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VOL- 4
The Bartow Tribune Wishes For You
A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
|i COfflf BOARD
TOJKE CHARGE
Commissioners of Roads
and Revenues To Be In
stalled January First.
The retiring board of commission
ers of roads and revenues will hold
a meeting immediately after Christ
mas for the purpose of turning over
the affairs of the board to the new
ly elected members.
Of the present board three mem
bers were re-elected, leaving the
board to be joined by two new
board members on the first of Jan
uary. The retiring members are
Commissioners B. J. Davis, of Tay
lorsville, and P. P. Brandon, of
Kingston.
The old board has done some very
important work during the past two
years and for the first time in the
history of the county the road work
has taken on definite form and more
attention has been paid to grades,
uniform width and the taking out
3i all unnecessary curves.
The Euharlee road, the Kingston
'oad and the road through the Al
atoona mountains are each and all
jroperly conceived and as far as
he board could go these roads have
ieen properly built. They will each
leed to be surfaced but it is assur
ed that the new board will look to
laving this done as soon as possi
lle.
The retiring members of the board
lave devoted a great deal of earn
st and faithful effort to the work
and starting permanent road work in
lartow county. It was a physical
impossibility to do all the work done
iy the board to which they belong
|! without going into debt. The
'ork done by them will last for all
imo while the debt can be paid
ithin a year or two, if it is deemed
xpedient to do so.
The new members of the board
re Mr. W. T. Burton, of Carters
ille, and J. C. McTier, of Cassville.
hose are wide awake, sensible cit—
ens and devoted to the best inter
ns of the county.
Mr. Burton is well known
iroughout the county and has held
any positions of a public and pri
de nature involving trust and
idgmenl and in each he has dem
lstrated his honesty and capacity.
Mr. McTier has heretofore held a
embership on the board of com
bsioners of roads and revenues of
is county and his administration
is an acceptable one while his in-
Fity has always been the highest
I ne re-elected members are: Dr.
l0 '- H. Baker, N. M. Adams and
alti'r Bradford. All of these are
n of the highest business stand
- and the board, as a whole, will
1 io the people of the county a
iactory showing at the end of
lir terms.
WRISTMAS PROGRAM EAST
L 1 SIDE BAPTIST CHURCH.
B’ :i >' er < by Superintendent.
Bang—“ Dear Little Stranger,” by
I- Ruth Smith and Gladys
B°des.
■ ‘‘citation, by six boys.
Bans', by Junior girls.
• "citation, by ten girls.
B-H irtette. by Messrs. John Ray,
nk and Buford Smith, Paul
J' n " and Ernest Ray.
• '■' Ration, by Pearl Covington,
■neerful words from the bible. by
B ! °c girls.
by Guy Williamson.
■Hme. by six girls.
■’■citation, by Laura Jones.
Beading, by Pearl TTiclcs.
B by pastor.
B° n ? by choir.
THE BARTOW TRIBUNE
JESSE M GS! KILLED
AT POWER STATION
While Repairing Line He
Come* In Contact With
I Heavy Voltage.
| Jesse McCoy, an employee of the
Georgia Railway & Power Company,
met death Monday morning at the
transforming station of the com
pany in Cartersville.
From the best information obtain
! able, it appears that Mr. McCoy,
with the purpose of replacing some
fuses on one of the towers within
the substation yards, mounted the
tower for the purpose of first turn
ing off the switch so tihat he cou’d
work safely on the line. Some say
that the switch had already been
turned and the power cut off by
someone else and that Mr. McCoy,
not noticing the Tact but thinking
that the switch must be changed
from the position occupied by it,
gave it a twist and instead of cut
ting off the power he had cut the
power in on the line again. It is
thought this was the case or Mr.
McCoy failed to turn off the power
altogether by not moving the switch
far enough to cut off the contact.
At any rate, Mr. McCoy’s hand
came in contact with the wire car
rying a very heavy voltage at this
point which caused his hand and
arm to be very badly burned and
the force of the shock precipitated
him to the ground a distance of
forty feet, and the fall resulted in
the breaking of his neck and instant
death.
Mr. McCoy has been in the °mploy
of the Georgia Railway & Power
Company at the substation for some
thing like two years and was a pop
ular associate among the men em
ployed by this company and highly
esteemed and respected by all who
knew him. His father is a minister
of the gospel living near Acworth,
Ga„ from whom the younger McCoy
received the best of training and
highest ideals.
Mr. McCoy lived in Cartersville on
Cassville street and leaves a wife
and two children to mourn his loss.
His many friends as well as those
of his father and family extend deep
est sympathy to the wife and child
ren. parents and family in this hour
of their sorrow.
OFFICERS MUST QUALIFY
TO HOLD THEIR JOBS.
It was ascertained during the
week that a number of county offi
cers elected in November, as well as
bailiffs of the county elected dur
ing December, have not yet quali
fied, as required by law, for their
duties.
It will be necessary for all such
officers, whether elected -for the
first time or re-elected, to qualify
during this month, else they will be
cloud their title to office.
All such officers should appear at
once before Judge Hendricks and
conform to the requirements of law
relative to assuming the duties and
responsibilities of the of-fices to
which they have been elected.
Judge Hendricks, judge of the
court of ordinary, is apprehensive
that some officers do not understand
that, they must formally qualify be
fore presuming to perform the du
ties of their respective offices and,
hence, urges the press o-f the coun
ty to make known the fact that this
is necessary.
Attention Confederate Pensioners!
Judge G. W. Hendricks requests
all who are now on the pension rolls,
drawing a pension, to call upon him
between now and the 10th of Jan
uary, in order that he may get them
properly enrolled for next year.
CARTERSVILLE, GA., DECEMBER 24, 1914.
FAST PASSENGER TRAIN WRECKED
AND TWO KILLjDJEIERIL INJURED
South Bound Memphis Limited Goes Down
Embankment at Bartow With
Serious Results.
One of the most serious and des
tructive wrecks ever sustained by
the Western & Atlantic railroad was
that of last Saturday morning ait
Bartow, two miles below Emerson,
when No. 93, a passenger train from
Nashville and the west, plunged
down a heavy embankment on a
sharp curve at this point.
This train was more than an hour
late and arrived in Cartersville
shortly after eleven o’clock. It is us
ually boarded by a large number of
Cartersville citizens having busi
ness in Atlanta, -but, fortunately for
these, the Louisville & Nashville
southbound train came in ahead of
No. 93 Saturday morning just a few
minutes and Cartersville citizens de
siring to go to Atlanta took the first
.train out. It thus happened that no
one from Cartersville was travelling
on the ill fated train as a passenger
as far as is known.
When No. 93 reached the first
sharp curve and fill just beyond
Bartow the engine left the track,
plunged down a fill of a height of
about fifty -feet, turned over on its
side pinning one of the firemen un
der its side and killing the other
through the escape of hot water and
steam. Following in -the wake of the
locomotive were the mail and bag
gage and express coaches, and two
day coaches. Aid was telephoned
for to Cartersville at once and Agent
J. H. Wofford put into commission
a freight engine and car and dis
patched at once such medical aid as
he could secure. Leaving here for
(he scene were Dr. H. E. Felton and
Dr. Sam Howell. When the relief
train reached Emerson it was found
that the engineer, J. A. Manning, of
Atlanta, had been brought -to the
home of Dr. Monroe in Emerson, Dr,
Howell being commissioned to at
tend his needs, which were found to
be quite serious, and afterwards Dr.
Monroe assisted in this case. In The
meantime, Dr. Buford Greene, the
regular road surgeon, had been pick
ed up on the way, and with Dr. Fel
ton and Dr. Greene the work of re
lief went forward at the scene of
the wreck.
The most seriously injured, ex
cept those who were killed outright,
was Conductor W illiam Johnson. He
had received a very severe blow in
the forehead and was otherwise cut
and bruised about the head, arms
and legs. The blow in the forehead
was a fracture and just how serious
this will finally result will not be
known for a week. He was carried
to the sleepers which had not left
the rails, as were the other injured,
and brought on to Cartersville and
then taken to the Cartersville hos
pital.
Upon the arrival of the relief
train in Cartersville, physicians and
inanv men and women of the city
promptly tendered their help and
aid for the relief of the injured
and they were soon made as com
fortable as the nature of their in
juries would permit.
During the afternoon Conductor
Johnson was operated on, as were
all the others at -the hospital, and
those living in Atlanta were taken
on the afternoon rain to 'that point
while those living in Nashville were
put in condition to be carried home
the next morning.
Dr. Felton and Dr. Greene deserve
great credit for the haste and skill
which they showed in removing the
injured from the wreck so promptly.
From the time of their arrival until
the time for the signal to start to
Cartersville required only fifty min
utes. In this time they had placed
on the sleepers eleven injured, nine
white and 'two colored victims of
the accident. The two colored men
were taken to J. W. Jones’ under
taking establishment where they
were treated.
Conductor Johnson is widely
known in Cartersville and has a
host of friends and acquaintances
here who sincerely regret to learn
of his misfortune but all hope that
his injuries will not result as ser
iously as were at first feared The
other employees were not so well
known in Cartersville being mail
clerks alrgely from Nashville and
Atlanta. Mr. George S. Cobb, of Car
tersville, was well acquainted with
each one and promptly came to the
scene of the wreck and rendered
what aid and assistance he could for
the rescue of his friends and busi
ness associates. The two men who
were killed were firemen, one an
extra who had taken the engine at
some point above Cartersville to go
to Acworth, his home, and during
the trip was assisting the head fire
man with his duties. One was Virgil
H. Entrican, of Atlanta, who was a
regular iireman, the other was Er
nest Griggs.
The cause of the wreck has not
been definitely ascertained. It was
at first charged that the road bed
was not in condition and that the
crossties at this place were defec
tive, but 'this having been investi
gated by order of the railroad com
mission of Georgia and a number of
competent and capable engineers
having been employed to go over the
scene by the sta-te, have decided
that the roadbed was in good con
dition and that the railroad com
pany was not subject -to criticism on
this account.
It may have been that something
about the engine dropped down
which caused it 'to jump the track
at this very dangerous place and to
pull with it the train attached to it.
It is true that near -this place two
years ago a similar accident accur
red but this is believed to be merely
coincident and that i-t does not nec
essarily follow that the same cause
produced both accidents.
At last accounts all the injured
were doing well and it is hoped that
each and every one will recover.
The wreck was cleared up suffi
cient for travel to be resumed after
a short delay Saturday evening, al
lhough the cars and engine had not
boon placed back in position on the
rails Monday.
The injured, all white, are as fol
lows:
J. A. Manning, engineer, of Atlanta.
W. M. Johnson, conductor, of At
lanta.
E. N. Sanders, express messenger,
of Nashville.
H. V. Stephens, mail clerk, of
Nashville.
J. R. Aspin, mail clerk, of Nash
ville.
H. F. Chastain, mail clerk, of
Nashville.
W. N. Elrod, mail clerk, of At
lanta.
R. T. McGill, mail clerk, of Chat
tanooga.
P. A. Cola, mail clerk, of Nash
ville.
T. L. McLendon, mail clerk, of
Nashville.
Twe negroes were also injured
and are being cared for in Catrers
ville.
DETERMINED EFFORT
TO LIFTJHINF
County Commissioners To
Be Asked To Eradicate
Cattle Tick.
A determined effort will be made
on the part of all who are interest
ed in the matter of cattle raising in
Bartow county to induce the board
of commissioners of Bartow county
to take steps to lift the cattle tick
quarantine now prevailing against
all • live stock raised in this county.
Through the efforts o-f Dr. H. F.
Hook, of the bureau of animal in
dustry, department of agriculture,
United States government, the need
of freeing ourselves of the cattle
tick infection was made plain to the
various members of the new board
of commissioners and to numbers of
prominent -farmers in 'the county
during Dr. Hook’s stay in Carters
ville last week. All who were seen
about this matter expressed them
selves as believing that the county
should take steps at once to con
struct. a sufficient number of dip
ping vats in various portions of 'the
county to insure freedom from cat
tle -ticks and the consequent lifting
of the quarantine against the cattle
industry of this county.
It is undoubtedly true that the ex
istence of 'the quarantine reduces
the value of each head of cattle in
Bartow county -from five to ten dol
lars a head because of .the limited
market, such cattle only being sale
able in this county. In addition to
that, it is known to be .true that it
is impossible to fatten cattle where
the tick is prevalent.
It is the belief of those who have
given thought to the subject that
Bartow county is ideally conditioned
for the raising of cattle and that it
should be an industry more general
ly pursued than, it is in this county.
The fact that it is not so is due, in
large measure, to the existence of
the tick and to the fact that no con
certed action has heretofore been
taken to rid the county of the tick
and to lift the quarantine which ex
ists against it.
Dr. Hook stated that nearly all the
counties north, .east and west of
Bartow were undertaking this work,
leaving only Gordon and Bartow as
yet inactive. The result will be very
soon that the other counties will en
joy a very great advantage, over Bar
tow both in the raising of cattle to
a higher degree of fatness, as well
as supplying cattle to the markets
of the world.
Dr. Hook gave it as his opinion
that each one of these dipping vats
could be built for forty dollars or
with cover for forty-five dollars,
which would be the proper and, at
last, the economical way. He stated
that with the co-operation of the
people that the quarantine could be
lifted against Bartow county in one
season but that he thought there
could be no doubt about it being
lifted within two years. He strongly
urged upon the various members of
the board of commissioners to take
this matter up and upon private cit
izens and those interested in the
farming and cattle industry to peti
tion the board of commissioners to
undertake this work.
Asa result of his visit, it is prob
able that the board of commission
ers will be met at their next meet
ing in January with a large delega
tion of farmers from over the coun
ty who will lay the matter before
the board and urge early dction. It
i3 probable also that Dr. Hook will
return at this time with a view of
supplementing what our citizens
might urje as well as fwnrishins re
liable information of • ■tailed na
ture upon the quesfte*.
It is certain that a aoMtderatda
degree o-f interest has ben aroused
LODGES ELECTOFFICERS
FOG INCOMING YEAR
Odd Fellows, Junior Order
and Royal Arch An
nounce Leaders.
Cartersville Lodge Independent
Order Odd Fellows at a recent meet
ing elected officers for the ensuing
year.
The meeting was an enthusiastic
one and the retiring officers were
gratified over the splendid reports
which they were able to make
which showed the lodge to be in a
flourishing condition, both as to the
spirit of fellowship as well as tbe
performances of the objects and
purposes of the order.
Officers were elected as follows:
Noble Grand, W. E. Smith.
Vice Grand, R. P. Eaves.
Recording Secretary, H. H. Green.
Treasurer, C. S. Mayes.
The other officers will be appoint
ed at a future meeting and the en
tire list will be installed at the first
meeting of the lodge to be held in
January.
The Junior Order United Ameri
can Mechanics held their annual
meeting for the selection of officers
last week.
Together with the other lodges
which have recently elected and in
stalled officers for next year, the
Junior order showed a remarkable
increase in membership, more than
thirty-five new members having
joined the order within the last
three months.
The membership is devoted to the
purposes of the lodge and attend its
meetings and all its ordinances with
singular regularity and earnestness.
The following new officers were
elected:
Councillor, W. W. Daniel.-
Vice Councillor, J. W, Brown.
Financial Secretary, J. V. Bishop.
Recording Secretary, J. T. Bennett.
Assistant Recording Si cretary, J.
B. Bishop.
Conductor, Joel L. Smith.
Inside Sentinel, T. E. Johnsey.
Outside Sentinel, I. D. Dooley.
Chaplain, S. W. Bay.
The new officers of the lodge wili
be formally installed on the second
Tuesday 'in January at which time
the enormous attendance upon oc
casions of this character will be ob
served and the meeting is anticipat
ed with the finest degree of interest
by the membership of the lodge.
The Cartersville Chapter of the
Royal Arch Masons held its meeting
for the annual selection of officers
last Monday week. This order is
watched with peculiar interest by
all Masons and the Cartersville
chapter is one which has every
cause for gratification over the pro
gress made by it. The chapter has
every promise also of very much in
creasing its membership during the
ensuing year, and, as it will be ex
cellently handled by the new corps
of officers who have entered upon
their duties with energy and earn
estness, it is safe to predict that the
chapter here will show increasing
progress during the next year.
The following officers were elect
ed:
High Priest, R. E. Adair. *
King, R. I. Battle.
Scribe, J. P. Adair.
C. H., N. N. Granger.
P. S., James Bowman.
R. A. C., T. E. Vaughan.
Treasurer, W. C. Walton.
Secretary, H. M. Mountcastle.
Sentinel, 0. R. McElroy.
and that our farmers and all other
business classes are coming to the
conclusion that this county should
take all steps necessary to diversify
its agriculture and live stock indus
tries.
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