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VOL. XXXIII—NO. 2.
WHITFIELD COUNTY FARMERS’ FAIR
NOT "MONEY MAKING MACHINE”
IT takes money to run a fair, the same as anything
ELSE—IMPRESSION THAT JUST A FEW PEOPLE OWN AND
CONTROL IT IS WRONG.
The opinion prevailing among some
few that a few people are getting rich
out of the Whitfield County Farmers
fair and that it is really “a money
making machine” can not be under
stood by those who are familiar with
the inside workings of the fair asso
ciation.
At the receint meeting of the execu
tive committee and officers of the fair
the question was brought up and dis
cussed by those present, and if anyone
had been present they would have dis
covered that it takes money to run a
fair just the same as it does any other
institution.
Before the fair association decided
to move to the present grounds, they
were in fairly good shape financially,
so to speak, but being on partly leas
ed ground, which they were unable
to buy, it became necessary to move
to the present location and to purchase
the ground. That made it necessary
to move the fence, erect additional
fencing, move the buildings, making
repairs, etc., all of which took over
fifteen hundred dollars. It was found
necessary to cover the building this
year, which cost two hundred dollars.
SOUTHERN BRIGS SUIT
AGAINST ».L»S
Claims Damages to Amount of $1,440
For Allowing Crossties to Remain
On Their Property for a Number of
Years.
A case of interest filed in the Whit
field Superior Court to come up at
the April term, 1911, is that of the
Southern Railway vs. W. L. Williams,
of Cohutta, in which the road brings
suit against Mr. Williams for damag
es.
The road claims damages against
Williams for allowing crossties to re
main on the right-of-way of the rail
road for a number of years. The
damages claimed by the road amount
to $1,440, which they will seek to re
cover.
The suit brought about by the Sou
thern against Mr. Williams takes a
turn in affairs, for the court records
show that quite a large number of
eases have been docketed by Mr. Wil
liams against the Southern, and it
now seems like the road is unwilling
to have things going one way all the
time.
TECHNICALITY SAVES
NEGRO MURDERERS
Atlanta, Nov. 16—Jim Black and
Charles Julian, two of the negroes
f onvicted of murdering Motorman
Io own and wounding Conductor Bry-
Fo n in the Druid Hill street car hold
"I 1 last spring, have been granted new
trials by the supreme court. The new
tnals are granted on the.ground that
the judge of the lower court erred in
oot charging the jury of circumstan
tial evidence.
Bogle Inspecting Roads.
Ordinary Jos. Bogle was out on the
Maddox Mill road and the River Bend
roads today inspecting some work be
lng done on these roads.
THE DALTON ARGUS.
LEADING OF NORTH GEORGIA.
The total receips of the fair this
'season w’ere about $1,400, and the ex
jpenses for premiums and other neces
j sary things, was about a thousand dol
lars.
The fair association paid these ex
penses, together with the interest on
the outstanding notes, and paid S4OO
fair association is owned by sixty or
association still owing a healthy lit
tle balance.
There is another false impression
prevailing, to the effect that the Whit
field county fair is owned and con
trolled by only a few people, “who
are making money out of it.” The
; fair association is owned by siixty or
more stockholders, each owning shares
of five to twenty-five dollars each, and
not since the fair ground was moved
! has a dividend been declared, and if
anyone concludes “there is money in
it,” stock can be easily procured, and
not above par either.
The facts set forth are at the re
quest of the executive committee and
officers representing the fair associa
tion, to give the public generally to
understand that it is not the object
of the Whitfield -County Fair asso
ciation to make money.
COttClAlfE OF THE
KNIGHT TEMPLARS
Sir Knight Chas. S. Wood, of Savan
nah, Grand Recorder of State, Made
Inspection of Commandary.
One of the most interesting meeting
that has been held for some time was
pulled off at the Masonic Temple last
night by St. John’s Commandary, No.
19. Sir Knight Chas. S. Wood, of
Savannah. Ga., grand recorder of the
Grand Commandary of the state of
Georgia, having made this Comman
dary a visit as Grand Instructor. Sir
Knight Wood was met at the train
by a committee from the Commandary
and was escorted to the Temple, tho
Commandary was opened in full form
after which the Commandary repair
ed to the dining room of Mr. L. Buch
holz, where a delicious banquet was
served.
The Sir Knights then repaired to
the Temple and were instructed by Sir
Knight Wood, who seemed to be well
pleased by the work done by the local
Commandary. Quite a number of
the local Sir Knights were present
and seemed to enjoy the evening verv
much.
CAT EATS PEANUTS
LIKE A MONKEY
Now just listen to this, and don’t
say 0, scat!
Clifford Carey is proudly claiming
to have a cat that will eat green beans
cabbage and roasted peanuts. He
says that he raised the uat himself
and that it learned to eat green beans
from the bushes in the garden and
that soon after it began eating raw
cabbage, and now, since there is no
green beans, that the cat has gone to
eating roasted peanuts like a monkey.
A woman is foolish to resort to
tears unless she has a lot of confi
dence in her complexion.
DALTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER, 17, 1910.
HALL COMMITTEES Will
MEETSIITIIIIMVP.iI.
At 2 O’clock at the Court House to
Look Into the Possibilities of Erect
« ing a New Hall.
The committees from the various
secret societies of Dalton, which have
been appointed to co-operate with
each other, looking into the possibili
ties of erecting a secret order hall,
will meet Saturday afternoon at 2
o’clock at the court house.
It is the intention of the secret or
ders to erect a large two or three
story building, of which the top story
would be used for the ha'l, the meet
ing place of the various orders; the
lower part, or any other which would
not be used by the orders would be
rented.
The various orders are now paying
about from S4OO to SSOO a year rent
on the present hall, so by erecting
their own place, applying the amount
they are now paying for rent and with
what the other part of the building
would pay as rent and an additional
assessment of from SSO to SIOO an
nually, would be able to cover the cost
of the building of the new one in the
course of a few years.
The committees from the various
lodges which have been appointed as
“hall committees” are requested to
meet at the court house Saturday
afternoon at 2 o’clock.
GOES 10 MOBILE 10
ERECT TEST WALLS
M. D. & H. L. Smith Company Fur
nish Walls for Aviation Meet—J.
W. Lupo Superintends the Work.
J. W. Lupo left Wednesday for
Mobile, Ala., where he will superin
tend the erection of tent walls for
the M. D. & H. L. Smith Co., which |
will be used in the aviation meet to |
be held there all next week, beginning i
Monday.
The tent walls supplied by the local
concern will be 12 feet high and a j
mile in length, inside of which the i
fights of the machines will be made.
The machines used will be of the Cur- i
tiss make and daily flights will be
made. i
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GLENN CURTISS AND HIS FLYING MACHINE
Which Will Fly at the Aviation Meet in Mobile, Ala., All Next Week. A
local Dalton firm is erecting a mile of canvas walls for the promoters
of the Enterprise.
BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM IN PIEDMONT SECTION.
CARROLL ANNOUNCES
FOR CITY CLERK
Has Made City Efficient Officer and
Will Likely Have No Opposition—
Will Appreciate Your Support.
Wm. Carroll, the clever and effici
ent city clerk, has announced as a
candidate to succeed himself to the
office of city clerk. His announce
ment appears below.
Mr. Carroll has made the city a
most efficient officer and will likely
have no opposition in the cominsr elec
tion. The people can make no mis
take in again choosing him as city
clerk with the assurance that their
support will be appreciated.
Mr. Carroll’s announcement fol
lows.
For City Clerk:
To the Voters of the City of Dalton:
I hereby announce myself as a can
didate for the office of city clerk. I
offer my past record for examination
and will assure you that I will appre
ciate your support at the election.
December 14.
Respectfully yours,
W. M. CARROLL.
“Yes, I will marry you if you will
make over your entire fortune to me.”
“But dearest, how could I ever pay
you alimony, then?”—Philadelphia
Ledger.
HORSE SWAPPERS
. ARE IN SESSION
Traders are Arriving and Much Horse
Flesh is Exepected to Change Hands
During Next Few Days.
The annual Horse Swappers’ con
vention started Wednesday and will
be in session the remainder of the
week. The advance guard has arriv
ed and by tomorrow it is expected that
the business will begin in earnest.
It is the season of the year that many
exchanges are made and many ani
mals are ready for the market, the
owners considerng what it will cost
to winter stock, with the present high
price of corn.
Before the week is ended it is pre
dicted that there will be many ex
changes of horse flesh in this section.
BELVA 10CKW0JD CELEBRATES
80TH BIRTHDAY IN WASHINGTON
WOMAN LAWYER VISITED DALTON IN CONNECTION WITH THE
CHEROKEE INDIAN CLAIMS, WHERE SHE WILL HAVE TO
ANSWER SUIT AGAINST HER FOR DAMAGES TO AMOUNT OF
SIO,OOO.
Belva A. Lockwood, who made the
race for president on the woman's
suffrage ticket, celebrated her 80th
lirthday Monday in Washington. She
received many letters and telegrams of
congratulation from all over the coun
try.
Mrs. Lockwood, it will be remem
bered, visited Dalton some time ago,
and other places in this section, where
the claims were paid the descendents
of the Cherokees. While in Rome,
she was instrumental in having James
Brackett, a resident of Murray county,
arrested and placed in jail in Dalton,
and he was later taken to Rome, •where
he was released. The charges prefer-
METHODISTS
Athens. Ga.. Nov. 16—The feature
of the annual meeting: of the Widows
and Orphans’ Aid Society, held as a
preliminary to the annual conference
of the North Georgia Methodists last
night, was a powerful address by
Bishop J. C. Kihro on “Heroism in
Ordinary Things, or the Man Who
Makes Things Great and Does Not
H<ve»to Be Made Great.”
The officers of the association were
re-elected: President M. J. Cofer, of
Atlanta; vice president. B. F. Allen,
of Cedartown; secretary and treasur
er. S. D. Ledbetter, of Atlanta. Sev
eral new members were added to the
list.
Some neat contributions were ac
cepted. The association has on hand
invested about $5,000. It. has paid
out during the past year $3,800 to the
widows of six preachers who died dur
ing the year, the amounts paid each ,
beneficiary being SIOO on the death i
of the preacher and about S4OO later.
Those who have died this year were:
Revs. J F. Mixon, J. N. Snow, Ford
Mcßae, W. A. Parks, J. Q. Walts, J.
A. Thurmond. A committee. C. W.
Smith, L. Williams and S. B. Led
better, was appointed to consider a
change in the constitution nrovidiing
for restrictions upon membership in
this protective and benevolent order
within the conference.
STRANGE ROMANCE COMES
TO A CLOSE IN ATLANTA
Atlanta, Nov. 16—A strange ro
mance which has stretched over half
a continent came to a close yesterday
in Atlanta, when little Mildred Phipps,
the 7-year-old girl who walked all the
way from St. Louis with her father
this summer, was turned over formal
ly to Miss Bernardine Graver, an
aunt of the child, who had followed all
the way from the west to be in pos
session of the little one. Edgar C.
Phipps, the father, has signed a pa
per releasing all claims on the child.
Edgar Phipps is a strange charac
ter. He came to Atlanta two or three
( weeks ago. with the little girl, whom he
took to the associated charities, but
asked no aid for himself, though it
developed he syas penniless. Phipps
is suffering from a fear or perhaps
a halluciination. that Andrew Carne
gie, the steel king, is driving him
from city to city, seeking to fix upon
him the guilt for the murder of a
game-keeper in Scotland.
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR.
red against Brackett by Mrs. Lock
wood was larceny after trust, she
claiming that Brackett had employed
her io collect his claim, and failed to
pay her the usual ten per cent, attor
ney’s fee. When the case came up
for trial she had nothing to prove her
claim. The result was that when she
came to Dalton, Brackett secured the
services of a lawyer and entered suit
for damage against her, claiming ten
thousand dollars.
The suit was filed in the Whitfield
superior court. The case will likely
be heard at the January term. Mrs.
Lockwood has filed her answer, and
she may appear in person to fight the
suit.
BAPTISTS
Elberton, Ga., Nov. 16—As a pre
lude to the greatest session of the lar
gest single religious body in Georgia,
, Dr. W. L. Pickard, of Savannah.
: preached last night at the Methodist
church and Dr. E. C. Dargan, of Ma
con at the Baptist church.
Dr. Pickard’s theme was “The
jFirst Article of Methodist Faith,” as
taken from the Discipline xviii and vi.
j He said it was the second article of
i Baptist faith. His sermon was a pro
found and pleasing impression. Dr.
Dararan’s theme was “What Think Ye
’ of Christ ? Whose Son Was He ?” It
so delighted the guests of the conven
i tion that its publication was requested
in The Christian Index.
The morning after devotional serv
ices. led by Rev. J. T. B. Anderson,
the convention was organized by the
re-election of Dr. S. Y. Jamison, pres
ident ; Dr. B. D. Ragsdale, secretary,
for the sixteenth time, and the fol
lowing vice presidents; Judge A. M.
Foute, Cartersville; F. S Ethridge,
Jackson; Judge T. A. Parker, Way
cross, and Z. B. Rogers, Elberton.
Witty and interesting welcome ad
. dresses were made by Mayor J. M.
.Wester, Rev. R. F. Eakes and Sam L.
Olive, Rev. J. M. Long, of Fort Val
. ley, responded in behalf of the con
' vention.
I “HUMAN HEARTS” THE “IDYL”
OF THE ARKANSAS HILLS
“Human Hearts,” the “idyl” of
the Arkansas hills, will be produced
at the Dalton opera house Nov. 18th.
Like “Shore Acres” and “The Old
Homestead,” time only increases its
hold upon the hearts of the people.
| The prattle of an innocent child, the
i tears of an old blind mother, the
■ strong love of a simple country girl,
’ the passion of an adventuress, the
, truth of a half-wit, the love of an old
negro and the tender memory of a
deed mother of the pa§t Governor of
Arkansas, are all cleverly intermingl
ed by the deft hand of the author of
this absorbing tale of the Arkansas
Hills. Each succeeding season of thie
thrilling play’s annually increasing
business, has induced the managemerl
to engage for this season’s produa
tion one of the strongest oompaniq
ever organized in one cast. To th<
lovers of a good play, not one on the
list of this season wiill appeal more
strongly than “Human Hearts.”
God’s hardest work is to reveal
himself to the sinner.