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Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-05-15
Too Lono to Get Il All In Print.

Too Long to Get II All In Print.
Bishop Shepard. who presided at
the Methodist conference In Winfield.
Kan, last week. told story about an
editor. Here. 1t Is: A kind con-
tributor brought in story telling how
he had killed a serpent 20 feet long.
The editor took 1t and put 1t In the
paper as an item of interest. The
next day the man came back and
said. Il brought in this story about
a snake 20 feet long and your i'm
beetle paper says q snake i've feet
long," WELL" explained the editor.
I'VE were very much crowded for
space yesterday and we had to cut
everything down. City Star.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-05-15

feathered heads bob up over the side
of the baskets. and dozens Of bir4'
voices-some of them very faint an1'
weak, others loud and shrill-chirp
and scream and "cheep" at her. Thsr
have been an many a. 700 birds O.
the books of the hospital at one timo|
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-05-15

and Expresses. This work 10 to ~ -
tended In all directions. Experimeoe1
gardens win Be laid out In which Va
be tested all the native trees ~
shrubs. in which Greece 10. Of coun14
very. rich, % - to provide . stneS
upon which demands may be mads ~
the adornment Of the city. 4.
1T win b . matter Of Interest -
architects and those interested IN -
planning Of towns and cities" NJ
Mawson said. in closing the interviovs
that the scheme. when finally CO.
pleted. will include several acres -
voted to the housing Of the working
classes. special regard being had =
those whose homes have besn -
stroyed in carrying out the various -
provements to be made"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-05-15
Small, Fish Prey on Mosquitoes.

Small Fish Prey on Mosqultese.
The one way to prevent mosquitoes
from multiplying in pools that CO
not be drained u to place small hsb'
in these pools. II u only the vsy
small fsh that make them their pro-
In all stages Of their developmsne
Consequently the presence Of large
fish in any lake or pond II positive
injury instead Of . benefit 20 far -
mosquitoes are concerned. bscauss =
most all large flsh make , prey OF ~
small ones.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-05-15
WIfe confirmed Poker Pjayer.

Boston.-Charged with non-support,
Louis d. Hartell testified that his
wife was a confirmed poker player.
often remaining out late to play and
losing large sums. Mrs. Hartell said
hubby taught her the game and she
never lost.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-05-15
All Kinda

You ought to go to . show and
forget your thoushts."
That's right Maybe I can ind .
show tonight that win make me forget
the one I saw last night"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-05-15

II told him he was an addlepateo
chump without the spunk Of an snslev
worm!" "a
"Well?"
"And he did not seem to MIND ~
at all"
"Of course not; he's married ane
hears that every day."
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-05-15
Would Reform TANGO.

Patchogue, L. Rev. Jacob Probst
has turned his parish house into
dancing school in an attempt to reform
the tango.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-05-15
In Pario, Tool

Paris.-The French capital. where
there are thousands Of dogs. has not
had a case of rabies reported in ten
years. according to the municipal
councilo
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-05-15
Held Cigar Too LONG.

New York.-Stanley Kuhwash IL
a sticker for mems rights (he's not a
suff), but 1t cost him SIS because he
persisted in holding lighted cigar
in his hand on q street car.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-05-15
Sends PIa to Bed.

Jersey City, N. J-Mrs. Kathrine
Kalinska put her four children to bed
with a pig. Her address for a year il
states prison.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-05-15
WoIves cIoee SCHOOL,.

Dunkirk, N. Y.-Because hunger has
driven many wolves to the outskirts
Of the town. the schools have besn
closed and citizens carry rifles.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-05-15

Alma. Kan.-Villiam Boyd lost his
suit to recover $3.50 from the city
which he brought because a charivari
party annoyed him and his bride.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-05-15
The Business Instinct

Marcus Aurelius says life Is a
battle and a sojourning in a strange
land"
Does he! What business Ia Mr.. An
relius In?
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-05-15
His Idea.

He Idea.
Redd-Five years ago United States
factories produced only 100000 auto
mobiles.
Greene-And now see how much
money the country gets out OF Us In
fines!
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-05-15
Minister Sent to Jail.

Portland. Ore.-Because he criti-
cized Judge Haley for disposition of
liquor cases. Rev. Wilbur M. Berry was
sentenced to four months IN Jail
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-05-15

"Norah, there Ii entirely too much
tang In the taste Of this DISH"
Dear me! ! guess I mixed the
recipe by mistake with the tango d.
rections."
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-05-15

Bilbe-Mrs. Highbrow IL woman Of
remarkable personality.
Hilby-Yes. she displays more Per
sonality than dress. I think
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-05-15

II you will keep quiet yourself J
can profit by other people talking
muct
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-05-15
Explained.

i've got the grip.
Sorry to hear you're III. old M
"Oh, I'm not Ill. mean I've lear
the new dance" III
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-10-02
No Specific Plan Agreed On By
The Governors and Congressman

resentatives Hughes of Georgia and
Lever of South Carolina and Senator
E. D. Smith of South Carolina.
Representative Hardwick and
Lever and Senator Jos. T. Robinson
were appointed to submit the resolu-
ton to the president.
Adoption of the resolutions came
after many hours of heated debate.
Vigorous objection met the proposal
that the governors pledge themselves
to call special sessions of state legis-
latures to enact prohibitive taxes on
cotton production in 1915 in excess
of so per cent of the 1914 crop.
Many of the governors were under
stood to have contended that such
laws would be an exercise of police
power beyond a prescribed field. A
committee had reported that the
states had full authority but it was
impossible to reconcile divergent
views.
The suggestion that federal taxa
ton law be enacted met with opposi-
ton from congressman.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-10-02
THE CROP MOVING
FUND DISTRIBUTED
Secretary McAdOO Deposits 1868, $50
in Georgia Banks. What 9th
81 eF States Get.

WASHINGTON.-The treasury de-
partment has deposited $1,000, 746
in twenty-three states for fall crop
moving purposes up to September
18th, according to an announcement
tonight by Secretary McAdoo OF
this sum Missouri has taken the larg-
est sum, $1,55O,OOO, with Maryland
second. $1,450,OOO. The other states
and amounts follow:
Alabama, 100000; Arkansas,
$175, 600; Florida, $81,25O; Georgia,
$36S,75O; Kentucky, $1,375, 200;
Louisiana, 100000; Mississippi,
$50, 900; North Carolina, $456, $3.50;
South Carolina, s525,OOO; Tennes-
see, $675,OOO; Texas, $793,75O; Vir-
ginia, $79S,750; Colorado, 499,996;
Illinois, $1,20O,OOO; Indiana, $780,
900; Iowa, $25O,OOO; Kansas, $25,-
900; Nebraska, 1925. 600 Oklahoma,
$3.50 Washington, $S7,50O; New
York, 100000.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-10-02
From a Stormy Session of Cotton
Conference Newspaper Men Excluded

What can congress do?" asked
Representative Adamson.
I'll tell you one thing it can do,
said Governor Slaton Senator
Smiths bill permitting state banks
to handle emergency currency and
lend it direct to the farmer has been
completely emasculated by a COM
mittee of your own body. l say pass
the bill.
Plan Debated; Wide Difference.
The main proposal debated was
the plan to curtail either the crop
directly or the acreage planted IN
1915. Several proposals were made
that the 1915 cotton yield be limited
to so per cent of the crop produced in
1914 by means of a prohibitive tax
on all production in excess of that
amount. One plan offered was to fix
a tax of 10 cents a pound on excess
production; another that a tax OF
$40 an acre be placed upon every
acre planted to cotton in 1915 in eX-
cess of so per cent of the acreage
planted in 1914.
Divisions of opinion occurred on
the question of whether or not this
tax should be levied by the federal
government of that some similar
measure should be taken by the legis-
lature of each cottOn-producing state.
The difference apparently was very
ounced.-SaVannah News.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-10-02
DEMOCRATIC SENATOR
DOTH WAX SARCASTIC
IN ALL-DAY SPEECH DECLARES
PARTY'S ANTITRUST BILL
HAS BEEN EMASCULATED
"CAPITULATION OF CONFERES"

Charges That Committee Has Played
Into Hands of Organizers of Pred
atory Trusts, and Asserts Captains of
Industry Are Immune.
WASHINGTON, D. C.-Charging
his democratic colleagues with hand
ling the trusts with solft-gloved
hands and proposing that instead of
trust determinations mo rude sheriff
or marshal is to lay callous fingers
upon the perfumed collar of captains
of industry" Senator Reed of Mis-
souri, today assaulted the conference
report on the Clayton antitrust bill
in an all day speech.
The senator declared the bill
should be called the 'conferees' ca
pitulation;' that in removing GRIM
inal penalties for various offenses
the conference had treated with mo-
nopoly as under white flag and to
the soothing melodies of peace on
earth and good will to the trusts.
Senator Reed insisted that the con-
ferees had so emasculated the bin as
to repudiate the democratic platform
and the wishes of the president ex-
pressed in his trust message to con-
gress.
1.-THE SOft-GIoved COnferees."
"The president" he said, asked
for laws applicable to trusts and cor
porations and to the practices of
trusts and corporations. He asked
for relief for oppressed and outraged
business, and now come the conferees
with soft-gloved hands and tender,
delicate words, proposing to cut the
injured man off from the right to use
decisions heretofore rendered against
wrongful corporations and practical
ly cutting him off from the use of
decisions in cases now pending in the
courts"
The conference agreement, the
senator asserted, would be welcomed
by men who organized the Standard
Oil Company, the tobacco trust, the
sugar trust, or "the men who looted
the New Haven railroad, and they
would stand around it like scores
of witches singing around the caul-
dron, bubble, bubble; boil and bub-
ble-this bill will cause us no troub-
le.'"
Throughout the day there were re-
peated calls for a quorum, the fight
assuming the general character of a.
fiIibuster.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-10-02
NOW PARKS AT BAT;
HAS COTTON PLAN
CONGRESSMAN Would Authorize State
Banks to Issue Certificates to Ma
ture One Year Hence.

Judge Frank Park, congressman
from the Second district of Georgia,
has introduced a bill designed to
handle the cotton problem, which is
meeting with a great deal of appro-
baton. The bill authorizes state
banks to form clearing house asso-
citation to issue certificates redeema-
Bile on October 1, 1915, in legal ten
der.
Business men connected with the
cotton industry say such certificates
would go long way toward solving
the currency problem. The farmer
who was paid for his cotton could
pass them on to the merchant or the
banker and they would serve all the
purposes of actual money.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-10-02
MISS SMITH WILL
GIVE THREE PRIZES
Daughter of Georgia Senator Offers
Twenty, Ten and Five Dollars for
Best Essays On Cotton.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Miss Callie,
daughter of Senator Smith, has Of
fered through National Cotton Fash
ions Show prizes of twenty, ten and
five dollars in gold to the three
American school children under 16
years of age who write the best 300
word essays on the cotton plant and
its uses"
All American school children are
eligible to compete. The essays are
to be written and mailed during the
week of October SIP, and the chill
dren competing must send their es-
saws in their own handwriting with
the names of their schools.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-10-02
MANY BRITISH
SHIPS DESTROYED
Twelve Sunk on High Seas. Eighty
Eight German Ships Have
Been Captured.

LONDON-Twelve British ships
with an aggregate tonnage of 59,331
had been sunk on the high seas by
German cruisers up to Sept. %, ac-
cording to an admiralty return issued
this afternoon. Eight other British
ships whose tonnage aggregates
2,979 have been sunk by German
ships in the North sea and twenty
four fishing craft with tonnage of
4,334 have been captured or sunk
by the Gepmans in the same waters.
British ships detained at German
ports number IA, with total tom
mage of 10000.
On the credit side the admiralty
gives 102 German ships with total
tonnage of 100000 detained in Brit
ish ports since the outbreak of the
war. Eighty-eight German ships Of
an aggregate tonnage of 33S,000
have been captured since hOstilities
began.
The return shows also 1853 German
ships with an aggregate tonnage of
.283.O 900 detained or captured by the
allies. Fifteen ships with tonnage
of $4,000 were detained in Ameri-
can ports, while fourteen others with
a tonnage of $4,000 remain in the
Suez canal. The German mines in
the North sea have also to their cred
it seven Scandinavian ships with a
tonnage of 1903.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-10-02
RECEIVER SMITH GONE TO
CONFER WITH CONTROLLER

Creditors of Americas National Bank
May Soon Receive a Payment.
AMERICUS, Ga.-Receiver A. w.
Smith of the defunct Americas Ma
tional Bank left Tuesday for Wash
ington to confer with ]. S. Williams,
comptroller of the currency, regard
ing the affairs of the bank. Mr..
Smith expects to return within three
or four days, when announcement
will be made regarding the probable
date of payment of an expected divi-
dend to depositors.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-10-02
WOMEN CANDIDATES
FOR THE LEGISLATURE

Eleven of Them Are Seeking Seats in
Washington State Assembly.
SEATTLE, Wash.-Fifteen women
of this state are seeking seats in the
1915 legislature. This is the largest
number since women became active
in politics in Washington in 1910
with the granting of equal suffrage.
An interesting feature of the fill
ings of women is that of the fifteen
aspirants ten either are socialists or
progressives. In the last session Of
the legilature there were two women
in the house and none in the senate
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-10-02
An Atlanta Chicken Thief Left
P0cketboOk Containing Ninety Dollars

gate. and the chickens were gone.
There were tracks leading to the
back fence, and on the ground lay d
pocket book with ninety dollars in
currency in it, which Mrs. Schonburg
placed to the credit of 1.-TWO chickens
at s45 each-s9O.0O." The thief.
who was unusually well off for a
chicken hunter, had evidently dropp-
ed the money in his haste, though he
had held on to the chickens. No, he
has not come back to recover his
coin, and really he is not expected to
call for it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-10-02
HUYLER'S LITTLE HEIRS NEED
FIVE THOUSAND A YEAR EACH

Grandchildren of Millionaire Candy
Man Require Much to Live On.
NEW YORK.-John S. Huyler
Held, ten, and Abbie Huyler Held,
twelve, grandchildren of John S.
Huyler, millionaire candy manufac-
turer, who died in October, $780,
need $4,000 a year for their NANTES
nance.
Their father, R. Johnson Held, yes
terday applied to the surrogate's
court for permission to use $4,000
of the $500 income of each child
from a trust fund left them by their
grandfather.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-10-02

ALL RECORDS NOT LOST WHEN
THE COURT HOUSE BURNED
Some Papers in Iron Safe Dug From
the Ruins i'm Good Condition.

Some Papers in Iron Safe Dug From
the Ruins in Good Condition.
1t now appears that all of the rec
ords were not destroyed when the
Webster county court house burned
at Preston Sunday night.
A half score or more of men who
nave been digging in the ruins have
found that most of the books and
papers in the iron safe are in good
condition. Naturally enough. the fact
mat no one was able to enter the
burning structure led every one to
relieve that everything was lost.
Fortunately, the true bills,
which presumably led to the destruc-
ton of the building, are safe, along
with other valuable papers and
books
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-10-02
The Newspapers and Not The
Politicians VIII Save the Farmers

ATLANTA, Ga.-The politicians
can talk and keep on talking, but
if the cotton market holds up and
the farmer is saved from restitution
it will be due not to the statesmen,
but to the newspapers, remarked a
prominent visitor to Atlanta today.
Already the 'buy-a-bale' movement.
the hold cotton and cut acreage
campaigns are having a distinct ef-
feet in steadying the market and re-
storing confidence.
And it is all due to the newspa-
pers, city dailies and country week,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-10-02

AILANTA.-Mrs. F. w. Schon-
Durg, who lives out Highland avenue.
made a deal in chickens this week
winch makes the fancy prices obtain
Cd by noted breeders seem insignitl-
cant. And she didn't know about 1t
until it was all over.
IN the hours just before d6~ n Mrs
Sehonburg heard a squawk from the
coop where two fine Orpingtons were
Foosting. She shrieked for help and
then heard some one going over the
fence.
At dawn she wels out to inyesti-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-10-02
MISSISSIPPI AGAIN
WANTS A. D. OLIVER
Gov. SIaton Asked to Hold Him Pend
ing RequisitiOn. Now in Lee Coun-
ty Jail on Georgia Charge.


Mississippi authorities are once
more after A. D. Oliver, whose spec
tacular career in Georgia and other
states in the past few years have
formed subjects for many newspaper
columns.
Gvernor Slaton has received a tel
egram from the governor of Missis-
sippi asking the arrest of L. Charles
Harding, alias =. d. Oliver, and that
he be held pending the receipt OF
requisition papers. Oliver is now in
Lee county Jail, from where he has
written Governor Slaton requesting
that he issue no requisition papers
until he has given him a hearing.
A friend of Oliver has also written
to the governor in divers behalf.
Meanwhile charge of cheating
and swindling against Oliver is
awaiting the consideration of the
November term of the grand jury OF
Lee county, and he is Jail in default
of $3.50 bond.
He is wanted in Mississippi on
charges of going under false pre-
lenses and il-breaking.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-10-02

lies; in fact, the entire press of the
South. They have proved their enc
terprise and their loyalty.
And yet, every peanut politician
who has used the papers, or tried to,
to boost himself into Office will con-
tinue to abuse the press and say It
ought to be curbed and is too sensa-
tional and can't be believed. and all
the rest of that familiar old rot. But
I notice every one of them is mighty
glad to have paper-even tire
smallest one-say something nice
about him.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-10-02
EIGHTEEN TRAIN LOADS
OF WOUNDED GERMANS

LONDON.-An Amsterdam dis
patch to the Central News says that
between the hours of $3.50 and 1870
Friday eighteen train loads of
wounded Germans passed through
from France.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-10-02
CALIFORNIA WOMAN MADE
UNITED STATES ATTORNEY
Mrs. Adams Assistant at Washington
First Woman in Position.

First Woman in Position.
WASHINGTON, D. C.-Mrs. An
nette Abbott Adams of San Francisco
was today appointed assistant United
States attorney. She is the first wo-
man in the country to occupy such a
position.
Representative Baker of California
declared he considered the appoint
ment a recognition of woman suf-
frage.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-10-02
IEE COUNTY COTTON
GROWERS MEET AGAIN
OBJECT is TO PERFECT COUNTY
ORGANIZATION IN EFFORT TO
REDUCE COTTON CROP.
MANY FARMERS HAVE SIGNED
LARGE Number of Growers Pledge
Selves Not to Plant More than Ten
Acres to PIow Next Year, Thus
Cutting Down Production.

Acres to PIOW Next ear, IhuS
Cutting Down Production.
IEESBURG, Ga.-A rOusing meet
inc Of the farmers of Lee county was
hold here today to formulate plans
and TO perfect the securing of names
toward completing the organization
Of the Cotton Growers Association
of Lee County, Georgia, which is the
originator of the Lee county plan
for the curtailing of the cotton crop
next year. Farmers were present
from all sections of the county, with
rpports that nearly all the names OF
the farmers of the county had been
signed to the pledge and contract to
reduce the cotton acreage next year.
Booklets to Be Distributed.
In order that the plan may be
thoroughly familiar to every farmer
and resident of the county and may
he known in every household here
booklets containing the bylaws and
other information relative to the as
sociation will be issued and distrib-
uted broadcast throughout the vari-
ous districts. Only the most encOur-
aging reports were received from
every member of the committee ap-
pointed to enroll the names of the
farmers, and with these most fayora-
Bile local reports were cited the splen-
did help that has been given to the
plan through the agency of the Ma
con Telegraph and other papers in
Georgia and throughout the South.
Contract Misguided.
Chairman E. B. Martin, who pre-
sided over the meeting and also over
the first meeting at which the Lee
county plan" was presented, express
ed confidence that the organization
Of the farmers of Lee county would
soon be complete and that he believ-
ed the plan would meet with the ap-
prevail of the farmers of any county
where the correct meaning of the
pledge and contract are understood.
He also called attention to the fact
that the provisions of the contract
have been stated wrongly in some
Of the papers that printed them. For
instance, he called attention to the
fact that some papers gave the i'm
preston that only ten bales Of cotton
could be planted by one farmer, when
the real meaning is that only ten
bales of cotton may be raised to each
plow used in the cultivation of a
crop.
Much Enthusiasm.
The enthusiasm of the farmers
present at the meeting was further
shown by their determination to hold
a county fair this fall despite the un-
favorable conditions that exist in
some particulars. 1t was decided to
hold as large and as complete a fair
as possible here on October 80, and
exhibits are being pledged from all
sections of the county.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-10-02

The booster and builder puts his
best foot forward. The fool stands
on both and knocks.