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The Marietta Touenal
JOURNAL, ESTABLISHED 1866
YOL. 45.
COL. GRIFFIN'S FATHER
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REV.S.H. GRIFFIN, DIES,
Venerable Methodist Minis
ter Expires at Home
Near Hampton.
The' venerable father of Colonel
Charles H. Griffin, Rev, S. H. Griffin,
died suddenly at his home at Hamp
ton, in Henry county, Sunday morn
- ing. Colonel Griffin was, at the time,
on his way home from Hot Springs,
and arrived in ‘Marietta at noon. After
a short stop in the city, he went to
Hampton, where the funeral was held
Tuesday.
M S. H. Griffin was well known
. ny citizens of Cobb county. He
would have been eighty-eight years old
if he had lived until the 12th of next
December. He was a Methodist min
ister and the oldest in the state in the
~ years of his service. He was at one
time president of the Laurel mills, at
Roswell, and married the widow of
Mr. Jason Woods, the founder of that
enterprise. She survives him, with
several children.
Mr. Griffin was the owner of a large
tract of land in the edge of Hampton,
and lived there: for 'sixty years. He
leaves a valuable estate.
The many friends of Colonel Griffin
deeply sympathize with him in his be
reavement. His father was a man
whose long life of good deeds won for
him many friends, who, while grieved
to hear of his death, will know that he
has, entered into the joy of anothér
life.
All our slippers for men and
men’s clothing at 25 per cent less
than cost at the German Store.
L. Saul. Proprietor.
r,: WANTED TO BUY—Junk, barrels,
Y kegs, bottles, iron, brass, copper, rub
ber. Highest prices paid.
W. H. DAVIS VINEGAR WO RKS,
June 2-8 t Atlanta, Ga.
| STATEMENT OF CONDITION OF L
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
MARIETTA, GEORGIA.
At the close of business June 7th, 1911, condensed from report to Comptroller of the
Currency, Washington, D. C.
ASSETS
Loans and Discounts . . . . . . . . $474153.66
DR L 1,291.13
United States & State of Georgiaßonds . . 112,419.35
Furpiture and Pixtures . . . . . . . 1,500.00
CASH : v
In Vault . . $29,854.93
With Banks . . 96,804.52
U 8 Treas. . . 3,450.00 130,109.45
$719,473.59
We invite your attention to the above statement, which demonstrates the CONFIDENCE in which *
this bank is held by the public. ,
With twenty-three years of faithful service to our credit, 'WE SOLICIT YOUR BUSINESS,
oftering every accomodation consistent with conservative banking. /
J. E. MASSEY, JOS. M. BROWN, G. P. REYNOLDS, D. R. LITTLE,
President. Vice-President. , Cashier. Asst, Cashier.
FANNIN POLITICIANS
IN COURT LAST WEEK.
Colonel J. Z. Foster went up to Fan
nin county last week to defend eleven
Republicans, who were charged with
havirg bought votes, furnished whisky
and done other things conirary to the
statutes in the election last Oectober,
when the Republicans were swept inta
power. One of the election managers
was among those under indictment.
The solicitor general was not ready
for trial, and Colonel Foster entered
a, demand for trial, the cases going
over to the next term of court. If the
solicitor general is not ready at that
time, the men will go free.
Colonel Foster also represented Joe
Freidman, who is known to some of
the ctizens of Marietta. Mr. Freid
man was charged with violating the
Sabbath by unpacking some goods on
that day. He claimed that, being a
Jew, he observed Saturday, and the
jury found him not guilty.
FIRE CHIEF MACE MORR!S
MEETS WITH AN ACCIDENT.
Fire Chief Mace Morris is on
crutches as the result of an accident
which happened while he was on a
fishing trip at Bull Sluice last Thurs
day, :
Mr. Morris was swimming and
started to c¢limb into a motor boat. In
reaching for a rest for one of his feet
under the beat, he got too near the
propeller just as the motor was
started, and the brass blades cut his
right foot very badly.
Mr. Morris came to the city, and Dr
Nolan dressed the wound, which still
gives the fire chief a great deal of
pain. If the propeller had been going
at full speed, Mr. Morris’ fogt would
have been injured more seri ly, and
possibly might have been cuv Jff.
Civic League Meeting.
Please notice change of time of Civic
League, The June meeting will be
held Monday afternoon, June 19th, at
4:00 o’clock, at the Kennesaw House.
Remember the date and come.
MRS. C. M. CROSBY, President.
MABEL C. CORTELYOU, Historian.
AND COURIER.
MARIETTA, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 16, 1911.
.
Remains of John Hames to
‘Be Brought to Marietta
For Interment
Mr. W. J. M. Hames and Messrs. D.
C. Hames, Arthur Hames and Jim
Hanles will leave this week for Mur
ray county on a fishing trip, and while
there will have prepared for shipment
to Marietta the dust of their Revolu
tionary -ancestor, John Hames, who
was buried at Sardis, in Murray
county, in 1860, and who was known
prior to his death as the oldest man
in the United States. The census
records gave his age at the time of his
death as 121 years, though it is said
he was really 131. His wife was a
sister of Sergeant Jaspet, of Revolu
tionary fame.
John Hames was the great-great
grandfather of Messrs, William and D.
C. Hames, and they wish to have his
dust repose in the National Cemetery
at Marietta. Arrangements to that
end have been made with the govern
ment, and Mrs., John M. Graham and
other ladies have selected the snot for
the burial. The grave of John Hames
was found by Messrs. Hames on their
fishing trip. to Murray -county last
summer. After more than fifty vears
the earth will give up nothing but the
dust of the old soldier, but it will be
brought to Marietta within the next
few day and placed temporarily in the
undertaking establishment of Mr. W.
J. Black, to await the interment in
the Natig)nal Cemetery.
Escaped Convict Recaptured
- Will Hill, a negro convict escaped
from the county convict camp last
Friday but was re-captured in Mari
etta the same day by Mr. A, A.
Minor. Hill was serving an eight
months sentence for stealing.
1
JOAN WITHROW DIES
|
Wife-Murderer Dictates a
Statement--Has Picture
| Taken on Scaffold.
John Withrow, who murdered his
wife, was hanged at Blue Ridge Fri
day afternoon about 2 o'clock. The
execution was remarkable for se\‘eral
of its features,
A day or two before the hanging,
Withrow was visited in jail by his lit
tle son, to whom he said he was going
where “mamma” was and told the
child good-bye.
About 1 o'clock on the day of the
execution Withrow sent for Judge
Morris and Colonel George D. Ander
son, in order to make a statement.
They found him the ccolest man in
the jail and apparently a happy man,
who regarded the gallows as the gate
| way to a better world.
| Withrow said he had sent for the
!ju(lge in order to explain that he har
ibm'ed no ill will toward him for hav
| ing passed the death sentence. The
'oundemnetl nian then dictated to
I(‘olonel Anderson a statement. He
isaid he had ordered some whisky and
| went over to Mineral Bluff to get it.
{ When he returned to his home he was
gdrinking, and his wife saw he could
{ not take her to see her father, as he
| nhad promised.
’ He said:
' “When she saw she was not going
’ro get to go, she picked up the baby
and started to the road. She went out
‘through_ the window. Some bushes
‘had grown up between her and me,
and I got down on my knees to see if
I could see her, and, being drunk, I
did not see her. 1 fired one or two
shots along behind as she went to the
road.”
’ Withrow said whisky was the cause
of his wife’s death and of his going‘
Im the scaffold, and he hoped Judge
| Morris would succeed in his efforts to
LIABILITIES
Oaglil .ol i 0 ST
Surplus . . ; . oyl i . 50,000.00
Undivided Profits . . ; j . 13,59166
Circulation ; . . . . ; 75,000,00
Bond Account oo . . . 5,000.00
BUIS Fayable . . . . ooty 0 AGEEEREE
Rediscounts - - - - i 18,678 .61
DEERIER: o - s e el - 417,203.32
$719,473.59
break up the traffic,
He said:
“I have made peace with God,
and am willing to die for what I have
done—taking the life of my wife—and
it will not be long until I will meet
her in heaven.”
Colonel Anderson says there had
been the most wonderful change in
Withrow that he had ever seen im any
man—a change from a bulldog sullen
ness to a brightness and happiness
that could hardly be feigned, and that
seemed almost uncanny in a man
about to be hanged.
From the jail to the scaffold, which
had been erected nearly a mile away,
Withrow 'was escorted under guard,
waving his hands to persofls whom he
recognized and smiling as he passed
along. He was smoking a cigar which
Judge Morris had given him.
On tie scaffold he had several pic
tures taken by Mr. Wilson, proprietor
of the Blue Ridge Inn, one with the
rope around his neck, another with
the black cap adjusted, etc. These he
asked Mr. Wilson to send to his
mother, with other souvenirs of the
hanging, including a piece of the rope.
He gave no reason for the strange re
quest.
Withrow asked for the father of the
murdered woman and, after a little
while, he was found and brought to
his son-in-law, who asked pardon for
the murder of the daughter, saying
they were soon to meet in heaven.
The old man hung his head, hesitated
and finally said that if Withrow truly
repented for the crime he would for
give him.
With a smile on his face, Withrow
stepped upon the trap and said to the
sheriff:
“I am ready, if you are.”
A moment Jater the trigger was
gprung.
It is said that the mother of the
murdered woman smiled when she
heard the *“thud” that told her the
cruel crime bad been avenged.
Best tennis shoes, worth 60 and
65 cents, going at the German
Store for 49 cents. L Saul, Pro
prietor.
Waeatch for the Swift 1904 Clothes
Washer. mch 24tf
COURIER, ESTABLISHED 1901.
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Both Will Be at Chautauqua
to Be Held in Cartersville
Next Week
At the last moment Senator Bob
Taylor, of Tennessee, the man who
has made the “fiddle and the bow”
famous, the orator, fun-maker, and the
entertainer, has been secured by tele
gram by the Cartersville Chautauqua
Committee. Senator Taylor will give
one of his famous and entertaining
lectures Wednesday June 21st at 11
o'clock in the morning.
William Jennings Bryan will lec
ture Thursday, June £2nd, at 11
o'clock in the morning. Visitors to
Cartersville can attend Wednesday,
June 21st, and stay over until Thurs
day, "June 22nd, and tbh us be able to
hear both Taylor and Bryan,
For further details of the Carters
ville Chautauqua see the large adver
tisement on second page of The Jour
nal and Courier, ‘
GOOD ROADS CONVENTION
TO BE HELD AT ROME ON 20TH.
Postmaster Keeler is endeavoring to
interest Cobb county officialg and eiti
zens in the Good Roads convention
which ig to be held in Rome on the
20th. He has received geveral letters
from Mr. Albert N. Tumlin, of Cave
Spring, who is taking an active part in
the movement,
The good roads train, with a lot of
road-making machinery on board, will
be a 1 Rome at the time of the CONVEL
tion,
It is hoped that Cobb will be well
represented, as the movement looks
to the construction of a road from
Chattanooga via Rossville, LaFayette,
Summerville, Rome, Cartersville, Ac
worth and Marietta to Atlanta.
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