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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. v r# _. f '•V ■ . ■ ■ ■ 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. U, . 4 >■ 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.