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About The Bartow tribune. The Cartersville news. (Cartersville, Ga.) 1917-1924 | View Entire Issue (June 20, 1918)
How We Lived During the Civil War CLOTH AINO CLOTHING (By Bob Marlin.) As so many people are now exer cised over the coming ir prospective results of this war, it might be Inter esting to those who were not here at that time, to hear of some of the experiences of the people during the civil war. It is to be hoped that never again will we experience such privations, self sacrifices and suffering as did the pople of the South during those four years, when we were cut on from the whole world and had to depend .almost entirely ou our own resources, or what we could raise or manufac ture in our own borders, except such little as might successfully run the strict blockade maintained against all our southern ports, or might be smuggled through the lines between the northern and southern armies. As the South had but few factories of any kind in those days, and nearly all factories in the United States were in northern states, tEer“people Lad to make everything they used in the shape of clothes or wearing ap parel by hand without even the aid of machinery. We raised the cotton and had but little wool ,and had to card, spin and weave by hand prac tically all the cloth to clothe the home population and also the soldiers at the front. On the farm where I lived were fifty people, forty negro slaves, and ten in white family to be clothed and no market from which to buy any cloth. After the cotton was ginned it was then carded by the negro wo men with the old-fashioned cards and then spun into thread on the old-fash ioned spinning wheel, and then reeled into hanks on a reel for that purpose and woven into cloth on the old fash ioned hand loom on which a fairly good weaver could weave four yards of cloth per day. So you can imag ine how slow was the process. The cloth was woven itno various colored patterns of many designs and col ors, that could be divised by the in jenious and inventive skill of tfre'de signer, and as necessity is always the mother of invention a“great‘ many fast colors in dyes were learned to be made from various kinds of veget ables, fruits, herbs, roots and barks. And the bright and fancy colored dyes were used for finer fabrics that went to make up the dressesy for the white women and girls, especially the Sunday dresses for the young la dies as they were as fond of beauti ful and fancy dress then as they are today. And some of the fancy dress patterns devised by the house wife and her daughters would com pare favorably with many of the fancy dress patterns of today. TKe courser fabrics were died with the plain colored dyes for the common clothing of the negro slaves. As there were a few cotton factories situated on some of the water courses in the South, we could some times buy spun thread from them, which was finer and smoother thaji that spun by hand anj that, when it could be bought was always for the warp in making the liner dress cloth for the girls and in making finer cloth for underw r ear. There were a few expert weavers throughout the country, who could weave jeans, counterpaines and fancy coverlets and other fancy fabrics that the common or plain weaver could not weave, and we hired them to weave by the yard the fancy cloths tnat could not be woven at home. In making winter clothing, wool was scarce as most of that had to be made into cloth to send to the boys at the front, so resort had to be made to substitutes to make warmer cl< th ing for the slaves in winter. A large herd of cattle was kept on the farm and a great many beaves were butch ered for food, and every bit of the cow hairs was taken from the hides (that were afterwards used to make shoes), by application of hafcT who 1 ashes and mixed with equal parts bf cotton and spun and woven into a heavy doth unit went to make up the winter coats of the slaves, as it was much warmer than cloth made exclusively of cotton. Thus every thing had to be saved and utilized ana nothing wasted in order to keep things moving. In our next we will show how we got or made our shoes and hats, etc. CENTER. Air. and .Mrs. Stancel Leachmau spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs.. D. K. Keown. Mr. Howard Lewis attended pray er meeting at Center Sunday. Misses Josie and Ophelia Lewis were shopping in CartersviUe Satur day. Mr. J. R. Leachmau, one of the pro gressive farmers of the Center com munity, has harvested 225 bushels of winter wheat and still has a consider able amount to be gatehred. His crop this yea ris the largest in several seasons. Quite a number of local folks are planning to spend the 4th of July in Cartersvlle and take in the races at the fair grounds.. Mr. Woods, of South Georgia, is visiting his son in this community at this time. The recent epidemic of measles has ended and the health of the com munity is unusually good at thi stime HOWARD WARD IS ADJURED INSJNEBY ORDINARY’S COURT Air. Howard Ward, 24 years old, a son of Mr. Calvin Ward, who resides five miles south of Adairsville, was tried on a lunacy charge before a jury in the ordinary’s court Tuesday morning, and after a thorough inves tigation was adjudged a fit subject for the State sanatarium at Milledge \ille. Mr. Ward has been in bad health recently, according to the evidence presented, and his family feared that he would be violent, if permitted to remain at home. 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The next morning I wasn’t able to get up and lay in bed for three days, hardly able to move. I could hardly pass the kidney secretions and they burn d in passage. After taking Doan's Kidney Pills I was able to get up and return to work.” Price 60c. at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy—g*'t Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that Mr. Tedder had. Foster-Milburn Cos., Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y. THE TRIBUNE-NEWS, CARTERSVLLE, GEORGIA, JUNE 23* 1918 CLEVELAND TRACTOR SPEtfc)! The Crying Need of Farms and Farmers. 1111 The war has reached its critical stage. It has resolved itself into a life and death race between the farms and factories of Amer ica and her Allies on one hand—and Prussian ism on the other. We have greater speed. That is the cry ing need of farms and farmers. For speed properly applied will win the war. Cleveland Tractors are helping to this vital need for speed. They are success fully replacing man and animal power on thousands of farms—large and small—and in scores of factories, all over the country. They are enabling the war depleted ranks of labor to meet the increased demands for product ion—-in faster time. North, South, East and West, Clevelands are plowing, harrowing, planting, reaping. They are cultivating and hauling. They are building and repairing roads and draging huge logs. They are spotting freight cars and pulling wagons. They are crawling among the lathes and benches of our factories. They are working in mud and sand, on loading platforms, and on our boulevards. They are doing stationary engine work of various kinds. The small size of the Cleveland enables it to go under and among small fruit trees, in and out of narrow doors and over untraveled roads. It carries, picks up and lays down its own tracks like the famous “tanks” on the F,uro W. |-|. FIELD Dealer for Bartow, Cherokee, Gordon, Polk and Cobb Counties. MOTHERS! DON’T TAKE CHANCES IF CHILDS TONGUE IS COATED If C r oss, Feverish, Sick, Bilious Clean Little Liver and Bowels. A laxative today saves a sidk child tomorrow. Children simply will not take time from play to empty their bowels, which becomes clogged up v-ith waste, liver gets sluggish, stom ach sour. Look at the tongue mother! If coat ed, or your child is listless, cross, feverish, breath bad, restless, doesn't eat heartily, full of cold or has sore throat or any other children’s ail ments, give a teaspoonful of “Cali fornia Syrup of Figs," then don't worry, because it is perfectly harm less, and in a few hours all this const! pation poison, sour bile and ferment ing waste will gently move out of the pean battlefields. 600 square inches of tradiion surface help to prevent miring, slipping and sinking in soft mud, clay, sand or gumbo. The Cleveland steers by the power of its engine, and will turn in a twelve-foot circle. It can be housed in less space than is required by a single horse. But in spite of its small size the Cleveland develops 12 horsepower at the drawbar and 20 horsepower at the pulley. It plows 3 1-2 miles an hour—eight to ten acres a day. That is equal to the work of three good 3-horse teams and' three men. Rollin H. White, the famous motor truck engineer, designed the Cleveland Tractor. He has used only the best materials. And the machines are built under his direct supervis ion. The track is designed for long service. The sections are constructed to prevent dirt and mud from falling into the track. They are joined with hardened steel pins having their bearings in hardened steel bushings. Gears are protected by cases and are of the same quality as those of the finest trucks. The Cleveland weighs less than 3,200 pounds. Speed up your farm work—or your fact ory work with one or more Cleveland Tract ors. Serve the Nation in her hour of need— and incidentally do your bit more profitably to yourself. Write to us for complete information. bowels, and you have a well, playful child again. A thorough “inside cleansing” is oftimes all that is necessary. Ii should be the first Leatment given in any sickness,. Beware of Counterfeit fig syrups. Ask your druggist for a bottle of “California Syrup of Figs,” which has full directions for babies, children of all ages and for grown-ups plainly printed on the bottle. Look care fully and see that it is made by the ‘California Fig Syrup Company." adv. CLEVELAND TRACTOR PLEASES. .Mr. Julius U. Sampson, represent ing the Cleveland Tractor Company, and whose headquarters are in Atlan ta, spent several days in Cartersvili* recently looking after the interetss cr? his company. He stated that th purchasers of these tractors were de lighted with the work they had ac complished and he believed that quit* a number of other tractors will be sold during the next few months thru the local agent, Mr. W. H. Feld.
