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f/1 PAGES IU TODA v Vol. 12—No. 39. COUNTY SCHOOLS SUBJECT LUNCHEON MEETING TUESDAY Committees Appointed to Visit All Sections of County and Carry Guetings to Young People—Dr. Hulme’s Talk a Feature. Next Tuesday’s meeting of the Chamber of Commerce will be in charge of Mr. Jo seph S. Calhoun, will call the gathering to order" promptly at 1 o’clock. The subject assigned is “What the Building and Loan Association Is Doing For Cartersville.” This subject is one in which many citizens are already vi tally interested, and many more desire to learn all they can about its helpful service —to the home builder as well as to the investor. Attend this meeting sure, next Tuesday. An address by Rev. G. W. Hulme, on “Some Phases of Rural Schools,” and the appointment of committees of Car tersville business men to visit all the schools in Bartow county during the next few' days, featured Tuesday’s meeting of the Cartersville Chamber of Commerce. Dr. D. H. Monroe, who was to have presided, was unavoidably, prevented from doing so, but the program was carried out as originally planned, with talks by Mr. Willis M. Boyd, of Adairs, vllle; Mr. W. M. Trippe, of Taylors ville; Mr. M. L. Fleetwood and others. Mr. J. W. Vaughan, president of the Chamber of Commerce i announced the personnel of committees who are to represent this body in a series of vis. Rations to all the schools of the county during the next few days. The following gentlemen compose these committees, and the schools they are to visit are here given: Pine Forest, Davis and Stilesboro — Dr. Weems, L. C. Evans. Big pond, Cross Roads and Taylors ville —J. S. Calhoun, Judge Aubrey. Adams Chapel, Euharlee, Oak Grove and L'gon—J. J. Hill. H. W. Howard. Atco, Rebecca and Liberty Hill—W. 4. Dodd, J. W. Jackson. Cass Station, Kingston and Ransom —W. S. Peebles, Z. M. Jackson. Cassvilie, Linwood and Barnsley—T. W. Tinsley, O. T. Peeples. Macedonia, Center and Rowland Springs —Paul Gilreath, E. G. Shaw^ White, Stamp Creek and Corbin J. W r . Vaughan, W. H. Lumpkin. Smithville, Union Hill and Five Forks _Ben C. Gilreath, B. L. Vaughan. Oak Hill, Flex_A-T le and Pine Log —Dr. Wilson, H. W. Howard. Pettit Stoner and Mineral Springs— W. J. Ham, R. W. Knight Cunningham, Dry Creek and Snow Spring—P. F. Akin, Judge Townsend. Bates and Emerson—Earl Scheuer, W. C. Henson. Dewey, Rock Creek and Mt. Pleasant Hj. L. Fleetwood, E. D. Cole. Friends Urged To Clean Off Lots Cassville Cemetery The ladies who are interested in looking after the appearance of the cemetery at Cassville, have requested The Tribune-News to urge all families owning lots there to have their lots cleaned off at once. * If it is impracticable to do this work themselves, families may send money to Mr. B. C. Sloan, at Cassville, since he has consented to co-operate with the ladies in their efforts to keep the cemetery clean. May 10 is Decoration day at Cass_ ville, and it is hoped to have all the work done by that date. ODD FELLOW CELEBRATION. On Thursday, April 6th_ there will be held at Pine Log an old-fashioned cel ebration with dinner on the ground. An interesting program is being arranged for the event, and. more definite an nouncement will be made later. Mean time, all Odd Fellows in this.section and their friends are invited, carrying with them a well_ filled basket, and spend the day. East Side Methodist Sunday school, 10 a. m.; Epworth League, 6:15 p. m. Preaching at 11 a. m. . Mrs. T. R. Kendall .will have charge of the services at 7 p. m. Mrs. Kendall is a noted Bible teacher and religious worker. CHURCH REPORTER. A CARD OF THANKS. We wish to thank our kind friends for their kind deeds and sympathy du. - ing the illness and death of our dear father Mr C. M. Howard, father. JAMES HOWARD. MILNER HOWARD, MISS EVA HOWARD. THE BARTOW TRIBUNE THE CARTERSVILLE NEWS (TRIBUNE. VOL. 13, No. 13.) (NEWS, VOL. 38, No. 2.) A FINE COMPLIMENT FROM ONE OF BARTOW’S BEST TOWNS, AND ONE OF ITS BEST CITIZENS Adairsville, Ga., April 3, 1923. Editor Tribune-News, Cartersville, Ga. Dear Sir: While serving on # the Grand Jury last week, I had the opportunity of studying our county seat somewhat. I attended the Qhamber of Commerce luncheon, at the Park Hotel Tuesday. It was a fine affair. The plates served were excellent. The social features and the boost ing spirit were more than excellent! It shows a fine spirit among the business men. It is going to mean much to Cartersville and our county. I was, in fact, pleasantly surprised at the breeze and snap Cartersville has acquired. It ‘reminded me very forcefully of a Western town. Cartersville is now the kind of a town new indus tries will seek. It’s enterprising business men and splen did railroad facilities will bring results. May other communities in Bartow county, including ourselves, catch hold of Cartersville’s coat-tail and climb out of the rut. Here’s to Cartersville! Yours very truly, H. C. McCUTCHEN. EMERSON CHURCH, BURNED SUNDAY, TO BE REBUILT While Sunday school was in session last Sunday morning about 10:30 o’clock in the Methodist church at Em. erson, a fire broke out on the roof, completely destroying the building. The loss is estimated at several thou sand dollars, but the congregation has already set about making plans to re_ build at once. The pastor, Rev. J. M. Crow, an nounces the appointment of the fol lowing gentlemen whose business it* is to solicit funds to build a better and more commodious church: Messrs. R. B. Pledger, U. E. Paris, W. E. Stancil, T. R. Ferguson j W. B. House, J. O. Hubbard and J. L. Davis. A community-wide canvass is to be made, and it is expected the donations will be generous and in keeping with the indomitable will of the good people of Emerson. s METHODIST CHURCH REV. S.A. HARRIS AT There will be special services Sun day morning at the Sam Jones Memor_ ial Methodist Church, the pastor, Rev. T. R. Kendall In charge. Rev. S. A. Harris, presiding elder of the Dalton District, and a former pas. tor of this church, will preach at 7:30, and will hold the Quarterly Confer ence after the evening service. All members are urged to be pres ent and the generaly public is cor dially invited. Woodmen of World Organize Friday Night, K. P. Hall Spruce pine Camp, Woodmen of the World, will be formally constituted Friday evening of this week at the K. of P. hall. Mr. W. T. Cates, field repre sentative. announced this week. In working up the large class, which is to be initiated here Friday night, he was ably assisted by Mr. R. E. Griffin, dis_ trict deputy. Representatives of this fraternity will come over from Rome and assist in the initiatory work, Mr. Cates further announced. The Cartersvllle camp starts off un der favorable circumstances, with a large and enthusiastic membership. Dr. Wilson Honored By Medicos 7th District Dr. Robert E. Wilson, prominent Cartersville physician, was honored with election to the vice presidency of the Seventh District Medical Society at its semi-annual meeting held in Cedartown Wednesday. Drs. W'ilson and Tehon r who repre sented the local physicians, invited the gathering tV meet next in Cartersville, and this they will do, the last Wednes day in September of this year. A CARD OF THANKS. The children of Mrs. S. E. Day wish to express their appreciation for the numerous expressions of sympathy and kindness extended to them in their sad bereavement. C.F. FAIN COMPANY ADDS THE BUSINESS OF UNDERTAKING Mr. Charles F. Fain, of the C. F. Fain Company, this week the opening of a modern and up_to-date undertaking establishment in connec tion with his furniture business. This new department will be under the direction of Mr. Walter McNeill, formerly of Atlanta, an experienced funeral director and embalmer, com. ing here direct from H. M. Patterson & Sons' establishment. Their equipment will be thoroughly modern, Mr. Fain announces, and the best that can be bought, coupled with courtesy and efficiency in every de partment. Mr. Fain announces that a complete line of funeral goods will be carried in stock, and that Mr. McNeill is prepared to go to any point in the city, as well as outside, any time, day or night. OPERETTA AT OPERA HOUSE FRIDAY NIGHT On Friday evening of this week, an operetta, under the direction of the Music and Expression departments, of the Cartersville public school will be given at the opera house. A delightful program has been ar_ ragned for this event, and fifty or sixty of Cartersville's lovely young belles and dashing beux are in the cast. Avery nominal admission has been announced, tiie price of the adult ticket being 35c, while school children are to get in for 20 cents. The proceeds are to go toward liqui dating the long-standing debt on the piancf used at the high school. The program is so very comprehen sive and delightful, a capacity house should greet the young folks when the curtain goes up at 8 o’clock. Misses Cauldwell and Baitzell, assisted by Misses Nannie Ivey and others, are directing the program, which let alone would insure its complete success. First Scout Cruiser Is Almost Completed This is the Omaha, the first American scout cruiser, now 90 per cent complete in the yards at Seattle. She will have a speed of 34 knots and Is one of ten such ships being built for the navy. Her wireless Installation la the most elaborate yet devised for fire controL Cartersville, Georgia, April 5, 1923. PRELIMINARY ATHLETIC EVENT HELD THURSDAY Winners Who Are to Represented C.H.S. at Seventh District Meet in LaFayette Friday of Next Week Known. (By C. L. COLLINS, JR.) The preliminary athletic contest for the Cartersville High Schools was held at the Fair Grounds Thursday afternoon, the event having been post poned from Wednesday because of the rain. A large number of Cartersville peo. pie were present to witness the var ious events, which were run off in good order, despite the fact that the track was quite muddy. The Winners! The winners in the preliminary con test are the ones who will represen C. H. S. at LaFayette next Friday and Saturday. Those winning first place in the preliminary contest Thursday, and who will have the honor of repre senting Oartersville, are the following: 100-yard dash, Jamie Griffin High Jump, F. V. Smith, Shot put, William Walton. Pole Vault, Clyde Smith, 220-yard dash, Mark Little. Broad jump, John Henry Martin. 440_yard dash, Garnett Lipscomb. Hurdles, Mark Little. Those composing the relay team that will represent Cartersville at LaFay. ette are, Little, Martin, F. V. Smith, and Griffin. Cartersville High School has won the Athletic Cup of the Seventh D.s tric tAssociation for the past two years, and if they win it this year, as the boys confidently believe they will, the will bring it home for keeps. (And here's hoping.) The boys are confident they will be able to “walk away” with the cup for the third time, making it their own property. (Here’s hoping, again!) MILO COLLINS GETS PROMOTED BY SOU. BELL Miss Cora Kitchens Will Be in Charge of Local Office and Mr. G. D. Robertson of Plant. Mr. R. M. Collins, for eleven years manager of the local office of the Southern Bell Telephone Company, this week announced he had been transferred to the downtown office of his company in Atlanta, and after May X would reside in Atlanta. In addition to his work locally, Mr. Collins has looked after his company’s interests in Acworth, Adairsville, Cal houn, and the connecting companies at Fairmount and Taylorsville. In taking leave of Cartersville. Mr. Collins says he wishes to thank his friends here for their support and con sideration of the past and will be glad to have them call on him in Atlanta. Miss Cora Kitchens, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Kitchens, is to be in charge of the local office as collector, Mr. Collins announces, with Mr. G. D. Robertson as plant superintendent. < Announcement of these changes wiH be read with much interest and be the source of congratulation that Mr. Collins has won a deserved promotion, and that the ability of Miss Kitchens and Mr. Robertson has been recog nized in the manner that it has. MRS. MARY HARRIS ARMOR, WOMAN ORATOR OF AMERICA, IN CARTERSVILLE FRIDAY, APRIL 13 Speaks Here Under Auspices of Woman’s Chris tian Temperance Union, at Sam Jones Me morial Methodist Church—Has Jifet Re turned From Lecture Tour Through New Zealand and Australia, Speaking to Great Audiences Wherever She Appeared. _ OF MORE THAN PASSING INTEREST to many people is the announcement that Mrs. Mary Harris Armor, the Woman Orator of America, and a distinguished Georgian, is to speak in Cartersville on Friday evening of next week, April 13th, at the Sam Jones Memorial Methodist Church. 4 She comes here under the auspices of the Carters ville Woman’s Temperance organization, and the general public is most cordially invited to hear her. She has been one of the principal speakers at the National W. C. T. U. conventions for years, and at the World’s W. C. T. U. convention in Boston, in 1906, Glasgow, Scotland, 1910; Brooklyn, 1913, and in London ih 1920. She addressed many notable gatherings in the British Isles the month follow ing the great London meeting. One minute her word pictures flash a truth on the canvas of the mind as clear, concentrated, intense as the light which shines in Rembrandt’s pictures; the next she chooses such chromatic words with which to paint that an entire sub ject is presented to view with an illumination like the all-com prehending light in the pictures of Raphael. Those who have heard Dr. Armour speak once, six or a dozen times are eager to repeat the experience. Her elo quence is unexcelled by man or woman, it is said. She has just returned from a speaking tour of New’ Zealand and Australia, where she was given ovation after ovation.' In her address in Cartersville she is expected to re fer to conditions as she. found them on the other side of the world. Hear her. without fail, when she speaks on Friday evening of next w’eek, at the Methodist church. Mrs. A. B. Cunyus, president of the local W. C. T. U., is expected to preside over the meeting, the program of which will include appropriate musical numbers. Dr. L. E. Dutton Announces Topic's At the morning service at the First Baptist church next Sunday, the pas tor, Rev. L. E. Dutton, win preach from the subject, “Christ’s Regalia: His Own Clothes.” In the evening at 7:30 the subject will be “A Citizen of Two Worlds.’’ Dr. Dutton announces he will soon begin a series of four sermons on the Parables, definite details of the plan to be announced later. A cordial welcome to all services at this church. Four Fire Alarms In 24-Hour Period Last Saturday afternoon the fire de partment was called out to the office of Dr. Moore, colored, on West Main Main street, finding only a slight blaze. A few hours later they were called to •Jones street to put out a blaze in the home of Jim Pritchett. On Sunday morning an alarm came from the home of Cell Jones, i> tid at 9:30 Sunday eve ning the fire laddies were called to the home of Mr. E. Lyons, on Church street to put out some grass. Very little damage was done at either of the four places, due to the quick work of the fire boys, under Chief Jud Eaves, who has just completed a five year continuous service with the de partment. He went with the department when the auto truck was purchased, and since then the machine has never failed to be in fine running order, and is al ways ready for any emergency. Mr. Eaves U to be congratulated on the fine showing he has been able to make. Mr. Foster Smith, who has served very acceptably for some time as fireman, succeeding the late Herman Kirk, resigned to go to Detroit, and he is succeeded by Mr. Carl Boring, who has served for a number of years as one of the volunteer firemen, and will make a good man. Services Sunday at Episcopal Church ■ * Regular monthly services will be \ conducted next Sunday morning at the Episcopal church rector, Rev. G, W. Gasque, of Atlanta. The genera] public is cordially in_ vited to attend. U D AGES lU TODAY $2.00 The Year WILBUR J. HAM i CHOSEN HEAD OF KNIGHTS TEMPLAR Well-Known Young Business Man Will Direct Affairs This Branch of Masonry During Ensuing Year—Annual Ser mon Last Sunday. At the meeting of Calvary Comman dery, Knights Templar, held at the Asylum, in the Masonic Hall, last Friday evening, Mr. Wybur J. Ham was unanimously chosen to head this organ izat on during the ensuing year. Mr. Ham, who is a well-known young business man of Cartersville, succeeds Mr. H. Carl Nelson,-another prominent citizen, who served the Commandery so well and ably the past year. Mr. Nelson was presented with a Past Commander's Jewel by his successor on behalf of the Sir Knights who de sired to express in some tangible way thei- appreciation of his faithful serv_ ices to them. Other officers elected to work with Mr. Ham, were: Elbert G. Shaw, Generalissimo. Charles F. Fain, Captain General. Roben' H. Renfroe, prelate. J. Bradley Howard, Treasurer. Thomas A. Upshaw, Recorder. J. B. Lewis, Senior Warden. J. J. Hill, Junior Warden. M. L. Fleetwood, Standard Bearer. T. W. Simpson, Sword Bearer. M. T McWhorter, Warder DR. I. A. WHITE PREACHES ANNUAL EASTER SERMON The annual Easter service for the Knights Templar of Calvary, was held last Sunday afternoon at the First Baptist Church. The Sir Knights met at the asylum and marched, in full uniform, to the Church, where an interesting musical program had been prepared by Rev. L. E. Dutton, with the assistance of mem bers of the choir of this church. The sermon of the afternoon was de_ livered by Rev. I. A, White, of Mariet ta, tin eloquent minister, and one of the leading Knights Templar of the State. A large congregation was present to enjoy the occasion, which was pro nounced one of fhe best yet held by the local Knights Templar. A Demonstration dn How to Beautify and Protect Your Property Interesting Event at the Knight Mercantile Company’s Store. $5,000 in Prizes Are Offered. On Monday, Tuesday and Wednes day, April 16, 17 and 18, a Devoe fac tory expert will give in the store of the Knight Mercantile Company, in Ca tersville, what is practiclly a course in interior decoration. She will give instruction in the new method of wall decoration, "Mottletonlng." This method enables even the humblest home to have on its walls a beautiful and artistic finish which hitherto has been restricted to the homes of the rich. The Devoe demonstrator will also show how it is possible with a few strokes of the brush to make old floors, furniture and woodwork new-looking and attractive again. Everyone who has a car will bt js piclally interested in the expert ad_ vice she is able to give on all questions relating to refinishing motor cars. $5,000 in Prizes for Writing 25 Words In connection with the demonstra. tion, the Devoe & Raynolds Cos., Inc., is conducting an exceptionally inter esting contest. Two hundred and eigh teen prizes are offered: First prize, $1*000; second prize, $500; third prize, $300; fiwr prizes of SIOO each; ten prizes of SSO each, and two hundred prizes of $lO each. The requirements to win these prizes are very simple. They will be award ed for the best 25-word descriptions on the subject "How I benefited from the Devoe Demonstration in this com munity.” Contestants are merely asked to watch the demonstration carefully: then to get a contest blank and write their ideas, using not more than 25 words. This contest is being conducted on a nation-wide basts; as soon as the answers are in from the last Devoe demonstration, held in the spring of 1923. the best answers will be chosen and the winners announced. In this issue of the Tribune_New„ the Knight Mercantile Company car. ries an interesting display advertise ment giving further details of the content. ,