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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-25
HAPPENINGS AT HEROD.
Interesting News Notes and Personal
Mention for News Readers.

Mention for News Readers.
One of the most delightful picnics
was enjoyed by a large crowd on Fri
day at KeIly's bluff. The school chill
dren were guests of honor, and each
one tried to make it pleasant fer
them. The weather was ideal, the
dinner more SO. General Green play
ed the German, and you'd not let
some go, which we regret, as they
missed the time of their lives.
Miss Clara Miller returned to her
home in Brentwood Friday evening.
She made many friends while here,
and all hope she will be with US as
one of the teachers next term.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. D. Brim, at a din
ner party on Saturday, had as guests
of honor Rev. and Mrs. Frank Smell
and Miss Annie Smell of Sasser. Gov
ers were laid for fifteen. 1t was
pleasant occasion.
On Saturday afternoon Miss Marie
Kelly entertained with two tables of
rock She was assisted by her sis
ters, Mrs. Oscar Corbin and Mrs. Boil
lie Ferguson. Delicious refreshments
were served.
Miss Julia McLendon and Messrs.
Cliff McRee and George McLain went
to BronwOod Friday evening. Miss
McLendon came home Saturday af-
ternoon.
Mrs. Keith Carson and Miss Laura
Smith Carson of Triton have been
popular guests of Mrs. R. B. McLain.
Misses Ida and Nora Smith visited
in Dawson Saturday.
DR.. and Mrs. Chappell, Mr.. and
Mrs. Wilson, Mr.. Raymond Dozier
and Miss Willie Chappell were the
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. R. B. McLain
this week.
Our community sympathizes with
Mr. Green GatIin and family upon the
death of Mrs. Gatlin. The sad event
occurred last week.
Rev. Whatley, a Primitive Baptist
minister, preached an able sermon
here Monday evening to an interest
ed congregation.
Mr.. Keith Carson of Triton was a
weekend guest of Mr.. R. B. McLain.
His wife and daughter returned home
with him.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. E. Brim, Mr.. and
Mrs. J. H. Brim and Mr.. and Mrs.
j. H. McLendon went to Macedonia
Sunday.
Mr.. Will Lee and Mr.. ]. H. Kelly
were elected delegate and alternate
to the district conference in Cuth-
bert.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. w Curry with
Jim and William spent Sunday after
noon with Mr.. and Mrs. D. j. Dennis.
Protracted services will be held in
the Methodist church beginning the
third Sabbath in June.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. NJ. Harris spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Pink
ston in PARROT.
Various parties are still tackling
the fish at various places with varied
success.
Miss Florine Cocker came home on
Sunday, to the delight of her many
friends.
Mrs. Frank McLendon and Miss
Ora McLendon spent Friday at Mid |
way.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. M Harris visited !
Dawson friends Saturday afternoon.
Mr.. Steve Fulford and family were
weekend guests of Dawson friends. |
Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie LoWrey and |
children have visited relatives here.
Miss Melinda Harris has visited |
Miss Merle Pinkston in Parrott.
Our farmers are hustling cutting |
oats and tackling Gen. Green.
Miss Willie Lou billiard of Midway
is visiting relatives here.
Misses Bertha and Alice Brim have
visited in Sasser.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-25
Notice to Debtors and Creditors

All persons owing estate of John
Ike Dennard, late of said county of
Terrell, now deceased, are requested
to come forward and settle same, and
all parties having claims against said
estate will please file said claims for
settlement as the law directs. J. E.
.DENNARD, Temporary Admir-.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-25
Back From an Extended Trip.

Mr.. S. D. Clark has returned from
an extended trip, on which he visited
the expositions at San Diego. Cal,
and San Francisco Cal, and the cit
les of Chicago, Denver, Salt Lake City
and Detroit He has secured the
agency for the Dodge Bros automo-
bile, a new medium-priced machine
that has just been put on the market
and is meeting with much favor.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-25
Application to Sell Lands

Georgia, Terrell County. Notice
is hereby given that after four weeks
advertisement as required by section
3065 of the civil code a petition to
sell the property Of his wards for the
purpose of reinVestment, a copy of
which is hereto attached, will be pre-
sented to the Hon. w. c. WOrrill
Judge superior court Of said county
Said petition will be presented to said
judge in vacation at his office in
Cuthbert, Ga, at the hour of 9
o'clock a. M, June 1st, 1915. J. F.
COOKE, Guardian for Julian Frank
lin Cooke and John Edwin Cooke.
Georgia, Terrell County.-To the
Hon. W. C. Worrill, Judge of said
Court, said County The petition of
J. F. Cooke shows:
LIST. That he is Guardian of Julian
Franklin and Julian Edwin Cooke,
heretofore appointed as such Guard
ian in said county.
End. That he desires to sell for
reinVestment a certain portion of the
property of his wards aforesaid to-
wit: Lot of land No. 1871 in the
Second district of Lee county, Geor-
gia."
3rd. That the lands aforesaid are
used for agricultural purposes, but
that the same during the past few
years has afforded no dividends on
account of the fact that petitioner is
unable to give it personal attention,
he being in feeble health, and for
the further reason that agricultural
lands have not paid, and that in adj
dition thereto the same is situated
some distance from petitioners place
of business.
Attn. Petitioner desires to invest
the proceeds from said sale in the
stock of the Bank of Dawson Daw-
son, Georgia, which investment he
believes to be advantageous and at
present is paying a dividend of eight
per cent.
9Th That notice of his intention
to make this application has been
published once a week for four weeks
as required by law and personally
served upon each of these wards, to-
gether with the next of kin.
Wherefore, it is prayed that a
Guardian adlitem be appointed as re-
quired by the Statute and that on the
hearing an order be granted author
izing the sale of said property
at private sale, for cash or credit, at
the discretion of the Guardian, and
that such other orders be passed in
the premises as are proper and just.
j. F. COOKE.
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this May list, 1915.
]. W. PEDDY. ]. P. T. Co. Ga.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-25
FIGHT LAKE OF BURNING
OIL IN OKLAHOMA STATE
Blaze Seen Twenty Miles Away. Rail-
road Bridge Saved.

CLIFTON, Okla.-Recently citizens
of clifton and neighbOring towns wit
messed the most extensive oil fire that
has ever occurred on the river since
the field opened. 1t was one mile
northeast of the town on the CHM
AKRON river, where the oil had formed
a lake in the bend of the stream. 1t
burned for hours, sending up a col
umn of smoke and flame that was
noticeable from towns twenty miles
away.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-25
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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-25
Invlgorating to the Pale and sickIy

The Old Standard general strengthening tonic,
GROVES TASTELESS chill TONIC, drives out
Malaria .enriches the blood and buildsup The sys-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-25

For SaIe-Oats, in field, sheaf or
threshed. Phone 264.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-30
RIGHTS OF WOMEN
Thomas B. Reeds Compelling Argument in
Behalf of Equal Suffrage

In the course of a minority report of the Com
mittee on Judiciary presented to the House of
Representatives on April "a, 1884, Thomas b.
Reed, of Maine, submitted these arguments in
behalf of the political rights Of women:
Today womans property belongs to her
self; her earnings are her own; she has been
emancpated beyond the widest hopes of any
reformer of 25 years ago. Notwithstand-
ing all these changes the family circle remains
urbroRon, the man child gets well educated
as before, and the amelioratng influence of
woman has become only the more marked
Thirty years ago hardly any political assem-
blage of the people graced by the presence
of women. Had it needed a law to enable them
to bo present, what an argument could have
been made against it! And yet the actual pres
of women at political meetings has not
debased them, but has raised the other
sex
If suffrage be right, if 1t be true that no
man has claim to govern any other man
cept to the extent that the other has n
right to govern him, then there be no
discussion of the question of woman suffrage
No reason on earth can be given by those who
claim suffrage right of manhood which
does not make it right of womanhood also.
If the suffrage is to be given man to protect
him in his life, liberty and property, the same
reasons urge that it be given to woman, for she
has the same life, liberty and property to pro-
tect.
If 1t be urged that her interests are so bound
up in those of man that they to be pro-
tected, the answer is that the same argument
urged as the merger in the husband of the
wife's right of property, and pronounced
by the judgment of mankind falacious in prac-
tice and in principle
If the natures of men and women alike
that for that reason harm is done by sup
pressing women what harm can be done by
elevating them to equality? If the natures be
different what right can there be in refusing
representation to those who might take juster
views about many social and political ques-
tions?
1t is sometimes asserted that now
have great influence in politics through their
husbands and brothers. That is undoubtedly
true. But that is just the kind of influence
which is not wholesome for the community. for
it is influence unaccompanied by responsibility.
People always ready to recommend to
others what they would not do themselves.
If it be true that women not be prevented
from exercising political influence, is not that
only another why they should be
steadied in their political action by that proper
sense OF responsibility which comes from act
ing themselves?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-30
JOHNNY POE

E1IGHTING as a private In the famous
l. Black Watch, somewhere In the north OF
France. Johnny Poe. the popular hero of
Princetons football history, was killed in
action.
He was an extraordinary example of the
modern type of filibuster, a gentleman ad-
venturer to the hilt He went into the war
as he went into his great games, and In the
last charge he must have felt surging through
him the same thrill of desperate endeavor
which came to him as he tore through the
lines OF Harvard and OF Yale for the ultimate
touchdown
There Is a story that once, when he was
pointed out as 'Poe" by an undergraduate,
the question was asked: ''Is he any relation
10 the great Poe?" And the reply came
back. "Why he is the great Poe!"
1t is not wrong TO recall this story, now
that he is dead. II he died as he lived, 1t
was with a smile on his lips.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-30
DANGER SIGNS

TIME sudden weakness in war stocks fol-
1lowing the French Cabinet crisis and the
revived gossip of contemplated peace over
lures must suggest even to the most mex
perienced speculator what will happen when
actual peace negotiations begin or when a
great disaster overtaSes the armies of the
Allies. Bethlehem Steel, for example is not
worth anything like $50, at which it has been
selling; and when it slumped to 525 that price
was so largely speculative that only those
willing to risk loss of all they put in would
buy 1t at that figure. There must be large
number of such persons, however, for the
stock has recovered and is again finding
few buyers at the high price.
There is no doubt whatever that the pru-
dent investors will soon shift their attention
to securities the price of which is not likely
to be seriously affected by sudden changes
IN Europe They have read the signs of the
times Some of them are already buying
railroad shares, even though those securities
have risen along with the wax shares, The
man who invested In railroads a few months
ago at the prevailing prices can unload to-
day and take handsome profit.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-30
SCHOLARSHIPS MUST BE KEPT UP

THE thing that really matters in the up
l. setting by the courts of the transfer of
lands by the Commercial Museums to the
University is the consequent invaldation Of
seventy-ffve free scholarships in the Univer-
sty.
There are too few scholarships there, open
to the youth of the city, for the number to
be reduced 1t may not be the duty Of the
Commonwealth or of the city to provide free
higher education for all who seek 1t. Opin-
ions differ on this point But there can be
no two opinions on the Importance of offer
ing to worthy youths who are graduated
from the city schools the opportunity to con-
tinue their studies in the University with
out charge for tuition Provost Smith has
already announced that the young men ad-
mitted on the museum lands scholarships
will be allowed to continue their studies for
the current year at least. Before college
opens next fall some way ought to be found
not only to continue the seventy-fve
scholarships but to increase their number
for the city, in serving youth, is serving it
self.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-30
AND PERHAPS THE HAPPIEST
Spain is the sunnest European countrywide
Times
TONIGHT is HALLOWEEN

Tonights the night the gala night,
The Joy night of the year
When pumpkin face and harlequin
Parade, and strut and leer;
You'll see more grOtesque costumes,
You'll hear more laughs, l ween.
Than you have heard for many moons.
Tonight is Halloween.
In gay West Philadelphia
There'll be a big parade,
Two thousand roysterers will walk,
In freakish garb arrayed;
You'll see more funny sights tonight
Than you have ever seen
If you travel o'er the sehuylkill.
Tonight is Halloween.
If YOU should walk on Chestnut street,
You must not be dismayed
If your ears are gently boxed by
A garish costumed maid;
She may have a dainty figure;
May seem to be queen;
And yet her first name may be Mike"
Tonight Is Halloween.
II some fellow chueks your sweetheart
Beneath her dimpled chin.
And your ear drums fairly rattle.
From all the noise and din,
Don't you let them get your number.
And do not vent your spleeni
DO your best to make things happy.
Tonighl Is Halloween
II your eyes choke with confetti
Your hat is battered in;
II they swat you with a -four sack,
It Is up to you TO grin;
No matter how they heekle you.
Just smile, and don't act mean;
Don't let the crowd purloin your goat.
Tonight Is Halloween,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-30
is THE CITY DAVE LANEs7

THE present political campaign is import-
4 ant not on account Of the personality or
ambition of any of the candidates, but solely
in so far as the fortunes and future Of this
city are concerned
Philadelphia can never be the Philadelphia
has an adequate transit system. It can never
have such a system unless the officers rep
resenting the city are set in their purpose to
obtain the best terms possible for the city,
to see to it that there is no surrender of mu-
ncipal rights and that the opportunity fol
q universal nve-cent fare is not lost.
The Organization, in spite OF Senator PEN
rose, is following Lane and Connolly in tram
sit matters 1t has issued orders to candi-
dates for Councils not to pledge themselves
in favor Of the program. MIR. Connolly has
openly, persistently and often vowed that
there will be no delivery loop if he can pre-
vent it. That is equivalent to saying that
he is against real rapid transit and will in
dorso only a kind of transit which sacrifices
the interests of the public to special and self
lsh interests.
There is no question about where Connolly
stands, or where "Dave" Lane stands, or
where Smith, their candidate stands. The
latter's crocodile professions of adherence to
the cause are almost insulting to the COM
munity, in that they conspicuously lack
specific support of the very parts of the pro-
gram essential to the public interest
Voters may, if they wish, deliver them
selves :asged and Grated to the transit OBJ
structionsts, but they cannot do so blindly.
The facts are all before them. They are so
plain that all may understand them.
The Taylor plan will not go through if
Smith is elected Mayor and Connolly Is
elected City Solicitor
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-30
SPEAKING THE PUBLIC MIND
Views of Readers Various Civic and Political Questions Of
Local. National Interest and Concer-Preparedness
and Unemployment Among the Subjects Discussed

apologetc and anxious to right the wrong tina
alleged offender says he is a much abused per-
son and bitterly contests the rights of thou
sands to be comfortable and to breathe clean
air, If he (the individually must thereby remoye
his plant from place where under wise legis-
lation and an awakened sense of civic duty II
would never have been possible for 1t to be-
Can we not get together and come to A
realization that this public sentiment should
be awakened-that wise legislation s badly
needed and should be Immediately passed-and
can we not only do away with past mistakes
but prevent the possibility of future ones in
this direction?
1 for one will lend my earnest support to
anything the EVENING LEDGER may do to bring
about this awakening of civic pride and con-
science and the consequent Improvement in
conditions which will make Philadelphia not
only the city of homes. but of healthy and happy
ones, free from all nuisances and menaces to
health and comfort and from the possibility OF
having anything of this sort come and settle
at any future time in midst. N s.
Philadelphia, October 26
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-30
ARE WE PREPARED?
To the Editor of Evening Ledger:


sir-It is so easy to forget what happened
week ago that probably most people never re-
call that each year about a month before Con-
gress meets that navy is sent to to
execute some farcical war game In which 1t is
always whipped. A peculiar thing about our
navy is that after costing the people of the
country more than a billion dollars in the last
10 years 1t has never been able to do anything
but sink run to port. If that is all we have
accomplished with our money have been
badly him-hammed.
Another favorite scheme of our war artists.
the military and naval trust is to hold UP in
warning the dreadful peril of a Japanese in
vason.
This year we were treated with a dose Of
both, and to our horror 1t was Philadelphia
which fell prey to the barbarities of war. Our
Government had even had the foresight 10
have waiting at Cape May and across the
Delaware trains with steam up to rapidly trans
port the invading army to the city of broth
erly love" Or at least so we were led TO be-
lieve by reports in the papers.
Now the second invasion of our dear city oc-
ours. This time by the National Security
League. They do not intend TO let you forget
the awful lessons which their paid publicity
agents spread out for you in the papers. They
are here to scare you out of your wits by tell
ing you it is all but up with you unless you
heed their advice
They announce that they want 10000 sgners
from this district to petition Congress to carry
out the carefully prepared and useless plan
known as national defense which will put prof.
its into the pockets of few estimable multi
millionaires and provide the Government with
large quantity of junk to be disposed OF IN
from five to ten years as old iron.
If there 10000 suckers in the whole state
of Pennsylvania who will swallow the rubbish
the National Security League is onerinS tof
consumption, I miss my guess.
]. AUGUSTUS CADWALLADER.
Philadelphia, October 81.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-30
OUR IRRESISTIBLE BABIES

TTNTIE half-millon dollar fund for the Chill
i drens Hospital has not been completed;
the little baby on the boardings has not yet
broken into real laugh, but the Childrens
Hospital is to be built at cost of a whole
million The half-million mark was high,
but the spirit of the workers was higher still.
Actually s3OS, ,O5S5S was raised in 10 days
an astonishing total and a tribute to the
generosity of this generous city. Beyond
that sum it is certain that another hundred
thousand will come In. The tireless workers,
who closed their campaign last night, have
only ended to begin again.
1t is cause to which there can be no
exception 1t is hardly charity, as charity
Is generally known, because 1t comes with
out afterthought of the sacrifice We give
to tho children not because ought, not
because we are soothing our conscience by
giving, but because we are uncontrollably
compelled to give by our own impulses The
Children's Hospital will be success in spirit
as well as in finance
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-30
WE HAVE TIME TO HONOR THE DEAD

H1HEY are burying their soldier dead in
i heaps in Europe and marking the graves
with rude crosses OF not at all. There are
so many Of them that no one save the
mothers has time to think OF them as in
diyiduals,
Today all Philadelphia win go TO Broad
street and York road to dedicate a monu-
ment in honor OF George Poinsett. one of
the few American youths who fell in the
adventure at Vera Cruz. The Mayor viii
be there and the Governor Of the State.
There are plans for a parade of a thousand
men from the Navy Yard. representing the
nation. and Of members OF military organi-
zatioRs. representing the State. All In honor
Of a single soldier killed in q skirmish.
Therein lies the great difference between
> nation al peace and nation at war A
multiplicity of wees deadens the capacity
for grief and when men are killed by the
ten thousand the tragedy cannot be fully
eomprehended BY those ia the front rows
The horror Of the Great War awes Us on this
side q the ocean. TO England and France
ana esrlnans. busy with the work Of hghtz
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-30
OVER SUNDAY FOR SUFFRAGE

TOMORROW will be the last Sunday which
J. the voters of Pennsylvania can give over
to thoughts of the very serious problems
they will have to answer on Tuesday. Quite
apart from local elections the voters have to
face four amendments all of them i'm
portant, and one of the highest significance
That one is the first.
1t is to be hoped that many men will think
without cynicism and without prejudice on
this question Of equal suffrage. 1t is to be
hoped that after dinner on Sunday they will
talk frankly and quietly with the women of
their households. 1t will not be a time for
heated argument, nor for statistics 1t will
be a time when the ordinary humanity of
equality will make its appeal.
Equal suffrage is not half so much q
political problem as it is a human problem.
If the voters should realize before Sunday
night that all their lives they had been treat
ing women as human beings, and that women
were even at times more glorously human
than themselves. the victory for suffrage
would be complete.
Pennsylvania knows that 1t will be.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-30
VIEWS OF A FREE TRADER
To the Editor of Evenin0 Ledger.

Sir-should the EVENING LEDGER ever realize
its wish to see in control of affairs in Wash
ington linen who understand their business
dtalics ours) the revenues TO provide for both
defense and current expenses will have to come
from other than customs duties, simply be-
cause If these men had their way imports ex-
oept suited their purposes, would be nil.
The ceaseless and senseless Trades of the
EVENING LEDGER concerning national revenues
boy fashion.
If it were able or inclined to make a few
rational deductions 1t might render some public
and dust.
Were it not so sad it would be ludlcrous.
JOHN II. EVANS.
Philadelphia October 2s.