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THE CARTERSVILLE NEWS
Volume XXXII.
GEORCIA veterans
MEET NEXT WEEK
Annual Reunion At Fitzger
ald Tuesday.
Tlie auuual reunion of the (ieoi-
Di vision, Uuited Confederate Ve-
will be held next week at
Fitzgerald and that city is making
arrangements towards having one
I the best and most successful re
uuious ever held. The fare from
rartersville will be $5,55 for the
round trip and the A. B. & A. rail
road has been named as the official
route.
p M. B Young camp No. 820 held
t l e ;r regular monthly meeting at
the court house last Saturday morn
ug at eleven o’clock and elected the
fallowing as delegates and alter
uates; Delegates: VV. D. Cleghorn,
D H Freeman, J. C. Herring and R.
I Battle; Alternates; J . J. Calhoun,
K L Griffin, W. S. Bradley and J.
j, Calhoun.
Oue of the most important matters
to come before the camp was that of
holding their annual memorial ser
yioe and it was unanimously decided
to hold same on the 12th day of Sep
tember, which is the second Sunday,
at three o’clock p. m., and arrange
ments will be made at ome to that
effect. It will be held in one of the
churches and all of the lo* and minis
ters will be invited to take part*
Perhaps eight or ten of the veterans
have died since the last memorial
service and their names will be read
out and appropriate remarks made
about each one and tte public are
cordially invited to attend. A com
plete program will be printed in tlie
News at a later date.
A SUICIDE AT ATCO
TUESDAY MORNING
J J. McFarland, In 111 Health
Takes His Life.
Brooding over ili health having
beeD a victim of pellagra and prac
ticHlly an invalid for years, Mr J. J.
McFarland, about 55 years old, sui
cided at hi 9 home at Atco in the e ;r
ly hours of Tuesday morning. He
fired a revolver at himself, one idiot
taking effect and entering the right
temrde while the other two went
wild. He died about six o'clock al
though every effort possible was
made to save him.
He is survived by a wife and six
children. The deceased moved to
Atco about three or four tears ago
from Daltou and his family have
be j n regularly employed in the mill
during their residence there, but on
account of his infirmities lie has
been unable to work for several
years, although be had worked a
g"eat deal in cotton mills during his
life.
Open Meat Market.
Mr. W. A. F elds and son, Max,
have rented the meat market of Mr.
Rjbert Rhea on Wall street and will
open up game for business, next
Monday morning, August 10th.
B h Mr F eld and Max are exper
ienced i. a ket men, Mr. Field for
m rly conducting an establishment
on West Main street for yrnrs and
Mix having been with Shaw's mar
ket for a number of years and their
many friends predict for them much
success. They will handle the best
of meats at all times and sell at low*
est prices.
Big Day At Acworth.
Today is “Home coming Day’ in
o, 'r neighbor city, Acworth, and ar
rangemeDts have been made for en
tertaining a large crowd. This is an
annual event and is looked forward
to with much pleasure every year.
A large crowd will no doubt attend
from this city. There will be a big
game this afternoon between
the strong Acworth and Roswell ball
teams, which will be quite a feature
of the day’s entertainment.
At Miller’s Chapel.
Bey. j, a. Sharp, President of
Harris college, preached a
strong and powerful sermon at Mils
'er’s chapel last Sunday morning to
a large congregation, it being the an
nual Lome coining day.
Holding Meeting At Halls.
Bev. C. A. Allday is conducting an
evangelistic meeting at Linwood
this week
CARTERSVILLE. GEORGIA THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1915.
THE BOND ELECTION.
1 he election on the question of whether the city shall issue bonds for
certain improvements comes off next Saturday, the 14th instant.
1 he registration books closed last Saturday. 390 voters have registered.
It will take a two-thirds vote of the registration for bonds to carry, and,
therefore, it will take 231 votes for the measure to go through.
We regard this bond question as a momentous one and the welfare of
the city for the next few years at least will be affected by the decision of
the people.
We believe that if bonds lose there will be a blighting effect on our
prosperity, how much we may in whatever ways we can endeavor to coun
teract the effects.
1 here never was a time when any city needed an improvement like
we need sewerage now, and if we let this opportunity go by, when will
another like one arise ?
What city government will feel like ordering an election ?
How will the friends of the measure feel like taking it up again and
pushing it with any kind of interest or enthusiasm ?
We will lag in the ruts —aye ! go back and take a place with the slow
est of the sluggard towns that are afraid of progress and care nothingfffo f
things that don’t denote the most primitive conditions.
Some might say, we try to scare up the people about possible or so
called dangers of typhoid fever and other dangerous maladies.
l ake a walk some evening on some of the back streets and hold your
nose and look at the filth, the polluted refuse from the pipes that turn ev
erything going through them into the open diains and then think of how
ean such conditions be and we escape disease.
The smelling committee could have a job as disagreeable as it was
lasting.
The open privy is the breeding place of flies and other health-periling
winged insects, and yet there is no remedy, except a worse system, the
cesspool.
As we would get away from these things with our persons we should
get away from the conditions that continue them with our purpose, our
votes.
We believe it will be a reflection on the city to turn down this bond
proposition. Seriously, we do.
We could have no good reason for so doing, except that we didn’t
need these improvements, and none can say that.
The hard times might deter some from voting for bonds, but they
should not. We are not going to have hard times for good. Better times
are obliged to come sometimes, and when we get our improvements in,
we will feel proud and buoyant and things will go on to our comfort
and our liking.
Some might cry out against bonds on account of supposed expenses
when reason and common sense teach that a sewerage system will take
care of the bond burden out of the new revenues. -
Let us lay away prejudice, if any we have ; let us make a drive for pro
gress; put on sewerage, put on street paving on our prominent thorough
fares, improve our water system, our school grounds and buildings, and,
with what we already have, call Cartersville a city right.
Deprive our city of anyone of its utilities and see what a storm of ob_
jection would arise. We need them all for our well being and to maintain
our standing as a city. If we had sewerage and paved streets we would
feel by them the same as we do by those utilities we now have.
WHAT ABOUT A
CAME OF BASEBAU?
Boys Here Anxious To Pull
One Off On Labor Day.
As all of our neighboring cities,
towns and villages hays been pul
ting good baseball teams into the
field and providing their fans with
plenty of good wholesome recreat
ion during these hot summer months
what is the matter with our talent
getting together and treating us to
a first class game of ball say ou La
bor Day, just for the sake of show
ing the outside world that Carters
ville can always put out a good ball
team. We have the talent here that
could make it interesting for any
contenders and we have been relia
bly informed that if the fans would
like to see a game this seasou aud
are willing to donate a little expense
money, that Marietta, Canton or Ac
worth could probably give us ad af
ternoon’s engagement in the near
future. The Atco diamond or the
old ball park at the transfer yard
couid be utilized all right and so if
the fans will kindly talk it up a bit
there is a strong probability that we
could pull off one more grand old
game of ball. With Bill Bradley,the
veteran keystoner, Bruce Wofford and
Jim Verner, of the old guard; Watt
Vaughan, Ralph Reeves and Pitcher
Hicks, of the younger talent all
“raring to go’’ and a possibility of
Captain “Shorty” Verner and Har
ris Cope again donning their base
ball t< gs If necessary, a team could
be gotten together that would fully
sustain Cartersyille’s prowess on the
diamond. What about It fans it’s
up to you?
Jim Brown Has Busy Day.
Deputy Sheriff James Brown had a
busy day Monday rounding up nine
duskies on charges of drunkenness,
i disorderly conduct and fighting at
public worship Saturday night and
Sunday. He captured two at Row
land Springs, one at Mr. Robert Do
-1 nahoo’s farm, one at Qrassdale, one
at Cassville, two at Aubrey and two
at Mr. Fred Bishop’s on Mr, L. 8.
Munford’s land They are all con
fined Id the county jail and will face
trial at the next term of city court.
Single handed he made all of the ar
rests and brought them to justice.
Adairsville Robbery.
The general merchandise store of
Franklin & Paris at Adairsville was
broken into and robbed last Friday
j night and about $l5O worth of goods
wera stolen, the burglars using a
horse and buggy with which to haul
their loot away.
Bailiff Green of the Adairsville dis
trict in a quiet way worked diligent
ly on the case and on Sunday found
part of the stolen goods and made
two arrests, taking Wylie Bishop
and Fred Grant, two white men liv
ing In the Adairsville district Inio
custody in connection with the cvse.
Fire At Withers Home.
Theflieboysreceivedac.il at 8 10
Tuesday morning to the home of Mr.
Thomas H. Withers on North Ei
win street where a gaso iue stove
was on fire and threa e ed to be
come a serious blaz j . Driver Brad
ley and Hoseman Satterfield made a
quick get-away and were ou the
scene immediately. The stove was
thrown out upon i he ground and the
flames smothered without any dam
age.
Move To Griffin.
Mrs. V. Cam.arata and Mr. and
Mrs. G. H C'arratt left last week for
GrifHu, wliere they will inaae their
future home. Mr, Carratt recently
sold his fruit stand and coulecttoi -
ery store here to Mr. G. A. Ooadou*
of Tifton, and has purchased a busi
ness there, which he and his family
will operate.
Locals Cop Game.
Tile Adairsville second nine of ball
players journeyed down and paid
our boy- a visit Monday afternoon,
i lie locals winning 10 to 3. Lucius
bishop was on ttie mouud with Ben
nie Steinberg baudliug bis slants
which combination proved too much
for the visitoie.
Open New Restaurant.
Mr. W. T. Silvers, of Kennesaw,
aud Mr L rk M. Bishop, of this
city, have opened up a first-class
aud up-to date restaurant and eat
iug house ou Wall street, formerly
occupied by Mr. Bishop’s Ten Cent
S.oie.
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