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By E. L. RAINEY.
THE INSTITUTION NOW OWNED
ENTIRELY BY HOME PEOPLE,
Strong Organization Is Back of Bank, l
and It Is Expected to Be More ‘
Prosperous Than Ever, |
The Bank of Weston was orgamzed|
March 20, 1913, with thirty-five
stockholders, and on March 26 they
purchased of People’s Bank of Wes
ton, Ga., their interest in the town of |
Weston, and will continue to t,ransact'
business in the building formerly oc
cupied by People’s Bank, Weston,
Ga. The new Bank of Weston takes
over all the accounts of the People’s
Bank.
The officers of the Bank of Weston
are G. W. Sims, president; A, P.
Passmore, vice president; M. J. Lev
erettte, vice president, and S. W. Ad
ams, cashier.
Mr. G. W. Sims is well known by‘
all the people of his community and!
is recognized by all as being a safei
conservative business man. The sue
cess he has made with his own mer
cantile business in Weston is proof
that ke is well qualified for the posi
tion he now holds. Mr. Sims is also
secretary of the Weston Gin Co. -
Mr. A. P. Passmore is well known
by all the people of his community,
and has many acquaintances ali over
the state, having served in the sen
ate from this district, and he has at
different periods held other political
offices in the county, which shows
that he is held in high esteem by his
friends and associates.
Mr. M. J. Leverette is engaged in
the mercantile business at Leverette,
Ga., and also owns considerable farm
ing lands near Weston. 'He is recog
nized by all as heing very conserva
tive, and when his friends see him
take hold of a propositon it is suffi
cient evidence to them that it is a
gond one. Mr. Leverette is president
of the Planters’ Warehouse Company,
of Weston, Ga., an institution which
has made a record for Weston that
few other towns in South Georgia can
boast of. ‘That is, notwithstanding
thé poor crop year, Weston weighed
more cotton last year than she has in
her history.
Mr. S. W. Adams is a native of
Webster county, but spent most of
his career in Florida, until one year
ago, when he came back to Weston
to take a position with the People’s
Bank of Weston. He has had about
five years experience in the banking
business, and more than three of
these were with the Pioneer Bank,
West Palm Beach, where he met
banking in its every phase from a
plain counter check to a letter of
credit. g
In addition to the officers the Bank
of Weston has a set of directors
whose integrity cannot be question;
they are successful business men,
men of brains and ideas, men who
believe in their country going ahead,
but at the same time each and every
one of them realize that a man must
live within his income, and that a
bank must first secure its depositors
and then get all the legitimate busi
ness within its territory. The direct
ors are as follows: G. W. Sims,
merchant, Weston, Ga.; A. P. Pass
more, fertilizers and farming, Wes
ton, Ga.; M. J, Leverette, merchant
and farmer, Leverette's, Ga.; J. W.
Barge, farmer and owner of Barge's
Mill, Richland, Ga.; J. F. Troutman,
merchant, Kimbrough, Ga.: C. L. Sta
pleton, farmer, Weston, Ga.; J. 7
Jones, farmer Weston, Ga.; S. J. Car
ter, president Bank of Parrott, Par
rott, Ga.
This stock was sold at $lOO per
share and within two hours there was
enough stock subscribed to assure
the institution’s success. As soon as
the books were open for subseriptions
applications for stock flooded in, and
the required and desired amount of
$15.000 was largely over-subscribed,
and the Bank of Weston now holds
applications for $2,000 more stock,
which are to be filled as soon as any
one desires to sell. However, the
stockholders realize what they have,
and notwithstanding the fact that on
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~akE DAWSON NEWS.
ly two weeks ago they paid $§lLOO pe>
share they are asking $llO per sharel
now, a small profit of ten per cent!
flat in a few days. |
Weston is situated in the midst of!
a good farming section with a dis
tance of 9 miles to any other town.
It is as old as Atlanta, but for years
was in a dormant state., However, in }
the past 18 months she has built
five business houses, four of which
are of brick, and several nice dwell
ings in addition. It can now bcast
of ¢he largest brick building in. Webh
ster county, the Planters’ Warehouse.
ONE GOULD QUITS AMERICA
Newlywed, His Wite and Three Sis
ters-in-Law Sail for France. Are
“Bored Stift”’ With America.
NEW YORK.—Frank Jay Gould
has sailed away to be a Frenchman,
taking with him his new wife and
‘her three sisters, and leaving behind
this eryptic reply to those who asked
if it were true he would be an expa
triate: !
“My residence has been changed
long ago, but my domicile has not.”
As the Goulds stood by to repel re
porters on the La France they look
ed very much like an army, for the
former Edith Kelly and her three sis
ters, Hetty, Mabel and Mathilde, who
is only ten, were dressed exactly
alike. A green ribbon fluttered in
Mr. Gould’s lapel—the ornament of
the French order of the ‘Knight of
the Plough.”
| “And T'm a bally good/farmer,
too,” he boasted. ‘At Maison f‘afitte,
my home in France, we raise the
most famous and most delicate arti
chokes in the world. I want to get
iback to the farm.
. ““There's positively nothing to it in
'New York. The city bores me stiff.
There isn't any offering of pleasure
land there isn't any chance to get into
business. The government controls
everything, so there isn’'t any large
amount of money in circulation.”
“Are you going to come back to
America again?’’ he was asked.
“I hardly think so,” he replied.
An immense swimming pool in the
gardens of Maison Lafitte is calling
Ithe Kelly girls back to France. It is
to be the most elaborate in the world.
A forest of palms will fringe it and
lover all will be a roof of glass.
I PUE————
'MUST REDUCE SIZE OF HATS
l o e
No More Big Headgear to Be Worn
in Churches by Texas Women,
i Because his view was obstructed
Ib.\' the hats worn by women when he
attended Easter church services Sen
!awr H. W. Breisford has introduced
'a bill in the Texas legislature mak
ing it unlawfil for a female to wear
in church or any public gathering any
hat or head dress having a crown Or
any ornament exceeding two inches
in hight or a brim more than four
inches wide.
The penalty provision reads: SADY
person who shall violate the provis
ions of this act shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor, and upon conviction
shall be deprived of the privilege of
purchasing any new hat for a period
| of three years and ihen only be al
!lowed to purchase one costing less
ithan $2 and to be of uniform design,
lCost. and ornamentation.”
'COURTOFAPPEALS ONGAMING
;('()11}'i(fti()ll Possible, Even If Police
i Do Not See Cards Played.
| Heart-rending news for those who
idally with: the pasteboards came in
'a ruling handed down Wednesday by
' the state court of appeals.
! It is not necessary that you be seen
| with the cards in your hands for the
| police to ‘‘have the goods’’ on you.
f Neither is it required that evdence
i he presented that you actually picked
‘up money or put it down.
. Javas Hall thought the city court
'nf Statesboro erred in convicting him
lol‘ .gaming. He appealed on the
ground that no one testified they had
seen him pick up or put down cards
or moncy.
DAWSON, GA., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 4, 1913.
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LITTLE GIRL IS FOUND AFTER A
SEARCH OF FOUR YEARS.
Mother Had Traced Band of f\'mmuls‘
All Over the West and Back ‘
Again to Georgia. !
ATLANTA.—Clasping tight in hm'{
arms the little daughter whom the
gypsies had stolen over four. yearsi
ago Mrs, Madeline Small, the happi
est woman in the world, arrived in}
Atlanta this morning. 2 |
Assisted by the police she lngdi
traced the little child to a Georgia
gypsy camp, and ther2 with the ofli—l
cers’ aid she had recovered the-little
girl, who is now ten years old. 1
A pathetic feature of the case was
that the child had changed so that
the molhp.x', who. knew it only as a
baby, failed to recognize it at first.
The little girl had forgotten en
tirely about her mother, and had
only dim memories of her life in Au
burn, N. Y., the former home of the
family.
The child, who is slender and pret
ty, walks with a peculiar side-long
motion, caused, the police believe, by
the ‘fact that ever since she was old:
enough to be of any help the gypsies
have made her carry their babies in
a bundle in her right arm and rest
ing on her right hip, gypsy fashion.
The recovery of the little girl is
more like the feature of some piece
of fiction than an episode in real
life.
The mother has been pursuing the
gypsy b;md for four years, and had
traced them all over the West and
back again to this part of the coun
try befere she came up with them.
DIVING DOG WAS ‘
SOLD AT AUCTICN
Queen, the Celebrated Canine Per
former, Was Put on the Block
in Macon and Brought $lOO,
MACON, Ga.—lnteresting a big
crowd around the corner of Poplar
and Second streets by her many
tricks “Queen,”’ the high diving dog,
which attracted a great deal of at
tention at the 1912 Georgia State
Fair, was sold at public outcry this
morning for a considerable sum.
The fame of the little Scotch ter
rier was known all over the city, and
brought a large audience to the sale
in front of Justice Burnett’'s court,
and after sharp bidding she was sold
to F. :1 Harper for nearly $lOO.
Thirty minutes after purchasing
the dog Mr. Harper was offered three
times as much as the price he paid
for her. He is helding the dog for
a better price.
The dog is well trained, and at the
fair in Macon last fall dived from an
80-foot ladder into a tub of water.
At a fair in Texas two years ago the
dog fell from her ladder into a pile
of brick. The ladder was shaken by
some malicious person. The dog
landed on her feet and was not injur
ed. climbing back up the ladder and
doing the act.
GETS CHAINGANG SENTENCE,
White Man of Americus Must Serve
For Keeping Whiskey in Store. ©
Charles Underwood, convicted up
on the charge of keeping whiskey in
his store house at Americus in viola
tion of the prohibition laws, was sen
tenced to two months on the chain
gang of Sumter county: Underwood
is the first white man in Americus
to receive a chaingang senténce for
violating the state liguor laws, al
though he has previousiy .been con
victed in other similar cases and paid
fines. The chaingang sentence will
be appealel. : : &
FINED FOR BAITING DOVES.
Three Citizens of Americus Assessed
$5O and Cost Kach in Albany.
Warrants for four prominent
Americus citizens were issued by
Deputy Game Warden Richard Hobbs
of ‘Dougherty county, and three of
them went to Albany and pleaded
cuilty before Judge Clayton Jones of
the city court of Albany. They were
fined $5O and costs, amounting in all
t'o $70.50 egch. The warrants were
for Lee Allen, Frank Sheflield, Ar
thur Rylander and Walter Rylander.
All pleaded guilty except Lee Allen, |
who is in Washington and who has
not yet been served with a warrant.
CRISP RETURNS 3
TO THE CAPITAL
Greater Portion of Stay at Home Was
Taken Up in Hearing Claims of
Postoffice Applicants,
AMERICUS, Ga.—Congressman C.
R. Crisp, after spending ten days at
his home in Americus, returned to
Washington last night, and will be at
his post when the extra session of
congress convenes next Monday.
While Mr. Crisp enjoyed being
with his friends in the Third district
and loking.after his farming interest
in Sumter county the onslaught of
office seekers throughout the district
consumed the greater portion of his
vacation. Applicants for postoffice
appointments, together with their
supporters, came in numbers to con
fer with Mr, Crisp, and the greater
portion of his stay at home was taken
up in hearing the claimg of such ap
plicants for appointment to office.
Congressman Crisp could make no
promises, where there is a contest for
an office, but will consider fairly and
impartially the claims and qualifica
tions of each one as the appointments
are made successively.
Mr. and Mrs. Crisp will remain in
Washington until the end of the sum
mer session of vongress, when they
will return to Americus to remain
during the congressional vacation.
YOUNG WOMAN
FLAYS CATSUP
Tells Jury Six Bottles on Trial in
Inited States Court Should Not
Be Permitted to Be Seld,
ATLANTA.—SBix bottles of tomato
catsup, defendants in United States
court, were arraigned severely today
by Miss Ruth C. Greathouse, a pret
ty young chemist from the federal
idepartmem of agriculture, who tes
tified just how bad she thought that
icatsup was.
Atlanta housewives, if they had
been present, would have look
ed with fear and trembling on all
catsup in the future after hearing
Miss Greathouse learnedly discuss
the number of bacteria contained in
some catsup brands, and especially
in the six bottles on trial.
According to Miss Greathouse ev
ery spoonful of catsup has a few of
these living tenants, but in bad or
adulterated food products the aver
age is much higher. All these figures
Miss Greathouse had right at the tip
of her tongue, and she made clear to
the jury that in hey opinion the
United States should take radiecal
steps to prevent such food products
as the ones on trial from being placed
on tables.
KNIGHT SUCCEEDS NORTHEN.
@ Governor Brown has appointed
Lucian L. Knight to succeed the late
'W. J. Northen as compiler of Colo
nial and Confederate records. Mr.
Knight is the gentleman who has
been selected to deliver the Memo
{rial address in Dawson.
WARM TIMES EXPECTED IN LEG
ISLATURE THIS SUMMER, ,
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Seab Wright of Rome, Georgia, Fame |
Is Now Engaged in Stumping ‘
Portions of the State. ;
ATLANTA.—Signs portend that a%
prohibition fight beside which those |
in the past were but 'slight disturb-:
ances will break as soon as the log-;
islature opens this summer. 5
" The fact that Seab Wright is mak- |
ing speeches around and about the |
state telling the people that the pro-!
hibition taw can be enforced as com- |
pletely and as absolutely as it is iu;
Rome, where he clamped the lid on |
the Elks’ club, knocked out the other
clubs and created a drouth such as
Rome never saw bhefore, adds to the
belief that a fight is coming. ,
Mr. Wright insists that the ma- |
chinery now exists if the people will
invoke it, but if there isn't machinery |
enough more can and will be pro-é
vided. f
It is the opinion here among peo- |
ple watching events that the flght'
this summer in the general assembly;
will take the form of a bill modeled |
after and which will dovetail into the |
Webb national bill. ,
Prohibition people say that this
will doubtless be the form in which
the fight will shape itself. They are
very much delighted at the trouble
the near beer people give over pay-;
ing their state license tax, and assert
that this shows that this element is
not willing to abide even reasonable
regulation, hence should be driven
‘absolutely out of business.
The fact that the state is forced to
collect the money through an agent
'in Savannah, Atlanta, Macon and Au
igusta, with the further fact that war
irants had to be sworn out for many
Un Savannah and Atlanta before pay
'ment could be secured, furnishes the
‘prohibitionists with powerful argu
‘ments. Here at the state capital,
where some $60,000 is due, only
'522,000 has been paid. And this in
‘spite of the fact that several dealers
iwere recently indicted and heavily
fined for failure to pay.
? It is expected that the prrohibition
leaders will be on hand early in the
session and will unlimber their heavy
guns at once. It [n'omiseé to be a
lively summer in the law-making
halls. :
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t ANNULS PARCEL POST RULES.
i’ Burleson's Order Makes the Ordinary
| © Stamps Good On Packages,
. WASHINGTON.—That section of
the parcel post law providing for the
collection of a double rate of postage
if ordinary stamps are attached to
parcel post has been annulled hy
Postmaster General Burleson. He
holds that the people should not be
forced to make amends for the negli
gence displayed by postmasters in
not seeing that parcels bear the prop
er kind of stamps when they are pre
sented for mailing. Manyv letters
i‘.va\'e- been received complaining of
;:he practice and citing instances of
‘delays in deliveries as a result of this
regulation.
. In the future all parcel post pack
'ages with ordinary stamps attached
‘will be delivered to the addressees
without extra charge.
SHAW SELLING SHOES,
The Fort Gaines Man Has Foresworn
Polities in the Future.
Emmett R. Shaw, who has been a
road salesman for years and who was
defeated for congress in the Third
distriet last August, has accepted a
position with the Dittman Shoe Co.,
of St. Louis, his territory being North
Georgia. :
' DOG MOTHER TO CHICKS.
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Canine Takes Care of a Broud Hatch
ed by Incubator,
Mrs. Ella Phiffer of Paulsboro, N.
J., has a dog that is caring for fif
teen chickens, which were hatched
a few days ago from an incubator.
Mrs. Phiffer has taught her pet to
do most everything but talk, and
when the chickens were hatched she
' decided to teach the dog to be a
'nurse, and it is making good thus
far. At night the dog is fastened in
a coop and the chickens roost all
over it.
TO ELECT STATION DIRECTOR
Several Ave Mentioned as essible
| snceeessor to Martin Calvin
On April 9th,
. GRIFFIN, Ga.—Much interest is
being felt in the.approaching election
of a successor to Hon, Martin V. Cal
vin as director of the Georgia experi
ment station, and there is widespread
l speculation indulged in as to who will
succeed to thig position.
Mr. Calvin has given notice that he
will not be a candidate for re-elec
tiou to the position, and therefore
ome other man will be elected at the
next quarterly meeting of the board
O diz'e'(-tors, which will be held next
Wednesday, April 9th. Mr. Calvin
will probably hold the position until
the first of next July, when his pres
ent term expires.
Several prominent Georgiang have
heen suggested as available men for
the position of director of the sta
tion. Among them are Hon, J. J.
Connor, present commissioner of ag—“
riculture; Hon. O. B. Stevens. former‘
railroad commissioner, and E. Lee
Worsham, the state entomologist. Mr.{
Connor, it is understood, only de- |
sires to have the place for one year,
as it is said to be his intention to run
against Mr. Price for commissioner
of agrculture in the next electon, Mr.
Price goes into the commissioner’s
office next July, succeeding Mr. Con
nor in that office. i
Capt. J. M. Kimbrough, the assist-l
ant director of the station, has also!
been prominently mentioned as al
probable candidate for Mr. Calvin's
job, but he has announced that he‘
will not be a candidate,
Another important matter whi(-h‘
is scheduled to come up at the ap- |
proaching meeting of the board ()fll
directors is the report of the mmmit-l
tee which was named to investigate
the charges against Mr. Calvin’s ad
ministration by the staff members
of the station some months ago.
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ARE TOO MANY TIGERS THERE |
Atlanta Man Quits the Business_on |
Account of the Competition ;
’l!eing Too Keen, |
ATLANTA.——Jack Reed, who thv]v
police say has been arrested flfteen%
times on whisky selling charges, but
never has been convicted, is going‘
to leave Atlanta because, he flays,‘
there are too many of ‘“‘them blind
tigers” roaming around these days.
They're getting so ‘‘pesky common,”’
Jack says, that a past master in the
trade cannot make a decent living.
“There must be 10,000 of them,"”
he told Assistant Chief Jett. “There
ain’t no money in selling whisky
now. If I could make $lOO a week
selling whisky, like it used to be,
I'd stay, but I'm going to a new
town.”
GLASS EYE STOPS A RULLET.
Otherwise the Leaden Pellet Would
‘ Have Pierced the Brain.
3 Job Owens, a well known young
resident of Shamokin, Pa., was shot
in .the eve hy a rifle bullet this week,
~and the missile failed to pierce his
' brain owing to the fact that the op
tic was an artificial one.
‘ A doctor soon afterward removed
'a .22 caliber bullet from the socket
ivontainim!. the artificial eye, which
‘had been driven by the bullet deep
into the head.
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VOL. 31. NO. 53.
RAILWAY CASCALTIES 1N1912°
e
TWO HUNDRED AND NINE KILEs
ED AND 4,357 HURT IN 1912,
Long Standing “No Wreek” Record :
of Georgia Railroad Broken, Cen-_"_i:
tral and Southern List Largest.
ATLANTA.—Four thousand, five
hundred and sixiy-six persons killed
or injured is the appalling toll fi"’é
Georgia steam and electric railwaxfl;fi
in 1912, according to a report issued
today by the state railroad commis=
sion. §
Of this number 209 were fatalitigfifg‘ffi
—more than the death roll in the
flood-swept city of Dayton, Ohio. é
The stéam railroads were respon~
sible for 191 of the deaths. The elec=
tric lines of the state killed 18. *;%
| The Georgia Railway and Power
iCompany,nperating in Atlanta, a 10%%
‘had 11 killed and 641 injured. While .
'the casualties reported by the lo::&j
corporation overshadow in number”
}those of any other street railway tfl*%
itho state they are no greater !x(r:
proportion, as the Georgia Railwafi;;fij%
and Power Company transported |
more than 60,000,000 persons in thg‘y
twelve months. : 3‘
Casualties on the Increase. gfi
Comparison v/ith the previous yeav";
show that the casualties, instead oi?
being lessened by modern safety dedwr
vices and vegulations are increasin’g@f%
Twice the number of killed or lfi‘*’; ¢
jured vy the steam railroads in 1911;\_%;
were roported in 1912, In 1911,
Lowever, other persons t.uan pass(—,'a;-":;éE
gers or employes were ict mcludedy"“’li
in the reoprts. 4 *ag
The same big increase is noted m{i%
the number of victims of the stree_t_l;’-i";x
railways. 3 ‘%
A comparison of the two. yeargg
shows that the steam and electric
roads combined killed 82 in 1911, qog
far as reported, and 209 in 1913;
They injured 2,084 in 1911 and more =
than twice as many, or 4,357, in =
1912, The total of killed and injur= §
ed in 1911 thus was 2,16, and fnid
1912 4,566, AV
The Central of Georgia -w,
was ffr in the lead in the number of
casualfies. 'The Southern was next.s &
51 Killed on Uentral. "f
The Central of Georgia.'s-‘victi’g
totalel 1;087, of whom 54 were klll@@,
and 1,033 injured. Of the fa.taliti;t}i{:
4 were paszengery, 19 were employl}i;};
and 31 other persons, in which cate
gory come trespassers, mail employ- W
ees, express employees and newsf'_jé'.}
agents. One hundred of the Injure§":§g
were passengers, 773 employees and
60 other persons. g
The Southern railway killed 41
persons and injured 551. Three of «
the killed were passengers, 11 em- -
ployees and 17 passengers. One hun- v
dred and eighty-one of the injured ‘
were pasengers, 524 were employees %
and 46 other persons.
The boast of the Georgia railromi_’v;
that it never had kil'ed a passenagrv";
on its lines was stilled in 1912 by a
wreck between Rutledge and Social
Center, in which four passengers u
were killed. 'A little later in thew
vear a fifth fatality among the psa»g
‘sengers was recorded. The Georgh’,iji
‘had a total of 13 killed and 180 in- -
ijured. These figures include passefl‘:_j’f
' gers, employees and other persons.
} Majority Are Trespassers. L
Other railroads reportinz a larg;g&i
number of casulties were: Atlan@ifli
Rirmingham and Atlantic, killed 15,
'fnjured 434; Atlantic Coast Linéjggféj;
| Filled 18, injured 128, Augusta |
Southern, injured 23; Georgia South
ern and Florida, killed 2, injured 16;“"
Georgia and Florida, killed 2, injur
ed 78: Georgia, Florida and Alabama,
killed 4, injured 51; Louisville and
Nashville, killed 2, injured 122; Ma
{con, Dublin and Savannah; killed 1:%
[injured 49: Nashville, Chattanoogg.;‘:é
| and St. Louis, killed 20, injured 168;
'Seaboard Air Line, killed 16 injur
jed 156. '3
' One hundred and one of the per
'sons killed in 1912 were, for the
: most part, trespassers. & ™ :5,