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THE DALTON ARGUS
Official Organ of Whitfield County
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.
Turkey has a great navy; all she
needs is battleships —has plenty of
water.
Under the caption of “Society,”
an Atlanta paper prints four macaroni
receipts. This is a direct blow at the
local subjects of the Sultan.
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Atlanta is now after the vagrants
and loafers too. Dalton has about
one dozen white and two dozen blacks
that might go to the cotton fields.
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Mr. Robert Loveman is billed for an
entertainment at the Berry School
this fall.
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Dalton is devoting more attention
to building up its material wealth
than to building up the fortunes of
any candidate for gubernatorial for
tunes.
The Argus would again respectfully
but firmly call attention to automo
biles running around on the streets
after dark without any front or tail
lights.
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An esteemed Middle Georgia ex
change says that the larger per cent
of the state papers favor the election
of “Little Joe” Brown for gover
nor. Without surrendering any opin
ion we have regarding- the piwer of
the press (knowing also its weakness) *
we kindly refer our friend to the race
made by the late Gov. W. Y. Atkin
son who had the support of only about j
twenty papers out of the then one hun
dred in the state. About eighty bit
terly opposed him, and yet, and yet-
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he defeated the “old Guard” (Gor
don, Brown, Colquitt, et al.) to the
tune of 25,000 majority. Strange
things will happen in the life of
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newspapers, even.
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Sam Divine’s Views.
Sam Divine writing some of his '
views from Memphis to the Chatta
nooga Times, says: ,
“The democratic party (of Tenn
essee) is divided into two parts, the ,
ins and the outs. The republican and
prohibition parties are a double team,
composed of a black and a white
horse, which pulls the liquor man's
t
reaper, while the state pays the driv
er. From what I heard and saw, I
am satisfied the liquor man is making
more money under the prohibition law
than ever before. Before prohibition
went into effect there were 400 saloons
in Memphis. There are now 1.700.
and the state is losing $1,000,000 an
nually. This is the price we pay for
the moral uplift handed to us by the
idealists, through the assistance of
the hypocritical politicians of both
parties, represented by the Nashville
tring. bossed by E..11. Stahlman.
Emmett Barnes in Russel Camp.
Emmett Barnes, of Macon, has ali
gned himself with the Russel forces
in the gubernatorial campaign, and
Thursday was designated as assistant
campaign manager. He will be iden
tified with the general headquarters
in Atlanta, advising with Manager
Nevin, Judge Spencer Atkinson and
•Judge Russell himself concerning the
■details of the canvass, says the At
lanta Journal.
Announcement of Mr. Barnes’
alignment with the Russell forces and
his appointment as assistant cam
paign manager is regarded as one of
the significant developments of the
campaign in so far as the candidacy
*f Former Governor Brown is con
vened. It is another evidence of
he tendency throughout (he state of
brmer supporters of the governor to
oreak away from him in the present
race, and support either Judge Bus
cell of Col. Pope Brown,
The fact that we can quit this life
whenever we get tired of it doesn't
seem to be much consolation to us.
WATCH THE L. & N. R. R.
The Louisville and Nashville Rail
way owns the A. K. & N. R. R. which
touches Marietta, a prosperous town
on the Western & Atlantic.
The Louisville and Nashville Rail
way owns the line touching Carters
ville, a prosperous town on the Wes
tern and Atlantic.
It is reliably reported that the
Louisville and Nashville Railway has
had surveyors in the field looking over
the old Dalton and Alaeulsey grade
from Dalton to Chattsworth on its
line from Knoxville to Cartersville
and thus touch Dalton. The Louis
ville and Nashville owns the controll
ing stock of the Nashville and Chat
anooga railway, thus touching (. hat
tanooga. Now, dear reader, you will
see that when the Dalton line is built,
every town of any importance on the
dear old Western and Atlantic rail
way (which is owned by the state of
Georgia) will be served by the Louis
ville and Nashville railway and the
Louisville and Nashville railway will
no longer want the Western & Atlan
tic railway after the lease expires,
about eight years from the 27th of
next December. Do you see the point ?
Is it then any wonder some people
have begun to think that the Geor
gia legislature has been cajolled into
the belief that terminals were not
necessary in Chattanooga ? When will
Georgia wake up?
OUR FARMERS HAVE MUCH TO
LEARN.
Mr. William C. Brown, preside• *
of the New York Central Rri’raad
company, brought back from Europe*
where he spent the greater part of
the summer, the opinion that the far
mers of this country have much to
learn, according to the Savannah
News. The opinion is correct. Oth
erwise we shouldn’t be taxing our
selves to maintain agricultural colleg
es. a department of agriculture in
each state and a national department
of agriculture. And our farmers are
ready and willing to be taught. They
are more anxious to get a bale of cot
ton to the acre where they get only
half a bale now and fifty bushels of
corn to an acre that produces less
than twenty.
In an interview on his arrival in
New York, Mr. Brown said:
“Tn England thy produce twice as
much on an acre of land as we do,
and on land that has been used for
a thousand years and not half as fer
tile as our land. Seed selection and
close study of every principle of agri
culture has brought the people to that
scientific point of production. Tn
Germany every child spends part of
his time in an agricultural school.”
The farmers of this country under
stand fully the importance of increas
ing the productiveness of their land by
the various available means, and they
are gradually improving their farms.
Tn some parts of the country the boys
seem to be leading the way. Their
corn clubs have produced results that
have caused the farmers to do a great
deal of thinking. Farmers are begin
ning to see that it is far more profit
able to cultivate twenty acres well
than fifty indifferently. Hence, they
are feeding their land and are getting
better results. Now land isn’t so
plentiful and cheap as it once was and
therefore they are studying soils and
! finding out what they need to make
them more fertile. In the course of
1 a comparative few years, our farms,
acre for a¥re, will yield as abundantly
■ as do those of England. Our system
of farming is steadily undergoing a
change for the better.
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Too much importance canot be at
tached to the boll weevil fight which
’ is being made by the Macon Daily
• Telegraph. It has sought out at con-
- siderable expense and made public a
' quantity of good information that will
help fight the wevil and at the same
> time assist in the diversification of
: the many kinds of crops which can
- be so profitably grown on Georga’s
soil.
A dog’s pants may indicate warm
weather, but they do not bag at the
knees.
THE DALTON ARGUS, THURSDA Y, OCTOBER 12, 1911.
AND SHADOW J
By James Weils.
The Outlaw.
I am at outs with the world
And the world is at outs with me.
There’s nothing good in town or the
wood,
On mountain, in valley or sea.
I am at outs with the world
And I prey upon whom I may,
And by force or stealth I take from
wealth,
And silently steal away.
I am at outs with the world,
And the world is at outs with me.
For I do not prey in a “ lawful ’ ’ way
Like many a man I see.
For I take by force or stealth,
Instead of a business scheme.
And the world so wise my right ne
nies,
To live on its richest cream.
I am at outs with the world.
And the world is at outs with me,
But the man who steals while to law
he kneels,
To come and go is free.
A Fall Epic.
(Kray Z. Mutt rhapsodizes over the
coming of fall as follows:
Fall has fell.
The summer’s over
And the coal man
Is in clover.
Ctart Over.
What’s the o’ howlin’
Because yen’re down and out,
Ain’t no use a growlin’
If you’ve gone up the spout.
Just one way to do it.
If a scheme falls through,
Only one way through out —
Spoil out and start anew.
“DOIN’S” IN TENNESSEE.
(From the Washington Post.)
Senator “Bob” Taylor, of Tenn
essee went to his home state shortly
after adjournment and recently re
turned to Washington. He was re
counting some of his experiences to a
little circle of friends in the New Wil-
Ird.
“Yes, I saw all the boys and the
girls, too.” said the Senator. “They
were all there. We had a little
speaking one night in Jonesboro and
then we kinder got together and had
a reunion. Old Bob Thomas was there
and Henry Jackson and Judge Hack
er and the rest of them.
“Alf Taylor, too, was there with
his fiddle. And Alf can fiddle. When
he drew Jfliat bow across the strings
I knew by the way he did it that he
would ‘play some’ that night. He
struck up ‘Old Granny Rattletrap,”
and soon the building rocked as hun
dreds of feet beat time. Alf was in
a ‘weavin’ way.’ He played ‘Arkan
sas Traveler,’ and then ‘Sourwood
Mountain;’ and the first thing I
knew Old Bob Thomas jumpe out
into the center of the flood and be
gan to cut the pigeon wing. I joined
him in a moment. Then Alf handed
the fiddle over to another and got into
the ring and we danced the dances
of old times in Tennessee and were
boys again together.
“And such eating you never saw
in your life. At Frank Brittain’s we
had an old-time East Tennessee coun
try dinner, country hams fresh from
the smoke house, savory and rich;
great slices an inch thick and fried
brown with plenty of ham gravy —
make a man hungry to smell it a mile
off. And fried corn —Washingtonians
don’t know that corn will fry—and
hoe cake, the kind we made in the
good old days; and fried chicken,
great ‘yallar legged’ fellows that grow
biggest and tallest and longleggedest
and tenderest in East Tennessee moun
tains. and vegetables of all kinds;
preserves and pickles made at home,
black coffee with rich, leal cream —
a feast for a king. I (ell you they
live up in East Tennessee. No won
der the tallest men in the world are
found right around Jonesboro.”
SHOULD WHIPPING IN SCHOOLS
BE ABOLISHED?
Atlanta is now agitated over the
question of whether or not the an
cient saw of Solomon about spaiing
the rod and spoiling the child has been
proved false by modern knowledge,
says the Augusta Chronicle. An or
dinance has been introduced in the
citv council making it an offense to
apply ay form of corporal punishment
in the schools.
Viewing this question one way, it
can be argued soundly that the rod
should be relegated to the delic room.
If you argue from the premise of
your own little darling, who you know
would never commit such an awful
breach of the rules as to deserve a
threshing by his or her teacher, why,
of course, there should be no switch
ing. But your little Minnie or Wil
lie is not typical of the tribe of chil
dren. They are different, as you will
admit. And, though sad to state, it
is impossible for you to view their con
duct with that cold impartiality which
others employ in considering their
merits and demerits.
The best way to consider the ques
tion is upon the premise of your erst
while self and your childhood com
panions. The world has not pro
gressed so far as to cause any notable
difference between the children of to
day and those of thirty or forty years
ago, though we older folk are fond
of declaring, just as our fathers and
mothers declared when we were
“sprouting” that “children are not
what they used to be.”
We can all recall how the lash of
the hickory erased many false phil
osophies from our minds without doing
great injury to our sensitive persons.
A wail, a sob, a feeling of tremen
dous desolation, followed by an em
brace from teacher and material re
ward in the shape of an apple or a
piece of candy, it was all over in an
hour or two, leaving us much he bet
ter in mind and morals for the ordeal.
There comes to mind, also, that
childish joy which came to us when
the egotistical youngster, who cut the
switch, was the first to furnish a test
of his care in choosing and preparing
a good one.
And how about the school bully, who
cuffed us smaller and milder manner
ed fellows? How we shouted inward
ly with glee when teacher overcame
his proud boast that no amount of
whipping could make him cry, and un
der the lash, made him moan and beg
and weep, like an ordinary human,
which before we didn’t dare believe
he was! AmJ the improvement it
made in his manners —don’t tell us
there was not virtue in the willow
to wield in the old day!
Os course, modern progress in the
teaching art may have made the birch
a useless disciplinarian, a false in
structor; but frankly, ’tis hard to be
lieve that is true. As memory goes
back to the long ago we see children
who were trained up under it. Which
ones are now the best men and women ?
We cannot lay down the conclusion
as a rale, but varily we believe that
those who “made good” in the big
gest way are the ones who mixed with
the willow oftenest.
Those who never enjoyed the de
lights of an occasional “wearing out”
turned out to be mollycoddles. Os
course there are excepions—they in
clude most of the girls.
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When over the fair fame of friend or
foe
The shadow of disgrace shall fall,
instead
Qf words of blame, or proof of thus
and so,
Let something good be said.
Forget not that no ellow-being yet
May fall so low but love may lift
his head;
Even the cheek of shame with ears is
wet,
If something good be said.
And so I charge ye, by the thorny
crown,
And by the cross on which the Sa
vior bled,
And by your own soul’s hope of fair
renown,
Let something good be said.
—James Whitcomb Riley.
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I SALMAGUNDI.
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Death is the only prosperity that we
neither desire for ourselves nor re
sent in others.
To the small part of ignorance that
ve can arrange and classify we give
the name knowledge.
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In the journey of life when the
shadow falls to the eastward stop till
it falls to the westward. Thou are
then at thy destination.
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Seek not for happiness—’tis known
to hope and memory alone:
At dawn, how bright the noon will be!
At eve, how fair it glowed, ah, me!
How much more agreeable life
would pass should the whole world
wear its “company face” all the
time, instead of going about growling
and scowling about everything.
“It is a fine thing,” says the coun
try parson, “to ripen without shriv
eling; to reach the calmness of age
and yet keep the warm heart and
ready sympathy of youth.”
Some days ago a young merchant
of this city made a bargain with a
country lady for two chickens. Yes
terday the lady brought them to his
store and, he being busy, she placed
them on the end of the counter. Our
young friend didn’t think that the
proper place for them but didn’t like
to say so plainly, so he remarked, as
the chickens were trying to jump
about:
“They won’t lay there will they?”
Meaning that they would likely jump
off the counter.
His astonishment jnay be imagined
when the lady replied: “Os course
they won’t; they’re roosters!”
Strange things happen. A blind
carpenter in Waco, Texas, not long
ago, took up a plane and saw; and in
St. Paul, Minn, a wagon-maker who
had been deaf and dumb all his life,
picked up a hub and spoke.
The chimney is one of the few
smokers that is easily sooted.
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o LEGAL NOTICES. o
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Georgia, Whitfield Coutv.
Will be sold before the court house
door at Dalton. Georgia, in Whit
field county, within the legal hoars
of sale, on the first Tuesday in Nov.
1911, the following described pro
perty, towit:
Lot of land Number two hundred
and forty-four in the Thirteenth dis
trict and third section of said county,
said lot containing one hundred and
sixty acres, more or less; levied on
and will be sold as the property of
W. R. Kiker, late of said county, de
ceased, to satisfy one Superior court
fifa issued from the Superior court
of said county in favor of John Hill
versus W. P. Kiker, administrator of
W. R. Kker, deceased. Terms of sale
cash. Tenant in possession notified.
This, October 9th, 1911.
J. 11. GILBERT. Sheriff.
Tilx Notice
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I WILL BE AT THE FOLLOWING PLACES AS DATED BELO a
FINCHER OCT. 16 BTO 11 OCLOCK
DAWNVILLE OCT. 16 12 TO 3 O’CLOCK.
TILTON OCT. 17 8 TOll O’CLOCK.
CARBONDALE OCT. 17, 12 TO 3 O’CLOCK.
TRICKUM OCT. 18, BTO 11 O’CLOCK
MILL CREEK OCT. 18, 12 TO 3 O’CLOCK.
LOWER TENTH OCT. 19, BTO 11 O’CLOCK.
UPPER TENTH, OCT. 19, 12 TO 3 O’CLOCK
RED CLAY OCT. 20, 'BTO 11 O’CLOCK.
VARNELLS OCT. 20, 12 TO 3 O’CLOCK.
TUNNEL HILL OCT. 23, BTO 11 O’CLOCK.
ROCKY FACE OCT. 23, 12 TO 3 O’CLOCK.
DALTON EVERY SATURDAY.
J. H. Smith,
Tax Collector.
GEORGIA-Whitfield Countv ' I
By virtue of an order of JL |
|°f Or<linar y of said countv L?" I
at the October term, 1 911 " ■
before .be I
.Mid county, on th. a rst T * * ■
November, nett. I
l»f Mie, the f„n„ wins I
City lots Nos. 75 and 77 No .. fl
Depot street, Dalton, Ga. TnV 7
to the highest and best bidder W
cash. I ■
This the 4th day of October, 19q |
‘ -Vhnmi s!rator I
GEORGlA—Whitfield C., lli;:v . I
Notice is hereby given to all credit Jfl
ors of theestate of D. J. and A ■
iTate, late of said county, deceased I
ito render in an account of their de- ■
( mands to me within the time pre . I
i scribed by the law. properly made out, I
■and all persons indebted to said de' I
' ceased are hereby requested to make I
. immediate payment to the undersigned jgß
This the first day of September
191 1- W.c. pangel’ I
Admininsfrator of D. J. Tate. I
GEORGlA—Whitfield County: I
By virtue of an order of the Court I
of Ordinary of said county, will be I
sold at public outcry on the first I
(Tuesday in November, 1911, at the ■
court house in said county, between ■
J the legal hours of sale, the followin’ I
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I real estate in Whitfield county towit: 1
i One hundred acres of land, more or I
less, being portions of lots 240 and I
241 in the 27th district and 3rd see- I
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■ tion of said countv, known as the ■
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.home place of the late D. J. Tate, I
' deceased. Terms cash. I
I This the 2nd day of October, 1911. I
i • W. C. PANGLE, I
Administrator of D, J. Tate. I
[GEORGlA—Whitfield County. W
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| The report of the appraisers ap- I
pointed to set apart a year s sup- I
port for the widow’ and minor chil- I
i dren of A. Q. Head, deceased, has I
been filed in my office and I will pass I
upon said report on the first Mon- I
day in November. 1911. I
JOS. BOGLE, Ordinary. I
GEORGIA-Whitfield County, I
Kate Oxford, executrix of the I
will of J. L. Oxford, deceased, has I
applied for leave to sell the real and I
personal estate of said deceased and
I will pass upon said application on
the first Monday in November, 1911.
JOS. BOGLE. Ordinary.
GEORGIA-Whitfield Ccvnty:
The report of the appraisers ap
pointed to set apart a year s sup
poyt for the widow and minor chil
Idren of Mike Redwine, deceased, has fl
■ been filed in ray office and I will pass
upon said report on the first Monday
: in November. 1911.
JOS. BOGLE, Ordinary.
| GEORGlA—Whitfield County,
i H. L. Brooker, administrator of R
W. Thogmartin. deceased, has apphe
for leave to sell the land of said e
i ceased and I will sss upon said ap
plication on the first Monday
vember, 1911.
JOS. BOGLE, Ordinary.