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JUNE 12, BRSNS
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ol DELTA, WHERE DRAIN-‘
COMPANIES ARE NOWi
DEEMING AN EMPIRE. '
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- reclaiming of the swamp landsi
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its tributaries and the growing
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r; ill come from the low, wet
. along the Mexican gulf, which
< earning the title of “the bread
ae ¢ the nation.” As soon as
t" are redeemed from the water |
‘,;.J cut up into small farms andl‘
tad to trees, with vegetables in
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ropping: Throughout Texas, Lou
na:?l'i adjacent states the water
sing pumped out of the ditches
Land not worth more than §5
‘S"" .n acre before draining
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ps to $lOO an acre and more even
b {he stumps standing. When im
wed the land is often worth $3OO
acre. L
\ocording to the scientists of the
woical survey, there .are in the
Hog 1L ;
hborhood of 80,000,000 acres of
i land in the United States
oh is more or less covered with
tle: This, at the lowest calculation,
ents a country larger than
;f Britain and Ireland. It is equal
[-,\é three states of Indiana, _lllmms
dhl‘,‘np and it is ten times the size
ihe little garden spot known as
land. Were it cultivated as in
gvely as Holland, the reclaimed
ithlands would support a popula
" of 60,000,000,
Many Big Drainage Projects.
Extensive drainage projects are
ine on in North Carolina, South
rolina, Florida and Georgia. The
erelades, containing something
e 4,000,000 acres, are a drowned
sirie of wonderful fertility. They
beine drained by the state and
entually will be turned into a semi
pical garden patch for feed in the
rth
Most important of all, however,
the swamp lands of the Mississip
valley, which contains altogether
mething like 20,000,000 acres of
richest soil on earth. Under these
amps is the cream of the soil of
United States. The Mississippi
ssourt, the longest river in the
rlid, is one of the greatest robbers
soi. For countless ages, year
er year, it has been tearing down
i carrying away the soil of the
t Mississippl basin and dropping
down on the ancient bed of the
which once extended, geologists
lare, to the mouth of the Ohio.
se two mighty streams carry on
Ir course something like 400,000,-
J tons of earth annually. The Mis
prl alone takes from its banks and
butaries VOOO 000 \‘lhl(' ,\'ards ()f
rih every day. All this vast wealth
011 1s deposited about the delta
fie Alississippl river and in the
Reclaimers Busy as Bees.
re are now something like 25
draining theq
' r from New Orleans.
3 s are of various sizes and
t upwards of 500,000 acres.
» Uie tracts are devoted to
ith IS, others to orchards and
; _stam, corn and ' cotton.
e m N "!‘.‘th‘.‘u'. on one tract
. atres which is to be given
, W 2 and stock-raising.
: ‘eClamation is said to
s than that paid by the
: ‘otland and the soil is rich
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£ nr of foodstuffs.
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*ULDBY DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE
HOW TO CONSTRUCT A KILN
FOR SAVING SWEET POTATOES
The following letter from Mr. C.
A. Ginn, a successful farmer and
business man and fermer mayor of
Royston, Ga., is printed in The News
for the information and benefit of
growers of sweet potatoes and the
farmers generally in Southwest
Georgia.
“Dear Sir: Your letter in regard
to my potato kiln received. My house
is 14x30, twelve feet high, cement
foundation, about one foot from the
ground, dirt floor, storm boarding in
side and outside, builder’s paper be
tween storm boarding and weather
boarding, and builder’s paper be
tween weather boarding and eeiling,
shelved from bottom to top with 143
shelves four feet long, four feet deep
BE SPRING WATER
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IN ATLANTA MAN SOLD 20 GAL.
LONS AT $7 IN QUICK ORDER
FROM HIS FLIVVER.
ATLANTA, Ga.—A blockade run
ner in the well-known “Flivver”
drove up to a certain Atlanta street
corner frequented by runners and
blind tigers. He had a cargo of moon
shine put up in gallon tin buckets
with the lids sealed on. He was in a
hurry and wore a look of apprehen
sion.
Trade Quick.
~ “Trade quick, fellows,” he jerked
out in a low, tense whisper to the
thirsty brethren who flocked around.
“‘Trade quick, $7 a gallon. They're
right after me and I've got to buy
‘gas and be on my way.” He snapped
‘his fingers. “Who wants a gallon?
‘Those that don’t want to trade, step
back and make room for those that
do. They’re right after me and I've
got to buy gas and be on my way.”
In ten minutes his stock of 20 gal
lons was gone at $7 a gallon spot
‘cash, and he threw in the clutch and
' was on his way, rounding the corner
on two wheels.
~ Then one of the buyers, moved by
;a strange premonition, cracked open
his gallon bucket to examine the con
tents, and what he found was pure
spring water.
LURE OF THE “NAWF”
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Randolph Darky Who Sold His Farm
Victim of Crooks While Passing
Through Atlanta.
The recent experience of a negro
from Randolph county may be cited
as fairly typical of the misfortunes
that lie along the pathway of the un
educated, hard-working, honest col
ored man who leaves the community
where the white folks know and res
pect him, and fares forth into the
world to seek the rainbow lure of
high wages.
This negro sold his farm, took his
family to Atlanta and purchased
ticketss to Patterson, N. J., after
which he checked his trunk and sat
down in the waiting room until time
for his train to leave. Presently a
smart, crooked city negro came along
and ‘“‘frissed” him of his money and
his tickets. The old negro appealed
to the station agent, who found that
his trunk had already gone. He ad
vised the negro to go back to Ran
dolph county, which advice was re
jected. The negro said he had $4OO
in his trunk, if they could get it
back. The station agent made ar
rangements for the negro and his
family to spend the night in Atlanta,
telegraphed for the trunk and got it
back, and the negro opened it, took
out his money, bought him another
set of tickets and re-checked his
trunk, then went to Patterson, N. J.,
with only a few dollars left from the
sale of his farm.
Next winter when he gets cold and,
hungry he'll probably come back—if
he can.
{ MULE IS SHOT AS
! SPY BY BRIDGE CiUARD
{Did Not Face Firing Squad, But Set
Record Just the Same.
Richard C. Conover, of Borden
town, N. J., was owner of the first
“spy” shot in the United States
since the war began. Conover now
Iseeks $250 from the government for
'the loss of one perfectly good mule
that never did anything more war
like than towing® barges on “the
Raritan canal. 1
’ After the day’s work, the mule was
‘taking a stroll in the twilight near‘
Kingston, N. J., when a guardsman |
‘noticed her form stealthily approach
ing a bridge he was guarding. A
command of “halt!” rang out. Had
the command been “Whoa” it would
have been all right. As it was the
mule proceeded and was shot.
THREE MILLION GERMANS
IN THE PRESENT WAR
Germany has 3,000,000 men in
the war, according to estimates of
French army officers. This does not
include the Austro-Hungarians, Bul
garians and Turks. The Germans
have 176 divisions pitted against the
French and English on the western
front and 66 against the Russians.
Whenever You Need a General Tonic
Take (rove’s
The Old Standard Grove’s Tasteless
chill Tonic is equally valrable as a
General Tonic because it contains the
well known tonic properties of QUININE
and IRON. It actson the Liver, Drives
out Malaria, Enviches the Blood and
Puilds up the Whole System. 50 cents.
and two feet high, hall through mid
dle of house about four feet wide
and have two small coal heaters, three
ventilator holes in roof and one un
der door, double door in the south
end and double window in the north
end. When you first dig potatoes
keep fire in heaters for about ten
days, and keep heat around 90 de
grees and your trouble is over, only
in real cold spells. I built fire in
heaters three times last winter. My
house will hold about 2,000 bushels.
I had around 1,500 bushels in it this
winter and don’t suppose I lost over
one-half of one per cent. Write the
Meridian College, Meridian, Miss.,
and they will tell you full details,
and the government has a bulletin,
but I do not remember the number.
Yours truly, C. A. GINN.”
NO MORE PASTRY OR CRACK
ERS ALLOWED EXCEPT FOR
THE ARMY. PRICES FIXED.
PARIS, France—The food ques
tion in France is regarded as very
serious. All the measures thus far
taken have failed to assure positive
ly the required supply of bread to
carry the country over to the next
whea_t crop, and the government has
just decided in a special cabinet
meeting to require important sacri
fices.
No more pastry and no more
crackers or biscuits will be made, ex
cept for the army, after a date still
to be fixed. No more highly refined
flour will be tolerated. Every miller
will be obliged to leave a greater
percentage of bran in his output, and
eventually corn meal, rye or barley
may be mixed with the wheat flour
to eke out the supply.
The experiences of the past year
in France have shown the impossi
bility of influencing economie condi
tions by decree. The maximum sell
ing price of wheat was fixed at a
price equivalent to $1.85 a bushel, in
order to avoid an inerease in the
cost of bread. The result was a great
‘decrease in wheat acreage; the far
mers preferred to sow oats and bar
ley that were not subjeet to any
limitations and brought better prices
than wheat.
The ‘retail price of butter on the
Paris market was fixed at the equiv
alent of 68 cents a pound. Imme
diately the receipts fell from forty
two tons to less than nine tons a day.
' The butter went to the British front
iwhere it readily brought 80 cents a
pound.
~_The new minister of subsistence,
Maurice Viollette, removed the limi
tation and more butter arrived, but
the price went up to a dollar a pound
iat retail.
~ More persons interested in the
’question, among them such writers
as Senator Henry Cheron, formerly
under secretary of war, now are of
the opinion that neither prices nor
supplies can be affected by decrees;
that it is entirely a question of pro
duction and economy over which the
intermediates can have only a pass
ing control. This seems‘to be the con
clusion M. Violette has reached in
[his short experience in power.
Those Above Thirty-One Are Desir
ed for Second Series of Camps.
Dates For Application.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—A second
series of officers’ training camps will
be held between August 27 and Nov
ember 26 in eight locations to devel
op officers for the second inerement
of 500,000 men to be called into
service by the selective draft, Adju
tant General McCain announced re
cently. In general, qualifications for
admission to these camps will be the
same as for the first series, but a
strong effort will be made to obtain
men above 31 years old and the num
ber admitted to training will be
smaller than in the present camps.
Applications must be sent to the
commanding generals of the depart
ment in which the applicant lives
between June 15 and July 15 by citi-;
zens between the ages of 20 years
and 9 months and 40 years. }
PRICES TO BE HIGH
FOR NEXT TWOC YEARS
War or No War, Food Shortage Will
Be Felt, California Survey Reports.
Prices of food will remain high
during the next two years whether
or not peace comes within that time,
according to a report of the Califor
nia food survey. Farmers must pre
pare to pay higher price for labor
and provide better living conditions
for their help, says the report.
More has been expended on pro
duction of crops in California this
year than ever before, and in spite of
this the crops are going to be be
low normal, except in the cases of
beans and sugar beets. The report
also commends ‘“hoarding” of food
by individuals, stating that buying
in large quantities cuts down the re
tailing cost by one-third.
In every home where there is a
baby there should also be a bottle of
McGEE’S BABY ELIXIR. It may be
needed at any time to correct sour
stomach, wind colie, diarrhoea or
summer complaint. It is a whole
some remedy, contains no opium,
morphine or injurious drug of any
kind. Price 25¢ and 50c¢ per bottle.
Sold by Dawson Drug Co. ;
THE DAWSON NEWS.
, MANY NEGROES NORTH
IS SIGNING THEM UP TO WORK
AT DIFFERENT POINTS
AT HIGH WAGES.
SAVANNAH, Ga.—About the
time the general registration booths
were opened throughout Savannah
and the county, Capt. Richard
J. Donnelly of the United States
army commissary department, open
ed a labor recruiting office in the of
fice of the Atlantic Shipping com
pany on cotton row.
Special Train,
Registration was so active that by
noon Captain Donnelly was able to
place an order with the railroads
here for a special train which left
here some time Wednesday for the
North. The negroes understand that
they are to go to Fort Smith or to
Newport News, Va., where they are
to enter service with the army.
Throughout the day the labor re
cruiting office was swarmed with ne
groes who come here from through
out the Southeast to sign up for em
ployment with the government. They
came from all the neighboring points
to Savannah.
The Pay.
Ordinary laborers were signed up
at $65 per month flat pay, while
higher classes of laborers, as headers,
truckmen, wenchmen and other wharf
men, were signed up at $75 to $B5
per month. All contracts are for the
men to remain with the government
lill discharged.
On the Water Front.
The recruiting here is under
stood to be to get them to werk on
the wharves of ports through which
provisions, munitions and other gov
ernment freight is being shipped
from the United Siates to Europe.
Capt. Donnelly had a large corps of
assistants to help him sign up the
negroes, and then he could not be
gin to handle the volume of applica
tions.
Apparently government labor re
cruiting agents have been working
among the negroes through this sec
tion for the past several weeks. Oth
erwise so many of them from so
many places could never have learn
ed so exactly. who to do, when to dg
it, and how. |
DELBRIDGE GIRL HAPPY
AT NEW HOME IN SOUTH
Pretty Orphan at Last Finds Haven
From Buffeting Storms.
MONTGOMERY, Ala.—Marjorie
Delbridge, or Marjorie Weatherly, as
she is to be known in the future, is
now joyously happy in the home of
her cousin, Tilford Leak, the home
that is to be her own haven from the
storms of life that have buffeted her
for months.
“Say for me,” said Mr. Leak, ‘“‘that
all that need be said as to ‘Marjorie
Weatherly’s future is that she is my
cousin and will live in my home
with my family. And that’s all. There
has been too much said about the
case already.”
From other sources it was learned
that Mr. Leak was made guardian of
the girl by the court’s order, and
that the child who was born in At
lanta fifteen years ago and given to
“Mammy” Jackson by her mother,
an actress, and taken to Chicago
when she was an infant, is assured
of a promising and peaceful future
among people of her own race and
blood.
A regular momi'ng operation of
the bowels puts you in fine shape for
the day’s work. If you miss it you
feel uncomfortable and cannot rut
vim into your movements. For all
bowel irregularities, HERBINE is
the remedy. It purifies, strengthens
and regulates. Price 50c. Sold by
Dawson Drug Co.
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The highly organized, finely strung
nervous system of women subjects them
to terrors of nervous apprehension which
no man can ever appreciate.
The peace of mind, the mental poisc
and calmucss under difficulties, which
is necessayy for happy womanhood, is
only possil:i‘;. when the sensitive feminine
organism is in a perfectly healthy condi
tion. If there be any weakness or de
rangement in this respect no remedy in
the world so completely restores womanly
health, nervous vigor and capability as
the wonderful “Favorite Prescription”
invented by Dr. R. V. Pierce, It purifies
heals and strenethens; insures functional
regularity; provides physical reinforeement
and sustaining power at periods of special
weakness and depression,
Covington, Ky.—“ For about twenty
iea.rs I have known of Dr. Pierce’s
‘avorite Prescription. I began using it
because a friend rccommended it. Wien
run down, nervous and dragging around
I used several hottles of this wfi—known
remedy. It always helps me just as it
is advertised to do. It is the most
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1 rhavo."«signs. Luczema Cimsox, 1338
LONG AND SHORT
g We have the long and the S
J=. short of it in Clothing for \i\
(: ? Men. We have bought for )y -
# J\¥) ‘e long slim man and for %f’}%{“ ?
t A’ the short fat man—and all “ S
o ”Q g 8 of the sizes in between. ,régg:‘f '?“%;
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L slims is especially well assort- [\\
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fi I ting a fit elsewhere and are “ h iy
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. our stock of Clothing, and < &
,are prepared to meet all the Clothing needs of this
' community.
Dawson, Georgia
Bankrupt Notice.
In the District Court of the United
States, For the Northern Dis
| trict of Georgia.
In re H. M. Futch, bankrupt. No.
1052 in bankruptey.
‘) A petition for discharge having
been filed in conformity with law by
'above named bankrupt and the court
having ordered that the hearing upon
said petition be had on July 7, 1917,
!at ten o’clock a. m., at the United
;States district court room, in the
‘city of Atlanta, Georgia, notice is
hereby given to all creditors and
‘other persons in interest to appear
at said time and place and show
cause, if any they have, why the
prayer of the bankrupt for discharge
should not be granted. 0. C. FUL
LER, Clerk. By N. A. Brown, Depu
ty Clerk. R. R. Jones, Attorney for
Bankrupt. ’
FIRST MEETING OF CREDITORS.
United States District Court,
Northern District of Georgia, West
ern Division. In re H. R. Grimes,
bankrupt. In bankruptey.
To the creditors of the above bank
rupt, of Dawson, Ga., in the county
of Terrell and district aforesaid: You
are hereby notified that on June 6,
1917, the above named was duly ad
judged bankrupt, that the first meet
ing of creditors in said matter will
be held in the court house at Daw
son, Ga., on June 18, 1917, at the
hour of 9 o’clock a. m., at which time
creditors may attend, prove their
claims, appoint a trustee, examine
the bankrupt and transact such other
business as may come before said
meeting. The bankrupt is required to
be present. A. H. GRAY,
Referee in Bankruptey.
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United States District Court,
Northern District of Georgia, West
ern Division. In re M. C. Bowen,
bankrupt. In bankruptey.
To the creditors of the above
bankrupt, of Preston, Ga., in the
county of Webster and district afore
said: You are hereby notified that on
June 1, 1917, the above named was
duly adjudged bankrupt, that the
first meeting of creditors in said mat
ter will be held in the court house
at Preston, Ga., on June 18, 1917, at,
the hour of 2 o’clock p. m., at which
time creditors may attend, prove
their claims, appoint a trustee, exam
ine the bankrupt and transact such
other business as may come before
said meeting. The bankrupt is re
quired to be present. A. H. GRAY,
Referee in Bankruptey.
Notice To City Tax Payers
The city tax assessors will be in
session at the court house on Mon
day, June 18, 1917, for a term of
‘ten days, for the purpose of receiy
ing tax returns for present year.
Please call promptly and give in your
‘city taxes to said board of assessors
and thus avoid being double taxed,
ias provided by law. This June 6.
1917. .R. E. BELL,City Clerk.
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Contractor and Builder
All kinds of construction work promptly done.
Residence Work My Specialty
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