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PROGRESSIVE POLK!
Where Peace, Plenty and Prosperity
Abound.
SCENES AND SURROUNDINGS
Agricultural, Mineral and Other
Natural Resources.
THE BENEDICT MEMORIAL SCHOOL
The Wondrous Attractions of
Juniata Place.
THE GREAT CEDARTOWN COMPANY
The Social, Religious. Intellectual, Moral
and Industrial Influences of This
Splendid Section.
Os all sections of the state and, indeed,
of the ■whole south, there is none that
surpasses Polk county in the richness of
its resources and the variety of its attrac
tions.
I have -watched with surpassing inter
est the growth and development of that
grand old county for the last ten years,
and there is no section of the country
that can show greater advancement along
every line of improvement. As a place
of residence I know of no country in the
world, nor do I believe that any can be
found, that comes any nearer filling up
the fullest measure of attractiveness than
Polk county and its thrifty capital, Ce
dartown.
Lying in the heart of the hill country
of Northwest it his all the ad
vantages of climatic conditions and
picturesque scenery of the mountain
regions, and still, so diversified is the
landscape that it possesses a wonderful
list of resources for mining, manufactur
ing, stock-raising, truit growing and
agriculture. There is room enough in
Cedar Valley alone for one hundred
thousand inhabitants to live comfortable
and happy.
When I contemplate the wonderful
possibilities of that fertile valley I can
but speculate ©a the glorious future that
lies before it when the era of progressive
development shall have been awakened
throughout that region and its merits
and possibilities shall have become more
generally comprehended and appreciated.
Verily, no section . possesses fairer pros
pects and no people will more largely
merit the crowning successes that will
follow their future achievements along
■— the line of progress.
HOMES FOR HOME-SEEKERS.
First and foremost of the attractions at
Cedartown and the surrounding section
of Polk county is their splendid adapta
bility for the home-seeker. People
enjoy the most superb Health through
the influences of pure air and an abund
ance of mountain water and freedom
from all malarial influences in summer
and pulmonary affections in winter. The
people of the town and section are con
sequently healthy and happy, full of
energy and ready to take hold of any
project that means the higher ■ develop
ment of their town and county.
I don’t think that the world can show
any better citizenry than the people of
Georgia and the most enthusiastic of all
Georgians is the Georgiaized yankee.
Cedartown and Polk county are blessed
with both these elements in representa
tive types of the highest perfection in
both the native and imported product.
A very fallacious idea has become
prevalent in certain sections of the coun
try to the effect that if an outsider comes
in here that these people take away what
he has got or what he may have accumu
lated and then drive him out of the
country. There never was a more palpa
ble slander perpetrated on any people in
the world. On the other hand, if the
people of Polk county have a leaning
either way it is on the side of over-gen
erosity in the way they welcome out
siders not only to their town and section
but to their families and firesides. There
are no people on the face of the earth
that are more hospitable and open
hearted in their treatment of strangers
and of each other. To this statement I
could if it were necessary append thou
sands of endorsements.
SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES.
The strongest evidence of the advance
ment of a community is the presence of
handsome church buildings with large
congregations aud comfortable school
houses filled with pupils. In both these
particulars Cedartown excels and tne
country around will not be found want
ing in either particular.
The standard of religious feeling, mor
ality, education, refinement and rever
ence tor the laws of the land is excep
tionably high in this favored community.
The town of Cedartown, which has
thirty-five hundred or four thousand in
habitants, has liot a barroom, nor a
bawdy he use, nor a billiard saloon within
RMS OF METROPOLITAN CEDAR
its limits, and one lonesome town m ir
shal does the entire police work, lo >ks
after the street gang and keeps track of
the sanitary condition of affairs and still
has plenty of time on his hands.
Elegant churches of the Methodist,
Baptist, Presbyterian and Episcopalean
denominations, beautify the principal
streets, and all of them are served by
faithful and devoted ■ ministers and at
tended by large and constantly increasing
congregations.
The school building is a magnificent
edifice crowning a commanding eminence
and furnished with all the modern
equipments for comfort and convenience.
Under the charge and supervision of
Prof. Sewell is a competent corps of
teachers and the attendance is very large
and the tuition a merely nominal sum.
The surrounding country is equally
blessed with substantial school buildings,
modern church structures, all indicating
a very prosperous condition of affairs.
The advancement in these particulars
has been something phenomenal and
illustrates how attentive these people
are to spiritual and intellectual advan
tages.
A SPLENDID MONUMENT.
Beautifully situated, in the heart of
Cedar Valley and on the banks of the
Big Cedar creek, two miles and a half
from Cedartown, is the Samuel Benedict
Memorial school, a splendid monument
to the untiring energy and well directed
devotion of Rev. Geo. E. Benedict, the
gifted president. The school has been
built up solely through his efforts and
the prompt and earnest support of the '
people of this community.
The property consists of nearly two
hundred acres of farming land, a hun
dred acres of woodland, two flower and
grist mills and a cotton gin with abund
ant water power for operating them and
a number of other similar enterprises.
The buildings consist of the main build
ing, gymnasium and industrial building,
comfortably fitted and conveniently fur
nished throughout with all the accommo
dations of a first-class educational insti
tution.
There are recitation and labratory
rooms for the accommodation of one
hundred and fifty pupils, offices, music
rooms, library on the first floor of the
main building, and on the second floor
large reading room and cozy sitting roomi
and bed rooms for the faculty and
twenty-three pupils all furnished taste
fully, lighted by electricity, heated by a
hot air furnace and furnished with baths
and lavatories of both hot and cold
water.
The second building contains the gym
nasium, workshop and rooms for the
boys’ and girls’ industrial department,
laundry, shower baths and water closets,
and the entire institution is thoroughly
fitted and equipped for a first-class lit
erary and industrial school for the teach
ing of primary, intermediate and the
high school grades.
THE INDUSTRIAL FEATURE.
The most prominent feature of this
great school is the .industrial and it will
be made a manual (raining school, where
boys and girls can be taught the use of
their hands as well as their brains at one
and the same time. For the boys there
will be training in mechanics for the use
of tools and machinery for wood and
metal work and the operating of indus
tries connected with the school, as well
as practical agriculture on the fertile soil
of the farm lands included in the prop
erty. They will have an opportunity ot
studying electricity in connection with
the electric plant of the school, practical
engineering in the management of the
machinery connected with the mills and
manufacturing in all its branches, as it
will be the endeavor of the faculty to
conduct the school on an economical
plan by offering the pupils inducements
to help bear the expenses of tuition
through their own labors.
For the girls there is provided a train
ing in plain and fancy sewing, cutting,
fitting and making of garments and in all
kinds of household and domestic work,
besides instruction in stenography, type
writing, book-keeping and_ physical cul
ture.
The school will be conducted accord
ing to a high standard of Christian
character courtesy, not so much by rules
of rewards and punishment as by the
silence influences of personal contact
with the faculty, all of whom reside in
the school and are constantly and inti
mately associated with the pupils. While
the school will be non-sectarian, special
attention will be given to the honest
study of the teachings of Christ and his
witnesses, the church and the Bible.
CURRICULUM AND TUITION.
The curriculum of -this great school
will embrace English, mathematics,
science, geography, history, civics, polit
ical economy, foreign languages, writing,
drawing and music. In all these studies
text books by the best authors that have
been approved by the leading educators
of the country will be used.
Besides the industrial and manual train
ing, a complete business course, includ
ing stenography, book-keeping and com
mercial law and arithmetic will be in the
reach of those who desire. All pupils
will be given daily exercise in the gym
nasium by competent instructors in
physical culture.
The charges for tuition w’ill be for
boarders, $12.50 per month, or $112.50
per year, payable one-half October 28th
and the remainder February 2nd. For
day pupils the charge is $1.25 per month
in adxance. Extra charges for individ
ual instruction in vocal and instrumental
music are $4.00, stenography and type
writing $4.00, Greek $3.00 per month,
labratory fee for pupils in chemistry $2.00
per year, and in physics and biology
SI.OO per year. Boarders will buy their
books and stationery through the school
office and at dealers’ prices, for which a
deposit of $5.00 should be made at the
beginning of each term.
The board of trustees of th : s school
consists of Rev. George E. Benedict,
president; Ernest M. Benedict, vice
president and principal, Cedartown;
Samuel C. Benedict, M. D., Athens;
TRAPTC E’TTTOX-- ROMx TRiBUJuK. DECEMBER. 1895.
Robert Zahner, Atlanta; John A. Bene
dict, Athens; Rev. Cleveland K. Bene
dict, Glendale, Ohio; Rev. Charles D.
Williams, Cleveland, O; Charles M.
Hepburn, Cincinnati, O.
The board of visitors: Rt. Rev. C. K.
Nelson, D. D., chairman, Atlanta; Rev
CT A Pise, Marietta, Ga; Rev Charles
Hudgins, Rome, Ga; Dr H C White,
Athens, Ga; Mr E A Heard, Rockmart,
Ga; Mr Jas Young, Young’s, Ga; Mr W
H Howard, Cartersville. Ga; Mr W F
Hall, Cedartown, Ga; Mr Geo H Clark,
Cedartown, Ga; Mr Robert H Couper,
Cartersville, Ga; Mr J A Peek, Cedar
town, Ga; Mr D A Whitehead, Cedar
town, Ga; Mr C H Wood, Priors, Ga;
Hon R W Everett, Fish, Ga; Mr M V B
Ake, Cedartown. Ga; Mrs Van Dyke, At
lanta, Ga; Mrs E M Mills, Savannah, Ga.
The pastors of chu c les in Ccdartovn
and Polk county, ex-officio.
The faculty consists of Rev Geo E
Bendict, A B Kenyon ’B4, president and
rector, Bible and religious instruction;
Ernest M Benedict, A B Kenyon ’BS, D
B Epis. Theo, school ’9l, vice president
and principal, history, civics, political
economy and mathematics; Robert J Mc-
Bride, jr, A B Washington and Lee ’95,
English, Latin and Greek; Mrs Samuel
Benedict, house mother and instructor in
girls’ industrial; M iss Daisy Haughton,
principal of primary department, draw
ing; Miss Willie Wood, instructor in in
termediate school; Miss Cammie M
Davenport., assistant in primary depart
ment ; Miss Fay Haughton, director of
music; J M Rudolph, stenography and
typewriting.
AGRICULTURAL ADVANTAGES.
The agricultural recources and advan
tages of Polk county constitute one of
its most inviting features to the home
seeker or monied investor. The county
contains a large area of valley lands un
surpassed in fertility and productiveness,
the hillsides and mountain top are unsur
passed for the production of apples,
peaches pears, plums, grapes, strawber
ries, melons and small fruits of all de
scriptions while nut bearing trees such as
walnuts and pecans flourish and produce
abundant crops.
The rich valley lands are preeminently
adapted to corn, wheat, oats, peas, po
tatoes, clover, blue grass, cabbages, tur
nips and every variety of vegetable grown
in the temperate zone. Cotton yields
abundant crops and is largely cultivated
though on account of excessive crops and
consequent low prices the farmers are
finding out that diversified crops pay far
better when two or three harvests can be
grown on the same ground in one season.
For stock raising this section of the
country cannot be beat. Cattle do well
for eight or nine months of the year on
the natural range and the land is so well
adapted to the production of forage crops
that the cost of feeding them through
the winter months and fattening them
for the market is reduced to a minimum.
A good many farmers have found the
breeding of horses and mules quite profit
able where the soil is so productive and
the paturage so good and hogs and sheep
thrive with far less attention than is re
quired in more rigorous climates where
food is less abundant.
The truth of the business is, agricul
tural pursuits are being rapidly revolu
tionized through the agency of people
from other sections who have moved in
here and settled down and introduced
more modern methods in the way of in
tensive and diversified farming. The
climate is so mild and the seasons so reg
ular that it is easy to produce two or
three crops on the same piece of ground
in one year and while proper diversifica
tion the land is improved rather than in
jured by such constant cultivation.
AN OBJECT LESSON.
Some years ago Mr. M. V. B. Ake
moved to Polk county from the valley of
the Juniata, Pennsylvania and purchased
one of the finest bodies of land in Cedar
Valley about two and a half miles from
Cedartown. He soon became thoroughly
identified with the people and no more
popular or progressive citizen exists here
or elsewhere than Mr. Ake.
His beautiful country home, Juuiata
place is one of the most attractive places
in all this section of country. His farm
consists of 750 acres of as fine land as can
be found anywhere. A large amount of
it has been in cultivation for several years
and has produced crop after crop in abun
dant profusion of cotton, corn, and field
crops of every description and shows no
sign of deteioration or exhaustion.
Anyone who will take a drive over this
magnificent property will be impressed
at once with Juniata place and its sur
roundings as one of the most striking ob
ject lessons to be found in North Georgia.
Gently undulating with a rich loamy soil
it is well drained and well watered by
numerous springs and unfailing streams
and the woodlands are filled with hard
wood and timber trees sufficient for many
years to come.
Anyone can see at a glance the adapta
bility of this place for small farms from
five to fifty acres each and in this way
Mr. Ake is very desirous of selling a por
tion of it and will offer easy terms, part
cash and the balance on reasonable time
to good, honest, hard-working people
who will come there and settle down and
make their homes thereon. At the terms
he offers and the very low price which he
asks for the land a man in search of a
comfortable home and a profitable in
vestment could not do better anywhere
in the South.
Mr. Ake being a Northern man him
self knows how pleasant and agreeable it
is here among these kindly people and in
this genial clime to those who emigrate
from a distance in search of homes where
they can make a good living and enjoy
that peace,- plenty and prosperity which
are so desirable to all true Americans.
For that reason he is willing to sell off a
portion of this beautiful estate to actual
settlers at such reasonable terms so that
he can surround himself with a good law
abiding energetic class of people and
there by establish a thriving community
within easy reach of market and sur
rounded by all the advantages that such
a country can offer.
Such a proposition as this cannot, in
this day and time when the tide of real
and desirable emigration is setting in this
direction, remain long unaccepted. Those
who invest there will never have cause to
regret the fact, and in days to come this
will be one of the thriftiest communities,
peopled by the happiest citizens, to be
found anywhere in the state of Georgia.
Those desirous of profiting by the prop
osition should not fail to ca’.l on or ad
dress Mr. M. V. 8. Ake, Cedartown, Ga.
MINING AND MINERALS.
In mineral wealth and min ng inlus
tries Polk county stands second to no le
in the state. The Fish Creek, Cedartown
and Tecumseh orebelts are filled with
iron ore of the very finest quality and
their variety and aggregate amounts are
well nigh inest’mable.
Among the more prominent operators is
the Augusta. Mining Co., Judge James R.
Barber, manager. This magnificent prop
erty is located in the Cedartown ore belt
and is equipped with double log washers
with a capacity of seven or eight thou
sand tons per month of the very finest
quality of ore which is mined by the aid
of steam shovels and other modern ap
pliances which simplify and facilitate the
work of getting out the ore besides vastly
cheapening the operation. They have
pumping stations, dummy lines for trans
portating the ore and when under full
headway their pay roll amounts to a large
sum and adds immensely to the .circulat
ing medium of that section. The supply
of ore is practicably inexhaustible and
will be mined for years to come and will
be a source of revenue to the operators
for the next generation:
The Vandevanders are operating the
old Polk county mining property and
have also very extensive works getting
out upwards of 4,000 tons per month and
the product of their washers is consid
ered by the furnace operators as among
the finest that is shipped from any sec
tion of the country. Their property
comprises a vast area and although min
ing operations have been going on there
for years there is no apparent diminu
tion in the source of supply, they have a
pumping station, steam shovel, dummy
line and other fictures for the rapid mani
pulation and transportation of the ores
and even during the great business de
pression they kept a large force of hands
employed and at the same time conducted
a large mercantile business in Cedartown.
The Wray Mining Company, G. W.
Featherston, general manager, G. A.
Lane, secretary and treasurer, C. F. Mil
ler, mining superintendent, also do a
large business in mining and shipping
high grade blown ores. Their mines
are located at Wray Junction on the
Chattanooga, Rome and Columbus and
Wimberly Hill on the East and West
Railroad. They have a pumping station
with pipe line one and a half miles long
six-inch main a large washer, and a ca
pacity of one hundred and fifty tons of
ore daily with a commissary, two and a
half miles of railroad, with locomotive
and cars. The owners of this property
paid originally SIO,OOO for the bank and
the plant cost $17,000. They have a ten
years lease and own property adjacent
valued at SB,OOO. They have also leased
the Lindsey ore property and are shipping
about 1,600 tons per month to Rome,
Rockmart and Round Mountain. When
thoroughly opened up they will ship
5,000 tons per month.
Down dear Oredell the Marsh Mining
Company has a plant that costs upwards
of $50,000 with several miles of pipe line
and is getting out an immense amount of
ore.
The Hickman & Wright ore property
is also very fine as is the Cedartown Com
pany’s mine worked by the Polk county
Mining Co. In addition to this in
the Cherty ridges is a large amount of
manganese which is now being mined
and shipped to Pennsylvania.
OTHER NATURAL RESOURCES.
There are inexhaustible supplies of the
finest lime stone for mortar and cement,
marble in great variety and abundance
besides, ochre, chert, and other valuable
minerals and stone.
A large portion of the area of Polk
county is covered with virgin forest
heavily wooded with original growth of
elm, beach, poplar, chestnut, walnut,
hickory, white, red, black and post oak,
cherry, cedar, maple, ash, sweet gum
and an abundance of magnificent yellow
pine timber. For building purposes,
fencing and fuel the supply is sufficient
to last for an indefinite period of time.
The county abounds in never failing
springs of purest freestone, mineral and
limestone, there being several springs in
the county that are noted as summering
places on account of the beauty of their
surroundings and the excellent health
giving qualities of their waters.
Noted among these is a splendid min
eral springs on the property of Mr. M. V.
B. Ake which is a favorite resort for the
people of Cedartown who use the waters
extensively especially during the summer
season. Some day this health-giving
fountain will be thoroughly developed
and utilized and is destined to become
one of the favorite watering plaees in
this section of the country when its vir
tues and healing properties become more
widely disseminated.
Besides these there are innumerable
streams, including Big Cedar Creek,
Euharlee and Pumpkin Vine creeks that
penetrates different portions of the county
and furnish innumerable sites for manu
facturing plants of all descriptions.
CLIMATE AND RAINFALL.
The climate of this section of the state
is mild and healthy and not subject to
the extremes of heat and cold as in sec
tions further North or further South.
Snow rarely falls to any extent and when
it does is soon melted by the genial rays
of the Southern sun and blizzards and
blighting winds are unknown. In sum
mer the mountain breezes and clarify the
atmosphere so that the temperature is
never among people of delicate comstitu
tions.
Spring comes early and blends into the
long delicious summers which in turn
give place to the most delightful autums
which linger until long after other climes
are locked in embrace of icy winter.
There is not a month in the year and but
very few days in the year that our door
labor cannot be performed agreeably and
comfortably without undue fatigue and
exhaustion in summer or any great in
convenience dead of winter. This of
course gives an advantage of great saving
in the matter of food, fuel aud clothing
which amounts to a vast deal in the
course of the year.
The average winter temperature in
Cedartown is about 54 degrees and in
summer it never rises higher than in
towns further North with cool and re
freshing breezes at night that bring rest
and repose to the sufferers from fatigue
and exhaustion. The climate of North
western Georgia is unsurpassed for health
and comfort.
The rainfall is very nicely divided
throughout the year neither unusual
floods or continued drouths occurring to
interrupt the cultivation of crops or the
pursuit of any other outdoor or indoor
avocation.
polk county’s capital.
As I stated in the outset, there is no
pleasanter place to live in the whole wide
range of discovery than Cedartown, the
prosperous capitol of Polk county. In
me last five years the town has more than
doubled its population.
The town has two good hotels, the
Booz house, which has been long estab
lished and is very popular with the
rtaveling public, and the Wright house,
an elegant brick structure located in the
heart of the town, which also enjoys a
large share of the public patronage.
There are besides these, the Enlow house
and various other establishments for the
entertainment of the homeless public.
The Cedartown Standard, a well edited
weekly, under the management of Mr. E.
B. Russell, originally from Ohio, and Mr.
W. S. Coleman, a native Georgian, is the
principal paper and is one of the bright
est periodicals printed in Georgia.
There are two other papers published
in the county, the Advance-Courier, a
populist paper, edited by John I. Full
wood, Which is also published weekly,
and a negro paper called the Watchman,
which has recently been started.
CEDARTOWN REAL ESTATE.
It is the boast of Cedartown that no
man ever lost money on real estate there.
In the last few years a number of elegant
brick buildings have been erected and
others are now in course of construction.
The residence streets are beautified with
many handsome residences and cozy cot
tages which add much to the attractive
ness of this beautiful town as a place of
residence.
The Cedartown company owns in and
around the town about 1,800 acres of the
most beautiful real estate to be found
anywhere in Georgia. This land is suit
able for residence purposes, or truck gar
dening or for manufacturing sites, and
from its vatt diversity th" investor will
find no trouble in selecting something to
suit him. The company consists of Phil
adelphia capitalists, Daniel Baugh, presi
dent; Dr. Wolfred Nelson, first vice
president; Charles Adamson, second vice
president and general manager; and J.
Wright Adamson, secretary and treasu
rer. They have an authorized capital of
$750,000, and are now offering these
valuable properties for same in lots at
SIOO and upwards, one-fourth cash am.
the balance in one, two and three years,
at reasonable interest.
Included in the property are valuable
mineral, agricultural and grazing lands,
and to those who have money to invest
they offer as fine inducements as any
concern in the South. The town is on a
steady growth and the day is not far
distant when these lands will have in
creased in value many times the present
prices asked for them and they are worth
all that is demanded as a simple invest
ment to those who have the means to
hold them.
The Messrs. Adamson, who are at the
head of the company, are active and en
ergetic business men, courteous and fair
dealing, and having come here from the
North, are in the best possible position
to furnish any desired information to
those abroad who contemplate purchas
ing homes or making investments in the
South. In their statement of the facts in
the case they do not exaggerate, as in the
first place there is no necessity of exag
geration, and in the second place they
are men whose reliability and integrity
in the business world are above reproach.
Almost surrounding a populous and
prosperous town that is on the direct line
of modern improvement, these lands pos
sess superior attractions and the terms
upon which they are offered make them
worth while the careful investigation and
thoughtful consideration of all who have
money to invest. I have never seen afiner
an array of beautiful home sites in all my
experience than they are prepared to offer
to the home-seeker on such easy and
reasonable terms. It will pay those who
contemplate investing to correspond with
J. Wright Adamson, of the Cedartown
company, for maps and descriptive pam
phlets, terms and prices.
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS.
Cedartown is far in advance of the
average town of the same size in the way
of permanent public improvements. A
number of magnificent springs of pure
water gush forth within the city limits,
the larger one which furnishes the water
supply having a magnificent outpit of
2,250,000 gallons per day. The source
from which the town draws its supply is
absolutely free from contamination and
the equipments of the water works are on
a large scale, the supply being amply
sufficient for a town of four times the
present population ot Cedartown. The
water is pumped by engines of large
capacity to a tall stand pipe on a com
manding eminence, thus giving sufficient
force for the protection of the tallest
building in town. This gives low in
surance rates and insures the complete
sanitary projection of the town in con
nection with the ample sewerage system
and the water rates for domestic pur
poses are very low because of the abund-
TOWN
ance of the supply and the modern equip
ment of the system.
There are several miles of sewerage
traversing the principal streets, that in
sure cleanliness and healthtulness in the
business and residence portion of the
town. A well-equipped fire department
furnishes ample protection to business
and residence property.
The town is well-lighted by a complete
electric light system and communication
for ten and fifteen miles around is assured
by one of the best equipped telephone
systems to be found in any town in the
South. Not only are the business houses,
offices and residences connected by thia
system, but the wires extend all through
the country, connecting with the big
mining and manufacturing and educa
tional enterprises.
The present municipality is made up
of the representative business men of the
town. Dr. W. H. Williamson, mayor;
E. B. Russell, mayor pro tern; W. R.
Beck, recorder;T. F. Burbank, treasurer;
Edward Bradford, E. B. Russell, C.
Philpot, T. F. Burbank and C. C. Bunn,
councilmen; C’ol Armstead Richardson,
city attorney; H. L. Sewell, superin
tendent of public schools.
OTHER INSTITUTIONS.
The town has a board of trade, J. E.
Good, president; W. F. Hall and T. F.
Burbank, vice-presidents; E. B. Russell,
secretary; J. Wright Adamson, treasu
rer; all men who are well calculated to
look after the best interests of the town
and community. Few towns can boast
of having their interests under the super
vision of such on excellent organization.
County affairs are under the control of
a most excellent set of officials. The
superior court judge, C. G. Janes being
one of the best men in the state occupying
such a position as W. C. Knight, a vet
eran of long vears of service and man of
unimpeachable character and recognized
ability, being the clerk of the court.
The ordinary, Joel Brewer, is the nestor
of the judges of ordinary in Georgia, and
has been elected and re-elected term after
term for more than a quarts r of a century.
E. W. Clements, the sheriff, is one of the
most popular men in Polk county, and
the strongest evidence of his ability aud
fitness for the responsible position is that
he has held it almost continuously ever
since the war closed.
ESTABLISHED INDUSTRIES.
To show what has been done in the
way of manufacturing and business en
terprises, here is a list: Cedartown Com
pany, lands and real estate, capital $250,-
000, with an authorized capital of $750,-
000; Cedartown Cotton Manufacturing
Co., $50,000; Cherokee Iron Co., $350,-
000; Polk County Mining Co., SIOO,OOO l
Cedartown Brick Co., $10,000; CedaJ
town Foundry and Machine Shop, jfl
the manufacture and repair of engi®s
under the management of Charle®L;
West, $10,000; Augusta Mining
$1,250,000; Southern Mining Co.,
000; Josephine Fruit Co , $10,000; gKS
mercial Bank, $100,000; with a prKE
banking company, street railway®
pany, not yet in operation, a jug^fl:"L
and numerous other smaller entej®
various sorts.
The cotton factory will
course of sixty or nine! \ (lavs®
capital and every mo. ■ ; cj ®
the manufacture of f . •• i ~, pt-MH&TOtaM
will add largely to tin pop®-jM'
business of the plat ■.
Two lines of railroad the f
Rome and Columbus,
the great trade centers North and West
and the prosperous business towns and
seaports on the South, and the East &
West, connecting with Birmingham and
the iron and coal regions on the one
hand, and with Atlanta and cotton
markets on the other, furnish simple
facilities for transportation and travel in
connection with the outside world.
Broad and well-kept streets branching
out into a complete system of country
roads, furnish easy end rapid communi
cation with the farming and mining
regions of Polk and adjoining counties.
IN A BUSINESS WAY.
Os the ten or twelve grocery and farm
supply business houses, Bunn Bros, do
an enormously large business and have
built up very rapidly.
In the hardware line Hall & Barr rep
resent the town and are old fixtures.
E. Bradford runs as well exuipped
drug store as can be fout.d in any town.
Hightower, Young A Pace handle a
large amount of stock ami do a first-class
livery business, and are known far and
wide to the traveling public as first-class
business men.
VanDevander Bros., aside from their
large mining operations, do a big busi
ness in general merchandise.
W. D. Crawford has one of the best
equipped meat markets for the handling
of goods in that line that, with refrigera
tors and all complete, that is to be found
in any town of the size in the state.
These are only a few of the prosperous
and progressive business firms that go to
make up this charming town in the val
ley. Every line of business is repre
sented by thrifty and energetic mer
chants and business men.
Professionally, Cedartown has some of
the strongest men in the state. Col.
Armstead Richardson, recently solicitor
general of the circuit and a man who has
held many offices of honor and trust; W.
C. Bunn, one of the brightest young law
yers in Georgia and a man who stands in
the very first ranks of his profession;
Frank 8. Irwin, who has won an envia
ble reputation and enjoys a large practice,
and others whom I could mention.
Among the enterprising citizens, Dr.
L. 8. Ledbetter, who is largely interested
in mining and other enterprises; Dr. W.
M. Bradford, who is ever ready to further
any enterprise for the progress and im
provement of the town, and Dr. W. H.
Williamson, the leader in all sorts of pro
gressive enterprises, easily take prece
dence.
Those who invest in Polk county dirt
within the next few years will
cause to regret their foresightedness and
discrimination. It stands foremost in the
category of localities that are soon to come
I into prosperous prominence. M. M. F.