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THE NORTH GEORGIA CITIZEN, DALTON, GA.
Miss Johnstone, who has been
Ruth Allen, returned to
lanta home Monday.
EtchingsjFrom Effie
the much admired guest of Miss | Kev. B. Foster failed to reach
her At- his appointment at Mill Creek
church Sunday on account of the
* I high water. Rev. James Mont-
Miss Marvin Trevitt is expected gomery preached Sunday at eleven
home early next week. j o’clock to the disappointed con-
* oregation.
Col. and Mrs. B. Z. Herndon i Rev. Charlie Roney, one of Mill
tendered an elegant reception to; Creek’s rising young preachers,
Mr. and Mrs. Will T. Brown Tues-; preached an excellent sermon at
day night which was greatly en- Mill Creek Saturday night.
j 0 y e d. Miss Neitie Sisk, one of Dalton’s
,* most charming young ladies,
is
Mis. Lillie Cappes Boisclaire is ; spending some time with friends
quite ill with malarial fever at her at this place,
parents home in this city.
Mrs. H. H. Divine was in
city this week.
the
Miss Mollie Kennedy, who as
sists Mrs. Hodge, will be here by
the 15th.
IN SOCIAL CIRCLES.
The following invitation has Misses Stella and Sallie Barrett,
been received by The Citizen edi- of Charleston, Tenn., spent a day
tor, and we congratulate the cm- here last week, the guests of their
tracting parties in advance:
Mrs. Teccoa Elizabeth Collins
invites you to be present
at the marriage of her daughter,
Ella Teccoa,
to
Mr. Joseph Eugene Wardlaw,
Thursday evening, September fif
teenth,
at nine o’clock,
at her residence,
Car'ersville, Georgia.
Mr. and Mrs. R
have returned from
visit to relatives in
J. Patterson
a two weeks’
East Tennes
see.
Mrs. S. J. Trotter and Misses
Lucile and Lillian are home from
Tate Springs.
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Miss Georgia Gaston, of Gaines
ville, is expected some time this
month to be the guest of Miss May
McAfee. Miss Gaston is one of
the handsomest and brightest wo
men in the State.
aunt, Mrs. L. W. Barrett, en route
home from Rome.
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Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Berry spent
Sunday in Rome the guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Harvey.
Mr. Paul Johnstone spent a few
days the past week in the city.
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Miss Ethel O’Neil leaves today
(Friday) for Dalton. The re
mainder of the family will leave
in a few weeks.—Cleveland Ban
ner.
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Miss Tennie Showalter left
Tuesday morning for Decatur, Ga.,
to enter the Agnes Scott school.
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Mrs. Miriam Armstrong Glenn
and Miss Mary McCarty are teach
ing a school of vocal and instru
mental music in Atlanta, so The
Citizen is informed.
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Miss Mamie Fincher spent Mon
day in Tunnel Hill.
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Mrs. A. N. Hodge leaves
New York on the 16th.
for
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Mrs. A. J. Cartwright Mrs.
Price and the Misses Headrick
have returned from Cohuttah
Springs.
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Miss Liza Carter was in the city
Tuesday > the guest of Miss Blanche
Gardner.
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Miss Alice Barker, of Atlanta,
was in the city Tuesday en route
home from Miss Carter’s house
party.
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Miss Eva Camp, of Rome, spent
Tuesday in the city.
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Mrs. R. A. Rushton has returned
from Canton.
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A number of Daltonians expect
to go down to Sam Jones’ taber
nacle meeting Sunday, September
18th. Dr. and Mrs. Puckette will
chaperone a party of youi g folks.
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Rev. Hudson, of Rome, was the
guest of his brother, Mr. J. L.
Hudson, this week.
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Mr. R. W. Weatherly and Miss
Mae are expected home from New
York today.
The revival meeting closed at
Shiloh church Sunday. Rev.
Newt. Trimble is an earnest and
God serving man and the Lord
blessed him greatly in his meeting
here. There were more than forty
conversions, seven of whom were
added to Shiloh church, six to the
Baptist and the remainder are still
undecided.
The many friends of Mrs. Frank
Story will be glad to know that
she is up again after a protracted
illness.
Mr. Oscar Sherman, of Gordon
Springs, was in our community
Sunday.
Miss Mary Wood, of Dalton, is
visiting her sister, Mrs. J. L. Ken-
emer, this week.
Mr. Sam Carpenter, of Chestnut
Flat, was visiting in our commun
ity Sunday.
Mr. Leroy and wife, of Chatta
nooga, are spending s<»me time
with relatives here.
Mrs. Mary Woodall is visiting
her daughter, Mrs. Bob Davis.
Mr. Wash Smith, of Crow, at
tended preaching at Mill Creek
Sunday.
Do Better.
Conductor Ab Pitner Has a Bad Time
With an Ugly Negro.
Everybody here knows genial
Ab Pitner, and will be interested
in reading the following story from
the Selma paper of the difficulty
he had with an unruly negro pass
enger :
Conductor Ab Pitner was pulled
off a Southern passenger train a
few days since by a negro when
the train was running at the rate
of about thirty miles an hour. Mr.
Pitner took hold of the negro to
ors of present and subsequent m
cumbents shall be elected by the*
electors of the whole State quali
fied to vote for members of the
General A:>sembly, at the general
election held next preceding the
expiration of their respective
terms. Every vacancy occasioned
by death, resignation or other
cause shall be filled by appoint
ment of the Governor until the
first day of January after the gen-
1 eral election held next after’the
expiration of thirty days from the
time such vacancy occurs at
which election a seccessor for the
unexpired term shall he elected •
„ provided, that the successors for
carry him inside the car from off a p incumbents whose terms
the platform. This made the ne
gro mad, and he took hold of Pit
ner and jumped from the platform
to the ground, carrying the con
ductor with him. Fortunately
the conductor was not injured by
the fall, and unfortunately for the
conductor, the negro was not in
jured ; for when they arose from
the fall the negro, before he could
get away, bit Mr. Pitner fearfully
on the arm and struck him several
times about the face. Mr. Pitner
was not idle while this was
going on, and the negro was
glad of an opportunity to get loose
and run. The train backed as
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My large two story Brick is chock full of New Furniture, Pianos,
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NEW FIRM IN TOWN.
I have bought the Livery
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Springfield Stables.
Am overhauling everything,
putting in new teams and ve
hicles.
Mr. Jesse L. Holland will
be in the management with
me and will give his personal
supervision. 1 respectfully solicit your trade and will en
deavor to give oerfect satisfaction
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The recent heavy rains have
played sad havoc with crops in
this section. Last Sunday morn
ing presented the sad spectacle of
hundreds of acres of fine corn un
der water. All the low land on
Couhulla and Mill creeks were
submerged and badly washed.
The upland crop, while not suffer
ing so, are badly damaged by wind,
most of the corn being blown flat.
Many acres of fine sorghum are
nearly ruined|by being blown down
and inextricably tangled.
The white winged angel of
death visited our community last
Sunday and took little Dixie May
Fulks. Diptheria was the cause
of her death and it is feared that
she will not be the only victim, as
a great many children were ex
posed to the disease. The be
reaved family have the sincere
sympathy of the entire community
in their sore affliction.
“There is a reaper whose name is Death,
He comes with a sickle keen
And gathers the bearded grain at a breath
And the flowers that grow between.”
Junius.
Camp Stools.
The Presbyterian church owns
quite a lot of cloth seat camp
stools and they are widely scatter
ed. It is earnestly desired that
all who have them or know of their
whereabouts will leave them at the
Lowry drug store or Citizen office
or give either the information that
they may be sent for.
A Chapter From Cohutta.
The people up here are begin
ning to wish for a little dust by
way of a change. We thought
the equinoctial of last week might
bring a change in the weather, but
it seems that it has not.
Miss Mary Taylor, of Cleveland
is now on a visit to her brother at
Dr. Groves.
Miss Dessie Leonard, of Dalton,
is visiting her grandparents, Rev.
and Mrs. A. R. T. Hambright.
Mrs. S. C. Peeples, of Chatta
nooga, returned to her home last
Saturday after a month’s visit to
her girlhood home.
Mr. Madison Dodd, an old and
respected citizen of this commun
ity, was buried at Mt. Olivet cem
etery Saturday. He leaves several
children and grandchildren to
mourn his departure.
Rev. Sam Frazier is assisting
Mr. Hambright in the meeting at
the Cumberland church this week.
Rev. Dr. Goodwin is expected
to assist Rev. M. D. Smith at the
Presbyterian church next week.
Miss Maud Keebler, of Lime
stone, Tenn., is now on a visit to
Mrs. W. A. Ramsey.
Prof. W. A. Ramsey represented
the Cohutta church at the meeting
of the Presbytery held at Midway,
Cobb county, last week.
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If You have been sick you will
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medicine you can take to give you
appetite and strength and restore
you to a condition of perfect
health.
Hood’s Pills cure nausea, sick
headache, biliousness and all liver
ills. Price 25 cents.
Baptist Association.
The Middle Cherokee Baptist
Association will convene at the
Ringgold Baptist church Friday
morning before the fourth Sunday
in September. This association
embraces all the territory on the
W. & A. R. R. from Ringgold to
Kingston, Ga. There will be
probably 150 delegates and visi
tors present.
The members of all churches are
cordially invited to be present.
Preaching each day at 11 o’clock
a. m. and 7:30 p. m. The asso
ciation will close with the Sunday
night sermon.
Introductory sermon will be
preached by Dr. Goodwin, of First
church, Dalton, Ga.—Ringgold
New South.
PROCLAMATION SUBMITTING CON
STITUTIONAL AMENDJTENT.
Whereas, The General Assem
bly of 1897 passed the following
Act to amend the Constitution of
the State, to-wit :
An Act to amend paragraphs 2
and 3 of section 3 of article 6,
and paragraph 1 of section 11
of article 6, of the Constitution
of this State, so as to provide
for the election of Judges of
the Superior Courts and Solici-
tors-General by the electors of
the whole State.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly of the State of
Georgia, and it is hereby enacted
by authority of the same, That
paragraph 2 of section 3 of article
6 of the Constitution of this State
be amended so that the same shall
read as follows, to-wit: “ The
successors to the present and sub
sequent incumbents shall be elected
by the electors, entitled to vote
for members of the General As
sembly of the whole State, at the
general election held for such
members, next preceding the ex
piration of their respective terms;
provided, that the successors for
all incumbems whose terms ex
pire on or before the first day of
January, 1899, shall be elected by
the General Assembly at its ses
sion for 1898, for the full term of
four years.”
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by
the authority aforesaid, That par
agraph 3 of section 3 of article 6
of the Constitution of this State,
be amended so that said paragraph
shall read as follows, to-wit: “ The
terms of the judges to be elected
under the Constitution (except to
fill vacancies) shall begin on the
first day of January after their
election. Every vacancy occa
sioned by death, resignation or
other causes shall be filled by ap
pointments of the Governor until
the first day of January after the
general election held next after
the expiration of thirty days from
the time such vacancy occurs, at
which election a successor for the
unexpired term shall be elected.”
Sec. 3. Be it further enacted by
the authority aforesaid, That para
graph 1 of section 11 of article 6
of the Constitution of ^iis State,
be amended so that the same shall
read as follows, to-wit: “There
shall be a Solicitor-General for
is ex
pire on or before the first day of
January, 1899, shall be elected by
the General Assembly at its ses
sion for 1898, for the full term of
four years.”
Sec. 4. Be it further enacted by
authority aforesaid, That whenever
the above proposed amendments
to the Constitution shall be agreed
to by two thirds of the members
elected to each of the two houses
of the General Assembly, the
Governor shall, an«. he is hereby
authorized and instructed to cause
said amendments to be published
in at least two newspapers in each
Congressional district in this State
for the period of two months next
preceding the time for holding the
next general election,
soon as possible for its popular Sec. 5. Be it further enacted by
conductor.—Auniston Republican. ^e authority aforesaid, That the
The above encounter happened above proposed amendments shall
~, . , , be substituted for ratification or
at Clays station several days ago. ( of this State . at which election
Conductor Pitner caught a negro every person shall be qualified to
stealing a ride on the front end of vote who is entitled to vote for
his train. He grabbed the negro members of the General Assembly.
in the collar, and the negro leaped An P er f ons v " tin ? at sak } ele °-
e ^ r, r i tion in favor of adopting the pro-
from the tram. Capt. Pitner be- ^ amen dments, or either of
ing unable to get his fingers loose them, to the Constitution of this
went with him with the results as State, shall have written or printed
told above.—Rome Tribune. Ion their ballots the words: “For
■ —. ! ratification of the amendment of
a Wonderful Di»corery-, paragraph 2 of section 3, article 6
many ° f the Constitution - (for election
but none that have accomplished more for of Judg6S of Superior Courts by
humanity than that sterling old household t y. p nprm l p \ «Fnr ratification of
remedy, Browns’ Iron Bitters. It seems to tne P eo P ie > r or ratmcduon 01
contain the very elements of good health, amendment of paragraph 3 of sec
tion 3 of article 6 of the Constitu
tion ” (for election of Judges of
the Superior Courts by the pro-
ple), “For ratification of amend
ment of paragraph 1 of section 11
of article 6 of the Constitution
(for election of Solicitors-General
by the people). And all persons
opposed to adoption of said amend
ments, or either of them, shall
have written or printed on their
ballots the words: “ Against the
ratification of amendment of para
graph 2 of section 3 of article 6 of
the Constitution” (against elec
tion of Judges of Superior Courts
by the people), “Against ratifica
tion of the amendment of para
graph 3 of section 3 of article 6
of the Constitution ” (against elec
tion of Judges of Superior Courts
by the people), “Against ratifica
tion of amendment of paragraph 1
of section 11 of article 6 of the
Constitution ” (against the elec
tion of Solicitors-General by the
people).
See. 6. Be it further enacted bj
the authority aforesaid, That the
Governor be, and he is, hereby
authorized and directed to pro
vide for the submission of the
foregoing proposed amendments
to the Constitution of this State
to a vote of the people as requ ire
by the Constitution of this State
in paragraph 1 of section 1 of ar
tide 13, and by this Act; ana i
either be ratified, the Governor
shall, when he ascertains such ra
ification from the Secretarj G
State, to whom the returns s ia 1
be referred in the same mannei as
in case of elections for mem ^
of the General Assembly, to coim
and ascertain the result, i 8sue
proclamation, for one insertion? 1
one of the daily papers o t *
State, announcing such resu t an
declaring the amendment
amendments ratified. ,,
Sec. 7. Be it further enacted T
the authority aforesaid, 1 ‘ a
J * laws in conflitt
H each judicial circuit, whose official
True Blood Purifier, Great Nerve
Tonic, Stomach Regulator. To thou
sands its great merit Is KNOWN.
term (except to fill a vacancy)
shall be four years. The success-
laws and parts oi —
with the Act be, and the same a
1897.
hereby repealed.
Approved December 21, 1
Now, therefore, I, WiU j a “ e ‘
Atkinson, Governor of sau - ^
do issue this my proclamation
daring that the
posed amendment to the L
tion is hereby submitted 01
fication or rejection to 1 e
voters of the State at the•
election to be held on A e 11
October 5, 1898. or .
W. Y. Atkinson, Govern
By the Governor,
F. E. Callaway,
Private Secretary-