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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-26
TO Be MANY APPOINTMENTS
Governor SIatOn Will Have Numer-
Gus Positions to Fill When He
Returns From the West.

When Governor SIaton returns
from the West he will be confronted
with large number of appointments
which will not be deferred much
longer.
There will be the fourth Atlanta
judgeship, which the governor is ex-
pected to announce Immediately on
his return.
Then there is the game commits
sioner, in successorship to j. E. Mer-
Ger, whose term expires in October
There are a multitude of applicants
for this position, and in his own self
defense the governor will be COM
PEELED to make an appointment soon
after he gets back from the West.
Two members of the Western
and Atlantic commission are to ap-
pointed by the governor. 1t is I'M
derstoCd that he has already selected
the men for the place, but the an
nouncement will not be made until
his return.
There are also five members of the
committee on the Home for Way
ward Girls, two of whom shall be wo-
men, to be named.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-26
BILLIONS OF BACTERIA IN YOU
If YOU DON'T BELIEVE IT GET A
MICROSCOPE AND COUNT EN-.
full of Sweet Milk. State Chemist
Making Daily Tests.

When you draw up to your break
fast table, tip your morning paper
against the water carafc aud pick up
your glass of dairy milk pause.
There may be 66,OOO,OO0 bacteria,
inconspicuous but not inonocuous, in
every teaspoonful waiting to get
busy in your interior. If you don't
believe it get a microscope and count
them.
At least, the state chemists de-
partment says so. Furthermore it
proposes to make war on bacteria
and the insanitary diaries and dairy
farms throughout the state. So far
the campaign has been principally
confined to the larger cities, but ev-
cry village dairy is to have an in
spection before the campaign ends.
State Chemist R. E. Stallings has
his splendid new laboratory in order
now, and is making daily tests. The
milk inspection is under the direc-
tion of K. w Atkins, a new member
of the Chemists staff, and he is get
ting busy to save the babies of Geor-
gia from impure milk.
There are usually about 100000
bacteria in third of a teaspoonful of
milk, said the chemist, as if pop
ulation like that were perfectly prop
er. But in some samples we have
found 100000 in that amount of
so-called milk. That is too many"
The cleanup campaign will be ex-
tended to every Georgia town soon,
and the chemist will enforce his or
ders or shut up the diaries, big and
little. His advice to dairymen is to
clean up before the inspector arrives
and stay clean.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-26
HOW LANE SPENDS SALARY
Cabinet Officer Spends $4,000 for
Home and Remaining $1,000 for
Ice Cream and Pink Teas.

NEW York; Portland, Ore,
dispatch to the World says it costs
Franklin K. Lane, secretary of the
interior, $4,000 a year to maintain
a home as cabinet officer and $4,000
a year for ice cream and pink teas, D."
according to a statement he made to
friends during a recent visit he made
to friends in this city while discuss
ing the high cost of living for gov
eminent officials in Washington. This
dissipates his entire salary of s12,-
600 a year, and he has nothing re
naming excepting the glory.
Secretary Lane said that he is not
extravagant in his home, as he re-
sides in the same residence he occu-
pied while a member of the interstate
commerce commission. He pays
$3.50 a year rent for the home, has
two colored servants and Is not Law
ish in entertaining.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-26
NOTED PREACHER BROTHERS
TWO MGEHEES HAVE GIVEN
11G YEARS TO THE MINISTRY.
Revs. John b. and f. III. McGehee
Are Oldest Active Workers in the
South Georgia Conference.


Perhaps there are no more inter
esting characters in Georgia than the
Rev. E. H. McGehee of Columbus and
his brother, DR.. John B. McGehee, of
Oglethorpe, whose combined services
in the ministry are 116 years. Both
were born near Perry, Houston coun-
ty, and were admitted to the ministry
when young men.
Sunday night at East Highlands
Methodist church, in Columbus, Rev.
2. H. McGehee, who is pastor of the
church, gave some "reminiscences of
20 years as an itinerant minister. He
was admitted to the South Georgia
Conference 55 years ago next Novem-
Der in Columbus. Since that time he
has served two years as a missionary
to the negroes, ten years on circuits,
fifteen years as presiding elder and
twenty-eight years on stations. Of
the class of 20 ministers admitted to
the conference with him he is the
only living active minister.
The record of his brother. DR.. John
B. McGehee, who is now so years of
age, is still more remarkable. He
has been minister for 81 years. dur
/ ing which time he has served thirty
nine years as presiding elder, two or
three years as president of Andrew
/ college and the remainder of the
time on circuits and stations. Dur
ing his long and successful career
he has represented the South Geor-
gia Conference at nine sessions OF
the General Conference, which meets
every four years.
DR.. McGehee is said to be the old
est presiding elder in the Southern
Methodist church, from a standpoint
of service, while he and his brothe
are the oldest effective ministers in
the South Georgia Conference, and
they are strong refutation of the idea
that man when he reaches an ad-
vanced age is no longer capable OF
rendering service to the church.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-26
DENSITY OF POPULATION
AVERAGE NUMBER PEOPLE PER
SQUARE MILE A IN GEORGIA.
Terrell County Has 65 Per Square
Mile, and Only Nineteen Others
Have as Many.

The current issue of the Home
and Farmstead, published at Athens,
contains some very interesting infor-
nation as to the population in the
various counties of the state.
Georgia, with her 2,609,121 peo-
pie. ranks eleventh among the states
of the union in total population.
We have an average of A pepole
to the square mile. Upon this basis
twenty states of the union are more
densely populated.
The Southern states outranking
Georgia in density of population are
North Carolina, As people to the
square mile; Virginia, 81; Tennessee
and South Carolina, 50, and Ken
lucky, 81.
Middle Georgia Densely Populated.
Our most densely populated re-
gion in general is Middle Georgia.
Only fifteen counties south of Bibb
have As or more people to the square
mile, including the population of
towns and cities
Counting rural population alone
only six counties south of Bib are
above the average density of the
state.
Thirteen counties of the state have
fewer than 20 people to the square
mile, all of them except Lumpkin
and Rabun in South Georgia.
Three counties-Echols, Clinch
and Charlton have fewer than 10
people to the square mile-Charlton
only 4.
Terrell has Go people to the square
mile, and ranks nineteen in the list
of counties.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-26
HUGHES WANTS IRRIGATION
ground System to Be Tried
On Georgia Farms.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Represent-
ative Dudley NJ. Hughes, who is plan
ming irrigating cotton farms in Geor-
gia, has been particularly impressed
by the report of drouth in Kansas,
Missouri and Oklahoma.
ITO overcome the danger of SINH
lar dry spells in Georgia, which often
cause serious loss of cotton during
this month, | have arranged for
demonstration by the department of
agriculture of the new underground
system of irrigation, said Congress
man Hughes.
ut may sound strange to some to
talk of irrigation in our fertile state,
but if this system will mean the saw
ing one time of one-half our cotton
crop it will be worth the cost. At
this season of the year cotton is in
its most critical condition, the plant
being heavily drained by the fruiting
process, and two weeks of extremely
dry weather has worked havoc"
To Irrigate Cotton and Corn.
With the exception of some expert
mental work by Col John P. Fort
near Albany this will be the first
irrigation work attempted in Geor-
gia, except on small truck farms.
Mr.. Hughes scheme contemplates the
irrigation of cotton and corn fields.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-26
PIPES COLD AIR FROM WELL
SIX-ROOM HOUSE COOLED BY AIR
FROM UNDERGROUND STREAM.
The McSpaddens Are Cooler On the
Hottest Day Than They Would Be
at Any Summer Resort.

One of the most remarkable wells
in Oklahoma is owned by ]. c.: Nc
Spadden at Tahlequah, Okla, says
the MuscOgee correspondent OF the
Kansas City Star. This we'll not only
furnishes an abundance of pure
water, almost ice cold in the sum-
mer time, but it affords supply of
chilled air, which keeps the McSpad-
den home cooler on the hottest day
than any summer resort within a
thousand miles.
When the we'll was sunk it was
for a cistern. When so feet deep
the bottom broke through, revealing
a sort of cavern, in which there was
a tremendous flow of cold water. The
well was sunk years ago and the
water has remained at the same level
ever since.
One may open the cover of this
well and his hat will be lifted from
his head by a rush of air from the
well. Unlike most underground
streams this one changes tempera-
ture in the winter, getting much cold
er and ice five inches thick has been
known to form in the well.
Mr.. McSpadden sealed the top of
the we'll with concrete cap and
placed pipes in it. Through one
of these he draws his water supply.
Through the other he draws a supply
of cold air that is piped through ev-
cry room of his six-room cottage.
These pipes reduce the temperature
many degrees, even on the hottest
days.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-26
JOBS UNDER U. S. GO BEGGING
THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION
WANTS CITIZENS TO APPLY.
Will Hold Examinations for Num-
Der of Positions That Pay From
$50 Month to $500 Year.


WASHNGTON.-Jobs under the
government are going begging and
the civil service commission today
issued announcements upon exami-
nations to be held for number of
positions, almost every announcer
ment bearing this significant state
ment in black-faced letters:
LAS the commission has expert
enced considerable trouble in secur-
ing a sufficient number of eligibles
for this position qualified persons are
urged to enter this examination.
Among the positions which the
commission seeks to fill through COM
petftive examinations is that of pre-
narrator in the bureau of entomology
of the department of agriculture. The
position. according to the announce
ment. will pay the successful cand1-
date $50 a. month. The examination
consists only of passing in spelling,
arithmetic, letter writing, penman-
ship. copying and demonstrating gen
eraI ATTITUDE for the job through
practical tests in preparing, mount
ing and labelling chronological speci-
mems, both pinned and microscope. ~
Another place the commission has
thus far failed to fill and for which
an appeal is made is that of teacher
Of metal working and mechanical
drawing in the Indian service. the
lob also will pay $50 a month. In
addition to being both an arithmeti-
clan and an artist the applicant
might well have a knowledge of
wood turning"
The real prize position open to
that citizen of the United States who
can qualify and demonstrate his su-
periority over his fellows pays $4,-
500 a year 1t is the position OF pro-
lessor of pharmacology in the public
health service.
"The specific position mentioned
saws the commissions announcement
.'is one of much responsibility and it
is desired to secure the services OF a
man who has broad training and
extensive practical experience in vari-
Gus branches of pharmacology, physi-
illogical and pharmaceutical chemist
~. cheomotherapy etc, as they re-
late to medicine and me pubic
Those seeking to pluck this plum,
however, the commission insists,
must have had ten years experience
along the lines laid down and like
wise must have had training that
would qualify them for the degree of
Phi. D.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-26
is RAILROAD PRESIDENT.
Mrs. Cora Williams succeeds Her
Husband as Head of G. F. & 4.

At a meeting of the directors OF
the Georgia, Florida and Alabama
railroad at cambridge Saturday Mrs.
Cora B. Williams was elected presi-
dent, succeeding her husband, the
late Capt. J. P. Williams. Mrs. Will
liams is believed to be the only wO-
man in the South who IS president of
a railroad.
All other officials were reelected,
including the vice-president, Colonel
Green Johnson, of Sandersville.
Mrs. Williams is the only woman
president of a railroad in the South.
She owns the entire bond issue of the
road amounting to two million dol
lars.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-26
TO TEST AN OLD STATUTE.
An Interesting Suit Has Been Filed
Against a Dublin Merchant.

An unusual suit to test the validity
of an old statute which has been cod
flied in the Georgia laws since 1887,
and which is said to be the first suit
of the kind ever filed in the state, has
been filed in Dublin against G. A
Baynard by Arthur H. Codington OF
Macon for the sum of $4,000.
The law upon which the suit is
based says that no business partner
ship may insert in their firm name
the name of any individual not actu-
ally a co-partner nor continue in such
firm name of a retired partner to
gain credit under the penalty of 500
for each day the name is so used.
Codington alleges Baynard did this.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-26
SAYS JUSTICE WEEPS
But CALHOUN COUNTY GRAND
JURY CAN'T Do ANYTHING TO
DRY HER TEARS.
STRONGLY CONDEMN THE MOB
Special Presentment DepIOres Law
lessness, and Says Lynchers Could
Not Be Identified Because the
Guards Didn't Recognize Them.

Guards Didn't Recognize Them.
The grand jury of Calhoun county,
called in special session by Judge
Frank Park to Investigate The lynch
ing of Son Lovett at Morgan, adj
journed without returning any in
dictments. Before adjourning they
made a special presentment to the
court as follows:
I'VE, the special grand jury chosen
and sworn to investigate the lynch
ing of Robert Lovett, which was done
early this morning, report that we
find the guards at the Jail were in
Inundated and overpowered by the
armed and masked mob. We have
thoroughly sifted all the witnesses we
thought could give us any informa-
ton as to the identity of any person
engaged in the lynching, and have
entirely failed. And we regret and
deplore the event, and with all the
power that may be embodied in our
condemnation do we condemn those
who participated in this lawlessness.
Justice weeps, our state has no more
blot upon her once fair name, and
Calhoun county is the worse for this
violence, and We call upon all good
citizens here and elsewhere in our
state to be more loyal to the law
upon which alone they can rely for
their protection"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-26
MANY RUMORS FLOAT
l,r,ucES AGAINST JUDGE SPEER
APE TOPICS OF DISCUSSION
IN WASHINGTON.
To MAKE RIGID INVESTIGATION
couduct of His Court Will Be Scru-
tinted and Attention Also Given
His Personal and Financial Rela-
tions With Bankers and Others.

HIS IeISOIloA ttAAA A>NAte
t;ons With Bankers and Others.
WASHINGTON, D. C.-The Geor-
,io delegation in the house today
5iscussed the subject of charges of
Misconduct against Federal Judge
Emory Speer, now before the house
irdiciarv committee, and authorized
commemorative Bartlett, member
from Judge Speers district, to con-
For with Chairman Clayton of the
committee. The judiciary committee
will be asked to allow the Georgia
CONSERVATIVES to look over the de-
oartment of justice charges. The
doIaqation will then determine its
course of action. Chairman Clayton
has already indicated that the dele
cation is entitled to see the charges.
Representative Bartlett anticipates
no difficulty in gaining confidential
access TO the charges. In fact, it is
Known that at least one member of
the delegation, and probably others,
have already seen the charges.
The meeting of the delegation to
discuss the charges was brought to a
halt by the suggestion that the
charges had best be read first. Rep
reseutative Clayton has already ex-
tended an informal invitation to the
Georgians to read the charges but to
regard them as confidential.
One member of the Georgia dele
CATION. said to have seen the papers
in the case, is quoted on reliable au-
tbority as saying that the impeach-
men- charges against Judge Archibald
we're mild in comparison with the al
legations against Judge Speer. The
ease was the subject of talk in con-
gressional circles today, and mem
hers who had barely heard of Judge
Sheer before this week were retailing
Incidents about him which are COM
mon report in Georgia.
There seems to De no doupt no"
but that the house judiciary commit
tee will make a rigid investigation of
the charges. Not only the conduct OF
Judge Speer's court will be scrut1nlz-
ed. but his personal relations with
railroad receivers, bankers and 9TH
ers will receive attention. An inquiry
into Judge Speer's methods of travel
inc will probably be another line of
questioning.
Talk has become so general, while
the charges themselves are held un-
der lock and key, that it is difficult
to separate what is in the report
from what is being talked of by Geor-
CLANS here in Washington.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-26
PERMISSION Is GRANTED
FOR SHIPMENT OF ARMS.

President Wilson has granted per-
for the expectation of 1000
rifles and $4,000 cartridges 10 the
Huerta government. All but 1000
rifles, which go to Vera Cruz from
New Orleans, will be shipped from
FL Paso via Vera Cruz. Some of the
latter have already gone.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-26
COLE YOUNGER A CHRISTIAN.
Member of Jesse James Gang of Out
laws Converted at Revival.

Cole Younger, the former bandit,
became a member of the Christian
church at a revival meeting at Lees
Summit, Mo-, Tuesday night.
When the evangelist after finishing
his sermon invited persons in the au-
dience to join the church Younger
was one of the first to go forward to
the altar rail.
At the conclusion Of the service
the evangelist said that those in the
audience who cared to do so might
remain and shake hands with Young
err. There were a thousand people
present and all remained to congrat-
ulate the former member of the
James gang on his conversion.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-26
DORSEY PLEA THRILLS
MAKES IMPRISONED
SPEECH IN CLOSING ARGU-
NIENT OF FRANK CASE.
BIG CROWD CHEERS OUTSIDE
Given an Ovation as He Leaves Court
Room After Speaking Six Hours.
Prisoner Calm, Wife Sobs and Slain
Girls Mother Breaks Down,

Room After Speaking Six Hours.
Prisoner Calm, Wife Sobs and Slain
Girls Mother Breaks Down.
ATLANTA-Insisting upon the
application of the Mosaic law of IAN
eye for an eye and a tooth for a
tooth" Solicitor General Hugh NJ
Dorsey demanded the life of Leo NJ.
Frank Saturday in expiation of the
murder of Mary Phagan on April
26th.
Nothing less than the death pen
atty would satisfy justice, declared
the solicitor in one of the most bit
ter and impassioned addresses a
Georgia court room audience ever
has heard.
1t was the closing argument of the
state before the fate of Frank is
placed in the hands of the twelve
jurors. 1t was interrupted by adj
journment at 1870 o'clock in the af-
ternoon The solicitor had been
speaking since o'clock in the fore
noon, and was exhausted by his eff
forts. His address had begun at
$50 the afternoon before, and had
consumed total of six and a half
hours.
Crowd Greets Him With Cheers.
When, weak with fatigue, he ask
ed for a recess and court adjourned
until Monday morning at o'clock
a great crowd awaited him outside to
cheer him and rend the air with their
yells because of the magnificent
fight he has put up to send Frank to
the gallows for the murder of the
little factory girl.
The demonstration was spontane-
Gus and was Of greater magnitude
than of the night before. He had
aroused to the highest pitch the ad-
miration of the populace for the
earnest and determined battle he
was conducting for the conviction of
the man he deemed guilty of the
murder.
Men in front of the court house
cheered with all their might as Dor
sey came in sight from the court
house doors. Men from across the
street took up the cheer and the lit
tie solicitor was given the demon
stration of a governor or some other
popular hero as he quickly tucked
his books AMID records under his
arms and escaped through the crowd
into his law offices in the Kiser build
ing.
HurIs Charge Directly at Frank.
If his tongue was tipped with ven
ON and bitterness it can hardly be
said that the solicitor was not sin
cere and in earnest. Every word
and every phrase that he uttered
during his long speech-the longest
of the trial-carried with it the con-
viction that the speaker was in dead
ly earnest.
Much of the time he was talking di-
rectly at the prisoner and was accus-
ing him of murder and other crimes
uncomfortable. He looked Frank
right in the eye. He leveled his fin
ger at the defendant sitting calmly
between his mother and his beautiful
wife He called him 'red-handed
murderer" and a pervert. Frank
did not finch.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-26
S. pICKETT'S HOME BURNS
Residence and Its Contents Partially
Covered by Insurance.

The two story frame residence of S.
D. Pickett caught fire in Atlanta on
Thursday morning about 6 o'clock,
and the house and its contents were
practically destroyed.
Mrs Pickett was in North Carolina
and Mr.. Pickett was the only person
in the house at the time the fire be-
gan. 1t is supposed to have caught
from a defective due in the kitchen.
Mr.. Pickett awoke to find his home
in flames, and he was unable to save
his household goods.
The house and its contents were
partially covered by insurance.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-26
WILSON BARRED FROM GIFT.
Request to Congress for Permission
to Accept Statue Denied.

Passage of a senate resolution au-
thorizing President Wilson to accept
bust of William Pitt, the gift from
American women in England, was
blocked in the house by Republican
Leader Mann because it specified the
gift should be placed in the white
house. Mr.. Mann declared the white
house was already crowded and in
sisted there was room in the Smith
sonian Institution or other govern
ment buildings. He proclaimed a
profound admiration for Mr.. Pitt,
but insisted on his objection.
President Wilson recently asked
congress for authority to accept the
gift. Many constitutional lawyers
declare it was not necessary.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-26
A CITY OF HIGH FLYERS.

Tis no wonder that paris is re-
garded as a city of high flyers. 1t is
reported there are nearly a thousand
registered aviators living within its
confines.
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Council and several fraternal organiza-
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before the joint committee on finance
and schools of City Council and urge
the erection Of new high school build
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