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VOL. XXXIH-NO. 46.
MORE NEW BUILDINGS
SUI WRIGHT
’ SW FOR
POPE BROWN
the silver-tongued prohi
bition ORATOR OP ROME EN
LISTED FOR THE HAWKINS
VILLE CANDIDATE.
Measured by its reception in the
sampaign headquarters of Col. Pope
frown, prohibition candidate, and
Fudge R. B. Russell, local optionist,
'ormer Governor Joseph M. Brown’s
‘second epistle to the people” is of
ittle consequence in the present race
t bearing directly upon the ex-gov-
Jior's candidacy, unless it was to
■rive from him any support that he
frd hoped to gain from the progres
sive element of the state democracy,
■ s the*Atlanta Journal. It is
■aimed by the followers of both
■udge Russell and Colonel Brown
Biat the former governor's arraign
ment of Hoke Smith is calculated only
■d anger the progressives, from whom
■e had expected to draw strength.
I The reception of the former gov
frnor’s card and the announcement
frat Seaborn Writh, the silver tongue
■rohibition orator of Rome, will take
■he stump for Coloned Brown formed
fr e interesting developments of the
fry.
I Wolney Williams, Colonel Brown’s
■anagen, anounced that Mr. Wright
■hose fame as a prohibition orator
fr nation-wide, will begin his speak
fr- campaign at McDonough, Henry
on October 23. Colonel
hmself will also address that
freeting.
■ “We expect to make many other
frpointments for Mr. Wright during
fr e campaign and will work his as
■gularly as his personal business af
fris will permit,” said Manager
frilliams. “He goes to Henry county
fr response to a numerously signed
■tition urging him to make the Mc
fr’iiougli address. ’ ’ f
| The Wayside Economist.
■ i li tell/you what I’ll do,” said
■ f ‘ brisk woman, according to the
frashington Star. “You go out and
■ f k me two or three quarts of black
■rries and I’ll bake them into a pie
fr you.”
I Rady, ” replied Plodding Pete,
fr m afraid you don’t read de pa-
■ Tn dese days de perducer of
material* an ’ de ultimate consum
s kickin’ so hard dat I coldn’t
W R ider a transaction where I’d be
frh at once. ”
I I have got to perform a very lis
■teful operation this morning,” re-
the eminent surgeon.
| “What is that?”
| One of my rich patients wants me
■ ’ake a little something off his bill.”
r lx 'ansas City Journal.
I Old Un’ (sarcastically)—Then you
l° n t believe in the benefit of work,
I su Ppose.
looting ’Un—Bon’t I though? If
■ e old governor hadn’t worked like
I horse all his life, f shouldn’t have
W I have now.”
THE DALTON ARGUS.
JOHN T. HOLLAND BUYS THE
THREE GREEN LOTS
■ On Which Will Be erected Two Store
Houses Two or Three Stories High;.
Also a New Bank Building—Dalton
on a Steady Boom.
And yet another material evidence
that Dalton is not going to the dem
nation bow wows is the purchase of
the three Green lots facing Hamilton
street immediately south of the post
office by Mr. John Holland.
The lots are twenty-five feet each
fronting on Hamilton sreet and one
hundred deep running back to the
new made alley.
Mr. Holland paid twelve thousand
five hundred dollars for the property,
which shows his faith in Dalton dirt
and her future outlook.
Mr. Holland has transferred the
lot next the postoffice to the new bank
authorities and they will begin at
once the erection of a handsome bank
building.
Mr. Holland *< a-vArgns represen
tative said he would erect a two story
building on the other two lots, one of’
which is the corner of Hamilton and
Gordon. This building will be of
handsome material and it is entirely
probable that a third story will be
put on by Mr. Holland for Masonic
and other lodge purposes, and he is
now in touch with the Masons to ac
complish that end. »If this is decided
upon it will be the best lodge room
in North Georgia and will occupy a
space 55 by 100 feet.
These transactions go to prove what
The Argus has all along claimed;
that Dalton is on the up grade and
that decidedly. Mr. Holland’s pur
chase is an expression of what he j
thinks of Dalton’s future and it will
be seen and proven in but a short time
that he hdS not been mistaken. The ■
opera house project is another one ■
that is happy on the way and when j
built will be one that this city will be
proud of and one that will take care
of all the big shows on the road.
The Parson’s Mistake.
An amusing incident was witness- ;
ed at a big railway sation recently.
An old gentleman who was waiting
for a train and at the same time in
terested in the surroundings, did not ,
notice the approach of a porter strug- |
gling wit ha large traveling trunk. |
with the result that he was knocked ;
off the platform onto the rails, says
Judge. *
A parson who was standing nearby
promptly rushed to the unfortunate
man’s aid, and. thinking he was the
worse for liquor, remarked:
“My good friend, whiskey has
done that.” |
But the old gentleman promptly re
plied, “Wrong again, mister. It was
porter.”
The Girl in the Case.
It often happens that the impecu- ;
nious young man takes the initiative,
the girl institutes the referendum and i
her stern parents nstitute the recall.”
says the Albany Herald. Not with
out the advice and consent of the
girl, however. Sometimes she recon
siders. —Macon News.
And when she does, they go into a
committee of the whole and make it
unanimous.
LEADING PAPER OF NORTH GEORGIA. BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM IN PIEDMONT SECTION.
DALTON, GEORGIA. THURSDAY OCTOBER 12 1911.
'STRIKERS LOSING SAYS
PRESIDENT MARKHAM
Head of Illinois Central Predicts
j Men Will Soon Return to Work.
Chicago. Ojt. 11 —President C. 11.
I Mrkham, of the Illinois Central rail
road, returned this afternoon from
Jackson, Miss., where he had a con
ference with Governor Noel and sev
. eral of the strikers yesterday and
I said he expected the strike would soon
be terminated.
i His views were shared by Vice
President Park, who said the men
were beginning to realize the com
pany intends to stand firmly in the
iposition it has taken. “As the'ex
jcitement wears off the men are begin
ning to think seriously of the fu
ture,” said Mr. Park.
Satisfactory conditions all along
j the line were reported by the officials,
j According to Special Agent Carroll,
lat the Burnside shops, no more men
' are needed at present and a large
i number of strike-breakers who were
smuggled in today were laid off. Many
;of those came from New York and
other eastern points.
. Layge cixny ds of st pikers collected
near the Burnside shops yesterday.
. thinking they would be paid off. No
disbursements resulted, the strike lea
ders counseling quiet.
Every precaution has been taken
to insure a peaceful pay day today,
when the strikers will be given their
September wages.
The Greatest of Gifts.
Once upon a time a poor woodcut
ter who lived with his wife in a hovel
at the edge of the forest, found an
old woman held fast in one of his
bear traps, says the Cleveland Plain-
Dealer. He released her and took her
to his home, and there the woodman
and his wife cared for her until she
■ was well enough to resume her jour
ney.
Then, as she was about to leave,
’the man said to her, “Good mother,
: will you put a gift upon our first
.born ? ’ ’
' And the old woman answered.
“What gift would please thee best?”
And the mother, after the fashion
■of said: “Let it be the
I greatest of gifts.”
“Then I wish him the gift of ac
cumulating,” said the old woman,
and went her way.
But the mother was sad. She hop
ed her son would be a poet, or a teach
i er or a maker of laws.
When their first born was yet a lad
•he traded knives and the knife that
■ fell to him he traded for two knives.
And in the game called marbles he
cornered the neighborhood market
adn sold the tiny spheres back to his
little playmates at twice and thrice
their first value. Later on the storks
he bought always boomed, the gold
i mines he secured were richer than ex
pected., the railroads he looted proved
precious pickings.
So in time the first born of the
woodcutter became a mighty power
the land, and poets sang to him,
_ I teachers took his bounty, and the
, makers of laws were powerless before
him.
j And the man’s mother, who lived
in a palace and longed for a cottage
sighed and said: “Truly the old wo
man was right. The ability of accu
mulation is the greatest of gifts.”
Occasionally a man makes his mark
in the world because his wife makes
him toe it. •
DALTON’S HORSE SHOW
THE BEST GOING
ASKS ROOSEVELT TO
ADDRESS GEORGIA SLAVES
Savannah, Ga., Oct. 10 —R. R.
Wright, president of the Georgia Ne
gro State Fair Association has sent
Theodore Roosevelt an invitation to
address Georgia's ex-slaves at Macon
November 17. There are six hun
dred ex-slaves living in Georgia.
Bob Wright is a native of Whit
field county and one of the most pro
gressive and intelligent of his race.
Ife once delivered a fine address to
tlie members of his race at the fair
i
hr*e.
I
ANCIENT WILLS.
A Few Compiled by Mr. V. M. Harris
of St. Louis.
Will cf Adam.
The Mussulman claims that our
forefather, Adam, left a will. and
that seventy legions of angels brought
him sheets of paper and quill pens,
nicely nibbed, all the way from Para
dise, and that the Archangel Gabriel
set his seal as witness.
It may be added, however, that the
authenticity of this will has not been
e*.’ , 'ti!,ished.
Will of Noah.
It is claimed (hat Noah left a will,
but of course this is an apocrypha.
It is said that he divided his landed
possessons, the globe, into three
shares, one for each son. America
was not included in this division for
obvious reasons.
Will of Job.
There exists a very curious and an
cient testament of Job, which was
discovered and published by Cardinal
Mai in 1839. It relates many de
tails which we may look for in vain
in the canonical Book. In it Job’s
faithful wife, when reduced to the
utmost poverty, sold the hair of her
head to procure bread for her hus
band.
Will of Jacob.
Jacob, the third of the Hebrew
Patriarchs, in Egypt at the age
of 147, but was buried by his sons
in the Cave of Machpelah at Hebron,
in Palestinne, the traditional burial
place of the prophets and other Bib
lical characters of their time.
It can be stated that the very ear
liest reference to an actual testamen
tary disposition is by the words of
this Patriarch:
“Add Israel said unto Joseph, Be
hold I die; but God shall be with
you and bring you again unto the land
of your fathers.”
Q
“Moreover, I have given to thee
one portion aboye thy brethren, which
I took out of the hand of the Amor
ite with my sword and with my bow.”
“And Jacob called unto his sons,
and said, Gather yourselves together
that I may tell you that wb’ch shall
befall you in the last days.”
In the forty-eighth and forty-n nth
chapters of Genesis are these words
of the dying Patriarch; and here is
found not only the disposition of a
“portion” to Joseph, but the charac
ters of each son is shown, the virtues
or faults of each one is described, to
each a symbolic emblem is assigned,
and to each a future is prophesied.
Here is a will in fact and in pro
phecy.
Col W. W. Seymour, of Chatta
nooga, is in town today.
• • *
Mr. J. M. Alper, of Chattanooga,
is in the city, the guest of his brother,
Mr. Dave Alper.
MORE LIVE STOCK AT FAIR
THIS YEAR BY DOUBLE.
Fully Twenty Head Had to Be Tied
Out in. the Open—The Biggest Ex
hibit Ever at the Fair—Who Some
of Them Are.
The horse and cattle show over at
the fair grounds is the finest ever
shown over there.
At eleven o’clock this morning
every stall was full and more than
twenty head had to be tied out un
der the big oaks west of the agri
cultural building.
Sam Smith brought in sixteen head
of mules, mares, colts, jacks and
jennies. Sam Carter from Murray
is here with ten head of thorough
breds and will have to stable them
down town.
The hog and sheep pens are full
for the first time in the history of the
fair. This part of the fair is one that
appeals o a great many and is certain
ly one that will be long remembered
by all who,go over to see it.
The su neame out at noon and this
afternoon great crowds are going over
and tonight there will be many more
as the sidewalks have dried and walk
ing is good.
One of the belated exhibits, due to
the rain yesterday, is the fresh vege
table exhibit of Mrs. B. A. Tyler,
from their farm out in the famous
“Hungry Valley.” It consists of
nineteen kinds of garden grown
truck and when seen every one is
tempted to ask “who said go hungry
in old Whitfield?”
Aonther notable display is that of
Vernon and Fincher from their stock
farm, which consists of a “farm on
wheels,” and consists of four Jer
seys, one Durham, two sheep, two
pigs, two goats, chickens, ducks,
wheat, oats, corn, sorghum, eaffa
corn, broom corn, herds grass, timo
thy, cotton, pumpkins, peanuts and
peanut hay and tomato vines fourteen
feet high with tomatoes on them.
Everything shown by Vernon and Fin
cher shows that the diversification of
farming will pay far more than any
one crop such as cotton, corn or
wheat.
The Midway is alive today and the
barkers, ballyhoos and spielers are
there with the goods. The Dalton
cornet band is furnishing its quota
to the gayiety and the abominable
whistle of the merry-go-round makes
life unbearable with its continuous
and entirely unnecessary whistling to
the dscomfiture of all who go there
and it is said it will be toned down
to common decency.
A cigar stand that wil? not sell a
combination of alfalfa and cabbage
leaves would pay there as it is about
the only thing lacking. The woman's
building is complete and is a beauty.
Ben Holmes’ wild west is worth the
money and so is the show of John
Shope. The vaudeville of Fann and
White is said to be good. Phil Hay
wards’ motion picture show speaks
for itself. Do not fail from now on
to go and see what a fine fair Dalton
and Whitfield county can get up.
The Macon Telegraph says that the
police are prepared to handle the fair
creardfL T is is respectfully refer
ed to the Chattanooga Manufactur
ers’ Association which will go down
there next Tuesday on a special
train.
ONE DOLLAR A YEAH
THE PRIZE
WINNERS
ONJPOULTRY
THERE WERE NINETEEN WIN
NERS OF PRIZES IN THE BIG
POULTRY SHOW AT THE
COUNTY FAIR NOW ON—TEE
BIRDS MADE A SPLENDID
SHOWING.
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Early this morning a great quan
tity of exhibits were taken over to
the fair that had been kept away on
account of the rain.
Today is live stock day and has
proved of much interest to all. The
poultry was judged yesterday after
noon by Mr. C. 0. Harwell of Atlan
ta. The prize winners are:
J. L. WALLACE first and second
cock and second hen; Rhode Island
Reds.
J. C. SAPP, first and second cocke
rel first and second pullet and first:
hen; Rhode Island Reds.
MRS. W. P. MILLER first and sec
ond pullet, third cockerel and first
cock; Barred Rocks.
AIRS. D. PURYEAR, first cockerel,
first hen and second pullet; Barred
Rocks.
HENRY CARTWRIGHT, first and
second cockerel, first hen and first
pullet; Brown Leghorns.
MRS. B. A. TYLER, first pen Barr
ed Rock fries.
J. J. CAYLOR, first cockerel, first
and second pullet; Black Minorcas.
ALBERT COLLINS, first cock,
first hen, first and second cockerel
first and second pullet; Golden Wyan
dotts.
MRS. D. PURYEAR, first and sec
ond pullet; first cockerel; Houdans.
| MRS. D. PURYEAR, first cocke
• rel. first cock ami first hen; White
Leghorns.
W. A. COSSAGE, first and second
Pekin ducks.
■ JOE L. WALLACE, first Indian
Runner Ducks.
R. H. SAPP, second Indian Run
ner Ducks.
( . C. MAPLES, first cockerel and
first and second pullet; White Or
phingtons.
WALTER SPRINGFIELD, first
and second Pit Games.
808 McCAMY, first pair Bantams.
No. 408, second pair Bantams.
No. 402, first pair White Holland
. Turkeys.
| CAL MANUS, first and second pul
jlete; Buff Plymouth Rocks.
There were no prizes for the rab
bits, pigeons or possums. There were
: an even hundred of coops shown and
the birds made a great show.
Miss Anna E. Wood, of Boston, is a
guest of the fair association. Miss
.Wood is a member of the society
which furnishes circulating libraries
throughout the country where they are
most needed and do the most good.
One of them is at the court house
here under the care of School Com
missioner Sapp. Mr. Sapp is intro
ducing Miss Wood, who is meeting a
cordal welcome here.