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New Series—Vol. IV—No 13
NATHANIEL LEWIS,
PIONEER, IS DEAD.
Came to Cass County Before Cartersville Was
Tounded and Was Interesting' Talker.
Nathaniel Derry Lewis, who will be
remembered as a pioneer citizen of
Cartersville, died Sunday at noon at
the home of his son, Belton Lewis at
handersville, Miss. He had been vis
iting his son’s home for several weeks
.and was in good health until a very
short time before his death.
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NATHANIEL B. LEWIS
Mr. Lewis was a native of England,
and came to north Georgia long be
fore Cartersville was laid out. He
ran a blacksmith shop at Birmingham,
the hamlet which grew up on the
banks of the Etowah river and was an
intimate Mend of Col. Farish Carter,
the wealthy citizen of Milledgeville,
who owned Carters Quarter, and for
whfnn Cartersville was named.
Mr. Lewis went over to England in
1938 and witnessed the crowning of
Queen Victoria.
Mr. Lewis used to tell in an interest
ing way how this town came to be call
ed Cartersville. Col. Farish Carter,
who passed frequently along the old
Tennessee road between his property
and Carters Quarter and his home in
Milledgeville,stopped one hot summer
day at Mr. Lew is' blacksmith shop at
Birmingham and asked him why he
did not name his town Carters
ville instead of Birmingham. Mr.
Lewis replied that he thought a town
was going to be built further up the
railroad where it was touched by the
Tennessee road, and that if Col. Car
ter would see the folks up there he
did not doubt but that they would
name their town for him. Col. Car
ter. then in a spirit of jest asked the
few citizens who had located here to
call their ’towns' Cartersville in his
honor. The mime was applied more
in the spirit of fun tlidn frtiything
else, but it stuck to thetowm and ('ar
tersville will no doubt remain Car
tersville for all time.
Mr. Lewds was the father of Mrs.
Beab Hicks, of Cartersville, and spent
some time here last fall.
“Beauty and the Beast.”
A treat is in store for the little folk
when the magnificent Drury Lane ,
Theatre spectacular pantomime, j
“The Sleeping Beauty and the Beast",
which ran an entire season at the
Broadway Theatre, New York, comes
to the ft rand Opera House Atlanta
entire week of February 20-(and Mati
nees Saturday and Wednesday.
This production is certainly a dream
of fairyland and there lias been more
money invested in this attraction to
place it "ii the American stage than
.any other similar play the pass de
cade. It broke all records when first
presented in London where great
spectacles are not uncommon, hut
~tbr general verdict in England was
that “The Sleeping Beantv and the
Beast", the Drury Lane pantomime
had eclipsed all previous attempts.
The production cost the American
managers over one hundred t housand
dollars, and in addition to this, they
j-pent upwards of thirty more before
the estravaganiza could he presen
ted in this country. This expense
included the importation of the Eng
lish and French ballet, they so call
“Show Oirls", who are selected beau
ties of the English stage, and all the
scenery, paraphernalia and equip
ment used in the original presen
tation. ‘The Sleeping Beauty and
the Beast” is a big musical extrava
ganza with spoken dialogue, scores
of splendid ballets, such as have
fipytn- been seen before in this eountrj .
laughable specialties and the most
gorgeous scenic display which the
stage has ever known. There are
more than three hundred people
conccerned in the production of
whom two hundred are in the great
spectacle and one hundred are stage
carpenters, electricians machinists
and assistants, and w ardrobe women.
“The Sleeping Beauty and the
Beast is the strongest spectacular
.production ever .imported'from llrurj
)Lane Theatre. Ijondon.
The Cartersville News
MBS. GERE DEAR.
Passes Away at Houie of Her Brother, M.
A. Wheeler, Last Friday.
Mrs. S. R. Gere died at the home of
her brother, Mr. M. A. Wheeler, near
this city, last Friday.
Mrs. Gere was from Auburn, N. ¥.,
and was aged 65 years and 12 days.
It had long been her desire to be
permitted to meet and visit again
her relatives in this southland. In
her feeble state of health the trip
greatly overtaxed her strength, and
the third day after her arrival here
she was strieken with paralysis,
from which she never recovered.
After two months and eight days of
great suffering, she passed away from
earth and earthly ties. She was a
member of the Baptist church and
lived a consistent Christian life.
Possessed of a gentle, quiet nature,
her unselfish devotion to her loved
ones will ever live as a precious mem
ory in hearts now sorely bereaved
REOHK RECITAL CO.
Xext Attraction at Opera, Rare Musical
Combination.
Mr. Felton Loveless, secretary and
treasurer Alkahest Lyceum system of
of Atlanta, spent a few hours in the
city Tuesday morning and booked
the Anderson-Reohr Recital Cos. at
the opera house for Thursday night,
Feb. 9tli.
This is one of the best musicals
handled by a lvceuiu bureau and Car
tersvilie is fortunate in securing this
company.
Signor Piero Gherardi the tenor
with this company sang for three
years with the Savage English Grand
Opera company and Cartersville
music-loving people will have an op
portunity of hearing the very best.
HORRIBLE DEATHS.
Polk Countv Mother Attempts to Save Child
and Both are Burned to Death.
One of the most shocking casualties
that ever occurred in Polk county
transpired about 7 o'clock in the
morning, by which Mrs. Walter
Schliestett and her little four-year
old boy lost their lives, says a Cedar
town special of the 7th to the Con
stitutions.
The husband had gone to the Grady
mines, where he is foreman, and the
wife was attending to the duties of
the household, when the little boy
ran into the room to its mother with
its clothes afire.
Mrs. Schliestett threw' her skirts
around the child to smother out the
blaze, but in her efforts to save her
little one she set her own clothing
afire, and both ware horribly burned.
After extinguishing the fire from
| the child’s clothes, which well nigh
I burned completely up, she ran out of
the house into the yard and rolled
over in the snow and ice in her effort
to put'out the fire of her own cloth
ing.
Her screams brought a near neigh
bor, but the victims had almost every
article of clothing completely burned
from their bodies, and both mother
and child died in agonies a few hours
later.
The family is one of prominence, a
brother having been tax collector oi
this county for four years. Jhe
mother and child w'ere interred this
afternoon in the city cemetery, the
affair being one qf the most distres -
ing and deplorable in the history of
the county.
Funeral of Miss Milner
The body of Miss Annie Milner
accompanied by her brother, Mr.
Thomas Milner, arrived Sunday
morning from Denver and was laid
to rest Sunday afternoon in Oak Jlih
cemetery.
The funeral services were conducted
at the home by Rev. W. A, Cleveland.
Mr. and Mrs, Brown Entertain.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Brown enter
tained with a dinner party on Thurs
day, at their beautiful country home.
Those who enjoyed the hospitality of
Mr. and Mrs. Brown ■were Mr. and
Mrs. E. L. McClain, of Greenfield,
Ohio, Mrs. W. M. McCaffery and
Misses Minnie and Elizabeth Jones,
formerly of Greenfield, the affair be
ing complimentary to Mr. and Mrs.
McClain, who have been spending
the past few days in Cartersville.
Mr. Brown is superintendent of the
magnificent 30,000 spindle cotton mill
ifeecntly completed near this place.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1905
IST SEE FINISH!
Rev, J. E. Barnard to Mis
Cong relation.
VISIT TO LITTLE ROt’K.
Will Stay in Cartersville Until
the New Structure 5 is
Hnished- /
Editor News: Since both my con
gregation and I were protnjentially
hindered from attending church last
Sunday, I could not give my church the
decision J have come to regard to
the urgent and flattering call extended
me by the Immanuel Baptist church,
of Little Rock, Ark., one month ago.
I therefore let my members, through
The News, know the result of my
visit to Little Rock two weeks ago.
My object in making the visit was
threefold. First, To see, if possible
the healthfullness of the locality.
Second, To see what the church had
as a church. Third, To soft what
they wanted to do and the possibilities
of accomplishing what they proposed
doing.
I found that Little Rock is above
the average as to health. I believe
to live there would improve the gen
era! health of my family. Including
the suburbs, Little Rock has 60,000
people and is growing in every par
ticular. Y 5 ;
I found that the church to which 1
have been called as pastor, has near
500 members* it is anew and grow
ing church, composed of new' and
growing families, who live in a new'
and growing part of the city. The
best residences now being built in
the city are going up in the territory
of this church. This church lias a
lot 150x200 feet, on which is located a
nice, elegant eight room pastorium, a
coal, wood, plunder and baggy house •
Their Sunday school is a perfect
“beehive,” I think it is the liveliest
I ever witnessed. The Sunday school
collections are $ 17.00 per Sunday.
The church also has two missions
where Sunday schools are held every
Sunday afternoon, and a prayer meet
ing is held Monday and Tuesday
night of each week. This, in brief,
is what they have.
The following is w hat they propose
to do. They want to establish and
maintain three other missions in the
city% and they have the places w here
they should be established. They w ant
to build a new' forty thousand dol
lar church house. The plans for
this building have been adopted.
There are two men in the churchi
who will give fiye thousand dollars
each to this new hous#. Within the
next five years thpy want to complete
their new' house and build their
Sunday’ school up to one thousand in
attendance, and their church mem
bership to 1500. They have the terri
tory, the people and the money,
with which to do all these things.
The principal thing that they are
looking for now, they say, is a man
of God w'ho is progressive and ag
gressive enough to do these things.
They have done nothing yet tewards
this new building except to adopt
the plans. Notwithstanding these
great things they’ want to do, 1 told
them that there was a duty I owed
to the Baptist church and cause of
Christ in Cartersville.
My conclusion is this: With the
co-oporation of the church 1 have
decided before 1 can leave Carters
ville 1 must see the Baptists
worshiping in their new church house
and my successor on the lield ready
to enter upon his work.
The above is the speech I had in
tended to make to the Baptist church
last Sunday, had w T e lneld our regular
services. Respectfully,
John E. Barnard,
DEATH OF J. W. HEADDES
Ciiizea of Upper Part of the County Passes
Away Tuesday.
Mr. J. W. Headden, whose home
was near Hall’s Station, died last
Tuesday.
He was well known and highly es
teemed. He was a faithful soldier of
the south in the civil war, being a
member of the 18th Georgia regi
ment.
He leaves a wife and one son, J.
W. Headden, Jr- He has three
brothers and one sister surviving
him: John and Ed Headden, of Ten
nessee; Dr. R. B. Headden and Mrs.
Jennie Smith, of Rome; G. H. Head
den, of Cassville, and Walter Head
den, of Florida.
His funeral took place yesterday.
jreat Demand for Houses
in Cartersville.
Enlarge to meet it
Cartersville Lumber Cos. Putting
in Tracks and Building
Warehouses-
That it may meet the growing de
mand for building material in Cart
ersville and vicinity, the Cartersville
Lumber Company will at once greatly
enlarge its plant.
Never before in the history of Cart
ersville was there such a demand for
houses, and the outlook is that many
new ones will be built this year. The
demand for lumber and other kinds
of building material was never
stronger, and the Catsersville Lum
ber Company intends to meet the
situation fully- by properly equipping
its plant and carrying a larger stock
than ever before. They will at once
have constructed over 500 feet of pri
vate railway track, which will extend
from the main line of the Seaboard
to Erwin street. Anew wareroom
22x60 feet will be at once erected,
with platforms along the railroad
tracks. When this new wareroom is
erected the company will have 3,600
square feet of floor space for the stor
age of finished materials.
New machinery wHI be added as
needed, and the plant of the Carters
ville Lumber Company will be fitted
in every way’ to meet the needs of
the public.
Prof. W. W. Daves, who has just
retired from the supflfc-intendency of
the Cartersville public schools, will
have the full management of the lum
ber mills, and will devote bis entire
time to the business.
Stockholders Meeting.
There will be a meeting of the
stockholders of the Bank of Car
tersville and the office of said Bank
in the town of Cartersville at 9 am.,
<v;„ Marc- 1 the 10, 1905, for the purpose
of increasing the capital stock of this
bank and for other purposes.
J. S. Lkak, Pres.
C. M. Milam, Cashier.
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Mrs. Turner.
Mrs. Susie Long Turner was born
in Cherokee county, Ga., in 1861, and
died at her home in Cartersville, Ga.,
January 24th, 1905.
Her maided name was Miss Susie
Long. She was married May 28, 1903
to Rev. H. G. B. Turner, being his
second wife.
Besides her husband, she leaves
two sisters and three brothers and
other relatives.
Sirs. Turner joined the Baptist
church when quite young and lived
the life of a faithful Christian. Asa
neighbor, she was kind and obliging;
as a sister, she w'as affectionate and
gentle, as a wife she was dutiful,
loving and faithful. She looked well
after the ways of her household and
was a helpmeet, indeed, to him who
misses her most. It can be truly said
that a good woman lias gone to her
reward. She went out into the dark
valley of the shadow trusting Him in
whom she believed.
The bereaved ones have the
sympathy of many friends in this
dark hour of trial.
A Fkikxd.
Will Build Bridge.
The project of building a bridge on
the Etowah river either at the Wool
ley ferry or some other point near
Kingston is under consideration be
fore the board of commissioners and
ik likely to be carried out at an early
elate. Such a bridg ? lias been u> - ged
as a great necessity by citizens of that
ifart of the county for some time.
Made a Great Noise.
A large tree in the Akerman grove
broke down yesterday from the enor
mous weight of ice on it and as it
broke to pieces it made a great noise,
heard some distance away.
Mr. W. L. Hillhouse, of Calhoun, is
iti the city.
D. L. Dorroh and W. Yarbrough
i>ent a couple of days in Cartersville
last week. Mr. Dorroh carried down
three bales of cotton, Billy Bellew.
Jr., carried four and George West
carried three. Cotton jumped up a
little and they jumped down.—-Fair
mount cor. Calhoun Times.
Mr. Thomas Lumpkin re
turned from Clinch county. He ef
fected a large land deal in that
county, disposing of over 2,000 acre
of land. 8
THE BLIZZARD HITS
CARTERSVILLE.
One of the Worst Spells of Weather in Many Years
Visits This Section.
AN ACCIDENT.
Leon Shaw Gets Badly Shot Nsar Tay
lorsville Last Saturday.
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While out hunting last Saturday
Leon Shaw, the 15 year old son of
Mrs. ,). E. Shaw, was accidentally
shot by- Herman Davis, son of Mr.
John P. Davis. The wound is a se
rious one, and it is feared by the at
tending physician, Dr. R. E. Adair,
that his leg will have to be ampu
tated. It is to he remembered that
the boy’s father was killed by- a fall
ing tree last February.
Mrs. Shaw has the deepest sympa
thy of her many friends.
Card of Thunks.
We tender our warmest thanks to
kind neighbors for theiraid and sym
pathy during the affliction and at the
death of our son. Especially- do we
thank the Odd Fellow’s lodge for
their tender interest and appreciable
services.
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C. P. Sewkll,
Mrs. C. P. Sewell.
Posco, Ga.
Personals
Mr. L. W. Boyd, of Adairsville, lias
just returned from an extended trip
through Arizona and Colorado. He
says he did not see any country bet
ter than Georgia.
The’many friends of Mrs. W, C.
Walton w’ill regret to learn that she
is critically’ ill.
Ruth Anderson Reohr is a violinist
of great reputation and should play’
to a packed house Thursday night.
Mrs. W. A. Bradley is critically ill
at the home of her daughter, Mrs. E.
Matthews, on Erwin street.
Miss Eula Whitehead has been seri
ously ill for several days at the home
of Mrs. Attaw'ay.
Postmaster S. M. Davis, Calhoun,
died Saturday .afternoon and a lively
scramble has developed after his office
The applicants are Mrs. S. M. Davis,
who was assistant to her husband and
Mr. F. L Dyar.
Miss Nellie Pittard who has been
visiting friends and relatives here and
at Cassville, has returned to her home
at Winterville.
We have not space fora svnopis of
the grand sermon which Rev. T. J.
Christian preached at Ellijay last
Saturday, hut we ask all who ever
have the opportunity to hear him
preacli not to fail to do so. —Ellijay’
Courier.
Cartersville people will be glad to
know that they can hear Sig Piero
Gheiardi, who sang with the Savage
English opera company for three
years. Thursday night with the An
derson Reohr Recital.
At the recent special election held
in Iron Hill district Mr. Coot Martin
w r as elected justice of the peace for
that district.
Hon. M. B. Eubanks, one of the
legal lights of Rome, was in the city
Monday on business.
Mr. Barry Wright, sun of Hon.
Seaborn Wright and a well known
y’oung lawyer of Rome, was in the
city Tuesday.
Wanted—We want copies of tlie
Cautkkhsville News of Nov. 10th
and 17th and will pay a fair price to
any one who brings them tothisoffice.
Miss Ina Cone, of Atlanta, spent
Sunday in the city as the guest of
Mrs. Fred Gresham.
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Wilmer Anderson, the pianist with
the Anderson-Reohr Recital company
has been charming her audiences all
over the south, and will be received
here with pleasure.
Miss Nellie Knight is spending a
short while with Miss Bertha Adams,
at Cedartown.
Next Tuesday is St, Valentine's
Day.
Every one should turn out to hear
the musical Thursday night, Feb. 9th.
This is the best musical ever booked
for Cartersville and those who turn
out will enjoy an evening of pleasure.
Capt. Crawf. Sewell, of Posc-o, spent
Monday in the city. Capt. Sewell is
one of the most valuable citizens of
the county. His many friends sym
pathize deeply with him in the recent
loss of his son, Willie.
Capt. T. J. Lyon left Tuesday for
Macon, where he attended a meeting
of the executive committee of the
State Agricultural society, of which
he is a member.
Old Series—2stli Year
The blizzard which came down
from the north pole and camped in
Georgia last Friday- extending its’
stay far into the present week was
one of the worst streaks of weather
seen in north Georgia in many years.
It began as rain and sleet, changed
to snow then froze into a solid mass,
then sleeted again. After that it
rained and froze again.
Sunday found the world in the
clutches of the winter king. The
trees were covered with ice and qnly
those people ventured out who Were
good skaters. Everybody now is
longing for the springtime and wish
ing for the song of the June bug and
the odor of garden truck.
Yesterday was the limit in severity
and work of all kinds and business
were practically stopped, everybody
who could do so, remaining in doors.
Travel on the roads was very dang
erous the limbs from trees loaded
with an ice coat bending, breaking
and falling to the ground. It was
even so in the city-, many large shade
trees appreciated for their shade in
summer, being mutilated by- the
breaking away of large limbs.
The telephone equipment suffered
no end of damage from broken wires
and dislocated poles ami the service
was badly disturbed.
Telegraph wires and poles suc
cumbed to the weight on them and
the furious wind of Tuesday night
and Wednesday, preventing perfect
communication. Mr. Rogan, the
mail carrier, reported six poles broken
near the ground near the Crenshaw
place.
The mail carriers have been having
a hard time of it but up to yesterday
morning none of them had failed to
travel their routes.
Mr. Robert Hicks, of Rockmart,
spent Sunday with his parents in the
city.
A white man on the construction
work of the L. & N. extension, at the
McConnell hill where the steam
shovel is at w'ork, on Monday, got
his hand mashed almost to a pulp
while coupling cars.
Mr. Oliver York, of Cartersville, is
spending a few' days with his niece,
Mrs. M. W. Murdock, and other rela
tives here. —Marietta Journal.
Prof, A. N. Van Hoose, president
Brenau College,at Gainesville, whites:
“I w'rite merely to state that the con
cert given in our anditorium last
Friday night by the Anderson-Reohr
Company was one of the best ever
given in Gainesville. We were charm
ed and delighted with the persona
lity of the ladies as well as with their
exquisite performance, and while Mr.
Reohr was not with them,his substi
tute, Mr. Gherardi. sang beautifully
and w r e were delighted with his
voice.”
UNTOLD DAMAGES.
Telephone System a Wreck But Will be Swiftly
Put in Order.
I The magnificent Bell Telephone
! system suffered untold damage from
; the effects of the hard weather of the
1 past week. Damage is sustained in
j every quarter where the svstem exists
| and this pedicular locality i> conspi
cuous, for the extent of injuries to the
splendid equipage.
Mr. Marvin McClatchev, the efficient
young manager of the Cartersville
exchange, said yesterday afternoon,
“Our local damage will run up into
the thousands. There are perhaps
forty phones in our local system work
ing at present and tw r o hundred or
more dead for service until our repairs
The damage comes from the falling of
poles and breaking of the line and
connecting wires, caused by the heavy
weight <>f ice and the wind. There
are at least- twenty poles dow r n be
tween here and Rogers and four and
five in a place in a number of places
around the city. We will push re
pairs at the limit of speed and will
have things in shape again at the
earliest possible moment.”
Being deprived of the telephones
for a short while even makes the
users appreciate the accustomed con
venience.
Want to Buy Cotton Gin.
I am in correspondence with a par
ty who wants to buy a cotton gin or
a good location to build one. If you
have anything to offerplease call and
see me or write to me.
John R. Yockh,
Real Estate Agent.
Office over Young Bros.' drug store.