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If Its Result* You Want Advertise in The Messenger. 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.