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VOL. 7
reasons for locating nitrate
PLANT AGAIN URGEDBY CARTERSVILLE
Committee Of Business Men With Engineer
Maynard Submit Data At Wash
ington To Board.
A] pea ring before the board of en
u neeis of the inner departmental
1 oard. to whom has been delegated by
,l ie president the authority to desig-
I.ate a suitable location or locations
r a government nitrate plant, a com
mittee of Cartersville business men,
together with Dr. T. Poole Maynard,
t; i Atlanta, as engineer, presented ad
, i: tonal data and information of an
ii i, resting character last Friday in
Washington.
The committee representing this
n alter for Cartersville met at the of
ue of Chairman John T. Norris last
Tuesday week and determined to ask
the commission for the privilege of
appearing before it, and, if agreeable,
to designate a date. The commission
pi mptly designated last Friday morn
ing at ten o’clock. On Thursday, Mes
srs., John T. Norris, P. C. Flemister,
.;. W. Vaughan and Joseph S. Calhoun,
together with Dr. Maynard, of Atlan
ta, went to Washington.
Dr. Maynard made the argument and
presented the facts in support of it.
contending that Cartersville was the
logical and most feasible location for
such a plant in that it was the most
central point at which elements going
to make nitrates and fertilizer could
he assembled and, at the same time,
the most central point for the distii-
GILREATH-CHAMPION DRUG CO.
BUY OUT MR. M. F. WORD.
A transaction was closed this week
cf unusual interest and- business im
p.-rtance when M. F. Word, for more
than forty years a prominent druggist
o : Cartersville, sold his business and
good will to The Gilreath-Champion
Drug Cos., who will hereafter conduct
it at the same place.
No business man in Bartow county
is better known than Mr. Word and
m e have a better reputation for bus
iness integrity and high-mindedness.
Be has successfully maintained a drug
business in Cartersville for many
years, has been an accurate and pains
taking prescriptionist and pharmacist
and has steadily applied himself to
his customers' needs. Mr. Word has
found in fecent years that he needs
test and that his system requires re
creation. To meet this condition he
determined to dispose of his business
to apply himself to ease and comfort
for a while.
The new purchasers are well known
business men. Ben C. Gilreath is the
owner and proprietor of the Ben C.
Gilreath Drug Cos. and has succeeded
in building up a successful and greatly
extended business. Mr. Champion,
v i th Ben C. Gilreath for more than a
>ear, has impressed the business com
reunity as an accurate and methodical
business man. He is a registered phar
macist and will be in active charge of
the recently acquired store.
With the transfer, it is understood,
"oes the Rexall Remedy agency, of
Cartersville, and this great manufac
t' rer of remedies and drug supplies
v 1 have their interests well taken
C: - r e of by the new purchasers.
the well wishes of hosts of friends
! How the Gilreath-Champion Cos. as
lV ' •' as Mr Word all of whom have
earned public confidence and patron
age.
With corn selling at SI.BO a bushel,
' s s o cheap that you want to con
♦inue to buy it? With Irish potatoes at
'•-0. more than double their value
last year and two and one-half times
■ they were the year before, is it
r | ot w ise to grow a few Irish potatoes?
cabbage bringing seven dollars,
en they brought $2.75 last year and
v --2j the year before: with onions at
• e've dollars when they brought $3.25
st year and three dollars the year
- ore, is it not time for us to sit up
a "' and take notice? | s it not time to ex
-e some business judgment? Is it
t me that we should look after our-
Ves even though we may not
bc OUr brother’s keeper?
THE BARTOW TRIBUNE
VOL. 34
button of the manufactured products.
He brought to the attention of the
board the extent and accessibility of
saracite deposits from which potash
could be abstracted; of limestone,
which is extensively used in the fixa
tion of nitrogen, and that it was mid
v. ay betw-een the phosphate deposits
ot Tennessee and Florida, as well as
being located very near the sulphuric
acid by-products of the Tennessee
Copper Company at Ducktown.
The commission gave close atten
tion to Dr. Maynard, asked many
Digestions which were readily answer
ed, and altogether the committee is
greatly pleased over the considerate
ar.d respectful attention which was
given Dr. Maynard by the inner de
partmental board.
While in Washington, the commit
tee were the guests of Senator Hoke
Smith at a luncheon and each and ev
cr> member was courteously enter
tained while there. The committee
called upon Congressman Lee, who is
still confined to his room but hopes to
hi in his place in the house within
tin next week or ten days.
The members of the committee feel
g reatly encouraged over our prospects
of securing at least one of the nitrate
plants if more than one is to be built.
CHERO-COLA DAY TO
BE OBSERVED HERE,
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The Ohero-Cola Bottling Company
will entertain the public on April I.S,
and have made preparataions to re
eeivt hundreds of callers on that day
so that they may examine the mechan
ical features of their plant, the care
and painstaking effort with which they
bottle their beverage, and will, as an
added feature, furnish refreshments
and plenty of Chero-Cola to all who
call.
April 1 stli is National Chero-Cola
Day and the many plants of this popu
lar beverage throughout the United
States will furnish like entertain
ments wherever located.
The Messrs. Danders, who own the
controlling interest in the Chero-Cola
Bottling Company here, have every
desire to make a- delightful day out
of it and welcome the opportunity to
entertain the public and their friends.
To add to the popularity of the event,
a number of young ladies have volun
teered their services and will be on
hand throughout the day to welcome
and receive the hundreds of callers
and guests. The Cherokee Club has
been formally invited and urged to at
tend and the ladies of this organiza
tion, in meeting assembled, heartily
and cordially accepted the invitation.
Invitations have been sent out gener
ally to the public and a crowded house
will likely be on hand throughout the
day.
UNITED STATES SOLDIERS
GUARDING RIVER BRIDGE.
Cartersville has been furnished with
substantial evidence that a state of
var exists and encamped on the Eto
wah river at Etowah switch is a com
pany of twenty-six soldiers, part of
Company B. of the Fifth Georgia regi
ment. The purpose of placing the de
tachment here is to guard the river
bridge so tha’ German agen sand
emissaries will not be able to blow up
the bridge or otherwise destroy it.
Lieutenant Phillips is in charge of
the detachment and while off duty the
soldiers themselves come into Carters
ville where they are given warm wel
come and have already made many
pleasant acquaintances.
The presence of these gentlemanly
soldiers i.n Cartersville has greatly
stirred the war spirit in many of the
young men of the city who have deter
mined to enlist in either the army,
naval or marine service. T'*e detach
ment have set up their tents and have
a comfortable camp arranged and Car
tersville citizens should do everything
possible to make the ! r presence here
comfortable and pleasant.
THE CARTERSVILLE NEWS
CARTERSVILLE, GA., APRIL 12, HR7
PREACHER KILLED
111 AUTO ACCIDENT
Rev. Jesse Adr ms Fatally
Injured When Car Turns
Turtle.
Unfamiliar with the handling of a
car aud attempting for the first time
to make anything like an extended
drive, Rev. J. W. Adams, a resident of
Cobb county, was killed on the Car
-1 j rsville-Emerson road at the point
known as the "Chalk Cut” last Friday
afternoon, the car which he was driv
ing turning over and throwing him
out, from which fall or from the car
■striking him, his skull was crushed.
It appears that Mr. Adams, who
lives near New Hope, had been to Car
tersville and perhaps beyond. In Car
tersville he had purchased some pigs
and was at the time taking them home.
With him was his grandson, who had
been doing the driving of the car, and
another man. Leaving Cartersville,
Mr. Adams suggested that he drive
the car. Going rather rapidly beyond
Emerson toward Acworth, he w'as un
able to steadily pilot or guide the car,
and to such an extent that at the
chalk cut a tire developed a puncture
which caused the ear to turn com
pletely over in the road. A few min
utes later, help being called for by the
other occupants of the car, it was
found that Mr. Adams was dead, bm
(
the other two were only slightly hurt.
Mr. Adams was a Baptist minister
and has frequently attended meetings
and preached at, Baptist churches in
this county. He was popularly and
highly esteemed and news of his
death was regretfully received by all
who knew him. ,
The machine was a Ford car and had
been owned by Mr. Adams a short
length of time, but due to the rapid
driving by which it was propelled, tile
tires were worn by dragging and
scraping and from which a weak place
developed. Upon the puncture taking
p'ace, the ear gave down suddenly and
one of its wheels cut under and caused
the car to overturn.
IVOR GILREATH URGES
PRODUCTION OF FIOD STUFFS
To the People of Bartow County:
I want to appeal to every man, wo
man and child in Bartow county to
meet an immediate emergency.
We face a crisis; conditions that
should enlist the heartiest co-opera
tion and patriotism of everyone.
Food stuff is abnormally high and
very, very scarce. We can no longer
call on other sections for the necessi
ties of life. We must raise them, and
raise them this year.
We must plant corn and beans and
potatoes and other food products that
we can not only live on during the sea
son, but products that can be and must
he canned and dried and conserved in
every conceivable manner.
Every household must raise hogs,
and not sacrifice our cows, our beef
cattle nor the yearlings.
Every berry should be picked and
put up. All the fruit should be canned
O'- dried. Raise chickens.
Anything, my friends, that will feed
the hungry and relieve the situation
we all must face.
This appeal is to both white and
Germany’s strength ha° been la.ge
ly due to the fact that they have fed
themselves and their scldiers. Geor
gia’s weakness is today due to the
fact that we are actually not raising
enough to feed ourselves and our
stock. As long as a people have plenty
to eat, they will support their country
and maintain their armies; but once
a people becomes hungry and once an
army finds itself unfed, mutiny breaks
cut, riots prevail; and nothing would
give our enemies more comfort than
to find that we have internal troubles
due to the fact that we have not raised
enough to feed ourselves. It is a hu
miliating contemplation when we con
sider that in a state as rich as ours,
with an intelligence equal to meet any
emergency, that we have become so
indifferent and careless as to net look
ahead.
BANKHEAD NIGHWAf
MAY DO BV HERE
Taylorsville And Stilesboro
May Be On Route If Ef
fort Made.
t'lie Bankhead Highway is a project
v njch is exciting great iuteiest
u.tough Alabama aud that section of
oeorgia west of Cartersville and is
particularly of interest to Cedartown,
xiockmart, Taylorsville and Stilesboro
cud all citizens living adjacent there
tc.
There will be a meeting at Birming
ham on April ISth to designate the
Bankhead highway from Birmingham
to Atlanta. This meeting will be large
ly attended by representatives from
.-notions bidding lor the location and
it is likely that a large delegation
from Bartow count) will attend foi
the purpose of joining hands witli Ce
dar town and Rockmart, Ga., and Jack
sonville and Piedmont, Ala., tor the
purpose of getting the highway routed
through these towns.
The plan of those who are advocat
ing this route is to bring the road in
to Cedartown, and from there to Rock
n:art, which even now is in fairly good
condition, and from Rockmart over to
Taylorsville. From Taylorsville this
county has built a good road which
runs by Stilesboro. From Stilesboro it
planned to run the route of the
Bankhead highway straight on to Car
t.er-sville or to connect with the Euhar
lee road at the Etowah river bridge
just this side of Stilesboro. Coming
into Cartersville, the Bankhead high
way will follow the designated Dixie
highway into Atlanta.
This proposition is strongly and en
tliiisiastically supported and there is
every evidence that it will be shortly
constructed, and the meeting in Bir
mingham promises to he largely at
tended and interesting competition for
the Resignation will he put up by the
various counties, towns and sections
who want the highway to run by their
places.
colored. It is a crisis that calls for a
united effort.
Landlords should see to it that their
tenants plant a food crop and that
they obtain ihe seed for it.
This must he done quickly. Now is
the time to plant. It cannot he delay
ed. The season is on.
Every family in Bartow county
should begin a rigid campaign of
economy. We must do without all lux
uries and be satisfied with less to eat
and less to wear, and entertainment
that costs money.
Our great country is now in a state
of war with a foreign foe. Our resourc
es must be doubled and items bearing
iq)on the sustenance of life must be
conserved.
We have little wheat. We must have
bread and corn must be planted.
Wake up, my friends, to the greatest
crisis in all our existence and do your
part as a good citizen and loyal
American.
Respectfully,
PAUL GILREATH, Mayor.-
Suppose we have the money with
which to buy this summer and fall our
foed stuffs. Suppose the west and north
have a surplus to sell us. Still, there
cures up the question of transporta
tion facilities which might prevent us
from buying, even though we have the
money, from tho:-,e who have the stuff
to sell. Even now the business inter
ests of this section are complaining of
limited car equipment. It will be a
hundred fold more so when the gov
ernment undertakes to move its
ttcops and to supply them with things
whereby they can be fed.
It is good business to raise a food
crop. If you do not you will be com
pelled to pay enormous prices for
things to eat and to feed your stock
and you may find yourself unable to
get what you want with either love or
money.
COUNTY SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT
TO BE HELD HERE APRIL 21
Plans Maturing to Furnish Elaborate Enter
tainment And Patriotic Spirit to
Prevail Throughout.
The county school commencement
will be held in Cartersville Friday,
April 20. The exercises will be held
at the court house during the morning j
hours. At no n there will be a parade I
t<. the fair grounds where lunch will j
be served and during the afternoon I
hours the field day sivoits will be held. :
As was done last year,,it is content- ]
plated to give the boys and girls a
good time on this day. A band will be
engaged and the city should be dec
orated.
Superintendent Jackson plans to
have an interesting parade which will
include, not only the school children
under their respective school banners,
but will also present floats of the corn
club, canning club and pig club. It is
also hoped that owners of automobiles
will enter the parade decorated in
patriotic colors and that officials both
of the city and county government
v ill take part. Mr. Jackson will adopt
the patriotic colors in the decorative
features both at the court house and
the parade and the band will provide
its elf with the march music of not on
ly the United States but of England
E. W. GOULD ENTERS
REAL ESTATE BUSINESS.
Elsewhere in those columns will he
found the announcement of Mr. E. W.
Gould as a dealer in real estate.
Perhaps no business man coming to
this county has in so short a time
built up a business reputation of great
er value to himself than has Mr.
Gould. Coming to Cartersville, he op
ened up and has since successfully
carried on and maintained at a high
standard, the Dixie Theatre, and has
regularly served his patrons with film
pictures of the highest order and edu
| rational value. Having a vision of
I w hat the film business would eventual
ly do, .Mr. Gould has kept steadily on
and has made a success financially
i w bile pleasing each and every patron.
! r ! his acquaintance has likewise caused
Mr. Gould to become attached to the
people of this town and county and to
have faith in the future great pros
perity of the county.
He thus enters the real estate busi
ness and has listed already quite a
number of attractive propositions. He
will also conduct a branch renting
agency and will be in all respects pre
pared to deal and negotiate land and
business transfers and those contem
plating either buying or selling should
consult him.
TOM MULLINAX ATTEMPTS
TO ESCAPE JAIL.
Tom Mullinax, confined in the coun
ty jail for a capital offense, was found
with two new monkey wrenches in hi3
possession Tuesday evening.
It is supposed that Mullinax either
contemplated overcoming his jailers
by striking them with the wrenches
a. l -' weapons and thus making his es
cape or by unscrewing the nuts of the
bars of his cell.
Mullinax, when questioned about it,
slated that he had grown discouraged
by reason of the desertion of his fami
ly as he claims, and the apparent an
tagonistic attitude of everybody to
ward him. He thought to use the
wrenches, he says, by taking out the
bars of the jali.
Just how he came into ]K)ssession of
the wrenches is not known but Sheriff
Galaway and Deputies Hicks and Price
ere seeking to find out who passed the
tools to him. Both wrenches were new
and had never been used before and
supposedly were bought for Mullinax’s
use.
Mr. Town Man, use the vacant lot
next to you by converting it into a
vegetable garden. You can save your
self from ten to fifteen dollars a month
and you will, perhaps, be able to sell
much of the products of the garden.
Now 13 the time to raise gardens. Now
is the time to learn how to grow
things. v ou will thus serve yourself
and ~erve your country and comfort
your fai -My by doing so.
NO. 16
end France and the ot?ier allied pow
ers combined in the war against Ger
many.
Cartersville should do all in its pow
ei to give hearty welcome to these
future citizens of our county and to
make the stay of the boys and girls,
as well as their teachers, in Carters
ville on that dgy one long to be re
membered. The stores and public
buildings will be decorated and each
and all have determined to do every
thing possible to make a successful
and highly enjoyable event out of it.
The hundreds of boys and girls with
their teachers and parents will be here
I front all parts of the county. Foity
! eight schools of the county will lie rep
resented and their exhibits and school
j products will he on display at the
court, house for the public.
The afternoon will be spent at the
fair grounds where the field day sports
j will he held and the grand stand
j should be crowded with the young peo
j pie, as well as the old, to witness the
'athletic skill and prowess that will
I be on exhibit.
CHEROKEE CLUB ENTER
TAINED AT EUHARLEE.
The members of Hie Cherokee Club
were invited to be the guests of the
faculty of the Bartow County Rutal
High school at Euharlee on Friday
afternoon, March 30, and a number
availed themselves of the pleasure of
accepting the invitation.
The afternoon was informal and en
joyable in every respect. .Mr. Henry
Milam assisted by Prof. E. P. Fulmer,
principal of the High School, and Mrs.
Garnette Greene, Miss Ruby Lee Bur
| lon, Miss Gardner, Miss Brannon, Miss
Florence, greeted the guests upon
their arrival.
The students of the high school also
acted as hosts and hostesses and the
grammar grades added to the pleas
ure of the afternoon with their songs,
exhibits of their work and their
bright, young, interested faces.
The well arranged, clean, attractive
school building was visited and was
of great interest to many who had not
previously visited the school. After a
short program in the school auditor
ium, tea and wafers were served in
the dormitory dining hall by, the do
mestic science department.
The members of the Euharlee Wo
man’s Club were invited to meet the
members of the Cherokee Club and
among those present were: Mrs. G.
C. Nelson, Mrs. Dan Lowry, Miss An
nie Lou Lowry, Miss Louise Milam,
Miss Fannie Lowry, Mrs. Cleo Colbert,
Miss Emma Belle Kennedy, Mrs. J. F.
McGowan, Mrs. G. E. Kennedy, Miss
Susie McGowan, Miss Mittie Taylor.
MISS KING TO GIVE
EXPRESSION RECITAL.
On Thursday evening, April 26,
Miss Minnie King, teacher of expres
sion, will give a recital, the partici
pants to be members of her class in
expression.
Those who attended the recital at
the Cherokee Club last fall pleasantly
remember the entertainment then fur
nished and the proficiency and talent
which Miss King had so excellently
brought out in the recitations and
readings by various members of her
class, while she herself proved to be a
most capable and talented reader.
Those who attended this entertain
ment will without doubt be present
again, while those who have not here
tofore been favored with a knowledge
cf Miss King’s art can be assured of
a pleasant evening by attending the
j entertainment on April 26th.
! The monthly meeting of the board
of directors of the Y. M. C. A. was
held last Mon lay when a large open
ing day was planned. Sandwiches and
j punch will be served; the place will be
| opened to all. The principal feature
will be a volly ball game by promi
nent business men. The date of open
ing will be announced later
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