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PINE BARK BEETLE.
More Destructive to Timber Than All
the Forest Fires.
Washington, Nov. 6 —Far greater
destruction to pine timber in the South
may be done by the Southern pine ;
beetle than could result from forest
fires, according to the United States ;
bureau of Entomology. Investigations i
by that bureau of the department of |
agriculture show that a “vast amount
of timber has been killed by the Sou- ;
them pine beetle during the past two j
•years.” The agents of the bureau.
bare been particularly active in study
ing the character and extent of these
•depreciations since the establishment
-several months ago, of an insect field
station at Spartanburg, S. C.
“It has been found," said Dr. L. 0.
Howard, chief of the bureau, today, •
4 ‘that each patch of dying trees with j
their fading and greenish brown tops, ,
located anywhere in the Southern ■
•states, is a menace to the living pine ,
within a radius of three or four miles. ,
'Tlie broods of the Southern pine pine ;
bootie developing in the bark of the
trees of one such center of infesta
fio nmaj swarm in any direction and
•settle in the healthy timber. When ;
these centers of infestation afe num
erous within a certain era, they can
"be compared with the starting of so
many forest fires. They demand sim
iliar prompt, and radical action.”
Washington, November 6—Consum
ing more beer than any other coun
try in the world, the United States
leads all nations in the total consump
tion of malt liquors, wines and dis
tilled spirits, with the enormous total
of 2,045,300,000 gallons, the depart
ment of commerce and labor announc
ed today. The per capita consump
tion of beer in the United States was
only 20.09 gallons in 1910, vyhile in
Belgium it is 55.02 gallons; in the i
"Unite dKingdom 31.44 gallons and in
Germany 26.47 gallons. Germany
was second in the total consumption
of beer and the United Kingdom third.
Tn the consumption of wine France
leads with 39.36 gallons per capita,
followed by Italy with 31.17 gallons
and Portugal with 27.30 gallons. In
the United States it" ?bout two- <
thirds of a gallon. ’
In distilled spirits Denmark leads
with the consumption of 2.79 gallons
•per capita; Hungary second with 2.11 1
gallons and The Netherlands third 1
with 1.84 gallons. The United States J
per capita consumption is 1.45. jt
1
The three-quarter sleeve is general ,'
■except for tailor-made blouses. 1
Just a Word
to people who desire to purchase
6OOD WHISKIES.
True bad whiskey is bad, but on the other
hand every sEculd be supplied
with a jug of good whiskey for medkal pur- KjM
I fell poses.
H Scuti We are 1,-0w better equipped to take care of your orders than
ggylMl K /"■ wfe
ever before, and as we have thoroughly experienced men in charge
g£, - of our different departments, we do not hesitate to back up each
and everypackage that leaves our premises by our good reputation
of FIFTEEN YEARS honest dealings in the WHISKEY " "v"
BUSINESS ~ *
Below we quote a few of our leading brands: VnBM
■ 1 Gal. Bottle 4Qts. 8 Qts. 12 Qts.
hV r ' Hagin’s Private Stock, Ryes3.7s $4.00 $7.75 11.00 .
Three l>a,,se * s ’ R - ve 500 9.25 12.00 ttHISKIOI
Hagin’s Silver Leaf Corn 290 300 5.75 8.25 J
rawiian « a gi ,p s d To b 0 % s o t^ mp corn 2.85 300 5.758.25
GAI IIIG
Roaring River White Corn $2.45 2.55 4.90 6.85 4*4/ v *
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED OR MONEY REFUNDED
Al ~i - f-4-gjl I - ’ w * 1 * convince you we make no false or exaggerated
I Bld I I vJEI claims, and will mak?e you one of our permanent and
satisfied customers.
ALL ORDERS SHIPPED SAME DAY
AS RECEIVED, IN PLAIN PACKAGES
Brown & Hagin
F». O. BOX 48 and 58 CHATTANOOGA, TENN
WOMEN ARE STANDING
BY THE REV. RICHESON
• By Tears They Force Rejection of Re
signation of Accused Pastor.
Cambridge. Mas-., November 7
While women cried and pleaded that :
■ nothing should be done to appear ini
any way prejudicial to the interests !
of their pastor, the members of the;
I Immanuel Baptist church society last I
I night voted not to accept at this time ;
the resignation of Rev. Clarence V. T. j
j Rieheson, pastor of the church, now in
j jail on the charge of murdering Avis
, Linnell, of Hyannis. By another vote
, they decided to lay the matter on the
I table until November 24.
The resignation was sent to the
: church officers by the pastor immedi
ately after the indictment last week,
and a special meeting was called for
• last night to act upon the same.
When the matter of accepting the
resignation was opened it became ap
parent that the society was divided
j upon the subject. The women pre
! dominated in the attendance, and for
; the most part they supported the pas
tor. Many were crying and some of
the male members of the society shed
tears as the controversy waxed warm,
i When a ballot was taken after two
hours of discussion, 30 voted against
' acceptance and 15 for.
The secretary was instructed to no
tify Rev. Mr. Rieheson of the action
! of the society.
Blind Man Makes Bible.
Gentry, Mo., —The Rev. I). M.
Spencer, a blind minister of Gentry. >
has completed, after seven years work,
a Bible printed with raised letters.
Prior to starting work on the Bible
he made a hymn book of the same
character.
In making his Bible Mr. Spencer I
employed a girl to read ‘o him while
he set the type which he had man-
i
ufactured. He did all the work on the '
book himself, and it is said to have
cost more than SI,OOO for its manu- !
faetnre.
Mr. Spencer has preached in prac
tically every state in the union. He
once built a three-room house for
himself, unassisted, and also home- j
steaded a claim in Nebraska, where he
did his own wprk, r ? 1
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
sale, 160 acres fine mountain timber
land nearby. Terms cash. Write to
F. W. Huston, Dalton, Ga„ R. F. D.
No. 1, w-an-11-16
THE DALTON ARGUS, DALTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMB ER 9, 1911.
i iHE PRICE OF COTTON AND
THE POLITICAL SITUATION.
Rotation B**w«*e Tariff
Aotnrhy and of Cotton
Graw*r> Arauaa* th*
South.
I
■'
Tn the appointment of a delegation
of cortim growers at the North Caro
‘ lina state fair recently, with instruc
tion* tr» attend the meeting in New Or
lean* haring for its purpose, the hold
Ing by farmers and others of a con
. ahterablr j nope rt ton of this year’s cot
i ton crop and the curtailment of next
year’s acreage, is to be found one of
many indications of dissatisfaction ex
isting over the present political rela
tionship to ae price of cotton.
It la B!ifd that President Taft’s reel
procity campaign and the Underwood
j tariff bills not only adversely affected
general business during the year 1911.
but specifically caused the cotton man
nfactnrers to lose, by shrinkage and
• decreased volume of trade, between
150.000.000 and $100,000,000.
Crippled and with a prospect of
more tariff agitation Is 1912. cotton
manufacturers have naturally been
unable to make purchases of cotton
In the usual way, with the result that,
with h full crop, political agitation ha*
created a decline in the price of the
staple thus far from 14 cents pet
pound to S rents per pound, with mani
predictions from well posted quarters
that a mwh lower range will be ex
perienced.
It is further claimed that without
i the extra session for the discussion of
reciprocity the Underwood tariff meas
ures would nett have been Introduced
and In consequence there would have
been but little probability that cotton
would have declined under the force
of a full crop lower than 11 cents per
■ pound instead of registering in price
i the low water mark for years, as ii
does today. ’
The farmers in the south and the
manufacturerr of cotton generally nr*
charging up a loss on this year’s crop
of not le<* than $175,000.0*10. which
lose they ••laim Is directly traceable to
political influence.
As They Ought Not to Be.
“I’ve been having the most glorious
time lately,” she was telling the oth
er, as they crossed Broad street, says
the Philadelphia Times. “Will Jones
i has been taking me joy riding in his
new car.”
“And you a married woman!” said
the other in a shocked tone. “How
does Teddy bear with you?”
“Well.” giggled her friend, as she
left her, “if he can’t Billikin! ”
L* - f
i e» “For heavens sake!” he exclaimed,
; hen he had .tried on his new suit,
i“why have you put such enormous
pockets in my coat and trousers?”
“Oh,” the tailor confessed, “I must
( beg your pardon for that. It was a
mistake. You see, I have been doing
business in a town where the saloon?
I
were all closed on Sunday.”—Chica
go Record-Herald.
MAINE
WENI DRY
FEW VOTES
THOUGH ITS GOVERNOR WILL
FRAME LIQUOR LAWS.
SENTIMENT NOT BACK OF IT
As in Georgia “Pine Tree State”
Legislature to Settle the Question
Soon.
Augusta, Maine, Nov. 7 —Maine re
tains constitutional prohibition. Gov.
Plaisted and his council late tonight
decided to accept the corrections in
the vote of four towns cast in the
special election in September, thus re
versing the result as indicated on the
face of the first official returns.
Returns on election day, Sept. 11.
indicated a majority of about 300
against the repeal of the prohibition
amendment, but later the official count
showed a majority of twenty-six for
repeal.
It was found by comparison, how
ever, that in four cases the figures of
the town clerks were reversed from
their early returns, and in each case
the clerks claimed the error to be in
the official figures. After hearings on
the subject the governor and council
took (he matter under consideration,
and the result was tlie announcement
last night that Maine retained prohi
bition by 758 votes.
Gov. Pliasted, at the conclusion of
the meeting, said that at an early
date, probably in February, lie would
call a special session of the legisla
ture to “submit an amendment to the
constitution which will permit the en
actment of laws concerning (he liquor
traffic which are capable of honest en
forcement. because sustained by the
sentiment of the several communities
to which they will be applied.
An analysis of the vote, the gover
nor declared, showed an overwhelming
majority against prohibition in the
cities, and a large majority for it in
the tow-ns.
“Theey is no question about the de
sie of the cities,’’ the governor con
cluded. “To improve conditions by
adopting some other method in dealing
with the liquor traffic, an amendment
to the constitution should be submit
ted to the people to be voted upon
next September, under the'terms of
which cities should have the right to
invoke and enact local ',iws within
their limits.
WANTS UNCLE SAM
TO BUILD HOMES
Building and Loan Plan Suggested in
Monetary Meeting.
San Francisco, Nov. 3—proposal
that Uncle Sam go into the building
and loan business as a means toward
assuring the peace and prosperity of
the country was one of the suggestions
placed before the subcommittee of
the monetary commission yesterday
at its final session in this city.
J. A. Kingdom Jones, commission
agent volunteered this idea. Tn a lull
in the regular proceedings Chairman
Vreeland asked of Jones:
“Do you wish to testify?”
“Do you wish to hear from vic
tims as well as bankers?” retorted
Jones.
Chairman Vreeland said the com
mittee wised to hear from any citi
zen whose remarks might be irected
toward the Alrich currency reform
plan, and Jones forthwith denounced
the scheme. The curse of the coun
try, he said, was mortgages on homes,
and he proposed that the government
issue $5,000,000 in currency to build
homes for working men, each home
to cost not more than $2,500 and the
government to be reimbursed at the
rate of S2O a month.
GEORGlA—Whitfield County:
To the Superior Court of said coun
■fy:
11. J. Smith, F. F. Farrar, B. A.
Tyler, F. S. Pruden W. M. Sapp, F.
T. Hardwick, E. P. Davis. H. L. Smith
Dennis Barrett, J. J. Duane, W. L.
McWilliams, David Alper, W. C. Mc-
Ghee, W. C. Martin and many others,
' all of said county, bring this petition
•and respectfully show:
1. That they desire for themselves,
their successors and associates, to be
incorporated and made a body cor
porate under the name and style of
Dalton Chamber of Commerce, for
I the period of twenty years, with priv
ilege of renewal.
2. The object of said corporation
is to promote the interests of Dalton
and Whitfield county, and this sec
tion of the country; to advertise its
resources to the outside world, to dis
tribute literature and send out agents
and employees to spread information
of the natural resources and advant
ages of the city and county; to in
duce settlers from other setions of
the country to come here and locate;
to interest manufacturing concerns
and all kinds of business and general
ly to do everything it can to increase
the population and prosperity of the
county and city.
3. There shall be no capital stock
of said corporation, but the corpora
tion desires the right to merely issue
.nnual or term membership certificates
on payment of fees to be fixed by the
dirctors of the corporation. The
government of the corporation shall
be in the hands of a board of direc
tors and officers, elected by the mem
bership, under by-laws, which shall
be made subject to change by the
membership. They desire to have as
members of the corporation, individu
als, firms and other corporations.
4. They desire the right to trade in
real estate to te extent of taking op
tions on property, either direct or by
taking transfers of options held by
individuals, firms or corporations, un
der rules to be formulated by the di
rectors of the corporation. They de
sire the right to use any fund of
the corporation which may be avail
able, or the fund of other persons,
firm or corporation, and purchase with
such fund real estate or other pro
perty, taking the title thereto, and
with the right to transfer such title to
any other person, firm or corporation,
and they desire the right to transfer
such options and aid and assist in the
purchase and sale of real estate and
i other property so far as they can. In
all such cases of taking or transferr
ing of options and taking and tras
ferring of real estate or other proper
ty, or assisting in the purchase and
sale in any way of any kind of pro
perty. all such acts to be done with
out incurring any liability whatever
on the membership of this corporation
or on the directors or officers thereof.
5. They desire the right to have
and use a common seal, and to have
all the usual privileges and to be sub-
■ct to the usual duties of an eleem
osynary corporation.
6. The principal office and place of
business of the proposed corporation
will he in the city of Dalton, said
State and County.
Wherefore, they pray that they be
incorporated as aforesaid, for the pur
pose aforesaid, with the rights, priv
ileges, duties and powers aforesaid,
and that all the prayers of this peti
tion be granted.
W. C. MARTIN.
Attorney for Petitioners.
Filed in office this 25th day of Octo
ber, 1911.
W. M. SAPP, Clerk.
GEORGIA —Whitfield County:
I. W. M. Sapp, Clerk of the Super
ior Court of said county, do hereby
certify that the foregoing is a true
and correct copy of the application
for charter of Dalton Chamber of
Commerce, as the same appears on file
in this office.
Witness my official signature and
seal of the court, this the 25th day
of October, 1911.
W. M. SAPP,
Clerk Superior Court Whitfield Coun
ty Georgia.
Mole colored hats and scarfs are
worn to tone down bright costumes.
ANOTHER I
NAIL HAO I
disappears!
THIS TIME FROM THE
POSTCFFICE. H ■
EXPERT THIEVES ®JI m I
Twenty More Thousand Dollars Said I
to Have Mysteriously Disap peared B
—Officials Refuse to Talk. B
Greensboro. N. y ov B|
ted States mail pouch routed f Tnm
Raleigh to New York, and eontainin Jbß
$20,000,
in a manner similiar to recently re- ■
ported $20,000 theft of a poufh at
Lynchburg. Ya., it became known yes
terday. Beyond admitting the loss B
of the package officials refuse to dis-' B
cuss the matter. B’
It is declared unofficially that the B
Raleigh pouch disappeared after he- B
ing receipted for by a mail clerk on B
a northbound train, and that the B
clerk in whose custody it was last B
placed has been suspended from the B
service pending an investigation. B.
The pouch was bandied by the local B
postoffice, and later transferred’ to ■
the mail clerk now under suspension. B
It is said he remembered seeing it and B
checking it on a through check under B
the train shed here, but that he did B
not detect the loss until he reached H.
the end of his run and found himself j IB
unable to tally with bis entry book
The name of this clerk is withheld by
officials, but it is said his suspension K
is on the grounds of carelessness. B
Postoffice inspectors admit that they B
are working o nthe case, though they H
declare they are without a tangible B
clue. B
The impression prevails that the dis- K
appearance of this, as well as the 1
pouch reported lost from Lynchburg, B’
can be accounted for bv the ame per- B
son or persons. K
Fort Worth, Texas. Nov. 3—(lar- B
ence Ousley’ editor of the Fort V>orth B
Record, replying to the comments of I
Secretary of Agriculture AA ilson and ■
[ Census Director Durand as to Mr.
Ousley’s address before the recent B-
cotton conference at New Orleans, de- K
dared in a statement issued last night |g
that either the .secretary and he di-
rector were misinformed as to what
he said, or “they are not trank . '
the subject of reporting cotton con- g
sumption and cotton trade informa |
tion. ” I
Mr. Ousley declared that he did not
complain of cotton crop reporting by I
the government, that he appro'es of F
it as a means of correcting errors and |
misrepresentations of “so-called ex I
perts who magnify it in the intere. |
of the spinners.” Reports of |
spindle demand in Novemebi is °E , |
value to the farmers who have |
before that time, he points out. an |
urges periodical reporting of c° ns 1 ? B
tion and trade conditions. I
“The farmers want earlier |
of demands,” he continued, ’W |
■want additional reports of trade |
ditions from month to month jus a I
spinners have reports of avera?e I
followed bv reports of conditions I
, Air DurarAt
the encl of each nw'’ui.
last November reported a .len..i--
13.000.0000 bales. Now the "’’ an "
is shown to be 13,739.000 bah .
while, the farmers hare soM
the crop. ff a is a
“The present system in ! ‘‘ l
gambler’s trick whereby tm ■
hands is mirrored by JW «’»
the spinners vjew. p
ners’ hands is concealed unti >
is sold.”
Pr °* f ' . r n«gh-
Flat Dweller —And so
bor is a real philatitbropi t.
Cemmuter-Yep. He k .
worth of flower seeds L* ” •
ens this spring.
terday.