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IVOL. XXXIII—NO. 10.
| SCOUT ORfiANIZAEION
I IS PERFECTED IN DALTON
11j young men joined
OFFICERS were
CHOSEN.
HijSK
sHing was held
W MDNOAY AFTERNOON
sapp, Promoter of the Plan.
B®ves the Movement Will Meet
Great Success in Dalton—
' Will De Sent at Once
th.y pßi New York.
S<-mt movement, which
|] to be one of the largest
effective juvenile training
in the world, has struck
' mover in the organiza
a company for DaltorTis Mr.
S;i l'l’- i ” 1 ' 1 nl a meet ing l
afternoon about eighteen of
most prominent boys met
an organization.
Sherry Hamilton was chosen
1 ': and he has written forward
York for complete instruc
the work of the Boy
ir, the United States.
, who have not had an
realize
immense thing the Boy
I ■
I Bowplidc'd among the yo’ntlrs
nations.
h
r Britain, there is scarcely
town which has not one or
a dozen more companies.
■ these companies are com-
P<*f *'". vs hs young as six and
badH
and others at various
up to the aue when one may
t regular member of the Ter-
Bones, which correspond to
t Guard.
11 hwd, the !> oy Scouts have
MOlßlished a great work for the
country. On all pub-
the Scouts form as
■' l' :ll ' : "f u 'lav's exercises
.MH’- troops and their
in military nmnouvers, a
’Bat focuses public
on
Scout< tree tairnht drill
"ork. They imita
\ re a ] | )e
proper allowed by law.
i ‘‘'to animal camp, and are
U Sie training that they would
to have in regular
If ’’am this thee are taught the
jWgB principles of sturdy man
self-reliance, and are re-
c elf-denial.
''' "f lai’peT Many of
K
Aruns
. W " 'ii prove t opnlar in IJal-
accomplish great
Full
raker, during his last
and a
Florida,
a dinner
Washington Her-
■
Bl : " ,,v He is like the
said to
’ office
re
? ’ the
TUB DALTON ARGUS.
LEADING PAPER OF NORTH GEORGIA. BE»ST ADVERTISING MEDIUM IN PIEDMONT SECTION.
NEW REAL FSTAEE IM
LOAN FIBIS FOR DALTON
Wardlaw & Felker Will Open Offices
in the Fincher & Nichols Build
ing.
Beginning right away. Messrs. R.
F. Wardlaw and Grover Felker, un
der the firm name of Wardlaw & Fel
ker, will open a real estate, renting
and loan office, their office being in
the Fincher & Nichols building. The
loan feature of the business is a new
thing for Dalton in connection with
the real estate business.
The new firm are busy equipping
their office with modern office furni
ture, and will be ready to make their
announcement to the aublie within a
few days.
BAILIFF CALLAHAN MAKES
ARREST IN WALKER
Bailiff W. B. Callahan arrested Gyp
Jones, in Walker county yesterday,
the warrant charging 1 ira with cheat
ing and swindling.
JIM COniNGHAM HURT
"YmMW
Jim Cottingham, a former Dalton
baseball player* who twirled for the
local team when it was in the league,
was painfully injured while fighting
fire in Atlanta yesterday. He fell
from a ladder to the ground, a con
siderable distance, landing on his head
and shoulders. He will be laid up at
the Grady hospital for several days.
Jim was popular among the local
fans and there was more than ostial
interest in the game when he went in
the box. They will hope for his
speedy improvement.
Card of Thanks.
We take this method of trying to
express our heartfelt thanks and ap
preciation for the kindness and at
tention shown us in our grief and
sorrow on the death of our son.
And to those who are inclined to
sanction the charge, ofteti heard,
that Dalton is a tough town, we say:
Come among them and live awhile as
we have done. Be summonsed to pass
under the rod, and witness their
beautiful sympathy, tender thought
fulness and touching kindness and
you will say with us that no quarter
of the globe can boast of better peo
ple than can be found in Dalton.’
In deepest gratitude we are,
Very respectfully.
MR. and MRS. TOM BLACK.
“My boy,” said the principal of
the firm of Buste and Fligh. to the
prospective office-boy. “I like your
appearance and your manner. I
think you will do for the place. Did
you bring a character?”
“No sir,” said the boy, “but I can
go home and get it.”
“Very well; come hack tomorrow
morning with it, and if it is satis
factory I will engmre yon at once.”
Late that afternoon the financier
was surprised by the return of the
candidate.
“Well,” he said cheerily,, “have
you got your character?"
“No,” answered the boy, “but
I’ve got yours —an’ I ain’t coming!”
DALTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1911.
How Georgia’s “23” Largest
Cities Rank in Population
The following table shows the 23 largest cities in Georgia, inside the
5,000 limit; also the net gain and per centage in the last ten vears:
City 1910 1900 Gain Pct
Atlanta 154,839 89872 64.967 72
Savannah 65,064 54.244 10.820 19
Augusta 41.040 39.441 1,599 4
Macon 40.665 23.272 17,393 74
Columbus 20.554 17.614 2,940 16
Athens( 14,913 10.245 4.668 45
Waycross 14,485 5,919 8,556 144
Rome 12,099 7,291 4.808 66
Brunswick 10.182 9.081 1,101 12
Albany 8,190 4,606 3,584 78
Americus 8,063 7,624 389 5
Valdosta 7,656 5,613 2,043 34
Griffin 7,478 6,857 601 8
Thomasville 6,727 5,322 1,405 26
Elberton' 6,483 3,834 2,649 69
Marietta 5.949 4,446 1,543 35
Gainesville 5,925 4,382 1,543 35
Cordele 5,833 3,473 2,360 69
Dublin; 5,795 2,987 2,608 94
Fitzgerald 5,795 1,817 3,375 218
LaGrange 5,587 4,274 1,313 30
Newnan 5,584 3,654 1,894 50
DALTON 5,324 4,313 1.009 23
Last Mexican War Veteran
ar-OXyy
Died on the Same Day
A singular eo-incidence has taken
place in the deaths of the last sur
viving Mexican veterans in both
Whitfield and Murray counties.
In reading the notice in Monday’s
Argus of the death of Mr. Jesse
Crow, which occurred Sunday at Var
nells, in this county, Dr. S. A. Brown
telephoned The Argus that Mr. Aly,
the last surviving Mexican veteran of
Murray county, died about the same
hour, his interment also taking place
op the same day as that of Mr. Crow.
A College on Wheels to
Tour Through Georgia
An educational train will again tour
Georgia from February 7 to March
25, 1911, inclusive. The railroads
are providing the necessary equip
ment of cars while the live stock,
machinery ,and other exhibits are be
ing installed by the State College of
Agriculture.
The itinery will be published as
soon as approved by the railroads.
About 140 towns will be visited, a
stop of between two and a half and
three hours having been provided for.
As these towns are nearly all in dif
ferent counties the state is being very
completely covered.
The exhibits will consist of a car
of live stock, including' draft horses,
beef and dairy animals, sheep and
swine. There will be a car load of
farm machinery of the latest and most
approved type. Two cars will be de
voted to an exhibit of soils, fertiliz
ers, farm crops artd other educational
material. There will.also be an ex
hibit of the work done by the boy’s
corn clubs. In all six cars will be
provided for carrying exhibits.
This will be the most complete edu-
“Grandpa Aly,” as he was familiarly
known to the people of his section of
Murray ounty, was a fauiliar figure
and had many warm friends in the
county where he had lived so many
years.
The death of these faithful old sol
diers, both having served in two wars
—the Mexican and Civil wars—com
ing at the same time, is a peculiar co
incidence to say the least, and as
someone, poetically inclined, remark
ed, they must have heard the bugle
call for “Taps” at the same time.
cational train ever operated in the
Southeastern States. Data of inter
est to every person who owns land
or who is interested in agricultural
education will be shown. Since about
150,000 people visited the last train
and it is believed that the attendance
will be larger this year, it is easy to
j see that this movement may be made
i the means of distributing information
. which will be worth several millions
'of dollars annually to the state of
Georgia.
The train will be accompanied by
some twelve expert» who will speak
ion topics of special interest to the
j localities visited. The cost of pre
paring and installing the exhibits is
| being largely borne by frends of the
' institution, while the train itself, is
being provided by the generosity of
’ the railroads. Every town visited
’ should make a special effort to adver
• tise its coming and invite the people
] from the rural districts and surround
ing territory to be present.
Let every one co-operate in this
I great movement to disseininate agri
| cultural information which the tour
of this train makes possible.
EIGHT KILLED
OR DELAWARE
BOILER EXPLOSION ON BATTLE
SHIP CAUSES INSTANT DEATH
OF EIGHT MEN—CAUSE OF AC
CIDENT UNKNOWN.
Washington, Jan. 18 —Eight men
met instant death and one was so
horribly burned that he will probably
die as a result of a boiler explosion
aboard the battleship Delaware at
9:20 o’clock yesterday morning, the
cause of which is still unexplained,
according to a wireless message re
ceived last night from Captain Cove.
The Delaware was on her way to
Hampton Roads from Guantanamo,
Cuba, and had been designated to
transport the body of Senor Cruz,
late Chilean minister to the United
States back to Chile instead of the
South Carolina, whose propellers met
with a mishap.
The nine victims were on duty in
the boiler room when the accident oc
curred. A terrific shock sent the crew
scurrying below, and nine bodies were
dragged from the cloud of hot steam
that hissed through the hold.
One Victim a Georgian.
Columbus Porter Watts was a res
ident of Fairmont, Ga., where his fa
ther. Pleansant M. Watts, resided.
He had been in the service about
three years.
BUDINS
ANOTHER l/EFEMN
Survivor of Mexican War Dead in
Bradley County, Tennessee—Was
Uncle of F. T. Hardwick.
Cleveland, Tenn. Jan. 17 —(Special)
—John Hall, aged 87 years and 7
months, one of the pioneers of
Bradley county, died at noon today.
He is survived by his wife, who is
at the point of death herself, seven
sons —the well known Hall brothers,
of Bradley—and one daughter. De
ceased was born in Greene county
in 1823. With his father lie made a
boat and drifted down the river to
Bradley county. He was the super
intendent of grading while the old
East Tennessee, Virgina & Georgia
railroad was being constructed. In
that work he was associated with the
late Thomas H. Calloway. Later he
was appointed supervisor of the sys
tem. When the Mexican war-broke
out he volunteered, and was one of
only four survivors of that war in
Bradley county. Os late years he had
lived a retired life in Cleveland, re
spected by all y as a rugged, honest
man, who lived close to nature. The
funeral will consist of short services
at the grave, conducted by his pastor,
he having been a member of the
Baptist church for half a century.
Mr. Hall was an uncle of Col. F. T.
Hardwick, of Dalton, and one of
Bradley county’s most prominent cit
izens.
He was probably one of the last
of the veterans of the Mexican war
in Bradley county and it a curious
concidence that bis taking away
should happen along with the death
of the last Mexican war veteran in
both this and Murray county.
SAM CARTER IS CITY
MARSHAL AT SPRING PLACE
Sam Carter, who is well known in
Dalton, where he once resided, has
been selected as city marshal of
Spring Place, and can be relied upon
to keep the peace of that little city
for the next year.
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR
FLORIDA TRAVEL
GETTING HEAVY
“DIXIE FLYER” WILL RUN TWO
DOUBLE HEADER SECTIONS
TODAY, CARRYING TWENTY
FIVE LOADED SLEEPERS.
The travel to Florida from points
in the north is immense at this season
of the year, and both roads are taxed
to the limit to take care of the heavy
passenger traffic.
Two sections of the “Dixie Flyer,”
the special through train over the
Western & Atlantic, running from
Chicago to Jacksonville, will run two
sections through Dalton this after
noon, using two double-headers and
carrying twenty-five sleepers. From
twelve to fifteen hundred passengers
will be aboard these trains, besides
the immense lot of bagarage.
Not a day passes but that large
crowds of tourists pass through Dal
ton for Florida points, and it is noth
ing unusual to run one or more extra
trains, taxed to their capacity.
How to Tell College Men.
Between cigarette puffs and swigs
of old lager beer out of stone steins,
a group of Pennsylvania University
students in a Chestnut street res
taurart were discussing the difference
between college men, says the Phila
delphia Times.
The discussion ran as to how one
can tell his college by his personali
ty. A sophisticate J sophomore, with
wide turned pantaloons and all im
portant manner, put it this way:
“Here’s how 7 I tell the difference
between Harvard, Princeton and Yale
men:
“The Harvard man lights his own
cigarette and then offers the match
to his fellow smoker. The Yale man
offers the light to his friends first and
then lights his own. The, Princeton
man lights his cigarette and then
throws his match into the street be
fore anyone has a chance to get a
light.”
'Which may account for the fact
that Penn and Princeton, although
next door neighbors, don’t seem to
be able to meet each other in friend
ly combat.
DR. J. F. HARRIS SELECTED
AS CITY PHYSICIAN
Dr. J. F. Harris has been selected
city physician by Mayor Paul B.
Trammell the appointment being
made today.
Sentiment has most to do with a
woman’s happiness; with a man’s
comfort.
A doctor riding along a country
road came upon a farmer driving a
herd of pigs leisurely along the road.
“Where are you driving the pigs
to.” asked the rider.
“Out to pasture them a bit to fat
ten ’em.”
“Isn’t it pretty slow work to fat
ten them on grass? Where I came
from we pen them up and fatten
them on corn. It saves a lot of
time,” said the doctor.
“Yes, I suppose so.” drawled the
farmer, “but what’s time to a pig.”
Affable Traveler (to neighbor in
railway car) —Your name is very fam
iliar to me Mr. Er-er-ah —”
Quiet Stranger —“My name is
Mootzonctskiest Keroczoctocker. I
am a Pole.”
Affable Stranger—Yes; er —it is
not your name so much as your face;
I was about to say that your face is
very familiar to rue.”
Quiet Stranger—Yes, I have been
in prison fourteen years; I was dis
charged this morning.