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I Woman § Society j
CARRIK GARNER JONES.
The Music Club holds its next meet
ng at the Dome of Miss Laurie Neel, on
'Jovember 6, at 3 o’clock. The follow
ng program is to be rendered:
“Sketch of the Life of Kubenstein.’
•fiss Augusts Calhoun.
Song, “Thou Art Like unto a Flower,’
iubenstein. Mrs. Felton Jones.
Piano, Barcarolle, Hnbenstein. Mrs
IV. W. Young.
Sketch of Grieg's Life. Miss Julia
'oute.
Song, Grieg. Miss Florence Milner
Piano. “Valse Caprice,” Grieg. Misa
Mary Foute.
Song, “Maiden’s Wish.” Chopin.
Miss Octavia Aubrey.
Piano, “Maiden’s Wish,” Liszt. Miss
Jctavia Aubrey.
Violin Solo. Miss Laurie Neel.
Chorus,“Night Bells.” Vincent. Music
Club.
Those from this city who will attend
.he meeting of the State Federation of
Women's Clubs in Augusta, on No
rember 2d, 3d, and 4th are Mrs. A. O.
Granger, who is the ex-president of ine
Federation and president pf the Cart
sasville Music Club, Miss Sally May
Akin as delegate from the Cartersvilie
Music Club, and Miss Mary Wikle, who
s the delegate to represent the Chero
kee Club.
Mrs. Hall and and her daughter, Miss
Mary Hall leave n* xt week for Ailanta
to reside in the future. Several of Mrs.
Hall’s sons have been in business in
that city for some lime, it is with
sincere regret that Cartersvilie lelin
quishes her claim upon this popular
family.
The season finds an innovation made
1 in the wedding service, that of the
minister leading the bride and the groom
to the altar rather than standing there
to await their coming.
Mr. and Mrs. Logan Vaughan take
possession of Mrs. Hall’s home on
Market street on the first of November.
This has ever been a pretty little borne
and such it will continue to be when so
charming a young matron as Mrs.
Vaughan becomes us dainty chatelaine.
They say now that the next improve
ment to the telephone will be the trans
mission by a mirror reflection ol the
two who hold the receivers. Dire will
be the consternation ol the girl in curl
papers and kimona. When the patent
is applied canuot the dear things issue
an injunction upon the plea that tneir
rights are infringed?
Why does notsomeoneentertain dur
ing this beautiful weather and thus have
the houor of opening the social season?
The first pf the month notes Miss
Marian .Strickland’s departure for Little
Kock and Memphis where she goes for
extended visits
*
Miss Estelle Calhoun spent a few days
in Atlanta last week.
Miss Ullie Crouch left last Saturday
to join her sisteis, Misses Kate ami
Jennie Crouch in Chattanooga. ‘She
will be with them a week or more.
THAT SEW RAILROAD.
Interesting Letter from Gainesville Citi
zen to Mr. Vivion About Project.
Mr. J. H. Vivion has just re
ceived a letter from Mr. R. H.
Smith, of Gainesville, that explains
itself:
Gainesville, Ga., October 26, 1904.
J. H. Vivion, Esq., Cartersvilie, Ga
Dear Sir: Yours oi the 26 instant to J
W. Smith, of our town, has been handed
me to answer.
The Southern railroad people have
made the surveys for a road from this
point to Rome, (fa., and have completed
the estimates of cost, etc., and placed
them on file. We have had a public
meeting here and passed resolutions
and our city officials haye guaranteed
terminal iacilities and all ntcessary
franchises, etc, A committee of one, dl
our citizens has visited Atlanta and laid
all this before the railroad people and
gotten everything in goofi shape up to
date.
N6W ft vffft tWt# the combfned efforts
of all the people aiding the line as well
as the best efforts of the people of Rome
and Gainesville to secure this very
much needed railroad
A railroad from Rome to Gainesville
will be about 40 miles nearer to north
east Georgia and the great cotton mill
Sections of South and North Carolina
and the South Atlantic ports, than yis
Atlanta, to say nothiog of the congested
condition that freights sometimes get
into in Atlanta that cause delays in all
freights all along from here to the sea.
What would your people of Catters
vllle do tor this important western con
nection to have t pass through yonr
splendid town?
Hoping this will be encouraging to
the goeo citizens of Cartersvilie. as well
as to yourself. Ism yours truly.
*R. H. Smith.
To Music Pupils
Miss Ella Neel will return the last
of November to take charge of her
music class. During her absence
Miss Wikle will teach for her at mu
elc room on Market Street.
In the new room special attention
will be (iven to ensemble work and
harmony. 2t
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh That
Contaiu Opium,
As mercury will surely destroy the
sense of smell and completely derange
the whole system when entering it
through the mucous surfaces Such
articles should never be used except on
prescriptions from reputable physi
cians, as the damage thev will do is
tenfold to the good you can possibly
derive from them. Hall’s Catarrh Cure,
manufactured by F. J. Cheney A co.,
Toledo, 0., contains no mercury, and is
taken internally, acting directly upon
the blood and mucous surfaces of the
system. In buy ing Hall’s Catarrh Cure
l,e sure you get the genuine. It is taken
internally and made in Toledo, Ohio,
hv F. J. Cheney & Cos. Testimonials
free,
Soid by Druggists. Price, 75c. per
bottle,
'f ake Hall’e Family Pills for consti
pation.
Calhoun Bros, will
handle only the best stove
and you get the best when
yon buy f.om them.
H poem for Coday
THE ARSENAL AT SPRINGFIELD
By Henry W. Longfellow
— •<>
S CHARLES FREDERICK JOHNSON in “Warner’s
Library of the World's Best Literature’’ says of Long
fellow. “His relation Is to the great body of readers.
Sympathy with the broadly human is one of the marks
of the true poet. To put simple things into graceful
and Intelligible poetic form requires genius, for thou
sands try to do it every day and fall for lack of the
special gift. Longfellow succeed(#l, and those who say
that his themes and method are alike commonplace
forget that the touch which Illuminates the common
place Is the most delicate in art."
♦.— A
T*— IHIS is the Arsenal. From floor to ceiling,
Like a huge organ, rise the burnished arms;
But from their silent pipes no anthem pealing
Startles the villages with strange alarms.
Ah! what a Bound will how wild and dreary,
When a death-angsi touches those swift keys!
What loud lament and dismal miserere
Will mingle with their awful symphonies!
I hear even now the infinite fierce chorus,
The cries of agony, the endless groan, .
Which, through the ages that have gone before us,
In long reverberations reach our own.
On helm and harness rings the Saxon hammer;
Through Cimbric forest roars the Norseman’s song,
And loud, amid the universal clamor,
O’er distant deserts sounds the Tartar gong.
I hear the Florentine, who from his palace
Wheels out his battle-bell with dreadful din,
And Aztec priests upon their teocallis,
Beat the wild war-drums made of serpents’ skin;
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The tumult of each sacked and burning village;
The shout that every prayer for mercy drowns;
The soldiers’ revels in the midst of pillage;
The wail of famine in beleaguered towns;
The bursting shell, the gateway wrenched asunder,
The rattling musketry, the clashing blade;
And ever and anon, In tone of thunder,
The diapason of the cannonade.
Is R, O man, with such discordant noises,
With such accursed instruments as these,
Thou drownest nature’s sweet and kindly voices,
And Jarrest the celestial harmonies?
Were half thepporerw r er that fills the world with terror, ~
Were half the w r ealth bestowed on camps and courts,
Given to redeem the human mind from error,
There were no need of arsenals nor forts;
Ip
* The warrior’s name would be a name abhorred; i £'3
And every nation that should lift again \;
Its hand against a brother, on its forehead
Would wear forevermore the curse of Cain!
Down the dark future, through long generations,
The echoing sounds grow fainter and then cease;
Ajhl like a bell, with solemn, sweet vibrations,
I hear once more the voice of Christ say, “Peace!”
Peace!—and no longer from its brazen portals
The blast of war’s great organ shakes the skies;
But, beautiful as songs of the immortals,
The holy melodies of love arise.
<| LOCAL MATTERS. §>
Mrs. Postell will give a beneft
Halloween party Monday evening,
31st, from 8 o’clock until midnight.
Admisson, price ten cents.
| For sale—cheap—a sound family
horse, afraid of nothing. 1 piano,
and 3 heaters. Mrs. Withers.
Manager Beutley,of the Commer
cial hotel has arranged to serve
fresh oysters, stewed or fried every
evening. The hungry public is now
invited to call and partake of the
same.
The corner stone of the Baptist
church will be laid Tuesday, No
vember 15, at 2:30 p. m. An inter
esting program will be arranged
with the Masons in charge.
Rev, J, E. Barnard,now at Scotts
boro, Ala., will return the last of
the week and fill his pulpit at the
Baptist church Sunday morning
and evening.
A large force of hands carrying
a number of scrapes and other grad
ing tools passed through Calhoun
Wednesday for Pairmount and
other points ou the new railroad.
The attention of The News read •
ers is called to the big ad c f H. T.
Bradley & Cos. in this issue. Brad
ley’s store is one of the best known
and popular mercantile houses
in this section of the state and carry
a large stock cf well selected goods
and spare no pains to meet the
wants of customers. Read the ad
and call on them when you come
to Cartersvilie.
Worshipful Master Paul T. Akin,
of the Cartersvilie Masons’ lodge,
is attending the meeting of the
grand lodge in Macon this week.
The dedication of the Masonic Or
phans’ Home takes place this week
at Macon ard will prove an inter
esting event! The Masons of Bar
tow CountyVhave furnished one
room in the hk '
THE NEWS, CARTERSVILLE GEORGIA, OCTOBER 27, 1904.
HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT
j How many hours out of each week
; would be saved by yourself, your family
and your teams, by the telephone ?
Have you ever calculated how many
minutes can be saved in case of business,
sickness, or emergency ?
Have yon ever thought of the dollars
you might gain, if you were only in
close connection with the market ?
Can you conceive of the pleasure to be
derived from having in your home im
mediate communication with the homes
of neighbors and friends though situated
I The telephone will pay for itself by
getting better market prices.
I It will save several dollars every
month by avoiding needless trips to
town.
It will take and deliver telegraph
messages immediately without extra
expense.
I *r
It will keep you informed on weather
predictions npon inquiry.
It will order repairs instantly when
machines break down.
It will do the visiting and make social
calls without the trouble' of “dressing
up” and taking a long, dusty, heated or
freezing ride. ■ 0
It will get a doctor on a moment’s
notice and maybe save a loved one’s
life.
It will get election returns as soon as
they are in.
It will keep away insolent tramps and
prowling burglars.
It will keep the boys on the farm.
It will makes homes happier, brighter,
better and more delightful in a thousand
different ways.
Progressive fanners living in the
country are installing telephones in their
homes, and in the near future every
cultivator will have a direct means of
communication with the outside world.
THE SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE
AND TELEGRAPH CO. will be glad to
famish full information upon ap
plication to
M. R. McCLATCHY,
Manage r.
Heating p 'ves a Cal
houn Br<r
| Co un ty N ews.jj
LIGON.
Mrs. F.dgar Grffin, who for some
time has been suffering with her
throat, is in Atlanta under treatment
of Dr. Calhoun.
Mrs. Fred Durand, of Jacksonville,
Fla., is visiting her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Isbell, at Ford.
Three attractive young ladies,
Misses Adams, of Savannah, Hen
derson, of Rome, and Nan Ligon, of
Shorter college, were guests this
week of Mr. and Mrs. J O. Ligon, at
Bonny View.
Mr. Herman Mayhew came up from
Atlanta Saturday for a few days visit
with home folks.
Mr. Hawkins,of Birmingham,was a
guest last week at the home of R. F.
Jolly.
Miss Nellie Mayhew will leave this
week for Rockmart, where she will e.i
ter school at the Piedmont Institute.
H*ill Wade, of Etowah, called on
friends at Ligon Sunday.
Miss Lois Colbert of Stilesboro,spent
Saturday with Mrs. J. O. Ligon. She
W 8 s accompanied ho ue by her mother,
Mrs. Frances Henderson.
OAKDALE.
Farmers were never busier at this
season of the year gathering their cot
ton, a large per cent which is gin
ned anti sold.
Some are getting ready to sow
wheat while others will be delayed on
account of corn in the way.
The church at Csssville is under
going some needed repairs and when
completed will he as good new. The
sweet tone of her bell reminds one
of one of Col. Warren Akin’s selec
tions anil gifts many years ago.
The Baptists at Cassville whre very
kmil in tendering the use of their
church to the Methodist folks to hold
their meeting for this conference.
Cranford Luke lost his sawmill by
fire a few nights ago. The cause is not
known.
Mr. Fletcher McElreath has gone
home after running his sorghum mill
very successfully for quite awhile in
this community.
Miss Clara Anthony has been select
ed for our teacher another year. Pa
rents,get your children ready and let
ihe school commence about the mid
-die of November. .
CASSVILLE.
Cassville has been on the quiet list
for sometime on account of our corre
spondent leaving us. Anew corre
ondent attempts for the first time to
let the people know what is happen
ing in this delightful spot made beau
ful by nature.
Rev. Thomas Gr. Davis,pastor of the
Woodw T ard ave. church, Atlanta, w ill
deliver his famous leeture on “Life’s
Trials and Triumphs” at the Baptist
church tue night of Nov. 1. The doors
will open promply at 7:30 oclock. The
proceeds of the lecture will go towards
the new church building. Admisson
of 25c will be charged, come out and
lend a helping hand towards the new
church building.
Messrs Mike Crawford, Clayton
Sloan and Will Hawkinsare all smiles.
Anew visitor has arrived at each
home.
Don’t forget the election Nov. 1.
Misses Mary Lee Millhollin, Belle
Headden and Louise Smith have re
turned after a pleasant visit of several
days in Home.
Mrs. Sullivan spent last week in
Cartersvilie, visiting relatives.
Messers. Con. Pittard and Robert
Wilson came up from Cartersvilie
Bunday and spent the day with home
folks.
Work on the new Methodist church
is almost completed. Services held
last Sunday at the Baptist church,
the beloved pastor Rev. J, M. Turalin
paid us his farewell visit for this con
ference year. All hope to have Rev.
Tnmlin with us one more year which
will make his fourth year on this work.
Oil stoves at Calhoun
Bros.
Adme flour, every sack guaran
teed, at J. A. Monfort & Co.’s.
The well known same flour can
be found at J. A. Monfort & Co.’s.
Miss Sallie May Akin invites the
Daughters of the Confederacy to
meet with her Friday. October 28,
at 3 o’clock.
Dr. R. E. Cason, of Cedartown,
was in Cartersvilie Tuesday.
Buy your stove from
Calhoun Bros, and save
money.
Cooking stoves at
Calhoun Bros.
Ranges at Calhoun
Bros.
All intersted in the Mallory plow
see R. C. Rowan, the plow for deep
fall plowing.
Mr, and Mrs. Logan Vaughan
spent Tuesday in Atlanta,
A Tfrold
Holdup
fler'Oy "Deed of a Lone
Urain "Robber In
Missouri*
Alt by Himself He Compelled a
Missouri Tacific Grain to Stop
and Forced Messengers to
Turn O-Ver Valuables.
The doors of the Missouri peniten
tiary have opened to Sam Wilson,
known as tlie “lone train robber,” who
was received at the penitentiary July
3, 1803, and set him at liberty, having
served three-fourths of the fifteen
years to which he was sentenced. Un
til quite recently, when he was placed
in the prison library to look after the
books, Wilson had been employed in
A MASKED MAN CLIMBED FROM THE COAL
TENDER.
the shops. Friends will do something
( toward putting him on his feet. The
officials declare his prison record good.
Black Bart terrorized California by
holding up stages. He did it aii alone,
but seldom had more than half a dozen
persons to contend with. Fred Witt
rock robbed Frotheringham, a railroad
express messenger, and did it single
handed, but he was concealed in the
car and had only the messenger to
overpower, but Sam Wilson, alone and
unaided, “stood up” a train and en
forced the assistance of the crew in
despoiling the express car.
The Missouri Pacific train which left
St. Louis on the night of May 24, 1893,
was held up one mile west of Pacific.
The express car was shattered with
dynamite, and the messenger, Samuel
Hammel, was compelled to open the
safe and deliver Its contents, amount
ing to $4,000 in silver, to the robber.
The robber, however, carried away on
ly one-fourth of the amount, and half
of this sum he strewed over a cornfield
which he crossed in his flight United
States Senator William Joel Stone, then
Mieswrt; mm- Lon,
V. Stephens, then state treasurer, and
United States Attorney William War
ner were among the passengers. The
holdup was not wholly unexpected, as
’three officers armed In anticipation of
such an attack were among the passen
gers. That seven men were engaged In
;the crime so successfully carried out
by one, and he a gawky country boy,
seemed to be the impression that night,
And a message so stating was sent by
Governor Stone to the St. T/uila njfl. I
clals. A few hours later—within a day,
at any rate—lt was developed that the
lob was performed by oue man and j
this man Sam Wilson.
’ John Hamilton was the engineer and
A. R. French the fireman of the train,
and their atory, told soon after the rob
bery, wras that shortly after the train
left Pacific they heard a peculiar voice ;
and, turning at the sound, saw a
masked man climbing from the coal
tender Into the cab. This intruder had
a pistol In each hand, one of which
was leveled upon the engineer and the
other upon the fireman. Unissued or
ders that the train be stopped, and the
Injunction was not disregarded. When
the stop was made the men were or
dered to leave the cab and speedily
complied. Hamilton and French were
marched back to the express and bag
gage car, a combination coach, with a
baggageman and an expressman in
charge. Here the robber ordered the
express messenger to open the door of
the car. Getting no reply to his repeat
ed demands that the door be opened,
the robber took from an Inside pocket
a small bundle, from which he man
aged to remove the wrapper, though
still holding his pistols, showing its
contents to be dynamite. There were
three sticks of the explosive, and one
of these was used in forcing an open- j
ing in the*car, the other two being :
carefully returned to his pocket.
Hamilton and French, whom he had
permitted to step a few paces away,
were then summoned to come closer j
and keep pace with him. He struck a
match, but before it could be applied '
tQ the dynamite the wind extinguished
it. This was repeated three times cool
ly and with as much deliberation as
though he were only lighting his pipe.
Finally he managed to light the stick
of dynamite, placing it about two inch
es from the door. The engineer and
fireman, witnesses of this proceeding,
attempted to move away, but the pis
tols came into play, with the command:
“Now, just you wait, boys. You will
have plenty of time to get out of the
way.” When the dynamite exploded
the car door was shattered, and at the
opening appeared Hammel, the express
messenger, and Slmmonds, the bag
gageman, with hands raised. They
were ordered to Jump and so soon as
they alighted upon the ground were
“bunched” with the engineer and fire
man.
The robber’s next move was to climb
into the car. Then he called to the ex
press messenger, commanding him to
enter the car, saying, “I want to use
you.” He forced the messenger to
open the local safe, from which four
sacks, each containing SI,OOO in (di
ver, were taken. These sacks were
thrown out upon the ground, and then
the robber left the car, compelling the
1 engineer to place a sack of the money
upon his shoulder. He Intended to so
take away all of them; but, finding one
of them alone weighed too much and
his escape would be wholly impossible
with all of them, he left the other
three sacks lying upon the ground and
coolly xvalked away.
The next day after the robbery de
; tectives searched the vicinity and In
an adjoining cornfield found nearly 500
silver dollars strewn over the ground,
together with a tag marked “SI,OOO,
May 24.” This tag was on the money
bag taken from the express car. The
money so recovered was taken to St.
Louis and turned over to the officials
of the express company. There was
also found an old valise containing the
mask worn by the robber and a couple
of letters addressed to S. A. Wilson.
This gave the first clew to the possible
Identity of the robber. It was learned
that Sam Wilson had been released
from jail'in Waynesville only a day or
two before the holdup and that a fel
low prisoner said that Wilson had
planned and was planning to rob a
Frisco train at Richland. He answered
the description of tye lone robber,
which turned the attention of the oflb
cers to him, and search for him was
begun.
Wilson was released from the
Waynesville Jail under bond. lie was
charged with felonious assault. Just
before his arrest on that charge it w r as
made known to the officers at Richland
by one of the men who were asked te
take part in the job that Wilson was
preparing to hold up a train there. It
was only the weakening of one of the
gang, Mho gave the plot away, that
prevented the attempt at carrying it
out, the others all learning that they
had been betrayed. They swore posi
tively that the informer manufactured
the story and that there was nothing
In it. In that instance Wilson was the
leader. Dynamite Mas to be used, Wil
son having gone from Richland to Leb
anon, it was afterward learned, to
purchase it for that purpose. The train
which was to be held up arrives at
Richland at midnight. It neither leaves
nor takes express and consequently re
mains there but a few seconds. Wil
son, w'ho lounged about the depot a
great deal, having once been in charge
on the section there, was to send n tel
egram, being an operator, notifying
WHEN THE DYNAMITE EXPLODED THE DOOB
WAS SHATTERED.
the express messenger to be in readi
ness to receive several coops of chick
ens when the train arrived, and when
the messenger opened the door to re
ceive the express Wilson and his ac
complices were to make the raid. One
of the gang gave it away, and the hold
up was abandoned. Wilson, who was
cleared on that charge, was being held
for felonious assault, having fired a fu
sillade into a farmer’s house in order to
draw him outside, when he was to be
robbed, it being known that he had a
large sum of money. Wilson’s father,
Frank M. W T ilson, is a reputable farm
er and by mortgaging his property se
cured bond for his son, who left his ac
customed haunts, not to be heard of
again until taken in charge on Jane 2,
less than a month after his holdup of
the Missouri Pacific train, at the home
of his father, and he admitted to the
officers that he had committed the
crime. He first confided to his father
hia guilt and at the suggestion of his
father sent word to the sheriff saying
where he could be found and that he
desired to surrender. This he did.