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TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1920.
SOME DISGORGE FACTS 'SLOW-
Y, OTHERS READILY. “AGE?”
CENSUS MAN’S TRUMP.
Family secrets are plowed up by
the hundreds these days as the cen
qus enumerators make their house to
house canvasses. Each home has a
different story to tell. Sometimes
there are long tales of explanation
that may not appear on the informa
tion blank, but the truthful or dodg
ing subject often unburdens himself
to the federal agent in a manner that
would make best sellers look pale. ‘
Skeletons are many times dragged
forcefully from their closet retreat,sl
by the unwitting enumerator, who
asks the simple question: “Are you
married, single, widowed or divore~
ed?” The “lady, of the house” re
ceives the brunt of the questioning,
since the greater part qf the work is‘
done during the working hours of
the masculine members of the house-‘
hold.
The query seems on the face of it‘
to be simple, but the light has now
thoroughly broken upon the enumer
ators that in many cases the subjects
think it is hard to draw the line. One
mnocent appearing young woman
put herself in at least three of the
clacsifications recently as she tried]
to define her married status. “I could
n't quite be called single,” she ad
mitted, “but I don’t care to be called
his wife and I'm thinking of getting
. divorce. Yes, I'm the head of the
house now since he’s been gone.” |
Divorcees Give Single Names. !
Women whose maiden names have |
Leen restored to them by the divoree |
courts invariably wish to be classed |
.s single. The quiet but persistent
sueries of the census takers continue |
for some time before the actual
status of the subject is determined.}
At times it requires a system of edu-l
cation to make the one interviewed |
understand that it is not what he |
wants to be but what he is that the |
covernment must know. |
\ve is the question that is always|
approached with diffidence by the]
questioner and the woman who mustl
divulee her secret. “How old do Il‘
look?” is the comeback often heard.,
The business woman in many cases|
Joes not wish to tell her age. Enum- |
erators credit the fact to the desire‘
of girls in offices to remain attractivel
and to keep away from the ‘old;
fory” type that is apt to be classed
as spinster.
When the age of the wife is more |
than that of her husband the federal |
agent sometimes notices a slight |
<ouirming indicating the embarrass
ment that is felt by some women who
have kept the fact a ‘“dead secret.”
But whatever is told the enumerator |
i« kept sealed in the blanks which are
mailed to T. M. Furlow, supeer'sor‘
of the census in the Third district.
The sovernment keeps its own se-‘
crets and residents of the city and |
county are assured that the informa-%
tion will in no way be divulged and |
the enumerator might as well be a|
block of wood, he assures them, for
all he'll ever remember or tell about
the facts of the family history. ‘
Sometimes the questioner has a|
hard time gaining entrance to the
house. ‘“Don’t want to buy any
thing,” declares the cautious house
wife as she opens the door just aj
crack to say that she doesn’t care to|
see agents of any sort. '
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REMARKABLE RECORD MADE
BY DAWSON FIRE COMPANY!
Toia] Damage to Property Last Yetu'l
Was Only $1,200. l
The annual report of Fire Chief S.|
W. Kenney shows a remarkable rec
ord for the city fire department in
1919. With a total of 41 calls the;
damage was held down to $1,200, thel
value of property menaced being{
£170,925. The expense of operating
the department was $5,722.74, ofi
which $1,375 represented the cost of |
an additional truck. It is hardly pos-!
sihle that any other city the size of |
Dawson has made such a gratifying!
DRINK HOT TEA
FOR A BAD COLD
Get a small package of Hamburg
Dreast Tea at any pharmacy. Take a
tablespoonful of the tea, put a cup of
boiling water upon it, pour through a
sicve and drink a teacup full at any
time during the day or before retiring.
It is the most effective way to break a
cold and cure grip, as it opens the
pores of the skin, relieving congestion.
Also loosens the bowels, thus driving a
cold from the system.
Try it the next time you suffer from
a cold or the grip. It is inexpensive
and entirely vegetable, therefore safe
and harmless.
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Rub Pain and Stiffness away with
a small bottle of old honest
St. Jacobs Liniment
When your back is sore and lamo or
lumbago, sciatica or rheumatism has
You stiffened up, don’t suffer! Get a
50 cent bottle of old, honest “St..
Jacobs Liniment” at any drug store,
Pour a little in.your hand and rub it
'leht into the pain or ache, and by the
linie you count fifty, the.soreness and
lameness ig gone.
Don’t stay crippled! This soothing,
Penetrating oil needs to be used only
‘nce. 1t takes the ache and pain right
‘I’UI. of your back and ends tf: misery.
! is magical, yet absolutely harmless
‘“l2' d(})}esn't burn the skin. e
Nothing else stops 1
“ud lame back mmpl u:mmmm(
SWEATERS
(L. 00K, .
MEN and BOYS
25 per- ce::tt ‘lji'scount
BUY ONE NOW FOR
NEXT WINTER
HERMAN’S
LIST FOR 1920 HAS BEEN AP
PROVED. NEW APPLICATIONS
ARE NOW PENDING.
Forty-one pensioners in Terrell
county will be paid $4,140 this year.
The list has been approved by the
state pension commissioner.
Comprising the list are 18 widows
of soldiers who will be paid $lOO
each, or a total of $1,800; 22 sol
diers who will draw $2,200 and 1
disabled soldier, who will receive
$l4O. All of the indigent soldiers
'will receive $lOO each.
Since the payemnt of pensions last
year one soldier has died. No new
'pensioners have been put on the list.
| There are now pending from Ter
*rell county—=23 soldiers and 29 wid
iows—~s2 applications for pensions
'under the new law providing for the
'payment of pensions to all confeder
ate soldiers and the widows of con
federate soldiers who married prior
!to 1870. These, if approved, will not
'be paid until next fall. The legisla
ture is expected to make an appro
priation at its next session to pay
‘these pensioners.
. Terrell will be in the group of
counties that will be paid last this
year, having been among the first
paid in 1919. Payment is expected
to be made in the next few weeks.
P. 0. BUILDING SOON
SENATOR HARRIS SAYS IT WILL
BE DIFFICULT TO GET APPRO
PRIATION INCREASED NOW.
In a letter to The News, under re
cent date, Senator W. J. Harris, who
some weeks ago introduced a bill to
increase the appropriation for a post
office building at Dawson from $60,-
000 to $90,000, gives little encoum
agement to hope that the structure,
which was authorized by an act of
congress several years ago, and for
which a site was bought by the gov
ernment four years ago, will .be
erected in the immediate future.
“On account of the policy adopted
by the republicans, who are in con
trol of congress,”’ says Senator Har
ris, “it will likely be very difficult to
secure appropriations for public
buildings at this time.”
He says if it fails at this session
he will introduce the bill at the next
session and continue to co-operate
with Congressman Crisp until it is
secured. “You may be sure of my in
terest and efforts,” says the senator.
PEOPLE ARE CALLING FOR
OLD ACCOUNTS WITH INTEREST
Indebtedness as Far Back as Eleven
Years Is Being Paid, Reports a
Local Merchant.
A well-known shoe merchant, who
for several years has done a strictly
cash business, states that people are
calling for accounts of long stand
ing, some as far back as eleven years,
ficuring the interest and making set
tlement in full. He is of the opinion
that general prosperity as well as old
fashioned honesty is responsible for
tlhe cancelling of debts so long past
ue.
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RECENT DEATH OF WELL
KNOWN CITIZEN OF COUNTY
Mr. J. C. Powell Passed Away After
A Long lllness.
On January Ist, at 6 o'clock a. m.,
Mr. John Curtis Powell passed to his
reward at the age. of forty-five years,
three months and twenty days. While
he suffered for several years with
dyspepsia and was gradually going
down his death was not . expected
so soon. He was confined to his bed
‘for only a few days.
Mr. Powell was a member of the
Methodist church for several years,
to which institution he was loyal. He
contributed to all its causes when
‘called upon.
| He was successful in business and
ihad his father’s business in charge
for severgl years, for which he de
serves credit.
The funeral services were held at
the home of his parents. After sing
ing his favorite song, “Jesus, Lover
of My Soul,” Rev. J. E. Summer, of
ficiating, his remains was laid away
tin the Parrott cemetery.
“The Farmer’s Worst Enemy—Rats.
The Farmer’s Best Friend—
Rat-Snap.”
These are the words of James Bax
ter, N. J.: “Ever since I tried RAT
SNAP I have always kept it in the
house. Never fails. Used about $3.00
worth of RAT-SNAP a year and fig
ure it saves me $3OO in chicks, eggs
and feed. RAT-SNAP is convenient,
just break up cake, no mixing with
other food.” Three sizes, 25¢, 50c¢,
1.00. Sold and gnaranteed by Daw
son Hardware Co., Collier Drug Co.,
Crouch Bros.
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OFFICER KELLEY IS
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HIGHLY COMPLIMENTED
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!PRAISED FOR TREATMENT OF A
. CRAZY NEGRO WOMAN HE
l WAS TAKING TO ASYLUM.
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' REYNOLDS INSTITUTE, Rey
nolds, Ga., Jan. 15, 1920.—Editor of
The Dawson News: Kindly permit me
space in your valuable paper to con
gratulate Officer W. W, Kelley, of
vour town, for the efficient, kind and
humane manner in which he treated
a deranged negro girl whom he was
taking to the sanitarium some days
ago.
_ One could not tell that Mr. Kelley
is an officer had he not seen the girl.
During the whole time in the colored
waiting room he never spoke an an
gry word to the girl, who was giving
him no little trouble.
“What do you want?” “Don’t be
afraid, I am not going to leave you.”
“Do you want to lie down?” “Do
you want a glass of milk?” “Sit
down.” “Do you want water?” This
is how Mr. Kelley talked with her.
Never was he angry.
On occasions like this how often
do we see officers push, knock, club,
box, curse and even kick those who
are intrusted in their charge.
While at the terminal station in
Macon I drew the attention of many
of my race to the fact that such treat
ment of the negro would quickly
change conditions among the races.
Many lynchings, riots and murder
have been occasioned by the unjusts
treatment of our people by so-called
officers of the law.
Mr. Kelley does not know the wri
ter. I do trust that my people in
Dawson will endeavor to so live that
they may appreciate such friends of
the race as Officer W. W. Kelley. Re
spectfully yours,
GEO. E. ARCHIBALD.
ON EDITORIAL STAFF OF A
BIRMINGHAM NEWSPAPER
Bradley Chester Goes From Augusta
Chronicle to Alabama Paper.
Mr. Bradley Chester, who has been
on the staff of the Augusta Chronicle
several years, has been made manag
ing editor of the Birmingham Ledger,
of which Major Quimby Melton re
cently became vice president and
member of the board of directors.
Mr. Chester is the eldest son of
Rev. and Mrs. O. B. Chester, and as
a boy in his teens spent several years
in Dawson, where he made many
friends. Quimby Melton is also pleas
antly remembered here, having made
frequent visits to friends in this city
while on the staff of the Americus
Times-Recorder. .
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MR. AND MRS. R. B. M'LAIN
| LEAVE FOR THE WEST
Mr. and Mrs. R. B. McLain left
on Saturday for the oil fields
near Dallas, Texas, where Mr. Mec-
Lain has taken a position with an
oil syndicate. The friends of this
popular couple are feeling the keen
est regret over their decision to leave
Dawson, and wish them abundant suc
cess and happiness.
POPULAR TRAVELING MAN
LOSES ONE OF HIS ARMS
Mr. Huson, of Atlanta, a popular
traveling man well known in Dawson,
was in the city Thursday for the first
time in several months, having spent
some time in a hospitel, the doctors
finding it necessary to amputate his
right arm.
CHIEF HILL IS MINUS
A TWENTY DOLLAR BILL
Chief of Police W. L. Hill, who is
now collecting street tax and has a
good deal of money in his pockets ev
ery day, lost a perfectly good $2O
bill Saturday. The finder will make
him glad by returning it. l
Not a Bite of -
Breakfast Until
You Drink Water
Says a glass of hot water and
phosphate prevents iliness
f and keeps us fit.
l Just as coal, when it burns, leaves
behind a certain amount of incom
bustible material in the form of ashes,
so the food and drink taken day after
day leaves in the alimentary canal a
certain amount of indigestible ma
terial, which if not completly alimina
ted from the system each day, be
comes food for the millions of bacteria
which infest the bowels. From this
mass of leftover waste, toxins and
ptomain-like poisons are formed and
sucked into the blood.
Men and women who can’t get feel
ing right must begin to take inside
baths. Before eating breakfast each
morning drink a glass of real hot
water with a teaspoonful of lime
stone phosphate in it to wash out of
the thirty feet of bowels the previous
day’s accumulation of poisons and
toxins and to keep the entire alimen
tary canal clean, pure and fresh.
Those who are subject to sick head
ache, colds, biliousness, constipation,
others who wake up with bad taste,
foul breath, backache, rheumatic stiff
ness, or have a sour, gassy stomach
after meals, are urged to get a quarter
pound of limestone phosphate from
the drug store, and begin practicing
internal sanitation. This will cost
very little, but is sufficient to make
anyone an enthusiast on the subject.
Remember inside bathing is more
jmportant than outside bathing, be
cause the skin pores do not absorb
impurities into the blood, causing poor
health, while the bowel pores do.
Just as soap and hot water cleanses,
sweetens and freshens the skin, so
hot water and limestone phosphate
act on the stomach, liver, kidneys and
bowels. : oD
THE DAWSON NEWS.
ADDED TO BOARD OF
DIRECTORS BANK OF DAWSON
Well-Known Business Men Become
Officials of That Institution.
At the annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Bank of Dawson the
board of directors was enlarged by
the election of Messrs. W. A. David
son and W. D. Davidson.
These are two of the most promi
nent business men of the county,
and their accession to the directorate
of this bank will add strength and
prestige to its present strong board.
STONE CASTLE CHAPTER WILL
MEET TOMORROW AFTERNOON
The meeting of Stone Castle chap
ter, D. A. R., will be held tomorrow
(Wednesday) afternoon at the home
of Mrs. J. R. Mercer, owing to the
illness of Mrs. W, A. Davidson, whose
name appears in the year book as
hostess for the January meeting.
Learn business so thoroughly that
you will feel perfectly at home in
any busines office with the responsi
bility of keeping the books, of doing
the stenographic work—enter the
MO(IIJLTRIE BUSINESS COLLEGE.
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directions for Headache, Colds, Pain,
Neuralgia, Lumbago, and Rheumatism.
Name “Bayer” means genuine Aspirin
prescribed bgr physicians for nineteen
years. Handy tin boxes of 12 tablets
cost few cents. Aspirin is trade mark
of Bayer Manufacture of Monoacetic
acidester of Salicylicacid.
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HARRIS SHOE STORE
Dawson, Georgia
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