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V OL. XXXIII—NO. 38.
ANOTHER CANDIDATE FOR
GOVERNOR MAKES DEBUT
gentleman from coffee county, FORMERLY OF WAY
CROSS, ANNOUNCED HIS CANDIDACY AND OUTLINES HIS
PLATFORM.
Waycross, Ga., Aug 15—J. R.
Dedge, formerly of this city, now liv
ing in Coffee county, is squarely in
the race, for governor of Georgia, ac
cording to a signed statement from
[him today.
I He outlines in detail his platform,
which is a combination of questions
[agitated for some time in Georgia.
;Mr. Dedge states in his introductory
that what the people of the state need
is a man of the people and not a cor- I
poration lawyer or man who has been
brought up by the corporations. To
get the attendance at his meetings he
■ltormer dalton pastor
I PREACHES FUNERAL IN PARIS
■ ■Rct. James M. Lee Delivers Oration
■ i at the Funeral of the Late John W.
B i Gates, the Great Chicago Capitalist.
H Rev. J. M. Lee. a former pastor of
B»he Dalton First Methodist church,
BMnreaf-hed the funeral sermon of the
BBla'e John W. Gates in Paris. The fol-
MKlowing cablesrram gives an account of
obsequies:
g&jv Paris, Aug. 12 —The funeral of
MMjohn W, Gates was held today at the
BBlnter-Denominational church in the
raHßtie de Berri.
I .<c 1 ■ •he
BHRev. James M. Lee, pastor of St.
®HJohn's Methodist Episcopal church,
KBSonth, at St. Louis, assisted by Dr.
pastor of the American church.
Klin his discourse the latter said that
B : ,| IL. Gates and he had played together
■ ■as hoys, but had never met in later
B I life. Some 200 American friends and
KB acquaint ences from all parts of the
■ ■United States were present. Nearly
KH all entered their names on the regis-
Klter in the vestibule of the church.
I; I Former Dalton Pastor to Be Made
I Bishop.
B Reverend Father John E. Gunn, of
Bl Atlanta, and who ministered to the
members of the Roman Catho
faith for so long, will be conse- |
Bishop of Natchez some time
B| next month, as will be seen by the fol
■l lowing dispatch:
B Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 13—The Rev.
Bl John E. Gunn', pastor of the Church of
K| the Sacred Heart, who recently was
Bn appointed bishop of the Roman Cath-
Bm olic diocese of Natchez, Miss., proba-
Bl hly will Re consecrated in Atlanta
during the latter part of August, ac-
Bl cor ding to an announcement made at
Bl the Church of the Sacred Heart to
ll day. It will be the first Catholic
Bl Episcopal consecration ever held in
H Atlanta, and the services, it is expect-
B| e( i' ""ill be attended by representatives
B| °f the Catholic church from many
Parts of the country.
B There will be some class to the new
■ opera house WHEN it is built.
is set FREE;
JB MISSING WIFE ALIVE
Bl Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 16 —Receiving
H that has caused him to
Bl Bandon the murder theory, and be-
B ?ott e convinced that Mrs. Lyda May
II Bishop, the Itkyear-old bride who
B has been strangely missing since July
|| 22? is alive and that she vanished of
K| ber own free will, Chief of Detectives
■ Lanford yesterday afternoon freed
|| *be young husband, who has been held
| ln the police station for nearly a
II * ee k in connection with the disap-
B Pearance.
B • -■ it. -
THE DALTON ARGUS.
says he has a deal on with an aviator
and will give free exhibitions of the
new method of transportation and
probably make a few short trips him
self.
Dr. Dedge is a familiar figure
through South Georgia, and his de
termination to mix with the guberna
torial candidates will at least add
interest to the campaign in this sec.
tion. He states that people may at
i tempt to laugh him into oblivion, but
that he is in earnest, and will back
his convictions > with money he has
earned by hard work.
A Deserved Appointment.
Mr. W. M. Sapp has just received
the appointment of Deputy State
Councilor for the Junior Order of
United American Mechanics. Mr.
Sapp’s territory comprises all of
Northwest Georgia and the appoint
ment is a thoroughly deserved one and
Mr. Sapp’s friends are congratulat
ing the order on hie selection.
GORDON LEE
ENDORSES
WRONGROULE?
RESOLUTION IN GEORGIA LEG
ISLATURE CAUSES A MILD
SENSATION ABOUT THE
HIGHWAY.
ERRONEOUS PROPOSITION OFFERED
The Johnston-Sherman Highway
Comes in For Speech by Tarver.
A mild sensation was created down
in the legislature one day last week
over the resolution of Representative
Summerlin which proposed that the
Georgia solons memorialize congress
to appropriate money with which to
build the Sherman-Johnston highway
by the way of LaFayette, Rome and
Waco, into Atlanta.
The apparently innocent resolution
had gotten as far along as roll call and
about 165 members voted “aye,” but
Representative Tarver, always alive
to the interests of his section and
fully realizing that the real route of
the highway was along the path of
the battles fought by Sherman and
Johnston, got the floor and gave the
resolution its death blow. Mr. Tar
ver argued, and with reason, that the
resolution put the legislature in the
attitude of taking sides and giving
an endorsement to a highway that was
not entitled to the consideration as
claimed in the resolution. The result
of Mr. Tarver’s speech caused the
resolution to be justly and wisely
tabled. Representative Summerlin,
in his explanation stated, so The Ar
gus was informed by Mr. Tarver, that
he, Summerlin, had introduced the
resolution at the request or suggestion
of Hon. Gordon Lee, congressman
from the Seventh district. If this is
true, Mr. Lee will certainly have a
reasonable excuse for so doing, but a
number of Daltonians in discussing the
matter, think that Mr. Summerlin
must be mistaken as to what Congress
man Lee meant or desired. At any
LEADING PAPER OF NORTH GEORGIA. BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM IN PIEDMONT SECTION.
DALTON, GEORGIA. THURSDAY, AUGUST 17. 1911.
WOMANS
BUILDING
AL THE FAIR
THE CONTRACT WILL BE LET
IN NEXT FEW DAYS—WILL
BE ADEQUATE IN ALL
PARTICULARS.
WHAT IS BEING GONE ABOUT IT
The Tenth Annual Whitfield County
Fair Now Only 54 Days Away.
As soon as Mr. B. A, Tyler returns
from Atlanta, President Dennis Bar
rett will call the directors of the
Whitfield County Fair association to
gether and let the contract for the
woman’s building.
Tentative plans contemplate a
building that will be admirably ad
apted for the special exhibits of the
good women and there will be every
arrangement and convenience put in
the building that is required by these
exhibitors. For many years this
building has been greatly in demand
and its completion this year will
mean a very great deal for the fair
association. Every lady in the coun
ty is urged to get exhibits ready
for the fair. It must not be forgot
ten that the fair will begin on Mon-,
davMhis wot on
has been the custom the past nine
years.
From all over the county comes
word that there will be more and
larger and finer exhibits than ever
before and the visitors this year will
be agreeably surprised at the varie
ty and - quality of the show.
The fair opens in fifty-four days.
ASTOR-FORCE ALLIANCE
KNOCKED BY HOWARD
Atlanta Congressman Wants Uniform
Marriage and Divorce Laws.
Washington, Aug. 15—Prompted
by the nation-wide agitation over the
marriage of John Jacob Astor, a di
vorcee, and Miss Madeline Force,
Representative Howard, of Georgia,
announced today his intention to in
troduce a joint resolution in congress
to bring about a uniform system of
divorce laws that will prevent the
marriage in any state of a man or
woman divorced in another.
He will ask the president to call a
conference of governors and state
officials.
The national legislature is without
authority to pass a law that will ap
ply to the several states unless the
states agree to a constitutional
amendment.
FIRST BALE OF COTTON
RECEIVED IN ATLANTA
Atlanta, Aug. 16—Atlanta’s first
bale of cotton for 1911 was received
by Inman Akers & Inman yesterday
morning. It was shipped from Cullo
den, Ga., by the Jones Warehouse
company. It will be auctionea off
before the chamber of commerce to
day. This is about ten days earlier
than the first bale last season.
rate a mild sensation among the mem
bers of the house and senate of Geor
was the result, especially among those
who represent the counties of Cobb,
Fartow, Gordon, Whitfield and Catoosa
through which the real Sherman-
Johnston campaign of the civil war
took place. •
HOW THE
JURIES ARE
DRAWN HERE
THE METHOD OF SECURING
GOOD AND TRUE MEN TO SIT
IN JUDGMENT AT COURT
WHY SOME NAMES ARE THROWN OUT
Getting Into Jail or Leaving the
County Will Keep You From Jury
Duty.
It is not the sinecure most people
think, this revising the jury list of
the county in order that qualified men
may from time to time be drawn for ■
jury service.
In the first place the commission
ers who are appointed to revise the
list are men of judgement and capaci
ty and are aljvays worthy and well
qualified. They take the tax digest
and go carefully over every name
thereon and make a written fitet and
these are passed upon. Those who
are dead or gone away from the coun
ty are of course not taken down. If
there has been anything to happen
to any one of the men, such as a
little thing like getting in jail or
committed to prison for crime, they
are -of course thrown out. So it will
l>e seep that the jury revisers must
i Then wbeb A i.he biameS iite'
ready for the boxes they are cut into
small strips with only one name on
a strip, so that at each term of court
the names are drawn out one by one
until the required amount is secur
ed for that particular term of court
upon which they are to serve. The
jury advisers get out all the really
good men in the county who are eli
gible and qualified. Another feature
of this jury business is that fre
quently complaints are offered about
certain men getting on the juries so
often. This is due to mere accident.
Once several years ago the men draw
ing juries got out the names of five
brothers and one of them suggested
that two or three names of these
brothers be thrown back in the box
but his conferes said no, because the
drawing was perfectly legal and it
should stand and it did. Again, for
three successive terms of court a cer
tain well known and honorable citi
zen was drawn but it was purely an
accident. Os course some times
when there is an unusually heavy
docket and also quite a number have
been excused by the court, it is nec
essary to pick up jurymen from those
about the court and it so happens that
some are again chosen. There has
never been a case thrown out of the
Whitfield superior court on account
of an illegal jury. The officials here
are too careful for that. Indeed, no
case has ever been contested on that
account.
Willing to Help.
‘‘Ma, what are the folks in our
church getting up a subscription for ? ’ ’
“To send our minister on a vacation
to Europe.”
“Won’t there be no church services
while he’s gone?”
“No, dear.”
“M?, I got $1.23 in my bank. Can I
give that?”
Surveying Dalton Line.
The surveyors for the Eastern Ten
nessee Power Company, have run the
line between Dalton and Cleveland as
far as Marble Swith, in the direction
of Cleveland. The survey to this city
will be completed this week. —Cleve-
land Journal.
TWO AVIATORS HURLED TO
DEATH AT CHICAGO MEET
AVIATORS JOHNSTONE AND BADGER MET DEATH YESTER
DAY, THE FORMER IN LAKE MICHIGAN, AND LATTER IS
CRUSHED TO PULP WHILE TRYING TO MAKE “DIP.”
Chicago, August 15 —Two aviators,
William R. Badger, of Pittsburg, and
St. Croix Johnstone, of Chicago, both
young men, lost their lives at the in
ternational aviation meet here today.
In dying both revealed the fraility
of the craft in which two score more
aviators were curving and gliding
about the air, with scarce a pause
for the deaths of their contempor
aries.
Death in both cases was due to un
explained accidents, probably the re
sults of unsuspected defects in the
mechanism of the machines and was
in no way caused by carelessness nor
lack of responsibility of the drivers.
Badger, a wealthy young man,
careened to his death in a pit in the
aviation field. There had been a flaw
in one of the wings of the propeller
of the Baldwin machine which he
drove. Centrifugal force broke the
propeller, upset the delicate equili
brium of the machine and Badger
dashed 100 feet to the bottom of the
pit, his neck being broken. John
stone fell 500 feet under his engine
A NEGRO
BDRNEDJT
EHE STAKE
A PENNSYLVANIA MOB PROVES
NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
ONE FROM ANY OTHER
SECTION.
WOMEN MARCH WITH THE CROWD
A Seer® More Horrible Than Ever
Seen Down South in Dixie Land.
Coatesville, Pa., Aug. 13—Zachariah
Walker, a negro desperado, was carri
ed on a cot from the hospital here to
night and burned to a crisp by a fren
zied mob of men and boys. The ne
gro, who last night shot and killed
Edgar Rice, a special policeman of the
Worth Iron Mills, was dragged to
the scene of the shooting, begging
piteously for mercy.
He had been arrested by a posse late
this afternoon after a search which
had stirred the countryside. The posse
finally found him hiding in a cherry
tree. The negro, with the last bullet
in his revolver, shot himself in the
mouth, falling from the tree. He was
removed from the hospital and placed
under guard.
A few minutes after 9 o’clock a
crowd numbering about 1,000 persons
appeared at the hospital. The lead
ers were refused admission, but they
quickly smashed the windows and
crowled into the corridor* When Wal
ker was fi,rst taken to the hospital
he was strapped down in order to
prevent his escape. The mob, seeing
this, gathered up the bed and placing
it on the shoulders of four men, start
ed for the country. "When half a
mile from the hospital they entered a
field and quickly gathering a pile of
dry grass and weeds, placed the bed
containing their victim upon it.
A mate hwas applied and the flames
shot up quickly, completely enshroud
|ing their screaming victim. That not
ONE DOLLAR A YEAB
and was drowned as the result of an
equally unsuspected defect. Caught
under the heavy engine in the Mois
ant monoplane, he was carried deep
into Lake Michigan, and his body was
not brought to the surface until an
hour later.
Badger lived for three-quarters of
;an hour after he had been extricated
from the remains of his engine. He
did not recover consciousness and
died almost at once after he had
reached a hospital. His death was
I the first serious accident of the meet..
I Badger flew as he formerly drove
racing automobiles, purely as an aire
teur. He was the stepson of John
Geftman, of Pittsburg, and was 25
years of age. He possessed an inde
; pendent fortune and gratified a well
developed speed mania. In the early
days of the automobile he was among 1
those to make amateur recorts at
Daytonia and Palm Beach. He was
an intimate friend of Lewis Strang,
the automobile race driver, who died
beneath the engine of an automobile*
in Wisconsin a month ago.
COTTON PLANT 7 FEET HIGH
BROUGHT IN TODAY
»
Easly this morning Luther P. Mc-
Cutchen, of Dogwood Valley, brought
in a cotton plant standing 7 feet high
and having on it 207 bolls of cotton.
We know there were that many, for -
Dave Stewart counted them and Dave
is known to be absolutely accurate •
and truthful.
The plant attracted the attention?
of many, and every one stated that
it was the largest plant of its kintJ
that they had ever seen. This is cer
tainly an evidence of prosperity, and
when cotton grows to a height of 7
feet, it is an evidence of the best
crops we have ever had in the his
tory of Whitfield county.
RAIDING “SHINERS” IS
DANGEROUS BUSINESS
Nashville, Tenn., Aug 15—The lo
cal internal revenue office regards
the situation as to preventing illicit
distilling the worst it has been in
years. The moonshiners are show
ing a desperate spirit and the reve
nue officer on a raiding expedition
now is taking his life in his own
hands. Reports of the destruction of
three stills were received here today,
one in Wayne, one in Campbell and
one in Sevier county. No arrests
were made.
Revenue Agent Knox Booth has
offered aid to Agent Sams, at Ash
ville, N. C., since the shooting of De
puty Collector Henry. Sams thought
his force could handle the situation
now, though he might need aid later.
The Critical Part of It.
Thrown from her luxurious motor
car the fair girl had lain insensible
for many hours. Now, however, the
operation was over, consciousness had
returned, and she spoke faintly in the
darkened room.
“Yvonne.”
“Yes, mademoiselle.” the maid re
plied.
“Yvonne, tell me; did I or did I
not have on my new silk stockings?”
a vestige of the murderer be left, the
mob tore down th efenee along the
road and piled the rails upon the burn
ing negro. After waiting for half an
hour the mob dispersed.
A curious feature of the burning
was the fact that there were almost
as many women in the crowd as men.