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gv E. L. RAINEY. : @ o ¥ ; Davis-Davidson Co’s. % e ° - Special December Ofierings Our entire line of Ladies’, Misses and Children’s Ready-To-Wear will be sold at One-Fourth Less than our regular marked ~ price; consisting of Suits, Coats, Dresses and Millinery. in fact everything in our Ready-To-Wear Department. An Offering Almost Unprecedented In The History of Qur Store —————SPECIAL!I—/————— Up Until Decemcer 24th, Not L.ater We Will Issue Tickets For Auto Contest On All Payments, Bolth New and Past Due Accounts We are the only Dry Goods store in Dawson where you can Obtain Auto Contest Tickets on all cash purchases. Yours anxious to please, ‘ is-David Davis-Davidson Company Two Stores--120-122 Main Street DAWSON, GEORGIA " Telephone No. 73 . IS WHETHER PRESIDENT'S PRO GRAM FOR NATIONAL DEFENSE SHALL BE SUPPORTED. LEADERS ALREADY ON GROUND Is Apparent That There Will Be a strange Alignment of Representa tives Without Regard to Party. A Big Fight Is Certain. WASHINGTON.—They are lining up for the gigantic struggle in con gress on the issue of national defense. Party lines are crumbling and polit ical differences fading in the new alignment. ‘Tariff and the currency are subordinated to the main issue: Whether we shall adequately defend our possessions. (ongress convened Dec. 6th, and the question of preparedness is the leading issue. The defense program of President Wilson is the question that surpasses all others. It will be a strange alignment. Re- Publicans and democrats will be jumbled up in an inextricable tangle. Representative ‘Gardner, of Massa chusetts, a republican, will fight shoulder to shoulder with Champ Clark, of Missouri, the democratic speaker of the house, for the presi dent’'s program. Claude Kitehin, democratic house leader from North Carolina and the adherents of the extreme pacifist views of Bryan, along with Edward W. Saunders, of Virginia, the demo cratic eawcus chairman, are oppo nents of the president’s policy. Other issues shrink before the par amount question of defending what we have. What are questions of in ternal policy compared with the ques tion of outward defense? What bus iness will there be left us if the mail ¢d fist comes knocking at our doors? This is why republicans are for geiting tariff questions in the matter of public defense. This is why dem *rats are forgetting their past dif ferences before the question of na tional existence. It is a life or death Matter. 5 ~ As the time draws near for the battle jn congress it becomes appar ent that the president cannot count on a golid democratic party behind him. The democratic majority in the lower house is only about 25 at most, which is a small margin in 2 ‘Wembership of 435. It requires the THE DAWSON NEWS. deflection of but 13 democrats from the defense proposition to make its defeat certain on a straight party vote. Republicans Will Support Wilson. It is therefore, apparent that to put through any defense program will necessitate securing support from the other side of the house. Many leading republicans stand committed to a defense plan, and it is believed the president will not lack men when it comes to a vote. The opposition’s point of view is expressed by Representative Saun ders, of Virginia, the democratic cau cus leader, in these words: “If we are going to spend anything Jet us wait until the war in Europe is over and then we will know better how to prepare ourselves, if any preparation is needed. There will be plenty of time. All this hurry about the matter is needless. 1 have not made up my mind as to the de tails of this program that 1 will pro pose.”’ The president can count for sup port on those representatives whose constituents went out last summer by the thousands and took military training under regular army officers. In general, coast cities and states seem more alive to the dangers than A week more and we shall see the the territory further inland. giants in a grapple over the main jssue of the session of congress, per haps the most decisive issue that has faced the house since the civil war. ROUNDS UP SHEEP IN FLYING MACHINE Herder Views His Flocks From Dizzy Heights Instead of Tricky Bron cho Neck. Old-Timers Amazed. OMAHA Neb.—lt’s all off with the old-time sheep herder. Hereafter, in order to be up to date, a sheep herder must tend his flocks soaring around over them in an aeroplane. Jim Dickie of Thermopolis, Wyo., has set the pace. He has just re turned from the Pacific coast, where he saw wonderful demonstrations with aeroplanes, and was prompted to order one of the latest models. Today Dickie is goaring over the plains of Wyoming looking over his various flocks of sheep. ‘The lambs and some of the ewes were a little afraid at first,”” said one of Dickie’s herders, “for they thought the old man was 2 monster eagle coming around looking for tender meat. But now they are getting used to it.” Dickie is an old-time gheep man of Wyoming. He has tens of thou sands of sheep scattered all over the ranges of Wyoming. He expects to visit the various flocks and their re spective herders once or twice a year, but the flocks have grown S 0 numer ous that each year this has become a greater task. DAWSON, GA., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 7, 1915. B RAILWAY THAT WAS PIONEER IN DEVELOPING THIS SECTION IN OCTOGENARIAN CLASS. ANNIVERSARY IS THIS MONTH An Interesting Story of the Laying of the First Rail in Savannah. It Was a Memorable Occasion of Great Interest. The Central of Georgia railway will be eighty years old on Dec. 15. It was four score years ago that the first rail was laid in this system. On that occasion there were very formal exercises in Savannah. The follow ing story from the current issue of “The Right Way,” an interesting lit tle paper gotten out by the Central, shows just what was done on that memorable day far back in the last century: “On Dec. 15, eighty years ago, the first rail of what is now the Central of Georgia railway was laid at Sa vannah, amid scenes which we of this day and time can hardly understand, but it is indeed refreshing to know of the high esteem in which the pros pect of rail transportation was held in those days. “On Deec. 15, 1835, William Wil liams, under the direction of the streets and lanes committee of the city council, laid the first rail. At 3 o'clock in the afternoon of that day a procession of citizens formed on the bay, headed by the mayor and board of aldermen. With the ‘Geor gia Hussars the Chatham Artillery, the Republican Blues and the Savan nah Volunteer Guards in the van the procession marched through the prin cipal streets to the South Common. As they passed ‘the cantoment, Or United States barracks, the United Congressman Landis Predicts a Dry Nation Within Five Years DETROIT, Mich.—The habitual jag will receive the surprise of its life five years from now when he steps in his favorite drink parlor and signals with two or three fingers for his regular ‘‘shock.” “Some fine buttermilk today,”’ the bartender will say. “Nice and thick and creamy. Cold and fresh. How many did you say?” States Corps of Artillery fired a sa lute. “At the close of an address by the mayor, in which he congratulated the people that such a step had been taken that promised much for the commercial future of the principal seaport of Georgia, the Chatham Ar tillery fired a salute, which was fol lowed by a salute from the Republi can Blues and the Savannah Volun teer Guards. The military escort then saluted the civie procession and the march was taken up the bay, where it was dismissed. “In the evening the City Exchange, the City Market, the Pulaski House, The ‘Georgian’ office and many of the public buildings and private resi dences of the city were illuminated. At the City Exchange a full length portrait of George Washington and the Goddess of Liberty in transpar ency, were exhibited. Bands of music enlivened the air. Bonfires were lighted in front of the City Exchange and the hotels, and rockets and fire works were added to the display. “And thus the Central of Georgia railway was born.” SPOOK ISLAND SINKS FOR WINTER SLEEP Strange Mass That Blooms in Sum mer, But Hides in Lake During the Cold Season. PONTIAC, Mich.—Spook Island, in Echo Lake, is again disappearing. Usually this island comes to the sur face each summer in June and con tinues rising until Augusi, when it is about two feet or more out of the water, and is covered with drooping vines, grass and foliage. By the time ice forms the island hasg entirely disappeared, so that the fishermen fish through the ice over the spot where the island was dur ing the summer. ’ This island consists of peat and bog, which burn readily when dried. In the summer stumps come up from under the island six or eight feet over night, raising the vines until the creepers hang in festoons. Large pieces of the island break away at times and float around the lake look ing like huge boulders. And after he recovers they will take him to a nice padded «cell. Yet that is just what will happen to the man addicted to booze, if the prediction of former Congressman Landis of Indiana comest true. He spoke on ‘‘John Barleycorn” in a local church and said that in five vears breweries and distilleries will be turned into creameries and pack ing plants. MAIL: ORDER CONSUMERS OF WHISKEY DISTURBED BY . REPORT IN ATLANTA. ITS AUTHENTIGITY IS DENIED Southern Express Officials Deny the Rumor, and Announce That Legal shipments Will Be Continued. Can not Refuse to Take Them. ATLANTA.—A terrible jolt was shot into the consumers of mail order liquors by the report published in certain of the Atlanta newspapers that the Southern Express Co. had announced its determination not to handle any liquors at all into Geor gia after May 1, 1916, on account of the stringent provisions of the Sto vall anti-shipping bill, which would require the transportation company to keep a strict record and make regular reports to the ordinary of the county into which the shipments were made. In the light of such an announce ment consumers of liquor hegan to see even their hopes of the meager half gallon a month fade away. It was frankly stated that the an nouncement came from subordinate officials of the company, in the ab sence of General Manager Hockaday. Caunsed Uneasiness. Although reason might indicate the fallacy of this position on the part of the express company there were many who accepted the report as true, and much uneasiness followed. In the first place, it is hardly proba ble that the express company would give up a revenue amounting to ap preximately half a miHion dollars, in the gross, a year. In the next place, the express company is a com mon carrier and can, of course, be compelled by law to transport any article of merchandise which it may legally handle. Under the very strin gent anti-shipping law it is legal for any person in Georgia to receive half a gallon of whisky, or four quarts of wine, or 48 pints of beer every month. The express company could not refuse to handle such packages if offered them for shipment. That they will be offered for transporta tion there is of course, no question. 1t develops, however, that the re port of the company’'s refusal was not well founded. It emanated, it is said, from the talk of some clerks; there was never any official or semi official statement back of it. 1 Denied by Officials, 1 When asked about the rumor that had gained such wide currency au thorized officials of the express com pany stated there was no truth in it for the very good and sufficient rea son that they could not refuse to ac-j cept shipments of liquor when the courts have already held that they‘ are legitimate articles of commerce. They said that there was no ques tion that the new Georgia law would place a good deal of extra work on the company and in a measure ma.ke‘ it a sort of state constabular gystem by putting upon it the burden of see ing to it that no individual receives more than his legal amount of liquor; in any calendar month and also re quiring the company to take affida vits from individual consignees be fore delivering packages to them. | In this connection however, they declared they would do the very best within their power to comply with the laws of the state, just as they are endeavoring to comply now with similar laws which are in -force in Alabama. They further stated in all prebabilty they would endeavor to obtain permission from competent authority to charge higher rates for liguor shipments because of the ad ditional expense to which they will be put in handling them. FAMOUS ICE CAVERN IS SOLD FOR #3,700 Freak Mine in Pennsylvania Is Dis posed of to College Professor. Covers Twenty-five Acres. NORTH DINGTON, Pa.—The Swe den Valley Wonder, an ice mine lo cated at Sweden Valley, Pa., has been sold to M. J. Kelley, of Mount Ver non, Ohio, for the consideration of $3,700. This famous ice mine has long been one of the interesting attractions in the East. It consists of a large cav ern in the hillside from which, dur ing the summer months, ice is mined and strange as the matter may seem there is mo ice in the mine in .the winter months. Tourists from all parts of the country visit this freak of nature in large numbers every summer, the trip being made by rail to Gouders port, Pa., the county seat of Potter county, and from there automobiles are secured, which soon hurry the visitors up the beautiful Sweden val ley over splendid macadamized roads for a distance of about fourteen miles to the mine. The ice mine is located} upon twenty-five acres of ground. United States government irriga tion projects completed or under way represent an expense of $85,000,000 and involve the reclamation of more than 2,500,000. VOL. 34—NO. 15. AMERICAN GIRL'S PROXY MAR RIAGE OUT IN JAVA FAIL ED TO MATERIALIZE. SAD GULMINATION OF ROMANGE Colorado Girl Traveled Ten Thousand Miles to Supposed Husband Only to Find That She Had Been Duped By Ofticer in Dutch Army. Another romance has fallen and broken, like a vase, spilling its rare perfumes half around the globe. It was last January that Eugenia Campbell, of Colorado Springs, was led to the altar by proxy by a groem who dwelt in faraway Java. Java is under Dutch rule. Under the laws of Java a proxy marriage’ was required, so Harvey V. Duell, of Brooklyn, then visiting in Denver, served as the proxy bridegroom, while the real bridegroom; Jan Pieter Scholten, an officer in the Dutch ' army, was supposed to lead a proxy bride to the altar in Java. : This was to be the culmination of a romance that had its beginning when Scholten met Miss Campbell when he was traveling through this country two years ago and their ae guaintance rapidly progressed until® ‘the proposal of marriage and its ac ceptance by Miss Campbell. } It was planned that Scholten should come to Colorado Springs for: the wedding. Then the war broke out and he was unable to leave his command. The proxy marriage was: the_n de;cided upon. So the American girl set out for her 10,000-mile trip to join her proxy husband in the Orient. When she arrived at Singapore, where she was the guest of the American con- ; sul and his wife, she acquainted them with the facts. The consul suggested an investigation before going any further. The bridegroom-elect was summoned to Singapore, but what happened at the conference remains a secret. It is known, howeve:, that Miss Campbell ascertained there had been no pr Xy marriage in Java. Putting into motion the legal ma chinery necessary to admit the proxy bride to Java was also responsible for the collapse of the romance. It was necessary that Queen Wilhel mina should grant a special dispensa tion for Miss Campbell, go that she would not be subject to the immigra- * tion laws of Java. This brought the American cousul into the affair. Miss Campbell is at 'home again. 2otE