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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-09-16
PREPARED TO HANDLE
HEAVY FALL TRAFFIC
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA BUYS
NEW LOCOMOTIVES. PRES.
DOWNS IS OPTIMISTIC.

That the Central of Georgia is max
ing preparations to handle a heavy
traffic this fall and is relying upon the
public to cooperate in preventing de-
Law or interruption to business is the
statement of L. A. Downs, president
of the railroad, who takes an optimis-
tic view of conditions.
President Downs points out that this
section has larger cotton crop than
in a number of years, that it is being
rapidly marketed, and that conditions
of supply and demand Justify a good
price. He refers to other agricultural
products. which have brought increas-
ed returns to the farmer, and shows
how an increase in the purchasing
power of the farmer estimates trans
nortation. retail trade and brings about
good times.
The Central of Georgia has just
placed an order for new locomotives,
in accordance with its program of
adding to its equipment and keeping
all of its facilities in first class condi-
ton. Mr.. Downs says that 81 per cent
cent of the freight cars are in good
order and that shop forces are beng
increased to better this excellent con-
dition.
The railroad president asks the Co
operation Of the public in loading cars
to capacity loading and unloading
cars promptly, and ordering only sui
ficient equipment to fill their daily
needs. He states that already there
are no idle coal cars OF the Central
of Georgia and warns the consumers
of coal to avoid the danger OF delay
by providing Immediately for their
winter requirements He says that the
Central of Georgia is willing and able
to give satisfactory service and thanks
the public for its cooperation in the
past.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-09-16
PECAN MEN TO HOLD
MEETING IN CUTHBERT
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION TO
CONVENE IN ANNUAL CON-
VENTION SEPT. BOTH.

The National Pecan Growers As
ISOLATION will hold its annual conven-
ton in Cuthbert on September 30th
Ito October End. All Of Randolph coun-
ty is making preparations for this big
event and the convention promises to
be the biggest and best in the history
Of the association. The program will
bring before the convention some of
the leading agricultural and scientific
experts of the nation and every state
in the union will send delegates to
attend
]. NJ Patterson, of Putney, Ga, IS
president of the association, and ].
Lloyd Abbott, OF Springfield, Ala, is
secretary. These two men have had
the program in charge and have Sc
cured such speakers as Judge O. 7.
Cover, of Corde1e; c. l.. Isbet, OF
Alabama Polytechnic Institute; DIR. H..
A. Gossard, state entomologist, Ohio;
D. c. Neal, plant pathologist, of Mis-
sissippi, and the following representa-
tives OF the United States Department
OF Agriculture; Dir. A. /. Quamtance,
]. p. Gill. DR.. w. A. Taylor, chief OF
bureau OF plant industry, and DIR. H.
B. Waite and ]. B. Demaree.
The experiment stations OF Florida,
Alabama. Georgia and Texas will be
by their directors and
prominent speakers will be present
from big commercial pecan companies,
from the American Nut Journal, and
the committee on arrangements for the
Southern Exposition to be held in
New York city January, 1925.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-09-16
FIVE MILLION DOLLARS
PAID FOR TOBACCO
FARMERS OF SOUTH GEORGIA
REALIZE LARGE SUM FROM
SALE OF THE WEED.

South Georgia farmers have realized
.S5,000,O00 from the sale of tobacco
grown in 1924, according to figures
revealed in reports from 9 OF the II
leading markets. This sum of extra
cash has been received from the mark
citing of 100000 pounds OF tobacco,
the reports disclose.
Tobacco buyers from every section
of the United States have been at
tracted to Georgia during the time the
golden leaf was being marketed
England has been represented by
many buyers during the harvest, as
we'll as experts from the Orient. To
bacco growers in South Georgia are
said to have realized prices far in ex-
cess of those expected earlier in the
year. which fact has contributed to a
spirit of optimism throughout Geor-
gia's tobacco growing section. This, ii
is believed, will induce even greater
acreage next year.
The greater portion OF the tobacco
crop in Georgia has been sold, but
a number Of the most important mark
cts remain open. These will close dur
ing the next few days.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-09-16
STUDENT FINDS A
RARE OLD BIBLE
TESTAMENT ITO YEARS OLD
BELONGED TO JESSE MER-
GER. FIRST WIFE A JEW.

MACON. Ga.-Beneath the rubbish
and trash in library attic on the
Mercer university campus has been
found the 10 year old family Bible
of Jesse Mercer, founder of the col
lege bearing his name The family
record scriptural rotations and ser
mon outline found in the book are in
the handwriting of the noted divine.
OF peculiar interest about Jesse
MERGERS second wife, Mrs. Nancy ST.
mons Mercer, whose record is in the
old Bible. is the fact that she was the
widow of a Jew, Abram Simons, and
with money she inherited from her
Jewish husband Mercer founded the
Baptist college. The Mercer family
lived in what is r-.w Wilkes county,
Georgia, Penfeld being the first site
Of the university.
Another rare book, Two Grey
Tourists" a novel OF Georgia life by
Ricahrd Malcolm Johnston, Mercer
alumnus, was recently unearthed here
Johnston was one of the outstanding
American literary figures OF the early
10Th century and this copy OF his book
is thought to be the only one in print
today.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-09-16
BRIDES CLAD IN GOLD;
PROSPERITY PREVAILS
SHIPMENTS OF BULLION Be
ING MADE TO INDIA FROM
AMERICA. WEDDING TIME.

Large shipments of gold and silver
are being made from this country to
India to adorn the dresses OF Indian
brides The wedding season will soon
he ON in that country and, having en-
loved prosperous season because OF
the large cotton crop, there will be
manv weddings and much rejoicing.
The rousseau of an Indian bride IS
MAGNIFICENT creation with much sill
YER and gold in evidence. Gold and
silver wedding presents are also given
away freely.
Fair Season Approaching.
Another season for the shipments OF
bullion to India is the fair season,
,ubicb is near at hand In every com
,,,nnitv in India fairs are held after
The cotton and other crops are har,
T vest II is a period of relaxation and
recreation. and in the booths are arti-
c1es Of solid silver and gold.
This is the first time that such heavy
sl,;nrents of bullion have been made
70 India which has always been Gus
TONER OF England for its gold. and Sll-
ver II is thought that the favorable
change rate has had something. to
do with the buying in the united
States Of millions in gold and silver.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-09-16
Preparing to Celebrate
First American Congress
Philadelphia Is Making Ready to OBJ
serve 150th Anniversary.

The president of the United States,
members of the cabinet justices Of the
United States supreme court the gov
ernors and United States senators rep
resenting the Thirteen original states,
and other distinguished visitors viii
be in Philadelphia on September Is
and % to participate in the l50th an
niversarv celebration OF the first ses-
sion Of the First Continental Congress
of America-which was practically
the birth OF the nation.
The celebration will be under the
auspices OF the city OF Philadelphia,
and the Carpenters Company Of Phil
adelphia which will observe the 20Oth
anniversary of its institution at the
same time. The Carpenters Company
built Carpenters Hall, close to lnde-
pendence Hall, and loaned its building
in 1774 to the congress as the place
for holding its sessions.
A reception will be given to Presi-
dent Coolidge and the governors OF
the original states. At the same time
there will be presented reproduction
OF the first session of the congress
showing the delegates and the parts
they played, and using the original
chairs and tables of the congress.
Prior to the reception the president
will be escorted to independence Hall
by parade of United States soldiers,
sailors and marines; several OF the
old military organizations and the Ma
tional Guard OF Pennsylvania, which
he will review at that point.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-09-16
GRATING VEGETABLES
NEW WORK OF SCIENCE
RARE SPECIES ARE CREATED
BY BOTANIST. GROW POTA-
TOES ON BRANCHES.

Grating, a procedure quite common
in tree culture, has been applied to
vegetables and flowers by French
botanist, who has by this method
created new species, prolonged the life
of plants and intensified the perfume
! of flowers
Prof. Lucian Daniel, OF the Univer-
sity of Rennes, France, has perform
ed grating operations on cabbage,
lettuce, beans, potatoes, tomatoes and
various mowers. Other botanists who
have examined his results concede that
the fantastic experiments made by
Prof Daniel hold much practical
promise for the market gardener
Some of the most sensational gratis
were made on the family Solanaceae
to which belong such useful plants as
potatoes tomatoes, tobacco and egg
plant. He grated sections OF eggplant
ION tomato vines. First the graft pro-
duced the regular ovoid eggplant fruit
and later on the same branch yielded
other fruit resembling that of toma-
toes. Finally true hybrid, round i'll
shape, was obtained.
Prof. Daniel has also grated toma-
to branches and belladonna on potato
vines and potato stems on elephants
and tomato vines, Potatoes, of course,
are simply swollen stems or tubes
which develop underground. He was
curious as to what would happen when
he grated a potato stem to another
plant Would tubers continue to be
produced? Yes, they were, but not I'M
foreground Large, beautiful tubers
hung from the branches like fruit.
These aerial tubers when planted
yielded new kind OF underground
potatoes which were more resistant
and developed more quickly than those
of which they were the offspring.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-09-16

du1led to paralysis, and whose minds
can't be Jared by the effect OF per
sona villihcation.
Such interest as there is at the mo-
ment in men rather than in real public
issues probably throws a veil around
the manner and method OF some OF
the campaigning temporarily, but
when the clouds OF ballot battling have
cleared away and the state settles it
self back into the easy chair OF every
day life impression OF how the fine
sensibilities OF life have been dulled,
and the brightness OF the political and
personal fabric OF Georgia's life has
been dulled and stained by publicly
expressed political bitterness outside
the pale OF issues-then Georgia can't
but shudder in the realization of what
has been passed through in the 1924
campaign, in which honest men have
termed each other thieves, liars and
blatherskites
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-09-16
GIRL SHOT BY SUITOR
FORMERLY MARRIED
VICTIM, BULLET IN HEAD, is
STILL UNCONSCIOUS. TRAG-
EDY DETAILS UNKNOWN.

A dispatch from Newton, Ga, to
the Atlanta Georgian says there was a
secret romance in the life of Miss
Maude Bentley, who was shot by 1. E.
Jones following a lovers quarrel. Miss
came known some days ago. Miss
Bentley was really Mrs Maude Mar
shall, but the fact of her former mar
rage was known to practically no one
there.
She came to Newton several months
ago to visit her mother who was mar
ried a second time to Arch Mulfiford,
of that place. She was generally known
as Miss Bentley, and as such is said to
have received the attentions Of /. E.
Jones, prosperous young farmer liv-
ing four miles from Newton, who OBJ
tanned a license to marry her the day
the shooting occurred in her step
fathers front yard.
Believed Dead.
1t is said that Mrs. Marshall be-
lieved that her husband who LETT her
in Alabama prior to her coming to
Newton. was dead, as she had receiv-
ed rumors to that effect Not certain
OF it, however, she pleaded with Jones
to wait as he stood in her mothers
front yard and begged for her hand.
The young farmer, enraged at what
appeared to be a rejection OF his al
fections, which previously, 1t is sad,
had been accepted, lost his head and
fred two bullets into the body OF the
woman he loved One entered the cen
ter of her forehead and ranged upward,
lodging near the scalp, while the other
entered her right breast and lodged III
her spine.
A physician stated the wound was
inflicted by pistol at such close range
that several blisters were caused by
the burning powder.
Unconscious.
Mrs. Marshall is now at the Phoebe
Putnev Memorial hospital in Albany;
where her condition was still critical
at last report. She has never re-
gained consciousness sufficiently TO
discuss the case, and many OF the de-
tails can not be cleared up until she
improves. =
ZONES it still at large, efforts OF
Sheriff Griffin. who holds warrant
charging assault with intent to muir
der. having proved futile in locating
him.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-09-16
On "oreas Already Cldn1ors for Stage:
SnOW r,.US in NeU York and Illinois
The Government Forecast Predicts Early and Hard Winter of
Long Duration Old ]. Frost Sends in His Visiting Card

CHICAGO.-Old Jack Frost sent
in his visiting card today in the shape
of a snowstorm that continued about
Is minutes in Chicago. The first seri-
Gus autumn frost is due tonight or to-
morrow night. The Canadian north
west reports below freezing tempera-
lures, with much damage to crops.
Palm Beach clothes and straw hats
have gone into hiding for the season,
and delicate women are discarding the
furs they have worn all summer and
are appearing in low necked gowns.
All signs point to the imminent ap-
proach of cold weather.
Frost at this time will do immense
damage in the great corn belt Two
weeks more OF warm weather and not
much rain would have put the bulk
of the crop on the safe side, but frost
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-09-16

The campaign now closed will go
down in Georgia history as a peculiar
and unusual one, writes John w.
Hammond, the well-known Atlanta
newspaper correspondent. 1t opened
with a marked lethargy among the
people. and an evidenced disposition to
have no heated politics. 1t closed
with the history OF having become one
OF the dirtiest campaigns the state has
ever seen in the matter OF campaign
abuse. personal charges and counter
charges, and villihcation. In some OF
the races the campaign propaganda
published, particularly in paid adver.
Using, has been Of nature little II
ANYTHING short of staggering to the
eieyated mind. Out of politics many OF
the things said and charged in the
campaign would ordinarily have taken
one OF two courses-personal encoun-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-09-16
.BLUFFTON PLAN OF
GIVING ACRE TO LORD
NEW WAY OF AIDING STRUG-
CLING COUNTRY CHURCHES
ATTRACTS ATTENTION.

The novel plan originated by Rev.
Henry M. Melton, who was born and
reared in Dawson, of members giving
the product of certain field to the
support of the church, has attracted
attention throughout the country. The
News finds the following in a Penn
sylvania newspaper in reference to it:
The most pathetic buildings in the
average rural town are the churches.
There are so many of them They
stand, clap-boarded or brick, citadels
of denominationalism awaiting wor-
shippers AS rule any one OF the six
would accommodate all the worship
pers who attend services.
Thus developed the problem of the
rural church; how to reconcile the zeal
of denominationalism with adequate
financial support Hitherto the one
plan advanced has been that OF unihca-
ton, the uniting of forces and resourc-
es into one church and employing one
pastor.
1t remained for Georgia to offer a
new plan. 1t is known as the Lords
Acre Plan" This plan originated in
the Bluffton Baptist church, small
country church in Clay county.
Not Doing Their Share.
Facing the cruel questions involv-
ing the problem of existence all coun-
try churches face the minister, the
Henry M. Melton, came to the con
clusion that the farm members of the
congregation were not doing their
share in support Of the church.
The Rev Mr. Melton preached one
Sunday on the old Jewish and Chris
ton principle of the 1.-THE, the giving
Of one-tenth of mans income to the
church. He then proposed that the
farmer members Of his congregation
set aside a portion OF their land as an
annual pledge for support of the Bluff
ton congregation.
II they chose to plant only one
acre we'll and good. 1t would be their
Lords Acre" II they would give ten
acres so much the worthier would be
their donation.
Seven Members Sign Up.
Seven members signed the first
pledge, stating that eve agree to stake
off plant, cultivate and harvest one
acre from our respective farms, the
produce from said acre, when in mark
etable condition, to be turned over to
a committee appointed. by the church
to receive and sell, and the proceeds
to be used in the work of the Lord"
In one year the Lords Acre" plan
has grown in favor until this season
more than 500 acres of such land is in
cultivation in Georgia. More than 100
rural church congregations, with an
average allotment of five acres each,
have Joined in the plan.
The Rev. Mr.. Melton has received
hundreds of letters from all over the
country inquiring into the plan. The
Georgia Baptist Association has be-
come the official sponsor of the plan
among farmers o fthat denomination.
Other denominations are taking it up.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-09-16

ter or court action for libel In the
antebellum days those things which
have come into the 1924 campaign in
Georgia would have smeared dueling
grounds with blood and the state with
sensation.
A reflection in days to come OF the
printed matter carried this year in
some OF the political fights will IN
doubtedly cause sober-minded Geor-
gians to pause and consider whether
or not halt must not be called in
the interest OF future harmony among
the peoples Of the state; whether or
not the sort Of campaigning and poll
tics Georgia has experienced this year
does not serve to drive men of size
and ability in disgust from the politi-
cal field. further than that had already
drifted in the recent past years, and
tend to turning over the state govern
ment to those men whose hides are
thick, whose personal sensibilities are
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-09-16
pAIlROADS TO MERGE;
s1.5OO,OOO,OOO DEAL
,oNcoLIDATIoN, ONE OF THE
'C cpEATEsT, is TRIUMPH OF
ONCE POOR BOYS.

Oos Of the greatest consultations
abroad history, creating a new
.,., Trunk line with more than a.
an miles of track and merging rail
,.,d property valued at about $780,
Mo0o0 has virtually been completed
h. q P and NJ. ]. Van Sweringen,
!; Cleveland @. The railroads merged
r.;n he the Nickel Plate, Erie, Chesa-
o..ke and Ohio, the Hooking Valley
and the Pere Marquette. Machinery
4 II obtain the approval of the stock
holders and the sanction of the Inter
.-,to Commerce Commission already
Ia. been set in motion.
The action OF the directors of the
rarious roads in approving the Van
Sweringen brothers plans for unified
control OF the systems paves the way
ior the second big merger since the
massage OF the transportation act OF
|i92O :,
II is the first grouping to approach
tbe size and scope of some OF the larg-
er systems contemplated in the road
Recommendations OF the transpOrta-
tio0 act for railway congratulations
and outlined in the tentative plans pro-
nulgated by the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
Third Largest in East.
This grouping, which is voluntary
lon the part OF all five carriers, repre-
sents the third largest system in the
east With more than 5000 miles OF
actual roadway it ranks next in size
10 the New York Central and the
Pennsylvania railroads. Properties en-
bracing more than $4,000 miles of
tracks and sidings are included, while
the actual investment in road and
equipment exceeds $1,081 100000. The
value of leases and other assets brings
the total up to a billion and half dol
lars
The Van Sweringen brothers, who
engineered the deal, were born in a
little town in Ohio. In Cleveland they
invested in real estate, finally enter
ing the railroad business by buying
the Nickel Plate road. The $500, 000,-
600 merger is the triumph of their
business careers, their friends declare.
The Sweringens, who in 1916 began
backing their idea OF railway consoli-
daton with wide experience in real
estate dealing and 100000 in cash,
today have a potential profit of at
least $25,0O0,000 in profits, according
to estimates by railroad bankers and
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-09-16

will catch thousands Of acres. Farm
ers will be able to use much of the
damaged crop in forage and realize
partly in increased prices for hogs and
cattle. The south is short of corn,
owing to the drouth, and a shortage
in the north, caused by early frost,
will send the price skyrocketing.
The unreasonable cold has pene-
trated to all parts of the east and now
appears to be spreading westward.
New York reports the coolest Sep
TENDER in its history and snow has
fallen upstate. Government weather
forecasters predict an early winter,
which will be OF long duration and
hard in nature. Autumn, usually a
drowsily delightful season, is to have
short shift this year, as Boreas is
already clamoring for the stage.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-09-16
NOW FOR NATIONAL
CAMPAIGN IN GEORGIA
STATE TO BE COMBED FOR
CONTRIBUTIONS. RACES FOR
PRESIDING OFFICER.

ATLANTA.-W ednesday's election
wrote the close of the statewide cam
paign for state and county Offices
leaving the remaining campaigning tc
be done between the contending ma
tional parties Each of these is build
ing preparations for active work in the
state between this date and the day
of the general election in November.
The democrats, under the slogan of
"A Dollar for Democracy" are en-
deavoring to complete their state or
ganization, raise funds for expenses,
both state and national, during the re-
mainder of the campaign, and to
broadcast the state with national dem
ocratic party literature to offset any
efforts the opposing parties may make.
The republicans have named their state
steering and finance committee and are
combing the state for dollars and for
adherents. The LaFollette party seems
to have made little effort, thus far, in
the direction OF raising funds, but has
tentatively arranged a program to
throw speakers into the state in the
next ten days or two weeks, each to
make about fifty speeches, in the
hope of making inroads on the two
major parties. Apparently their par
ticular efforts are to be along the line
OF trying hardest to bring about de-
Elections among the democrats.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-09-16
Georgia Faces a Huge
Deficit at End of Year
Comptroller Wright Says S330,00O Is
lacking Situation Is Serious.

Lacking. Situation Is Serious.
ATLANTA, Ga.-Where will the
state OF Georgia get $330,000 at the
lend OF the year to break even on its
Income and expenditures?
Comptroller General w. A. Wright,
reviewing the net result of new tax
and appropriation laws, said:
Schools Get 1t All.
Appropriations bills were finally
approved mounting 100000. New
sources OF tax money were provided,
by changes in the laws made in the
last session of the legislature. which
will bring in another $430,000. Make
tae proper deduction, and it will ap-
pear that there is going to be short
age OF S330,O0O Where the state is go
lng to get that $330,000 | don't know,
put contemplating that situation is
taking the mind into another line OF
thought. The public school appropria-
tion amount to $4,500,000. Add to that
tine appropriations for other educa-
uonal institutions, and it runs to a
ngure which completely absorbs ev-
.ery penny Of money the state gets
Prom all ad valorem taxation to pay
THE one item OF education. The state
government proper, therefore, with all
Ils ncidentals, has to live on the spe-
CiaI taxes. And that, by the way, is
wrong in principle. have always been
opposed to special taxes on the ground
'nat a system of imposing special tax
Is places a handicap on thrift and a
premium on slothfulness.
Present Need.
General Wright says this financial
Status is but a further illustration OF
iae pressing need that business brain
%, applied to the perfection and estab-
9,snment use by the state of well
oehned and IRON clad budget system.