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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-06-12
ASSESS STOCKHOLDERS
AMERICUS BANK OWNERS MUST
PUT UP HUNDRED PER CENT.
Have Until July End to Make Pay
ment. Creditors May Get Div
idend in September.


The Recorder tells of the
present status of the affairs of the
Americas National bank as follows
The 1000 or 1900 depositors of
the busted Americas National will
probably receive a dividend upon
their indebtedness some time in Sep
TENDER, though no date for such pay
ment, or any other, has been an
nounced by Receiver Dunlap. The
mesh of tangled affairs of the bank
are being laboriously Strengthened
out and the information given, unof-
ficially, is to the effect that pay
ment to depositors viii be made when
collections will authorize such distri-
button.
This, it is believed, can be done in
the early fall season, perhaps in Sep
TENDER, or October at all events.
Hon. John Shelton Williams, comp
troller of the currency, has author
lied the levy of an assessment of 100
per cent. upon the stockholders of
the bank, the assessment to be paid
July End. next. Every stakeholder,
under the liability clause in the
banks charter, will be required to
pay in an amount in cash equal to
the original face value of his stock,
which is already worthless. Besides
the loss of their stock, supposed to
have been worth 500 per share,
they will be required to pay in an
other sum, equal to the par value of
the stock, which will go towards
liquidation of the banks indebted
ness, which reaches enormous pro-
portions.
Some of the stockholders will be
able to pay up, as required, while
others who had their all invested
in this stock will be unable to stand
the assessment, having lost practi-
cally all they had in the crash that
came, like a thunderbolt, on Febru-
airy 3rd.
What proportion of their money
they will eventually receive is an un-
known quantity.
Receiver Dykes has not yet Off
cially taken over the affairs of the
Americas Trust and Savings bank, an
annex of the National and the affairs
of which are said to be in about the
same shape as those of the defunet
parent institution.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-06-12
WEEDS SWEETHEART OF HISIYOUTH
Robert II. Forester of Leesburg is
Rewarded BY Wait. Marries Mrs.
Pearl Raglan in Albany.

Observation-Disclosures long years of
waiting faithful lover was rewarded
by marrying the girl he loved when
he was boy, when Robert r. For
roster, a prominent young attorney,
and Mrs. Pearl Raglan were quietly
married in Albany by Rev. Lee NJ.
White, pastor of the First Baptist
church there.
Before Mrs. Ragan had ever mar
ried the first time and when she was
Miss Pearl Hall, a widely popular
young lady here, Mr.. Forester was
in love with her. An older rival, how
ever, won Miss Halls hand when she
married Dudley ]. Ragan, also a
young attorney. About a year and a
half ago young Raglan was acciden-
tally shot while taking his shotgun
from a buggy to go hunting. The
wound proved fatal within a short
time after it had been inflicted.
Immediately after the death of Ra-
gan Mr.. Forester, who had gone to
Americas and formed law partner
ship with Hollis Fort, dissolved that
partnership and returned to Leesburg
as the death of young Raglan had re-
moved a rival both in the practice of
law and the gentler art of love- His
attentions to Mrs. Raglan have been
unremitting since that time, as he
broke an engagement with another
young lady to renew his love for Mrs.
Raglan.
Though the young people had been
engaged for some time, they decided
suddenly Saturday night that they
would be married at once, whereupon
they secured several friends and went
Immediately to Albany by automo-
bile, where the knot was tied. Mrs.
White, the wife of the officiating cler-
gyman, was a friend of Mrs. Raglan,
so that the wedding was an unusually
happy though quiet one. Mr.. Forces
ter is a graduate of the University of
Georgia law school The young
couple will make their home with Mr..
and Mrs. D. D. Hall, the brides
Darents
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-06-12
NANSLAUGHTEU IS THE VERDICT
In Trial of Dick Futch, in Calhoun
Superior Court for killing Aycock.

In Trial of Dick Futch, in Calhoun
Superior Court for killing Aycock.
MORGAN, Ga.-A trial of unusual
interest came to a close here Thurs
day morning at $3.50 O'Clock when
the jury, after being out since the
night before at 10:30, returned
verdict of manslaughter in the case
of Dick Futch, who was charged with
killing Cliff Aycock on March 3, near
Cordray's Mill.
The case attracted widespread at
tention owing to the prominence Of
the two principals, both of whom
are well known in this section of the
state. Futch is a prominent young
farmer living eight miles north Of
Morgan and in an alteration last
March killed Aycock.
The case was a hard fought one
on both sides, the trial having been
commenced on Monday morning. H.
A. Wilkinson of Dawson assisted in
the defense.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-06-12
POSED AS PRESIDENT
CHICAGO TAILOR WENT TO OLD
COUNTRY AND MARRIED.
Returned to United States and For
Months Woman Believed She Was
First Lady of the Land"

AeStuTHeu 10 OHbACO ctaUcS anu TUT
Months Woman Believed She Was
First Lady of the Land"
About the time Woodrow Wilson
was elected to head the nation, Gar
abed Malajan, a tailor in Chicago,
went back to his home town in Ar
menia and told his best girl that he
had just been elected president of
the United States, and thought, in
view of what Mr.. Roosevelt had often
said on the subject, he ought to get
married. In fact, Malajan said it
had to be, as he could ind no place
in history where anything was told
about bachelors holding down the
presidents job.
So his best girl packed 500 worth
of Turkish rugs and shipped them
to America, to be used on the front
porch of the presidents home.
Malajan and the girl soon followed
the rugs and were married. Then he
brought her to Ann Arbor, Mich,
pointed out the university building
as his own and remarked casually
that he was thinking of moving the
mint out of Philadelphia.
''Of course" said Malajan, when
the president whips his wife none of
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-06-12
Strikers Present Pathetic Sight as
They March The Streets Of Atlanta

from the dire ,tion of Whitehall. Be-
hind the policemen, as they cleared
the way, strobe a gaunt, pale-faced
man of middle age, in the worn,
rough garments of a mill worker.
AwkwardIy he carried aloft a great
American flag. At a distance behind
him, coming two and two, there
marched or, rather struggled, some
800 men, women and children. The
stamp of the factory was on their
pale faces. They had no banners save
the Stars and Stripes. They hadn't
had even the forethought to have a
streamer painted. They moved in
silence, looking neither to right nor
left.
The gaily dressed throngs on the
pavements stopped to watch them go
by. Few people were interested
enough to ask who they were.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-06-12
dience swelled by visitors from many

dience swelled by visitors from many
sections.
Madame Sibyl SAINTS MacDermont
charmed all by her pleasing person
atty and the earnestness and sim
plicity of her manner. She has a
rich, clear voice of wide range, which
has been cultivated to a notable de-
gree and her distinct enunciation
as a positive delight.
While the sessions each day have
well attended, they eliminated
laA night in one of the largest au-
diences ever seen in Dawson. At
this, their second appearance, the
marine band was given an ovation,
and Madame MacDermont was none
the less popular The famous band
as welb as the charming singer were
forced to give a number of encores
in addition to the full program.
Mr.. Hunt Cook this morning at 10
o'clock gave another of his splendid.
lectures, THE Cry of the Children
being the appealing subject.
This afternoons program includes
sketches and music by the Avon
Sketch club and Glenn Wells and a
lecture by Booth Lowry, the ever
popular "BIue mountain philoso-
pher," subject, "simon Says Wig
wag."
This evening a dramatic entertain
ment and concert by the Avon Sketch
club and Glenn Wells, introducing
the famous suffragette playette,
Glow the Vote Was Won," and the
popular banjo quartette.
The crowds nave been increasing
daily and it is expected that the tent
will be taxed tonight to seat the
throngs.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-06-12
MINISTER'S ARE PEssIMfsTEC.
Work on Atlanta Churches Stopped
After Foundations Are Laid.

Work on Atlanta Churches stopped
After Foundations Are Laid.
While revivalists of many denomi-
nations are working over time in
Atlanta to Christianize a city which
they say is now so in name only,
some OF them are pessimistic about
results. Attention is pointed to the
fact that one Atlanta church, Meth
odist house of worship on Boulevard,
has been for some time past con-
verified into a laundry and that an
other discarded church building not
far from Atlanta is being used as
barn.
An evidence of this same tendency
of falling off in Sunday worship and
seeking recreation on the golf links,
on picnics and in the city parks, is
further seen in the fact that there
are today several churches in At
lanta with the foundations laid and
partially erected. which have stood
unfinished for years.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-06-12

the common herd can have anything
to say about it, not even one remark.
And, if | should come home some
day and wallop you over the eye, it's
none of your business. and" he adj
monished, don't spend any time tell
ing the neighbors about it or COM
planning to the police. These blue
coats all work for me and I'll fire
the first one that so far forgets him
self as to mention any of our private
affairs"
The Malajans went to live over a
store and one day Malajan dropped
in and punched Mrs. Malajan in the
ribs. He did it again and again and
Mrs. Malajan began to believe that
it had become a habit with him. She
couldn't break him of it.
It's like this" quoth Malajan one
day, ALI good presidents deal out
beatings to their wives just as mat
ter of convention. It's the American
way of showing love and esteem.
The other day Mrs. Malajan found
out her husband was not the presi-
dent of the United States and imme-
diately told her stery to the police.
Malajan was fined $40 and re-
strained by an injunction from dis
posing of the Turkish rugs that were
to decorate the presidents front
porch. Also, the court enjoined him
from returning home, but he broke
this order by going back and trying
to push Mrs. Malajan through a win
dow. A party of university students
saw him and would have interfered
if Malajan had not called into play
his presidential revolver.
When the students fed the@police
came and Malajan went out the back
way, forgetting his side arms and
depending entirely on his legs to take
him to safety. The police got him
in exactly II blocks and robbed him
of his presidential honor, his official
weapon and all authority in his
home. Malajan is in Jail, crestfallen.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-06-12
THE MODERN DRUG STORE.

Carries Almost Everything Frons
Adding Machine to Wafleirons.
A New Yorker was speaking about
drug stores in the big city. The
modern apothecary shop in the me-
tropolis carries almost everything.
Wafieirons, aluminium percolators,
dominoes, lamp chimneys. children's
games, dog collars, doll beds. fused
invisible bifocals, put white Milan
hemp hats, adding machines and lee
boxes. If one goes into some of the
up-to-date drug stores and asks to
have a prescription filled he is likely
to be treated with cold disdain. 1t
looks as if you want anything in the
shape of medicine nowadays you are
more apt to find it at hardware
store"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-06-12
CONGRESSMAN PARKS BILL
Calls For the Fund as a Pension to
Confederate Veterans.

COnISueEaJS teJefaIiSs
TA.-Georgian and the
people of other southern states as
well are watching the progress of a
measure introduced by Congressman
Frank Park of the Second Georgia
district, providing for a refund Of
the amount paid to the United States
government for the cotton tax which
was illegally levied after the war,
and for the use of the refunded
money in pensioning Confederate SOL
diers and widows of soldiers.
Congressman Park, the author of
the bill, has the endorsement of other
southern leaders. The measure pro-
vides for a continuing appropriation
of 100000 for fifteen years, the
amount of the cotton tax levied upon
the cotton growing states after the
civil war. The proposal is that the
amounts refunded be distributed
among the states in proportion to the
respective amounts illegally levied
upon those states.
If Congressman Park succeeds in
getting congress to recognize the
Justice of his claims for the south he
will win the lasting gratitude OF a
section and will right a wrong which
has occupied the attention OF many
notable southern representatives at
Washington.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-06-12
UNCLE SAMPLANSFOR "PISGAH FOREST

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stone pinnacle that stands sentinel
in the river valley, and through the
widening vista of encompassing
ridges shows the distant escarpment
of the Blue Ridge, reaching from
Georgia to Virginia.
An extension of this road IL or Is
miles to Brevard would connect it
with the state road to AsheviIle, af-
fording a circling 60 mile ride. From
it two roads lead down to the valleys
where are many miles of we'll graded
roads along the streams which at
slight expense could be converted
into automobile highways.
Home of Appalachian Association.
1t is the plan OF the Appalachian
Park association. whose headquar-
tiers are in Asheville, to have the gov
eminent convert the most suitable
parts of the lands, which, like this,
are acquired under the terms Of the
Weeks act for conserving the water
supplies of navigate streams into
national parks and to connect these
by automobile roads that they may
be easily accessible to the people.
These roads would link the various
reserves in the mountain sections of
the south.
1t was the wish of Mr.. Vanderbilt
that the nation should become the
owner of Pisgah Forest and fast
spring he offered it to the forest res
ervation commission; 10000 acres
were priced at $5.75 an acre, this
tract being subject to a contract
which he had made two years pre-
viously with the Car Lumber COM
pany by which it could cut trees of a
diameter over 16 inches, for which
it was to pay him s12 an acre; 17.-
600 acres of virgin timber was Of
fered at ST. an acre.
Wanted Government TO Have 1t.
The commissioners inspected the
property in the early part of June,
1913, but on returning to Washing
ton decided not to buy. The gem
orally accepted reason for their dec
lination was their belief that Mr..
Vanderbilt would preserve the tract
and thus the government would have
the essential advantages of a reserve
without purchase. The death Of Mr..
Vanderbilt in March showed the haz-
ard of this plan. individuals offered
several dollars an acre more for the
entire tract than the price named to
the commission.
Mrs. Vanderbilt wrote to the CONF
mission the first of May that her
husband wished the forest to be
owned by the nation and that price
might not be an obstacle to effecting
his wish, she would sell the entire
acreage at the price of SIS an acre
This represented saving of $780,
GOO to the government and the COM
mission accepted the proposition.
There is excepted from Tic sale. as
there was by Mr.. Vanderbile's offer.
500 acres surrounding the hunting
lodge. Neither offer included the
1900 acres which form the Bilt-
more House property which, under
the terms of the will, was inherited
by 14-year-old Cornelia Stuyvesant
Vanderbilt, the only child.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-06-12
PRINCELY DOMAIN OF MRS. VAN
DERBILT, NEAR ASHEVILLE,
NORTH CAROLINA.
ACREAGE OF NEARLY $4,000

To Be Converted Into a Great Ma
tiOnal Park. Has Famous AutOmO-
bile Road and Is Stocked With
Game and Fish.
ASHEVILLE, N. C.-The recent
decision by the United States forest
reservation commission to purchase
from Mrs. George w. Vanderbilt &c.
700 acres of land near Asheville, N.
c., will soon make the United States
the owner of vast and beautiful for
est in the heart of the southern APP
palachian mountains, only 16 hours
ride from Washington and IA from
Savannah. 1t is believed that by next
year congress will convert it into a
national park to serve as play
ground for the $4,000 people to
whom the railways make it accessible
in a days journey. Its center is II
miles in a southwest direction from
Asheville, from which it's nearest
point is only six miles distant.
Containing 134 square miles, it
formed the bulk of the land which
the late George w. Vanderbilt ac-
quired in the past % years in con-
nection with his princely Biltmore
House, the finest country place in
America. Pisgah Forest, he called
this cherished possession and this
name has been adopted by the COM
mission. Conserved by the first sci
entific forestry practiced in America,
it is the finest and most extensive
hardwood forest in the eastern states
and it will be the largest area owned
by the United States east of the Mis-
ciec;rni
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-06-12
Teachers Underpaid.

Mr.. Park told the committee that
school teachers were underpaid and
were not afforded adequate opportu-
nifty of broadening their knowledge
and viewpoint by travel and other
wise. He urged that subsidy would
allow increased pay.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-06-12
WANTS FEDERAL SCHOOL SUBSIDY
Congressman Park Asks State School
Fund Be Aided BY Government.

WASHINGTON. D. CA federal
subsidy to public school systems was
advocated before the house educa-
tional committee by Representative
Park of Georgia. The committee
considered bill introduced by Rep
resentative Park providing for pay
ment by the federal government to
the school funds of the various states
of three cents per day per pupil dur
ing the first two years of the pupils
school attendance.
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-01-29
Daddy sBeedtin1e'
The Pig
Who Had No
Table Manners.

daddy please Yourself when
u \ little boy:" asked JACK
well. children did fer when
boy lived plantation aul daddy kept ne
q q
animals, which suppose
The white rabbits chirTed
oh no. said daddy Il claimed the pigs oa c pig though caused
deal Of trouble his ud mother
sp nights for he AMI woad sneak Of his sly aud
the woods TIe dill old though the
woods he'd meet good natured old ier E" who TOOK quite shine to
little Lokado his mother called him for
Look ado would dress in his best clothes Ircr fI parties where
the foxes and mountain wod They would have
things ali kinds of wild birds pudding bread
that old Bar pded himself making at instead
table nstead of
table climb
table
had badly all his would
havea anything TO do y teal him
OF
the
ruined
muddy his
looks
his
Iiggy
table roasted nice and brown apple his
made fine feast for the old mountnineer his family
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-01-29
The Income Tax.

The income tax collector has ar
rived ''in our midst" and is ready 20
begin operations. which admonishes
us that we must prepare 10 render
our incomes for taxation, provided
they amount To as much as $4,000
for bachelors or $1,000 for married
men.
1t is definitely stated that no data
whatever will be given out for p1b-
LEGATION by the collectors concerning
the amount or sources of the taN-
payers income that being regarded
as a private matter which the citlzcd
may or may not desire to have ex?
plotted.
There will be varying views on
this point, of course. as, for example.
when a prima donna or star Or
other stipendiary who receives as
much as a thousand dollars week,
land found" for amusing or enter
tanning the public---mostly stage
money---is confronted with the di-
lemma OF paying an income tax on
that basis or simmerlng down to
the stern reality of a beggarly sum
Just sufficient to interest the in
come tax gatherer. Some of us may
glory in the fact that we have an
income of more than $4,000 or
$4,000 year and inasmuch as we
have to pay a special tax for our
prosperity we may be DESTROYS OF let
ting the world know how fortunate
we are, even rendering little more
than We have and cheerfuily
paying the cost for the benefit Of
the advertisement. Some others
may be more modest or have reason
for no. making public the extent
Of an income that would excite
envy or invite too many demands up
on the surplus.
Uncle Sam, it apears, is going to
permit us to exercise our own pleas
urc as to the matter of publicity and
carefully guard our confidence, be
ing merely concerned about the
collection of what he deems his due.
But he is going after that in what
is expected to prove most effective
manner. In the case of the stinen-
diary the amount of the tax VIII
be held out of tho pay envelope, in
case Of the bssiness man and proper
ty owner the means of ascertain
ing the sources as we'll as The
amount of his income and the tax
obligation and for enforcing col
lection will be such as the experts
may devise, and we all know that
Uncle Sam usually gets whatever he
may go after.
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-01-29
POINTED PARAGRAPHS


Uneasy lies the head that wears 4
froWn.
Tho man who tries to buy pop
ularity gets stung.
Start scandal about your neigh
Dor and watch it grow.
Not all high flicrs arc Interested
in aerial navigation.
The less a man has to say the
less he may have occasion To re-
tract.
Some people are too busy talking
about themselves to talk about
others.
The more man tells a woman he
loves her the more he will have to
keep it mp.
It's enough to annoy any woman
if her husband refuses to quarrel
with her.
Lots of girls never advance be.
You'd the literary department of a
cooking school.
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-01-29
GRAND CHAIN

Jarre francis and wife, af Al
ton ~ Visited with IT, T, Hacker
and f,w'lr here Sunday
Mr.. Roller and Mrs. Wilson, Of
KarraeS p"n. Monday here with
Mrs, Meow
Horace Sharfcr and wife. of
Mounds, H. are visiting relatives
here.
Mrs Clatic Wheeler, OF Anna, Ill.
is hero visiting her parents.
Prof. Clarence Selby, of Mound
City. was here Sunday.
Prof. Gaskin and wife, of DON
cola, IN, were here over Sunday
with relatives.
Mr.. Wilson and wife, of Mound
City, were here Tuesday.
]. NJ. Merchant moved Tuesday to
his property on the south side re-
Gently vacated by Ben Schroeder.
Lloyd Harper Lamkin. the young
est sou Of G. NJ Lamkin and wife.
died here January 25th, after a
lingering Illness Of several weeks.
He was nine years, one month and
2S days old. The funeral services
were held at the Christian church
Tuesday, Jan. -, 1914, by Rev.
Stone. Of Cairo. Little Harper was a
favorite and was loved by an; his
CHEEKY smile and loving disposition
will long be remembered. He leaves
Il father. mother aud brother and a
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-01-29
MAY PROVE FATAL,
When Will Cairo People Learn the
Importance of It?

Backache is only a simple thing
at first
But if you find It's from the kid
neys;
That serious kidney troubles may
follow;
That dropsy or Brights disease
may be the fatal end,
You will be glad to know the fol-
lowing experience
TITS the honest statement Of resi-
dent of this locality.
S. Creek, grocer, Main St, Mound
City, H., says: 81 know from per-
sonal experience that Doan's Kidney
Pills are good medicine for dtsor-
dercd Kidneys. Kidney disease
made me miserable, My back and
head ached and pains often extended
from my loins into my neck was
restless and when I got up in the
morning, | felt all tired out. Ilay-
ing Doan's Kidney Pil recommend
ed to me, | used them They proved
of benefit in every way"
For sale by all dealers. Price 80
cents. Foster-Milhurn Co, Buffalo.
New York, sole agents for the
United States.
Remember the name-Doan' So
and take no other.