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VOL* 1 fin * e:T ,*£„ fWiEjtSJO ATTEND Agricultural Short Course At Athens January 2-12 Inclusive. rs&rsttZ .he iKhßed bulletin | ... ‘ nf the s hort course offered at, tt State College of Agriculture Jan " „ 19 Tf you can arrange to go, rJt imean, You will meet farmers from the m>t parte of t state and will have a chance to. ex hinge ideas with these men. The lectures and instructions will be , well worth your time. You can get first hand the best information the State College and the United States Department of Agriculture have been able to prepare. V| You perhaps never felt the need of such information before, but you have not lived under conditions before such as exist now. Therefore, it is impor tant to prepare in the best possible manner and way for the conditions which are just ahead of us. It is every citizen’s patriotic duty to co-operate with the Lnited States Government in its efforts to improve agricultural conditions, in order meet our Government’s greatest need, an increased amount of foodstuffs. The information which you will re ceive has been reduced to such prac tical plans that it can be used by every farmer and applied by him to his every-day farm problems. Don’t fail to avail yourself of this splendid opportunity to acquire help ful, usable knowledge. The dissemina tion of such knowledge is the primary object of the State College of Agri culture and the United States Depart ment of Agriculture, but it will bene fit only those who place themselves in position to receive it. Yours truly, C. H. COX. CIU OFFICERS READY TO TURN MfMBS OVER I he present city commission ers together with the various de partment heads of the city gov ernment are busily engaged at this time closing up their ac counts preparatory to turning over the municipality with ifs pt. m< utilities and government al affairs to the new board of mayor and aldermen, selected on December 19th under the new 01 ty charter. Mayor Elect P. C. Flemister and Aldermen Elect H.H. Green and Z.M. Jackson have likewise >een giving study and attention to the charter and what is to be required of them, and have been receiving applications for posi *!(>ns under their government, it is not believed that the new tnayor and aldermen have yet consulted as a body, but from all indications, the board will be unanimous in its selections of employees, as well as upon the m : iny features relating to the ad mi S ati 9n of city affairs, office next 1 W b a mc ! ucted into the city hall)' ednesda >’ n %ht at Milam Dead . morning <iil!d Tuesday l™ Mr l,„ S home in Euhaf yH/&9ri Savr a td k du s ir h T Kank^^ t'ur f r despaired of Th i i vices waa ’ j e fl! ner-al scr- Euharb c p° n^ llcte d from the at 1-30 WpHn Sb ? erian church Rev L c rr nes<il y afternoon, ville as. £J a ™ D °( Carters assisted by R ev . Sydnor the set' Of Mr MiS ? de,ailed account app'ar i J f 1 ? activ o Hfe will ppear in next week’s Tribune. THE BARTOW TRIBUNE THE cartersville news TRIBUNE VOL 7, NO. 43) INCOME m OFFICER WILL JELL YOU HOW Will Be In Cartersville One Week To Instruct Tax Payers. In a communication received by this paper, Collector of Internal Revenue A. O. Blalock announces that a Fed eral income tax officer will be sent into this county on January 2, and will be here until January 9, inclusive. He will have his office in the Court House in Cartersville, Ga., and wiii be there every day ready and willing tp help persons subject to the income tax and make out their returns without any cost to them for his services. How many income tax payers will there be in Bartow County? If you can guess how many married persons living vuth his wife or husband who will have net incomes of $2,000 or over, and how many unmarried per sons will have net incomes of/sl,ooo or over this year, then you know. The Collector of Internal Revenue esti mates there will be 750 taxpayers in this county. Returns of income for the year 1917 must be made on forms provided for the purpose before March 1, 1918. Be cause a good many people don’t un derstand the law and won’t know 7 how to make out their returns, the Gov ernment is sending in this expert to do it for them. But the duty is on the taxpayer to make himself known to the Government. If he doesn’t make return as required before March 1, he may have to pay a penalty ranging from S2O" to SI,OOO, pay a fine or go to jail. So if you don’t want to take chances on going to jail, you had bet ter call on the income tax man. If you are not sure about being subject to the tax, better ask him and make [sure. Whether you see the income tax | man or not, you must make return if I subject to tax. Of course, persons resident in other counties may. if they want to, come and see the income tax man who will be at Cartersville. The Collector suggests that every body start figuring up now’ bis income and expenses, so as. to be ready with the figures when the expert arrives. Expenses, however, do not mean fam ily expenses, money used to pay off the principal of a debt, new machin ery, buildings, or anything like that. They mean what you spend in making your money—interest, taxes naid, hired help, amount paid for goods sold, seed, stock bought for feeding, rent (except for your dwelling), etc. In come includes about every dollar you get. It will be well for every unmarried person whose net income for 1917 is SI,OOO or over, an devery married per son living with wife or husband whose net income for 1917 is $2,000 or over to call on the income tax man and learn whether or not they have any tax to pay. Collector Blalock said to day: “The person subject to tax who doesn’t make return in the time pre scribed is going to regret it. The Gov ernment will get after all income tax slackers. “There’s hardly a business man, merchant or professional man who won’t have to make return of income. Earners, as a class, will have to pay the tax. The safe thing to do is for every person who had a to.tal income of SI,OOO or $2,000, as the case ma;; be, and who is not sure about what deductions the law allows him. to play it safe by calling on the income tax man. “The man in the field will have forms for everybody, and persons w’ho expect to call on him need not trouble themselves to write my office for forms’’ Kitchen Conservation Urged By Soule Atlanta* Ga., Dec. 19.—“ Bear down hard on the necessity of continuing' the kitchen conservation so well begun in this state.” says Dr. A. M. Soule, fed eral food administrator for Georgia, “Reports form Washington are that a great good has*already been done by the ‘meatless’ and the ‘wheatless’ days being observed throughout the coun try, btu it is a long way yet to the final accomplishment of what we are striving for. We have done so well we can’t afford to lose the effect by letting up now. CAUI BUSVLLLE, DECEMBER 27, 1917 BTHSHM B'ime . 10 BO! QUISTIOiBIRES t Hundreds Filing Their Answers And Fine Spirit Being Shown And A Purpose Manifested To Obey Every Call. The grand jury room at the court house is filled from 8:30 until 4:30 each day ith registrants who are com ing before the advisory board of law yers and business men to be assisted in making answer;- to the <|uetion naires sent them. A great many of these come with wives, mothers and other members of their families, as well as friends and employers, who assist themin mak ing supporting affidavits to substan tiate their claims for exemption. The lawyers and business men have been giving loyal and regular attend ance and their best services in advis ing and assisting the registrants to promptly answer the comprehensive list of questions which are submitted, while the registrants themselves are putting in their appearance promptly, and manifest a desire and purpose to % truly inform the government concern ing their status. The board is proceeding more and more rapidly each day with their work, having by this time become more familiar with it, and from sev enty-five to one hundred" are filing their- questionnaires each day. It is probable, however, that the list of reg istered me nin this county will not be exhausted before the latter part of January or the first of February so that the advisory board as well as the registrants themselves will be busy for several weeks yet to come. It has been remarked by members of the advisory board that rarely do the registrants appear before them without the necessary information re lating to dates and other necessary in formation called for by the question- WAR ACTIVITIES IN WASHING TON. “ The the City of Wash ington has increased at least 50.000 since the war began. It is natural that the capital city, the center of governmental activities, should show this marked effect of the most exten sive preparation for war ever under taken by any country. A steady stream lof new appointees to the great civil ian army pours into city; the streets hum with activity; everybody is busy and earnest; on every hand are the sure signs of a competent or ganization with a fixed purpose. At the request of the United States Civil Service Commission, the Wash | ington Chamber of Commerce has un | dertsken the work of directing to suit able rooming and boarding places the ; new arrivals who are not acquainted in the city. Hundreds of desirable i rooms, with or without board, a; listed, and at very moderate iate. P plication for accommodations can be made by new appointees through cor i respondence before leaving home, or ! by calling at the office of the Wash ington Chamber of Commerce, No. >6ll Twelfth street. N. W.. upon then arrival in W ashington. Stenogranhers and typewriters make up a large part of the additions to the force at Washington. Thousands have been appointed and thousands more are needed. Ship draftsmen for the Navy Department, mechamca ora - men for the service generally, and statisticians and what are k-'’'*n • clerks qualified in business - -p 'J” ■ tration, clerks qualified in c * or accounting, index a ■ clerks, balance of stores ' : e schedule clerks for the O’ ' - partment of the Army a-. great demand. Represent ” "" ' 1 United States Civil Serv- ’ ' sion at the post off- m" ' are furnishing detr-i concerning positions at V '' T which workers are needed. qaires. In many instances the regis trants appear with a written memo randum of important detailed infer mation about their business and do- i mestic lives. The local board, consisting of W. V. Calaay. W. T. Townsend and Dr. W. C. Griffin, are likewise passing! uipon the questionnaires a.s fast as! they are presented to them, and these are assisted by Bob McCormick and Mr. Uren. The work involves a great deal of detail in the summing up and passing upon the questionnaires, which are by them forwarded on to higher authorities. John T. Norris is chairman of one division of the advisory board, and J.! M. Neel, Jr., is chairman of the other! division. These two heads of the atf- | visory board are consulted by the! members themselves concerning knot- j ty propositions which arise, and each j of these pass upon every questionnaire before it leaves the room occupied by the advisory board and are approved by them as to form,- The work is now very greatly sys tematized since its inception and ac curate and complete papers are sent forth by each registrant. It is well to caution all men who are registered in thic county to file their j questionnaire since their default or failure to do so automatically places i,V*n in the army whether they will it so or not. Moreover, the government desires the information sought by the j questionnaire an t whether a person wishes to go into the army or not he is underthe duty of answering the questionnaire so that the government can place him in military or civil serv* ice as it desires. “EVERWOMAN” LARGEST DRA MATIC TRAVELING ORGAN IZATION IN THE WORLD. Theatergoers who have been misled ; by managerial prtensions of alleged New York productions which are pre sented by companies of ijctors which have never played the metropolis, with i the scenery and costumes cut down to meet the “requirements” of “the road,” will surely appreciate the ef- i foi ts of Henry W. Savage, the New ! York producer and manager, who is sending the big dramatic spectacle, “Everywoman,” to Atlanta, where it will be offered at the Atlanta Theater on December 31 and January 1 and 2. This is the only company present- j ing “Everywoman,” just as it was the only company presenting “Everywom- j an” last season. The company is just 1 as nearly the same as it was possible for the managerial skill to make it. j In a company requiring thirty-seven speaking characters it is next to im possible ’to keen exactly the same | cast from season to season. Actors are only human; they die, change . their professions, advance, retrograde like other human beings. Yet as near as possible the cast of “Everywoman” is the same this year as it was last ! year, and the same last year as it ! was the year before. Some of the - original creators of the various roles are still plavimr the characters and ! have done ’■i < 'ince the onening pe’’- formance. Tb scenic poninment ic just as e’ahorofe a" new. and in ! every wav an e v acfc , ate of ♦bn* at the first no’-f'Wmancp. It is fresh and snip-' s”! 'man. Th" cos tumes are no t.o th minute. ' p hc”? ha® been no pe-jne- ?nnrv ef +he ef fects to na ,_ e if ®s'i n r *o aS , '' , n’e WOU’d np-rfiit * ibf> ifjnd. Wnt wi’l nof ~rp n ->vm' ’ two t*OT) t'l r* n* ’ If Is the mo a- * - ■ ->'*■ n in —: • --v ?- Pa’ are as a ** n ‘ : > or mimical net-acf'on fs'an m -’-gp guarantee of its worth Fneojal matinees will he irk-m on Tuerdav and Wednesday at the Atlan ta Theater, Atlanta, Ga. (NEWS VOL 34, NO, 52) CHililM EiilLiil IKLRhT il Dynamite Explosion Kills L. S. McElreath And Oth ers Injured. After enjoying an evening of pleas ure and looking forwar dto greater j’ festivities the next day, two families! l were suddenly confronted bby a dis-j aster, shocking in its suddenness and' its awful toll on Christmas Eve. L.j S. McElreath, of Allatoona, with his, wife and two children, were on a visit to the home of James Edmondson at the Ladd Lime & Stone Company plant near Cartersville on Christmas Eve. Both families attended the | Dixie theatre andthere enjoyed a pic- j Lure i how during the early evening j hours and returned to Mr. Eflmonson’s. , home about nine o’clock Monday night. The plan they agreed upon was to make a “big gun” for Christmas. Having obtained the dynamite, the two men with several of the children were out in the yard, the children with other which they were using at the time. The men were busy with the dynamite, when, without any warning and in some unexplainable way, the dynamite was explode^. It is thought probable that a stray fire-cracker or some other form of fireworks had gotten into the dyna mite without being noticed by the two men. At any rate, the dynamite sud denly exploded, and for several sec onds the principals were unaware of what had taken place. The wives and mothers were on the inside of the house, together with the smaller chil dren. Both Mr. McElreath and Mr. Edmondson lay prone upon the earth for some time. Finally Mr. McEl rea+h who wa fsund afterward to be in a desperately bad physical condi tion as a result of his injuries, having lost both arms below the elbow and one leg and the other badly lacerated, with the slumps of his remaining limbs crawled into the house unassist ed. Mr. Edmondson was blind and rendered deaf by the concussion of the explosive. Dr. Adair was finally reached, and went hurriedly to the home of Mr. Ed mondson. and there workejj unassist ed by any professional aid until one o'clock. Realizing that Mr. McEl reath’s condition was well nigh if not altogether hopeless, he first turned his attention to Mr. Edmondson, after administering to Mr. McElreath rem edies to relieve the shock which he liad suffered. When he had finished surgical aid to Mr. Edmondson, whose face, throat and leg were badly cut | and lacerated by the explosion, and j to two children of Mr. Edmondson, he i then went to the relief of Mr. McEl j reath. Notwithstanding the skill with J which he performed his service, Mr. I McElreath died about one o’clock, Dr. j Tanner Lowery appearing just short ly before he expired. Mr. McElreath was about thirty j years of age, and once worked for the Ladd Lime and Stone Company, but for the past year has been living at i AUatoor.a. He bore a good reputation,- and his sudden and unfortunate end ing has caused an expression of uni versal’sorrow, especially among those who knew him. His remains weie ta ken to Allatoona for interment. Mr. Edmondson is the blacksmith for the Ladd Lime and Stone Compa ny, and has a w’ife and several chil dren, two of the children having been injured in the accident. These are all doing as well as could be expected, and it is hoped that no internal inju ries have been suffered which will make njore complicated their impair ment or-their future recovery’. FOR S AFE—One family horse. Aprlv to J. W. Stanford, Car tersville. Ga. LOST—Small hunch of keys. F>ndcr please leave with G. W. Hendricks at court house or at oom office. N _ WANT* 11—To rent to a young ma-, one large furnished room with '-verv convenience, sewer age, ’ th. not wawr, etc Mr v 1. Collins N. Erwin St. id CONTINUES JANUARY TERM Lawyers Unable To Prop erly Prepare Cases On Ac con fit Questionnaire. Judge M. C. Tarver was in Carters viiie Saturday to r the purpose of ar ranging the calendar fftr the January term of the Superior Court. He was met by all the active practicing law yers of Cartersville, and these urged upon him the necessity of continuing the court to a later date than Jan uary, contending that, due to their re sponsible and time-taking duties as members of the advisory board, they would be unable to prepare their cases for a court to be held in January. 1 Judge Tarver, however, on Satur day took a different view and cor.tin- I ued the court for only one week, and | announced that the January term would be called on January 21, instead of January 14. He thereupon assigned every case upon the docket for trial. This appeared to many of the law yers as a body blow, as they greatly desired several weeks more time with in which to get ready their cases of recent origin, and were not particu laily anxious to have to resurrect a lot of old cases which have been standing oh the docket for many years unattended to. The belief is'current that Judge Tar ver is very anxious to clear the docket, and that he is going to exact a dili gent amount of activity upon the part of lawyers in order to bring this con dition about. It is Judge Tarver’s idea that the expense of judicial ad ministration can be very greatly re duced i nthis district, and he is ear nestly endeavoring to clear the docket and to reduce the amount of time here tofore for each temr. Lawyers Claim, on the other hand, while 'dnu-- ting that Judge Tarver's desire to | clear the docket is altogether praise worthy, and can in time be brought about, that -to undertake it at this i time, when they are so heavily loaded ! down, with half of their time being given to the Government, places upon them a hardship which not only af fects the legal profession, but is a mat ter of great interest and concern to the relatives and employers of men who are subject to military duty or who must in any event make respon sive answers to a long list of ques tions which the Government demands to be answered. Judge Tarver left Cartersville early Saturday afternoon, but his leaving was followed by an additional request upon the part of the lawyers to have him reconsider his decision to hold the court in January and to give further investigation to the request made for a postponement. Evidently the last appeal made by the lawyers was ef fective, for on Monday the judge di rected that court be ccntir.’ O. until the third Monday in Apiil. GILREATH AND LANDERS DECEIVE APPOINTMENTS Paul Gilre&th has been appointed food administrator of Bartow Coun ty, and R. W. Landers fuel adminis trator. These two gentlemen are especially well fitted for the positions selected* under the recently enacted law of Congrsss providing for the regulation of price and distributino of food and fuel. Mr. Gilreath was appointed by A. M. Scule, State Administrator of Food, and Mr. Landers by Dr. L. G. Hardman, State Administrator of Fuel. It is the duty of these gentlemen to see that the law is in all respects fol lowed and in, force. It is within the line of their duties to prevent the profiteering and the charging of ex orbitant prices for food or fuel com modities and to see al-o that these ne cessities are distributed fairly and equitably and that no one person cr corporation enjoys any privileges r c enjoyed by all others in the same class. ,The appointments have give gen eral satisfcation, and both Messrs. Gilreath and Landers wili enter heartily and earnestly into the per formance of their duties. NO. 3*l