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preacher arrested
SUES THE SHERIFF
<j. T. Pratt Brings Action
For Damages For Alleged
Illegal Arrest.
ReV . C-. T. Piatt, claiming that he
had been wrongfully arrested and il
legally deprived of his liberty, brought
cvl[ last week against Sheriff C. N.
y.intb, Deputies W. H. Powell and
pones M. Hammond and J. West Per-
I- lIIS , sheriff of Whitley county, Ken
tucky, for ?5.000 damages.
Some few days ago the sheriff of
Whitley county, Kentucky, Mr. Per
ldus, directed Sheriff C. N. Smith to
2rrest c. T. Pratt, alleging that he
was a fugative from justice. Mr. Smith,
knowing of Mr. Pratt’s whereabouts
, n d unable to go himself, deputized
W H Powell and James M. Hammond
to make the arrest. It is claimed by
tbe plaintiff that he was arrested
he was conducting a religious
meeting near Cassville and that he
Pegged the officers to place a guard
over him and offered further to pay
the expenses of such a guard. He vig
orously protested his innocence of hav
ing committed any crime in Kentucky
and claims that the arrest grows out
of his indebtedness to an individual in
Kentucky, which debt he admits he
owes but has been unable to pay. The
officers declined to place a guard over
Pirn and claimed that they had no op
tion under the circumstances but to
place him in jail unless he could give
a satisfactory bond. This he did not
offer to do as claimed by the officers.
The suit is based upon the claim
to at Pratt was arrested without a war
lant and that afterwards upon a war
-1 ant being issued charging him with
being a "fugative from justice’’ that
no such offense is known to the laws
or Georgia, and hence his arrest is
illegal and he has been deprived of
his liberty without due process of law.
’t he officers claim that it is customary
all over the country to arrest upon
waiTants charging the arrested party
of being a fugative from justice where
the direction comes from another
suite to hold such party, and the cour
tesy between sheriffs of different
states and the proper administration
of the law requires the carrying out
i*l such courtesy and arrest upon such
warrant.
Sheriff Perkins was in Cartersville
Friday, coining down to take Mr. Pratt
tack to Kentucky, but meeting with
resistanee and a suit for damages, re
turned to his home without a prisoner.
Mr. Pratt has been preaching for
some time and lately has been identi
fied with a religious sect urging a
doctrine different from that of the
principal denominations of this coun
ty He is well connected and has many
friends.
Finley & Henson represent the
P'aintiff and an interesting and vigor
ously fought law suit has probably
just begun.
Sheriff Smith when seen said he had
no personal knowledge of the arrest,
being in Atlanta on the day it was
made, but that he was assured that
tut officers had every reason for the
course taken by them and that they
treated Mr. Pratt with every proper
consideration.
AT THE GRAND OPERA
HOUSE APRIL THIRD.
f take pleasure in announcing to my
patrons, with the great assistance of
Georgia Allumnae in Cartersville, 1
have been phenomenally successful
in bringing to Cartersville, Georgia’s
University famous Mandolin and Glee
C'ub, headed by an A-l band and or
chestra with twenty pieces—all real
musicians—also a marvelous Glee
Cuartette and Mandolin Club. Asa
token of esteem and appreciation for
r he dear old college of red and black.
I sincerely trust the real music lovers
o” Cartersville as a whole will pack
the theatre to its utmost capacity.
H. H. RAINEY.
DR. R. P. COX TO LECTURE.
The public is most cordially invited
*c hear Dr. R. P. Cox lecture at the
Methodist church. Adairsville at 3 p
m., April 3rd, on conservation of the
c/esight. School teachers are espec
ially requested to attend.
THE BARTOW TRIBUNE
SCHOOL BOVS 10
HAVE TOUCH MEET
An Interesting List of Field
Day Events at the Fair
Grounds Friday.
An event of unusual interest will be
that of the High School Track Meet
next Friday afternoon at the fair
grounds.
There will be good field day events
and for each event attractive prizes
have been tendered by the merchants
of Cartersville. These prizes are valu
able and the contenders will bend ev
ery physical energy to pull them down.
H. P. Womelsdorf, Joseph S. and*
John Calhoun have been selected as
judges and the winners of these events
will represent Cartersville in the sev
enth district track meet at Cedartown,
April 17 and 18. *
The Seventh District Association
was formed some years ago and the
high school boys have had an athletic
organization for more than three
years, this being the third track meet
which they have held.
There will be twenty-five possible
contenders and the events will begin
at 2:30 p. m. The day being favorable
there will doubtless be a large crowd
:n attendance as the families of the
various contenders are very much in
teiested and the young people, both
boys and girls, are enthusiastic over
it
The events in their order will take
place as follows:
1st —100 yard dash.
2nd—Running high jump.
3rd —Half mile relay race.
4th—Shot put.
5th —220 yard dash.
Oth —Running broad jump.
7 th—44o yard run.
Bth—l2o yard hurdle.
SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVEN
TION AT PINE LOG
We are to have a Sunday Schoo
Convention at Pine Log camp grounds
c-n fifth Sunday, 29 inst.
It is a meeting of the Sunday
schools in the fifth division of Bartoc
county, composed of Cassville district
Wolf Pen and Pine Log district. It i
expected that every Sunday school >
all denominations, and union schools
as well, shall either come in a body
or send representatives to this con
vention.
This is part of the plan of organic
ed effort to make our Sunday schools
a greater power for good.
Let every Sunday school in the
three districts mentioned above b>
sure to have representatives at th '
meeting.
There will be several good speakers
present to address us on Sunday
school work, better methods, etc.
Program begins at 11 o’clock, aim
there will be an afternoon session.
Come prepared to stay all day.
C. L. ANTHONY,
Fifth Division President.
VV. C. SATTERFIELD IMPROVING.
The many friends of Mr. W. C. Sat
terfield were greatly alarmed last Fri
day when it was learned that Mr. Sat
terfield was suddenly stricken and
very sick. Due to a cause, the nature
o'" which has not yet been definitely
determined by the physicians in at
tendance, Mr. Satterfield suffered se
vere hemorrhages and it seemed for
sometime as if he could not possibly
recover. Medical aid finally checked
these hemorrhages and Mr. Satterfield
has since shown marked improvement,
it is now believed that he is safely
convalescent.
MR. WILL PINION INJURED.
Mr. Will Pinion suffered a painful
rrd quite serious accident Saturday
morning on his way to the cchre mines
o:’ the Blue Ridge Ochre Company.
Mr. Pinion was driving and at a
point on the road his horse shied, run
n’ng the buggy into a tree, and throw
ing him out upon the ground so vio
lently as to seriously fracture his
shoulder and collar bone. The injuries
received were very painful and have
required joonsiderable surgical skill
unon the part of the doctors in at
tendance and are sufficient to cause
Mr. Pinion to be confined to his home
several days.
“HOME RARER FOR HOME PEOPLE”
CARTERSVILLE, GA., MARCH 2(1, IGI4
MERCHANTS TO
CLOSE AT SIX
Beginning in April Em
ployees Will Have Even
ings For Recreation.
The merchants of Cartersville have
agreed to close their places of busi
ness, beginning April first and until
October first, 1914, each day of the
week except Saturday at 6 o’clock in
the evening.
This is in line with the movement
started one year ago by the merchants
of Cartersville and is especially due
the faithful corps of clerks who work
at these stores.
During the summer months the pub
lic can accommodate itself to trading
during the daytime hours so that the
merchants and clerks will be given
evenings of recreation and pleasure.
The movement is in harmony with the
spirit in larger cities and shows that
Cartersville merchants are just as
Progressive and have just as much
consideration for their employees as
the stores in larger cities. The follow
ing is the agreement entered into by
the merchants:
We the undersigned merchants ot
the city of Cartersville agree to close
our places of business every afternoon
ai six (6) o'clock from April Ist, 1914
to October Ist, 19’4, Saturday after
noon excepted.
J. W. Vaughan & Cos., T. W, Simp
son Cos., Adair & Lewis, Kniglit Mer
cantile Cos., Scheuer Bros., Madison
Milam, B. L. Vaughan Clothing Cos.,
Planters Supply Cos., Foster & Son, W.
A. Leake, Fain & Adair, Bartow Hard
ware Cos., R. J. Donahoo, M. Steinberg,
Cartersville Five and Ten Cent Store.
W. A. BROWN HAS NARROW
ESCAPE AT JUNTA.
Mr. W. A. Brown suffered an acci
dent Monday in the yards of the L.
& N. railroad and, but for his fore
sight and physical activity, might have
been decidedly more serious.
Mr. Brown is a locomotive engineer,
having in charge one of the large en
gines used in the switching service of
the L. &. N. at Junta.
Due to some confusion and conflict
as to who had possession of the track
on which Mr. Brown’s engine was do
ing some switching, a freight train
backed into the track from a switch
sideswiping Mr. Brown’s engine and
turning it over. Mr. Brown jumped
just in time out of the window of his
cab to keep the engine from falling
or him. This leap and strain of getting
through the window caused a severe
sprain in his back from which he has
suffered considerable pain. The fire
man also jumped and escaped without
injury from the door of the cab.
Friends of Mr. Brown will be glad
to know that he will be able to resume
his duties in a very short time.
PENSIONS FOR CONFEDERATES.
Judge G. W. Hendricks announces
that he is now ready and able to pay,
as ordinary of Bartow county, all pen
sioners who have heretofore been
drawing a pension. Those whose ap
plications were approved for payment
:ii 1914 and who have not yet drawn,
cannot be paid for the reason that it
will require a special appropriation by
the next legislature to meet these de
mands. This is necessary for the rea
son that the last legislature cut down
the pension appropriation and thereby
reduced the amount to the extent that
the applications last approved will
have to wait. However, as said before,
all who have been drawing can now be
paid.
UNDER THE AUSPICES
OF THE J. O. U. A. M.
Mrs. Julia T. Roth, a representative
r*t the Daughters of America, will
speak at the Court House in Carters
ville, Friday evening at 8 o’clock,
March 27th, on the subject of “Re
si riction of Foreign Emigration.”
This bill is now before our national
congress. Mrs. Roth is a very interest
ing speaker and you will be interest
ingly and profitably entertained. The
lecture Is free for all. Everybody come
OB.IT, SHEPHERD |
DIES IN CHAiTANOOGAj
A Former Bartow Resident
Succumbs to Disease oL
Heart.
Dr. J. T. Shepherd, a former resi
dent of Bartow county and well known
to a large number of the older citi
zens of Cartersville, died suddenly at
bis home in Chattanooga last Sunday
evening of cardiac insufficiency. Dr.
Shepherd was a member of a large
family who were popular and highly
esteemed throughout this section of
Georgia, being the only son of a fami
ly of eight children. He was a brother
of Mrs. J. M. Field and Mrs. John H.
Wikle, now deceased. His boyhood and
young manhood was spent here and
his was a nature which drew towards
him a host of friends upon whom he
showed every mark of affection and
every evidence of good fellowship. His
death is mourned deeply aud sincerely
by all who knew him in this county.
From the Chattanooga Times we
dip the following biographical account
of his life:
‘‘Dr. Shepherd was one of the best
known physicians in Chattanooga,
where he has been practicing since
1885. For four years he was visiting
physician at the Hamilton county hos
pital, and for four years at a latei
period he held the office of county
physician. In 1888, during the Cleve
land administration, he was appointed
acting surgeon of the public health
and marine hospital service. He held
that position until in August, 1911,
when the station was abolished.
“When he was 6 years old his father
moved to a farm near Cartersville. At
the age of 16 he entered the confeder
ate army and served the last two
years of the civil war under Gen.
Dick Taylor.
“He was graduated from the Uni
versity of Maryland at Baltimore in
1873, and returned to Cartersville,
where he practiced his profession until
Ms removal to Chattanooga in 1885
where he has since lived. He had been
iu ill health for two years prior to his
death.
Dr. Shepherd is survived by his wife,
formerly Miss Emily Schulte, of
Charleston, S. C., to whom he was
married in 1881, and five children,
tnree sons, Bert R„ Paul W„ and
I ercy 8., and two little daughters,
Elsie and Eunice.
“The funeral will be held Tuesday
morning at 10 at the residence, the
Rev. W. S. Keese, pastor of the High
land Park Baptist church, officiating.
3he funeral will be in charge of Key
stone lodge, Knights of Pythias. Inter
ment will be at Forest Hills.
WEEK OF PRAYER HELD
AT FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH.
Last week, .March 16th to 20th, in
clusive, was observed by the ladies of
Hie First Baptist church as a- special
season of prayer for and study of
home missions. The, attendance, the
entire week, was excellent, the pro
giams full and instructive, and the
interest intense.
Every phase of the home mission
work was discussed, including condi
tions both in cities and rural districts,
immigrant problems and the housing
of homeless churches.
Hearts were deeply touched when
it was shown how ripe the harvest
was, and how inadequate the few la
borers were to the task; and yet these
good women were made to rejoice
when it was demonstrated how these
few patient toilers had been unable,
in God’s strength, to glean such a rich
harvest of golden sheaves for the
Master.
The week of prayer gave the devot
ed women of the church anew- vision
ot the needs of the southland. They
were made to feel that each year
brings its added responsibilities and
opportunities.
The result of the meeting as evi
denced by their earnestness and inter
est shown, was the formation of a
firm resolve to press forward with re
newed zeal and courage and that no
field of labor offers greater ' portu
nities to crown one’s life and to rea.p
a greater reward than any field in
v hich these good women can use their
talents. ,
FIRE ATTACKS
SEABOARD DEPOT
Freight Destroyed and De
pot Damaged Forcing Use
of W. & A. Station.
At 10:30 Monday night flames were
discovered in the wareroom of the
Seaboard Airline Railway depot in
Cartersville. When the alarm was
sounded the fire had gained consider
able headway and it looked as if the
building would be completely destroy
ed. The fire department responded
promptly upon the alarm being given
and energetically went to work to
save the building and contents. The
freight stored in the depot, however,
was almost a oomplete loss, but for
tunately there was an unusually small
amount of freight on hand undelivered.
The fire was largely confined to the
wareroom, the fire boys preventing it
from catching into the office where
valuable records and accounts were
kept. There was considerable diffi
culty in cutting through the roof due
to its being a slate covered roof and
this also caused an increased amount
of heat inside the building.
Mr. Ernest Robinson was at home
and had just retired when he was tel
ephoned that the depot was on fire.
He stated that the loss was not very
great as most of the freight that had
been in the depot had been delivered
during the day. He coultl not tell what
caused the fire and knew of no in
f'amable stuff in the depot which may
have ignited it except some matches
and these were less damaged than any
other article of freight in the ware
room.
DEATH OF S. T. HAMPTON
PROMINENTLY RELATED HERE.
The many friends of Mrs. Harris
Cope and Mr. Hampton Field are sym
pathizing with them in the death of
their grandfather, Col. Hampton,
which occurred at his home in Ver
sailles, Kentucky. Col. Hampton was
eighty-eight years of age at the time
rd his death and had for many years
been one of the influential and prom
inent men of Versailles.
We clip the following from the
Woodford (Ky.) Sun:
Samuel T. Hampton died on Satur
day afternoon at 2 o’clock at his home
imar Versailles. He had been sick only
a few days, and his condition did not
become serious apparently until Fri
day. Although in his 88th year, Mr.
Hampton was quite active. His death
was due to blood poisoning.
The deceased was bora June sth
1826, in Jessamine county, and was a
eon of Andrew and Mary (Hayden)
Hampton. Andrew Hampton was a
member of the South Carolina Hamp
ton family and a first cousin of Wade
Hampton, tihe distinguished United
States senator and confederate gener
al. The subj’ect of this sketch moved
to Woodford county in 1849. Until the
civil war he was engaged in the man
ufacture of hemp, but afterwards de
voted himself exclusively to farming.
Had Mr. Hampton lived until April
29th, he and his wife would have cele
brated their sixty-fourth wedding an
niversary. He was married in 1850 to
Miss Betty Dixon, of Jessamine. Be
sides his wife, Mr. Hampton is sur
vived by one daughter, Mrs. Maggie
George, by a number of grand-chil
dren, by two half brothers, Robert
and Cleveland Hampton, of Jessamine;
and two half sisters, Mrs. Mittte
Knight, of lexington, and Mrs. Lids
Singleton, of Indiana.
Mr. Hampton was one of the most
I rominent farmers in Woodford coun
ty, and a man of fine business ability.
He was iiossessed of the strictest in
tegrity. “His word was as good as his
bend,” his convictions were strong
and his principles high. He was a
devoted husband and father, a man of
warm, kindly nature, an excellent
citizen and his death is universally re
gretted.
The funeral services were held Mon
day afternoon at 2 o’clock by Rev. O.
O. Green, pastor of the Baptist church
and the interment took place in the
Versailles cemetery. The pall bearers
were Mr. Hampton’s six grand-sons:
Messrs. Sam Henton, Wade Hentou.
Dudley Henton, W. Hampton Field,
Wade Hampton and Wade George.
FATAL SHOOTING
NEAR. TATfLORSViLLE
G. W. Watkins Killed by
Auburn Bailey After a
Quarrel About a Debt.
G. W. Watkins was killed near Tay
lorsville last Monday by Auburn Bail
ey, for which act Mr. Bailey has since
been exhonorated by a coroner’s in
quest held to consider the case of the
death of Watkins.
From all that can be gathered aon
eerning the case, it appears that. Wat
kins has been a fugitive from justice
avoiding the serving of process of the
United States court for the oifense of
making whiskey, and for some time
has been in the state of Alabama. The
necessity for flight was so great that
V/atkins left his crop which his wife
finished up, gathered and harvested,
and then went to him.
On last Monday Watkins came to
the home of Mr. Bailey, who was hi*
brother-in-law, claiming that Mrs. Wat
kins had loaned Bailey $l5O. Watkins
came over the Sunday just previous
and, having an interview, no satisfac
tory agreement about the matter was
made. It is said by the friends of Mr,
Bailey that he claimed he did not owe
(be money. Watkins went off and it
is nqiorted made threats aud used
very uncomplimentary expressions of
opinion concerning Bailey. Watkins
then returned to Bailey’s home early
Monday morning and before Bailey
had gotten up. He demanded entrance
and with forcible language accompan- .
cd by threats of punishment, finally j
gained entrance to the house. After
some quarrel, in which Bailey was in
sisting that he did not want to hav •
any trouble with him, they came to '
blows, and the wife of Mr. Bailey un
dertook to serrate them. The fight
grew in intensity until a time when
Mr. Bailey got near enough tc the
mantlepiece to grab his pistol. He
snapped it two or three times before
it finally fired. One shot, however,
was fatal, from the effects of which
Watkins died Tuesday night.
The coroner’s inquest was held Wed-1
nesday and the verdict rendered was
one which exhonorated Mr. Bailey
from any criminal offense.
Mr. Watkins was a man fifty-two;
years of age and leaves a wife and
children, and was well known over the
county. Mr. Bailley is a young man,;
possibly not over twenty-five years of
eg e, and has a wife and three children, j
The affair is generally regretted
since both men have many friends and
both are admired for the Rood quali
ties they possessed.
e. A. FITE CONVICTED
MISDEMEANOR CHARGE.
B. A. Fite, formerly the local agent
of the Seaboard Airline Railway at
Cartersville, and at present the agent
of the Western & Atlantic Railway at
K.ennesaw, was found guilty of a mis
demeanor by a Cobb county jury at|
Marietta last week. The case grows
cut of the charge made against Fite!
that he went secretly and at night
time to the home of W. R. Whitaker
in Kennesaw and fired a shotgun intc
Mr. Whitaker’s home.
There had been some feeling for
some time existing in the mind of
Fite against Whitaker growing ou'
of business differences in Kennei
ss w, and when the shooting took place
neighbors and friends of Mr. Whit,
aker’s family secured bloodhound*!.
and the trails the dogs took uip wen
each time to the home of Mr.
There was other evidence in the cast'
aiso damaging to him. The case wa
tried last Friday and Saturday and thf
lljKj!
jury in a short time returned a ver
dict of guilty.
B. A. Fite is well remembeii.
ed in Cartersville, having live)
here until four or five years ag;
while the agent of the Seaborad Aif
line Railway. He has not been in Ca?,
tersville very often since he left her
to assume the Western & Atlanti
agency at Kennesa#.
PREACHING AT THE ROBT.
JONES MEMORIAL CHURCI
Next Sunday morning, March 29t;
Mr. A. W. Conway will preach at ttl
Robert Jones Memorial church. Ever)
body Is oordially Invited.
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