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VOL. XXVII.
THE FARM AND
' FARM METHODS
How the Lands Should Be Managed to Secure the
Best Results From Different Crops.
Une day last spring I called on
Uncle John and we went into the
field to see his cotton and corn.
Uncle John is a fine, old, conserva
tive farmer, as good and true as men
are made, but he can not help look
ing at things just as he did when he
was a bov, and when he was a boy
farming was done with the plow and
hoe run bs r hard muscle. No one
ever thought of attaching brains to
them. As we entered the field Uncle
John remarked, “You see my stand
is not as good as I wanted. I plant
ed a full bushel of seed and a little
thrown in extra. It was good cot
ton seed; I got it from the gin and
the plants came up thick enough in
most places to raise the crust, but in
some places they did not come up at
all. A good many of the plants died,
though I gave the crop a good hoe
iug and kept the grass out. I be
lieve in clean cultivation, and for
this there is no implement that
quite equals the hoe.”
“My dear Uncle,” I replied, “you
are worth your weight in gold and
if you would change some of your
old methods of raising cotton you
would soon make enough money to
buy yourself and retire from business.
“In view of this unpromising crop
I want to tell you several things
that will be helpful. The world
knows a lot more about plant life
than it di& twenty-five years ago.
“Y our first mistake was that you
did not thoroughly prepare this
land for planting. It should have
been worked until the soil was like
an ash heap, 3 or 4 inches deep.
You did not drain the rows so that
there would be no wet spots, even
with a heavy rain. Look at the
long spaces where there are no
plants. If the soil is properly pre
pared there is little danger that
there will not be moisture enough
fdr the seeds to germinate, but iu
most climates and soils there is
always danger of too much water
in the soil. Standing water is death
to cotton and com.
“Your next mistake was in getting
gin-run seed and planting too many
per acre. If you wanted a clean, vig
orous/and thrifty family, you would
not go and get a lot of gin-run boys
and girls.”
“What do you mean by ‘gin-run
boys and girls?’ ” rather sharply in
terposed Uncle John.
“I mean,’ 1 I replied, “boys and
and girls picked up in the homes of
the orphans, without any knowledge
of their parentage, and you would
not get five times as many as you
intended to raise, judging that
enough of them would die of natural
weakness or consumption or from
other causes to leave the proper
family. Yet that is what you did
with your cotton; but we will talk
more of this another time.
“Pou planted to deep and there
was hardly strength enough in the
little plant to reach the air end it
died before it could draw support
from the soil. The plants were in
the main too crowded. They lacked
food and air. That crust on the
soil should have been broken. It
shuts out the air essential to germi
nation and growth and aids evapor
ation. Delay planting till the
weather is warm Cotton is a trop
ical plant Prepare a fine 3eed bed;
plant shallow—not over 1 inch deep,
if that depth reaches moisure—and
the plants will be up in a few days.
“Run the smoothing harrow two
or three times diagonally across the
rows as soon as the seed is planted
and again when the plants are 2 or
it inches tall. This should be re
peated, removing a tooth from the
harrow and going astride the rows,
as in cultivation, till the plants are 6
inches high. The harrow prunes
the roots a little, which tends to give
the plan a lower and ‘limbier’ habit
of growth; it opens the soil to re
ceive air; it promotes growth and
destroys weeds.
“The hoe is the natural enemy of
the cotton planter. It kills some
weeds, but it finally kiljs the planter
financially, and as generally used it
does not properly air the soil, which
is the chief end of cultivation.
“While the cotton plants are small,
thoroughly work the spaces between
the rows two or three times to a
depth of at least 4 inches. This
leaves a fine seed bed for the roots
to occupy later when they are racing
about to find food and water. All
later cultivation of plants and mid
dles should be shallow—not over an
inch and a half deep. This keeps a
dust mulch, which checks the rising
soil moisture and plant food just at
a depth where there are the most
rootlets to utilize them for plant
growth.
“A plow is the poorest implement
with which to work a cotton crop
that could well be used."’
“Tut! tut!” said Uncle John.
“What you said about the hoe was
bad enough and now you jump on to
the plow. I have used it all my
life and it is a pretty good tool.”
“Yes, you have used it all your life
and you have not averaged a third
of a bale of cotton per acre in all
that period, when on such good land
you should have averaged a bale.
At present prices this is a yearly
loss of S4O per acre, lint and seed
included. You have'SOO acres in cot
ton; your loss is SB,OOO per year.
You have been repeating this for
forty years. Your losses, even at
the lower prices of cotton in former
years, have for that period exceeded
-s£oo,ooo. What have you to show
for it. Some old plows and antiqua
ted hoes; if they have not kept you
poor, they have prevented you from
getting ahead. There is nothing on
The Cartersville News
a farm * hat pays greater dividends
than the best teams and tools.
“Shallow cultivation should be
continued as late as practicable.
On very rich bottom lands after the
plants are thinned to a stand, bar
off on each side if they show too
rapid growth This root-prunes and
checks a tendency to make excessive
stalk. It also gives the plant a hint
that it must commence fruiting.
“What I have said about cotton is
true of corn, only’ corn requires a
deeper seed bed than cotton and
different spacing for the plants.
The cultivation is practically the
same, though local conditions of soil
and climate may require considerable
modification in the treatment of the
corn plant. The experience of the
best farmers must determine this.”
INDUSTRIAL^
Notes of the New Developments Under
Way and Planned for the Near Future.
The Georgia and Alabama Indus :
trial ludex, of Columbus, says in its
regular weekly issue:
“Down on the Georgia coast the
cedars in the low counties and on the
islands fringing the seaboard are to
be reduced to pencils, one of the
largest pencil manufacturing con
cerns in the country having estab
lished a plant at Frederica for the
purpose of cutting the wood to the
proper sizes and lengths to be ship
ped to factories in the North. Up in
Atlanta, Ga„ preparations are being
made to build a #400,000 candy and
cracker factory, which will be the
largest enterprise of its kind in the
Southern States. Down in South
Alabama Mobile is rejoicing over a
#600,000 appropriation from the Fed
eral government for the building of
an elegant postoffice, and Flomaton,
Ala., is preparing to erect a #35,000
hotel. The news from the great min
eral district pf North Alabama fairly
bristles with announcements of re
suming industries and plans to en
large present plants. At Augusta,
Ga., over on the Carolina line, a rep
resentative of Northern capitalists
has secured an option on land on
which it is declared a #1,000,000 hotel
will be built. In middle Georgia
preparations to construct the At
lanta, Griffin and Macon Electric
railway and Americus and Albany
Electric railway, at a cost of millions
of dollars, are in progress, the prom
ise being made that within a year
electric cars will be running between
Macon and the Georgia Capital,
while in middle Alabama the stock
holders of the Birmingham and Gulf
Railway and Navigation Company
have, at a meeting just held, in
creased their capital stock from #4,-
000,000 to #10,000,000 and will pro
ceed with their ambitious plans of es
tablishing electric railways and barge
lines to be operated to the Gulf of
Mexico in connection therewith.*
“The above are simply a few of the
industrial and construction items
and developements of the week, se
lected at random from the reports to
the Industrial Index, showing that
business activity and enterprise con
tinues to assert itself in all sections
of these two great Southern States,
and that the developement of their
wonderful resources of all kinds pro
ceeds steadily.
“During the week fourteen new
corporations applied for charter in
Georgia and Alabama, with aggre
gate minimum capital stock of #403,-
290.
“Among the contruction and in
dustrial items of special interest may
be mentioned the following: Barrel
factory, Port Payne, Ala ; brick and
tiling plant, Milledgeville, Ga.; mar
ble quarry enlargement, Gantt’s, Ala;
#300,000 tobacco enterprize, with
headquarters at Atlanta, Ga.; abat
toir, Augusta, Ga., apartment house,
Birmingham, Ala., churches, Colum
bus, Ga., Huntsville, Ala., and Mo
bile, Ala.-.club house, Savannah, Ga.
depot, Fitzgerald, Ga.; engine house,
Savannah, Ga.; depot, Fitzpatrick,
Ala., hotel, Augusta, Ga., and Leary,
Ga.; school building, Bonito, Ga.,
Camden, Ala., Crawfordville, Ga.,
Dadeville, Ala., Dublin, Ga.,Elyton,
Ala., and Girard, Ala.; sewer exten
sions and street work, Cedartown,
Ga.
“A good many real estate deals are
reported, among them a #67,500 land
sale in Atlanta.
“A great deal of construction work
of a minor character is reported.
People in the towns and villages all
over the two states are taking ad
vantage of the present low price of
building material and are erecting
residences and business buildings.”
WILL BE JUNK 11.
Lecture of Charles Lain and Speech of
Commissioner Found.
The lecture by Charles Lain will
be Wednesday June 10th ami not
Thursday, June 11th as announced.
The board is to be congratulated for
securing Mr. Lain and we expect a
good time next Wednesday night.
Complimentary tickets will be
given the teachers, others will be
charged an admission fee of 25 and
15 cents, proceeds to go to assist the
country schools, securing libraries.
On Thursday night June 11th
Hon. Jere* M Pound t S. 8. C. will
make a public educational address.
I assure you that Prof. Pound will
interest you, 1 urge every citizen in
the county that possibly can to hear
Prof' Pound. He has taken hold of
the school work of the state with a
determination to do something for
our children. He deserves a good
audience from the people of Bartow
and I feel sure we will give him a
full house.
Hesrt Milam C. 8. C.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1908.
THE SCHOOL CENSUS
Illiteracy is on Increase
in Bartow.
TV lull tie Statistic* 'show til Comparisons
of the Census for Two
Diff...nt l’eriotls.
*
The school census of Bartow county
lias just been completed and the
board feeling that the facts shown
by this report should be made public
and realizing that we can only deter
mine wlmt we are doing by compari
son 1 have made a comparison of the
reports of 1903 and 1908.
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Wolf Pen 242 27 i 248 45 7
Stamp Creek. 98 14 | 95 29
Euharlee 549 135 54 , 557 133 125
Salacoa 24 3 34 7 2
Pine Log 450 02 1 505 79 112
Adairsville.. 717 178 91 700 111 87
Cartersville . 771 6 1,171 172 111
Kingston 488 61 44 554 110 65
Emerson 291 53 6 319 43
Taylorsville. &57 47 1 403 183 43
Cassville . . 589 104 26 094 97 111
Iron Hill 158 24 1 182 6 2
Allatoona.. . 234 19 306 34
Sixth 339 32 316 24 5
C’rt’rsvilleCty 888 JO 538 1,012 40 756
Totals 0,190 815 902 fj4o 1,062 f,42ti
Now, if every one will read and
consider these figures carefully you
will notice that we have increased in
school population but that we have
also had an alarming increase in il
literacy. How Jere M. Pound S. S.
C. made the statement that if we had
reduced illiteracy in Georgia during
the past five yfcars as much as we did
the preceding five years the per cent
of illiteracy for the state would be
2 per cent. To look at these figures
show to what extent Bartow county
helped to bring about this desired
gad.
My fellow citizens, I hope a com
parison of these figures will help you
to see that by your carelessness and
indifference you are largely respon
sible for this state of affairs. School
officials and teachers must bear their
part of the blame and must do all in
their power to remedy this deplora
ble state of affairs. But you will
have to do your part if we ever suc
ceed. It is a disgrace to Bartow
county schools, it places a stigma on
her fair reputation as a county for
the fact to go to the world that more
than one-seventh of her school pop
ulation are illiterates especially when
illiterates are all over ten vears of
age.
If it is not time for the good people
of Bartow to wake up on the school
question, lam badly mistaken. And
m} 7 friend do not delude yourself by
saying the negroes are nearly all il
literate for tiie facts will not sustain
you, true they must bear their part
but the ratio is about the same.
It is high time the people of Bar
tow county should leave off striving
for the dollar exclusively and devote
a little more time to the develop
ment of their children, what better
legacy can we leave our children than
a well developed body a trained in
tellect and a saved soul?
In this connection 1 want to say
that of the seven thousand children
in the county only five thousand were
enrolled in our school and only three
thousand were regular attendants.
These facts merely show the indiffer
ence existing on the part of the pa
trons of our various schools.
Fellow citizens 1 expect to throw
my whole life into the betterment of
our school system in Bartow. I ex
pect to and have labored for the best
interest of every child in the county.
I am trying in my feeble way to
arouse interest in our schools and I
ask for your support and co-opera
tion for without it I fai^.
Let us all labor so that when our
next census is taken we will have
wiped this stain of illiteracy from
Bartow’s fair name.
Let our slogan be Better Schools
for Bartow. Henry Milam,
C. S. C.
REV. J. E. BARNARD.
Returns From Successful Evangelical
Work In Florida.
Rev. John E. Barnard returned
last Tuesday from Plant City, Fla.,
where he conducted a ten days re
vival, which resulted in sixty addi*
tions to the Baptist church and
quite a number to the Methodist
church. In all there were about
eighty conversions. This makes
more than 200 conversions in three
meetings conducted by Mr. Barnard
in the last five"weeks.
After spending a few days at home
with his family, Mr. Barnard will
leave Saturday ot this wefek for
Corban Hill, Alabama, where he is
to conduct another revival.
Rev. John E. Barnard will continue
to make Cartersville his home. He
will give all his time to evagelistic
work, making our city his head
quarters.
Mr. Barnard is moving his family
this week into theßest house formally
occupied by Mr. R. L. Griffin.
The Veterans.
P. M. B. Young Camp, No. 820 U.
C. V. will hold its regular monthly
meeting, next Saturday, oth inst, at
II o'clock. Final arrangements for
Birmingham reunion will be per
fected. Fare for round trip $0.30.
This June 4, 1908. •
J. J. Calhoun, A. M. Focte,
Adjutant. Commander.
WE BASE BALL
Next Attraction Cherokee
Indian Team.
Interesting (lames Last Saturday Between
Cartersville Team and
Adairsville.
One of the most interesting games
of ball yet witnessed on the Carters
ville diamond was that played by the
home team with Adairsville last Sat
urday afternoon. There was quite a
large crowd of spectators present,
showing that people are getting more
interested in the national game.
The Adairsville team had a splen
did battery. Paul Dyer, the expert
twirler only let his opponents have
two hits off him. Freeman, who
pitched for Cartersville, also did
some fine work, the visitors getting
only two hits off him.
The same was 2 to 0 in favor of
Cartersville.
Other games from visiting clubs
will be arranged soon, but the great
ball event of the year undoubtedly
will be the coming of the famous
Cherokee Indian club. This is an at
traction which has drawn its thous
ands all over the country. The In
dians will play two games with the
home boys, one in the afternoon and
one at night. The latter will be
played under electric lights and will
be highly spectacular as well as ex
citing. The date is next Monday,
June Bth.
The Grand Rapids, Mich., Post
says of the Indians:
“A 13-inning game was played here
yesterday between Foster Stevens
and Cherokee Indians. Score 1-0 fa
vor of Indians. From the first ball
pitched until the winning run
crossed the plate, it was a great
game of ball and enjoyed by about
1,000 fans, crowd being kept down by
the threatening weather. The Red
Men lived up to all the nice things
said of them in advance notices and
demonstrated themselvss to be one
of the greatest teams that has ever
played in this city, outside of the
league. This game will go down in
local base ball history as one of the
greatest ever played in this city.”
COBB FERGUSON.
Fretty Home Wedding of Fopular Couple
Tuesday Afternoon.
A "juiet but pretty home wjdding
occurred in this city at the home of
the bride’s parents, on Erwin street,
at 5:30 o’clock Tuesday afternoon.
The contracting parties were Miss
Burton Cobb and Mr. George Fergu
son, of Rockmart.
The ceremony took place in the
parlor, which was tastefully dec
orated for the occasion. As Mendels
sohn’s wedding march was played by
Mrs. Edwin Mcßryde the couple en
tered the parlor and took their places
in front of the minister, Rev. George
W. Duval, pastor of the Methodist
church, who pronounced the beauti
ful ceremony that made them man
and wife. After the ceremony the
couple received the warm congratu
lations of their friends.
Fruit punch was then served from
an immense bowl placed iu the hall
presided over by Miss Ethel Cooper.
The bridal couple left on the north
bound W. & A. train, to go to their
future home, Rockmart, by the way
of Dalton.
The bride is a daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. John H. Cobb and is a young
woman possessing ell the best traits
of exalted womanhood. Mr. Fergu
son, the groom is a young business
man who is popular with all who
know him and has a promising fu
ture.
Among the out-of-town visitors to
the Cobb-Ferguson wedding were:
Misses Ethel and Buena Cooper,
Avalon, Ga; Mr. W. F. Ferguson,
Miss Grace Ferguson from Rockmart
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Rogers, Kingston;
Mr. and Mrs. Dansby from Rockmart
Miss Sally and Allie Black from
Rome; Mrs. T. E. Mcßride, Rock
mart and Mr. and Mrs. Jack Cobb,
Atlanta; Mr. Harry Ferguson, Rock
mart; Miss Kathleen Rogers, Kings
ton.
POLITICS.
Various Events of One Kind and Another
Are Booked for the Present Week.
Political activity will continue this
week. Contesting delegations to the
republican national convention will
be given an opportunity to be heard
beginning on Friday, when the na
tion committee will meet in Chicago
to take up the question of contests.
These will be considered in the al
phabetical order of the states and
territories beginning with Alabama.
Six states will hold democratic
state conventions to elect national
delegates to the Denver convention
—Nevada, at Carson City on Monday
Idaho at Twin Falls, Louisiana at
Baton Rouge, and Maryland at Bal
timore on Wednesday, and Utah at
Salt Lake City on Saturday. Dem
ocratic primaries will be held in Vir
ginia on Thursday, and in Georgia
on Thursday.
It is expected that nine-tenths of
the grocery trade of the country will
be represented at the annual conven
tion of the National Wholesale Gro
cers’ association, which will meet at
Atlantic City Wednesday for a three
days’ session. William Judson, of
Grand Rapids, Mich., will preside.
On Saturday the United States
Brewers’ association will meets for
its annual convention in Milwaukee.
Union Missionary Meeting.
The Woman’s Missionary societies
of the Presbytery of Cherokee will
hold a union missionary meeting
here in the Presbyterian church,
beginning, June 24.
Dr. Patton, of Marietta, will be
present and deliver a sermon.
A program will be given later.
THE CLOSING OF OUR
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Program of the Exercises Which Took Place This
Year at Night and at the Tabernacle.
BACK TO THE OLD HOME.
Refreshing Notes From a Fupll Return
ing From Ills School Stndles.
Last Sunday afternoon I returned
to my home on the farm among the
hills of Cedar creek. Being some
what worn out with the closing work
of our school, 1 felt aright smart like
rest. The early evening found me
pleasantly sleeping on my mother's
bed. When I had stretched myself
at full length on that bed, I thought,
now, if any one gets me up from here
any time soon he will be a good ’un.
About four-thirty o'clock Monday
morning I heard that same voice,
that used to call me, say, “boys, time
to get up.” I turned over, gave a
long grunt, but that didn’t do any
good, for it was get up just the same.
When mother had searched the
clean clotnes box, for that’s what I
call it, and the wardrobe for me a
cotton-checked shirt, and a pair of
cotton pants, then it was I realized
that something was yet to happen,
which had not been revealed. Slip
ping into these, very slowly, I made
my way out of the house, going to
ward the barn; as I was approaching
a near by tool house I saw my
younger brother who had been to
feed, and who is far my superior
physically as well as in looks, walk
up to the door and pick up a hoe.
He looked at the hoe and then at me.
1 saw on his face that smile which
plays over a country lad’s face when
Ue's going to get help or it looks like
rain. He said, “Mr. Hoe, let me in
troduce you to my brother who is
fresh Dorn school. I looked at that
hoe with a sad look, but that was
soon over when I found myself out
in the cotton field among the crab
grass and poke.
I don’t mind it much boys for I feel
if I can stand it, it will make a man
of me some day.
I have now come to what I wish to
say to the boys over the county, both
in and out of schqol. It is good for
us boys to take to the field as soon
as we leave school and spend our va
cation there, provided we use good
judgment about getting too hot,
drinking too much water, eating too
much, etc. I would say, do not work
too hard, but I don’t believe there's
any danger of us doing that. Just
here, let me say, there is no place I
enjoy myself so Well as out in the
field, where I can hear the whistle of
the Bob-White, the cawing of the
crow and late in the afternoon the
cry of the Whippoor-Will. The boy
who is kept in town and deprived of
the enjoyment that’s found out in the
country in the humble homes among
the common people is robbed of the
dearest part of his life. Why, even
the picture of nature that’s seen
among hills brings new thoughts,
new plans, new hopes, to the young
mind who is in search of something
better. Let me say again to our
farm boys, love your home, however
humble, and never forget the lessons
of your childhood, among the hills of
dear old Bartow.
If this little sketch finds a place in
the columns of the News, and is in
teresting to any of the boys, I may
come to see you again.
Sincerely,
W. S. A.
MATRIMONIAL.
Miss Smith and Mr. Pittard Married Last
Week at CagMville.
The social event of the season was
the wedding of Mr. Henry Connor
Pittard and Miss Mamie Dunlap
Smith which was solemnized in the
Baptist church. Cassville May, 28 at
8:30 o’clock p. m.
The church was tastefully deco
rated in ferns and magnolias.
The ushers, Messrs. M. O. Crawford
W. 8. Chuun, Prof. J. W. Jackson
and Dr. R. E. Wilson, entered singly
to the strains of Mendelssohn's
wedding march skillfully played by
Miss Gertrude Chunn and stood un
der arches on either side. Next came
the attendants: Miss Gertrude Mil
hollin, Matrons, Mrs. J. W. Jackson,
Mrs. W. R. Layton, Mrs. W. S. Chunn
Mrs. M. O. Crawford and Mrs. R. E.
Wilson who were becomingly attired
in cream net with touches of pink
and carried pink carnations.
The attendants entered alone and
stood in groups of three under a
broad arch on either side of the bride
and groom. Following them came
the bride daintily attired in a lovely
gown of white mull elaborately trim
med with lace and ribbon.
She carried a shower bouquet of
brides roses caught with tulle and
was attended by her sister, Louise,
as maid of honor, who wore a gown
of white with touches of blue and
carried white carnations.
The bride was met at the altar by
the groom who came in with his best
man, Mr. Max Pittard. Standing un
der a central arch of ferns and mag
nolias the solemn vows were taken
which united them for life. The im
pressive ceremony was performed by
Rev. A. J. Buford of Ala.
The bride is the third daughter of
Mr. R. B. Smith and a young woman
whose charming personality has en
deared to her scores of friends
wherever she is known.
The groom is a sterling young bus
iness man of Cartersville and greatly
admired by all who knew him.
Mr. and Mrs. Pittard will make
their home in Cartersville where
their many friends will gladly wel
come them.
The public schools of Cartersville
closed last week. Tuesday morning
was devoted to the examination ex
ercises in the primary and intermed
iate deparmentsof the East and West
side schools respectively. The ex
aminations did credit to both teach
ers and pupils and were very inter
esting to the spectators who at
tended them. These exercises were
held in the school buildings of the
two schools.
Wednesday night occurred the
graduation exercises and these were
conducted at the tabernacle. The
graduating class was composed of
the following: Rosebud Ginn, first
honor; Adelaide Taylor, second honor
Minnie Spence, third honor; Roberta
Wylie, Pearl Hicks —these two won
medals on composition; Bobbie Ver
ner, Lee Covington, John Lewis,
Harold Saxon, Reneau Bradford —
these won prizes for highest scholar
ship.
The rostrum was decorated with
the class colors, old gold and purple.
The exercises were interspersed
with music by the Cartersville Con
cert baud, to which the audience gave
expressions of appreciation by liberal
applause.
The following is the program of
the graduation exercises:
Music Band
Prayer Rev. Geo. W. Duval
Salutatory Miss Adell Taylor
Class History.... Miss Minnie Spence
MUSIC.
Oration—Thought.. .Leon Covington
Class Prophecy. .Miss Roberta Wylie
MUSIC.
Reading—The Sweet Girl Graduate
Miss Bobbie Verner
Oration —The Ideal Citizen
John B. Lewis
MUSIC.
The Last Will and Testament of
Class of 1908 Miss Pearl Hicks
CLASS SONG.
Valedictory Miss Rosebud Ginn
MUSIC.
Delivery of Diplomas and Medals
Mr. Albert Strickland, President
Board of Education.
In the graduating class, universal
interest and expectation of course
culminates, because they are leaving
their studies so soon to enter upon
the responsible duties of life, and the
measure of their attainments is the
measure of their fitness for tUe fu
ture; but Professor Sewell had pre
sided at too many similar occasions
and been too long in service not to
know the situation and tq be master
of the field.
The board of education have
vigitantly fostered the school’s every
interest and the principal and teach
ers have faithfully performed their
part.
Cartersville’s public schools were
never on a better footing than now
and are the pride of our people.
IN MEMORIAM.
Affectionately Inscribed In Memory of Lit
tle Francis W illiam Akerinan.
The hearts of loving parents and
affectionate friends would have de
tained him here even in this dark
cold world, but Jesus called him for
his own. “Suffer the little ones to
come unto me tor of such is the
Kingdom of God.” Sorrowing pa
rents be comforted, you will again
see your darling in the Kingdom of
God. “The Lord gave and He hath
taken away; blessed be the name of
the Lord.”
Francis had snob bright, winsome
ways, the sunshine in the home. He
was taken suddenly ill, only lived a
week and with all the skill of our
best physicians and loving hands
could not be saved, only two years of
age. a bright and interesting child.
But turning from our selfish grief,
let us dry our tears and rejoice that
he has exchanged earth’s miseries
for Heavens glory, and his eyes be
hold the King in his beauty.
Intelligent, winsome, sweet babe,
it is hard to give thee up out of
mother’s arms, but we can only bow
in humble submission to Him who
doeth all things well. He is too wise
to err, He makes no mistakes.
A Friend.
Organ Recital.
There will be an organ recital at
the Sam Jones Memorial church
Tuesday evening, June 9th begin
ning at 8:15.
This recital is a compliment to the
Bartow county Teachers Institute
which will be in session then, and
will be participated in by some of
the most talented musicians of Car-’
tersville.
Mrs. George Aubrey, organist of the
First Presbyterian church, wiM be
the soloist for the occasion. This
alone insures a treat for those who
attend.
The programme for the evening is
as follows:
Vocal solo—Mr. Joseph Calhoun.^
Organ solo.
Male quartett.
Organ solo.
Vocal solo—Mrs. A. B. Cunyus.
Organ solo.
Wilis Honors.
Miss Lizzabel Saxon has returned
from Agnes Scott College, where she
graduated with first honor, and won
the gold medal in mathematics, and
a prize in Latin also winning the“ Fe
llowship,” which means a post-grad
uate course for uext year. Miss
Saxon is one of Cartersville’s bright
est snd most popular young ladies
and her friends congratulate her on
her success.
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