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MOTHER OF
MRS.W.E.MANN
PASSER am
DIED QUIETLY AT HER RING-
GOLD HOME YESTERDAY.
FUNERAL OF THE LABY TODAY
Mrs. 0. J. Gordon, a Noted Lady of
This Section Died Early Monday-
Funeral Services Held This Morn
ing—Who She Was.
Mrs. 0. J. Gordon, relict of T. M.
Gordon, died at Ringgold, Ga., yes
terday morning, aged 73 years. She
was a native of Georgia and had liv
ed in Ringgold since the age of about
17, being, therefore, one of the oldest
residents, both from the standpoint
of actual age and length of time spent
in this little North Georgia town.
Mrs. Gordon is survived by five chil
dren: Mrs. John McKenzie, of Texas;
Mrs. W. E. Mann, of Dalton; Mrs.
W. H.| O'Dell, of Oklahoma; Mrs.
Neal White, of Hephzibah. Ga.; Lu
ther Gordon, of Chattanooga. The
funeral was held this morning ;t 10
o'clock at Ringgold cemetery. Mrs.
Gordon's husband, the late T. M. Gor
don, was one of the most prominent
•men of the vicinity in his day. prin
cipally as a merchant. For a time
during his younger years he served as
judge of the county court. He died
about twenty years ago.
The news of the death of Mrs.
Gordon was receiver here yesterday
with a great deal of sorrow by all her
friends who were many and those of
her daughter, Mrs. W. E. Mann, to
whom Mrs. Gordon had been a fre
quent and greatly admired visitor.
Mrs. Gordon had been in ill health
for most of this year and her friends
and relatives have been solicitous
about her for some time. None of
the children were present except her
daughter, Mrs. Odell. Almost week
ly some one or two of her children
would be with her a day or two at a
time and Mrs. Odell, whose home has
been in Oklahoma for several years,
was constantly at her bedside. The
family held a reunion this summer
when every living member was pre
sent. The Dalton friends of Mrs.
Gordon and the family will extend
much sympathy. Mrs. Gordon passed
away sometime in the early hours of
the morning so quietly that those in
the house were unaware.
JUSTICE J. M. HARLAN
Os Supreme Bench Related to the
Harlans of Dalton.
The death of Associate Justice Har
lan. of the United States Supreme
court, removes one of the most vig
orous and independent legal thinkers
that has ever sat on the supreme
bench. He was a very frequent dis
senter—and wrote many strong dis
senting opinions. In the recent
Standard Oil case he stood alone
against his associates and wrote an
opinion that called for a very strict
construction of the anti-trust law
He was a very able man and while nc
doubt he was liable to err sometimes
in his legal conclusions he will be
hard to replace in the world's great
est judicial body.
Justice Harlan was a blood relative
of Mr. Lee Harlan, of Dalton.
Dalton’s Big Poultry Show.
Dalton’s big poultry show will take
place on November 26th to 30th.
The members of the association are
preparing a catalogue and premium
list and it will prove very inviting
to fanciers.
Mr. Loring Brown of Atlanta, the
well known poultry writer and judge,
will be here to judge the birds and it
is safe to say those that take prizes
will have some class. The association
should be encouraged by a large at
tendance.
MISS WILLIE
MILES DIED
LAST NIGHT
- THE END CAME AT EIGHT-FOR- |
TY-FIVE AT HER HOME ON
CUYLER STREET—THE FUNE- I
RAL OCCURRED THIS AFTER
NDONREV. W. R. FOOTE OFFI- ‘
CIATED.
Miss Willie Miles, a well known
F .
Dalton young woman died last night
at her home on Cuyler street at 8:15.
after more than a year's illness.
Miss Miles, up to about a year ago,
was connected with the Dalton Tele
phone exchange and for six years
answered the calls, part of that time
in the day and part at night, and she
was well liked by the subscribers for
her uniform courtesies (o the patrons.
But last night she answered the last
call made upon the switchboard of |
her own life and by the Master Elec- 1
trician. who will put a long distance
call for us all.
Miss Miles was the daughter of Mr.
AV. A. Miles, the well konwn carpen
ter and contractor. She worked for
the telephone company for six years.
Her funeral was conducted from
’• late home this afternoon at two
thirty o'clock. Rev. AV. R. Foote offi
z':-'ing. She was a member of the
First Methodist church. ’ Her illness
had confined her to her home for the
past several weeks. She was f’ ir.y
three years of age.
The speaker was Col. T T ugh Lenox
Scott, of West Point. He continued:
“This chap, a captain, strode up
to one of his men and said with a fear
ful frown:
“‘Who’s the idiot that ordered
yon to leave that mess of empty meat
cans right here in front of headquar
ters?”
“ ‘lt was the colonel sir,’ the man
replied.
“Very well then,’ said the cap
tain sharply: ‘yet it stay there. And
your leave’s stopped for a week my
man. for calling your colonel an idiot.’
AHENDANCE
WENT OVER
TEH THOUSAND
THE COUNTY FAIR LAST WEEK
BROKE ALL FORMER RECORDS
—WHAT WILL BE DONE FOR
3 NEXT YEAR’S EVENT.
Mr. Frank S. Pruden, treasurer of
e the Fair Association, is kept busy
. paying the fair premiums at his office
s now
e The attendance this year was larger
_ than any previous one which shows
what the boosters accomplished bv
t their several automobile trips out in
P the territory contingous to Dalton,
n Bart A\ ilson, the ticket agent, sold
t tickets at the last two fairs and says
the attendance went several hundred
o more this year than last and a eon
s servative estimate places the attend
e anee above ten thousand on the week
_ and the two days of rain no doubt
hurt quite a bit.
e It is understood that more stock
stalls will be provided for 1912. It
is also hoped that the association will
be in a financial condition to build a
e permanent auditorium next summer
in which to hold singings and hear
e speeches, besides to make a perman
!’ ent rest room fop the tired and weary
1 sight seers.
—i
All Day Singing.
. On the first Sunday in November,
t an all-day singing will be held at
; Tilton, conducted by Blind Charlie
i Hall. Different book will be used
and everybody will be cordially wcl-
■ corned.
THE DALTON ARGUS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1911.
\ONE LADY KILLED;
ONE BADLY INJURED,
BY CARELESS AUTO-ST
ATLANTA THE SCENE OF HAPPENING
WHILE TWO LADIES WERE ALIGHTING FROM A STREET CAR
THEY WERE RUN INTO BY R ECKLESS CHAUFFEUR DURING
A DRIVING RAIN YESTERDAY AFTERNOON ON GORDON
STREET.
I
Miss Alline Edwards was killed
and her sister, Mrs. Alice Dobbs, was
very seriously injured last night when .
they were struck by an automobile
while getting off a street car at Gor
don and Holderness streets, says the
Atlanta Constitution.
The two injured ladies were carried
to their home, 217 Holderness street,
in the arms of sympathetic passen
gers on the street car. Miss Edwards '
was dead in a few minutes after she
reached her home. Mrs. Dobbs, at a
late hour last night was still under
j the influence of opiates and her con- |
idition will not be known until she ral- |
lies. She sustained injuries about j
her head and recovery is regarded as ■
doubtful.
The automobile belonged to Mr. Jett
Moody, 18 Gordon street. Battle Hill. !
It was driven at the time of the ac
cident by her chauffeur. Ed Haynes,
18 years old. Mrs. Moody was in the
ear with her sister. Miss Annie Woods
DYNAMITE PUT UNDER
A BRIDGE IN ORDER
TO MURDER PRES. TAFT
A DASTARDLY ACT OUT IN CALIFORNIA
AN ATTENTIVE BRIDGE AVATCH MAN PURSUED THE AVOULD-BE
DYNAMITERS—LOT OF EXPL OSIVE FOUND BENEATH AN
EIGHT HUNDRED FOOT BRI DGE OF SOUTHERN PACIFIC.
Santa Barbara, Cal., Oct. 17 —AATiat
is pronounced by Sheriff Nat Stew
' art of Santa Barbara county, and
AA’. F. AVines, of San Francisco, spe
cial agent for the Southern Pacific
railroad, to have been a deliberate
attempt to dynamite an eight hundred
foot bridge, twenty-five miles north of '
here, over which President Taft's
special train passed yesterday, was
frustrated by the vigilance of a bridge
watchman.
Sheriff Stewart and Mr. AVines re
turned from the scene and reported
the evidence of the plot was complete.
Secret service men have started on
the seach for the dynamiters. A close
watch is being kept on all mountain
passes in the vicinity.
About - midnight the watchman was ;
crossing he bridge. When about half
way across he noticed a man in the '
gulley beneath. He called to the man I
who immediately started to run. The •
watchman fired several shots, but all
Tax PMotice
I WILL BE AT THE FOLLOWING PLACES AS DATED BELOW
FINCHER OCT. 16 BTO 11 OCLOCK
DAWNVILLE OCT. 16 12 TO 3 O’CLOCK.
TILTON OCT. 17 8 TOII 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.
and Mr. Jake Johnson, of Folsom's
restaurant, who lives next door to
them.
Haynes was arrested by Call Offi
cers Hood. Brannen. West and Pal
mer, and was held without bond. He
claims that skidding was the cause
of the accident, together with the
driving rain storm and gathering
! darkness, but the police report of I
reckless driving and excessive speed I
caused him to be held for a thorough
investigation of the accident.
The accident occurred ‘during the
first and heaviest part of the rain
storm -which deluged the city between
6:30 and 7 o’clock. Miss Edwards
and Airs. Dobbs, with Miss Clio Dobbs
who escaped injury, were returning
from work on a Whitehall-West End
street car. They were getting off at
Holderness street for the short walk
of half a block to their home.
Miss Edwards died in the ambulance
before it reached Grady hospital.
went wild. Investigating, he found a
package of dynamite and at once no-'
titled the sheriff, who notified the rail
road officers and AVines was ordered
to get the president’s train at Santa
Barbara and make an investigation.
Inside the boxlike section of the
■ pier 21 sticks of dynamite were found.
The explosive was entirely hidden ex
cept that a fuse ten feet long hung
out.
In a similiar position at the next
pier 18 sticks of dynamite were found
with fuse attached. Both of these
piers were about the middle of the
bridge.
From a position directly above the
dymamite on top of the bridge the
man could have commanded a distant
| view of any train approaching, and
if experienced with dynamite could
have timed the fuse as to destroy any
i train he wished.
President Taft’s train passed over
the bridge enroute to Los Angeles.
HIM COB COKN
GBOffl NEAR HW
r
A BIG TRUST TO BE FORMED TO
TAKE OVER THE ENTIRE
OUTPUT IN ORDER TO MAKE
THE FAMOUS “GEORGIA
MEERSCHAUM.’’
That the county fair creates friend
ly competition and neighborly rivalry,
was never more fully illustrated tl*an
one day last week when B. A. Tyler
displayed a freak ear of corn which
grew out on his “Hungry Valley”
farm.
This particular ear was shaped like
a two-armed loving cup said to have
been used by Ramoses when he last
entertained Alli Baba the Third
Ahkoond of Swat at bis palatial
j Sabine river farm and of which meet
ing Pompeii wrote, “was a feast of
j reason and a flow of soul.'’ Tyler's
ear was the cynosure of all artistic
eyes, but Mr. George W. Hamilton,
the genial and pleasant president of
the big Crown cotton mill, is some
what of a farmer himself and can
give the average agricola cards and
spades (we will explain that term to
Mr. Hamilton if requested) when it
comes to the practical results of farm
ing. Not alone does Mr. Hamilton
get quality in seed and stock but he
keeps an eye out for net results in all
of his crops and he raises many vari
eties. But to the gist of the story.
He has grown the only hollow-cob
corn now in existance and hereafter
the cob pipe factories will have no
other cobs but those of the variety
grown by Mr. Hamilton. It will he
seen at once that the hollow cob kind
obviates the necessity of boring the
holes in the cobs and thus reduces
very materially the cost of making
the famous “Georgia meerschaum,”
so dear to the tobacco smoker. A
trust is bing formed to take over all
of the seed from this field of Mr.
Hamilton and the Chamber of Com
merce will get busy bringing capital
here to put up the biggest and most
profitable cob pipe factory in the
world. The Argus man, through the
kindness of Mr. Frank Hamilton, who
looks after the farm of Mr. G. AV.
. had given him one cob With all
of the grains on it and the only com
petition the new cob pipe factory will
have will be the Argus man. These
are among the things which go to
show what can he raised in AA T bitfield
county.
THE FIRE ALARM TOAVER
Is Now Being Completed By the Firm
of Fields Brothers.
The big new fire alarm bell tower
for the new fire hall is in the procss
of completion by the well known firm
of Fields Brothers.
The tower, -when completed, will be
about fifty feet high and is com
posed of the best of wrought iron
The new fire hall will be ready for
occupancy in a very short while and
when done the boys will celebrate it
in an appropriate manner. The old
one has been doing service for quite
a while and is about out of commis
sion and the new one comes none too
LIQUOR DISPENSARY
STOPS BOOTLEGGING
I
Huntsville. Ala., Oct. 16 —On three
days of last week there has been no
police court, and on two days there
was but one case on the docket f»r
trial. Chief Bullard, of the police
department, ascribes the extraordin
ary peaceful condition of the city to
the absence of the bootlegger, who
has quit the business since the open
ing of the liquor dispensary.
FARM FOR SALE.
80 acres; good farm; well watered
by four perennial springs; fine place
for dairy farm; 1 mile west of Car
i bondale on Southern R. R. Also for
i sale, 160 acres fine mountain timber
(land nearby. Terms cash. Write to
JF. W. Huston, Dalton, Ga., R. F. D.
No. 1. w-nn-11-16
A "HOME '
: SWEET HOME”
boardjere
FIRST ONE EVER PUT pp tk
THE HISTORY CP DALTON. *
. YOUNG IflffttO’S SO CREW BID |f
1
What It Means, How it is Erected,
and Something About the Custom-
> It Got a Good Showirg.
J For the first time in the history
of Dalton a “Home. Sweet Home”
« board was erected Saturday.
; For the benefit of the uninitiated
• it is well to say that a ‘-Home,
• Sweet Home” board is the one put
up by the bill posting crew of a cir
cus.
1 The one put .up Saturday was
1 nicely done on the big boards just
’ back of the postoffice and attracted
f quite a bit of attention. It repre
sents a world of joy in t'*> antieipa-
1 tion the boys experience prior to ®o
ing home and not a small bit of sor-
1 row at parting with each other who
‘ i have been “pals” in season and out
• of season.
’ The first advertising car M
Young Buffalo has made its last
1 stand for the season of 1911 and each
’’ will go to his home and no doubt be
widely separated. There they will
meet loved ones, wives and children
1 and sweetheart, perhaps where “an
? ; eve that will mark their coming and
»■ 1 •
' grow brighter when they come.
The boys, who have stuck up eve-
1 jrything from a one sheet to an eight
j sheet in rain and sun and wind for
• the show that comes to Dalton on Sat
"jurday, October 28th. put up the
1 i“Home Sweet Home" board and did
t 'it artistically.
The last show to go into winter
3 quarters from Dalton was John Roh
-1 inson’s’. about 30 years ago and show-
• ed on the lot now occupied by the
1 warehouse of the Dalton Flour Alills.
" It was a nasty, rainy day and the lot
’ was three inches in mud and the wind
3 j was so high that a guy pole broke and
’ a now promient married lady with
' gratidchildren, was struck in the bead
I with a broken piece and lor which the
‘circus paid nicely.
The board contains the following
names: A’. C. Seaver, general mana
ger. L. B. AVilliams, ■ n ral azent,
1 F. C. Cooper. Asst. Gen. Agt., E. V.
Lampman, Press Agent. G. A. Ken
nedy. manager Adv. car No. 1. and tin
following roster: S. S. Allen. B- Eol
den. E. Cunningham, R. Anderson,
! L. 11. Egan. T. Shuck. E. D. Shaw. 0.
1 F. Ahlemeyer, AV. Perrault. B. An
derson. C. Higgins. T. Martin.
• The custom of putting up a “Home.
. Sweet Home” board originated since
Robinson went into winter quartt r
• from Dalton and Young Buffalo
ing the first one to “close an adver-
t tising car here gives Dalton the fit
opportunity- to see one. Thf boa
is one originally designed by the bo '
. themselves and it is made up °f
pictures and ornamental slut! 1
carry in stock and the letters aie
from he heavy colors of toe
'On either side of the board is a
ing picture of a horseman in ad. .
act. These are set in diamond staP e
about 3by 5 feet. In the center a
woman riding a handsome h»
is capering proudly. Aim-’ ■ ,
“centerpiece” are the nanu <
car corps and just to the !< i • a '
the right, at the top. is
smaller pictures of their g. > 1
ger. The board both malo -
a good showing. It is the t ■
bill board owners to gi'
free.
Prospective Lodger (lom-
■ partments adjacent to ,
This room has a very
smell. , ,
; Landlady—Ah. that m
the window has got lett
don Opinion.