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UESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1921,
EcoMMEND TOTAL OF $33-
517,559 IN APPROPRIATIONS
"POR COMING YEAR.
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W \SHINGTON, D. C.—The agri
jural appropriation bill for the next
Wit ear, as reported o the house
’,"‘11; ,‘l,lvx-(,.l>riaxioxl’s committee, car
i $33,517,559, an increase
‘.""q‘“\,',l',,;s over the amount appro-
B 0 for the fiscal year ending on
”‘“‘L 20, 1921. The increase consists
“-m[(hk‘Si“"”'““o appropriation for the
: ;I.‘\} of lands in the Appalachian
‘,‘rf “White mountains under thei
ecks bill for the conservation of
ceX® ral resources and the head-]
T‘,{l(;.‘:H‘..! n;l\‘igablp streams, and |
\"(‘H,{W 1 the ordinary activities of
e department of agriculture.
“An appropriation of $1.50,000 ‘for
e southern field crops 18 provided
ainly for eradicating the boll
r, WAy cotton belt and $lOO,OOO
b ided for exterminating the bean
etle i Alabama. Both appropria
ions ar made immediately gvallable.
For developing the experiment of
aking syrup from §weet potatoes
20,000 is provided. Southern mem
ors said this industry has been de
eloped to the point where it 1§ only
ecessary to get factories to agree to
{ace it on the market. The syrup
hey said is as palatable as the maple
r 'gaw variety. g :
An increase of $34,000, which l_)rmgs
he total to $175,000, was made in the
tem, permitting the department to
ertify to shippers the condition of
uits and vegetables when they ar
ive at their destination.
For the United States warehouse
ot an appropriation of $65,000 was
rovided for the coming year. The
921 appropriation was $35,000 and
here was available in addition $25,000
rom the original appropriation. Mem
ers said this act was being extended
nd more than & hundred cotton ware
ouses in Georgia alone had come in
nder it in the last year.
For fichting the pink boll worm in
ouisiana $550,000 was provided. At
he hearings before the committee it
as stated that already Louisiana had
rovided $230,000 and Texas $lOO,OOO
or this purpose through appropria
ions by their legislatures.
An appropriation of $660,000 was
hade for extermination of the cattle
ick and $510,000 for the war on hog
holera in the south.
ost of Living Drops
56 Per Cent in Nation
t Least That Is What the National
Industrial Conference Board Says.
In the four months from July to
lovember, 1920, the cost of living in
his country decreased 56 per cent, ac
ording to a report made on Saturday
v the National Industrial conference
/!21?'11.
Declines in the average prices of a
wmber of important food and cloth
ng articles were so great as to offset
oncurrent increases in many other
tems, the report stated.
“The average price of food drepped
rearly 12 per cent,” the report stated,
‘but during the four months from
uly to November the avrage price
i potatoes dropped 63 per cent and
hat of sugar 51 per cent.” ’
The average price of -clothing
lropped more than 14 per cent, the
cport said, but the prices of many
tems declined more than this. The
rice of cotton yard goods dropped
rom 36 to 42 per cent. =
ONGRESS LOPS OFF 10,683
JOBS IN WASHINGTON CITY
ill Be Saving to the Government of
Approximately $30,000,000.
_The legislative, executive and judi
al appropriation bill reported out to
ongress reduces federal employes in
he District of Columbia by 10,683,
ffecting a proposed, yearly saving of
nore than $30,000,000.
ROFESSIONAL CARDS.
SIS NSNS NI NSNS NSNS NSNS
DR. W. H. GARDNER
EYE, EAR, NOSE AND THROAT
GLASSES PRESCRIBED.
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suffering women, from 1
Mrs. W. T. Price, of :
| Public, Ky.: “I suf- ||¥
n fered with painful...”,
Ml she writes. “I got down }§
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& back and limbs...l i
felt helpless and dis
couraged...l had about
given up hopes of ever
J being well again, when 5
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Take
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Tie Woman's Tonic
I began Cardui. In
& short while I saw &
marked difference...
I grew stronger right
along, and it cured me.
] lam stouter than I
have been in 'years.”
! If you suffer, you can
appreciate what it
means to be strong and
| well. Thousands of wo
! men give Cardui the
' credit for their good
health. It should help
you. Try Cardul. At all
druggists, E-73
Gold Pieces in Heels
Of $lOO-a-Pair Shoes
Two pairs of shoes designed to
sell at retail for $lOO a pair, and
said to ‘be the most expensive ever
manufacured in Massachusetts,
have been placed on exhibition in
a shoe factory in North Adams.
One pair has pure gold ieaf lin
ing, with gold hooks and eyes, and
has a $2O gold piece inserted in the
heel of each shoe. .
The other pair has a lining of
bright red satin and a gold watch
of the wrist type insered in the
left shoe just above the ankle.
6k 7
BE “DOCTORED” UP
STARTLING EFFECTS LIKELY
TO THOSE WHO TAKE NIP
FOR ALCOHOLIC EFFECT.
For the purpose of rendéring various
ordinary toilet preparations unfit for
beverage purposes druggists of the
country are diluting those preparations
with quinine, resorcin, salicylic acid,
salicilate of soda, cinchonidine and tar
tar emetic. It is frankly admitted that
one or more of these chemicals are
added to the preparations, which in
clude bay rum and practically all other
standard toilet waters and hair tonics,
for the purpose of rendering ill any
person who may so far forget himself
as to take a nip of any of the concoc
tions.
Druggists and other dealers in toilet
prepartions have the choice of “five
evils” in additions to tartar emetic.
Tartar emetic must be used in all the
prepartions...Any one of the five oth
er acids or chemicals can be used as
the other ingredient. For quinine and
cinchonidine thé proportion is two
grains per fluid ounce, while the pro
portion when sodium salicylate, resor
cin, or salicylic acid is used, is five
grains per fluid ounce.
With the possible exception of qui
nine any of the ingredients when used
in the proportion fixed by the prohibi
tion officials is expected to make any
person who takes a drink of the prep
arations very ill, salicylate of sodium
being particularly violent so far as the
human stomach is concerned.
When resorcin is used the effect that
follows a nip of the concoction is
startling, according to persons familiar
with the after effects of resorcin.
A Wealthy Indian |
And His Bride Stand
The Matrimony Test
By Living Amicably For a Month
They Defeat Suit to Annul
Their Marriage. |
TOPEKA, Kan.—Jackson Barnett,
aged 72, reputed oil millionaire and
said to be the wealthiest Indian in
America, and his white wife, formerly
Anna Laura Lowe, aged 30, have de
feated a suit to have their marriage
cancelled. By living amicably thraugh
out a month’s honeymoon in he In
dian’s humble domicile near Henryet
ta, Okla., they swept aside all evi
dence presented in three jmonths -of
procedure in the Kansas supreme
court and suit to annul the union has
been crossed off the calendar.
The suit was brought by Carl J.
O’Hornett, of Henryetta, Okla., the
Indian’s guardian, and Cato _Sells,
United States commissioner of Indian
affairs. It set forth that Barnett was
illiterate and that last May he and his
bride eloped in an automobile furnish
ed by the woman, crossed the Kansas
line and were -married in Arkansas
City. In the original proceedings in
stituted in_the Kansas supreme court
‘Guardian O’Hornett petitioned that his
aged ward be restored to him. It was
charged that the bride had kidnapped
her husband and that she was an ad
venturess.
Barnett, characteristic of his_race, is
a man of few words. He made it plain
to the court, however, that he was
well content.
“The Indian and his bride appear
to have stood the test of matrimony,”
commented Judge A. M. Jackson,
commissioner appointed by the su
preme court to hear the evidence in
the case. “It was agreed that Barnett
and his wife be permitted to go on a
honeymoon of a month. The hone¥-
moon is over and they still maintain
they are satisfied, so after conference
with all parties concerned it was
agreed to recommend to the supremec
court that the case be dropped.”
| The supreme court acted in accord
with Judge Jackson's recommenda
tions.
The Indian for many years lived on
his land allotment near Henryetta, his
horses and dogs his only companions.
He made little use of his land, his cash
allotment from the government being
ample to purchase his few worldly
needs.
But a few years ago Barnett’s farm
began to yield oil. Under his state and
federal guardians the Indian’s wealth
increased from the royalties until, ac-
Icording to O’'Hornett, it now exceeds
a million dollars. :
BODY OF CZAR'S DAUGHTER
BELIEVED BOUND TO EGYPT
That of H.er Maid Also Thought to Be
Aboard Steamer For Holy Land.
LONDON.—Bodies supposed to be
those of Grand Duchess Olga, daugh
tet of former Emperor Nicholas of
Russia, and her maid are aboard the
British steamer Devanha, which is
due to reach Egypt at the end of. the
present week. Disinterred at Yekater
inburg, the bodies are said to have
been smuggled through Persia and
thence to Shanghai.
Upon the arrival of the steamer
they will be disembarked and taken
to the Holy Land for final interment.
“It Looked Like a Battlefield in Eu
roupe,” Said Mr. C. Dunster.
“Was staying at a hoted in a small
Pennsylvania town. Early one morn
ing I went to the stable to hire a rig
and was shown a pile of dead rats kill
ed with RAT-SNAP the night before.
Looked like a battlefield in Europe.”
Three sizes, 25c, 50c, $l.OO.- Sold and
guaranteed bg Dawson Hardware Co.
and Crouch Bros.
EVIDENCE SHOWS THAT OF
FICERS LIVED IN EXPENSIVE
HOMES AND CLUBS.
Court-martial proceedings against
army officers responsible for waste of
public funds in the erection of nitrate
plants at Sheffield and Muscle Shoals,
Ala., have been demanded in the sen
‘ate. Revelation made during the de
bate for an appropriation to complete
the project gave every indication that
Muscle Shoals would stand as the
worst of all the examples of adminis
trative disregard of spending public
funds, a veritable orgy of waste and
loose methods unrivaled by any dis
closures brought to public attention by
congressional investigations.
Resentment against the army offi
cers in charge of the work has become
sé great in the senate that it was vir
tually assured that an amendment will
be offered by Senator Wadsworth, of
New York, chairman of the military
affairs committee, to bar army offi
cers from the directorate to manage
the nitrate plants for production of
munitions in time of war and fertilizer
during periods of peace.
Mansions Built For Officers.
. Although the plants were 'to be
largely experimental, the officers of
the ordnance department refused to
reside in comfortable barracks and
constructed an elaborate residential
section with homes of permanent con
struction and expensive driveways.
Some of these houses cost approxi
mately ?10,000. A club house, with 30
suites of roenis, was built at Sheffield
at a cost of $120,000. At Muscle Shoals
a club house for officers was built at
a cost of $341,866.
Senator Borah charged that a large
number of employes were on two pay
rolls. Skilled mechanics were used to
shovel slack out of railroad cars, he
said. The senator also charged that
men punched their own time cards and
then returned to their bunks.
Automobiles were purchased in
large numbers for officials’ personal
use, the chauffeurs being paid high
wages and expensive garages main
tained. Hundreds of, supervisory em
ployes, at salaries running as high as
$lO,OOO a year and more, were on the
payroll, the monthly salary roll for the
administrative officers alone being
$468,305, Senator Borah charged.
Bottom Reached in
Products of the Field
Marketing Committee Declares Farm
ers Have Swallowed a Bitter Pill,
But Are Bracing Up.
CHICAGO. Jll—'There arc better
times ahead. The slump in conditions
has cost the farmers of America $6,-
000,000,000, according to accepted sta
tistics, but they have swallowed the
pill and are straightening up and look
ing ahead.” :
This is the concensus of opinion ex
pressed today at the convention of the
Farmers' Marketing committee of
seventeen, representing food produc
ers of many states and hundreds of
thousands of farmers.
Chairman C. R. Gustafson, of Lin
coln, Neb., said that the loss sustain
ed by the farmers by the recent great
declines in prices meant that the pur
chasing power of 6,500,000 food pro
ducers had been cut to the minimum.
However, they believe the pendulum
has swung to the extreme as far as
they are corcerned and when other
articles reach the same basis upon
which food products now rest the
lcountry will be ready to go ahead on
a firm basis.
- ifme member, arguing for a more
stable market, said:
~ “The farmer as a seller is unorgan
iized. He hauls his produce to the near
‘est market and turns it over to the
'speculator or commission merchant,
and there he closes the deal. He has
no assurance of a market price.
“On the other hand he buys in a
highly organized market. Even gov
ernments like France and England
have orgapized the market against
him.”
Some of the delegates were astonish
ed when they had to pay 60 cents for
an order of corned beef and cabbage
—the same beef and cabbage they had
produced and sold for 11 ceiits.
Laughs Self to Death
Over Prices of .1914
Australian Found Comparison So Ri
diculous He Couldn’t Stand It.
SYDNEY/ N. ' 'S. W.—Excessive
laughter, prompted by his comparing
prices which prevailed in June, 1914,
with those ruling at present, caused
the death of a man here, according
to the solemn verdict handed down
by the attending physician.
The victim was reading the market
prices in an old paper when those
around him heard him make a remark
regarding present day prices which he
followed by a roar of laughter. His
spasm of laughing continued until he
collapsed and rolled to the floor. He
was dead when a physician arrived,
the immediate cause being heart fail
ure. In the victim’s pocket was found
a handbook showing a deposit of sev
eral hundred pounds—just sufficient
to pay his funeral expenses.
SEEKS DEATH WITH
DYNAMITE; FINDS IT
Pennsylvania Man Uses Five Sticks
And Is Blown Into Bits.
GREENSBURG, Pa—John ]J.
Smith, of Haydenville, committed sui
cide yesterday by blowing himself into
fragments with dynamite. He was 42
years old and had been ill.
He placed five sticks of dynamite
in a “pit hole.” Then he attached an
electric battery-to the explosive and
lay across the hole. Completing a cir
cuit by manipulating one of the bat
tery wires at his side he set off the
dynamite.
back without question 2
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LEE’'S DRUG STORE.
THE DAWSON NEWS
Scramble For Toys on
Part of Congressmen
Quickly Pick Up a Box of Playthings
Exhibited by a Toy Maker.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—The staid
business of tariff making halted today
in the house ways and means com
mittee room while members scram
bled for toys rivaling a Christmas
festivity. Committeemen went home
with dolls and animals bulging. from
their pockets.
J. O. Foote, a toy manufacturer,
played Santa Claus. He came to ap
peal for tariff protection on toys, par
ticularly celluloid toys. Every time
Amesicans turned out a new toy, he
said, Japan imitators duplicated it and
shipped over tons for sale at a lower
wholesale rate than American facto
ries could make.
~To support his argument Foote
came armed with a huge box of toys.
He exhibited them, seated solemnly
behind the great horseshoe desk on
its high platform.
His argument finished Foote said
he had no further use for his exhibits
and the scramble began. The solons
were boys again in a second and when
the rush was stopped the toy box
was empty.
DRINK HOT TEA
FOR A BAD COLD
Get a small package of Hamburg
Breast Tea at any pharmacy. Take a
tablespoonful of the tea, put a cup of
boiling water upon it, pour through a
sieve 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 &
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.
Rub Pain and Stiffness away with
" @ small bottle of old honest
Bt. Jacobs oil
When your back is sore and lame or
lumbago, sciatica or rheumatism has
you stiffened ug, don't suffer! Get a
35 cent bottle of old, honest “St. Jacobs
Qil” at any drug store, pour a little
in your hand and rub it right into
the ‘pain or ache, and by the time you
count fifty, the soremess and lameness
is gone.
Don’t stay erippled! This soothi
penetrating oil needs to be used 03
ence. It takes the ache and g@in right
@at of your back and ends the misery.
It is magical, yet absolutely harmless
and doesn’t burn the skin.
Nothing else stops lumbago, sciatica
asd lame back misery so promptly!
STORAGE o
Willard
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WORTH MORE THAN
IT COSTS
Compared with any wood insu
lated battery, this finer product has
the following:
1. A Threaded Rubber Insulation
battery is brand new when you
buy it, because it is shipped and
carried in stock “bone dry.” It is
filled with electrolyte and charg
ed for* the first time after you
buy it.
Wood insulated batteries must be
filled and charged at the factory,
after which the chemical action
of the solution causes some wear
on the places, which continues
even though the solution may
have been emptied out.
The amount of wear that such a
battery had had_depends on how
long it has been in stock.
2. 1f the Threaded Rubber lan
sulation battery is not abused,
the insulation will outlast the
plates.
Wood insulation must be renew
ed at least once to get full bat
tery life.
The cost of renewing wood in
sulatoin is as much or more than
the extra cost of the Threaded
Rubber Insulation battery. Be
sides this there is also the ex
pense of rent battery while re
pairs are being made.
3. After middle age, the Thread
ed Rubber Insulation Battery
still maintains its capacity. Wood
insulation batteries gradually
lose capacity due to partial short
circuits through the wood—call
ed “electrical leakage.” This
makes frequent recharging nec
essary and the owner has ex
pense for both recharging and
use of rent battery.
4. By keeping the plates perfectly
insulated from each other, rapid
plate wear from partial short cir
cuits is avoided, and under the
same conditions of care and use
the Threaded Rubber Insulation
battery gives more months of
service.
5. The Threaded Rubber Insula
tion battery gives much greater
assurance of uninterrupted ser
vice, reducing to a minimum the
possibility of battery failure on
the road.
A large number of car manufac
turers are using Wiilard Batteries
with Threaded Rubber Insulation
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McCormick, Deering
& :
International, Chattanooga
YOU know these trade names. Your father and grand
father knew most of them. They knew in their time and
you know today, throu%h long usage and satisfactory service,
that there are no better farm machines and implements made
than those bearing the above trade names, which are guarantees
of high quality. -
And now these time-honored, service-renowned lines have
been merged into one—the International Harvester—represent
ing the cream of the farm machine world. And—
. We Have Contracted for :
The Full International Line
WHICH INCLUDES:
Harvesting Machines, Plows, Hay and Corn Machines,
Tillage Implements, Seeding Machines, L
Kerosene Tractors, ~ Threshers, Motor Trucks,
Kerosene Engines, Cream Separators, Manure Spreaders,
Farm Wagons, Feed Grinders, Binder Twine. -
What does this mean to you as a Farmer?
IT MEANS, first of all, that you can
buy any machine or implement you
may need trom one concern—us—with
out taking chances on experiments or
implements that might be orphaned one
or two years after you buy them, be
cause of the manufacturer going out of
business. You can always get repairs
for any machine or implement in the
International line, because the Harvester
Company will never go out of business.
Tack this advertisement up in your machine shed, so that whenever you need repairs for any
of your International machines you will know, without wasting time, where to go for GENUINE
INTERNATIONAL REPAIRS. We handle repairs for the complete International line. Also, you
will know where to go when you are in the market for new machines and implements of real
quality. ; .
Dawson, Georgia
Better Battery Servi
WE ANNOUNCE
The opening of our Battery Service Station
and introduce to you the famous
Wl LLA R D BATTERY
Mr. John Melton, expert electrician and experienced bat
tety man, has charge of our new battery department,
and no matter the kind or make of your battery he can
give you 100 per cent service. We will ‘specialize on
recharging, rebuilding and rentals.
OUR STANDARD OF SERVICE—TRY IT.
FIRST--Meeting every customer more than half way, being really glad to see
him, and glad to help him.
SECOND—Being properly equipped to help—-thorofighly trained and experienced
in battery care, construction, and repair.
THlRD—Maintaining a real station in a good location, with space in which to do
business properly. v
FOURTH—Showing the car owner how to care for his battery and how to avoid
things that will injure it and shorten its life. :
FlFTH—Being businesslike, to base fair and just charges on knowledge of actual
costs, to give good returns for every penny, and to carry an adequate stock of new
batteries, rental batteries, and repair parts. g
Locke-Mathis Motor Co.
OLDSMOBILE CARS BRUNSWICK TIRES '
: . PHONE 272 DAWSOM. GA. - oS-
AND you don’t have to go to the
bother and expense of trying to get
repairs and repair service from half a
dozen or more different companies. You
won’t be taking chances on expensive
delays’waiting for repairs during the busy
seasoh, for we are going to carry a big
stock of repairs on hand, and and extras
thtat we might not have on hand at any
time can by a hurried phona call to the
International Harvester branch house.
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