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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-10-07
THOUSANDS ROBBED
OF THEIR EYE SIGHT
IN ONE YEAR 4,456 PERSONS IN
u. S. MADE BLIND BY VARI-
GUS ACCIDENTS.

The sight of least 4,456 men, wo-
men and children has been destroyed
or seriously impaired by accidents dur
ing the past II months, according to
report issued by the National Com
mittea for the Prevention of Blindness.
A year ago the committee began
an investigation to discover the nature,
causes and relative Importance of the
accidents which each year add several
thousands to the blind population of
the United States, and the report made
public today is an analysis of the first
years findings in this investigation.
The outstanding facts of the report
are:
That IS per cent of the victims OF
eye accidents are men and boys, only
604 out of the 4,456 victims being wo-
men and girls.
That industrial accidents constitute
the most serious single group Of acci-
dents resulting in eye injuries.
That almost Is per cent OF the VIC
tins Of eye accidents. are children, l.
053 bows and girls having been so in
iured during the last twelve months.
That next to children's play acct
dents automobile accidents are the
most serious non-industrial sources of
eve injuries the eyes of 38l persons
having been injured in motor vehicle
accidents, principally through the
breaking of windshields, during the
past year.
That explosives and firearms were
responsible for injuries to the eyes OF
202 persons
The committee received reports OF
100 persons whose eyes were pierced
by metal shot from air rifles; 90 eye
accidents were due to the use of chem
icals outside of industry; 90 occurred
during the chopping of fire wood; 81
were hunting accidents, and "a per
sons may lose their sight or have al,
ready been blinded as the result OF
brawls during the past year.
Baseball accidents brought serious
injuries TO 65 persons; the drinking OF
wood alcohol destroyed or impaired
the sight of IS persons; 81 women
burned their ewes with hot curling
irons while standing before mirrors
because Of their failure to recognize
that in the reflection of the mirror the
movements of the hand are reversed
Bows with sling shots injured the
ewes of u persons. Bow and arrow
accidents may lead to the blindness
.of "a persons. Golf ball accidents de
stroved or endangered the sight OF IL
persons
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-10-07
ELECTRIC POWER MAY
SOON GO TO FARMS
DRUDGERY OF RURAL WOMEN
WILL BE THING OF PAST
WHEN THAT'S DONE.

ATLANTA, Ga.-Electricity will
end drudgery of the rural woman.
Electrihcation of the farm is not an
idle dream. 1t is coming and it will
mean much for both the women and
the men OF the rural communities.
This is the opinion OF industrial ex-
perts in Atlanta, as expressed here to-
day, in viewing the rapid development
of hydro-electric power, not only in
Georgia, but throughout the entire
south.
Conveniences not known now in
farm life will be available with the
extending of electricity to the farms.
The women in the towns, it was
pointed out here, know what these
conveniences mean to them in the
saving of labor, time and energy The
rural woman, it was stated, will be
able to avoid much of the present
drudgery of farm life when she has
the conveniences nearly all town
homes now have, and electricity, at
no distant day, it was asserted, will
be within their reach.
Millions for Development.
Development of hydro-electric pow
er is now being made on a more ex-
tensive scale than it was believed pos
sible a few years ago Millions of dol
lars, it was stated, is being invested
in development work which will en-
able power companies eventually to
reach many rural communities. AS adj
ditional capital is provided the service
will be extended more and more, and
it is a question OF only a few years
until farms in many sections OF the
state will have electricity.
Cooperation OF the power compa-
MES with many small communities i'll
advertising available factory sites in
various sections of the state already is
bringing big results in building up
Georgia industries. it is stated.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-10-07
FAMOUS PECAN TREE
INTERESTED VISITORS
LARGE ATTENDANCE UP ION
NATIONAL NUT GROWERS
CONVENTION LAST WEEK.

Many states were represented at the
annual convention OF the National Nut
Growers Association in Cuthbert last
week, and the visitors were royalty
entertained by the people of that town
and community
The pecan exhibit attracted much
attention. Pecan cakes, all kinds OF
pecan candy, pecan butter, preserved
pecan meats in jars and cans. sailed
pecans and sugared pecans were some
OF the attractions.
The oldest and most famous pecan
tree in Georgia, known as the Mac
Donald pecan tree and sometimes as
the Bookings tree, is in the heart of
Cuthbert. II was planted u years ago
by Rebecca Brookings Taylor from
seed brought from Texas, and thous
ands of Randolph pecan trees can be
traced back to this famous old tree.
The tree bears nuts each year, and
has borne as many as 1900 pounds in
one year.
Georgia Leads All States.
III appears THAT 0SOISld ioduS al
the states in the production of Guilt
waited pecans and Texas leads in the
production of seedlings Every state
is planning larger areas in pecans and
the business in steadily increasing.
The pecan business that few years
ago was looked upon as sort OF lad
is now recognized by bankers and
business men as a real business, and
that it takes brains and infinite work
to succeed.
The pecan growers at this time are
confronted by several enemies such
as seats diseases and damaging in
sects.
DIR. M. B. Waite, of Washington,
D. c., and ]. B. Demaree, of the Unit
ed States Department Of Agriculture,
both plant experts and plant patholo-
gists of national reputation, delivered
addresses on these pecan enemies and
the proper kinds of sprays and the
best methods OF spraying.
Delegates were present from ~
states. and all were delighted with
Cuthbert and Randolph county and
were high in their praises OF Georgia.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-10-07
ArnOred Cars MOUe Three Billions
THROUGH Streets of NelU York City

and no pedestrians were permitted on
the route.
In each armored car were chauf7
feur and four armed guards. A motor
car filed with guards ran ahead OF
each express truck, and similar car
moved closely behind it. The treas
ure was carried in sealed trunks. Plans
for the transfer had been months in
the making, and the actual work re-
CURED about II hours. Three hours of
this time was at night.
The S3,OO0,000000, according to
bank officials, was the largest amount
ever moved through the streets OF New
York city and is believed to be the
largest amount ever transferred at any
place in the world. In addition to
New York city policemen 40 bank
policemen and 90 secret service men
guarded the transfer, in which 81 ar
mored trucks were employed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-10-07
|exas Cattle Are Barred
From Georgia by Bahnsen
der Issued by Veterinarian Account
OF Hoof and Mouth Disease.

rs safeguard to Georgia's live
pck industry against the dreaded
Pt and mouth disease, which has
sen deadly menace to cattle IN
\ stern cattle regions, a sweeping en-
Fgo against the bringing of Texas
fmals into the state has been issued
DR.. Peter F. Bahnsen, Georgia
fte veterinarian.
The embargo is applicable to all
#nner OF live stock and to hides, hay,
nav or any material which might
#Oor the foot and mouth germ, and
NlSSucd under authority of legislative
u OF 1909 and 1910.
accent development of the foot and
Ruth disease in Texas cattle regions
Il It's subsequent spread over wide
"a OF the state has greatly alarmed
i stock men of that section, and its
gltnued prevalence, it is stated, led
n me issuance of the drastic order OF
Bahnsen.
Where Disease Originated.
|pngln OF the outbreak of foot and
PUN disease in Texas has been trac-
10 a shipment of Brahma cattle re-
r. admittance at New Orleans last
4 by DR.. A. F. Staub, head of the
feTal bureau of animal industry, DR.
E ~ was advised Thursday.
ne cattle were aboard a Brazilian
kahShlp and were destined for Vera
w. Mexico, but we're brought past
Il; port because of longshoremen'
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-10-07
CORN THE BIGGEST
MONEY MAKING CROP
FARMERS OF THIS COUNTRY
USE THE GRAIN MOSTLY
FOR FATTENING HOGS.

WASHINGTON, d. Gust how
much of a billion dollar corn crop do
you eat? Mor& than you think first
hand, for that is what ham, bacon and
pork products are made out of. 1t is
chiefly for feeding swine that corn is
grown on more land than any other
cultivated crop in the United States,
according to bulletin by the Ameri-
can Nature Association, which adds
that corn oil, corn syrup and corn
starch are increasingly important
products. Hardly one and one-half per
cent OF the corn crop is exported.
/ The farmer gets greater total re-
turn from corn than any other crop.
During the past decade the product
of this plant has generally exceeded
the combined value of wheat and cot
ton, the next two most important
crops. Corn growing is the principal
task of millions of farmers. About
hundred million acres are planted to
corn each year. 1t is grown in every
state OF the union, but thrives best i'll
the central states FROM Ohio westward
to Missouri and beyond.
The value of the annual corn crop
ranges from one and a half to three
billion dollars. This is approximately
two times the annual value of iron
produced and 20 times that of the gold
mined each year The white man came
to America seeking gold and found it
in the corn fields. Unknown to the
world before the discovery OF America
corn is grown in nearly every coun-
try in the world and has even replac-
ed wheat and rice as staff OF life in
some places.
Huge U. S. Production.
OF the worlds four billion bush
els OF corn the United States produces
three-fourths. Loaded in wagons this
would make a train long enough to
go around the world nine times at the
equator.
The first crop cultivated in Ameri-
ca by the white man was corn. Col
onsts in Virginia and Massachusetts,
found the Indians growing corn and
preparing it for food in many different
WAYS. Because their own plants from
Europe were not adapted to the new
conditions the white settlement OF
America would have been extremely
difficult without corn. This plant
thrives on newly cleared land, is titled
without elaborate machinery and tur-
nishes food for man, and grain and
fodder for animals.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-10-07
CORN BORER NOW
THREATENING STATE
SEEKING TO PREVENT ITS EN-
TRANCE INTO GEORGIA. A
MOST INJURIOUS PEST,

The Georgia State Board OF Ento-
mology is making strenuous efforts to
prohibit the entrance into Georgia OF
the European corn borer, declared to
be without doubt the most injurious
insect pest that has ever invaded the
United States.
Within the last few years this pest
has caused great damage to the corn
crop in the eastern section OF the Unit
ed States. The infested areas are in
Maine, New Hampshire, Massachu-
sets, Rhode Island, New York, Penn
sylvania, Michigan and Ohio And the
insect is travelling south, it is pointed
out by the board authorities.
Dangerous Destroyer.
1t has been unanimously agreed by
authorities that this dangerous pest
would be even a greater destroyer in
the SOUTH should it gain entrance in
to this section, than it is causing in
the north. This is attributed to the
fact that it is because of the longer
season in the south, and because there
is little doubt that cotton and many
other plants as we'll as corn would
suffer from its deadly attack.
Farmers throughout the state are
urged to be on the watchout for the
corn borer, and that if they find any
suspicious specimens in their field that
they promptly send them to the board
for examination.
The insect can be easily confused
with the smart weed bgrer, it was
pointed out, which is already in the
state, and has been here for many
wears, but the farmers are urged not
to take any chances, and that il they
have the slightest doubt as to the in
sect that they Immediately send their
specimen to the board
How 1t Works.
The European corn borer is distrib-
uted through central and southern Eu-
rope. west and central Asia and Japan.
Its food plants in the United States
include sweet corn and fodder corn.
while they also attack other plants, in
GLIDING green or string beans, beets,
spinach. potatoes, tomatoes, oats, tur-
nips, celery and several different spe-
cies of weeds and grasses.
This corn worm bores into all parts
of the stalk, ear and tassel OF the corn
plant and to some extent feeds upon
the leaves. 1t has been recorded that
312 borers have been taken from the
plants in one hill OF corn and AZ from
single ear.
The European corn borer is said to
perhaps have been brought to the
United States in shipments of broom
corn from Italy and Hungary. This
was first noted in 1917 in the vicinity
of Boston.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-10-07
Georgia Bigan1ist Sentenced to
Support TUO Wives and Families

lev, wife No. /, the mother of 10
year-old boy, and Mrs. Ida May
Banks Wigley, wife No. 2, mother OF
4-months-old girl.
Both pleaded for clemency for the
man. They were particularly anxious
that he not be sent to the penitentiary.
Il want these good women support
ed" said the judge, 'and therefore l
am going to fix your penItentiary
term at from 2 to 10 years. but sus-
pend sentence and fix bond so that
YOU can take cake OF them
you must give your wife $50
month until she obtains her divorce
and alimony if fixed.
you must also support the other
one. who is not your wife, and as soon
as YOU are free you must marry her
and continue to support her. Any time
YOU fail you'll go to the penitentiary.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-10-07
More Than Hundred Officers and Ma
chine Guns Guard Shipment.
Largest in the World.

Three billion dollars in cash was
moved through the streets OF New
York city for FIVE blocks when the
Federal Reserve Bank moved from one
building into another. The treasure,
the largest ever moved in the world,
was carried in armored cars OF an ex-
press company, and more than hun
bred trips were made before the trans
fer was completed There was not a
single untoward incident.
Machine guns were placed at the
old location OF the bank and at the
new. More than 800 men guarded the
progress of the treasure through the
streets. At each cross street an armor-
ed car was stationed to block tratnc,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-10-07
GET SEED FROM EGYPTIAN
TOMB; BIG WHEAT CROP

TACOMA, Wash.-F. S. John
ston, a farmer near Morton, Wash,
has just harvested bumper crop
of wheat that he says came from
seed taken from an Egyptian tomb,
Mr.. Johnston says he got the seeds
four years ago and this year the
increase was enough to plant fiji
teen acres. He has just finished
harvesting the crop, which melted
72o bushels for an average OF 4S.6
bushels to the acre.
The grain is white and very hard,
the straw short and the heads pro-
life, and Mr. Johnston says it is
one of the best varieties OF spring
wheat he has ever grown. 1t was
not learned from what tomb the
wheat was obtained.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-10-07
|oRE THAN 5000 FEEDER
PIGS ON COLQUITT FARMS
FRhed in Peanut and Potato Fields
In Preparation for Market.

aTmers in the Moultrie section
sugnt 600 feeder pigs from the stock
rs TIER there Saturday. 1t was stated
-'OQo pigs could have been sold
ing tie day if it had been possible
OBTAIN that number.
r0It than 5000 feeder pigs have
e. placed on farms within a radius
10y miles of Moultrie in the past
c, nin, The pigs were shipped to
UiFie from Tennessee.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-10-07
vaIdosta Judge Inficts Unusual Pun
ishnent. Atlanta Man With More
Mates Than Law Allows.

In this day and time OF staggering
prices for. food and towering rentals
and clothes all out of sight and taxes
,o,+;rq and funeral expenses IN
creasing. the sentence promulgated by
court that man shall support two
families NAV be considered more rig
orous than any fixed stay behind priS-
on walls and bars =, Thor,
~ Valdosta. presiding in Fulton
COUNTY CO, ~ superior court for Judge How
Ia 'yhen c. A. Wigley, confessed
b 3 appeared before him Ter SEN
' IN court we're Mrs. Ethel w. Wig
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-10-07
AGE REIGNS SUPREME AT
PARTY FOR WOMAN ia

The day she was ia years old
Mrs. Mae Urdang, OF New York
city, had a party at which her
brother, only 100 years old, and
her boy, now 80, were honored
guests. Mrs. Urdang regards her
brother as mere stripping and her
son as a boy.
The aged woman was born in
Russia. She eats no meat or eggs
and little fruit. Her favorite foods
are bread, cereals, soup and coffee.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-10-07
Cow Has Become
States Champion Producer

Famo Lucretia Sarcastic, Holstein
cow owned by the Georgia State Col
lege of Agriculture, recently complet-
ed an official record OF 12,9146
pounds OF milk and 448.l0 pounds Of
fat the equivalent OF 5o0.l5 pounds OF
butter, in a year, which makes her the
highest producer as four-year-old
for the breed in the state. In her best
month Lucretia produced 1884
pounds of milk.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-10-07
1851, Al 900 IS CUT FROM
HIS DEBT BY UNCLE SAM

The American public debt, which
cost the taxpayers of the country
about $1,0O0,000,O0O in interest this
year, was reduced 1901, AL 900 in
the II months ending September
80, the United States treasury an
nounced Friday.
The debt in August was cut
$l89,000,0O0, leaving total outstand-
ing obligations of $20,841,959 COM
pared to the maximum of $25,478,-
592,113 August 81, 1919.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-10-07
DISTINCTION A CITY
oF BIG CONTRASTS
carry AND UGLINESS, PAL
h "a. HOMES AND SQUALID
! lr ARE FOUND THERE.

4 yTH4D55i..ARY y ?. c,-Washing-
r;tv OF Beauty rubs
F5om. with ugliness, and-span
yo ssss with dilapidated antiquity,
/. ,.;sr homes with squalid shacks.
' When the king and queen OF Bel
:n were guests OF the capital only
low wears back their nearest neigh
while they were housed in the
-,;6cent home of Breckenridge
4 ono at the top OF Sixteenth Street
IT, was a colored family which lived
4 ramshackle old lean-to immedi-
Aek across the street.
4 Al the comings and goings OF the
rai nair and their glittering entour-
were watched with keenest inter
bv half-dozen ragged piccanin-
.. 6erched on the rickety old steps
Il the shack.
Il And the interest of these dusky
Dnngsters in the royal guests across
Wsv undoubtedly was equaled by
interest of the royal pair i'll the
Eemocracy' of the American CAPT
and its indiscriminate mixing Of
ors and classes.
IT, the rear of many of Washing
IN. most fashionable residence
reets facing on the alleys, are rows
brick tenements, crowded, unsani-
rv unsightly, housing chiefly the
II, poorer colored population.
Tbese alley dwellings developed
I'M the practice of the old families
installing their colored coachmen
M cook. usually they were man and
te in buildings on the rear OF the
IA facing the alley. Gradually these
8r:ldngs we're extended until they
Mid the whole alley frontage.
Historic Avenue Thanked by
Motley Structures.
a No historic avenue in the world
&esents such a motely array OF
kructures" as TANKS Pennsylvania
&enue that broad thoroughfare be-
Ieen the capital and the treasury.
4 At the uptown end, near the treas
h. there are a number of creditable
Rodern buildings. But below Sixth
beet, toward the capitol, the only
liable building not of pre-civil war
Nntage houses Henry Ford's fivver
Nd tractor exhibits.
Here may be found Washington's
Chinatown" rendezvous of silk-shirt-
j and pig-tailed Celestials.
&Here. also, are the quarters OF for
+ bic tellers, palm readers, mediums
ID pSychics.
&Swarthy gypsy women, in brilliant
&orad and voluminous skirts and
&Enbow hued scarfs, loll in the door
kvs while their brown-skinned, scan
SIy-clad children revel in the CRIME
u the cutters.
"A Jew musty, dusty antique" shops
la an old second hand book shop or
No alone add class" to this section
n the avenue"
Zone hundred years from now, per-
b. in So this may be changed. At
Ia time Pennsylvania avenue may
the beautiful" thoroughfare it's so
len pictured. For few OF the build
\ gs there can stand longer than that.
but in the meantime-well, it's
bse to the capitol. There's no press
IA for its present development And
hd values will keep on rising.
#The increment in these values make
more desirable to wait another
B heration before improving this sec
IN ,han to do it now.
And in the capital city money out
x Ks even congress!
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-10-07
RAINFALL WAS 5.22
IN MONTH OF SEPTEMBER
Usually One of Dry Months 1t Made
Record for Wetness.

A total rainfall Of SO inches in
Georgia for the month of September
is unusual That month, statistics
show, is usually one OF the dry
months, but in parts OF the state the
rain was constant from September Is
to %, particularly in the upper part
of the state the result being damage
TO crops and almost destruction to
dirt roads.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-11-03
PAGE THREE

in the County Of Imperial, State of
described as follows.
Lots Twenty-nine (2y) and
Thirty 800, in Block Twenty
(30) of the City Of III Centre.
TO pay the unpaid portion of the
principal sum of said Note, to-
wit: The sum of SEVEN HUN.
DRIED EIGHTEEN and nol0O
DOLLARS, (y71s.00,) together with
interest thereon from the gath day
Of September, 1923, at the rate of
eight per cent. per annum, com
pounded menthly, sums, + any, adj
vanced under the terms of said
Deed of Trust; the expense Of said
sale; and the compensation Of said
Trustee as provided in said Deed OF
Trust. Terms of sale, cash in
United States Gold Coin.
Dated this 9th day Of October,
1924.
! UNION TRUST COMPANY OF
SAN DIEGO, TRUSTEE.
BY c. IT. English, Vice President.
BY i. p. Thompson, Asst. Secretary.
Corporate SeaD
Oct l3 20 q n 3
Imperial Valley press., 1924-11-03
NOTICE INVITING SEALED
PROPOSALS OR BIDS FOR LA.
BOR FOR THE WATER DE.
PARTMENT OF THE CITY OF
Ell CENTRIC, CALIFORNIA.

Notice Is hereby given that seal.
ed proposals or bids will be Reeeiv-
ed by the undersigned City Clerk
of the City of FL Centro,s Califor-
MIA, at the City Hall of said City
up to. the hour of 7:30 o clock p. m.
on Wednesday, the 10th day of No
vember, 1924, for furnishing all Ia
Dor necessary for the installation of
the water mains described in the
specification for the Improvement
of the water system of said City on
file in the office Of the City Clerk
of said City, including the furnish
ing of all equipment necessary for
the performance of such work.
The Board of Trustees of said
City reserves the right to reject
any or all bids.
By order of said Board of Trus-
tees.
Dated this 31st day of October, 1924
JAMES A. SCHOFYELD,
31t12 Acting City Clerk.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-11-03

She has developed numner Of
symptoms that were present in her
scrious attack in 1929 at the white
house.
"Other complications have arisen
which were not present at the time
and her condition now is rather seri-
Gus. -
Mrs. Sawyer, widow Of Brigadicr
General Sawyer, personal physician
attendance on Mrs. Harding.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-11-03
Wineries of
Calf. NJ a king
100000 Gallons


SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 3.-Thc
United States government wants to
Know just why the WINERIES of
California are running full blast in
these arid days of prohibition. The
federal prohibition chief at Wash
lngton has asked S. T. Rutter, pro-
hibition director TO find out fol him.
Last year, Ruttcr said, California
WINERIES manufactured 1900, 900
gallons of wine and this year they
have about 40,000,000 gallons son
hand. About one fourth of the
wine is used for medicinal and sa-
cramental purposes, at the request
of the Washington headquarters,
Rutter has. set abou! finding out
what the Vine manufacturers pro
pose to do with their stores.
Two years ago the excuse was