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Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-05-01

Parkersburg.-H. C. Kirchner, of
Elizabeth, convicted and sentenced to
two years in the penitentiary on
charge of violating the espionage act
and has been in the county Jail since
the last term of Federal court, APP
peared before U. S. Clerk A.. L. Bar
rett in this city, where he gave bond
for $4,000 for his release from Gus
tody, pending the review of his case
by the United States Supreme Court.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-05-01

Morgantown.-S. P. Emsweller, a
well known glassworker of this city,
left for Japan. where he has accepted
position as Instructor and manager
of large glass factory now under con-
struction. The glass industry is just
being introduced in Japan, and mem
bers of the firm which is establishing
this factory near Osaki spent some
time in this country to secure an
American artisan who could teach the
native workmen the various processes.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-05-01

Huntington.-Two men, whose names
were given as Martin Farley and Bill
Spicer were lodged in the county Jail
by o. S. marshals. No commitments
were filed but the jailers were inform
ed that the men We're charged with
moonshining. They We're brought in
from the Norfolk & Western terri
tory.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-05-01

Parkersburg. commodore D. Dot
son states that final arrangements
have been completed to bring the
Neville Dock Company of Pittsburg to
this city to locate about the first Of
May Some time ago it was stated
that the big boat making concern was
considering locating here, but final
plans for the moving Of the industry
have just been made
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-05-01

MISUNDERSTANDING has been resumed
on the b. & o. Highland tracks,
known as the Magnolia cutoff, which
had been closed since January Is by
a landslide of $4,000 cubic yards.
More than 200 men were employed to
remove the obstruction, at a cost of
S130000. During nearly three months
freight movement was over the pas
senger tracks at this point.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-07-11
THE GLORIOUS FOURTH
ASSPENT IN MARIETTA
The Cobb County Singers Association
Came To Town in Force and
Had A Great Day

This fourth of July was the great
est ever passed by the entire country,
The waris over, our boys are return
ing home from the battle Scared
fields of France, and again on the
Fourth of July the United States of
America celebrates Independence
Day in true American style, for truly
we have something this year to cele-
brate. The Hun has been made to
sign the peace treaty that gives to
the world peace for all time.
In many cities they held memorial
services for the gallant heroes who
paid the supreme sacrifice in France
and we hope that at some future date
Marietta and Cobb county will hold
an appropriate memorial service for
her men who persisted in France and
make arrangements to put some per-
manent memorial in our city park.
Aside from some of the boys losing
their coin on the big fight in Toledo,
where the biggest prize fighter lost his
title, there was not much else Of
sporting interest.
Taking the whole city unawares,
the Cobb County Singers Association
gathered in Marietta last Friday for
their annual Fourth of July singing.
People from all over the country
came into the city by the hundreds
and by noon the town was filled with
folk and all with well filled basket.
No previous announcement was made
Of the singing and for that reason
perhaps hundreds of people stayed
away who would have come if the
proper publicity had been made.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-07-11
POLICE SOLVE SILK
THEFT MYSTERY

When the dusky damsels Of the
city began giving to their suitors silk
shirts and they began their daily
rounds of the darktown district, the
police at once suspected robbery in
some part Of the business section.
On Tuesday, Mr.. w. A. Florence, of
the w. A. Florence Dry Goods Com
pany, reported to the police that forty
yards Of silk shifting, that sells for
$3.50 per yard, was missing from the
store.e
The local police at once got busy on
the case and arrested Villa Johnson,
q society favorite in darktown. Villa
plead guilty in the police court, OF
taking some OF the silk from the store
and was bound over to the Superior
Court under a $25O.00 bond. The
bond has not yet been furnished for
Villa and she resides in the county's
hotel
John Henry Corsey, another no.
table man-about-town, was arrested
Tuesday on a charge of idling and
lettering. John Henry plead guilty
to the charge and was sentenced to
fifty days straight on the city streets.
The police report no further ex-
element for the week and say that
everything is quiet and peaceful in
the hamlet.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-07-11
MARIETTA DEFEATS ROME
IN GOLF TOURNAMENT

eve got trimmed again. said
President Cannon of the Country
Club, in telling the Tribune-Herald
of the golf match on the Marietta
links Friday.
Eighteen players from Rome were
in the match and the score under the
Nassau system was Marietta 26,
Rome 9. This defeat pins crepe on
Rome's door and puts the Marietta
bunch ahead on the series. The only
crumb of comfort was that Emory
Walter, the youngest man on the
team, shot holes in 40, trying for
the low medal score of the day. Then
there was a delightful luncheon and
characteristic hospitality from the
Marietta folks.
Things have been breaking badly
for the Rome golfers of late. Pres
ident Cannon says he expects to get
Simpson Dean back, put E. D. Wal
ter in harness again, invite some
neighboring city over to Rome and
administer a little Dempsey treat
ment to them.-Rome Tribune-Her-
aid.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-07-11
OLD AND HONORED GEORGIAN
LEAVES MANY DESCENDANTS

Lyerly, July When H. S. Do
yer, pioneer citizen of Ghattooga
county died Saturday he left behind
him 157 living descendants, while sew
eral score more had preceded him to
the grave.
Mr.. Dover was 88 years old, hav-
ing celebrated his anniversary on
April 9. His widow is just one year
younger. He was the father of four
teen sons and daughters, seven of
whom are living. There are more
than fifty grandchildren alive and
eleven dead. Mr.. Dover's great
grandchildren number almost ninety,
while there are ten great-great-grand-
children.
Including his father and grand
father, Mr.. Dover was personally ac-
quainted with seven generations of
his family. Up to two months ago
he was in vigorous health. He was
born in Cherokee county, near Can
ton and had many personal reminis-
cences of the Indians of that section
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-07-11
CHANGES
HIS VIEWS ON Beer
Beers and Light Wines Will Not Be
Excluded From the War
Prohibition Act

AS we predicted, the president is
seeing new light on the liquor cues
ton since he got back home. He no
longer desires the exception of beers
and wines from the operation of the
wartime prohibition act, and with his
statement to that effect, away goes
the last hope of the liquor forces in
this country. 1t was behind his re-
quest for the elimination Of beers and
light wines from the act, in his wired
message to congress, that the whiskey
forces had rallied for their last stand.
The president has further made it
plain that he has no intention to
restrict commerce under the trad
ing with the enemy act pending
the ratification of the peace treaty
and the league of nations by the SEN
ate. So the republicans and other
dissenters may go on the war path all
they like with no fear Of stopping
business.
He also corrected some OF the false
interpretations being placed upon the
terms Of agreement in the league OF
nations contract relative to the coun-
try being obligated to go to war with
out the consent of congress. Moth
ing of the sort was required OF us
without the consent of congress.
While the senate has been talking
under the assumption that majority
vote Of that body only is required to
ratify the treaty the president thinks
two-third vote is necessary, so IL
some of those opposing the treaty are
not just blufing for grandstand effect.
they may have it in their power to
reject the treaty, if Mr.. Wilson is
right about this.
The bride is off and politics ram
pant in Washington no longer
islands adjourned" if it ever has
been.
The Germans have ratified the
peace treaty and are anxious to get
down to business again, while the
south has a lot of cotton it is willing
to sell at the proper price.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-07-11
GOVERNMENT WILL LOSE
MUCH MEAT AND FOOD
Less Than Cost Will Be Realized From
Sale of Large Stores of
Army Supplies

Washington, July 9,--Millions of
pounds of meat and canned vegetables
held by the war department are dete-
riorating, while the American people
''need every ounce of food" c. W.
Hare, director of sales for the depart
ment, told the house committee in
vestigating war expenditures today.
This food, he said, consists of 49,
O00,0 900 pounds of bacon; $4,000
pounds of ham; $50, 100000 worth of
canned meats; 100000 worth of
canned vegetables.
1t was held for months, he testi-
fed, while war department officers
were trying to figure out if it was
more than the army needed, and
could be sold. When sale was finally
determined on, Mr.. Hare declared,
only half hearted efforts were made,
and there were few bidders.
The food was sold to the govern
ment by the packers, he said, who
refused to take it back at decent
price" Now the rapid deterioration
Of the foodstuffs will force sale of
them below cost, he testified. Efforts
to sell the food to Herbert Hoover
for distribution to starving Euro
peans failed, and attempts to ex-
port it were unsuccessful.
Present plans are to market most
Of it In this country, Mr.. Hare said,
where "there is need for every
ounce"
He admitted that at one time can
ners conferred with war department
officials, who agreed to keep millions
of cans Of vegetables off the market,
adding them to the regular army ra-
ton after the armistice. He said 1T
was "fair inference" that these vege-
tables were added to the ration to
protect Gamers from competition,
and not because the soldiers needed
| them.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-07-11
POURING 1T OUT

Out near the curb of the court
house a crowd had gathered in cir
Gle; old and young; men, boys and
dogs; black and white. Those out
side the circle were pressing forward,
and a most respectful silence pre-
vailed.
Evidently a serious accident had
occurred, and the reporter was has
tening his steps across the street to
get the details.
Suddenly a terrific explosion rent
the air, and from the middle of the
circle fragments of stone jug rose
high above the crowd which was fall
ing all over itself in desperate eff
fort to make a hasty retreat. A
sheet of blue fame covered wet
place in the street and trailed down
the gutter, as an odor of alcohol
spread in the air.
From out the mass of tangled hu-
manity, twenty feet back from the
spot where the explosion occurred,
arose the tall form of one of Uncle
Sans revenue men, still grasping vi
ciously the broken handle of the van
ished jug, "Who the hell stuck that
match to that jug of licker?"
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-07-11
BIG DEMAND FOR SMALL
FARMS IN COBB COUNTY

Farm lands in Cobb county are in
great demand, almost every day va
rious parties from different parts Of
the state are looking over Cobb coun-
ty farms with a view of purchasing.
The demands are mostly for small
farms, the real estate men are kept
busy answering inquiries and show
the lands to prospective purchasers.
A number of sales are being made
in different parts of the county. The
real estate men claim that as soon
as crops are laid by the demands will
increase and many more sales will
be made. Cobb is the best and most
reliable crop producing county in the
state. 1t is free from the boil wee
vii and such a thing as crop failure
was never known.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-07-11
new HARDWARE FIRM
OPENS IN MARIETTA

Mr.. H. C.. Dobbs has sold out his
hardware business on Park Square
to the Busbee Hardware & Supply
Co., a new firm in Marietta.
Mr.. T. P. Busbee who is at the
head Of the new firm,e comes from
Cordele, Ga, where he has been a
successful business man.
He has a home in Atlanta, where
his family is at present, bue expects
to bring them here as soon as he can
buy or lease a house.
He expects to make Improvements
to his store building and largely in
crease his stock at once.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-07-11
DOUBT ON LEGALITY
OF BOND ELECTION

AS we go to press we learn that
there exists some doubt as to whether
the bond election, which the COM
missioners have ordered for August
18th, can be legally held.
Whether or not special registra-
ton under the law of 1916 will be
necessary to validate the bonds if
they are voted, is the mooted point,
and it is probable that the commits
sioners will have legal advice on the
subject before the election is adver-
tised.
The next meeting of the commits
sioners will be held or the 18th after
which date action of the board may
be advertised.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-07-11
ATLANTA-MARIETTA ROAD
is NOW OPEN AGAIN

The Fulton County commissioners
announce that the stretch of road
about half mile in length from Col
Inns bridge to Chattahoochee avenue,
on the main Atlanta-Marietta route,
is now open. This piece of road has
been closed for about month, under
going repairs. 1t now has new con-
crete paving and is ready for use.
The closing of this stretch made it
necessary for traffic along the main
Atlanta-M Marietta road to detour by
way of Austell and Roswell when
coming or going to Marietta or At
lanta. The Atlanta-Marietta road
is one of the most travelled roads in
the state, and feeds numerous trib-
utary routs to adjoining counties.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-07-11
SUNDAY SERVICES in
THE CITY PARK SQUARE

On last Sunday afternoon Rev. G.
V. Crow, of Olive Springs, conducted
an open air service in the park hav-
ing a fair attendance who were APP
parently appreciative of the sermon
and singing.
He was assisted by Rev. /. A.
White, of the Marietta Baptist
church.
DR.. White also announced that he
would conduct service in the same
place on next Sunday, at A p. M, and
not hold the usual evening service in
the church.
The warm weather makes an out
door service a pleasant one and no
doubt that this service will reach some
who do not attend church.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-07-11
LAWRENCE MILAN SHOT

Lawrence Milan, thirteen years old
had a serious accident on Monday,
He and a little playmate were out
chasing barn rats with a rifle, when
the other boy accidentally dropped
the rifle, which was discharged, shoot
ing Lawrence in the leg and chest.
The bullet after passing through
the flesh of the leg entered the chest,
ranging upward.
1t was feared at first that Lawrence
was critically injured, but at this
writing he is doing very well. He is
at the home of his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. E. L. Milan.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-07-11
A GEORGIA MAN INVENTS
ONE-HORSE DOUBLE PLOW

John C.. Waters, of Fannin county,
has recently invented combination
subsoiler and turning pillow. The de-
vice is so constructed that when a
furrow is made with the turner the
pillow can be turned over readily with
the subsoiler returning the same fur
row.
With this plow one man and one
horse can plow the land to a depth
Of ten inches. The device has a
recommendation of all who have in
spected it. Patents are pending.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-07-11
WILSON TOLD THE SENATE

The treaty would be scrap of
paper without the League of Ma
tions.
People demanded the league and
would brook no denial.
Americas material aid to Eu-
rope would be indispensable in the
days to come, if the League of
Nations were rebroken.
America is the friend of all ma
tons.
America has just reached her
majority as world power.
Americas isolation ended twen-
ty years ago.
Moral leadership of the world
is offered America; the question is
whether to reject or accept it.
America shall in truth show the
way to the world.
The treaty squares with the IA
points as well as with the practi-
cal needs of the situation.
1t is not exactly the sort of
treaty the United States would
have written.
We have sought no special repair
alton for ourselves, but only the
restoration Of right and assurance
of liberty everywhere.
Americas fighting made victory
certain.
A league of free nations is
practical necessity.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-07-11
AUTO TAX MONEY HELD
UNTIL SEPTEMBER 10TH

| A resolution was offered in the
house on Monday authorizing the
state to withhold the auto tax money
due the counties until the receipt Of
corporation taxes in September, near
ly 100000 in all.
Cobb has over $4,000 due her in
this fund and badly needs the money
at this time to tide over the sum-
mer road payroll.
The reason given for the delay ask
ed was that the governor had been
forced to use this fund to finish pay
ing pensions.
The resolution was referred to the
committee, and should it pass it will
force many counties to borrow as
much.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-07-11
MCCLURE HAS SOLD
HIS RETAIL STORES

The Mcclure Ten Cent Store in
Marietta has changed hands Mr.. c..
w. Mcclure, of Atlanta, who owned
the Marietta store as we'll as some
half dozen others in Georgia towns.
has sold the whole chain of retail
stores to the Mcclellan Stores Com
pany of North Carolina.
This company owns and operates a
chain of thirty stores throughout the
country and will continue the business
in the same stand in Marietta.
Mr.. D. E. Futrelle, who was local
manager for the Mcclure Company,
will continue as manager of the new
company in the Marietta store. +
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-07-11
JUDGE NEWMAN ASKS
FOR AN ASSISTANT

The practical certainty that the
northern district of Georgia will soon
have an additional federal judge de-
veloped in the announcement on Wed
nesday night that United States Judge
William T. Newman has requested the
appointment of an additional judge.
The president has the privilege of
appointing an additional judge and
Judge Newman feels that, at his age
of more than seventy, the duties of
travelling from city to city for court
are too much. He accordingly re-
quested the appointment. - Atlanta
Journal.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-07-11
MRS. E. c. PATTERSON
RETURNS WEDNESDAY

Mrs. Elizabeth Cottingham Pat
terson reached home Wednesday
night, after ten months overseas,
working for the Red Cross. Mrs.
Patterson went over as a nurses
aid but since the armistice she has
been in the Recreation Hut Service
She was in charge of Hut 106, in
Beau Defert, one of the largest hos
pital centers in France; and Mrs.
Patterson's hut was the largest there,
seating 700 men. She has done fine
work, as her host of friends knew
she would, and she is being warmly
welcomed home. Next week Ike hope
to have Mrs. Patterson's story of her
work.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-07-11
A NEW LAW FIRM

A new law firm hung out its single
in Marietta this week. Col. John H.
Boston, whom everybody knows, and
Lieutenant Charley Brown, who is
also well known, are the members of
the new firm.
Lieutenant Brown is just back from
service in France, and Col. Boston,
who is a veteran of the Spanish
American war, and also tried to break
into the big war last year, will make
a good team.
They have opened Offices in the
Manning Building on Atlanta street.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-07-11
REVENUE OFFICERS ACTIVE

Sheriff Swanson, with Atlanta rev.
enue men have kept our county fair
ly clear of the manufacturing of
of Whiskey, but last week they made
two raids into Cherokee and Milton
counties and in each case broke up
a plant.
In both cases the operators had
lookouts who enabled them to es-
cape on the approach of officers.
A very large quantity of beer was
destroyed in the Cherokee raid which
was within the town of Woodstock.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-07-11
MAJOR w. M. BRUMBY
RETURNS TO MARIETTA

Major "Jack" Brumby returned
on Thursday from overseas, and was
warmly welcomed by his many rela-
tives and friends. Major Brumby
organized the 333rd Battalion, "a ser
vice battalion,) at Camp Meade,
Maryland, last August, and it was
this that he had charge of in Bor-
deaux
A fine little son three months old,
whom he had never seen, greeted
Major Brumby on his return.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-07-11
REVIVAL AT NEW HOPE

Revival services will begin on the
third Sunday in July at New Hope
church. Rev. J. P. Erwin will lead
in the services, and will be assisted
by Rev. G. T. She'll
A singer has also been secured to
lead the singing, Mr.. Crockett, of Car
rolton, coming for this purpose.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-07-11

Six hundred and ten miles in 246
minutes is the record straightaway
airplane flight in this country made
one day this week, between San Fran
cisco and San Diego, by an army cap
tain in an army plane.
Business failures in the country
were the lowest in forty years for
the first six months of 1919. Less
than half the number averaged IN
the last ten years was reported tins
year.
Reports say that canned goods will
advance in price once more, so there
ought to be lot more canning clubs
active in every county in the south
to meet the demand for goods.
The United States has some billion
and half dollars worth of war ma
terial and equipment in France for
which it has no use. The French
government only offers about one
fifth it's value as a whole so sales
agent will dispose of it for the credit
of this country.
Missouri after a short trial OF a
no capital punishment law has re-
turned to the old law and will hang
murderers in future. A mob recent
ly took a man under life sentence, af-
ter being convicted of murder, and
hanged him in the court yard.
The Department of Justice has or
dered that prosecution be brought
against all sellers of beverages con-
tanning more than one-half of one
per cent of alcohol. AS there are
many of these the courts will be
busy for a while, but prosecution IS
likely to make the business less popu-
lar or profitable.
Four white men in Twiggs cOun-
ty in search of negro criminal shot
down and killed another negro by
mistake, and under circumstances
which if correctly reported, should
have brought murder charge
against themselves. AS reported
from Dublin it was a case of cold
blooded murder and the governor
should see that it is investigated
One doctor just returned from
France says the war was prolonged
by the French love of wine. He
says the French sent wine barrels to
the front ahead of the ambulance,
and after three or four weeks on the
front they thought it was time TO rest,
and were Disguised with our men who
wanted to fight all the time.
Frances Vaughn, a ten-year old
girl of Dublin, was killed by contact
with a broken light wire on the street
of that town one day last week. Her
father, a Presbyterian minister, who
was a captain in the army died in
Dacap,har lost
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-07-11
MAYOR BRUMBY HoNORED

At the meeting of Georgia mayors
in Atlanta this week, Mayor Jim R.
Brunby, of Marietta, was elected
to the executive committee of the
state association. Mayor NJ W. Tiff,
of Albany, was elected head of the
association and quite lot of import
ant business relating to municipal af-
fairs was transacted.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-07-11
THE COTTON MARKET

Marietta, Thursday, July 10, 1919.
Good middling cotton, 3515c. Re-
ceipts, about forty bales.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-07-11

Frances Vaughn, ten-year old
girl of Dublin, was killed by contact
with broken light wire on the street
of that town one day last week. Her
father, a Presbyterian minister, who
was a captain in the army died in
December last.