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Volume XLVI. —No. 33.
SCHOOL BELLS
RING HERE NEXT
MONDAY SEPT. 3
SUPT. COOPER HERE MAKING
PREPARATIONS FOR OPENING
—STRONG FACULTY CHOSEN
LARGE ENROLLMENT EXPECT
ED ON FIRST DAY PEOPLE
OF COMMUNITY URGED TO AT
TEND FORMAL OPENING MON
DAY MORNING
LaFayette School District Board of
Education announces the formal open
ing of the LaFayette system of
schools for next Monday morning,
Sept. 3rd.
Superintendent D. T. Cooper arriv
ed Monday afternoon and is making
ready for the formal opening next
Monday morning. The first faculty
meeting is announced for Friday af
ternoon at the high school building at
4 o’clock and every teached is expect
ed to attend.
The same rule 3 governing tuition
etc, will operate this year, announces
the Board, and with the exception of
the Chickamauga, Rossville, Linwood
and Cedar Grove schools, which are
municipal or independent systems, all
pupils in the county desiring to en
ter the high school here may do so
without tuition charge.
The Board feels that an especially
strong faculty has been selected which
for the entire system numbers twenty
one teachers.
Several new teachers have been
elected but all have had splendid
training and actual experience, and
the outlook for the most successful
school year is exceedingly promising.
No estimate can be given of the en
rollment but a record-breaking en
listment is expected.
The faculty for the LaFayette
schools for 1923-24 is as follows:
High School
Miss Allie G. Carson, Principal;
Miss Margaret Shingler, of Ashburn,
and a graduate of Wesleyan Female
College, Domestic Science; Miss Ethel
Tison, of Cedartown, a graduate of
the Georgia College For Women,
Manual Training; Miss Georgia
Thomas, of Dublin, English. Misses
Shingler and Tison are new in the
system, the other high school teachers
having taught last year. This will
make the third year Miss Carson has
been in the system as principal of the
high school.
Grades
W. W. Snead, who received his
training at Oglethorpe University,
will be teacher of the Seventh grade.
He will also be athletic director. Mr.
Snead hails from Carrollton, Ga. and
has been associated with Supt. Cooper
at Weston, Ga, for £he past two years.
He has had excellent experience in
Seventh grade work and also as di
rector of various forms of athletics.
Mrs. Joe Street, who has been in
the system for the past few years,
and who has made a splendid record,
will again have charge of the sixth
grade this year.
Miss Clara Belle Edwards, of Lees
burg, Ga. a graduate of the G. N. & I.
College, will be the teacher of the
sth grade. She comes highly recom
mended and has had experience in the
grade work.
Miss Veda Haney, of Calhoun, will
be teacher of the 4th grade. She is
thoroughly trained and has had sev
eral years experience in teaching in
the Calhoun system as well as other
standard schools.
Mrs. C. H. Hillhouse, who has been
in the system for three years, and who
has made an excellent record, will
have charge of the 3rd. grade again.
Mrs. R. M. Wyly, who last year
was teacher of the 2nd grade will also
fill this position again this year. Mrs.
Wyly’s work was highly satisfactory
in every way and she was unanimous
ly reelected.
Miss Mildred Routt, a graduate of
the G. N. & L College, and who taught
in the Linwood school last year, will
have charge of the primary work.
Splendidly trained and with experi
ence in her work, Miss Routt will
doubtless make an excellent record as
First grade teacher.
Miss Lola Waldrop, of Good Water,
Ala., who had charge of the Music
Department for the past two years,
will again be head of the Music De-
JHalkrr Qkntnig Ms%w\ tgrc
WILBUR COLVIN
SUPERINTENDENT
AT ROSSVILLE
FORMAL OPENING OF SCHOOL
NEXT MONDAY TWELVE
TEACHERS IN SYSTEM UNTIL
NEW BUILDING IS COMPLETED
—WORK BEING RUSHED
Rossville, Ga. Aug. 28—The Board
of Education at this place has an
nounced that the public school will
formally open Monday Sept. 3rd. The
old school building, together with the
old offices of the Richmond Hosiery
Mill will be used to accommodate the
pupils until the splendid new school
building on McFarland Hill can be
completed. Work on this building is
going forward rapidly and it is ex
pected that the present term will be
finished in the now house.
The Rossville school will have
twelve teachers at present, until the
new building is occupied when several
more will be added. A splendid faculty
has been selected and prospects are
bright for a successful school year.
The faculty is composed of the follow
ing teachers: Supt. Wilbur Colvin, of
Atlanta; High School teachers Miss
Lorraine Garner of Gainesville, Ga.
and Miss Jimmie Wassaman of Tala
poosa, Ga.; Grammar School: Mrs. J.
J. Rhyne, Rossville; Miss Minnie Pope
Wildwood, Ga.; Miss Elizabeth Leor
nard, Bristol, Va.; Miss Meta Gains,
Calhoun, Ga.; Miss Mary Belle Brewer
Tunnel Hill, Ga; Miss Helen Jordon,
Tunnel Hill, Ga.; Miss Marie Carpen
ter, Rockmart; Miss Geneva Strick
land, Tallapoosa, Ga Miss Rachel Bird
Chickamauga.
The school population has increased
at this place over one hundred during
the past year.
partment.
Miss Olah Teabeaut, of Fayetteville,
N. C., has been selected as head of
the Expression Department. Miss
Teabeaut is a graduate of the Curry
School of Expression and has had sev
erel years experience in the school
room.
West LaFayette Faculty
In the West LaFayete. School no
changes have been made in the facul
ty with the exception that Miss Try
phena Kelly, of Dalton, will take the
place of Miss Shale, who was teacher
in this school last year. R. D. Love
will again be principal of the school
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D. TALMADGE COOPER
Superintendent of the LaFayette
School System for 1923-24.
and with him will be associated Mrs.
R. M. Neal, Miss Carrie Greene, Miss
Ethel Tyner and Miss Kelley. The
school in West LaFayette last year
was a gratifying success, due to the
personnel and character of the work
of the teachers.
Colored School
The same teachers for the colored
school will compose the teachers the
coming year—Minnie C. Calhoun and
Estelle Rucker.
All pupils who contemplate enter
ing the system are urged to be on
hand next Monday morning, and pat
rons and people of the town are cor
dially urged to attend the opening ex
ercises.
LOST, STRAYED OR STOLEN—One
white and liver colored setter dog.l
Answers to the name “Judge”. Re
ward to finder—Thos. W. Bryan, La-
Fayette, Ga. ltx
LaFayette, Georgia, Friday August 31,1923-
Quite A Few Criminal
Cases Are Disposed of
Court Next Week
CIVIL CASES WILL BE TRIED
NEXT WEEK GRAND JURY
FINDS OVER 100 TRUE BILLS,
IT IS UNDERSTOOD, WILL
PROBABLY ADJOURN TODAY
PRESENTMENTS PUBLISHED
NEXT WEEK
A variety of criminal cases have
been disposed of this week. Infrac
tions of the prohibition laws, assault
and attempt to murder, murder, gam
ing have c«'me in for their share of
the week’s grind.
Judge Wright stated that he was
going to call the entire docket of
criminal cases this week and find out
why the cases were not ready for
trial and make an effort to make in
roads into the big criminal schedule.
The following cases were disposed
of up to the time the Messenger went
to press Thursday morning:
State versus Walter Long; misde
meanor ;found not guilty. Long was
represented by Rosser and Shaw.
State versus Earnest Durham;
charged with manufacturing liquor in
1919; found not guilty; attorneys
Henry and Jackson.
Ted and Jule Gay ton pieau guilty
to possessing liquor. Since they were
mere boys the Judge fined them SIOO
and costs and 12 months on probation
or 6 months on probation and 6
months in the gang.
M. J. Carpenter plead guilty to
cursing; fined SI.OO and costs which
totaled $30.65.
State versus Tom Hill, charged with
gaming; plead guilty; $1 and costs or
4 months in gang Total costs $53.00.
Roy Youngblood and Joe Carroll
plead guilty to Gaming; $1 and costs
or 4 months in gang; total costs, $53.
Parks Prescott plead guilty to hav
ing a Coca-Cola bottle full of liquor;
S3O and costs or 6 months in the gang.
Gene Nations, charged with having
liquor in possession and selling liquor;
found not guilty; attorneys, Rosser
and Shaw.
Joe Husky plead guilty to trans
porting liquor; 10 months in the gang.
Ed Gibson plead guilty to driving a
liquor car for Joe Husky; SIOO and
costs.
Jesse Fouts plead guilty to manu
facturing liquor; 6 months in the
gang.
Judge Wright called upon the so
licitor for the case of the state versus
Bill Jones et al. The Solicitor stated
that the case had been inadvertently
omitted from the calendar and had
been set for trial for Friday of this
week.
State versus Luther Day, charged
with manufacturing liquor; found not
guilty; attorneys, Henry and Jackson.
Jim Sizemore plead guilty to having
a gallon of liquor in possession which
he claimed he had for medicinal pur
poses; SSO and costs or 7 months in
the gang.
Herman Pitman charged with trans
porting liquor; found not guilty; at
torneys, Rosser and Shaw.
Three convicts who had escaped
with some others, and who were re
captured were hailed before the Judge
and received their sentences. They
were given three months each. The
Judge in commenting upon these sen
tences stated that he was going to j
give them the lightest sentences the.
law allowed, for they ought to keep j
them in the gang when they are put |
there, and not take up the time of!
the Court for breaking out. He stated
that he wished he could even make
the sentence lighter.
Glenn Bohannon plead guilty to hav
ing liquor in his possession; fined S2O
and costs, totaling $47.55.
Herbert Smith charged with assault
and attempt to murder, by reckless
driving of an auto; found guilty; one
to three years in the penitentiary.
Van Mayfield, colored, charged with
the murder of Jesse Womack; acquit
ted. The evidence showed that Wo
mack was the aggressor and Mayfield
plead self defense.
Boss and Partin Case Continued
The case of the state versus Ott
Boss and Will Partin, charged with
murder, has been continued until the
November term of the Superior Court
by the statq.
Luther Dty plead guilty to selling
liquor to Albert Bledsoe; not sentenc
ed.
Milledge fate plead guilty to gam
ing; $1 and costs, which totaled $51.05
or three motiths in gang.
A. J. Jordan plead guilty to driving
auto without licenses; fined the costs
in the case,
George and Hubbard Morris plead
guilty to stealing watermelons; S2O
and costs each.
Drew Paco plead guilty to possess
ing liquors SIOO and costs or nine
.months.
Clarence Kemp plead guilty to us
ing profane language; $25 and costs.
Bozzy Boggs Found Guilty of
Arson —Gets Five Years
Bozzy Boggs, charged with hiring
one Edward Battle to burn an out
building belonging to Forest Varnell,
was found guilty by the jury and sen
tenced to five years in the penitenti
*y. This case was one of the hardest
feught of the entire week. Henry and
Jackson, of this city and Harris, of
Chattanooga represented Boggs, while
Rosser and Shaw assisted the state.
Boggs is also under sentence for pos
sessing liquor having been found guil
ty at a former term of court. It is un
derstood that a motion for a new
trial will be made in the case tried
this week.
End Forfeitures
appear for trial, bonds
id and the Judge ordered
nisis in the following cases Monday:
State virsus Wesley Davis, Harry
Light, J B Fuller, Charlie Brown,
Frank Maness, Paul Cross, Mack Dav
is, Flem Powell, Jesse Maddox Marvin
Hatfield, M T Tate, O A Higdon, T H
Peck, Arch Aken, Henry Shahan (2
cases), Elrl Fallis, Sam Long, Lewis
Gravitt, M J Orr and Jack Chapman.
Court Next Week
Civil cases will be tried next week,
the calendar of which was announced
in these, columns.
The grand jury was in session
Thursday morning but will probably
adjourn today. It is understood that
over 100 true bills have been return
ed by this body. The general present
ments will be published in next week’s
issue.
Civil Cases
Since last Thursday the following
civil cases were disposed of Thursday
and Friday:
O P Andrews, Mrs O P Andrews
and H P Mashburn versus Chas Hicks
Receiver T A G R yCo.; mistrial.
Charlie Cook versus J F Stanfield;
verdict for plaintiff, $104.00.
Walker County Bank vs W A John
son; dismissed.
Hill Hammond vs J P Suttle; judg
ment.
Lucy J. Street vs Al Stallings (15
cases;) verdict for plaintiff.
Hunter Bros, versus Gus Ward et
al ;verdict for plaintiff.
Mrs. A M Street versus W J Jen
nings; verdict for plaintiff.
G F Mitchell versus W T and John
T. Howard; verdict for plaintiff.
S P Hall vs Missouri Wise; verdict
for plaintiff.
HORNE AND LITTLE
FARMS BRING GOOD
PRICES AT AUCTION
The big auction sale of the Horne
and Little farms in West Armuchee
last Thursday was a splendid success,
according to reports from the sales.
The some five hundred acres brought
ruound $15,000 it is understood. The
f. mous Calhoun brass band, the big
barbecue and the awarding of the new
Ford car were delightful features of
the occasion. Wilson Alverson was the
lucky winner of the Ford. The ladies
of the West Armuchee consolidated
school district observed tag day for
the school during the sale day. and
report a net sum of some S3OO
The farm land sold brought from
$25 to $53 per acre. The following
were purchasers: J. A. Chapman, the
Horne place, 162 acres at $37 per
acre; W. P. Neal bought a tract of
the Horne farm for $76; Scott Justice
purchased the J. R. Little place of 130 '
acres at $63 per acre; J. ...
also purchases! two tracts of the Little ,
farm at $25 per acre; the mountain j
lota were sold to J Fowler, Gordon'
Keown and Tom Manis.
CHICKAMAUGA
SCHOOL TO OPEN
NEXT TUESDAY
W. F. TRIBBLE, OF ROCKMART ]
SUPERINTENDENT EXPERI
ENCED AND TRAINED FACUL
TY SECURED LARGE EN
ROLLMENT EXPECTED ON OP
ENING DAY
Chickamauga, Ga. Aug. 28.—The
Chickamauga school will formally op- i
en on Tuesday Sept. 4th. On Monday <
before the opening day the Board of ,
Education and faculty will hold a <
meeting in which plans for the school i
year will be made t
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Supeflntendent of the Chickamaugu *
High School for 1923-24.
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tic over a successful term.
The following teachers compose the 1
faculty for the 1923-24 school year: C
W. F. Tribble Rockmart Ga. Supt. I
Latin and Science. J
Mrs. A. V. Gorham Tate Ga. Mathe- \
matics; Mrs Elder Glenn Chickamau
ga Ga, English and History; Miss Lil- j
lian Venable, Rome, Ga., French. i
Grammar School j
Mrs. C. Dunaway, Chickamauga, Ist j
grade; Miss Jeffie Fincher, Canton j
Ga., 2nd grade; Mrs. W F Tribble,
Rockmart, Ga 3rd grade; Miss Dessa j
Fowler, Durand, Ga., 4th grade; Miss j
Marie Headen, Cassville 5 grade; Miss j,
Lillian Venable, Rome, Ga. 6th grade; \
Miss' Nola Hasty, Chickamauga, 7th 8
grade.
Miss Mary Hill of Chickamauga
will have charge of the music depart- „
ment, while Miss Jeffie Fincher, of
Canton, Ga. will be at the head of the
Expression department.
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CONVENTION OF
SUNDAY SCHOOLS J
HERE FRIDAY:
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Below is the program of the Walker °
County Sunday School Convention *
here Friday:
Following is the program: .
Theme :The Day of Religious Edu- .
cation.
Song Service by Choir
Scripture Reading and Prayer—Dr.
J. P. Anderson.
The Adult Class in Action—Rev. ■*
Martin.
Solo—Miss Anderson.
Jesus The Master Teacher—Rev. C. P
Harris.
Business—Appointing Committees,
etc.
The New Day In Religious Educa- j
tion—Miss Myra Batchelder. /
Miscellaneous Business
Dinner On The Ground. j
Afternoon Session
Song Service
Scripture Reading and Prayer—Rev
J. W. Brinsfield.
Solo—Mrs. R. L. Vansant F
One Good Thing About Our School
and our Problems—Miss Batchelder C
What Do Old Folks Get Out of Sun- V
day School—J P. Hall.
Making the Sunday School Evan
gelistic—Rev. J. M. May.
Preaching and Holding Our Young
Want Ads in
Messenger
L Pa >;
One Dollar Per Yean
MEMBERS TOTAL
300 TOGA. COTTON
ASSOCIATION
FROM WALKER COUNTY—MEHI.
U HRS HI I* CAMPAIGN COMPLET
ED IN COUNTY, WHICH SHOWS
COTTON FARMERS IN EVERY
SECTION BELIEVE IN ASSOCI
ATION
A few weeks ago the partial list of
members from this county of the
Georgia Co-operative Cotton Growers
Association was published in these
columns. At that time the county had
not been thoroughly canvassed. Since
then the county has been thoroughly
covered and some three hundred cot
ton farmers in this county have join
ed the association. Since the publica
tion of the list of farmers in this
county who had become members of
the association, the following farmers
have joined:
A. N. McKin, W. M. Pettigrew, Mrs.
Tennie Tipton, G W Delay, H C De
lay, A C. Jones, C. B. Rape, J. A.
Cannon, S J Ketcham, D J Cameron,
T B Lewis, R H Dyer, W E Baker, J
M. Ransom, T. J Bird, T W Shields.
J W. Shields, D. A Leath, J M
Quinn, G H Wallis, A. D Wall, Levi
Bird, Mrs Etta Dunagan, Lewis Dun
agan, Mrs. M. H. Woods, Hudson Hen
derson, T C. Moore, Paul Bird, T. I.
Howard, Joe Harris.
Doc Riley, W. J. Arnold, W. A.
Leigh, J. B. Thornton, O W Crow,
John E Ketcham, Tom Cowart, J D.
Vanhorn, Olive Van Horn, Lewis Stok
er, R. L. Bomar, Artie Cook, W. D.
Pope, Earl Massey, C. R. Johnson, F,
M. Pierce.
W. A. Wallis, I M Hamilton, J A
Waters, W. H. Neal, Frank Weaver,
E C J A. White, W E Keown,
G W Ransom*, A. L. Wood, C. E. Glass,
F. M Godfrey, J. G Osburn, T E De-
Bord, J C. Turner, W. S. White.
M H Movis, R A Miller, G E. Taw
ler, J T. Pearson, J C. Johnson, Lee
Carter, R. D. Shankle, W. C. Carnes,
E R Green, John Dunlap, J A. Lanier,
J. P Suttle, R. A. Green, E. A. Royes,
W. M Chastain, J G. Dilbeck.
M. J. Lawrence, John Hollis, Emory
Hollis, M. H Johnston, J A. Clarkson,
L. L Clarkson, J G Smith, J C Waters,
D W. Hilburn. R. B. Lively, B F Hunt,
Jr., J. M Vanhorn, L E. Anderson, G
L. Day, G. L Cranmore.
L A Smith, J P Skates, R W C
Myers, A M McWhorter, J B. Lowry,
R. L. Powell, Paul L Ezell, J. F. Tro
lover, R L. Forrester, V. L Rogers, J
W Martin, Earl Duncan, L. V. Swan
son.
THE LINWOOD SCHOOL
OPENS NEXT MONDAY,
WITH FINE PROSPECTS
The Linwood school will begin its
new term on next Monday with the
prespect for the largest enrollment in
the history of the school. It will be
remembered that since the begining
of school last year the population of
the town has been increased about
one-third.
The school trustees have announced
teachers a3 follows: Mrs. Annie M.
Green, of Adairsville, Principal; Miss
Irene Hanson, Miss Addie Augusta
Wert, Miss Beth Rhyne. They confi
dently expect that the new school year
will be successful in every respect.
BIG DAY PLANNED
AT CENCHAT ON
LABOR DAY,
Cenchat, Ga. Aug. 27, 1923.—A big
barbecue will be the feature of the
day, Sept. 3rd, Labor Day, on the
Cenchat school grounds. This is being
given by the Cenchat baseball league.
Everyone invited, a good time is ex
pected. Two games of ball will be
played in the afternoon.
People—Miss Batchelder
Business, Report of Committees,
County Officers, Announcement of
Winners of Banners etc.
Adjournment
S. F. BLAYLOCK, President
Walker County Sunday School
Association.