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Nearly 200 New Subscribers
Added in One Week.
RAPID GROWTH OF THE CITIZEN.
The Record Broken in the History
of North Georgia’s Hustling
Newspapers.
“ The Citizen.”
Hully Gee! ”
“ It beats the band ! ”
The folks want it because it is
a newspaper.
Nearly two hundred new sub
scribers have been added in less
than two weeks.
This is no fish story, but facts
are given. Names and postof
fices of bona fide subscribers re
ceived for The North Georgia
Citizen since March 12, 1897.
□ Ten men came in on Monday
alone and subscribed for The
North Georgia Citizen, each
of them specifying that they
wanted a newspaper—one that
published all the news and treated
everybody alike. *
That is what The Citizen is—
newspaper—and the people
have begun to realize the fact.
Their appreciation is shown by
the largest enrollment of names
ever entered on the subscription
books by a paper in North-Geor-
gia for the same length of time.
The growth of The Citizen is
phenomenal, and the talk of the
people in this section of the
State.
Just keep your eye on The
Citizen for the news, and you
will not be disappointed.
Below will be found the list of
new subscribers added since
March 12, 1897.
There are 163 of them, and
since the same date there has
been thirty-seven renewals by
our old subscribers. v
“ The Citizen is the best,
brightest and most fearless news
paper in North Georgia,” said a
subscriber as he handed us a dol
lar Tuesday.
The ne/Sv subscribers:
Dalton.
A. Miller, B. Wrinkle, G. S.
Mullins, J. S. Williams, R. M. J.
Stewart, C. E. England, Mrs. A.
L. Gore, N. G. Smith, W. A. O’Ty
son, C. E. Baxter, D. L. Dilbeck,
J. R. Taylor, J. A. Springfield,
W. C. Dilbeck, W. L. Pool, H.
S. C. Kerr, L. F. Pool, T. J.
Cox, E. A. Roberts, Z. L. Long,
B. K. Hix, W. H. Kirk, C. P.
Wolf, J. T. White, O. C. Wom
ack, D. F. Jones, D. H. Cline, J.
E. Clarke, F. L. Lumpkin, J. G.
Thomas, James Spears, Ralph
Ellison, T. W. Garret, Walter Ox
ford, J. L. Renfroe, A. R. Fox,
D. J. Bearden, W. T. Elkins, H.
R. Parker, T. P. Freeman, Mrs.
M E. Martin, Mrs. S. J. Mrs.
Perry, L. H. Brown, W. C. Cor-
nelison, W. H. Ridley, Mrs. Jeff
Stewart, Mrs. A. E. Shafer,
MrsJFlorence Rudd, Miss. Annie
R. Long, S. B. Divine, Mrs. Jo
seph Bogle, J. M. Wright, Mrs.
A. G. Flemister, B. F. Collins,
J. P. Elrod, A. L. Arwood, M.
J. Blackwell, John Parker, W.
F. Hickman, Mrs. E. C. Pitts, G.
H. Lowell, Mrs. W. H. Clayton,
B. W. Springfield, Mrs. F. J.
Quiinby, I. Y. Watkins, Y. P.
Thrailkill, Chas. Holland, J. J.
Clonts, Farrar Lumber Co.,
H. Smith, J. F. McGill, T. F.
Lockridge, Mrs. T. Phillips, Mrs.
S. J. Morris, W. A. Leslie, J. J.
Stephenson, D. F. Young, W.
W. Johnson, R. E. Hamilton, J.
H. Cagle, Sam Phillips, J. M.
Broom, R. R. Thompson, A. G.
Pilcher, J. A. Long, S. H. Sta
ton, W. B. Pence, Henry Pra
ther, T. Mullenix, W. C. Howard,
Mrs. S. M. Horn, J. L. Howard,
S. F. Fox, A. S. Williamson, S.
G. Ingram, J. M. Collins, A.
Manning, W. H. Ingram, W. A.
Fox Mrs. H. G. Roberts, L. T. Ham-
ontree, Mrs. N. Barber, Jas. Gar
ret, Wm. M. Hanna, J. W. Blake,
Joe M. Smith, J. A. Smith, T. J.
Henderson, L. F. Henry, W. F.
Bender, Fred Bender, W. B.
Hill, W. B. Holder, T. M. Young,
Manly Kerby, J. L. Combee, G.
W. Williamson, Leslie & Kittles,
J. H. Robinson, J. R. Bruce, -Mrs.
H. C. Howell, F. H. Howard,
Mrs. Lizzie Stevenson, Dr. F.
W. Smith.
Chas. "Powell, (col.) A. W.
Brown, (col.) Phibbie Pitner,
(col.) W. H. Wilson, (col.) John
Worthy, (col.) Isabella Easter
ling, (col.)
Tilton, Ga.
James Leek, J. B. Keith, G. R.
A. Coker.
DawnvUle, Ga.,
A. M. Richardson, L. A.
Strickland, J. W. Smithey, J. S.
Whitt.
Fillmore, Ga.
J. W. Turner, W. W. Sams,
A. J. Lance, H. L. Brooker.
Phelps, Ga.
W. A. Teasley, S. Touchstone.
Varnells, Ga.
M. Nichols, L. E. Mickle.
Cohutta, Ga.
R. H. Rollins.
Trickum, Ga.
W. H. C. Freeman.
Waring, Ga.
D. T. Tallifero, C. I. Hassell,
L. W. Brown.
Kocky Pace, Ga.
W. W. Calloway.
PlainvUle, Ga.
J. L. Huffaker.
Macon, Ga.
J. C. Williamson.
Pcusta, S. C.
Mrs. B. L. Patton.
Atlanta, Ga.
J. Q. Bowden, Miss May Al
ford, J. L. McClure.
Canton, Ga.
Mrs. Zeb Walker.
Nashville, Tenn.
S. H. Divine.
Calhoun, Ga.
C. H. Humphries.
11 Sarge Plunkett ” Thinks It Is
Time for a Change,
SO DOES COMMISSIONER GLENN.
The Changes of the Past Thirty Years
Not Satisfactory to the General
Public.^
GEORGIA’S NEW CONGRESSMEN.
How They Impress the People at the
National Capital.
Georgia has seven new mem
bers in congress, who are 'uniniti
ated in the ways of Washington
life, whom the New York World
sizes up in a racy way' as follows:
Clay, Alexander Stephens, of
Georgia, commonly known as
“Steve,” strong silver democrat;
remarkable for his pompadour hair,
smooth face, grey eyes, beats his
hands together as he talks and
goes to church.
Griggs, James M., renowned
throughout Georgia as a good
story teller; social, a good lawyer
and was on the bench when elected
to congress ; thorough politician ;
served in the legislature several
times; is a democrat.
Lewis, E. B., keeps a country
store; has a profound awe of the
importance of a congressman, will
get over it, he looks like a boy,
small and smoothfaced, is rich and
served in the legislature as a dem
ocrat.
Adamson, W. C., affects an ec
centricity of dress, stands in with
the horny-handed sons of toil, no
doubt about his being a granger,
is a young man and a democrat,
will be very uneasy in his seat in
congress, because the present gov
ernor of the state is said to have
his eye upon it for the future.
Howard, William M., brother-
in-law of the—date Henry W.
Grady, is a young man, smooth
face, small of stature, brilliant law
yer, is solicitor-general of one of
the Georgia circuits, is a consum
mate politician and a democrat.
Fleming, W. H., politician and
lawyer, author of election law of
the state, no trouble about demo
cratic majorities under it, has field
office frequently, was speaker of
the lower branch of legislature, is
a democrat.
Brantley, W. G., sound money
man, coming to congress on a free
silver platform; democrat and pro
tectionist, that is, he is willing 1 to
have protection on long staple cot-
tan; succeeds Judge Turner, who
refused to accept nomination on
Chicago platform.
I read in Monday’s Constitution,
some suggestions from Commision-
er Glenn, and we indorse his plan
if for no other reason than that it.
starts an investigation in this mat
ter of our public school system.
Anything for a change, is the
way Brown puts it. Our present
system has been in vogue long
enough to judge of its efficiency,
if efficient it is. While all will
agree that our country schools are
not a success as they are run, yet
few will give a remedy, and but a
small number will openly express
their displeasure. The results
from these schools are before us.
Every year crime has increased,
more courts have been instituted
and yet we are almost ready to
admit that courts have lost their
power. In our own county, right
here in a stone’s throw of the cap-
itol of Georgia, we have just wit
nessed the spectacle of the milita
ry in possession of our court
house. Officers of our county
said they were necessary, and here
the matter will end, for few men
will invite controversy with those
in authority. The young men
who constituted this military, to
gether with a fair proportion of
our officials, are representatives of
our schools which have pertained
to Georgia for thirty years, and
they could see nothing wrong in
the military parading in possession
of one of the first counties of our
State. Perhaps a few old men
might be found to openly con
demn this proceeding, but they
would soon be silenced by the cry
of “ old fogy ” which would swell
against them.
Brown and I have tried to sound
the people upon this matter. A
great majority condemn it in pri
vate to us," but had rather remain
in the background, and so we shall
simply assert that nearly all our
old citizens condemn, but they dis
agree as to the causes leading up
to it, and we shall satisfy oip-selves
by handling the question in our
own way, vouching for the correct
ness of the utterances and for the
fairness of our selection of witnes-
The second biennial convention
of the soverign camp, Woodmen
of the World, was called to order
in St. Louis with about fifty
delegates present, from nearly
every state in the union.
ses.
as the child grew and a rod
brought him under the rules of
discipline and later in life made
him law abiding.
Commissioner Glenn’s proposi
tions will put the matter before
the counties in a way more direct
than the present system, and this
may start a trend of thought to
either carry us back to the old
system or to find a better system
in the future. Certainly we must
get from where we are. Courts
admit this; preachers admit this,
and every person who is not blind
to reason can see a trend danger
ous To law and to religion, and
whatsoever is dangerous to these is
dangerous to all Things sacred to
the human heart. The churches
are about to admit that they have
lost their influence greatly of late
years. Ways never thought of in
Georgia in the old times are now
Misfortune of John Sugart Near
Cohutta,
HE WAS PICKED UP FOR DEAD.
TheShock and Kick Together Caused
Concussion of the Brain—He
Will Recover. "
“ Are You Go ng‘>
The attention of all parties thi
taking a trip to the West is
called to the famous
Charleston railroad as being by
best route. JKp-.'iih' '3
If you desire to get the fastest ti -
and avoid layovers, which are alwa *
source of much worry, waste of tim
money, you should call upon or
Writetn'
J. L. Smith, Pass. Agent, Dalton a :
who will interest himself i n your 7
and sell you tickets via the J[ ^
SHORT LTNE.
<*C.
river, then he very kindly turned
resorted to to hold up the strengths horse loose to return to its
G. H. Mabry, of Cartersville,
Ga., was here Tuesday auto
graphed at the hotel Dalton.
Seventy per cent agree that the
times are out of joint and that our
public school system is to blame.
The substitution of young women
to teach these schools over the old
time male teacher is given as the
greatest factor to demoralization.
These claim that young girls can
not discipline schools, and here
the first seeds to insubordination
are sown.
The other 30 per cent of opin
ions are variable as to causes.
Some claim that it has really come
that our courts pose, that our law
yers pose, and that altogether they
help one another at posing. Of
course the young military under
the hallucination of fadism are
ready to pose themselves, and so
we are liable to have these poses
continued whenever the least op
portunity presents itself.
If we tell them that the old-time
dignity of the courts and the old-
time reverence for law used to be
sufficient to protect any person
that deserved to be protected, the
young would laugh at us. Nine
ty-nine out of a hundred of the
children brought np in our public
schools have no comprehension of
a dignity that use to so grace the
benches of Georgia as to be a pro
tection within .themselves. In
those days it was not a common
matter to hear court officials spok
en of lightly.' The reverence for
these men was cultivated and grew
and the prestige of numbers in the
churches, children are hired, as it
were, to go to church ; sometimes
the pay is in sociables, sonmtimes
in clothes—but pay is pay no mat
ter how it is given out. Society
after society has been organized to
meet something which the church
es admit themselves to be incom
petent to meet till the land is
howling with the society craze,
and yet we go on till military
must be camped about over courts
that the law may be fulfilled. It
is a sad commentary on our boast
ed progress, and it is full time that
such men as Commissioner Glenn
should desire a change.
Brown and I are of the number
who think the way very simple—
just get back to the old-time ways,
that is all. Magnify the “ old
man ” and the “old woman” and
put men able to discipline back
into the schoolhouses. If there
be -those who have no right to a
claim of respect and without sense
to run a home, then hang all such.
If the “old man” and the “old wo
man ” must go, then law must go,
and the church must go. No use
trying to hedge on this—homes
first, then good schools, and the
churches will take care of them
selves and leven the whole to the
glory of God and the perpetuation
of our county.
Give us a change in our school
system.
Let the churches depend a little
more on God than upon their own
power.
Let us quit having so many lit
tle- societies, missions, etc., and
get back to old times in Georgia
again.
It is the cities which are to suf
fer from the conditions. Country
people are all right, and I live in
the faith that they will bring ev
erything right, despite the fact
that country schools are almost a
wreck. The people who have made
these conditions cannot unload the
responsibility. They are the men
who have been in power for thirty
years, and if in that time their
methods have raised a generation
of lawbreakers that makes it nec
essary to have military at onr
courts, they are to blame. If law
yers, courts and court officials are
“posers,” these people are to blame
for the low code of morals.which
fails to crush such actions with
righteous indignation.—Sarge
Plunkett in Atlanta Constitution.
Cohutta, Ga., March 23.—
Mrs. W. B. Kennedy and her
friend, Mrs. Smith, of Washing
ton, D. C., are the guests of Mr.
and Mrs. J. A. Kennedy at Co
hutta.
Some one got tired of wading
the mud one night last week and
took one of Mr. Breeden’s horses
and rode to his home over the
The coaches on this line are i n ]
class condition and close connection ^
made at Memphis with the trains fo^
West. * rthe
For rates, time tables and tickets
the recognized ro^te to the West, th e ^-
& C., call on or
J. I,. Smith, Dalton, (; a
C. A. DeSaussub, G. P. a.,
' • Memphis, Tenn.
master,
Major T. H. Pitner is rapidly
recovering from bis recent violent
illness, we are glad to state.
The dam at Brown’s mill was
badly damaged by the high waters
so much as to stop-grinding till re
paired.
Of all the thoroughfares leading
out of Cohutta, the “ lower route”
has been the one most traveled of
late.
Miss Claude Sbugart, of Cleve
land, Tenn., is visiting her grand
father, Dr. J. F. Groves near Co
hutta.
Mrs. Sorrells, of Rockmart, and
Mrs. J. F. Welch, of Dallas, Ga.,
are at the bedside of their sister,
Mrs. Dock Johns, who continues
very ill.
Mr. Austin, night operator for
the Southern Railway, has moved
his family to Cohutta.
Sabbath last was a communion
season with the Presbyterians,
Rev. M. D. Smith, the pastor,
preached very appropriate ser
mons to gcod audiences.
Cohutta is getting a reputation
as a health resort, North, East,
and South, coming to seek the
boon of health among her hills.
John Shugart, eldest son of Mr.
H. F. Shugart, had the misfortune
to be kicked in the face by a mule
last week. He wes picked up for
dead, but after recovering from
the shock and concussion of the
brain, he proved to be “slightly
disfigured but still in the ring.”
Take care, young man, you may
not come off so well next time.
An.infant child of Mr. Bill Ta
tum was buried at Mt. Olivet
Tuesday. Bertram.
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Stations.
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Lv Chattanooga.
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8.i.5am
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2 02am
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Ar Rome
3.25am
10.35am
Ar Atlanta
6.55am
1.1- pm
Lv Atlanta
7.20am
4 Oupm
Ar Macon
10 2 am
7.00pm
ArJesup
5 3lpm
Ar Everett
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Ar Brunswick
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IMPROMPTU.
For The Citizen :
Her face is like the freshness of the
morn.
With eyes of blue and cheeks of rosy
red,
With lips so sweet, with throat so
snowy white,
And hair so wavy round her queenly
i head.
I watch that curling lip and wonder
why
She lightly talks of love—so lovely
all;
Methinks could love be kindled in
her breast
That man were blest indeed on
whom ’twould fall.
—D ALTON.
March 11, 1897.
Miss Jennie Glatigmy, 37 years
of age, died at Savannah of a pro
nounced case of rabies.
A bill in Kansas which makes
war on the : bloomer costume, and
another whose object is to abolish
corsets.
THE DANGER
to which the Expectant Mother is
exposed and the foreboding and
dread with which she looks for
ward to the hour of woman’s
severest trial is appreciated by but
few. All effort should be made
to smooth these rugged places
presses to her bosom her babe.
MOTHER’S FRIEND
allays Nervousness, and so assists
Nature that the change goes for
ward in an easy manner, without
such violent protest in the way of
Nausea, Headache, Etc. Gloomy
forebodings yield to cheerful and
hopeful anticipations—she passes
through the ordeal quickly and
without pain—is left strong and
vigorous and enabled to joyously
perform the high and holy duties
now devolved upon her. Safety
to life of both is assured by the
use of “Mother’s Friend,” and
the time of recovery shortened.
“I know one lady, the mother of three
children, who suffered greatly in the
birth of each, who obtained a bottle of
‘Mother’s Friend’ of me before her
fourth confinement, and was relieved
quickly and easily. AH agree that their
labor was shorter and less painful.”
John G. Polhill, Macon, Ga.
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with Pullman Sleeping Car C h ' 11 .
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made at Norfolk witn steamers, 1 E sie*?
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