The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-12-25
Turning The Calendar Back to
The NewS of Fifteen Years Ago
Issue December 23d Pictures DawsOn Preparations for Christmas
Extra Cots Placed in City Barracks for Holiday Rush

He was the man OF the hour at this
time fifteen years ago and judging
from the shop windows, he will not be
but few minutes late, if that much,
this year
Christmas then was coming on
with all of the ruffles, pleats and
stripes incidental to the grand cele-
bration OF the year. The police force,
numbering three men, had been in
creased and extra cots placed in the
city "hostelry" The city fathers were
pleading 10 the roughs to make it a
quiet Christmas and threatening stripes
if such a course was not followed
Here is what The Dawson News
said:
With the coming of Christmas the
police expect buster time than usual,
as the great event means-a disgrace
ful but nevertheless true fact-that the
many liquid refreshments known to
the art of man and made in the wet
cities of the country will be shipped
here in large quantities for the big an
nual drunk.
1t must have been quite a riotous
celebration, for here is an account OF
the happenings OF the Christmas I'M
mediately preceding:
Last Christmas eve pandemOnlum
held full sway and neither persons nor
property was safe as the reckless rev.
elers marched about the city. Houses
were shot into, doors broken down,
targets for pistol balls made OF the
street lights and spigots opened on
some premises and the water allowed
10 waste all night
Then followed a warning from Chief
| of Police Paschal, who declared that
| if it could be done he and his assist
ants were going to hold the Celebrants
within the bounds OF safety at least,
The ioy that usually pervades the
! Christmas time was tempered with
| fear. for the married men anyway. 1t
| all came about through meeting OF
the National Cloak and Suit Manutac-
turer's Association. Here are some OF
the laments that followed:
so, she has gotta have new out
| lit next Easter to keep from beng
laughed at HUH Well, suppose,
| in order to keep her from being
laughed at | must be wept over.
THE lamentor had just invested S5O
| in new London Smoke suit Tor
his better half and it had gone out OF
| stvIe less than six months alter the
! date Of purchase and he had been eX-
meeting it to last at least SIX years.
And that is not the worst OF it. The
London Smoke is a dead one now
| Everything next season will be Pitts
bnrg SCOT. Chickasawhatchee Fog or
| Tanyard Haze" the waller continued,
Won think they are straight up and
down now, but wait until next sum
mer The thinneSt women OF your
ACQUAINTANCE will be merry-go-round
! in size compared to the 'I9U9 party
/ The new style calls for shape IKE a
fountain pen or horseWh1p.
What did he mean? That he would
oct the horsewhip il he did not use the
| fountain pen?
In order to make the Christmas
coon, warm. several samples of cold
,(eather were served-a la printer
;nI, Some of these follow:
"At Verkoyansk, Siberia, tempera,,
t,,re Of oO.4 below zero was reported
in January. 1916. This year, known as
Il. H. ear without a summer, is credited
Lr;rg;nq the most contrary summer
,,eatber on record. That year was
Vii Nth wind all summer; frost, snow
aod = ice were common in June; New
York SH and Massachusetts, had 5 inches
u .now during the month and Maine
reported 10 inches. and, there here p was
frast and ice in New York and Pen
nsvlvania in July"
The Terrell Council, No. 69l, Roy
-, Arcanum Lodge, elected officers
a. a. the following year, 1909, during
10 III. They were as follows: