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Xmericus Population
12,000
Increasing every day
rWENTY-EIGHTH YEAR
Copyright 1907 by Hart Schalfner 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
tion are very comprehensive and include everything from
vour Hats to vour Shoes.
W. D. BAILEY.
Outfitters for Men and Boys.
hir-vlh St and C »tt >n 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 fiver.
Rembert’s
Red
Liver
Pills
have a mild but stimulating ef
feet on the liver and Quickly
restore normal action. VV hen
you don’t feel quite right tak
a dose.
Dose one pill —25c a bottle.
REMBERT’S
DRUG STORE
113 FORSYTH ST.
Community Silver
«P ——i— —— ———^
Has the style quality and durability next
to sterling cost no more, than 01 dinary p a
and last twice as long.
Phone 318.
THOS. L. BELL,
The Leading Jeweler.
THE AMERICUS TIMES-KECORDEE.
CANNOT BUY PEAS AT
ANY PRICE IN CITY
High Prices Are Offered
Here
BUT SUPPLY NOW EXHAUSTED
Even $2.25 Per Bushel Cannot Buy
This Ordinary Commodity—
Highest Price Ever Paid for
Them in Americus.
Americus supply dealers are ottering
the highest price ever paid here for
common peas, cowpeas, $2.25 per bush
el, but even this phenomenal advance
fails to secure the peas from the fact
that none are to be had here, the limit
ed supply having been exhausted.
More than two months ago the price
of peas ad vanced rapidly and the srr.ali
quantity saved here, less than 5 000
bushels, were sold at prices prevailing
—about $1.50 per bushel.
Since then the great scarcity of peas
has created a heavy demand and c >n.
sequent further advance.
Thousands of bushels were shipped
from Americus to points in Virginia
aud Louisiana, where they are planted
as fertilizer for wornout tobacco and
sugar lands. As a land restorer these
common field peas have no equal.
Aud the shipping away of such
quantities has caused ia scarcity for
planting purposes iu Sumter.
A gentleman here tried to buy a
hundred bushels yesterday for ship
ment to Natcfiez, Miss., and freely of
fered 82.25 per busheDbut without se
curing any. In Vicksburg, Miss., he
says, peas command that price—$2.25
per bushel the year round with few
ottered.
Farmers use them as fertilizer, the
lands being too valuable for cane and
cotton to be planted in peas.
Lands about Americus and through
out this section will produce from
twenty to thirty bushels per acre, even
as a second crop or when planted with
corn, and 15 cents per bushel will lay
them down in Vicksburg. Why not
plant more peas and less cotton?
One large farmer here, Dr. T. M.
Merritt, lias a hund red bushel peas at
his home, but does not care to sell them
unless the purchaser pays $2.25 at tlie
farm and hauls them himself.
If IS SERIOUS.
Some Americus People fail to Realize
the Seriousness.
The constant aching of a bad back.
The weariness, the tired feeling.
The pains and aches of kidney ills
Are serious —if neglected.
Dangerous urinary troubles follow.
An Ameficus citizen shows you how
to avoid them.
j. ii. Edwards, farmer, living just
outside the corporation limits says;
“My back troubled me for years. Some
times it was so weak that 1 was unable
to stand up straight. There was a con
stant dull pain that often awoke me at
night and the secretions were out of or
der, being sluggish, scant and thick.
I had tried many different kinds of
medicine when I first got Doan’s Kid
ney Pills at J. C. Dodson’s Drug Store.
They did just what is claimed for them
in my ease, and lam glad to recom
mend them to others. The pains have
left me, my back is stronger and as T
am resting well at night my general
health is much better. The secretions
have lost that gumy appearace and are
regular. lam more than pleased with
this result.”
For sale by all dealers. Price iOcts
Foster-Milburn Co. Buffalo, New York
sole agents for the United States.
Remember the name-Doan’s-and takt
no other.
“Good Night” Gold Cure.
Disturbs nothing but a cold, and it
jars that! Only at Davenport Drug
Co. Price 10c. 12’dtf
DOGTORS MISTAKES
Are said often to be buried six feet under
ground. But many times women call on ,
their family physicians, suffering, as they i
imagine, one from dyspepsia, another from I
heart disease, another from liver or kid
ney disease, another from nervous pros
tration, another with pain here and there,
and in this way they present alike to
themselves and their easy-going or over
busy doctor, separate diseases, for w hic h
he, assuming them to bo such. Prescribes
his pills and potions. In-reality, they are
all only symptoms caused by some uterine
disease. The physician, ignorant of the
cause of suffering, keeps up his treatment
until large bills are made. The suffering
patient gets no better, by reason of the
wrong treatment, but probably worse. A
proper medicine like Dr. Pierce’s Favorite
Prescription, directed to the cause would
have entirely removed the disease, there
by dispelling all those distressing symp
toms, and instituting comfort instead of
prolonged misery. It has been we 1 said,
that H a disease known is half cured.”
Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription is a
scientific medicine, carefully devised by
In experienced and skillful physician,
and adapted to woman’s delicate system.
Tt is made of native American medicinal
roots and is perfectly harmless in its
Sects in any txmditlon of the femalt
* V Afa powerful invigorating tonic '■ Fa
vorite Prescription” imparts strength to
the whole system and to the organs dis
tinctly feminine in particular. For over
worked "worn-out,” run-down,” debili
tated teachers, milliners, dressmakers,
seamstresses, "shop-girls”house-keepers,
nursing mothers, and feeble wouen gen
erally Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription
is the’ greatest earthly boon, being un
equaled as an appetizing cordial and re
storative tonic.
As a soothing and strengthening nerv
ine "Favorite Prescription ” is unequaled
and Is invaluable in allaying and sub
duing nervous excitability, irritability,
nervous exhaustion, nervous prostration
neuralgia, hysteria, spasms, St. Vitus's
dance, and other distressing, nervous
symptoms commonly attendant upon
functional and organic disease of the
uterus. It induces refreshing sleep and
relieves mental anxiety ami despondency.
Dr. Pierce's pleasant Pellets invigorate
the stomach, liver and bowels. One to
three a dose. Easy to take as candy.
AMERICUS GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 10, 1907.
HOURS SPENT BY BOARD
An Examination of Witnesses in Convict Investiga
tion Matter.
For the purpose of investigating the
charges of alleged brutal treatment of
convicts on the Sumter county chain
gang, the county commissioners met at
l o'clock yesterday afternoon and re
mained in session until near 12 o’clock
last night.
Fending tlie calling of several wit
nesses, a recess of several hours was
taken late in the afternoon, the body
meeting again at 7:30 o’clock last night.
All the commissioners were present
throughout the examination of nearly
a score of witnesses, including guards.
GOOD WORK BY THE BOARD
Pamphlet to Be Issued—Arranging for Corner Stone
Laying—lncrease of Membership.
flie meeting of the Directors and
members of the Americas Hoard of
Trade last night was one of the most
important and most interesting that
lias been held in some time. There
was a good attendance and an unusual
degree of interest was manifested.
A number of valuable suggestions for
the good of Americus were made, dis
cussed, and acted upon, and it is prob
able that excellent results will How
from the work of the meeting.
The various/batters that were con -1
sidered by the meeting i wilt be pres
ented and discussed at length in later
issues of the Times-Recorder. Briefly
summarized, the important work of the
meeting was as follows:
The membership committee reported
that twenty eight new members had
been added since the last meeting, *
making a total paying membership at
this time of one hundred and eighteen.
It was decided to suspend the initia
tion fee fpr another thirty days in order
WHY IT SHOULD BE PUT HERE
Miss Andrews Strong Argument on Wirz Monument
Location.
Miss K. F. Andrews, the well known
writer of Montgomery, Ala., has this
to say about the Wirz monument and
its location. Iler argument will strike
a responsive chord in Amerieus:
But there are spots in the keeping of
eithe-i sideiwhere the other had best not
intrude. Flow should we feel, for in
stance, if some zealous daughters of
New England were to prepose the erec
tion of a monument to Grantior Lincoln
in the Confederate Cemetery at Rich
mond'? And yet there is nothing
invidious in the feeling; we of the
South all honor and respect Lincoln,
but there is an eternal fitness of things
which should preclude even his statue
forever front certain spots peculiarly
sacred to the Southern heart.
Tn the same way Andersonyllle is a
spot consecrated to the Northern heart
by the memory of the great tragedy in j
which we had no part, except as the
unwilling witnesses of suffering which
we were powerless to relieve, and for
which, as Mr. Callaway has plainly !
shown, we were in no way responsible. I
But aside from these reasons, the se
lection of Andersonville as the site of a
monument for Wirz would be likely' to 1
deteat iss own object. Ever sU^.e
LADIES’ DAY AT THE RINK
It Is Ip to the Fair Sex to Decide Which Days They
Want Set Aside.
As will be seen from its advertise
ment elsew'here, the management of
the Hotel skating rink has
decided to have one or more days for
the ladies, occasions when the privi
leges of the rink will be exclusively
for them.
The management is willing to set
aside the afternoons that are most fav
ored by the fair sex, in order to accom
modate them to the utmost.
It is now up to the ladies to let the
WHO NAMED CITY AMERICUS
When and By Whom Was the Metropolis oT South
west Georgia Named?
Who named Amerieus?
And when did this eitv receive its i
present title? , i
Here are two questions for the anti
quarians to solve and settle for all time.
The Times-Recorder representatives
have asked a number of old citizens
without getting the information.
No one seemed to know exactly
when the town was named, by whom
it was named, and how it came to be
named Amerieus. t
'Y T Y Y Or has your comb run away with it? Bet
*|«i LmJ • m tej look out for what’s left of it, and keep it at
A KJLJLI A A C Li § b|f me on your head, not in the comb. Ayer’s
Air Vigor will act as “keeper.” If you have
A Y Y a/ particle of doubt about using this splendid
Jok let your doctor decide for you.
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former guards, citizens and two con
victs selected from a bunch of twenty
nine.
Tbeffimes-Recorder sent a represen
tative to report the proceedings of the
investigation and notes thereupon were
duly taken, but for reasons suiticient
to the commissioners, at least, a de
tailed report of the hearing is, necessa
rily. withheld from publication this
morning.
At near the midnight hour the board
was still in session.
j to permit the committee to prosecute
• its work for that time un ler the same
1 conditions.
j The committee on advertising was
, authorized to have an adequate number
,of Board of Trade buttons made, for
, members to wear, advertising both the
city and the fact that they are coanectt d
xvith its live trade body.
The committee on advertising was
directed to prepare the matter and se
cure illustrations for , a pamphlet de
scriptive of the advantages and oppur]
| tunities of Americus and Sumter coun
ty and solicit the expenses of publish
ing same from the city and county.
President Sheffield and Mess, Gamble,
Clark and Ansley w r ere appointed a
.committee on the arrangement of a
j suitable celebration in connection wdth
( the laying of the corner stone of the
district agricultural college and were
instructed to request the city council
and the county commissioners to ap
point similar committees to cooperate
with them in this work.
the war it has been the Mecca of
i throngs of negro excursionists on Dec
oration Day, and neither they nor the
class of whites who consort I with them
I would be able to appreciate the mo
tives or respect the object lor which
the monument was placed there, and
i even if it were not mutilated, ithe sur
roundings and associations of the spot
( are such that the mere facts of its pres
ence would be more likely to create ir
ritation than to carry conviction,
lienee, all things considered, it seems
that some other place—Macon, Ameri
cus or Thomasville, for instance,would
be more suitable for the monument
( contemplated than a spot where it
would meet the eyes of those only
( whom no argument can convince. The
cities mentioned iare visited eyery year
by thousands of Northern tourists of a
J class more likely to be free from prej
udice, and therefore more open to real
son, than the fleeting and often un
thinking crowds that flock to Ander
! sonville. Many of them stay for weeks
and months; there is nothing in the
surroundings to stir up unreasoning
animosity, and the lesson of the mono
| meut would stand at least a chance of
being attended to. E. F. An dhkws.
management know exactly the times
that suit them best for skating.
Advices on this point can be sent
either to Manager Wooten, at the
■v • i.
or to the Times-Kecorder
office by letter or phone.:
If the patronage of the ladies justi
fies it the ladies’day or days will be
made a permanent feature of the rink.
On such days not even a blind man
will be allowed to invade the sacred
precints of the sky parlor.
It is well that the question should be
settled, if it can be settled, so that fu
ture historians of the city may have the
information.
If it is not made known and the in
formation perpetuated while the county
has some of the present ‘‘oldest inhabi
tants” alive the knowledge will forever
disappear.
If you can throw any light on the
subjecFlet the Time?-Keeorder have it.
DEATH CAME AS RESULT
OF A LONG ILLNESS
John A. Cobb. Jr., Died At
Cordele
fORMER CITIZEN 01 AMERICUS
Sudden Death on Tuesday a Great
Shock to Relatives and Friends
in Americus—Funeral in
Tallahassee. Fla.
Mr. John A. Cobb, Jr., died at his
home in Cordele at 11 o'clock yester
day morning, his sudden demise prov
ing a great shock to bis relatives and
many friends in Americus, where he
was reared and had ever been held in
the highest esteem among all.
The end came, no doubt, as the result
of a long period of illness.
Quite recently he left the Savannah
Hospital, where he had remaii.ed sev
eral weeks and apparently was benefit
ted to an extent, though the improve
ment was not prm&nent.
Several days ago he came to Ameri
ens. his former home, upon a visit to
his father. Captain John A. C >bb,
spending two or three days here pleas
antly with the family. He returned to
Cordele, resuming his business as man
ager of the ice company in that city.
The announcement of His sudden
death yesterday was a terrible shock to
his family and friends here.
Captain and Mrs. John A. Cobb, Mr.
and Mrs. James Taylor, and Miss
Sarah Cobb, his sisters, left by the noon
train yesterdax r for Cordele.
Mr. Cobb was one of the best known
yoang men in south Georgia, and no
other was more esteemed. Os genial
disposition he made friends every
where and throughout the state his
death will be deplored. He w r as 35
years of age, and successfully engaged
in business.
Seven years ago he married Miss
Bessie De Barry of Tallahassee, who
survives him, there being no children.
The body will be taken to that city to
day for interment.
KNIGHTS OF TEMPLE IN
MEETING TO GATHER
Five Hundred to Atlanta
May Bth
KNIGHTS GOING FROM AMERIGUS
To Attend Grand Encampment at the
State Capital—Laying of Corner
Stone of New Temple a
Feature of Meeting,
Americus Sir Knights, members of
De Molay Coramandery, are interested
in the great gathering of Knights of the
Temple which will be held in Atlan
ta in May, and many will attend from
this city and section. Knights Templar
Masons of the United States will be
represented in Atlanta by [delegates on
May 8 and 9 at the grand encampment
of the order. It is expected that fully
500 accredited delegates will be there
and that upwards of 10,000 Blue Bodge
Masons will attend. A feature of the
encampment program will be the lay
ing ot the cornerstone of the Masonic
Temple on May 8.
•BLUE DEVILS”
Get Rid of Indigestion and Things
Will Look Bright and Joyous.
Even in the present era of prosperity
and good times everything appears
black to those people who are suffering
wretchedly from some form of indi
gestion. Where digestion is quick,
complete and easy there is a joyous
and hopeful outlook, but indigestion
causes depression.
The want of a safe, effective cure
for' sick headache, indigestion and
stomach troubles, was always felt until
the prescription known as Mi-o-na
stomach tablets was put up in popular
form and proved its invariable success
in the many forms of indigestion.
After a few days use of Mi-o-na stom
ach tablets the headache, dizzy feeling
drowsiness, bad taste in the mouth,
coated tongue. neryousless, sleepless
ness, after eating—all these
symptoms of a weak stomach —will
disappear and perfect digestion and a
good skin will show that the*vital
machinery is once more running
smoothly.
Mi-o-na is to be taken before each
meal and it will stimulate the secre
tive and digestive juices and strength
en the whole of the digestive system so
that the unpleasant full feeling will be
absent and indigostion prevented.
Mi-o-na stomach tablets are sold on
ly in a neat metal box convenient for
the vestpocket and cost 50 cents. Dod
son,s Drug Store have seen so
many cures made by Mi-o-na stom
ach tablets that they give a guar
antee with every box that the money
will be refunded if the remedv fails
to give satisfaction.
Bitten by a Spider.
Through bloood poisning caused by
a spider bite, John Washington of Bos
queville, Tex,, would have lost his leg,
which became a mass of running sores,
had he notibeen persuaded to try Buek
len’s Arnica Salve. He writes: “The
first application relieved, and four box
es healed all the sores.” q Heals every
sore. 25e at Eldridge Drug Co.
}2.50 TO 15.00 SAVED,
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 ■%
More Style, Better Tailoring,
Finer Fabrics.
In “EFF-EFF’ Suits’
At $15.00 to $37.50
we offer you the greatest clothing
values ever seen for the price—val- \
ms that must satisfy ton of th»ir <ggola V*' v
superiority to anything obtainab’e
elsewhere at like prices. The sty h s wv •. m B
express all that’s “s.-ie at (1 sane’ S
in advanced fashion; the fabi ics a- *>
of those exclusive, refine! pattens
fashion d in the expensive tai'f r I
shops—a va t range <f weaves of (Ms ’..V 1
imported and domettic mi;ls toil ' jffl *
ored as perfectly an ! aA ariistleally Jim
as the most skilled craftsmen can j j I If lj
doit. Yon are especially invited T*"' i • r
to examine our col'ection of /\J , lli(i ( (, j 1
“FFF-EFF” SACK SUITS '
AT $17.50 TO $37.50
which equal in every detail the cus
tom tailors’ to-order nude Suits. Jap
made of beautiful worsteds, in I FORM twelve
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stripes, checks and plaids— VI The FEChhfjmer fishll co.
strictly hand tailored. H
Hawes Famous $3.00 Hats-all till! Popular Shades.
Eclipse Negligee Shlrts-Greatest line in America, $1 L 51.50.
Crawford’s World Renowned Men's Shoes-$3.50. $4 & $5.
PIONEER SUSPENDERS & BELTS-Best Make, Best Styles Lowest Prices.
SUMMER UNDERWEAR in Elastic Seam Nainsook, Drill & also Balbriggan,
NEW STYLE NECKWEAR IN ENDLESS VARIETY-25C to SI.OO.
Chas. L. Ansley
Successor to WHEATLEY & ANSLEY.
*. (See Ad on Fourth Page.)
lewyorF
RACKET STORE
PLANTERS BANK BUILDING
Amerieus, Ga.
QUEEN QUALITY
SOCIETY SHOES.
IN ALL
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 I 75c.
10 Pieces new Suzine Silk in all the leading colors regular
price per yard 45c at 39 c ,
40 Inch Lingerie Lawn and Batiste regular price 40c per
yard at . 25c
New Royal Wooster Corsetts in all new shapes at 50c
to SI.OO.
HAMILTON & CO.
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I The Weather Today.
I Pair tonight and Wed’y
I Colder in 8. Frost in N.
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