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VOL. 6
#1 CITIZENS WANT itJTH
TO GOME BEFORE CITY HILL
Interviews Show a Practically Unanimous
Sentiment In Favor of Health Schools
And Streets And Then City Building
• How long, O Lord, how long are we
going to have to wait for sewerage,
for better schools and for bettor
.streets in Cartersvilie?” is the pre
vailing, earnest inquiry upon the part
of citizens of Cartersvilie who hop*
ior its welfare, are interested in its
development and are praying for its
progress.
The Tribune continued this week to
interview citizens of Cartersvilie and
we publish here below the opinion of
each and every one seen upon the, sub
ject of civic improvements and if
these, together with those who were
interviewed last week, represent any
thing like the sentiment in Carters
vilie. it certainly expresses itself in
no unmistakable terms in favor of,
first, sewerage, next schools, and third
streets, and lastly a city hall. The
sentiment is practically unanimous in
favor of health first and schools next
and street improvements next and a
city hall last.
A City Hall By Direct Tax.
It was also ascertained that a sen
timent exists in favor of building a
city hall out of a bond issue instead
of by direct taxation. A city hall cost
ing ten thousand dollars wMI necessi
tate a tax of practically $3.33 on the
thousand, and being a pefpanent im
provement to be enjoyed by future
generations and by future citizens of
Cartersvilie, the be3t and most equit
able method would be to issue bonds
bearing five per cent, rate of interest
and to be retired in future years when
others come in to enjoy its benefits
and uses. These insist that the build
ing of a court house by direct taxa
tion compelled citizens to pay for It
who have not received and are not re
ceiving any more benefits from it tham
those who have come in here inee and
become large tax pavers. In addition
to this, a tax payer’s money is worth
to him eight per cent, as an individual,
whereas the city can borrow money in
its aggregate capacity at five per
cent, and put the proceeds in a per
manent improvement and the burden
of paying for it will be distributed
among those who get the greatest, use
out of its erection.
All Improvements By a Bond Issue.
Citizens who were interviewed by
The Tribune take the view that the
entire matter should be submitted to j
the people in the form of a bond issue j
and that the items to be submitted j
should be sewerage, schood improve- j
nients, permanent streets and a city
hall. In this way a public expression j
of sentiment will be definitely ascer- j
'tamed, and, if authorized, the improve- j
ments could be made from proceeds
of bonds which would bring to Car
tersvflle outside money and which
would serve the double purpose of sup
plying a great public emergency as
well as giving an impetus to trade.
Seweraqe.
Many citizens fear, and view with
apprehensive dread, the prospect of a
'pestilence, the spread of typhoid fever
or the introduction of infantile paraly-
K 's. They insist that it is the city’s
highest duty to rid this town of cess
Poo s, surface closets, a.osquito breed
ing ponds, open ditches and various
other menaces which hold the pro
gress of the city in check and which
keep above the heads of the people a
cloud of impending doom.
Schools.
*' ,a ny citizens are earnest in their 1
plea for better school facilities, and 1
these contend that if the city has ten ;
thousand dollars to on an im- !
provenent it shouQd fir • be spent and 1
'levoied to the purpos e of placing the
s, h °ol children in safe charters and to
’ike them out of damp cellars and to
Provide them with hygienic toilet and
o f her arrangements.
( itizens express a ride and hope
' Ht the city will be able to buiild a
hall, but all who were seen are
Poetically of one accord and insist
a citv hafil at most can save but
few dollars, while sewerage and
1 improvement* '-ill not only
dollars but -ve the (lives of old
® *'l \oung ands - e doctors’ bills and
‘ n >sh security against the dread of
disease.
' * s un derstood that the city au
s ’ t!es are now awaiting plans and
“’ations from the architect con-
THE BARTOW TRIBUNE
cerning the city hall but give no def
inite assurance that the other improve
ments will be undertaken within any
definite (length of time. In view of the
fact that public sentiment has never
been expressed as favoring a city hall,
whereas it has been frequently demon
strated that an overwhelming senti
ment exists in favor of sewerage and
schools and streets, a great deal of
interest has been aroused and the tax
payers and citizens are anxious to
know why a city hall is given prece
dence over matters of so much more
fundamentall value and of so much
more urgent need.
The following citizens freely ex
pressed their views touching the mat
ter of public improvements:
C. C. Pittman was a champion of
sewers and schools and streets and
thought that then a city hall could be
built.
Geo. H. Aubrey regarded health as
of the greatest importance and schools
next. Then if a city halt was of suf
ficient economic value to build one.
Dr. Sam Howell favored sewerage
and school improvements, both to be
classed together, since they meant
health. Then streets and then a city
haN.
Judge Martin Collins was for sewer
age above all things. He would like
wise favor a comprehensive system of
public improvements and in favor of
going to. our debt limit to secure them.
W. W. Daves thought that health
was first of all things to be consider
ed. Health for the public and health
for the children. A sewerage system
for all and school building constructed
right to conserve health of the lit
tle fellows.
Watt H. Milner said, “With the pres
ent floating indebtedness I think It
would be poor policy to erect a city
hall and pay for same by direct taxa
tion. School houses, adequate for our
needs, should first te considered, then
sewers and streets. At present a city
hall would be a luxury.”
W. M. McCafferty said that there
were a lot of things needed before a
city hail and that he was against a
city hall until these other things were
undertaken.
W. J. Taylor warmly espoused the
construction of sewers, the -improve
ment of school building and the build
ing of streets before a city haTH was
undertaken. If the city should under
take all these improvements, however,
he would favor them all.
J. If. Whitaker favored school im
provements, sewers and streets and
then a city hall.
R. H. Renfroe thought health came
first, schools next, streets next and
then a city hall.
Dr. R. E. Adair said our greatest
needs were a sewerage system and
school improvements, then we could
take up a city hall, if need be.
Homer Black was of the opinion
that sewerage and schools and streets
were of greater importance than a city
hall and should be undertaken first.
Dr. J. N. Weems said, “I favor a
city hall all right bnt I do think we
need these other things first. Health,
schoo 1 ? improvements and streets rank
higher in importance."
W. W. Crow said he favored first
sewerage, second school improve
ments, third streets and fourth city
hall.
R. M. Hardaway said if we cannot
have but one thing now he favored
sewerage. If more, he favored schools,
streets and then a city hall.
John Phillips favored sewerage,
school improvements and streets be
fore the erection of a city ha'll.
J. B. Howard is a strong advocate
of sewerage and schools and thinks
these things should be done before we
build a city hall.
PHILLIP'S LEGION TO
MEET AT KENNESAW.
Phillip's legion, -Confederate Veter
ans, will hold their annual reunion at
Kennesaw, Ga„ August 9th.
Af! veterans of this legion, who can
possibly do so, should attend this
meeting. The program and entertain
ment will be all that the hosts of
friends of boys of the gray can make
it and a pleasant time socially will be
spent in association with each other.
CAKTERSVILLE, GA., AUGUST 3. 1916
DORSET 10 SPEAK HERE
OH TUESDAY MORNING
Popular Candidate For Gov
ernor To Appear Before
Bartow County Voters.
Hon. Hugh M. Dorsey, running like
a house afire for governor of Georgia,
will address the voters of this county
at the court house on next. Tuesday
morning at ten o’clock and wWI be
given a rousing reception by his
friends who are enthusiastically pro
claiming him as the next chief execu
tive of this state.
No candidate for the governorship
o 1 ’ recent years has met. with such en
thusiastic reception and has been
more loyally supported by the masses
than is Mr. Dorsey in the present cam
paign. There as a popular demand
that went to him asking him to lie
come a candidate. Petitions, resolu
tions, letters and personal appeals
from friend and stranger alike, be
sought him to stand as a Candidate
for the highest office within the gift
or the people of this state.
That this demand was sincere and
represented the earnest wishes of the
great body of the people of Georgia
has been evidenced by the great audi
ences which have gone out to hear
him in his public addresses and who
have applauded every principle for
which he stands and who have given
him every assurance that a candidate
can receive that he can confidently
expect general support from afl classes
of men.
His Campaign throughout south and
southwest Georgia was one continual
ovation. He was tendered every cour
tesy and accorded every honor the peo
ple can pay a popular hero, while bis
own addresses have been such as to
please and confirm public belief in his
fitness for the place he seeks. Mr. Dor
sey’s support come3 from every walk
and every class of society. His sup
porters are found among farmers,
naerchants, bankers, lawyers and the
ministry, and most enthusiastic of all
is the working man who believes that
Georgia possesses in Mr. Dorsey a pub
lic man who has the ability and the
honor and the grit to stand by his con
victions and to represent alfl men fair
ly in the performance of public duties.
Mr. Dorsey’s speech in Cartersville
will be heard by perhaps the largest
crowd that has assembled in- Carters
vfUe in many a day to hear a candi
date. His enthusiastic friends have an
ticipated his coming and have eagerly
besought him to speak earlier in Car
tersville. His campaign engagements,
however, have prevented an earlier
appearance here, but this has in no
wise served to diminish the enthusi
asm or their loyalty which will assert
itseUf on the appearance of Mr. Dor
sey here next Tuesday.
.\fr. Dorsey will discuss the issues
in the present campaign for governor
in his address here and in addition
will be glad to answer any questions
which any voter mav desire to ask
; him. He is a forceful and convincing
i speaker and a large crowd will come
out to hear him.
LET CARTERSVILLE INVITE
GEORGIA VETERANS HERE.
It has been suggested that Carters
ville invite the state reunion of con
federate veterans here for 1917.
The suggestion is a happy one and
one which Cartersviile should take up
and press at ouce. The reunion for j
1916 is to be held this month and at
that time the various trades and civic
bodies shouW place in the hands of
the veterans a warm and hearty invi
tation to be with us next year.
Cartersviile has never done any
thing note worthy for the veterans and
this will give us a chance to make
known our love, reverence and loyal
' interest in the soldiers who fought
for their beloved southland more than
fifty years ago. The time will soon be
past when we can furnish these heroes
any mark of esteem and pay tribute to
them in life.
The attention of the city commis
sioners and county commissioners is
called to this suggestion and the var
ious organizations, civic, patriotic and
commercial can do something. Car
tersviile can entertain them. It only
needs the determination to lake it up.
BOYS HIVE I EIGHT
WITH SERIOUS RESULTS
Otto Quinn Hit On Head
By Young Paul Gilreath
And Badly Hurt.
What came near being a serious
difficulty between two young boys was
the striking over the head with the
iron sleeve of a Ford automobile tire
of Ott Quiri n, a boy about sixteen
years old, by Parr.' Gilreath, the young
son of Mayor Gilreath. in Cartersvilie
Tuesday afternoon.
It appears, that the two boys had
previously quarreled and had had
some difficutly of a boyish character,
relating to some papers being carried
by young Gilreath. Being nettled over
it the latter sought out young Quinn
and found him in the vacant lot
across the street from The Bartow
Tribune. He went to him, and said
0
something and possibly received some
reply, but which could not be heard,
when young Gilreath threw the iron
piece held in his hand at young Quinn.
Quinn was struck in the head, and
the impact was heard by Mr. R. W.
Landers who was nearby but who had
not noticed the boys up to this time.
The boy was seen to quiver and faflL
Mr. Landers picked him up, found him
speechless or unconscious and medical
aid was sought at once.
Young Gilreath realizing that he had
possibly seriously hurt his antagonist
and immediately regretting the affair,
assisted in finding a physician and
otherwise helping to aHevlate the suf
fering of young Quinn.
Being carried to the office of Dr.
5 Howard E. Felton, and there assisted
by Dr. Wofford, it was found that the
skull was- fractured and an operation
■was necessary. Mayor Gilreath ob
tained permission to stop the Dixie
Flyer and young Quinn was carried to
the Baptist Hospital in Atlanta, where
after an operation by Drs. Goldsmith
and Jones, the boy was put in good,
.and it is confidently believed, safe con-
Friends of the families of the boys,
as well as their own friends, greatly
regretted the event and tendered ev
ery assistance. It was only a boyish
difficulty with well nigh fatal results
and none are more penitent than
young Gilreath, who did not foresee
the result of his momentary anger.
Young Quinn is an orphan and a
bright and promising lad and it is
hoped that Ik will soon be welß and
suffer no complications as a result of
his injurv. Young Gilreath is a bright
faced and bovish nature, who has
many youthful friends, and his exper
ience will doubtless be of value to him
in the future.
TABERNACLE MEETING
BEGINS FRIDAY.
Opens Fridav, August 4th. at 10:30
a. m.
Services Friday 7:30 p. m.
Services Saturday 10:30 a. m. and J
7:30 p. m.
Services Sunday 10:30 a. m., 2:30
r. m. and 7:30 p. m.
Services during the week to be an
nounced daily.
The great tabernacle services will
begin Friday at 10:30 a. m„ to be con
ducted by Gypsy Smith. Jr., the fa
mous son of a famous sire. The taber
nac'e committee has ccmpietel every
arrangement preliminary to the initia
tion rf these services and are enthusi
astic over the prospects of a great and
successful meeting. The members of
all churches are appealed to to give
to this meeting their earnest and
prayerful support and to manifest their
interest in attendance and participa
tion in the series of services to be
held.
Mr. Vale, the personal worker, has
already arrived and his meetings held
in the various churches of Carters
ville have been such as to encourage
him over the prospect for a successful
meeting.
The committee respectfully sug
gests that during the period through
hich the meeting will be in progress
f hat the housekeepers of the city or
der their groceries early so that the
.
merchants and their employees may
have opportunity to attend the morn
ing service which will he rich in the
STATEMENTS PROVE NO SENTENCE
EVER IMPOSED ON MR. TARVER
Judge Fite Claim Remitted Fine Is Suspend
ed Sentence And Mr. Tarver Shows Up
Whole Thing
The publication in The Tribune, re
lating to the charge made by Judge
Fite in the superior court while in
session, that he held a suspended sen
tence over Mr. Tarver and its prompt
denial by Mr. Tarver has been re
opened through a letter written to The
Tribune by Judge Fite. It appears
that Judge Fite takes the view that
because he fined Mr. Tarver SIO.OO,
without a jail sentence otf any kind
attached, and afterwards remitted the
fine he both remitted the fine and
suspended a sentence, notwithstanding
none was imposed. The fine was im
posed for contempt of court, arising
out of Mr. Tarver’s insistence that
certain testimony was not admissible
in the trial of a case on trial, in which
he was of counsel.
Mx, Tarver was called up over the
the 'phone by The Tribune and a state
ment was requested and is published
below. We invite careful reading of
both.
Judge Fite Replies.
Judgj Fite’s letter i3 as follows:
Editor Bartow Tribune:
What you said in The Tribune last
week about my suspending sentences,
is true in part, untrue in part, and al
together misleading.
What Mr. Sapp, the cflerk of Whit
fleid superior court, said is substan
tially correct, and substantially what
I said. I stated in substance that Mr.
Tarver ought not to object to my sus
pending sentences on others as I had
suspended a sentence on him, and he
replied that I was mistaken and that
he had paid the fine; and to this I
replied that he had paid one of the
fines but not the other.
The truth is I have had to fine him
twice for contempt of court and he
paid one of the fines, and I not only
suspended the sentence in the other
case, but remitted the fine entirely;
but as ft occurred in open court, no
record was made of It. Therefore, I
repeat that Mr. Tarver ought not to
object to mv suspending sentences on
others.
Respectfully,
A. W. FITE.
Tarver’s Statement.
Mr. Tarver’s statement of the mat
ter is as follows:
“The statement made by Judge Fite
at Chatsworth and at Dalton, and
which was repeated from the bench
after a speech made by me re
cently at Cartersville was that he,
(Judge Fite) ‘had a suspended
sentence over Mr. Tarver.’ When this
was denied by me, the assertion was
made that he had fined Messrs. Tar
ver and McCamy for contempt and
had remitted it. and this was what
revelation of the word and in the ex
position of Christian belief.
Arrangements have been made to
park automobiles separate from bug
gies on the east side of the tabernacle
grounds where cars will be under
more strict and vigilant police pro
tection and where they can come and
go without molestation to horses and
mules hitched to buggies and other
vehicles.
Great throngs of people from all
over the county and surrounding ter
ritory are expected to attend the
meetings, especially the meetings
through the two Sundays. Gypsy Smith
himself will arrive Friday and enter
at once into his work and his coming
is anticipated with a great degree of
interest and his work wIM be backed
up by the co-operative effort of every
religious influence in Cartersville.
GEO. C. TINSLEY ADDS
VULCANIZING PLANT.
George C. Tinsley will next week
install at his garage an innovation in
so far as such service relates to Car
tersviile.
Mr. Tinsley will put in a steam vul
canizing plant and will then be equip
ped to do all kinds of vulcanizing,
either for tubes or casings. Heretofore
such needs forced the automobile own
er to send his tubes and casings to At
lanta or elsewhere, which carries with
it a delay and carrying charge, which
is oftentimes annoying.
Mr. Tinsley wiW also give free tire
the court called a ‘suspended’ sen
tence. When the truth of this was de
nied (Mr. Tarver having the canceled ~
check with which he paid the fine),
His Honor switched the charge to an
other and entirely different occasion.
“While the remission of a fine for
contempt is in no sense a suspended
sentence, it is only fair that the pub
lic should know the circumstances
under which this last mentioned fine
was imposed, in order to demonstrate
hew small a thing has been dragged
imto this campaign in an attempt to
reflect upon me.
“This fine, amounting to ten dollars,
was imposed in the case of the State
vs. Car] Holland, in WhitfiUld superior
court, April term, 1914. It was imposed
because I insisted upon stating objec
tions to the introduction of certain
testimony, His Honor ruling before
the objections were fully stated. In
order to except to the admission of
illegal testimony, it Is necessary that
the grounds of objection be 3tated at
the time of its admission. I was there
fore fined for doing what the law and
my duty as a lawyer required me to
do for my client. The court of appeals
afterwards sustained the objection
which I made, despite the fine, and
reversed the case. (See Holland vs.
State, 86 S. E. Rep., 739.)
"The fine was coNected by the
sheriff in the presence of the jury, and
afterward, when the jury had retired,
was returned to me by the sheriff,
without any solicitation upon my part.
“Surely, these facts are not suffic
ient to warrant the broad assertion
that Judge Fite has a ‘suspended sen
tence over Mr. Tarver.’ Fines for con
tempt are often imposed without just
cause. It is believed that Judge Fite,
since his experience with the court of
appeals, concurs in this proposition."
From all which it is made to ap
pear that the charge made by Judge
Fite that he held a suspended sen
tence over Mr. Tarver 13 in no respect
true According to Mr, Sapp, the clerk
of the court, who Judge Fite says
states the truth, “there was no sen
tence imposed.” According to Mr. Tar
ver he paid the fine which was coC
lected by the sheriff, In the presence
of the jury, and it was returned to
him after the jury had retired, with
out any solicitation upon his part. Not
even the payment of the fine was sus
pended, but entirely remitted, the court
evidently coming to the conclusion
that it was wrongfully im [rosed. And
it further appears that the court of
appeals held with Mr. Tarver that the
testimony in question was not proper
to be considered in that case and
Judge Fite was reversed on this point.
serice. An expert will be placed in
charge of this department and the pub
lic will be accorded prompt and effic
ient treatment of aIT business brought
to the garage in this, as well as in all
other departments.
Mr. Tinsley’s determination to do
vulcanizing has been hailed with de
light by hundreds of automobile own
ers as this is one of the most frequent
services needed by autoists and his
progressives ess will result, in greatly
adding to the popularity and patronage
of his garage.
A BIG EXPRESS BILL
FOR A SINGLE ITEM.
What is believed to be the biggest
express bill ever paid for a single ar
ticle by any consignee in Cartersviile
was that cheerfully paid over by W.
S. Peebles and B. C. Sloan this week.
Messrs. Peebles and Sloan are equip
ping, for early operation, a baryta
mine on the property of the Cherokee
Ochre Cos. They needed an electric
pump of great capacity and needed it
“right now.” Ascertaining that the
congestion of freight cars in the east
would delay, for weeks possibly, an
early shipment, ordered the pump and
attached motor to be shipped by ex
press. It came in an express car all to
itself and was delivered in Carters
viile Monday. The shipment weighed
8,000 pounds and the express bilf wai
| $335.00.
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