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VOL. XXIV.
CITY SCHOOLS TO
OPEN NEXT MONDAY
prof. Sewell, New Superintendent, and Bright Corps
of Teachers, Have the Reins.
The fall term of the Cartersville
public schools opens next Monday.
The indications now are that the
attendance will be very large.
The registration books were opened
last Monday and Superintendent
Sewell has been kept busy all the
week entering the names of pupils
and issuing registration tickets.
The teachers are all getting ready
for work and the children seem eager
to begin study. The new superin
tendent has moved to the city and is
entering into his work with intelli
gence and enthusiasm. It will be
interesting to our readers to know
something of Prof. Sewell and the
following facts are presented for
information.
Prof. H. L. Sewell was born and
reared in Cobb county, Georgia.
He is a graduate of the State Uni
versity, having spent three years at
that institution. Since graduation
he has given his life to the profess
ion of teaching. He taught two years
as principal of the Marietta Male
Academy under the supervision of
Prof. J. C. Harris, now of Rome, Ga.
When Prof. Harris was elected
to the superintendency of the Cedar
town public schools, Mr. Sewell went
with with him from Marietta to
Cedartown and taught two years as
principal of Cedartowm high school.
In the fall of 1892, Mr. Harris accepted
the superintendency of the Rome
schools and Mr. Sewell was elected
superintendent of the Cedartown
public schools, which position he
held for twelve years. He resigned
in 1904 and accepted the superinten
dency of the Hogansville public
schools.
At a meeting of the Cartersville
school board last June Prof. Sewell
was unanimously elected to the
superintendency of the Cartersville
public schools. He accepted the
position and will begin with the
opening of the fall term next Mon
day. He has a record of successful
service as a teacher and superintend
ent and will bring to the discharge
of his duties here ripe experience
and a thorough knowledge of meth
ods.
Prof. Sewell married Miss Hattie
Culbreth, who is a relative of Mrs.
J. J. Conner, and is well known in
Bartow county. Mrs. Sewell is a
most cultured and accomplished
woman and was herself a teacher
before her marriage.
The teaching force in the Carters
ville public schools, besides Prof.
Sewell, is composed of the following
well known educators: Mr. Linton
Vincent, Mis Viola Stanford, Mrs.
Osiiieht, Miss Lillian Greene, Miss
Marian Smith, Miss Julia Foute,
Miss Pearl Goodwin and Miss Eva
Happolds. All these were on the
teaching force last year except Mr.
Vincent who takes the place of Miss
Mary Dwelle. Mr. Vincent conies
from Pine Log and is a son of Hon.
C. B. Vincent the well known edu
cator of Pine Log and a brother of
Prof. Verner Vincent the gifted
youngHeacher and writer of Taylors
ville.
With such a superintendent and
such teachers there is no reason why
Cartersville should not have the
Very best school in her history.
The News feels a deep concern for
the successful management of the
Cartersville public schools, and is
sincerely anxious that the best pos
sible results be secured. In order to
secure the best results there must be
sympathetic co-operation and mutual
helpfulness between parents and
teachers. In a recent conversation
with Prof. Sewell he gave expression
to some wise and timely views on
this subject of co-operation. A
synopsis of his talk is here produced
with the hope that it w’ill be read
by every parent in Cartersville, and
in the county as well. Prof. Sewell
said:
“The essential and vital function
of child discipline is the training of
the child in habits of self control and
self direction, a training that pre
pares him to be a self governing
being. Discipline should aim at the
improvement of character, and char
acter is the result of moral control.
It is the sum total of one’s self, esti
mated from the standpoint of right.
“As the school deals with the child
durjng the receptive, the formative,
the most impressible perioa of his
as his moral character in this
4'y stage is a character of sentiment
The Cartersville News
| rather than of reflection, and as his
emotional states determine largely
his intellectual progress, it certainly
follows that there is great responsi
bility and necessity in the co-opera
tion of parent and teacher.
°A boy’s respect for the authority
of the state is determined by his
home and school training. When
the home and the school do their
work well, good citizenship is insured.
‘Train up a child in the way he should
go, and when Ije is old he will not
depart from it,’ has lost none of its
truth by age.
“The school is largely the child’s
world, and proper dealing with
the issues which arises in school
government calls for ability and tact
of high order. Parents should make
the home influences in regard to the
school good. They should be eager
for the advancement and apprecia
tive of the progress of their children.
The disciplinary methods of the
teacher should receive hearty
parental support. Each parent has
a right to demand that his child
shall be trained not only to be
prompt but to be thorough in his
obedience, and he should be care
ful in his demands that his child be
humored and excused from the
irksome regulations of the school.
Let him understand that ‘life is real,
life is earnest,’ and that there is no
easy place in school work or any
where else. If pupils are permitted
to make their own terms, to trifle
with and show disrespect for author
ity; if they are not required to be
prompt and to yield entire subinis
sion to all reasonable demands, they
will build into their characters a
moral looseness that unfits them for
responsible positions in after life.
Where the spirit of disobedience
rules, no effective moral training is
possible. ‘Many an untrained child
learns too late in life that there is a
God in Israel.’
“By the time the child is old
enough to enter school the principle
of obedience to rightful authority
should be thoroughly habitual to him
and the teacher should now unite
with parent in training him
in intelligence, industry, morality,
and benevolence. They should never
forget that the highest.object of their
efforts to educate the child should be
the fullest and most complete devel
opment of its character.
“Tne habit of obedience to right
ful authority is a needful preparation
for civil duties, and is a necessary
condition for the exercise of other
virtues. An efficient system of school
management is said to be the most
potent means ever devised for train
ing our youth for citizenship. It
trains them to think iiji a systematic
way concerning their own conduct
as members of the little school World.
It teaches a patriotism that insists
upon uprightness of conduct in every
walk of life. If this be true, and
parent and teacher finite their efforts
to make school government efficient,
they will reach the nearest approach
possible to the realization of an ideal
manhood and womanhood.”
PROTRACTED MEETING.
Baptists at Taylorsville Enjoy a Suc
cessful Revival Lasting Ten Days.
The protracted services at Taylors
ville Baptist church were in progress
ten days. They closed last Tuesday.
There were six additions to the
church, four by experience and two
by letter.
Rev. L. E. Roberts, of Lumpkin,
Ga., an earnest and eloquent young
minister, assisted in the meeting.
Many pronounced his sermons among
the best they had ever heard.
Rev. Joe Harling, of Smithville,
Texas, also delivered forcible and ef
fective sermons. Taylorsville is his
boyhood home and his family and
his relatives still live here. His
friends are pleased to learn of his
great success in Texas, and their good
wishes will follow him to his adopted
home.
As is well known the Taylorsville
church is one of the strongest in the
county. Rev. A. ,J. Morgan, the
pastor, -who has had charge of this
meeting, is well known to the people
of this county. His earnest sermons
were very much enjoyed by those
who heard them. While there have
been but few additions to the church
during this meeting, the seed which
j has been sown cannot fail to produce
a harvest of good.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 31 1905.
CONNER 1$ PRESIDENT
State Agricultural Society
Puts Him at Its Head.
Compliments Are Thick for the Bar
tow County Agriculturist-Leg
islator—Meeting Best Yet.
The State Agricultural Society at
its meeting in Albany last week
unanimously elected Hon. J. J. Con
ner, of Bartow, as president for the
ensuing year.
The meeting was made up of the
most representative farmers in the
state and was well attended. The
election of Mr. Conner meets the
hearty approval of the state and is a
deserved compliment to a most excel
lent man.
The state papers speak in the most
cordial terms of Mr. Conner and the
section from which he comes. The
Atlanta Constitution, in a leading
editorial says:
“In the selection of Hon. J. J. Con
ner, of Bartow, to be the successor of
Hon. Dudley M. Hughes, the society
has chosen a man who for years has
been closely identified with it and
who possesses eyery qualification for
the high office to which he has been
chosen. Mr. Conner is well and
favorably known to the agriculturists
of Georgia, and his unanimous elec
tion was a tribute well deserved.
“The State Agricultural Society as
an organization is one in which all of
the people, whether interested di
rectly in agriculture or not, have, a
pride. They feel sure that under
President Conner the good work of
the past will be continued, and that
the whole state will, in consequence,
be benefited.”
The Macon Telegraph is equally as
complimentary. It says:
“Mr. Conner conies from one of the
best farming counts in the state—
Bartow. He represents it in the legis
lature. He is, himself, a practical
farmer and has shown in his previous
service as vice-president of the society
a constant devotion to its real objects.
He is a very able man and there
can be no doubt that he will see to it
that there shall be no lapse from the
plane to which it has risen. He
knows quite as well as any other
what the farmers of Georgia need to
do for themselves and it is to be taken
for granted that he will be an aggres
sive leader in that direction.”
Capt. Thos. J. Lyon, who attended
the Albany meeting, and who has
been a member of the society for
thirty-three years, and attended
thirty-two of the thirty-three sessions
of the association during that time,
says the Albany meeting was the
best and most representative ever
heid in the state. Capt. Lyon natu
rally felt complimented that a Bartow
county man was selected for presi
dent of the society and predicts that
Mr. Conner will make the best presi
dent the society has ever had.
All Bartow county is greatly
pleased over Mr. Conner's election
and he is being overwhelmed with
congratulations.
SMITH AT CALHOUN.
. „■ ■ ■
Large Crowd Hears Gubernatoral Can
didate Speak Monday.
Hon. Hoke Smith spoke in Calhoun
last Monday. Several Cartersville j
citizens attended. Mr. W. W. Rob
erts was among the number. He
expressed the opinion to a News
reporter that fifteen hundred men
were in Calhoun that day. Many
Bartow people from the upper end
of the county attended. Mr. Roberts j
says the town was jammed with
people and that there was not room
to hitch the horses.
Mr. Roberts was asked for his
opinion as to the political temper of
the crowd. He gave it as his opinion
that at least four-fiths of those
present were for Hoke Smith. He
said the speech was received with
approval and at times with enthu*
siasm. Mr. Roberts is himself a
Hoke Binith man and said some al
lowance should be made for his opin
ion on that account, but he feels
I sure Gordon and Bartow counties
are strongly for Smith.
Moved to Atlanta.
Mr. Miller H. Gilreath and his two
younger children leave today for At
-1 lanta to reside. Mr. Gilreath will be
located at 190 east Pine street. His
sons, Frank and Miller, have been lo
cated in Atlanta for several years
I and it was a desire to be near them
and have the family near together
that induced Mr. Gilreath to make
the move. He has many friends in
Ckrtersville who sincerely regret to
i lose him as a citizen.
METHODIST REVIVAL
Meetings Under Tent Are
Well Attended.
Impressive Sermons Without Excite
ment That Have Borne Good
Fruits for Religious Cause.
The tent meetings conducted by
Rev. George W. Duval and Rev. Ford
Mcßee continue with increasing in
terest and most gracious results.
The attendance last Sunday and
Sunday was very large and the
crowds during the week are good.
The music is fine and the preaching
is earnest, forceful and spiritual.
Mr. Duval has been At his best and j
Mr, Mcßee has preached some ser
mons of unusual beauty and power.
A special appeal has been made by
both preachers to the young, and
especially to young men, presenting
the reasonableness and practical
value of religion as a controlling and
conlerviug force in life; how it ele
vats, ennobles and beautifies the
holies, aspirations and energies of
yoflng manhood.
Tie sermons and talks at this series
of meetings have all had a practical
tone and have appealed to the reason
and calm judgment of the people.
There has been no excitement and
very little appeal to the emotions.
The sermons have been instructive,
argumentative and educational.
And the people have heard with a
quiet, deep interest that cannot fail
to produce lasting good. In one of
Mr. Duval’s Sermons he said: “Your
religion is your life. It is not a
theory; it is not an abstraction: it is
not a vague, intangible belief. It is
the essence of your being. It is the
thing you live and act. It is a throb
bing, vital reality that appeals
to and calls into action all that is
noble and high and pure in one's
being. Religion is life!”
These earnest talks and practical
serujuas are getting hold of our peo
ple. Mr. Dviyal and Mr. Mcßee are
noble men whose lives are the best
sermons they preach. Our city is
peculiarly blest in her preachers.
The meetings will continue for the
week. All denominations are work
ing together and the religious feeling
in Cartersville is fine just now.
JUDGE BRANHAM.
North Georgia Jurist Celebrates Sev
entieth Birthday.
Judge Joel Branham, of Rome,
celebrated his seventieth birthday in
a very unique way at the Cherokee
hotel in that city last Monday night.
A banquet was served at which
Governor Terrell, Senator Clay,
Judge Bleckley and many distin
guished men and women were pres
ent.
The very unusual feature of the
program was the appointment of a
charming lady guardian, for Judge
Branham in the person of Mrs. La-
Grange Cothran, of Rome, whose
duty it was made to “keep all classes
of unmarried women off her said
ward.” She was also required “to
protect him against the magic power
of the rosebud girls, whether buds
only or buds bursting into bl om;
whether beauty crowned with blue
eyes and golden hair, black eyes and
raven hair, or grey eyes and flaxen
hair.” She was not to allow the gay
and giddy judge of seventy “to gaze
on the arched neck neat foot or trim
ankle of any beautiful girl.”
Amid the giggle and glow of this
very remarkable performance, where
sane and sensible people seem
ed to turn simple for an hour, Judge
Branham delivered himself of a little
speech that is deserving of a place in
one’B scrap book. He said:
“I cannot bear malice. Some of my
family have thought that my lack
of vindictiveness was my greatest
fault, but whether so or not for many
years the sun has not gone down on
my wrath. I love my friends.
‘Every thought,
And look of love which they have
lent to me *
Comes daily through my memory, as
stars
Weary through the dark.’
“Why may not our closing days be
; as happy as Longfellow's, America’s
greatest and sweetest poet. Sur
rounded by his friends his children
and his grandchildren in the serenity
of his age and in the happiness of his
heart he gave us these beautiful lines
typical of his joys:
! ‘Out of the shadows of night,
The world rolls into light;
s It is day break everywhere.’ ”
INVESTIGATING THE
SUGAR HILL MATTER
County Commissioners Pass Order for Dismissal of
Warden Tierce. Carson Appointed.
BEAUTIFUL ADDRESS.
Miss Lumpkin, of South Carolina,
Entertains an Audience.
Miss Elizabeth Lumpkin, of South
Carolina, made a thrillingly eloquent
address at the court house last Mon
day night, her theme being the con
federate soldier.
This address was made for the ben
efit of the confederate monument
fund, in response to an urgent re
quest from the Daughters of the Con
federacy.
The large auditorium of the court
house was well filled with a cultured
and appreciative audience. The
court room was appropriately deco
rated in bunting showing the con
federate colors, and with beautiful
palms, ferns and flowers.
Mrs. Annie Laurie Cunyus sang a
charming solo that calmed and soft
ened the audience. Mr. George H.
Aubrey, in a brief but eloquent ad
dress presented the beautiful and
magnetic South Carolina girl whose
reputation is already national.
Miss Lumpkin has a pleasing face,
a graceful figure and a wonderful
voice. She was received with en
thusiasm. Her address was brief,
consuming in the delivery not over
twenty minutes, but in it was crowd
ed poetry, dialect, sentiment, pa
triotism, history, word painting, and
thrilling, palpitating, soul-stirring
eloquence.
Her voiee rang true and clear, fill
ing the large hall apd thrilling every
hearer. It was wonderful, that voice
of hers. It was womanly and sweet,
yet strong and powerful. It was
tender and pathetic; yet heroic and
far-reaching. Through it ran a note
of pathetic tenderness, swelling as it
progressed into a bugle blast of com
pelling power.
When she suddenly stopped and
sat down there was a moment of
breathless waiting followed by a
burst of applause; then another mo
ment of waiting as if the audience
were hungry for more. The address
was followed by one verse of Dixie,
led by Mrs. Cunyus in her witching
voice of liquid sweetness, the au
dience joining in the chorus, and
breaking into another burst of ap
plause at the close.
It was an evening of rare enjoy
ment and one that will be long re
membered in Cartersville.
JUDGE FITE.
Writes a Card in Reply to Article in
the Dalton Argus.
The following communication has
been sent by Judge Fite to the Dalton
Argus for publication this week. It
was written in response to a card
published in last week's Argus over
the signature of Congressman Gordon
Lee, and in reply to certain editorials
in the Argus:
Cartersville Ga. Aug. 28, IDOS.
Editor Argus: I note in a card hi
the Argus of last week, signed
“Gordon Lee,” commending your
editorial in his interest in the Argus
of the 18th, intstant, the following:
“It is of course possible that as an
original proposition the people of
this district might prefer Fite to me
as a member of congress, but when
the time for choosing came he did
not offer and I was chosen.” It is
true that I did not offer for congress,
and Gordon Lee knows the reason.
I charge that his candidacy, nom
ination and election were the results
a political deal, which he kept secret
from the people, myself and others
who desired to make the race for
congress. This I said to him, in
substance, recently, and he did not
deny it. If he now admits the charge
there Is no issue between him and me
on this point; but if he denies the
charge, then I will prove it, face to
face, before the people.
Respectfully,
A. W. Fitb.
p.S.—I also note the iibelous editori
als in the Argus of last week, and
will attend to you, and the author
of them at the right time and in the
right way. Of course I know that
you are weak and simple minded,
and did not do the writing, but yon
have sense enough to know right
from wrong, and you, as well as the
creature who did the writing, should
be taught a lesson.
A. W. Fite.
The county commissioners held a
special meeting last Monday to con
sider the Sugar Hill convict camp
situation. Every member of the
hoard was present and the session
continued for several hours.
The commissioners seemed to ap
preciate the gravity and importance
of the matter and showed a very ear
nest desire to get the facts and do
full justice to all the parties.
Mr. Joel Hurt, of Atlanta, and his
attorney, Mr. Paul F. Akin, of Car
tersville, appeared before the board
and Mr. Hurt made a full statement
of his position. He expressed a will
ingness and desire to conform in
every possible wuy to the require
ments of law and the wishes of the
county county commissioners in the
management of Sugar Hill camp.
Mr. Hurt said Mr. Warren Tierce,
who had been appointed by the com
missioners, had, ho believed, made a
capable, humane and efficient warden,
and he was very reluctant to believe
that any intentional cruelty had
been shown the convict Liddell, who
recently died at the camp, or that
any law had been knowingly vio
lated by the camp employes in ad
ministering punishment to Liddell.
However, he was anxious to have
the matter fully investigated and if
any wrong had been done, or any
law" violated, he would cheerfully co
operate to have it righted and the
guilty party punished, as he could
not afford to have a cruel or impru
dent man at the camp, and wanted it
well understood that he was as much
opposed to bad treatment of convicts
as the commissioners could possibly
be.
The commissioners gave Mr. Hurt
a patient and considerate hearing
and treated him with courtesy and
kindness. At the conclusion of his
remarks Mr. Akin and Mr. Tierce
made brief statements.
The commissioners then went into
executive session and after deliberat
ing for some time, adopted the fol
lowing order which was spread upon
their minutes and will go into effect
at once.
“Ordered that Mr. J. W. Tierce, the
former warden or superintendent of
the Sugar Hill camp, county convicts,
be and he is hereby suspended as
such superintendent or warden un
til the further order of this court.
“It is ordered further that J. A. Car
son be and he is hereby appoint and
warden and superintendent of said
camp, to discharge the duties of that
office at the pleasure and until the
further order of this board. His
compensation to be paid by the
Georgia Iron and Coal Cos., as pro
vided by their contract. Said J. A.
Carson to be subject to the control
and direction of this court.”
This order was signed by every
member of the board and is under
stood to have been unanimous. Mr.
Carson has been connected with the
camp heretofore and is familiar with
he duties of warden. He is said to
be a quiet, sober, industrious man
and is liked by the convicts, who, it
is said, requested Commissioner Hen
derson to have Mr. Carson appointed.
The commissioners desired it un
derstood that in taking this action,
suspending Mr. Tierce and appoint
ing his successor, they did not in any
way pass upon or express any opinion
as to the guilt or innocence of Mr.
Tierce, who is now under $5,000 bond
to appear before the grand jury to
answer the charge of killing Convict
Liddell.
SHOCKING DEATH.
Wife of Prominent Lawyer in Rome
Shoots Herself Accidentally.
Mrs. Halsted Smith was accident
ally killed at her country home near
Rome last Friday night. After the
family had retired Mrs. Smith heard
some unusual noise about the barn
or chicken yard and went out, with
her pistol in hand, to
She re-entered the house in a few
minutes and in the dark stumbled
over a rug on the floor and was
thrown down. As she fell the pistol
struck something and was exploded
shooting Mrs. Smith through the
forehead, killing her instantly.
All Rome is shocked over tfiis. sud
den and tragic death. Mrs. Smith
was a prominent church and club,
woman and was popular in Rome.
She was the wife of Hon. Halstead
Smith who has for years been ©Jerk
of the city council and attorney for
the city of Rome.
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