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The Marietta Touenal
The
People’s
Paper
vOL. 58, NO. 31.
RURAL SCHOOLS TO OPEN NOVEMBER 14
Big Achievements By Woman’s Club For Past Year
fEAR BOOK SHOWS -
MUGH GIVIG GOOO
PUT THAU BY CLUB
Instrumental in Success of Paving
Bonds, Safety System at Rail
road Crossings, Examination of
Babies and Greater Enforce-
Ment of Prohibition and Speed
Laws.
The Second Year Book of the Ma
rietta Woman’s Club is just off the
press and contains 16 pages of excel
lently prepared information coneern
ing the past year’s activities of the
Club. The achievements recorded in
the History section of the booklet
would be more than a credit to any
woman’s organization in the country
and proves conclusively that no other
body in Marietta is responsible for a
greater amount of construetive and
valuable work along a general line
and of civic betterment in particular,
In brief the accomplishments of
the club from September of last year
to September of this year are as
follows: 5
A Community Christmas Tree was J
hed in the park and bags of candy
and fruit given to the children. Twen
ty-eight needy families were given
Christmas baskets and excellent work
was done in regard to the sale ofI:
anti-tuberculosis seal. )
The Board of Health has been
greatly helped in its activities by the
Welfare committee. During Child
Welfare Week 284 babies were ex
amined. Studies were made and lec.
tures heard on Child Hygiene.
The care of the city park and depo
plot has been undertaken by the Civ
ic section of the club and a man hired
for 4 months to look after this work.
Registration was carried out by the
members for state and county elec
tions and altho the provisions of the
city charter made it impossible for
them to vote in the city elections they
very materially aided in passing the
bond issue for the paving of the city
streets.
The committee on Puble Safety has
been largely instrumental in getting
the N, C. & St. L. Railway to agree
to install a “wig wag” system at the
street crossings and the installing of
a trial unit at Butler’s.
The greater enforcement of the
prohibiton law and the speed law on
the part of the mayor and counc]}
was brought about largely through
the constant urging of the club. ‘
Contributions were made out of
the club’s funds as follows: Marne!
Monument, $7.00; Endowment fund
of the Tallulah Falls school, $10.00;
Civic seetion work, $63.00; Clarke
Library, $50.00. v ‘
Many other interesting achieve
ments aong the line of art and litera
ture and enlightening lectures for the
betterment of both the menqbers of
he club and he general public stand
to the credit of the club.
The following are the officers of
the club for 1920-1921: Presgdent,
Mrs. 1. A. White; Vice President,
\liss Louise Schilling;q Rec. Sec. Mrs.
J. W. Glover; Cor. Sec. Mrs. J. L.
Turner; Treas. Mrs. Lllian Finn; His
torian, Mrs. G. K. Sullivan.” Mem
bership 192,
CTEUD AR
Special Programs Arranged
By Local Me!figdisf Church
Services for Next Three Sundays
Will Bring Here Dr. Sharp, of
Emory, and Dr. W. F. Glenn;
Programs for Children, and
““Those No Longer Young.”'
~ There has recently been a marked
Increase in the size of the congrega
tOn at both the morning and evening
service of the Methodist church, due,
it is believed, largely to the unusual
intreset of the services, and, if ex
‘cptionally desirable programs are of
any benefit in continuing and making
¢ven larger the congregations attend
ng, then the programs for the next
Uiree Sundays will be the incentive
of drawing out still larger crowds.
The first Sunday in October will
be especially for young people; the
“cond Sunday the services will be
¢onducted by Dr. J. A. Sharp, head
Mester of Emory Academy, while the
trd Sunday will be devoted especial
'V 1o those who are “not young any
More,” and services will be conducted
MANY TENANT FARMER
FOLK LEAVING LOST MT.
FARMS TO GO TO CITY
Many tenant farmers are
leaving the farms in this county
and moving to the towns and
cities to work for wages, ac
cordig to our Lost Mountain
correspondent.
He states that many farms
of his section will be deserted
the coming year because of this.
Some of the miration of the
tenant farmers to the city will
be ameliorated by the sowing
of larger acreage in grains,
preparation for which are al
ready under way.
He philosophizes, however,
with the statement that much
of the land will, because of this
be given a rest spell.
LOCAL GOLF GLUB TO
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- ELEGT OFFIGERS AND
3 DIRECTORS OCT 3RD
The regular annual meeting of the
resident members of the Marietta
Golf Club will be held next Monday
night, October 3, for the election of
officers and directors for another
year.
They will be the .guests of the Club
at a-dinner served by the Ladies Aux
iliary of the Club at 7 o’clock
The present officers and directors‘
are, J. D. Malone, President; Geo. E.
Daniel, Vice President; W. C. Carri-‘
ker, Secretary; D. R. Little, Treas
urer, and Floyd Northcutt, E. R
Hunt, J G. Gles, J. R. Brumby and
Munor, directors. 1
G. M. HICKS, COUNTY
Announcement has just been made
by J. Frank Rhodes, of Atlanta, state
game and fish commissioner, of the
re-appointment of r. M. Hicks, of this
city, as the game warden of Cobb
county. The services of Mr. Hicks in
this capacity for the past year have
been very gratifying to a majority
of the people of this county and his
reappointment will doubtless mget
wth general approva 1. /
The announcement of the reap
pointment of Mr. Hicks was made at
the same time as the announcemen
of the appointments of game wand&
for all the counties of the state.
The wardens for the counties ad
joining Cobb are Fulton, Dr. R. H.
Shields; Paulding, G. T. Wells; Bar
tow, Paul Gilreath; Milton, Dr. R. E.
McClure; Douglas, Gordon Nalley.
Certain changes have been made in
the game laws of the state, accord
ing to the statement of Mr. Rhodes,
to the effect that it is now unlawful
to kill certain fur bearing animals out
of season. The open season on this
class of animals is between Novem
ber 20 and March 1. The animals in
cluded in this list are beavers, skunks
o’possums, red and gray foxes, minlfs,
'muskrats and otters. It is permis
‘xsible to kill wildcats and bear at any
i =0
time. i_:_!
by Dr. W. F. Glenn, well known to
all the old members of the church.
The pastor, Rev. J. M. Tumlin, will
continue his Sunday evening sermons
|0 Paul’s great statemets touching his
personal relations to redemption and
building the kingdom. The last half
of the prayermpeting hour is devoted
to Bible study, which are proving
very interesting and helpful. All are
urged to come, bring sthers and their
Bible.
The subject to the young people
|the first Sunday in October will be on
“God seeking entrance to the heart
house.” Parents and teachers are
urged to co-operate in the effort to
|secure the attendance of all children
and young people. Communion serv
ices will follow the sermon.
The services the third Sunday for
the old will be appropriately decor
‘ated with autumn leaves, potted
iplants and other flewers.
| The old immoral hymns will be
lsung, autos will be sent for those who
{ may need help in getting to and from
the church.
MARIETTA, GEORGIA, . THURSDAY, SEPT. 29, 1921
Little Holsey Mull Killed By
Shaft Monday; Father Close By
Was Caught in Shafting While
Playing With Apparatus of His
Own Make Just After School;
Died Tuesday; Buried at Mt.
Pleasant Church.
Little Holsey Mull, 10 year old son
of Mr. and Mrs. ‘T. H. Mull, who live
on the Roswell Road at Frey’s Gin,
about 5 miles from Marietta, was
caught in the main line shaft of a g?t
mll, near the gin, at which his father
was grinding meal, between 2 and 4
o’clock Moday afternoon and received
injuries that resulted in his death at
the Nolan Sanitariun Tuesday momn
ng at 7 o’clock. 2
~ It s stated that the little chap had
just returned from school in Marietta
Monday afternoon and was playing
or working in the mill on a piece of
apparatus which he himself had made
and whie engaged in this the accident
ally came too close to the main shaft
ing of the mill and was caught by his
clothing and whirled around at the
same fearful rate of speed as the re
volving shaft. His screams attracted
the attention of his father who v%s
Was Killed in France in 1918
While Leading Rallied Comrade
In Argofne Charge. Over One
Thousand Attend Funeral.
The body of Lieutenant Earm?b
Willie Davenport, company A, 325th
Infantry, one of Cobb’s most heroic
sons in the late war, and who met his
death while leading his platoon after
the death of all the other officers, in
the Argonne, October 15, 1918, was
laid to rest in the cemetery at Mars
Hill, near his home, last Sunday af
ternoon at 2 o’clock, in the presence
of -one of the largest crowds said to
have ever attended a funeral in Cobb
county. The body was only recently
bréught from its first burial place in
France, near the scene of supreme
sacrifice.
"Lieutenant, or Sergeant Daven
port, as his commission was waiting
him in the rear at the time of his
death and had not been bestowed
upon him, was the son of Mr. and
Mrs. S. H. Davenport, of near Ac.
worth, and was a nephew .of Sheriff
}émson, of this city.
Sergeant Davenport led the con
tingent of Cobb couty men to the
training camp at Camp Gordon. He
was very popular in his section and
throughout the county, and it is said
that he filled an unusually warm spot
in the heart of all his comrades in
wor with whom he came in contact
He had rallied his platoon after the
other officers had been killed and
while bravely leading them on, it is
stated, that he fell.
The funeral services were very im
pressive, and the pall-bearers were all
comrades of the deceased in the war.
The services were conducted by Rev.
E. D. Patton and Rev. A. J. Morgan,
while talks were made by Col. J.
Glenn Giles, Col. Lindley Camp and
Mr. T. M. Awtrey.
Wrapped in the flag which he had
helped to rendar stainless, and lying
in the bosom of the land for which
‘he fought, Sergeant Davenport truly
awaits the Resurrection Morn to re
ga-eive a hero’s reward and a hero’s
crown.
FIRST PROGRAM IN STUDY
OF CHINA BY THE WOMAN'S
CLUB WILL BE HELD OCT. 6
The first program in the study of
China, which wil be the country stu
died for the next three months, by
the History and Current Events sec
tion of the Marietta Woman’s Club
will be given at the home of Miss
Mabel Cortelyon, next Thursday, Oc
tober 6th, at 3 o’cock in the after
noon, according to the announeement
nf the officers of this section of the
club,
The program for October will be
as follows:
“China, the Country,” map talk by
Miss Virignia Gibbs,
“Chinese Choracteristics” Mrs. S. R.
Hewitt.
“My Impressione of China” Mrs. G.
~ H. Keeler.
The prorgam promises to be un
usually interestng as weil as highly
instructive, and all members cf the
‘Woman’s Club are requested to be
present.
working in the same room and who
animmediately stopped the machinery
It-is stated that the little fellow had
been :in he whirling shaft not more
than a few seconds or a minute be
fore the machinery was stopped.
i Practically unconscious he was
;rushed by his father to Dr. Nolan’s
Sanitarium where an examination re.
}vealed that his right arm and leg had
}béen broken, the arm in one place
[and the leg in several places. A large
gashwas found on the forehead and
several lacerations about the scalp.
; All efforts to save the litte lad were
of no avail and Tuesday mornng at 7
;o’cock he died of concussion of the
brain. .
The body was sent immediately to
Seney, Ga., in Paulding county, ac
companied by the grief stricken par
ets. The funeral and interment took
place Wednesday morning at 11
o'elock at Pleasant church cemetery
Holsey was in the 3rd grade in
school here, this being his first year
in school in this city. His teachers re
port that he was a bright little fellow
and quite a favorite with all his play
mates.
' FOE MARIETTA HIGH
' datas
The Marietta High Schoonl football
team, in charge of Captain “Nutty”
Campbell, is working hard every day
in anticipation of the game Friday
}_with the strong Cartersvflle high
School elevep. Enough for two full
teams are at work every afternoon
and the coaches, Jake Northeutt and
Dr. Knott, are putting them thru a
greelling scrimmage every day.
The regular team has not yet been
fully picke yet, despite the thoro
workout made possible by the open
in game with the Macland Aggies last
Friday. [t is expected that the line
up against Cartersville will be prac.
tically the same as that used in the
opening game with the exception of
one back field position and one or
two places on the line.. However,
there is still plenty of time for any
player who is tryng out to win a reg
uar position- on the first team.
The schedule for the season is un
usually hard and all the games are
away from home with the exception
of three. The first home game is with
Rome, October 14, the next is with
Cedartown the folowing Friday, and
the third home game is with the old
rival, Cartersville, on Thanksgiving
day.
The team is handicapped for games
at home on account of the lack of a
suitable location. Heretofore the
home games have been played at Fair
Oaks. This season an effort will be
made to secure the Golf Club grounds
for the three home games.
The boys are expecting a hard
fight at CartersvilleFriday and hope
to have all the fans go with them that
possibly can. The team will leave
in cars at noon Friday.
REMAINS OF MRS. MATTIE
BIVENS LAID TO REST IN
POST OAKS CEMETERY
The funeral and interment of Mrs.
Mattie Bivens, who died at her resi
dence of acute indigestion last Thurs
day morning at 10 o’clock after an
illness that lasted only 12 hours, oc
cured at the Post Oaks cemetery on
Saturday at 11 o’clock, Rev. George
Crowe officiating, .
Mrs. Bivens was 32 years of age
and had been married for 5 years.
She is survived by her husband,
Mr. W. H. Bivens, two children, age
4 and two years, a stepson, a father,
two sisters and three brothers, be
sides alot of relatives.
Mrs. Bivens Fkas been a church
member snce early girlhood and her
Christian life had endeared her to all
who came in contact with her.
The funeral arrangements were in
the hands of the Roswel Undertak.
ing Co. Many beautiful floral offer
ings attest the esteem in which those
who knew her hold her mermory.
MEETING JUNOR HEALTH
~ ORGANIZAION FOR THIS
‘ COUNTY ON OCTOBER 1
The Cobb County Junior Health
Organization will meet at the court
house, at 10 o’clock Saturday, free
moving pictures and other excellent
features.
It is especially urged that all Ju
nior health nurses and Junior Health
Commissioners be present.
FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
FOR REMAINDER OF
SEASON MARIETTA HI
Sept. 30, Cartersville .H. 8.
in Cartersvile.
Oct. 7, Griffin H. 8., in Griffin.
Oct. 14, Rome H. 8., in Mari
etta.
Oc¢t. 21, Cedartown H. 8., in
Mariettal.
Oct. 28, Discue, Ala., H. 8., in
Gadsden, Ala,
Nov. 4, Cedartown H. S., in Ce
dartown.
Nov. 11, Rome H. 8., in Rome.
Nov. 18, Cleveland Tenn., H. S.
in Cleveland.
Nov. 24, Cartersville H, 8., in
Marietta.
If the opinion of our Lost Moun
tain correspondent is correct, and his
observation is accurate, the hardest
hit spot in Cobb county, so far as the
boll weevil s concerned, is the Lost
Mountain section.
According to him one man in that
section who planted 12 acres of very
fine land in cotton this season will
get oly one bale off the entire 12
acres. «
Another he writes, planted 85 acres
in cotton and will get only two bales
off the entire acreage.
The boll weevil made its first ap
pearanee in the county in the Lost
Mountain section, he further writes,
and_pictures the '%m‘“w R
indicative of the ge “destruction
wrought by the insect in his section.
NOONDAY PASTORS AND
DEACONS TO GONVENE
HERE TUESDAY, OCT. 5
The regular monthly meetng of the
pastors and deacons conference of
the Noonday Baptist Association will
be held at the Second Baptist Church
in Marietta, Tuesday, October 4, be
girgling_ at 10 o’clock in the morning.
pecial arrangements are being
made by the Fidelis Class of the Sec
ond Baptist Sunday school to take
care of the lunch hour for the visit
ing pastors and deacons.
It is expected that a majority of
the pastors and deacons of the associ
ation will be present. The plan of
having a monthly conference has
been effective for the past year, and
it is stated that very satisfactory re
sults are being obtained.
The pastor of the Marietta Second
Baptist church, Rev. Geo. V. Crow,
urges all ministers and deacons to be
on hand.
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MISS VIRGINIA JACKSON
ACCEPTS POSITION WITH
WEST VIRGINIA COLLEGE
The many friends in this city and
county of Miss Virginia Jackson, Lat
in and French instructor in the Mari
etta High School for last year, will
be glad to learn of her appointment
as teacher in a Junior college in West
Virginia. She has accepted and will
take up her duties at once. Miss!
Jackson resigned her position witht
the high chools of this city last July.
Local H. School Team Downs
A. & M. In Opening Game
In a thriling game of football in
which all dope was upset the Mari
etta High School football team
downed the Mac'and Aggies last Fri
day, on the latter’s grounds, by the
score of 13 to 0. The Sveneth Dis
trict A. and M. boys outweighed the
high school boys by a gond many
pounds per man and were slated to
run rough shod over everything in
this section, outside of the famous
Golden Tornado.
The defeat of the aggies was due,
perhaps, more to the underestimating
of the high school boys than anything
else, for it must be said to their credit
that they certainly showed a thorough
knowledge of the game and had it not
been for the unusual team work of
the Mazarietta boys and their terrific
drive and pep the final stcre would
have told a different story.
This was the first ame of the sea
son for both teams and from the
ESTABLISHED 1866.
FALL TEAM T 0 LAST
At the recent meeting of the Cobb
county Board of Education it was
decided to make the opening date of
the Cobb county public schools, No
vember 14 instead of November 20,
the usual opening date, in order that
six weeks of schoolin could be had
by the children of the county before
Christmas instead of only four weeks
as has been the case in the past. Oth
er matters were disposed of toward
the end of bettering the county
schools thru the raising of saluries of
teachers of all grades and and the
standng for a greater efficiency of all
assistant teachers. .
The longer term before Christmas
was decided upon inasmuch as the
present crop conditions indicate that
all harvesting wili be over in time
to free all children for school attend
ance by the 14 of November, and for
the further reason that he month of
November is considered to be the
most pleasant month in the year in
which to attend school.
The county school superintendent,
Mr. Hugh Moore, was also author
ized by the board to open any school
in the county on the last day of Oe
tober, thereby getting in two months
of school before Christmas, where
both patrons and trustees are pos
itively assured that crop and other
conditions will make it possible for
every boy and girl who are to attend
school at all to begin on that date. 1r
such is put into effect in any school
this, along with the two weeks gener
ally earlier opening, will constitute
an entirey new departure in the his
tory of Cobb couty rural schools.
The matter of increasing the entire
school year anothér month was m&-
i}défi‘nitely postponed unless c;m.-
arise not foreseen at the present mak
ing it possible, whereupon the school
year will be promptly lengthened.
Toward increasing the gemeral ef
ficiency of the schools it was decided
to add to the efficiency of all grades
of teachers thru increased salaries
for the ensuing year. It was decided
to increase the salaries of all princi
pals hodn first grade license $15.00
per month, those hoding second grade
license $lO.OO per month and those
holding third grade lcense $5.90 nay
month.
Much interest was taken by the
board in the improvement of school
}emciency in regard to the assistant
'teachers and it was decded that all
assistants holding first grade license
'should receive a salary increase of
‘820.00 per month over that of last
year, and further that all trustees
and patrons of the various sehools of
the county should be urged by both
the board and the superintendent to
employ only first grade license teach
ers as assistants. It wa alo voted
'toward this end that all second and
tihrd grade license assistants shounld
have an increase of salary but not in
s 0 large a proportion as assistants
havng first grade license.
The commissioning of all the trus
tees elected at the last election was
approved by the board. Chairman G.
W. McMillan announced that he
would issue the commissions as soom
as they were properly prepared by his
secretary.
The schools of the county are gen
erally considered to be in the best con
dtion of tHpir exjstence and the
board and county superintendent
seem determined to continue in their
efforts until the rural schools of Cobb
are second to none in the state.
showing made these two schools of
Cobb county are going to be stromg
contenders for the high school and
prep championship of this section of
the state by the time the curtain gees
down on the 1921 football season.
The scoring of Marietta resulted
from two touchdowns made after
long end runs on the part off Robert
Reed, one run was 45 yards and the
other 55 yards and a goal by Captain
“Nutty” Campbell.
The folowing is the ine up of the
two teams:
Marietta H. S. A. & M. School
K. Campbell R. E. L. Keyes
E. Gifford RT. W. Bryant
H. Durham R. G. C, Alexandey
S. Clay ¢ C. Griffith
T. A. Gober L. G. MeTyre
C. Gifford L. T,
R. Gilbert L.'E. G, Chaffin
H. Field Q. B. Landvem
W. Dobbs L. H. B. R. Little
D. Fowler RH. B Putman
$ 100
A TEAR
