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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-20
King Cotton.

The South is producing an aver
age of about twelve million bales of
cotton a year. The time is rapidly
coming when this must be increased
to twenty million bales or more to
meet the worlds requirements. The
gain in consumption will require
an average of half million bales a
year. At this gain it would require
but ten years to make it necessary
for the South to raise seventeen
million or eighteen million bales an
nually.
There is no reason why the world
will not eventually need forty mil
lion or fifty million bales or more
of Southern-grown cotton; and with
good prices and an increase in the
labor supply even this would not
be the limit of the South's ability.
The practical monopoly of cotton
production is a potential power for
the South as great as would be an
equally strong domination of the
worlds iron-ore supply.
Sooner or later, when this section
fully comprehends this great power,
it will make the world pay tribute
to it's Golfers, just as would England
or any other country which owned
the worlds iron ores.
By reason of this condition cot
ton-growers ought to be the most
prosperous farmers in the world, and
in time they doubtless will be.-R.
H. EdmOndson in YOUTHS Compan-
ion.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-20
GRAVES GLEANINGS.
Items About People and Things in
That Community.

Let everybody remember THAI next
Monday night our school will give
an exhibition at Graves. All are
invited. Admission ~ and 20 cents.
The proceeds will go to the school
library.
Miss Lizzie Clyatt, who has been
the guest of her sisters, Mesdames
j. ID. Newman and w. J. Crawford,
left Tuesday for Jernigan, Ala
Mr.. and Mrs. S. Alex Smith and
children have returned to their
home at Madison, Fla, after a visit
to relatives here.
Mrs. Nancy Smith and Mrs. B. w.
Breedlove spent few days last week
with Mrs: hi. E. Jennings near Daw-
son.
Next Sunday Rev. Bush of Cuth-
bert Will deliver the commencement
sermon here.
Several OF our young people at
tended services at New Bethel last
Sunday
Mr.. w. J. Crawford is on a trip
to Madison, Fla.
Miss AFva Hatcher visited friends
here Saturday.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-20
Shellman Burglar Sentenced.

in Randolph superior court last
week Josh Sessions pleaded guilty to
the charge of burglarizing the store
of the r. F. Crittenden Co. in
Shellman last winter, and was sem
fenced to ten years in the peniten-
tiary Randolph court is in its third
week now, an adjourned term hav-
ing been called by Judge Worrill for
the trial of some civil cases in which
he is disqualified. Judge Roam of
the Stone Mountain circuit is pre-
siding.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-20
HEART TO HEART TALKS.
Copyright. 1908, by Edward A. Nye.
BY EDWIN A. NYE.

day to be able to wipe from his men,
DRY some OF the things he listened
to when a boy?
The man who will deliberately re-
peat a risque story in the presence
of youth deserves no respect. He
is an incarnate devil of meanness
He is daubing a coarse picture on
clean walls.
Do you remember what General
Grant said to the officer who began
to tell a story, remarking, There
are no ladies present" whereupon
the silent soldier quickly retorted,
There are gentlemen present"
Keep your mind unsullied. A foul
suggestion may harden into a habit
of thought that will lead you far
astray.
Keep clean inside
1t is more a matter of Importance
that you should keep the dirt off
your soul than to keep it off your
clothes.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-20
| SOUTHERN SUPPORT A MENACE
TO TAFT

The republicans face a problem
as well as the democrats in the Sc
lection of a presidential nominee.
Abundant proof of the statement is
furnished by an article that recently
appeared in the Indianapolis News,
a leading republican paper. Demo-
Gratis are, of course, most interested
in the action of their own party as
to nominations, but in view of the
experience of the past forty years,
barring Grover Cleveland's two cleo
lions, it must be conceded that re-
publican politics deserves at least
some measure of democratic atten-
ton, for somehow we never do turn
the rascals" out. They get the pres
idency nearly every time.
The theory of the Indianapolis pa
per is that the Taft boomers propose
to use the votes of southern states,
not one of which can possibly give
Taft an electoral vote, to aid in fore
ing the nomination of the war sec
rotary. And the theory seems war
ranted. Note the action in all south
ern states thus far. Right here in
Georgia that wing of the G. o. p.
that holds the offices is for Taft.
VIII the strong republican states
of the middle west, east and north
that must furnish the votes to
elect a republican president, that
have the money for campaign
funds-permit this dictation by
states that are useless as to cleo
toral votes? 1t is not to be doubted
that they will. They will demand the
man they want at the Chicago con-
vention, or say to the southern re-
publicans: you would have Taft:
you forced him on us. Now go ahead
and elect him" And that is what the
southern republicans cannot do.
1t is an interesting and compli-
Gated situation, more readily appre-
ciated by democrats, for it is these
same eastern, northern and middle
west states that must be relied on
to supplement the democratic vote
of the solid south and populistic
west if we are to get a democrat in
the white house.
Mr. Taft seems to have the lead,
but the outcome at Chicago is by no
means assured. The states that give
republican majOrities and republi-
cans who have money and big inter-
ests are not the ones that are boom
ing Taft.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-20
The Other Mans Views.

From The Albany Herald
But the Other Man is as much en-
titled to his views and to his prefer
ence between candidates, as the Man
Who Knows. 1t is all we'll enough
for an enthusiast in political CAM
paigH to go his length for the candi-
date whose cause Ere has espOused.
1t is his privilege to- be exercised to
the superlative degree, and to neither
eat nor sleep while seeking to ad-
vance his favorites interests, but
he should never challenge the 9th
er Mans equal privilege or doubt
his equal sincerity.
We are in the midst of one of
the liveliest campaigns in Georgia
that ever agitated the state. Feeling
runs high in many communities, and
the fellow who brlstles yisibly When-
ever he hears an argument advanced
for the candidate to- whom he is
opposed is much in evidence.
Such men are nuiSauces, without
realizing the fact They do their
cause more harm than good. They
need to be reminded that every man s
opinions are his personal property,
and that no candidate ever had a
monopoly of votes. They should stop
long enough, at least once a day, to
cool off
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-20

Young man:
Deliberately insult the man who
starts TO tell a smutty story in your
presence by turning on your heel.
Such a corruptionist has. no more
right to steal your pure thoughts
than he has to put his hand into
your pocket and take your money.
These retailers of filth are whited
sepulchers, clean on the outside, but
inwardly filled with dead mems
bones. They are debauchers of clean
minds, robbers of purity.
You should never permit yourself
to listen to an improper story-a
story you would not care to repeat
to your mother or your sister. The
filthy suggestiveness will soak into
your memory as spilled ink soaks
into blotting paper.
Allow no man to drag your mind
through a sewer.
Do you know there is many a
man who would sacrifice much to-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-20
500 Reward. STON.

The readers Of this paper will be pleased ia
lea n that there is at least one dreaded disease
that science has been abe to cure in all i+e
stages. and that is catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cnre
Is the only positive cure now known to the rrerji
cal maternity. Catarrh being constitutions
ulse9Se requires a constitutional treatment
nan Catarrh Cure is TAKEN internally. acting
ulrectfy upon the blood and mucous surfaces Of
t the system thereby destroying the foundation OF
SG Gfsease ana giving the patient strength by
IN doing its work. The proprietors have So Tancb
I I In ITS curative powers that they offer One
uhdrea Dollars for any case that ii fails to cr-e
Send for list of testimonials ~ '''
ADDRESS +, j. CHENEY Il Co, Toledo. Obio
Sold By adj Druggists rs cents
rake Ha Family Pills for constipation.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-20
Confusing Road Legislation.

From the Oglethope Echo.
1t would appear to be a fate of
legislatures for the past few years
to enact laws that proved conflicting
and confusing. One of the most
marked Instances of this has come to
light within the past week or two.
1t refers to our road laws, and was
brought out by the road commission
ers of Terrell county submitting to
Acknowledgement Hart the question
as to whether persons between the
ages of sixteen and twenty-one
years could legally be made to pay
road tax.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-20
Captain OxfOrd's Will.

The will of the late Capt. w. B.
Oxford Will be filed in the Office of
the ordinary and probated in solemn
form. Two of his sons, Messrs. ]. T.
and David Oxford, are the executors.
Captain Oxford's estate is said to
be worth about $4,000. He owned
a thousand acres of land and had
so bales of cotton at the time of his
death
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-20
'TraferS and Ctntfnm.

From The Shellman Sun.
A Dawson gentleman adyertfses
for 10000 bushels of sweet pota-
toes to be delivered next fall. That
is good opening for some Randolph
diversifying farmers, for Terrell
farmers devote too much time to
cotton to ever get up that many po-
tatOes in one season.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-20
Will Again Become Respectable.

From the Augusta Herald
The Darfen Gazette wants the cam
paign liar banished to some far-off
country. Let's not depopulate Geor-
gia by such a course. The campaign
liar always quits his meanness after
the election, and again becomes a
respectable citizen and a right good
fellow.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-20
HEROD HAPPENINGS.
News of the Week Photographed for
News Readers.

News Readers.
Mr.. Cense Gatlin gave a number
of his friends a most delightful bar
becue Wednesday at Mr.. Harris saw
mill. He was publicly compliment
ed by his Sunday school teacher for
having a delicious and enjoyable
cue without even drop of beer.
We hope his example will be emuIat-
ed. Those attending from here were
| Mr.. and Mrs. c. M. Harris, Capt.
and Mrs. D. j. Dennis, Judge and
Mrs. Hanna and Miss Yetta Harris.
Quite a crowd of Doverelians and
several from Randolph county were
present. Everyone voted the cue a
| delightful success.
Quarterly meeting was held with
the church here Saturday, and quite
number of visitors were present.
The exercises were all interesting,
and the dinner was beyond compar-
ison. 1t was spread on the campus
in the grove, and there was enough
to feed as many more. The presid-
ing elder preached some of his best
sermons at the morning services
both Saturday and Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. E. Brim entertain
| ed at an elegant dinner party the
first of the week. Among the guests
were Rev. tombstone, Rev. Allison,
Mr.. Lester Corbin, Miss Bertha Brim,
Miss Carrie Curington and Mr.. and
Mrs. w. +. McRee.
Messrs. J. T. Cocker and w. F. Nc
Rec were recently elected trustees
of our Methodist church, Mr.. J. H.
Kelley being already a trustee.
The friends of Miss Florine Cocker
will be panied to learn that she is
quite sick. We hope her indisposi-
ton will be of short duration.
Misses Matte and Lille May Sears
of Dawson and Arner Thompson of
Americas spent Saturday with rela-
tives and friends here.
Miss Alma McLain and Mrs. Lump
kin Quinn are the committee here to
get funds for furnishing the Bron-
wood parsonage.
Mr.. Melton Laing, Master Willie
Laing and Miss Dean Laing spent
Sunday with Mrs. H. Rauch and
family.
The Circle, of which Miss Alma
McLain is president, expects to give
an ice cream festival at an early
date
Mr.. Miles Blackshear and his at
tractive daughters, Misses Cora and
Ethel, spent Sunday with Herod
friends.
Miss Carrie Curington was the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. J. E. Brfm
Saturday and Sunday.
Messrs. Lester and Herscf1eT Brim
Of Pelham visited Mr.. J. H. Brim and
family last week.
Messrs. ]. and T. Fulford of Ran
dolph county spent Sunday with
Capt. d. j. Dennis.
The first of the week Mr.. G.. NJ.
Harris went to Cuthbert to visit his
children.
Rev. L. L. Lyon Will fiji his ap-
pointment here Saturday and Sun
day.
Mr.. and Mrs w. A. McLain of
Dawson were recent visitors here.
Mrs. w B. Harris Of Yatesvflle
is the guest of relatives here.
Mrs. Barnes of Dawson has been
the guest of relatives here.
We regret that Miss Ethel Brfm
has been on the sick list.
Mrs. Allen English visited friends
at Oglethorpe fast week.
Hymen is headed this yay again. !
Johnnie, get your gum
Mrs. w. R. Garrett is visiting rel
atives here this week.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-20
A Note of Warming to Some Ladies.

From The Savannah News.
A note of warning to all ladies of
approximately forty years of age and
weighing about TAO pounds: Have
you one or more gold teeth? If so,
you'd better hide EN- whenever you
go away from home; at least for a
time. Mrs. Guinness had gold teeth,
and detectives in about every city
are looking with suspicion at the
mouths of women with gold teeth.
Already there have been several ar
rests of gold-toothed women in Chi
cago, Pittsburg, LaPorte, Minneapo-
lis and elsewhere, and one or more
of them WIFI probably BE arrested in
Atlanta before the week is out. on
suspicion of being Mrs. Guinness.
Better not laugh when you read this
paragraph, either. There might be
a detective watching your mouth.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-20
Had Him on the Wrong Side.

Editor Dawson News: I saw in
The Atlanta Journal of the 18th
inst. an account of a poll taken at
Pleasant Hill giving my name as be-
ing for Hoke Smith. This is an err
ror. shall vote for Little Joe"
Brown. l am member of the Brown
Club in this county. Yours very
truly, j. w. GAMMAGE
Brentwood, Ga.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-20
[ Do Ditching.

am still here for work, and everyone in mead
Of my services can get them Inv dFonnip,, ~, neou
letter at Dawson Ga am ditcher of % Years
experience, and thoroughly understand the wort'
can get all the labor need at any time.
CHARLEY earlier
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-20
"MOTHER'S DAY"

new national holiday has come
for the American people. 1t is
Mothers Day." when men and wo-
men pay loving tribute to the mem
ory of mother 1t came the Sec
ond Sunday in this month, which
viii hereafter be the date for each
recurring of the holiday.
1t is new yet Millions and mil
lions of people have not heard or
read a word, do not know ANYTHING
about this new holiday But it was
celebrated in many cities and towns
or this land. and thousands of men
wore white carnatiOn, chosen as
the emblematic flower for the CAV
And IN time Mothers Day" should
come to be a great national holiday.
one as popular as any the people
cherish and keep Surely the idea
Will grow within the hearts of the
people, for what sentiment could ap-
peal with more force, more tender
ness to the soul and heart? One day
in the year sacred to the love and
devotion of the mother who bore
you! Your mother, whose unselfish
love was yours when all others left
you-even father, sister. brother,
and friend-all but her.
1t may be asserted that in all hui
man experience no mother no mat
ter how low in the social scale, and
of sane mind, ever failed willingly
in devotion to the child she gave
birth to.
And in that life beyond we all
hope to know, in the sphere nearer
TO God that we call heaven, it will
be found that save the love of God
for His creatures there will be
naught more holy, more pure and
unselfsh than a mothers love.
BY all means let humanity found
Mothers Day." and make it sacred
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-20
Remember the Crow You Served

From the Waycross Herald.
Don't get mad now, boys; lust
amuse yourselves thinking about the
quantity of crow you made MS eat
a year ago. Turn about is fair NAV
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-20

A brick front painted with L. &,
M. Paint % years ago and not
painted since may be seen at 472
Bergen st. Brooklyn, New York.
Paint with L. e NJ. Brilliant Red and
trim with Shaker Green or White
The body won't need painting 25
years.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-20
Who's Who?

Madison Advertiser: Two weeks
from Thursday we will see. who is
the biggest liar.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-20
NOTICE.

Do not forget that am vet bara
and can give you better satisfaction
than any other in your town on
temale complaints. Come and sea
me. MANDY CARTER.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-20
Important Notice

To the members of the Farmers MntaaI ~,
Insurance Company of Terrell county. Won are
hereby notified Chat the regular annual meetiny
OF the members Of our company will be held AZ
18th, 1908, at 10 o'clock a. m Important bGsias
ed to attend. b. f. MFtT ON .eq"esV-
w. Fl. GURR Secretary
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-20
Good Advice.

Nashville Herald ON bet YOU
Better go pay your debts with your
money
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-20
Money to Loan.

The Georgia Loan ana trust Comnarv Loan,
money at D per cent per tnnum on real estate
PROMPT service guaranteed. II you want to bors
TO" money see H. A. WILKINSON.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-20
Wishes Every Voter in Randolph Could Read Il

i4Nl' ia May D. l9OS-The News: wonld an
very much II you would copy of your manor -
I WI STAMPS enclosed You getting fine nanar
wish every voter in Randolph read it. It comes %
home. Yours truly, - 'oLnes INTO my
R. L. WALKER
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-20
For Sale.
Rooms w anted
Farm Loans.

an still negotiating loans on farm lands I
YOU need money see me. JNO r TPWfS-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-20

1t is the Triton Gazette that hands
out this chunk of wisdom: with the
very man you are arguing politics
you will have to rub elbows and do
business and work with to build up
you town and county after your
choice of candidates has been elect
ed or defeated and has forgotten
you. Also remember he has as much
right to and probably as much
grounds for his choice as you have.
Don't quarrel with your neighbor
and friend over a man who would
mot know you if he met you in the
road
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-20

The cruel campaign has de-
prived our old friend John Bet
jeman of his pass. But ne has
the consolation that he had the
rest of us skinned for four
months, anyway.-Dublin COu-
rierDispatch.
Don't be too sure of that, A gen
tleman who was in our office during
the past week said that when he
saw Mr.. Betjeman the day before
the genial immigration agent had
those little pieces of card board Sc
curely tucked away on his person.
He quoted him as saying, too, that
he didn't know the newspapers had
had anything to say about them.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-20

Things political have changed, in
deed. In this campaign the Atlanta
Journal is leading the Sunshine Bri-
gade, and giving some cheerful facts
and figures" about the prosperity of
the country.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-20

The story of the Guinness farm,
in the suburbs of LaPorte, Ind,
where so many murders have been
committed, has Mortified the coun-
try. The problem now is; Is Mrs.
Guinness alive, or did she die in the
fire? And a further gruesome feat
ure is the story that the woman is
grandniece of the Blenders of Kan
sas fame. The old readers of today
will recall how the CHASTITY story of
the Bender family's crimes-and
most of the murders committed by
shocked the American people thirty
years ago.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-20

No, Erastus, there are few people
who want this thing to degenerate
into a mere political fued. There
are good people on both sides, re-
member. But you can hold your
principles as firm as ever, and stand
up for them when occasion requires.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1908-11-19
TO START
JANUARY NEXT
Southern Steel Company Awak-
ening From a Rip VanWin-
kIe Sleep.

The following from the Dunlap Tri-
bune is cheering information for those
who are anxiously awaiting a revival
of business in this valley, and especial
ly so in Sequatchie County, to whom
the operation of the cOmpany's mines
there means a great deal. However
it does not say positively that the Dun
lap mines will be set i'll operation, but
that the officials will go to work,
which is reassuring anyway.
The following is what the Tribune
says
Ex- Mayor NJ. NJ Drennen, H. &.
Sherling and Jack Stallings, of Birm-
ingham, members of the board of APP
praisers appointed by the United
States court at Birmingham to assess
the valuation of the various properties
of the Southern Steel Company, were
in the city Wednesday for the purpose
of appraising the property here. Mr..
Drennen was three times mayor of
Birmingham and is prominently spok-
en- of as candidate for governor of
Alabama. He said it was the inten-
tion of the new officers of the South
ern Steel to go to work in January,
if the schedule of the reorganization
does not fail.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1908-11-19
RALLY DAY FOR STATEWIDE
Sunday Schools Will Observe
Worlds Temperance Sum
day, November 10Th.

The Tennessee Anti Saloon League
is asking all the Sunday Schools of the
State to observe World Temperance
Sunday, Nov. 29th, as State Wide
Prohibition Day. An appropriate pro-
gram has been prepared and thousands
of copies have been mailed out to Sun
day School superintendents over the
State. In view of the fight for State
wide prohibition to be made in the
next Legislature, it seems that the
day could not be better observed than
by enlisting the cooperation Of the
Sunday School hosts of the State in
this great movement for God and hu-
manity. 1t is hoped that every Super
intendent will enter heartily into the
plan.
The League is making an earnest
effort to reach them all, but owing to
incomplete and inaccurate records this
WILL of course, be impossible. Any
school, however, that has not received
copies of the program will be prompt
ly supplied without cost by writing
Tennessee Anti Saloon League, 81
Chamber of Commerce Building, Nash
vile, Tenn.
In its fight for Statewide prohibi-
tion, the League earnestly requests the
cooperation of every individual and
organization that desires the over
throw of the greatest enemy of the
Church, the Sunday School, the home,
and of everything that is good. It's
battle cry is: "a clean sweep of the
/ liquor traffic from Tennessee by the
Legislature of 1909" and the good peo-
pie of the State are urged to rally as
one man tc this inspiring call.