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STANDARD*
Devoted to the B«rt Interests of Cedartown and Polk County.
Volume 35.
Number 33.
Cedartown, Georgia, Thursday, September 8th, 1921.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS HAVE BIG OPENING I PLAN OF COMMUNITY ADVERTISING
BIG CROWDS THRONG TENT MEETING
Earnest Preaching and Good Singing Finding
Eager Attention.
Are you attending the great tent
meeting this week?
If not, you are missing an inspira
tion to better living that is needed by
members of the church a9 well as by
those “outside the fold.”
Dr. Robert King is preaching great
sermons —great in their scope and
power, great in their simplicity and
earnestness, —and is receiving tho
rapt attenton of the large congrega
tions that gather to hear him at ev
ery service.
And have you heard the Junior
Choir?
It is one of the best parts of the
music that Rev. Frank Pim has so well
organized. All the music is good,but
that Junior Choir is especially worth
hearing.
Never have such throngs come to a
religious meeting in Cedartown as arc
coming daily to these tent meetings,
and it has been necessary to add many
benches outside the tent to accom
modate them.
And all who come seem to be there
not from idle curiosity, hut for an
earnest purpose.
Our stores are all closing from 9 to
10 o'clock, so that all may attend the
morning meetings, and the night ser
vices all have as large crowds ns can
be accommodated.
“'Vhat will YOTJ do with Christ?"
is the key-note of Dr. King's sermons,
and the outcome for the present and
future of all depends upon the answer
Great good has already been ac
complished by these meetings, and the
prospect is that its closing days will
be especially successful.
GRAND JURY PRESENTMENTS
To Hon. F. A. Irwin, Judge Superior
Court, Polk Co., Gn.
We, the Grand Jury chosen nnd
aworn to serve at the August term,
1921, of Polk Superior Court, beg to
submit the following General Pre
sentments and recommendations:
We have appointed committees to
examine the books of the vnrious
county officers and also to examine
the property of the county, and
their reports follow:
County Clerk.
We, your committee appointed to
examine the books and records of the
Clerk of the Superior Court, find that
they are neatly and correctly kept.
L. Suthcrlin, D. L. Griflls, I. C.
I)nvis, Com.
Sheriff'* Book*.
We, your committee appointed to
examine the books of the Sheriff, re
port that wo tlnd them neatly and
correctly kept.
J. W. Nunn, W. W. Cone, R. N.
Vincent, Com.
Convict Camp.
Wc, your committee appointed to
investigate and report on the condi
tions existing at the Polk Convict
Camp, beg to submit the following:
We recommend that the camp be
furnished with a car to be used as a
supply car, as at present there are no
means of taking care of extra cloth
ing, blankets, etc.
We especially commend the ex
cellent sanitary conditions at the
camp.
The physicnl condition of the pris
oners seems all that could be desired.
Wm. Zuker, G. T. V. StcvenHon, I.
C. Duvis, Com.
Justice* of the Peace Book*.
We, the committee appointed to
investigate the books of the Justices
of the Peace and Notaries Public, re
port that we find them correctly
kept except the following: N. P. &
J. P. Books 1570th, J. P. Books
1588th, and J. P. Books 1072d, cost
not itemized.
G. T. V. Stevenson, W. 0. Cleve
land, G. W. Wells, Com.
County Treasurer's Book*.
We, the committee appointed to ex
amine the books of the County Treas
urer, beg to report that we find same
are audited once each year by a com
petent Auditor, therefore thought it
unnecessary to go into detail but got
his itemized statement for the past
six months since an audit was made,
and submit same herewith attached
marked “Exhibit A.”
J. A. Fambro, J. F. Lyon, Wm.
Zuker, Com.
Public Building*.
You committee appointed to ex
amine the public buildings of the
county beg to submit the following
report:
We find the ceiling overhead in the
upstairs front lobby in bad shape and
falling off, and plastering in several
places cracked and falling. In the
Tax Receiver's room we find bad
leaks and consequent property dam
age. We find the jail in very good
condition, with the exception of one
room leaking pretty badly and some
of the walls in the dwelling depart
ment with the plastering in bad con
dition. We recommend that the
proper authorities have these repairs
made at once.
We also recommend that the back
steps to the Court House be repaired,
especially the side railings.
B. H. Harris, C. W. Price, T. N.
Duke, Com.
Ordinary's Books.
Wc, the committee appointed to
Ccd&rtown’s Growth Attested in Largely
creased Attendance.
In-
Cedartov *■ is glowing rapidly, nnd
the most striking evidence of this
fact is seen in the greatly increased
attendance of our city public schools.
Whon wc put up our new High
School building n few years ago, it
was thought that we had taken care
of our school facilities for many
years, but all our buildings arc now
over-crowded —and that, too, aside
from the additions to enrollment
brought in by the extension of the
city limits.
One of the things that makes a
bond issue absolutely imperative is
the necessity of taking care of the ed
ucation of our boys and girls. Some
things can wait, but there is only one
Primary Grade*.
Miss Dellu Russell.
Miss Madge Stubbs.
Miss Lucy Houscnl.
Mrs. Katharine Good.
Miss Bessie Ballard.
Miss Elizabeth Partee.
Miss Kate Young.
Mrs. G. G. Adams.
East Cedartown.
Principal—Miss Rose Vance.
Miss Pauline Chapman.
West End School.
Principal—Miss Pauline Bailey.
Miss Zola Hunt.
Miss Mamie Willingham.
Colored Schoo'-.
Principal—L. 11. vim ‘.hanks
lime for children to get an eduen-jthe Board of Education for his 35th
election.
Assistants—Julin Plninc, Gertrude
Brown, Nellie Ward; supemumorny,
Nellie M. Hall.
examine the books of the Ordinary,
report that they are neatly and cor
rectly kept.
B. H. Harris, C. V. Wood, F„ W.
Lemon, Com. •
Pauper Farm.
Wc, the committee appointed to
visit and examine the Pauper farm,
beg to submit the following:
Wc find 4 white inmates—2 males
and 2 females; also, one colored fc-
mule.
These inmates seem well cared for
and satisfied, except one white femnle
Inmate whom wc find is doing wash
ing, cooking nnd cleaning around the
premises without any compensation,
which we think is an injustcc to her.
Wc recommend thnt the entire sys
tem be changed by the sale of the
present farm and the proceeds applied
to the purchnse of new quarters.
E. R. Morgan, J. A. Fambro, A. L.
Morgan, E. W. Lemon, J. IL Mosc-
ly, Com.
The report of the Clerk of the Su
perior Court nnd of the County Tax
Collector are hereto attached and
marked Exhibits B nnd C respect
ively.
The Grand Jury wishes to make the
following recommendations:
Wc recommend to the Board of
Commissioners that the present Pau
per Farm be sold and that the pro
ceeds from said sale, with any addi
tional sum needed be used to pur
chase a lot convenient to some town
whereby such necessities as sewerage,
running water, labor and other aids
to a healthy and hygienic liviu j may
be obtained, nnd upon said lot (not
exceeding one or two acres) a build
ing suitable for the care and mainten
ance of the county's indigent be built,
said building to be constructed with
due provision being made for tho
separation of whites and blacks, and
that a Matron be placed in charge of
said building and grounds and in
mates. We also suggest thnt the
name Pauper Farm be changed to the
Polk County Indigents’ Home. We
further recommend that when an in
mate has to do labor that' a small
compensation be paid for services
rendered, and also that the whites
and blacks be separated at meal times
as well as at all other times.
We recommend that H. H. Tibbitts
be appointed N. P. and J. P. for the
1447th district, succeeding A. H.
King.
We recommend that the County
Commissioners prepare some place
to care for the County's insane until
such time as State resumes its care
of them, the officials here having
been advised that the State is unable
to care for them at the present.
We recommend that these present
ments be published in the Cedartown
Standard and in the Rockmart News
and that they be, paid the sum of $20
each for same.
The jury wishes to take this op
portunity to commend the work of the
County Police, and we feel that the
best citizens of the county appreciate
their services. We recommend that
they be continued.
We wish to thank his honor, Judge
F. A. Irwin and Sol. Gen. J. R. Hut
cherson for their courtesy to us dur
ing our deliberations, and to assure
them of our appreciation of same.
All of which is most respectfully
submitted.
J. A. Wilson, Foreman; J.W. Nunn,
I. C. Davis, J. A. Fambro, G.W. Wells,
W. O. Cleveland, Wm. Zuker, C. W.
Price, C. V. Wood, B. H. Harris, T.
N. Duke, A. L. Morgan, J. H. Mos
ley, G. T. V Stephenson. J. P. Mar-
tion. It |s impossible to get nlong
without a new school building in
West End ns the Mission School is to
be converted Jan. 1st into a Girls
Training School for the Mill Dirtict
in that section. Thu building
in Eust Cedartown must be enlarged,
nnd the College Street building is
now woefully inadequate to accommo
date the prlmury and grammar grades
Everybody is glad, though, to do
all they can for the children. They
are our greatest asset, for in them
centers all our hope for the future of
our community.
It is indeed gratifying that Super
intendent J. E. Purks, who is himself
recognized as one of the best educa
tors in the stute, has been able to se
cure such a strong faculty for the
coming year. During the wur all
schools had to use many more or less
inexperienced teachers, nnd it wns al
most impossible to got male teachers,
ns Uncle Sam hnd spcrinl use for
young men. Now, however, the tea
chers ure coining back to their form
er work, and Cedartown has never
had a bettor corps of teachers than is
presented here:—■
High School.
Principal.—J. II. Brooks, of Mar-
shnllvllle.
Mias Lucy Brown, of Milledgevillc.
Miss Bessie L. Peatross, Of Dan
ville, Va.
Miss Irene Gunter, of Covington.
Miss Faync Moore, of Buchanan.
Mr. Rufus Monts, of Stilesboro.
Grammar Grads*.
Principal—W. M. PatUrxony of
Grays.
Mrs. C. F. Jones.
Mias Lucile Wood, of Menlo.
Miss Belle Pickard.
Miss Annie Brumby.
Miss Patterson, of Grays.
Stand to the School*.
And now, good people of Cedar
town, remember thnt those schools
are YOURS. They are established
for the EDUCATION of YOUR boys
and girls. They are not merely a
place for children to go nnd spend so
many hours n day, but they ure the
workshop in which YOUR children
are to be turned into useful men nnd
women. It makes no difference how
efficient teachers are, they cannot do
their best work unless they have the
cot-operation of both parents nnd pu
pils.
And now just a personal word to
YOU. You remember whon you
were a kiddie how stories of trouble
that you took homo never lost any
thing In the telling, don't you? It
wasn’t much of anything when you
loft the achool house, but you remem
ber how awfully big it was by the
time you got home. Well, your chil
dren arc just like you were, and if
you all think about your own childish
experience you will realize that it is
mighty poor policy to pay too much
attention to any fault-finding reports
thnt your children bring home. Even
if hey are your children, you know,
they nre likely to have the childish
hnbit of exaggeration—even ns you
did at their age.
Get together, folks, behind our
schools. There arc none in Georgia
starting out better this year, and their
i continued success depends on you par-
; ents cultivating the principle of co-
| operation between and with tonehcr
I and pupils.
! To be Presented Wednesday Evening at Kiwan-
is Luncheon.
In Conjunction with all our Business Men at
Wayside Inn.
is said to be a better understanding
nnd co-operation between the farmers
themselves, between the merchants
themselves, and between farmer and
merchant.
The meeting will be under the aus
pices of the Kiwanis Club and will bo
held at the Wuyside Inn.
Mr. Lowe receives no pay whatever
from his visit. He is sent by the Cen
tral of Georgia Railroad in its cam
paign to stimulate trade in tho cities
in Georgia through which its lines
pass. On Wednesday evening Mr.
Lowe will present his plan fully. It
then will be up to the business inter
ests of the city as to whether the plan
will be udopted.
Testimonials ns to the Neosho Plan
read like fiction. Cities that have
adopted it report ns high as a sixty
per cent increase in general business.
Harmony, civic pride, progressive
movements have followed in the wnkc
of disruption, lassitude and inactivity
where it has been tried. Indications
point to the fact that Mr. Lowe’s visit
is destined to mean a great deal in
the progress of Cedartown, and tho
West Side Baptist Tab
ernacle
Organized Sunday by
Rev. J.jY. Edge.
A large congregation joined Sun
day in the organization of the new
West Side Baptist Tabernacle.
Rev. J. A. Edge, the faithful min
ister whose successful revival work in
West End is responsible for the crea
tion of this new chuch, preached a
strong sermon at the 11 o’clock ser
vice.
A sumptuous basket dinner was en
joyed by the great throng at the
noon hour, and in the afternoon live
4 talks were made by Revs. C. A. D'*-
Vane and R. W. Hamrick and Mr. H
T. Phillips, with a choice program by
the Friendship Sunbeam Band.
The membership of the new church
will meet Saturday night to elect
Deacons and call a Pastor, and plans
will soon be put under way for build
ing a new church edifice.
District Nurse.
Mrs. Elliott, an experienced nurse
from Birmingham, came Tuesday to
take up her work as Resident Nurse
in the Mill District under employment
by the McCarty Settlement School.
This is a most meritorious move
ment on the part of the good ladies in
charge of this noble institution, and
will be the means of doing much prac
tical good.
Cotton Seed— Go to
Busby Bros, for highest
prices.
Mr. G. R. Lowe will explain to the
business men of Cedartown the Neo
sho Plan of co-operative sales days
and community advertising at a din
ner to be held at 7.00 p. m. next Wed
nesday, Sept. 14 th.
Mr. Lowe is making a trip nlong
the lines of the Central of Georgia
Railway under the auspices of the de
velopment department of thnt rond.
He will be accompanied on his visit
to Cedartown by Vice Pres. J. D. Mc
Cartney and other officers of the rond.
Mr. Lowe lias a reputation ns an
interesting and eloquent talker on
business subjects. He has just com
pleted n Chautauqua tour through the
Middle West.
Tho Neosho Plan, which has operat
ed most successfully in numerous cit
ies of the North, East and Middle
West, provides for a monthly commu
nity auction sale, at which farmers
are given nil opportunity to dispose of
produce, live stooge, second hand Im
plements, household goods, etc. It
provides for a monthly bargain day,
at which no two merchants advertise
the same bargain; the advertising be
ing done in co-operative display In business men of tho city ure planning
newspapers and circulars. It provides, to hear his address with open and
for a monthly or semi-monthly trip to sympathetic minds and with the dc-
the country by business moil of the J termination to make every effort to
town for thu discussion of topics of | adopt it if it appears to be practic-
Interost to the farmer. The net result able..
tin, R N. Vincent, D. L. Griffis, J. F.
Lyon, L. Sutherlin, E. W. Lemon, E.
R. Morgan, W. W. Cone.
(Continued on 6th Page.)
MR. ELMORE HERE
Mr. A. A. Elmore,' the hustling
state organizer of the Co-operative
Marketing Association, and Mr. E.L.
Watsorf, our district organizer, spent
the first of the week in Polk. Mr.
Elmore gives un enthusiastic -account
of the manner in which the cotton-
growers of Georgia are falling in line
with their sister states in this grea
movement. The Oklahoma, Texas and
Mississippi Associations are already
bundling cotton, and are well financ
ed. Arrangements have been made
for financing the Georgia Association
as soon as it is organized, which Mr.
Elmore says- from present prospects
will be in the near future.
BIG BROTHERS
Something worth while -—thnt is
the way the Kiwanis luncheon last
Friday could well be characterized.
Individual Kiwanians as “big bro-
l thors” invited the boys of the Senior
| and Junior classes of our High. School
j to be their guests at the luncheon,and
| it would he hurd to say which enjoy
ed it the most r—.the guests or their
hosts.
j President H. M. Hall called upon
| Rev. C» A. DeVane, Hon. W. W.
j Mundy, Prof. J. E. Purks, Dr. Robt.
1 King and Hon. L. S. Ledbetter for
brief and inspiring talks, and a fitting
response was made in behalf of the
boys by Reynolds Edwards.
ON ALL BATTERY WORK I guar
antee to lave you money and on all
new batteries I guarantee to aaire
you from $8 to $10. Just see me be
fore you buy or have your old Bat
tery rebuilt. BLACKWELL, the Ex
pert Battery Man, aft Williams’ place.
Cotton was bringing 22 cents in
Cedartown yesterday.
THE BALL IS OVER
And Cedartown Ends at
Third.
The busc ball season ended Monday
for nil hut two teams of the Georgia-
State League —Lindalc and La-
Grnngo. who were the winners of the
pennants for the first and second sc-
r*-*f Hie season, and who now play
sevon games to decide the tie between
them.
Ccdnrtown ends in third place —a
highly creditable position, and one
showing thnt we have had “u real
team.”
Last year Cedartown was the only
team to devolop Big League players,
and we think the snmc is true this
year. The New York Yankees recent
ly bought Tucker, our star right fiel
der, nnd have now conditionally trad
ed for Culp, who will prove one of the
greatest pitchers in the country if he
can solve the problem of control.
It has been n hard year to finance
base ball in every town in the League,
and Cedartown appears to have done
ns well on that score as any of them.
Our business men believed the psy
chological effect would be good dur
ing the dull summer months, and from
that standpoint it has doubtless been
a paying proposition, although a di
rect money-loser.
At all events, base ball has furnish
ed much pleasure to many people in
Cedartown this season, and as far as
Cedartown is concerned it has been
played on the level nnd conducted in
a sportsmanlike manner.
A Slugging Match.
Our final game with Rome last
week was well called a slugfest, and
we got slightly the better of it, the
score being 11 to 10 in our favor.
Daniels started the game for us, but
Bradley took his place after Rome
piled up 8 rnn3 in the 4th inning. We
made 5 in the same inning, and Rome
swapped Hanson for James, who af-
terwnrd made way for Kane. Slater
and Bradley made 2-baggers and
Shaw a part of them, Tucker got a 3-
bagger and Taller a home run.
At LaGrange.
LaGrange won Thursday's game in
their home town 8 to 5, with Hawkins
pitching for us. Slater got both a 2-
bugger and a homer, nnd Shaw lined
it out for 2 bases.
A double-header was played Fri
day, and I.aGrangc took the first 10
to 4 nnd the second 9 to 4. Two-
baggers were hit by Kelton nnd Brad-
| ley. Culp pitched the first and Cook
I and Daniels the second.
LaGrange likewise and also swept
| the deck and grabbed the pennant for
tho second half of the season by tak
ing the fourth gnme from us Satur
day 9 to 4. Cook was in box fo us,
Hawkins got a 2-bagger, and Tucker
swatted his 23d home -run for the
season.
With Carrollton.
We won the final game of the seas
on here Monday morning, taking It
from Carrollton 7 to 5. It looked for
a time ns if the visitors had us, but
Tatter put some pep In Cedartown’a
side of it by putting the sphere over
left-field fence, after Carrollton had
it 5 to 0. Hawkins pitched a good
game, and also swatted a homer. Kel
ton got a 2-baggef, and Tatlcr both a
2-baser and a home run. y
In the afternoon we went to Car
rollton, nnd won 6 to 4 with Daniels
in the box. Kelton got a couple of 2-
Itaggers, and Tucker and Daniels each
a homer.
And winning two games in one day
certainly made a fine finish of tho
season for Cedartown.
How They Stand.
Won
Lost
Pet.
LaGrange
- 34
15
.694
T.indule
..31
16
.660
CEDARTOWN
..22
26
.453
Rome
. 21
27
.438
Griffin
-.20
27
.420
Carrollton _
..16
33
.327
Why Parcel Post?
Get your old clothes dry cleaned
nnd mado new In your own city.
Phone 69. EDWARDS SCIENCE
CLEANING.
Farmers to Meet.
The Advisory Board of the Farm
Bureau meet* at the Court Houae in
Cedartown at 10 a. m. today.
The committees of the County Fair
Association will meet at 3 p. m. today
in Rockmart.
The following have been appointed
members of the Finance Committee of
tho Fair by Dr. J. W. Good, chairman
for the West end of the county: Ce
dartown—Chas. Adamson, A. E.
Young and J. H. Stewart; Lake—A.
F Falres; Blooming Grove—C. H.
Graves; Youngs—E. D. Hightower;
Esnm Hill—V S. Brewster; 17th —
C. R. Sheffield.
To Correspondents.
Monday was Labor Day, so the Car
riers were not on their routes. This
made nenrly all letters reach us to®
late for publication in full. Instead
of leaving out some altogether, wa
n>-e publishing a part of each.
Ladies, if you live in Cedartown,.
go at once to the City Clerk’s office
and register. When anyone registers
now it is permanent, and you will
not have to register again for any city
election.
The Cincinnati Auto
Lamps are now on
the market. Equip' your
car at once. See C. S.
Cornelius, Agent for
Polk county. Phone
300.
