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The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-10-07

It's mighty easy for a girl TO like
any sort of man unless her mother and
father do.-New York Press.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-10-07

Mike-Phat have we got t cut this
morning? Nora--We amt got to eat
nothin if we don't want to.-Widow.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-10-07

worse.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-09-08
WOULD luke TO Be BORN IN DAWSON AGAIN
Editor Edit n. Tom Loyless Answers Contemporary Who
w Brought That Serious" Charge Against Him

The Mou1trie observer recently
took a "t1y"5 at Editor Tom Loyless
of the Augusta Chronicle, and among
other things charged him with hav-
ing bAsn thorn in Dawson, Terrell
county, Georgia. In replying to this
serious offense, which the hapless
Loyless could not prevent, the Chron-
icle editor says: I.5 ~
And as to. the modest but we'll
meaning place Of our nativity, while
claiming no special credit for the cir
cumstance' ourselves, we have always
felt that'wes could not have done
better 7-unless it We're to have been
born in Augusta, Even Editor Allen
might have been a better man had
he been born in Dawson.
a.a Dawson Terrell county, Georgia,
is-7or was some, twenty years or
more agor7Tone, Of those ideal towns,
built around the court house square
and ON the square Just one big
family, where everybody knew ev-
erybody else. and everybody else's
business, Where the stores opened
at six O'Clock in the, morning, because
there's no, use laying around the
house till ssun7up; and kept open
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-09-08

IF0u1 NERVOUSNESS
apdotherannoying
symptoms, and |
can truly say that
LydiaEl Pinkham's
We sc ia BILE Com
pound has proved
worth mountains
of gold to me, as it
restored my health
and streng 9Th. I
never forget to tell
MY friends what
T wis n " TSivSS,sJ1 a NJ %
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-09-08

after supper, or until the last game
of checkers is finished and the last
yarn spun, Where all the boys go
to the creek on Saturday, to church
Sunday morning and out riding with
their best girl Sunday afternoons.
Where everybody who can leave his
store meets both trains-and won
ders what he would do without a
railroad to furnish excitement and
something to cuss. Where they play
politics like they play checkers
when the games over guy each other
a little, shake hands, and get ready
for the next one. Where every
body's welcome at barbecue or fish
fry, and the latchstring hangs on the
outside of every door three hundred
and sixty-five days in the year.
Where folks are valued for what
they are, and not for what they
have, or what they used to be.
Where a dozen potatoes make a
bushel, and a bale to the acre is an
unwritten law. Where peace and
prosperity hover over all, and the red
hills echo the whippo'wils call.
Alas! that we could not, after this
poor life has ended, come back and
be born again-in Dawson"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-09-08

ing, between ! and o'clock, and
many families were swept away to a
watery death with hardly a chance
to fight for their lives. With the on
rush of the water pandemonium
reigned, and as the poor wretches
were swept from their homes, on the
tops of which many had sought shell
ter, never for a moment anticipating
that the water would reach an I'M
precedented height, pitiful appeals
for assistance could be heard rising
above the roar of the on-rushing wa
tiers by those on higher ground, but
who were powerless to render aid OF
any kind.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-09-08

covered with close and stout bag
ging, I-IH aaaa E"g .tu9rfli5
West African BALE r407 pounds,
about 8 feet 6 inches long. strong,
good bagging.. Staple very short.
Worth II cents. It is c1assed as
iequal to our middling upland.
East q Indian bale, 4Q71spounds.
Poor staple. Worth IL, cents.
Peruvian bale, 10 pounds. This
cotton is said to be specially adapted
for mixing with wool. In fact, it has
a. woody appearance. sTaw $50
I Chinese BALE SIS pounds Worth
l12 cents. 1t did not strike me as
Iequal to our middling upland. 1t
was as firmly pressed as our COM
pressed bales, and was little more
than half as bulky as our bales the
same weight.
A Brazilian bale, 3S7 pounds, and
priced at Ia cents. The staple was
equal to our upland good middling.
Central African bale shipped by
the Inland Mission was a noticeable
exhibit on account of its color 1t
was a dirty drab, but the staple
seemed fairly good. q 3uo
In addition to the bales there was
an endless exhibit of samples, home
and foreign. Some of the samples
from Russia were very fine, and
showed the adaptabiIity of portions
of that country to cotton culture.
The Russian and Sea Island samples
were shown by Gourdon, Mathiesen
& Co., of Charleston, s. &C. J. M.
Parker of New York had a big dis
play. that attracted much attention
among them being Bender cotton
grown in Mississippi; Black Rather
1 316-inch staple, grown in the same
state; Keno (Iong stapIe) u inch;
Allen, l % inches, grown in Alabama.
The above are only a few of the
many bales and samples on hand,
but they are enough to show the ex-
tent and character of the exhibit.
y. 5i.j| 43i5& T. 1StW 2SFSl+
The Triumph Cotton.
Texas was represented by A. D.
Mebane of Lockheart, who made a
large display of his famous Triumph
cotton on the stalk, in every stage
of BOIL and in the lint d Mr. Mebane,
by careful selection, has developed
cotton that was good twenty years
g
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-09-08
!: WORTH

Graniteville, VT. s' / was passing
i6brougfl the Changeof Life and suffered
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-09-08
TEsT1F1Es AFTER FOUR YEARS

Carlisle Center, N. Y, G. B. Bur-
hans, writes: About four years
ago / wrote you that l had been en-
tirely cured of kidney trouble by TAX
ing two bottles of Foley's Kidney
Remedy, and after four years / am
again pleased to state that / have
never had any return of those symp-
toms, and l am evidently cured to
stay cured" Foley's Kidney RENE
dy will do the same for you. Daw-
son Drug Co. and Peoples Drug
Store.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-09-08
DIED OF PELTAAGRA.
Lady of Arlington Was Victim of
the New MaIady.

After lingering and painful ill
ness of about three months from the
ravages of pellagra Miss Emma Duke
died at the home of her mother, Mrs.
Mary Duke, here Wednesday morn
ing at o'clock.
Soon after she was confined to her
bed the attending physician pro-
nounced her victim of that new
and mysterious disease, which at this
time seems to be spreading in this
country. Though little hope of re-
covery was given her, still from the
first and to the last she was bright
of face and bouyant in spirit, and re-
signed to Gods will.-Arlington
Courier.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-09-08

Vegetable Compound has done for me
during this trying period. Complete
restoration to health means SO much
TO me that for the sake OF other suffer
ing women / am willing to make my
trouble public so you may publish
this letter. - Mrs, CHAs. BARCLAY,
RED, Granttevi1le, VT 8sg38I
No other medicine for wonlan's ills
has received such widespread and un-
qualified endorsement No other med
icine. we know Of has such record
of cures of female ills as has Lydia E.
Pinkhan's Vegetable Compound.
For more than 80 years it has been
curing female complaints such as
Inflammation, liberation, local. weak
nesses, fbroid tumors, Irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, Indigestion
and nervous prostration, and it is
uneQualled for carrying women safely
through the period of change of life.
Ut costs but little to try Lydia E.
Pinkham' sV egetable Compound, and
as Mrs. Barclay it is ''Worth noun
tains of gold to suffering women.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-09-08
Slo7gh ,t4SStt01V7tng to Death Men, Women
s3 s "a, j. -Ha Children Cling TO FLOATING Houses

., MEXICO CTTY.L-A conservative
estimate of the damage wrought at
Monterey by the food of last week
places the dead at fourteen hundred
and the property loss at $4,000
900. The danger is over. Up to
the present nearly 1 200 bodies have
been recovered. One entire quarter
of the, city of Monterey was destroyed
and $4,000 persons are homeless.
1t was pitiful but common sight
in, the. flood district to see whole
families, including father, mother
and many children and many times
aged grandparents, clinging to float
ing houses and 'housetops praying for
their lives. Hundreds of these peo-
pie were beyond rescue, for it was
sure death to venture into the swirl
ing currents in a boat even if there
was plenty of food to be given them.
But food and provisions were scarce,
the supplies having been swept away.
These people were slowly starving
to death. 1sa
Ninety Women and Children Perish.
In one school building ninety
women and children fed to the
school for safety, but the water
reaching there drove them from
room to room until they were all
clustered in one room. Two priests
were with them, and while in the
act of blessing them the walls fell
and the whole ninety were swallow
ed up in the flood.
! -4o. Many Pitiful Scenes.
Pitiful scenes were reported among
the women and children. Many
women were separated from theil
husbands mothers from their chill
dren without knowledge of the
whereabouts of one another, anC
: scenes of the most profound grie
were witnessed on ali hands as moth
ers, husbands and children lamentet
for their loved ones.
: The crest of the food reached it
apex in the early hours of the morn
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-09-08
CATCH MILLIONS OF MULLETs.
Fishermen Take 100000 Pounds in
One Days Work.

A catch of 100000 pounds of null
let, said to be the largest ever known
along the Atlantic Coast, was made
off the port at Beaufort, N. G., by
deep sea fishermen.
The fishermen went to sea early in
search of menhaden, but their boats
ran into schools of mullets miles
long, and each vessel was loaded to
the gunwales with them. The catch
was carried to market, and the en-
tire working force available was en-
gagged all night in preparing the fish
for shipment.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-09-08
Instructive Exhibits.

It would take a whole page of
Home and Farm to contain even a
brief notice of the many interesting
and instructive exhibits, but as that
space cannot be used for such pur-
pose l will merely name three exhib-
its that commanded the attention of
every visitor The first was a collec-
ton of articles made entirely of cot
ton from steamship to a ripe wa
termelon. The ingenuity shown in
the construction of scores of animals,
toys, ETC., was surprising. Then came
looms in operation, showing the
weaving of ducking and other fabric
The bungalow in which the Cotton
Crushers' Association had it's exhibit
was alawys a popular resort and
landmark. 1t surprised many to see
such a variety of products from cot
ton. They included lint, hulls, meal,
cotton seed cake, crude and refined
oil, laundry and toilet soap and end
less other things. Altogether the
carnival was a great success and
source of pleasure for all who had
the good fortune to attend.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-09-08
Filed in office Aug. %, 1909.
w g nOZTEP Clerk

Georgia, Terrell County,, ". s.
Dozier, Clerk of the Superior Court
of said county, do hereby certify that
the foregoing is a true and correct
copy of the application for charter
of the Farmers Union Warehouse
Company as the same appears on
file in this office. Witness my official
signature and the seal of said court
this the 23rd day of August, 1909
w. S. DOZlER, Clerk Superior Court
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-09-08

Baby won't suffer five minutes
Group if you apply DR.. Thomas Eclec-
trio Oil at once. 1t acts like magic.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-09-08

ago, into the best known in Texas
It's merits are so well known and
appreciated that there is hardly any
other variety planted in central and
south Texas. 1t is early, large bolI
storm proof, yet easily picked, pro
life and staple of good length and
quality. It's ginning quality beats
every other | have tried. Seed cot
ton will yield 40 to AZ per cent. of
lint.
The manager of the Galveston
News offered a prize of $50 for the
stalk of cotton containing the great
est number of bolls, with prizes for
the runners up. The winner, G. w.
Fruit of Lagrange, had no one to
make him afraid. His stalk carried
395 bolls, while the next nearest had
but 100 and 1872. Even the lowest
was good for Texas this year. The
lowest number of bolls on any stalk
sent in competition was 72.
1t has been mystery to me and
others that cotton growers and hand
lers should so long tolerate the
wretched bagging that is used as a
pretense for protecting our cotton.
1t would be hard to conceive any,
thing worse adapted for the purpose.
Why anything but cotton should be
used to cover cotton is something no
one can understand or explain.
There was a cotton bagging on view
on the bale and in the piece, and it
certainly was a grand improvement
on the old stuff we have tolerated so
long. 1t may be open to some seri-
Gus objection, but it looked good to
me-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-09-08
GiHE 0eALvEsTON 3COTT0N CARNIVAL
Ea Exhibition il Cotton From Many Lands The
Hhave -iust retuEned. from GalYe

3aadb j. Edg in Farm and Home, ssa .o1
Milford chronicle., 1909-07-02

form the basket. The bottom is then put
on an iron bar at the end and the STAYS
are fastened down to it with a hoop at
the bottom. Then the form hoop is
Knocked off and replaced by a wire.
When they are finished they are all piled
up and afterwards taken to a room in the
eastern extremity of the building where
they are dried Here the floor is lined
with steam pipes under the piles Of has
kets. During the night they are heated
and in this way the baskets are thorough
ly dried. From here they are run in
chutes to the wagons which carry them
to the different warehouses. There are
five large ones on the premises. The
people making these baskets work very
rapidly and can make about thirty in an
hour or over two hundred in a day
These baskets are sold in Delaware,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New
York, the principal markets being in
Delaware anc New Jersey.
This plant was established in the fall of
1905 under the present management and
the business has increased year by year
until at present it is doing nearly three
times as much business as at first.
Milford chronicle., 1909-07-02

which these baskets are made are cut
about 40 inches long, and put in watts oil
boiling water. When these are thor
uoghiy soaked they are lifted out with a
sharp ak. Near this vat is the veneering
machine, where the wood of the log is
rolled off in a long sheet. Not all of
this is used however, as it is kept for
fuel for the furnace. These sheets are
cut into strips, which forms the stays Of
the baskets and the machine which cuts
these stays is able to cut any length, as
stays for the barrel hampers have to be
much longer than the others. The bot
toms of the baskets are also made in three
sizes The single bottoms are cut with a
for each size a different head is
used, and a bit at the end of this saw
bores the hole. About $1,000 to 10000
of these (single bottoms) are made day
1t takes a longer time to make the pieced
bottoms, as the two pieces have to be
nailed together before they can be cut,
and the hole is bored. All this material
is either carried up to the working room.
Or sent up by an elevator, which is at
-ached to one Of the machines, and with
The exception of the coiled elmhoops, or
The hoops around the top of the basket,
which comes from Indiana and Michigan,
III the material is gotten around or near
Milford. The baskets are made on a
'ound form, the coiled elmhoops being
put on at the top and stays put under it !
md nailed. The wire hoop is next put
N and to make the basket stronger a I
,art of the stays are left on the outside. |
These are nailed to the bottom of the
,asket and after a hoop similar to the
oiled elmhoop is fastened around this,
be basket is finished. There are about
0 people empl Dyed who make on an
yerage 80 baskets an hour or about 24O
day. These baskets are put in a drying
oom over night, and by morning they
re ready for market.
The Milford Lumber Company is com.
osed of our most prominent business
zen, and the work that they do is surely
n invaluable aid to our farmers.
Milford chronicle., 1909-07-02
The Milford Lumber Company.

2ND FIzE BY ELIZABETH y. ALDRED.
The Milford Lumber Company is one
of the most beneficial industrial enter
prises of Milford. Many of the most
prominent men of the town are interest
ed in it. To the citizens of Milford it is
generally known as the Basket Factory
because most of the lumber is made up
into different kinds of baskets and crates.
The tree after it has been cut down is
divided into small logs about forty in
ches long, these are put into large vats
that are filled with boiling water which
softens and loosens the bark. After they
have remained in the water a sufficiently
long time they are taken out and the
bark is chipped off. The log is now
ready for use and it is put on the veneer
ing machine which peels the wood off in
long pieces that are about an eighth ofan
inch thick, from which the basket slaves
are made.
The hoops that go around the top of
the basket are made from the wood of
coiled elm that comes from Indiana and
Michigan and the ones that 90 around
the bottom are gotten in or near Milford
For the bottoms of the baskets two
pieces Of wood are joined together by
small tacks, these are then put on
machine which cuts off the edges max
ing the bottoms round. Then there
is a small auger bit on another side
Of the machine that is worked by
steam and which makes the small |
hole in the center of the bottoms
There is also a single bottom machine
that can make from fifteen thousand to ]
Milford chronicle., 1909-07-02

woman, and / shall recommend 1t as
long as / live. - Mrs. MAY FRY,
Lindley, Ind.
One of the greatest triumphs Of
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound is the cOnquering of woman's
dread enemy - tumOr. If you have
mysterious pains, Inflammation, ulceTa-
tion or displacement, don't wait for
time to confirm your fears and 60
through the horrOrsOfa hospital opera
ton, but try Lydia E. Pinkham's Yege-
table Compound at once.
For thirty years Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, made from roots
andherbs, has been nthestandard remedy
for female ills, and such unquestion-
able testimony as the above proves the
value of this famous remedy, and
should give confidence and hope to
every sick woman.
If you would like special advice
about your case write a cOnfiden-
tial letter to Mrs. Pinkham, at
Lynn, Mass. Her advice is free
and always helpful.
Milford chronicle., 1909-07-02

sixteen thousand bottoms a day 1t II
much faster than the one just spoken or
I it can make three or four bottoms in the
time the other machine can make one,
Three sizes OF bottoms can be made on
this machine but a different head has tc
be put on for each one.
There are two rooms in the factory
where the truck baskets are made and
each workman has a form to work on.
In making the basket the bottom is
first slipped on the form, then the top
hoop, after that the slaves are tackled on
and an iron hoop holds them in place un-
til the small wire hoop can be put on.
Part of the slaves are left outside of the
wire hoop until the wooden hoop at the
bottom of the basket is put on, then
these are tackled on firmly down into
place. The object of leaving few of the
slaves outside of the wire hoop and
then tacking them over it, is so as to
make the basket firmer and stronger and
to keep the wire hoop in place. The
large hoops are made flexible by letting
them remain in tank of water for
some time.
There are about forty workmen en-
ployed at this time Of the year, and each
can make about thirty baskets an hour or
from two hundred and fifty to three hum
dred in a day.
Most OF the machines in the Basket
Factory are worked by steam, and the
fuel that is used for the furnace is the re-
mainder of the logs after as much of the
wood as possible has been taken from
them by the veneering machine, also the
shavings, chips and some of the slaves
that the workmen have not been able to
use. The tank that is filed with water
for the boiler is twelve feet long, four
feet wide and three feet deep, and the
water that is used is brought by pipes
from the MispilliOn River.
after the baskets have been finished
they are placed in a large room and set
over steam pipes. Then at night the
steam is turned on and this dries the
baskets, so that they are ready for the
market The steam cannot be turned on
IN the day time because the intense heat
would make it to warm for the employees |
The Basket Factory employs many peo-
pie, not only men but women as well and |
1y giving them employment aids and /
helps many of the citizens of Milford to
make living. 1t Is a great deal OF BEN
fit to the farmers who live near this
own for they do not have to send far to
ret the baskets in which to ship their
rucks and the products of their farms.
The Milford Lumber Company is a very
industry of Milford and it not
My aids Milford but other towns and
tates as we'll, ,lfor many thousands Of bas
.ets that are made in the factories Of the
lumber Company are sent to the farmers
d New Jersey and other neighboring
faces. It should be well patronized for ;
is an industry that the town Of Mil !
ord could not get along very well with
Milford chronicle., 1909-07-02

and three up stairs, besides drying room
The water for the boiler comes from the
river in tank twelve feet long, four feel
wide and three feet deep and the furnace
is supplied by the scraps Of lumber left
from making the baskets, which are the
manufacture of this industry.
The wood used for making baskets is
chiefly gum which is bought near Mil
ford. Sometimes it is brought in by
farmers and Others, it is bought on the
ground and the company send their own
men to cut it. Pine is used Tor the bot
toms of the basket, and elm hoops for
the top are shipped here from Michigan
and put in hot water so they will bend
easily for working.
There are three sizes of baskets made
the peach, tomato and hamper or half
barrel basket, which is the largest. When
the logs are brought, they are cut into the
three sizes necessary for making the bas
kets and put in steam watts. This is
done to get the bark off quickly and to
make the wood soft and warm, so that it
will cut easily. Then they are put into
the veneering machine, which by differ
ent impressions make the lengths and
and sizes necessary for hoops and sides,
which are ten thin pieces that 20 around
the basket. The stays, or the six thin
boards that cross on three places of the
baskets, come out of the veneering ma
chine in long sheets and are put in an
other machine that cuts them off. The
bottoms OF baskets are made OF long pine
boards in two ways First they are
simply cut round by a machine which
cuts the three sizes by putting in differ
ent saws, and second they are cut in
half squares, tackled together by women
and then rounded off in machine, four
Of first way can be made to one Of second, I
and between fifteen and sixteen thousand /
'an be made in a day by first method.
Vow we have all parts Of a basket. The /
Op hoops, bottom hoops, stats, stays and
bottom. Then they are taken to the
work rooms and made into baskets Each
workman has number of all the parts,
wires that 90 around the basket, and his
mold. The bottom is put on first, then
op hoop, then states, stays, wire and
asst the bottom hoop. Twenty to
hirty baskets can be made in an hour
hen the baskets are done they are put
n the drying room and piled up in this
ray as many as can be are laid on the
'latform with the bottom up and the
OPP of next row resting on bottoms OF
rst row, and not being slipped down,
tc; until all piled up. This room is
eated up by steam pipes, which are
urned on at night and in the morning
his set Of baskets are dry and put in
heds, where they are stored until sold
he lumber company also makes berry
rates and berry baskets to fill crates
ut do not make berry baskets to sell
sparately. There are about forty peo-
lie employed in The Milford Lumber
ompany.