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Vol. 53 No. 22.
The Complete Work Now
Has Been Finished
An Optimistic Report from Directors
of the Dixie Highway Shows that
‘Great Progress in Road Building is
Being Made Along Its Route.
The eastern division of the Dixie
Highway between Cincinnati and
Chattanooga will be a well surfaced
highway which can be traveled every
day in the year and under all weather
conditions by June 1, 1920. It will
probably be open for through travel
under favorable weather conditions
by the winter tourist season of this
year.
The reports of financial provisions
definitely made were so conservative
that the Dixie Highway Association
at the annual meeting of the Board
of Directors in Chattanooga has offi
cially designated June 14, 1920, as
the date of inspection and dedication
of this great highway through the
Cumberland Mountains «of Kentucky
and Tennessee, which will rival ir
scenic beauty any similar mileage in
the United States. Governors of the
ten Dixie Highway states, represen
tatives of civic bodies from the cities
and towns along the highway and
prominent citizens interested in good
roads will be invited to participate in
making the dedication the biggest of
its kind ever attempted.
There is approximately thirteen
miles of grading to be done, the cost
of which has all been financed and
work is now going on along three of
the four sections, while bids will be
opened May 29, on the last seven
miles, There remains sixty-three
miles of surfacing in four counties.
Work is now under way in three of
the counties. There is available for
surfacing and grading $34,000. This
does not take into consideration the
surfacing of twenty miles for which
the state highway department has
agreed to provide three fourths of
the cost out of the Federal and state
Aid fund. The directors had before
them reports on every mile of the
highway between Mt. Vernon, Ken
tucky, to which point a surfaced road
is now provided from Cincinnati, and
LaFollette, Tenn., from which point
into Chattanooga a surfaced road is
now travelable all the year round.
While the perparations are not suf
ficiently definite on which to base a
prediction, it is believed that the west
ern division between Nashville will
also be opened for all year round tra
vel within twelve months. While the
dedication could not include the en
tire trip to Florida on account of the
time required, the board of directors
received definite asurance from the
preparations already made, that the
highway from Waycross to Jackson
ville would be in good travelable con
dition for all year round travel in
time for the winter tourist season.
Within two vears a large part of the
highway will be permanently improv
ed, based on the reports from Mich
igan. Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Georgia
and Florida.
The counties in Georgia have voted
over $11,000,000 for permanent roads
and every few days adds other coun
ties to the list. The state will also
vote on the issuance of $40,000,000
in bonds in July. Michigan and
Illinois have voted their bond issue.
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THE MARIETTA JOURNAL
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{Current Events
| Harry Hawker acquired fame, but
not a fortune, in his wild attempt to
cross the Atlantic in a small plane.
He and his comrade saved their lives,
however, by falling in the sea near a
small steamer, which rescued them.
Being without a wireless outfit it was
five days before the rescue became
known, and numerous obituaries were
‘written applauding the “heroic death”
of the two plucky flyers. No doubt
others will be encouraged to try the
same dangerous feat, and of course
it will eventually be accomplished.
Thousands of discharged soldiers
and sailors of the English Army and
Navy who are out of employment
stormed the house of commons on
Monday, demanding work and a min
imum wage scale. This is only one
of the many clashes that will occur
over the world if arrangements are
not made to take care of the men
‘who have gone to the front and re
turned without a job.
Although the signing of the peace
treaty is due, war still rages on ten
different fronts. Russians are in
volved in the most of this fighting,
the estimate being that the Minin and
Trotzky have 800,000 men in their
various armies.
Bolshevik forces are fighting the
Siberians; the Ukrainians, the Poles;
the Esthonians the Lithunians; the
Letts and the Allies. The Poles in
arms against the Ukainians and Ger
mans, The Austrians and the Jugo-
Slavs are at grips and also the Czecho-
Slavs and Hungarians.
Greek troops have been landed at
Smyrna; British warships have been
bombarding Crimean ports and Mo
hammedans are preaching a Holy
war in Afghanistan.
The Victory Loan was over-sub
scribed by nearly $750,000,000, the
subscription totaling $5,249,908,300.
The Atlanta and Dallas Districts were
the only ones which failed to attain
their quotas, the former by a fraction
of one per cent and the latter by
slightly less than eight per cent. This
is the first time, however, that these
two districts have failed to go over
the top.
- A standing army of 500,000 men
will again be asked for in the Sixty
fifth congress is the report coming out
of the capital city. The last con
gress was asked for a larger standing
army, but -action in this matter was
delayed on account of the legisla
tive jam in the closing days. This
plan, it seems, would be a very great
opportunity for many young men who
are ‘‘cooped” up in office buildings
for the selective draft would have
to be put in action so as to compel
every male person who attains a cer
tain age to see military service.
A rich Atlanta man, Phillip Head,
who lives on West Peachtree street,
has been bound over under a bond
of $2OO for evading the selective
service law. Head claimed on his
questionnaire that his wife and chil
dren depended upon his labor for
support, whereas the government
claims that it has evidence to prove
that he had plenty of property to
bring an income to support his fam
ily and that his wife was the owner
of $15,000 worth of real estate.
evard will be encountered from the
Soo to Miami, so extensive are the
preparations for road construction
along the Dixie Highway as reviewed
by the Directors at their annual meet
ing.
Marietta, Georgia, Friday, May 30, 1919
- Practically every Georgia county
will be interested in the hearing be
fore the railroad commission this
week to stop the roads from closing
the freight depots and warehouses of
the state at an earlier hour. Twice
the commission has decided in favor
of late closings, but the matter again
comes before them from the Federal
Administration at Washington and
hence the necessity for re-opening the
case, vl
Lovelace Eve, business manager of
the Americus Times-Recorder and
vice-president of the Americus Cham
ber of Commerce, missed his train for
Atlanta Sunday night. He intended
coming to the opening session of the
Commercial Secretaries Convention
Monday morning. Taking the mat
ter up with the Commandant of
Souther Field, he was given an air
plane and driver Monday morning
and reached the Chamber of Com
merce building before the convention
was called to order. Daily trips to
and from Americus are now com
mon occurrence.
Atlanta is having a round of meet
ings and conventions right at this
time. The Southern Baptist conven
tion was followed by the State Grand
Lodge of the Knights of Pythias.
Now the Odd Fellows are in session
there with a large attendance. On
July 10 to 12 the convention of the
Laymen’s Missionary movement of
the Presbyterian church will bring
another host of visitors to that city
and the hotel people will have waxed
fat entertaining guests to all these.
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Mr. J. E. Northcutt, of the state
school commissioner’s office, was shak
ing hands with old friends in Mari
etta on Tuesday. J
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Don’t Associate the Briscoe With the Cheap
Cars Because of its Modest Price
B RISCOE CARS are bought by men who could well afford a car cost
: ing several hundred dollars more, and they favor the Briscoe, not
because of the low price, but rather on account of its beautiful appearance,
marvelous power and economic upkeep. You are just as interested in
the cost of upkeep on your car as you are in the first cost. Twenty-two
miles to the gallon of gasoline is the average record for the Briscoe car.
PRICE $967.50 DELIVERED ,
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L. H. BROWN, Distributor
108 CHEROKEE STREET MARIETTA, CEORGIA
l In this issue of the paper we carry
the announcement of Messrs. Crowe
’& Holland, general insurance.
While this is a new firm, yet the
‘members thereof, as well as the
!agency which they have taken over,
are well known to the people in this
section.
- Captain Arthur L. Crowe, of
Smyrna, Ga., and Wm. Tate Holland,
of the Holland Realty Co., compose
this firm. Both Mr. Crowe and Mr.
Holland are well known in this sec
tion. Both have recently returned
from France, where they spent about
ten or eleven months with the 157th
Field Artillery Brigade, this being
the outfit that trained at Black Jack
in 1917-18. .
- Both of these men have had experi
ence in the insurance business.
This firm has purchased the fire in
surance agency conducted under the
name of Dobbs & Gurley, which
agency was operated for several years
by Mr. E. C. Gurley, Cashier of the
Merchants & Farmers Bank. This
is one of t\}}e oldest agencies in this
section, having been established many
years ago by Mr. H. G. Coryell. It
represents twelve of the strongest
companies doing business in Georgia.
Captain Crowe will devote his en
tire time to writing insurance, and
their offices will be located in the
Reynolds Building with the Holland
Realtty Co.
TWO NEGROES LEGALLY ‘
EXECUTED IN GEORGIA
Two negroes were legally executed
in the state last week. Joe West was
hanged at Thomasville for assault
upon a white woman, and Paul Bates
was executed at Sylvania for the
murder of Mr. Grady Oliver last fall.
LOST BANK CHECK
When a Bank Check that is drawn in
favor of a definite individual or firm is
lost, its payment at the Bank may be
stopped. When money is lost, it is im
possible to trace and recover it. The
check is the best and safest method of
making payments, as your money is
safe and secure at the Bank until the
check is actually paid to the rightful
person and then you have the paid
check as a receipt for the money. An
account subject to check at this Bank
will protect your money.
MARIETTA TRUST AND
BANKING CO.
MARIETTA; GEORGIA
Capital and Surplus over $110,000.00
Established 1866
!This will, no doubt, be of interest to
'the many northern newspapers who
‘claim that the law is not allowed to
itake- its course in the south.
$122
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