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VOL 4. 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. NO. 5