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THE DALTON ARGUS
Official Organ of Whitfield County
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Entered at the Postoffice in Dalton,
Ga., as second-class matter and issued
every Thursday by R. A. Johnstone.
R. A. JOHNSTONE,
Editor and Proprietor.
Walker county has no prisoners in
her jail and no convicts on her toads.
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Sugar went up 17 points yeterday,
which makes it the highest figure in
many years.
Show ’em that you haven’t got the
hookworm by joining the Dalton
chamber of commerce.
o
Don’t wait for them to come to see
you send word that you are no back
number by proffering to become a
member of the Dalton Chamber of
Commerce.
o
The grand jury of Lincoln county,
Mississippi, has returned 50 indict
ments for vote selling and seven far
mers are now under arrest at Brook
haven.
New high records were again estab
lished in the coffee markets yester
day and for the first time in sixteen
years the entire list sold above the 12
cent mark.
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On October the third Cedartown is
to let the contract for another mile of
cemen and concrete sidewalks, so it
will be seen tht Dalton has nothing
over many towns in the sidewalk mat
ter.
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The two democratic faction in Ten
nessee are split and if they do not
soon get together the republican par
ty will continue in control of the
“Volunteer” state and the fight may
be carried into the next national
campaign.
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Talk about winter “lingering in
the lap of spring,” old Winter hasn’t
anything on summer in the lingering
business. Summer’s lingered in the
lap of autumn till they are about to.
make charges against her for loiter
ing.—Athens Banner.
The astonishing information comes
from the Marietta Journal that the le
gitimate of its candidate,
Pope Brown, will be anywhere from
fifteen to twenty thousand dollars.
Now- wouldn’t that be a rather large
amount even in Pennsylvania?
It will be Whitfield’s time next to
nominate the state senator and we
urge that only a good sound, sober
man of years and experience in bus
iness and one who has made a success
of business be selected and the same
should apply to the selection of a
representative.
o
So far there are but two entries in
the Georgia gubernatorial handicap—
Pope Brown, prohibitionist, and Dick
Russell, local optionist. The lines
are being drawn as we predicted a
week ago. You may as well be pre
pared to choose between the two
above candidates.
Atlanta is having a big row now
over her charter proposition, but after
it is over they will all be marching one
way for the common good of that
place. They have these little family
rows often, but they don’t last long.
They soon make up and kiss and in
a few hours are after some other good
thing for Atlanta and by Joe they al
ways get it.
o
Reciprocity was defeated over
whelmingly Thursday in Canada,
which means the political retirement
>f Sir Wilfrid Laurier, premier, who
has guided the Dominion with splen
lid abilty and safety for the past
twenty years. It also means that Hon.
Robert L. Berden, leader of the con
servatives, will be premier, but strange
to say, he and his party met a signal
defeat in Novia Scotia but they were
not strong enough to effect the general
returns and Borden will succeed
Laurier by a majority of 50 members
of the next (twelfth) parliament.
Woodrow Wilson has come out for
direct primaries for all presidential
nominees.
What we could not accomplish be
cause of the death of reciprocity we
can accomplish by the life of tariff.
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Oh my, she’ll look so sweet,
And be dressed so neat —
When sue comes to the county fair
October tenth.
Coffee, flour, sugar and wheat have
gone higher in prices than in two de
cades since Canada has repudiated
reciprocity with the United States
o
The farmers in this section are
needing help to harvest their crops.
If the vagrant law of Dalton could be
enforced we could furnish them quite
a few white and black laborers.
o
Dmitry Bogroff, the assassin.of Pre
mier Stolypin, was tried yesterday
by courtmartial and sentenced to
death by hanging. That is one thing
in favor of Russian methods. How
ever, the sentence must yet be con
firmed by the commander of the mil
itary district.
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Madam Grundy says that Joe Brown
is the man to beat Dick Russell. —
Waycross Herald.
Come on Dick; resign your job or
throw up your candidacy, before it
throw's you. —Douglas Enterprise.
It would seem that Savannah is not
satisfied with prohibition and wants
local option. Strange isn’t it? —Dur-
ian Gazette.
No one down here in God’s coun
try shows any inclination to get ex
cited over the gubernatorial race.—
Albany Herald.
Pope Brown may open Atlanta and
Savannah headquarters. This is
bearding the whiskey men in their
lairs. —Americus Times-Recorder.
All the latest pol'tmal news from
the seat of war —which, of course, is
Atlanta —indicates that Joe Brown
will be in the race. —Albany Herald.
If Judge Russell don’t resign, it
may cause some few Georgians to
have real fits. They have been throw
ing imitation ones already.—Colum
bus Enquirer Sun.
Pope Brown has realized already
that there is not so many votes in that
local option vehicle as he thought, and
therefore attempted to dismount. —
Vidalia Advance.
Plain Dick Russell is still holding
on to that judgeship and will not re
sign until he gets a better hold on the
governorship. “A very good idea."
—Bryan Enterprise.
Jackson county is becoming famous
as a producer of statesmen. Accord
ing to the Winder News, however,
Dick Russell is not a citizen of the
county of Jacgkson, as he is generally
i considered. —Commerce News.
In the light of his past administra
■ tion there are many' things that com
r mend Joe Brown to the people. He
1 would make a better governor than
t Judge Russell, and would probably
r beat him for the office. —Bulloch
. Times.
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If the judge aspires to another of-
- fice, that is his right .as a free Ameri
can citizen. But let him resign first,
that his place on the bench may be
- filled and the law of the land admin
, istered free of the distractians and
t inevitable influence of partisian poli
) tics. —Atlanta Constitution.
It is not known whether Hon. Pope
Brown will continue in the race to
the end, as he has been a candidate
for the same office he now seeks upon
three other occasions and finally be
came weak-kneed and backed out in
each instance. But be that as it may,
the real contest will be- between Joe
Brown and Judge Russell. —Lawrence-
ville Herald.
the dalton argus, Thursday, September 28.1911.
The county fair is just two weeks
off. Are you ready to boost it T
A row at an Indian camp near
Scottsboro, Alabama, caused the death
of one man and one girl.
o
Why is it all the rich and prosper
ous merchants of the world are the
ones who advertise?
o
Get ready to join the Dalton cham
ber of commerce; don’t let them think
you are a dead one.
Two women were arrested in Annis
ton, Alabama", for operating a “blind
tiger;” and thus it goes.
o
The farmers of Whitfield county
could work several dozens of the
white and black loafers of Dalton.
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“Little Joe” Brown refuses to play
“Jeff” to Dick Russell's “Mutt” in
in the gubernatorial stunt this fall.
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Twtnty-six were injured Sunday by
a street car wreck in Atlanta. The
car mounted the rails at a switch and
turned over.
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She'll have a darling little bonnet
With a flower garden on it—
When she comes to the county fair
October tenth.
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The Western and Atlantic railroad
is going to run a good roads train
soon. It could spend about a week
profitably at Ringgold.
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As she jumped across the gutter
My heJTrf went in a flutter,
As she started to the county fair on
October tenth.
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Tht Argentine republic has had
aunched the largest battleship in the
world. It is of the super-dreadnaught
type and was built by Americans at
Camden, New' Jersey.
Ex-governor Joseph M. Brown has
announced his candidacy for Georgia
gubernatorial honors. What was the
fable of the pitcher having gone to
the well one time too many?
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she mayor of Oakhurst, who was
killed Saturday night had a pistol and
with it shot his assailant. Oakhurst
must be a hard place to preside over
if its executive head is forced to
“tote” a gun.
Miss Matilda Moisant made a pic
turesque flight Sunday in her mono
plane in New York, reaching a height
of 1,200 feet. Earl Overton made
the second delivery of mail by airship
under the sanction of the govern
ment.
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General DuPont, the great powder
king, is going to build a great high
way across the state of Delaware at
his own erpense. It will be, when
completed one of the finest in the
country and will cost two million dol
lars. That’s the way to take your
memory down into history.
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Twelve people were killed by a pas
senger train yesterday near Neenah,
Wisconsin. The victims had been at
tending a wedding anniversary and
were on a large hay wagon, no one
of whom saw or heard the approach
ing train.
JUDGE FITE FOR GOVERNOR
Our friend of the Knoxville Jour
nal and Tribune accuses the editor of
this paper of “trying to make fair
weather with Judge Fite by nominat
ing him as a candidate for governor
of Georgia,” or words to that effect.
That’s correct —we are for Judge Fite
for governor of Georgia because he’s
the kind of man these Georgians need
in the executive office. If Judge Fite
were governor of Georgia life in that
state would be more than ever just
one dashed thing after another.
There’d be action from start to finish
and no one would have cause to com
plain of the monotony in the executive
office. Judge Fite, neighbor, is the
newspaper man’s friend, for while he
is continually threatening them with
the jail, he provides them with more
“copy” than any other man in Geor
gia except Gov. Smith, and that is go
ing some. —Chattanooga Times.
Q SUNSHINE AND SHADOW J!
By James Wells.
The Bull Dog and the Rabbit
One time a sassy rabbit
Spit in a bull dog’s face,
The bull dog tried to grab it
And there ensued a race.
The bulldog chased that rabbit
And gave him quite a scare,
But when he'd try to grab it
The rabbit wasn’t there.
And so they raced around the field
The rabbit wouldn’t fight,
And while the bull dog had to yield
The rabbit died of fright.
L’ENVOI.
A moral lies in this my friend,
Don’t start a thing that you can’t end.
Sleep.
Oh, blessed sleep! oh, sweet repose!
That banishes our cares and woes!
Wipes out the struggles of the day —
And keeps collectors far away.
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A Saturday Night Jag.
A monkey and hippo danced hand in
hand
A sea serpant slowly crawled o’er the
land,
A lizard crept by with a sea green tail
Then the “hoodoo” arrived and I
went to jail.
Judge Not.
I'd not condemn what some call right
According to their feeble light,
I know that God will understand
The one who blindly seeks his hand.
I’d not condemn the lowly weak,
Who fear His name in church to seek,
I know that spite of church or creed
God helps the one wdio feels His need.
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On Bluffing.
The man who tries to win by bluff
Will always find his way is rough,
But he who doesn’t bluff a bit,
Will hardly ever find he’s It.
Keep Trying.
Just keep on a tryin’
Don’t give up the fight,
Ain’t no use a cryin’
Cause things ain’t just right.
Look around about you,
World is still right there,
Gettin’ long without you,
Going nice and fair.
So just stop your whinin’
’Cause you got a fall; e
Just cut out repinin’
An’ win or lose it all.
A French battleship blew up yes
terday and caused the loss of nearly
five hundred lives of the seamen. The
vessel cost about seven million dol
lars.
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By Uncle Walt.
I do not care a tinker’s cuss about
those vital things, concerning which
the statesmen fuss and crow' and flap
their wings. I saw my little pile of
wood, and pay up as I go, and all the
world’s serene and good, and lam shy
of woe. If men would cease to fret
so hard o’er public ills and crimes,
and 'tinker round their own bacj?
yard, they’d have much better times.
It is a narrow selfish view—of course
that’s understood —but folks who’re
always in a stew don’t seem to do
much good, I think that Ido just as
much to help the world along when I
mow w’eeds and sing a Dutch or Alpine
yodling song. I do as much when I
produce my little roll of bills, and pay
the milkman for his juice, the drug
gist for hi§ pills. I’ve often noticed
that the men who paw the air and
bawl, are slow at digging up the yen
when biH collectors call. I’ll let the
nation go its gait; I’ll simply let it
slide; I couldn’t keep the blamed thing
straight, no odds how hard I tried;
I’ll let the statesmen blow the foam
from lips that never rest, and I’ll just
tinker round at home and do my lit
tle best. —“Uncle Walt,” Poet-Philos
opher.
Copyright, 1911, by George Matthew
Adams.
J. R. Smith, whoever he is, will
manage “Little Joe” Brown’s cam
pagin.
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Anyhow we can use the cut of Joe
Brown without the cost that would
have been necessary if any other had
announced.
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Georgia is too prosperous this year
to take much time listening to the
tales of the candidates who want to
serve the “dear people.”
The boosters who went out Tuesday
in the interest of the county fair re
port a fine time and that everybody
who is anybody will be here.
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There were about 80 gallons of
whiskey and beer which reached Dal
ton Soturday from Chattanooga and
other points. Are we growing more
temperate?
You can bet she’ll be sweet
With her tilting little hoops
And her pretty little feet—
When she comes o the county fair
October tenth.
The Macon Telegraph recently in
stalled a big new printing press and
now The Augusta Chronicle has fol
lowed suit. The Argus will put in its
big new one about December first. No
use talking, the South is prospering.
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Do not forget that Whitfield will
have to elect a state senator as well
as representative for the next term.
Let’s have men who will represent no
faction but the whole of Whitfield
county. These men can be found if
the people want them.
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The way for you to determine whe
ther you are a live or dead Daltonian
is to join the chamber of commerce.
The mere fact of your joining is not
only prim a facia hut conclusive evi
dence that you are NOT dead.
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The entire population of Murray
county want a steam rail road from
Dalton to touch Spring Place, Chatt
worth, Eton, Crandall and Cohutta
Springs. They should have it. Dal
ton would do many thousand dollars
worth of business a year more than
she does now if the road was in oper
ation
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In the course of two years Dalton
will have three hundred and fifty-six
thousand electrical horse-power throb
bing through the city on wires ready
to do the bidding of all who connect
up with the cables. It’s the cheapest
and best power on earth and is ser
viceable. not only for power, but for
light and heat. If the manufactur
ing world could be brought to know
this would not Dalton be a very in
viting place for many factories to
come? A chamber of commerce is
the reliable source to put them on no
tice.
Benefits to Dalton to get the third
mill located near here:
1. It would increase the popula
tion and business of Dalton and com
munity.
2. To run this mill would cost this
company perhaps SB,OOO to SIO,OOO a
month for labor or at least SIOO,OOO
a year.
3. This money or the most of it
would be spent in Dalton.
4. This would bring a profit or
gain to Dalton of $25,000 a year.
5. This SIOO,OOO spent in Dalton or
community yearly would help to pay
your city, county and state taxes and
it would call for more houses and la
bor to build them and would add this
much yearly to the taxable property
of the town and would help you to
pay your bonds.
6. IsMhere a business man in Dal
ton who will not help to get this third
■mill and with it this additional trade?
We think not. This is all dear gain.
Will not cost you a cent. Only a lit
tle honest work for yourself and town.
I want to ask every good citizen and
especially every business man who is
willing to work for this third mill and
the election of a mayor and council
who will contract with these mill peo
ple that the corporation of Dalton
shall never he extended over them, to
write a post card to The Argus to that
effect.
Come now, let us do something for
Dalton. v S. J. MBKNIGHT.
OUR BOYS’ CORN CLUBS **
AND OUR seventh
DISTRICT CORN fair
It seems reasonably certain now
that there have been produced i n the
Seventh Georgia Congressional
trict this year, between 40.000 and
50,000 bushels more of corn
Upoj
about 1,000 acres of land than would
have been produced but for the esf Ort?
of the membership of the Boys' Corn
Clubs of he district, and their friends.
When we consider further that this
corn has been produced at a cost per
bushel of about 30 cents, and that this
means a saving of about 50 cents per
bushel on what it would have cost
next year, if imported from the west
we begin to realize a little bit what
these Boys’ Corn Clubs have done for
us. and are going to do in the future.
Fifty cents a bushel saved on 50,000
bushels means, to begin with. $25 000
kept at home instead of being sent
to lowa for corn But it means a
great deal more than that. It means
that there are at least a thousand
boys (who will soon be men) in his
district who will never again be con
tent to pursue the old sloven, slipshod,
unprofitable methods that yielded an
average crop of less than fifteen bush
els to the acre. It means that there
is an agricultural awakening in the
old Seventh that will revolutionize
country life in a decade or two. For
we do not propose to stop at doubling
the production of corn per acre. We
must have and will have a like im
provement in the yields of all classes
of farm products. When we have es- ,
tablished a standard by which our
corn crop is more than doubled there
will be little likelihood of our being
content with our present methods in
other farm and house hold economics.
It is to promote and hasten this
consummation chiefly that our Sev- |
enth District Corn Fair is to be held f
at Cartersville. Ga.. Nov. Ist to 4th.
The working out of these aims and
plans to a final success carries with
it the assurance that the cause of
good roads, good schools, good church
es. and all other community interests
will be invested with new life and
energy and will speedily materialize
into beneficent actualities instead of
remaining an “irridescent dream of
the dim and distant future.
It is no jack-o’lantern will-o’the
wisp that we are chasing. V e are
moving safely and surely along lines
that have proven their reliability and
value wherever tried. We are merely
displacing methods that have been
proven unprofitable and disasterous by
a million experiments and substituting
therefor methods that have nevr
once failed to give bountiful returns
for the time, labor and thought ex
pended upon them.
A scheme that is freighted with
such rich possibilities for good to
every' member of the community and
to every worthy cause and interest in
it, should surely appeal too strongly
to our intelligence and self interest
to lack for hearty and generous sup
port from all.
Parents of our club members wil»
it is hoped, see to it that their boy
have an opportunity to attend this
Fair and ge the benefit and encour
agement of the many useful lessons t
be learned there. And for the parent
also the occasion will be made bot i
enjoyable and profitable.
WM. BRADFORD-
District Agent Boys ’ Corn Chib.
Cedartown, Ga., Sept. 26,
Trials of a Watermelon Lover.
They were seated around the table
partaking of watermelon so the ta |
naturally turned to the luscious frv
says the Milwaukee Sentinel.
“It remins me of a
which took place between two i •>!< l
women,” said one of the gue.-t
“Um-a, but Ah certaly does h” e
watermelons,’ said one. ‘L
tickle mah palate. How you like
termelons, Sister Lize? ,
“ ‘Waa-11 I tells you Sis’
returne the other . ‘Ah cei
love watermeions, but Ah ca 1
“ ‘Wall, Ph at am too bad. ' A ,;:1! ’
de mattter Lize?’
“ ‘Well, it am like this, Sis ■
I lobes watermelons, but ,
gets mah ears wet when Ah