The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1889-04-24
0Aws0s or TIE MOVE.

N-'ti = getting 0GL OF TIC ora
rats al & live'y rate and is upon
The threshold Of m e,e. Of greater
( prosperity than she has known in
twenty-five years. A comparison
between now sud twenty-five years
ago will show wonderful adva.ce-
lne9is.
y wsor of 1854 will lie renlem-
heIed by the older citizens as a
duh, dreary. quiet country village.
every hope being daily blasted bv-
the civil war. Her citizens had
lett their ian!iiies to battle for their
country, and business was ut =
stand still. A few months later.
her citizens returned discouraged
and ruined, findiag their homes
ttssolate, their property gope aud
thtjr money of 40 value.
II WAS then that Dawson looked
her orst.
q halt . score ar more of small
wooden stores constituted the whole
OF her mercantile interests. Then
the old red store on south Main
street, now used .s a negro barber
shop, waS the most popular location
IN The Dawson OF those DAVIS The
! first aaor Of the Old Masonic HILL
furnished two more stores and
! there we're two others on the site
where W. j. Il. Mercer will soon
erect thr:e>stery wagon repOsito-
~. Two others stood ON the spot
where the First Stltc Bank is now
located, with three or tour others
on Main street. The "yiIlage inn
was ou The now vacant lot south of
the squa,e. A number of years
after, DR.. Faruum erected the first
brick store ever built in Dawson.
This house is row Occupied by Frank
Is Bethune The post Office was kept
in a small shanty, ana the Jail WIS
log hut nesr the depot. The
total number OF souls in Dawson
Il did Lot then exceed FIVE hund bred
Il Between 1870 aud 1880 the
town hrgau to awake from its ieth-
crazy, aud TO-DAY we have four
Il isbiug city OF $500 inhabitants,
= with nearly halt a hundred hands
to some brick stores and a score Of
1. wooden ones, six splendid ware
.o bOUs,s, the same number If church
CO. enc Of the best bankinL ins.i-
Vi tul,ons III the state with two others
y to be2iu business in the early TALL,
a thousand as 1eat and comfortable
to residences as can he found any
- where, new ones going up daily,
one OF the best opera houses in the
T. state, college that would reflect
" credit on any town, several nlanu~
g. featuring enterprises III operation
At and two hotels that rank among
the best IN the state. liz fact
Dawsoa OF to-day Is one of tie
III prettiest, most wide awake, pro-
be gressiye and most desirable towns
Of tor a home in the state.
ro>dey her people are alive and
, more active than st any time in
- the iaSt twenty-five years, aud her
T. achievements withiu the next few
Sc years vii! be much greater than
a those in the past.
There viii be more Lui!diug done
in Dawson within the next twelve
q NOR tbs than she has ever witnessed
az i'll the same length OF tine.
N Among Tie Buildings which will
Ds 20 up first is tho national bauk
a. binding, three new churches, cot.
:. ton compress, three brick stores,
al new court house and a wagon re.
c. poaitory. There are also a mum,
at Der OF private residences which will
~ be built this summer, and no doubt
When the Southwestern Georgia
Security Company gets in opera
70 ton Others will take advantage Of
|. it TO build.
or w hen work commences on all OF
at these Improvements oilers arc
- bound to follow for the spirit OF
II improvement is contagious.
- Dawson will soon assume a de.
" gree of activity and energy that
viii astouish the natives.
y Just hold your breath and watch
ia for it.