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U eW Scries— Vol. IV—No l<;
ICARTERSVILLE
MOVING FORWARD.
[Rev. Sam P. Jones Writes of the City’s Opportuni
ties and Needs—Fine Outlook.
Pittsburg. Pa. March 10th. 1905
[ 'iv ihk Editor of thk Nkws:—l
been thinking for sonic time
■that I would do as you ask, say a few
■tiling through your columns to my
■friends and fellow townsmen.
I The prospects anil possibilities of
■Cartersville are such at this time
■that we are all put under obligations
■to meet the new conditions as well
Ls to realize fully what the old con
ftjtious have been. Bartow' county
■tas ai ways been the banner county
Georgia, in her fertile lands and I
Bjrli mineral resources. We have
leen slow in learning this fact and
Indifferent to the advantages thus
| {forded us. The new splendid court
Bouse; the beautiful new Baptist
■liurch. (All honer to brother Bar
lard and his heroic membership;) the
|roposed new church to be built by
lie Methodists, (work soon to begin,)
|he proposed two new bank build
|igs, the many new residences and
Business houses, the two splendid
|iur mills; the new cotto i factory
|the best I know almost in the south)
|ml above all. the coming into our
|iwit of the great trunk line railroad.
I mean theL. & N., and the proposed
liilroad from Athens to Cartersville,
la Gainesville. A blind man ought
|o see that all these things point to
lards a splendid future for Carters
lille.
| lu view of these facts, I submit a
|w suggestions. First, It is up to
|nr mayor and council to give us
|liree things.
| A sewer system.
| A good lighting plant.
| Splendid macadamized roads.
II Cartersville can affard to bond the
|i t v for a hundred thousand dollars
Bi order that we may have good
■ reets, good lights and a splendid
|-we rage system. If our people could
Hily see what I have so often seen,
Hiat the best investments of any for
Hiy city of any size, is the investment
Hat equips the city w'ith those three
person of means will buy and
|uild in a city that has not these
Hings. We have the best climate,
|ic best water and the best surround
|gs to make a city of twenty-five
Housand people of any place 1 know
| America. We have no rival south
| Dalton or north of Atlanta.
|With the incoming railroads we
Bill soon have the wholesale houses
lltup in our midst. Already I hear
I I ere coming. Brick and stone
ad lime and lu nber can be turned
Ht all around us cheaper than these
| lings can be had almost anywhere.
I The spirit of growth and forward
| iovenient is already on ns. Let all
■ I* 1 kickers and growlers die out or
| [nve out. We are willing to give
I lent room in the country, but no
Huger in our town.
[ I We need anew splendid hotel, or
| e old one thoroughly modernized.
need that better buildings replace
He old ones around the square.
He need that the depot square he
with vitrified brick and every
| teet to the corporate line splendidly
■ aveled or macadamized.
■We need to pull together. We need
H organize for the work we m ast do.
He world is moving; Cartersville
H lls t move or get left behind. If our
| lo ple want to go forward now is the
| |m'. Let's get a move on us.
Yours truly.
# Sam P. JonbS.
Is.
taberaacle meeting begins the
h and closes the 20th of May this
| lll George Stuart will be
I us during all the time of the
llebng. We hope to have Mr. Sea-
Hland Mr. Tillman in song, and
with us in power. Let the good
Hide pray.
Y ours,
B. P. .J.
•D-. O. U, A. M. Notice.
I Uersville Council No. 27 will
[ at Council Hall Tuesday night,
’’h 14, at 7::30 p. m. All officers
Hiiered and members are re
•te(j t 0 be present.
11 ( '. Row a*, Rec. See.
I JoHt< R. Trbppk, Councillor.
t Cotton Seed For Sale.
’} H s Cotton Seed rtood at the
‘ tlieilist for largest yield at the
K's Experiment Station last
I have I>o bushels of these seed
oe at SI.OO per bushel. It will
iP" to plant these seed.
9 Jos. T. Nkkl.
The Cartersville News
SECRETARY TO LEE.
Seventh’s New Congressman Selects Cedar
town Citizen.
Hon. Gordon Lee, the seventh's
new congressman, has selected J)r.
Wm. Bradford, of Cedartown, as
his private secretary. The Cedar
town Standard, of this week occorn
paning the announcement of this
acton of Mr. Lee has a sketch of Dr.
Bradford which we give in part as
follows:
“Dr. Bradford is a native of
Cherokee county, Ala., having been
born there Oct.2sth, 1847. He received
his education at neighborhood school
ami at the Cherokee Wesleyan Insti
tute at Cave Spring, and is a graduate
of the medical department of the
University of Alabama at Mobile. In
1873 he was united in marriage with
Miss Leahnora Walker, of Cave
Spring, and an interesting family of
six children has blessed their union.
"In 187*) Dr. Bradford moved to
Cedartown, and has been a practicing
physician here ever since, with the
exception of seven years spent in
Rome. He has been actively identi
fied with our public and business
interests, serving the city as mayor
and member of the school board.
His active interest in eductional
matters is generally recognized, and
he is now serving as a member of the
board of trustees for the School for
the Deaf at Cave Spring under ap
pointment of Governor Terrell, and
is a member of our county board of
education and a trustee of the Sam
uel Benedict Memorial School. His
service in all these capacities has
been of great value to the educational
interests of this section.
“In fact, Dr. Bradford has always
been an active worker for any cause
which he believed would benefit the
people as whole. Being especially
convinced of the paramount necessity
of white supremacy in the south, he
has been an ardent advocate of the
democracy in politics, and his ser
vices have been in constant demand
for many years. He has served as
a member and as chairman of the
county democratic executive com
mittee, and is now Polk's represen
t itive on the seventh district dem
ocratic executive committee.”
Music Club.
The Music Club will meet with
Mrs. Aubrey and the Misses Aubrey
Saturday, March 18, at 3 o’clock.
The following program will be ren
dered;
Paper on Ancient Music. Miss Ju
lia Foute.
Piano Solo, “Loure from Sd Suite,’
Bach. Miss Wikle.
Paper on Christian Music. Miss
Calhoun.
Vocal Solo from “The Messiah,”
Handel. Mrs. Felton Jones.
Paper on Medieval Music. Miss
Akin.
INCREASES CAPITAL.
Bank of Cartersville Will Bea National
Bank with Greater Capital.
That there is an abundance of
money in the country was forcibly
demonstrated recently when the
Bank of Cartersville undertook to
raise its capital stock from $25,000 to
$50,000, and offered the increase of
$25,000 to the public.
The public was not slow to see a
good thing, and when the time limit
expired $43,000 had been subscribed,
or SIB,OOO more than was needed or
could be supplied.
The Bank of Cartersville will be
changed from a state to a national
bank, and will be known as the Cart
ersville National Bank. Of the 500
shares of stock, all but 31 are owned
by Bartow county people. The bank
starts out in its enlarged capacity
under the most flattering prospects.
It is in the hands of good business
men, and its future success and pros
perity are assured.
Mr. J. S. Leak is president, J. W.
Knight vice-president and C. M.
Milam cashier.
The bank will soon begin the erec
tion of anew modern banking house
on the site of the present building,
and when finished the hank will be
in ample and excellent quarters.
The Woman’s Missionary society
of the Baptist church will have a
week of prayer beginning March 19.
The ladies of the other churches are
cordially invited to meet with them
in this prayer and praise service at
three o'clock every afternoon next
week at the Baptist church.
CARTERSVILLE. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 16, fOo
IN THE OLD TIMES
Rev. Abernathy Tells of
Things of Long Ago.
A PIONEER CITIZEN.
Traveled Three Hundred Miles
Without Crossing a Railroad
—Fording the Streams
‘‘The cold weather has kept me in,
or I would have been down sooner to
settle my subscription,” said Rev.
Bard Abernathy, of Stamp Creek, as
he seated himself in a chair at the
News office on one of the recent
bright days following the belated
blizzard.
“I was one of the first subscribers
to the newspaper in this town” lie
continued. “I took the old Standard
and Express and all of the papers
that have come on after it right
straight along to now, and I can’t
begin to do without your paper, that
is right up to the times.”
“You were among the early set
tlers,” we ventured casually.
“Yes, my father moved here from
Lincoln county, North Carolina in
1835. I was a very young boy at the
time and we came in a wagon across
the country traveling 300 miles and
never crossing a railroad track and
forded nearly all the rivers, as we
found only two or three bridges over
streams on the whole trip.”
“The Indians had just gone and
we could see their bark shanties they
had left about in the woods. There
were only pig trails over most of the
territory around here and human
habitations were far apart.”
“Living near them, you knew the
old Cooper works in their busiest
days?’ we queried.
“Perfectly, perfectly,” he said,
“People from far and near came to
buy these wares and iron before the
war, and during the war a contract
was made with the confederate gov
ernment to supply cannon and can
non balls for the army.”
“What kind of cannon were turned
out at these works?”
“Why, they were a very saucy
looking gun, made <i inch bore and
many of them were turned loose on
the Yankees to their sorrow, I
reckon.”
“Here let me pay you, I might tire
you if I talk longer,” and he drew a
wallet well wound with cords from
his pocket and as he went out at the
door turned his face inward tq finally
ejaculate “send me up some writing
material and I will turn you in a lot
of dots from Macedonia settlement
where lots of Abernathys live.
Capt. Peek Dead.
Capt. Peek, a bi other-in-law of Mrs.
C. A. Trevitt, of this city, died at his
home in Chattanooga, a few days ago.
Mrs. Trevitt was among afflicted rel
atives in Rome when this death oc
curred. Her sister, Mrs. Peek, was
with her and they attended two fune
rals near each other, a brother-in-law
and nephew. The Rome Tribune
says:
“Without warning Capt. Peek was
stricken with a fatal malady and by
telegram the wife w'as notified to
hasten to him, she obeying the call
in a few hours.
“The chilling wings of death seems
outspread above this family and sor
rows thick and fast pitilessly descend
upon them. Two sisters, widowed in
less than a month, three members of
the two families passing away and
two others hovering betw'een life and
death with the fear that any moment
the delicate thread of one life may
snap.”
Rig Reduction.
Mr. L. W. Reeves, who travels for
the Marietta Fertilizer company,
was in Cartersville Monday, and
when asked about the outlook for
the reduction of the cotton acreage
said:
“I am certain, from what I see in
my territory, that the cotton acreage
and the amount of fertilizer used
w'ill be reduced from £2O to 25 per
cent.”
Typewriting and Stenography
When you need stenographic work
or typewriting of any kind, call on
Monroe Neel and Lindsay Forrester,
Bradley building. Quick work and
satisfaction guaranteed. Phone No.
59. tf
Mrs. Fred Gresham had the mis
fortune to fall from her l>ack steps
last week and sprained both ankles
severely.
THE TABERNACLE
Meetings to Be Held This
Year in May.
WILL HOLD A WEEK.
Rev- Geortre Stuart and Other
Prominent Ministers Are Er
pected to Be Present
The tabernacle meeting will open
this year on May 12th and continue
till May 20th.
Rev. G. R. Stewart and other well
known preachers will assist Rev. Sain.
P. Jones in the services. Ample ar
rangements will be made for music
and altogether the service at the tab
ernaele this year will no doubt be as
interesting and productive of results
as any ever held there.
The meeting comes at a time which
will be esj>e<“ : ally pleasant and invit
ing. The heat and dust of the sunir
mer will be avoided and no doubt
the attendance will be very large.
MOVING OF SHOPS.
Seaboard Air Lint to Locale Shops of. Their
System in Atlanta.
Seaboard Air Line shops, now lo
cated at Abbeville, 8. C., and Cedar
town, Ga., will be moved to Atlanta
and consolidated, making the largest,
railroad shops in the sou tlx, with the
possible exception of the shops of
this company at Portsmouth, Va.
The shops will he located near
Howell’s station, and are expected to.
be in full running order some time
in April,
The loeatioirTif these shops in At
lanta luts heroine necessary on ac
count of the extension of the line to
Birmhfgham, making this city the
central jyoirit in the section of the
south. I
It Is expected that in the course of
sixty days a regular through iiassen
>rer schedule will bo put on between
Atlanta and Birmingham. This is not
certain, however, as it is the intention
of the officials not to put on this
through service until the road: bed is
in such condition that a faster sched
ule can be operated with perfect safe
ty. This acton the part of the officials
is to be commended. The road bed is
being surfaced and ballasted, and ev
ery available man is being worked.
Johnson at Carrollton.
Hon. M. L. Johnson, president of
the state association, addressed the
cotton growers at Carrollton last
week. A dispatch says:
“The cotton growers’ convention
met yesterday at the court house.
Hon. M. L. Johnson, president of the
state cotton growers’ convention, ad
dressed the farmers and business
men at 11 o’clock and advised them
to hold their cotton, ruduce their ac
reage and show the world that the
organization means something to the
southern man, and more especially
the cotton grower. H. J. Reaves,
the present representative, also made
an eloquent speech.”
Dr. R. B. Harris left Tuesday even
ing for Scottsville, Ky., where his
brother-in-law, Mr. W. A. Hill, he
learned by telegrnm, had just died.
The death of Mr. Hill was very sud
den and was quite a shock to Dr.
Harris, who will not return home un
der about ten days.
Mr. J. R. Parsons tells of a xvon
derful animal freak at his home in
the way of a calf born absolutely
destitute of either tail or eyes, but
otherwise perfectly formed.
Dr. W. C. Griffin was called to Cal
houn Monday on professional busi
ness.
Dr. W. C. Griffin has been named
by Dr. W. P. Nicholson president of
the Btate Medical Association, to
represent Bartow county at a meet
ing of the association in Atlanta,
•ifinn tc nprfppt u i*rantratuuntfi fur a
*- r • * -
system of county boards of health
for the entire state.
Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Vernon and fam
ily have moved to Cass Btation.
Mayor Bherry McAuley, of Dalton,
was in town Monday on business.
Mr. Logan Vaughan has returned
from Quitman, where he has been
spending several weeks at the bed
side of h's wife, who has been quite
ill. Mrs. Vaughan’s . friends will be
glad to learn that she is very much
improved.
Miss Mildred Thompson entertained
Misses Field and Tumlin, of Carters
ville, Saturday afternoon.—Cobb
County Courier.
NEW CHURCH FUND
IS BEING RAISED.
Building Committee for Methodist House Meeting
with Great Success —Work Starts in April.
THE SOCIAL SIDE.
KARJRIK GAKNKR .JOXai
A walking club has been or
ganized recently, promoted by
Miss Lydie Saxon. They have
had some lovely tramps on these
spring afternoons of the pat few
weeks. Last Wednesday after
noon they walked to McClain and
back, inspecting while there the
beantiful new factory.
We are requested to state that
all those who wish to join these
“walkers”' will be at the court
bowse at 2:30 o’clock on Wednes
day and Saturday afternoons*
The Music Club holds its next
ineetiug with Mrs. G. H. Aubrey,
on Saturday afternoon at 3, o’clock.
Miss Hattie Price returned from
Florida last week. She left
Wednesday for Atlanta ta> visit
luer aunt, Mrs. Alfred Truitt.
A charming little sewing circle
has been formed, and met last
Saturday with Miss Akica. Mrs.
McCafferty read aloud to them in
her lovely manner, whiliethe “roll
ing and whipping” and other
dainty hand work was in. progress.
A sociable “cup o’ tea” was served
at the close of the afternoon.
On Friday morning Miss Laurie
Neel will have as her guests Miss
Marian Dean and Miss Annie
Griffin, from Rome. Miss Neel
entertains with a reception in their
honor on that evening.
Miss Lucia Hicks has returned
from market with many pretty
ideas for the spring and sum
mer millinery. She will not
haye the regulation opening, but
will be ready in about two weeks
to show her stock of exclusive
desigus to all who, call.
It is nearing time to discuss the
Easter bride.
Mrs. M. L. Johnson, who is man
ager of the Massachusetts-Georgia
Federation Model School at Cass
Station,has invited a number of la
dies to be the guests of the school
today (Thursday), to meet Mrs.
Pettit and Mrs. Stone, of Ken
tucky, who have charge of some
extensive social settlement work
in that state. These ladies are
here to study the methods of our
truly “model” school, which is
proving such a success under its
able management. Mrs. Clark has
charge of the industrial depart
ment; Miss Dozier, the literary
department and the assistant teach
er is Miss Milhollin. The school
has an enrollment of 87 pupils,
and the ladies’ guests will have the
opportunity of seeing these chil
dren regularly at A'ork in their
literary, wood work, basketry and
domestic science departments. A
section of tbe cooking class will
prepare and serve a luncheon to
the guests. The ladies invited
from Cartersville are: Mrs. A. O.
Granger, Mrs. A. W. Fite, Mrs. J.
W. Akin, Mrs. W. M. McCafferty,
Mrs. Felton Jones, Mrs. F. W.
Norton, Mrs. J. A. Miller, Mrs.
Lily Bradley, Miss Lucia Hicks,
Miss Rosebud Johnson.
Robert Freeman, who has been
with the Etowah Milling Cos. for
the last four years, has resigned
his position and has gone to Isa
bella, Tenn., to accept a position
with the large Copper, Iron and
Coal Cos., operating the copper
mines at that point.
Mr. W. J. Lewis, of the Dawson
ws, spent Monday in Cartersrille
on business.
Old Series— 2sth Tear
The building oominrtree of the
Method!Htichiwch, headetfby the pas
tor, Rev. G. W. Duval; is pursuing the
work of raising funds for the new
church building and it is expected to
begin the work in April.
80 far seven thousand debars have
been subscribed’and Mr. Duval and
his associates hpe to secure the ad
ditional five thousand 1 (Sellars re
quired during the next two weeks.
The building committee has met
with the greatest (encouragement in
their work and the people- have re
sponded most liberally.
The subscriptions are taken in the
form of notes due in three install
ments, April. 15, June 15, ami Novem
ber Ist.
The committee will ;at an early
date print the subscription list in or
der that the public may be informed
as to the prngness-of the w*uk of se
curing funds. It is expected, bo make
tlie Methodist church one o/the neat
est and most attractive buildings of
its kind in north Georgia, and it is
safe to say that it will be an orna
ment to the city to which Carters
ville’s citizens- ean point with pride.
HOLD THAT COTTON.
So Urges President M. L. Johnson of Cotton
Convention
President M. L. Johnson of the
< ’otton Growers Assocatrron of Geor
gia passed through Cartersville Mon
day on his way to Atlanta,and said to a
Cartkrkvillk Nkws representative;
“1 wish you would urge the farmers
not to sell another bale of cotton. By
holding we have added*sl2.soper bale
to the value of the cotton and if we
will hold! on we can carry the value
up to ten cents. All that is needed is
a determination to stand together.
President Johnson is hard at work
for the success of the organization
and will visit various sections of the
state during the next few weeks.
Fell in a, Tub.
Ttie Rome Tribune tells of the death
ai I'4-months old child of Mr. and Mrs.
R. R. Harrell which fell in a tub of
water at its parents’ home in the Fifth
ward and was drowned.
The child while playing fell off of
the back porch into the tub of water.
The little one's neck was broken by
the fall and when found about half an.
hour after the accident was cold in
death.
The parents did not knew the
child was in any danger and its death
was a great shock to them. Mr. and
Mrs. Harrell live on Spring street and
both were at home when the child
met its death. Mr. Harrell is a railroad
man and for several days has been
confined to his home on account of
illness. Mrs. Harrell has been ill.
Important Notice.
All parties in the city of Curters
ville, subject to a license tax under
the ordinance passed by the mayor
and aldermen of said city for 1905
are requested to call at the council
chamber, register and ]>ay said tax,
which is tiie same as that of 1904, and
which was adopted by the mayor and
aldermen, arid made the license tax
ordinance for the year 1905.
G. W. Waldrup,
Clerk of Council.
This Februrary 21, 1905,
Apple Trees.
G. H. Gilreath has just received a
large consignment of the best varie
ies of apple trees, from one of the
leading nurseries of the country, and
proposes and xvill sell them at reduced
prices.
Mr. John W. Hill, Sr., entertained
eighteen of his friends at dinner last
Sunday, this being his 53r<l birthday.
Miss Lena Walker, of Marietta, is
the guest of friends and relatives.
'I •*>. sf.>n J TAr*/l / 1 af ( 1 u uc SlFuf lAII
iUI99 *uauu v.
was the guest of Miss Maggie Ray
last week.
Mrs. Amanda Spencer is in Chat
tanooga on business.
The Aeworth Post says: The
peaches in this immediate section
have not been injured so far and, un
less we have some killing weather
later, there will be an abundant crop
of peaches and other fruit in the vi
cinity of Aeworth.”
Mr. and Mrs. John G. Simpson will
move soon to Mr. F. G. B. Turner’s
house on Leake street.
Miss Fannie Lewis, of Adairsville,
is visiting her mother. Mrs. J. P.
Lewis.