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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-15
Illinois to Honor Man
Who Developed Her Corn
To Raise $4,000 to Support Reid's
Wife and Daughter; Research.

BLOOMINGTON, III = Illinois
greatest industry, the growing OF
corn, which annually contributes more
than $300,000,000 to the wealth OF the
commonwealth, and James L. Reid,
the pioneer in the movement to de
velop the grain, will be memorialized.
A fund Of $4,000 is being raised, the
income of which is to be used for the
support of his widow and daughter.
After their death the fund will be
known as the James L. Reid Fellow
ship Endowment, and the interest de-
voted to defraying the expenses Of de
serving students of the agricultural
department of the University of Hi
nois engaged in research work in corn.
James L. Reid was the very first to
see the need of improving this grain.
The scrubby product that was found
growing in the fields OF the Indians
when the first white settlers blazed
their way across the continent had
but little to commend it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-15
Apple Tree Prepares
For Its l04th Crop
Aged Marvel of Nature Has Never
Failed to Bloom or Bear Fruit.

HAGERSTOWN.-The oldest ap-
pie tree in the Cumberland valley is
expected to bear its one hundred and
fourth crop of fruit. The tree stands
in the garden at the home of Isaac
Slime at Middleburg, near this city,
and is 107 years old, according to its
owner.
The aged tree was planted by. Alex
ander Orr, who owned considerable
land in the Middleburg sector. 1t IS a
marvel OF nature and has never tailed
to bloom and bear fruit except when
tragedies to the fruit crop occurred as
the result 'of freezes.
The tree is now in full bloom. The
apples are always of fine quality and
are allowed to fall and are gathered
by its owner from the ground. Mr..
Slime will not risk using ladders to
pick the apples through fear OF dam
aging the tree.
A remarkable feature about the
tree is that it never has been sprayed
or subjected to any of the modern
methods of tree culture to preserve
it's life or improve the fruit. 1t is low,
with spreading branches, and in a
healthy condition, nature having pro-
duced new growth in the original
trunk upon which the old monarch
survives.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-15
ILLINOIS ECLIPSES OTHER
STATES IN ROSE CULTURE
One City Alone Plans to Grow U.s.
100000 Blooms Yearly.

The little city OF Pana, Ill. which
has been furnishing 100000 roses
to its sister cities Of the United States
yearly, will probably have increased
its production to 25,OOO,0OO before the
end OF this year, according to sur
vey made of the green houses now in
course OF construction there.
While there are 20 acres OF rose
Growing ground under glass in Pana
now the addition of 10 acres is con
templated, a large part OF which is
actually under preparation and upon
which green houses are being erected.
California leads in free growing
roses. but records show that Illinois
is far ahead in growing roses for com
mercial purposes. There are at Pana
100000 plants, each averaging 80 per,
feet roses a year. Three hundred ana
fifty thousand plants are under glass
At Mavwood, Chicago suburb while
500, 900 plants are in bloom most OF
the wear in Martin Grove, III.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-15
M'MICHAEL REVIEWS HIS FIGHT.

resting under that charge looks sus-
picious. Our opposition to that IN,
vestigation last summer has caused
comment: our cry to Washington TO
come down and take charge OF Geor-
gia didn't save us, but raised hell in
Georgia. Unless you do resent that
charge in some way we may have to
sever relations as McMichael said, Do
you see?'
But they can't intimidate me or
stop me with that Indictment. | am
not afraid of a Bib county jury.
Grassland would put me in a telon' IS
stripes while he enjoys his beautiful
home, but, thank God, truth and JUS
tice still reign in the hearts OF the
people. No Jury in Bibb county will
condemn representative Tor doing
his conscientious duty when the facts
are known So confident of any posi-
ton and knowing that God still rules,
| will meet the issue"
"In conclusion: Hundreds OF letters
and messages have come to me from
all over the state. cannot possibly
answer even a small part OF them, SO
Il wish to take this method OF ex-
pressing deep appreciation and thanks
for their words of confidence and sup
port and for their protfer OF assist
Iance in any way possible"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-15
BONUS is SURE TO
PASS, SAYS SMO0T.
SENATOR DECLARES PUBLIC
MUST NOT EXPECT TAX RE-
DUCTION IN GENERATIONS.

WASHINGTON. D. C,-Passage
of soldiers bonus bill by the new
congress is inevitable, and the coun-
try must expect no tax reduction,
Senator Smoot, republican, of Utah,
the next chairman of the senate fl
nance committee, declared today.
President Harding will be powerless
to block the bonus this time by ex-
ercise of the veto, in the opinion OF
Senator Smoot.
Because Senator Smoot supported
President Harding in his insistence
that if congress passes bonus bill 1t
should carry a sales tax to raise, the
money for it, his fiat footed declata-
ton that a bonus law is inevitable
was accepted as unusually significant
Pensions to Follow.
Cant there be quite slash in
taxes once the bonus is out of the
way?" Senator Smoot was asked.
Cant there?" he replied "Why,
ust as sure as fate service pensions
veterans of the world war will
.ome after the soldier bonus. This is
)ut the entering wedge. The country
night as well face the prospect. When
pensions start there will be no de-
rease in government expenditures
possible for a generation.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-15
ACCOUNTING MADE
BY HIGHWAY BOARD
REPORT, OF AUDITOR SHOWS
RECEIPTS AND DISBURSE-
MENTS BY DEPARTMENT.

An audit shows that the state high
way departments total revenue in
1922 was $4,o8O,937, of which $780,
342 was furnished by the federal gov
eminent.
The department expended for con-
structon and maintenance a total OF
81, 10000, or 1908 per cent of its to-
tai revenue.
1t expended for administration a
total OF $271,532, or 5.45 per cent Of
its total revenue. Minor items took
up the balance.
The audit also gives separate ac-
count of the funds received from mo-
tor vehicle licenses and shows how
they were expended. The total from
this source available for construction
and maintenance was 81 ,531 $50. OF
this amount. S1,374,596 was expended
for construction and maintenance, or
S97 per cent. For administration, $9I,-
651 was expended or 6.39 per cent. -.
THE statement has been made,
says the board in its comment &C
companying the audit, that SoI5,000
has been expended for equipment IN
1922, whereas the records show that
the total amount purchased was $780,
OS4. This equipment was as absolute
" essential to the maintenance of the
state highways of Georgia as plcws,
harness, harrows and mules are an es-
sential part Of any farm operations.
The gas and oil used for the operation
OF this equipment are as much
proper cost of road maintenance as
the feed for stock is necessary part
of farming"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-15
Continued From Page One)

Then upon the floor of the house |
boldly and emphatically charged that
Grassland had raked in $4,000 OF our
money in that deal and | denounced
it as graft. l published the charge in
the papers at that time Chose that
would print it,. The Atlanta Georgian
published the picture OF his Peachtree
home bought with our money.
Refers to Grassland.
Continuing, REPRESENTATIVE McMi-
chael says:
Now the people are asking why
didn't Grassland indict me long, long
ago. Why didn't he demand an in
vestigation last July when | made the
very same charge upon the floor OF
the house and published it in the pa
pers? Then had witnesses subject
to CALL facts at hand. Instead of that,
he waits until this late day-just be-
fore the meeting of the next legisla-
ture-and slips down to Macon, lays
one side before the grand jury and
secures my indictment.
The legislature is soon to meet
and they know that something is go
ing to happen. My opinion is that
somebody has said to Grassland
Here, something must be done; your
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-15
FLOOD LOSS IN EAST
RUNS INTO MILLIONS
DAMAGE DONE BY HIGH WA
TER IN NEW ENGLAND AND
CANADA VERY GREAT.

BOSTON.-Sevcral million dollars
damages has been caused by freshets
in New England in the last two days
and the situation is still serious. Riv-
ers are swollen by continued rains and
fed by melting snow in the mountain
districts.
Thousands of persons have been
thrown out of work by the flooding
of mill property, the interruptions to
power supply that have come with the
breaking of dams and the enforced
suspension of railroad and street car
service. Maine is the heaviest sufferer,
millions of feet of lumber having been
swept away.
Fredericton, N. B.-Floods which
have already caused damage estimat-
ed from $5,000,000 to $10,000000 in
this province continued today, causing
considerable apprehension.
The St. John river, swollen by
heavy rains, rose steadily. The power
station has been put out Of commits
sion and it is feared the city water
system will be imperiled.
Millions of feet of lumber hoated
down stream toward the Bay of Fun
fdy.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-15
RID HIM OF BOILS.

HARRIS BLOOD REMEDY Co,
Dawson, Ga-Gentlemen: A few
years ago l suffered with rheu-
matism and had a great many
boils in the spring Of the year.
For the past seven years | have
made it rule to take from 3 to 6
bottles of Harris 1-2-1 Blood Remedy
each year. Since l began this treat
ment l have been entirely free from
boi1s and very seldom feel any of my
old rheumatic trouble. always keep
few bottles of your medicine in my
home, and it is used by my whole
family. Yours truly, WILLIAM CA
SHAW, Dawson, Ga. 5-1-5t
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-15
WILL OPEN POULTRY FEED
ING STATION AT MOULTRIE
Plan Killing Station as Soon as In
dustry Has Grown Sufficiently.

MOULTRIE, Ga.-Swift & Com
pany will open poultry feeding sta
ton here this week in connection with
their packing plant. The station will
furnish a market for 5000 chickens a
week. 1t is planned to establish a kill
ing station as soon as the industry has
grown sufficiently to supply enough
chickens to make it profitable. For
the present chickens will, after week
Of intensive feeding, during which
milk will be part Of their diet, be kill
ed by hand and shipped to market.
The first car of dressed poultry prob
ably will go forward before the end
OF the month.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-15
SAYS RED PEPPER
HEAT STOPS PAIN
IN FEW MINUTES

Rheumatism, lumbago, neuritis, back
ache, stiff neck, sore muscles, strains,
sprains, aching joints. When you are
suffering SO you can hardly get around,
just try Red Pepper Rub
Nothing has such concentrated, pene-
trating heat as red peppers, and when
heat penetrateS right down into pain
and congestion relief comes at once.
Just as soon as you apply Red Pep
per Rub you feel the tingling heat. In
three minutes the sore spot is warmed
through and through and the torture is
gone.
Rowles Red Pepper Rub, made from
red peppers, costs little at any drug
store Get a jar at once. Be sure to
get the genuine, with the name Rowles
on every package.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-15
"HOME, SWEET HOME"
HUNDRED YEARS OLD
OF THE FIRST
SINGING OF FAMOUS SONG
TS WIDELY OBSERVED.

NEW YORK, N. Y.-Nearly l.
ooo ooo school children of Greater
New York sang Home, Sweet
Home" the immortal heart song, on
Tuesday.
# was the occasion of the one hun
d-sdtb anniversary of its publication
~, John Howard Payne. 1t was cele-
Rated on both sides of the Atlantic.
Written for Opera "Clari."
The words of the celebrated song
;n.nroorated in the opera CLAIR, or
T lr'.e Sweet, Maid of Milan" -were
written by an American, John How
ard PAYNE who was born in New
York city and spent his boyhood in
Fasthampton, where stands the old
homestead which inspired the song.
The music was composed by Sir
Henry Bishop.
Suitable exercises were held at the
homestead, while in New York
scbools a million children chanted the
air. which later was sung in front OF
the city hall by selected chorus.
PAYNE used to tell his friends that
he caught the air from. little girl
during a trip through Italy
Words Came While Student.
The words of the song, Payne said,
came to him while he was student
At Union college in Schenectady, N.
V when he recalled his boyhood
DAYS on the Long Island farm.
Contrary to the general belief,
PAYNE was not a penniless w2adeTeT
II -Ie - fha
He was in Paris at the time, living in
comfortable quarters with Washing
ton Irving.
Born in a little red brick house in
lower Manhattan, on June y, l79l,
PAYNE was the sixth child of William
PAYNE. later principal of school at
Easthampton, and Jewish mother.
Educated in Boston.
Payne's family moved to Boston,
where he received most OF his early
education. While there he showed the
greatest interest in the theater and
expressed the desire to be an actor.
But he was placed in "a New York
counting house to be business man
at the age of IS.
He secretly published "The Thes-
plan Mirror" which attracted the at
tenton of the editor of the New York
Evening Post to the unusual abilities
OF the boy. Through his friends ef-
forts Payne was sent to Union col
lege, where he devoted as much time
to amateur theatricals as he did to his
studies.
The death of his mother and the
failure in business Of his father led
the family to consent to his becom-
ing an actor. He was a successful &C
tor while in his teens, but quarrel
with his manager led him to leave tor
London in 1918 at the age OF e..
He was successful on the English
STAGE but, although he had won the
apDrobation and friendship OF men
like Coleridge, Southey and Thomas
Moore, he was not satisfied. He lett
the stage and began to write. 1t was
at that period that he wrote the opera
"Clari."
In 1845 he was appointed United
States consul at Tunis, and with one
interruption, when there was change
of administration, remained there un-
til his death of fever, April g. 1858. In
1888 his remains were brought to this
country and reinforced in the old Oak
Hill cemetery in Georgetown, d. T.,
with ceremonies in which President
Arthur and official Washington took
part.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-15

Eating meat on Wednesday, or
driving on a Sunday, is still punish
able in England
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-15
SPECIAL PLANE TO FIGHT
BUGS; SPRAYS FROM SKY

A new airplane, built somewhat like
"blimp," will be used in war on
Gypsy moths in the forests OF New
England. The plane will carry crew
of five men and will spray the motn.
infested forests. 1t will be operateu
nv an army crew.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-15
HAIL STONES SIX INCHES
AROUND KILLED HORSE

At Comta, Okla, a negro was beat
en- into Inconsistencies, one horse
killed and thousands of dollars dam
age done to property and crops BY
hail, some of which measured six
inches in circumference
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-15
TEST FOR POSTMASTER
TO BE HELD AT PLAINS

The civil service commission has
set June 9th as the date for postmas-
ter examinations at Plains, Ga. The
present postmaster at Plains was the
only person on the eligible list as a
result of a recent examination. 1t is
said here that he is democrat and
effort will be made to find republi-
can eligible.
, 1923-04-11
NORTH FORKERS
WANT TO START WAR
ON PRAIRIE DOGS
PETITION COMMISSIONERS
FOR DISTRICT-PARK COUN-
TY GOING IN FOR CORN
CONTEST-ASK 5000 LBS
SEED
r. J. Allen

~ - liz
E. V. Robertson has suggested
that the Sage Creek farmers grow
the oats needed to feed the horses
at the Hoodoo ranch. He made an
offer of S1.50 a hundred at the farms
next fall for 100000 pounds. 1t took
just two minutes at the farm bureau
meeting on March 80 t. assure the
production of this amount for Mr..
Robertson. l.. w. Schultz an I. N.
McGuffey were appointed as a COM
mittee to handle this business. This
is doing business in a business like
way. Who will be next?
Nearly enough acreage to produce
a car load of beans in the Cody sec
ton has been promised the Big Horn
Cooperative Marketing Association.
Anyone interested in securing seed
beans should see the county agent.
The farm bureau committee has re
ceived the shipment of alfalfa seed,
36,120 pounds in all. The seed was
purchased from a farmers alfalfa
seed growers association at Rapid
City, S. d. The seed was dry lana
grown and of excellent quality.
The county agent is preparing an
article on turkey raising. He visited
a farm the other day near Powell that
had 95 hen turkeys and IL toms. This
man expects to have a car load this
fall for market. 1t will be interest
ing to watch the results onthis farm.
If turkeys can be grown successfully
in large numbers all of the sheep
herders may become turkey t~rotters
in a few years.
The corn contests in Park County
are moving along nicely. Nearly 200
farmers have applied for seed corn.
The Burlington railroad is furnish
ing the seed. The railroad agricul-
tural agent may fall in a faint when
he receives the order for 5000 pounds
of seed for the county, but it was his
proposition and we know the COM
pany will come through as they have
offered.
The North Fork farmers and ranch
ers have petitioned the county COM
m%issioners for a prairie-dog district.
This section is so situated that n
once cleaned of the pest it will re-
main so. The campaign will start
next month.
, 1923-04-11
STATE TRAINING
SCHOOL DOING A
WONDERFUL WORK
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ped with modern conveniences
throughout. In addition to the main
ranch the school has leased some
adjoining acreage which is being
farmed by the students at the school
At the present time there are about
40 patients and students who,
through some physical or mental de-
feet are backward in their school
work, and, unable to keep pace with
children of their WI age in regular
school work. They have been taken
into the Lander school so that they
may have the advantage of a special
training along the lines which best
suit their mental equipment.
Here the students are taught that
cleanliness is one of the essentials of
good health and happiness, and that
patient effort, vel if the progress is
slow, will eventually fit the student
to take his or her place in the world
as a useful and respected citizen.
The happy and contented attitude of
the students, who are from IA to IS
years of age and of both exc gives
ample proof that the training furnish
ed is working wonders with those who
might otherwise pass their years IN
ignorance and uselessness.
At present a herd of SIS head of
cows are being MIXED by the students
who also raise pork and cure and
smoke the meat. Poultry is one OF
the industries of the school as well
as general farming operations. Speci
al training in different trades is fur
nished the boys and men, while the
girls are taught to cook, sew, keep
house, stenography or any line for
which their inclination and mental
equipment fit them.
In the spacious dining rooms one
can see the effect of careful training
in the department and table
of the students who appear to better
advantage than many of their more
fortunate brothers and sisters.
Happiness and contentment are fair
ly shining in the faces of the students
in fact cleanliness, happiness and con-
tentment seem to be the watchwords
of the school.
Superintendent DR.. Carroll Thomp-
son Jones is a man of wide expert
ence in the handling of cases of the
mentally ~subnormal, and an authori-
ty on vocational training as well as
an alienist of wide reputation. The
school is fortunate indeed to have a
man of such experience, ability and
sympathy for unfortunates in charge
OF h affairs of the institution, which
under his management has become
nearly self supporting.
wyoming may well be proud of the
Lander State Training School; for
it is a wonderful work that is being
accomplished for the unfortunate
ones of the state.
, 1923-04-11
CHIEF PLENTICOOS
BREAKS LEG while
WALKING IN SLEEP

Chief Plenticoos dreamed that he
was chasing a dog and got up and
crawled out of the window at the
Eagle hotel in Billings last Friday
night, breaking his leg when he trip
ped over a wire and fell from a shed
below his window to another shed
some four feet below.
The roof of the shed was covered
with snow and he lay in the cold
some little time before he attracted
the attention of persons inside the
hotel.
An ambulance was called and he
was taken to St. Vincent's hospital
where it was found he had broken
his leg between the knee and the hip.
The party of Indians from Pryor
included Simon and Stella Bull-tail,
Mrs. Fights-well-known, Plenticoos
and his wife and Pretty Coyote.
They were going up to consult a
doctor as Mrs. Plenticoos and Mrs.
Fights-well-known have been i'll for
some time and the medicine man had
not given them much relief.
, 1923-04-11
Program Planned
For Lyceum Course

At a recent meeting of the Womans
Club it was decided that in view of
the success of the Lyceum entertain
ments of the past season, another
course would be given the coming
winter, and arrangements were made
with Miss Anne Batterton o fort
land, Oregon representing the Eli
son-White Bureau for four excellent
entertainments.
The first number will be the Pat
ton Brothers , Entertainers. The
second, Ward Waters Orchestra; tn
third, Miss Emma d. Randall, Read
er and the last, The Cheney Concert
Company in musical selections.
The Womans Club is to be COM
mended for their enterprise in prov
ing such good entertainment for the
people of this vicinity.
, 1923-04-11
DAVE DICKIE WINS
Big LAW SUIT
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the answer of the Mcclure Company,
and an order was made to forthwith
deliver the books to the Company.
The Court refused to give n ap-
peal, and notified the defendants at
torneys that the only way the Judge
ment of a mandatory injunction could
be stayed, would be to procure a
a writ of prohibition from the Sup
RENE Court, and minated that the
bond required would be sufficient to
cover any damages the plaintiff L.
U. Sheep Company might sustain.
Thereupon the attorneys for de-
PENDANT advised the delivery of the
books and effects to the plaintiff.
Mcclure and Company abandoned
the alleged claim of $25, 100000 and
sought to on quantum
Maurit, reducing their claim to some
thing like $6500.OO which the plain
tiff is now %contesting and is asking
the return of the monies paid, on ac-
count of their fraud and disloyalty
to their principal, the l.. U. Sheep
Company.
Mr.. Dickie returned to Wyoming
with the books last week.
This ends the controversy in Den
we'd with the alleged Income tax
income experts.
, 1923-04-11
TIRED OF EUROPE, EAST
TURNING EYES WESTWARD

Barry Williams, who has been in
Billings for several days purchasing
furnishings for his new buildings at
the Deer Creek ranch, says that
people are tired of Europe and are
talking of the West this
He has already booked all the
guests he can entertain and has a
waiting list. Like everyone else re-
turning from the East, he predicts
a big tourist season this year.
, 1923-04-11
GERALDINE FARRAR SUED
BY MAID: CHARGES EYES
INFECTED BY STARS DOG

NEW YORK, April 7.-Geraldine
Farrar is made defendant in n $4,000
damage suit instituted today by Miss
Ella Swanson, formerly n maid in
the opera stars home. Miss Swanson
charged that her eyes had become in
fected from towels which Miss Farr-
mr. used in giving baths to her Pek-
inese dog. The singer entered a gen.
eral denial o fthe charge.
, 1923-04-11
The Major Says

The State of Oregon has passed a
law requiring applicants for a mar
riage license to undergo a mental
test.
If this law becomes general over
the u. S. judging the future by the
past it will almost mean race suicide.
Where were all the reformers on
Sunday?
Up the river fishing.
, 1923-04-11
$40 REWARD

For informations as to where abouts
of a. bay mare branded on EEH
left hip. Escaped from Henry Psi
Griffith's pasture on Meeteetse Rim.
Probably up Greybull River.
35tf Cody Bakery
, 1923-04-11

Great Western Sugar Co.
ces payment of another dollar per
ton on 1922 crop.
, 1923-04-11

Sf2,000,000 contract Is let for con-
struction of $50 mile roalroad from
Casper to Miles City, Mont.