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\CGUST 26, 1908
$10.50 :: $10.50
is the price on 3 burner
~ oil stoves with round oven
for the next ten days.
Phone 60 and 147 for one.
Dawson Hardware
' Company.
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Former Georgian Writes to Rela
tives in Lowndes County.
Ei ght(’ cn Years of Sentence Still
Hangs Over Him. Was Taken
prisoner in Cuba While Serving
tUnder General Campos. May Ask
Aid of Government.
The little town of Lake Park, in
,owndes county, is very much inter
ested over a letter which Mr. Law
rence Wisenbaker, a leading citizem
ihere, has just received from Carte
gena, Spain, supposed to have been
written from a prison cell by Peter
Kershaw, formerly of Lowndes coun
tyv. and who married Mr. Wisenba
ker's sister about 40 years ago, or
his son. :
After their marriage they moved
to lexas. Mr. Kershaw was a Bap
tist preacher and resided most of
his life in Hamilton ecounty, Fla.
The wife died after mary years and
nothing more was heard of Kershaw.
Committed Political Offense.
The letter which Mr. Wisenbaker
has just received states that he is
a political prisoner im Spain under
@ sentence, 18 years of which is
nanging over him. He says he has
a daughter 15 years of age in a
school in Spain, and he wants Mr.
Wisenbaker to come and get her and
look after her for him.
In his letter he states that he has
something like 36,000 pounds ster
ling, in property and in bank, and
1e also wants Mr. Wisenbaker to ad
minister this estate for him. The
etter indicates that he was taken al
prisoner in Cuba; that he was a seo-l
retary and treasurer under Gen.
( ampos, but just what crime he com
::_‘:m-‘d‘is not stated. He says that
ibe rigid prison rules have prevented
him from writing sooner, and this
‘€tter was mailed through .the courte
v of a priest who visited the prison.
May Be Kershaw's Son.
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Mr. Wisenbaker is both surprised
'.M' mystified by the letter. He is
‘uiclined to believe that the writer is
a son of his sister, as her husband
‘*l”l]d h;mx been too old to be mixing
the Cuban Revolution, and it is
ikely that their daughter would have
been more than 15 years of age. The
itller was not as definMely ad
iressed, too, as the older Kershaw
{\f‘nm have addressed, being ad
fressed only to ‘“Mr. Wisenbaker,
e Grist Mill Man, Long-Pond, Ga.,
;5 A" Long Pond being the name
\‘H'r’“‘ postoffice before the Georgia
Jouthern road was built through
‘re and Lake Park became a town,
,en there were several families by
4. name in that section.
No Fake Story. :
My o o e .
“ ‘k“"w\wi‘*nhukor is convinced that
.. man in prison is his near rela
“\‘...c’ml that he is telling the truth
* What he writes. He expects to
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ang satisfactory, It speaks kind-
IV in praise of the quality of our
(rugs ang chemicals, as well as
of the skijl which these prescrip
tiong are compounded.
If you wish the best service in
Prescriptions come to us; if you
WISt the best and purest of drugs
fome to yg,
PEOPLE'S DRUG STORE
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do all in his power to relieve him,
and he may ask the federal authori
ties to assist him in the matter. The
letter is writen in a beautiful hand,
though the language and characters
are broken English ‘with the Spanish
touch throughout.
BEER WAS EVERYWHERE.
German Just Returned From the
Fatherland Reports Grand Time.
The Charlotte Observer welcomes
back, after a visit to his native Ger
many, Mr. John Webber. The Ob
server says he had gained twenty
pounds in two months, and when
asked if he had a good time he de
clared joyfully: “Yes, mine got,
dere is 'beer everywhere—on the
streets, on the sidewalks—every
where, T tell you, everywhere. Cer
tainly, man, I had one goot time al
ready yit.” ‘rhere are some Geor
gians also whose memories sizzie
this hot weather when they remem
ber the days of ice cold beer.
SOME NEW LAWS AND NEAR LAWS
What Was Done and What Was Left Undone by the Legislaiure.
In the Term of One Hundred Days More Than 1,600
Bills and Resolutions Were Introduced.
What the Ilegislature didn't do
stands out more prominently this
year than what was done by that
body in fifty days, and was left over,
same of it, for the ‘‘extra session,”
which will be called, it is stated, for
Tuesday, August 25.
During the term of 100 dayvs just
closed there were introduced in the
house just 1,138 bills; of this num
ber 745 were introduced last year
and the remaining 393 this year.
Of resolutions there were 361 in all;
163 last year and 198 this year.
The number of bills passed, local
and general, cannot be ascertained
until after the engrossing corps turns
them over to the governor, and the
number which will become laws de
pends upon the number he approves
or vetoes.
According to the calendar of the
legislature that body did not pass a
convict bill; a constitutional amend
ment to prohibit the leasing of con
victs; a bill to extend the state road
to the sea; a measure to parole pris
oners; an amendment to the child
labor law, shortening the hours and
raising the limit; a measure to make
February 12th ‘“‘Georgia Day;’’ bills
to amend the garnishment laws,
which have driven capital from
Georgia; a bill to bond secret so
cieties, aimed at negro societies; a
measure to put solicitors-general on
a salary; a bill to regulate the tot
ing of pistols; a bill to tax dogs or
to muzzle dogs; to provide public
comforts for female employes; a bill
to register barbers and provide a
state board of examiners; bills to in
crease the salaries of the supreme,
appellate and superior court judges;
the mosquito bar bill; the clean
sheet bill; the bill to have a state
registration of births; a bill to ex
empt farm produce from taxation;
an anti-pass bill (administration
measure); a bill to regulate the
hours of working telegraph opera
tors by railroads; a bill to grant
eminent domain for water powers;
a bill to punish common carriers
for confiscating coal in transit; the
bill to create fifty-nine senatorial dis
tricts, instead of forty-four; a bill
to change the state board of educa
tion; a bill to create a state bank
bureau; a bill to repeal the act de
termining the running of county
lines; the bill to create juvenile
oourts in Georgia; the bill to allow
two or more municipalities to or
ganize a road gang; a bill to amend
the drug law; a bill to issue $750,-
000 in bonds for caring for the con
victs of Georgia on convict farms;
a bill to change the age for road
duty; a bill to tax near beer places
$2OO per annum.
Most of the time consumed in the
first session was taken up with the
prohibition question, the bill to en
large the powers of the railroad com
mission and other minor measures.
The majority of the time of the
session just closed was taken up in
discussing the convict question, and
it adjourned without concurrent ac
tion.
The legislature will go on record,
however, as having passed the fol
lowing measures of general import
ance, which await the signature of
the governor before becoming laws:
The bill to elect the pension com-
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Confiscated Wet Goods Were De
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stroyed in Birmingham. %
BEER, WHISKEY, CHAMPAGNE
Flow Through the Gutters of the
Alabama City. Valued at $1,500,
and Represented the Accumulation
of Confiscated Liquor Since A(l\'ent}
of Prohibition. !
Wine, whiskey and beer flowed
through the sewers of Birmingham
Tuesday, when the police emptied
into the gutters the accumulation 011
all the ‘“booze” confiscated since
Birmingham came under the prohibi
tion law. The stuff consisted of wet
goods, from champagne to too—near-?
beer, and is valued at about $1.500.3
It represents the accumulation of
confiscated liquor since last Novem
ber, and has been stored as it was
seized in the cellars of the city hall.
Tuesday Judge Feagin ordered its de
struction and two policemen rolled
the barrels and bottles into the city
hall alley where, under a special
guard, the stuff was allowed to run
into the gutter amd thence into the
sanitary sewer at the corner of the
alley. A special detail of police kept
back the curious crowds and saw
that none of the contraband got down
the throats of interested spectators.
As Birmingham was the largest
city in the United States to come first
‘under the prohibition law the effect
fof legislation in that city has been
closely watched. The members of
\the police force ‘have been faithful
to gather in as many of the offend
ers as possible, and more than a
score of “soft drink” places ‘have
been closed by order of the mayor.
Owners of these places have been
prosecuted by attorneys engaged by
the Law and Order League, and
offenders have 'been getting more and
more wary. Anti-prohibitionists have
been anxious to prove that the law
| was not effective, but so far they
| have been unsuccessful.
missioner Dy the peopie; @ give a
service pension to all confederate
}'vetemns who are worth less than
isl.‘soo, this measure to be submit
ted to ‘a wvate of the people; %o allow
‘the University of Georgia trustees to
|participate"in the Carnegie fund;
lthe bill to appropr.ate $25,000 for
a state sanitarium for consumptives;
the bill to fix the primary date not
earlier than sixty days befere the
election; the pure election meas
ures; the bills to relieve and support
the agricultural college and district
}agricu]tural schools; the bill to let
firemen and policemen ride free; the
bill to penalize telegraph companies
for failing to deliver messages
promptly; the bill to organize the
‘‘Georgia volunteers;’” the bill to
continue the school book contract
two years; the bill to hdve all en
gines equipped with electric lignts.
TAFT MUSN'T GO HORSEBACK.
President of Society Says It Is Cru
elty to Animals for Him to Do So.
If George T. Angell, president of
the Massachusetts Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,
has his way Willlam H. Taft has
taken his last horseback ride.
“It is outrageous cruelty to ani
mals,”” said Mr. Angell, ‘“for a big
300-pound man like Taft to ride a
horse about the country.
“It ought to be stopped at once.
No teamster or anyone who knows
anything about animals would think
of loading a horse down. |
“I do not doubt the stories sent
out from Hot Springs that the
horses’ legs have been wrenched and
strained. l
“Something should certainly be
done about it. No man weighing
300 pounds has any business on
horseback. If he must ride let him
use an automobile or an elephant.”!
LETTER TO DR. W. B. CHEATHAH,
Dawson, Ga.
Dear Sir: It simmers down to
this:
Every job painted Devoe takes less
gallons than of any other paint.
If not, no pay. Yours truly
58 F W DEVOE & CO
P. S.—Dawson Drug Co. and Peo
iple’s Drug Store sell our paint,
HUMAN MACHINERY.
The marvelous mechanical invention
of today are but mere toys compared tcj
!the human body. This is one maching
i that must be given constant and intelli«
"'gent care. Once permitted to run too
‘lfar without skillful repair, the wreck is|
[just ahead.
! STUART’'S BUCHU AND JUNIPER
| has repaired more human ills, relieved
| the strain on weak parts and completely
| checked the cause than any other invigo
| rating cordial. It relieves kidney dis
{ eases, catarrh of the bladder, diabetes,
dropsy, gravel, headache, dyspepsia, pai
|in the back and side, loss of appetite,
'goneral debility, neuralgia, sleeplessness,
| rheumatism and nervousness. STUART'S
i BUCHU AND JUNIPER positively re=
| lieves these diseases. At all stores, $l.OO
per bottle. Write for free sample.
‘ Stuart Drug Manufacturing Co.,
2 Atlanta, Ga.
THE DAWSON NEWS.
), BROWN WAS VINDICATED.
!THAT IS RESULT OF FAILURE
‘ OF LEGISLATURE TO ACT.
l(;owmor-‘mm, Who Was Fired by
I Governor, Will Now Draw His
| Salary as Commissioner.
( In the confusion incident to the
close of the legislative session the
fact was entirely overlooked that the
general assembly had failed to take
any action whatever regarding the
suspension by Gov. Smith of Rail
road Commissioner Joseph M. Brown,
recently nominated as Gov. Smith’s
successor.
This omission seemed to have been
intentional on the part of the general
assembly. Though there was at all
'times a possibility that it might be
t brought up and lead to a lively dis
cussion in the main, however, the
members favored dropping the mat
ter.
The friends of Mr. Brown hold
that this is a complete vindication
for him, because the law provides
that there shall be dismissal from
office only after the govermor’s ac
tion has been approved by a ma
jority of both houses. The next step
will be that Mr. Brown will go to
the state treasury and demand his
salary for the six weeks of his term'
during which the governasr’s sus
pension was effective. If it is re
fused he will, of course, apply to
the courts for mandamus, and that
will result in a construction of the
law, both as to the legistative duty
and the governor’s right te suspend
a state official because he disagrees
with him as to matters of state pol
icy.
Mr. Brown seems to Thave the
strong side of it. In view of the
verdict of the people in naming Mr.
Brown for governor it is mot sur
prising that the legislature was loth |
to take hold of the matter. 1
WHAT'S AN INCH OF RAIN?
Here Is Something That Will Be In
formation to Nearly Every One.
The rain fell in buckets, the
thunder racketed terribly, and the!
lightning drew zigzag lines of bright
gold upon the violet sky. |‘
“So you, too, don’t know what an
inch of rain is exactly,” said the
weather clerk as he locked at his
rain measuring instrument. “Very
few people do, it seems. I'll explain
it to you. J
“An acre is 6,272,640 square'
inches. An inch of water on an acre |
is, therefore, 6,272,640 cubic inches. |
That amouat, at 227 cubic inches to
the gallon, equals 22,000 gallons, or|
220,000 pounds, or 100 tons. |
“An inch of rain is, in other|
words, rain falling at the rate of{
100 tons to the acre.””—Philadelphia |
Bulletin.
The little attacks of stomach
trouble and stomach disorders willl
undoubtedly lead to chronic dyspep-'
sia unless you take something for a'
sufficient time to strengthen the |
stomach and give it a chance to geti
well. If you take Kodol in the be
ginning the bad attacks of Dyspep
sia will be avoided, but if you allow
these little attacks {o go unheeded
it will take Kodol a longer time to!
put your stomach in good condition
again. Get a bottle of Kodol today.
Sold by Dawson Drug Co.
Holland % Hill’s New Warehouse
OuriNew Concretei Warehouse is again open for business, and we solicit the patronage
of the farmers, We have ample room and convenience to accommodute custemers,
and will see that their wants are supplied at all times. Our facilities are unequaled.
Prompt, Personal Attention and Courtecus Treatment Will Be Given, and we will
kfzep fully posted }\'lll} the 1.(\:1(11113;‘ Cotton Markets, thus guaranteeing our patrons the
highest market price for their cotton.
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FIGHTING FOR WORA.
Men Maddened by Want Fight for a
Chance to labor.
A riot in v hich one man was bad
ly stabbed and a dozen beatem with
clubs and stomes occurred in Cam
den, N. J., Monday morning outside
[the works of the Joseph Campbell
Preserving Company, when 1,500
unemployed laborers gathered ir an
swer to an advertisement which the
company inserted in Saturday’s pa
' pers.
. The Campbell company laid off a
‘great number of its unskilled em
ployes last winter. As the men could
not find re-employment there has
been much suffering and poverty
among them. Saturday the firm ad-1
vertised that it had room for 450
men if they would apply at the works
at 7 o’clock Monday morning. Long
‘before that hour an anxious, work
crazy mob composed not only of the
company’s former employes, but of
all the unemployed foreigners in that
section of the state, collected outside
the gates.
The trouble started when the old
American employes saw that some of
the foreigners were being admitted,
and they tried to push them out of
line. Immediately so fierce a fightl
started that the company’s manager |
telephoned for the police. When the |
latter arrived they found one Ameri
can lying on the ground with his face
slashed open by an Italian stiletto,
and fully 1,000 Americans and Ital
ians fighting over his body with
knives, stones and clubs.
W. H. TEDDER
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New Automobile, Gasoline Engine
and Bicycle Repair Shop.
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I have just opened a shop in the Iron Build
ing near the court house and am in position to do
all kinds of repair work. When in need of work of
this line give me a trial. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Shop Phone No. 250. Residence Phone No. 251,
“My Young Sister”
writes Mrs. Mary Hudson, of Eastman, Miss., “‘took
my advice, which was, to take Cardui. She was
staying with me and was in terrible misery, but Car
dui helped her at once.
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It Will Help You
“Last spring,”” Mrs. Hudson continues, ““I was
in arack of pain. The doctor did no good, so I began
to take Cardui. The first dose helped me. Now I
am in better health than in three years.”
Every girl and woman needs Cardui, to cure
irregularity, falling feelings, headache, backache and
similar female troubles. Cardui is safe, reliable,
scientifiec. Try Cardui.
AT ALL DRUG STORES :
Vehicle Compari
A Strong Lesson!
W
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A “flossy looking” vehicle built to sell at a tempt
ing price is the poorest investment you can make.
It'’s an expensive economy. Even the horse becomes
ashamed of such a vehicle. We don’t sell that kind.
Ours are the dependable sort with the guarantee
of a strong concern behind them—and, too, we are
here to make good if anything should go wrong.
of Vehicle '
Have pleased some mighty particular people who
discovered we are satisfied with small profits. Have
a look in. More styles and better prices than you
are used to. We cannot get rich on admiration, it
is true, but we will take a chance on selling you.
We Welcome Visitors Just as Cordially
as We Do Customers.
L & Davids
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