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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-01-03
Is Constitutional Convention Needed?

The legislature that will meet next will have
before it the question of calling constitutional con-
yenton and the newspapers of the have already
need some changes in the organic law but the Sa-
vannah News is of the opinion that is advisable to
wait awhile longer and gives that within
the last year number of the states have adopt
constitutions and in them there rather
radical provisions 1t is by certain that these
innovations will prove be for the best interests of
the people of those states. That will be determined
within four five years. If should in this state
until the result of the experiments which
those states making would be in better posi-
tion to make constitution.
Our Savannah contemporary calls attention to an
other thing that worth considering 1t is that there
is no money now in the state treasury pay the
penses of constitutional convention. 1t may be said
that the is in good financial condition now
it will be years hence, unless the legislature appre
ciates the necessity of keeping the appropriations with
in the revenues The to that argument is that
the amount required pensions is becoming smaller,
and the decrease in the pension charge will be rapid
from now on And it also should be remembered that
the state developing fast thus increasing the
nues Five years hence the state should be in a posi-
ton to pay the expenses of constitutional convention
while making ample provision for all of the state insti
tutons."
We ought to be able to get along several years yet
with the present constitution without amending
it, The trouble with amendments is that the people
give very little thought to them.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-01-03
The Better Plan.

Prof w. NJ. Burson, professor of veterinary science
at College of Agriculture advocates the de-
struction the buzzard. His reason, which is given
in bulletin he just issued, is that the buzzard, as
scavenger, feeding dead animals and ranging over
wide territory of the country spreads hog cholera
and other diseases of live stock.
buzzard has always been considered most useful
as scavenger and for that protected by law
in Georgia. Why then, kill the buzzard? Would not
a better plan be pass law requiring the owners
hogs die of cholera burn the or bury
them after treating them with quick lime? Such dis
position Of them suggested by citizen of Terrell
county when cholera raging among the hogs last
spring and commented by The News at the time
No should have the right to leave the carcasses
of his dead and diseased animals where they will be
menace to others or poute atmosphere and endan
ger health. If they will not do from the standpoint
of public good let the make dispose of their
dead animals by burning or buryng them, and spare
the buzzards. There is doubt that these winged
scavengers dispose of quantities of unwhOlesome
matter in both the country and the towns
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-01-03
NEW BETHEL NEWS
Happenings of the Week in and
Around That Community.

Happenings of the Week in and
Around That Community.
Mr. Brightwell and family of
Worth county moved back to their
old home here last week. We well
come their return.
Little Miss Lois Kaufman of Yeo-
mans returned to her home Sunday
after visiting her sister, Mrs. Cham
bless.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. O. Cannon and
Miss Matte Ruth Mcmahon spent
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs Spier.
Misses Leila and Mollie Lou Bridg-
es, who have visited relatives at Gus
seta, returned home Tuesday.
Mr. VIM. Payne and Miss EVE
Bridges spent Sunday with Mrs. Sam
George in Randolph county
Carolyn Chambless and Lois Haut-
man spent Thursday with Bernice
and Lola Stephens.
Mr.. Perry Cannon of Americas was
the guest of his brother, Mr. }. o..
Cannon, this week.
Mr.. Grady Bridges and Sister, Min
ME, spent the weekend with relatives
at Pleasant Hill
We are glad to learn that Master
Walter Stephens can walk little on
his foot now.
Mrs. Zula Priest and children, who
visited relatives in Florida, have re-
turned home
Mr.. and Mrs. j. D. Chambless and
children visited relatives at Yeomans
Sunday.
Several from here attended the
Marshall-Cole wedding Wednesday.
Messrs. Gordon Stephens and L.
w Mask visited in PARROT Sunday.
Mrs. Ella Priest is visiting her
brother, Mrs Jenkins, at Cotton.
Mrs. Lou Mask spent Sunday with
her daughter, Mrs. Stephens.
Odesta and Aubrey Cannon spent
Sunday with Paul Cannon.
Mr.. John Goodson of Pleasant Hill
was here Thursday.
Mrs. Zonie Stephens is on the sick
list this week
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-01-03
YES, DEAR" OVER
LONG DISTANCE"
Denver Girl Accepted Golden Gate
Man by Wire. Proposal Was
Relayed in Transit.

htldgcu HI AEdlSlIs
An Ocean Park, Cal, dispatch to
the New York American tells this
story: Will you marry me?" asked
J. n. Hooser of Miss Lucille Kline.
1t was not the question, but the
manner of asking, that makes the ro-
nance. Mr.. Mooser did not ask the
question in a soft, pleading tone. He
shouted it, He shouted it into the
receiver in telephone booth in
Ocean Park, Cal, where he lives.
will you marry me?" repeated a
relay operator in San Francisco. She
was not "butting in" nor even caves
dropping. 1t was her business to re-
lay the gentle message. She was
Cupid of the Telephone.
''Will you marry me?" heard Miss
Kline, in Denver, with assurance it
was Mooser who wanted to marry
her and not boy soprano or a name
less tenor.
Miss Kline might have said. This
is sudden" But she didn't, because
it wasn't Mr.. Mooser had proposed
before.
Instead she said, Let me think"
And she had to say it pretty loud.
Let me think, repeated the relay
operator, and her CHEEKY voice gave
Mooser hope.
Miss Kline thought. In fact, she
thought about $50 worth of telephone
time, and then she said;
Yes, dear"
Yes, dear" repeated the San
Francisco operator, perfectly delight
ed at the result of the proposal at
which she had assisted.
BLESS you, here's a good one for
you" said Mooser, and it was such
good one it did not need to be re-
Iayed.
This occurred last Thanksgiving
day Mooser, one of the leading mer-
chants here, had met his fiancee on
the Fourth of July. He left for Chi
cago on Christmas day and the we'd
ding was celebrated on New Years
day
Miss Kline, who lives in Chicago,
was in Ocean Park for the summer
with her family when she met Moos-
er at party Before she left to re-
turn to New York with an automobile
party Mooser popped" the question,
but her answer was, 'I'll see."
"I'll try it on Thanksgiving Day"
he vowed, and waited She was in
Denver when he proposed again.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-01-03
The "Blue Sky" Exploiter.

Last summer while the legislature was in session
there talk of legislation to guard the people OF
Georgia against the activities of blue sky exploiters
but for some reason the movement was permitted to
lag BY blue sky exploiters we mean the gentlemen
who promoters of undertakings or schemes that call
for the preliminary sale of stock-Whether common
or acknowledgements people to give up good money
for such stocks Blue sky" is slang, but the phrase
was coined because of the avshness of the promises
or representations made by the field solicitors or
agents of the scheme or undertaking whose stock IS
offered to the public They promise so much IN the
way of interest and dividends it is all blue sky and
no clouds. The promoter is not philanthropist lie
has stimulus only degree less potent than the live
coal of the terrapn, and of decidedly more
pleasant of pesuasiveness, for it is money-the
extraordinary liberal commissions paid to him, the
stock seller. There are sensible eve-hea led men ana
women who buy stock thus offered who would be as
founded il they only knew large is the rake off"
or commissions of the selling agent in some instances
Level-headed buyers would comprehend that such aV-
ish remuneration is not sound business poHcy-that
house built on such foundation, speak fguratively,
is foundation built rock, but rather suggest
i've of sand People ought to understand that the stock
of really solvent investment ought to stand, to con-
siderable extent, on its intrinsic merits
Surely there can be no valid challenge of the pro-
posal the investing public shall be safeguarded in
the matter of the promotion and sale of stocksthat
there shall be reasonable regulation and supervision of
such matters The state is alert and commendablV so,
regulating the operations of state banks insurance
companies and the like and why not pay more atten-
ton to the promotion expense of that wants
operate under state charter? That as far as state
supervision should unreasonable safeguard and pro-
lection.
The suggestion of regulation is not new, for the
public has had admon!tion that has impressed more
than one man who has given up his or her
money after hearing the rosecolored statements and
promises sales agents. who if reports be true have
reaped highly inadequate compensation for the service
rendered That compensation comes out of somebody's
pocket-certanly not out of the promoters, nor it
may be assumed, the undertaking he represents.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-01-03
Sherlf's Sale.

Georgia, Terrell County.-Will be
sold on the first Tuesday in January
next, at public cutlery, at the court
house in Dawson, Ca, in said county,
within the legal hours of sale to the
highest bidder for cash, the following
described property: The east half
of lot of land two hundred (200),
containing one hundred and one one
fourth (101A) acres, and also one
Cd acre of land in the southeast
corner of lot two hundred and eigh-
teen (218, all located in the Elev-
enth (11th) district of Terrell coun-
ty, Ga. Said property levied on as
the property of J. A. McLendon to
satisfy a fl ia issued from the city
court of Sylvester, Worth county,
Georgia, in favor of Dunlap Hard
ware Co. against said ]. A. McLen-
don. Said property being in posses
sion of ]. S. McLendon, tenant in
charge. This Dec. 9th, 1912.
NJ. G. HILL, Sheriff.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-01-03
Sheriff Sale.

Georgia. Terrell County.-Will be
sold on the first Tuesday in January
next, at public cutlery at the court
house at Dawson, Ga, in said county,
within the legal hours of sale, to the
highest bidder for cash, the follow
ing described property: A certain
house and lot in the town Of Bron-
wood, Ca, on the west side of Geise
street, bounded as follows: On the
north and west by lands of Mrs. Julia
Tucker and on the south by Mrs H.
A. Wall, and on the east by Geise
street, containing one acre, more or
less, together with the improve
ments theron" Said property levied
on as the property of c. n. Bryan,
executor of Mrs. H. E. Bryan, to sat
isfy a mortgage execution issued
from Terrell Superior Court in
favor of j. w. Bryan against said
C. n. Bryan, executor; said property
being in possession of said y. N. Bry-
an. This the 9Th day of December,
1912. M. G. HILL. Sheriff.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-01-03
Administrators 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 in the city of Dawson, Ga, dur
ing the legal hours of sale, on Tues
day, January 7th, 1918, to the high
est bidder for cash, the following de-
scribed lands towit: Ten (10) acres,
more or less, off of lot of land num-
Der two hundred (200) in the
Twelfth district of Terrell county,
Georgia, and known as the Louisa
Webb place, bounded as follows; On
the north by lands of G. F. Smith,
on the east by lands of w. H. Miller,
on the south by lands of w. L. Pace,
and on the west by lands of G. F.
Smith. Sold as the property of Lou
isa Webb, deceased, for the purpose
of paying debts. This December End,
1912. o. T. KENYON,
Admir- Estate of Louisa Webb. Decd.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-01-03
For The Favored Few.

The Moultrie Observer criticses the game law, and
says under it the of leisure have all the
game he wants for himself his and his friends
while the busy and his family denied the lux
ury altogether being prohibited from purchasing it in
the market at hotels restaurants. The same
thought has occurred to The News more than once
Every game law that has been passed in Georgia has
been in the interest OF the favored few the neon
venience of many Only very few people of leisure
who can afford high-priced guns and fancy dogs can
lawfully have or enjoy birds other game, while the
busy and those who do not shoot guns, who com
pose very majority of the people must do with
out. In a few years they will forget even how birds
taste.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-01-03
Important Notice.

Attach all orders to your bills and
send to the Clerk of the Commission
ers by the 25th of the month for pay
ment at next meeting of the Com
missioners. No bill will be paid if
received after the 25th of the month
until the following monthly meet
ing, 80 days after the next meeting.
No account will be paid except those
authorized by purchasing COMMITTEES.
J. C. HOLLINGSWORTH, Chairman.
K. S. WORTHY. Clerk.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-01-03
Shareholders Meeting.

A meeting of the shareholders o.
the Bank OF Dawson, of Dawson, Ga,
will be held at their banking house
on Tuesday, January 14th, 1913, at
10 O'Clock a. m, for the purpose OF
electing directors and for the trans
action of any other business as may
properly come before said meeting.
J. E. MORRIS, Cashier.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-01-03
Shareholders Meeting.

A meeting of the shareholders of
the City National Bank of Daw-
son, Ca, will be held at their bank
ing house on Tuesday, January ID,
1913, at II o'clock, for the purpose
of electing directors and for the
transaction of any other business as
may properly come before said meet
ing. K. S. WORTHY, Cashier.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-01-03
TO BE OPERATED ON.

Mr.. and Mrs P. B. Thompson OF
Quicker Station were in Dawson We'd
nesday. They were - route to
Montgomery, where Mrs. Thompson
was being taken for the purpose of
an operation for appendicitis.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-01-03
shareholders Meeting.

A meeting of the shareholders of
the Dawson National Bank of DaW-
son, Ga, will be held at their bank
ing house on Tuesday, January IA,
1913, at II O'Clock, for the purpose
of electing directors and for the
transaction of any other business as
may properly come before said meet
ing. r. L. SAVILLE, Cashier.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-01-03

A transaction of wide interest in newspaper circles
was the sale Tuesday of the Americas Times-Re
corder Mr. Thomas Gamble Jr., dsposing of the prop
erty to Mr. George R. Ellis of the best known ct
zens and successful business men or Amerlcus
Mr. Gamble has made the Times Recorder one OF the
leading and influential papers of the state, and
the newspaper fraternity of this section will regret to
lose him. He will devote all of his time and energies
to his trade paper in Savannah The News extends fra
ternal greeting to Mr. Ellis and predicts much pros
pery for the Times Recorder under his management
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-01-03

Georgias fourteen electors will meet in the senate
chamber of the capitol Monday, Janu-
airy 18TH to elect a messenger to take the vote to
Washington. There are at present three announced
candidates in the field for this honor-Flynn Hargett
for years messenger to the Georgia state senate Har
lee Branch, Of the Atlanta Journal and John c. Reese
the Atlanta correspondent of the Macon Telegraph
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-01-03

Taft probably is the first defeated president who goes
out of office of optimism for the prospects
his successor says the Cincinnati Enquirer Editor
Dick Grub of the Darien Gazette explains it by
ing Mr. Taft is fine man, and just can't help being
g gentleman"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-01-03

Government by injunction is better than government
by dynamite said Judge Anderson in sentencing the
thirythree dyamiters who received sentences OF from
one to seven years The Judge is emnenty correct in
this view and it be hoped that the result of the
big trial at Indianapolis will have sautary effect
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-01-03

Albany owns up a couple OF cases of spinal men
nights but vigorously denies epidemic of the NAL
ady the ethics of the profession will permit the
state board of health might take hold of the situation
and prevent the possibility of the death of a large
number of people.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-01-03
Notice to the Public.

Hereafter l will not be responsible
for goods charged to my account un-
less bought in person or by written
order from me. This January lst,
1919 ], r. MERCER.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-01-03

The farmer who neglects good big hog and hominy
crop this year will feel the pinch of hard times next
fall no matter how high the price of cotton may be
nor how low the democrats reduce the tariff
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-01-03

Governor Colqutt of Texas, has tender heart too,
He sgnazed his ifty-frs birthday by pardoning fifty
convcts. Blessed the mercul, for they shall
obtain mercy" says the good book.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-01-03

If anybody had any notion of promoting financial
panic-whch is rather doubtfu-Dr. Wilson's def has
scared EN- off There ought to be any panic.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-01-03

State Game Warden Mercer is going after the lying
sportsmen," says item Not all liars sports
men, but all sportsmen are liars-more less
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-01-03

Reckoned by registrations in the office of the sec
retarv of state there are S2 worth of automo
biIes in Georgia That explains to some extent, the
stringency of the times If storekeepers are to be
believed many people joy riding in automobiles and
buying gasoline who can't pay their grocery accounts
Extravaganza and efforts to keep up appearances are
bankrupting the country.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-01-03

All Georgia has been prosperous
during the past year according to the
headlines in the newspapers recently.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-01-03

According to a story in the New York Sun John Tenn
pie Graves has been slated by Governor William Suzer
of York be public service commissioner OF that
state succeeding William Wilcox, whose term expires
February list next Colonel Graves friends through
out Georgia and they legion trust the information
is correct
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-01-03

Life is a game of chance, but death
is a sure thing.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-05-10
MoRGAN's PATRIOTIC OFFER.

Col. George Harvey. In detailing the
conversation which he had with John
Pierpopt Morgan before Morgan s
final trip to Europe and Egypt, and
after Mr.. Morgan had given his testi-
mony before the Pulo committee, gives
information that is important to every
American. 1t shows that Mr.. Morgan
in remarkable degree, in degree
that is worthy of emulation by every
American citizen.
In his talk with Mr.. Morgan, Col.
Harvey was commissioned to say to
President Wilson that elf there ever
should come a time when he thinks
any influence or resources that [ have
can be used for tho country, they are
wholly at his disposal - This was un-
doubtedly sincere. patriotic, offer,
and it was not an offer to be despised,
for the resources of the Morgan house
are something tremendous. It was an
offer such as none but liberty loving,
country loving man would offer, man
patriotic at heart and wholly devoted
to the Republic
We cannot doubt, irasmuch as Mr.
Morgan in his viii left everything to
the discretion Of his chief heir and
executors, coupled with the suggestion
that they were TO follow out his poll
cies, but leaving them entirely free to
do as they pleased, that they will be
not only willing but anxious to con-
form TO the message sent by Mr.. Nor
gan to President Wilson, if ever the
occasion which Mr.. Morgan suggested
should arise.
This offer of Morgan Is was an offer
distinctly worth while. and it is one
that every American Of great resources
would do we'll to emulate.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-05-10
WITHDRAWAL RIGHT CONTESTED

We are glad to see that the contest
is on in the Federal courts against the
legality of the withdrawal Of public
lands by Presidential order. prior to
the time in 1910, when this withdrawal
was authorized by law. President
Cleveland and President Roosevelt
withdrew large tracts Of public land
without any utility shown in the with
drawal and without any law authoriz-
ing it. There were no surveys made
Of watersheds showing that the tracts
withdrawn were useful for the preser~
walton of the SHOWS and the prevention
or floods or for any other utilltarian
purpose. There seemed TO be an idea
that there was n relation between the
withdrawal OF these lands and the pre-
vention of floods that the investiga.
tions of scientists have not only failed
to sustain, but have absolutely dis
credited. And the withdrawal Of coai
lands, so far from breaking up monopo-
lies, as IT was claimed ii might do, so
as TO preserve the coal for the use of
bhN BNOPi', NIhud'lE nflRtD luP UOHDpO-
lists and deprived competitors of the
opportunity 10 get coal lands, open coal
mines, or furnish coal ju competition
with the established combination. And
so the Withdrawals prior to 1910 were
not only without basis Of law, but
were indefensible on any scientific or
economic theory.
The lands that are in contest will
doubtless decide the general principle
involved, and we trust that the courts
may vaeate all of the Presidential or
ders that were directed. without law.
ful authority, toward the withdrawal
of lands from the operation of law. and
throw those lands open to the taking
of American citizens under the land
laws, properly and honestly admins.
tered
The suit arose over the filings Of an
oil company in Wyoming, the Govern
ment seeking to recover 1000 acres Of
alleged oil land near Casper in that
state. The Government attorneys al.
lege that the practice Of withdrawing
ldGu DY TreelucDIldl oIutl diles Odch
to the time of John Quincy Adams,
and that therefore the withdrawal OF
those particular lands by President
Roosevelt was legal. 1t is not easy to
see, however. how an Illegal withdrawal
can he made legal because il has not
been contested As long as there is
no law for it, the acquiesceuce Of all
concerned in the illegal order has no
tendency whatever TO validate either
the first order or other illegal orders
made subsequent TO the first.
While the matter is in the court it
will doubtless be carried 10 the Su.
premc Court Of the United States,
where the final decision will be made !;
and we trust that such decision may
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-05-10

mistaken assumption to suppose that
the old expression Fstarboard and
"port' are to be abolished for all pur-
poses. But it would be interesting to
have Rear Admiral Schroeder 60 a lit
tie further into the matter. Even as
no explains, the order to the steorsman
of "right' and Cleft is liable to be
confusing Suppose there are two men
at the wheel, as may often be the case,
these men facing each other; if the or
der is given to the steersmen "lar-
board that means something definite
as to the course Of the ship, no matter
how the steersmen may be facing; both
will understand precisely that the ship
is to be turned on the larboard course
to the degree that may be indicated in
the order. TO say cleft" means left
to tho man who is facing the Prov, but
is right TO the man who is facing the
first steersman. But Cardboard -