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VOL. XXXIII— NO. 16.
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I FATAL INJURY
■b- ; 1 .oi
a,* ARD-McGHEE CO. S ELEVA
I Kr falls three stories.—
| McGHEE is severely
I Bruised and two others
I Injured.
MK-: t , v ]ev:’*or at the store of the
A!,-Ghee Furniture company
■H yesterday. and came very near
the cause of fatal injury of
W. MeGhcc. W. C. Trevitt
K, liv Bode, who were on it at the
. A~ it was. all three were more
i. lured. Mr. McGhee beiiur con
■H,.! to his room with a severe gash
IK brtii'es on his head and otherwise
?: Hui-eJ about his body. Messrs. Tre
;il;,] Boule were painfully injured,
are able to be out today.
I The three had gone to the third
ory where they had prepared a
rge state casket which they were
ringing down with them on the ele
itor when the large cable wheel came
ose from the shafting, allowing the
?avily laden elevator to drop the en
re distance.
irst case tried in
NEW COUNCIL ROOM
P. L. Brock was the first to appear
'fore Judge Longley in the new coun
-1 chamber. He was charged with
‘ing drunk and disorderly on Mon
ty evening. He was tried before
ecorder Longley Tuesday mornipg
id was fined S2JiO and costk
■mrs. n. w. shields
■DIES Al SPRING PLACE
I Was Wife of Well Known Hotel Man
—Survived by Husband and Three
■ Children.
|| Mrs. M. W. Shields died at her
■I home in’ Spring Place at 5 o’clock
® Monday evening. The deceased was
the wife of Mr. M. W. Shields, pro
ll I prietor of the Shields House. Her
S health has not been the best for some
H time, but her condition was not con
fl sidered dangerous until a few days
I ago. z
The deceased is survived by her hus
band and three children, Mr. Wade
Shields, of Tunnel Hill, and Mr. Eu
gene Shields and Miss Malinda
Shields, of Spring Place.
SQUIRE J. F. WILSON
KILLS BIG PORKER
Squire J. F. Wilson believes in rais
ing fine hogs and he proves his belief
hy doing the same.
He recently killed a hog which
weighed 496 pounds net, and had
tusks about 8 inches long.
( lerk AV. M. Sapp has the tusks
‘ ” exhibition among his famous col
| lection of curios at the court house.
MAN’S STOMACH BEING, '
ANALYZED BY CHEMIST
-Atlanta Mar. I—The stomach of W.
I’- Pope, of Blue Ridge, is being ex
amined and its contents analysed by
state chemists, following Mr.
- ope s death under mysterious eircum
tances at Blue Ridge. The stomach
arrived here, sealed in a tin bucket
> es terday. The analysis will not be
'anplete until the latter part of the
week.
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THE DALTON ARGUS.
LEADING OF NORTH GEORGIA. BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM IN PIEDMONT SECTION.
AN EPIDEMIC
OF SUICIDE
!
DURING THE PAST 48 HOURS
FOUR PERSONS IN ATLANTA
HAVE ATTEMPTED TO TAKE
THEIR OWN LIVES.
Atlanta, March I—Four1 —Four attempted
suicides by poison during the past 48
hours, a veritable suicide epidemic,
have kept the Grady hospital ambu
lance flying and the doctors busy with
the stomach pump and other heroic
remedies. Only one attempt resulted
fatally, that of Mrs. Joseph Rymaakly
the wife of a tailor, who killed herself
because of melancholia. The second
case' was that of Mrs. S. J. Samoite.
cashier of a local motion picture
show. She took morphine because
the electric piano in the theatre lobby
gave her “such a headache.” The
third case was that of Flowd Ashe, a
hotel employee. He tried asphyxia
tion. The fourth case was that of
Chas. DeHolsey, a salesman, who took
a lot of “dope,” enough to kill sev
eral men, because his wife had lost
a trunk with all their jewelry and
other valuable possessions in it.
CITY CLERK IS NOW
IN NEW CITY HALL
City Clerk Carroll, is now
fitted t up in hris new iii t jie
Daily Argus buildraf',’havijig moved
tflday.
Hereafter, all meetings of the coun
cil will be held in the city’s new
home. The building will also be used
for the police headquarters and Re
corder’s court room.
Some men make friends and others
expect their friends to make them.
STATE ENTBNIOLDGIST
FIGURES PEACH DAMAGE
Atlanta, March I—State1 —State Entomolo
gist Worsham, who has just returned
from a tour of the state during part
of the time being with the agricultural
train, gave out some very curious in
formation yesterday with regard to
the recent damage to the peach crop.
For the first time in his recollection,
said Mr. Worshatn, some of the peach
buds which had not opened at all were
killed outright by the cold. Usually
buds are only killed after they have
opened a tiny bit at least so that
water gets inside of them.
The total damage to the crop Mr.
Worsham now estimates at from 10
to 50 per cent according to the locali
ty, except in the extreme northern and
northeastern parts of the state where
there was practically no damage at all.
Most of the heaviest damage was in
the lower part of the state, principal
ly because frost always falls heaviest
in the low country.
Prisoner Loses Teeth.
Atlan.a, March I—-Found! one set
of perfectly good false teeth. Owner
may recover them by calling at the
Atlanta police station and letting him
self be arrested. They helon? to L.
Thomas, who escaped without them.
Blues.
‘Blues’ are the soggy calms that come
To make our spirits mope,
And steal the breeze of promise from
The shining sails of hope.
Blues.
DALTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1911.
CONTRACTS FOR WATER WORKS
ANO ELECTRIC PLANTS AWARDED
COUNCIL AND BOND COMMIS
SION PASS ON NEARLY FIF
TY THOUSAND DOLLARS
WORTH OF CONTRACTS
LAST NIGHT.
WORK WILL GOST LESS
THAN AMOUNT PROVIDED
Jobs Are to Be Completed By First
of August—Many Bidders Were on
the Ground and Those Landing Con
tracts Have Signed Them Up and
Made Bonds—Mayor Talks.
The waterworks and electrical ex
tension contracts have ben award
ed and within a very few days, Dal
ton’s new pumping station, power
house, reservoirs and all the other
equipment for an up-to-date munici
pal utility system, will begin to take
on the form of reality.
Mayor Trammell and the members
of council and of the bond commis
sion met in special session last night,
and as a result of careful thought
and investigation during the last few
days, the best and most economical
bids were accepted and the awards
made.
Representatives, of. the successful
I contractors were on the ground and
ffiy- early this' morning the coptracts
were .made and,; the bonds a®g®jgd,
Nearly a dozc-fi Liddedwin
gaged in various portions of the work
and they apparently represent firms
which are high up in their respective
lines.
The pumping station is to be locat
ed on a strip of porperty purchased
by Mayor Trammell from Mr. Porter
Moore, which lies just north of the
lands of the Crown Cotton Mills and
extends from the W. & A. railroad
to the east side of Mill Creek, making
the entire body of the creek at that
point lie on the city’s property.
The reservoir will be built on the
top of Ml. Rachel. It will be of con
crete reinforced with steel and will
be about twenty feet high and three
times the capacity of the present
standpipe.
The work is to be finished by the
first of August, so it is apparent that
Press May Criticise
Officials Says Judge
Atlanta, March I—The1 —The untrammel
ed right of the public press to criti
cize any and all public officials, pro
vided the facts stated are tine, has
been once more ratified by the Geor
gia court of appeals in a case which
draws distinctions and shows just how
the public official may obtain redress
in case the charge against him in the
newspapers is untrue.
The case is that in which the court
of appeals reverses Judge D. W.
Couch, of the city court of Brunswick,
in which J. A. Lowe, a policeman,
sued the Brunswick News Publishing
company for $5,000 libel.
There was a crlusade against dogs
it seems in the Brunswick community.
Some dogs without muzzles were shot
by the officers. The Brunswick News,
it is stated, printed a “sob story,” a
pitiful tale of how Policeman Lowe
had shot and killed an innocent, harm
less little pet dog because it didn’t
have its muzzle on, while the little
boy owner of the dog knelt before the
there will be some hustling on the
part of the contractors.
Mayor Trammell Interviewed.
Mayor Trammell, speaking of the
contracts let by the council and bond
commission for the construction of
felt good to know that contracts had
been let with reputable firms so as
to have a little margin left after every
thing was completed.
The following summary shows the
various awards and the contract
prices:
Pipe laying, M. P. Flynn &
Cos 4,037 00
Cast iron pipe, U. S. Cast
Iron Pipe and Fdy. Co. . 5,270 60
Hydrants and Valves, Col-
umbia Iron Works 664 00
Valve Boxes, Bingham &
Taylor 37 50
Boiler, Casey & Hedges
Co 1,174 00
Building clear water well,
coagulating basin, filter,
concrete standpipe, mov
ing machinery, etc., un
loading and setting new
machinery separate, all as
per his proposal, John W.
Ashe, 15,245 00
Pumps, The International
Stream Pump Co 1,965 00
Heater, Platt Iron Works
Co., 220 60
Total 10
Ge»erak>iw.AYestingbduse
rWt. •■. .*• ... . > 3.925
Engine, Ball Engine C 0... 3,586 00
For station piping, bricking
in boiler, foundations for
machinery, outside piping,
around building, intake de
vice repairs to old filter,
etc., 3,100 00
Contracts not yet award
ed, but for which liberal es
timates have been made are
as follows:
Electrical construction ... 4,000 00
Transformers 1,000 00
Sidetrack 1.500 00
Grand T0ta1545,724 10
The price paid for the land was
$1,700.00 and the enginers’ commis
sions etc., are another $2,000, making
the total cost only a little more than
$49,000.
policeman and begged with tears run
ning down his cheeks for the life of
his little four- footed companion. It
may not have been exactly like that,
but it was nearly so. It made Lowe
out a monster of cruelty.
Lowe straightway sued the paper for
libel, and brought forth evidence to
show that he hadn’t shot the dog in
question at all, but that it had been
shot by Officer D. C. Houston.
The judge of the city court threw
the case out of court, maintaining that
the newspapers had a right to criti
cize the policemen as public officials.
Says the court of appeals in revers
ing the decision, “Legitimate criticism
of acts and conduct of officials is a
rightful function of the press, and the
exercise of the right should be unre
strained, provided the statements
made are true. A public official, how
ever, has as much right to protection
; against libel as a private citizen.”
The decision was handed down yes
terday afternon.
THIS COTTON
IS FREAKISH
STAPLE GROWN IN COBB COUN
TY IS GREEN INSTEAD OF
WHITE—DEPARTMENT OF AG
RICULTURE PUZZLED.
Atlanta, March I—The department j
of agriculture is puzzled by a sample
of a queer variety of freak cotton sent
them by Miss Delia Hamilton yester
day from Marietta in Cobb county.
The lint is silky and fine, but of a
beautiful green tint instead of white.
A whole patch of it came up in Miss
Hamilton’s rose garden, after she had
planted some queer seeds given a
friend of hers by a mysterious way
faring man, as a curiosity. Miss
Hamilton is saving the seed this year
and will replant. The officials at the
capitol look at the green cotton quiz
zically, and haven't yet dared to ex
press an opinion about it.
Card of Thanks.
We wish to thank our friends for
their kindness in our trouble and sor
row. WM. A. MOULTON,
MAUD H. MOULTON,
HALLIE E. ESLINGER.
JAMES STROUP TAKES
POSITION AOUCHHOLZ
Aij-. James Stroup, one of the most
expert soda fountain QieiKm.sPalfon,
. hqs, accented a p<®kioa| wii n. the firm
of L. Buchholz and charge of
their soda water and ice cream busi
ness this morning.
Mr. Stroup has had a wide exper
ience in this line of work, having been
connected with several large concerns
not only in Dalton, but in Atlanta and
Chattanooga, and his knowledge of
the art of mixing soft drinks, together
with his personal popularity, always
bring him good business.
THIS WOMAN FAVORS
OUT-OF-DOOR SCHOOLS
Atlanta, March I—Would the
school children of Georgia like to be
taught readin’, ritin’ and rithmetic
out under the stade of the trees in the
spring instead of in a cooped up
building? Well, just ask them. Miss
Martha A. Taylor, a representative of
the Russell Sage educational fund, is
in Georgia in the interest of a move
ment to institute out-of-door teaching
for the children at the season and in
the localities where it is practicable
and posible. She will lecture to the
Atlanta Teaches’ association today.
In Memoriam.
On Feb. 13. 1911, at her home near
Waring, Ga.. death claimed Mrs. Ruth
N. Cavender Moulton, wife of Win. A.
Moulton, and sixth daughter of
Thomas and Ruth Dale Cavender.
Mrs. Moulton was born in Hamilton
county, Tennessee, on February 10,
1848, and was of a prominent East
Tennessee family. She lived many
years in Jeffersonville, Ind. She is
survived by her husband, Wm. A.
Moulton, and sons, Thomas L. and
Orrin O. Moulton and daughters,
Mrs. Hallie E. Eslinger and Mrs.
Grace Morgan, of Alabama, and Miss
Maud Moulton; one brother and one
sister, Mr. Ben Cavender and Mrs.
Josephine Gibson, of Louisville, Ky.
Funeral services were conducted by
Rev. J. E. Nichols at Grove Level
church, where she was a member.
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR
NOI ALLOWED
10 ASK HELP
MRS. CAPITOLA WOOD CLAIMS
ASYLUM WOULD NOT LET HER
WRITE TO FRIENDS FOR HELP.
Atlanta, March I—That patients
confined in the state insane asylum
at Milledgeville are not permitted to
send out any letters containing re
quests to their friends or families to
make efforts to have them removed
from the institution is one of the sta
tements made by Mrs. Capitola Wood
to a lunacy commission yesterday in
the course of her trial for recom
ment. Some years ago, Mrs. Wood
tried to kill her husband. She was
sent to the penitentiary and thence to
the asylum. Her friends have main
tained that she never was insane. The
governor released her and she had
been free for over a year, when local
attorneys had her re-arrested, fearing,
it is said, that she might carry out
threats to avenge herself on the judge
and lawyers who had to do with her
original conviction.
Mrs. Wood made a clear statement
to the jury yesterday morning recount
ing her whole life in the asylum. She
says that when she first went there
she was permitted to live in a room
with the door unlocked, and was given
a knife and fork to eat with, a thing
which the detectives told her was a
sure evidence that the doctors there
didn’t really think she was crazy.
When she tried to secretly send a let
ter out to friends, she was confined as
a lunatic.
W. R, BIACK DIES
KIR SPRING PLACE
Was Prominent Farmer and Well
Known Confederate Veteran—Pass
ed Away Tuesday.
Mr. W. R. Black, a prominent farm
er and well known citizen of Murray
county, died at his home two miles
north of Spring Place early Tuesday
morning. The deceased was among
the gallant Confederate veterans of
Murray county and had an honorable
record, both as a soldier and citizen.
He was numbered among the best cit
izens of that county.
Mr. Black is survived by his wife,
two sons and three daughters.
RAILROAD COMPANY
TURNS LOOSE CASH
About $3,000 a month is now being
spent by the Western & Atlantic rail
road in Dalton which goes to show
that trunk lines help a municipality
in more ways than by carrying its
merchandise.
The W. & A. pays heavy water and
gas bills and the salaries and wages
turned over to people who reside here
and spend their money with Dalton
merchants amounts to a good sized
fortune in the course of a year.
TODAY MARKS THE
BEGINNING OF LENT
Today marks the beginning of Lent
and, although the season will be ob
served by a number of people in Dal
ton, no especial services have been ar
ranged.
This is due to the continued illness
of Dr. Gordon, rector of St. Mark’s
church, who has been for some time
unable to attend his charges.