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Wednesday Morning, May 23i1885-_
Official Organ o of Americus.
OffTciaTOrgan of Sumter County
Official Organ of Schley County.
OfficiaFOrgan of Lee County.
Official Organ of Webster County.
Careful estimates place the wheat
crop in the United States for the season
ot 1883 as fully equal to that of last
year.
The storm reported from Minnesota,
Wisconsin and Illinois was smgulaily
disastrous to human life. About three
hundred people were killed and thrice
as many wounded.
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It is stated that Senator Fair is
worth fifty millions of dollars. I his
being the case, the allowing of his late
wife four million and a quarter does
not seem to be excessive. She had bet
ter hold on to it in her own name.
Thomas Nast, the caricaturist of
Harper’s Weekly, who has slandered
the South and the Southern people
with his pencil more than any other
individual in the land, has retired from
active work, on a pension of SIO,OOO
per year.
A story is told by the Philadelphia
Times concerning two members of the
legislature from that city. A member
had woundup a grandiloquent speech
"with the quotation, “1 ox popnli, vox
Dei.” The two rhiladelpliians, Craw
ford and Mackin, had both been listen
ing with admiration, and Mackin,
turning aside, cried to Crawford, “Al.,
wasn’t that a fine climax?” “Oh, it
was grand?” replied the eleventh ward
member. Mackin eyed Crawford sus
piciously for a moment, and then offer
ed to bet $lO that he did not know
what he said. “I’ll take that,” said
Crawford. “Of course I know what he
said. It was “wox populi, tcox Dei,"
and it means “My God, mv God, why
hast thou forsaken me?” Mackin
plunged his hand into his pocket and
meekly said, “There’s the tenno', Al.;
didn’t know you were such a good Lat
in scholar.”
The Postmaster-General has issued
an order declaring that a Postmaster
who fails to notify the editor of a news
paper that a subscriber has removed or
fails to take the paper addressed to
him from the office, he shall be held re
sponsible for the subscription. We
have often been cheated out of sub
scriptions by a failure to inform us of
the removal of subscribers and we have
thought some remedy should be offered
by the Postoffice Department. In later
times however, postmasters in this sec
tion have been very pjunctual in inform
ing us when a subscriber to the Re
publican goes away, and if there was
only some way provided by which we
could get at them when they do go
away and fail to pay us what is due
us, we would be very thankful. The
man who invents a method of compell
ing delinquent subscribers, who leave
the county for parts unknown, to pay
what they owe us, we will travel to
Washington city on foot to get him a
patent. He would richly deserve it
and all the profits to be derived from
it during his natural life.
About Grand Jury Presentments
We heartily endorse the following
from the Marion County Argun, con
cerning the disposition of some grand
juries to cut down the price of adver
tising grand jury presentments.
Hays the Argus: “You may
speak of the cheek of a lightning
rod agent, but for cheek exemplified,
cheek magnified, cheek sublime, give
ns a grand jury that will recommend
that their two-column presentments be
published for only $6. The present
ments a few years ago brought $30 —
the jury’s own price—but the cheek of
this august body has gradually grown
until now it has actually asked the
printer tc give them fifty dollars’ worth
of advertisements for Verily they
would make good advertising agents.
While the Macon Telegraph and Mes
senger is not a rustic contemporary, yet
We will give under this head what it
has to say concerning the publishing of
grand jury presentments, which is,
according to our view, altogether cor
rect. It says: ‘ Grand jury present
ment* aro legal advertisements, and the
law furnishes the price. It is an out
rage to try to have them published at
a less rate, under the false plea of sav
ing money to the county.’ Mo grand
jury has a right to say what an editor
•hall charge for publishing their pre
sentments; for they are legal advertise
ments and the law allows the publish
ers of all legal advertisements seventy
five cents per hundred words for each
insertion for the first four insertions,
and thirty-five cento a hundred words
for each subsequent, insertion. This is
the law, and there is no evading it.”
A Sad Accident
THAT MAY CAUSE THE DEATH OP MRS. It.
B. RIDLEY.
Atlanta Constitution ol Sunday.
When the Constitution went to
press on Friday night it was thought
that Mrs. Ridley was not in a critical
condition. In jumping from her car
riage she received a concussion of the
brain, from which it was thought she
would react iu due course of time. She
remained perfectly unconscious, how
ever, during the night and morning
brought no change. In the moantime
the best physicians of the city were
with her constantly. They had some
fear at first of hemorrhage of the brain,
but this was soon found to be ground
less.
The next apprehension was that the
reaction could not take place without
producing inflammation of the brain.
It was feared that the shock of the fall
had brought about extravasation, and
that with the attempt of the brain to
react would come inflammation. In
the afternoon, there was an evident at
tempt at {reaction. Her face changed,
her hands went to her head, and the
doctors feared the attempt would be so
violent as to bring about fever or infla
mation and probably result fatally.
After tossing uneasily awhile there
was rest and quiet, and the effort of the
brain to restore its normal condition
had failed. There were several other
attempts during the afternoon and
night, each, it was feared, weaker than
the other.
At about 8 o’clock last night Dr
Westmoreland said: “The danger now
is, that the brain will not be able to re
act at all. The reaction usually takes
place within 24 hours. I have seen pa
tients, however, remain unconscious
for three full days and then recover.
Mrs. Ridley has superb vitality and
strength, and we hope for the best.”
“Gan nothing be done?”
“Nothing. We must wait tor na
ture to take its course. The only dan
ger in such cases is that too much may
be done.”
THE STORY OE TIIE ACCIDENT.
It appears that Mrs. Ridley and Miss
O’Callaghan were out riding behind a
new horse just purchased for Mrs. B.
H. Hill, Sr They had ridden up and
down Peachtree and had stopped at
Mrs. Ridley’s residence, where she con
fided her child, who had been riding
with them, to a nurse, and prepared
to ride out on the Iloulevard.
As they were going up the
Boulevard, a white man and two
negro men came up the track driving
their horses in a race. It is hard to
ascertain exactly' what happened but
our information is that the men were
shouting to their horses, and pushing
them to the top of their speed. Two
of them dashed by on one side of the
ladies’ carriage and the other on the
other side. Their horse, frightened at
this unusual rush, sprung forward in a
run. The driver, it is said, had caught
him up, when, the shouting and racing
still continuing, he darted off again.
Mrs. Ridley and Mi.ss.O’CallaghanJthen
sprang from the carriage. Miss O’Cal
laghan was bruised and her head was
cut but she was not seriously hurt. Mrs.
Ridley fell on her head, which pro
duced concussion of the brain. She
was lifted up, unconscious, and carried
into Mr. May’s residence, where she
still remains. She has nevsr been con
scious since.
THE SYMPATHY OF FRIENDS.
The friends of Dr. and Mrs. Ridley
were misled by the report in the morn
ing paper, and did not understand un
til in the afternoon that her condition
was critical or even serious. After
that time there were constant calls at
Mr. May’s residence to express sympa
thy and inquire after Mrs. Ridley’s
condition. There was often a dozen
carnages at the gate. Few people
were more beloved than Bob Ridley
and his wife.
It was evident to those who called
that the gravest apprehensions were
felt as to the result. Nothing but Mrs.
Ridley’s perfect health justified any
hope except that hope that is always
indulged as long as there is life. Mrs.
B. 11. Hill, Sr., who was in Athens,
was* summoned to her daughter’s bed
side by wire, and a telegram was also
sent to Ben Hill, Jr., who was at Dews’
pond with his wife on a fishing [trip.
They both arrived last night.
THE LAST CONSULTATION.
A consultation of perhaps a dozen of
the leading physicians of the city was
called at ten o’clock, at which time it
was thought the suspense might be
ended.
At that hour there was a partial but
very slight reaction. Mrs. Ridley’s
condition was improved in the least
possible degree, but she remained in an
unconscious state. Her death was not
expected to occur during the night,
although the chances arc against her
final recovery. At eleven o’clock Doc
tors Westmoreland and Alexander left
her bedside expecting no material
change in her condition during the
night.
DlA'rtl OF MRS. RIDLEY.
At twenty minutes past two o’clock
Monday afternoon, Mrs. R. B. Ridley
died of paralysis of the brain, induced
by a fall from her carriage, at the resi
dence of Mr. E. T. May on the Boule
yard. At 5 o’clock her remains were
escotted by a large cortege of friends to
her residence on Peachtree street. The
fnneral will take place tc-morrow
morning at 11 o’clock.
One legal point decided by Judge
Hammond in the Post-Appeal case is
of interest to the newspaper press gen
erally. The application was for the
appointment of a receiver for tho paper
as a trader or manufacturer. Judge
■Hammond decided that a newspaper or
its proprietor was not a trader or man
ufacturer, and therefore was not includ
ed in the provisions of the act.
Administer Shriner’s Indian Ver
mifuge according to the directions.
In the morning Is the best time to
take It.
ANOTHER CYCLONE.
SWEEPS OYER ILLINOIS AND
WISCONSIN—LOSS OF LIFE
AND PROPERTY.
At Raciuc, Wisconson, Fully
Twenty Five Persons Were
Killed and One Hundred In
jured—One Hundred and
Fifty Houses Destroyed.
Racine, Wis., May 19.—The first
cyclone in the history of this city struck
Racine at seven o’clock last night,
passing through the extreme North
western portiou of the city, destroying
150 houses and barns, and killing
about twenty-five persons, besides in
juring one hundred more or less serious
ly. The day was ushered in bright
and cool, with a fresh wind blowing
from the Southeast. Towards noon
the sky became overcast, and at about
four o’clock a sharp storm prevailed, al
though but little rain fell.
The sun again came out for about an
hour. During the afternoon the tem
perature being about seventy degrees,
towards G o’clock heavy masses of
clouds again gathered in the west por
tending a storm, and the air was op
pressively warm. The cyclone was
announced by the breaking of the
clouds, and it struck with the earth
with a tremendous noise which might
be compared with the roar and rumb
ling of a thousand railroad trains thun
dering over a half a mile long and per
haps a quarter mile wide. In this ter
ritory only a few buildings are left
standing lieie and there. Brick and
frame houses alike collasped, and their
sites arc marked only by heaps of de
bris. Many occupants of houses es
caped by fleeing to cellars and other
places of comparative safety; but the
cyclone came with such lightning
quickness that many people were killed
before they could reach cellars. In on
ly a few cases were houses moved from
their foundations. Those in the mid
dle of the storm center simply fell in
ruins where they stood. Some nearer
the circumference were turned around,
and it is reported that some light arti
cles, such as wagons, were swept into
the lake. The cyclone, as it moved
from the city out upon the waters of
Lake Michigan, presented a grand
spectacle, The whirling columns of
air seemed as if they flew over the wa
tery expanse, bearing with them spiral
columns of water, and no ship that en
countered this monster of air conid by
any possibility escape destruction. All
the physicians of the city responded no
bly to the call for assistance and did
what they could to alleviate the suffer
ings of the wounded, who were at once
conveyed to St. Luke and St. Mary’s
hospitals. The dead were taken some
to the houses of friends and others to
the Court House.
Later —lnvestigation only serves to
swell the list of casualties and to make
more sweeping the destruction occas
ioned by the cyclone last night. It is
now estimated that fully twenty-five
persons were killed and one hundred
wounded. One hundred and fifty
houses were demolished, and had the
cyclone struck the center of the town
the damage would have been incalcu
lable.
At Western Union Junction, seven
miles west of here, many houses were
wrecked and one young man named
Webber was killed.
SERSEYYII.LE, ILLINOIS.
The storm yesterday evening at
Grafton demolished several buildings,
killing Michael Learned and wife and
fatally injuring his two children.
TRAIN STRUCK BY A CYCLONE.
Hillsboro, 111 , May 19.—A hun
dred foot span of the iron bridge on the
Indianapolis and St. Louis Railroad
was struck by a small cyclone last
night just as the train reached that
point. The engine, mail and baggage
car went down in the chasm. Pat
Welch, engineer, was killed and Dan
Herrington, fireman, fatally scalded.
None of the passengers were fatally in
jured.
STAUNTON, ILLINOIS.
The cyclone struck here last night.
A construction crew coraposeed of 25
men, of the Springfield and Southeast
ern Railway, were camping near Mrs.
Olive’s house; some of the men were
sleeping in a large barn; all were seri
ously injured. Mr. Cantwell, a con
tractor, and Alva Berrir were instantly
killed. A little girl was the only
member of Mrs. Olive’s family who
was fatally injured.
CLINTON, ILLINOIS.
The terrible cyclone passed over this
section of the State last night, doing
immense damage and killing several
persons. The wind tore down a house
occupied by Peter Clifton, killing him,
his wife, an eight year old daughter,
and fatally injuring another child.
Many were killed at other points, but
how many, or their names, is not
known as yet. The scene during the
height of the storm is indescribable.
Everyone was (error stricken, as death
seemed inevitable. Houses were shat
tered and immense trees were hurled
through the aii like chaff.
George Payne, the well known drug
gist, died in Macon on Tuesday, May
15, 1883, aged sixty-six years. He
came from Charleston, S. C., to Macon
in 1839, and was the first druggist
licensed in the State of Georgia. His
charities and goodness of heart had
won him the love and esteem of all who
knew him.
Notwithstanding much has been
said about the importance of a blood
purifying medicine, it may be possi
ble that the matter has never serious
ly claimed your attention. Think of
it now ! If, by the use of a few bot
tles of Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, you avoid
the evils of scrofula, and transmit a I
healthy constitution to your offspring,
thank us for the suggestion. |
Sin, Sorrow and Misery,
Ellen Sullivan, nineteen years old,
and her mother Johan no, who is sixty
years of age, wfere found at one o’clock
yesterday morning lying intoxicated in
the gntter at the corner of Canal street
and the Bowery. While a policeman
was taking them to the Eldridge street
police station the old woman became
ure übcious and died before an ambu
lance arrived. The Coroner’s office
was notified of her death. Ellen Sul
livan in Essex Market Court yesterday
was committed for examination.
The sad, yes very melancholy tale
told in the above paragraph upon prop
er reflection will carry with it all the
feelings, of horror and mortification of
which the humane mind is capable of
conceiving. Poor, wretched, misera
ble women! And think; one of them a
mother and the other her daughter!
The thin but impenetrable cloud that
obscures the luture will not let us fath
om to what end we must come. There
is only one thing sure—Death! A
suspens’on of hostilities in our poor,
weak but beautiful frames. Just thiuk
how suddenly breath may leave us, our
mind cease to act, and our body to
move? The above paragraph is taken
from the New York Herald and ex
plains itself. Our only object in copy
ing it here is to show the depths of hu
man misery, the sorrow and sin theie
is in the world. Why cannot all be
happy and cheerful?”— Post-Appeal.
Quick Traveling.
To leave Augusta, Ga., at 8 a. m.
and reach Montgomery at 9:25 p. m.
of the same day is a great improve
ment in schedules ovar those until re
cently in existence. The distance is
344 miles, and there is a stop in At
lanta of one hour and a half. The
Georgia railroad makes the run of 171
miles from Augusta to Atlanta in five
hours and ten minutes, and makes
seventeen stops. This is faster time
than made on most roads in the United
States. The track is smooth and all
smooth steel rail. The road from At
lanta to Montgomery is in superb con
dition, and could easily do its part in
the forty mile per hour schedule recent
ly contemplated. —Montgomery Ad
vertiser.
Death of Lydia Pinkliam.
Boston, May 19.—Lydia Pinkham,
the well known patent medicine pro
prietor, died at Lynn, Thursday night,
aged 64. She began business by man
ufacturing medicine in a tin kettle, and
in a few years built up a business of
$300,000 a year. Shespent SIBO,OOO
per annum for advertising.
From Mr. Cosby, the Americus mail
driver, we learn that Mrs. Morgan,
sister of Hon. David B. Harrell, of
Webster county,fell dead while getting
vegetables from her garden on Wed
nesday morning. The .cause of her
death was hemorrhage from the lungs.
—Lumpkin Independent.
On Thirty Day’s Trial.
The Voltaic Belt Cos., Marshall, Mich
will send Dr. Dye’s Celebratrd Electro-
Voltaic Belts and Electric Appliances
on trial for thirty days to men (young or old)
who are afflicted with Nervous Debility,
Lost Vitality and Manhood, and kindred
troubles, guaranteeing speedy and complete
restoration of health and manly vigor. Ad
dress as above. N. B.—No risk is incurred,
thirty davs’ trial is allowed. dec2l-ly-
He who proposes to have a decided
influence upon a fellow-creature’s des
tiny should remember our complicated
relations, for he cannot lay his strong
grasp upon one life without becoming
entangled in the interests of others.
Ashbubnham, Mass., Jan. 14, ’BO.
—I have been very sick over two
years. They all gave me up as past
cure. I tried the most skillful physi
cians, but they did not reach the worst
part. The lungs and heart would fill
up every night and distress me, and
my throat was very bad. I told my
children I never should die in peace
until I had tried Hop Bitters. I have
taken two bottles. They have helped
me very much indeed. I am now
well. There was a lot of sick folks
here who have seen how they helped
me, and they used them and are
cured, and feel as thankful as I do
that there is so valuable a medicine
made. Mrs. Julia G. Cushing.
gem guUTrtiscmenta.
Local Legislation.
GEORGIA— ScMTEit County.
Application will be made to the next
General Assembly of Georgia, at its regular
or adjourned session, to be held in the city
of Atlanta in July next, for the passage of
an act authorizing the Governor of Georgia
to appoint a Solicitor for the County of Sum
ter.
Also the passage of an act at its same ses
sion, by said General Assembly, at same
time and place, to provide for the distribu
tion of fines, forfeitures and costs arising
in said County Court from criminal cases,
to bo applied to the payment of the salary
of the Judge of said Court, and the pay
ment of insolvent costs duo the Solicitor
General (so appointed by said Governor),
and other officers of said County Court.
Also the passage of an act at the same
session of said Geueral Assembly, and at
same time and place, to provide and author
ize the formation of a chain gang in and for
said county of Sumter, and to allow said
chain gang to be used for the purpose of
working the public roads of Sumter county,
and upon such otner public works of said
county as may be actually necessary or ben
eficial to the public good of said county.
Also the passage of an act at same session
of said General Assembly at same time and
Siace, to provide and authorize the Board of
loads and Revenues of said county of Sum
ter, to levy a tax for the purpose of hiring
hands and overseer, or overseers, to work
the public roads of said county of Sumter;
the fund arisi ig from taxes so levied to be
used and applied only to the keeping up of
the public roads in said county of Sumter.
May 22,1883.
J. B. PILSBURT, J. C. 0. S. C.
may 23-2 t
Guardian’s Sale.
GEORGIA— Scmteb County.
Will be sold before the Court House door,
in the city of Americus, Sumter county, Ga.,
at public outcry, on the first Tuesday in
July next, between the legal hours of sale,
agreeable to an order of the Ordinary of
Sumter county, one lot of land number one
hundred and sixteen, in the 28th district of
said county. Sold as the property of R. L.
Brewer, late of said county deceased, for
the benefit of the creditors of said deceased.
Willie Brewer, minor of said deceased, has
an interest in said lot. Terms of sale on
the day of sale.
T. R. BREWER, Guardian.
may23*tds
SCROFULA
and all scrofulous diseases, Sores, Erysipe
las, Eczema, Blotches, Ringworm, Tu
mors, Carbuncles, Boils, and Eruptions
of the Skin, are the direct result of an
Impure state of the blood.
To cure these diseases the blood must he
purified, and restored to a healthy and na
tural condition. Ayer’s Sarsaparilla has
for over forty years been recognized by emi
nent medical authorities as the most pow
erful blood purifier in existence. It frees
the system from all foul humors, enriches
and strengthens the blood, removes all traces
of mercurial treatment, and proves itself a
complete master of all scrofulous diseases.
A Recent Cure of Scrofulous Sores.
“Some months ago I was troubled with
scrofulous sores (ulcers) on my legs. The
limbs were badly swollen and inflamed, and
the sores discharged large quantities of
offensive matter. Every remedy I tried
failed, until 1 used Ayer’s Sarsaparilla,
of which I have now taken three bottles,
with the result that the sores are healed,
and my general health greatly improved.
1 feel very grateful for the good your
medicine has done me.
Yours respectfully, Mrs Ann O’Brian.”
118 Sullivan St., New York, dune 24,1882.
All persons interested are invited
to call on Mrs. O’Brian; also upon the
Rev. Z. I*. Wilds of 78 East 54th Street,
New York City, who will take pleasure
in testifying to the wonderful efficacy of
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, not only in the cure
of this lady, but In liis own case and
many others within his knowledge.
The well-known writer on the Boston Herald,
B. W. Ball, of Rochester, A.//., writes, June
7, 1882:
“ Having suffered severely for some years
with Eczema, and having failed to find relief
from other remedies, 1 have made use, during
the past three months, of Ayer’s Sarsapa
rilla, which Ims effected a complete cure.
I consider it a magnificent remedy for all
blood diseases.”
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla
stimulates and regulates the action of the
digestive and assimilative organs, renews
and strengthens the vital forces, and speedily
cures Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Rheuma
tic Gout, Catarrh, General Debility, and
all diseases arising from an impoverished or
corrupted condition of the Mood, and a weak
ened vitality.
It is incomparably the cheapest blood medi
cine, on account of its concentrated strength,
and great power over disease.
PREPARED BY’
Dr.J.C.Ayer&Co., Lowell, Mass.
Sold by all Druggists; price §l, six bottles
for so.
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ledge, it being transferred to him. Lot
bounded as follows: East by Tom Edwards,
north by Eveline James, Bouth by Forsyth
street, west by lot of Henry Jones. Con
tains yi acre, more or less May 2d, 1883.
A. P. LINGO,
mayt-dw City Marshal.
A DOMESTIC SCENE
BETWEEN
Mr. and Mrs. John Smith.
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Mrs. Smith— Now, John Smith, what on earth I Didn’t I tell yon to go to
JOHN R. SHAW’S and get these goods, and here you have gone some
where else and spent OUR hard-earned dollars, and haven’t got much more than
half their value. Why didn’t you do as I told you ?
Smith —Why—er—why—my dear, you see I thought he had his store torn
up so, that he was paying no attention to getting in now goods, and
Mbs. S. — John Smith, you know that is not so, for I know I told you
yesterday that I had seen Mrs. Jones, who had been to John R. Shaw's and got
EVERS THING she wanted, and she told me his store was overflowing
with NEW Goods of the latest designs, and you know as well as I do, that a
man of Shaw’s business capacity and push, would be found in the lead ot ’'the
Procession,” with the best and prettiest styles in everything. You know also
that I told you he had turned his attention exclusively to DRY COODS)
(Fancy and Staple), NOTIONS, CLOTHING, BOOTS,
SHOES, HATS, CAPS, UMBRELLAS, PARASOLS, and
all articles kept in a first-class Dry Goods Store, and if you had
gone there you could have got just what I sent you for, and at much less than
what you have paid for these things you have brought home. No, lam well
aware how it all’happened. You let some slick-tongue chap get hold ot you
and pour about a pint of " Com Juice ” down that old dry throat of yonrs, and
then you were ready to believe anything he said. I reckon ho made you believe
this stuff here to be "all wool and a yard wide,” when its only seven-eighths, and
half cotton at that, and no style about it. ,
Smith—Well, my dear, don’t be so hard on me this time. I acknowledge,
the Corn, and I promise you that I will not go counter to your advice again, for
I am now convinced that I have missed some good bargains by not listening
to you.
Mrs. S.—Now, yon begin to talk sense, and I wish yon had heeded my
words when you started out to buy—but I won’t scold yon any more. Only
now be sure you listen to the old woman next time, for I tell you she has made
some of the best trades at John R. Shaw’s she ever made in her life.
[Smith retires, fully convinced that HIS Mrs. Smith is a woman of decided
energy and superior judgment .] ,
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And now, kind friends, we trust you will follow the good advice given by
Mrs. Smith to her better half, and call and be convinced that we can give yon
BETTER BARGAINS
than you can obtain elsewhere,
COME ONE, COME ALL,
THE OLD, THE YOUNG, THE SHORT, THE TALL,
THE RICH, THE POOR, WE PLEASE THEM ALL:
LET NOT THESE WORDS UNHEEDED FALL,
BUT HEED “THE WRITING ON THE WALL”;
COUNTLESS BARGAINS AWAIT YOUR CALL,
A.T- -
JOHN R. SHAW’S,
Forsyth Street , Americus , Ga,,
“AND DON’T YOU FORGET IT.’