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Tfi e Dal t o n A rq a $ PUBLISH HD DAILY AND WEEKLY BY I MG A R Ci U S PUBLISHING CO B. L. HEARTSILL, Proprietor Entered a* second class matter at the Dalton, Qa., post office. TKI{.M> OF SUBSUtII’TION : Daily, 'tap Year 55.<M) Daily. Sl* Months a.50 Dally, Three Months - *•** Weekly, One Year 1-00 Weekly, Six Months .50 Weekly. Three Mouths .25 ARGUS' OWN BUILDING The telegraph service of The Argus 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. o “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. o 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 i without you. o 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. ■ o 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. o— We supposed the Seventh was the only district overstocked with con gressional timber until the Second lined up their forces. They are some. •’— o 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. o 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. o 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. o 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 i ' 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. ■>»—| if fjEMwaw . 4# 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