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■ n Pictures of Worthy Citizens
■ of a Thriving City.
■ N with enterprise
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■ of the world in Wen of <irlt,
■ serve -nd Pluck.
■ ORDINARY JOSePH BOOLE.
■ Injge J«*P h the neWly el T ted
liLrv of Whitfield county, was born
rZ»lc»u„ly,Tenß.J‘'ly 18, 1843.
■ The death of his
K father occurring
■ f » when he was about
I » one year °i ( i’ h’ B
■ Jct) mother moved to
I Georgia, locating
1 in Gordon county,
■ where i,e w ° rketi
I ,Ti , (Y- on the farm ’ an d as
■ C> opportunity offered
obtained a good
■common school education, and at the
r of sixteen went, Cassville, Bartow
■county, to learn the tanner’s trade with
■ his uncle, Judge Joseph Bogle. Soon
■ after the commencement of the war he
I volunteered in the cause of the south as
I a private in Co. I, 40th Ga Infantry
I commanded by Col. Aleda Johnson, of
I Cartersville. His first service was in
I East Tennessee, then with Braggs
I famous campaign in Kentucky, then to
I Vicksburg, Miss., undergoing the hard-
I ships of the siege, where he was severe y
■hounded, his life being Providentially
Hbved by a Testament in his side pocket.
Rejoining his command at Missionary
Ridge, he was with Joe Johnston in the
campaign to Atlanta, where he was cap
tured on the picket line with about sixty
others, and spent the winter in Camp
Returning home from prison, he came
to Whitfield county in the fall of 1860,
and has made it his home for the last
twenty-seven years. He engaged for
several years in the tannery business and
part of the time farming. He finally
located in Dalton, where he has been
elected aiderman several times—for
three years in succession receiving the
highest vote cast for any candidate.
He is secretary of the Royal Society of
Good Fellows and secretary and treas
urer of the American Legion of Honor.
He has been tax receiver of Whitfield
county for two years. His majority in
the recent election for ordinary was 463.
Judge Bogle is universally popular,
liked and respected by all who know
him. He will make a good ordinary, and
the affairt of Whitfield county will be in
hands as long as he fills that posi-
Kon. The Argus congratulates the peo-
Bdv upon his election.
MINK HOST DETTOR.
Robert J. Dettor, the urbane and courte
eous manager of the Lewis House, was
born in Albermarle county, Va., in 1845,
and was educated
in the schools of
that courtly. At J
the age of 16 he o,
entered the Con- an)
federate army, and UtfL ,>•
served the three
last years of the
war in the cavalry T| / X
service. He is one •«>
of the boys who
never surrendered,
and who was never paroled. At the
•hue of the surrender he was at home.
de went home after a new horse, and
while there was taken sick with fever,
and was in bed at the time of Sheridan’s
raid through Albermarle. The Yankees
searched the house in which Mr. Dettor
was lying ill, but did not disturb him.
they thought from his youthful appear
ance that he was too young to have hi-d
anything to do with the war.
At the close of the war, Mr. Dettor
0 ™ c fi*Bond and began life as a
clothing clerk. In 1867 he went into the
general merchandise business for himself
at Waynesboro, Va. Later he was in
je genera] merchandise business at
iai lottesville, and later at Harrison
*,"o?’ and d * en in the grocery business
at. tanton, Va., for nine years.'
Owing to his bad health, and by the
loctor s advice, he sold out his grocery
usiness and took to the road as a com
mercial traveler, representing Win. H.
Crawford & Co., pf ’'Baltimore,
large wholesale dealers
spice, etc. He remained with that
nrm some four years, and then accepted
5K,„,‘ 8I } IO P
‘ 1,1 ac b ,r ers of Baltimore, and traveled
iL ■’ .J Ie eou fb forthem for five years,
t .. l.' ln ? t " ein January Ist, of this vear, to
take charge of the Lewis House. ’
... F | e ‘‘ e ‘nb er , 1891, Mr. Dettor was
nliai "I M*Bs Dollie Lewis, an accoin
<ieath of a M r P j P Q a l lad T V Of . thiß , V isc y-
j . A - bewis, his wife s
man i re °oenng it imperative that some
vIpLI ld toke charge of the hotel, he
H^, the wißh of ’'is wife ami
win,"/ 111 . w and resigned his position
the hotej 108 tO act a8 ,liana ß er °*
Deo/ addition of such a citizen as Mr.
ma ‘nd a m ,n to I)alt °n. He is a live
niaL?i d V r . un a live hotel. He will
and u; 1 .hewis House, always noted far
hotel ■ e f° r its excellent table,a thorough
Sbrin n eve f y Particular. As soon as the
gather sets in, the hotel will lie
Btorv^ddpa der ! - his direction , another
cnmniu an< 1Q every way made more
jhand l a e { d w hl then be one of the finest
B As » a dßOmeßt hotelß in the land.
V nrummer there was never a more
THE ARGUS; DALTON, GA., SATURDAY. JANUARY 21,1893.
popular member of the knights of the
grip than Robert Dettor, and the boys
will Hock to his caravansary to spend the
Sunday—they know’ that he knows what
a'drummer wants to eat and they know
that he will give it to them.
The A rods congratulates Dalton and
the traveling public upon the fact that
Mr. Dettor is now a permanent fixture
at the Lewis House.
alderman j. g. m’afee.
Jesse Glenn McAtee was born Feb
ruary 22, 1863, at his grandfather’s,
Judge Tarver, near Dalton, while his
father, Dr. J. R’
McAfee, was serv- fr
ing as surgeon in /
the Confederate ar- W
my. His childhood C£ j. W
was what you /
might call an ideal
one —being spent Nk
on his grandfather’s I; ,
plantation until he J 'V'
was old enough to
go to school. He was educated under
John Bitting, of whom he always alludes
as “one of the best men that ever lived.”
In 1880, at the age of 17, young Mc-
Afee went to Washington county, East
Tennessee, where he farmed until the
following fall. He had a sister living in
Washington county, Mrs. W. V. De-
Vault, and that fall, in company with
her husband and several laborers, he
took a trip through the country to Flor
ida, of which he relates many thrilling
incidents, especially of his midnight ride
through the celebrated Okeefeenokee
swamp. Mr. McAfee and his party
cleared up and planted in orange trees
what is now the town of Umatilla, Fla.,
and also founded another settlement
farther south on the Indian river, now
known as Rock Ledge.
While in Florida Mr. McAfee contract
ed malarial fever, which laid him very
low, being at the point of death for sev
eral weeks. When able to travel he
returned to Dalton for his health, and
has remained here ever since.
When he returned to Dalton Mr.
McAfee, in connection with his father,
engaged in the brick business, and sev
eral of our best buildings (the Loveman
building, the opera house and others)
stand as a monument to their business
ability.
In November, 1884, Dr. McAfee, was
married to Miss Bertie Crouch, a reign
ing belle of East Tennessee and daughter
of Rev. T. H. Crouch, a prominent Bap
tist preacher of that state.
In 1886 young McAfee began the study
of medicine, and graduated a few years
later at the old Atlanta Medical College,
having stood a most creditable examina
tion, especially in anatomy and surgery.
While at college in Atlanta, Dr. McAfee
divided the most of his leisure time be
tween the offices of Drs. Westmoreland
and Calhoun, and in their offices he
gained much valuable information. Since
his graduation, Dr. McAfee has been
practicing medicine in connection with
his father, dovoting his attention more
especially to surgery, in which branch
be has made a most brilliant success.
In December, 1891, Dr. McAfee was
elected aiderman for two years in a most
exciting race, leading the ticket by a
handsome majority. He is one of the
hold over members of the present coun
cil, and in connection with the other
live men of that body, makes a strong
team. His success in managing his own
affairs is the best possible guaranty that
he will manage the city’s affairs in a
like manner. He is a rising young man
of whom North Georgia is proud.
CITY CLERK BIVINGS.
Barney Cleveland Bivings was born in
Spartanburg, S. C., March 23, 1854. He
left Spartanburg when a boy. an 1 came
to Dalton to live z
in 1866. He was
educated in Dal
ton. He at first >*{
intended to make
a doctor of him- - T
self, and attended \
several courses of 1
lectures at the
Charleston V*
cal College, but
yielded to a desire *l/
to give it up and •• Vw!
go to railroading.
He was iu the employ of the Western
and Atlantic railroad for several years,
and left its service to accept a position in
Ballard’s baggage room in the Atlanta
union depot. He left that service to ac
cept a position as night manager in
charge of the Atlanta depot. That posi
tion he gave up to go with Col. J. D.
Williamson over to the Chattanooga,
Rome and Columbus railroad. He was
actively interested in the building of
that road, and was conductor of the first
through train from Chattanooga to Car
rollton. When that road passed out of
Col. Williamson’s hands in 1889, Mr.
Bivings resigned his position and came
back to Dalton to live.
Mr Bivings was marrieil in 18/5 to
Miss Mary Wyche, a charming belle of
Ellaville, Ga. He has one child, a nirl
14-vears-old, named Emma Avery Biv
ing's—one of the brightest and prettiest
young ladies in North Georgia, or any
where else for that matter.
Before Mr. Bivings left Dalton for At
lanta he had filled the position of city
clerk. When he returned here in 1889,
he was re-elected to that position and
filled that office ever since. The
first time Mr. Bivings ever ran for office,
he was elected city treasurer of Dalton,
defeating L. W. Barrett for'that posi
tl Mr. Bivings was reflected city clerk
unaniihously by acclamation at the re
cent election by the council, a deserved
tribute to hia business methods and his
affable, courteous manner. He has been
in the employ of the Dalton Furniture
& Coffin Emporium ever since that firm
started business in Dalton until the first
of this month, when the business of the
city demanding so much of his time, he
resigned the position with Dr. Foster to
devote all his time to the performance
of the duties of bis office.
Everybody in this section knows Bar
ney Bivings. There is not a cleverer man
on the topside of earth than Barney
Bivings, and he numbers his friends by
the hundreds. He is an efficient and
courteous city official, and attends to
his duties in such a manner as gives em
inent satisfaction to both the people and
the council.
The Argus congratulates both him
self and the people upon his re-election.
superintendent c. g. spencer.
Charles G. Spencer, Dalton’s efficient
superintendent of water works, was born
in Detroit, Mich., December 15, 1852,
being now in his
41st year. He was
educated in the (
public schools of
Detroit. He went
to work for the De- /z
troit Gas Company ff J
in 1868, at the age
of sixteen. In 1869
he went to travel- 21
ing in the west
with the New York
Building Co., a firm who put in gas and
water works in various cities of the west,
and remained with that company for ten
years.
In 1879 Mr. Spencer came south and
located in Rome as superintendent in
charge of Rome’s new gas works. He
remained there until May, 1888, w hen
he came to Dalton to ta' e charge of the
building of the waterworks, and has been
superintendent of them ever since. At
the completion of Dalton’s gas works in
1890,he took charge of them also and has
had the management of them ever since.
In 1876 Mr. Spencer was married to
Miss Dollie E. Sisk, of Paris, 111. He has
five children —four boys and one girl.
Mr. Spencer organized the Dalton fire
department and for three years was its
chief; he is now secretary and treasurer
of that organization. Mr. Spencer also
organized the Dalton lodge Knights of
Pythias, of which body he is keeper of
records and seals; he is also grand master
at arms of the Grand Lodge Knights of
Pythias of Georgia.
At the recent election of city officers
by the new council, Mr. Spencer was re
elected superintendent of the water
works unanimously by acclamation —a
very high tribute iudeed to his ability
and reliability.
Charley Spencer is a citizen of whom
Dalton is proud, and justly so. He has
done his share towards improving our
city, and The Argus predicts that he will
do much more. He is full of energy, en
terprise and pluck,and those areti/e kind
of men who tell in a community.
ANNUAL CONVENTION
Os the Y. P. S. C. E. Held in Augiida
I.mnl Week.
To the Editor of The Argus.
The third annual convention of the
Young People’s Society of Christian
Endeavor was held at Augusta the
13th, 14th ami 15th.
It was an event long to be remem
bered by those whose pleasure it was
to be present.
Augusta, that grand old city, Hung
open her doors to all who wore the
Christian Endeavor badge, and gave to
each a hearty handshake and a w’el
come into her finest and most aristo
cratic homes.
The Dalton branch of the Christian
Endeavor had two delegates at the
convention.
The gentleman delegate, Walter
Jones, was entertained by Will Rich
ardson, son of Uncle Billy Richardson
of this place, al the elegant home of
Judge Roney, judge of the superior
court. Mr. Richardson is associatid
with Judge Roney in the legal profc.—
siou. He did all in his power to add
to the pleasant entertainment of h s
guest.
The young lady delegate, Miss May
Gordon, was royally entertained at the
home of Mr. Charles G. Goodrich,
cashier of the Georgia railroad bank.
There were twenty two societies
represented by from one to seven del
egates each, and tWenty-twv represent
ed by letter.
The increase in the number of so
y , |
. diseases'. frOrll
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All derived great benefit from its use.
Mrs. Matilda Larson, I’eorfa, 111.
Best remedy I have ever used for irregular
menstruation. Mrs. 0. Jett,
Noveml/er, 1888. Selma, Col.
I have suffered a great deal from Female
Troubles, and think I am completely cured by
Bradfield’s Female Regulator.
Mrs. Emma F. Sword, Mansfield, O.
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Give us a call when you want anything for your En
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cieties, dm! in the members of the so
cieties, was quite encouraging. •
The delegates were of every denom
ination. sectarianism being lost sight
of in the great work of saving souls
and uplifting mankind.
Each delegate left Augusta with the
Endeavor motto (For Christ and the
Church) written on their hearts ami
shining in their faces. Each made
the resolve to accomplish great good
before the next annual convention,
which meets in Atlanta in 1894.
W. M J.
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Somewhat of a Spoon.
From the Atlanta Herald.
Hades, January 12, 1892.
Mr. Gould—“Do you know. Mr But
ler, that there is alpreacher in Georgia
who says that we are notin hell —only
just in hades.”
Mr. Butler —“Well, if this isn’t hell,
I don’t want to see it,” and a large
blue devil whacked him over the head
with a red hot spoon thirty feet long
and weighing a ton.
Keep Your J3lood Pure.
One of the most frequent and insid
ious causes of bad health is impure blood,
This disorder of the system does not al
ways manifest itself outwardly by sores,
eruptions, etc , quite often the soreness is
altogether internal. The kidneys fe< 1
sore, the liver feels sore, the lungs feels
sore; and a decay, sets in that too often
ends fatally. It" is much more serious
for blocd poison to manifest itself inter
nally than externally. In such cases
neglect means death, for the vital organs
once contaminated grow worse unless
they grow better, and they will never
grow better unless the proper remedy is
applied. There is no remedy that equals
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w.'S not perfected in a few days, weeksor nionths,
but by years of careful study and practical ex
perience, we have been able to bring it to ita
present state of perfection. By contact with the
people In tile direct sale of our goods we learned
what wits wanted, and our present range is the
result of that experience. The actual sales of
over239,'>oo ‘ Home Comfort” Steel Ranges to
private families up to the pr-s>nt time is the
best evidence of their merit and the appreciation
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In the construction of the tire box we have
kept bi view two things: Economy in fuel and
durability of tire linings. The fire box being only
six inches deep and eight inches wide, it will be
readily seen that no large quantity of fuel is re
quired, and the results obtained from it as a
fuel-saver are something marvelous.
The tire lining is made in four sections which
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The range Is provided with a closet shelf,
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victuals warm, drying fruits, ety. There is also
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there is absolutely uo danger of their being
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Division Headquarters,
DALTON, GA.