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Judge Took Both Sides.
A remarkably brief and effective
summing up was once quoted by Lord
James in an afternoon speech,” says
the London Chronicle.
It was delivered by an Irish judge
trying a man for pig stealing. The
evidence of his guilt was conclusive,
but the prisoner insisted on calling
a n amber of witnesses, who testified
most emphatically to his general good
character.
After hearing this evidence and the
counsel’s arguments, the pjudge re
marked: ‘'Gentlemen of the jury: I
think that the only conclusion you
can arrive at is that the pig was
stolen by the prisoner, and that he is
the most amiable man in this coun
try.”
Savannah, Nov. 2 —ln order that
his daughter, who died without know
ing of her father’s trouble, John G.
Chitty, a Savannahian, who is a pris
oner at police barracks at the instance
of Lake City, Fla., authorities, was
permitted to attend her funeral. He
was accompanied by plain dotes men.
His daughter, Mrs. Louise R.
Walsh, was very ill when her father
was arrested charged with having giv- '
en a draft on the Jesup Banking
Company, of Jesup. Ga. for S2O to a
man in Lake City. It is charged the
draft was ill,egal.
A Florida officer has gone to At
lanta to obtain requisition papers and
is expected to take Chitty to Lake
City in a day or two.
The father in custody, attended his ,
daughter’s funeral, accompanying ;
other members of the family. The po
lice would not allow him to visit his
home after his daughter died.
At a meeting of the executive board
of the Georgia Travelers’ Association
held in Atlanta Saturday evening, L.
A. Shirley, of Macon, was appointed
state hotel inspector and state organ
izer soy the association and he will
take up his duties today.
* The question of the appointment of
a hotel inspector is one that has been
before the Georgia Travelers’ Asso
ciation for a long time, and the ob
ject will be to see that the present
laws govering hotels are enforced and
to work additional legislation which
will improve the hotel service through
out the state.
Mr. Shirley, in duscussing bis re-;
woirk last night with a Telegraph re
porter, said that there were many
things for which the association is now
striving. Chief among them, he said
is to make it a misdemeanor for guests
at a hotel to tip the employes, an evil
which is growing and unless it is
practiced a guest will not be accorded
the same service as he otherwise
would. Then the association wants a
law passed to have all dining rooms
and hotel kitchens screened. fire es
capes provided for all buildings three
stories or over, more sanitnry toilets
and the abolishment of the roller towel
from the hotel washrooms.
Mr. Shirley states that he is the
father of the movement to do away
with the tipping evil and he expects
to see it carried before the legislature
at the next session and a bill making
it a misdemeanor passed.
Another important feature for
which Mr. Shirley will work will he
the prorating of hotels rates. At pre
sent when a man goes up to a $3 a day
hotel and remains only half a day he
is charged $2, and at the $2.50 a day
house he must pay $1.50. The Trav
elers’ Association thinks this is un
just and wants the rates adjusted to
a more equal basis.
In addition to making the inspec
tion of the hotels, Mr. Shirley will
devote much of his time securing new
members for the association. It is
believed that within a short time it
wil] be possible to increase the mem
bership to five or six thousand and
then the body will be able to accom
plish something when it sends its
representatives before the law-making
body with bills providing for new
laws governing the hotel system of
the state.
Mr. rtWrley resides at 317 Forsythe
street and is a traveling salesman.
Ee says he knows how bad hotel con
iiitions are in this state and he feels
that something should be one to im
prove them.
Half the world doesn’t know how
the other half lives—and the other
half don’t care.
Dalton’s great white way will be
Toay the posts were distributed
along Hanilton street on the six
blocks along which the “way” will be
made.
The new electric station out at
Crown Point has been running sev
eral nights and it worked splendidly
from the start and now wiring is be
ing done in nearly every part of Dal
ton for domestic lights as well as
small power plants.
When Dalton’s white way is com
pleted it will be the second one in the
south. Those who promoted it will
have great pride in it as well as every
citizen of the place.
Lynchburg, Va., Nov. 4 —While it
is impossible to secure official infor
mation relative to the robbery, it was
learned here that a registered pack
age containing $20,000 disappearing
from the United States mail here
sometime last Friday night. Postal
inspectors are now trying to recover
the contents of the package.
From unoffiicial sources it is said
the package came to Lynchburg last
Friday night on the Norfolk and West
ern and was delivered to the local
transfer cleark, who m turn delivered
it to a clerk on train 38 on the South
ern that night bound to Washington
Soon after the clerk left Lynchburg,
it is said, he reported by telephone
that the package evidently had been
tampered with and te pouch was short
either one or two packages containing
$20,000
One of Macon’s few negro lawyers
was P. J. Clyde Randall, who had an
office on Cotton avenue up to some
months ago, when he pulled up stakes
for California, locating in Oakland,
near San Francisco, says the Macon
Telegraph.
Recently a prize was offered, ac
cording to the Oakland Enquirer, for
the best inscription to be placed on
the site of the new city hall, the cor
nerstone of which was laid by Presi
dent Taft. Randall’s inscription won
the prize and read as follows: “Oak
land, cornerstone city of the orient
and Occident, welcomes Taft.”
Randall’s mother, who lives in Ma
• on, has received a copy of the pa
per containing this news.
Owen Henderson, a member of the
Whitfield County Boys’ Corn Club,
will have the honor of exhibiting the
only ten ears of Georgia seed corn
at the Southern Commercial congress
in Washington. The ten ears which
will show to the country the superior
quality of Georgia corn will be the
same ten ears which took first quality
prize at the Whitfield county corn
club show held in Dalton October 9-
14 inclusive.
The letter telling of the great hon
or bestowed upon the young boy was
written to the Whitfield county school
commissioner, J. C. Sapp, who imme
diately looked personally after the
careful packing of the corn and had
it shipped to Washington.
Dr. J. Phil Campbell, of the State
College of Agriculture, selected the
best corn he could find for the Wash
ington show and he tells of his sel
ection in the following letter to Mr.
Sapp:
“I have just had a request from
Mr. O. H. Benson, of the demonstra
tion work, Washington, D. C., to send
him ten ears of our best corn to ex
hibit at the Southern Commercial
Congress. I have not found any corn
that showed up better than the ten
ears which took first prize at your
county fair. If I remember correct
ly these ten ears belonged to Owen
Henderson. Anyway, it is the ten
ears that won first prize—White Ma
jestic corn. Mr. Benson is anxious
to get this corn this week. Will you
please express it to him, care of the
farmers’ demonstration work, United
States Department of Agriculture,
Washington, D. C.. at your earliest
convenience? I think it will pay you
and the county to have the corn on
exhibit in Wahington, a it will be the
only ten ears from Georgia.”
THE DALTON ARGUS, DALTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1911.
GINNERS’ REPORT COMING
The Government Research Will Be
Out Wednesday Morning.
The future of cotton prices will be
set no doubt by the governments’
ginners’ report which will be out
ibout ten o’clock Wednesday morn
ng-
The Argus will get it and give the
esult of the research made by the re
porters in all the cotton sections. This
report will cover all the cotton ginned
■p to the first day of November. The
report will be read with more than the
usual interest this year by all who
have cotton to sell or those who buy
and use it.
At the recent big gathering of Ma
sons in Macon the early part of this
week the visiting brethren refused to
endorse a resolution of Judge Fite.
Here is the item now going the rounds
of the state press.
A feature of the session of the Ma
sonic grand lodge was the defeat of
the resolution offered by Judge Fite
of the Cherokee circuit He proposed
that the grand lodge indorse and urge
the strict enforcement of the prohi
bition law and he warned the grand
lodge not to give any hearing to the
advocacy of the plea to submit the
entire question “back to the people.”
J. E, McClelland, of Atlanta, de
clared that if Judge Fite’s resolution
were adopted the Masons of Georgia,
i’orty thousand strong, would be plung
ed into political partisanship.
Then a strenuous fignt began on it.
and finally Max Meyerhardt, of Rome,
offered as a substitute the recommen
dation that all the laws on the statute
books be enforced, and this was adopt
ed, 306 to 249.
Judge Fite Again Defeated.
Judge Fite then sought to have his
resolution put in the minutes, but this
moion was also defeated.
During the discussion there were
some warm words exchanged.
Gainesville, Ga., Nov. 4 —Miss Am
arilla Bridges, daughter of Rev. W.
H. Bridges, wandered from home and
was found yesterday morning outside
the city limits by a farmer who was
! coming into town shortly after sunup.
Miss Bridges has been confined to her
bed for about ten days with typhoid
fever. One of her sisters and a Mrs.
Martin have been nursing er through
the illness. At two o’clock yester
day morning her sister left the room
to go into one adjoining, leaving Mrs.
Martin to watch the sick woman.
While the older Bridges sister was out
Mrs. Martin dropped off to sleep, dur
ing which time, Miss Amarilla arose
from her sick bed, clad only in her
nightgown, and walked away.
Upon the return of the sister to the
room the sick woman’s absence was
made known and a search was prompt
ly instituted for her. She could not
be found about the house or premises
and an alarm was given to the neigh
bors. as search proved unavailing,
Sheriff Crowe and the police force
were notified. Others were awaken
ed and before a great while several
dozen people were hunting every
where for the sick woman who had
so suddenly apparently dropped from
the face of the earth.
The fire alarm was sounded at 6
o’clock and a still larger party be
gan searching. No trace of the wo
man could be found, and at daylight
one of the partites had begun to drag
the lake at the Gainesville cotton
mills, for the body, footprints having
been traced to the lake, when the
news was telephoned that a Mr.
Merck, had located the young woman
sitting on the side of the road be
yond the Longstreet place, a mile
from the city limits.
Miss Bridges was evidently delet
ions from the fever and did not know
what she was doing. As the. night
was pretty cold and as she was only
clad in her nightgown, she must have
suffered much. She could give no ex
planation for leaving her bed and her
reason had not returned at last ac
counts. Physicians Were hastily sum
moned when the young woman was
found and went in automobiles and
carried her to her father’s home.
Whether she will survive from the fe
ver and exposure is conjectural at
this time.
A Lipton Yarn.
Sir Thomas Lipton at a dinner in
Chicago praised America’s bigness.
“I once heard,” he said, “a Dako
tan talk about the big farms they
have out there.
“We have some sizable farms,” he
said thoughtfully, “Yes sir; pretty
sizable. I’ve seen a man on one of
our big farms start out in the spring
and plow a staright furrow until fall.
Then they turn around and harvest
back.”
“Wonderful” said I.
“On our Dakota farms.” he went
on, “it’s the usual thing to send young
married couples out to milk the cows.
Their children bring home the milk.”
“Wonderful,” I repeated.
“Once,” he said, “I saw a Dakota
farmer’s family prostrated with grief.'
The women were weeping, the dogs
were barking, the children were squall
ing, and the tears streamed down the
man’s face as he got into his twenty
mule team and drove off.”
“Where was he going?” said I.
“He was going half way across the
farm to feed the pigs,” said the Da
kotan.
‘ ‘ Did he ever get back ? ” I asked.
“It ain’t time for him yet,” was
the reply.
Mays Landing, N. J., Nov. 2—Eager
to have a shot at a deer which he
supposed was coming down an unused
road in the gloom of the early dawn
yesterday, Charles Norcross, of lona,
N. J., fired into a party of four other
hunters killing two and seriously
wounding a third. The dead ate:
Conrad Steelman, 28 years old, of
Pleasantville, N. J.
John Yost, 32, Pleasantville.
i Injured:
William Jarvis, Pleasantville.
Norcross is in the Atlantic county
jail here, awaiting the action of the
coroner. He is badly broken up over
his fatal mistake.
According to Norcross's statement,
made to a justice of the peace at
Minontola, he was standing behind
some underbhrush at the side of the
road when he heard a noise. Not
thinking that any other hunters were
in the vicinity and believing that the
sound came from a deer walking down
he road, Norcross says he raised his
gun and fired one barrel of buckshot
in the direction of the noise. Before
he could lower his gun there was a
shriek and jumping out of the under
brush he was horrified to see three
men lying in the road. Realizing in
an instant the terrible mistake he had
made. Norcross went after the other
members of his party and the three in
jured men were placed in the automo
bile and rushed to Pleasantville. One
of the victims died in six minutes and
the other lived 25 minutes.
Norcross comes from a respectable
family-. He is said to be a man of
good habits, is married and has two
children. The victims were strangers
to him.
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A busy man might as
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poorly shod. Poor shoes
make it awful hard to
keep your mind off your
feet.
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Street are comfortable.
They are made in our
Georgia Shoe Factory
and are “there” on
style and wearing qual
ities.
Two new classy lasts
have just been put in
"Ty Cobb,” Red Rock.”
They’ll please you.
Just ask your dealer to
show them.
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J. K. Orr Shoe Co.,
Red Seal Shoe Factory,
Atlanta.
GEORGIA —Whitfield County:
The report of the appraisers ap
pointed to set apart a year’s support
for the widow of W. B. Bennett, de
ceased, has been filed in my office and
I will pass upon said report op the
first Monday in December, 1911.
JOS. BOGLE. Ordinary.
DR. H. L. ERV IN
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
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I WILL BE AT THE FOLLOWING PLACES AT DATED BELOW:
SECOND ROUND.
FINCHERS—October 30, Bto 11 0 ’clock.
NlNTH—October 30, 1 to 4 o’clock.
TlLTON—October 31, 8 to 11 o’clock.
CARBONDALE—October 31, 1 to 4 o’clock.
TRlCKUM—November 1, 8 to 11 o'clock.
MILL CREEK—November 1,1 to 4 o’clock.
LOWER TENTH—November 2, 8 to 11 o’clock.
UPPER TENTH—November 2,1 to 4 o’clock.
COHUTTA—November 3, 8 to 11 o’clock.
VARNELL—November 3,1 to 4 o’clock.
DALTON —Every Saturday.
TUNNEL HlLL—November 6, 8 to 11 o’clock.
ROCKY FACE—November 6,1 to 4 o’clock.
THIRD ROUND.
"’INCHERS—November 13, 8 to 11 o’clock.
NlNTH—November 13, 1 to 4 o’clock.
LOWER TENTH—November 14, 8 to 11 o’clock.
BEAVERDALE—November 14, Ito 4 o’clock.
CAMPBELL’S STORE—November 15, 8 to 11 o’clock.
TUCKER’S—November 15, 1 to 4 o’clock.
RED CLAY—November 16, 8 to 11 o’clock.
COHUTTA—November 16, 1 to 4 o’clock.
VARNELL—November 17, 8 to 11 o’clock.
PRATER’S MlLL—November 17, 1 to 4 o’clock.
DALTON—Every Saturday.
TILTON —November 20, 8 to 11 o'clock.
CARBONDALE—Noverber 20, 1 to 4 o’clock.
ROCKY FACE—November 21, Bto 11 o’clock. , t
T¥NNEL HlLL—November 21, 1 to 4 o’clock.
TRlCKUM—November 22, 8 to 11 o’clock.
MILL CREEK—November 2’, 1 to 4 o’clock.
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And after December Ist, will be at Court House until
December 2tth. »
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