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THE DAWSON NEWS. 3V I': L I{._A] 1"- 8' 30 .!,‘Ol - --———'—"'—. ’ RIS )TE s } ~I B R 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. | s et 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,