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VOL. 6 M\ AM) mm. 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. x NO. 3.« S