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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-01-09
CAUGHT ON THE CURB.

The police were kept busy Sat-
urday instructing the country darby
how to drive to the right, and many
amusing incidents occurred. The
police will soon begin making cases
against the violators of the new
traffic ordinance.
THESE warm days are not very
inviting to the farmers who were
counting on cold weather killing
the boil weevils.
J. M. Rauch, the grocer, has an
advertisement on this page that con-
tains an important announcement to
his customers.
Friends of Rev. and Mrs. M. B.
L. Binion will regret to learn of the
illness of Mrs. Binion at her home in
the country.
-Whlskey shipments have fallen
off considerably since December, and
the express office now occupies only
one room.
The hunters are taking the ad-
vantage of this good weather and
some of their results are quite graf
flying.
Mayor Weaver has changed the
time for mayors court to Friday in
stead of Monday as heretofore.
Kay Norton is now with Martin
& Bridges, with Lawson Melton going
to W. H. Locke's.
Street hands are laying stone
curbing around the court house and
Jail lot.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-01-09
MINISTER'S AND LAYNEN
MEET IN DAWSON TODAY
STEWARDS. OF CHURCHES OF
DISTRICT ARE HOLDING AN
NUAL MEETING HERE.

Hon. w. B. Stubs of Savannah,
who is lay leader of the South Geor-
gia Methodist Conference, held a
meeting of the stewards of the Amer
lcus district today in the Sunday
school annex of the Methodist church.
The meeting was in session from 10
O'Clock IN the morning until in the
afternoon, with thirty minutes inter
mission at noon for a lunch of sand
Wlches and coffee served by the la
dies of the church
The various problems and condi-
lions were discussed as we'll as for
NAL plans of organization for the
work throughout the year.
At Z O'Clock tonight (Tuesdayl an
institute of the ministers of the dis
trict, called by Presiding Elder Ches-
ter, will begin a session lasting
through Thursday night.
The opening sermon will be preach
ed by Rev. Paul w. Ellis of the First
Methodist church of Americas.
There will be three business ses-
sions on both Wednesday and Thurs
day, covering the work of 1916.
The institute is DESTROYS of finding
out what part of the planned work
was carried out, and if not all of it
why and what was the trouble. The
ministers will also study whatever
new problems that may be presented
and how they should be handled, as
we'll as make the usual preparations
for the work of the year ahead of
them.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-01-09
DAWSON OIL MILL
TO CRUSH PEANUTS
Dawson Mill Will Be Ready to Handle
All Peanuts That Will Be Grown
in This Section.

The farmers of Terrell, Sumter
and the surrounding counties need
have no fear of planting peanuts.
There will be a market for them
which will easily equal the markets
formerly for cotton seed or other
products. The Dawson Cotton Oil
Co., of Dawson, and the Farmers Oil
and Fertilizer Co., of Americas, have
made formal announcement of the
changing of their machinery so as
to be adapted for crushing this sec
tion's coming money crop, peanuts.
AS has been the case in Alabama
and other states new crops have
made new markets, and especially has
this been true of peanuts. Already
practically all the farmers are get
ting their planting seed on hand
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-01-09
SMALL BLAZE EXTINGUISHED
BEFORE DOING ANY DAMAGE
Suction Pipe for Shavings of Variety
Works Catches Fire.

At Z o'clock Thursday morning
the fire department was called to the
Variety Works Company on account
of a blaze in the suction pipe which
carries the shavings from the planning
room to the waste pile. Due to the
draught of the pipe the fire seemed
many times larger than it was found
to be. It was quickly extinguished
by chemicals and no damage either to
the building or suction shaft resulted.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-01-09
CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION
HOLDS MONTHLY MEETING
Officers Reelected and Same Stand
ing Committees Appointed.

ing committees Appointed.
At the January meeting of the
City Board of Education organiza-
ton for the ensuing term of two
years was perfected by the re-elec-
ton of M. C. Edwards as president,
L. Lamar vice president, J. G. Parks
secretary, and S. D. Hatcher treas
urer.
The following standing committees
were re-appointed:
Rules and Bylaws - Edwards.
Parks and Lamar.
Finance - Melton, Lamar and
Parks.
Teachers and Teaching-Parks,
and Hatcher.
Curriculum, Text Books and Griev-
ances-Jannings, Lamar and Hatch
er.
Salaries, Supplies and School Prop
erty-Hatcher, Parks and Melton.
Sanitation, Buildings and Grounds
Lamar, Melton and Jennings.
Superintendent Dukes made his
monthly report, which showed salts
factory progress.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-01-09

Because of its tonic AID laxative effect, LAxA.
TIVE BROMO DUMMIES better than ordinary
Quinine and does not cause nervousneSe nor
ringing IN head. Remember the full name and
look ~ the signature of E. W. GROVE. 2Sc.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-01-09
Painful Coughs Relieved.

DR.. Kings New Discovery is q
soothing, healing remedy for coughs
and colds that has stood the test of
nearly fifty years. For that cough
that strains the throat and saps the
vitality try DR.. Kings New Discovery
The soothing pine balsams and mild
laxative ingredients soon drive the
cold from the system. Have a bottle
on hand for winter colds, Group,
grippe, and bronchial affections. AT
your Druggist, 50c.-adv.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-01-09
THREE CAR LOADS
OF SEED PEANUTS
Received in Dawson From Alabama
for Terrell County Farmers.
Everybody Will Plant.

The time must be at hand when
the old saying "cotton or nothing
is thing of the past, for there have
been $4,000 pounds of seed peanuts
shipped from Red Level, Ala, to
Dawson for Terrell farmers.
The price of these peanuts was five
cents per pound, making the lot cost
S4,65O.OO. The peanuts are of the
Spanish and running varieties.
There have been other shipments
of peanuts into the county for seed.
but the shipping of three carloads
from a town of less than thou
sand inhabitants to one point is ex-
traordinary.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-01-09
SHERIFF TURNER SELLS
CARNIVAL'S AUTOMOBILE
Levied on by Dawson Motor Car Co.
for Repair Work and Parts.

The car belonging to VIM. B. Jar
Wis Shows, which were in Dawson
several weeks ago, was sold Satur-
day morning by Sheriff Turner under
a lien of the Dawson Motor Car Co.
for repair work and parts.
The sale was not particularly con-
tested, still the selling price was
$4,000, which about met the lien
and sheriff's costs.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-01-09
MR.. FRANK B. GURR HAS
RETURNED TO DAWSON

Buys Half Interest in a Prominent
Business Firm.
Mr.. Frank Gurr of Jesup has
bought Mr.. William Wards inter
est in the retail grocery business of
Ward & Johnson. The business will
be conducted at the same stand and
with the same management except
that Mr.. Gurr will succeed Mr.. Ward.
Mr.. Gurr has returned to Jesup to
make preparations for moving his
family. They will reside in the
dwelling belonging to Judge M. C.
Edwards on Thornton street.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-01-09
MISS EVA BRIDGES MARES
Mr.. w. H. PAIGE SUNDAY
At Sardis Baptist Immediately After.
the Sunday School Service.

Immediately following the exer-
cises of the Sunday school of the
Sardis Baptist Rev. NJ. B. L. Binion
united Miss Eva Bridges and Mr.. w.
H. Paige in marriage. The young
couple have the congratulations and
best wishes of their every acquain-
lance
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-01-09
REV. JOHN MARTIN
NINETY SIX YEARS OLD
Prominent Shellman Minister Cele-
brates His Birthday.

On January third Rev. John Mar.
tin of Shellman was ninety-six years
of age. uncle Johnnie" is in fail
health and remarkably we'll preserv
ed for one of his years. He fills an
appointment occasionally and preach
es with his usual vigor, clearness and
force.
Mr.. Martin is a very remarkable
person in many respects, and all
wish for him to avoid every misfor-
tune and reach the much coveted
century mark.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-04-27
COTTON CROP Is VALUABLE
Yield for Season of 1915 Was Worth
More Than Three-Quarters of
Billion Dollars to Growers.

Final figures compiled by Uncle
Sans census experts for the season
of 1915 show that the crop of cotton
and cottonseed was worth more than
$75OOOO,O0O. The production Of H.
1911 $40 bales of cotton was worth $627,-
100000 to the growers while the A.
$4,000 tons of cottonseed produced
was worth $167 ,00O,0O0.
Texas alone produced 1927. $50
equivalent 5OO-pound bales, or nearly
% per cent of the total American crop
Of 1915; while four states-Alabama
Georgia, South Carolina, and Texas,
each with an output Of more than L.
100000 bales-together produced near
ly two-thirds Of the crop.
According to the revised estimates Of
the department of agriculture, the acre
age from which the crop Of 1915 was
harvested amounted to 81, ,OOO-the
smallest since 1907. This reduction In
acreage was due to the demornlized
state Of the cotton market following
the outbreak of the European war. The
average production of lint per acre in
1915, as estimated by the department
of agriculture, was 40 pounds. rs
against 200 pounds in 1914, 1872 pounds
in 1913, 191 pounds Ia 1912, and POS
pounds In 1911.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-04-27
Prenare to Ely.

There Is no secret that in vigorous
way the development of the aeroplane
on an extensive scale and with a view
to Its general use both for passenger
and freight service is quietly proceed
ing, says Leslie's. There are those
who do not hesitate to predict that
within the next decade, and perhaps
within FIVE years the aeroplane will be
in common use and will be brought
within the reach Of men OF moderate
means, so as to afford them ready
vehicle of transportation from their
city to their summer homes. The in
teresting fact is noted by President
Edward NJ. Hagar of the Wright COM
pany that he has recently received a
request for estimates on ten aero
planes, each of three-ton freight capac-
ity, with which valuable ore from an
inaccessible mine Is to be carried from
| the mountains to convenient ship
ping point. The part that the aero
plane is playing in the great European
war astonishes all observers, and mus,
inevitably lead at the close of the wal
to a wider utilization Of the aeroplane
In peaceful pursuits.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-04-27
CANADA SHIPS MUCH PAPER
Great Increase In Consumption OF
Wood Pulp Causing Concern
Among Conservationlsts.

A great increase In the exports Of
paper from Canada to the United
States is causing concern among con-
servationists of the dominion, Uncle
Sam is informed, as 1t is feared that
the drain upon Canadian wood-pulp re-
sources will result seriously to the do
minion. 1t Is pointed out that the
drain is likely to increase rather than
diminish, in view Of the rapid deple-
ton of accessible supplies of timber
suitable for pulp wood In the United
States.
That Canada is making big progress
toward becoming the worlds center for
the manufacture of pulp and paper. II
is declared, Is indicated by the fact
that for the year ending with July
1916, the exports Of paper amounted tt
S21 .67S, SOS, of which SO per cent wen
to the United States and 81 per cen
to the United Kingdom. This was al
increase of 81 per cent over the figures
of the previous year. The first ship
ment of paper from Canada was mad
In 1892, amounting to total of sol TO
the year. The total exports for l9O
were but $4,000 and for 1913 only So
327. 900.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-04-27

Mrs. George Sewall wife of an Afri
can big game hunter and herself a
Diana of no mean ability, arrived at
New York on the Adriatic after an ADJ
sence of seven years. Before her mar
rage Mrs. Sewall was Miss Angela
dAcosta of Boston.
For six years Mrs. Sewall has accom-
panied her husband on all his big game
expeditions in the heart Of the dark
continent. Shortly after their marriage
they went to Mr.. Sewalrs hunting
lodge at Nairobi, in British East Al
RIGA. After two years there they joined
an expedition into the interior OF AT
RIGA, where Mrs. Sewall brought down
lion, six elephants, four giraffes, two
hippopotami and twenty water bufraio
The couple returned to Nairobi JUS,
as the European war broke out, anc
Mr.. Sewall, in reciprocation OF tho
British governments courtesy In ex
tending the use of the crowns roya
game preserve, offered his services Il
the Royal Mounted corps in an expedi
ton against the German colonies.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-04-27
Senator Took Oath on Koran.

A recent incident in the new Philip
pine legislature recalls that when the
United States acquired the islands we
took into our family brothers-in-law
whose religious beliefs always have
clashed with Christianity. Senator
Hadji Butu, who represents Mindanao
and Sulu, took his oath Of office on the
Koran instead of the Bible.
All the other senators took their
oaths collectively by raising their right
hands. Then Senator Butu stepped In
front of the president of the senate
and, placing his right hand over the
Koran, read his official oath in the Sulu
dialect. the president repeating 1t In
Spanish. When the ceremony was
over the president shook hands with
the senator, while the other senators
and large crowd in the galleries ap
plauded.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-04-27
Had a Good Voice.

Zenatello, the tenor. like all noted
opera singers, is besieged by all sorts
of people with requests to hear voices.
But he has an extraordinary sense Of
humor. One day lady asked him to
hear her daughter. He and his wife,
Maria Gay, heard her sing Butterfly"
and it was difficult for them to refrain
from laughing at the earnestness of the
girl. The mother asked Zenatello for
his opinion and he asked, do you real
ly want the TRUTH" The mother said
she did. ''Then I advise your daugh-
ter never to sing again." The mother
was indignant, but the daughter said
81 am sorry you think that, but am
really obliged for the truth, because 1t
will save me years of wasted time
Zenatello smiled and said: II told you
that to see whether yon would become
angry. You have talent and q very
promising voice. Work and never
waste your time on anger and you will
succeed"
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-04-27
new RADIO STATIONS
Uncle Sam Installing Powerful
System Throughout Country.
Work Of Installing New Equipment
and Improving the Old Is Being
Pushed by Navy Department.

Uncle Sam is pushing the work up
on a chain of high-power wireless sta
lions that are to be established
throughout the country by the navy
department.
Contracts have recently been enter
ed into by the department for the
radio equipment at San Diego and
Pearl Harbor, and for the radio and
power equipment at Cavite, and while
1t Is said that the general trade con-
ditions have caused some delay, 1t Is
believed that the San Diego station
will be in operation soon and the 9th
ers will follow.
officers Of the bureau say that the
equipment of the stations at Boston.
the Great Lakes, Charleston, Key
West, New Orleans, Guantanamo, San
Juan and Cordova, Alaska, has been
so improved as to render these sta
tons capable Of communicating with
vessels beyond the range Of low-pow-
cred stations and also to relay mes
saces across the continent. 1t is In.
tended to similarly equip the station
at Mare Island.
| Distant control of stations, to per-
nit simultaneous sending and receiv
ing of messages, has been established
during the past year at Arlington
Mare Island, Boston and Washington
and similar Improvement will be made
in the near future, the officials say
at Charleston. Key West, Puget Soun'
and New Orleans. In stations thu
equipped for transmitting with large
and small set, with facilities for re
ceiving simultaneously the signals
coming in from similar sets, the capa
city for handling messages is In
creased fourfold. Marked improve
ment has recently been made. 1t !
said, in the transmitting and receiy
ing capacity Of the more importan
vessels of the navy.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-04-27
MExlCANS NOT ALL BAD MEN,
American Woman Gets . Glimpse OF
the Good Side Of Bandits Who
Follow Zapata.

This afternoon my beauteous guest
met up with another phase of the Mex
lean situation. All our menfolk had
driven into town to an international
committee meeting. Unknown to me,
Miss Eleanor saddled Israfl, Jim
Juniors donkey, and rode off down
| Tlalpam road to explore. Presently
she came pelting back through the
gates, her serious face flushed and
eager, with a band of 40 Zapatistas
galloping at Israfils heels. These sol
diers were extremely tired, she ex-
planned, dashing into the patio, where
sat, aghast. Could they not halt a
few minutes, for q drink Of our icy
cold well water, and a dulce or SO,
perhaps?
| Well, I was simply scared blue.
There wasn't a man on the place, ex-
cept the servants. And Jim has given
most stringent orders that no soldier
shall be allowed inside the gates on
any pretext whatever. But I said yes,
quaking. With half the countryside
wells poisoned, it seemed too inhuman
to deny them and their poor beasts.
Anyhow, they were already shoulder
ing inside.
1 needn't have been such 'fraid
cat. They rode up the drive as majes-
tic as SO many barefoot hidalgos, and
saluted me with dignity, then swarmed
around the well and drank and drank
with a frenzied thirst. Never have
seen men snatch at water like that.
It was the devouring thirst Of men
who have fought. Very decorously
too, they partook of the lemonade and
fresh-baked bread which Annina and
my fluttering maids brought out. Very
courteously they bowed to me again
and set forth. I drew long breath
: 1t had been a shaky quarter hour. But
right then Emily Ann came toddlinG
down the steps, all pink and dewy
; from her nap.
The whole troop stopped dead, ant
stared at her. The leader put out {
big, hairy arm and picked her up. ant
wondered over her fluffy white dress
and her fat little legs in pink stock
e ings, and her flaxen hair, which h
touched cautiously, curl by curl. A
e last he set her down. Little Madon
ma" he said, very gravely and gently
= Then, at a gallop, he and his raga
9 mullins were up saddle and away
a Katherine Holland Brown, In Won
ans Home Companion.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-04-27
Enninea for RusaIa.

That the Russians have made extern
sive plans for establishing easily ad-
Unstable rail communication between
various divisions Of their fighting
armies and between the armies and
the supply bases, is shown by the fact
that the Russian government has or
dered $50 liquid-fuel locomotives Of a
special type from Philadelphia loco
motive works. These tractors weigh
seven and one-half tons each and run
on tracks approximately 29A inches
wide. These narrow-gauge tracks can
be moved about easily. According to
Russian officials, the engines may be
used in the trenches as well as Mt the
rear. Each has a pulling capacity OF
from twenty-five to fifty tons, depend.
ing on the condition of the track
Popular Mechanics.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-04-27
TO INDICATE PAIN
MOVEMENT OF HANDS GIVES IN.
FORMATION TO PHYSICIAN.
Experts Consider Motion an Import
ant Point in Locating Seat OF
TroubIe-How to Tell Dis
ease Of the Spine.

When a patient is asked to locate
his pain, he does so by movement Of
one or both his hands. The gesture,
however, not only indicates its seat,
but describes it's character and dis
tribution. Physicians say that this Is
an important point. If the pain Is
widely distributed over the whole
chest the patient locates it with cir
cular rubbing motion of the palm OF
the hand, indicating the diffused sore
ness. The pain of a serious inflam-
nation, on the other hand, is de-
scribed by first drawing the hand
away from the body and then, with
the fingers close together or with the
index finger extended and the others
flexed, cautiously approaching the seat
of the Inflammation.
In appendicitis the patient does not
touch the skin at all when asked to
locate the pain. He simply holds the
palm of his hand over the diseased
area. With very violent abdominal
pains, which are not inflammatory, the
patient slaps himself vigorously
across the abdomen on being asked
to indicate the location Of his trouble
If a child complains Of persistent pain
| in the stomach, and there is no ten
derness on pressure, disease OF the
spine is indicated.
In hip Joint disease, the pain will BIZ
referred to a point inside the knee
With terrific diffused pain in the leg
| not due to an Inflammation, the pa
tent grasps the leg firmly. If 1t Is
darling or lancinating pain, he vii
indicate It with one finger. In tn
uain caused by the descent OF rena
calculi and gallstones, he follow
their course with the top OF tn
thumb or index finger.
The pain Of hepatic neuralgia o
"shingles" is indicated with tn
thumb or finger. In joint pains tn
patient approaches the seat Of troubl
very cautiously with the hand sprea
fiat, while degenerative pain of loco
motor ataxia is described by graspin
the affected area firmly, indicating
band-llke pain. Or, II the pain
sharp and lightning-like in the leg. tn
pain gesture is perfectly DESCRIPTIVE
an energetic downward motion. at tn
same time twisting the hand as thong
manipulating corkscrew.
A patient had complained OF 8
t we're headache. "In what part OF tn
head is it?" he was asked. And, II
dicating the spot, he placed his fing'
[ on the parietal eminence. This he al
, three times In succession, thoue
J claiming to feel the pain exactly
/ top. Upon examining the mouth
| defective tooth was found. AS 500
as it was removed the pain disa
8 penred.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-04-27
FOREST ROAD FUND ALLOTTED
California Gets Largest Share Of Mil.
lion Dollars to Be Spent by Unc's
Sam in Next Fiscal Year.

Secretary of Agriculture Houston
has announced the amount allotted to
each state from the 81, 100000 to
be spent by Uncle Sam during the fis-
cal year 1918 in constructing roads
and trails within or partly within the
national forests. This money is part
Of the $1OOOO,OOO appropriated by the
federal mid road act to assist develop
ment Of the national forests, which be-
comes available at the rate Of mil
lion dollars year for ten years.
The allotments rs approved are as
follows: Alaska, $46,354 Arizona, $751;
GOA; Arkansas, $9,9O3; California,
$14O,9S8; Colorado, $62,575; Idaho.
$1OS,73O; Montana, $7O,042; Nevada,
S19, 1896; New Mexico, $42, 495; Oregon,
$12S,111; South Dakota, 5000; Utah,
SAL ,167; Washington, sol ,944; Wy
oming, $4O6S4. A total Of $9,995 has
been allotted to Florida, Michigan,
Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota
and Oklahoma. The group of eastern
states-Georgia, Maine, New Hamp-
shire, North and South Carolina, Ten
neSSee, virginia ana west virginia
in which the government is purchasing
lands for national forests, receives
$21, 12O.
In making allotments, it is explained,
| 10 per cent of the amount available
for 1918 is withheld as contingent
fund. One-half of the remainder has
been appropriated among the states In
amounts based on the area of the ma
tional forest lands in each state
while the other half has been allotted
on q basis Of the estimated value OF
the timber and forage resources which
the forests contain.