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By E. L. RAINEY.
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
No goods
Charged
at Sale
Price.
MANUFACTURERS SAY FERTIL
IZER TRADE IS OPENING
SLOWLY IN GEORGIA.
» Ty
THE FARMERS WILL USE LESS
Sale of Tags by Agricultural Depart
ment Is Behind Last Year. Fifty
Per Cent of 1912 Sales Are Be
ing Carried Over.
ATLANTA.—Conditions in tne fer
tilizer trade are in no wise promising,
according to the talk among repre
sentatives of the manufacturers and
the material men in Atlanta. While
they still have hopes of doing a good
business this year the season has
opened up very slowly, and the sales
today are considerably less than they
were at the same time last year.
There is no indication as yet that
the Georgia farmer is going to use
any more fertilizers than he did in
1912. In fact, if anything, figures
would seem to indicate that the con
sumption would not be quite s 0 large.
The one significant fact at this
time is that the state department of
agriculture sold from Oct. 1. 1912
the opening of the new season, to
Jan. 1, 1913, only a little more than
$7.000 worth of inspection tags, as
compared with $7,500 worth for the
same period last year. It is also in
teresting to note tha he sales of tags
for the preceding season were less
than . those for the season before
that. The total consumption of fer
tilizers for the season ending Oct. 1,
1912, was about 9 per cent less than
for the preceding season, the de
crease being approximately 110,000
tons.
"If there should be a similar de
crease this year it would mean a very
serious backset to the fertilizer in
terests throughout this section; for
not only did they have to contend
with comparatively poor business last
vear, but their collections have been
unusually poor in Georgia, and in‘
probably 50 per cent of the cases
they have had to carry their custom
ers over to the fall of 1913. This
means not only the tying up of their
capital, but a weakening to that ex
tent in the security which they will{
get om goods sold for the coming
seagon. ‘
Another discou:aging factor is that
the season has started out a rainy
one, similar to that of last year. It
was the long rainy spell of the spring
and early summer of 1912 which had
much to do with cutting down the
consumption of fertilizers. If the
same thing occurs this year the fer
tilizer men will feel as if some evil
fate is pursuing them. The way
things look now the fertilizer busi
ness for this year depends targely
upon what sort of weather is had
for the next two months. If it is fine
farming weather there is every rea
son to believe that the sale will be
large, and that on the prospects of
good crops everybody will be in 2
good business humor.
Al
WEARY WILLIES ON GANG.
L i
Two Arrested at Americus for Steal
ing Ride on Central Railroad.
Two white hoboes”’joined the Sum
ter county chaingang yesterday, and
during the next sixty days will en
gage in good roads building rather
than beating rides on trains. The
pair of tramps were taken off a train
here at the Central depot. They had
boarded the train at Montgomery and
claimed to be en route to New York.
Judge Harper sentenced them to the
gang for sixty days.—Americus
Times-Recorder.
THE DAWSON NEWS.
Important Notice 1o Evervbody
BEST COUNTY FAIR YET
WILL BE HELD NEXT FALL
The Dawson Woman's Club, who
have done more to bring the re
sources and advantages of Terrell
county to the outside world, and even
'astonished some of our own people
[with the possibilities of their county,
have again taken up the matter of
a fair, and it is announced positively
that another fair will be held next
fall during the month of October.
At their meeting Tuesday the coun
ty commissioners voted to give thc
club women the use of the court
house and yard for the fair, and
Tuesday night the city council gave
the use of such parts of the streets
as they may need for shows or other
purposes.
The Dawson Woman's Club, who
are working in the interest of the
public library, have already brought
to successful culmination two splen
did fairs, whickh reflected credit on
|them and the county, and it is pro-
Eposed to make ilhe one to be held
|HE HAD TO CLOSE SALOONS
OR STOP H:S PROHBITION LECT
URES IN OTHER STATES.
An Interesting Story of the Closing
of Rome’s Thirst Parlors by
Seaborn Wright.
ATLANTA.—An interesting story
’comes from Rome with regard to the
i action of Hon. Seaborn Wright, noted
prohibition lecturer and orator, in
closing up the Elks’ Club and near
l‘beer saloons in that city some months
ago.
Mr. Wright, as is well known, is
making his principal occupation just
now, as he has been for several years
past, the delivering of prohibition
lectures in various sections of the
l United States. Mr. Wright talks
prohibition from Maine to California
and from the Lakes to the Rio
Grande
Mr. Wright, it is stated. is deliv
ering these lectures, Or prohibition
speeches, under the auspices of the
National Anti-Saloon League, with
headquarters in Baltimore, and re
port has it that the regular fee for
his lecture is $lOO each, whether he
makes one a week or two a day.
Coming back to the Rome end of
the story, report has it that on the
occasion of a number of these lect
ures in various parts of the United
States Mr. Wright was a little bit em
barrassed by the question as to why
he had not been successful in pre
venting the sale of beer and liquors
in his own home town, located, as it
was, in a prohibition state. Of course,
Mr. Wright knew why, but it was
rather hard to explain. |
Closed Them Up. 1
Finally, it is said, Mr. Wright got
'so worried over this persistent
“‘ghost of Banquo” that he determin
ed to get rid of it, so that the next
time the question arosg he could say
that Rome was a dry town in fact as
well as in name.
The result was that Mr. Wright
came back to Rome and dug up the
law which permits the closing of a
saloon, barroom, blind tiger, or what
ever else the place may be called,
where liquors are sold in a dry state,
on the ground that it is a public
nuisance. Mr. Wright then went in
to court, applied for an injunction
and closed up every place in Rome
where anything was sold that could
be possibly considered as coming
within terms of the prohibition law.
Just received our Spring line of E. P. Reed & Co. oxtfords
for ladies, and will give 10 per cent off for cash during our
lace and white goods sale on Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday, Febfuary 11th, 12th and 13th.
J F ROBERIS
this year the largest and best of all.
Plans for making it a success will
be begun at once. A premium list
will be prepared and published as
soon as possible, and it will contain
many attractive prizes for exhibits
in every department—prizes that will
be worth striving for.
Let the farmers, who are now get
ting ready to pitch their crops, plant
and cultivate something with the
view of making an exhibit, and those
in other lines of endeavor should al
so start in time to have something
creditable on exhibition.
Dawson and Terrell county owe
much to their women, who have prov
ed to be real and successful leaders
in every good work, and it is as lit
tle as the men can do to get behind
them in “the movement for a great
county fair and show a spirit of home
pride and enterprise.
Get busy, everybody, and boost
the county fair.
This is the story as they are tell
ing it in Rome. Mr, Wright has fix
ed things so that now when the ques
tion bobs up as to ‘“what’s the mat
ter with Rome?” he can promptly
answer: ‘‘She’s all right.”
Mr. Wright has also threatened to
come down and reform Atlanta in
the same manner in which he has re
formed Rome. There is no question
but what k- would find it a little
more difficult proposition than he
had to tackle in his home town.
HARRIS GRATIFIED
OVER THE RESULT
Law That Reorganized Agricultural
Department Is Putting Revenue
in the Treasury.
ATLANTA, Ga.—Former State
Senator W. J. Harris, who is the au
thor of the present oil and fertilizer
inspection law, is deeply gratified
that his position concerning the same
has been amply justified.
It is the view of Commissioner
Conner, who is said to have opposed
the law originally, that revenues
from such inspections will practically
be doubled under the new law.
Sufficient has already accumulated
from January inspection fees to pay
each of the eleven district agriclilt
ural schools $2,000, and Commis
sioner Conner thinks all can be paid
the full amount of $lO,OOO, that be
ing the limit under the act creating
these schools, by May. This will
make a total of $llO,OOO. All after
that will be carried into the general
treasury fund.
“] am very much gratified that
the law is working so well and so sat
isfactorily,” says Senator Harris. “I
felt all along that it would bring
increased revenues into the state, I
have been amply justified in that be
lief.” ;
DAWSON, GA., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 7, 1913.
MILADY'S HAT PIN
GOES UNDER THE BAN
Boston.—The wearing by wo
men of hat pins that are a men
ace to the traveling public must
be prohibited in this state.
‘ This is the conclusion of a
legislative committee which to
day recommended the adoption
of a law making it a misdemean
or for a woman to permit the
pointed end of a pin to protrude
more than half 3 inch from the
gide of her hat, 7
DRYS PUSH THEIR BILL
ALMOST CERTAIN TO GET BILL
PROHIBITING LIQUOR SHIP
MENTS INTO DRY STATES.
WANT CONGRESS VOTE QUICK
Congressmen Are Dreading a Vote on
the Measure, and Would Like to
Postpone Its Consideration. Tre
mendous Pressure Being Brought.
WASHINGTON.—The house com
mittee on judiciary will report on
Wednesday the Webb bill prohibiting
the interstate shipment of intoxicat
ing liquors into du territory. The
measure is practically identical with
the Kenyon bill, which has passed
the senate, and a dreaded vote on the
prohibition issue faces the house.
This information concerns and
alarms especially the members of the
rules committee of the house, for as
soon as the bill is reported members
of the judiciary committee will de
mand a special rule providing for the
consideration of the anti-liquor bill
at this session,
The Bill Will I"ass.
Should the issue be presented to
the house in this mapner there is no
doubt of the passage of the bill and
a hard blow will be dealt the liquor
interests,
Chairman Henry of the rules com
mittee is reliably reported to have
promised advocates of the legislation
that the rules committee will report
a special rule making the Webb bill
privileged.
It is likewise known that the ma
jority of the members of the rules
committee would like to postpone
consideration of such far-reaching
legislation, but tremendous pressure
is being brought to bear on the com
mittee, and if a meeting is held for
the purpose it is understood that
Chairman Henry will feel compelled
to bring up the liquor question.
Vote Will Be Close.
The vote of the rules committee for
a special rule probably will be close,
but so stiff has been the fight waged
by the prohibitionists that a suffi
cient number of votes is expected
and the liquor fight will be thrown
into the house, where it will not be
specially welcome. If the rules com
mittee declines to meet and report
out a special rule on the Webb meas-~
ure the inaction of the members will
haVe embarrassing complications
back home.
NET GAIN MADE
BY BOLL WEEVIL
Cotton Pest Has Added Seven Thous
and Three Hundred Square Miles
to Its Territory.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Despite
the check in the movement of the
cotton boll weevil during the past
year on account of the unusual cli
matic conditions of the winter of
1911-1912 the insect has made a
net gain of 7,300 square miles, ac
cording to a report made to the de
\partment of agriculture by W. D.
Hunter and W. D. Pierce, in charge
of the Southern field crop insect in
vestigations.
i’ The total area infested with the
boll weevil in 1912 was 278,000
square miles as compared with 271,
500 in 1911, Texas, with 11,050
square miles, led the other states in
the area of infected territory gained
during the year. Alabama came sec
ond with 9,100 square miles; Flor
ida third with 2,200 sgaure miles,
and Mississippi fourth with 370
square miles.
COUNCIL GRANTS CARNIVAL
PERMIT TO SHOW IN DAWSON
Dawson is to have another car
nival, or street show.
Tuesday night a repiesentative of
the Great Cosmopolitan Shows ap
peared before the city council and
asked permission for that company
show here for a week during the
month of March under the auspices
of the Dawson Band.
After some discussion of the mat
ter a motion was adopted that the
band be granted the free use of the
streets for carnival purposes, and
that no license be charged the com
pany for their shows. The council
also voted to furnish the shows free
lights as far as can be spared by the
light plant, the transformers and
fixtures to be furnished by the car
nival company without expense to
the city. The show tents will be
erected on such streets as may be
agreed upon by the street committee,
and no exhibition not approved by
the mayor is to be allowed. The
100,000 JEWS IN PALESTINE
OF THIS NUMBER FIFTY TH(')('S-]
AND IN JERUSALEM ALONE. ‘
i e |
Are Establishing Stores in the City
and Buying Farm Lands in the |
Surrounding Country.
There are now more than 100,000
colonized Jews in Palestine, and ac
cording to a writer in the Osman
ischer Lloyd they are rapidly redeem
ing the country. Of these 50,000 or
60,000 are in Jerusalem alone, and
despite the ‘‘red passport’’ with
which foreign Jews must provide
themselves, and which limits their
stay in Palestine to three months,
their establishment of stores in the
city and their purchase of farms in
the surrounding country goes on. In
other words, these foreign Jews fur
nish the capital and the executive
ability in making the native Jews
of Palestine self supporting and in
many cases wealthy, while insuring
to themselves the basis of comforta
ble fortunes.
What this influx of Jewish capital
and brains has meant to Palestine
may be gathered from the figures
gathered by the Osmanischer Lloyd.
The colonists now own forty villages
and about 40,000 hectares (100,000
acres) of land, seventy-five per cent
of which is under cultivation; 21,000
acres in Judea, fifteen colonies; 15,-
000 acres in Samaria, eight colonies;
40,000 acres in Galilee, sixteen col
onies; 500 acres in the Trans-Jordan
country, one colony. The most im
portant of these setlements, which
were founded between 1878 and
1902, says the Christian Herald, are
Petach-Tiweh, 1,500 colonists; Rish
on le Zion, 1,000 colonists; in Judea,
|Zikhron-Jacob, 1,000 colonists; in
iSamaria and Rosh-Pina, 809 colo
nists in Galilee. ;
$1 FOR NEW BABIES;
BANK IS ON THE JOB.
New Haven, Conn.—Every
child born in the town of Orange
from now on will receive a pres
ent of a savings bank book show
ing the deposit of a dollar to its
credit at an Orange bank, accord
ing to action taken by the direc
tors of the institution today. The
treasurer was instructed to usec
the official returns of births as
his guide.
band will get such percentage of
the gross proceeds as may be agreed
upon by them and the carnival com
pany.
The council was almost unanimous
in its action allowing the carnival to
come to Dawson, the only dissenting
vote being by Councilman Perry. Be
sides being opposed to carnivals on
the ground that they are not only of
no benefit to a community, but
harmful in their influence, Mr. Perry
further based his opposition on the
ground that with smallpox and men
ingitis both prevalent in the county it
woiilld be unwise and dangerous to
bring large crowds from all sections
together for a week.
The Great Cosmopolitan Shows is
the carnival company that was here
three years ago when Honneus, the
“Cyelone,” the 'dare-devil bicycle
rider, met his death while making a
sensational two-leap ride down an in
clined track.
RODDENBERY'S RULE
INVOLVES $30,000,000
Georgia Congressman Makes Decision
That May Hit Washington Tax
payers a Heavy Blow.
WASHINGTON.—Taxpayers of the
District of Columbia may lose $30,-
000,000 as a result of a precedent
upsetting decision today by Repre
sentative Roddenbery of Georgia, as
chairman of the house in committee
of the whole, susgtaining a point
against a paragraph in the district
appropriation bill, $95,478 for inter
est, and sinking fund on the district’s
debt.
Representative Johnson of Ken
tucky, chairman of the district com
mittee, made the point of order on
the ground that the law under which
the states assumed responsibility for
the funded indebtedness of the dis
triect did not provide that the gov
ernment should pay half of the in
terest and sinking fund on the debt.
An appeal from the decision of the
chair was voted down 97 to 33. An
effort will be made in the senate to
have the paragraph stricken out to
day reinserted.
UNCLE WANTS NO ‘
POLITICAL FARMER
United States Government Has 'l‘oldl
Georgia What Not to Do in Elect
ing Experiment Director.
The United States government has
politely informed the state of Georgia
that unless the next director of Geor
gia’s experimental station is versed‘
in the science of agriculture rather
than in the science of politics Uncle
Sam will advise congress to with
draw the $30,000 appropriation on
which the experiment station is oper
iated.
It is understood that the trusteesj
of the experiment station consider
the attitude of the United States de
partment of agriculture well taken,
and that they will insist that who
ever is chosen to succeed Martin V.
Calvin shall be chosen for scientific
iand agricultural efficiency and not
for political reasons or political pull.
Mr. Calvin’s resignation takes ef
fect in July. The election of his
successor will occur at the April
meeting of the trustees.
What Interested Him.
She—Be on the watch. The great
social cataclysm is coming!
~ He—That so? Any turkey trot
iting in it?
YOL. 31 NO: 38.
February 11th
February 12th
February 13th
No goods
sent out
on ap
proval.
GOVERNMENT FIGURES SHOW
MORE HORSES, BUT FEWER
COWS AND SHEEP.
FARM PRODUCE MUCH HIGHER
The Report Showing Live Stock on
. Ranges January Ist Indicates That
Price of Animals for Food Has
Greatly Increased.
WASHINGTON.—The introduction
of the automobile on farms of the
United States has not displaced the
horse or mule, for the latest estimate
of the number of these animals on
farms January 1 this year, announc
ed today by the department of agri=
eulture, shows more horses than ever
before except in 1909 and 1910, and
more mules than any previous rec
ord.
Horses and mules were of greater
value than ever before except in
1911, Rhe number of horses increas
ed 58,000 over last year and mules
increased 24,000, While the num
ber of beasts of burden on the farm
increased the number of food animals
decreased.
Milch cows decreased 202,000 since
January 1, 1912; other cattle de
creased 1,230,000; sheep decreased
880,000 and swine decreased 4,232«
000.
In average value per head com
pared with 1912 horses increased
$4.83; mules, $3.80; milch cows,
$5.63; other cattle, $5.16; sheep, 48
cents; swine, $1.86. In total values
the increases were: Horses, $105,~
528,000; mules, $19,588,000; milch
cows, $107,369,000; other cattle,
$159,581,000; sheep, $21,609,000;
swine, $79,781,000., The total value
of all farm animals increased $493,-
456,000, or 9.9 per cent over 1911,
Farm animals on farms and ranges
in the United States January 1 were
valued at $5,501,587,000, compared
with $5,008,327,000 last year; the
department of agricuiture announced
today. They included horses, mules,
milech cows, other cattle, sheep and
swine and numbered 194,140,000,
compared with 200,602,000 last
year.
The number, value per head and
aggregate value of the various farm
animals compared with last year’s
figures were:
Horses, 20,567,000 compared with
20,509,000; value, $110.77 compar
ed with $105.94; aggregate value,
$2,278,222,000 compared with $2,-
172,694,000.
Mules, 4,386,000 compared with
4,362,000; value, $124.31 compared
with $120.51; aggregate value,
$545,245,000 compared with $525,-
657,000.
Milch cows, 20,437,000 compared
with 20,699,000; value, $45.02 com~
pared with $39.39; aggregate value,
$922,783,000 compared with $815,-
414,000.
Other cattle, 36,030,000 compared
with 37,260,000; value, $26.36 com
pared with $21.20; aggregate value,
15949,645,000 compared with $790,-
064,000.
Sheep, $51,482,000 compared with
52,362,000; value, $3.94 compared
with $3.46; aggregate value, $202,-
799,000 compared with $181,170,-
000.
Swine, 61,178,000 compared with
65,410,000; value, $9.86 compared
twith $8.00; aggregate value, $603.-
109,000 compared with $523,228,-
000. '
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