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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-02-05
MICA MINES ARE
IDLE IN GEORGIA
OWNERS CANNOT COMPETE
WITH CHEAP LABOR PRO-
DUCT. WANT TARIFF.

More than a thousand valuable mica
mines in Georgia are lying idle and
unworked, according to a recent ser
vey. Some of the mines are aban-
doned while others never have been
developed, although it is certain that
they contain valuable deposits OF
mica.
Most of the mines are idle, accord
ing to business men, because imported
mica is sold so cheaply that competi-
ton is impossible. Senators and
representatives at Washington have
been urged by mine owners to sug-
gest the placing Of tariff duty on
imported mica.
According to government reports
$1,330,622 worth of mica was imported
into the United States during 1922,
the latest year for which figures are
available. During the same year the
value of mica mined in the United
States was $685. $40, OF which $11,330
worth came from Georgia.
Some time ago one block of mica
mined in Epson county, near Yates
Vile, Ga, sold for $1,400 The mica
was faw1ess and of the highest grade,
cutting 20 by 20 inches, and sold for
$50 a pound.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-02-05
A NEW PEACH PEST
THREATENS INDUSTRY
ORIENTAL MOTH WOULD DO
GREATER DAMAGE THAN
ANY YET ENCOUNTERED.

The government and state labora-
tory at Fort Valley sends out word
that noxious insect has been intro
duced into this country which would
do greater damage to the peach crop
than anything we have yet encounter
ed, if it once got established.
According to information at hand
new and dangerous peach pest was
introduced into the United States on
Towering cherry trees from Japan. 1t
is known as the oriental peach moth.
During recent years this pest has
spread as far south as northern Viz
gina and perhaps further
According to the government and
state laboratory the injury is not
confined to the twigs, but the larvae
also work in the peach fruit. In
some liberia orchards in the north 40
per cent. of the fruit during the 1928
season was damaged by the oriental
peach moth larvae. There are four
broods of this insect each season in
the north, and in all probability there
would be more i'll the south, should
the insect become established here.
Unfortunately control measures on
the whole have been rather unsatis
factory to date. The insect appears
to be most difficult pest to control.
There is some possibility of this in
sect being disseminated by means OF
nursery stock, and it is thought that
perhaps it may have been brought into
this country in that manner. How
ever, the chief means of spread is by
means of infested fruit 1t has re-
Gently become known that peaches
from the northern oriental peach
moth infested area have been shipped
into several of the states adjoining
Georgia. In one adjoining state
rather typical oriental peach moth twig
injury has been found.
The damage from this pest would
perhaps be greater than that experience
ed from any other peach pest should
ii become established in Georgia. Its
general spread in the state could per
haps be prevented or retarded if in
festations receive attention as soon as
they become established. Therefore,
Georgia peach growers are urged to
be on the lookout for this new pest,
and Immediately send injured fruit
twigs or any suspicious worms" or
insects in fruit to the government and
state laboratory at Fort Valley.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-02-05
DRY LAW VlOLATORS
GET DRUNK IN JAIL
CONVICTED PRISONERS Sc
CURE CORN" WH1SKEY.
SEEMS HARD TO QUIT.

SAVANNAH, Ga.-Conviction in a
court for violating the national pro-
hibition laws does not always quench
the desire for partaking of the for
hidden liquor, as was proved Saatur-
day night when a number OF prison
ers confined in the county jail, await
ing transportation to the federal pen.
itentairy, secured a supply OF corn
and went on a spree. Those con-
nected with the institution saidS that
seven inmates were allowed to take
exercise in the yard for an hour or
more Saturday afternoon, as direct,
ed by the judge trying the cases, and
that in some manner a supply OF
whiskey was slipped by the vigilant
euardes and given to the prisoners. -.
The difficulty did not arise until
later in the night, however, when
guards were called in to quell dis
turbance arising over the fact one man
refused to imbibe with his compan-
ions. Everybody seemed well tank
ed up" the guards stated, and large
quantity of bottles were found scat
cred about, all empty.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-02-05
M'ADOO AND. GREGORY
SERVE OIL INTERESTS
e. oPDfE REVEALS HUGE
FEES Try -oRMER. ONLY
LOAN " FALL.

WASHINTON.-W1r.. j. NC
Adoo, candidate for the democratic
nomination for president, and Thomas
w. Gregory, the democrat selected by
President Coolidge to assist in the
prosecution of the oil lease cases, have
had employment as counsel for oil
interests, Edward L. Doheny, Cali
ifornia oil magnate, testified today
before the senate investigation COM
mittee.
Mr.. Doheny said he personally had
retained Mr.. McAdoo after his retire
ment as Secretary of the Treasury;
that he thought his company had paid
him all told" about $250,000 in fees,
and at that it now pays him a retainer
of $4,000 a year. His company and a
half dozen other oil companies en-
ployed Mr.. Gregory after he quit as
Attorney General, Mr. Doheny stat
ed, for the purpose of appearing before
President Wilson or the state depart
ment in connection with Mexican oil
matters. His company's share of the
fee paid was $4,000, he said.
Other Cabinet Officers Retained.
Testimony also was given that com
panies in which Mr.. Doheny has an
interest had given employment to two
other members of the cabinet in the
Wilson administration after they quit
office. Franklin K Lane, former
Secretary of the Interior, and Lindley
M. Garrison, former Secretary of
War
Mr. Lane was assistant to the pres
ident of the PanAmerican Petroleum
and Transport company, Mr.. Doheny
said, while Mr. Garrison was associat-
ed with the New York banking firm
OF Blair and Company.
The committee also was told by
Mr.. Doheny that he had advanced
$4,000 to Leo ]. Slack, of Colorado
who told him he wanted the money
for George Creel chairman of the
committee on public information dur
ing the war.
Evidence relating to the employing
of former democratic officials by oil
interests was brought out in response
to inquiries by Chairman Lenroot, put
as a result of a demand made in the
senate by Senator Reed, of Missouri.
Mr.. Reed insisted that the commit
tee give Mr.. Doheny a searching ex-
animation as to whether he had paid
any money to men while serving as
public officials or afterwards.
Mr.. Doheny declared that he had
not advanced any sums to any public
official other than the 100000 which
he has testified he loaned Albert B.
Fall. then Secretary of the Interior, on
80, 1921, nearly year be-
fore his firm obtained the lease for
California naval reserve No. l, which
the government now seeks to annul.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-02-05
THE SOUTH MUST
GROW ITS OWN FOOD
NO FARM SECTION CAN BUY
ITS FOOD AND GRAIN
AND GROW RICH.

ATLANTA.-"Few people in the
south realize the enormous drain
there has been on the south's wealth
through the steady food and grain
buying during the past fifty years.
What's the greater pity OF it is the
fact that most of this money comes
directly out of the farm pocket" said
H. G. Hastings, of Atlanta, chairman
of the farm and marketing bureau Of
the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce.
For fifty years or more the
cities and towns of the cotton belt
have been furnishing food and grain
to the farmer instead of our farmers
feeding the cities and towns. While
the cities and towns have had the
best of this unnatural business, it
has really impoverished both country
and city"
".As nearly as can be ascertained
nv own state OF Georgia has spent
in the last Is years not less than two
and one-half billion dollars for food
and grain from the north and west
real hard cash money that ought to be
sticking in our farmers pockets. That
money is gone never to return.
1T is no over-statement or eXagger-
alton to say that twenty-five billion
dollars of the south's money has gone
that way in the last fifty years 1t
was good hard worked for farm
money. What we have been doing
is spending our lives growing cotton,
and trading it off for bread and meat
at no profit to ourselves.
mo use to 'cuss' the powers that
be in Washington or the trusts, tariff,
banks or spectators. They may
have had part, but a mighty small
part in comparison with the part we
have played. The way to
stop that drain on our pockets is to
stop buying food, grain and forage
and produce those necessary items on
home acres.
"The time to start is now Plans
for 1924 are being made. Before a
plow is stuck in the ground food,
grain and forage acres should be set
aside. These acres should and must
be first instead of last consideration
When these are fixed, then the farmer
can go as far as he likes with cotton,
tobacco or other cash crop safely.
Give the home garden chance in
his food production. It's a wonder
iu1 helper in cutting store bills in
la1f for the folks that will give it a
square deal instead of the usual lick
and promise mostly promise. Start
he food production procession in 1924,
md a money procession will start to-
ward your pocket
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-02-05
UNDERWOOD CALLS
TAXES A REAL PERIL
ONE EIGHTH OF PEOPLES
INCOME IS PAID TO TAX
COLLECTORS.

CLEVELAND, Ohio-Senator Os-
car Underwood of Alabama, candidate
for the democratic nomination for
president, in an address here to-day de
clared that taxation of the people OF
America, federal and state. is zap
preaching the danger point" Senator
Underwood gave figures to show that
about one-eighth of the national in
come was paid to tax collectors.
The soldiers bonus, he asserted, was
the zone impeachment" to tax reduc-
ton and he said he could not follow
the "mnetal gymnastics" of those who
advocated the bonus and tax reduction
at the same time.
ut is unnecessary and also unfair
to the soldier himself A few dollars
in the pocket to-day are not as bene-
fetal to the young men of America
as permanent, stable and successful
business conditions throughout the
county, which undoubtedly will be
if relief from govern
mental burdens is not received in the
near future" he said.
THE honest and effectual enforce
ment of law and order by the courts
should and must always be the senti-
ment foremost in the hearts of the
people, if, in the end this republic is
to endure. 1t is the plain and un
duty of every decent citi-
zen of this land to throw the weight
Of his disapprova1 against fragrant vio-
lators of the constitution and the law
in whatever garb they may be found"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-02-05
SMALL TAX PAYERS
TO BENEFIT BY CUT
MAKES rs PER CENT REDUC-
TON IN EARNED" IN
COMES UNDER $4,000.

WASHINGTON.-Small income
tax payers got their first slice of the
proposed tax relief today when the
house ways and means committee
adopted the recommendation OF Sec
rotary Mellon to allow special Is per
cent. reduction in the tax on incomes
which are earned. -.
All taxable incomes under $4,000
were defined as earned for purposes
OF this reduction.
Treasury estimates show about L.
0000 taxpayers have incomes OF less
than $4,000, and automatically could
deduct from their tax when computed
Is per cent. of its total. Thus, mar
ried man with two children who now
paws tax of $28 on an income OF 81
600 would pay only $21, this figure not
taking into account any normal tax
reductions proposition still be-
fore the committee.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-02-05

A large area of Pennsylvania and
New Jersey centering about Phila-
delphia and quarantined against the
further spread of the Japanese bee
tie a pest which some entomolo-
gists believe to be the worst and most
destructive that has ever menaced the
fields of any country. All the roads
are picketed at points 10 to Is miles
from the city, and automobiles and
trucks carrying produce or greens OF
anv kind that might hide the insect
have Tor months been turned back INTO
the restricted area if they cannot show
permits of inspection. Sweet corn,
lettuce, cabbage, grapes, forage crops
including hay, compost and manure
cannot be moved at all, though any
thing can be brought into the guar
antined territory, writes J. Waiter
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-02-05

Miller in the Pennsylvania Grit
The Japanese beetle was accident
ally introduced into the United States
in pupae form in an importation of
iris roots from Japan and was first
observed in a nursery near Riverton,
N. J., in 1916. by employees of the
New Jersey Department of Agricul-
ture. Since then its spread has been
rapid. While in the beginning only
a few specimens of the insect could
be found, 1000 quarts of the beetles
were collected in small area center
ing about the point of discovery by
1920. In 1917 the beetles were
spread over IS square miles; in 1913
it was 6.5, while the next year it had
increased to $50 square miles. In
1920 the beetle invaded Pennsylvania,
investing II square miles, or 1l3 in.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-02-05
HORSE " CHAWS BACCY;"
HENS AWAIT MEAL HOUR

NORTH STERLING. Conn.,
Birds and beasts in this communi-
ty are acquiring human character
istics in a way to cause natives to
wonder if significant evolutionary
processes are at work.
Up near the Foster line is a man
who owns dozen hens that will
not eat until the dinner horn blows,
and Mrs Whittier, of Mountain
View farm, has horse that starts
his feed each day with big chew
of plug tobacco.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-02-05

the aggregate. By 1921 their habitat
embraced 213 square miles in New
Jersey and 81 in Pennsylvania. In
1922 the beetle covered 736 square
miles, and it is believed that the area
OF their habitat was we'll over 1000
square miles by he close of the sum-
mer of 1923.
The menace OF this terrible pest is
better realized when one reads that
the Japanese beetle eats 212 varieties
OF plants. Everything is alike before
its Unsuitable NAV. The vegetables
of the garden, the fruits of the field
and the orchard the shrubbery, the
trees of the forest and the grass of
the lawn are all attacked and eaten.
Fruits like apples and peaches and
pears are partly consumed on the
trees, while the leaves are iriddled
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-02-05
.UPREME COURT DIVIDED
ON A QUESTION OF LAW
Inlet Justice Russell Dissented From
Majority Opinion.


A divided opinion has been render
f by the Georgia supreme court on
s question of taking buildings into
+o"sideration when assessing proper
n 10 ascertain whether or not the
a,aIges Tor street paving are confsca-
Ky Ky. A majority ruling held that
'ol!!dngs! should be added to the val
'auon OF the land, and affirmed a rul-
g OF Colquitt county superior court
me case OF John M. Norman
saginSt the city of Moultrie..
In dissenting opinion Chief JUS
&c Russell state dthat the improve
Tnt OF a street may increase the
aLue OF the lot or building, but the
,yiretion goes entirely on the land it.
How can there be any advance to
value OF house by laying a beau
u pavement in front of it? On
other hand, palace is no more
less than the amount required
ITS replacement" the chief Justice
f5mitted. ~ 7''
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-02-05
SUES $4,000 FOR RIDING
IN A Jim CROW" CAR

WASHINGTON.-E. M. Cros-
by, a negro physician of Detroit,
today asked the Interstate Com
merce Commission for an award
of $4,000 from the Pullman COM
pany and a number of southern
railroads on the ground that they
had damaged him by combining
him to "Jim Crow" coaches and by
refusing him sufficient facilities in
his travels during 1928.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-02-05
Beetle Said to Be Most Destructive Pest That Ever Menaced

specimens that have been received
are being bred for release upon the
infested fields AS may be imagined
these beetle enemies-paTasitic and
assassin-1ike in character-have to be
carefully scrutinized in order to learn
whether they might not become even
greater pests than the Japanese bee
ties themselves.
The japanese beetle is a beautiful
insect about the size OF potato bug,
only fatter. Is wings are rich
brown, tinged with green at the edges.
Its head and thorax are green with a
cast of bronze. On the sides and
at the tip OF the abdomen are conspic-
uous white spots. The insect lays
its eggs in the ground in July, and the
insects emerge to feed upon the greens
of the fields the following June.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-02-05

with holes and skeletonized.
c. H. HadIey, federal entomologist
in charge OF the japanese beetle pro-
ject and head of the laboratory at
Riverton, declares that nothing can
check the advance of the beetle and
that it will ultimately cover the en-
tire United States. In the meantime,
however, it is hoped to confne it
within its natural boundaries and de-
wise methods of keeping it in check.
In Japan the beetle is not a pest, its
natural enemies prohibiting it from
breeding in large quantities, and it
is hoped to artifcially produce sim
liar balance in nature by introducing
these enemies into the United States.
Three men have been sent to Hawaii
and Japan to gather the natural enc
mics of the japanese beetle and the
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-02-05
10000 ENDICoTT-JOHNSON
WORKERS GET $10O BONUS

BINGHAMPTON.-Twe1ve thous-
and employees of the Endicott-Jo ohm
son Shoe Company who have been
employed by the firm a year or more
will receive 500 bonus each in addi-
ton to their wages as their share of
the profits of the corporation for the
last year.
The earnings of the corporation are
divided among the stockholders and
the employees after the regular stock
dividends are paid.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-02-05
HEADS Of SLAIN PAIR
FOUND IN CONCRETE
ILLINOIS LAWYER ADMITS
KILLING HIS WIFE AND HER
BROTHER IN JAN. 1928.
DISAPPEARED AFTER CRIME
Tried to Make 1t Appear He had
Been Murdered by His Victims. Is
A Relative of President Abraham
Lincoln. Missing Nearly Year.

A Relative of President Abraham
Lincoln. Missing Nearly Year.
AURORA, Ill-Sealed in con-
crete block on the city dumping
grounds, the police today found the
heads of Mrs Lima Lincoln and her
brother, Byron Shoup, missing nearly
year, for whose murder the woman's
husband, Warren ]. Lincoln, eccentric
lawyer and horticulturist, is in jail
here.
A new confession by Lincoln that he
killed both-although earlier he had
said he killed his wife in self-defense
after she shot Sand killed her brother
led the way to clearing up much of the
mystery.
After days OF contradictory state
ments only to end in Lincoln returning
to his original confession that he kill
ed his wife when he saw her kill her
brother and expected her to attack him,
the wracked mind of the man tore out
its story of the double murder and dis
closed what he had done with the
bodies
After he told OF Remembering the
bodies and sealing up the heads in a
concrete block the police went to the
dumping ground and found the block,
about "a inches long, Is inches wide
and II inches thick When they broke
the concrete the heads of the victims
were barred
How He Planned Mystery.
The mystery had its beginning in the
disappearance of Lincoln from his little
home and greenhouses on the Indian
Trail in January last year under cir
cumstances intended to make it appear
that he had been murdered or kid
mapped. Bloodstains, which he after
ward admitted he had made in killing
chickens pointed to theory that Lin
coin had been murdered or at least
seriously maltreated and his body hid
den or carried away.
Lincoln's wife and her brother could
not be found and it was on those two
that Lincoln. the authorities said,
sought to throw suspicion for his dis
appearance A few months later Lin
coin turned up alive and the mystery
was regarded by many as hoax.
But no trace of Mrs. Lincoln or
her brother was found, although adver-
tisements in newspapers were taken by
some persons to mean they had gone
to the Northwest.
Lincoln last year again dropped out
of sight, but the police got on his trail.
Letters signed with his wife's name
were received by her relatives in Mount
Pulaski, ILL.,, and elsewhere, asking for
money. Through these letters suspicion
arose that Lincoln was hiding in Chi
cago. There he was arrested.
The block which Lincoln nodded
about the heads he used as support
for the front porch of his home Tor
months after the Staying. He buried
the bodies, but has not yet revealed
where.
Says She Tried To Poison Him.
Ever since his arrest Lincoln has
been talking about attempts his wife
made to poison him.
The motive for the double crime has
been a mystery, although there were
evidences that Lincoln held hatred
against his wife and her brother. He
had said they often beat him and
wanted to get rid of him.
, 1924-01-03

Mrs. o. M. johnson was the very
charming hostess on New Years Day
at an afternoon at bridge followed
by a dainty lunch. Her guests were
the members of the teaching staff
of the Rawlins schools and we're
the Misses Amy Whitson. Winifred
Hanna, Mabel Myhra, Bess Bowlus,
Josephine Phelan. Alice Johnson.
Christel Thode, Grace Carey, Gladys
McKinnon. Marie Mcknight. Kath-
crime Kraft. Helen White. Miss Fow-
Ter, Mrs. Gall Barnes. Mrs. Allen
Gray Shaw. and Mrs. Jack Johnson.
Miss Frances Phelan was the winner
Of the first prize at bridge, Miss
Bowlus the second prize and Mrs.
Barnes the consolation.
, 1924-01-03
Younger Set in Society

Younger Set in Society
Young college and high school
girls spent a happy time last week
attending various affairs arranged in
their honor. Among these was the
attractive dinner party presided owe
by Miss Katherine Ekdahl on Friday
evening in her home. Her house
guest. Miss Alice Moudy of Laramie,
was the incentive of the affair. After
dinner the young guests danced I'M
til ~ O'Clock when refreshments
were served. The guests included
Misses Alice Moudy, Georgina Rem
die. Frances Bible, Leonta Bunten,
Ladra Mae Hodse. Gladys Tobias.
Esther Albright, Alma Sanders. Mel
lie Murphy; Messrs. Ruel Armstrong
Dwight Darrell, Harry Hobbs, Elmer
Kell, Lawrence Armstrong, Vance
Schaeffe,r Lee Vivion. Gussie Lar
sen, Ivan Tobias, Edward Cantlin,
Oval Pierce of Laramie.
, 1924-01-03
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gay with Christmas green and red

gay with Christmas green and red
candles. Following are the new Of
Ulcers: Mrs. o. T. Conley, worthy
matron; B. N. Herkless. worthy pa
iron; Mrs. R. H. Hopkins, associate
matron; Mrs. Ethel Fuiks. Secre-
tary; Mrs. G. F.. Clark, treasurer;
Mrs. A. A. Tobias, conductor; Mrs.
C. 8. Innes, associate conductor;
Mrs. R, L. Turner, chaplain: Mrs.
W. r. Stookey. marshal; Mrs. l.. l..
Adams. organist; Mrs. Herman Grail
warder; H. B. Gardner, sentinel. The
five points of the Star are represent
ed by Mesdames H. B. Gardner, B.
N. Hercless. c. l.. Montgomery. w.
p. Hays and Wayne Hall.
, 1924-01-03
McaSurcs-Strnalbcrg



Two popular young people of
Rawlins were married in Ogden,
Utah, on Saturday, Dec. 20. the
principals being Miss Lillian Strand
berg and James Measures. The
ceremony took place in the Metho-
dist church and was performed by
Rev. w. F.. Bennett.
Mr.. and Mrs. Measures have re-
turned to Rawlins where they will
make their home.
Mrs. Measures Is the daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Strandberg OF this
city. She Is a graduate of the
Rawlins high school and has been
a bookkeeper In the Ferguson Mer-
camille store until her marriage.
Mr.. Measures. who is a son of Mr.
and Mrs. James Measures Of Raw
Inns is an engineer on the U. p. rail-
road.
, 1924-01-03
New Years Eve
Dinner

DINNER
New Years Eve was celebrated in
many delightful ways in Rawlins. A
dinner party of charming appoint
ments was presided over on that ev-
ening by Mr.. and Mrs. Kirk Miller
at z O'Clock In their home. A gor-
geous Christmas pie containing gifts
for each one. occupied the center OF
the table with ribbons extending to
each plate. Seated at the table were
MI. and Mrs. 'Kleber Hadselr, Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Hadsell. Mr.. and
Mrs. J. ]. Hilprit. Mr. and Mrs. H.
L. Kuykendall. Mrs. FRITZ Williams.
Miss Mabel Mylira. Miss Amy Whit
son and the hosts.