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ftJUIBS GATIIERKD HERE
and there.
o
Boom or bust.
Court Monday.
Call m and settle.
Trenton is a healthy place.
Wanted—A blacksmith.
Boom your town and county.
Only four lots sold Wednesday.
News we must have. Send it in.
Head the ad of G. W. M. Tatum.
Several parlies aro preparing to
build
Towu property is greatly in de
mand.
The long talked of boom is bound
to come.
Correspondents please send in
the nows,
More houses arc wanted and not
shanties.
Ben Wilkerson has leased his
saw mill.
Dade county is bound to come to
the front.
Scatter The Times abroad you
land owners.
The painting boom is getting un
der headway.
A real eetate agency has been lo
cated in town.
Trenton is going to boom and
don't forget it.
Dave Tatum was in town several
days this week,
The lawyers are busy getting
ready for court.
Henry SwalFord visited Rising
Fawn this week.
Com' to court and subscribe for
youf county 'paper. 1 *
Miss Pillar Brock has been quite
sick lor a few days.
The side walks of Trenton need
repairing very bad.
The Rising Fawn furnace has
blown cut for repairs.
John G. Hale, of Rising Fawn,
was in town this week.
Thk Times is a Dade county in
stitution. Support it,
Chattanooga gets all the surplus
money in Dade county.
Red Meat tobacco the best in
town. At B. I*. Majors’.
There should bo more workers
for Trenton’s prosperity.
Everything m ami auout 1 ron
ton is distressingly dull.
. A sociable tonight et the resi
dence of Mrs. J. C, .Smith.
After court it is expected that
Trenton will be dull again.
We want a correspondent in
•very district in the county.
Col. J, B. Williams says the
boom is a dead sure certvity.
Health, wealth and happiness
can be found in Dade county.
Uncle Marion Tatum says he is
going to buy a dude hat or bust.
Le 1 *s have unity and all pool is
euses and sell out the old town.
At present we have no one to re
ceipt and collect for this office.
Wanted —One hundred dozen of
eggs at once. B. P. Majors.
If you like this paper subscribe
for it and get you neighbor to do so.
Bob Thurman says he will soon
have his livery stable in full blast.
Dr.Ketcherside says ablacksmith
is needed here worse than a doctor,
Trenton could spare few of the
popcorn aristociats hereabout loca
ted.
Archie, the youngest son of Mr.
and Mrs. T. H. B. .Cole, is quite
sick.
More manufacturing establish
ments should bo built in Dade
county.
Byron Tatum and Will Willis
have been trying to swap breech©*
this week.
Don’t let it be said any longer
that Trenton is a finished town. Go
to work.
George Hibbs and Mike Fahey,
of Rising Fawn, were in the city
Tuesday.
Letters inquiring about, property
are being received by our citizens
every day.
If it does not turn cool again
summer is going to be on us before
we know it.
Lay aside your little disputes and
go to work to build up your towu
and county.
Everypassenger train goingsouth
is loaded with prospect< rs going to
Fort Payne.
By a judicious use of printers ink
our merchants could increase their
trade. Try it.
Our SIO,OOO imported poet has a
poem of very extraordinary merit
in this issue.
More houses should be built if
the people wish to inc lease the pop
ulation of the town.
Dade county is the only county
in the State that has failed to keep
up with the procession.
Get a move on you citizens of
Trenton and see what you can do
towards building up your town.
A good back smith is wanted at
this place bad. In fact in needs
one about as bad as it does money.
Oh, yes we have a few merchants
but it could not be discover by
looking in our advertising columns.
Wo came here to stay as long as
the people wanted a paper bad
enough to support it and no longer.
After several days trial we have
discovered that keeping bachelor’s
hall is not what it is cracked up to
be.' * * 1
Unity will accomplish snyde- 1
sired object. Let the people of
Trenion heed this and stop bicker
ing. i
The increasing business at the
Trenton postoffiee should cause the
department to make it a money or
der office.
Let the citizens of town get to
gether and form a citizens commit
tee to take charge of strangers vis
iting town.
MiseSallie Allisod, wlohas been
visiting relatives at this place re
turned to her home near Rising
Fawn Tuesday.
Capt. F. W. Dawson, editor of
the Charleston, S. C., News and
Courier, was most foully murdered
last Tuesday.
We want it distinctly understood
that we did not com® here to run
this paper for glory but for the al
mighty dollar.
Don’t fail to attend the Dramat
ic entertainment next Wednesday
night. Prices reduced to 15 and 25
cents. New plays.
If our delinquents will pay up
we will put what money we get in
tn a bank—our creditors will do
the depositing for us.
Dr. J. S, Fann*, dentist of Dalton,
Ga., will be in Trenton court week,
prepared to do all work on short
notice aud at reasonable rates.
The people of the town and coun
should make an effort to locate cap
italists in the county and to that
end they should use printers ink
freely.
Let the citizens ot town set aside
a day to meet at the court house
and organize a land and improve
ment oompany. We mean busi
ness and not foolishness.
A pyrimid of coal, iron ore and
other minerals should be made at
the depot so travelers on the rail
road can form some idea of our
minrrsl wealth.
If our best half doesn’t hurry up
and get here Biad Tatum says he
will get one of the 1 umerous pretty
girls of this town to take her place.
This is a warning to the absent one.
DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE RESOURCES OF DADE COUNTY.
TRENTON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH. 15, 1889.
THEN TON, DADE COUNTY*
Trenton, situated as it is, is the
healthiest place in the South. Lo
cated eighteen miles south of Chat
tanooga between Lookout and Sand
Mountains which are full of the
very best grate and coking coal.
Below wc give a very brief descrip
tion of the natural surroundings of
the town. Its mineral wealth is
1 beyond comparison. Coal is in one
mile of the court house and iron
ore can be found in almost a stone’*
throw. In fact everything that
goes to make iron is here in abund
ance :
THE COAL
Here has no equal as a coking coal.
The Dade Coal company has prov
en that beyond a shadow of a doubt.
This well known company has been
working the coal in this county for
years and find ready sale tor all
the coke they can make. This
company’s mines are only seven
miles uorth of town. This is not
all the coal property in the county
or in close proximity of Trenton.
There are several thousand acres
of undeveloped coal property rang
ing from one to eight miles of town
which is A 1 either for grate or
coking purposes and can be bought
from three to ten dollars per acre.
THE IRON ORE
Of this section is the red fossilif
erous and it ranges in iron from
thirty-five to sixty per cent,
and is found in veins of one foot
to seven feet thick, covering from
one acre to fifty acres without a
break. The well known iron made
at the Rising Fawn furnace, every
article which is necessary to manu
facture it is dug out of the hills o;
Dade county. This furnace finds
ready sale for its products. Iron
ore property here can be bought
very cneap.
EDUCATIONAL ADTANTAGEB.
Trenton has one of the finest
schools in North Georgia in the
Dade Normal Institute, with the
beet of teachers in charge. Every
branch of studies necessary to re
ceive a thorough education is
taught. In fact after a child has
comploted its studies at this insti
tution is ready to enter on a tussle
with this world. Rates of tuition
are cheap and board can be had for
a small sum.
TIMBER.
One of the finest bodies of tim
ber in the State lies west of here
onSand mountain and only 4 miles
from the railroad. All the timber
for building or other purposes is
here and the saw mills have not
touched it. This timber can be
bougnt for a nominal sum, and
ready sale can be found for the
lumber.
LIMESTONE
For burning lime, fluxing or build
ing purposes lies here in great
abundance. Infact the quantity or
quality can not be equaled in the
Southern States.
SAND.
A very extra quality of the above
article is here and only a half to
one mile from the railroad at this
place
WATER.
Trenton can not be equaled in wa
ter. Almost any kind you wish.
The healthfulness of the water is
Wellknown f ir and near.
FIRE CLAY,
The fire clay to be found in this
section has been extensively mined
and ready sale found for it. A
very fine clay for making brick is
also to le found here.
OCHRE.
This well known mineral is also to
be found here, and is being mind
now extensively. All the differ
ent ehades known to the painter is
here,
CONCLUSION.
We have tried to be as brief as
possible in tilling what is to be
found here in the mineral line,
without giving a complete analysis
If any one wishes further informa
tion they can get itbywriting to the
editor of this paj>er, Col. J. B. Wil
liams or county officials.
AUNT POLLIE’S LETTER.
Has the annual resurrection
really begun im Trenton? 1 do
wiah'l had remained there a while
longer if it has, eh ! Down hore
we have taken our weather direct
from the North pole. Spring may
be due on the calender but it has
missed its way on the thermometer.
After reading dear A. J. T.’s letter
I donned an over coat, wrapped
my head in a shawl and went to
my garden to see if I could see
any signs of a resurrection there—
I did. Very many of my onions
weie wholly resurected, but it was
the chickens I had to thanked (?)
for the lively operation not spring.
Yes loved friend T have found a
quiet home indeed. All things are
“calm and serene” here. “’Tis
pleasant through loop holes of re
treat” to peep at such a world as
ours, for if we hold ourselves aloof
from ihe world we will seldom be
pierced by
“Thethoru that makes the deepes* wound
That mortals ever knew.
In tinding those we love the best
Are to themselves and us untrue.”
But this is not true life—not the
life that will bring out the noblest
qualities of our natures —not the
life that will teach us
••How sublime a thing it is
to suffer and grow strong.” *
The purest souls that everblessed
the earth have com® forth from the
hottest fires of pain.
“The sweetest songs thaPWer thrilled
the heart.
Have by lips, white with agony, been
sung,”
Oh it is a great toSj
whilst we are going our forty
journey through this world’s wi™
erness—thirsty, hungry—to re
member “That beyond some Jordan
every Canaan lies.” But I forget
that lamin a hurry, I never was
in such a hurry. Of course I will
digress.
Yes, well the day, the day I left
T. I remembered Pope’s Farewell
to London with a kind ot humorous
self congratulation.
“Dear , distracted town, fare
well,” and if forever may those I
love within your limits fare better
in the future than they have fared
in the past. Oh, how se fish “we
mortals be.” I do wish we could
love every body, If there is one
bible injunction we could seperate
from its antecedents and take liter
ally we would obey this one the
best, “Heap coals of fire on your
enemies heads,” and wouldn’t we
enjoy it if they were all bald head
ed? So wicked is human nature.
TUESDAY A PERFECT DAY.
Spring I guess has come at last.
- If I had only waited till today to
scribble you a note it would have
been better —bad weather always
affects our spirits. Today I feel
I could embrace the world, but I
only send this as an excuse for not
writing. I do wish people who
have time to write would show
some interest in their paper by
writing once a month any way. I
always air so hurried that I never
write but I say something I after
wards regret. aunt Pollie.
Those who appreciates fine stock
will do well to see the extra fine
combination stallion of G. W. M.
Tatum’s. He is both saddle and
harness stock. Good size and good
stock. He will be in the hands of
Mr. James Ross and will be kept
at Rising Fawn, Trenton and Mor
gpnville. Don’t fail to see him,
fcefer parties to Mr. Leon Connally
who knows all about the horse and
and any prominent man in Walker
county.
TO PROSPECTORS*
Stop right here you weary trav
eler and capitalist!*
This is the place you have been
looking for and have run off after
something else not half as good!
Are you in search of health?
Are you soekinga place to invet-t
i your surplus capital?
Are you seeking a place to edu
cate your children?
Are you seeking a manufactur
ing site?
If you are in search of any of
the above your ticket should read
“Trenton.” Why do we say this?
Because we can back oui asser
tions up with the very best of evi
dence. To prove the first question
all we ask you to do is to come and
take one good draught of our pure
water and in hale the mountain
breezes. The water here is lime
and freestone, sulphur and chaly
beate in abundance.
The second question can be as
easily proven. The coal and iron
ore is here, (not to be found), in
abundance, and the best part of it
is the mineral property here can be
bought at a reasonable price,
acre.
The third question is also easily
proven. We have a fine school
where you can educate your child
ren without sending them off to
soms college with a high sounding
name where they will learn to play
base ball instead of receiving an
education. The Dade Normal In
stitute has a complete choir of
teachers and the build
ing is a two story brick with rooms
for every department, and the lat
est improve desks, in close proxim
ity to sulphur and limestone water,
3 Like the other questions the
urth can be answered. In Look-
But and Town creeks we have all
power to run any kind of ma
chinery and the Alabama Great
Southern railroad gives ample fa
cilities for shipping the products
from the town.
Town property can be bought
cheap. Lots have sold in the past
two weeks for a trifle to what they
would bring in town not half so
favorably located, A residence lot
can be bought for fifty to one hun
dred dollars. There is an acre in
a lot, To show how property sells
we name only one out of a dozen
sales in the past two week. The
lot mentioned is half an acre in
the very heart of town, with a good
house on it, sold for one hundred
dollars.
An investment in real estate
here would pay handsomely. The
increase in the value ot property
in twelve months would soon dou
ble in value.
Health, wealth ana happiness
can be found here.
Alliance Speakin9.
The Hon. Ben Terrill will de
liver one of his famous lectures in
the interest of the Farmers* Alli
ance at Trenton,Ga.,March 20,1889.
Hope all who feel an interest will
turn out and hear him as he is said
to be the right man in the right
place. J. A. Bennett,
Sec. County Alliance.
Seriously
While trying to start a fire in the
grate last Saturday night Mr, J, P.
Jacoway was seriously burned
about the feet. The fire had near
ly gone out and to keep it burning
threw some fresh coal on and then
poured some coal oil on it, but
contrary to expectations the oil did
□ot ignite instantly, and as he
stepped back from the fire place
the gas from the coal and oil ex
ploded throwing the hot coals on
his bare feet burning them severe-
He has been confined to his room
for several days.
Pay up.
Atlanta, Ga., March 13. —Robert
Mackry. who has been in the peni
tentiary from Columbia county
since 1881, will be given his liberty
in a few days. From the records
in his case now in the executive
office it seems a great injustuMVthat
he should ever been there at all.
He was convicted on a plea of guil
ty of voluntary manslaughter and
sentenced to twenty years in tho
penitentiary. The plea of guilty
was enteien through an undersiaod
ing with the solicitor genera! and
the full facts of the case did not
come out in the trial.
The facts are that he killed a
very desperate negro who had fre
quently threatened to take his life,
and was at the time, carrying a
ueadly weapon for
killing him, all of which Mackay
knew about- The request for exec
utive clemency comes now from
the juDge who presided at the trial,
the solicitor general who prosecu
ted, the officials >f Columbia coun
ty and numerous respectable citi
zens of the county.
The solicitor general says that
he was unacquainted withe true
facts at the time, else there would
have been no conviction. The gov
ernor commuted the sentence, so
that Mackay will be discharged
April 1, and in the order giving the
reason for his action, expresses the
opion tnai the offense of which
Mackay was guilty was nothing
more thaa justifiable homicide.
ODDS AND ENDS!
Judicious Advertising Create
many a new business. Enlarges
many an old business, Revives
many a dull business,Rescues many
a lost business, Save* many a fall
ing business, Preserves many a
large business, Secures success in
any business,
God has thrown up a highway, a
plain way, through this wilderness
world—for his children to walk in.
If they turn aside from this high
way, it is s good thing if thorns
and briars and nettles shall sting
them bacx again. If they turn
aside and fall *nto the sloughs and
quagmires, or tumble over precipi
ces it is a good thing if they are
hurt that they may want to get
back into the plain highway again.
—Ex.
The citizens of town have the
shade tree fever from the number
that has been set out this spring.
About twenty trees have been set
out around the court house, and
great manyhave set out trees around
their private party. Will not the
grand jury now have the court
house fenced in and sodded? It
will help the looks of the building
and town.
Don’t fail to call in during court
and settle that little amount you
owe this office. AH due the paper
under its old manager paid
to the present and no one else.
Mr. R. C. Love is able to be up
after a two weeks tussel wit neu
ralgia.
Mrs. A. J. Tatum has been suf
fering with neuralgia the past week
or two.
1
If you to buy cheap dirt come to
the capital of Dade county.
Trenton On a Boom
On the porch or in the hall,
In the parlor or back room,
No other talk you’ll hear
But Trentoa’s on the boom.
I heard Col. Williams talking, *
It was yesterday at noon;
“Bettie, this house is too small
Since Trenton’s on the boom.”
Crabtree, Lumpkin and Pace say,
‘‘Aldermeu we shall be soon.
For we must put on city airs.
Because Trenton's on a boom.”
This week a real estate office.
Next week we’ll have a saloon;
1 wonder what wiU come next,
If Trenton keeps up the boom.
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