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VOL. xxxm—NO. 47.
GOT HIS SPOUSE
BY AN ADVERTISEMENT
NOW WANTS DIVORCE
GEORGIA WOMAN WORKS SMOOTH GAME
got HER NEW MADE HUSBAND’S COIN, WROTE HIM A POSTAL
CARD OR TWO AND NOW CANNOT BE LOCATED—G. A. PHIL-
LIPS A WIFELESS MAN.
■E Aniens. Ga., Oct. 18 —A peculiar
■k| divorce case came up in Clarke coun
|H I fv sui'crior court in which the hus
«| ban' 1 . >uel the wife for a divorce and
■Bl sued her in the name she bore before
» she married him. G. A. Phillips,
888 livin'/ near Athens, sued Airs. Etta
MB Siieermmi on the grounds of desertion.
MH lit* explained that he sued her in her
888 dinner name, and not as Airs. Phillips.
because she hail never been really his
thoturh the marriage ceremony
been regularly said after the
iiad been regularly issued. The
was granted —the first ver-
This puts an end to a romance of
interest. Early last year Mr.
answered an alluring adver
in a matrimonial journal, be
acquainted with Airs. Speerman.
flESKwido' she claimed, then in the mid-
| iHE
; WIT MAKES'
j I HIS ESCAPE
* ■
‘■e MB
;n NATIONAL CRIMINAL
his getaway from I
GEORGIA BILL MIN-
is minus.
at
? or escape of old Bill Minor. the I
10 1 ;, n( ] l )an dit from the state I
farm at Milledgeville, is not
ur _ its element of grim humor, j
ioff . the old fox is hiding he must j
!IO \ V . savs the Atlanta
I t jl_ R:'! Minor robbed a Southern
her train last year, near Gaines-
and was captured, the Georgia i
M 1 r - ave it a column. But some !
■M New A orb papers gave it a |
med ' lured that the greatest I
; - 1 irceful of all the old->
bad been run io earth.
BM f <!r Bill Minor he didn't!
i capture very seriously, not
and-
bad been sentenced to
pea-
ui the Georgia peniten
;eous
Ui -\ there are no bars or
|OU?C .
1 '' s iii Georgia that could ;
come ..
g ' *' :l ' old- fellow permitted
om- t
as Re was being led
e M'" : room, though be was
- iV( ' n to boasting.
COS' ii
ml a period of several
Sli|, nce. The name of Bill [
.j 5 a l'P' ;>!'<'d no more on the front ‘
newspapers, ami his picture i
the ' ' )P a ea^’re ie Sunday
Tim old fox was biding his
ne , s 3 !n °nth nr two ago, Bill
/ a . K na ' l ( s,l 'i’ienlv reappeared
TL ■ i ' fa(> ed type. “Poor Old Bill
’ ■ SAJ f'b” said the sentimen-
d rs f ff°t wind of the
■‘ nd Proceeded to tell how the
,e . , W ’ his health broken, his
and his steel-gray eyes
C —j humbly petitioned the state
... Otnn i' r -sion to take him away
'the eonv^c *' cam P and put
un P r * s °n farm. Other writers j
I^^B 1 ' 1 s he same vein, and the
TH» DALTON ARGUS.
. die west. He sent her money to come
. to him. and they were married in this
city. The day after the marriage, and
■after the newlv-wed wife had been
I
i presented with a check for S3OO or
j S4OO she received a telegram from a
’ sister in the west co the effect that
i , she was needed at home, as their
. | mother was ill. She left immediately
• and mailed her husband of a few hours
, 'a postcard or two —that was the last
; he has heard from her, it is said.
'! About the same time a middle-aged
! Ban from the same section of the coun-
• try came to Georgia in answer to an
- advertisement and married a young
i Gwinnett county girl, secured what
property she had, and disappeared in
. a few days after the marriage cere-
■ mony. The general impression was
■ at the time that there was a strong
. probability of connection between the
-two cases.
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RUSHING COTTON TO MARKET
IS ALMOST A CRIME.
I
I Has cotton an intrinsic worth, or
■ is it so unstable in value that it can
j be buffeted and mauled by the pessi-
I mist on the one hand, or bounced and
i boosted by the optimist on the other,
i without reckoning the cost or he con-
I sequences? It seems so. and the man
i who is responsible is the man who pro
| duces it. Os volatile, impassioned
[and impressionable nature, affected
, solely by his surroundings, when his
| crop is moderate he holds for unrea
sonable profits, and when nature
smiles he ruthlessly sacrifices his sub
stance and, with mad and unreasoning
haste, metaphorically cuts both his
j own and his neighbor’s throat. His
■anxiety to rush cotton to market this
I year, regardless of price, has amount-
■ ed to almost a crime.
[ All commodities must, of necessity,
j fluctuate in value, and cotton with
the rest; but let us have it wihin
sane and reasonable limits. The man
I who today is practically giving his
' cotton away, would not give you his
mule on the same basis. Why? Be-
■ cause the minle has a fixed value in
, his mind. He knows its value, and
j will only sell when offered more than
I it is worth; and he should apply the
| same simple rifles to his cotton. It
would mean so much to the South.
Mrs. Nancy Perry Langston will
I have charge of the box office of “The
Marion.” Phil Hayward's new vaude
ville house which will open next Mrfn
i day.
Two more marriages are scheduled
for Dalton 'n the next sixty days.
i Georgia newspapers from the Alabama
line to the Savannah river lushed over
with sympathy for “Poor Old Bill
Minor.” They all fell for it.
So old Bill Minor was transferred
to the state prison farm, to die, the
newspapers said.
Again the old fox bided his time.
Another month or so passed. And
then, on this auspicious, drizzly Tues
day morning, the officials at the farm
found a guard tapped in the head,
bound and gagged. The time had
come.
Wherever Bill Minor is be is proha-
' bly laughing.
/Ind the joke is on Georgia.
LEADING PAPER OF NORTH GEORGIA. BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM IN PIEDMONT SECTION.
DALTON, GEORGIA. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19. 1911.
LOOSE HOGS
CAUSE OEAIH
OF TWO MEH
BOTH DEAD MEN WERE PROMI-
NENT FARMERS NEAR ADEL.
OLD MEN WITH 318 FAMILIES
Trespassing Swine of Tom Hill on. the
Premises of Brooks Revels Results
in a Double Murder Yesterday.
Adel, Ga., Oct. 18 —Tom Hill and
J. M. Revels both lie dead as the result
o a shooting row which occurred near
here. Both men were promient far
mers and owned adjoining farms 4
miles west of Adel.
The difficulty was due to Hill’s hogs
going through a cross fence and tres
passing on Revel’s crop. The men
met in the field yesterday and before
many words had passed Hill shot
Revels. Brooks Revels, a young son
of J. M. Revels, then shot Hill in the
brain. Both men died instantly.
Each of the dead men was about 40
years old and leave large families.
The Frierfl Declined.
» A Teparit'T TTispTbma'f on Admiral
Togo’s American tour, relates the
Louisville Courier-Journal, said at a
dinner in Narragansett Pier:
“Admiral Togo well merits his
wealth and honors. But a boyhood
friend one day—after the manner of
the boyhood friend—sneered at the
admiral’s success, whereupon our great
warrior retorted:
“Come now, I’dd resign all my
money and titles to you. but on one
condition—that you pay the same
price for them that T did. We’ll just
go out into the garden there and I’ll
fire a cannon at you ninety times. All
I have shall be yours if you survive. ’ ’
Love is the universal law of life. It
is an invisible chain, binding all na
ture to a God of love. Yet our vio
lation of it has cursed the world,
changed mankind into demons of hate
and planted the paradise of earth with
thorns.
Her Meaning Not Veiled.
“I for one am in favor of the bill
to abolish the use of aigrettes and
paradise plumes in ladies hats. I fa
vor the bill not only for moral reasons
but for financial ones as well.”
The speaker was Col. Lionel C. Har
ris, ornithologist of Memphis. He
resumed: “The cost of these aigret
tes and paradise plumes is a dreadful
thing for any husband to contemplate.
I saw yesterday a Virot hat covered
with aigrettes that was ticketed S3OO.
And that reminds me —
“A lady novelist wrote to a pub
lisher last spring:
“ ‘Please send me a check in ad
vance of royalties. I want to buy a
new hat fo r a June wedding.’
“The accommodating publisher sent
the lady a check for SSO. She ac
knowledged it indignantly.
“‘I said,’ she wrote, “that I
wanted a hat, not a veil.’”
•
On Sunday night Rev. C. C. Maples
married Sam C. Farmer and Nellie B.
Kettles, of Waring. The ceremony
was performed at the Hamilton street
church where Mr. Maples preached
that night.
• • •
There will be an all day singing at
the River Bend church on Sunday, the
29th. Rev. C. C. Maples will preach
the morning sermon there that day.
CITY FATHERS
MET IN DAY
TIME YESTERDAY
WILL REDUCE THE CITY SPEED
ORDINANCES.
POWER COMPANIES FRANCHISES
New Fire Hall Expenses to Be Audit
ed—A Concession Made In a Tax
Return—What Was Done.
The city council having adjourned
from Monday night until yesterday af
ternoon it had quite a long session.
Among the important things done
was to reduce the city tax on the
stove foundry lot the same as was
done in several instances lately with
a view to encouraging the operation
of foundry.
Atl the next meeting of the council
an ordinance will be drawn to reduce
the spee dos automobiles, bicycles and
motorcycles to six miles an hour with
in the city limits and this ordinance
1 will please the whole of the city, in
cluding the automobile owners.
The, new fire hall, which is about
M, w-ill-.p. officially
' iby the cou’hnl probably at its next
* j’meeting. Aidermen Mann , Duane.
1 and Thomas will audit the expenses
its construction and report thei
■ findings at the next meeting. Tt is
j understood that theje is yet some
money left over from the appropria
tion for its building. A new sidewalk
will be laid in front of the new hall.
The franchises of the two power
companies who are knocking for ad
mittance to Dalton’s doors will be
taken up at the next meeting and will
no doubt be passed or put on their
way to passage. This is the best
thing council can do before the year
closes. Tt means a great <lgal more
for Dalton than the average man
thinks.
The routine business of the coun
cil having been transacted the coun
cil adjourned.
Half a Speech Furnished Evidence.
Mr. John C. Hackett recently told
the following story:
“I was up in Rockland county last
summer and there was a banquet given
at a country hotel. All the farmers
were there and all the village charac
ters. I was asked to makea speech.
“ ‘Now, said I, with the usual apo
getic manner, ‘it is not fair Jo you that
the toastmaser should ask me o speak.
I am noorious as the worst public
speaker in New York. My reputation
extends from one end of the state to
the other. I have no rival Whatever
when it comes to —’
“I was interrupted by a lanky, ill
clad individual, who had stuck too
close to the beer pitcher.
“ ‘Gentlemen.’ said he. “I take
’ceptions to -what this here r ; i says.
He ain’t the worst public spwdu r in
the state: T am. You all know it,
an’ I want ot made a matter of record
that I took ’ception.’
“ ‘Well, my friend,’ said I, ‘sup
pose we leave it to the guests. You sit
down while I say my piece, and then
I’ll sit down while you say yours.’
The fellow agreed and I went on. I
hadn’t gone far when he got up again.
“ ‘’S all right,’ said he, ‘you win;
needn’t go no further!”
1 Mr. Sam Caldwell, of Chattanooga,
was in the city yesterday.
• • •
Mr. J. D. Thomas was down yester
day evening from Chattanooga.
GLIDDEN TOURISTS AT
THE TOMB OF THE
CONFEDERACY’S CHIEF
SPEND FEW MOMENTS IN CONTEMPLATION
AUTOISTS SPEEDING SOUTHWARD STOP FOR FORTY MINUTES
AT THE OLD WASHINGTON A ND LEE UNIVERSITY—SEE THE
RECUMBENT STATUE OF R. E . LEE AT LEXINGTON.
Roanoak, Ya., Oct. 18—The Glid
den tour was held up yesterday for
forty minutes in order to permit the
tourists to visit the old Washington
and Lee university at Lexington and
the Virginia Military academy and to
pause before the tomb where the re
mains of General R. E. Lee lie buried
beneath the college chapel.
Behind the chapel is the famous
recumbent statue of Lee by Valen
tine. It is a marble effigy and wonder
fully effective. The features are those
of a strong, good man in sleep and do
not depicit the cold impassiveness of
death.
The old office of General Lee under
the chapel is preserved today just as
he left it when he fell asleep forty
one years ago. The office is severe in
its extreme simplicity. A round ta
ble covered with letters and pamph
lets, antique bookcase and a few
LOAFERS TO
BE PUT TO
WORK BY COURT
JUDGE BRAND OF ATHENS HAS
A PLAN BY WHICH OFFICERS
CAN HELP IN GOOD .ROADS
WORK.
“A hundred years of road work
can be done for Clarke county” said
Judge Brand in his charge to the
grand jury Monday morning, “if the
policemen, the marshals, the sheriff,
his deputies and the bailiffs will do
their duty in co-operation with the
grand jury to enforce the vagrancy
law. If these officers will take about
two days for the special cleaning up
and rounding up of this class of law
breakers and they are brought before
me I will give them 12 months on the
public roads and take pleasure in do
ing so—either negro vagrants or white
loafers. I am certain that, there are
100 to 150 such in the county of
Clarke that ought to be apprehend
ed and convicted.”
This mater might be undertaken in
Dalton and Whitfield county with a
great deal of profit to our srood roads
project for 1912. Cotton pickers and
farm help generally is needed in this
section of Georgia and the loafers
should be made to go to w-ork.
YOUNG GIRL ARRESTED
AS A TRAIN WRECKER
Knoxville, Tenn., Oct. 18 —Essie
Matthewson, an 18-year-pld girl living
at Whaley’s Bluff, Johnson county,
was arrested today by officers in the
employ of the Virginia and South
western railway on the charge of at
tempting to wreck a passenger train. ,
The girl is charged with having put ,
a log on the tracks at Whaley’s Bluff
, which was struck by a passenger
train, but fortunately hurled aside.
She was bound over to court on pre
liminary hearing.
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR
chairs, all covered with dust, complete
the picture. But few of the several
hundred tourists passed by without
pausing a few moments in silent con
templation at the open window of the
room where the man who is revered
almost as a saint by Virginia and the
South, spent his peaceful , closing
days after the tumult of battle was
stilled.
1 The sights we had and the
monuments we had witnessed at t
tysburg. Sharpsburg, Antietam and
l other battlefields of Virginia heighten
ed the respect we had felt for this
i great military genius. The procession
I of automobiles was met at Lexington
jby six companies of cadets from the
i Virginia Military institute and their
band. This notable institution fully
sustained its reputation as being next
only to West Point as a military
’ school.
FIRE BUGS
ABROAD IN
DALTON AGAIN
I A PENTZ STREET COTTAGE SET
I ON FIRE EARLY LAST NIGHT
• —WAS THE PROPERTY OF
MRS. J. 0. WILLIAMS.
The fire bug has gotten in his work
again in Dalton.
[ This is becoming alarmingly fre
quent of late and has become a menace
I here.
This time the dastardly work was
’ done right under the very nose, so to
1 speak, of the fire department head-
i
r j quarters.
Most of the city was awakened ear-
( ly last night by the fire bell and a few
seconds later by the scream of the
, siren whistle at the power house.
, ■ The fire was discovered in the cot-
I tage home on Pentz street just one
, 'doer south of the home of Dr. Jesse
, I?. McAfee and almost immediately in
■ :front of she home of Mr. J. E. Satter-
i field. The department responded
[promptly and soon had the flames un
! der control. So ingeniously was she
I attempt at incendiarism done that the
fire was burning some time before it
I i
became apparent. There was no ten
ants in the house. The fire was set
down underneath the house which sets
' rather high up from the .ground. From
what the Argus learns from the fire
boys, a quantify of waste and oil had
been used and placed up under the
middle of the building. The property
belongs to Mrs. J. 0. Williams and
quite a bit of interior damage was
done. It is hoped the guilty parties
; will be apprehended.
Mr. W. K. Moore spent Sunday in
Atlanta with his brother-in-law, Rev.
Hugh K. Walker, and from there went
to New York on business for the
Crown Mill.
• • •
Rev. F. K. Sims went up to Ring
gold yesterday to conduct the funeral