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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*