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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-11-07

Five dollars will be awarded the
contestant turning in the greatest
amount of cash subscription business
during the week November 4th, p,
M, until next Saturday, November
18th, 6 p. m.
Five dollars will be awarded the
contestant turning in the greatest
number of new subscriptions during
this week, ending 6 p. m, Saturday,
November 18th.
A Close Race.
In checking up returns for the first
period in The Dawson News auto
contest which ended last Saturday,
November 4th, p. M, it was found
workers in the contest are very close
together, the winners winning over
each other by very small margin,
while those a little farther behind have
indicated by their work of the last few
DAYS that they will not be long in
getting place near the top OF the list.
Enter and Win.
The Dawson News management ap-
preciates work that has already been
done, but despite the effort put forth
by the contestants results thus far
have been meagre, due, of course, to
the fact that we were slow in getting
started off. Now that the workers in
the contest are becoming interested
their enthusiasm will be contagious,
and the hundreds of present subscrib-
ers will be glad to renew for another
year and to pay up any back accounts,
and new people will daily add their
names to The Dawson News lis; OF
readers. For this reason those who
have done only little work, or who
have been hesitating about entering
the campaign, can now jump into the
race and roll up big business, tor we
are confident that as much business
can be secured now in new and re-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-11-07

neWal business, IN one week S time, as
has been done in the entire first period
of the race.
Field Barely Touched
The field for new subscriptions has
scarcely been touched. Anyone inter
ested in Terrell and surrounding coun-
ies-anybody who is interested in
boosting the value of his real estate,
his business, even the value and per-
manency of his job-who does not
take the local paper is not doing his
full duty to his town or community.
The Dawson News invites everybody
who is not now subscribing to do so
at once, not only because we want
your subscription, but because you
need The Dawson News if you are to
be informed on the life of your COM
munity and this section.
If YOU are now a subscriber we
know that you will renew with the
first contestant who asks you; il you
are not a subscriber we feel sure you
will be; but if you wish to assist in
the contest to win the $1,000 Buick
car hand in your subscription or re-
newal, NOW-today, and assist the
hustler of your choice.
On Taking Things for Granted.
Contestants, take nothing for grant
ed. The cup of failure is waiting for
the person who is always taking things
for granted
Such person trusts everyone and
everything but himself.
Few things just turn up" but are
brought about by the ingenuity and
cleverness of someone; by the hard
work of someone.
Take nothing for granted; you can't
win the $1,000 Buick if you think you
can't. On the other hand it is not too
late to win if you think you can; and
BACK THE THINKING WITH
SOME ENDEAVOR.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-11-07
PLAN BIG PROGRAM OF
ROAD IMPROvEME NT
FEDERAL OFFICIALS PLACE
U. S. ABOVE ALL NATIONS.
WILL SPEND HUGE SUM.

A program for good roads construc-
ton during the next IS or 20 years
which will make the road transporta-
ton facilities of the United States Tar
exceed those of any other nation is
the aim of the federal government.
Under the program there will be built
during the period 10000 miles OF i'm
proved highways, which will constr
tute the federal aid highway system.
and an equal or greater mileage OF
state and local roads.
Details of this vast program were
placed before the conferences OF the
highway education board, meeting in
WASHINGTON October 10th to 18th, by
state highway engineers and oftlcials
of the bureau of public roads, OF the
department of agriculture.
Will Cost Three Billions.
Officials of the bureau place the ag-
greoate cost Of the federal aid program
Clone at about $3,000,00000O, basng
their estimate on an average cost OF
$4,000 a mile. Approximately one
third of the proposed system, or on,
00O miles of improved highways, al
ready is either built or building;
The federal aid program, officials
said. will contemplate the construction
OF only such roads as fit into the ma ma
tional program and contribute to the
national system. There will be main main
lines of highway communication be-
tween big centers, and thousands o. o.
miles of feeder roads reaching back
into the more sparsely settled regions
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-11-07
EXPLORERS SEEK
CONQUEST OF DESERT
WILL SEND EXPEDITION IN
TO HEART OF GREAT Saba
RIA. USE ARMORED CARS.

An expedition into the heart OF the
great Sahara desert, the first ever at
tempted by white men, is being plann-
ed in France, where the project IS
arousinq keen interest in scientific cir
cles. Speedy FACTOR automobiles
equipped with the latest type machine
guns to repel hostile tribes Astounding
in the interior, are to replace the slow
moving camel, the only mode OF trans
portation heretofore employed by ex-
plorers seeking to learn what is be-
yond the great waste of land.
Andre Citroen has proposed type
OF car designed to negotiate the heavy
sands. climb the plateaus, and act as
movable fortresses in case OF attack.
Already one expedition is said to have
started across the desert to establish
an advance station, with reserve sup
plies of gasoline, water, food and
equipment.
Party to Start December 1st.
The principle of the automobiles to
be used in the invasion OF the uneX-
p1ored Sahara is similar to that OF the
famous tanks used in the world war
an endless belt tread that will not
sink so readily in the sand as wheels.
The speed attained by the car, how
ever. will be far greater. Even IN Or
binary heavy going it is expected to
make 20 miles on hour.
Under the preliminary arrangements
the main expedition will start about
December LIST, and will follow the
course of the preliminary one, which
left the Alberian railroad terminus at
Touggart and started toward lnsalah
an oasis 800 miles distant. This oasis
is the extreme outpost ever reached
by a white man, and vast store OF
supplies will be placed there
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-11-07
OCCUPATION ARMY IN
GERMANY is COSTLY
PRESENCE OF ALLIED TROOPS
IMPOSES HUGE FORTUNE IN
TAXES. MILLION A DAY.

Amazing figures Of the cost of the
army of occupation are given in the
six-month statement of accounts is
sued by the reparations commission.
The total cost of the armies of occu-
patton up to April 80, 1921, was for the
allies 2,132,000,00O gold marks, or
about $530,000,000, and for the Unit
ed States 1,010,000,000 gold marks, or
$252, 100000. This is for a period of
80 months and totals about $l,000,0O0
a day.
Ali the inconvenience of foreign
occupation are intensified in Mainz, a
town of 10000 inhabitants. In 1918
the German garrison was 5000 strong.
The present French garrison has a
strength of about $4,000. The families
of the French troops are also quar-
tered there, adding several thousand
to the population.
Many Are Homeless.
Nine thousand German families are
looking for houses and in the poorer
quarters six or eight persons may be
found living in one or two rooms. The
French have requisitioned 355 entire
dwelling houses and 1914 rooms.
Frenchmen with or without families
are billeted on 1884 German house
holds, and 430 private kitchens are
used by French families. Some 400
billets have been taken in administra-
ton or municipal buildings.
Forty-two per cent of all hotel beds
have been requisitioned, while the
town hall has been turned into cash
no for the recreation of the garrison.
New barracks, parade grounds and
fving fields are being built as though
the occupation were to be permanent,
it is said, and the Germans are pro
testing bitterly at this alleged viola
ton of the peace treaty.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-11-07
RECEIVERS 100000
DOLLARS LOST GOLD
BRINGS UP TREASURE FROM
OCEAN CLAIMED BY DAVY
ZONES. MANY HAZARDS.

c. P. Lambert, famous English
diver who holds the record for recov-
ering treasure in the grip OF the sea,
now seeks new worlds to conquer al
ter bringing up S4OOO,OOO in gold and
silver from the steamship Oceana,
which sank 20 miles from Dover, in
one of the deepest and most danger
Gus parts OF the English canal. 1t
took him and his assistants three
months to raise this treasure.
Ship Was in Collision.
The Oceana was in a collision in
the Gibraltar straits, while bound for
Bombay with gold bars and silver in
gots destined for the Indian mint. She
was taken in tow but sank off Dover.
Lambert was commissioned to recover
the precious cargo. The keys to the
bullion room where the treasure was
stored were known to be in the cap
tain's cabin.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-11-07
MAN is ARRESTED
AT PRISON DOOR
CALLED TO VISIT A FRIEND
AND WAS TAKEN IN CUSTO-
DY BY OFFICER.

ATLANTA, Charles johnson,
"a, alleged member of a large coun-
terfeiting ring, who was the object OF
an international search by secret SER
vice agents for more than seven
months, was arrested here today.
Raised 81 Bills to $40.
Johnson was charged with having
passed bills raised from 81 to $40 on
an Eagan Park merchant, and pass
ing one similarly raised at the Park
hotel.
He was taken into custody by led
eral authorities Tuesday, when he. ap-
piled at the Atlanta federal penten-
tiarv for permission to visit a prisoner
who is serving a sentence for counter
feiting. A federal agent, who was
present, recognized Johnson IT was
said, and held him for further identi-
hcation.
Confessed Bill Raising.
He was said to have confessed his
connection with a gang and is said to
have admitted his part in the raising
the denomination of the 81 bills to
$40.
After operating in Atlanta and 9th
err nearby cities the gang was said to
have scattered. Johnson was traced
by federal operatives, first to Birming-
ham. Ala. and then to Pensacola,
Fla, where he shipped to Quebec,
Canada. The trail was lost in the
maze of the Canadian forests but was
later found in New York city, and was
followed to Atlanta. He is said to
have reached Atlanta by stealing rides
on freight trains and automobiles.
Johnson is identified as a former
fim-fam operator and was once a
member of the British navy.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-11-07
METHODISTS OPEN
A COURTING PARLOR
PLAN TO TAKE MATCH-MAK-
ING OUT OF DEVILS HANDS,"
IS DECLARATION.

NEW YORK, N. 4.-An amateur
and n-commercial matrimonial par
Tor" has been opened by the Union
Methodist Episcopal church in West
Forty-eighth street for the purpose,
set forth in circular sent out by the
church on Saturday, OF taking match
making out OF the hands OF the devil.
The organization is known as the
National Lonesome club, an idea orig
mating with an unmarried Wall street
business woman.
Pastor Gives Blessing.
The matrimonial parlor' has the
blessing of the pastor, the Rev. DIR.
Tohn G.. Benson, and the public an
nouncement of the non-professional
matchmaking enterprise was sent out
by the council of the boards OF the
benevolence Of the Methodist Episco-
pal church.
The fortunes OF the club to date
were described by Miss Mary Dart
who said:
The club started three weeks age
and is doing very well. There have
been no engagements yet-that is
none has been announced, but severa
couples who didn't know each Other
before are going together good deal
Has Fifty Members.
There are about fifty member:
now, and it is growing every Sunday
Nearly all are outsiders not connect
ed with the church. More young mer
have been attending the meetings thar
Young women. At our first meeting
three weeks ago, there were twenty
five young men and five girls: This
has been changed, though, and there
are now about thirty young men anc
twenty girls. Those who came at the
first meetings have been telling then
friends
Miss Hart was asked if the unmar-
ried and business woman who hao
started the organization had hooked
one yet" but the hostess laughed and
said:
THAT is ridiculous. She is not
thinking of any such thing. She Is
simply trying to help lot OF young
people"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-11-07
FIELD BARELY TOUCHED
In THE DAWSON NEWS BIG CAMPAIGN
Anv Energetic Man. Woman Win
Today and Win Handsome Prize Big Commission
in Turned in This Week Gives 100000 Extra Votes

Take your receipt book and start
out today The first $16 you turn in
gives 100000 extra votes. Each addi-
tional $40 gives 100000 MORE extra
votes. You can easily TAKE THE
LEAD in the race, if you TRY. A
$1,000 Buick, $3.50 American walnut
6-piece bedroom suite, $500 Edison
photograph await the willing work.
ers. Try and win.
Dropping Uninterested Ones,
In the large number of names en-
tered in this contest, thus far, only a
few have shown any real personal in
terest. Much of the voting has truly
been done by friends who show in
terest in wishing this or that favorite
to win. From now on greater personal
interest will be developed, but i'll or
der that those who are bent on win
ming. and to that end will put forth
every effort to make a good showing,
have a greater field to work in, we are
eliminating uninterested ones, and
from now on all contestants who fail
to make a report once each week, or
who fail to keep in touch with the
campaign department by reporting
that they are at least interested and
trying, are subject to being dropped
without further notice.
Big Vote Credit.
The biggest extra vote credit offered
for the remainder of this contest will
end next Saturday, November llth,
9 p. m. This week each $40 in cash
subscription business reported gives
100000 extra votes. This offer will
not be repeated, for each period fol
lowing will see the extra vote credit
decidedly more than $40 in
business to gain 100000 extra votes;
The final close of The Dawson News
contest is scheduled for December End
and not later than December 10th
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-11-07
Modern Medica,1t With No Legs,
Ouns Automobile Built to His Order

was puzzled to know how Hammill
would drive the car, having no legs.
That's simple" explained Hammill.
at was built for me specially at a cost
of $4,000 and is so constructed that l
drive it entirely with my hands. The
gears and brakes, together with the
gasoline, are all controlled by these
two wheels. which l sit between:
The car had bells instead Of a horn,
and traffic made way as it would for
fire apparatus. At the police station
the beggar said that his home was in
South Dakota and he had Travelled
from city to city in his motor car,
equipped with sleeping and cooking
facilities. In night court HamTnill took
a roll of bank notes from his pocket
and produced bail of 500 pending a
hearing.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-11-07
CUPID WINS THIRD ROUND
IN WIFE'S FIGHT AGAINST ART
Couple Will Mary Third Time Alter
Two Divorces. Can't Live To-
gether or Apart.

NEW YORK-Jerome Uhl, paint
er and opera singer, started for Rome
On the Majesty on Saturday to wed
Tor the third time the woman VINO
hrSt became his bride i'll 1908, his
twice shattered romance having been
patched up a few weeks ago, at Green
Mich, Conn, when the former Mrs
I b. heard him sing.
lbl, then a painter, married Miss
Elizabeth Norris, daughter OF Henry
aattimore Norris, of Philadelphia, IN
!yJ5. She divorced him in 1914, alleg-
ing he paid more attention to his art
than he did to her.
He voiced and won her again, and
HEY we're married in 1917 IN Santa
Barbara. Cal. In 1919, however, she
divorced him again, alleging that the
addition of singing to his accomplish
,ments made him pay less attention to
her than ever.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-11-07
KENTUCKY MOUNTAINEER
DUG UP POT OF OLD COINS
Gold Pieces Amounting to $4,000 Be-
lieved to Have Been Buried Century.

uGNGU W I1dNC OCCl LA ~ ~~AA]ANJ'
David Jones, 40 years old, of near
Somerset, KY, mountaineer who has
been poor all his life, now is classed
as a rich man by hill country stand
ards.
While digging a pit for sawlnill
in the Mount Victory section OF Pu-
laski county, KY, Jones drove his pick
into the top of a pot There, arranged
in orderly rows, was greas mass OF
gold coins.
The money was in ancient Eng
lish pieces, ali more than 100 years
old. and Jones could not determine
the value of his find. He called on an
expert from the state banking depart
ment who assured Jones that the gold
was worth about $4,000.
Then arose the question OF owner
ship. Finally Jones was informed that
if he kept the money II months and
no one who could prove ownership
appeared the fortune would be his.
1t is believed by some that the mon
ey was buried by robbers at least 100
wears ago. The section is declared at
that time to have been the lair OF
gang which preyed upon large part
of the state and used Pulaski county
as place for hiding their loot
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-11-07
s5,SOO,OOO U. S. TAXES
SAVED TO GEORG|ANS
FIGURES ANNOUNCED AFTER
SPECIAL SURVEY BY REVE-
NUE. COLLECTOR ROSE.
HUGE TRANSPORTATION TAX

More Than $1,000 People With In
comes of Less Than $4,000 Are AT
fected by the Reduction, Says Mr..
Rose. Burden on All Lessened.
ATLANTA, Reductions in
federal taxes which are effective for
the current year will save the tax
payers of the district of Georgia the
enormous sum of $5,800,000, according
to a special survey of the cancellations
and decreases in tax rates provided by
the revenue act of 1921, completed
yesterday by Internal Revenue Col
ector Josiah 7. Rose.
The reduction in taxes for 1922 is
approximately as follows:
Income tax ,Zl6,0UO
transportation tax .-..-.---------. l,9l5,2l9
Sales and luxury tax....-.-...... 1,623,7S1
While the transportation, sales and
luxury tax cancellations became eff
fective January LIST of this year, the
income tax reduction covers 1921 as
well as 1922, and thereafter.
transportation
An outstanding feature of the re-
port is the fact that during the four
years the transportation tax was oper-
ated the Georgia district paid Uncle
Sam $7,945, 285.35 in transportation
tax, divided as follows:
Freight .--.-----S4 6l05U
Passenger ---...............-..-...-. 1904 21l.36
Express OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 67,14123
Pullman berth -..-....-...------.- 343l426
This means that in the last four
years $3.50, 478, 344.85 was expended in
the Georgia district for transportation
charges alone OF this amount $685.
653,950 was for freight charges; $40
052,642 was for passenger fares; ST.
342,82460 for express, and $428, 928.2S
was for pullman fare.
This does not include transportation
charges that were prepaid in some 9TH
er district Even the tax and passen-
gef fares paid by the thousands of
tourists coming here from outside
points are not taken into account.
$1,000 Taxpayers.
OF the amount $2,216,000 deducted
ST, 100000 is distributed among the
81 900 taxpayers with incomes of less
than $4,000, and S385,000 applies to
surfaces on larger incomes, while
$4,000 affects property valuations
The new exemptions allowed heads
Of families for dependents is now
$500 and $400, which means an i'm
creased exemption for the married
couple with one dependent Of $500,
or tax saving OF $28.
The survey stressed the fact that
the relief afforded by the decreased
taxation affects every person in the
Georgia district who travels pays
freight, sends an express package,
buys a pullman berth, takes a drink
of soda water, or who has taxable
income. In other words, the relief at
forded reaches all classes.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-11-07
WOMEN POLITICIANS POvT POLITICAL "HONEYMONs" ON WANE

have been met by the simple method
of passing the hat at her meetings
Separate political meetings for men
and women will be thing Of the past
if the leaders OF the republican women
in Pennsylvania have their way.
Women have need of mans broad
er experience" is the tactful way Mrs
Barclay Warburton voiced her de-
mand that women be admitted to the
mems meeting Both must yield, like
good partners, on non-essentlals and
fight in unity for the common good
The result will be that the politics
OF tomorrow will be solid fusion OF
the mans angle and the woman,s an,
gle, each contributing an equal share
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-11-07
5000 CASES OF GERMAN
SANTA CLAUS GOODS ARRIVE
Roller Skating Teddy Bears, Honking
Geese, Hopping Bullfrogs and
Talking Dolls in Lot.

Germany's first shipment of
Christmas toys, 5000 cases, has
just arrived in New York city.
Almost every type of toy that ever
fitted into stocking or stood be-
side the fireplace on Christmas
morning is represented.
M echanical animals predominant
S~are geared and mo-
tore lock works inside
them thar AXE them do strange
things such as no toy animal ever
did before There are bears that
scoot about on roller skates,
tumbling bears that turn SOM
ersau1ts across the floor, monkeys
that propell themselves with the
shambling swing or real monkeys,
big bullfrogs with red high hats,
phenomenal hopping abilities and
deep booming voices.
There are geese that honk,
ducks that quack, swans that
sing, and chickens that cluck and
flapp their wings as they scuttle
along.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-11-07

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Women
political leaders are pouting today.
The Homogeneous" in both the demo-
cratic and republican households are
waning. In the atmosphere OF both
places there is that intangible some
thing which indicates the first quarrel
Neither the democratic nor republi-
can women are indulging in prom
enade with the family skeleton, but
there is about them an air OF sulky
M
To be specific concerning the subro-
sa agitation, the democratic women
are Just plain mad" at the men OF
their party because they have so far
displayed no real desire to aid Mrs.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-11-07
Christ Figure, in Ghostly Outline,
Is Wonder of Thousands in Church

ural causes. He describes it as a 're-
markable coincidence of light refrac-
ton on the white Italian marble OF
the back OF the altar, combined with
the grain OF the marble"
The niche in which the apparition
appears is about four feet high. 1t is
surrounded by a group OF marble pill
lars. The apparition is not discerni-
bic early in the morning or after the
sun has reached a certain point in the
afternoon. Many who visit the church
believe it a miraculous vision. Some
say they have also seen the Virgin
Mary.
Father Curran welcomes the appari-
ton, natural or supernatural, because
OF its bringing so many people and m
spring them with greater religious
feTVor.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-11-07
HAS SPENT A HALF
CENTURY BEHIND BARS
Eighty-Three-Year- Convict Has
Golden Anniversary.

A strange golden anniversary party
was celebrated in Waupon, Wis. last
week, with the guests tagged by num-
bers. the younger ones ranging up to
10000 and the honor guest, No. 1,727,
Bill Maxwell The guests and the hon.
or guests were convicts at the state
penitentiary, and the anniversary
marked the termination of so years.
of Imprisonment for Maxwell now IS
years old.
Maxwell has never seen the outside
of the prison since he entered at the
age of 80, on life sentence for muir
der, resulting from quarrel over a
woman. Automobiles were undreamed
of then, and trolley cars were rari-
ty. The biggest cake that the prison
bakery could turn out was ordered by
the warden to mark Maxwelps ami
Versary.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-11-07
Apparition, Dimly Discernible in a
Pennsylvania Edifce, Attracts
Many to Tabernacle.

Misty. like statue carved in ghost
Nv marble. there arises in the niche
above the tabernacle in St. Mary,s Ro-
man Catholic church, at Wilkes-Barre,
Pa. a figure OF Christ, causing an IN
tense excitement in that section OF the
state. Kneeling in veneratlon are
thousands OF persons OF all creeds,
who go to the church daily to see the
figure.
ventional pictures Of the Good Shep-
herd. The head can be seen, but the
features cannot be distinguished, The
Rev. J. ]. Curran, rector OF the church,
thinks the apparition comes from nat