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CSRTERSVILLE HIGH
WtfSJpCTION
Break Records In Athletics
And Take Cup And Es
say Medal.
I . :t > eighth annual meeting of the
enth District High School Associa
te was held at Dalton last Friday
and Saturday with a large attendance
from the various high schools through
out the district.
The session was one of the most
successful ones ever held and was at
.i('d by more than three hundred
jates, teachers and visitors. Dal
• , planned extensive ©reparations
;j ,'.d most successfully carried out a
_rain of entertainment which was
ed by every visitor who came
hin its hospitable gates.
There was great enthusiasm an!
ulendly rivalry displayed by the var
jo:is schools who attended and at. the
c'ose of the first day the Cartersville
;,:esentatives had every reason to
nibused and greatly elated over
their success in athletics.
With Pinckney Daves as the star
rf i nter, but well supported by Nor
n an Shaw, Linton Waldrup, Hueland
Tomlinson, Henry Granger, Joseph
Scheuer and C. T. Conyers, the high
school emerged from the field day ex
erci.-es the winner of the cup, scoring
thirty points to Dalton second with
eighteen and Rome third with fifteen;
besides which, Pinckney Daves lower
ed a state high school record In the
4to yard run, while C. T. Conyers tied
the state high school record in the
Wo yard dash.
In the literary contests, Cartersville
v. as not so successful, but Lewis
Peeples was declared the winner of
the essay contest and thus brought
home the medal which Superintendent
Sewell and the teachers more highly
prize than any other literary accom
plishment,
A large delegation from Cartersville
attended.the meeting and furnished
chi rs and school spirit that made for
them friends throughout the entire
district. Their return to Cartersville
on Saturday afternoon furnished oc
casion for a hearty welcome home and
the successful contenders in the ath
letic and literary contests were show
ered with congratulations.
Those attending from Cartersville
were: Supt. H. L. Sewell, Principal
C. M. Davis, and Misses Annabel Con
fer, Lizzabel Saxon, Minnie King,
teachers in high school, Miss Jessie
Daves, and the following contestants:
Lewis Peeples, C. T. Conyers, Joseph
Scheuer, Pinckney Daves, Linton Wal
drup, Hueland Tomlinson, Henry
Granger, Misses Cora Kitchens, Ben
nice Collins, Marihill Jolly, Alice Mor
ris. Also Misses Caroline Knight, Mar
garetta Womelsdorf, Cornelia Tinsley,
Ruth Tinsley, Isabel McCauley, Caro
line Field, Sarah Vaughan. Stella
Brown, Mary Peeples, Mr. and Mrs.
W. W. Daves, Mrs. H. J. Jolly, Mrs.
A. J. Collins, Miss Aileen Jackson,
Guill Monfort, Hampton Smith, Paul
Gilreath, Jr., Chas. Young, Dixon
Jackson, Clarence Jolly, Fred Smith,
John Kelly, Edgar Kelly, Warren
Granger, James Knight.
ROME TO ENTERTAIN
PREPAREDNESS CONVENTION.
I
Rome, Ga., April 17, 1917—0n Sat
urday, April 28th, a great rally of pa
triotism and preparedness will be held
h. Rome for the people of the seventh
congressional district. State and coun
ty officials from each of the thirteen
counties in the district have been In
cited to attend.
An interesting program for the day
> been mapped out and will include
addresses from distinguished speakers
he state and nation, on topics of
1 ent interest and particularly the
leased production of food crops, A
! ’" a ire of the day will be a great
ude with military companies,
colie re and school children and
mculties and secret orders in line. The
aiII be followed by the raising
1 r immunity flag near the Forrest
ment with apporpriate exercises.
‘ ions are that there will be
-incir of people present for the
esting occasion.
THE BARTOW TRIBUNE
( i JNE VOL 7, NO. 8)
CARTERSVILLE K. OF P.
ARE OISTRICT HOSIS
Distinguished Pythian Of
ficers And Many Dele
gates To Be Here.
Cartersville Lodge No. 42 will have
as its guests on Thursday, April 26th,
(Memorial Day) the delegates from all
the K. of P. lodges in the district to
the Seventh Congressional District
Convention of Knights of Pythias. On
this occasion the local lodge will have
as its guests of honor Grand Chancel
lor Geo. C. Schaufele and Grand Keep
er of Records and Seals Wm. H.
Leopold. Quite an interesting program
has been, arranged by the committee in
charge and the meeting gives promise
of being one which will dwell long in
the memories of those who are to at
tend.
Cartersville Lodge No. 42 is known
throughout the Pythian domain as be
ing the best equipped K. of P. lodge
in the south, and this reputation is
largely due to Supreme Representative
C. M. Milam, who was Chancellor Com
mander of the local lodge for many
years, and has worked untiringly for
his lodge since he first became a mem
ber.
" The program for the day is given as
follows:
2:30 p. in. Meeting called to order
at, Cherokee Club auditorium by Chan
cellor Commander J. M. Field, Jr.
Invocation by Rev. W. T. Hunnieutt.
Address of welcome.
Responses.
Business meeting of the Seventh
Congressional District K. of P. As
sociation.
4:30 p. m. Business meeting ad
journs.
Entertainment of delegates at Dixie
Theatre.
7:45 p. in. Special meeting Carters
ville Lodge No. 42, work in first and
third ranks.
10:30 p. in. Banquet.
The officers of the local lodge have
made April 26th “Home-coming Day”
for those members who have been
pievented from coming to the lodge
regularly in the recent past and every
member of the lodge is urged to at
tend.
The public is invited to the prelim
inary meeting at the Cherokee Club
auditorium.
W. M. U. DIVISION TO MEET
AT BAPTIST CHURCH.
The north-west division of the W.
M. U. will hold its annual meeting with
the First Baptist church of Carters
ville on the 26th and 27th of this
month.
The program will be in charge of
Mrs. D. B. Hamilton, of Rome, who is
divisional superintendent. Mrs. W. J.
Neel, Miss Evie Campbell and Miss
Pearl Todd, superintendent of the
young people’s work with other prom
inent leaders will take part in the
program. Mrs. W. T. Townsend will
have charge of the music assisted by
Mrs. A. B. Cunyus. Dr. L. B. Warren
will deliver the sermon on Thursday
evening, which all are invited to hear.
A program of unusual interest to
mission workers will be given and all
missionary societies of the town are
cordially invited to be present.
GRAVE PLOTS AT EUHARLEE
TO BE BEAUTIFIED MAY 1.
Citizens interested in the grave
yards at Euharlee are urged to meet
May Ist for the purpose of cleaning
them off and making them attractive
and beautiful. All who cannot actively
participate in person but who desire
to help can do so by sending SI.OO to
Mr. J. Lowry, who will engage the
necessary labor with funds contribut
ed.
C H. S. DEFEAT SOLDIERS
AT BASEBALL 14-11.
C. H. S. base ball team defeated
Wednesday the team from Company B.
Fifth Regiment, made up from de
tachment guarding the railroad bridge
over Etowah river by a score of 14
tc 11.
The feature of the game w r as Julian
Jolly’s pitching for Cartersville, strik
ing out 15 men—also the heavy hitting
of Cartersville team.
The local boys play Tech High Fri
day.
THE CARTERSVILLE NEWS
CARTERSVILLE, GA.„ APRIL 19, 1917
COUNTY ORGANIZES TO PRODUCE
FOOD STUFFS FOR 000 NEEDS
Every School In County Addressed By Bus
iness Men And Farmers And
Civic Clubs Endorse.
On last Thursday at a meeting held
at the court house attended by promi
nent citizens from all over the county,
it was determined to enter upon a
campaign throughout the county to in
ciease the production of food stuffs,
gardening, the raising of meat and
beef cattle to meet the ever growing
high prices and the needs of our coun
try engaged as it is in war with Ger
many.
Several score of prominent citizens
over the county became earnest cham
pions and advanced the soundest rea
sons why the people of the county
should be aroused and brought to a
realization of what confronts us, un
less * methods are changed which
makes this state a purchaser to the
extent of eighty-five millions cf dollars
a year of food stuffs from other parts
of the country, which could just as
well be raised at home. The national
government itself, through President
Wilson, and members of liis cabinet,
are asking the people of Georgia and
o’ the south to simply relieve the rest
of the country of the duty of feeding
us so that the surplus corn and meat
and various food stuffs raised in the
north and west can go toward feeding
our army to be raised, and the allied
nations of Europe who are fighting our
common enemy.
Mayor Paul Gilreath presided, who
himself several weeks ago took the
initative in advancing this question.
He was closely seconded by Mr. J. W.
Vaughan, who for several, weeks has
foreseen the difficulty under which
this country labors. These men say
that we ourselves of Bartow county
are offenders in this respect and buy
away from here entirely too much
food stuffs that we would well pro
duce upon the fertile fields of the
county.
A talk was made by Mr. P. C. Flem
ister, who stated that he has enough
food stuffs in stock to, perhaps, supply
the demands of his trade for three
weeks, after which there were many
things he would have to pay more for
and to demand therefor a much in
creased price. An interesting discus
sion followed with Mayor Gilreath,
J. W. Vaughan, Joseph S. Calhoun, G.
M. Boyd, of Adairsville, and others
taking an active part.
Committee Appointed.
The result of the meeting was the
appointment of a committee composed
of J. W. Vaughan, W. A. Dodd, W. T.
Burton, J. C. McTier, G. M. Boyd, C.
H. Cox, P. C. Flemister and Paul Gil
reath. for the purpose of formulating
a plan to bring this matter to the at
tention of the pfiple of the county.
The committee met on Thursday
night and decided to send committees
of business men to every school in the
county and to thereby enlist the sup
port and interest of the boys and girls.
The plan proved to be a most ac
ceptable and happy one and on Mon
day and Tuesday of this week the fol
lowing committees went to the follow
ing named places and visited the
schools of the county as follows:
Visit the Schools.
Adairsville —G. H. Aubrey, P- C.
F.'emister.
Halls, Barnsley, Cunningham— O. L.
Williams, J. W. Vaughan.
Stoner, Mineral Springs, Folsom—
F. W. Gould, O. T. Peeples
Kingston, Ransom —L. G. e3 > W.
C Henson.
Cassville, Oakdale, Pettit R. B.
M’PKERSON MU OGLETHORPE
10 BE MADE TRAINING GAMPS
It is announced that the l nited
States government has definitely de
termined on the selection of Fort Mc-
Pherson at Atlanta and Fort Ogle
thorpe at Chickamauga, .•• train
ing points for the co
soldiers to be equipped and spared
and trained for war and that at For‘
McPherson will be assembled the sol
diers from the states of Alabama. Flor
ida and Georgia, and at Fort Ogle
thorpe will be assembled the soldiers
Harris, A. W. Fite.
Emerson, Allatoona, Rock Hill—W.
T Burton, J. G. Ix>gan.
Smithville, White, Stamp Creek —
W. C. Walton, L. F. Shaw.
Atco, Rebecca, Cass Station, Liberty
Hill—H. W. Howard, Hon. Paul Gil
reath.
Pine Isig, Oak Hill, Slate, Mt. Pleas
ant—W. H Lumpkin, W. T. Town
send.
Adams Chapel, Euharlee, Gillam
Springs J. S. Calhoun, T. W. Tinsley.
Cak Grove, Ligon—C. H. Cox.
Pine Forest, Davis, Stilesboro —Paul
E Akin, J. W Knight.
Five Forks, Dewey, Pleasant Valley
—G. Shaw, Z. M. Jackson, J. P.
Adair. s
Big Pond, Taylorsville, Cross Roads
—W. A. Dodd, H. J. Jolly.*
Center, Rowland Springs—W. W.
Ciilaway, C. C. Pittman.
Macedonia, Corbin —F. E. Matthews,
G H. Gilreath,
Euharlee Farmers' Club Pass Resolu
tions.
Circulars have been printed and
sent broadcast over the county. The
farmers’ clubs have been appealed to,
and at a meeting Friday the Euharlee
Farmers' Club adopted strong resolu
tions expressing their sympathy and
pui*]K)se to raise more food stuffs than
necessary for their own use, the mem
bers of the club individually pledged
themselves to this end.
Euharlee Woman’s Club Endorse It.
TbeWoman’s Club of Euharlee pass
ed similar resolutions, having been ad
dressed by Mr. Henry Milam and Mr.
O. T. Peeples at a meeting held at the
Bartow Rural High school building.
Cherokee Club Favor the Cause.
The* Cherokee Club of Cartersville
acted previous to the meeting by the
men at the court house on last Thurs
day and adopted strong resolutions
and appointed committees of women
to co-operate to bring about more gar
dening and raising of food stuffs and
forage on the farms.
Children Enlist.
The children in the various schools
have manifested the keenest interest
and have showed their willingness to
volunteer as soldiers in this cause; the
Bartow Rural High school boys and
girls volunteering to the number of 66
to raise more food stuffs than was nec
essary for their and their families’ use.
Altogether the campaign seems to
be under a full head of steam and ev
erybody is busy at this time planting
gardens and setting areas aside on
farms in which will be planted corn,
sugar cane, sorghum, peanuts, cow
peas, Irish and sweet potatoes, soy
beans, kidney beans, and all sorts of
forage crops consisting of velvet
beans, peanuts, cow peas, soy beans,
beggar weed and Soudan grass.
Plans are being discussed whereby
mills can be established to crush vel
vet beans and to build and maintain
a canning factory so that vegetables
and fruits, of which each year there
has been a great loss, may be saved
for consumption.
Thus Bartow county is preparing to
aid its country and to furnish food
stuffs sufficient, to feed ourselves and
tr, supply a surplus.
The committee in charge will con
tinue their efforts throughout the sum
mer and fall and by next year a won
derful transformation will have taken
place in Bartow county.
from the states of North and South
Carolina and Tennessee.
This insures that at each one of
these places there will be from twenty
to twenty-five thousand soldiers in
training during the existence of the
war with Germany and that during
that period, perhaps, as many as
2 ;, 0,000 soldiers will spouu much time
at these places.
Aside from the patriotic interest
that Bartow county feels in the gov-
(NEWS VOL 34, NO. 17)
BARTOW COUNTY BOYS
JOIN THE COLORS
Army Enlistment Includes
Brave Sons Of North
!
Georgia. i
Already a number of Bartow <ounty
young men have joined the colors of
the American nation and are taking
their places In the army, navy and
marine service. Among those who
have gone forward and enlisted from
Cartersville are: James Uren, Ben
Mills, Foster Smith, Rufus Powell and
perhaps others. All these'enlisted in
the army and after examination were
accepted as physically and mentally
tit for service. Many friends of these
young men are sure that they will
cieditahly represent Bartow county
under the Hag, and the warmest ex
! pressions of friendly interest and
| good cheer have been expressed for
each and every one. The war spirit is
gaining ground each day, and it. would
not at all be surprising If it should be
announced that a company had been
organized made up of volunteers,
j should the government decide to ac
cept companies thus made up. In the
meantime there are many who are
reaching conclusions to join the regu
lar army, navy or marine service and
before many weeks it is probable that
there will be scores of volunteer en
listments in these departments of mil
itary service.
In the meantime, congress has pass
ed a bill authorizing the issuance of
seven billion dollars of bonds for war
purposes, three billion dollars of
which will be an extension of credit
to the allied nations of Europe en
gaged at war with Germany. The al
lowance of this credit and the arrange
ment of the budget for war expenses
are placed in the hands of the presi
dent, who, under the constitution, ts
commander-in-chief of the armies of
the United States.
Throughout the country the patriotic
meetings are being held and the peo
pie are possessed with a pride of coun
try and national spirit which is the
foundation of a determination to pre
vail in our conflict with Germany.
The American flag has found its way
to the front in Europe and has been
made the emblem whereby the soldiers
of the allied nations have been cheer
ed on toward making greater gains
against the Germans. The British and
French have within the past three or
four weeks retaken much French terri
tory formerly occupied by the Ger
mans and each day is registered a
gain and triumph In arms. The Ger
man losses within the last few days
is estimated to have been one hundred
thousand men, besides prisoners and
guns captured, and the fighting in
France and Belgium at present i3
bloody and desperate.
The president strongly advocates
selective conscription of an army of
five hundred thousand men and the
matter is now before congress for de
cision and will likely be acted upon
within the next few days.
GORDON LEE ACTIVE
FOR WORTHY PENSIONERS.
As the result of an amendment to
the government pension laws, widows
of soldiers who fought in the Mexican
and Civil wars, now drawing sl2 per
month, are entitled to an increase to
S2O per month, if they have reached
the age of 70 years. Congressman Gor
don Lee desires all pensioners entitled
to this increase but who are not re
ceiving it to write him at Washington
and he will gladly take the matter up
with the Commissioner of Pensions.
If there are any widows of Indian war
soldiers in this county, who have
reached the age of 70, and who are re
ceiving but sl2 a month, they should
also write him, as it is possible for an
increase to be secured for them.
ernment’s preparation for war, our
location, in view of the effort being
made to raise vegetables and other
food stuffs, places us midway between
these two camps and makes secure the
consumption of all vegetables and food
stuffs that we can raise beyond our
own needs. In other words, there will
be found a ready market for all vege
tables and perishable food stuffs, In
dependent of canning facilities which
are in contemplation.
RURAL SCHOOLSiKERL
FOR COMMENCEMENT
Fifth Regiment Band To
Lead Parade Friday To
Fair Grounds.
The county school commencement
will be held in Gartersville tomorrow,
Friday, and children, with their teach
ers, parents and friends, will be here
from everywhere.
The Fifth Regiment band will fur
nish music for the day and the popu
lar war songs of America and the
allied nations of Europe will be ren
dered. These will Include, with others,
Dixie, Yankee Doodle, Star Spangled
Banner, Tipperary and the Marcelle.
Patriotism will characterize the exer
cises and decorative features to be fol
lowed.
Shortly after noon a parade of the
different schools will take place head
ed by the Fifth Regiment band and
yarious civic and school authorities in
automobiles. These will be followed by
the several schools under their re
spective banners. There will be hun
dreds qf school children in line and
the entire population of Cartersville
should line the streets along the line
of march.
In the morning the literary contests
will be held between the various
schools of the county a ;d in the af
ternoon at the fair grounds the field
day sports will he carried on. This
will likewise be a contest between the
schools'and ■ rivalry and school spirit
will bring forth the best results. Dur
ing the afternoon and evening each
child and teacher will be admitted
free of charge to the Dixie Theatre,
where moving pictures of an educa
tional character will be put on as well
as travel, how farming is conducted at
other places and many funny pictures
Lor the amusement of the children.
The committee of Cartersville citi
zens who visited the various schools
during the week for the purpose of
urging the children to take an inter
est in the campaign for food products,
gave cordial invitation and urged the
children at each school to attend the
commencement exercises tomorrow
and these found the children very
anxious and eager to conne, and doubt
less the commencement exercises this
year will be more largely attended
than ever before.
In the meantime, every Cartersville
citizen, every official and every busi
ness interest should, laying all other
things aside, manifest interest in this
occasion and do everything possible
toward extending welcome and hospi
tality of treatment.
Superintendent J. W. Jackson, as
sisted by Mr. E. E. Adair, have seen
the merchants and business men of
Cartersville and have collected a for
midable fund to be spent in entertain
ment.
NATIONAL CHERO-COLA DAY
PLEASANT OCCASION HERE.
An unique advertising scheme with
a strong educational feature was that
employed by the Chero-Cola bottling
plants all over the country on Wed
nesday, April 18th, which was termed
“National Chero-Cola Day ”
The day was universally celebrated
In towns and cities where Chero-Cola
bottling plants are located. It was the
occasion for ‘‘open house” to consum
ers, dealers and the public in general.
Reports received here tell of thous
ands of visitors being entertained that
day as the guests of Chero-Cola bot
tling plants, and the Chero-Cola peo
ple all over the country demonstrated
to these visitors that they not only
advertise sanitation and cleanliness
but that they practiced it as well. The
day was in reality an educational fea
•ture and showed a fairness to con
sumers who -were invited to the var
ious plants to personally Inspect the
way Chero-Cola is bottled.
Thousands and thousands of dollars
were snent to show and prove to the
public ‘hat there Is merit to the claims
of the Chero-Cola bottlers relative to
the sanitary drink they are making
and the sanitary plants to which the
drink is bottled.
“National Chero-Cola Day” was an
unique advertising scheme and proved
very nopular everywhere it was cele
brated. s
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