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DALTON, GA., THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1920.
VOIhLXXm. NO. 23. $1.50 PER ANNUM.
people Will Be Shown How
to Cut Meat to Best
Advantage
should REDUCE COST
OF LIVING MUCH
production Being Far Below Normal
Waste Will Have to Be Eliminat
ed If Present Cost of Living
Is to Drop
The Department fof. Justice announo
eJ today the dates of “Save Money
Meat’’ Week in the various states.
Daring these weeks an effort will be
> to reduce materially the prices
of the cuts of beef, pork and lamb
now in heavy demand by showing con
sumers the advantage of turning to
those which are equally nutritious but
which cost much less.
The first “Save Money on Meat’
Week, which has been previously an
nounced, will be held from March 22
to March 27 throughout each of the
following States:
Illinois, Wisconsion, Ohio, Pennsyl
vania, Iowa, Indiana, Michigan, New
Jersey and New York.
The week beginning March 29 will
be "Save Money on Meat’-' Week in:
Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, Wash
ington, New Hampshire, Connecticut,
Khode Island, Oregon and California.
The week beginning April 5 will be
"Save Money on Meat” Week in the
District of Columbia and the following
States: Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky,
South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi,
Arkansas, West Virginia, Delaware?
North Carolina, Tennessee Georgia,
Alabama, Louisiana and Missouri.
The week beginning April 12 will be
“Save Money on Meat” Week in each
of the following States: Texas, Kan
sas, South Dakota, North Dakota, Ida
ho, Nevada, Colorado, Oklahoma, Ne
braska, Minnesota, Montana, Wyoming,
Utah, Arizona and New Mexico.
On each day of ‘ 1 Save Money on
Meat” Week some particular cut or
cuts of the inexpensive variety will
he featured and will he sold at a low
price. Retailers who hitherto have
not carried in stoek some of the less
costly cuts because their customers
did not ask for them intend to lay
in adequate quantities of such por
tions of meat. If the consumers will
take advantage of the highly nutri
tious and palatable pieces of meat
which are relatively inexpensive, the
saving effected will, be tremendous,
nnd the sackened demand for the
cuts now popular will result in lower
prices thereon.
Produce a Better Calf
*
and Win Another One
at Whitfield Fair
A Unique Contest Which Should Cause
Lively interest in the Coming
County Fair
The outlook now is that we are going
to have one of the biggest and best
county fairs which has ever been held
in these parts this fall. Even this
early in the season folks are beginning
to talk about what they are going to
do in the way of contributing to the
success of .this enterprise.
Our farmer friends are everywhere
taking a real interest in starting now
to capture some of the many prizes
which the management is going to offer
to make an exhibit here worth while.
One man, whose name The Citizen is
not authorized to make known now, has
.become so enthusiastic that he is now
raising a calf which is going to be a
beauty, and he makes bold to challenge
any man either in Whitfield, Murray or
any neighboring county to produce
better type of beef, the only condition
being that the calf must be dropped
during the present year and it makes
no difference what the breed might be,
The calves will be inspected at the
fair this fall by an expert from the
State College of Agriculture and the
lucky oue who owns the best calf ac
cording to the opinion of this expert,
gets both calves.-
Now is the time to think on these
things and to make plans that will
cause other counties to sit up and take
notice. Raising beef cattle is the sal
vation for any community. It is always
the source of ready money and this is
just what the management of the coun
ty fair have in mind: to educate the
people as to better methods in farming
operations.
Representatives
Chosen Friday Night
For High School Meet
Many People Still Afraid of
Fresh Air and
Baths.
THE AMERICAN RED
CROSS DOING GOOD
Influenza Epidemic Subsiding All Over
the Country—Fear, It Is Believed,
Aids the Disease to a Very
Great Extent
Miss Mary McLellan, a popular sfn
dent of Agnes Scott College, has been
elected Y. W. C. A. secretary for that
school. This is indeed quite an honor,
and one well placed.
Miss McLellan is the talented daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. J. G. McLellan, of
this city, and has hosts of friends here
who will be delighted to know she has
been elected to fill this prominent
position.
BARACA CLASS'”URGES
PULL ATTENDANCE
Under
present conditions the price
of the choicest cuts are in extreme in
stances fifty or Sixty cents higher per
pound than the price of other good,
wholesome meat from the same animal.
712 dist. republicans to
meet at CARTERSVILLE
•A call has gone out from Walter
‘^ “Orman, of Cartersville,. who is the
e airman of the Seventh District Re-
Fublicans, for all who are of this faith
0 meet in convention at Cartersville
Saturday, the main object being to
U to build up the hopes of the party
this neck of the woods; to discuss
^publican affairs in general and par-
<m ar,\ as ;j. concerns this immediate
section.
At this convention, delegates will
selected to attend the Republican
ional Convention in Chicago in
after whic h time, no doubt, a
j 0 1 5 * e -f° r congress will be named
Strict 1 election this fall in this
i B ? er f. has teen fr °m time to time
caiA-f IOnS in the P ress that such a
far h ate ' viU enter ^ts, but so
hao / S Dame an< l manner of running
At ^ k6 ? t * the *«k.
urdav^ 13 distriet convention on Sat-
eaci, 1 S ex P ec ted at least one from
!n eeH ^ 0Qnt ‘ V attend. A Republican
hero " '’ as ^eld at the courthouse
eie « noon today.
Theee NEW recruits.
Clare?/ ? Pritchett ’ of Crandall, Ga.;
e L. Buchanan and Allen D.
Cows
te « Stat
rt > of Dalton, Ga., joined the Uni-
es -Army last week.
Atlanta, Ga. March 17.—So distress
ing were conditions in many places in
the" southeast during the height of the
influenza epidemic that, in one town,
a nurse entered a home where three
children were ill in bed with the body
of a baby that had been dead for sev
eral days, other members of the family
being unable to remove it or to notify
neighbors because all were down with
“flu.”
This was one of the more grewsome
incidents mentioned in a statement
made public today at southern division
headquarters of the American Red
Cross, declaring that the influenza epi
demic has subsided greatly throughout
the southeast and should be over soon,
and giving a vivid picture of some
of the tragedies, difficulties and hard
ships encountered by Red Cross nurses
in fighting the disease.
The statement revealed that the seri
ousness of the situation was increased
ip many cases by the ignorance and
superstition of the poor victims, who
had been taught that fresh air was
fatal to recovery, that baths should
never be taken when one had fever and
MISS MARY MCLELLAN that such mediaeval methods as blister-
ELECTED Y. W. C. A. SECRETARY •fog: the breast and then applying cold
collard leaves from, the garden, were
the best cures.
“We are thankful to say that nearly
all of our nurses report the situation
is much better now,” says the state
ment. “It is under control every
where, it has been stamped out wholly
in some localities, and we have every
reason to believe that it will soon
be banished from southeast, for this
year, at least.”
At the crest of the influenza wave,
the statement says, every Red Cross
nurse in the southern division was en
gaged in fighting the disease. The
majority of them were called upon to
do public nursing, going from hospitals
and private homes where conditions
were ideal for nursing into isolated
districts where whole counties, ravaged
by influenza, depended almost wholly
on them for help and where the nurse
had nothing but her own resources on
which to draw.
One nurse, sent to Florida, rode
twenty miles in the caboose of an en
gine to reach the place to which she
was assigned. It was a logging camp,
a town of three hundred where there
were more than one hundred cases of
influenza and only one doctor. An
other nurse writes that she went on
duty at 7 one morning and did not
stop until 8 o’clock in the evening
of the day following. Then she slept
only six hours, going out again for an
other twenty-four hour stretch. Such
hours, states division headquarters, are
typical rather than unusual of the ex
periences of the average Red Cross
nurse during the epidemic.
The typical service of a nurse is
summed up in a report from the health
officer of one county, who wrote divi
sion headquarters that the nurse visit
ed three homes daily on the „ average,
saw six patients in each home and
traveled twenty miles a day. During
her 10 days in the county, he said, she
visited 45 homes, attended 270 pa
tients and traveled 375 miles in all.
‘She is a jewel, and if we have the
flu next year, we want her sure,” he
said.
The distance that had to be gone
were one of the chief hardships of the
nurses. One nurse wrote that she was
in a town where there were no mean#
of transportation at all, and that she
had to walk up hill and down for many
miles daily, visiting home after home.
When the nurse reached a commun
ity, she generally found it all but
panic-stricken, by the disease. The
first thing she did was to organize the
community, start canteens and soup
kitchens to going, secure plenty- of
volunteer help and see that there was
some one. in every home to do the house
hold duties where members of the fam
ily- were all sick. In this work she
often had the cooperation of the local
The Baraca class of the First Baptist
Sunday sehool, through its teacher, J.
D. Duncan, and president, H. B. Far
rar, urges all of its members to be pres
ent Sunday morning at 9:45.
Splendid lessons and talks are given
every Sunday morning at the Baraca
class room of the Baptist Sunday
school, and visitors are cordially inyit
ed.
ATTEMPT MADE TO WAYLAY
HANNAH SATURDAY NIGHT
Saturday night a bold attempt was
made by two unknown men to hold up
Mr. Charley Hannah as he was about
to enter his home on Tyler street. Mr,
TTn.nnflh had put his car in his garage
for the night and was going towards
the front entrance of his home when
he was struck by a brick. The first
brick was quickly followed by a second
which, fortunately, missed its mark, but
struck the front porch. Mr. Hannah,
realizing that qui£k action was neces
sary, drew a flashlight from one pocket
and a revolver from another, and fired
four times at his assailants, but failed
to hit either of them.
The police were immediately notified,
and a thorough search of North Dalton
was made, but the men were not ap
prehended,
Mr. Hannah is Council Commander of
the W. O. W., and it is probable the
men attempting the hold-up thought
he had in his possession the lodge’s
share of Saturday’s receipts of the
carnival that showed here last week
under its auspices.
NOT AN APPLICANT.
Mr. L. H. Crawford has resigned
his position with W. M. Finek & Co.,
Chattanooga. When asked if he was
a candidate for postmaster, he stated,
he was not, would not be, and further
that he would not have the position
if it were handed him on a platter.
“And” said his father, Mr. J. A.
Crawford, “none of the other Craw
fords are or will be applicants for
postmaster.”
Miss Hubbs, Recitation; Miss Quillian,
Music; Ollie Harden, Declamation
—Third Cup Offered
The preliminary contests, held Friday
night at the High School auditorium,
resulted in the following_^iepresenta
tives being" chosen to represent Dalton
High at the Seventh District meet
which will be held at Rome, April 16th
17th: Miss Christine Hubbs, reeita
tion; Ollie Harden, declamation; Mi HS
Florence Quillian, music. Vivian
Jarvis will represent the school for
girl’s essay, and Morris Rudolph for
boy’s essay.
The auditorium was crowded to its
capacity, and those present thoroughly
enjoyed the very excellent program
given. The High School orchestra, as
sisted by Miss Helen Horan, Miss Sara
Bogle and Pharris Gregory, furnished
delightful music during the intennis
sions. The contestants showed such
talent and splendid training that it
was indeed a task for the judges to
award, the honors.
In the music contest Miss Florence
Quillian came first, Miss Mary Stuart
Sims, second; in recitation, Miss Chris
tine Hubbs won first place; Frances
Jack, second; in declamation Ollie
Harden, first; Morton Huff, second.
The selection of the athletic team
has not been made, but good work
being done by the boys under the sup
ervision of J. D. Duncan, Principal, and
before the first of April the names of
the team’s members will be announced.
Since last year the Seventh District
association has purchased another cup,
making three cups to be won this year.
This third cup will be awarded to the
school having the best exhibit of note
books in various studies, and the an
ticipation of winking it is giving add
ed impetus to this-phase of high school
work. Dalton has always had an ex
cellent display of not books, maps, etc,
and this year Dalton High has high
hopes of being the first school to win
the new cup.
Dalton, as usual, is planning to send
a large number of delegates to the meet
this year, and much interest is being
shown in the work. The contestants,
with the rooters for Dalton, are going
to the meet with a determination to
•win, and will probably bring home
honors galore.
Rome is preparing to entertain the
delegates from the various schools, and
the precedent ehe has set for splendid
entertaining, i s causing the April meet
there to be anticipated with pleasure.
Red Gross chapter, many of which did
splendid service in fighting the fin.
The incident of the baby found dead
in bed with sick children, was not
much worse than some others reported.
It was a common thing, states the
head of the department of nursing, for
the nurses to find as many as five peo
ple sleeping cross-wise in bed with
every window closed tight and not a
breath of fresh air in the room. One
mother, ill with three sick children in
bed with her, explained that they did
not thus sleep normally, but that she
got sick first and that as each of the
children would get sick, they would
‘go to mother” and she, poor woman,
did not -have the strength to keep them
away.
The ignorance and superstition in
eome of the more isolated districts was
pitiful,” says the statement. “It was
very hard to make these people believe
that a breath of fresh air would not
kill them or that they could use water.
Some of them had gone for weeks with
out a bath, believing it wonld be fatal
wnen tbey'Jiad fever. One old man
had -his feet tied together with an
onion poultice’ tied to their soles. He
said he thought it would draw the pain
from his chest. One old-fashioned
practitioner was ministering ‘Spanish
fly poultices’ to his patients. They
burned blisters a foot Iqng after which
•he ‘dressed them’ with cold collard
leaves. Often these were gritty and
set up infection, making an open sore.
The nurse in this case refused to coun
tenance his methods and only by threat
ening to have him arrested was she
able to stop such treatment. Such
handicaps on the part of doctors were
infrequent, however, for practically
everywhere the physicians worked like
Trojans, “though not infrequently
there would he only one doctor to a
town o? county of several thousand.”
Frank T. Reynolds On
Second Lap of Tour
For Better Highways
Poultry Raising and Garden
Culture Here This
Summer
TO ENTER CONTESTS
FOR BEST RESULTS
Many ommunities Taking Lively In
terest—Home Agent Visits Floyd
and polk—District Agent Here
for Week-end
This month is the busy time for the
organizing of Poultry and Garden clubs
in' various communities of the county
under the direction and guidance of
the Home Demonstration Agent with
only two weeks yet in which to do the
work. Even now some communities
have already started to keeping their
records in preparation for the con
tests to be determined in the fall. Aft
er the work is closed on the first of the
month, every club is in possession of
fine pens of pure bred poultry of vari
ous kinds and has successfully grown
chickens for the market which in it
self will be an inspiration for all com
munities to get busy.
Tomorrow afternoon the .Home Dem
onstration Agent will visit the-Salem
school, where will be. conducted a con
test for baking cookies, in which all
the school children will participate.
Here will be started a school garden
of an acre to be cared for by the chil
dren this slimmer.
On Saturday afternoon the Country
Agent and the Home Demonstration
Agent will visit Good Hope community
in attendance upon a meeting of the
Farm Bureau there.
On Monday, Carbondale school and
Redwine’s Cove school will be visited
during the day and at night the Car
bondale Farm Bureau will hold its
meeting.
It is expected to have at least one
hundred poultry and garden dub mem
bers. Eligible to the poultry clubs,
will be children from fourteen through
the eighteenth year, while for the gar
den clubs the ages are fixed at twelve
through the eighteenth year. For the
garden or canning club a twentieth of
an acre must be cultivated, and for
poultry club three settings of pure
bred eggs must be had.
Now the agent under whose direc
tion all this is to be accomplished can
not, of course, visit and instruct all
clubs, but she will select those places
who can show the largest membership
and invites all the other nearby clubs
and anyone else to come -and take ad
vantage of these instructions. So, it
behooves all communities to get busy
and let the Demonstration Agent put
in her time where it will do the great
est good.
Visits Floyd and Polk.
Miss Jewell Colclongh, Home Demon
stration Agent, visited Rome last week
accompanied by Miss Bozeman, the
District Demonstration Agent and
while there conferred with Miss Maude
Smith, poultry specialist for the State
College of Agriculture with a view to
making plans for Sue exhibits at the
county fair this fall.
At Wright’s school house, near Rome,
was organized the first Community
Farm Bnreau. Leaving there on Wed
nesday for Cedartown they attended a
meeting of the Polk County Advisory
Board for the Farm Bureau just organ
izing in that county. At both of these
meetings Miss Colclongh made talks
concerning her work here in Whitfield
County.
Miss Bozeinan spent Friday and Sat
urday in Whitfield county visiting the
various communities with the agri
cultural workers here.
Will give Booster Talks for Better
Roads at Trenton and Dalton
During Court
Mr. Frank Reynold’s, who is secre
tary of the Georgia Automobile Asso
ciation, and secretary of Georgia Asso
ciation of County Commissioners, has
resumed his tour of the state, and is
doing the people of the state a splen
did service.
He will be in Dalton during the
week of April 4-10, the exact day to
be announced later, and will talk roads
and good roads to the people of this
section.
The following article from Tuesday’s
Atlanta*Journal in regard to Mr.
Reynold’s tour will be of interest:
Resuming his state-wide tour in be
half of the constitutional amendment,
now pending in the Georgia general as
sembly, which provides for a bond is
sue of $40,000,000 or $50,000,000 for
better highways in this state, Frank
T. Reynolds, representing the Georgia
Association of County Commissioners,
will address the citizens of Dade coun
ty - at Trenton on Wednesday; of
Screven county at Sylvania on Friday,
and of Jenkins county at Millen on
Saturday.
By request of the good roads com
mittee of the Atlanta Woman’s club
Mr. Reynolds will address them Thurs
day afternoon at 3 o’clock in their
club rooms, 946 Peachtree street.
Mr. Reynold’s tour so far has tak
en him into sixty Georgia counties,
where he has explained the great bene
fits that will result from the final ap
proval of the bond issue measures. He
describes good roads enthusiasm in the
places he has visited as very keen.
Mr. Reynolds will speak in the su
perior fcourt room at Trenton, Dade
eounty, on the invitation of Judge M.
C. Tarver, of the Cherokee circuit.
At Chattanooga he will be met by a
delegation of twenty-five or thirty
members of the .Chattanooga Automo
bile association and accompanied by
them to Trenton. The officials of Scre
ven and Jenkins counties have invited
him to visit Sylvania and Milleh later
on this week.
L
Many Inequities Are Re
moved by the City
• Fathers.
STREET TAX RAISED
TO THREE DOLLARS
♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
FREAK OF NATURE. ♦
♦
Mr. R. P. Gregory, of Dalton had ♦
♦ given to him this week a corncob ♦
♦ in the shape of a hand. The ear ♦
of corn was grown on the farm of ♦
♦ Mr. Jake L. Morris, near Mill ♦
Creek church. When going thru ♦
the sheller, the ear stuck, and on ♦
investigating Mr.' Morris found ♦
that it was almost a perfect re- ♦
production of a human hand. He ♦
brought it to town and it is now ♦
on exhibition in the window of ♦
R. P. Gregory & Co. ♦!
♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦,
The bill now pending in the Georgia
general assembly, and which will be
acted on at the approaching session,
provides that the interest sinking fund
of the bond issue and the maintenance
of the highways after they are bnilt
shall be taken care of oat of funds
accuring from state automobile licenses.
The bill, before finally approved, must
be submitted to a vote of the people
of the state, as it will require a con
stitutional amendment. Mr. Reynolds
is urging support at the polls of the
proposed measure, which will be pre
sented at the state election next De
cember.
Pool Rooms Must Pay $75.00 for Each
Table—Carnival and Midway At
tractions License Jumped *to
Three Hundred Dollars
DALTON CELEBRATES BIRTH
DAYS OF TWO EVENTS
, Yesterday, March 17, was the birth
day of two of the most important
events ill the world’s history, and both,
having a strong following here in Dal
ton, were celebrated by all loyal de-
cendents and advocates. We refer to
the natal day of good old St. Patrick,
also the eighth anniversary! of the
founding of the Camp Fire Girls of
America.
Like the “Good Turn Week,” it is
the custom of the Camp Fire Girls to
make the week beginning last Sunday,
a memorable one by doing something
for someone else, and so the opportun
ity is not one yet gone to practice this
precept.
Now that the war is over, the mem
bers are giving their attention to home
affairs—mothers and fathers are to he
entertained all the way from Dalton to
Bangor, Maine, at banquets and par
ties of every kind planned to strength
en inter-parental filial relations.
The national headquarters of this
good movement announced that honors
will be awarded to the clever parent
writing the best Camp Fire songs and
toasts; and hot is the contest between
groups in various localities for the
honor of having the largest number
of members who help themselves re
lieving mothers of such arduous tasks
darning stockings for tomboy
daughter and mending her clothes.
The spiritual side of Camp Fire in
fluence is being touched upon in many
churches in cities during the week.
The city council at its meeting Mon
day night overhauled the license sheet
from one end to the other, taking out
many inequities, and making the sheet
more consistent. Every department of
the city is running at increased expense
on account of larger salaries and in
creased cost of street maintenance and
feed for stock and it was to meet the
increased costs that it was necessary
to raise more money. The first step
in this direction was to overhaul the
license sheet which is printed below.
At the same meeting the council took
under advisement the feasibility of
purchasing a truck with a trailer to he
used in connection with sprinkling the
streets and in such other work as they.
can economically he used. Prices are
being obtained at the present time, and
doubtless a truck will be purchased at
an early date.
The list of revised license ^fees fol
lows:
LICENSE FEE ORDINANCES AS A-
DOPTED MARCH 4, 1918.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the
Mayor and Council of the City of Dal
ton, Georgia, That from and after the
passage of this ordinance, and in ac
cordance with acts incorporating the
City of Dalton, Georgia, that every per
son, firm, company or coropration,
whether residents of this city or not,
engaging in or about to engage in any
business, trade, calling or profession
within the said corporate limits, from
whom any license is required by this
ordinance, shall be required to register
annually their names, business, trade,
calling or profession in the office of the
Clerk of the Council, in a book kept
by the Clerk for said purpose ,and shall
he required to make oaths as to the
character and style of the business to
be carried on, or, if a merchant, as
to the amount of stock, and license
shall be fixed accordingly.
Section 2. Be it further ordained
that the Mayor and Council of the City
of Dalton hereby fix a schedule of li
cense fees to be paid annually by per
sons, firms, companies, and corporations
engaged in or proposing to engage in
any business, trade, calling or profes
sion that may be required to pay a
license under the provisions of this act.
said license fees to be paid to the Clerk
of the Council or to the City Collector,
and the receipt of either officer shall be
a sufficient license for the prosecution
of such business in such city for one
year from the date of said regisration.
Section 3. All persons bringing or
sending to this city a stoek of goods
of any description whatsoever, to be
sold at auction by a licensed auctioneer,
or elsewhere in the city, shall pay the
sum of $50.00 for stock under $500.00
and $100.00 for stock over $500.00.
Section 4. On every billiard, pool or
bagatelle or other table on which balls
or pins are used, $75.00, each; room to
have no table screens and to be on
first floor. And on each bowling alley
and ten-pin, or any number ©f pins,
alley kept or used in any way, $25.00
per alley.
Section 5. All dealers in Hve stock
who sell live stock in the market shall
pay a license of $25.00. This includes
every person or firm dealing in horse3
and mules, and each and every person
or firm known as horse or mule drovers
or traders, selling their stock within'
the city. Each poprietor of sale lot or
livery stable shall be held responsible
for this tax on all stock sold from his
premises other than his own.
Section 6. That the license for each
person whose regular avocation is that
of a street drummer, - that "is, going
about the street soliciting business or
trade for any person, firm or corpora
tion, shall be $25.00 per annum. Every
street drummer shall take out a license
in his own name and wear a badge
having thereon “Street Drummer.”
This section shall not apply to mer
chants or others engaged in regular
business in said city who may solicit
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