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NIR J. C. KING
GIVES GUI
INTERVIEW
CONCERNING THE PRESENT COT
TON SITUATION
600 D GRADE SHOULD BRING 12C
Bad Weather Has Hurt Cotton Now
in Fields and It Undoubtedly Will
Be 2 to 4 Cents Off the Market.
When seen by an Argus representa
tive this morning, Mr. Joe Clay King,
gave out the following letter, and
subsequent interview:
Rome. Ga., Nov. 10th, 1911.
Mr. J. C. King, Dalton, Ga.
, Dear Sir: —The probability is con
siderable cotton will be held this year
by farmers, and if unusual care is not
taken in the protection of same a
gainst exposure to tile weather serious
damage will result. This country
damage is a source of dissatisfaction
to the mills, to the dealers, and an
absolute loss to the farmer.
The object of this letter is to ask
that you get your local paper, or
some other medium of advertisement,
to point out the dangers of country
damage to the farmer, and to urge
that the cotton held be properly
housed against weather exposure.
Yours truly,
HOWELL COTTON CO., OF GA.
By J. N. King, Pres.
Mr. King said that cotton now
stood at 8 to 9 1-8 cents, according to
grades and he believes that the fleecy
staple has reached the bottom as far
as prices are concerned. Further, Tie
states that he does not blame the far
mer for holding cotton; he would not
sell it if "he had it, in other words,
if he were in their shoes.
Continuing, he said that the bad
weather of the past fortnight had in
jured cotton in the fidkfis, and as a re
sult this lower grade would be from
2 to 4 cents off the market. If far
mers will protect their cotton which
they have already picked, keep it un
der shelter, and up to standard, the
market should rise to 12 or 121-2
cents. The length of time that far
mers will be able to hold depends on
their needs in other directions. It is
hoped and believed, however, that it
will bring that price, and the pros
pects are all the more bright on ac
count of the Tower grades not being
so much in demand, and 2 to 4 cents
off the market.
FARMERS IN DILEMMA
Labor Scarce in Sumpter and Cotton
Rain-Stained.
Americas, Ga., November 12 —Sum-
ter county farmers, many of them, are
in a dilemma regarding the cotton
crop yet ungathered. Labor cannot
he secured for picking, even at fancy
prices offered, and it seems now that
hundreds of bales open in the field
will be permitted to stay there and
rot. Unpicked cotton is, of course
badly stained by'the continued wet
weather, and the present low prices
it is scarcely worth picking at all.
One lot of colon sold in the Americus
yesterday at 5% cents —a price which
did not pay for the picking and
marketing of the bales.
Blobbs—Nel and Belle no longer
speak to each other.
Slobs—ls that so? What is his
name?—Philadelphia Record.
“Their chauffeur seems a sober,
careful fellow.”
“Well, for the wages they pay they
can’t well expect anything else.” —
Milwaukee Journal.
A soft answer turneth away wrath,
is probably not new to the readers of
The Argus, but it is good to abide
anyhow. .
For Nose glass Wearers.
Here is an original suggestion to
everyone who wears nose glasses and
has trouble keeping them on during
the warm weather. Get some powd
ered rosin, dip the end of your finger
in the rosin, then rub on the small
parts of your glasses that come next
the nose and your glasses will never
come off until you take them off.
Atlanta, Nov. 9—Before teh week
is ended Governor Hoke Smith will
either grant Rev. J. A. Kimmons, the
Gilmer county preacher, a full pardon
or commute his service to twelve
months, which would make him a free
man on February 9. While the prison
commission has not yet acted on this
case, there is no doubt that Gov. Smith
will take one of the courses indicated,
regardless of the commission’s action.
There have been few more interest
ing cases in the state than this one.
M hile there are two sides, of course
to all such matters, the predominating
opinion seems to be that this old
mountain minister had aroused the
antagonism of a certain element by his
constant and stirring fights against
moonshining.
Workig his farm during the week,
Mr. Kimmons preached at a little
mountain church every Sunday for
which he is said to have received no
compensation. As the story goes, Car
ter Lingerfelt and some other young
chaps came to the church one Sun
day and were raising a disturbance.
Following the services an alterca
tion ensued between Mr. Kimmons
and Lingerfelt, and in the difficulty
Lingerfelt was killed. The minister
was tried, convicted and sentenced to
8 years. Opinion is divided in Gilmer
over the matter, but it is claimed that
the better element want Kimmons par
doned. Some others, said to be part
ly the lawless crowd, are •opposed to a
pardon. Since his conviction Mr.
Kimmons has been at tire State farm,
where he is a night watchman at the
cotton gin. He has made a model
prisoner and is to be absolutely trust
ed.
The prison commission held no ses
sion today, because Judge Patterson
was advised by his physicians not to
leave his home in Griffin, owing to the
bad weather. Capt. Williams is still
ill. It is probable that Governor
Smith will sign both the Kimmons and
Jessee Rawlings pardons tomorrow.
(From The Daily Argus, Nov. 9)
The full election returns are all in.
New Mexico elected McDonald, dem
ocrat, for governor. Maryland went
against her “favorite son,” Arthur
P. Gorman, democrat, and put in P.
L. Goldsborough, republican, by three
thousand majority.
Os the results of the 'elections Tues
day Governor Judson Harmon, of
Ohio, says:
“The results of those elections have
pleased me very much, ” he said, ‘ ‘ and
I consider them a forecast of what
is to come next year. It is the strong
est endorsement of democracy that
has been tendered by the voters in
recent years. Not only local elections
do I consider significant, but also the
elections in Kentucky, Massachu
setts and other points. The elections
in Ohio show unquestionably that the
public is pleased with the present ad
ministration, the tax reforms that
have been made and the management
of state offices under democratic
sway. ’ ’
When asked regarding the Cincin
nati results, Mr. Harmon said: “Per
sonally, nothing could have pleased
me better. I have fought for twenty
five years to free Cincinnati from the
sway of republicanism and am certain
ly delighted to find that the voters
have awakened and broken the chains
that bound her.
“Signs of victory for the democrat
ic party are evident everywhere. Next
year I predict that this party will win
the national offices, including the
presidency. It is an indorsement of
the democratic administrative policy
and the labors already performed by
that party.”
“Old man Gudgeon says push was
the thing that enabled him to be
come a millionaire.”
“I guess he’s right about that.
He has pushed a lot of people to the
wall.”
THE DALTON ARGUS, DALTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1911.
Her Wonderous Smile.
’Twas on a flying Pullman train
I met a maiden charming.
Ad introduced myself without
Her gentle heart alarming;
The smile she wore my very soul
With tender rapture seemed to
thrill;
I fell an easy victim to
That wonderous smile—it haunts
me still.
Into a tunnel dashed the train
While I my love was telling,
And with responsive tenderness
Love in her eyes was welling;
My yearning arms in eagerness
Stretched forth their aching void to
fill—
They clasped a man and not the maid
Whose wonderous smile doth haunt
me still!
Twas in a friendly hospital
To which the railroad sent me.
I learned the man had used an axe
With which to sadly dent me;
And then they told me who it was
Had used the axe with bent to kill—
He was the second husband of
The maid whose sweet smile haunts
me still.
—H. T. M. in Albany Herald.
It may be that in this country a
man is entitled to his own free and
untrammelled opinion, hut some of
them have a hard time in holding on
both to their opinions and their
jobs.—Atlanta Constitution.
Propriety.
They waltzed and waltzed to a wild
sweet strain,
The music throbbed like a beating
heart;
They waltzed and waltzed and they
waltzed again.
It seemed in fact that they couldn’t
part..
He held her close with his hand and
arm,
Near to her cheek his own cheek
burned,
Against his bosom her soft young
form
Closely pressed as they twirled and
turned.
Later, when taking her to her coach,
He caught her hand on the sfairway
tlim—
“How dare you?” she asked with
stern reproach,
And ““What do you mean sir?’’’ she
asked of him.
—Cleves Mountain in Puck.
Girl a Daring Steeplejack.
Lyda Atkins is the champion woman
steeplejack of the world. She is the
daughter of J. T. Akins, of England,
who has climbed the lofty spires of
many churches and cathedrals of
England. After climbing a steeple
220 feet high in Market Harborough,
England, she announced her intention
of coming to this country and climb
ing the steeples of the highest
churches and the flagpoles of the big
buildings. She wants to scale the
flagpoles of the Singer building and
the Metropolitan tower. Miss Akins
is young, athletic in build strong and
agile. She says she never feels any
fear when at the top of a building, is
not frightened by height, and never
has a desire to jump.
One of Bob’s Best Boosts.
Robert Hilliard, the actor, who stars
in the role of a hero, went to a phy
sician not long ago and was told that
he would have to undergo a slight op
eration, says the Popular Magazine.
“All right, doctor,” said Hilliard.
“There’s only one thing I ask of you.
Please don’t hurt me.”
Explaining that it would be fool
ish to administer an anaesthetic for
such a slight operation, the doctor
promised to be as gentle as possible.
Hilliard squirmed and wriggled, and
protested in no uncertain tones while
the remedial knife was doing its
work.
After it was all over the doctor
asked:
“You’re an actor, aren’t you, Mr.
Hilliard?”
“Yes,” answered Mr. Hilliard.
“And you play heroic roles—you
act the hero, do you not?”
“Yes, I do.”
“Well,” concluded the doctor,
“all I’ve got to say is that you're a
good actor.” ,
Geography Came Easy.
Buck Carr, who had tramped every
where that rails or water would take
him, reformed rather late in life and
decided to go to work, says the Brook
lyn Eagle.
In order to find any sort of work
that would suit him he had to learn
to read- and write, and that made him
a great deal of trouble, but he ac
complished it and was fond of telling
how hard it was.
He studied any scrap of paper with
printing or script on It that he could
find and got boys and strangers to
tell him what the words were.
“Fially I got a job,” said Buck,
“braking on a freight and my awk
ward reaoding and writing certainly
did make me a lot of trouble. I used
to make a copy of the orders and
make all kinds of bluffs pretending I
knew what was in them and listening
to the talk so as to find out.
“I ain’t much of a reader now, but
say, pard, I never had to study geo
graphy.
“I've seen it.”
Intelligence in Dogs.
One man would have it that a col
lie dog is the most sagacious of Qogs,
while the other stood up for the set
ter.
“I once owned a setter.” declared
the latter, “which was very intelli
gent. I had him on the street one
day and he acted so queerly about
a certain man we met that I asked
the man his name, and —”
“Oh, that’s an old story.” the col
lie’s advocate broke in sneeringly.
“The man's name was Partridge, of
course and because of that the dog
came to a set. Ho! ho! come again.”
“You’re mistaken,” replied the
other suavely. “The dog didn’t
come quite toa set. though almost. As
a matter of fact, the man’s name was
Quayle, and the dog hesitated because
of the spelling.”
(From The Daily Argus, Nov. 9)
Washington, Nov. 9 —Dr. Harvey
W. Wiley, chief chemist of the de
partment of agriculture in an address
here last night blamed the middle
man instead of the farmer for the
present high cost of living.
“There is no need to blame the far
mer for the high cost of living,”
said Dr. Wiley, “for the farmer is
playing a losing game. He does not
count the cost of his own labor nor
the labor of his family in balancing
up his accounts. It is the middle
man who is making the big profit.
What shall we do about it? Well, let
the state and city step in if need be.”
OLD COUPLE FOUND DEAD
WITH THEIR THROATS CUT
Gadsden, Ala., Nov. 10—With their
throats cut the bodies of Jacob Lutz,
aged 75, and his wife, aged 70, were
found in pools of their own blood in
their home at Gallant, this county, by
neighbors yesterday. The news reach
ed Gadsden today. The aged couple
lived alone and the belief that the old
man hoarded a quantity of money is
thought to have been the cause of the
crime. Lutz was one of the pioneers
of this section of the state.
When the new Southern Freight de
pot is finished it will be a most impos
ing structure and a splendid addition
to Dalton. Mr. 0. G. Prentiss, the
popular agent for the road here, this
morning stated that the of the past
two weeks bad delayed the workmen
considerably, but if conditions favor
ed, the building should be ready for
occupancy in about 30 days, which
fact should be gratifying to Mt.
Prentiss, as he and his assistants are
now holding forth in a box car.
4 **
“My friend Wombat says he can’t
catch up with his orders.”
“Is he a manufacturer?”
“Oh, no. Merely a man with his
wife and five grown-up daughters.”
—Louisville Courier-Journal.
FARM FOR SALE.
80 acres; good farm; well watered
by four perennial springs; fine place
for dairy farm; 1 mile wes', of Car
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-un-11-16
AGENTS WANTED—to sell Texas
lands. No experience necessary. Big
money for traveling salesman. If
you are a “live wire” write E. E.
Clark, sales manager, Hamlin, Texas.
wut-11-23-11.
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TAX NOTICE
I WILL BE AT THE FOLLOWING PLACES AT DATED BELOW:
SECOND ROUND. '
FINCHERS—October 30, Bto 11 o’clock.
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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. fl.
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, Ito 4 o’clock. i > ‘ f
DALTON—Every Saturday. ' ’’
TUNNEL HlLL—November 6, 8 to 11 o’clock.
ROCKY FACE—November 6,1 to 4 o’clock.
$
THIRD ROUND. ( j :
“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, Bto 11 o’clock. 1 ‘ /
COHUTTA —November 16, 1 to 4 o’clock.
VARNELL—November 17, 8 to 11 o’clock. r J
PRATER’S MlLL—November 17, Ito 4 o’clock. ; ' " f
DALTON —Every Saturday.
TILTON —November 20, Bto 11 o’clock. , J $ |
CARBOND ALE—Noverber 20,1 to 4 0 ’clock. ' " f !
ROCKY FACE—November 21, 8 to 11 o’clock. '
TUNNEL HlLL—November 21, 1 to 4 o’clock
TRICKUM —November 22, 8 to 11 o'clock. I
MILL CREEK—November 2’, 1 to 4 o’clock
And after December Ist, will be at Court House until books close on
December 20th. I
J. H. SMITH, T. C.
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