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Pen Pictures of Worthy Citizens
of a Thriving City.
MEN WITH ENTERPRISE
And Men W Ht» Bruit*- llmllmm AlichU
of the World In vien of Grfl,
>rr»e nnd I’lurlt.
CLEVER TOM PEEPLES.
Thomas Jefferson Peeples, the present
agent of the Western and Atlantic rail
road at Dalton, was ls>rn in Gwinnett
county, Ga., not
h*r from Liw-
U. Tk reiiccville, Sep-
. _4frl tember 16, 1839.
He was educHt-
i * I * u * * or ’ on
an <1 M urr a y
jf co un ti es—at
h ant i
Ml \ Calhoun in one,
at on
1 ; Academy in the
other.
He fanned un
’ e til the late war
broke out, w hen tie entered the Confed
erate service in the Third Georgia In
fantry, and was later advanced to the
Third Confederate Cavalry. He served
through the ent in* war, and made a
brave and able soldier; tie was always on
hand when duty called,and never showed
the white feather.
After the close of the war Mr. Peeples
began the calliuir of a railroader ’on the
Western and Atlantic railroad, and has
been a railroader ever since; an idea of
his faithful, prompt and efficient service
may be gathered from the fact that in all
his 33 years of railroading, he was never
suspended nor discharged. He has
served the most of the time with the
Western and Atlantic, though forseyeral
years he was conductor of a passenger
train on tin* Alabama Great Southern
railroad. He Las served as conductor,yard
master, and agent at Dalton, and in all
positions proved himself an »Ificient em
ploye.
'l’om Peeples has always been a true
blue southern ilemoerat, hu<l a valuable
addition to the party. As he expresses
it, he “don t know anything but democ
racy, and never expects to.”
September 4, 1860, .Mr. Peeples married
Alias Martha J. Norman, a pretty and ac
complished young lady of Fayetteville,
Ala., and his devotion to the south is
evidenced by the fact that a few months
later he left the s de of his young bride
to tight the batt h's of his country. Mr.
and Mrs. Peeples have had six children
one dead and five living all married.
Ella J. Peeples married Jacob Goodsoil
ami now lives in Walker county. Drew
M. Peeples married Miss Beams, of
Green Cove Springs, Fla.; he now lives
in Chattanooga and is secretary and
treasurer of the W. (). Peeples Grocery
Company. Minnie Peeples married J.
D. Keith, the present baggage agent at
the Dalton union depot. Kate Peeples
married 11. S. Watts, of Fairmount, Gor
don county, where they now live. Tom !
N. Peeples married Miss Ola Mitchell. !
daughter of Conductor Tom Mitchell, of
the Western and Atlantic railroad, about
a month since. “Young Tom” is night
baggage agent at the union depot.
Mr. Peeples lives on Spring Place
street, and has a tine 9-aere garden spot
attached to his home place; he also runs
a farm in Murray county, where he owns
one of the best.
Tom Peeples is one of nature’s noble
men brave as a lion, true as steel, ten
der as a woman in his feelings, ami as
clever as the day is long. It is a pleasure
to know him, and he is a citizen of
which all Dalton should be proud. As a
business man Mr. Peeples is w hat you .
call an “up-and-up” man - square as a
die ami as courteous and attentive as !
can be. If you have any freight to ship |
<>r any railroad tickets to buy, try him
and see if The Ainas don’t te’ll the
truth. -
na. s. A. FOSTER.
S. A. Foster, the wide-awake, manager
of the Dalton Furniture and Collin Em
porium, was born March 27th, 1839, in
Monroe county,
Ga. He was edu
rated principally at V
the McDonough
Institute. He etu- Tvv
died medicine, but LZ
did not complete } -7 J
a regular collegiate
course, on account
of the breaking '
opt of the war, x- r '
though he did /
several years practice with marked
success after the war. He has been
connected with several newspapers
as editor ami publisher, ami is a
tine compositor. He served four years)
during the war in the sth, 4th and 32nd I
Georgia regiments, ami First Ga. sharp- ’
shooters. Was engaged in several tights,
and wounced ami captured in the memo- I
rahle battle of Chickamauga. Was pa
roled in March, 1865, and came home on
a crutch. He has been in the mercan
tile business continuously since 1866.
Dr. Foster has been married twice.
His first wife was the daughter of Dr. C.
Parsons of Savannah, and half-sister to
Col. I. W. Avery, of Atlanta. His sec
ond wife was a daughter of Capt. Wm.
H. Edwards of Tatnall county, Ga., ami
is a very handsome and accomplished
lady. He has been very unfortunate in
having lost his entire first family consist
ing of w ife and three children, and four
out ot hi^children by his present wife;
the last one, ft Voting lady of seventeen,
was killed while at college in Troy, Ala.,
by the falling of the ojiera house.
Marks of his charity can ire found in
many* places in Georgia and Florida, par
i ticularlv in the way of churches am
school houses.
Dr. Foster came to Dalton last summer
to regain his health and educate his chil
dren. His good business qualifications
are shown in the success he has attainec
in building up the Dalton Furniture am
('ofliii Emporium.
He was elected and commissioned as
Captain in the 2nd Florida regiment un
der < iov. Drew’s administration.
Dr. Foster is a citizen with the right
sort of grit, and will not be the least
among the factors of Dalton’s rapid
progress in the near future. His news
paper training has especially fitted him
I lor a useful citizen, lie believes in the
I liberal use of printer’s ink,and is obligee
to succeed in business.
11. C. BABCOCK.
Hobart Cleland Babcock was born in
Chenango county, New York, April 24,
1856. He was educated at Qazenovia
Seminary, N. Y. —graduating in two
courses, the Ijitin—Scientific and the
| classical. Cazenovia Seminary is an in
stitution of learning of about the size am
rank of Emory College, Ga. Mr. Bab
cock was the orator of hid class in 1877
the year he graduated. After completing
his education, Mr. Babcock served as
principal of the village school of New
Berlin, N. Y., (a position similar to our
superintendent of public schools), for
two years, lie formed very pleasant re
| latrons during his w ork there, and has
i never ceased to receive pleasant letters
from the eight teachers and hundreds of
scholars that were associated with him in
the schools of New Berlin. Mr. Babcock
then read law for 18 months—not for
the purpose of being admitted to the
bar, but as a valuable addition to his
business education. While reading law,
Mr. Babcock spent his winters in Ten
nessee and Georgia, ami his summers in
Middle New York. Spending his win
ters south, caused him to fall in love
w ith our people and climate, and in
IW
HOBAKT CLELAND BABCOCK.
1880 he came south to permanently lo
cate among us.
In November, 1 877, Mr. Babcock mar
ried Miss Laura A. Whitney, of Cazeno
via, N. Y., an accomplished and popular
belle of that city.
in 1880 Mr. Babcock come to Dalton
and bought an interest in the Cherokee ■
Manufacturing Company,a company that 1
had been in operation since 1866, and be- 1
came its superintendent and manager,
and remained such until the company’s
plant was destroyed by fire in May, 1886,a 1
tire that caused a loss of over SIIO,OOO to ’
its stockholders. In 1887 Mr. Babcock
reorganized the Cherokee Manufacturing
Company as a stock company, and was
elected president and general manager ,
Mr. Babcock has certainly managed ,
the atl’airs of the company successfully. ,
The original capital stock of the reor
ganized company was $17,500—a1l paid
up. At the end of the first eighteen
months’ business, a 40 per cent, dividend
in stock was declared, making the capital
stock $26,250, and it still remains at that
figure. At the end of ti e next fifteen
months it declared a cash dividend of 40
percent., and has since declared two
other cash dividends—one of 25 per
cent, and another of 10 per cent. It has
now on hand, invested in lumber,
undivided profits to the amount of $15,-
000. What a magnificent showing for
any establishment and any manage
ment.
Mr. Babcock is also president of the
Georgia Hay Press Company organized
in 1880; in 1891 he bought a controlling
interest, and became general manager.
The produet'of this industry amounts to
$15,000 per annum, and its presses sell
readily at satisfactory margins, the trade
sending it volumes of commendations
unsolicited. •
Mr. Babcock is also president of the
Crystal Ice Company, having lieen elect
ed to the control of’ that institution in
1892 When he took hold of the aflairs
of this company he found that although
it had been making a good ileal of ice, it
was making no money. He is now en
gaged in placing the business of this
company on a paying nnd .-olid basis.
It is superfluous to say that Mr. Bab
cock is a citizen of whom Dalton is
proml. Both he and his worthy lady
are general favorites she being a.social
favorite and a leading light in the Con
federate Memorial Association. Mr. Bab
cock is a general favorite, ami is the sort
of business man who is a help and great
addition to any community.
Fair Warning.
Those who are indebted to me must
call and settle their indebtedness at once.
If not, I will place the accounts in the
bands of a collector.’
Feb. 3, 1893. F. 0. Trevjtt.
THE ARGUS; DALTON, GA., SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 4.1893,
WONDERFUL DISCOVERY.
Ur. KinffN’H Alcoholic Antidote or
Whiaky < ure.
From the Atlanta Journal.
That well-known and eminent
physician and genius, Dr. C. R. King,
corner Forsyth and Walton streets,
has gone into the whisky curing bus
) iness with a vengeance.
Dr. King is the discoverer of a
remedy entirely his own and which
1 has cured hundreds of cases of abso
lute drunkenness during the past
fourteen years. Indeed, Doctor King
; is an old pioneer in the business and
he was curing the dread disease of
drunkenness long before he had any
competitors in the field to speak of.
And he not only cures,but he builds
up the system and places a man who
is a physical wreck from excessive
drink upon a solid foundation of
health and soberness. His cure is one
of the very finest nerve tonics known
and absolutely safe and harmless.
Talking with a well known citizen
of Atlanta this morning, who took Dr.
King’s treatment a few months ago,
he said :
“I have been addicted to the use o
alcoholic liquors since I was a mere
boy. For about 25 or 30 years I h ive
been an inordinate periodical drinker,
until my power to control my habit
was completely lost. When almost
dead from a protracted spree, about
eight weeks ago, I began treatment
with Dr. King, taking his Alcoholic
Antidote, or Whisky Cure. I am
proud to say I am entirely cured, and
I believe your remedy will cure any
case of inebriety.”
* The remedy is not unpleasant, pro
duces no unpleasant effects, never
hindered me from my work, and now
my health is better than it has been
for many years. I feel vigorous and
youthful for a man sixty yeare of age,
my nervous system having been built
up and strengthened from the begin
ning, and I weigh fourteen pounds
more (being very lean), and feel sev
eral years a younger man than when
1 began your treatment.”
Dr King treats patients at his office,
and he will ship the treatment to out
of-town patrons, with full instructions
and guarantee a cure if instructions
are followed. Only about twenny to
thirty days are required* to effect a
permanent cure.
If you are addicted to the liquor
habit and want to rid yourseif of the
curse, you should consult or corres
pond with Dr. King.
Fie can cure you.
I
We Have None to Use.
E. B. Farrar, now at the Baptist Theo
logical Seminary at Louisville, Ky.,
writes this valuable suggestion to the
editor of The Argls:
Louisville, Ky., Jan. 30th, 1893.
Dear Sir: Ix't me suggest that in using
the new stamp you lick the envelope, it
will leave a better taste in your mouth.
Your well wisher,
E. B. Farrar.
The editor of The Argus has no
tongue—he has worn it completely off
pleading with the delinquent subscriber,
and as he did not get enough to buy any
stamps he has no need tor a tongue to
stick them.
However, he takes pleasure in com
imgidinir Brother Farrar’s suggestion to
the readers of The Argus who are able
to buy stamps.
Give Them an Alarm Bell.
The members of the Dalton Fire De
partment are getting up a petition to pre
sent to the city council, asking that body
to give’the fire department an alarm bell.
It is to be hoped that every citizen will
sign this petition.
And it is urged that the council
will grant their request. Dalton needs a
fire bell badly, and the boys should be
given a good one at once. A city of Dal
ton’s size and pretentions cannot get
along without a good alarm bell.
Let the boys have it.
Subscribe to The Argus and read the
news of the day in these parts. $1 a year.
For the School Library.
There will be a delightful musicale at
the elegant home of E. H. Carman next
Thursday night, and Prof. Showalter,
Miss Nell Barrett and Gen. B. M. Thomas
will participate in it.
The mnsicale will be given for the
oenetit of the public school library, and
a small admittance fee will be charged.
It is believed this delightful affair will
lie made one of the events of the season.
•
Keep Your Blood Pure.
One of the must frequent and insid
ious causes of bad health is imptire 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 feel
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 eases
neglect means death, for the vital organs
once contaminated grow worse unless
they grow better, and they w ill never
grow fa'tter unless the proper remedy is
applied. There is no remedy that equals
■ ■ fill Alf f- Wand Opium Habit*
SIIHIUU I V cured a', borne with
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■ V Atlanta. Ga. Office 104 l » WhitairaliSi.
OUR SOUTHERN CLIMATE.
A Northern Wan. Livtnff in Dalton.
Nays It is a Winner.
To the Editor of The Argun. .
A man has to live in a different climate
from this to fully appreciate the climate
of North Georgia. Those who have lived
here always do not appeciate it. have
lived almost all my life in a different cli
mate, and I can see and feel the superior
excellence of this climate.
The recent spell of bail, cold weathe-i
is the only one I have seen in the four
years that I have lived here.
And it was so soon over that we did not
mind it much.
This is the climate of all climates.
Thousands are suffering from the cold in
other climates, who would be healthy,
happy and prosperous if they only lived
in such a climate as ours. And North
Georgia’s wonderful climate must be one
of itschiefest drawing cards. And its
climate must be advertised, if it would
prosper.
The fact is. Mr. Editor, there are thou
sands of people up north who are suffer
ing from the rigors of its climate, who
remain, sutler and endure, simply be
cause they do not know; what pleasure
and comfort they are losing by not living
in this section; because they do not know
what a climate we. have down here. If
they did know, you would soon see Dal
ton growing, ami she would soon be the
town you are trying and striving to make
her.
Why not let them know?
WJI. Tull.
For anv style FINE SHOES, OX
FORDS or EVENING SLIPPERS, call
on or send to Chattanooga Shoe Co.
Public
Sale
OF
FINE STOCK!
AT
‘Cloverdale’ Farm,
FOUR MILES FROM CAVE
SPRING, FLOYD COUNTY,
GA., FRIDAY, FEBRU
ARY 10th, 1893.
I WILL SELL AT PUBLIC
auction on the farm of the late
Benjamin C. Yancey, known as the
“Cloverdale Farm,” situated on the
Alabama division of the East Ten
nessee, Virginia and Georgia rail
road, at Landers’ Postoffice (Yan
cey’s Station), 12 miles from Rome,
4 miles from Cave Spring, Floyd
Cointy, Ga., Friday, February 10th,
1893, the following stock of Horses,
Mules and Cows:
The handsome Clydesdale stallion
“Bismarck,” foaled in Missouri May
10, 1886.
The fine Clydesdale stallion “Doni
Pedro,” foaled in Missouri April 10,
1886.
The fine young Clydesdale Nor
man stallion “Clyde,” sired in Mis
souri by a noted Clydesdale horse;
foaled at Cloverdale farm May 18,
1889.
14 Fine Mares among them
being several large, handsome Nor.
man mares—some being prize win
ners both in Missouri and at Floyd
county fairs.
15 Film Colts.
•
5 Mules.
Lot of Jersey and Graded Cows
and Calves.
TERMS —One-third cash, balance
November Ist, with approved se
curity.
HAMILTON YANCEY.
Ex’r of Benj. C. Yancey, deceased.
■9QSSBEQQ3EEX3MI
CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. BT
|M Beet Cough Syrup. Tauten good. Use
pl in time. Sold by druggists. Wf
MMEaragrjiisnraiaaranfgii
SCRATCHEDJEN MONTHS.
A troublesome skin disease
caused me to scratch for ten
months, and has been K3RSS*
cured by a few days* use of KQEfI
M. H. Wour, Upper Marlboro, Mdb
SWIFT’tfyECIFIC
II II" " — —
I wm cured several years ago of white swelling
In my leg by using R9R3RB Bave had no
symptoms of re turn of the
ease. Many prominent physicians attended nf J
and all failed, but S. 8. 8. did the work.
Paul W. Ktbkpatbick, Johnson City, Tann,
Treatise on Blood and Skin Dis-f
•ases mailed free.
Swift Specific Co., I
Atlanta, Ga
C. N. KIN G,
ATTOKSEY-AT-LAV,
Spring Pl«ce, : : : : : : Georgia
DR. HILL HARRIS,
DENTIST,
DALTON, - - . GA.
Office over J. M. Berry’s. Teeth ex
tracted without pain a specialty.
DR. N. C. STEELE, v
Treats diseases of the Eye. Ear. Nose am" J
Throat only. Office Ixiveman building, East
Eighth street, Chattanooga, Tenn.
CHATTANOOG V.TENN.
Walton Building and Loan Aawociation
vs.
W. M. LONER.
Rule to Foreclose Mortgage—ln Whlttleld Supe
rior Court. »
GEORGIA, WHITFIELD COUNTY:
To the Superior Court of said County;
The petition of the Dalton Building & Loan
Association, a body corporate under the laws ol
Georgia, shows that Wm. Ixmer is indebted to
petitioner in the sum of one hundred dollars, be
side interest, and other charges as will appear
from a bond executed by the said Loner to peti
tioner o'i the 7th day of October, Ls9o, which is
here in .■ourt to lx* shown, and petitioner further
shows t aat to secure payment of said bond the
said Loner did at the same time execute to vonr
petitir ner a mortgage on the following described
reab-.tate in the county of Whitfield, state of
Georgia, to-wit: Forty acres of land lying on the
south side and being the southern portion of lot
No. Eighty-five in the 12th district and third sec
tion.
And petitioner shows that according to the
terms of the said contract, the same is now due
and payable, and said Loner fails and refuses to
pav the same.
Wherefore petitioner prays the passing of an
order by this court ordering said Liner to pay
the amount due on the bond or show eauite wbvM
his equity of redemption should not lx*
and the mortgage foreclosed.
R. J. & J Metmy,- Petioner Attorneys.
rpHE foregoing recitals read and considered.
1 It is, therefore, ordered by the Court that
defendant pay into Court due as alleged, or show
cause at the next term of Whitfield Superior
Court why the Mortgage should not beforeclosed
and defendant's equity of redemption lx‘ for
ever barred. This October 11th, 1892.
THOS. W. MILNER,
J. 8. C. C. C.
A true extract from the Minutes of Whitfield
Superior Court. November 25th, 1X92.
dec3— lam-4m D. Sholl, Clerk 8. C.
For Sale at Auction.
Pursuant to resolution of the stockholders of
the Crystal lee Co., of Dalton, Ga., I will sell at
public outcry to the highest bidder on Tuesday,
February 7th, 1X93, at the court house d<x>r in
Dalton, the entire plant, machinery, real estate
supplies, charter rights and privileges, book ac
counts and all other assets of said company. The
proceeds of this sale to lx* applied in liquidation
of all the just debts of the company.
Information concerning this’property given on
application to the undersigned.
H. C. Babcock, President.
Dated Dalton, Go., December 24,1X92.
Notice Served- A
MAGGIE C. JOHNSON vs Wm. M. JOHNSON. 0
Libel for Divorce and Alimony in Whitfield
Superior Court.
The defendant is hereby notified to be and ap
pear at the next superior court in ahd for said
county, on the first Monday in April, 1X93, then
and there answer the complaint of the plainiiff
in an action for dirorce and alimony, or in de
fault thereof the court will proceed according to
the statute in such cases made nnd provided.
Witness the Hon. Thos W. .Milner, jftdge of
said court. D. Sholl, C. S. C.
Maddox& Stakh, Petitioners’Attorneys.
A true extract from the minutes of the Whit
field superior court. D. Sholl, C. 8. C.
for Charter.
NtHte of Georgia, Whit Held County.
To the lourt of said County:
The petition of James H. Savage and .James
Nolde A Co., of Anniston, Ala., D. C. McMillin,
Sr,, of Chattanooga, Tenn., 1). C. McMillin, Jr., of
Dalton, Ga., and the “Keeley Institute of At
lanta," of Atlanta, Ga., shows that they have eu
tered into an association under the name anti
style of the "Keeley Institute o! Dalton:" that
the object of said association is to establish an
institution in the city of Dalton, in said county
and state, for the cure of nervous disease, es
pecially such as result from the use of/liquor, .
opium and tobacco, and for the cure of the
opium, liquor and tobacco habits, under the
system now and heretofore employed by the f;
I-eslie E. Keeley Company, a laxly corporate F
under the laws of Illinois—with the power Ao
purchase and hold property, real and person®,
to sue and be sued, and to exercise all powers
usually conferred upon corporations of similar
character, as may be consistent with the laws of
Georgia. Said institute is to have its office and
place of business in the city of Dalton, in said
county.
Petitioners show that the capital stock of said
association is five thousand dollars, and that the
full amount thereof has been paid in. Petitioners
desire the privlhgeof increasing tlie capital
stock to the sum of twenty-five thousand dol
lars— sai'ljstock to be Jnon-assessable.
Pctitiomrs pray the passage of an order by
thecourt granting this, thei/ application, and
that they afid their successors be incorporated
for and'during the term of not exceeding twenty
years, with the privilege of renewal at the ex
piration of that time, for the purposes hereinbe-,
lore set forth. Maddox A Stakk.
Petitioners' Attorneys.
Filed in office, this the 27th day of January, 1x93.
D. Sholl, C. 8. <’•
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