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Che Maricta Tonrnal
The
People’s
Paper
>VQL. 55, No. 31.
Cobb County Commissioners Are
Scored In Grand Jury Presentmenis
AOADS “NOT PUBLIC”
would Use Convicts Only On Per
manent Roads and Let Each
District Handle Repairs.
FAVORS 1-MAN COMMISSION
Urges Completion of Dixie Highway
To Love’s St., In Smyrna as
Per Contract.
In one of the briefest documents
submitted in a long time the grand
jury for thd4 July term Cobb county
superior court scores the board of
county commissioners for the alleg
ed use of county funds on roads that
were not “public roads,” and recom
mends sweeping changes in the pres
ent method of handling the county
convicts and the raising and the use
of money for the repairing and main
tenance of public roads. Further rec
ommendations were made favoring
the completion of the Dixie Highway
as per the agrement with the state
highway commission and the passing
and enacting into law of the bill pend
ing in the Georgia legislature for the
abolition of the present board of five
county commissioners and the sub
stitutio nthereof of a one man com
mission and also the bill providing for
the creation of a bond commission.
In regard to the use of county
money on roads that were not “pub
lic roads” the presentments state that
the grand jury’s investigations has
shown that certain money’s belonging
te the county had been used by the
county commiissioners which are not
“public roads.” The inference is then
drawn that perhaps this was done
inadvertably and recommendatio;w
are that the commissioners be more
discreet in the future in regard to
the expenditure of public moneys.
In regard to the convicts the rec
ommendation is made that all be con
solidated into one camp and be em
pioyed in the -construction .of .per
manent roads and that to meet the
cost of repair and maintenance of
roads the county comgmjssioners ap
point in each militia district of the
county one or more persons whose
duty it shall be, under the supervis
ion of the commissicners, to collect
(Continued on page 12) i
TROLLEY REPAIRMAN
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Was Working On Trolley Wire On
E. Park Square; Hand Broken
In Effort to Remove Him.
A near tragedy occured about two
o’clock Tuesday afternoon on East
Side Square at the junction of North
Side Square when P. A. Starnes, of
Atlanta, lineman for the Georgia
Railway and ‘Power Company, wasl
severely shocked and injured about
the hand and arm while being engaz--l
ed with other workmen repairing the
raain trolley wire. 1
It is stated that Mr. Starnes was
standing on the elevated platform of
the work truck and that his hand
happened to come in contact with
one of the smaller wires, supporting
the main trolley wire, which ran to
a creosote covered pole that was not
properly grounded. This, it is sta
ted, sent the voltage thru the body of
M;. Starnes, and threw him upon ks
(Continued on page 12.)
SMYRNA B. Y. P. U.’s TO FORM
ORGANIZATION MABLETON
The B. Y. P. U. members of Smyr
na have been invited to make a trip
to Mableton Sunday, Aug. 7, for the
purpose of .organizing a B. Y. P. U.
in that place. '
The Smyrna B. Y. P. U. has been
_Joinf.'; excellend work in its commun
ity for some time and the Mableton
invitation is extended them in the
expectation that they will be able to
instill equal enthusiasm and efficien
¢y in the young people of Mableton.
DR. RIDLEY TO SPEAK ON
""AMERICANISM’’ AT SMYRNA
Dr. Caleb A. Ridley, of Atlanta,
chairman of the Dixie Defense Com
mittee, will deliver an address in
Smyrna in the school auditorium, Fri
day night, August 5, at 8 o’clock, on
the subject of “Americanism.”
Pdesident Herbert "Clay of the
Georgia State Senate wil make a
short address at the opening of the
meeting and will introduce Dr. Rid
ley. The meeting is being held un
dgr the auspices of the Citizens Com
mittee of Smyrna, and an invitation
Is extended the general public’ to
attend, !
ANDIS TO BE HONOR
LL/IG?DEST OF MARIETTAN
Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis
will visi§ Georgia within the next
week or two, and while here will be
the guest of honor at a celebration
to be given by Mr. William Holland
on the occasion of the opening of
2 new quarry on Kennesaw Mountain.
The exact date of the occasion
cannot be announced with certainty
at the present ag final aggangements
have not been completed.
CAPT IRWIN'S DEATH
BRINGS WIDE REGRETS
Death Came Friday After Short
Illness. In Public Service Dur.
ing and ‘Since Civil War,
The many relatives and friends of
Captain R. C. Irwin heard with great
Sorrow of his death, on last Friday
night, July 29th, which occured at his
home on Powder Springs Road. He
had been quite sick for a month, but
was not confined to his bed until
a week before his death.
Captain Irwin was a gallant Con
federate Veteran, entering the war
while a mere boy, as a private in the
“Cobb Mountaineers,” where he serv
ed throughout the war, with distine
tion to himself, and rose rapidly to
the rank of Captain.
After the war, Captain Irwin was
made solicitor general of the County
Court of Cobb county, and practiced
law in Marietta until he was appoint
ed clerk of the Insurance Department
by Hon. Wm. A, Wright, Comptroller
General of Georgia, and which posi
tion he held continually’ for more
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(Continued on page 12.)
L e e
BIDS FOR REPAINTING THE
COURT HOUSE NOT OPENED
At the monthly meeting of the
Board of Commissioners of Roads
and Revenues, Tuesday, it was de
cided not to open the bids that had
been received for the contract to re
paint the court house on account of
the absence of the chairman of the
Public Building Committee, Dr. Gar
rett. The bids will be opened at the
regular meeting in September of the
board.
DR. KENOTT ATTENDS MEET
OF STATE CHIROPRACTORS
Dr. P. L. Knott, local chiropractor,
attended a meeting of the Georgia
Chiropractors Association in Atlanta,
July 31st, and reports that among
many other important business mat
ters a list of 10 Chiropractors were
elected to submit to Governor Hard-}
wick. He further states that five of |
these will be appointed on the Chir
opractic Examining Board, which wasl
created by the present Jegfislature
upon its recognition of Chiropractors
as legal healing practitioneers in this
state. |
This Board of Examiners will have
in hand the licensing of all Chiroprac
tors with proped qualification and
training to pass the examination for
the state of Georgia.
lVisitors To Be Entertained And
Barbecued Saturday. Big
Program for Public.
When- Saturday, Aug 6th, rolls
around., evervy youngster in the vic
inity of Marietta will be a proud
chap, and for that matter the hap
!piness of the people of whatever ag
es will be much increased for this
always happens when the Knight
iTemnlars'are on the job of enter
'taining. And their barbecue and en
tertainment for the Knights of
the Cour de Leon, Atlanta and the
Constantine Commanderies and their
ladies to be given here Saturday will
if anything surpass anything they
have pulled off up to date.
Several hundred guests will be
present and full arrangements have
been made to take care of all to a
queen’s taste. The famous Knight
Templar's band of the visitors will
lbe on the job to entertain the public
in_the square as one of the first
features of the program. This band
'is said to be as good if not better
than the Atlanta Shriners Band.
' Automobiles are to be furnished
for the visitors to the fullest extent
'possible and toward this feature all
|the local Knights having cars are re
t auested to be with them at the Mason
ic Temple shortly after one ¢'clock
in the afternoon.
| The program in full has been map
ped out and placed in the hands of
efficient committees. .
MARIETTA, GEORGIA, EHURSDAY. AUGUST 4, 1921.
ATKENNESAW ON 10TH
Program and Basket Dinner For‘
Old Confederate Veterans
and Visitors. R
The citizens of Kennesaw will en
tertain the Confederate Veterans of
that community in their annual re-l
union Wednesday, Aug. 10th. Con-l
federate Veterans from anywhere in
the county, or state, for that matter,
will be welcome at the reunion.
There will be speaking, a dinner
and other forms of entertainment for
the old veterans. The dinner, it is
stated, will be a basket affair and
all people from everywhere are invi
ted to come and help enjoy the occa
sion. The dinner wil be held at the
spring. ;
The usual number of Confederate
veterans attending the reunion av
erages from 25 to 30 with the num
ber growing constantly less. This is
always a long looked forward to
occasion on the part of the old vets.
It is highly enjoyed by others of the
community and county as well.
WRIAL OWEN, KENNESAW,
DIES OF HEART FAILURE|
Mr. Wrial Owen, of Kennesaw, age
73, died suddenly of heart failure
Sunday, July 24th, in Nashville, Tenn.
Mr. Owen had been for years an em
ployee of the Nashville, Chattanooga’
& St. Louis Railway shops, in Nash
ville, and it was upon returning there
for his work after a visit to Kenne
saw, having been called home on ac
count of his wife, Mrs. Fannie Moore
Owen, having fallen and injured her
hip, that he was taken sick on the
street car in Nashville on the way to
his boarding house and died before
reaching there. ;
Mr. Charlie Durham and Md. H. J.
Owen went to Nashville for the pur
pose of bringing back the corps for
funeral and interment. o
; The funeral was conducted in R%‘
grove of Mr. Owen’s home by L
A. J. McCoy and Rev. A. J. Morgan.
The Masonic fraternity, of which he|
had been almost a lifelong member,
had charge of the funeral and hei
was buried with Masonic honors inf
Marshall cemetery, Tuesday @ft(*r-'
noon. :
Mr. Owen was 73 years old and |
for 35 years had been a member Ofi
the Baptist rhurih. He was a good |
citizen, treating his fellow man hon-’
estly and uprightly and he was a
great example for good to his chil
dren.
Besides his wife he is survived by |
four sons,; Messrs. Emmitt, H. J.,
James and J. H. Owens; and two
daughters, Mrs. Robert Anderson and
Miss Cornelia Owen. Tkhe sympathy
of the community is extended to all
the bereaved.—Kennesaw Corres
pondent.
City Water S I
On Tuesday of this week the city was again entirely
out of water, shutting down manufacturing p;hnts, throw
ing many out of employment, to say nothasg of the great
inconveniece in our homes. This has occured on numerous
occasions during the past four years. At these eritical
times our water board has always found some plausible
excuse, leaks in the pipes, pumps out of order, or something
else. The fact remains, however, that our present water
board has during this time continued to dig more wells at a
great expense to our people. Even though the number of
wells have been largely increased, the city from time to
time finds itself without a water supply.
We are informed that during the past six weeks our
water department has been buying water from the L. & N.
Railway, which water they have pumped into the eity res
ervoir, and had it not been for this arrangement we would
have been entirely out of water weeks ago, with Marietta
paralyzed. This is one of Marietta’s biggest problems, for
a community must have this neecessity.
Ou? water board has from time to time claimed big
profits for that department. We understand that the water
hoard claims to have made some $50,000.00 or $60,000.00.
Still our best and most recent information is to the effect
that the water board is badly in debt and without credit,
and that some of our private citizens are now having to en
dorse the water board’s notes.
This is a bad situation, and a serious problem, and The
Journal feels that it is its duty to bring this matter to the
people of Marietta that it may be given very serious and
thoughtful consideration. If after ten years experience it
is found that our present wells are a failure, and that some
other system or plan will have to be adopted, the people
who are stock-holders and those most effected, should be
made thoroughly familiar with all the facts that some defi
!lif(‘ plans may be made for ample water that will not only
insure comforts to the community but protection to all of
its property.
Bac o BESRHLE PGy gy
REGCORD NUMBER APPLY
'FOR TEACHERS LICENSE
L u}
Indic#tions Are That, County Will
Have Most Efficient Teaching
- Corps in History.
Lounty superintendent of scheols,
Hugi Moore, announces that the tea
chv#§ examinations for this county
held in the public school building of
Matietta, July 29 and 30, was a rec
orzi;.breaker in regard to the number
takihg the examinations, there being
a total applying for all grades of
tefilers license of 106.
Many of those taking examina
tions were applying for high school
ligense. 'Quite a numbed took the
réading course examination which
was all that was required for a cer
tain class of license holders to get
tidr license renewed. The most,
ver, applied for General Elemen
@ License. .
#Mr. Moore states that the group ap
g for licenses at this time was
most thoroughly representative
ever assembled in Cobb county. Many
0 them were college graduates, and
néarly all had completed high school
courses or had had previous teaching
axperienqe. Fully one phibd were
iose applying for license for the
st time.
. The indications are, so the super
intendent announces, that the county
will be the most completely supplied
with efficient and competent teachers
this coming term of any previous year
in the history of the school system of
the county. The grading of the pa
pers cannot be completed for some
fime yet so it is impossible to an
hounce at the present the number
that were successful in their appli
cation for license.
RUNS MADE SUNDAY AND
~ MONDAY BY FIRE DEPT.
* The Marietta Volunteer Fire De
jpartment had two runs the early part
of the week, doing such excellent
worn in both cases that only slight
damage is reported to have been done
in each blaze.
i The first run was at eleven. o’-
clock Sunday morning, and was to
[the home of Geo. Anderson on Ken
nesaw Ave., where a small blaze was
beginning to make headway around
ithe stove flue. By fast work the fire
department had the blaze entirely ex
inguished within & fow. minutes al
ter arriving upon the scene.
The second was to the home of Mr.
Chalker, on Atlanta street, about 11
o’clock Monday morning. This blaze
was also near the stove flue and was
put out within a few minutes.
It is stated that both fires probab
ly started from sparks from the stove’
flues|. :
CUPID SHOWS FAVORITISM
FOR WHITES DURING JULY
R e i
Cuvpid was on the iob during the
month of July in Cobb county just
3 1-2 times as often for whites as
for blacks. Ordinary Gann’s state
ment for the issuance of marriage li
cense dufing the month just closed
is to the effect that 14 marriage li
censes were issued to white couples,
and only 4 to negro couples. |
Three and One-Half Mills
Is Rate For School Tax
Wad A
P. F. STALLING'S TRIAL WAS
FOR ASSAULT, NOT RAPE
The Journal regrets an error made
in last week's issue in regard to the
trial of P. F. Stallings, in which the
statement was made that he was
charged with assault with attempt to
rape, whereas the correct charge was
only assault. The error was made un
intentionally on the part either of the
Journal or the Superior Court’s
Clerk Department. The cases were
given to The Journal reporter ver
bally and it was due to this that the
error crept in. ;
We take pleasure in calling the at
tention of our rea‘ders to the previous
error and the present truth of the
matter.
PR R R S
Allen Chicken House Closed. Most
of Sentences Are Disposed
of By Fines. ;
The wind up of superior court
lastjy Friday saw the conviction of
many additional cases of whiskey, as
sault, ete., and trial of Douglass Jen
nings for the murder of another neg
ro boy, Slide Gober, in which the
defendant was found guilty of man
slaughter and sentenced to the state
farm for a period of from 2 to 6
years. The case of Sid Allen who runs
a chicken house near the river result
ed in a fine of $1,000.00 and a pro
bationary sentence of 3 years and the
closing of his place of business. He
was charged with 5 different counts,
two of which were put over until the
next term of court.
Sentences were passed on all tried
at this term of court. P. F. Stallings,
charged with assault was fined $2OO
and has made motion for a new trial.
Most of the cases where time or fine
was imposed, were disposed of by
the parties paying the fines. \
~ Followiny is a complete list of the
sentences for the entire week of
eriminal.court. o e
' Beulah Barber, white, adultery,
$75.00 fine, paid; Grady Ralston, col.,
liquor in possession, 6 months on
gang or $50.00 fine, paid, no fine,
carrying pistol, 6 months, no fine,
motion filed for new trial; May Og
lesby, col., liquor charge, $150.00
fine, will be paid; John Fow]er, white,
liquor, $lOO.OO fine and 12 months,
paid fine and placed on probation;
Cicero Reece, white, two charges, li
quor, fines total $400.00, paid; Geo-
Smith, making whiskey, $500.00 fipe
and 12 months probationary sentence,
paid fine; Willie Smith and Dalton
Elliott, fornification, fine of $lOO.OO
or 6 months in both cases; Joe Doss,‘
liquor still in possession, 8 months;
Walter Harris, possessing liquor, 375{
fine and 12 months probationary sen
tence, paid; Bige Williams, white, |
l (Continued on page 12)
'ORDINARY’'S COURT HAS
' FEWEST CASES IN 5 YEARS
} Ordinary' J. M. Gann announces
‘the smallest number of cases com
ing up for disposal at the monthly
session of his court held last Mon
day, for August, in the past five
years, the total number not exceed
ing six or eight.
The wills of R. L. Rollins, of Ros
well, and Mrs. Carrie Prathed, of
Smyrna, were both probated in sol
emn form. Mrs. W. C. Halcombe was
appointed administratrix in the es
tate of W. C. Holcombe, deceased.
The probate of the will of Mrs. Scott
goes over for disposal to the Sep
tember session of the ordinary’s
court. Letters of dismissal were i
sued to C. 0. Camp, administratz
of the will of Mrs. Beulah Camp, anth
to B. V. Greer, as guardian of the
Edwards minors. f
HAS FINE CROP OF FLORIDA
VARIETY OF SUGAR CANE
Mr. M. 8. Fortnér, who lives just
inside the city limits of Marietta on
Powder Springs Road, brought a
large specimen of Florida sugar cane
to The Journal office one day this
week. The stalk is unlike the regular
sorghum cane, common to this sec
tion, or the sugar cane of South Geor
gia, but has more the appearance of
exceptionally large jointed corn. The
stalk is now about 8 feet in height and
Mr. Fortner states that when mature
it will be fully 15 feet in height.
Mr. Fortner is very enthusiastic ov
er his crop of this variety of ecane.
He states that he has three acres
which will make approximateiy 500
zallons of syrup, two tons of fodder
and fifty bushels of seed. The cane
will be ready for harvesting about
the 20th of September, he states. It
is understood that this variety of su
zar cane is very rare in this section.
ESTABLISHED 1868
This Rate Will Be Added To The
Regular County Tax
Rate This Fall.
LOWER THAN ELSEWHERE
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Districts Already Having Local School
Tax May Legally Levy
Additional Tax. '
Much interest is manifested thru
out the county at the announcement
of the levying of 3 1-2 mills for school
purposes in Cobb county by the coun=
ty board of education at its last
meeting in the office of superintend
ent Moore, in Mprietta, last Tues
day. This is the first levy to be made
under the TLocal Tax Law enacted
for Cobb county by the 1920 ses
sion of the Georgia Legislature. This
announcement will be officially made
to the county commissioners in Sep
tember and this rate will be added to
the regular county tax rate this fall.
The limit of taxation by the county
for school purposes, as fixed by the
legislature, is 5 mills, with a min
imum of 1 mill, and the falling un
der the maximun by 1 1-Z2mills is
exceptional as many adjoining coun
ties have recently levied as high as
4 1-2 and 5 mills. Some doubt has
been expressed as to the possibility
of the rate of 3 1-2 mills being ade
quate to meet the full needs of the
schools of the county so as to bring
ont the greatest amount of efficiency.
On the other hand the announcement
is gomwehat gratifying to some of
the taxpayers who are interested pri
marily in the lowering of the general
tax rate for the county. b
It is understood that the levying of
the tax by the county for school pur
poses under the Local Tax Law does
not effect those districts of the coun
ty already having a district local
%M%% The limit, for, the dis..
trict is the same a$ for the county,
but it is stated that it is possible for
any such district to levy an addition
al tax of 5 mills, thereby leaving the
possibility of a school tax levy of
8 1-2 mills this fall in some districts
of the county. It is not known wheth
er any of the districts: intend levy
ing any additional tax or not, or
if so, what will be the rate.
‘F{NAI. ARRANGEMENTS
!In Marietta, Aug. 9th. Barrett
And Elmore Speakers. Powder
Springs Meetings Friday .
I Full arrangements have been per
fected for the great mass meeting of
)farm'ers and business men to be ad-,
dressed by President Barrett, of the
‘National Farmers Union, and state
‘director A, A, Elmore, in park square,
in Marietta, Tuesday, Aug. 9, at 10
o’clock in the morning. A record
breaking erowd is expected to be on
hand and the big membership drive
of the Cobb county branch of the
Georgia Cotton Growersy Cooperative
Association will be off in full swing,
All the county officers witl also
be on hand for short addresses and
for the purpose of enrolling all those
at the meeting who wish to .become
members,
A meeting to be addressed by the
county" officers only will be held at
Powder Springs, at 3 o’clock, Friday
afternoon, Aug. sth,
FLORENCE: EUYERS IN NEwW
YORK SELECT FALL GOODS
e W A, Florence, manager, and
Miss Lizzie Garrison, of the Flor
ence Dry Goods Company, of thig
city, left last Saturday for New York
and other eastern points for the pur
pose of' selecting their fal setock
of goods. This is a regular practice
of the Florence company as they feel
that this is the only way whereby
their local customers can be given
the best benefit of the latest styles
and lowest prices.
It is expected that they will be
away until about the 15ih of Anp
ust. Mr. Florence will probably give
a careful write-up of business con
ditions in the North and East while
he ig in New York for publication in
The Jouinal in order that the people
of this community may be made fa
miliar with the probable industrial
and business conditions as they may
affect the conntry this fall and win
ter. _ ,
Mrs P L Knott and children. leitj
Wednesday for an extended visit to
friends and relatives in New Yot'?y
Buffalo and Syracuse, N Y, F
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