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VOL. XXXIII—NO. 41.
HOW AND WHY THE ARGUS
DAILY & WEEKLY HAVE GROWN
Congested Circulation Pays Local Advertisers
A REASON FOR PROFIT TO THE FOREIGN ADVERTISER
THING ABOUT THE WAY THIS PAPER HAS BEEN INCREASING
ITS LISTS OF FRIENDS AN D READERS THROUGHOUT THIS
SECTION OF GEORGIA.
That the Daily and Weekly Argus
are the best advertising mediums in
Whitfield and surrounding counties
is evidenced by the increased circu
lation of both.
The circulation of The Daily Argus
has been a little more than doubled
in the past thirty days and each day
issue consists of more than one thou
sand copies, and these papers go to
BONA FIDE subscribers who have
paid for the right to read it. The
Weekly Argus has increased in the
same length of time about fifty per
cent. The proof of the pudding is in
the eating, therefore the proof of the
circulation of a paper is in seeing the
subscription list, and we challenge
anybody to come in and see the lists
of both the daily and weekly. The
circulation liar is the commonest
kind of a liar and is seldom chal
lenged. but The Argus cordially in
vites all who desire to advertise and
want their advertisments to go to the
000 FELLOWS
WILL GATHER
IN DALTON
FRIDAY OF THIS WEEK WILL
SEE NOTABLE VISITORS IN
THE CITY.
A FINE PROGRAM IS ARRANGED
There Will Be Work, Speeches and
Music Galore for Two Days.
The Cherokee Division of Georgia
Odd Fellows will meet in Dalton next
Friday when delegates from the
lodges of five counties will be here
for a two days’ session. This division
is composed of Gordon, Whitfield,
Bartow, Murray and Catoosa counties
representing several thousand mem
bers of the order.
These meetigs are held semiannual
ly with different lodges of the division,
which always result in much enthusi
asm being aroused and nwich good be
ing done for the benefit of the order.
Good programs are always arranged
and a general good time is had, be
sides the business session, which is
usually held during the second day of
the meeting. The Dalton lodge is
making big preparations for the meet
ing next Friday and Saturday, which
will be attended by about 500 dele
gates.
Division Deputy Grand Master
T. M. Sproule, of Stilesboro, will be
here to be i ncharge of the business
meetings, together with Division De
puty Grand Warden H. M. Huskey,
of Boynton; Secretary Albert Hat
field, of Eton and Treasurer S. A.
Brown, of Eton, which insures that
the meeting will be a success so far
as the business end is concerned.
T. D. Ridley, who is in charge of
the program committee, states that
nothing will he left undone to make
the social feature the best in the his-
.Bogle.
IHE DALTON ARGUS.
, largest number of readers, to make
ius show you. We “dare” them to
. come in and take a look at the lists
in this office. An advertisment
brings the customer to the one doing
the advertising and therefore it be
hooves all to get the best medium
and at the same time the largest cir
culation which reaches the largest
number of readers.
The concentrated circulation of
course is best for the local advertiser
and the scattered circulation for the
general advertiser. Both the Daily
and Weekly Argus have the most con
gested and at the same time widest
scattered lists of subscribers of any
paper printed in any county north of
Atlanta, except perhaps Floyd. There
j fore they are best for both the local
; and foreign advertiser.
I If any other paper in the territory
‘ thinks that these things are not true
: let them put the matter to a test by
I reputable men.
tory of the Cherokee division con
vention meetings. The first day’s ses
sion will be held at the Whitfield
'county courthouse, when the following
program will be rendered:
Opening Prayer—Rev. C. C. Maples.
(Welcome Address—John A. Ray.
Response to Welcome Address —Hen-
ry McCormick.
Music.
Address —R. N. Steed.
i Music.
I AddressAddress —Rev. C. C. Maples.
1 Music.
Address —Hon. S. P. Maddox.
Music.
Address —Buell Stark.
Adjourn for dinner.
Reassemble at court house at 2:30.
Address —Hon. G. G. Glenn.
Music.
Address —Col. T. C. Milner.
Music.
Speeches by Tom, Dick and Harry.
After a recess for supper the del
egates will gather at the lodge room
for a business session and a first de
gree team contest.
The second day will be entirely tak
en up with a business session.
POPE BROWN FOORS
PROHIBITION LAW
%
Calhoun, Ga., Sept. 6 —Hon. J. Pope
Brown spoke here at the courthouse
at noon yesterday to a large audience
of voters. He discussed good roads,
the improvement of the common school
system, extension of the work of the
agricultural schools and prohibition.
When he came to the prohibition
question as against local option he de
clared himself unqualifiedly for the
prohibition law as it now stands. His
speeeh was well received and voters
are discussing it on our streets to
day.
Cedar Valley Personals.
Mrs. Jesse Dantzler and children,
of Atlanta, are spending the summer
with Mr. L. N. Dantzler and family.
Mr. Arthur Robertson has returned
to Chattanooga after a pleasant visit
to his mother, Mrs. J. G. Robertson.
I Miss Phoeba Broadrick left Tues
day for Athens, Ga.. where she will
. enter the state normal.
LEADING PAPER OF NORTH GEORGIA. BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM IN PIEDMONT SECTION.
DALTON, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 7.191 L
A Superior Newspaper
W. J. Duffy, representing the Pultz-Musgat company, of Fond du
Lac, Wisconsin, circulation contest builders, who had been conducting the
contest for The Argus, which closed Saturday night, says:
“I have conducted contests for the leading daily newspapers of the
country for a number of years, and’without hesitation I say that The Dalton
Daily Argus is the best edited, best printed, best gotten up and best
all round daily newspaper to be found in the country, published in a city
the size of Dalton. I have never conducted a contest in a community of
this size where a newspaper had more friends, and where subscriptions
were easier to obtain at this season of the year. The contest The Argus
put on, financial conditions considered, has been a great success in every
way, and the chief factor in making a success if the undertaking is the
fact that contestants had the advantage of offering to the public a super
ior newspaper.”
MHN 'A' . J ' : to'to RM to
DALTON COTTON SCENE.
Brought to Mind by the Early Arriva 1 of the First Bale Tuesday Morning
FIRST NEW BALE COTTON .
BROUGH HERE TUESDAY
DALTON GOT HER FIRST “FLEECY” THIS MORNING—IT WAS
BOUGHT BY MR. DENNIS BARRETT, PROPRIETOR OF THE
NORTH GEORGIA WAREHOUSE—PRICE PAID 12-12 CENTS—
CLASSED STRICTLY MIDDLING-RAISED BY MESSRS. HAYS
AND BABB—GINNED BY FARMERS’ UNION.
Dalton’s first new bale of cotton
came in this morning.
This beats the record of last year
by just 22 days.
The first bale last year came in on
September 27th and was raised by Mr.
Yance Whitmire, out near Antioch.
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COTTON SCENE DOWN IN HUNGRY VALLEY.
From Which Section Messrs. H. W. Hayes and L. C. Babb Picked the first
bale Season 1911-12.
are no doubt proud of the accomplish
ment and the fertility of the soil as
well as the hustling qualities of the
farmers and planters down that way.
Mr. Dennis Barrett bought the bale
today and paid twelve' and a half
cents a pound for it. From what The
Ice Cream Festival at Rocky Face.
There will be an ice cream festival
at Rocky Face school house Satur
day night, September 9th. Proceeds
to be used for benefit of school.
Everybody cordially invited.
i The new bale which came in today
was raised by Messrs. H. W. Hays
• and L. C. Babb, who live out near Dug
Gap in Hungry Valley.
i | This puts a feather in the caps of
. : those w’ho live down in that popular
section of Whitfield county and they
Argus learns and what its reporters
have seen recently it will be only a
few days or weeks at the furtherest,
before the streets will be choked
with wagons full of “the fleecy.”
The bale was ginned by the Far
mers’ Union gin.
■. All Day Singing at Five Springs.
[ | There will be an all day singing at
; Five Springs next Sunday. R. B.
I Maulden will lead, assisted by sever
al others who have good voices and
• | are well known all over the county.
J Everybody is invited.
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ENROLLMENT OF THE JOSEPH
E. JOHNSTON CAMP U. C. V.
For Whom A Monument Is Proposed
NAMES OF THOSE WHO ARE D EAD AND THOSE WHO YET LIVE
AND ALL WHO HAVE ADDED HONOR TO CAMP NUMBER THIR
TY-FOUR—COMPILED FOR THE ARGUS BY MR. GEORGE W.
STAFFORD.
Record of names of Jos. E. John
ston Camp No. 34, U. C. V., which
will appear on Historic monument.
A P. Roberts
B. M. Thomas
W. K. Moore
J. A. Blanton
J. C. Clements
W. R. Davis
James Hamilton
Charles McEntire
J. L. Oxford
J. R. McAfee
C. D. McCutchen
W. M. Long.
John Black
I. E. Shumate
S. H. Furgerson
W. J. Tate
J. G. Thomas
A. J. York
R. M. Bazemore
J. D. Graves
W. H. C. Freeman
W. H. Pruden
LAST COTTON CROP LIKE
GOLD MINE FOR SOUTH
Nw Orleans, Sept. 6 —“ No Ameri-
I can cotton crop ever grown has sold
for as much as the one just marketed,
the total value, including the seed,
having been $1,030,000,000.”
This remarkable statement is con
tained in the detailed statistics of
last season’s cotton crop issued yes
terday by Colonel Henry G. Hester,
ecretary of the New Orleans cotton
exchange.
With 1,700,000 bales less than con
tained in the bumper crop of 1908-09,
the crop just marketed netted the
South $254,000,000 more. The 13,-
511.000 bale crop of 1906-07 brought
$222,000,000 less than the past sea
son’s crop.
Good Meeting at Pine Grove.
The protracted meeting at Pine
Grove church continues with unabat
ed interest. Rev. C. C. Maples is be
ing assisted by his brother. Rev. J. A.
Maples, of Cleveland, and Rev. Silas
L. Morris and J. M. Cash. Quite a
number have joined the church.
EIGDTyIhEOPLE
ARE DROWNED
Lima, Peru, September 6 —The Chil
ena steamer Tucapel has been wreck
ed and is a total loss. Eighty-one
persons were drowned.
The steamer Tucapel was engaged
in trading on the west coast of South
America. She was of 1,912 tons net
and was commanded by Captain Mar
row.
A Big Mortgage Record.
Clerk W. M. Sapp is now engaged
in recording perhaps the biggest
mortgage ever put on the books of
Whitfield county.
It is that of the Southern Bell Tel
ephone and Telegraph company and
amounts to about twenty-five thou
sand words. It will take several days
steady work to get the record com
plete. The record is for fifty mil
lion dollars.
Dr. and Mrs. S. J. McKnight have
returned from Washington,
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR
L. H. Dill
S. B. Felker
H. K. Main
Timothy Ford
G. W. Mullinax
Gilbert Long
A. J. Pool "
Jos. Bogle
Robt. Richardson
G. W. Hamilton
Thomas Hamilton
J. W. Brooker
W. H. Brooker
L. W. Barrett
W. M. Bowman
W. H. Bramlet
George Clark
0. A. Crawford
W. H. Finley
J. L. Farnsworth
A. C. Guntz.
G. W. Hair.
H. C. Hamilton
L. B. Johnson
Continued on Last Page.
SCHOOLS
WILL OPEN
MONDAY
A LARGE ENROLLMENT IS EX
PECTED FOR THE COMING
TERM.
SUPT. ISSUES INSTRUCTIONS
When Teahers and Certain Classes
are Expected to Report This Week.
The public school teachers will as
semble for instruction relative to
their assignment and duties on next
Saturday morning at 10 o’lock, the
white teachers at the City Park
Park school, the colored teachers at
the Emery 7 street school.
On Friday morning at 9 o’clock, all
conditioned pupils of the grammar
grades, must report for examination
at the Fort Hill school building;
pupils of the high school grades will
report at the City Park school.
Principals in each instance will hold
said examinations, calling to their
aid such teachers as may be necessary
for the proper conduct of same.
The school buildings and grounds
are being overhauled preparatory to
the opening, on next Monday 7 . The
outlook points to a large attendance.
Parents are urged to enter their
children promptly as the “first come,
I first served” principle will be ad
hered to.
School duties will be resumed
promptly at 8:30 o’clock on next
Monday morning, when pupils will be
enrolled and lessons assigned. Five
new teachers will face their classes
upon the opening day.
Miss Grace Brown, of Woodbury,
will have charge of the Latin
classes; Miss Lucy Warmack, prin
pipal North Dalton school, Miss Car
rie Kirby, second grade, City Park
school; Miss Emery Kirby, second
grade North Dalton school.