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THE CITIZEN J
COVERS WHITFIELD !
■THE CITIZEN PLEASES
THAT WHICH PLEASES MANY MUST POSSESS MERIT
VOL. LIX. 'NO. 11
y On Southern Property
Made by Sheriff Gilbert.
Cannon Crackers Placed Under
Ban by Council.
Daughters of the Confederacy
Would Interest Children.
Chicks From Three States Are
Being Admired.
Street Committee to Be Congrat
ulated On Efforts.
VOUCHER RELEASED
TO GIVE GOLD MEDAL
MANY ENTRIES MADE
PERMANENT WORK
City Attorney McCutchen Talks of
Railroad Case Before City
Council Members.
With Ordinance Against Shooting
Giant Crackers, and High Li
cense, City Is Safe.
Between Four and Five Hundred Prize
School Boy or Girl Writing Best Es
say on Battle of Gettysburg
Will Get Pretty Medal.
Work Has Cost Comparatively Small
Sum for Amount Done—-Work
Nearly Over for Year.
Local Postoffice Handling Mail
for Gordon Lee.
People Urged to Help Most
Worthy Cause.
Birds Being Shown—Better
Than Hoped For.
At a call meeting of the city council
last Friday afternoon, City Attorney
McCutchen made an interesting talk
before that body on the question of
the Southern Railway tax question;
outlining just how the case stood' at
that time and telling them of what the
attorneys for the road had told him
about making the fight on whether or
not the city has the right to make
a tax rate similar to that made by the
council of last year.
Mr. McCutchen stated that the local
attorneys for the road had stated they
would not make any fight on an exces
sive levy, and asked that the levy on
the office furniture, real estate in
North Dalton, etc., be released and
the home of the section foreman be
levied on. This would put the matter
in the courts where the original con
troversy as to whether or not the city
council of last year made a legal tax
rate.
Chief of Police Fincher had made
the original levies, and the council
decided, the the request of Mr. Mc
Cutchen, to get Sheriff Gilbert to make
the new levy, as he was of the opinion
that the road would raise the question
that Mr. Fincher had no legal power
to make a levy.
This action of the council caused
Chief Fincher to retire from the field
altogether, and the voucher which he
had been holding up was turned over
to the road, the voucher beihg for
ANSWERS ARE “YES’
For years past, the city council has
been trying to put into practice some
plan that will do away with the shoot
ing of giant cannon crackers here
Christmas, and it seems that the so
lution of the problem has at last been
reached.
In order to stimulate interest among
the school children of the county in the
history of the Southern Confederacy,
the Bryan M Thomas chapter, Daugh
ters of the Confederacy, has offered a
gold medal for the child writing the
best essay on the Battle of Gettysburg.
The medal is extremely handsome and
is well worth working for.
In addition to winning the medal of
fered by the local chapter, the success
ful contestant has a chance to /win the
state medal, offered by the Georgia
division of Daughters of the Confed
eracy, as the essay that wins here will
be forwarded to the state committee,
the same rules governing both contests.
In speaking of the contest, Mrs. El
rod, president of the local chapter,
has the following to say:
“The Bryan M. Thomas chapter of
Dalton offers a gold medal for the best
essay on the Battle of Gettysburg, gov
erned by rules below. This medal will
be for Whitfield county schools, and
the essay taking the Bryan M. Thomas
medal will be sent in to the state com
mittee; so the young man or young
lady will stand a chance of winning
the state medal.,
“The chapter desires competitors
from eVery. school in the county.
“This medal is to stimulate interest
in the study of the Confederacy in his
tory, and even if the pupils, do not re
ceive a prize they, will gain knowledge
that will be of benefit to them in after
years and may be the means of gain
along some other line—anyway, it will
always be a source of pleasure to be
well posted on these things.
“Prof. Taylor and Major Lucus will
please bring the matter up before their
schools, and Mr. J. C. Sapp, the com
missioner, .will please do the same.
“Copies of the rules governing the
contest can be ha.d by applying to Mrs.
P. E. Shumate.
“Mrs. Spencer and Prof. McWhor
ter are also requested to urge their pu
pils to enter the contest.
“Teachers will collect essays and
sfind to Mr. Shumate, who will turn
them over to the committee.”
The Rules.
The Georgia division, .IT. D. C., with
the desire of stimulating among the
young people of the state an interest
in the study of history, especially the
history of the war between the states,
again offers a gold medal to the student
writing the best essay on the subject
assigned.
Teachers of the state are earnestly
requested to encourage and urge their
pupils to enter the contest.
1. Subject: Battle of Gettysburg.
2. The contest is open to all the
white children of Georgia under the
age of 18.
3. The length of the essays to be
from 1,000 to 1,500 words. The .pa
pers to be typewritten, if possible,
though that is not essential.
4. Preparation for the essays may
be made at home or "elsewhere with full
use of all references.
5. Each essay shall be signed with
fictitious name, and accompanied by a
sealed envelope addressed ~ with same
fictitious name, but containing real
name and address of writer and name
of school.
Rules for Committees.
6. Manuscripts to be graded upon
subject-matter and style.
7. The medal will be awarded at
closing exercises of school at or near
which it is won. It will be presented by
the president .of the local chapter of the
Daughters of the Confederacy.
Appointments'. <
8. Each member of the state com
mittee shall have charge of the work
in designated counties, and shall see to
the appointment in each of her coun
ties of a local committee to take direct
supervision of the work in that county,
and to be known as the county medal
RED CROSS STAMPS
One of the most active committees of
the present council has been the street
committee, headed by I. S. Finley,
chairman, and composed of, in addi
tion to Mr. Finley, Councilmen Ru
dolph and King. The committee has
not gone about telling wnat it has
been doing; but it has been working
and getting results.
When the new administration was
sworn in at the first of the year; it
went in with the determination of
cutting expenses in every department
of the city government; and the street
appropriation came in for a severe
cut. The amount used on the streets
this year is less than one-half of what
was appropriated last year.
This appropriation was made to the
different wards, each ward being given
an equal amount, only about five huh-
dred dollars. This money has been
spent where it could be used to the
greatest advantage, and the manage
ment of affairs has been excellent.
While the amount of money used is
small as compared to the amount used
in former years, the work done has
been large. Thousands of feet of streets
have been built, the work for the most
part being permanent.
This is work the city can’t do too
much of, and the street committee has
got the very best possible out of the
appropriation.
Of the permanent work done, that
on North Hamilton street stands out
prominently as the longest stretch of
street built The street is in excellent
shape and will stand years of hard
wear. In this stretch, 2,900 feet of
street were built
On Green street, from the public
school south, about 1,000 feet were
constructed.
On East Morris street from the city
limits about four or five hundred feet
of new street go to show the results
of the work of the committee there,
and hundreds of other feet where the
rock and chert were not correctly
placed, were worked over.
On Thornton avenue between five
hundred and one thousand feet of per
manent improvements have been made
The above are a few of the streets
which have been worked more than
the others; and it is a noticeable fact
that all of the streets are those which
have to bear the burden of heavy trav
el The committee this year consid-
ered that the higher
work should be done on the main
streets, and the cross streets merely
W< The^work of Street Superintendent
Lolry las been of the highest sinn
ed this year. By his work m the
. he j, as gained great expenenc ,
and he now thoroughly understands
£e building of good, permanent
St ?h? work this year is just about
Tbe . th „ ne w street com-
announced by Mayor
.“ r ^rUen the hew offlctals are
!“• tew days ot the year mil
The last enera l overhauling
be given over to ag^ ^ |g
10 “ winter grind. The alleyway-
^Tof tee goternment building has
west of tee go ^ ert and rock are
been graded, making the road-
now being put down, making
way a good, firm one. street
One fact connected w far
work is that sewer pi^. ^ ^ been
sidewalks, scr * em ° ^ committee to
" t^"tee^iation; but
*°“!JTn Finley will ask that the com-
Popular Congressman Wants Expres
sion from Voters of His Dis
trict—The Answer..
Each Stamp Purchased Aids in Work
of Checking Spread of
“The White Plague.”
There ifc an ordinance which
makes it a misdemeanor to celebrate
Christmas by shooting giant crackers;
but with the dealers selling them it.
has been impossible to stop the racket.
While the ordinahce has been in the
code for some time, it has 'not been
rigidly enforced in the past; but the
city fathers have determined that it
is now time for a change.
It was at a call meeting of the coun
cil last Friday afternoon that the li
cense of $50 whs placed on dealers
handling cannon crackers exceeding
3 inches in length. The ordinance,
while it mentions tee word “fireworks”
refers only to firecrackers, as roman
candles, sky-rockets, etc., can be shot;
but these pyrotechnic displays must
be made on your.own premises; as all
fireworks meet With disfavor on the
part of the council when fired on the
public streets.
This ordinance, while_.it will prob-'
ably do away with tee loud explo
sions, will not interfere with the fun
for firecrackers
Red Cross stamps were put on sale
at Fincher & Nichols and ‘the Gregory
Drug Company this morning (Wed
nesday! and The Citizen desires to call,
especial attention to. this fact. The
stamps sell for one cent each and
everyone is urged to purchase them,
thereby aiding a most worthy cause.
Each stamp purchased means just
that much toward tee fund of the Anti-
•
Tuberculosis Association for the check
ing of the spread of the.great white
plague.
In another column of this issue can
be found a plea for this great cause
from Mrs. Samuel Lumpkin, chairman
of the Red Cross committee of Atlanta,
the article explaining clearly and brief
ly the work that is being done, not
only in giving aid to those persons
stricken with consumption, but to pre
vent the spread of the disease.
Doctors and nurses give a great
amount of time to this work and the
poor and needy are given the very best
attention possible.
- Already the work has accomplished
wonders throughout the country until
it has at last come to be tee big thing
it deserves to be. Year by year at
Christmas' time these stamps are is
sued, and year by year the demand
for them has steadily increased.
As Mrs. Lumpkin puts it in her open
letter to the people of Georgia, your
friends will think a greqt deal more of
you if you will put a Red Cross stamp
on your letters, both business and per
sonal; for, while the stamps will not
serve the same purpose as the stamps
of the nation, still they will show that
you have sympathy for your fellow-
man afflicted with the dread disease.
The good people who are waging the
great fight against the disease are per
forming their duty through love, as the
patients, in many instances, are unable
to pay for treatment.
Every person in this city should feel
it his duty to purchase a supply of
these stamps from the drug stores,
where they are on sale and thereby
help in the great fight.
of the small children
finder three inches long can be ex
ploded, provided ■ the celebrators stay
“in their own back yard.”
Every council has attempted to stop
the terrible din on the streets Christ
mas, but former effort^ have all
proved to be partial failures; for while
the .noise has been greatly modified,
the big crackers 'have been exploded.
This present ordinance, placing the
license for the sale of these large
crackers at $50 seems to be the correct
remedy. Dealers, knowing the ordi
nance against shooting the crackers,
order only a small supply, as the de
mand for them is always light, the
law-abiding people not desiring them;
and consequently the dealers’ orders
are light—no dealer having a supply
that would warrant his paying a li-
that member of the state committee
within whose jurisdiction the county
fails.
State Committee.
Each member of the state committee
shall, with such assistants as she shall
appoint, select the best two of the es
says submitted to her from her coun
ties for final consideration of the state
committee.
The entire number of essays thus
chosen shall be sent in rotation to all
the members of the state committee for
examination and grading, being re
tained by each member for one week
only, then forwarded to another mem
ber and finally returned to the chair
man of the committee.
The gradings of the essays shall be
sent, not with the essay, but directly
to the chairman by each committeeman
as soon as praet^able after completion.
Immediately after the receipt of all
the reports the chairman shall send
a tabulated list of them to each mem
ber of the committees.
Number of essays written to be sent
state committee by chapter chairman.
Calendar.
10. Essays are to be sent to local
(county) committee on or before
March 1.
The best essays from each county
must be sent by the county committee
to the member of "the state committee
on or before March 16.
The best two of the essays submit
ted to each member of the state com
mittee must be sent to the chairman
on or before April 1.
Reference Books Recommended.
1. The War Between the States—
Stephens.
2. School History of the United
States—Field.
3. History of the Confederacy—
Derry.,
4. The South in Literature and His
tory—Rutherford.
5. Chancellorsville and Gettysburg.
—A. Doubleday.
6. From Manassas to- Appomattox
—Longstreet.
7. The Twelve Decisive Battles of
the Civil War—Swinton.
8. Rise and Fall of the Confederate
States—Davis.
9. , History of the United States—
Gamer and Lodge. -
Mrs. Howard H. McCall, chairman,
Atlanta, Ga.; Mrs. A. W. Van Hoose,
Gainesville, Ga.; Mrs. J. Fl Lewis,
ODD FELLOW OFFICERS
TO BE INSTALLED SOON
Will Go In With New Year—Others to
Be Appointed.
With the first of the new year tee
officers recently elected by the local
Odd Fellows will be installed in office.
The new officers will be:
R. R. Gilliland, noble grand; J. A.
Ray, vice-grand; E. W. Petty, treas
urer; Guy Keister, secretary..
The above are tee officers elected,
and tee minor officers will be ap
pointed when the new officers are
installed.
Mr Gilliland, the new noble grand,
is a hard-working secret order man
of this city, and the lodge should pros
per greatly under his leadership.
This Is Worth Remembering
Whenever you have a cough or cold,
just remember that Foley’s Honey and
Tar will cure it. Remember the name,
Foley’s Honey and Tar, and refuse sul>
stitutes. S. J. McKnight
LOST, STRAYED OR STOLEN
White and lemon colored (setter) bird-
dog. Finder or any information will
be rewarded. J. E. SATTERFIELD
ful acquiescence and support. It is
not in my understanding that you com
mit yourself to voting either for or
again me next year by answering these
questions.
My object is merely to as
certain tee present state of your mind
on tee subject My sense of obliga
tion to the people of the district is
such that I would not feel at liberty
to oppose their wishes, even if my
personal inclinations and interests
should differ from theirs.
If there is any service I can render
you here, please do not hesitate to call
on me. That is what I am here for,
and -nothing pleases me better than
opportunities to "be of use to my
friends.
Please do me the kindness to an-
swed promptly, as I wish to know as
early/as possible what I am to do.
Faithfully yours,
GORDON LEE.
COVENANT DAY SOON
M. Sapp Named Worshipful Mas
ter—Other Officers,
Every Member Urged to Attend Next
Sunday Morning.
The Dalton lodge of Free and Ac
cepted Masons held its annual election
Monday night of this week, the time
being the regular meeting night
W. M. Sapp was elected worshipful
master. The choice was a wise one,
as he is prominently connected in
secret order circles and take great
interest in the work.
Other officers elected are: H. B.
Farrar, senior warden; Eugene Har
den, junior warden; J. A. Longley,
secretary; G. W. Orr, treasurer. The
other officers will be appointed when
the new officers are installed at the
next meeting night, Monday, Decem
ber 27.
Next Sunday is “Covenant Day” at
the First Baptist Church, at which time
the roll of tee church will be called,
and all members present will be .pre
sented with a handsome church calen
dar. Rev. George P. White, pastor,
announces the service as follows:
It is earnestly requested that every
member of the First Baptist Church
be present at the eleven o’clock service
next Sunday morning, December 19th.
At that service tee roll will be called.
Bach member present will be present
ed with a beautiful church calendar
This calendar will con-
SCHOOL ENTERTAINMEN
PLANNED AT V>
TO SANTA Cl
Small Admission Fee Will Be C
Everyone.
There will be an entertainri
the Vamells school house Th
December 23.
An excellent program has be
pared and an admission fee of
15 cents will be charged, the
tamment being for the benefit
for next year.
fain the 'church covenant, a cut of the
church, and other things of interest
to the members. The subject for the
morning sermon will be: “Our Church
Covenant.” Let every member who
sees this be Sure to come and invite
others to come with you.
GEO, Pj WHITE*, Pastor.
Thomaston, Ga.; Mrs. Dan^C. Harris,
Sandersville, Ga.; Mrs. Edward C.
Blount, Waynesboro, Ga.; Mrs. R, L.
Walker, Cuthbert, Ga.; Miss Mattie
Sheibley, Rome, Ga.; Miss Callie Cook,
Milledgeville, Ga.
The Jersey cranberry crop is esti
mated at 150,000 barrels for this sea
son.