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Y. M. C. A. CAMPAIGN FOR OUR BOYS JULY 11, 12, 13
THE BARTOW TRIBUNE
VOL. <>
MW WALKER COUltli
USES COURT ROUSE
judges Wright And Fite
In Conflict and Officers
Sued And Jailed.
Awl now Walker county is having
court house troubles “with trim
mings ■'
Walker county is not in this judicial
district, but is a part of Judge Mose
Wright’s district. Nevertheless, Judge
Fite has assumed jurisdiction declared
Judge Wright disqualified and has had
the sheriff of Catoosa county to ar
rest, for contempt of court, the county
commissioners Of Walker county, for
obeying the orders of Judge Wright,
who says he is qualified, in preference
to the orders of Judge Fite.
On the other hand Judge Wriftht has
seen fit to cite for contempt of court
the sheriff and deputies of Catoosa
county, and one or two others who aid
ed these officers, for arresting the com
missioned.
And while the going was good the
aforesaid county commissioners have
brought a damage suit for $30,000
against the sheriff of Catoosa, his dep
uties ami bondsmen, and the others
who aided, for false arrest, insulting
language used toward them and for
taking them away from their business
and homes and for being made to suf
fer other humilating experiences. Not
only that but the county commission
ers have attached the property of the
defendant sheriff, deputies, bondsmen
and others and secured an injunction
from Judge Wright restraining them
from alienating, disposing of or trans
ferring any of their property in any
way, pending the settlement of the
law suit.
This last named step is calculated
to raise a “holler,” or something, and
it seems likely that Judge Wright will
see to it that the court house will be
built just as the county commissioners
I want it built and that the orders of
Judge Fife will have little or nothihg
to do with it, if Judge Wright’s orders
are followed. For he has since ordered
that no cnt shall interfere in any way
with the contractors, commissioners or
anybody else engaged in building the
court house and he has further authoT-
I hed the sheriff of Walker to summon
leuough men to protect the court house
■from all outside attacks.
I Th' county commissioners ordered
|the construction of the court house.
I"his appears to be the right of the
Icounty commissioners in law, as has
Peen declared by the supreme court
Pi many cases through many years of
Budicial history, more recently in the
Pow famous Murray county embroglio,
Bhen commissioners were kept in jail
•)' Judge Fite until the supreme court
dd that the court had no legal right
1° interfere with their authority to
■’Cct a court house. But certain Walker
citizens appealed to Judge Fite
• stop them. Just why they preferred
B Fite, of another jurisdiction, to
■wlge Wright who is chosen by law to
out justice in matters of law
■Jt-s and such like in Walker county,
B®'- not seem clear, unless it is that
* MU ' has shown a dis]>osition to
H, e oVer such matters and decide
B"' an d how court houses should
B Paced and Judge Wright has not.
u h anyhow, the petition was
to Judge Fite and notwith
r‘ U!!! ' J 1 '-m Wright had not certi
■■ ' '‘‘ Qualification, Judge Fite
s.potion, granted an In
u an,t held Judge Wright dis-
f 1 i!1 one > i ust like that,
sin has never shown any
. "/ retofore to try cases in
C disqualified or had any
B r in which his family had
B iti I’riends of Judge Wright
B t I<u 1 ' w as shown in the State
a ‘ h-- . ance Cos. case, in which
‘‘‘W'P.e had policies and which
/ lr2< 1 wrecked by the proceed
■ ° r and receivership which was
■ hresf-uted to Judge Wright,
eC ' il< U to entertain it and
on ihe paper the formal
Ri? :U of law that he was
eCi and > hence, then the
B, a * as presented to Judge Fite.
a ''Sumed jurisdiction, ap
fa reo °irer, etc., and took
Up case - Pa rties at inter
lbe poiQt that Judge
■ ' aS disqualified by reason
ir> t 0 Partie® ’interested in
S . Jud se Fite held that 4t
k® w >as not disquali
... r eason. He made perma
■ s m 3unction and the appoint-
'v EQUALIZERS
NSS UPJSI6 DICES!
Increase Of $200,000 Add
$500,000 To Returns And
Put On Many Polls.
The Board of Tax Equalizers of Bar
tow county have completed their la
bors and adjourned their session.
This board cons.sts of C. McEwen, of
Cartersville, Mart King, of Adairs
ville, and Clarence A. Dodd, of Kings
ton. Asa result of the labors of this
board two hundred thousand dollars
has been added to the tax aggregate
of Bartow county, one-half of. this
amount, however, was due to reduc
tions made din 1915 and placed back in
1916. It will be remembered tftat in
1915 there was a great shrinkage in
values, but conditions now are again
normal and where reductions were
made in 1915 they were restored this
year without objection in a single in
stance.
The board found also that there was
five hundred thousand dollars of prop
erty which appeared on the 1915 digest
and was not on the 1916 digest. This
was run dow r n and restored to the di
gest of 1916.
In many instances, also, property
that changed hands did not find itself
on the digest books because the new
owners had failed to return it. In all
such instances the board followed
these transactions and procured the
owners to make due return of prop
erty lately acquired.
The board, also, through an examin
ation of the registration list discover
ed more than three hundred voters on
the 1915 list who had not returned
poll taxes and an equal number on the
1916 list who had not returned poll
taxes. These were put on for polls
and a number of those who were not
on the difees t at all for 1915 for the
payment of polls are now returning
taxes on personal property, some to
the extent of a thousand dollars.
Thus, upon the whole, the Board of
Equalizers of Bartow county have se
cured for the state and county sources
of revenue which would have escaped
taxation altogether had it not been
for the vigilant, intelligent and ener
getic effort put forth by this board to
get all taxes possible upon the digest.
This works for uniformity and pro
duces additional revenue besides.
meat of receivers. On appeal the su
preme court reversed Judge Fite and
held that his kinship to parties inter
ested disqualified him, set aside his
orders of injunction and appointment
of receivers but it took $60,000 or
more out of the treasury of the com
pany to pay off receivers, lawyers and
court costs, all to no purpose. Thus,
in this case Judge Wright voluntarily
held himself disqualified while Judge
Fite would not and it took the supreme
court to release this company from the
jurisdiction of the judge of the
Cherokee circuit.
With these two judges now the case
is one relating to a court house at La-
Fayette for Walker county, in Judge
Wright’s district. Judge Wright holds
that he is not disqualified and that
the county commissioners have the
right to go and build a court house
while Judge Fite holds that Judge
Wright is disqualified by reason of
the charge in the petition that a
brother of Judge Wright is one of the
attorneys in the case having a $25.00
contingent fee and that the court
house must not be built and has en
joined it. The county commissioners
followed Judge Wright’s decision.
Thereupon Judge Fite- cites them for
contempt. They go on anyhow and let
the contract for a big, fine handsome
looking court house.
Judge Fitte places his rule nisi (an
order of arrest) in the hands of the
sheriff of Catoosa county. Obedient to
Judge Fite’s orders he goes to La-
Fayette to arrest the commissioners
but comes home empty handed be
er, m-c it looks lijgo h- will “start s-onjo
thing” if he makes the arrest. But he
lies in wait later and catches ’em on
their return from Chattanooga at a
point where the road crosses Catoosa
county, brings them to Ringgold and
Judge Fite puts down an order that
they must give a bond of SI,OOO each
that they will rescind the court house
contract. They do neither but are not
put in jail.
On the other hand they start a dam
age 3uit against all who deprived ♦hem
of their liberty, except Judge Fite,
judges being immune from punish-
CARTERSVILLE, GA., .JULY 6,191 LS
FOURTEEN HUNDRED DOLLARS WILL
FIT OUTJJ. G. I. FOG USE
Campaign Planned For Tuesday, Wednes
day and Thursday To Raise Required
Sum For Our Boys.
The men behind the Y. M. C. A.
movement now offer to the city anew
building, commodious and ample dm
every way for a Y. M. C. A., and
with very little canvassing they have
secured one hundred applications for
membership.
It is now r up to the citizens as to
whether they will use this splendid
opportunity and provide for the moral
and social uplift of our boys and
young men.
The Y. M. C. A. will need lighting
and heating plants, gymnasium, tables,
chairs, pictures, recreational appara
tus, and magazines and papers.
It will need a first class trained
POTTLE TO SPEAK
10 CITIZENS MONDAY
Candidate For Governor
Will Deliver Address-At
Court House.
Hon. Joseph E. Pottle, candidate
for governor, will address the voters
of Bartow county at the court house
on next Monday, the first day of court,
upon the issues prominent in the gub
ernatorial campaign.
Mr. Pottle is the first of the candi
dates for governor to appear in Bar
tow county this year, in the prosecu
tion of his campaign. His rivals for
the governorship are Governor Nat E.
Harris, who seeks re-election, Hon.
Hugh Dorsey, former solicitor general
of Fulton county, and Dr. L. G. Hard
man, who carried Bartow county for
the governorship in 1914.
Mr. Pottle is a fine speaker; has an
attractive personality: is a bold and
courageous spokesman, and possesses
the courage of his convictions. His
candidacy came after solicitations
from all over the state. He did not
announce until he had received assur
ance that he would have earnest sup
port from every section of Georgia.
His character and reputation is of the
highest and his friends claim that
Georgia would honor itself by making
Joseph E. Pottle its governor.
Those who come to hear the speaker
will he treated to an address both in
teresting and profitable. The speaker
is eloquent, magnetic and forceful and
Is a master of logic and reason. He
is one of the real strong men of Geor
gia and doubtless a large and appre
ciative audience of Bartow county citi
zens will give him respectful attention :
while he speaks to them upon the is- j
sues of the day.
ment, and attach, enjoin and restrain
the sheriff and hi)s deputies, bonds
men, and a postmaster or two, from
doing anything with any of their
property and" it looks as if they will be
financially crippled for a season unless
something is done by somebody in
some way or othe r .
In the meantime the commissioners
are going right ahead with the court
house. Judge Wright has enjoined
everybody from tampering with the
contractors and from this angle it
looks like Judge Wright is going to
have his way about matters in his cir
cuit where he thinks he is qualified to
act. On the other hand the Catoosa
county sheriff and his deputies and
bondsmen consider it advisable to hire
a few lawyers to get them out of the
litigation in which they find them
selves and maybe go on up to the su
preme court in something less than a
dozen law suits when much trouble
and one law suit might have settled
the thing at the start. It is a little ex
pensive to -go to the supreme court
but many matters have to be taken
there in qrder to get absolutely cor
rect legal decisions and hence the peo
ple will wait to learn what is going to
happen to somebody when all the
clouds are cleared away.
By which time, however, It looks as
if Walker county 'will have a brand
new court house at IjaFayette, ta
Judge Wright’s circuit. But it is to be
hoped that Sheriff Ward and his depu
ties will not lose all they hare.
secretary to keep the work on a high
plane.
This equipment and the first year’s
operating expenses will cost fourteen
hundred dollars. The citizens of the
city must subscribe this amount or
the movement will fail.
On next Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday a canvass will be made for
this fund. We call on all who love
their boys and who are interested in
the moral welfare of the community
to subscribe liberally to this great
cause.
Think the matter over and be pre
pared to give the committee a prompt,
cheerful and generous subscription.
IABYER SPEAKS HERE
NEXT WEDNESDAY
Candidate For Judge Supe
rior Court to Entertain
Bartow Voters.
Hon. Malcom C. Tarver, candidate
for judge of the superior courts of
the Cherokee circuit, will address tihe
citizens of Bartow county at the court
house on next Wednesday and the pub
lic is cordially invited to hear Mr.
Tarver set forth his claims for sup
port.
This will be the first opportunity
the people of Bartow county have had
to hear Mr. Tarver in a public address.
is making an active campaign for
the office and has been in all the coun
ties, but his efforts thus far have been
largely directed in meeting the voters
face to face and in making personal
appeals for support. He has made an
exceedingly favorable impression
wherever he has gone and is actively
and earnestly supported by friends
who know his capacity and profes
sional equipment throughout the dis
trict. He is strongly supported by the
members of the bar, neighbors, friends
and citizens generally, of Whitfield
county, who claim that Whitfield coun
ty will give him an unprecedented ma
jority in the primary.
Mr. Tarver is an interesting speak
er, has an attractive delivery and a
judicial pose which enables him to
state facts which he can subtantiate
and to arrive at conclusions through
a process of clearest logic while his
powers as an advocate enable him to
appeal to humanity’s love for freedom
and the rights of the average man.
Mr. Tarver is pushing his campaign
upon a high plane. He sets forth his
conceptions and ideals of the office
and how it should he administered;
compares his record as a lawyer with
that of his opponent as a judge, and
supports his statements by supreme
court reports to prove he has secured
ai: unusuallt large number of rever
sals in the supreme court where he
lost his cases fn the superior court.
Mr. Tarver believes in meeting
with the people and his efforts from
now on until election day will be di
rected to this end. He has delivered
but few speeches, preferring to meet
the voters in person, but whether in
conversation or in public addresses,
he seems equally at home, thoroughly
interesting and attractive.
Mr. Tarver will ask for the privilege
of making his address in the court
room during the coming session of
the superior court on next Wednesday
and will doubtless be granted the
same privileges accorded other candi
dates during political races. All vot
ers of the county should hear him,
whether they now favor hEs candidacy
or not, in order that they may be in
formed concerning the issues’ in the
race which they themselves determine,
and doubtless a large and intelligent
audience of Bartow county citizens
will take this opportunity to hear Mr.
Tarver upon the stump.
Notice of Local Legislation.
Notice is hereby given to all per
sons concerned that at the present
session of the legislature a bill will
be introduced to Incorporate the town
of Taylorsville, Ga. This July 5, 1916.
CITIZENS OF TAYLORSVILLE, GA.
ILL DAI SINGING
A GLORIOUS SUCCESS
Tremendous Throngs Visit
City And Spend Sunday
At Tabernacle.
Dong before the Hour for the all day
singing to commence at the tabernacle
last Sunday every highway and rail
road leading into Cartersville were
bringing hundreds of men, women and
children into Cartersville, while the
people here bad made every prepara
tion for spending the day listening to
songs rendered by the visiting singers.
The day was opened up bright and
warm and continued to be such all
day. By eleven o’clock Sunday morn
ing the tabernacle and tabernacle
grounds were thronged with people
and the exercises had begun. W. C.
Henson, presided and announced the
various numbers and introduced the
singers from a distance. He did his
part gracefully and efficiently and re
ceived many praises for his work in
this capacity.
The Vaughan quartette, of Tennes
see, after the rendition of their first
selection, was a great favorite in the
audience and frequent requests went
up to the stage to have them appear
time and again in the rendition of
some favorite hymn. The feeling of the
audience approached enthusiasm and
applause was frequently given them.
The Gaines sisters, of Bartow coun
ty, were also great favorites and Were
compelled to sing many times, they
have always been popular singers in
Cartersville and at all day singings
everywhere they go, and Sunday was
no exception to the rule unless it be
that they were even more enthusiasti-
cally received than ever.,
The stagers from Bartow county
acquitted themselves nobly and the
choruses and work of the leaders
were splendidly rendered. The audi
ence for the most “part sat through
both morning and afternoon hours,
while many others stood around the
tabernacle and out upon the grounds
and there heard the music as jh float
ed out upon the air.
It was a great day for the reuniting
of friendships and meeting with rela-
tives. From all portions of the county
people attended to hear the singing
and all went away greatly pleased
with the occasion.
The city itself was animated and
many homes were filled with visitors,
friends and relatives. Everything was
arranged for the comfort and hospita
ble treatment of visitors and these
gave every evidence of having spent
a most profitable and delightful day.
Permission was given by high au
thorities to venders and dealers of
bottled soft drinks, such as Coca-Cola,
Chero-Oola, Bludwine and Ginger Ale,
to sell during the day and these did a
land office business last Sunday. Such
places were more generally patronized
than during any week day or county
fair day in Cartersville as were the
hotels and restaurants.
A CORRECTION.
I
The Tribune desires to correct a
publication made sometime since with
reference to the suit brought by J. F.
Jarrett on. hebalf of himself and his
minor son, J. E. Jarrett. The suits
brought by Mr. Jarrett were for the
death of his wife and the serious and
permanent personal injuries to him
self brought about by being run down
by the north bound Dixie Flyer while
Mr. Jarrett and his wife and son, Dav
id, were crossing the W. & A. tracks
at Adairsville in an automobile. There
upon Mr. Jarrett brought suit for the
death of his wife, and on behalf of
his son, as next friend, for the death
of the young man’s mother, the law
giving the right to the husband and
minor children to recover damages
for an unlawful killing.
As published, however, It was stated
that young Jarrett was sueing for in
juries to himself. Young Jarrett was
not injured in any way and, hence,
Mr. Jarrett does not desire to have
the impression created that he is sue
ing the railroad for any damages upon
behalf of anybody which were not
actually sustained. The suit, there
fore, is one upon the part of Mr. Jar
rett because of his own personal in
juries and for the death of his wife,
and, upon the part of his minor son.
J. E. Jarrett, for the death of his
mother.
SUPERIOR COURT TO
HOLDJULY TERM
Important Cases To Be
Tried And Grand And
Traverse Juries Selected.
The superior court of Bartow county
will convene for the regular July term
next Monday morning, July 10th. Quite
a number of important oases are set
for trial and the criminal docket in
volves the consideration of many cas
es of public interest.
Judge A. W. Fite will preside as
judge, and Solicitor Joe M. Dang will
look after the interests of the state in
the prosecution of general business.
The grand jury drawn for the term
is composed of the following well
known citizens:
A: M. Puckett, M. M. Cunningham,
F. E. Matthews, W. T. Bryan, A. J.
Nally, W. M. Carlisle, D. S. Munford,
J. T. Terrell, A. T. Quinn, I. W. Alley,
Geo. W. Elrod, J. D. Pittard, Jere E.
Field, David Weaver, J. S. Calhoun,
W, J. Ham, Jno W. Saggus, T. L.
White, J. F. Bell, C. H. Cannon, L. P.
Lewis, J. E. Hammond, H. J. Jolly,
H. L. Smith, J. C. Herring, W. Aker
man, W. F. Wischmeyer, J. S. Chunn,
R. P. Griffin.
It will be noted that since January
when the above jury was drawn, three
prominent citizens on the list have
died. These are John E. Hammond,
I. W. Alley, auu a few days ago Mr.
Jfcre E. Field. These vacancies will be
supplied when court convenes as well
as all others Who may be excused for
sickness or other good reason.
The following is the traverse Jury
for the week:
E. O. Collum, J. D. Rollins, Rosser
Thomas. T. S. Hawkins, J. M. Dorsey,
Frank Monroe, W. R. Caldwell, J. W.
Burns, H. W. Cobb, J. T. Hood, O. H.
Henderson, G. T. Lewis, O. Brandon,
J. T. Anderson, G. W. Westbrooks,
Geo. H. McDaniel, Jerome D. Smith,
Jno. M. McCoy, R. W. Taff, E. C. Cun
ningham, J. L. Earwood, Jm T. Sin
lard, A. A. Ferguson, D. M. Shinall,
W. C. Satterfield, K. C. Atkinson, R.
I. Sellers, G. W. Kelly, Felix K. Milam,
J. M. Yancey, W. C. Teague, W. J.
Burdette, W. W. Crow, B. J. Davis,
L. W. McKelvey, W. D. Davidson.
CREDIT FOR WHOM
CREDIT IS DUE.
The article entitled “Bartow County
Rural Schools, Past, Present and
Future” appearing in the Home Trade
Edition of The Bartow Tribune of last
week, was prepared by Mr. Henry
Milam, county superintendent of
schools, but was not so credited
through inadvertence.
The Tribune is unwilling that a
treatise of so great merit should go
forth wilth the name of the author un
announced. Mr. Milam’s copy did not
contain his name and it was set up
without being credited to him. We
desire now' to highly commend it for
the broad and progressive spirit it
breathes, for its informative value and
for the vision it unfolds of great and
prospective accomplishment, and to let
cur readers know that it came from
cne whose best talents have been giv
en in service to Bartow county that
her school system shall rank among
the best.
We wish also to thank Mr. Milam for
the contribution and to assert our be
lief that it will accomplish much to
ward the achievement of that in which
he is so fervently interested.
RUMMER SCHOOL AT EUHARLEE
CLOSES FRIDAY EVENING.
The summer school at Euharlee
will close Friday evening and an in
teresting program has been prepared,
featured by a debate.
A slight admission fee will be
charged; refreshments will be served,
and the public is cordially invited to
be present on this occasion and par
ticipate in the festivities which will
mark the closing of the school of the
summer of 1916.
Mrs. Herbert Camp, of Hatties
burg, Miss., Mr. B. S. Walker, of Mon
roe, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. McCrary, Mr.
and Mrs. Paul Vose, of Atlanta, Mr.
Earl Field, of Canton, Mr. Marcus
Field, of Marietta, were among the out
of town friends and relatives who
came to attend the funeral of Mr. Jere
Field on Saturday. . i*
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