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-}w Series —Vol. Ill—No'46 P/ASONS OF COUNTY TO MEET. KL Cassville Lodge Will Entertain Ma sons of County May 27th. Adairsville Banner. • The county Masonic convention will meet this year with Cassville lodge Friday, May 27th. This mfeeting will be the best in the history of the convention. Hon. M. L. Johnson, of Cassville lodge, will deliver the address of welcome, and the master of the coovention will request some one to respond. This formality will begin a day of informaiity that will be enjoyed by all present. Masonry in the county was never in better condition. The lodges are all alive and doing work. The fraternity now numbers more than 300 members in Bartow, with good officers and regular attending ijiem bers. The advance has for the past year been steady and positive. Cassville’s hospitality is prover bial. and on this occasion will be more pronounced, if possible, than ever. They will, on the day of the convention, be out en masse, and feed the multitude from their abundance, beneath the shade of her historic oaks, with a picnic dinner such as few communities know how to prepare. We bid all Masons who wish to enjoy a day of Masonic rest and instruction to attend. Meyerhardt, Smith, Akin and others will be present, besides work by a selected team will be done. The three principal officers of the convention are Joe P. Bowdoin, Master; L. P. Gaines, S. W.; W. H. Lumpkin, J. W.; W. C- Walton, Cartersville, Secretary. A Great Sensation. There was a big sensation in Leesville, Ind., when V 7. H. Brown of that place, who vras expected to die, had his life saved by Dr. King’s New Discovery for Con sumption. He writes: "I endured insufferable agonies from Asthma, but your New Discovery gave me immediate relief, and soon there after effected a complete cure.” Similar cures of Consumption, Pneumonia, Bronchitis and Grip are numerous. It’s the peerless remedy Tor all throat and lung troubles. Price 50 cents and SI .OO. Guaranteed by Young Bros.’ drag'* store. Trial bottle free. apr Candidates and Their Friends TAKE SPECIAL NOTICE. That during April and May you should keep your liver and blood in good condi tion by a liberal use of those standard remedies. Wordd’s Pills, Word’s Sarsaparilla. Commence their use now. Pills, 20 cents a bottle Sarsapa rilla, 75 cents per bottle. M. F. WORD, The Druggist, THE NEWS AND COL!RANT. ELLEN N TO CARTERSVILLE. Trains From Birmingham to Atlanta Through this City- WILL USE W. & A. TRACK- Tw Trains Dally Will Run Each Wav When Short Link Is Completed. Birmingham News. It is stated in railroad circles that before the end of tie year Birmingham will have two new lines to Atlanta and both will put on passenger trains, making three lines in all direct between Bir mingham and the Georgia city. The Seabord Air Line, as is known, expects to complete the work now going on between Atlanta and Birmingham by the coming fall and ttains will be put on at once. No time is being lost in the work, notwithstanding the appointment of a receiver for one of the larger contracting firms on the w'ork. The other line to Atlanta will be via the Birmingham Mineral to Altoona, in Blount county, thence on the North Alabama Railroad to Attalla, thence Alabama Mineral from Attalla to Duke, thence on East and West, which belongs to the Seaboard, to Cartersville, Ga., and thence to Atlanta on tracks of W. &A.R. R. The last named route, via Altoona, etc., is the property of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company and that company has trackage or wheelage contracts with the Sea board Air Line Railroad over the East and West road to Cartersville, Ga. The work between Altoona and Attalla has been greatly delayed, the job being a more difficult one than was at first thought it would would be. A large tunnel is being constructed and this has had some effect in the delay occasioned. On tomorrow the board of directors of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company is to be in Birmingham. An inspection of the work between Altoona and Attalla will be made, as there is much interest taken in this con struction. It is understood that the directors have considerable concern in this r.ew work and are anxious to see it completed as rapidly as possible. A prominent official of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad in Birmingham did not deny the statements made above that the Louisville and Nashville Railroad would run trains between Bir mingham and Attalla and thence Atlanta. It was stated by men who had heard of the discussion as to the new route into Atlanta that the Louisville and Nashville would have two trains a day in each direction. The schedule would be arranged so as to give the traveling public as much con venience as they could ask for in service between the two points. It is believed that good time can be made on the new route and that a territory would be reached, espec ially between Birmingham and Duke, which can be worked up to the best interest of both sections. With the Southern, Seaboard and Louisville and Nashville Railroad running passenger trains between Birmingham and Atlanta, it is possible that by the first of next year Birmingham and Atlanta will have no less than six trains daily each way. The Puloiteer in Politics- The Rev. Abner Daniel, of Tex as, is a very good type of the po litical pulpiteers that are not only a disgrace to their cloth but a nui sance to the country, says the New Orleans States. In opening the Texas republican convention a few davs ago he said in his prayer: ‘‘One favor, O Lord, we must ask of Thee is don't let your party be defeated this year.” Here we have it announced on the authority of the Rev. Mr. Daniel that the republican is the Lord’s party, but in view of the wholesale stealing which has been going on in the postoffice department, the interior department and other de partments of the government a great many people will be forced to the conclusion that the Lord has found Himself in very bad company. GARTERS VILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1904. DECLAMATION CONTEST. Pupils of High School Contsst for Place. Thirty pupils of the high school contested before a large audience at the opera house last Saturday morning for speaker’s place in the state declamation contest which will take place in Atlanta Friday, May 6th. Those who contested were Lillie Akin, Mary Lou Milner, Susie May Price, Lottie May Menkee, Nellie Menkee, Rebecca Knight, Katie Hannon, Clifford Laramore, Freeman Puckett, J. V. Marshall, Lindsey Fite, Doak Proctor and Frank Matthews. The judges for this occasion were Prof. W. J. Noyes, of Ac worth, Prof. Ralph Newton, of Adairsville, Prof. Jesse Jackson, of Stilesboro, Prof. P. C. Car michael, of Euharlee. All of the contestants did re markably well and in making the announcement that the committee had awarded the speaker’s place to Doak Proctor, Prof Noyes, of Acworth, complimented them very highly upon their recitations and speeches. Doak Proctor, the successful contestant, is a pupil of the second grade of the high school, and his classmates predict for him the same success which captured the medal for Cartersville in the last state contest. THE PRIMARY ELCTION. Heavy Vote Polled Throughout the County Yesterday. The white primary election for state and county officers was held throughout the state yesterday. In Cartersville very little inter est was taken in tie state ticket, but the local candidates and their friends were hard at work around the polls throughout the day, and in a nood natured way pulled for votes. There was no disturbance of any kind and the day passed off very quietly. As the managers do not think they will be able to finish the count until late Thursday evening, The News and Courant will be unable to give the full returns in this issue. The registration lists show thirty-five hundred voters qualified to vote, and the vote throughout the county was heavy. CHE ROKEEPRESBYTE RY. Meets With the Presbyterian Church in Cartersville- The Cherokee Presbytery will meet with the Presbyterian church in Cartersville on Wednesday, April 27th, next week. The Presbytery is composed of all the Presbyterian churches of northw r est Georgia from Cobb to Dcde county, and about forty dele gates will attend the meeting. The first service will be held on Wednesday night and the sessions will continue daily through Satur day. The delegates will be entertain tained at the homes of our people, but the assignments have not yet been made, and we are unable to give the list this week. Everybody is cordially invited to attend these meetings at the church. The English "Society tor the Prevention Consumption” presided over by the Prince of Wales, was recently addressed by Sir William Broadbent, who stated that it v.’as definitely known that every case of consumption began with a germ communicated from some other case. There is no such thing as inherited consumption, but the germ has absolutely to be planted in that weak spot before consump tion can ensue. This ought to comfort thousands of people who have “weak chests” or ‘‘weak lungs.” They are not foreordain ed victims of this dread disease. All that is needed to bid absolute defiance to this deadly scourage, is to be able to strengthen the weak lungs, and build up a strong body. The answer to this need is found in Dr. Pierce’s Medical Discovery. It so purifies the blood and increases the blood supply, that disease is thrown off, and the weak organs are nourished into perfect health, which defies germs of every kind. People, given up bv doctors emaciated, bleeding at the lungs, with obstinate, lingering coughs, are being cured every day by the use of “Goluen Medical Discovery.” It is strictly temperance medicine containing no alcohol, whisky or other intoxicant. MORE COTTON NEEDED. Demand fop Cotton Greater Than thfc Supply at Good Prices. Hon. Richard H. Edmonds, editor of the Manufacturers Record, of Baltimore, in an inter view iu the Atlanta Constitution, on the cotton situation, says: MOKE COTTON NEEDED. "Tile world needs a very great increase in the growth of cotton. The aim of this section should be to raise more cotton and better cot ton tb meet the increasing con sumptive requirements, for it is hardly possible that for some years we shall be able to make a larger crop than is actually needed at good price. We ought to look forward to 15,000.000 bales as a necessity within a few years or else the world will practically face a cotton famine. The cotton question is not sectional only; it is not national only, hut inter national. The measure of a nations’ civilization may be gauged by its cotton goods consumption, and that industry, possibly the greatest in the world, when considered in all its ramifications, would be seriously menaced should Luc growth of the cotton crop not be materially increased during the next few years. Hence the ques tion raised by Sully of a deterior ation of seed and the equally im portant question of how to increase the labor supply are of world-wide interests, These are questions which might very profitably be investigated without regard to cost by the national government. In such an investigation New Eng land and the west are as deeply concerned as the south. The cot ton problem is one fraught with tremendous importance for upon an adequate supply of cotton depends the financial stability of our country and the prosperity of New England and the west as well as the prosperity of the south. HANDLING THE CROP. The attention of the whole south should now center upon increas ing its cotton crop, upon the prob lem of increasing its labor supply by bringing in foreign immigrants, upon improving the quality of the cotton seed, upon the enrichment of the soil hy better methods and upon the better picking, ginning, compressing and handling of cot ton. The great wastage in bad handling, representing a loss of many millions annually to the south, should be done away with. It is folly to cling to the methods a century old, for surely there must be mechanical skill enough in this country to devise some picking machine, some improve ment over the destructive saw gin and some practicable method of baling cotton at the gin house ready for final shipment or e'xport. Here is a field worthy of the energy and skill of the greatest inventors and worthy of the energy and capital of the greatest business leaders of fhe world of commerce and industry. But even then cot ton ought not to sell for less than 10 cents a pound, for Sully and the bull leaders will still give the bears a hard fight and natural conditions are on the bull side ” To Close at Six- We the undersigned merchants do hereby agree to close our re spective places of business at six o’clock p. m. from May ist to Sept. ist. Adair & Webb. * Scheuer Bros H. T. Bradley & Cos. J. W. Vaughan & Cos. Knight Hardware Cos. Lumpkin Bros. Calhoun Bros. Strickland Bros. K. of P. Meeting Notice A regular con vention of Car- tersville Lodge No. 42, Knights^ of Pythias, w'ill be held in the Castle Hall Fri day, April 22nd, 1904, at 7:30 p. m., sharp. Work in 2nd Rank. C. M. Milam, C. C. w. H. WIKLE. K. R. A Thoughtful Man. M. M. Austin, of Winchester, Ind., knew what to do in the hour of need. His wife had such an unusual case of stomach and liver trouble physicians could not help her. He thought of and tried Dr. King’s New Life Pills, and she got relief at once, and was finally cured. Only 25 cents at Young Bros.’ drug store. apr NEW 'SPRING SUITS Young Men r of Taste and / f* >. /a ; Discernment • - will be quick w> appreciate ' lie extreme stylishness > >. he suit shown in th 9 ( ! ture. It is . ; The Royal Sack - ; v thiee-buttnn, full-oheated ,• and broad in the shoulders, V* *• v made in all the popular • 1 twlMly Summer fabrics and in an ttractive yarietv <>l pat- ’ ' - . , . erns. ■ * > /v jv At so low a price as <M 9 CA Lc^PP^rca VD I .vj C. :LS MAKERS * NEW VOM riUIEHE is nothing in the style, ht, fabric or tailoring of this suit J that would suggt st ibe idea that it was “Keadj -made.”--On the other hand there iseverything in the appearance and quality to suggest tin highest class of merchant tailoring. It is art-tailored by Schloss Bros. & Cos, Producers of Distinctive Apparel for Gentlemen. -find Witfi a New Suit you w\nt a straw hat. The styles embrace patterns and designs you don’t find just any where —for Dress 25c to $2.50. Ladles can Be Entertained And Buy successfully in the added lines of last week. New fea tures all the time —style always right—prices positively guaranteed. It’s now silk gloves —in black and white —more silks —crepe cloths—voiles —mouselines —linens skirts— silk petticoats —and increased line of house furnishings. “Drop in and let us talk it oyer.” J. W. VAUGHAN& CO. OatftittetH to Particular Pe*pl, CARTERSVILLE, UA. KEEP AN ON OS IF YOU WANT i Old and Tested Brands FERTILIZERS. Reads Phosphate Co’s Diamond Brands. Aumour & Cos. Hamlet Brands. Tennessee Chemical Cos. Ox Brand. They are too well Gromur ( j kn6wn to com ment on, come and see us we will give you good honest goods at right prices. WHOLESALE MERCANTILE AND COTTON CO. 808 11. McGINNIS, Manager; ADAIR & WEBB The liberality with which the people through out the county have patronized us has stimu lated us to buy more goods and better values than we formerly anticipated. We have a large stock of wool votles in black, blue and champagne, at popular prices. Also a large line of cotton voile, suiting and gingham, that will save you money if you can see them be fore you make your purchases. The new D mTh cloth at 20c per yard. A complete line of men s, boys’ and children’s hats now on sale Come and see them. ADAIR & WEBB Cartersville, Georgia. Old Series—22d Year