The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-01-18

PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT $500 PER YEAf
BY e. L. RAINEY.
DAWSON, GA, JAN. 18TH, 1908
KING COTTON must at last bow &c
hog and hominy.
Coz. Tom FELDERS roast was good
INT he was mighty late in serving it.
THOSE gubernatorial booms fnat
started off so lively became stHl2g-
halted early in the race.
THE presidents idea seems to Zoe
Mat letter carriers are paid 'toFdls-
tribute mail and not politics.
IF the farmer follows all of the ad-
vice that is now being given him he
won't have time to made cpop-this
year.
No Georgia politician has galloped
up and down before the grand stand
astride of the poor old negro IN
several weeks.
EVERY man who has worried his
hair out trying to borrow five dollars
must lift his hat to Mrs. Chadwick,
..queen of high finance.
A VIRGINIA elector wanted to vote
psfor Roosevelt. Colonel julie Brown
of Atlanta is not the only funny fellow
the late election developed.
THE dowager empress of China has
already spent nearly $4,000, 900 on her
acwn monument. But, then, she 'eK-
poets to spend long time under it.
THOSE eminent gentlemen who ad-
rxised the farmer to hold his cotton
last fall are very likely not pulled up
with pride just now. Advice is cheap
and often bad.
TWO Atlanta policemen who had "a
fight arrested each other and marched
off to, the barracks. There's devotion
to duty that ought to satisfy even
Parson Broughton.
THE Augusta Herald takes comfort
in thefact that ''the Georgia electors
got some good feeding and drinking
as the result of the recent upheava1,
and that's more than the voters did. "
COUNT Johan Marie Joseph Alain
Dedous de Pierrefen, who took wife
in Boston the other day, will live in
Newark. Some of his name will
probably aoe stored in warehouse
THE town of Thomson, Ga, has had
bit of frenzied finance. Tom Wat
Son withdrew his money from the To-
cal bank, and threatened to crack the
head of the president of the institu-
6en.
THE Savannah Press says ''the
Georgia editors are now giving the
farmers liberal advice. They should
reserve their tfTunder for the state leg
stature in June" They have an am
JAe supply for both.
.GOLONEL j. FRED LEWIS was elect
- to take GeouGia's vote for preSi-
don't to Washington. W wish the
Colonel pleasant trip and safe re-
@rn. That's all Wen get out Of it
down here in Georgia.
MINNESOTA has abolished the grand
@~y system as useless appendix TO
the furtherance of justice. There has
heeu some agitation OF the question in
Georgia, and there are many in this
lie who agree with the Minnesota
9Aea.
HENDERSON, GEORGE has told his ups
and downs in seeking the speakership.
Now let Fondren Mitchell and Walter
&teed take their pens in hand and write
couple of chapters while Ne@.t Morris
and Billy Osborne are catching their
m@ath
ALL of the ministers of the Ameri-
Gus district are ia Dawson this week,
and our people are glad to have these
good men among them. They sind
here one of the strongest and most
progressive churches in the entire COR
ference.
COLONEL JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES
las mixed his legs with Teddy's under
the white house mahOgony, and we are
assured by the delightful Albanian
that the strenuous one dotes on the
south. But what queer way he has
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