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AMERICAS
VOLUME 1
I
AMERICUS. GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 1891.
NUMBER 7%
The Reason Why
Many find it difficult to present a creditable appearance and
live within their means, is mainly due to the fact that they
pay such high prices to so-called “merchant tailors,” while
THE SAME QUALITY OF CLOTH,
THE SAME GRADE OF WORK,
AND THE SAME STYLE OF CUT
Can bo obtained from our
Ready Made Clothing Department
-AT-
LESS THAN HALF THE COST!
You are losing the benefits of modern business methods if you fail
to AVAIL YOURSELF OF OUR SERVICES.
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Cor. Lamar St. and Cotton Ave.'
For dress occasions what could be more appropriate than our elegant
styles in
Prince Albert or Three Button Cutaway Suits?
We have them in all the newest shades and fabrics, (such as
Corkscrew, Clay Diagonal, Granite, Tricot ana
fancy figured suitings) and
WARRANT OUR SUITS FROM $16.50 TO $20.00
Equal, IF NOT SUPERIOR, in fit and finish to any “tailor made’
suits in tho market for just TWICE THE MONEY.
For everyday wear we would suggest one of our nobby Sack or Cut
away Suits ranging in price from $3.00 to $15.00 per suit.
Our line consists of
IMPORTED CASSIMERES, CHEVIOTS,
BLACK THIBET CLOTHS,
SERGES, FLANNELS, ETC.
In a word OUR STOCK WILL PLEASE, and OUR LOW Prices
astonish YOTJ•
A WORD ABOUT ODD PANTS.
You need a pair to "tide you over” so to speak. Our assortment is
ENORMOUS and our PRICES ARE RIGHT. They range from
$1.40 to $7.50 per pair, and cannot be had e.sewhere for less than
double the price. Here is a hot weather item worthy your notice:
75 Summer Coats at 50c., reduced from $1.00.
100 Summer Coats at 75c., reduced from 1.50.
80 Summer Coats and Vests, $1.40 reduced from $2.50.
All kinds of Summer Coats and Vests, suchkfts. “Drapotes,” Sicilians,
Serges, Alpacas, Pongees, Poptins,
TO CLOSE OUT STRICTLY.AT COST.
OUR LINE OF
BOYS’ AND CHILDREN’S CLOTHING,
Alwaws the best in the city, will be found of interest to all in
need of CHEAP but NEAT AND SERVICEABLE SUITS
We still hLow a good lino of thpso HANDSOME SAILOR
SUITS, (sizes 9 to 14 years) universally admitted stich excellent
value for $ I 50 per suit.
SHIRTS! SHIRTS!! SHIRTS!!!
“OUR LEADER” at 50c is the best unhindered shirt on earth for
the price, while (pr dress, what shirt can compare with
Messrs Cluett, Coon & Co.'s Superb
“MONARCH SHIRTS.”
Laundried 1® Unlaundried ,
Our “Monarch Puffs” have taken the trade by storm.
WE’VE GOT ’EM!
AT Kilt hi I V— 1 Gents’ Belfast Linen Collars.) Any siz
I ibw PI LI —Gents’ Belfast Linen Cuffs, j desired,
All Grades.
All Sizo*.
Our imported Balbriggan, Lisle Thread and Muslin Underwear will
add to your comfort during the hot season.
m LEA® IN FINISHING GOODS
' Onr prices cannot be excelled in the state.
NEW NECKWEAR, NEW SOCKS, NEW BANDKERCH1BFS, NEW SUSPENDERS, &
HARRIS’ WIRE BUCKLE SUSPENDERS, tho be«t thing In tho market.
Everv pair WABBANTED FOB TWO TEARS, or
1 your money refunded.
(§p NIGHT ROBES FOR GENTLEMEN
OUR CAREFUL ^EC^RBA LB p
OUB SEASONABLE GOODS
’ '•* All appeal to
Your Reason, Your Pocket, and Your Health.
Cannot you save something by trading with
GEO. D. WHEATLEY
THE ELECTRIC LINE.
AN OPPORTUNITY TO SECURE
STREET RAILWAY SERVICE
thmi May Not Arise Again In Years, If
Ever—Let the Matter be Taken up With
the Good Judgment And Vim of Amerl*
ens People.
The difference between success and
failure consist* in taking advantage of
opportunity presented.
Right now there lies before the people
of Amerlcu* an opportunity to secure a
street railway service on term* that may
not arise again in year*, If ever.
Now let the matter be taken up with
that good judgment and vim with whloh
Amcricus people go at everything, and
let’* *ee If aomething for the good of thla
city cannot be brought about
By the sale of Saturday, a bonded debt
debt of $50,000 at six per cent ha* been
wiped out againat the atreet railway,
and the property itanda to-day free
from Incumbrance.
To be frank, however, It Is not the
opinion of The Times-Uecorder that a
purchase of the property at the price
named, $35,000, is what our people pur
pose to do just now.
Our people are not ready to assume
suoh a debt in the present financial
stringency, and while so many other
calls upon their resources are being
made.
There is, however, a lion upon wlileh
something can be done, and that too In a
way that will probably satisfy the own.
ers of the road, and at the same timo
give Americus a street railway In opera
tion.
The suggestion made by Tiie Times-
Recokoek Is substantially as sollows
Let a local syndicate be formed at
once to lease the line upon tho basts of a
guarantee to the ownora of say $1,500 per
annum or 5 per cent upon an estimated
value of $30,000.
Then let the syndicate take a twelve
months' option for the purchase of the
property at the expiration of the year’s'
lesse, at sueh price as may be agreed
upon.
The syndicate will then have assumed
only the obligation of $1,500 lived
charges, or half that attached to the
road before the sale.
Then with six light ears with a fifteen
minute achedule, enough patronage ean
be depended on, to cover fixed eHarges
and current expenses.
To give prellmlnry assurance of this
1st the syndicate oanvass the city for
enough purchasers of monthly, quarterly
or annual tickets to cover these ex
penses.
Twenty-five men could, no doubt, be
found who would agree to pay $10 per
month for one year for Uckets for them
selves and families.
One hundred men can be found who
would agree to pay $5 per month for
tickets for themselves and family.
One hundred other persons live In
Americus who will .take $3 worth of
ticket* per month.
Thla would provide a guaranteed
revenue to the line of $13,000.
With an Interest eharge of $1,500 per
annum and current expenses of $30 per
day the total expense would be $12,450.
In addition to this would be the reve
nue from exounions, picnics and tran
sient passengers, which might aggregate
$1,000 to $2,000 a year more.
With economical management there Is
no reason why the entire total oont
should not be kept Inside of $30 per day.
If the first year’s experience Is satis
factory the people will then be Inposl-
Uon to buy the road If they see fit, or
renew the lease if preferable. If the
road will pay expenses the fint year, its
future Is «o far assured that there need
be no hesitation about buying !L
Even It the rood should fail to pay ex
penses the first year by $1,000 to $2,000,
the syndicate can afford to pocket the
loss, as the advantages, present and
future, to property will offset a moderate
loss.
Now, is it to the advantage of the
owners to make thla sort of trad* with
the people of Americus f
Tue Times-Recorder believes that it
will be.
The preference of the owners I* to sell
It just as it stands; as It will be a very
expensive and unsatisfactory job to tear
up the track, transport It somewhere
else, repair our streets, pay expense* of
law salts, etc., etc. The property will
not be.worth $15,000 laid down In Haeon,
after paying all expenses, and nobody
knows this better than the owners
either n sale at a satisfactory price or a
long term lease equally satisfactory.
It ia just as much to tht Interest of the
owner* for the road to remain here as It
ia to our ietoreat to have it remain, and
there le no probability whatever of the
road being torn up and removed If our
people will come forward with any sort
of proposition that has any fairness or
liberality In It
Now what are we going to do about
It f 'Something muat be done, and done
promptly, at the summer season is the
time when the heaviest receipts will be
made. The representative of the own
ers is here, and there Is no better timo
than right now to take up this question
and push it to s conclusion. “There Is
a tide in the affair* of men, which token
at the Hood leads ou to fortune.”
MR. DODSON EXPLAINS
Tbs owner* of the road ban large
landed^ntenste In Leeton Park, whloh
will be very valuable in the near future
If the line It operated, and worth almost
nothlDg if the road is torn up. The
latter would mean a $l.'i,000 loss alone
to the owners of the land.
Tbs refusal to make such a lesse and
option as suggested would mean a heavy
lost to the owners In removal;
lease would give a guarantee
a fair Interest on a fall
valuation for a year, and virtually insure and Judge Crisp.
ThC Part That He Took In theVfcearreiie*
of Last Friday.
To The Tiueb-RecorderIn justice
to myself as a civilized man, 1 wish
space to set myself right -efore the eyes
of the good people of Americus.
It Is charged that my carelessness, or
even worse, was the cause of my engine
running Into n funeral procession at the
McGarrab street orosstng Friday, when
the truth la that I am In no wise to
blame,, as your original publication
of the facta is substantially correct
The negro flagman did try to signal
me to atop, and so far he did his duty;
but the real blame that attaohe* to him
Is because he failed to notify me before
hand as ho was Instructed to do, that a
procession would cross in a short time.
It Is not my business to look out for
people passing; the flagman is paid to do
that and then signal mo. I was pressed
for time ms I was clearing the way for
an Inooming train in twenty minute*.
I had booked down south of ths cross
ing and coupled on too fiat ears
stated; after I started ahead I did see a
wagon (nof.a hearse) that had crossed
just ahead of me; I did not see the pro-
oesslon following, as I was on the right,
or opposite side of my eab; and a num
ber of box cars on the west track pre
vented my fireman from seeing the car
riages following, os ha states. I had
coupled to the oars at a distance of less
than 200 feet south of the crossing, and
whenlatarted ahead I was looking
book for signals from the yardmaster,
I did not, therefore, sen the flagman at
all; and when I finally heard him yell, I
had already gone three or four oar
lengths, and was within one and n half
ear lengths of the wagon that bad just
pissed ahead of me; with my engine be
tween me and the rest of the proeesslon.
I could not see them; nor did I have
any reason to suppose there was any
proeesslon following, as the vehiole I
saw was not n hearse bnt n wagon.
My fir. man did not see the carriage
until the engine was within n few ear
lengths of it, because of the box ears In
his wsy; and when be yelled out to me
to “look out for the carriage,” whloh I
still did not see, I shut off steam and
palled the reverse lever with all my
might and put on brakes, but owing to
the cylinders being f nil of steam, I could
not reverie fully, without letting (team
out of the cylinder cocks. This would
have frightened the hones worse than
going ahead, and u soon a* I aaw I
could not atop ahort of the crowing,
owing to the momentum of the engine
and can, I did the only thing I could,
and that ww to put on steam again and
get out of the way of the procession as
soon as possible.
I did my best w soon ns I discovered
the situation, and nobody regrets more
than I do that it was impossible for me
to prevent annoyance to the people In
the carriages. If my life had been at
stake I could not have done more. I
never knew tha*t It ww a funeral proces-
tlen until I saw the wagon going up the
bill by the old cotton yard with the
coffin In It, w I run pwt the crowing.'
The flagman did Ids best to signal me
and I did my best to stop as soon w I
ww him; and nobody Is to blame but the
flagmen for not telling me that a funeral
procession would be along soon, and to
look out for It He was Instructed to do
this when the wagon nod carriages
crossed going over to Brooklyn Heights,
and bis failure to do this Is the only
thing that can justly bn found fault with.
It ww an unfortunate accident for
which I am not In the least to blame,
and I trust the good people who thought
hard of me will do nt$ the justice to be
lieve that these are the exact facts in the
J. 9- Dodson,
; - • ' A Engineer.
HE WOULD NOT STOP
EXCITED OGLETHORPE.
SO DEPUTY 8HtlttFF LAMAR SOUGHT
TO MAKE HIM.
A LITTLE WHITE BOY KILLED IN
STANTLY BY LIGHTNING
Gas Boynton Shot Through‘tho Bod
With n Pistol—Ho Wns Wonted for
Polony and Attempted to Glvo 14
Ball—lladly Bart* *- -
Whlto a Necrtf Was Ku'derod by His Own
Brother-Mat tteteh With Bis V# In
Pa* a »ISa
*»• Shocking CnullilH.
“Stop! Or I will shoot!"
That was the command given' by
by Deputy Sheriff Lamar to due Boyn
ton, colored, yesterday morning. He
Oglethorpe was all excitement yester
day afternoon. . i,,,,!*,.*
The cause, of this wasth* killing of n
10 year old white boy by lightning and
hooded not the command or the warning and the murder of an,year old negro
which followed It. The result la that lie boy b/ hie own brother!'
is terribly wounded.
Saturday Lumpkin Floyd came to the
city and swore out s warrant charging
the Boynton negro with hog stealing,
which crime, under the Georgia laws, 14
OK Foe Now York.*
Hon Charles ?, priitpleft Sunday for
New York where he will be the priori-
pal speaker at the great Fourth of Jnly
celebration by Tammany, hall next
Saturday: , v ,,, , , , ‘
It Is a rule with Tammany to have a
grand Fourth of July celebration every
year. There are two set speeches and a
number of short speeehw at each one of
these celebraUon*. These are followed
by s grand banquet and s general demo
cratic hurrah.
Georgia will have two representative*
among the speakers, Senator Colquitt
a felony.
The warrant wns turned over to Depu
ty Sheriff Lamar with IpstrueUons that
the accusod negro be arrested. Yester
day morning the officer started out ,to
accomplls that end. The negro live;!
on Mr. T. D. Hooks’ place, about six
miles out from the city. There the
deputy sheriff went He wss warnet
that lloynton was a dangerous character
and was admonished not to tot tlie negro
get any advantage.
Backed up by the warrant wjilch ho
had, the deputy sheriff walked Intq thi i
field where the negro was working am i
arrested him. No reslstanoe was offered,
Boynton unhitched the mule from the
plow. He started to get on the mulo
but the officer would not let him. The:
the two walkod about a quarter of *
mile to the road, the negro making no
effort to get away dr anything of the
kind. The negro tied his mule, then
turning suddenly about ho fopk to bis
legs, saying
“Captain, you eon go on to town nor
and tell them I’m coming after dinner.’*
With that he was off like the wind.
Deputy Sheriff Lamar called at him to
■top, using the words which . begin this
article. That oall was not heedsd.
Thinking bo would soare tho negro Grip
stopping the officer fired hit pistol twloo.
Each timo the weapon was held up
wards and no effort was made to bit blip.
Again Boynton was told to stop, ^gnin
he began to run falter. Still Intending
to scare the negro, aoother shot was
fired. It did no good.
Bp that time the negro was some forty
or fifty yards ahead and gaining at evory
bound. Seeing that he ooold only , stop
Boynton In that way the officer shot
unoomore. He took aim that time and
Boynton fell to the ground, with a dan
gerous wound in bis back.
The pistol used Is a 32 oallbre, Smith
A Wesson, htmmerless one. , The ball
entered the baok of the negro, barely to
the left of the baokbone, In tho small of
the back and lodged the least bit to the
right of the centre of the stomach, where
It can be plainly felt
As soon as it wss found that Gus was
shot ms bad as he was a wagon, was
driven np and ha was brought on to the
city and plaeed In jail, where everything
that ean be dona for him will bn done.
Dr. C. B. Raines, theeonuty physician Is
attending him and an able bodied man
Is kept there to look after his. every
want
The wound Is quite a bad one and it
may lw that the negro la dead by this
time.
When be was shot the negro was la a
short distance of bis house where
Deputy Sheriff Lamar end others iff
confident he wee making to get a gvhtp
shoot tha officer, snob a desperate char,
aeter. Anyway, Mr. Lamar thinks he
did all he could under tha circum
stances, though no one eould possibly
regret the ebootlng mow then he.
Two Drummers PI(hL
Things were lively around the Allen
House for awhile lent night W. L.
Doaghtie of Mzeon, who- repressntsa
LoulsvillqJionie and Elmer Thotnpktan,
who Mils buggies from Cincinnati had a
misunderstanding about a small etnount
of money whloh Donghtle bad
Thompklns. The misunderstanding re
sulted In a fight daring the course of
which Donghtle was eat on the bend by
a key tag In Ibs Wriief Thdnsktn*,
while that gentleman’s heed was eon-,
stderably pummeled against the floor.
The Belllgereanta wanted to lean last
night, but upon n special invitation .they
remained over to attend mayor's court
this morning. /
affaire are shock
ing and Indeed' they are calculated to
excite the unusually quiet'little town to
the highest pitch. From a gentleman
who was . In Oglethorpe yesterday a
Tiucs-Rkcoudkr reporter learned this
story of tho two fatal happenings.
About 1 o’olook yesterday' a terrible
tbnndef storm held sway in and about’
Oglethorpe. ■ One particularly vivid flash
of lightning followed almost Immediate:
ly by an almost deafening peal of' thun
der alarmed the people Very much and
oyetpeoted to hear, of some work of
vastatlqn that had been done'. Little
were they prepared, bowover, for what
J, ’ iii
homo six miles to,the south . of Ogle
thorpe, near a little settlement called
Fountalnvllle, Is the farm of Mr. Join E.
Robinson, a well-to-do planter, who Is
known In Amsrieus. Shortly before the
thunder-storm , came up the, hands *bad «
gone to one of the fields,to eommenoe
work, after, the rest given for their
noonday meal.
Among thenumber was Mr. Robinson's
10 year old son; whore' name could hot
be learned. i„ii a
When the flash Ofllghtnlng Spoken of
above oame the hoy was hoeing cotton.
He died with that hoe in his hands.' He
was nt work In Oh open fietd, with no
trees, or anything, about that was calcu
lated to specially attract lightning. But
the deadly bolt seems to have singled
him ouL The oloctrlc'fluid struck him,
and seemed to cover him from head to
foot. Befdre tho thunder bad sounded
Its land and reverberating peal he was
dead, with tho hoe In his hands.
Tho naws spread like wild-fire over
Oglethorpe as soon as a. messenger ar
rived announcing tha lad’s death, for
tho boy was well known and popular
there. . „ |' r J
The excitement wss sugmsnted when
messenger arrived shortly afterward
saying that John Edwards bad been
killed by bis brother Will Edwards.
Quite a coincidence It was, too, that this
messeoger’alsobad to make A journey of
about six miles. He came, however,
from exactly the opposite : direction In
wnlofa the other had eome.
Will and John' Edward* are Mgrose,
and In John's life they were brothers.
The one is 15 years old, while the other
17. These boys were working on
tho same place and Sunday afternoon
they were told to' carry the stock-to
water. A dispute and fight sprung up;
something shout who should ride;.in the
course d'f wblcb Wtll drew his knife and
dealt Us brother several dangerous
gashes la the stomach sad breast;
The wounded boy lingered until yee- ^
terday afternoon, when he died. Will Is
now In jail, charged with John’s mudnr.
Thus dosed Oglethorpe's exciting
chapter of UUHlltiftli , ,,m. ,,t
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CoWPANT, Amtrions, Go.
Enjoying ThemMlvM.
The report comes from Chid
that the boys of the Americas Light
fsntry have taken a Ann stand In eamp,
being one of tho Mst drilled companies
companies there. Tbe boys ! are enjoy
ing ^themselves. Thanks to Quarter
master Shiver, they have been feasting
on the fat of the land. Indeed, they are
said to be the best livers to camp. They
will probably arrive at home at 12)0 to-
morrow Afternoon. ,j * *
Her* Prospecting.
Messrs. Hamilton and Hussy of Ohio
are here prospecting. They are highly
pleased with Americus and may invest
here sad make this city their future
borne.
So! ...
tp Off, f common* but not very ele-
gent expression, thej Rad Men are “la
town” in Americus. The lodge here has
one of the largest and most enthusiastic
memberships: in, the city. Last Bight
Kinehafoonse Tribe, No. 82, L O. R M.
held a mooting: atJ their wigwam and
elected the followiag officers for th* en
suing term. : Itiw ifilt to
-i & B.Stanfield,sachem; Kirby Jones,
senior sagamore; B. H. Mayo, joaior
sagamore; W.: 0. BarnsW, chief of
reoords.
Spanish combs are worn with carriage
costumes of black. silk. As. a comple
ment to this, black undressed kids are
worn with all ball gowns by youag
misses.' i. . 1 ■ ■--t ;..
Banana is a very pale yellow, Cytbere
ia a shade darken, and Cleopatra to of •
rich golden hoe; paillette, straw
com color are pate i
Mrs. Langtry, the;
the owner of a pin
silver In »h
served to ihe Ubgh .^