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JHE DALTON ARGUS.
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A. 11. •HAVEItv
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
Entered nt the Pontoffice in Dalton, <■«., ax
second class matter, and issued every Saturday
bySir*vnß A Btkbn.
ONE POL LA R A YE AR.
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eral dlstrl'ts of the county are authorized to re
ccive and forward subscriptions.
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its authorized agents. Until that list is pub
lished, the firm's receipt Is necessary.
Hills due The Argus are payable to elth'-r
member of the Ann, and they alone are author- '
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mind, you may save yourself.
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ble to
THE ARBI'N. Halton. La.
Double the Circulation of Any
Paper in Whitfield County.
HO YOU GET Ittl'U PAPER?
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of its subscribers, who do not get their jmper
regularly, or fail to get any issue of it, will
promptly report the matter nt this office, and we
will have the matter regulated am! ferret’our
where the blame lies. Hear in mind that we
want to give you a go<xl paper (your money's
worth) ami that we want you to have it regularly.
Deport to us whenever you fail to get your papei.
THE MILK IX THE COCO 1 XI’T.
The Daikon Akoi s Ims a -worn c celj io t
o' 1.(32 conies.' It reache tne best j>< >->'e in
Whitfield and adjoining counties. many o f
whom cannot be ,c.ic»ie<l □of n any o «•
medium.
Try nn advertisement >.t ts columns; it is sue
to na” you.
>OII(E TO NUKM KI BEKS 1
Rub.;crioers to The Aitors who owe anyth!’’ t ■
for subscription will plejse waltz up and seil'e.
Some few of you owe two and three years, accord- ,
im; to the *>ooks sold us by IL A. V reneh and t
is about time you weie m.ying up. The ca m
subscriber is a blessing, but the delinquent who
never pays, aim gets mad when asked to p.ty, is
a nuisance and worse han no sub choer nt ad
As a sensation market Atlanta seems to
be a howling success just now.
Thk howl of the olliee-seeker who
failed to connect will soon be heard
in the land.
Ct.eveland's silver views are about the
same as ours it is a pretty good thing
to have handy.
Dalton is w hooping things up rapidly.
She is coming town of the south. I
Watch her grow !
.
The country will be made safe in
Washington today; Grover Cleveland
will be made president.
There ought to be abouKten times as
much fruit growing in this section as
there is Why not double it at once?
Has the new cotton mill petered out,
or is it simply in the process of petering
out? Get a move on you, gentlemen !
If you own no property in Dalton,
hurry up and get some. .It will double
and treble in price before the year is out.
Mark that well.
The millions of the world cannot pur
chase a moment of life. Then, why be
lured beyond the bounds of honesty ?
‘Hell is full of “shrewd” men.
How will Hon. Hoke Smith apologize
to Attorney General Olney for the Jour
nal’s hearty endorsement of Captain
Geo. A. Jenks for that position?
The first thing needed in Dalton is a
thorough “getting together.” So long as
factions and cliques exist, our city will
jog along like a cow’s tail —always
behind.
It is stated that the cotton mills of
South Carolina last year earned as high
as 42 percent, on mom y invested. This
fact alone should give southern cotton
mills a big upward boost.
They are putting young lady ushers
into the city theaters and churches. A
good idea! A fellow don’t so much
mind being grabbed by the arm and ;
jammed into a seat, when a youug lady
does the job.
The Atlanta Constitution truthfully
remarks: “Good weekly newspapers sel
dom meet with the appreciation they de
serve. And yet, if a town could only be
brought to understand it, the weekly
newspaper is the aery best investment
it can make.”
The St. Louis Globe Democrat, the
leading republican paper of the west and
southwest, says: “The colon d people of
he country talk of forming an anti
lynching society. An anti raping society
would accomplish better results.” True;
they might save more necks that way.
The necks will never be saved until the
raping business ceases.
AKMH'M EME’ T.
With this issue of Tur Argus I assume
sole proprietary ami editorial control. I
have purchase d Mr. J. B. Stern’s intere.ft
in the pajier, have taken up all of its out
standing paper, and have placed the con
cern on an absolutely sound financial
basis. The paper owes nothing, and is
under financial obligations to no one,
and no one but myself has a voice in ita
management.
I thank the public generally, and the
friends of The Argus especially, for the
patronage so kindly accorded the paper
since my connection with it, and I shall
endeavor to deserve that patronage, and
even a far more liberal patronage, in the
future. Despite the discouragements
that have been met in giving the people
of Dalton a paper worthy of the city, we
have made the paper pay its expenses,
an<l we hope to do still better than that
when the merchants and people gener
ally begin to awake to the good the paper
is doing the city and section.
I shall give them the same paper
in the future that I have been giving
them in the past, and shall continue to
give them as neat, cheap and fine job
work as can be had anywhere between
Nashville, Tenn., and Charleston, S. C.
I shall esteem a continuation of the
patronage accorded the paper in the past,
and shall endeavor to deserve it by pull
ing for every individual and corporative
interest in Dalton, recognizing no fac
tions, no cliques, and no classes as
against others; but shall do my best for
North Georgia and her people, giving
every man an equal showing, abusing no
one and working against no person or
faction.
Os course, the paper will at all times be
devotedly, unswervingly and enthusias
tically democratic.
lam pulling for Dalton and North
Georgia. Now, reciprocate and pull for
The Argus by giving it your advertising,
job work and subscriptions.
A. 11. Shaver.
MR. J. It. STERN.
For the retiring member of the late
firm of Shaver & Stern, we have only the
kindliest feelings and warmest esteem,
and wherever he may east his lot we
shall follow his course with interest, and
hope for his unbounded success. Mr.
Stern has done much for The Argus and
for Dalton, and he will always retain a
warm place in the hearts of the people of
this section, and will always be welcomed
to the hospitality of our people.
To the newspaper fraternity, we would
say that in Mr. Stern they will find a
young man of energy and probity, warm
hearted and true; we cheerfully recom
mend him, feeling that we can say no '
good word of him amiss.
A. H. Shaver.
THE HIHH'SKIItr LAW.
The best bill introduced in regard to
the hoopskirt craze, and the prevention
of its adoption by the women, is one in
troduced into the Alabama legislature by
a facetious member from the rural dis
tricts. It reads: .
Whereas, Knowledge having been
communicated to us through the usual
channel that Madame Fashion has de
creed that the garment formerly worn by
onr ancestors of the Elizebethian period’,
ami commonly designated as the hoop
skirt, shall be worn again by the gentler
sex in this year of our Lord, 1893, there
fore,
Section 1. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Alabama, that plenary power
is delegated to the mayors and council
men of the various cities and towns of
this state to cause the sidewalks of said
towns and cities to be made seventeen
feet wide, in orjer that a young man and
his best girl may be able to walk side by
side on said sidewalks.
JVDGE GRESHAM'S A I*l*ol XTM EXT.
Now, that sober second thought has
conquered, the democrats of the country,
while not enthusiastic on the subject, are
nevertheless becoming fully satisfied
with the appointment, and expressing in
many’ instances, gratification, at Mr.
Cleveland’s course in appointing
Gresham secretary of state.
The appointment of Judge Gresham is
in keeping, with Mr. Cleveland’s record
for independence; be cares little for the
temporary' disapproval the members of
his party and the opposition; his back
bone is as big as a w hale’s, and he is a
man of ideas, thoroughly independent,
and the people love him because that is
so.
The Knoxville Tribune < xpresses this
sensible view of the transaction:
If his selection of Gresham, who repre*
I sents a large and influential element of
voters who are in the act of breaking
away from the Republican pirty, but
who have not yet become democrats,
shall prove a wise selection and a stroke
of good polities that will serve to
strengthen the democratic ranks then
Mr. Cleveland will deserve the thanks of
his party for having the wisdom to see
and the courage to act as he has done.
It has l»eeu said that Mr. Cleveland is
not a politician. This is a mistake. He
1 has proven himself to be one of the best
THK ARGUS-, DALTON, GA., SATURDAY. MARCH 4,1893.
politicians in the country, and a most
successful one. In addition to his
shrewd political judgment he jH>ssesses
an honesty ami independence, and a
courage and daring not often displayed
in politics, but to which he owes his
wonderful popularity and unparallelled
success. VVe are not prepared to express
the opinion that his appointment of
Gresham is not, next to the appointment
of Carlisle, the wisest of his cabinet se
lections.
A HOWL FOR SETTER ROADS,
>
The subject of roads is occupying a
good deal of attention just now in the
press of the south. Everybody has a
word to say about good and bad roads,
and the best method of securing good
roads. And, as usual, there are about as
many “best” methods as there are roads.
However, all agree upon one point, and
that is that lietter roads are needed and
needed at once. And in this conclusion,
they are right. That is, judging from
th<* roads of Whitfield an 1 North Geor
gia.
The weather will soon break, andassoon
as it does, and work on the roads is ren
dered p issible, something should be done
to do away with this custom we have
here of being mud-bound at home when
ever we have a wet spell.
Whitfi ’lil’s public roads are simply as
bad as it is possible for them to be. An
illustration in point will show what an
inconvenience ami cost to the people
and hurt to the merchant our bad roads
really are. A lady from one of Whit
field’s rural districts was in the city a
few days since. A merchant was trying to
sell her some goods. She replied: “No;
I do not want to buy anything; I could
not haul a pill-box home over these
roads.”-
Good roads are needed and every cit
izen of the county is interested in them.
The suggestion and adoption of practical
plans is in order. You can agitate good
roads until doom’s day, but unless prac
tical plans and methods are suggested
and adopted, and active steps taken for
their consummation, you will stop just
where you begun.
The citizens of Athens, Tennessee, have
adopted a novel method of obtaining par
tial and temporary relief from the oppres
sion of the bad roads of McMinn county.
They have offered a reward for the best
peice of road constructed by any road
gang in that county, and they say the
result will baa great improvement in
the roads.
In the absence of any better plan, Dal
ton might try this one. Something must
be done.
The Dublin Post truthfully says that
the newspaper is an index—a looking
glass, as it were, to a town's business.
By the outside world the business of a
town is judged by the advertising patron
age its papers receive. It is therefore
very important that every business and
profession be represented in its columns.
If you business men don’t think you can
take a la.go space, take a small one. By
all means let the public know that you
are living and doing business at the old
stand. It won’t cost you much and it
will help advertise your town to the
world—and by the way, it will foster and
build up one of the greatest factors that
go to make great towns—the newspaper.
In discussing the bill to change Chat
tanooga’s charter, the Times, of that city,
says:
The excuses and reasons given by the
few men of influence who oppose the
Watkins bill, are curious, when looked
at in the light of reason, through an at
mosphere of patriotism.
One says: “The bill’s all right, but,
blank him, Jones is for it, and I’ll favor
nothing Jones even approves of or as
sent to!”
Such curious reasoners exist in other
places besides Chattanooga, but we trust
they will always be absent from Dalton.
No live, thrilling city could get along
with men who opposed measures and
enterprises simply because others favored
them.
The Atlanta Constitution says: “No
observant democrat can blind his eyes to
the fact that the motives and elements
which threatened serious division in
the party in the southern states are still
inexistence. They are not active. They
are held in abeyance.” If the Constitu
tion is alluding to the third party, we
can allay its fears so far as North Geor
is concerned. L’p here the third party is
as dead as a mackerel, and smells a good
deal worse.
Old March is here —
“A roarin?, blusterin? beast of March.
Set free from out a cloud-hung arch
In palliil skies, a* dim of dye
And cold a> frosted violet’s eye.
A lion March that shakee his mane
To fright those steed of golden rein
Whoce charioteer drives on epace
With steady splendor, god-like grace.”
The Manufacturers’ Record reports
that during the week ending February
25th, the organization of new manufac
turing and other enterprises progressed
with more than its accustomed activity.
Old concerns were announcing daily their
intentions to enlarge existing plants, and
a marked increase wa> noticeable in the
number of new ones. New cotton mill
projects continue to come forward, the
past week having two new companies to
its credit. New companies were organ
ized m the south during last week, with
a capital stock aggregating over $1,500,-
000 —all on a solid basis.
The most absent minded man was not
the man who hunted for his pipe
when it was between his teeth, nor the
man who threw his hat out of the win
dow and tied to hang his cigar on the
Deg —no! but the man who put his um
brella to bed and went and stood behind
the door —Acworth Mineral Post.
That is not half as bad as our “devil,”
who often blows himself out and then
pubs the lamp to bed; anil who has been
known to put his dog to bed, and kick
himself down stairs.
Ex-Gov. Bon Taylor, of Tennessee,
tells this good one:
Pat was about to die. The priest had
been called, and had administered the
last services. Then he said “Pat, is
there anything else you desire?” “Yes,”
said Pat, “I want to be buried in a third
party graveyard.” “Why, Pat,” said the
priest, “why is that?” “Well, your
riverence,” says Pat, “a third-party grave
yard is the last place the devil would
look for a democrat.”
The editor of The Argus highly ap
preciates the many encouraging words
extended him, and the flattering com
pliments paid his paper. He feels that
you are honest in your good wishes.
Now, give it a practical demonstration
by patronizing us. Give, us an “ad”; let
us have a fair shake at your job work ;
subscribe for the paper and help us pull
for Dalton and for you.
If it is true, as reported, that Senator
Hill circulated a petition for the appoint
ment of Republican ex-senator Iliscock
to a place on Cleveland’s cabinet when he
heard of Gresham’s appointment, then
the wisdom of the democratic party in
refusing to nominate Hill is more than
vindicated.
A Macon negro stole a copy of the
Constiution from a gentleman of that
city, and the mayor of Macon fined him
sls. If the mayor of Macon will step
up this way, and a take few swipes at our
delinquents, we will donate him a sweet
little kiss.
Bartow county proposes to have good
roads, her commissioners having decided
to work the county’s contacts in the
chain-gang for that purpose, in accordance
with a recent grand jury recommenda
tion. Good for Bartow county.
Rev. Dr. 5k Ferrin and the Chatta
nooga doctors are still disturbing the
walers of L ike Camarilla, and the gen
tle public, with, months agape, gaze anx
iously upon them, looking for muddy
sensations.
Os course Judge Gresham is a demo
crat. He believes in tariff reform, voted
the democratic ticket last fall, and is now
holding a democratic office. If that
don’t make him a democrat, what does it
make him.
The Eistm m Journal is boosting II m.
11. G. Turner for the senate, to succeed
Alfred H. Colquitt. As United States
senator, Mr. Turner would reflect great
credit upon Georgia and the south.
THE EDITOR'S EASY CHAIR.
—Good words of cheer are very pleas
ing to an editor, but cash patronage that
enables him to buy meat, meal and mack
erel goes a long ways farther.
—Editor Trox Bankston h very blue,
because he does not believe Ring
gold will ever be as large as Chicago.
Editor Bankston should be comforted;
Ringgold may be as big as Tunnel Hill
some day, if she keeps on digging.
—The Yale News has nineteen editors
—almost enough of them to support the
paper.
—The editor of the Billville Banner
has been elected mayor of Billville. His
first official act was to have every man in
his town who did not subscribe to the
Banner arrested and fined $lO. How we
wish we were mayor!
—Poor us; six bills to pay and not a
cent in our pocket, makes the first of the
month a very lonesome occasion with us.
But hope springs eternal in the human
breast, and the first of next month we
propose going out of town just like folks.
—1 he old chestnut about a new morn
ing paper in Atlanta still dangles its griz
zled whiskers in the wind.
—The Constitution vigorously denied
the silly rumor that it would consolidate
with the other Atlanta daiies. Die ru
mor was indeed a very silly one, ami
hardly worth refutation. All the At
lanta papers seem to doing well, and
a consolidation would simply encourage
the starting of another.
—Ellen Dortch now edits the Milledge
ville Chronicle, and, no doubt, Sid Lewis
will soon begin to feel an uncomfortable
warmness in the neighborhood of his of
fice. Miss Dortch usually stirs up all the
boys in the neighborhood.
—Editor McCutchen, of the Franklin
News, is an editor alter our own heart.
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Hear him: “All the Georgia editors are
seeking foreign missions. It will suit
ns to remain in onr old job as envoy ex
traordinay and minister plenipotentiary,
as well as general consul an 1 viceroy at
the great sanctum of the News and Bai
ner.”
—The Cochran News is the smallest
paper in the state —in size. The “smal
lest” paper in the state is the—but there
is no need of giving it away.
—A middle Georgia editor offers to
take “anything green” in exchange for
subscription —“even if it grows on a tur
nip.” That’s the spirit that insures jour-z
nalistic success. Take anything you canl
lay your hand t on-
—A South Georgia editor emits ibis
Gospel truth.
“Tell me, angelic hosts,
Ye messengers of love,
Shall suffering editors below
Have no redress above?
The angel band replied:
‘To us is knowledge given—
Delinquents on the printer’s books,
Can never enter heaven!' ”
—Editor Glen of the Cleveland Prog
ress runs a column of “clipped clippings.”
This is astounding. VVe have never im
agined that an editor could so far forget
himself as to “clip” his clippings.
—The Monroe Journal, Editor Burr,
and the Quitman . Sun, Editor Haulon,
have sought out for themselves a quiet
nook in the journalistic graveyard. It is a
sad comment on both Forsyth and Quit
man.
—The editor of the Albany Herald
complains that they are short on water
down in that section. We never beard
of an editor being short on water before;
that is, unless he means fire water. j
—Editor Nealon, of the
Democrat, received a valentine describ
ing Nealon as “the boss liar.” Nealon
don’t like it. He says: “Whenever we
find out the name of the person who sent
it, we will give that person a very com
plimentary notice and see whether or not
they change their opinion as to our
truthfulness.” Nealon must be a sensi
tive cuss; the idea of getting offended at
a little thing like that.
—The Atlanta Journal is very natu
rally offended at the rumors and chaffing
going the rounds of the press to the ef
fect that all of its staff are applying for
presidential appointment to office. The
Journal did good work for Mr. Cleveland
and democracy, and if any of the mem
bers of its staff want recognition for their
services, why not let them have them.
We hope everyone of them will get every
thing wanted.
APPRECIATED COMPLIMEX fS. S
—Our old friend, Addison II Shaver,"
is making The Dalton Argus the
best weekly in Georgia.—Hale’s Weekly.
—One of the best weekly papers we
ever saw or heard tell of is- The Dalton
Argus.—Rockwood (Tenn.) Free Ballot.
—The Dalton Argus is one of the
best papers we receive these days. It re
flects great credit on Dalton to have such
a paper, and she should be proud of it. —•
Acworth Mineral Post.
—Dalton is not only furnishing the
state with good weekly newspapers, but
with poets who rhyme beautifully. —Con-
stitution.
Dalton ItuildiiiK au<l Loan Association
vs.
W. M. LONER.
Rule to Foreclose Mortgage—lu Whitfield Supe
rior Court.
GEORGIA. WHITFIELD COI NTY:
To the Superior Court of said County:
The petition of the Dalton Building & I.o:”i
Association, a body corporate under the laws <n
Georgia, shows that Win. Loner is indebted to
petitioner in the sum of one hundred dollars, "
side interest, and other charges as will appei
froina bond executed by the said Loner to peti
tioner o i the 7th day of October. 1890, which n>
here in ourt to be shown, and petitioner further
shows t ant to secure payment of said bond Hie
sai<. Ij ner did at the same time execute to your
petitii ner a mortgage on the following describee
real estate in the county of Whitfield, state ot
Georgia, to-wit: Forty acres of land lying outlie
south stile and being" the southern portion of lot
No. Eighty five in the 12th district and third sec
tion. ‘ .
And petitioner shows that according to tne
terms of the said contract, the same is now 'tue
and payable, and said Loner lai.s and refuses to
pay the . ame. , ,
Wherefore petitioner preys the passing ot
order by this court ordering sail! Loner to P ll .
Hie amount due on Hie bond or siiow cause wttJ
his equity of redemption should'not be bttri't
ami the mortgage foreclosed
R. J. <fc JMcCamy, Petioner Attorneys.
rpHE foregoing recitals read and considete .
I It is. therefore, ordered by the Court tua
defendant pay into Court due us alleged, or snow
cause at tne next term of Whitfield Supeno
Cour, why the Mortgige should not be foreclose
ami defendant’s equity of redemption be ioi
ever barred. This October llth, 1892.
THUS. W. MILNER,
.1. S. C. c. C.
A tine extr act front! the Minutes of Whitrn
Superior Centt. November ?'th, 1892.
deed -lam It D. Snot , Cle: ab. (•