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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-09-04
AN IOWA EDITOR
SPEAKS HIS MIND
SAYS HE'S THROUGH PATTING
FOLKS ON THE BACK WHEN
THEY DON'T DESERVE 1T.

DIES MONIES, Ia.-Editor F. ].
Raymond, publisher of The Blakes-
burg Qa.l Weekly Excelsior, is tired
of running free advertisements, and in
an advertisement OF his own tells the
world about it as follows:
"Here you will find a schedule 81
prices from which no deviation will
be made, but we hope to donate a
certain percentage of our earnings to-
ward founding an asylum for these
feeble minded people who believe an
editor has a soft snap.
"For telling Excelsior readers a
man is a successful citizen when ev-
erybody knows he is as lazy as a
bench warmer, $275.
For referring to some gallavanting
fellow as one who is incurred by the
entire community when he will only
be missed by the boozers, $l0.18.
Referring to one as hero and q
man of courage and one who will
stand by his convictions when every
body knows he is a moral coward and
would sell out for dime, ST lis.
referring to some gossipy female
as an estimable lady whom it is a
pleasure to meet and know when ev-
cry man in town would rather see
Satan coming, $50.
Calling an ordinary preacher ar
eminent divine, so cents.
"Lambasting the daylights out Of
John Barleycorn at the behest OF the
local dry forces, $6H.
"Whooping 'em up for the repeal
of the Volstead act in the interests
of the local White Mule Funnel club
SOFT.
referring to deceased merchant
who never advertised and who was
too stingy to contribute toward need
ed public improvements as a leading
citizen and a progressive resident
&211 90"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-09-04
BLACKBOARD ISLAND
A BIRD SANCTUARY
GOVERNMENT WILL EXPERT
MENT WITH WILD GAME OF
CENTRAL AMERICA.

SAVANNAH, Ga.-Blackbeard Is
land, adjacent to Sapelo, will be used
by the department of agriculture for
experimenting with game birds and
animals to be brought here from
South America and Central America.
The island was leased by the gov
eminent some months ago to Howard
Coffin, Of Detroit, who is part owner
of Sapelo island 1t is natural bird
and game sanctuary, no shooting be-
ing permitted
The government at present has an
expedition in Central America captur-
ing birds and animals which will be
brought to Blackboard Island to see
if they can be acclimatized.
Mr.. Coffin is now at Sapelo Island.
He said yesterday that his connection
with the plan is purely cooperative
one, his purpose being to give the
government such assistance as he can
in carrying on the experimental work
contemplated.
"The government" he said, has
had considerable difficulty with the
island, which is isolated, and has had
Indifferent success in guarding the
place. The department of agriculture
wishes to do experimental work there
with birds and animals from South
America and Central America-the
treasury department is the nominal
owner of the property. 1t was felt
that it would be better looked after If
those who owned the adjacent prop
artv had charge of it. The work will
be carried on under the supervision of
the bureau of biological survey of the
department of agriculture.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-09-04
DECLARE BOBBED
HAIR NOT TO PASS
GOOD NEWS FROM THE HAIR
DRESSERS' ASSOCIATION FOR
THOSE WHO CUT 1T OFF.

CHTCAGO.-Bobbed hair is here
to stay and those who planned to
make their living from the sale of ar
tihcial hair, rats, puffs and earmuffs
are in for hard winter.
This is the message from the Hi
nois lair Dressers' Association
through Secretary George Hoppman,
who added
"Bobbed hair has met with more
opposition than any other fashion in
the history of femininity. 1t has been
fruitful source of domestic discord;
it has been cited as the reason why
young girls leave home, why men
quit their wives, or grab some 9th
er mans wife and for suicide.
Opposition Unavailing.
yet in spite of all this opposition
it has persisted and will persist until
people recognize it as an acknowledg-
ed form of hair dressing and cease to
call it fad. 1t is too becoming, too
comfortable, too sanitary to be aban-
doned. The contour of woman's head
is beautiful and she has too much
sense to conceal it behind or under
mass OF hair, artificial or natural.
Besides. the new model hats for fall
and winter demand hobbed or shin
gled hair"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-09-04
HARDEST FIGHT EXPECTED ON REPEAL OF EQUALIZATION LAW
The Girls Knickers
Are Just Like FliOuers,
Mrs. Ford Is Told

MARQUETTE, THE
girls costumes are chosen for
comfort, not style; they are like
the cars in the Ford caravan"
This was the reply by the direc-
tress of Camp Chatonka at Mich
igamme to Mrs. Henry Ford's
rebuke for the clothes the girls
wore. The girls were attired in
cut off overalls and rolled stock
ings, exposing tanned legs and
dimpled knees.
l"We have the confidence of the
girls parents" said the directress,
"as to our ability to properly
chaperone their daughters and al
so their approval for their dress"
Mrs.. Ford's rebuke was given
at Michigamme when group of
girls asked for her autograph. AT
ter complying with the requests
of several, the flivver manufactur-
er's wife surveyed the rest and
declared:
"You women and girls show
very poor taste and worse judg-
ment in coming into town garb-
ed as you are, showing your bare
limbs, and without skirts or
dresses. | do not want to sign my
name for you and prefer not to
look at you"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-09-04
Pup Has Returned to
Vigil Beside the Tomb
OF Lamented President

MARION, GA small dog
which took up a position near the
coffin of President Harding dur
ing the funeral services, only to
be chased away by soldiers the
next day after it had lain at the
foot of the coffin all night, return
ed again to the tomb today and
has been adopted by the soldiers
on guard there.
AT the time of the funeral Mrs.
Harding made a personal request
that the dog be not molested, and
it was left alone, but the next
day the soldiers drove it away.
When they learned it had been
Mrs. Harding's request that the
dog be left alone they made
fruitless search for it. But today
it returned and was adopted. 1t
has been named "Bambino."
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-09-04
1eLizzie" and Her Sisters Require
Six Billion Gallons of Gas a Year

try, mostly for the manufacture OF
kerosene.
Now that every other house in the
country has a garage n its back yard
the crude oil production amounts to
55I,O0O,OO0 barrels, and, in addition,
135,00O,000 barrels have to be import
ed. The whole is valued $10,0OO,0OO,-
600.
To keep all the automobiles in this
country hitting on all four, or six, or
eight, as the case may be, 615,00O
wells are producing oil and about 49,
900 more are being drilled every year,
5000 OF which are dry holes, involv-
ing loss of $100,000,000.
The total depth of these $4,000
wells, if combined in one well, would
seach clean through the earth and
half way back again. The deepest
well has just been drilled in Califor-
MIA. Oil was struck at 5,430 feet just
when the drillers had about given up
hope.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-09-04
Government Unable to Find Suitable
Man to Study Habits of Whales
In Vicinity of Falklands.

Five thousand dollars year for
two years, with board and lodging to
boot is going Begging in England be-
cause nobody seems to know much
about whales.
The English government wants to
learn all about the habits and beha-
vior in general of whales. These mon
sters of the deep inhabit by the thous-
ands the waters near the Falkland Is
lands, in the South Atlantic, in sum
mer, but they disappear in the winter.
Since the inhabitants OF the islands
make a living by catching whales, the
government wants to learn where the
monsters go to in the winter.
Hence the Discovery" the historic
ship Of Scot, who lost his life while
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-09-04
Weather Sharks Are
Now Predicting An
Unusually Early Winter

CHICAGO.-Weather sharks
are predicting an early winter and
a severe one and advising people
to stock up their coal bins. The
temperature dropped to 81 at
O'Clock this morning and frost is
reported from parts of Minneso-
ta Nisconsin and Michigan. The
loORh peratures on record for
Augussv4 seported from De-
troit and 9trp
Prognosticatos ver, base
their predictions o. eight
south of large focks Of tea clzs,
always the latest of the duck fam
lily to leave the north. Old tim
ers say this is the first time they
ever recall seeing teals starting
the southern flight in August and
accept it as an indication that the
weather farther north has become
SO disagreeable that they are fore
ed to migrate to warmer territory.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-09-04
II Million Bad Eggs
Are Seized in Chicago

Libels against 100000 eggs have
been filed by the United States dis
trict attorneys Office in Chicago as
a result of seizures within the last
week ON the ground that they were
unfit for human consumption. The
eggs were shipped to South Water
street commission merchants from
points in Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota,
Nebraska, South Dakota and Wiscon-
sin, and that some of the Eggs were
so decomposed as to enuanEsr life if
used by consumers was the claim.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-09-04
OHIO MAN SELLS HIS
FAMILY FOR 100 DOLLARS
Buyer of Wife and Seven Children
Held Hunt for Husband.

STEUB ENVILLE, O.-John Mil
Ter sold his wife and seven children
to Mitchell Davis, OF Beech Bottom,
and then disappeared Brooke county,
w Va, authorities are seeking him.
Davis, however, is in Wellsburg jail
on complaint of Mrs. Miller
Il am tired of married Iife," Miller
is reported to have told Davis, and
| will sell iii my family for $780," Davis
SO informed Sheriff Stephens and said
he accepted the offer. When he called
at the Miller home for the family Mrs.
Miller drove him away and swore out
warrant.
What charge will be made is uncer-
tain. He IS held now for "disorderly
conduct"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-09-04
F1ue Thousand Dollars Year Goes
Begging Because Jonahs Are Scarce

exploring the Arctic regions some
years ago, is being fitted out for an
expedition to the Falklands to study
the habits and pecuiiarities of whales.
The expedition will take two years.
Applications have been received by
the score for the job of master OF the
expedition, but as yet no one has APP
piled who seems to know enough
about whales to assure the success of
the enterprise.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-09-04
Georgia Tobacco Sales
Reach 8,06I,772 Pound:

The 1928 crop of leaf tobacco raised
in Georgia and sold at various ware
houses throughout the state has ex-
ceeded 8,061,77Z pounds, according to
reports obtained Monday from 10
warehouses by Peter " Rice, statisti-
clan OF the department OF agriculture.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-09-04
Crude Oil Production in United States
Fails to Keep Pace With Increas-
inc Demands of Automobiles

Tn 1896 there were four "horseless
carriages" in the United States To-
dav there are 1O,SOO0OO passenger cars
and 100000 trucks registered. These
automobiles, of low and high degree,
consume a lot of gas. Experts have. IT
figured out that the Lizzie" and her r
sisters ST bs require 6,OOO,OCO,OO0 gallons OF
gasoline a year to keep them chug-
ging. 1 4ha+ below
the surface of the earth are stored
60 CO.. 900, 100000 barrels of crude OIL
from which to make gas, but the re-
serve supply is being used up last. >,
when the first "horseless carriage
ventured out on the streets OF TINS
country l26,OOO,000 barrels OF crude
al were being produced in this eo''il-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-09-04

Taupe-colored caracul is used for
the collar OF a fall cape of embroider-
ed chipmuIlk.
New Britain herald., 1923-03-17
City Clerk A. l.. Thompson Recalls Days When Opera House and Lyceum Thea ters Were First Opened to Public.

Seated at his desk in his office at City Hall closely scrutinizing q pile or figures, Colonel Alfred l.. Thompson, for more than a quarter of century town and city clerk of New Britain, willingly gave up q few moments of his time to talk oVer with q repre- sentative of the Herald, the days when there were no theaters in New Britain and there was only one hall in which plays or entertainments were staged.
 Mir. Thompson, although not born in New Britain, has resided here most of his life and came to this city when q young man. At that time there were no theaters and all enter tainments were given in the so-called Humphrey Hall' of the Humphrey house then situated on Main street where the Park hotel is now located.
 Church a Hall.
 For a number of years this hall was the home of amateur shows given here as well as any road production which ventured to play in New Brit ain. A few years after the erection of this hall still another one came in to existence. This one was on East Main street on the site of the old
New Britain herald., 1923-03-17
CHARLIE CHAPLIN
 AT fOX'S TOMORROW
Opens Sunday for Four Days in
 '7he Pilgrim. '..Other Big Features

Charlie Chaplin, the supcr-comedian in "fhe Pilgrim" his greatest comedy since Shoulder Arms" and conceded by critics to excel his famous "The
 Kid" opens four night run at FoN's theater tomorrow night. On the same bill, as an added Sunday feature, Flu gene O'Brien in Prophets Paradise" will be shown. This is a drama in which young man becomes en- amored of an emotional woman who
 magines she loves him enough to de- sert her own husband. The husband is murdered and suspicion points strongly toward the other man in the triangle. Throughout Wednesdays performance Chaplin's comedy will be the headliner. but after Sunday will share honors with Richard Talmadge in veritable whirlwind drama Wild cat Jordan" For the last half of next week that king of all character actors. Lon Chaney, will be exploited in Shadows In this Clancy does some of his greatest character acting in the role of Chinaman and en- tirely without makeup. The vaude- vile is changed on Mondays and Thursdays.
 In Wildcat Jordan" Richard Tal- madge is the energetic leading man who thwarts all opposition by the
New Britain herald., 1923-03-17
CHAPLIN AS PILGRIM
 IN PALACE PICTURE
IDimilable Charlie's Latest Re-
 lease Here Next Week

The Palace will offer next week a great big bill Of fun and jazz fcatur- ing three attractions that should prove very popular with Palace patrons who are also guaranteed many laughs and fun galore.
 Enter CharlessGhaplin in the pulpit!
 The inimitable comedian has been q tramp, a soldier and dude on the screen, but now he blossoms forth in the full regalia of parson.
 In The Pilgrim" the First Na- tional picture which will be shown at the Palace theater on Sunday. Mon- day, Tuesday and Wednesday he dis cards his battered derby and swagger cane of other film triumphs for the clerical hat and frock.
 Charles ministerial garb is stolen property, however. for he portrays an escaped convict who exchanges his prison stripes for the clothing of an unsuspecting parson in swimming. The complications which ensue when an eloping couple endeavor to get "The Pilgrim" to marry them and when he is unwittingly forced into the
New Britain herald., 1923-03-17
STAGE ALL SET FOR
 FIRST LEGION SHOW
Eddy-GloYer Post Revue at Ly-
 Cealn First Half Of Week

The stage is all set at the Lyceum theater for the presentation on Mon day, Tuesday and Wednesday by the Eddy Glover post, American Legion, of the musical comedy revue Don't Ask Me This production is being staged in several acts and scenes and promises to be one of the best anna teur shows yet seen in New Britain.
 It is to be given under the direc- ton of George Y. C. Lord assisted by Edward Irving of the Stanley Works Miss Catherine White will be pianist and George Smedley, stage manager Leon Bull is the costumer assisted by Robert Craig.
 Miss Dorothy McCann of Boston, who supervised the making of the costumes for the revue, is in New Britain and will remain through the performances to take charge of the costumes. In addition to Miss McCann, Mir. Bull and Mir. Craig others to as sist with the costumes are Gertrude Anderson, F. W. Irving and Evelyn Coons.
 The proceeds of the performances on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings will be for the benefit of the post. state convention fund. The Wednesday matinee pro- ceeds will be for the Salvation Army.
 The principal characters in the play are;
New Britain herald., 1923-03-17

Con O'Connell, James O'Donnell; Willie Live, Raymond Watkins; Mac Boy, Jack Riley; Hans Down, o. Lam bert Lord; Nina, Miss Mary Williams; Dotty, Miss Jean Blair Molly, Miss Harriet Chamberlain; Sister Mildred Hellberg; Jack, Robert Loomis; Her lock Sholmes, William Humason; F, Z Mark, Edward Ogren; Waiter, Henry Pfeiffer; Servant, Anna Pe- tuskis; Van Astor, George Davis: Flash, Raymond Walker. -....
 Those in the Chorus.
 Following is a list of those appear ing in the various boys and girls choruses:
 Stanley Works group Misses Min- nie Huber, Gertrude Lundquist, Doris kilbournc, Ethel Holcomb, Mabel Giannotti, Linnea Kallgrcn, Nellie Jacobs Josephine Orsie, Margaret Oldenwaldt, Roselyn Hanrahan, Ida Rizzie, Ethclyn Brown and Viola Sowka. .s-
 P. and F, Corbin group--Misses TIelwig Moston. Olga Hamilla, Mary Link, Antoinette Recano. Agnes Ia gan, Margaret Granquist, Katherine Molchan, Helen Gabany, Lilies Pet erson. Marion Young, Susan Sejeman and Irene Cronin.
 Landers, F'rary & Clark group Misses NJ. Mulvihill, Esther Mattson, Ruth Nelson, A. kroll, R. Elmgren, Anna TimbrcIl, Mary Stack, Helen Dorothy Weigand, Bessie 1 Snyder. Veronica Murphy. NJ. Andcr- {, son, NJ. McAleer, Gertrude Hanra- ! nan. l.. Litkic, M, Feore.
 Ponies group and others-LllllEl i atwatcr, Doris kilbourne, Hulda f 8essoff. Pauline Pfeisick, Evelyn | Anderson. Sally Petuskis, Helen Han i ,ock. Mabel Barrett, Ruth Jackson, | Mary Stack, Bernice Bruemmer, | .eah Romancy, Emma 0sberg, Ser | ,ice Weant, Mamie Wexler, lone < Anna Rittner, Hazel At- i water, Louise Weineck, Dorothy Wal
New Britain herald., 1923-03-17
Old Humphrey House HaN Home
 Of First Plays h New Britain

in New England at the time, and had one of the largest stages in the east ern states,
 Charter Members Living
 When tho Histrionic society was formed in 1870. Colonel Thompson was one of the charter members, and he as well as five other charter mem. hers of that society are still living, They are A, H. Stearns, employed at tho Stanley Rule X Level plant; Will liam F.. Stevens. at the Stanley Works; John stack. of Plainvillo; x, r. Dcming, of Lynn. Mass, and George Morgan, Of 25 Liberty street,
 Isaac Murray was the first presi- dent Of the association and Frank Seymour was stage manager. E. T., Thompson was the business manager for that organization
 The grin on Colonel Thompson's face broadened when mention was made of the rchearsals for the various plays given by the Histrionic society. The city clerk expressed the opinion that he. as did most members of the enjoyed the evenings spent in rehearsing the plays as much as the evenings when the plays were pre- sented. He spoke Of the happy times the boys" had together and told of many tricks they used to play on one another.
 Colonel Thompson expressed TO- gret at the fact that New Britain no longer is the home for good dramatic and musical shows but he says the population of the city has changed; there was not the industrial class of people here then as there is at pres- ent and the I'm ovies" did not provide he thrills then that they do now.
New Britain herald., 1923-03-17


 Elihu Burritt school building. It was the old North church renovated and used for hall purposes,
 Later the old South church on the site of the Porter and Dyson store, was then converted into what was known as Union hall, where many of the famous Histrionic society produc- tions were staged. This hall was de- stroyed by fire at about the time the old North church building was moved across the street from it's old location to where the Palace theater now stands.
 The building was renovated and made into what became known as brilliant social events of several sea sons were staged until the hall was closed and entirely renovated.
 First Theater Opened.
 When tho doors of the building were thrown open again New Britain people set foot" inside the first the- ater ever constructed in this city, known as tho Opera House"
 The great opera Faust" was pro- duced on the opening night, and as Colonel Thompson recalls it every seat in the house was taken and scores of people were turned away. The the ater was a novelty for people in this city and the attendance at all of the productions during the first few years was great.
 Lyceum Opens Doors. Colonel Thomspon also recalled when the Lyceum theater threw open it's doors in 1893. This house was considered one of the most beautiful
New Britain herald., 1923-03-17

drama as gripping as any that has come to the screen.
 The Keith vaudeville attraction for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday brings the new Keith headliner "Nal- entino's Orchestra" with Mary Lee and Freddie Kelly, sensational ball room dancers.
 Another fine bill will be offered tho last half of the week featuring Dl vito's band. famous throughout Con- nccticut as a leading dance orchestra, They have becn appearing in vaude- vile but for short time and have already gained for themselves the tile of headliners. The photoplay attrae- ton on this bill present Dorothy Dal- ton in her new production "The Siren Call"
New Britain herald., 1923-03-17
.REsTLEss sOuLs"-LYCEUM

{ "RESTLESS SOIIS''-LYCEEM The Lyceum theater has most at.
 tractive Sunday evening program, featuring two of filmdom's favorte stars Earl Williams and Enid Ben nett, the last named famed for her great work in Robinhood, in which Douglas Fairbanks played such a prominent part. Miss Bennett is the
 misunderstood wife in tho domestic drama His Husbands Friend
 Earl Williams as James Parkingtor leading character in this screen adap- ton of the famous comedy drama --"P!aying Dead"--written by the late Richard Harding Davis. is an actor whose work is a treat to watch. The story as filmed is called Restless Souls"
 There is no Lyceum show the first three days of the week as the Ameri- can Legion has leased the theater, but on Thursday she playhouse will open. with fine program of vaudeville stunts and, as a picture, the famous drama "Pawned."
New Britain herald., 1923-03-17

Two important steps were taken by the Anti-Narcotic league of Los An- gelcs this week in starting a nation wide crusade against the drug men, ace. The first was the decision to send Mrs. William A. Fitzgerald, of San Francisco. ps sident of the Cali fornis Federation of Women's clubs to Washington, there to cooperate with the federal authorities in the na- tional campaign against the drug evil.
 The second was the actual com- nle.cement of work on the Wallace Reid Memorial propaganda film at the Thomas H. Ince studios with Mrs. Wallace Reid in the principal role. This film will be made under the &C., tive supervision of the Anai-Narcotic league.
New Britain herald., 1923-03-17

cunStdnCeS, are among tHe Hlost iuul- Crous ever screened.
 Fans who like mountain stories, outdoor scenery and red-booded wom- en have a treat coming to them in "A Question of Honor" the First Ma tional attraction starring Anita Stew art which will open three day en- gagement on Monday, as an added feature photoplay.
 The captivating star has the role of Anne Wilmot, a leading society debu- tante who is brought to the west as a bait for staluart engineer whom Anne's uncle hopes to bend to his use. In the wilderness of the High Sierras Anne discovers her uncle's scheme.
 How the girls decision to test her own mettle is worked out in the com- bat between the settlers and the New York interests is yisualized in