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The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-07-10
Asks Heavy Damages.

Bison.-Perkins county, Of which
Bison is the county seat, has been
made the defendant in a heavy dam
age suit, instituted by Floyd Miller.
for injuries alleged to have been re-
ceived when he broke his ankle by
falling into the excavation for IN addi-
ton to the county court house in Bi.
son. He asks for damages in the
sum of Sc, 199 for his injuries, figuring
So days lost labor at SO per day, a
physicians bill, amounting to $199,
and exemplary damages in the sum
Of SIS, ZOO. The case will be tried at
the next term of state circuit court.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-07-10
Whom She Preferred.

A lady suspected her two sons of
carrying on a mild Irritation with one
of the servants, a bonny Scottish las.
sic. In order to arrive at the truth OF
the matter she pressed the bell, and
when the girl answered it spoke to
her.
Tell me, Jane" she said quietly.
which of my two IONS do you prefer
James or Albert?"
"Weel, ma'am," replied the blush
ing Jane, they are both nice, though
| think of the two l prefer James; but
for a real guild spree gle me the mas
ter."-London T1t-Bits.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-07-10
WHlRLEo TO DEATH.
City Engineer Mitchell Of centerviIle,
S, D.. Loses life

Centerville.-F. NJ. Mitchell, city
engineer, was whirled to his death
when his clothing caught in a clutch
on the engine in the water plant.
Nearly every bone in his body was
broken.
Mitchell's body was found by Will
lam Stedman, who had entered the
plant to eur a drink Of water.
When the engine was stopped pieces
of Mitchell's clothing were found in
the wheels. His watch had stopped
at 1915 and this is believed to have
been the time the fatal accident &C.
CURED.
Mitchell was an old soldier and was
about 67 years old. A wife, daughter
and son survive. He had been a resi-.
dent of Centerville for over ten
years.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-07-10
Does Experimental Work.

Pierre.-On the Messic farm near
Gettysburg, a field was prepared for
experimental work. a portion Of it be-
Ing worked v with a deep filling
machine; another portion with a sub
soil plow, and a third portion worked
with an ordinary pillow. The whole
field was narrowed and surface
worked " the same way, and seeded
at the same time. The ordinary plow-
ing Is very poor in the stand of grains
tested; with the subsoil portion con-
sadaEAbly better, and the deep titled
n4eeten the best Of an
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-07-10
Thrown from WAGON.

Sioux Falls.-Perhaps fatal injuries
were sustained by A. ID. Coleman, a
prominent Brookings county farmer.
when he was thrown from his wagon
as a result of his horses becoming
frightened at a passing automobile.
Coleman had turned out to give the
auto part Of the road, when his horses
SHE'D and tilted the wagon sufficient
ly to III him to lose his balance
and be thrown violently to the
ground. He struck on his head, and
his injuries we're of such a nature
that he is partially p~aralyzed.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-07-10
chshna Hives.

This troublesome skin affection IL
difficult to diagnose at the outset. Be
on the safe side, therefore, and when
v e the Skin Is irritated use Tyree's
Antiseptic Powder Immediately and
avoid further trouble. 25c. at druggists.
Sample sent free by j. s.. Tyree.
Chemist, Washington, D. C.-Adv.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-07-10
Leads Assessment.

Misunderstanding to the books, as
revised and corrected by the mayor
and the board, the assessed valuation
of the city Of Lead, exclusive of rail-
roads and telephones, is something
over 100000 o None of the Home
stake property Is included.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-07-10

and hear what the advocates of each
have to say; but if you build a little
house like this one, and the local hot
air furnace mar is a lodge member in
good standing, with his dues all paid
up to date, and otherwise bears a
good reputation, then by all means
listen with profound respect to his
opinion.
1t is not in the province of the
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-07-10
Youthful SLAYER.

A case of ~"preoocious violence" is
reported from Newark, N. j., where a
twenty-months-old infant, supposed to
have been Jealous of his baby sister.
two days old. struck the baby a blow
with his fist and injured her fatally.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-07-10

and jB a good house generally. You
got the necessary room in the length
down towards the back end Of the
lot where land does not cost any
thing. for the house is 3S feet deep
just twice as long as it is wide.
Years ago, before we understood
how to heat houses as well as we do
now, there was a well-founded preju-
dice against long, narrow houses, be-
cause the heat could not be driven to
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-07-10

the end rooms, and nobody wanted 70
build chimneys all In a row down
through the house and set up sep
arate stoves wherever it was found
necessary. That objection, however
does not hold against the small steam
or hot-water heating plants that are
now 80 common; and the furnace
has added so much to his knowi
edge that he can compete on equal
footing in q house Of eight or nine
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-07-10
Suspected a Poker Party.

Hub must go ou tonight, my
love. Engagement with a customer.
Wife-very well, but don't be gone
long and
Hub-And what?
Wife-Don't come home short.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-07-10
II Not Too Thick.

Patience-It is said that sugar alone
will sustain life fer q considerable
time.
Patrice-And "tafy" viii MAKE one
feel good fer some time.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-07-10

Mrs. winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children
teething, softcns the gums, reduces infamma.
tion, sllays pAinycures wind collie ,15cA bottie.iv
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-07-10
Doctors Dues.

The world owes a great deal TO
medical science"
And IL will be the last debt paid
declared the doctor somewhat Bit
terly.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-07-10
solution,

That young man has been sowing
his wild oats"
Then no wonder he looks ssedy."
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-06-17
SON OF ATLANTA MAN is
HIS FATHERS SON-IN-LAW

ATLANTA.-Last Thursday night
Marie Pate graduated from the girls
high school. Saturday afternoon she
was secretly married to her step
brother, Walter Kelly Mitchell, at
the home of their parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. NJ. D. Mitchell 10 York avenue.
When Mr.. Mitchell, the father, who
is attached to the Grady hospital
staff, went home Saturday night he
, carried a huge package of roses for
his stepdaughter in honor of her
graduation. AS he handed over the
mass of flowers he said:
'"This is a graduation present,
and"
Before he could proceed further
his stepdaughter that was, but now
is his daughter-in-Iaw, interrupted;
And wedding present, too, eh?''
The father did not instantly grasp
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-06-17
HEADS MAY BE Topped OFF
Government Investigating Complaints
From All Parts of the Country
Against Postmasters.

WASHINGTON.-The longest wall
of distress heard by the administra-
ton has reached Washington from
thousands of small cities; villages,
hamlets and other centers of rural
America. 1t is a cry OF protest
aga,nst' the action of Postmaster
General Burleson in abolishing the
backstamping of letters.
Formerly a postmaster was re-
CURED, as soon as he opened mail
bag, to stamp the letters on the back
with the date and hour of arrival
and then to sort them for delivery.
Mr.. Burleson thought this practice
consumed more time than it was
worth, and ordered it omitted
Holding Mail Back.
There has been almost no COM
plant from the large cities where
millions of letters are handled by
forces of clerks with the aid of ma
chinery. The protests have rained
in upon the department, and senators
and representatives from the small
offices where the mail is handled per-
sonally by the postmaster or by one
or two assistants.
The complaints Invariably have
been to the effect that the village
postmasters are holding back the
mail of their personal enemies
When backstamping was required a
postmaster could not withhold mail
without being convicted by the silent
testimony of the arrival date. The
complaints are being investigated
and some heads may be Topped off.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-06-17
PROBE JUDGE sPEERs RECORD.
Agent of Department of Justice Is
Looking Into His Official Acts.

Agent of Department of Justice Is
Looking Into His Official Acts.
1t is reported in Macon that the
official record Of Judge Emory Speer,
of the United States court for the
Southern district Of Georgia, who has
been on the bench twenty-eight
years, is being Investigated by an
agent for the department of justice.
J. L Lewis, an assistant in the
office of the United States attorney
general, has been in Macon for more
than a week comforting with attor-
neys, court officials and others who
have had relations with Judge Speer.
Numerous affidavits, it is said, have
been obtained by the special agent.
1t is believed that the investiga-
ton, which, it is said, is being made
with Judge Speer's knowledge, was
precipitated by the charges made last
year by former Mayor w. A. Huff,
who recently was found guilty OF
contempt of court for criticism he
made of Judge Speer in a letter he
sent to the jurist.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-06-17
BAN ON CIGARETTES.
No One Under Voting Age in Town
of Monroe Can Smoke Them.

No One Under Voting Age in Town
of Monroe Can Smoke Them.
The town of Monroe, in Walton
county, has put the legal ban on Gig
arctic smoking by all under 81 years
in addition to the the state law pro-
hibiting the sale of the "tacks" to
those under their majority.
The ministers asked the city ordi-
nance to this effect: the council
wanted expressions from parents; the
preachers got a signed petition from
100 fathers who have boys in their
teens; the council passed the law,
and it is against the town law fer :
boy under voting age to puff the
weed in paper-rolled form in the
corporation limits of the capital OF
Walton. They may smoke in the
actual residence of their parents
nowhere else.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-06-17
GET THE NEWS
TO MY PAPER"

NEW YORK.-Gregory T.
Humes of this city, who died to-
day M the hospital at Stamford,
Conn, retained above all else
his sense of news when terribly
crushed yesterday in the wreck
which caused the death of six
persons and the injury of about
twenty more on the New York,
New Haven and Hartford rail-
road near the Stamford station.
Humes, a reporter on the
World, was returning from a Wis
it to his mother at Pine Orchard,
Conn. He was a passenger in
the Pullman, which was telescop-
ed by the electric engine of
train behind. When Humes was
carried out of the wreck, suffer-
ing from a crushed pelvis and
compound fractures of both an
kles, as we'll as painful internal
injuries, he said to those who
were carrying him:
call up my paper right away
and tell them there is a wreck
here-a big story. Tell them 1
am sorry / won't be able to work
because l am smashed up. Call
up my mother, too"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-06-17
HOME FOR MAYNARD GIRLS.
Bill to Be Introduced in Legislature
to Provide ReformatOry.


Leaders in the general assembly
both in the house and senate, have
agreed to endorse and support bill
providing for the establishment OF a
reformatory or industrial home for
hayward girls by the state of Geor-
gia.
The proposed move by the legisla-
ture has already received the en-
dorsement of most of the superior
court judges in the state and all OF
the women's clubs.
The fact is emphasized that Whlle
the state reformatory at Milledge-
Vile is designed under the law to
take care of both boys and girls il
has only resources sufficient to care
for hayward boys, and that in estab-
fishing a home now for wayward
girls the legislature will simply car
nv out what the Georgia law already
contemplated.
There is no institution in Georgia
at present where young girls who
have become hayward, through cir
cumstance or environment, can be
saved from threatened vice and ruin.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-06-17
RETURNS STOLEN MILLION
Shrouds Then Appears in PhiIadel-
phia Court and Is Released.

phia Court and Is Released.
An indictment charging w. S.
Shrouds, former superintendent of
the safe deposit vaults of the Man
haitian Union Trust Co., with the
theft of nearly $1,5O0,OOO in cash
and securities from the vaults of the
company was ordered submitted to a
jury in the court of Quaker Sessions
in Philadelphia for a verdict of not
guilty. Counsel for the company ex-
planned to the court that the full
restitution had been made by Shroud
several months ago.
Shrouds was indicted in September,
1911, when officials of the trust com
pany reported that he was missing,
and that a shortage of between $25,-
900 and $50, 900 had been uncovered.
Subsequently i. was discovered that
in addition to the cash 81, 900 in
securities was missing from the
strcngbox of George W. Burnham,
Jr., a director of the company.
Detectives secured Europe and this
country in a vain attempt to appre-
bend Shrouds, who was reported to
have been in constant communication
with friends in Philadelphia When
assured that the prosecution would
be dropped if he returned the money
and securities Shrouds returned to
this country.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-06-17

| the meaning of her remarks. The
son broke in:
IF marry your daughter, father,
what am Your son, your son-in-
law, or what?"
For one thing" Mr. Mitchell an
swered, you'd be a mighty lucky
fellow"
Then, a lucky fellow I am, for
Marie and I were married this after
noon"
The wedding was a surprise. The
bride is only II years old. They left
Saturday night for Asheville, where
they will spend their honeymoon.
Upon returning to Atlanta they will
live with their parents.
The groom is "a years old, and is
an auditor. The courtship extends
back for years, at which time the
parents of the couple were married.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-06-17
MILLER COUNTY'S RECORD
Boasts That Large Appetites Are the
Rule and Not the Exception.

Boasts That Large Appetites Are the
Rule and Not the Exception.
Newspaper reports claim that the
champion fried egg eater of the coun-
try, who had eaten 80 fried eggs, died
while attempting to break his record.
The champion fried egg eater of the
world was Mike Hair, resident of
Miller county, who died two years
ago He lived on the plantation of
Judge C. c. Bush. He told that he
had eaten rs fried eggs at one sit
ting. While his wife was sick at one
time a neighbor roasted shoat
weighing about 40 pounds, and wit
nesses say that he ate half of the hog
at one time.
Mr. Charles Long. who lives near
Colquitt, ate a 12-pound boiled ham,
three pones of corn bread and about
dozen biscuits at one time.
Miller county claims the champion
eaters of the world.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-06-17
AFTER SOLICITORS GENERAL
Measure Abolishing the Office, Which
Came Near Passing, Will Again
Come Before Legislature.

ATLANTA.-A measure that pro-
voked one of the hardest fought leg
islative battles in the history of the
last general assembly and that came
within an ace of securing the neces-
sary two-thirds majority for its pas
sage will be introduced in the house
again this year soon after the general
assembly meets.
1t is a constitutional amendment
providing for the abolition of the Of
fee of solicitor general and the ere
alton of the office of county prescott
ing attorney in it's stead. Last year
the measure was fathered by Repre-
sentatives Fullbright of Burke and
Allen of Epson. Representative Full
bright returns to the house this year
and he has announced his intention
to veintroduce the measure, and with
out Doubt he will make an energetic
night for its passage.
Much Complaint.
There has been considerable com
plant in various parts of the state
with regard to solicitors general and
particularly with their remuneration
under the fee system. Mr. Fullbright
VIII be one of the veteran members
OF the present general assembly hav-
ing already several consecutive terms
10 MS credit, and with his ability as
lawyer and legislator and his inhu-
ehce acquired by long service ii the
legislature it will be interesting for
solicitors this summer.
That there will be a hard fight on
me subject goes without saying, as
lhe solicitors have a lot of friends
and political influence themselves,
ana there is much to be said on both
sides of the question.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-06-17
UNREASONABLE
DAYS EXPLAINED
Old Time Religious Negroes Say 1t
Was to Stop Gambling Picnic
of White Churches.

ATLANTA.-Old- time Atlanta ne
groes, whose innate superstition is in
many instances mingled with a deep
and sincere religious sentiment, have
hit upon a unique and to them en-
tirely satisfactory explanation of why
winter days have been visited upon
Georgia in midsummer.
They think it was a direct inter
vention of Divine Providence to
break up the gambling picnic
which two leading white churches
in Atlanta had scheduled to come OFF
Tuesday night at Grant park
This picnic was to have been the
payment of the wager made between
the two Sunday schools as to which
could get the most members in a
given number of weeks. The losing
Sunday school was to pay the ex-
penses of a joint picnic.
This picnic was set for Tuesday
and preparations went forward with
great eclat. It was going to be one
of the biggest out-of-door celebra-
lions Atlanta has ever seen. Over
5000 people were to attend.
Then, in the midst of June, it sud
denly turned winter.
The darkeys view the phenomenon
in exactly the same light as the
plague of grasshoppers and the other
miraculous chastsements inflicted in
Egypt.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-06-17
rvPERTS FROM STATE COLLEGE
or AGRICULTURE WILL BE IN
DAWSON JUNE 10Th.

The News has received from the
ctate College of Agriculture the fol-
loving programme for the farmers
institute that members of its staff
will conduct in Dawson on Thursday
June goth:
Morning Session, 10 O'clock.
Invocation.
Introductory remarks-Mr. H. A,
Petty, president Terrell County
FARMERS Institute Organization.
"The Dairy Cow as Source OF
Profit on the farm"-Prof. ]. L.
pisbop. adjunct professor of animal
industry.
"Co-operation"-Prof ]. W. Firor
,5innct professor of horticulture.
afternoon Session, 1870 O'clock.
Increasing the Yield of Corn
O. Vanatter. superintendent OF
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-06-17
UNCLE SANS LONG DELAY
is THAT FEDERAL BUILDING FOR
DAWSON IN DISTANT FUTURE?
Another Potent Example That He Is
Never in Hurry to Erect Post
Office Buildings.


Quitman has had potent example
of the long delays of the government
in the matter of new postoffice build
ings, and the following dispatch from
Quitman will not be very encourag-
ing to Dawsonians who hoped to see
work begun at an early date upon
the public building which was au-
thorized by the last congress to be
erected in Dawson:
'The building was included in the
appropriation budget passed about
two years ago, and as soon as 1t was
announced that Quitman had been
awarded an appropriation of $4,000
for postoffice site it seemed an ac-
compished fact. A lot was bought
by the government next to the Hotel
Marie, and in order to give the re-
CURED space w. j. Powell, owner
of the hotel, sold part of the lot the
hotel now stands on and agreed to
move the hotel annex now on this
strip of land.
Recently the government has been
collecting rent from Mr.. Powell for
this part of the lot, and Postmaster
Griffin has received notice in this
connection that the lot will not be
needed by the government until the
latter part of 1914. From which it
will appear that Quitman has about
two more years to wait for the glory
of the new building"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-06-17
IT'S AN UNUSUAL ROMANCE
Man Leaves Fortune to Children of
Woman Who Tilted Him to
Marry Another.


NEW YORK.-Although he lost
the hand of a girl he wooed in his
youth James Carew Russell, head OF
a coffee brokerage house here, kept
green the memories of his romance
and revaled them in his will, in which
he bequeathed $25, 900 to each of the
children of the woman he had hoped
some day to marry.
Russell died a bachelor, and his
most intimate friends were ignorant
that he even had a boyhood romance.
When he left Norwichtown, Conn,
as a young man in 1880 to seek his
fortune in New York he hoped to go
back some day for Mary Waite, only
daughter of Congressman John Tur-
ner Waite and a niece of Chief JUS
tice Waite of the United States SUI
preme court.
But it happened that in Washing
ton she met John Howard Welles, a
nephew of Lincoln's secretary of the
navy, and accepted his proposal of
marriage.
After the death of Mr.. Welles in
1907 Russell took great interest in
his r:vaPs childrea, and on his own
deathbed last March sent word to
Mrs Welles, who was ESQ dying OF
1T ..c-,-ilo ~ nro - 10 fcr hpr chill
dren. She died a week ago
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-06-17
Four Years for Threatening Mother

Four Years for Threatening Mother
Thomas H. Minis of Elko, Houston
county, Georgia, was sentenced by
Judge Emory Speer in the United
States court to serve four years in
the Atlanta federal prison for send
ing threatening letter to his moth
er. Minis demanded a sum of money
and the demand was accompanied by
a threat. His mother placed the let
ter in the hands of the postal au-
thorities, and Minis arrest and con.
viction followed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-06-17
PROGRAM FOR FARMERS INSTITUTE
field experiments.

field experiments.
THE Results of Farm Demonstra-
ton Work.. X. Giles, assistant
state agent, in cooperation with the
United States department of agri-
culture
An expert from the United States
department of agriculture will dis
cuss the boil weevil problem.
This is the regular farmers insti-
tute meeting, and every farmer and
every member of his family is cor
daily invited to attend. There will
be something new and interesting in
every address delivered, and it will
be we'll worth while for every one to
be present. If you have a farming
problem to be solved bring it to the
meeting. There will be features OF
interest on the program for the boys
corn club and girls canning club
members.
Come out and bring somebody.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-06-17
READ THIS

The Texas Wonder cures kidney
and Bladder troubles, removing grav-
Ell, cures diabetes, weak and lame
backs, rheumatism and all IRREGULAR
ties of the kidneys and bladder in
both men and women. Regulates
bladder troubles in children. If not
sold by your druggist will be sent
by mail on receipt Of s1.00. One
small bottle is two months treat
ment, and seldoms fails to perfect a
cure Send for testimonials from
this and other states. DR.. z. w.
HALL, 1926 Olive street, St Louis,
Mo. Sold by druggists.