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VOL. XXXIII—NO. 43.
PERTINENT
QUESTION
IS ASKED
UNDOUBTEDLY A WAY TO GROW
RICH IN A FEW YEARS IF
IT BE TRIED.
UP 10 NORTH GEORGIA PLANTERS
There Cn Be No Question, as to the
Fact Pointed Out.
The Daily Savannah News wants
to know why apples are not raised
in larger quantities up here in North
Georgia.
The question is both timely and
pertinent. There is no country on
earth better suited for growing all
varieties of eating and cooking ap
ples than in this section of the state
and the farmers and planters who try
it will find that as soon as the apples
begin coming in bearing that they
will have an annual source of profit
far greater than from any other
crop. It is hoped that the mtter will
be seriously undertaken by the farm
owners of this section. Here is what
the News says:
Our dvertising columns are carry
ing the advertisement of a Western
North Carolina man who is offering
choice apples in car lots. The bulk
of /hese apples, probably, were grown
in Haywood county, within a few
miles of Waynesville. That section
has become justly celebrated for its
apples, which are as fine and well fla
vored fruit as can be produced any
where in the country. Apples have
become practically a staple crop, and
a very profitable one, in several of
the Western North Carolina counties.
Now, why do not our North Georgia
counties fall into line and go into the
apple business? Climatic and soil
conditions are practically the same j
in North Georgi as in Western North
Carolina and Eastern Tennessee. As
fine apples are grown in a sort of
haphazard way, in Habersham, Ra-
Bun, White and adjoining counties
as one would care to see—big fellows
with all the qualifications of color and
taste as well as size. Rabun county
apples took first prize at the National
Apple Show at Spokane. Wash., in
competition with the whole country.
If we raised, sold and ate more ap
ples we should be richer, healthier
and happier.
DRUMMER-PREACHER
GIVES HIMSELF UP
Rev. H. C. Compton Comes Back to
Athens to Face Carge of Swindling
—Bond of SSOO Furnished and Ac
cepted.
Athens, Sept. 19 —Rev. H. C. Camp
ton, the drummer-preacher, former
pastor of a Baptist church here, who
was wanted on a warrant for cheat
ing and swindling, came back to Ath
ens and voluntairly offered to make
bond yesterday. His bond was fixed
at SSOO. He will return for a final
hearing of the case as soon as he can
after the collection of rentals from
his large Alabama plantations. His
friends re confident he will come out
of the affair with flying colors.
It is understood that the opponents
of good roads up in Catoosa county
will not object to aviators going over
them provided they don’t jostle Luna,
Mars, Orion and Brooks’ new comet.
THE DALTON ARGUS.
CROWDS SAW
ROBINSON’S
CIRCUS
TWO PERFORMANCES IN DAL
TON TUESDAY—BIG CROWD
IN THE AFTERNOON—RAIN
AFFECTED NIGHT ATTEN
DANCE.
John Robinson’s circus was in town
Tuesday and drew an immense crowd
in the afternoon and it is presumed
owing to the rain and the threatening
of the elements last night that the
small crowd of not over fifteen hun
dred people was the result.
The Robinson concert band is one
of the best on the road. The work
of the trained elephants is as good
as any ever shown hy any circus and
the reporter has seen them all except
Sells-Floto. The educated bears and
their performances are as good as
any ever owned and trained by Bos
tock. The family trapeze work over
the net was good. The horsemanship
of the people was an average but an
exception must be made in favor of
the smaller woman who essayed the
part of a cow girl. Her riding was
far and away above that of the aver
age “whip” and no circus has any
better than her. Some novel features
kept othe crowds in good humor the
while. The only signs of the cir
cus today is that of the small boy
who is now promoting a miniature
circus on his parents back lot, the en
tire performance of which costs but
a penny. Robinson is in Cartersville
today and is billed for Rome tomor
row.
ANDERSON TAKEN TO
SERVE HIS SENTENCE
Hawkinsville, Ga., Sept. 20 —The
last chapter in the story of the at
tempt of E. N. Andeij on to avoid
serving his term at the state farm at
Milledgeville, where he has had a sen
tence of twelve months for selling
whiskey, was closed Monday night,
with the capture of Anderson by the
sheriff at his farm about twelve miles
from here.
When the officers came here to fake
him at his home Sunday night he had
gone to the state farm to serve his
term. However, it was found that
he had not gone there and on Monday
the sheriff was tipped off by some one
that he was hiding at his farm. He
was taken to Milledgeville Monday
night.
Water Shortage in Tennessee.
“Don’t rough it too much on your
summer vacation,” said Dr. Phineas
L. Raycroft, the hygienic expert of
Des Moines, according to the Washing
ton Star “See that you get plenty
of baths and plenty of good food.
Otherwise your vacation will be apt
to do you harm.
“I once thought of spending my
midsummer holidays in the Tennessee
mountains So I wrote to a ‘mount
taineer whose picturesque homestead
had been highly recommended to me,
and in the course of my letter I asked
the man if there was a bath in his
house.
“In reply he said:
“If you want a bath you had better
take it before you come.”
Ten thousand men and two thousand
women tailors have struck in New
York and eighteen thousand dressmak
ers, in sympathy, may follow. We
are thankful that all our clothes are
made “hover bin London, don’t you
know. ’'
LEADING PAPER OF NORTH GEORGIA. BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM IN PIEDMONT SECTION.
DALTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21. 1911.
Where Are the Bond Funds
Being Kept These Days?
SOMETHING ABOUT A REPORT WHICH HAS BEEN CIRCULATED
ON THE STREETS FOR THE PAST SEVERAL DAYS—THE
MAYOR MAKES COMPLETE ANSWER.
For several days past a rumor has
been current on the streets to the ef
fect that Mayor Paul Trammell has
been holding back the public works
in order to enable the First National
Bank of which he is president, to i
keep a large fund in its vaults and
the report of the condition of that
bank last week being so large it was
used as a hammer to knock Mayor
Trammell.
The Argus has taken special pains
to look into the truthfulness of these
reports and takes pleasure in report
ing that they are absoluely without
foundation in fact. The bank report
referred to will show that there was
and is yet an overdraft on the funds
■for the school buildings. That fact
ougt to satisfy all. Again, when the
bonds were ready for delivery last
November and could have been deliv
ered and the full amount of money
received for the entire issue, Mayor
Trammell made a trade with the bond
purchasers to the effect that the city |
of Dahon would not want all of the J
money at one time and they agreed
to take the bonds as the city would
want the money and have been doing
so all along, thus saving the city a
great deal of interest. In fact, the
council has figured by this means the j
city has been saved nealy seventeen j
hundred dollars by issueing the 'bonils '
out to the buyers as the money was
needed. This saved interest Mayor
Trammell and the council propose to
use for the extra filter to be erected
at the insistant demand of the board I
of health. It is a reflection on the
honesty and integrity of Mayor Tram
mell and the city council individually
and collectively, to say they have per
mitted a large fund to be held up in
anybody’s bank for the especial use 1
BY AN
EYEN TWO
DOZEN
THE STATE OF MAINE WENT
WET AFTER OFFICIAL
COUNT.
RETURNS CLOSE—ANOTHER COUNT
State Officials Will Make Another
Check to Make Sure of Result.
Augusta, Maine, September 19—
Complete official returns from the
special election of last week, when
Maine voted on the question of re
peal of the constitutional prohibitory
amendment as canvassed by the gov
ernor and council last night showed
a majority of twelve votes in favor
of repeal.
Various discrepancies were found
in the official returns as compared
with the tabulations compiled by the
secretary of state’s office. The lat
ter indicated a majority for repeal
of 136.
Some doubt still remains as to the
correctness of the returns and Gov
ernor Plaisted announced today that
city and town clerks wocld be given
twenty days to check the results.
of that bank, and the reports were
undoubtedly circulated by the ignor
ant, to say the least. The matter was
brought up in the city council at its
meeting Monday night and the whole
situation made public for the benefit
of the ignorant or those who pur
posely circulated the reports to in
jure Mayor Trammell and his cabi
net. The bank report referred to
was the report of a growing and pro
gressive banking institution which
deserves success.
A member of the city council made
the following statement:
When the council authorized Mayor
Trammell to spend several hundred
dollars additional for the new’ filter
at the water works he called their at
tention to the fact that quite a num
ber of extras had shown up as is al
ways the case, and the expenditures
at the water and light plant were
some heavier than they counted on,
but he thought the sale of old ma
chinery and te standpipe would keep
I them on the safe-side. He also call
led their attention to the manner in
which he had handled the sale of the
bonds, so as to save the city the in
terest. While the bonds dated and
bore interest from July, 1910, they
were sold so as the bonds would not
i bear interest till delivered, but all
j were to be*delivered by July Ist, 1911.
He bad made another agreement. w ifh
the purchasers and there were still
$30,000 of the bonds that had drawn
no interest at all as yet. The inter
est on this lot would have been more
i than $1,500 and all the others had
been collected for just as the money
was needed, which had been a con
siderable saving for the city. He
thought if they ran short of money
the city should give them this saving
for the pints.
STOLE THE
CHILD THEN
KILLED HER
A SELF-CONFESSED MURDERER
ONLY GETS SENTENCE OF
LIFE IMPRISONMENT
THE LAW UP IN WISCONSIN
The Little Victim Was Dragged From
Her Bed .While Asleep, .Uncon
scious of Impending Danger.
Madison, Wis.,. Sept. 14 —John
Johnson yesterday evening confessed
to the abduction and murder of little
Annie Lemberger, the 7-year-old
child whose body was found in Lake
Monona Saturday morning last, and
in a few minutes was sentenced to
life imprisonment.
Immediately after his confession
and sentence Johnson was taken in
an automobile and whisked away
through side streets and across the
country at a rapid clip to the state
prison at Waupun. The greatest sec
recy was maintained because of fears
that Johnson might be lynched.
W&A. R. R.
MUST SHOW
HOKE SMITH
A COMMUNICATION FROM THE
RAILROAD COMMISSION
OF GEORGIA
MAY STIR UP MtIHIB SOON
Matter Will No Doubt Be Conclud
ed So Far as the State is Concern
ed and That at Once.
The lessees of the Western and
Atlantic will be cited by Governor
Smith to appear before him and show
cause why the terms of the lease
contract, whereby they gained control
of the railroad, shall not be enforc
ed, says the Atlanta Journal of Sept.
19th.
The governor’s action, which will
be taken immediately, will be pre
dicted upon a communication for
warded to him Tuesday morning by
the state railroad commission, in
which were cited specific instances
of violations of the lease contract with
reference to through rates on freight
between Georgia points and Chatta
nooga, Tenn. The Nashville, Chatta
nooga and St. Louis railroad is the
lessee of the W. & A.
The purpose of Governor Smith to
move against the Western and Atlan
tic lessees refutes the assertion that
his position is identical with that of
his predecessor—Governor Brown —
relative to the flagrant violations of
the lease contract. Indeed, it is in
striking contrast to that of Governor
Brown, who positively declined To
take any action, despite the recom
mendations of the railroad commis
sion and former Attorney General 11.
A. Hall.
Governor Smith’s course of action
was determined Tuesday following a
prolonged executive session of the
railroad commission, when Chairman
Hill was directed to communicate to
the governor certain facts which the
commission’s investigation has dis
closed. These same facts were called
to the attention of Governor Brown
many, many, many months before his
retirement from office.
The commission was moved to com
municate to the governor in this mat
ter by a recent letter directed by the
executive to Chairman Hill, in which
he asked for additional data concern
ing the classification of the Western
and Atlantic railroad and the disre
gard of this classification by the N.
C. & St. L. railroad.
Governor Smith spaeifically wanted
to know if the commission had classi
fied the Western and Atlantic rail
road since the lease contract was made
between the state and the N. C. & St.
L. railroad. He wished this informa
tion because, from the record in the
case, it appears that the violation of
the lease contract hinges upon dis
regard of state freight classification.
Tn a word, the lessee of the Western
and Atlantic fixes through rates on
the Western and Atlantic under the
southern classification for the move
ment of interstate freight, and this
classification is about 20 or 25 per
cent higher than the rate described
by the state commission’s classifica
tion.
In his communication to the gover
nor Chairman Hill not only recites
that the Western and Atlantic rail
road has been classified annually by
commission ever since the property
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR
GOOD BYE
10 MISTER
HOOK WORM
ILLUSTRATED LECTURES TO BE
GIVEN ABSOLUTELY FREE AT
MOVING PICTURE SHOW ROOM
TO DALTON SCHOOL CHIL
DREN.
•»
Dr. Henry, the oook worm specia
list, sent here under the auspices of
the state hoard of health, will on
Thursday morning give a free lecture
at the Hayward moving picture show
room accompanying it with an illus
trated steroptican lecture to the pupils
of the Firt Hill school from nine to
ten o’clock and from ten to eleven to
the pupils of the City Park school.
This has been arranged for by the
Dalton board of education. On Fri
day from ten to eleven another illus
trated lecture will be given at the
same place to all the grown people in
the city who care to attend. All of
these lectures will be entirely free as
the expenses of Dr. Henry are paid by
John D. Rockefeller, he great oil mag
nate.
THREE MEN ARE DEAD IN
FIGHT TO ESCORT GIRL
Knoxville. Tenn.. Sept. 20—Because
Miss Flsie Ellis refused to accompany
Obie Butler home from a dance r'
Rafter, Tenn., last night, three m<n
are dead. When she refused to go
with Butler Miss Ellis requested Ol
ney Phillips a boy of 17, to accom
pany her. When Butler saw them
leave the house he followed nd shot
Phillips dead. John Heading, aged
25, then rushed up to Butler and ask
ed why he had shot Phillips. In re
ply Butler shot Heading, killing him
instantly. The third death came when
an unknown person shot Butler from
behind, the ball piercing the brain.
Butler was 30 years old. Young Phil
lips was especially prominent in this
section.
Woman’s Building Going Up.
The new building for women at the
fair grounds was started this morn
ing.
President Dennis Barrett and B. A.
Tyler went over and with Abe Gregg,
the contractor, laid off the grounds
and the building will be ready for
use the opening day. It will be amply
large and has long been needed.
“My husband is the most careless
man on earth.”
“How now?”
“He went away fishing and left
the cat a supply of canned meats to
subsist on.” —Louisville Courier- Jou
nal.
was leased to N. C. & St. L. railroad,
but it goes further, and points out
clearly and in concrete terms, the ex
tent of the discriminations in the mat
ter of rates that have grown up un
der the continued violations of the
state’s classification.
Chairman Hill’s letter to Governor
Smith is, in fact, the first official no
tice he has received about the viola
tions of the Westen and Atlantic
lease. He was, of course, familiar
with the matter in a general way when
he succeeded Governor Brown, but
the question had never been brought
offi< ially to his attention.
The violations of the lease contract
of the W. & A. were first called to
the attention of the rnjl-v-'d com
mission a year or more *’gc by the
Atlanta Freight bureau, through Traf
fic Manager H. T. Moore. The com
mission investigated the matter thor
oughly, and found from the fact*