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New Series—Vol. Ill—No 44
STRUCK BY A TRAIN
Terry McGuire Meets Death
While Crossing Track.
At Cement, about four miles
above Kingston, last Friday morn
ing a frightful accident occurred in
which Terry McGuire, a young
man of that locality met a horrible
death.
Mr. McGuire with a wagon
drawn by two mules was driving
out from the Cement works and
started to cioss the railroad.
Havitig to drive around the
depot,that building on one side and
a carload of ties on a switch on the
other entirely obstructed his view
so that he could not see the track
till ready to cross it, and conse
quently was unconscious of the
appioach or the tram.
The south bound passenger
•came thundering down the track
and McGuire had driven his team
too far to back them. The train
was going very rapidly. In an
instant, seeing his plight, he
shouted to the mules, which caused
them to make a plunge. They got
over but left him and the wagon
about the right place to receive the
force of the coming train. McGuire
was thrown fully a bundled feet in
the air and in falling his head
struck a post rigidly secure abdut
three feet high. His skull was
torn open and his brains spattered
over the ground and his body was
terribly bruised and mangled,
affording a horrible sight to those
who viewed him.
His remains were carried to
Halls Saturday afternoon, where
they were interred.
McGuire was a son of John N.
McGuire and an inausinous,w- j.-
young man, possessing many
friends, .who regret the horrible
accident. He leaves a wife and
two children.
WILEY—BROOKS.
Miss Cat lie Wilev, of Marietta, Weds Mr.
El wood W. Brooks, of Emerson.
The marriage of Miss Callie
Wiley, of Marietta, Ga., to Mr.
E. W. Brooks, of Emerson, oc
ean ei at the home of Dr. W. H.
Felton on last Sunday morning at
8 o’clock. The very beautiful and
impressive ceremony was witnessed
by the following party:
Misses Daisy Deweese, Ilee Cot
ton, Nellie Deweese, Mrr. D. H.
Monroe and Messrs. J. M. Jones,
W. H. cellars, C. Gribble and Dr.
D. H. Monroe.
The bride is a beautiful and pop
ular young lady of Marietta, Ga.,
who has spent much of her time at
Emerson.and has won many friends
during her stay who are glad to
know that she will make this her
permanent home. The groom is a
very popular young man of Em
erson, possessing rare business
qualifications, and is to be con
gratulated on the prize he has won.
Mr. and Mrs. Brooks have the
best wishes of their many friends.
K. P. Barbecue.
The barbecue and picnic of the
Cartersvillc Lodge Knights of
Pythias at Shelman Springs; will
occur today. All having baskets
should have them at the depot by
8 o'clock this morning as the train
will leave at 8:30.
Good music has been secured
and will be an appreciable feature
of the day.
A party consisting of H. E.
Young and Master Ragan\oung,
Mrs C. W. Harris and two daugh
ters and son, Jesse Harris, and two
nieces. Misses Fannie and Addie
Harris, left Tuesday for St. Louis,
to take in the world’s fair, they
will be gone ten days or more.
New Percales —to make fall
school dresses —Vaughan s.
‘ Have a fit” its attractive.
THE NEWS AND CO l RANT.
HOME MISSION SOCIETY.
interesting Meeting Monday
Some Coming Events.
The meeting of the Home Mis
sion Society Monday afternoon
was of special interest. The reports
of the last quarter were very good,
and manifested a growing interest
in this great work.
BIBLE STUDY.
Mrs. Freeman gave the bible
reading, and explained how truly
the character of Moses and God’s
dealing with him, the sacrifice and
the convenants foim one of the
most profitable studies in the Old
Testament.
BABY MITE BOX OPENING.
Mrs. Will Satterfield will enter
tain the children pn the baby roll,
and the Florence McEacbern Brig
ade on Friday afternoon from four
to six, August 26.* Mrs. Satterfield
has recently been appointed lady
manager of this department, and is
very anxious for all the children to
meet with her, fully realizing what
great things we may accomplish
through the childreu. All the
children who have mite boxes will
please bring them, those who have
none will receive one that after
noon.
Mrs. C. A Trevitt and Mrs.
Tom Lumpkin were appointed to
look after the cleaning of the
church this month.
Mrs. Mcßee made an earnest
plea for more workers in the Sun
day school, showing the great Deed
of earnest consecrated vu-*
BOOK RECEPTION.
Mrs- Freeman will entertain the
ladies of the church on Friday
afternoon Sept. 2,4, 6. All the
ladies are most earnesly requested
to bring some good book, historic
biographies, fiction with religious
morals, a book that has helped you
in your religious life. These books
will be sent to Mrs. Matthews who
has charge of the traveling library
department of the north Georgia
conference, and was pleaged by
the delegate of this auxiliary at the
convention in Forsyth.
Nannie Hamiter Allday.
D. OF C MEET.
Election of Officers For Ensuing Year Last
Friday.
The Daughters of the Confedera
cy met Friday, August. 19, 1904,
and elected officers for the ensuing
year. The following were chosen:
Mrs. Lila Morgan —President.
Mrs. Patton—Vice President.
Mrs. John W. Akin—2nd Vice
President.
Mrs. Allday—Treasurer.
Miss Eula Whitehead—Record
ing Secretary.
Mrs. Lillie J. Bradley—Corre
sponding Secretary.
Miss Marian Smith—Historian.
On this occasion Miss Laura
Roberts delightfully entertained
the chapter, The treasurer would
be glad if all members would send
in their dues now.
Eula S- Whitehead,
Recording Secretary.
Mr. J. A. Elmore, of Montgom
ery, Ala., spent several days this
week with his wife and son, who
are making a summer sojourn in
the city. Mr. Elmore is a promi
nent young lawyer of Montgom
ery, and also United States com
missioner. Mr. Elmore was ac
companied by his brother, Lieut.
B. M. Elmore, Jr., of the United
States army, of Prattsburgh, N. "V .
Every facility for handling cot
ton to best advantage and highest
market price paid by Wholesale
Mercantile and Cotton Cos. -
Buy Boys Knee Suits at Vaugh
an’s; it pays.
CAKTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY. AUGUST 25. 11)04.
i NARROW ESCAPE.
Mail Carrier Donahoo in
Frightful Runaway.
A MILE OF TERROR.
To Save His Own Life, Kills Horse
by Running It Against
a Tree
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Henry Donahoo, carrier on the
rural free delivery route No. 3 out
trom this city, while going out on
his route Tuesday morning figured
in an unusually dangerous run
away and narrowly escaped a
frightful mangling and possible
death.
When driving by Capt. C- B.
Wallace’s farm Mr. Donahoo over
took some boys going fishing in a
buggy, their poles dangling at
some length from the rear of the
vehicle. He started to pass when at
the rattling noise and the contact
with the poles the horse became
agitated and finally frightened and
after a few plunges forward began
to run away. Despite Mr. Dona
hoo’s best efforts to check the
animal it got entirely beyond his
eontiol, at the wildest speed, gain
ing the top of the hill at Mr. W.
H. Lumpkin’s. Mr. Donahoo ob
served the hold back straps had
been broken, and ready for a
descent of the hill, he knew the
vehicle striking the horse behind
would cause disaster of no telling
how great consequence, and by
presence of mind born of the terror
of desperation,he reined the animal
out of the road. Being unable to
check its speed he directed the
horse straight to a lafge peach
with terrible force and rolled help- \
lessly to one side. The buggy was I
turned over. Mr. Donahoo was
badly stunned but was not other
wise hurt to speak of. He got the
horse up to lead it away when with
a few steps it dropped to the ground,
ai*d in less than ten minutes after
striking the tree, it was dead.
BOUND FOR CHINA.
Rev. Samuel E. Stephens and Wife Are
Visitors in the City.
Rev. Samuel E. Stephens and
wife, of Ball Ground, Ga., have
been in the city several days with
Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Laramore.
They are on their way to China,
where they will go as missionaries,
being sent to that country through
the Southern Baptist Foreign
Mission Board. They will go
from here to Atlanta and thence to
San Francisco to take final passage
for their destination.
They will be located in the north
ern part of China. Mr. Stephens
expects in addition to his religious
labors to establish a school for the
instruction of the natives.
Insurance for Farmers.
Mr. J. F. Hurt representing the
Gordon County Mutual Insurance 1
Company,will be in Bartow county
during the next two weeks. This
company carries insurance to the
amount of $400,000 has al
ways paid all losses promptly
and the annual cost to its policy
holders has been $2 per thousand.
It is conceded to be the best form
of insurance ever offered to farmers
and country people. Mr. Hurt
will be in the 17th district this
week.
On the Ist of September Mr.
James Milam, one of the best
known young dry goods salesmen
in the city, and who is now with
j. W. Vaughau & Cos., will go to
Atlanta, where he will accept a
position with M. Rich Bros. & Cos.
His many friends in CartersviUe
regret to see him leave the city,
but wish him all manner of success
in his new- connection.
More white Canvas Shoes —150
at Vaughan’s.
NINETEEN BAPTIZED
Meeting at Baptist Church
Closed Sunday Night.
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CHURCH WAS PACKED.
Ordinance of Baptism by Immer
sion Administered to
Nineteen Converts-!
One of the largest religious con
gregations that ever assembled in
Cartersville was that at the Bap
tist church last Sunday night. The
meeting which had been in prog
ress two weeks conducted by the
zealous pastor of the church, Rev.
John E. Barnard, came to a close,
and the baptism of the converts of
the meeting had been announced.
The seats were filled long before
the usual hour for service and
there was later only standing room
and finally numbers were left on
the outside.
There were nineteen baptized, all
young people, seven boys and
twelve girls. The ceremony was
very impressive and witnessed with
much interest.
Mr. Cleveland, assisted by Revs.
Christian and Barnard is conduct
ing a meeting this week at the
Second Presbyterian which prom
ises to be fruitful in results.
El H ARLEE INSTITUTE.
Fall Session Opens Monday, the Fifth Day of
September.
This popular school will open
on the sth of September under
charge of Prof. P. S, Carmichael
as priucipal, with practically the
sam* corps of teachers throughout
" c last term.
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rior guidance idVnn<is'tA.iu.
remarkably successful and now
starts out with brighter prospects
than ever before.
The new dormitory is about
completed and will be ready for
use for the coming term.
The people of Euharlee and of
this section should be proud of this
school and give it liberal encour
agement and support.
Opossum Family.
Tax Collector F. V. Smith
brought in from his farm Monday
a great curiosity. It was an old
’possum with her family of twelve
young ones. Finding his dog
barking in a *ood he saw the
object to be the grinning mamma
in a hollow' log. Casting his eye
further, he saw the youngsters
nestled in a bunch. Picking up
the old one by the tail, the young
sters each made a spring and
clung to the parent and thus the
family was transported. It was an
interesting sight, the youngsters
being as large as large rafs and
grinning out from their dozen
heads.
Sunday School Instituted.
A Sunday school has been in-1
stituted at Ascension Episcopal
church with Mr, James B, Smith
as superintendent. Every child in
the city not attending any Sunday
school is invited. Parents belong
ing to this church are asked to
come and bring their children.
Mr. George Montgomery, wife
and son, Robert, are stopping in
the city for a short while, and are
welcomed by their old friends.
They are on their way from An
niston, Ala., which has been their
home for some time, to St. Louis,
where they will locate. Mrs. J. G.
M. Montgomery, who will live
with them, with her granddaugh
ter, has already gone on to St.
Louis.
Take SI.OO and get the longest
1 apron—fullest leg—hairiest mate
rial-best fitting Overall made—
Carhart’s at Vaughan’s only.
“Have a fit”—it will pay.
OCHRE MILL IS BURNED
Cherokee Oehre and Barytes Cos.
Plant Consumed.
THE STATESBORO BURNING
The Recent Unfortunate Affair Conserva
tively and Sanelv Treated.
Editor News and Courant: It is
certainly unfortunate that the peo
ple at Statesboro did not permit
the law to take its course with the
brutes who murdered the Hodges
family, but the parading by the
daily papers in conspicuous col
umns and glowing head-lines over
and over this shocking affair cer
tainly does not make matters any
better, and simply changes the
public view from the dastardly
murder of this innocent family,
and creates sympathy for the dev
ilish brutes who did it.
We do not believe in mob law,
and are not trying to defeud it; but j
we do believe that the spirit that
prevails in some parts 01 our coun-!
try to want to regulate the affairs
of other communities is a very
dangerous one. This same spirit
led to the civil war. The agita
tion of the treatment of slaves by
slave-owners worked up the peo
ple, north of Mason and Dixon’s
line, to such a pitch that, in order
to correct this supposed evil, the
vested rights of sovereign states
and communities were ignored, j
and the general government as
sumed the right to levy war and
by force carry out the ideas of
one section of this country as to
how certain people should be treat
ed in the other.
It seems to us that this same
feeling prevails now in certain
aavc (juu>.
gradual centralization of power in
the general government till the
feeling is somewhat general that,
in order to be relieved of many
things, it is all right for the gen
eral government to step in and, by
use of the federal courts and mar
tial force, correct that that may be
repugnant to certain sections.
As we have said, we oppose
lynch law, except for one unmen
tionable crime; and we very much
regret that the people at Statesboro
did not permit those two negro
devils to be punished by law; but,
suppose a good and useful family,
some of our neighbors, in this
community, a good father and pure
mother and their innocent children,
should be butchered, as this Hodges
family were, and the demons who
did it should be caught, and should
confess the deed, what would this
community do? And pray tell us
what right any community in
Maine, New York or anywhere
else has to denounce or condemn
us for it.
Those in authority in this state,
to see to the enforcement of law,
have this power, and have it solely,
and we feel that we have no right
to question the motives of other
communities in the regulation of
their own internal affairs, and we
believe that the sooner we recog
nize this principle of self-govern
ment the better it will be for us all.
We are supposed to be a reunited
people, and to be a law-abiding
and liberty loving people, and free
speech is general, and theie is no
section in this broad land of ours
where life and liberty are not se
cure to the law-abiding man, and
especially is this so in the south ;
where there is more genuine Amer
icanism than in any other portion
of this land.
There is no real student of the
history of this country but will
agree with us that this southland
of ours would have been perfectly
j free from any taint of lynch law
i had the affairs of this country been
entrusted to the management of
the southern people. It is a well-
Old Series—2sth Year
Saturday afternoon at about
5:45 the large ochre mill of the
•Cherokee Ochie & Barytes Cos,
situated on the hill in the north
east suburbs of the city took fire
and soon was in a furious blaze.
The fire alarm was given in the
city and the hose reels and hook
and ladder trucks were started for
the scene, but it was soon found
there was no plug near enough to
the fire to be available for use.
j Quite a crowd rushed in the
direction of the fire but there was
a fear that the boiler for the large
engine might explode from the
heat, 2nd no one ventured very
close.
The fire burned until late in the
night.
One of the dry racks escaped
the flames.
The mill was quite an enterprise,
employing some thirty hands. It
wa.4 started about eight years ago.
The mill had shut down work
for the afternoon for nearly half an
hour and it is not known how it
first caught.
All the machinery and appli
ances connected with the mill were
destrdyed. The total loss probably
amounts to over SIO,OOO. There
was partial insurance covering the
losses.
It is understood the mill will be
rebuilt at once.
SEABOARD EXTENSION.
New Line From Atlanta to Rockmart is
About Completed.
Mr, J. S. McElreath writes the
r“THe"ft4(fKfy;£ J \ , 2A. fr
tween Atlanta and Rockmart, was
connected at the tunnel last Thurs
day, 18ta, and it will be but a few
days before the road is ready for
business. A schedule is out to run
passenger trains the 28th.
Contractor Redmond’s men and
mules will remain here a few weeks
to rest and get ready to grade
another road. It is said a road
may be built in a short time from
Tallapoosa to Rockmart. There
1 are two roads to be extended north
ward from LaFayette, Alabama,
and there is a wide space of coun
try between Lafayette and Carters
-1 ville that need a road. The space
' includes the northwestern part of
! Paulding and we are anxious to
' have a railroad from Cartersville
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to the southwest.
known fact that every southern
man has a strong feeling of kind
ness and sympathy for the old
slaves, and there is not a qommu
uity in the south where a respect
ful, well-disposed negro in want
or distress ever made a call for
help to a southern man who did
not respond to the call. It is a
further welEkuown fact that all of
these horrible crimes committed by
negroes are by those under forty
years of age, those grown up since
the war, and who have had every
advantage of free schools and the
advantages that .freedom was sup
posed to bring.
Still, notwithstanding all of these
surroundings.it is almost a weekly
occurrence to read of some atro
cious crime being committed by
these people in some part of our
country. Our people are worked
up over the frequent recurrence of
these dastardly deeds to such a
pitch that no man can tell whether
his home is safe or not, and it
looks like it matters not w T hat ter
rible punishment is meted out to
these wretches, it does no good.
Let our neighbors across the line
tell us the remedy, and let them
help us, not condemn us for pro
tecting our homes. Justice.