North Georgia citizen. (Dalton, Ga.) 1868-1924, July 28, 1921, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textkocal Cotton Market July 27 Good Middling .11 Strict Middling .10i/ 4 jfiddling -10 Local Cotton Market July 27 Good Middling .11 Strict Middling .10*4 Middling .10 An ad in THE CITIZEN is worth Two on the Billboard. Relished i847—seventy-three years old. VOL. LXXIV. No. 39. $1.50 PER ANNUM. DALTON, GA., THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1921. Trained Scout Leader For Seventh District To Be Employed Soon Kenemer Is Elected President for .West Side Sunday Schools •♦ ♦ ♦ ^ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ LAST CHANCE GIVEN ♦ ♦ TO SUGGEST SLOGAN ♦ PETER A. JAY ♦ The Dalton Improvement Lea- ♦ ♦ gue is publishing elsewhere in this ♦ ♦ issue of *The Citizen, the blank ♦ ♦ form on which to submit sugges- ♦ ♦ tions for a slogan for Dalton, the ♦ ♦ one considered best to bring/ the ♦ ♦ person suggesting it $10. ♦ ♦ This is the last time the matter ♦ ♦ will be advertised, and within a ♦ ♦ short time after this issue of The ♦ ♦ Citizen, the slogans suggested will ♦ ♦ be'judged, and the one considered ♦ ♦ best will be announced, together ♦ ♦ with the name of the winner of ♦ ♦ the $10 prize. ♦ ♦ Get busy now; think of a catchy ♦ ♦ slogan for Dalton and send it in to ♦ ♦ Miss Wtill D. Wailes, Secretary ♦ ♦ Dalton Improvement League, Dal- ♦ ♦ ton, Ga. .. 4 ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Plans Shaping Up for Fine Work Planned in District—Whitfield Ex pected to Raise $1,000 for Work. Big Crowd Enjoyed Annual Conven tion Held Last Saturday at Mt. Vernon—Interesting Program barter Committee Would Cut dumber of Dalton’s Wards Exactly in Half Civil Service Examination Call ed for Dalton Vacancy on Friday, Aug. 12 Plans looking toward the employ ment of a trained Boy Scout executive for the Seventh congressional district of Georgia are well underway. A- pre- i liminary survey of the -counties has | been made, and groups of represent ative men in the various counties have held meetings in the, interest of raising county budgets. W|hitfield county’s quota of the dis trict budget is $1,000. School convention,' and the day was one of pleasure from beginning to end. In the business, session, after the noon recess, the following officers were elected: Clay Kenemer, president; James Nuckolls, vice president; Lee Montgomery, chorister, and Miss Mellie Capehart, organist. The principal address of the day was made during the morning session when Dr. -Cox, president of Emory Univers ity, made an excellent talk on. rural education. It was planned to have the" singing contest for the banner, but this was called off, as the classes were not pres ent to enter the contest Music, talks and recitations made the day one of rare pleasure to all, and at the noon hour, the big basket din ner was spread and thoroughly en joyed by the large crowd. The convention was one of the most enjoyable ever held at Mt. Vernon, and there was a large crowd present to take'part in the exercises. The East Side convention will be held Saturday of next week at Pleas ant Grove, and a, large attendance is desired. CHARTER amendment TO REPRESENTATIVE office pays salary OF $2,700 PER ANNUM Change Would Have All Voters De cide on All Councilmen—Few Are Changes of Charter Recommend ed—Bill Sent to Bradford She will be ask ed in connection with the other coun ties of the district, to raise a sufficient amount to lAake possible employing a trained district worker, establishing a district camp, and bearing the expense of scdut troop organization in the coun- Ities. Scouting promotes the ability in boys to do things for themselves and others; develops initiative and observation; cultivates habits of thrift and re- | sourcefulness. I During. the war, Boy Scouts sold 2,350,977 Liberty bonds, raised eight million dollars worth of food, located 20,758,660 feet of black walnut,' dis tributed 30 million pieces of printed matter, sold 2,190,519 War Savings Stamps, and, in hundreds of other ways, proved they were there when needed, and prepared. The boys of the nation are still ready and eager to serve; but they need train ing and direction. Scouting furnishes the method. The men of the Seventh Congression al District of Georgia, by their interest and support are making possible this training and development for their boys. Vacancy Has Existed Since April, 1920, in Dalton Office—Informa tion Relative to Examination Given—Qualifications Required History Is Repeated In Union Religious Services Being Held Will Strauss has the distinction of being the oldest employee, in point of service, at the White Peter A. Jay, nominated by Presi dent Harding for the post of minister House. Mr. Strauss, whose official classification is fireman, has been employed at the ex ecutive mansion fpr 33 years. fco Roumania. The examination for pastmaster for the Dalton office will be held Friday, Aug. 12, according to announcement sent out from Washington. The exam ination will be to fill the vacancy which has existed since April 5, 1920, the office being filled by J. A. Crawford fin- til the appointment of a postmaster can be made. The examination was held last year, and the name of J. A. Crawford was sent by President Wilson before Con gress, but, like other recommendations made by the President, the choice was not ratified. __ - , The office pays $2,700. According to the circular sent out announcing the examination, “candi dates will not be required to report for examination at any place, but will be rated on the following subjects which will, have the relative weight’s indica ted: Interesting Facts Brought Out by Dr. Sims in Statement Sunday Night at Presbyterian Church The union services conducted each Sunday night, weather permitting, in the open air in front of the First Pres byterian church are being held where union services were held by Metho dists, Baptists and Presbyterians when Dalton was first laid out. The following interesting bit of local history was told by Dr. Sims at the union Out-door services form of government advisable at tms j time. Attention was called to the fact that J the city’s board of education and water light and sinking fund commissioners were accomplishing excellent work in these departments, and, so, instead or recommending the commission govern ment, a few changes were made in the present ward system of electing officers, and a change made in the salaries. The committee’s recommendation was adopted, and the charter amendment] was forwarded to Hon. N. A. Brad- j ford, representative, to be introduced. The bill calls for four, instead of eight wards, by combining the first and second, the third and fourth, the fifth and sixth, and the seventh and eighth, •wards, numbering them first, second, third and fourth respectively. It calls December to elect from the first and third Didn’t Keep Up Big Increase Shown in Values for Year 1920 v ROAD PAYS H. M. HUSTON $3,500 IN SETTLEMENT Board Awards Contracts Nashville Bridge Company, After Opening Bids on Sunday evening on the lawn of the Presby terian church: “It would seem very appropriate and of Interest to many here tonight for me to recount a littlejpiece of history to which my attention has been called since we began these services. “In the ‘History of Methodism in North Georgia,’ Rev. Levi Brotherton, who was pastor here in 1851, says that in 1846 the town of Dalton was laid out by Mr. Edward White, it having been formerly known as Cross Plains. “There being no church in the town, he immediately built a~ -town hall, a neat frame building, on the site where this, the Presbyterian church, now stands. All the other denominations were invtied to worship in the build ing, which they did. * “A few years later, in 1851, the Methodists built a church on the site where that church now stands, and the Presbyterians bought the town hall and also the old bell that rests here on the porch of this church. At that time it was the only church bell nearer than Dalonega and Cassville on the east and southland Chattanooga and Cleve land on the north. “In 1851, there was a union revival meeting held on this spot which con tinued for 40 days, being conducted by Rev. Archibald Johnson, of the Presby terian church; Rev. George W. Sel- vidge, of the Baptist church, and Rev. Methodist Consent Verdict Taken in Case in v Superior Court DALTON AND COHUTTA DISTRICTS SHOW GAIN REINFORCED CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION VOTED H. M. Huston, who was seriously in jured several months ago when a Wqst- rn & Atlantic train ran down the truck of . the Dalton Hosiery Mills which he was driving on the Morris street cross ing, was paid $3,500 damages, a consent verdict being taken in the case before Judge M. C. Tarver here Monday mora- FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH SERVICES NEXT SUNDAY Other Eleven Districts Lost Upward of $12,000 Each—Cohutta Now Ranks Next to Dalton in Tax Values—Interesting Figures Luten and Champion Companies Beaten in Bids—Dalton Man’s Bid Slightly Higher than Nashville Concern’s—Begin Work Soon “1. Education and training, 20 weights; 2. Business experience and fitness, 80 weights. “In addition to the full and detailed information called for by Questions 21 and 23 of Form 2241, the are required to furnish the following in connection with each responsible posi tion held by them: “(a) The number of persons under their supervision. “(b) The character of the business done by the person, firm, or corpora tion. “(c) The volume of business done annually. “(d” The commercial rating of each person, firm, or corporation. “Candidates for second class post master must show that for at least three years they have held responsible positions in which the principal duties involved the management of business affairs or such positions in different branches of the Postal Service; candi dates must also show that they have demonstrated their ability to meet and dea.1 with the public satisfactorily. “Statements as to education, train ing, and experience are subject to veri fication. “To be eligible for examination a candidate must be a citizen of the United States, must be in good physical condition, must actually reside within the delivery of the office for which the application is made, and must have been such resident for at least two years next preceding the occurrence of the present vacancy. “The date of any vacancy as refer red to in this announcement «h«li be the date of the death, resignation, re moval, or the date of the expiration of the term, of the last postmaster. “Candidates for the position of post master at an office of the second class must have* reached their twenty-fifth birthday on the date of the exami nation. Those who have passed their sixty-fifth birthday on the date of the occurrence of the vacancy are not el igible for any office. “Candidates must submit with their applications their photographs taken within two years. “Persons who meet the requirements and desire this examination should at once apply for Form 2241,. stating the title of the examination for which the form is desired, to the Civil Service Commission, Washington, D. C., or at Rev. Josiah Crudup has been on a vacation for two weeks. He returned this week from Cohutta Springs and will occupy his pulpit at the First Bap tist church next Sunday morning. Mr. Crudup reports a very pleasant vaca tion, and says he is happy to he home again. for an election in councilmen wards, to serve two years, and the second and fourth, to serve one year, and in future elections, two wards I elect for two-year terms. The salary of the mayor shall not be over $50, and of councilmen, not over $25 per year. The bill, in its entirety, is as follows: A Bill. To he entitled “An Act to provide a new form of government for the City of Dalton; to provide a body for tbe | performance of legislative functions of said government, and to exercise or delegate to employes the discharge of executive powers; to prescribe the powers and duties of such body and all other officials or employes of such city government; to repeal prior acts incorporating said city in so far as they conflict herewith, and for other purposes.” Section 1. Be it enacted by the gen eral assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority IE. of the same, That from and after thejH. passage of this act, the governing 1 of the City of Dalton, known as the] Mayor and Council of said city, shall consist of a Mayor and four Aldermen, instead of a Mayor and. eight Aldermen or Councilmen as at present consti tuted. Section 2. Be it further enacted,' That all the powers, legislative, ad ministrative, executive and judicial, now possessed of the governing body of said city, shall devolve upon and be possessed by, in as full and ample a manner as they now exist, the Mayor and Aldermen of said city as herein constituted, with the right on the part of said Mayor and Aldermen to dele gate to employes any or all of the administrative and executive duties de volving upon them, as they may from time to time deem proper. Section 3. Be it further enacted, That said city shall be divided into instead of eight, as at After showing a gain of $1,023,132 in tax values last year over the figures of the preceding year, Whitfield county this year will show a loss froin last Tax Receiv- OPEN-AIR MEETING IS To the Nashville Bridge company Saturday were awarded the” contracts for constructing the four WJhitfield county bridges and the county line bridge connecting Whitfield and Mur ray, the bridges to he of reinforced concrete, arch type. The four bridges in this county and Whitfield’s half of the county line bridge will cost this county $13,223. Of recent years, the bidding has been largely between the Lnten and Cham pion bridge companies; but this time, neither of the two came very close to the figures of the Nashville concern, which made bids on both reinforced concrete and steel and concrete bridges. This concern bid lower on the steel and concrete, beating the bid of Jesse Brumbelow, of this city, by just $102 for the four county bridges. As the board voted on the concrete bridge, the bids on these being but a small amount above the steel and concrete, the con tract was awarded the Nashville com pany on the concrete bridge bid. While, the bridge will be of the arch type,' it will differ from the Luten plan in certain particulars. There was a wide difference in the bids of the' Nashville and the Lnten companies. On the Little Swamp Creek bridge, the Nashville company hid on a bridge with a 12-foot road way, $2,370, while Luten’s bid was on a 16-foot roadway, and was $2,795. Over Chickamauga creek, the Nash ville bid was $1,913, as compared to Luten’s $3,898, for- the same width bridge. The Goahulla bridge, at An derson’s crossing, will cost $3,300, Lu ten’s bid for the -same width' bridge being $4,343. The Mill Creek bridge at the Bitting place will be built by the Nashville concern for $4^190, when Luten’s bid was $4,964. The county line ■ bridge bid was $2,900, with Lu ten’s bid $4,491. On the Mill Creek bridge alone did the Champion bridge company make a lower bid than the Nashville concern, the Champion bid for this being $3,895 for steel and concrete. HELD AT MANLYTOWN year’s figures of $223,919. er Deck on Saturday completed this year’s digest The tax values for 1921 are shown at $6,922,562, as compared with $7,146,481 in 1920. Of the thirteen districts in the coun ty, Cohutta and Dalton alone show a gain over the figures of 1920. Co- hutta’s gain was larger—$24,467; Dal ton’s gain was $5,283. By making such a substantial gain, Cohutta forged ahead of Yamells and now ranks next to Dalton in tax values. Varnells and Cohutta merely swapped places, Var- nells rankinj Rev. -Ml. Williams Recovered From Recent Illness. Cohutta Brought Game Played in Rev. C. H. Williams, who began an open-air meeting in Manlytown some time ago, and who was forced to stop the work which had such a fine start because of sudden illness, is now fully recovered, and the meeting is being held each night. Many have been converted at the meeting, and the attendance and in-, terest are growing nightly. Mayor Wood has granted permission for closing the streets during the serv ices, and the public is cordially invited to attend. Mr. Williams especially re quests the people to park their cars at a distance where they will cause no disturbance. Cohutta defeated the Crown Cotton Mills of Dalton, Tuesday in a one sided game, by 'the score of 13 to 2. Ray, of Cohutta, held the visitors to 6 hits, striking out 8 men. Sims’ home "run and the timely hinting of the entire Cohutta team were responsible for the large score. Wfhitson starter, scoring both of the visitors’ runs, and making a beautiful shoe string catch in the first inning. Box Score I Dalton AB R H PO A E Stone, 3B 2 0 0 1 0 0 Williams, SS. — 4 0 0 0 4 1 body IC. Williams, 2B-P. . 4 0 2 4 6 1 Whitson LF. 4 2 2-2 0 0 Birch, IB. 4 0 0 9 0 1 R. Caldwell, CF 4 0 0 0 0 0 Gregg, C. 4 0-2 5 1 0 Faith, RF. 3 0 0 1 0 0 Id. Caldwell, P-2B. — 3 0 0 2 2 0 Totals 32 2 6 24 12 4 third. Fourth place is retained by Tilton. Trickum and Ninth both went ahead of Rocky Face, which dropped from fifth to seventh place. Trickum taking fifth, and Ninth, sixth. Carbondale, Tunnel Hill, Lower Tenth, Fincher, Upper Tenth and Mill Creek remain eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth, respectively. Rocky Face district showed the greatest loss—$35,076, with Tunnel Levi Brotherton, church. There were about 100 con versions during these services. “Seventy years ago, a union service on this exact spot where we meet to night! Let us hope that the spirit of those early pioneers of the faith may characterize us and bind us together in brotherly fellowship and wed us in •the common purpose, of carrying for ward the work thqy began seventy-five years ago.” Rev. H. C. Emory conducted the ser vice last Sunday night, and a large crowd attended. CROWN MILL DEFEATS' ACME FURNITURE CO. Business Men Won and Lost to Chat tanooga Team. The Acme Furniture company team of Chattanooga was here last Thurs day for a double-header baseball game with the Business Men’s team, the first game resulting in a shutout, with the locals carrying the big end of the 7 to 0 score, and in the second game, the visitors were 4 to the locals’ 0 when they decided to call it a day. Saturday, the same team came here from Chattanooga and was defeated by the Crown Cotton mill team by the score of 7 to 4. “DON’T WORRY WILLIE” $4,849,197, gain, IS MAYOR WOOD’S ADVICE Will /Make Cases for Disorderly Con duct He Says. Fincher, $102,299; $114,756; loss $12,457. Ninth, $172,404; $184,588; loss, $12,- 184. Lower Tenth, $143,671 loss, $17,120. Upper Tenth, $82,320; $106,469, loss, $24,149. .Cohutta, $287,138; $262,669; gain, $24,467. Varnells, Mayor Wood received the following in a letter last week: “I feel as if it were my duty to call your attention to the hurrah and racket on Hamilton street every day, caused by great crowds of mischievous boys, and also men, that worry that half-witted negro, “Willie.” I don’t feel like it is right, and most certainly it is no compli-* ment to the peace and businesslike air that onr city should assume. It ap pears as if the policemen could put a stop to it” After receiving the above, Mayor Wood instructed the Police to make cases of disorderly conduct against all who worry Willie in future. $160,791 LIQUOR IS LEAKING OUT STATES NEWS DISPATCH four wards, present; that said wards shall be form-1 fid by consolidating the wards defined ia an Act approved August 17th, 190S, amending the several acts incorporat-1 ing the City of Dalton, as set out on IT 579, et seq., Acts, 1908, in the fol lowing manner: Wards; First and Second, as described in. said Act, sec tion 2, shall be consolidated, and shall constitute First Ward; wards Third and Fourth shall be consolidated and shall constitute Second Ward; wards Fifth and Sixth so described shall be consolidated, and shall constitute Third Ward; wards Seventh and Eighth shall be consolidated and shall constitute Fourth Ward. Section 4. Bt it further enacted. That each of said four wards shall he entitled to an alderman, living within its boundaries at the time of election (Continued on page three.) Dade County Jail Not Strong Enough to Hold It SUNDAY SCHOOLS TO MEET — IN AUGUST AT COHUTTA $263,026; loss, $24,S31. & Mill Creek, $64,599; $81,485; loss, $16,886. Tunnel Hill, $149,074; $182,259; loss, $33,165. •Rocky Face, $165,595; $200,671; loss, $35,076. Trickum, $178,532; $195,376; loss, $16,§44. The above are the figures for the white tax payers. The colored tax pay ers’ property values aggregate $123,- 856 this year, as compared to $126,967 last year, the loss being $3,111. The value of wild lands is $8,090—about the same as the values last year, and the poll tax payers dropped from 2,9S9 to 2,557. That carload of whiskey seized by the sheriff of Dade county and locked up in the Dade county jail on Judge Tarver’s order, is gradually wasting away, according to reports. The At lanta Journal of Saturday night car ried the following dispatch under a Chattanooga dateline: “Sheriff W. H. Holmes, of Dade county, Ga., declared in a statement that a large quantity of the carload of liquor recently seized by him at Tren ton while en route from Kentucky dis tillery to Los Angeles druggists, had been stolen from the jail and was being peddled in Chattanooga by “bootleg gers.” County Sunday School Convention . Meets August 10 the post office in the city where the vacancy exists. Applications should be properly executed and filed with the Commission at Washington prior to the hour of closing business on Aug ust 12.” The annual meeting of the Whitfield County Sunday School association will be held with the Cohutta Presbyterian Sunday school Wednesday, August 10. Every Sunday school in the county is expected to send delegates, and every pastor, superintendent, officer and teacher should he present and carry back to their Sunday schools some of the good things presented, by the train ed workers on the program. Let’s make old Whitfield what it should he. Chas. O. Smith, Sec. _ The four county bridges will cost $11,773, and this county will pay half the cost of the county line bridge, or $1,450. |p||p The total bids of the Lnten company for the four county, bridges were $16,- 000, and of the Champion Bridge com pany, $13,290. Work on the bridges will be started as soon as material can be assembled, and will be put through at the earliest possible moment. CHILDREN’S DAY SUNDAY PLANNED AT HARMONY DAUGHTERS OF AMERICA PLANNING BOX SUPPER Children’s Day exercises will be held next Sunday at Harmony church, and an interesting program has been pre pared for the day. At noon, a basket dinner will be served. The public is cordially invited to take well-filled bask ets and attend these services. The Daughters of America will have a box supper next Friday evening at the Junior Order Jiall, and a large at tendance is desired.

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North Georgia citizen. (Dalton, Ga.) 1868-1924, July 28, 1921, Image 1