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VOL XXXIII—NO. 37. largest vote offer causes EVERYONE TO HUSTLE NOW ALL subscriptions and support that is promised for the end should be turned in this week— every SUBSCRIPTION COUNTS BIG THIS WEEK—THE BIGGEST OF FER WILL SOON BE OVERr— HURRY! HURRY! CONTEST BULLETIN. DISTRICT ONE —Miss Robbie Smith leads her district again today with 24,607 votes. Mrs. J. B. Wil liamson moves up into second place in the district with 20,210 votes to her credit. DISTRICT TWO —Miss Lois Ed wards takes the lead in her district and of the entire published list, hav ing 25,450 votes and Miss Grace Mc- Knight is second with 23,830 votes. DISTRICT THREE—Miss Ethel Thomas, of Five Springs, leads her district with 23,540 votes and Miss Lois Foster, of Tunnel Hill, is but a few votes behind, having 23,480. DISTRICT FOUR—Mrs. Luther Roberts, of Tilton, jumps into the lead in her district with 22,880 votes. Miss Nell Spear, of Varnell, is a close second with 22,540 votes. XxxxxxxxxxxX x Today’s Answer x x Never again in this contest x x will your subscriptions earn x x as many votes as they will up x I x to Saturday Aug. 12th, at 9 x x o’clock in the evening. x XxxxxxxxxxxX The opportunity time in The Argus big content is fast comnTg’'fo h close. Saturday night at nine o’clock is the hour named for its closing and every contestant who is in the race to win should exert every effort to turn in every available subscription between now and Saturday night at nine o’clock. This big offer will not be re peated during this contest and every subscription must be sent in before nine o’clock Saturday night. Not one subscription will be received after that hour to apply on this offer, so don’t fail to be on time. Everybody Hustling to Win. Everybody is hustling this week to gain the lead and bank a big re serve force to be used at the finish. The chance to lay up a big reserve and gain the head of the list is one that few are willing to pass up and the contestants are all working with might and main to win the coveted place. If some of the contestants have got a few more votes on the pub lished list than you have don’t be discouraged and don’t stop the good work of securing subscriptions and votes in the contest. Determined ef fort will always be rewarded. If you show by your work in interesting your friends that you are in the contest to win, votes will come thick and fast. Every reader of The Argus is going to cast his or her vote in this elec tion and the great majority will east their votes for those who are interest ed enough to hustle for themselves. Eight now is the time to convince your friends. Special to Outside Contestants Contestants living in the country districts who cannot get to the office Saturday night may mail their sub scriptions Saturday night, and any letters mailed so that the postmark •shows that they were mailed before nine o’clock Saturday night, will be counted on this offer. This is done to give the country contestants the same opportunity to get in subscrip tions up to a late hour as those in the city who can come to the office per sonally. Candidates who have subscriptions in view, but who have been holding back awaiting developments, should read carefully the following: The following schedule will be in THE DALTON ARGUS. Bogin i force on all subscriptions from Monday, Aug. 7th to Saturday, Aug. 12th, inclusive. Daily Argus. Price Votes 3 Mos 1.25 2,400 6 Mo 2.50 6,000 1 Year 5.00....... 15,000 2Years 10.00 39,000 3 Years 15.00 72,000 4 Years 20.00..120,000 5 Years 25.00150.000 Weekly Argus. Price Votes 1 Years 1.00 1,500 2 Years 2.00 3,600 3 Years 3.00 6,000 4 Years 4.00 9,000 5 Years 5.0012,000 10 Years 10.0036,000 DIVISION OF DISTRICTS District No. 1 includes all territory in the city of Dalton, east of the W. 6 A. Ry. District No. 2 includes all territory in the city of Dalton west of the W. & A. Railway. District No. 3 includes all territory outside of the city of Dalton west of the.W. &A. Railway. Towns on the W; & A. north of Dgltpn are includ ed in this district. District No. 4 includes all territory outside or the city of Dallon 'eh'st ! X»f the W. &A. Railway. Towns on the W. & A. and south of Dalton are in cluded in this district. The Automobile. The automobile to be offered is a Maxwell runabout, purchased through the Crawford & Denton agency in this city. It will come fully equipped with extension top, patent wind shield and magneto. Think of the little ex cursions, the moonlight rides and lit tle pleasure parties that you and your friends may plan and enjoy with the reliable Maxwell automobile This car will be a joy forever to the con testant winning it. As a second grand prize The Argus offers an elegant $300.00 up right piano. This instrument comes in a handsome case and is rich in tone and qualty and the winner will have every reason to be proud of it. Diamond rings and gold watches will be given in each district as first and second prizes, after the grand prizes have been awarded, making a total of twelve prizes. The territory of the contest has been divided into four districts. Nominate yourself or some friends to day. The Argus is back of every promise made in this contest, which means that every promise will be kept to the letter. On receipt of a nomina tion the contest manager will call and explain the contest in detail. Assis tance will be given you in organizing your friends as co-workers for you. “A Square Deal” for all is the motto of this contest and equal treat ment will be given every contestant. There will be no favorites. Getting an eany start will mean much to you in the way of getting votes, for it encourages one's frfiends to immediate action in one’s behalf. Any lady, either married or single, may enter this contest and win the auto or any other prize in the list. Save the Votes. Be sure to save the ten vote cou pon printed in each issue of The Ar gus. Put the name of your candidate on these votes and either mail them to the Contest Manager or drop them in the ballot box which is just inside the door of The Argus office. LEADING PAPER OF NORTH GEORGIA. BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM IN PIEDMONT SECTION. DALTON, GEORGIA. THURSDAY AUGUST 10. 1911. HUNGRY VAUEY ON QUI VIVE f A MONSTER GOOD ROADS MEET ING LAST NIGHT AT DUG GAP SCHOOL HOUSE. STEREDPTICON PICTURES SHOWN Eloquent Speeches Made That Met the Hearty Approval of the Valley Folk, x- In a spirit of facetiousness all that territory from Jim Ford’s fish pond on down below Yeager’s was dubbed by Wiley Ford as “Hungry Valley” because, forsooth, they raised more and better things to eat than perhaps any other section of Whitfield county. This valley has awakened to the im mense possibilities of a system of good roads. It has always had the best roads in the county, which in years agone did not spell much but they were the best by comparison. There was a meeting last night in the interest of good roads for the valley. It was an earnest meeting. The peo test yourself, be sure to save the vote coupon anyway, for some one of your friends will want them and appreciate it if you save them. ‘ Another Way. | g Uh every siibseriptfcm, for) votes will be given subscribers and contestants according to the vote schedule printed below. Votes are allowed on both old and new subscrip tions, Daily or Weekly, when paid in advance or arreas. Ask the contest manager to send you a receipt book and start right out among your friends securing their subscriptions and votes. - •s tc Y T our friends will all be glad to help you if you ask them. The contest will be over in a few short weeks and if you should win the Maxwell automobile, the piano, or any of the other prizes, you will be glad that you spent your spare time in the contest. The contest will positively close, Saturday, .September 2nd, and the prizes will be given away regardless of the votes it takes to secure them. The very fact that the closing day will be in the hands of three disinter ested business men should warrant that fact. So if you really want the auto or any one of the other prizes, make the effort today, right now. ing in Dalton or its territory, may be come a candidate. It is not necessary to be a subscriber to the Argus in order to enter. Just fill out and send in the nomination blank printed in The Argus. A nomination counts for 1,000 votes. Io Votes Io IN THE Dalton Argus Big Automobile and Prize Contest. For Miss or Mrs District NoAddress Votes must neatly trimmed and pinned together in order to be counted. NOT GO JD AFTER AUGUST 14th. pie intend to do something and do it right away and the part of Whitfield county that has a better piece of road than Hungry Valley by the time win der sets in has got to get to work by tomorrow morning and do some mighty good work at that to even keep pace. All of the foregoing is just prelim inary to the meeting which occurred last night at Dug Gap church which is about the center of the valley and is headquarters of the valley, so to speak. By a special arrangement Mr. Romeo Freer prepared photographs of food roads and bad roads and trans erred thm to slides and ran them in , his stereoptican. The large crowd, many of which could not get into the church but stood by the windows, en joyed the pictures and took special delight in approving the pictures of the good roads and disapproving the pictures of bad ones. As the pictures i were thrown on the canvas Mr. B. A. Tylfcr explained each one and the au dience appreciated it. After the pic tures were over Mr. Tyler called upon Frank T. Reynolds (“Good Roads” Reynolds) for a talk and if there is one thing above another Mr. Reynolds is ready to boost it is good roads for he has heen at it for 18 years in this county. He gave the audience a few’ valuable suggestions as to the worth and cost of good and bad roads. Mr. W. M. Jones next gave the “mud ways” some hot shots. Hon. H. J. Smith added quite a good deal of en thusiasm by his splendid speech. Col. W. C. Martin grew so eloquent in his advocacy for good roads an old citi zen remarked that the Colonel was getting in some of Doctor Felton’s old hallelujah licks. Mr. Dennis Barrett made some plain remarks that meant business and coming so direct ly for a man of his stamp means a gt'eat deal. He does not do things jin a half-way manner. Mr. B. A. i Tyler got in some of his well known i and practical ideas of the matter. Mr. ’ W. H. Bird, for the Valley folks, re sponded in a fine talk that got a hearty second from all. Thus it may be truly said that the first big gun loaded with real ammunition for good roads for Whitfield was fired last night and the ramparts of bad roads got a mighty hole torn from its inex cusable ramparts. The broadsides poured into the “mudways” of this county are going to sweep away the holes, bumps and hogwallows out of i the public roads and with the spirit of progressiveness rebuild with pikes that w’ill not only be a comfort and pleasure but a money-making, time saving, investment to the people of Whitfield county and they deserve as good as any people on earth. God Almighty will bless the man who is merciful to his beast and there is no better way to do it than to give him good roads to pull his loads upon. Those who went from Dalton to the meeting wee Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Tyler, Mr. Romeo Freer and aunt. Col. W. C. Martin and wife, Hon. H. J. Smith and wife, Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Flowers, Mr. and Mrs. Medford, Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Judd. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Jones, Misses Carrie Green; Will D. ONE BN IN ROME GEIS BEER AVERAGES 332 KEGS PER MONTH AND YET STAYS EN TIRELY SOBER. TRIED BY COURT ANO FREED It Looks as if the Romans Were Fond of Pilsner, Magnolia and Other Chattanooga Brands. Evidence showing that Frank Mur phy, a well known negro drayman, had hauled 673 kegs of beer through the streets of Rome in two months time and showing where he had dis posed of almost two hundred kegs of the stuff, failed to convict the negro of violating the prohibition law and he was acquitted by a city court jury Tuesday after several hours delibera tion, says the Rome Tribune. A strong factor in Murphy’s favor it is thought, w’as the statements of G. W. Fleetwood, the well known prohibitionist, and Ccaptain W. P. Simpson, who testified as to the good character of the negro. The state put up an exceptionally strong fight to convict the negro. E. E. Lindsey, agent of the Southern Express Company, declared that 653 kegs of beer had been received by the negro between May 1 and July 1. It was also proven that the dar key had received twenty kegs of the stuff over the Central of Georgia, by freight. Bill Ballard, a colored employee of the Davis Foundry and Machine Co., said that on two separate occasions he had bought a keg of beer from Murphy, paying $4 per keg for it. The defendant then introduced the evidence of Captain W. F. Simpson that Murphy was a negro of good character. The same statement came from the lips of G. W.» Fleetwood. From another witness came thte statement that from twenty to twen ty-five kegs of beer a week had been ordered in Murphy’s name by the moulders of the city for their own individual consumption; that this beer cost in Chattanooga $4 a keg and that the icing in Chattanooga was fifty cents a keg; that the drayage in Rome of the beer and empties was fifty cents a keg and that they were entitled to return the empties at a cost of $2 a keg. After considering the case from 11:30 a. m., to 3:10 p. m. the jury re turned a verdict of not guilty. CONGRESS MEMBERSHIP IS FINALLY SETTLED Washington, Aug. B—President Taft today signed the reapportionment bill under which the house of repre- I sentatives is increased from 391 to 433 members with two more if Ari zona and New’ Mexico are admitted to the union. Grass widows sometimes result from the sowing of wild oats. Wailes and Messrs. J. G. McClelland. Dennis Barrett, R. A. Johnstone and Frank T. Reynolds. A gentleman from Center Point and one from Rocky Face present last night said they wanted those pictures shown at their places and also wanted their neighbors to hear some of the speeches ike those made last night. The fever is spreading. ONE DOLLAR A YEAB BIG CROWD HEARS MUSIC AND SPEECHES LAST NIGHT AT THE BIG GET TOGETHER MEETING OVER ON FORT DEPENDABLE. FULLY TWO THOUSAND PRESENT That the Great Heart of Dalton Beats in Unison, Was Clearly Shown. Between fifteen hundred and two thousand men, women and children gathered in the historic precincts and embrasures of Fort Dependable last night to see and hear of the much talked of Get-together meeting and if numbers alone amount to anything the meeting was eminently success ful. But more than that, the speeches and good humor prevalent added much more to the impressiveness of the oc casion. Promptly at 7:30 the bell in the sheriff’s home began to ring and for the first time thousands heard its sonorous, deep-mouthed tones. Im mediately following the Dalton Cor net band struck up “Dixie,” a tune to conquor with, and the people be gan pouring out of their homes and presently the streets and avenues lead ing to the fort were filled with those eager to get over there on time. ; Promptly on the hour, Colonel Julian McCamy, the past master of the art of chairmanship, opened the exercises by a few brief introductory remarks and presented Honorable Horace J. Smith, who delivered a mas terful address of welcome that was timely, cordial and appropriate. Mr. R. A. Johnstone, owner of the Dal ton Argus,, for a large list of new citizens, briefly and eloquently re sponded. Frank T. Reynolds follow ed with a story or two and suggested the importance and necessity for the building of the proposed railroad connecting Dalton with Murray coun ty. Colonel Walter M. Jones, for the Bryan M. Thomas chapter of the Dau ghters of the Confederacy, told of the inception and the work following the raising of the funds for the mon ument to the late Gen. Joseph E. Johnston. Mr. Jones was particu larly happy and eloquent in present ing the subject. Mr. R. H. Baker told of the trying times in Dalton during the civil war and drew a splendid comparison between the days now and then. Hon. Paul B. Tram mell. mayor of Dalton, was introduc ed by Colonel McCamy as the next governor of Georgia and this met with thunderous and deafening applause. Mayor Trammell then proceeded to confer tax-paying privileges upon the new citizens who have recently come • • -x '‘'iWßs to make their home m this city. After this there were several hum- . £ orous events introduced that illus- ! trated how people could get together for the common good of the city. The exercises were interspersed with music bv the Dalton Cornet band that filled up the program in an ac-| ceptable way. Mr. Seebold, the own er of Fort Dependable, is due the. thanks of all for the use of so de lightful a spot for the entertainment and for having made out the prOj <rram. The grounds were amply light | ed and if the glorious old harves, moon had not shown his face ther . would have been light enough anj' how. Those who did not go owe themselves some other treat,