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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-23
ACCUSED U. S. OFFICER
BLAMES GERMAN SIREN
Lieutenant Under Arrest for Alb
sconding at Coblenz With Regi-
mental Payroll of Army.

LOUISVILLE.-Alleged to have
fallen victim to wiles of German
siren and to have made de luxe
tour of unoccupied Germany in her
company with United States army
money Lieutenant John C. Gotten
keine, Fifth field artillery, first divis-
ion, is now in the guard house at
Camp Taylor awaiting trial by court
martial on the charge of absconding
at Coblenz with the regimental pay
roll amounting to $4,000.
Gottenkeine enlisted at Hoboken,
N. J. He was a personal adjutant of
the Fifth in the army of occupation.
AS organizations in the Coblenz
bridgehead were billeted over several
hundred miles of territory supply Of
ficers on pay day sent their payrolls
to him at Montabour. Gottenkeine re-
ceived the $4,000 in marks and his
payroll and Immediately crossed the
line into occupied Germany with a
fraulein. In smart civilian attire he
is said to have visited the races at the
/ fashionable Dusseldorf track.
Late in June he was picked up by
German authorities in Freldburg
near the Swiss border, devoid of cash
and his German Lorelei, and turned
over to the Americans at Coblenz.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-23
FARMERS OF UNITED
STATES LEAD WORLD
CROP OUTPUT FOR 1919 WILL
TOTAL SIXTEEN BILLIONS,
SAYS HoUSToN'S REPORT.

The American farmer leads the
world in the individual production OF
crops, according to the annual report
of Secretary Houston, of the depart
ment of agriculture. Mr.. Houston
notes that countries such as Belgium
under intensive cultivation, give g
higher acreage yield, but taking both
acreage and yield per acre into con-
sideration the American agricultur-
list produced this year two and halt
times as much as his Belgian and
German rivals, two and three-tenths
times as much as the British farmer,
three and two-tenths times as much
as the French, and more than SIX
times as much as the Italian.
Big Jump in Crop Returns.
The aggregate value of all crops
produced this year is placed at $751;
S73, 100000, as compared with $l4,-
222, 100000 in 1918, and an average
of $5,829,829,000 during the five
year period preceding the European
war.
The nation can expand still further
it's output of commodities by cultivat-
ing unused tillable land, estimated
at more than so per cent. of the to-
tai, the report states. Expansion,
however, is limited by the supply OF
labor and capital.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-23

Silk stockings can be rolled into as
small parcel as possible and put in.
to little red tarletan stockings and
tied up with ribbons. On the card
that sticks out from the top write:
It takes two Christmas stockings,
Tucked tight from top to toe,
To hold the things l wish for you,
And then they'd overflow.
Every one loves to get a plant or
two for Christmas. You can buy love-
ly little painted pots or you can paint
them yourself. A good card to send
with plant would be: "I'm counting
on this little plant to keep my good
wishes green throughout the coming
year."
Following is verse to slip into the
Christmas book:
If you could read between the lines
You'd find this book chockfull of
signs,
Enough of joy and Christmas cheer
To last through all the coming year.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-23
Bowels Become Normal

liver livens up, bile flows freely
headache, biliousness, tongue-fur
Kings New Life Pills get in theil
natural, comfortable action.
Purgatives. never pleasantly correc
tive, sometimes habit-forming, SHOULD
Not be taken to rack the system vic.
lently Natures way is the way of DR.
Kings New Life Pills-gently but
firmly functioning the bowels, elimi
mating the iatestine-clogging waste, and
promoting the most gratifying results
Cleanse the system with. them and
know the boon Of regular bowels. 25c
at all druggists.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-23
500 Reward. 500

Tile readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure in all its stages and
that is catarrL. Catarrh being greatly
influenced by constitutional conditions
requires constitutional treatment Halls
Catarrh Medicine is taken internally and
acts thru the Blood on the Mucous Sur
faces of the System thereby destroying
the foundation OF the disease, giving the
patient strength by building up the con-
work. The propriefors have so much
faith in the curative power Of Halls
Catarrh Medicine that they offer One
Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails
to cure. Send for list Of testimonials.
Address F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo,
Ohio. Sold by all Druggists, &c.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-23
How to Dress Up
Christmas GIFTS
Rv MARGARET MIDDLETON.


You really don't have to spend
lot of money on the Christmas gift
that you send to make them accept
able. The most important thing il
making the one who receives then
feel that a lot of thought has beer
put on them.
T Take Just for an example a hand,
kerchief. The loveliest little ones car
be made from squares of delicate col
ored or white handkerchief linen by
pulling into them colored threads. To
do this you simply fasten the end of
the thread that you are to pull out
to a fine-colored strand of cotton and
pull it out very carefully. After the
threads are in, roll the hem and over
cast it both way so you have cross
stitch hem. Suppose you make pale
blue handkerchief with pink threads.
Take pale pink envelope and cut
Sits in it so you can run ribbon I'M
der it. Tie blue ribbon about each
end, and in the center write the fol-
lowing little verse:
This gift that's on the square l send,
A Christmas thought from friend to
friend,
And hope that you may it employ
For wiping only tears of joy.
Bags are another gift that are as
acceptable as handkerchiefs. One can
never have too many, and the fash
ions change every season. If you are
making a bag for a friend instead of
putting it into the usual tissue paper
wrappings make one of the little
brown paper bags that every one is
carrying this year just the right size
to hold the bag. Paste an appropriate
| Christmas picture on it, make red
| handles and tie them together with
red ribbon. Tie little card to it with
these lines:
I've stuffed this bag with Christmas
cheer,
AS much as it will hold,
| hope that through the coming veal
It's contents turn to gold.
| dOmS-mdu0 CdHuy Will luohC q IVA
! gift de luxe this year. You can buy
pretty little containers at the five.
and-ten for it, toy suitcases, trunks
baskets, etc. Wrap them, as usual
and write in the card:
Roses are red,
Violets blue,
Sugar is dear,
And so are you.
Instead of tying up your bit of en-
broidery, or other handmade gift
with Christmas ribbons wrap it Sc
curely and then sew on the white pa
per with gaily colored wool threaded
into a big darning needle. Write OF
the outside:
I've sewed into this Christmas gift
For every stitch a. thought,
Than the gift might have bought
And hope you will like it better
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-23
CANDY REPLACES COCKTAILS?
SUBSTITUTE FOR ALCOHOL
Is Explanation Given in England for
Increased Sugar Price.

LONDON, Eng.-Prohibition in
America has helped materially in
raising the price of sugar two cents
a pound in England, according to the
economic experts. This is the way
the situation is explained:
Since the American has been cut
off from his cocktails he has been
consuming prodigious quantities OF
candy, and has been drinking oceans
of nondescript but sugary concoc-
tions which are vended over the soda
fountain bar. At least such is the OBJ
servation of his British brethren. In
other words, the American is making
sugar a substitute for alcohol. Be-
cause of this the United States has
less sugar to export.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-23
NEGROES TAKEN FROM
A TRAIN AND LYNCHED
Two Were Lined Up Beside Freight
Car and Shot to Death.

HUNTINGTON, w. Va.-Two ne
groes accused of murderinC ]. Meek,
resident of Island Creek, Logan
county, were taken from train at
Chapmanville today and lynched.
The negroes were charged with
killing Meek, a construction foreman
for the Island Creek Colliery COM
pany, during quarrel.
Deputies were overpowered, the ne
groes taken from the caboose, lined
up beside a freight car and shot to
death. The bodies were thrown into
the Guyandotte river.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-23
Odd Facts About Eggs.

and sheepmen poison carcasses to de-
stroy wolves and bears; the condors
eat the bait and die.
That an ostrich egg may be dan,
gerous, if over-ripe, was discovered
| while ago by Doctor Bauer, of the
Smithsonian Institution. While ne
was boring a hole in one it exploded,
the flying fragments cutting him bad
| ly.
The eggs of some orioles are mark
ed with grotesque figures, often re-
sembling Chinese characters. Experts
in Oriental languages have on occa-
sions been asked to read them, but no
satisfactory translation has been OBJ
tanned.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-23

The Academy of Science in Phila-
delphia, some years ago, lost an egg.
Presumably it was stolen. 1t was the
egg of a California condor, and worth
lot of money.
Only seven eggs of that bird are
known to exist in collections. 1t fire.
quents the most inaccessible peaks in
southern California, and matches its
Young at dizzy heights in caves in the
faces of cliffs. Thus the task of pro-
curing an egg is one involving utmost
danger.
The species, gigantic vulture, has
been almost exterminated. Cattlemen
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-23
CHEST CLOCGED UP
WITH HEAVY COLD?
Don't give it chance to
''set in"-use DR.. Kings
New Discovery

THAT dangerous stage where a
cold or cough or case of grippe
- might get the better of you may
be nearer than you think. Prompt
action with DR.. Kings New Discovery
will avert a long siege.
For fifty years it has loosened con.
gested chests, dissipated tight-packed
phlegm, broken vicious colds and
coughs. Give it to the youngsters
take it yourself. There will be no disa
greeable after-effects.
Coo. and $1.20 a bottle. At your
druggists. Give it a trial.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-23
CONGRESS PAYS OWNER FOR
cow THAT ATE DYNAMITE
Negligence on the Part of Govern
ment Road Builders.


WASHINGTON, D. C.-The cow
that burned up Chicago, the COW that
jumped over the moon, the COW that
raised the fatted calf, and the COW
that died on the tune-they will have
to recognize an addition to their Gel
ebrated quarette now.
She's the COW that ate up $4,000
worth of government dynamite out in
Willard Wash, and made the wheels
of congress go round until her own
er got $4,000.
The house paused in its consider
alton of weightier subjects long
enough today to pass the necessary
legislation. Contributory negligence
on the part of the government road
builders who left the sticks of dyna-
mite where Bossy could eat them was
the verdict.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-23
FLOOD DRIVES BIG "BOBCAT"
FROM HABITAT TO DEATH
Large Animal Was Killed in Lee
County by Hunting Party.

LEESBURG, Ga.-The high water
in the Flint liver has had the effect
Of driving animals from the swamp
that are rarely ever seen in the open
lands of this section. A member of a
hunting party killed a big "bobcat. !"
The carcass of the animal measured
thirty-one inches from its nose to the
tip of it's tail
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-23
WAS ONCE FAMOUS, BUT
is NOW UP AGAINST 1T
"Pat" Grove, Ex-Kidnaper, at New
York Salvation Army.

NEW YORK, N. Y.-"Dead broke"
and out of a job "Pat" Grove, who
years ago kidnapped Edward A. Cuda-
by, jr., today applied at Salvation
Army headquarters for a job and
enough money to telegraph Young
Cudahy in Chicago, congratulating
him on his engagement just announc-
ed. Both his requests were granted,
and after he had been installed as
Waterman of the Army's hut in Union
Square his message was flashed west.
The ransom he received for young
Cudahy was spent long ago.
The Washington times., 1919-09-05
The Rhyming
Optimist
By Aline AEichaelis.

TT is very bad to burgle; It is
naughty to rob banks; only
= wicked folks would gurgle at
the bandits froward pranks. Blow
ing safes is not q custom that the
Sunday schools commend; and for
highwaymen, don't trust 'em, though
they treat you like a friend. Crooks
and robbers, win tell you. give no
corner in your heart; II they can
they will compel you from your
boarded coin to part.
Gents like these are never weary
doing folks with might and main.
am always very leaFy when they
visit my domain. This is but q tiny
leafiet from the catalogue Of crime.
and Il nils me full OF grief, yet for
these wrongs I have no time. But
I'll tell to every klddo, these are
not the worst OF crimes. and I'd
rather rob a widow Of her nickels
and her dimes than to be the sort OF
fellow who forever frets and steWs,
daily greets you with q below:
Gee, but I hRve gol the blues
Though really ! am not craving
fame like jimmy-wielders choose. I
prefer Il to the raving Of the chap
with chronic blues, Wiser people
form habit. when his distant
shape they spot, OF absconding like
a rabbit anywhere that he Is not.
Yes: ia rather meet a robber and
my treasured coin jar loose. than te
face 3 signing soldier Wha
chunks and hunks Of blue4
The Washington times., 1919-09-05
By Virginia Terhune Van
fABthsF of Asay HsReas and oae
~ fha eounfEyss beaa-lraogER
WRITERS of short starlea.
q -
EHlETn III.


~ 9EKL4 she had done her best
NJ and 70 no avail
Such was I Helen God
cards reflections Is she drove home
from the Ileighton's on the night Of
TIE elfair "a celobratiOn OF the sign
fnG 81 The afmistfce.
Ehen she had left David in the
GiuinE-room. and gone out into the
hai IN reply = Desires's summons,
ahe lesrned that the taEicab she had
ordered vas awaiting her. EErs. Duf
leld3G cab Was also 1t the door.
Heien was secretly rather glad Of
this, for & meant that the widow
N7culd have no opportunity for a
tete-a-tete with her brother tonight
But of course the evil hour had
only been pogtboned. IN 3 day or
Two lIrS- DuAield would tel Samuei
Leighton what she had learned.
fnen smith would Be under sus-
picion.
Eet she had done her best Helen
retterated 70 her uneasy self. TO be
sure eAe bad talked too freely with
sefiereaz and Nfs. DUdfeld. But
H1e had tried 70 make repaEations
by putting Saith on his guard.
And. n return for this, he had as
soot az told her BE could not he
equally frank with ner simple ques-
lion about his knowledge OF the
-psn6aat
Il was strange that even now che
c4uld not believe him guilty He
might Be shielding someone else
one o. the maids, perhaps. Yet that
wOuld surely be : most ridicuious
thtng 70 de- and very unfair 20 his
Employer.
anyway. she would fret hseBelf
n longer about a. Smith had eYi-
dentiy considered her warning OF
too little consequences 70 heed.
Very WsIl-let him look out for
This is what David smith wanted
% DEBUT not IN the way Helen
Goddard had II mind.
The evening had given him cause
for anxious thoaghL
First cf al, ne knew that walter
Jeffersoa had recognised him. That
II itself meant that "a exposure Of
kia Identity was imminent. Such
exposure Wouid naturaIiy incur his
nBicyeris anseE. And tllE anger
Wogla Be accompanies By dispieaS-
ure-eVeu disgast=oa the part oe
Samuel Leightons daughter.
Ihis, David De Ilaine felt, was
E1ore than he could endure.
Tor he could no longer pretend
e c0nceAI from himself that he
1oved Desiree Leighton as he had
ReTeE supposed he could love any
woman. TIE time vas past when
BE could reason VITA himself. He
eould net stay where he must see
heF trsGuently ana maintain mis-
peace OF mind
Even now. Is he walked home
ward, he thrilled at the memory. OF
her hHying turned to him with q
haif-confeSsiOn of something that
was troubling her.
The Washington times., 1919-09-05
THE LOVE GAMBLER
NEW SERIAL BY FAMOUS WRITER
David Decides to Leave His Position,
Recognizing the HOpelessness
of His Love for Desiree.

Il was something about her PEN
dant. She had started to tell him
Of it when Miss Goddard had ap-
peared IN the doorway.
What had she been about 70 say?
Could this talk Of the pendant in
dicate that there was suspicion in
the family az to his relationship
with the former owner Of the
trinket2
David wished II had never come
into Desiree's possession IL it had
led TO her unhappiness. But why
should she be unhappy about 1t un-
less. she knew that he was the
nephew OF the original owner? In
that case, she could not be dis
pleased with him or she would not
have tried tonight to give him her
confidence.
He must not let himself think
along these lines any longer. He
was her fathers chauffeur. In that
practical thought lay his only
safety.
He would seize the first opportu-
nifty to give up his present POSI-
ton. Then he would so away and
start life again.
Perhaps sometime he might make
good, away out West somewhere.
Then he could come back and con-
fess all to this giri.---
He caught himself sharply and
set his teeth grimly.
She was a rich mans daughter!
That Ia itself WoHld keep him from
confessing his love until he had a
good income Of his own. He would
not demean himself by marrying q
rich woman when ne himself was
poor. The suggestion was intoler-
able. And Il would be many years
before he could make enough
money to support Dssirse as she
should be supported
Moreover. she would never give
his . second glance. The humility
that accompanies true love told him
that
Fes-it would be long before he
would have q right to ask any girl
20 marry him. Meanwhile, the one
girl In the world for him would
undoubtedly be married to some
man far more worthy OF her than
he could ever hope to be.
But, nobody, would love her better
than he did. On that fact he would
be willing to stake his life.
There was nothing else worth
working for now, he unused. He
was young. yet without Desiree life
stretched before him like q dreary
vista.
Wearfly, he climbed the steps Of
the lodging house on Lexington
avenue. and s6ftly let himself into
the narrow hall. The place had a
rank. stale smell that sickened him
slightly.
As he lifted his key into the lock
OF his own room he saw an envelope
stuck under the bottom OF the door.
When he had shut himself into
his room and turned on the light,
he picked up the envelope. The
corner bore the name OF Henry.
Andrews, Miss Jeanne De LANES
lawyer. David remembered that,
moved by an inexpHcabie impulse.
he had sent his address TO this man
soon after taking his present po-
sition. He had eonhded TO him that
TO his employer he was known as
David smith"
With q stirring Of curiosity, he
tore open the envelope and drew
forth the letter.
To BE Continaea.
The Washington times., 1919-09-05
Twice Told Tales Of
Washington
By Francis de Sales Ryan
The Killing Of ''Bat' Dalton
q Francis az sales q.


and oiscoloRod. its number wa
Initials that once bad been
VITA ink On the Inside 81 the tarl
could not Be decfphered even un
q strong glass. But besides 20
usual large sire G had pecuIia
that served a. ciue 81 the
Of OHiccr Falrev--lt had
pronounced bulge in tte front
There g just one nlan. % W
know ledge whose head s. ol lnat
culiar shape said the oHicer s.
htmaslE That man was naI
Henry Dryson. He lived ttrre
blocks from the home 81 the mnr-
dered man. His head was 81 r-
maFkabis size and nulged ccnsrfcoe
ousIy al the front
ItWas then 8 O'Clock in the nnrrs
Ing ard still very dark. but Falfev
Immediately set ont for the home cl
Dryscn. Ihrough the closed sar
ters - Dryson's home t1e policeutn
detected the gllmmer of shalrc
lamp doUnstairs and pesrIlE
through 9 side window he saw Dr.
son, fully dressed, c0mpleung the
Daeking oe grin.
Mef Him ~ Door.
He waited for several minutss
Until Dryson finished the packinr.
blew cut the light and started TO-
the 'front.' door. There Faivey eo
frontsd him and pushed him BACK
into the room
SIN. sorry 60 dstaip vou. Dryscnr
he sad 4but you must remain aaa
satisfy my curicsit9 about
hat pf yours that have found
Dfyson's eyes buigcd n terroF
under FalFeS uleauing look I1ere
vas ore chance in a million lcr
him to take and he took it- de-alle-
ed q vicious blow at the officer an
tried to dash through the door
way, but Falvey was expecting thig
and promptly seized and pinned
his man 60 the floor.
pryson admitted cWnership 81 t1s
hat which, he said. had faen
while struggling u the death eom-
bat with Dalton. he had Killed
Dalton. be declared. after q hitlef
quarrel. Hsaring some one ar-
preaching the scene. be was 0hir-
ed 60 run before he could find la
hat
The arrest was made four hor
after the commission of the
and upon q slender clue ven wc
ca upon. Drgson was conFic
and FalFey received q ecmmend
tion from headquarters Tor the
luton of the case.
The Washington times., 1919-09-05
Some Draped
Skirts
BY Rita StuYYesant.

PTaHE canning seakon Is marked
By TIE revival 81 The separate
skirt for. dressy- wear. Some
novel forms OF drapery and iooped
panels promise 70 play q prominent
part in the early autumn skirts
Lines of dfstinction Characterize
tie models OF recent importation,
and the soft silks and satins lend
themselves gracefully 10 the yoIu-
minous drapery.
The newest skirts are long enough
-. ccver the boet-tops and quite
vide enough Tor comfort Ths
widths Gt the bottom viii vary
from 4 yard ana q quarter TO yard
a1d rhfee-quErters. with all widths
BetWecn. SIX and satin models
are inclined % be q bit wider.
one smart skirt interpreting the
Gulnnn vogue Was shown in supple
biaek satin and pale gray cnepe.e Il
Was draped low about the hips. but
q great cascades at the sides.
Ihese drapes were turned inside out
and faced with the gray crepe. A
wide crushed girdie Of the material
wrapped Itself snugly about tbs
waist.
To complete this skirt one wears
q lovely blouse OF pale gray
ceorSet.s embroidered with spark
ing jet beads. For a pleasing
ckange one might also choose a
bodice OF black satin with gray
trimminSs. 70 harmoRize with the
skirt
Dsris blue satin portrayed an
other novel skirt. IL had Il simple
fgro-piccc foundation fashionably
narrow. OFor this were separate
eide sections, fully gathered and
looped under az the bottom with
true. Turkish charm. A long wide
rfrdIe safathes the waist and hips
ard Is tasseied with heavy wooden
beads il. bright odd colorings.
> b.ousb Of gay figured geor-
Esttz makes q pleasing compile
ment 20 this skirt. Deep raspber-
r, embroidered in dark blue silk
also Uenbines wonderfully well
Eith blue satin skirt.
Two shades Of brown satin. bis
cult ana syrup allow themselves TO
Be drabed into a striking model for
tall woman. A rather fun gath
cred s9irt Is partially covered BY
3 drapcd tunic and dips deeply on
the right side. and Is cut upward
g short peDlum on the left hip.
lot content there II is Rracefuly
Iooped and sinished with q straight
fiye.inch belt trimmed with small
covered buttons. The entire tunic
e nned with the biscuit eoiored
satin.
a fiohiy haEmOnioua effect would
- obtained ~ topping this brown
satin skirt with q blouse oE bis-
crit colcred chiffon and creme flet
iaec e1 otouf TIE throat be-