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THE NEWS.
PUBLISHED EVERT THURSDAY Wt
The Cartersville Printing Cos.
D. it. FREEMAN Editor.
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About the only thing we can say about the wea
ther is that it still continues.
The south might make a failure in the saddle
but she wouldn't mind trying it.
Fanaticism is often condemned, yet things can
be conservative to the stagnation point.
Does the talk of a southerner for president mead
that we are really back in thej^ion?
An exchange calls an optimist a man who thinks
he can raise a.garden and chickens on the same
lot ■
A naturalist says a crockodile’s jaw is the most
powerful thing yet. He evidently never encoun
tered the-jaw of the average politician.
The whiskyite in Georgia in a few weeks might
devote himself to the preparation of a work on
“The Disappointments I Have Known.”
If the railroads are not expert dodgers they are
lifcely to catch it somewhat. There are seventv
odd bills aimed at them already introduced in the
legislature. y % rA,' -) h
1/ I I.
If anyone is curious to know the smallest thing
in tb; world they can now be informed. It is the
future bathing suit. Eyerybody knows the ex
tent of the outfit at present and seaside fashion
authorities inform us that it is still to be reduced
in size.
Widen the Streets.
A movement to widen Erwin and other of the
streets of the city has been contemplated and the
matter has at least been mentioned before the city
council. Our city officials could not do a better
thing for Cartersville right now than to widen the
main streets of the town, with possibly one or two
exceptions. It is probably that Main and one or
two others are wide enough, but all the rest of the
streets of the city are t6o narfow and the more
prominent streets should be made wider, and that,
too, when the city is beginning its new growth
and not after the streets are all built up entire,
when it will then be a much greater task.
When Cartersville’s streets were first laid off it
is probable that the authorities then never con
templated that she would ever reach the propor
tion in population and buildings that she has even
up to now, and the signs all are good that the city
will nearly if not quite double herself in growth in
the next ten or twenty years. The fact of being a
good sized city with little pinched up streets there
fore, is seemingly staring us in the face. Most of
our streets will barely admit of the passing of one
vehicle by another. How do we know how long
it will be before we will have electric cars along
our thoroughfares? Then there will be no drive
way, and to attempt to widen the streets then
might mean the moving of many houses compared
to what would have to be done now.
Every town that has a growth to amount to any
thing, where narrow streets pievailed has taken
the precaution to have streets widened before
ing the new building operations were begun. We
remember, twenty years ago, when Cedartown had
many of her streets widened, and her people have
found that it was a wise thiag they did this at the
right time. Capt. A. G. West, a developer of the
true type, opened a broad street of his own and
this became the pattern. Dalton widened some
streets in the years gone, and now everybody is
convinced of the wisdom of it. Other cities have
done likewise.
We say, widen the streets, put the ball in motion.
The movement can not be started any too soon*
The weather is hot, but if Fairbanks would
only come down here. , (
They are talking of directing the automobile by
meanfrof a keyboard. and one of those capi
tal Ihiftsfivfll just about throw the thing in a ditch.
A .newspaper .says* they are raising tea in South
They soibetiaieS raise something over
the name of which does not even begin with “T ”
but with an “H. 11
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A girl in New York found a husband by put
ting her name on an egg. That is reaching mat
rimony by the egg route, which is all right, for
matrimony is verv much like walking on eggs.
In a great many localities they are enforcing
the vagrancy law vigorously. We are glad to say
there are few, if any,vagrants around iu this local
ity. Everybody seems to have something to do
-andis dotng it.
Because ot the pi active of. wnting messages on
the frofat, as well as on the back ot postal oards,
Postmaster General Meyer has promulgated an
order, effective August I, 1907. providing that the
face side of a postal card in ay b * dhTTgu by a ver
tical line placed approximately one thud of the
distance from the end of the paid, the space to
ttip.Mc 'Hi Me line to be u;cy for a ,mVs"te, the
portion to the right to be t e -*odrcssoDly.
Newspapers and Public Men.
Once Senator Morgan was twitied because he
had incurred the anger of President Cleveland.
Mr.Morgan replied:
I was a senator before Mr. Cleveland emerged
from obsoirfity, and will be a senator after he
* retires front office, b
So a Georgia newspaper says when reminded
that it will not get a smile from the new adminis
tration.
The Birmingham Ledger has taken notice of the
above, and very truly says that is the proper posi
tion of a newspaper in regard to the coming and
going of party administrations in all offices. A
newspaper, declares The Ledger, is not a thing of
a day, nor of a campaign, nor of an administration.
It is a permanent force. The newspaper stands
as a guardian of right for the and is mot
swayed in its course because am official climbs into
office dr steps down at the end of his term. There
is no term tor tile newspaper; its work is constant
and men may come and mien may go and some of
them be strong and some weak, but the newspaper
regards them as mere incidents.
A newspaper in its life sees many governors and
many presidents and many senators and many
lesser lights all come and play their parts and re*
tire. How foolish thin the idea, continues our
contemporary, that a newspaper is made or lost be
cause some temporary official frowns or smiles.
No wise newspaper looks to official favo r for its
life.J That were a constant menace to its existence.
A newspaper cannot live long on the tavor of any
official. It can live fofever if it merits the favor
of the people.
A newspaper writes of the induction of a min
into office and tells of his work as he does it, and
it records his retirement and sums up his work
when he has finished, and often, full often, it writes
the obituary notice when it ends his career and
sets the world’s estimate of him when all is done.
An exchange says that an inquirer writing to a
real estate dealer in a certain town, said: "I can
tell more about your town by seeing your paper
than by any other iaformation. If your merchants
are dead and don’t use your paper, I don’t want to
locate in or near it. I’ve had experience with one
town like that, and I’ll dot be caught again if I can
help it.”
The following is from the magazine called Geor
gia:
The extraordinary exhibition of upbuilding
energy that is being manifested in Georgia's
cities at this time, front the largest to the
smallest, is one .of the wonders of this remark
able period of prosperity. We are all the time
reading of the wonderful development of the
south’s resources and of her growth in wealth.
That it isn't mere idle talk is apparent in what
is taking place in Georgia's to\ynss. Is there
one of them that isn’t going ahead with rapid
strides? Is there one of them that isn’t just as
much alive as it is possible for a town to be?
And the growth of all of them is of the solidest
kind. There isn’t one of them that is of mush
room type. i
We can not speak for any of the cities except
Cartersville, but as to this city we can say, she is
forging ahead with all the rapidity that seems pos
sible. There is everything here that a city needs
to build it up, and every agency is at work for her
advancement, unless it is the much needed force,
public spirit, and that will come as a natural con
esquence of the general moving forward.
Discussing electric power and manufactures,
Georgia says:
“Now, there are cotton factories in Georgia get
ting electric power at $7.50 per year. Is there not
a reason for Georgia’s rapid development?
“Iron ore (magnetic) can not be smelted profita
ble in the ordinary blast furnace, but recent tests
show that the electric furnace solves the problem.
Georgia hills are filled with magnetite, now neg
lected because of the abundance of hematite ore
easily handled in the blast furnace.
“When the brainy developers get the north Geor
gia waterfalls harnessed, thus producing an abun
dance of electric low cost power, those magnetite
ores will be developed and gold will literally flow
from the ‘red old hills of Georgia.’
“And then north Georgia will become one of the
greatest manufacturing districts in the country.
“When we are all gone! No! withiu a decade
or 1 even less. Georgia arrived. The present
prosperity wave is not a bubble. The developers
have discovered anew field to exploit and Geor
gia will eclipse the Western Wonders.’ 1
Speaking of the prohibition bill, the Brunswick
News says: “We find no grass in the streets of
Thomasville, Waycross, Cuthbert, Fitzgerald and
other cities now tinder the prohibition law, and.wq
will find none in Brunswick if the bill passes or if
it does not, if we who live in Brunswick will do
our full duty to her.” This is thcispirit.that wins.
No city that has plenty of determination and is
backed by a good couutry should lose heart if there
-are a dozen prohibition bills passed in this state.
Waycross Journal,
There has been more or less sepcuhtlon of late
regarding the races for the judgeship apd solicit
orsbip ol this circuit. As yet nothing has devel
oped. Col. McCatuy, it has been said, might op
sose Judge Fite again, yet this nrav not be true,
and no one else is spoken of in such connection.
Col. TomC. Milner’s frimds have been urging him
to enter the race for the-solicitorship and it is pes
b;e he will be a-eandidate. It looks now like the
race would be between him and. Col. Sam Mad
dox with no other entries. Col. Milner has been
solicitor of the.city ccur - for some time and is con
sidered very efficient. Besides he is quite popu
lar with the people.
THE CARTERSVILLE NEWS, THURSDAY, JULY 23. t 9 0 7.
Checpkee Club and Library Notes;
BY MRS. W. W. DAVES.
The Mary M unford Library
of the
Cherokee Club.
Open every day except Sunday.
Afternoons—2 to 6p. m.
Evenings—B to 9. :30.
Miss Anna F,oute, Librarian.
AMENDMENT TO CHILD LABOR LAW.
,v An appeal to club women of Geor
gia.—A bill to amend the child labor
law by striking out the W-year ex
ception, forbidding work for more
than ten hours a day for children
under Ify and providing for the issu
ing of the certiflajfiis by the teach
ing authorities, has been offered in
the house Igr Seaborn Wright, and in
the senareVbv Hou. J. P. Knight.
Another bill providing for factory
inspection lifts, been offered in the
house by Hop. W. A- Covjngton, and
will be offered in the senate by Sena
tor Knight. Yy'i ' v V;;,'. !
These are very neceessary to the
effective action of the law passed in
1906. .Please try in ex*ert way possi
ble to get the senator apd represen
tative from vour own district to vote
for these bills, and to Influence all
public men in the efillsO of the chil
dren. Urge them to pas these bills
which are sa greatly needed.
No powers of oratory will be nec
cessary to convince men that ten
hours a day is quite long enough for
a child under 16 to work; and every
one knows that, in order to have the
law bear with equal justice on all,
both working children and their em
ployers must have inspectors whose
duty it shall be to see that the pro
visions of the law are obeyed.
Let every Atlanta woman be on
the watch, so that she may be pre
sent in the gallery when the house
and senate act upon these bills.
Caroline D. G. Granger,
Chairman Child Labor.
—Woman’s Club Column, Atlanta
Constitution.
MRS. EVANS’ UNIQUE POSITION.
Mrs. Sarah A. Evans, of Portland.
Ore., is a member of the board of di
rectors of the general federation,
chairman of the press committee of
that body, and president of the Ore
gon federation. She occupies the
! unique position of food inspector for
the city of Portland, where she is
literary editor of The Evening Jour
nal. Mrs, Evans is fitted for this po
sition as a homemaker and one of the
prompters of a state pure food bill.—
Woman’s Club Column, Atlanta Con
stitution. 1,
MRS DECKER’S TOMAHAWK.
Thoefe who attended the Atlantic
city eouucil will recollect that Mrs.
Decker used a sil\ er dollar in lieu of
a gavel. In closing her greeting at
the recent council at Jamestown, she
held up a tomahawk made from a
cutting from a tree in the church
yard at Jamestowu and given to her
hy Mrs. McNeil with whom she had
visited the island a few days before.
This she said would be used in ob
taining order.—Woman’s Club Col
umn, Atlanta Constitution.
GAVEL GIVEIf MRS. DECKER.
Mrs. James D. Whitmore, of Den
ver, president of the Colorado Fed
eration. in behalf of the members of
her federation presented to Mrs.
Decker an ebony gavel with silver
mountings in a design of columbines,
the federation flower and set with an
amethyst, the federation color. On
one side is the insignia of the Gen
eral Federation and on the reverse
that of the donors.—Woman's Club
Column, Atlanta Constitution.
Mrs Oscar T. Peeples, president of
the Cherokee club has returned from
Catoosa Springs.
Mrs. Peeples has called a meeting
of the executive board for Thursday
morning at 5) o’clock at the club room
At this meeting small matters of im
portance will come up and the plan
of work for the next year will be out
lined. i
Miss Jessie Cobb, the efficient
treasurer of the club, whose faithful
work during the past year, helped to
put the club on a stronger financial
basis, begs that the members who
have reciex'ed notices of delinquent
dues will report at once
Miss Cobb leaves in a few days for
an ecx(ended stay at.Cohutta Springs,
and is very anxious to ojose up the
treasurer’s hooks for the past year—
hence ,her appeal to the club mem
bers., n .
Mrs. W. M. MdCaffeHy, chairman
of the Art Committee,is in Gteenfielj
Ohio.
Mrs. M. D. Freeman, Ist vice pres
ident. of the eliib, is at Wrightsville
Beach. ' u
:<<■> ’ . nt it .
"* Mrs. J. A. Miller, chairman of the
Household Economies.is in Atlantic
city,
Mrs. Miller, before leaving, sub
mitted‘her progiamme for next year,
to the president and it is needless to
say that the household economics
seetibn will be one of delight and
interest to the whole club.
Pat Took ths Prize.
An- Englishman, an Irishman and a
Scotchman were one day arguing as to
which bf the three countries possessed
the fastest trains.
“Wc'l?’ srid the Englishman. “I’ve
been in one of our trains, arid the tele
graph p dos-have been like a hedge/’
“I’ve seeiftha milestones appear like
'R.il-1 the Scot.. t
‘ '-V /.Yt-s!” k.,LI rah ;•! tvs* on*
,d>v in tram rV nr cjnntury. nul wo
passed a uehl o. turnips and a field of
carrot?, tits') a fieid of ca'.iMce nod
parsley* then a irend of water, and we
Wore going that qv kk M thought it
was broth!”
FRIDAY r.
SATURDAY.
July 26 and 27
Strouse & Brothers of Baltimore, makers
of HIGH ART CLOTHING will have their
expert cutter at our store to take measures for
your requirements for the coming Fall and
Winter season.
We will display samples of high-grade
novelties in foreign and domestic woolens from
which you can make selections that will please
you and sustain your reputation as one of the
best dressed men.
HIGH ART CLOTHING is guaran
teed to be perfect in fit, superior in workmanship
and pre-eminent in style.
♦
Scheuer Bros,
Cartersville, Ga.
Tie Farmer il Is Banker
This Bank aims to give the farmer just as
good service as it gives any other business man.
Often a farmer can make moey by borrowing; and we
are glad to advance money at any time under fair conditions.
Do not hesitate to call on us when you want money. We
welcome a responsible borrower quite as heartily as a sub
stantial depositor.
It will pay every farmer to carry a checking accouut in
this strong, liberally managed Bank.
Farmral Merchants Ban!
OFFICERS
L. F. SHAW, Pres.
N.M. ADAMS, V-Prcs
G. E. NOLAN, Cashier
Buena Vista Coal Cos.
——OFFICE MU) YARDS —■
\OUTH ERWIN STREET
fill# f .ItiMJ 1 i.1: Sf 'f y U v y_: r ••. V • j .
Will in a short time Consumers will do
have a well equipped well to consult us
Coal and Wood before placing
Urd. orders. ? —-x
Our Specialty in Coal*- the Best that ts Milled.
G~o. S. Cobb ant! Geo. YV. Tinsley
w*|l ha. 2 c'7 re of Off-’ce and Ycrc .
DIRECTORS
Paul F. Akin, Jno. B. Foster,
Jno. P. Adair, Will. W. Young,
J. H. Gilreath, T. F. Jones,
W. O. Henderson, W. H. Field.
