The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-04-01
Roasting With Pardonable Pride of
It's Many Superior Advantages.
BUsTLING WITH BUSINESS.
Pictured from Every Point Of View. The
Commercial and G Geographical Center
OF One of the Best Counties
Of Georgia.
Of Georgia.

The career of cities is as the life of
individuals, made up of numberless
little things that are of minor inn
portance in themselves, but when
taken in connection and as links in a
chain of circumstances they possess a
value that is not to be discarded. But
Of the thousands of everyday happen
ings there are, of course, many Of no
significance, and it is, perhaps, more
the conditions which exist as a gen
pral result of the small things that
should be taken as the pulse of the
living corporate body. Causes pro-
duce these conditions, however, and
while further on and in various other
parts of this paper will be found many
circumstances arising secondly from
conditions; yet the object Of this edi-
ton is to recount in brief the success
siye steps that have placed the city in
the position that itnow occupies.
DAWSON,
the city whose merits are now re-
corded, has never had boom. It's
growth has been steady and natural
If the spiders Of conservatism are al
lowed to spin the webs Of caution il
the window Of opportunity, the people
Of city may become as obvious TO tha
which betokens a splendid future g.
The bats are to the movements Of Ec-
nus or the oscillations Of Jupiter.
Dawson has natural resources ard
favorable environments beyond any
city Of its class in Georgia. It has 8
disposition to develop these resources /:
to advertise in some degree its claims
upon the promises toward the invest
ment Of capital EThis being the pun
pose of this edition, the News will
now proceed to depict minaturely tie
city its business and manufacturing
interests.
Dawson does not claim to be the
prettiest and most stately city in TIE
Union. Neither is it the largest
either in point of commercial interest
Or geographical boundaries in the
South. The country surrounding Is
not Garden Of Eden nor the ne plus
ultra Of the agricultural.south.
THE CITY,
however, is a modern municipality
claiming all that goes to make a city o.
its proportion and worth. 1t is the OUT
come of progress, and while it lays ne
claim to great beauty, can point to
other cities of equalgsize that canno5
compare to it in this respect.
Dawson is the producttof the couI :
try surrounding it. As "a tree s
known by its fruits, !" the country may
fairly be judged by the gem which
commerce and husbandry have foundeC
in its midst.
1t is not the intention of the News tc
embellish with word painting non
aepIct extrayagantly modern para
use lowing with milk and honey
where the weary and toil-stained la
oorers of other chimes may find hi
mamma" upon the ground, and where
.he necessities of life, like hope in the
lleart, springs eternal from the soil.
mere, as elsewhere, men must work
'or 10 labor is the only heritage thai
Sustained man brought with him
through y the gates Of Eden, and while
l Snls section offers large returns for a
li'Ie labor it in no wise repudiates
'""V alYlne mandate to earn by the
s"eat OF the brow. The day of ''boom
alu larry tales is past. They serve their
~ purpose, being good for beginners in
M II anu ID business. They do for ex-
slIehce and entertainment. but are
Faaly lacking when cold, pitiless facts
[sale one In the face and the "bitter
e s5tp OF smarting poverty" makes it.
sna iefb' People of today want facts,
pno not what it can do, but what II ha
que and is doing every day. ' = 81