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The Marictta Tonenal
The
People’s
Paper
VOL. 55, No. 30.
Barrett, Farmers’ Union
President, to Speak Here
TU[SI]ASV, AUG. 9TH.
will be Held in Park Under Aus-
Pices Cotton Growers Co
operative Association.
DIREC. ELMORE ON PROGRAM
Scheduled for 10 a. m. Marks Real
Opening of Membership Drive
Cobb County Branch.
Mr. Chas. Barret{, president of the
National Farmers Union, and Mr. A.
A. Elnrare, state director of the Geor
gia Cdtton Growers Cooperative As
soeiation, formerly of Spokane, Wash.
wijl be' in the: prinicipal speakers at a
great mass meeting of farmers and
business mien in the park in Mdriets
ta, Tuesday, August 9, at 10 a. m.,
under the auspices of the Cobb coun
ty branch of the Georgia Co#ton
Growers Cooperative Association.
This meeting will be the real op
ening gun in the big’' membership
drive of the Cobb county branch of
the organization. It is understood
that every part of the county will be
represented at the meeting and that
the enthusiasm and knowledge gained
will be the inspiration whereby or
ganization wi]l be gotten under way
in every community of the county.
There are many other interesting
features of the great masg meeting
which as yet have not fully matured
but which will be decided upon in a
very few days and will be announced
to the public in next week’s issue of
the Journal. RS
The California plan of cooperative
marketing, known as the Sapiro plan,
is maki..g great headway thruout the
state. In every progressive county
organization work is being carried
on. Here in Cobb cohnty several com
mumii%eire already well organized
and tHe*¥Micers are hard at work: in
the attempt to draw every farmer
and business man into the member
ship ranks. Several meetings have
been held, ghe annousicemenits of
which were made in last week’s issue
of the Journal.
Still another community meeting
has been arranged for Powder Springs
Friday August 5, at 3 p. mi, which
will be addressed by the county of
ficers and others.
The coming of Mr. Barrett, will be
hi 3 first appearance here in many
vears, and it is expected that one
°f the largest crowds ever gathered
in Marietta will be on hand to hear
tim. His efficient and almost ineal
culable valuable work *in behalf of
organization on the part of the far
mers has made him a figure of unus
val national, and even international
renown.
Mr. Elmore wil] also be a big draw
ing eard and his familiarity with ev
ery phase and detail of the Coopera
tive marketing plan will make it welll
worth the time and trouble of every
one to be on hand to hear him.
Providing for One Man County
Commissioner and Other
$20,000 Sewage Bond. |
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Much gratification is evident in this
¢ty and county over the passage re-‘
cently of two bills in the Georgia
State Senate, one of which prevides
for the elimination ef the present
board ef five county eommissieners
and the gsubstitution therefor of a
one man commrission; the other pro
vides for a bond issue of $20,000.00
fur the installation of a sewage Sys
tem in South Marietta. Neither of
these bills have as vet beem ratified
h}"_the house ef representatives,
which s necessary for their becom-
Ing law, but no opposition is antic
‘c!ated and there ppssage by theg
‘Ower house is expected at a very
carly date. Thereafter the first hill
Will be put to a vote of people of
the county for ratification ar rejec
tion and the second bill, affecting
only the citizens of Marietta will be
decided on at a bond election..
Tht} bill for elimination of the
board of county commissioners pro
’:'ldes that the commissioner shall be
“nown as the Cobb County Com
missioner, that he sha]l be elected by
4 vote of the people of the county
as a whole and that he shall devote
all his time to the work, at a yearly
salary of $3,000.00
RGINIA GIBBES
IN ICELAND PCRT
News hag just been received by
Mrs. A, M. Gibbes that the ship on
Which Miss Virginia Gibbes sailed for
Norway several weeks ago is being
held in guarantine at a point in
Iceland on account of influenza there.
FLORIDA MAN HERE FOR
BIG REAL ESTATE DEALS
Mr. W. A. Humphries, of Florida,
wil]l be located for the remainder of
the summer in Cobb county, with
headquarters at Austell, for the pur
pose of handling several large land
deals. Mr. Humphries is a Florida
reaj estate man whose business er
tends over considerable more than
his state and which has grown to
such proportions in this county that
all his time will be required here un
til September or October
He called” at the Journal office
Tuesday and had his name put on
the subscription lise for the duration
of his stay in the county.
Many Local Organizations Thank
* ed for Cooperation in En
tertaining Yaarabs.
President Len C. Baldwin, and Se
cretary T. J. Connor, of the Marietta
Shrine Club, are profuse in their ex
pressions of thanks to the many or
ganizations and individuals thruout
the city for the splendid way in
which they lent aid in making the oe
' casion of the entertaining of the
lAtlanta Yaarabs by the local Shrin
ers. Wednesday of last week, a me
morable event for the guests and
visitors.
They especially thank thru the col
lumns of The Journal the Y. W. C.
A. for their courtesy in ertending the
use of the auditorium, when other
wise the entire afternoon program
would have been"spoiled by the rain;
the public for the use of their auto
mobiles, which carried signs asking
guests to take a ride; the % and
council for their cooperation in regard
-to. every part of the public program
the police force for its assistance in
a;genera] way, and particular, its de
‘fer gx,eetp the twin devils, all com
"mié%@g their splendid work in
‘arranging the many various details of
‘the program; the ladies committees,
~without the aid of which nothing
could have been performed to any
very great perfection; the Marietta
Golf Club for the use of its grounds,
‘and the merchants of the city for
‘their help in enlivening the joccasion
to a regular gala affair by the ex
llceilent decoration of their places of
business.
Homeseekers From 29 States and
England are Making Inquir
ies Concerning State.
News comes from Atlanta to the
effect that the meeting of the direct
ors of the Georgia Association, which
has taken over entirely the move
ment begun last summer by the Ad
vertise Georgia Enterprise, has dis
closed the fact that the first of the
advertisements placed in the Middle
West with a view of bringing home
seekers to Georgia has resulted in in
quiries being received from prospec
tive investors in 29 states and Eng
land. The directors announced their
confidence that thousands of invest
ors in farm lands would come to look
rver what Georgia has te offer and
that a large proportion of these will
become producers in Georgia.
Inquiries which have arrived m we
spense te the ‘“Ceme to Georgia’ ad
vertising have keen turned over to
local committees and beards of trade
in those eceunties which have paid up
their subseriptiens to the advertising
fund, whieh are only a few of those
eounties which met their pledges first
should be the first to share in the re
sults, and announced that other coun
‘ties would be given such inquiries as
soon as they pay up their subscrip
‘tions.
. Secretary .F. H., Abbott, of Way
cross, who is devoting all his time
and energy to this work, is in receipt
of letters from county commissioners
and prominent men in the counties
to which prospective investors have
been referred, expressing entire sat
isfaction with the results obtained
from their investments in advertis.
ing. These are all enthusiastic in
tone. A number of representative
Georgians interested in the develop
ment of the State are lending their
time, without remuneration, to arous
ing interest in those counties which
have delayed meeting their pledges
and which are not yet sharing in the
opportunities to interest homeseek
ers. .
' Miss Gibbes will write a number
of articles in the near future which
will be published in the Journal. She
has a large numbér of friends in Cobb
county who will be interested to read
her descriptions of the countries she
is visiting and all wish her well on the
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MARIETTA, GEORGIA. THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1921.
Plans to Be Perfected Tuesday
For Plant For Handling
Potatoes for Publiic. ;
CAPACITY OF 5,00 BUSHELS
Ready For Operation in October;
Should Save $2.00 Bushel on
Spring Market.
A number of farmers and business
men of Roswell and community will
meet in Roswell next Tuesday, Aug
gust 2nd, for the purpose of purchas
ing a site, ordering machinery and
perfecting other uncomipleted and
necessary business for the ereeting
of a large potato curing and storing
plant. It is estimated that the cos}
of the plant, site and equipment will
apprximate $1,800.00, and will have
a capacity of 5,000. bushels. The 10.
cation will be in or near Roswell.
The work upon the plant, it is sta
ted, will begin as soon as final ar
rangements have been perferted and
that it will be in operation by the'
time that potatoes are in, the first
of October. The committee in charge
of building arrangements is composed
of R. M. Donehoo, H. P. Carpenter
and H. Y. Stribling.
This will be the first potato curing
plant for the use of the genera] pub
lic to be erected anywhere in this
immediate section of North Georgia,
and so far as can be learned, it is
the first of its kind to be erected
in any section of North Georgia prop
er. Three curing and storing plants
are known to exist, two of which are
in Atlanta, but all of them are
owned by buying concerns that buf
potatoes from producers, or others,
and cure for sale by the company’s
owning the plantsh
The Roswell plant will cure and
store for the general public at a
vergk reasonable price, it is stated'.
so that the cost wil not be anything
like as high as the value derived. It
is stated that potatoes cured in a
plant of this kind have a loss rang
ing from only 2 per cent to 5 per
cent, while potatoes cured in the old
e s B e
(/5 per cent.
The real vajue of the plant to
the farmers of the Roswell com
munity, and the entire} county gin
fact, does not lie entirely in the de
crease. of loss, however. Perhaps
the biggest value lies in the fact that‘
potatoes so cured can be held over
until the spring at which time a muchi
better price can be secured than in
the fall when the markets are flood-‘
ed. Potatoes sold in Atlanta this
past spring, so it is stated, as high
as $3.50 per bushel. This is frem
$2.75 to $3.00 higher than the usual
fall price of from 50 to 75c. °
The farmers of South Georgia
have for some time had access to
public curing and storing houses, and
as a result the potato crop has be
come one of the best money makersl
in that section of the state. Only a
short time back a shipment of this
style of cured potatoes were sent to
England at a very fancy price, more
in the nature of an experiment, to
see if ‘they would keep for such a
long shipment.
It is understood that the Roswell
plant will cure only for the purpose
of meeting the spring market in
Atlanta. There are a few very small, !
private curing pants in Cobb county
that have aready proven of great
suceess to their owners. In the near‘
futue the outlook is that other com
mumities of Cobb county will take up‘
the matters of erecting curing and
storing plants. l
CARD OF THANKS
W desire to express our sincere
thanks to all who at the burning of
our barn helped to save our residence
from the flames and also to those
who have since given us financial
aid.
W. F. McCurley and family.
C »unt tu
obb County Features
Cobb county has several energetic small towns that
arg trying Yo push ahead in business and other activities.
The Marietta Journal has decided to visit each one of
these successfully, earry a page or pages of local informa
tion and open our eolumns to the merchants for advertis
ing purposes. ! ;
This week the Journal is carrying such a feature about
Smyrna and is delighted with the rgsponse given by the
merchants and citizens of that town.
Just which town will be next has not yet been decided,
but each important town in- the eounty will be given a
chance at this feature in the near future.
The Journal believes this will be a real service to Cobb
county in that it will stimulate buying at home and hold
thousands of dollars here that are yearly being spent out
side of Cobb county. oy
The Marietta Journal
, el The People’s Paper
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Library Notes
- of the Week
The Clarke Library has “received
25 children’s books as a loan from the
State Library Commission. This helps
out with the children who had about
read all the books loaned by the com
miission last winter, and were wanting
new ones.
In fact books are coming from the
commission, being wused, and sent
back all the time; gardening, ma
chinery, civil services examinations,
are some of the subjects on which
we have gotten books in the, last
month, the variety of subjects on
which people want books is sure to
grow with the ability to gratify the
needs, e
The 70 volumes which we borrowed
from the commission last winter have
circulated 1254 times, which is quite
a “turn over,” and they have given
so much pleasure to the children that
we are much indebted to the com
mission for them.
Three new novels have been added
to the pay collection at the Library;
these rent for one cent a day, and as
soon as they pay for themselves, will
be out with the free books. They
are, “My Son,” by Corra Harris, “The
Sisters-in-Law,” by Gertrude Ather
ton, and The gfiYflh‘uning Cup, by Dor
othy Canfield Fisher. Three others
vesbéen ndded and will be availa
xe in a shert time, :
! The June report of the Librarian
shows a continued usefulness of the
‘Lary. In addition to the regular
rputine of work of keeping the Li
brary running anc open, 800 books
have been catalouged by the Librar.
ian.
- The catalog is not to be printed.
Ever so ofter some one asks for a
printed catalog of the library. Pub
lic Libraries nd longer have printed
catalogs, for many reasons. They
‘are never correct unless changed ev
ery time a book is added or with
drawn. Also, they are nothing more
than an author list of the books in
r|;he Library, and do not give adequate
idea of the resources of the Library.
A card catalog is really an index
to the entire Library, for books may
£Lannd ugefi the g uthor, title and
‘to find some western stories, you look
for those words just as you would in
a' dictionary, and you find arranged
alphabetically all the authors who
have written western stories, and un
der each name the title of the book.
All the fiction in the Library has
been so catologed and as the books
are out on the shelves alphabetically
by author it is very easy to find any
'special book, particularly as the shel
ves are marked A. 8., etc. The Li
brarian is always glad to explain the
catalog and its uses, and hopes that
every one will examine it, and ex
press his or her opinion. Sometimes
the ideas of a “layman” are much
clearer as to the real usefulness of
a catalog, than those of the person
who handles the books all the time. |
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HIGHWAY BUILDING
'Bituminous Highways Offend
Esthetic Sense of Mosquitoes;
Seeks Other Places
That the life of the mosquito is not
lone round of joy amid hosts of short
(skirts and bare arms and necks, is,
the positive assertion of highway offi
|cials. While the famed summer pest
still may drive deep with his drill,
‘and then dexteriously twirl his pain
producing saw in many regions—of
both body and country—his happy
hunting ground is reduced by every
mile of bituminous highway that is
constructed, according to the report
of an investigation made recently by
sanitary experts. !
For mosquitoes have a marked av
ersion to asphalt, and the native lake
bt
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Court Moving Rapidly;
~ Peek Trial Posiponed
Cobb Club Boys Get Athens Schol
arship With State
Champion Pigs. ‘
Elmer Daniel and 1. C. Power, Jr.,
will leave for Athens Tuesday of
next week where they wil] attend a
ten days short course in agriculture
for club members at the State College
of Agriculture. These boys won
scholarships to the short course as
a result of their club work last year.
Daniel raised the state champion
Berkshire pig and Power the state
champion Poland China pig. Pow
er's pig also won third prize in the
National Swine Show held at the
Southeartern Fair last fal.
Both of these boys are actively en
gaged in club work again this year
and, are doing good work. Ddniel re
ports that the Poland China pig that
he is growing this year gained 52
pounds during the month of June
and was only four months old at the
end of the month. {
There are about 150 boys who are
members of the agricultura] clubs of
the county, and if the same boys
win scholarships again this vear they
will have to hustle. Lamar Black
well reports that his 0. I. C. pig
gained 40 pounds in June, and Her
bert Sprayberry reports that his Du
roc Jersey gained 47 pounds during
the same time. *
Some good work is also being done
by members of the corn club and the
potato club. The number of boys who
have acres of corn that are worth
going to see is so large that I will not
attempt to give their names at this
time. E. 0. McMAHAN,
i County Agent.
MRS, COL
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’ IS, COLE HUNEIED
'Roxana Hall Manager Selected as
Aggistant Secretary of Cen
tral State Committee.
The many friends of Mrs. D. C.
Cole, manager of Roxana Hall, will
be interested to learn of her selec
tion as assistant secretary of the
state central committee of the Re
publican party of Georgia at the re
cent reorganiation meeting of the
party in Atlanta. Fully 200 were in
attendance at the meeting from ev
ery part of the state and complete
plans for freeing the organization
of negro control and the building up
of a strong backing in every section
were adopted. Every distriet in the
state is represented in fhe central
committee, Marietta, furnishing one!
of the members from the seventh
district, Mr. C. C. Coy]le.
Mrs. Cole has been a resident of
Marietta for many years and, in co
operation with Mr. Cole, has long
been active in the Republican faction
of this city and county. Mrs. Cole
did not attend the Atlanta gathering,
which makes her selection as assist
ant secretary all the more notewor
thy.
The other officers selected were,
chairman, J. L. Phillips, Thomasville;
vice chairman, Walter Ii Johnson,
Columbus; vice-chairwoman, Mirs.
Joseph Tilson, Atlanta; treasurer,
Charles Adamson, Cedartown. Out
of fifty members of the centra] com
mittee, forty were white.
The meeting was harmonious 'and
those from here who attended state
that much constructive work was ac
complished. Among other things a
resolution was adopted endorsing the
actions of President Harding.
240 Republicans had been invi
ted to attend the conference. The
following Cebb county citizens were
invited: D. M. Colwell, A. A. Cook,
A. V. Cortelyou, C. C. Coyle, T. J.
Galley, Frank Rogers, Mr. and Mrs.
D. C. Cole, all of Marietta; A. MJ
Crosby, of Smyrna, and O. N. Had
away, of Acworth. |
DR. WHITE BACK AGAIN;
MUCH INTEREST IN 8. 8.
Dr. I. A, White has returned from
near Elberton where he has been
condueting an Evangelistip meet
ing.
On Sunday morning his theme was
the “Kingdom.” He delivered an in
spiring message, sounding the note
of joy.
There was no service at the eve
ning hour, on account of the service
at Rose Lane church, nor will there
be a prayer meeting service.
There was a splendid attendance
at the Sunday School. You should
be there,
There will be Sunday School and
morning worship as usual next Sun
day. Come.—J. 8. Smith. "
ESTABLISHED 1866
LIQUOR CASES LEAD:
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- MANY FOR ASSAULT
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' Majority of All Cases Are For Vio
lation of the Phohibition
Laws,
J. D. TRISBY NOT GUILTY
75 Witnesses'in Trisby Case; P. T.
Stalling Guiltyr Sentences
Not Yet ‘Made.
| The crimina] docket of the Cobb
County Superior Court is rapidly be
ing cleared up and the indications at
three o’clock Thursday afternoon
were to the effect that everything
would be disposed of in time to ad
journ Friday afternoon. All senten
ces with the exception of two or three
were reserved for announcement un
til late Thursday afternoon. By far
the majority of cases disposed of so
far have dealt with violation of the
liquor Jaw, adultery and assaulg
charges. One or two rape cases were
also brought’ up and disposed of.
'The murder trial of J. S. Peek, which
was perhaps the case of most wide
spread interest, and which was sched
uled to come up Wednesday morning
was postponed until the September
term of superior court.
The three most important cases
tried from a standpoint of public
attendance were those of J. D. Fris
by, charged with defamatory words;
P. F. Stallings, of near Austell, char
ged with attempted rape, and Carl
Ragsdale and Others, charged with
assault on an umpire at a game of
baseball some time back at Powder
Springs. The trial of Douglass Jen.
nings, a negro caddy, charged with
the murder of another negro, Slide
Gober, had not come up late Thurs
day afternoon.
The trial of J. D. Frisby required
75 witnesses and drew an unusually
"packéd audience, owing to the prom
“inence of al] parties concerned. The
jury returned a verdict of not guilty.
The trial of P. F. Stallings, char
ged with assault and attempt to rape
drew considerable interest Wednes
day afternoon. After a long drawn
out trial the jury decided the defend
ant was guilty. Nearly all of Thurs
day morning and a part of Phursday
afternoon was occupied with the trial
of Car] Ragsdale and Others, charged
with assault upon an “umpire in a
baseball game. An unusually large
number of people were involved and
these, together with a long string of
witnessts, filled a large part of the
court room.
A list of al]l the cases coming up
for trial during the week are as
follows: Beulah Barber, white, char
ged with adultery, fined $75; Grady
Rallston, colored, having liquor in
his possession, guilty; James, colored,
carrying pistol, sir months on gang;
May Oglesby, c 01.,, liguor charge,
guilty; John Fowler, white, liquor
charge, guilty; Cicero Reeves, whité,
liquor charge, guilty; C. H. Wills,
white, who runs a chicken house, sel
ling liquor, mistrial; Geo. Smith, ma
king whiskey, guilty; Will Smith, po
sessng liquor, guilty; Dalton Elliot,
fornification, guilty; Charles Petree,
assault and battery, not guilty; Joe
Doss, liquor still in possession, guilty;
Walter Harris, possessing liquor,
guilty; Bige Williamg, white, giving
whiskey to minor, not guilty; Maude
Berry, col., carryng pistol, guilty;
Wiley Battle, making whiskey, guil
ty; Joe Thompson, col., attempt to
rape, not guilty; F. D. Frisby, white,
defamatory words, not guilty; P. F,
Stallings, white, attenrpt to rape,
guilty; Sid Allen, white, chicken
house proprietor, selling whiskey,
guilty; Will Smith, co], stealing
horse, guilty, sentenced to from 4
to 7 years.
HOME GOMING FOR
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- KENNESAW BAPTIST
Services and Dinner on the Ground
| Sunday, July 31--Public
| Extended Invitation,
i There will be a home coming scr
vice and picnic at the Kennesaw Bap
tist church the fifth Sunday of this
‘month, July 31st.
~ All pastors who have ever served
‘the church as well as all those who
‘have ever been members, regardless
of whether they-are members at the
present, are invited and urged to be
present. A cordial invitation is also
extended to all' Sacred Harp and
Christian Harmony singers. -
~ Services will begin promptly at 1¢
o’clock in the morning. Dinner will
be served on the ground. In addition
to those especially urged to be pres
ent as mentioned above the general
publie is invited. Lot
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