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SUPERIOR COURT
JN SESSION
January Term Convenes
and Many Prominent
Men of County Here.
The Superior Court of Bartow
county convened for the regular Janu
ary term last Monday, Judge A W.
Fite and Solicitor Sam P. Maddox be
irg in their places when court was
called to order.
After the juries were sworn and the
court bailiffs were selected Judge Fite
delivered a charge to the grand jury.
The grand jury is composed of an
unusual number of the strong men of
the county. No session of court of re
cent years has been favored with a
jury more representative in characte
cr stronger in intellect. Among the
rumber are:
N. (VI. Adams, recently elected by a
large majority of the voters on the
board of commissioners of roads and
revenues. Mr. Adams brings into the
counsels of the jury ripe experience.
He is intelligently developing the
greatness of the county in agriculture
and is personally greatly esteemed
and popular.
H. H. White is an influential citizen
of the county whose home is at Pine
Log. His advice and counsel will at
all times and among all men be given
a respectful and attentive ear.
W. B. Hawkins is among the young
er members of the jury. He is a suc
cessful business man of Cassville and
devoted to the best interests of the
county and its business and moral de
velopment.
J. H. Gilreath is one of the county’s
best known and popular citizens. Mr.
Gilreath has always taken a large part
■n all matters of church and state and
& successful business man whose in
tegrity is universally acknowledged.
W. D. Trippe, of Taylorsville, is a
prudent and successful man of affairs.
His views will be impressed upon the
jury in a respectful but none the less
forceful manner and his conclusions
v ill always be supported by sound
reason.
J. R. Leachman is from the Carters
\ille district. He is one of the hardest
workers in the county and through
bis untiring energy and brightness of
mind he has made a success of farm
ing and is one of the sound men of
this section.
John Saggus is a successful farmer
from the Cartersville district. He is
highly esteemed, conservative in ac
tion and a solid substantial citizen who
can be relied upon to act intelligently
upon public questions.
Thos. Lumpkin has always been
known as one of the strong men of the
county. Perhaps no member of the
jury is better known. He is one of the
leaders and is moulded along lines
that bring him a host of friends who
admire and follow him.
E. W. Smith is the leading building
contractor of the county. He is clean
and pure in private life and a diligent
and intelligent application to business
has brought him success and scores
of friends.
Jno. H. Cobb has an intimate know
ledge of the affairs of the county
through official relationship with it
for many years. He is perhaps more
widely acquainted with the people of
the county than any other member
and his experience will be a great aid
to his fellow workers on the jury.
J. E. Hall is one of the older mem
bers of the jury. He has lived a life
b f unimpeachable character and in a
quite and unassuming way exerts an
influence among those who know him
which perhaps is less known to him
than to his neighbors.
C. H. Cannon is a young man who
has already made a favorable impres
sion upon all who know him as a bus
iness man of more than ordinary abil
ity and prospects. He will give to the
performance of his duties during the
next few weeks faithful and inteilig*n.
service.
J. W. Williams lives at Stilesboro
and is a rural route carrier of mail in
the service of the United States gov
ernment. Mr. Williams has a wide
acquaintance of both men and the
county’s needs and will be one who
will aid and direct the jury along the
right lines.
L. B. Matthews is an old and re
spected citizen of Cartersville whose
service as a county commissioner in
the past was of incalculable benefit
to the people. He is perhaps the old-
THF. BARTOW TRIBUNE
KNIGHTS OF PITHS
EIECTJFFICEBS
Local Lodge Installs New
Officials and Shows Fine
Results for the Year.
At a regular convention of Carters
ville Lodge No. 42, Knights of Py
thians, on Friday, January 9th, 1914,
the following officers were installed
fur the ensuing term:
C. C.—C. M. Milam.
V. C. —L. J. Forrester.
P. —N. A. Bradley.
M. of F.—M. G. Dobbins.
K. of R. and S. —H. E. Felton.
M. of F. —E. W. Robinson.
M. of E.—W. H. Wikle.
M. at A.—A. S. Brevard.
I. O.—J. R. Roberts.
O. ‘ G. —C. L. Collins.
Trustee for three years—J. E.Wikle.
The lodge elected as grand repre
sentatives for the following year—H.
E. Felton and Lindsay J. Forrester
The local lodge K. of P. is known
throughout the south as one of the
most active in the country. On occa
sion, with slight notice, it can turn
out the largest membership and more
proficiently perform the intricate cere
monies peculiar to the ritual of this
o;der than any known to Georgia. This
distinction comes to Cartersville large
ly through the long and faithful ser
vice and devotion to the highest ideals
and purposes of the lodge of its chan
cellor commander, Chas. M. Milam.
Fythians throughout Georgia, as well
as those of Cartersville, never tire of
honoring him and to respect his coun
sel.
est man on the jury but among the
most progressive. He is credited with
being the main spirit in the erection
or the court house.
J. O. Hubbard lives near Emerson,
is a farmer arid esteemed as a man
of ability and probity. He enjoys the
confidence of his neighbors and
friends and will contribute much to
ward sound recommendations and wise
action on the part of the jury.
David Weaver is a solid citizen of
the county. He is a conservative busi
ness man, a successful farmer and a
safe counsellor. His influence on the
jury will be exerted along the right
lines and his associates will realize
his worth as a juryman.
G. L. Anthony is a well to do citi
zen of Pine Log. Though a young man
he knows some of the needs of the
county and will espouse a wise course
in all matters both as to fiscal affairs
as well as in the domain of law and
order.
J. D. Smith has lived in this county
for several years. He is a native of
Scuth Carolina but since he has es
tablished his home in Bartow county
he has made many friends and estab
lished a reputation for honesty and
fair dealing and successful business
qualifications.
E. M. Upshaw is one of Bartow’s
best known and beloved citizens. Ue
is strongly and widely connected, takes
a patriotic interest in civic affairs and
his advice will go far among the mem
bers of the jury.
Homer Blackstock is a farmer and
lives in the Kingston districe. He is a
young man with a firm grasp upon the
ideals of life and is universally esteem
ed as a man of character and good
business judgement.
J. B. Mullinax, Jr., is one of the
jounger members of a strong Bartow
county family and his presence upon
the jury adds to its worth and to the
strength of all its recommendations
and findings. Mr. Mullinax lives in the
Euharlee district.
j. M. Dyaart has many times been
honored by the people of the county
in an official capacity. He brings with
him ripe experience, a steady and con
servative mind and all other qualifi
cations of a grand juror. He now lives
in Cartersville but formerly at Pine
Log.
R. A. Milner is one of the great Mil
ner family of this county. He is en
gaged in farming, popular among his
fellows, an upright man in all bi3
dealings and devoted to all advance
ment of his countrymen.
Into the hands of such a body of
men the public can feel secure tha.
the business of the court will be safe
| !y and sanely handled and that they
will meet the great responsibilities
connected with their duties for tho
next few days with wisdom and pa'
: triotism.
“HOME PAPER FOR HOME PEOPLE”
CARTERSVILLE, GA., JANUARY 15, 1914
PEACE OFFICERS
GEIJADIT HURT
Desperate Negro Resists
Arrest and Shoots Two
Bailiffs at Bolivar.
A serious shooting affray which it
is thought may result fatally, took
place at Bolivar last Saturday night
when Wade Lightner, a negro, shot
and seriously injured A. V. Harman
and B. Willite, both constables of the
Fine Log district.
These officers, having a warrant foi
Lightner and locating him at Bolivar,
went to the place where he was stay
ing to arrest him. The warrant of ar
rest charged drunkenness and was is
sued some time last summer. Lightner,
upon hearing of the warrant abandon
ed his crop at that time and went to
the Blue Ridge Ochre Company to
work and remained there for some few
weeks. Afterwards he went to Rock
mart and stayed there for some time.
The officers, hearing that he was at
Bolivar, went' to the house, and just
as Mr. Willis opened the door Light
ner fired, striking Mr. Willis In the
arm and so shattering it that it had to
be afterwards amputated. Mr. Harman,
taking Mr. Willis away for the purpose
of getting him home for help, was fir
ed at by Lightner and struck in the
hack' and his injuries may result
fat illy.
A reward was offered by Gov. John
M. Slaton for Lightner’s arrest, and
he was apprehended at Canton, Ga.,
by a Mr. Cagle and put in custody and
on Tuesday Deputy Sheriff Wofford
Calloway went over to Canton and
brought him here and placed him in
the Bartow county jail.
The news of the trouble reached
Cartersville Sunday morning and a
great deal of indignation was express
ed because of the popularity of the
injured officers who were shot by &
desperate negro while in the faithful
performance of their duty. At last ac
counts Mr. Willis was getting along
fairly well and was also Mr. Harman,
but the latter’s friends are still very
apprehensive as to his chances of re
covery.
Lightner was never regarded as a
desperate negro until this occurence.
He will likely be tried at the present
term of the superior court.
LADY MINSTREL AT OPERA
HOUSE TUESDAY NIGHT
The girls basket ball team of the
Cartersville High school are now re
hearsing for an up-to-date “Lady Min
strel” to be presented next Tuesday
night at the Grand Opera House.
Prof. H. H. Rainey, who needs no
introduction to Cartersville people,
has arranged the musical numbers and
is looking after that all re
hearsals. Besides the 20 musical num
bers and new jokes in the first part,
there will be several specialties, such
a% Rainey and Thompson in a novelty
musical act, Gaines and Gilreath in
just nonsense and Misses Hendricks
and Milner in a singing, dancing and
talking act.
The Largest number of the evening
will be one of the latest songs, entit
led, “Sympathy” which will be sung
from the stage by the Misses Young
assisted by Messrs. Queener anl
Crouch from the balcony.
A special orchestra from Atlanta
will nlay the entire show. There will
be special scenery and lighting effects
rented for the occasion and all cos
tumes will be furnished by Miller &
Cos., of New York.
You will find Gaines and Gilreath
(the Mutt and Jeff of Cartersville) on
the extreme end and Misses Hendricks
and Milner on the inside ends while
Mr. Hubert Barron will hold down the'
position of interlocutor with Miss
Ethel Adair on his right and Miss
Othello Tinsley on his left. Others
who will do special numbers are: Mis
ses Lucy Vail Jones, Ostello Tinsley,
Margaret Field, Mary Lou Young,
Carolyn Young, Mary Grace Milner,
Mary Roberts, Annie Felton, Joe
Brown, Lucy Hendricks, Francis Mat
thews, Bessie Bradley, Mary Jolly,
Pauline Pittard, Eva Alley, Pauline
Gilreath, Ethel Adair and Zeta White.
The girls are now' selling tickets
and the show will be good from start
to finish, so come out and enjoy the
evening , and help the girls along.
V. T. PUCKETT
SERIOUSLY INJURED
Accident at Plant of Car
tersville Brick Company
Cripples Owner for IJfe.
W. T. Puckett, president of the Car
tersville Brick Company, suffered a
serious accident Monday at his plant
which resulted in the loss of his leg
by amputation below the knee.
At the time he was injured* Mr.
Puckett, with a force of men, was per
sonally superintending and himself
working at some machinery, and in
some way his foot was caught between
some shafting which was in motion
and a table with the floor near the
ground. Finding his foot in this posi
tion, he undertook to jerk it out and
in doing so the moving machinery
broke his leg half way between the
foot and the knee. The shafting gtili
being in motion and tbe lower part of
his leg losing its stiffness, the over
alls on the lower part of the leg wound
mound the piece of shafting until the
foot and lower leg was pulled from the
upper part of the leg.
Medical attention was immediately
sought and very soon Dr. A. B. Greene,
Lr. Howell and Dr. R. E. Adair came
to the scene of the accident and bound
ur, his injuries so that he could be tak
en home where whatever treatment
required could be given him. When he
was brought home it was some seven
cr eight hours before the doctors could
proceed to do any surgical work be
cause the loss of blood had weakened
him too much to have an anesthetic
given him. When he was-thought to be
in condition for an operation, it was
found necessary to take the balance
of the leg off at the knee.
From late accounts Mr. Puckett was
getting along fairly well, but the shock
of the accident and the resulting oper
ations were very trying upon him.
The many friends and acquaintances
of Mr. Puckett were shocked to learn
of tfye disaster which befell him and
promptly extended their sympathy to
the family. Mr. Puckett is one of the
most prominent citizens of Carters
ville, a man of energy and untiring in
his labors, and it was exceedingly un
fortunate that he should have been
so badly injured and it is to be hoped
that no complications will arise that
v- ill prevent his speedy recovery.
ANNUAL MEETING.
Stockholders of the Bank of Carters
ville Hold Regular Annual Meet
ing January Bth.
At the usual annual meeting of the
shareholders of the Bank of Carters
ville on last Thursday, January Bth,
the following directors were elected
fer the coming year: J. S. Leak, J. W
Knight John P. Lewis, J. W. Vaughan,
R. B. Harris, L. F. Shaw, P. F. Akin,
J J. Hill and'C. M. Milam.
The directors elect met thereafter
aid organized by electing the follow
ing officers: J. S. Leak, president; J
W. Knight, vice-president; C. M. Mil
am, cashier.
The bank paid the usual three per
cent semi-annual dividend, number 36,
which amounted f o $3,000.00.
The condensed statement of the
tank at the close of business, January
Bth, was as follows:
RESOURCES.
Loans $213,869.07
Banking houses 15,165.42
Furniture and fixtures 7,599.86
Cash in vault and due
from banks 131,504.97
$368,139.32
LIABILITIES.
Capital stock $100,000.00
Surplus and profits 29,964.77
Deposits 238,174. ;>5
$368,139.32
The Bank of Cartersville is an in
stitution that has grown from
$25,000,00 endeavoring to conserve
and advance the interest of both the
agricultural and commercial interest
t this section. The bank is the desig
nated deposatory of Bartow countv,
City of Cartersville and United State - ,
bankrupt funds.
When in need of anything in the
loose leaf line call the manager of
this office. No matter what it is he
will be glad to figure with you.
BAKER AND ADAMS
WIN IN ELECTION
Spirited Election Saturday
Fills Vacancies With Two
Strong Men.
The election of two members of the
Board of Commissioners of Roads and
Revenues of Bartow county to fill the
vacancies caused by the resignation
of A. G. White and S. S. Atwood was
held last Saturday and resulted in a
sweeping victory for Dr. Thos. H.
Baker and N. M. Adams.
An unusual amount of interest was
manifested in the matter during the
last two days of the race and the
friends of Dr. Baker were unusually
active It was generally conceded that
Mr. Adams would be elected from the
start and it was just as certain that
Lr. Baker would be elected if he
would consent to accept the place at
£.ll. He was importuned for some time
to even permit his name to be voted
ui.on, his friends promising to relieve
him from any campaigning, but it was
not until about Tuesday or Wednesday
of last week that he informed his
Mends that if he was elected he would
serve but that he had neither the time
or the inclination to give any time to
campaigning for it.
This was enough. Dr. Baker has al
ways been a political power in the
county with a large and respectable
following and being a man of recogn
ized ability as well as one of the larg
est tax payers in the county he was
settled upon |ls one whose efforts as
a commissioner would be directed to
ward a conservative course in the
handling of the county’s fiscal affairs,
which just now are not in any too
good condition.
While the vote cast was not large,
it was fairly good sized when it is
considered that it was a special elec-
t J on and came at a time when not any
thing like all the voters had paid their
1913 taxes.
The vote in detail was as follows:
N M. Adams 600
T. H. Baker 853
Pen iCook 167
J. W. Nation 161
John Hilburn 51
Messrs. Baker and Adams receiving
a large majority over the other candi
dates in the field will serve on the
board of commissioners until January,
Ist, 1915.
TIMELY SUGGESTIONS.
{
Asa People We Do Not Study Thrift.
One of the leading farmers of the
new currency bill said, “Per capita,
>ve are the biggest eaters, the biggest
squanderers, the smallest savers oi
money in the whole civilized world.”
To quote another writer, “we are
convicted as improvident” and yet
we live and move in the most prosper
ous section of the globe.
Only 99 people out of every 1,000
have savings accounts in this country,
while the figures run 317, 346 554,
220, 270 and 302 in Germany, France
Switzerland, Italy, Japan and England
We must change. The pace of ex
travagance is a lesson and teaching
that will ruin the child and develop
V orthless characters.
“The citizen who saves is a patriot.”
“The citizen who sinks into debt
through extravagance, riotous living,
is a curse to his country.”
Our local Building & Loan Asso
ciation stands as an exponent of help
ful saving. As best they are able, they
not only want to teach saving, but to
be equally as helpful to the worthy
citizen who needs money.
The organization is co-operative;
the same principle is now aggitated by
expert writers and congress under the
title of “rural credits.”
Every farmer as well as business
man; every wage earner as well as
child, ought to be a member in the
aimy of co-operation.
Our local association has gathered
over $100,000.00 of savings, and im
mediately re-invests same in first
mortgage loans, to those who wish to
build a house, own a home, buy a
farm, or occupy for business.
The saving there pays from 6 per
cent to 8 per cent annually which un
questionably is the best medium for
saving.
HEALID BOARD
ISJODGANIZED
City Physicians Are Made
Guardians of the Wel
fare of Cartersville.
On'the official call of the mayor and
commissioners, every legal registered
white physician in Cartersville was'
notified to meet at city offices, Sat
urday, January 10th, past, to organize
as the Board of Health of Cartersville,
at 3:30 p. m. The following physicians
were present:
Dr. A. T. Calhoun, Dr. R. E. Adair,
Dr. T. L. Driscoll, Dr. Howard E. Fel
ton, Dr. A. B. Greene, Dr. Sam Howell,
Di. R. I. Battle, Dr. W. C. Griffin, Dr.
Thos. H. Baker, Dr. W. C. Covington,
Lr. McClure.
Mayor Young explained the object
of the meeting and stated that the
mayor and commissioners had appoint
ed the physicians present as the offi
c.al Board of Health of the city and
asked them to organize and perform
such other duties as was needed.
Those present proceeded to organize
according to law and the pow T er con
ferred upon them, by electing the fol
lowing officers for 1914 and 1915:
President, Dr. A. T. Calhoun.
Secretary, Dr. Howard E. Felton.
After organization and a full dis
cussion of the health condition of the
chy, the meeting adjourned to meet in
February, or on the call of the presi
dent and secretary, at any time.
The unanimity with which the phy
sicians joined in the work assigned
them insures fine results for the
health of Cartersville and no effort
will be spared to bring about the very
best sanitary precautions and other
ntfeans to prevent disease.
PETTIT CREEK FARMERS’
CLUB ENTERTAINED.
Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Pittard, of Cass
ville, Ga., entertained the Pettit Creek
Farmers Club at their regular monthly
meeting last Friday, January 9, 1914,
with an elegant dinner; this being the
day of election of officers, the follow
ing were elected and intailed for the
ensuing term:
President, L. W. Shaw.
Vice-President, John S. Leak.
Secretary and Treasurer, Dr. H. E.
Felton.
Members of the club:
H. E. Felton, L. S. Munford, Jas. H.
Cilreath, W. D. Pittard, Geo. H. Head
den, Ruohs Pyron, W. O. Henderson,
John S. Leak, T. T. Jones, R. L. Saxon,
F. E. F. Jones, L. F. Shaw, M. L.
Johnson, T. W. Tinsley, W. A. Jack
son.
This is one of the oldest clubs in the
county and its members among the
most prosperous farmers in North
Georgia. Their monthly meetings af
ford an opportunity for an exchange
of views upon the subject of good
farming as well as furnishing a chance
to enjoy socially meeting with each
other and to test the culinary accom
plishments of the women members of
the respective families interested in
tie club. These spreads are becoming
famous but not any more so than the
ability of the members of the club to
eat what is set before them.
TWO DAYS’ CONFERENCE
AT PRESBYTERIAN CHRUCH.
Beginning Sunday afternoon, Jan
uary 25th, at the Presbyterian church
there will be a two days’ conference
on the Sunday school work of our city.
/I °ach session of this conference
three of the most prominent Sunday
school workers of the country will be
present. Mrs. Mary Foster Bryner
comes from Chicago and is a woman
o' international reputation in her line;
Miss Daisy Magee is superintendent of
tbe primary work of the state of Geor
gia and will give valuable suggestions
on this very Important department of
the work; then there will be present
Mr. D. W. Sims, state superintendent
o*- Sunday school work, whom many
Cartersville people have heard with
so much pleasure in recent Sunday
school conferences.
The coming conference means much
for the Sunday school interests of our
c-ty and it is earnestly hoped that all
parents and teachers and officers of
Sunday schools will begin right now
to make arrangements to attend every
service.
A full program of the meetings will
appear later.
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