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bkQE COUNTY TIMES -PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY HUNT & TATUM, Proprietors R. F. TATUM , Klit or OFFICIAL ORGAN OF DADE COUNTY Entered at the Post Office at Trenton Ga., as second class~mail matter. Terms SI.OO per year in advance. Advertising rates reasonable and will be aade known upon application. All communications must be accompa nie with the real name of the writer. Address all ronefq ci f<i (e to The Times, Trenton, Ga. Be public spirited. Bond the county and build better roads. A pike through Dade county would cause every farm to*in crease at least 33 1 3 percent in valua tion by the time tliejroad is fin ished. Teachers Examination. Teachers examination will be held at the Court House in Tren ton December 18th and 19th, be ginning at 10 o’clock A. M. on the 18th. Pike roads throughout the coun ty would cause our present popu lation to double in five years. This would cause property to a 1 vance and create new business in every branch of our trade. Every bub ling spring would have new homes surrounding it and a double de mand would be made for our pro ducts. SIOO,OOO bond i sue will be suf fic ent to pike the five main roads in the county. Twenty years can be had to pay the bonds oh*. They can be paid off in that time with out leaving a single special copper for the purpose. The money that has been misapplied on the roads lu this county for the last twenty years would have piked them.. We can }) ke them now by bonding and get the use of better roads for the 1 next twenty years for the money I we will have to pay for road pur poses during that time. The man that is in most favor of building better roads is the man that pays the most taxes, there fore the man who pays for it. The mere poll tax payer is generally opposed to any plan to build roads j and pays for none of it Mr. Farmer, just suppose there | was a pike road through the coun ty connecting with the Tennessee pike at Wauliatchic. Instead of hauling about twenty bushels of! corn, potatoes, wheat or peas as! you now ean only do, you could haul twice that amount with the s une team and i wagon with much more ease and comfort and with less wear and tear to your wagon and team. Perhaps the greatest interest that has been manifested in any school this year in Dade county was displayed at the closing of Pine Grove school at that place last Tuesday. Most all the patrons were present at the closing and put o i foot a move by which they will avail themselves of the.winter session which may be begu \ in January. A meeting of the trus tees took place Wednesday night and themselves of a winter term of three months. Any school district may have a three months session of school be gin i >g m Ja mary of each year, under the present law, and all should avail themselves oi it. 1 lie above little community shows the right spirit in the education of t'ufir children and all others would do veil to follow this example. Til I * 18 AVJEI’II BEADING. !,-<> F. Z of 38 Jib nn St. burr ti<>. N. Y , -ays: **i oure-i tlm lno-f amovin' o.i *1 sore 1 evei t. •?, with Huekl-iF i Artre i Salve. I copi ed s iv-f line-* a day tor ♦wud.iv*, when fviwv Irue: of the ore 've.- gene.** IT-!s s : i so f > l under i '.-Mitre, at **il 'di u. v .>r-c-• .-1 25 eenv. TRENTON. Something ot the North Georgia Town FORMER HOME OF PROM’ INENT CHATTANOOGA CITIZENS. "" A SPLENDID CITIZENSHIP IN A VERY RICH COMMU NITY. Known as the "Free and In dependent State of Dade,” Something of the Commu nity and its Progressive and Substantial Citizenship (ByFrank Peck, in Chatta nooga News.) Trenton, Ga., exactly 18 miles from Chattanooga, directly south, is one of the liveliest little towns on the Alabama Great Southern. It is located on Town Creek and in the center of Dade county. Dade county is partly in the shape of a triangle and lies in between Look out mountain on the east and Sand mountain on the west. The coun ty is bounded on the south by the Alabama line at Sulphur Springs and on the north by the Tennessee line at AYa diateliie. Dade county was laid off in 1837 and was named in honor of Major Frances L. Dade, of the United States army. The area ot Dade county is 188 square miles or approximately 120,3*20 acres. Its taxable wealth is nearly A5,000, 000 and the population of the county is 6,000 about 500 of these being negroes. Dade county is one of the smallest counties in Georgia and is rich in proportion to its size. The State of Georgia has about the same territory as Tennessee, but Georgia has 148 counties, while Tennessee lias 96. Idie county officials of Dade are: William O. Reese, serving eeond term as Ordinary, it being a four year office*, S. J. Hale, Clerk of ihe Superior Court, serving third term, it being a two year office; R. W. Thurman, serving his fourth term as Sheriff; W. P. Pace, ser ving third term as tax collector; Sam J. Hale, serving third term as tax assessor; R. S. Rodgers, the county treasurer, is serving his second term and is agent and op erator foi the Alabama Great Southern at Trenton, which posi tion he has held for 35 years. J. Mark Hale is the coroner of the county and is serving his fourth term. The principal industries of the county are coal, iron, ore, fruit raiding, general farming, stock far ming and the county also has all kinds of fine timber. Trenton got a charter as a town in 1860 and has a population now of about 1,000. The city govern ment has a board of town commis sioners, consisting of five. They are: 11. F. Tatum president, and associates: Col. J. P. Jacoway, 3. J. Hale, E. S. Rodgers, and Will Cure ton. The town has seven merchants as follows, all of whom are doing a line business: W. G. M. Tatum, J. L. Case, S. L. Lyemauce, Wil liam Simpson, J. C. Robertson and W. L. Wilkinson. It has two good hotels, the Beil House, of which .J. B. Williams, is proprietor, and j the Case House, a fine three story I summer hotel. The town has two ! churches, the Southern Methodist and the Cumberland Presbyterian. The pastor of the Methodist is Rev. IT. K. Allison, who is a brother of .Judge Mike Allison, of Chattanooga, w ho is one of the up ) right and strong men on the bench m Tennessee. Trenton has good public schools eight months in the year and the high school is supported by sub j scription and runs about four I months in the year. The public schools have an average attendance of 150, three teachers, and Prof. K. G. Carrol, is principal. The lit i tie town and county has only one paper, the Dade County Times, and it is edited by E. F. Tatum, a rising young lawyer, graduate of Cumberland law school, at Leban | on, Tenn I Mr. Tatum was a classmate ol i Joe Brow n and A, L. Spears, now i prominent young attorneys of Jas per. Trenton is supplied with one manufacturing plant, the .Dade . Stave Company, of which William j Van Derbeek. is president. It i rndvos barrel heads and staves and I gives employment to a large num ! tier of men the year round. There are three lodges the Masonic, with i 75 members: the odd Fellows, with a membership of 85, srul the Knights of Pythias, which jjhs i young, but has membership o A NEW INDUSTRY COMING TO DADE COUVTY Saw Mill. Will Locate Near Trenton. Mr. B. Farrfor, who sometime ago purchased the Brazzieton farm near New England City, soon after moved his family from Chatta nooga to it, but still making his headquarters in the city, has de cided to center his business here and make this his permanent lo cation. Mr. Farrior is an experi enced timber and lumber man, having followed the busine s for a number of years. His experiences in the business has been variedand he k ows the business thoroughly. He has traveled extensively in this sec ion of the country and claims to know every pig trail within a radius of one hundred miles of Chattanooga. He says the garden spot of the world is within this circle of country and that Dade County is the best spot in the ra dius. Mr. Farrior is a progressive, public spirited business man; a Christian gentleman, and has an excellent famiiy and the people of any community are lucky to have such people among them. Mr. Farrior has purchased several tracts of valuable timber lands near Trenton along Lookout Moun tain and will place a mill on it in the near future, and begin manu facturing the timber for the mar ket. Th sisto be a starter only. According to his plans he may establish a mill and other m nu fact uring plants in Trenton and utilize all local products. 30. There is only one physician in the town, Dr. J. \Y. Russey, who rides night and day and then cannot see all of the sick. AY. T. Hughes is postmaster and the \ li lage has four mail trains daily. A | number of rural routes run out from Trenton and every farmer in the county gets at least one daily mail. Trenton is noted for its fa mous Sulphur Springs with clear white water; there are also springs | of free stone and chalybeate water right in the center of (lie tpwn. The lawyers are B. T. Brock, E. F. Tatum, J. P. Jaeoway and AY. U. j Jaeoway. The town has one mag istrate, Ed D. Brock. Trenton and Dade county are both solidly devil o ratio. There a*e 1,202 regis-* tered voters in the county and ! Taft got 72 and Bryan the rest, except a few wild-eyed Populists who voted for Tom Watson. Dade county is known as the “Independ ent State of Dade,” for when Georgia was meditating over se ceding from the Union and some strong men opposed sec ssion, Go - onel Tatum, grandfather of R. F. Tatum, and other well known Dade ' coimtians made public speeches and said that if Georgia did not secede from the Union, Dade coun ty would secede from Georgia. The rest is a matter of history and the world knows Georgia left the Un ion. Another matter of history about Trenton that is of more than pas sing iuteresign) Chattanoogans is that Mayor W. was reared there and the c unman schools of the town. J udge Mike Allison and other prominent men in life were raised and educa ted in the common schools of Tren ton and take pride in acknowledg ing it. The above is not published for ihe personal matter it contains, but to show the excellent write up of our community and county by the Chattanooga News reporter. Such notices as the above by a newspaper of such standing as the News has, and, written by such an excellent gentleman as Mr. J. Frank Peck, helps our town and j county. For our part it is highly appreciated. Ed. The young people of Trenton are rehearsing a j>l ly to be given ; sometime during Christmas wee!;. | The play is excellent and every td | fort is being m ide to make it the i best one over giv*u m TfMUoi. ; The charactets are M i*ses (V.-jrk CVe, Klect.i Par-', ’ 1 ihel Wo >l - H ami Dana Tatum. |\\:es..;rs Pri *a a; ro.vuv, fCc Coiet . m s P<lC0 5 Clly ! non A r.y .P i . ||. IT IS NOW JUDGE PAYNE. _LT"iitEii -:j -i, W. H. Jr., shares His Honors With His Father. For one state to*borrow judicial advice from another to be used in the common courts, is a matter which seidom happens in i lie grind of legal affairs, hut such has been credited to a court in Georgia. W. H. Payne Jr., the well known local attorney, was last week appointed a special judge by Judge Wright, of Lafcyette, Ga., to sit on a case which has been on trial in the su perior court at that place. The case involved the administration of the estate of S. W. Dodson, which has been up before the su perior court at that place lor some time and involves about S2O 000. On account of Mr. Payne’s ability as a title lawyer he was selected by Judge Wright to assist in the final decision in the case. —Chat- tanooga Times. The Times pretends not to know that the Payne’s are Georgia pro ducts and that Ihey now have and have always had an extensive practice in North Georgia since they have been lawyers. THU SIMPLE FILLET. FO'JSiTMH PEW The pen that practically tills itself from any ink well or bottle in five sec onds. To fill the pen sim ply press the pen on end of cap in the small pin hole inside of pen. then put the pen point, in ink well .or b t ie, withdraw the pin and pen is full of ink, time live seconds. To introduce this pen we are now offering the reg ular % 1.50 pen for SI.OO prepaid, and if not all that we claim for it, and the best Fountain Ten value in the country for the price money will be re turned in full. SEND FOR ONE TOD \Y. EDWARD' & LEBRON JEWELERS 81.‘! MARKET 81'. ( hattanooga, T* nn. GO EARLY AND AVOID THE RUM TO THE STORE THA r SAVES u iOlcY o ; ‘ • ■ liv the I.sth, L. B. I v?- maned will place on sale his Xmas stock of Toys, Presents, etc. His stock this year will be the largest and most com plete perhaps that has ever been displayed in Trenton, He purchased in the eastern market at THE FACTORY WHERE THEY WERE MADE, and owing to the size of his order they were bought very cheap, and he will give his many customers the advantage of the best p-ic<s possible. Go early Mil avoid the holiday rush and get the pick from the best stock of Xm is goods you have ever had the opportunity of picking from, lie has completed his fall Stock of general merchan dise and is still carrying out his 1008 motto of QUICK SALES AXI) SMALL PROFITS. Cfo to - the ‘’South Side’ 7 . Merchant and save from 25 to 33-13 per cent on your purchases. MARKED FOR DEATH. I • '“Three years ago I was marked for death. A graveyard cough was tearing my lungs to pieces, i I) ) tors failed to help me, an l hope ! ii 0. lie 1, when my hash and got Dr 1 Xing’s X-w Discovery,” says Mrs. A . Williams, of Ky 4 “The I first dose helped me and’ improve ment kept on until 1 had j ained 58 pounds in weight and my health ! was fully restored.” This inedi cine holds the world's healing ree v o and for cough, and colds and lung aul throat disease-, ft proven A P .eumonht. Sold under - guaran ee ot all drug stores. 50c and $1 CO. Tri-d bottle free. Have You The p r And Overcoat? ofm We have the most compute assortment of Suits and Over- |j jpfk • coats in ail weights, models I ji I■% • and patterns, and wonle be Ii ji/J || 1 Jf/, J pleased to show you a few G livjii Ijlj A ' ’ of them. I Will m ‘•Washington** Cloth- /| ji (|' 1 I j ing will alwajs please lii |jjj j] jr the must fastidious if MU |j -I t ; , III! i'.iH I j! fe : dressers. I;j i ■ $ f! jl I; .$0 !j I Ii f Manhattan and Clue!! AftM i wm HI | Shirts in all the newest Fall ffff patterns. Nhby Fall bkeks . j|j| \Yj in Derby sand Soft Hats. Mr ' *%l Youngs or Stitsons. £3. 4S A _ and SS.CC. J. B. Huglies will be glad to greet his friends show their, the bsst line of Clothing in Chaitanoo. i HftRDIE & CAOOLE 815 Market St. Chattanooga, Tenn. i < r.r ap] loach cf ti e lie lid“)s brli gs to lie mind X of ail 11 c Mil-jr (ts of gifts. <n l■ ft* ( k tils pemon is grei-ier than ever-. It will bn worth a t.ip to Cha'ta nooga t<- visit our store. c*> Yuli ARM ALWAYS WIPUOML • ] | \ou ii ve n t received our new catalog let us know an Iji copy wiii bo mailed at once. it contains ban 1- reds or ill strut ions and pi ices of 3 i 15 f ii r? | i Pi PI j weif'A mAh ;iih ana lot was J AND \\ ILL IIDOI' i D'- Li IT is or Drama; got*. 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