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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, v ______ 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 NO. 7