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THE DAWSON NEWS.
By E. L. RAINEY.
DAVIS-DAVIDSON CO.
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A MONEY-SAVING STOCK REDUCING SALE
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NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER BA RGAINS.
For our mutual benefit,.and at the same time reduce our stock to make room for our Spring Merchandise, we are going to Inaugurate an unparalleled Bargain
event throughout the different lines. During this sale we will offer some of the most attractive bargains eyer offered to the trading public.
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Great Sale of Ladies’, Children’s and Misses Cloaks.
We have on hand about $l,OOO worth of these goods that we are going to offer exactly one
third off regular price. - These goods are all of the popular length and style. Fine all wool Kerseys,
Coverts, Meltons and light weight Broadcloth: saiin lined, silk braid and velvet trimmed. -
KID GLOVES.
A complete line of both long and
short Kid Gloves. Prices interesting.
Special Reduction in Clothing,
We have on hand about $lO,OOO worth ot men’s, youth’s and
children’s Suits, Overcoats and Pants from the leading manufacturers,
new and stylish weaves, that are going to be offered regardless of price.
We sell America’s very best Clothes. Our store is the house of great
values. Your opportunity for a bargain. Grasp it now.
Stock Reducing Sale in Dress Goods.
We are going to offer our entire line of Dress Goods at reduced prices. This line consists of all
the new and stylish woolens, stripes, plaids and novelties; all of the new shades in broadcloths,
serges, cheviots, mohairs, sicillians, wool taffetas, panama, silk finished henriettas, French and do
mestic suitings, and an unequaled line of black Dress Goods.
Our lineis entirely too varied to mention here. All goods in the various departments will be offered at greatly reduced prices. We invite yourinspection. Yours to please
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DAWSON'S POPULAR PRICEDP DEPARTMENT STORE.
HARRIMAN'S ESTATE IS $149,000,000
Appraisers Have Completed a Catalogue of the Late Rail
road Wizard’'s Holdings. All In His Wife’'s Hands.
NEW YORK.—Edward H. Harri
man, when he died, was worth $149,-
$OO. 000,
This became known yesterday
when the appraisers apointed by the
surrogate’s court completed their es
timate of his holdings. '
Before the railroad wizard’s death,
and shortly after it, all sorts of esti
mates were made about his fortune,
ranging from $50,000,000 to $250,-
000,000. But there were no means
of telling even approximately how
mich wealth the mysterious little
man had accumulated.
The $149,000,000 is rather more
than most guessers at Mr. Harri
man's riches thought he had. The
gneral estimate of his estate was
$100,000,000. The American, sum
ming up his various railroad and
other stocks, stated on September
SSth that it believed the fortune he
Eft behind him to be $150,000,000.
an ordinary estate an estimate of
e million out of the way would not
b very accurate. But where a man
Ys more than $100,000,000 it is re-
Markably close.
One Per Cent. For State.
- The state of New York, under the
iinherim nce tax, will receive from Mr.
Hartiman's estate the comfortable
im of $1,490,000, as it collects 1
I€r cent, of the total where the es
lte is left to one person.
That was the case with Mr. Har
"man’s hundred and a half millions.
He hequeathed everything of which
be was possessed to his widow, Mary
dvere)] Harriman, whom he married
" Rochester when he was merely a
Mall trader in Wall street.
May Have Been Larger.
Mr. Harriman’s fortune may have
0 more than the $149,000,000
O discovered, however. It was
Ui about the time of his death that
¢ had Qistributed a large part of
"~large in ordinary terms of money,
“igh not large when compared
Mt his total wealth—to his chil
0. Thig, though, was not con
" Wed, and it may be that the pres-
U estimate represents his total
‘lassment during his wonderful ca
er, : :
U his beautifully worded will,
leaving everything to Mrs. Harriman,
the railroad builder seemingly left
to her the future distribution of his
millions, as well as the present hold
ing of them. From that it was rea
soned that he left to her also the
duty of giving to their children what
she thought fitting.
Mr. Harriman's personal holdings
of railroad stocks—they were his
chief possessions—amounted to but
a small figure in comparison with the
stock which he influenced.
FOOTBALL AND WARFARE.
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Game Denounced by Col. John S Mos
by in Remarkable Interview.
Col. John S. Mosbhy, confederate
guerilla chieftain, lawyer, land com
missioner of the United States and
alumnus of the University of Vir
ginia, denounces football in a re
markable interview, in which he
compares the game to actual war
fare.
“I have read with indignation min
gled with great sorrow the account
of the murder of young Christian, a
student of the University of Virginia,
in a football game in Washington
with Georgetown University,” said
Colonel Mosby.
“I use the word ‘murder’ advised
ly. The killing was not an accident.
The very fact that a university sur
geon went with the team shows that
they were going to war.
“They neglected, however, to pro
vide an ambulance to carry off the
wounded.”
4,000 DOZEN BAD EGGS.
They Were Destined For Cakes and
Pies When Found.
Glory be! The pure food inspect
ors of the federal department of ag
riculture have taken up the cudgels
against bad eggs. Such eggs have
heretofore gone into the cheap pas
tries and cakes sold in the cities.
The other day in New York inspect
oré seized and destroyed 4,000 dozen
eggs in an awful condition of badness
that were destined for pie and cake
shops. More power to the arms of
the inspectors! May they piug their
noses with cotton-wool and ply their
big sticks vigorously.
DAWSON, GA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1909,
KNIT UNDERWEAR SPECIALS. .
We have on hand one of the largest and most complete lines of Men’s, Ladies,” Children’s and In
fant’s Underwear ever shown here, to go at greatly reduced prices.
'WOMAN PREDICTS EARTHQUAKE
iSays There'll Be One Somewhere
i Sometime. Has Forecasted Many.
! Asserting that she had predicted
most of the earthquakes since the
eruption of Mont Pelee Mrs. R. A.
Bliss, a widow, called up the report
ers’ room at the Brooklyn, N. Y.,
police headquarters Thursday after
noon and told them there was an
other great quake coming that day
or within a week. Mrs. Bliss, who
lives at No. 187 Columbia Heights,
refused to say on what she based her
predictions except that she gathered
information from the atmospherenc
conditions.
All of her late predictions have
been made to a friend. Mrs. Bliss
has a record of her predictions which
she showed, together with clippings
from many New York papers telling
of the quakes which she had predict
ed only a few days previous.
I She could not tell where this next
quake was to occur, or whether it
'would cause a loss of life.
NEGROES LEAVING GEORGIA.
Are Colonizing in Pklahoma in
Large Numbers.
The Savannah Press reports that
the negroes of that section are emi
grating to Oklahoma in large num
bers. Forty left Georgia in a body
a few days ago.
The negroes seem to be colonizing
in the state,of Oklahoma, and the
party of forty that left Georgia will
locate in a town of 3,000 negroes,
and will engage in business there.
It is said that the entire town is
governed by the negroes. They have
their own chief of police, mayor, fire
department and every other depart
ment of eivil government.
ATLANTA, Ga.—The indications
are that a number of crooks are do
ing a profitable business in western
communities disposing of fraudulent
Georgia land titles—selling land that
has no existence and never had any.
The second case within ten days
has just come to the notice of Sec
retary of State Philip Cook through
a letter received from Brobst & Son
of Knoxville, JTowa, who are seeking
information with regard to land
which clients of their purchased, or
DAVIS-DAVIDSON CO.
MANY FAKE GRANTS OF GEORGIA LAND
ARE SOLD TO TRUSTFUL WESTERNERS
The Business of Selling “Blue Sky’ Seems to Have Its Profitable Side.
Crooks Are Disposing of Fraudulent Titles.
Specials 1n Ladies’ Waists.
Sacrifice in cotton, wool and silk Waists. Ladies’ white fancy mercerized, tucked front, with
cuffs. Ladies’ white po[;llin Waists, fancy embroidered fronts with tucked sleeves. Ladies white
all linen Waists, mannish effect, with laundered cuffs and collars. Sizes 34 to 42.
$lO.OO Waists to goat =-< - - . $6.98 $2.5Q Walntatoga bt «< 6 oL $1.79
7.50 Waists to goat - - - - - - . 549 1.50 Waiststogoat - - - - - . 119
5.00 Waists togoat =& - . - - . 349 1.00 Waiststogoat - - - - . _ . 89
COTTON CROP WORTH DOUBLE
THE WORLD’'S GOLD OUTPUT.
Value This Year Is Nearly $1,000,-
000,000. This Section Leads
in Other Resources.
This year the south’s cotton crop
will be worth not far from $1,000,-
000,000, or twice as much as the out
put of all the gold mines of the world
for the same year, says the Manu
facturers’ Record. ‘
The south is producing 800,000,-
000 bushels of grain a year. The to
tal value of the agricultural products
of the south this year will be $2,-
400,000,000, which is equal to the
total of the agricultural output of
the United States in 1890, when the
population of the country was 63,-
000,000, while the population of the
south at present is 27,500,000,
The south has 62,000 square miles
of bituminous coal lands, as against
17,000 in Great Britian, Germany,
France and Australia combined. It
is now mining over 90,000,000 tons
of bituminous coal a year, as com
pared with 42,000,000 tons, the en
tire bituminous coal output of the
United States in 1880.
| According to official records the
‘south has more iron ore than foreign
?experts claim for all of Europe. The
United States Steel Corporation, hav
ing already invested about $50,000,-
000 in Alabama, is carrying out vast
fimprovements, including the building
of a $3,000,000 steel and wire plant,
a storage reservoir lake for the use
of its own works, to hold 2,500,000,-
thought they purchased, in Washing
ton county.
The other case was in Los Angeles,
Cal.,, where some persons were in
veigled into buying land alleged to
have been granted by the state in
Montgomery county, but of which
there is no record, showing it to
have been among the fraudulent
tgrants.‘ ;
The clients of Brobst & Son bought
land supposed to have bee.: granted
May 19, 1794, to Enoch Nilson.
Great Sale of Ladies’, Misses’ and Junior Tailor Suits.
We have on hand about $1,500 worth of these suits straight from
the leading manufacturers of America, and we are going to offer the
entire line at greatly reduced prices.
Staple Cotton Goods.
We give this department particular attention, watch every market
movement closely, take advantage of every opportunity to buy right,
and therefore are in a position to serve you in an unusually satisfactory
way. You will always find here merchandise at and below market price.
DAVIS-DAVIDSON COO.
000 gallons ofutev*lgah e oven
plant, to produce 3,000 tons of coke
per day, and other undertakings
which will add immensely to the
prosperity of the whole south. It is
handling a large part of its export
trade in steel rails through its Ala
bama plant, and it is now filling an
order for 110,000 tons of Birming
ham made rails to Argentina and
Brazil.
Southern cotton mills are now con
suming 2,500,000 bales of cotton a
year, or as much as all other mills
in the United States are consuming
of southern grown cotton. . The south
is producing nearly one-half the sul
phur of the world, and is absolutely
dominating the world’s sulphur
trade. Phosphate rock, the founda
tion of the great fertilizer industry,
is found in larger quantity and under
more advantageous conditions of
mining than elsewhere in the world,
and the rest of the world must large
ly depend upon the south for its sup
ply of phosphate rock. Over 40 per
cent. of all the standing timber in
the United States is in the south.
A southern port outranks all other
ports in the United States in export
trade except New York, and the
trend of foreign commerce through
southern ports is increasing more
rapidly than elsewhere in the coun
try.
RATS IN NURSES’ HAIR BARRED.
Attendants at Hospital Told to Ex-i
clude *“Foreign Material.”
“Because of sanitary reasons, har
mony and uniformity in appearance
and economy in time of dressing, and
because professional nurses should
have a proper lack of self-conscious
ness.”” These are the reasons given
by Sister Gabriel of the Mullan Phy
sicians’ Hospital of St. Louis, Mo.,
as to why she has issued her ulti
matum to the sixty nurses under her
charge to the effect that they shall
remove all “foreign material”’ from
their hair. The injunction prohibits
“rats,”” and requests that no hair
which is not rooted be used in dress
ing the coiffures.
“The extreme coiffures which the
.girls affect is not artistic or pret
ty,” one of the Sisters of Charity
maintained. ‘“The tiny frilled bow
of a cap, perched away up on a
‘ratted’ head, looks like a flower on
a dishpan.”
All the nurses have accepted the
order, although a few, and particu
larly two, who were less abundantly
endowed by nature, protested loudly.
VOL. 28.---NO. 11.
BIG ASSORTMENT
Ladies’ and Misses’ Skirts to go in
this sale at 25 per cent. reduction,
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A SWINDLE THAT BROUGHT IN
$30,000 A YEAR IS STOPPED.
The Concoctor of a Pathetic Bookleg
Got Half of Swag. Government
Has Suppressed It.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Postoffice
inspectors, after a year of work, have
succeeded in suppressing one of the
cleverest attempts devised to mulet
the public through the medium of
the mails. The native charity of the
average American was the stock in
trade of the swindlers, who appar
ently started out with the purpose
of capitalizing afliction.
Out in a central western state
there is a little armless girl who has
proved herself to be worth a net
profit of from $B5 to $l5O a day
through the sale of a little booklet,
the story of her sad little life, which
is illustrated with pathetic pictures
of her engaged in performing the us
ual manual offices with her feet.
The facsimile of a letter which the
little girl had written with her toes
accompanied the booklet as did a
card for mailing coin. The recipient
was asked to send a quarter to help
defray the expenses of providing the
little cripple with a home, and en
gaging some nice motherly Hoosier
to care for her.
~ The appeal proved such a success
that when the inspectors finally re
ported on the conditions they had
disvovered the little cripple’s staff
of assistants numbered eleven, and
the business was cobing in an aver
age daily profit of $lOO. The child
is now well established, and the acute
rperson who had the foresight to ad
‘vance the money necessary for the
initial publication of her book on
the basis of 50 per cent. to him on
the business developed is comforta
bly well off.
The chief difficulty confronting the
inspectors was the method to pursue
in stopping the graft. The little
girl's affliction was such that she was
certainly entitled to the privilege of
making her living by the sale of the
pamphlet, but the appeal on the
ground that she was in dire need
of a home the department construed
as a misstatement of fact, in view of
the annual income of the concern ap
proximating $30,000. They com
pelled the elimination of the appeal.
The business dwindled materially
after this was done and the cripple
and her manager retired. No fraud
order was issued.
