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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-07-18
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WANTED-Competent girl for general
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FOR SALE-McCaskey credit account
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Times. iio-@e
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FOR SALE OR LEASE-Saloon; good
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Ind, 'Ooe
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FOR SALE-A Maxwell runabout IN
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garage, 9Th and Massachusetts streets
7-16-3t
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EIGHT ROOM HOUSE WITH FURNACE
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,roarc+s Gary Lumber Co. T-16-tf
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FOR SALE OR TRADE-One six-room
cottage at 327 Cedar street; one seven
room cottage all modern; at sS1 Cedar
Call 327 Cedar St d-lo-ot
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FOR SALE-Strictly modern S-room
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FOR SALE-Modern room house ana
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payment down. balance as rent. ,. l.
Wynian, 244 Sibley. new number AZ
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WANTED-A lady stenographer; 70 a
girl with plenty of common sense
brilliant future is assured Must be con-
tent to commence with moderate salary
Fine opportunity for girl with literary
inclinations. Apply by letter only, Gary
News Bureau, Reynolds, Building, Gary
Ind t-lo-ti
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-11-16
WANT TO RAISE PHONE RATES
COMPANY APPEALS TO GEORGIA
RAILROAD COMMISSION.
Mayor Calls a Mass Meeting

Telephone Company, in Petition to
Commission to Increase Its Charges
Above Rates Stipulated in Charter
Granted by the City Council, Says
1t Is Not Making Expenses. Mayor
Calls Attention to Agreement of
the Company.
The question of an increase of so
cents per month per phone in the
rates of the Dawson Telephon Co. is
up again in a new shape.
The company gives notice in the
advertising columns of The News to-
day that it has petitioned the rail-
road commission, which has juris-
diction over telegraph and telephone
Tines as public utilities, for permits
sion to increase it's charge for resi-
dence phones to $3.50 a month and
business phones to $3.50 a month,
and that the commission has set the
hearing for Wednesday, November
23rd
Tt will be remembered that the
telephone company sometime ago
filed a similar petition with the city
council and it was refused by that
body, which declined to approve an
increase of the rates from $500 and
$500 per month, which were by
agreement Incorporated in the COM
pany's charter.
The company sets up the plea that
it is barely making operating ex-
penses.
A similar case from Carrollton, it
is said, was recently before the rail
road commission and that body gave
the telephone company premsission
to increase it's rates above those
named in its charter.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-11-16
SENT COMMISSIONS BACK
SAID CITY COURT HAD BEEN OF
FICIALLY DECLARED
ABOLISHED.

The City Court of Dawson, which
during the past few years has wealth
cred unfriendly political aspirants
who have made it an issue;
the denuciation of farmers whose
hands have had to attend its sessions
either to stand trial for some alleged
offense or to appear as witnesses; I'M
sparing criticism of card writer's in
the newspaper; attacks on it in the
legislature, and finally subjected to
the uncertainties of an election, in
which the free and untrammeled
American voter expresses his mature
and deliberate opinion for the time
being, is again to the forefront with
another interesting situation.
Acting upon an opinion given him
by the states encouragement that
under the special law submitting it
to the voters of the county the court
was not voted out on October 9Th.
Governor Brown appointed Judge M.
C. Edwards to succeed himself and
named Colonel w. H. Gurr for solicit
tor, and Saturday there was received
by Ordinary Cheatham from the gov
ernor the commissions for these gen
tlemen with the request that he de-
liver them to the appointees after
administering the oafh of office.
But Judge Cheatham, having Of
ficially passed and published an or
der that the court as the result of
the. election on October 9Th, would
be abolished on December 10th,
did not see how he could, without
putting himself in an inconsistent at
titude, swear Messrs. Edwards and
Gurr into Offices that he had declar
ed, in his official capacity, would not
be in existence at the time the COM
missions were to go into effect.
Judge Cheatham returned the
commissions to Governor Brown
with this explanation, and notified
Messrs. Edwards and Gurr of his ac-
ton.
Further developments will be
awaited with interest. There is no
doubt that the appointees will re-
ceive their commissions and take the
oath of office before December 10th,
when they are to go into effect. Gov
ernor Brown can either return the
COlAAluISOIOHo anu nave JhuSG ILu-
wards and Colonel Gurr qualified be-
fore Judge Worrill of the superior
court, or they can go to Atlanta and
be duly indicted into office by the
governor himself.
But after that hes been done the
City Court wrangle will still be un-
settled, and nothing can settle it but
decision of the supreme court.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-11-16
THE COMPANY's PETITION,
The Reasons 1t Sets Forth Why It's
Rates Should be Increased.

To the Railway Commission of
Georgia; Hhe petition of the Daw-
son Telephone Company respectfully
shows to your honorable body as
follows
l. That it is a corporation char
tered under the laws of Georgia and
doing business as a telephone com
pany in the counties of Terrell,
Webster, Randolph, Calhoun and
Lee with its main office in Dawson.
2. That on or about December
LIST, 1910, it purchased the plant and
franchise of the GeOrgia-Alabama
Telephone Company, then doing bust
ness in Dawson, and that this plant,
together with it's physical property
and franchise. was duly and regu-
larly transferred to petitioner.
3. Petitioner further shows that
the system in use by the Georgia
Alabama Telephone Company at the
time its plant and franchise were
bought by petitioner was what is
commonly known as the magnetic
system with a few grounded lines:
that petitioner Immediately enlarged
and improved the plant and installed
a central energy and flashlight sys-
tenn thoroughly up-to-date in all its
equipments, and that the services
now rendered are of the very best,
fully equal to those of the largest
and best systems in this country and
is satisfactory to the patrons Of the
telephone company.
4. Petitioner further shows that
since it acquired the plant it has
expended over $14 100000 in equipp-
ing the plant and in charging and
extending the service and in perfect
ing the system so that the services
are now of the very best,
). Petitioner further shows that
it now has 218 residence phones in
the city of Dawson. 115 business
phones, II office phones and 10 ex-
tension phones, and also that there
are six phones used by the officers
of the company in the transaction of
its business, making a total of 365
phones now in service in the city
of Dawson.
6. Petitioner further shows that
the present charges for residence
phones is $3.50 per month, for bust
ness phones $3.50, for office phones
$500, and for extension phones
$1.00 per month.
Z. Petitioner further shows that
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-11-16

rates, and to this end I hereby call
mass meeting of the people of Daw-
son interested in this question +o
meet at the court house at 7 o'clock
p. M Wednesday, November 16
1910. r MhpI1>- y
Letter From Railroad Commission.
Office of the Railroad Commission
OF Georgia, Atlanta, November 10th.
1910, Mayor of Dawson, Ga-Dear
Sir; BY direction of the railroad
commission l transmit to you here
with copy Of petition of the Dawson
Telephone Company praying for au-
thority to increase its rates in Daw-
son, Ca, as therein set out. This
matter has been assigned for hear
ing before the commission at it's
meeting to be held Wednesday, No
Vember 23rd., 1910, at ten o'clock.
a. m, and we are furnishing YOU
with this information in order that
you man be advised in the premises
and give the same such direction as
you may deem proper. Yours very
truly,
CAMPBELL WALLACE, Sec.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-11-16

the total gross income for the rent
OF phones in the City of Dawson
Tor the ten months beginning Janu-
aty l, 1910, and ending November
l. 1910, is $4,9S5.39, and that the
total gross expenses for running and
operating the Dawson exchange for
the same period, including expense
account, the salary of the manager,
the hire of the operators and lines
men, the amount paid for labor, the
amount paid for taxes, insurance and
rent and the amount paid for sup
pies is $4,S66.67, leaving a net in
come for the last ten months of only
$128.72.
.. Petitioner further shows that
the last ten months are the most
prosperous the company has had
during its existence, and that for
the year 1909 the income from the
Dawson exchange was not sufficient
to pay its necessary expenses, such
as salaries, hire of operators, supply
and labor account, etc.
3. Petitioner further shows that
the company has not been able to pay
during its existence any dividends
TO Its stockholders, and will not be
able to pay any dividends for the
year ending December list, 1910,
and further that it has never been
able to set aside the usual ten per
cent which is always chargeable to
depreciation; that it is now operat-
ing the Dawson exchange at a loss
to its stockholders, and that unless
reIlet is granted by an increase of
rates so that it's revenue may be
increased the plant will of neces-
slty depreciate and the service be-
come inefficient and unsatisfactory
both to the exchange and to it's pa
irons.
10. Petitioner further shows that
1t has economical in every way pos
slble; that it has never paid any of
its officers, except its general manag-
er, any salary whatever. and that
the president and vice-president and
forming the duties of their respect
i've offices without any compensation
whatever.
Wherefore your petitioner prays,
the premises being considered. that
your honorable body grant an order
allowing it to increase it's rates in
the City of Dawson to $3.50 per
month for single party metallic lines
business phones, and $500 per
month for single party metallic lines
residences phones, and $3.50 per
month for Duplex metallic lines
residence phones. Respectfully sub
mltted, NJ. J. YEOMANS,
Attorney for Petitioner.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-11-16
Mr.. w. b. Hardness Dead.

Friends here of Mr.. w. B. Hark-
ness, representative of Black & Co,
of New York, learned with much re-
greet Saturday of~his death, which
occurred in Milledgeville of typhoid
fever Mr. Hardness was a clever,
genial man, and made friends of all
with whom he came in contact. He
was in Dawson only four weeks ago,
and news of his death came as a
great surprise. His remains were
sent to his home at Marion, Ala, for
interment.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-11-16
COUNCIL CALLS MASS MEETING.
Asks Citizens to Meet Tonight to
Consider Telephone Matter.

On learning Monday of the appeal
Of the telephone company to the
railroad commission to permit
raise in it's rates Mayor Marlin
called meeting of the council and
that body authorized the following
call for a mass meeting of citizens
Wednesday night:
TO the People of DawsOn:-YOu
are invited to read the correspond
ence sent me as mayor of Dawson,
by the railroad commission, on the
subject of increasing telephone rates
IN the City of Dawson. 1t is gen
orally known that the contract with
the Dawson Telephone Company was
made with the city council with the
proVso that the rates should not be
increased. The contract with the
city council was made after the
phone subscribers had been aD-
preached and many of them had
subscribed to the phones of the new
company on the condition that the
rates would remain as they now are
therefore, I think it proper for the
people interested in the telephone
rates TO hold a meeting in mass for
the purpose of giving expression to
IneIr views on the question of what
Steps should be taken by the peo-
PIE of Dawson before the railroad
commission in regard to telephone
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-11-16
DID MARTIN DEPOSIT 5000 an
rFFsBURC MERCHANT HAS TICKET THAT EFFEcr ,r, ~
SAYS IT NOT RECEIVE MONEY LAW s,-,r , DAMN

Mr. Jonathan Williams, who at
.onda4 the superior court of Lee
county, at Leesburg last week, reports
that 4 very interesting and an unus-
,,o1 case was tried in which the Less
bmrg bank and a well-known mer-
obon+. named Martin, were the liti-
gants. ST.
+bo hank for 5000, which he claimed
~ have deposited there, but which
The bank denied that he had done.
" AT the trial Martin introduced
danosit ticket regularly made out for
the amount of 5000, and also put
witnesses on the stand to prove that
he deposited the money. The bank
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-11-16

alleged that the deposit slim wac .
~, seIy and introduced expert evil
o o TO that effect, and also put nm
On the witness stand bank exnerts
10 U show that the money had not been N
9 yep The jury returned a YER
ulct IN favor of the bank
a. me prominence of the parties to
the suit and the amount invo1vo6
MADE the case of more than ordinary
interest, and one of the hardest Loci
n ne ever seen in the Leesburg
court house was put up by the on
posing counsel. 'A10 Up
Puoilc opinion is sharply divided
mere Oelng many people who look
at the matter from opposite view
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-11-16
Residence Sold.

The residence of Mr.. L. G. Hill on
Church street has been bought by
Mr.. S. A Brim of Sasser, who will
soon move his family to Dawson. The
consideration was $4,000, and the
deal was made through the real es.
tate agency of Lewis, Crowell and
Hoyl.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-11-16
Issued 1877 HI. Fas.

City Clerk Bell has issued 1877 fl.
fas. against tax defaulters-71, rep
resenting $3,004.39, against whites,
and 116, representing $203.70,
against negroes, and aggregating
$3,2O8.O9. The collections at the
time the books closed amounted to
$19,15S.72.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-11-16
4 Farm Land Deal.

Mr.. ]. A. Horsley, the real estate
agent, has sold the w f. Moreland
place, in the eastern part of the
county and which belonged to Mr..
c. L. Ivey, to Messrs. J. M. Warner
and w. M. Mount of Sasser. The
place contains $50 acres, and the
price paid was $4,000.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-11-16
Prof. Gunter Will Preach.

The pastor will not return from
the convention at Elberton in time
for the services at the Baptist church
next Sunday. Prof. Gordon Gunter,
who recently delighted a large con-
gregation at our church, will preach
both morning and night. Give him
good congregations.
N. B. O'KELLEY.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-11-16

800 for the famous Berkshire
hams. "A
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-11-16
MANY WANT PENSIONS.
Twenty-Three New Applications Are
Filed With Judge Cheatham.

hNShtS-1hfee new Applications Are
Filed With Judge Cheatham.
The time in which applications
could be made for pensions has ex-
PRED, and the papers of those who
desire to get on the roll have been
forwarded to the pension office in
Atlanta by Ordinary w. B. Cheat
ham.
The number of new applicants is
unusually large, 10 old veterans and
8 widows having filed applications
with Judge Cheatham. There are
now GO pensioners in the county.
The next annual payment of pen
siOns will be made in January and
February.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-11-16
DIED SUDDENLY OF PARALYSIS.
Mr.. w. B. Frazier Lived But a Few
Hours After Being Stricken.

Mr. w. B. Frazier, a former citizen
of Terrell county and father of Mr..
Jack Frazier of near Dawson, was
stricken with paralysis at his home
in Mitchell county Friday afternoon,
and died aC 4 o'clock Saturday morn
ing.
The deceased was we'll known in
Terrell county and esteemed as a
good man. He is survived by a wife
and six children.
Mr.. Jack Frazier went to Mitchell
county to attend the funeral
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-11-16
THE COTTON MARKET.
Ruling Prices and Warehouse Wag-
on Receipts.

Tuesday at noon the Dawson
had received by wagon
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-12-29

most important question presented and
necessary to be decided, conceding that
Citizens Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany and its successors were
bound to furnish the specified free tele-
phone service, is whether Kenosha
Home Telephone Company, defendant
herein, acquired or succeeded to that
obligation. The Court holds that Ken
#osha Home Telephone Company pur-
chased and, acquired, as it had the law
full right to do, only the physical pro-
.perties of Citizens Telephone and Tele-
graph Company specified in the bill of
sale, and did not purchase, acquire or
succeed to, in any way, the franchise
or contractual dues or obligations Of
Citizens Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany. Kenosha Home Telephone Com
pany did not need the franchise of Citi-
zens Telephone and Telegraph Company,
purchased only so much Of its properties
as it wanted, and the purchase of the
franchise was expressly excepted from
the purchase and sale between said
companies.
The Court holds that Kenosha Home
Telephone Company is not the successor
of Citizens Telephone and Telegraph
Company, but entirely and distinctly
by individual and independent thereof
and therefrom, and is under no con-
tractual or other obligation to furnish
any free telephone service to city of
kenosha. There was no consolidation
OF said companies. The Court holds
that the free telephone service hereto
lore, furnished city of Kenosha by Ken
osha Home Telephone Company was
voluntary, that no legal obligation to
continue the same exists, and that con-
tinuance thereof or discrimination in
its tariff rates in favor of city Of Ken
osha is forbidden by chapter 400, laws
of 1907, and is contrary to law.
The prayer of the City of kenosha
for Judgment that the defendant, Ken
osha Home Telephone Company be per-
petually enjoined and restrained from
charging, collecting or receiving from
City of Kenosha for telephone service
furnished to the city Offices specified
and from removing the telephones from
said offices or in any manner interfer-
ing with the full use and enjoyment
Of existing telephone service therein
must be denied and the complaint dis
missed.
Dated December "a, 1910.
e. B. Belden,
Circuit Judge.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-12-29
DEATH OF JOHN HOVE.
Former Kenosha Resident Dies at His
Home in Chicago.

John Hoye, former resident of this
city and well known to all of the older
residents of the city died at his home
in Chicago Sunday afternoon. Mr.. Hoye
had been in poor health for the past
year and his death was not entirely
unexpected. Mr.. Hoye was A years of
age and was born and raised in Ken
osha. He worked at the old English
market for q number of years and in
1890 he went to Chicago and for many
years has been the city salesman for
Swift Packing Co. He is survived by a
wife and five children. The remains
viii be brought to Kenosha for inter-
ment Wednesday at 12:45 and will be
taken directly to the cemetery. The
funeral service will be held Wednesday
morning at st. AIMS church on 55th
st. Boulevard, Chicago at $3.50 'clock.
Many Kenosha friends and relatives
will 60 to Chicago to attend the funeral
and accompany the remains to this
city.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-12-29
DEATH OF JOHN BUscHMANN.
Prominent German Resident Dies Sud-
denly Saturday Afternoon.

John Buschmann, ST., one of the old
est and most prominent of the German
residents of the city died very sudden
ly Saturday afternoon shortly after 2
o clock supposedly from an attack of
heart failure. The announcement of his
death came as a great shock to his
friends and relatives. Mr.. Buschmann
had not been in the best of health for
the past year and had often complained
of his heart but his ailment was not
supposed to be dangerous one. Sat
urday afternoon he was returning from
the market on Elizabeth street when he
was seen to reel and fall striking his
head against the fence. He was imme-
diately assisted to his home but spoke
only twice after he fell and died soon
after reaching the house. The deceased
was born November q, 1887, in Buch-
old Kreis Borken Besirks Munster
Westfahlen and came to America in
1867. On November 4, 1869 he was
married to Elizabeth Winkelheide of
New Munster who with four sons, Jo-
seph, John, Henry and Chas. all of Ken
osha and two daughters, Elizabeth of
Kenohsa and Mrs. Edward Beyersdor-
fer of Chicago survive him. The fu-
neral services will be held from st.
George church on Wednesday morning
at 10 O'Clock and interment will be
at st. George cemetery.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-12-29
IHE LITTLE
MOCCASIN
By NJ. j. PHILLIPS

Copyright, 1870. by Associated Literary Pr.ss.)
Aren't you afraid the wolves will
sat your
Dexter Morgan stared at the note
perplexed. 1t was verify incongru-
GUS in this bowling wilderness. 1t
was written on fine paper by wom-
ans hand; and, if Morgan was any
Judge of chirography. the woman was
young. refined and intelligent.
He was camping In one Of the
sparssly inhabited counties of the up
per peninsula OF Michigan. He had
not seen human being for weeks,
except when he went to Fuller's, 10
miles away, to buy supplies. His
neighbors were bears, wolves and
deer. He had come back to camp at
nightfall one day to find this mock
ing little message pinned to his
sleeping bag.
supper that night, he speculated over
the note, taking 1t occasionally from
the pocket Of his flannel shirt to
study it again. When the meal had
been disposed Of he sat down to pore
over it anew.
1t was not meant as warning;
that was sure. Whoever wrote It
must have known that there was no
danger Of the wolves eating him.
The wolves had more to fear than he.
Morgan was a government expert,
sent out from Washington to test the
value Of new lure prepared by a
famous chemist. He built ingenious
traps, batting them with fresh meat
smeared with the tempting liquid.
Day after day he tramped over hts
long route, killing and skinning his
captives and making copious notes.
These notes, published under the i'm
print of the bureau of biological sur
vey, presently, would add to his
reputation as clever young nat
uralist.
He sat UP until eight o'clock, which
was half an hour beyond his usual
bedtime, trying to account for the
presence of woman In this dreary
waste. He was up before the sun next
morning. By the time 1t peeped
iazily over the low ridge of hills to
the east, he had kindled his fire and