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The Marietta journal and courier., 1918-04-19
AUSTELL

Protraeted meeting began at the
Methodist church Sunday morning,
conducted by Rev. Stanton, evangel-
ist, assisted by Mr.. Watson, of Dal-
las, to lead in the singing. A cor
dial invitation is extended to all.
The l. 0. R M. will conduct a SER
vice flag exercise on Friday, April
26th,. An appropriate programme
has been arranged, and an interest
ing occasion is promised,
The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
I. P Copeland that arrived March
29th, will be called Donnie Frances.
Mrs. Will Prather and little daugh-
ter, of Lost Mountain, spent part
of last week with her mother, Mrs. j.
M. Caldwell
Mr.. J. T. Winters, Of Atlanta,
spent Sunday with his mother, Mrs
C. H. Winters.
Miss Mary Strickland, of Atlanta,
spent Sunday afternoon with rela-
tives.
Mrs. H. L. Davis was the weekend
guest of friends and relatives in At
lanta.
Among the ladies going to Lithia
Springs Friday afternoon to attend
the Parents-Teachers meeting were,
Mesdames Thad and Fred Hum
phries, R. M. Mather.
We appreciate the attendance of
a number of Lithia Springs ladies at
the service Sunday night.
Mrs. Harrington of Rochester, N.
Y, after an extended visit of six
weeks to Mr.. and Mrs. j. R. Winters,
returned to her home Sunday.
Mr.. J. D. Perkerson Killed fine
hog last week, weighing four hun
dred and ninety-eight. They made a
bout two-hundred pounds of lard.
He has another about the same size
to kill
Mrs. Strickland has returned from
Florida, spending the winter in st,
Petersburg, Tampa, and Jackson
vile.
Mrs. Strickland says she has felt
more winter in the last two weeks
since coming home, than she did
all the winter months.
Milton Caldwell, of Chicamauga,
training camp, is visiting his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. j. M Caldwell.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stephen A. Cox, Miss
Pearl and Mr.. Aleck, with their three
grandchildren, have been sick with
mumps. They are all doing nicely
now.
While on visit to Mr.. Cox's home
recently he showed pair of names
The Marietta journal and courier., 1918-04-19

very much visiting.
Mr.. and Mrs. Forest Brooks visit
ed Mr.. and Mrs. T. T. Alexander last
week.
The guests of Misses Louise and
Chessie Boring Sunday were Miss
Pauline Moore and Miss Canniemae
Maddox
Mrs j. NJ Davis came home Sun
day from the Sanitarium.
Aunt Sarah Strickland, as we al
call her, is getting along nicely. We
hope she will improve faster when
she gets her rolling chair.
Miss Louella Grogan visited her
sister, Mrs. w. R. Vernon, last week.
Remember next Sunday is Brother
Crows regular appointment. We
would be glad to have as many as
can on that date.
SCHOOL GIRL.
The Marietta journal and courier., 1918-04-19
MOUNT OLIVET.

Mrs. L. L. Wade of Lost Noun
tain, and Mrs. Mayors, of Marietta,
have been visiting Mrs. A. c. White
of this place.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wesley Taylor spent
Saturday night and Sunday with Mr..
and Mrs. Ernest Barfeld, of Kinks
Chapel
Mr.. and Mrs. H. H. Hefner visited
the formers mother and brother,
Mrs. H. H. and Mr.. R. H. Hefner, of
Sandy Plains, last Wednesday and
Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace Hamilton
and children, Of Due West, were the
guests of the latter's parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Joe Adair, Sunday.
Mr.. Lenard Hefner and mother and
Mrs. ]. L. Refner spent Saturday
night and Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs.
George Smith, of Mount Calvary.
Mr.. and Mrs. johnson Williams
were the weekend guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. G. F. Harrison.
Mrs. o. H. Orr visited Mrs. E. d.
Fitzgerald Saturday.
Mr.. Clarence Pitner spent Satur-
day night with Mr.. George Harrl-
son.
The recent cold spell did but little
damage in this section although there
was plenty of ice, snow and frost.
Remember the singing at this
place next Sunday evening. Let ev-
erybody come out
TRIXIE.
The Marietta journal and courier., 1918-04-19
MILFORD

Mrs. J. R. Faver had as her guest
for the week end, her nephew, Mr..
Hiram Gober, of Macon, and sister,
Mrs. W. H. Faver, of Atlanta.
Mrs. C, L. Shaw has not been very
we'll the past week.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. W. Anderson ana
Miss Addie Anderson spent Sunday
with the family of Mr.. Bule Harris
The cold snap did not kill very
much of our fruit, all the trees were
loaded with fruit, and it would have
been almost impossible for it all to
have stayed on the trees.
Mr. Bub Harris has as fine an or
chard of peaches as we have seen
which bids fare for large crop.
Mr.. and Mrs. Milton McLarlty
spent Sunday with relatives at Aus
tell
Mr.. and Mrs. j. R. Faver and Mrs
Culbertson spent Sunday with Mrs
F. L. Wise and Mr.. and Mrs. W. W..
Wise.
Mr. Luther Anderson, of Austell,
visited the family of Mr.. Bub Harris
Sunday. While there he killed large
hawk measuring four feet from tip
to tip. Come again, Luther when sl,
our "roosters get ripe" and we VIII
treat you to chicken dinner
Mr.. and Mrs. C. Lowe and chill
dren spent the weekend with the
family of his father near MasoilS
Church, Fulton county.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. Lowe spent sun
dav with Mr.. and Mrs. W. B. Blair
Mr.. High McLarty is improving we
are glad to learn 20
Walter etaoeta etaetaoitaol On
WILLIE.
The Marietta journal and courier., 1918-04-19

made by his grand father seventy
five years ago. He hasn't thrown
them away for new styled ones.
Mrs. Susie Brown, of Smyrna, was
the guest of Mrs. Cox this last week.
Miss Katie Westmoreland had
Strawberries and cream Sunday, pick
ed at home.
Mr.. j. B. Humphries was the guest
of Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Pair for din
ner Sunday.
Much damage was done to gardens
and other crops by the cold of last
week. We haven't heard any whip
poor-wills yet, which is sure sign
of springs. DELLA.
The Marietta journal and courier., 1918-04-19
MACLAND

Rev. F. E. Jenkins left Sunday af-
ternoon for Marietta where he will
assist Dr. Smith in a meeting there.
His appointment here Sunday night
was very ably filled by young sol
der, a member of the Y. M. C. A.
Mr.. H. F. Hamilton who has been
suffering severely with one of his
hands, has gone tc Marietta to DR..
Nolan's Sanitarium.
His many friends hope to get out
again.
Mr.. Dock johnson and family, of
near Dallas, spent Sunday here with
their brother, Mr.. James Johnston.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Will Hill,
fine son April 9th.
Miss Lizzie Pittman is spending
this week with relatives at Middleton.
Mr.. V. r. Cantrell made business
trip to Atlanta Saturday.
Harry Lindley, of Camp Gordon,
spent a few hours at home Satur-
day.
Mrs. Margaret Robinson is quite
sick at this writing. We hope she will
soon recover.
Misses Gladys Lindley and Lola
Griggs attended the High School
meeting in Marietta last week.
Mr.. N. G. Beavers spent last week
in Fannin County on business.
RUBY.
The Marietta journal and courier., 1918-04-19
MOUNT ZION.

News is very scarce on account of
bad weather and there has not been
The Marietta journal and courier., 1918-04-19

Read Journal Want Ads.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1918-03-15

following places: Lavinia, Treze-
want, Christmasville, Mckenzie,
McLemoresville, Huntingdon, HoI-
low Rock, Clarksburg, Buena
Vista. New Zion. Atwood and
Landlord. Examination will be-
gin at 10 o'clock and continue I'M
til the examination is finished ID
the following branches: Ortho-
graphy. reading, writing, gram
mar, Tennessee history, United
States history, geography and
physiology.
Owing to the shortage of teach
ers we hope every young man and
woman completing the eighth
grade will take this examination
at some one of the above places
and enter upon high school work
and later prepare for the profess
sion of teaching.
Yours truly,
D. t. BARNHILL,
Secretary County Board of Edu-
cation.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1918-03-15
Wreck at Mckenzie

A railway wreck occurred about
10 o'clock Thursday night OF
last week at Mckenzie, demol-
ishing several passenger and
freight cars and bruislng sew.
eral passengers, but no lives
were lost or critical injuries
sustained. A freight was stand
ING on the N, 9. & St. L. tracks
when passenger train No. 104 on
the L. & N. road, which crosses
the N, G. & St. L. nearly at right
angles, backed into the freight
train. Three Pullman cars on the
L. & N. train we're thrown from
the track and overturned, one be-
ing badly wrecked. Fortunately
the passengers escaped. only four
or FIVE receiving slight injuries.
Two freight cars we're completely
wrecked, one being loaded with
hay, the other with coal oil or gas
oline stoves.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1918-03-15
FATHER BROWNS SELF
J. A. Roane Commits Suicide Near
Spring Greek

j. A. Roane, farmer, aged 70
years, committed suicide by drown
ing himself in the Forked Deer
river near Spring Greek late Sat
urday. night. The body was re-
covered Sunday afternoon by
searching parties. He had been
missing since Saturday afternoon.
The cause Of the suicide, it is
claimed, was the result of Mr..
Roane's eldest son. Raymond, be-
ing placed in class one of the draft.
He is alleged to have remarked
Friday that he had nothing to live
for, now that his boy would have
to go to war. Raymond is 81
years of age.
When brought from the river
Mr.. Roane's body was weighed
down with what farmers know as
the shoe, part of a cotton scraper.
1t was attached to his neck by a
piece Of wire. In addition to his
son, Raymond, Mr.. Roane is sur
vived by wife and two other chill
dren.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1918-03-15
GOOD ROADS CONGRESS
Much Enthusiasm Developed for
the Cause at Jackson

The congress of good roads held
in jackson was we'll attended and
was a splendid success. Allof the
twenty-one counties in West Ten
nessee, except Lake, Upton and
Obion, were represented by en-
thusiastic delegates, willing to
teach and be taught. Due to the
large attendance, the meeting place
was changed from the rooms of the
Association of Commerce to the
court house. j. d. johnson, as
sistant commissioner of agriculture
presided over the meeting in the
forenoon. and r. A. Hurt. one of
the road commissioners of Madison
county, presided in the afternoon.
Nicely M. Key. city attorney, de-
livered a very cordial welcome ad-
dress. Thomas B. King, chairman
good roads committee, Memphis
Chamber of Commerce, was the
first speaker on the program. A.
NJ. Nelson, state highway engineer,
on the proper system and method
of maintaining earth and gravel
roads, was highly entertaining and
helpful.
Much enthusiasm was aroused
by the days convention, and there
is no doubt that much that is prac-
tical and useful in the great ques-
ton of building and maintaining
reads in West Tennessee will re-
suit from the discussions.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1918-03-15

may rest easy, as it has no bear
ing on the war nor any other world
event. 1t is natural and has been
recurring from time immemorial.
The people Of the northern sec
tions of the United States have be-
come so accustomed to the North
ern Lights" that they pay no more
attention to them than to the ris-
ing and setting of the sun.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1918-03-15
rlaiI lover There"

American relatives writing to
soldiers in France are requested
by the United States postal SER
vice in France to be more careful
in directing mail. They are asked
to write in ink and direct the let
tiers Private" or Captain" or
whatever the mans rank is. Thirty
days is about the average time il
requires for a letter to reach a sol
der from the date of mailing.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1918-03-15
Beverly A. Jones

Beverly A. Jones, a farmer re-
siding three miles west of Treze-
want, died suddenly at his home
Sunday, at the age of II years.
His wife and fourteen children
survive him. He was member
of the Baptist church and his re-
mains were buried in the Mt.
Pisgah cemetery, near Atwood,
after funeral services conducted
BY his pastor, Ed. S. Allen.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1918-03-15
RYE'S MESSAGE TO WOMEN
Endorses Their Efforts TO tiar.
monte Their Work
70 the Women Of Tennessee:

To the Women of Tennessee:
Ny attention has been called tt
the proposed meeting of the Ten
nessee women engaged in war worE
to be held in the Hall of Repre-
sentatiyes on the 4th and 9Th o.
April, next, For the purpose o.
emphasizing the Importance o.
this meeting, | desire to endorse
the efforts OF the good women OIL
the state to bring about a more
thorough understanding and APP.
probation of the great work to bt
done by the different women's or.
CARNATIONS, so that all may work
together in harmony to accomplish
the desired end and produce greater
results.
The great value and efficiency
of our women in this as well as
every laudable undertaking car
not be oYerestimated. Without
their assistance we can hope to ac-
complish out little in things worth
while, and we realize that without
their unselfsh devotion to the
cause nearest and dearest to the
heart of every American citizen,
the supreme sacrifice our sons are
making for humanity will have
been made in vain.
1t is expected and desired that
this meeting will eliminate all du-
plicate work now being done and
prevent such confusion and waste
of energies in the future. Plans
should be devised for the syste-
matte conduct of all women's war
work activities.
| trust that all women in the
state, without regard to particular
with which they
are affiliated, will attend this
meeting, and in their coming to-
gether they will have but one mo-
tive, one object, one purpose, and
that is: How best to aid in this
struggle for principles and
humanity.
TOW G. RYE.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1918-03-15
EIGHTH Grade Students

The Carroll County Board of
Education has ordered an sEami-
nation to be held gu March 30 for
all eighth grade students in the
county. who wish to be promoted
to the high schools. ANY and all
students who have finished the
first eight grades of school wook
ard wish to enter the first year of
high school work, are requested
and they are required to take this
examination at some one OF the
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1918-03-15
Arm Broken

Miss Ruby Scates was The vic
tim of a serious accident Wednes-
day Of last week. While near the
station at Hico the horse she was
driving became frightened at a
passing train and ran away. She
was thrown out of the buggy.
breaking one Of her arms and
otherwise bruising her up bodily.
She is the daughter pf Walter
Seates, who lives five y Is north
of town on The Mex road
The buggy was baalg
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1918-03-15
NORTHERN LIGHTS /"
Attract Attention and Much Com.
ment Here

Thursday night Of last week oul
people we're attracted BY a billiant
light in the north. 1t was the ap-
pearance of the Northern Lights
or Aurora Borealis, and it had
been so long since this phenomenon
of nature was visible here that at
first it did not dawn upon the peo-
:! pie as to just what it was. There
were all sorts of guesses as to
what caused the peculiar lights in
the north, and some associated
their appearance with the war in
some way. 1t has been twenty
four years since these lights were
so plainly visible here, but further
north they are seen more often
and do not attract so much atten-
ton.
The exact cause of the Northern
Lights has not yet been established.
Scientists have wrestled with the
question for many years, and they
seem no nearer a decision as to the
cause than they were when the in
vestigation began. 1t is the gen
eral opinion that the Aurora is in
some way associated with the mag
netism of the earth. The Ency-
clopedia Americana says: what
can be said with reasonable proba-
bility is that the Aurora is caused
by irregular emanation of cor
puscles from the sun, which are
stopped in the upper regions of
our atmosphere" And it would
seem that this is virtually all that
there is reasonably probable" as
to actual knowledge of the cause
of the lights. 1t is said that sun
spots have something to do with
the lights, and yet just what rela-
ton the sun spots bear to to the ap-
pearance of the lights has not been
established.
In describing the lights, the
Americana says: Careful exami-
nation will show that che illumi-
nation in the form of a broad arch,
highest near the magnetic north,
and reaching the horizon in the
northeast and northwest directions.
Presently beams of light are seen
crossing this arch with quivering
or Pickering motion, and shooting
toward the zenith. Each beam con-
stantly varies in brightness and
seemingly fades away to give place
to another"
Those who felt any degree of
fright over the spectacle presented
in the heavens Thursday night
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1918-03-15
To Award S. S. Diplomas

Ed. L. R. Riley, of Trezeyant,
for the past several weeks has been
conducting class in the teachers
normal of the Southern Baptist
Convention. The class consisted
Of sixteen teachers who are inter-
ested in the work of the Sunday
school. Diplomas will be issued
to those passing the examination,
which has just been concluded.
Others are preparing to take the
course soon.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1918-03-15
WAR SAYINGS DAY
Governor Rye Asks Business Men
to Suspend One Hour


Governor Rye has issued the
following proclamation, naming
March %, as War Savings Day 10
Tennessee.
Whereas, 1t is incumbent that
emphatic attention of the Amer
lean people must be called to their
duty as civilians to support the
armies at the front and in training
camps, which will soon be fighting
along hundreds Of miles of the
western front in France and Bel
GUM, offering the supreme sacri-
flee that democratic principles and
free government may not disap-
pear from the face of the earth
and that their women and their
children may continue to live ia
safety from the rapacity, cruelty,
lust and terrorism of the conscien-
celess Hun;
Whereas, No other opportunity
for universal sacrifice, that our
armies may be equipped for the
great fight and be enabled to win
quickly and be returned again VIC
tors to their native shores, has
been offered that is more practical
or reasonable than investment Of
small savings in thrift stamps, war
savings stamps and war savings
certificates (baby bonds;
It's therefore hereby proclaimed,
That day is set apart on which
the people of Tennessee are asked
for the period of least one hour
on That day to suspend their usual
vacations and join in a universal
rally having for its purpose the
sale to every man, woman and
child in the Volunteer State of one
savings stamp, if no more, so as
to start the habit of thrift and the
practice of loaning out small saw
ings to our Washington govern
ment for use in financing the war.
To this end, |, Tom G. Rye, gov
ernor of the State of Tennessee,
do SO now DELEGATE Saturday, March
%, 1918, as War Savings Day in
Tennessee and do call upon all our
people to lend their presence, in
fluence and e0husiasm to this
great movement, pushed with so
great energy as a patriotic en-
deavor by some of our leading
citizens. Let ordinary business
on that day be suspended from l
O'Clock to 2 o'clock in the after
noon and let the people meet in
their respective community CEN
tiers and every one of them buy,
as we'll as sell to their neighbors,
these stamps and baby bonds of
the government.
Let us not forget that the meas
ure Of purchases of these stamps,
the same is the measure Of our
sacrifice of things and the labor it
takes to produce them SO the gov
eminent may be able to secure the
labor to produce the things that
must be secured if our soldiers are
to be properly equipped and safely
transported to the scene of this
great conflict.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1918-03-15
Covert-.Burch
cation.

On Thursday of last week Mr..
E. g. Covert and Mrs. Matte
Burch, both of Nashville. came
here on the II o'clock train and
were married in the court room,
Judge Wilson Enochs officiating.
Mr.. Covert is a travelling sales
man. They left on the afternoon
train for Jackson.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1918-03-15
GATHER APRIL /
County Courts to Hold Patriotic
Meetings

Governor Tom @. Rye has issued
a letter to all county judges, chair
men of county courts and justices
of the peace in the state, calling
upon them to suspend business for
one hour at o'clock on the after
noon of Monday, April /, when
the county courts of the state meet
in quarterly session. During this
hour it is planned to have a pa
triotic gathering at the court house
of the people in each county where
the grave questions involved in the
war might be considered.
The governors letter follows:
"As the United States is in.
volved in the gravest crisis in it's
history. | deem it my solemn duty
TO ask the county courts Of TEL
nessee at their quarterly meeting
on the first Monday in April, 1918.
to suspend businers for one hour
at / o'clock in the afternoon, so
that people in every county in
Tennessee may assemble at the
court house and consider the grave
questions involved in the world
war;
THE State Council of National
Defense has prepared a full state
ment of facts. This statement is
earnestly commended to your at
tention, and | ask that it be read
at | o'clock by some good reader
whom you may select for this pur-
pose. After this statement has
been read, brief and appropriate
remarks should be made by citi-
zens selected by you, emphasizing
the necessity of the patriotic full
fillment of our obligations to our
country in this emergency. In
this manner, at | O'Clock on the
afternoon of April /, 1918, will be |
held in every county of our state
a great patriotic meeting, where
the problems that confront US will
be considered and explained, and
a proper tribute be paid those
noble sons of your country who
have joined the ranks of our de-
Tense.
so important is this occasion
that | wish to charge the respon-
sibility to each justice for repre-
from his district at this
meeting.
For your information, the
chairman of the county councils of
defense, county food administra-
tor, county fuel administrator, To-
cal exemption boards, legal advis-
Dry boards have been directed to
cooperate with you in this meet
ing, and you are at liberty and re-
quested to call upon these for such
assistance as may be necessary to
make this meeting a success.
IN meetings Of this character
our forefathers fostered liberty,
and in this manner let us preserve
that liberty for our children.
Respectfully,
tom G. RYE. Governor"
|
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1918-03-15

Prof. J. H. Bayer, of Nashville.
was in Huntingdon on business
Tuesday.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-12
WASHINGTON MAN TO
SPEAK HERE THE 18TH.

Oklahoma City March l2,-(Spe-
c caD-Dednite announcement: was
made here today that /. b. Stine,
chjcf examiner of the pension bu
leau at Washington, had been as
signed to speak in the interest OF
the War Savings Stamp campaign
at Ardmore on Monday, the 25th.
LIr. Stine is said to be a f3rcefll
speaker and full of an interesting
H. cssage to the people.
A delegation has been here from
Lrdmore this week seeking to secu' e
the assignment of Lieut. Pan! Peri
CORD to that city, but the members
nd that it will be impossible 20 get
Inn at this time but that il he is
again in the southwest litt': later
tnat Ardmore will be include in his
itinerary.