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Mrs. Lillie B. Jones, the popular and
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Western Union will be interested in
this change of hours, and should be
careful to file their messages before
six o’clock each day, so that they may
be transmitted promptly.
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CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA
MAIN STREET
IN CARTERSVILLE
PASSES IN REVIEW
Observing Citizen Tells
What He Saw on a Re
cent Saturday After
noon—Autos Crowd
ing Horses. Off, Says
He.
(By CAPT. H. J. M’CORMICK)
Did you ever take a stroll
down on Main street in Carters
ville, Georgia, on a Saturday
afternoon and look around? ,
If you have not, you have
missed much of the many as
pects of life portrayed by the
big crowds that always gather
6n street.
To the careful observer it gives the
urge to s udy the life and activities at
first hand.
It s just life moving in the large and
small, as the world goes on to this great
concourse of l'ving dnfl thinking hu
man beings bent on either business or
pleasu rA
Go down Main street in Car.ersville,
Georgia, -and Watch the things and
people there. You will see life —real
life—in action.
You ask yourself why are all these
things and all these people? Can any
one tell? Why. no. Many of the loi
tering crowd might say we do not know
why we are here. But all -know these
Saturday afternoon gatherings are a
fixed custom in these parts —not fixed
by any known law, save only by the
urge to come to Main street on this
particular day.
Lots of people have, funny customs
and fixed lines of doing,things. But this
custom of tilling Main street in Car
tersville on every Saturday.tby the folks
of 'the country-side can not and doubt- j
less may, never be fully explained. But |
the fact remains that each and all have i
a good reason for his or her presence I
on the street, sufficient to him or her
to make it a pleasure in the main
These Saturday evenings} on Main j
street seem to be a fittoed ho’iday, both
for the city dweller and the country
folks.
Some, may perhaps come only on
pleasure bent, others for pleasure and
business mixed together.
Watches Crowds Go By.
We took ourselves down on Main j
street in Cartersville one. Saturday af
ernoon just to take in the sights. And :
here is what w'e saw:
Folks folks and more folks; cars, j
cars and more cars; wagons and wag- j
6ns, just a little less-than the cars; a
few ■ buggies and just a few tethered
THE TRIBUNE-NEWS, CARTERSVILLE, GA.. AUGUST 23, 1923.
mules, and no horses.
Stop to ask, where is the horse?
Elank answers—the horse's day depart
ed when the automobile came along;
the Tin Lizzie hit him a body blow an<j
he kicked the bucket, perhaps, never
to come back again. So we say, fare
well, did Bobbin, we shall never see
the like of you again. ,
On that particular Saturday after
noon the folks there were rmS; Inter
esting to us. Here were the aged—a
small few; staid men and women—a
few more; the biggest bunch of all
consisted of youths and maidens;
Jot of young boys in overalls—sturdy
chaps from the country.
A big majority of that day s crowed
was from the countryside. We noticed
Jhat the male part of the crowd was
almost all coatless, and the same might
he said of’thv female part, with very
little exception. The mens attire was
just common clothes, but the rainbow
had already given the hue and tints to
the dresses een that day on Main
street. The seven colors of the bow,
were reflected in the dress or hat. In
deed. t was a somewhat gaudy scene,
yet altogether pleasant to look upon.
As wfe stepped aside to let a neatly
dressed young matron pass by, we ob
served she held in her arms a rollick
ing baby iboy, big and fat We thought
to ourselves, Yiere s a heroine, and the
thought was clinched by the happy,
contented smile on tha; mother’s face.
She did not seem to be out of her
teens, her face looked so youthful.
Everybody Seemed Happy.
We watched the crowd mix and min
gle. All seemed happy and well con
tent. The men formed in groups,
laughing ’and passing the time of day
with each other, but never failed to end
up with trfe question, “How’s cotton,
and what aib.out the boll weevil?”
One of the most interesting sights to
us was the way’ the younger set of the
girls made their way up and down the
street. Sometimes one, but more fre
quently by twos, three, 'four a.nd up to
six or seven. Their smilling faces and
sparkling eyes testifying to their hap
piness wi.h themselves and all the
world besides.
No true chronicler of Main street in
Cartersville. .on Saturday would ij
worth while unless he took into ac
count the gentlemen from Africa. He
was there—big and little, old and young
—all seemed happy, excep: those who
did not have the price of a watermelon.
We found them hovering around those
places where melons lay temptingly on
ter Sherman quit Bartow county to go
South. This and rkV had a little load of
street. He was driving a gray mule.
I. looked so old that one might sup
pose that it was picked up the day af
ter Sherman quite Bartow eounty to go
South. This darky had a little tad of
Vftove wood in his li tie wagon. Stop
p’ng it y some big melons oh the side
walk this old darky began to talk to
himself thus:
' Maria say I mus’ sell dis .stovewood
and get piece oh meat and some meat.
iLoddy, how she spect me to do dat
w’en (lose watermelons before my
eyes?"
Win the old darky did, let tho
reader say.
Carts Attract Him.
We also counted the ears on Main
street from the Bank of Cartersvi|(je
west. Over fifty was the number parked
This gave us food for more thought.
These cars were almost altogether
owned by people living on the farms of
the owners or in the country. These
cars were of many makes, but the Tin
Lizzie held the blue ribbon for num
bers. Another thought struck me thus:
"How much money do tlttse cars rep
resent, as well as their upkeep??’’
Surely, we said, the people that own
and run these cars must be prosperous
indeed, notwithstanding the frequent
cry of hard times.
However, we noticed that some of
these cars had to be taken to the hos
pital for sick cars. All cars, you know,
have to go to these hospitals sooner
sooner or later, if you drive them
around. And this brings us to that
part of Main street in Cartersville
where the automobile hospitals are.-
The crowds over there are somewhat
different. Their faces show anxiety,
for they have a sick car. The car cured,
the smile comes again and they give
jqu the—“So long! and off.
Bight we have good evidence of
prosperity, for it takes cash to have a
car cured, however so little.
As we see it. West Main street differs
somewhat from East Jlain street in the
vocation of the people who gather there
every Saturday. East Main street is
filled at this time with mine-workers
“cashing in” their liberal weekly pay
check; and again, we do not see so
many young people of both’ sexes min
gling with the happy throngs on West
Main street. Funny this but it so.
O:' course, you can have a good
chance to study life on Main street in
| Cartersville, Georgia, any day in the
| week, but you will find that Saturday
| is the best day to pursue such pleasant.
study, for then the whole aspect is in
1 full flower.,
|. On this occasion, there is always
something: there to interest the close
j observer who wants to get in touch
whh real life as it moves along its
busy day in this old world Of ours.
We venture to say that anyone who
loves to mingle with his fellow crea
tures and enjoy their pleasant and
sweet companionship, can do no better
to ;his end than spend a few hours on
Main street in Cartersville and watch
the world go by. Try it u nd see if you
do not get greatly interested and much
pleased by so simple an adventure.
POSSIBILITYjOF
HORTPif TURK IS
BROUGHT TO FORE
Mrs. W. H. Felton Gives
Publicity to a Letter
Written Her About a
Man Who Would Lo
cate in This Section.
As is well known to quite a number
of people, Mrs. W. H, Felton writes for
a department in the Atlanta Tri-Week
ly Journal, under the head’ng “The
Country Home,” In this department
she discusses various and sundry mat.
ers. In a recent letter she wrote in
terestingly on the need o' planting
trees, and incorporated therejn a let
ter she had received.
The whole matter is one of special
interest at this time; and it is as fol
lows:
*
Planting Trees.
The lumber question is serious. The
scarcity of good t'mber in my part of
the country is well known. The waste
on this line h;fs been deplorable. We
are now. largely dependent on second
growth pines to get flooring and fram
ing. We must have some lumber, no
matter how useful we find lime, eement
and sand have become in building.
Where are we to get this needed lum
ber? Out In the’Middle West they are
planting trees, or sprouts which will,
:ime enough being given, make tree- :
and I believe with all my heart that we
iii Georgiy should be diligent in rese ;
ting the worn-out lands, for i is a long
step from an acorn to the grown-up
oak. and there is no idling what ths
demand for lumber is going to be in the
coming days. As long as we have clay
and sand we can make brick, and brick
buildings are durable if the brick are
well made and well lad. hut there is
nothing that wi 1 take the place of
good lumber in construe;! In.; a real good
house, or finish up the ends and cor
ners like good, sound lumber.
When I was young he farmers burn,
ed oft’ most bf the tjmber grown on the
soil they cleared. The log heaps were
as common as pig tracks and after they
had split up enough rails to fence in
the field, they burned the rest wi.hout
any regard t 0 the wastefulness of the
proceedings. Log-rollings were as
common as quiltings or com shukings.
Sawmills were not plentiful and the
majority of the farm buildings were
constructed of logs. Log cabins, prop
erly built, would last a long time and
they were both convenient and com
fortable.
After Georgia lands were delivered
from’ the taint of the Razoo fraud peo
ple from other st i s n.r. ily* from Vir
ginia Maryland and ’he Caroiinas
flocked into Georgia Vhi general style
of primitive farm lm i.y was ent'u ty
built of logs, and the cracks were tilled
w ith smaller pieces, later daubed w.tii
clay to shut out rain and cold.
The majority of plain farm houses
that I recall in the days of my youth
were two big log pens, so to speak,
, truly be twenty 'feet square, and about
twelve to sixteen feet apart. This space
was turned into a sort of wide hall,
open at both ends, floored like the main
rooms and they were the.summer par
lors, for visitors and home folks. As
families increased in number sheds
were put on nd the mian central hall
extended. L would astonish our read-
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ers to know how many of that sort of
homes were the plains where of
the big. rich folks got their start.
To get hack to my text—if our people
are thrifty and will reset their own
worn-out lahds with young trees, the
value of this endeavor will soon de
velop. There is another advantage
which will also come along. The so l
will not wash off so easily and long
drouths will be averted in great meas
ure. It Is astonishing how the growth
of trees conserves the. moisture,’and the
groves become windshields to fend off
the heavy wind s.orms and protect or
chards.
Our people are growing enthusiastic
over memorial trees, set out on the
highways. This is well and but
the resett ng ef worn-out #elds and
barren hillsides w’ould bring also good
money in due time.
An Interesting Letter.
I am taking the liberty to publish a
letter concerning expert horticulture In
upper Georgia. I feel sure movements
of this kind are interesting to Country
Home readers. We experimented with
peaches mare than twenty years ago,
but we had difficulties about shipping
fruit at ;h it time —at a profit
Bartow county has, I feel quite sure,
a quantity of land whjlch would be
suitable for fruit, culture Became
there are other localities in Georgia
with similar advantages. I am glad tile
subject is being thus elaborated.
“Cl: rkesville, Ga U. F B. 3.
May 22, 1923.
Mrs. W. H. Felton.
* Cartersville, Ga.: •
Dear L: dy—l have just read your
letter in he Tri-Weekly Journal of
May 19 which suggests to me that there
is a possibility of opening up anew
and profitable business for the people
of Bartow county in substituting the
growing of fruits and feed stuff for the
growing of cotton under the present
boll weevil and labor conditions.
I know of a graduate horticulturist,
who is full of energy, and who worked
h s way through the Georgia State Col
lege of Agriculture and who for ten
years fsince his gradation) has de
voted himself to the growing of apples
and peaches, a real expert in horticul
ture 4 who is looking for a suitable lo
e:r ion in the cotton belt of Georgia to
grow peaches on a commercial scale.
He wants to secure a tract of land --
nheaply as possible, on a railroad, in a
jj*. and community where the distressed
cotton growers would probably 1 ke to
'co-operate in peach growing to the ex
tent that tilt Northern and Eastern
peach buyers would have encourage
merit enough to send representatives to
the orchard to buy the fruit on the 1
railroad track. There is no reason, in j
my judgmerft, why Bar ow could not
produce as fine peaches and early ap
ples as any section in North ’Georgia.
If. in your judgment, such a change
In the conditions of agricu’ture could
be made in your section.-Hnfi the people
•-e induced to grow foods and feeds,
* li fru'ts for the money crops; and
it a piece of land could be bought with.
o.i, the intervention of real estate
stents or speculators, and on reason
able terms, this man would be glad to
invi stigate the practicability of enter
ing such a field, plant an orchard, es
tablish a nursejy for growing young
trees for others who might want to
planj. orchards, and to advise, teach
and assist those who have little or no
knowledge of the fruit business in all
its details.
If this letter strikes you favorably,,
mid if in your honest judgment the
growing of fruits in Bartow, under
skillful management, would be success
ful, then we would be pleased to have
you say so.
At least a full and free expression
front you on this subject would be very
much appreciated.
do no; want to create a land boom
and try to induce present land owners
to sell out at high prices and move off,
but to secure a good orchard site for
ourselves, anfi co-operate with as many
of the present land owners as possible
In bringing about betierAionditioria and
greater pnosperlty in the community.
Trusting to hear from you soon, I am’
s’ncereiy yours very truly for the uplift
of Georgia farmers. ”D. H. P. G.”
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Negroes Faring
Badly in ftorth
Cincinnati, Ohio, Auk 15. —Southern
negroes who have migrated to C.ncin
natti are being gouged to the hunt by
the landlords in the negro districts of
these cities. Some of them are being
charged as much as ten dollars a week
for one room, and three and four fami
lies are living in houses built for one
because of the extreme congestion in
the negro quarters.
In addition, prejudice among both
the nstttve whites and foreigners against
the negro immtgranls is rapidly rising,
and is expected to grow even greater.
This is particularly true among the
whites who live nrar the negro districts
| arid as a result who have been thrown
it. close contact with them.
•
These tacts were d'sclostd today by
Tien W. Overton, executive secretary
of the Y. M. C. ot Cincinrtattl
j and an authority on negro condition
in the city. Dr. John L. McLeish, dir
ector p. the American > House down in
Mohawk District, where the foreign
born live also disclosed that dislike of
the Southern negro was growing among
•he foreign horn unskilled laborers with
whom they are in competition.
The negro quarters 'n Cincinhattl are
largely located down along the Ohio
river front in what is known as "The
Bottoms*' in wh ch according o the
police! as many as 3ti§ persons have
been killed in the course of one year.
Each year this district is partially or
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Md.,Avill be with
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this week for the
Cartersville, Ga.
entirely flooded and the negroes have
to seek safety in other sections of the
city until the river recedes. Many
nergoes have been drowned by these
floods. •
The migration of the Southern negro
in the north has fearfully Congested
these quarters and many of the negroes
born or reared in the warm climate of
the South, have fallen prey to concump
tion and other dise'a'ses caused by the
cold and other congestion. It is im
possible to estimate the number of
southern netyoes who have died and
health conditions among them are des
cribed asWvery bad.”
Because of the high rents charged
by the owners of the netro tenement.
houses, ranging as high as ten dollars
a week for one room the
negro, when he is lucky enough to have
a job has to spend almost all he Bfiakea
! for rent and what little remains is
soon consumed for a meager amount of
I food. The jobless negroes have to sleep
out in the open when it is warm enough
i and seek shelter in the cells at the
1 police station in the long period of cold
weather.
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