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VOL. 1
OUR CHANCES COOD
FOR NITRATE PLANE
Cabinet Board Lists Car
tersville Among Feasi
ble Locations.
The Inter Departmental Board rep
resenting President Wilson with refer
ence to the selection of a site for a
nitrate plant or plants, for which
twenty million dollars has l>een ap
propriated by the United States gov
ernment, has recommended eleven
places out of something more than one
hundred throughout the country which
were submitted, and Cartersville is in
cluded in the list.
This indicates that Cartersville is
being seriously considered by the
board as a suitable location for the es
tablishment of a nitrate plant and the
people of this "county and section of
Georgia are greatly interested in our
claim and renewed efforts will be made
to establish our right to be selected.
It will be remembered that some
time ago the government sent forth
Secretary Lane, Secretary Baker and
Secretary Houston, all members of the
cabinet, to hear and consider the
claims of the various places through
out the country for the establishment
of this plant. For this section of the
south the hearing was in Atlanta. Car
m-sville’s claims were well presented
by Judge G. H. Aubrey, supported p y
Congressman Gordon Lee and others.
The matter has been held in abeyance
for six or eight months.
In the meantime war has been de
clared between Germany and the
United States and one of the purposes
for the establishment of these nitrate
plants was to -furnish nitrates which
enter so largely into the making of
amunition and munitions of war. An
other potent reason was the need or
nitrates for fertilizer.
The location must be one wherein
the water power is available as well
as other elements, together with the
element of ability to fortify.
Cartersville has always claimed
that it had superior advantages in all
respects and that it would Ibe the most
feasible location for the establishment
of such a plant. It appears that the
Inter Departmental Board has been
favorably impressed and that out 'of
something over one hundred places
which were submitted it has narrowed
down now to where Cartersville Is
among the eleven which are receiving
the closest kind of study, and the com
mittee which has the matter in charge
for Cartersville are very hopeful and
confident that we will be selected for
the establishment of at least one of
these plants.
Chairman John T- Norris will call
the local committee together immed
iately to consider further steps to be
taken and it is altogether probable
that Dr. T. Poole Maynard, the con
sulting engineer for Cartersville, will
be present.
BARTOW COUNTY SUNDAY
SCHOOL CONVENTION.
Much interest is being shown in the
Bartow County Sunday School Con
vention which is to -be held at Pine
Bog, Ga., on July 19th and 20th.
The county officers are as follows:
President, W. T. Townsend, Carters
' He; secretary and treasurer, Mr.
Henry Milam, Cartersville; elemen
tar-v superintendent,* Miss Lillian
Greene, Cartersville; division presi
'lents: No. l, Mr. Z. M. Jackson, Car
tersville; No. 2, J. A. Whitesides,
Kingston; No. 4, Mr. L. P. Caines,
Adairsville; No. 5, Mr. C. L. Anthony,
Rydal, Ga.
of the Sunday school workers
of the county are familiar 'with the
'' OIK o: the County Sunday School
'ociation which is an interdenomi
°nal organization which aims to
| e P e\erj Sunday school in fhe coun
y to do Better work. Those who at
i!,p convention will hear some
, o' a 1 dresses on the latest metliods
j ' lay school work, and are sure
some suggestions for
I °"n Sunday schools. Last year
Le r, Were 11 Sunda y schools repre
m the county convention and
|to ea 1 l ' ie coun ty officers are trying
L u jr even “ore, if not all of the
[L * y schools represented at the
T 3 Wy convention.
I '•‘■■■’y Sunday school is urged to
j fead a good delegation.
tior,?* . the &peakers will be Miss
av assistant secretary of the
THE BARTOW TRIBUNE
TRIBUNE VOL 7, NO. 20)
TRIP 10 ATHENS
10 BE MADE BY MAN)
Men And Women To Go
And Pleasant Time Is
Promised.
Responsive to the publication in last
w eek s issue of The Tribune giving an
account of the proposed trip upon the
part of a number of citizens to pay a
visit to the State College of Agricul
ture at Athens, and in going and com
ing to visit state demonstration farms
for agriculture and live stock, and per
haps of privately ~ conducted farms,
many inquiries have been made to
County Agent C. H. Cox and several
have expressed their intention of join
ing the party.
The details of the trip, including
f he itinerary to be pursued, will be
published fh the next issue of The
Tribune-News. It is, therefore, neces
sary for all who contemplate taking
this trip to notify Mr. Cox in order
ihat he may know just how many cars
?md how many persons are to make up
the party so that he can make definite
arrangements along the route and at
Athens for the comfort and entertain
ment of all who go.
Mr. Cox has received letters from
the Slate College expressing appre
ciation of the intended visit and giving
assurance that special preparation for
the entertainment of the party will be
made. The college warmly welcomes
these visits from the citizens of .he
various counties and regards them as
net only beneficial to the visitors but
helpful as well to the college.
Mr. Cox desires that it should be
known that ladies are encouraged and
expected to be very much in evidence
and that a number of ladies have al
ready expressed 1 their intention ot
making themselves members of the
party. All ladies who desire to go may
lest assured that they have a most
cordial invitation to join the party.
Twenty cars for the trip have al
ready been registered. All others hav
ing cars and who will make the trip
should send this fact to Mr Cox and
the number that will be carried in
each car.
This trip promises to be not only in
formative and instructive to all who go
but a most pleasant occasion socially
will be made out of it. 1J is planned to
make a feature of a vocal male quar
tet which will furnish music for the
party as well as their hosts enroute.
While a portion of the party will be
busily engaged in exanyning the live
stock and the agricultural exhibits, the
quartet Will be regaling the specta
tors and all with a number of happy
selections of music. It is also planned
to pull off a few other stunts in order
that those who are to be visited will
remember us not only as inquirers and
seekers after knowledge but as good
entertainers as well.
Georgia Sunday School Association,
and Mr. J. S. Robinson, secretary for
the Cherokee Presbytery. Miss Davis
is known throughout the state as one
-
*
jilt
MISS FLORA DAVIS.
of the most efficient speakers in Geor
gia. The Sunday school workers who
have heard Miss Davis know what to
expect and who have not yet
heard her should do so as there is a
treat in store for them.
Mr. Robinson is a splendid worker
and a forceful speaker. He impresses
his audience as a man who knows
what he is talking about and goes
right to the point
THE CARTERSVILLE NEWS
CARTERSVILLE, GA., JULY 12, 1917
SUPERIOR COURT
NOW IN SESSION
Judge Tarver Delivers
Strong Charge To Grand"
Jury.
The superior co#at of Bartow coun
ty for the July term was convened
Monday morning. Judge Malcom C.
Tarver arrived in Cartersville Sunday
evening and promptly at ten o’clock
Monday morning rapped for order in
the court room. Solicitor General J.
M. Lang was in his place as the rep
resentative of the state and the court
ordered the clerk and sheriff to call
the grand jury.
Eleven drawn jurors were excused
from duty on account of the necessity
of farm duty and for one or two other
reasons deemed by the court sufficient
under the law. This necessitated the
addition of four talesmen to make the
grand jury complete with twenty
three men. The jury was then directed
by the court to retire to its room, or
ganize and return to receive the
charge &t the court. The court ther6-
upon took up the selection of the
traverse jury which was done within
a short period of time. A few seconds
later the grand jury returned and an
nounced that it had selected Capt. .1.
J. Calhoun as foreman.
Judge Tarver theu proceeded to give
the jury in charge a list of matters to
be considered, as directed by the code.
Preliminary to this, he took up the
oath of the jury wbjch it had just
subscribed to and, sentence by sen
tence and clause by clause, analyzed
it, explained it and elaborated upon
it to the very great interest of, not
only the jury itself but the court room
filled with spectators, and
lawyers. Judge 'Tarver required from
about forty-five minutes to a%our for
the charge which was intently listened
to and which was purely an instructive
and advisory court deliverance upon
matters which the jury would have to
consider. It was devoid of any sensa
tionalism and contained nothing but
references to the law and its enforce
ment and to the method of ascertain
ing the condition of the county’s in
stitutions. and direction as to how they
should perform their duties and report
them to the court.
Having received their charge, the
grand jury retired and took up the
matters to be by them considered dur
ing the term.
The court then proceeded to call
the docket. Set for trial were a num
ber of cases ten. twelve and fifteen
s ears old which Judge Tarver an
nounced he wanted to get off the dock
et and to clear it so that the business
of the court could be transacted in a
much shorter space >ef time than has
heretofore been required A number
of these cases were dismissed for want
of prosecution, a number were settled
and compromised, and only a few
were tried. Probably more than twen
ty-five were taken from the
docket on Monday in this manner.
Through the two weeks the judge
has placed upon the calendar every
case upon the docket and will insist
on a disposal cf these cases in some
form or other. It is believed by court
officials that the docket will be at
least fifty per cent reduced by the end
of the next two weeks and it is Judge
Tarver's hope that the cost of admin
istration of justice in this county will
be reduced twelve hundred dollars a
year, beginning at the end of this
term.
The following compose the grand
jury: C-apt. J. J. Calhoun, foreman; J.
tY. Vaughan, l. C. McTier, J. C. Kerr,
\\ B. Hawkins, R. F. Jolly, John G.
Logan, W. M. Dodd, Wm. T. Bell, W.
V/. Adair, G. W. Waldrup, W. A. Dodd,
J A. Wilson, J. M. Field, Sr., L. P.
Gaines. W. P. Fallis, W. A. Hendricks,
G. Hames, T. W. Tinsley, W. R.
Kilpatrick, Z. T. Russell, R. A. Milner,
J. M. Hamrick.
CRAWFORD GOODE SHOWS
FIRST COTTON BLOOM.
We neglected to announce last week
that Mr. Crawford Goode had brought
in the first cotton bloom for this coun
ty\ Mr. Goode is cultivating the John
A. Stephens’ place on Pumpk;nvine
creek, from which place the first cot
ton bloom has heretofore come a num
ber of times, and picked the bloom
brought into this office pn :~aturday,
June 30th.
TABERNACLE PLANS
EXCITING INTEREST
Committee In Charge Con
■+*
fident Of a Successful
Meeting.
The Sam Jones Tabernacle meeting
will begin this year on Sunday after
noon, July 29tig and run through the
2d Sunday in August. Possibly it may
go into the week following the second
Sunday in August, depending upon the
interest manifested.
The committee has de
cided to have no preaching this year
at 11 o'clock on Sundays so as not to
interfere with the regular morning
preaching and Sunday-school services
at the different churches in the town
and surrounding community, thus en
abling everybody to attend their re
spective churches, both Sunday school
and preaching services, at the morn
ing hcijiirs on Sunday. Each Sunday af
ternoon and night there will be
preaching at the tabernacle. During
the wfcek services will be held as in
the p£(st. ' *
The. committee has been very for
tunate* the present year to be able to
secure the Moore-Stapleton-Kidder
party *o conduct the tabernacle meet
ing. llev. O. F. Cook, pastor of the
First Methodist church at Thomasville,
Ga., has the following notice in the
Wesleyan Christian Advocate of re
cent date concerning a meeting held
in liis,church:
“A remarkable revival meeting has
just been closed in Thomasville by
the Moore-Stapleton party, consisting
of Rev. Arthur J. Moore, Mr. O. W.
Stapleton and Mr. Charles D. Kidder
This is the third meeting conducted
by Arthur Moore in the Thomasville
Metho&tet church within three years
and a half. One hundred were received
into the church in each of the first two
meetings and one hundred and seven
teen applied for membership in the
last meeting. *
“Brother Moore fully sustained his
good reputation here, greater crowds
than ever attending the services. His
preaching was better aud his spiritual
power more manifest.”
Rev. R. A. Edmondson, pastor of St.
Paul’s church, Atlanta, pays Mr.
Moore the following tribute:
“It gives me great pleasure to com
mend to you Brother Arthur Moore,
of Macon, for your tabernacle meet
ing. He is sensible and sane. He pos
sesses an attractive personality, is a
pleasing speaker, magnetic, does not
preach long sermons, holds his audi
ence throughout the service. They go
away with the feeling they cannot af
ford to miss the next service. His
work at St. Paul was (Without criti
cism, and was enthusiastically com- :
mended by everybody.”
Other notices regarding the taber-1
nacle meeting will appear in later ■
editions of The Tribune-News.
| ERNEST RAY LEAVES ,
FO". PHILADELPHIA.
Mr. Ernest Ray left Tuesday morn
ing for Philadelphia where he goes to
accept.a position with the United.
States government as painter in the
navy yards at that port. Mr. Ray,-who
deservedly enjoys a wide circle of
friendships in this city and county,
I carries with him the good wishes of
these together with a proficiency* and
knowledge of his trade which insures
success.
NATION USING BIG FIGURES
IN PREPARATION FOR WAR.
The following figures indicate to
what extent the scale of army* opera
tions at the present time have in
creased over the figures,of two years
ago:
In the year 1915, $450,000 was ap
propriated for earonautics; under the
urgent efficiency act, $47,000,000.
In the year 1915 for sustenance,
$9,800,000; this year $113,000,000.
In the year 1915, $10,000,000 for reg
ular supplies; this year almost sllO,-
000,000.
In 1915, $13,000,000 for transporta- :
tion; this year almost $222,000,000.
In 1915 for clothing and camp gar-!
rieon equipage, $6,500,000; this vear
$231,500,000.
Tn 1915. SIBO,OOO for ordinance; this
year $2,650,000C
In 1915, $450,000 for manufacture of
(NEWS VOL 34, NO. 29)
1. SEWELL REPORTS
ON SCHOOL MAHERS
Attendance Larger And
Some Changes Are Rec
ommended.
Superintendent H. L. Sewell has
f.led with the Board of Education a
report for the month ending May 29,
1917 of the city schools, the report
dealing only with the last month. The
statistics as well as the recommenda
tions made by the superintendent will
be found to be interesting and should
be read by the people of Cartersville
interested in the public school system.
Report of Superintendent for School
Month Ending May 29, 1917.
To the Hon. Board oT Education,
Gentlemen:
I beg leave to submit the following
report for the ninth month:
Attendance.
8 8
I 1 I I I
< *"■ n O £.
||l I l
tti 1 I
a, a. Z % £
East School 91 3 5 007 98 93 191
West School 93 016 107 120 233
High School 92 1-2 034 4040 80
White School 92 8-10 019 245 269 504
Colored School.. 92 016 131 159 290
Total... 92 4-10 017 376 418 794
Finance.
Amount of tuition received and de
posited to the credit of the City Publio
School Fund:
Tuition of white pupils $137.00
Tuition of colored pupils 24.00
ll diplomas 20.50
Total $181.50
The average daily attendance in -the
white school is 493 for the current
year against 46-8 last year. This is an
increase of 25, notwithstanding we
have had an epidemic of measles
year in school. We had a general aver
age in daily attendance of 568 for Oc
tober, which shows how much the
measles has effected the attendance.
The enrollment for the year is 576 in
the grammar grades and 99 in the
high school, making a total of 675 in
the white schools, an increase of 26
over la§t year. The enrollment in the
colored school for the year is 427
which is 32 more than last year.
For several years there have been
no changes made in the course of
study in the primary department. 1
suggest that we change the readers
from the first through the third grade.
These leaders have been used for sev
eral years and we need readers bette’ -
adapted to the modern sdupational
ideas.
The teachers have labored diligently
and efficiently in their efforts to keep
the school up to the standard of the
best city schools. A conscious and per
sistent effort has heen made in the
English department to strengthen the
fundamentals in this v r ork. Pupils are
required more rigidlv than ever before
to apply the facts and rules learned
in the text in their daily conversation
and in their written exercises. As you
know our pupils have won the ready
writing medal of the High School As
sociation in Seventh Congressional
District every year with one excep
tion.
I hope to see Cartersville with a
modern high school building where
u anual training can be taught suc
cessfully.
In conclusion, I wish to express my
thanks to you for your loyal co-opera
tion and sympathy.
Respectfully submitted,
H. L. SEWELL, Supt.
arms; this year something over $55;-
000,000.
In 1915, $700,000 for ordinance
stores and supplies; this year $106,-
500,000.
Purchases have been authorized as
follows:
Over five million blankets.
Thirty-seven million yards bobbin
r.et.
Two million coats.
Forty-five million five hundred
thousand yards cotton cloth, olive
drab.
Twenty-one million three hundred
thousand yards unbleached drilling.
Six million pair shoes.
Eleven million one hundred and
ninety-one thousand pairs light woolen
stockings.
JOHNSON RESOLUTION
ADOPIED Br HOUSE
Bartow Representative
Against Including Cot
ton Food Control Bill.
A resolution introduced by Repre
sentative M. L. Johnson of this county
in the lower house of the legislature
Inst week brought forth favorable com
ments from all portions of the state
and was adopted by the house with
but one dissenting vote and very ac
curately and correctly expresses the
sentiment of the people of Georgia
with reference to the effort of con
giess to place cotton and its products
under government control in ttffe bill
pending before congress to take con
trol of certain agricultural products
and minerals.
Mr. Johnson is to be commended for
setting forth in concrete form the
many good reasons contained In the
resolution why congress should not
embrace cotton in the operations of
this bill.
Mr. Johnson’s resolution is as fol
lows:
Whereas, The press carries to the
country this morning the Information
that the United States has placed cot
ton and its products under govern
ment control; and,
Whereas, Cotton has not yet reach
ed a price equal to the value at which
cotton goods have been and are now
selling; and,
Whereas, The government refused,
when, in 1914, the farmers sought its
help when by reason of the European
war starvation prices obtained for
their product and ruin for owners of
distressed cotton came; and,
Whereas, The government, thrbugh
Its Interstate Commerce Commission,
did relieve railroads for the same as
signed war reason and allowed an in
crease in their rates, which was ap
proved iby the president; and,
Whereas, The government did create
a Bureau of Ix)ans and thereby pro
tected the price of cotton at that time
in the hands of speculators, gamblers
and exporters, and after refusing aid
to the Southern Cotton Growers; and,
Whereas, Cotton has not yet reach
ed a price which will make an equit
able and evening-up price when the
prices of the last three crops are con
sidered together; and,
Whereas, The present rise in prices
is based on the natural demand for
said product acd the shortage in the
supply of same, together with the poor
prospect for the 1917 crop;
Therefore, Be it resolved by the
Houes of Representatives, the Senate
concurring, that it is the sense of the
General Assembly of Georgia that
there does not exist at this time any
necessity for government control of
cotton prices.
Resolved second, That we protest
against the government touching the
cotton prices at present when it re
fused to aid us when we were in dis
tress and needed help.
Resolved third, That it is absolutely
unfa;", unjust and inequitable for the
government to control higher
prices of cotton unless it will aid the
farmer when in distress and fix a min
imum remunerative and profitable
price above the cost of production.
Resolved fourth, That copies of this
resolution be furnished at once to the
United States Senators and Congress
men from Georgia. 1
O. C. OMER NOW MANAGES
BOTH CARTERSVILLE HOTELS.
Mr. O. C. Omer, the popular proprie
tor and lessee of the Park Hotel, this
week closed negotiations whereby he
became the manager and proprietor of
the Hyatt Hotel as well, and hereafter
these two establishments will be con
ducted by Mr. Omer under the same
management.
Mr. Omer, through his splendid man
agement of the Paj’k Hotel, has great
ly increased the popularity of this
place and with the traveling public is
a favorite. Locally, and among the
traveling public, the news that he has
taken over the Hyatt Hotel will be
gladly received.
Mr. Sam T. Light, who has for the
past two years managed the Hyatt,
has not yet determined what business
he will engage in but hopes to be able
to continue to live inCartersville where
ht has formed many friends and ac
quaintances.
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