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.February 17, 1010, at the post, office
si Cartersville. Ga., under the Aet
March 3, 1879.
SOF! DRINK STANDS
DO SUNDAY BUSINESS
The Lid Is Off Again In
Cartersville But Drug
Stores Closed.
Thf “Lid” is off again in Car
lersvillc.
The Sunday law, as administered
in these parts, is one of the most
confusing, mystifying and adjust
able contrivances yet invented for
the government of a people.
II will be remembered that re
cen'ly complaints were urged
against the druggists of Cartersville !
for selling cigars and soft drinks on
Sunday and it became the subject of
a newspaper controversy in which
the last jury was sharply criticised j
for not (finding indictments for vio- j
lations of the Sunday laws.
In order to avoid trouble the !
druggists concluded to quit and not ;
even to open heir doors on Sunday
exeept in response to calls for medi
cines and drugs of urgent and press- {
mg need. They have observed the !
law literally since July.
The Sundays since that time have
been dry Sundays. The lid was on.
The lid is still on the druggists.
But last Sunday opened up anew
era. Cartersville was dry no longer.
As soon as one reached the post- i
ATCO STORES CO.
lirAKTMINTSTOWES
AT
THE AMERICAN TEXTILE COMPANY
VI LLAGE
L. HANNON, Manager.
Dear Friend and Customer:
We want to thank, you for your trade this year, and, even though
the Cotton Situation looks dull, we want to tell you that we will take
your cotton, to be applied on your account at Ten Cents per pound.
W# want to help you out all we can, and also want you to help
us. We can promise you at least TEN CENTS per pound for enough of
your cotton to pay your account with us, and we ask that you assist
us to do this by every means in your power.
We may not be able to pay out any money on the cotton at this
price, but we believe it will help us all out some if we accept it
on debts at this price.
Also, if you want any Dry Goods, Shoes, Furniture or similar
articles, we will take in the cotton at this price.
Let's all pull together this fall, and help each other, and we
firmly believe everything will come out all right.
Yours for home business and success,
ATCO STORES CO.
office cm last Sabbath morning some
obliging friend would invite him
to “have a drink.” Upon asking whe ,
where and how could such a thing
be furnished the invited son of
thirst would be lead to the Greek
restaurant where could be seen the
greatest amount of business activity
to be witnessed in Cartersville in
many Sundays.
The Greek restaurant and soft
!drink stands, dotted hither and yon.
began early in the morning to sell
soft drinks and cigars and no dealer
seemed to possess the slightest
| “fear."
When asked if they were not
j afraid of court and grand jury in
dictments the dealers said they had
been informed the day before that
j they could do business in soft
'drinks and cigars by a high slate of
ficial and that they would not, he
I molested.
And they sure did do business.
The Greeks and other soft drink
stands dispensed large and copious
quantities of Coca-Cola, Bludwine
and Chero-Gola, the boll led soft
j drinks of Cartersville, and the at
! tendants upon these stands were
I kept, busy jerking the tops off the
| bottles, raking in the nicldes and
asking the great question of the day
“gentlemen, what will you have?”
Signs were put up and just across
the street from the tabernacle,
where a great religious meeting is
in progress, a banner was stretched,
!upon which was emblazoned the
' soul stirring announcement that a
! certain drink, then on sale, was “De
licious, Refreshing and Invigorat
| ing.”
If the next grand jury undertakes
to investigate fully, completely and
exhaustively the various instances
of violations of our Sunday laws,
they will he at it for some time and
while at if they will be as busy as
hunting dogs in high rye.
Everybody was “doin’ it” last
Sunday—everybody but the drug
st res and Hal Wikle.
Hal Wikle is unable to under
stand the rapid and kaleidoscopic
changes in the Sunday law.
Mr. Wikle conducts a prosperous
postage stamp business and like
wise carries a lino of daily news
papers. The papers are read by his
postage stamp customers and when
finished are returned to his counter
without a salo being made of a sin
gle paper.
Realizing that large numbers came
ATCO. BARTOW CO.. CA, Sept. 10, 1914
THE BARTOW TRIBUNE, SEPTEMBER 10, 1914.
to his place on Sunday morning to
buy stamps and read his papers he
added a line of cigars to his busi
ness but not withstanding he had the
crowds in his store, that great ques
tions were discussed and especially
great politics, and a large sale of
cigars was anticipated, the “Sunday
law” was pointed out to him and so
he put up a sign “No cigars sold on
Sunday.” Mr. Wikle is a native of
Georgia, an all round good fellow,
accomodating and obliging and in
favor of law enforcement. Hence
he sold no cigars.
He discovered that the Sunday
law allowed him to sell postage
stamps and permitted him to let his
customers read his papers, free of
charge, but it denied him the right
to sell cigars.
But next door to Mr. Wikle is the
firm of Angel Barra't & Cos. who are
citizens and natives of Greece. They
likewise carry a line of cigars, bot
tled soft drinks and various cooked
dishes, like, ham and eggs, say. This
i- what worries Mr. Wikle. He has
discovered that these valuable citi
zens (of Greece) can sell cigars
“and everything too” on Sunday. It,
seems to him that the Greeks, upon
whom wo so much depend in times
of disaster, low cotton, and high
faxes, have learned that the Sunday
law has a meaning which us poor
Americans have not fathomed. Tn
other words the Greeks know who
to go to to get .the Sunday law sus
pended and they know what Sun
days (he Sunday law is a law and
what Sundays the Sunday law is not
a law.
Then. (no. there are the druggists.
They are very much at sea. They
recently procured copies of the
Sunday law and committed if to
memory. They can recite it as per
fectly as Johny does “The Boy
Stood on the Burning Deck” and
like him they think all hut them
have fled.
The lawyers, even, are confound
i and. They do not know what to make
of the recent interpretations of its
meaning.
And lastly, “The Law Abiding
People otf Barlow County” who, for
short, we will call “The law Abid
ers.” They ward to know what all
the row was about some time ago
if it was not over the question of
violating the Sunday law on account
of the druggists selling over their
fountains various soft drinks, in ad-
dition to Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing
Syrup and Mrs. Pinkham’a Pink
Pills for Pale People.
A representative of The Tribune
procured a copy of the law which is
as follows, as it appears in The Code
of Georgia: “Any person who shall
pursue his business, or the work of
bis ordinary calling, on the Lord’s
day, works of necessity or charity
only excepted, shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor.”
With this law in hand he started
out to get it interpreted. He first
sought the opinion of a druggist
who ventured, inasmuch as druggists
had been held up to threats otf ar
rest, that the law must mean that it
should be obeyed by the druggists
but no! by the Greeks.
A farmer, being asked his opin
ion, stated that we should know ii
to be a truth in nature, that as the
seasons change, so all things change
and hence it was clearly a law
which must be followed in July bu
not in September.
A churchman stated that ttie law
was designed to prevent the sale of
soft drinks while regular pastors
are occupying the pulpits of the
city churches but it was never in
tended to be enforced during a re
ligious revival at the tabernacle
while evangelists were in the city.
A bottler held that it was all right
to drink out of a bottle on Sunday
but a druggist had no right to sell
drinks to be drunk from a glass
across a soda fountain.
We finally ran upon “A. Law
Abider.” He had no sympathy with
the various interpertations offered.
[ was his opinion that the law
•meant what it says. To him it ap
peared to be uniform in its appli
cation. He denied that it favored the
Greek over the native merchants of
Georgia. He said there was nothing
in the law (when read and studied)
which indicates that it is a good
law for one season or Sunday in th •
year and a bad law for another sea
son or Sunday in the year. Ho de
nied (hat any man, however much
he may assume to himself, has the
right to “suspend” this, or any other
law, for any particular Sunday or
Sundays.
Nevertheless and notwithstanding.
The “Lid” is off again in Cartersville
and the Sunday law, as administered
in these parts, is one of the most, con
fusing, mystifying and adust able
contrivances yet invented for jho
government of a people.
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CARTERSVILLE, SA
cTVleet me
—AT—
GI BREATH’S
CHERRY SKIPS WITH
AUTOMOBILE AM) MONEY.
William Cherry, formerly the
‘manager of the Cartersville Bargain
House, skipped Cartersville this
week with an automobile for which
he had ot paid C. A. Stoner, from
whom he had purchased it and gave
j a lien upon itifor the balance of 'he
i unpaid purchase money, and such
; available cash as he needed for his
|purposes belonging to his employer.
This establishment is owned by
jM. Haisifield, of Rome, who employs
1 managers to run his various stores.
Sometime ago Cherry claimed that
! the cash drawer of the safe in the
j store had been robbed of $122.00 and
! reported to Mr. Haisfield that the
‘place had been broken into and the
'money taken from it. Cherry at that
time was very anxious for the Car
! tersville papers to publish the fact
| and repeatedly and insistently im
portuned The Tribune to do so. Up
on running down the matter, how
ever, The Tribune found it to be
The opinion of the officers that, the
!store was not robbed without the
•knowledge of Cherry, and, hence,
| would make no publication of the
•character that Cherry wished,
j Officers are on the trail o<f Cherry
l and it is thought that they have him
i located and he will be brought back
■ to Cartersville to face the charges
; against him.
In the meantime, Mr. Haisfield ,
i has engaged the services of Mr. Jo ’
iSklar who will hereafter conduct
■the Cartersville Bargain House a'
the manager for Mr. Haisfield. Mr.
Sklar is an experienced business
man and will in a short length of
''dme get all matters straightened
out and promises fo greatly increase
the Irade of the establishment and
offers special inducements to pat
rons to do their trading there.
The new Stetson hat. for fall 1914
is now shown at J. W. Vaughan &
Cos. at established price competing
in both style and price with any re
tail establishment. Service guaran
teed.
PROGRAM
FOR SIX DAYS
DIXIE THEATRE
minim iiuiim nn uni—ihiii hiiiim—i musi
Thurschy rince K °h cmia ” “Knockout” and one
Friday i P d ri ” of Pauline ’” “P ut of the Dr *?gs>” “scrub
Saturday l rse Wra bgler,” “Mabel's Busy Day” and two
Monday ITSt, o*-” 0 *-” “ The and
Tnbcrlmr “Dreamship,” “Dan Morgan’s Way,” “Gambling
1 uesaay Rube” and one other.
Wednesday l R ec k° n i n g” “Unmasking”and one
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Tuesday, Sept. !sth, f
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GEO. STILES’ HORSES GET
INSIDE THE MONEY.
The many friends of George
Stiles, formerly of Bartow county
and yet one in whom the people of
Bartow county have an abiding in
terest, will be interested to know
that bis entries at Fayetteville,
Tenn., last week in the seven races
in which his horses were entered,
fared so well.
“Sledmere” won the third, fourth
and fifth heats in the 2:30 trot, and
thereby won the race taking a mark
of 2:21%.
"Nelly Gentry” finished eighth,
second, first and first in the 2:15
pace and won this race in 2:11% to
2:15.
“Our Doctor” won he free for all
pace and “Monte F.” was second in
this race, taking down second mon
ey.
“Lord Guyton” won the 2:17 trot
and “Lady L.” was second every
heat in the 2:20 trot, winning second
money.
“Ben Gregor” won second in the
2:1 i rot and won one heat in same
in 2:15. He was behind the money
in the 2:25 pace with “Little Elk"
who was lame.
In other words, started in eight
races and won as follows:
Free for all pace won by “Our
| Doctor;" 2:15 pace won by “Nelly
: Gentry;” 2:30 trot won by “Sled
mere;” 2:17 trot won by “Lord Guy
ton.” thus making four races won.
Free for all pace, “Monte F.” won
second money; 2:20 trot “Lady® L.”
won second money; 2:15 trot “Ben
Gregor” won second money; thus
making three races in which sec
ond money was taken down. The
one race lost was that of “Li;tie
Elk” who was lame.
Mr. Stiles will likely race in Chat
tanooga very soon where a guaran
tee has been put up of very attrac •
tive size and if the deal is finally
closed he will call upon Henry
Stiles, of Cartersville, to come up
and drive some of his horses for
him.