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Vol. 12—No. 52.
American Legion
To Have Meeting
Friday Evening
Local Post Won Hand
some Cup at State Con
vention Complete
Roster of Organiza
tion Given, With More
Than One Hundred
Names.
The members of Carl Boyd Post No.
<2, of the American Legion, are re.
quested to attend the regular meeting
of the poet, to be held at the city hall
Friday evening, July 6, at x o’clock
At that time it is expected that
Meesrs. Bob Knight, Earl B. Scheuer,
Lawson Jackson and Evans Strickland,
who have been attending the .tste
convention In Athene thie week will be
preeent to tell about the interesting
features of the convention.
Local Poet Wise Cup.
On Tuesday morning of this week,
Mr. Joe Nelson, adjutant of the Carl
Boyd post, received a telegram from
Mr. R. W. Knight, who was In Athens
at the convention, stating that the local
post had been awarded the cup for the
(Continued on Lart Pago.)
Akerman Brothers
Enjoyed Reunion
Here Recently
Mr. and tyrs. Walter Akerman were
hosts for several days recently at a
family reunion of the Akerman broth,
ers, and Prof. Clement Akerman, of
Portland, Ore., was the guest of honor_
having not visited Cartersville for
•twenty years. He expressed himself,
as greatly pleased with improvements
noted during his all too brief stay.
Prof, Akerman was educated at the
University of Georgia, and afterwards
took a three.year course at the Uni
versity of Berlin. He enlisted in the
late war, went to France as a first
lieutenant in the Fortieth division but
was afterwad transferred to Gen. Per
shing’s staff as an official translator
of captured documents.
There are seven of the Akerman
brothers, all of them reaed in Car
tersville, and all living. They are:
Ben Akerman, a mining engineer,
who is now making his hqme In Mex
ico.
Walter Akerman, of Cartersville,
United States marshal for the nothern
district of Georgia.
Alexander Akerman, former 11. S.
district attorney for the southern dis
trict of Georgia, and now making his
home at Olando, Fia.
Dr. Joseph Akerman_ an instructor in
the University hospital, Augusta, Ga
Charles Akerman, an attorney of
Macon, and chief counsel for the Ma
con, Dublin & Savannah Railroad
Company.
Prof. Alfred Akerman, of tho For
estry Department, state of Virginia.
Prof. Clem Akerman, Reed college,
Portland, Ore.
Naturally, the family gathering here
was one greatly enjoyed by the broth
ers and those permitted to meet them
during their stay.
Harold Smith and
W. J. Noble Form
Auto Sales Agency
A business deal that was completed
this week resulted in the formation of
the Noble-Smith Motor Company, the
new firm being composed of Messrs W.
J. Noble and Harold E. Smith.
The new firm will handle the Nash
cars as well as the Willys-Knlght line
of automobiles. They believe that
with these cars to offer customers they
can confidently expect a good sales
business from the start.
Mr. Noble has been in business here
so long that he needs no introduction,
and his new partner is equally well
known as a young business man of un
questioned ability, and possessed of
energy and ambition which insure suc
cess for the company.
Their host of friends are delighted
to learn of the formation of the Noble-
Smith Motor Company, and predict a
Buccessful business throughout the
coming years.
Superior Court
Opens Monday
Bartow superior court opens Mon
day for the transaction only Of such
business as can be handled without a
jury. The regular July term will be
held on the fourth Monday In October,
Judge Tarver annv • f 'ces. He decided
not to hold the full term of court at
this time, In view of the need for wofk
to bo 4o*o on tho tnm.
THE BARTOW TRIBUNE
(TRIBUNE, VOL. 13, No. 28.)
(NEWS, VOL. 38, No. 15.)
Large Policy of
Group Insurance
Sold to Miners
Mr. L. C. Evane, district manager
for the Aetna Life Insurance Company,
of Hartford, Conn., announced that
plans had been completed by the
Thompson.Weinman Company and the
Paga Mining Company to take group
insurance from his company to the ex
tent of sixty-five to seventy thousand
dollbrs, the policies going into effect
Monday afternoon of this week.
Under the terms of this insurance,
every worker in the employ of either of
these companies for three months, and
less than six months, gets a 2300 pol
icy; six months and less than one
year, 1600, and over one year, 21,000.
This arrangement simply means that
the Thompson-Weinman Company and
the Paga M'ning Company are taking
advantage of the group insurance idea,
and presenting to each if their em
ployes an Insurance policy absolutely
free of cost to them, and which guar
wiires to their dependents ready cash
in case of their sudden taking away.
Mr. Evans states that his company
writes a very liberal policy of group
insurance, and that quite a bit of it
has been sold.
Dalton Here
Friday Afternoon
The Dalton baseball team, which
has achieved some notable victories on
the diamond this year, comes down
Friday afternoon for a game with the
locals. This should be a fine contest,
■Snd prove a drawing card.
On Saturday the Colts play in Dalton,
*
while on Tuesday of next week Tate
again comes here for a game, deter
mined to wipe out the sting of defeat
administered to them by Cope's boys
on their last try.out here.
Thursday, the locals went up to Cal
houn for a game.
On Wednesday, the Bothenians of
Atlanta, fell before the dolts in a
double-header, the first game going 4
to 1, and the second, a seven-frame
affair resulted in another victoy for
the locals, the score being 8 to 0.
King, anew recruit for Cartersville,
made the first game a no-hit contest,
while Miller, who Is to be given a try
out with the Atlanta Crackers, was
touched liberally for six hits.
Patl Pinion went on the mound for
the locals in the second game, and only
two hits were garnered off his delivery,
while the visitors started with Hailey,
who was hit sc hard Miller again went
in, and fared fairly well for the two
innings he essayed to pitch.
The largest crowd of the season saw
this contest, and another large number
should back up the locals Friday aft
ernoon of this week.
Presbyterians Hold
Quarterly Meeting
Sunday Evening
The regular quarterly communion
service at the Presbyterian church
will be held next Sunday evening, be
ginning at 7:45 o’clock. Rev. L. C.
Vass will preach. This will be the last
time Mr. Vass will conduct a service
here before moving his family to Dal
ton, where he will make his home while
superintendent of Home Missions In
Cherokee Presbytery. All members
are earnestly requested to be present,
and the public is cordially invited
Dutton Withdraws
His Resignation
The Tribune-News learned late on
Thursday afternoon that Rev. L. Elmer
Dutton, pastor of the First Baptist
church, and who recently tendered his
resignation to that congregation, had
decided to withdraw it, and thus ac
cede to the wishes of a majority of the
membership, as expressed in a recent
conference.
A formal report to thie effect will be
made to the church at the proper time,
jt-Is understood. *
MR. T. R. LAND
Mr. T. R. Land, 89 years of age, for
many years a respected citizen of Car
tersville, passed away at his home in
Cartersville Wednesday. The funeral
was held at White Thursday afternoon
at 2 o’clock.
Mr. Land is survived by two sons,
W. A. Land, of Atlanta, and J L. Land,
of White, and N. P. Land, of Eden, Ala.,
and two daughters, Mrs. Lou Hanney,
of Box Springs, Ala., and Mrs. Roxie
Holcomb, of Heflin, Ala.
The funeral arrangements were In
charge of Q. M. Jackson ft Sons, of
CartarsvlUo.
THE CARTERSVILLE NEWS
First National
Dividend Reflects
Fine Condition
The directors of the First
National Bsnk met on June
29th, to close the first six
months’ work of the bank.
The regular semi-annual div
idend of 6 per cent was de
clared, and several thousand
dollars carried forward to
undivided profit account. As
a direct result of this meeting
dividend checks amounting
to six thousand dollars were
in the mail Monday, to the
stockholders of the bank, ac
companied by a statement of
the bank’s condition.
President Calhoun says:
“The result of the first six
months has been very satis
factory. We have been able
to earn our regular dividend;
take care of the overhead ex
penses, and have several
thousand dollars left over.
Of course, this is gratifying
to th e stockholders, in that
the strong' statement the
bapk makes is a reflex of the
financial condition of this
REV. LON DAVIS IN LIMELIGHT
RESULT SENSATIONAL DISCLOSURES
wy ' ——
Man Who Served Baptist Churches in Adairs
ville and Acworth Fir ©d as President Farmers
Union—Even Ku Klu x Couldn’t Stand His
Ravings.
Macon, Ga., July 3.—Rev. Roy E. Da
vise, president of the Georgia Farm
ers' Union, and former pastor of Bap
tist churches In Acwoth and Adairs -
ville, was removed from office at a
meeting of the executive committee of
that organization here last Saturday.
The action of the committee was said
t 0 have been unanimous, and followed
alleged disclosures of a dual life led
by the former officer, which extended
over six years or more In Texas apd
Georgia
Rev. Roy E. Davis was elected pres
ident of the Georgia Farmers' Union in
April of this year. Since his election
he has figured in a number of sensa
tional events in Southern Georgia and
a week ago was placed under arrest on
a charge of criminal libel In connection,
with the publication of an article in the
Brick Bat, a Meigs, Ga„ publication of
which he was editor.
The section of the constitution of the
organization under which Davis was re
moved gives the executive committee
authority to remove officers “for incom
petency, immoral conduct or dishon
esty.”
For some time, it was announced by
the executive committee, there has
been a rigid investigation under way as
to “the past” of ReV. Roy E. Davis.
The executive committee announced
that the conclusion had been reached
that “he was able to fool town people
as well as country folks."
Asked to Resign.
Davis is a smooth talker, innocent In
appearance, and a dangerous man, ac
cording to the committee. Since the
investigation of the farmers’ union has
been under way, it was stated, he was
elected pastor of a church at Albany,
Ga., and then was asked to eslgn. ,
The executive committee announced
that it held the meeting in Macon for
the purpose of giving Davis a chance
to reply to charges that had been made
against him
Davis fixed the time for holding the
meeting, but he failed to put In an ap
perance here during the session.
There was a mass of “evidence’’ be
fore the committee on the alleged dual
life of Davis in Georgia and Texas,
copies of newspapers, affidavits by dif
ferent people, including one by a for-,
mer wife, records of church congrega
tions and affidavits under which war
rants were said to have been issued,
were included in the documents laid
before the executive committee by their
investigators.
Story in Texas Paper.
Included in the list of papers was a
copy of the Wise County Messenger,
published at Decatur, Texas, June 29,
1917, containing a picture of Rev. Roy
E. Davis, with “scare headlines'’ read
ing "Rev. Davis, Singer and Masher,
Goes to Prison." The story sayß that
he was convicted of a charge of cheat
ing and swindling in connection with a
bank transaction Involving 2170, the al
leged crime occurring in 1912, accord
ing to that information. *
The investigators of the farmers'
union were furnished an affidavit by
.Mrs. Emma 8 Holmes his fosse- wife,
Cartersville, Georgia, July 5, 1923.
county, and should be of iib
terest to every citizen of the
county.”
He also calls attention to
an interesting fact in connec
tion with the dividend checks
sent out. He says: “I have
watched with interest, and
for the first time, the dispo
sition made of the dividend
checks we sent out to the
stockholders, and find that
not a single dividend check
has actually been withdrawn
in cash—in every instance
the check has been deposited
to the credit of the stockhol
der to his regular or special
account, to be checked
against in regular course
This is the correct manner to
handle money—-six thousand
dollars paid out, and not a
dollar handled in actual cash.
I think it is interesting.”
The statement of the First
National will be found in this
issue of The Tribune-News,
and is indeed a good one.
that he deserted her and their four
children in November, 1915. She ob
tained a divorce in August, 19X7. Da
vis appears to have come to Georgia
from Texas, where he is said to have
been known as “Professor Lon Davis.”
He finally obtained the pastorate of
the Acworth Baptist church, the charg
es show, where it is stated he was
finally removed for “conduct unbecom
ing a minister.”
The minutes of the Acwoth Baptist
church before the committee, signed by
a committee of the church, J F. Collins,
P. M. Williams and A. J. Durham, and
dated August 17, 1921, charges that he
"came to this church under an assumed
name." according to the testimony of
Rev. M. A. McCoy, and his own (Davis’)
admission before the board of deacons.
Other charges include; “That he
was guilty of conduct unbecoming a
minister, that he from the sacred desk
denounced people in language repulsive
to all decent and self-respecting peo
ple; that he was called to account for
this language by the board of deacons
and asked to retract and make the re
traction as public a his denunciation,
which he never did.”
Charge Intimidation.
It Is further charged “that Lon Da
vis handled and delivered to one of our
deacons, J. T. Williams, the Ku Ivlux
Klan letter in which was contained a
threat which w/e believe was for the
pupose of intimidating our deacons and
preventing the prosecution of other
evidence which was then in our pos
session.
“We further charge that he denied
leaving a former wife and children in
Texas, this denial being made in the
presence of the deacons and admitted
it the same night to a brother of the
church.
“After leaving the houne_ we further
charge that he obtained money from
the members of this church which was
not repaid ”
Attached to this record of the church,
(Continued on Pago 7, Second Section)
Georgia Legislators
Spent Short Time
In City Tuesday
A party of distinguished Georgians,
stopping a short time in Cartersville
Tuesday aftenoon, included Mr. and
Mrs. Lee Langley, of Rome; Mr. J.
Scott Davis, of 'Cave Springs, and Mr.
William G.' Sutlive, of Savannah.
Dangley and Davis are repre
senting Floyd county, and Mr. Sutlive
Chatham county in the Georgia legis
lature. Mr. Sutlive, who is president
of the Georgia Press Association, and
Grand Chancellor of Georgia Knights
of Pythias, was en route to Dalton, to
spend the Fourth with his family, who
are spending the summer near that
city, and other members of the party
were en route to their respective homes
for the holiday.
While in the city they were guests
of friends, and all of them promised to
stop longer next time they come this
way, being assured of a very hearty
weleozoe any tin*.
FORCED TO MARRY
SISTER’S HUSBAND,
SAYS YOUNG GIRL
Lived Month With Older Sister
and “Mutual” Husband
Before Exposure,
One of the most unusual bigamy
case ever recorded has Just come to
light here, with the announcement by
George W. Gaddis, sheriff of Bartow
county, that Calvin McLeod has been
arrested in Atlanta charged with mar
rying two sisters
Sheriff Gaddis received a request
from Mrs. Annie H. payne. Travelers’
Aid matron at the Terminal station,
Atlanta, that he Investigate the rumor
that McLeod had married two sisters,
tho second ceremony having been per
formed while the first wife was still
alive and legally wedded to him.
Mrs. Maggie Ruth McLeod, w’fe No.
1. and Mrs. Dora McLeod, wife No. 2,
were found several miles from here in
the country visiting Mrs. Pearl Crowe,
a relative. After much questioning,
wife No. 2 broke down and told the
following story:
She had been living with her sister
and McLeod in Atlanta for some t'm*.
After much discussion, McLeod and
Dora who then was Mins Dora Carlton,
who, she says, is not yet 13 years old,
decided to marry.
Without consulting wife No. 1, they
went to the home of the Rev L. M.
Twiggs, pastor of the St. John's Meth
odist church, Atlanta, and were mar
ried, the ceremony having been per
formed about a month ago.
When found by the sheift, Mrs. Crowe
and Mrs. Maggie Ruth McLeod, wife
No. 1, claimed to know nothing of the
second ceremony. The three women
left here Friday morning for Atlanta
with the avowed purpose of causing the
arrest of McLeod on a charge of big
amy, and possibly on a more serious
charge under Georgia law, because of
the extreme youth of the second wife,
she now being under 14 years old.
It is said that the two wives of Mc-
Leod are from Moultrie, where they now
have a father and brother living.
McLeod Is Held in Fulton Tower.
Atlanta > July 5. —Calvin McLeod, a
vocational student of 19 West Cain
street, Is In the Fulton county tower,
charged with bigamy, having married
the 12-year-old sister of his first wife.
McLeod wad arrested by police Fri
day afternoon and lodged in the tower
in default of a 21.000 bond. Following
an Investigation into the affair by Mrs.
Annie H. Payne,, matron at the Termi-
(Continued on Page 5, Second Bection)
Atlanta Backs
All Communities,
Says B. S. Barker
Mr. B. S. Barker, secretary of the
Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, was
the speaker at the Tuesday luncheon
of the Cartersville Chamber of Com
merce.
With Secretary Woodrow presiding,
Mr. Barker made one of the most
wholesome addresses heard in Carters,
ville In a long time. He said the great
body which he represents is coming
more and more to realize that Atlanta
has a duty to other towns in the state,
and that she is striving by every means
possible to show how anxious she Is
to perform that duty.
The day is coming when people will
have their officials include In their tax
budgets, funds to be used in advertis
ing their communities, said Mr. Barker,
who declared that what Georgia need
ed today, more than anything else_ is
advertising her matchless resources to
the world.
Enumerating what diversified agri
culture had done for Turner county,
the speaker said Cartersville and Bar
tow county couM do nothing better
than to foster diversilcatlon, partlcu
-1 larly the how, sow and chicken.
At the conclusion of the address, it
was announced that Mr. Thomas A
Upshaw, Cartersville's genial city
clerk, and prominent young business
man, would preside at the meeting next
Tuesday at 1 o’clock at the Park hotel.
Tax Returns Off
Nearly $300,000 in
Bartow County
County Tax Receiver J. A. Ingram
announces that the tax returns for 1923
as Just completed by hlm > show a to
tal valuation of 27.226.286_ a s compared
with 27,505,757 last year.
This is $279,471 less for this year
than last, and Is a falling off of nearly
one million dollars from the high peak
of 1919 and 1920.
Mr. Ingram has gotten his returns in
shape and ready for the inspection of
Tox Commissioner Henry J Fulbright
earlier than ever before, which is quite
> a feather in the cap of this popular
cwwaty official.
Cotton Blooming
Weevils Working
Reports Announce
The past few weeks have been very favora
ble to cotton growing, a nd blooms are opening
right along, according t o reports reaching the
Tribune-News office this week.
Mr. C. D. Pope, of the Euharlee has the hon
or of bringing in the first open bool. It was sent ,
by the Dodd Brothers, who are operating the
Glover Dodd farm, this season.
D. F. Ross, farming this
year on the Conyers place,
Cartersville, R. F. D. No. 1,
was the second farmer to
send in an open bloom.
Mr. Vince Evans, farming
on the Robert S. Munford
farm, near the Fair Ground
property, has a good crop,
and he reports open blooms,
“and plenty of ’em."
Wofford W. Calaway says
he has plenty of blooms, and
plenty of weevils, too, “if
you want to know the whole
truth,” he added-
In a letter dated July 2,
S. S. Perkins sends in a fine
specimen of cotton from the
J. J. Connor farm, on which
BRAD TATUM
IS NO MORE
Well-K no w n Citizen
and Miner Succumbed
to Attack of Pneumo
nia—Funeral Tuesday
at Trenton, in Dade
County.
Trenton, Ga., July 4.—(Special.)—
Brad 8. Tatum, of Cartersville died
at the home of his parents here Mon
day mornln* at 7 o'clock of pneumonia,
Mr. Tatum was born May 3, 1882, in
Rising Fawn, Ga., and with the excep
tion of three years spent in Arkansas,
had lived in Georgia ail his life.
He was married December 6. 1913,
to Mrs. Florence Franklin Hill, in At
lanta. He was a member of the Sam
Jones Memorial church and of the Ma.
sonic fraternity of Cartersville. He
was a brother cf the late D. R. H. Ta
tum, of Chattanooga.
Deceased is suvived by his widow; a
step-son. Robot Hill; his father and
mother, Hon. and Mrs. G. W. M. Ta
tum, of Trenton; four brothers, C. F.,
of Phoenix. Aril.; T. D., of Gulfport,
Miss.; W N* of Trenton; E. TANARUS., of
Tulsa, Okla., and one sister i Mrs. B. F.
Davis, of Scottsboro, Okla.
Funeral services were held Tuesday
afternoon Jrom the M. E. Church,
South. Interment followed in the Bap
tist cemetery.
A number of Cartersville friends
went up toi Trenton Tuesday to attend
the funeral.
Announcement of Mr. Tatum's death
came as a shock to his friends here,
who had not realized the serious nature
of his illness.
No Services Sunday
At Episcopal Church
Rev. G. W. Gasque will not meet his
appointment at the Episcopal church
Sunday morning. He is spending the
month with his family In North Geor
gia on a camping and fishing trip.
Another Bouquet
From Source That
Is Apreciated
From Mr. Wilson M. Har
dy, president of the Citizens'
Bank of Rome, and a former
Georgia publisher, comes the
following splendid tribute to
The Tribune-News:
“Rome, Ga., June 29, 1923.
“Mr. Milton L. Fleetw’ood,
“Editor The Tribune-News,
“Cartersville, Ga.:
“Dear Sir:—
“I have looked over the
marked copy of The Tribune-
News which was sent me re
cently, and find so • many
things of interest that I am
prompted to again express
my congratulations to you on
the splendid paper which
you are publishing.
“If there is another week
ly in Georgia as good as The
Tribune-News, I do not re
member having ever seen it
“With best wishes,
“Sincerely,
“WILSON M. HARDY."
Ift PAGES
TODAY
$2.00 The Year
he has a crop this year. "The
cotton crop is fine, especial
ly consdiering the wet and
cool spells, and Mr. Weevil
is plentiful, so far,” the let
ter declares
Will Carter, a worthy col
ored farmer, who is cultiva
ting a small acreage on the
Web Smith place, a mile and
a half north of Cartersville,
brought in a well-formed
bloom Thursday morning.
He Bays that although he
has kept a close watch-out,
he has been unable to find
a single boll weevil on his
four-acre field. No cotton
grew there last year, he
added.
SAVE THE COTTON
YOU’VE PLANTED
The time to put out a fire is when the
blaze begins and not wait until the
whole house is aflame.
801 l weevil control must begin when
cotton is still very young. In fact,
right now is the time to make the start.
As to poison, if you use it. you may
buy some of the commercial mixture
on the market, but you can mix your
(Continued on Loot Poo*-)
CHAPTERMASONS
FIRST DISTRICT
MEET HERE SOON
The Royal Arch Masons of the First
District of Georgia convene in annual
meeting in Cartersville Wednesday,
August first, it is announced, and on
this occasion a very Interesting pro
gram is to be carried out.* '
Cartersville Chapter is to be host at
this meeting, and High Priest J. A.
Osment, together with Royal Arch Ma
sons making up the local chapter, are
working hard to make the forthcom
ing meeting thoroughly worth while.
A regular meeting of the chapter is
to be held at the Masonic hall in Car
tersville next Monday evening. At tnis
time work in the Mark Master’s de
gree is to be conferred on a large class
of cnadldates. It is expected a large
number of Companions will be on hand
to witness its exemplifictaion, since a
special effort is to be made to secured
a creditable attendance.
Modern Woodmen
Plan Barbecue For
Saturday, Sept. Bth
Plans are now being perfected for
holding a barbecue and prize drawing
for a Ford touring car under the aus
pices of the local camp. Modern Wood
men of the World, the event to take
place at the fair grounds In Cartersville
on Saturday, September Bth, according
to an announcement made this week
by Mr. Joe A. Osment, chnirmnn of the
committee having the arrangements in
charge.
Tickets costing 50 cents will entitle
anyone to attend the barbecue, and
paticipate in the day's program, it is
further announced.
Peebles Has an
Option on Barytes
Near Kingston
By BELL BAVLESS,
Special Representative.
Kingston, Ga., June 28.—(Special.)—
It is understood that Mr. Wm. Peebles,
of Cartersville, has secured an option
on the property of Mrs. Rachel Hol
comb, two miles above Kingston ( with
a view prospecting for barytes Mrs.
Holcomb has had the place examined
by an expert engineer, who reported
finding several kinds of valuable min
erals on It which, if. in sufficient quan
tity, should be a valuable addition to
the countj'' a wealth.