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A CENTRAL
MARKET
ISJEEDED
SUCH AN AFFAIR WOULD PROVE
VALUABLE TO THE FARMER
AS WELL HOUSEHOLDER
WHAT IT WOULD KEAN TO ALL
The Middle Man’s Profit Would Be
Divided Between Producer and Con
sumer.
There is a general complaint all over
the country at the high cost of Liv
ing and Secretary Wilson, of the gov
ernment agricultural department has
made efforts to see wherein the trou
ble lies.
To that end he has made careful in
vetigations by special agents and
finds that the complaint does not ex
ist in cities that have public markets
and that the farmer is not the real
beneficiary of these high prices. Wil
son claims, and it looks as if his claim
is valid, that the middle roan is the 1
one who is holding up tha consumer
for high prices.
Secretary Wilson declares that the
investigation the department made
proves conclusively that the consumer
has no well grounded complaint
against the farmer for the prices that '
he pays. It is plain, the secretary
says, that the farmer is not getting ■
exhorbitant prices for his products,
that the cost of distribution from the
time of delivery at destination by the
railroad to delivery to the consumer
is the feature of the problem of high
prices which presents itself to the
consumer for treatment.
Some time ago the city of Des
Moines established a city market
■where the farmers and hucksters might
sell direct to the consumers. So suc
cessful has been the plan that a sec
ond market has recently been opened.
The history' of the Des Moines ef
■fort to reduce prices may prove of
interest to other communities. The
•cost of living became so high in the
lowa city that a commission was ap
pointed to investigate. This com
mission found that prices weee higher
in Des Moines than in Chicago and
considerably higher than in the small
er cities of the middle west. For in
stance, prices in Dubuque were 25 to
35 per cent less. Now Dubuque is on
ly about 200 miles from Des Moines.
«nd naturally conditions ae pactically
the same in the two cities. The one
great difference was found to be that
Dubuque had maintained from time
immemorial a market where farmers
and hucksters might sell to the con
sumer direct.
The result of this investigation was
the Des Moines market. It was not
•established without bitter opposition
from the commission men and whole
sale dealers in produce. But it did
1 bring down prices. The measure of
its success may be judged by the es
tablishing of the second market. The
• plan is simplicity itself. It simply
provides a public place—a public
square, open space, park or building
with booths, as the case my be —from
which the farmers and hucksters may
retail their goods. This is under the
direction of a city market master.
OHIO COW MAKES A
NEW WORLD’S RECORD
Columbus, Ohio, Sept. 25 —The dairy
department of the Ohio state universi
ty was notified todav that another
y
rorld's record has been broken by an
• )bio cow, owned by Daniel Dimmick,
ff East Claridon. She completed Sat-
* irday, a seven-day record by produc
| Ing eighteen and two-tenths pounds of
LI butter.
■ If cold water is poured through a
■ smoky chimney all the black will
Si quickly disappear; the chimney hould
- then be polished with a soft cloth.
i
EVERYBODY
BOOST EOR
DALTON
READ THIS OVER AND SEE IF
YOU DON’T THINK WE HAVE
CAUSE FOR REJOICING—JUST
WATCH DALTON NOW.
WHAT WE HAVE AND WILL HAVE
The Liveliest Bunch in the Liveliest
Town in the Liveliest State in This
Glorious Union.
In looking over cities of like popu
lation. it would be exceedingly hard
to find one that has anything on Dal
ton. We’ve got ’em all skinned a
block.
What have we got ? Well, cast your
eyes on that asphalt pavement. Isn’t
that enough to make your heart glad ?
One thing is sure; we don’t have to
wade across the street.
If there is any healthier place in
the world we have never heard of it.
True; it has been a little warm of
late, but who hasn’t slept well at
night?
When it comes to public schools,
churches, beautiful residences, unex
celled climate, good roads, good farm
ing lands, mineral resources, labor
conditions, social life and many other
advantages, too numerous to mention,
truly, this is God’s chosen country.
Now for what we are GOING to
have. New buildings are going up all
the time; plans for a theatre are be
ing formulated; a large cotion mill is
being figured on, and by the way, let ’s
all hope that it will be built HERE,
instead of elsewhere; there is every
reason to believe that a hotel won’t
be long in building; another moving
picture show is rjarly ready; and
last, but not least, a good live Cham
ber of Commerce, composed of the live
merchants of Dalton, and that word
“live,” includes them all.
It is the opinion of The Argus that
the proposed Chamber of Commerce
should tell outsiders what we have in
the way of competitive freight rates,
how much railroad frontage we have,
how much horse power we will have
soon, and the prospects of Dallpn
from a financial standpoint. If there
is any one thing that interests a man,
it is how much he can make on an in
vestment here. Let’s tell it to them.
A large membership is expected in
the chamber of commerce, and with
it, worlds of good can be accomplished.
In the words of our good old friends
the Teutons, “Ein, zwei, drei, shpeil
it,” or in other words, everybody,
all together, pull hard for Dalton.
Careful of His Gun.
In one of the small mountain towns
of Kentucky lived Dan, a half wit,
with whom thre boys oftgn went hunt
ing. On one of these trips Dan and
the young man with him were be
tween two hills when a rabbit jumped
up in front of them and ran up the
hill to Dan’s right, says Judge’s li
brary. The other fellow, being on
Dan’s left, did not wish to take the
chance of shooting at the rabbit for
fear of an accident; so he said:
“There he goes Dan; Shoot him
shoot him! ’ ’
But Dan simply stood still and
watched the rabbit disappear over
the hill, and his partner wanted. to
know why he didn’t shoot. After a
moment’s silence he answered, ((talk
ing through his nose), “Did you think
I was a fool? Do you think I was
going to strain my gun shooting up
hill?”
“I’ll bet that man is the father of
six or seven children.”
“Why?”
“If he had less than three he’d be
bragging about them.” —Detroit Free
Press.
THE DALTON ARGUS. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 28. 1911.
BIG FRENCH MAN-o’-WAR
BLOWN TO ATOMS, CAUSING
DEATH OF 400 SAILORS
BATTLESHIP LIBERTE TOTALLY DESTROYED BY MAGAZINES EX
PLODING— GREATEST DISASTER THAT EVER BEFELL THE
FRENCH NAVY AND ALMOST WITHOUT PRECEDENT IN HIS
TORY OF THE WORLD’S FIGHTING SHIPS.
Toulon, France, Sept. 25 —The bat
tleship Liberte was torn spart and
totally destroyed by an explosion of
her magazines today. Between 350
and 400 officers and men were killed.
The battleship Republique was badly
damaged and the battleships Demo
cratic and Verite also suffered severe
ly from the masses of twisted iron
and armor plate that were thrown up
on their decks. This is the greatest
disaster that has ever fallen upon the
French navy and in magnitude a'most
without precedent in the annals of the
world’s history of fighting ships.
The grief which prostrated the fleet
and nation is made more intense by
the recent review here, a notable dis
play of France’s naval greatness, in
which the doomed ship was one of the
finest figures.
The explosion, which wiped out one
of France’s finest, newest and roost
powerful battleships, occurred at
5:53 a. m., It was a result of an
outbreak of fire. The flames spread
rapidly in spite of all efforts to mas
ter them. The magazines exploded
with tremendous force showering
death and destruction in every direc
tion.
While the naval authorities esti
mate the fatalities at 350 or 400 it
is expected that this figure will be ex
ceeded. It will be necessary to go
through the ship muster rolls, a task
of some days, before a full list of
the victims can be prepared. A num-
J. W. Faucette Killed
Last Night at Kingston
While attempting to alight from a
fast moving freight train at Kings
ton, Ga., last evening, Mr. J. W. Fau
cette, relief operator for the W. &
A. railway met his death.
It seems that Mr. Faucette had
been working at Rogers, a small sta
tion just this side of Kingston, and
had boarded a freight which he ex
pected to stop at Kingston, his home,
but the train failed to slow down and
Mr. Faucette jumped, struck on ah
embankment and was so badly bruis
ed and injured that he died a few
minutes later.
The deceased was a brother-in-law
BAPTIST REVIVAL
CREATING INTEREST
A gracious revival is in progress at
the First Baptist church, and the seat
ing capacty, which will accomodate,
approximately 600 people, is daily be
ing taxed to its utmost. Rev. J. S.
McLemore is being assisted by Rev.
Weston Bruner, state evangelist,
whose logical app»als and pertinent
propositions ar» being accepted by
large numbers.
All denominations of the city are
heartily co-operating with the First
Baptist church in these series of
meetings, having in view the general
welfare of the community.
The large choir, composed of the
best singers of the city, is ably con
ducted by Mr. I. E. Reynolds and the
music is quite a feature of the ser
vices.
Up to this date about 42 additions,
by the usual ways authorized for the
reception of members, have been an
nounced.
Great spiritual interest is being
manifested at al of the services,
which will undoubtedly result to the
best interest of Dalton.
ber of men have already been extri
cated alive from the fantastically torn
and twisted mass of wreckage which
was once the Liberte, and the hope is
strong that there are others within
the broken hulk that can be rescued.
Exactly from what cause or when
; the fire broke out has not been es
i tablished, but it is believed it was
smoldering for hours. Os the vessel’s
full complement of 742, Capt. Jaures.
brother of socialist leader, and
the second officer in command, were
both ashore on leave, as well as 140
officers and men. The command of
the ship developed upon the senior
lieutenant, who perished.
The fire was first discovered at 4
a. m. and the bugles immediately
sounded an alarm. The crew rushed
to quarters and fought desperately
the spreading flames, but it soon was
evident that the fire had obtained a
firm hold. Signals of distress were
flashed to the other ships, and these
dispatched steam pinnaces and laun
ches at full speed to assist in the work
of extinquishing the flames and res
cuing the men. Their services were
of little avail.
The position of the fire made it im-
;possible to flood the magazines; nev
ertheless efforts to do so were made,
and finally the commanding officers,
realizing the ship was doomed, order
led the bugler to sound the “Sanvequi
I pent” (Let him save himself who
jean) amj shouted to the men to jump
jfor their lives.
to Mr. Louie Murchison, Mr. J. W.
Chaffin and Mr. Tom Chaffin, all of
this city and all connected with the
Dalton Telephone company. He
worked last week in Dalton, relieving
Mr. Echols.
He had been married but fourteen
months, and it is reported that his
young wife is very ill from the shock.
His services were valued highly by
his employers, and he leaves a wide
circle of friends to mourn his loss and
extend their sympathies to his wife
and parents. The latter reside at
Tunnel Hill.
The funeral will take place at
Kingston this afternoon.
WAS IT GOODNOW?
MIGHT HAVE BEEN
Clerk W. M. Sapp received a notice
this morning from Canandaigua, N. Y.,
to the effect that Willis Goodnow, of
i 7
that place had been missing for seven
I years, and he was now wanted in
' connection with the distribution of his
uncle’s estate. He has a wife and son
residing near the above town.
It will be remembered that some
two months ago, a man was killed in
a well in North Dalton, and Clerk
Sapp expresses the opinion that this
man might possibly have been Good
now, for it was known that he came
from that section of the country. In
formation is desired, and any who
have some to impart, are requested to
see Mr. Sapp.
Mrs. See —What do you thing Mr.
Scadder bought his wife for a vaca
tion outfit.
Mr. See—l don’t want to know.
The more that some men buy their
wives to wear the worse they loek.
She never could be as attractive as
you are my dear. —Chicago News.
THEN AND NOW.
How Things Used to Look in Dalton
and Their Appearance Now.
I A hotel once stood where John
I Thomas is now running a dry goods
business.
A bar room was operated at what
is now the store of Muncy & Godwin.
A big brick hotel once stood where
there is a big pile of bricks in a large
hole at the corner of Crawford and
Hamilton streets.
A hotel nd brroom once occupied
the corner wdiere the Smith-Hall
wholesale grocery company is now lo
cated.
A drug store, pool room, bar and an
opera house once occupied the south
east corner of Crawford and Hamilton
which place is now ornamented (?)
with a pile of burned brick and two
or three standing walls.
A cotton compress once did busi
ness near where the Barrett, Denton.
Lynn warehouse now is.
The Dalton fire department once
kept its chemical “distinguisher” in
the building now used by the Barrett.
Denton & Lynn milling compny.
A bar room once operated where
the Gregory drug store is now.
A white man was hung on a tree
that once stood in the Presbyterian
church yard where now grows a mag
nolia tree on the south side.
Two pistol and gun duels took place
at the south-west corner of the W. &
A. freight depot.
A bar room once held forth where
Stacy Brothers now do buiness.
A steam laundry once did business
where “Dus” Richardson is running
a bottling plant.
A foundry and machine works once
stood where the Fields brothers are
now.
A bar room once held forth in the
building just north of where W. 11.
Stroup has his store.
, A steam laundry once ran where a
, moving picture show is to be opened
just north of where Clarence Barrett
and Will Jones have a meat market.
A bar room once sold liquor where
Charley Stone has his barber shop.
A church once stood where the home
of Frank Pruden is now.
A Keely Institute once sobered up
booze fighters where the home of Mrs.
Bitting now stands.
A distillery once stood on the
Lynans branch, just south of the home
of Mid Foster.
The Confederacy kept a meat paek
’ ing house at the west end of the Wil
lowdale bridge on the W. & A. railroad
■ north of town.
A big fair ground and race track
1 stood in front of the present home
’ of Dug Puryear.
A Catholic clnirch once stood at
the corner of West Morris and Pentz
streets.
A cigar factory once stood where
the home of Dr. Jesse R. McAfee now
is.
Newspaper offices occupied the up
' stairs of B. C. Bivings, J. F. Robert
son, Dave Alper, H. H. Gregory, Phil
• Hayward. Phoenix Pressing club and
John Black’s.
A beer saloon held forth where the
pool room now is.
A cigar factory once made smok
| ers where John Black has his hard
ware store.
A school was taught at the corner
Emery St. and Spring Square.
A school was taught in a house
where the Kirk Farrar home is on
A talc mill was run at what is now
the Barrett, Denton, Lynn mill.
A furniture factory was where the
Cherokee Manufacturing Co., is now.
A flour mill was once operated where
the Smith tent and awning company
is now.
A canning factory did business
where the Dalton Excelsior Works is
now.
A theatre was over the place where
the stores of Eton & Coffey Co., and
Harlan & Neal are now.
The post office was once in the First
National bank building.
A bank was run in the building re-
1 cently occupied by Fincher & Nichols,
and next to Pruden’s Insurance office.
A school was once taught in the
basement of the old Baptist church
where the present one now stands.
The first Methodist church once
stood where the home of John Holland
now stands.
| A cigar factory once did business
TRAMMELL
WILL NOT
BETJN RACE
GIVES OUT AN INTERVIEW TO
THE ATLANTA REPRESENTA
TIVE OF THE MACON TELE
GRAPH-WILL WAIT AWHILE
YET.
Mayor Trammell, while in Atlanta
yesterday, decided not to get in the
race for governor, this time at any
rate.
That-is, if he was correctly report
ed by the Atlanta representative of
The Macon Daily Telegraph. Here is
what that journal has today:
Mayor Paul B. Trammell, of Dal
ton, former campaign manager for
Governor Hoke Smith, need "not be
considered longer as a gubernatorial
possibility for the special election
the coming winter. Mr. Trammell,
while in Atlanta this afternoon, was
asked whether or not he had reach
ed a decision as to becoming a can
didate for governor. He replied:
“Well, I guess I won’t get in it. I
think I had better stay out this time.
Some of my friends are sill urging me
to run, but I don’t think so.”
Like a Tattoo Artist.
Richard La Gallienne, the poet, ac
cording to the New York Times, said
in a New York magazine office, apro
pos of the paltry pension recently
granted by the British government to
William Butler Yates:
“It is not a good age for poetry.
The poet might work as hard—yes,
and as successfully—as Edison, and
still lack food and shelter.
“I once met a red-haired poet at
Franklin Inn in Philadelphia discuss
ing the evil days on which poetry had
fallen, this man said, bitterly:
“I’in a poet, not a tattoo artist,
yet it is a literal fact that I do all my
writing—absolutely all of .it —on an
empty stomach.”
in the top of a brick building which
stood over the Lukens spring.
A tannery once stood on the lot just
north of where the upper building of
the Farrar Lumber Company is now
located.
A coffin factory once made “wood
en overcoats” where the Duane Chair
factory is now.
A railroad freight depot once stood
where there is now a coal yard, back
of the Finley machine shop.
A turntable once revolved in front
of the Frank Manly machine shop and
one also turned between the two roads
just north-east of John Holland's
warehouse.
A livery stable once stood opposite
the Britton House and one behind the
Dalton Bakery.
A telephone exchange once occu
pied the home at the south-east cor
ner of King and Pentz.
An axe handle factory once did
business out on East Morris street op
posite te present home of Captain A.
P. Roberts.
A steam gin operated out beyond the
present warehouse of the flour mill
and it was at this place where once
stood a grist mill for bolting meal.
This is also the spot w’here the mur
der of Matilda Gudger took place.
A shoe factory once operated in the
present building of F. S. Pruden.
A saw mill for chair timber once
“sawed” on the lot now occupied by
the stove foundry.
A big brick works once did business
just below the present stove foundry.
A brick yard once stood behind (I -
big school house on the hill and oi -
was located out in front of the pre
sent home of Dennis Barrett.
A fertilizer plant once did business
out where Henry Smith is now runn
ing a big steam gin.
Os course you will become a mem
ber of the chamber of commerce.