Newspaper Page Text
2
DAWSON NEWS.
—__W
PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT $l.OO PER YEAR
BY E. L. RAINEY,
—e e
DAWSON, GA., May 10, 1905.
—— e
NEWSPAPERS VS. HANDBILLS.
A
Some business men have an idea
ihat handbills and dodgers are supe
rior to newspapers as advertising
mediums. Ilandbills are good in their
way as auxiliaries, but they are no
more to be compared to the advertis
ing columns of a good, live newspaper
than a pushcart peddler on Broadway
is to be compared to John Wanamak
er's great emporium. The peddler at
tracts attention for a moment if he be
an expert, but the great store rivets
the eye and loosens the purse-strings
of those whose trade is worth having.
The dodger, or circular, is crumpled in
the hand and soon thrown aside. The
newspaper is carried home and read
and re-read. and often filed away.
There is something besides an adver
{isement there—entertainment and in
formation. which add value to the ad
vertisement.
Advertisements are read now more
than ever before. and sometimes be
fore what is commouly known as news,
for they are often the latest and most
vital news of every-day life. The
headlines of an advertisement can be
made as attractive as the headlines of
a wedding, and the bargains offered
as alluring as the wedding feast. The
business man who talks to the readers
of a newspaper as he talks to the cus
tomers in his store is the one who
wins. Use handbills if you wish, buti
place your great hope for returns in
the columns of the newspaper. l
A NOTABLE ADDRESS.
Many able and elogquent speeches
were made throughout the south on
Memorial day in commemoration of
the heroic deeds of the soldiers of the
confederacy and the cause for which
they fought, but especially notable
was the address delivered in Atlanta
by General Clement Evans, one of the
most gallant leaders in the days that
tried men’s souls and truest patriots
of the present time. The following
brief extract shows its general tone
and character: ;
“The generous sentiment of the con
federate president was like the coun
sels of the confederate general-in-chief,
who said after the last battle of Appo
mattox to his extinguished army:
‘You have done all you could. Go
now to your homes and make as good
eitizens as vou have been soldiers.’
These soldiers had a proven courage
which was as pure of tarnish as the
stainless sword of Lee. They had de
fended neither anarchy nor monarchy,
but a constitutional republic of states,
which rose as fair as the morning
star and vanished pure of crime in the
noon of an unclouded henor. They
had made worthy records in more
than two thousand battles, in half of
which they were victorious. They
fought across 1,000 miles square land,
and their 600,000 withstood 2,500,000
of union soldiers whose courage they
tested and respected. Two-thirds of
their number are listed among the
killed, dead. wounded, disabled and
captured. Their scattered remnants
stood at last against ten times their
number, and then stacking arms by
the word of IL.ee they saluted the vic
tor government and gave it their
treasures of courage for its use for
ever.'’ :
TAX DODGERS.
The poor man, as the Macon KEve
ning News truthfully says, is not a
tax dodger. His modest holdings,
continues our contemporary, never es
cape their full burden of taxation.
The richer the man the smaller the
taxes, comparatively speaking. The
millionaire is usually a most success
ful and persistent tax dodger. It is
charged that many of the wealthy in
New York commit perjury in order to
escape their full share of taxation,
and they resort t¢ other questionable
means to avoid covtributing their just
nart for the support of the govern
ment which protects their property
and shields their lives.
Governor Higgins of New York ¢on
demns the tax dodgers in no uneertain
Janguage. He is quite severe in his
protest against their methods.
“‘Some of the people,’”’ he says, ‘‘'go
to Rhode Island, some to the Berk
shire Hills and others to New Jersey
o evade taxation. There are others
who have mortgages made out to their
cousins, their uncles and their aunts
in other states, and have assignments
made to them which they do not re
cord. Others. yet more bold, walk
brazenly up to the assessor’s office
and commit perjury to evade taxation.
There seems to be a percentage of
people in every state who are able in
some way to satisfy their consciences
sufficiently to justify them to them
selves in beating fhe state or the gov
ernment.”’
A CHICAGO college professor thinks
students should do their studying at
night. When does he expect them to
de their mischief?
MR. JORDAN'S TIRADE.
The attack of Hon. Havvie Jordan
upon Hon. O. B. Stevens, commission
er of agriculture, will not amount to
anvthing more than one of those
noisy little tempests in a tea-pot.
As is well known., Mr. Jordan, who is
president of the Southern Cotton As
sociation. has not succeeded in his
effort to control the cotton output,
and in his keen disappointment he has
very likely assaulted the commission
er of agriculture, who has been mov
ing along in the even tenor of his way
and transacting the affairs of his of
fice with the care and fidelity that has
always marked his administration,
for the purpose of diverting attention
from his own stupendous failure to
accomplish the purpose for which he
is drawing an extravagant salary.
The newspapers of the state have
very generally commented on Mr. Jor
dan’s attack upon Commissioner Stev
ens. and the following extract from
the Albany Herald fairly represents
the views of a very large majority of
the press:
‘lt is unfortunate that Mr. Jor
dan should have made this attack
upon Commissioner Stevens at
this time and in the way he has
chosen. It is more than unfortu
nate—it i 8 a mistake, and Mr. Jor
dan will himself realize it if he is
honest with himself after he has
reflected over the matter. In the
first place, President Jordan's at
tack is aimed at the best friend the
farmers have in Georgia—a man
who has been identified with the
farmers all his life, and has been
conspicuously loyal to their Best
interests at all times, not only in
his official capacity, butin his pri
vate life.
“‘And, in the second place, the
farmers of Georgia are not going
to believe Mr. Jordan’s charges,
expressed and implied, and the re
sult will be reactionary and the ef
fect the reverse of what Mr. Jor
dan probably expected when fram
ing and promulgating his indict
ment.
“In this view of the case—and
that's the way we see it—Mr. Jor
dan’s attack on Commissioner
Stevens will be reactionary, and
the Southern Cotton Association
will suffer more than Commission
er Stevens will be injured.” ‘
LIKE MOST PRINT SHOPS.
It seems to be the impression in
congress that the government printing
office isn't worth what it costs to run
it. In 1891 the cost of running the of
fice was about $2,500,000. Last year
it was $6,500,000. In fourteen years it
has increased $4,000,000. Congress
can’'t understand where the money
goes, and so it ordered an investiga
tion. No doubt it will find a curious
state of affairs. It is stated that a
great deal of machinery has been in
troduced for the purpose of lessening
the cost of printing, but there has
been no reduction in the bills.
Jas. J. HILL, president of the Great
Northern railroad, says the Panama
canal is going to be the costliest
and most disappointing undertaking
any government ever had on its hands.
When the canal is completed, he says,
the trans-continental railroads will
make rates so much lower than the
all-water route that peovle will won
der why they were so foolish as to
authorize the canal. Being at the
head of one of the great trans-conti
nental railroads, some people will
think Mr. Hill is talking for his own
pocketbook.
THEODORE PRICE, recently a snarl
ing bear in the cotton market, is now
a raging bull. As the MeDuffie Jour
nal remarks, everything that Price
says or does is prompted by the cold
blooded selfishness and avarice of the
financial gammbler. He has accumu
lated a fortune by speculating on the
labor and losses of the southern far
mer.
THE diplocus, concerning which the
scientists are talking, is described as
a genus of sauropod dinosaur charac
terized by a weak deuntition. If it had
a strong dentition they would not dare
call it these names.
IT is said that Farmer Jim Smith,
whom the gubernatorial bee has more
or less worried, has just sold his cot
ton of last season f0r575,000 net. Now
let the campaign open.
The Sunlight: Nature’s Great Disinfectant.
Nature's great disinfectant is sun
light. It is a most interesting fact
that this wonderful light, which pro
motes the growth of useful plants and
sustains animal life, at the same time
destroys by its very brightness all
sorts of germs which are brought in
contact with it. It is this fact alone
which renders the earth inhabitable.
Germs develop with such marvelous
rapidity that they would quickly over
whelm us by their very numbers if not
constantly destroyed by the sun.
A little computation will readily
show this. Some germs are capable of
snch rapid multiplication that they
may double every fifteen minutes under
favorable conditions of temperature
and food supply. Estimate the num
ber of germs which might be produced
in a single day of twenty-four hours,
or ninety-six doublings. The number
would be more than thirty-two thous
and billion billions, or sufficient to
cover eighty thousand square miles a
foot deep. or fill a space of more than
fifteen cubic miles. The increase of a
minute organism occupying a cubic|
space of not more than one twenty-j
thousandth of an inch to such prodig
ious magnitude i 3 beyond comprehen
sion, and practically cannot occur;l
The Dawson News. Wednesday, May 10, 1905.
GROVER CLEVELAND says his ideal
woman is ‘‘one who loves her country
and loves her husband, but has no de
sire to run either.”’
REV. LEN BROUGHTON doesn’t like
it because Mr. Carnegie proposes to
pension college professors, whereupon
the Rome Tribune offers this bit of
consolation: ‘‘Never mind, Len: Mr.
(Carnegie may take a notion to pension
freaks some day.”’
EpITOR JAs. R. GRAY has bought a
controlling interest in the Atlanta
Journal. Under his management the
Journal has become one of the great
papers of the country.
THE lately completed American cen
sus of the Filipinos shows that they
cost us, to be exact, $2.98 per head.
Reads like a bargain counter figure,
but it wasn't.
NEW YORK has a man without
brains. He ought to shine brilliantly
at the monkey dinners and other soo
- functions of the 400.
THE man who always does cheer
fully everyting that is expected of him
pretty soon finds that a heap of things
are expected of him.
L |
A PENNSYLVANIA truck farmer is
going to plant 25,000 cabbages. So
all will not be lost, even if the tobac-1
co crop is a failure. ‘
THE terrible Turk, the ferocious '
Albanian and the bellicose Bulgariani
have begun their annual spring fight
ing festivities.
A DISTINGUISHING feature of Gov
ernor Terrell’s administration is the
fine appointments he has made.
MuUNICIPAL ownership of public
utilities is all right if it can be divore
ed from ‘‘practical’’ politics.
THE swish of the line and the bob
bing of the cork; in any event, the
pulling of the cork. -
As a matter of fact, nobody is dis
infecting against Deacon Rockefeller’s
infected money.
OLD BONDS NOT BURNED.
Through Fear Commission Post poned
Action Until Legislature Meets.
ATLANTA, GA., May 4.—At the last
session of the general assembly a res
olution was passed authorizing State
Treasurer R. E. Park to burn in the
presence of Governor Terrell, Comp
troller GGeneral Wright, Secretary of
State Cook and Attornev General
Hart all of the old paid and cancelled
bonds and coupons of the state which
have been accumulating in the office
of the treasurer for a number of years.
The big fire which was to convert
into smoke about $25,000,000 worth of
once valuable but now worthless pa
per was scheduled to take place today,
and 11 o’clock was set as the hour for
the blaze to get busy. At that hour
the state house officials above named
were at the oftice of the treasurer.
Here a council of war was held, at
which the advisability of burning the
paper was discussed, in view of recent
developments connected with the pos
sibility of suits being brought against
the state on account of certain bonds
issued during the Bulloch administra
tion that had been repudiated. Treas
urer Park exhibited a half million
dollars worth of bonds that had been
issued and cancelled without having
passed out of the possession of the
state. After a thorough discussion of
the matter the commission decided to
postpone action until further instruc
‘tions could be secured from the legis
lature. .
[ Governor Terrell, it is said, in his
'message to the legislature will present
the facts in the case to the general as
sembly so that the matter may be
given gareful attention.
' COOL: HUNDRED FOR NEGRO.
’ Americus Has Pensioner of Oft Color
' 'Who Has Annual Income of $1,200.
From the Americus Times-Recorder,
Among Unele Sam’s pensioners in
Americus is a negro, Abraham Fan
uel, who has a strong line upon the
publiec corn erib and pulls it to the
tune of a eool hundred dollars month
ly, or 31,200 a year, which gives him
‘a meal ticket calling for the best on
‘the shelf. Abraham went to Cuba as
'a ‘‘sojer man’’ during the Spanish
American muddle and contracted a
fever of some kind. His eyesight, it
is said, became involved, and the pen
sion is the panacea. Three or four
other negroes here likewise draw fat
pensions, but this distribution of shek
els is confined wholly to that shade so
far as the ‘‘war veterans’’ of the Cu
ban campaign are concerned, none of
the hundred young men enlisting here
as soldiers drawing a penny.
for while the germ mayv grow at this
immense rapidity for a short time the
poison which it produces becomes
destructive to itself. The material
upon which it feeds is also exhausted,
so that its growth ceases.
Doubtless all have noticed the fact
that mold grows during the night and
in dark, damp cellars. Bright sun
light quickly destroys germs, mold,
and other parasitic organisms. Dif
fused daylight does not act nearly so
rapidly, but accomplishes in the
course of a few hours what bright sun
light is capable of doing in a few min
utes. It is clearly evident, then, that
in order that our houses should be
kept free from germs they, like our!
bodies, should be made full of life.
The shutters should be opened, the‘
curtains raised, and the light admitted
to every room in the house, clos
ets included, so that the disinfecting
power of light may be exercised in
every nook and corner in the dwell-l
ing.
CASTOIRLIA.
R The Kind You Have Always Bought
Signatare '
WE ARE IN BUSINESS
TO STAY.
When we make a customer our next aim is to keep hin.
We endeavor to give you good merchandise at the lowest pos.
sible price, and if any purchase made of us is not satistactory
we will consider it a favor i ydu will let us know, so that we
can adjust it.
We give below some prices that can’t be beat in the state:
Summer Lap Robes, a good one, for 48c
Misses’ Sailors, white with blue bands and
BRI s 5« v s vy i s mh N b e b vl 18¢
Ladies’ Hats, a new, bright assortment just
recened9B afld 48(:
Ladies’ black or tan drop stitch hose, 25
Cent VALBeE oo i e e g |oc
Lamps, large decorated, with globes or
shades, worth $2.,00, our cut price,... 98¢
Pictures, with handsome gilt or black and
gilt frames and 16x20 glass, would be
cheap at $2.00, our price.............. 08¢
Torchon Lace, a big assortment in linen
or cotton, all 10¢ and 15¢ qualities,
your choice per yard................... 0 05¢c
If there is anything you want and don’t see it quoted don't
forget that HIND SELLS IT FOR LESS.
J. C. HIND.
1 Y Y Y
TAX NOTICE.
I will be at the following places on the dates
named for the purpose of receiving tax returns:
Twelfth District: Monday, April 3; Wednes
dav, April 26; Friday, May 5: Tuesday. May 16,
at Billie Jennings’: Wednesday, May 17, at
Woolbright & Foster's.
Sixth District, Bronwood: Tuesday, April 4;
Monday, April 17; Monday. May 1: Friday, May
| 19, Bridges’ stere.
Third District, Sasser: Wedpnesday, April 5;
Wednesday, April 19: Tuesday, May 2; Wednes
day, May 10, at Herod.
Eleventh District: Thursday, April 6: Thurs
day, April 20; Wednesday, Mayv 3; Friday, May
lzzl:lxt(;'mves; Monday, May 15, at Brown's old
mill.
Parrott District: Friday, April 7; Friaay,
April 14; Friday, April 21.
Fourth District, Dover: Monday, April 10;
Monday, April 24; Monday, May 8.
New Eleventh District: Tuesday, April 11:
Tuesdav, April 25; Thursday, May 4. /
I will be in Dawson every Saturday and during
court week. Everybody requested to bring their
deads in order to give correct ot numbers.
L. G. PINKSTON.T.R. T. C.
y: L
City Ordinance.
Be it ordained, and it is here%v ordained and
enacted by authdritv of the City Touncil of Daw
son, Ga., that from and after the passage of this
Ordinance it shall be unlawful for anyone who is
not a member of the fire department to get upon
or ride upon any wagon, truck, engine or other
vehicle while en route to or from any fire, or
while passing through the streets or other places,
unless said party or parties have been previously
invited by the chief of the fire department or the
driver in chargze of the vehicle to do so, which is
used by the fire degartment of the e¢ity of Dawson
for extinguishing fires.
Be it enacted that all ordinances or parts of
ordinances in conflict be and are hereby repealed.
Be it enacted that yiolation of the above ordie
'nance shall be punished in the manner prescribed
in section 186 of the code of the city of Dawson.
Passed as an emergency ordinance at regular
meeting of the City Council of Dawson. This
May 2nd, 1905. CHAS DEUB%&}R.
R. E+BELL., Clerk. Mavor Pro Tem. ‘
N . .
For Guardianship.
GEORG'A. TERrRELL COUNTY. Ordinary’s Of»
fice, May 1. 1905. Miss Amanda Brown, of said
county, applies to me for letters of guardianship
of the person and property of Mary Brown, of
said county. This is, therefore, to notiri; all per
sons concerned to show cause, if any they can,
on or before the first Monday in June next, why
letters of guardianship should not be granted
said applicaut as applied for.
J. W. ROBERTS, Ordinary.
B" - - -
or Dismission.
GEORGIA, TERRELL CoUNTY. Ordinary’s Ofe
fice, April 29, 1965, 1. R. Mercer, administrator of
the estate of Owen Dodwell, deceased, represents
to me that he has fully discharged the duties o
his said trust, and prays for letters of dismission.
This is, therefore, to notify all persons concern
ed to show cause, if any they can, on or before
the first Monday in June next, why said adwminis=-
trator should not be discharged from his said
trust. J. W. ROBERTS, Ordinary. |
‘ - - .
For Administration.
GEORGIA, TErRrReLL CouNTY. Ordinary’'s Of
fice, May 1, 1905. >usie Johuson, of said county,
applies to me for letters of administration on the
estate of J. S. Johnson, late of said county, de=
ceased. This is, therefore, to notify all concerned
to show cause, if any they can, on or before the
first Monday in June next. why tetters should not
be granted said applicant as ag]gied for.
J. W. ROBERTS, Ordinary.
Money to Loan. :
The Georgia Loan and Trust Compan?' loans
money at 6 per cent per annum on reai estate.
Prompt service guaranteed. [f you want to bore
row mouney see H. A. WILKINSON.
Farm Leans.
Farm Loans made at low rates and on easy
terms. Save money by writing us. Large loans
preferred, P. O. BOX 244 Americus. Ga.
e e e e e ——————
Wood Wanted. -
1.000 cords of good, dry lopg leaf pine wood.
Highest market price paid. Applyto
GEO. O. & A. F. BERRY, Columbus, Ga.
Stylish
ylish
Young Fellows.
You young who care almost more
for style Lhan. tor yuality in clothes;
will fina our Hart Schaffner &
Marx Varsity Suits the thing you’re
looking for. '
And you’ll get the quality with
the style; clothes that not only lock
well when you first 'get them, but
afterwards when you’ve worn them
awhile. They’re tailored right.
We show the Varsity single and
double breasted; the label in them
is a small thing to look for, a big
tLing to find. For sare By
A. J BALDWIN & COMPANY,
New Hardware and
Furniture Store.
We are now opening a new stock 2l Mol
fet’s old stand. V{’ill kgep a full line of Hard
HARDWARE, FURNITURE.
HOUSE FURNISHING 600D5
Stone Crockery, Mattings, l
Carpeting, Rugs, etc.
Melton Furniture & Hardwart Co.‘
Dawson, Georgia. .
Pen staffs, with pen, each..................... U}Ci
Pen points, dozem.... «.cocoooiriiiiinini, 05(::
Pencils. rubber and nickel tips, each.... Ulcl
B T i :)sc}
Shot gun, a good single barrel, worth $7.50, ]
OUT CUb PriCe.«eeerverrerreieeeieiiiin, $4,47E
Men’s Overalls, with apron and double E
ERRBE OB 880, . oovi avseranstrienns. 45(;{
Men’s Pants, extra values, worth $1.50, our E
PTACE. ¢ evveneruer ettt ()QCE
Boys’ Pants, Bto 15 years........ooooovenn.n, |SC!
Mattress Ticking, yard---.---------»--u---...05(:5
Bleacfiing, Fard. .ooeciiiiiiiiiii (Bcg
Hart Schaffner e!“
& M i
~ SR . ’/\ t
‘ i,“"%"m“" vl .
Ve i NN
,-..‘ .: ¢ ; ”;;gg %’ ’-:\ 3
|| o ;f‘ £ )”3
L e PR 4 b S
o A
il "é}% )‘bs N (:@’ }s;!‘
D | RRN S AR o i
B }fi%{\;
VAN «5 P YST
b s AL | |
;__ef fié;?‘?‘.'z%; ;‘:.'.?."\h\\\\x\\ |
’l” Al Tp’?" 0 :
g ,H i
MR-l P ot
" S “ "%l"- {; i
LR \
111 R A| B X liaj Vi
lif f‘hll‘\aw k;\ I
R
alb |ik J‘: L
o iyey
e \' S| | 2
) \' ;/fi.-fitv /_ 4
, ’/"‘ ‘
3
: opyrim 1904 by Mart SchafPner 4 Mu7B
