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THE DAWSON NEWS.
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BETTER SIDEWALKS IN BUSINESS SECTION
The street committee of the city
council of Dawson have begun a cru
sade for better sidewalks in the busi-|
ness section of the city, and will at
once enforce a recently passed ordi
nance requiring that all pavements
put down in the future be of ce
ment or cement tile, and requiring
all sidewalks to be put in good con
dition without further delay.
Perhaps no town in the state of
the same size has paved its sidewalks
with so little regard as to uniformity,
or has been so neglectful of their
condition. :
Some of the sidewalks of Dawson
4re paved with cement, some withl
brick, some with wooden blocks,'l
some are of plank, and in some‘f
places there is no pavement at all.
Where the walks are paved most of
them are in a badly worn, uneven
and unsightly condition. About two
thirds of the walks in the business
blocks have been condemned, and
Uity Clerk Bell, under direction of
the street committee, has mailed the
following notice to the owners to
“ither repair or put down new pave
ment in front of their property:
“Dawson, Ga., Sept. 3.—Dear Sir:
At a recent meeting of the city coun
cil of Dawson a resolution was passed
‘ondemning the condition of the side
¥alks in front of the business houses
belonging to you, or controlled by
*ou. It is ordered by the council that
You proceed at once to repair such
sldewalks, only cement or cement
tile to be used, under the direction
of the street committee, which is
‘omposed of the following members
of council: J: 8, Lowrey, J. A.
Shields anq w. A. McLain. Unless
f)hefie repairs are-made by you within
°0 days the city cowneil will proceed
0 have the same dome at your ex-
Peuse, as provided for in section 160
of the code of ordinances of the city
of Dawson, By order of council.
Respectfully, * R. B, BELL, Clerk.”
ATho sldewalks which have been
‘ondemned and where new pave-
Ment must bHe laid or repairs made
In accordance with the recent action
°f the council are:
. Repair sidewalk in front of the
*tore of the Dawson Hardware Co.,
fm iy new one on the west side;
haclient in front of J. C. Hind’s and
,'\'fi‘."j"il\'i<lson Co’s. stores; repair
L% In front of D. H. Ozier’s and
.- Raueh’s stores; recement walk
. 'Tont of the Dawson National
UKD repair and recement the walk
w Lont of G. W, Dozier & Co’s., J.
.- ©. Lowrey’s and W. A. McLain’s
~7°SO repair the walk in front of
ANNOUNCEMENT.
With pleasure we beg to announce the arrival of our new line of fall and winter merchan
dise; a most complete line of all things good and desirable. We extend to the trade a
most cordial invitation to call and inspect same. T hanking you for& past favors, and
trusting a continuance of same, we are Yours to serve,
Davis-Davidson Company.
the millinery store of Davis-Davidson
Co.; recement the walk in front of
C. M. Adams’ and Horsley Drug
Co's. stores; lay sidewalk on the
north side of Horsley Drug Co’s.
store, and repair in front of the
Dawson Commission Co’s. and J. S.
Clay’s places of business; recement
in front of the Pickett Furniture
Co’s. store; repair the walk in front
of W. J. Hall's plumbing shop and
new store houses of Mrs. Cheatham;
take away the plank walks in front
of McCollum'’s Studio, Shade Stevens’
shop, N. B. Barnes’, J. T. McGill’s,
Geo. Cumuze's, W, L. Miller's and J.
E. Grubb’s places of business, and
pave the walk in accordance with
the city ordiance; repair the walk
in front of A. W. McDonald’s
store;: recement in front of J.
W. Wooten’s, Hornady Shoe Co’s.
and R. L. Barnes’ stores and the
barber shop; take away planks and
lay tile or cement in feont. B, 1
Woods & Bro’'s. and Williams Furni
ture Co’s. stores; recement the walk
in front of the Bee Hive and lay walk
on the south side; lay walk in front
of the Dawson Market and Grocery
Co’s. and Lewis Jeffers stores; lay
a sidewalk on the west side of the
People’s Drug Store and repair in
front, and in front of J. 1. Robert’s
store; take away the plank walk in
front of the barber shop and W D.
Grubb’s store, and lay tile or cement;
repair the walk in front of the post
office building; repair the walk in
front of Geise’'s Pharmacy, repair the
walk in front of B. S. Mathews &
Co’s. store; repair the sidewalks from
the northwest corner of A. J. Bald
win & Co's. store on down to and
in front of The Dawson News office.
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iAN EDITOR TURNS THE TABLE.
‘Requires Deposit From Gas Company
\ Before Running Ad.
| The Logan Natural Gas and Fuel
‘Company of Shelby, 0., has been re
‘quired to deposit $lO at the Daily
Globe office in order to guarantee the
payment of its bills during the year
1908. The local manager desired to
publish a notice notifying the pat
rons that the gas would be shut off
|Sunday morning to make repairs.
This notice must be published in
order to exempt the company from
damages in case an explosion should
occur. W. H. Smith was told by the
business manager of the local paper
that it was the rule of the paper to
require a ten dollar deposit from all
foreign corporations owning less than
$500,000 in real estate in Shelby.
The people are incensed at the
rule of the company which requires
a ten dollar deposit before gas will
be furnished, and the business men
| of Shelby are retaliating.
DAWSON, GA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1908.
MAKES COFFIN BY REQUEST.
Mrs. Herring Wanted to Be Buried
in Coffin Made by Joel Norman.
It was the often-made request of
Mrs. James Herring of Moultrie, re
peated on her dying day, that she
should be laid to rest in a coffin made
by ‘“Uncle” Joel S. Norman of Col
quitt county—provided he outlived
her. Mrs. Herring died a week ago
Saturday night and the news was
carried to Mr. Norman that one of
her last requests was that he should
make the coffin in which she was
buried.
Mr. Norman is near seventy years
old, a confederate veteran, and one
of the old vets who carries several
wounds that attest to his faithful ser
vices in the sixties. These wounds
have never fully healed and he is a
constant sufferer, and therefore very
feeble, but when the news came from
his old friend that she had died hold
ing him to his promise made
many vears ago he straightened him
self up, the old time energy reassert
ed itself and he declared that he
would make the coffin if it was his
last work.
A long time ago when there was
no undertaking establishments in
Colquitt county and no caskets and
coffins sold in stores every community
had its coffin maker, and Mr. Norman
served a large territory of country
in the eastern part of the county in
this capacity.
He is a man by nature who never
leaves a job until it is well done, and
his coffin work was the best in the
country. He was called often and
sometimes to go many miles away to
make a coffin. He is able to say
today that he never declined a call
and never charged a cent for his ser
vices.
LEPER TO GET $72 A MONTH.
The Government Will Pay Him a
Pension of That Amount.
A Washington dispatch says medi
cal examiners from the pension office
examined John R. Early, the Sal
vation Army leper, from a safe dis
tance, and reported in favor of
awarding him a complete disability
pension of $72 a month.
Early is happy over the news. Of
fers have been received from six
trained nurses to go to Washington
and take charge of the leper. Among
them is that of Philip C. Cosman ot
New York. None of them have been
accepted yet.
«“ MOTHER OF THE FOREST” HAS
BEEN BURNING FOR MANY HOURS.
STOCKTON Calkk.; Sept. 7.—A tele-|the big tree known as ‘“The Mother
: Rr' eived here from of the Forest,”” a monster Sequoia
phonie IMESSAES Foreve i h 327 feet high and 76 feet in cir-
Murphys, Calaveras county, 18 to the|,,mference, has been burning. No
effect that forest fires have gotton|other trees have caught fire thus far,
into the Calaveras big tree grove, and | but the gravest alarm is felt.
THREE OF GEORGIA'S “ELEVEN
ABLE"™ ARE ACCUSED.
Griggs, Brantly and Lee Are Said to
Be Looking in the Direction of
the Executive Chair.
The Rome Tribune prints this in
teresting political gossip:
There seems to be a peculiar fas
cination about the governorship of a
great state in the south. In some
portions of our country the growth
of centralization has lessened the
attraction of the gubernatorial chair,
and men prefer to go to congress.
But ir the south, where the old doc
trine of state’s rights is strong, con
gressmen will shed their togas at any
time to sit at the state capitol. The
order of promotion seems to be from
the superior court judge or solicitor
ship to congress, and then to the
governor’s chair, and then to the sen
ate.
Sometimes this program is shat
tered by rude voters, but that is the
way the politicians like to plan it.
The magnet in Georgia is no less
powerful than in other states. De
spite the fact that it costs thousands
of dollars to conduct a campaign, far
more than the four years of service
can restore, there are many longing
eyes already cast upon the Peachtree
mansion, .
No less than three of Georgia's
delegation in congress harbor such
aspirations. The impression seems
to have gone abroad that Joseph M.
Brown will not be a candidate to
succeed himself, for the term that he
has not yet begun. Should he de
sire a second term probably none of
the three members of congress would
oppose him. Whether anyone else
would do so cannot be predicted.
Signs are not lacking that the whole
course of the ‘“administration” this
vear has been to get their forces into
shape after the Waterloo last June.
Perhaps Governor Smith would not
be willing to spend the money and
time necessary to andther race. Per
haps he would. Maybe he thinks he
can duplicate Grover Cleveland’s
career, and win second victory after
a defeat following a first victory.
There are many Georgians who
would like to vote for him, and many
others praying for another whack at
him.
The three congressmen are Gor
don Lee, of the Seventh; William G.
Brantley, of the Eleventh, and James
M. Griggs, of the Second. Mr. Lee's
boom was launched in a mild way
last week at the time he was formal
ly notified of his nomination to the
sixty-first congress. He is naturally
better known to the people of north
Georgia than the other two men.
Lee has not been a spectacular con
gressman. He is a business man, and
appears anywhere to better advant
age than while making a speech,
But he is a working congressman.
The pages of the Congressional Rec
ord are not scattered with his
speeches, but his district is lined
with rural routes, and speckled with
public buildings. He is more than
the mere pie-grahber that Uncle Lon
Livingston is, and has sound ideas
of legislation, democracy and gov
ernment. \
Brantley is a man of brain. He is
the biggest man on the Georgia dele
gation, a thinker, and a planner, a
man who has highly developed the
administrative faculty. He makes a
speech that is full of meat and logic.
He is able to see both sides of a
question. But he is not a politician
and a mixer.
Griggs is the soul of good fellow
ship, and makes friends without ef
fort. He is a man of great natural
ability, and makes the most of condi
tions. He is better known through
out the country than any of the oth
er Georgians, and has the most im
portant assignment, a place on the
ways and means committee. He
knows everybody in the Second dis
trict by their first names, and is a
terror on the stump. He can be
humorous without being silly, and
the announcement that Jim Griggs
is to speak fills the galleries at Wash
ington, and the biggest halls in south
Georgia.
Any of these men would make a
good governor. While the state is
looking around for gubernatorial ma
terial her choice might fall on any
of the three men. I.s early to talk
vet, and a lot of us may be sleeping
beneath the sod before they ask us
for our votes. But politics wouldn’t
be Georgia politics unless there was
early talk. Take a tip and keep
your eye on these three congress
men.
AUTOMOBILE FIRE WAGON.
Cuthbert Thinks of Having One for
a Paid Department.
A Cuthbert dispatch says: At a
recent meeting of the city council it
was decided that Cuthbert shall have
a paid fire department. Mayor Mec-
Pherson was highly in favor of the
measure, and it was further enacted
that the power to be used in going
to fires should be by means of an
automobile hose wagon, if the cost
of the instrument would not exceed
the means of the city treasury. If
they cannot afford the automobile
power horses will be used, Cuth
bert has a fine steam fire engine, but
it has not been used in ten or more
yvears, as the power is furnished by
the magnificent water power.
VOL. 26---NO 50
VERMONT'S ELECTION STRAWS
POINT TO BRYAN IN NOV.
Republicans Were Unable to Get
Voters to the Polls. Democrats
Made Gains in Legislature.
Complete returns from the state
election in Vermont on the vote for
governor show the following results:
George P. Prouty, republican, 45,-
281; James E. Burke, democrat, 15,-
903; Quimby 8. Backus, Independ
ence League, 1,252; Eugene M.
Campbell, prohibitionists, 826; J. H.
Dunbar, socialist, 479.
The total vote of all parties was
66,727, and Prouty’s plurality over
Burke was 29,376.
The decrease in the republican
vote amounted to 6 per cent., and
in the democratic vote to 3 per cent.
Political leaders were inclined to
look upon the returns as indicating
that the voters were somewhat
apathetic in regard to the national
issues.
The incoming legislature will have
at least one democratic senator,
about thirty democratic representa
tives and at least six members of the
Independence League in the lower
house. Four years ago the house
stood 206 republicans and 34 demo
crats, so that the republican majori
ty the coming year will be practically
unchanged and will insure the elec
tion of a republican successor to the
late Senator Redfield Proctor, prob
ably in the person of his son, Gov
ernor Fletcher D. Proctor.
The election of a democratic mem
ber of the state senate gives the
democratic party a representation in
that branch of the legislature for the
first time in several years. At the
last state election in 1906 not a sin
gle democrat was elected to the state
senate,
Republicans Had Many Speakers.
The voters were urged to support
the republican ticket by speakers of
national prominence, who stumped
the state during the past two weeks,
discussing issues which will be heard
in other parts of the country this
fall. On the other hand the demo
crats fought the battle alone, James
E. Burke of Burlington, formerly
known as the “blacksmith mayor’’ of
that city, who headed the ticket, hav
ing only local talent in his support.
The democrats were also regard
ing the strength of the Independence
League movement, a new factor in
state politics, but the returns from
a majority of the cities and towns
showed that a comparatively small
number of voters supported Quimby
S. Backus of Brandon, who headed
the new 'party ticket. &l
The prohibition party ran a close
race with the Independence candidate
for last place in the voting,