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von LXXTV. No. 15. $1.50 PEE ANNUM.
Council Considers
Better Methods of
Building Streets
To Enlarge Child’s
Welfare League by
Getting New Members
| Community Bureaus
Busy Electing New
Officers for Year
Question of Bond Issue for Paving Is
Being Discussed—Trip Made to See
Work Being Done at Cleveland
Advertising Matter Being / Sent Out
and Meetings Will Be Held Soon
larged in Whitfield County This
In Other Counties of Circuit
Year—Matters of Interest
Interesting Event to Launch
Improvement Club to
Occur. Next Week
Special Committee Armed
with Petitions to Go to
County'Board
Boys Made Good Showing
Work Despite Unfavor
able Seasons
Gamaliel Harding Passed by
and Wanted to Stop
for Awhile
Mayor W. E. Wood, members of city
council and a few others on Friday
made a trip to Cleveland, Tenn., for
the purpose of investigating the work
done on the streets there by utilizing a
rock crusher, road roller, scarifier, etc.
From Cleveland, the party went into
Chattanooga, r^turtiing home Friday
night, after enjoying a supper at the
hotel
Publicity matter looking to the ad
vancement of the Child Welfare League
of the Cherokee circuit, which was
most auspiciously launched at a mass
meeting of citizens at the court house
here some time ago, is being sent over
the" circuit, with the following fore
word:
To the People oftho Cherokee Cir
cuit: Will you not, through member
ship in this Child Welfare League for
this circuit, aid in the work of caring
forthe neglected, helpless childhood
which is being prepared in homes of im
morality and vice to furnish material
for -your courts, your chaingangs, and
your penitentiaries? Send your name, to
gether with your check for not less than
$3.00 (annual dues) to W. C. Henson,
serrejtary-tyeasu'rer, Carteijsville’ 1 , Ga.
“The organization is already a success,
and a membership of not less than 1,000
in the circuit is expected.” ^
The matter also contains a copy of
the constitution as adopted at the meet
ing here.
All who have already enrolled in the
organization in this county are earnest-
their dues im-
The work of electing new o cers
and planning for the year's activities
in the various community farm bu
reaus of the county has been started,
the initial meeting having been sched
uled for Tuesday night of this week at
Five Springs.
Wednesday night of this week, the j
Waring "community bureau will meet,
and Friday night, the Dawnville com
munity organization will hold the an
nual meeting for the election of of
ficers.
The meetings, which are being held
primarily for electing officers, are be-1
ing utilized for other purposes. The
question of buying com in car lots and
the ordering of fertilizer for this year’s
crops are matters being considered, at
A PUBLIC BANQUET
AT CHEROKEE CLUB
TO ASK BOARD FOR
COUNTY FARM AGENT
NATION’S tiEXT BIG
CHIEF IS WELCOMED
SMITH ANNOUNCES
WINNERS IN CLUBS
All You Need is a “Helping Hand and
a Dollar’ ’—Organization to Work
Einggold.
At meeting of city council Monday
night, Feb. 7, the question of the pur
chase G,f machinery for street (building
will come up, and the members of
council wanted to * get first-hand in
formation before voting on the matter.
Just what will be done by council is
not yet known; but it is certain that
all members of that body, together
with Mayor Wood, don’t fayor the
present method of street work in Dal
ton. They all consider that the money
accomplishes little good in that no
work of anything like a permanent na
ture is secured.
Many of the members favor the call
ing of an election for street improve
ment bonds, the money derived from
the sale of the bonds to be applied in
[ the paving of additional streets in Dal
ton. It is probable that, unless some
other method of getting permanent
work suggests itself, the election will
be called.
In several cities, street paving bonds
have been issued, the bonds serving a
useful purpose in a number of ways.
From Various Sections of County Come
Colvard Sloan Won Com Club Contest,
Made Good Impression on All Who Saw
Him and Wagged Has Paw-—Claim-
Bequests that the Work of County
Agent Be Kept Up in Whitfield
—Board Meets Tuesday
and Gordon Albertson Winner for
Boys’ Cotton Club—Becords
ed Kin with Dalton Man and
of Leaders in Work
A dollar dinner for the purpose of
getting city officials and otheJ business
men together to discuss matters for the
general good of Dalton will be held
Thursday night of next week at the
Cherokee club, and a large attendance
is expected. The public in general is
invited, the only requirements being a
desire to make Dalton a better place
in which to live, and a dollar for the
food you will consume.
Mrs. S. C. Ellis will prepare the big
feed, which insures that the meeting
will be an unqualified success from that
standpoint, for she prepared the ban
quet given early in the month by the
city officials, and all who attended know
what that was.
It is necessary for all who intend to
attend to g&e their names so Mrs. El
lis can know how many to prepare for.
Those who don’t reserve a plate will, in
all probability, find themselves on the
outside looking in. )
There are many matters of general
interest that will-come before the meet
ing, the most important of which will
be the organization of an improvement
club, the object of which will be the
advancement of the city’s interests at
all times. / \
It is probable that with such an or
ganization, the banquets will be of fre
quent occurrence.
Anything that is for the good of Dal
ton will be of interest to such an organ
ization, the • membership of which will |
not be confined to any class of business I
men but will be open to anyone who
wants to help in the work for the up
building of Dalton.
At the banquet Thursday evening of
next week, plans for such a club will :
be discussed, and it is probable some I
action will be taken looking to the per- :
fection of-such an organization."
A special committee from the Whit
field Farm Bureau armed with pe
titions from all sections of Whitfield
county, will appear before the Whit
field County board of commissioners at
their meeting next Tuesday morning in
an effort to get the board to reconsider
the action of January 4 and continue
the work of the county farm agent for
Whitfield. • .
Several members of the board have
expressed a desire to continue the
work, if they have any authority under
the law to make an appropriation for
this work. This will be discussed at
the mteeting.
When the board decided, at the first
meeting of the year, that the work
should be stopped, abruptly terminat
ing the cantract which the oljd board
had made with C. O. Smith in Oetober,
those who believed the work was good
and was resulting in the upbuilding of
the agricultural interests of the county
immediately started a movement to get
the board to reconsider. The farm bu
reau met and passed a resolution ap
proving the work of the farm agent
and appointing a committee to go be
fore the board with the request for a
reconsideration of their action. -
In the meantime, Mr. C. O. Smith,
county farm .agent, has remained here
pending final action on the matter. He
has continued his work, being busy
this week in getting orders from farm
ers on the co-operative corn and fertili
zer buying movement
The board will, in all probability,
take final action at the meeting Tues
day.
in a few days tor Tennessee wnere ne
will purchase a large quantity of corn
for the farmers who need it, is getting
many orders from the farmers. In ad
dition, many have made application, for
fertilizer which will be purchased by
Mr. Smith.
The Whitfield County Farm Bureau
has a membership of about 120, and in
many of the communities, community
farm bureaus are in a flourishing con
dition, and are accomplishing good
work.
This year, extra efforts will be put
forth to increase the membership and
organize other community bureaus.
ly urged to send in
mediately to J. S. Thomas, Dalton, lo
cal secretary.
To Broaden Organization.
Judge M. C. Tarver, president of the
organization which was formed to give
t..o child sf criminal parents or the
one being reared amid unwholesome
surroundings, a chance to make a useful
citizen by giving him training in some
industrial school, states that within a
short time, meetings similar to the on >
held here will be held in the other coun-
From Bartow and
ties of the circuit.
Gordon especially have come much in
terest and a desire for the organization
in those counties.
Now wiih the literature printed, the
campaign for additional members will
be pushed, until the organization has
reached such proportions as to insure
worth-while work.
Fred CaHahjan
respeceively.
fourth place; Lorenza Head won fifth
place. Hugh and Frank Long, who cul
tivated two acres together, won sixth
and seventh places, and J. B. Davis,
eighth.
The Becords.
NOW ACCEPTED TIME FOB
LIVE STOCK IN SOUTH
Conditions Ideal for Building Beal In
dustry, Says Southern Agent
The records in the cotton club are
as follows, in <the first column being the
yield of seed cotton, and the second,
the profit on the acre:
Gordon Albertson 1,756 $61.99
Fred L. Callahan f,497 27.22
Harris' Callahan 1,402 45.29
Clifford Callahan 1,363 44.15
Lorenza Head 1,275 36.47
Hugh Long 895 14.70
Frank Long 895 14.70
J. B. Davis 700 7.50
The prizes are $15 worth of farm
tools for first; $12.50' worth of tools,
second; $10 scholarship for third, fourth
and fifth prizes.
Corn Club Becords.
In the corn club, the winners are as
follows, the first column of figures be
ing the yield, and the second, the profit
on the acre.
Colvard Sloan ....64 bu. 51b. $57.00
Geo. M. Speck .. .32 bu. 271b. 26.05
Vemoy Davis ....32 bu. 26.52
Ernest L. Davis . .25 bu. 14.05
Virgil Creswell ...23 bu. 14.10
Ches Creswell ....23 bu. 14.10
Horace Smith ...22% bu. 5.33
Edward Davis .... 20 bu. 8.55
Virgil and Ches Creswell worked two
acres together, and each took half the
yield. * r
As seen from the 'above, Edward
Davis, from figuring, would probably go
ahead of Horace Smith for while his
yield was not as large, his profit
larger.
The prizes in the corn club are first
second,
come,
Atlanta, Ga.—“Conditions are now
ideal for building a real live stock in
dustry in the South,” says Boland
Turney, general agricultural agent of.,
the Southeastern Bailway System, who
declares that the present depression,
due largely to the one-crop system,
would be impossible under a well-bal
anced system of diversified farming
and live stock raising.
“Good pure-bred registered dairy
cattle, beef cattle and hogs, ’ ’ says Mr.
“can now be bought at prices
j Well, Senator Harding had on his
coat and his vest, a stiff collar and
necktie, together with his shoes and
trousers. There wasn’t a thing mis
sing.
I During the short time here, Senator
Harding shook hands with a number
who crowded forward, claimed - kind-
ship with Post master 'John A. Crow-
ford, informed one sweet young thing
who evidently hadn’t noticed -by the
papers that he was on a pleasure trip,
that no, Mrs. Harding wasn’t along,
and thanked cordially the people for
be’ng there to meet him.
Honest, the writer went along with
iriisgivings. He couldn’t see how any-
'tte with the name of Gamaliel could
[be very impressive; but he went away
with a different feeling. Senator
Harding appeared, in spite of his name,
to be a big, two-fisted American, a boy
of whom the people won’t be ashamed
when he starts in to presidenting.
An Essex automobile, - owned and
driven by G. M. King, of Chattanooga,
overturned on a curve on the road be
tween Boeky Face and Mt. Vernon
Wednesday afternoon of last week, and
W. J. Pass, of Calhoun, who was in the
car with Mr. King, was seriously in
jured. He sustained several broken
ribs and other internal injuries. Dr.
J. C. Bollins, who was called shortly
after the accident, attended to his in
juries, and he was able to leave Thurs
day for Calhoun. King was found to
have sustained bruises, none of his in
juries being of a serious nature.
The car was being driven at a rapid
speed, and when a truck driven by
Eeotor Capehart came around the curve,
in attempting to make the turn and, at
the same time, miss hitting the truck,,
the driver of the Essex cut too sharply
and the car was overturned. Pass was
pinned beneath the cap, which, im
mediately after overturning, caught
fire. The burning car was pulled off
Pass in time to save him from .being
cremated.
The car was almost totally destroyed
VANDALS OPEN GBAVE
IN SEABCH OF MONEY
Last Besting Place of Judge Owen
Kenion Opened
Sixteen Join Uncle Sam’s Army Here
in Week’s Time
The grave, of Judge Owen Kenion, on
the WilSon farm near Cohutta.. was
entered by vandals during the latter
part of December, the ghouls being, it
is believed, in search of gold.
Judge Kenion lived years ago on the
place where his remains were buried.
He was -very wealthy and was of a
most eccentric nature. After his bur-
Turner,
in keeping with conditions and with
the market prices for dairy products
and meat animals. To succeed at live
stock raising we must improve our old
pastures and prepare new ones. We
must raise more leguminous feeds. Pro
per crop rotation with live stock will
build up the fertility of our exhausted
soils and will also help greatly in im
proving farm labor conditions by bet-_
ter distributing the farm work.
“The Southern .Railway Development
Service,” Mr. Turner adds, “desires
to aid farmers in starting right with j
live stock, will send its live stock bul- j
letins on request, and offers the ser-1
vices of its trained workers to farmers I
wishing advice and assistance in feed
production, care of animals, and the
locating and selection of animals for
The local army recruiting office re
ports the biggest week’s enrollment
of men for army service since its estab
lishment here. The men, together with
the commands they will join, are as
follows:
William P. Baggett and Freeman H.
Baggett, 3 yeans 59th Inft., Camp Lew
is, Washington.
Lloyd V. Flowers, Vernon H. Seay
and Wylie Carter, 3 years Educational
Center, Camp Jackson, S. C.
Boy Parrott, John W. Boe and Sam
E. Cantrell, 3 years Educational Center,
Camp Grant, Ill.
William E. Burch, David F. Kenedy
60th Inft.,
Would It Tend to Put Board of Educa
tion’s Work in Councal’s Hands?
COMING NEXT TUESDAY
Considerable talk " has arisen over
the ordinance passed at the last meet
ing of city council creating the school
committee, many being of the opinion
that the ordinance would place in the
hands of this councilmanic committee
entire supervision over the schools,
"'hich heretofore has been the work
of the board of education. However,
the Itoard’s duties are defined by the
city charter, and an ordinance can’t
change a charter amendment. J
Here’s the wording of the ordinance j
Penning the duties of the school com
mittee :
“Said School committee, when so ap
pointed and qualified, shall have gen
eral supervision over the schools of
the City of Dalton. They shall audit
all accounts before the same shall be
presented to the mayor and councIT
f or payment. All questions pertaining I
to an expenditure of money for schools
shall be referred to said committee,
" ho shall have access to the books I
and account of the Board of Education
of said city, or other books and ac
counts or sources of information per
taining to the schools of said city, and
make out and present to the mayor ]
Famous Clifford Foote Trio Is Fine At-
and Andrew EL Nicholson,
Camp Jackson, S. C.
Eufus H. Gaddis, 3 years Coast De
fense, Fort Flagler, Washington.
Virgil D. Hughey and Howard Mul
lins,-! year Medical Department, Ft.
McPherson, Ga.
John F. Armstrong and Olen S. Scott,
I year 21st field Artillery, Camp
Bragg, N. C.
Perhaps one of the most remarkable
effers that has ever been made to
young men of the country is an op
portunity to attend a college; to gain
a degree, if they care to, and at the
same time draw pay for their work,
without cost to themselves.
The University of South Carolina will
take free of tuition or other fees, a
member of the Fifth Division, station
ed at Camp Jackson, and give hi™ the
now re
traction at High School
Union services will be held next Sun
day night at the First Presbyterian
The third number on the excellent
lyceum course secured for Dalton by
j the Lesche club, the Clifford Foote
Trio, will be at the High School audi
torium next Tuesday night, the attrac
tion coming recommended as one of the
b£st of the great entertainments se
cured for Dalton people
The program - given by this great
j organization consists of trios, duets,
solos, watercolor paintings, readings
and,original one act plays. A portion
of the program is given in costume, the
Indian numbers of which were arranged
and costumed by the Indian princess,
Neawanna.
While specializing in classic pro
grams, this company also gives pro
grams of the lighter popular selections,
thus insuring a varied and artistic en
tertainment to any andienee.
The following excerpt from a letter
sent to Miss Jennie Hamilton by Janie
Gordon Whitman, dramatic interpreter
who appeared here in the second num
ber of the lyceum course, shows how
much she enjoyed her stay in dalton:
“I wish to thank you on behalf of
the members o' the Quartette as well
as myself and assure yon our warmest
appreciation ^>f your Mndnessj and
courtesy. Your audience was one of the
most appreciative and responsive of
the many for whom we have had the
privilege to appear this season. Your
personal consideration to ns made
was
church, Bev. H. C. Emory, pastor of
the First Methodist church, to deliver
The public is cordially
prize, scholarship to Athens:
third and fourth prizes, scholarships to
Powder Springs.
The unfavorable weather conditions
made the yields smaller than usual, and
the work was carried on under difficul
ties, which make it all the
the sermon,
invited to attend.
Baptist Sunday Schools to meet with
Mt. Bachel Church
[♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦.♦♦♦♦♦:
♦ DON’T FOBGET FAIR ♦
+ . MEETING ON MONDAY ♦
On next Sunday afternoon, Jan. 30,
at 2 p. m., a very important meeting of
the Baptist Sunday schools in and
around Dalton, will he held at Mt.
Bachel church. /
The purpose of the meeting is to dis
cuss plans of enlisting more people in
the Sunday school, and of better Sun
day school methods in general. - Evan
gelism, teacher training, and increas
ing. the membership, will be some of
the topics to be discussed. Special
music will he given by the Junior choir
of the Mt. Bachel church.
It is hoped that every Baptist Sun
day school in the Dalton division of
the North Georgia Association will be
well represented at this meeting.
♦ Dalton merchants who had part ♦
♦ in “Dollar Day” in Dalton last ♦
♦ Saturday report that the day was ♦
♦ a success. Not only was their bus- ♦
♦ iness good, but the people were ♦
♦ satisfied that they picked up some ♦
♦ real bargains.
♦ G. M. Cannon, Jr.
more com
mendable in the members who complet
ed the work and made reports.
who carried ♦
♦ a half-page advertisement of his ♦
♦ Dollar Day bargains, informs The ♦
♦ Citizen that in addition to his ♦
♦ other business of the day, he sold ♦
♦ $600 worth of the dollar items he ♦
♦ advertised. Mr. Cannon went at ♦
♦ in an enthusiastic manner. ♦
♦ Other merchants who took smal- ♦
♦ ler spaces report gratifying sales. ♦
♦In fact, it worked so well that ♦
♦ many want to make Dollar Day a ♦
♦ regular event in Dalton in future, ♦
♦ having it at certain periods of ♦
♦ each year. +
♦ Lee Bouth states that as a re- ♦
♦ suit of the large crowd brought ♦
♦ to the city, he had the best day ♦
♦ he has experienced since Christ- ♦
♦ mas eve of the past year. J. D. ♦
♦ Anderson Co. and Thomas Dry ♦
♦ Goods company both report to The ♦
♦ Citizen that their sales were grati- ♦
♦ fying. 0
♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
same course that any student
ceives—the only requirement being
that he is able to pass the examination
to enter, or has certificates from re
cognized high schools which will per
mit him to take up the work of the
University of South Carolina.
Last year twenty-two soldiers from
Camp Jackson attended the University,
and this year the number is less, hut
it is only for the reason that properly
qualified men have not presented them
selves.
According to announcement made by
Maj. Gen. P. C. Harris, the adjutant
general of the army, almost any kind
of general education is obtainable with
the Bed Diamond Division at Camp
Jackson. To bring it to full strength
a hurry up campaign for 6,400 “re
cruits has been ordered by wire from
Washington. Besides the universitv |
Local barbers announce a reduction
of 5 cents in the price, of a shave, the
price now being 20 cents.
| ♦ the past three years, will have her ♦
| ♦ report ready, showing just how ♦
♦ the organization has fared under ♦
♦ her leadership. ♦
♦ After the annual report, officers ♦
♦ for 1921 will be elected, if the ♦
{♦ stockholders decide to hold a fair ♦
♦ this year, and preliminary, plans ♦
14^for the fair will he made. It is ♦
♦ probable the catalog committee ♦
♦ will he appointed with instruc- ♦
♦ tions to get busy and have the ♦
♦ catalogs issued at the earliest pos- ♦
♦ sible time. ♦
♦ The officers of the association ♦
[♦ desire, that every stockholder at- ♦
♦ tend the meeting and show by ♦
♦ their presence a desire for the an- ♦
♦ nual fair to continue. ♦
♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
The suburban home of Mr. B. A. Ty
ler was burglarized Friday night, and
some valuable silverware stolen while
Mr. and Mrs. Tyler were visiting some
friends in Dalton. The burglary was
discovered by thqm on their return
home.
The sere<gi door had been forced
open. No clue as to the identity of the
M'e schools thereof.”
The customary repealing clause is
^Tended to the ordinance.
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