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THE DALTON ARGUS.
Vol. XVI—No. 6.
LOCAL MELANGE.
The Week’s Doings of Our People
Revealed to All.
pAPPENINGS OF NOTE
Transpiring in Dnlton and Vicinity—
Fctponri of The First Water
Dished Ont for All.
The grip is losing its grip.
A negro had his leg cut off by the train,
near Varnells, Wednesday night.
Newton Beers’ “Lost in London”
Thursday night drew a good house.
Rob O’Neill had his hand seriously in
jured, a few days since, by an explosion of
powder.
The Argus extends its sympathy to
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Fincher in the loss of
their baby.
The Royal Arch Chapter met Thurs
day night, and several parties rode the
first “R. A.” goat.
Cotton was bringing 7f for middling
yesterday. Our buyers bought about
forty bales Thursday.
Cherokee Manufacturing company
■ports business fine—all the orders
deeded being received.
Services, tomorrow: by Rev. J. B.
Craighill, 11 a. m. at Calhoun; 7:25 p.
in., St. Mark’s church, Dalton.
There has been a good deal of hog
killing weather this winter, and yet —tho
delinquent subscriber still lives.
The Dalton banks say that the collec
tions of their merchant customers are far
better than last year at this time.
Jesse Trotter & Sons have been distrib
uting some very handsome engraved
and embossed calendars the past week.
Mrs. R. P. Manly entertained the Cosie
last evening. The occasion was an en
joyable one, and the menu was simply
magnificent.
The Knights of Pythias had an inter
esting and enthusiastic meeting last
night. This excellent order is growing
in strength here.
Redwine, the Atlanta defaulter, plead
guilty after the presecution closed. His
fttorneyc said the testimony against him
was unanswerable.
Afflie plant of the Crystal Ice Corn
■ny will be sold to the highest bidder,
wis afternoon, at 3 o’clock. A good in
vestment for somebody.
Our Red Clay letter arrived too late
(yesterday afternoon) for us to handle.
The Tilton and Tunnel Hill letters failed
to show up at all this week.
The Argus is indebted to Col. W. H.
Pruden, D. K McKatny, T. R. Young,
W. E. Oslin, Bryant & Fincher and J.
Trotter & Sons for handsome calendars.
A Mr. Roach living in Crow Valley,
held No. 280, and drew John H. Bender’s
fine doll. Reclaimed it this week, hav
ing seen in The Argus that 280 drew it.
The Argus is indebted to Chas. H.
Baker, cashier of the Union Central Life
Insurance Company, Atlanta, Ga., 305
Equitable Building, for a handsome cal
endar for 1804.
Frank Manly says: “The Argus is
•certainly an advertising medium that it
s anyone to use. I have good re
is from my Argus ‘ads.’, and they
area good investment.”
Married in Dalton, December 28th,
1893, at the residence of the bride’s
father, Mr. James C. Milam, of Carters
ville, to Miss Jennie L , (laughter of Col.
W. J. M* Thomas, Rev. J. B. Craighill
officiating.
In Rome Tuesday night, Miss Mamie
D. W ood, a niece of Mr. Luke Callaway,
of Dalton, was married to Rev. James T.
Iziwe, of Chipley, Ga. Rev. Dr. Morgan
Callaway, of Oxford, Ga., performed the
ceremony. , •
Judge Bogle asks us to say that the
widows of Confederate Soldiers, who
drew pensions last year, are notified that
the blanks have arrived, and they are
requested to meet in his office on Satur
day, January 20th, 1894.
. fl'elirst Methodist church has put
handsome new stoves, bought from
■C A. & s. E. Berry, and the church
auditorium is now absolutely comforta
’le, and free from the noxious gases
winch were generated by the old stoves.
HBulge Bogle desires The Argus to say
young people contemplating mar
’age that he is not a ten-cent man ; that
a* will accept no more ten-cent fees for
Mmcing couples. He must have at least
o cents per ceremony, or two for 25
cents.
i, h le annual meeting of the stock
olders of the First National Bank, Tues
ay, the same officers were re-elected fqr
another year, and the same directors,
with the exception that J. B. Headrick
was substituted for J. D. Collins, re
signed.
. " • H- Beckner’s place of business was
osed Wednesday by O. D. Simpson &
”•> of Chattanooga, who held a small
nortgage on it. Mr. Beckner’s liahili
•'■s were small and are fully covered by
ock, which will be sold bv the sheriff
next month.
Dn Tuesday night, December 2G, 1893,
a _barty of Ringgold ian s attended a re-
IMhon in Dalton given by the Misses
JBF n J°ns, who visited Mrs. Beall in the
pnstoric City last month. The reception
p'as to Mrs. E. W. Beall,
LEADING PAPER OF NORTH GEORGIA.
of this city. The Ringgoldians in attend
ance were : Mrs. E. W. Beall, Miss Liz
zie McGhee, Miss Emma Vosburgh and
Miss Emma McGhee. Messrs. Jesse
Cravens, W. Trox Bankston, Jas. Crav
ens, Dick Kemp, Mark Trimmier and
Paul Anderson. The Daltonians present
added to the enjoyment of the occasion.
—Ringgold New South.
Sheriff Frazier and Mr. E. R. Hamil
ton carried ,1. J. Stand, the crazy man of
the Bethel neighborhood, down to Mil
ledgeville Monday night. They had
some trouble in getting him out of the
jail, as he was very wild, cunning and
obstreperous. He seems to get more and
and more crazy every day.
E. W. Jackson, the “slick duck,” who,
under the name of E. L. Palmer, took in
Manager Hester, of the Hotel Dalton,
and the Showalter Printing Company,
week before last, and several parties in
Atlanta and Chattanooga, is now in jail
in Atlanta, in default of a $2,000 bond,
for using the mails for fraudulent pur
poses.
Mrs. Tom Morgan, of Atlanta, wife of
the well-known and popular Western
and Atlantic conductor, has been quite
sick with a heart affection at the resi
dence of Mr. Fred Moore, on Selvidge
street, for about two weeks past. She
has been quite low, but is now much
better, and the speedy recovery of her
usual health is hoped for. Dr. J. C. Biv
ings is attending her.
Whitfield county isprobably the poor
est county in the state when it comes to
the legal advertising patronage given the
newspaper. At this season, when the
other papers are filled with it, The Ar
gus has virtually none. This speaks
well for the prosperous condition of our
people, but it says the man who runs a
newspaper in Dalton has to hustle and
dig for everything he gets.
Several times, some one of our agents
or correspondents has written us:
“Send The Argus to Mr. Blank, Blank
ville.” We have sent the paper to Mr.
Blank, and about six months thereafter
Mr. Blank has written to inform us that
he did not authorize our agent to put his
name down, taking six months and over
to find out that he was getting it. Our
agents can see at a glance why we require
the money with the order, or hold the
agent responsible for subscriptions sent.
In Spring Place, Wednesday morning
two ditchers, recently arrived there from
near Cartersville, had a quarrel aiidxme,
named Turner, cut the other, named
Long, very severely. Long was stabbed
twice in the back, twice in chest, his
face was cut open from scalp to chin, the
principal muscle of his left arm was sev
ered, and he was cut in several other
places. Dr. Anderson, who is attending
him, believes he will live, notwithstand
ing his many wounds. Turner is in jail
at Spring Place.
Next week the big clearing
sale begins at
Loveman & Sons.
Fresh lot plain and fancy crackers
just in. John H. Bender.
Still in the Ring I
We do not propose to be undersold
by parties handling cheap goods
We sell the cheapest groceries in the
city, quality considered.
Laffitte & Brdgman.
New Goods I New Goods I
Over 200 pieces of floor maltings
just received from China and Joppa.
We are direct importers in these
goods and can sell them lower than
ever. New patterns and styles. See
our new chairs, bed lounges and bed
room suits.
Let us put down your carpets and
matting while we can sell them to
you cheap.
We are looking to the interest of
our customers all the time, by keeping
the very best and selling at the low
est possible price.
CHEROKEE FURNITURE CO.
Finest Oysters on the market at
Davis & Son’s.
Many mickles makes a muckle. Save
your nickies by trading at Bargain Shop.
What to Doi
When you want fresh produce of any
kind, come down to see me.
Horace J. Smith*.
For Sale. •
House and lot owned by Mrs. Alice
E. Love, adjoining Mr. John Townly.
For terms apply to C. F. Townly, or
Miss Nora Love.
Guaranteed the cheapest school tab
lets for children in the city. Bryant
& Fincher.
4 spools thread, 200 yards on spool, 10c.
Tapp’s Bargain Shop.
Beat Canned Goods.
We handle the reliable brands of
the Celebrated Califo-nia Canned
Goods (all kinds), and we cannot be
undersold. Laffitte & Bridgman.
W. B. McCarson, of North Hamilton
street, is receiving Fresh Goods in every
line, cheaper than ever.
DAL ION, GA., SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1894.
ONLY PAPER PUBLISHED IN WHITFIELD COUNTY.
PERSONAL MOONSHINE.
Distilled by The Favorites of Dal
ton’s Sweet Society.
WHERE YOU ARE GOING
And Where You Have Been Told in
The Maine Brent h—A Flood
of Little Personniw.
Ti ylor Terrell was in the city Thurs
day.
Mrs. J. C. Fincher is reported much
better.
R. H. Baker spent Thursday in Chat
tanooga.
J. L. Bender has about fully recovered
from the grip.
Miss Ella Lewis made a visit to At
lanta this week.
Frank F. Baker went up to Chatta
nooga Wednesday.
Miss Agnes Morris went down to Fair
burn, Ga., last Saturday.
A. G. Flemister made a business trip
to Chattannoga Thursday.
Mrs. J. B. Headrick and children visit
friends in Tunnel Hill today.
Rev. Habersham J. Adams spent part
of this week at home in Dalton.
Col. C. N. King, of Spring Place, orna
mented Dalton’s thoroughfares Thurs
day.
Gus Callaway, of Pistol, Wilkescounty,
Ga., is visiting his brother, Chad Calla
way.
J. C. Gleason’s mother, of Knoxyille,
visited him the past week at Hotel Dal
ton.
Jesse Warmack has moved from the
Rural Vale neighborhood to Cleveland.
Tenn.
Clever Walter McGhee, of Chatta
nooga, was circulating around town yes
terday.
Mrs. Frank Pierce is visiting her
mother, Mrs. J. E. Chitwood, at Emer
son, Ga.
R. M. Miller, a solid farmer of Dawn
ville, paid The Argus an appreciated call
Thursday.
Sam Loveujan will return fr Ills
trip to Gadeden and Tuscaloosa Monday
or Tuesday.
Mrs. A. A. Echols, of Summerville
Ga., has been visiting Mrs. C. B. Echols,
on Pentz street.
James Shinholser, a live farmer of Fill
more, paid The Argus an appreciated
call a few days since.
D. Bukofzer was down from Chatta
nooga Thursday, making glad the hearts
of his Dalton friends.
J. IL Saxon, of Grassdale, Ga., was at
the Lewis House this week, to the de
light of his Dalton friends.
Major Alley, of Wartrace, Tenn., is
visiting his daughter, Mrs. Mattie Lou
Trevitt, on Thornton avenue.
Mrs. W. E. Bryan and Mrs. S. E. Fair
banks were with their brother, Major C.
B. Lyle in his last moments.
H. C. Cabcock has been in Ohio, on
business for the Cherokee, this week.
He is expected home Tuesday.
J. T. Whitman’s eye continues to pro
gress nicely, and he hopes in. a little
while to see as well as he ever did.
J. D. Hall, of Prater’s Mill, returned
yesterday from Cartersville, where he
has been attending court this week.
Rev. Win. Shelton, J. W. Brown and
Berry Turner, of Tilton, were made
Royal Arch Masons Thursday night.
Col. Sam P. Maddox spent several
days this week in Centre, Ala., on legal
business for the East Tennessee road.
Mrs. E. H. Carman, and little Leila
May, are visiting the family of her
brother, Geo. L. Morris, in Birmingham.
Miss Flora Lester is back at her post
in the public schools, after spending the
holidays with her sister in Montgomery,
Ala.
E. H. Carman, of the Cherokee Furni
ture Company, spent Monday in Atlanta,
and bought some big bargains in furni
ture.
Mrs. Carrie Bass, of Floyd county, is
visiting her sister, Mrs. H. A. Russell, on
Selvidge street. Mrs. Russell is still
quite sick.
Mrs. T. L. Brooke and son have re
turned from a pleasant visit to relatives
in our sister city, Dalton. —Ringgold
New South.
Bob Bazemore, the live and hustling
representative of DeJournette & Co.,
made a business trip for his firm to Blue
Springs Tuesday.
Miss Agnes Morris has returned to her
post in Natchetoches, La , after spending
several weeks in Dalton to the delight of
her many friends.
Sain Farnsworth and Will Townley at
tended the big poultry show in Atlanta
this week, and were delighted with the
display of fine fowls.
Mrs. Sarah J. Lewis, Miss Ella Lewis
and Mrs Lake Quillian are all rapidly
recovering from the grip. Dr. John I.
Harris is attending them.
Letters received from Miss Maysie
O’Neill, by her friends here, state that
she is delighted with her position in the
Brunswick public schools.
Marshal Fincher’s wife and mother
have been quite sick with la grippe, and
Mr. Fincher had to put Wm. Hanna on
in his place several days. We are glad
to be able to state that Mr. Fincher’s
people are better and still improving.
Will Bender visited relatives in Ring
gold last Sunday.
Master Fred Maddox has fully recov
ered from his Christmas injuries, and on
the streets again.
Misses Frankie Hall and Nellie Prater,
two of Amzi’s most charming young la
dies, are visiting Miss Carrie Thomas, on
North Hamilton street, this week.
J. F. Camp, the gentleman recently
filled with shot by J. J. Stand, the crazy
man, is about all right again, and has re
sumed his duties in the government ser
_vice.
A few days back, that jolly singer,
Prof. H. F. dash, of Amzi, came in and
made the editor happy by his visit.
Cash always carries sunshine wherever
he goes.
Miss Julia Pinkerton has just returned
home after a pleasant visit to relatives at
Calhoun and Dalton. She was accom
panied by her cousin, Mr. Pisey, of Ne
braska. —Cartersville Courant-American.
Wilbur Carman, of Union City, Tenn., a
nephew of E. H. Carman, is the latest
addition to Dalton’s citizenship. He
will live with E. H. Carman, and be
connected with the Cherokee Furniture
Company.
Clever J. B. Brown, of Murray, paid
The Argus a pleasant call Monday. Mr.
Brown has sixty-two head of liorses and
mules to sell this month, and he will
reap the good effects of North Georgia
stock raising.
Prof. Sam Clontz was in the city Sat
urday on business. Also, Sara Seymour,
of Varnells, was on the streets telling his
anecdotes to the boys. Nir. Seymour
said he did without his dinner Saturday
until after 2 o’clock, but could not do
without The Argus longer than twelve.
Capt. J. H. Kenner will farm this year,
but will not move his family out until
about May Ist. The Captain says he
has lived in town until he has spent
about all he made on the farm, and that
he is going back .to farming to make
more money, and that when he gets rich,
he will come back to town to live.
C. E. Broyles, of East Chattanooga,
was down on his old stamping ground
Thursday. His brother, Frank Broyles,
of Den ver, .Colorado, who is now on a
visit to Charlie, was with him. Frank
Broyles Iras Deen an engineer 141 the
passenger service of the Denver and itiu
Grande railroad for ten years, and his
Georgia friends were glad to see him.
Fine sun-dried apples, Nicest in
city, 8c pound. John H. Bender.
Royal Ginghams, newest
style, at 7c. per yard.
Loveman & Sons.
Cheap Spot Cash Groceries I
I am giving the people great bar
gains in groceries.
Best New Orleans Syrup, 40c.
Good brooms, 15c.
Fresh Country Butter, 15c.
Sweet potatoes, 15c. peck.
Arbuckle’s Coffee, 25c. pound, and
everything else in proportion for spot
cash. J. B. Headrick,
Old Bazemore Stand.
Dried and pickled tongues at Davis
& Son’s.
Cotton seed meal and hulls. Try
them. T. A. &8. E. Berry.
Strong Household Ammonia, large
size, 10c. Bryant & Fincher.
Shafting, Pulleys, Babbit Metal and
Supplies. FRANK MANLY.
Ribs and backbones, backbones
and ribs, at B. R. Bowen’s meat
market.
Paints and Oils. Largest supply,
best goods, lowest prices. Bryant &
Fincher.
For Rent.
My late residence on North Depot
street (9 rooms), with er without gar
den. Ben E. Green.
New Prints ! New Goods
in all our lines !
Loveman & Sons.
Something Truly Nice I
Pure leaf lard, smoked hams, shoulders,
side meat, nice and sweet, of my own
curing—the best eating you ever stuck a
tooth in. Come quick and get some!
B. R. Bowen.
fitted in health. I shall cast a long lin
gering look when I go, I can assure you,
at the green crowned sentinels standing
guard over the city, where soon sweet
spring violets and wildflowers will bloom
in every lane and byway, and every tree
will don a dress of living green. 1 think
of the dreary winds, that cut like a knife,
and the icicles and drifting snow, of my
native hills as I write this, and then I
look from the window and watch the
birds awhile, as they fly to and fro, in
the warm balmy air, and twitter softly of
the spring (so near at hand—not much
warmer than your winters Hoping that
some day I will see you all again, I re
main, Your admirer,
Bkrtie Emerson Bentley.
One Dollar a Year
AS OTHERS SEE US.
A Stranger Within Our Gates
Writes of Dalton.
IN LOVE WITH US ALL.
And Absolutely Fnchantetf By Onr
Town and Sectian—A Towe-
iot’o Pretty Letter.
Dalton, Ga., January 11th, 1894.
To the Editor of the Argus.
Many and many a mile have I traveled
through the South’s broad, sunny do
mains but never a cosier, sunnier, resting
place have I found than Dalton, Ga.,
among the mountains. I had traveled
miles, until becoming so weary, that I
could stand the cars no longer. I con
cluded that I would get off at the next
stopping point, and recruit for a night, at
some comfortable hotel. And here I re
mained several days. For I say truth
fully, that when I had seen Dalton, I
could not at once leave.
I arose the next morning and dressed
myself preparatory to resuming my jour
ney. I happened to look out of the win
dow; well, that one look sufficed. I
am here yet; and it is owing to what I
saw. The sunlight fell in a flame of liv
ing gold, full upon Rachel’s hill on one
hand, and flashed its penetrating lances
along the purple-hazed Blue Ridge in the
distance. Surrounded by mountains, cov
ered with its luxuriant green foliage of
pine and bracken of fir, Dalton lies nestled
in as beautiful a valley as one would wish
to see. Modest and unassuming, yet with
all the luxuries at one’s door that money
can procure, and a wealth of nature
within the reach of all.
I think of my birthplace, far away in
the crowded East, and how I long “that
some of those poor unfortunates, who
have never even seen a field daisy, or
even a dusty buttercup growing by the
wayside,” could look with me just once,
on this little city, which has all nature to
keep its virtues alive, and which opens
its gates so hospitably to every stranger.
Far up on the mountain sides I can see
palatial residences. And the city guar
dians strive with luigh. and. ma in t>>
ita ,<ure rs xne air Thar one daily
breathes here.
I And two hotels here, one the Lewis
House, with its courtly host and hostess,
its broad old-fashioned galleries, and its
wide green lawn, while its table smacks,
of the genuine and bountiful southern
hospitality, which not only exists in
their welcome to all guests, but shows
plainly in their excellent bill of fare.
Then, there is the Hotel Dalton, truly
handsome in exterior and interior both.
The number of beautiful rooms aston
ished me, and when utilizing the hand
some elevator and electric buttons, and
noting the wide, soft carpeted hails and
double parlors, with its superbly toned
piano, 1 marvel considerably.
Tourists, scurrying on toward Jackson
ville, Fla., and other points further
South, stop awhile and look at Dalton as
I have done. All ye millionaire*, with
your pains and aches and your pet gout,
come hither and be cured. At tne Hotel
Dalton is room for many more, just like
you, and I am sure that the charming
hostess of either hotel will give you a
right royal welcome.
1 have written East to many of mv
friends, and I have invited one and all,
old maids, young maids, old bachelors
and widows. So look, out next summer,
for a crowd of blue spectacled Bostonians,
with spy glasses in hand and a book of
botany under either arm. There will be
the demure, young old-maid, looking for
the cow that gives buttermilk. There
will be the eye-glassed dude, trying to
ride one of your Dalton donkeys; there
will be Miss Arabella, “Love me, love me
only,” of Beacon Hill, and old Professor
Bean, who hates women, and runs from
a charming widow as if an enraged bull
were after hjin; and then there will be
such a lot of New Yorkers—sw< lis, my
dear Dalton young ladies; so tiy and look
your prettiest when they all come trail
ing in. They will not look very nice at
first, with probably a cinder in each eye,
a streak of car soot on each nose, and an
awful longing for something to eat, but
remember, “that they have all come from
afar, and that after they been refreshed
with a meal from either the Hotel Dal
ton’s or the Lewis House’s damty and
plentiful tables, they will all be them
seives once more.
I shall soon take my departure from
this daer place, but I shall always re
member the kindness and the courtesy I
have received here. I only wish those
great cities, East and North, could sead
some of their clerks from out their great
stores, “both wholesale and retail,” down
here to Georgia, in order to take a few
lessons in etiquette and general polite
ness in their individual lines of business.
What a boon some of these Dalton cerks
would prove to the crowds of weary,
struggling women on bargain days, in
Boston and New York. I really dothint
that if the average New Yorker, or Bos
tonian were to ever come here and gq
shopping, that he or she, would simply
stand stock still and watch the clerk with
open mouth and awe-stricken eyes, for
getful of what they wished to buy.
Such is the difference between the two
classes of saleamen.
I came here weary and tired out; I
leave here with regret, but much bene
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