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The Marietta Tonrwal
JOURNAL, ESTABLISHED 1866
Official Organ of Cobb County Georgia
VOL. 52.
Literary Honors Come To
Marietta—Rome Wins
I n Athletics.
The Seventh District School Meet
last week was an important event
in Marietta, bringing together as it
did, many young people from all over
the district.
Prof. W. T. Dumas, who was Presi
dent of the Association as well as
Superintendent of the local school,
deserves credii for the akble manner
in which the arrangements were
planned and executed, and in the
entertainment of the young people
he had the generous support of our!
people. . |
Thanks are due also to those who
so kindly permitted the use of their
cars, and for the reception at the
Club.
We published last week a list of
the visiting scholars and teachers,
but a number of other visitors were
also here during the exercises, a
mong them Prof. Stewart from the
University at Athens, who was the
first Supt. of Marietta schools after
organization of the school system.
From every point of view the
meet must be considered a success,
and Marietta has reason to be satis
fied with the honors which she car
ried off.
Marictia won the Literary Cup
while Rome captured the athletic
trophy. In all the departments the
local students made a fine showing.
The next meet will be held at Cal
houn and Prof. McAlldnm, of that
school, was elected President of the
Association for the coming year while
Prof. W. P. Jones, of Rome, was
elected Secretary.
We give below the standing and
record made by the various schools
in the competitive exereises:
Esszy Boys.
1. Hume Eastman, Rome.
2. George Littlefield, Calhoun.
3. James Smith, Marieta.
Essay Girls
1 Helen Faw, Marietta.
2. Anna Schedl, Rome.
3. Carolyn Field, Cartersville.
5 Music
1. Louie Dean Stephens, Marietta.
2. Mabel Owens, Rome.
3. Jas. H. Taylor, Jr., Darlington
Recitation.
1. Helen Hollingsworth, Dalton.
2. Sara Pyron, Acworth.
3. Frances Weood, Cedartown.
Declamation.
1. Chas. Schenedl, Darlington.
2. J. Edwin Sage, Marietta.
3. Frank K. Sims, Jr, Dalton.
Spelling Boys.
1. George Anderson, Marietta.
2. Irvin Silverstein, Cedartown.
3. Allen Roff, Calhoun. !
Spelling Girls.
1. Etta Moss, Calhoun.
3. Hazel Cruce, Dalton
3. Cora Kitchen, Cartersville.
Note Books.
History—Dalton.
French—Rome.
Latin—Cedartown.
Science—Cedartown.
Commercial Studies—Dalton.
Mannual Training, Domestic
Science, and art—Rome.
Track Meet.
Rome—22 points.
Cartersville—l4 points.
Calhoun—l 3 points.
Adairsville—lo points.
Dalton—9 points.
Darlington—7 points.
Marietta—6 points.
SALES OF CHICKENS
WILL BE RESUMED
All restrictions on the sale and
slaughter of hens will be removed on
aggd after 19th. Merchants may re
sume the trade in fowls.
Arrangements have been made
whereby people wanting to can fruits
an§ vegetables that require sugar
for their preservation may get the
auantities needed in excess of fami
ly use.
BERNARD AWTREY,
Federal Food Administrator for
Cobb County.
Town and Country Unite To
Buy Liberty Bonds and
Thrift Stamps.
No event finds a more welcome
place in these columns than the splen
did showing made by Powder Springs
on Saturday.
Every part of Cobb County is go
ing to do her part in the war, and her
part in the support of the boys who
go to the front, but for pure and
unselfish patriotism we must cheer
fully commend the good people of
Powder Springs, and by special re
quest of Chairman J. B. Oglesby, we
wish to ascribe a large part of the
success and honor, to the farmers in
that district, who so liberally helped
and made possible the splendid re
sult. By such unity of action, and
such organization, and such patriot
ism, the Kaiser can and will be de
feated.
We feel that much praise is also
due to Chairman Oglesby and his able
assistants. The organization provid
ed for the division of the workers
into Blues and Reds. Captain Hugh
Moore being necessarily absent, Cap
tain J. L. Butner took his place in
command of the Blues, while Capt.
E. C. Wolf led the Red brigade.
We 'should like also to mention
those faithful ladies who worked on
both sides but as we have not all
the names we can not do so.
Surely without our women we
could not fight a war, and with them,
we shall go on to final and over
‘whelming victory.
They say the Blues won, and per
haps they did win, but they can not
say that the Reds lost, for every
stamp was a shot int othe Kaiser’s
camp and only the Kaiser lost.
By previous agreement the drive
was made jointly for War Savings
Stamps and for Liberty Bonds and
the effort was therefore divided be
tween the two, $9,500 of Thrift
Stamps being sold, while $B,lOO of
the Liberty Bonds found purchasers.
To buy Bopds and Thrift Stamps is
a good habit and is likely to grow.
All honor to Powder Springs and
the noble men and women who are
thus working, for our homes and for
liberty!
Dixie Flyer Wrecks
At Vinings Thursday
Engine and Several Coaches
Are Turned Over When
Train Leaves Track
On Thursday morning about 2 o’-
clock. the South Bound Dixie Flyer
on the W. & A. was derailed, just
north of Vinings station.
The eng'ine'and tender with Bag
gage, mail and express cars left the
track and plunged down a fill, while
broken rails did much damage to the
coaches.
Engineer Harris and his fireman
v ere thrown to one side of the wreck
age which accounts for their escape
from instant death, and while the
fireman was seriously injured, Mr.
Harris had only a few cuts and
bruises.
The mail clerk also was injured,
but apparently not seriously, and
from the looks of the wrecked cars
next morning the escape of others
was miraculous.
One broken rail had pierced the
, floor of the day coach and went on
up through the roof of the car in
juring no one. .
Trains were promptly detoured
over the Southern Railway until the
tracks were cleared.
| L e e s e
‘ MR. D. W. LEWiS DEAD.
I Mr. D. W. Lewis, 68 years old, died
at his residence on Powder Springs
road. on April.llth, after a brief
iliness. The remains were shipped
to MecDorough, for funeral and in
[terment. .
AN ORI RIEIRR
MARIETTA, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 19, 1918.
Matietta Titie Defenders In High School Meet
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From top, left to'right: Lois Dobbs, Charlotte Northcutt, Helen raw, Edwin Sage, David Anderson,
Prof. W. T. Dumas, Joe Marchman, O2slow Milam, Randolph Simmonds, Clarence Worley, Candler Campbell,
Wallace Montgomery, Missing from the picture are Louie Dean Stephens,James Smith, and S. A. Connor.
REPORTS ARE SHORT
Few People apnd Few Sec
tions Have Yet Done *
Their Full Duty.
County Chairman J. E. Massey of
the Liberty Loan Committee has fur
nished us with the list of subscribers
to the Third Liberty Loan as has been
reported to him to this date and we
publish it below. It only contains
the names from three or four dis
tricts and is not a complete list from
those districts. We publish the list
below, and Mr. Massey asks us to
urge the various town and country
chairman to report as rapidly as pos
sible what has been sold not waiting
for final figures.
Further we are asked to impress
upon our people the necessity for
work of the most active character.
Our country is in a very serious cri
sis, and must have money. It could
take the last dollar we have, but it
only asks for the loan of a reasonable
amount and no patriot will withhold
a penny from his country in a hour
like this. :
Our boys are dying on the fields
of France for our honor and liberty
and if we do not support and rein
force themswe are not worthy of any
liberty and the days of freedom on
the earth are numbered.
Our attention has been called to
he fact that many residents of Cobb
County on the car line, at Marietta
as well as at Smyrna and along the
line do business daily in Atlanta and
have not yet been solicited.
For local paatriotic reasons these
men should subscribe through the
Cobb County Committee, and we
hope they will do so.
Subscribers in the county will fin
alliy be tabulated and at least the
names published. Is your name
there? Put it there.
Marietta
Martin F. Amorous, Mrs. J. P.
Leake, Oliev E. Faw, H." R. Ridge
way, W. J. Frey, J. E. Massey, Eli
zabeth E. Massey, Mrs. J. E. Mas
sey, Jean Massey, C. T. Nolan, An
nie May Dunn, Geo. E. Daniell, D.
A. Summerour, C. B. Dickson, M. C.
Frey, W. T. Potts, S. A. Connor, Nan
nie L. Connor, W. L. Richardson,
Mrs. H. M. Cottingham, Mabel C.
Cortelyou, Mrs. M. C. Davenport,
Jno. R. Fowler, J. B. Glover, B. T.
Frey, Mrs. Howard Perkinson, J. E.
Allgood, Rt. 6, Miss Jane Allgood,
Rt. 6, Miss Frances Allgood, Rt. 6,
H. S. Manning, Mrs. C. L. Hough, Rt.
1. G. H. Wharton, R. F. D. 1, F. L.
Sanges, Jno. T. Dorsey, Dewitt Cole,
Jr., Bayard Cole, Mrs. A. Reynolds,
&
Continued on Page Two.
OFFICIAL RED CROSS
NOTES AND ACTIVITIES
TO OUR RED CROSS WOMEN!
A TRIBUTE FROM A SOLDIER
This note of appreciation of the
great work that the American Red
Cross is performing was contained in
a: letter from a soldier serving in
France, written to a friend in Ameri
ca. It is a simple, forceful, and en
‘tirely unsolicited tribute to the wom
den of America. The Editor Red
Cross Magazine.
“If there ever was a spur to hon
est American manhood, it is to be
found in the work, sacrifice, and
loyal, cherful aid of the Red Cross
‘women here and at home. Those
here are undergoing hardship many
a man would cringe from. They
never complain, but greet us cheerly
with smiles “nd kind words
They are both an inspiration, a
source of help, and a living shame
to us. That which would have been
a living hell for us, has now become
a Paradise through their ministra
tions and tireless efforts. Those
“over here” and those at home will
some day be fittingly rewarded for
their sacrifice, but we who enjoy the
sunshine they spread are speechless
and powerless to show our apprecia
‘tion of them and their deeds. It
goes too deep for words and the lit
tle deeds which we are able to do
for them are so inadequate and in
significant that we feel hurt at our
inability better to show what we feel.
1 have censored some four hundred
letters of the men. Their attempts
to make friends and relatives at
home realize just what the Red Cross
is doing and what it means to them
are pitiful and pathetic, despite their
sincerity. Would they were inspired
to write for eternity what they feel
but cannot express. And wherever
the men go there will be found the
Red Cross. But the “Women of the
Red Cross” are the bond that helps
to keep us from becoming a horde of
uncivilized barbarians that camp life
soon breeds, and war turns out in
seconds.
Just before midnight, New Year’s
Eve, 2 number of doctors and nurses
gathered in the officer’s ward to help
us to greet the New Year. The first
toast was “Victory,” and the Major
was about to propose a funny one
when a young lieutenant begged his
pardon and asked us all to drink to
the following one:
“To our Women, who sent us
‘_forth with courage in their hearts
'and tears in their eyes!
[ “To gur women at home, who are
sacrificing their all that we may win!
l “To our women overe here who
give their own lives that we may
live! God bless them—and damn the
'man who does not respect them and
the coward who does not fight for
'them i
ISURGICAL DRESSINGS
} COMMITTEE NOTES.
| The Surgical Dresings Committee
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} Continued on Page Eight
BUREAU OF MARKETS
JLPS GET GOO
A PRIGES
Atlanta, Ga., April 18.—(Special)
—The Bureau of Crop Estimates of
the United States Department of Ag
riculture, has just published some
figures which will be of particular
interest not only to farmers in the
state, but to all Georgians, indicat
ing as they do, Georgia’s exceptional
farm values.
According to that bureau the aver
age price paid for Georgia’s 1917
corn crop was $1.60 a bushel, and the
average price paid for the corn crop
of Alabama was $1.28 a bushel. With
a production in this state of 72,000,
000 bushels in 1917, the Georgia corn
crop was worth $23,040,000 more
than the Alabama corn crop, on a
basis of the same number of bushels.
The difference in selling value of 32
cents a bushel is somewhat remark
able as between close neighboring
states, but the figures come direct
from the most reliable crop estimat
ing bureau in existence, and Geor
giars must find in them particular
cause for congratulation. .
The same bureau states that the
average price of Georgia’s 1917
sweet potatoes was $1.05 a bushel,
and of those of Alabama, 91 cents, a
difference of 14 cents in Georgia’s
favor, or, on the total crop of 11,-
625,000 bushels, an excess of 7,627,-
500 for Georgia over her neighbor.
The causes of these remarkable
differences may have been several,
but there can be no question that
the persistent activity and effort of
the Georgia State Bureau of Mar
kets of the Department of Agricul
ture, had much to do with it.
. Much of the Georgia crop of sweet
notatoes was preserved for continued
use during the winter through the
huilding of curing houses, built at
the instance of the Market Bureau.
In this connection the Bureau stiress
es the fact that it is important that
every producer of sweet potatoes in
larze quantities in the State, should
provide himself with a potato cur
ing house to take. care of his product
and in order that it may be fed to
the market as needed. Construction
of potato curing houses is the most
important thing producers of this
valueable crop can do.
The State Bureau of markets has
aiso had much success in the matter
of finding markets both for the sweet
potato and the velvet bean. It was
through the efforts of the Bureau
that the sweet potato was finally
made a part of the American army
ration. and, also, that wide interest
| COURIER, ESTABLISHED 1901
Official Organ of the City of Marietta
10CAL DRAFT BOARD
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MR, WALLAGE GETS
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'Names of Men In Last Call
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i Are Not Yet Ready To
I Be Made Public.
l The local board is going ahead ex
!:\n:ining all men in Class one as rap
; idly as possible, but up to the hour of
[ our giong to press had not named the
| men who are to fill the Cobb County
| quota of the last call.
| In this call will be 28 white men
land 27 colored who will be sent
étu the camps on April 28th.
| Mr. Campbell Wallace, who is
;::m'r(‘t:lry of the local board, has been
honored with appointment as Inspec
| tor of Local Boards for this section
|and is away much of the time now,
|but in accepting this place he was
I given permission to act as the secre-
Tktzugv of the local beard. .
} The appointment came to Mr.
| Wailace unsolicited and was on ac
!('ollnt, of the efficient manner in which
'he has conducted the work here.
iBOY SCOUTS MEET
i AND ELECT OFFICERS
} The Boy Scouts met Tuesday night
lfor the purpose of organizing. Mr.
| Marvin Norton and Mr. Len Bald
win were present and gave us a nice
talk. ‘
Mr. Raldwin was elected Scout
| master with Mr. Geo. H. Sessions
|and Mr: Stanley Welsh as assistant
| scoutmasters. The members of the
| Troop Committee are Mr. Marvin D.
%Norton, Mr. E. L. Moore and Mr,
|l“r:mk Bunting.
i The troop was divided into two
!patro]s. The wolf for the large boys
‘and the hyena for the smaller boys.
James T. Anderson Jr., was elected
!Patrol leader and Mongeon Brumby
| agsistant patrol leader for the wolf.
: Wm. DuPree was elected patrol lead
| er for the Hyena with Burwell Nolan
as his assistant.
Those present were: wolf: James
T. Anderson, Jr., Patroi Leader, Jas.
| Petty, Jr., Steve Clay, Robt. Fowler,
| Geo. H. Sessions, Jr., Thomas No
!]an, Lee Sessions. Hyena: Wm. Du
| Pres, Patrol Leader, Burwell Nolan,
!assistant patrol leader, T. C. Shaw,
' Montgomery Anderson, Kenneth
Campbell, Robt. Gilbert, Davenport
Brown,
JAMES PETTY, Jr.,
; Scout Master.
A MARIETTA BOY
IN THE FAR WEST
We publish in another part of this
issue extracts from a speech by John
H. Mclntosh, or Houston Mcllntosh,
as he was known in Marietta, at an
important gathering in the west.
The city of Lewiston, Montana,
published and circulated this speech
in the west where the activities of
the 1. W. W. were interfering with
the work of war preparations.
Mr. Mclnosh is a brother of Mrs.
D. C. Cole and Mr. B. L. Mcllntosh,
and has many friends of his boyhood
in Marietta, who remember his ora
torical powers, and his athletic abili
ty. ;
On one occasion he broke he rec
ord of the South in pole vaulting, and
during the school meet last week,
many of his friends recalled the oc
casion of that event.
He occupies an important position
in his western home and we are glad
to give his friends here this patriotic
address.
SCLDIER MURDERED
WEDNESDAY NIGHT
A soldier supposed to be Charles
A. Hogan, of New York, was{ifbund
dead, with his throat cut in the out
skirts of Atlanta on Thursday moirn
ing.
Only a woman’s foot prints were
found in the vicinity of the body and
no clue yet has been found to the
identity of his murderer.
in velvet beans, both as a mixed feed
for stock, and as a fertilizer, has been
Aroused.
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