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THE DALTON ARGUS
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Official Organ of Whitfield County
Entered at the Postoffice in Dalton
Ga., as second-class matter and issued j
•very Thursday by B. L. Heartsill.
—
B. L. HEARTSILL,
Editor and Proprietor.
The only race problem in Georgia
is the race for $ $ $
The sun is rising earlier since Jan.
Ist. That is the true Dalton spirit.
Dalton is at present two miles long,
two miles wide and eighteen inches
deep.
o
Twenty-five per cent is nothing to
what Dalton will do in another ten
years.
• a
The Chicago News believes that
elastic currency is alright but that
what we most need is adhesive coin.
The farm papers say there is money
in raising hogs. It will not be hard
to convince the common people that
this is so.
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Without an adequate merchant
marine Great Britain and Germany
will get the lion’s share of business
from Latin America.
——
Przbevalksk, in Turkestan, has
been visited by an earthquake. That
is probably how the letters in the
name got so misplaced.
o
Marietta is not satisfied with her
census returns. She should have ex
tended her limits to include Atlanta.
That is the way cities grow.
o
Counting the immediate outlying
districts with their 700 population
to all intents and purposes, is 6.000
This is an increase over 1900 of over
38 per cent.
o—
Just what will be done with the
parkways on King and Crawford
streets is the subject of no little com
ment. But we will wager the pro
verbal ginger-cake that it will be left
to the ladies.
o
It is given out “officially” that
something near one hundred and fifty
moonshine stills were put out of bus
iness during the months of December
in the Georgia. Alabama and
Florida. The figures do not give the
number started up again since that
time.
• o
Daily Argus readers readers did not
have to wait on the Atlanta papers
to getthe census returns of Dalton.
In less than an hour after the infor
mation was ready to give out in
Washington. The Daily Argus was be
ing delivered on the streets with the
full story.
o
Some of the level-headed men in
the next legislature ought to get to
gether and forget personal polities
long enough to unmix the legislation
of the past few sessions in regard to
our election, laws.'time of meeting,
paying teachers, and a few other in
congruous conglomerations.—Mariet
ta News.
o
The Rome Tribune-Herald says an
Indiana poet killed himself because
he could not fathom Edgar Allen
Poe’s poetry and adds, “What a
good thing it is that everybody who
cannot fathom Indiana poetry does
not kill himself. They might also
have taken the position that it would
be well if some of the other poets
failed to fathom Mr. Poe.
Bemg in the five-thousand class is
something that Dalton really is proud
of. but there are many things that
’ ballon outranks those cities above her
in population in—for instance, as a
manufacturing city, as a produce
shipping point, as a healthful citv,
and when the present improvements
are made, with her municipal owner
si 4 of gas. water and electric pl
I it can boast of something that per
haps no other city in the state can,
ami it will be well to keep your eve
on Dr (ton for the next few years.
She is just starting to grow.
DALTON’S FUTURE.
Dalton’s population, according to
the official figures announced in yes
terday’s Daily Argus, shows an in
crease over the year 1900 of over
twenty-five per cent, so far as the
actual number of persons living in
side the city limits is concerned, and,
taking into consideration the fact that
those families living in the immediate
neighborhood of the limits are in ef
fect and to all practical intent, also
citizens of the city, the population
has really increased, unofficially, a
little over thirty-eight per cent.
This percentage of growth seems to
be fairly satisfactory and so far as
The Daily Argus is aware there is no
disappointment. A live, active Cham
ber of Commerce heartily backed by
Dalton’s most conservative business
men. would have caused an even larg
er increase.
Dalton has within the past year,
t cast off her swaddling clothes and a
new era has evidently dawned.
The old City Council did much for
r the town and a large responsibility
I now rests with the men on whose sho
ulders the burden will fall during the
coming year.
It is up to them to continue the
progressive policies that are essential
for the proper upbuilding of a city.
a
Inflammatory Rheumatism Immediate
ly Relieved.
Morton L. Hill, of Lebanon, Ind.,
says: “My wife had Inflammatory
Rheumatism in every muscle and joint
her suffering was terrible and her body
and face were swollen almost beyond
recognition; had been in bed for six
weeks and had eight physicians, hut
received no benefit until she tried Dr.
Detchon’s Relief for Rheumatism. It
gave immediate relief and she #as
able to walk about in three days. I
am sure it saved her life.” Sold by
AND
By James Wells.
When They Let the Women Vote.
There’ll surely be things doing
When they let the women vote;
New things they’ll be pursuing,
Fashions all will go by vote.
New laws they will be making,
And there's one the men I fear
Will really feel like breaking—
One for four new hats a year.
With ballots then they'll settle
All the questions of the day—
If boiling in a kettle
Or to roast it is the way?
And color of the dresses
Or how long to wear a coat.
And false or real tresses ,
Will be settled by a vote.
Then all the time-worn topics—
Like the tariff and the trust,
And such things philanthropic
Will lie trailing in the dust.
For questions of the hour
Will be settled, you may note —
To make it sweet or sour—-
When they let the women vote.
****
The Dogs Rebel.
They say that the country has “gone
to the dogs,’”
And this evening I wonder what
breed
Os canine imbeciles with less sense
than frogs.
Has taken the country to feed.
It couldn't be collies, for they’ve too
much sense,
No gold brick like ihat goes with
them.
Nor quick-witted terriers, they’re not
so dense.
And antics like that they'd con
demn.
It couldn't be bird-dogs and wouldn’t
be hounds,
For both soon would take to the
woods •
And be out of your sight in just a
• few bounds.
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And spaniels don't care for green
goods.
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So I guess. Mr. Pessimist, it’s up to
you,
\ou cannot impose on the dogs,
And as things are run by some chosen
few,
Let it stay in the hands of the hogs.
THE DALTON ARGUS, DALTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY. JANUARY 19, 1911.
A Previous Spring Poem.
Soon the mockers will be singing
From their perch up in the tree,
An’ the forest will be ringing
I With a chorus full an’ free.
Soon the youngster will be hieing
To the limpid swimming hole —
But meantime we are buying
A lot of winter coal.
Soon the gardner will be sowing
His garden full of seeds,
In hopes that when they’re growing
He can tell them from the weeds.
Shortly we will be enjoying
The juicy mustard greens,
But just now we're destroying
A lot of pork and beans.
Soon the flowers will be springin ’
In every vale and dell;
To rock and craig a dingin’
On mountain and in fell.
But don’t get too delighted,
For winter isn’t gone,
And don’t be so excited—
Keep your winter flannels on.
• •••
Distance Lends Enchantment.
We like to help the needy,
Wish we could help the poor,
But rather talk about it
Than help the one next door.
Be Optimistic.
If you can’t be glad you’re living,
And happy on the way,
Then shout a glad thanksgiving
O’er the fact you’ll die some day.
♦♦♦♦
Get to Work.
Is there something you would do;
Get to work.
Would you have your dream come true
Get to work.
Ain’t no use to sit an’ dream,
Wishing things was what they seem,
Hustlers always get the cream.
Get to work.
• •••
Poor Old Truth.
“Truth crushed to earth will rise
again, ’ ’
We all admit it’s so,
But evety time it shows its head,
It gets another blow.
Living.
We enter life with one loud wail
And nurse a grouch all through life’s
vale,
Because we live we sorely grieve,
Then kick because we have to leave.
• • •
Beats Any Sunrise.
The rooster’s crow does very well
As “music” now and then,
But the thing that stands for some
thing
Is the cackle of the hen.
While the first may crow the sun up,
We aren’t likely to forget,
That a fresh egg served for breakfast
Beats the finest sunset yet.
—Exchange.
The rooster and the sunrise
Make a mighty pretty lay, *
For poet folks to write about
When they sing of “break o’ day.”
But on sampling lays so rare,
From facile gifted pen,
There's nothing that'will e’er compare
With the lay of the old hen.
»***
Consolation.
Don't you get discouraged
’Cause everything ain’t right,
Ain’t no use expectin’
Skies forever bright.
Take life as you find it—
That’s the only way —
Maybe old tomorrow
Will be worser than today.
• •••
There’s many a good man who
hasn’t gone-wrong because he didn't
have the chance.
*♦♦♦
Trouble.
Trouble come erlong de road,
Ax me would I share his load;
Den I sung a song so gay
An’ 01’ Trouble slink away.
• •••
A Disappointing Disappointment.
There’s many disappointments
As you journey o’er life’s way,
For you can’t expect fair weather
To be with you everyday.
But the greatest disappointment,
And the one that makes you glum,
Is when a disappointment
That you looked for doesn’t come.
SOUTHERN ROAD’S BOOKLET
DOES INJUSTICE TO DALTON
SECRETARY FOSTER SEEBOLD, OF BOARD OF TRADE, CALLS
ATTENTION OF ROAD OFFICIALS TO FACT AND IS ASSURED
MATTER WAS UNINTENTIONAL—WILL MAKE DALTON SPE
CIAL SUBJECT IN ROAD’S MAGAZINE.
Because the Southern Railway’s
new illustrated booklet entitled “Geo
rgia,” represented Dalton’s popula
tion at only 2,000 and also because the
mention of Dalton is brief and fails
to do the city justice, Mr. Foster
Seebold, secretary of the Board of
Trade, has called attention to these
matters in a letter to Mr. M. V. Rich
ards, Land and Industrial Agent of
the company, and has received a re
ply thereto.
The correspondence is full is as fol
lows :
Dalton, Ga., Jan. 3, 1911.
M. V. Richards, Esq.: Land and In
dustrial Agent, Southern railway
Co., Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir: —The Board of Trade is
in receipt of a copy of your new,
charmingly written, and artistically
printed, forty-page booklet, entitled
“Georgia,” which will be freely dis
tributed to thousands of people thru
your offices in New York, Boston, Phil
adelphia, Washington, Baltimore. Chi
cago, Rochester, Pittsburg, Cincinna
ti, Louisville. St. Louis, Denver, Kan
sas City and other American cities
and cities of foreign countries as
well.
For this publication you deserve
great credit because it will do incal
culable good tb the State of Georgia
as a whole, but unfortunately it re
flects unjustly on the city of Daltbn
which is very briefly mentioned in
it and is represented as having a po
pulation of only 2,000 —one third of
the actual count, while places that
have less population and fewer manu
facturing enterprises and less of
everything else that is desirable, are
given special commendatory mention.
Before publishing other such ad
vertising matter, will you not favor
the people of this city by sending its
compiler to Dalton and permit this
people to show him their paved
streets, sidewalks, parks, storm and
sanitary system of sewerage, unsur
passed public schools, municipal own
ed, up-to-date water, current and fire
fighting equipment, and more manu
facturing enterprises than can be
shown by any other city of same size
in Georgia.
A city that has expended $65,000
in a 75-room brick hotel, S4OO in one
park fountain, SBOO.OO in a town clock
and provided four flowing fountains
for dumb animals use, at prominent
TRADE MARK *
REGISTERED.
* The Origin of Royster Fertilizers.
Mr. Royster believed that success awaited the
Manufacturer of Fertilizers who would place quality
above other considerations. This was Mr. Roysters
idea Twenty-seven years ago and this is his idea
to-day; the result has been that it requires Eight
Factories to supply the demand for Royster Fertilizers*
F. S. ROYSTER GUANO COMPANY,
FACTORIES AND SALES OFFICES.
NORFOLK, VA. TARBORO. N. C. COLU M BIA, S. C. SPARTANBURG, S. C.
MACON. GA. COLUMBUS, GA. MONTGOMERY, ALA. BALTIMORE, MD.
street intersections, and is now ex
pending the sum of $175,000.00 on in
ternal city improvements.
This city that has an $8,000.00
church bell, the best preserved earth
en fort of civil war times, that pos
sesses unsurpassed competing trunk
line shipping facilities, a population
jof 6,000 good people, located in a
community that has pure water, moun-
I tain air. shelter from storms, no sand
: flies and practically no mosquitoes.
; That has a climate cooler in the sum
■ mer than Chattanooga possesses, and
, not as cold in winter time as has At
lanta; a community in the midst of
■thousands of acres of choice fruit
bearing trees, as well as farm lands
that respond handsomely to intelli
gent farm methods.
Yours very truly.
FOSTER SEEBOLD,
Sec. Board of Trade.
MR. RICHARDS’ REPLY TO
SECRETARY FOSTER SEEBOLD
Mr. Foster Seebold, secretary of
i the Dalton Board of Trade, received
I the following reply from Mr. Rich
;ards: »
Washington, D. C., Jan. 10. 1910.
Mr. Foster freehold, Secretary Board
of Trade, Dalton, Georgia:
My dear sir:—Your esteemed fa
i vor of the 3rd instant has been
brought to my personal attention. We
thank you for directing our atten
tion to the typographical error which
appeared in the booklet descriptive
of the State of Georgia in which the
population of Dalton is given at
2,000. We regret the mistake, but
as you well know from your large bus
iness experience, such errors will creep
in occasionally, especially in giving
statistical work of this character. It
will be our pleasure to take special
pains to correct the error in our next
edition of the booklet, and in another
general article which we will prepare
just as soon as we can possibly get
to it and which will be issued in The
Southern Field, our regular publica
tion, we will take occasion to do the
progressive city of Dalton justice.
For your information, our records
show the population of Dalton to be
7,000, and they also show the com
mendable progress of your city.
While we regret the error in giv-
Dalton’s n»|,„ taio 7?J
nd possibly 50,,,,
been done to Dalton in th
a few readers of the M
all people interested.
thought may he interested °?|
-st Georgia. Dalton jj
i is sent if there is availahi
'literature.
I 1 am h °Peful that the wn. 1
, assistant, will have an oppJ? I
,0.11 on yon s „„ Mirne
pure. Pleas, keep ns , npp ,
. any literature that vou w ’
relative to the advantages ofk?
as we desire to use the publiZ
( in answering our inq u i ries
your section of Georgia <
from the supply sen t us> k ’
northern agents supplied.
Thanking you for writing
Yours very truly, ’ ’
M. V. RICHABM
‘ ha'ul and Industrial
OUR'
EXCHANGES
Same Here.
More bridges, better roads! 1
the croakers and pessimists eitheri
form or take to the woods.-Chalj
nooga Times.
Guns and Peace.
While Mr. Carnegie preaches pea
and gives money for peace, it sea
that he holds tightly to the bondsi
the steel concerns that manufaehi
armor-plate and high-power suns.-
Savannah Morning News.
Eat What They Can.
Berlin eats about 12.000 canni
horses every year. To what base ui
the automobile has driven the hi
indeed! —Rome Tribune-Herald.
Two Expensive Birds.
Turkeys may continue to get scare
er and scarcer in this country, bi
the census 'returns indicate that th
storks are as numerous as ever, if nt
more so. —Rome Tribune-Herald.
Successful Burglary.
Africa, with $175,000,000. six-set
enths of which came from the Trans
vaal. had a long lead in gold produej
tion in 1910, the United States
second with $96,000,000. After all
the taking of the Transvaal was tin
most successful burglary the world
has evgr known. —New York llorld.
The stranger laid down four aeei
and scooped the pot.
“This game ain’t on the lexel.
protested Sagebrush Sam, at the sal
time producing two guns to lend fr|
to his argument, “That ain t d'
hand I dealt you.”—Lippincott’s.