North Georgia citizen. (Dalton, Ga.) 1868-1924, March 04, 1920, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextSpot Cotton Today 40 Cents An Ad in THE CITIZEN is worth Two on the Fence. Spot Cotton Today 40 Cents ESTABLISHED 1847—SEVENTY-TWO YEARS OLD. DALTON, GA-, TEUESDAY MARCH 4, 1920. VOL. LXOm. NO. 21, $1.50 PER ANNUM. County Officials and Others Told of State Highways To Be Constructed REYNOLDS COMING BACK COURT WEEK Birtrict Engineer and Secretary of Dixie Highway Association Here st Meeting—To Finance Is- su0 with Automobile Tax Going more into the details of the good roads program, a meet : ng was ,ke!d last week at the court house at which Mr. Frank T. Reynolds, speaker for the Asscoiation of County Commis sioners of Georgia, delivered his able address on “A Statewide System of Beads Connecting every County Seat and every Market Center,” which was heard by representatives of the county and others. This proposed system of highways as outlined by the authori ties, will cover 4,800 mi'es and cost approximately $50,000,000. A bill is to be introduced at the next General As- aembly for the purpose of issuing that amount of bonds, said bonds to be is sued in denominations of ten million dollars each and to be paid in like manner. . The plan of the st-te h'ghway com mission, Mr. Reyno'ds said, ‘‘is to have this system of roads paid for i y auto- mobi e license fees who’ly ■ and ex clusively.” This measure a’so carries with it the payment of interest cost on the bonds as well as to set aside, a sinking fund for their retirement in twenty or thirty years and to forever afterwards maintain the system, thus taking that mileage cost off the coun ties. In other words, the mileage of this system in each county will be built and kept up at state cost and the money hitherto used by the counties on these roads can be used on other roads not in the proposed system. It is an abso ute gift to the counties and not one cent of tax is to be collected for the plan, he explained. Mr. Reynolds scored a strong point when he lucidly told of the romance of Sears & Roebuck, the well known catalog house who, in 1918, dec'ared a five per cent dividend on fifty million do'lars and last year dee ared the same dividend on one hundred million. He •aid that in order to accomplish this feat they had especially selected the bad sections, where there are no good roads, to send catalogs, a'l this money being extracted from that class who could not well get to town to spend their money, so Georgia lost this money by reason of bad roads; He added that just so long as our roads remain bad and impassab’e, just so long will the ruralist find it easier to meet his mail carrier and get a money order from the government and send to these mail order houses for his needs, than it is for him to hitch up a horse and drive 8 or 10 miles to town to buy what he wants over the roads as they, are now. Having made highways a long-study even while he was editor of The Citi zen and his long connection with civ'c bodies, Mr. Reynolds is perhaps one of the best informed men in the state on the subject and by reason of his state-wide popularity, his thorough ex position of this question of better high ways for Georgia, one is a'wjys inter- ested in what he has to say. Other speakers at this meeting were ^ r - v - O. L. Robinson, of Chattanooga, Secretary of the Dixie Highway Asso- emtion, who was a visitor in Da'ton on a tour of inspection of the Dixie High way from Chattanooga on i' to Florida, making the trip ,bv easy stages, and A. A. Simonton, of R->me, who is the district engineer in charge of con struction. Mr. Simonton explained many matters of tech”ical detail as to cost and methods and the type of a r °ad that would stand the test of gov ernment specifications. ^Ir. Reyno’ds w'll return here in April when Judge Tarver wi'l give him- an opportunity to address the people during the April session of Whitfield Superior Court. Ga. Tech Glee Club Comes Here Tomorrow For a Great Concert ill i J Collegians to Appear Tomorrow Nigbt at High School Auditorium—Boy Scouts Selling the Tickets The Tech Glee club, thirty-three strong, will be here tomorrow night for an evening’s entertainment in the High School auditorium, and the collegians will be warmly welcomed. For down-right snap and pep, the college glee elub stands right at the front, and" all who attend the enter tainment tomorrow night, starting at 8:15 o’clock, are certain of a rare treat. There will be the old college fav orites which have been sung for de cades, together with the more modern music, the program offering enough variety to please anyone. And there is not only ‘‘pep” but considerable musical ability in a col lege glee club, and Georgia Tech this year has an excel ent club according to all advance notices. The Boy Scouts will have charge of the ticket sale, and tickets can also be secured at any of the drug stores, the price being 75 cents for adults, and 50 cents for children under 12 years of age. Dalton people should attend in large numbers—they’ll get their money’s worth and then some. The members of the elub, gentlemen all if they are filled with the college spirit, "will be entertained in Da'ton homes during their stay here. They will arrive at noon tomorrow and will leave Satnrday morning for Chattanooga where they will give an entertainment Satnrday night. PENSION MONEY RECEIVED AND IS BEING PATTI OUT Check for $8,970 Received This Week hy Judge Wood Experts Here Last Week Discussed Boll Weevil Problem A CHEESE FACTORY BEING CONSIDERED ’~ople Told How to Wage War on Cr ton Pest—Good Crowd Attended Meeting Held Lest Thursday at Court House Judge H. J. Wood, ordinary, rece'ved th’s week the cheek from t’he state for the paying of pensions to Confederate veterans, and the widows of veterans. The amount received by the county this year is $8,970. The new applicants for pensions who filed their applications last year in line *with the new legislation wh : ch waives the amount of property possess ed by pensioners, have not yet been ap proved, and no money can be paid them- until the legislature meets and makes an appropriation for 't. All old pensioners can get their cheeks any time by cal'ing at the office of Judge Wood at the court house. CEDAR VALLEY TTAS ACTIVE FARM BUREAU People Taking Real Interest in the Work NOTICE. O. W. Circle members, Laurel ® rove 154, will you kindly send me Jour name and address at once. Fraterna’ly yours, Mary A. Gentry, Clerk." Cedar Valley.—The Farm Bnrean has been organized at Cedar Valley for the benefit of the farmer. The organiza tion has got up an order of 25 tons of fertilizer, and everybody that wants to buy good fertilizer cheap can give in thtii orders. ~We meet every second Tuesday night in each menth. We have the com club, cotton club, canning- club, poultry club, pig club and calf elub. and we urge everybody to plant selected seeds. If you have not already got them, it ,wi'l pay you to get them and give yonr children a ehance. Come and bring your chil dren with' you and let them join the elub they prefer. Don’t forget our meeting the second Tuesday night in each month. Come and see how much yon can save on your fertilizer bi’l this year. ’We wil' have Mr. C. O. Smith, our farm demonstrator, and Miss Colclongh, home demonstration agent, to advise you on the clubs. i Our officers are: J. T. Isbill, chair man; Ed Cooper, vice-chairman; Ar thur Ware, secretary. We also have three ladies as officers of the canning and other c’ubs: Miss Bertha Isbill, chairman; Miss Frankie Cline, vice- chairman; Miss Lizzie Donaldson, sec retary. Everybody is invited to come and be with us. T. A. Ware, Sec. CARNEY & GORDON BUY NORTH GEORGIA BUGGY CO. Business Will Be Onerated at Present Location Another important business deal took place here this week when Carney & Gordon, dealers in live stock here, bought the business of the North Georgia Buggy Co. from Barrett & Kenner. The new firm will continue to operate the business in its present location. The stock is a large one, consisting of wagons, buggies, farm implements, harness, etc. Held u”der the auspices of the Whit field County Farm Bureau and accord ing to a program arranged bv County 4ge-"t C. O. Smith and M'ss Jewell Col- 'lough, Home Demonstration Agent, an important gathering of farmers, busi ness men, representatives and the stu dent body of the Dalton Pubic Sehoo’s met at the court house on Thursday of last week to hear means and meth ods of getting rid of the boll weevil which seems to have come into several communities in this county recently. The meeting was. opened with prayer by Rev. Josiah Cm dun of the First Bapt'st Church of Dalton, a short talk by Rev. R. M. Dixon, pastor of the First Methodist church, then the prin cipal speakers for the occasion from the State College of Agriculture. Mr. C. E. Kellog, Live Stock Special ist, was the first speaker devoting his remarks to an appeal for better live stock in this North a enroda section. He presented some interesting facts about l>ve stock, particularly" the rais- 'ng of beef catt’e a"d urged that the ’f o rmers beriu to serinusV consider th’s nhase -of n<Tieu’tnraJ effort to take the p’ace of a”y rosRih’e loss from the depredations of the boll weevil. Mr. L. H Marlett, came in the inter est of a proposed cheese factory on the co-operative plan for Da’ton, and he explained in detail its cost for construc tion, plan of., operation, benefits to be derived and that his services were free in getting such an enterprise on foot and engineering it through its first stages. Mr. Marlett gave a brief re sume of the efforts of the government to estab'ish cheese factories in this section, of the country. Since 1915 thirty-five factories have been estab lished in North Carolina and in Georg ia, and since 1918 three have begun operation in Georgia, one being at Cleveland in the mountains of White County. He said that in the district of Five Forks in Bartow county where a meeting had been held a day or two before this, one company had already been organized and will begin shortly the erection of a. modern cheese factory for their community. By the use of some very interesting charts, Mr. L. V. Davis explained the use of fertilizers for cotton cnltfire best adapted to these North Georgia soils, advocating the use of limestone, wh ; le Mr. W. S. Brown, the District Agent, spoke on the boll weevil and explained, how by a rotation of crops, in time, the pest con’d not do so much damage to cotton in this region as is now fear ed in some parts. Mr. Brown stated that in every county yet visited by this cotton pest, the second year of his presence in the eld was the most disastrous. Since the weevils were here in small quantities last year he believes this is the worst for the farmers of this section and for that reason said the college of agriculture and all its resources were at the dis posal of the farmers of th's section in the fight they are expected to wage this year. There was to have been another meeting of the same kind held in the afternoon at Mt. Vernon, but at the appointed time, on account of the weather and the condition of the roads the meeting had to be postponed and the party soon returned to Dalton. District Parsonage Is Dedicated Sunday In Impressive Manner Bishop Warren A. Candler Accepted Parsonage in Behalf of Canfei#- ence—Candler Preadhed The formal dedication of the Dalton district Methodist parsonage Sunday afternoon was an impressive service he’d at the parsonage on South Thorn ton avenue at 2 o’clock. Music opened the service, after which Bishop W. A. Candler, one of the most prominent men. in the Sou thern Methodist church, made an in teresting talk. Mr. H. J. Smith, in behalf of the trustees of the district, presented the house to the North Georgia Methodist conference, his talk being followed by the speech of acceptance from Bishop Candler. There were abont fifty people pres ent at the exercises. At the morning service at the First Methodist chnreh, Bishop Candler de livered a strong and eloquent sern o Sunday, being heard by a large con gregation, there being many members of -other churches present to hear Bish op Candler. Sunday morning Bishop Candler preached from this text in St. Mat- they 23: 37-38: ‘‘O Jerusalef, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which aie sent unto them, how often would I hafe gathered thy children together even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and yo would not! Behold, your house is left unto-you desolate.” The parsonage recently purchased by the district as the home of the pre siding elder is a beautiful home on Thornton avenue, having been erected several years ago by Mr. D. C. Jones who sold it to Mr. John B. Brown. Mr. Brown sold it to the district. It is conveniently arranged and sub stantially built. The parsonage has been beautifully furnished throughout by the 'adies of the Da'ton district, un der the leadership of Mrs. Pyron, of Bartow county. It is a parsonage of '• hieh any dis trict might well be proud. Meeting of Democratic Ex ecutive Committee To Be Held Saturday IMPORTANT WORK FACES COMMITTEE Must Make Arrangements for Prer-‘ dential primary in April—Candi dates Invited to Meeting— Personnel of Committee Florida Man Sends Nice Contribution To Armenian Relief Local Chairman Preparing Letter to Be Sent Pastors and Sunday School Superintendents ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ 4- FLORIDA MAN SENDS + HIS CONTRIBUTION Pursuant to call, the Democratic ex ecutive committee of this county will meet next "Saturday morning at 11 o,?c"ock at the coart house for the purpose- of making arrangements for ho’ding the presidential primary on April 20 and to decide upon the county primary, elect a new chairman to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge Felker, fix the assessments for the candidates and transact such other business as may come before the com mittee. DR. ED LOOPER PERFORMS WONDERFUL OPERATION Man Recovering Now at University Hospital, Baltimore The many friends of Dr. Edward A. Looper, formerly of this city but now a physician and surgeon of Balti more, Md., will read with mnch inter est the following from the Baltimore Sun: A silver tube, about two inches long, inserted in the throat of David Wender, of Connellsville, Pa., has enable^ him to breathe for the last 10 weeks. Wen der is at University Hospital, slowly recovering from an extraordinary oper ation performed by Dr. Edward A. Looper, in which part of the trachea was cut away and the tube inserted. About 10 o’clock on the night of October 25 Wender, accompanied by another detective was walking near some freight caj&^on the Western Maryland Rai'road siding near Con- nellsville when he saw a figure leap to the ground from the platform between two cars. Rushing up, Wender grap pled with the man, and placed him qnder arrest. At the same time he recognized the watchman. The latter, believing Wender to be a burglar, broke from his grasp and shot him through the neck. Local physicians could do nothing for Wendeh On November 30 he came to University Hospita', and the operat : ou was performed December 16. Last Saturday another operation was per formed, and a smaller tube inserted. It is hoped that ultimately Wender will be able to breathe naturally. At present he can only speak in a hoarse whisper. COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD SEND REPRESENTATIVES GET EARLY SHIPMENT ON NEW GAS HOLDER Will B9 Ready for Service April 1st It Is Thought The board of water, light and sink ing fund commissioners will get quick shipment on the new gas holder, order for which was given ’ast week. As it happened, the Chattanooga concern that -was to make the holder had one on hand, and this will be shipped here and put up within a few weeks. It is thought the new ho’der will be ready by Apri' 1. and the present holder can then be repaired. The new holder will enable the gas plant to give much better service in the future. Superintendent and a Member of Board to Go to Macon At a meeting of the board of educa tion he’d Tuesday morning, it was vot ed to send the county school super intendent, J. D. Fie'd. and one member of the board to Macon to attend the meeting of the county school officials from all sections of Georgia to be held the 24th to 26th. It was not decided jnst which mem ber of the board wou’d accompany Mr. Field on the trip-. Shugart to P each. Rev. M. S. Shugart will preach at Riverbend chnrch on the second Sun day in March at 11 o’c'ock. The pub lic is cordially invited. The committee is composed of the following: Paul B. Trammell, J. A. Longley, G. W, Stafford and T. S. Mc- Camy, Da ton district; L. W. Thom ason, Carbondale district; D. C. Hin ton, Tilton district; W. C. Pangle, Trickum district; Robert True’ove, Mill Creek district; Henry Wood, Rocky Face district; Julius Parrott, Cohutta d'strict; A. L. Meers, Varne’ls district; D P. Keith, Fincher district; Frank Ha : r, Ninth district; J. D. Brackett, Lower Tenth district; G. W. Head, Tunnel Hi'l district; R. G. Shields, Up per Tenth district. The members of the committee have a’l been notified of the meeting and are expected to be present. The meeting is one of genuine im portance for there wi'l be many matters coming before the committee for at tention. It wi’l be necessary to make arrangements for holding the prefer ential primary for a Democratic nomi nee for president, and the committee wi’l face the fact that there is no money in the treasury for ho'ding the primary. It will be necessary to call for volunteers to hold the primary without pay, or else to take up a col lection to defray the expe-ses. The question of a primary for county officers must also be decided, and a date fixed for the primary. Many of the candidates prefer to have the state and county primar'es on different days, while there has been some to express a desire that the two be combined. It wil' be up to the committee to de cide this; but the presence of all who will be in the primary for county offi cers is desired at the meeting, for the committee wants the views of the can didates. A’so, the matter of determining upon the assessments for the candidates to get their names on the ticket wi 1 come up. In "view of the fact that the races have not taken definite shape, it is probable the committee will leave the matter of the assessments to the chair man and secretary of the committee, for the number entered wi'l dotrmine the amount that must be co’lected from each to pay the expenses of the pri mary. It is going to be a b : g political year, with plenty of action, and the meeting of the committee Saturday morning •a ill bring rapid deve’opments in the various races, for with the time for the primary fixed, the candidates will begin to come out in the open. 4 The Citizen is in receipt of a ♦ 4 check for $5 from Mr. J. L. Rains, ♦ •*> of Monticello, Fla., to be applied ♦ 4 to the Armen'an re’ief fund being ♦ 4 raised here. Mr. Rains, who form- ♦ 4 erlv lived at Cohutta, says in his ♦ 4 ’ettpr: ^ “Enc'osed please find $5.00 ♦ 4 check -for starving children of ♦ •*- Armenia. No movement on foot ♦ 4 here for their relief, and I felt ♦ 4 it a dnty to he'p. So send it to ♦ ■** von to forward to right place. ♦ 4 Looks 'ike everyone ought to be ♦ 4 interested in this work.” ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ J. D. Field, chairman of the Whit- fie’d county committee to raise money 'ocal'y for the relief of Armenian suf fers is preparing this wee! the letter *r> be sent to the various pastors and Sunday school superintendents of the county, asking that they take special -o’lections in the churches and Sunday sehoo’s for this most worthy cause. There has been practically nothing done here, and as a result little money has so far been raised; but when the matter - is put up to the people, then a ready response is expected, for the cause is a most worthy one, indorsed by leading peop’e of the United States. The Citizen is in receipt of a check from Florida for this fnnd, the check having been turned over to, th’e treas urer, Mr. J. J. Cope'and. at The Bank of Dalton. All who desire to contri bute to the fund can do so either by calling Mr. Copeland, Mr. Fie'd or The Citizen. When the work is completed, a list of the contributors will be pub- ished in The Citizen. CHAIRMAN THANKS ALL WHO HELPED WITH FUND Nearly $300 Raised in Campaign for Jewish Relief Mr. H, Fox, chairman of the com mittee to raise a fund in Dalton for Jewish relief in Europe, has requested The Citizen to cordially thank all who contributed to the fund. He is deep- 'y grateful. The fund, as raised here, now amounts to $281.1)0. In the list as pub ished last week, an error was made, L. Wedner giving $5 instead of $1 is the article showed. In addition to the ist published in last week’s issne of The Citizen, the following have con- tributed to the fund: B. A. Tyler ...$5.00 W. L. Roberts - ... 1.00 Mrs. Clayton ... 1.00 Mrs. WpIIs ... 1.00 R. P. Gregory ... 5.00 Dalton Flour Mills . .... .... ... 5.90 Wi 1 Denton .... .... ... 2.00 W. M. Sapp ... 5.00 Mr. and Mrs. El’is ... ... 1.00 Mrs. Welder ... 3.00 Mrs. Dennis Barrett . ... 1.00 J. C. Screws .. .. .... ... 1.00 Mrs. Bob Herron .... ... 1.00 Mrs. W. E. Martin — . . • . . . . . ... 2.00 Qu'l’ian Felker ,. .... .... ... 2.00 Mrs. Paul Trammell . ... 1.00 Asa Whitp ... 1.00 Ogburn A'ley ... 1.00 NEW BUSINESS FIRM TO OPEN ON HAMILTON STREET King & Albertson Is Style of the New Partnership Mr. Carter L. King, councilman from the Seventh ward, who sold his busi ness on South Thornton ave-ue to Faulkenberry Bros, the first of the year, and Mr. George Albertson have formed a partnership and will open tleir business on Hami'ton street in the storeroom formerly occupied by Mr. King in the b'oek'between Gordon and Cuyler streets. They will sell groceries and dry goods, feedstnffs, etc., and wi’l be ready for bnsiness as soon as the building can be renovated inside. The friends of Mr. King and Mr. Albertson predict their success in the new business. To Arrange License Fee Or dinance Sheet for This Year CRAWFORD NAMED THIRD ASSESSOR Two Policemen Elected at Meeting Monday Night—Traffic Ordinance and Sidewalk Program May Come Up at Meeting At the meeting of eity council Mod- day night, J. A. Crawford was elected the third member of the board of ta^r assessors of Da’ton. He, with Will King and W. M. Carroll, will fix the property assessments for the enrren! year. j The report of Poliee Chief Bates showed that during the past month, he- collected $427.50 in business licenses and $210 from recorder’s eourt fines. Of the eases made, sixteen were fined and five acquitted. Council elected Tom Leonard and George Fain as policemen to fill va cancies on the police force. Council again took up the question of salaries and made two changes. Police Chief Bates was given an in crease, his salary now being $150, be ing the same as it was fixed at the first meeting of the present adminis tration. The assistant sexton at the cemetery was given a $10 increase, his salary now being $60. To Mark Graves. W. M. Sapp appeared before council with the suggestion that the unmarked graves in the o d part of West Hill cemetery be marked, and a record kept. He. promised his assistance in this worthy work, and eonncil voted favor ably. “Uncle Billy’> Rehfroe, eity sexton, knows practically all of the graves in West Hill and can -render valuable assjstanee in the proposed plan. Council granted a, reduction in the Southern Bell Telephone company’s license which was $75 last year, the cense being placed at $50 for the cur rent year. Call Meeting Friday. Connell adjourned to meet again to morrow night for an important ses sion, the main object of the call meet ing being to revise the license fee ordinance. • It is probable that there will be ft number of changes made. Also, the street committee is working in an effort to have a report ready rela tive to sidewa’k construction work to be done this spring. Council wi'l have considerable sidewalk construction work done, and the committee will rec ommend the various streets for the improvements. Another matter that will probably come before tfie meeting will be the new traffic ordinance. Because of sick ness, City Attorney MeCntehen could not appear before council with the new ordinance Monday night. The committee appointed to get figures on the proposed motor street sprinkler is working to have a report ready by tomorrow nigbt, and if it is ready, it is probable that the purchase will be authorized at the meeting. RAILROADS GO BACK TO PRIVATE OWNERSHIP WILL GIVE SCHOLARSHIPS AS SCHOOL CLUB PRIZES Fanning Tools Also to Be Given Win ners This Year The list of prizes for the various school clubs this year is different from what it has been in the jfegt and will work much better, it is believed. In many of the clubs, scho'arships to the State Col'ege of Agriculture and to the district agricultural school at Powder Springs will be awarded the winners. Fsrm tno's will also be giv en, and in the calf elub, the first prize wi'l be a purebred calf, while pure bred pigs will be given in the pig club. Pure bred fowls and eggs will be given in the pon'try c'nb. It was decided by the committee that by awara'ng the prizes in this manner, the winners would get mnch more for their efforts than they would by re ceiving cash prizes. Work Being Done Getting Tracks Back in Old Shape President Wi'son having signed the order, the railroads of the country un der the management of the government during the war, went back to private ownership Monday. I’his necessitated a change in the track arrangements made here when the government tcok over the railroads. The government operated a’l north bound trains of both the Southern and N. C. & St. L.. over one track between Dalton and Phelps, sending the south bound trains over the other—a double- track arrangement. But the roads don’t like this plan, and, as a result, I he tracks are again being changed, being put back in the shape they wpre in when the government took the roads over. Da'ton won’t have the trouble of re organizing the freight offices, for this was done sometime ago, two agents having been placed in Dalton whea trouble arose over the clerk’s strike last yeaa.

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North Georgia citizen. (Dalton, Ga.) 1868-1924, March 04, 1920, Image 1