The Dawson journal., 1884-03-20

they have to sell.
1t is suicidal policy in mer-
chants to sit down with hands
folded and wait for customers to
stumble over them. Why not in
vite them?
A postal card from the bows in
Florida, just received, locates the
camp near Brooksville, fernando
county. They are having a royal
time.
When corn meal sells in Daw-
son for a dollar per bushel, spot
cash, our farmers, certainly, cali
afford to raise it for the market.
Corn meal at this price doesn't
speak well for an agricultural
country like ours.
Let us have a meeting of the
truck farmers. 1t is we'll enough
that the railroads be informed as
to the probable acreage. Besides,
the new recruits in the army of
melon growers can be put to
drilling. Heap for 'em to learn.
As it seems impossible to get
state legislation as a whole, we
would suggest to our next grand
jury to take steps to get local
law to tax the dogs of cur county
1t would be an immense revenue,
besides thinning them out.
From the Cuthbert Appeal we
learn that Mr.. Geo. Speight was
recently elected marshall of that
town. Parson Kirksey, who has
served in that capacity for the
last twelve years, goes into the
confectionery business.
"Why sit ye idle all the day"
young man, when you could east
" inveigle some skating rink fell
low down here and furnish the
girls all the fun they want? II is
the thing everywhere now. Stir
EN- up.
It Is stated that the water in ar
tnsian well No. l, Of Albany is fail
ing fast. This is quite unfortu-
nate as this WAS hemedicinal water
Of which Albany editors were
wont to boast. Ohlye bald-heads!
why didn't you discover its true
virtues sooner?
II cur farmers will only plant
plenty Of corn and make big crops
it will make but little difference
with them whether Tildon is elect
ed president or somebody else.
Home improvements and material
prosperity are matters of more
concern to the farmers than poll
tics.
One of the very best sermons
we have ever heard delivered from
the Baptist pulpit, Of this city,
was preached or last Sunday
night 10y the Rev, Washington
Tharpe. We congratulate our
friends of Chickasawhatchee upon
having as their pastor a minister
of such gifted talents.
Milo Maize, it is said, will make
sixty tons of forage to the acre.
Allowing fifteen pounds of forage
to the head per day, one acre will
feed ten COWS daring the year. II
all this is true this new forage will
prove a blessing. 1t is worth
while to try it, on small scale, at
any rate.
Messrs. VIM. Wells, Robert
McAfee and young DR.. Clarke, of
Smithville, were in the city on
last Tuesday for the purpose of
examining Mr.. o. B. Stevens
splendid fre-proof warehouse
These gentlemen, we learn, will
erect one at Smithville after the
same model.
A long, lank, gawky, ugly, awk.
ward fellow, just pulling out OF
his teens, is a sight to behold, with
. noir of slippery roller skates
under him. Skating affords more
unauthorized fun to the square
foot than anything Dawson
should have rink by all means.
A padding for the boys, in order
to sit comfortably the first week,
until they learn, is a requisite
Who will head this fun?
From the crowds Of wagons and
other vehicles, loaded to the brim,
that were seen on our Main street
last Saturday, we Judge the cry of
hard times to be a myth, in part,
Nor were I'll the goods these wac
ons contained bought on credit
for we have several strictly cash
stores here, whose business was
first rate. There is yet some
money in the country.