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THE CARROLL FREE PRESS. CARROLLTON. GEORGIA.
** t Georgia Weekly Press Association Party
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Visits Ideal Cotton Mill at Atco
THE RIVER NILE.
Georgia Editors One and All Express Themselves as Delighted
With Ideal Conditions Found in Mill, and Handsome Park
like Community. Short Story of Atco and its Mill
"Cherokee," Georgia, and the section represented by the name, is well
understood by the people of the State, but it is not so well known to persons
who are unfamiliar with the history of the Cherokee Indians, who were in
possession of the northwestern part of Georgia, as late as 1833-34.
All the territory lying north of the Chattahoochee river and reaching to
the Tennessee line was the aboriginal home of the Cherokee tribe, and they
were not driven out at the point of the bayonet, as were the more warlike
•Creeks. ,
T-lie Cherokees were fondly attached to their native soil, and when they
were conducted to Indian Territory by United States soldiers in 1836, thou
sands perished oh the highways by reason of heartbreak, as well ns exposure
and privation.
Even while the Cherokees possessed the territory, the whites looked with
longing eyes on this beautiful scope of country. Various pioneers came in,
cast their lot with the red men and eventually assumed ownership of consid
erable quantities of land. A Scotchman, named Pettit, married a squaw and
built himself a house near the run of the creek, which still bears his name.
The Pettit house was still in evidence fifty years ago. One who travels on the
'Western & Atlantic railroad very often will become familiar with Pettit’s
'Creek Bridge, which is almost within the suburbs ^f the growing city of Car-
tersville. When the traveler crosses the bridge, if he wljl joj^ qut of t£e
«ar windows, on the left band if he is going frdhi Atlanta to Chattaik>o|a, he
will discover a beautiful little town, which has sprung into being as if by
When Its Waters Turn Green Then
Comes the Welcome Flood.
The “green water” of the Nile is
quite a different thing from the
j green wnter of the ocean, says the
! Scientific American.
About April 15 the Nile begins
its annual rise, and a month later
the effect is felt at Khartum. A
very curious phenomenon accompa
nies this increase in the appearance
of the “green water.”
For a long time it was believed
that the color came from the
swamps of the upper Nile, lying iso
lated and stagnant under the trop
ical sun and polluting the waters
with decaying vegetable matter.
With the spring rise this fetid
water was supposed to he swept
into the streams to make its appear
ance in Egypt.
Within recent times, however,
this theory has been abandoned.
Now we are advised the green
water is caused by the presence of
innumerable numbers of microscop
ic algae, offensive to the taste and
smell. They originate away up in
the tributaries and are carried to
the Nile, where under the hot sun
—
and in the clear water they increase
with amazing rapidity, forming col
umns from 250 miles to 500 miles
in length.
The weeds continue to grow, die
and decay until the tufbid flood
waters put them to an end, for they
cannot exist except in clear water.
Offensive as, in some respects, the
green water is, it is hailed with de
light by the Egyptians, since its ap
pearance is a sign of the real flood
time and the close of the water fam
ine.
THE FAIR IS COMING
Will You Be Ready With Your Exhibit?
More and better attractions than ever before. More
exhibits. More of everything to entertain.
Contract closed for strong Free Attraction
Don’t Wait Longer to Plan Your Exhibit
VIEW OF THE VILLAGE OF ATCO.
’magic, and which has been laid out and built with such accuracy and elegance
that he will be delighted as well as surprised to see it.
This transformation scene would impress even the dullest minds and
many of us are now wondering why it was left to an enterprising capitalist,
E. L. McClain, of Greenfield, Ohio, to dlscqyer and appropriate what is con
ceded to be one of the most desirable factory sites in the Southern country,
now known as Atco, Bartow Co., Ga. The Western & Atlantic railroad runs
along the eastern limit of the company’s property. The Seaboard Air Line
crosses the southwestern side, and the new Louisville & Nashville extension
is less than a’ mile away. Railroad connections and transportation facilities
are absolutely perfect to any point of the compass.
Perhaps the name, Atco, will bear a slight explanation before we go fur
ther in the description of the plant of The American Textile Company here
in “Cherokee,” Georgia. Atco is formed with the initials only of the name
expressed more fully. Thus abbreviated it makes a convenient cable address,
and American Textile Co. easily became Atco, for general as well as commer
cial purposes. The postoftlce of Atco is fully established and the magic town
has nothing cumbersome about itself, not even a name, that will be in the way.
The plant of The American Textile Co. consists of a 35,000 spindle cotton
mill, with over 800 automatic looms, together with ail necessary supplemen
tary machinery, all of the most modern type, for the production of fine drills,
sheetings and dress duck.
The village consists of over one hlundred three, four, five and six-room cot
tages, being neither double nor two-story, but individual in character, no
two being alike. Each room in every cottage contains either a grate or pro
vision for a stove. All rooms are entered through hallways and not through
-one another, thus Insuring privacy. Each house is provided with running wa
ter hear the kitchen door. In the rear of each lot is located a coal and wood
house of ample storage capacity.
The village streets and sidewalks are macadamized, as well as being pro
vided with cement curbs and gutters. Each block is surrounded by a beau
tiful hedge of California privet, screening the rear yards. The streets are
well lighted with electricity.
Educational advantages are provided by the maintenance of a splendid
free school. Religious services are regularly carried on.
The Atco 8tores Company, a corporation having no connection with the
mill, operates a large department store in the village, affording everything of
the best at moderate prices. There is also a modern barber shop with hot
and cold baths in connection.
The company also has provided a beautiful park. Large pastures with
flowing water are available for those desiring to keep stock. Ample provision
has been made for those wishing their own gardens.
The altitude is high, which means freedom from malaria. The climate is
Ideal never extremely hot or cold. The water is pure and wholesome, resi
dents having the choloe of CartersvUle city water or water from numerous
deep wells scattered throughout the village.
The casual visitor cannot help but be impressed by the cleanliness ap
parent on all sides. Rigid rules of sanitation are in effect, resulting in a state
of healthfulness seldom attained in any city or village.
We are informed that, notwithstanding the depression that has existed
Soothing His Last Momsnts.
Speaking of unpleasant surprises,
an Englishman told of the one Jon
athan Rochell got up on his death
bed:
“Jonathan, feeling that the end
was near, gave a few words of part
ing advice to his young wife. lie
had a bachelor friend named How
ard, a steady fellow, and the
thought came to his mind as ho was
concluding his farewell talk that if
Kate, after he was gone, would
marry Howard it would be a good
thing. He told her this.
“ ‘Koto, woman,’ he said, ‘it
would please me dearly if yc was to
promise to take up wi’ Howard
when I’m gone.’
“‘Don’t vo worry .about that,
Jonty,’ says Kate in a soothing way.
‘Mo and Howard have already set
tled it betwixt us!’ ”
Friendship Sale Continues
A Sure Test.
On a pleasant Sunday afternoon
an old German and his youngest
■son was seated in the village inn.
The father had partaken liberally
of the homo brewed beer and was
warning bis son against the evils of
intemperance. “Never drink too
much, my son. A gentleman stops
when he has enough. To be drunk
is a disgrace.”
“Yes, father, hut how can I tell
when I have enough or am drunk ?”
The old man pointed with his fin
ger. “Do you, see those two men sit
ting in the corner? If you should
see four men there you would be
drunk.”
The hoy looked long and earnest
ly. “Yes, father, hut—hut—there
is only one man in that corner.”
THE AMERICAN TEXTILE COMPANY’S MILL.
in the textile industry during the past three years, this mill has run full time
of ten hours pel day, and that without reduction of pay in any department.
The 60-hour per week schedule was adopted at this mill three years before
the present law changing working hours from 66 to 6'o hours per week was
introduced.
Right 'n this connection we are also informed that this company has close
working relations with several large concerns in the North and East that
are large users ol’ their product, thus placing them in a peculiarly fortunate
position as to disposing of their product at all times.
Ciuttwiy of Binding Pillars.
Nature has hewn many upright
pillars from the rock at varioua pre
historic periods, but so far as is
known she has completed hut one
group of bending pillars. The
causeway at Staff a, in Scotland, is
after this original design. The
stone shafts rise perpendicularly to
a height of fifty or sixty feet, when
they curve inward in a long, sweep
ing line at once graceful and mas
sive. In some places a perfect Ro
man arch has been formed in this
way. The formations are so sym
metrical as to suggest the hand of
the architect.
Big Bargains Tor All
We know that you will be pleased. Read the
circular which we sent to you and then come and
It. Place of Bu.in.ee.
“In the absence of any accurate
information, the imagination of our
pupils sometimes takes a curiously
amusing turn,” says an instructor
in a Philadelphia institution. “The
hoy who defined a mountain range
as a flarge sized cook stove’ was re
cently eclipsed by the answer re
turned by another lad.
“ ‘What is the office of the gastric
juice ?’ was the question put to this
boy.
“His written response, no doubt
struck off in the hurry of the ex
amination, was, ‘The stomach.”’—
Exchange.
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1^. will certainly amply repay oue lor the time and trouble to via.t
this "Model Co-ton Mill and Villtge.”
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buy at this Friendship Sale-
HUGH JACKSON CO.
‘Leaders of Low Prices’
Generous.
Grandma—Johnny, I have dis
covered that you have taken more
naple sugar than I gave you.
Johnny —Yes, grandma; I’ve
ipoh infik-ipfi believe tnere .wjis a.i\-
ither Jittle bov spending the day
-ith me.—Harper’s Bazar.
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