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THE CITIZEN PLEASES MANY,
THAT WHICH PLEASES MANY MUST POSSESS MERIT
VOL. LIX. NO. 5.
Fifty-eight Years Old
Over 1,000 Bales Received Last
Week.
HIGHEST WAS 15 1-16
About $60,000 Went Into Pockets of
Farmers Last Week—Saturday
Was Big Day.
In all probability last week will
stand out for years to come as the
biggest week for local cotton men.
During the six days, over 1,000 bales
were purchased by the cotton buyers/
the biggest day being Saturday, when
at least one-third of the entire number
of bales bought during the week
changed hands.
Now 1,000 bales of cotton at the
prices that prevailed here last week
means a neat little pile of money, and
it is safe to say that fully $60,000
went into the pockets of the farmers.
The number of bales purchased was,
in round numbers, 1,040. Cotton buy
ers say that the average weight of the
bales being brought in is about 400
pounds. Figuring the 1,040 bales at
400 pounds each would make the
amount of cotton sold reach 416,000
pounds. The average price paid would
easily reach 14 3-4, making the amount
of money paid for cotton here last
week-reach $61,3<60. Not so very bad
for a short season, is it?
Saturday wound up the great week
in a blaze of glory. On that day, the
almost fabulous prices paid for cotton
here had been proclaimed throughout
the land, and cotton was hauled here
through the country for miles around.
People living as far south as Calhoun
brought their cotton here and got 15
cents and better for it
Saturday, the streets of the city
were lined with wagons containing
bales of cotton. It was a hard matter
to handle the fleecy staple fast
enough to accommodate all, and many
were' required to wait on the . streets
for hours until the line could move up
sufficiently for them to reach the buy
ers. It was a scene similar to that
common to a championship ball game
when the crowds are forced to line up
and await their turn at the box office.
At the middle of the week the price
began advancing, and many predicted
15-cent cotton by the close of the
week. These predictions came true on
Saturday, the first day the 15-cent
price was reached. Not satisfied with
15-cent cotton, some of the buyers be
gan bidding a little higher, and as
high as 15 1-16 was paid for some.
Last week was a good one through
out. Not once during the week did the
price drop lower than 14 3-8 and by
far the bigger portion of the time the
market was higher than 14 1-2. About
14 3-4 was the average paid during the
week.
The Dalton market was paying more
for cotton during the week than any
other market in the country, and, as
a result, local buyers got many bales
that would ordinarily have gone else
where.
People of Dalton Are Becoming
Interested.
SHOW GETS BOOST.
Rome and Carrollton Latest Cities to
Signify Intention of Entering
Prize Birds.
Tag Day at Fair Brought Neat
Sum of $103.09.
OFF TO CONVENTION
Mrs. Elrod, Mrs. Smith and Mrs.
Rudolph Left Yesterday for West
Point—Meeting Friday.
ANOTHER OLD SOLDIER
HAS PASSED TO BEYOND
J. L. Oxford Died Last Thursday Night.
, Funeral Saturday.
Another old soldier, a member of the
Joseph E. Johnston camp, U. C. V.,
has gone to his reward, and the camp
is in sorrow. Thursday night, after a
lingering illness, J. L. Oxford, a prom
inent farmer living just north of the
city, passed away.
Mr. Oxford had been in ill health
for a number of months, but it was
only a few days before his demise that
his life was despaired of.
He was one of the substantial citi
zens of the county, and his death is
a severe loss. He was a consistent
member of the First Baptist church.
The deceased is survived by a
widow, who is a daughter of Mr: Dan
Carey; two daughters and three sons.
The funeral service was conducted
at the Second Baptist church in North
Dalton Saturday morning at 10 o’clock,
Rev. G. P. White and Rev. C. C.
Maples officiating at the obsequies.
The interment was at the Dug Gap
Cemetery.
BOND ELECTION IS SET
FOR DECEMBER THE 8TH
People Will Then Vote on $10,000
Issue for Schools.
The election for $10,000 worth of
school bonds which was to have been
held last Saturday was postponed until
the second Wednesday in December
at the regular time for city election.
At council meeting Monday night,
the clerk was instructed to re-adver-
tise the election.
Every day brings out additional in
terest in the approaching chicken
show to be held here December 14-17,
inclusive, and the people in the coun
try surrounding Dalton are gradually
falling into line and letting the officers
of the local poultry association know
that they intend entering prize birds.
From the present outlook, Dalton is
going to have a show that will bring
together hundreds of fine blooded
chickens.
People from Rome and Carrollton
are the latest to speak of entering
birds to contest for the prizes offered.
Julian McCamy, president of the asso
ciation, was in Rome one day last
week, and, while there, visited the
grounds of the North Georgia fair.
He met a number of breeders of fine
chickens who were enthusiastic about
the approaching show and who stated
that they would surely be here with
entries on the opening day. The
poultry department of the Rome fair
was one of the features, and a big por
tion of the prize winning birds will be
brought here. People from Rome and
Carrollton stated that they would en
ter birds and would do all in their
power to get others to do so.
The success of the poultry show
here is now an assured fact. The as
sociation simply can’t fail, and the
members are doing everything to
make the show just as interesting as
possible.
The exact place for holding the
show has not yet been determined,
but it will be some place on Hamilton
street.
In addition to the exhibits of prize
winners—good old “blue blooded
stock”—the association is planning to
have a number of incubators hatch
ing at the time the show comes off.
The incubators will be set in time for
the hatching to come off acording to
schedule, and it will prove an interest
ing sight to many.
While arrangements for the show
have just about been completed, the
members of the association are not
resting from their labors, but are keep
ing busy boosting the show in order
to get as many visitors here as possi
ble.
REYNOLDS TO SPEAK
AT GEORGIA FAIR
Stopped Over in the City Tuesday En
Route to Macon.
F. T. Reynolds, secretary of the
chamber of commerce of Chattanooga,
and known throughout the country as
Good Roads Reynolds,” was in the
city Tuesday en route to Macon, where
he will be one of the principal speak
ers at good roads day of the state
fair.
Mr. Reynolds is one of, if not the first
newspaperman of the entire country
to start an active campaign for better
roads. It was years ago when he was
editor of The Citizen, and with every
issue of his paper, he put in some good
licks for better highways.
The honor to Mr. Reynolds of being
chosen a speaker for good roads day
at the Georgia state fair is a great
one.
DEATH FROM PELLAGRA
CAME TO MRS. LEWALLEN
Was III About Five Months Before
Demise.
Pellagra caused the death of Mrs.
J. A. Lewallen, a highly respected
woman of the Dawnville district, ac
cording to the diagnosis of the physi
cian in attendance. Mrs. Lewallen
died Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock.
She was taken ill about five months
ago, and gradually became' worse.
Every symptom of the disease pointed
to pellagra as the cause of her illness,
and the physician had little hesitancy
in pronouncing it such.
The funeral service was conducted
at Five Springs church Tuesday morn
ing at 11 o’clock, Rev. C. C. Maples,
assisted by Rev. Mr. Shields, of Tilton,
officiating.
The deceased is survived by a hus
band, a father and mother, Rev. and
Mrs. Jeff Brown, of Gordon county;
one son, three sisters and five brothers.
The Joseph E. Johnston monument
fund of the local chapter of Daughters
of the Confederacy is growing daily,
and it is hoped and believed that by
the last of the month the fund will
have grown to $1,000. Only a few dol
lars are now lacking to make the total
run up. to the $800 mark, and the
daughters are working diligently to
push the fund up to the four figures.
At a meting of the local chapter at
the home of Mrs. H. J. Herron on
Thornton avenue, last Friday after
noon, a number of committees made
reports and it was found, when the
subscriptions together with the money
on hand had been added, that the
fund was something over $770;
$103.09 had been secured tag day at
the county fair; Mrs. Sanders and
Mrs. Black reported subscriptions
amounting to about $76; Mrs. Satter
field and Mrs. Heartsill reported about
$38 pledged to them, and Mrs. Elrod
made a report showing that $15.70 had
been secured through her efforts. The
show given by the Daughters of the
Confederacy at the county fair was
not any big success, the show paying
no more than expenses.
With the fund now nearing the
$1,000 mark, it is certain that the mon
ument will be built here in the near
future. It is now seen that the
money for the monument can be se
cured, and, after tne state takes some
action on the bill calling for an ap
propriation of $2,500 from the state,
which will be brought up before the
next general assembly, definite plans
as to what kind of a monument will be
erected will be made by the Daughters
of the Confederacy.
Attending State Convention.
Mrs. Frank Elrod, Mrs. J. M. Ru
dolph and Mrs. H. J. Smith left Tues
day morning for West Point, being
the local delegates to the meeting of
the Georgia division of Daughters of
the Confederacy which is being held
there this week.
While attending the state conven
tion, the local delegates will work for
additional funds for the monument to
be erected to Gen. 'Joseph E. Johnston.
SPRING
TO GET
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Fair Association to Have Meet
ing Next Saturday.
MAY COMPLETE WORK
Business of the Year Will Be Closed
Up and Ready for New Officers
to Take Hold.
A call has been issued for a meeting
of the Whitfield County Fair associa
tion to be held at the court house Sat
urday, at which meeting the associa
tion will decide whether or not to
complete work on the race track and
put it in fine shape for some spring
races.
At the fair just closed, the races,
while not the best ever held, got the
crowd of visitors to the grounds en
thused over the idea of horse racing,
and immediately after the close of the
fair, people began to talk of some
spring horse races.
The track at the fair grounds was
started too late this year to get it in
first-class shape for racing, but with a
little more work in making the track
broader and a little better graded, the
association will have a course that
will answer the purpose well.
With nothing in the way to prevent
the people from seeing the entire
track, some horse racing this spring
would, without doubt, work up interest
in the sport here, and the gate re
ceipts would make it possible to have
a much better track.
While President Puryear has not
given out the object of the meeting to
be held at the court house Saturday
of this week, still it is the opinion of
all that it is being called for the pur
pose of- seeing if the association wan.ts
to make the track better before the
cold weather sets in.
TED
Baptists at Temperance Hill Are
Now Organized.
SERVICES SUNDAY
Rev. Shugart, of This City, Called as
Pastor—Church Officers Are
Elected. ’
A new Baptist church was consti
tuted at Temperance Hill last Sunday
morning, following a serinon by Rev.
C. C. Maples, of this city, who was
present to preside over the meeting as
moderator.
At 11 o’clock Sunday morning, a
number of the people of the Temper
ance Hill school district assembled in
the schoolhouse there and were en
tertained and benefited by a sermon
by Rev. C. C. Maples, following which
a business meeting was called to order
by Rev. C. C. Maples, acting as mod
erator. Lot Gordy was elected clerk
pro tern. After the reading of articles
of faith and the church covepant,
prayer was offered by Rev. Cargle, of
this city.
The selection of a pastor and the
prointing of a time for the regular
meting days of the church came next,
and Rev. Shugart, of this city, was
called to the pastorate, and it was de
cided to hold services on the first Sun
day and the Saturday before of each
month, the services to be held at 11
o’clock in the morning of the two
days.
In the election of church officers, R.
F. and Tom Westmoreland were ap
pointed deacons, and James Price and
Ben Westmoreland were made trus
tees.
The church has started with a mem
bership of about thirty. For the time
being the services will be held in the
schoolhouse; but a new church will be
erected in the near future. It will be
known as Temperance* Hill Baptist
church.
A number of local people were pres
ent when the church was constituted
among whom were: Rev. Mr. Maples,
Rev. Mr. Cargle, Rev. John Pitts, Rev.
Henry Prater, Messrs. Segars, Carter,
Jake Lofty, Lot Gordy, J. B. Chitwood,
Henry Smith and E. A. Roberts.
The church starts with the brightest
of prospects, and the membership is
bound to increase rapidly.
After Another Reconsideration
Was Lost, Action Taken
CHIEF INSTRUCTED.
Anti-Awning Demolishers Showed Very
Little Fight—Chief Fincher
Gets in His Work.
The reconsideration of the resolu
tion to tear down the unsightly awn
ings on Hamilton street was made in
a half-hearted manner at council
meeting Monday night; and very little
time was spent in getting rid of the
question for all time.
The discussion was again raised by
Councilman Bearden, who spoke in
favor of rescinding the former action
of the council in deciding to have all
of the wooden and tin awnings on
Hamilton street torn away. The same
champions were lined up for the two
sides, and after a vote was taken and
it was found that the Bearden mo
tion had been lost by a vote of 4 to
2, the chief of police, J. C. Fincher,
was instructed to notify the property
owners that the awning must come
down. Tuesday morning, Chief Finch
er went the rounds and gave the
order which will mean the beautifying
of Hamilton street to a considerable
extent.
The question has been brought up
and discussed for months in the coun
cil chamber. It was Councilman Ham
ilton’s motion that the awnings be
torn away, and at the time it came up
the first time, Councilman McKnight
was the only man who opposed it of
the members present at the meeting.
The following meeting night, a peti
tion from a number of the merchants
on Hamilton street, asking Chat the
council reconsider, was read before
the council, and it was found that
Councilman Rudolph and Bearden had
lined up with Councilman McKnight to
grant the petition of the merchants
The motion to rescind the original ac
tion on the question was lost, but the
following meeting night it was again
brought up and agajn lost.
From the way votes went last Mon
day night, it was seen that the awn
ings had very few friends among the
councilmen, and when Chief Fincher
was instructed to notify the property
owners of the action of the council
there were no serious objections
raised.
E IN OFFICE
W. & A. Freight Force Changed
Around Considerably.
RIDLEY CHIEF CLERK
Changes Come With the First of New
Month—New Man Will Come
as Bill Clerk.
The coming of the new month
caused a number of changes to be
made in the W. & A. freight office,
the force being shifted around con
siderably. When Chief Clerk Herrin
made known his intention of retiring
from the railroad business, it was nec
essary to secure a new chief clerk, and
T. D. Ridley was promoted to that po
sition.
The promotion of Mr. Ridley comes
as a merited one. He has been em
ployed by the W. & A. road for a num
ber of years, and his strict attention to
work at all times, together with his
vigilance in looking out for the inter
ests of the road, were two things that
insured his promotion at the first op
portunity. He is receiving the con
gratulations of his friends on his pro
motion.
Fielding Flemister is promoted from
bill clerk to cashier, the position held
by Mr. Ridley before his elevation to
the position of chief clerk. Mr.
Flemister is another excellent railroad
man, and his promotion comes as the
result of some good hard work.
Mr. Flemister’s former position, that
of bill clerk, will be filled soon.
The intention of Mr. Herrin to retire
from railroad work was a big surprise
to his many friends. He has been in
the work for about eighteen years. He
made one of the best chief clerks the
road has ever had here, and his resig
nation causes the road to lose an effi
cient employe.
Mr. Herrin and family have moved
to Winchester, Tenn., where he has
entered the furniture business. His
local acquaintances freely predict for
him a prosperous future in the busi
ness world.
STEREOPTIOON lecture
AT PRcSBYTERlAN (iHURCH,
Rev. C. L. Vass Will Be Here Next
Sunday Evening.
The evening service at the First
Presbyterian' church next Sunday
promises to be one of unusual interest.
Rev. L. C. Vass will, at that time, give
an interesting lecture, the lecture to
be illustrated with a stereopticon.
Rev. Mr. Vass has spent many years
on the Kongo river in Africa. He has
been in the thick of the fight against
atrocities of the Belgian rule in the
Kongo Free State, and was himself
witness of much of the oppression of
the natives that has stirred the civil
ized world.
While the lecture promises to be one
of unusual interest, as Rev. Vass has
been a witness to the scenes and can,
consequently, give a vivid description
of them, the stereopticon views, also,
will be, genuine, as he will use pictures
that he himself made while he was
captain of the “Samuel N. Lapsley”
plying the waters of the Kongo river
from Stanley Pool to Luebo.
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Range,
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Gas
Bur-
CONVICT QUESTION
UP FOR DISCUSSION
County Commissioners Want Addi
tional Information.
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The working of convicts on the pub
lic roads of Whitfield county was up
for an interesting discussion at the
regular monthly meeting of the county
commissioners at the court house
Tuesday of this week. The grand jury
doing the October term of Whitfield
court recommended that the county
work its share of convicts on the
roads. "While the matter was dis
cussed, nothing definite was done, and
the matter was tabled until the board
could get additional information.
The grand jury’s recommendation
that several pensions be raised met
with the favor of the board of com
missioners, and the raise was made.
F0LEY$H0MY™>TAE
Cures Golds; Prevents Pneumonia
The elections held yesterday through
out the country show that Massa
chusetts and Rhode, Island have re
elected republican governors, while
Virginia has returned a -democrat to
this office.
New York City has elected the dem
ocratic candidate, Judge William J.
Gaynor, to the office of mayor, while
in Philadelphia the efforts of the re
formers to break the republican or
ganization has failed.
In New Jersey the republicans held
their own everywhere.
Tom L. Johnson, democrat, has been
defeated as mayor of Cleveland, O.
The latest returns from San Fran
cisco indicate that Francis J. Heney,
democrat, has been defeated for dis
trict-attorney.
In Maryland the paramount issue
was the so-called disfranchising
amendment, designed to eliminate the
negro as a political factor. The re
turns in this state came in slowly, and
the result is still uncertain. The in
dications are, however, that the amend
ment has been defeated.
In Indiana the republicans scored
several important victories, particular
ly in Indianapolis, where Samuel Lewis
Shank, republican, was elected mayor
and the entire republican ticket re
turned.
The republicans carried Massachu
setts by the narrowest margin in the
history of the Bay state for nearly a
quarter of a century. The entire party
ticket was re-elected, but Gov. Eben
Draper’s plurality was cut down from
60,000 last year to 8,000.
It is apparent that Gov. Aran J.
Pothier, republican, has been re :
elected over Olney Arnold, democrat,
in Rhode Island, by several thousand
(Wednesday’s Chattanooga Times.)
majority, and that the complexion of
the next legislature will remain repub
lican.
The democratic victory in Virginia
brings Judge Mann to the office of gov
ernor. His majority apparently will
be the usual one for this state.
Tammany elected another mayor of
Greater New York in the person of
Judge Gaynor, democrat, but the or
ganization lost its grip on the city
finances. The republican-fusion forces
will control absolutely the board of es
timate and apportionment In addi
tion, the republican-fusionists elected
Charles S. Whitman district-attorney
of New York county, and practically
all their other candidates on the city
and county tickets.
In Pennsylvania the chief interest
centered in the battle waged in Phila
delphia, where the reform element en
deavored in vain to break the power
of the local republican organization.
Samuel P. Rotan was re-elected dis
trict-attorney on the republican ticket
by a surprisingly large majority. In
the state ticket the reublicans elected
the state treasurer, the auditor-general
and a judge of the supreme court.
In Cleveland Tom L. Johnson, dem
ocrat, for four terms mayor of the city,
was defeated for a fifth term by Her
man C. Baehr. In conceding his de
feat, Mr. Johnson, - who advocated a
system of equal taxation, announced
that he would be a candidate for
mayor two years hence.
New Jersey elected eight members
of the state senate and a full house of
sixty members of assembly. The re
publicans will again control both
houses.
New York state elected an assem
bly that will show a republican major
ity of about 38.
Local Taxation for Schools Now
In Eight Districts.
MISSION SOCIETIES TO
OBSERVE WEEK OF PRAYER.
Next Week is Appointed Time for
Societies. -
ANOTHER ELECTION.
Tilton and Dug Gap Latest to Sign up.
. - Deep Springs Has Made
Petition.
The Home and Foreign Miggjn n so
cieties will observe the week of prayer
next week at the First Methodist
church. Tuesday and Friday, the
Home Mission society will meet, and
Monday and Thursday the Foreign
Missionary society will meet at the
church at 3 o’clock for services.
Wednesday afternoon at 3 o’clock
the McEachem brigade will hold a
service, and an interesting program
has been arranged.
The members of the societies join in
inviting all to attend these services.
Tilton and Dug Gap are the two
latest communities to come into the
ranks of the districts that are better
ing their schools by local taxation,
these districts having voted on the
.question last Saturday. At Dug Gap,
the vote for local taxation was unani
mous, while at Tilton only one vote
was cast against the tax.
The results of these two elections go
to bear out the truth of the statement
that the school trustees of the county
acted wisely in sending out Commis
sioner Sapp and a .helper to get the
people enthused over the subject of
better schools. Those people in the
county who are opposed to local taxa
tion for the support of the schools can
do nothing but sulk, for the enthusi
asm for better schools is sweeping
the county from one end to the other,
and the people are speaking their sen
timents every time an election is held.
While Tilton and Dug Gap line up
with the most progressive districts of
the county, Deep Springs signifies its
intention to do the same by sending in
a petition signed by practically every
voter of the district, asking that a
similar election be called there. The
petition is in the hands of Judge
Bogle, and the election will' be held
within a few weeks.
Those districts now having local tax
ation for school purposes are Cohutta,
Vamells, Center Point, Harmony, Tem
perance Hill, Mt. Pleasant, Dug Gap
and Tilton. In the county there are
thirty-nine white school districts. In
two other districts elections have been
held but have. resulted in defeat for
local taxation.
The Prize Winner.
I have visited a number of the coun
ty fairs this fall and have seen many
excellent exhibits of farm products,
but nothing attracted my attention
more than the stalk of cotton exhibited
at the Whitfield county fair by Mr.
Charlie Phillips, of Villanow, Ga.
This stalk of cotton contained between
140 and 150 bolls and was about as
perfect a stalk of cotton in general ap
pearance as I ever saw. Very prop
erly it received first prize for .the
best stalk of cotton exhibited. It was
of the Mortgage Lifting variety, so I
was told. A. J. S.
PAPERS IN MANDAMUS
SENT TO SUPREME COURT
Attorney Tarver Requested Clerk to
Get Papers Off.
The papers in the mandamus pro
ceedings against the city and the
Crown Mills for the failure of the city
to collect back taxes on the property
of the mills were sent to supreme
court Friday morning of last week.
In the hearing before Judge Fite
here, during the October term of
court, Tarver demurred on certain
points made by the mills in their an
swer, and when the demurrer was
overruled by the judge, Tarver stated
that he would carry these points of
the case to supreme court on a writ of
error.
If the decision of the supreme court
is handed down before the April term
of Whitfield court, at which time the
case will again come up, the attorneys
on each side will find easier gaiHTi g
HOME FROM MASONIC
MEETING IN MACON
Local Masons Had Big Time at Macon
Convention.
Judge J. A. Longley, Dr. C. P. Gor
don and Mr. F. F. Baker, local Masons,
who attended the meeting of the grand
lodge at Macon, returned home the
last of the week. Mr. Baker was un
able to remain until the close of the
convention; but Judge Longley and
Dr. Gordon were present for the last
session of the convention, returning to
the city Friday evening.
In talking of the convention, Judge
T , . of it ^ being Qne Qf the
he has ever attended,
attending these meet
ings. for years.
A Scalded Boy’s Shrieks
horrified his grandmother, Mrs. Maria
Taylor, of Nebo, Ky., who writes that
when all thought he would die, Buck-
len’s Arnica Salve wholly cured him.
Infallible for Burns, Scalds, Cuts
Corns, Boils, Skin Eruptions, Chil
blains, Chapped Hands. Soon routs
Piles. 2oc at Fincher & Nichols.
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