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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-01-03
DEAD LETTER OFFICE
DID A Big BUSINESS
HANDLED 100000 LETTERS
AND PARCELS CONTAINING
VALUES OF $3.50, 900.

WASHINGTON. More than two
and a quarter million dollars worth
Of checks, drafts, money orders, and
other valuable papers were found
in: undelivered letters by the dead
letter Office during the last year and
practically all were restored to their
owners. First Assistant Postmaster
General Daniel G. Roper in his an
nual report announces that the dead
letter division handled 1888, 890
letters and parcels during the year,
slight increase over the previous
year. 0ne-third of these letters and
parcels, or 3,677, 1874, was delivered;
l0l ABS contained things of value
without clue to their senders and
were held for claimants; Hits were
still being investigated.
In addition to the valuable papers,
with a face value of $2,303,1I9,
found in undelivered letters. many
contained stamps and some curren-
cy was found loose in the mails. The
stamps and currency Unclaimed, to-
gether with proceeds from the sale
Of articles of merchandise removed
from undelivered letters, aggre-
gated $53,665 and Sill 600 was real
lied from six months operation of a
new postal regulation requiring col
lection of one cent on advertised let
tiers, making the total net revenue
$64,665. ~
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-01-03
An Enterprise That IS Needed

Now, that the raising of meat on
an extensive scale is being engaged in
by the farmers of Terrell county, a
r1eat canning plant IN Dawson is one
Of the needs that has been made i'm
portant BY the new conditions.
The raising Of hogs has al
ready been largely and successfully
undertaken by the farmers ox Terrell
and surrounding counties, and as no
section is better adapted to that IN
dustry it will be engaged in upon d
much more extensive scale than at
present. In fact, there is already
enough meat produced in Terrell
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-01-03
SAYS PRESIDENTS
NOTE A BLUNDER
Congressman Gardiner Likens VIII
sons Act to That OF Napoleon
the Third in Oar Civil War.

CINCINNATI, OF hope to
Cod that no act OF this nation born
out of autocracy will help to throt-
tie the democracy of civilization. .
declared representative Gardner of
massachusetts,, whiE@ discussing Pres
1dent Wilson'S peac e note to the Eu-
e9ean belligeTents at dinner of
the CINCINNATI New England Society
hele last nighk
'Gne of the fixed beliefs Of New
England is that xE1en and nations
must pay the penalty Of their
crimes Mr.. Gardr er said. "Other-
wise wickedness wo uld run riot %=:I.ss
IN the world.
President wilson has offered me-
citation in the affairs Of Europe.
Biunderingly, believe, not designed,
ne is helping Germ amy to escape the
penalty of her wickedness. The
world will not be good place to live
IN Il he succeeds. Every friend OF
Prussia and Pruss anism reioices at
this action. Every friend of the Al-
lies is seething with suppressed indig-
nation. President Wilson is doing
precisely what Napo leon III did in the
dark days Of our Civil War. after
NacClelland's disaS trous campaign.
Every friend Of the Union sroutly
denounced Napoleon. Every friend
Of slavery rejoiced-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-01-03
CON s1eIg CT DATES
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS
Moonshine Cases Of South Traced
Back to 1888. Florida
Exposes Latest.

Evidence that the moonshfne con-
spiracy that was unearthed at Fort
Smith, Ark, in the spring of 1915,
began more than rs years ago in
North Carolina and operated on a
gigantic scale in several Southern
states, has been obtained by ages.ts
of the Department of sJustice having
the investigation in charge. This
evidence shows that the conspiracy
had its real beginning in North Caro-
lima in 1883, and fiourished until a
final stop was put to it BY the arrests
made in Fort Smith last year.
Although many of the cases are
outlawed by the statute of limitation,
there is sufficient grounds for whole
sale indictments. Additional indict-
ments have been returned at Jack
.sonville, Fla, by the grand jury in
vestigating the conspiracy there.
Among those implicated are James HI,
Surber, of Atlanta, former internal
revenue agent; j. f. Smithdeal, own
er of the Atlantic Coast Distilling
company; VIII London, a resident
of the state of Washington; Frank
Hurley, Will A. Hendrix and John
Shine, formerly distillery gaugers,
and Thomas H. Mccoy, of Asheville,
N. c., former revenue agent. Two
bills were returned against Mccoy
and one each against the others.
The Jacksonville investigation is UNI
covering moonshine conspiracy that
is far more extensive than the CON
spiracy found in Fort Smith, where
the moonshiners operated a plant
with a 2,5G0-gallon still almost a
year without the government know
ing 1t.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-01-03
NEW Stray MAY
MAKE OLD YOUNG
a Scottish Scientist Claims That He
Has Discovered the Fountain Of
Perpetual Youth.

$3.50
LONDON, Eng Ponce de Leon
with his dream Of a fountain Of youth
may not haze been far wrong after
ali only a little premature-for s.
rays may do ali the Spanish explorer
hoped for several hundred years ago
in Florida.
Take S-rays and keep young a
hundred years" said William Simp-
son, Scottish discoverer of Simpson. S
light. to a reporter few days ago.
THE S-rays soften hardened arteries
and loosen adhesions. That stops age.
prolongs maturity and increases eff
cheney. Already the Royal Medical
Society insists that the Stray is the
greatest thing in the medical world.
! call the new ray Gods own light, :
It mas already done so much good =
Stumbled ON Dissolve Y.
To experiment on armor plate I
was seeking an intense, pure heat.
My handy man, a drunken, dissolute
fellow, was handicapped by q bad
burn. Suddenly the open wound be-
gan to heal. That puzzled me; to
prove a possibility I gave my hand an
ugly cut with knife of dirty brass.
and treated the wound with dose of
light Three days later the cut was
healed, leaving no scar Then I
knew I had discovered something
greater thana foundry process.
Thus military surgery was pro-
vided with a safe ray which could
stop discharges, cure stiffness 81
sssTFeiiHag, absorb scar tissue and re-
lleve the torment Of septic wounds.
Only short exposure is required,
although there IL no bad result from
long exposure. the electrodes being
heia twelve % twenty-fpur inches
from the skin.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-01-03
SUNBURST COLONIES
TO SHED UNIFORMS
War Office Rules Honorary Officers
Cannot Wear Gold Braid Gov.
Harris May Appeal Congress.


The War Department has issued an
order that summary does away
with the 'sunburst colonies, who st
present are, or in the future may be
attached to the Governors staff in
any State or Territory Of the United
States. The ssspaDurst colonels'i
have been stripped of their spectac-
ular glory. The gold lace, the gilt
fringe, the aigrette, the epaulet, the
brass buttons, and the swoTG tflatswas
always getting between the colone1's
legs must be laid away, for honor
airy colonies" no longer may wear
the trappings of the soldier. The
War Department has spoken, and
Uncle Sans real, bona fide coloneIs
are pleased.
When the matter came up there
was much CONSERVATION among the
Governors staff here in Georgia, and
Governor Harris took the matter up
with the War Department in an eff
fort to save his honorary coIonels
their braid and resplenaent trap
pings, but with poor success 1t was
announced that he would probably
appeal to Congress for the relief of
his colonies.
The order raises the question
whether the honorary colonies will
adopt the long black coat and the tail
silk hat as the regalia fer parades OF
whether it will suggest too much an
escort for undertakes. Time alone
viii tell.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-01-03
ONLY SPLOTCHES or
THRIFT IN COUNTRY
THREE-FIFTHs OF ALL PATRONS
or SAVINGS BANKS IN SEW
EN- EASTERN STATES.

The thrift habit isn't evenly devaIz
oped 81 tb;s co,.,,tr,, cam;,,e
a. - i. - ~ '.'sS Ds'1lAs
als ~ oilSs she greatest evidence and
tne greatest promoters of thrift, and
the 2,10O savings banks doing husi-
ness in the United Sta+os g. a. ls
o;,,,;,,r Ga 1oge 81 $3.50 - e. :, rs ps-
.''...s Is $3.50 nag Av,oVz,OVO de-
posltors, q wi1on 3,6SA,00O were
creoired TO New England and 3,181,-
vVV 70 New YORK. That gives seven
Eastern States more than three
fifths of the depositors and tbo;r 81
sca,,,,ts ra,,,.ssa.,s
Is s, 81, sSs''s sa0osss ehfee-i osarSns
n she tosal ae'oslsss That at the Last
report aggregated Sd goa. a3O, UC[.
Bankers l.aun<h Boo,.
The Anssr;ea, pa..-,Y
49, 1'A.hseis <A'sssosaa~
.'oli mas Undertaken TO spread the
thrift habit by encouraging the es-
taDiissasaent o. savings banks In those
parts OF the country where there are
lew or none. It will do this BY
means of campaign of education.
ana aiso py making il possible to
GET eapltai Tor such banks, that will
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-01-03
NEGRO COLONISTS
ALL JARED BADLY
Those Who Escaped Drowning and
Disease Lost Among the Villages
of Their Ancestors.


The few deluded negroes of Geor-
gia and South Carolina who joined
the negro colonists of the middle
west two years ago and went TO At
rlca with king Sam" to found q
new nation. will never come back to
the res old hills and cotton fields.
Those who escaped drowning and dis
ease are lost among the villages Of
their ancestors on the west coast of
the dark continent, and their sEatter-
ed old steamer, the Liberia, has been
picked up on the coast by a salvage
company and towed back to New
York.
After suffering great hardships the
colonists were scattered to the four
winds, and King Sam himself, ac-
cordIng to the men who towed home
his ship, has married the dusky steno-
grapher whom he took with him and
is now reigning as chief in a miser-
able village of mud huts, clad in one
garment and peddling cocoanuts for
"a precarious existence.
n The hundreds of thousands of dol
ars collected from credulous negroes
hive been s9aiissiratcd without benefit
to4anybodys not even King Sam.
ans all that remains of the once wide
~ advertised American corporation.
whole stock was peddled to the trust
ing believers IS mouIdy rubber
stampin the stewards office of the
steamet bearing these words
Etnlolean Steamship Company"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-01-03
HIRE YOUR BEAUX;
WUNDER "A WONDER
Organizer Of the Lonely Club Fur
nishes Escorts azad Girls--cer-
ti6cates of Cha racter Given.

unSaEes OF INA Eacter G7ven.
One of the most unique social or
CARNATIONS in New York City origi-
mated in, the active brain Of Secreta-
ry Wunder Of the West Side Young
Mems Christian Association. Mr..
Wundar has Tonnes what is known
as the Lonely Club, and the club will
furnish escorts to lonely maidens, the
escorts being guaranteed as nice
young men who can dance, who
know the best shows in town, but
who pass UP the really giddy pleas
ures of the greet white way in
GLIDING the cabaretS.
In case the applicant for a COM
panion is younG man, Secretary
Wunder will obtain charming girl
She viii not ask her escort for a
cigarette cor cocktail, for she, too
will be certified by the Young Mems
Christian ASSOCIATE on.
The applicant for gentleman Oh
lady friend must pay for the priv
Iege at the rate OF so much an hour
and all the expenses Of the enter.
tainment.
Secretary Wunder says his scheme
has two advantages. One is that II
permits young PEG pie visiting New
I ork for the first time to have the
right sort of associates The other
advantage is that it helps needy
young men and w omen to pick uE
some money 0itthe side
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-01-03
WHO Has aAsE OLDEST
POCKET KNIFE I'm GEORGIA
DR.. Merriwether. Who Married II
Dawson. One of Claimants.

Several proud relic hunters are
claiming possession of the oldest
pocket knife in Georgia. +. Nj. Mer
riwether Of Charleston, the classic
home Of the "Willipwampus," ana
who married Miss Nita HENDRIX
in Dawson and is known here, comes
forward with a barlow which he has
used constantly since the civil war.
It was given him by the late General
James P. Sims. John i. Kidd, Of
Elmodel, has a pocket knife with
which he has whitfield since 1856. f.
@. Ticknor of Albany, who started
the controversy by producing knife
which he bought twenty-five years
ago, has been left at the post, so to
speak. Who has the oldest knife in
Georgia?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-01-03

county alone to maintain a large cur
ing plant
The expense Of constructing a
suitable plant Of this kind would
not be great, considering its posi-
biiities, and stock company should
be easily organized by our business
men and farmers.
With increased interest in stock
raising there is wisdom in providing
9. plant Of sufficient capacity to save
the meat.
Let the matter be taken up by the
enterprising farmers and business
men of the county.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-01-03

terra in 5000 test tubes. The food
material on which these bacteria live
must be prepared by an expert. Miss
Quirk, in her kitchen, averages about
10000 tubes Of culture per year,
Her dishes are washed in distilled
water dried in alec hol and sterilized
by baking in hot oven for more
than an hour.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-01-03
SENATOR WORKS SEES
MENACE Inv THE JAPANESE
"Genslemen's Agreement Puts Uni
ted States at Mercy Of Orientals.

Senator Works, of California,
forced the Senate into executive SEES
sion during the discussion of the I'm
migration bill by attacking the So
called gentlemen's passport between
the United States and Japan Sen
ator Works declared that proposed
amendment placed the United States
at the mercy of Japan, and that
whenever the agreement is abrogasd
Japanese may food the country.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-01-03
EIGHT HUNDRED PAPERS
ARE FORCED TO SUSPEND

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.-Asser-
ton that 500 country newspapers had
suspended publication in the United
States since the price Of news print
paper began aoaancing after the
beginning of the European war was
made today before the California
Press Association by c. L. Day. a
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-01-03
NEED $4,000 MORE
FOR The PANAMA CANAL
The Big Ditch Still Eating Uncle
Sans Money ia Great Wads.

An added expenditure Of $17, 000, )
600 required for ssthe maintenance,
construction, and completion Of the
Panama Canal. according to Col.
Chester Harding, governor of the
Canal Zone. The canal force, Col.
Hat ding said, now eosssists of 2f.060
men, and their number win be need.
ed for several years to come. The
CuIebra cut has been cleared Of
slides and the depth Of The canal
averages from So to 40 feet. The
tolls for the month of November
amounted to $450.00 a sum in ex-
cess of the cost of operation.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-01-03

publisher Of San Luis Obispo, Cal.
A majority Of the weekly papers
throughout the county have adj
vanced their subscription price to-
$3.50 a year, and Others will be-
forced to do 50 or go out Of business.
There is little prospect of ressSSef
through the investigation being made
by the government.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-01-03
ANNOUNCES HIS PLANS
FOR THE FUTURE
Jailed Burglar Takes Very Optimistic
View of Th;nqs.

The lady visitor was kindly and
well meaning. AS she chatted with 5
burglar who had been sentenced to
six months inaprisenfae 1T, she
thought she detected signs of reform
III him.
And now" she said, shave you
any plans for the future on the ex-
piration of your sentence?"
Oh, yes, ma'am," he said hopeful
". I've got the plans of two bank:
and q postoffice.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-01-03
TEX SPECIALITY is COOKING
FOR MANY MILLIONSOF BUGS

| III absolutely unique occupation
h o.i .'uowed by Miss Agnes Quirk.
H., 's Tor bugs" In her model
|ltnsa l n the Department OF Agri-
~ i = " ashington, D. Ct, she pre-
MS Of Ne food for millions and tril-
Mt ps - sSo,arders in the bureau Of
S1'u0iogy, the microscopic bac-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-01-03
BIG WET AND DRY
FIGHT rs DUE IN OHIO
Hottest Battle in History Expected.
Economic Argus xraents BY Both.

COLUMBUS, O.-The next bis
Sssyst and dry hgIt in the United
oates will be in Ohio and will at
tract national attention. The cleo.
tion will be held next November.
Both sides have already started
campaigning for va ties.
Twice before the state has been
won by the ''wets - 1t il predicted
the next campaign will be the bitter
est in history,
Economic arguuz ents will replace
the old 'Ten Night in Barroom''
and Personal Lib erty" pleas in the
campaign. Both sides are planning
to send out circulars and speakers to
advance the new arguments.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-01-03
sesk &c DislrIlsution.

Publishers, paper manufacturers,
jobbers xA'e meeting with the Federal
Trade Commission in an effort TO eff
feet equitable distribution of paper
and to solve the problem Of the short
age which the producers say exists.
The commission has found that
increased cost of paper to manufac-
turers is not more than So d ton IN
the last year, and within six months
has actually decreased for many man
ufacturers, while their selling prices
are now being advanced from S25 to
$40 ton. Commissioner Davis
states that present prices are extor-
tomato. The commission believes a
combination exists among paper
manufacturers TO raise prices.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-01-03
PAPER CONSPIRACY
SEEN BY TRADE BODY


WASHINGTON, D. C.-Attornev
General Gregory has turned over to
Assistant Attorney General Todd.
government trust buster serious
charges preferred BY H. B. Warner.
North Carolina publisher, tending to
show an understanding" between
some manufacturers Of news print
paper to maintain ssruinous prices. y
After fling his charges with the
attorney general, Warner, it was
learned, discussed possible remedial
Legislation with Senator Simmons.
The latter declared he believes that
unless the Departmnt of Justice
finds some way I'd burst the news
print paper trust the freedom Of the
press is in Danger
Combihation Is Charged.
That there is combination Of
paper manufacturers is evident from
Information noW before The depart
nent. said SirnsSaEYs believe It is
an international trust Without the
aid Of Canadian manu- cturers do
not think the paper manufacturers Of
the United States could hold up the
price of print paper.
Il the Department OF Justice, the
Attorney General, and the FEDERAL
Hrade Commission, after exhausting
their powers, find themselves unable
to bust this ornbination, let them call
upon Congress for aR increase in
pewes and am sure it will be
gran
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1917-11-19

than | ever was and recommend 5aar
remedies to al my friends. =Mrs.LE
WYNN. 2sl2 Z. OStreet Richmond "a.
While Change Of Life is q most crit
ical period Of woman $ existence, the
annoying symptoms which accompany
it may be controlled, and normal health
restored by the timely use Of Lydia L.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
Such warning symptoms are a sense
Of suffocation, hot flashes, headaches,
backaches, dread Of impending evil,
timidity, sounds in the ears, palpitation
of the heart, sparks before the eyes,
irregularities, constipation, variable az
petite weakness and dizziness.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1917-11-19

V e e | a % ! e 0oiil-
pound / feel ike a
new woman. | al
ways had a headache
during the Change
of Life and was also
troubled with other
bad feelings COM
mon at that time
dizzy spells, nervous
feelings and hea t
flashes. Now | am
- b.t+ar .alff
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1917-11-19
ANNOYING
SYMPTOMS
How Heat Flashes, Dizzy
Spells and other Bad Feel
ings at Change of Life
may be Relieved.

Richmond, Va after taking
seven bottles of Lydia +. Pinkham's
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-03-22
FRAUD PROBE GOES ON

States Atty Hoyne's inquiry into
vote frauds of goth ward continued
today after arrest yesterday of six
men whom Barney Tract, Repubi-
can clerk of election, implicated in
a confession of the part he took in
crooked voting. Those under arrest
are: Al Brodie, 900 W. 14tF Demo-
cratic judge Of election; Abraham
Donovetsky, 1343 S. Jefferson, Re
publican Judge; Michael Klein, $50
w. 18th, Democratic precinct cap
tain; Joseph London, 544 W. 18th,
Republican precinct captain; Oscar
Nenner, 646 w, 14th, Democratic
judge, and Herman Siegel, 536 w.
14ths Democratic clerl7
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-03-22

Miss Burns is the first police girl Of
Cincinnati, O., and called the young
est in the country. She is IA, ranks
high in school and is president Of the
Little Mothers club. Her Job is to
guard II small children of her school,
taking them to and from school. The
board of education pay her so cents
a week.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-03-22

against my central idea and have
given themselves no tenable answer
as to the true nature of sleep. I don't
claim to be a high-brOw in the sense
of having read extensively, but on
this one point 1 believe myself to
have covered the ground, in spite Of
being a mere wOrkingman.-J. Jacob
son. y
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-03-22


HoYNE DISBARMENT STORY OF
TRIBUNE FALLS FLAT
When he heard the story that the
dry forces were going to try to disbar
him, States Atty HOyne telegraphed
back from Hot Springs, Ark, that
perhaps the mayors official family
is getting nervous" intimating that
they were trying to offset prOsecU-
ton of some of the politicians who
figure in the ompsOn-Lundin-Et
telson structure.
No one in the City Hall or offices
of the dTys could back up the TTi-
bUne's story yesterday that they
were going to try to GUST Hoyne be-
cause he didn't prosecute the Sun
day lid-tilters.
Generally the explanation was
that yesterday was one of the quiet
est news days Chicago papers have
seen for months.
CONSCRIPT BIG INCOMES TO
PAY THE BIG WAR BILLS
Washington, March 22.-Adminis-
tration has under consideration a
plan for a new revenue act which
would conscript all personal incomes
in excess of 100000 and put war
taxes ranging from to so per cent
on incomes between $4,000 and
100000 a year.
Under this plan, profits of corpora
tons in excess of 6 or s per cent
would be conscripted.
Estimated this taxation would pro-
duce from $2,OOO,OOO,0OO to $3,OOO,- |
100000 a year for government.
Purpose. Of such law is to have |
wealth bear its share Of war burden |
along with labor. s. ..,..-