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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-09-27
BOOTBLACKS TO BUILD
100000 HOTEL
FIVE BROTHERS CAME TO U.
S. PENNILESS IS YEARS AGO.
MAKE START ON SHINES"

UNIONTOWN, Penn Gregory
brothers, bootblacks, have optioned
site in Main street and announce they
will consider bids for a $1,000,000 no.
tel by October l, by which time they
will close negotiations for the ground,
located within two blocks of the city's
business center.
Fifteen years ago the eldest of the
five brothers arrived in Uniontown
from Greece penniless and got a job
in shoe shining parlor. Two years
later the remaining four had been pro-
vided with transportation to America
and all FIVE went to work shining shoes
in a cubby hole space in Main street
them to purchase the Yought hotel in
Connellsville, business block in IN
iontown and number of residential
sites. The advancing market trebled
the value of their holdings. Last week
they disposed of a square bounded by
north Gallatin avenue, Peter and Penn
streets to Harry Cooper, a tinsmith,
for $150,000.
The hotel project has been seriously
considered by several local coal and
coke producers, but the Gregorys are
the first in the field with an announce
ment OF their plans. The new build
ing will rival Uniontown's SKY
scraper," the First National bank build
ing, butt by ]. V. Thompson in 1921
at cost of 100000 and which sold
on the auction block at bank receiv-
er's sale for $4,000 three years ago.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-09-27
FEEDER FOR THE
FLORIDA SHORT ROUTE
WILL BRING TRAVEL FROM
NORTH AND CENTRAL GEOR-
GA TO MAIN LINE.

CORDELE. Ga.-At a. conference
held here Tuesday between business
men of Sylvester and Moultrie the
board of commissioners of Crisp coun-
ty adopted the Arab route for the
new state highway between Cordele
and Sylvester. This road now becomes
a liAk in the Florida Short Route via
Sylvester, Moultrie, Quitman, Madi-
son, Fla, to Jacksonville, and is said
to afford practically an air line route
from this point to Madison, Fla, ap-
proximately forty miles shorter than
the National highway between these
two points.
Plans, it is said, will be put under
way Immediately for improving the
roads on the route and marking it for
tourist travel Plans are said to have
been agreed upon between Madison
county, Florida, and Brooks county,
Georgia, for the construction of paw
ed road between Quitman and Madi-
son with paved roads to be construct
ed on the Madison Jacksonville divis-
ion.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-09-27
WONDERFUL GAIN IN
WEIGHT REPORTED
YOUNG WOMAN ONLY WEIGH
ED rs POUNDS. NOW WEIGHS
100 AND IS GAINING EVERY
DAY.

Before began taking Tanlac l on
ly weighed 10 pounds; | now weigh
over one hundred and am gaining ev-
cry day." said Miss LaRue Davis, Of
Chattanooga, Tenn.
Il bought my first bottle OF Tanlac
at Gas City, Ind, and it helped me so
much that l continued using it. | have
always been very delicate and suffered
great deal from stomach trouble and
rheumatism. | rarely ever had any ap-
petite and simply could not relish any
thing. | fell off until | only weighed
70 pounds and was so thin | looked
perfectly awful This is the condition
l was in when began taking Tanlac.
"Oh, | feel so different now. Even
my complexion is improved. My appe-
tite is good and | can hardly get
enough to eat. Tanlac is simply grand
and l can truthfully say it is the only
medicine that ever done me any good"
Tanlac is sold by leading druggists
everywhere.-adv.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-09-27
Models Scarce; Costs
Much to Be Pretty
American Fashion Art League Unable
To Find Girls to Wear Creations.


CHICAGO-The Fashion Art
League of America, which opens its
annual style show this week, is unable
to find models to wear their creations.
According to officers of the league
models have passed up the career be-
cause of intermittent employment and
the high cost of maintaining beauty.
Frantic modistes, after touring the
studios of commercial photographers
and artists, found woeful lack of
pretty girls. Even home1y models who
might have been doctored up to be
beautiful were unavailable.
Miss Theresa Thomas, one of the
few survivors, who has been kept in
constant employment by Nine. Ripley
the president of the league, explained
about the high cost of beauty and the
lack of models.
1T costs too much money" she said
Unless model has permanent po-
sition it is hard for her to keep a per
manent wave in her hair. And unless
she can do something in a designer s
establishment besides wear clothes it
is difficult to find steady employment
Models are in demand in the spring
and fall, but during the rest of the
year they cannot command a steady
income. They must continue to look
beautiful, wear chiffon stockings and
neat shoes, smart clothes and hats and
nice gloves if they are to get and hold
jobs. This 'upkeep' expense is too
much. That is why there is scarcity
of models"
Miss Thomas estimated that waves
shampooing and other trimmings"
necessary for the maintenance OF beau
ty cost So a week
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-09-27
6,5OO,OOO COTTON
CROP IS FORECAST
GREAT DETERIORATION IS
SHOWN SINCE THE LAST
GOVERNMENT REPORT.

In recent statement issued by
David c. Narrower, cotton expert OF
the Wall Street Journal and said to
be one of the country's closest stu
tents of the cotton situation, the Amer
lean cotton crop for 1921 is estimat-
ed at 6,500,000 bales
Mr.. Narrower calls his estimate a
conservative one, and points out in
crop caused by the ravages of the boil
weevil.
The cotton expert is now on a tour
of the south for the purpose OF making
personal investigation of the condi-
ton of the 1921 crop. He has already
visited North and South Carolina and
is now engaged in a tour of Georgia.
In addition to 1921 production Of
6,500,000 bales Mr.. Narrower estimates
that the domestic carry-over from past
crops will make total of 100000
bales available for consumption this
year. The total production last year
was 10,500,000 bales.
In Texas, where the best authorities
had estimated the crop at so per cent
of all normal production, or 100000
bales, the recent floods have cut down
the production at least 250,000 bales
more. In some parts of Mississippi the
weather has been so excessively hot
the pickers cannot work full day;
plants are dying; no more blooms
seem possible and the crop is gone"
World consumption of American
cotton should equal 100000 or H.
100000 bales, according to Mr.. Har-
rover. Germany, which in the 1920
season used only about 100000 bales,
in the past season used 1881, 900 bales
of American cotton including about
10000 bales of linters, he adds.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-09-27
RAINDR0P VALUE in
DOLLARS is ENORMOUS
1850 TONS WATER NEEDED TO
GROW ACRE OF FOOD. COST
$4,000 TO HAUL 1T.

WASHINGTON, D. c. - Rain
might be. looked upon as the oil which
lubricates the worlds economic ma
chinery," says a bulletin issued from
the Washington, d. c., headquarters
of the National Geographic Society in
connection with recent reports OF
worldwide drought damage to crops
with the smallest estimated cotton
crop since 1913" continues the bulletin,
with spring wheat in poor condition
at home as well as in many OF the 9th
er wheat countries of the world, with
other important crops below their aver
age, and with drought cast as the VII
lain, or at least as an accompllce,. IN
each case, the difference that a lew
showers make in humanity's scheme OF
things is strongly emphasized.
while everybody realizes in gen
eral way that the world depends on
rainfall and fertility for food there are
very few, perhaps, who even approx
mately appreciate how comparatively
little the farmer actually does in the
great process of op-growing. 10
plow millions of acres furrow by fur
row. to spend millions OF dollars on
fertilizers. and to reap and gather and
thresh is no mean task. And yet COM
pared with the part that nature plays
in the process mans work seems
very slight labor. For instance, it takes
about twenty inches of rainfall to grow
a food crop under our general farming
methods. which means about 200 tons
Of water to the acre. That seems pre-
posterous figure, but the doubter can
easily demonstrate its correctness.
Suppose the American farmer had to
haul the water his ground must have
to give him a good crop, and the dis
lance and freight rate were the same
as the average railroad haul and rate
in the United States. On that basis 1t
would cost him more than $4,000 an
acre to water his place.
But not only would his water bill
be nearly half million dollars on a
100-acre farm, but his fertilizer bill
also would amount to neat little sum.
1t is estimated that in the process OF
normal evaporation soil water presents
the rootlets OF its neighborhoOd with
about fourteen pounds OF ammonia a
wear to the acre. Also, it gives them
some hfty-seven pounds OF potash.
With sulphate of ammonia costing on
~ = cents pOullu VT AOol ~ NlA IA 3
the war; and hundred pounds OF the
sulphate required to contribute seven
teen pounds OF ammonia it will be
seen that the process OF evaporation
gives the rootlets $l65 worth OF am
monia to the acre.
"When the world war cut off Ger
man supplies OF potash and it scared
to $500 a ton biologists secured the
United States for the priceless fertilizer
with little success. Yet the process of
evaporation generously hands out more
than half hundredweight to the acre,
in war and peace This automatic fer
tilization is worth an additional $3.50
an acre to the farmer at present prices
and would cost him $40 an acre at war
prices.
From this it will be seen that the
S12 to SIS an acre that it costs the
average farmer to grow wheat is
small figure indeed compared to what
he saves by having nature as his water
wagon and fertilizer source"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-09-27
DRINK HOT TEA
FOR a BAD COLD

Get a small package of Hamburg
Breast Tea at any pharmacy. Take a
tablespoonful of the tea, put cup OF
boiling water upon it, pour through
sieve and drink teacup full at any
time during the day or before retiring.
1t is the most effective way to break
cold and cure grip, as it opens the
pores of the skin, relieving congestion.
Also loosens the bowels, thus driving
cold from the system.
Try it the next time you suffer from
a cold or the grip. It is Inexpensive
and entirely vegetable, therefore safe
and harmless.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-09-27
RUB BACKACHE AND
LUMBAGO RIGHT OUT
Rub Pain and Stiffness away with
small bottle Of old honest
st. Jacobs Oil

When your back is sore and lame or
lunbago. sciatica or rheumatism has
you stifened up, don't suffer! Get a
IS cent bottle Of old, honest est Jacobs
Oil' at any drug store, pour little
in your hand and rub it right into
the pain or ache, and by the time you
count fifty, the soreness and lameness
is gone.
penetrating oil needs to be used only
once. 1t takes the ache and pain right
out of your back and ends the misery.
It is magical, yet absolutely harmless
and doesn't burn the skin
Nothing else stops lumbago, sciatlca
and lame back misery so promptly!
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-09-27
Mud Pie Kids Are the Healthiest
Infant Mortality Rate for New York Tenements Lower Than
In the Fashionable District of the City

bringing up their children by scienn-
tihc treatment, while west side
mothers are letting their opportuni..
ties in this direction slide unseized.
"Kiddies who revel in mud pies
and the natural childish games are
less prone to disease than those who
loll in linousines and get their eX.
ercise by going to dancing school,
DR.. Baker further adds.
The infant mortality rate Tor New
York city for the year 1920 was IS
in every 1000.
Yet the crowded tenement dis
trict. where there are 10000 persons
living in congested quarters, the
rate was 81 deaths in every 1000
children born.
While in the west end district
96.2 Of every 1000 children born
in the same period died before their
first birthday Vas reached.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-09-27

666 quickly relieves COnstipa-
ton, BiIiOusness, Loss of Appetite
and Headaches, due to Torpid
Liver.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-09-27

NEW YORK, n. Y-Babies
born in the crowded tenement dis
tricts of the lower east side OF New
York have more chance of living
and growing to healthy man and
womanhood than most OF those w no
see the light OF day in the exclusive
sections of the upper west side.
East side children are healthier
than their west side cousins, while
the offspring OF alien parents is al
most twice as hardy as the child
who springs from all-American
stock
These statistics have been brought
to light by the bureau of child hy-
giene in the department of health,
where. the principal reasons for
them are given by DR., S. Josephine
Baker, director Of the bureau, as:
East side alien mothers are
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-09-27
GEORGIA SWEET POTATO
"ALL TO QUEENS TASTE
Spuds Are Planted in the Royal Gar
den in Rumania.

That Georgia sweet potatoes are all
o the queens taste" is indicated by
he announcement that the queen Of
2umania is having the Georgia product
planted in her garden in order that she
nay have a plentiful supply
Her majesty first heard of the Geor-
ia sweet potatos when Sproul Fouche,
If Rome, vice consul to Rumania, and
Mrs Fouche went to make their home
t Bucharest When she heard of the
Georgia yam, the Elbertas and the
Georgia melons she became curious,
nd Mr. Fouche sent over for ship
nent of potatoes, which arrived at
is office in splendid condition.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-09-27
LARGEST FAILURE KNOWN
FOR YEARS AT ALBANY

ALBANY, Ga.-The largest failure
that has occurred in Albany in recent
years was that Saturday when w. c.
Durham, local lumber broker trading
under the name of Durham Lumber
Co., filed voluntary petition in bank
ruptcy, showing liabilities of S123,-
023.73 and assets OF $141,382.3l.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-09-27
AN INCENDIARY FIRE IN
SUMTER DOE GREAT HARM
Barn and Contents on Wheeler Hart
Farm DESTROYED

AMERICUS, Ga.-Fire, believed to
be of incendiary origin, destroyed the
barn and contents on the farm OF
Wheeler Hart, 10 miles from Ameri-
GUS on the Parker's mill road, before
daylight this morning. Two valuable
mules were so badly scorched they
may die. Several head of cows and
hogs were burned to death. This years
crop of hay and small grain was lost,
but the corn crop had not been gath
cred. The Hart farm is located near
the Ed Young place, on which fine
new barn was destroyed under similar
circumstances.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-09-27
NO SUBSTITUTE OFFERED.

Say what you will about druggists
offering something ''just as good" be-
cause it pays better profit, the facr
still stands that ninety-nine out of
hundred druggists recommend Cham
berlain's Collie and Diarrhoea Remedy.
when the best medicine for diarrhoea
is asked for, and do so because they
know from what their customers saw
OF it, that it can be depended upon.-ad.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-09-27
MISSIONARY UNION OF
SUMMERHILL ASSOCIATION

VIII NUIIVtHt at WeSlUH AUnloIIoW.
State Secretary Will Be Present.
The annual meeting of the w. M. L.
vene/at Weston tomorrow, September
18th. An interesting program has been
arranged and record breaking at
tendance is expected. Dinner will be
served on the ground at the noon
hour.
Interest in the meeting will be en-
HANGED by presence OF some interesting
personages, among whom will be Miss
Maud Powell, state secretary OF the
association.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-08-11
Thursday, August II, 1921.

Some popular ideas of the personal
life of Thomas 4. Edison, the world S
greatest inventor, have recently been
exploded For instance, it has been
common opinion that the inventor
was practically an infdel. Accord
ing to his wife, Edison has highly
developed Christian sensibilities. "His
every instinct is Christian, says
Mrs. Edison, and she adds that Mr..
Edison's deafness is the inventors s
greatest regret, as he cannot enjoy
church services. Another popular
fallacy about Mr.. Edison is that he
sleeps but three or four hours day.
His wife says that this is frequently
true when the wizard is at work in
his laboratory, but that he frequently
relaxes, and during his relaxation
periods he sleeps almost all the time,
day and night. Thus source OF
argument of young people that the
greatest inventive mind needs only
four hours sleep a day does not
stand water.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-08-11

mother for some time, returned to
Boston with his father.
Mrs. Alonzo Bates and children, of
Elko, spent last week end with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. B. Keel.
Mrs. Frank Groves returned from
Charleston Friday evening, after a
weeks stay with her son, DR.. Mike
Groves.
Mrs. Sallie Molony is visiting in
Greenville.
Mrs. DR.. Early and children have
returned home after visit to her
sister, Mrs. Dr.. Hammond.
Miss Rentz, from Branchville, is
visiting her brother, Aaron Rentz.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Boylston are
spending their vacation in Batesburg
and Darlington.
Miss Ollie Baxley, from Washing
ton, is visiting her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Jake Baxley.
Miss Vera Lowe is at home after a
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-08-11
Rice at Weddings.

A New York pastor has taken a
stand against the practice of throw
ing rice at weddings. He insists that
bridal parties at his church shall first
deposit SIS as a guarantee that his
rule in this matter will not be broken
He says rice throwing is merely a
survival of a heather custom and
therefore, has no place in Christior
church ceremony. He is right; but il
is evident from the trifling penalty
named that he has little hope OF
breaking up the practice+ The SIS bill
will be forfeited in most cases; it may
then be used to pay the cost of clean
ing up.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-08-11

"My wife will be down here for
few days next month" remarked a
railroad, man the other day while a
freight train was shifting on the side
track here, 'tto put our son in Carlisle
school for the next session." When
asked his reason for this he replied
that his son was II years of age, and
had been attending the public schools
in one of our large cities; that the
boy was in higher studies than his
parents had ever had the privilege
of studying, and for this reason the
parents were unable to help the boy
at home. The teachers had told him
that the boy was expected to have his
lessons prepared before going to the
school. and inasmuch as the parents
unable to give him needed assistance
he had not made the progress the
fond parents thought he was entitled
to. The study hall maintained at
Carlisle was the attractive feature to
this gentleman, who believes that his
boy will there receive the assistance
that he needs to make the proper
progress at school.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-08-11

institutions of higher learning. There
are many who are most candidly of
the belief that the state is now donat-
ing money to colleges out of all pro-
portion to the attention given to pub
lie schools. The state is making fine
strides in the direction of raising the
standard of the town and rural
schools. Let this good work contin-
ue. We believe that the state spent
the past year about million and a
half dollars in aiding public schools,
while almost as much was approprlat-
ed by the legislature for colleges
The college appropriation goes to as
sist perhaps 5000 boys and girls to
get an education, and the public
school appropriation goes to the as
sistance of the tens of thousands OF
boys and girls endeavoring to get a
high school education. If the STAN
dard of the country schools can be
raised so that students may go direct
to college, there need be felt no fear
for the colleges. Money'spent on COL
leges is all right, but boys and girls
must have a foundation education
before then can enter higher learn
ing institutions, and the countless
thousands who have no hope of ever
entering a college are entitled to the
best high school education the state
can afford. When the public schools
are so equipped to give boys and
girls a good common education, it
will then be time to extend the COL
leges. Better and more colleges will
then be needed.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-08-11

'The southern section of South
Carolina is the finest section in the
world" we remarked the other day
to visitor in The Herald Office, "and
a few years from now it will be the
most highly developed portion of the
state" The friend replied, Eyes,
that is true. But I would like to see
some of these improvements before
die. They won't do me any good after
I am gone" We have thought over
that statement. There is no question
in our mind but that after period of
years southern Carolina will wake up
to it's vast resources and will come
into its own, but while the process of
coming out of it's Information is 60
ing on good many of us are going
out-not to return. What we need
is to get busy now so that the present
generation might enjoy the full meas
ure of prosperity that is our just
portion. This section is misunder-
stood by the rest of the state, and this
misunderstanding should be correct
ed; evils do exist here and they
should be eliminated, and the fight
of the present time is to force our
section to the front. Concerted &C
tion is needed to advertise to the
world just what we have to offer
And if the boil weevil can help us to
find ourselves" and we believe it is
doing that very thing, then he is not
such a despisable fellow after all.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-08-11

If the made in Carolinas" exposi-
ton in Charlotte September IL to 29
will impress upon the people of these
two states the possibilities that lie
latent in the soil of this section, the
exposition will have served a most
useful purpose. While we do not
take any stock in the idea that there
is any famine, or serious danger OF
famine, in South Carolina, it is nev-
ertheless fact that there are proba-
bly, people in this section who are
not surrounded by all they need.
This condition is true of all other
times as we'll as the present, and it is
a condition that ought never to exist
in the south. The south ought to be
the most prosperous section of Amer
lea. There is no other section of the
country that can so nearly come to
living at home. The trouble is
the people of the south are
not utilizing the possibilities
that lay around US, and if
the Made-in-Carolinas exposition can
impress on our people these resources
it will serve a good purpose. The
south cannot hope to ever reach the
pinnacle of prosperity so long as it
eats western meat and -four and
wears northern clothes and eastern
shoes.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-08-11
FINED FOR SMOKING PIPE.
In '.My Country 'Tis of Thee, Sweet
Land of Liberty

Zion, ILL.,, Aug. 4.-Smoking pipe
in Zion cost Frederick Stockstill $50
today. The city, which has ordinan-
ces regulating women's dress and how
it's residents shall spend Sunday, also
has a ban against smoking.
This thing must STOP judge re-
marked when he fined Stockstill.
"Stop,' Stockstill replied, I'm as
stopped, as my name would Indicate y
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-08-11

visit to relatives in Columbia.
Mrs. T. R. Chisolm entertained the
Sewing club Thursday morning. Rook
was played and delightful refresh