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Davis-Davidson Co’s. Spring of 1916 Opening
“» "he hour has come-—blossoming time for the Style buds of fashion in Women'’s Suits, Dresses and Hats
Our store is» vto unveil the beautiful new Spring fashions, presenting a veritable bower of freshness and uewness quite in ad
vance of any showing ever made by this store. Wonderful preparedness 1s evidenced on every hand. The beautiful garments
combine every wanted fabric, every desirable color. and the variety 1s almost as great as the quantity, for all of the styles are
shown in only one of a kind, which is an attraction for those who desire originality and exclusiveness in dress.
Spring Silks in All Their Loveli
ness Are Here
Silk fashions were never more beautiful than
chese tabrics for Smart Costumes.
Woolen Dress Material
In all Fashionable Weaves and Colors. Ev
ery kind of material used for Spring Coat
Suirs, Skirts and Dresses 1s here.
e
Fine Cotton Dress Material
Imported and Domestic. We have a vast
assortment, including all of the staple and
novelty materials for making Waists and
Dresses.
Two Stores
120-122 Main St.
TACK COLUMBUS, N. M., AND
IOOT MEN AND WOMEN RUSH
ING FROM BUILDINGS.
COLUMBUS, N. M.—Five hundred
xican bandits, believed to have
n led by Francisco Villa, crossed
» jnternational border under cover
darkness early today and attacked
s town, killing a dozen or more
lerican men and women, including
} least six United States soldiers.
hen the bandits fled toward Mexico
] & hours later they were pursued
United States troops, who are said
have crossed the border.
) Mexican Dead in Streets.
A large number of Mexican dead
re left lying in the streets of Co
mbus, and at the border the Mexi-
Is were subjected to a flank attack
American troops and 18 more of
elr number killed.
Several American citizens in Co
mbhus declared they personally saw
lla directing his men and a port
anteau found by a trooper contain-
Villa’s personal papers.
\ttack Wag a Surprise.
The attack was a surprise. Villa
45 supposed to have been 44 miles
Vay, having last night caused a tel
eldil to be sent indicating his pres-
I¢e at a Nogaleg ranch.
four men, c¢itizens of Columbus,
1d 3‘\,\-‘4.,' wonmen are known to have
el Killed. Three other men and a
olian are listed among the known
f-unded. Prior to the attack the
‘ 4 bandits hanged three Americans
10m they had held as prisoners for
BRe days, according to information
cCeived here Their bodies were
ihed, the report said.
Joined by Carranza Men.
The Villa men were said to have
““l Joined by Carranza soldiers af
- ey crossed the border. A deep
. Parallels the United States army
“iO. the customs house and the
AMroad station. Through this gully
¢ bandits approached unnoticed.
Jeitral guests were ‘burned to
‘1 1n the ‘Central hotel, which
S.2oe of the first buildings fired.
T posting soldiers at advant
-B€ols points the bandits set fire to
8, including the railway sta
! and hotels. As people rushed
‘ teir homes they were shot
MER c A & |
ERICAN TROOPS ORDERED j
' MEXICO TO HUNT BANDITS
“y 12,000 Soldiers Already on
Border, and More Will Be Sent.
U 7 A ooy v : = ‘
L SHlNGTON.—President Wil
b Jdv ordered American troops
b.. '© Mexican border to capture
5“1 the Villa bandits who yester- |
. fdlded Columbus, N. M.
m. . President’s order does notl
'med intervention jin Mexico,
b congress can deglare war.
!“s for a punitive @xpedition
THE DAWSON NEWS.
to deal with lawless forces over which
the Carranza government has no
control.
The following statement was is
sued at the white house: ‘‘An ade
quate force will be sent at once in
pursuit of Villa, with the single ob
ject of capturing him and putting a
stop to his forays. This can be done,
and will be done, in an entirely
friendly aid of the constituted au
thorities in Mexico, and with scrupu
lous respect for the sovereignty of
that republic.”
Nearly 12,000 troops are now on
the Mexican border, and this force
will probably be increased.
CARRANZA TROOPS
FLED, SAYS FUNSTON
In Dispatch to War Department at
Washingten, Villa Has 3,000
Men Under Arms.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Gen. Fred
erick Funston, commanding the
troops on the border, telegraphed the
following dispatch to the war de
partment tonight:
“It is the opinion‘of Colonels Dodd
and Slocum, in which I concur, that
unless Villa is relentlessly pursued
and his forces scattered he would
continue raids. As troops of Mexican
government are accomplishing noth
ing he can consequently make his
preparations and concentrations
without being disturbed.
“To show apathy and gross ineffi
ciency of Mexican government troops
an American woman held prisoner
by Villa for nine days, but who es
caped in Columbus fight, states that
during all that time he was undis
turbed at no great distance from
border collecting a force of 3,000
men. The few Carranza troops in
the region fled, losing all contact
with him and not even informing us
as to his whereabouts.”
CARRANA HURLS DEFI AT U. S.
AFTER PLACING 1,100 TROOPS
Mexico City.—General Carranza
tonight issued a manifesto to the
nation declaring that under no eir
cumstances would the Mexican gov
ernment grant the right to the United
States to violate Mexican territory
by sending in an armed force in pur
suit of Villa without consent and the
reciprocal privilege being first ob
tained and admitted. Word was sent
to the confidential agent of the Mex
ican government in Washington to
make immediately representations to
thig effect.
Dupont Company Profits Rise
Fifty-two Million In a Year
Over 1.000 per cent increase in net
earnings is the pleasant tidings that
the annual report of E. I. du Pont
de Nemours and Company, the great
war powder company, conveys to its
stockholders.
Where in 1914 the net earnings
were only $5,603,153 they reached
the total of $57,840,758 in the fiscal
vear just ended.
After deducting $2,298,482 for fix
ed charges there is a balance of $55.-
DAWSON, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 15, 1916.
Davis-Davidson Co.
THE ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE HAS
FIGHTING CHANCE. WETS IN
CONGRESS WORRIED.
WASHINGTON.—Instead of vot
ing only once on the embarrassing
subject of prohibition the members
of congress are facing the probability
of being called on twice to answer a
roll call on the wet and dry issue.
The Anti-Saloon League has a well
organized force at work in Washing
ton, and members of congress are
worried over the outlook. E. C. Din
widdie, president of the league, has
been hovering around the lobby doors
of the house and the senate ever
since the gavels fell in the two houses
and he is determined by roll call to
separate ‘the wets and the drys in
congress.
Mr. Dinwiddie will soon be joined
here by W. E. Johnson, who is known
in the Indian county of the West as
“Pussyfoot”’. Johnson pursued the
demon rum to his lair on many In
dian reservations, and the demon was
tied hand and foot and choked to
death.
Leaders in congress expect two
anti-liguor measures to cause a ruc
tion at this session, one establishing
prohibition in Washington, D. C., and
the other a resolution for a dry Unit
ed States by constitutional amend
ment.
Capital May Be Dry.
There is more than a fighting
chance that the national capital will
be made dry territory before the cur
rent session comes to an end. The
outcome of the broader fight is in
doubt, at least for the present. Nev
ertheless the wet members of con
gress are in a fretful mood and fear
the worst.
Leaders of the Anti-Saloon League,
it is understood, will be satisfied if
they succeed in driving liquor as a
merchantable commodity out of the
seat of government. Such an achieve
ment, they believe, would give a tre
mendous impetus for a dry nation.
Representative Webb of North
Carolina will undoubtedly lead the
fight against liquor in the house.
Senator Sheppard will direct the dry
forces in the senate.
542,275 available for distribution as
a dividend to the common stockhold
ers, if the company cares to do it.
As a result of the war demands the
number of men employed by this
company has been increased from
5,300 in October, 1914 to 62,186,
The number of women employed
on the railwave of France has reach
ed a total of over twenty-five thous
and.
Millinery Opening
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and
Saturday, March 22 to 26
Now comes the important announce
ment that all is in readiness for the
Spring Display of Millinery. With
pleasure we extend to you an invitation
to review this assemblage of beautiful
hats that has been gathered for spring
The best of the new styles that have
been developed are to be seen here.
We feel that we have faithfully follow
ed the lead which fashion masters have
set. Again we extend to you a cordial
invitation to come.
SOME CASH IS THIS .. -
REPORTED BY BIG INTERESTS
Three Corporations Have Surplus De
posits of Nearly $200,000,000.
Some cash is piling up on this con
tinent. Three great industrial cor
porations of the United States are re
ported to control cash to the amount
of nearly $200,000,000.
The United States Steel Corpora
tion has on deposit in New York and
western cities $110,000,000, and has
recently bought $22,000,000 of its
own bonds from Great Britain.
. The General Electric Company has
on deposit in New York, in Pough
keepsie and other cities $35,000,000,
and the Bethlehem Steel Corporation
has $40,000,000, in addition to its
large ownership of Anglo-Frenich
bonds.
THE MAN WITHOUT
A COUNTRY DIES
Carried 33,000 Miles Between Amer
ica and Brazil Before the United
States Would Let Him Land.
NEW YORK.—The travels of
Nathan Cohen, ‘‘the man without a
country,” who for two years was car
ried back and forth more than 33,000
miles between New York and So :th
American ports on steamships be
cause neither the United States nor
Brazil would allow him to land, have
ended, and his body is buried in a
Hebrew cemetery in Staten Island.
He died in a sanitarium at Greens
Farms, Conn.
MAJORITY OF VOTES IN
INDIANA PRIMARY REPUBLICAN
Fairbanks Receives Nearly 20,000
More Than Wilson.
INDIANAPOLIS.—PracticaIIy com
plete returns from the state pri
mary tabulated here unofficially to
day show that former Vice-President
Fairbanks, candidate for the repub
lican nomination for president, re
ceived 17,282 votes more than were
cast for President Wilson, candidate
for renomination on the democratic
ticket. Fairbanks received a total
of 176,129 votes to Wilson's 158.-
847.
HOG SELLS FOR MORE THAN
KLEVEN HUNDRED DOLLARS
No wonder pork chops and sausage
are high. Hogs are expensive. The
other day one Berkshire hog sold for
$1,125 at the New Brunswick, N. J.,
agricultural experiment station. This,
of wcourse, is no ordinary porker, but
a pure bred specimen. The sale was
at the American Berkshire congress
of fanciers of that breed. Fifty-five
other hogs sold at an aggregate of
$R8,550.
WORLD'S LARGEST GUN
MADE FOR UNITED STATES
MIDLAND, Pa.—The United States
government is having the biggest gun
in the world made at the Crucible
Steel Works here. The gun has a
range of twenty-four miles, with suf
ficient power to penetrate a 10-inch
plate.
ENTIRE POPULATION OF BYERS,
KAN., SIGNS PLEDGE WHEN
MAN KILLS HIS FRIEND,
It was not a revival, but a murder,
that caused the entire population of
the lively young town of Byers, in
Pratt county Kans., to climb aboard
the water wagon on New Year's for
a year's ride. Every resident of the
town old enough to sign his name
took the pledge not to drink intoxi
cating liquor nor smoke cigarettes
nor chew tobacco for one year. It
was not the preachers who so suc
cuessfully circulated the pledges, but
the town’s business men and friends
of the two young men who were the
principals in the tragedy which
shocked the town into taking the
pledge.
For it was bootlegger's whisky
that caused Lewis Sells to shoot and
kill his friend, Bob Randles, on the
main street of Byers a few days be
fore Chirstmas. Everybody in town
knew the two young men, and the
tragedy which sent one to his grave
and the other to jail was a terrible
shock. Murder in a small town is an
awfully personal thing, anyway.
It was the town's first Kkilling.
Founded at the terminus of a new
railroad shortly before the 1915
wheat harvest Byers was as lively as
the usual new town. In a business
way it grew and flourish-d. There
was more drinking in the average
Kansas town, btu the residents were
inclined to wink at the fact in the
manner of residents of booming
young towns.
But the killing changed 21l this.
Business men, leading citizens and
friends of the two young principals in
the tragedy talked of the fatal affray
which whisky had caused. All sin
cerely deplored the occurrence. All
agreed that whisky was to blame.
Somebody suggested that everybody
in town should sign the pledge. The
idea struck a responsive chord, and
the pledges soon were being circulat
A Seattle Woman Masquerades
As Husband for Four Years
Margaret Gaffney of Seattle, Wash.,
was the most astonished of them all
when she learned that the spouse she
had arrested under the ‘lazy hus
band’’ act was not a husband at all,
but 4 woman bearing the name Rob
ert Gaffney."”
They were married four years ago
and the secret might not have come
out had not Margaret Gaffney caused
the arrest of her “husband’ for de
serting ‘“his” family. She was the
A Bountiful Supply of Silk Hosiery
And Neck Fixings
Beautiful Tub Silks.
We have never had a more delightful
showing of these satisfying Silks.
Queen Quality Oxfords.
The Famous Shoe for Women.
Boyden and Bostonian Shoes For Men
None Better. Now, we cordially invite you
to come to our Spring Opening to see what
a splendid exhibition we have made for the
coming Spring. Yours anxious to please,
ed and meeting with warm approval.
“Everybody on the water wagon,”’
became Byers’ slogan.
But some few who had been in the
habit of drinking moderately when
ever they felt like it objected to sign
ing a permanent pledge.
“Make it a year and I'll sign,”
suggested one prominent citizen.
And so the pledge was made for
one year, with the understanding
that it would be renewed at the end
of the year if the experiment proved
satisfactory. Four young men, Rich
ard Simms, Logan Tompkins, Harvey
Tompking and George Hughes, circu
lated the pledges. Fifty signers were
secured the first two days. On the
third day every business man in town
had signed, and the rest of the cam
paign was easy.
The entire town mounted the water
wagon on New Year's without any
bragging or blare of trumpets. Two
weeks' trial of the new system has
made a 'big hit. There have been
no fights and no lawlessness. Neither
are there any more ‘“‘morning after’
headaches and grouches. Nobody in
town uses cigarcttes or chewing to
bacco any more, except outside the
town and who are not reached in the
pledge signing campaign.
GROOM NOT DEAD;
IS VERY MUCH ALIVE
Jokers Who Sent Undertaker's Wag
on to His Wedding May Dis
cover the Fact.
DETROIT, Mich.—‘Not dead; just
married.”’ .
This was the verdict returned by
Deputy Coroner Conley after an “‘in
quest’” in the case of Constable Leo
Romanskit the other night when, in
response to a rush cail, he made a
hurried trip to the Hotel Cadillac to
find instead of mourners a gatheringz
of merrymakes.
Conley was accompanied by an un
dertaker’s ‘‘black wagon,” which was
at the curb in front of the hotel
awaiting the production of the “de=ad
man’’ reported to be in the hotel by
a mysterious telephone caller. -
The trip was the result of the work
of a practical joker who made the
occasion of Romanski's wedding par
ty the scene of a succession of ‘‘faise
alarm’ calls for police, messenger
boys and hack drivers.
Romanski was married in the ar
ternoon in Justice DeGraw’s court
room to Miss Cella Lukaszewski of
this city.
most amazed person of all when the
discovery was reported to Justice of
the Peace Brinker.
She had believed her husband to
nave acted rather peculiarly, she ad
mitted, but has never suspected
“him™ as a woman.
In court Mr. Gaffney decided to re
veal ““his’’ real sex, and ‘‘Mr. Gaff
ney” in a woman’s dress appeared be
fore Justice Brinker to have the con
viction set aside.
YOL. 34—NO. 28.
Dawson, Ga.
Teiephone No. 73
STANDARDS AUTHORIZED UNDER
FUTURES ACT ARE READY :
FOR DISTRIBUTION. x
WASHINGTON, D. C.—New offi~
cial standards for color of cotton
have just been promulgated by the
United States department of agricult
ure. They supplant the tentative
guides announcea on Feb., 18, 1915.
These standards were established nin
der the cotton futures act passed by
congress and control the grades of
cotton which may be tendered in set
[tlement of future contracts on cotton
‘exchanges. They become effective at
once and cannot be changed under
one year. :
The official sets will be furnished
at $25 for eleven boxes, or $2.50 for
each box in fractional sets. The de
partment. makes this announcement
concerning them:
The New Standards.
“The new standards are for yel
low-tinged cotton of the grades of
low middling, strict low middling,
middling, strict middling, and good
middling, and for yellow-stained and
blue-stained cotton of the grades of
middling, strict middling and good
middling.
“In promulgating these standards
the attention of the trade is espe
cially directed to the change in the
nomenclature of the standards .for
blue cotton. Since the United States
cotton futures act bhecame effective
the lowest grade of such cotton ten
derable on contracts for future deliv
ery made on the exchanges has been
known as low-middling blue-tinged.
In the new standards this cotton is,
designated as stained and the grade
names are raised. The reasons for
these cvhanges ar:
Stained Middling Lowest Grade.
“First. Thre has never been a sep
arate standard for blue cotton in gen
eral use. Heretofore such cotton has
been sold on type or sample, or else
it has been classified according to its
value, based on the white standards
for grade.
“Second. Blue in cotton is a stain
rather than a tinge. .
‘“Third. In the application of grade
names it is cohsidered that each of
the color standards should contain
approximately the same amount of
leaf and trash as the corresponding
grades of the white standards. The
standards established for blue cotton
correspond in grade most nearly to
the standards for middling, striet
'middling and good middling white
!(fotton‘
“Fourth. Under the fifth subdivis
'ion of section 5 of the United States
lcotton futures aet stained cotton of
the grade of middling is the lowest
grade of such cotton deliverable on
contraet.”