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GHhe BROWN OUALITY WINS
Yield 109 Bushels and
Il Pounds of Corn on
tne Acre.
W. M. Sanders, the Thomas county farmer, who won the first prize of $lOO in gold for the largest yield of
corn from a single acre of land, says in his statement of cultivation:
“*Broad-cast 800 pounds of Hilsman’s Oat Formula—s 1-2--4--5, manufactured by Brown Guano Company,
Albany, Georgia.”’ | .
Mr. Sanders used a total of 1,200 pounds of Hilsman’s Oat Formula, and the yield from his prize acre was
more than 109 bushels.
What Mr. Sanders Has done others cax do by using the high grade fertilizers manufactured by
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AMAZED THAT NO TOWN INVITES THEM
Missouri Conference Has One Invitation, But Must Pay
For Meals There. Not Like Old Times.
MONTGOMERY CITY, Mo.—““The
Missouri conference of the M. E.
Church, South, representing the Son
of Man and a membership of 50,-
#OO adherents, has nowhere to lay
'ts head, or put its feet under a
table without the cash,” is the rath
er startling statement in substance
that comes from the Rev. B. P. Tay
lor, secretary of the commission ap
pointed by the last session of that
pody to find a suitable and econom
'cal place to hold the next annual
session in 1910.
Secretary Taylor says that he pub
lished a request in the official organ
or the Missouri conference, the St.
Louis Advocate, for proposals for
entertainment, which were expected
to come from the different towns in
Missouri, but ‘“there are no requests
for the conference on the basis of
free entertainment’—an unusual
zondition.
If it had been said in early days
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that this ecclesiastical body, repre
senting more adherents than any
other one ck}urch in Missouri, would
some day be without a free and gra
cious invitation to meet in any town
within its borders the prognostica
tion would not have been believed
by the followers of John Waesley.
In times past the annual conference
was begged to meet in a dozen towns
each year. No sooner would the
bishop call up the question, ‘“Where
shall the next session of this an
nual conference be held?"” than there
would be a number of delegates on
the floor, demanding recognition
and wanting to present the invitationl
of their respective towns. All the
invitations offered absolutely free en-]
tertainment.
Bed and Breakfast Offered. 1
Secretary Taylor says that a num
ber of propositions have been re
ceived to hold the conference in dif
ferent towns in Missouri, but they
were not on the free basis, and that
the commission he represents has
finally decided to accept the offer of
the church at Plattsburg, Mo. This
church offers to entertain the con--l
ference on what is known as the
‘‘Harvard plan.” The Plattsburz
invitation is construed to mean that
the preachers will be given a bed
and breakfast without the cash, it
they can do no better. The commis
sion has estimated that 1 per cent.
of the preachers’ and presiding el
ders’ salaries will defray this ex
pense at the coming session.
The conference is divided on the
free entertainment question, and it
is a live one at present. Many of
the preachers and presiding elders,
as well as the bishop, hold the Mis
gsouri conference has no right to ex
pect free entertainment; that it
works a hardship on the community
in which it meets, and that preach
ers, like other human beings, should
pay for what they receive in this
world.
Others assert that in view of the
work in which the preachers are en
gaged {t is nothing but right to
expect board and lodging while they
are in a town transacting the Mas
ter’s business, and they especially re
gret the ‘‘commercial spirit’”’ that
permeates many Christian communi
ties in Missouri, and regret the pass
ing of the early days, when the Meth
odist preacher, with the Bible under
his arm. was a welcome visitor in
any christian home, whether he had
a pocketbook or not.
Camp Meeting Suggested.
Some ministers, holding the latter
Iview, believe that if the real condi
.tions were understood in Missouri
'there would be invitations from sev
eral towns to entertain this great
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body without cost, and the hosts
would count it a privilege.
There are others who advocate the
selection of a permanent conference
town, and the purchase of a large
tent or building, with many small
tents, for the preachers and their
families, so that they can each year
attend to the business of the church
and at the same time have a spirit
ual feast in the ‘“‘old camp meeting”’
manner.
More will be heard of this question
at the coming conference at Platts
burg, or wherever the conference is
held, and many believe that in the
meantime it will be demonstrated
that Missouri is not inhospitable.
U. S. PAY ROLL IS $36,541,225
Taxpayers Provide Salaries for Three
Hundred and Seventy Thousand
People During 1909.
WASHINGTON.—The personnel of
federal establishment is increasing
fast, the total of federal employes at
present being approximately 370,-
065, as against 306,141 in 1907, an
increase in the two years of about
64,000 persons, or about twenty per
cent. These and other interesting
facts are brought out in the official
register, or government’s ‘blue
book,” for 1909, which shortly will
be issued.
The new publication will show that
there were 28,947 persons in the fed
eral employ in Washington on July
Ist last, the annual pay roll for
them being $31,541,225, an average
of nearly $l,lOO each. This total
will be temporarily swollen next vear
by the addition of about 3,000 per
sons to the clerical force of the cen
sus bureau, adding nearly $5,000,-
000 in salaries during the year, or
more, of their employment.
The treasury department, with 6,-
996 persons, takes the lead of all
the government departments in
Washington in the number of em
ployes, while the executive offices
end the list with only 43 employves.
REBATE OF $10,351,027.
Largest Bookkeeping Task on Rec
| ord. Worked 38 Weeks,
~ What is believed to have been the
largest and most comprehensive
'bookkeeping task on record has been
completed in New York city by the
payment of $10,351,027 to gas con
‘sumers entitled to a rebate of 20
cents on the dollar on their gas bills
‘between the time of the 80-cent gas
law was enacted and when it was de
clared constitutional, The task in
cluded the auditing of 1,335,574
vouchers, the writing of as many
‘thousands of ledgers and the use of
12,600,000 postage stamps with as
‘many envelopes and filled in circular
(forms. More than 1,000 bookkeep
rers and clerks were employed in this
~task for thirty-eight weeks,
THE DAWSON NEWS.
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POORER BEEF, HIGHER PRICE
}BI'T FARMER DOESN'T SHARE
’ UPWARD MOVEMENT.
Facts Presented By Secretary Wil
son Show Average of 38 Per
Cent. in Retailer's Profits.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—ln glowing
terms Secretary Wilson of the de
partment of agriculture in his an
nual report pictures the results of
the farmers’ work for the year ended
June 30th last.
“Most prosperous of all years is
the place to which 1909 is entitled
in agriculture,” is the way the sec
retary puts it. The value of farm
products was $8,760,000,000, a gain
of $869,000,000 over the preceding
yvear.
Of great popular interest are the
results of a unique investigation con
ducted by the department which
shows that in fifty cities the total re
tail cost charged to consumers for
beef above the wholesale cost paid
by the retailers averaged 38 per cent.
The lower the grade of beef the
greater was the percentage of gross
profit.
In the upward movement of beef
prices the farmer, the report says,
has not shared equally 'with the
packer, retailer and wholesaler, but
as to hogs the case is different, the
farmer receiving nearly his fair share
of the higher prices of pork in the
increased price of his unfed hogs.
Secretary Wilson notes a great tor
ward movement in enforcing the food
and drug acts, the willingness of
manufaciurers to comply with the
laws and to co-operate with the de
partment, making the work largely
educational.
FOUGHT OVER TAFT'S RELIGION.
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One Negro Is Dead and Another Is
Dangerously Wounded. 3
Sol Brown is dead and Andrew
McCrary severely wounded as the re
sult of a quarrel among negroes in
Macon over the religion of President‘
Taft. When the difficulty grew to
blows Clayton Wheeler used a re
volver, killing one and dangerousl}"
wounding another. Wheeler es
caped and Brown died in the Macon
hospital. |
Stung For 13 Years. ‘
By indigestion’s pranks—trying
many doctors and $2OO worth of
medicine in vain, B. F. Ayscue, of
Ingleside, N, C., at last wused Dr.
King's New Life pills, and writes
they wholly cured him. They cure
constipation, biliousness, sick head
ache, stomach, liver, kidnev and
bowel troubles. 25e¢ at Dawson Drug
‘Co's.
i " Woman loves a clear, rosy com
wlexion. Burdock Blood Bitters pu
rifies the blood, clears the skin, re
‘slores ruddy, sound health, |
Record for Southwest
Georgia in Herald's
Corn Contest, 1909,
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We have on hand at J. Z. Turner's Stables in Dawson,
Ga.,, a car load of fine Mules, fat and young. They.were
bought specially
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season, and shall be pleased to have you call and see them
whenever you come to town.
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