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TUESDAY, SEPT. 8, 1925. ‘“ ' DOLLAR “HARVESTING” FORMER DAWSON MAN TO DI RECT CAMPAIGN TO FINISH SALE OF MEMORIAL COINS. ATLANTA, Ga—Wade H. Davis, prominent Atlanta business man, has heen selected by the executive com mittee of the Stone Mountain Confed eraic Monumental Association as di rector general of the “Harvest Cam paign” to complete the sale of the outh’s allotment of Confederate me morial half dollars. Vi The “Harvest Campaign” was or ganized by the governors of the south o states at a conference in Atlanta July 20. Each governor accepted of fcially for his state a quota of coins colculated on the basis of population and bank deposits, pledged his state to ke that quota, and assumed the di rection of a campaign in his state with; that end in view. | These several state campaigns are now in progress from Virginia to Tex as, with the headquarters of the me morial association in Atlanta function ing in the capacity of a general-clear ing house of information and assist ance. Fach of the southern governors has created an agency of the state especial jy for the purpose of selling the quota of coins allotted to his state, and is wsing an executive secretary and pub licity director to carry on the “Har vest Campaign.” Mr. Davis in Atlanta will exercise general supervision over the several tate campaigns, with his office in the headquarters of the Memorial Associa tion in the Grant building. Moving to Atlanta in 1909 from Dawson, Ga., Mr. Davis has been en gaged in business in this city ever since. Hie is a member of the Sale- Davis company, lumbermen, and is oresident of the Southern Timber company, naval stores operators, with Jarce interests in western Florida. i{is family are old stock of Georgia and West Virginia, going back to pre revolutionary times, and have furnish ed soldiers in -all the wars of America, 45 well as a number of noted Baptist ministers and educators. Two of his uncles were trustees for many years of Mercer university, at Macon. Legislature May Free Six Thousand Lepers From Confinement in Colony Doctors Say Disease Is Not Conta gious, and Lepers Do Not Wish to Live Apart From Families. MANILA.—WhiIe Governor Gen cral Leonard Wood has launched .a campaign in America to raise $5,000,- 000 to aid in the fight on leprosy the local legislature will soon vote on a concurrent resolution introduced by Representative Formosa to set iree the 6.000 lepers now confined in the leper colony at Culion. Mr. Formosa says in his resolution that many doctors declare leprosy is not contagious, and also that the lep ¢rs themselves do not wish to be con fined in a colony apart from their fam ilies and friends. [ocal opposition to Gen. Wood’s anti-leprosy organization has been de veloping for some time. A few weeks ago the local anti-leprosy organiza tion suspended- operation due to the opposition of the native papers. A large number of lepers in the Phillipines who~€annot be apprehend ed by the health department are still at large and a menace tq the people. One was recently shot and killed by 4 constabulary while resisting arrest. lgnorant natives often conceal lepers to avoid sending them to Culion. The colony, according to American and British physicians, is a model and great advances have been made hy them in research work with chaulmoo gra oil and other leprosy cures. REPORT SHOWS NUMBER OF WILD BIRDS IS INCREASING Protection .Plan "of Department pof - Agriculture Shows Results. Uncle Sam’s efforts in the protec tion of birds have resulted in an in crease of the feathered population, the Department of Agriculture reports. A survey shows that wherever pro tection and friendship are offered the hirds go to hatch their young. The average guml)er of birds over the east ern section of the United States 18 one pair to the acre, but this number has been increased to tens and dozens of pairs by the thoughtfulness and helpfulness of various neighborhoods. “This has been accomplished at Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, for instance, with 404 pairs to 40 acres, and Chevy Chase, Md., with 224 pair 10 23 acres,” the department reports. At Wild Acres, Md., near Washing ton, 135 pairs to five acres were noted. FARMER LOST IN OWN | CORN FIELD TWO DAYS; He Roamed Aimlessly About Until a Rescue Party Located Him. ' Roaming aimlessly - about for two days in a corn field less than three| miles from his home Henry Werde, 72 years old, wealthy farmer of La fayette Township, Minn., was rescued by a searching party after he had spent three days ifig trying to find his wa)’l back to the farm house. 4 Werde lost his glasses while climb ng through a barbed wire fence, and eing near-sighted was unable to dis tinguish objects but a few feet distant. “While the old farmer was groping his way through the tall corn he was forced to eat green corn for *food. Werde is recqvering from his experi ence, ; 1 : | DR. C. R. McKEMIE | DENTIST . X-Ray Work | OFFICE: BRANNON BLDG. | Res. Phone 395 2r. Office 395 | Sow Hairy Vetch this Fall on land YOU intend to plant in corn next Spring. Turn it under next Spring and plant corn. On land worth planting, if 1926 is an ordinary season, YOU may expect a yield of 30 bushels of corn an acre where you have made only 15 bushels - in a good year. ' i S . | ~ Sowing Hairy Vetch Will Give You a Profitable Crop Put a few dollars . worth of right kind _of‘ fertilizer on each acre of the vetched land and in an ordinary season you will possibly get from 40 to 60 bushels of corn an acre if you plant good seed and give thorough cultivation. The corn added to the yield by the vetch or the vetch and the fertilizer. usually does not cost more than 30 cents a bushel. | : ' : : ASK YOUR COUNTY AGENT WHERE TO GET THE SEED, HOW TO TREAT I'_T AND HOW TO SOW IT. HE KNOWS | HOW. LEARN TO DO THE WORK RIGHT. v | e average vield of corn per acre in Georgia has been 12 bushels. This low yield 1s one = | ;l;hthe stro?)ge}slt forces that Il)(ee'ps successful %armers with capital and equipmenty from com- _ ing to our State. VETCH the land, fertilize it and let us make the average yield made | |by good farmers 30 to 60 bushels an acre. Then good farmers by the thousanaywill come I ’ to Georgia and use our idle lands. 8 E Bank of Parrott City National Bank Dawson National Bank THE DAWSON NEWS PAGE SEVEN