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KOftTH OBOBOIA OIIIZIM, DALTOM, GA.
Jfsrtft (Senrgia Citizen THE water will be turned on
Published svery Thursday.
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■41 to rial and Business OiBco 188
Official Organ of the County. Official Organ
of the United States Ciiouit and Distrlot
Courts, Northwestern Dlvlilon, North
ern District of Georgia.
T. S. SHOPS. I m rmmrltltmr .
A. J. 8 HO WALTER, I rr»prlct»r»
T. S. SHOPB and P. T. REYNOLDS, Editors.
Torus of abserlptiem:
fste Year «1-M
•1* Months 60
Three Months 26
JM-Knt»red at the Dalton, Ga., Postoffioe for
transmission through the malls as second-
olass mall matter.
Thursday, June 2, 1904.
For Representative.
I respectfully announce my candidaoy
for the Legislature from this county
subject to a Democratic primary.
W. W. Seymoub.
Bermuda Grass is alike good
for beautifying grounds and for
age.
The Bermuda grass question is
about the “livest” wire in this
section.
What’s the use of a senate or
a congress so long as Roosevelt is
president?
An exchange says that if you
fool people even a part of the
time you are going to be kept
busy.
To that dear Atlanta News-
Baumgarten advised Dinkelspiel
to go out to the races and bet on
the horse “Perhaps.” q. e. d.
The United States has a big
mint exhibit out in St. Louis.
We suppose Kentucky and Louis
iana can furnish the other parts
for a julep.
Superintendent Hamilton in
forms The Citizen that the water
works are in fine shape and splen
! did working order, and that plenty
of water for all purposes
can be supplied. In other
words the water can now be turn
ed on in the city parks, provided
the city council will have the
water pipes cleaned out. These
pipes which are terra cotta are
filled up, so it is reported, until
waste water cannot at all go
through.
Mayor McAuley’s attention has
been called to this fact and he
has promised that the matter shall
be given prompt attention—that
the water must be turned on in
the fountains. Said the mayor:
“I am for a more beautiful Dalton,
and The Citizen and the members
of the village improvement asso
ciation can count on me for a
hearty co operation. Much good
has been done, many improve
ments made and many more will
be made, prominent among which
will be the turning on of the wa
ter in the park fountains. And
when it is done,” continued he
“The Citizen must make good its
promise, and secure the gold fish
for them.” The Citizen will cer
tainly do this if it has to import
them. Turn on the water! The
Citizen will get the fish!
THE PUBLIC SCHOOL QUESTI
WORLD GROWING BETTER.
The Rome Tribune is greatly
increasing its usefulness by the
addition of a linotype machine.
Colonel Johnson is keeping ahead
of the procession.
Between the hardware men, a
linen cuff, a musical festival and
a democratic convention, Atlanta
has had all the diversification
she could wish the past fortnight.
The Rome Tribune made a
master stroke when it engaged
the services again of John C.
Reese as associate to Managing
Editor J. B. Nevins. We con
gratulate all its readers.
Rome and Cedarcown very
properly mourn the deaths of
Messrs. Jack King and J. H. San
ders. They were prime factors in
the upbuilding of these two cities
respectivety.
The young man who wanted
to know at what hour they turned
water on the cascarets at the St.
Louis Exposition, had things
down about as pat as the lady
who wanted to see them feed the
lagoons at the Chicago fair.
The day rarely passes now
without some young girl or boy
disappearing in Atlanta. The
frequent occurrences are alarming
and must needs give Atlanta
parents and police cause for alarm.
What is the trouble and what the
remedy?
Coca Cola is good for that
tired feeling, but what we want to
find is something that will relieve
that fishing fever.—Rome Herald.
Try a quart of coquetail and a
loaf of rye bread. You could
leave off the bread.
A Chicago newspaper is clam
oring for a legislature “that
washes its neck and does not
carry brass knuckles.” This is
not an extravagant demand, but
shows a real desire for an improve
ment, says the Providence Jour,
nal.
The decline of sectarianism in
the world—the broad charity of
fellow-man feeling—the almost
unanimity with which the two
recent Presbyterian general as.
semblies, North and South, de
cided to unite and become as one,
go to show that the world
particularly the religious world—
is becoming better.
And so with the remainder of
mankind not enrolled upon the
church registers. Until recently
it has been aeons since the world
was free from some great Atheists
like Hume, Gibbon, Paine and
Ingersoll, but with the death of
the latter their prototypes have
disappeared, and we hope for all
time to come. To-day we are
singularly and happily free from
any pronounced Atheist of any
great magnitude and personal
magnetism as exemplified by
Payne and Ingereoll. The for
mer’s “Age of Reason” and the
latter’s “Mistakes of Moses” lead
many far into the depths of Athe
ism and subsequently iufidelity.
By Divine wisdom and appoint
ment, religion and all that the
term implies, has been inherent in
the human breast and heart and
mind since creation. Pope voiced
this thesis when hs sang:
Lo, the poor Indian, whose untutored
mind
Sees God in the eloud and hears Him in
the wind.
Only the pessimist, whose fu
ture is clouded with dyspeptic
visions, can see that this grand
old universe is getting better and
better day by day through educa
tion—not so much the education
of the academy, but education of
the heart, which, after all, is true
wisdom and the kind written of
by the Psalmist, for the fool alone
says in his heart there is no God.
So then regulate life that it will
be a commentary on the text—the
world is growing better.
Elsewhere on this page will be
found a very interesting commun
ication from Rev. E. W. Way,
pastor of the First Presbyterian
ohurch of this city, relative to
the Dalton Public Schools. This
communication will prove of much
interest to those of our citizens
who realize the gravity of the
question under discussion, be
cause the suggestions contained
therein certainly make plain
duty, and at the same time point
way, which has not heretofore
been done, and The Citizen is
frank to say that it has heard of
no plan or suggestion better, nor
has it any to offer.
The matter is up to the city
council, and we are sure that this
intelligent body will leave
stone unturned in the performance
of a duty which so vitally affects
our citizenship, both present and
future.
That our school facilities are
absolutely inadequate to the de
mands has long been recognized
by those who have cared to give
the subject even a passing thought
This fact was made plainer in
our news columns in the issue of
May 19th, when it was made pub
lic that not all who were entitled
to the benefits accruing from free
tuition could be properly handled,
much less those who were not en
titled to it. In other words the
school population has grown
much faster than the facilities,
and this is the very thing that
must now be corrected. Mr.
Way’s communication will no
doubt prove the initiative, the
nucleus, around which and from
which the interest will spring
that will make Dalton’s public
schools the equal of any in the
state.
The Citizen’s columns are open
to the free discussion of the ques
tion and it invites letters from
the people.
We must have new school
buildings, so what’s the use of de
laying longer than it takes to
arrive at the proper course
pursue ?
lok. eases of desertion by wives of rich
men who married for social posi
tion supposed to be the ultima
thule of earthly bliss. Men of
unearned increment, with no other
feeling in their bosom than con
cupiscence see a physical beauty
in some business office, propose
and get married. After a few
short lived years, more often
months, the young woman is
brought to the terrible realization
of what she has sold and the hor
ribly dwindled price it brought,
and she is in the vortex of despair
She would give worlds once more
to be independent and self sup
porting in the most menial servi
tude. Desertion? Divorce? Death?
—three avenues are open. What
must she do? Oh! the awful con
sequences of a condemning con
science! self-accused! ! The first
two avenues of escape are coward
ly and scandalous and mean
ostracism and scorn. The last the
Almighty has set his canon
against. Better the butcher knife
of Virginius in the throat or
mill stone hanged about the neck
than such a life.
THANKS THE CITIZEN.
We sincerely thank the North
Georgia Citizen for its very kind
and' complimentary references .to
us. We will now tell our con
temporary a little secret:
In February last, prior to the
meeting of the state democratic
executive committee, certain
prominent and influential Geor
gians, political leaders, made
written and oral requests of us to
be a candidate for delegate from
the state at large. We were
assured the support of powerful
influences which usually mean
success in this state. We de
clined to become a candidate
because the St. Louis convention
will be holding at the very time
the general assembly of Georgia
is in session, and on account of
our legislative duties we eould not
be absent from the state. When
made known our decision an-
we
to
CIVIC inPROVE/lENT.
Guatemalian ants are to be
imported into cotton fields to de
stroy boll weevils, and we may
expect to hear ot farmers sending
over to neighbors to know if they
can borrow a few ants not at
work for their use a few days,
until Pa can go to town and get
some.
The fact that prominent white
citizens of Virginia, with bare
heads bowed in sorrow, carried
the coffin of an aged negro woman
who had spent most of her life in
slavery, will not give much com
fort to the Boston people who
denounce the South for “race
hatred.”—Baltimore Sun.
BANK EXAMINERS.
We notice some Georgia states
man proposes to pass a bill pro
viding for an examiner of private
banks. What’s the use? We
gather it that all the depositors of
the defunct private bank of I. C
Pants’ Son are to be paid in full
while the First National, of Ma
con, will probably get only 20 per
cent., if that; yet the First
National had been examined a
short while ago It is almost in
variably the case when a private
bank fails depositors get pay in
full or certainly more than those
of banks for which examiners are
provided. We do not think it
would be a constitutional act to
examine into the private affairs of
any class of business. People are
not required by law to deposit
their surplus at all. Anyhow,
here’s food for thought.
other gentleman was importuned
by some of our kind and partial
friends to enter the race. He
consented, and we are quite sure
he will be one of Georgia’s “Big
A great wave of civic improve- Four,” and we are glad of it.
ment is going over the entire Macon Daily News,
country. The great dailies are
full of it; the magazines contain
specialty prepared articles upon I Speaking of The Citizen's inter-
the subject. Indeed^ it seems that view with Judge A. W. Fite last
if this work keeps up it will be week, the esteemed Macon News
“Beautiful America.” says:
A great many seem to think | Judge A. W. Fite, of the Cherokee cir-
that this village improvement is
T ahe yourTime, Firemen.
Don’t hurry on my account. Save the
other people first. I put my trust in
puffin
because I know the buttons won't come
off and the cloth can't rip. The warranty
is famous—io cents a button ; $i a rip.
The newest patterns in Dutchess
Trousers—nobby, neat and cheap
for the quality—are now offered at
WcWILLIAM BR05.
HERRON &
THOMAS
Reduced Prices on all our
SUMMER MILLINERY,
Shapes, Flowers, Ribbons and Ornaments. Nothing
I reserved in our June clearance sale. Now is your
time to get a handsome Hat very cheap. A visit to
our Millinery Parlors, if in need of anything in the
way of a hat, will save you money.
FITE IS A FIGHTER.
cult is appropriately named. If any man
. .. .. , . , I wants to get a political fight on his
nowhere apparent except in Dal- hands all he haa to do ia t0 opposa p|te
ton, but such is not the case: it is for the judgeship.
everywhere, and this fact should Fite is r#ftd T fight »t all timss to
inspire us to even greater efforts p “° e ° D,1 “ Ib *" oh ' F1 * htl **
to mske Dalton the most beautiful Kecautly he ... interviewed by the
town in Georgia. North Georgia Citizen. Speaking of
The following from the Ladies’ L"** a i Id * nded to doiuthefuture - the
Home Journal is an indication of j “i do not intend to be put out of the
the national
provement:
or place of business, especially if
he be a man of family, is as to the
church and school facilities af
forded by a community, and for
the same reasons this ought to be
the paramount consideration of a
resident population. Now, our
church buildings, while for the
most part somewhat old-fashioned
and not so well adapted to our
present day needs as they might
be, are comparatively comfortable
and measurably adequate to all
ordinary demands. But for a
people that justly prides ilself
upon its literary attainments and
intellectual standard, our public
school equipment and facilities
are not only wholly inadequate,
but are a positive discredit. Our
present school site is not only
difficult of access, but its location
is remote from the center of popu
lation, the main building, if there
be no more serious objection, is
entirety too small to accommodate
the 660 young people who attend,
with proper regard for either
physical comfort or sanitary re
quirements; especially is this true
of the first four grades, the ex
cessive numbers of which are|i n blue, white and black, for full suits, or dresses, to
sought to be accommodated in' ’
CLEARANCE SALE
of Wash Organdies, Paris Lawns, French Mulls.
Our entire stock of Imported White Goods at cut
prices,
Nice line of Skirting Swiss Embroideries; and
handsome AIDOver Embroideries, suitable for Waists
j or Yokes, at cut prices.
For a short time we will seU heavy, unbleached
Domestic, 16 yards for $1.00. New York Mills, fine
bleached Domestic, 12 yards for $1.00.
FULL LINE OF IMPORTED
WOOL V0ILLE5,
be closed out in our June sale at cost. What
have left of our big line of
Sample Umbrellas
we
interest in civic im- I j ad g e ship so long as my friends want me
to serve them. When my opponents ac-
Jletters
Jrom
Sfhe
spirit of village improve-
I ment is indeed a commendable
cord me a race without opposition as the
If the community werk goes slowly, I other jiidgss of the olrouit have had
or is difficult, clean the street in front f 0 *° as^th.^^ofTlw''elroalt^waat
of your own premises yourself. Get me to serve them I think it is my duty to
yeur neighbors on both sides and across do so "
the street to join you if possible; but, If We learn from the interview in The
they won’t, olean your part yourself, or Citizen that Judge Fite thinks the pres
have it done; and talk about It! ent system of electing judges is oor-
But cleanliness alone will not bring rect If properly safe-guarded by the Aus-
back a Beautiful America. Lst us con- I trslian ballot law
aider how to make the highways mere
sif.htly. A strip of green grass next
the curb, or near the roadway, is a won
derful help. Even a single foot of grass i ^ .
is better than none, but a yard wide is JllC J J eOple.
desirable. Again invite yeur neighbors
ln JU “ e “ 0d8 ° an b# | AN IMPORTANT COMMUNICATION
safely laid. 1
Another way to beautify is to get rid I Editor Citizen
of useless front fences. These always
tend to the harboring of dirt. Get rid e
of them, and note how the highway
broadens and brightens. Front yards I one, and, when it finds its ex
will brace up, also under this treat- preS sion in „ ice l y graded atrtets
ment, and lawns will improve. If the . . J °
fence cannot be taken away get it ar tl8t lc alty planned and well-kept
cevered with green. For quick work parks, tastefully arranged and
us. » ,ruing glories, nasturtiums, four- orderly private premises, it is not
o clocks and other annuals; for perms- , * ,
nenoe take Virginia creeper, Boston P^ easau ^ the eye and of
ivy, the lovely Chinese honeysuckles, practical benefit but which at once
the trumpet honeysuckle, the sweet impresses favorably the visitor
clematises. A green fence is the best 1 - 3
fence, if fence there must be.
there is another phase of the
UNHAPPILY WEDDED. | matter of vastly greater im-
I portance, and touching more
I erhaps the greatest menace to vitally the welfare of a community
the perpetuity of the Western and it. attractive.*,, to the out-
world, and particularly th. United side world. And while we, with
States is the love of money. We justifiable pride, catalogue the
have it on the best authority that things we have, we might with
.t .. the root of all evil.” The profit consider some of the things
wickedest extent to which one | we have not- g
can go is to wed for wealth.
all to go at sacrifice prices.
two “overflow” grades in the old,
dilapidated dormitory building,
and even then the first grade
proper, early in the year, at
tempted to accommodate seventy
five pupils, nearly twice as many
as there should have been; the
recent closing exercises of the
school demonstrated the necessity
for larger rooms and more of them,
as well as a suitable auditorium
for general assembly and public
exercises; the present excellent
corps of ten teachers, with their
able principal are making a noble
struggle against the handicap
of numbers, but to expect the
best results under such conditions
is utterly unreasonable.
In view of the foregoing, I dare
suggest a possible and feasible
solution in the following:
First and best, sell all of pres
ent school property for best price
obtainable, purchase a more suit
able and central site, and erect
thereon a modern building of a
size and equipment to meet needs
as suggested in the foregoing.
u.°„ r ; ‘filer::; TSUd 1 "* 0f White Udles. misses and infants.
40 Doz. Negligee Shirts
on sale at Factory prices.
COME TO US FOR
White Canvas Slippers.
Full line all sizes for Ladies and Misses. Beautiful
NEW LINE OF
e, , -1 One °f the first inquiries of a
Every day we see in the press thoughtful man seeking a home
then put the present brick build
ing in thorough repair, dispose of j
dormitory property, district the I
town east and west, provide forj
at least four grades on some site
w«st of the railways, send all of j
the children of the first four!
grades in the western district to
this new building, those of these L c . .
four grades in the eastern district! ^ 5k ' rtS rece,ved this week on sale at popular prices,
with all of the upper grades to
the present location east of the
railway, and build an annex for
an auditorium at one or the other
of the two sites.
This would necessitate two ad
ditional teachers, but that is a
necessity which is upon us in any
event.
Now as to ways and means. I
believe some such plan as one of
the two mentioned, or a better
(Continued on page 8.)
BLACK GOODS
HERRON &
THOMAS