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VOL. XXXIII—NO. 5.
WILL BE PAVED FROM
ONE ENO IO THE OTHER
COUNCIL DECIDES FUNDS ARE
SUFFICIENT TO PAVE HAM
ILTON STREET FROM RAIL
ROAD TO MORRIS
SIDEWALKS WILL BE
WIDENED FIFTEEN FEET
Material Will Be Used on Other
Streets Committee Selected to
Look for Location, for New Fire
Hall.
Council and the bond commission
held an extended meeting Tuesday af
ternoon, the main object of the meet
ing being to ascertain whether or not
the paving of Hamilton street would
be extended from the W. & A. rail
road crossing to Morris street. They
decided that it would —or at least
would be paved as far as possible, the
work to begin at the W. & A. crossing
at the Cherokee Manufacturing com
pany, and go as far as it would, and
it is believed that the entire street
can be paved with the appropriation.
Another matter that came before
the body was the widening of the
Hamilton street, making
them five feet wider, making a total
width of fifteen feet. This will also
be done, for it will be much less ex
pensive to the city and property hold
er, for it costs less than half to build
sidewalks as compared with the cost
of street paving, and it will be much
more convenient, for the sidewalks
are too narrow for business streets.
The driveway will be seventy feet in
width, and under the arrangement all
telephone and electric light poles will
be inside the curbing.
Figures were presented and read
from Engineer Jaudon showing the
additional expense of extending the
streets, the total amount being $13,-
671; of this amount the city is to pay
one-third and the property owners the
remaining two-thirds. It was the un
animous opinion of the body that the
paving should be extended and the
i sidewalks widened, and a motion to
I this effect carried without a dissent-
I ing vote.
Trees Have to Go.
To follow out the plans of paving
on King street it will be necessary
to cut down all shade trees between
Hamilton and Pentz streets.
To Fix Other Streets.
The question then arose as to what
disposition would be made of the ma
terial which would be moved from the
[streets, the distribution of same being
lleft to the members of the bond com
mission of the respective wards. It
[was suggested by Col. W. C. Martin
■Ex=President Roosevelt
1 Admirer of Dalton Authoress
A recitation entitled “Topsy Takes
va kc, ’ written years ago by Mrs.
Gertrude Manly Jones, was recently
rendered before Ex-President Roose-
A ’’lt by a teacher of oratory in the
irginia Institute, and so pleased was
the great statesman that he has asked
°r a copy of the poem for his personal
perusal.
M hen Miss Jennice McAfee, one
"i Dalton’s most talented readers,
pas a pupil at the Institute, located
pt Bristol, she recited “Topsy Takes
THE DALTON ARGUS.
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LEADING PAPER Ur !< RTH GEORGIA. BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM IN PIEDMONT SECTION.
BRYANT CASE REFERRED
10 CHY ATTORNEY
At the meeting of council Tues
day afternoon, Clerk Carroll read a
letter from Mr. T. J. Bryant offering
to compromise for the injury of his
horse which fell in a hole and was
injured on the streets where the con
tractors were at work placing con
nections into the government build
ing. It seems that the contractor on
the work had agreed to pay the bill,
but failed to do so. The matter was
referred to the city attorney to ascer
tain if the city was liable for the
damages.
TENNESSEE TOWN DESTROYED;
CITIZENS APPEAL FOR HELP
Atlanta, Dec. 7—The people of
Georgia have been appealed to for
help by the sufferers at Copper Hill,
Tenn., the little mining town almost
wiped out a few days ago by fire.
Even undj>" favorable conditions
that place is awful to look upon, all
the hillsides being barren from the
action of the sulphur fumes, and now
since the fire it is really appalling.
No less than 83 families were left
without homes. This is more than
half the total population of the town.
A day or so ago a heavy snow fell and
the suffering is intense.
The people of the town are doing
their best to handle the situation,
but they can’t; it is too much for
them.
that asphaltum mecadam might be usd
on some of the other streets and this
material would come in handy, and the
city might use it to advantage in this
way.
The idea of storing the material on
some vacant lot did not meet with fa
vor and the suggestion offered by W.
H. Stroup to place it on the streets
when removed was adopted.
New Fire Hall.
The question of the erection of a
new fire hall was brought up, Aider
man Thomas stating that Chief Per
ry had stated that the present hall
was in a dangerous condition. This
was disposed of by a motion being
adopted that Mayor Trammell ap
point a committee to look into the lo
cation for a fire hall.
Work Will Proceed.
Now that council and the bond com
mission have decided on the street
paving work to be done, the West Con
struction company will start at the
Cherokee crossing and work as rapidly
as possible. Weather permitting it is
their intention to put more than an
hundred more hands to work by next
Monday mornng.
the Cake,” and her teacher in oratory
asked for a copy of it so that she
might use it herself. Later on, after
Miss McAfee had left the institution,
Mr. Roosevelt was in Bristol and
heard the teacher read the piece. It
was then that he took a fancy to it
and asked for a copy.
Mrs. Jones was the author of
“Aunt Charity’s ’Ligious ’Sperienc
es” and also contributed widely to
newspapers and magazines.
One of her books will be forwarded
to Mr. Roosevelt.
DALTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1910
STANDING OF CONTESTANTS
AS PUBLISHED MONDAY
THE STANDING OF THE CONTESTANTS ARE PUBLISHED
TODAY FOR THE FIRST TIME—MISS GRACE JACKSON
IS THE LEADER OVER HER NEAREST OPPONENT BY TWO
THOUSAND—MISS LILLIE HAMMONTREE IS SECOND IN
THE RACE.
Today we are publishing below for the first time the standing of
the various candidates in The Argus' Diamond Ring Contest. The
contest is just now starting and very little work by the contestants
has been done. It’s none too late for others to get in and do some
thing toward winning one of the handsome prizes that are going to be
given away by The Argus on Christmas eve, December 24th. In fact
many a race has been won by the runners who were at first in the rear.
This is one of the shortest contests ever put on by any newspaper.
Just three weeks from last Saturday afternoon at 4 o’clock the con
test will close and the contestant who wins that $150.00 diamond ring
will certainly be well rewarded for a little pleasant work. The con
test ends on Christmas eve and one of these prizes, which is going to
cost the winners only three weeks work, will be a present for Christ
mas that anyone would greatly admire. A diamond ring is something
that holds its value, in fact they increase in value each year. True
you may be the proud possessor of a diamond, but one, or even two,
are lonesome without still another.
HOW THEY STAND.
The following is the standing of the contestants up-to-date:
Miss Grace Jackson, 77 East Morris streetls,ooo
Miss Lillie Hammontree, 80 Selvidge streetl3,soo
Miss Minnie Freylach, 77 North Hamilton street7,ooo
Miss Pearl Johnson, 128 North Hamilton streetß.ooo
Miss Mae Poole, 26 Glenn streetß.ooo
Miss Nell Speer, Varnells, Ga.,10,000
Miss Leia Kerr, Spring Place, Ga.,11,000
Miss Cora Caylor, Varnells, Gall.ooo
Miss Fannie Barnett, Dalton. Route No. 110,000
Miss Ruth Vining, Dalton, Route No. 3 B,ooo'
Miss Mary Broadrick, Dalton, Route No. 39,000
Miss Augusta Callaway, Tunnel Hill, Gaß,ooo
Miss Allene Puryear, Dalton, Ga. 9,000
Miss Ruby Wood, Rocky Face, Ga.,7,000
Miss Lyda Cresswell,
Miss Ellen Head, Rocky Face, Ga.,9,000
Miss Georgia Glass, Dalton, Route No. 59,000
Election of School Trustees
of Whitfield County
To Be Held Dec. 19
The County Board of Education at
its regular meeting today ordered a
general election of school trustees in
the various districts of the county
where there are vacancies on the local
board of trustees.
The law now requires that the 4 *
officers be elected by the voter- - of
their respective districts and commis
sioned by the County Board of Educa
tion.
The election for this county will be
held on Friday, December 16th, this
year and in the future will be held
each year on the first Friday in De
cember.
Following is the list of districts in
Deer meat in Vermont is cheaper
than beef and many people are using
it.
It takes a brave man to face the
odds that cause others to forsake.
WHILE IT SNOWS CONTESTANTS
WRITE ASKING FORASSISTANCE
Dear Readers, Should You Receive One of Those Little Notes, Do Not Be So
Cruel Hearted as to Give It No C onsideration —Please Help the Little
Ladies if It Be Within Your Power.
This bad weather is not hampering
the Argus contestants very much. They
are all busy “pen-pushing,” writing
their friends and others who are sub
scribers to The Argus, asking for
their subscriptions to help them win
the prize and dear readers should you
receive one of those little notes don’t
he so cruel hearted as to cast it aside
without giving it consideration. If
they write you and tell you you are
due so and so for subscription on The
Argus and to please remit to them or
which the elections will be held and
the number of trustees to be elected
for each:
Antioch, 3; Beaverdale, 3; Cohutta,
2; Cedar Valley, 3; Cove City, 3; Deep
, Spring, 1; Dawnville, 1; Fair Ground,
1 (Crown Point School), 3; Fort Hill,
3; Five Springs, 1; Good Hope, 2;
Gordon Springs, 3; Hopewell, 2; Har
mony, 1; Keeler, 3; Mt. Pleasant, 1;
Mt. Vernon, 3; Mars Hill, 3; Mill
Creek, 1; Nickajack, 1; New Hope, 3;
Oak Grove, 3; Pleasant Grove, 2;
Rocky Face, 3; Redwine, 3; Salem, 3;
Tucker, 1; Trickum, 2; Tilton, 1;
Union Point, 2; Union Springs, 3;
Varnells 1.
I It were infinitely better to suffer
I keenly than to feel nothing at all.
Every man is the architect of his
own fortune.—Man proposes, God dis-
I poses.
to send it to The Argus with instruc
tions to credit them with the votes,
please have consideration enough for
the clever little ladies to do them the
favor if it is in your power.
The contest closes just eighteen
days from today, (Dec. 6) and the
quicker the contestants do this work
the better it will be and any one who
wishes to help any of the contestants
should do so as early as possible for
the sooner it is done the better it will
I be for the contestants.
WHITFIELD BOYS
PLACED
GIVEN CERTIFICATES OF HON-
OR FOR THEIR WORK AT
CORN CONTEST HELD AT
STATE COLLEGE OF
AGRICULTURE.
WHITFIELD COUNTY
HAS LARGEST NUMBER
Prize Was a Trip to Washington
City—Record Yields Made By Boys
and Girls—One Hundred Contes
tants Entered.
Whitfield County boys and girls
showed up in grand style in the corn,
poultry and other contests held at the
State College of Agriculture at Ath
ens on December 1, the prize being
a trip to Washington City. It went
to Joseph Stone, of Jackson county.
Os more than one hundred contestants
entered, forty-three were given cer
tificates of honor for their work, and
the Whitfield county boys were among
that number. Among the girls enti
tled to a place on the honor roll, the
Whitfield county girls far exceeded
in number that of any other county.
Much of the credit for this work
should be to Whitfield gojmty’s
>1 .t , mmif‘- : J„
Sapp, who organized and conducted
the county contest in Whitfield during
the week of the county fair.
Forty-three were given places on
the honor roll, Whitfield county boys
and girls being more largely repre
sented than any other county in the
state.
Boys on Honor Roll.
The following Whitfield boys re
ceived certificates and a place on the
honor roll of the Georgia Boy’s Corn
Club of 1911 :
Charles J. Yeager, Dalton; Carl
Puryear, Dalton; Earl Shugart, Dal
ton; Lee Palmer, Dalton; Glenn Duc
kett, Dalton; DeWitt Hamilton, Dal
ton.
Girls’ Honor Roll.
The following Whitfield members of
the Girl’s Home Life Club also re
ceived certificates of honor for win
ning prizes in cooking, sewing, pre
serving fruits and vegetables and
poultry:
Lucile Puryear, Dalton; Belle Mc-
Ginnis, Dalton; Kathleen Miller, Dal
ton.
The rules governing the contest
were that the boys should cultivate
one acre of corn each under the in
struction of the State College of Ag
riculture and the United States farm
demonstration work. The yields as
reported by the boys and attested by
two disinterested parties, ranged from
Enthusiasm Prevails
In Argus Contest
The struggle in the diamond ring
contest is now on, the standing of the
candidates being published for the
first time Monday. The voting is go
ing on with a rush and from now un
til the close of the contest on Christ
mas eve, there will be most active
competition to determine who the
winner will be.
Coupons clipped from the daily and
weekly will count heavily and these
alone might win for you at last. From
now on the contest will be lively; it
is anybody’s race. The first may be
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR
AND GIRLS
ON HONOR ROLL
JAMES HBfIDY DIES
JI TUNNEL HILL
Mr. James Moody died at Tunnel
Hill at 1 o’clock Tuesday evening. He
was 25 years of age and unmarried.
He was a son of Mr. John A. Moody,
a well known fanper in that section.
The funeral services took place at
Tunnel Hill at 2 o’clock Wednesday
afternoon, Rev. N. A. Parsons, offici
ating.
It is never a mark of greatness to
avenge one’s self.
50 to over 100 bushels per acre, at a
cost of 10 to 50 cents per bushel. The
average yield was 84 bushels. Joseph
Stone, of Center, Jackson county, a
boy 12 years of age and weighing 79
pounds, won the prize trip. His yield
was 102 5-8 bushels, at a cost of 29
cents per bushel.
Other boys in the state made high
er yields at greater profit than this,
but were not allowed to enter the con
test as no club had been organized in
their respective counties. Ralph Da
vis, of LaGrange, Troup county, made
108 bushels at a cost of little less than
20 cents pgr bushel, but he was de
barred from the contest because no
club had been organized in his coun
ty-
in addition to the prize trip to
Washington the college of agriculture
awarded a certificate of honor to the
pride winners of all the organized
counties and to all boys making a yield
of 75 bushels or more of corn per
acre at a cost of not more than 30 cts.
per bushel. This certificate is signed
by the governor of the state, state
school commissioner, chancellor of the
university and the president of the
State college of Agriculture; also the
superintendent of the Boys’ Corn Club
and the county school commissioner
who organized and conducted the club
in the county.
This work is promoted by Dr. S. A.
Knapp, of the United States depart
ment of agriculture, in co-operation
with Dr. Andrew M. Soule, of the
State College of Agriculture, J. Phil
Campbell, of the school extension de
partment, College of Agriculture, Ath
ens, Ga., is directly in charge of the
work for the state.
All boys and girls competing for
prizes must be between the ages of 10
and 18, an denrolled by teachers of
county school commissioners as mem
bers of the club, and the names re
corded with the State College of Ag
riculture and the United States farm
demonstration work.
last and the last first. All have an
equal opportunity. Some may have
a larger army of friends working for
them —that is their good fortune. But
after all it is a matter of hustle.
The territory from which a candi
date may secure their subscriptions
is not bounded. The votes are wait
ing for the contestants to discover
them —so demonstrate how keen is
your sense of discernment.
The correct standing of all contes
tants will be published each Monday
in the daily. Watch for it.