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Bv E. L. RAINEY.
TEN TOWNS GONE,
1,000 DEAD B
12,000 PEOPLE HOMELESS FROM
FOREST HOLOCAUST SWEEP
ING THE NORTHWEST.
Bedies Litter Roads Where Fleeing
Victims Were Overtaken by Gale-
Swept Fire. Morgues are Filled
With the Dead.
DULUTH, Minn.—With probably
one thousand persons dead, thousands
homeless and without clothing, and
with property damage mounting far
into millions of dollars whole sec
tions of northern Wisconsin and Min
nesota timberland are smouldering,
fire-stricken areas, with only the
charred ruins of abandoned, depop
ulated towns to accentuate the gen
eral desolation.
The bodies of 75 victims lie in Du
luth morgues. Hundreds more along
the roads leading to Duluth and Su
perior lay where they fell when over
taken by the fire.
Twelve thousand homeless and
penniless refugees, all in need, more
or less, of medical attention, are
quartered in hospitals, churches,
schools, private homes and in the
armory here, while doctors and nurs
es sent from surrounding communi
ties attend them, and nearly every
able-bodied man in the city has been
conscripted to fight the flames, which
now are reported to be dying away.
Widespread Destruction.
Reports reaching here by courier
told of widespread destruection, but it
was evident that in most cases the
fury of the flames was spent. Duluth
and Superior are in no further dan
ger. Virginia is safe and Brainerd
was untouched. 'However, peat bog
fires now are said to menace the lat
ter city. Bemidji reported only a
small loss.
Greatest loss of life and property
damage is believed to have occurred
in the Cloquet region, where a num
ber of towns have been destroyed
and all semi-rural settlements virtual
ly wiped out.
A special train of 20 coaches
brought 1, 00 refugees from Cloquet
and Carleton. They confirmed re
ports that many persons lost their
lives in those towns.
Cloquet’s Tragic Fate.
Albert Michaud, a special police
man, told a tragic story of the burn
ing of Cloquet and of the mad rush
of its residents to escape.
“At 6 o’clock last night a forest
ranger gave warning that unless the
wind died down the townspeople
would have to flee,” said Michaud.
“A thick pall of smoke hung over
the town and at 7 o’clock the special
trains were called. o
“The scene at the station was in
describable. There came a rush of
wind and the entire town was in
flames. The trains pulled out Wlthi
the fires blazing closely behind them.
Women wept and clung to their chil
dren, while others cried frantically
for their missing ones. The flames
licked at the cars. Windows in the
coaches were broken by the heat. The
engineers and firemen alternately
stoked to give the boilers all the fuel
they could stand.
Scene Indescribable. |
““Other trains were hurriedly made
of flat cars, box cars and anythmg'
that would roll. But even then all
did not get away. There are manyl
dead in Cloquet.”
_ Cloquet was a town with about‘i
(,500 population. More than 4,7001
bersons were brought to Duluth and
Superior from there alone. ‘
Information brought in by rescue
barties here tonight indicated that
nearly 100 bodies have been found
on roads leading to Duluth. Several
burned automobiles filled with bodies
were passed by the rescuers. Otherl
bfi(lws are being brought fram every
village and hamlet stricken by the
gale-driven fires. '
At least a dozen cities and towns
were destroyed. The worst bl;_xzesl
Were at Moose Lake, Kettle River
and Cloquet. In Moose Lake and im
mediate vieinity it is estimated more
than 300 persons perished in the
flamesg, |
FARMERS ARE HAULING
THEIR COTTON AT NIGHT
Common to See Wagons Waiting at
Gin Before People Go to Bed.
LAVONIA, Ga.—The farmers of
this section have adopted a new style
for hauling cotton. Instead of load-
Ing their wagons after breakfast or
n the afternoons and driving to the
£ins, they have adopted the plan of
Zoing at night to a large extent. This
Practice is not adopted from choice,
however, Many of the gins in this
section, especially those in the rural
distriets, are not running this season
and the three systems in Lavonia are
therefore badly crowded.
. Cotton comes to Lavonia to be
ginmed from the sections all around
Fair Play, 8, C., and much from Red
Hill and the territory this side. The
‘rowded conditions ecaused farmet:s
o start early in order to get their
cotton ginned in time to get back
home the following night.
It is a very common occurrence
here to see cotton wagons come to
town before people go to bed. And
the hauling. continues on from that
time ti) day.
THE DAWSON NEWS
BROWN URGES FARMERS TO
MARKET COTTON GRADUALLY
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State Commissioner of Agriculture
Says Decline in Price Not Justified.
Further warnings to Georgia farm
ers to hold their cotton and to mark
et 1t gradually are being issued by
;J. J. Brown, state commissioner of
‘agrlculture. Discussing recent mark
et fluctuation§ Mr. Brown declared
that the decline in the market was
i ~tified by the law of supply and
~ d’ha ' that it was caused by
‘mani, 2Ly the operation of a
meagerly .. ‘b gystem of
taking _by the mu.
“It is their way ou ting the
game,” said Mr. Brown, “and we
have experienced the effect of their
system in years gone by. It but serves
to emphasize the wisdom of our ad
vice to the farmer some time ago to
2o slow in marketing; to let the sta
ple get into the market just as grad
ually as possible.”
SERIOUS CONDITIONS IN ALL
ATLANTIC COAST STATES.
SPREADING RAPIDLY.
Spanish influenza now has reached
epidemic proportions in practically
every state and in only three has it
been reported as stationary with
some improvement in the situation in
Massachusetts. In spite of all efforts
by federal, state and local authori
ties the disease has spread rapidly
and the death toll has been high in
most parts of the nation.
In army camps the epidemic is sub
siding, according to reports.
Reports made public by the public
health service show that outside of
Massachusetts the epidemic is severe
throughout New England. Not a sin
gle state east of the Mississippi is
clear of the disease and. in most of
the coast states from Maine to Flori
da conditions are serious.
The number of cases reported also
is increasing in Oregon, Washington
and California, while the malady has
appeared in all mountain states apd
is epidemic in most of them. Min
nesota is the only west central state
reporting the disease stationary,
while influenza is epidemic in Obhio,
Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin and Il
linois. It also epidemic in all the
Southern states as well as in Oklaho
ma and Arkansas. ;
In war-crowded District of Colum
bia the epidemic continues unabat
ed. As a further precautionary meas
ure the treasury and interior depart
ments issued orders that no new em
ployees of those departments be
brought to Washington until further
notice. Similar action is expected
by other government departments
which still are in need of addtional
help.
TERRELL MAN WAS ELECTED
FIRST VICE PRESIDENT. THE
STATE MEETING OCT. 29TH.
A large number of Georgia farm
ers, meeting in the office of J. J.
Brown, commissioner of azric{xlturo.
organized the Georgia Cotton Seed
Producers’ Association.
Counties represented at the meet
ing were Bartow, Henry, Paulding,
Clayton. Newton, Terrell, - Morgan
and others. Organization was per
fected by electing the following offi
cers:
Emerson George, Morgan county,
president; James D. Weaver, Terrell
county, vice president; L. W. Jar
man, Newton county, second vice
president; M. L. Johnson, Bartow
county, third vice president; H. T.
Shaw, Morgan county, secretary and
treasurer.
The new association has called a
state-wide meeting to be held in the
hall of the house of representatives
on October 29, when the entire com
plex cotton seed situation will be
threshed out.
The organization expresses its pur
pose to co-operate with the govern
mental agencies in the handling of
the cotton seed situation, and to pro
tect the industry ‘“from profiteering
and hoarding.”
Eastern Shore Storage Houses Re
main Closed. Old Time Methods
Are Now Being Tried.
BRIDGEVILLE, Del.—Lack of
fuel will mean the rotting of nearly
one-half of the sweet potato crop
on the eastern shore of Maryland
unless conditions change.
At present the market is low and
the growers are leaving the potatoes
in the field.
Because of the scarcity of fuel
none of the enormous storage hous
es. which usually take care of the
crop, will be open this year. It is
impossible to let the potatoes stay in
the ground much longer because of
frost. Some of the farmers are try
ing the old-fashioned way of stor
ing by covering with pine slats and
dirt, but most of the farmers will be
compelled to let their crop rot.
DAWSON, GA., TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 22, 1918.
DON'T LIKE BEING TOLD RECOM
MENDATIONS WON'T BE RE
GARDED. SPEAK MIND.
. WASHINGTON, D. C.—Seething
under the congressional surface like
the pent-up forces of a volcano is the
wrath felt in a number of influential
bosoms over letters recently receiv
ed from the office of Judge Advocate
General Enoch H. Crowder.
The extent of this suppressed an
ger in congress is merely suggested
by the correspondence between Gen.
Crowder’s office and Representative
Osborne, of California, who had
some letters read into the record the
other day.
Mr. Osborne had recommended a
lawyer from his district to the judge
advocate general’s office for a com
mission. The congressman received a
brief reply, similar to one which has
been received in like cases by not a
few of his colleagues, to the effect
that ‘“applications must be without
influence” and will not be considered
if coming through congressional
channels. In a somewhat extended
rejoinder Representative Osborne
took issue with the policy thus an
nounced, protesting against it as “un
necessary and irritating.” .
Some of the correspondence on this
subject has not been given to the
publie, and incidents with lots more
of “kick” in them than in any of
the exchanges in letters have occurr
ed in the routine of which there is no
chronicle except such as is afforded
by capitol gossip.
Southern Senator Peppery.
For instance, it has not been long
since a Southern senator who had re
ceived one of these letters from Gen.
Crowder’s office, and who is decided
ly peppery when nettled, expressed
himself on the subject at a commit
tee meeting. Gen. Crowder himself
was present, in his official capacity,
to supply information on some pend
ing legislation, but made no answer
to the senator’s animadversions with
regard to congressional recommenda
tions for commissions. ;
The grapevine wire carrying this
gossip relates also that the senator
remarked that the letter he had re
ceived informing him of the undqsnr
ability of political influence was sign
ed by an officer whose appointment
to a commission in the judge advo
cate general’s department this same
senator had recommended only a
short time ago. . :
After expressing his opinion of the
policy indicated in the letter he had
received the irate senator, according
to the story, said that he proposed to
put an end to that sort of thing by
having the law amended® to require
confirmation by the senate of all offi
cers’ commissions, of whatever status,
in the military establishment. |
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'BANDIT HOLDS UP
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BANK; GETS $5,000
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| MISSES $20,000.00 IN THE VAULT
l WHERE HE INTENDED TO
.LOCK EMPLOYES.
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f YORK, Pa.—A stranger walked in
| to the Farmers’' State Bank at Hal
ilam just after banking hours and
covering the cashier, Clarence Bless
'in;:, with a revolver, forced him to
| hand over all the money in sight.
| Then he backed the cashier and his
! son, Philip Blessing, and Miss Eva
;Fisher, bank employes, into the vault
iand was about to lock them in when
lthe girl became hysterical and the
{ robber relented. He informed his
| captives that if they would ({)romise
|@Y sojnulw Ajuomy 3oinb dasy 03
| would do nothing further. They
ireadily agreed and the fellow walk
| ed away with a little over $5,000.
| Apparently he left no trace.
| The quietness with which it was
| accomplished is the marvel of the
ipolice authorities here, for as late as
an hour afterward .ever bank direc
‘tors living in the town did not know
| it had occurred.
I Cashier Blessing says that in the
| vault was about $20,000 ‘other cash
which the robber did not demand and
which he therefore missed.
Edward Smith, a former profes
{ sional baseball player, next day was
arrested at his home in Windsor.
Twenty-nine hundred dollars has been
recovered.
!“SUFFS" STAGING SENATE |
| “SURPRISE” ARE LOCKED UP
|
| Police on Hand When They Tried to
1 Invade the Chamber.
! WASHINGTON, D. C.—Militants
{of the national woman’s party march
ied to the capitol today, intending to
| enter the senate chamber by surprise
iand burn anti-suffrage -speeches on
the senate floor.
E Press agents for the militants an
inounced the ‘“surprise” Saturday, so
3the police were on hand and prompt
{ly clapped the would-be demonstra
itors in the guard room.
' FINAL REPORT SHOWS THAT
| 12,966,594 REGISTERED SEP. 12
‘ Final reports from all states show
ithat 12,966,504 men registered for
jmi]itary service Sept. 12. This was
187,836 in excess of the estimate of
112,778,758 made by the office of
| Provost Marshal General Crowder,
‘based on census figures.
PEANUT LIMIT TO STAND,
IS LATEST ANNOUNCEMENT
Federal Food Administration Declines
to Extend Warehousing Limit.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Various
peanut warehousemen have endeav
ored, sometimes with the assistance
of congressmen, to induce the fed
eral food administration to extend
the warehousing limit of sixty days
now allowed to dealers and manu
facturers interested in the “goober.”
The food administration has ex
plained that farmers may warehouse
their peanuts for any length of time
they desire, take warehouse receipts
and borrow thereon; but in order to
prevent speculation it has been de
cided that the present day limit must
stand with regard to dealers. One of
the developments of the war is the
official naval recognition of the pea
nut as an important food product.
PERSONS MAKES REPLY;
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SAYS HE COWARDLY MISSTAT
ED MATTERS, AND CLAIMS HE
DOUBLE-CROSSED HIM.
Owing to the state-wide promi
nence of the parties the public is just
now discussing with interest the sen
sational disclosures contained in cer
tain correspondence between G. Og
den Persons and Dr. Andrew M.
Soule, federal food administrator for
Georgia.
Mr. Persons, who is former pres
ident of the state senate, has just
resigned as field agent for the state
food administration. He was appoint
ed by Dr. Soule, and during his cam
paign for the congressional nomina
tion in the sixth district stated he
received no salary, but gave his ser
vices to the food administration, not
withstanding Dr. Soule offered him
“$3,00 or $4,000” a year.
This statement, subsequently de
nied by Soule, is the basis for the
correspondence referred to. In a let
ter to a friend in Americus Persons
charges that while Soule was a
guest at his home in Forsyth on Oc
tober 26, 1917, he was offered the
position of the state field of the food
administration, Dr. Soule saying at
the time he could not pay a salary
of more than $3,000 or $4,000 be
cause of the limited approrpaition.
Declaring that he told Soule
on that occasion that he would ac
cept the office only on condition that
he be allowed to serve withqut sal
ary or at a salary of s§l a year, Per
sons charges that D. F. McClatchy,
executive secretary of the food ad
ministration at Atlanta, subsequent
ly that he (Persons) was a fool for
declining the salary, and that he pro
posed to let the fact be known when-;
ever possible, |
Persons’ Letter, }
“Why Food Administrator Soule
should deny this truth now is beyondl
my comprehension,” says Persons in
his letter. “I gave a great deal of my
time to his assistance, using my car
and paying my own money for ex
penses. All this was well known to,
him. I had been his friend for several
years, repeatedly defending him|
against his accusers. l
“It was because Representative!
Taylor from my county had on Sep
tember 7, 1917, published a very
damaging card against him in my lo
cal paper accusing him of misrcpre-!
senting the truth that I had him in-|
vited to speak at our county fair hop- |
ing thereby he could in a way offset
this card and its effect on the minds
of my people. He knew this when|
he accepted the invitation. '
“He has shown himself capable of
striking a friend when he thought he
could do the most damage, and in
capable of righting a wrong grati
tously inflicted, and his circular let
ter is the most gratuitous, deliberate
and cowardly misstatement of the
truth ever published. This letter is:
not confidential, and I hope that you
will exhibit it to all those to whom!
you have shown Soule’s letter.” |
DOCTORS TURN DOWN
MANY OF THE DRAFTED MEN';
_ [
A Large Percentage of Rejections at
the Training Capms. |
The percentage of Georgia drafted{
men rejected at training camps be
cause of physical disability has run
so high that the officials of the se-'
lective service law in Georgia are
sending a special notice to the med
ical officers of local boards instruct-l
ing them to take more pains in their}‘
examinations. |
Up to the present time more thani
12 per cent. of the men sent up from
Georgia local boards have been turn
ed down at the training camps on|
account of physical disabilities that
were either overlooked or deliberate
ly ignored by the medical officers in
the first instance.
TAX ON BANK CHECKS
PUT IN WAR REVENUE BILL
A stamp tax of two cents on all
bank checks is provided for in an
amendment to the war revenue hill
adopted by the senate finance com
‘mittee which is revising the house
draft. The amendment was adopted
by a vote of eight to six. Many mem
bers, however, expressed a doubt as
to‘its accentance by the senate.
' WELCOME BACK HOME,
Mr. K. W. Harris. who has for sev
eral vears been superintending the J.
M. Griges farm, in the southeastern
portion of the county, is planning to
move soon to Terrell county, near
Herod.—Cuthbert Leader,
'FARMERS IMPORTING
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- CATTLE FROM TEXAS
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; L
E MANY CARLOADS ARE BROUGHT
! TO GEORGIA. GREAT STRIDES
| IN BLOODED STOCK.
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! SAVANNAH.—Returning from a
iweek’s visit over the western section
iof the Central of Georgia railway
{the agricultural agent of the system,
|J. L. Jackson, arrived home yester
lday filled with enthusiasm over the
istrides made by the introduction of
| blooded cattle by farmers who have
]followed up the interest in this form
i of industry which the agricultural de
{ partment has been preaching for sev
i eral years.
{ Three years ago a few short horn
| cattle were brought into Tallapoosa
| county, Alabama. and Mr. Jackson
isuggested that a county fair be or
| ganized. The fair was held at Camp
,Hill during the past week, and Mr.
Jackson was present. The live stock
feature was prominent, and the ag
ricultural agent had the satisfaction
of seeing some fifty head of the fin
est short horns on exhibition,
In several counties of Georgia cat
!tle are being brought in from the
{ drouth stricken sections of Texas.
iMr. Jackson inspected several herds,
and found that they appear remark
iably well considering the privations
‘caused by dry weather. A few farm
| ers have invested in several carloads
| of these cattle, which are being sold
lat remarkably low figures by Texas
| cattlemen, who are willing to realize
| even a small amount than to lose
| them altogether. A low rate on such |
|shipment.s was authorized some timei
| ago, as the movement is being han
| dled at the instance of the bureau
!oi’ animal industry.
%NEW PRICES FOR SHOES
| IN EFFECT NOVEMBER IST|
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| The new standard prices for shoes |
lnf: ordered by the war industries
| board will be effective after Novem-}
| ber 1, it has been announced from |
| Washington. Under the maximuml
| prices allowed for shoes all will be !
| sold under three classes, one ranging
from $3 to $5.50, another from $6
' to $8.50, and a third from $9 to |
' $12.00. e |
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