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Americus Population
Kit ,l 12.000
J?fSumter County*
TWENTY-NINTH YEAR.
' BECAUSE
We know what
'/sdraF ltnperial Hats
we are willing to warrant the wear
you’ll get out of ’em. As many
styles as there are types of faces—
therefore a certain shape sure to be
come you Always smart, S 300
always dependable, always • UUW
We’ve a Number of '
IMPERIAL
Soft Hats
here, - that for .
want of better de- Mn''
script ion we call * K/fJ*
Collegy. a dash and a hint of aban
don about them that is characteristic
of a certain type of swagger dresers.
Meant for young chaps, and chaps
who don’t want to grow old. The
price never grows. It’s always $3.00
IMPERIAL $3.00 HATS
ANu
KNOX $5.00 HATS
SOLD BY
W. D. BAILEY.
Outfitter for Men and Boys
Forsyth St. and Cotton Ave. Americus. Ga.
PURE
GOOD
Our Drugs Are Pure
The
Finest
Quality
Our Methods are-Good
The
Most
Approved
We Invite Your Trade.
REM BERT’S
DRUG store; 0
113;F0RSYTH e ST.
W Si
A JUST JEWELS
, " but between our Jtlnil of jewelry
1 the other sort there’s a
\ I wt deal of difference, adif
f 'cnoe you will appreciate only
1 w lien you have looked over our
- -v////~AW. 1 »o tin lit thoroughly, with an
M,/ (f I ' 1 < ‘ aut . vr > novelty, and real
\ \ !li 0*" I” hut genuin* gems,gold and
% sit er-ware, cheap for the money
i_T me a k, is to he found litre always.
Eugene V. Haynes Co.
, 37 Whitehall St Atlanta Qa.
.
WANTS TO LAY RAILS
IP STREETS OF CITY
I
Company May Extend Line
of Track
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WOULD DEVELOP FINE PROPERTY
Grocery Company and Other Proper
ty Owners Anxious to Extend
Central Side Tracks Up to
Lamar Street.
If the puri>ose of the new grocej*y
company and other property owners
on Hampton street is carried out
the Central Railway will soon have a
line of road extending right into the
commercial district of Americus,
via Hampton street.
The proposition is to extend the
sidetrack from the corner of Hamp
ton and Wheeler streets to the site of
the new grocery, company.
And it would certainly prove of
great value to many.
Not only is the grocery company
deeply interested in the movement,
but other property owners whose
lands abut on Hampton street are
anxious for the track extension, as,
aside from convenience, it greatly
enhances their land values.
That portion of Hampton street
upon which it is proposed to extend
the track, a distance of two blocks,
is practically a hack street, and but
little used for any purpose.
Already the Central has two tracks
across it, and by extension of one of
these a large tract of vacant proper
ty, now utterly useless for any pur
pose, is made available for manufac
turing purposes, and without doing
any injury whatever.
A petition, numerously signed by
merchants and property owners, will
be presented the Central Railway
Co. asking for the extension of
tracks up Hampton street as sug
gested. .
OLD TEXAS IS GIVEN
TO STATE AS GIFT
Historic Old Engine Will Re
main A War Relic.
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ATLANTA, August 12.—President
J. W. Thomas of the Nashville, Chat
tanooga and St. Louis Railroad has
agreed to make a present to the state
of the old engine “Texas” whose fame
is due to the fact that it was upon
her that the capture of the “General,”
stolen by the Andrews raiders, was
effected. The “Texas" was sent here
to be sold for scrap iron for which
she is said to be worth a little more
S4OO. Subscriptions are now being
taken up to move the “Texas” to some
public place and to freshen her up a
bit. It has not yet been decided where
the engine will be put.
SOON TO REMOVE TO
STORE ON JACKSON
S. A. Daniels to Ocupy The
F ormer Dodson Place.
Mr. S. A. Daniels, the Forsyth street
jeweler, will remove shortly to the
store on Jackson street recently oc
cupied by the Dodson Pharmacy, which
has removed to its new places at the
old Cranberry corner. When Mr.
Daniels vacates his present store on
Forsyth street it.will be handsomely
fitted up as a high class restaurant,
for ladies and gentlemen, by a Greek
syndicate, now successfully operating
a number of first class cases in the
larger cities of the State.
Jersey Bull.
1 have purchased the fine register
ed Jersey bull "Buster Brown,” which .
can be found at my residence, Jack
son street. . W. C. BARROW.
10-2 t.
The Farmer’s Wife
Is very careful about her chum. She |
scalds it thoroughly after using, and gives
it a sun bath to sweeten it. She knows
that if her churn is sour it will taint the
butter that is made in it. The stomach is
a churn. In the stomach and digestive
and nutritive tracts are performed pro
cesses which are almost exactly like the
churning of butter. Is it not apparent
then that if this stomach-churn is foul it
makes foul all which is put into it?
The evil of a foul stomach is not alone
the bad taste In the mouth and the foul
breath caused by it, but the corruption of
the pure current of blood and the dissem
ination of disease throughout the body.
Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery
makes the sour and foul stomach sweet.
It does for the stomach what the washing
and sun bath do for the churn—absolutely
removes every tainting or corrupting ele
ment. In this way it cures blotches,
pimples, eruptions, scrofulous swellings,
sores, or open eating ulcers and all
humors or diseases arising from bad blood.
If you have bitter, nasty, foul taste in
your mouth, coated tongue, foul breath,
are weak and easily tired, feel depressed
and despondent, have frequent headaches,
dizzy attacks, gnawing or distress in stom
ach, constipated or irregular bowels, sour
or bitter risings after eating and poor
appetite, these symptoms, or any consider
able number of them, indicate that you are
suffering from biliousness, torpid or inzy
liver with the usual accompanying indi
i§ostion, or dyspepsia and their attendant
erangements.
The best, a Ten ts knowq I.n medical sci
ence iTffli' L‘t»e Ml Hie abovesymptoms
' iflnT Conditions, as. lUtSleJliv writing
.wajKUlipQrt4.pt
ass tJie severaJscniKtb;ftt W'dlGUpmcUgfi.
have been ski I Rill Lx ami harmoniously
combined |q Tr Pierce's 7iilhL'li llwl 1 rlit
tiisrovery * That this is absolutely true
Iwill be readily proven to your satisfaction
If you will but mall a postal card request
to I)r. R. V. Pierce. ButTal*VN. Y.. for a
free copy of his booklet of *x tracts from
the standard medical anthill ties, giving
itho names of nil the Ingredients entering
Into his world-famed mediJnes and show
ing what the most emim*it medical men
of the age say of them. 5
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AMERICUS GEORGIA. TUESDAY MORNING. AUGUST 13. 1907.
BUILD A LINE TO AMERICUS
Opportunity of Securing Another Outlet
is Given Us.
With Cooperation and Assistance the Atlanta, Birmingham k Atlantic Would
Build a Branch Line here.
Americus can easily secure ano
ther railroad outlet to the Atlanta,
Birmingham and Atlantic Railway in
the construction of a branch line
tapping that great system, if the
proper degree of interest and en
encouragement is manifested at this
end.
The A. B. & A is already one of
the principal trunk lines in the South,
and any city on its main line, or
branch, is indeed fortunate.
And Americus can have such con
nection at slight cost, compared with
the vast good resulting.
The Atlanta, Birmingham and At
lantic runs within eighteen miles of
Americus, and a branch connection
at a point to the west of Oglethorpe,
traversing a fertile and level section,
could be constructed easily and at a
small cost.
Southland, a station on the A. B. &.
A. seven miles west of Oglethorpe and
probably twenty-five miles from Am
ericus, would seem the natural ob
jective point for such branch.
The road, therefore, would not
parallel any other existing line.
It would traverse a fertile section.
WEEK WILL BE BUSY ONE
Legislature to Close Session Saturday Night Next,
17th.
And Meanwhile There Remain -Undisposed of Many of the Most Important
Planks in the Platform.
ATI.ANT A, August 12.—Just how
the House of Representatives is go
ing to get through with the moun
tain of work before it during this,
the last week of the session, is very
mucif of a mystery. The House has
before it among the measures which
are considered imperative the dis
franchisement bill, upon which there
will undoubtedly he a contest.
Then, there is the Railroad Com
mission bill, which will require some
time for consideration, though there
is little doubt of its passage without
material amendment.
Besides the foregoing there are any
number of other measures of more
or less importance which will de
mand some time for their considera
tion. Among this class of bills there
is ,for instance , the measure which
proposes to give relief to the fruit
and vegetable growers of the state
by requiring the railroads to furnish
them refrigerator cars within twen
ty-four hours after demand has been
made.
Unless this bill is passed at the
present session, it will be too late
to furnish the needed relief for the
next fruit and vegetable season.
There are not a few measures of this
class pending, and consideration of
and action upon all of them is simply
out of the question.
The Senate will not get to the pas
sage of the general tax act until the
latter part of the week. There is
going to be a hot fight in that body
over the gross receipt tax of 1 per
cent, which the House has put on
practically every corporation in the
state, and many are expecting some,
if not all, of these sections to be
knocked out.
The decided disposition which the
House and Senate have shown to
AMERICUS HAS STRIKE ITCH
Colored Street Hands Refuse to Resume Work and Go
On Strike.
Twenty negro laborers employed 1
in the city’s street department threw
down their arms, so to speak, yes
terday and declared a strike. When
work time came at C o'clock yester
day morning only one man showed
up out of a full score.
This "lone rock by the sea” of
trouble was faithful old Allen Bart
lett, who for thirty years has con
tinuously served the city there.
“I worked for Americus thirty
years ago at forty cents a day, and I
aint going to quit a good dollar a
day job now just because the others
quit,” said old Allen.
His faithfullness certainly entitles
him to a pension unless, as said,
corporations are soulless. The cause
y jr A-noying and untidy, isn’t it? And
l — /.j nm I worse still, it invariably leads to bald
m w C/ /1 If ness I Ask your doctor what to do. See
■WN •# J/V if he doesn,t ,eII y° u ,0 use Ay er ’ s Hair
/ I J •Si J Vigor, new improved formula. Cures dan
/J Cl ltd lIITT f druff - S, °P S idling hair.
/ / • We publish the formula, J. C. Ayer Co.,
JJ of ell our preparations- I.owell, Meee.
and the cost of construction would
not he great, as there are no streams
to be bridge I.
Americas located equi distant 1 1-
tween Brunswick and Atlanta, would
eventually become a very important
point on the A. B. & A. It would
bring a large trade here, and in re
turn Americus would give it good bus
iness.
The officials of the road, it is
thought, can easily be interested in
the subject of a branch line.
- Mr. Lawson Stapleton, while at
Warm Springs a day or two ago, met
parties in a position to know, and
who told him that, with proper en
couragement here and along the pro
bable line the A. B. & A. might be in
duced to build into Americus.
The officials of the road should be
communicated with through the Am
ericus Board of Trade to the end de
sired, and through proper and persis
tent efforts Americus could be put
shortly upon the map of the A. B &
A Railway.
The Board of Trade meets tonight.
What more important matter than this
could possibly be discussed at this
meeting?
disagree on various important mat
ters of legislation makes it inevitable
that there will be numerous confer
ence committees in the windup.
The Senate has so emasculated the
anti-lobbying bill as passed by the
House, that its own friends don’t
recognize it. There is a long hard
kick coming from the House on this
measure with considerable doubt as
to whether the two bodies will ever
get together on it.
On the other hand the Senate in
' sists that it is going to stand firm on
the Felder anti-pass bill which is sat
isfactory to the administration, while
the Hall bill, passed by the House
is not. Herein lies promise of ano
ther disagreement, whicli it will re
quire all the ingenuity of conference
committees to satisfactorily settle.
It would be unique in the history
of legislation to see either the gen
eral tay act or the general appropria
tions bill go through without numer
ous conference committees to set
tle disputed points between the two
bodies.' It may be confidently pre
dicted, therefore, that in ths way will
agreement have to be reached on
certain sections of these measures.
That the disfranchisement bill and
the Railroad Commission bill will al
so be productive of conference com
mittees on various minor or major
points, there can be scarcely a doubt.
The Senate has already reduced the
number of the new Railroad Commis
sion to three members, while it is
said the House proposes to stand by
the administration on this feature and
make it five. Another result that is
involved in considerable doubt:
Altogether, therefore, it lookc as
if the final days of the session will
be about as lively as have ever been
known in the history of Georgia leg
islation.
1 of the strike yesterday was a slight
change made in the working rules
of the street department, lengthen
ing the working hours a few min
utes, and requiring that full time
for full pay be put in on Saturday
afternoons.
This latter clause was the straw
that broke the camel’s back.
Heretofore a lax rule permitted
the hands to quit work at 4 p. m. on
Saturday, although they were paid
one dollar for a full day’s work not
rendered. It was the repeal of the
holiday amendment to the bill of
freedom that knocked them silly.
'Supt. Smith had a number of re
cruits to join the service yesterday,
and the street force will work to
day with or without the strikers.
THEY KNOW WHO
HOLD STOCK
Officials Have Full Details of
Railway Cootrol.
MAY HELP ENFORCE THE LAW
Inquiry by Interstate Commerce Com
mission Has Resulted in Knowl
edge of Who Owns Majority In
terest in Every Road.
«
WASHINGTON, D. C., August 12.
As a result of inquiries that have
been prosecuted by the Interstate
Commerce Commission, covering a
period of several months that body
now has information concerning the
ownership of the stock of every rail
road of the country engaged in inter
state commerce. It knows precisely
in what persons, associations, or cor
porations the control of every inter
state road rests and in what other
corporations, whether railroad cor
porations or not, each railroad is
Interested, and to what extent.
This information, it is believed,
will be of great value not only to the
commission in watching and enforc
ing the interstate comerce law, but
to Congress in suggesting what man
ner the present law should be stren
gthened to meet the conditions de
veloped through the inquiry.
Officials of the commission say that
the mere possession of this knowledge
will go far toward putting a stop to
rebating and other discriminations,
for the reason that the commission,
now being in a position to know in
what concerns the railroads are in
terested, or the directors, which is
the same thing, so far as the road is
concerned, they will know what cor
porations would be likely to receive
discriminating rates.
Data Will Help Congress.
The vast importance of this data,
from the Congressional point of view
is apparent. Complete knowledge of
the ramifications of railroad Interests
will be of material assistance in leg
islation intended to prevent railroads
buying up the securities of other
roads and common carriers of other
not connecting lines. As a result of
the Harriman disclosures it is ex
pected that Congress will enact dras
tic legislation along these lines. That
railroad officials have finally reached
the conclusion that Federal regula
tion has come to stay, and that it
cannot be successfully disputed, is
shown by the general acquiescence in
the requests of the Interstate Com
merce Commission for this informa
tion. It is said that but one large
holding company refused to comply
with the request of the commission.
Its refusal was based upon the ground
that it was not a common carrier,
but this will he tested in the courts.
The questions propounded the var
ious roads were prepared by Prof.
Henry C. Adams, chief of the ac
counting division. These questions
were of the widest possible scope and
left no room for evasion.
Prof. Adams Omits Nothing.
The object of the inquiry was to
ascertain the outstanding securities,
with voting powers attached of each
common carrier on June 30th, 1906;
how much of these the road itself
holds; what others hold; whether
the road is controlled wholly or par
tially by any person, corporation, or
company; the ten largest holders
of each road's securities, with their
names and addresses; copies of the
agreements that give control, and
like information. Again each road is
required to report every corporation
it controls and in which it has an in
terest, and full particulars about
such control and interest, whether
it had joint control, if so, what cor
porations were associated in such
joint control; terms of agreement in
writing, etc.
LAIRS OF THE TIGER
ARE READY TO OPEN
If Wright’s Bill to Legalize Clubs
is Made Law.
In Americus as elsewhere there
has been wide and animated discus
sion of Seab Wright's latest bill to
legalize “clubs” where whiskey can
he kept on tap by the payment of
license, and as a rule both sides here
are opposed to the measure.
The prohis are strenuously oppos
ed to it on general principles, while
many good men on the anti-prohibi
tion side see in it a chance for the
blind tigers to thrive here.
If the sale is to be stopped, don’t let
down the bars by legalizing these tip
pling clubs, they say. _
The clubs are going to open up
anyway, but by taxing them and thus
legalizing the business, encourage
ment is given to an element that is
ready to evade the law upon slightest
pretext. It will cause the blind tiger
to thrive, as never before.
Anti-prohibition leaders here in
Americus believe this is true, and in
this they are suported by a number of
prominent prohibitionists who are very
much alarmed over the action of the
House in fixing this tax Friday.
The point has been made that ne
groes, as well as white people, could
pay the license and keep whiskey in
their clubs, and that clubs would be
springing up all over the state.
FOR RENT.
Nice, new, 5 room house; also 2 front
rooms up stairs, in my building on
Lamar street: LEE aLLEN.
HAMILTON CO.
PLANTERS BANK BUILDING
Americus, Ga.
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REMOVAL SALE.
We will move to our handsome
new store in the Holliday building
on Lamar street opposite Windsor
Hotel about August 15th. Our buy
ers leave for the eastern market July
31st. Just three more weeks to close
out our present stock. Everything
goesjnothing reserved.
Specials in embroideries $3.00 Queen Quality ox
and laces, 10c val laces fords at 2.50
at 5c yd. $3-50 Queen Quality ox
-8 in embroidery edging fords 2.65
at lOcyd. One counter of children’s
Pine wide Swiss embroid- slippers all one price
ery at ..20c yd. per pair a ......SOC
50c shirt waist at 39c rna **‘ n 2 by the roll
75cshirt waist at 55c ‘
„ 25c matting by the roll
SI.OO shirt waist at.. 78c „lg C
$1.25 shirt waist at. 95c $7.50 large tapestry hall
$2.00 shirt waist at .1.50 portieres, red and green
$2.50 shirt waist at . 1.95 per pair 4.98
$3.00 shirt waist at. .2.25 iOc figured muslin per
$4.00 shirt waist at. yd 7^c
$7.50 shirt waist at.. 4.9 s Good yd wide bleaching
$?.50 ladies’ oxfords. .1.95 per yd..,. 10c
HAMILTOVfOr
Proprietors.
BEST SMOKE ON EARTH
Made of Selected HAVANA TOBACCO. Hand Made and
Quality Uusurpassed, Sold at All Americus Cigar Stands
A Prime Ten Cents Cigar for 5 Cents
|Full Collefle'courses I I for Camop^&fuHl
I with Music, Painting | f 1 n , f< ? r T„ at '°. n Addreß * I
I and Elocution. 65th Ses- 1 I i® h !L W * o a, ?L® S ' I
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A general banking buHiueas transacted and all consistentcM
extended to patrons. Certificates of deposit issued bearing iinteHH
POPULAR AND DELIGHTFUL
SHAW’S MALT
* Is Characterized by a Flavor All Its Ovrn.
Invigorating and Healthful.
Sold by All Leading Dealers,
the
r South’s Finest ,
'---^Country.'
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