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HE D. & A. RAILWAY
IS NOW NECESSARY
F.
Dalton Cannot Afford to Miss
Another Chance
IT MEANS MANYTHOUSANDS
To Her Merchants and Business Men
The Officials of That Road
Ready to Confer.
It is now up to Dalton to do
soar® thing.
The L. & N. R. R. is not com
ing here, but will miss Dalton
shout twelve miles.
The business salvation of Dal
ton is to raise sixty 01 seventy-five
thousand dollars, form a company
with the Alaculsy lumber people
and complete the line already
graded and furnished with cross
ties.
The Alaculsy people say that
the completion of the line is not
now necessary to them, but they
would prefer to see it built and to
that end would meet the business
men of Dalton on an equitable
basis, and push the road to com
pletion. There is no doubt but
that it would pay to operate it.
It would require but one crew,
one engine and a coach or two.
A round trip a day would serve
to do all the work. Either the
Southern or W. & A. will loan it
all the cars necessary tor lumber,
talc, cotton, etc., for through bus*
iness. It is now left to the peo
ple of Dalton to say whether they
desire to hold the Murray county
trade ,or let it go to Cartersville
on the L. & N R. R-, which is
but natural. It is clearly up to
Dalton to make a move forward.
POLITICAL NOTES
Qarnered
and
from Many Sources
Served Fresh.
Republican papers seem to have
nothing better to feed their read
ers on than the curious yarn that
Mr. Taggart, of Indiana, and Mr.
Sheehan, of New York, are quar
reling. There is nothing in the
story, and as Sheehan appointed
l aggart his chairman and Taggart
appointed Sheehan his assistant,
the story is not only baseless hut
foolish. The two men are the
best of friends. Mr. Taggart is a
breezy and juvial hustler and Mr.
Sheehan is a secretive and pussy
footed whisperer, and each man
knows his job and is doingit right
ably.
Judge Parker has modified his
speech of acceptance, by substi
tuting “independence f ()1
Filipinos” in place of the am
biguous “self-government. This
brings him definitely in line with
he anti-imperialists.
Senator Fairbank’s tenacity m
clinging to his office after being
nominated for vice-president, does
not show the greatest confidence
in the result of the November
elestion, and it contrasts most
forcibly with Judge Parkers
resignation of a life position aiu
a high salary, and his pledge
never to accept a second term
iu case he should he elected.
The president ought to be d®
lighted with an anti-race-suicide
bill before the Georgia legislature*
It provides that no fathei sha
pay a poll tax. Fathers of f 01 * 1
children shall be given the tit e
of captain, and of six children t e
title of colonel by the state.
Everv father of ten children be
comes ex-officio a member of the
governor’s staff. No bachelor
will be allowed to vote. Proba
bly the father of twenty children
becomes an admiral 01 majoi
general.
Writes from Texas Concern
ing Our Water Works
AND SOME OTHER PUBLIC
Necessities and Franchises Which He
Thinks Can Be Remedied by our
Business Men and CityCouncil.
The issue of The North Geor
gia Citizen for last week has just
reached me here, and as I own
five-eighths «*f stock of the com
pany to which the paper belongs,
I naturally read it with more than
ordinary interest. But my inter
est in Dalton is very much greater
than the interest which I have in
this paper, and there are few
things which ought more to in
terest every good citizen than the
healthfulness of the town in
which he lives. The question of
an adequate supply of pure water
is one of very great importance,
but as I see this matter as related
to Dalton I conclude that there
has been a great deal of talk and
writing to no purpose—there has
been much “zeal without knowl
edge.” This is not surprising on
the part of the people at large
when so intelligent a class of our
citizens as the physicians of the
town write without personal ex
amination of the water supply,
and in consequence of this speak
ing without knowledge they, or
some of them at least, had to
repudiate what they wrote, or
signed, in the first instance.
I have not made a careful study
of the water supply question in
Dalton, and, until this letter, have
written nothing upon the subject,
but it would seem to a layman
that the question as to whether or
not our water supply is pure can
be easily settled by the physicians
of the town. Why not have the
half dozen physicians who signed
that published article, together
with the other reputable phy
siciaus of the city, make a per
sonal examination of the water
which runs through the hydrants,
and do this every day for a week,
or any other stated period which
will be sufficient to test the mat
ter thoroughly? If they say the
water is impure, then let it be
remedied, but if they say it is
pure, then let the matter end
there and let the people use the
water without any fear whatever
If it is found to he pure but in
adequate in supply, then let com
petent business men he charged
with the work of providing an
adequate supply. I do not even
know who the water commis
sioners are, but I am sure that
Dalton contains a number of citi
zens capable of settling this mat
ter, and that, too, without sub
jecting the people to the expense
of buying meters. This putting
in of meters will not only be ex
pensive to all who use the water,
but it will be doubly expensive to
those enterprises of the town
which use a great deal of water
without sufficient profits in their
business to justify them in paying
for water than they now
struggle hard now in order
make a reasonable profit upon
their invested capital. The Crown
Cotton Mill has the advantage of
other enterprises in the town be
cause it had men at its head who
had the foresight to provide for
the future and to make contracts
which were for the advantage of
its stockholders. No one should
find fault with them for this. On
the contrary it is commendable in
business men to look after their
own interests, provided they “pro
vide things honestly in the sight
of all men.” But there are other
concerns that were not so wise in
their management, and when such
enterprises are for the material
upbuilding of a town they ought
to be dealt with in a way which
would not so cripple them as to
make them unprofitable to their
owners, provided this can be done
in a way which does not work a
hardship to any one else.
What other enterprises there
are in Dalton which were man
aged with sufficient foresight as
to enjoy like special advantages
as the Crown Cotton Mills I do
not know, but I do know that the
one of which I am president and
principal owner is not so fortu
nate. It brings more money to
Dalton, pays more wages and
helps the town more in proportion
to what it gets out of Dalton than
any other enterprise in the town.
This is no fault of Dalton but her
good fortune. It is unfortunate
for the stockholders that the
management was not wise enough
to secure from the city some of
the privileges which other places
would be glad to extend t the busi
ness if it were removed to them.
Dalton already has tha business,
and it would seem possible to so
manage this water supply as not
to compel it and other concerns
to go to the expense of buying
meters and paying more than at
present for the water used.
The article which strikes at the
pig pens is much more to the
point than a discussion of the
water question without adequate
knowledge to discuss it intelli
gently. Not a man, woman or
child but knows that there should
not be a pig pen in Dalton, and
those ~ who are responsible for
their existence fail in their duty
to the people of the city in this
respect.
This letter grows long, but I
must add my word to the tele
phone question. I may be dull
of comprehension, but I fail to
understand where there is any
difficulty about this matter
PURELY PERSONAL.
more
Citizen hits lia-tl much to
say about this water question, but
W l,at it said was the opinion of
one of ite editors, and not its prin
cipal owner. The agitation will
doubtless result in “clearing the
water," but it certainly should
not result in any unnecessary ex
pense or further hardsh.ps to
those enterprises which have to
buy a horse and pay for its feed
and necessary attention, and buy
a buggy a/id carriage for the use
of myself and family and for the
friends who may visit us, but
there is no reason under heaven
why my good neighbors should
use them at their pleasure. If
they want a horse and carriage,
let them pay the price as I have
to do. If I pay for a telephone I
do so for the use of my family
and the friends who are invited to
enjoy its hospitality, hut I do not
have a telephone put in my home
for the benefit of my neighbors
any more than they furnish bread
and meat for my table. In case
of sickness or any other need like
this, not only my telephone, but
anything else that I have to the
extent of what is right, is at the
service of my neighbors, but if
anybody has neighbors who desire
more than this, then they are
unfortunate in this respect.
The right thing for every one
who wants to use a telephone is
to have one put in and then the
telephone company can and should
make the service to its customers
at a less price than is now charged.
I do not know who the stock
holders of the company are, but I
do know that the company is in
Continued on page two.
Jim McCarty was up from At
lanta Sunday.
Carl Bivings was up from At*
lanta the past week.
Lowe Reynolds, of Atlanta, is
the guest of Jimho Herron.
Mr. Frank McCutchen is over
in Walker courtty on business.
Lester Catlett is out in St.
Louis taking in the Exposition.
Mr. Gai nett Quillian is the guest
of his father, Rev. W. F. Quillian.
Col. and Mrs. W. C. Martin are
enjoying the Exposition at St.
Louis.
Mr. Fate Mclntire has moved
his family back to Dalton from
Atlanta.
A daughter was born to Mr.
and Mrs. C. C. Bowen Tuesday
morning.
Mrs. S. E. Fields and Miss Katie
Edmondson were up from Atlanta
Saturday.
Miss Cora Beard and Mr. Frank
Means spent Saturday on Lookout
Mountain.
Burt Spencer spent Monday in
Birmingham the guest of his
brother, Harry.
Will Pitner and Dr. T. L. Bal-
lenger were down from Cohutta
the past week.
Hon. and Mrs. O. N. Starr, of
Calhoun, were t' e guests of Mrs.
Onie Starr Sunday.
Miss Mary Hill Carter is in
Chattanooga v the guest of Miss
Lessie Flemister.
Mr. S. T. Parker, the tailor, is
visiting at his boyhood home in
New Haven, Conn.
Mrs. J. L. Johnson and Miss
Cornelia Johnson, of Ma«on, are
again at Hotel Dalton.
The Rome Daily Herald is
running “The Substitute,” Will
N. Harben’s popular story.
Messrs James and John Hutch
ison spent the latter part of last
week in Ellijay with relatives.
Lucy and John Green, of At
lanta, have been the guests of
their aunt, Mrs. Fate Mclntire.
Mis Georgia B. Robertson and
daughter, Mrs. Conner Bell, have
returned from Catoosa Springs.
Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Denton
and Miss Willie White spent a
few days this week at Catoosa
Springs.
Mr. Robt E. Parker, Jr., of
Atlanta, is the guest of relatives
here, where he has many cordial
friends.
Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Guy have
Returned to their home in Celina,
Ohio, accompanied by Miss Myr
tle Springer.
Mr. C. A. Trevitt was up from
Cartersville the past week, shak
ing hands with the friends of his
boyhood days.
Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Stafford, of
Wilson, La., are the guests of re
latives here and have met a cordial
reception by all.
Mr. John Barclay, the popular
postmaster of Rome, was in town
last week among his old school
mates and friends.
Mrs Dr. C. P. Gordon and Miss
May Gordon are spending this
week on the Georgia coast euronte
from Vermont home.
S.
Takes
a Pistol Shot at
Holland Monday,
Bob
Marvin Berry was with home-
folks Sunday.
Marion Williams was over from
Hopedale Tuesday.
Miss Maude McDaniel has re
turned to Atlanta.
Miss Lulu Smith returned from
Atlanta Sunday night.
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Jones
spent Sunday in Ringgold.
Paul Buchholz was down home
from Chattanooga Sunday.
M. F. Boisclaire returned to
Jacksonville Sunday night.
L. N. Trammell, of Marietta,
was in the city last Saturday.
George Heggie was down from
Chattanooga Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. C. C. Thorne and children
returned to Atlanta Tuesday.
Miss Lizzie Bickers, of Smyrna,
is the guest of Mrs John Hyer.
Miss Elizabeth Yowell was
down from Chattanooga Sunday.
Mr. John R. Chaffin has been
the guest of friends here this
week.
Mrs. Annie Graham Thornton , .
a t over a years standing, and both
came down from Chattanooga J
CZAR IS KINDLY
TOWARD PRISONERS
BUT FAILS TO HIT THE MARK
Policeman Jim Renfroe Has the
Shoulder of His Uniform Burned
With the Powder.
Will Murray, whom everybody
calls “Squirrel” Murray, shot at
Boh Holland Monday.
Policeman James Renfroe in
tervened, and prevented the aim
from taking the intended effect.
Murray was arrested by Ren
froe and locked up until a pre
liminary’ trial could beheld before
Justice S. B. Felkei Tuesday af
ternoon.
The trouble has been one of
Barbaric Splendor Marks The
Ceremonies at St. Petersburg.
CHRISTENING OF ALEXIS
All Russia Shouts Glad Acclaim Whilt
Czar's Forts Yield to Japs-Polit -
ical Prisoners Freed.
Misses Clair Newman and
Clara Mae Beeks and Mr. Louis
Strelitz, of Chattanooga, were
guests of Mr. and Mrs Fox Sun
day.
Mrs. L. A. Camp and Miss
Annie May Camp, of Columbus,
and Mrs. Virginia Bishop, of Tal
ladega, have been the guests of
Mrs. -John F. Camp.
Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Evans,
Misses Annie and Carrie Horne,
Mr. Beck Horne and Mr. Geo. 4,.
Lewis spent several days the past
week at Cqhutta Springs.
J. H. Henton, ®f Tilton, was in
th® city Saturday. He made The
Citizen a call, and said many nice
things about our efforts to give
the people of this section a real
live paper.
Tuesday.
Mrs. Kate Carter Mitchell and
son, Emmet, returned to Atlanta
yesterday.
Misses Daisy and Mable De-
Journette visited in Rome the
past week.
Miss Lois Welsh, of Mississippi,
is the guest of her sister, Mrs.
Jas. P. Welsh.
Miss Dora Godwin, of Morris
town, Tenn., is the guest of Mrs.
W. H. Muncy.
The friends of Mr. Tom Berry
will regret to know he is yet con
fined to his bed.
Miss Alleen Ballard, of Atlan*
ta, is the guest of Miss Bernice
Felker this week.
Mr. Tom Berry and Mrs. Mar
vin Rogers are still quite ill at
their home on Fort Hill.
Mrs. Bob White leaves Satur
day for a ten days’ Visit to friends
in Rome and Kennesaw.
Misses Julia and Nellie Me*
Daniel left Dalton Tuesday for
Borden-Wheeler Springs.
Mrs. J. C. Norton, of Chatta*
nooga, was the guest of Mrs. Joe
Beedie Smith the past week.
Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Heartsill
are spending this week in St.
Louis taking in the Exposition.
Miss Virginia McDaniel, after
spending some time with her par
ents in Dalton, is now at Lookout
Inn.
Mrs. J. M. Cartwright, of Bir
mingham, arrives to-day to visit
her brother, Col. Paul B. Tram
mell.
Mid Foster leaves next week
for market, to buy the fall and
winter stock for Foster Son &
Harlan.
Lake Quillian has been “set
up” by the Southern Railway and
is now running an engine on
through freight.
Mrs. J. C. Milam returned t<>
her home in Cartersville Monday
afternoon after a pleasant visit to
her sister, Miss Rhetta Thomas.
Judge Dee McCutchen left
Monday night for Cleveland
where he joined a party which
went up into the mountains on a
camp and fishing trip
Will S. Crawford left Tuesday
for St. Louis, from there he goes
to Texas and will probably make
it his home He will be greatly
missed here.
Miss Jennie Mae Brown, of
Tilton, was in town Saturday en
route from Chattanooga to
house party out at Dr. J. W.
Green’s summer home in Murray
county.
Mrs. Frank T. Hardwick en
tertained Misses Jennie and Bessie
Hamilton, Mattie Tomb, Bessie
Williams, Katie Hamilton and
Col. Jas. Tomb otie evening last
week with a lovely dining
Murray and Holland being well-
St. Petersburg, August 24.—
The czar today issued a lengthy
manifesto on the occasion of the
christening of rhe heir to the
throne. It is introduced by the
following message to the people:
“By the will of God, we, th®
czar and autocrat of all the Rus
sians, czar of Polland, grand duke
of Finland, etc., announce to our
faithful subjects that on this, the
day of the christening of our son
and heir, the Grand Duke Alexis
Nickolaevitch, following the
promptings of our heart, we turn
to our great family of the empire
and with the deepest and most
known citizens of Dalton, the heartfelt pleasure, even amidst
affair is regretted from every | these times of national struggle
standpoint. and difficulty, bestow upon them
Murray stood his trial, and was | some gifts of our royal favor for
placed under a $350 bond for his their greater enjoyment in their
appearance at the September term
of Whitfield Superior Court, un
der the charges of shooting with
attempt to kill and carrying con*
cealed weapons. Mr. J Lewis
Bender signed Murray’s bond.
Mrs. Clare Johnson-Walker, of
Macon, will visit here next week.
Mesdames B. Z. Herndon and
I. W. Avery spent to-day in Chat
tanooga.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Elkins are
down from Chattanooga, visiting
friends.
Mrs. Elliott John McKnight is
the guest of her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. J. Duane.
Col. George G. Glenn left
Wednesday night for Rhea
Springs, by the advice of his
physician.
Mr. and Mrs. Keene, of South
west Georgia, were the guests of
their niece, Miss Belle Smith,
Saturday.
The Many friends of Mrs. Chas.
H. Snow and Miss Emmie Snow
will regret to know of their de
termination to move to Atlanta to
live about September 10th.
Mr. Osgood Meyers will assume
the office management of Hotel
Dalton next week. Mr. Stanley
Powel will return to South Geor
gia and re engage in the cotton
business during the season.
Mr. W. R. Newsom, of Fayette-
yille, Tenn., spent a few days
here the past week, the guest of
Mr. J. Kirk Farrar, and returned
home Tuesday accompanied by
Mrs. Newsom, who has been the
guest of her sister, Mrs. Farrar,
for tw’O weeks past.
Miss Nellie Screws, who has
been spending a portion of her
vacation with her brother’s family
in Dalton, will leave Sunday for
her home in Greenwood, S. C.,
where she will resume her duties
as teacher in the Greenwood
Graded School, which position
she has held for the past thirteen
years.
Rev. E. W. Wey, of Dalton,!
who has been the guest of his
cousin, Rev. A. E. Spencer, re*
turned to his home yesterday.
Mr. Wev is the pastor of the
Dalton Presbyterian church and
is a well known divine and has
many friends here.—Rome Tri
bune
Miss Ann Hill has accepted a
position as stenographer in the
Century building in Atlanta, and
has tendered her resignation as
teacher in the public school here.
She will be succeeded by Miss
Belle McCarty and Miss McCarty
will be succeeded by Miss Annie
Jones as supernumerary. Miss
Jones is at present teaching at
Cohutta Station.
daily lives.”
The various benefits be»towed
on many classes are then enumer*
ated at length. One of the most
important provisions relates to th®
entire aliolition of corporal punish
ment among the rural clas-ses and
its curtailment in the army and
the navy.
The general provisions of th®
manafesto include an all round
reduction in sentences for common
law offenses, a general amnesty
for political offenses, except in
cases of murder, and the educa
tion of the children of officers and
soldiers who have been victims of
the war as well as assistance for
such families as need it whose
bread winners have fallen in the
service of their country.
The sum of $1,500,000 is set
apart from the state fund for the
benefit of landless people of Fin
land. The fines imposed on vil
lages, towns, or villas of Finland
for failure to elect representatives
or serve on the military recruiting
boards during the years 1902 and
1903 are lemitted. Permission is
granted to Finns who have left
their country without the sanction
of the authorities to return within
a year. Those returning who are
liable to military service must im*
mediately present themselves for
service, but Finns who have evaded
military service will not be pun
ished provided they present them
selves within three months of the
birth of the heir to the throne.
Fines imposed on the Jewish
communes in the cases of Jews
avoiding military service are re
mitted.
Persons arrested for offense
punishable by fines, imprisonment
or confinement in a - fortress with
out loss of civil rights, and who
were still awaiting sentence at the
birth of the heir to the throne are
pardoned.
Political prisoners who have
distinguished themselves by good
conduct may on the interposition
of the minister of justice obtain
the restitution of their civil lights
at the expiration of their sen
tences.
Persons guilty of political of
fenses committed within the last
fifteen years who have remained
unidentified will no longer be
subject to prosecution, while po
litical offenders who are now
fugitives abroad, may apply to
the minister of the inteiior for
permission to return to Rus.'ia.
The manifesto concludes:
“Given at Peterhof on this, the
11th day of August, 1904.
“Nicholas.”
The date of the manifesto,
August 11, is the old, or Julian
style, coinciding with August 24,
of the new, or Gregorian style.