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THE DAWSON
Bv E. L. RAINEY.
\WWe Like to Trade At ‘ ‘
G. V. DOZIER & CO'S,
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They keep what we want. T
They keep good, reliable goods. '
' They sell for a small profit.
They are nice and attentive fo customers. .
Sce Us Before You Buy Anything.
We will appreciate youn trade. Your Friends, .
G. W. DOZIER & COMPANY.
S 0 SAYS A PROMINENT COTTON
MILL, MAN OF THE SOUTH.
The Insect Has Always Been Here
and Will Stay as Long as Cot
ton Grows, He Declares.
- A zentleman who has been interest
ed in the production of cotton and its
subsevuent usages for over sixty years
and who is now president of the larg
st cotton mill in Georgia, capitalized
at one million dollars, in a recent in
erview with a representative of the
Macon Telegraph said apropos the
01l weevil situation:
“This talk of the so-called boll wee
ilis all foolishness. I have knowm
fits existence ever since I was a
o¥, which is nearly four score years
30, and at that time and ever since
thas been just the same old ordinary
sect. There has®*been as far as I
a 0 see no multiplication in its num
frnor any greater ravages by its
‘esence in the cotton belt. The theo
¥ol its being brought here from
Wer climes is g misapprehension on
©Dartof those who try to explain
> Presence. 1t is here o stay, but I
OTotbelieve that 1t will ever dam
a€ the cro s any more than it did
hen | Was 3 '.;‘,:\.‘
Some people terming themseives
";»::n have sotten together and are
HMlpting to create a sensation
102 the furmers about a bug that
d ofton from time imme
flal. Long ago this insect was al-
Stunnoticed by farmers and cotton
rr YUt because men have started
" out it ruining the crop
L CPreading all over the country
at danger of eating up
*¢crop and making it impos-
M e to come to raise the flee
-710 WIS country some people
_Owed themselves to be misled
. Mi<and actually believe this
F »o¢t will soon eat all of
™ the United States.
el. - eevil never will do any
b , ) asd B has done hereto-
D their honye T, L 0 SIBSRSS SU6 1h
E.. " t'hat they are labor
]e e ustaken idea the better
* D€ for them,’?
‘EW FLAG STATION,
The s
- a 1 railroad has granted
* o 'v"i-’f/‘-‘r:s along their line
‘oert and Shellman, near
section houses are located,
d ) ’,-.‘t;u::? to be known as
g Ve established. Both,pas
"’. '{T‘ fach way will stop to
*4¢ put off passengers,
A $40,000 WEDDING DRESS.
It Takes the Gimp Out of the Average
Society Girl's Gorgeousness.
A bride in a $40,000 wedding dress
rather takes the gimp out of the aver
age society girl's gorgeousness, but
when the daughter of the sultan mar
ries there's nothing mean about her
bridal attire, and this was the costly
wedding dress prepared by two ‘‘milli
ners’’ in the Yildiz Klosk. It was
sewn thick with real pearls, and the
operation watched over by an officer
and two soldiers to insure the ‘‘milli
ners’’ from swallowing any of the
pearls. It is presumed the bride was
elated by the idea of wearing a 340,-
000 dress; more so perhaps than her
elderly husband, who may find it diffi
cult to supply his wife with clothes of
this gorgeous standard when the
housekeeping expenses weigh hard up
on him. At present the happy couple
can pick off a pearl or two if in need
and exchange them at papa’s ex
chequer for ready cash and never feel
the loss. .
SMITH DOES NOT RANK STATE.
Other Farmers in Georgia Beat Him
Raising Big Crops.
The papers of the state generally
have noted the sale of Hon. James M.
Smith's crop of cotton ‘amounting to
2,100 bales, which netted him R 75,000.
But Mr. Smith, while a successful
farmer, is not the greatest ¢rop pro
ducer in Georgia. There is one over
in Dougherty county, Mr. F. F. Put
ney, who raised last year a crop of
cotton which netted him $140,000 or
nearly twice the amount realized last
week by Mr. Smith in the sale of his
bales. And Mr. Putney is not an all
cotton farmer. He has large herds of
cattle and hogs and raises grain and
an abundance of food erops. Only a
few weeks ago he sold 100 beef cattle
to W. W. Rawlins, the butcher of
Albary, and his last year's hay
crop—mostly peavine -Wwas something
enormous.
BABY WITH ELEPHANT'S SNOUT
e
Protuberance Several inches Long on
Top of Child’s Head.
Last Saturday in Center, near Ath
ens, there was born a boy child per
fectly formed except that out of the
top of the child’s head there came a
protuberance about an inch in diame
ter and several inches long. a perfect
representation of the snout of ~an ele
phant. People from 1l around that
section have been to sce the curious
freak. The attendiny physician says
the growth is directly connected with
the brain of the child and tha. the
child will die. g & 1
DAWSON, GA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 1905.
At Special Meeting of State Board of Entomology Busi
ness of Vital Importance Was Transacted. Grain
Shipments into Georgia from Texas Allowed.
The Telegraph says the Georgia
state board of entomology has met in
Macon and decided that there was no
longer any use for the regulation that
has been in existence relative to the
boll weevil quarantine.
The action of the board in abolish
ing the quarantine regulation will
make it lawful for commission men
and farmers living in Louisiana and
Texas to make shipments to the state
of Georgia of threshed wheat, shelled
corn and cow peas at any time of the
year. Heretofore the regulations cov
ering this point allowed the shipment
of sucn articles into Georgia during
the months of July, August and Sep
tember only.
,TOH.\'ADO KILLED TWENTY-SIX,
Kansas Town a Sufferer from a Most
} Fearful Storm.’ .
| A Marquette, Kan., dispatch says:
' When darkness fell upon this town to
night it was known that twenty-six
lives had been lost in the tornado that
wrecked part of Marquette early Mon
day morning and did much damage to
this vicinity, and that forty-four per
isons had been injured.
| Of the injured thirty-five were seri
‘ously hurt and some of them may. die.
During the day two victims died of
their injuries. Several of the others
are suffering from broken iimbs and
internal injuries. In several cases
entire families have been killed.
Tonight order had practically been
brought out of the chaotic condition
that has prevailed, and a relief com
mittee had begun dispensing aid.” |
The tornado struck the southern end
of the town and cut a clean swath 100
yards in width through its entire
length. Coming as it did at midnight,
all the people were caught without a
moment's warning. A heavy rain
storm had preceded the wind.
" When daylight broke over the town
it found the entire population in a
state of panic. Business was entirely
suspended and every one whe escaped
injury turned his .\inttention toward
aiding the injured. Sk 1
Refuses to Play Goat. '
Uncle Tobe Stevens refuses ‘to play
roat to Harvie Jordan's Robinson
Crusoe show. And Gas- JOU blame '
him?— Brunswick J ouvrnal. g
In abolishing the former regulations
the state board has taken an action
for which Louisiana and Texas have
been long looking. The three months
that have formerly been open for the
transportation of the mentioned grains
in the state of Georgia were deemed
too short a time by the planters who
live near the gulf. ;
The vote to abolish to the former
regulation was unanimous.
State Entomologist R. I. Smith of
Atlanta, State Commissioner of Agri
culture O. B. Stevens, Col. Dudley M.
Hughes of Danville, Ga., and Dr. P.
J. Berckmans of Augusta, the mem
bers of the state board of entomology,
were in attendance at the session.
WERE HOT UNDER THE COLLAR.
Bank Employes Didn't Like Being
Measured and Photographed.
Followimg the Bigelow defalcation,
one of the Milwaukee banks has adopt
ed a new rule, under which all of its
officials and clerks are required to be
photographed and measured after a
system something like that of Bertil
lon, which has been adopted by the
police department for the identification
of ecriminals. The Milwaukee bank’s
clerks were for a time ‘‘hot under the
collar’’ about the new rule, but when
they reflected that an honest man
doesn’t care three straws how many
checks are put on him they cooled off
and submitted to being recorded. But
‘ it is a little tough to make honest men
‘suhmit to even the slightest humilia
tion because of the peculations of a
) rascal. g |
WEALTHY MEN IN COLORADO.
David Moffatt of Denver is the
richest man in Colorado, which out
ranks all other states in per capita
wealth. Colorado has the further dis
tinction that most of its vast fortunes
were made within its boundaries, not
alone in mining, but in cattle indus
try, in realty speculation, in fruit, in
sugar-beet culture, potato farming and
manufacturing and other mercantile
pursuits. There are 108 resident mil-‘
lionaires in Colerado, their total
wealth being about $260,000,000. Mr.
Moffatt is worth from $25,000,000 to
£30,000,000. About 100 men worthl
seven or more figures made their mon
ey in the state and reside elsvwbene,‘
, FUTURE OF THE NEGRO.
{Appears Uncertain, Gloomy and
Hopeless Says Lines.,
The Protestant Episcopal Church
congress opened in Holy Trinity
Church in Brooklyn, New York, Wed
nesday. The topic for discussion Aat
the night session was ‘‘The Negro in
America.”” Papers on the subject
were read by Bishop Lines of New
ark and Cuadjutor Bishop Strange of
the east Carolina diocese.
Bishop Lines said that the future of
the negro wonld be determined in no
small degree by what the church did.
The schools established for the edu
cation of the negro were great and
beneficent institutions. He declared
that colonization as a factor in set
tling the question of the negro’s fut
ure would prove a failure, and that it
was the dominant sentiment of both
north and south that the question
could not be solved either by amal
gamation or deportation.
The future of the negro at present,
he added, appeared to be uncertain,
gloomy’ and hopeless.
THE GEORGIA-TENNESSEE LINE.
Commissioners May Settle the Dis
pute Between the Two States. |
Governor Terrell has received a!
letter from Governor Cox of Tennes
see stating that the legislature of that
state has just provided for the -ap
pointmentment of a commission of
three to meet a similar commission
from Georgia and settle the disputed
boundary line between Dade county,
Georgia. and Hamilton and Marion
counties, Tennessee, running right
across the top of Lookout mountain.
As it was ih 1887 that the Georgia
legislature ‘pacsed a similar bill the
appropriation has since lapsed into
the treasury, and it will be necessary
to secure a new appropriation before
Georgia’s commissioners can be
named for the work. If there is found
tobe any immediate necessity for ae
tion Governor Terrell will name the
commission any how and trust to the
legislature for the appropriation.
FITZGERALD SUED FOR $15,000
Daughter-in-Law Says That He Alien.
ated Her Husband’s Affections.
P. H. Fitzgerald, founder of the
Georgia colony, is being sued by his
son’s wife for $%15,000 damages. His
daughter-in-law, Mrs. Bernard Fitz
gerald, is his son’s second wife and
was formerly Miss Minnie Barnett of
Franklin, Ind.. and she brings suit
against her father-in-law in a com
plaint charging that he alienated her
husband’s affections and induced himj
fi desect her. ||
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UNGLE SAM'S BIG DEFICIT
HIS INCOME IS NOT SUFFICIENT
TO PAY HIS MANY BILLS.
Plenty of Talk as to How to Get More
Revenue. Congress Must Act
at Ilts Next Session.
t A Washington dispatch Says new
iimpetus is given to the demand for
‘revenue legislation by the deficit for
the year ending June 30, which will
i probably reach $35,000,000.
~ The lines of division between the two
ischools of republican protectionists
are showing themselves. One division
lof the party will urge that increased
revenue should be obtained from in
ternal revenue taxes and by the trans
fererdce of certain imported articles
now on the free list to the dutiable.
An increased tax on beer and on dis
tilled spirits now used in reinforcing
American wines is proposed. This
; wing of the party will resist the theory
that added revenue might come from
lower tariff duties, because that we
do not want to buy more things
abroad.
The treasury has made an estimate
of probable expenses for the next four
years, on the theory that average ex
penditures can be reached with more
accuracy than the prediction for any
particular years, especially in naval
outlay, where the cost of construction
often masses itself in a single season.
Without additional revenue certain
new projects, like the shipping sub
vention bill, would be greatly preju=
diced, besides old friends like the pub
lie building and the river and harbor
bills. Congress will probably want the
extra money, and this will compel the
committee to recommend more rev
enue. /
DEEPEST HAUL OF A NET.
Took a Whole Day to Sink It and
Bring It Back Again.
The deepest haul of a net ever made
in the world was achieved by Ameri
cans off the Tonga Islands in the
south Pacific.
The trawl struck bottom 23,000 feet
below the surface; that is considerably
more than four miles down, but even
at that depth animal life was found.
Those strange beings lived in water
whose temperature was constantly
just above the freezing point, and un
der & pressure of 9,000 pounds to the
square inch. To sink that net and
bring it back again took a whole day
of steady labor. % v
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