The Dawson journal., 1885-04-16
. COUNTY CURRENCY.
interesting Items Concerning Town
and County Gathered by Journal
Reporters and Briefly Told.

Don "a ao9se gentle spring any
more. She's here.
l. Capt, W. W. Carnes. of Macon
was in the city last Tuesday.
| Workmen are now engaged in
walllng the cistern with brick.
| Col. J. G. Parks is ATTENDING
Sumter Superior court this week.
Spring was tardy, but we ven
lure to announce sits come to
stay" "
The ploughing of corn and cot
ton chopping is now the order of
the day. -
Every farmer is tickling the
loamy soil for every cent it is
There are prospects of a dra-
matte entertainment In Dawson
next week.
The leading'interrogation now
Is: Going to the Exposition ?"
Certainly.
Prof. T. A. Quillian and Mr.W.
A. McLain will leave to-day or to-
morrow for the Exposition.
The cheapest and freshest GRO
cerles and confectioneries in the
city at Jesse Rogers store. 1t.
Work on the park "drags its
weary length along" The wire
for the fence has been ordered.
A handsome line of White Dress
Goods just received at
PAsoHAL q KAIGLER's.
We believe that there is more
enterprise among the farmers of
our county than any in the State.
DIR. c. A. Cheatham's horse ran
away last Saturday afternoon. The
buggy was the only thing injured.
1t is said that from the friction
of handkerchiefs the noses of the
present generation have decreased
in size.
| Charley Harris, While fishing at
Cordry's mill one day last week,
caught a Brim that weighed lis
pounds. Fact.
Tom James left Dawson last
Sunday to attend the pharmaceut.
ical convention Which convened in
Atlanta Tuesday.
Mr.. r. F. Simmons saws that
while in the lower edge of the
county last Monday he saw a gen,
tleman plowing cotton.
Mrs. McNulty and daughters
returned from the Exposition last
Friday. Some of the boys are
happy-you know who.
The young people who before
marriage thought they could live
on love are now living on corr
bread and hominy.
When it comes to nice, fresh
canned goods and confectioneries
Mr.. Jesse Rogers leads the van.
1t.
Marshall Hatcher is now armed
after the style of city police he
carries pistol buckled around
his waist. Woe unto evil doers
DIR. j. H. Hammond, our Chick.
asawhatchee correspondent, has
treated thirty-six cases of pneu-
monia since the first of January
Some of the boys complain Of
their military suits being too tight
to admit of their drinking much
military punch. Perhaps, it is
we'll.
Mr.. Jesse. Rogers has just re-
ceived a fresh lot of grated Cocoa
nut, pineapples, canned peaches
etc, which he is selling cheap.
! 1t.
For a transposition of the axiom,
There's Re'er q cup of bliss but
has it's brink of woe," the full
burst of spring furnishes a poeti-
cal example.
Educate your boy to keep his
nose out of the wine cup, his fin
gers off playing cards and his
teeth out of the weed, and he may
not disgrace you.
| Kiokee church, on the James
place in this county, has 1,20O
members. There is a negro church
| in Lee county that has between
5000 and 1900 members.
Judge II. s. Bell and Messrs
A. j. Baldwin, I. r. Hannah,
Geo. Geise and Capt. J. A. Fulton
will leave the early
part of next week for the Exposi-
tion.
Dawson has more fine horses, ,cley-
er men and pretty women than any
town of the same size in Georgia.
We can establish this proposition
by a multitude of witnesses.
Jim Grier came to town Friday
and explained his prolonged abb
sence-he had been possum hunt