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+UESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1925.
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ONE OF THE NIMBLE INSECTS
BRJUGHT $5,000. FIRMS SELL
ING VARIOUS PESTS.
\NDON.—There are curious con
cerns that thrive in summer selling a
. of “live stock” most of us would
cegard a 8 pests—fleas, flies, beetles,
worms and, the like. They do a large
pusiness with schools, laboratories,
....cum authorities, sports outfitters,
: i.ctors and others and employ hun
-I..ds of insect hunters.
“ere are several extensive butterfly
farms in Britain, where you can buy
| -villars, + butterflies, chrysalides|
. nhutterflies’ eggs in hundreds of
' .o<ands. You can buy a lovely but
...iv for a few pence, but some speci
o« fetch fabulous prices.
Big Price for Butterfly,
ile @ black and white swallow
s itterfly is worth about 25 cents, |
.11 black specimen may bring you
<. There are only 47 species of but
;. . in England, 300 in Europe. But
¢ are 700 varieties in Brazil and
) ) all over the globe.
“ Outside a shop in a town in France
was a notice offering to buy fleas.
W asked. why he was prepared to
1 ‘or what most pcople regarded
" .ndesirable vermin, the dealer re-‘
ofed: “While I buy my animals at
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thr francs a hundred I can sell|
{ at fifty francs a quarter litrc.”i
Ji. best customers were vendors of
insect powders, who used the “real
fve heasts” to demonstrate the effica
cv of their wares, |
"¢ome time ago Glasgow was a}
lree city of fleas. The filters of its
«vworage purification works bccame‘
per (ically choked with a gelatinous
marer, the clearing away of which
was very costly.
1o authorities - thereupon enlisted
ihe aid of large numbers of insects of
(e fea tribe, with remarkable results.
Each of the ‘insects absorbed a large
quantity weekly ‘of the troublesome
¢elatine and thus allowed the sewer
wcc to be converted into water, of
crystal clearness. |
or those who regard the flea as
. plebian creature it may be men
toned that some fleas are worth their
weight in radium. The rarest speci
wens are found on the blue fox, some
<ecies of the polar bear and a certain
breed of Eskimo dog.
People laughed when a few years
.o Prof. Perier, of the French insti
tote. valued a particular sea otter flea
4t 35,000. But a British collector
- promiply came forward, paid over the
money and tucked his treasure care
{ully away in his waistcoat pocket.
Japanese Hunt Fireflies.
. In Japan there are firms that spe-|
cialize in catching fireflies and supply
. ine them for garden parties and icsti-i
vils, Sometimes the fireflies are hung
s decorations in cages about the gar-!
dens. Or they are released among the
guests like showers of sparks. ‘
The firefly hunters employed by
these firms go forth at sumset with
' long bamboo poles and bags of mos-
L quito netting, They gp on till they
| come to a spot near water, where the
| fireflies make the water sparkle and
twinkle as with tiny gems. The hunt
ers strike the willows with their -poles,
whereupon the fireflies fall to the
ground and are easily swept into the
nets.
IT COSTS MORE FOR FAT
MEN TO “TAKE THE AIR”
Airplane Passenger Service Operates
On the Poundage Basis.
Passengers “taking the air” in the
international races between Chicago
and Long Island Thursday will be
charged at the raté of a dollar a
pound.
The rates have been announced by
the Sangers Tours Inc.,, who are con
ducting the experimental flight.
“The poundage basis is new in al
plane passenger service,” said Harry
T. Sanger, “but in order to make ex
penses we ‘must adopt it. :
“Of course this is another instance
of the fat men getting the worst of it.”
' LOGAN THOMAS, M. D.
Office at Doverel
Hours 7:30 a. m. to 1 p. m.
f Afternoon by Appointment.
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DR. C. R. McKEMIE
DENTIST X-Ray Work
| OFFICE: BRANNON BLDG.
. (Over Battle Hardware Co.)
Res. Phone 395 2r. Office 395
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$\ as pleasure.
Healthful exercise for the teeth
and a spur to digestion. A long
lasting refreshment, soothing to
nerves and stomach.
The Great American
Swectmeat, untouched EILIRY
by hands, full of SERI[C A%
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TOMBSTONE SHEIKS ARE
HALED BEFORE COURT
TAMPA, Fla—“ Strange voices
among graves” were explained
here today when the police broke
up petting parties in the cemetery
last night, and as a result of which
three “tombstone sheiks” will tell
the judge about it,
GEORGIA PIONEER PASSES AS
PLANS ARE MADE FOR
CENTURY BIRTHDAY.
GRIFFIN, Ga—While a thousand
relatives and friends planned a glori
ous barbecue for November 8, which
was to have celebrated the achieve
ment by W. W. Grubbs of 100 years
of life, the aged Georgia pioneer died
at his home in Orchard Hill, in Spal
ding county, Thursday.
Death came in spite of the earnest
hope of Mr. Grubbs that he live to
see a century pass. It came in spite
of loving care of his sons.and daugh
ters, his grandchildren and great
grandchildren, who praved that he
live for the birthday he so ecagerly
awaited. He died quietly.amid a" circle
of relatives and was buried Friday in
the little cemetery of the Rehoboth
Baptist church, near Griffin, an an
cient church that he had helped to
ibuild.
* Mr. Grubbs is survived by six chil
dren, 41 grandchildren, 59 great-grand
children and four great-great-grand
children.
| Life History.
~ Mr. Grubbs had a remarkable his
tory. His father was alive when
George Washington was president,
and would tell his litle son of those
glorious days of America’s young in
dependence. He was born in Jasper
county and, moving soon to Spalding,
saw middle Georgia develop from vir
gin timber lands to a prosperous cot
ton country. He saw the Indians go
‘and the railroads come and the state
become great.
) When the war between the states
broke out Mr. Grubbs already was too
old for active service, but volunteered
and was assigned to the quartermas
ter’'s corps, in which he served for
four years.
. Mr. Grubbs was married in Spal
'ding county to -Miss Sarah Kinard,
and the couple lived together for more
than 60 vears.
Smoot Put Feet on Table;
Paris Papers Ate Ironical
& ;
Hears That Senator Ended Parley
With Shoes Elevated.
PARIS.—With the French debt
mission back {from Washington a
story is being told in Paris of how
Senator Smoot, of the American com
mission, put his feet on the table as
soon as its use for the negotiations
was over. The story has led the
Oeuver to suggest ironically that it
may become the fashion in Frande,
where everything American is imitat
ed.
“This gesture must not be taken as
a sign of bad manners,” says the
Oeuvre, “but as marking the end of
the conference. The action may not
be as striking as the Fascist salute,
but still it is pleasant, easy, large and
symbolic in a way that it can be felt
intuitively, rather than explained. To
place a foot on the table is a way of
intimating that you have nothing else
to put there, and so discussion is clos
ed.
“There is no doubt that .feet on the
table will be ‘it’ this year. We French
don't like the Americans to the point
of handing over to them all the mon
ey the Germans are not paying us,
but we are snobs enough to believe
‘that, although it may be bad form in
iFrance to put your elbows on the
table, it must be chic to put your feet
‘there, because America does it.”
PEACHES FROM AFRICA ARE
SOLD IN THE UNITED STATES
Fruit Famous in Georgia Has Spread
To Many Countries.
South Africa has recently been
sending peaches to England in rather
large quartitities, and a few are finding
their way to this country by way of
novelty. It is no doubt due to the fa
cility of raising the peach from the
stone that it has spread to so many
countries, and to such a number of
varieties.
Wherever it has gone it has taken
a foremost place in popularity, espe
cially among epicureans, such as the
Romans, who, it may be gathered
from Pliny, introduced it from Persia
and associated its name ~ with that
country—Persica. It has been grown
in England since the middle of the
sixteenth century, but climatic condi
tions are generally against it for out
door culture, and has forced growers
to resort to glass.
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CHILDREN BEAR GIFTS TO
AILING “SANTA CLAUS”
His Room in Rochester, Minn, Hos
pital Beseiged by Youngsters.
His long flowing beard and rotund
stomach started the report Santa
Claus was in Rochester, Minn., and
his room in a local hospital has been
beseiged by children bearing gifts and
promises of good behavior. Finally his
physicians were forced to bar visitors.
The pronounced “Santa (Claus” is now
able again to travel and he is going
back to the region from where Nicho
las is supposed to staft his Christmas
trip.
Although he readily admitted to
questioning youngsters that he was
the original Santa Claus and that his
home was ‘“‘way up north,” he is en
tered on the hospital records as
Thomas Tracy, Douglas, *Alaska.
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Women of Havana, Cuba, recognize
wititer by wearing lights furs and car
rying fans.
BIRDS FLY FROM POLE |
ST
- TO EQUATOR YEARLY|
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A DISTANCE OF MORE THAN
6,000 MILES A MERE TRIFLE i
FOR MANY OF THEM. |
An annual flight from the north or|
south pole to the equator—a distance |
of more than 6,000 miles—is a mere!
trifle for many species of birds. This |
i 3 one of the amazing discoveries made |
by the Whitney South Sea Expcditjon!
of the American Museum of Natural|
History. |
Under the leadership of Rollo H.|
Beck, veteran naturalist, an intensive |
study of the islands of the tropical!
Pacific is being made. i
Beck and his .associates have found]
birds in these islands whose nesting |
places are in the arctic tundras. thi
other birds whose home is in the ant- |
arctic region and who fly toward thci
equator as the long night settles up
on the south pole have been discov-l
ered in the islands, 3
The expedition seeks to obtain ac-‘
curate and scientific data concerning |
the islands and particularly the bird |
life. So far many species of l)ir(ls!
never before caught or shot have been |
collected by the expedition. Some of|
the islands are only jutting rocks ris-!
ing out of the depths of the ocean.|
Others are low-lying atoiss. Still otlv‘
ers, like Tahitf, fare ‘great volcanic |
peaks, lofty and forest-clad, surr®und-y
¢d by sandy beaches and coral reefs. 1
But all have the fascination so awell |
expressed by Robert Louis Stevenson. |
“Few men who come to the islands’
leave them,” he wrote. “They growi
gray where they alighted. The palm |
shades and the trade-winds fan them |
till they die.”’ 5 |
But the islands have suffered from !
freebooters, slavers, whalemen and |
beachcombers.
Crowding of pearl fishers‘:.ind copra
gatherers upon small islands has com- |
pletely changed the original plant and |
animal life of many of them. Whole!
tribes of natives have disappeared |
from the face of the earth. '
Among the unusual birds gathcred‘
by the expedition is the fairy tern, It:
is probably the most delicate and |
thereal of ail sea birds. It is purc!
white with unusually large eyes. |
~ The bones are the only thing cov- |
‘ered and when seen against the trop- |
ical sun the bird looks as though it‘f
were being x-rayed, for the bones of|
lthc wings become visible through thci
plumage. '
UNITED CIGAR COMPANY
MAKES KILLING IN FLORIDA
Profits on $5,000 Transaction Are Said
To Be $15,000,000.
The United Cigar Stores (Gpmpany
of America, through its subsidiary, the
United Stores Realty Corporation, has
“made a killing” through the sale of
most of .its holdings of Florida real
estate. Men familiar with the trans
actions estimate the profits at $15,000,-
000. It was said $5,000,000 was the
original investment on the east coast
between West Palm Beach and Miami.
Indications that the United Cigar
Stores management acquired Florida
properties for speculatiqn were seen
in an application to the Stock Ex
change to list additional common
shares early in September. This show
ed the company had acquired sixteen
pieces of property in Florida since
May 29 and thirty-three since March 1.
U. S. SHIPS LARGEST GUN;
RIFLE WEIGHS 730,000 LBS.
Uncle Sam’s largest gun, which
with its mount is 955 feet long and
weighs 730,000 pounds, is being shipp
ed to the Pacific coast. In a few
months it will be pointing out over
the Pacific from Fort McArthur, 25
miles south of Los Angeles, Cal. It is
a 14-inch rifle on a railway mount.
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LAND POSTED. NO HUNTING!
All persons are hereby notified not
to hunt on the following lands in the
southern part of the county, belonging
to M. D. Laing, Fhilmore Johnson, J.
M. Lowrey, T. K. Cobb, all of which
are under the -supervision of R. H.
Laing. R. H. EAING, 10-lflt
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NOTICE TO CITY TAXPAYERS.
The City of Dawson tax books open
September 1, 1925, and remain open
until November 1, 1925, for the pay
ment of 1925 city taxes. Executions
will be issued against all persons
whose taxes are not paid on or before
November 1, 1925. This August 29,
1925. R. R. JONES, City Clerk.
el i e T e
To Debtors and Creditors.
GEORGIA, Terrell - County.—All
creditors of the estate of Mrs. Florida
Arnett, late of Terrell county, deceas
ed, are hereby notified to render in
their demands to the undersigned, ac
cording to law, and all persons in
debted to said estate are required to
make immediate payment to me. This
October 20, 1925.
MRS. LILLIAM WILLIAMS, Ad
ministratrix of Mrs. Florida Arnett,
deceased. 10-20-4 t
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How Doctors Treat
" Colds and the FI
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To break up a cold overnight or
to cut short an attack of firippe, in
fluenza, sore thiroat or tonsillitis, phy
‘sicians and druggists are now recom
‘mending Calotabs, the purified and
refined calomel compound tablet that
gives you the effects of calomel and
isalt,s combined, without the unpleas
ant effects of either. .
~ One or two Calotabs at bed-time
‘with a swallow of water,—that’s all.
No glts, no nausea nor the slightest
interference with your eating, work
or pleasure. Next morning your cold,
has vanished, your system is thor
oughly purified and you are feeling
fine with a hearty apprfb for bfi
fast. Eat what you please,—mno dan
ger. . ; : |
Get a fanlilyusa&m cotitaining
full directions, only 85 cents. At |
dmg store. (u‘lvn{
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New Fall and Winter Styles
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~ Suits and Overcoats
@OU expect to get a lot of service and satisfaction out
of your Fall and Winter suit and overcoat. Now 1s
the time when every man who need a new suit or over
coat for the coming winter months should make 1t a pomnt
to inspect our offerings. There are plenty of materials,
models and prices to meet every suit and overcoat require
ment in this community. Come and see them this week.
Headwear
You'll Like
. Undoubtedly you are just like many anoth
er man. You have had a hat, perfect in style,
yet you never did enjoy wearing it. There is
where these hats surpass—you will enjoy wear
ing a Stetson hat, the kind you choose here.
G. W. Dozier & Co.
' ; Dawson, Georgia
Wonderfully
Good Shoes
Because we know how good Walk-Over
shoes are, how they will wear and how excel
lent their style, we are anxious to have every
man in this vicinity try on a pair. New styles.
New leathers. Splendid values at reasonable
prices.
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