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Best Grades; more of them a
greatest capacity.
Phone 37.
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Thursday, March 25, 1897.
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Brevities.
J. C. Tally, of Marietta, was in
Dalton on last Tuesday.
Pure drugs is the only kind
Bryant & Fincher handle.
Lon Henderson, of Chattanooga,
spent Sunday with Dalton friends.
Mrs. Laurie Babcock likes Flor
ida but thinks a great deal more of
Georgia.
Bryant & Fincher are the peo
ple when you want your prescrip
tions filled
Mrs. M. A. Jefferson, of Dalton,
is this week the guest of Mrs.
John Henderson at Waring.
Jailor Tankersley has returned
from Atlanta where he went to
carry some prisoners.
Miss Hattie Thomas, of Ring
gold, will spend Saturday and
Sunday with the homefolks
Dalton.
Hon. John L. Smith, of Cal
houn, Tenn., is the guest of his
father-in-law, W. H. Pruden
this city.
J. P. Fann, jr., has returned
from Atlanta where he has been
studying dentistry. He will re
main in Dalton this season.
H. A. Chapman and children,
of C alters ville, spent Sunday in
Dalton. Mr. Chapman is the ju
nior editor of the Courant-Amer
ican.
The friends of Mrs. Porter
Walker, who is in Atlanta for her
health, will be glad to learn that
her condition is very much im
proved.
Yesterday R. J. Patterson’s
friends had some difficulty in rec
ognizing him. Tuesday night he
rode the easy goat “of the first
degree of the Knights of Pythias.
The illustrations used in this
issue were engraved by Wm. Braz-
elton. They are very creditable
considering they are the first effort
of Mr. Brazelton as an engraver.
Miss Bertha Fain, of Calhoun,
who has been the guest of Miss;
Flora Lester, left for home on
Tuesday. Miss Fain will only
remain in Calhoun a short time as
she will go from there to Athens.
Sheriff Johnson has returned
from Charleston, Tenn., where he
went to identify three negroes
supposed to be a trio of escaped
prisoners from the Whitfield
county jail, but they were not.
“Either run a town with vim or
01 se ^ out and leave it, say3
an exchange. Men who are all the
time trying to get out of town will
never build up a town or their
own business. One or two things
hmst be done—run the town for
all it is worth, get up steam and
keep it up, or quit the whole thing,
slide out and let nature take its
course. Do you want trade? Bid
for it. Do you want a prosperous
town where people can come who
are disposed to make homes? Then
do away with personal feeling;
bury from sight all spite work,
work no more for a few individu
als, but all work together for a
mutual benefit. Wake up, rub
your eyes, roll up your sleeves and
go to work. Don’t work with
fear and trembling, but take it for
granted that blood will tell. Leave
results with themselves; borrow
no trouble, but all unite to make
the biggest kind of a city.”
R. M. Herron’s opening
commences Wednesday
morning, March 31st.
On Saturday evening at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Rey
nolds, a party was given in honor
of Miss Brownie Stansell, of Tun
nel Hill, Ga. Among those ^pres
ent were, Misses Nora Finley,
Minnie Hamilton, Ella Fann, Des
sie Lenard, Jimmie Lou Fincher,
Lizzie Brooker, Brownie Stansell,
Lillian Cox. Messrs. John Gregg,
m Porter Fann, Will DuBois, Frank
Hill, West Flemister, Sam Finley,
Luther Hamilton, and Ed Hill.
After spending the evening very
pleasantly the guests departed vot
ing Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds the
most entertaining of hosts and
hostesses.
Seven Whitfield Prisoners out
for a Stroll.
DIDN’T LIKE THE CONFINEMENT.
Sunday Night They Escaped From the
County Bastile and Gave Leg
Bail.
It can almost be said of the
Whitfield county jail that when
close confinement does not
with the prisoners
bail.
When prisoners first began to
escape from this bastile, it created
some comment, but as
along and the people
hearing of repetitions of the first
escape, they laugh and ask, “ how
many got away this time ? ” just
as they would any other question
that creates no special surprise.
Tapp’s big opening
April 1st, 2d, 3rd. Look
out for big circular.
J. P. Bond, deputy sheriff of
Murray county, passed through
Dalton today with R. E. Key as
his prisoner. Mr. Bond said Key
was charged with poisoning a fam
ily. Key had been arrested at
Cedartown, Ga.
Carefulness is observed by Bry
ant & Fincher.
John R. Parrott, who was one
of the participants in a fight in
Dalton lash Wednesday, went to
Atlanta, and on Thursday was
tried for illicit distilling. He was
found guilty and sentenced to ten
months in jail. That is next to
the highest sentence ever passed
by Judge Newman, for illicit dis
tilling.
AT HODGE’S
The Pattern Hats will
be ready for examina
tion Monday. The larg
est Millinery stock in
North Georgia.
AT HODGE’S
Remember the Farrar Lumber
Company are headquarters for
doors, windows and blinds. Get
a copy of the latest prices adopted
February 10th, together with their
special discounts and be convinced.
“The Best Drugs” is the Bryant
& Fincher motto.
Our merchants are exceedingly
busy just now getting |in new
goods and arranging them very at
tractively in their stores. Dalton
merchants have, as large and com
plete stocks of goods as can be
found anywhere in North Georgia,
and their choice goods and low
prices are drawing trade from all
over this part of the state.
Ladies attend R. M. Her
ron’s opening next Wednes-
day, March 31st.
E. R. Acres, a prominent at
torney of Decorah, Iowa, who has
spent some time at Cohutta for
his health, is very favorably im
pressed with the South. While
he is a married man, he is most
emphatic in his praises of the
beauty of our Southern girls. The
hospitality of our people abso
lutely captivates him.
Schloss Bros. & Com
pany’s fine tailor made,
silk lined suits, worth
$18-00 and $20.00.
choice this week at only
$8.98. Tapp.
Bill Brown made some insult
ing remarks about lYill Dodson s
wife. Dodson found Brown asleep
last Friday, kicked him with his
foot and when he raised up hung
a banjo over his head. Brown got
mad about it and started after
Dodson with a knife and carved
Linn up considerably. Brown was
tried before Mayor McAfee and
bound over to court for assault
with intent to murder. Both
Brown and Dodson belong to Dal
ton’s “colored 400.J’ Brown es
caped from jail Sunday night.
Place orders now for screen
doors and windows, to be delivered
any time between now and fly sea
son. Our goods are made of the
best white pine and already
painted. Our prices guaranteed
the lowest. Special prices on
complete contracts.
Farrar Lumber Co.
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Interior View of tlie Jail.
The wind moaned and sighed
in the early hours of Sunday night
as if the departure of winter was
a matter of deep regret. To
wards the hour of midnight there
was a change in the atmospheric
conditions, the wind came in short
summer sighs, the lightning zig-
zaged across the fringe work of
black clouds that floated in fantas
tic shapes toward the north. The
thunder muttered like a caged
lion, and when the storm was
fiercest the Whitfield county pris
oners made their escape.
and can proob it when de time
comes. If I had ’scaped dey woud
hab said I’se gilty, and fore de
Load I aint.”
On the outside of the trap they
climbed up on top of the cage and
with the iron bar loosened the
bricks near the roof making a hole
large enough for their escape.
They made a rope out of their
blankets. The first one they made
broke and Green Esterling fell
almost the entire distance lighting
on his head. The second rope
was stronger and all of them
reached terra fhina in safety.
Esterling could not travel far af
ter his fall, so he was recaptured.
who took leg bail,
Milt Barlow, who had.been steal
ing turkeys.
Will Brown who assaulted and
attempted to murder Will Dodson.
Milton King or Brownlee, who
was bound over to court for bur
glarizing the stores of Farnsworth
Bros, and R. M. Herron.
Ollie Mosely, for carrying con:
cealed weapons.
Green -Easterling and George
Morrison for “rollin’ de bones and
sellin’ spirits.”
John Green was also charged
with being a blind tiger.
Tom Adams, who swiped a rope
that had a cow tied to the end of
it, did not try to get out either.
He and Henderson Barksdale
think they have proven their in
nocence by remaining in jail when
they could have gotten away.
J. A. Holt, the white prisoner
from Catoosa county, who is in
jail charged with allowing a horse
to follow him off from . WC. Hul-
lender’s in Wood Station Valley,
would in all probability have gone
back home on a visit had the op
portunity. been presented, but it
was not. So he is still in jail, in
the lower cell.
Just who is to blame for the es
cape is not known, but the birds
have flown and of the seven only
one has been recaptured; Green
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Whitfield County Jail Showing Escape of Prisoners.
Sunday night seems to be the
favorite one for their daring es
capes.
Of course on Sunday night the
negroes sang their religious melo
dies loudest, and prayed the long
est, so as to fool the jailor, and no
one suspected that then they were
planning their escape, but they
were.
The bar across the food door
was the place of attdck. A
blanket was woven around the
bar and as many as could not get
hold of the bar, pulled with all
their strength on the blanket. The
strength of the nine negro men
was not spent in vain, a long,
steady pull to the tune of “ Jesus
Lover of My Soul ” loosened the
iron bar.
The bar did not strike the floor
but they used it quickly to break
the lock which held the food door
in place. The other bar was
soon, loosened and then as fast as
one could follow the other they
made their escape through the
opening until it came “ Fatty’s ”
time; but, he could not get through
the food door space, but in his
own words, Henderson Barksdale’s
reason for
leave was,
not, taking French
“ cause I’se innercent,
Esterling, who was so badly hurt
in the fall he could not get away.
The others are being looked for,
but up to noon today they are out
pf sight.
Sheriff John M. Johnson was
called to Charleston, Tenn., to
identify three of the escaped pris
oners, but they were the wrong
ones.
Sheriff Johnson said he did not
feel that it was his fault or that of
Jailor Tankersley either, if he did
he would offer a reward for the
capture of the escaped prisoners.
In fact if there is any body in
this county who is to blame for
the prisoners escape The Citizen
reporter could not find the man
who would acknowledge the corn.
Four of the escaped negroes had
also played a star engagement at
Spring Place, boarding over there
while contractor Sim Coyle was
repairing the local bastile. The
four who boarded in Murray’s
brick jail were: Milt Barlow,
Milton King or Brownlee, Green
Esterling and George Morrison.
If the prisoners are recaptured
in time they will be tried during
the April court, if not, “ there are
others ” who will receive attention.
Mr. Will Brazelton, of Dalton,
made the drawings and engraved
the cuts used in illustrating this
article. The Citizen is glad that
this local genius has. been discov
ered and may patronize him fre
quently in the future.
+ + + + + Herron’s Low Prices Always Right.
IbetTOn’S
Spring
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WILL BE ON SALE COMMENCING
Wednesday, March 31 st.
pattern Ifoats anb Bonnets
of the latest creations from the most
celebrated Parisian Artists and orig
inal productions from our own work
rooms will be on ... .
Erbibition anb Sale.
flowers an& foliage,
ffiralfcs and iDeiUngs,
Buckles an& Jewels,
In IRlcb profusion.
Our Store will be attractively decorated and
lighted for this special occasion