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VOL. XXXIII—NO. 23.
B limits
I EXTENDED BY
I CITY CODICIL
iHB
LAST NIGHT’S SESSION ONE
■ FEET east and
■ ■west is added to fire
B l LIMIT-PETITION for two
B l more MEN AT FIRE HALL.
■■Council last night voted to extend
e fire limits of the city.
■ ■The original tire limits have extend-
100 feet each way from Hamilton
■H rce t. The action taken last night
the limits still another 100
each wav. This ordinance has
talked of for some months and it
believed almost certain that it
be passed.
■ |During the session a petition was
■ sinned bx probably a hundred
■■u.duess men and citizens, asking that
■ HSco more men be placed at the fire
■ I'll, so that a sufficient force could
■ He counted on for the wagons and
■ Hjr making connections. This peti-
■ was referred to the fire commit-
■
K bid was tendered by the Terrell-
II Company for doing the elec-
I work, putting up
and wires for the extension of
£9Be electric plant. No action was
(■■ken last night on the bid.
■ '■An ordinance offered by Council-
■ Shumate and Mann was passed.
■ that in the future, all
or other persons yaking
wfions or putting in s<*w
i must leave the sidewalks and
BfB 1Yf * C aS £r con( lition as <hey
■ h f'ii’e the work was begun, or
l* a,| l e 1° u fine of $25.
■;••:■ ordinance was also passed that
■B sales for city taxes or assess-
K/Bcnts m- improvements, shall be held
|,J ‘ council door, in the same
nner as are sheriff’s sales.
I A letter from Capt. G. W. Orr was
■■'-"F- expressing his sympathy with
■■ p ’ 1 ' ’ b recent fire and the
■■°P P 1 ad Dalton would be built back
'dor town than ever before. He
■ ■wired the city that the W. & A.
■■ould always stand ready to help the
ill any W ay possible. Tn his let-
■ r was enclosed one from Supt. Mc-
of the company, advising the
BBj there were no charges for
■■^ e special train on the night of the
■ B rp '
H I ( iumcdl expressed its appreciation
It" ' l!S * rnr 'F p d the fl p rk to write to
■■" apt. Oit a letter to that effect.
|| ‘^ Former-Mayor
BB" " ’ of Cleveland, the coun
■y |" lli! ' :: -rent ami good citizen —
genuine man.
■ A Disturbed Taste.
■9, neighbors having dropped in
U p On |] le Suthrons dur
tlm evening, says the National
■BE'r’ rs ‘ Suthron suggests that
BB’J I'*" 1 Av ill gather some mint
19". m the mint bed in the garden she
|B 11 them a genuine Ken
|^|, T'lh'p. A[ r Suthron. who had
n in a matter of seven or eight
Kentnck y juleps prior to the
rr i'.d f) f the guests, goes willingly
» Pe " 3p ’ 1 the desired garnishment
|9 . r Um drink. He remains in the gar
|K| ‘ n q’bip a while and finally the oth
■H out to ascertain what causes
EM ■ delay.
|9 , by don’t you bring the mint.
■W’ his wi fe calls.
9 From somewhere in the darkness
|B Co^ es the testy response:
|B Jane, I’ve eaten my way twice
|9 aToiln, l this lot. I’ve chewed gera
|B ,‘ lutn leaves, grass, catnip, tulip, on-
B| '. R? Sa?e an< J burdock but balmed
Bl 1 Ca ” a s P r ig of mint anywhere.
THE DALTON ARGUS.
LENG Bog|«
ASSESSMENT
Fl FAS ARE
NOW READY
PAVING CONTRACTS HAVE ALL
BEEN COMPLETED AND MAY
OR AND COUNCIL HAVE SPE
CIAL FI FA FORMS TO GO AF
TER THE PROPERTY OF DE
LINQUENTS.
The paving of Dalton’s streets has
been completed and at a meeting held
last night council authorized the
mayor to ascertain at what rate
money could be borrowed in ease any
is needed and report back to the next
meeting.
In the meantime fi fas have been
specially prepared and it is under
stood that these will be used at once,
if necessary to collect assessments
due the city.
The form of the fi fa is as follows:
Georgia—Whitfield ounty:
To the Marshal of the City of Dal
ton :
You are hereby commanded to levy
on the goods, chattels, lands and ten
ements of .., lying and being within
the corporate limits of the City of
Dalton, or a sufficient amount thereof
to make the sum of .. dollars, the
amount of his assessment for grading,
paving, constructing and otherwise
improving the portions of. .street in
said city lying between... according
to an act of the General Assembly
of the state of Georgia, ‘ approved
Aug. 3rd. 1910, amending the Char
ter of the City of Dalton, and cer
tain ordinances and resolutions pass
ed in pursuance thereof and contracts
entered into by virtue thereof, which
said sum is adjudged to be due from
said defendant to the City of Dalton
for the improvements aforesaid, as
appears from an assessment roll re
corded upon the minutes of the May
or and Council of said City, of its
meeting on March 6th. 1911, as con
firmed by ordinance of said body on
April 12th, 1911. You will also make
the further sum of 30 cents for this
fi fa and all future costs that may ac
crue in collecting same; and have you
the said sums of money at a regular
meeting of the Mayor and Council of
said city to be held on the. .day of. .
1911, to be turned over by you to the
Treasurer of said city, and have you
then and there this writ. Herein fail
not.
Witness the Hon. Paul B. Tram
mell. mayor of said city, this the. .
day of April. 1911.
City Clerk of Dalton.
BAPTIST ASSOCIATION
TO HAVE MEETING
The conference of the North Geor
gia Baptist Association will begin at
Mount Rachel church in this city
May 2. with Rev. W. M. Dyer and
Rev. J. T. Nichols in charge.
The services will last two days at
Mount Rachel and will then be held
at Harmony church, May 4; Dawn
ville. May 5; Grove Level. May 6
and 7; Poplar Springs May 8; New
Hope, May 9; Rocky Face. May 10;
Mill Creek, May 11; and Friendship.
May 13 and 14.
At churches where there are two
days sessions, services will he held
both at 11 in the morning and at 7:30
in the evening.
The association promises to have
an epoch making meeting and all of
the churches are looking forward with
great interest to it.
GEORGIA. BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM IN PIEDMONT SECTION.
DALTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY APRIL 20 1911.
BLOODY BATTLE WAGED ON MEXICAN BORDER
SEVEN AMERICANS WOUNDED.
INSURRECTOS NIL 208 EEDERAL SOLDIERS
Agna Prieta, Mexico —(From the
Asociated Press Correspondent in the
field) —The most important battle of
the Mexican revolution thus far was
fought here today between 1.600 fed
eral*, under command of Lieutenant
Colonel Diaz and 1,000 rebels, under
Balasaric Garcia, and resulted in the
repulsion of the former.
The battle however, was not final
ly decisive. It lasted from 6:30 a.
m. until sundown. At nightfall two
federal machine guns were in the pos
session of the rebels and the federals
had sustained a loss estimated by the
rebels at least 200 killed and wound
ed. The rebels gave their own loss
at 20.
From the beginning of the battle,
regardless of the "warning given by
the United States government to-the
leaders of both forces, a rain of bul
lets poured into the American town
of Douglas, and when the day was
Chained to a Post
Prisoner Perplexes Police
His ankles chained to a post on
Hamilton street, in front of where the
Hotel Dalton stood, Bob Se?iy, a well
known young white man, has been
standing today silently dbing nothing, 1
while Ipolice are a trifle perplexed t
over their prisoner.
Saturday night Seay was arrested
by the police on a charge of being 1
drunk and was fined by the Recorder. |
He did not pay his fine and yes-
ARRANGEMENTS FOR
MOCK TRIAL MAOE
It has been decided by th; ladies
of the Free Kindergarten to held the
mock trial on the evening of April
i
25, at the City Park school audito
rium and the arrangements are almost
complete.
Dr. H. L. Jarvis will be the defen
dant in the case and the name of the
plaintiff has not yet been given out.
A large number of prominent society
people will take part and the enter
tainment promises to be one of the
best ever given in Dalton.
Total Abstainers.
A dear old lady who was lately stay
ing near Dartmoor was very much i
exercised in her mind as to the phys
ical and spiritual health of the con
victs confined in the prison, says the .
London Telegraph. Meeting a squad j
one day, she asked the warder in
charge if she might present them j
with some delicacies she had with \
her and a few tracts. The warder,
as was his duty, replied in the nega
tive. Then she pleaded to he allowed
to speak a word of admonition and :
comfort.
“No ma’am,” replied the warder, j
“it’s against the regulations.”
“Oh, dear, dear!” sighed the old
lady, “But tell me, do you think they
are all converted?”
“Wel|, ma’am, I shouldn’t take it
upon myself to say that,” he ans
wered. Then seeing her distressed
face, he added: “But there’s one
thing I will say for them —they’re
all teetotalers and non-smokers.” And
the old lady departed much comfort- '
ed. i
' over, it was found that seven non
combatant residents of that city were
wounded. It was a day almost of
! .
terror in Douglas.
i * Dawn revealed the federal forces
formed in fan-shaped battle line in
the level country about a mile distant
from Agua Prieta, with their machine
guns in the center. They gave no
tice to the tenemy of their approach
with a hail’of bullets from the ma
chine guns, supported by rifle fire,
their evident intention being to gam
the international line with its adobe
guaigl houses, and from this vantage
ground turn, their fire on the rebels.
The insurrectos directed their fire at
the crews of the machine guns. But
the fire of.,the federals was so heavy
that it forced the rebels back to their
second line of entrenchment. The
federals advanced slowly. As they
came nearer the fire of the rebels be
came more effective.
terday he was taken from the jail
and placed on the street. Seay would
not work {ind during yesterday after
noon he stood or> the east side of ,
Hamilton street, with shackles on his
ankles. ->
Today .been* fastened /o a
I post. Tim ofecers have not been able
to make him do anything and Seay
has silently stood his ground.
Just what will he in the mat
ter is a problem.
LECTURE HI PUNK
SPLENDID SUCCESS
Last evening Dr. Edward Burton
McDowell delighted the large audi
ence which assembled in the school
auditorium with his lecture on “Pan
ama.” The narrative, in company
I with the pictures, still and in motion,
took Hie auditors across the isthmus
from Colon to Panama. Many beau
; tiful views were shown describing the
< city of Panama, but the chief inter
est centered around the more practi
cal features which dealt with the
actual digging of the canal. In
school boy parlance the operations on
the canal w-ere summed up as “Pana
ma is being dug.”
Dr. McDowell projected pictures in
i series showing the stages of progress
9 years and 3 years ago and at the
present time. The gigantic steam
! shovel, with a capacity of 5 tons of
earth, xvofked almost as realisticly
as if the spectator were in Culebra
j cut. The scheme of locks was well
presented in a cross section drawing
of the card. Among the many pic
tures shown, none appealed so strong
ly to the sense of the beautiful as
■ the green seas breaking upon a rock-
I bound coast of Panama. The motion
i pictures lacked electric current to give
the best results.
Many persons in the audience met
the brilliant young lecturer upon the
conclusion of the entertainment and
expressed to him their enjoyment of
his lecture. He was particularly im
pressed with the uniforly close at
tention of the young people, quite a
number of whom are learning of the
canal at school through the medium
of a supplementary reader entitled
(“Panama and the Canal.”
SCHOOL BOARD
ADOPTS PEANS
FOR BUILDING
SPECIFICATIONS ARE TO RUSH
ED THROUGH AND BIDS WILL
BE RECEIVED IN TEN DAYS
FOR FORT HILL AND NORTH
DALTON BUILDINGS.
Within ten days time, the munici
pal school board will be ready to re
ceived bids for the erection of the
Fort Hill and North Dalton public
school buildings.
The plans of Chafles W. Carlton,
an architect of Anniston, Ala., who
has specialized on school building
work, have been adopted and after
meeting with the board at the office
of Judge S. B. Felker yesterday af
ternoon Mr. Carlton left immediately
for Anniston, where he will complete
the specifications for the two hand
some structures.
Mr. Charlton yesterday showed the
board a very handsome water color
picture of the Fort Hili building as
it will appear when built. The build
ing will be of brick and stone and
will have 10 rooms 30x24 feet, and
will be fully equipped with cloak
rooms, superintendant’s office, libra
ry and large hallways.
It will be something of a colonial
front and according to the plans will
"he one of the most perfect architech
tirsS specimens in North Georgia.
The North Dalton school will be
architecture but nest Equip
ped with so many rooms.
The Board has about $20,000 at its
disposal and it is hoped to begin work
in the near future.
Youthful Pangs of Hunger.
There’s a youngster in Boston, says
Lippincott’s, whose appetite is a con
stant source of amazement to his
family and relatives.
On one occasion this lad was taken
to visit for a day an uncle in the
suburbs. At dinner he ate so much
that finally it became actually nec
essary to forbid him to eat any more.
Later, when the family were taking
thei rease on the porch, the irrepres
sible William pulled something from
his pocket and began gnawing it.
“What have you there?” demand
ed his father.
“Only a dog biscuit,” came in apol
ogetic tone from Willie.
“Where did you get it?”
“I knew I’d be hungry before I
got home,” explained the lad, “so I
took it away from Fido. ”
INSURANCE ADJUSTED
ON NTWILUAMS BROS
At the hour of going to press it was
ar.ounced that the insurance losses of
McWilliams Bros, had been satisfac
torily adjusted.
McWilliams Bros, owned two stores
in the Hotel Dalton building. They
lost SIB,OOO and had insurance to the
amount of $12,250.
Several other adjustments are apt
to follow within the next day or so.
“John, didn’t you tell me that all
savings banks are run in practically
the same way?”
“I believe I did. What’s wrong
now?”
“Oh, nothing, only if they are all
about the same why did I have to go
to a certain one today when I wanted
to draw some money?”—Buffalo Ex
press.
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR
ELECT EIRE
COMMISSION
SAYSJINANLY
FORMER CHIEF OF FIRE DE-
PARTMENT BELIEVES THAT
DALTON FACES A CRISIS AND
THAT ACTION SHOULD BE
TAKEN TO REDUCE HAZARD.
Mr. Frank Manly, former chief of
Dalton’s fire department, and for
years a close student of fire fighting
and fire proof construction, 'believes
that the city council ought to elect
a Fire Commission with independent
authority to enforse laws regulating
the construction of buildings within
the fire limits.
Mr. Manly believes that conditions
exist in Dalton now that must be met
or Dalton will suffer another disas
terous fire.
In speaking of these matters today,
Mr. Manly said:
“The withdrawal of the Southern
Mutual from the dangerous blocks in
the heart of town is entirely justifi
able under present conditions. It is
of course too late now to worry over
the milk already spilled hut we are
the biggest fools on earth if we do
not clean house at onct and from
this hour either tear our fire and
building ordinances out of the book
or compel a compliance with them.
It is sickening to think that the dis
asterous loss of the- opera house and
Showalter blocks might easily have
'been averted by a simple compliance
with our fire ordinances. Had the
roof of the opera house been a fire
proof roof as specifically required
by existing ordinances the building
would not have burned. If we neg
lect the lessons taught by this fire
the rest of the town will go some
night the same way. The whole
block from Cannon’s to Stacy’s is
a fire trap of the worse sort, with un
protected windows, doors and sky
lights and with a solid line of in
flammable and dangerous outhouses
that with a hot fire and a stiff wind
would be afire from one end to the
other in 30 minutes. The block from
Hardwick’s bank to Buchholz is just
as bad and the block in which" Mc-
Knight’s stable is located is still
worsel cross the street the block
from Smith-Hall’s building to Haig’s
market is not quite so bad but needs
a thorough overhauling. In any of
these blocks the fire department
would he powerless to check a had
fire until it burned itself out.
“The fashion here for years has
been for everybody to build as he
pleased without regard to the pro
tests of the fire chief or the provi
sions of our building laws.
“We have clearly prescribed fire
limits and clearly defined laws as to
the class of buildings that can be
erected in these limits. What we
need now is a Fire Commission, elect
ed by city council and with authority
independent of city council whose
duty it wil] be to see that these laws
are rigidly and impartially enforced.
Conditions exist here now that must
be met and met at once or we are
bound to suffer another fire equally
as disasterous as the one we have just
had.”
A
IMPORTANT MEETING
OF BARACAS TONIGHT
An important business meeting of
Baracas will be held tonight at the
Baptist church. Every Baraca is
urged to attend as business of im
portance will come before the meet
ing. A social hour will be enjoyed
after the business meeting.