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\mericus Population
12,000
Increasing every day
TWENTY-EIGHTH YEAR.
Copyright 1907 by Hart Schaffner & Marx
EASY ■ TO ■ WEAR
You’ll find our Hart Schaffner
& Marx Varsity suit not only good
to look at and easy to pay for, but
easy to wear.
We’ll fit you perfectly in it; and
you’ll think so yourself. All-wool
qualities here.
Come to this store for your Men’s Toggery. Our selec
tions are very comprehensive and include everything from
vour Hats to vour Shoes.
W. D. BAILEY.
Outfitters for Men and Boys.
Forsyth St. and Cotton Ave. Americus, Ga,
can work all sorts of harm to
the human system. Stomach
disorders, headaches, despond
ency, lack of energy, constipa
tion are generally results of a
sluggish liver.
Rembert’s
Red
Liver
Pills
have a mild but stimulating ef
fect on the liver and
restore normal action. W nen
you don’t feel quite right take
a dose.
Dose one pill—2sc a bottle.
REMBERT’S
DRUG STORE
113 FORSYTH ST.
Americus School
OF MUSIC
v Lessons in Piano, Pipe Or-
X gan, Orchestral Instru
ments, Voice Culture, har
mony and composition.
Thorough course in ear
training and sight reading. -
For rates and particulars, _
apply to Prof E. H. McNiel,E
or Miss Lula Matthews,
224, Jackson street. __
HELP IS OFFERED
TO WORTHY YOUNG PROPER
We earnestly request all
ife l assiisssS&sgggj^--
the americus times-recorder.
FOR SALE.
400 Acre 3 mtiea of rstiroad 3 ten
ant tion efl, maning water,?, acre.
250 aeree, H miles of flourishing.little
»o*u, 4 room house, running water
#8 per acre,
400 Acres, 5 roonijbouee, tine pasture
land, suited to stock or general farm
ing #lO acre.
ono Acre bus mile railroad on public
,12 B r.D .Od t'leiriione. 6 room
S;* n ,V U teu»ut hoo.eß, n~>
cbnronee and school.
5 Room house, new finished throng i
out, large lot $2,C00.
' 0 li'jom large lot $t .-‘<o. \
6 Boom house, choice Mighborhood
with sewerage, nice littlei
Home home or investment]
If yon want a nome |imo to <
°huy 6 VaTeeUt. ,5 <be safest and best;
Vestment. H «*»’* rnn ° f
evaporate.
P B. Williford,
103 Cotton Ave.
BARACAS ARE GOING TO
MEETING IN ATLANTA
Society in Americus to
Attend.
CONVENTION MEETS ON APRIL 15
large Attendance Expected and Work
in All Lines will Be of Importance
to All Baraca
Students.
It is not yet known whether the
Baraca societies of Americus will be
represented at the great National Con
vention to lie held in Atlanta, begin
ning April 13, and extending over
three days. There are two Baraca
societies liere, in connection with
Furlow Lawn and First Baptist church
es. They have a large membership
and meetings are well attended.
While no delegates have been elec
ted to the Atlanta convention it is
quite probable that some members
will feel sufficiently .interested to at
tend.
Many noted speakers and Sunday
school workers will be there. Among
those who will address the convention
are Rev. Albert Marion Hyde, D. !>.,
Brockton, Mass.; Dr. H. M. Hamit,
Nashville, Tenn.; Hey, C. A. Fulton
D. D., Syracuse. N. Y.; Dr. Len (1.
Broughton, Rev. J. W. Lee, D. I).,
Atlanta, and the national president,
M. A. Hudson, Syracuse, N. Y. origi
nator and founder of the Baraca
movement,
Hood music will be one of the main
features of tlie Atlanta convention, A
large chorus and orchestra has been
organized under the direction of A. C.
Boatman. On the same date the Phil
atheas, the ornanized young ladies'
Bible classes, will hold their national
convention in the Congregational
church.
BATT LE OF BALLOTS IS
GOING TO RAGE NOW
Get into the Game for the
Gount Sunday.
THE LEADERS ARE RUNNING CLOSE
Upheavals in the Standing of Ail Con
testants is Expected Tomorrow
in the Counting of the
Votes.
Is your favorite going to win in the
Times-Reoorder’s contest for the
Jamestown ticket? Are you clipping
coupons for her as you should? If,
not, get busy.
Here’s how the'figures stood at the
last counting of votes.
Miss Mattie Bivins. 416
Miss Loulie Greene 426
Miss Mabel Sawyer 354
Miss Mary Stevens 260
But there will he a change in the
totals tomorrow.
The list, corrected to date, will he
published again Sunday morning, and
doubtless a hunch of balolts will be
sent in today for each of the four fa
vorites, or for others.
Send in your ballots for the count to
morrow, and get them to the Times-
Reeorder office before 6 o’clock this
evening if possible.
TO IHOMASVILLE FOR A MEETING
Americus Pastor will thus Be Engaged
There.
Rev Stanley Manning, pastor of the
Church of the Redeemer, left yesterday
for Thomasville andiPinePark, where
he will assist in conducting a three
days series of meetings at the latter
place. He will he absent from his
Church here tomorrow,
“The Blood is The Life.” \
Science has never gone beyond th#
above simple statement of scripture. But
it bas illuminated that statement and
given it a meaning ever broadening with
the increasing breadth of knowledge.
When the blood is "bad” or impure it
is not alone the body which suffers
through disease. The brain is also
clouded, the mind and judgement
effected, and many an evil deed or impure
thought may be directly traced to the
Impurity of the blood. Foul, impure blood
can be made pure by the use of Dr.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. It
enriches and purifies the blood thereby
curing, pimples, blotches, eruptions and
other cutaneous affections, as eczema,
tetter, or salt-rheum, hives and other
manifestations of impure blood.
® ® ® ® ® ®
In the cure of scrofulous swellings, en- .
larged glands, open eating ulcers, or old ‘
sores, the "Golden Medical Discovery "has 1
performed the most marvelous cures. In 1
cases of old sores, or open eating ulcers, ,
it is well to apply to the open sores Dr,
Pierce's All-Healing Salve, which pos- j
sesses wonderful healing potency when
used as an application to the sores in con
junction with the use of "Golden Medical
Discovery” as a blood cleansing consti
tutional treatment. If your druggist
don’t happen to have the "All-Healing j
Salve” in stock, you can easily procure it {
by inclosing fifty-four cents in postage
stamps to Dr. Pw. V. Pierce, 6G3 Main St.,
Buffalo, N. Y., and it will come to you by
return post. Most druggists keep it as
well as the "Golden Medical Discovery."
® ® ® ® <§> ® '
You can’t afford to accept any medicine f
of unknown composition as a substitute
for "Golden Medical Discovery,” which is
a medicine of known composition, j
having a complete list of ingredients in j
plain English on its bottle-wrapper, the (
same being attested as correct under oath.
Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets regulate'
and invigorate stomach, liver and bowels
AMERICUS GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 6, 1907.
CONVICT SYSTEM IN SUMTER^™™' ,
i MttlING ON 4IH INST
Commissioners will Investigate Alleged Cruel Trent* Jo Execute 9 Contrnct for
ment of Men. Lighting
As the result of sensational state
ments made to Judge Charles R. Crisp
by a county convict, fins Nelson, re
garding alleged mistreatment of chain
j gang negroes, the County Commission
ers will meet on Tuesday next at the
courthouse here for the purpose of
making thorough and impartial inves
tigation of the case.
This is done at the request of Judge
Crisp, who has laid the matter before
f the hoard.
i Nelson, the escaped convict, was
I brought before the court to receive
additional sentence for escaping, when
ihe hurst into tears and, with body
j trembling with emotion, told Judge
Crisp a harrowing story of alleged c ruel
treatment accorded the* convicts.
Nelson’s statement is embodied in
! the following letter addressed by Judge
i Crisp to the County Commissioners
I immediately after the negro made his
j statement.
Americus, Ga. April 4th 1907.
Hon. Board of Commissioneis Roads
and Revenue of Sumter Comity.
Gentlemen:
i This morning in open court Gus
• Nelson, who recently escaped from the
ehaingang of the county, entered a plea
of guilty before me for the offense of
escaping.
j He stated to the in open court, that
the reason he left and the other con-
victs escaping with him was,that they
received barbarous, cruel and inhuman
treatment, and death or anything else
| was preferable to remaining on the
• ehaingang.
| lie reported that they frequently
| whipped them till the skin would peel
off, and that on many occasions they
I were knocked down with pick handles
J and other like instruments, while at
, work out on the public roads, lie* re
ported to me that he did not know hut
j what he might be killed for this state-
I meet, hut hf' u'mdd make it neverthe
less. He said that Mr. Braswell was
theone who inflicted this cruel treat
ment upon the convicts.
EXTRA SESSION IS OPPOSED
Dr. Wardlaw States Why General Conference Need
Not Be Called.
The recent death of Bishop Gran
bury, of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South, has revived the agita
tion for an extra session of the General
Conference of that church for the spec
ial purpose of electing successors to the
tlm e bishops who have died recently.
From some source or other comes a de
termined movement in that direction,
but it seems to meet with but little re
sponse from the clergy and laity of the
church.
“I am decidely opposed to calling
the General Conference together for
any sueh purpose,” said Rev. J. P.
Wardlaw, pastor of the Americus
church yesterday. “The General Con
ference is a very expensive body. Not
only does it entail a heavy expense on
the church, hut it meets at a consider
able sacrifice of time on tlie part of the
many influential laymen who are dele
gates to it.
“It should not be called in extra ses
sion except under the greatest and 4
most pressing circumstances.
“The church can go along without
its work being at all seriously inter
fered with through the deaths of the
5. A. L. TO GIVE AMERICUS
Full Recognition in Pamphlet for Distribution at
Jamestown.
Americus is not to be given the go
by by the publicity department of the
Seaboard Air Line railway.
As a result of the pronflpt action of
President Sheflield, of the Board of
Trade, the representatives of the road
who are now in Savannah preparing a
pamphlet for distribution at the James
town Exposition, will visit this city as
soon as they have completed their work
in Savannah.
This will be in almost a fortnight.
Yesterday Agent Everett received
word from Savannah that Mess. Bates
and Leslie, the representatives cf the
road, hadreeieved the letter from Pres
ident Sheffield, and that they would
accede to his request and visit Ameri
cus as soon as their work was com
pleted in Savannah.
FREE WATER TO BOTH IS GIVEN
Light Intantry and Old Ladies’ Home
Thus Favored.
The city council has generously voted
to give free water to the Light Infantry
armory and to the Old Ladies Home on
Prince street, a favor ..which will be
duly appreciated by both institutions.
w y Or is it inclined to run away? Don’t
M /i /v , Ajeatfc punish it with a cruel brush and comb!
iytirS I fjJj ai«ut just ask your doctor if Ayer’s Hair
/ /I f&Vigor, new improved formula, won’t
W W -w jm jMFotwmake it stay at home on your head, just
JL/ /u l\/t / where it belongs. See what he says.
incur IVLITKIi ss&uss:
l """" i
Nelson stood up before me and cried
like a baby, and begged that someth
ing lie done to ameliorate the lot of the
convicts, lie says lie is an escaped
penitentiary convict, and has served
nine years in the state penitentiary,
and that he had rather serve fifteen
years in the state penitentiary- than
three years in this ehaingang.
He said that where he worked in the
state penitentiary there was about three
hundred convicts, and ttiere has been
more escaped from our e haingang in
the last three months than occured dur
ing nine years at tho state penitentiary.
He claims that the cruel treatment and
unnecessarily severe punishment iit -
fiieted upon tho county convicts is 1 tit
cause of so msjny of them escaping.
I informed Nelson that I knew noth
ing of the truth or falsity ofhis charges,
and did not take his statement as the
truth of the matter.
However, I have heard from sundry
citizens of the county complaint and
criticism as to the treatment received
by the oonyiets, and having heard this
complaint, and this defendant ir open
court having made the charge, I felt it
was due you and myself, and the con
victs, that this matter be thoroughly
sifted and investigated by your honor
able body-. „
Therefore, as Judge of the City' Court
of Americus, and as a county official,
being the one who has sentenced most
of the convicts to the ehaingang, I
respectfully request your honorable
body to have a speedy,fair,full and im
partial investigation of this matter.
I refer you to section 1 lit;, 1117, 1148,
1149 and 1150 of the penal code of 1805,
which prescribed tin* law applicable to
county cltaingang s. 1 shall send a copy
of this letter to each of tlu- County
Commissioners.
With assurance of the highest respect
and esteem for each of the Commission
ers, personally, I have flic honor t<> he,
yours sincerely,
('HAS. It. Cttlsl-
Judge of the City* Court of Americas.
three bishops. Bishops Granbury and
Smith were superannuated bishops.
The only active bishop who lias died
was Bishop Tigerl, wtio was a fine
specimen of robust manhood, one who
would have been a power for good to
the Church if he had not been called
away.
“It is not imposing too ponderous
task on thejother bishops of the Church
to require them to subdivide the extra
work among themselves.
“None of the bishopsthave complain
ed, so far as I know-, of the work being
too arduous. I have not the slightest
idea that there will be any extraordi
nary' session of the General Conference
unless Providence should call so many
Bishops away from earth as to seri
ously' cripple the supervising work
done by- them, and that is hardly- apt
to happen.
“The General Conference does not
meet for three years.” concluded Mr.
Wardlaw, “and I do not anticipate that
any conditions will arise before then
that will require it to he called togetli-
The pamphlets to be issued by the
Seabcard will be among the most
attractive advertising matter distri
buted at the Jamestown Exposition.
The illustrations will be the finest that
can be made and the accompanying
descriptive matter will be prepared
with the greatest care.
It is the intention of the company to
bring the opportunities of the sections
traversed by its system prominently
before the home seeking and investing
world.
This will be a great opportunity for
Americus. When Mess. Bates and
Leslie arrive theyivvill be taken in hand
bv President Sheflield and other mem
bers of the Board of Trade .and no
opportunity will be lost to secure the
proper heralding of the advantages
Americus and Sumter county ofl'er.
AMERIGUS CHEWS UP THE PLAINS
In Sharp Game Played out There
Yesterday.
The Amerieus “Tigers” got a hunch
ou the Plains bunch es batters yester
day and chewed them up to the tune of
4 to 1. Put another >«tripe on the
Tigers.
EULL PROCEEDINGS OF MEETiNG
Donation of SSOO Is Made to Ameri
cus hospital—Free Water for
Military and Home—Other
‘Business Matters.
Regular meeting Mayor and City-
Council April 14th. Present, Mayor
Ha whins presiding. Aldermen Sher
lock. Fnrlow, Bolton, Poole, Childers
and Borum. Minutes last regular
meetiug read.
On motion that part of miniates
granting permit to Neon Buc-hanaii to
erect awning and resolution relative to
erecting awnings reconsidered.
On motion, the entire matter referred
to street committee. Minutes as recon
sidered were then confirmed.
Ordinance authorizing the Mayor to
execute contract with W. A. Dodson
for lighting and pumping water, and
providing means to meet the payments
called for in said contract read and by
unanimous consent rules suspended
and ordinance put on its passage.
On tuition by’ unanimous consent
ordinance adopted as read.
Resolution to give F, A. Hooper
written notice of the result of election
for Ejonds read and on motion adopted
as read.
Finance committee reported that
they- recommend donating 8500 to City
Hospital, to he divided in payments
each 60 days, first pay-ment to lie on
April 15th. Report adoptod.
On motion Americus Light Infantry
and home lor old ladies on Prince
street furnished water rent free.
Water eommitte, authorized to make
contract for coal.
Resignation of 1). M. Mayo as street
overseer read and referred to street
committee. Cemetery reports read and
on motion ordered filed.
Third quarterly report. <»f Clerk and
Treasurer read and on motion ordered
spread on minutes.
T. N. Hawkes, Clerk A Treasurer.
In account with Mayor and City
Council of Americus.
For Third (Quarter commencing Jan.
Ist, 1907. Ending March 31, 1907.
Du.
Balance last report 813,693.96
Fines - 813.00
Water Rents 3,273.69
Licenses 9,048.50
City Tax 1,877.32
School Tax 2,795.4#
Rond Tax 3,069.72
Street Tax 255.00
Interest 197.53
Bills Payable....’ 5,000.00
840,024.12
Cl" X
Mayor 8 150.00
Clerk & Treasurer - 200.00
Expense Acct 213.15
Assessors 200.00
City Attorney 50.00
Damage Claims 693.98
Police Department 1,155.93
Fire Department 986.59
Hospital.... 261.95
Agricultural College . . 5,000.00
Charity 4.40
Street Department 2,044.35
Lights 1,135.55
Public Buildings 95.95
Clock 12.00
Bond Commission 8,000.00
Water Works 3,032.05
Public Schools 5,388.49
Parks 1.44
Cemeteries - 12.89
Int. on Bonds 2,285.27
Balance on Hand 9,105.18
840,024.12
On motion salary of Dr. Thomas as
small pox physician discontinued.
Go motion W. R. Morns salary al
lowed for entire month of March. All
approved hills read and on 'motion or
dered paid. T. N. Hawkrs C <fe Tit.
REFERRED BACK TO A COMMITTEE
Council Still Bucks at Erection of
Awning.
The Buchanan awning - problem,
which like Banquo’s ghost will not
down, still haunts the councilmen and
is carried over for another two weeks
for reflection and investigation. With
permission granted by council to erect
an awning at his store front Mr. Buch
anan purchased material for same,
when the solons, in the 'same meeting
wherein he was granted this permis
sion. adopted a resolution prohibiting
the erection of awnings of this class.
At the recent meeting the entire matter
was referred back to the street com
mittee, which had already reparted
unanimously in favor of this particular
awning, in the meantime s‘3oo i worth
of structural iron still lies in front of
the Buchanan store and which will be
useless unless used for this purpose.
In the meantime the solons ponder.
WILL CONTRIBUTE FOR MISSIONS
Both Foreign and Home, at First
Methodist Church.
At the services of the Methodist
church tomorrow it is expected that a
Irage number of envelopes with contri
butions for home and foreign missions
will be turned in. Last Sunday was
the day for this special collection. The
assessment against the Amerieus
church is $550, but it was hoped to raise
oyer SI,OOO, in order that the church
might resume the support of a mis
sionary of its own. The Sunday school
collection lastjsiunday for this purpose
was a liberal and gratifying one, but
the ehureh collection fell below what
was expected. It is thought that a
large sum will yet be contributed for
this important work.
Fine large ltoe shad today at
3herlock & Co. -• o-2t
S2.M TO wo sm
We will guarantee you a saving
of from $2.50 to $5.00 on your Suit
if bought of us. We will further
more guarantee that we will give
you
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Finer Fabrics.
In “EFF-EFF” Spring Suits
At $15.00 to $37.50
we offer you the greatest clothing - T
values ever .seen for the juice-—vat
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superiority to anything obtainal/e llFjr
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express all that’s “s fe urd sane” [ 'S !/ 'lml
in advanced fathion; the fabrics aie ftna
of those exclusive, reline 1 patterns v
fashioned in the expensive tailor
shops—a va t range ttf weaves of /Wf V 1 *" j
imported and domestic mills—tail- M
ored as perfectly and as artistically ill In .
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doit You are especially invited fojr j"
to examine our collection of / _■
“ FFF-EFF ”■ SUCK SUITS -
AT $17.50 TO $37.50 vSjjxflif
which equal in every detail the cus
tom tailors’ to-order-made Suits,
made of beautiful worsteds, in ' *co^i"!^ / c^, LVE
stripes, checks and plaids—a l ! TheFECHHEM^FiFHkLco.
strictly hand-tailored. **
Hawes Famous $3.00 Hats--all the Popular Shades.
Eclipse Negligee Shirts-Greatest line in America, $1 & $1.50.
Crawford's World Renowned Men's- Siioes-$3.50, $4 4 $5.
PIONEER SUSPENDERS & BELTS-Best Make, Best Stiles Lowest Pita.
SUMMER UNDERWEAR in Elastic Seam Nainsoek, Drill & also Balbriggan.
NEW STYLE NECKWEAR IN ENDLESS VARIETV-25C to SI.OO.
Chas. L. Ansley
Successor to WHEATLEY & ANSLEY.
(See Ad on Fourth Page.)
HEW YORK
RACKET STORE
PLANTERS BANK BUILDING
Americus, Ga.
QUEEN QUALITY
SOCIETY fSHOES.
LEATHERS J
There is a reason why “Queen Quality” Shoes are pre
ferred above all others by women of discrimination and taste.
To ordinary shoes they are as a Worth gown is to an ordinary
dress. Only a shoemaking genius can impart their “chic” and
style and marvelous fit. Such shoes could be produced in
small quantities only at an extravagant price. “Queen Quality”
methods bring them to you at prices no higher than you pay
for ordinary shoes. *
Very Special.
5 Pieces new Brown Tafeta Silk 36 inches wide worth $1.25
per yard at 75c.
10 Pieces new Suzine Silk in all the leading colors regular
price per yard 45c at 39c.
40 Inch Lingerie Lawn and Batiste regular price 40c per
yard at 25c
New Royal Wooster Corsetts in all new shapes at 50c
t 0...... SI.OO,
HAMILTON & CO.
The Wea her Today.
Rain and colder.
NUMBER 296.