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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-06-06
Two Men End Life
In Sensational Manner
One Plunges From 18th and Other
From 10Th Story of Buildings.

NEW YORK, N. 1.-TWO New
lorN business men of some promi-
he4ce, weary OF the struggle with life,
Today departed from it in sensational
|InaSnner. Frank J. Perry, u, of Long
Island, a member OF the firm of John
= Ferry & Co., tile manufacturers,
|4fLaped or fell from the 18th story OF
tne METROPOLITAN Life building. His
Goay struck the pavement about three
iee' from the curb, narrowly missing
Ss1 era pedestrians.
Jqhn w. Gasteiger, head of the firm
|oL J, w. Gasteiger & Son, hay and
IAN merchants, of Brooklyn, hurled
3HIIaS .e from the 10th story of the
SS.lunlcipal building. His body struck
IL4lllueI D. Jones Asidelong blow,
ilIo|5ng him down, fracturing one
shoulder and Breaking one of his
.'sl'; Gasteiger left note to his fam
asking them to forgive his act,
-n1c4 ne said was for the best. He
.al oeen i'll for several months. He
,gs a wife, a son and two grand
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-06-06
York, War Hero, Is
Sent a Small Fund
Movement to Raise $4,000 for Fighter
Ends With S1,245.6O in Cash.

CHICAGO.-He gets this anyhow
one thousand, two hundred and forty
five dollars and sixty cents. A check
for that amount was sent today from
the treasurer of the Tribune to Ser
geant Alvin c. York, at his postoffice,
Pail Mall, Tenn.
lust before Christmas last year the
Tribune inaugurated Happiest Christ
mas celebration. Among the sugges-
tions sent in by the readers was one
to do something toward Frightening
the Christmas of Sergeant Alvin c.
York, the mountaineer redhead, who,
according to Gen. Pershing, perform
ed the greatest individual exploit Of
the late war.
Funds which were contemplated to
pay off the mortgage on his farm in
Tennessee were not subscribed to the
amount expected. and the sergeant
was reported without the money nee
essary to build home for himself and
the girl he married when he came back
from over there. The amount raised
for the fund totaled S1,2+5.60 exactly.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-06-06
THOUSANDS KNEEL AS
SACRAMENT PASSES
MORE THAN 100000 CATHOLICS
PARTICIPATE IN IMPOS-
ING PROCESSION.

ROME.-More than 100000 Catho-
lies of all countries participated today
in the imposing procession carrying
the holy sacrament from St. John
Lateran to the Colosseum and back.
Monsigneur Bartolomasi Bishop OF
Triest, who served as bishop in the
army during the war, celebrated mass
in the Colosseum in the presence OF
10000 children. Among those in the
procession were the members of the
sacred college and archibishops of the
bishops numbering more than 500.
The sacrament was carried at inter
walls by Cardinals Granite, Merry del
Val, Pompilj, Bourne and Vannutelli,
Cardinal Vannutelli, who is dean of
the sacred college, proceeded sturdy
and erect, despite his SO years and the
intense heat.
100000 Persons Kneel.
Tie immense crowd knelt as the sac
rament passed and the cardinals i'm
parted the benediction from various
alters The papal balcony on the ia
cade of ST. John Lateran overlooking
the square was crowded with more
than 1000 and many were moved to
tears. Large bodies of royal guards,
carabiniers and troops were stationed
at various points to insure order. To-
night the whole of Rome with the
principal churches are illuminated, the
dome of ST. Peters being especially
imposing.
The ceremonies reached their most
imposing character when the benedic-
tiOn with the sacrament was impaired
from an altar erected under the arch
of Titus on the sacred way and have
on one side the Colosseum and on the
other the Forum. Airplanes flew over
the scene. 1t is estimated that 100000
people knelt as the sacrament passed
in procession. American flags carried
in the procession were greeted with
cries OF vive America.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-06-06
Three Women Are
Killed as the Result
OF a Weired Mix-Ub

BOWLING GREEN, Ky-Re-
ports have reached this city OF
triple killing in Clay county, Tenn,
forty miles from here, in which
three women met death.
q rs. said that Clay county man
sedskp farm for $1,000. This be-
came md several men neigh
bors weiIt phouse and asked
him to go hu1A Wives of two
of the men who ed the fox
hunt then prepared to get the mon
ey.
They dressed as men, and with
blackened faces went to the farm af-
ter he left. They tried to force the
farmers wife to give up the $500
and, failing, are alleged to have cut
the woman's throat.
A boarder shot the two women
intruders dead, believing them to
be negro men. The boarder fled,
the story says, leaving the women
dead, the bodies being found by
the fox hunters.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-06-06
THE PRICES OF FARM
PRODUCTS GOING UP
HAVE MADE AN ADVANCE OF
ABOUT TWENTY PER CENT
IN RECENT MONTHS.
COTTON IS ON UPGRADE

Corn and Cotton Also Have Taken a
Big Jump, While Cattle and Sheep
Alone Fail to Keep Pace With the
Upward Trend.
The American farmer, during the
past winter, has increased his pur-
chasing power between 20 and rs per
cent, enjoyed a broad general advance
of about 20 per cent in the price OF
his produces, and raised his financial
standing, through the enhanced value
of all he produced, by a huge sum, &C
cording to a summary announced by
the United States department OF agri-
culture.
Crops and live stock have advanced
from level three points below the
average of 1913, or pre-war prices, to
a point Is per cent in excess OF it
within the short space OF time during
which no crops were harvested, the
summary shows. As a result of this
farm products price boost the farmers
crops are bringing in hundreds OF mil
lions of dollars more than they did at
the beginning of the winter.
Markets Still Rising.
And what is more pleasing to the
soil til1ers of the rural communities OF
the country is that the markets con-
tinue' to mount. AS the farmers are
at least IS per cent of the entire pop
ulation of the United States, their
prosperity forms a basis for industrial
and national prosperity OF a sound
nature
That very important farm crop,
wheat, has risen from $1.07 to $1.44
a bushel in the past six months. Corn
has gone from 48 to 63 cents bushel.
a 10 per cent jump, in the same period
OF time. Cotton was selling in Deem
Der at around Y cents a pound while
it is now lowering around the Zl-cent
mark.
The price of hogs has risen from
IS7.25 to $40 a hundred pounds, a
climb of more than 40 per cent. The
vaue of wool has gone UP steadily in
the past month. Cattle and sheep are
about the only two items of the fafm-
er's stock in trade that have not kept
abreast of the onward movement OF
product prices but even these values
are on the increase.
Eight or nine years ago the farm
er's dollar would buy dollars worth
OF goods at the store. That was 100
per cent value. Last December, how
ever, the farmers purchasing value
had fallen to S. per cent. That fall was
due to the fact that while farm prices;
had debated to the last cent, the prices
of other commodities were still far
above the pre-war levels.
Purchasing Value Greater.
In the half year that has elapsed
since the last month of 1921 the farm
er's purchasing value has risen to o.
per cent of the 1913 standard, The
agricultural department. attributes the
increase in the farmers purchasing
power to two things: the increase in
the prices of farm products and a
further decrease, though slight, in the
prices of other commodities.
Should the trend of prices on the
farm continue on its present way a
boost upward in the cost of foodstuffs
may be expected in retail markets.
The increased retail prices, however,
it is pointed out in the government
report. should not be great.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-06-06

trict Committee. Convention Will
Be Held on September goth.
At a meeting held in Americas the
democratic executive committee of the
Third district called a primary election
for the nomination of a candidate for
congress for September 18th, the date
of the state primary.
In the absence of Chairman Greg
DRY and Secretary Parks, E. L. Car
ter, of Lumpkin, acted as chairman
of the meeting, and John M. Greer,
of Oglethorpe, was secretary. The
committeeman in attendance were T.
l. Carter, Of Lumpkin; Hollis Fort,
OF Americas; F. R. Purvis, of Howard
E. L. Simpson, OF Smithville; D. W.
lowers, Of Georgetown G. M. Bell
of Bluffton, and John NJ Greer, Of
Oglethorpe All others of the IS coun-
ties of the district were represented by
proxies held by T. NJ Furlow OF
Americas.
Rules to govern the primary were
fixed, including the stipulation that a
plurality vote in the Is counties should
nominate; that violation of any laws
governing elections should disqualify
a candidate, and a district entry fee
of $40 should be charged in addition
to the state fee; that all persons quail
fed to vote for governor and state
house Offices shall be qualified to vote
in the primary. As soon as the demo-
cratic executive committee of the re-
spective counties of the district shall
declare the result in their respective
counties, as to the vote for congress,
the congressional committeeman from
each county shall certify the result in
his county to w. B. Parks, Daw-
son, Georgia, secretary of the con-
gressiona1 executive committee, who
shall consolidate the vote and an
nounce the result All candidates must
enter by July lst.
Candidates are required to pay to
the democratic executive committee
OF the respective counties of the dis
trict whatever assessment shall be
levied against said candidates for con-
gress by said committees to defray
the expenses of the primary, and the
name of no candidate failing to pay
such assessment shall be placed upon
the official democratic ticket.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-06-06
louisiana Ships 100000
Worth of Frogs in a Year
Value of States Fish and Oyster In
duetry Se,5OOo00 Annually.

Louisiana ships annually fresh water
fish to the value of $2,500,000 and salt
water fish to the value of $1,500,000
The principal fresh water fish shipped
to markets out of the state are, catfish
and buffalo, the amount shipped in
1921 being 21,000000 pounds.
The market value of crabs shipped
from the state is placed at 100000 a
year. Louisiana frogs to the value of
100000 were shipped last year. Lou
isiana turtles to the value of 100000
were shipped last year. The oyster in
dustry is worth 100000 year to
the state.
The total value OF the fish. oyster.
shrimp, crab and turtle business to the
state in 1921 is placed at $9,500,000.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-06-06
Pays $500 Rent for
A Single Pecan Tree
Twenty Acres of Such Trees Would
Yield $4,000 in Ten Years.

]. B. Clark, of Suwanee county, Fla,
has rented for 10 years a single pecan
tree for $500 cash.
The Suwanee Citizen, published at
Oak, Fla, figured that at this
l-s2 one acre of such pecan trees
would be worth $3.50 a year, or $4,000
for the ten years; and 20 acres for ten
years would yield S136.000; and at the
end Of ten years the owner would re-
ceive back the entire grove, worth
more than ever.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-06-06
Would Raise Lusitania
And Reap Rich Harvest
Frenchman Hires Forty Divers t,
Help Salvage Seas Wealth

Forty divers have been hired to aid
in an attempt to salvage the sunken
wealth OF the liner Lusitania, torpe-
doed during the world war The divers
will work in specially constructed suits
which will enable them to descend 28C
feet beneath the surface of the water
which is the depth of the Lusitania'
keel.
The work will be done by Count
Zanardi Landi. head of the Ayeready
Salvage Syndicate, of London, Eng
land, as soon as the English engineers
strike ends. Landi has had much expe-
rience in raising sunIen ships. He viii
receive 80 per cent of the wealth that
he takes from the Lusitania.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-06-06
GERMANY DESTROYING
MUCH OF HER WAR TOOLS

Up to March 1. 1922, Germany hac
DESTROYED 5.855 5000 rifles and carbines
100000 machine guns, 35700,000 load
ed shells and mines, 14,S00,000 gren-
AIDES, 1865 airplanes and 24,045 air
plane engines, according to official fig
ures just made public in Berlin.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-06-06
~ HENS AND FRIERS
ARE SOLD AT TENNILLE

fo, lsengIile, Ga, has had its first car
cb Gu chicken sale, and about 5000
ce ,,-.e7ls We're sold. Hens brought 20
'"'S and triers "a cents per pound.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-06-06

Perhaps some of the European
countries think that u. S. stands for
Unfailing Suckers.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-06-06

The man who invented that noise
less motorcycle IS not good judge OF
silence.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-06-06
BOARD CUTS PAY OF
100000 WORKERS
MAINTENANCE OF WAY MEN
CONSTITUTE MAJORITY OF
THOSE AFFECTED.

CHICAGO.-More than $48,00000
was sl25hed from the wages OF 100000
railway employees in a decision by the
United States railroad labor board to-
night.
The decreases, which averaged s
cents per hour in the majority of cases.
followed cuts of $400,000,000 made last
July by the board. Today's decision,
however, affects mostly maintenance
of-way workers, although decisions
are pending affecting other classical
tons
II the wage cuts made in the latest
decision are extended to other decis-
ions expected soon, it was pointed out
in railway circles, much of the $780,
100000 increase given by the board
in 1920 will be wiped out and wages
restored to a level which railway Of
fcials have told the board will lead to
a new era of development and open the
way to the employment of 100000
men.
Three Members Dissent.
The decision was signed by the three
railway members of the board and the
three members representing the public.
A dissenting opinion was filed by the
three members representing the labor
group. The majority opinion said that
the wage cuts, effective July /, were
made in accordance with decreases in
the cost of living. The minority opin-
ion contended that the wage scale
provided in the decision was INSULT
Gent to sustain life on the basis Of
American standards.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-06-06
ALIENSIIFLEECED upon
ARRIVAL IN AMERICA
MANY IMMIGRANTS FROM EU-
ROPE ROBBED BY SHARP
ERS OF OWN RACE.
SCHEMES ARE SMOOTH"

Crooks Find Gullible New Corners an
Easy Prey for Their Schemes. In
ternational Rogues Even Extend
Rami6cations to Europe.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-06-06
RULES ADOPTED FOR
CONGRESS PRIMARY
COMMITTEE FIXES SEPT. 18TH.
SAME DATE STATE PRIMARY
ELECTION WILL BE HELD.
PLURALITY TO CONTROL

Each County VIII Certify Result to
w. B. Parks, Secretary of the Dis
trict Committee. Convention Will
Be Held on September goth.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-06-06

Geography of an Area of 800 Miles
0T VS. Changed by One of Worlds
c go Disasters. Many Dramatic
Episodes.
Smyrna times., 1922-06-14

point Of a base line from "Cape Hen
lopen," for which Fenwick Island was
later substituted, due west, and tan
gent to the II mile circle The west
ern extremity of the arc found by
Taller and Pierson was accepted al
though it has since been found to be
1O8 feet too far west.
A true north line was then laid off
from the tangent point, but here they
made other errors, but these involved
only about one acre.
The lines found by Mason and Dixon
were marked by stone monuments
made in England, placed l mile apart.
After the separation from Pennsyl-
vania of "The three lower counties on
the Delaware" brought up again the
question of the boundary line. The
memory of the l701 line had grown
dull, and local tradition assumed that
the stone at the northern corner Of
Maryland marked also the western
end of the circular boundary. On this
basis it was held all Of the territory
lying south of parallel 30 degrees A
feet Is inches (the northern line of
Maryland) and east Of the meridian
passing through the northeast corner
Of Maryland, down to the tangent
point, belonged to Delaware. This
popular view, though upset by the
boundary commission Of Delaware in
| 1850, is stated to have actually gov
erned all interested parties as late as
1893, when a survey Of the Coast and
Geodetic service reached a final de-
cision, and its tradition is still power
full thirty years later.
"All the land titles are recorded in
Delaware" was written in 1893, "the
inhabitants vote and pay taxes in that
state, and a resident of the wedge
shaped strip between the circle and
the boundary of Maryland was for
some time a member of the Delaware
Legislature. 1t is a reasonable inter
probation of old grants that the juris-
diction of Pennsylvania should not eX-
tend south of Mason and Dixon par
allel of latitude"
Mason and Dixon Resurvey
y lcSuiNtA VI lllC NOlh VI -ho'Oll
and Dixon as affecting the circular
boundary was made by the three
states in 1S49.
This work, carried out by 1t. Col
onel J. D. Graham, produced another
3 crop Of errors and inconsistencies, and
was not ratified by the legislature OF
any one of the three states.
, In 1889 the legislatures Of Delaware
5 and Pennsylvania authorized the ap-
+ pointment Of three commissioner.
5 from each state "to examine, surve!
: and reestablish' the boundary line be
g tween the two states.
In 1892 the aid of the Coast an'
= Geodetic Survey was secured, w. o
n Hodgkins being detailed to the worl
4 which was completed by w. B. Cars
+ well.
r., The boundary as staked out was &C
G cepted by both commissions, and wa
shortly afterward ratified by tn
d Pennsylvania legislature, but onl
d acted on by the Delaware General As
e sembly in January, 1921.
Smyrna times., 1922-06-14

and Thomas Hopes estate Alto
gether it is estimated that 800 acres
are affected. On these taxes have not
generally been paid for the past two
years.
A Bit of History
On August "a, 1859, there was COR
veyed to William Penn by the Duke
of York a deed to the town of New
Castle and a 12-mile circle around the
same, and another to all the land
south of that circle as far as Cape
Henlopen.
In 1701 the circular boundary line
was run out upon the ground under
a warrant from Penn, by Taller and
Pierson. They ran a line due north,
intended to be II miles long from the
starting point in New Castle; from
its termination swept a circle east
ward to the Delaware shore, near
Chichester; and to the west in the
same manner, where a hickory tree
on the bank of a creek emptying in
to the Christiana was determined to
be the terminal point of two thirds
of a semicircle called for by their in
structions.
If this survey had been accurate,
all would have been we'll; but every
thing about it was wrong. The u
miles really measured 1000 feet more
than that distance, and was a mile
west of true north. The exact lOca-
tion of the western end of the line is
now lost; but it was probably in the
present state of Maryland.
The New Castle starting point, "at
the end of the horse dixie" is also only
conjectural.
The "12 mile point first laid out,
is however, identifable as the bend
in the Brandywine at Point Lookout;
near the present GranOgue station.
The calculation had been based or
the assumption that the circle wOuld
at some point intersect with the 4Otf
parallel of north latitude. AS matter
of fact, the most northern part of {
circle of u miles radius from New
Castle is only 49 degrees so north.
AS this circular boundary delimiteC
two tracts which both belonged t
Penn, little heed was taken of it il
the issue of patents for land. Owe
= some small part of the boundary eas
of the Brandywine, the patent line
were made to conform; so man,
perches "along the circular boundary.
Elsewhere no mention is made Of it.
Marked by Trees and Fences
As the line had been marked onl
. by "blazes" on oak or hickory tree
by the original surveyors, and late
e by fences which owners had built, a
). they supposed on the line, practical
!, all of these original points" hav
y long since passed away.
: In 1868, Mason and Dixon were er
i gagged to determine the norther
: boundary of Maryland, by cOmpariso
with the southernmost point of Phils
: delpha. They, too, made an erro
J. amounting to $50 feet south Of I'll
/ exact distance specified, Is miles.
II The eastern boundary of Marylar
had been fixed in the finally accepte
/ deeds as running from the midd
Smyrna times., 1922-06-14
THE r. L. DOLLINGS STOCK

Any one desiring to purchase r. L..
Dollings Stock will be greatly bene-
fitted by consulting Jno. P. Hudson
for special prices.
JOHN P. HUDSON,
Smyrna, Del.
Smyrna times., 1922-06-14
ADVERTISING
IN THE
Country Weekly

W
~ XPERT ADVERTISERS say it is not only the most
IL valuable but the most scientific advertising in the
- world. Advertising in the magazines has to be
general, for the reason that the average maga-
zine that you receive today set in type several weeks
ago. and the advertising copy was prepared several
weeks before that This that advertisers in the
magazines have to anticipate conditions several weeks
in advance of the time the copy is prepared.
This is not so with advertising in the country
weekly for the country weekly has the advantage
the magazine in that the weekly Circuates in cOmpara
lively small territory and the name of the merchant
the business who is selling the goods be placed
in the advertisement. This is impossible in magazine
advertising, which sometimes the whole nation
The weekly newspaper also is considered the best
advertising medium in the world by expert advertisers
for the that it has intimate association
with the family than magazine or daily newspaper.
No local merchant afford not to advertise in
weekly newspapers of the better class. 1t is sad
mentary upon small town business men that they don't
the advantage to them of carrying advertisement
in the small town paper every single week. Such ad
vrtsement is the cheapest salesman that the merchant
employ. The money spent in advertising in THE
SMYRNA TIMES, one of the better class of weekly
newspapers is an investment and not EXPENSE and it
is the best-paying investment that the merchant
make
Smyrna times., 1922-06-14

and Thomas Hopes estate. Alto
gether it is estimated that l, 800 acres
are affected. On these taxes have not
generally been paid for the past TWO
years.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-07-03
WARE ALLIGATOR
IN CAPTIVITY
shree Satz Brothers Find Saurian In
Highway - Lured by Lights OF
Automobile


SPRINGFIELD, Mass, July g.
tSocra' es," willy reptile of the Dismal
swamp. is captured. Word to this effect
reached the Union office ut 1.30 o'clock
this morning, when C. A. Smith of
Palmer. an automobile dealer in Ware.
told of the capture in which he partici-
pated. The saurian. which has been
sought by hunters from three counties
and even from Florida, came out into the
road shortly after midnight and fell into
the hands of the Satz brothers, George,
Bernard and Leo, who had been lying III
wait all evening.
Just after dark the Satz brothers, who
have been working on the trail of the
alligator several days. stopped their au-
tomObie by the roadside at Dismal
swamp and left the lights burning. 1t
was intended that the lure of the lights
would bring the reptile from his lair and
such was the fact.
The Shiny creature came creeping from
his hiding place shortly after midnight
and as soon as he made his appearance
a blow on the head from hoe stunned
him temporarily and in a few seconds he
was safely stored in a long especially
made basket and brought into Ware.
Mr.. Smith says he was driving along
the road when apprehended by the three
excited Satz brothers, who were Strug-
Cling with the reptile trying to coax him
into the basket But for the help OF
Mr. Smith the big saurian might never
have been captured.