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CARROLLTON, GA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1923
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WHAT OTHER SECTIONS
THINK OF CARROLL
CARROLL LODGE
HELD MEETING
I just had n tnlk with Dr. D. 8. Reese,
■who hns recently mnde a trip through
middle nnd South Georgia. Ho men
tions McRae, Jesup, Hawkinsvillo,
Fitzgerald, Ocilla nnd other towns
where the pcoplo were very eager to
ask questions about Carroll county as
soon as they knew that the doctor was
from Carroll. Such questions wero ask
ed and statements were made as— “Oh,
yes, you are from Carroll where so much
poultry is being produced.’’ “Your
county leads tho state in poultry,
doesn’t it?’’ “How do you sell so
much poultry nnd eggs?” “Carroll
county will lend in cotton production
this yo.nr won’t it?” “How do you
make so much cotton?”
These arc samples of the questions
asked by our middle nnd South Georgia
friends and should make us feel very
proud of our county nnd should give
us inspiration to “press on to the
mark” in the future as we are confi
dent of doing.
Dr. Reese also states that Carroll
county is referred to frequently in pub
lic speeches on agricultural and other
subjects in the territory lie has recently
traveled.
Let us hope that we can always bo
able to say—AND CARROLL SHALL
DEAD THEM.—C. B. Ingram, County
Agent.
Cnrroll Lodge No. 69, F. & A. M., held
a most interesting meeting on Tuesday
night, the 20th inst. Tho Worshipful
MnBter explained some of the changes
made in the Masonic law by tho recent
session of the Grand Lodge, nnd many
other matters of interest wero attended
to.
One of the most important things
the lodge hns done in many years, was
the unanimous vote to subscribe for the
Masonic Home Messenger,” a month
ly mngazino published by the orphans
in tho home at Macon, for every mem
ber of tho lodge. This will plnco the
paper in the homes of nbout 180 fami
lies, nnd the information that may bo
had from it, on Masonic subjects, could
hardly bo acquired in any other wnv.
At tho next regular communication,
on the flrsf Tuesday night in December,
wo will have work in tho Master’s de
gree,. nnd expect to liavo some distin
guished visitors from Birmingham,
Romo and other places. This promises
to be a banner meeting, nnd wc-hope to
see nil our members out, and ns many
others as will come.—E. A. Merrell,
Secretary.
PUBLIC MEETING AT CITY HALL NEXT MONDAY
EVENING, NOVEMBER 26, AT SEVEN O’CLOCK, TO
CONSIDER FINANCIAL NEEDS OF OUR SCHOOLS
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PLAY to be given
AT ROOPVILLE
Judge T. Of Hathcock to
Preach at Christian Church
Judge T. O. Hathcock, of Atlanta,
will preach at the Carrollton Christian
•church on Sunday at eleven and again
•. t night. In the afternoon ho will
preach at. the Lowell Christian church.
Judge Hathcock is ono of tho most
prominent churchmen in tho South.
Recently he has beon invited to meet
in Cincinnati, Ohio, with religious
workers from all over North America,
as the representative of the South. He
is president of tho Western District of
Georgia . Board Of tho Christian
hutches, an organization that is at
tracting’ nationwide interest,'
Every member of the church in Car
rollton nnd vicinity should hear him on
Sunday.
Then, on Tfinnksgiving evening, No
vember 20th, and on Friday evening,
November 30th, Owen Still and W. G.
Carter will hold special services.
Bob Fitts has come back to Carroll
ton. His drug storo is on Rome street
—just off tho square. It’s the same
Bob Fitts that has been in tho drug
business in Carrollton for moro than a
quarter of a century. For druggists
sundric^step down to Fitts Drug Store
—just off tho square. It
A play, “Dusk of the Earth,” in four
acts, wil be given at Roopvillo Novem
ber 24th.
The cast includes Eunice Parrish, Ra
chel Staples, Veda Millicnn, Lucy Mor
rell, Hugh Lee Ware, Loonic Johnson,
Glenn Huff, Hoke Banks, Robert Gibson
nnd Jimmie Commons.
Good lights and comfortablo heat.
Next Monday evening at 7 o’clock the people of Carrollton,
who are interested in our public school system, are invited to at
tend a meeting at the city hall to discuss the financial needs of
Carrollton’s schools. Our schools have grown greatly in the
last few years. The expense of rtkaintenance now exceeds the
income for school purposes. Some remedy must be found.
A careful study of the statistics submitted below will give
some idea of the treatment we are giving our schools in com
parison with other important towns in Georgia.
Financial Statistics of City Public School Systems in Georgia
Salary
II. School
Teachers
$1400
1500
1350
1350
1500
1350
1500
1200
1080
1200
1125
1000
1500
1200
1200
1125
1500
1000
1000
1000
1000
1000
900
PASTORS OFF TO
CONFERENCE
Popu-
Assessed
' City
School
City
lation
valuation
Tax
Rate
Tax
Rato
Waycross
18658
$ 7,500,000
$2.00
6 mills
Athens
16748
15,000,000
1.70
7 mills
.Albany
11555
10,000,0(^0
G* mills
Americus
9010
5,556,887
7 mills
Griffin
8240
6,000,000
8 mills
Newnan
7037
7,000,000
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Fitzgerald
5870
4,250,000
1.63
7 mills
Moultrie
6789
4,000,000
2.00 11 mills
Dalton
5222
3,337,855
1.60
6 mills
Cedartown
4053
4,000,000
1.75
Statesboro
3808
3,000,000
i.90
7 mills
Toccoa
3567
2,285,000
1.67
7 mills
Washington
3321
3,000,000
6 mills
Fort Valley
3223
1,750,000
‘ 1.80
9 mills
Hawkinsville 2867
1,400,000
. 2.00 10 mills
Eastman
2707
2,000,000
7 l-2m
West Point
2136
2,262,000
■) 1-60
>1.70
6 mills
LaFayette
2104
1,200,000
9 mills
Cairo
1906
1,099,648
.2.40
9 mills
Monticello
1623
9 mills
Cornelia
1274
2,000,000
,2.00
• f 1.70
1.65
8 mills
Abbeville
1119
1,375,000
7 mills
Carrollton
4363
3,570,376
5 l-2m
Salary
G. Grade
Tonchers
$1000
1125
1080
1000
900
810
900
945
810
810
865
720
865
990
900
1000
900
720
765
765
765
720
675
Cedartown and Newnan have no rate limit for school pur
poses.
Blanks are left where complete data was not available.
Rev. John P. Erwin and Rev. R. P.
Tatum aro In attendance upon the meet
ing tho annual North Georgia confer
ence in Atlanta this week. Pastor Er
win has served tho First Methodist
church ns pastor the last tliroo years,
nnd his many friends nnd admirers hope
to have him returned for tho next year.
He is a strong, forceful, fearless pronch-
i-r, obeying the command “Go pronch
the gospel.” This ho does.
Mr. Tatum serves the Cnrrllton cir
cuit and his work is nt tho country
churches. This is his first year on this
work. Ho is a good man nnd has done
bis work faithfully nnd well, and his
parishioners expect to see him returned.
MRS. J. L. MARLOWE
CLAIMED BY DEATH
SOME FACTS ON
GASOLINE TAX
On Saturday morning, November the
17th, Mrs. J. L. Mnrlowo passed away
at her homo nt Veal.
Mrs. Marlowe had been in declining
health 'for several years and hor death
was not unexpected by all who know
her.
She was laid to rest in Veal cemetery
fjjunday at 11 o’clock, funeral services
being conducted by Rev. William Yar
brough.
She leaves her husband and nine chil
dren, tike girls and four boys, to mourn
her loss.
Tho family hns the heartfelt sym-
phtliy of their many friends in their
deep sorrow and grief.
DEATHS AND FUNERALS
Premium List for Poultry ,
Show Has Been Mailed
Baptist Stewardship Drive
Is Nearing the Close
GEORGIA LOST MOST
THRU NEGRO EXODUS
Tho promium list for Cnrroll County
Poultry Show has been mnilod. In case
you have been overlooked, or in case
you do not get tho copy which was
mailed to you, please make your re
quest known to tho Secretary, C. B.
The final schedule for tho Stewardship
drivo in tho Carrollton Baptist Asso
ciation is ns follows:
Harmony, 11 A. M., Sunday, Nov.
25th—II. O. Lovvorn. .
Pleasant Grove, 11. A. M., Sunday,
Ilt&W^frqwTvolltoaHlav
l jiav. m.wm£L
REWARD
Lost.—Two white and black-speckled
male Llowellen setter 18 months old
dogs, Thursday, 4 miles from Carroll
ton. Left us at Billy Mote’s place.
Finder notify tho undersigned.-^J. P.
FULLILOVE, 17 West Baker St., At
lanta, Gn., Telephone Ivy 2783. ltp
$5 BILL LOST
Lost, in Carrollton, Saturday+af tor-
noon, November 17th, $5.00, or between
Carrollton and Banning. Finder leave
•it Freo Press nnd receive reward.—A.
H. Jones, Banning, R. 1. Itpd
Salem, 11 A. M., Sunday, Nov. 25tli-
A. K. Snead.
Kansas, 11 A. M., Saturday, Dec. 1st
-Judge Leon Hood.
First Baptist, Carrollton, 11 A. M.,
Sunday, Dec. 8th—Prof. Ernest Dillard.
If for any reason any church was not
favored with a speaker, if tho clerk or
pastor will notify me, I shall arrange
for a speaker to visit the church in De
cember.
A report from tho speakers will bo
appreciated.—J. T, Roberts, Steward
ship Leader.
■' Washington.—A study of tho nortli-
twird-^nigration of Southorn negroes by
tho Lahor Department indicates that
?»,706 negroes left thirteen Southern
states in the year ending September 1.
;ures- were compiled from stato,
-and indusljitui aowces
rgfa^'Wirr'120 ,f‘' ^
states.
The migration of other stntes follow:
Alabama, 90,000; Mississippi, 82,000;
Virginia, 10,000; North Cnroliua, 25,000;
South Carolina, 25,000;, Louisiana, 15,-
000; Tennessee, 15,000; Arkansas, 5,000;
Kentucky, 2,500; Texas, 2,000, and
Oklahoma, 1,000.
Southern observers have advised the
Labor Department that during tho win
ter months, in they 1 opinion, large num
bers of negroes would return to the
Soulh.
GONE, THANK GOODNESS!
A street carnival showed here last
Friday and Saturday. Somo of the out
fit and people arrived here on Monday
preceding, but they wero unable to
“put up”, wo are informed, owing to
an attachment being mado on their
stuff at Lawrcncevilie, where a party
had entered suit against them for dam
ages. . 1
One of the attaches of this show pro
ceeded to get, drunk Sunday morning
about 4 o’clock and created quite a
stir, by knocking at residences and de
manding admittance. Tho marshal was
notified and after hunting for him
found him in the garage of Mr. L. B.
CARD OF THANKS
Wo wish to express our heartfelt
thanks to our many friends and neigh
bors who were so kind to us during tho
sickness and at tho death of our littlo
son and brother. Wo nlso want to
thank Dr. Hammonds for his great sym
pathy and kindness, and also Bro. Yar
brough for his great consoling wordB of
sympathy to us. May God’s richest
blessings rest upon cadi and every ono
is the prayer of his parents and siAter.
Rev. and Mrs. C. L. Matthews.
Gladys Matthews,
Baby chicks from well selected and
inspected flocks. Popular breeds. Plnco
orders at once. Buy at home nnd know
BROWN.
Mrs. Annie Brown, an inmate at tho
alms house on tho county farm, died
Wednesday at tho advanced ago of 75
years. The funeral was held at Glon-
iocli, Heard county, on tho 22nd,. and
interment in tho Glenloch cemetery.
DEAN.
Mrs. W. L. Dean, aged 37, died Tuos-
qny at .Tones mill, north of Whitcsburg.
a».v4>ft<HMW-WTiad i tt>,H»mi#a& epun- this
ty nnd interred nt Union Hill, near Hon odd gallons on whie'
Buchanan.
According to tho records in tho state
department of agriculture, 683,152 gal
lons of gnsolino wero consumed in Cnr
roll county during 1022. This is the
amount which was inspected at tank
stations by tho local oil inspector and on
which tho stato inspection tax of one-
half cent per gallon was collected. 'Of
this amount, approximately four-fifths
was* turned into tho state treasury, tho
inspection work being dono on a pieca
work basis, nnd the inspectors over
tho stnto only getting a small part of
tho total amount paid for thoir work
by (lie oil companies.
In this rospoct, it, is interesting to
note that there was a difference of
8,350,838 gallons between tho amount
of gasoline inspected, nnd tho nmount
upon which the state road tax of ono-
cont per gallon was paid. This is ac
counted for by tho fact that the inspec
tion work is done by a forco of inspec
tors, none of whom aro on salary basis,
while the road tax is pnid by tho oil
companies to tho comptroller gonoral’s
department and tho legislature has fail
ed to provide any machinery for check
ing paymonts.
Recently, as a result of tho discrep
ancy noted above, tho comptroller gon-
eral’s office has beep checking their
records for 1022 itom by item with tho
oil inspection department. records.
They have already discovered ono lot of
gasoline of 1,178,105 gallons, imported
by the Hercules Powder Company, of
Brunswick, on which the one-cont tax
was not paid. Tho company clnlmf) that
it is not due to pay this tax, inasmuch
ns the gnsolino wns used ns a solvent
in the manufacture of cxplosivos, and
not ns motive power for vehicles. The
law, hoWover, makes no distinction such
ns this nnd tho comptroller general will
insist, upon its payment, it is said.
Tho necessity for continuing this
check betweon the two departments is
now much higher than boforo, inaB-
much us tho stato tax hns been raised
to three cents per gallon. It will bo
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EIGHT OUNCE PERSIMMON
paid in 1022, would cause a loss to the
stnto of over $240,000. Even at tho
one-cont rate tho loss was over $80,000.
This week Mrs. M. E. Pullen, who
resides on Whitosburg Rt. 2, sont to
The Freo Press offico a persimmon that
weighed exactly a half pound. It
I tmeasurod ten inches in circumfer
ence ono way and eight the other. Mrs.
Pullen states that tho persimmon is
“Eureka” variety nnd grew on a three
year old tree, nnd that she knows of no
others in Cnrroll county.
STORES TO CLOSE
FOR THANKSGIVING
Tho members of tho Carrollton Ad
vertising Club announco that stores
will bo closed Thanksgiving Day, No
vember 29th,
WHOSE YEARLING?
OGLETHORPE ORCHESTRA
The Oglethorpe orchestra was in Car-
loll ton Tuesday night and played to a
full houso at tho city hall. It was a
delightful entertainment from begin
ning to end. They Were a good jolly
set of fine boys and the audienco was
highly pleased with the program.
One dark, red heifer yearling came to
my homo nbout November 1st. Owner
can get same by paying damage and for
this ad.—J. F.* TERRELL, 2 1-2 miles
from CaTrollton, between Shady Grove
road and highway. Itpd
Bring your prescriptions to the Old
Reliable Bob Fitts nt Fitts Drug Store,
Romo street, near the corner.
roun.i mm m rue w “ w hat you aro getting. Visitors welcome
Blackwell preparing to make a fire in timcg ._F„ urt h District A. & M.
the middle of the floor of the building in
Howf Does Your 1924 Look To
-day? Has Your 1924 Given
You Hope For Your 1924?
-are the Mainstay of American
Homes
which wore a lot of shucks stored. Ho
was arrested and locked up. Mayor
Boone put a stiff fine on him and al
lowed him to depart wiNi the balance
of the gang Monday afternoon.
These carnivals are a nuisance and a
detriment to out town and should not
bo allowed to come here. Mayor
Boono informs us that another will
never bo allowed here as long as ho is
mayor.—Maysville Enterprise.
School—N. V. Davis.
18octtfnc
HUNTING LICENSE
Laying the foundation is the most important step
in every undertaking.
Hunting License can now be had
from tho County Warden. Will bo in
Carrollton every afternoon.—Geo. W.
Harper, County Warden.
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foundation.
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