The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1889-10-23
SHORT NEWS NOTES.

There in and About the City.
| Waterworks.
Circus humbug.
Biggest fire ever in Dawson.
New oranges on the market.
Vote for a neN court house.
The guard house Was fall Satur
day,
Municipal politics are discussed
freely.
The city overlooked with people
Saturday.
John Robinson's circu, is billed
for Albany on November first.
Our merry dentist says he trans,
forms children into gros persons.
There never was better time
than now for paying tor the News,
Thousands of negroes thronged
the streets Saturday, AL here t,
see the show.
The Macon Telegraph speaks Of
Terrell as a dry county. Wonder
where it got its information
Judge B. B. Bower, of the AL
bany circuit, IS holding Miller
court for Judge Query this week,
Several citizens of tile county
| speak of moving to Dawson when
the public school system rs adopted
| Thursday was Thanksgiving day
by appointment OF Governor Cor
! don. but it was not observed in
Dawson.
Our college is on a regular boom.
Prot. Jones is doing effective ser,
vice and the students are making
rapid advancement.
The potato crop is good. Our
farmers are bringing them in by
the wagon load, and are retailing
them at sixty fyc cents a bushel.
Mr.. j. A. Horseley will soon
be- ilthC erection of a handsome resi-
dence on the lot he recently pur-
chased from DIR. Paschal, in the
eastern part of the city.
We areglad to learn that Mr..
~ S. Carter is recovering from a
severe attack of typhoid fever.
Mr.. Carter is OF e of our honest and
Woodworking farmers.
Three or tour marriages in Daw-
son ard vicinity are said to be
close ut hand and several others in
soak. Cradle futures are going up
at the rate of ten points day.
Rev. B, w. Davis has discovered
n new covering for cotton. 1t is
the Okla plant, and to us, seems a
very fine substitute for jfte. 1t
is very strong and heavy and has
a fine fibre.
Dawson has within her borders
some FIRST class material for test
oftha vagrant law. You couldn't
run them down with hounds if
they knew you wanted them to
work.
We regret to learn that Mr.. w.
E. Eelts, one of our substantial
farmers, was completely paralyzed
on the ri INT side a few days ago.
He has many friends who wish him
g. complete and speedy recovery.
The Presbyterians have changed
the hour for Sunday school from
10 a. m. to 3 p. m. There were
everal new scholars Sunday. MIR.
Merideth Statham was made assist
ant superintendent.
President Livingstone failed to
appear last "Wednesday, aud in coh-
e,uence there we're Il great many
disappointed aliianeemen in town.
In the afternoon. Mr.. w. S. Cope
land explained, the new secret
work. They alse paid for their
warehouse on that day.
J. q. Parks q Go. now have.
theirinsurance office in the room
formerly occupied by them over
the drug store of Cheatham a.
Dean. They have received fresh
lot of supplies from their compln.
les. ana are better fixed for insur
ing property than before the fire.
1t has been reported that Arthur
Love, manager of the Arthur Love
Comedy Company, his wife and
little daughter Nina, were aneny
the thousands that persisted in the
Johnstown flood. They, had Wis
tied Dawson every season for the
past several years.
Dawson will continue to be in
in danger until she succeeds in caps
turing some Of the firebups that
seems to be in possession Of the
city. 1t seems strange that with
such an efficient police force as
Dawson has these incendianes have
beenyable to operate with impn-
nifty. Ihe arrest and;eonvietion Of
one of these worthless would have
a very benefi cial effect.
just received at Davis g. Locke's
100 boys suits. Pricices as. cheap
as the cheapest.
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