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Volume XLVII.—No. 13.
Chamber of Commerce
Annual Meeting Reveals
Splendid Achievements
FOR THE PAST YEAR OFFIC
ERS ELECTED FOR 1924—C01 N
f TY fair sponsored and of
! FICERS NAMED CHAMBER
TO GIVE ACTIVE SUPPORT TO
AGRICULTURAL CLUB WORK
DETAILS OF BUILDING AND
LOAN ASSOCIATION EXPLAIN
ED—ENDORSE CLEAN-UP AND
PAINT-UP CAMPAIGN, WHITE
WAY AND STONE MOUNTAIN
MEMORIAL
I
The annual meeting of the LaFay
ette Chamber of Commerce was held
at the school building last Friday
night, a large and enthusiastic mem
bership being present.
An annual report prepared by the
ji Secretary was read, which enumerat
or ed many things done during the past
; year, among the activities being the
& assistance in securing modern play-
I ground equipment for the schools,
i sponsoring the Boy Scout encampment
at Cloudland last summer, fostering
the county fair and enlarging its
scope and plans, making it the best
yet held in the county, endorsing the
campaign to advertise • Northwest
1 Georgia, directed the plans for hold-
A ing the Seventh District High school
.1 meet here last April and furnishing
rj the necessary funds to defray the ex
/ penses of same, assisting the local
/ chapter American Legion secure a
stand of colors for their organization,
' procured a car of calcium arsenate
for the cotton farmers in combatting
' the army worm and boll weevil, dis
tributed 2500 farm programs over the
counity and last month contracted for
a car of calcium arsenate in co-oper
ation with the local banks for the use
of the farmers this season, and sent
representatives to Rime and Macro
I in the interest of the Western branch
' of the Dixie Highway and the new
Power lines coming through this sec
mtion. These are some of the activities
ye of the Chamber during the past year.
Officers Elected
At this meeting the following of
ficers were elected to serve tho ensu
ing Chamber year: W. B. Shaw, Pres.
W. A. Enloe, Vice-President; D. W.
Herndon, Sec-Treas. The Directors
H are W. B. Shaw, W. A. Enloe, F.
I*S. Dennis, D. W. Herndon. C C Gil-
BT bers, A R Fortune and E P. Hall, Jr.
Fair Officers
The subject of the county fair was
discussed and the Chamber proposed
to foster the event again this year, '
The following officers were namyi:'
W. B. Shaw, Pres; D. W. Herndon,
Vice-Pres; D. R. Thurman, Sec; and
C. C. Gilbert, Trear. A finance com
mittee was appointed as follows: W.
O. Davenpiftt. Chairman; J. A. Allen
and E. P. Hall, Jr.
Plans were made to get out a full
premium list at an early date and
distribute to the people in the county
in order that the farmers may know
l what to compete for in the fair, and
to encourage them to get more deep
| ly interested in the county project.
28 Volunteers
County Agent Saye was present
and urged the Chamber to consider
the proposition of supporting the ag
ricultural club work, and proposed
that each member of the Chamber
sponsor one member of the club, take
an interest in him, and help and en
courage him in every way possible.
This plan was unanimously adopted
by the Chamber and twenty eight!
members volunteered to sponsor!
twenty-eight club members.
Building and Loan
L. N. Shahan, Jr., of Rome, Secre
tary of the Citizens’ Building and In
vestment Company, of Rome, was
k present and explained the details and
L working of a building and loan as-,
gv, sociation. and what it does' for a com-,
nu niunity. Mr. Shahan was invited here '•
W because of the newly organized build- \
t ing and loan association of this com- j
V munity. His talk was very much ap- j
, predated and the members were en-;
a thusiastic over the prospects for La- 1
fl Fayette Budding and Loan Associ- -
ation.
At this time the Chamber also en
dorsed the Clean-Up and Paint-Up
campaign for this city, the r. ■„», i- 1
V.hL- Way around the publh rquare*
which is l- ;:.sr sp: n sored l.«v the In
i' . , a: d .
which was 58id to be the r '?vi
most?enthusiastic ever held, Miss Mar
, •
Ei v,;t l " ne a: th.s> time.
Walker Glmmttj
DR. M’WILLIAMS
* DIED TUESDAY
AT CEDARTOWN
I
i
Dr. J. P. McWilliams passed away
Tuesday night at the home of
his daughter, Mrs. C. R. Sheffield, at
Cedartown. He had been in declining
health for several years at his home
in West Armuchee and some time ago
he went on a visit to his daughter
at Cedartown, hoping the change
would be of benefit to him. He gradu
ally grew weaker until the end came
Tuesday. He was 74 years of age.
Surviving him besides his widow
are three children—J. P., of Chatta
nooga; Henry, of West Armuchee
and Mrs. C. R .Sheffield, of Cedar
town; two brothers—F. A. and J. C.
McWilliams, of West Armuchee. He
has many other relatives in the coun
ty, who also survive him
Dr. McWilliams lived in West Ar
muchee all of hie life, and was tho
roughly identified with this county.
He was a true Southerner, a promi
! nent citizen, a member and deacon of
I Shiloh Baptist church for a long num
i ber of years, and served in many of
: ficial capacities in ti e county. At the
| time of his demise he was a member
|of the Board of Registrars of the
county.
Some forty years ago he was mar
ried to Miss Beulah Holcomb.
Funeral services will be held this
morning, Thursday, from Shiloh
Baptist church, conducted by his pas
tor, Rev. I. S. Leonard. Quite a num
! ber from here and other sections of
the county will doubtless attend the
funeral. The LaFayette Furniture Co.
will have charge of arrangements.
$15,000 SCHOOL
BOND ELECTION
SATURDAY
Notice of the School Bond Election
for the Rock Springs Consolidated
School District has appeared in the!
Messenger the past four weeks, said j
election to be held at Rock Springs
on next Saturday to determine wheth
er or not the people of that District
will vote in a $15,000 bond issue for
I new school buildings and equipment.
This district was recently consoli
dated and much interest has been tak
| er in the school life of Rock Springs.
! A large number of the people are de
termined to take advantage of the
County Board of Education’s offer to
districts that consolidate and are ex
erting their best efforts to establish a
school in this district of first rank.
No section oi tne county is better
adapted to a consolidated school than
the Rock Spring district, and the
leaders in the movement feel that the
people will turn out Saturday and
cast their ballots for schools in order
that the children of that district may
have an equal chance at an education
that the towns and other progressive
sections have.
DEWBERRY TOWN
COLORED SCHOOL
iiy Mrs. J. L. Rowland
Rossv;lie, Ga. March 25—Compara
■ tively little is known about the Dew
j berry Town Negro School. Rossville
I is inique in this particular as there
1 is not a nergo resident in Rossville.
But about three miles away between
, Rossville and Ft. Oglethorpe there is
| Dewberry Town with no residents but
j negroes. It is said that every negro
i family there owns its own home with ;
I from a quarter of an acre to five acres 1
j of land. It is really a remarkable com
i munity.
j Recently, this winter, there has been
; built a remarkably well-appointed
new schoolhouse. Mrs. Sam Divine
I gave two acres of land splendidly Jo
| cated and adapted for the purpose. By
; the co-operation of the Walker Coun
i ty Board of Education, the Rosenwald
Fund, the Real residents of Dewberry
Town, and the Trustees of th" Re Se
ville Consolidated School District, for ]
; th: place is a part of this school dis
: trict, this new school house has been 1
creeled according to the plans and
r f*li r room t*vo clr cd a nd
. -*Ot At acning Homs Gcc>Tiomics. A
- .aur.~r, v.anie Jcsr«izicr js nor
| max college trained and rerrarkahlv
! "6** eijuipped for the work planned
school.
LaFayette, Georgia, Friday, March 28,1924.
M’ADOO FORCES
NAME DELEGATES
TO CONVENTION
WHICH MEETS IN ATLANTA ON
APRIL 23KD CONVENTION
WILL STAGE FIGHT FOR THE
NATIONAL COM M ITTEEM AN
FROM GEORGIA—CLARK HOW
ELL HAS HELD POSITION 20
YEARS COUNTY VOTE IN
PRIMARY REVEALS GROWTH
IN POPULATION LIST OF
COUNTY NOMINEES
In the 1920 county primary some
2800 votes were east. On March 19th
this year, a total vote of over 3000
was cast. The interest was probably
as keen in 1920 as in the primary just
held. These figures reveal an increase
in population even when the vote of
the women are taken into consider
ation which is very gratifying.
McAdoo Delegates Named
The McAdoo headquarters in At
lanta have appointed delegates and
alternates to the convention in At
lanta April 23rd., announcement of
which was made Tuesday through the
daily press. For Walker county the
delegates to the convention are J. R.
McFarland, Rossville; Mrs. E P. Hall,
Jr., LaFayette; Dr. R. M. Coulter
and Rev J. P Anderson, of LaFayette.
The alternates are, G. L. Stephens,
Kensington; W. D. Rogers, Pitts
burg ;W. A. Wardlaw, E. P. Hall, Jr.
Freeman McClure, Claude Clements,
W. A. Loach and Thos. W Bryan, of
LaFayette. McAdoo carried over 126
counties and a popular majority of
over 75,600.
The delegates will name the dele
gates for McAdoo to the National
Democratic Convention in New York
June 24th., after consolidating the re
turns in Georgia. Clark Howell, of
Atlanta, who has been National Com
mitteeman from Georgia for the past
twenty years will be fought in the con
vention on the ground that he was not
an active supporter of McAdoo in the
primary, and Editor Hamilton, of the
Augusta Herald, and Editor Cohen, of
the Atlanta Journal, and Mrs. Alex
ander Bell, who organized the women
forces in Georgia for McAdoo are
spoken of as favorites over Clark
Howell. However, it is stated that
Howell has a strong following adding
the McAdoo delegates and he is pre
dicted to be the winner again.
The County Nominees
While the full story of the primary
of the 19th was published in last
week’s issue, below will be found the
county nominees in the primary whose
names will go on the Democratic
ballot in the general election in No
vi n, be-: For Ordinary, W. L. Stan
seil; I or Clerk, Thos. W. Bryan; For
Shei-ii", L. W. Harmon; For Tax Re
ceiver, John H. Garmany; For Tax
Collector, Claude Clements; For
School Superintendent, R. D. Love;
For Coroner, Frank Nuckolls; Fori
Surveyor, Julius Rink ;For Board of
Roads and Revenue, G. R. Morgan, L '
P Keith, J. C. Tucker, J H Kilgore
and C. M. Thurman.
While the large crowd on the night
of the 19th were eagerly watching
the Boards at Loach's Pharmacy and
John R. Rea’s for the returns as they
were placed on the boards, the La-
Fayette Band made it’s initial public
appearance and rendered splendid mu
sic. The interest in the election re
turns detracted from the music but
the band manager states that another
public appearance will be made soon.
FRANCIS HENDRY
COMING TUESDAY
APRIL FIRST
The Board of Trustees of the La-'
Fayette School have booked the |
Hendry Duo for a performance at the
high school auditorium on next Tues
day night April Ist at 8 o’clock. Mr. j
Hendry comes recommended as on*
of the best-known entertainers on the 1
lyceum stage today. This attraction
is not a part of the regular lyceum
course, hut is being staged for the'
benefit of the schools. Character
sketches in costume, songs and instru- j
mental music will feature tho prog-!
ram-. Pcpu’ar prices of 25 and 15 cents
will prevail.
CEDAR GROVE GRAMMAR
SCHOOL Os DS CLOSING
- n-nt cxercu ;» will be held the week
, J. D. McFARLIX, Supt.
PRELIMINARY
CONTESTS HELD
NEXT WEEK
AT LAFAYETTE HIGH SCHOOL
FOR ATHLETIC, DECLAMA
TION, RECITATION AND MU
SIC ENTRIES AT SEVENTH DIS
TRICT HIGH SCHOOL MEET AT
DALTON APRIL 18-19
Wednesday afternoon April 2nd the
LaFayette High School will hold on
the school ground the annual Field
day exercises to determine the con
testants whu are to represent the
school in the District Meet to be held
at Dalton, Ga. April 18 and 19. Quite
a number of students are trying out
for the different events and LaFay
ette should make a good showing at
the meet in some of the track events.
Wednesday evening at eight o’clock
on the same date the preliminary
contest in Declamation, Recitation
and Mus* will be held in the school
auditorium. More contestants for
these places would have made the
rivalry keener and stimulated a great
er effort on the part of the contest
ants. Every pupil in High school
should be trying out for a place to
represent the school at the Meet.
Whether you win or not, you have
not lost, but gained valuable experi
ence. It is hoped that a large crowd
will be present to encourage the con
testants.
The Essay contest was held March
20th. The winners were R. A. Duke
for the boys and Nannie Anna Stew
art for the girls. The subjects select
ed were from current literature.
Lets everybody plan to attend the
Meet at Dalton and pull for LaFay
ette in order that she may win in the
District Meet.
D. T. COOPER, Supt.
GROW CASH CROPS
AND IMPROVE SOIL
The majority of farmers all over
the country -have either been stand
ing still or losing money for the past
three years. There, of course, have
been some exceptions to this state
ment but the exceptions have been
rare. This condition has not been con
fined to the South, but has been gen
eral whereever a one-crop system has
been followed. Large business inter
ests and agricultural experts have
been making a good fight to bring
prosperity to the farms.
Perhaps the most use phrase of rec
ent times in regard to better farm
practices has been “Get away from
the old way of doing.” Now that
statement is enough to arouse thought
for “the old way of doing” is the way
our fore-fathers did, and we revere
the memory of them and their cus
toms. So let us consider the old way
of doing and think of the conditions
of sixty years ago or so. That was
just after the civil war and practical
ly all of the labor was gone. There
was very little money in circulation.
There were no large centers of popu
lation and very few railroads. It took
several days to make a journey of
only a few miles. The farm machinery
of that day was very crude and work
was necessarily slow. There was
practically no regular market for
anything except cotton. The result
was that the farmers would grow
their crop of cotton and sit around
until the next Spring to start again, j
Bear in mind that most of the land j
was fresh and there was no boll-wee- j
vil, so it was a simple matter to grow ;
cotton. Os course the farmers grew j
enough food and feedstuff's for their !
family and stock. So we may say that;
the farmers of that time did exceed- ]
ingly well, they did better under their 1
conditions than is being done today j
with all of the advantages that we
have. Today we have large cities '
which are consuming hundreds of ears j
of farm produce every day. We have j
good rail road service and excellent
high..ays, we have the automobile !
which puts distance out of consider
ation. We have modern farm machin
ery, with which one man can do tho
work which formerly required several I
men. Yet with all of these advantages
there have been but very few farmers
who have made any money for several
years.
I do not mtan jo sound a note of
perrtev.sm about our county, in fact,
v.e h e reason to be optimistic in
i other''coonV is of the /.ate,'>
cm : ;re that Wall er county is in as
are d ng a lot of advertising. But we
fc ! -i . to get a better sysiem of ag
: put on the market in large quantity;
I s:. '.id, improve our sot. These two
lf< it urea -should be combined on every
! fa. ai. In regard to the cash “n ,
Stone Mt. Memorial Fund
Campaign Being Pushed
With Much Enthusiasm
RESULT OF RAIDS
BY THE OFFICERS
THE PAST WEEK
Saturday morning Sheriff Harmon
and deputies raided in East Armu
j c'hee and brought to town a 60-gallon
j copper still and complete outfit. This
| still, reports the officers, was just
j ready for a run. 3000 gallons of beer
j were poured out. Sheriff Harmon stat
ed that this was the biggest still tho
officers had captured in some time.
The still was found on the Ben Tur
man place, it is reported, at the foot
of Horne’s mountain near Zone, Ga.
Wednesday afternoon Sheriff Har
mon and deputies ran up what appear
, ed to have been one of the most com
-1 plete outfits ever captured. It was a
30-gallon copper outfit, complete. 11
barrels and one box that had contain-
I ed beer, but which had been emptied
were found. No one was captured at
either of these stills. This outfit was
in the Cove.
The Sheriff went to Knoxville Mon
day to bring back two escaped con
victs, Sylvester Baggette and Elzie
Roberson to the gang. Warden Strck
land accompanied him.
Last week while sitting in a car at
a Pond Springs store Sheriff' Harmon
saw Cecil Jeffrie and Louie and Ray
mond Gravitt pass in an Oakland car,
in which, the Sheriff states, was whis
ky. The Sheriff took out after them
with his Ford and raced them some
eighteen miles through the ridges
west of Chickamiauga and eventually
overtook them when the road leading
to the Magazines near the Pipe Works
came to an end. The Sheriff captured
one of the Gravitts and Jeffrie and
confiscated the car. They made bond
and were released from jail this week,
Jeffrie making a cash bond, while R.
S. Garmany signed Gravitt’s bond. At
torney Earl Jackson was with the
Sheriff at the time and is thoroughly
convinced that the Sheriff can chase
a liquor car.
Grady Nunn, who is wanted in
Clarksville, Team, was placed in jail
here last Wednesday the 19th. Officers
came for him this week, stated Sher
iff Harmon.
THE LAGRANGE
GLEE CLUB HERE
FRIDAY NIGHT
The LaGrange College Glee Club,
composed of twenty-five young ladies
from that college will stage a con
cert at the LaFayette High' School
auditorium Friday evening of this
week, the 28th at 8 o’clock.
The Club is on its North Georgia
tour and is being brought to La Fay
ette under the auspices of the Chicka
muga Chapter United Daughters of
the Confederacy. The young ladies
will arrive Friday afterndon from
Dalton and will be assigned to the
homes of the people of the town.
The Glee Club is one of the strong
est and best in the state and has been
greeted by packed houses at every en
gagement. A large crowd is expected
to hear the club Friday evening at
the school uudtorium, and a rare treat
is in store for those who do attend.
The popular prices of fifty and
twenty-live cents will be charged. Tho
U. D. C. are to be warmly congratu
lated upon securing the services of
the LaGrnge Glee Club and much in
terest has been taken in their coming.
there are several things that can be
grown by every farmer 'vith sit fear
of “glutting” tho market. Dairy pro
ducts is one of these and will work
well with the soil improvement pro
gram. Feed homo raised feodetuffs
to dairy cows, market the milk or
cream, and put fifty per cent of the
plant food back on the lank Egg-:,
property marketed, bring a very go el
profit. Fruit, when properly handled,
is an ideal cash crop. Wo have apple
■where. One i ow can be made worth
• V , nnn J , . j
• '• i/ijiJKri Cclil UC lnUfKwbCCl ID
As for soil improvement, we rtll j
: <• op on every field oncu every lour
1 j ;;r , and by applying lime to every
I par: of the farm once in every five
::r.i our land will be brought up
rapidly.
1 ( ■>. I*. SAYE, County Agent.
Want Ads in
Messenger
Fay
One Dollar Per Year
WALKER COUNTY’S ALLOTMENT
$3300 ACTIVE CANVASS IN
LAFAYETTE DISTRICT BEING
MADE THIS WEEK COMMIT
TEE MEETING WITH GENER
OUS RESPONSE CHILDREN’S
FOUNDERS ROLL BEING URG
ED BY CENTRAL COMMITTEE
—ALL SUBSCRIPTIONS MUST
BE IN BEFORE MEMORIAL DAY
APRIL 26TH WHEN ANNOUNCE
MENTS ARE MADE
Active canvass for subscriptions to
the Stone Mountain Memorial Fund
I began this week in this community,
I and as a result the committee reports
i splendid response. Walker county’s al
; lotment 1* $3300, and a special idea is
1 being made to the people of the coun
ty by County Chairman, James E.
Patton to 00-operate with the cam
paign and contribute to this wonder
ful memorial to the heroes of the Six
ties.
On Jan. 19th the head of General
Robert E. Lee was unveiled and the
mounted figures of Lee, Stonewall
Jackson and Jefferson Davis will
form the central group on the im
mense stone. A Memorial building
will lx* erected and also a large Mem
ory Book for the Children’s Founders
Roll will be preserved.
Information as to this wonderful
undertaking by the Sotihor.i people
has been disseminated and full infor
mation may be had from the county
chairman or any of the committee,
as to the details, the cost and the final
appearance and object of this great
Southern Memorial.
Georgia has been assigned $250,000
as her part in the campaign. The City
of Atlanta has agreed to raise an ad
ditional amount of $250,000 and she
has already got this amount subscrib
ed.
The fact that the memorial is just
a few miles from Atlanta, and in
Georgia should be a tremeitdous ap
peal to all Georgians to contribute to
this fund and have a part in this
great wonder of the world and memo
rial to the heroes of the gray.
The campaign for subscription*
are to be completed within the next
three weeks and announced on South
ern Memorial Day which is April 2(i.
A full list of contributors f'oni
Walker County will be published lat
er in the Messenger.
Children’s Founders Roll
Atlanta, Ga. March 25—County
chairmen, organization leaders and in
dividuals who are assisting in tiie en
rollment of the children for the Book
of Memory of the Children’s Founders
Roll of the Stone Mountain Memorial
are urged to beg'.i sending in names
immediately in order that the names
may be tabulated and listed as they
come in.
Membership in the Children’s
Founders Roll for generation after
generation will be the written proof
of a heritage of race greater than
the lineage of kings, and each child
will receive a small bronze medal
showing that he is a member of the
Children’s Founders Roll. Later each
will receive a certificate showing page
and line of enrollment.
For each one dollar contributed, a
child can enroll any Confederate Sol
dier that he wishes to remember—
his grandfather, great grandfather,
uncle, cousin or friend.
One child may enroll as many
names as he Ikes, provided he sends
in one dollar for each name enrolled.
For each one doi;.u- sent in the child
will receive one line for himself and
the preson he wishes to memorialize.
If lie desires to memorialize six per
sons, his contribution will he six dol
lars and he will be given six lines in
the Book of Memory.
When there are two or more child
ren in u family, euch child can me
morialize the same Confederate sol
dier—or as many children are doing
the Confederate kin in both the
branches of the family may be memo
rialized by dividing the names be
tween the children, thus preserving
the record of both paternal and ma
ternal ancestors and kin.
Comi'ihutioos will he received in
the names ol children who are dead —•
tl’" same rule* governing these ap
plicate .ns a; those of living children.
i.uch child'« I'ame will t.p iiioiied
in the order in Which it is rectved at
'(i of thf* p
i A. ).;! at:a* blanks will be furnish
'■ '• ho d; ire to enroll
' a; and organizations, also
’ -re a: re:, ny ’ blanks as they
I nee'; to enroll the children.
Names may be cent in through the
j mails without application blank. Ad
| dre; s all communications to the Child
!• Founde. Roll, 501 Hurl Bldg.,
I A.lanta, Ga.