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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. — I—-■ , 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