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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-02-09
SPLIT-LOG DRAG IN SUMTER
How the Simple Device Is Being
Utilized in That COunty's Good
Road Building.

From the Albany Herald.
An Albany citizen, who recently
rode in an automobile over the splen-
did road Sumter county built a year
ago between Smithville and Ameri.
Gus, this morning expressed wonder
at the splendid condition of that mag
nif1cent highway.
The road was built by the late R
T. Christian, former superintendent
Of roads of Sumter county, and has
been kept in it's present excellent
condition by the use of that simple
yet wonderfully effective appliance
the split-log drag.
Il wish the DOugherty county COM
missioners would adopt the split-log
drag in working the roads of Dough
erty county," said this gentleman
this morning. That road between
Smithville and Americas is as
smooth, or even smoother, than
Broad streets paving of vitrified
brick. 1t is kept in that condition
at little expense by the use of the
split-log drag.
1T is the custom of the Sumter
county authorities, continued the
speaker, ito drag the roads once a
week. One negro driver with a two
horse team and split-log drag COW
ers fifteen miles of road a day. BY
going over the roads once a week
this simple outfit, therefore, keeps
ninety miles of road in splendid con-
dition.
The split-log drag works on a
very simple principle. 1t cuts down
the high places in the road and fills
up the low places A rough road is
caused by small holes, so tiny that at
first they are not noticeable to pass
ing vehibles, gradually getting larger
and larger. The split-Iog drag pre-
vents them from getting larger and
larger. 1t fills them up when they
are small, and keeps them filled up.
So the little holes have no chance to
get bigger, and the road is kept as
smooth as a floor, with no chance to
get rough. The split-lOg drag also
packs the earth, and a road on which
split-log drag is used gets better
and better the older it gets, instead
OF worse and worse, as is the case
where the drag is not used.
Il wish the Dougherty county au-
thorities would try the split-log drag
as an experiment. 1t would also be
fine on our city streets. If the local
authorities would take a ride over
the Sumter county road of which |
speak they could not fail to appre-
ciate the wonderful effectiveness OF
that simple and cheap appliance, the
split-log drag"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-02-09
CONGRESSMAN FIGHT
IN IVAN FOR MONEY TO WHIP PEST
Half Million Was Asked, But the House Kept Appropriation
Two hundred and Fifteen Thousand Dollars

WASHINGTON, D. C.-This was
boil weevil day in the house, prac-
tically the entire membership from
the cotton belt Offering amendments
to the agricultural appropriation bill
to secure amounts sufficient to kill
the much dreaded weevI. Among
those prominent in today's work
were Representatives Lever of South
Carolina; Edwards and Hughes of
Georgia; Clayton of Alabama; Dick
erson and Humphreys of Mississippi,
and the members of the Louisiana
delegation.
Mr.. Hughes sounded the danger
signal when he declared that the
boil weeyil is now marching through
Georgia, and will soon get across
into Carolina. He is travelling at
the rate of sixty miles a year"
In spite of these efforts to have
the appropriation for the weevil Grad
icatiOn increased they were voted
down by the republicans, though it
is generally recognized that tie
weevil, unless put out of business,
will cause untold trouble to the cot
ton industry in a few more years.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-02-09

The southern congressman sought
to have the appropriation for the
study and demonstration of the best
methods of meeting the ravagers of
the boil weevil increased from $751;
600 to 100000. The proposition
was defeated by vote of SO to 115.
1--WE poor people want our butter
colored yellow. 1t looks better and
it is better. We want our colored
butter free of taxation" said Repre-
sentative Clayton of Albania in the
course of a speech advocating the
increase.
Speaking of the alternating quail
ties of the boil weevil Mr.. Clayton
convulsed the house by declaring
that if the weevil should reach Kan
sas it would hibernate in whiskers.
The boil weeVil gets in a lazy condi-
ton, like some of you gentlemen
who go to banquets,'' said Mr.. Clay
ton.
You yankees want cheap cotton, -
he added amid laughter, but if you
let the boil weevil eat up our cotton
you will have to pay 40 cents a
pound for it,"
Another effort TO increase the ap-
preparation, this time to 100000,
was defeated by a vote of SO to 1O8.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-02-09

The Earth Would Be Covered With
Undec0mpOsed Bodies of Animals
and Plants of Past Generations.
Few persons can realize at first
what an immense number and variety
of microbes there are, not only
around us, in air and dust and water,
but also in us and on us and in and
on every living thing. The work, the
huge system of chemical change and
the circulation of the elements, car
bon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, and
sulphur, which they carry on is in
cessant, varied and complex. Those
five elements are the main and essen
tial constituents of all living things.
Suppos;ng there were no microbes,
there would be no putrefaction, no
breaking down of the dead bodies
of animals and plants which were
once alive into gas ana substance
soluble in water.
They, by a series of steps in which
different kinds of bacteria or mi
crobes are successfully concerned,
convert the proteids and the fats and
sugars of dead plants and animals
into less elaborate bodies, organic
acids, aromatic bodies and other COM
pounds (some highly poisonous to
MANI, and at last, when what were
highly complex combinations of hun
dreds of atoms in each mOlecule have
been reduced by the action of first
one and then of another kind of mi
crObe into comparatively simple sub
stances of twenty or thirty atoms to
the mOlecule, the coup de grace" is
given by certain special microbes,
which convert these later compounds
into still simpler combinations, name
ly: ammonia and nitrates, which are
fairly stable, so that the whole elab-
crate chemical fabric of living mat
ter in few hours or days after death
is broken down until it reaches the
stable mineral" condition, practical
ly carbonate and nitrate of ammonia
smelling salts.
II there were no microbes this
would never occur. The earth would
be numbered with the dead bodies
OF past generations of animals and
acknowledgements And very
soon all the organic elements, all the
carbon and nitrogen, if not all the
hydrogen and oxygen, on the face of
the earth would be fixed in these
corpses and the green plants would
perish from the whole world for want
of sustenance. For it is the green
plants which feed on, and absolutely
must have as their food, the car
bonic acid, ammonia, and nitrates,
into which the microbes receive all
living things when dead 1t is the
green plants which from those sim
pie compounds build up again the
more complex molecules, the sugars,
fats, albumens, and proteids, and pro-
vide for the nourishment and increase
of the most complex of all-the liv-
ing matter hidden in protoplasm.-
Sir Ray Laukester in London Tele-
graph.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-02-09
TO PLANT 600 ACRES IN PECANs.
Will Make Nut Plantation in Dough-
erty Of 300 Acres.

Six hundred acres more to be
planted in pecans in Dougherty
county!
That much land has just been pur-
chased by Jones & Smith of Albany
from Mrs, Mary Mock, adjoining her
home place in east Dougherty.
Messrs. Jones & Smith will plant a
small portion of this land in pecans
this winter, and will plant the re-
mainder next fall
This makes 900 acres in all which
these gentlemen, Judge Samuel w.
Smith and Mr.. S. ]. Jones are deyot-
ing to the culture of pecans, and
shows their faith in the future of
this wonderful profit-producing nut,
The price paid for the 500 acres
purchased from Mrs. Mock was S12.-
600.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-02-09
a Safeguard to Children

"Our two children of six and eight
years have been since infancy sub
ject to colds and Group. About three
years ago l started to use Foley S
Honey and Tar, and it has never
failed to prevent and cure these
troubles. 1t is the only medicine |
can get the children to take without
a row." The above from w. C.
Ornstein, Green Bay, Wis, duplicates
the experience of thousands of other
users of Foley's Honey and Tar. 1t
cures coughs, colds and Group, and
prevents bronchitis and pneumonia.
Dawson Drug Co. and Peoples Drug
Store.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-02-09
THE FARMERS FAIRY STORY.
Tremendous Wealth Dug Out of the
Earth Yearly.

tremendous wealth Dug Out of the
Earth Yearly.
At current prices wheat will bring
to the farmer for the year $725,OOO,-
600, with 1865, 100000 for hay,
$500, 100000 for oats, $4,000, 900
for potatoes and 100000 for tobac-
co, says Leslie's Weekly. These stu
pendous figures cannot be grasped by
the ordinary intelligence. While the
production of the year was the great
est in all the cOuntry's history it fell
few millions short of the value of
the tobacco crop, and was immeas-
urably exceeded by that of the wheat,
cotton and corn crops. The produc-
ton of all the cereals combined was
greater in quantity for 1909 than for
any preceding year except 1906,
which broke several records in the
bulk of output. The higher prices
now, however, give the farmer much
more money for his work in 1909
than he obtained in 1906 or any 9th
er year.
The aggregate value of the cOun-
trys farm products for 1909 would
go much more than half way toward
buying out the entire railway system
of the country, with it's accumula-
lions of property of all sorts which
have been gathered through the
years. The money which goes into
the farmers pockets for their labors
for the twelve months amounts to a
fourteenth of the value of all the
countrys property real and personal;
and the wealth of the United States,
1T must be remembered, equals that
OF our two nearest rivals combined
Great Britain and Germany. The
fairy tales contain no greater mar
wells than the story of the yield of
the country's farms tells us, and the
latter has the advantage of being
based on solid and tangible fact.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-02-09
SHE MADE EN- AT HIM.
Goo-Goo Eyes Got Young Woman
Verdict From Judge.

In a ChestertOwn, Md, court trial
the other day the whole case turned
on whether or not the defendant, a
pretty woman, had made goo-goo
eyes" at a man. The Judge pro-
fessed not to know "goo-goo eyes"
from any other sort, so he ordered
the defendant to make them" at
him. She did The "eyes" were
fetching. The Judge blushed, snig
gled and looked foolish. Verdict for
the defense.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-02-09
FARMING IN WEEvIL SECTION
A LOUISIANA TELLS OF HIS
COMBAT WITH THE PEST.
Made a Good Yield of Cotton Under
Adverse Conditions, and Tells
How He Did 1t.

How He Did 1t.
The following story of a Louisiana
farmers experience in growing cot
ton in the boil weevil section of that
state was found by The News in the
Ninden (Webster parish) Signal.
1t is told by the farmer himself, and
will be read with interest here, es-
Recially by our farmers:
Editor of The Signal: Last year,
1909, I cultivated about two and one
half acres in cotton under the direc-
ton of Mr.. Mason Snowden, assistant
state demonstration agent.
The land was broken with two
horse plows about January 18th.
About the goth of March the roads
were laid off with 12-inch middle
buster, and a light application of COW
lot manure put in the bursted fur
row with about 200 pounds of acid
phosphate per acre, and scooter run
through it to mix it up. l then listed
on the fertilizer with two broad one
horse cast pillow burrows. April 8th |
narrowed off the lists and planted
the land in unimproved Triumph cot
ton seed, putting about one-third
of bushel per acre. About the time
the cotton was well up l ran astride
the rows with small iron tooth har-
row, and in about ten days chopped
the cotton out. All the after Guilt
walton was with heel sweeps run very
shallow and frequently.
From the time the cotton began
to put on forms the weevls were very
destructive to it. So much so that
on July End there were not half a
dozen blooms, no bolls nor scarcely
any forms on the stalks that had not
been punctured, Notwithstanding the
fact that l had repeatedly picked up
the squares, and about the goth of
June | picked off 658 boil weevils
from the two and one-fourth acres
On July the End Mr.. Snowden Wis
tied me, and | asked him if We had
better not plOw up the cotton and
plant in June corn. He said: No,
put on another application of fer
tilizer, keep cultiVating it, picking
up the fallen squares and pray for
dry weather" which | did, except
praying for the dry weather. He
said the cotton had a good root sys-
TEN, and sunder favorable conditions
The stalks would take on enough cot
ton to pay expenses. When the cot
ton was all picked We had weighed
in 2,150 pounds of seed cotton, which
made one-third as much lint as seed.
The yield was about $50 pounds of
seed cotton per acre, and | think it
would have made at least 1900
pounds per acre had the drouth not
continued so long.
Mr. Editor, | write up my cxpe-
rience and send it to you for publica-
ton, hoping that it may give courage
to some one else in the way Of in
tensive cultivation and fertilization.
realize that this is not large
amount of produce to the acre. but
when We think of there being moth
ing at all on the stalks but the
leaves on July End | think the
amount quite remarkable. Yours
truly, w. NJ. MCBRIDE.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-02-09

More people are taking Foley's
Kidney Remedy every year. 1t is
considered the most effective remedy
for all kidney and bladder troubles
that medical science can devise. Fo-
ley's Kidney Remedy corrects irreg-
ularities, builds up the system, and
restores lost vitality Dawson Drug
Co. and Peoples Drug Store.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-02-09
100000 TONS OF FERTILIZER.
That's the Estimate of the Amount
Georgia VIII Use.

The commissioner of agriculture
has issued estimates that the fertili-
ger movement in Georgia during the
1910 season will before it is ended
spread over the field of the state
some 100000 tons of fertilizer.
That amount will cost approximate
ly $16,000,000, and will be spread
over about ten million acres, so it
figures out as something more than
$3.50 for each acre
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-02-09
THE WORK OF MICROBES
WITHOUT THEM WORLD WOULD
BE CUMBERED WITH DECAY.

The Earth Would Be Covered With
UndecompOsed Bodies of Animals
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1910-07-08
IN THE DAYS OF
]. |. AND JAKE
Ancient Sports Wag their
Tongues About the
Good Old Times
Gone By.

New Orleans, July S.--"There were
giants in those days"-meaning the
latter quarter of the nineteenth cen.
tury. The recent heavyweight con.
troversy has set the tongues OF all the
ancient sports a.waging about the
good old times" when the mighty
John l.. Sullivan and the game Jacob
Kilran settled their differences of
opinion. Today Is the twenty-first an
niversary of that conflict of gladia-
tors, which took place at Richburg,
Miss, July s 1889. after the fighters
and the fans had played game OF
hide-andseek with the lawfully con-
stituted authorities or two states.
That was some fight. Many old New
Orleans sports believe that IL Kilrau
had been in as good condition as his
opponent, John l.. would have gone
down to defeat that day. De that as
it may, as the leader writer's say, It
was fight, all right.
When the gong sour,icd to begin
the historic conflict OF science and
brute strength principa,!v the lacCer.
John l.. led off with his terrible built
like-rushes. Kilrain lmmed lately hi
him on the nose with hard straight
left. backheeled him and threw him
heavily to the ground. 1t was London
prize rules. For three rounds Xii
rain. had all the best of IL. Then his
Illness apeared. His strength began
to wane. Sullivan furious from the
unexpected beating he receivd at the
start, turned the tide of battle with
savage rushes. smashing with boch
hands and throwing Kilrain heavily
in the clinches
But Jake Kilrain was game man,
although he was outclassed. He foughr
hard all the way. The fight ended in
the seventy-fifth round. Kilrain, who
had just been knocked about the rInl
and sent down hard tome after time
without making much resistance. was
unable TO lcave his corner and Mike
Donovan, his second, threw UP the
sponge.
1t was a vicious fight. In The middle
of 1t Sullivan. who had taken fierce
punishment about the bouy, began
to vomit, and it was thought that he
would have to quit. But he recovered
and after that fought savagely, often
coming dangerously close to the foul
line. Once he threw KiIrain and jump.
ed on him with hisknces, like a foot
ball player.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1910-07-08
RYE H|GHBALLS
A HIGH Triple

New York, July 8.-Those addicte
to the juice of corn will be able To
bear UP with fortitude, but the man
whose favorite tipple is rye has
some bad news coming to him. N
cording to those in a position to know,
the visible supply of rye in this coun-
try is almost invisible, and this yeav's
crop is likely to fall far short of the
demand. AS a consequence, impouG.
tion of the grain from Germany has
already commenced and another ship
ment is expected to reach New YORK
tomorrow. Despite the shortage i'm tine
has been no marked advance in che
price OF the grain, and importers say
that cargoes from Germany and Rus
sia will likely operate to prevent any
extreme upward tendency.
Imported rye pays a duty of ~
cents a bushel and Ireignt charges
amount to something like cents a
bushel additional. The relatively
lower price of the cereal in Germany
leaves a margin of profit above tile
handicap Of transportation and import
charges, and IL is believed that unless
prices go materially lower here i'm
ports will continue.
Up to little more than a year ago.
when corn and oats ere brought In
here from South America duriug q
period of high prices, grain had neve
been brought over seas into this coun
try, except for seeding purposes. a
few years ago we were heavy shippers
Of rye to Germany which is one OF
the worlds largest consumers of rye
flour.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1910-07-08
Wife Seeks Information of
Husband Who Married
Mrs. Luger on
June rs.
COUPLE LEFT FOR
FLORIDA AT ONCE
Martin Has Wife and Child
Now Living at Wilkes
barre, Pa.

A letter just received by Bhclicld
man from Mrs. Jack Martin OF Wilkes
barre, Pa. seeks information regard
ing her husband who was married
June 20 to Mrs. Luger, formerly u
Miss Higginbotham, the divorced wife
OF Cam Lager. Mrs. Martin says I'm
the letter that she noticed IN Blue
field paper that her husband had mar
ried Mrs. Luger on tho date mention.
ed, and she asks that the names and
addresses of some OF Mrs. Layers
relatives be furnished thut she may
acquaint them of the true state OF af.
fairs.
Martin was formerly . machinist
employed by the Norfolk & Western.
1t Is said that he and mis- wife did not
get along very smoothly, and she left
for her old home at W,lkesbal ,e tax.
ing with her their little boy six years
old. Martin. II appears fell II love
with Mrs. Luger to whom, g rs sad
he had been paying more or less mt.
tention before his wife's deparJJre.
and proceeded to marry her wlthort
the formality OF obtaining divorce.
Immediately after the marriage tie
couple left for Florida anG have not
been heard OF In Blueneld since. Mar
] a.
tin is said To bo o good workman anI
would have little difficulty In securing
employment with eny railroad CO n.
pany Mrs Luger was divorced from
her husband few months ago. She
has no children. II is not known
whether sho was aware OF the fact
that Martin was a married man or
not.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1910-07-08
DEADLY FUSILAOE
ON RAMSEY STREET

There was discharge OF artillery
last night i'm the servants quarters at
the residence of s. Aaron on Ramsey
street and as result Pearl GrlfRth
colored is in jail and Mabel Chrisman.
likewise dusky. is out on bond II ap-
pears that Pearl was making a social
call upon Mabel. Ed Lloyd and Hoge
woodward, white. were taking a prom.
enade in the vicinity. when their pro.
gress was suddenly arrested by fus-
ilade of deadly bullets from a danger
Gus p gat. They hit for the tall uncut
taking fences stone walls and every.
thing else that happene din their path
way.
Pearl says that his lady friend did
the shooting and she admits it, The
trial Is set for O'Clock this evening.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1910-07-08
CASHIER SK|Ps
WITH $4,000
Disappears With Money Be
longing to the Bank of
Clintwood- Re
ward Offered

Coeburn, Va, July S.-W. c. d.
Switzerland, cashier OF the Citizens
National Bank of Clintwood, Dicken.
son county, is said to have absconded
with s22 900 of the banks money, $15,.
900 in currency and $1,000 of unsign-
ed treasury certificates.
Last Saturday night Sutherland hir.
ed horse and told some friends he
was going to Stratton, about fifteen
miles from Clintwood to spend the
Fourth of July with relatives. No
one suspected any wrong on the part
OF the cashier until Tuesday morning
when he failed to appear at his post
in the bank. Inquiry revealed the
fact that Sutherland had not gone To
STATION and that he had apparently
dropped out of existence.
ii 80 far. no trace OF him nor the
horse which he rode has been found
nor is there any clew as to which
way he went.
Further investigation at the bank
Is said to have shown that the vault
could not be opened on account of
the time lock.
Late Wednesday afternoon. however
IL is said the officials succeeded I'm
getting into the vault only to find
that their suspicious were well found
ed and that all the funds OF the bank
except small amount OF silver were
missing. IL is reported that inside
the vault there was found note bear.
ing the words gone to the tall tim.
bers" and that 1t is signed by the miss.
ing cashier
Before he left the bank Saturday
1t Is also said that Sutherland set the
time lock for ninety-six hours. pre.
sumably to give himself time to get
away before anything suspicious
against him could be confirmed.
Sutherland is about "a years OF age
and has held many responsible posi-
lions being at one time chief of n
corps of army engineers I'm the Phil.
ippine Islands during the Spanish.
American wra. He Is a member OF one
OF the most prominent and best known
families in Dickinson county.
Friends and business associates of
the missing cashier are completely Mt
sea and can suggest no motive for the
crime as Sutherland was regarded as
an honest and upright business man.
Areward Of $1,000 Is offered by the
officials OF the bank for the arrest
and delivery of Sutherland to the
DicBerson county authorities.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1910-07-08
COL. S. NJ. SMITH
RECEIVES CUP
Trophy Won in the Good
Roads Tour from At.
lanta to New York
City.

Col. s. NJ. Smith today received n
solid silver cup which was awarded
him in the good roads tour recently
from Atlanta to New York. The cup
is ten inches high and measures TWEEN.
ty inches in circumference. 1t is gold
lined and OF most beautiful design and
workmanship.
The following legends are engraved
upon It.
won by Col. S. NJ. Smith of Blue.
field. w. Va. for superior perfor-
nance OF his Speedwell car, entry
No. 40"
Opposite this is tho following:
Good Roads Tour. 1910 Atlanta to
New York over the National High.
way under the management OF the
Atlanta Journal and New York Her
aid"
Col. Smiths car was the only en-.
try from West Virginia.
The cup is on exhibition i'm the show
window OF Randolph & Mlttendorf's
jewolry store.