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The Cairo bulletin., 1909-05-29
FOR SALE.

FOR SALE-Two lots at 2300 Wal
nut
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-05-29
ILLINOIS CENTRAL
Corrected to Nay 9th, 1909.
THE FAST MAIL ROUTE.
Trains Leave Cairo:

It's a. m. Daily Chicago Vestibule
Limited. arriving Chicago 1880 a. m.
2.12 a. m, Daily st. Louis Night
| Limited, arriving St Louis 703 a. m.
iSleepIng car open at 80 p. m.
1920 a. m. St Louis Special.
500 a. m, Chicago Daily Express.
except Sunday.
500 a. m, st. Louis Morning Elk.
press, daily.
11:15 a. m, st. Louls Fast Mail.
11:15 a.. m, Chicago Midday Special
2.35 p. M. Daily St Louis Limited.
2:35 p. m. Afternoon Express for
Odln Effryham, Mattoona Champaign
$40 p. M, Thebes ACCOMMODATION.
7:15 y. m, Chicago and Eastern
Express.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-09
Melody on the Farm.

From the Sylvania Telephone.
If you like music and pretty pic
lures you can have them at your will
by getting up early on the farm and
listening to the songs of the birds
and all the signs and sounds of ma
lures resurrection. You can hear
the chickens, the cows and the hogs
and the neighing horses as the farm
er comes with their feed. You can
hear the voices at the lot, as the boys
or the hired hands draw water for the
stock and make ready for the day.
Then, as the first long golden lance
of light strikes down across the silent
fields you can see all the life and bus
tie of another opening day. And all
of it is sweet, and bringeth peace and
joy-as we find out sometimes when
We have left it and pine for it again.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-09
DoVEREL DOINGs.

Mr.. Hamp Perry of Cocoanut
Grove, Fla, was married to Miss
Connie Conley at the home of DR..
T. A. Woods, the later performing
the ceremony
The members of Dover Baptist
church are requested to meet on
Thursday before the first Sunday in
July for the purpose of cleaning off
the cemetery.
There will be no preaching at the
Baptist church the second Sunday,
but there will be preaching at the
Methodist church at $3.50 o'clock by
the pastor.
Dover's baseball team is going to
play match game the IS tn of this
month on the Dover diamond at 4
O'Clock with the Taylor's Academy
team.
Several of the Pixies best boys
attended preaching at Dover Sunday.
Come again, boys; we are glad to
have you.
Mr.. C. S. Lee went fishing a few
days ago. He reported a good catch
an alligator five feet and two inch
es long.
Mr.. Calvin Rudd has returned
from DeSoto. We are glad to know
that he has finished school at that
place.
Mr.. o. NJ. Melton and wife of
Shellman were visiting in Dover Sun
day.
We are sorry to hear that Mr..
Mitch Taylor is on the sick list.
Miss Belle Aycock has returned
from Meigs after a pleasant visit.
Some of the fishermen are badly
behind on account of grass
Mr.. R. Q. Ethridge is visiting rel
atives in Randolph county.
Miss Ray Hass of Dawson is visit
ing Miss Lit Thomas.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-09
ROADS OF SAWDUST.

A new plan of making roads in
Florida is saWdust mixed with dirt,
Two ridges of earth are thrown up
with a road machine at the required
width from each other and the space
between filled with siX-inch bed
of sawdust. This is followed with a
smaller machine, which plows up
and mixes the earth with the saw
dust. This makes a roadbed on
which the tires of the heaviest load
ed vehicle make no impression. The
contractor has kept an accurate &C
count of expenses in connection with
this section of sawdust and earth
road and says the cost aggregates
$237 a mile, showing it to be about
the cheapest road material in use
The road, besides, is durable.
The News has seen the statement
that two such roads built in Georgia
twenty years ago are now in good
condition.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-09
PLUMs FOR THE BRETHREN.

The announcement comes informal
ly from Governor-elect Joseph NJ.
Brown of the names of those who will
form his executive staff, or the Off
cial force of the executive office. 1t
is evident that Mr.. Brown is partial
to newspaper men, as each of the
three gentlemen who have been Sc
lected for these positions are from
that profession.
Mr. A. H. Ulm, who has for some
time been the able Atlanta repre-
sentative of several of the daily pa
pers of the state, will be Governor
Browns private secretary, the posi-
ton Mr.. J. B. Hoyl of Dawson has
filled so well for Governor Smith.
Mr. Ulm IS from Augusta.
Mr.. B. M. Blackburn of Atlanta
will succeed Mr.. Josiah Carter in
that department of the executive
office which relates to county Off
GERS, and will transmit all commune
CdIIOuo WHICH pass DCCWGGll INC SOF-
ernor and the general assembly. Mr.
Blackburn has long been identified
with southern journalism. He be-
gan his career as editor of the Madi-
sonian at Madison, Ga. From there
he went to Atlanta, where he has
done much newspaper work. He is
secretary of the state democratic eX-
ecutive committee.
Mr., c. c. Brantley of Valdosta will
succeed Mr. c. M. Hitch as the ex-
ecutive clerk in charge of warrants,
pardons and acquisitions. Mr.. Brant
ley is newspaper man of long and
successful experience, and for num-
Der of years has been editor of the
Valdosta Times, one of the most
prominent and influential papers of
the state.
The News congratulates these
brethren on their good luck, and
Governor Brown on the wisdom he
has displayed in selecting them for
the responsible positions they are to
fill
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-09

Colonel Roosevelt, writing in the
Outlook, gives his hearty endorse
ment to two books on southern life
written by Mr.. Warrington Dawson
''of South Carolina" Colonel Roose-
Welt speaks of them as "a southern
er's view of the south" The Savan-
nah News, not having had an oppor-
tunity to read Mr.. Dawson's books,
cannot pass upon their merits, but
that paper observes that the, young
gentleman is the son of an English
father, and has lived nearly all of
his twenty-nine years of life in
France. -, .rp
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-09
THE HOUSE FLY.

Scientists and eminent NJ Dis.
who have been busy a number of
years matchmaking the mosqui-
to have now turned their attention
to the housefy, the pestiferous and
multitudinous little insect which has
been in "our midst" and on familiar
terms with mankind from time i'm
memorial. These learned gentlemen
have been studying the housefy late
ly, and all of them unite in saying
that it is one of the greatest dangers
to human heaith-that it is more
deadlyeand dangerous to life than the
tiger or the cobra, the most danger
GUS insect on earth, and far more to
be feared than the mosquito.
The United States bureau of en-
tomology, in a recent bulletin, es-
Inmates that typhoid fever, which is
largely caused by flies, costs in this
country the astonishing sum of
$3.50, 100000 per annum, besides
thousands of lives. Prof. Howard,
the author of the bulletin above re-
ferred to, suggests the notwithstanding
of the housefy, and that it should
be called the typhoid fly" He at
tributes the long death roll from
disease in the Spanish-American
war, where one out of every five of
the soldiers was stricken, to the poi
son carried by the flies. The fly is
typically a filth insect, seeking nasti-
ness of all kinds-the fouler it is
the sweeter to it's taste. 1t carries
germs from infected matter to the
tables of the rich and poor alike, and
trails across them path populated
by millions of microbes of the most
deadly maladies, from Asiatic chol-
era to summer complaint.
Not long ago a series of elaborate
experiments was made to see how
many bacteria single fly might car
ry. 1t was ascertaiRed that early in
the season the number was compare
lively small, but that it increased
rapidly. 1t varied from $50 to g.
100000 for each insect. The aver
age in the height of midsummer
was 1,222,57O.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-09
WELCOME TO DAWSON.

The News, in behalf of the peo-
pie of Dawson, extends a hearty well
come to the delegates to the State
Philathea Union.
1t is always a pleasure to the peo-
pie of Dawson to have the stranger
within our gates, and we are es-
pecially pleased when these guests
the very best among our
christian civilization
To each one of you individually
and collectively a cordial welcome is
We turn the keys over
to you for what we trust will be
three happy and profitable days.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-09
Georgia's prominent" Criminals.

From the Savannah News.
Are there no criminals of the
lower class in Georgia." asks the
Charlotte Observer. Continuing it
says: "One never hears of a hOmi-
eide in that state committed by other
than prominent person or man in
high standing in his community, and
the person killed always occupies a
similar position in society. If Geor-
gia has any citizens of the lower
class, morally or socially, they do
not figure in the trials for murder as
reported to the newspapers. Our
contemporary comment is justified
by the facts. For some inscrutable
reason there are news correspond
ents in Georgia who think that no
news story of crime is complete or
at its best unless the parties to it
are designated as prominent" be
longing to the best families" or
something of the sort Such CORES
pondents are intent only upon selling
their stories. They do not care three
straws what impression of Georgia's
best families" is conveyed to the
outside world. The best families"
of Georgia are rarely involved in
deeds of violence or crimes of any
kind. They are, like the best fam
lies of other states, quiet, conserv-
ative, law-abiding, highminded, gem
erOus, Ospitable-in short, what the
best type of what civilization should
show. The people who cut and
tight and shoot and kill and rob and
commit bigamy and so on are not
prominent Georgians, except in the
rarest instances. They are just or
binary tough characters, such as are
to be found in North Carolina and
California and Maine and Texas and
everywhere else.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-09
GRAVES GLEANINGS.

Mrs. W. H. Dismuke and Mr.. I. H.
Klmble have returned from POulan.
where they attended the funeral of
their grandmother, Mrs. L. Lyle
Mr., and Mrs. Roy Smith and Miss
LESSEE Kendrick of Dawson are guests
at the home Of Rev. J. S. Smith.
Mrs. Elon Heisler and children
have returned from a visit to rela-
tives at Meigs.
Miss Cleo Harris of Dawson spent
a few days last week with Miss Lille
Dismuke
Mr.. and Mrs. j. N. Bolton and
children spent Sunday in PARROT
with relatives.
Miss Lucille Norman of Darien is
the attractive guest of Miss Lille
Dismuke.
Mrs. M. L. Bishop of Moultrie is
the guest of her mother, Mrs R. D.
Commander
Miss Susie Chambless has returned
from visit to relatives at Midway.
Mrs. Geo. w. King returned Mon
day to her home in Tampa, Fla.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-09
Farm Lands

$500 acres, with stock in
Guiding mules and brood mares
hogs, COWS and goats; corn, fod
der and all farm implements
including reapers, binders ana
other improved machinarv
This magnificent farm, topetb
er with all of the above nron-
erty, can be had for SIS an
acre. D
40 acres, four miles south If
Dawson, at a price that cannot
be met in any similar value
557 acres of land in inn
proved state of cultivation two
and one-half miles north Of
Bronwood, -
$50 acres of land southwest
OF Brentwood, having on if
large quantity of hardwood
timber. 00U
1000 acres of land in the
Fourth district. This place is
we'll improved.
800 acres of land in the Sivtb
district, we'll improved.
go acres three miles north
OF BronWood, including stock
VIII give you a bargain in this
and terms if desired.
100 acres lying in and Just
beyond the limits of Dawson
$50 acres OF land east Of
BrOnWOOd.
400 acres of well-improyed
land a mile and a half from
Dawson.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-09
AN ASTONISHING DISCLOSURE.

The story printed in the local col
umns of the last issue Of The News
that an investigation by the grand
jury disclosed that during the past
few weeks the railroads had brought
to Dawson as freight billed to fcti-
tious persons four hundred pack
ages, or drums, of whiskey was re-
ceived by the public with consdera-
BILE establishment.
1t was known that there was some
violation of the prohibition law here,
as is the case everywhere, but this
was a condition that no one dreamed
of The magnitude of the Illicit
traffic in liquor indicated by these
developments is a stain upon our
town and county and a reflection
upon our people regardless of what
may be their individual views as to
whether a statewide prohibition law
is the best way to deal with the whis-
key evil. and all good citizens will
give aid and encouragement to every
effort seeking to make such whole
sale transgression of law impossible
in the future.
Our good name is at stake, and
the duty of every citizen and every
officer-state, county and municipal
is plain
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-09
REMEMBER MONDAY NIGHT.

Next Monday night is the time for
the committee of six to whom the
new city charter was referred by the
mass meeting to make their report
The adoption of a new charter is one
lin which every citizen of Dawson, be
he merchant, mechanic, banker,
laborer or professional man, is con-
cerned, and there should be large
meeting of the people to receive the
report of the committees work and
approve or criticise it, as they may
see fit
Remember Monday night, and be
on hand.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-09
Doing the Most Good. g"

From the Savannah Press.
Terrell county is not going to
get excited oversthe movement
of the Atlanta papers for good
automobile roads, but is going
along in the even tenor of her
way improving the highways for
the benefit of the farmers and all
other CitiZens.-DawsOn News.
The oXcart and the cotton wagon
need good roads most of all, and pos
sibly the coming of the automobile
will help them out. But it is true
that the men who most need better
highways are the men who lose
three million dollars in Georgia
hauling their crops to market every
year.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-09
Exchange Talk.
The Two Browns.

Savannah News: The two Browns,
Joe and Pope, served together on
the railroad commission. ''Now, >"
says the Dublin Courier-Dispatch
"one is to be governor and the other
is treasurer. Verify this is to be a
Brown administration. Yes, and
the hope and belief is that the
Browns are going to take that dark
brown taste out of Georgia's mouth,
from which she has been suffering
ever since the morning after the
night Of the election of 1906.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-09

South Georgia, it seems, is about
to lose another good citizen. The
Courier announces that Hon. J. P.
Brown, the recently appointed state
treasurer, is contemplating moving
from Pulaski county to Marietta
We don't know why it is that as
soon as a man in the southern part
of Georgia becomes annexed to a
state office he packs his buds, gets
up his other belongings, hikes off to
north Georgia and never returns.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-09

1t is announced that the commits
sion appointed to consider the pro-
posed extension of the states rail-
road to the sea and report their con-
illusions to the approaching session
of the legislature have done nothing,
and that there will be no report. AS
the proposition could no longer be
used as a political asset by those who
were agitating it, it has been quietly
dropped.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-09
Humorous as Well as Thirsty.

From the Triton Gazette.
Bob Hurrah," Jack Frost"
Sam Trout" and &C. A. Iscariot"
have received something like five
thousand gallons of whiskey in Daw-
son recently, as developed by the
grand jurv's investigation of the
books of the railroad companies.
These are fictitious names, to obtain
the ardent via the bill of lading and
drayman route. From the selection
of nom-de-plumes the imbibers in
that city combine a sense of humOr
with thirst for the spirit.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-09

Houston, Texas, thinks so much of
the commission plan of government
that it is used as one of the city's
chief advertisements In an adver-
tisement of the town this statement
appears: Her City Hall is bust
ness house. She has no wards, no
ward politicians, no graft. Her city
officials are public work experts,
and kept there as long as they make
gOod-nO longer"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-09
City Property

A bargain in a three-storv
brick building in Dawson. 4
fine piece of property, and a
good investment.
Two brick store houses on
Third avenue.
Four tenant houses and lots
Two residences on Third ave-
nue.; conveniently located and
desirable for homes.
Dwelling house, with store
connected, on Crawford street
A good opportunity for any one.
Ten acres of land, with five
tenant houses, in good location,
Will give you an extra good
bargain in this.
Nice residence on College
avenue.
One house on Lee street.
Two houses and lots on Vine
street.
If you want a bargain in a
2O-ton ice plant see me.
A 35-room hotel for sale in
a flourishing town.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-09
The Unions Big Undertaking.

From the Madison Advertiser.
The Farmers Union of the south
is making strenuous preparations to
keep enough cotton off of the mar
ket next fall so as to regulate the
price in favor of the farmer. We
hope this great scheme now being
inaugurated by the Farmers Union
will be carried out successfully. 1t
is going to take an immense amount
of money to turn the trick, and the
Union will have to hustle.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-09
What He Expects to See.

Montezuma Record: 1t is said
that Governor Smith has his eyes
on the United States senate as soon
as the present term of Steve Clay ex-
pires. 1t is predicted that Senator
Clay will then retire in favor of Mr..
Smith. At least that is the talk,
and it looks like a surety, judging
by past and present circumstances.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-09

The grand jurors, in their present
ments, pay high compliment to the
officers of Terrell county. And every
word of it is deserved. If there is
a county anywhere that has a more
capable and accommodating set of
officials than Terrell we would like
to know which it is. We are very
fortunate in our public officers.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-09

Following his recent visit to the
state prison farm at Milledgeville
Governor Smith on Friday granted
twenty-five pardons to convicts en-
ployed there. The governor is
quoted as saying that there are three
hundred convicts wearing chains
who should be free, and that he in
tends to pardon as many of them as
he can before he goes out of office
AS he has only two and a half more
weeks as governor, short time in
which to consider and dispose of
three hundred pardon cases, it is
hardly probable that he will strike
the shackles from anything like this
number.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-09
Weather and Wives,

Americas Times-Recorder: Hot
weather is a blessing to some men.
Here is the ex-sultan of Turkey who,
as the Savannah Press points out,
has only $4,000 a year and LOO
wives to dress on it. Abdul Hamid
should order a car load of Tybee
bathing suits at once.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-09
WHY, Mary!
From Everybody's Magazine.

From EVerybOdy's Magazine.
Nov remember, Mary" the
teacher said just before the school
exercises # you forget some of the
words rh2n you are singing your
song don't stop. Keep right on. Saw
tum-tum-tummy-tum or something
like that, and the words will come
back to you and nobody will know
the difference. Now, don't forget"
On exhibition day little Mary
whats in a name?) edited her
audience with something like this;
and she wears a wreath OF roses
Around her tummY -tum-tum"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-09
No Obituary Columns

From the Washington Herald.
THE University of Harvard is to
publish magazine that will print
only the truth We assume there
will be no society columns" SAYS the
Augusta Chronicle. Neither will
there be any obituary columns, in
all probability
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-09

1t is the opinion of the cambridge
Search Light that congress will pass
an income tax law when Champ Clark
is elected president, when Joe Can
non becomes a democrat, when Par
son BroughtOn runs a near beer sa-
lOOn-when the world comes to an
end
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-09

Rome Tribune-Herald: If the At
lanta papers would print little more
real news, and a little less about
which car carried the mail first, and
which pathfinder got the most ap-
plause their readers might appreci-
ate it,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-09

Hon. William Brunson, until re-
Gently the solicitor general of the
Macon circuit, committed suicide Fri
day morning by putting a pistol ball
through his brain. Will Brunson
was one of the boyhood playmates
Of the editor of this paper, and was
then, as in his maturer years, quiet,
gentle, generous and the friend of
everyone. His tragic end was I'M
expected, and a sad surprise
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-09

There used to be an old adage
that a successful farmer never went
to town unless he carried something
to sell. AS the Madison Advertiser
says, the adage is not practiced very
much now, but it is mighty good doc
trine nevertheless.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-09

The sensational liar, a fellow with
whose presence almost every town is
afflicted, has been scattering reports
of an epidemic of typhoid fever in
Albany. The Herald calls him down,
and says there are only nine cases
at this time instead of sixty.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-09
Corn Carnival.

LAGRANGE Reporter: The Balm
bridge Search Light says that AL
bany is to have a corn carnival in
November, when the corn will be full
of kernels and the Colonies full of
corn.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-09

Atlanta is having a rucus about
a new charter, too. A lively row is
on over the report of a charter
commission, and it is said the result
may be that there will be no new
charter at all
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-09
THE PHILATHEA NATIONAL HYMN.

e sung by the State Philathea Union, which will
ne in Dawson tonght)
We hail the day that gave thee birth,
And welcome thee from Heaven to earth,
That we might know thy royal worth:
Hail to thee Philathea
(ChOrus)
We sing of thee, Philathea,
May Love of Truth" thy guiding Star,
With light serene still shine afar,
Shine afar, Phiathea.
What eer the coming days may bring
The songs of praise to thee shall ring
And loyal lips shall ever sing,
Sing of thee, Phiathea.
Shine thrO' the gloom till night is gone
beacon light across the storm;
Seek out the lost and those that mourn
Shine afar, Philathea.
Shine forth the truth, thy work is thine
To speed the dawn, thy gift divine,
Then with thy Lord forever shine,
Ever shine Philathea.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-09

The first shipment of Georgia
peaches went north from FIT. Valley
several days ago. They were young
and frolicsome, and a New York dis
patch says that in one hour after
their arrival they had scores of good
citizens all doubled up and trying to
die.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-09

The Georgia bar association sug-
gests that the state supreme court
judges wear gowns while on the
bench. Now, wouldn't they look it
here in plain old democratic Georgia.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-09

A good roads convention at which
number of the counties of this sec
ton was represented was held in AL
bany yesterday. Good for Albany
and good roads.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-09
COnnnOner Joe,

Moultrie Observer: Joe Brown
has actually been eating corn bread.
This makes him still more of a COM
moner. He will soon be drinking
branch water or stump liquor.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-09

The little town of Climax, down
in Decatur county, has got on the
map, and received a great deal of
free advertising the past few days.