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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-03-17
MOTOR TRUCKS NOW CUT
INTO RAILWAYS BUSINESS
Short Lines in Some Sections May Be
Abandoned Causing Severe Loss.

Abandoned Causing Severe Loss.
ATLANTA, Ga.-That the automo-
bile and motor truck are cutting heav-
ily into the business of the railways in
the thickly settled east is apparent
from the action of one large railway
system, which is planning to discon-
tinue about 1000 miles of its lines be-
cause of motor competition, according
to report received in Atlanta railroad
circles.
The Boston and Maine railroads,
the report states, finding that motor
traffic has so reduced the business OF
some of its branch lines that it has
decided to discontinue the branch lines
in order to reduce the deficit and thus
improve the credit of the company,
and incidentally enable it to make i'm
provements in the service of its main
lines that will enable it to better meet
the public demand.
The automobile, of course, railway
officials here assert, can never take the
place of the railway For long hauls
and for dependable everyday and ev-
ery-night service the motor vehicle
cannot compete with the railway, but
ii is playing havoc with railway travel
and freight hauling for short distances
and the railway systems probably
will be compelled to change their
methods to meet the new competition,
or in the case of some short lines quit
business entirely. The abandonment
of railway lines in some sections OF
the country an account of bus COM
petition may prove a severe loss to
many communities, railway officials
state.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-03-17
; OPEN NOSTRILS! END
3 A COLD OR CATARRH
How To Get Relief When Head
and Nose are Stuffed Up.

Count fifty! Your cold in head or
catarrh disappears. Your clogged nos
trils will open, the air passages of your
head will clear and you can breathe
freely. No more snufiing, hawking,
mucous discharge, dryness or headache;
no struggling for breath at night.
Get small bottle of Ely's Cream
Balm from your druggist and apply a
little of this fragrant antiseptic cream
In your nostriIs. It penetrates through
every air passage of the head, soothing
and healing the swollen or infamed mu-
cous membrane, giving you instant re-
lief Head colds and catarrh yield like
magic. Don't stay stuffed-up and miser-
aOle. Relief is sure. =
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-03-17
THE BIBLE FOR A CENT;
$4,000 FOR A SINGLE COPY

An early edition OF the Bible was
sold in New York not long ago tor
$4,000, the highest price ever paid tor
any book. About the same time the
American Bible Society announced
receipt of an order for 100000 copies
OF the Scriptures to be sold at one
cent each
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-03-17
PARROT NEWS AND
PERSONAL MENTION
OCCURRENCES OF THE WEEK
ARE INTERESTINGLY PARA
GRAPHED FOR READERS.

Mrs. J. T. Arnold was hostess to
her Sunday school class at weiner
roast Saturday afternoon. The guests
assembled at Mrs. Arnold's home,
where automobiles were waiting to
carry them to beautiful picnic ground
about two miles from town. Here the
evening was spent in real fun roasting
weiners and toasting marshmallows.
PARROTT PERSONALS.
Misses Frances McLain, Mabeth
Cocker and Amelia Hass, of Herod,
spent last week with Miss Florine
Coker, Mrs. Carter and Mrs. R. F.
Cook
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank F. Faux, of
Albany, and Mr.. and Mrs. B. M. Crit
tenden and Malcolm junior, OF She'll
man, spent Sunday with relatives.
Mrs. John Watkins ard daughter,
Curtis, returned to their home at Doe
run Monday after a visit to Mr. and
Mrs. ]. c. Whaley.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bob Harden, of Cuth-
bert, and Miss Laura Yarbrough, OF
Benevolence, spent the past week with
relatives here.
Mr.. Jim Cook, a student OF Norman
Park and Messrs. Noble Arnold and
Ed Wade, OF Mercer University, spent
the weekend in Parrott.
Mrs. L. G. Pinkston and Mrs. n.
M. Woods spent the weekend in
Jacksonville with Mr. and Mrs. D. B.
Pinkston.
Mrs. Josephine Falls and her grand
daughter, Marie Wright, of Shellman,
spent the past week with Mrs. Fate
Falls.
Mrs. Will George, of Benevolence,
spent last week with her sister, Mrs.
Jim Whaley.
Miss Tanette Kirksey spent Satur-
day with her sister, Mrs. Forest
Stubs.
Miss Alva Hatcher, of Cuthbert
visited her sister, Mrs. ]. c. Pink
ston the past week
Mr.. Hors1ey and Miss Lucy Hors-
ley, Of Dawson, spent Saturday with
Mrs. Minnie Marshall.
Mrs. Jim Culpepper, of Thomasyllle,
was the guest of Miss Josie 'Pritchard
recently.
Little Miss Clarice James, OF Yves
ton. is visiting her grandmother, Mrs
Arthur Kennedy. =,
Mr. and Mrs. Banks, of Smithville,
spent the weekend with Mr.. and Mrs.
Mercer Marshall.
Miss Ruby Harris, of Dawson, spent
the weekend with Mr.. and Mrs. D
c. Yarbrough.
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. }. T.
Whaley
Sunday in Preston. ~
Mrs Dave Brazil and Mrs. w. B.
Kirksev went to Americas Saturday.
NEWS NOTES.
Mr. and Mrs. W., B. Kirksey have
moved to Parrot, and are occupying
the house on the corner OF Nam and
Leverett streets.
Twenty members of the Parrot Ep-
worth League attended the w. I: l..
League meeting at Sasser on Friday
night. -
Columbus. Ga, where she has accept
ed a position with tailoring com
The friends of Miss Avis Cochran
will learn with regret that she was Ill
during the past week. ~
The friends of Mr.. H. K. Reese VIII
he Glad to learn that he is improving.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl DAVIS announce
the arrival OF son, carr Juiiiol
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-03-17

Sixty-four bird refugees are admins
tered by the biological survey OF the
Department OF Agriculture.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-03-17

Hastings is giving away Absolutely
Free, Seed Packets of Beautiful
Flowers to each 1925 customer. Hast
ings beautiful, new 112-page, 1925
Catalog shows these flowers in full
natural colors. The front cover pic
ures the great Stone Mountain Confed-
crate Memorial
This Big Seed Book is the Standard
Planting Guide, with valuable culture
directions and accurate descriptions
of all kinds of seeds, plants and
bulbs. 1t has over $50 pictures from
actual photographs and is bigger and
better than ever Brim-full of informa-
ton, it's the most useful Seed Book
ever published.
You need it for ready reference al.
most daily. Be sure to write for 1t
today; postcard will do 1t comes
to you entirely free by return mail
H. G. HASTINGS CO., sEEDsMEN,
ATLANTA, GA.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-03-17
SEVERAL INTERESTING CASES
IN CLAY SUPERIOR COURT
Judge Yeomans Left Monday to Hold
Spring Term.

Judge Yeomans went down to Fort
Gaines yesterday morning, and is hold
ing the spring term Of Clay superior
court this week.
Several divorce cases will come up
at this term, among them the suit OF
Mrs. Lucy Hoke Smith Simpson,
daughter of former United States Sen
ator Hoke Smith, against Aston
Simpson, this being the final verdict.
The suit OF Mrs. E, L. Gay VS.. Nc
Rae Brothers for damages of $4,000
because a brick wall OF the McRae
brothers warehouse during wind
storm fell on an adjoining party wall
and damaged same about year ago.
This case will be warmly contested, as
the defendants claim that it was an
act of God and that they are not liable
for the damages.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-22
Z WOMEN
AF TER FO|LINC
ARSON PLOT

What was believed by police TO have
been an arson attempt was frustrated
by Mr.. and Mrs. ]. H. Holt, 17l0
West Salinas street, late Monday
night.
Returning from the thcatcr, the
couple noticed a quantity of white
powder strcwn about the front porch
of their residence.
About three tcaspoonsful of the
powder found in n box was touched
with a lighted match. A huge flare
and a loud report followed proving the
substance to be highly inflammGblc.
Sweeping the powder from the
porch, Mr.. Holt turned it over to po-
lice for examination. 1t will prob
ably be turned over to the city chemist
for analysis authorities said.
Paul Rodriguez, 1711 West Salinas
street, and Ramon Ramos, HIS West
Salinas street, neighbors, told Detec'
tivcs Ruhnke and Carver and Police
Captain Trevino during an inyestiga'
ton that they had seen two women
with hats pulled down over their faces
scattering the powder on the porch
A good description of the women was
given police by the boys.
Mrs. Holt said she did not know
the motive of the guilty parties.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-22
Navy Chiefs
Against Changes

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.-LP)--
The weight of those charged with adj
ministration of the navy today was
thrown into the scales against any
sweeping change in the organization
of the nations air defense.
Testifying before the Presidents air
board, Secretary Wilbur. Rear Adj
miral' Edward W. Eberle, chief Of ma
val operations, and other high rank
ing naval officers vigorously opposed
the reorganization plan advanced By
Colonel William Mitchell.
Mr.. Wilbur declared against de-
partment of national defense proposed
by Mitchell and favored by Major
General Mason ". Patrick. the army
air chief. He likewise opposed an In
dependent air corps, like the marine
corps.
Admiral Eberle squarely lined up
with the views Of his superior. which
are in accord with the position Of tho
War Department.
Establishment Of "an independent
air force which win be controlled b.
CONTINUED On Page Two.)
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-22
Fiancee, Furniture Vanish
Hubby Watches
Wife
Get Whipped

II couldn't be interested in the
little fracas' man answered
when asked by deputy sheriffs
why he played the role of spec
tator as another man beat the
onlooker's wife.
"She is my wife all right, but
that was her fight" he is re-
ported to have said.
According to the officers, the
man and his wife were about TO
call on friends when the other
man approached, drew a pistol
and started TO beat his "better
half about the head with the
weapon.
The husband is said to have re-
tired to his nearby automobile,
perched himself on a grand
stand" seat AMI assumed an in
terested attitude Of observation.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-22
FIND MISSING
HUBBY WITH
new WIFE
Society, Seeking Father Of
Two Tots, Learns He's
on Honeymoon. .

While a wife and two small children
in a large eastern city patiently await
his return, a San Antonio man, with
a new-found bride, is spending his
honeymoon in Chicago. He and his
cently-acquired bride are blissfully
happy, Obvious to the suffering of
the other wife and the two little tots
left at home.
Miss Lucy G. Smithers, secretary
of the San Antonio Child Protective
and Humane Society, stumbled on this
matrimonial tragedy Tuesday when
she sought the missing husband. 1t
was in response to a pitiful plea from
the wife and mother for news of his
whereabouts.
Last April the woman wrote, her
husband started South to find work.
He stopped in San AnGonio. Since
that time he has failed to write to her
or the children.
"PIease help US find him." the
mother pleaded.
Miss Smithers, visiting the address
given her in the letter, failed to find
the missing husband. But she was
given news of him.
Several weeks ago, Miss Smithers
was informed, the man married a San
Antonio girl and departed for Chicago
on his honeymoon.
I'VE will communicate with Chica-
90 authorities and see what can be
done, providing the man has not OBJ
tanned a divorce Miss Smithers said.
Meanwhile she will notify the wait
ing mother of her discovery.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-22
silence NOT
FOR SALE,'
COLONEL
5 A ! 5
Former Assistant Chief VII
Motor From San Antonio
to Washington.

Colonel William Mitchell,
who left Tuesday. at 2
o'clock for Washington,
where he will take the wit
ness stand next Monday in
the air probe ordered by President
Coolidge, declared just before he left
that any effort to buy his silence
was ridiculous"
set at rest for good and all any
report that I can be bought, or in
fluenced, by any governmental agency.
private concern or personal appeal,
Colonel Mitchell declared. in response
to telegram sent him by Universal
News Service. The telegram referred
to a report that Mitchell would be Of
fercd freedom from court-martialr il
be would not testify and that II he
shut up" he would ,e appointed chief
Of the Air Service in two years.
what we contend is based on
right, truth and the best interests of
the United States" Colonel MitchelI's
reply continued.
GREATEST PRIDE.
MY greatest pride in this life is
to be able to develop our country ac-
cordins to the principles laid down
by our forefathers who established it
and to be a free American citizen in
order to carry it out.
WILLIAM MITCHELL"
Colonel Mitchell left San Antonio
Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. ac-
companied by his civilian aide, Harry
Short. He is driving through by
auto to Washington, where he is or
dered to report before the Presidents
board of aeronautic inquiry at 10 80
a. m. next Monday, by Major General
Ernest Kinds, commander Of the
Eighth Corps Area.
OFFICIAL ORDERS.
The orders. issued Tuesday follow:
Pursuant to instructions contained
in telegram from the War Depart
ment, dated September u, 1928.
Colonel William Mitchell will proceed
at the proper time from Fort Sam
Houston, Texas. to Washington,
D. c., and report to the chairman
of the Presidents board of aeronautie
inquiry at 10 80 a. m. September
2S, 1925. on temporary duty for the
purpose of appearing before that
board and upon completion of this
temporary duty, viii return TO his
proper station, Fort Sam Houston.
| Texas. .t
by command of Major General
Ernest Hinds.'
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-22
WIFE KILLS HUSBAND
AFTER HE BEATS HER

OSHKOSH, Wis, Sept. 22.-RD-
Louis Kramer, IS, was killed early
today when his wife discharged both
barrels of shotgun at his head while
he lay sleeping on cot in front of
his shack, Tumble Inn, on Lake Win
nebago. The wife, when she sur
rendered bore the marks of terrific
beating. From s o'clock until mid
night, she told authorities, her hus-
band had her in corner and knocked
her down each time she tried to rise
from her chair.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-22
GREEKS WHO END
OWN LIVES BURIED
WITH DOGS, REFUSE

SALONIKI, Greece, Sept. 22.-LP)
So greatly has the number of suicides
increased in Greece recently that the
authorities have issued an order pro-
viding for burial place for persons
who end their own lives, separate from
places where persons who die natural
deaths are inferred. The cemetery
for suicides adjoins the grounds where
dogs are buried and where refuse is
cast.
1t is hoped that this display of pub
lie contempt for suicides will dis.
courage the practice.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-22
MOTHER OF s CAR
ACCIDENT VICTIM

KANSAS CITY, Sept. PIP
Mrs. Josephine McBane, 40, mother
Of eight children. died today from in
juries received when she was struck by
an automobile last night.
Frank Millin, 40, whose rented car
struck Mrs. McBane as she was
boarding a street car, is in Jail charged
with being drunk, careless driving and
leaving the scene of an accident.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-22
ADAM HAD 'GOWTE,'
DOCUMENT REVEALS

LONDON, Sept. 22-tR-Adam
died of govt, says an ancient docu-
ment held by the Herald's College of
London.
The document, the origin of which is
known but which was written in the
sixteenth century, processes to trace
the genealogy of the Saxon kings back
to Adam and Eve.
1t asserts that Adam sue 'umbcd to
the "gowte," and was buried in Heb
ron.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-22
ROTARIANS TO MEET
AT Y. M. E. A. FRIDAY

The regular weekly luncheon of the
Rotary Club will be held in the as
sembly room at the Y. NJ. c. A. at
noon Friday, according to r. S. Tate,
general secretary of the "Y."
After the luncheon the Rotarians
will inspect the new building and dor
mitory,
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-22
AUTHORITIES
SEEK s. 4.
BRIDE
Girl Disappears, Telling
Hubby-to-be She Has
Surprise for Him.


"Oh, where and oh where has my
little bride gomez" Was the lament of
a young downtown merchant to Dis
trict Attorney C. NJ. Chambers, Tues
day.
"And the furniture's all gone too, ;"
he added.
Now the district attorney is seeking
missing fiancce and the contents of
a love nest fitted out with $1S39.25
worth of fixtures.
1t was just the hour when he should
have been speeding to New Braunfels
with the girl who was to become his
bride that the merchant dashed breath
lcssly into the district attorneys Of
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-22

CONSIDER these two epitaphs in
~ British churchyards. On a
tombstone at Monks Kirby you
read:
ain memory of Eliz. Mott, wife of
John Mott, who died October "a,
1926. Married A years and the
mother of AZ children. A loving wife,
n tender mother. Scarce left behind
her such another"
In Conway churchyard a tomb
stone tells you:
Here lyetb ye body of Nichs.
Hookes, of Conway, Gent, who was
yo forty-first child Of his father
William Hookes, Esq, by Alice, his
wife, and ye father of w children,
who dyed ye 10th day of March,
1897
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-22
BOLIVIA PREPARES
TO NAME EXECUTIVE

LA PAZ, Bolivia, Sept. 22.-tP)-
The Republican, or government party
has proclaimed its candidate for the
presidential election to be held De-
cember 1. fernando Siles was nomi-
mated for the presidency and Abdon
Saavcdra for the vice presidency OF
Bolivia.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-22
CHINESE GENERAL
TO WAR ON REDS

CANTON, Sept. 22.-P)-Reports
received here say that merchants of
Swatow, a city 22j miles northeast
of Canton, have given General Chcng
Kwing Ming S10OOO,OOO with which
to Dust "Reds" from Canton. Swallow
is now held by General Cheng. The
strike of Chinese against foreign &C
tivities is continuing.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-22

THAT English mother. Elizabeth
L Mott, had strength, liked her
husband, liked children, believed that
she was doing something for her
king and country, when she added AZ
little English men and women to the
population in A years.
If you had talked birth control to
her she would have said:
"Yes, but / am interested in chill
dren."
japanese women are interested in
children. Japan's problem isn't birth
control, but finding a place to put
the japanese children as fast as they
arrive.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-22
CHIEF OF IRISH AIR
FORCE DIES IN CRASH

DUBLIN, Sept. 22.-Pl-Thomas
Maloney, commandant of the Irish
Free State air force, was. killed in a
flying accident at Curraugh today.
His machine crashed when he was
flying low during an aviation tourna-
ment.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-22
CHARGES SWINDLING

He wanted TO file charges of swind-
ling against the girl for whom, but n
few minutes before, he had held only
the warmest affection.
"She told me she had n surprise
for me-" he said. "but 1 didn't think
it would be such a sad one.'
With quivering chin and an itemized
statement of the furniture bill clutched
in a trembling hand, the near-bride-
groom told his story.
Fer many months he had ceurted
the girl and saved for the day they
were 10 marry.
The furniture bill for S1S39.25 gave
violence of where his savings had
gone.
PROMISED SURPRISE"
To-day we were to be married"
the disappointed one said. 1--WE were
to meet at the place where we were
going to live and then drive to New
Braunfels for the ceremony.
when the time came to meet she
trIephoned mo ard asked me to wait
aLcut two hours an0 then meet her.
She said she had surprise for ne.
Already : thought, she is trying
10 please dc and make me happy. She
has planned something nice
$50 / just thought would take her
little surprise, too, and with the
marriage license l got a nice box of
candy"
Exhibiting the box of candy, a bit
mashed from having been sat upon in
his grief and surprise, the unhappy
merchant had difficulty going on with
his story.
FURNITURE ALL GONE.
Prompted by Mr.. Chambers, he con-
tinued:
well, | waited until the hour she
said to go by the house, our house,
and then drove out. l thought it
funny when she didn't come out TO
meet me, but wasn't really worried
until found the front door locked.
Then l went around to the back
and found the door open.
at was when l walked inside that
| got the surprise.
"Mr. Chambers, my girl wasn't
there and neither was the furniture.
She had moved everything from the
cedar chest to the salt shaker, and /
don't know where to.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-22

Japan is worried by the birth con-
- troll advocates. That war-like
nation has 1041 regular army off
GERS, drilling all half grown male
japanese of the middle grade collie
giate schools. And Japan fears that
birth control may cut down the num-
Der of soldiers.
But the birth rate among human
beings is not controlled by laws, or
by well meaning ladies devoting their
lives to propaganda saying, "don't
have so many children and you will
be happy"
The price of food, the degree of
civilization, the abundance or lack
of employment, and a thousand things
control birth.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-22
Heroine Pulls Camper to
Safety From Swirling
Guadalupe River.

Mary Lou Lavender, Is, who looks
like Jackie Csoganj is hero.
All San Antonio doesn't know it.,
but it will when she gets the Carnegie
medal. And women of various
churches, besides prominent business
men, are interesting themselves in her
behalf.
For Mary Lou, on July II, dived
into black swirling water in the
Guadalupe river after a much larger
and older girl-one in her twentics.
The girl had gone down for the third
time.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-22
Today
Fears, Many Kinds.
Japan Fears Birth
Control.
What Can Mitchell
Know?
By Arthur Brisbane
Copyright. 1925 by Star CO.

FOLLOWING a great war the
days of fighting and killing, the
pendulum swings the other way,
those that have been fighting sud-
denly became filled with fears. 1t
will amaze you to read the various
kinds of despair" listed by Profes-
sor Glenn Frank, new president of
the University of Wisconsin.
There is BIOLOGICAL fear,
PSYCHOLOGICAL fear, POLITE
CAL fear, ECONOMIC fear, HIS
TORICAL fear, ADMINISTRA-
TIVE fear, MORAL fear. These
fears can all be boiled down into one
word. NERVES" The only thing
we need be afraid of is ourselves,
our weakness. And fortunately we
die, and our fears with us. Then
comes a new, unfrightened genera
ton. The baby, now learning to
walk, will fear the great war no more
than you fear the result Of Napo-
leon Thirds folly, in 1870.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-22

CECRETARY WILBUR of the
- navy, says he will not allow
Colonel Mitchell to testify in the
Shenandoah investigation. "What,
asks Secretary Wilbur, could Col
onel Mitchell in Texas know about
the wreck of the Shenandoah in
OhiOT
He might ask, what could Henry
Ford in Detroit know about the
breaking down of an automobile en-
CINE in Alabama?" Ford might know
a good deal for he knows about auto
mobiles.
Colonel Mitchell in Texas, having
devoted his life to flying might know
more about the wreck Of the Shen-
andoah than Secretary Wilbur in
Washington could possibly know.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-22

UNENERAL PERSHING will be
~ the principal witness against
Colonel Mitchell at his trial for adj
vertising army and navy flying in
competency"
Nobody will enjoy that joke more
than General Pershing. 1t happens
that General Pershing has never been
up in a flying machine in his life.
Naturally he won't be eager to give
advice on flying.