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'UBBARTOWTRIBUNB The CARTERSVILLE NEWS. Published Weekly on Thursday ■ , ■■ IM. ■ . ■ ■ . ■— 11BUN1 PUBLISHING CO. (ikcmpokatko) Subscription Rates: $1,50 per year. ' 75c for six pionths. 40c for three months.' Advertising rates furnished upaa implication. Proper notice of deaths will ar rays be published without charge is boob as we leara of them, but formal obituary notices sent in later mil be charged for at regular ad vertising rates. We reserve tba right of editing all items published Entered as second-class matter, February 17, 1910, at the post office at Cartersville, Ga., under the Aet •f March 3. 1879. SHAREHOLDERS’ MEETING. The regular annual meeiinf, nf the Shareholders of this Bank will be held Tuesday, January 8 ,1918, at 4 o’clock p. in. for the election of Directors to serve for the ensuing year, and for the transaction of such other business as may be properly presented. FIRST NATIONAL BANK, CARTERSVILLE, GA. O. W. HANEY, Cashier. SHAREHOLDERS M EEI'ING. There will be an annual sharehold ers meeting of the stockholders of the Bank of Cartersville at the office of the bank on Thursday, January 10th, 1918, at 11 o’clock A. M. for the purpose of electing a Board of Directors, receiving annual reports and such other business as should come before said meeting. CT M. MILAM, Cashier. This December 12th, 1917. LETTERS TO SANTA CLAUS. Dear Santa Claus: I want you to please bring me a cowboy suit, air gun, train, box of stationery, fireworks, and all kinds of fruits and candy. Don’t forget my mamma and daddy. I wish you a Merry Christmas. GEORGE DONAHOO. Dear Santa Claus: i I want you to please bring me an Indian suit, a box of tinker toys, a little chair, a printing machine, a merry-go-round, nuts, fruits, candies CHRISTMAS CHEER!! A FULL LINE OF Crystallized Fruits, Fancy Pecans, English Walnuts, Brazil Nuts and Almonds The Best Eating Candy You Ever Tasted A Big Line of Fire Works , * A Full Line of Fresh Fruits, Oranges, Apples, Bananas, Grape Fruit, Etc. Lots of Meaty Raisins, Figs, Dates, Etc. THE BEST LINE OF FRY IT CAKES AND PLAIN CAKES FOR CHRISTMAS In Fact. Everything You Need to Make Your Christmas Perfect H P I Mgj ' COME TO SEE I S stEEIH “MATTHEWS" 5 Mail Orders Given Prompt Attention of all kinds. I am sending you 25 cents to buy me some firecrackers. I.have been helping mamma all this we4k. ■ Your little boy, GENE WATKINS. Dear Santa Claus: iy*i George Donahoo’s littjf cousin, and live right nex tdoor to him. Piease bring me a baby doll, blocks, tea set and anything else you have for litlte girls like me to play with. RUTH SATTERFIELD. Dear Santa: I want you to be sure and come to Best Siding, and please bring me a wagon with shafts to it, so I can drive my goat to school. Also bring me some marbles, a knife and some confectionaries and fruits. And please don’t forget my little sister, Pauline. Bring her a big doll and a lot of other nice things. And we will do our best to be good little children. And oblige * CLAUDE AND PAULINE CHIT WOOD. .Dear Santa: Plase come to see me and bring me a nice lavalliere and a box of fire works; also candies and fruits, and I will try to be a good girl all next year. Your little girl, LOIS CHITWOOD. Dear Santa: Please come to see me and bring me a locket and chain, a box of col ored crayons and a lot of nice fruits and candies. Now, please don’t for get this, and I will be as good a little girl as I can. Your little girl, FANNIE LOU CHITWOOD. Dear Santa Claus: Please bring me a bicycle with three wheels, a doll, a rubber ball, a feather mattress fot my doll bed, and some candy. Please don’t forget my “E.” She wants a big stick of candy. With love, NANCY WEST. 301 Gilmer street. Dear Santa Claus: I want you to please bring me a doll, a go-cart, a little table and chair, a tea set, a little bucket and a shovel, nuts and some candy and fruits. And do please bring my little sister a rattler and a little doll. IYour loving little girl, FRANCES WATKINS. THE BARTOW Dear Santa Claus: I want to write you what I wapt for Xmas. Please br|ng me a pretty doll that will go\o sleep; also a pret> ty tea set, and I will certainly be a good girl. I always enjoy fruit and candy, too. Love to Mrs. Santa. * ANNE JACKSON. Dear Santa Claus: I want you to please bring me a box of tinker toys, a cap pistol and some story books, five rolls of caps, some fireworks, and some nuts, fruits and candies of all kinds. Your loving friend, HARLAN WATKINS. P. S. Don’t forget my mamma and daddy. Dear Mr. Santa: I am a little boy eleven years old. My mamma died last July, so this will be a sad Christmas with me. I heip my daddy and Aunt Nancy with the work. I want you to bring me a train with a track, and a little ex press wagon, Roman cannons, sand crackers, firecrackers, sparklers, a little pistol and caps, cocoanuts, can dy, apples, oranges, bananas and rai sins. Dear Santa, I hope I am not asking too much, but please remember Dad fly and Aunt Nancy, too. Your little friend, OTIS ROGERS. Cartersville, Ga., Route 5. 1 Dear Santa Claus: I want you to bring me a soldier suit, some shots and a gun, and a train with a heap of I want you to bring some fireworks and some skyrockets. Your friend, WARREN JACKSON. 214 North Erwin street. I >• j ' -Dear Santa Claus: I am a little girl three years old. I’ve tried to be a good little girl this year, and I don’t want you to forget me Christmas. 1 want a little cradle to rock my “Dollie Dimple” to sleep in, and a little blanket to wrap her in so she will sleep nice and warm; and I want anew dol lie, too, because Bessie is broken. I want some apples, oranges, candy, nuts and bananas. Now, Santa, this is all I want this time. So I will close, wishing you a Merry Christmas. Your little friend, SARAH JOSEPHINE DAVIS. | Aragon, Ga. Dear Santa Claus: I I am a little boy six years ol<*. I.J want y#6 to bring fne a street car.arup, and popcorn pojfpetvr some apples* or-, anges, bananas, candy and nuts. And please don’t forget little Billy. He wants a wagon. , | I will close, wishing you a Merry Christmas. Your little friend, JAMES H. DAVIS, Jr. Aragon. Ga. Statement of the Condition of THE BANK OF TAYLORSVILLE Located at Taylorsville. Ga. at the close of business Dec. 15, 1917. Resources. Time Loans $ 78,407.52 Overdrafts, unsecured .... 107.60 Bonds and Stocks owned by the Bank 6,750.00 Banking House ...*. 1,400.00 Furniture and Fixtures 1,500.00 Due from Banks and Bank - .. -s. . 1 A 4 4 0 AA ers in tms auue Due from Banks and Bank ers in other States... v . 45,697.68 Currency $3,392.00 Gold 80.00 Silver, Nickels, etc. 610.77 Advances on Cotton 4,082.77 Other Resources (Itemized) Witham Banks Mutual Fire Ins. Fund 120.00 Total Resources $148,507.66 Liabilities. Capital Stock pain in $ 25,000.00 Undivided Profits, less Cur rent Expenses, Interest and Taxes Paid 7,438.82 Individual Deposits Subject to Check 106,281.02 Time Certificates 9.536.06 Cashier’s Checks 251.76 Total Liabilities $148,507.66 ■ *$ STATE OF GEORGIA, *. Bartow County: Before me came W. M. Dorsey, Cashier, of Bank of Taylorsville, who being duly sworn, says that the above and foregoing statement is a true con dition of said bank, as shown by the books of file in said bank. W. M. DORSEY. Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 18th day of December, 1917. J. M. DORSEY, N. P. and J. P., Bartow Cos., Ga. i i The strength of the neval reserve i force is 49,250 men, 70 per cent of j volunteered for general service. Statement of the Condition of TF BANK OF CARTERSVILLE. * Located at Cyrtersville, Ga., at the cfose of business December 15, 1917: , . „ ... Resources. Demand Loans $ 5,517.23 Time Loans • • 268,239.19 Overdrafts, secured ...... 3.089.63 Bonds and Stocks owned by V Bank 30,050.00 Banking House 3.760.42 Furniture and Fixtures.... 7,657.33 Other Real Estate 8,130.00 Due from Banks and Bank ers in this State 25,970.1 1 Due from Banks and Bank ers in other States 36,392.68 Currency $13,717.00 Gold 87-50 Silver, nickels, etc 931.92 v Cash Items 3,473.79 Advances on Cot ton 42,690.09 60,900.30 Total $449,706.95 Liabilities. Capital Stock paid in $100,000.00 Surplus Fund 23,250.00 Undivided profits, less cur rent expenses, interest and taxes paid 10,351.76 i Due to Banks and Bankers in this State 178.48 Due unpaid dividends 24.00 Individual deposits subject to check 233,696.98 Savings Deposits 36,303. /0 Time Certificates ... 38,747.48 Certified Checks 444.38 Casdiier’s Checks 1,710.17 Bills Payable, including time certificates represent ing borrowed money..... 5,000.00 Total* $449,706.95 STATE OF GEORGIA, Bartow County: t Before me came C. M. Milam, Cash ier of the Bank of Cartersville-who, being duly sworn, says that the above and foregoing statement is a true con dition of said bank, as shown by the books of file in said bank. C. M. MILAM. Sworn to and subscribed before me, i this 19th day of December, 1917. PAUL C. FRANKLIN, N. P., Bartow County, Ga. FOR SALE—Several second hand wagons, all at a bargain. See W. H. Field. I Was a ||j Misery If Mrs. F. M. 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