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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-11-27
Thanksgiving
ProClamatiOnS of
Revolutionary Days

8 10 lastThanksgiving prOclama-
q ION OF the revolution was re-
81 ported to congress October 10,
Il l7S3, by Duane, Samuel Hunt
bud HOlten. 1t was written by
hue ana given to the people on
BID Thursday in December. Il
) thanks for the discharge of
b the following words:
Feas, it has pleased the Su-
R1ler of all human events to
n the hearts of the late bellig-
DWerS to put period to the
4 IF human blood, by proclaim
cessation Of all hostilities by
land, and these United States
i only happily rescued from the
s and calamities to which they
pen so long exposed, but their
3, sovereignty and indepen-
pre- ultimately acknowledged;
|hereaS, in the process of a con-
(which the most essential rights
sbn nature depended the inter
q Of divine providence in our
Bth been most abundantly and
aciously manifested, and the
Of these United States have
RasOn for praise and gratitude
Od Of their salvation; the
States in congress assembled
hmend it to the several states
apart the second Thursday in
IN next as a day Of public
wing"
arSt national Thanksgiving to
nlgated after the adoption Of
ftttutiOn of the United States
ten by Washington and issued
Der 3, 1889. This was a gen.
fermentation of thanksgiving
establishment of the COnstitu-
Re Whereabouts Of the original
8nStrument is unknown. The
thanksgiving proclamation Of
EON as president in the pos
n he department Of state Is
January l, 1895, and was
view Of the suppression Of
Ion in western Pennsylvania,
a time threatened the safety
lion.
cnment was written by Alex
nittOn, secretary of the treas
bears amendments by Ed
ndolph, secretary of state.
hal copy is yellow and the
ped, but it Is yet legible. 1t
Tossed copy which bears the
OF the United States and the
OF Washington and Ran
ne proclamation is as fol-
we review the cafamities
pct so many other nations,
pc condition of the United
prds much Of consolation and
%. Our exemption hitherto
On war. an increasing pros
continuance of that exemp-
reat degree of internal tran
have enjoyed, the recent
pa of that tranquility by the
n Of an insurrection which
~ threatened 1t, the happy
our public affairs In general,
hpied prosperity of all class
citizens, are circumstances
Tuhariy mark our situation
atoms of the divine benef-
FaFd us. In such a state 1t is
manner our duty as a peO-
0eVout reverence and affec-
1utude, to acknowledge our
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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-11-27
Good Thought for the Day.

There can be no better thought for
Thanksgiving day than that which ex-
presses honest gratitude for what our
fathers won for us, and determination
to confer it's blessings unimpaired on
our offspring.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-11-27
Make use Of Gods elsta

"All that have is thine" says God
to us-earth and sun and rain and
crops. Let US use them all the year
for all they are worth.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-03-15
CAUCUS. TO HALT
RAIL STRIKE TO
CONVENE TODAY
Shop Chairman of New York
and st. Louis, Last to Meet,
Favor Strike.
TIE UP PASSENGER
SERVICE WEDNESDAY
Brotherhood Chairmen Will
Meet Railroad Managers in New
York at IL O'Clock.
Rv International News Service.

By International News Service.
New York, March 14.-Emergency
measures for recalling a general rail-
road strike were completed here today
and tonight. The shop chairmen OF
four big railroad brotherhoods, repre-
senting the empolyes that operate
trains on four roads entering New
York, voted unanimously for a strike
which has been called for Saturday
night.
Sixty-nine chairmen were present.
1t was announced at the meeting that
the shop chairmen of st. Louis, the
last to vote on the proposition, had
also gone on record in favor OF the
strike at a meeting tonight The
strike question, according to the Off
Gals of the four brotherhoods, was
referred to the shop chairmen because
the question had been raised as to
whether the strike vote taken last year
of the 100000 employees was still le-
gally in effect.
The law of the organization requires
a vote of the entire membership for
general strike, but not of strike by
districts. The action of the shop chair
men throughout the country provides
for strike of the freight engineers,
firemen, conductors and trainmen in
each district, each successfully until
the effect of the general strike can be
achieved.
The plan provides for tying up the
passenger service of all railroads by
next Wednesday. The four brother
hood chiefs attended the meeting here
when the final vote to strike was cast.
At the conclusion of the meeting they
returned to the Belmont Hotel to dis
cuss the course they would take at
their conference with the general man.
ayers of the railroads tomorrow.
The railroad chiefs at the same time
were laying their own plans. One of
the brotherhood chiefs, in referring to
the momentous meeting which takes
place tomorrow, remarked: at may
last for hours and may not last ten
minutes"
The attitude of the railroad man.
ayers are uncompromising. The meet
ing tomorrow will convene at II
o'clock in the morning.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-03-15

children.
DIR. Statler was given medical atten-
ton at Cantrell, and it is feared that
he is suffering from internal injuries.
The surviving child was not badly
hurt. The bodies were turned over
to an undertaking establishment at
Cantrell, where they were prepared
for shipment back home. DR.. Statler,
in spite of his condition, insisted on
accompanying the bodies back to
Sedgewickville, and with them yester-
day arrived the heart-broken physician
and his little son.
Mrs. Statler, who was only % years
of age, was a niece of Postmaster
Trickey of Oak Ridge. Mr.. Trickey
learned the "details of the tragedy
only after the arrival home of the
bodies.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-03-15
BALTIMORE HOTEL CLOSED
Mrs. Jennie Hagler, Who Conducted
the Hotel, Will Go to Joplin.

Thes Baltimore Hotel, on Upper
Broadway, which was conducted by
Mrs. Jennie Hagler, was closed yes
terday after she had moved her be-
longings to Joplin, where she will take
charge of hotel. Mrs. Hagler leased
the hotel year ago from F. F. Braun,
the proprietor of the building. The
lease expired yesterday.
Mrs. Hagler obtained a divorce sew
eral weeks ago in the Common Pleas
Court, and following this action she
began to make arrangements to leave
the city. 1t is understood that Mr..
Braun refused to release the hotel to
her.
Mrs. Hagler left for st. Louis this
morning, from where she will 60 to
Joplin.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-03-15
HOUSE PASSES TAX
COMMISSION BILL
Gardner Measure is Adopted in
Lower House by Vote of
Is to g.,

jefferson City, March 14.-The con-
ference report on the bill creating a
State tax commission was adopted in
the House this afternoon by vote of
rs to 62. The Republicans voted al
most unanimously against the report
and several Democrats voted with
them.
The report is yet to be adopted in
the Senate, where, according to Senate
leaders, it will carry with little oppo-
sition except from the Republican
side.
The bill provides for three tax COM
missioners, a chairman at salary of
$4,000 a year and two members at
$500.
Under the provisions of the act the
commission is required to equalize as
sessments, to assess all property &C
cording to law and to search out and
place on the assessment books person
al property which has not been return
ed for taxation.
Governor Gardner told newspaper
men early today that fight for petty
political patronage threatened the pas
sage of the bill.
An amendment adopted yesterday
by the Senate to the bill abolishes one
clerk in the office of Auditor Hack
mann, a Republican.
Under the present law clerk from
the Auditors Office is secretary to the
State Board of Equalization. The
Senate amendment to the tax COM
mission bill provides that the secre-
tary of the Tax Commission, to be
selected by Democratic commission,
must also act as secretary to the
Board of Equalization. Republican
opposition to the bill is based on the
fact that the amendment, deprivea
Hickman of a clerkship.
.'Damn the patronage" said the
Governor. "They can have all the pa
tronage in my Office if they will pass
this bill"
Representatives Schuedding, of St
Louis; Settle of St. Louis County, and
Rickhoff of Usage County were the
only Republicans who voted for the
conference report in the committee
Several Democrats voted against it.
'The bill is not a party measure
Gardner said. tThe Democrats never
have caucused on it, and it probably is
within the power Of Republican repre-.
sentatives to defeat it, but if it is de.
feated over a petty question of pa.
tronage the people viii know where
to place the responsibility"
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-03-15
PATTY HEIRS GET
MOTHERS FARM
Suit to Recover Deed from T. N.
Caldwell of Butler County
is Decided.

Joshua Patty and his sisters and
brothers won their suit against T. n.
Caldwell in the Common Pleas Court
yesterday, when Judge John A. Snider
ordered that a deed conveying the
farm of the mother of the plaintiffs
to Caldwell be set aside.
Mrs. Patty, the mother Of the plain
tiffs, transferred the farm, which
comprised nearly 200 acres, and is
situated in Butler County to Caldwell
shortly before her death. The children
testified that their mother was men
tally weak, owing to her age, and
that she was not capable of manag-
ing her own affairs. Caldwell looked
after her business in the last few
years of her life.
The testimony of the children
showed that Mrs. Patty had been in
1uenced to convey the property to
Mr.. Caldwell, who has been acquaint-
ed with the family for a number of
years. They related several instances
to prove the mental weakness of their
mother, who had been adjudged in
sane by the Circuit Court of Butler
County year before her death.
Another suit brought to recover
money, which is said to be in pos
session of Caldwell, will be tried at
the next term of court. The two suits
were sent to the Common Pleas Court
on a change of venue. After hear
ing the testimony of both the plaintiffs
and the defendant, the Judge did not
hesitate long in giving his decision.
He ordered that the deed be set aside
and the property revert back to the
natural heirs of the aged woman, who
died a year ago.
Following the decision the case of
the Norman Land & Manufacturing
Co., against the Idalia Road and De-
velopment Company was taken up.
The plaintiff is trying to recover some
money which he paid to the defendant
after the latter had received judg-
ment of 1886 against Norman. The
case was decided in the Circuit Court
of Mississippi County in September,
1914.
Norman leased 40 acres from the
Idalia Road and Development Co., in
1899, for five years with the agree
ment that he pay the taxes on the
land. After the expiration )of the
lease he continued to occupy the land
on which he had erected a timber mill
and several houses. In March, 1911,
the defendant obtained judgment for
500 for understanding rent. Two
years later the Idalia Road and De-
velopment Co. instituted a suit con-
tending that the land had increased
in value and asked for 500 for each
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-03-15
HEIRESS HIRES
MAN TO We'd HER
HE GETS. $1,000
New York Lassie, in Order
to Claim SIS, 900, 900 Estate
BUSHES Wedding.
MAKES HUBBY AGREE
TO WE'D AND PART
She Thanks Hin, Pays Him and
Tells Him Good-Bye-She
Wins Fortune.

Bv International News Service.
Chicago, March 14-PhIlhpa Hart
ley of New York came to Chicago ane
earned s4,e7O,OOO within five hours.
} At the same time that she became
millionaire she became married wo'
man.
Her husband, the man who helped
her to land the big fortune, OF which
s25, 900 is in cash, is John Colfax. De-
tectives picked him up yesterday aft
| ernoon in rooming house. His bride
met him a few hours before the we'd
ding.
! Behind this rapid fire romance is
the mysterious romantic figure OF
Carleton Hannah, aged financier OF
Bombay, India. Under the palm trees
of the Orient he awaits death. He is
so worn with age that even care Of his
fortune is too great burden for him.
Romance is dead for him. Bue he has
opened up it's vistas for Phillipa Hart
ley. Through his will, which was filed
in the County Recorders Office yester-
day by DIR. Gilbert H. Willis. It's prin-
Icipal provision is this:
If Phillipa Hartley, his niece, mar
ried before his death or within three
months after it, she would receive
$25, 900 cash and the remainder of his
SIS 100000 estate, after $4,000 had
been distributed among his friends and
servants.
The will was entrusted to DR.. Will
lis on Jan. 1. He, is trustee, set out
from India for Chicago to fulfill its
terms. He stopped at New York City
and laid the proposition before Miss
Hartley. sKS
The beneficiary was too clever a
young woman to allow it to become
a case of wealth VS.. ideals. She de-
vised plan whereby she could retain
both. She sent DR.. Willis on to Chi
cago. He. got here Saturday morning,
and these are the steps of his pro
cedure:
To employ a detective from an
investigating agency at $40 day.
To find a man who would be
willing to marry a beautiful young
woman, worth scads of money.
To persuade said man to relin-
uuish all claim to his bride for a
large sum of money.
For this purpose a man with dis
ease which would prevent his living
long was thought most desirable. The
detectives located Colfax. He said
he had heart disease and so fortunate
ly prospects of an "early death"
"And besides 1 won't bother her even
if do live" he promised. So he was
chosen.
Miss Hartley arrived from New
York today. She was introduced to
Colfax. She was married to him. She
paid his $1,000. She thanked him. She
left him.
Carleton Hannah drew his peculiar
will because Phillip Hartley, father
of Mrs. Colfax, had married Han
mans sister, now dead, and he feared
Hartley might break his will in order
to obtain his millions. Thus, the will
was made in form of trust deed,
with DR.. Willis as trustee, and so the
money was saved to the millionaire's
niece. Hartley's share of the s5,000,-
900 is ST..
Shortly after the business was COM
pleted, Mrs. Colfax and her maid
boarded a train for New York City.
DR.. Willis will lremain here for a day
or so, he said, to "close up details of
the case" and then will go to New
York.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-03-15

United States. A number Of years
ago, when Chautauqua was given at
the Fairgrounds Park, the troupe APP
peared on the stage and attracted wide
attention by their wonderful singing.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-03-15
COLORED SINGERS AT
OPERA HOUSE TONIGHT

The world famous Williams colored
singers arrived last night in the city
to give a concert at the Schuchert
Opera House tonight. The affair will
be conducted under the auspices of the
African Methodist Church.
The Williams troupe, composed OF
four couples, has travelled all over the
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-03-15

Continued on page threeJ
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-03-15
SINKING OF AMERICAN ship
URGES WILSON TO GET BUSY
New York Hears of Plot to Blow
Up Reservoir From Which Jer-
sey City Receives Water Sup
ply.-Is Guarded Now.

Washington, March Dipomae
many broken by China today according message
Navy Department
The Chinese
number Shanghai harbor the
Armed guards have been placed aboard the ships.
The from the Senior
waters.
message
"Chna severed diplomatic
all German merchant vessels which lying Shanghai
number placed guards
board all vessels"
expected help supply Allies from her enormous store of
metals and five big muntion factories
small boats which had Shortly
the State Department received the following
from Minister Reinsch
represents complete change
existed in China the when population generally
rroGman Factions developed that bringing
strong pressure to China to an an-Geman viewpoint
This increased with the Entena
until weeks when China
where her interests As result of the probably
will obtain along with
several other she greatly desired
The of the diplomatic break with interest the
Department.
Weng
Fang foreign formerly
States opposing Hung
neutrality
believed to have been under the influence Japan have openly favored
break relations with be followed by participation the
Chinese Republic in the world
The every
China dominating posi-
the should China
BY International News Service.
Washington March 4Hope for general action
the neutral nations break
the ruthless submarine warfare tonight that the
State and Naval Department of China had broken with the German Govern
led hope that President Wilson's desire break the
neutra he expressed his address
he declared the break with might
bng forth fruit.
breaking
relations between Germany bring
approaches closely United
Gals believe
considering
to follow the lead of the United States combating warfare
New York. March IA force of policemen
Boonon authorities billion
which City supply
miles, This Immediately
enough Rockaway valleys
Warnemunde Sner station
atach of the Embassy Washington
Washington 1.-The sinking of the Algonquin
warning added
charged Germany At the State Department the
Algonquin accepted positive proof that Germany
contemplating modify declaration ruthless
American vessels well against those Of all other nations
the to be
ships being fitted defy the the
cleaners
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-29
Peace Move in Hungary
Gathers Many Supporters

Amsterdam, June 20. great
sensation has been caused throughout
Hungary by the peace speech made at
Telegyhaza by Count Michael Karolyi,
leader of the Independent party. The
Count declared that the factors re-
sponsible for the war were in the first
place the Tisza Ministry, but that the
financial and industrial circles also
must bear large portion of the
blame, as these factors were now pre-
venting peace. He demanded the in
stant dissolution of the lower house
so that the power of the TisZa party
might be finally smashed and democ-
racy assisted to victory all along the
line. The utterance reused a storm
in the chamber aid gave the Count oc-
casion to emphasize his peace views.
He said he supported the Czernins
policy of peace without anneXations
and indemnities and was an opponent
of peace by sword and of militarism,
in which he saw the origin of the
world war.
Count Tisza made a weak reply, in
which he said he wishes Hungary had
been better prepared for the struggle.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-29
Banishes
Nervousness
Puts Vigor and Ambition Into
Rundown, Tired Out
PEOPLE

If you feel tired out, out of sorts
despondent, mentally or physically
depressed, and lack the desire to ac-
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Kennedy's to-day and your trou-
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If you drink too much, smoke too
much, or are nervous because OF
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bition Pills will make you feel better
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H C. Kennedy on the first box pur-
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For all affections of the nervous
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kidney or liver complaints, sleepless-
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-29
NorthcIiffe Asks U. S.
to Profit by Mistakes;
Censorship Is Blundel

New York. June 20. - Lord North
cliffe. British High Commissioner to
the United States, in an address to
magazine editors and writers at a
luncheon here yesterday expressed
the hope that the United Sttaes would
not lnuddle the censorship as England
did the first three years of the war.
America can and will do a tremcnd-
Gus part in this war. first, because she
is fresh, and, secondly, because she
undoubtedly will profit by the mis-
takes of the nations who have been
fighting since August, 1914" said Lord
Northcliffe. What the war needs
more than anything else is brains and
speed.
Il trust that the United States will
not make the censorship blunder that
England made and which is Just be-
coming an evil of the past England
was kept in the dark for nearly three
years. The people were blinded by
the fatuous optimism of soldiers and
politicians who. while efficient in
peace, were incompetent in war. The
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-29
TWO FRENCH SHIPS SUNK
By Associated Press

Paris, June 29.-Two French mer-
chantmen of more than 1000 tons
and three of less than that size were
sunk by submarines or mines in
the week ending July "a, according
to the weekly announcement issued
here to-day. In that time there
were LOSS arrivals at French ports
and go sailings
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