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100 years ago ⦠The Friday, Dec. 24, 1920, edition of The Cobb County Times reported that W.F. Hetrick was due to return to Marietta that morning from Columbia, South Carolina in the custody of Deputy Sheriff Sanders. Hetrick was president, treasurer and manager of the Acworth Manufacturing Company. When the books showed a $50,000 shortage, he skipped town after making bond on Oct. 9, 1920. Hetrick was tracked to Oak Hill, Flordia, where his wife had become a school teacher. Later, she quit and went to Daytona, Florida, and while there a coded letter from Hetrick was intercepted and showed that he was in Winona, Minnesota. From there he was traced to Rochester, New York, then to Niagara Falls before he jumped to Philadelphia where he worked as a proof-reader in a newspaper plant for $18 a week. ....
Cobb County families in the years 1918 to 1920, just like present day, faced an uncertain and hard Christmas holiday season due to a global pandemic and financial hardships. The world was also still fighting and then recovering from World War I. Meanwhile, the children of the county looked forward with innocent eyes to the magical arrival of Santa Claus. Below are some of the letters to the jolly old elf printed by the Cobb County Times that represent this period. Thursday, Dec. 18, 1919 Dear Santa Claus: I saw in the paper where you wanted every boy and girl in Cobb County to write and tell you what they wanted for Christmas. Well, first of all, I want my Mamma to get well and then I want a pair of cuff buttons for my Papa and I want a new pair of black shoes No. 3 1/2 and I want a new pair of black stockings, a new dress, a big sleepy doll with long curly hair and I guess I wonât ask you for anything else because I donât expect I will get that. So I wil ....
100 years ago ⦠The Tuesday, Dec. 14, 1920, edition of The Cobb County Times reported that the Marietta Womanâs Club planned to have a Community Christmas Tree in Glover Park on Marietta Square the Thursday before Christmas. The Club also asked for contributions of one pound of fruits or confectionaries to help brighten the home of the less fortunate on Christmas morning. ⦠⦠⦠The Friday, Dec. 17, 1920, edition of The Marietta Journal reported that in response to a U.S. revenue officerâs telegram the Tuesday before, Marietta Policeman Goodson and Deputy Sheriff Sanders met the Louisville & Nashville train from Blue Ridge and arrested Carter Hendrix, who was carrying two and a half gallons of whiskey in his suitcase. ....
100 years ago ⦠The Tuesday, Dec. 7, 1920, edition of The Cobb County Times reported that a Packard automobile and 135 gallons of moonshine whiskey were hauled in by Marietta Police Chief W.A. Bishop and Policeman P.M. Groover the Sunday night before when they were called out to a two-car wreck on Atlanta Road. The bootleggersâ car collided with another and the brakes locked, preventing it from being driven any further. When the police arrived on the scene, the men had abandoned the Packard and the whiskey. This was the second large booze haul in a week. Sheriff Swanson, while serving some legal papers, discovered the Friday before a two mule-drawn wagon with a false bottom covered in fodder that held 75 gallons of brandy. The wagon driver was found asleep and under the influence by the side of the road a few miles out of Marietta. ....