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DEPARTMENT OF
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
EDITED BY
HENRY MILAM, Superintendent of Schools.
Manifesting More Interest.
The records in the county superin
tendent's office show that contract
have been made with 13 more teachers
to date than to the same date any
previous year. Surely the people are
manifesting more interest in their
children than ever before. It is very
unfortunate that this increased at
tendance and a cut of S6OO in the ap
propriation from the state should
come at the same time. Request for
seats, new rooms, improvements upon
trie houses and for paint all have to
h* turned down for the lack of funds.
The great question is: How can we
pay those 15 teachers that have had
to be employed that we did not ex
pect?
The Breaking up of Homes.
In 1880, the divorce rate was 23 per
100,000 of population. In 1900 the rate
was 73.
Divorce increases about two and a
half times as fast as population in
the United States.
There are more divorced couples in
the United States than in all the other
civilized countries of the world put
together. We lead the world in di
vorces !
The most pitiful thing in the situa
tion are the divorce orphans in the
United States —one million, two hun
ched thousand of them!
The orphans whose fathers and
mothers are dead are not half so piti
ful as the orphans whose fathers and
mothers are alive.
The school houses at Ransom and
Parnesley have just had new coats of
si kin thus making their appearance
more pleasing to the eye and at the
some time greatly lengthening the
life of the house.
Tax Receiver’s Notice For 1914
I will attend the places named below on the days stated, for the
purpose of Receiving Tax Returns for the year 1914, to-wit:
Cartersville, February 6 S 21, 26, March 2,
14, April 6.
Euharlee, February 2, March 3, 23.
Atco, February 7.
Iron Hill, February 3, March 4, 25.
Taylorsville, February 4, March 5, 24.
Stilesboro, February 5, March 6.
White, February 9, March 21.
Rydal, February 10, A. M.
Bolivar, February 10, P. M.
Sallacoa, February 11, March 20.
Rogers Station, March 13, A. M.
Liberty Hill, March 13, P. M.
Pine Log, February 12, March 19, 31.
Folsom, February 13, March 18, 28.
Gum Springs, February 14, A. M.
Dewey, February 14, P. M.
Cass Station, February 16.
Kingston, February 17, March 16, 26.
Barnsley, February 18, A; M.
Halls Station, February 18, P. M.
Adairsville, February 19, March 17, 27.
Cassville, February 20, March 7, 30.
Emerson, February 23, March 9, April 4.
AUatoona, Feb. 24, March 10, April 3.
Island Mills, February 25, A. M.
Wolf Pen, Feb. 28, Marcn 12, April 1.
READ THE FOLLOWING BEFORE MAKING YOUR RETURNS,
AND THE LIST CAREFULLY BEFORE FILLING OUT.
I am required to administer the prescribed oath to every one (except sick and infirm persons and non-residents
nd females who can take and subscribe to the oath before any officer authorized to administer oath.) I will be
complied to refuse to accept any return not duly and regu.arly sworn to. I am no* allowed to copy any returns from
fast year’s digest. All property of every description, money, evidence of debt, etc., held on the Ist day of January
1914, must be returned at the fair market value. It is the duty of every free holder or agent to make returns of the
T.ames of all tax payers on their premises on January Ist, rnd especially of all colored tax payers between the ages
•cf 21 and 60. Answer every question on the list.-All city or town property must he returned, giving its location
street, etc. The Christian names of all tax payers must be given and returns must not be intermingled with-that‘Of
o her persons. Many changes have been made which will appear by reading the tax lists carefully. And according
*4o the act of General Assembly.of 1913, I must close nr.y books on the Ist day of May and tarn the same over* to
" ih’e Tax Board of jComurissloners.vHence the importance of giving in your tax before May Ist to avoid a double tax
by the Board of Tax yoantulssiooeßS. I all persons will give their returns .earefql attention and avoid tropble
for fhejnselves and the tax recover. My instructions are imperative and I will be compelled to reject returns not
made out and Oiled as the law reqjlires. By an act of the General Assembly, approved August 22, 1905, I ant required
to take a census of ail soldiers and the widows of Confederate soldiers who reside In Georgia oi Ist
fay of January. 1914, and to givjMhe name of the company and regiment which thi’lMijtev bf th£ dead- hashamt of
the wi<Jqv werved, ahd the time and place of enlistment aud when and where discharged. This is important to these
>rfc'son.£ gud T ak thefr attention and the attention of their friends.
\V\Vt vy '•' | t 7 . s. -1 -,y\/A* J* ye ■vyj ri >j
W. T. PITTARD, - Tax Receiver Bartow County
An Exhibit and Its Results.
Miss Jessie Burton, after a few days
s,>ent in the schools, conceived the
idea of collecting as exhibit of busy
work devices to arouse interest and
employ the children of the lower
grades while the teachers are busy
with the larger pupils.
Seeing the great need of this kind
c* work for the teacher's sake as weP
a- the pupil’s, the exhibit was arrang
ed for and wholesale prices were se
cured. At the teachers’ meeting last
Friday and Saturday, the space
around this exhibit was taken during
a.l intermissions and on Monday
about $15.00 worth of material was
ordered by the county superintendent
h r the teachers. This means that
many of the Bartow county teachers
are taking from SI.OO to $3.00 from
their own slender purses in an effort
to do their most for the children com
mitted to their care. Though the av
erage salary for the white teachers
is only $lB5, out of which they must
pay an average of $75 for board, other
incidental and traveling expenses,
jet in order to do their best work they
are willing to give more for equip
ment.
This spirit is fine and we all appre
ciate the fact that we are fortunate
to have our children under such noble
spirits. But is there not a limit to
what we should allow?
Child Labor on the Farm.
In 1907, there were 1,750,000 child
workers in the United States; and
1,100,000 of them were farm workers.
Says Charles W. Holman in the
Farm and Ranch;
“Notwithstanding the fact that we
lave a Texas child labor law, no ef
fort has ever been made to prevent
the labor of young children in the
Peruvian Ochre Company, Feb. 25, P. M.
Stamp Creek, Feb. 27, March 11, April 2.
Dean Owens, February 2, at night.
H. J. McCormick, February 4, at night.
E. M. Upshaw, February 9, at night.
W. H. Bagwell, February 10, at night.
D. W. Hughes, February 11, at night.
L. A. Ingram, February 12, at night.
Frank L. Linn, February 13, at night.
W. C. Lipscomb, February 16, at night.
J. N. McGuire, February 17, at night.
Scott Dodd, February 18, at night.
Bobo Shops, February 19, at night.
T. G. B. Gore, February 20, at night.
W. T. Robertson, February 24, at night.
Dennis Smith, February 26, at night.
W. P. Kay, February 27, at night.
N. M. Adams, March 2, at night.
Jolly’s Store, March 3, at night.
Butler Anderson, March 4, at night.
W. H. Lumpkin, March 16, at night.
R. F. Mosteller, March 17, at night.
Sid Stegall, Match 18, at night.
A. J. Nally, March 20, at night.
J. S. Rhodes, March 27, at night.
Grassdale, March 30, at night.
R. L. Howell, April 1, at night.
THE BARTOW TRIBUNE, JANUARY 28, 1914.
fields during the cotton picking and
cotton hoeing seasons.
•‘The result is that the whole of our
common school system in country
districts is based upon the fact that
►he child will be at work until late in
the fall and must leave school early
in the spring.
“To understand the child labor
problem, you must understand the
larger problem of land tenure.
“Since the majority of our farmers
are renters, and since the cotton crop
imposes such an enormous tax upon
labor, it is impossible for us to eradi
cate the evil of child labor, until we
pass compulsory education laws which
will provide for thorough inspection
of truants and until we completely
revolutionize our field of cropping sys
tim —an evii which has grown out o f
land tenure.”
The Church and the Community.
“Religion and society, the^church
and the community, can not be separ
ated. Reciprocity is more and more
sought after. The church needs th
social spirit and method of the best
work of the community; and social
| work no less needs the spiritual ideals
and sanctions which religious con
sciousness alone can bring to any and
every kind of service.
“The common ground upon which
this religious consciousness in sociai
work and the social consciousness in
religious work, are being born anew.
Tn the process, work for the individ
i.al becomes no less indispensable, but
al. the more effective, and work for
the community becomes less social
ized for being more personal and hu
man.” —Graham Taylor.
Child Labor.
There are nearly two million child
workers in the United States.
Three-fifths of them —or about 1,
200,000 —are on the farms of the
country.
We have expended a great deal of
sympathy upon the children In the
factories and shops. A good deal of i!
i= needed for the children whose lives
aie hard in the farm regions.
One of our recent graduates writes;
‘ The children do not learn any too
fast, but they are worked so hard a
home that I do not see how they can
lo any better
“The little girls where I board milk
evening and morning. They help to
cxk and wash the dishes. They get up
u five o’clock and work until about
eight. Then they dress for school, and
usually they are tardy.”
And these are the children of a well
t.-do farm family!
The following schools ha- oiled
their floors since the holidays: Pine
l og, Oak Hill, Rock Creek, Cunning
ham and Barnesley. Who will be the
next? Who will win the fight against
dust laden with disease germs and bv
this act give the children a better op
portunity to lead their lives and do
their work?
A TRUE STORY.
(from Insurance, A Weekly Magazine,
New York City.)
He was forced, so he said, into tak
ing out a life insurance policy. The
man who did the forcing business was
a friend, to whom he was under cer
tain obligations, a man of gentle, but
persevering speech.
Yes, he signed the application, and
v.hen he got home he really thought
he had acted like a fool. There would
be anew account to settle within a
week, and it was of a kind which did
not require immediate action; hut the
policy was coming and the premium
must be paid.
Why did he not defer signing that
application for at least six months?
The man met the policy with the
requisite cash when it came, just as
the man of a family ought always to
do, and took it home to his wife. Now
it so happened that the wife had been
promised money for replenishing her
wardrobe. She was in need of a fur
coat and anew hat and the figures on
the face of the policy startled her.
There’s no immediate haste for life
insurance, she said, but the pressure
on her for things at the shop was
quite distressing; what should she do*
Just outside the little suburban town
where these people lived and loved
and worried over the ills of life, an
acquaintance was suffering from an
attack of typhoid, and he stood in need
ol someone to help aim watch the
night away. Our friend took up the
burden. He drank water freely from
the family well. The typhoid germ got
into his stomach, and into his blood.
In the paroxysms of fever that fol
lowed, his good wife leaned over him
and forgot her late troubles. As the
crisis drew near, the doctor grew ser
ious. It was an uncanny hour. The
thought that this man could die in
the flower of his youth had never en
tored into this woman’s head. She
had been in the habit of looking out
on a vista of happiness that should
last forever.
Then it was that the life policy came
into her mind. She had a clear vision
of what a moneyless future would
mean. As this thought flashed through
her mind her baby cried. Then she
ciied too, and ran and got hold of the
policy, and kissed it.
Now it was that when thq delirium
died away, and strange illusions Van
ished, and the man began to eom6 to
himself, he, too, was moved in spirit.
As bodily and mental strength began
i'o assert themselves, he drew mighty
consolation when he thought of his in
surance. The policy did wonders for
1- m. The doctor said he had never
seen so swift a case c/f recdverL in
typhoid.
See W. J. Ham, District Agent, Car
tersvilje, Ga., of Mutual Life Insur
ance Cos., of Newark, N. J„ and he
will take pleasure in going ovpr their
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JAR DIARY.
HEBER S. THOMPSON,
Captain Cos. I, 7th Pennsylvania Cav
alry, Inspector Ist Brigade, 2nd
Cavalry Division, Army of
the Cumberland.
November 28—Monday. Charleston.
This day twenty officers (the worst
cases) and all the enlistee' men here
were paroled and started at 5 o’clock
p. m. for Savannah, to be exchanged.
Fercy White among the number. On
leaving he took with him only such
Lttle articles as he would need on the
way; everything else he left with me
He hated leaving me behind almost
a3 much as I hated being left, and in
terceded with the doctor to have me
included. The doctor said he could
rot, with this lot, but promised him
snd, me that with the next batcl
(probably about next Saturday) he
would certainly send me. I was glaa
t • see Percy get off, but after his de
parture felt terribly lonesome. Ho
left with me an order for all packages
if money which should come for him,
and also for the box of provisions ho
had sent for.
December 2, 1864. Charleston, S. C.
On Wednesday the exchange of pris
oners at Savannah was suspended on
account of military operations in
vitinity. About eight hundred sick
who had already arrived at Charleston
were left lying in a large field in the
suburbs of the city, exposed to the
weather without any protection wha -
ever. Such inhumanity! Many are dy
ing daily. Yesterday afternoon sixty
cf them were brought to this hospital
seven of whom died before 10 o’clock
the next morning. Today a lot more
were received, filling the hospital
completely. The remainder of the sick
were returned again to Florence
Among those who came up today was
rue Joel Packer, Private Cos. L. 7th
F’ennsylvania Cavalry who was cap-
tvred at the same time as I.
Eecember 4—Sunday. Charleston.
Wrote home today to Lew. Our
ration now for a convalescent patient
(n full diet is, for breakfast, a cup of
coffee (?) one-siyth of a loaf of bread
gritz (grist) and molasses; for
dinner a cup of soup, small piece of
corn bread, a small piece of meat witn
roe or grist; for supper, a cup of cof
fee, one-sixth of a loaf of bread and a
small piece of corn bread.
December 11—Sunday. Charleston.
Of the whole number of patients re
ceived at this hospital last Wednes
day week (Nov. 88th) which, was nine
(v (90), there have died up-to this
riorning, thirty-six (36), besides three
(3J received since, who died; making
in all thirty-nine (39).
December 12—Monday. Charleston.
Today all the Officers here, thirty -
two, six captains arid twenty-six lieu
tenants, were paroled for exchange to
morrow. Gforio'usU
December 13—Tuesday. Off Charles
ton Harbor;
On board steamer ‘Northern Light”.
Today abbuf noon ambulances arrived
at our. old hospital for the kick. 1 AfW
some delay in loading them up,'we ail
started for the wharf where we took
tne rebel steamer “Celt” (k niean dirty
littld craft) and steanted out to our
fleet which was lying just' off Morris
Island. ’ ;
Going out we passed, on .our righi,!
Ji'iues Island well fortified with rebel '
works, and on our left Sullivans Tel-I
and, containing among its other works
Fort Moultrie. Between these two isl
ands lie Fort Sumter. Castle Pinck-
r.ey and Fort Ridley. Our course lay
between Fort Sumter and Castle
Pinckney and close to the former,
which in magnitude fell decidedly be
law my imagination of Fort Sumter.
The walls facing the city of Charleston
appeared to be in pretty good condi
tion but the walls facing Morris Isl
land had the appearance of an irreg
ular ridge of sand hills. Just off the
outer shore of Sullivans Island and
under the w'alls of Fort Moultrie la/
half submerged in the water, the
wrecks of several blockade runners
which were driven ashore and knock
ed to pieces by our batteries on Mor
ris Island. On our right just after pass
ing Sumter and opposite to Fort Moul
trie we passed Morris Island, over
which floated the Stars and Stripes.
On reaching our fleet we were trans
ferred from one vessel to another until
we were put on board the steamer
“Northern Light” where we found
about one hundred other of our of
ficers and among them Capt. Newlin
o? our regiment, whom I had consid
ered exchanged two months before,
Bi'd whom I was delighted to meet.
December 14—Wednesday. At sea.
Started this morning about 9 o’clock.
Passed on our way out from “Moni
tors” queer looking animals almost en
tirely under water with their towers
showing numerous dints, proofs tha:
they had seen service, besides a cou
ple of iron clads and other vessels.
Mas somewhat seasick this morning.
December 15—-Thursday. At sea.
Passed Cape Hatteras this morning
shout 10 o’clock, and was again con
siderably seasick.
December 16—Friday. Chesapeake Bay
Reached Fortress Monroe about 3
o clock this morning, cast anchor and
lay for six hours waiting for a pilot.
About 9 o’clock having taken our pilot
aboard started for Annapolis which
v.e expected to make in about twelve
hours.
" r te RUMMAGE AND SAMPLE SALE
Is still going on at Hardaway’s where
you can get almost an: r thing you want
ar prices nowhere else to be found in
Cartersville. Some few of the items
8e exhausted, but there are still hun
dreds of things there that you will
have to buy next week, and unless you
get them there you will pay a great
deal more for them.
Still a great many ladies’ shawls,
scarfs, facinators and auto and avia
tion caps. Caps at wholesale prices
rnd a big number of children’s, ladies’
and men’s wool and cotton sweaters
at wholesale prices and an endles"
variety of ladles’ and men’s under
wear at wholesale prices. We still sell
6 spools Coats thread, 81b Farm Bel!
soap for 25c.
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Mr. Joseph Shaw, tax collector of
Partbw county, has appointed A. M
Puckett, Esq., to register voters. Mr.
Puckett wHI be found at his office at
Anderson’s livery stable.
A permanent registration book has
been left with Mr. Puckett which will
be opOn for people to register
uptil April •6th„ 1914, at which time
the, book* will be closed as required
tv taw.
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