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pall of the Brunswick Jour
hal also knows what live and effective
advertising is, and in the following in
teresting manner touches up the bus
iness men of his town who are using
provineial methods of publicity:
““Some of the business people of
Brunswick need a course of treatment
with the bi-chloride of modern busi
ness wit. Most of them seem to be af
licted by the hook-worm of provin
cialism. and are doing business after
he fashion of the days that antedated
steam processes, eleetricity and the
sreed of hustle!
“‘Many of them complain that ‘busi
ness is dull,” and heaven knows that
it ought to be duller than a rail-maul
to those of them that still depend on
hanging up their wares on the side
walks and wasting money on half
sheet bills that negro boys throw in
chunks over the fences of vacant lots
and sell to lunch dealers for wrapping
paper.
“Brunswick has two newspapers
that together are readin all the homes
of the people who have money to spend
in the stores of the city. Advertising
in them is almost as cheap as a chari
ty school could ask. The wise mer
chant advertises in them. The other
kind does not. But we will get some
of their patronage, thank the Lord,
when they fall into the bankrupt
conart.”’ a 4
THE PROPOSED BOND ISSUE.
[t has been decided by the mayor
and council that an election shall be
called at which the question of issuing
bonds to the *amount of $BO,OOO for
waterworks and sewerage systems
will be submitted to the voters of the
city.
The News believes that if the propo
sition is presented fairly and fully to
the people the bonds will carry, for
the citizens of the town generally seem
to be in favor of these improvements.
There is a disposition on the part of
nearly everyone, however, to know to
what extent the sewerage will cover
the city. And it is reasonable that
they should. The people as a whole
want to know if the people as a
whole are to be served by this con
venience, or if only certain sections
are to have the benefit of it. We
believe that some knowledge of just,i
how far this improvement is to go is‘
due the people of Dawson. The News
favors a system of sewerage, and we
sincerely trust that the council, in
order to insure intelligent voting on
the question, will impart as much in
formation along this line as it is pos
sible for them to do.
THE LORD TO THE RESCUIL.
In discussing the failure to reduce the
cotton acreage and the gloomy pros
pects that are ahead of us the Blakely
Reporter, while stating that he ought
to have known better than to push a
scheme that was practically impossi
ble of realization, is not disposed to
place the entire blame on the shoul
ders of Hon. Harvie Jordan, and
expresses the hope that what he and
others have not been able to do will |
vet be done by the Lord. Our contem
porary says:
““It was a case of bad judgment, and
Mr. Jordan found plenty of ardent
supporters. There was no deception
except that which was voluntary on
the part of everyone participating in
the movement. We never could wax
enthusiastic over the proposal to hold
the last crop. It should have been
unloaded away back yonder before
Christmas. When you get a burden
that is too heavy for you unload it
on some one else and let them carry
it. You always have another load
coming on. Those who are predicting
all kinds of disaster for the coming
fall may be right; the outlook now is
* not encouraging, but the crop is not
made yet, and if the Lord keeps on
sending rain bountifully it won’t be
';lllaQe, but a good hay crop is possi
“ble.
e JAPAN'S SCHEME. 1
The impression is growing that
Japan is endeavoring to take :ulv:xm,-%
age of the presence of the Russian
fleet near French waters recently to
bring about a condition under which,
through an existing treaty pledge,
the assistance of Great l':ri;;fin
will be secured. It has been said
that ‘‘the fear of Togo’s defeat, fol
lowed by the isolation and destruction
of their Manchurian army, has filled
Japan with alarm, and the forcing of
France into the struggle has become a
necessity to them that they may be
able to avail themselves of the over
whelming naval power of their kng
lish ally.”’
IT is said ““Augusta claims to be
the father-in-law of ali the candidates
for governor.’:; What a fine lot of
everal able and
5 who aspired to the
grthe house of represent
ve retired from the race until
ohn M. Slaton of Fulton has
Bft a clear field. His unanimous
election when the legislature convenes
next month is practically assur d,
and it will be_an honor worthily be
stowed. Mr. Slaton has been a mem
ber of the house for several terms,
and has served the state with such sig
nal ability and fidelity that he easily
ranks among the foremost of Geor
';_{in.'s publi¢ men.
| Speaker Slaton will sound all right,
‘:md will be all right.
THE Macon Telegraph notes that
doubts are not wanting as to the gen
uineness of the corpse of John Paul
Jones which General Porter has found
in the St. Louis cemetery in Paris.
“It may not be c¢ivil to investigate a
gift corpse too closely,’' says the Chi
cago Tribune, but that journal is of
the opinion that the inscription on the
proposed American tomb, if honestly
written, would be: ‘‘Here lies—per
haps—the body of John Paul Jones."’
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT is probably
the first republican leader of promi
nence that the great democratic club
of the west, the Iroquois Club of Chi
cago, ever entertained. He was not
entertained, however, as a republican,
but as a friend and as the president.
It was a great compliment to the pres
ident for him to be the guest of that
organization.
THE indifference and unconcern
with which the marriage vows are as
sumed and discarded in some sections
of this country is gecandalous and dis
gusting. In New York city Mrs. Mary
J. Crowther, ‘‘a handsome brunette
of thirty-two years,’’ has been granted
a divoree from her seventh husband.
IN a case carried up from Augusta
the supreme court has decided that a
street carnival is a nuisance, and no
municipal government has a right to
grant to any party the use of its
streets for such a purpose. This will
put an end to the swindling, filthy,
immoral street shows in Georgia.
THE Southern Baptist Convention,
now in session at Kansas City, Mo.,
has declared that it is not its business
to solve the so-called negro problem.
And that is true. Meddling with the
negro and his future by various bod
ies and individuals has made a prob
lem where none existed.
NAN PATTERSON has been released
from jail on her own recognizance,
and one of the most exploited criminal
cases that New York has enjoyed in
many vears is at an end. Let us hope
that nothing more will be heard of
this nasty affairc
THE Madison Advertiser wants to
know if Pope Brown manipulated the
late cotton growers’ convention in At
lanta to boost his campaign for gov
ernor. He missed it if he did. The
thing is too weak to boost anything.
~ THE Americus Times-Recorder says
that if the bicycle laws of other cities
have no more effect than they do in
Americus they might as well attach a
shot gun and turn it loose. The same
here.
THE Thomasville Press ventures the
belief that the per capita wealth of
southwest Georgia is greater than that
of any other section of the state. Our
contempurary is not alone in this be
lief,
AN ofticial report on desertions in
the American navv says that of an en
listed force of 30,066 men only 10:7 per
cent deserted. ‘‘Only”” 10:7 per cent
seems rather large.
THE Atlanta Journal calls on the
state railroad commissioners to re
sign. Governor Terrell, however,
need not begin looking around for
their suceessors.
HoN. €. R. PRINGLE, for many
vears president of the Georgia Prohi
bition Association and a pioneerlead
erin that cause, has died at his home
in Sandersville.
Ho~. RoLAaND ELLIS of Bibb coun
ty has resigned as a member of the
legislature. As a Georgia politician
Mr. Ellis is in a fair way to become a
curiosity.
THE railroad commission has low
ered the rate on cooking stoves to
Dawson. Now if they will only lower
the rates on things to cook on the
stoves.
A WISE country editor observes
that all the advice his contemporaries
are giving the legislature isn’t worth
a straw.
[T is announced that ball playing is
a cure for insanity. It has always
seemed to have the opposite effect.
THE Georgia peach crop is going to
be very fine after all. A cat hasn’t
so many lives as the peach crop.
felephone Line to Doverel.
Dawson and Doverel are now in
speaking distance. The line of the
Georgzia-Alabama Telephone Co. be
tween these places was completed
I'l‘hur%dq_\' afternoon and the service
begun. The 'phone at Doverel is in
the store of Messrs. Lee & Thornton,
and will prove a great convenience to
the people of that town. A number’of
farmers along the line will also put in
‘shenes. psls ety UG e Y R
A SYSTEMATIC PREACHER. i
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What the Christian Union Says of a\
Popular Dawson Minister. !
In an account printed in the Christ- |
ian Union of his recent trip to Daw-|
son in the interest of a state reforma- |
tory Rev. Crawford Jackson says of |
Rev. O. F. Cook, the popular and I
much beloved pastor of the Methodist |
church here: ‘
“‘lnasmuch as we will draw upon
The Dawson News for an account of
our mass meeting there, we will speak
tirst of the man in the parsonage, the 1
pulpit and the pastorate. In the first
place, I donot know of a more sys-‘
tematic preacher than Osgood (look.fi
As we looked at the orderliness of his
library, his system of numbering
every book and having references in
his large interleaved Bible to all the
volumes in his library discussing cer
tain subjects or explaining eertain pas
sages of Scripture; as we endeavored
to find some lack of system in his
study and were unable to do so, even
in the waste basket—everything in it
looked like it was arranged to order—
and as we saw the same systematic
man in the pulpit and the pastorate
we wished it was more so with us and
others. Moreover, Brother Cook is a
very successful man in winning and
holding the hearts of his parishioners
1 and leading them to better and higher
things. Itls gratifying to note that
closing with this conference year he
will have spent twelve years in three
pastoral charges. He raised last year
%2,800 for benevolences, which went out
of and beyond his pastoral charge to
regions beyond-—more than twice as
much as was paid him as pastor. The
charge raised last year a total for all
purposes of over $7,000. This is a
very encouraging increase, and it
might be added that during his pas
torate 233 members have been receiv
ed by certificate and profession of
faith. We wish we had time and
space to speak of his christian and
“seute’’ companion; also of that grand
old man, Dr.W. C. Kendrick, who was
born more than three score and ten
years ago in the midst of a hail storm
and says he has been in a storm ever
since; has practiced medicine over
fifty vears, spent ten years in the leg
islature and requested the privilege
lof first signing our petition for the re
formatorv.’’
BRUIN CAUSED WILD STAMPEDE.,
Wild Black Bear Pays Call to Al
bany and Frightens Citizens.
ALBANY, GA., May 14.—A stampede
‘of the residents of Sandtown, a west
‘ern suburb of Albany, occurred this
morning when an immense black bear
appeared in the principal street and
gave vent to a series of growls. Men,
women and children ran screaming
into the nearest houses.
Primus Pitman, a negro with a
pistol, attacked bruin. The first shot
inflicted a flesh wound and the bear
made a rush at Pitman, who fired the
remaining shots at close range, one
of the balls entering the beast’s brain
when it was in a few feet of the negro.
One shot was fired at the bear by
Sheriff Edwards, who was passing in
his buggy. The beast proved to be an
unusually large one of its species,
weighing about 250 pounds. It prob
ably wandered from the Pocoson
swamp three miles away.
HEARING IN HATTAWAY CASE.
Referee Wilkinson Takes Testimony
in Bankruptcy Proceedings.
From the Blakely Reporter.
l Referee in Bankruptey H. A. Wilk
inson of Dawson was in Blakely last
Friday, hearing testimony and argu
ments ot counsel in the matter of J. C.
Hattaway, bankrupt, of Bluffton. It
|is the contention of the creditors that
Hattaway is withholding a large sum
of money from them, according to his
books and other evidence submitted.
The testimony is all in, and the argu
ments will be submitted in writing to
the referee. A strong array of coun
'<el appeared for each side.
? Grows a RRose Black as Raven's Wing
~ Dennis Tapley is an aftlicted young
man of this city who has for years,
though bowed and bent by disease,
sold key rings in one of the squares,
stamping upon them the names of those
who buy. He has suddenly sprung
into public notice through his asser
tion that he has discovered a secret
that has been concealed from natural
ists and florists for all the ages—the
secret of growing a eoal black rose.
Tapley declares he has perfected his
method, and that he can raise a rose
as black as a raven’s wing. This, he
asserts, he does without the use of
chemicals. He has named his rose
the mourning rose, and says he ex
pects to sell the seeret for slo,ooo.—Sa
vannah Press.
The Vice-President's Inkstand.
From the Savannah News.
Vice-President Fairbanks is to have
a new $5OO inkstand to be placed on
his desk when he takes his seat as
president of the senate. The govern
ment will pay the bill. It seems that
for a number of years it has been the
custom to place a magnificent inkstand
on the vice-president’s desk and to
present it to him when he retires from
office. Garrett A. Hobart’s inkstand,
it is said, cost $BOO. That isn’t graft
of course: but what is it?
Mountain View Hotel, Clarksville, Ga.
Nestling among the mountains of
north Georgia, an ideal summer re
sort. Under new management. Hotel
opens 10th of June and closes October
Ist. Reasonable rates. For particu
lars address Mountain View Hotel,
Clarksville, Ga.
Will Close With a Concert.
The negro public schools of the city
will close on the night of 31st. with a
concert at Atoc A. M. E. church. The
school has had a large attendance and
a very successful session under the
tutorship of Principal Walter Rich
ardson and his assistant.
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For Infants and Children.
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The Kind You Have Always Bought
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Pews. Wednesday, May 17, 1905.
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For Guardianship.
GEORG!A. TERRELL 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 notify 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.
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For Dismission.
GEORGIA, TERRELL CoUNTY. Ordinary’s Ofe
fice, April 29, 1905. J. R. Mercer. administrator of
the estate of Owen Dodwell. deceased. represents
to me that he has fully diseharged 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 adminis=
trator should not be discharged from his said
trust. J. W. ROBERTS, Ordinary.
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For Administration.
GEORGIA, TERRELL 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. 8. 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 letters should not
ve granted said applicant as applied for,
J. W. ROBERTS, Ordinary.
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Notice to Contractors.
Bids wanted for construction of a city and fire
hall for Dawson, Ga. Bids will be received un
til noon, June 8, 1905. Plans and specifications
can be seen at the office of City Clerk, Dawson,
Ga., or Lockwood Bros., Architects. Columbus,
Ga. Right reserved to re&ect ané or all bids.
J. R. MERCER, Mayor.
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Money to Loan.
The Georgia Loan and Trust Company loans
money at 6 per cent per annum on reai estate,
Prompt service guaranteed. If vou want to bore
TOW money see H. A. WILKINSON.
Farm Loans.
Farm Loans made at low rates and on easy
terms. Save money by writing us. Large loans
preferred. P. O. BOX 244 Americus. Ga.
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Wood Wanted. ; |
1,000 cords of geod, dry long leaf pine wood. !
Highest market price paid. Apply to ]
GEO. O. & A. F. BERRY, Columbus, Ga.
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FLAPDOODLE.
From the Brunswick Journal.
It is really astonishing how much
flapdoodle is uttered in the name of
‘‘the people of Georgia.”” Newspapers
are confidently claiming that ‘‘the
people want’’ this and that and ‘‘the
people will do’’ this and that—just as
if the people had already assembled
en masse and resoluted favorably up
on the particular political fads of
said several newspapers. Which is
all very funny to the citizen of aver
age common sense.
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City Ordinance.
Be it ordained. and it is hereby ordained and
enacted by authority of the City Couneil of Daw
son, Ga., that from and after the passage of this
Ordinance it shall be unlawful for anyone who is
not & 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 charge of the vehicle to do so, which is
used by the fire departmaent of the city 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 violation of the above ordie
nance shall be punished inthe manner preseribed
in section 186 ofpthe code of the city of Dawson.
Passed as an emergency ordinance at regular
meeting of the City Council of Dawson. This
May 2nd, 1805, CHAS DEUBLER,
R. E..BELL, Clerk. Mavyor Pro Tem.
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