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Local Cotton Market Good Middling .15 Middling .14 Local Cotton Market Good Middling .15 Middling .14' 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. .7;., ■