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TERRELL'S TAX UP NEAR TOP
S6EME COMPARISONS OF THE TAX
RATES THROUGHOUT STATL.
€Cirizens of Dawson Who Owna Coun
try Property Will Pay $27 on the
$1,6000. Some of the High
Rate Counties,
A careful analysis of the tax rate
of the variems counties and munici
palities of the state forces the con
rviction that the cemmunities which
are growing the fastest. as a gemeral
thing, have the highest tax rates.
It is mot to be supposed that be
sause a counly or city has a large
tax rate it is not rich aad prosperous.
Many communities are placing heavy;
taxes upon their people in the firm
bolief that the improvements to be
secured will make for prosperity.
The tax rate for TerreHl cmmtyi
this year is 7 mills, or $7.00 on the
$l,OOO, the same as it was in 1907.
Por severad years prior to last year
ro county tax at all was Ilevied in
Perrell, the dispensary paying all
public expenses.
The tax rate of the city of Daw
sen this year 15 $12.00 on the $l,OOO.
The county rate is $6.00 and the
state rate is §5.00, so the Dawsonian
will pay in taxes this year $24.00
er every thousand dollars of property
ke owns. In addition to this, if he
ewns any property in the country he
will have te pay $3.00 on the $l,OOO
as county scheol tax, which will
bring his contrtbution to the sup
port of the varlous governments up
0 $27 om the $l,OOO. There ig on
sop of this the road tax of $3.00 per
sapita.
Citizens of Decatur, who will also
be among the largest contributors to
the public treasuries, have a com
kined rate of $24.60 on $l,OOO. The
PeKalb county rate this year is $B.OO
en the $l,OOO, and the town of Deca
tar $11.59, to which must be added
she state tax rate of $5.00 on the
thousand. Atlanta and Fulton coun
ty come along up toward the top
with a rate of $23.60.
High Rate Counties.
The county charging this year the
highest rate of taxation is Upson,
which bhas a rate of $l7 a thousand.
&irady is next with $l5, while quite
& number of counties charge $12.50.
Muscogee is the lowest of the big
eounties, having a rate of only $3
a thousand. Clarke charges $3.80.
Last year Turner county's com
ruissioners levied a rate of $20.00.
TPhe taxpayers thought this was too
much of a burden and raised such a
prodigious howl that the rate was
put down to $4.28 a thousand.
The following counties have a rate
ef $lO or more: Baker, $l2; Butts,
$10; Coffee, $12.50; Grady, $l5;
Heard, $10: Jasper, $11; Jenkins,
$10; Toombs, $lO, and Upson, $l7.
Tax Rates of Cities.
Blue Ridge, in Fannin county,
sharges the largest tax rate of any
eity or municipality in the state. Its
rate this year was increased from $lO
a thousand to $l9 a thousand. Jack
son charges $15.90, and Savannah
$13.90, though Savannah offers a re
bate to those citiens who come across
by a certain date. ' |
Mountain City, on the line of the
Fallulah ¥alls railway, and Patter
son have a rate of only %1 a thou
sand.
The highest city tax rates through
sut the state follows: Atlanta,
$12.50; Blue Ridge, $l9; Carters
ville, $12.50; Columbus, $13.5¢;
€ordele, $13.33; Dallas, $13.50:
Dawson, $12.00; Decatur, $11.50:
Bastman, $12.50; Fitzgerald, $11.50:
tireensboro, $12.50; Hawkinsville,
$12.00; Jackson, §515.90; Jesup,
$11.50; Louisville, $10.00; Pine
hurst, increased from $9.00 last
year to $18.50 this year: Rich
jand, $12.60; Rome, $11.00: San
dersville, $12.50; Savannah, $13.90;
Tifton, $l3; Toccoa, $l2; Vienna,
$l6; Waycross, $12.50; West Point,
$12.50; Winder, $12.50.
DeWitt’s Little Early Risers. the
famous little diver pills. They are
small, sure, safe pills. Sold by
Pawson Drug Co.
Scott’s
Emulsio
of Cod Liver Oil with Hypo
phosphites should always be
kept in the house for the
following reasons:
First—Because, if any member
of the amily has a hard cold,
it will cure i.
Second—Because, if the chil
dren are delicate and sickly, it
will make them strong and well.
Third—Because, if the father
or mother is losing flesh and
becoming thin and emaciated,
it will beifld them up and give
them flesh and strength.
Fourth—Bßecause it is the
standard remedy in all throat
and lumg affections.
No household should be with
out ¢t.
Send this advertisement, together with name
of paper i which it appears, your address and
four ceats ta cavur postage, and we will send
you a “Complete Handy Atias of the World.”
SCOTT & BOWNE, 409 Pearl St., New York
THE LATE R. D. COMMANDER.
A Tribute to the Memory of a Recent
ly Deceased Citizen.
Mr. Robert D. Commander was
born of Primitive Baptist parents in
Marion county, Georgia, in April,
1856, and departed this life in Ter
rell county, Georgia, September 16,
1908. He was married to Miss Pen
nie Hautman January 1, 1882. His
father moved from Marion county to
Terrell county in 1861 or 1862. Mr.
Commander was a good citizen, a
good neighbor, and an all around
good man. He never joined any
church, but was of the Primitive Bap
tist faith, and doubtless would have
joined a church of that faith and
order had he have survived his last
illness, as he told the writer of this
’letter on the fourth Sunday in July
llast that he had procrastinated for
Some time a duty which seemed to
‘be incumbent upon him.
~ Soon wfter this cenversion with
him he was taken sick with typhoid
fever and suffered long and patiently
until death relieved him of his suf
ferings. All that medical skill, gen
tle hands and faithful nurses could
do was most certainly done for him,
but his work on earth had ended,
and the Master had called, ‘“‘come
home.”” The last enemy to be con
quered is death. Oh! death where is
thy poignant sting, and where thy
victory boasting grave! Yes, ‘“he has
crossed over the river and with all
the loved ones who have gone before
is resting under the shades of the
trees.”’ T. A. M'WILLIAMS.
SCANDAL: BREWING OVER THE‘
DIGGING OF THE BIG DITCH.
Brothers Says It Cost Him $lO,OOO
to Learn His Device Was Just
What the Government Wanted. '
We have heard some rumors re- |
cently that dirt had indeed begun to
fly on the canal at Panama, but still’
more definite rumors have begun to;
fly of ‘‘gigantic graft in Panama ca- |
pal contracts. William F. Brothers,:
president of the Balanced Cable |
Crane Company of New York, has!
filed charges of graft with the war
department affecting Col. George W.f
Goethals, chairman and chief engi
neer of the Panama Canal Commis- |
sion. Brothers is the manufacturer of
a hoisting crane for which he had
a satisfactory business, and he says
he was induced by a young man inl
Col. Goethals’ office to bid for the |
government contracts against his in-]
clination. He was told by this man
that his crane was the best thing for
the government's work; that the gov
ernment must have it, and that ho‘
would not have to put in the lowest |
bids to get the contracts. Continu-f
ing his story to a reporter of the
New York World Mr. Brothers said: {
I then offered to seek the busi-,
ness, and he told me that if I would |
engage a certain firm of engineersli
as consultants and pay them 20 per
cent. of my bid I would surely get
the contract. '
‘“He advised me to add 40 per|
cent. to the price T would give to a‘
private concern. I saw the engi
neers. The result was that plans al
ready drawn for hoisting machinery
were changed so that my patented
device alone would comply with the
specifications.
‘“When it was time to put in the
bid the firm of consulting engi
neers demanded an additional 214
per cent. and enormous sums for ex
penses. My company refused to payl
more than 20 per cent., and we were
told that we could not have the con
tiaGet.”
Brothers says ‘it has cost me $lO,-
000 to learn that my device was just!
what the government wanted, pro- |
vided I should pay graft to a firm ()fi
engineers. I have neglected my bus-|
iness for several months, and I think
I'm ‘a sucker whangdoodled,” as|
William J. Oliver said when he was
the lowest bidder for the construc
tion of the entire canal.”
MILLIONS LOST IN SHORT (‘ROP.'
Shrinkage in Number of Waiss and
| Prices Hits Georgia Hard. }
; Estimates prepared by the state
[department of agriculture show that
the present crop in Georgia is worth
many millions of dollars less than
the one of 1907. |
In 1907 cotton to the extent of
1,901,676 bales was produced in
| Georgla. It was worth, at 11.9 per
pound, the price that prevailed at
that time, $101,681,362.
It is estimated that nmo more than
1,400,000 bales will be produced this
year, which, at 9 cents a pound, the
present price, will be worth $63,000,-
000.
These figures show a loss of 38 per
cent., or $38,684,342,
In 1907 corn to the amount of
57,538,000 bushels was produced,
while it is estimated that only 40,-
276,600 bushels will be harvested
this year. This shows a falling off
of 30 per cent. Corn sold at 76
cents a bushel at this time last year,
lwhile it costs $1.06 now. |
Had a Clgse Call.
Mrs. Ada L. Croom, the widely
known proprietor of the Croom Ho
tel,, Vaugh, Miss., says: ‘‘For sev
eral months I suffered with a severe
cough, and consumption seemed to
‘have its grip on me, when a friend
recommended Dr. King's New Dis
{covery. 1 began taking it, and three
{bottles affected a complete cure.”
The fame of this life saving cough
and cold remedy, and lung and
throat healer is world wide. Sold
at Dawson Drug Co’s. 50c and
$l.OO. Trial bottle free,
LAYS CHANCELLOR J. R. DAY OF
l PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT.
Seeks Money of Corporations to Elect
Him, and Then Tongue Lashes
Them to Gain Public Acclaim.
That the Standard Oil Company
remains under the venomous hatred
of President Roosevelt for reasons
best known on the inside while the
Steel Corporation, the greatest trust
in America, receives his approbation
and consent to increase its holdings,
was the statement of Chancellor
James Roscoe Day, of Syracuse Uni
versity, Syracuse, N. Y.
The chancellor charges that not
only did Roosevelt, when a candidate
for president four years ago, hobnob
with the trust magnates and urgea
them to secure money to elect him,'
but that after his election he ap- |
pointed to his cabinet a man whoi
held at the time a retaining fee fmm'
a large corporation, that man being
still a member of the cabinet.
The interview follows:
“The things that I predicted more
than two years ago, and that are
on record, have come true and neith
er side is hurrying to their conclu
sion.
“Never has this country known
such a condition politically. Never
has it seen its president descend to
such a shameful degeneracy of dem
iagogy. The boast of his high morali
ties far above trusts, which he con
;siders the sum of all villainly, is
made contemptible by revelations of
‘the glaring inconsistency of the chief
‘fbooster.
} Matters Whose Ox Is Gored.
~ “For Senator Foraker to procure
a lona for political friends who wish
to purchase a paper for contesting'
the election shocks Mr. Roosevelt.
But the president was very ‘practi-l
cal’ when he wanted $260,000 to |
put where it would do the most good’
when his election was involved. !
What was such a great sum to be&
used for? 1
“It is a sign of political eorruption
for Senator Foraker to have corre-{
sponded with an officer of the Stand
ard Oil Company, but only the d"s-i
cretion and privileges of Presidentl
Roosevelt to call to Washington a |
‘practical’ man, the head of the|
greatest industry corporation of thei
land, to confer with him before he |
announced his policies to congress. '
“The Standard Oil remains under
Mr. Roosevelt’s venomous hatred for
reasons well known on the inside,
but the greatest trust in America re
ceives his approbation and consent
to increase its holdings.
“A representative of predatory
wealth is the intimate counsellor,
and receive the co-operation of
Mr. Hitchcock until discovery be
comes inevitable. ‘l'nen he is forced
to resign, not because of the sin, but
the sure discovery of it by. political
enemies. ‘
“The glass houses seem to be
cracking with an ominous sound.
“The Foraker-Archbold incident is
shocking to hypocrites, but honest
and thoughtful men who are not hid
ing facts to promote a cause remem
ber the conditions of brigandage in
the legislature when every slatel
‘held up’ industrial and other cor
porations and demanded their money
or their lives.
People Covered With Shame.
~ “Fortunately the fulminations from
the white house carry no conviction,
so prejudiced, unfair and untrue are
they. They are humiliating not be
cause they are from the president.
‘The office is degraded. The people
are covered with shame.
~ ‘““The little postmasters are ' re
‘moved for engaging in polittics. The
most of the business of the presi
tdential office is devoted to a politi
|cian. Cabinets are called, interviews
furnished, telephones and telegraph
wires kept hot, the clerical force is
lworked far into the night—if the
newspaper special correspondents
are to be believed—and our ‘square
deal’ president is chafing at the bit
to go on the platform.
“The eyes of the American people
‘are opening wide. They are not all
'deceived. What they need is to ex
lercise themselves in the judicial
temperament. They are too easily|
stampeded by the frenzy of the mad
-reformer.
i “The American citizen can not re-i
[turn too soon to constitutional gov- .
'ernment and the reinforcement of
business with his confidence.”
i(.‘()’l‘HA.\[ HAS A “WORM TRUST.”
I -
| New York Has One of the Queerest
' Businesses Ever Known.
| One of the queer businesses that
interest visitors to Manhattan is the
| “worm trust” in West street, says
the New York dun. You can always
find a crowd around the little oldl
man who has been selling fishing
worms for a cent and a half apiece
at the same stand for fifteen years at
least. White worms and sandworms,
caught over in Jersey, or up in
Weschester maybe, are shipped to
(him as carefully as if they were the
|most fragile of jeweler's trinkets.
| They are kept in big platters of wetl
'grasses and taken out to be put into
small pasteboard boxes for custo
mers. Saturday afternoon provides
a crush at the old man’s stand in
variably, the fishermen being anxious
to get bait for their Sunday fun. !
Have yvour watches, clocks
and jewelrv repaired at Daw-/
son Drug Co’s. by Jno. P, A]-‘[
i len, expert watchmaker and
jeweler. |
THE DAWSON NEWS.
BIG MONEY IN CANIELOUPES'
Former Desert Land in the West
Now Worth $5,000 an Acre.
A Great Fruit Section.
A Denver, Col., dispatch says: In
some sections of this state and in
the southwest, where only a few
years ago the land was a worthless
desert, the canteloupe is king. The
luscious fruit is at its best where
other fruits and vegetables are not
grown. It is a hermit. Squashes,
watermelons and pumpkins grown in
its vicinity cause it to deteriorate,
but potatoes grown in its neighbor
hood seem to add to its virtue.
From four districts 1n the west the
export value of canteloupes this year
will be $10,000,000. In the vicinity
of Glenwood, this state, new land,
redeemed by irrigation and devoted
to canteloupes 'is selling for $5,000
an acre. This statement seems pre
posterous until one is confronted by
the recorded deeds. A fruit farm of
20 acres which was bought at $l,OOO |
an acre three years ago produced in
canteloupes per acre in the three
years $1,500, $2,100 and $2,000,
thus returning the purchase price
each year with 50 per cent. profit
the following years.
The region about Glenwood which
it is possible to irrigate does not ex
ceed 20,000 acres, and most of it
has already been snapped up. The
soil is incredibly rich, but has no
rainfall.
Another canteloupe district is the
Salton Sea, in southern California,
formerly a desert strewn with
bleaching human bones. Part of it
is now irrigated, and from qne sec
tion there was shipped uuis year $2,-
000,000 worth of melons, while as
much more rotted on the ground.
This former sun-baked desert is now
bringing apricot trees into bearing
in two years and giving crops of bar- |
ley, kaffir corn, onions and cante
loupes in sucession on the same land
in one year. The sun shines 365
days in a vear.
FEVER KILLING MANY COWS.
In Sumter County One Man Has Lost
His Whole Herd.
Complaint has reached the state
department of agriculture that cattle
are dying in parts of south Georgia
from a curious fever. The worst
Itrouble has been in the Twenty
eighth district of Sumter county,
where one man lost all of his cows.
Dr. Peter F. Bahnsen, a veterinary
of Americus, has been asked to in
vestigate.
bt i
l Burns, bruises and scratches, big
rand little cuts, or in fact anything
requiring a salve, are best and qu‘ck
(est soothed and healed by De-Witt's
l(‘.arbollznd Witch Hazel Salve. The
{best salve for piles. Be sure you
lget DeWitt's. Sold by Dawson Drug
Co.
JESTER’S " JESTER’S
Seasonable Groceries
AT
Snappy Prices.
Fresh new goods are arriving nearly every day---all sea
sonable and at lowest prices. The following are interesting:
Groceries, Etc.
Luzianne coffee, in pound
cans 20
(Quaker coffee, pound pack
age A 5
Sea trout in brine, per
pound 07
Lake herring, Kkits 45
Acme patent flour—it is
al! the word ‘“acme”
means, 12 Ib. sack .45
Prepared boneless ham, de
licious for lunch, per
pound 20
Full cream cheese, none
better at any price, per
pound .20
Sweet potatoes, yellow
yams, per peck .20
Irish potatoes, peck .35
Sun dried apples, new
crop, per pound A 0
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~MM
Begins at the Savings Bank. Patiently and regularly a small
portion of the income is added to the Home Building Fund,
so, figuratively, the building process goes on at the Savings
Bank bLefore the brick layers and the carpenters begin their
work.
®
| The Dimes and the Dollars ‘
as they ure added to the fund represent so much of brick,
lumber, plaster and paint, which will eventually take ?he
material form of a cozy home. A great advantage in using
the Savings Bank as the depository for the Home Building
Fund is that the savings are drawing interest all the time.
Another is that small amounts—§l.oo and upward—may be
deposited—weekly, monthly or at any time desired. Interest,
compounded quarterly, paid on all deposits.
IT'S WHAT YOU SAVE, NOT WHAT YOU EARN, THAT
MAKES WEALTH.
B e - SR LU o R T e
This table shows the vesult of steady, systematie saving of
small sums for only Five Years.
Daily Saving for Amount Interest Total
Five Years Deposited Earned A mELt
5 cents per ... .. |8 '$ 10.66 | § 101.91
10 cents per day..... 182.50 21.53 203.82
15 cents per day..... 273.75 31.98 3056.73
20 cents per day..... 365.00 42.64 407.64
25 cents per day. .. .. 456.25 53.30 509.55
30 cents per day... .. 547.50 63.96 611.46
40 cents per day:.... 730.90 86.28 815.28
50 cents per day..... 912.50 | 106.60 | 1,019.10
75 cents per day.....| 1,368.75 159.90 1,628.65
$l.OO per day, .. .. 1,825.00 213.20 2,938.29
1.25 Per day...,.| 2.281.38 266.50 2,647.75
1.50 per day.....| 213780 319.80 3,057.30
1.75 ber day.....| it s 373.10 3,666.85
2.00 peL any.. 3,650.00 426.40 4,076.49 :
.. Tho sbove 1s on a basks of 4bkSl b san
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First State Bank
Savings Department
J. MERCER BELL.‘;’res. L. _(:J_ HILL, Casl;;'r
J. E. MORRIS, Asst. Cash.
Have You
Paid Your Subscription?
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Miscellaneous.
Quaker oats in tins, two
for 235
Toasted corn flakes, per
package 8
Corn starch, package .8
Pearl Tapioca, package .8
June peas, can 8
Preserves---peach, pineap
ple, blackberry, etc., per
jar A 5
Heinz sweet pickles, per
quart 35
Hyman’s sour pickels, plain
and mixed, quart 0
Florida sweet oranges, just
arrived, per dozen 20
Malaga grapes, pound .20
Just received new crop
English walnuts, Brazil
nuts, cocoanuts, New York
apples, Danish cabbage,
rutabagas, ete, etc; all at
living prices.
OCTOBER T 1 808,