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COMMENCING SEPTEMBER FIRST
i Commencing September the first and continuing through September, October, November and December,
- we will put our stock of goods on a cash basis---that is we will sell for cash and CASH ONLY. This
" will enable us to buy our goods at the lowest possible cost price and we will in turn be able to give our
customers more for therr money. |
We will endeavor to make our customers feel good when they come in our store by giving them a full :
dollar’s worth of goods for their dollar. - |
~ We want to thank all our customers and friends for the past favors and courtesies shown us. We will do
~ our best to keep your good will in the months that are to come. Cordially yours, -
DAWSON HARDWARE COMPANY bawson, cEoraia
To the Citi f Daws
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and Vicinity:
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Ladies and Gentlemen:
I asked a friend the other day what his daughter was going to do
this fall, and he said she was going back to Normal. You don’t know
how glad I was, to hear it—so few of them are, nowadays.
I don’t want fo make any of the lady customers mad, but some of
the girls have certainly been wandering off the reservation these last
few years—God. bless 'em.
The peek-a-boo shirt waist was the opening wedge, and it was rapid
ly followed by the X-ray skirt and the one-piece bathing suit, and the
riding habit undccompanied by the habit of riding.
As a result production in this country fell off 40 to 60 per cent. A
man can’t turn out much work when he can’t keep his mind on it.
There is something the matter with business. Some people think it
is one thing and some think it is another, and most of us think it is
both. Economists think ‘it is because everybody owes everybody so
much that nobody pays anybody.
Some folks think it is because we have prohibition and some because
we haven’t. Others think it is due to the losses of the war and still oth
ers that it is.due to the profits.
1 think it is due to, the ladies to say that they are not necessarily to
blame for it.
Women do not dress the way, they do to attract the attention of the
men, but the envy of the other women.
A man never notices what a woman has on; what he notices is what
she leaves off. So I am glad the girls are going back to normal. Then
maybe business” will.
There is nothing the matter with the girls—they are just as good as
ever—so is our stock of plumbing material, and our repair work.
Yours for normalcy,
SpinEewi X
T. WOOD & COMPANY
DAWSON MERCHANT PLUMBERS
Main Street Phone 30
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(’The firm you swear BY and never AT)
B e ity
the Coming Season?
A TR, SRR s R
We Offer Our Service. A Modern
Warehouse Building with Ample
Storage Capacity, Fire and
| Weather Protection.
Each memb.e‘r of t-:he firm is an experienced farmer and
planter; knowing just the service you expect and the
way your business should be handled to insure maxi
mum returns. Ready and anxious to give prompt
personal attention at all times.
ALL WEIGHTS GUARANTEED
Close touch with all the leading markets is maintained
and our position to handle your business is excelled
by none, - ‘:’d}
WE ARE YOURS TO COMMAND
Dawson Warehouse Co.
D. A. Smith and J. E. Hamilton
Main: Street Dawson, Georgia
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E ON STALKS IN TEXAS
FIELDS LOOK LIKE THEY'VE
BEEN VISITED BY HEAVY
| SNOW STORM.
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| HAGERSVILLE, Texas.—lt’'s an
ill wind that blows no good. The
‘weather got so hot here last week that
practically every crop was burned on
the stalk. Apples were baked on the
ltrees and sweet potatoes in the ground.
Corn shriveled in the heat, turned up
the blades and melted to the ground.
Jim Bartley crawled out in the shade
of a tree and lay there to watch his
three acres of popcorn “burn down.”
But that popcorn was nearer matur
ed than Jim thought, and as he lay
there mopping his face with a big rag
he saw something which made him
blear-eyed and .wild. As the sun climb
ed toward the zenith the grains be
gan to pop. For three hours the crack
ing of the popcorn continued until
the ground was covered with white,
flaky grains. It looked as if a heavy
snow storm had visited the country.
~ Saved the trouble of popping his
corn or even the expense of buying a
popper Jim began to scheme how to
turn the work of the heat into coin.
That night when it was cooler he
worked out a plan. He would hitch
the old gray mare to the cart the fol
lowing morning and begin to haul the
popped corn to the cribs. Then he
would salt it down and later scoop it
in a wagon and take it to market. He
'wou]d ship carloads of it to the north
ern markets and from the proceeds
‘buy a farm in a cooler climate.
[ Other farmers in the vicinity, hav
ing lost their crops because of the heat,
‘were glad to assist Jim shovel up and
‘haul in the popped corn. They accept
ed popped corn as their pay and Jim
says he will be living on popcorn for
a year. Meanwhile the farmers in the
vicinity will have enough popped corn
to “keep the wolf from their door” un
til something else turns up that will
help them live until time to plant an
other crop.
This has been the hottest summer
Hagersville ever knew.
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Convert at Zion City
Surrenders His Pipes
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iLoud Chorus of “Phews” Interrupts
, Services in Voliva’s Tabernacle.
| CHICAGO, Ill—Alongside_the_or
'gan in Shiloh tabernacle at Zion City,
' where converts deposit their crutches,
Ipatent medicines, cigarets and other
accursed things, there will shortly ap
pear a brace of pipes. They are caked
with a thick rich lining and brown
| with the exudations of much tobacco.
' A convert surrendered them at yester
]day's service, '
“Pass these exhibits among the oth
ers,” he toid the attendant. :
“Phew!” exclaimed the attendant as
he passed them to another.
“Phew is right,” gasped the second
lattcndant. as he held the pipes at arm'’s
length. The church was soon filled
with “phews,” as the pipes were pass
ed around. :
“You can’t find anything on God’s
green earth that smells worse than
these pipes our friend has renounced,”
lshouted Voliva. “It is worse than the
lsmck yards. As a matter of fact the
‘stock yards smell is perfumery along
‘si(lc these pipes.” Then he called for
a bowl of water, soaked a towel and
l\‘;JlSth his hands. Meanwhile most of
|th(‘ congregation had crowded to the
|winrlows and doors for air.
Brother Crabtree, of Zion, was ac
icused of being a profiteer when he was
Icharged with selling one bean for 20
{cents. Investigation, however, showed
;he had grown a string bean two feet
‘and six inches long, and that when it
jwas sliced so it could be measured, it
{made three quarts and one pint.
i Same Old Story But a Good One.
{ Mrs. Mahala Burns, Savanna, Mo.,
‘relates an experience, the like of which
has happened in almost every neigh
borhood in this country, and has been
teld and related by thousands of oth
‘ers, as follows: “I used a bottle of
'Chamberlain’s Colic and Diarrhoea
| Remedy about nine years ago and it
cured me of flux (dysentery). I had
another attack of the same complaint
three or four years ago and a few doses
ot this remedy cured me. I have rec
ommended it to dozens of people since
I first used it and shall continue to do
so, for I know it is a quick and posi
itive cure for bowel troubles.”—adv.
THE DAWSON NEWS
NAVY DEPARTMENT FORGOT
MARINES WERE SOLDIER
ING THERE SINCE 1917.
A “lost battalion” of United States
marines, 6 officers and 274 men, were
formally “found” by the navy depart
ment a few days ago. Since August,
1917, the battalion has been stationed
in Camaguey, Cuba, in the very heart
of the island, with no apparent reason
for its being kept on such an assign
ment since the days of the war.
* The discovery of the “missing” ma
rines was made by Assistant Secretary
Roosevelt after much searching of rec
ords and inqiry among marine officers.
The hunt was started as the result of
the' recent incident in Camaguey, when
the marines kicked up some excite
ment in the Cuban town after Leroy
Foster, an American engineer and for
mer navy officer, had been attacked
and beaten by Cubans.
Ancient Paper Gave Clew.
“What are the marines doing in
Camaguey?”’ Mr. Roosevelt asked
himself after looking at the map of
Cuba, and was asked by others.equal
ly curious. Nobody seemed to know.
Maj.-Gen. Lejeune, commandant of
the corps, said ‘they were there all
right, but could vouchsafe no addition
al information. The navy list showed
marine officers regularly assigned to
the Camaguey post, but the warrant
for such duty seemed to be lacking.
Finally ancient papers were found
which showed that, back in 1917, short
ly after Cuba entered the war on the
heels of the United States, the Cuban
government had requested the state
department to permit the stationing
of American marines at Camaguey to
guard sugar properties there against
pro-German plots.
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'Old Dobbin in Demand
~ Despite Use of the Auto
Serves a Purpose That Cannot Be
~ Equaled in Efficiency by Trucks.
ATLANTA, Ga.—Despite the wide
spread use and growing popularity of
the automobile the horse is not to be
come extinct, as many have imagined
and not a few have feared, according
to live stock dealers here, who still
hold to the belief that Atlanta is one
of the largest horse and mule markets
in the United States.
“Unquestionably the horse has
dropped out of use to a very great ex
tent in cities and towns and motor
driven farm equipment has reduced
the number of horses in use on farms
in some parts of the country,’” said a
live stock dealer today, “but there still
are many thousands of horses in usc
and the horse serves a purpose for
draft work of certain classes that can
not be equaled in efficiency or economy
by motor truck or tractor.”
Prices of horses and mules are not
so high as they were, it is stated.
. Just as the chin gives qualities to
the face, so the thumb marks the per
sonality of the hand, and is an un
erring index of a man’s natural
strength or weakness of character.
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Just the moment yocu apply
Mentho-Sulphur to an itching, burn
ing or broken out skin, the itching
stops and healing begins, says a
noted skin specialist. This sulphur
preparation, made into a pleasant
cold: eream, gives such a quick re
lief, even to fiery eczema, that noth
ing has ever been found to take its
place.
Because of its germ destroying pro
perties, it quickly subdues the itch
ing, cools the irritation .and heals
the eczema right up, leaving a clear,
smooth skin in place of ugly erup
tions, rash, pimp{)es or roughness.
® You do not have to wait for im
provement. It quickly shows. You
can get a little jar of Mentho-Su}-
pbur at any drug stere.
JUMPER DRESSES in Gingham, Poiret Twill,
: Tricotine and Jersey Wool. All colors, all
sizes.
SPORT SUITS in White Jersey. Things of
beauty—our display is complete.
One Piece DRESSES in Poiret Twill, Prince
Serge’and Satin Combinations. Trimmed in
Kid,;Beads, Braid, Silk and Wool Embroideries.
JERSEY PETTICOATS and PETTI BOCK
ERS, in beautiful colors and combination
- colors and patterns.
MILLINERY from thé shops of Fiske, Knicker
bocker, Elzee and Rhodes—all on display.
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MALOOF S Dawson, Georgia
Meal and Hulls
STRICTLY CASH
Southern Cotton oil Co.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1921,