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SEPTEMBER 9, 1908.
BY JANUARY lilst, 1909
With this end in view I will sell you any article in Dry Goods,
Notions, Shoes, Furmture, Mattings and Rugs at 10 per cent
less money than any other house in Dawson. Taking quality
into consideration you will find this statement to be true. Your
patronage will materially help me and behefit you. Yours truly,
J. W. F. LOWREY, Dawson, Ga.
HPERIENCE OF A MAN REPORTED DROWNED
Robert E. Belcher, a bookkeeper
in the Nixon warehouse, which
yurned the first night of the freshet
:n Augusta, is not dead. Indeed, he
is not only alive but well, and now
not much the worse for his frightful
experience, which is the worst yet
recorded in all the long roll of suf
fering registered. Mr. Belcher thus
narrates his experience:
«we worked at the warehouse all
Wwednesday afternoon, though we
knew we were in the worst portion
of the outflow from the river. We
pelieved the building would stand
and expected to make the best of our
position, not really fearing any dis
aster. After dark we were making
up pallets preparatory to sleeping on
+he floor when a negro across the
street was noticed making wild signs
to us. We finally understood him to
mean that something was the matter
in the warehouse portion of the
puilding, SO Wwe investigated and
sound the place afire. We got buck
ots and fought the flames until the
<smoke became SO bad we were driven
back to the offices. Here we set
about putting books and valuable
papers into the safe, but the smoke
drove us out before we got them all
safe away. We had to get down and
crawl with our heads near the floor,
the air was sO stifling.
“We knew Harry Carr could not
swim, so 1 put a rope around him
and caught the other end. Carr be
san to flounder almost as soon as we
ot into the water, but 1 managed
to keep hold of him and we were
cotting along pretty well until a ne
¢ro who was drowning caught hold
of my feet. 1 tried to kick him off
and was about to go under myself
when the current caught hold of us
and tore us apart. It was 8O swift
my clothes were taken off almost en
tirely. My arm Wwas geratched and
bruised where poor Carr had grap
pled with me before he was carried
over to where Harry McAuliffe made
«uch a splendid attempt to save his
“The next thing I remiember was
being up a tree. I have a dim recol
lection of getting there, aad 1 re
member feeling faint and realiziqg
that 1 was going to fall back again
into the terrible muddy waters,
which roared around me below. I
do not know what happened until 1
began to come to on the porch of a
house on Calhoun street, a couple
of blocks off. I had been washed
there with some wreckage and was
about dead. My groans brought
somebody out of the house to me
and they fixed me up all right. The
next morning 1 was able to get out
and go to Grovetown in an automo
bile, my object being to get in tele
graphic communication with my peo
ple in North Augusta, for I realized
they were anxious about me. I did
not know 1 was reported dead until
Saturday, when the papers came over
to North Augusta, which I reached
Friday. lam pretty well battered up
nd bruised, but 1 reckon I will be
all right in a few days.”
FIGHTING ANTHRAXNOSE.
State Entomologist Experimenting
With Cotton on Butler's Island. ‘
\esistant Entomologist A. C.
Lewis is on Butler's ~lsland, near
Darien, where he has gone to exam
ne the various kinds of cotton plant
¢l there by the department of en
tomology with the view to stamping
out the dread anthraxnose, whichl
has ravaged the crop of south Geor-l
gia almost every year. |
ast vear an entire crop of cotton
on the island was destroyed. The
tate entomologist in an effort to
“tamp it out has had planted in the
same field a dozen different sorts of
totton in an effort to find out_the
kind which resists the disease. ft is
believed that a kind will be found
Which will prove effectual.
~,l.’,'" anthraxnose disease has an
‘“g‘“w’ cost the planters of Georsgia,
“Specially south Georgia, where it is
most prevalent, thousands of dollars
.;.I.‘“ @ preventive would be a godsend.
the disease attacks the boll before
© I‘>lr‘-ns and rots both the cotton
and the cotton seed, laying the field
n waste,
_ They Take the Kinks Out.
w_f have used Dr, King’s New Life
f_';fiplfnj.rnany years, with increasing
‘r*-‘laCllon. They take the kinks
Wit of stomach, liver and bowels,
};;(l:(»rlt fuss or friction,” says N. H,
s;jt;g}fl of Pittsfield, Vt. Guaran,teed
actory at Dawson Drug Co’s.
COWBOYS' NOVEL CONTEST.
Annual Event Has Just Taken Place
in Oklahoma.
Cowboys of the southwest gathered
last week in Bromide, Okla., a new
health and pleasure resort which
modestly claims the title of ‘‘the
Carlsbad of America,” and regaled
tenderfeet visitors with a typical wild
west celebration and championship
roping contest. Many twirlers of the
hemp contested for first honors and
the winner claims the world's cham
pionship. Milton Beeler, who was
killed a few montns ago by a horse
falling on him, held the title. Since
his death Bob Kiser claims to be the
premier roper of the land, having
made a 29-second record on the same
horse that killed Beeler. This fa
mous steed, ‘‘Nigger Boy,” is grow
ing old and the Bromide contest will
probably be the last in which he will
participate. Captain John Kiser, a
brother of the champion, is also a
famous roper, and has a standing
wager of s2sv that he can rope anud
tie a steer in 20 seconds.
AN UNEQUALED RECORD.
Many Students Placeqd in Good Posi
tions During Month of August.
The employment bureau of the
Athens Business College of Athens,
Ga., placed many of its graduates in
good positions during the month of
August. We doubt very much if
there is another school in the state
that has placed half as many during
this particular month. If there is a
former graduate of the A. B. C. out
of employment we would be glad to
have them write the employment de
partment. at once, for from present
indications it will not be long until
we will not be able to supply the
demand for our graduates of Book
keeping, Business iTraining, Short
hand and Typewriting. If you know
of anyone needing the services of one
of our graduates write us, for we
make a specialty of replacing our
students in higher salaried positions.
Often students that have been out
of school holding positions for two
or three vears find that they have
reached the top with the firm for
which they are working, and desire
to get with a firm that can give them
more work and pay better wages.
Through our employment bureau we
handle all kinds of positions at sal
‘aries fro $6OO to $3,000 per year.
~lf you wish to learn more of the
‘s,\'stems taught in this school write
for our 168 page beautifully illus
trated catalogue, filled with state
tments upon which you can depend,
as every one of them is backed by a
'cash guaranty of $lOO. Address
Athens Business College, Athens, Ga.
TWO SHOT BY SAME GUN.
Accidentally Discharged as Boys
Were Getting Out of Buggy.
Leonard Gartner and Doctor El
dridge, young sons of prominent citi
zens of Americus, L. P. Gartner and
G. M. REldridge, were seriously
wounded by the accidental discharge
of a magazine shot gun.
In alighting from their buggy the
gun was discharged one or more
times, tearing the arm of each lad
fearfully and rendering amputation
probably necessary.
Young Gartner had the fingers of
one hand shot away, while the deadly
load of shot likewise pentrated his
right side at the hip joint.
The injuries are most serious, and
considerable apprehension is ex
pressed.
No Man is Stronger i
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Than His Stomach & giiia]
A strong man is strong all over. No man can be CAEICASER
strong who is suffering from weak stomach with its Ry '
consequent indigestion, Or from some other disease vy 2Fo P
of the stomach and its associated organs, which im- a
pairs digestion and nutrition. For when the stomach \
is weak or diseased there is a loss of the nutrition : : ‘
contained in food, which is the source of all physical \\\\
strength., When a man “‘ doesn’t deel just right,”’ ‘\\\ '
when he doesn’t sleep well, has an uncomfortable
feeling in the stomach after eating, is languid, nervous, irritable and despond
ent, he is losing the nutrition needed to make strength.
Such a man should use Dr. Pierce’'s Golden Medical
Discovery. It cures diseases of the stomach and other
organs of digestion and nutrition. It enriches the blood,
invigorates the liver, strendgthens the kidneys, nourishes
the nerves, and SO GIVES HEALTH AND STRENGTH TO
THE WHOLE BODY.
You can’t afford to accept a secret nostrum as a substitute for this none
alcoholic medicine OF KNOWN COMPOSITION, not even though the urgent dealer
may thereby make a little bigger profit. Ingredients prinied on wrapper.
A LYNCHING IN EARLY.
Ex-Convict Entered Home of Joe
Wheeler in Damascus at Midnight.
A negro by the name of John
Towns went into the house of Joe
Wheeler, a respectable white man
living near Damascus, Thursday
night about 11 o’clock and badly
frightened Mr. Wheeler's wife, while
in her room. She gave a scream
which immediately awoke her hus
band, who was in another part of
the room, but the negro made his
escape.
A posse was formed and the ne
gro tracked about two miles, where
he was found in a cotton field pick
ing cotton Friday morning. He was
taken in charge and carried to Da
mascus and locked up, and before
the sheriff arrived from Blakely a
mob strung him to a tree.
He admitted going into the yard,
but denied going into the house.
However, the proof seemed to bhe
against him, as he was tracked from
the window where he made his en
trance and from the door where he
made his escape. The negro was an
ex-convict.
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS.
Three Are to Be Voted on at the
State Election Next Month.
Three amendments to the constitu
tion will be submitted to the people
for ratification in the elections this
year.
The first is the one relating to dis
franchisement, and will go before
the people at the October election.
County Police.
Another amends article 7, section
6 and paragraph 2 of the constitu
tion by adding the words ‘““To pay
for county police and to provide for
necessary sanitation.” It will en
able counties to levy taxes to sup
port rural policemen, or to make
sanitary improvements. Under the
constitution as it now stands taxes
can only be levied for public works
or school purposes. Those counties
having rural police have to call them
road or bridge inspectors to comply
with the law.
Service Pensions.
The third is the service pension
amendment by which the legislature
may levy taxes to pay all veterans of
the confederacy or their widows pen
sions.
The last two will be passed upon
at the same time a president is voted
for. It is the first time that consti
tutional amendments will have been
submitted at any election other than
the one at which state officials are
lchosen.
IMPORTANT AUDITOR'S COURT.
Dawson Attorneys Prominent in a
Big Case at Cuthbert.
The Andrews-Sealy case is still in
progress at the court house, having
begun on Tuesday. It is being heard
by Col. H. A. Wilkinson of Dawson,
auditor. Dr. Andrews is represented
by Judges W. D. Kiddoo of this city
and M. C. Edwards of Dawson. The
opposing attorneys are Pottle &
Glessner of Blakely, Raines & Gurr
of Dawson, and R. Yerry of Cuthbert.
The case involves timber rights
and damages, and is a complicated
one. A number of interested parties
and witnesses are present.—Cuthbert
Leader.
“CHAMPEEN"” OF ALL PAUPERS.
This Man Had Spent 85 Years in a
Poorhouse.
The champion pauper is dead after
being a public charge for 85 years.
Hezekiah Monk was born in the
Herkimer county, New York, poor
house 85 vyears ago, spent all his
days there and died in that insti
tution.
THE DAWSON NEWS.
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George Farmery Has Raised
Twenty-Three Children.
Has Always Been Happy and Con
tented, and Does Not Regret the
Struggles of Life. Now Hale and
Hearty at 67 Years. A Lesson in
Domestic Economy.
LONDON, Sept. 5.—“1 have had
twenty-three children, and have come
to the conclusion that a man is much
happier and better off with a family
than without one.”
Such was the opinion expressed by
George Farmery, a hale and hearty
Lincolnshire man, who, in spite of
his sixty-seven years, was actively en
gaged in hay-making near his home
at Hemswell, near Gainsborough.
Farmery won the first prize of $2O
offered by the Lincolnshire Agricul
tural Society to the farm laborer who
has brought up and placed out the
greatest number of children without
having received parochial relief.
“I have never earned more than
$4.12 a week,” Farmery continued,
‘“and my average wage is only half
a crown a day, so that I can only
reckon on $3.75.
“Sometimes I have only had 55
cents a day, but I have always been
happy and contented with my wife
and children.
Does Not Regret Struggles.
“I have been twice married. By
my first wife I had ten children, and
by my second one I have had eight
boys and five girls.
‘‘Has it been a hard struggle to
bring them all up? Well, we have
had our trials, but on looking back
I do not regret them.
“I do not smoke and I do not
drink, and I have always given my
wife every penny of my wages, and
she has done the buying.
“I have never had a cottage rent
free, like some men, and have not
had a great deal of garden, either,
still enough just to grow a few pota
toes and vegetables.
“Our staple food has been bacon
and bread, with, perhaps, a little
fresh meat once a week, but I have
never been much struck on butchers’
meat.
‘“Then I have had to pay as much
as ninepence and tenpence a week
in years gone by for my children’s
schooling; now I do not pay anything.
Never Wandered Far.
‘““No; I have never spent anything
on amusement at all. It seems to me
that that is where young people in
big towns waste their money.
‘“The only places I have ever been
to outside Hemswell and Falding
worth, the place where I was born,
are Gainsborough, Lincoln, Manches
ter, Market Rasen, Thorncastle and
Guiseley, near Leeds.
“I have lived in Hemswell about
thirty years, and have never had a
half-penny from the parish. When
the children got old enough, of
course, they all went out to work
and brought a little home, and that
helped us to get along.”
Mrs. Farmery then told how she
made both ends meet on the modest
wage which her husband brought
home.
Lesson in Domestic Economy. l
‘“Well, we pay $23.756 a year for
our cottage,”’ she said. ‘‘Then, every
week I buy two stone of flour, which
comes to 76 cents; a quarter of a
pound of tea, 10 cents; five pounds
sugar, 13 cents; one pound lard, 12
cents; one pound rice, 4 cents; one
pound currants, 8 cents; coal, 36
cents. That accounts for about $2 a
week.
‘“We keep a pig, so I am not count
ing the bacon. Then there are the
clothes and other things to pay for,
so that there is not much left out
of 15 cents.
“I have always had some little
children at home, generally about
six.
“My advice to young people is, do
not get married until you are both
well between 20 and 30 years of
age.”’s o
Farmery said that although he
was married rather young he thought
that nowadays 30 was a good age
for a man to marry, and 26 for a
girl.
“But,” said he, with a wise shake
of the head as he leaned on his hay
fork, ‘‘they might start earlieg if
they knew each other well. It all
depends on how they get on.”
CAMPHOR DEATH TO WEEVIL.
Thomas County Farmers Try the
Remedy in Their Corn Cribs.
Rev. A. C. Stephenson, who lives
in the northern part of Thomas coun
ty and is a good farmer as well as!
preacher, made the suggestion some
time ago that if the farmers would
‘try scattering camphor balls among
‘their corn when they stored it they
kwould find it very effective in pro
tecting the grain from weevils.
A number of the farmers who have
tried it say they are much pleased
with the results, it being mnot only
the best but the cheapest remedy
they have ever tried. Thousands of
bushels of corn are destroyed every
yvear by the weevils, and anything
that will prevent them is a great
boon to the farmers.
A Sure Enough Knocker.
J. C. Goodwin of Reidsville, N. C.,
says: ‘‘Bucklen’s Arnica Salve is a
sure enough knocker for ulcers. A
bad one came on my leg last sum
mer, but that wonderful salve
knocked it out in a few rounds. Not
even a scar remained.” Guaranteed
for piles, sores, burns, etc. 25c¢ at
Dawson Drug Co’s. \
FOR HAY FEVER.
Pe-ru-na is Sometimes Used With Ex
cellent Resulls.
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MISS MAYME E. SMITH, 444 East
Mound St., Columbus,Ohio, writes :
‘““‘Have used Peruna for catarrh and
hay fever, The results being remark
able, I can highly recommend it to all
who are suffering with the above dis
eases. I am happy to be able to say it
has helped me wonderfully.”
What is known as hay fever is in
reality endemic catarrh, a catarrhal
condition of the nose, throat, some
times the bronchial tubes, induced by
some local irritant.
Theirritation is generally due to vege
tal emanations of some sort. Hay has
been suspected as being the cause of
this malady, hence its name, hay fever,
It has been attributed to rag weed and
other vegetation also. It is a very
capricious disease, coming and going.
A medicine that will help one case may
not help another. Such treatment has
always been very uncertain asd unsat
isfactory.
Peruna helps some cases without a
doubt, although it is not clatmed to be
an infallible remedy for sush cases,
Man-a-{in the Ideatl Laxative.
MADAMB DEAR s PILLS.
A Savr, Cerraiy Reuer for Supprrssgp MENsTRU ATION,
NEVER KNOWN TU FAIL, Safe! Sure! Speedy ! Satis
facuon Guaranteed or Money Refunded. Sent prepaid
for $l.OO per box. Will send them on trial, to be paid for
when r2lfeved. Samples Free. If your druggist does net
have them send your orders to the
UNITED MEDICAL CO., BOX 74, LANCASTER, Pa.
Soid in Dawson bv the Dawson Drug Co.
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I' have opened up a harness shop in Dawson, in Whitch
ard’s building forinerly occupied by Dr. Parks, where 1
will make and repair harness. I will repair shoes and all
kinds of leather goods. All work neatly done. Second
door from Express offic. All work is guaranteed.
FRANK. M. COLLINS.
W. E. MORELAND A. L. McLENDON
TL.O TR 1 £ AN, KA o OB T 1 AN PO T .
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MORELAND & McLENDON, Proprietors.
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We are ready for another cotton season, and respectfully
solicit the patronage of the planters of Terrell and surround
ing counties- Our experience of several years gives us a thor
ough knowledge of the business and enables us to handle your
cotton to the best advantage. Our scales are correct, and our
customers secure the correct weight of their cotton, and we
give them the advantage of our experience in securing very
best prices. MR. JOHN W. KENNEDY will be with us again
this season.
R i U T R SR S T 8 S W KOOSR U RNITEE L AT APV LT A MARNYS
We aiways have a full supply of bagging and ties on hand
at prices that cannot be undersold. We bought in large quan
tities, and can supply farmers (o the best advantage.
T O TR T A S O AN S ONST TSI O T MBI WL DS TI 15 B 13 SO ALY AL I TRO+
We have good stables and other accommodations free for
the stock of our customers. We desire to thank our friends
for past liberal patronage, and hope to merit a continuance
of the same. :
OPPOSITE THE COURT HOUSE. DAWSON, GEORGIA.
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RAILWAY
Schedule Effective October 20, 1907.
Arrive from Mac0n.............. 6:50 A. M. 3:20 P. M
Arrive from M0ntg0mery..........12:38 P, M. 9:31 P. M.
Depart for MacoM....cocoeesseoo..l2:3B P. M. 9:31 P. M.
Depart for M0ntg0mery........... 6:50 A. M. 3:20 P. M.
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General Livery and
Feed Stables. Can
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ble for all Occasions.
Baggage Transfer to
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