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yew Series— Vol. Ill —No *47
FITE AND MADDOX
EASY WINNERS.
Cordon Lee the Nominee for
Congress-
HUTCHENS CARRIES BARTOW.
judea Akin’s Fin* Vote In the
County Likewise Judes Fite’s
—Primary Quiet.
The state and county primary
•election on the 20th passed off very
quietly in Bartow county, with a
very large vote polled. The full
consolidated returns in tabulated
form appear elsewhere in this pa
per.
A peculiar feature of the elec
tion was that there were no very
close contests. Except in the race
for tax receiver, the successful
candidates all received large ma
jorities. vV .C. vV aiton must have
received almost the entire vote
polled, his vote being 2626.
With four candidates in the field,
Judge Akin lacked only about 300
of receiving the entire vote polled,
his vote being 2311. This is a
fine compliment to the judge.
Tnis being Floyd’s time to fur
nish the state senator, no candi
date for that office was voted for.
Judge A. W. Fite received the
very handsome majority of 1069,
which evidences in a signal man
ner the regard his home people
have for him. His and his oppo
nent’s majorities in the contest are
as follows:
Or fitk.
Bartow 1069
Gordon 240
Dade 1 184 —1493
FOR M’CAMY.
Whitfield 249
Murray 183
Catoosa 68 — 500
Fite's majority 993
Judg _• Fite made a masterly race,
and his victory and his fine home
•endorsement are a great gratifica
tion to his friends.
}Col. Sam P. Maddox for solicitor
general ran a fine race and won by
Candidates
and
Their Friends
TAKE SPECIAL NOTICE,
That durinsr April
and May you should
keep your liver and
blood in good condi
tion by a liberal use
of those standard
remedies, >
lordd’s Pills,
Word’s Sarsaparilla.
Commence their use
now. Pills, 20 cents
a bottle ; Sarsapa
rilla, 75 cents per
bottle.
m. f. nil,
The Druggist.
THE NEWS AND COURANT.
a splendid majority. His major
ity in the circuit was 1520,
For congress Hutchens carried
Bartow by a strong majority, a
thing not hoped for by his friends
or dreamed of by his opponents up
to a week before the election. The
tide got turned in Hutchen’s favor,
and no effort could seemingly stay
HON. GORDON LEE,
it. Mr. Lee won out right hand
somely in the district, his majority
being 2198. Out of a full vote of
over 1400 Mr. Lee got every vote
in his own county, Walker, except
45.
The following are the official
majorities in the counties:
FOR LKK.
Catoosa 348
Chattooga 242
Dade 328
Floyd 843
Gordon 286
Murray 9
Paulding 61
Polk 74
Walker 1103—3294
FOR HUTCHENS.
Bartow 759
Cobb 37
Haralson 213
Whitfield 87—1096
Lee’s majority. 2198
The ticket for state house officers
nominated is as follows:
For Governor —Joseph M. Ter
rell.
For Secretary of State —Phillip
Cook.
For State Treasurer —R E. Park.
For Comptroller—William A.
Wright.
A or Attorney-General—John C.
Hart.
For Commissioner of Agriculture
—O. B. Stevens.
For School Commissioner— Jo
seph S. Turner.
For Chief Justice of Supreme
Court —Thomas J. Simmons.
For Associate Justices of Su
preme Court—W. H. Fish, Bev
erly D. Evans, Joseph R. Eatnar.
The Democratic Executive Com
mittee of Bartow county, after a
consolidation of all the returns,
elected the following as delegates
to the state convention in Atlanta,
June i:
Delegates —J. M. Neel, W. H.
Lumpkin, W. M. King, W. A.
Dodd.
Alternates —J- M. Dorsey, J. N.
McKelvey, T. W. Milner, J. S.
Leak.
Representatives from the several
districts meeting for the purpose
named the new executive commit
tee for the ensuing two years. They
are as-follows:
Cartersville —J. S. Leak, J. H.
Wikle.
Adairsville —N. C. Anderson.
Cassville —G. H. Headden.
Kingston—J. N. McKelvey.
Pine Log —Dr. M. D. Stripling.
Allatoona —M. A. McCoy.
Emerson —I. Y. Davis.
Taylorsville—Dr. R. E. Adair.
Wolf Pen —Oscar Haney.
Stamp Creek —J. M. Knight.
Sixth—C, M. Floyd.
Salacoa—W. M. Sewell.
Iron Hill—J. O. Ligon.
Euharlee —J. T. Jolley.
There will be a convention of the
Masons of the seventh district at
Rome, May 4th and sth. The
lodge here will be regularly rep
resented and a number of members
speak of going over.
See our line of China and Jap.
mattings. Save 5 cents per yard
by buying of us. H. T. Bradley
& Cos.
Bartow’s Cotton Crop.
The census bureau at Washing
ton furnishee the following statis
tics of the cotton crop of Bartow
county for the past five years. The
number of five hundred pound
bales for each of the five years is:
1899, 12,540; 1900; 12,572; 1901,
14,288; 1902, 12,215; 1903, 13,149.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL‘4B, 1904,
NEW RAILROAD
TO CARTERSVILLE
Louisville and Nashville to Build
from Wetmore.
ROUTE HAS BEEN SURVEYtO-
Short Line from Knoxville to Bir
mlnuham High Officials Con.
slderlnor the Line.
Surveyors for the Louisville and
Nashville railroad have recently
run a line through Bartow county,
from Wetmore, on the Atlanta,
Knoxville and Northern railroad,
through Cartersville toward At
lanta, and the following, from the
Atlanta Constitution, in regard to
this line, will prove of interest to
the people of this section. The
Constitution says:
“Chairman Harry Walters, of
the Atlantic Coast Line and the
Louisville and Nashville; President
Milton N. Smith, of the Louisville
and Nashville; President J. W.
Thomas, of the Nashville, Chatta
nooga and St- Louis; and J. W.
Thomas, Jr., gene al manager of
the Nashville, Chattanooga and
St Louis, formed a party of diatin
guished visitors who rolled into
Atlanta yesterday iu their private
car.
‘‘The party came here from Ma
rietta over the Western and Atlan
tic after making a tour of inspec
tion of the Louisville and Nash
ville, which was brought to an
end by the inspection of the site
of the proposed freight terminals
of the Louisville and Nashville
and Coast Lina in this city. While
none of the railroad magnates were
willing to talk for publication,
they seem to have enjoyed their
trip, and were especially glad to
meet many of their old friends in
Atlanta.
“And now comes the story again
of the new line from Wetmore to
Dalton and from Wetmore to Cart
ersville, which is given added in
terest by the fact that the magnates
who arrived yesterday are said to
have been giving this matter their
especial attention. As has been
previously reported, the Louisville
and Nashville have been for some
time looking for anew route for
the Atlanta, Knoxville and North
ern, as the present line includes
very heavy grades and is very ex
pensive to operate. The Louisville
and Nashville have already spent
a great deal of money in improv
ing the upper end of the Atlanta,
Knoxville and Northern, but to
get a better grade to Marietta will
practically require the rebuilding
of the line.
“The proposed new line is from
Wetmore to Dalton, anu also from
Wetmore to Cartersville. This
latter route would come directly
through some of the most valuable
districts in Georgia, and would be,
so it is reported, only a little longer
than by the present line and with
comparatively no heavy grades.
“In the proposed line from Wet
more to Dalton the Louisville and
Nashville would get a line from
Knoxville to Chattanooga, 167
miles long, against its present route
of 325 miles via Marietta and as
against 131 by the Southern.
“By the proposed line to Cart
ersville from Wetmore, connecting
with the Seaboard at Cartersville,
the Louisville and Nashville could
run thfougb trains from Knoxville
to Birmingham, and in this way
have an open outlet to and from
both the iron and coal fields of
Alabama and Tennessee.
“While the reporter could get no
confirmation of the story from offi
cials, it was reported that the sur
veys for tne new lines were satis
factory, and that the actual work
of construction would begin very
shortly.’’
white fair millinery day Wednes
day, May 4th. H. T. Bradley &
Cos.
WHITE FAIR SALE.
Saturday, April 30th,
to May 28th
H. T. BRADLEY * CO.
DEAD NEGRO
FOUND IN WOODS.
Skull Cracked with a Heavy Pine
Pole
ABOUT A MILE FROM TOWN.
Unknown Ngr* Man Killed by
Unknown Parties and Left
Where He Fell.
The dead body of a negro man,
apparently about twenty-two or
twenty-three years old, was found
in Leak’s woods, about one mile
from Cartersville toward the river,
last Saturday morning by two boys
who were going fishing.
The boys reported the matter to
some men who were working in
a field near by, and it was by them
reported in town. Coroner Harri
son was sick, and Mr. G. W. Wal
drup, justice of the peace, empan
elled a jury and held an inquest
over the remains.
The body was lying with face
down, and had been dead not more
than fifteen or twenty hours. Near
by was a heavy pine pole, frac
tured about a foot from the end,
and it is supposed that he was
struck over the head with this, as
the skull was cracked, but the skin
was not broken. He had on a blue
shirt and pants, and $7 .36 was
found in his pocket. He was bare
footed, and his cap was lying by
his side. There was no evidence
of a scuffle, as the leaves and
ground around the body were un
disturbed. The pole used by the
murderer was taken from a wagon
road where a causeway was built
across a small ditch.
The body was viewed by several
hundred people, but no on could
identify it, and the jury rendered
the following verdict:
“We, the jurors aforesaid, upon
our oaths, say that the said un
known negro man came to his
death by having been struck on
the head with a pole or some other
blunt instrument, by some person
unknown to this jury.
“W. C. Griffin, Foreman
“J. D. Goode,
“R. w. Landers,
“Aaron Collins,
“A, S. Leak,
“H. J. Galt.”
After the inquest the body was
taken in charge by Mr. J. W.
Jones, undertaker, who kept it
until Sunday afternoon, when it
was buried. Quite a number of
people looked at the body after it
was brought to town, but no one
could identify it, and it was buried
as an unknown.
On Sunday numbers of people
visited the place where the body
was found, and about one hundred
yards from the place one of the
parties found a pair of shoes, socks
and pants. The shoes and socks
were lying together, as if he had
deliberately pulled them off, and
the pants w r ere rolled up in a bun
dle. It will probably never be
known who the negro was or who
killed him.
Notice.
The books for receiving city tax
returns of personal property are
now open at the city council cham
ber. Call early and make your
returns, as the books will remain
open only for thirty days.
The law requires that those
failing to make their returns shall
be double taxed.
G. W. Waldkup,
3t Receiver.
whenever you pay me more for
goods of same quality than sold
elsewhere, you get your money
back, and cost of your trouble.
Vaughan’s.
The great white fair, greatest of
all sales, begins Saturday, April
30th, closes May 28th. H. T.
Bradley & Cos.
Yu Spruit Siil Mi
\rOU thus have a larger as
sortment to select from
and you get longer wear for
the same outlay, with the
added satisfaction of being
among the first to appear in
up-to-date apparei.
The Four Button Sack suit
shown in the picture will
appeal to good dressers who
want to be just a little in
advance of the merchant
tailor’s styles.
It h <s the broad shoulder
and chest effect which gives
a full, substantial appearance
to the wearer without that
stuffed and padded look so
common in other lines of
ready-made clothing.
Think of buVing a suit like
this in any of the popular
spring fabrics
At So Low da-i cy 50
a Price as C p 1
riTHLS i-s an ideal suit for business men who know the value of
X looking prosperous. It is the product 01 the art-tailors of
SCHLOSS BROS. & CO.
whose clothing we handle. We have other lines for other men at
other prices, and while mentioningclothing will say we are selling
twice as many suits and pants as heretofore, the reason, the best
goods at the most conservative price.
The Dry Goods and Shoe Department
keeps its popularity by the arrival of new goods every week. Yon
make a mistake if you do not carefully examine it in every detail.
“Before you buy drop in and let us talk it oyer.”
J.W. VAUGHAN & CO.
Outfitteis to Particular People, CARTERSVILLE, GA.
Masons Elect Their Officers-
Macon, Ga., April 25. The
grand council of Georgia Masons
met here this morning in annual
session, and befoie adjournment
they elected the following officers
for the ensuing year, the only re
maining business being the reports
of committees, etc., which was
largely routine:
Joe T. Greenfield, grand master;
L. w. Burkett, deputy grand mas
ter; T. F. Moody, grand conductor;
w. A. wolihan, grand treasurer and
recorder; T. J. Hammond, grand
captain; w. H. Nurnberger, grand
captain of guard; R. H. Taylor,
grand marshal; J- C. Postell, grand
conductor of council; John R. wil
kinson, grand steward.
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Old Series— 22d Year
Cara From Mr- Gaines-
Editors News and Courant:
I wish to thank you and the good
people of Bartow countv for your
generous support and large vote
given me in the primary election.
I assure you this token of friend
ship and confidence is duly appre
ciated and will ever be held in
grateful remembrance by me.
W'tn best wishes, I am,
Fraternally yours,
Lewis P, Gaines.
Cave, Ga., April 22, 1904.
Millinery opening Wednesday,
May 4th, at Bradley’s.
Do you wear SI.OO overalls? You
save money when you buy ours.
Vaughan’s.