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THINGS HE WILL WANT TO liNO\\'i
AT EVERY NOUSEHOLD. {‘
Seme Questions om the List Will Bel‘
Personal, But Neeessary For Com- ‘
pilation of Government Record.
In a few months the census man
will be abroad im the lamd.
Onerous will be his work, and
many the questions he will ask.
Seme of his questions will be per
sgnal, too, but necessary for the com
pilation of the goverament record.
Many of the theusands of people who
have applied for positions of enum
erators have mot the slightest idea
of the work involved or the, responsi-
Bility of their office.
The enumerator must go from
house to house, ascertaining detailed
information about every family and
|very member thereof. His sheet,
which he must fll out, requires the
following information to be obtained:
Street, Avemume, Road, Etc.
House number (in cities or towns),
asumber of dwelling house in order
#f visitation, number of family in or
der of visitation.
Name,
Of each persom whose place of
abode on April 15, 1910, was in this
fainily, enter surname first, then the
given name and middle initial, if any;
inelude every person living on April
15, 1910, omit children born since
April 15, 1918; relationship of this
person to the head of the family;
eX.
Color or Race,
Age at last birthday; whether sin
gle, married, widowed or divorced,
number of years of present marriage,
mother of how many children—num-
Ber born, number now living.
Nativity,
Place of birth of each person and
parents of each person enumerated;
if born in the United States, give the
state or territory; if of foreign birth
give the country; place of birth of
this person, place of birth of father
of this person, place of birth of moth
er of this persom.
Citizenship.
Year of immigration to the United
States; whether naturalized or alien;
whether able to speak English; or,
if not, give language spoken; trade
er profession of, or particular kind of
work done by this person, as spinner,
salesman, laborer, ste.
Oceupation.
General nature of industry, busi
ness or establishment in which this
person works, as cotton mill, dry
goods store, farm, ete. Whether an
employer, employe, or working on
ewn account. If an employve—
whether out of work on April 15,
1910; number of weeks out of work
during year 1909.
Eduoation.
Whether able to read; whether
able to write; attended school any
time since September 1, 1909.
Ownership of Home.
Owned or rented; owned free or
mortgaged; farm or house; number
of farm schedwle,
Whether a survivor of the union
er confederate armyv and navy;
whether blind (both eves); whether
deaf and dum®b.
Copies of the enumerators’ blanks
were given to Supervisor Rainey at
the recent meeting in Atlanta. The
Supervisor asks that every person
read over the list of questions that
will be asked in order that they may
be qualified to give the desired in
formation without any delay.
LET OTHER FARMERS FOLLOW.
What a Tift Coanty Farmer Did
This Year.
The Tifton Gazette publishes the
following letter from W. E. Baker
to Traffic Manager Hillhouse of the
Gulf Line raiiroad:
“I made this year 147 bales of cot
ton on 136 acres of land. ] made a
little over twenty bales of cotton on
tem acres. 1 made 500 bushels of
corm on ten acres of land on my farm
in Tift comnty. 1 did not make any
apecial effort om the corn, but did on
the ten acres of eotton, and had it
not been for the exceedingly hot, dry
weather in Auagust 1 fully believe I
would have made three bales of cot
ton to tne acre. The seed corn and
cotton seed both are special varie
ties, and the fertilizers adapted to
the soil. The more important facts
are the proportion I put out of this
fertilizer the right quantity at the
right time. { lead, others can fol
low.”
Mr. Baker seems too far in the
lead for maay to follow closely, but
we would be glad to see even a strag
gling processiom after him.
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Dawson, Georgia
B e e T TSR R vo e i TOO S By oo B e K
MR. GURR SELLS 'PHONE LINES.
Bell Telephone Company Buys Bain
bridge and Other Lines.
The Bainbridge Post of Tuesday
contained this news article, which
will be read with interest locally:
“Mr. T. E. Gurr, owner of the tel
ephone properties at Bainbridge,
Brinson, Climax and Colquitt, to
gether with numerous long distance
lines, has made sale of all of the
property to the Southern Bell Tele
phone & Telegraph Company. In an
interview Mr. Gurr states that the
growing demand for telephone ser
vice in his territory is such that it
will take thousands of dollars in im
provements, extensions and better
ments to satisfy the people, and that
in a growing community such as this
these conditions are almost perpet
ual, hence he felt the mutual inter
est of himself and the public would
be best served by placing the prop
erty in stronger hands.
‘‘Since the present ownership has
rheld the property the system has been
greatly extended, and the service has
‘been the best, but under the circum
stances we welcome heartily the Bell,
who has the means to supply a tele
phone to every applicant. We learn
that the Bell Company has two hob
bies, both of which are great—one
the development of farmers’ lines
and ‘the other harmonious co-opera
tion with the public.”
IS THE NIGH BEER LAW LAME?
It is Now Said That the Act Doesn’t
Provide a Penalty.
A well-known member of the legis
lature advances the theory that ow
ing to the legislature’s failure to in
corporate in the near beer section of
the general tax act for 1910 any pen
alty whatever it has probably accom
plished just the opposite of what was
intended.
The law prohibits the sale of near
beer except in incorporated cities and
towns of 2,500 inhabitants or more,
according to the last census, and
license can be issued only in such
municipalities.
But, as there is no penalty at
tached to the failure to procure
license, he suggests that it might be
possible for anyone to operate a near
beer resort wherever he chooses
without paying any license at all, un
less he is located in one of the cities
or towns described, where he would
be liable to execution and levy, if he
did not pay it,
LODGE INITIATION ON SKATES.
W. 0. W, sna 199 New Members
Roll Through Work.
A unique initiary ceremony was
put on at Independence Ore., when
the Woodmen of the World added
109 members to their organization.
The teams and the candidates were
supplied with roller skates, and the
work was carried out without a mis
hap. A large rink was filled up for
the occasion.
General Organizer F. B. Hichenor
and Special Organizer F. M. Simpson
were present, and assisted in the
ceremonies.
The Women of Woodcraft also ini
tiated 15 members at their hall, and
were assisted by Mrs. Van Orsdal,
general organizer,
THE COLD STORAGE CHIME
A resolution has been introduced
in congress looking to the investiga
tion of the high cost of living. When
the probe is applied it should be
peculiarly the object of the investi
gation to inquire into the existence
of any practices in the nature of
wilful destruction or withholding of
food supplies from the public by ille
gitimate methods in order to in
crease the prices. Practices of this
nature are essentially a crime against
the laws of God and man, and should
be sternly prohibited and punished.
Among other things the injurious ef
fects of the cold storage trusts should
be looked into and legislated against.
The eggs and butter we eat are now,
as a rule, subjected to the process
and deterioration of cold storage in
order to make the public pay high
for the damaged goods.
‘‘According to a statement recent
ly made by the president of the
American Warehousemen’s Associa
tion,”” says the Boston Herald, ‘‘l,-
500,000,000 eggs were in cold stor
age Lthe first of September, being held
there in order that the egg market
might be controlled and the price of
eggs kept at a high level. It was
said with equal authority that a sim
ilar amount of butter was being held
in cold storage for similar purposes.
In other words, fifty-five million dol
lars worth of food products were
withdrawn from the markets of the
country and an arbitary price level
created which had no connection with
FORMER DAWSON CITIZEN AND
WELL-KNOWN DRUMMER.
Was Stricken With Apoplexy in Texas
Border Town, Where He Recently
Moved, and Soon Died.
Thousands of friends and acquaint
ances throughout this section of Ma
jor Thomas J. Black, for fifty years
one of the best known and most pop
ular drummers in Georgia and for a
long time a resident of Dawson, learn
of his death in El Paso, Texas, where
‘he recently removed from Amerieus,
Iwith genuine regret. The following
iaccount of Mr. Black’s death is from
the Americus Times-Recorder of
‘Thursday:
! ‘“Mr. Thomas J. Black, one of
Americus’ old and most esteemed cit
rizens and a genial gentleman widely
‘known throughout southern Georgia,
is dead at El Paso. The sad intelli
'gence was conveyed in a telegram re
ceived here yesterday, and caused
sorrow among his many friends.
~ ““Mr. Black was stricken with apo
plexy on Tuesday, as stated in these
columns yesterday, and friends here
feared that the shock would event
ually prove fatal.
~ “This fear was verified even soon
er than they expected.
- “Mr. and Mrs. Black left Americus
a month ago to reside for some time
in El Paso, their only son, James
Black, having gone there to reside.
‘He left here in his usual rugged and
robust health, and his friends knew
not that they would see him no more.
~ “Mr. Black was a native of Sum
ter county, a son of the late Harper
Black, and was reared at Magnolia
Springs, where his family, one of the
‘pioneers of Sumter, resided for a long
period of years.
“It was there, too, after the civil
war, that he married the sweet wo
man who has been his helpmeet
through life, and still survives him.}
One son blessed their union, and it
was to be with him™n far away Texas
that they gave up their comfortable
‘home in Americus and went west.
“Mr. Black was as gallant a con
federate soldier as ever drew a sabre,
and as private in the Second Georgia
CavaGlry, C. S. A., he rode and bat
tled with Joe Wheeler, ‘“Little Old
Fighting Joe,”” through the four long
years of civil strife.
‘‘After the war, and almost until a
month preceding his death, Mr. Black
was a traveling salesman, and ‘‘on
the road,” as at home, was esteemed
among all for is good umor, his
warm-hearted, genial nature and ster
ling worth. A prince among men
was ‘Tom’ Black.
Besides his wife and son he is sur
vived by three brothers—Mr. R. C.
Black of Atlanta, Mr. Charles Black
of Americus and Dr. Harvey Black of
Talbotton. He was a member of
Camp Sumter, U. C. V., and for years
its adjutant, and likewise a member
of Americus Lodge No. 13, F. and
A, M
“The body will probably be
brought back to his old home for in
terment, in keeping with his ex
pressed wishes, though funeral de
tails have not been made yet.”
the law of supply and demand, which
should be the ruling forece in an open
and competitive market. The colds
storage process has accomplished re
markable benefits for the consumer
in many ways. Rightly used it would
be the means of reducing his cost
of living. Wrongly used it has in
creased the cost of his living and
created immense profit for specula
tors and manipulators. With the fa
cilities of cold storage the butter and
egg markets can be absolutely con
trolled. With the immense reserve
in storage the market can be broken
to such an extent as to ruin any in
dependent movement to regulate it.
With the facilities of storage a suffi
cient amount of the natural market
can be withdrawn at any time to
create an effective corner and to put
prices at any desired point. The
authoritative figures quoted above
are sufficient evidence to any family
head in the United States now being
forced to pay famine prices for but
ter and eggs to convince him of the
importance of an immediate and an
insistent -appeal to the president and
to congress for a complete and thor
ough investigation of thig and other |
factors which have tended to in
crease the cost of living beyond the
point where there is a reasonable and |
natural explanation.”—Macon News.
COAL TRAIN ONE MILE LONG.
Single Engine Pulled It. Longest on
Railroad Records.
What is said to be the longest
train ever pulled by a single engine
left Roanoke, Va., for Norfolk over
the Vinginian railroad, also known
as the “Rogers railroad ” The train
consisted of 120 steel coal hoppers,
each 44 feet long, all the same height
and each loaded with 50 tons of
coal. A Mallet compound engine, a
tender and a caboose made up the
rest of the train. The train from
tender to caboose stretched six feet
over a mile, and the coal was valued
at $lB,OOO. )
The train passed H. H. Rogers, Jrs
his brother-in-law, President Brough
ton, of the Virginian railroad, and
other officials who were on a tour
of the system.
Pneumonia Follows a Cold.
But never follows the use of Fo
ley’s Honey and Tar, which stops the
cough, heals the lungs, and expels
the cold from your system. Take
at first sign of a cold and avoid a
dangerous illness. Dawson Drug Co.
and People’'s Drug Store.
THE DAWSON NEWS,
PNT NI NS NI NSNS IS NS NSNS NSNS NSNS
FOR CLERK SUPERIOR COURT.
To the Voters of Terrell County:
I am a candidate for Clerk of the Su
perior Court, subject to the action
of the Democratic primary. Your
support will be highly appreciated
and gratefully remembered. Re-‘
spectfully, C. M. HARRIS. |
Notice to Stockholders.
Notice is hereby given that a meet
ing of the stockholders of the City
National Bank of Dawson, Ga., will
be held at the office of said bank at
10 o’clock a. m. Tuesday, January
11, 1910, for the purpose of electing
directors of said bank for the year
of 1910. This December 7, 1909.
| K. S. WORTHY, Cashier.
‘ .
~ Notice to Stockholders.
Notice is hereby given that a meet
ing of the stockholders of Dawson
Nation Bank of Dawson, Ga., will be
held at the office of said bank at 10
o’clock a. m. Tuesday, January 11,
1910, for the purpose of electing di
rectors of said bank for the year of
1910. This December 7, 19009.
R. L. Saville, Cashier.
Money to Loan,
At reasonable interest on improved
farm lands or on city property in
Dawson. Principal and interest pay
able either annually or monthly.
Build you a home and pay for it like
rent you pay. See me if interested.
JAS. B. HOYL, Attorney at Law.
For Rent,
A new five-room house with all
modern conveniences, close in. Ap
ply at the fire department to
. W. P. SKELTON.
Lumber for Sale.
150,000 feet of lumber for sale at
my farm known as the Dozier place,
six .miles north of Dawson.
h TILLEY, Parrott, Ga.
Shingles for Sale.
I have received a car of No. 1
and. a car of No. 2 shingles, and will
be glad to supply you. T. J. SLADE.
Notice to the Public.
We will sell cotton seed hulls and
meal only for cash or- its equivalent.
SOUTHERN @OTTON OIL CO.
Bdtkshire Pigs For Sale.
I have pure bred Berkshire pigs
for sale at $lO a pair.
‘G. M. CHAMBLESS, Parrott, Ga.
A LONG RIBBON OF ICE.
Ohio River Traffic Is Abandoned, and
Boats May Be Tied Up For Weeks.
A Pittsburg dispatch says with
tons upon tons of ice piled high
against the piers of bridges spanning
the Ohio river at Pittsburg and points
below river traffic has been entirely
abandoned and river men are prepar
ing to cope with one of the worst ice
packs ever experienced in that har
bor::
An estimated 10,000,000 bushels
of coal has been diverted from its us
ual river transportation to southern
points, and cars are being asked for
from all railroads by coal operators,
who realize that it may be weeks be
fore the packet owners can again
take up the work of transporting the
coal fleets down the Ohio. At Pitts
burg river navigation ceased Christ
mas day.
At Wheeling, W. Va., river men re
port danger to craft in that harbor.
Precautions have been taken to avoid
loss of property along the water front
when many packets and empty coal
fleets lie tide up.
From Wheeling to New Martins
ville, W. Va., 35 miles, a solid sheet
of ice marks the course of the Ohio
river. Weather conditions at all
points do not indicate any marked
change, and it is the prediction of
river men that the present severe
conditions will prevail for at least a
week, if not for weeks.
It is a dangerous thing to take a
cough medicine containing opiates
that merely stifle your cough instead
of curing it. Foley’s Honey and Tar
lossens and cures the cough and ex
pels the poisonous germs, thus pre
venting pneumonia and consurption.
Refuse substitutes and take only the
genuine Foley's Honey and Tar in
the yellow package. Dawson Drug
Co. and People’'s Drug Store.
FERTILIIZERS!
We beg to announce to the planters of this section and surrounding coun
ties that we are prepared, as we have been in the past, to offer first-class
fertilizers the coming season, embracing
T
Guano, Nitrate of Soda, Kainit, Muriate of Potash, Acid
Phosphate and Cotton Seed Meal at Reasonable Figures
We offer goods of our own manufacture, and it is useless to go into details of the
merits of the same, as planters all over this country have voluntarily given their
endorsement of the high class goods we make by actual experience. We would be
pleased to have an interview with you, as it will mean as much to you as to us
LOWREY BROS., Dawson, Ga.
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we are here with the goods
when 1t comes to
plumbing and
electrical work
also bicycles and supplies
and general repair shop
| COFFINS |
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We have added to our stock this season a com
plete line of Coffins. We intend to merit the trade
in this department by constantly having in stock
a complete assortment from the cheapest to the
finest.
We also intend to merit patronage by extend
ing to the trade every possible courtesy and atten
tion. Your friends,
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| G. N Doller & i |
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New Furniture Store
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I have opened a stock of Furniture in the buildiig on Main Street
next door to the Dawson Market and Grocery Company.
Bedsteads, Tables, Washstands, Chairs
and everything else carried in an up-to-date Furniture Store can A
be found at our place, and we have marked them at prices that
will please. Give us a call.
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JANUARY 5, 1910.
