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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-13
ATLANTA GETS sCORCHED.

Atlanta got a severe scorching
Thursday, million dollars worth
OF property being burned in the
business section of the city in the
vicinity of the Terminal station.
While the property losses were
heavy it is a matter for profund
gratitude that no lives were lost
Had the fire occurred at night
even a business district might
have given up human victims to the
devouring flames. But the regret
for the disaster is softened bv the
knowledge that dollars only, and
not lives, were in the losses. The
devastated district will, of course,
be speedily rehabilitated. Before
tie embers are cool or have quit
smoking the work of rebuilding will
have been begun, and the fire
swept space will be covered with
better buildings designed to do a
greater business than before.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-13
SASSER STRINGS.
Occurrences of the Week in and
Around That Thriving Town.

Around That Thriving Town.
Sasser is, in the near future, con-
templating the establishment of an
other rural route from here, travers-
ing the Southeast portion of Terrell
county and a portion of Lee county.
Some of the Sasser boys have a
mighty Lee county tendency. Don't
know whether they are going to farm
or not.
Mrs. c. A. Wilburn is having the
paint brush applied to her handsome
residence near the postoffice.
A committee has been appointed
to draft and accept plans for build
ing Sasser's new school house.
Our Primitive Baptist friends will
commence work on their church at
an early date.
Dirt was broken for the Baptist
church by Contractor Halls force
last Thursday.
Mr., Lloyd Long of Abbeville is
visiting his friend, Mr.. c. c. Lunday,
near Sasser.
Quite a large crowd attended
preaching at Macedonia Saturday
and Sunday.
General Green is getting quite
conspicuous through this section at
present
Miss Alice rdan has returned
from visit to Mrs. Oliver at AL
bany.
Mr.. Lee Lamar visited PARROT dur
ing the past week
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-13

The speech ev
representatives at Washington by Hon. Cham
Clark the democratic There are som
points that will interest the reader.
Mr.. Speaker Alabama into the union in 1879.
the day her admission generally represented
ably sometimes grandIy, in the congress-
at ede1 ehang her % and
Representatives for long periods thereby piVna
them an influence in legislation larger than their
must learn to be representative just he
merchant farmer The more brain learning and ndnsr
he mas tine sooner ne proficient in the difficult
speak this subject because length of
ton the republic England Pennsy seem to
oNe Randall Harer and Bng6am6a1
served total one hundred and ortynine General
to ne ana Long may he retain it. but may surprise
yanian, Hon. John Dae, would become of the
first state to give senator thirty conseou
tive service She great honor upon one
Thomas Hart Benton He served T pf Ro@an Co.,
as ne Iad IN his pomPGus way To this day she is the only
vice two different the other being Marion
Hon. Smith MoSr ont % 5egsn 4 b
@ year @ To this hour
Tyler Morgan Alabama William Boyd Allison Of Io%a
John Sherman of Ohio served thirty in
two sections of sixteen ea3h being secretary the
stewart had dS T0 %
service in section of twelve eighteen
The views here expressed by Mr. Clark will be noted b,
readers OF this paper exactly in line whit
The News service in CONGRESS-
show that general usefulness and value are amo
wholly dependent on length service For be questioned
that the congressman who capable growth
perence is likely to achieve new anC
lneo manno matter how patriotic and brilliant he
That article written
Hon. JAS NJ Gggs and the prestige his experience the house has
him the representative the district prestige with
his and the opposition The people district under
stand now better than they ever did before how grow
public e and by experience with affairs his attention he
exceptionally useful 1t is this knowledge appreciation
The conditions that explains the attitude the democrats Sec
md district with reference Mr. Gggs candidacy and his
lion the place he fills with much fidelity in no wise
OF any other democrat with aspirations and
ability 1t simply and purely question whether
aspirations OF some other the people of the district that
wise dispense with the faithful representative whose
perience.
And 1T to the credit Congressman Grggs
differences which have agaed the the
innate and confidence OF his people, whole in ability fidelity
and usefulness Whether Smith Brown prohibitions
prohbitonist finds with
Of the value of their congressional representative
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-13
GRAVES GLEANINGS.
Items About People and Things in
That Community.


That Community.
On Monday evening, May 25th,
Miss Pearl Melton music class, as
sisted by the school, will render a
very interesting programme at the
academy at Graves, beginning at s
O'Clock. An admission fee of ten
and twenty cents will be charged
and the proceeds. above expenses,
will be applied to the library fund
Misses Pearl and Belle Berry, who
have been the charming guests of
Miss Helen Smith. have returned to
their home in Bronwood.
Misses Gertrude and Louellep
Melton OF Perry, Fla, are the charm
ing guests of Miss Matte Melton.
Misses Amorette Burge and Kath-
leen Grimes came over from Cuth-
bert to see homefolks Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alex Smith left Sun
day for Cottonton, Ala, where thew
Will visit Mrs. Smiths brother.
Messrs. o. Y. Dean and Clarence
Arthur, of Shellman, were amono
Graves visitors Sunday.
Mrs, Isom Kimbles brother. Mr.
Mcbride, of Columbus, visited her
last week.
Misses Carlos Glider and Alberta
Crawford visited Andrew College Sun
day.
Mr.. Mercer Berry of Brentwood
visited Mr.. Ed Smith Sunday.
father near Graves.
Mr., Roy Smith spent Sunday with
homefoks. WIN
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-13
HE DENIES 1T.

Mr.. RoDDENBERY denies the re-
port that he voted the republican
ticket in 1900. AS The News print
ed an article form the Cuthbert
Acknowledgements charging him
with having done so we now give
him the benefit of his denial. AL
though we think the people of the
district would make a big mistake
to retire the present able and infu-
entail member of congress we
have no desire or intention to do
Mr.. Roddenbery an injustice or
misrepresent him in any way, and
will not do so knowingly.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-13

An able and wise Judge has sol
emily rendered a decision from the
bench that it is not against the law
to yell for Joe Brown. In At
lanta case was made against ]. L.
Quinn for going in front of the Jour
nal Office and hollering for Joe
Brown, and when the enthusiastic
Quinn was arraigned before the re-
corder he was told he could split
his consumed old throat a holler-
ing if he wanted to just so he kept
sober
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-13

The readers of this paper will he nlessed +c
Yea Yea that there is at least one dreaded disease
int science has been abe to cure in All If.
stages and that is catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cnre
co Ii'G onlS positive cure now known to the med
cal fraternity Catarrh being a constitntiona
Glsease, requires constitutional treatment
Hail Catarrh Cure is taken internally. actinC
uohlrectly upon the blood and mucous surfaces OF
me me system, thereby destroying the foundation OF
the disease, and giving the patient strength by
Duhdin up the constitution and assisting natnre
IN cong Its work The proprietors have SO mnct
Ian.n IN us curative powers that they offer One
nunureu DoHars Tor any case that it fails to cure
Send for list OF testimonials W O"'o
ADDRESS F. }. CHENEY & Co, Toledo. Ohio
Sold by all Druggists rs cents. '''
rake Ha Family Pills for constipation.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-13
ELECTRIC MULE MASSAGE.

Novel Manner of Grooming Hard
tails" at Pennsylvania Mine.
Having superseded thousands of
mules with electric power at it's
mines the Reading Coal and Iron
Company has now resorted to novel
plan of cleaning and grooming the
remaining mules in it's service by
electric power also, says the Phila-
delphia Record. BY the use of the
appliances adopted by the company
one man cleans a hundred mules in
an hour, whereas the same work by
hand would require at least a dozen
men.
AS the company still has $4,000
mules at its mines, the saving of la
Dor is regarded as a very important
item in the expense account.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-13

THE recent reports as to the dan
gerous state of the health of eX-
President Grover Cleveland may
have been exaggerated. At all
events it is gratifying to hear that
the latest statements are of much
more favorable character. That is
good, and perhaps old Grover may
live to go to the white house and
congratulate another democratic
president.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-13
REFORMATORY NEEDS RE-
FORMING.

At a recent meeting of the Geor-
gia Sociological Society in Atlanta
the Rev. Mr.. Brannen, pastor of the
Milledgeville Presbyterian church,
attacked the management of the re-
formatory which was recently estab-
fished by the state for the correc-
ton of juvenile criminals.
According to Mr.. Brannen the
only difference between the refor-
m3tOry and the penitentiary is
about two miles. From this it is
fair to infer that the boys are
chained and worked along with
hardened convicts, that they have no
religious or educational advantages,
and that no effort is being made to
fit them for the duties of citizens.
They are simply so many youths
who are being utilized to the fullest
extent to increase the revenues of
the state farm and who are subject
ed to daily influences calculated to
destroy whatever of self-respect
they may have, and to crush out
any ambition they may possess to
reform and make something of their
lives.
The purpose for which the refor-
matory was established is praise
worthy, and rightly conducted it
will be of great benefit 1t is an
institution, however, that came in
to existence in response to the
agitation and demand of a lot
of theorists and sentimentalists,
who are seldom practical.
AS is usually the case with
them, their interest in the reiorma-
tory ceased when they carried their
point before the legislature and had
the state to take it in hand. They did
not give their influence or encour-
agement to those members of the
Legislature who wanted the new in
stitution properly located and Off
cered and removed as far as posi-
BILE from the state penitentiary
The first mistake was made in per
hitting it to be located in Baldwin
county near the state convict farm
and demand for a reformation o
the reformatory is not surprise tt
The News. The only thing is thai
it has came sooner than we expect
ed il.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-13
Save Your Bank Account

Have your painter use the l.. &
M. PURE PAINT, because l.. & M.
guarantee the L. & M. PAINT, and
mus guarantee your painters work !;
It's double insurance. gallons L. &
nj. Paint and 3 gallons linseed oil,
make gallons paint at cost of 1920
per gallon.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-13
No Clemency for Harry LyIes.

Governor Smith has refused to in
terfere in the case of Harry Lyles,
white, sentenced to be hanged for
murder. Lyles killed both his wife
and babe, but was tried only on the
charge of kilIing his wife He will
be hanged on May 26.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-13
Important Notice

Insurance Company OF Terrell county. Va, r,re
hereby notified chat the regular annual meetine
o. the members of our company will be held at
,E1 coo QUIZ mouse IN Dawson, Ga, on Friday Nav
Will come before the meeting Yon are reonnas
c" W attend b. +. MELTON. Pres
w. II GIRR Cnnnn.a-.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-13
A Missing Name.

From the Savannah Press.
by the way, We did not see Clark
MOWERS name printed in the anti
Hoke Smith Club from Atlanta.
From the Triton Gazette
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-13
| Do Ditching.

am still here for work, and everyone in mead
OF my services can get them nv dTonnino, I neeu
letter at Dawson, Ga. am ditcher Of % w" we
experience. and thoroughly understand the yori,s
can get all the labor need Al any time
CHARLEY CARRIER
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-13

Soothes itching skin. Heals cuts mr.
burns without a scar. Cures niles
eczema, salt rheum, any itching
Doan's Ointment. Your drnggist
sells it. 0sslst
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-13
NOTICE.

Do not forget that l am yet hera
and can give you better satjsfactinr
tnan any other in your town on
female complaints. Come and sea
me. MANDY CARTEp
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-13

In Quitman county Hon. 7. W.
Oliver has been nominated for the
Legislature. Mr.. Oliver will be the
heavy weight of the lawmakers.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-13

A man who owes another d
grudge is sure to be Johnny on the
spot on pay day.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-13

IT is said that Seab Wright has
been promised job-if somebody
dies.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-13
1.-THE BEST IN THE SOUTH. q"

EUFAUA Ala May Enclosed please find
So co. which place credit subscription enov
The very every the best weekly
newspaper the south. Yours very truly, NJ GAMMAGE
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-13

THERE is whole lot of good hard
logic in the following paragraph
from an exchange: Good schools,
good public roads, intensive farm
ing, home production of all farm
necessities, the establishment of
small manufacturing plants, and a
bestowal of patronage on home en-
terprises are the things necessary
to build up towns, communities,
counties and states, and to all of
these things the people of this sec
ton should awaken. "
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-13

Beautiful line of Easter novelties
post cards, ETC., at c. L. Miles,.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-13
Money to Loan.

The Georgia Loan and trust Comnarv loo..
money at per cent per snnum on real estate
PROMPT service guaranteed. II you want tn bors
~" money see h. A. WILKINSON
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-13

Our neighbor, the Pelham Jour
nal, says that Joe Brown ought to
patent his card" system. 1t
thinks it is the most effective ever
gotten out.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-13

AN envious Florida contemporary
notes that while that state has sue
ceeded in producing a species of
odorless onions Georgia is produc-
ing a peerless beer.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-13

THERE is no need to argue and
fall out. At any rate, men can
speak pleasant and be friendly.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-13

EDITOR SEELY's reply to the accu-
sation of the Atlanta Journal that
the Georgian was partly owned and
under the control of a certain rail
road was what is known in common
parlance as hot stuff. " Every SEN
tence was shot that hit the bulls
eye. The Journal is finding that
its policy of SANDER and bulldozing
is not working as we'll as it once
did.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-13
Rooms w anted
Farm Loans.

am still negotiating loans on farm lands, II
you need money see me. aJNO p IPTfX IL
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-13

ALTHOUGH several car loads of it
were shipped away to Chattanoo-
ga in barrels the Atlanta spirit yet
knows no hindrance. Plans are al
ready on foot to rebuild the dis
trict that was devastated by the
flames Thursday.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-13

HETTY GREEN, the richest woman
in the world, has for years resid-
ed in a rented fat in Hoboken for
which she paid $15 a month. Last
week she astonished everybody who
knows her by moving into a suite in
a fine hotel in New York. For her
new home she pays SIS per dav,
thirty times what her Hoboken
fiat cost her. Something must be
the matter with Hetty.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-13

A few members of the Anti-Sa-
loon League ofGeorgia have dragged
the organization into partisan poll
tics, and its usefulness has been
destroyed and it's days numbered.
The action of the men who did this
has been severely criticized by 9th
er prominent prohibitionists. The
Atlanta Georgian, the only prohibi-
ton daily paper in the state, says:
Yesterday the Anti-Saloon League
was an organization whose sole aim
was to uplifU humanity. Today it
is a political tool pure and simple -
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-04-03
BROKE FAITH WITH CONSTITUENTS

First: We charge that at Harold in the Territory of Dakota on
the 4th day Of October, A. D. 1855, there was held the Eleventh LegiS
lative District Convention. called and convened for the purpose of nom
mating a member Of the Territorial Council and two members of the
Territorial House of Representatives for the Eighteenth and last Legis
latve Assembly of the Territory Of Dakota: appointed by law to con
vene at Bismarck, the capital, on the Sh day of January, A. d. 1880
and to continue for sixty days: that Cc l. Crawford IVES at the time
and place aforesaid present; that said convention so assembled duly
selected a committee o resolutions, consisting of ". l. Wellman of
Hughes county, w. r. Pidge of Hyde county and !. b. Gleason of
Suly county; that said committee reported, among others. the follow
ing to the convention which were adopted without debate:
a. "RFSOLvED, THAT WE FAVOR SUCH LEGISLATION BY THE TER
RITORIAL LEGISLATURE AS WILL GIVE THE PEOPLE RELIEF FROM
MONOPOLISTIC RAILROAD AND OTHER CORPORA TIONS'
o. "RESOLVED, THAT WE FAVOR A STRINGENT ISVRY LAW'
() "RESOLvED, THAT ALL CLASSES OF PROPERTY IN THE TER
RITORY SHOULD BEAR EQUAL SHARE OF TAXATION"
That Coc J. Crawford of Hughes county "a placed in nominal
ton for member Of the council before said convention by Ex-Jnl2T
lorng E. Gafy: that his nomination was seconded by \. \. Van
Camp Of Hyde county and Fl. Lounsberrv of Sully county and that
he was unanimously nominated by reclamation; that he appeared J."
fore the convention after his nomination and made a STIRRING speech
in which he pledged himself to support, to the best Of his ability. the
platform o r resolutions adopted by the convention: that he was. at
the ensuing general election. duly elected as a member Of the Terri
torial Council aforesaid and that he qualified as such at Bismarck on
the Sh day Of January. A. D. 1889.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-04-03

What did the gross-earningS law mcan? It meant that each alternate
section OF lard for nearly forty miles in width across nearly all Of the
Territory OF Dakota. amounting IN area to the SIZE Of a considerable
number Of the states Of the Union. should be absolutely exempt from
taxation 50 long as il was owned by the Northern Pacific II did not
affect the milwaukee, or Northwestern systems It's rpIpal would not
.rrtard The building of a mile Of railway except possibly by the North
orn Pacific. II was operative at " time when the farmers had to have
relief by til" passage Of laws extending the time of the payment of their
taxes; at a time when aid had to be furnished them to buy their seed
grain; nj a time when the hungry wolf of poverty was bowling at the
door of almost every farm house. Slr"rk and dugout in the land; at
u time when aims boxes for tn" r23cf Of Dakota farmers we're con-
SllcGouSy nailed in public places in eastern cities; at a time of all
times when honest, bnnane and respectable Legislative representatives
should have sought to lessen instead of increase their burdens by
discriminating IN favor of a corporation that had received from the
hands Of the general government such a munifcent grant of rich and
productive soil. Senator Kttfpdgr was not there to vote but in 1885
the then political friend Of the Senator Ex-senator Pettigrew). charged
as he IS with having been a boss. was there and he fought like a tiger
against such a diaIolcal outrage.
W." charge that the man whose ca was deaf to the cry of the poverty
stricken but was keenly open to the sren+song of the Northern Pacific
IN 1889 was guilty of bad faith to the, constituency represented in that
little school house IN Harold on the 4th day of October, A. D., 1888,
and we arr@l9n him before those who were then struggling to save
iher homes and before their children, now grown up, and let them de-
eide dlspassionatry whether or not he should be honored with further
political nrefermcnt o made to subsist upon the mes of pottage he ac-
copied when he dispensed with his obligations to them and arrayed him
self against them o the side of corporate greed. Let experience, the
least falhtl" of human opinions, be appealed to by South Dakotans in
deciding all these matters.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-04-03

government a boostT The voters should think for themselves when a
change is demanded. The pot will blacken your hands just as effec-
lively as the kettle.
1t is an axiom as true as any of the sayings of Solomon that an
open enemy is to be preferred to a secret foe. Grant, only for the
sake of argument, that Senator KHtredge has been a great a boss
a. the governor charges. Has he eve nisled the people? Start with
him a a poor lawyer struggling for recognition and existence when he
struck the territory of Dakota and follow his record in the state legis-
lature and in the United States senate, down to the present time, and
cite al instance where he has broken a pledge that he has made to his
constituents; point to a fact that proves him unworthy of confidence.
We challenge his opponents to the task. Wholesale generaities are
not fair; conclusions Of an antagonist are not facts; get down to
instances; cut out suspicious and inSnuations; be exact and fair and
specific when charges affecting a mans character ire made. Such
is the only honorable. manly course to pursue. The people care less
who gets office than they do for the conduct Of the men who represent
them when in office.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-04-03
DISCRIMINATION AGAINST FARMER

Just a soon as a farmer bought or contracted. even though the
title did not pass, he must pay taxes.
In the session Of 1885, Honest Abe Van OSeI. then a member
of the house, introduced House Bill IS, a bill for an act amending
the law 70 "a to require the railroads to pay taxes on their land the
same as ordinary persons. towit: on its assessed valuation. This
measure was defeated and it gave rise to General discussion all over
the Territory and was a most potent factor in creating the Farmers
Alliance. Ex-senator Pettgrew and John r Gamble. deceased, mem
bers of the same council. also worked hard to repeal the law by an
act pending in that body.
In 1887 a bill to repeal the law was for fifty seven days in the
House and passed that body to meet the fate Of being distracted on its
way to the Council.
In 1889, a bill to repeal the law vas again introduced in the
council, the merits Of which were argued pro and con and Coe l.
Crawford was IA participant as well as listener and he and every member
voted for it. When it came to the house the next day it a again
discussed and there. under Suspension Of the rules. passed by a like
wise unanimous vote. And yet 60" !! Crawford was ignorant of the
temper of his constituents. We refer the iccuscd to the files Of the
Bismarck Daily Tribune furnished him during the session.