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Twenty-First Year.
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- OUR IMMENSE FALL STOCK.
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- We usher in the FALL SEASON OF 1903 with the biggest, brightest and best selected stock we
ever gathered under our roof A magnificent display it is! Every department is sparkling with fresh
‘ness and newness. Every department is replete with latest styles and worthiest qualities. The whole
‘store is full to overflowing with good values. Thousands of bargains await the shrewd buyers who
‘will throng our store. Our Messrs. W. H. Davis and B. M. Davidson have just returned from New
‘York and other great eastern marts of trade, where for several weeks past they have been searching
‘the markets for the superb lines and splendid values we now offer you. Hardly necessary to tell you
that Prices Will Be Lower Here for same qualities Than Qther Stores Can Quote. You know our
reputation for underselling—sufficient assurance that our prices will be lower than others.
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We have added a large millinery department to our business. We have secured the store adjoining ours, formerly occupied by
Farrar & Harris’ Main Street Pharmacy, and thrown the two stores into one by means of large arch doors, which will add 20x120 -
feet more floor space to our already large store, giving us one of the largest and best equipped stores in thissection.
NEW LINE ARRIVING DAILY. Our Miss Huen has just returned from New York and Baltimore, where she spent several :
weeks assisted by Mr. Davis in carefully selecting our line of Millinery. We have not spared time or pains in selecting this line -
and will show you the most beautifu| lin ecf millinery in southwest Georgia this season.
SPECIA L FEATURES--Immense variety, the very latest styles and marvelously low prices are to be the essential features
of this department. s | :
: IN CONCLUSION. : / :
Weinyite you to visit our store and learn for yourself why we are so enthusiastic over tall prospécts. Every article that passes S
over our counters must be exactly as represented or money cheerfully retunded. Yours taithtully, ‘ -
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The Davis-Davidson Co. :
Thedate of our Millinery Opening will be announced next week. - - §
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TIIX RATE $5 ON 1,000
REDUCTION OF 30 CENTS OVER RATE
OF LAST YEAR MADE.
franchise Tax Assessments Included in
Basis of Levy. Total Property Val
uations in State $518.415.592.
The state tax rate this year will be
five mills, or $5 on $l,OOO of proverty
returned.
This is 30 cents per $l,OOO less than
the tax rate last year, which was 5:39
mills,
Itis also less by 2l cents on $l,OOO
the maximum rate fixed by the legis
lwre in the general tax act, that
Diximum being 5 mille for general
Dirposes and 21 mills for the sinking
fund,
By 4 careful study of the situation
the state tax commission, composed of
Governor Terrell and Comptroller
beneral Wright, found they could fix
¥ lower rate than has prevailed for‘
¥eral years past, and a rate, too, not.
‘Dexcess of the limit which will soon‘
b lred by constitutional amendmenbi
%000 as the people have voted on the
Ueasure passed at the recent session
o the flegislature. That amendment
Ptoposes to limit the taxing power to|
fiV? mills for all purposes. '
Aninteresting feature developed in
iriying at the tax rate is that the
80%rnor and the comptroller general
bave put i¢ squarely “up to”' the arbi-
M™lors t 0 make good the franchise as
*Sments put upon .the big corpora
-005 by Comptroller General Wright.
The total franchise assessments
Bde by the comptroller general
00wt 1o $2B 500,000, including also
"0e slight increase in astessments on
ph_isieal properties of certain corpor-
Yons, The increase in the tax digests
Orer last vear is $22,604,946, making a
Polincrease in property valuations
!?”he enlire state over last year of
This increase, added to the total of
Moperty revurns for last vear. gives
e togg) bproperty valuations for the
e this year at 8518,415,592.
This total valuation at a tax rate of
*mills will yield to the state $2,542,-
¥, from which must be geducted 5‘
:fi“e"‘ for expenses of collecting, o_rl
-r‘;i';?f}-‘?”, leaving net $2,414,074.07.
v, Sadded 8155000 which the
::‘:e P'eccives from other sources, such 1
“elithe rental of .the Western and
THE DAWSON NEWS.
| ROCKEFELLER’S BIG LOSS.
|Believed That His Fortune Has
| . Shrunk $100,000,000.
' Conservative men in Wall street es
timate that the Rockefeller family
‘fornune has shrunk $100,000.000 in val
ue uonder the influence of the slump in
securities. .
The apparent loss \to the frieuds of
J. P. Morgan has been great. William
|C. Whitney and those who are allied
!wibb him have sutfered reverses that
lhave hurt. John W. Gates and the
other members of the ‘‘Chicago
crowd’ are nursing wouands that will
be long in healing. James R. Keene
admits a loss of $1,500,000. Some be
lieve Mr. Keene's fortune has shrunk
‘much more.
l Thus it may be seen that the storm
‘which swept across the financial dis
‘trict and which may not as yet have
reached its culmination, has spared
few in selecting its victims. It mav be
taken as proven that it was of natural
origin, having been formed by the
purpose of will of no combination of
men.
It is the general opinion of those
who have weathered such storms in‘
the past that the present unpleasant- .
ness is to be accounted for just as was |
the great era of prosperity. One was :
the result of natural causes, the other |
came as a natural consequenc: of the
first. Men who discovered the sisua- |
tion said that the exhaustion is Lem-,l
porary. and that it does not approach
the lethargy which seiz:d the coun
try little more than ten years ago. i
Atlantic railroad, specific taxes and
taxes on professions, making ' the total
receipts to be counted on $2,863,974.07.
The appropriations which must be
met, it was found after a revision of
the figures, are $2,926,366. This shows
a deficit of 855,392, but it was estimated
that the increased receipts from spec
cial taxas over last year will fully make
up this amount. They will more than
do it if they show anything like a com
parative increase with that of real and
personal property.
On this basis it will be seen that the
state will come out even. There is no
treasury balance that could be depend
ed on, and all of the public property
fund has been spent.
Dawson, Ga.. Wednesday, August 26th, [903.
BIRTH AND DEATH RATE OF NEGROES
. Is the negro population of the cities
iof the United States, except as it is re
cruited by new arrivals from the coun
-1 try, decreasing as a result of an excess
'of deaths over births?
! This is a question that has been an
' swered affirmatively in some of the re
!cent, discussions of the race problem,
g but in no case has statistics been
'given tending to support the answer.
iAII that has been written on the sub
ject seems to have been based on as
sumption and personal observation,
which would necessarily be narrow in
scope.
" There is no part of the country in
‘which the registration of vital statis
‘tics is so nearly perfect as in New Eng
land. For this reason the figures for
Boston are particularly interesting.
They show that during the census
year there were 13,991 births and 11,-
277 deaths among the white population,
making an excess of 2,714 births-
Among the negro population of Boston
the same year the births numbered‘
240 and the deaths 327, making the ex
cess of deaths 87. In Greater Newi
York there were 96,194 births and 70,-
229 deaths among the white popula-{
tion, making the excess of births 1-').-|
535. Among the negro populat,ioni
there were 1,970 deaths and 1,430
OBJECT TO BLACK NEIGHBOR
Negro Pugilist Buys Home on
Fashionable Street. -
Joe Walcott, the coloéd prize fight
er, has bought the house in Belmont
next door to that of E. S. Converse,
the wealthiest man in the city, and
moved in. His familv consists of a
mulatto wife, four young children, a
12 year old sister and his white moth
er-in-law. 3 '
Walcott paid $50,000 for the house.
Col. H. S. Converse, son of E. S. Con
verse, who also lives in the neighbcr
hood, tried to buy the propecty, but
Walcott would not sell for a reasonable
price. Walcott says if his new neigh
bors do oot like to have a colored fam
ily so npear themr they can move or buy
him out.
Asked what he would sell for he
said, ‘I will sell for a nice advance on
what the place has cost me.”
| births, making the excess of deaths
1940. In Buffalothere were 9,227 births
'and 5,157 deaths among the white peo
i ple, making the excess of births 4,070.
iAmong the negroes there were 29
'births and 50 deaths, making the ex
cess of deaths 21. ko Chicago there
f were 43,098 births aad 27,333 deaths in
it.be white population, making the ex
cess of births 15,565. A mong the col
‘ored population there were 389 births
and 679 deaths, making the excess of
deaths 290. In St. Louis there were
12,960 births and 10,320 deaths among
the white population, making the ex
cess of births 2,640. Among the color
ed populacion there were 594 births
and 1,155 deaths, making the excess of
deaths 561. Ia New Orleans there
were ® 5,224 births among the white
population and 4,977 deaths, making
the excess of births 257. Amorng the
colorec population tnere were 1,735
birchs and 3,310 deaths, making the
excess of deaths 1,.575.
About the same proportions were
shownp 1n other cities, but the above
examples are sufficient to demonstrate
that if the births among the popula
tion of the registration cities are re
corded with any degree of accuracy
the negro population of those cities is
not increasing through the birth rate.
MILLARD LEE WAS HAPPIEST
The Last Half Hour Preceding
Time Set for His Execution.
Millard Lee, the condemned murder
er of Miss Lilla Sattles, which occurr
ed near Atlanta more than a year ago,
says that the happiest hour he had
ever spent was the oue preceding the
time he was to have been placed on
the gallows to pay the penalty of his
crime. Countinuing he said:
*T'd a been happy and away from all
care and pain loag sgo if it badn’t been
for these lawyers. When 1 was to be
banged last year I was happy in the
thought that it would soon be all over.
I'm tired of this and want to die.”
Lee is under respite from the gov
ernor awaiting a decision of the su
preme court as to his sanity.
gWORMS VANISHED BY BIRDS.
| Farmers Receive Unexpected Aid
| in Fight Against Caterpillars,
‘ Countless thousands of black birds
suddenly appearing in great droves
settled upon the cotton fields of Sum
ter county a few mornings ago and
plaved havoc MLh the caterpillars.
The appearance of the blackbirds as
tonsished the farmers, as these birds
always come in the fall season and are
never seen here in summer.
The birds attacked'the caterpillars, i
devouring them ravenously, aad bush
els of the cotton pests were thus de-l
stroyed in a day. ~
If the black birds continue the set- }
tiement of the catterpillar problem
may be reached unexpectedley. -
Farmers have applied barrels of
paris green in efforts to kill the cater
pillars. and in some localities haye
isucceeded. ‘
The black birds, however, may prove
t more effective in destroying the worms
which now threaten destruction to the
!cot,ton fields. 1
ASKED CHARITY LICENSE.
Judge Said Man With No Money
Should Not Wed.
A well known Augustan and a con
federate veterau drawing a pension
from the state made application to
Judge Walton for the gift of a mar
riage license, announcing his inten
tion to take unto himself a wife.
The following is a note that he sent
to Judge Walton by a personal friend:
“Mr. Walwor. My Dear Sir: I have
made up my mind to take me a wife,
and I call upou you to grant me a li
cense free, if it may bz in your power.
My money is skerce 18 why I call upou
you, Please let me here by Mr. T—
and oblige. Aug. 24, 1903.”
Judge Walton is an admirer of cheek,
but this request was one step too far
in that direction. The petitioner re
ceived a note that declined the call,
and suggested that an old man who
was unable to pay ffor a marriage li
cease had no business to indulge in a
matrimonial step. \
1f constipated or bilious call for
Ramon’s Pills, and be certain that the
clerk gives you the genuine Ramon’s.
Complete treatment—2s doses 25
cents.
Number Fortv-nine.
BLACKS DINE: WHITES WAIT
'A HUMRLIATING INCIDENT OCCURS |\ A
! SOUTHERN TQWN,
! LRI AN
'Booker Washington and His Party Had
1’ Breakfast, While White Passengers
! Curbed Hunger to Save Pride.
\ While Booker Washington of Tuss
‘kegee, Ala., and a party of some thirty
or torty negro men and women esjoyed
a hearty breakfast in the main dinipg
room of the eating station at Hamla,
N. C., Sunday morning Senator A, Oy
Bacon, Joel Hurt of Atlanta, Hoa, T,
J. Shackleford of Clarke county gad
many others, among them several wal|
known Geo:’gisns, walked around og
the outside dnd went hungry.
Washington and bis party occuplad
a chartered Pullman 02 the nopthe
bound train, which went into Hamlag
on the Seaboard Air Line Sunday
morning. Hamlet is a junction point
where connection for various pigces
are made. -It is also the eating ayge
tion.
When the morning train agrived
there Senator Bacon and others jefy
the car to get breakfast, but were sup.
prised on reaching the diniog ragm s
find it occupied by Washington snd
his party. Surprise was followegd by
indignation, and when the white Phis
sengers were inyited to partakte of
breakfast in a small improvised dinipg
room of vthe eating house all butg one
or two of them refused.
Just to make matters more interagte
inr there gathered about the dinlpg
room and peered in at the doors apgd
windows a crowd of lo:al negroes, whg
seemed to enjoy the situation as mueh
or more than did the Booker Washings
ton party. f
The meal finished, the negroes came
from the main Jinigg room, smoking
their cigars and cigarettes with airg o
proprietorship, and waited for thp dae
parture of their train
Some of the connections were latve,
and the traveling men had to walt
over for«seyeral hours. At the pagg
weal they were invited to the malg
dining room, but indignantly declined,
Some went over 10 Pineburst, whera
they were unable to get anything g
eat, and the result was that practicaliy
all of the white travelers went withone
eating all day. :
The negroes in Washington's pag
were principally from the north, 33
‘were returning home from the receny
lconvenmon at Nashville, Tenan. :
