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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-05-18
ANOTHER CLUB SUGGESTED.

A Contributor Wants to Lower Cost
of Dress to Help Flood Victims.
Editor Dawson News: | ask why
do not some of the public spirited
christian club raisers form club
for the flood sufferers on the Missis-
sippi river, each female member not
to wear anything costing over %
cents a yard, wear no ready-made
clothing, get a home dressmaker so
as to give her a chance to help, buy
no hat that costs over $500, and
economic on shoes. l know the rich
and well to do can help the suffer
ers and wear fine dress, but that
would cripple the poor and those in
moderate circumstances. You know
people are now judged so much by
their dress that those in meager cir
cumstances will strain every nerve
for dress to keep up appearances, so
why not form clubs all over Terrell
county, each member pledging her
self to curtail on dress expenditure.
The limit | placed will bring all
classes-the rich. well to do, moder-
ate and the poor-to work in unison
for the same good cause, the club to
hold together till the suffering is re-
lieved with food and clothing. Sure
ly, no christian could refuse to join.
The flood victims can barely make
enough to subsist on through the
summer; then winter will catch them
without clothing for protection. This
is a case at our door-a home mis-
sion l appeal to male and female,
old and young. The male can econo-
mize just as the female. | hope
some lady who is good at club rails
ing will make a personal application
of the sufferer and herself, take it
up and get it agitated. | merely
send this as a suggestion. If you
want the minimum of dress lower,
good; it will bring more poor people
in the ring. NJ. f.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-05-18
WHY DON'T SHE MAKE BOND?
MRS. GRACE Is ANXIOUS TO
LEAVE JAIL IN ATLANTA.
Her Desire to BE Out in Sunshine
One of the Most Touching Things
Attendants Have Ever Seen.

Attendants Have Ever Seen.
ATLANTA.-The continued fail
ure of Mrs. Daisy Grace to make
bond, although she is pitifully anx-
ious to leave her cell in the tower,
has inevitably given rise to the con-
clusion that she is without financial
resources, and that the tales about
her fortune in Philadelphia were ex-
aggerated.
The unhappy woman has been a
prisoner in close confinement for sew
eral months, and since the coming
of spring especially has found her
Imprisonment a veritable torture.
Her desire to walk about in the
sunshine and see the green trees and
flC wers is said by the jail officials
to be one of the saddest and most
touching things they have ever
known.
Before the grand jury indictment
it was given out by her lawyers that
she did not make bond because she
chose voluntarily to remain in the
tower, in the idea that her imprison-
ment would force the grand jury to
act without delay.
When the grand jury returned it's
indictment and Judge Roam fixed the
new bond at five thousand dollars
it was understood that the bond
would Immediately be made and that
Mrs. Grace would be released the
same day. Mrs. Grace is to be
Free" is the way the local neWspa-
pers headed their account. But Mrs.
Grace is still prisoner. Bond has
not been made, and now new explain
ations are being offered by her
friends One is that there is an old
blue law in Pennsylvania which pre-
vents a wife from disposing of her
property without the consent of her
husband. Other explanations have
also been made But the prevailing
popular opinion here, right or wrong,
is that Mrs. Grace remains prison
er simply because she cannot raise
the five thousand dollars necessary
for her bond.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-05-18
ENTOMBED WITH DEAD MEN
Are Fed Through Pipe Far Down in
the Earth, and May Yet Be
Saved From Death.

DULUTH, Minn.-Six of thirteen
men entombed in the 2,000-foot level
of the Norrie mine at Ironwood,
Mich, by cave-in last night, are to-
night grouped in a small space with
five of their comrades dead beside
them. Two other bodies have been
brought to the surface.
The men still alive are being fed
by means of little pipe driven down
through the earth that hens them
in. Many rescuers are working to
save them.
1t is not known just what caused
the accident.
The mine is controlled by the Oil
yer Mining Company, a subsidiary OF
the United States Steel Corporation.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-05-18
WILL LET ALL CLASSES
ON SUNDAY.
arr
nIcn anu UUI Can Get Into the Lake
And Swim.

ATLANTA.-The city park board
has decided that there shall be no
privileged classes in Atlanta, no dis
tinction between rich and poor SO
far as Sunday laws are concerned.
If the society folks go to East
Lake every Sunday and swim and
boat and play golf and tennis-and
they do-then the people who don't
belong to any country club shall have
the right to swim and battle and dis
port themselves at Piedmont Park.
1t is true that the city authorities
couldn't stop the East Lake bathing
if they wanted to, but the point is
that they don't think it is wrong,
and they don't think bathing in the
parks is wrong either.
A straw ballot popular vote, in
augurated by the city council itself,
has demonstrated beyond question
that the majority of the people are
in favor of Sunday bathing, and
among those who do are number
of leading ministers of the gospel
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-05-18

eral years ago or when she was a
child, and this caused the oDstruc-
ton to form in her later life.
To remove the foreign matter,
which consisted of soft substance, it
was necessary to gradually cut it
away. While this was being done
the utmost care had to be observed.
At times it was necessary for DR..
Cushing to cut within thousandth
part of an inch from the brain. At
these times the slightest slip of the
knife would have instantly killed the
woman. After more than five hours
DR.. Cushing had completely removed
the oppression.
Mrs. Collins is now reported on
the road to recovery.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-05-18
STERNLY UPHOLDS THE LAW
Governor Browns Attitude in Par
don Cases Is Doing Monumental
Work For the state.

ATLANTA.-Bac by Governor
Brown in his stern attitude of de-
clining to overthrow the courts in
serious pardon cases the supreme
court of Georgia is doing a monu-
mental work for the UNFOLDING of
law and order, for holding lawbreak-
ers accountable and for standing
steadfastly to their guns in granting
no reversals to the decisions of the
lower courts.
Under these two influences crime,
and particularly homicide, is becom-
ing a markedly unpopular thing in
this state. The examples set, and
stern adherence to the course being
pursued, will do and are doing more
to clarity the air and make life and
property inviolate in Georgia than
all other influences combined.
An examination of the records of
the supreme court for the past year
reveals the following startling facts:
At the March, 1911, term were "a
murder affirmations and two rever-
sails.
At the October, 1911, term there
were 20 affirmations and one rever-
sal.
For March, 1912, there have been
eight affirmations to date.
The part Governor Brown has
played in the stern UNFOLDING of the
law and courts in the face of tre-
mendous pressure is too we'll known
for elaboration.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-05-18
FOUND 0OI STILLS IN GEORGIA.;
ONLY All FOUND THE COUNTRY OVER

9O1 were in Georgia, 420 in North
Carolina, 249 in Alabama, 375 in
South Carolina, and 800 in Tennes-
see, Oklahoma and Virginia.
S. E. Kiser, a Chicago newspaper
man, declared in an address that
"agitators for prohibition make few
er converts to their cause than do
the disreputable saloons" He urged
that the wholesalers drive such
places out of business as the best
means of checking the anti-hquor
agitation.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-05-18
JAN is SURE OF HER
ELECTION AS JUDGE.
Ped With Way Widow Conducts
Affairs of Probate Court.

Affairs of Probate Court.
sCHITA, Kent is said the
OF being the first woman to oc-
the office Of probate Judge in
american county belongs to Mrs.
H. Cooper of Beloit, Kan, pro-
gudge Of Mitchell county. Mrs.
I after having served two sue
I terms IN that office, is a can
lot reelection without oppo-
Sne has the support of re-
Fans and democrats alike in her
town and county.
EeSSIon to the office of probate
came TO Mrs. Cooper from APP
|pe by Gov. Hoch of Kansas
t. 1908, Her husband, Levi
aad been elected to the Of
i, lSUo and had died in April
IN III MS widows appointment.
IN upper was elected in the fall
IL and again 1910.
s.ye OF the fact that Mrs. Coop
IV.iHS many marriage ceremo-
H. "llch she has no notification
g ,rV Aour of the marriage she is
gus advocate of a law that
H. ,'quire aspirants for marriage
NY PUBLIC announcement two or
bm nesAS before the ceremony is
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-05-18
TO Battle OR NOT TO Battle
That Is Question That Is Agitating
Atlanta just Now. The Straw
Ballot Appealed to.

ATLANTA.-The Atlanta Metho-
dist Ministers ssociation passed this
morning a set of resolutions con-
demning Sunday bathing at Pied
mont park, and calling on the people
of the community to oppose what
they call an "insidious method OF
multiplying the Sabbath laws and in
stitutions.' d
But the people retort that "clean-
Illness is next to godliness," that
there is nothing sinful about bath
ing. and that it would be sin to
prevent people from healthful exer-
else and innocent diversion on Sun
dav when they are shut up at work
all week and unable to take 1t on any
other day.
The straw ballot votes continue to
be Overwhelmingly in favor of Sun
day bathing.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-05-18
CARVING AROUND THE BRAIN
AT TIMES WITHIN THOUSANDTH
PART OF AN INCH OF 1T.
Prominent New York Woman I'M
deIwent Nest Delicate and
Unusual Operation.

Unusual operation.
BALTIMORE, Md.-Mrs. Adele
Collins, said to be a well known mat
ron in New York society, is at the
Johns Hopkins hospital recovering
after a delicate and unusual surgical
operation performed by Harvey
Gushing, the brain specialist of the
Hopkins hospital.
For some time Mrs Collins mad
suffered from a dull feeling in her
head, causing severe pains. At times,
it is said, she would lapse into
senli-stupor and would sometimes
remain in this condition for several
DAYS. Several New York physicians
and surgeons examined her, but were
unable to accurately diagnose her af-
lection.
She was then advised to come to
HOPKINS, where Drs Cushing made
the examination by X-ray and deeid-
ed that there was a depression at
the base of the brain. What caused
this is not known, but it is thought
that Mrs. Collins had sustained a
slight blow on the head, possibly sew
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-05-18

different uses or quit the church.
The investigation has shown that
most of these houses of prostitution,
which shelter some $50 unhappy wo-
men, are owned by men prominent in
the church and society. The annual
rental OF the houses mounts up to
thousands of dollars, as it is posi-
BILE to collect higher rents on this
kind of property than any other.
A profound sensation has been
caused by the publication of the
facts, and a still more profound one
is sure to follow if the ministers fol-
low the course they have indicated.
Bishop Nelson is among the minis
ters publicly pledged to turn out of
his church all who do not cease hand
ling this kind of property.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-05-18
FATHER OF rs CHILDREN.
William III. Hunnicutt Has Largest
Family in Macon.

The father of Macon's largest fam
lily will soon celebrate his 72nd birth
day. He is VIM. H. Hunnicutt, the
father of rs children, four-ffths OF
whom are living. Mr.. Hunnicutt IS
a farmer in the Rutland district, and
operates the same farm that his faith
er titled before him.
Mr.. Hunnicutt has been married
twice. By his first marriage he he
came the father of II children-S
BOYS and 4 girls. BY his second mar
riage 7 boys and 6 girls were brought
him. OF the IS children four boys
and one girl are dead.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-05-18

PHILADELPHIA.-That in many
prohibition states the authorities
make little effort to enforce the law
against the manufacture of liquor
and that the United States revenue
laws need a general revision to cover
capably changed conditions was stat
ed by Royal E. CabeIl, commissioner
of internal revenue, in a speech here
today before the National Wholesale
Liquor Dealers Association.
OF the 2,471 illicit stills unearthed
by the department last year, he said,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-05-18
|a1DNS ARE PROM'ss,5.Gl..
ny1NG IN PENS BLEED
PASSED AS FOOD.
. washed in Polluted Water
F'F' charges Brought Against
~. ,,ent Meat Inspectors.

uoshed in Polluted WAFER
f. charges Brought Against
H. rarnment Meat Inspectors
E"'vT,vcTON.-Plenty Of sensa-
II. been promised this week
/ ' +,s house committee inquiry
T., federal meat inspection
NJ Charles Bartlett Cranes
e. that the inspection act is
s 'a being violated will be
an nv other witnesses. Repre-
H. Nelson outlined today some
/ .bings he says will be proved
,ot This is the program;
4 q quantity of meat, SO soft
r,on an inspector pressed it
\ +. fingers they sank into the
1.-The meat. was passed and sold
E.nor food. The meat, in the
/ words of the Inspector, was
H. This occurred in a Phila-
} packing house
4 several emaciated steers
4 ,o5 died in pens from eX-
IT, we're dragged to the cutting
H. after being bled were pass
food The inspector in charge
|his subordinates, whose atten-
III originally been called to the
animals. that they had bled
ill., and there was no reason
8bev should not be passed"
4 occurred in a Chicago pack
n stomachs and spleens Of
besides shouts, ears and pal
were passed as sausage meat.
kuIing was made final after seY-
Traditional rulings by the bu-
n animal industry, and is now
bet, j.,
N carcasses of steers, hogs and
were persistently washed in
dangerously polluted with ty-
i germs, despite efforts of the
RtOrs in charge to secure orders
athe bureau of animal industry
d a stop to the practice. This
%ed in Cumberland, Md.
~. Burroughs, a former federal
] Inspector, testified before the
Investigating committee today
i conditions he had observed in
b. houses in Philadelphia and
smberland, Nd. Mr.. Burroughs
BED Philadelphia packers violat-
Dc law by refusing inspectors
i to certain parts of their
scribing his two years observa-
in packing house conditions in
felphia Burroughs referred to
containing worms, scrapple
Of bad meat, hog carcasses that
ED an awful stencil, and revolt
Rnitary conditions" He describ-
1cking house conditions in Phil
Ihia as something awful"
1 former inspector, who appear
a witness in support of Repre-
Five Nelson's resolution for an
HIgation of meat inspection SER
declared that during his ser
n Cumberland water declared
e by the state board of health
Fen used in Swift & Co.'S. pack
aOuSe against his protest.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-05-18
HOUSES OF ILL-FAME
HELP ATLANTA CHURCHES?

||L /, - Sensational facts
f. '-'' been brought to light in
|yaon with the ownership of the
VI 'I-fame in Atlanta. It has
"a made public that a MAORI
|. YIese places are owned by
a :, church members. and that
me rental from the proper
1 va finds its way into the
gb " me churches themselves.
ler, Tue contributions of rich
a ! nave nave been called and sever
d R TEACHERS, notably the Rev.
tion ~ me. !. have announced their
sit5 5 oI forcing the church mem
70 turn their property to
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-05-18
MANY TOWNS ARE INUNDATED
NARROWED NEGROES IN FLOOD
DISTRICTS LOOTING STORES.
Plantation After Plantation in the
Rich River Bottom Is Covered
by the Muddy Waters.

by the Muddy Waters.
NEW ROADS, La.-Circling the
high bluffs of the False river dis
trict, which had served to Temporal
rily check its progress, the Torras
crevasse water is today spreading
ruin and devastation over the fields
and towns of the thickly settled
country south of here. Plantation
after plantation that dot the Missis-
sippi bottoms, some of them the lar
gest and richest sugar cane produc-
ing fields on the west bank of the
big stream, are covered by the mud
dy waters.
Inch AN Hour.
Towns and villages are rapidly be-
ing inundated; in some instances at
the rate of an inch an hour, until the
food has reached the outskirts Of
Port Allen, opposite Baton Rouge, in
West Baton Rouge parish. Crevasse
water coming in from the swamps,
west of Plaquemine in Iberville par
ish, has approached within a few
miles of that place. Those in charge
of the relief campaign expect to be
called upon to do extensive rescue
work on the newly invaded territory.
Most of this will be done from Pla-
quemine. Telegraph communication
has again been restored with Nor
ganza, an operator having been sent
there from New Roads in a motor
boat. Some damage was done to the
big MorganZa levee by a high wind
beating the waves over a dixie. Sand
bags were washed away, and the
water flowed over the levee for a
considerable distance. This was CIV
en- quick attention by the $50 con-
victs who are kept in the govern
ment quarter boat at that place. One
of the convicts was shot and killed
by guard while trying to escape.
Fourteen Feet Deep.
A report from Irwinville, 10 miles
north of Port Allen, reported here
early today that the water was Is
feet deep in the town. One hundred
and fifty persons are said to be ma
rooned there. Lieutenant Rogers of
the FEDERAL rellef corps, with mead
quarters at Plaquemine, is preparing
to send relief to them.
Indian Village, the terminus of
an eight-mile branch of the Texas
and Pacific, west of PlaQuemine, is
being inundated at the rate of an
inch an hour.
The Texas and Pacific railroad
bridge, across Choctaw bayou, was
cut today to allow the passage of res
cue boats to Crosse, Tete and For
doche. Hundreds of families have
been unable to get out of that sec
ton owing to the suspension of train
service and to the almost inaccessi-
bility of some of the districts by mo-
tor boats.
Reports from Crosse Tete and For
doche state that negroes marooned
there are looting stores and resi-
dences. One man who had hurried
out of the former place with his fam
lily on returning to take care of his
property found everything had been
stolen. A number of towns in the
flooded area have reported similar
occurrences.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-05-18
MAN AND WOMAN FIGHT.
Drug Clerk and a Red-Headed Girl
Nj Il LIN in Atlanta

Drug Clerk and a Red-Headed Girl
Mix 1t Up in Atlanta.
When J. B. Ball, an Atlanta drug
clerk, got mad at red-headed girl
friend of his named Laura Howard
and slapped her face he got more
than he bargained for. Instead of
screaming and trying to scratch him
with her fnger-nails the young wo-
man squared off in the most APPROX
ed attitude and landed with her fist
on the point of his chin with a blow
straight from the shoulder.
A fast fight followed. The young
woman had it on Ball in weight, and
was about to get the best OF him
when the police interviewed. Both
had their faces covered with blood.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-05-18
INVITED TO SPEAK.

Mr.. L. c. Hoyl, the popular secre-
tary of the local camp Woodmen of
the World, has been invited by the
camp at Toecoa to deliver memo
rial address there some time in July
on the occasion of the unveiling of
monument.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-05-18

Passenger fares and train service 70
Freight rates ........... 143
Freight train service ....... 81
Claims for overcharge, loss, dam
age and demurrage ........ 100
Depots and stations .......... Sc
Sidetracks and spurs ...c. 10
Street car service and fares. .. 6
Gas and electric light service. 5
Express rates and service 49,. 81
Telephone and telegraph rates
and service ....... 50
Stock and bond issues .....s %
Miscellaneous .. IA
Total Observation-Disclosures. 557
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-05-18

lions as compared with the previous
year.
Perhaps the actual hard work of
the body was to deal with the many
and varied complaints which came
before it. In 1910 there were heard
-531 complaints. Last year 557 were
considered at 118 different sessions.
In addition to this work there were
received and disposed of over 5000
complaints and inquiries which did
not require formal hearings and or
ders, but required time and investi-
CATION. A detailed list of the COM
plants and their subject is as fol-
IOmcs
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-09-17
T. H. BEACON MAY
SUCCEED FERRIS

T. H. Beacon, general superintend-
ent of the Rock Island railroad at FL
Reno, Okla, may be the general man
ager of the Mexico North Western
railroad to take the place made vacant
by the resignation of H. c. Ferris.
When vice president II. 1. Miller, of
the Mexico North Western and other
Pearson interests was in Ell Reno re-
Gently he is said to have conferred with
the general superintendent regarding
the Rock Island official will accept.
j. o. Crockett vice president of the
Mexico North Western railroad, is in
Mexico and no announcement of the
successor to general manager Ferris
Will be announced until his return.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-09-17
APARTMENT HOUSE
To COST $4,000
G.. S. johnson Plans to Build
Structure at Stanton
and Boulevard.

Another $4,000 apartment building is
being planned for North Stanton street.
G. S. johnson, who owns the property
at the corner of Stanton and Boulevard,
opposite the First Presbyterian church,
has been arranging to construct a five
story, fireproof apartment house to cost
$4,000 when completed. Mr.. johnson
Is now out of the city.
J. H. McBroom to Build.
J. Il. McBroom has arranged for the
construction OF a two story brick resi-
dence on ,Lawton street, opposite the
Villas school It will cost $4,000.
Build Three Bungalows
Latts & Happier are building three
bungalows IN Hawthorne place on Sun
set Heights which viii be sold when
completed. The lots and houses will
cost a total of $4,000. The same firm
is also building a residence on Lee street
near the Lamar school
c. C. Covington to Build
o. q. Thorman & Co. Is drawing plans
for a brick bungalow in Government
Hill for c. c. Covington to cost $4,000.