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MDJ Time Capsule: The Week of March 15 Damon Poirier, Newsroom Administrator/Historian Mar 14, 2018
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This week’s Time Capsule looks at war savings stamp sales, WWI events, the Kennesaw Marble Co., a war garden, Otto Orkin’s will and a comedy of errors.
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100 years ago … The Friday, March 15, 1918, edition of The Marietta Journal and Courier had a half-page advertisement on the front page, titled “Our
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Reputation Is At Stake.”
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The ad announced that other counties were ahead of Cobb County in the purchase of war savings stamps and it urged residents to buy their share to “help your county stand first in Georgia.” Walker County
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was listed as having bought $10,000 worth in stamps with AthensClarke County having bought $12,000 worth in one day and Waynesboro having $8,000 worth bought by 24 people. Meanwhile, Cobb had less than $4,500 worth bought by 30,000 people. © © © The Red Cross membership in the U.S. at the time World War I had been declared was listed as 250,000. The Journal reported that on Jan. 1, 1918, after the Christmas drive, total U.S. membership stood at 25 million.
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© © © The Monday before, Dr. Ashby M. Jones was reported as having spoken at the courthouse on WWI and was introduced by Marietta’s
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© © © Another story reported on the Saturday before death of the 5-year-old son of Lee Richardson of Woodstock. The child had been brought to Marietta “suffering with a grain of corn in his windpipe,” but the grain had swelled and cut off the child’s breath before surgery could be performed. © © © William D. Upshaw was reported as being expected to open his senatorial campaign with a speech at the courthouse in Marietta on March 18, 1918. © © ©
A new farmer’s telephone line was reported as being connected with the Southern Bell Telephone exchange of Marietta. The 2½ mile line went out on Powder Springs and Sandtown roads. © © © N.M. Mayes and Whit Chastain were reported as being re-elected by the Grand Jury to the County Board of Education and John Dodgen was elected to succeed Joe Bishop. © © © Mrs. George Montgomery, chairman of the Cobb County Unit of the Woman’s Committee on National Defense, was reported as having called a meeting of the district chairmen and others at her home the Thursday before. © © © The Kennesaw chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy was reported as thanking everyone that responded to their towel drive for the hospital at Camp Gordon, which received 91 towels. © © © On the Editorial page, the following items appeared: © “Thrift is the application of efficiency and organization to every act of your daily life.” © “The War Department Commission on Training Camp Activities now has 55 women deputy sheriffs working in vicinities of camps in all parts of the country.” © © © In the Social and Personal column: © R.H. McIntosh of Birmingham, Alabama, was reported as being the guest of his sister, Mrs. D.C. Cole, while on his way to Washington to assume duties as a senior lieutenant in the paymaster’s department of the Navy. © Dr. C.L. Poole of Cordelia was reported as having bought the Griffith’s Drug Store and rented the C.A. Wikle home on Church Street in Marietta. © Tom Read Jr. was reported as being transferred to New York and was on the U.S. Navy vessel Antherite. © © © In the News From Over The County column: © Elizabeth section — There were two interesting items. The first was that Joe M. Dicharson, formerly of St. Paul, Minnesota; Marble, Colorado; and Tate was reported as working for the Kennesaw Marble Co. Dicharson “turned the columns for the Lincoln Memorial.” The second, written by the correspondent Drifter, said: “Too bad the Marietta ball diamond was plowed up. We believe in war gardens. But our national pastime tends to keep our boys in good condition, it is a healthful sport and we hope that Marietta will hasten to have another diamond made.” © Lost Mountain section — G.F. Hunnicutt, editor of the Southern Cultivator, was reported as visiting the farm of Webster Dunton the Wednesday before. 50 years ago … In the Sunday, March 10, 1968, Marietta Daily Journal, it was reported that the 1964 will of “Otto Orkin, a self-made pest exterminating millionaire,” was filed with the Cobb County Ordinary. His widow, Ann Powell Orkin, delivered the 10-page document. The last figures on the size of Orkin’s estate was $2,311,220. © © © Units from Dobbins Air Force Base, Lockheed-Georgia Co. and the Marietta Civil Air Patrol were reported in the Monday, March 11, 1968, paper as having five planes in the air that day searching north Georgia for a light plane that was believed to have crashed in the mountains the day before. © © © The Tuesday, March 13, 1968, paper reported on a “comedy of errors” in response to a burning home the day before. The article said: “One firetruck fell in a bridge, another got stuck in the mud, and the two wreckers and a bulldozer called to their aid also got stuck while a house burned amidst a downpour of rain, much thunder and lightning.” © © © The 1962 robbery of a Marietta motel was reported in the Friday, March 15, 1968, paper as being solved when two inmates at the Reidsville State Prison wrote Cobb Sheriff Kermit Sanders a full confession. 20 years ago … Rev. Charles Sineath of the First United Methodist Church of Marietta was reported in the Thursday, March 12, 1968, paper as having memorialized the four Marietta Golden K Kiwanis Club victims, who were killed the Friday before in a two-vehicle collision, at the East Cobb Senior Citizen’s Center. Damon Poirier is the Newsroom Administrator and Historian for the Marietta Daily Journal. If you are interested in learning more about the stories that were presented in this week’s column, you can search the newspaper’s digitized microfilm archives at http://nl.newsbank.com/nlsearch/we/Archives/?p_product=HAMDJ&p_theme=histpaper&p_action=keyword. NewsBank, which hosts the archives for the Marietta Daily Journal, charges a fee for retrieved articles and has various price packages. If you have any trouble with your username, password or payment options, please contact NewsBank at
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