The Dawson journal., 1884-12-25
COUNTY CURRENCY.
interesting Items Concerning Town
ana County Gathered by Journal
Reporters and Briefly Told.

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not aggre gate.
DID you ever straddle Tom
James riding machine? We have.
1t Is said that the prettiest thing
In bonnets this winter, will be the
pretty faces.
A mans honor and integrity of
character is worth infinitely more
than a few paltry dollars.
Mr.. }. w Mize, Sheriff of Sum-
ter county, is in the city visiting
his brother, Mr.. G. L. Mize.
Mr.. o. H. Crouch slaughtered
three porkers last Thursday that
aggregated 1,150 pounds net.
We hung up our sock (no mem
ber of our family owns a stocking)
and got it chuck full of-nothing.
Leap for JOY, ye old men, and
you, ye kids, skeedaddle to James
Sons and buy your presents.-1t.
Last Thursday was the one of
the coldest days of the season
and a great deal Of pork was
slaughtered hereabouts.
The Georgetown Echo says:
"Mr. Walter Dozier leaves for Ter
rell county, where he will try
his fortune next year
Remember the Christmas Tree
tonight. Go to James Sons to
get your presents to put on tit.
Let everybody attend the Christ
mas tree tonight at the Metho-
dist Church. Be sure to give your
sweetheart, aunts, uncles and cous-
ins a present.
Sound the loud horn, jangle
the merzingarors and thrill the
sweet tintabulations of the hugag
for Jack Salmon is dispensing
Tom and Jerry to the public. If.
Play loud alarm on the tum-
tum, and awaken the dulcet notes
of the dub-a-dub, and then rush
to James Sons to get your fancy
goods.-lt.
Mosquitoes, keep back your
bills. Don't present them any
more this season. Our people
have more bills to settle now than
thay know what to do with.
The DAWSON JOURNAL is always
bright and newsy, Its columns
are brimful of local news, served
up in a neat and attractive style.
1t is bound to succeed. Macon
Telegraph.
Gloria excelsis! Laudate Domi-
mum! Venite exultimus, and then
hurry to James Sons and buy
your sweetheart present.-1t.
Mr. Sandy Hatcher has pur-
chased a home in Terrell county
and will move to it in a few. days.
Sandy is an Industrious boy, and
we have no doubt but he will sue
ceed. ed.-Georg2town Echo.
Be thankful all who are permit
ted to feast ON turkey and the
good things of the land to-
day, but don't forget the
unfortunates who have not the
wherewith to get Christmas din.
ner.
Whenever one family moves tc
Terrell from another section of
the State it is sure to bring other
families, and what we need most,
now, is more population of this
kind; therefore, let every body en-.
courage them to come.
Bombastic language and POM
pous manners may fatter the van.
ity of the vain-glorious, but that
is all. Sensible people are never
long misled by idle pretencc
There is an old saying you dom
hunt ducks with a brass band
Mr.. J. A. Horsely has leased
Mr.. T. J. Hart's Hall. Mr.. Hart
is having the Hall put in good
l condition, and will have one hun
4 dred opera chairs and several
' benches. The seating capacity O
e the Hall will be three or foul
1 hundred.
: We are assured by young la
+ dy friend that her sex does no
g vearn for the society of the oppo
J, site sex as much as one NIGH
y suppose. O, we'll, the opposite
a sex vearns for their society, anc