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Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-02-24
Baltimore & Ohio R, R.

Baltimore & Ohio R. R.
Ohio River Division.
Time Table In effect May 10. 1907.
EAs1 BOUND.
7.OS A. N. Accommodation
Daily except For Wheeling and intermedial'
sunday. points.
S,55 A. n. Pittsburg Express
Daily. For New Martinsville, Noun Do
Vile, Wheeling Pittsburg, Frank
I'm, OIL City, Titusville and Inter
mediate points. Runs solid g.
Pittsburg, daily except SUNDAY
Daily to Wheeling.
Ia:IO p. n. Accommodation
Daily except For New Martinsville and int
Sunday. mediate points.
2:0zP. II. New York Express
Daily. For New Martinsville, Mound,
Vile, Wheeling, Pittsburg, Buffs
10, Washington, Baltimore, Phils
deiphia, New York and alf point,
North and East. Runs solid Il
Pittsburg. Parlor car.
ass p. n. Accommodation
Daily. For wheeling and intermediate
points.
r, N
Daily except For New Martinsville, Mounds
Sunday. Vile, Benwood, Wheeling, Pitts
burg, Buffalo, Baltimore, Wash
ington, New York and all point
North and East. Runs solid tr
Pittsburg. Parlor car.
WEST BOUND.
9:2l A. n. Accommodation
Daily For Parkersturg and iuterme
date points.
Hos A. N. Ohio Valley Express
Daily except For st. Marys, Marietta, Park
Sunday. ersburg, Ravenswood, Milwood
Pomeroy, Pt. Pleasant, Charles
ton, Gallipolis, Huntington, Ken
ova, Ironton, Portsmouth, Cincin
natl and all points South ant
West. Runs solid te Cincinnati
Parlor car.
l:24 p. n. Kenova Express
Daily For st. Marys, Marietta, Park
ersburg, Ravenswood. Niiwcod
Pomeroy, Pt. Pleasant, Charles
ton, Gallipohs, Huntington, Ken
ova and principal intermediate
points. Parlor car.
S:I4 P, n. Accommodation
Daily except For ParkersburR, Pt. Pleasap
Sunday. and intermediate points.
6:4I P. N. Accommodation
Daily. For Parkersburg and Intern.
date points.
S:25 P. n. Express
Daily except For Friendly, st. Marys, wave,
Sunday, ", Marietta and ParkersburR
d. B. MARTIN,
Man'g'r Passenger Traffic.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-02-24

Ed Davenport, the genial grocer
drummer, arrived in the city this
morning.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-06-03
WANTS FARMERS TO RAISE BETTER CATTLE.

The following dispatch from Atlanta
will be read with interest by farmers
and the public generally. There are a
number of Terrell county farmers who
have Hereford cattle, and interest in
cattle raising is gradually growing In
the county:
San effort is being made by 0. B.
Stevens, commissioner of agriculture,
to encourage the raising of Hereford
and shorthOrn cattle in Georgia.
There are comparatively few Herefords
in the state. For years the Jersey has
been pushed, on account of her milk
and butter qualities, until that strain
extends pretty we'll ali over the state.
AS is we'll known to all cattle raisers,
the Jersey IS about the poorest of all
cattle for beef. She has been bred
away from beef until she is useless for
that purpose. The Hereford has been
bred away from milk and butter and is
the great beef steer, big Hereford
steer bringing $l0C
"ProbablY the largest herd OF Here
fords in the state is that owned by
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-06-03
CAN TELL BOUNDARY LINE.
Traveller Knows by the Roads When
DOuqherty County is Reached.

In view of the fact that the grand
jury has just recommended what is
known as the NEW system" of road
working for Terrell county, the follow
ing from the Albany Herald is ofinter-
est:
"There is a crusade on up in Lee
county in the interest of an improved
system of public highways. Lee is
one of the largest counties. Her ag-
ricultural interest are of immense
value and their Importance is increas-
ing. Her farmers are compelled to
haul their products to markets over
roads that are deep in shifting sand
and in many localities poorly kept.
sit is fact we'll known that man
driving from Dougherty county into
Lee-or any other of the surrounding
counties, for that matter-can tell,
without being told exactly where the
boundary line is, for the roads of
Dougherty are famous throughout
this section of the state for their ex-
cellent state of development and the
systematic manner in which they are
cared for. 1t has cost something to
make them what they are, but they
have repaid the cost of their construc-
tlOn and maintenance many times
over"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-06-03
AN OLD CHESTNUT TO THE FRONT.

Our esteemed and always wide-awake
contemporary, the Athens Banner, in
forms it's readers that the south
Georgia editors are happy-the black
berry crop promises big yield"
While black berries are an appreci-
ated luxury, they are not by any means
all there is to eat down In this favored
section. Fruits of every kind, melons,
vegetables, fish, game, juicy home-rais-
ed hams, spring chickens, old-fashloned
corn bread, biscuit from homemade
-four and other good things too numer-
GUS to mention may be had and enjoy
ed in abundance by every man from the
banker down to the laborer-including
even editors-who does honest and in
telligent work six days in the week.
It is time TO put the bewhiskered
blackberry chestnut away. 1t is hoary
with age, and deserves a long and un'
Interrupted rest.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-06-03

Hon. Sam Leigh, member of the iegis
lature from Coweta county. MIR.
Leigh's plantation is four miles from
Newman. and the Hereford is his fad.
Mr.. Leigh is graduate of the State
University anu of the law department
of the University of Virginia, and goes
at farming in scientific and business
like manner. He has about 100 head
of cattle, half of them HerefOrds. An
example of the difference between the
Hereford and the common stock is il.
Illustrated in Mr.. Leigh's pasture.
Three years ago two calves were born
on Mr.. Leigh's plantation. One was a
Hereford and the other a common
Georgia scrub. Each ran with his
mother. They were fed out of the
same trough, ran in the same pasture,
and had exactly the same treatment.
Today the scrub weighs $50 pounds
and the Hereford weighs 1850. The
scrub is not worth over $25, while the
Hereford, worth more pound for pound,
would bring over 800. MIR. Leigh
intends to add TO his herd until he
has 500 or 900 Herefords.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-06-03
CONGRESSMAN 6RI66s ON PARTY HARMONY.

Joe Oil had couple of columns in
Friday mornings Atlanta Constitution
under the heading, "Some Leading
GeOrgians Who Figure in the News"
from which we extract the following:
Judge Jim Griggs, congressman
from the second district, was in the
city for few hours yesterday on his
way to Washington. Judge Griggs'
young daughter is a pupil of one OF the
schools for which the national capitol
is famous, and be has gone on to bring
her home for her vacation. Naturally
he talked politics when he goo with a
crowd IN the Piedmont lobby. ut
seems to me-" said he, when asked
about democratic presidential pOssi-
billties, "that we have fair, fighting
chance TO win If we can just get togeth-
err, but that, apparently. is not the
easiest thing in the world for demo-
Gratis to do. Down our way we are all
for harmony, but we don't want the l.
told-you-so kind that some of our
friends are disposed to dish out to us.
| refer particularly to the esteemed
gentlemen who assume that the minute
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-06-03
COTTON AREA LARGELY INCREASED.
The Estimate Is Based Upon Reports
from 1000 CORRESPONDENTS.

The New York Journal of Commerce
has issued the results of a careful
investigation of the acreage planted in
cotton, the condition of the plant and
the prog ress of farm work. These re-
sLlts in brief are:
First, an increase, to be exact, of
eight.tenths of per cent in the area
under cultivation; second, decrease
of 1863 points in condition, and, third,
agreement that the season is two TO
three weeks late.
In other words, an increase of 224,-
422 acres is indicated, while the crops
average condition ia rs, compared with
91.9 reported last year by virtually
the same correspondents.
The returns are from 300 cores
pOndents whose reports bear average
date of May "a. North Carolina reports
increased area of 6 per cent, or 1884
acres; South Carolina per cent, or
1851 acres: Georgia three-tenths of
l per cent. or 1875 acres; Florida
per cent, or 1861 acres; Alabama a
decrease of 3 per cent, or 109, 1859 acres;
Mississippi decrease of per cent, or
%, 70l acres.
Louisiana ard Texas, no change
from last year; Arkansas, increase
of per cent, or l20, 4lS acres; Tonnes
see, increase of , per cent, or 1850
acres; the Indian Territory an increase
of 5 per cent, or 1865 acres.
In condition, North Carolina reports
a decrease Of 10 per cent; South Caro-
lima of II per cent; Georgia of p per
cent; Florida of 10 per cent; Alabama
of 10 per cent; Mississippi of 8 per
cent; Louisiana II per cent; Texas q
per cent; Arkansas Is per cent; Ten
nessee 10 per cent, and Indian Terrific
ry 10 per cent.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-06-03
SECOND CROP IN VALUE.
Some Interesting Facts and Fig
ureS About Cotton.
By STATE AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT.


One Of the most reliable sources of
information for the United States CEN
Sus office concerning the production
of cotton Is found in the reports OF the
cotton ginners.
Many will be surprised to learn that
the cotton ginned from the growth OF
1902. exclusive of linters, amounted
to IL ,078,882 running bales, equivalent
to 10, O20, 945 bales of 500-pound stand
ard, or counting round bales, $40 1885,
ESQ.
The average crop, exclusive Of lint
ers, for the past four years has been
9,9O2,277 bales of 500 pounds and the
excess over these figures of the crop
of 1902, is 1913, 6S8 bales. The great
falling off in production west of the
Mississippi owing to crop failures In
Texas, was more than offset by the
increase in other states, both east and
west of that river. The states show
ing the most notable increase were
Arkansas, Georgia, Loupisiana and
Mississippi.
The value of the entire crop Of 1902
is estimated at 1901 ,897,354, making
It the second crop of the United
States in value, with corn first and
wheat third. The value of raw cotton
exports for the same time is $3.50 ,651,-
S19, giving that article the first rank
among American exports. Now here Is
q fact that our farmers should heed.
The export price for 1902 was about
one cent per pound less than that OF
1901. This shows the importance
of guarding carefully against over-pro-
duction. or, at least the necessity of
having some other paying crop to
come to the rescue, if the price OF
cotton should, by reason of an I'M
usually large crop, fall below the point
of profit.
It is to be hoped that the marvellous
growth of the cotton factories and
cotton seed oil mills of the south will
by their steadily increasing demand
for the raw product of our fields pre-
vent any possible recurrence in the
future of the ruinous low prices that
once prevailed.
The quantity of short cotton saved
TO the commercial world by the regin-
ming of cotton seed for oil extraction
is annually increasing
The southern farmer can congratu-
late himself that he has ncotton one
of the greatest money crops in the
world; and the Georgia farmer has ad-
ditional reason to be happy in the fact
that his home is in one of the fore
most states of the great south-now
the most progressive and rapidly ad-
vancing section of the greatest nation
of the earth!
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-06-03

we say we are anxious tor harmony
that it means we are willing to admit
that we have been absolutely wrong in
supporting the democratic ticket an
democratic principles in the last two
presidential contests. There are some
eminent gentlemen who seem to think
that the way TO promote harmony is to
construe our advocacy of It. TO mean that
we are willing and anxious to accept
Cleveland and Clevelandism. Now, in
my judgment-and | thlnk the vast
majority of the democrats believe as !
do-there can be no harmony if Mr..
Cleveland is to be put to the fore any
mora than If Mr.. Bryan is. / am for
any man who can win, because | be-
lieve the interests OF the country de-
mand the overthrow OF the republican
party; but there can be no harmony
and no victory if the old factional
lines are to be drawn. Tho men who
are engaged in an attempt to revivify
Mr. Cleveland into presidential pos
sibility are certainly not doing their
part toward the promotion of demo
cratic getting together, however loud
ly they may protest to the contrary. "
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-06-03
COLD.BLOODED.

II thorough examination of the
people of every section of the country
could be made 1t would be found that
the excellences and frailties of each
would be about equal. In other words,
as David Harum says, human nature Is
alike everywhere, only a little more
so.
AS newspaper reports show, lynch
ings are not confined to any place when
wOmauhood is attacked. There may
he more in the south than anywhere
else, but that is because there are
more assaults here, owing to the large
number of vicious blacks. The north
has boosted of her love of education,
and the people there used to make the
charge that slaves were kept in ignor-
ance SO that they would not long for
freedom or keep posted as to the aboli-
tionists' agitation against their mas
tiers. But what shall we say of the
action of the leading women of Belle
vile, Ill.,, who are in favor of abolish
ing the High School of the town be-
cause education makes girls too proud
to become servants. One of the women
is quoted as saying:
when poor girls are given high
school education they get TOO proud to
work in kitchen. and secure positions
in Offices and stores. 1t is almost i'm
possible to get a girl now, and the
High School is TO blame for it. Belle
vile could learn something from Ger
many. Thew don't educate the poor
people over there like they do here"
This is about as cold -blOoded prop
ositiOn as we ever heard of. The thou
sands of gladiators sacrificed to make
a Roman holiday were nothing as com.
pared to sacrificing the intellect OF
thousands of poor girls to furnish
Belleville danes with servants
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-06-03
DOVEREL DOINGS.
Interesting items Gathered by The News
Special Correspondent.

Judge F. M. McLendon, Misses Lola
and Allie McLendon of Dawson, Mrs.
Kidd of Leary and Mrs. McMath OF
Arlington were here Saturday to at
tend the funeral of Mrs. j. I. McLen'
don.
Rev. Martin preached an able and
Instructive sermon AT the Methodist
church Sunday.
Mr., and Mrs. W. S. Thornton visited
the family of Mr.. w. L. Mathews at
Herod Sunday.
Mr.. L. Mcneil, who has been at
tending school at Fairburn, is now
with homefOlks.
Mrs. W. S. Thornton and Miss Gussie
Lee were shopping in Dawson Wednes-
day.
Mr.. L. w. Lee attended quarterly
meeting at New Hope church Friday.
Profs. Jordan and Lee went fishing
at ClarK's mill last week.
Miss Nettle Aycock spent Sunday
with friends in the village.
MIR, and Mrs. Oscar Corbin of Herod
visited relatives here Sunday.
Several Doverites attended singing
near Fountains bridge Sunday.
Mr.. Frank English of Herod is en-
pIoyed here for short time.
Mr.. w. L. Patrick of Dawson was
here Sunday.
John Henry went to Bronwood Sat
urdaY.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-06-03
PRESIDENT GUERRY.

By practically unanimous vote the
trustees of Wesleyan Female College
have elected Hon. Dupont GuerrV
president OF that institution, and Mr.
Guerrv has notified the board OF his
acceptance.
The News believes that the college
is to be congratulated upon having Sc
cured the services of its new presl'
dent. He is a man of strong lntellect
and high ideals, and is active ana Wig
orous in whatever work he undertakes
Under his administration Wesleyan
NAV expect renewed and greater USE
fulness.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-06-03
SWEPT WITH FLOOD AND FIRE.
MANY Lives and Millions in Property Lost
$4,000 People Homeless.

TOPEKA, KANs., May 30.-Four hun
dred houses naye burned in North To
neka. and that whole section of the
CITY will be burned.
As far as can be learned about l5O
persons are dead. Most OF these were
burned to death.
Burning houses are floating about
setting fire to others. The lower story
of the burning buildings contain ten
feet of water. The current is go strong
that no boat can approach any OF the
burning buildings.
PEOPLE are gathered on the tops OF
houses. and will meet death either by
fire or drowning. The cries for help
can be distinctly heard mile away.
The whole city is wildly excited be-
cause no aid can be extended to the
sufferers. The river at North Topeka
is FIVE miles wide.
No possible estimate of the financial
loss is obtainable, but it can be stated
that it will reach into the millions.
The water supply of the whole city
has been cut off. The water from
the river extends nearly mile on the
south side. The Rock Island depot
has been abandoned, and more than
500 people on this side of the river are
also homeless, but no loss of life has
resulted in South Topeka.
EIGHTY FIRES RAGING.
From the state house dome as many
as eighty fires can be counted 10 differ"
ent parts of North Topeka. The en-
tire central portion of the city had
been burned out at 10 o'clock tonight
and it is safe to say that by morning
not a house in the main part of North
Topeka will be left standing.
When it is stated that North Topeka
has 10000 inhabitants the extent OF
the disaster can be realized.
People are sticking to the roofs OF
houses and to trees, and many are PlY-
ing up in despair and dropping into
the waters below to be carried away
by the swift current 1t it death by
fire or drowning to 400 persons, unless
means can be found for their rescue.
OTHER STATES SUFFER TERRIBLY.
KANSAS CITY, Mo, May 30-Unprec-
edented floods are raging III central
and Eastern Kansas, NORTHWESTERN
Missouri, Eastern Nebraska and
South western Iowa, the result OF ten
DAYS of almost continuous rainfall.
The general situation is considered
most grave, with no Immediate relief
in sight. Many lives have been lost,
and it is estimated that no less than
%, 900 persons have been driven from
their homes, many of which were
washed away, and that the property
loss will run we'll up into the millions
of dollars.
The greatest damage has been oc--
casioned between Kansas City and
Ellsworth, Kan, 100 miles west. The
chief sufferer is North Topeka, which
has been separated from the main part
of the CITY and become an island.
AT Kansas City, and in the suburban
town of Armourdale and at Harlem
and Sheffield, Mo-, an aggregate OF
10000 persons have been forced 10
leave their homes, and 5000 employees
of the numerous packing houses and
railroad shops in the bottoms are out
of employment.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-06-03
AND NOW THE TOWN PUMP.

From the Savannah Press.
some time ago the Quitman Free
Press protested against tearing down
the horse racks in Quitman. Now
The Dawson News 10 moved 10y the re-
moval of the old pump in that town.
The Press stated in the Quitman Incl.
dent that the horse racks had played
an important part in the commercial
and political history of Brooks county.
They were landmarks which ought not
to be removed They have not been
removed. A personal visit TO that
town conyinces US that they are there
to stay, and although some Of the
aggressive, irreverent spirits of the
place call for their overthrow they
still stand in the principal streets,
offering TO the traveller terminus at
once familiar and inspiring.
The Dawson News says that the
old town pump has long been rallying
point for conferences and com bines.
Heads have been put together, cam
paigns devised which swept the state,
and political hooms have been checked
which seemed to be CARRYING the dis
trict. 1.-THE old pump could talk Editor
Rainey thinks it could tale unfold
that would stir the commonwealth.
The removal of the pump was proba-
bly, brought about by the opening of
the dispensary. The boys will not
rally around an artesian well when
they have something more animated
offering an asylum. Possibly the Rev.
Sam Jones will devote his attention TO
this idea when he gets back to Dawson.
With the water works in the courts
and the pump pulled down it looks like
the dispensary would have full sway.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-06-03
GAINESVILLE STORM SWEPT.
100 People Killed and $50 Injured
In Cyclone Monday.

GAINESVILLE, Ca, JUNE with
in the space Of two minutes today a
tornado dealt death and destruction 70
the city of Gainesville and environs,
LiIIino at least one hundred people
wounding one hundred and fifty more
and leveling two hundred cottages
and other buildings to the ground ano
tearing two stories OIL the factory .,
Gainesville cotton mill. or the klileG
probably two-thirds were women ano
children who were operatives In the
cotton mills. The death list includes
about six negroes.
The storm came from the south ou'
of almost clear sky, swooping down
on the Gainesville cotton mills near
the Southern railroad station at fifteen
minutes before o'clock.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-06-03
He will Meyer Get Another Hair Cut.

From the Savannah News
Remote as is the possibility of Mr..
Cleveland's candidacy, it brings ray
of hope TO James ClawsOn of Neoga,
III. Mr.. Clawson is an original Cleve-
land man, including in his devotion
even fourth candidacy and a third
term. During MIR. Cleveland's second
candidacy Mr.. Clawson made cam
paign bet, under the terms of which
he was not 10 cut his hair or beard
until Cleveland was iuaugurated. Mr.
Cleveland lost, of course, and Claw
son S hair had four years TO run. BY
that time he had become so fond of it
as mark of cOnstancy to his favOrite
that he resolved to keep it as me-
mento. He is now 70 years old and is
said TO have the finest head of silver
silk hair in the west, and he is proud
OF it. Still he says if Cleyeland
should be once more elected president
be would celebrate the occasion by
getting hair cut and shave.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-06-03
TO SEE IF HIS SON WAS A r., ,
The Sad Journey of a South Ca,
Citizen to Americas
From the Americas Press.

From the Americas Press.
Thursday night when the la,o
came in from Albany a O. 9,v III
alighted and inquired for the ' ;aM
was strange inquiry, and ,tba ", ns
to whom he applied cid not n UIS
stand it. UuuI
The officer, however. proao.oa
show him TO the Jail, and on tbe
the gentleman unfolded his N
about how, in looking over a co ~
paper in the state, he saw il otsi
that man under an assumed Va
had been arrested and bronch,
Americas, and that he had enta,SI
plea of guilty to burglary and reco;1
sentence of FIVE years in the nen;'j
uary. The last heard of his SON
was in Americas, and the real NAM
the prisoner not being given. ha !
got it into his head that this miGb;I
his long lost son; he also t5ouobt
might have done this TO conceal
identity.
Many anxious hours were spent
him and his wife, and the more N
thought of the matter the md
troubled they became. The tbmJ
preyed on his mind so, and tronhI
him so, that he came TO the CITY to
certain if the self.convicted man ]
his son.
At his request the officer show
him to the jail. 1t was but the wd
of little while to arouse the sberI
When awakened the genial sbeI
came out, and after a little talk wi
the gentleman he satisfied him M
the man in Jail was not his son.
On the early train the gentlem
returned to his home, able to sail
the boys mother that the prison
was not the lost and loved son, b
with no intelligence as to his wheI
abouts.
What story dwells in this reciI
for those who can read between d
lines. How that mothers heart b
ached in all these years, as she
looked for the homecoming of
boy. She waited all these years fot
letter, and the first intelligence j
received was little news item I'd
made her think it was her darling
der another name. What must hal
been her feelings during her hI
bands absence How her poor he'd
must have bled at the thought of ii
son, incarcerated in dungeon, lOd
ing every day to be carried to the ps
itentiarV.