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. THE “KISSING POST
PEOPLE LIKE TO STAND NEAR
AND LOOK ON WHEN EMI
GRANT SHIPS COME IN.
NEW YORK, N. Y.—Over on El
lis Island there is what has been
known for a generation as the kissing
post. New arrivals meet there the
friends who have preceded them. Nat
urally they kiss. Sometimes they kiss
pretty hard and cry and lack repose
rather completely. The kissing post
came honestly by its name. Visitors
to the island like to stand by and
watch the little scenes at the kissing
post. They are always good for a
story when the visitors get back
home.
The other day an old peasant wo
man stood there. She wore a violent
blue and scarlet and purple shawl
over her head. She was bowed by a
lifetime of toil. Her clothes were the
sort of clothes that peasants in cen
tral Europe always wear, except that
they looked rather uncommonly dirty.
Perhaps the lookers-on were influ
enced in this conviction by the very
decisive odor which came from the
immigrant pens. The newcomers car
ried their own atmosphere, after hav
ing been penned in the holds of im
migrant ships during a stormy voy
age. There was something about it
that reminded one of a wet dog.
“She’s frightened,” said one of the
lookers-on. »
The old woman's eyes were fairly
rolling. They were big brown eyes—
eyes that had {been pretty many
years ago. Now they told of the ab
solute panic of their owner. She
clutched a huge, shapeless bundle,
wound in filthy cloth, with the
strength of fear. The lookers-on won
dered how such a miserable old peas
ant could ever have secured permis
sion to land in this country. She was,
as one remarked, a type of the most
undesirable class that sought admis
sion to our shores. Then two young
men walked toward the kissing post.
One had a slight limp and a tiny bow
of ribbon on his left breast. Both
were well dressed, clean, husky,
bright-eyed, straight-forward.
“Look,” said one of the onlookers.
The old woman tried to get down
on her knees. She had seized the hand
of one of the goungsters and was
fairly nuzzling It. It seemed as
though she were begging of him-—as
though all her heart were in her plea.
She looked up at him in despair and
tears started from her eyes. She
threw her arms wide and cried— |
She cried something. The on]ook-i
ers never knew what it was she said,
for the two young men had thrown
their arms about her.
Hardwick Second Governor
From Washington County
Was Home of Jared J. Irwin, Who
Held Office Over Century Ago.
ATLANTA, Ga—Hon. Thomas W.
Hardwick, governor-elect of Georgia,
who will be inducted into office in
June of the present year, is the sec
ond governor of the state which has
been furnished by Washington coun
ty.
Washington county had the distinc
tion of furnishing a governor of the
state in Jared Irwin, who served in
this capacity the latter part of the
eighteenth and the first part of the
nineteenth centuries, his last term of
service having expired about a hun
dred and fifteen years ago. A monu
ment erected to his memory stands
in the court house yard in Sanders
ville, erected by the state to commem
orate his activity in the defeat of the
fraudulent land grants which were then
giving so much trouble to the people.
U. S. WILL BE WASHED
INTO SEA BY 1,001,921
Ninety-five Tons of Soil Carried Into
‘ Ocean Every Year,
WASHINGTON, D. C.—The Unit
ed States is slowly being washed
away. An average of ninety-five tons
of soil is carried by the rivers into the
oceans every year from every square
mile of the 3,085500 in the country,
according to the geological survey.
For the benefit of people who like to
have, something to worry about it is
stated the United States will be wash
ed into the ocean in about a million
years.
OH, DEAR! MY BACK!
Merciful Heavens, how my back
hurts in the morning!”’ It's all
due to an
over -abund- ‘“
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| life by taking'
‘“Anuric” (anti-uric-zeid). This
can be obtained at almost any drug
store, in tablet form.
_ When your kidneys get sluggish
and clog, you suffer from back
ache, sick-headache, dizzy spells,
or twinges and pains of lumbago,
rheumatism or’gout; or sleep is
disturbed two or three times a
night, get Dr. Pierce’s Anuric, it
will put new life into your kidneys
and your entire system. Send Dr.
Pierce’s Invalids’ Hotel, Buffalo,
N. Y., ten cents for trial package.
AUBURN, GA. —“For many years
I have been doing much heavy work
and my suffering from kidney trouble
geemed almost unbearable at tirnes. I
had tried many kinds of medicine for
it but in vain. Finally I seni for a
bottle of Dr. Pierce’s Anuric Tablets
and since I have taken them [ have
felt like a new woman. I highly recom
mend ‘Anuric’ to all safferers frcm
kiduney trouble.” —Mgs. A. R. CLACK,
Route 1.
10 FOOL FARMERS
Facts of Vital Interc:i to
Everybody in Georgia
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Socialism Will Take Farms
After Public Utilities
Are Swallowed Up
The 'Municipal League of Georgia
Bays: -
“From 1910 to 1919, 810,000
horse power were developed hy
the Hydro-Electric Power Com
mission of Ontario.”
The Real Facts About Ontario
The actual development by the Hy
dro-Electric Power Commission in
Ontario from 1910 to 1919 was less
than 60,000 horse power.
The Municipal League of Georgia
has much to say about the number of
farms in Ontario using the service of
the Hydro-Electric Commission of On
tario.
The facts are that some farmers in
Ontario, living within or close to
towns or villages are using electric
service just as they are in Georgia,
but that electric service ecannot be
furnished to farmers generally be
cause of the expensive machinery nec
escary “o make high tension electric
current available on isolated farms.
Promises Can’t Be Carried Out
None of the promises made by the
Municipal League of Georgia to put
electric service on the farms can be
carried out. These false promises
are written simply to get your sup
port of their raid on Georgia’s treas
ury.
Georgia Companies Ahead
of Ontario
The electric companies in the
United States are devoting
continuous and persistent ef
fort to working out a practicable plan
of reaching the farm house with elec
tric service at a reasonable cost, but
the problem has not yet been solved.
The companies in Georgia are far
shead of the Ontario public-owned
body, and second to none in the United
States in the character of equipment
and quality of service rendered.
The Municipal League of Georgia
says:
“The public utilities such as gas,
water, light and power plants are dif
ferent. In them the property of the
public is used.”
This statement is untrue, and is an
other adroit appeal for your support
in their proposed raid on the Georgia
Treasury.
Huge Cost Will Increase Taxes
The facts are that every piece of
property used by a water, gas, light
or power plant must be purchased and
paid for. The water in the streams
cannot be used to generate electricity
unless heavy investments are made in
dams, mac¢hinery and transmission
lines. The land that is. flooded and
the right of way for the transmission
lines must be bought and paid for.
Will Next Want Free Food
Your farm may be called publie
property next on the plea that it pro
duces food and clothing which ere
public necessities. Vi
SPREADING “PLEA FOR A RE
VOLT THROUGHOUT U. 8.
PAMPHLETS SENT OUT.
A direct appeal for the overthrow
of the American government 1s being
made by officials of the Russian com
munist party in the United States.
Armed insurrection and civil war are
urged as the “oniy way to overthrow
the capitalist government.”
Pamphlets declaring that millions of
workers are idle, that a terrific indus
trial slump has hit the country and
that the “capitalist class” is deliberate
ly using the world ¢risis to reduce
the wages of workers, are being dis
tributed broadcast in dustrial centers,
in employment agencies and in sec
tions where there are large numbers
of unemployed.
Communists Hit Churches.
A tirade against the “capitalist sys
tem’ sets jorth that the courts, church
es, policemen, labor leaders and gov
ernment are all on the side of capital
ism, ands that the only way to bring
about a change. is_for the workers first
to destroy the ‘present governnfent
and to establish in its place by force
a worker or® soviet government, sim
ilar to that in Russia,
“The time has come for the work
ers of America to consider the neces
sity of establishing a soviet govern
ment in America,” the pamphlet said.
The pamphlet lauds the program of
Lenine and predicts that within a few
vears the whole world will be soviet.
ELECTRIC RANGE INSTALL
ED IN A DAWSON HOME
The Jennings Electric Co. has just
installed an electric.range at Dr. W.
B. Cheatham's residence. The range
is equipped: with all the improvements
and makes ‘cooking a pleasure for the
housewife. No smokey kitchen or
bother of building fires—just turn the
switch and meals can be cooked in
less time than it takes to tell it.
A CARD OF THANKS.
We wish to thank each and every
one of our friends and neighbors for
their help and sympathy . extended to
us during the illness and death of our
dear mother and sister, Mrs. J. H.
Thomas: also many thanks of appre
ciation for the numerous floral of
ferings. May God’s richest blessings
rest upon them all is our prayer.
W. C. THOMAS, S. J. THOMAS
AND MRS. J.. M. CLIFTON.
i FIRMAMENT WONDER
27 MILLION TIMES THE SIZE
OF THE SUN. DIAMETER
| 300 MILLION MILES.
‘ CHlCAGO.—Results of the first
successful experiments on an astro
‘nomical device at the Mt. Vernon, Cal,
observatory revealing that certain re
)motc stars in the firmament are many
thousand times larger in size than as
tronomers had ever surmised, was dis
cussed today by Prof. A. A. Michelson,
noted scientist of the University of
Chicago, who perfected the device be
fore the American Association for the
Advancement of Science.
" Under the direction of Prof. Michel
son, astronomical experts have just
computed the diameter of Alpha Orion
us, one of the stars in the constellation
of Orion.
The orb is found to be 200,000,000
miles in diameter, approximately, 300
times the sun’s diameter. Its volume
is 27,000,000 times as great as the sun.
The sun being almost a million times
as large as the earth, this planet seems
most insignificant in comparison with
Alpha Orionus.
Prof. Michelson was awarded the
Nobel prize in physics thirteen years
ago. His device used in calculating
the diameter of Alpha Orionus is brief
ly described as follows:
The mirror of an eight-foot reflect
ing telescope is obscured by an opaque
cap with two slits adjustable in width
and distance apart. When the instru
ment is focused on a star instead of
an image of a star there appears a se
ries of interference bands arranged at
equal distances apart and parallel to
the two slits. When the slits are prop
erly adjusted a distance is finally at
tained between them at which the
fringes disappear.
The angle of the subtended star is
obtained by a simple formula and when
the angle and distance of the star from
the earth are known the diameter of
the star can easily be determined.
The device was perfected last sum
mer and taken to California by Prof.
Michelson and its secret was carefully
guardeg until today. On Tuesday the
success of the device was telegraphed
to the professor. The device is accu
rate to within .00001 of a second of
longitude, or approximately the angle
subtended by the head of a pin at a
distance of 1,000 miles. ‘
A succession of such eruptions as
that of the Mt. Katmai volcanic erup
tion in Alaska in June, 1912 would
plunge the earth into another ice age
by reducing the sun’s temperature to
a low degree on earth, Dr. Robert F.
Griggs declared before the American
Association for the Advancement of
Science at a general session last night.
Dr. Griggs headed the national geo
graphic society’s expedition to Mt.
Katmai.
OF THE WORLD
Gotha Hofkalender Estimates 1,699,-
000,000, a Gain of 53,000,000 Over
\ Estimates Made Last Year.
| The total population of the earth is
11,699,000,000, according to the latest
edition of the Gotha Hofkalender. The
1919 estimate was 1,646,000,000. The
Eastern Hemisphere, including Eu
rope, Africa, Asia and Australia, has
1,494,000,000 people, while the West
‘ern Hemisphere—the Amlericas—has
a population of 205,000,000.
The average density of population of
‘thc earth is 28.5 per square mile. Most
‘densely populated is Europe, with
‘114.5 people per square mile, while
Australia is most sparsely settled, with
2.45 people per square mile.
THE MOST REMARKABLE
TRAVELER PASSES AWAY
Van Ingen, Wholesale Buyer, Made
| 162 Trins Across Atlantic.
! NEW YORK, N. Y.—America’s
“unofficial ambassador” to Great Bri
‘tain has made his last crossing of the
Atlantic. Death claimed E. H. Van
’lngen, wholesale buyer of woolen
cloth, in his eighty-first year, after his
‘having made 162 trips across the big
wet. His round-trip crossings were
made twice a year. He was in many
respects the most remarkable ocean
traveler in the world. His trips were
business journeys, yet no one who was
fortunate to be on the same ship with
him will ever forget his rugged per
sonality; a scholar with a fresh’ point
of view, full of wit and aneccdote, he
was the life of every company of pas
sengers he entered. :
Throughout the great war he kept
going, just as if there were no such
pesky annoyances as submarines.
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~ NOT IF AS RICH AS CRESUS.
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i If you were as rich as Cresus you
could not buy a better-remedy for con
stipation than Chamberlain's Tablets.
}They are easy and pleasant to take
‘and when the proper dose is taken pro
‘duce a mild and gentle effect. They
‘also strengthen the digestion.
Hastings Seeds |
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With our photographic illustrations,
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ery single Southern home. Write us
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ATLANTA, GA. e
THE DAWSON NEWS
America Must Beware, -
Says Famous Seeress
Baroness Von Coburg, of Germany,
Casts Dark Prophecy For Year.
BERLIN.—“T see men, brown men,
many brown meny-in ships around the
statue of liberty; I see a sword stretch
ed across the ocean. I see a rope
drawn around Ametica. I see great and
terrible things happening in 1921, and
warn Afnerica to beware.”
Sitting in her salon beside a crystal
ball Baroness Irma Von Coburg, fa
mous prophetess, called the successor
to Mme. de Theses as the world’s
greatest seeress and noted in Ger
many for her predictions on Italy en
tering the war on the entente’s side
and Kaiser Wilhelm deserting his
people, gave me her prophecy for the
year 1921.
“I see great events for America un
der Nos. 1,2, and 3,” she said. “I see
an angel with unsheathed sword
drawn across an ocean. [ see men,
brown men, many brown men in ships
around the statue of liberty. I see for
eign helmets parading New - York
streets. America must beware.
“I see a rope drawn around Amer
ica, trying to separate her from other
states. England is tugging at the rope.
“Many people will die of starvation
this year and great labor troubles will
be felt in America, but America will
survive and grow greater, and Ger
many will survive.”
THE TIDE OF BEAUTY.
In the olden days it was cynically
remarked that beauty was only skin
deep. But nowadays it is frequently
knee high' and breastbone low. And
the tide still is ebbing.
Eat less meat if you feel Backachy or
have bladder trouble—Take
glass of Salts.
No man or woman who eats meat regu
larly can make a mistake by flushing the
kidneys occasionally, says a well-known
authority. Meat forms uric acid which
excites the kidneys, they become over
worked from the strain, get sluggish and
fail to filter the waste and poisons from
the blood, then we get sick. Nearly all
rheumatism, headaches, iiver trouble,
nervousness, dizziness, sleeplessness and
urinary disorders come from sluggish
kidneys.
The moment you feel a dull ache in the
kidneys or your back hurts or if the
urine is cloudy, offensive, full of sedi
mend, irregular of passage or attended by
& sensation of scalding, stop eating meat
and get about four ounces of Jad
Salts from any pharmacy; take &
tab;zpoonful in a glass of water before
breakfast and in a few days your kidneys
will act fine. This famous salts is made
from the acid of grapes and lemon juice,
combined with lithia, and has been used
for generations to flush and stimulate
the kidneys, also to neutralize the acids
in urine 8o it no longer causes irritation,
thus ending bladder weakness.
Jad Salts is inexpensive and caunot
injure; makes a delightful effervescent
lithia-water drink which everyone
should take now and then to keep the
kidneys clean and active and the blood
pure, thereby avoiding serious kidney
complications,
Maine Grown
Seed Irish Potatoes
’& & 5
Cobblers’, Bliss Triumph
Early Rose
The Potatoes are of select stock and flawless and will make a bumper crop if
proper attention is given cultivation.
Get our prices before buying and buj’r
early while we have a supply on hanc:i. :
FRESH GARDEN SEED
We have just received our 1921 shipment of Fresh Ferry Garden Seed. These
seed are recognized as the best. We have all vanetes.
Phone Us for Fresh Oysters
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' EXCLUSIVE AGENTS FOR FAMOUS NUDO BREAD %
PHONES 87 and 370.
CHARTER NO. 4115. RESERVE DISTRICT NO. 6.
REPORT OF CONDITION OF. THE
DAWSON NATIONAL BANK
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AT DAWSON, IN THE STATE OF GEORGIA,AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS DEC. 29, 1920
e ——— e
RESOURCES. -
1. a Loans and discounts, including rediscounts (except those shown in b
RAEEY o Te b R ARMg T sßt ey ptth sAU S
B Potal lange : i e e e e s GS B
DEDUCT: -
d Notes and bills rediscounted with Federal Reserve Bank (other than bank
acceptances sold) (see Item 54@)........eeveeveeene sersvens avoenseaoon. 130,742 18 635,834.45
2. Overdrafts, secured $1,664.29;: unsecured $245.68... ... seiesesiovovvione sasenannasinas 1,909.97
4, U. S. Government Securities Owned:
a Deposited to secure circulation (U. S. bonds par value) ..................$100,000.00
¢ Pledged to secure postal savings deposits (par value) s B il C oL R RPN
d Pledged as collateral for State or other deposits or bills payab1e........... 54,000.00
T Ovied and mnpledged .. .-oh o Rl T s sl e a Gabion
Total U.S. Government SeCUrities.........vovveseeee seoecenese sonecncsanaeneae. 16285000
7. Stock of Federal Reserve Bank (50 per cent of subscription) ............c.. coeievinnnn 6,000.00
8. a Value of banking house, owned and unincumbered ............c.¢. tiveieenicaianes 5,189.74
0. Furhiture and AXTUres .i i e is e WG bi e e 1,610.57
10. Real estate owned other than banking house....u..ceee ceceecoceasoqsssi seesonscanses 11,618.36
1. Lawtul reserve with Federal Reserve Bank. ... ... 6. 0o ii divriitiosnshonisvasssnonshens 21,501.58
13. Cash in vault and net amounts due from national banks .......sc..oociiit v, 34,655.36
14. Net amounts due from banks, bankers, and trust companies in the United
States (other than included in Items 11, 12, or 13) .........c..co. ciiiiiiiianiiionan 8,719.09
16. Checks on other banks in the same city or townas reporting bank (other than item 15). 431.67
Total of Memis 12 13 14, 15 and 1650, . sit 2o ideme nave 1o o 0080012
17. Checks on banks located outside of city or townof reporting bank and other
SRR Atems 1 R R S s e R IR S N e s 836.00
18. Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer and due from U. S. Treasurer ................. 5.000.00
19. Interest earned but not collected—approximate—on Notes and Bills Receivable *
(e T e e RR B OSB DR R R S S RSR e 5,000.00 ,
PRI i e et e ee i e b e SONTIRE 70
LIABILITIES.
21. Capital stock paid ins . . i.oiohs v il e Y i dnian s oe e T ABNIOOO )
22 Sueplug flinde i 6. se e et i T DOOO 00
2378 Undividediprofifs .5 5 iits ek e oL Rl e S TOREOR
b Less current expenses, interest, and taxes paid.. ..z .z, v 0. hoviiiae . o 20,251.57 81,576.85
24. Interest and discount collected or credited in advance of maturity and not earn
el —(anproximate) .l sl il e evk e e Ne SR 5,000.00
27. Circulating notes outstanding . ".c osSy vl o esLGG an s e 97,300.00
30. Net amounts due to banks, bankers, and trust companies in the United States
and foreign countries (other than included in Items 28 0r 29) ........................ 8,418.03
3% Certihed: checks ontstandingls, eoil oo Dol b Sl I e 1,000.00
32. Cashier’s checks or own banl outstanding .. (5, oo i o ol i s 3,410.22
Totaliof Items 2829, 3031 and 32: .0 ot il 2vr o e T ST IR R
Demand deposits (other than bank deposits) subject to reserve (deposits payable within 30 days):
33. Individual deposits subject torchecß: . .- oo i e e e RRO ()]
34. Certificates of deposit due in less than 30 days (other than for money b0rr0wed)........ 20,664.40
Time deposits subject to Reserve (payable after 30 days, or subject to 30 days
or more notice, and postal savings): : :
39. Certificates of deposit (other 'than 10r money bogrowed) :......... .0o 0. .cia @i, 65,048.62
47. Bills payable, other than with Federal Reserve Bank (including all obligations
representing money borrowed other than rediscounts) ............... ....ccevuenee.: 180,000.00
48 'Bills payablewith Federal Reseérve-Banlk: =.oo oo 0 oo tnn idl o 54,000.00
53. Liabilities other than those above stated—customers’ part payment on b0nd5............ 914.60
Total i i e e e G Pa s e el i e 000 7O
54, a Liabilities fof rediscounts with Federal Reserve Bank (see Item 1d).................. 130,742.15
*55. Of the total loans and discounts shown above, the amount on which interest and discount was charg
ed at rates in excess of those permitted by law (Sec. 5197, Rev. Stat.) (exclusive of notes upon which total
charge not to exceed 50 cents was made) was $159,320.28. The number of such loans was 236.
STATE OF GEORGIA, County of Terrell, ss: ;
I, B. C. Perry, cashier of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true
to the best of my knowledge and belief. B. C. PERRY’ Cashier
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 10th day
of. January, 1921. :
C. W. MOORE, Notary Public.
& .
TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 102;
CORRECT—Attest:
R. L. 'SAVILLE,
. AT HILE,
E. W. HOLLINGSWORTH,
Directors.