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GX i / A IXJ ISj Xi r* REPRESENTING THE NEW VOE[
. VI. VzZXI W|| A|V>| A|, DRY GOODS & CLOTHING CO
Has just returned from New York, where he purchased the largest up-to-date stock of general merchandise ever offered the p eop |
of Dalton and surrounding country. For 40 years I have bought goods in the Eastern markets, but never before was so successful '
obtaining first class, up-to-date merchandise at such low figures. The stock is arriving daily and consists of Dry Goods, Shoes,Cloth"
ing, Ladies and Gents furnishing, Millinery Notions Hats and Caps. The finest line of Dress Goods in the city ranging i n pr j c
from 10c to $1.15 per yard nearly less than manufacturers’ and importers’ cost. Clothing and Shoes. We make a specialty of all o f the
finest weaves, best leathers and best makes. Men’s, Boy’s and Children’s Suits range in price 75c to J 25 per suit. Ladies’,
Misses’and Children’s Shoes, from 10c to J 5 per pair. Look for our ads in the Daily and Weekly papers, will quote you some ver
interesting, attractive, money saving prices.
New York Dry Goods & Clothing Co. X Warehouse : • #
N 8 C RAHWAY
MllS IN IIS
CONTRACT
GOVERNOR SMITH PROPOSES
TO MAKE THAT LINE “COME
ACROSS” ON A FREIGHT
CLAUSE.
Oil TAKE THE WX A FROM IT
Georgia’s Chief Executive Will Pro
bably Hold an Important Meeting
Monday.
That Governor Hoke Smith intends
carrying out his promised policies to
the people is found in an article we
print below taken from the Atlanta
Constitution today. This is it:
Governor Hoke Smith may take
r
steps to annul the lease of the Wes
tern and Atlantic railroad as now
held by the Nashville, Chattanooga &
St. Louis. He and the attorney general i
and St. Louis, says today's Constitu
tion. La and the attorney general,
together with Judge James K. Hines,
of the state railroad commission,
have the matter under advisement,
and will probably take some action
within the next month.
The question is being taken up, and
action, if taken, will be premised
upon the findings of the railroad
commission in the matter of alleged
violation of the lease act with re
gard to the classification of freight
by the leasing company.
The lease act states that the road
shall charge lease rates per ton-mile
for through freight, no higher than
those fixed by the state railroad com
mission for local business.
The governor is given authority to
nullify the lease in case of its terms
being violated.
The Atlanta Freight bureau brought
complaint against the leasing com
pany, alleging that by using Georgia
classification for local freight and
southern classification for through
freight many of the rates charged for
the latter exceeded per ton-mile
those used for local business.
Local business is handled in accord
ance with the schedule of rates fixed
by the railroad commission.
After an extended investigation the
commission held that the complaint
was well founded, and made a report
to the governor of what it found to
be the facts. Governor Brown was
then in office.
The governor did not take any pos
itive action with regard to the case,
and he left it to be handled by the in
coming administration. In the nego
tiations with the railroad commis
sion, he called attention to the fact
that the commission had not issued
orders prescribing Georgia classifica
tion for through freight on the state
Toad. The commission held that it
could not do this on account of the
provision in the constitution of the
United States giving congress ex
elusive power to regulate interstate
||||: commerce. It argued that the Geor-
gia classification prevailed automat
ically on through freight when the
rates they prescribed were lower than
Governor Brown held that it would
be useless and dangerous to take ac
tion against the lessees as the case
then stood, and declined to enter suit.
When Governor Smith went into
office his attention was called to the
pending complaint, and he began an
investigation. It is reported that he
will call on the Nashville, Chatta
nooga and St. Louis railway to show
cause why it should not adopt through
rates that are no higher than the
local rates provided by the railroad
commission, or in lieu thereof, sur
render its lease of the road.
If the case reaches that point it
will get into the courts, unless the
lessees agree to southern classifica
tion and use the commission classi
fication on all freight business handled
It is probable that a day will be
set for a hearing before the gover
nor within the next few weeks.
The question involved is an inter
esting one.
The clause in the lease act around
which the controversy turns was sug
gested by former Governor Joseph
M. Brown, who at the time the act
was adopted was an official of the
Western & Atlantic road. It applies
solely to freight traffic. The compli
tions prevailing now as regard rates
have been in force since the present
lease took effect.
It is claimed by some that the part
of the lease act involved is unconsti
tutional and will not stand the test
of the courts in that it seeks to con
trovert that part of the fundamental
law of the nation which denies to the
states the right to regulate com
merce between states.
If the issue gets into the courts it
will take several years to get a final
decision.
FATHER OF
MRS.B. A. TYLER
IS DEAD
THE END, THOUGH NOT ENTIRE
LY UNEXPECTED, CAME SUD
DENLY IN ATLANTA SATUR
DAY NIGHT—WHO HE WAS.
Late Saturday afternoon Mr. B. A.
Tyler received a long distance mes
sage from Atlanta that Mr. Gideon
Kellog, the father of Mrs. Tyler, was
in a most critical condition and sum
moned them to his bedside.
Mr. and Mrs. Tyler made hasty
preparatons and the Dixie Flyer being
two hours late enabled them to board
it and they were borne away on it only
to find upon arrival that the sufferer
had died. The many friends of Mr.
and Mrs. Tyler, and they are num
bered only by the limit of their ac
quaintanceship will greatly sympa
thize with them. Os the death of Mr.
Kellog the Atlanta Journal Sunday
says:
1 Mr. Gideon Kellog, aged 64 years,
died at his residence, 64 West Fifth
street, Saturday night, at 8 o’clock.
Mr. Kellog was a native of Ohio,
and had lived in Atlanta about ten
years. He was well known in the city,
having been for years the southern
representative of Grayton & Knight,
from which position he was forced
to resign two years ago on ac-
THE DALTON ARGUS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1911.
IMPUDENT
YOUNG CLERKS
THRASHED
GOT TOO FRESH WITH THE
WRONG YOUNG LADY IN
WASHINGTON.
HER FATHER FLOGGED ALL FOUR
Congressman Carter Chastised Them
For Insulting His Daughter, Miss
Italy Carter.
Washington, Sept. 2—Representa
tive Charles D. Carter, of Oklahoma,
created a sensation in the smart shop
ping district here yesterday by as
saulting four clerks, one of whom he
alleged insulted his 18-year-old daugh
ter, Miss Italy Carter, who was with
her father on a shopping expedition.
Having dealt summarily with the
four clerks, Representative Carter,
who is seven-eights Indian, sent his
daughter home in an automobile and
proceeded to the nearest police sta
tion, where he explained the incident
which led up to the trouble. He
was not detained, and considers the
incident closed unless the four clerks
demand an investigation.
Representative Carter assailed the
first clerk, Joseph Josephson, with
his fists and when three of the young
man’s companions came to then
friend’s aid, the Oklahoma congress
man brought his walking stick into
play and wielded it vigorously until
he was master of the field.
According to Carter his daughter
described to Josephson a certain kind
of coat which she wished to purchase.
He declared the clerk thought Miss
Carter was unattended, and sought
to engage her in conversation.
“Continuing his advances which
were followed by repulses,” said Mr.
Carter, “the young man became in
sulting. When I politely asked the
clerk the cause of the trouble he be
came infuriated, and said uncompli
mentary things about my daughter.
I told her to accompany me from the
store, and as we reached the door he
called me several names. I returned
and prepared to strike him when he
started toward me. I then gave him
as good a licking as my long exper
ience on the plains as a boxer would
permit. I then started to leave when
three of his associates took up the
fight. I was plainly outnumbered,
but would not run. I struck right
and left with my cane and finally
routed theentire bunch.”
The fight was brief, but exciting,
until the clerks were vanquished.
Meanwhile Miss Carter stood in tears
on the sidewalk outside the store un
til her father reached her side and
took her from the scene.
count of ill health. At the time of
his death Mr. Kellog was building a
home near Marietta, it being his pur
pose to retire from business.
Mr. Kellog is survived by his wife
and three children, Miss Ruth Kel
log and Mr. Paul G. Kellog, of At
lanta, and Mrs. B. A. Tyler, of Dal
ton. < .
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12.918.200
BALES COTTON
THIS YAR
GOVERNMENT REPORT MADE
THIS ESTIMATE
YESTERDAY.
LOOKS LIKE THIRTEEN CENTS
1.668.200 More This Year Than Was
Predicted This Time Last Year.
The government cotton crop report
for 1911-12 is out.
It is 1,668,200 more bales than was
reported this time last year.
The New York cotton exchange puts
this year’s crop at 12,074,938, or
843,362 less than the government.
Here is the report:
Washington, Sept. 2—A total
production of 12,918,200 bales of cot
jton as the final yield this year is in
dicated by the department of agricul
ture’s official report on the condition
of the growing crop on Aug. 25,
( which the crop reporting board from
J reports from its correspondents and
agents throughout the belt estimated
today at 73.2 per cent of a normal.
This estimate, based on the ratio
of the average yield for the last ten
■ years to the average condition of
the crop on Aug. 25 for the past ten
• years, would mean a final yield of
1181.65 pounds an acre on the planted
area of approximately 34,000,000
acres, allowing for an abandoned
acreage of 1,000,000, and provided
the crop does not decline or improve
from the date the condition was es
timated in time of picking.
These estimates of production,
while unofficial, were reckoned by the
official method adopted by the de
partment of agriculture and used by
the crop reporting board in its month
ly estimates of the final yield of the
important cereal crops of the coun
try.
Unofficial advices from the cotton
> belt indicate the most important de
-1 clines in the crop were due to severe
j drouths, hot winds and worms. Re
j ports indicate that heavy shedding
I caused by hot weather was the chief
factor of deterioration in practical
ly all states, except Louisiana and
Mississippi, where there was too
I much rain. In all other states heat
and drouth greatly damaged cotton
during the month, especially in Tex
as and Oklahoma.
Since the date on which the con
dition was taken —Aug. 25 —there
have been general rains which great
ly relieved conditions, and consider
able improvement is looked for when
the October report is issued.
Lee Poole in Town.
Mr. Lee Poole, of Denton, Texas, is
here to visit his mother for the first
time in seventeen years.
Mr. Poole has prospered out in his
adopted home and is secretary of the
Georgia Society which has a large
membership in Denton county. His
little daughter, Crystal, came with
him to see her grandmother.
RESOLUTIONS
UPON DEATHS
OF VETERANS
THE JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON CAMP
PASSES SUITABLE EXPRES
SIONS TO TWO COMRADES
WHO HAVE JOINED THE SIL
ENT MAJORITY.
At the meeting of the Joseph E.
Johnston camp of Confederate Vet
erans Saturday the following delegates
were appointed to go to Rome to the
state reunion:
Wra. Batey, Jos. Bogle. R. P. Neal,
L. F. Clark, T. P. Freeman and H. C.
Irwin.
The following resolutions were also
read and adopted upon the deaths of
two well known comrades:
John. J. Dudley.
Joseph E. Johnston Camp, No. 34,
U. C. V., again mourns, for another
of our comrades who has “crossed
over the river to rest under the shade
of the trees.” Comrade John L.
Dudley, who passed to his reward re
cently, was a veteran of two wars,
having served as a soldier in the In
dian or Seminole war, and also as a
member of Co. F., 37th Ga. regiment
in the civil war, and surrendered at
Greensboro, N. C., with Gen. John
ston’s army. He served his country
faithfully when called upon, was a
good citizen, genial and pleasant in
his manners and was universally lik
ed and esteemed by those who knew
his. His loss is felt hy our camp, by
his neighbors and friends and especi
ally the surviving members of his
family, and we tender to his family
and friends our sympathy in their
loss, and request that this tribute to
his memory be spread on our mrnutes
and published in the Dalton papers.
JOS. BOGLE.
T. P. FREEMAN,
W. H. CARDER,
‘Committee.
A. J. York.
To our comrades and bretheren of the
Joseph E. Johnston Camp:
It is with a degree of sadness that
the undersigned committee present the
following memoir of our deceased
friend and fellow comrade, A. J.
York, who died July 15, 1911, was 78
years of age, and until recently he had
lived in North Dalton for about 25
years. He was a Christian gentleman
and for many years an acceptable
member of the Methodist church. Dur
ing the civil wr he served in Capt.
Woods’ Co. “G” 11th Ga. regiment,
making an excellent war record. He
was in the battle of Manassas and re
ceived a wound in the leg. He had
been for years a highly respected
member of the Joseph E. Johnston
Camp Confederate Veterans, being
color bearer of the camp. He is sur
vived by a wife and six children. His
remans were interred at Dunagen
cemetery, wth appropriate religious
service. Respectfully submitted,
ROBT. P. NEAL,
i A. P. ROBERTS,
' ,J. H. STANFORD.
EX-SffIATOR WILLS
OF TEXJS. IS M
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I Corsicana, Tex., Sept. 4-Foriw
j Senator from Texas, R. Q. Mills, died
1 at his home here Saturday
I • *'*
I Senator Mills was a noted Confed
[ erate soldier and one of the best
known statesmen of Texas. He was
born in Todd County, Ky., 79 years
ago. When a young man he moved
to Texas, starting out as a drug clerk
■nd studying law at night until ad
mitted to the bar.
He entered the war as lieutenant
colonel of the Tenth Texas infantry,
later succeeding to the command of
that regiment. At Arkansas post.
In January, 1863, he distinguished
himself by withstanding for weeks
a superior force of Union troops, fin
ally being captured. For several
months he was a prisoner of war at
Columbus, Ohio. After his exchange
he commanded regiments under Gen
erals Bragg, Johnston and Hood.
His congressional career began in
1872 as representative at large from
Texas, followed by four terms as
congressman from the old Fourth dis
trict.
He was elected United States sen
ator in 1892, serving until 1899. when
Ihe resigned and was succeeded by
Charles A. Culbertson.
Building Roads in Chattooga
Mr. N. Kelley Bitting was eut
from Summerville Sunday the guest of
his mother, Mrs. M. E. Bitting and t»
an Argus representative said: “We
are building the best roads of any
county in North Georgia and intend
to get all of the automobile travel
that comes south from now on.
are alive to the great good these tour
ists are to the section through whichj
they go. That much has been demon-1
strated by those who have gone
through Summerville the past tw»
years. lam informed that they
will come South this fall and winter
in larger numbers than ever. We
are going to get in the ’Round-tb*
State tour.”
Telephone Eavesdropper.
In rural New England districts
the telephone takes the place of t es
in the city, as a place where women
gather and retail gossip, says awn
er in the American Magazine.
“It’s a great blessing, ’sped®
if you’re on a party line, sa
hostess. “And we’re all on Pr
imes! Wait —”
“She went to the instrument, ca
a number and remarked,
Bessie? What’s this I hear
you’n Jim breaking off? J
We watched her smile as - ■
tened to the answer. Then s e s '
“How’d I hear it? Why, * lrs ’ ‘
Parker told me.” rwear
She held the receiver freeo^
and beckoned us close.
distinctly an indignant voiee
“Why Sarah Bowers, I De ' e
no such a thing.” „
“I thought I’d catch her,
Mrs. Bowers, when the
versation was closed. , t# .
you, the ’phone’s a great co
us aU!”
- """ear?
Within the past forty
number ofof women
has almost double >