The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1889-10-02
SHORT NEWS NOTES.
Little items Picked Up Eere end There
IN and About The City.

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IN and About The City.
The Bronwood Clipper has sus-
pended.
The Liberal saws the cotton crop
OF Randolph will DC all gathered
by the 10Th inst.
! Rev. B. w. Davis has accepted
/ the pastorate Of the Baptist church
at Plains of Dura.
Rev. Mr.. Culpopper, of Sanoia,
will preach at the Baptist church
Eext Sunday morning and evening.
Major B. II Hood lett Monday
for Cordele to inspect thirty thous-
and ties for the Columbus Southern.
Mr.. John T. Hill, Of Roanoke,
Ala, won the prize for spelling for
the month Of September at the col
lege.
Special attention is called 10 the
advertisement ofthe South Georgia
Mae and Female College in anothS
err cclunn.
The telegraph office at Brou-
wood has been closed on account OF
the removal OF tie operator to
North Georgia.
Mr.. W. IL. Gammuce, the pres.
ent efficient superintendent OF the
poor farm, was re elected yesterday
by tie county commissioners,
The cotton receipts Of Dawson
continue To increase, ith the com
press ard Columbs Southern 0ur
receipts will DO doubled another
year,
The County Alliance will have
Us quarterly meeting at Grave'-
Station on Tomorrow. A big din
cr viii bo one feature OF the oc-
casi1n.
Engineer Covan is expected in
The city day. lie is stalking the
| fIal route for the Columbus Soutr-
ern. The glad.ng wi follow as
! rapidly as possible.
The one year-o,d child OF Mr.,
Frank Cooke. OF Lee county, was
buried here last Thursday. 1t
was talen sick The night before
! with chol.ra iutantum.
Mr., Weston requests us to an~
nounce that through respect to the
! Presbytery, at the Presbyterian
church, there will be no prayer
meeting at the Methodist church
Thursday nj ht.
We hear whisperings of an ak>
preaching marriage. 1t would,
! indeed, be strange if all the pic,
MICS ard moonlight stroIls of the
beautiful summer should yield
nothing but blanks In the matri-
monitl lottery.
Cotton has been received here
this week from Stewart, Webster,
Randolph, Calhoun and Lee coun>
ties. Buying is spirited and liber-
al, Macon prices being paid In
nearly every instance.
On next Monday night the city
council vii elect a successor to
City Attorut> Mercer. resigned.
| Col ice LANG will doubtless be
! elected % furnish legal advice for
the city the remainder Of tue year.
Wash Robinson, charged with
the murder OF Allen Nip lies, an
account OF which was 2iven in the
| | st issue OF the News, was brought
from Cuthbert Monday and given
preliminary hearing before
Judge Query. He was remauded
to Randolph Jail without bail.
Tax Collector Crouch is now oil
ais rounds. and he hopes that all
taxpayers will meet him with smiE-
ing fac and pocket books full
enough to receive a receipt in full
for state and county taxes. Uncle
Peter" is clever fellow and faith.
iul official,
The Friendship Association will
meet with Bethel church ia Sumter
county to-morrow. The delegates
from Dawson are Rev. 3. W. D.
Wis, Rev. jesse Rogers and Messrs'
E. r Orr, ]. V. Roberts and w
9. PdschaI,
Frost will soon lite the tai
weeds on our streets, which have
been such an eye-sore during the
summer, and they will soon decay
causing, no d ubt, much sickness
but next spring they will rise VI
again as hiding place for skunks
md other wild varments,