About The Cedartown standard. (Cedartown, Ga.) 1889-1946 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1907)
Not Going Out of Business! Not Selling Below Cost! But Offering a Complete Line of UP - TO - DATE GROCERIES the Very Lowest Prices that First-Class Groceries can be sold for Cash. On March 1st I will change from the Credit to STRICTLY CASH SYSTEM, which will enable me to offer Extraordinary Low Prices. The people of Cedartown and vicinity have given me a generous patronage during the five years I have been in business, and I greatly appreciate it. My policy in the future, as in the past, will be for honest weights and measures—sixteen full ouncesto every pound I will have a list of Special Prices to announce later. Watch for them. Yours for business, M. C. BOBO, The Grocer. THE CEDARTOWN STANDARD Entered In the Post-office at Cedar- town as second-class mail matter. w *«’ n I W.H.OOLRMAN, J OFFICIAL ORGAN OF CEDARTOWN AND POLK COUNTY. PulillEhed evory Thursday In the Year SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One Year $1.00 Six Mhnt.hs 50 Three Months 25 Advertising rates will be furnished on application. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY It. 1907. South Carolina has now gone entire ly cut of the whiskey business, her state dispensaries being uil abolished by law. The Palmetto people will now resort to the Georgia plan of local op tion, by which any county can take its choice between a local dispensary and prohibition. The state dispensary in South Carolina has been a politica 1 machine from its inauguration by Tillman—and politics and whiskey al ways make a bad combination. The State Immigration Contention A.t .^Maoon this week has been an im portant gathering. Governor Terrell advoc.ateul a plan which will probah'y be adoptefti — the establishment of a steamer liite between Savannah and European ports for the purpose of bringing over immigrants of the bet ter class. Governor-elect lloke Smith could not be present, hut sent a letter giving his hearty endorsement to the immigration moveinent, and making valuable suggestion,* as to securing settlers from the North and West of our own country as well as from Eu ropean countries. Mr J. L. Benton, of Mpnticello, has been appointed by Secretary Strauss ns a Commissioner from the United States to foreign countries to promote the use and sale of cottonseed prod ucts. Cottonseed oil is becoming an important commodity, aud the South has the world monopoly on it. Mr. Benton is secretary of the Cottonseed Crushers’ Association, and is one of the best posted men on this industry in the country. He will be allowed tiis traveling expenses and $10 per day •during his absence. He is a cousin of •our fellow townsmen, Messrs. E. C. and Howard Benton. THE WEST END SCHOOL. The Standard last week publish' d an Interesting and timely article by Miss Callle Byrd concerning the school In West. End, of which she is one of the teachers and therefore thoroughly conversant with the subject. As she truly says, our people aver sanding money away to support just such schools as that so badly noeded there. This school is outside the city lim its, and our ljcal authorities accord ingly can do nothing. The County School Board has kindly offered to duplicate pny amount rais'd by the patrons of the school for tile, erection and equipment of a suituble building, provided a site Is furnished. We presume there would be no difficulty about the donation of a site, hut it might work a hardship on many of tli© people of that suburb to undertake to raise any considerable *unount of money — and The Standard Ibalieves that enough money should be spent to give this mill settlement, a well- • quipped, up-to-date sdhiool. In this connection we wish to mu Ice a ouggestion that may prove of some assiname in furthering til's worthy protect It was announced a few days ago that John D. Rockefell • ih? great Standard Oil iuagu.it • h i.t ie •l;.* i- ncc’y gift of $32,OCO,'Vt"i t.» the Cvneral Education Ho rt, , l.'mu part of which is to be used foi edu cational purposes in the South. We believe that ordinarily our own peo ple can and should look after our own educational Interests, but it strikes ub that it is just such tsases as this that Mr. Rockefeller and the General Education ’Board wish to reach. Why not make an organized and well-di rected effort to secure help from this source for this much-needed' school? No money could be b?tter spent. The Standard wants to see the op portunity to secure an leducation plac.dl within t he reach of every boy and girl in Polk county. There 4s no in terest more vital. These growing boys are. the future citizens of our com monwealth; the girls the future wives and mothers of citizens. There can be no greater calamity to them and to the community than for them to grow up in ignorauoe—so often coupled with vice,—and we have long pledged our selves to do everything in our power with tongue, peu, and whatever in fluence we may possess, to cultivate a desire for education among the masses and. to place the opportuni ties for securing it within their reach. Pay up your subscription. SOME GOOD ADVICE. Somehow or other, we are inclined to the belief that President jFlnley.the new head of the Southern Railway, is going to put his great system in a condition ami position which will win It greater favor with the people than it has heretofore enjoyed. Certainly, if the employees of the Southern whom he addressedl in Atlanta last week will heed Ills admonitions.it will go a long way towaid smoothing its pathway in G orgin. He said In part; "Your duties bring yc.u into per sonal and daily contact with the peo ple along the lit.s of the South tun railway, aud I as one who has filled positions which some of ’you ar,* now filling, propose ty speak to y>j brl fly of the relations of fro'ght and pass enger agents to the pub^c. Your duties are of a two-fold nature. You owe duties to the railway company by which you ar ; employed, and you owe duties to the public. These double duties do not In any way result In conflict or divided ulrtglanoe, for h*‘ serves the railway be t win sjrvos the public best.” The final clause cf the above Is the one ‘deserving special emphasis: ‘He serves the -railway best who serves the public best”—fact too often lost sight of by railw\i> men In dealing with their patterns, and which has al ways cost the road something when forgotten. Th? cost may uot have come at the particular tim?. but has been almost sure to “bob up serenely” at some convenient season either in a business way. at the court house, or at the ballot box. The Standard regards railroads as the great developers of any country, and wants to see them prosper—at thei same time regarding scrupulously the rights and welfare of the great public whom they serve, aud wiiose friend ship they ought to seek instead of disregard or antagonize. We shall watch President Finley’s management of the Southern with great interest, and shall be as flunk to commend the tight as we have felt free to criticize the wrong In the pist. Speaking at Lake Creek. Lake Greek, Ga., Feb. 17th. Eds. Standard;—Please give me space in your valuable paner to write a few lines. There is going to be a public speaking at Lake Creek on Friday evening, Feb. 22d. County Lecturer W. A. Cheatwood will speak in the in terest of the Farmers’ Union. Every body is invited to attend. Be sure aud bring the ladies. J. T. DENTON. THE FLAG IN HISTORY ORIGIN OF NATIONAL EMBLEMS OF THE OLD WORLD Joan of Arc and (he Wlilte Banner of France—The Tricolor of Holland. St. Augnitlnp, the Mlwalonary. In troduced Kin an Into VCn*lnnd. The first western sovereign to adopt a ting was Clovis, king of the Franks. After his conversion to Christianity in the fifth century he took the "chape de St. Martiu” ns his standard. This, uecordiug to some writers, was actu ally part of the clouk which the saintly bishop of Tours cut In two iu order to share It with u beggar at Amiens. More credible authorities, however, assert that It wus the blue flag of St. Mar tin’s abbey. After Clovis, the Merovingian kings seem to have returned to the ancient emblems. Tli$y were couteut to fight under eagles, flowers, crosses or tbo images of saints until the time of Char lemagne, who. If an old mosaic In the Church of St. John Lnternn at Rome Is to be believed, reintroduced the blue flag embellished with six red roses. The color of the French flag was changed In 1124, when Louis the Fat carried the red oriflniub of St. Denis In his struggles against the German emperor Henry V. This continued to be the official French flag down to the battle of Aglucourt lu 1415. Iu the meantime the blue (lag bad again made its appearance, now decorated with the fleur-de-lis instead of the roses of Charlemagne. In this form it wras car ried at Acre and Crecy and Poitiors, until in the fifteenth century It be came the banner of Frauce. The first white flag iu Freucb histo ry was the banuer of the Virgin Mary borne by Joan of Arc In her heroic campaigns for the defense of the dau phin. A pure white flag was occasion ally used by Frauds I. in bis struggles against the Emperor Charles V.. but it did not become the permanent royal banuer until Henry IV., the first Bour bon, uscended the throue in 1589. The tricolor of the French revolution was a compromise. The cockades of the revolutionists were composed of two colors, the red of the Paris com mune and the blue of the ancient mon archy. In the troubled times just pre ceding the deposition and execution of Louis XVI., Lafayette, to signify the desire of the people for a reconcilia tion with their king, added the Bour bon white to the cockade. The tricolor as a national emblem was adopted by the convention in 1794. Long before this, however, the tri color bad been the uatioual flag of Holland. The Dutch were iu fact the first to use it. Wkeu the United Prov inces gained their independence from Spain in the sixteenth century, accord ing to a favorite old story which can not De authenticated, they invited Hen ry of Navarre to choose their colors, and he suggested orange, blue and whito. Whether he selected this com bination or not. such were the colors of Holland until some time in the sev enteenth century, when the orange was replaced by red. When William of Orunge became king of England In 1098 be crossed the rtiuuue! under the red. white and blue. The early inhabitants of England, like those of other countries, used em blematic devices of one kind or an other. that of tlie Saxons being a white horse. The introduction of flags Into England Is ascribed to the missionary St. Augustine and his followers, who after the conversion of King Ethelbert, according to the Veneral. • Bede, en tered Canterbury In procession, chant ing aud bearing small banners. Siuce the fourteenth century the cross of St. George has been the emblem of the British nation. Before that time It was worn ou the armor by the cru- sndors. among whom It came to be known as the “Jack." During the bloody civil wars of the fifteenth cen tury it was practically superseded by the roses, white and red. and In 100T» by proclamation of Janies I. It was finally replaced by a roil flag with the Jack lu the upper Inside corner. The red standurd of Great Britain did not attain its present form, however, until after the uniou with Ireland In 1801. By parliamentary enactment In 1801 the present union Jack was brought into being by the addition of the cross of St Patrick. Waving flags are said to have been first brought to Spain by the Saracens. The present Spanish colors, red and yellow, came from the old shields of Castile and Aragon. The Austrian black aud yellow were the colors of the Holy Roman Empire. They were adopted, so the story goes, by Frederick Barbarossa. whose fancy was captured at a ceremony in Mainz by the black and gold flooring of the hall. / The crescent was origiunlly the spe cial mark of Constantinople, where for centuries it was used as n Christian symbol. There it was that the Turks first found it when they captured the city iu 1453. Even today it may be found side by side with the cross on the churches iu Moscow and other Russian cities, where it is used to indi cate the Byzantine origin of the Rus sian faith.—New York Tribune. The Audience Worse Than the Orator John Bright was ouce asked how it was that Pitt made one of bis finest speeches after drinking two bottles of port. John Bright was. as usual, equal to the occasion. He pointed out that verbatim reporting was unknown In those days, and be suggested that the other meml»ors of the house, on whose opinion Pitt’s reputation largely de pended. had probably drunk three bot tles. SALE OF LANDS' Georgia, Polk County. By virtue of a power of attorney executed by W. A. Camp on the 9th day of April, 1904, authorizing and empowering the undersigned to adver tise and sell the lands hereinafter described for the purposed mentioned. will be sold for cash on the first Tues day in March, 1907, within the legal hours of sale, before the Court House door in Cedartown, said county, a tract of land known as and composed of lots of Find Nos. 15 and 16 in the 1st district and 4th section, aud Nos. 323. 324. 325, 326, 327, 391. 395, 396, 397. 398, 399, 465. 466, 467, 468. 470, 471. 472, 536. 537. 538, 539, 542, 543, 544, 545, 547, 548, 605, 606, 60S, 610, and 685, in the 2d district and 4th section of Polk county, Ga., each lot containing 40 acres more or less, and containing in the aggregate 1440 acres, more or less. The title to said lands Is In the Marietta Trust & Banking Co., having been deeded to said bank by Hoke Smith. The proceeds of the sale, ^hen made, are to be applied as pro vided in an agreement between said Marietta Trust & Banking Co. and said W. A. Cimp, to-wdt: — 1st. To the payment of the adver tising fees and expenses incident to bringing said lands to sale. 2d. To the payment of the 4 prom issory notes made by the said \Y. A. Camp to the said Hoke Smith for the balance of purchase money of said lands and by said 'Hoke Smith trans ferred to the said Marietta Trust & Banking Cp., being for the sum of $1,000.00 each, with interest thereon from Dec. 20, 1902, at the rate of 5 per cent per annum.aud all costs thereon. 3d. That the balance thereof be ap plied as a credit on the judgment ob tained by the said Marietta Trust 6 Banking Co. against the said W. A. Camp in the Superior Court of De- Kalb County at the fall term. 1904, thereof. The power of attorney from the said \V. A. Camp to the undersigned is of record in the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of Polk county. Deed will be executed to the purchaser conveying said lands in fee simple. JAS. T. ANDERSON, Vice-President Marietta Trust & Bank ing Company. This January 28th, 1907. Squire J. B. Jonep, of Walthall, is spending the week with his cons at Ash- ville, Ala.
