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ARGUS' OWN BUILDING
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covers the news oj the entire world.
It is supplemented by 8 local news
service unexcelled by the r eportorial
service of any newspaper bouth, mak
ing it a phylscal impossibility for any
person living in this section to do
without The Argus except at a dis
tinct loss. All the local news first.
Pin your faith to Dalton and you
will prosper.
Patronize home concerns —that will
help Dalton a heap.
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“Dixie” may not be recognized as
the national song, hut it's that all
right.
o
Atlanta makes about as big to-do
over Hooker Washington as they
would George.
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Three more lives were entered to
the list of auto accidents in Atlanta
Monday evening, which should warn,
the careless driver.
--Q— ——
Yes you can find fault with the
town you live in, and any other town
you should happen to know about —
and either town could very well do
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without you.
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Judge Maddox urges that the fel
low who drops the prosecution of a
case ought to be made pay the cost.
If this were so, the law would be
carried out to better advantage.
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The Dalton Poultry Association
had a meeting the other day. Sun
dry old negroes must have watched
the proceedings with a good deal of
interest.—Rome Tribune-llerald.
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We supposed the Seventh was the
only district overstocked with con
gressional timber until the Second
lined up their forces. They are
some.
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The Chattanooga Times nominates
Harman and Littleton as the next
democratic team for the presidency
and vice-presidency. It is a strong
combination and about the best to be
found in the party.
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There is one thing about the repub
lican party —when they have a fuss
they select a time when the troubles
will have time to heal before the elec
tion. They will be lined up all right
when election day rolls around. That
pie is too tempting.
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Hon. Henry M. Mclntosh, editor of
the Albany Herald, will be in the race
for congress to succeed Congress
man J. M. Griggs. Editor Mclntosh
is one of the most popular men in the
district, is an able man and would
fill the position in a most satisfactory
manner.
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That charge delivered to the Floyd
county grand jury is indicative that
things have not been running to suit
Judge Maddox for the past few years.
There is plenty of life left in that dis
tinguished gentleman yet and his days
of usefulness are not near over.
It is easy for the man who amounts
to nothing to give himself away.
Money to lend on improved city
property. Address Loans, care Argus,
. l-6-6t
FOR SALE —Good house and lot on
King street. Apply to Dr. M. M.
Puckett. 3t
CITY COUNCIL REPORT FOR i9«9
(Continued From Page One.)
Public Schools 8,7b4 Bti
Sewers 3.103 65
Borrowed Money and Interest 18.48.1 4 1
Miscellaneous B,;>Bfi 40
Paid Overdraft, 1909 15 > 151 58
sßl.o-4 32
' In addition to the above we hold fi fas for $601.49 uncollected
taxes which we may add to the excess above noted. Last year the
uncollected taxes turned over to us amounted to $907.07 and we have
collected of this as shown above $602.93, leaving a balance of *<94. 4
uncollected from last year, i. e., 1908. Os this amount something like
$200.00 is the famous Southern Railway fi fa.
Os the disbursements above noted an item of $15,151.58 was used
in paving off a balance from the Council of 1908 and is not properly
chargeable to this council. We shall reduce this floating debt tb
lsom ' K. A. HAMILTON’.
L. L. BISHOP.
I. S. FINLEY.
Report of Commissioners.
Hon. Mayor and Council. Dalton:
Dear Sirs:—We your board of Water and Light Commissioners,
beg leave to submit the following report on Water, Light and Gas
Plants for the year 1909.
We have checked the water and light collector and find that he
has accounted for all monies received.
G. W. HAMILTON, Chairman.
H. J. SMITH,
J, M. SANDERS, Commissioners.
Water Works.
Cash received from all sources $6,.)9.> 1-
Coal, tools, meters and uncollected hills on hand 4/.) 00
Total * 7 ’ o(iß 12
Operating Expenses.
Coal * 2 - 158 34
Labor ' 1' 668 1:5
Oils 33 47
Packing 26 51
Alum ••• I. 7
Root' on filter house (>6 00
Insurance on boiler 73
Drayage, blacksmithing, postage and fittings... 207 16
Coal, tools, meters, and uncollected bills,last year 4<.> ;>0
Total $ 4 * 661 41
Net profit for year 1909 $2,406 71
Taking credit for free service, 80 fire hydrants. .$4,000 00
Water for street sprinkling 150 00
Public schools, fire department, etc 100 00
(las and electric light plants and 8 fountains... 600 00 $,>,0.i0 00
Total profits for year $7,456 71
Other Than Operating Expenses.
Service cocks, corporation cocks, etc $ 136 04
Morris street main extension 1.718 12
Total $ 4 < 834 1(i
Operating expenses as above 4.661 41
Tola! expended fur 1909 $6,515 ;><
Gas Works.
Cash received from all sources $11,031 92
Coal, coke, tar, meters, tools, and uncollected bills 577 35
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Total $11,609 27
Operating Expenses.
Coal $2,447 13
Labor 2.018 22
Blacksmithing 10 8.)
Barrels for tar 66 L>
Repairs 162 82
Services 21 41
Fittings 133 19
Telephone 20 73
Postage 4 00
Drayage 30 47
Printing and advertising 29 15
Paint, retort cement and oils 9 93
Tools 36 23
Lumber 13 16
Insurance 16 67
Miscellaneous expenses 9 55
Gas stoves, heaters and freights 419 06
Coal. coke, tar, meters, uncol’ed bills, last year.. 624 85
Total $6,073 57
Net profit for 3909 $5,535 70
Taking credit for free service at fire hall, council
room and water works $ 150 00
Total profit for 1909 $.>.685 70
Other Than Operating Expenses.
Gas arcs and mantles $ 180 43
Freight on arcs and mantles - 10 52
Total $ 190 95
Operating expenses as above 6,073 57
Total expended, 1909 $6,264 52
Electric Light Plant.
Operating Expenses.
Coal $2,313 71
Labor 1,216 84
Oils 51 59
Compound * 25 77
Carbons 67 78
Fittings 47 65
Freight 6 37
Orate bars 15 92
Blacksmithing 2 35
Printing 1 75
Packing 2 44
Repairs for Lamps 29 65
Telephone 19 50
Postage 3 00
Drayage 6 18
Tools 6 10
Waste 11 44
Insurance .. 24 17
General repairs 4 90
Miscellaneous expenses 776
Coal, carbons, etc., on baud last year ~.. 184 50
Total $4,049 37
Less coal, carbons, etc., on hand this year.. 147 35
(Continued on page 4.)
THE DAILY AEG US
INN SHOWROOMS.
They Were the Forerunners of the
Public Museums.
The genesis of the public mu
seum was the “raree show attach
ed to an inn. Such shows were
very common as early as the six
teenth century. From being the
resort of all classes the inn became
the natural receptacle for every
thing jld world, out of the way or
curious, ranging from flint imple
ments and Roman coins turned up
by the plow to stuffed freaks of the
animal kingdom. The public house
museum is still with us. The Bell
and Mackerel, in the Mile End road,,
contains a fine museum of 20,000
natural history specimens, original
ly founded by the East London
Entomological society. The Hole
In the Hall, in Borough High
street, possesses many strange
freaks. At the Spaniards, Jack
Straw’s Castle and the Yale of
Health, all on or near Hampstead
Heath, are preserved relics of high
waymen and other local curios.
Only a few weeks ago the museum
of the Edinburgh Castle, near Re
gent’s park, containing valuable
relics of Oliver Cromwell, Nelson
and Stanley and three great auk's
eggs, was dispersed by auction.
The first persons scientifically to
exploit this taste were those bold
travelers and indefatigable collect
ors the Tradeseants, father and
son, who between the years 1620
and 16G2 ran the. first public mu
seum and botanic garden at their
residence in South Lambeth. Co
pious references to their wonderful
“closet of curiosities,” also known
as the “Ark,” are found in the
works of Izaak Walton, Evelyn,
etc. The catalogue prepared by the
curator, Elias Ashmole, in 1656
testifies to its containing a superb
collection of coins and warlike in
struments. Its great treasure, how
ever, was a stuffed dodo from the
Mauritius, a bird extinct now over
200 years. Os course there was
some rubbish as well. The younger
Tradescant was shrewd enough to
exchange an alleged dragon’s egg
for that of a rare bird from Turkey,
but he exhibited a feather from the
phenix’s wing, a piece of the stone
of Diana’s tomb and blood that
rained in the Isle of Wight in 1177.
When John Tradescant, Jr., died in
1662 long and bitter litigation en
sued between the deceased’s widow
and Ashmole as to the right to in
herit the collection. Eventually the
court of chancery decided in Ash
mole’s favor, and he carried off the
Tradescantian museum to form the
basis of the Ashmolean at Oxford,
while Airs. Tradescant was so cha
grined at her defeat that she
drowned herself in the pond of the
botanic garden on April 3, 1678.
London Globe.
Ons Part of Meeting.
“Did you ever meet an old friend
whom you didn’t meet?” was the
enigma put up to a Harlemite by a
neighbor. The Harlemite never did.
“I did this morning,” the neigh
bor explained. “I was rushing
downtown on a subway express.
We passed a local, also southbound,
under somewhat less speed. I was
hanging to a strap, and as I gazed
into a car of the local that was oppo
site my car I recognized a man 1 had
known intimately, but had not seen
for fifteen years. He recognized
me at the same moment, and there
was a mutual salute. Then my train
forged ahead of the other, and he
was lost to sight.
“Yon see, 1 met him, yet I didn’t
meet him.” —New York Globe.
Great Memories.
Themistoeles could call by name
every citizen of Athens. Cyrus is
said to have known the name of
every soldier in his army. Lord
Granville could repeat every word
in the Greek Testament, and Lord
Macaulay is said to have been able
to repeat all of the “Paradise Lost.”
Theodore Parker knew most of the
dates in ancient and modern his
tory, and one Thomas Cranwell is
reputed to have committed to mem
ory in three months the entire Bi
ble. Ben Jonson was able to repeat
all that he had ever written and
much besides, and the actor Lvon
upon a wager repeated in order
every word of a newspaper that he
had read over once.
A Slight Mistake.
St. John, who was very near
sighted, once went to a civic ban
quet and forgot his eyeglasses. He
sat next to the Chevalier Pique
essiette. The chevalier’s hand was
gracefully but negligently posed
upon the cloth. A smile of antici
patory satisfaction at the prospect
of unlimited turtle soup illumined
his classic features. Suddenly a
yell of anguish startled the guests.
What had happened? Only this—
the myopic St. John had simply but
effectually harpooned the lily white
hand of the chevalier with his fork
as he remarked in a firm but polite
tone, “My bread, I think.”—Argo
naut.
4GKEAT RAZOR SALE
SR IMPORTED f?flZoß39^«
i.ooo Fine Imported Razors will be placed on sale at 97c. each. These razors I jKf*
are' from one ofthe leading importers of razorsin the United States. TheM.X. KMCm *,
Brandt Cutlery Co of New York. They areall high gradesamples. We secured BBmB
a big stock ata ridiculous figure. The assortment comprises all the well known IkK
makes, including the “Wade & Butcher,” “Brandt” “I-X-L,” “Rogers,” ||Se
“Wostenhiim” Pipe Razor "Ben-Hur," “Lewis,”“Blue Steel,” popular brands 1 SHIS
of all 'he famous makers. In fact, we have been selling the same identical razors
as high as s2.s> and J coo each. Every razor is guaranteed perfect, and set ready I lift
for use. Every razorsold that does not give perfect satisfaction can be exchanged. ■j Y
$2.00 BRANDT 97c11i !
The Brandt Self-Honing Razor Strop is the best razor strop on K IK
the market to-day. The only razor strop in the world that hones
and strops your razor at the same time and enables you to obtain
an edge which only an experienced barbel can give. The Brandt ft'jxfl
BSsSal Self-Honing Razor Strop will put a keener edge on a razor .yith 1 Ifsjjr
fewer strokes than any other razor strop. Your razor will show, P |rM
■ Ilmr'lH and vour face will feel the difference at once. Guaranteed never 111
* jflH to lerame hard or glossy. Sold and advertised everywhere at f 2.00. I f wS£j
WWlin Our price during this sale 97c each.
| $2.00 Brandt Safety Razors j
For men who cannot use a straight razor, we have placed on sale I
lallßM the celebrated Brandt Safety Razors. They come with a blade made of ■ ■
the finest Sheffield steel, which is full hollow ground. The 'Brandt I f
WefSl ' ast a lifetime and can be honed and stropped same as an I ■
M ordinary razor. Fully guaranteed The regular price of th'S razor is MWJ®
IffJM $2.00; during this sale we will sell them at 97c each.
M Fincher & Nichols Dalton, Ga. j
$2.00 Razor Hones 97c
TRY A WANT AD. IN
THE DAILY ARGUS
IT WILL WORK FOR YOU
Plain Sewing Wanted
Mrs. Thos. R. Westmoreland
87 S. Spencer St.
Dalton, Ga.
O. A. SIMS, M. D.
Office Up Stairs in Rear of Herror
& Thomas’ Store.
Office Hours: —7:30 to 9:00 a. m.
2 to 4 p. m.; 7 to 9 p. m.
Residence—4B South Depot Street
Tramp—Thank you, that will do
very well—and I shan’t need the rag.
T. A. McLNTIRE
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER
General repairing—All sorts of Car
penter work done in first-class style.
Also grates and Brick work. Drop
me a card and I will call at once.
Photographs
ners etc.
J. B. FINLEY, Photographer.
MRS. H.H. ROBERTS
Dressmaking Parlors.
Now Open. Up Stairs in the Feiker
Building, 301-2 N. Hamilton St.
Opposite Dr. M. M. Puckett’s office.
Phone 241.
J. M. RUDOLPH
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Office Upstairs Hardwick Building.
Commercial practice, collections an
bankruptcy law a specialty.
Commissioner to take testimony.
DALTON - UHOROIA
FOR SALE.
My place at Ringgold, Ga. Five
room house, large barn, 4 acres land,
under fence, young orchard of 150
trees; apples, peaches, grapes; best
well water in Ringgold. Price S6OO,
$250 cash; balance on easy terms.
J. B. FINLEY,
261-2 N. Hamilton St., Dalton, Ga.
WESTERN & ATLANTIC
RAILROAD TIME TABLE
IN EFFECT SUNDAY, MARCH *8
SOUTHBOUND
ARRIVES DEPARTS
No. 1—4:13 p. m. 4:17 p. m.
No. 3.„..4:05 a. m. 4:08 a. m.
No. 93 8:17 a. ra. 8:21 a. m.
No. 95 5:46 p. m. 5*49 p. m.
northbound
arrives departs
No. 2..„.11;57 a.m. 12:01p.m.
No. 4—11:57 p. m. 12:01a.m.
No. 92 808 p'. m. 8:11 p, m.
No. 10:91 am. IXJIOfa.m
9 WANT ADS
PHONE YOU Wants TO
Jy THE DAILY ARGUS
PHONE 166
Advertisements in this column only
one cent a word.
J. H. Reynolds has opened up a
nice general repair shop on the Green4 v |\
property, near the union warehouse,
and invites his customers and friends
to give him a call. All work done up
to-date and guaranteed. Three good
experienced hands at work. ts
For new or second-hand Heaters
see J. A. Sliope. A full line, cheaper
than you can buy anywhere. ts
For Stoves of any description see
J. A. Shope. ts
FOR SALE —Fifteen good second
hand buggies for sale cheap. Apply
to John Herndon, at Bryan’t livery
stable.
FEATHERS WANTED!
One thousand old feather beds
wanted. Phone No. 222 and let us
surprise you in prices. We also make
feather mattresses. j-
S. VAUGHN, ftw
NOTICE.
I have moved my blacksmith shop
to the back of Bryant’s livery stable.
Will he pleased to do your .repair
work and horeshoeing. All work
guaranteed.
W. O, HOWARD.
DR. G. B. LORD
OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN.
Phone 33. Office at Residence
28 Selvidge St.
FOR RENT—My store on South
Hamilton street, and a nine-room res
idence on Selvidge street. Apply to
J. T. Richardson.
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PEARL MOONIE
EXPERT PIANO TUNER
AND REPAIRER.
Dalten, Ga. (Formerly of St. Louis)
Guarantees to make any old piano
good as new. Nine years experience
in factory work. Orders left with
John A. Shope, No. 9 King street, will
be given attention.
Patience is a gift of experience. £9