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00 IN KANSAS
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ring in an Oil Well.
EKA, Kan.—Before the day
Lambling became @ thing ob
able and when frontiersmen
mly an occasional 'battered
.u.’«"l\ worming its way across
ins men sat around tables and
their coin on an extra turn of
glette wheel or fingered the
canfield in every cattle town
en existed on the prairies of
and Oklahoma. They wager-
iCreg, ir all on the run of faro or
o méir way ‘to raking in the
f::;g at poker. Then encroached
Saj jler of the soil. More towns!
Do, nuilt and the great ranches
fegz once annually turned hfards of
tod onto the Chisholm trail were
av led out in small farms. With |
lin hange went the gambler. |
)l:'l(b rs later, about, sixty, in fact,
ff, ame part of the country was
{ 2 new gambling game. It is
It takes more money to “sit
1 b jut just as many are at the
o jor it is even more fascinat
p:fi han roulette, more uncertain
'lc caro and with results as varia
ang in poker.
i . and women bet on whether
0'“ .unk into the earth in South
f,), ansas and Oklahoma will bring
kon‘ oil well. If L'he_a “.rouletbe
o’ * turns aright millionaires are
sty in a day. The losses are not
lay inle. Instead of profits from
ity bear's production of cattle the
in les of z'niiliunaires or the sav
s, of a $l5 a week clerk dwindle
ion nignt
eh- Women Get Into Game.
iff, ¢ oil zamble differs from the old
o game of chance in several ways.
the roulette whee' was in favor
all - own in the two states had its
D. ling houses fitted up more or
el uxuriously. Men, and §ometxmes
\d- by came from the immediate
A tory to sit about the tables. Just
la, nen, and sometimes women,
ha oming from as far away as New
1 nd Canada to bet on a strip of
seven or eight miles wide and
W ling from a few miles north of
- Mo ado, But'er county, Kan.,
ol Augusta, Rock, Winfield,
R sas City to Blackwell, OKkla.,
\d ired miles away. The betting
aused scores of holes to Dbe
3 nto the face of the earth.
< caused mortgages on Tocky
- iparatively valueless farms to
fted and has thrown the spot
the region, just as was the
f the Klondike region not so
‘ ) » the turn of the wheel or
{ ards have been in
J - of the gambler, for the per
i ki 2 oles drilled for oil
i n the new field is mighty
i ] ess tl 2 per cent, opera
‘hile the men, and sometimes
- len, who have invested in the
y ind have been fortunate in
: king producing wells or have dis
: d of their leases to somebody
se ante is a little higher, have
e money there hag came to the
; 15 directly and indirectly affect
f prosperity they never before en
.> d. To El Dorado and Augusta
| > come business houses that seek
r it _:'r‘ont the sudden revival. The
- e is true of the other town, but
= use the field still is new at the
es named the excitement runs
- And when excitement is un
rolled men, and always women,
. much money.
liand Owner Receives Share.
e land owner usually gets one
th of the oil and one-sixth of the
‘hen Run
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%as the means oF my return to
1 when I was greatly run-down
.. 2Cxed vigor, strength, blood and
¢ tone. T was simply a nervous
“% —lacking in vitality and had
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*! a 5 1 was suffering from indiges-
U and gastritis, My liver was very
Ciive and in comsequence my food
¢ ferment and create a great
L It of gas. My nervous system
e‘h‘ “eranged also and I did not sleep
.o 3 night, The ¢Discovery’ cer-
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e ‘our bottles it corrected my
. oPation in addition to restoring
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U Avenue, W,
~octor Dierce’s Pleasant Pellets regu
oo 34 tuvigorate stomach, liver and
gas production except in a few cases |
where the royalty has been forced to
one-fourth of the gas flow. The one-1
eighth royalty means that on the
gambler’s bet that brings in a 1,200‘
barrel oil well the land owner will
reap a reward of 150 barrels a day.
At the present price of about $1.35
a barrel the profit is large enough.
Except the royalty the rease houlder
gets the rest. The expense of pump
ing the oil is small.
‘Gamblers in the oil and gas game
must know the geological formation
of the territory upon which they are
betting, just as the man at a table
must know the value of the cards
and how to play them. The anti-cline
is the all-important thing in an oil
field. It is a bend in the earth’s for
mation, with the convex upward.
When a drill is sunk too near the
outer or lower edge of the bend it is
almost sure to bring a flow—mnot of
oil or gas, but of salt water. Oil
usuallly is present, if at all, in the
particular anti-cline in the higher
part of the arch.
~ Residents of the favored region are
extravagant with gas. There is so
much of it that in Augusta and El
' Dorado the city officials do not take
&'the trouble to have the street lights
turned out in the day time. In the
private homes lights are left burning
long hours. However, it must be re
membered that the gas costs only 4
cents a thousand cubic feet, so the
| bill «cannot be large. .
Augusta gas wells supply the city
lights, the streets, homes, stores, fac
tories and nublic buildings and lately
started furnishing about 2,000,000
cubic feet daily.
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FREE STREET PARADE.
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Decline of Musical Comedy Is Laid
to the Show Seen Now in Public
Without Any Charge.
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Seymour
Rice, manager of the Grand opera
house, believes he has solved the
mystery of the decline of musical
comedy.
“The new styles in women’s dress,
I believe, have had a great deal to do
with it,”’ said Mr. Rice. ‘“Now, just
watch some of the women as they
pass up and down the streets; note
the short skirts; observe the brill
iant boots and hose.
“You see, in former days men and
women went to the theatre and saw
girls in short skirts and high topped
fancy and brilliant shoes, with radi
ant stockings, and the dress was a
novelty.
“People saw things on the stage
that were different. Wiomen saw ex
pensive boots that they wouldn’t
think of wearing themselves. They
saw short skirts that they wouldn’t
dare to wear. The men, of course,
saw all these things, too. _
4 "\V-te;l]v,";v‘.iv'tllwtillius free parade that
‘you can see on the streets any day
why should folk pay their way into
a theatre to see the same thing and
fewer of them? This show on the
street is endless and daring.”
RUSSIA REFUSES
TURKEY PEACE.
Declines te Consider Proffers of the
Porte Because They Ignored the
Allies of the Slavs.
LONDON.—Tentative proposals of
peace by Turkey have been rejected
by the Russian government, aceord
ing to persistent reports in diplo
matic corps to the effect that Russia
refused to consider the proffers of
the Porte because they ignored Rus
sia’s allies and sought peace with
the Slavs alone.
By an agreement reached last year
by Russia, France and England and
subscribed to by Italy and Japan the
entente powers bound themselves to
accept no peace except collectively.
The correspondents state that the
rapid progress of the Russian army
in Asia Minor has caused a panic in
Constantinople, ‘where it is feared
that the Bagdad railway will soon be
cut.
SLUMP IN NUMBER OF
CHICAGO WOMEN VOTERS
Number Voting in This Year's Pri
maries 50,000 Less Than Last.
In last vear's primaries in Chicago
152,636 women voted. In this year's
primaries 81,121 women voted. What
was the reason for the slump? No
body seems to know, unless it was
that many Chicago women, now that
they have the franchise and its nov
elty has worn off, care very little
about it. Surely there is cause
enough for them to go to the polls in
that city if they intend to “purify’’
politics, for Chicago has not improv
ed her reputation in the last year.
Right there is an excellent opportu
nity for women to prove, if they can,
that they are able to purify politics
and make a city a model of cleanli
ness. morally and physically.
THE CENTRAL OF GEORGIA
TO HAVE A BLOCK SYSTEM
Will Be Installed Between Macon and
Atlanta at Cost of $250,000.
The Central of Georgia railway
will install an electric block system
between Macon and Atlanta at a cost
of $250,000. Signals in most cases
will be only one mile apart and in
one or two places two miles apart.
when this system is finished it is said
that head-on or rear end collisions
will be impossible if engineers will
note the signals.
Watch Child’s Cough.
Colds, running of nose, continued
irritation of the mucous membrane
if neglected may mean catarrh later.
Don’t take the chances—do some
thing for your child. Children will
not take every medicine, but they
will take Dr. King’s New Discovery
and without bribing or teasing. Itis
a sweet, pleasant Tar Syrup and so
effective. Just laxative enough to
eliminate the waste poisons. Almost
the first dose helps. Always pre
pared, no mixing or fussing. Just
ask yvour druggist for Dr. King’s New
Discovery. It will safeguard your
child against serious ailments resuit
ing from colds.
PROHIS MAKING TROUBLE FOR
CONGRESSMEN WHO OPPOSE
THE SHEPPARD BILL.
HARDWICK FOR LOCAL OPTION
Georgian Denies He Is in Favor of
Negro Suffrage in Washington. Un
derwood Would Submit Tiquor
Question in Capital City to Voters,
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Prohibi
tion forces in the country, led by the
Anti-Saloon League, are starting a
back-fire against their senators and
representatives in congress who are
opposing the Sheppard bill for the
abolition of the manufacture and sale
of liquor in the District of Colum
bia.
In the Southern states especial
hostility seems to have been aroused
by the amendment of Senator Under
wood, of Alabama, for a referendum
vote of the male citizens of the dis
trict on the subject of prohibition.
It is called “a last desperate effort
.0 postpone the death of the whisky
traffic,” in an open letter signed by
fifteen more or less prominent busi
ness men of Senator Underwood’s
home city of Birmingham.
“Mr. Underwood frankly informs
us that he is going to do all he can
to pass this bill,”” the letter continu
ues. ‘‘That the whiskey forces can
command the arnest support of a
| senator from Alabama for this bad
ilast resort is a warning to you and
|to us. This bill is a mere whisky
| serpent in the grass. Let us smash
its head before it strikes.”
l Would Exclude Negroes.
There are said to be 30,000 adult
negro males in the district, who, if
allowed to vote, could presumably be
purchased by the whisky forces to
defeat prohibition. Senator John
Sharp Wllliams has proposed to ex
clude these negro citizens by incor
porating the word ‘‘white” in Mr.
Underwood’s bill.
This amendment will have the
hearty support of Senator Thomas
W. Hardwick, of Georgia. This is
his reply to the recent attack of Sam
W. Small, published in the newspa
pers of Georgia, that Senator Hard
wick was for disfranchisement in
Georgia and for negro suffrage in
Wiashington:
“] have always been a local op
tionist,” explained Senator Hard
wick. I believe the people of each
locality should be consulted in re
gard to their wishes as to whether
their home districts should be wet or
dry. Otherwise juries will not en
force the laws. Applying that same
principle, I favor a referendum vote
of the district on the question of
prohibiting the manufacture and sale
of liquor in this city. It is my pur
pose to vote to confine this referen
dum to the white adult citizens liv
ing here. I shall, therefore, support
the Williams substitute.”
Mr. Underwood has declined to
comment on the Williams amend
ment, but it is known he feels that
a referendum vote of white citizens
might be held unconstitutional.
Wilson For Local Option.
Advocates of the Underwood-Wil
liams proposal are pointing out that
President Wilson has espoused the
principle of local option in the set
tlement of the prohibition question.
William J. Bryan also opposes in
jecting it into national political cam
paigns,
A CLEVER MOONSHINER
IN THE HEART OF ATLANTA
Illicit Distillery Was a Success Until
Owner Took on Beer.
ATLANTA.—Moonshiners of the
North Georgia mountains, said to be
‘the cleverest in the world, can take a
lesson from Marvin McGee, of At
lanta, who has been arrested by the
federal authorities following the dis
covery of a hidden still which they
declare was the most intelligently
concealed they have ever known.
McGee has a home on the Adams
ville road, in a thickly settled subur
ban neighborhood, where he operated
the still unknown to his nearest
neighbors and most intimate friends.
‘He had a secret room immediately
beneath the fireplace of the house,
and in it the still was concealed. It
was so arranged that a flue connected
it with the fireplace and chimney
above, so that the heat and smoke all
passed out of the same chimney.
If McGee hadn’t taken up beer as
a side line he might never have been
caught. but he made the mistake of
storing 15 barrels of beer in his
house, and this led to suspicion and
a thorough search.
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recognized cold remedies. In O
Bell's Pine-Tar-Honey these are com
bined with other cough medicines in
a pleasant syrup. Dr. Bell’s Pine-
Tar-Honey quickly stops your cough,
checks your cold, soothes irritation of
the throat. Excellent for young,
adult and aged. It's one of the best
cough syrups made. Formula on ev
ery bottle. You know just what you
are taknig and your doctor knows it
is good for coughs and colds. In
sist on Dr. Bell’'s Pine-Tar-Honey.
Only 25¢ at druggists.
For Sprains, Lameness,
Sores, Cuts, Rheumatism
Penetrates and Heals.
Stops Pain At Once
For Man and Beast
25c.50c.51. At All Dealers. |
THE DAWSON NEWS
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10 ner cent. Cash Discount Coupon Book, good for Payment of
Laundry, Benzol Dry Cleaning, Pressing and Dyeing,
it not detached. NOT TRANSFERABLE.
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GET YCUR VOTES FCR EACH COUPON. |
First Grand Gift—Dodge 5 Passenger Touring Car,
$850.00. Purchased of W. G. Turpin & Co., Americus,
Ga. To be awarded Dec. 6, 12 noon. 1916. Highest
number contestant’s votes secures this gift.
Second Grand Gift—Ford Runabout, $430.00. Pur
chased of Americus Auto Co., Americus, Ga. To be
awarded December 6th, 12 noon, 1916. Second highest
number contestant’s votes secures this gift.
Third of $75.00 Gift Victrola. Purchased of Will
Dudley, Americus, Ga. To be awarded on July 6th, 12
noon, 1916. First highest number contestant’s votes in
this class secures this gitt.
Fourth Gift—s2s.oo Victrola. Purchased of Will
Dudley, Americus, Ga. To be awarded July 6th.12 noon,
1916. Second highest number of contestant’s votes in
this class secures this gift.
Ist. There will be no nominating coupons.
2nd. Each cash customer of the Ameri
cus Steam Laundry is entitled to votes with
each cash purchase. Such customers are
recognized as contestants,
ard. Contestants must turn in votes the
last week in each month, for which contest
ants will receive vote certificate.
4th. Contestants may withhold their
name and not publish it until July Ist, just
five days before the closing of the third and
fourth gift contest.
sth. Contestant VOTES that are cast for
the third and fourth gift contest closing
noon, July 6, 1916, will apply in the first
and second Grand Gift Contest Closing Dec.
6th, 1916, noon; that is, they are counted
s the water at Morena dam was higher
H[ HAU RAIN FflR SAIE than it had ever been.
3 “Hatfield isn’'t doing it,”” the
councilmen said. ‘“Everybody’s get-
GOODS DELIVERED IS CLAIN 5 ="
But when the downpour continued
e and the flood followed some favored
e . ,’paying Hatfield $5,000 and calling it
ATTORNEY RULES THAT ClTY|gyits. But Hatfield believes he will
MUST PAY MAN $lO,OOO FOR gget his $lO,OOO.
FILLING MORENA DAM, What his chemicals are he has nev-
P ;pr revealed. The tar paper, collect
e STV T o - ing heat, causcs the liquid to evapor
; ?'Ob ‘N\‘N(’P‘.th‘ Cal.—The suppo-|.ic in the day time, and at night he
sition that raing comes down because applies enough heat to produce the
it listeth is officially refuted in San |same result. Ascending columns of
Diego, where $lO,OOO may have to|Yapor from the tanks have the pow
be paid out utj the city trea§ur.\' h)’lfg'ti;g :’zl\.;zétt(;p%t&ract e e
way of shattering the old belief that L
Mother Nature is responsible. THE SCHOOL CHILDREN
The city attorney has ruled that WILL NOT LIKE THIS PLAN
the city must pay Charles Hatfield o . :
that sum for filling the Morena dam. i ‘,h_‘““ -of Runn!ug Schools
Hatfield is a rain maker. He went . s Da.)s. lavev“y “ee‘l\.
to Ban’ Do some webks §go and It is the opinion of Superintendent
ol some;vhat s follim: i A. G. Miller of the Whaycross public
“I notice you don’t have very much schoole th,a.t the day is fast coming
of an average rainfall here. I would wheti publie schools‘ il be, ohed
i du wiidiic saln for YN eight hours a day, six days in the
. P week ,and every week of the year,
“Fil] Morena dam,” said the ¢oun-| with all school work being done in
cilmen, and thy all laughed. Morena |the class rooms.
dam had never been more than a Superintendent Miller has just re
third filled. turned from the annual meeting of
“All right,’ said Hatfield, ““for the department of superintendents of
$10,000.” the National Educational Association,
Still laughing they ugreed. held at Detroit, Mich. He stated that
Hatfield erected his tower near the | the meeting was one of the best ever
dam, put his galvanized iron tanks (held
on top of them, wrapped the tanks e
with tar paper, aud poured in his | Whenever You Need a Ueneral Tonic
chemical fluid. He was off in-the Take Grove’s
mountains and the city forgot him. The Old Standard Grove’s Tasteless
Some time later the councilmen |chill Tonic is equally valuable as a
were measuring the ireasury re-|Gencral Tomic because jt con‘ains the
sources and thinking about appropri- | well known tonic propgrtiesof QUININE
ations—but never about the $lO,-|and IRON. It zctson the Liver, Drives
000—when it began to rain, e Malaria, Enriches the Blood and
Some one brought down word that| Fuilds up the Whole System. 50 centa.
Rules of the Contest
in making up the total votes in final award
ing of gifts.
6th. Contestants and their friends are
not restricted to gift votes in their own dis
trict, but may secure them anywhere.
7th. No employee or member of family
will be allowed to participate in this con
test.
sth. Contestants must agree to accept all
rulings of Contest Manager, and his decis
ion will be final in all rulings.
9th. Any question that may arise between
the contestants not covered by the rules
will be determined and settled by Contest
Manager.
10th. It costs nothing to enter contest.
PRICE $4.50 VALUE $5.00
Purchaser of this 10 per cent Discount
Book secures - - 5,000 votes
Contestant selling same secures 2,000 votes
In utilizing Discount book for Laun
dry, etc., gets additional - 500 votes
Total - - - - 7,500 votes
Americus Steam Laundry, Americus, Ga.
District Agency Town Gift Contest
Ist Gift—sso.oo Victrola, purchased of W. H. C. Dud
ley. To be awarded Dec. 6, 12 noon, 1916. Highest
number contestant’s votes in this class secure this gift.
2nd3 Gift—sso.oo in Gold, to be awarded Dec 6, 12
noon, 1916. Second highest number contestant’s votes
in this class secures this gift.
3rd Gift—s Discount Coupon Books, value $25.00, to
be awarded Dec. 6,12 noon, 1916. Third highest number
contestant’s votes in this class secures this gifit.
4th Gift—3 Discount Coupon Books, value $15.00; to
be awarded Dec. 6th, 12 noon, 1916. Fourth highest num
ber contestant’s votes in this class secures this gift.
Ybur Money Will Clear You
A Good Dividend When
Spent Here
21 lbs, Good Flour 85¢
48 Ibs. Good Flour $1.70
No. 10 Snowdrift 1.20
No. 20 Snowdrift 240
14 Ibs. Sugar for 1.00
Cream Cheese, pound 25¢
12 cans best Tomatoes 93¢
Sweet Feed, 1.70
WE SELL EVERYTHING TO EAT!
let Us Fill Your Orders For
FRESH MEATS.
Dawson Market & Grocery Co.
Phone 46
You are only required to be classed by the
management as cash customer to be a con
testant.
11th. Cash customers living in a district
agency town may ship us laundry, dry
cleaning or dye work direct by parcel post,
express or may patronize us by truck or
through our agent in their town and secure
votes with each purchase. Such customer
will be recognized as a contestant.
12th. Contestants in district agency towns
that remain active in contest to the finish
are entitled to VOTES IN ALL GIFT CON
THSTS. Only district agency town contest
ants vote in the district agency Gift contest.
Now is the time to begin. Save yours and
your friends’ votes,
W. C. CARTER, Contest Manager.
15 Ibs. Rice for 1.00
20 lbs. Broken Rice 1.00
{0 lbs. Sweepstakes - 3.50
10 Ibs. Brown Mule 3.20
12 Bars Octagon Soap sfc
3 boxes Spaghetti 25¢
! pound Snuft for 45¢
Get our prices before buying
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