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The MarieHa Fournal
JOURNAL, BSTABLISHED 1866
Official Organ of Cobb County Georgia
VOL. 52
WHILE BATTLES RAGE
| ABOR HERE
Red Cross Notes And Plans
For Further Work By
The Members
In some unaccountable way there
has arisen a misunderstanding in re
gard to the work of the Red Cross
and the Council of National Defense.
gome seem to think that there is no
necessity to work in the Red Cross if
they are working in the Council of
Defense.
No greater mistake can be made
than this one, for in no way does the
work conflict. In fact the work goes
hand in hand for the good of the en
tire country.
Miss Jane Delano, Director of the
American Red Cross Nursing Service,
calls attention to the following facts
which we should bear in mind at this
time, when the campaign for recruit
ing the nurses is the immediate ne
cessity: “If the women of America
fail to realize their duty at this time,
American men who are calied upon
to offer their lives for their country
will suffer accordingly. The men on
the firing line must be nursed back to
health. The nurses must not fail
them. Several thousand American
nurses are now in France and almost
as many more are needed for our
own cantonment hospitals where the
troops are in training. If we are
to meet the demands made upon us,
the women of our country must be
willing to accept equal sacrifice with
our men.” |
Miss Delano also points out that
for many years to come the demand
for women trained in nursing, in
cluding welfare work and health ser
vice, will increase tremendously.
The woman who is fortunate e
nough to have been trained for ser
vice as a Red Cross nurse, who has
no serious disability and who fails
her country at this time is just as
much a slacker as any man in a like
position.
The July allotment for the Cobb
County Chapter is 300 Comfort Kits.
The branches have all been notified
of their portion of this allotment.
The samples of the Kits and the ma
terial for making them will be sent
to the branches just as soon as the
Supply Depot furnishes them to the
Director of the Woman’s Work. The
branches are requested to complete
the work as soon as possible. The
allotment has been late in reaching
us, but we hope to be able to turn
the work in at an early date.
Motor corps drganized.
The Motor Corps was formally or
gaized on last Saturday at the home
of the Commander, Mrs. W. A. Du-
Pre, at her home in Marietta. They
had a splendid attendance at this
initial meeting, and the Corps will be
a fine addition to the Red Cross ac
tivities of the county. Mrs. DuPre
desires to enroll members from each
of the branches in the county. All
women in the county owning or hav
ing the use of cars are requested to
tommunicate with Mrs. DuPre, on
Whitlock Avenue. The work already
done by women who have volunteered
to become members of the Motor
Corps will be credited to the Corps.
A roster of members will be kept by
the Commander, so that all work of
the Corps will not fall upon a few
members. A report of the work of
the Corps will be given in this columr
from time to time.
Miss Constance Cole has been ap-
Pointed Director of the class in Me
chanies, Any one desiring to take
ihg course will please communicate
With Miss Cole at phone 353.
The followig ladies have done Mo
tor Service recently: Miss Julia An
derson, 4 hours; Mrs. J. J. Daniell,
h j"""“‘f‘-‘; Miss Hattie Black, 4 hours:
M‘f-‘F Aimee D. Glover, 1% hours;
b}_zss Mary Robeson, 1% hours; Miss
Virginia Crosby, 4 trips, one to each
of the following places: Roswell, Au-
Stell, Powder Springs, and Smyrna.
Mrs. A, 8. J. Gardner and Mrs. R.
N Holland have been appointed as
Chairmen to collect jelly, jam, and
Preserves for our soldiers. House
keepers are requested to put aside a
f’ma” quantity of these good things
M small jars and glasses for these
ladies, who will see that they reach
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REVISION OF BALLOT
Judge Appoints Three New
Jury Commissioners
On The Board
The Cobb County Jury Commis
sioners will meet on next Monday to
work on the revision of the Jury Box
of the county.
" The personel of the Commissioners
is at present as follows:
"H. P, Carpenter of Roswell District.
'R. D. Moon of Macland District
'A. A. Bishop of Marietta District
Orlando Awtrey of Acworth District
T. K. Gresham of Coxes District
Ross Dawson_of Gritter District
This personel has been changed in
the last few days by the order of the
Court, which we print below and
which explains itself.
At Chambers, Marietta ,Ga:
There being two vacancies in the
Board of Jury Commissioners of
Cobb County, caused by the expira
tion of the term of office of J. L.
Gantt and J. M. Stone, and Mr. Gantt
being a County Commissioner, and
for this reason disqualified under the
law for this appointment, it is order
ed that A. A. Bishop be and he hereby
is appointed Jury Commissioner of
said Cobb County for the full term
of six years from the 31st day of Ju
ly 1918 to succeed J. M. Gantt.
_ Further ordered that H. P. Carpen
ter be and he is hereby appointed Ju
ry Commissioner for the full term of
six years from the 31st day of July
1918, to succeed J. M. Stone.
T. N. Camp, one of the present
Jury Commissioners of said county
of Cebb is now one of the county tax
assessors, and for that reason he is dis
qualified under the law for further
serving, as Jury Commissioner, and
he is hereby removed as Jury Com
missioner of said county of Cobb for
cause
Further ordered that R. D. Moon
be and.he is hereby appointed Jury
Commissioner of said county of Cobb
to fill out the unexpired term of T. N.
Camp, his term to expire on the 31st
day of July 1922.
It is ordered that the clerk of the
Superior Court of Cobb County en
ter this order of record ad notify the
parties herein named of their respec
tive appointments.
This 30th of July 1918.
N. A. MORRIS
Judge Superior Court B. R. C.
SHORT GOLF COURSE FINISHED
We have been asked to announce
that the short golf course is now
finished. This course is short and
was made for the benefit of the la
dies and a large number of the men
who have found the long course a
little strenuous. It is believed by
the officers that this course will
largely stimulate the interest in golf
playing, and be very much enjoyed
by our members. :
The lake is filling rapidly, being
now some twelve feet in depth. A
Jargce number of the Club members
are enjoying bathing in the lake.
Honor roll.
A full report of the Red Cross re
turns is not available for this issue
of the paper, but will be given next
week.
The Committees in charge of the
six days at the Strand Theatre made
every effort possible to assure the
success of the benefit, and the Chair
man of the affair wishes to thank
everybody conected with the Thea
tre, and also the women for the work
they did, and particuiarly the Junior
Auxiliary for their work on Friday,
and the Boy Scouts on Saturday, for
their splendid financial success.
Mrs. L. B. Robeson, $5 from sale
of vegetables, to be credited to the
wool fund. dies 5
Mr. Otis Brumby for the tickets
for the Boy Scouts Red Cross Day at
the Strand Theatre.
~ Mr. Marchman, Manager of the
'Strand, for pass for a month given
to the Boy Scott selling second high
est number of tickets for benefit.
Mr. George Sessions for supervi
sion of the Boy Scout tickets.
New members.
J. D. Kemp, Mrs. J. D. Dobbs, Mrs.
AND COURIER
MARIETTA, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 2, 1918.
PLAN FOR MARKETING COTTON
CROP AND HOLDING BACK PART
Atlanta, Ga., Auvgust 1— (Special)
{Prompt action has been taken by the
Georgia State Bureau of Markets in
iorganizing the various counties of the
state for the gradual marketing of
the cotton crop under the plan sug
gested by the Cotton States Official
Advisory Marketing Board in its re
cent New Orleans meeting.
An active man has been secured in
each County of the State as Chair
man for that County and the Bureau
’is now ready to take the matter up
[with each County Chairman for the
purpose of bringing about local or
‘ganization and securing pledges.
~ The County Chairmen will be re
;quested next week to select three ac
‘tive farmers in each district or town
ship of the County, whose duty it will
be to canvass his district and secure
the signatures of all possible farmers
to the following pledge:
“I do hereby pledge that I will not
offer for market more than 20 per
cent of my 1918 cotton crop in anyi
one month and to hold over for‘i
twelve months, or until such time as
shipping facilities are ample to move]
the surplus freely, one bale out of
every three.
“N. B. The signing of this card
carries no legal obligation and only
expresses the desire of the signer to
market his cotton gradually.”
The work of securing these pledges
will be begun within the next week or
ten days, so that before the end of
August it is believed and hoped that
practically every district in the State
will be signed up.
This plan, it is confidently believed,
will lead to a far more gradual sale
of cotton than has ever been known
before at the opening of the season,
and will serve better to protect the
crop against any attempts at price
depression.
President J J. Brown, of the Cotton
States Advisory Marketing Board,
states that the Board has now won
its point in the matter of preventing
Government action in fixing the price
of cotton.
The Committee sent to Washing
ton by the New Orleans meeting to
handle this matter, has succeeded in
its work and it is announced by Presi
dent Simpson of Oklahoma, mho is a
member of the Cotton Staates Offi
cial Advisory Marketing Board, also
a member of the Washington Com
mittee, that there will be no price
fixing of raw cotton, either legisla
tive or executive.
%I am very much gratified over the
successful efforts of our committee,”
said President Brown, and feel that
cotton growers all over the South will
rejoice in the splendid work it has
done.
“I am informed that in addition to
preventing any action looking to
price fixing, the United States Ship
ping Boadr has agreed to furnish the
Lottoms for the exportation of one
or two million more bales of the 1918
¢rop than of the 1917 crop. Further,
it is stated, that the War Industries’
Board will consume two million more
bales or the low grade 1918 crop
than of the crop of last year. This
will take care of three to four million
bales in excess of those consumed
from the 1917 crop. There is every
indication, therefore, thatwe are or‘
a better basis than heretofore, and
the cotton growers of the South have
every reason to congratulate them
selves over the outcome. |
DUG UP WHISKEY PLANT
Sheriff Swanson with some reve
nue officers from Atlanta uncovered
another liquor plant in Lemon Dis
trict last week. 5
It was in the stable of one Sol Will
iams, an old offender, who is ah'eadyi
ender a $l,OOO bond: for a similar |
offense committed some time ago. |
The still was a homemade affair,
made of a milk can and it was cop
cealed in a sort of secret cellar under
the stable, together with a quantity
of mash in process of fermentation.
The plant was well concealed, but
as the evidence was strong the of
ficers kept probing until they located
Sol was not to be found, but he will
in ail probability be locatéd, and re
quired to answer for this as well as
prior offenses of the same nature.
. Sol later turned up in Atlanta to
surrender to the Federal Court rather
than face the Cobb County Court 2t
ithis time.
l The Government and local courts
are doing much to make the whiskey
“ 2 mAT e, s smilßnn o
HONOR ROLL SERVICE AT
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
- On- Sunday at the First Baptist
Church the evening service will be
devoted to a program in recognrition
of those members of the church con
gregation and Sunday School who
are now serving their country abroad
or elsewhere. .
- Fifty-five names are on the Honor
Roll at present, and if any have been
overlooked they should be put on the
roll at ence.
- A special invitation is extended to
the friends and families of these boys
to the Boy Scouts and to soldiers. -
We publish the program as arrang
ed below. °
Opening Song America Congre
gation,
Prayer Dr. I. A. White
Song Young Ladies Quartet
Roll and Response Greer Edwards
Harold Hawkins
Trombone Solo and Choir Dr. A.
H. Anthony and Soldiers.
Reading Mrs. E. G. Gilbert
Reading Miss Maud Foster
Solo John Christian
Song Young Ladies Quartet
Address Dr. A. H. Anthony
Quartet Camp Black Jack Soldiers
Address - Dr. I. A. White
Quartet Camp Black Jack Soldiers
Song Star Spangled Banner Con
.~ gregation
Benediction Dr. 1. A. White
SCOUTS ON DUTY
—_—
The Boy Scouts were called into
active service of the Red Cross last
Saturday, when they sold tickets for
the Strand Theater, which was being
operated for the benefit of the Red
Cross during the week.
We report the sales below:
Geo. H. Sessions, Jr., 102 $14.20
Robert Fowler 71 9.45
E. Gifford 49 6.35
Fleming Comfort 50 6.25
Leo R. Shaw 44 5.60
Wgt Gilbert 34 4.30
arlie Hendricks % s
Frank Edwards 26 3.50
Robert Mell 16 2.40
Eugene Gann 12 1.60
Albert Bishop 3 | 1.40
: Total 441 §558.45
Geo. H. Sessions Jrs won first prize
$2.50 in gold, and Robert Fowler
won the second, a pass for a month at
the Strand Theater.
- TRACTOR SHOW AT ROME
The next tractor demonstration
held under the auspices of the State
Ccuncil of Defense wil be held at
Rome, Ga., on August 7th and Bth.
Other meetings have been held in dif
ferent sections of the State and have
been of great educational value to the
people.
The design and purpose of the
Tractor Committee of the State
Council of Defense is to find some
soultion of the shoratge of labor on
the farms in this State and they bring
this practica! demonstration of how
the tractor operates so that the far
mer himself can see for himself whe
ther or not the tractor will help in the
solving of the labor problem.
There will be quite a parade in
Rome, beginning at the Forrest Hotel
at ten o’clock of different kinds of
labor saving machinery and farm
tractors.
The Governor of the State, Hon.
Hugh M. Dorsey, the Commissioner
of Agrculture, Hon. J. J. Brown and
the State Colledge of Agriculture will
be present besides various other pro
minent men and memebers of the
State Council of Defense.
The Tractors will be operated Tues
day by women who are inthe services
of the State of Georgia, known as the
Motor Corp Division, State Guard,
shoming that can really operate these
machines. Altogether two great
days are being planned for North
west Georgia and we believe that
every farmer should come and bring
his wife and children. .
GAS MASK DEFIES USE
OF CHEWING TOBACCO
Modern warfare rather than pre
judice is responsible for the decline
of the Ameriean habit of chewing to
baceo, say Y. M. C. A. secretaries who
sell tobacco in the canteens in France.
It’s the gas mask that’s done the trick.
£ devotee of the plug is seriously em
barassed when called upen to don his
was mask. As one Southern soldier
put it: “With terbacca bitin’ inside
yer cheek, the ol’ gas mask anchored
‘tween yer teeth, mustard gas all
about ye an’ no chanct ter open yer
mouth-——was 'sure Be™ " 7T T
FIRST GOBB COUNTY
D. W. Pittman, Of Powder
Springs, First To Make
Great Sacrifice
On Tuesday Mr, J. M. Pittman, of
Macland, received a message from
the War Department saying that his
son, Weyman Pittman, had been kill
ed in France on July 13th.
No other details were given, and
it will be long before any details
from comrades can reach the stricken
parents.
Weyman Pittman was in Alabama
at the time he left for the army, and
hence is not listed with the Cobb
County boys in the records.
He is the first of our boys to have
made the supreme sacrifice for hqme“
and country. Our ysmpathy goes out
to the bereaved relations, but a hun
dred times more glorious is his name
and memory, than that of any man
who would fail to respond to the call
of humanity, or who would hesitate |
in offering his life to protect his na
tive land.
NOONDAY ASSOCIATION
The Noonday Baptist Association
will be in session on Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday of this week at
Noonday Church in this county.
A Jarge attendance from fhe chur
ches throughout the association is ex
pected and desired.
Rev. A. J. Morgan will be the Mo
derator and Mr. B. V. Greer will be
the Clerk.
KEEP TRYING TO SELL IT
Deputies Hicks and Latimer last
Saturday evening made a search of
the house of Abe Dillard, colored,
just above town, and found a gallon
of whiskey and a lot of wine.
From the evidence it was apparent
that Abe was making the wine by
mixing a concoction of some sort
with a small part of whiskey.
Abe, as is usually the case, claimed
ignorance of the presence of the'a
bove mentioned liquors in his house,
but he was taken in tow by the of
ficers and locked up until Monday
when he succeeded in getting bonds
men in the sum of five hundred dol
lars.
RED RUST OR RED SPIDER
APPEARING ON COTTON
This can be controlled by spraying
the under side of the leaves of the af
fected plants and those near it.
A good spray is made by thorough
ly mixing one gallon of strong soap
suds with one pint of kerosene.
Or you mix 4 gallons of water
with on pound of whale oil soap.
It will be no use to use anything
at all on the plants if you do not get
it on the ander side of the leaves.
Use a spray rod with an elbow at
tachment and you can easily get at
the troubled parts.
If you have any diseased cotton,
take some of the plants down to the
Extension School at Powder Springs
next week, and you will likely learn
something new.
Be sure to go down, and to take
gome of your family dowr too.
D. E. SAWYER.
QUICK JUSTICE
George Gardner, one of the negroes
who was caught some days ago bring
ing whiskey into Marietta in an au
tomobile, plead guilty before Judge
Morris on Tuesday and drew a sen
tence of twelve months in the Cobb
County chain-gang, without the right
to pay a fine and get out.
This is the third term for selling
whiskey that George has served, but
it appears that he can not get out of
the business when he is free.
This leaves the jail with only one
prisoner, which is rather unusual, but
it was because of the jail being so
nearly empty that the Judge was able
to put off the July term of court.
Later—Dewey Dean who was re
leased on hond was arrested and car
ried to Atlanta on Wednesday, by a
Revenue on_the Federal charge
COURIER, ESTABLISHED 1901
Official Ozgan of the Gity of Marietta
Mr. E. Y. Hill, of Kennesaw,
Is Fatally Cut By A
Circular Saw
A fatal accident occurred at Ken
nesaw on last Friday morning, result
ing in the death of Mr. E. Y. Hill, a
prominent citizen of that place.
Mr. Hill was angaged in cutting
some lumber for a neighbor, in a lit
’tle saw-mill he owned. Something
got out of order, and as Mr. Hill was
Wmaking the repairs his clothing caught
in a belt and he was drawn into the
saw, cutting off one of his legs, and
otherwise mutilating him so that he
died within a few minutes after the
accident.
Mr. Hill was engaged in cutting
had lived in Kennesaw all his life.
He was one of the most prominent
citizens of the county. :
He was a Mason in high standing,
and a devoted member of the Metho
dist Church, in which his funeral ser
vice was held on Saturday afternoon.
A large gathering of friends and
relatives were in attendance and
many were the floral tributes to his
memory.
He leaves a wife, a sister, Mrs.
Jack Lunsford and two brothers, E.
G. and B. H. Hill.
He was buried with Masonic Rites.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH NEWS
Dr. Patton preached Sunday morg
ing from Ist Thessalonians 5:23, and
conducted the usual services at night.
He will be absent from the Church
‘during the month of August, and the
pulpit will be filled by Rev. D. M.
Ogilvie, of Dresden, Ohio. Mr. Ogil
vie has supplied the Church before,
and many will remember his sound
and spiritual sermons. -
During August the Sunday night
service will be discontinuéd, but Mr.
Ogilvie will conduct the usual Wed
nesday prayer service, and a faithful
attendance on the part of the Church
members. is earnestly requested.
Dr. and Mrs. Patton will spend
their vacation among the mountains
at Franklin, North Carolina.
The committees of the Woman’s
Missionary Society will meet in the
lecture room of the Church next Mon
day afternoon at 4:30.
Mr. Montgomery will resume his
place as teacher of the men’s class
at S. S. next Sunday.
St. JAMES CHURCH NEWS
Holy Communion Sunday at 11
oclock. Evening Service at 8 oclock.
Woman’s Auxiliary Program meet
ing at 4:30 oclock Friday.
Three men are still needed to take
the classes of th teachers who are
now in the service of our country.
R. R. C
The price of The Marietta Journal
after September Ist” will be $2 per
year, and it will be worth #. Better
renew at once.
See Editorial announcement.
BISHOP CANDLER TO PREACH
AT MARIETTA CAMP MEETING
On Friday night, August 9th, the
meeting will open at the Marietta
Camp Ground, and will be continued *
until the following Tuesday morning,
Bishop Candler will preach on Sun
day morning, the 11th.
All tent owners are urged to oceu
py the tents and everybody will be
welcome throughout these services.
CITY PUMP IN PLACE
The new pump for the new city
well is now in place and connection
made with thecity main.
This gives us the additional supply
of water we so much need and you
can once more use the garden hose
if you wish to the limit.
The swimming pool also will be
open again to the delight of the
young folks. ;
The preliminary test of water from
this new well shows up all right,
made to fully establish the analysis.
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