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Vol. 53. No. 33.
THREE PEOPLE KILLED
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Family of Six in Auto Smash-up With
Train. Three Dead, Thres
Seriously Injured
Two persons were killed instantly
and one since died of wounds while
three others are more or less seri
ously injured as the result of a colli
sion of their automobile with a pas
senger train on the L. & N. railroad
in Chetokee county near Canton on‘
Sunday morning. |
The dead are Mrs. Charles West
brooks, age 44, Aurelia Westbrooks,
age 14, who were instantly killed un
der the wheels of the train, and Min
nie Westbrooks, age 12, who died of
her injuries on Wednesday evening
at seven o’clock in a local sanitarium
in Marietta. ¢
The other injured persons are Hu
bert Westbrooks, age 7, seriously
wounded;—and Newtolf Westbrooks,
age 17, and Glenn Westbrooks, age
19, wounded slightly. The boys are
still in Dr. Nolan’s sanitariim and
are recovering rapidly.
The mother and five children were
going to Lathamville, about ten miles
from Canton, this morning just after
the Louisville 'and Nashville train
was due at Canton. They apparently
did not see the train until they were
on the tracks and were seen to stop
the car dead still. It is stated stated
that a high bank prevented either
the driver of the car or the engi
neer from seeing each other. The
train which was going at a moderate
rate of speed could not be stopped in
time to avoid hitting the car and
*struck it squarely, hurling the car
over 100 feet and killing and mang
ling the bodies of the mother and one
daughter.
The engine which struck the car
was immediately uncoupled from the
rest of the train and the injured per
sons placed on cots and rushed back
here to Dr. Nolan’s sanitarium, reach
ing here about 12.20 o’clock.
According to reports of the sensa
tional event from Canton, a great
crowd immediately gathered at the
scene of the accident in order to ren
der 21l the aid possible to the in
jured ones. Many women were said
to have fainted at sight of the scene
and the mangled bodies and one man
completely collapsed while helping
place the bodies in a box car for re
moval to Marietta.
When the father was notified of
the catastrophe he made a record
run to the scene of the accident by
automobile and his abject suffering
at the sight of his bloody and man
gled family was sufficient to play on
the heartstrings of the large gathering
of sympathetic friends.
The bodies of Mrs. Westbrooks, and
her daughter were detained at Canton
and taken to a local undertaking es
tablishment there for burial later.
The Westbrooks form one of the
most prominent and best known fami
lies in North Georgia and there was
~a constant stream of friends coming
to Marietta Sunday to inquire of their
conditions and to offer any possible
assistance.
The engineer is said to have seen
the auto balk at the crossing, but
was unable to stop the train before
the accident occurred. No blame has
been attached to him in any way in
connection with the accident.
The Westbrooks have a farm in
the eastern part of Cherokee county,
about twelve miles from Waleska.
During the past year they had moved
to Waleska in order that the chil
dren might attend Rhinehardt Col
lege at that place. During the plant
ing season the father was remaining
on his farm and Sunday morning the
mother and five children started off
in their auto, taking dinner with
them and had planned to bring the
father home with them in the after
noon.
They had to make the trip by
way of Canton and it was there that
the accident took place,
The read to Canton, going north,
just after crossing the Hiawassee
river, comes immediately on the rail
road, which crosses the road from a
blind on either side. It is presumed
that the Westbrooks did not see the
train until they were on the track
and the driver in the excitement
killed the motor on the tracks and
was unable to get the car started
again in time to clear the tracks be
fore the oncoming train hit them.
DEATH OF ANDREW CARNEGIE
Lenox, Mass., Aug. 11.—Andrew
Carnegie, ironmaster and philanthro
pist, died today in his great mansion
overlooking a lake in the beautiful
Berkshire hills where he sought se
clusion when bodily infirmity over
took him and his mind was saddened
by the entrance of this country into
the world war.
Although he'\had been in fe®le
health for more than two years, his
final illness was brief—a matter of
days. A severe cold developed into
bronchial pneumonia, the aged pa
tient lapsed into unconsciousness and
the end came as of a deeper sleep.
THE MARIETTA JOURNAL
McEntyre Gets a
10=Year Sentence
In Fulton Superior Court on Wed
nesday, J. P. McEntyre, a Cobb coun
ty man, was found guilty of assault
with intent to murder Miss Sarah
Kempt, a former Cobb county girl, on
the streets of Atlanta, some months
ago.
The state sprang a surprise when
Assistant Solicitor Stephens introduc
ed a letter that had been written by
McEntyre in the jail and forwarded
to ‘Miss Kempt. In the letter McEn
tyre urged the young weman to tell
the jury that he did not shoot her
intentionally, but that the pistol dis
charged accidentally, reminding her
that this was a way in which she could
show her love for him. He told her
just what to swear on the witness
stand, and explained that he would
indicate to her by nods and shakes of
the head the affirmative and negative
answers she should give when under
cross examination.
' Miss Kempt, instead of ‘“showing
her love in this way,” went on the
witness stand and testified against
McEntyre, telling in detail the story
of the shodting, which took place in
Spring street, near Baker.
McEntyre, in his statement to the
jury, admitted that he wrote the let
ter to Miss Kempt, but insisted that
she “told him to write it.” He plead
ed that the shooting was accidental.
Judge Humphries sentenced McEn
tyre to ten years in the penitentiary.
COURT FOR SEPT. IST.
A Number of Jail Cases, Three of
Them Felony Cases, to
Be Tried '
The July term of Cobb Superior
Court was adjourned until the first
Monday in September on account of
a number of cases being represented
by Messrs. Gordon Gann and Marion
Dobbs, both of whom were members
of the legislature then in session.
Since the last term a number of
important felony cases have been
added to the docket, and more time
‘than was expected may be taken up
with this session.
Among these cases are two murder
cases and one forgery case. Henry
Robertson, colored, will be charged
with the murder of Miss Julia Green,
and Ed Walker, colored, will face a
murder charge for killing Jessie John
son, a young negro woman of Ken
nesaw.
0. H. Bruce, white, will answer a
charge of forgery, various checks ag
gregating $833.00 being denied by J.
H. Bruce, against whose account they
appear to have been drawn.
Jake Daniels, colored, will be tried
for stealing an automobile from a lo
cal garage. He hid it in the woods
and confided the sale or disposition
of the car to a friend, who turned
him up to the officers:
A list of the petit jurors drawn for
this term appear on another page
and the July term grand jury will
continue to serve at this term.
CLOTHES MINUS BOY
BOY MINUS CLOTHES
Some young people at a moonlight
picnic at the lake in the club grounds
one night recently discovered a full
suit of small boys clothing on the
bank of the lake.
As some hundred boys had been
bathing in the lake tßat afternoon,
it was at once a conviction in the
minds of the young people that some
boy had been drowned and had not
been missed. Immediately the police
were notified and the phones were
'busy. There was nothing about the
!clothes to establish identity so a
‘round of the homes of small boys was
3start.ed.
~ Then about the time the case as
sumed its most serious aspect the
owner of the clothes was discovered.
It was a boy who was taking a night
plunge in the lake, and had been
chased off, minus his clothes by the
approach of the picnic crowd.
CLOSE TUESDAY EVENING
INSTEAD OF WEDNESDAY
The merchants of the city have
been asked to make Tuesday after
noon the holiday for next week in
stead of the usual Wednesday holiday.
This is in order to permit everyone
to attend the Y. W. C. A. Pageant
exercises on Tuesday afternoon Au
gust 19.
LIMESTONE PLANT BURNED
The -limestone plant of Mr. Harold
Willingham, at Gainesville, was struck
by lightning on Saturday and burned
to the ground. The place was well
insured, but the loss of time and or
ders is very heavy. His many friends
regret the accident. Mr. Willingham
has at once begun rebuilding. |
Marietta, Georgia, Friday, August 15, 1919.
FINANGING FLORIDA
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\
FARMERS DISCUSSED
Representatives of Sessions Loan &!
Trust Co., of Georgia, Met in
Mason Hotel 1
That Cobb county and Cobb eounty
institutions are known and recognized
far beyond the borders of our coun
ty and state, is a well known fact,
but it is with pardonable pride that
we reproduce the article below from
the Jacksonville Times-Union, which
appeared on the occasion of a re
cent meeting of the representatives
of the Sessions Loan and Trust Co.
in the city of Jacksonville.
The article is as follows—
Financing Florida farmers under
reasonable conditions and at the same
time inculcating new and practical
means for systematic saving, were the
two subjects discussed yesterday at
the second day's conference of rep
resentatives of the Sessions Loan and
Trust Company of Marietta, Ga., in
the Hotel Mason.
President Moultrie M. Sessions pre
sided, and answered a great variety
of questions concerning the compa
ny’s methods, successes and experi
ences throughout the thirty-two-year
period of its existence, as a mortgage
banking institution.
As to the systematic saving feature
of the Sessions company, the accumu
lative bond plan was discussed from
every viewpoint by Mr. Sessions and
'the representatives present from the
‘various states, all of whom spoke with
‘enthusiasm of the plan and of their
experiences in placing the bonds as
a means of systematic saving of mon
ey. -~
Among those who spoke were John
W. Bobbitt, division agent for Flori
da; Louis B. Farley, Alabama divis
ion agent; Capt. J. R. Watson, divis
jon sales manager for the Boston di
vision, Boston, Mass.,, and Alton
Gliedman, manager of the bond de
partment of the Sessions company.
A prominent visitor to the conven
(Continued on page eight)
No seats will be provided for per
.sons attending the Pageant so it is
advised that those whe- feel unable
to stand through the hour. bring a
folding stool, automobile blanket,
cushion, or whatever may suit their
fancy for making themselves” com
‘} fortable.
| Extra taxies will be running, so it
‘iz hoped all may find means of reach
‘ing the grounds.
Through some inadvertance the
name of Mrs. A. L. Dick as having
the Pageant work of Smyrna in hand,
was omitted last week from our notes,
for which we are very sorry. Smyrna,
through the past two years, has done
such splendid work and has been so
loyal, never flinching when called
upon, to be seemingly slighted. We
most humbly beg her pardon, and
only hope her dear girls will present{
such a charming appearance when the
Pageant takes place that she will
have greater reason to be proud of
herself. .
Through the courtesy of Major-
General E. M. Lewis, of Camp Gor
don, their song leader, Mr. Chas. P.
Morse, will lead the community sing
ing. \
Col. B. M. Bailey has promised a
recruiting party, with special recruit
ing military features, together with
extra music, from Camp Gordon and
Ft. McPherson.
Recruiting for the hymns to be
sung at intervals through the Pa
geant is still going en. Mr. Geo.
Beyearle will act as leader for these.
The picnic supper, which is to fol
low the Pageant, we-hope all will be
interested in, and come with well
filled baskets., Marietta, as hostess
of the occasion, of course will grasp
the opportunity to do her best. |
The Board of Directors of the Y.
W. C. A., Miss Wilson and Miss Ho
gan, together with their assistants,
Misses Weber, Brown and Mallard,
wish to thank the following parties
for their kindnesses and favors
shown during the weeks of prepara
tion for the Pageant has been in pro
gress. The telephone operators who
have been patient and courteous,
through continuous calling; The Ma
rietta Journal; The Cobb County
Times; The Dixie Theater; Mr. Sim
monette; Brumby Furniture Co.; Mr.
Weems; Mr. Murray, and the Metho
dist church.
Through Mrs. Regina Rambo Ben
son some public spirited person has
donated funds for an orchestra for
the Pageant, and through this gen
erosity we are able to announce
Wurm’s Orchestra from Atlanta will
be on hand.
Admission free.
Mrs. J. W. Legg,
: ~ Director Publicity.
Campbells Gone
Never to Return
The Campbells are gone—to stay,
we hope, away from Cobb county in
future. We speak of Mrs. Naomi
Campbell and her husband, of orphans
home fame, who did so much to direct
unfavorable comment at our county
during the last few months.
No, they have not gone to a sum
mer pleasure resort, unless the state
farm at Milledgeville could be so
termed, and we do not believe it ever
has. Mr. Campbell, who is a one
legged man, and thereby escaped the
chaingang service, was taken last
1 week, and Mrs. Campbell departed on
‘Wednesday in charge of a deputy with
other prisoners for the state farm.
Mrs. Campbell had perhaps given
the sheriff more trouble than any re
cent prisoner, as he couid never be
certain what she would try to do next.
She had been declaring that she would
never be taken to the farm—that she
would kill herself, and making various
other threats, but when the papers
were received on Wednesday, she was
given a short notice to be ready, and
she gave no trouble whatever to the
officers.
She has two one-year sentences to
serve, while her husband was only
found guilty on one count, was given
one year.
Cobb county is no place for adven
turers who risk violating the law for
profit, but every court finds us in
flicted with some of this character.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS WILL
BE-OPENED ON SEPT. 1
New and Conditioned Pupils Will
Stand Examinations Saturday
Morning, August 30
Marietta public schools will open
for the fall term on Monday, Septem
‘ber Ist, and parents are urged to get
‘their children ready and in school on
‘the opening day. "
‘ The superintendent will be in his
office at the Haynes street school
during the last week in August to
issue admission cards, and new or de
ficient pupils will be examined for
i admission or advancement on August
30, at the Haynes street school.
’ We give the official announcement
of Superintendent Dumas below:
' The fall term of the Marietta pub
lic schools will begin Monday, Sept.
Ist, the Haynes street school open
ing at 9 o’clock and the Waterman
street school at 10 o’clock.
Examinations for new pupils, con
ditioned pupils and pupils trying to
make up a year’s deficiencies, will be
held at the Haynes street school Sat
urday morning, Aug. 30th, at 9
o’clock.
The superintendent will be in his
office at the Haynes street school the
last week in August—24th to the
30th inclusive—from 9 o’clock to 12
and from 2 o’clock to 5 for the pur
pose of issuing admission tickets to
new pupils and for other business.
Registration and examination of
pupils at the colored school will be
held on the opening day, Sept. Ist.
There will be no longer a fifth
grade at the Haynes street school.
It has been moved to the Waterman
street school to make room for an
other high school class.
Patrons of the high school are in
vited to be present at the opening
exercises of the high school in the
auditorium. W. T. Dumas,
Supt. City Schools.
LOCAL FARMERS UNION WILL
BE ORGANIZED AT SMYRNA
We have been asked to announce
that a local of the Farmers Union
will be organized at Smyrna on Fri
day evening, August 22, at 7.30
o’clock.
All farmers in the district are in
vited to be present and hear some
speakers who will be there to tell of
plans and to answer any questions
that may be asked.
Whether you think you will join
or not you are urged to come. Mem
)bers of other locals are also asked
to be there to assist and advise in
the promotion and organization of this
new local.
~ The presence of some interesting
‘speaker is assured and a program
will be announced later. The meet
‘ing is to be on the lower floor of the
lodge room in Smyrna. Don’t forget
‘the date; Friday evening, August 22.
R. A. FINE OF }HE FAIR
| ON TRIP TO NEW YORK
Mr. R. A. Fine, of The Fair Store,
left on last Sunday for a business
‘trip to New York City. Mr. Fine
‘while in New York and other Eastern
' markets will buy fall and winter
stoeks: for his store. This is the third
trip Mr. Fine has made to New York
this year. His business has been such
that mot only has he had to make buy
ing tripss but fill in orders arve fre
quent.
GEORGIA LAWMAKERS
END SUMMER SESSION
The work of the 1919 session of the
Georgia Legislature can now be writ
ten in history, as it came to an end |
on Wednesday night. :
While much important business
was put through in haste at the last
leg of the session much credit goes to
the honor of the 1919 body.
Among the most important bills of
general interest that passed may be
enumerated the following:
To reorganize and reconstitute the
state highway commission.
To levy a tax on motor vehicles.
To codify the school laws of the
state.
To require counties to levy a tax
for school purposes (constitutional
amendment). |
To create the county of Lanier
(constitutional amendment). ‘
To require juries to fix maximum
and minimum sentences in all except
capital fefonies. |
To provide for the consolidation of
country sghools and for county high
schools. ’
To create a state illiteracy com
mission.
To establish a state school for the
feeble-minded.
To revise the state banking laws
and create a separate department of
banking. ;
To create a state public welfare
commission.
To create state and communit‘y pub
lic service boards.
To change the state reformatory to
a state training school for wayward
boys.
l To amend the state inheritance tax
law.
~ General appropriation bill of ap
proximately $8,500,000.
! A bill of local interest was passed
‘to amend the city charter of Mariet
‘ta making the Mayor eligible for re
‘election to office after a second term,
| the present charter restricting the of
fice to two consecutive terms.
MR CORYELL HAS A
SERIOUS ACCIDENT
Mr. Howard Coryell attempted to
alight from a moving car on Atlan
ta street on Saturday evening, and
‘had the misfortune to fall on the
pavement breaking his hip.
The car was the one arriving from
Atlanta at 10 o’clock in the evening
and slowed down only in front of the
postoffice.
The conductor noticed his ap
proach toward the steps, but he
made no sign of desiring to get off
at the postoffice stop, the 0&%’&«0?
considered it only a part Jfl‘ usu.
al general movement of passengers
toward the door as the car approached
the court house station.
Not realizing the speed of the car,
Mr. Coryell stepped off and lost his
footing and fell heavily., He was
hurried to Nolan’s sanitarium at once
and given attention. At this writing
he is still confined to his bed in the
sanitarium, but is improving, and his
friends wish for him a speedy recov
ery.
Drawn August 11, 1919, For July
Adjourned Term Sept. 1, 1919,
Cobb Superior Court
W. R. Haney B. A. Sallivan
T. C. Barfield H. A. DuPre
J. R. Summerhour C. J. Griggs
Bernard Awtrey G. W. Davenport
John Warren J. L. Ellison
J. E. Williams G. W. Fagen
J. S. Dempsey H. P. Kirkpatrick
R. P. Norton C. A. Lovinggood
T. N. Camp E. E. Mayes
J. H. Hendrix E. C. Buchner
A. M. Hardage C. C. Fowler
J. W. Petty G. F. Montgomery
Leonard McLure G. H. Whorten
W. W. Dobbins C. D. Miller
J. T. Carrie W. M. Bolling
R. J. Dickerson J. W. Greenway
B. T. Mcßea J. A. Mohon
J. M. Page R. N. Moore
J. H. Robertson W. F. Lang
J. H. Sauls J. H. Mabrey
W. L. Cottrell D. W. Goddard
T. N. Newton J. H. Frisks
W. W. Bowen A. J. Nichols
J. M. Delk T. J. Croker
B. F. Hood P. L. Conner
H. G. Howell F. M. Boring ~
Wm. Johnson T. W. Whitfield
1. C. Ferris J. B. McLain
W. N. Nichols W. H. Dunn
C. S. McKelvey T. G. Elliott
T. E. Lee J. R. Humphries
J. A. Glore J. A. Miller
J. E. Ridings J. M. Austin
Joe T. Camp R. D. Delk
Lot Reeves R. P. Stephens.
The Grand Jury of the July term
simply recessed until the September
term and of course the same men are
rerving on this body that served in
July court. . ’
Established 1866
SURPLUS ARMY STORES
OF FOOD WILL BE SOLD
DIRECT TO THE PEOPLE
Government Ageats TN
the Profiteers
Not only will the surplus food stuffs
purchased for army use and' being
held by the war department be put
on the market through every availa
ble channel, but competition in prices
will be met by the government.
In Atlanta the Rogers chain of
stores and nearly all the other gro
¢ters will handle at retail at ten per
cent above the wholesale cost prices,
and arrangements are being made all
over the country to have either mu
nicipalities or corporations to handle
the goods.
City papers already report a fall
in food prices generally, and it is
probable that the sale of all these sur
plus army stores of food will have a
lasting effect on the markets.
So far as we can learn there will
be none of these goods handled in
Marietta.
The activities of the government
agents in the seizure of cold storage
supplies, where they have been found
in quantities indicating violation of
the food control law, has also had
some effect on the market.
" The chase of the profiteers in food
supplies is probably based upon the
same law passed in August 1917 and
it is thought that the prosecution of
‘a number of these cases will be ben
eficial. - )
} There can be little doubt that the
president is in earnest in his state
ment that the high cost of living must
be reduced, and that he will back
up the officials of the various deparfs
ments in the active prosecution of
hoarders and profiteers.
The dispatches of the day indicate
considerable activity along these
lines. In Chattanooga yesterday 84,
000 dozen eggs were seized, by agents
of the department of justice, from the
cold storage plant of the Atlantic and
Coal Company. The eggs were said
to be held by Morris and Company,
packers of Chicago. T
In Binghamton, New York, a deal
er was fined the sum of $5OO for sell
’ing sugar at 15 cents per pound. It
is possible that some of these fines
or seizures may not stand under the
law, but it is certain that the action
of the department of justice in these
cases will make the holding of food
for the purpose of profiteering, both
unpopulst-and unprofitable.
MONDAY'S SESSION OF
Only Eight Offenders Come Before
Mayor “Jim” Monday. $BO.OO
Collected in Fines .
Monday night’s session of the Po
lice Court gave proof that the crime
wave has passed over the city and
the little village is again operating
on a peace time basis. 4
Only eight cases were tried in the
Mayor’s Court Monday night. These
were all minor cases for speeding,
disorderly. One case was tried charg~
ing the defendant, Lottie Ray, with
the illegal sale of whiskey and was
fined $50.00 and bound over to the
Superior Court under a $lOO.OO bond.
The city fine of $50.00 was paid j.:.fig
she was sent over to the county jail
to await trial in the state courts.
Luther Burton was arraigned for
being disorderly and was given &
fine of $2.50 by the Mayor. 0.
Power, charged with speeding
dismissed as the witnesses, T. M.
Brumby, Jr., and Tom Jackson, asked!
to withdraw their charges against
Power. Lawrence and Corine Bald=
win had a hard time getting little
family differences settled and
given a reprimand and a fine of $7.50:
each by the Mayor. Ralph McAfee
decided that the hot weather was
too much for a gentleman of leis ,"
and drew thirty days straight on the
city’s streets for idling and loiters
ing.
For the benefit of the people wha
‘have to cross the street afoot and %8
lessen auto accidents the city had
‘placed four drive to the right pos
at the four main intersection of th
city. All went well with the pos
and autoists are beginning to get &
ucated to driving to the right, unts
'Monday night someone decided ths
' the post on Atlanta street corner Wi
too close in and carried it off. T
‘police on the night watch chanced |
’see the culprits make away with
'post but they were in a high powe:
car and they were unabld to stop |
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