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Extra Period Necessary to Deter
mine Winner., Small Crowd
See Good Game
Razymond Rice
In a game that required an extra
five minute period to decide the win
ner the Marietta DeMolay won over
the Canton-Acworth Athletic Club
Wednesday night by a one point mar
gin. The final score stood 44 to 43
in favor of the locals.
The game was one of the fastest
and hardest fought plaved here this
season and deserved a much ]ax‘gcr
crowd than the mere handful that wit
nessed it. It might have been the
rather chilly weather that kept the
fans away but whatever it was
caused them to miss a fine game.
At the start the locals got the
jump and were soon leading the
Cherokee county lads by a good mar
gin but soon the club beys bezan to
drop them in with an annoying regu
larity. They tied the score, passed
the locals and at the end of the ha]fl
had a nine poi ntlead. '
At the beginniny of the second |
half the DeMolay boys started a rally
and soon overtook the Cantonites.
From here on it was nip and tuck
with only one point separating the
two teams at any time. In the last
few seconds Marietta tied the score'
and after a fierce extra five minutes
of play managed to shoot three points
while the Canton boys only counted
for two. ;
Bobb Benson and Read did splen
did work for the locals. For Can-.
ton the whole team played well. |
Let us caution you here not to take .
a chance of missing another good!
game, so make your plans to attend
the game between the local chapterl
and the Atlanta DeMolay chaptel!
Saturday, March 1. :
Strand Theatre
Fri. and Bat., Feb. 29 and March 1
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William Fox Presents
‘““NORTH OF HUDSON BAY"
With Tom Mix
It is a thrilling story of far-reaching
adventure across vast stretches of
ice-bound wilderness; of tight-lipped,
great-hearted men; of suave, easy
spoken men; of toil and suffering
that tried the souls of the strongest
men and broke the bodies of the
weaker ones; of bitter conflicts and
stern encounters; of bloodstained
snow and lean, starving wolves thirst
ing for human nourishment.
The characters in the story are
hot-blooded men with cool heads.
Michael Dane is inflamed by love and
incensed by the murder of his brother
Gl
The reward of unlawful pleasure
is lawful pain.
Leading Candidate For Sheriff
A. C. ALLGOOD, Powders Springs P. M. GROOVER, Marietia
—————— Deputies —————
The above statement is proven by authentic reports from every
section of Cobb County. He is commended to the people of
Cobb County as a man that is thoroughly competent to fil] the
office to which he aspires and with a reputation as an arrest
ing officer unsurpassed in the BLUE RIDGE CIRCULE |
He stands for enforcement of the law and a Square Deal to all.
Ralph W. Northecutt
Chairman— Tom Sanders Campaign Committee.
Excellent Program Will be Given
at Y. W. C. A. Auditorium
Saturday, Feb. 23
The National Male Quartette of
the National Lyceum System which
will be presented to music lovers of
Marietta on Saturday evening, Feb.
23, is sponsored by the Business
Girls’ Club; and bids to be the best
program of the system yet offered
ltu Marietta.
This quartctte was formed in the
belief that there is always a suffi
lciom number of musically informed
Ipeople interested in hearing a fine
‘ensemble of male voices to afford it
a permanent place before the pub
lic,
The work of the quartette lies on
a plane of high artistic endeavor.
As a singing organization its ensem
ble work ranks with the best, while
the instrumental and character spe
cialties introduced make for a well
balanced program.
Each member is chosen for his in
dividual merit and his artistic value
to the program as a whole. Partic
ular attention was paid to the blend
ing of the voice compass with the
result that the quartette produces
tones seemingly but one voice.
Before many prominent assem
blages in the East the quartette
gained an enviable reputation. The
program was frequently referred to
as ‘““The big concert of the season;”
“Four fine singers and almost equally
good instrumentalists;’ “has devel
oped into one of the leading organ
izations of its kind in the country,”
and similar words of acclaim.
Stirring songs, worth while selec
tions on musical instruments, clever
character delineations, and comedy
talking skteches combined with real
music are the features prominent in
the program of the National Male
Quartette.
The admission to this attractive
number will be 50c¢ for adults and
25¢ for children under twelve. The
business and professional girls club
will appreciate your patronage at
this very attractive number.
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FRANK McDOWELL CON
i FESSES KILLING PARENTS
(Continued from Page Gne)
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‘prayer to the Son of God, writ upon
‘the likeness of a dove which arising
from the cleansing waters of baptism
shall light upon me bearing forgiv
eness of Jesus; and it shall be the
end of the third year of sin in me
‘and the end of mine sin before God,
the Father, Son and Holy Ghost,”
Amen.
| Charged With Murder
| The police formally charged Me-
Dowell with murder, following the
finding of the bodies of his father
‘and mother, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Me-
Dowell, shot through the head at
their home at Eighth street and
Twenty-seventh avenue, North. Both
the man and woman had been shot
in the left temple as they lay in bed.
~ The police found a pistol, 32 cal
iber, which had been recently fired
with two exploded cartridges in the
chamber. The youth admitted it was
his weapon, after first denying that
he owned a revolver. He told many
conflicting stories.
He told the police that his two sis
ters had been burned to death at
their home in Georgia a year ago,
the mattresses on which they were
sleeping being saturated with kero
sene and then fired.
Fxamination of the bodies of Mr.
and Mrs. MecDowell this morning
showed that each had been shot
twice. Powder burns around the
wounds on the man indicated the
pistol was close to his head when it
was discharged. One bullet entered
behind the left ear and the other in
the left temple. Mrs. McDowell was
shot twice, both bullets entering be
hind the left ear only half an inch
apart.
The police found a slit cut in the
front door screen of the McDowell
home and have established that the
cut was from inside and have found
a pocketknife belonging to Frank
with nicks in the blade.
They also found a weired religious
note written on a typewriter and left
in the house. The paper had been
cut in the shape of a heart and the
remnants were found in a basin in
the bathroom of the house. The pa
per is exactly like that wused in
Frank’s father’s office and the writ
ing corresponds to the type on a ma
chine in the same office. In the
youth’s room was found a religious
psychological treatise in which four
passages were marked, each being
along the same lines as in the note
found after the murder.
Frank’s grandmother was in _the
house at the time of the shooting,
but slept through it all and could
not give any evidence. She is al
most totally deaf.
The son, Frank, said that he was
awakened by shots and as he started
into the room where his father and
mother were, he was struck down.
He told the police that he did not
‘have a pistol, but later admitetd that
‘he had been shooting at a mark in
Bayboro yesterday afternoon. He
said he had cleaned his pistol and
reloaded it after he got home, but
the pistol that was found and which
he admitted was his had recently
been fired and there were two empty
shells in it.
Shot During Storm
Frank says he and the others went
to bed early, as his mother had not
been well yesterday. He slept in the
room adjoining that occupied by his
parents, the door between being open
last night. The police were called
}shortly after 12 o’clock, and when
THE MARIETTA JOURNAL
the undertaker arrived soon after, he
said in his opinion the couple had
been dead not more than an hour and
placed the time of the shooting at
11:30 during a heavy rain storm.
Mr. McDowell was in the real es
tate business, and his wife was ad
vertising solicitor on a local newspa
per. They came here from Decatur,
Ga., about a year ago. The youth
says that his father was badly burned
trying to rescue his daughters at
the time of the fire in Decatur, and
that was why they came here, as his
health had been bad since being
burned.
The Decatur Fire
Trapped in their room by a door
said by authorities to have been
locked from the outside, Marion Mc-
Dowell, eighteen years of age, and
Williamantee McDowell sixteen years
oid, were burned to death in the Mec-
Dowell home on Ponce de Leon av
enue, Decatur, on February 19, 1923.
The fire was discovered by a neigh
bor who was returning home short
ly after midnight, and although vol
unteer rescuers saved the parents,
falling rafters prevented them from
reaching the girls. Just how Frank
McDowell got out of the house was
never brought out.
Neighbors saw the girls through
the window thrown in brilliant sil
houette by the flames, trying fran
tically to open the window. Then
they disappeared. In the morning
their charred bodies were found ly
ing near the door.
Mrs. McDowell was ovecome by
the heat and smoke and her husband
was burned badly about the feet in
helping rescuers to carry her out of
the blazing building.
Mr. McDowell Burned
Mr. John M. McDowell, who was
50 years old, was born in Monticello,
Man Travels Miles
To Get Blud-Life
Mr. Williams, of Stilesboro, Ga.,
Pays Railroad Fare to Tay
lorsville, and Long Distance
Telephore to Cartersville
to Get a Bottle of
BLUD-LIFE
Stilesboro, Ga., Jan. 31, 1924,
BLUD-LIFE COMPANY,
Atlanta, Ga.
Dear Sirs:
My husband and I are taking
BLUD-LIFE and it is doing us lots
of good, and we are telling other
people about it. I am also mailing
There are a few families in Cobb county that have not yet tried
BLUD-LIFE, the wonderful health builder. We are not going to let
up until every family has learned of this great remedy.
BLUD-LIFE is sold in Marietta by Atkins & Williams, Durham
Bros., at Aeworth; Bowen Drug Co., Roswell; and all other live
druggists. (Advertisement)
and spent his boyhood there. He
entered the newspaper business at an
early age, and became well known
in weekly newspaper circles. He
was with newspapers at Forsyth, Ac
worth, Lawrenceville and Decatur
for many years, having been one of
the proprietors of the DeKalb New
Era for five years prior to the trag
edy, in which his two daughters lost
their lives.
Mr. McDowell was painfully
burned in an effort to rescue his
daughters, and had gever fully re
covered his health. TUnable to en
dure the memories recalled by the
scene of the fire tragedy, and in the
hope that Frank’s mental condition
would be helped, Mr. and Mrs. Me-
Dowell decided to remove to Florida
shortly after the girls were burned,
and located in St. Petersburg about
the first of March of last year. His
friends here understood that he was
meeting with success in his new field.
Mr. McDowell is survived by his
mother, Mrs. S. A. McDowell, who
spends most of her time with rela
tives in Atlanta; two brothers, Cliff
McDowell, of Knoxville, Tenn., and
Glover B. McDowell, of Jacksonville,
and four sisters, Mrs. P. C. Barnes,
of 645 Ponce de Leon avenue, At
lanta; Mrs. J. E. Carnes and Mrs.
E. M. Bailey, of Acworth, and Mrs.
J. H. Gentry, of Nashville. Mr. Mc-
Dowell’s mother is at the home of
Mns. P. C. Carnes™ .
Burial in Acworth
Mrs. MeDowell was before her
marriage Miss Rosa Putnam, of
Acworth, the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Putnam. She married
Mr. McDowell when he was en
caged in the newspaper business
in Aeworth. She is survived by
her mother, who was a visitor in
McDowell home at St. Petersburg
the little booklet to my relatives and
friends.
I persuaded my daughter-in-law,
who has been sick for a year, to take
BLUD-LIFE, and it is helping her.
Our son went to Rockmart yester
day to get a bottle and the drug store
there was out, so he went to Taylors
ville in the afternoon, but not finding
it there, he learned that a neighbor
had gone to Cartersville, so he phoned
him to bring him a bottle. So you
see, he paid his railroad fare and a
long distance phone call to get BLUD
LIFE. Yours very truly,
Mrs. Margaret J. Williams.
Thursday, February 21, 1924
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TRHSER SN e e REES
when Mr. and Mrs. MeDowey
were slain, and by other relativeg
at Aeworth, ¢
The two girls who . lost theip
lives in the Decatur fire Were
buried in the Acworth Cemetery
and the bodies of Mr. and My
MeDowell will be huried o, the
same lot, it was stated Wed.. lay
by relatives. Details of ],
neral arrangements have not beep
announced. :
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Phone 173-W. :
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WHITE WYANDOTTES—WiI Spar
a few settings of excellent Whit.
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W. 0. Cox, Journal Office.
PARK and store your car with N, 3f.
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FOR RENT—Several rooms g
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rooms; or take boarders. Furngee
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wnuD ISLAND RED eggs for sale
From birds that are red to the skin_
and heavy winter layers. Would like
to show you some REAI REDS 4
612 Roswell St. Eggs $1.50 ty $3.00
per setting. Ralph Manning, Mariet
ta, Ga. 2-14. P
ROOMS FOR RENT—_Three or four
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304 Cherokee st., phone 305-W.
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quick heavy fruiter, 1 1-16 stapl,
strongest local references. Price
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FIRST CLASS MEALS and comfor:.
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PURE BRED White Leghorn and
Rhode Island Red eges $1 per ser
ting of 15 eggs. Will have them at
Collins Seed Store every day. He
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