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ESTABLISHED 1847—SEVENTY-THREE YEARS OLD.
DALTON, GA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1921.
VOL. LX±IV. No. 16. $1.50 PER ANNUM.
prominent Farmer to Head
Organization for
This Year
GIVEN AUTHORITY
TO NAME OFFICERS
Mrs. Judd, Retiring President, Made
Report for Past Year—Management
Was Most Successful—Work
Will Start Soon
Mr. B. C. Wilson, a prominent farm
er living near ViarneHs, was 'unan
imously elected president of the Whit
field County Farmers’ Fair association
at the annual meeting held Monday
afternoon at the comt house. To Mr.
Wilson was delegated by the stock
holders authority to name his associate
officers. He will make up his slate and
announce the names of the other officers
within a short time.
In retiring from the presidency
which she has so ably filled during
the past three years, Mrs. M. E. Judd
made her final report, which showed
the fair association in hotter condi
tion than it has ever been. She stat
ed that with all bills paid, the asso
ciation had a balance in the bank for
this year’s fair.
Mrs. Judd’s Big Success.
Mrs. Judd’s management of the fair
for three years got remarkable re
sults. When she took charge, little
money had been paid on the grounds,
and the association owed several hun
dred dollars. She not only wiped out
all indebtedness, but paid - for the
grounds and added a new building
which would cost in the neighborhood
of $1,000. She wound up her service
by promoting, the past year, the best
fair ever held in the county.
It was with genuine regret that the
stockholders present at the meeting
learned of Mrs. Judd’s inability to
serve longer as president.
In the election of Mr. Wilson, how
ever, the stockholders are confident
they have a worthy successor to Mrs.
•Tudd. Mr. Wilson has been interest
ed in the fair for more than a decade,
and his interest has been an active one,
for he has always been one of the
workers. That he will make the next
fair a success is the belief of all who
know him.
Departments Planned.
At the meeting it was planned to
have the fair divided into departments,
with special committees in charge of
the various features. The agricultural
department will be in charge of a
committee, as will the woman's build-
■ ing, the live stock, the poultry, the
amusements, etc. In this way, no one
will be loaded with any big amount
of work, each chairman being respon-
sible for the success of his department.
This year, the poultry show is ex
pected to be an unusual one. ‘Whit
field has been selected as one of the
11 Georgia counties in which' special
work will be done by the extension
department of the State College of
Agriculture to improve the poultry.
An expert will be sent here about
once a month to work in cooperation
with Mrs. Elizabeth Moore, home
economics agent.
Schools to Have Part.
Mr. John D. Field, county school
superintendent, was present at the
meeting and told of h : s plans to have
one day of the fair devoted to the
county schools, with a fitting program
exhibits, etc.. He was assured by the
stockholders that the fair would be
glad to set apart a day for the sejwcls.
Mr. Wilson’s Plan.
President Wilson, in accepting the
presidency of the association, stated
that his main efforts this year would
be directed toward getting a big num
ber of community exhibits, similar to
those made by the three communities
last year. This, he said, impressed
him as being one of the best features
the fair had ever had, and he will
work in an effort to get at least a doz
en different communities to make ex
hibits at this year’s fair.
As soon as Mr. Wilson has selected
his officers, they will be called together
to make plans for the coming fair. A
date for the fair week will be selected,
a catalog committee appointed, and
work will be started.
A FORMER RESIDENT
DIED IN BAINBRIDGE
Dr. Willis W. Griffith Made Good Dur
ing Brief Life
Dr. Willis W. Griffith, formerly a
resident of this county, having lived,
with -his brothers and sister, near Var-
nells after the death of their parents,
died in Bainbridge, news of his death
being learned here with sadness.
The Bainbridge Post-Search Light
had the following account of his
death:
The great shock and terribly sad
death of the genial, splendid Dr. Grif
fith, early Tuesday morning, Jan. 11,
1921, cast a gloom and depression
over Bainbridge and Decatur county
where he was usefully and popularly
known.
Coming to Bainbridge in 1917 in his
early twenties he became house physi
cian for the Bainbridge Hospital.
After serving overseas as Medical
Officer for Labor Battalion in the
World War, Dr. Griffith returned to
Bainbridge, and entering into his pro
fession with the enthusiasm and vigor
of fine manhood, he had at the time
of his death, one of the largest and
most popular practices of the city and
county, and carrying in addition, as he
did, a large portion of the charitable
work.
He was a fine likable fellow, strong
and gentle, of a pleasant nature, a
very striking personality, and physique,
he was always agreeably conspicuous
on ^he streets. He is missed! and
many friends and patrons deeply grieve
his tragic, untimely death that was
caused to a great extent by over work
and unselfish effort in behalf of those
whom he considered less strong and
sicker than himself.
Dr. Griffith was born in Cleveland,
Tenn., and is survived only by a sis
ter, Mrs. Wilbur H. Brown, of Tus-
cumbia, Ala., and brothers, Dr. C. F.
Griffith, of Griffin, and Mr. John H.
Griffith, a druggist, of Marietta.
The body will be carried to Griffin
for interment and the pall bearers in
attendance were selected from the Ma
sonic order.
Very handsome and beautiful floral
offerings covered the casket and filled
the little room of Ulmer’s Undertak
ing parlors.
IMPORTANT MEETING
OF COUNCIL MONDAY
Fire Department and Streets to Be
Discussed at Meeting
An important meeting will be held
Monday night by city council, ait
which four special committees are ex
pected to make reports.
One of the committees wa* instructed
at the last meeting in January to con
fer with Fire Chief Perry relative to
doing away with the volunteer fire de
partment here and having a paid de
partment, the firemen to be paid a cer
tain amount for all fire alarms answer
ed.
A second committee was appointed
to make some recommendation look
ing to an improvement in the method
of building streets in DalFon. There
has been considerable talk of a bond
issue for street paving, while others
have advocated the purchase of a rock-
crusher, roller and other street build
ing machinery. This committee will
be called on for a report.
Mayor Wood was given authority
at the meeting to appoint a special
committee to see about an audit of
the city books in all departments.
The fourth committee was to in
vestigate the workmen’s compensation
act o,f (the legislature and report back
to c'ty council. It is probable that
the committee will report by recom
mending that the city take out insur
ance with some company rather than
attempt to take the risk itself.
CHARGES AGAINST CHIEF
ART! WITHDRAWN BY NEGRO
McKinley Dwight Drops Matter After
Considering It
Monday afternoon McKinley Dwight,
a negro, filed sensational charges
against Police Chief Bates charging
that, without provocation, he struck
him with his pistol and cursed him.
Tuesday afternoon, the negro with
drew the charges, the matter being
dropped.
Mrs. Judd Selected
Secretary by Farm
Bureau of Georgia
Prominent Dalton Woman Signally
Honored ait Atlanta Convention,
of Fram Bureau
Mrs. M. E. Judd, prominent in many
movements for the good of fhis sec
tion of the state, has been signally
honored by the Georgia division of the
Farm Bureau by being made executive
secretary of the organization, a posi
tion which carries with it decided re
sponsibility with much work.
This was done at a meeting of the
Farm Bureau held last week in At
lanta. The meeting went further and,
remembering the great ability shown
by Mrs. Judd in Whitfield county’s ex
hibit at the Southeastern Fair in At
lanta, made her a member of a com-
mittee of four to arrange exhibits of
Georgia products that will be used for
advertising the great resources of the
state ,at fairs through the west and
northwest.
Mrs. Judd has, for a number of years,
been active in various movements for
the upbuilding of this section. She was
recently made vice president of
the Parent-Teacher association, in
charge of the woTk of the organization
in the Seventh congressional district.
It was then that her energy and un
flagging enthusiasm which resulted iu
success for what she undertook came
to be recognized, the result being her
sphere of usefulness spread first from
the county, then to the district, and
now extends over the state of Georgia.
In accepting the work, Mrs. Judd
was forced to discontinue her services
as head of the Whitfield county fair
association, which is truly regretted
here, but appreciating the fact that
she can be of greater service in the
larger work, her resignation was ac
cepted by the fair association stock
holders.
Mrs. Judd will give much of her
time* to spreading the doctrine of
Georgia throughout the country, and
her hosts of friends and admirers here
predict that her work will be produc
tive of genuine results to the farm
bureau and to the state at large.
F3DELIS BIBLE CLASS
WORKING AT COHUTTA
Organization of Wide-awake Young
Men and Women
The Fidelis Bible class of the Co-
hutta Sunday school was organized the
first of the year, and now has a mem
bership of thirty-five wide-awake
young men and women who are work
ing in every way within their power
to build up their Sunday school and
their community.
They have started a drive for new
members, and cordially invite every
young man and woman who doesn’t
belong to some other class and who
doesn’t attend Sunday school, to join
their class and help in the good work.
JUDGE TARVER TAKES
THE ROLE OF SOLOMON
Negro Preacher’s Marital Troubles
Axe Untangled
The Rev. E. D. Fuller, a negro
preacher, was brought here the last of
ttye week from Chattanooga,/ ^ihere
he was arrested on a charge of bigamy,
and, after spending a short time in jail,
was released by Judge Tarver, who,
acting the role of Solomon, gave Ful
ler into the keeping of one of his
wives.
Fuller’s troubles were many and
varied. He came here some time ago
and fell for Cupid, the result being
he married him a wife. Then, along
came another woman who claimed him
and had him “took with a warrant.”
She appeared here as prosecutor.
She confessed, however, that she had
a husband before she was married to
Fuller; but as he had been sent to
the penitentiary, the “solicitor gen
eral” in Atlanta had told her that
that freed her, so, without getting a
divorce, she married Fuller.
Judge Tarver couldn’t see the law
in that way, however, and, ruling that
as she had a husband when she was
married to Fuller, the marriage was
illegal, and Fuller had a right to marry
the Dalton woman, he gave him in
to her keeping and told him to go and
sin no more.
It is said that Fuller was living
with his first “wife” in Chattanooga
when he was married to the Dalton
woman in Chattanooga, and that he
took his new wife out to his home for
the wedding dinner, the two “wives”
being present at the banquet board
without either knowing that the other
was her husband’s wife.
F
Campaign to Be Put on
Probably Last Week
in February
EXPERTS TO COME
TO CONDUCT WORK
Children Will Be Examined and Diets
Will Be Recommended—Importance
of Health Work in Schools Is
Now Appreciated
A health campaign in the county
school system of Whitfield will be in
augurated probably the last week in
this month, under the direction of Mrs.
Elizabeth Moore; the cotjnlty Is new
home economics agent.
Miss Dorothy Bocker, of the State
Board of Health, and Miss Parker, of
the extension department of the Geor
gia Normal and Industrial college, will
be here to conduct the work among the
school children.
The campaign will have the enthus
iastic co-operation of local physicians,
surgeons and dentists, many of whom
will give their services free for a por
tion of the time during the week.
The clinic will consist of weighing
and measuring the children, examining
them for defective teeth, impaired
hearing or vision, throat affections,
etc. Where a child is found to be
under-weight or over-weight, a diet will
be given, together with health rules to
he observed which will tend to bring
the child (to normal conditions. The
genuine value of regularity in eating,
playing, rest ; ng, studying; etc., has
been shown conclusively here in th^
nutrition class which has been con
ducted in Dalton for a number of
months past.
Where some minor operation is need
ed, the child will be told, and the oper
ation can be performed without danger
provided the parents desire it.
These health clinics have been held
in other counties and have resulted
in much good. The bearing good health
for the school child has upon the child’s
ability to learn is wonderful. Chil
dren suffering from some minor throat
ailment who have seemed dull and
stupid have, when the trouble was
corrected, shown themselves to be es
pecially bright and quick to learn.
More and more importance has come
to be laid on health, until the success
ful teacher of today is the one who
not only looks after the training of
the children’s uiinds but first looks
after the training of the bodies.
The health campaign will last for
one week, and every school in the
county will be visited during that time
—-if the specialists who come are un
able to complete the rounds, then they
will leave the necessary instructions
with Mrs. Moore for the completion of
the work by her.
Improvement Club
Will Be Organized
at Dollar Dinner
Banquet to Be Held Thursday Night
Will Attract Upward of. One
Hundred Men
Upward of one hundred Dalton men
will meet Thursday night of this week
for the purpose of perfecting the organ
ization of an improvement club for
Dalton—an organization that wall take
the place of a chamber of commerce
and will interest itself in every move
ment for the advancement o,f the city.
The gathering will be at the Chero
kee cl!ub, and business men, manu
facturers and professional men will
meet together to join in the organiza
tion. It is believed that a large num^
ber of members jjfill be secured, and
that the club will result in much good
for the city.
The affair is strictly of a public na
ture. All that is necessary to find a
plate ready for you is to notify Police
Chief Bates, who is getting the money
from those who will attend. This must
be done immediately, for Mrs. S. C.
Ellis, who is arranging the big feast,
must know how many to prepare for.
At first it was thought that the ban
quet would be held at the fire hall;
but the number reserving' plates was
so large that this plan was aband
oned, as it would be impossible to seat
them all.
For several years, interest in the
Dalton Chamber of Commerce has been
dying out, until that organization now
does little work. It is believed that by
changing the name of the organization
and getting others interested, new life
will be added, and much good work ac
complished this year.
Mrs. ElHs is preparing a real feast
for the occasion, and, after the ban
quet, there will be an organization
formed, and plans for the year’s work
will be mapped out.
The gathering promises to be one
of real importance for the city’s fu
ture.
FIRST BASKETBALL GAME
HERE FRIDAY AFTERNOON
Rome High School Comes for Game
with Dalton High
OLD LANDMARK PASSES
FROM BAPTIST LAWN
Oak Tree Cut Down in Presence of
Number of People
The large oak tree, which, for prob
ably a hundred years, stood at the
north end of the lawn at the First
Baptist church, was cut down Friday
in the presence of many people, who
watched the passing of the old land
mark with regret.
The worms had worked on the tree
until it had died and, consequently,
it had to be removed.
BABTOW TO JOIN CHILD
WELFARE MOVEMENT
Meeting Is Called for Next Sunday at
Cartersville
The people of Bartow county will
meet next Sunday afternoon at the
court house in Cartersville for the
purpose of joining in the Child Wel
fare 1 ' movement launched here at an
enthusiastic meeting held at the court
house.
The work of organizing the Cherokee
circuit will go forward rapidly now.
Bartow will be the second county to
organize, and after Bartow will come
Gordon, Murray, Catoosa and Dade
counties, until the organization has a
large (membership.
The first basketball game to take
place here this season will be next
Friday afternoon, when the five from
Rome High school will be here for a
game with the team of Dalton High.
The local team has played only one
game this season, having been defeat
ed several weeks ago by Darlington
High in Rome. Darlington will play
a return game here later.
Romo High and Dalton High always
stage an interesting gaane, there hav
ing been, for years, much good-na-
itured rivalry between the two institu
tions. The game of Friday afternoon
will be well worth going to see.
DAWNVILLE FARMERS
NAME NEW OFFICERS
Other Organizations Will Meet Within
a Short Time
The Dawnville Community Farm Bu
reau last Friday night met and elected
some of the officers for the present
year, those chosen being J. T. Vining,
chairman; W. C. Bryant, secretary;
J. C. Johnson, W. C. Palmer and A. D.
Strickland, field committee. As the
women’s department of the buneaif
furnishes the vice-chairman and mem
bers of the committee, all of the officers
were not elected, the election of the
women officers being postponed until
Mrs. Elizabeth Moore, home economics
agent, arrives.
Dawnville is the only community
that has so far elected officers, the
others waiting until the question of a
county farm agent could be settled.
These will elect new officers now with
in a short time.
ETON SCHOOL BOY USED
PISTOL ON COMPANION
Wounded Two Children and Defied
Arrest
A young boy by the name of Staf
ford created excitement among the
school children of Eton last Friday
when, as the children were in line
marching out of school, he opened fire
with a pistol at a Boss boy with whom
he had had trouble before.
The children scattered but not be
fore one bullet from Stafford’s pistol
had slightly wounded Boss in the
thigh, and another bullet had struck
another child in the leg.
Stafford was bound over, his bond
being set at $1,000 for his appearance
at court. The matter will be investi
gated by the Murray grand jury.
ADVERTISE GEORGIA
CAMPAIGN INDORSED
Important Meeting Held in January in
Macon
The Advertise Georgia meeting in
Macon January 17th in whieh the
Georgia Press Association joined and
took a leading part, it was generally
agreed, was the most successful meet
ing of its kind ever held in Georgia,
and it was noteworthy because it mark
ed the definite launching of the cam
paign which has been under dis
cussion since last August and which
had been slowed up by prevailing econ
omic conditions.
The carefully worked out develop
ment and publicity program of the
Georgia Association, mapped out for
three-year period, was unanimously
adopted by official representatives of
over tweilfy state-wide civic and com
mercial organizations and over fifty
county and city organizations, note
worthy and most enthusiastic among
them being the Georgia Federation of
Women’s Clubs.
March 15th was set as the date when
the descriptive matter from counties
whieh at that time shall have voted
their quotas will be printed and pre
pared for distribution. Approximately
fifteen counties pledged their quotas
at the Macon meeting and other pro
gressive counties are'expected to fall
in line rapidly now that the suceess
of the movement is assured. Absolute
equality of treatment is assured coun
ties under the plan adopted, an impor
tant part of whiSh, the “Know Geor
gia Campaign,” rests largely npon the
country as well as the eity newspapers.
Two important eommittees were
named, the personnel of whieh insures
effective functioning and sure results.
One of them, the Campaign committee,
has for its chairman F. Roger Miller,
president of the Georgia Association
of Commercial Secretaries!, and includes
the presidents or secretaries of every
other state-wide organization interest
ed in the constructive upbuilding of
the state. Its duty will be to direct
the raising of the remainder of- the
quotas from counties that have not yet
joined and to act in an advisory ca
pacity with the officers of the Georgia
Association.
The other committee is ealled the
Committee on Exhibits and has for its
chairman, J. Phil Campbell, of Athens,
head of the Extension forees of the
State College of Agriculture. This
committee will plan an exhibit of Geor
gia products of various kinds that will
be taken to other cities and will be co
ordinated with the other publicity
plans for stimulating prosperity in
every line of endeavor in the state.
‘Action Now” is the watehword of
those directing the campaign and there
will be no halt or let-up till it proves
in fact the biggest cooperative move
ment ever successfully launched in
Georgia or the South.
DALTON HAS TWO BOYS
ON COLLEGE GLEE CLUB
Mercer Glee Club Coming Here Again
This Year
Dalton people will learn with pleas
ure that the Mercer University Glee
Club has Dalton on its spring itinerary
again this year. They had a good
house and made quite a hit here last
year, and will doubtless do as well
again. There are two Daltonians on
the club again this year. Last year
the Dalton boys were Josiah Crudup.
Jr., and Manly McWilliams. This
year they are Josiah Crudup, Jr., and
Fred Caylor, both second tenors. Crud
up also sings baritone on the quartet.
The Mereer Cluster of reeent date
has this pleasing little sally about the
Dalton boys:
“Josiah Crudup, one of the Mereer
boys who is putting Dalton on the map,
is musieating around again. He could
t get along without someone else
from his home town, so when the fel
lows learned with regret that Manly
McWilliams had gone home on aecount
of illness in the family, Director J.
Clay Walker picked out ‘Handsome
Fred’ Caylor, of Dalton, to keep the
‘vamps’ away from young Crudup.’
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♦ GINNING FIGURES +
♦ ARE PICKING UP ♦
♦ ♦
♦ There were 6,429 bales of cot- ♦
♦ ton ginned in Whitfield county, #
♦ from the crop of 1920 prior to ♦
♦ January 16, 1921, as compared ♦
♦ to 10,792 bales ginned to January ♦
♦ 16, 1920. #
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Showed No Disposition to
Continue Work of
Farm Agent
ATTORNEYS SHOWED
LEGALITY OF WORK
Perdition Signed by Seven Hundred
Citizens Turned Down—If Desire
of People Is Known Farm Bu
reau Must Get It
The board of county commissioners
Tuesday refused to reconsider their
action of the meeting held the first
Tuesday in January in reference to dis
continuing the services of the county
farm agent in Whitfield. For a time
the members considered side-stepping
the matter by putting it up to a vote
of the people; but later they decided
if those favoring the farm agent want
ed the work continued, they should
arange for an election, and, if a major
ity of the people expressed a desire
that the work be continued, then the
board would be governed by the wish
of the majority.
The matter brought arguments pro
and eon, the crowd wanting the work
continued being represented by Cols.
W. C. Martin and S. P. Maddox, while
the opposition was led by Mr. Mark
Reed and Mr. Julius Parrott. Eaeh
side had others to speak briefly on the
matter. The ones wanting the work
continued understood that the only rea
son the board had for discontinuing
the work was a question as to the
legality of passing vouchers for the
county ’a part in paying the agent.
In view of this opinion, they had Col.
Martin and Col. Maddox, two promi
nent and capable lawyers, to appear
before the board, eaeh stating that he
was firmly of the opinion that the
work could be continued and the coun
ty could legally pay its pro rata part
of the cost.
In closing their statements as to the
law in the matter, both made a stirr-
ing appeal for the work, insisting that
it was especially 1 needed at this time,
and that the county would take a back
ward step in stopping it.
CoL Martin presented a petition,
which, he stated had been signed by
aproximately 700 people indorsing the
work and asking the board to continue
it.
Mr. Reed, speaking for those op
posing the work, presented a petition
which he stated had been circulated
only in the upper end of Trickum dis
trict, and which was signed by 76
people.
Afte rthe arguments had been pre
sented, the morning was over, and an
adjournment was taken until afternoon.
The question was then taken up again,
with the board taking no aetion in
the matter, leaving it as it was after
the January meeting.
The matter is now up to the Farm
Bureau relative to the holding of an
election. If this is decided on, the
people will be asked to volunteer their
services in the various districts, and
the matter will be voted on by the
people, with the board ready to take
aetion in the direction the majority
wishes.
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Farm Bureau to Meet.
The Whitfield County Farm bureau
will meet at 10:30 o’clock next Sat
urday morning at the court house, for
the purpose of deciding whether or not
to take any further steps in an effort
to get the farm agent work reinstated
in the eounty. Other matters of im
portance will come before the meet
ing, and a large attendance is desired.
New Road Commissioners.
At the meeting, the board elected
a number of new road commissioners,
caused by vacancies following resig
nations.
The following were named: A. L.
Caldwell, Fincher district; J. A. Nuek-
olls, Mill Greek district; Carlus Cape-
hart, Trickum district; Ollie CavendOT,
South Dalton district.
