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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-18
Home Making.
From the Youths Companion.

A home is not merely house; it is an
atmosphere, a feeling. 1t is a place of be-
loved associations where you can wear old
clothes. and think old thoughts, and hear
familiar voices without hearing them. You
can be happy there, and be comfortably un-
happy, be thoroughly unpleasant even and
know that those you love will think no less
of you than they do already. Luxury can
not make home, nor can books, or plct-
ures. or rugs, or bric-a-brac. A cat, a
canary two geraniums, Bible and an OLD
rocking chair may make one Of the loyelIeSt
homes in the world. At the same time, a
home is not necessarily happy because 1t is
the house of poverty, as some would nave
us believe.
The art of creating home atmosphere is
wholly the art of woman, and she has none
more charming. Mere care will not do 1t,
or mere neatness and tidiness; indeed, those
things sometimes work the other way. The
love of prettiness will not do it; good cook
ing will not do it, although it is mighty
help Even being gay and merry and kind
ly Yourself is not quite enough, although 1t
helps even more than the cooking. Success
in home-making, as in everything else, re-
uuires that you shall feel a real JOY in your
work If it is drag, if it is an irksome
duty, you cannot make home what 1t should
be- Not that the hOme-maker should think
of nothing else. That is neither desirable
nor possible. But the woman whose first
pleasure is to create that beautiful thing,
home, will be a precious and permanent in
fuence not only to her own family, but to
all her household, to all her guests, to the
whole community in which she lives
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-18
The Most Beautiful
Word; Some Odd Choices

What is the most beautiful word in the
English language? A college professor, who
has been teaching for number Of years,
has collected some interesting facts concern
ing the preferences that school girls and
school boys entertain for certain words. he
has made the experiment with some twenty
classes, all the way from an ungraded class
in a country school to the senior class In col
lege, says the Youths Companion. At the
conclusion of a recitation the teacher mas
had little slips of blank paper distributed
He has then requested each pupil to write
down-without consulting his neighbor-
what he thought the most beautiful word IN
the English language, giving consideration
both to sound and sense.
Of the six hundred pupils that he has had
405 wrote the name, Mother" eighty-tWo
wrote, Home" twenty-five, Father,
eighteen, Daddy" sixteen, ''Vacation
eleven, Baseball" nine, Football" seven;
Love-" three, Sister, two "Auntie;"
two. Grandmother" The following words
received one vote each; Grandpa" Yes
per- 'fMoonlight," "HOpe," "ROse," "Hya-
cinth, angel" Music" and Swimming.
Of the remaining fourteen one, response
from a very bright boy, puzzled the profes-
sor. That boy wrote, Cellar door" When
asked about it he pronounced it "Cellah
doah," and explained, ooh, it just SOUNDS
pretty
The other thirteen ballots, all for the
fessor. They were all handed in at the
same time from a class of twenty-nine
healthy, growing, hard-working country
boys There was, the teacher insists, no OPP
portunfty for collision. The ballot was TAX
en- silently Each ballot was then folded and
dropped into hat that the teacher asked
one of the boys to pass around.
Those thirteen citizens-to-be deliberately
wrote down the ugly-sounding, greasy-look-
ing, thoroughly unattractive word, ''Vict-
uals." What could have been more suggest
i've of that teachers opportunity than the
fact that nearly half of a class of twenty
nine immortal souls thought tvictuals" the
most beautiful word in the English Ian
guage?
And what higher compliment could be
paid to motherhood and the American home
than the fact that 527 of these six hundred
boys and girls, young men and young Wo-
men, independently, and at various times
and places, selected words that suggested
family relationship as the sweetest words IN
their language?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-18
Need of Capital Punishment
From the Savannah News.

Special interest is felt in the state in the
effort that is being made in Tennessee to
abolish capital punishment, except for GER
tain crimes, because of the probability that
an effort will be made to abolish it in Geor-
gia at the approaching session of the state
legislature. Governor Rye vetoed the bill
passed by the Tennessee legislature, al
though it provided that death should con-
tinue to be the penalty for rape, and for
murder if committed by person serving
life sentence in the penitentiary, and said
in his message, ITO remove from the statute
books the death penalty would in my judg-
ment increase crime and encourage mob
law The death penalty in Tennessee as
punishment for crime is rarely melted out to
criminals, but there is no doubt that it
serves to prevent crime"
At this time when there is very wide
movement to improve conditions under
which convicts serve their terms, when it is
so often said that the purpose of their SEN
fences is not so much punishment as their
reformation, it probably is not amiss that
the governor of a state finds in the death
penalty a deterrent of crime. That penalty
of course is punishment simply, so far as
the man who suffers is concerned. Men
cannot be reformed after they are dead. The
fact that the bill that Governor Rye vetoed
shows that sentiment in Tennessee has not
yet reached the point where it would counte-
nance any but the severest punishment for
that crime, and it is doubtful if the Georgia
legislature will for many years, if it ever
does, pass a bill doing away with capital
punishment altogether
The danger of mob violence would be in
creased if the limit punishment for crime
was life Imprisonment. There is no SYM
pathy for the man who wantOnly takes that
which is dearer than life, and there should
be none. He deserves nothing better than
death, but he deserves it at the hands of the
state and not Of an irresponsible mob. And
So as long as men like him commit their
terrible crimes, there ought to be capital
punishment.
The theory that juries are loath to CON
Wet men of murder because they do not
wish them to be hanged is weak because in
Georgia a jury that wishes can prevent the
sentencing to death of the man at whose
trial it sits The truth is that it is not the
death penalty that causes so many Jurles
to free men with blood on their hands but
the lack of a stern, just public sentiment
that puts high value on human life. 1t is
folly to say that the juries value life so
highly that they refuse to return Verdlcts
of guilty of murder in the first degree when
by their habit of turning slayers loose they
decrease the value of life.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-18
AMERICA, MY HAPPY HOME.

CThe following verse was written by {
member of the ninth grade of the Dawson
public schools.)
America, my happy home,
oh NAV we never from thee roam.
Let us forever with thee dwell,
Altho' the winds may rise and swell.
And when on earth our duty's done
May we then go beyond the sun
To join the friends gone long before
To that far-distant happy shore
Yes. we shall always fight for thee
THE warning hordes beyond the sea.
Thy soldiers courage shall not fail
On land or sea with ships and sail.
And ever shall we, free and strong,
Fight we'll to right thine ev,ry wrong;
Tho all the world against thee turn
All cowardce thy men shall spurn
WILBUR DEAN ROBERTS.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-18
WHAT CENTRAL's TEST FARMS SHOW.

From the Progressive Farmer.
The report of the test farm work con-
Quoted by the Central of Georgia railway
along its lines last year makes interesting
reading. There were total of twenty-nine
of these farms in Georgia and Alabama, with
a total of 1,135 acres in cultivation. The
total net profits were $12, 502.58, or an av-
erage of $11.O1 per acre. On 1874 acres OF
cats followed by pea hay the net profit was
s25.S5 an acre, while the average net profit
on cotton was only $9.0S an acre. This is
another contribution to our already goodIy
store of evidence that fall oats followed by
hay crop afford one of our best sources
of farm products.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-18

Japan has seized upon the present Oppor-
tunity to bully poor, practically defenseless
old China, non-ighting nation which must
bow with as good grace as possible to the
mikado's demands no matter how utterly
unreasonable. Japanese cockiness has been
much in the limelight since the recent war
with Russia and her conversations" with
China furnish the latest unseemly spec
tacle-one incidentally, which is arousing
some iII-concealed impotence among the
powers.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-18

You may depend on Atlanta and Macon
to keep the spotlight playing upon their
svlphlike figures. Atlanta had a citizen to
go to the bottom with the Lusitania; and
Macon, though she couldn't quite meet the
ante, did not eat or sleep till she edited
herself with the discovery that another of
the Inflated passengers had a cousin who
resided within it's sacred confines
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-18

The Germans are a kind-hearted people.
We know this because the Germans them
selves say so; and, if further proof is need
ed, witness the general rejoicing in that
country over the sinking of the Lusitania
and the loss of few hundred nOn-cOmbat-
ant lives, with the closing, in many instances,
of schools in order that the pupils might Gel
citrate the gladstone fete.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-18

The fourth annual meeting of the Georgia
Drainage Congress was held in Albany dur
ing two days of last week. 1t was notable
gathering, of tremendous potentialities for
the public veal. Albany entertained her
visitors in a manner which left nothing to
be desired, but which did leave pleasing
after-taste on the palates of the delegates.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-18

In Kentucky a man has been sentenced to
four years in the penitentiary for ''possum
hunting" For the information OF Terrell
county citizens to whom the chase OF the tes-
tive opossum has long been fayorite sport
it will not be amiss to state that, as employ
ed in Kentucky, the term at present means
.horsewhipping undesirable families whose
presence is not deemed particularly desir-
able.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-18
ROCKING THE BOAT.

From the Valdosta Times. -,
The talk about mot rocking the boat
is childish. The boat was not only rocked
but destroyed by German assassins, send
ing its vast load of women and children
to the bottom of the sea without mo-
ment's warning. Let nothing else be sala
about rocking the boat" 1t is too sug-
gestive.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-18

The Dalton Citizen says that on account
of the Unexpectedly high cost of the Euro
pean war it will be unable to finance the
conflict, and on account of some other press
ing obligations we must likewise decline to
take over that feature Of it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-18

Bill T. Anderson is enervated. whoever
invented work ought to be given swift
kick he proposes, in his Telegraph.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-18

To those who haven't realized that there
is much money in the world the statement
that the war is costing Great Britain alone
more than ten million dollars day will be
hard to digest.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-18

That was a thoughtful example of Off
cial recognizance- the name of Gu
Zebra cut to Gaillard cut, in honor of the
man who gave his life to the work.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-18

The end of the war appears to have sim
ply evoluted into some extraordinarily hard
fighting.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-18

Philadelphia thinks she can't be as bad
as Billy" Sunday thinks she is. But, at
that, Philadelphia can't be quite as often
sive as Billy"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-18

III. R. b. wants to know, in the Macon
Telegraph, why lawyers shouldn't serve on
juries That's easy. 1t isn't their business.
They're paid to put one over on the juries.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-18

That Cobb county farmer who sold fifty
bales of cotton for 10 cents a pound few
days ago no doubt appreciates the virtues
of sitting steady in the boat.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-18

Colonel Roosevelt ought to find the
Ypres consolingly and temperamentally
congenial just now.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-18

Somebody please run here with box Of
some kind of ointment for the Fitzgerald
Press man. He's worrying about chiggers.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-18

The Turks are taking theirs principally in
press agenting.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-18

The New York Sun compares Mr.. Roose-
welt to porcupine No pOrcupine ever hav-
ing done anything to lacerate our feelings,
we will not applaud the comparison.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-18

i The early bird catches the worm; like
wise, it is the early worm that gets caught;
so what you gonna do about that?-Hart-
well Sun. Be the bird.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-09-09
HAD A NEW EXCUSE.

g. d. Mcdonald Chicago man, is
interested in studying the speed of in
terurban street cars and he paid
twenty dollars and another sum as
costs in the municipal court this morn
ing just because he insisted on follow
ing his hobby along the north shore
concrete road "You see judge he
began, 81 am interested in the speed
of cars and just followed along after
the car out there to see how fast it
was going GLOW fast was she max
ing,1' the judge asked with a show Of
interest "Forty-six miles, . re-
sponded Mcdonald. "Could you keep
up with her, Judge Randall asked,
and Mcdonald intimated that he had
it skinned y Twenty dollars and
costs was the last retort Of the Judge
M. M. Var Allen Of Racine, who was
running thirty miles an hour, on the
same road, paid fine of five dollars
and costs.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-09-09
MEMPHIS MAN DIES HERE.

James F. Graham, aged IS years, and
said to have been formerly very promi-
nent in the real estate business at Mem
phis, Tenn, died at the Pennoyer SAM
tarium this morning after long illness
from organic heart disease. Mr.. Ora
hs.n had come to Kenosha only few
days ago in hopes Of regaining his
health. He was member Of one Of
the old Memphis families. The remains
will be taken to Memphis on Thursday
and interment will take place IN that
CITY =
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-09-09
ISERMANN HEADS KNIGHTS.
Frank G. Isermann Elected Grand
Knight of knights of Columbus.

Frank G. Isermann was named as
Grand Knight of the Knights Of Column
bus at the annual meeting Of the order
held at X. c. hall on Tuesday evening.
He has been active in the work of the
organization in Kenosha since the
founding Of the Kenosha council and
his election to the Office of Grand
Knight proved decidedly popular one.
Grand Knight Isermann succeeds James
e. Tully who has been Grand Knight of
the order in Kenosha for the past two
years. The annual reports of the Off
GERS of the council showed that it is
in excellent condition. The year Just
closing has been one of the best in
the history of the order in Kenosha.
The list of officers for the new year
is as follows:
Grand Knight-Frank G. Isermann.
Deputy Grand Knight Joseph w.
Tully.
Chancellor Walter Cumiskey.
Warden William NJ Meyer.
Financial Secretary-James G. Cros-
sin.
Recorder-Elmer E. Smith.
Treasurer-Dr. Jos. D. Sullivan.
Inside Guard-John L. Milligan.
Outside Guard-Frances Mayer.
Advocate William M. O'DonnelI.
Trustees William Casey, John J.
Mayer, John Zens.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-09-09

In many of the schools there are
badly crowded conditions and it is a
hard problem for the school officials to
work out the plan Of providing seats
for all Of the children. It is possible
that later on in the term it will be
necessary for some of the children to
divide time, but as yet no arrange
ment of this kind has been made. It
is certain that no more portable schools
will be erected as the members Of the
board feel that the children must
struggle along and get thorough this
year with the understanding that the
completion of the Collins Street school
will offer accommodations for all Of
them in another year. There will have
to be some sacrifices made this year
and the superintendent and school
board members are hopeful that these
will be made without too much com
plant on the part Of the parents or
the children.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-09-09
TWO ACCOhPLICEs ARE HELD
Men Who Aided Molinero in Getting
Away from the Officers Are Held by
the Court Molinero Gives Bonds of
$1,000 to Appear Later.

Sam Molinero, aged eighteen years,
wanted In Kenosha in connection with
the shooting of Henry Ricco out on
Jenne street on the night of August
10Th last, was arrested at Waukegan
late Tuesday afternoon by Chief of
Police Owen O'Hare and brought back
to Kenosha to answer charges of as
sault with intent to do great bodily
harm. He entered plea of "not
guilty" to the charges and the pre-
liminary hearing of the case was con-
tlnued and Molinero was held in bonds
of one thousand dollars. He furnished
bonds and was released. Ricco was
shot in the leg and according to stories
told by the friends of the two Italians
the shooting followed rivalry for the
hand of young italian girl The
story of the shooting was not brought
out in court.
The police of the city had been
searching for Moinero since the day
OF the shooting and they had heard
from various sources that Malinero
was in Chicago. The defendant came
to Kenosha on last Saturday night evil
IDENTIFY believing that the trouble with
Ricco had all been forgotten. One of
his friends met him on the street and
told him that the police were looking
for him. Just about this time Ralph
Guido and Tony Ruffalo came along and
they advised Molinero to get ont of
the town. They not only advised him
- flee. but it is declared ~ the lolice
that Guido and Ruffalo arranged to get
jitney bus to take them to Racine
and paid the cost Of getting Molinero
out of the reach of the officers. The lit
ney bus driver was pledged to secrecy
but the story of the fight of Molinero
reached the chief of police and Guido
and Ruffalo were both arrested on
charge of aiding the escape of per
son wanted on criminal charge.
When the two were given the "third
degree" they admitted that they had
aided Molinero to get away and told
the chief that they had taken him to
Racine and had put him on car for
Waukegan. He was walking up and
down the station platform at Wauke-
gan when the chief approached him. He
made no effort to get away and con-
sented to return to Kenosha without
any requisition papers.
Guido and Ruffalo were arraigned in
the municipal court on charges of aid
ing prisoner to escape and Guido en-
tered plea of guilty and was fined
twenty-five dollars and the costs Of
the action. The hearing of the
charges against Buffalo was continued
for a week and he was released on
bonds.
Ricco while not seriously wounded
as result of the shooting, was pain
fully wounded and he is still limping
about as result of the wound made
by the bullet fred by Molinero. The
defendant declined to make any state
ment but it is understood that he will
plead self defense when the case is
called for a further hearing. Bond for
Molinero was furnished by relatives
late Tuesday evening and he was
released.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-09-09

thought and in official positions he
rendered real service TO his fellow
citizens.
Adverse to politics and political of
flees he answered the call of his fellow
citizens and served for term as a
member of the common council, act
ing on many of the most important
committees of the council. Then he
was named as member of the board
OF water commissioners and he served
In this capacity for a term of five
years. He was careful man at all
times and his willingness to look into
the future and make careful invest
ments for the water company had much
to do with the success of this civic
organization. While never seeking to
be In the limelight Mr.. Head was close
ly allied with every organization to
advance Kenosha. His interest in
these things was expressed in real
leadership and counsel.
Mr.. Head was a member of MANY
kenosha organizations. He was one
OF the earliest members of the Keno
sha Country Club and he found keen
pleasure in the associations at the club.
He was a Mason "a member of Kenosha
Lodge No. AZ, f. and A. M, Kenosha
Chapter No. AZ and of the Masonic
Council. He was a member of the Ke-
nosha Lodge of Elks, the Knights of
Pythias and the Modern Woodmen.
He affiliated with these organizations
that he might better know and under
stand those with whom he came in con-
tact. He was one of the Kenosha mem
bers Of the Wisconsin Society of the
Sons of the American Revolution. He
was interested In all of these organi-
cations, but his real interest conferred
In his home and his friends. The
poignant sorrow which comes to those
who knew him best and loved him best
can not be expressed in words. He
loved his home and those he chose to
call his personal friends To all of
them he was more than friend. He
was their interested adviser and his
greatest pleasure was found in doing
something which might make him feel
that he had rendered service. He was
helpful at all times and while he had
felt that perhaps his health was such
as to be a matter for alarm he seldom
complained. In his private life he was
a man of most lovable character, much
given to charity and to the broadcast
charity.
On June 26, 1889, Mr.. Head was
married to Miss Mildred r, Lewis, a
daughter of the late Urban J. Lewis.
The delight of their home life was
expressed in their perfect companion
ship and their kindred interest in their
home and their children. Surviving
him are his widow ,oue d'ugRter Miss
Bertha Head, and two sens, Clarence
E. Head and Robert Head. All were
at the bedside when the final summons
came. He is also survived by two sis
tiers, Mrs. Kittie Head Wilson of Osh-
kosh, and Mrs. Ida Belle Head Pear
son of LAGRANGE, and two brothers,
former Mayor Dan o. Head of Keno
sha, and Fred S. Head, now living in
California.
Funeral services were held from the
late residence, on Thursday.
In the death of Eugene R. Head, Ke-
nosha lost one of its most progressive
and lovable citizens. To his friends
the loss is too great to be expressed
at this time.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-09-09
RELEASE J1TNEY DRIVERS.
Men Charged With Operating without
License Given Another Chance.

Three drivers of Jitney buses ar
rested since last Sunday on charges Of
failing to make application for permits
from the state railroad commission were
released without complaints being fled
against them this morning. The men
all had excuses and these excuses were
regarded as sufficient by the acting dis
trict attorney. Now that the commits
sion has begun to issue the certificates
no more consideration is to be shown the
drivers and any man without evidence
that they sought to comply with the
law will be prosecuted and forced to pay
fines if they insist on operating without
the permit. Thirty-one of the Kenosha
drivers have already paid for permits
and arranged to secure bonds. Others
must cease operation. Several Of the
local drivers who appealed to the Mil
waukee company for bonds expected to
have their bonds and permits today but
the other Kenosha drivers are getting
their bonds through local agency and
it may be several days before these
bonds have been properly under written.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-09-09
SHORT NEWS BULLETINS.

London, Sept. S.-An army or
der issued by Grand Duke Nicholas
conveys the inference that Emperor
Nicholas in assuming supreme com
mand of his forces has supplanted
the Grand Duke who has been
transferred to the Caucacus.