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Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-11-03

Miss Dennelly has resigned her posi-
ton at the Augusta state hospital,
ard returned to her home in Bangor
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-11-03
Odllv kennebec journal
LOCAL BRIEFS.

George w. Merrill makes a feature
in Insurance about which young men
will do well to consult Eim-Adv.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-11-03
DEXTER.

An interesting essay contest under
the direction of the local Woman's
Christian Temperance Union, is teing
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-18
Administrator Sale.

State of Georgia, Terrell County
By virtue of an order from the Court
of Ordinary of Terrell County, GeOr-
gia, will be sold before the court
house door, during the legal hours
of sale. in Dewson, Ga, on Tuesday,
March 4, 1913, to the highest bidder
for cash, the following described
lands, towit: Fifty acres, more or
less, off of the southeast corner of lot
of land number two hundred and sew
enteen GID in the Eleventh district
of Terrell county, Georgia, same be-
ing the land formerly claimed by j.
S. McLendon, and bounded as fol-
lows: On the north by lands of C.
w. McLendon, on the asst by lands
of w. V. Perry, on the south by
Brooksville and Dawson public road,
and on the west by lands of ]. G.
Whaley. Sold as the property of
Mrs. E. G. McLendon, deceased, for
the purpose of paying Gebts and dis
tribution. mis- Feb. 3rd, 1918.
C. w. McLENDON, Adlninistrat-
Estate of Mrs. E. C. McLendon.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-18
NEGLECTING AN OPPORTUNITY

is the parcel post helping the big
mail order houses far more than any
other concern or person? Chicago
is the largest mail order center in
the country. 1t is significant, there
fore, that the parcel post packages
sent out from Chicago should have
exceeded those sent out from New
York by 645,294 in January, while
the packages sent into New York
exceeded those sent into Chicago by
107,865. New York is more than
twice as large as Chicago.-Savan
nah News.
Apparently the mail order houses
are profiting by the parcel post, and
an inexplicable thing is that the bus
mess men of Dawson and other SIM
liar towns seem content to stan1
by and let the city firms get trade
that naturally belongs to the home
merchants. Only two Dawson firms
seem to care enough for the parcel
post trade of the people of Terrell
county and surrounding communities
to invite it through the columns Of
The News 1t is really up to the
merchants of the smaller towns as to
whether they will be benefited by the
new law. or hurt by allowing the
mail order houses to invade their
territory and capture the local trade
They are missing a rare opportunity
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-18
A Timely Reminder,

From the Macon Telegraph.
Governor Wilson did well to re-
mind the social workers who recently
interviewed him that the federal
government cannot do many of the
things they ask of it without amend
ment of the constitution, and to sug-
gest that the states offer them a less
Restricted opportunity.
Like too many other reformers of
the day the social uplifters are loath
to consent to anything less than a
national arena in which to Stay their
dragons with our whole population
of a hundred millions looking on.
The regeneration of one state at a
time is too tame a performance, it
would seem.
Reformers who speak in the name
of the people should remember that
local self-government is the peoples
most precious possession and that
nothing more destructive of this can
be designed than an imperial gov
eminent at Washington.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-18
MAY GOOD COME FROM 1T.

1t is to be hoped that good will
come from the controversy between
DR.. Frederick Friedman, of Germany,
and Dr. George NJ. Heath, of ST. Lou
is, as to the merits of their respect
i've cures for consumption.
Each doctor makes astonishing
claims. The German doctor says he
has tried his serum upon 1882 per-
sons with remarkably beneficial and
even curative results in all but a
limited number. He persists in his
refusal to give his discovery to the
world and it is understood that an
American millionaire offers to pay
him $1,OOO,OOO for it upon proof
that it is all the doctor claims for it.
DIR. Heath, on the other hand, claims
to have treated 40 patients success
fully and refers to the case of one
woman, pronounced by two hospitals
to be in a hopeless condition three
months ago, but who now shows no
signs of tuberculosis. His discovery
is to be submitted to a thorough and
prolonged test at Saranac, n. Y.
Science in time must triumph over
the great white plague. In the mean
time the frightful harvest of death
may be constantly lessened by hygi-
enic and sanitary precautions on the
part of the people, who must be edu-
Gated to appreciate and apply the
weapons placed in their own hands
against the dread disease.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-18
NATIONAL ROAD CONVENTION.

From the Savannah News.
1t is planned to have practically
every walk in life represented at the
Federal Aid Good Roads Convention
at Washington, March 9th and 7th,
the purpose of which is to "crystalize
the good roads sentiment along prac-
ticable and equitable lines of fed
eral participation in road construc-
ton" Good roads are of benefit to
all classes. The farmer, the bust
ness man, the automobile owner, ev-
erybody has some interest in road
betterment either directly or indi-
rectly. So it is well that all should
be represented when plans are laid
for converting the good roads senti-
ment into highways constructed with
the aid of the government. How
such aid should be applied to get
best results without wasting public
money may be quite problem.
There are divergent opinions about
it. And after that is settled there
comes the question of keeping the
highways in repair, which will not
be a small item. 1t should be con-
sidered along with the plans for the
building of the roads.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-18
Sherif's Sale

State of Georgia, County of Ter
rell.-Will be sold on the first Tues
day in March, 1913, at public cutlery,
at the county court house door in said
state and county, within the legal
hours of sale, to the highest bidder
for cash, a one-ninth undivided in
terest in the following described
property towit: Fifty (50) acres of
land, more or less, in the northwest
corner of land lot number one hun
dred and thirty (1S0), and fifty (5O)
acres, more or less, in the southeast
corner of lot of land number one hun
dred and thirty (150); all of the
above lands lying and being in the
Thirteenth (13th) district of Terrell
county, Georgia, and known as the
Henry Hunter lands. Said lands lev
led on as the property of M. H. Hunt
er to satisfy a fl ia issued from the
City Court of Leesburg, Ga, at the
October term, 1912, in favor of j. j.
Hanesley against M. H. Hunter. Ten
ants in possession notified in terms
of law. This 29th day of Jan. 1918.
NJ G. HILL, Sheriff.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-18
PROHIBITION MAKES GOOD.

From the Wesleyan Advocate.
1t seems to us that the friends of
the liquor business would get both
tired and ashamed of saying that
the law prohibiting the sale of liquor
does no good. The facts to the con-
trary are so abundant that it would
seem sensible people would have
some respect for their story. But
since the liquor people continue to
say that prohibition does not pro-
hibit the friends Of prohibition must
keep pfTing up the facts that prove
that it does prohibit both the use of
liquor and the commission of crime.
The California Issue, a prohibition
paper, the official organ of the Anti
Saloon League of the state of Cali
fornia, in it's December issue said:
'Unless crime is committed before
December 31st Suffer county will go
through the entire year of 1912
without a criminal case. 1t has been
more than year since the last Grim
inal case was disposed of by Judge
Mahon. Suffer county is dry except
for one barroom in Yuba City" What
county in which there is no prohibit
ton of the liquor traffic in any state
of this union goes without crime
for an entire year?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-18
NEW SENATOR'S.

James H. Brady, progressive re-
publican, former governor of the
state, has been elected to succeed
the late w. B. Hepburn as United
States senator from Idaho. Wm.
r. Webb, independent democrat,
principal of a boys preparatory
school, succeeds Senator Sanders,
republican, of Tennessee; VIM. H.
Thompson, democrat, displaces Chas.
Curtis, republican from Kansas. Jos.
T. Robinson, democrat, succeeds the
late JEFF Davis, democrat, from Ar
kansas, for the full term. Key Pitt
man, democrat, of Nevada, displaces
w. A. Massey, republican. Repre-
sentative VIM. Hughes, democrat of
New Jersey, displaces Frank o.
Briggs. republican. Representative
Morris Sheppard, democrat, of Tex
as, takes the place of J. w. Bailey,
democrat, who recently resigned.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-18
Sherif's Sale.

Georgia, Terrell County.-Will be
sold at the court house door in said
county, on the first Tuesday in
March, 1913, within the legal hours
of sale, towit: A one-ninth (1-9th)
undivided interest of fifty 600 acres
of land, more or less, in the north
west corner of lot of land No. 1870,
and fifty (50) acres of land, more
or less, in the southeast corner of lot
of land No. 1870, in the 18th district
of Terrell county, Georgia, with i'm
provements thereon: said land lev
led on as the property of Elsie Hunt
er and John Hunter to satisfy a mort
gage execution issued on the 18th
day of November, 1912, from the SUI
perior court of Lee county, in favor
of G. w. Dozier & Co., against Elsie
Hunter and John Hunter. This Feb
9Th, 1913. M. G. HILL, Sheriff.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-18
CONSCIENCE
By Geo. Matthew Adams.

The man of all men most misera.
Bile is the man with a worn, weary
weeping conscience.
Be square
Conscience is the fellow who sits
on the throne of your soul and calls
out the danger signal when your
life craft sights icebergs. Conscience
is the pilot of a mans hope towards
success. Conscience is the busy sig
nal sign that halts a man just as
he is about to do what he ought not
to, but wants to- Conscience is the
stay hand that stops the crowd from
stealing away your character.
Be square!
Conscience is duty-in everyday
clothes,
Be square!
Conscience is what you feel but
do not hear. Conscience is the still,
strong, silent, unseen force that is
ever with you-that invariably
lunches you in the ribs-mute warn
er that you are on the wrong track
travelling in the wrong direction,
playing the wrong game. Regard
less of all other heeds, beck or call
hear, listen to-obey your conscience
to the letter.
Be square!
The man with the conscience
makes the business with a conscience.
The business with the conscience
makes the nation with the conscience.
Conscience in power is joy abound
real achievement athrone.
Be square!
AS a man or woman, think it over.
Conscience to you is as no other con-
science to any other man or woman.
And the height to which peace and
power may climb in you can only be
in proportion to the peace and power
which obedience to conscience brings.
So, follow your own conscience all
the way.
Be square.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-18

From the Progressive
One big fact our Southern farmers
are waking up to, but they are not
waking up to it half as fast as they
ought This fact is, that if there is
anything in the world you can't af-
ford to be cheap" about IL is your
intellectual food.
Every sensible man knows nova
days that the mind counts for more
than the body, the brain more than
the belly; and yet ninety farmers in
every hundred who wouldn't think
of starving themselves of body food
stomach food, muscle food, are new
ertheless starving themselves of
brain food, mind food, intellectual
| food.
Many a fond father and mother
who would work their finger nails off
rather than see their boy feed his
body on bones and crumbs and scraps
will nevertheless feed that same
boys mind on the mustiest, rankest,
rottenest bran-and-chaff sort of mind
food that they can find in the shape
of a newspaper.
But l got this paper so cheap
they will tell you. Three whole
ears for a dollar with a map or a
pair of spectacles or a fountain pen
thrown in free!" How can man
so Islander his own brain, his own
mind? How can he insinuate that
it is worth so little as to deserve no
better food than some cheap journal
thrown in with free fountain pen
or buggy whip?
Suppose some agent should come
to you and say: Il understand you
have been eating good wheat -four
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-18

Stealing and tax lodging are one
and the same; only the latter adds
a lie to the theft. Under the pres
ent system of property tax in Georgia
the rich man can turn i'm his prop
erty at what he pleases, says the
Jackson Argus. OF course our broth
er of the Argus is returning his prop
erty at one hundred cents on the dol
lar, in which event he is paying more
than his share of the taxes. The tax
burden is not as unevenly shared as
many believe, it being the custom
everywhere to accept all returns at
a certain per cent Of the value Of the
property. Increased returns would
not lessen the tax rate, but would
merely provide more money to be
spent.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-18
What Kind of Mind Food
Are You Giving Your Family?

Farmer, Raleigh, n. c.
costing IS per barrel and feeding
your children the same high-priced
stuff. Why, sir, that's too expen-
sive You can't afford it. Why, here
is a mixture of bran and spoiled corn
meal, and III sell you three barrels
for s. and throw in a fountain pen
free" You wouldn't take two min
utes, we suspect, to show that man
the door.
And yet, although food for the
mind is just as important as food
for the body, there are farmers in ev-
cry neighborhood in the South who
refuse to use their own heads in Sc
lecting their reading matter, but let
some slick-tongued agent palm off on
them whatever cheap, spoiled. I'M
wholesome, unhelpful bran-and-chaff
mixture of intellectual food he choos-
es to throw in with some fake pre-
MUM that, in most cases, isn't much
better than the paper it goes with.
Here is what we need to say to
| farmers all over the South: You
are not a pauper in dealing with
your body; don't be a pauper in deal
ing with your mind. You don't buy
the cheapest stuff you can find to
| feed your body with; then don'I buy
the cheapest stuff you can find to
feed your mind with. If you are
buying mind food for yourself you
/ insult your own brain by intimating
that it deserves no better food; while
in the case of ones boys and girls
| doesn't a man deserve prison stripes
| just as much if he deliberately
starves his children's minds as he
would if he deliberately starved
their bodies?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-18
RIGHT AGAIN.

When Governor Brown vetoed the
mileage pull" bill there was a great
hue and cry all over Georgia by his
enemies, and several of our esteemed
contemporaries went through the
throes of a series of duck fits. But
the governors vindication, if he
needed vindication, has been quick
and complete. Judge w. D. Ellis,
an appointee and partisan of Gov
ernor Smith, has granted an injunc-
ton permanently restraining the
Georgia railroad commission from
enforcing it's order on the mileage
matter, and on Friday the supreme
court handed down a decision that
while not having a direct bearing on
the mileage pulling litigation, recog-
mes the binding force of the special
contract under which interchangea
BILE mileage books are sold, and there
fore is taken as a forecast of whar
that courts decision will be on the
appeal from Judge Ellis.
1t is a remarkable fact that Gov
ernor Brown has been proven to bt
right in every one Of his official acti
that his political enemies sought t.
make capital of.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-18
POLITICAL CLAP-TRAP.

The Valdosta Times of recent date
had this to say:
Governor Brown signed a war;
rant last week for something over
100000 to pay the school teach
ers the balance of the amount due
them for 1912 services. If the
different counties of Georgia would
do like Lowndes county does and
pay the teachers when their ser
vices are performed, regardless of
whether the state pays it's part or
not, much of the trouble which
the school teachers experience
might be obviated."
Reproducing the above from the
Times, the Moultrie Observer adds:
THE teachers of Colquitt county
are paid, as they are in Lowndes,
when they complete their work.
The county school board borrows
the money needed, when there is
any considerable sum due, and the
interest is paid by the board out
of the expense fund. AS a matter
of fact, it has been our private
opinion for many years that the
cry about the poor teachers wait
ing for their pay and money sharks
getting big discounts on scrip with
which they are paid was largely
political clap-trap."
The same is true in Terrell, and
very likely in all the other counties
Of the state. The teachers are now
being paid and always have been
paid their salaries promptly when
due, and all of the criticism, weeping
and moaning over their alleged
shameful treatment has been largely
Tor political effect.
And, too, as The News has before
said, the county school boards, by ex-
.ravagant expenditures and accumu-
alton of debts greater than their in
comes, are largely responsible for the
'act that they do not have the money
with which to meet their obligations
when they become due In numer-
Jus instances their pro rata part of
he state school fund has been spent
before the taxes were even levied.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-18
THE BOIL WEEVIL SPREADS.
From the Mobile (Ala.l Register.

From the Mobile (Ala.) Register
Despite the war that has been
waged on the boil weevil and regard
less of the efforts to check the adj
vance of the creature its march in
the past year was as relentless as
that of time itself. According to fig
ures printed by the United States
department of agriculture Texas
led all the states in the amount of
territory newly infested, the great
amount of II $50 square miles being
added to the dominion of the bug.
Alabama came next with 800 acres,
and Florida third with 1900 square
miles. Mississippi had only $40
square miles additional added as
weeyil territory, which rather leads
to the belief that the northern limit
of infestation has been reached in
that state. Apparently the weevil
moves northward forty miles year
and eastward seventy miles, and it
will be in Georgia next year. The
weevil is a calamity to the farmer
and the district welded to cotton
alone. But to those farmers and those
districts where Investigation and
stock raising have been entered into
before the weevil reached them the
bug has been a blessing. There has
been prosperity there that is grow
ing on an unshakable foundation. 1t
will be so everywhere. And there
will be more money in cotton raised
under boil weevil conditions. 1t has
been demonstrated-for then it is
raised as a surplus crop.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-18
Sherif's Sale.

Georgia, Terrell County.-Will be
sold on the first Tuesday in March
next, at public cutlery, at the court
house door in said county, within the
legal hours of sale, to the highest
bidder for casl, the following de-
scTibed property towit: One two
horse wagon (Owensboro make) Said
property levied on as the property of
Will Avera to satisfy fl ia issued
from the City Court of Dawson, said
county and state, at the January
term, 1911, in favor of A. F. Wealth
ers against the said Will Avera. This
Feb. 3rd, 1918. NJ. G. HILL Sheriff.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-18
The 0Id-FashiOned Fireplace

From the Early County News.
We had the pleasure of visiting at
a home recently where there was an
old fashioned fireplace. We enjoyed
it. There is something about an old
fashioned fireplace that takes a body
by the hand without waiting for an
introduction. 1t doesn't keep a man
standing out in the hall till his nails
turn blue and he signs a regret that
he didn't bring his earmuffs along.
But before he can tell how it is done
it has made him feel right at home
and is communing with him like an
old friend with whom he hopes never
best chair and is on the way to the
cellar for cider before he can get
his hat off And as he sits there rub
bling his hands with an ecstatic sort
of feeling to which no word in our
language can give full expression he
feels like giving the bulk of his prop
erty to the poor before he has been
there two minutes. 1t warns him
up with a glow that makes him feel
benevolent from his teeth to his toe
nails; quickens up his blood till he
almost feels his hair grow, and takes
away the fear of death, or gives a
fascination to fire, which amounts to
the same thing.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-18
PICKANINNY HIS PLAYMATE.
Little Negro the Crony and Constant
Companion of $500, OOO, 900 Baby.

Little Negro the CrOny and Constant
Companion of $500, 600, 900 Baby.
The constant companion and play
fellow of the 100000 baby"
Vinson Walsh Mclean, is a little
negro boy of his own age. Il don't
want a son of mine to be snob,
said Mr.. Mclean; "the trend of
wealth is in that direction" Those
who remember the old days in the
South when the planters young son
was put in charge of negro boy,
with whom he shared his boyish
pleasures and troubles, will not be
hard to convince that Mr.. Mclean
has chosen wisely. The possession
of great wealth, or even a moderate
amount of it, might very easily give
its possessor a warped opinion of
his own Importance. Young Mclean
has been a figure of public interest
from his birth and his fathers ex-
pertinent in combating any tendency
to snobbishness in him will be
watched with great deal of inter-
est
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-18

1t has recently been charged that
a large part of what is sold under the
name of corn meal, one of the most
popular and most universally con-
sumed of the staple articles of food,
is not that at all, and would not pass
inspection under the pure food law.
The stete pure food inspector should
look into this charge at once, and see
to it that in future the thousands
who buy corn meal get what they
pay for.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-18
Advertisement of Land.

By virtue of an order of the Court
of Ordinary of Terrell county, Geor-
gia, will be sold at public outcry on
Tuesday, the 4th day Of March,
1913, at the court house door in said
county, between the legal hours of
sale, the following described lands:
Lots numbers two hundred and nine
ty-three (293) and two hundred and
ninety-four (294) in the Fourth dis
trict of Terrell county and state Of
Georgia, containing four hundred
(4OO) acres, more or less. Said sale
will be made for cash only. This
Feb. 8. 1913 MRS. M. L. BRIM,
Admrx. of the Estate of Ed w. King.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-18
Sheriff S Sale.

Georgia, Terrell County.-Under
and by virtue of an execution issued
from the City Court of Dawson in
favor of Piedmont Portland Cement
and Lime Co. against P. C. Colley I
will sell on the first Tuesday in
March, 1918, before the court house
door in Dawson, Ga, at the time and
place of sheriff's sales, for cash. to
the highest bidder, one hundred
shares of the capital stock of the
Piedmont Portland Cement and Lime
CO.. of Atlanta. Ga, of the par value
each of $1,000. I will also sell lot
of land No. one hundred and thirty
eight (138) in the Third district of
said county. Levied on and sold as
the property of P. c. Colley. Tenant
notified. This February 9Th. 1913.
n. G. HILL, Sheriff.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-18
For Leave to Sell.

State of Georgia, Terrell County
Notice is hereby given to all concern
ed that have this day applied to the
Ordinary of Terrell county, Georgia,
for leave to sell certain lands and
the bank stock beonging to the es-
tate of Mrs. Maggie NJ. Pace, deceas-
ed, and that the same will be heard
at the regular March term, 1913, OF
the Court of Ordinary of said county,
March 3rd, 1918. This Jan. 31st,
1913. w. K. PACE, Administrator
Estate Of Mrs. Maggie M. Pace.