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The Marietta Tonewal
e
People’s
Paper
NUMBER 52.
Herbert Sauls, Atlanta, and Moss Boys of Mal;fglofi
Held by Coroner’s Inquest in Death of Austell Youth
COMMISSIONERS POSTPONE! FINAL DECISION
lON RETENTION OF HEALTH ‘AND FARM WORK
NEETING WEDNESDAT
JEVTED T 0 A
F VIEWS (F PEIPL
After listening for the greater part
of the ‘day Wendneday to the pll)eas
of Cobb county citizens both for and
against the retention of the work of
the county heaith commissioner and
assistant and the farm demonstrator,
the Board of Commissioners of roads
and revenues postponed all action on
the matter until their regular meet
ing the first Tuesday in January.
Numerous orgsnizations of the
Fielding Lewis Chapter Daughters of
the American Revolution; the Cobb
Chapter of American Red Cross, the
Civitan Club, the Womans Club and
the Carrie Dyer Reading Club of Ac
worth along with petitions carrying
the names of many of the most prom
inent people of the county lined up
for the retenton of the work The
opposition was not nearly so united
or strong and judging from the weight
of these things it would seemnr that
the final decision of the commi. sion
ers shou'X . “-v2 influenced by the
pro-argumeént and demands than by
the “‘cons”. |
There is no mater that has comehup
within, fi?w% for seme time that
carries the widesyreaa gfi%‘i*eé*ff ag’
does this and the hope was general
among those standing for the con
nuation of the excellent work of heal
th aid farm departments that a fav
orable - decision would be made at
this meeting of the commissioners.
However, it is reliably stated that
these forces will muster their strength
more coherent tha never in the rem
aining few days before the next meet
ing and in this way endeavor to make
good use of the delay.
Matter of Getting Better Car Ser
vice with Atlanta Will be Taken
Up with Company at early date
—Two New Members Added.
At the regular meeting of the Civ
itan Club on Friday afternoon two
new members were duly recognized
in the Marietta Club. Mr. C. E. Dan
iell, Assistant Postmaster and Col. J.
Glenn Giles, Collection Attorney be
ing the two classifications filled.
The club heard the report of the
nominating -ommittee and will go in
to the election of officers for 1922 at
the meeting on Friday night Decem
ber 81, .5
A report from the committee on
streat ear service ctowed that pro
gress was being made and the matter
will be taken up with the Georgia
Railway and Power Company as soon
as the other' local organizations are
heard from on the subject.
The elub unamiously adopted the
following resolution in regard to the
County Agent, County Physician and
Nurse:
Whereas, it is the sense of this Civi
tan Club that the Board of County
Commissioners made a serious mis
take in discontinuing the services of
the county Farm Demonstrator, the
County Physician and Nurse.
Therefore be it resolved:
That ‘the Secretary be directed to
express to the Board of Commission
ers that we feel that they have made
a mistake in discontinuing the ser
vices of the Farm Demonstrator, the
County Physician and Nurse;
That we wonsider their services to
the county of great value and that
they are especially needed at this
time of discouragement and depres
sion;
And that we hereby respectfully
request and urge the Board of Com
missioners to rescind their action by
which they voted to dismiss the above
servants of the county il
And this action is taken with Tull
assurance, as it is in response to the
Commissioners request that the peo
vle let it be known whether th'(' ser-
Vices of the County Agent, County
Nurse and County Physician we
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This December 23rd, 1921.
13,000 OF FARM
LOAN MONEY PAI
10 COBB FARMERS
'
‘Mr. Bernard Awtrey Announces
' That Up To Noon Wednesday, 8
‘ Farmers of County Had Receiv
! ed Near Average of $2,000 Each
—5200,000 Will Be Loaned In
l - County in Next Thirty Days.
' Money continues to fiow into Cobb
county to the farmers from the Nat
ional Farm Loan Bureau. Last week
a farmer living near Marietta receiv
‘ed a check for the total amount of
a $2,000.00 loan applied for and
this week, Mr. Bernard Awtrey, who
in handling the matter in this county
states that up to noon Wednesday
eight farmers were recepiants of the
loan for a total of $15,200.00, and
other loans were being made daily.
It is expected that by the first of
January, fully $200,000.00 will have
been turned loose among the farmers
of this county.
- In vew of this fact, there is little
doubt that farming will show an im
petus this coming year that will be
the means of rapidly restoring normal
conditions in the county.
The fact is also pointed out by
Mr Awtrey that all the farmers re
ceiving these loans are not those who
could get along ,without the money
but that most of them are those who
really and seriously need the money
and that their getting it is certain to
W@ of ‘themor “farmers-ef
the county ocut of the ruts of dire
voverty and give them the opportun
itv whereby they may become real
independent and successful farmers.
‘TROLLEY DE LUXE'
T 0 GARRY SHRINERS
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Every true member of the Mariet
ta Shrine Club will be in readiness
to board the Shriners special trolley
de luxe at 7:30 Saturday evening,
with all the attachments in the shape
of wives, theirs or others, sweethearts
and orphans, in order that the local
club may cut the biggest shinc ~—~
pull down the biggest piece of merr 1
ment on record at the big snow dance
to be staged in Atlanta that evening
at the Auditorium.
Some several days back the Jocal
Shrine club appointed a committee
consisting of Shriners, R. J Hancock
Lindley Camp, Stanton Read, Pearce
Latimer and Guy Northcutt, to arran
ge for a blowout of blowouts during
Christmas week. The committee af
ter lookin the situation over rather
carefully hit upon the plan of killing
the biggest one ever at the Big Shrin
¢rs Snow Dance to be staged in At
lanta the evening of the 31st. No
cooner was this step decided upon
than the committee got into thoro
action and reserved special boxes for
— . . .
the Marietta delegation in order that
they might watch with all the comfort
and eas— ronge of vision possible the
anties of the stunt team, and then
when the decks, so to speak, were
c¢leared for action of the grand dan
ce, they can swoop down and show
all others what real dancing is.
| It is said that the Yaarab officials
have pledgcd in their most solemn
manner, of which cert.gm\lly no oath
can be greater, that this snow dance
will be the most spectacular an.d the
ls"v’eatest fun producing party in all
‘the long ages of Shrinedom history. .
The part that the Marietta Shrin
ers, their wives, sweefheatrs, etc.,
are to play in this epoch marking the
entertainment feature of Shrinedom
can be best described by the ~om
mittee itself, which speaks as foljows:
“We intend to make that ride to
Atlanta compare with ithe famous
jaunt of Paul Revere as would the
roaring effulgence of a.noon dav_ <nn
to the insignificient rays Qf a light
ening bug.” Following this there 1¢
ot the slightest doubt in the mind
}nf everyone that the H‘niui of :
true Shriner, or any akin to -taem
will so tingle as to make this Tide the
one thing in all the wide world that
lon earth could make them miss. :
| The onlv cost, it is said. to nac”
Shriner will be a ticket t { 1107
Dance.
MARIETTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1921.
Marietta Fall and hristmas Trade
Averages Better Than Past Year
'old Man Hard Times Given Fear
! ful crack here When Trade of
| Merchants Averaged 5 per ct.
More for Fall and Xmas than in
1920—Promises Good Year for
1922,
l Old man hard time— was given a
severe punch in Marietta this fall and
particularly during the Christmas
ytrade season. He was punched to
ithe extent of about five per cent. in
asmuch as & composite report of the
merchants of the city show an aver
age increase in the fall and Xmas
trade of this year over that of last
year of about this amount. s
| This announcement comes as a
fitting rebuttal to the many stories of
hard times and suffering that have
gone the county over and which to
a certain exten hos gone out even
from this county. |
| Some of the merchants state that
they have done a better business du
ring Christmas in actual do]lars and
cents than was the case las. Christ
mas, and in addition they point ocut
the fact that with lower prices than
High School Basket-Ball Teams
Practice Hard Puring Holidays
Probabl,g,%g*lgctioh of %m.%?
" For Both Teams With Annodh
cement of Co-Ed League Games
For Season—Boys Defeated at
Hands of Atlanta and Acworth.
Determined not to permit laxity du
ring the holiday season spoil their
chances of turning out the winning
basket ball teams this ycor, the boys
and girls high schools are working
hard this week, the girls getting in
‘their parctice in the morning with
‘the boys putting in theirs in the af
ternoon. The local team of boys
are showing up well and though they
have been bested by close scores in
their first two games of the season,
one last Friday night here against
;the strong Western Heights Athletic
iClub, of Atlanta, and Tuesday night
at Acworth by the strong athletic
club at that pace, they promise to be
‘he leading team in the high school
ague this year.
In the boys game against the At
lanta team the latter stated emphati
cally that the Marietta team was de
cidedly the best they had tackled this
season and it is a fact that the locals
viere defeated by a 2 much closer score
l*nan were the leauge leaders from
last year by this same Atlanta team
jut prior to the game here. The Ac
worth team was too large for the
school boys at their present stage of
practice but there is every indication
}lthat they will be able to take the
‘measure of the Acworth team before
the end of the season.
The girls are showing equally as
strong as the boys and the hopes of
the Marietta fans are running high
in the belief that when the season
closes both teams will be the league
champions.
A double header will be played
Cobb Ranks 9th Among Counties
In Amount Raised for University
With Quota That Was Twenty-
First From Top; The County
Comes Out Only Ninth From
The Top In The Amount Raised
By Each County in State.
That Cobb county has once more
proved its loyalty to all worthy cau
ses is brought out in the December
sdition of the Georgia Alumni Rec
ord, just out, in which the fact is
shown that Cobb county contributed
for the Georgia War Memorial fund
the ninth largest sum raised by any
‘ounty in the state, and this despite
he fact that Cobb’s quota was onlv
the twentv-first largest The total
mm raised up to December f‘!!,", after
the real drive was closed, was for
the county $7,937.
The counties surpassing Cobb in
the total raised were Fulton, $216,-
95.27: Clarke. $161,107.31; Bibb,
| §41,643.50; Chatham, $33,563.10;
, year, the volume of goods sold
B@s greatly surpassed that of last
year.
%Al of the merchants of the city
Were not interviewed, but“a thoroly
representative group was gotten in
fiuch with and estimates asked for.
A small number reported decreases
ganging around 15 per cent; stil]
Hlore gave the estimate as about the
#ame as last year while the majority
@ported increases of from 2 to 15
#er cent with one well established
Jm stating an increase of 35 per
F_‘ nt. The general average for all
Was an increase of approximately 5
fer cent.
Busienss is somewhat like the weth
@ in that as the rain conditions of
fhe fall determine largely the degree
i cold coming during the winter so
P, e fall trade is a fair indicator of
e business that can be reasonably
kpected during the coming winter
@nd spring. If this is really an indi
éator, and those experienced in busi
mness affairs are responsible for the
putting forward of this statement,
then there is bound to be good times
ghead in Marietta and Cobb for the
,coming year. -
tat the Auditorium Friday night, the
r#itls - opponents being the Carters
(ville . High school girls and the boys
180 up against the Citizens and South
]ern Bank team, of Atlanta, and should
fbe interesting from every point of
jview. The line-up fo the boys will
lvery probably be the same as that
,which went up against Acworth with
{the evzeption of Clay, at guard, who
wil] very likely be replaced by Du-
Pre, who was unable to be present,
which was as follows: Campbell and
|Gilbert, Guards; Fowler, center; Read
tand Clay, forwards. This line up
'with the above change is very likely
'to stand as the varisty team for the
Iseason :
i The probable line-up for the girl’s
lin the Friday night’s game and also
the best pick by the coach so far for
the varisty the rest of the season is
Harriet Leake and Emily Haynes,
forwards, Lillian Boatner, center;
|Margaret MeNeel and Evelyn Kile,
lL’aurds. Coach Campbell announces
ithat there is a probability of Ruth
!Anderson and Lucy Tate going in as
guards with Captain McNeel being
!changed to forward.
Much pleasure is manifested over
the recent announcement that the
‘league would be a wo-ed affo’> «ith
every game to be a double header the
tboys and girls of each srhool having
the same opponents. The league
I.vchedu]e for the season is as follows:
January 10—Decatur at Kirkwood.
lJanbary 13—Marietta at Fulton. __
January 17—Fulton at Decatur. ___
'January 20—Kirkwood at Marietta. .
{January 24-—Decatur at Marietta.__
|Tanuwary 27—Kirkwood at Fulton. __
{Tanuary 31—Decatur at Fulton. ___
{February 3—Marietta at Kirkwood._
February 10—Fulton at Marietta.. .
{February 14—Marietta at Decatur. _
February 17—Fulton at Kirkwood.
Muscogee, $29,692.00; Richmond,
$23,283.00; Floyd, $11,815.00; Em
anuel, $11.615.00 and Franklin, $B,-
{380.00. The counties with quotas
\ahead of Cobb were Bleckley, Bull
och, Carroll, Chatham, Clarke, Cow
eta, DeKelb, Floyd, Fulton, Hall,Mad
ison, Jackson, Lowndes, Morgan,
| Muscogee, Richmond, Sumter, Troup,
‘Thomas, Walton.
In commenting upon those count
‘ies doing excellent work in the drive,
'the Record gives especial mention to
{Cobb and its very valuable chairman,
Fred Morris, along with the counties
and chairman of Brooks, Butts, Mus
cogee, Chatham, Floyd, Glynn, Tift
and a few others,
The drive throughout the stale
and nation, the Record shows. was a
grand triumph. Up to December Ist,
the million dollars h2l heen oversub
scribed by $34,846.27, with over
$600,000.00 being raised in Grorgia
ard the remarnder b o g y
the Alumni outside the stete.
|
H. H. Buxton and Mrs. Gorman,
Well-Known Atlantians Meet
Death at Polks Crossing When
L. and N. Smashes Into Their
Automobile.
While riding northward in an au
tomobile Sunday morning, shortly be
fore noon, Mr. H. N. Buxton and Mrs.
Maggie Gorman, both we]l known
Atlanta people, were almost instantly
killed by a fast moving south bound
L. & N. passenger train as they were
making the crossing on Polk Street.
Eye witnesses state that the victims
apparently were entirely unawares of
the approach of the train altho they
were motioned back by the occupants
of two or three cars who ha.l stopped
on the opposite side of the track
to permit the passing of the train. No
guard or sigral apparatus were there
to give warning and it is the general
theory that this was the cause of their
failing to take notice of their danger.
It is stated that the automobile was
hit squarely by the engine and hurled
along for some distance down the
track being smashed to pieces on a
box car. The occupants were picked
up and rushed to the sanitarium of
Dr. Nolan, Mrs. Gorham expiring a
short while after the sanitarium was
reached and Mr. Buxtom living for
an hour or so afterwards. Both were
around 50 vears of aco.
The bodies were taken in charge
by the Black Urdertaking Company
where they remained until the next
day when they were removed to
undertaking concerns in Atlanta for
funeral arrangements.
Mr. Buxtom was for several years
2 member of the firm of the West
Fnd Crystal Ice Manufa:turing Co.,
while Mrs. Gorman was a widow and
resided with a son in Kirkwood,
The funeral of Mr. Buxtom was
held in Atlanta Wednesday morning
and interment was i nthe West View
cemetery The funeral of Mrs. Gor
man took place Wednesday afternoon
with interment also in the West View
cemetery.
Mrs. Gorman is survived by four
sons and one daughter, and Mr Bux
tom is survived by a wife and one
brother.
: ;
. NEW TRIALS DENIED
'
‘ S g :
j The hearing before Judge Blair on
Wednesday for new trials in the cau
se of W. 8. Peek, convicted on a char
ge of murdering his wife at the July
term of Superior Court and given a
life sentence and that of W A. Gresh
am, of Atlanta, fined on a charge of
having a still on 2 farm of his near
the river in this county, were both
denied and will-now-go in the rase
of Peek to the State Supreme Court
and in the case of Gresham to the
State Court of Appeals.
The motion of Oscar Trout senten
ced to from 5 to 7 years at the last
session of court on a charge of rano
vias passed up and the outcome will
not be known for some time yet,
The grounds for denying the mo
tion of Peek and Gresham were of
a general nature.
A few other motions for new trials
of a minor character, both civil and
c_r__ifljnal, were also disposed of.
Annual Vestry Election At St.
]
i James Monday; No Service Sun.
| There will be no night srvice next
'Sunday at St. James Church, but at
the Methodist Church there will be
a Union service at 7:30, such as we
‘have on the first Sunday night in
each vear. The congregation is in
vited to attend that service.
The Young People’s Service Leauge
vii]l meet promptly at 6:30 Sunday.
At 11 o’clock there wil be the Holy
Communion gerivee. The Christ a 5
music will be repeated.
The Annual election of the Vestry
wil tal'e vlace on Monday. January
2nd, in the Chapel. The hours for
ESTABLISHED 1866
Death car Speeds on After Killing
~ Youth and Efforts of Police
Result in Arrest of Sauls and
Moss Boys— Former charged
With Murder and Latter Held
' Under Bond as Material Witnes
ses.
About 11 o’clock Wednesday morn
ing, little Willie Walker, age 14, son
of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Walker of Aus
tell, was run over and almost instant
ly killed by a Buick six touring car,
said by witnesses to be running at
from 50 to 60 miles an hour, and ear
ly this morning after the inquest that
lasted two or three hours the coro
ner's jury returned a verdict of mur
der against Herbert Sauls, son of a
wealthy Jewish merchant of Atlanta,
as the driver of the car; and Reggie
and Rex Moss, of Mableton, as occu
pants of the car, were held under
bonds of $1,000.00 each as material
witnesses for the state.
The inquest brought out the fact
that at the time of the accident the
little victim was resting by the side
of the road, the Austel] and Atlan
ta road, known as the Bankhead
highway, about one mile east of Aus
tell, after baving been riding a bi
cycle, in company with two or three
boy companions. The speeding car
rushed down upon them running over
Willie Walker and continuing on at
the ame rate of speed without any
possibility of recognizing the drivers
or occupants. The little companions
tried to do what they could for little
Willie and had summoned a doector
when a car came along traveling to
ward Austell and carried the wound
ed chap to Dr. J. M. Strickland, but
death c;ccurcd before the doctor was
reached.,
The inquest showed that the right
hip was terribly mangled, the left
’chest and heart smashed, the should
er broken in several places and many
bruises (about the head and face,
the mashing of the hearth supposed
ly causing the death.. 2
Cobb and Fulton police offpialg
took up the search for the driver
and occupants of the death car with
the result that Herbert Sauls, 18 year
old youth of Atlanta, was arrested
Wednesday night by Atlanta police
and Reggie and Rex Moss, of Ma
bleton were arrested the same night
at Mableton by Sheriff Swanson and
Deputy T. M. Sanders.
Another party was also mentioned
in the coroner’s indi»tment as being
of equal guilt with Herbert Sauls,
but at the time of going to press, no
arrest had been made or the name of
the person sought disclosed,
|
- WHILE OUT HUNTING
~ WEDNESDAY MORN
&
While out hunting' Wednesday A.
M. on the farm of Mr. C. J Meek’s,
Mr Dean Abercrombie, of Marietta,
was accidentally though not serious
ly shot, ten bird shots entering his
body. i
Details of the accident state that
he wvias in commany with My. Lang
ford, of the Willad Battery Company
Mr. Abercrombie had gone W n
vance of Mr. Langford and thé"iat
ter not suspecting that the fo=—r--
was in range of his guny fit6l /inis,
a covey of birds. Ten of th¥dird
shots penetrated the body ¥ 22 1 Al,
ercrombie, who was immidin!-" rreh
ed to Dr. Elder where ¥ w o 7.4
that his injuries while";gi?ii?fl VY Heape
not likely to prove seridus. '
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LOCAL CARPENTERE /22m
- PAVING PART OF =7 up™ 2
The paving of one- “h'h™ 7 he
walk in the sovare by the Cuzperntaps
Union of Marietta wae ba-=ppr fagt
Monday morning and i} Ye «n~ plet
ed, so those in choris - ° the work
state, by tonight (.:iuredov). The
paving material re' ¢ hrick and
the«nart paved is "we 3. ¢ esast car
ner walk. The ec'iv 1" « £ of the
',’."li'!L iz Y‘!.’U'Q(' v GLy 00,
An interestin«s " «tyio of the pave
ing is the fact .at rnt 4nly ie the
cost of the warl | ~ing '~'-en care of
cntirely by tv" < ,en *vq hut every
person doing ‘ i on the job is
a member ¢} ~ =manters union.
Ervert cax laying the brick
and Join ¢ v ny, also bauling
i 1 d 1 s
It is ¢l Iy reported that
soveral other anizationg of the
citv are arranging to pave an eighth
each and that in this manno~ the en
¢! s of the square will he s
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