the event the News
declined to continue the joint pub
lication of them, was so conclusive
ly in the interest of those having
the fees to pay that I am at a loss
to know why Mr. Griffin and his
deputies ignored that preposition
and gaye the advertising exclus-
ively to the News at double the
rate which you proposed to do the
work for, and especially so when
other people have to pay the fees,
and I mistake the temper of the
people, their sense of justice and
right, if they don’t revolt at this
action on the part of the sheriff
and his deputies and sooner or la
ter call them v* account for it. It
is hard enough to pay the prin
cipal, interest, attorneys fees, and
court cost, and the advertising fees
are always an extra burden, and
why the Courant American was
not permitted to publish the ad
vertisements when they proposed
to do so for one-half price is hard
to understand and a great wrong
upon the debtor class. Was it done
to carry out a promise made to the
News before the election, and thus
at the expense of others pay a cam
paign debts? It is in order it seems
to me for these gentlemen to pay
the additional charge made by the
News out of their own pocket, and
if they are fair men they will do it;
aud if they do not the question
may arise as to what the law is on
the subject.
If Mr. Griffin or nis deputies
should levy on my crib of corn,and
my neighbor proposes to carry it
to the place of sale for a certain
amount, has he the right to refuse
to allow this to be done and hire
one of lii.s political friends to carry
it aud pav him twice the amount?
And if he should do so, can he
force me to pay the amount which
he has promised to pay his friend
and supporter ? Evidently it would
not be right for him to do it and
ought not to be the law, if it is.
It seems to me that this effort to
subsidize the News in payment of
campaign services at the expense
of the people is as bad as Mark
Hanna’s ship subsidy bill for the
payment of campaign funds used
during the last presidential elec
tion. It is well enough for these
gentlemen, whose friend I a,in, to
pay their campaign debts out of
the own pocket, but they should
not do so at the expense of other
people.
Bartow.
THE NEW COURT HOUSE-
The Commission to Decide on Lo
cation Meets Next Tuesday.
There is considerale interest felt
in the new court house project.
People not alone in town but all
over the county have been t liking
about the matter ever since the an
nouncement of the commission
named by the grand jury to decide
on and purchase a location. This
commission is composed of the
members of the board of commis
sioners of roads and revenues and
one citizen each from the several
districts of the county except Car
tersville district, which has two.
The citizens are as follow’s: Car
tersville, L. S. Muuford, J. F. Ste
phens; Adairsville, G. A. Veach;
Kingston, J. N. McKelvey; Cass
ville, J. B. Crawford; Sixth, J. J.
Murphy, Pitie Log, C. B Vincent;
Salacoa, James 0. Hubbard; Eu
harlee, J. T. Jolly; Stamp Creek,
Jonas Keever; Wolf Pe.i, James A.
White; Allatoona, I. O. McDaniel;
Emerson, C. M. Jones; Taylors
ville, W. D. Trippe; Iron Hill,
Fountain Whitaker. The commis
sion will meet next Tuesday.
In so important a matter as that
of building the new court house it
is well to look closely at every
phase of the case and that the pub
lic interests alone should be con
sidered. The matter of a location
is one of momentous importance,
as not only the present generation
but posterity must be affected by
the advantages or disadvantages of
a favorable or unfavorable site. It
is easy to make a mistake that no
sort of effort could hereafter rectify.
Personal interests should be alto
gether ignored in the action that
will be taken. It is of the utmost
importance that every member of
this commission be present. No
matter what may arise as a seem
ing excuse, no man selected should
think of being absent from the
meeting. The responsibilities of
the case demand the most extreme
sacrifices if need be to the end that
there should be a full meeting.
The commission entire is com
posed of substantial citizens <*f
whom wise, judicious action is ex
pected.
It is understood that a number
of places will be offered for the
consideration of the body with
prices on same.
The Rest Prescription for Ma
laria.
Chills ami Fever is a bottle of.
Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic. ItT?
simply iron and quinine in a taste
►■“s fir m, No cure —no pay. Price
-Oc.
N EWS oFj*_
WOMEN’S CLUBS
(by MARY S. MUNFORD.)
CHEROKEE CLUB.
The regular meeting of the club
was held Friday afternoon at the
club room. Several papers were
read, and all new business discuss
ed. Mrs. Lily Bradley read an ar
ticle on George Washington, and
Mrs. A. O. Granger also read a
very interesting account of the Sea
Board Air Line traveling libraries.
These libraries are furnished by
the officials of the Seaboard Air
Line system, and are taken to ev
ery village and town on the road.
A great deal of good has been ac
complished by the traveling libra
ries, and this road is receiving
praise and commendation by every
body.
Apropos of traveling libraries,
the following synopsis of an article
is taken from Sunday’s Constitu
tion:
One of the best circulating scho< 1
libraries in the state is in Newton
county, and the story of how it
came to be established is interest
ing. Commissioner W. C, Wright
tells the story as follows:
During the spring of 1899 the
board of education of Newton coun
ty appropriated $230 for a circular
ing school library for the county
schools.
To hold the volumes twenty li
brary boxes ivere constructed ear 1 ’
strengthened with iron braces ad
provided with stout handles in a
- to a lock and key. This co t
only $25. With what remained 01
the sum appropriated one thousand
books were purchased,making fifty
volumes to each box.
Twenty printed lists of books
were then made,together with rules
governing teachers in distribution
of books, aud the same were parted
on inside lid of box. The teach
ers were notified that they could
get boxes for their schools and
could keep them from one to three
months, when they could return to
office of county school commis
sioner and exchange for another
box.
Just before the boxes were sent
out, in a village school of sixty pu
pils, only eight pupils had ever
read a book other than their school
readers. Three weeks after a box
had been sent to the school seven
ty-five books had been read, aud at
the end of the school term, five and
a half months in length, this one
box had not less than nine hun
dred and seventy-eight books. In
addition to these the teacher read
several, and probably a hundred
were read by parents and others
not in school. On an average one
hundred bo< k per month from
each of the twenty boxes were read,
thus making, at a safe calculation,
ten thousand books read during
the term
In each box are a Webster’s
Academic Dictionary and a World’s
Almanac. Many other books are
duplicated, but none to the extent
of the dictionary and almanac.
Each cox has, in the main, a set of
books diffeient trom books in the
other boxes. Fifty per cent, of the
books are for children not beyond
the fourth grade, and these are the
books that accomplish the most
good, for the older pupils as well
as the younger ones read them.
They form 80 per cent, of all the
books read, as shown by the record
hooks of the teachers.
During the past summer the
board of education appropriated
$275 additional to the $230 of the
year before,and eighteen new boxes
have been added to the library .each
box containing thirty books. The
average cost of the books in the
first twenty boxes, including the
boxes, freight and drayage, is 23
cents. The average cost of the
books in the last eighteen boxes is
50 cents.
The farm and garden work of
the club was dismissed at last meet
ing, and it is hoped that the Cher
okee Club will take more interest
in this work during the year. The
women of Bartow county ought 10
lead in this department of the clubs
of the state, for no other county
can boast of more talented women
in the aft of cooking, baking,grow
ing flowers, etc. Some northern
club, has recently given a bazaar
realizing a la.ge sum. When the
weather settles, and spring comes,
why couldn’t the Cherokee Club,
'assisted by the progressive women
of the entire county, have some
thing of this kind ?
I A number of new books have re-
:ently been added to the public li
brary. The library is becoming
more popular all the time, between
fifty and a hundred books are given
out each week to people of all ages,
fhe school children are eager to
get a new’ book every Saturday.
♦ ———————
An enterprising, interesting club
is the National Society of New
England Women of New York.
This society was organized in 1895
with fifteen members, and now has
seven hundred names enrolled. Its
aim is to establish friendly relations
among New England women everv
where, and keep the old-time cus
toms, p i ciples, legends, etc., from
anding. The philanthropic work of
this club has also brought it into
notice.
The Tennessee State Federation
is well organized, doing work un
der eleven committees. Educa
tional interests are advanced under
four departments: Higher educa
tion. public schools, kindergarten
and compulsory education. The
last committee now has a hill be
fore the legislature to enforce the
education of all children in the
state, between the ages of eight and
fourteen years.
A meeting of the board of the
General Federation was held this
week at The Arlington, Washing
ton, D. C. At this meeting it will
be decided where the next biennial
meeting will be held, and it is
thought that probably the invita
tion of the women of Atlantic City
will be accepted. Mrs. Rebecca
Lowe will preside over this meet
ing.
Mrs. St. Justin Beale is soon to
open a school in New York, to
teach girls of all nationalities how
to cook, wash, sweep, dust, and
perform all the practical duties ot a
household. A strong and much
needed effort will be made to instill
in them tact, politeness, patience,
tidiness, kindness, and silence.
Lunches, fashionable dinners, and
ball suppers will be served on the
shortest notice. Dressmaking,
millinery, hairdressing, manicuring
and other tilings in this line are to
be put in. Mrs. Margaret Sangster,
Mrs. St. Justin Beale, Mrs. J. S.
He iclile , Mrs. Rose and Miss
Oleson are a committee of women
to forward this institution. They
have one of the great problems of
civilization on their hands, and
every family man and woman on
this continent will say, “God bless
them.”
ALBA HEYWOUU.
Will Appear at the Opera House on
March 7th.
Alba Heywood and his peerless
company will appear at the opera
house on the evening of March 7th.
Heywood’s Bi-Chloride of Fun will
cure anything Treats the entire
system through the eve and ear;
throat examined while you laugh.
No pain except in your side. You
yell but it don’t hurt. You cry
but its from laughing.
Heywood is supported by a com
pany of artists, every participant a
star.
Miss Monroe.the brilliant violin
ist. Mr. Ulrich, a graduate of
Bruno Stein Jell, and’cellist of re
markable ability. Miss Cole, the
soprano, with a remarkably sweet
wonderful, volume, and her
renditions are exquisitely sweet.
Heywood, the character comedian,
is the most popular retailer of tun
on the American stage. This at
traction is guaranteed.
Valuable Alma nac Free-
We have received a copy of the
new almanac for 1901 published by
the Royal Baking Powder Cos. It
is an artistic and useful book and
will be of interest to housekeepers.
A noteworthy feature of the
almanac is a prediction of the
weather for every day of the year,
by Prof. DeVoe. who correctly
prophesied the great Galveston cy
clone and other important meteoro
logical events. We are authorized
to say that any woman reader of
this paper can secure a copy with
out cost by sending a request to
the Company, at 100 William St.,
New 7 York.
Milk Cows for Sale-
Two fresh milk cows —one Jer
sey and Holstein, four gallons per
day, and one black Jersey, three
gallons per day. Parties desiring
good cows should see these before
buying.
Mrs. J. D. Rogers,
2t Kingston, Ga.
O~a9L STO HIA.
Bears the The KM Vw Haw Always Boagti
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