The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, July 27, 1917, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextThe Mavictta Tonetnal JOURNAL, ESTABLISHED 1866 VOL. 51. IVING BILL PASSED PAVING 1 B LEGISLATURE ' The Property Owners On Any Street Can Now Have Paving. Any street in Marietta can be paved now if the property owners on it want the work done. The bill to allow a majority of the owners of property on any street to decide this question has passed the legislature and is expected to be signed by the Governor this week. This is an important step for Ma rietta and just as fast as the people on different streets decide they want paving, just that fast can the city be paved all over. All you have to do is to get a petition of a majority of the property owners and go to the city council and request that the street be paved. Let’s see who will be the progres sive ones. HOME GUARD MEETING HELD FRIDAY NIGHT Nearly fifty members have pledged their names to the Home Guard unit that is being organized here and it is believed that within a few days there will be the necessary sixty-five to obtain recognition for the organiz ation. The committee soliciting members is hard at work and another meeting will be held Friday night when it is hoped that the required number will be secured. All men who are not within the age limit for draft into the army are requested to be present. MISS JULIA SCHILLING . GOES TO SAVANNAH. . Miss Julia Schilling has béen elect ed to the position of assistant libra rian in the Public Library of Sa vannah to fill a vacancy cause by the death of a former assistant. This is quite a distinction for this charm ing Marietta girl who won the place over a number of other applicants. After her graduation in the train ing school of the Carnegie Library in Atlanta she became secretary to the librarian and general assistant in the management of this great Libra ry. Before this she spent some time teaching. Hon. J. Randolph Ander son, who has a summer home here 18 a trustee of the Savannah Libra- Y. : Marietta regrets to lose Miss Ju lia Schilling, who leaves soon for her new position in Savannah, al though she is to be congratulated up on her appointment and on the fact that she will reside in such a beauti ful, interesting anmd altogether lovely place as that historic old city. DR VAUGHN TO PREACI‘! AT POWDER SPRINGS. Dr. A, B. Vaughn, of LaGrange, Ga., will! preach at the Baptist Church next Sunday the 29th, at 11 & m. and at 8 p. m. A MISSIONARY JOKE. Atlanta, Ga. July 23.-—Rev. Frank lin Pierce, an Atlanta missionary re- Wrning from the Orient, tells of a fellow missionary shipwrecked on an land which he. believed to be in habited by cannibals. After hiding three days in the terror of his life he was forced by hunger to come out and brave the perils unknown. Ap- Proaching a hut where he saw smoke, he heared a man bawl out: “Why W the hell did you play that card?” Dropping on his knees, the mission ary exclaimed: “Thank God they're Christians and net canibals.” AUTO LINE AUSTELL TO AT LANTA. Mrs. Mary G. Chapman, who lives U Spring street in Austell has an “Utomobile line of three trips daily U Austell to Atlanta. She also TS 1o auto parties, serves chicken Hiners and provides board for $B.OO 40 510,00 a week. Her sutos make Wrips as fast as trains do. s GORDON M. SESSIONS DIED MONDAY MORNING B — l Gordbn Moultrie Sessions passed| away at the home of his parents Monday morning at nine o’clock, af ter an illness of about two weeks. He was fourteen years old and leaves 'to mourn him besides his parents, Mr. %and_ Mrs. M. M. Sessions, four bro ‘thers and a sister, Messrs. Joe Ses sions, William Sessions, Lewe Ses sions, Archie Sessions, Lee Sessions and Lucile Sessions. While the grief of the parents and of the sis ter and the brothers is great the greatest grief is that of Lee, the twin brother. They dressed alike, were alike in their ways and manners and been inseparable all their lives which had been spent in Marietta, where they were born. Gordon was a member of the Presbyterian Church and a consecrated Chris-i tian. The funera! services were conducted by his pastor, Dr. J. H. Patton, at the residence, Tuesday afternoon at four o’clock. “It is Well With My Soul” and “Shall We. Gather at the River” were sung by Mrs. Cliff Dobbs, Mrs. J. H. Patton, Mrs. E. P. Dobbs, Mrs, Fred Morris, Mr. Hemp and Mr. Vivian Waddell, The pall-bearers were George Mont gomery, Morgan McNeel, Horace Field, Ed. Hunt, R. H. Hutcheson, ‘and James J. Daniell. The boy scouts marched in a body to the house and before the lily covered white casket was taken from the house they viewed the face of one of their number and marched in a body to the grave to pay a last tribute to the little life which had meant so much to each of them. NOTICE Citizens of Cobb County: A mass meeting of the people of this community will be held at Mt. Zion School House at 7 p. m. o’clock Saturday, July 28th. The object of the meeting is to discuss the war, conscription and other acts recently adopted by our government. A good speaker will be on hand. All interested law-abiding citizens are cordially invited to be with us. CHAS. MOHON, R. L. BENSON, C. M. HEAD, L. A, BRANTLEY, Committee. MEN GOING TO WAR NEED LIFE INSURANCE Why should a young man liable for military service insure his life? There comes a time in the life of almost every young man, when he is called upon to assume the duty of supporting a near relative. We see about us daily fathers who have been stricken—unable to work and who no longer can receive a pay check' We see the sons going out to work and keeping the meal barrel full, and providing help for mothers and sisters. So long as this young man can do this all goes along well. The present time sees many young men who do not have to do this to day, as father is well and making a good income and supporting the fam ily all. right. The son goes away, to war, perhaps a year has gone by changes have come, fathers business or his health is gone, mother cannot go out to work, and yet hunger must be stayed. The son who could help if he were here, is gone. He is fight ing in France, or perhaps word has come that he was killed in battle, so that a duty that would have been a preat joy to him is denied. And yet had this son insured this value of his life to his mother or father, he could have provided for them over many years possibly until they tooe had been called to meet him beyond. If a young man thinks at all he can not help but see that in insuring his life, he may thus prevent his most loved relative from becoming a pub i lic care, objects of charity to be cared for by the county. And such care is cheerless. For no one can tell ‘what the future may bring, fortunes 'go in a short time, a man may be 'well off in July, and in January a ’bankrupt. He may have plenty in December, and March raay find him destitute. Death is sure, and life In surance is & pay check coming regu larly after work is over for good. He can use a small part of his pay for this protection. . AND COURIER MARIETTA, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 27, 1917. Little Marianne Brumby \l'o Use Silver Trowel For : This Qccasion. The first brick in the new pave ment will be laid Saturday morning at ten o’clock by little Marianne Brumby, daughter of Mayor and Mrs. J. R. Brumby, Jr. A committee .is in charge of the program and you will miss an event in the history of the city.if you are not there. ' Short talks will be made by Dr. J. H. Pat ton, Judge Morris and Col. J. Z. Fos ter. A silver trowel has been ordered especially for the occasion and will be suitably engraved and presented to the little lady who %will use it Sat urday. The Mayor and Council, the ladies of the Civic League and other or ganizations will be present. The pub lic is invited' and requested to be present. : The exercises will take place in front of the postoffice. This will be a big event for Mari etta as it is expected since the new paving bill has passed the legislature that the paving of the square is just the beginning of paving the entire city. FOOD ASSOCIATION |, __MET HERE SATURDAY - The monthly meeting of the Cobb County Food Safety Association wad held at the Court House Saturday afternoon, with a representative body of farmers from all over the county present. The meeting was called to order by Mr. Cheney, the President who re viewed the work of the Association, calling attention to the great in crease in food crops planted this year, and urging upon the members to keep up their good work. He stressed the fact that this organiza tion was not merely for this season, but that members were pledged for the full duration of the war. - Mr. Cheney also outlined in detail the Bill that he has introduced in ‘the Legislature for the creation of a State Market Bureau, the object of which is to hélp the producers get together and enable all our products to be marketed readily and at fair prices. A resolution was passed en dorsing this Bill and urging the Leg islature to pass same. The following bulletin of crops suitable for planting now was dis cussed and adopted. Fall Irish potatoes up to early Au gust. Bunch beans, any variety. Turnips, Rutabagas up to August Ist. ; Turnips, Yellow Aberdeen, during August. Turnips, Seven Top, during August Turnips, Globe, during August. Rye, during August. Burr Clover, August or Septem ber. Onions. BAPTIST CHURCH NEWS. Next Sunday at the eleven o’clock service Dr. White’s topic will be “Christian America, World Oppor tunity.” Mr. Cliff Mansfield, of Tyler, Tex., whose father was the superintendent of this Sunday School fifty years ago, was attending the W. O. W. con vention in Atlanta last week and came up Sunday to be present in the Sunday School and made an interest ing talk. Another inspiring talk was made by Mr. Albert Dobbs, an old Marietta resident, and active worker in the Baptist Sunday School. He paid lov ing tributes to the memory of Ex- Superintendents Mansfield and Mr. M. R. Lyon, whose memory is dear to ‘the heart of every Mariettan. - Mvr. Dobbs is now making his home 'in New Britain, Conn. " The B. Y. P. U. rendered an origi ‘nal program Sunday evening. ‘There lwore more than fifty present. FAEE BY 0. § No Need to Buy High Priced Plans Offered by Men Who Sell Plans. Washington, D. C., July 23.—There is no mystery about building a satis factory storage house for sweet po tatoes. Southern farmers who are paying large prices for patented plans and equipment alleged to pro vide the only successful way of stor ing sweet potatoes, are being de frauded. Specialists of the United States Department of Agriculture whose attention recently has been called to instances in which farmers have paid as high as $750 for sets of plans, do not hesitate to brand such activities as plain humbuggery. Plans of houses that incorporate the simple principles of storage and com mon sense methods of construction, and which have proved successful by vears of careful trial, are furnished free by the Department of Agricul ture to any farmer who will ask for them. Because reports have been made and circulated in the South that stor age houses recommended by the De partment of Agriculture are not sat isfactory, it is believed necessary, now, that the time to provide ade quate storage for the coming harvest is at hand, to correct such state ments. One man with plans to sell has said that the shrinkage of sweet potatoes stored in houses designed by the Government specialists is from 16 to 20 per cent, while in houses of his design there is practically no shrinkage. The fallacy of such a claim, Department specialists point out, lies in the fact that shrinkage is essential to good keeping of the pota toes. Sweet potatoes stored in the type of house recommended by the Department shrink from 8 to 10 per cent in weight, not in bulk, by reason of evaporation of surplus moisture. Proper coring of sweet potatoes means getting rid of surplus mois ture, and the type of house which the specialists suggest accomplishes this by combining the ordinayy prin ciples of good ventilation with com mon sense methods of construction. Storage houses built according to plans suggested by the Department of Agriculture have been in use in every State of the South for five or six years. The Department has no knowledge of failure in any house built and operated strictly according to recommendations. Four years of investigation with one hundred houses under observation showed that the average loss by decay, after an average storage period of 124 days, was less than 2 1-2 per cent. In determining this loss representatives of the Department personally graded the potatoes in each house—a ‘total of 228,000 bushels. Every potato that had a decayed spot was thrown out and classed as decayed. In each case the potatoes were harvested, stored and cared for by farmers. In the Department’s own storage house at Arlington Va., sweet potatoes stored in October last yeat and re moved the latter part of June showed a loss of less than 1 per cent. Farmers intending to build stor age houses should write to the De partment of Agriculture for Far mers’ Bulletin 548, “Storing and Marleting Sweet Potatoes.” This bulletin gives plans and lists of ma terials needed and also tells how to convert buildings such as abandoned tenant houses into storage quarters. MR. J. B. COX IN CUBA. Mr. J. B. Cox, proprietor of the Marietta Cigar Factory, left Saturday morning for Havana, Cuba, where Ite expects to place contracts with tobac co growers to supply his factary here. There is a shortage of tobacco in spite of the war and Mr. Cox is hav ing a hard time getting the right quality tobacco to make his famous brands with. Mr. Cox knows good tabacco and will not have anything else which is one reason his cigars are so popular. He will be gone about two weeks. TRADE AT HOME CHARTER FOR SMYRNA LOAN ASSOCIATION T!‘.oﬁmyrna.F‘arm Loan Associa tion which was organized some weeks ago has received its charter from the federal government and is now ready to lend money to any one in Cobb County. The organization was perfected this week at a meeting held at the Smyrna Bank and Mr. R. R. Nash was elected President with George S. Park, Vice-President. The direc tors are Messrs. W. A. Barnes, M. F. Chastain, and H. C. Hudgins. Messrs. H. C. Hudgins, Croff Reed and M. F. Chance are the members of the board of appraisers. This is the first farm loan associa~ tion to get its charter in Cobb coun ty under the new federal farm loan act. . OLD TIME CAMP MEET ING TO BE HELD SOON oOld Fashioned Camp Meeting! Where? At the Marietta Cump Ground, When? Beginning Friday before the second Sunday in August. Do very many people go there now? Yes, a good many sons and daughters and grandchildren of the first tent holders still go there, striving to keep up this old sacred place where many, many people have received great blessings. Isiit worth the time and trouble to pack up and move out there for the few days of meeting, now that we have so many churches; do we need these camp meetings as in days gone by? Let us think on this. Is not sin as prevalent or even more so than in other days? Are not these very critical times in pur foun try’s existence? And what is the re ligious condition of our homes? Are the “family altars’” still going? Are our young people just as consecrated and useful as they might be? Then let us keep up these ‘“‘recruiting sta tions,” our dear old Camp Ground, where so many of the soldiers of the cross have gone forth to battle against sin and wrong. These (old Camp Meetings furnished many re cruits in faithful and loyal members for the near-by churches and there fore prove a help indeed. Yea, as long as the timbers in the old arbor (which were hewn out by loving hands) shall last, shall we not meet for a few days each year to “Praise God from Whom all Blessings Flow” ; to have our hearts warmed by the reuniting of familles and friends; and our souls sweetly stirred by the plain gospel sermons and the dear old songs our parents loved and sang in years gone by? Then shall we let minor things keep us from tenting this year? Nay, never, this should be made and can be made the best year for a good genuine revival at the old Camp Ground. There are to be two new tents built, and several families from a neighboring town, who have never camped with us be fore, coming out to help support and enjoy a good meeting. Then as the soldier boys sing, lets “Rally to the Call” and do our “bit” to help in the cause of our Master who has said: “The harvest truly is plenteous but the laborers are few.” “A TENTHOLDER.” ARMY CHAPLIN TO PREACH AT ST. JAMES. A Chaplain of the United States Army from Fort McPherson will preach at St. James Church next Sunday morning at 11 o’clock. Rev. Claiborne is away on his vacation. A service by an army chaplain at this time should be of unsusal interest and it is expected that a large crowd will{ hear him. MONEY TO LOAN We have several thousand dollars on hand for good real estate loans. Can make good farm loans at 6% interest. No delay. See us if you want to borrow money. HOLLAND & McCLESKEY, ATTORNEYS REYNOLDS BUILDING, MARIETTA, GA. COURIER, ESTABLISHED 1901 ON FOOG HERE AUGUST 8. ' . Speakers From The College Of Agriculture Will Deliver Addresses. The importance of the production, conservation and distribution of food will be discussed at a meeting at Ma rietta, Court House on Wednesday, August Bth. Special speakers from the State Agriculture Celiege, Ath ens, Ga., will discuss the above sub jects. ‘ Food will Win the War. Let us have a good attendance that day. The ladies of the town and county are especially invited to come One of the speakers will be one of the Home Demonstrator experts. She will give a talk on canning, dry ing and conserving food. Don’t forget to get some lime this vear and, raise a good wheat crop. Order your seed rye early, sow it in cotton and corn land and build up the land—it needs it. Rye will protect the land from washing this winter, and help you lower your fertilizer bill in the springe Automobile trip to Athens Aug. 15 and 16th. Let me tell you about it. Respectfully, Marietta, Ga. D. E. SAWYER, County Agent, EFFORT TO DEFEAT CHENEY MARKET BILL - Especial attention of Georgia far mers is called to the effort that is being made to defeat their market bureau bill through a substitute which, if passed, would not bring them the relief they seek and, in addition, would put a further tax burden upon them, to provide for the expenses of it. The pending market bureau bill, known as the Cheney-Stewart bill, is the measure which has been in dorsed by the Farmers’ Union of Georgia and by farmers’ mass meet ings all over the state. It provides for the payment of expenses out of taxes which the farmer is already paying, namely, the inspection fees on fertilizers and oils. There is plenty of surplus money derived from this source to meet the expense, and no extra burden should be put on the Georgia farmers for it. Georgia farmers should be careful not to be misled by measures which will fail to bring them the real marketing re lief which they need and must have. It would take a volume to answer the question as to what the State Bureau of Markets is doing and can do for Georgia consumers and Geor gia producers. Sometimes a single little incident tells almost the whole story. The other day a Seuth Geor gia farmer who wanted 20,000 sweet potato slips, happened to be in At lanta, and called on Director L. B. Jackson. He made known his wants and immediate hold was taken of the matter. Another South Georgia farmer was found who had 20,000 potato slips he wanted to sell. The two were brought together and both profited by it. The same thing can be done with practically every Geor gia product. S SUBSCRIBE FOR THE MARIETTA JOURNAL NO. 30.