The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-02-28

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pie for profit.
DIR. JESSE JONES of Pulaski, Tenn,
celebrated his one hundred and tenth
birthday few days ago. He attrib-
utes his long life to the fact that he
has used tobacco since be was ten
years old, and for seventy-fiVe years
has taken "a little bitters" every day.
But maybe, says the Savannah News,
if he he had cut out the tobacco and
"bitters" he would have lived to be
two hundred by this time.
THE marriage of President Roose-
velts daughter to an ordinary Amer
lean conjoined with the elimination
of the domestic difficulties of Count de
Castellane, who is now roaming his
beloved Partisan bOulevards bereft
of any visible means of support,
should have the effect of giving de-
cided bearish tone to the title market.
CALHOUN county has called a pri-
mary for April Doth. to nominate state
senator, representative and county
officers. There is a general DISPOSE
ton everywhere not to mix state and
county politics, and nearly half of
the counties have already called pri-
maries for the nomination of local
candidates.
FROM the annual report of the COM
missioner of patents it is learned that
last year thirty thousand patents were
issued-more than half the number
applied for. 1t is pointed out that
Connecticut, the home of the wooden
Dutmeg, is the prize state for inven-
tions.
A New YORK woman is suing
Florida railroad for $4,000 for alb
Quoting her son, worth ten cents, and
taking him to it's Key West extension
to toll. If she is successful the son
won't have to work any more for some
time to come.
THE Omaha Bee says the only pen
atty inflicted on Pat Grove, who was
tried on the charge of kidnapping Pack
err Cudahy's boy, was when he was
summarily cut off from shaking hands
with the jury when the verdict was
rendered.
THEY are having tame times over in
the third congressional district for
three candidates to be in the field.
Col Craw Wheatley and Hon. bud
Hughes do not seem to be able to get
much further in than the edge.
ONE of the latest professorships es-
tablished at Columbia university is
that of civilization. 1t will be no.
ticed, says contemporary, that this
departure followed the abolition of
football by Columbia.
THE state candidates can do plenty
of running this year. Chairman YeO-
mans will not call the democratic ex-
ecutive committee together to fix
date for the primary until the latter
part of next month.
IN the City of Mexico the cold has
been so severe this winter that the
police have allowed the poor to gath
err around bontires in the plazas. And
at the same time New England's ice
harvest has failed.
EDITOR T. A. ATKINS is a candi-
date for the legislature in DooEg coun-
tv. If he can run the legislature as
well as he does the Vienna News his
people should unanimously send him
up.
ALMOST every fellow who announces
for the legislature is either a candi
date for speaker of the house or pres
ident of the senate. 1t is for home
consumption, of course, and is harm
less.
CONGRESSMAN GRIGGs has secured
an order from the postofice depart
ment for the installation of complete
system of rural free mail service in
Tiff county.
IT is suggested by contemporary
that the Georgia drummers' demand
for "clean sheets" should apply to
those Atlanta dailies as we'll as to
| hotel bed linen.
Hon. d. B. HENDERSON, a distin-
gulshed republican and former speak
er of the national house of representa-
tives, has just died at his home in
Iowa.
THEY have elected former Congress
man Maddox mayor of Rome. The
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