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THE DAWSON NEWS.
v E. L. RAINEY.
101 MAIN STREET.
% Corner of Lee.
SALE THAT 1w VUUNIPTRIEES i ol
o AT 1 N DEN D.
Right in the heart of the season we come to you with $lO,OOO worth of Warm Weather Wearables with prices reduced to the aston
ishing low figures that the buying public of Dawson and surrounding country have never before witnessed, even here or elsewhere.
MR TNE PO ey TRO This sale commences at once, and continue just 30 days. 27-INCH JAP SILKS, 35¢c YARD.
Wash Goods.
Indigo Blue Calico, 5 cent value,
dme. .
1.000 vards figured lawns, 10 cent
values, :
7 /;C.
2.000 yards Lawns, in stripes, dots
and floral effects, 123 and 15 cent
values,
Oc.
{O-inch White Dimity
10c.
10-inch Black Lawn
10c.
40-inch Brown Linen Lawn
19¢c.
White India Lawns, 15 and 20 cent
quality,
10c.
We carry a beautiful line of white
mercerized waistings. To close out
13 off regular prices.
Brown Dress Linen, 2bc quality,
(every thread linen) 32 inches
wide, will go at
15¢.
Vard wide Indian Head or Em
broidery Cloth
Oc.
Remember It Is Our Way of Doing Things.
Always in the lead, while others try to follow. Come to our store, examine our goods, get our prices and be convinced that we
are the Leaders of Low Prices on clean, sightly, up-to-date merchandise.
01 MAIN STREET. THE BEE HIVE DAWSON, GEORGIA.
HALP LOOKOUT IS CONSTANTLY l
KEPT AT WHITE HOUSE.
isitors Are Not Allowed to Carry Any
Packages. No Discrimination Be
tween Officials and Citizens.
A Washington dispatch says the
ver alert secret service at the white
ouse appears to be exereising extra
rdinary vigilance in these days, from
ome reasons of their own which are
ot divulged to the general public.
mons other innovations visitors to
le executive mansion are not allowed
) bring in any bundles, handbags or
ackages whatsoever.
Nobody is permitted to enter thel
ont door with a valise or suit case,
U anything inclosed in a wrapper.
here is no diserimination shown by
€ o%cers in stopping people who
@ly any sort of parcel, be it a lady
I gentleman,
‘he other day a well-known con
'essian who was about to leave the
v called on his way to the depot to
Y 2oodby to the president. He held
small traveling satchel, and of
irse was stopped at the entrance to
¢ executive building and required to
ave the grip outside. The usher was
‘Y volite about it, but nevertheless
. The congressman took it in
00 part and left his traveling bag
' e outside step, although he after-
Alos said that it contained consider
"€ specie and other things of per
nal value.
[he new pegulation is regarded as
;\"- lor it stops one avenue thropgh
“1 evil minded persons might
Huzyle in an infernal machine. The
tICL service men are experts in spot-
U 2 cranks, and it is not likely that
* Ol that kind will ever get beyond
. %00 reception room. Itis notin
“Hed that the rule shall be appl_led{
-~ "4tors and representatives, cabinet’
““'s and members of the judiciary, ‘
'l Il sometimes happens that a newly
Vel official of the secret service is
" “cquainted with the personnel of
US¢ favored people.
FORMER WAIF AN HEIRESS.
seried by Her Father Years Ago.
Now Inherits $500,000 from Him.,
- "enty-three years ago a deserted
:)7 2irl was found on a doorstep in
\Sburg. The waif was taken in by
"hearted people and ecared for.
It “rew up into handsome woman
'’ and married an honest working
- A few days ago it was discoy
- that her father, who had incon
“trutely left her upon the charity of
" world, had died in Germany leav
= A tortune of $500,000. The former
“' 15 the only heir, and will come
‘4 handsome fortune.
-Bleached Muslin.
Yard wide Bleaching, nice soft fin
ish, no starch, only 20 yards to a
customer.
615¢c.
Brown Drilling, best quality, a
bargain at 10 cents, our price
o a B B
Windsor Percales, yard wide, sol
ids, figures and stripes,
it
42 and 46 inch Brilliantines in blue,
black, brown and cream, the $1
quality, per yard, respectively,
49 and 08c.
Gents’ Handkerchiefs, only three to
a customer,
3c. each.
One Hundred White Shirt Waists,
$1 and $1.25 quality, our price,
59c.
Gent’s Four-Ply Linen Collars, all
sizes, 14 td 16, all go at
e O R
Ladies’ Muslin Un
derwear.
We have in stock a limited quantity
of Ladies’ Muslin Underwear,
which we will close out AT COST.
Be sure and ask about it.
PIGEON STOPPED TOWN CLOCK
Went to Roost on Minute Hand and
Caused Many People to Be Late.
A pigeon roosting on the minute
hand of the town clock in the county
court house tower stopped the clock at
precisely 6:20 o’clock and caused
many peopl in Logansport, Ind., to be
an hour late.
Not until Judge John S. Lairy ap
peared was the cause of the trouble
discovered.
““There’ a pigeon on the minute
hand,”’ exclaimed the judge, whose
eagle-like eye had discerned the out
lines of thebird, which was comfortably
perched upon the end of the hand near
est the pivot, and instantly a score of
voices corroborated his observation.
-Henry O. Brown, the court house
janitor, was prevailed upon to climb
the stairway inside the tower and
frighten the bird away. Before ascend
ing he turned on the switeh connecting
the eleetric light in the tower, and al
though the dial was suddenly illumi
nated the pigeon was not the least
disturbed and refused to move. Brown
’finally was obliged 1o climb the dizzy
‘height and ‘‘shoo’’ the bird away. It
‘Was 7:15 o’clock when the mechanism
of the clock was again in motion.
FAT FEES ¥FOR TRUST HUNTERS
But Little to Show for a Half Million
Dollar Appropriation.
At the beginping of the fifty-eighth
congress a fund of $500,000 was placed
at the disposal of the department of
justice for the purpose of prosecuting
the unlawful trusts. There had been
some criticisms of the government’s
attitude toward the trusts while Phil
ander C. Knox was attorney general.
It was pointed out that he had expend
ed only $25,000 in an effort to curb the
trusts, whereupon there was a demand
that the department of justice be given
an ample fund with which to work
and instructed to push the matter to
the bitter end. Hence the $500,000 ap
priation was passed, and Attorney
General Moody was given to under
stand that the warmer he made it for
the trusts the better congress would
like it.
It is believed that congress will have
no cause for complaint with respeet to
a small amount of money spent on the
trust cases when it next assembles.
Indeed, the half million dollars will
probably have disappeared like a
snow bank under a hot sun. Between
forty and fifty special attorneys, at
large fees, are at work on the trust
cases. Some show of prosecution has
been made against the beef trust, the
paper trust, the tobacco trust and the
oil trust, as well as against the rail
road rebate evil. The beef trust has
continued on in the even tenor of its
way without paying the slightest atten
tion to the proceedings. Nor has
either the oil trust or the paper trust
evinced any of the symptoms of fear
or anxiety. About the only result
that anybody looks for is the dissipa
tion of the £500,000 fund and a call for
more money when congress meets.
DAWSON, GA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 1905.
THE BEE BIVE:
CUT 13 PER CENT IN GEORGIA; 18 IN SOUTH
Commissioner of Agriculture O. B. Stevens and President Jordan
of Cotton Growers’ Association Make Reports on Acreage. .
Georgia’s cotton acreage has been
reduced 13 per cent as compared with
last year, while there has been a re
duction of a little more than 14 per
cent in the amount of fertilizers used
under cotton, according to a report of
the state department of agriculture
just made publie.
This estimate is based on reports
received from between 500 and 1,000
correspondents in all parts of the
state, as many as six or eight reports
each having been received from the
more important agricultural counties.
Commissioner O. B. Stevens has
had all of these reports carefully anal
yzed and tabulated, and his report is
an accurate summary of them. While
the showinz as to cotton is, perhaps,
not as good as many had hoped for
it is evident that the farmers have, as
a rule, been in earnest in their deter
mination to cut down the acreage.
The figures in this report show,
among other interesting facts, that the
condition and prospect of the cotton
crop this year is even better than at
this time last year, being 102 per cent.
The worst reports are from south
Georgia, where there is much grass in
the fields and a scarcity of labor.
While there was a decrease of 14
per cent in the amount of fertilizers
used under cotton there has been an
increase of 15 per cent in the fertiliz
ers used for other crops, which accords
with the reports that the sales of fer
tilizers in Georgia this year have been
about the same as in 1904.
The acreage in corn shows an in
crease of 6 per cent, and there has
been some slight increase in other
crops. A .
The report indicates that the fruit
crop will be far below that of last
vear, the percentage_of a full crop in
dicated this year being about 53 per
cent.
WIFE'S ILLNESS CAUSED SUICIDE
Husband Wanted to Sell Furniture to
Raise Money for Her Benefit.
James Buford, who resides with his
wife in Columbus, attempted to com
mit suicide by swallowing an ounce of
chloroform. Buford was melancholy
over the fact that his wife is a con
sumptive and had been told by.
her physicians that her only hope lay
in going to a higher climate. The
family is poor and Buford offered to
sell his furniture and give his wife the
money to go away on, but she refused
to permit the sacrifice and Buford
took the poison in despair. His life
was saved‘wbg the prompt action of
}physicians o were called in.
Ladies’ Shoes.
We have sample lot of 250 pairs of
Ladies’ and Lace and Button
Shoes, Oxfords, Ties, Sandals and
Opera Slippers, worth from $1 to
$2.50. We want to close them out
at once at :
Soc pair.
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DROP HEAD, BALL BEARING
SEWING MACHINE, Guaranteed
for 12 years,
To Be Given Away
free of charge. Ask about it. Re
member theréis no charge. FREE.
The Southern Cotton Association
has issued its cotton aereage report.
The report, which was given out from
New Orleans, is as follows:
“The estimated acreage for 1904, as
indicated by the report of the United
States government, amounted to a31,-
730,000 acres.
“The decrease in the acreage for
1905, which was ascertained from in
dividual revorts from 17,754 farmers,
merchants, bankers and others
throughout the cotton belt, fixes the
acreage this year at 25,980,651 acres,
a decrease of 18.43 per cent, and 16.05
per cent in fertilizers.
“The report on the decrease in cot
ton acreage and the use of commercial
fertilizers under cotton for 1905 was
compiled from reliable statistics gath
ered from the various state and terri
torial presidents of the association
and tabulated at New Orleans May 31,
1905, by the president and secretary
of the Southern Cotton Association
and Col. H. G. Hester of New Orleans,
with the assistance and co-operation
of the presidents of the state and terri
torial divisions.
“The condition of the crop as re
ported for Louisiana, Texas, Arkan
sas, the territories and portions of
Mississippi are unprecedentedly bad,
much of the acreage reported in those
states being yet unplanted and large
tracts either under water or badly
washed by heavy rains.
“‘ln the eastern portion of the cotton
belt the fields generally are grassy,
the cotton still uhchopped and labor
very scarce throughout the entire
belt.
“The officers of the association ex
pressed the highest commendation of
the loyalty of the farmers throughout
the cotton territory in so fully liv
ing up to their promises and their
pledges.’’
CLOUDBURST RUINS CROPS.
Great Damage Is Done by the Ele
ments in Sumter County.
A special from Americus says
parties in that town Wednesday from
the vicinity of Dozier’'s mill, 11 miles
north of the city, reported a veritable
cloudburst there with great destruction
of ecrops. Immense trees were blown
all over the cotton and corn fields,
literally destroying the crops. That of
one entire plantation will have o be
abandoned. The storm swept the
voung corn and cotton as though
mowed with a reaper. On three plan
tations the destruction was very great.
Popularity never begins at home.
Shoes.
It is a well-known fact that we
handle some of the best makes of
shoes for Men, Ladies, Misses
and -Boys that the Eastern facto
ries can turn out, and during this
sale we will offer some rare bar
gains in shoes.
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Misses’ Oxfords, Etc.
ALL SIZES of Misses’ Oxfords,
Sandals and Slippers, worth from
75¢ to $2, (a sample lot) at the re
markably low price of
25c pair.
Hosiery.
Among the npny good things we
are offering in this sale you will
find some of the BEST in the
Hosiery department. 10 dozen
Ladies’ Drop Stitch Hose, solid,
pink and blue, 20c¢ values, at 9
cents per pair, or
3 pairs for 25 cents.
25 cents quality Ladies black drop
stitch lisle finish Hose at
12145c¢.
Only two pair to a customer.
150 men’s Negligee Shirts, worth
50 and 73 cents, sale price
. 23c. ’
A GEORGIA DOMESTIC TRAGEDY,
sl
Husband and Wife Quarreled Six
Thousand Times in Fourteen Years.
In the vicinity of Augusta lives a
tarmer, by name John Madgett, who
has appealed to the courts of Georgia
to release him from the galling bonds
of matrimony on the ground of in
compatibility of temper. During the
fourteen vears of their conjugal rela
tion Mr. Madgett makes affidavit that
he and his wife have quarreled 6,110
times. Mr. Madgett is thus statis
tically precise because, from the very
day the preacher tied the knot, he
kept a domestic diary, with a possible
view to future divorce contingencies.
Having thus acted as the historian of
the little domestic infelicities that are
wont to sometimes ripple even the
placid surface of true love Mr. Mad
gett is enabled to furnish his lawyer
with a tabulated classification of the
source and nature of these divers and
sundry conjugal spats. It seems from
Mr. Madgett’s record, that the period
of his double blessedness was fruitful
of 436 quarrels a year, to strike a
yearly average of the imposing aggre
gate, which gives an average of a
quarre! a day and some to spare.
OCCUPATIONS OF THE FUTURE. ‘
A Conversation That Was ()verheanl]
Between a Party of Millionaires.
Three millionaires, as they walked
the boardwalk of Atlantic City, talked
of the business of the future.
“It is in the new things, always in
the new things,’’ said the first, *‘that
the poor young men will find their
chance. The old things always are
monopolized. It was so in my day.
It wil{’be so in my grandson’s day.”’
“Tprue,’”’ sald the second millionaire.
“T made my money out of shoddy.
Shoddy in my youth was a new thing.
It seemed miraculous in those days to
turn old cloth into new cloth. People'
said I was a fool to enter such an un
tried field.”’ !
“‘Automobiling is one of the new
businesses to take up,’’ said the third.
“‘Automobiles, motor cycles, lamps, |
horns, tires, schools for chauffeurs—
this big business has many lucrative
branches.”’
] am urging my son,”’ said the
first, ‘‘to go into the phonographic
and vitascopic entertaining. You have
seen those halls like theatres, each
with 75 to 100 little phonographs and
vitascoggs, where for a penny you can
hear a beautiful song or see a beauti
ful dance? Well, these halls are pop
ular, and they will become more pop
ular as the entertainment provideg’ for
them improves. I can imagine my son
conduecting in one c¢ity a dozen such
halls, each netting him $25 a day.”’—
Philadelphia Bulletin.
ONCE on a time, says the Augusta
Chronicle, a man- stopped taking a
very good newspaper because the pa
per printed something he didn’t like.
The paper survived, but in the course
of time the man went the way of all
flesh and was forgotten.
VOL. 2380, 31.
101 MAIN STREET.
Corner of Lee.
Young Men
We carry a full line of low cut shoes
for young men. Patent Colt, Pat
ent Vici, Box Calt, Velure Calf
and Kangaroo, both black and tan,
13 off
regular price during this sale.
: Clothing.
HERE IS A BONANZA for those
who contemplate buying Clothing
any time soon. 25 suits well
made, up-to-date clothing for men
$3 20 per Suit.
Any other house would charge you
$7.50 to $lO for the same goods.
300 pairs Men’s Pants at
%c pair up.
Straw Hats.
We carry a full line of Panama,
Macinaw, Manila, Rush and Chip
Straw Hats for Men. They will be
closed out regardless of cost.
Only One Table
left of the old Bankrupt Stock of
Patterson Bros. To be sold
At Any Old Price.
2 SPOOLS OF BEST 10
J SPOOI. coTTON IUC
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IPARALYSIS OF RAILROADERS
IA DISEASE THAT IS BECOMING
I ALARMINGLY FREQUENT.
Mostly Affects Face and Legs, and Is
Found More Frequently Among
Conductors and Brakemen.
That paralysis of the face and legs
lis becoming alarmingly frequent
among railroad men, and that a num
ber of such employes traveling out of
Louisyille are now affected with forms
of the disease more or less serious,
was brought out in the convention of
the Kentucky Homeopathic Associa
tion which met at the Galt House,
says a Louisville dispatch. The ma
jority of the cases reported are among
conductors and brakemen, and engi
neers and firemen seem to be the least
affected, although a few cases from
this branch of railway employes have
been reported.
| The question of paralysis among
railroad men was brought up by Dr.
| :
\ Hugh M. Clendenin, who has been liv
ing in south Louisville for some time.
Among Dr. Clendenin’s patients are a
number of railroad men, and he stated
that cases of paralysis are being re
ported to him every few months. The
men affected are generally young and
age has not told on their systems, and
Dr. Clendenin asked for an explana
tion of the cases.
Paralysis in the majority of the
cases which have come under Dr.
Clendenin’s attention affected the face,
and for months he has been treating
the eyes, jaws, muscles and nerves of
the faces of a number of men employed
by the Louisville and Nashville. None
of these cases are serious, and very
few have proved permanent, but each
‘has been sufficient to keep the affected
'men out of work for several months.
)L Owing to the fact that a majority of
the affected men were brakemen the
majority of the physicians gathered at
the convention decided that the paral
ysis was due to numerous causes,
among them the long hours of work,
the constant nervous sirain, pocr food
furnished while on a run, and the sud
den shocks to which they are liable.
The facial paralysis in mostcases was
attributed to the force of the wind
blowing - at ditferent temperatures
against the head. The remaining
cases were thought to be due to the
nervous strain and the irregular hours
of the men.
NEVER TOUCHED HIM.
A Georgia postmaster who got
drunk and was fined $lO by the re
corder of his town has refused either
to pay the fine or go to jail. The town
authorities *decline to put him there
because they are afraid they would be
inm{'fering with the United States
'mail.