The News and courant. (Cartersville, Ga.) 1901-1904, September 29, 1904, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text.New Series—Vol. Ill— No4<S EYE WITNESS’ STORY Mr. Levi Reeves Tells of Great Wreck on the Southern, Mr. Levi Reeves came home Monday morning and told a graphic story of the terrible wreck on the Southern railway near Newmarket, Tenn. Mr. Reeves was a passenger on the westbound train, and in the collision he was badly shaken up, receiving bruises oh his head and having his right arm considerably injured. Mr. Reeves travels for the Mari etta Fertilizer company, of Atlanta, and was on the last car of the*west bound train. He had just given up his seat to a lady, and walked to the rear of the car, when the crash came. He was ikrowu for ward, and his hat smashed against the car. Only the engineer and one or two others were killed on Mr. Reeves’ train, but all the passen gers were more or less bruised, and all the seats were torn from their fastenings in the cars by the force of the shock. So soon as Mr. Reeves and his fellow passengers realized what had occurred they went at once to the aid of the east bound train, on which such horrible loss of life had occurred. “I never had such an experience, and I hope I never will again,” said Mr. Reeves. “You see it was. this way. Our train was short and light. Our engineer had orders to meet the east bound train at Hodgins, Tenn., but overlooked or forgot his or ders ana ran on beyond that place- The east bound train had several vestibuled mail, baggage and ex press cars. Next to these came three heavy vestibubled Pullmans. When the trains met our light train seemed to act only as an obstruc tion to the other heavy one. The three open day coaches were crushed like egg shells between the sleepers and the express and baggage cars. The forward sleeper was within twenty feet of the ex press car, and you can imagine the fate of the three open day coaches. It was in these that the great slaughter occurred. We ran to them as soon as we could, and the groans and shrieks of the in jured and dying I can never for get. I saw a number of people piled up. The man on top had both arms and both legs broken. I asked if there was anything I could do for him. “ ‘No,’ said he, ‘I will die in less than a minute. Just lay me aside and help the others,’ With the help of another man I removed him from the heap, and In a few seconds he was dead. I saw a hand motioning to me from the heap. I could not see who the hand belonged to. But we re moved the other bodies, and found that the hand belonged to a man wearing an Elk badge. We pulled him out and found he was not seriously hurt. His name was J. D. Alderson, who travels for a Knoxville house. “Notwithstanding we were very near Knoxville, the relief train which brought onlyjour doctors was several hours in reaching us. Many country doctors drove four teen and fifteen miles and reached us before the relief train. The country people in the neighbor hood came nobly to our aid and rendered the most heroic help.” Miss Ella Baker, of Madison, arrived Tuesday afternoon. She has accepted the position of teacher of the second grade of high school. Miss Marian Strickland will leave soon for Dalton to be one of the attendants at Miss Grace Whit eman’s wedding* THE NEWS AND CO II RANT. DIED AT CASSVILLE Mrs. MaryJ. Gore Passes Away After Attack of Neuralgia < f t ie Heart Mrs. Mary J. Gore died at her home at Cassville Friday, Septem ber 23d. She was 69 years of age and had resided at Cassville for over fifty years. Her husband, Joshua Gore, died at the same place seventeen years ago. Mrs. was taken suddenly ill Friday afternoon, and death soon followed. She had been in her usual health and had prepared dinner Friday. The cause df her death was neu ralgia of the heart. She had been a member of ttie Methodist church for fifty-five years, and was an exemplary Christian lady, and was always ready to aid the sick and the needy, and in this way did much for her community. She was laid to rest Sunday, Poplar Springs, by the of her husband. She is survived by two children, Mrs. H. Yarborough, of Pine Log, and Mr. Thomas Gore > Cassville. Kingston High School. The Kingston high school will open on next Monday, October 3d. Prof. W. V. Whittenberg, who has been quite ill with fever, has, his friends will be glad to learn, so far recovered a9 to be able to assume charge of the school next Monday. At Library Hall. 1 At the library hall, L riday night, Sept. 30, Miss Clestelle McLeroy, of Newnan, Ga., will give a very interesting programme of humor ous monologues, songs, and read ings from standard literature. Those who want to spend an enjoy able evening come out. Admis sion 15c, 25c and 35c. Mr. L. D. Knight has returned from a several weeks visit through the north. The many friends of Mr. Levi Reeves were glad to know that his injury he received in the South ern wreck was not erious. Miss Tillie Baker, of Bartow, spent a few days with her grand mother, Mrs. P. L. Moon, this week. The many friends of Miss Lena Ford regret to learn of her con tinued illness, Miss Verdie Akin leaves soon for Washington, D. C., where she will enter the National Seminary. Prof. W. W. Daves has moved to to the Norris residence, on Erwin street. In the five dollar contest at Bradley’s Saturday afternoon, Mr. Robert Freeman was the fortunate winner. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Walton spent Sunday with relatives in Cass Station. Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Collins leave this week for Dalton, where they will make their future home. Miss Anice Cay, of Atlanta, is the charming visitor of Mrs. W. J. Fraser. Mrs. Davidson, of Selma. Ala., has been the guest of Mrs. Rooert Anderson. Miss Mary Mountcastle left Wednesday morning for a visit to Rome. Mr. Bynard Bray, of Adairsville, spent Thuesday night in Carters ville. Mr. and Mrs. Frank D- Harris, of Atlanta, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. D. R. Gaines. Cartersville has a complete cloth ing department that would proye highly creditable in a large city — we refer to Vaughan’s. CAKTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER *>t). 1904. A WATER FAMINE The Streams, Springs and Wells Running Dry, ETOWAH IS VERY LOW A Bartow Farmer’s Successful . txperiment With Never Fail ing Stock Pond- The dry weather, while not hurt ing crops, corn being already made and cotton needing open weather for picking, is causing the water supply to be cut short and produc ing a condition of things that is bordering on the distressing. Streams, large and small, are dry ing up in their beds, affording a scant supply for stock and other purposes, aiM the wells and springs in many places are run ning dry and rendering it difficult for many families to get sufficient water to supply domestic needs. The Etowah river is lower than it has been noticed in the lifetime of many grown persons, aud Pet tit’s creek can be stepped across in many places. The same low stage is peculiar to most all the streams in the county. Many people are having to haul water for some dis tance. The same condition almost existed early in the summer, but it was hoped that the rains -would set up the needed supply again, but the benefits proved only tem porary. Mr. J. P. Walker, at Cass Sta tion, has demonstrated that the farmer can fortify against emer gencies if he will, and his experi ment ought to prove a valuable example to others. Thirteen years ago he turned hogs into an old lime sink, the bottom of which was dry. By rooting: thev created a cement that proved a leakless receptacle for the water from rains. Mr. Walker soon had a pond capable of water ing all his stock. It has never been exhausted, and now holds water sufficient to furnish 100 cows with drinking water. This pond is 136 feet long. What Mr. Walker has done oth ers can do. Mr. Barrett Boaz, of Calhoun, spent Wednesday in this city. Mrs. Susan Wallace is visiting her son, Mr. Robt. Wallace in At lanta. A beautiful second hand pian& for sale at a bargain. Address re plies, care “Quick” This office. Mrs. Margaret Wallace is spend ing several days here. Mrs. Joe Jones and daughter, Helen, is visiting here from South Carolina. Mrs. Martha Akerman left Wed nesday night for Memphis. Mr. H. Y. Walker, of Atlanta, spent Sunday in the city. Miss Rosa Aubrey returned yes terday from Galbraith Springs, Tenn., where she had been several months. Mr. Ed Strickland, Jr., spent Wednesday in Atlanta. Albert Strickland returned from Nashville Monday. Mr. W. H. Howard, Jr., spent Sunday in the city. Mr. Cliff Bateman, of Atlanta, is spending several days in town. Mr. R*. L. Griffin has been spend ing a few days in Cedartown this past week. Mrs. Davidson, of Selma, Ala., left for her home Wednesday after a visit to Mrs. J. R. Anderson. Mrs. Anderson accompanied her to Atlanta. The Vaughan Store adds new and larger departments every sea son. Mr. Clarance Taff is spending a few days in Adairsville. Mr. Isadore Scheuer spent last Wednesday in Cedartown. SCHOOL DEDICATION Euharlee Institute to Be Dedicated Soon, A PROMISING SCHOOL An Interesting Service Promised and a Large Crowd Ex pected to be Present. Euharlee Institute’s buildings will be dedicated on Sunday, Oc tober 9th. The exercises will be under the auspices of the Presby tery of Cherokee. No doubt this service will be very impressive, and there should be a large assem blage present. Dr. G. G. Sydnor, of Rome, Ga., assisted by the Rev. W. A. Cleve land, will preach the dedicatory se-mon In all probability there will be several other visiting min isters present. The institute’s property now consists of three buildings, all of which are in a good state of repair. The attendance is increasing, and the promise is bright for the best year in the institute’s history. Among those who have sons in school this term are Hon. B. I. Hughes, Mr. J. C. Miller, Mr. H. H. Arrington and Dr. Battey, all of Rome. The school has had material assistance from Carters ville- Cotton Crop Is Short. Mr. J. F, Hurt, representing the Gordon County Mutual Insurance company, was in Cartersville Mon day. Mr. Hurt has been at work for his company in Bartow, and stated that he had placed about twenty thousand dollars of insurance on one section Barton county. \fr. Hurt further stated that he has recently been over Whitfield. Gor don and Eartow counties, and it is his belief that the cotton crop, to which he gave close attention, will not average over 50 or 60 per cent, of a full crop. He says the pres ent dry weather has cut off the crop very much, and that all the crop will be open in a few more weeks. Mr. Oscar Peeples, of Chatta nooga spent Sunday in the city. Mrs. Frank Daniel is very sick at her home of Gilmer street. Mr. and Mrs. V'/. M. Trippe, o£ Taylorsville, spent a few days this week with their son, Mr. John Trippe. Mr. J. H. Gilreath has returned from a visit to Mrs. Harris Hall in Chattanooga. Col. W. J. Neel, of Rome, spent Sunday in the city. Miss Louise Johnson, of Atlanta, will be the guest of Miss Marie Gilreath Sunday. Miss Rosa Cooper and her sister, Mrs. Pope, of Washington, Ga., have returned from Virginia and Tennessee, where they had a very pleasant visitamong the mountains during the summer. They are stopping for a while at the Com mercial hotel. Mr. Irby Henderson, of Kingston, was in town Saturday. Miss Fannie Goodwin went to Rockmart Friday evening, to spend several weeks her sister, Mrs. H. M. Randall. Mr. and Mrs. Will Gaines spent Sunday in Cass Station. Mrs. Geo. Briant wro has been visiting her sister, Mrs. W. L. Good win, returned to her home in Rome Sunday morning. Miss Emma Powell, of Euharlee, is the guest of Misg Annie Tinsley. Miss Annie Tinsley spent a few days in Stilesboro last week. Mrs. Eugene Whetstone was called to the bedside of her mother, Mrs. Merrell, Sunday morning. Mrs. Mer rill had a stroke of paralysis Satur day and her many friends will be sorry to learn of her illness. Mr. and Mrs. Stuart McMullen, of Rockmart, spent Monday m Carters ville. THE HORSE SWAPPERS To Honor This City With a Big Gathering for Several Days. ROBERT CHAPMAN. Good Citizen and Ex-Confederate Who Passed Away Last Month. The death of Mr. Robert Chap man, which occurred at his resi dence, four miles north of Carters ville, August 26th, removed one of Bartow county’s best citizens. He was 63 years old and lived a circumspect life, always treating his fellow man according to Golden Rule, teachings, regarding all his duties as man and citizen with sacred consideration. He was a Christian aud a prominent figure in the Oak Grove Baptist church He served the confederacy in the civil war, enlisting in the First Georgia Cavalry at twenty years of age and remaining in the strug gle to the end. He was buried at Oak Hill. Contributions Asked The ladies of the Home Mission Society are preparing a box of clothing for a needy preacher in the North Georgia conference. This is an urgent appeal and we wish all the ladies of the Methodist church would contribute. All contributions should be sent to Mrs. D. B. Freeman as early as possible. This worthy minister is on a mission aud his children sick with tvphoid fever, and our women we know will be anxious to respond to his needs. Remember, all moneys toward the Orphan fund should be handed to Mrs. Newt Bradley. A Revolutionary Puzzle. The following is taken from a col -1 option of odd rhymes and curious stories. It can be read in three dif ferent ways. First, red the whole as it is written; second, read down ward on the left of the comma in the middle of each line; third, read the lines downward on the right of the comma. By the first reading the Revolutionary cause is condemn ed. By the other two it is praised: Hark. hark, the trumpet rounds, the din of war's alarms. O'er seas and solid grounds, doth call us all to arms. Who for King George doth stand, their honors soon shall shine. Their ruin is at hand, who with the con gress Join. The gets of parliament. In them I much delight. I hate their cursed intent, who for the congress fight. The Tories of the day, they are my dally toast, They soon will sneak away, who lndi pendence boast. Who nonrestatant hold, they have my heart and hand; May they for slaves be sold, who act a Whlggish part. On Mansfield, North and Hute, may dally blessing pour. Confusion and dispute, on congress ever more. To North and British lord, may honors * still be done; I wish a block and eord, to General Wash ington. * IMisterious Trick. Put a set of dominos on the table, the pits up. Mix up the pieces and stand some distance away. Then let a companion take a dom ino at random, then announce you can tell the piece he has taken with out seeing it. Tell him to mentally double the number of spots on the domino’s greater half. That is, if he has taken the six-tnree, let him double the six, which is twelve. To the total of the greater half of the piece he has chosen (known to him alone) let him add a figure that you have taken from 1 to 9 at random. Let us say you choose 9. He then adds it to the former sum. +9=2l. Tell him to multiply the total he has made up by 5. He thus obtains 105. He alone knows this sum; he does all the operations in his head. Now let him add the smaller half of the domino he has drawn. In our example he drew the six-three. Hence, he adds 3, making 108, which total he announces aloud. Now it is your turn. You remem ber the number you gave him to add. It was 9. Multiply by 5. 5X9=45. Deducting this 45 from 108 you have 63. All you need to do then is to announce that the domino that had been drawn was a six-three domino. By this rule you will be able t<v find out the answer.. Old Series—2sth Year Next week one .of those unique githerings known as a horse swap pers’ convention is to honor Cart ersville as the seat of its ‘doings. The fiddlers too, are invited. It is expected that every man with swapping proclivities, within a radius of fifty miles, will be here, and every thing in equine flesh, from the slick nick-tailed dark bay to the flea-bitten horse and the mouse-colored mule, will be in evi dence. It will be a gala time with the boys who “don’t mind a swap” and the fiddler who can draw the artistic bow add the one whose powers stop at “Billy in the Low ground.” No well-set programme has been fixed, but it is understood that the pine thicket back of the taberna cle will be the base of maneuvers and that the usual freedom and abandon characterizing such gath erings will be here apparent. A bumper for the Horse swappers and fiddlers. Give ’em room. •The days of the gathering will be Thursday, Friday and Saturday, October 6, 7 and 8. Teachers* Elected. The city school board at a spec ial meeting recently electea the following as teachers in the public schools. Miss Lillian Greene, 6th grade; This is the grade taught by Miss Sally May Akin, who resigned. Miss Ella Baker, 2d grade High School. This is the grade taught by Miss Lena Ford, resigned. An Irish Campaigner. Amusing stories of Major Sam Earlv. ,a< brother of General Jnbel A. Early, are still toldlfi Charleston, W. Va., where he lived for many years before the civil war. The major was a bigoted old line Whig, who hated a Democrat worse than a hobo does work. He had in his em ploy an Irishman who aped his mas ter in everything—dress, manners and politics. Prior to a certain state election, in which party spirit ran high, the Democrats had a torchlight proces sion. Imagine Major Early’s chagrin and fury to behold marching in the van of his political enemies Pat, gloriously drunk. 1 He lost no time in dragging tfia faithless one from the ranks and heatedly demanded the reason of his defection. i “Sh!” answered Pat, with a maudlin wink. “Don’t yez see Oi’m thrying to disgrace ’em ?” New York World. How Is It? “Suppose,” said the mental specu lator, putting down his book and lighting a fresh cigar, “suppose a child’s father dies and its mother marries the second time. Then the child has a stepfather and perhaps a stepgrandfather. Let us suppose, further, that the stepgrandfather dies or is divorced and the gtep grandmother marries again. This gives the child a step-stepgrandfa ther, doesn't it? Then we’ll say that the child’s mother dies and the stepfather weds again. Now the child has a step-stepmother. By fol lowing this process of reasoning along a few feet farther we can equip that child with a step-step grand-stepmother and & step-grand step-step-stepmother, and a step step-stepfather and a step-step-step father Bnd a step-step-step-grand stepfather and”— It was at this point that the lis tener stepped away with a stealthy step, step, step, leaving the mental speculator still figuring out the problem of what relation the step uncle of the child’s step-step-grand stepfather would be to the adopted child of the stepsister of the step step-grand-stepmother. Chicago Tribune. Miss Clestelle McLeroy, of New nan, Ga., is the guest of Mr. How ard Felton. Miss McLeroy is very talanted as an elocutionist, and will give a recital at the new library hall, Friday, Sept. 30th. Admission 35, and 50 cents.

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The News and courant. (Cartersville, Ga.) 1901-1904, September 29, 1904, Image 1