North Georgia citizen. (Dalton, Ga.) 1868-1924, October 27, 1921, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textcal Cotton Market October 26 iod Middling .19% rick Middling .19% [(idling .18 Local Cotton Market October 26 Good Middling .19% Strick Middling .19% Middling .18 An ad in THE CITIZEN is worth Two oh the Billboard. DALTON, GA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1921. ABLISHED 1847—SEVENTY-fX)UR YEARS OLD. VOL.LXXV. No. 3. §1.50 PER ANNUM. District Dentists Select Dalton for Next Meeting Place Prominent Resident of Tunnel Hill Died at Local Hospital Dalton Dentists Honored with Of- Col. George W. Head Died at Ad- t vanced Age—Body Taken to Tunnel Hill for Burial fices at Meeting Held Last Week at Marietta Civitan Club Heard Globe Trotter Tell of His Experiences Very Little, if Any, Deficit Will Be Shown Is General Belief The Seventh District Dental society met Wednesday of last week at Mari etta, with a good attendance of the dentists of the district, -and with an Col. George W. Head, for years a prominent-resident of Tunnel Hill, died at 4:35 o’clock Sunday morning at a local .hospital, his death being due to Bright’s disease. Col. Head was 73 years of age. The deceased was a well known at torney, having practiced his profession First Announcement for City Election Is Publishd in The Citizen . Prize Winners in Every depart ment Are Announced by Citizen Jg&S FARM EXHIBIT GETS FIRST IMIUM B Tibbs Biggest Individual Prize HVinner at Fair—Awards in Etyomen’s and Childri’s De- I partments—The Wnners The prize winners in tb county fair last week, exclusive of tb winners in the boys’ and girls’ clubs f the county, Mfe as follows: Community exhibit: Fiit, Dug Gap BEL, Cohutta; third, Wring; Five Springs. General farm exhibit^ First, J. Tibbs; second, Earl Millr. fourth. Live Stock, est 1920 colt, W. W.Seaton; sec W. W. Seaton. [test brood mare, W.W. Seaton; bd, W. W. Seaton. 1st stallion, F. Ilousti. test pair mules raist in county, | I. Tibbs. bull (milch tyO, .Horace t; second, Will Brpu. st purebred calf, Shey Deck st grade heifer, RosiDeck. 'est milch cow, Chas -leld. rest heifer (milch t-e), Horace |tb. Jest beef cow, Matt Dec. Jest heifer (beef type)Matt Deck, iest hog, A. H. Copelid; second, rry Ldoper. Jest sow and pigs, D; Puryear; pnd, Walter Quillian. Jest 1921 pig, Harry Liner. Poultry Departnnt. James—Best cockerel :d pullets, st cock and hens, O. M. odfrey. jingle-comb Black Mntrcas—Best (k and hens, E. K. Cayl. ;uff Rocks—Best cock ;d hens, W Hunsucker. ihode Island Reds—Bt cock and s, Mrs. II. H. Ezzard ist cockerel pullets, Embrey Hon; second tkerel and pullets, M*J. H. Cal fan. Rose-comb Black Mircas—Best ;k and hens, best cocktl and pul- C. C. Speck, barred Rocks—Best Ctcerel and Rets, Theo Bartenfleld;■ cond cock- ;1 and pullets, Mrs. Aj. Massey; jjt cock and hens, Karl iller. Silver-spangled WyancUes. —Best )k and hens, best cocktl and pul- Mrs. W. M. Manis Turkeys—Best pair, MrH. H. Ez- k White Leghorns—Best dc and hens, jst cockerel and pullets; rs. II. H. |zard. [Anconas—Best cockerel id pullets, M. Hollingsworth. Light Brahmas—best coand hens, JVill Smith. Partridge Rocks—Best c( and hens, est cockerel and pulletsj. A. Pal- aer. Best frying chickens, rs. A. H iassey; second, Mrs. M. Tarver. Farm Produci Best exhibit of baled rasses), J. I. Tibbs; S 1 EJharies. Best oats, Mrs. H. C. S H. Wilson. Best 5 Oears of corn, Judd. Best popcorn, E. K. Cayl Best wheat, B. C. Wilso: Best field peas, B. C. Win. [ Best peas. Mrs. W. M. l4r. Jest Irish potatoes, O. iihntzler. cond, W. B. Dantzler. 3est sweet potatoes, S. Wilson; cond, J. H. Miller. Largest pumpkin. Paul Uor: sec- id, Pauline Caylor. Best home-made syrup, S. Smith; cond, J. N. Jarrett. (native M. S. second, Cakes. I Best chocolate layer cakers. Alton Iassey. [ Best caramel cake, Mrs., tries Car- second, Mrs. Alton Mar. I Best Japanese cake, Mrs.ton Mas- second, Mrs. Kate Wt.-e. cocoanut cake, Missura Den- Mrs. Alton Mby. cheese cake, Mrs. Alto; Preserves, Canni: collection of jellii (Continued on pagi Methodists Planning Rally Day Services Next Sunday Morning Sunday School Classes Meeting , Perfect Plant Each Night This Week—Public Invited to Next Sunday is rally day for the First Methodist Sunday school, and an effort is being made to get an attend ance of 503 bn that day. An interesting program has been ar ranged for the occasion, and - the pub lic is cordially invited to attend. The classes are meeting each night this week at the church planning for the occasion. The Metrodists are working to make this the greatest Sun day school gathering in the city’s his tory. PRESBYTERIAN LAYMEN PLAN EXTENSIVE WORK Organization Has Shown Wonderful ' Growth Of interest not only to Presbyterians but members of other denominations is the announcement that members of the laymen’s missionary movement of the Southern Presbyterian church ’will take an active part in some of the iteihs on the progressive program. It has been decided to make use of the four- minute men of the movement in pre senting: Tithing, in December; the Use of the Family Altar, in January; the Every Member Canvass, in March; and the Call to the Ministry, in Au- gusf. The laymen’s missionary movement has grown rapidly within the past two years. It was organized for the pur pose of doing much of the work here tofore devolving on the ministers; and working with the ministers, it has ac complished a great deal. There are now over thirty of these associations over the entire South, and others are being organized as rapidly as possible. interesting program. The dentists of Marietta entertained the visitors dur ing their, stay which was a most pleas ant one. Numerous, interesting papers were read, and in the business session, it was voted to hold the spring convention in May of next year in this city. The officers were elected as follows S. L. Rambo, Mariett, president; A, K. Gregory, Dalton, vice-president; S, L. Easley, Dalton, secretary and treas urer; William Winston, Rome, mem ber state' executive council.; J. N Weems, Cartersville; Dr. Reed, Ac- worth; H. L. Jarvis, Dalton, and A, A. Orr, Rome, executive committee Drs. Edwards, of Cedartown, and Bold ing, of Calhoun, membership committee. The, Dalton dentists attending the convention were Drs. S. L. Easley, A K. Gregory and E. D. Anderson. The meeting in Marietta showed a growth in the membership of the or ganization, with much good work ac complished since the previous meeting. CAPT. PEEPLES SHOWS WONDERFUL MEMORY Recognized Man He Accompanied Home from the War • An incident showing the wonderful clearness of the memory of Capt. Frank Peeples, of Murray county, occurred here Tuesday morning, when he recog nized a man J?e had accompanied home after the close of the war and whom he had not seen since that time. The man was Landrum Roberts, of Union Springs, Ala.,/who, on his way to Chattanooga, stopped off here where he formerly lived. Mr. Roberts told Col. S. P. Maddox, who approached, him, that he left Dalton during the second year of the war between the states, and joined the Dalton Guards then in Virginia. He never returned to this city until this week. Col. Maddox saw Capt. Peeples and called him to introduce him to the old Dalton man. The minute Capt. Pee pies saw him, he called his name and asked him if he didn’t remember com ing with him from Virginia as far as South Carolina where he stopped with relatives. The visitor’s face lighted up and the two old comrades shook hands with warmth. WINNERS IN SCHOOL CLUBS MAKE EXCELLENT RECORDS Girls* and Boys* Contest Decided at County Fair-Bale of Cotton to Acre Made—Winner in Corn Club Made 76 Bushels—List of WinUers. The result of the boys’ and girls’ already picked 1,100 pounds of cotton D. Pur ssey. club work in Whitfield this year was announced with the award of prizes at the county fair last week. Some fine work was accomplished by the large and enthusiastic clubs. The winners in the various clubs for girls and boys wefe as follows: Poultry club—Best pen of five birds, Ena Mae Speck, Five Springs; Lucy Gilbert, Dug Gap, second; M. C. Tar ver, Jr., Dalton, third. Best trio, Bob bie Godfrey, Center Point, first; Patri cia Miller, Waring, second. Sewing club—Winner in general ele mentary work, Lena Bryant, Mt. Pleas ant; winner in first year’s work, Myr tle Cochran, Carbondale. Special dress exhibit, Center Point; best club rec ord, Center Point. Labor-saving devices — The four clubs, Dug Gap, Cohutta, Waring and Five Springs, all tied for this prize, which will be divided among them. Each'club had the same number of de vices for saving labor, and they were all of equal importance. Canning club—Winner in first year’s canning class, Desma Thompson, Crown iew; special canned fruit, Audie Ta tum, Cohutta; special fig exhibit, Fran ces Boyd, <Johutta. Best average for all club work. Fannie Boyd, Cohutta; second, Alma Sansome, Crown View; third, Ruth Henderson, Waring. Special butter display, Waring club; special display of winter vegetables, Dug Gap. club. Boys’ Cotton Club. In the boys’ cotton club, Clevey Da- ^is, of Dug Ghp, won first prize .having off his acre. It is probable that with the rest lie will get that he will make a bale off the acre; Henry Wallace, of Broad Acre, won second prize, with 1,000 pounds of seed cotton, and Floyd Cantrell, of Dug Gap, won third, with S75 pounds. Corn Club. Some excellent records were made in the boys’ corn club. The young Wig gins boy, of Broad Acre, made 90 bush els on his acre, But as he made no exhibit at the fair and didn’t send in his record book, he was disqualified from participating in the prizes. The winners, as announced at the fair, were as folows: Willie Farrar, Broad Acre, with 76 bushels, first. Albert Farrar, Broad Acre, with 72 bushels, second. Henry Richardson, of Dug Gap, made more corn than Albert Farrar, produc ing 42 pounds over 72 bushels; but his cost was higher, which caused him to lose second place. He was third. John Albertson, of Dug Gap, with 69 bushels and 42 pounds, won fourth. Homer O’Briant, of Pleasant Grove, won fifth, with 64 bushels and 70 pounds. George Speck, of Five Springs, won sixth place, with 63 bushels. His cost cut him from fifth to sixth place. Pig Club. The winners in the pig dub were Horton Herrin, Dalton, first; Horace Smith, Five Springs, second; Howard Williams, Five Springs, third; Clifford Callahan, Dng Gap, fourth. VOTERS WILL ELECT MAYOR AND RECORDER for almost half a century. Prior to being admitted to the bar, he taught Interesting Campaign in Prospect— Friend of Nelson Writes of His Service—His Formal An nouncement Voters, The lid on the 1921 munidpal elec tion was pried off this week with the announcement of R. F. Nelson, county convict warden, for. the office of police chief. Mr. Nelson is the first to make announcement in the appjoaching city election. The voters this year will also be called on to elect a. recorder and a mayor. The councilmen are already elected to serve for the next year. The women are expected to take an active interest in the election this year. The people have until ten days prior to Decemler 14, the date of the elec tion, in which to register, and many women are expected to register. The following article signed “A Friend,” enumerates the fine showing Mr. Nelson has made in his work in the past and goes to show that he will make a fine race for the office: Mr. R. F. Nelson, the present pop ular and efficient warden of the Whit field county chaingang, is in the race for chief of police of Dalton. Mr. Nelson has been a citizen of Whitfield county twenty-one years, hav ing moved to this county in 1900. He has been a citizen of Dalton six years. He was elected deputy marshal un der Chief A. E. White in 1917, serving the city eighteen months in this capac ity. In December, 1918, he was elected chief of police by the handsome ma jority of 222 rotes. He served as chief six months. His record as deputy mar chal and chief of police reflects credit upon himself and honor to the city. IU June, 1919, he resigned as chief of police to accept the position as war den of the Whitfield county chaingang, which position he still holds. At that time the office of chief paid only $95.00 per month and that of warden paid $125 per month. When Mr. Nelson resigned as chief, he turned over his books and records to J. H. Robinson, mayor; John Cay lor, chairman police committee, and Uncle John” Tarver, recorder, all of whom gave him a clean bill of health, finding his accounts correct to the penny. His records on fines, street tax and licenses were thoroughly checked and audited an dno discrepancies were found. * Realizing that Mr. Nelson was ac cepting a better paying position, after auditing his records and accounts, the mayor and council gladly accepted his resignation. The people of Dalton, knowing all these facts at the time, approved his action. The board of county commissioners, at that time consisting of H. J. Wood, ordinary; Sam Glass, John Carr, Har dee Hill and Luther Roberts, commis sioners, unanimously recommended him to the prison commission for the posi tion of warden of the Whitfield county chaingang. Mr. Nelson received his commission from the state authorities in June, 1919, appointing him warden in Whitfield county. He served under the above named board of county com missioners from June, 1919, to January 1, 1921. ■ Since that time he has served under the present county board, con sisting of H. J. Wood, ordinary; A. J. Warmack, Matt Tatnm, Joe Bowman and Wesley Carter, commissioners. , His record as warden is well known to the people of Whitfield county. In fact, under Mr. Nelson’s management, the Whitfield county chaingang ranks as one of the best conducted camps in the entire state. By his efficiency, hon esty and square dealing, he has earned the good will and commendation of the state prison board, the county boards, and the prisoners themselves. By order of Judge Tarver, each grand jury has inspected by commit tee the convict camp, under Mr. Nel son’s tenure of office as warden, and each time Mr. Nelson was given a one hundred per cent record for honesty, cleanliness and efficiency. All grand jury presentments have complimented Mr. Nelson’s management of the camp. The committee appointed by the Georgia legislature in 1919 to inspect convict camps pronounced the school for a few years. Col. Head was the oldest Mason at Tunnel Hill, in point of membership. He was several times' master of the Tunnel Hill lodge, and took a decided interest in the great organization. He was, for upward of 50 years, a member of the Baptist church, and took an active interest in the work of his church. The body was taken from here to Tunnel Hill, funeral services being conducted at 2 o’clock Monday ater- noon from the Baptist church there, with interment in Tunnel Hill ceme tery. Revs. Harris', White and Jones conducted the services. Interment was with Masonic honors. The deceased is survived by his wife Bellahd’s Definition of a Hundred Per Cent American Pleased Club —Luncheon at Fairgrounds The Dalton Civitan clnb put aside the. bulk of the business last Friday and dined with the Dalton Woman’s clnb- at the county fair grounds. What little business it was necessary to dis pose of was put through, after which the club heard an interesting talk by J. F. Belland, globe trotter extraordi nary. Mr. Belland is a Frenchman by birth, hot an American by adoption—not a French-American, as he stated, hut an American. He told the club he had no use for the hyphenated citizen: the English-American, the German-Ameri can, the French-American, etc.—that a MT. RACHEL SINGERS WON GREAT CONTEST . x . „ . man was a full-fledged American with- Tjw nu children. Mrs.^ Will, ou(: an y divided allegiance or a mighty | poor citizen of this country. The Civ- itans evidently agreed with the speaker heartily, for there was a round of ap- Fox, ,of Chattanooga; Mrs. Myrick Richardson, of Tunnel Hill ; Mrs. A. S.’ Hadley and Mrs. W. S. Shields, of At lanta; Mr. G. W. Head, Jr., and Mr. Grady Head, of Tunnel Hill. Many Dalton people went to the funeral. MISS ETHEL FROST SERIOUSLY INJURED Accident at Showalter Company’s Plant Last Friday Last Friday morning, Miss Ethel Frost, a popular member of the bind ery force of The A. J. Showalter com pany, was seriously injured at one of the cutting machines. Miss Frost was removing magazines from the cutter af ter they had been trimmed, and the machine “repeated,” the knife falling a second time ancj catching her hands beneath it. Most of her right hand, and the fingers and thumb of the left hand were cut off. She was harried to the Hamilton Memorial hospital and was given attention. Her condition is satisfactory, and she will be able to leave the hospital within a short time. The machine is equipped with two safety devices, one being when it is throwii out of gear after the blade goes up following the cut, and, should the biade fail to catch, there is a safety ddvice which holds it. Both of these failed to work at the same time, with tb^e disastrous results. Miss Frost has hosts of friends, be ing a prime favorite in the department in which she was employed, which makes the accident all the more de plorable. Inapse. Mr. Belland stated that he was. mak ing a little pleasure trip of about 11 years’ duration, during which time he expected to visit' every; county-seat town in the United States and every foreign country. He has about com pleted his trip, having only about three more years left, and he has already visited the ipajority of the places he set out to see, having traveled 85,622 miles. He decided when he started out over eight years ago to bank 13'cents in every county seat town and in every foreign country visited, and he said he had that amount in 19,997 banks rip to the present. He made an interesting talk of his experiences. The club will meet next time at the store of Paul B. Fite, and the luncheon will be served by the women of the Baptist church. Baby Show and Riding Were Inter esting Features—First Three Days of Week Lost but Others Were Good CONGRESSMAN LEE WAS PROMINENT VISITOR HERE (Continued on last page.) Able Congressman of Seventh Dis trict Attend the Fair MANY ARE ATTENDING CHATTANOOGA REUNION Tennessee City Host to Confederate Veterans This Week The Confederate Veterans’ reunion has attracted thousands of visitors this week to Chattanooga, the reunion having opened Tuesday and will last through Thursday of this week. Hundreds of Dalton people have at tended the reunion, many of the mem- Hon. Gordon Lee, the Seventh dis trict’s popular and able congressman, was a prominent visitor at the Whit field county fair last Thursday, spend ing the day at the fair grounds and being cordially welcomed, for Gordon Lee has hosts of warm friends and ad mirers here who are always glad to see him. Mr. Lee made the trip from Wash ington solely for the purpose of attend ing the fair here. He never misses being here on the school club day, for he was a pioneer in the corn club work, and has always contributed liberally to the prizes in the various clubs. Mr. Lee appeared in the best of health and looked fit—in fine shape to repAsent this district in congress just as long as he wants to. bers of the local camp having spent one or more days there. The people of Chattanooga are entertaining the. old soldiers in great shape. ROAD MACHINERY IS BOUGHT BY COUNTY COMMISSIONERS Holt Caterpillar Tractor and Combination Grader and Scarifier Purchased—Good Work is Expected from New Equipment. The Whitfield county board last tion here in the good work it accom- week spent $8,225 to add to the road machinery of the county, purchasing a caterpillar tractor at a cost of $6,300 and a combination scarifier and grader at a cost of $1,925. The new equipment is expected to aid materially in the bnilding of roads here. The tractor is a Holt caterpillar, weighing ten tons. It is forty horse power. The road machine is of Austin Western make, known as the “Rip Snorter,” and with a name like that, it should, and doubtless will, do the work. The scarifier is attached just ahead of the grader so the road can be torn up and then graded and shaped up at the same operation. Many counties throughout the state have experimented with the caterpillar tractor as a road builder, and all have found it satisfactory in every way. It was first brought to the. board’s atten- plished on the Dixie Highway from Dalton to the Catoosa county line. The work was well done, and it was done in a hurry—two features that appealed to the hoard and caused that body to investigate the matter of buying sim ilar equipment. With the tractor and machine, work can be done on roads other than those worked by the convicts, or the Convict gang can operate the machinery. It is believed that much more can be ac complished, and can be done better as a result of the purchase. The machinedy was bought for im mediate delivery, and is expected to arrive here at may time. The factory will send a man here to show how the machine should be operated. He will remain here until someone be comes thoroughly familiar with the machine. In spite of the fact that all of the “breaks” were against it, the 1921 county fair was a success. It may be, when everything is finally checked up and all checks are made out, there will be a slight deficit; but the officers are satisfied, for it appeared, the first of the week, that jhe loss would be a large one. The carnival company secured to furnish the amusement features ar rived early Thursday morning. Up to that time, there had been practically no money taken in at the gate. The delay was caused by the company’s cars getting tied up in the yards at Greenville, S. C. By Thursday night, the attractions were ready, and the crowd for the day, while not as large as the big days at former fairs, was a big • one. Friday was another big day, and Saturday’s receipts were up to the Saturdays of past yeare. In getting the carnival at the late date after the first company refosed to come, it was necessary to: give the company the grounds free, for they were put to big expense to get here. Then on Friday and Saturday, a- part of the gate money was shared with them. Heretofore, the association had always received a certain percehtage of the receipts- of the carnival company: With Monday’s, Tuesday’s and Wednes day’s receipts lost, it can be seen just what the fair officials were up against. With all these difficulties to overcome, the fair did wonderfully well. Singers’ Day. Singers’ day on Thursday.took a- big crowd into' the grounds, and the sing ing contest vtas the best ever held at the fair. Many classes entered; and the following were declared the win ners : Mt. Rachel, first; Bethel, second; Crown Point, third; Hopewell, fourth. Among the visitors at the singing was Prof. A. J. Showalter, of Chatta nooga, one of the country’s leading com- posers.- On Thursday the riding contests were held, and the blue ribbon for the lady and gentleman were won by Miss Ma rian McCamy and Mr. B. A. Tyler. Robin Barrett, riding Mr. Tower’s horse, and Eleanor McLellan, riding Mr. Pritchett’s horse, won first and second prizes, respectively, for the sin; gle riding. Baby Show. The baby show was an Interesting feature. Little Alta Fay Roberts, daughter of Mrs. A. R. Roberts, won first prize among the Dalton babies - entered, and little Clemmie Gilbert, daughter of Mrs. J. P. Gilbert, of Dng Gap, won first prize among the babies from the county. Albert Howell Dav enport, son of Mrs. Ollie Davenport, won second prize among the town ba bies, and Vera Rath Broadriek, daugh ter of Mrs. Fulton Broadriek, won sec ond prize among the babies from the county. Mr. H. H. Anderson, of Cbats- worty, generously donated $2 Howards the prizes in the baby show. School Field Day. The ^ field day contests among the, high school boys proved an interesting feature of Friday, the Eleventh grade winning first place after a close, spir ited meet. The Tenth grade came sec ond; the Ninth, third, and the Eighth, fourth. The grounds were filled with school children, and the various teams were heartily cheered. The fireworks proved another great feature, and attracted large crowds to the fairgrounds the last four nights of the week. The displays were extra good, and were thoroughly enjoyed. A list of prize winners at the fair appears • in another column of The Citizen.

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North Georgia citizen. (Dalton, Ga.) 1868-1924, October 27, 1921, Image 1