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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-10-23
GLORIOUS SOUTHWEST GEORGIA..

1T has always been a glorious thing to
live in Southwest Georgia in October, and
the glory is now in the midst of u.s. re-
marks an enthusiastic contemporary.
When is it not glorious thing to live in
Southwest Georgia? October's glory is pc
culiar to itself, but October is not the only
month in the year in Southwest Georgia
which is gracious. A poem to all the months
of the year, both singly and collectively,
might be sung with truth.
The months as they come and go delight
US by their constant change, their infinite
variety. Radiant summer is now melting
into glorious autumn, to be succeeded in
due course by the invigorating and regener-
ating cold of winter. Summer, autumn,
is that the climate of Southwest Georgia,
whether it be that of October or January,
of May or August, is one of our assets. We
do not brag about it particularly, but what
would we be worth without it?
1t is a climate which produces red-blooded
boys and girls, men and women of the high
est type of citizenship, to say nothing of
the magnificent crops of cotton, corn pota-
toes, hay, peanuts and hogs and other
things.
Every month of the year is picturesque
and inspiring in Southwest Georgia Each
has its own individual beauty and charm
golden October being no more glorious in
its own way than smiling May.
Here's to all of them
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-10-23
BEEFLFSS DAYS.

Hotels and restaurants in large cities and
restaurant cars on express trains selected
Tuesdays of each week as the days on which
they will serve meals without meats of any
kind, and the movement has been taken
up and urged by the food administration.
They have announced this program in news
paper advertisements and elsewhere, creating
the impression that they are leaders in the
movement for beefess meals. They have not
led. They have merely followed.
The fact of the matter is, for several
weeks and months the tables of all classes
of people have been without meat-in the
homes of the rich for one meal day, while
IN the homes Of the poor one or two days
or more Of the week. There is no article of
food IN which there has been greater econo-
my, greater sacrifice, than in meat. The
poor have led in this economy, because they
have been compelled to do so through high
prices
ct, this voluntary sacrifice upon the part
Of the people viii probably not continue in
definitely here in Southwest Georgia. Beef
raising has again become profitable to the
farmer, and we may hope in due season to
see the beef wagon reappear on the streets
OF our towns, and people purchase meat
over It's tailboard at more reasonable prices
thah they have paid over the counter With
DeIter and more general knowledge of stock
raising farm raised beef will be as good il
not better than Western beef, and cost less
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-10-23
THE MODERN FARMER.

Farming life of today as compared with
that of even twenty-five years ago is par
adise of comfort and convenience. The
lonely log or board house, remote from
market and devoid of advantages, which a
comparatively short space of time has made
possible, would not appeal to the famer of
today.
The present-day soil tiller has most of the
modern comforts. His mail is delivered
daily, he has telephone connection with the
his home is of recent architecture
and well furnished and in many instances
equipped with electric lights and water
works.
The growth and progress of this great
section, ever cause of wonderment, has no
greater eXemplifcation than evolution on
the farm. The farmer is becoming the most
envied Of men-the freest, the heaithiest,
the happiest.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-10-23
BORDERING Off" After Il.
From the Moultrie Observer

The Macon Telegraph of Sunday carried
a twenty-siX page advertisement of a lead
ing Macon dry goods house. This would in
dictate that Macon has enterprising mer
chants. This one advertisement is a ringing
declaration of the progressiveness of one re-
tail store at least.
, And yet, we venture the assertion that
there are scores of Macon women who Inv
their dry goods in Atlanta, or order from
New ork: Our suspicion is strengthened bv
the TACT that we find4 an Atlanta merchant
advertising IN the same issue of the Macon
telegraph that carried the twenty-six page
ad. Now merchants do not advertise where
tthey get no business, and we are quite sure
mat the Atlanta house has customers in Ma
con or the advertisement would never have
been placed.
And so it is.
Even IN cities as large as Macon. where
tney nave large department stores. the home
people are finding that they prefer to spend
their money away from home. It seems to
be a general disposition. All things being
equal SEND the money away from home is
their motto. And the very people who send
thelr money away from home are as a rule
the ones who have made their money! off
OF thelr own community. They themselves
nave climbed up pretty we'll on the financial
ana soclal ladder, and they spurn the stems
below them by which they assembled, There
is nothing worthy of their attention excent
something higher They must buy hats in
Atlanta, New York, or Paris.
Pity there is not little more sense in
this shopping" and not so much fopishness
-, Among the worst enemies a town has are
the mail order catalogues that are hidden
away IN the homes. They are agents Of
large cities that are Turing hundreds and
thousands OF dollars away from us-dollars
mat go away never to be seen again,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-10-23
WASHINGTON GOING DRY,

In the District Of Columbia they are du-
pGcating the thing that was done in Georgia
on several occasions during the past few
years-every time new prohibition law
was passed. They are filling their cellars
and other available places of storage with
the stuff that exhilarates and often enough
inebriates. The liquor dealers are doing the
usual land office business that prevails I'M
der the circumstances of a coming drouth
For Washington is going dry
It will all be over at midnight Halloween.
That is to say the saloons will close their
doors. The wholesale liquor houses will
cease to do business. And the breweries will
shut down. A loophole for the thirsty will
exist, however, until the supreme court rules
whether the federal bone dry law prohibits
importation of liquors into the District of
Columbia the same as into any of the dry
federal states
With degree of resignation Washington
is approaching the inevitable. But not all
the sparkle will go out of Washington So
cial events at once even assuming that the
presence of some kind of liquor contributes
that quality.
The report of the men who handle the
frewater is to the effect that hostesses
whose names are very we'll known to capital
society are among the largest buyers Of
supplies. Even the congressman who likes an
occasional nip need not despair of finding his
sOlace or his inspiration in the bottle of his
choice-provided only that he is the kind
of congressman who has the "entree," who
can compensate a Washington hostess for
the invasion Of her cellar by contributing
fame, or wit, or some other esteemed social
quality to her gathering.
Seriously, to be sure, the going dry of the
District of Columbia is an event 1t marks
an accomplishment for the forces of prohi-
bition against all sorts of resistance 1t
points the way the nation is going some day
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-10-23
THE GREAT WONDER SEASON

From the Griffin News and Sun
p There is poetry in the soul of Editor
bhalney, OF The Dawson News, and its has
oeeh stlfred INTO beautiful expression bv a
recent trip into the country. It is the o wy q
wonder season, and what Editor Rainev saws
is true. A friend was kind enough to drive
US through the country the other dav and
we looked in wonderment upon Spaidino's
FERTILE fields in their greatest glory, Tbere
was was beauty and grandeur everywhere, IF Won
Ia had stroll into the woods recent
j ly' 90 out and get close to nature. It will
t tU YOU goog TO get bit of the fresh coun-
~ IS ar ana take in the marvellous beauty
rhat awaits you on every hand (''S
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-10-23
IOYRIDER MURDFRERS,

The widow of the late Senator Asben A.
McCurry, of Hartwell, who was knocked
down and killed by an automobile in Allan
ia while attending the session of the legisla-
ture, has filed a suit for 100000 against
the owner of the death car. Other suits for
heavy damages have also recently been filed
as a result of some of the fatal accidents
in Atlanta, where, notwithstanding crowded
streets, automobile drivers are more reck-
less and Indifferent of the rights and safety
of pedestrians than can be found anywhere
else
Joyrider murderers, however, are not pc
culiar to Atlanta. Almost every day the
tell Of some innocent person
having been run over or killed, and the Won
der is that the penitentiary is not full of
criminally reckless automobile drivers. In
this connection the following from the Worth
County Local is timely and to the point:
How long oh how long, will the
slaughter of children by reckless auto
mobile drivers be allowed? Every day
the papers carry stories Of children be-
ing run down and killed by some care
less automobile driver. Usually charge
is made against them which is promptly
settled by finding the accident unavoid-
able Generally it is joyriders who
bring sorrow and suffering. Owning an
automobile does not mean that you own
the roads and streets; you are no better
and deserve no more consideration
than the little girl or boy at play or on
errand for their parents, yet when the
accident occurs the child is always to-
blame. How many times have you heard
of a driver of car being punished for
the death of his victim? 1t is time that
this condition was changed. We need a
lesson taught that class who disregard
the rights of others, and let the lesson
be such as will not only make them re-
frain from committing the offenses
again but make it deter others. We
know that it is seldom that there is any
reason why an automobile should be
driven at a greater rate than fifteen
miles an hour, and in the cities and
towns this speed can easily be reduced
to ten miles an hour. Killing hogs,
chickens, dogs and other animals is
pleasure with a lot of the fiends, giving
them something to brag about. Stop
itr'
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-10-23
SHOULD BE PRESERVED.

Albany Herald: The Woman's Christian
Temperance Union of Georgia is in session
at Dawson this week, and the Dawson News
celebrates the event by publishing a thirty
six page edition, the matter for two and
one-fourth sections of which was gotten up
by the Dawson Chapter of the w. C. T. U.
and the Dawson Womans Club, represented
by Mrs. L. Lamar and Mrs. Guy Chappell
The edition is one that will prove a splendid
advertisement for Dawson, and should be
preserved for its many meritorious features
and historical value
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-10-23

At critical time in the affairs of the
country President Cleveland was compelled
to submit to the removal of one of his up
per jaw bones. In that case the necessity
was wholly misfortune. There are at pres
ent in America some statesmen below the
rank of president who would do the country
no disservice by submitting to the removal
Of both of theirs.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-10-23
HOW CAN SHE KNOW?

From the Cordele Dispatch
The editors of the Cordele Dispatch
Triton Gazette, Savannah Press and
Dawson News are using lots of good
newspaper space trying to convince
each other that they know something
about peanuts or COOLERS or both.
There are a few instances when adver-
Using don't pay.-Miss Vienna News.
Now, here's new one jumped in. All
right; what do you say? Is g goober a
goober, or is it a peanut?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-10-23
OF COURSE THEY CAN.

Christian Temperance Union of Georgia is in
session in Dawson this week. In celebration
of the event The Dawson News published
a thirty-six page edition, the matter for
two and one-fourth sections of which was
gotten up by the Dawson Chapter of the
w. c, T. U. and the Dawson Woman's Club.
It was a splendid edition, and goes to prove
that the women can edit newspapers as well
as do most anything else that men do in a
most creditable way
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-10-23
coNcRATULATEs TOWN AND COUNTY

Talbotton New Era: The Dawson News
comes to us this week in three sections, all
of them replete with the news and doings
of Terrell county and it's capital city. A
county and town that can support a paper
like Editor Rainey is getting out should be
congratulated doubly. In the first place
there are few communities that give the
same support to their county paper, and in
the second place there are few counties that
can boast of such an editor as Mr.. Rainey.
Congratulations and good wishes, say we.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-10-23

Here in Georgia we "pulr' corn, but we
notice from Western newspaper that they
pick corn out there This newspaper says
eight or ten cents bushel is being paid
corn pickers," and with such opportunity
open to Iaborers there should be no unpaid
coal and grocery bills confronting them next
spring when the wintry blasts have mellow
ed"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-10-23
The Special Edition.
SHOULD BE PROUD OF THE NEWS,

Ellaville News: The W. C. T. U. conven-
ton edition of The Dawson News, consisting
of thirty-six pages, is a gem. 1t is especially
appealing to US, as many old Schley county
citizens are now living in Terrell county and
we note that this issue contains articles
from two former editors of the Schley Coun-
ty News. Terrell county should be proud of
The Dawson News.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-10-23
AND SO DID WE.

From the Fl Gaines Georgian.
With good deal of satisfaction we note
that the discreet Dawson News and the as
tute Savannah Press are now enthusiastical-
ly proclaimihg an agricultural doctrine that
we were shouting from the housetops some
twenty-odd months ago. We refer to our
esteemed contemporaries praise of the vir-
tues of the peanut, alias the goober, the pin
der, the groundpea, ct cetera
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-10-23
A FINE PIECE OF WORK.

Early County News The Georgia w. c..
T. U. convention is in session at Dawson
this week, and The Dawson News celebrated
the coming of the white Ribboners" with
thirty-six page edition. 1t was 4 fine piece
Of work full of boosting stuff, most of which
was gotten up by the Dawson Chapter of
the W. c. T. U. and the Dawson Woman's
Club, represented by Mrs L. Lamar and
Mrs. GUY Chappel
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-10-23
WHAT DIVERsIFICATIoN MEANS

From the Wesleyan Christian Advocate.
The Dawson News says that notwith-
standing the presence of the boil weevil in
Terrell county, farm lands sold in that coun-
ty recently for sixty dollars per acre. There
is money in the land even when the boil
weevil is on it if the man knows how TO oct
it out, and the men who farm these davs
are learning how to get it out
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-10-23
A MIsERABLY POOR GUESS.

From the Americas Times Recorder
Editor Rainey, of The Dawson News. who
Is a prison commissioner, calls on us to
name the Georgia officeholders who are rich
men Wen, let's see, now, there is Editor
Kainey' OF the Dawson News, and-we for
get the others.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-10-23

Keep your temper ana spirit of tolerance
and don't quarrel with any man because he
does not agree with you on matters of pub
lie policy or politics. Life is all too short for
waste of time, temper and energy in acrimo-
NOUS controversy. People cannot all think
alike, and it is wise Law of our being that
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-10-23
The LADIES AND US

Fort Gaines Georgian: Our heartiest con-
gratulations to the Dawson News upon its
issuance of that magnificent "W. C. T. U.
State Convention Edition" Thirty-six well
prepared, beautifully printed pages it con-
tanned. Quite some stunt for the Raineys
to pull off
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-10-23

Isn't it curious how the conscription has
worked up a lot of fellows as to their duty
to their "dependents2" Many worthless
liability to his Woodworking people ever
since his birth is now making oath that he
is absolutely necessary to somebody's sup
port.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-10-23

These are the busy days in Dawson Mer-
chants generally report most excellent trade
throughout the week, and as much as they
can possibly wait on every Saturday. Great
quantities of goods are being Sold and debts
are also being paid. Everybody is feeling
good
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-10-23
EVERYBODY PEEPS in AMERIcUs

From the Americas Times Recorder
The Dawson News insinuates that if the
ladies wear black stockings and black shoes
the men won't look so much, no matter how
snort the skirt. This may be true in Daw-
that way. And neither are the other SOW
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-10-23

Motor cars owned in the United States
number 100000. The rest of the world
possesses 100000 cars SO our own land
has five times as many automobiles as all
the rest of the world combined, and they
are being manufactured as fast as men and
machines can work We're to have more
autos and still more autos.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-10-23

The sheep industry should be urged more
in our section. Among the Israelites Of old
famine was not common because they were
a race of shepherds, and thus possessed the
means of food and clothing of the best.
Merchants tell US that wool goods are going
up to the spire of prices.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-10-23

Still, there is no objection to the form
Of profteering which consists of clipping
coupons from liberty bonds.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-10-23

1t will not be necessary to draft candi-
date for the United States senate, as there
promises to be plenty who are willing to
serve as volunteers. CONSUMPTION has never
been necessary to secure United States SEN
ators.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-10-23

A joy ride is also remarkable as being one
of the situations in which two pair beat
threes.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-10-23

The announcement of new liberty loan
affects some people just like a coming storm
affects grandpa's rheumatism.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-10-23

A death head rides at the head of an au-
tomobile when bigoted fool is at the steer
ing wheel-a precarious trip for those in
the car, and for all others on the highways
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-10-23

The life and hurry in Dawson, everybody
on the hustle, seems to make some people
here believe that money grows on trees. New
er did money circulate here in the volume
that is now the case.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-10-23

There are the Red Cross. the cross of gold
and the fiery cross, all Of which come in
handy when a nation is at war.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-10-23

Besides the political trimmers there are
the commercial kind.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-08-10
BEEF AND PORK sure
TO BRING HIGH PRICE
Corn Prices Compel Stock
Growers to Demand More
For Products

Chicago, Aug. 10.-Beef and pork will
continue high as long as the farmer can
get So or more bushel for his corn.
This was the explanation by Chicago
wholesale and retail dealers today for
soaring meat prices.
Beef and pork were bringing record
prices today. Beeves on the hoof sold at
$14.35 q hundred pounds-which record
was established yesterday-while pork
sold at $16.95-24 cents higher than yes
terday's record price. Pork is 80 cents
a pound retail and beef 35.
Lamb is high also, due to homestead
ing in sheep grazing sections cutting
down acreage.
The fact there are more people in the
United States to feed also was given
as a factor in advancing prices.
Potatoes were higher today than they
have been in weeks. The Virginia var
iety, comprising the bulk of receipts
here now, sold at $3.50 to 1915 bar
rel. Ultimately prices are due for tum-
BILE, however, commission men declared.
Twelve cent milk was forecast, but
dealers denied any immediate raise in
prices was contemplated. -e
Files in the district attorneys office
here are said to show that a California
concern controls more than half of the
canned fruit on the market and that
prices have gone up 100 per cent in the
last year.
Tomatoes and canteloupes are glut-
ting the market and are cheap.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-08-10
Twenty-Six Thousand
Will Get Commissions
$4,000 Others VIII Not

Washington, Aug. 1O.-Twenty six
thousand men, trained in "Platts-
burgh" camps the past three months.
will be turned out as officers August
10. Fourteen thousand others will be dis
appointed in their ambitions to get com
missions.
The war department announced today,
however, that over two thousand of
these who fail will have chance to re-
peat their course the next three months
and thus win their stripes.
Announcement of the successful can
didates for commissions began yester-
day at the Fort Benjamin Harrison
camp. The second list there was an
nounced today.
The Fort Sheridan camp commissions
will be announced in two lists, the first
tomorrow afternoon and the second
Monday morning.
The Fort Myer commissions will be
announced tomorrow afternoon and the
Fort Oglethorpe list Sunday morning.
The Leon Springs, Texas, candidates
will know their fate Monday morning
while commissions granted at the Pre-
sidio camp, San Francisco, are to be
announced next Tuesday morning.
Other camps commissions will be an
nounced as follows:
Madison barracks-Sunday.
Fort Riley-Monday morning and
Fort Logan H. Roots, Ark, Tuesday
morning.
Fort Smelling, Fort Mcpherson and
Fort Niagara, Monday afternoon.