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U MININS CONCERN
10 BEGIN OPERATIONS
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| ro n Ore To Be Raised By
Two Corporations O n
Big Scale.
The .Matthews Iron & Mining Com
[pany this week closed a business
[transaction with the Etowah Develop
ment Company whereby it became the
[lessee of the latter’s ore property and
[equipment on Etowah river located
near the old Cooper iron works. The
leased land comprises several hun
dred acres and the mining machinery
and equipment used at the same plaice
by the Etowah Development Company
when it ceased active mining opera
tions about three years ago.
The property leased is a comparative
ly small part of its holdings in this
county. It does include, however, the
mines operated by -the Etowah com
pany for the past ten years, also the
equipment used in getting out the
a' the same place. This will leave the
lessor company with valuable manga
nese, manganiferous iron ore and
brown iron ore on both of the
Etowah river and extending north to
the property of the Georgia Steel Com
pany property, and it is understood
that much of this will be gradually in
operation by the Etowah Development
Company.
The Matthews Iron & Mining Cos.
is a Rome corporation, which has se
cured control of the Rome furnace and
valuable red iron ore beds in Floyd
and Chattooga counties. It is believed
that some large operations, both in
the manufacture of iron and the min
ing *of iron ore, are in contemplation.
New York information lias been given
out to the effect that the capital stock
has been greatly increased within the
past wrtek and that some important
acquisitions are planned which ehir
braces another furnace and the ac
quirement of coal lands.
It has already put a force of men to
work repairing the machinery and
equipment lately leased from the Eto
vah Development Company in good
working condition and will shortly be
sot the shipment of ore.
Business and commercial interests
are looking for another mining pay
roll and a resulting increase in the
volume of business which will be
brought about which will add much
to the increase of wealth to follow the
digging of minerals with which this
county is so richly blessed.
In the meantime the Etowah De
velopment Company is planning to
open anew mine and build another
mineral railroad in order to develop
its ore beds near Ailatoona, Ga., at
vhat is known as Iron Hill or the
Crow property.” In order to get this
ore to the market a railroad will be
built from the mines to the Western
& Atlantic, touching at 41 Mile Post
Crossing. This equipment will all be
■•road or standard guage and anew
locomotive, as well as a number of
broad guage dump cars will be pur
rhased. The ore to be developed runs
high in metallic iron content,
Practically all above 50 per cent and
regarded as one of the richest ore
loads in the county.
h is planned to have this mine in
'Deration within fifty or sixty days.
Bartow county boys on
EUROPEAN BATTLE LINE.
< artersville’s first report from her
sons at the front was during thi# week
! , ‘u Mrs. W. H. Howard received a
"iegram from her son, Albert How-
J| u, that he thad arrived safely in
Condon. Mr. Howard is attached to
•u Pershing’s staff, as private sec
to General Brewer, inspector
genertd.
General Pershing will be in com
•"Od of the first division of the Amer
■ n army upon its arrival in Europe
• ini js now the ranking military au
’ onty of America in Europe. His
* a! last wf-k was heralded with
ioest joy by the English people
!i l civil and military authorities. All
■■-i of distinguished tribute was
! S(1 him and his party while in Lon
n - They will proceed to France al
">f immediately, where within a few
■ Bartow county will be represent
• two of its own product, Lieut.
' 1 U. S. A., son of G. M. Boyd,
1"E BARTOW TRIBUNE
(TRIBUNE VOL. 7, NO. 16
AMERICAN lEXTILE
BUIS LIBERIV BONDS
Subscribes For SIOO,OOO Of
Big Government Loan
For War.
The American Textile Company, of
Cartersville, this week prescribed for
$100,000.00 liberty bonds to be issued
by the United States government to
prosecute the war with Germany.
This subscription upon the part of
a Cartersville industry has set an ex
ample to the entire state and has fur
nished Bartow county with a pride of
possession that it has within its
boundaries an industrial enterprise,
riot only a model cotton mill in the
prosecution of its business, but one
v.'hich manifests its interest in the
welfare of our common country and
willing to do its share toward bring
ing success to American ideals.
The American Textile Company has
been for years, the pride of Carters
ville and Bartow county. It is a model
in efficient management and success
ful operation and with reference to the
care and provision it makes for the
comfort of its operatives. High au
thorities, and critics engaged in so
cial work, have uniformly commended
this mill, while its standing in the fi
nancial world gives it a range of cred
it which enables it to do business on
a massive scale.
In line with the policy which lias
controlled it from its establishment in
Cartersville, the company felt itself
called upon to substantially respond*
to the nation’s call for financial as
sistance to prosecute the war. It wai
the general belief that it would be a
liberal subscriber but when the an
nouncement came it spoke in large
terms. Without any personal solicita
tion specially directed to the officers
and owners of the mill Mr. W. M. Mc-
Cafferty authorized Mr. Jos. S. Cal
houn, president of the First National
Bank, of Cartersville, to enter the
company’s subscription for $100,000.00
cf the bonds.
Perhaps no subscription could pro
duce greater moral effect in Georgia
than the announcement that this mill
had agreed to take so large an amount
of liberty bonds. Known to be good
business men, the best known in the
United States, the subscription proved
that the interest returns of 3 1-2 per
cent on a perfectly good security, free*
from taxes of all kinds, was by them
regarded as a good investment. Known
i also as public spirited men the act set
j forth an example for other men to
follow'.
The Tribune has had frequent oc
casion to applaud the business genius
and public spirited service-which Mr.
E L. McClain, the controlling owner
of the mill, has shown here and in his
home town, of Greenfield, O. Within
the past two years he gave to the city
of Greenfield the land, and erected a
high school building thereon, at a cost
of a half million dollars and furnished
it so that it is considered a model high
school throughout the nation. He has
spared no expense in the development
of his cotton mill industry here, pro
viding a beautiful site, well paved
streets and walks, religious, education
al and Auditorium facilities for the op
eiatives of the factory and has been
a liberal contributor to public and
private benefactions.
This subscription alone puts Bartow
county beyond what the government
expected.
To this subscription from Bartow
county will be added that of a number
cf other subscribers, which includes
organized societies, banks, various
business enterprises, private individ
uals, both men and women, engaged
tn every form of avocation, as well as
young boys and girls. Thus, in ail these
ways, Bartow county is doing its “bit”
for world wide freedom and universal
liberty.
chairman of the board of commission
ers cf roads and revenues, and Albert
Howard.
Lieut. Boyd has been in Paris since
the war began as a representative of
the U. S. army in the study of modem
war methods. With him is his wife,
well known in Cartersville before her
marriage as Miss Annie Peeples and
a visitor in the home of her cousins,
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar T. Peeples.
THE CARTERSVILLE NEWS
CARTERSVILLE, CtA., JUNE U, 1917
JUNE TERM GOURT
NOW IN SESSION
No Criminal Cases On
Docket Of Recent
/
Origin.
The city court of Cartersville is iu
session this week with no criminal
cases to speak of to handle.
To speak of courts without any crim
inal business to transact is as hard
to understand as to refer to a city
without houses or a circus without a
menagerie. But, nevertheless, the June
term of the city court of Cartersville
is practically without a criminal dock
et. Of course this Is attributable in
large measure to the ‘‘bone dry” liquor
law, effective since last April. It has
always been known, and largely ad
mitted, that liquor was the cause of
nearly all crime.
The war is having something to do
with the criminal docket also. Many
wayward boys, victims in large meas
ure of evil associations, but possessing
otherwise good qualities, have joined
the army. Being now engaged in a
worthy enterprise the court officers
are inclined to deal lightly with a.
against whom criminal cases are pend
ing and if these show the right kind
of metal many of these cases will he
worked off the docket by service in
the army.
Even the attendance on court is
small. Farmers are busy in their fields
and when summoned for jury duty, or
otherwise, make earnest pleas to be
excused —and the court has shown a
disposition this term to let everybody
from the farms off who wants to work
Ins crop. Indeed the appearance in the
court indicates that everybody lias
gone to work. When one is a witness
he tries to get to. the court house a
minute before he is called and when
he has testified tarries not a second
longer.
Judge Geo. H. Aubrey is presiding
as judge. Civil cases of some import
ance are being tried—'but nary a crim
inal case. Sheriff Calaway is not
counting on buying the entire govern
ment bond issue out of his profits this
year in the jail business. County solic
itor Watt H. Milner is about to be
transformed into a mild and gentle
poet instead of being a relentless and
criu i prosecutor. Judge Aubrey has
not had to deliver a lecture or impose
a sentence of imprisonment upon a
j poor convicted wretch during the term,
and the lawyers, (yet having tears to
shed# have had no occasion for cause
to shed them, nor in tearful tones to
tell *he jury of the loved ones Who will
he left behind if the defendant is de
prived of his liberty and caused to
have to bear ignominy’s cruel badge in
.the garb of a convict.
And so, the city court of Carters
ville is in session this week with no
criminal eases to speak of to -handle.
The following compose the jury:
Henry Mayburn, W. P. Griggs, G. W.
Smith, ,T M. Adams, W. M. Kennedy,
G. W. Swanson, G. B. Hood, G. A.
Gray, J P. Kimsey, J. M. Wilson, M.
F. Word, G. A. Howard, R. M. Collins,
J. M. Hammond, W. T. Pittard. G. W.
Alexander. W. W. Prickett.
CARTERSVILLE BOYS ON
HONOR ROLL AT TECH.
It will be of interest, not only to the
many friends of the young students
themselves, but to the hundreds who
are proud of the Georgia School of
Technology, or “Tech” as it is more
familiarly known, to learn that three
of the honor men of this year's junior
class are from Bartow county. Jas. W.
Vaughan, who led the entire class, and
J A. Dodd were awarded a “Gold TANARUS,”
a scholarship honor at the commence
ment exercises. Grajiam Granger
w T ould also have received this honor
but for a technicality, his grades plac
ing him well within the right.
All Bartow county citizens will view
with pride the accomplishment of
these young men when it is consider
ed that out of a c'ass of 125 students,
three out of the ten honor men are
from this county and graduates of the
Cartersville High School. Not to be
overlooked, is also the fact that these
three young men were the cnJy Can
tersville boys in the class so that Car
tersville and the Cartersville High
School can claim a percentage of 100
per cent efficiency at “Tech
ALL DAY SINGING 10
BRING NANI HEBE
Annual and North Geogia
Convention at Taberria
cle Sunday.
On the third Saturday and Sunday,
June 16 and 17, there will be held in
Cartersville at the tabernacle all day
singings which will draw the finest
singers of Georgia and other states
here for the occasion.
It is the date for the North Georgia
Singing Convention, but running so
close on to the annual singing on the
first Sunday in July, it has been de
cided to combine the two and thus
have the annual as well as the North
Georgia Singing Convention in one.
Singing conventions can be said to
be among the most popular occas
ions held in this county and brings to
Cartersville each year singers and
hundreds of visitors who come to en
joy the programs.
Sheriff Wofford Calaway will be in
charge of the local arrangements and
many inquiries have been made to
him as to when the conventions wdll
be held, indicating that the attendance
this year will be unusually large. To
a Tribune-News representative Mr.Cal
away stated that the singers would be
among the best in the country and
that the program to Be followed will
contain everything usual and incident
to singing conventions.
A large number of singing conven
tions have already been held through
out the county, largely of local taleut.
These will all be brought together in
the one big meeting on the 16th and
17th at Cartersville, as well as famous
singers from distant states.
Cartersvilte citizens should make
ready to entertain the hosts who will
attend an d'a warm welcome will
doubtless be accorded. Friends and
relatives will avail themselves of the
opportunity to visit homes in Carters
ville while they are here to enjoy the
proceedings of the singing convention.
It is believed that this year will fur
nish, not only the largest number of
the best singers from this county and
elsewhere, bur that the crowds will be
greater and larger than ever before
and every provision will be made to
render comfortable all who attend.
SEABOARD AIDS EMPLOYEES
TO BUY LIBERTY BONDS.
The Sealmard Air Line Railway
Company, in order to hell) 'Be good
cause along and to aid f .s employees
t< purchase Liberty Bonds, have sen!
each man employed by the c uipany
a letter which contains the following:
“Appreciating the fact that some of
our employees may not have funds
immediately available to enable them
to subscribe to the desired extent for
Liberty Bonds, arrangements have
been made with the Bank of Union,
Monroe, N. C.; Georgia National Bank,
Athens, Ga.; The Commercial Bank,
Cedartown, Ga.; Atlanta National
Bank, Atlanta, Ga.; First National
Bank, Birmingham, Ala.; First. Nat
ional Bank, Cartersville, f whereby
these banks will accept applications
ot employees of this company for
these bonds to be paid for in ten equal
monthly installments to be deducted
by the company from wages on the
payroll of the subscribing employees.
These bonds are issued in denom
inations of $50.00, SIOO.OO, $500.00 and
$1,000.00. The banks will retain the
bonds and collect interest thereon for
their own account until fully paid for.
“In subscribing for these bonds
through these banks, you will sign a
form of deduction sheet furnished by
the company'
‘Subscriptions will have to be in
the hands of banks not later than the
13th instant.
0
‘This is an opportunity whereby
employees can be of service to the
country and at the same time lay up
an investment.”
Mr. -Bennett Conyers, who is sta
tioned at the officer# training camp at
EUrt McPherson, and Mr. William
Conyers, of Atlanta, spent Sunday at
home.
Messrs. Joe Akermaa and Dillard
Row-land have returned from Akron,
Ohio.
-•* • - i-'JtJ J SfcjK
(NEWS VOL 34, NO, 25)
TO MARK THE HIGHWAY
FOR MILITARY TRAVEL
Counties and Towns To
Hold Meeting To Secure
Co-operative Action.
The Dixie Highway between Chatta
nooga and Atanta forming a line of
communication between the big mob
ilization camps will undoubtedly be
the heaviest traveled road in the south.
The government will use it, providing
it is found available for motor truck
service, for hauling supplies from the
Quartermasteirs Deppt and Chicka
mauga and between the two oamips,
a.r, well as in the exchange of visits
between the officers in the two camps.
It is necessary therefore that the high
way not only be placed in first class
condition throughout but that it be
completely marked from terminal to
terminal with the official Dixie High
way sign without delay, so that the
officers cr cfispatch hearers in service
of our nation may have no difficulty
iu getting over the road without delay
or inconvenience.
The counties between Chattanooga
and Atlanta will be asked to co-oper
ate with the Dixie Highway Associa
tion in making the highway along the
route between Chickainauga Park,
Fort Oglethorpe, and Atlanta, Fort
McPherson, in marking the road. A
date is to be fixed when the cities and
towns and the people of the counties
themsejves will turn out and mark the
road from county line to county line,
as well as dangerous v crossings and
curves.
While the club has not been offic
ially informed, there is reason to be
lieve that the highway between Chat
tanooga and* Atlanta may be consid
ered of great, military importance and
eventually taken over and built by
the government. The interest taken, in
each county relative to marking and
the* road conditions will he a deter
mining factor in the Selection of the
route.
Aside from the patriotic duty of
aiding the governnient’s fighting arm
in every possible, it is of utmost
importance to make possible the use
of the highway for military purposes
with a view of interesting the govern
ment in the construction of your route*
as a military road.
It is safe to say that Bartow county
will be found to lie in line and that
the people will give to this proposi
tion every form of endorsement and
sincere interest.
It is also planned to paint the tde
phf ne and telegraph poles along the
way. The board of directors of the
Dixie High w-ay Association has'adopt
ed three stripes, red and whitp, each
six inches in width, to extend two
thirds of the circumference of the
pole. Three inch letters —I). H. —to
bo stenciled in white on the red
stripe in the middel. The paint mark
ers to be eight feet from the ground.
Not less than three p de.s to the mile,
and three succe--i\c pole* on each
side of road or street intersection or
turn, should l>e painted. Stensiled let
ters “Right” or “Left” with arrow
my also be used to indicate turns.
BOBBIE JONES WINS
GOLF TOURNAMENT.
The victory of iiob Jones iu the
southern golf tournament at Birming
ham last week whereby he became
the southern champion* was enthusias
tically heralded in Cartersville where
he is known and where his aunt, Mrs.
Geo. W. Brooke, resides.
Young Jones is regarded as a wizard
at. golf. He easily distanced his anta
gonists in the tournament at Birming
ham and following his play throughout
was a large gallery who made little ef
fort to restrain their interest in and
partiality for him.
Bob is only 15 years old and is said
to possess the coolness of an old and
experienced man. His father and
mother manifested f£r more excite
ment than “Bobbie” ever shewed at
any time. # ~
Mr. Sherman Granger has gone to
Nashville where he will be connected
with the Southern Bell Telephone CD.
during his school vacation. .
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BARTOW COUNTY FAIR
TO HAVE EVERYTHING
Agricultural Products This
Year Will M
Showing.
Never in the history of the county
has there been shown as much effort
to raise all kinds of agricultural pro
ducts as this year in Bartow. This ta
assurance that the Bartow county fair
will provide entertainment in the way
of an agricultural exhibit this year far
superior to anything ever had before.
Cotton, velvet beans, soy beans,
corn, hay and peas have been put in
the ground and those who have tounai
the county report that they have never
seen less untilled land than is now to
be seen In the county. This means that
the county is going to report the maxi
mum of production in the fall of 1917.
More than that the pig club boys
are providing themselves with flue
bred stock and hog growing is becom
ing an industry which is backed by
the enthusiasm of youth. Calf clube>
corn clubs and ]>oultry clubs are
speeded _.up to a high rate and when
the fall fair is on the old and young
farmers of the county will have some
thing to show.
The fair directors are busy with
their plans. The premium list will be
Issued in a few days and many more
prizes have been offered and there will
be greater incentive to contest fox
first place than ever before.
The women are greatly interested
in the work of women. The Cherokoa
Club has this year for the first time
offered a prize and a number of wo
men are taking a lively interest' i
making successful this feature of the
fair.
The live stock, negro building-,
mines and minerals and the vaakmß
other endeavors of fair department*
are to be set forth in their best list
and most attractive form.
Secretary Tinsley is assured of i
great racing program and the free act
will be such as to startle the thous
ands who will attend this year.
BOARD OF EDUCATION
FORMALLY ORGANIZES.
The Board of Education of Carters
vilie met -Monday night and orgaoi/.#u
for the ensuing year, Messrs. C. M.
Milam and W. A. Dodd, together with
H. J. Jolly, the newly elected member,
being present.
Mr. W. A. Dodd was elected presi
dent of the board, Mr. C. M. Milara
vice-president and Mr. H. J. Jolly sec
retary, ail elections being by unani
mous vote. Mr. C. M. Milam, the retir
ing'president, has filled the duties of
the office for five or six years, and to
gether with the co-operation of other
members of the board through his
tenure, has greatly adtkd to the ef
ficiency of the city school system. Mr.
W. A. Dodd, who succeeds him, is a
warm adherent of public school educa
tion and will devote sincere and ener
getic study toward a satisfactory per
formance of the office he has been
elected to fill. Mr. Dodd Is in every
way equipped to furnish the public
with the best of service in this very
responsible position; while the newly
elected secretary, Postmaster Jolly,
likewise brings to the board mental
equipment and a real interest in edu
cation which insures a satisfac ory
system of public schools.
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Given proper buildings and school
facilities of a physical character, the
newly organized board will be sure to
l ender a good account of itself and the
i cause of public school education will
continue in efficiency and popularity.
Retiring from the board Dr. it. E.
Adair has left an office to which he
has given sincere and honest service.
In charge of grounds and buildings he
has been an untiring champion of im
provements and has sought to secure
action from the board of mayor and
commissioners to provide hygienic
conditions, beautified grounds and at
tractive environment for the school
children. His devotion to the w'ork as
signed him was such as to commend
him as one who has rendered real ser
vice to the schools. Through pe/sona!
work and the sacrifice of much time he
has succeeded in getting better heat
ing systems installed and the buildings
are much better lighted.
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