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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-10-08

In voting against the Miss Susan B. An
thony amendment for national law en-
franchising women there is no question that
Senators Smith and Hardwick acted in ac-
cord with the views of practically all the
PEOPLE of Georgia, both men and women.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-10-08
YOU'RE HALE RIGHT.

From the Commerce Observer,
The Dawson News thinks congress acted
unwisely in exempting members of that body
and state legislators from army service. We
Ghlhk II was all right to exempt congressman,
but the exemption clause went too far when
it embraced state legislative bodies
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-10-08

There is hope for baldheals A British
surgeon is responsible for the statement
that a few weeks in the trenches has been
known to stop hair from falling out and
actually restore it to those already bald
This is some comfort to men in the last
draft
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-10-08

able tax on the backs of the people. Most
of the clothing they wear will be subject
to tax above its cost if the house bill be-
comes law.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-10-08

California grape growers are hopeful that
the gentle wines of France will convert
100000 American soldiers, who subse-
quently will reassume the status of voters,
to realization of wines benefcence.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-10-08

Think of it! A return to the great Amer
lean desert next year, with not single oasis
between the rock ribbed coast of Maine and
the sun flooded slopes of the Sierra Nevadas
Many will suffer a great thirst
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-10-08

The only way registrant can escape the
draft now is to get elected to the state leg
islature or congress. They are the only Sc
lect bodies immune from service under the
stars and stripes.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-10-08
TANTALIZEs HIS HONOR ?

From the Dalton Citizen
With whisky selling at $500 quart and
Judge Tarver fning the imbibers $500 ner
smell for smelling it on their breath the
high cost of living continues to soar.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-10-08

The allied soldiers are doing wonderful
things, and will win, but its long ways
yet to complete victory.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-10-08
BOIL WEEVIL WON'T EAT TT

From the Hawkinsville News.
The Dawson News tells of Terrell conn
ty farmer who made $4,000 on a seven
acre tobacco patch. AS money crop tohac-
co beats cotton all to smash, and the boil
Weevll won't eat the filthy weed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-10-08

When nothing is stirring and the politi-
clans want something to row about Mr. Wat
son can always be made storm center.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-10-08

Get ready to have your pleasure car priv
ileges still further curtailed. The order is
coming.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-10-08

It's chinquapin time. These little nuts
are now ripening. They bring back memories
of gala days in autumn woods to every one
who spent his childhood in Georgia
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-10-08

The official returns show that Governor
Dorsey received more votes in the state pri-
mary than any other candidate The gov
ernor is a very popular man.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-10-08

The treasury department assures us that
we never had so much money in circulation
The information is reassuring, for we never
before had so much need of it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-10-08

"Trox Bankston wears flowers and al
smile," says newspaper headline Trox
wore more than that when we last saw him.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-10-08

The ravages of the boil weevil this year
emphasize the wisdom of the farmers of
this section in turning their attention to
the prolific little peanut when they did
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-10-08

Your income will probably be subject to
taxation for several years after the war. Do
not repine, but be thankful it is large enough
for you and Uncle Sam, too.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-10-08

If the boys do the fighting its up to US
to furnish the money
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-10-08

Our genial neighbor, Pat Griffin, relates
in the cambridge Searchlight an experience
that is common with the fraternity. He tells
it thus: eve paid farmer few days
ago 40 cents for his eggs, IS cents for his
old hen, $3.50 for his corn, and asked him
so cents more for his paper. We did not
kick on his prices, but listen bud, he raised
rough house on ours. Occasionally you
find man like that"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-10-08

Editor John Jones, of the Lagrange Re-
porter, is in charge of the weekly press pub
licity of the united war work campaign in
Georgia, which is the same as saying that
it is being we'll and intelligently done. We
wish to congratulate whoever it was that
had the wisdom and the foresight to put
someone in charge of this work who knows
something of the kind and quantity of mat
ter that should be sent weekly newspapers.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-11-08
COUNCIL OF DEFENSE.

To the bankers, merchants and
business men in general of obion
County: 1t is with pleasure that
we, you Council of Defense, state
that the following list of names who
were delinquent or did not buy their
quota of Fourth Liberty Bonds have
made satisfactory adjustment of this
matter with the Loan Organization.
We now recommend and ask that
you mark them from your delinquent
list and reinstate them in the COM
mercial world:
c. o. Primrose, T. N. Nicely, ]. A.
Jackson, j. w. S. Ward, w. A. Shep-
herd, ]. G. Shepherd, Joe Hickman,
Jessie R. Smith, Mrs. Bette Herring,
Tom Daiel, J. H. Pryor, j. E. (John)
Mitchell, V. P. Sturgio, Joe Mitch
ell, w. H. Davis, B. L. Chambers, T.
B. Renfro.
Mr.. l. w. Stone, the salesman who
waited on Mr.. ]. w. S. Ward, in
forms us that he thinks Mr.. Ward
name should not have been turned
in to the Council of Defense as he
was not notified that this was going
to be done. Mr.. Ward has bought
more than his assessment of previous
bonds and clamps and also has two
boys in the war. Your council takes
pleasure in making this statement.
OBION COUNTY COUNCIL OF
DEFENSE.
BY S. r. Bratton, Chairman.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-11-08
TERRIBLY SWOLLEN
Suffering Described As Torture
Relieved by Black Drausht.

Rossville, GAINS. Kate Lee Able, Of
dis place, writes: "My husband Is an
engineer, and once while lifting, he in
Iured himself with piece Of heavy ma
chinery, across the abdomen He was
30 sore he could not bear to press on
himself at all, on chest or abdomen. He
weighed l65 lbs, and fell off until he
weighed ITO lbs, in two weeks.
He became constipated and it looked
Hike he would die. We had three different
doctors, yet with all their medicine, his
bowels failed to act. He would turn up
ten-cent bottle of castor oil, and drink
Il two or three days in succession. He
did this yet without result. We became
desperate, he suffered so. He was swol-
len terribly. He told me his suffering
could only be described as torture.
I sent and bought Thedford's Black
Draught. made him take big dose,
and when it began to act he tainted, he
was in such misery, but he got relief and
began to mend at once. He got well,
and we both feel he owes his life to
Thedford's Black Draught."
Thedford's Black Draught will help you
to keep fit, ready for the days work.
Try It'll NC-i3I
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-11-08

well and feel fine in the morning and
able to do my work. / gladly recon-
mend Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound to make weak nerves
strong. - Mrs. ALBERT Suite, COB
Olmstead St., Winona, MINI.
How often do we hear the expression
among women, 81 am so nervous, can
not Sleep" or ait seems as though /
should fly" Such women should profit
by Mrs. Sultze's experience and give
this famous root and herb remedy,
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, a trial.
For forty years it has been overcom-
ing such serious conditions as displace-
ments, inflammation, liberation. irreg-
ularities, periodic pains, backache, dir
illness, and nervous prostration OF
women, and is now considered the STAN
dard remedy for such ailments.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-11-08

regiment of 3,O7S men in Al min
utes."
Captain Mattice did little more
figuring, then told me that, il these
cartridges as produced by the fac
tory were laid in single row, end
to end, a man on a bicycle would
have to ride at speed Of over nine
miles an hour to keep up with the
procession of cartridges. That is as
fast as an average horse trots and
faster than the average motor boat
travels.
I'VE talk about how many feet
per second bullet travels" he con-
tinued, resuming his figuring. well,
this same rate of production delivers
seventy-six of these cartridges per
second, which is an end-to-end
velocity of over twenty and a half
feet per second"
Once more got to thinking about
the moon. Surprising they could be
fired end to end, each bullet to travel
for a second and no time to be lost
making connections, how long would
it take to make enough cartridges to
hit the moon?"
Figuring, for convenience, on air
resistance and attraction of gravity
as we know them, which of course
would actually affect the fight of
the bullets for only relatively short
time, and for convenience also, as
Stunning the maximum velocity would
be maintained thruout, we would
turn out the necessary cartridges in
one hour forty-two minutes and six
seconds. Figuring on the same
basis, it would take thirteen hours
twenty-five minutes and thirteen
seconds for the bullets, travelling at
1900 feet per second, to cover the
distance to the moon"
And the above, please bear in
mind, all pertains only to this one
size of ball cartridge, the 80 calibre
Springfield, besides which the same
factory manufactures for the Gov
eminent in large quantities 80 cal
ibre Krag cartridges, AS calibre au-
tomato pistol cartridges, .38 calibre
revolver cartridges, buckshot shells,
signal cartridges, blank cartridges,
and numerous other kinds of ammu-
milton, as well as 8 millimetre
French cartridges for use in the
Hotchkiss machine gun and the
Chauchat automatic rife, and full
line of commercial ammunition. Of
the 80 calibre Springfield ammuni-
ton alone, the Remington UMC Com
pany has in one years time manu-
featured one billion cartridges, a
feat which as far as is known has
never before been approached.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-11-08
COLDS AND GRIPPE YIELD
TO CALOTABS OVERNIGHT

To break up q cold over night or
to cut short an attack of influenza or
grippe. physicians and druggists are
now recommending Calotabs, the
new nausealess calomel, that is puri-
fed from oil dangerous and sicken-
ing effects. Those who have tried i.
say that it acts like magic, by far
more effective and certain than the
old style calomel, heretofore recon-
mended by all physicians.
One Calotab on the tongue at bed
time with swallow of water-that's
all. No salts, no nausea nor the
slightest interference with eating,
work or pleasures. Next morning
your cold has vanished and your
whole system feels refreshed and
purified. Calotabs are sold only in
original sealed packages, price
thirty-five cents. recommended and
guaranteed by all druggists. Your
money back if you arc not ueIighted
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-11-08
Preparedness.

This is the slogan of the wise man.
Stock are continually exposed to
cuts, wounds, scratches, etc. The
man who is prepared has his healing
remedy on hand to stop all chances
of blood poison. Farris Healing
Remedy is Highly Antiseptic. 1t is
economical. One soc bottle makes SO
worth of a healing oil or ointment.
Money refunded if you ere not salts
fed. For sale by Frank C. Wehman,
UniCn City, Tenn; Guy & Peery,
Polk, Tenn; T. A. Cummings, Rives,
Tenn
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-11-08
Republican
Democratic

In Number Thirteen the Demo-
cratic vote stood: Shields, 800;
Roberts, 303; Hannah, 261; Garrett.
313; D. P. Caldwell, 298; ]. F. Grit
fin, 282; j. A. Howard, 292.
1t is estimated that the Democratic
majority in Obion is about 1,400.
The official returns will be counted
next week.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-11-08
NOT THAT WE DON'T
LIKE THE MOON
BY Edward Cave.

How many miles is it around the
earth?" asked the man who was
showing me thru the largest ammu-
milton factory in the world.
Gee, 1 don't know" replied.
"Why?"
wait a Bit" and he went to
figuring on pad of paper.
For an hour we had been in one
building, going from floor to floor
and doubling back and forth among
rows upon rows of automatic ma
chimes as big as printing presses. that
were turning out cartridge COM
ponents. There were other build
ings seemingly without end similarly
filed up with cartridge machines OF
various kinds, and had expressed a
desire to go to the testing range for
q change. This had resulted in our
being held up until we could obtain
a pass to cross a street.
A city street runs thru the plant,
with double-track streetcar line on
which big Bridgeport cars pass con-
stantly, but within the gates of the
great factory it is closed tight and
patrolled by heavily armed guards.
My companion was Mr.. Jarvis Will
liams, general manager ammunition
works, of the Remington UMC Com
pany. OF course, he had his own
pass, but he had left his party pass
in his desk, and without it even he
could not take me across that street
which we must cross to get to the
testing section.
The necessary pass having been
telephoned for, we had sat down to
wait, and my head being in such
whirl from the wonders / had seen
1 could think of nothing 1 could say.
Evidently divining my thoughts my
guide had inquired, with smile, If
it was "kind of hard to get it all on
the film"
You bet. It's an industrial Mi
agara Falls" l had replied.
Which brought me such nice
compliment from him that l had
chirked up and asked the question
that started him figuring: How
many 80 calibre Springfield cart
ridges day are turned out here?"
1 have ever since been glad did
not guess at the distance in miles
around the earth, for he knew, but
for the moment could not remember.
Very soon he slapped his log in sat
isfaction and looked me in the eye
with fiattering approval
Say, I'm glad you asked me that
just when you did. l was thinking
of something else and the two
thoughts made doublc-hcader. Lis
ten to this:
IF laid end to end tho calibre 80
Springfield cartridges we have manu-
featured for the United States Gov
eminent within one year would reach
a distance of practically $4,000
miles. That's moro than twice
around the earth!"
Gee Whit"
Its a fact A cartridge is three
and quarter inches long, and"-
Say, If they were fred end to
end, SO to sepak, it would reach the
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-11-08

so PAD i cOulQ not
re st t night t.
would lie awake and
get so nervous l
would have to get
up and walk around
and in the morning
would be all tired
out. I read about
Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Com
pound and thought
/ would try it. My
nervousness soon
left me. / sleep
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-11-08
Riblette-H Harrison.

Mrs. N. J. Milburn has just re-
ceived a Nashville telegram, stating
the marriage of her daughter, Mrs.
Daisy Harrison, to Mr.. Joseph K.
Riblette, foreman at the Dupont
Powder Plant, formerly of Fort
Worth, Texas. The marriage was
consummated at o'clock Wednes-
day evening, the 9Th inst, in the
parlors of the Maxwell House, Nash
vile.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-11-08
Flour Flour Flour

We have just received another big car
load of FLOUR in 196-pound barrels.
This flour is milled at Grandview, Ind,
of Longberry, Red Indiana Wheat. It's
100 per cent pure wheat every barrel
guaranteed. It must please you, or your
money back.
We sell it in accordance with the rul-
ings of the U. S. Food Administration.
You must buy 48 pounds of meal with
each barrel of flour, or furnish us with
toll card properly signed by your miller.
Our Flour is always better Our price is always cheaper
Cash Grocery Company
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-11-08

A clean production of 141 tons in
a single working day! When one
stopped to think of how many cart
ridges it took to make ton, and
pictured them all dumped in single
pile-say! AS our boys in khaki
and navy blue might say, boy,
howdy! Some production"
On the way back to New York
l had the good fortune to ride with
Captain A. M. Matticc, advisory
engineer of the Remington UMC
Company. Upon my mentioning the
subject to him, he said good way
to visualize the amount of this am
munition which constituted days
production was to divide the total
weight by the capacity load of a
motor truck.
ut would require twenty-eight
f1ve-ton trucks to haul each days
output" said he.
Then he, too, got to figuring. And
in a minute or two he told me this:
"A regulation bandolier holds
twelve clips of five cartridges each,
or total of sixty rounds. At the
rate of production now existing in
eight hours we could fit out over
eleven and a half regiments of in
fantry with full bandolier of sixty
cartridges for each of the men. To
be precise, we could equip full
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-11-08
County Election.

The election in 0bion County last
Tuesday was quiet with light vote.
Number Thirteen polled only $50
votes and the same ratio held good
over the county.
Following is an estimate by dis
tricts:
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-11-08

moon, wouldn't it?"
But just then our pass came and
the interruption kept US safely down
on the earth.
l saw the testing ranges, and then
more loading machines, hundreds OF
them. And every cartridge, or part
of one, that l saw pop out Of ma
chine, and they popped out of every
machine in steady stream, said to
me, END to end we would reach
more than twice around the Garth. I"
In going thru the various parts
of the factory l had run across sew
eral inspecting departments" where
girls were inspecting components
such as finished cartridge shells,
shells which had had the primers
inserted, bullets, etc. But after go
ing thru the loading rooms my guide
took me into a large room where
about $50 girls were inspecting the
complete cartridges. Here every
single cartridge is carefully exam
ined for defects and gagged to see
that it comes within the limits OF
size. l was told that the inspection
of finished components and finished
cartridges together occupied the en-
tire attention of little over thou
sand people.
This does not include numerous
departmental inspector" who
are continually going from machine
to machine and examining the prod
uct in partly completed shape in or
der to see that the machines and
tools are properly adjusted.
Nor do the above numbers include
the testers and shooters who test the
cartridges to see that the velocity
is right, that the pressure is not ex-
cessive, that the bullet jackets do
not strip off when fired, that they
are within the limits of accuracy in
target shooting at 500 yards range,
that they will shoot all right in five
different kinds of machine guns, and
ether stunts"
Altogether more than 1900 people
are engaged in one kind of inspec
tion or another, just to be sure that
the cartridges are as nearly perfect
as possible.
Back in the offices in the after
noon, and still thinking of that dou-
BILE row of cartridges around the
globe, got to asking questions. Per-
haps because they thought to humor
me out of bad case of bewilder-
ment, they verified the statement
made by my guide and gave me some
more data to play with. And before
got thru asking questions and fig
uring out problems of arithmetic l
had perhaps more information than
any one ever suspected / was going
to get away with. For instance:
At the existing rate of production
this one plant was and is turning out
80 calibre Springfield cartridges
the regular service cartridge used by
our soldiers in their rifles and ma
chine guns-at an average rate of
seventy-six per second, counting
working hours only. The net amount
of the principal materials entering
into days output of these cart
ridges only, and not counting scrap
or waste, was approximately as fol-
lows, in round numbers:
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-11-08
WOMAN'S NERVES
MADE STRONG
By Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound.

Winona, MINI. =" suffered for more
than year from nervousness, and was
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-11-08

New
eanndrd and
nf tc
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-11-08

Where do you eat and drink ? After
all Forrester's place is the best.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-11-08

A complete line of heaters and
laundry stoves at WEHMAN'S. It
will pay you to look them over.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-11-08

After all, the biggest dollars worth
is The Commercial. But its cash.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-28
Is Men Fail to Report
for Draft Examination

Glenn Carr, chairman Of the selec.
tive service board, has published the
names of eighteen men who failed to
report to the board when ordered for
physical examination. The men in
this list filed their questionnaires &C
cording to law and were notified OF
the date they were expected to appear
for examination.
II is the duty of the board to place
the names of these men in the hands
OF the police department unless they
obey the order, and II they cannot
then be located the list of delinquents
is sent to the adjutant generals office
at Washington and legal action
against them probably will be taken
Following are their names:
John Ehla, 212h South Eighth st.
James w. Grimes, care Frank Aus.
terman, r. r.
Mike N. Rausos, Chicago. Ill.
John Gehring. Wilson, N. c.
Roscoe Brandenburg. Arvel. Kans.
Frank Higgins, 226 North Fourth st
William Higgins. Warren, Ohio.
Markus Edwards, Westerville, o.
Raymond Scott, 1916 S. 9th st.
Earl Mabra. Dayton. o.
Harold Perkins. 1906 Boyer st.
Charles Rottman. Milwaukee, Wis.
George d. Martin. 113 8. 9Th st.
John Saunders. 1922 North G st.
Francesca Lombardo. Hamilton, 0.
Edward l.. Young. 10 8. 10th st.
John Henry Often, 101 s. 18th st.
Coon Dat, Indianapolis. Ind.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-28
Food Prices Advanced
II Per Cent IN Year,
Says Federal Report

WASHINGTON. March 2s- Food
prices took another jump Of one per
cent from Jan. 10 to Feb. Is, making
total increase of 81 per cent for
the year ending on the latter date
the bureau OF labor statistics an
nounced today
Only three Of sixteen standard ar
ticles failed to advance, while eight
increased and five did not change.
Sugar showed the greatest increase OF
IL per cent, round steak three, sirloin
steak, chuck roast and butter. 2;
hams /, lard less than one per cent
Eggs took the sharpest decline OF
nine per cent, pork chops two, and
bacon one per cent. Milk, bread,
flour, corn meal and potatoes re-
manned stationary.
In the year ending Feb. Is, potatoes
alone dropped in price, the decrease
being IS per cent. Increases were as
follows: Corn meal II, bacon 81, lard
81, ham 80, hens and milk 35, sugar
articles ranged from II per cent for
sirlOin steak, rib roast, bread and
flour to "a per cent for butter.
For five years ending February,
1918, food increased sc per cent, ev-
cry article advancing more than forty
per cent.