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Americus Population
12.000.
Sumter County,
j 35.000.
TWENTY-NINTH YEAR.
AFTER YOU’VE
BOUGHT YOUR [CLOTHES
here, and have worn them a
while, we want you to be just
a* well satisfied with them as
when you first put them on.
If they’re not right in any
way- -fit, tailoring, quality—we
warn to know it.
Hart Schaffner & Marx
make the kind of clothes that
they’re willing to guarantee sat
isfaction on; and stand by it.
\nd we’re not afraid to back to
the limit any •thing that carries
their label
THEY’RE THE KIND OF
CLOTHES YOU WANT.
Outfitter for Men and Boys
Forsyth ' and Cotton Ave Americus Ga.
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ji DRUG STORE
11 FORSYTII.ST,
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* JUST JEWELS
Gut between onr kind of jewelry
». X m'/'A'ICA | nul the other sort there’s a
/®y/;1 v ® of difference, adif
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'Jr Instil 8 wi.eii \ m have looked over our
''Xf //'# | ssortui tit; thoroughly with an
(f I • t» Scanty, novelty and real
■ s{§|M§§ vorilt Cheap jewelry we don’t
WagKL\ . i !. .• Ic ‘"it genuine gems,gold and
A si er-*are, cheap for the money
—y. wc li-k, i.i tribe found here always.
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X 37 Whitehall St Atlanta Qa.
AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER
MR. LEWIS IN FAVOR
Os ANTI JIG LAWS
i
Opposed lo Shipping the
Booze
.
I ROM WET INTO A DRY STATE
He Favors National Legislation Which
Will Prevent Shipment of
Liquor Into States Ehat
Are Dry.
Hon. E. B. Lewis, our able and pop
ular congressional representative, as
his friends in Americus and elsewhere
know, is a staunch beyever in the
enforcement of the law, and now
that Georgia has gone for prohibition
he says he proposes to work harder
than ever for the enactment by con
gress of a measure which will pre
vent the liquor states from shipping
intoxicants into those states or coun
ties which have abolished the sale.
In a recent interview upon the sub
ject Mr. Lewis is thus quoted:
“The Littlefield bill was reported
favorably to the last house,” Congress
man Lewis said, “and it met with
much favor. Congress had leaned
toward prohibition ail the while. We
voted liquor out of the national Capi
tol out of the soldiers’ homes under
national supervision and banished it
from the army canteen.
"1 feel satisfied that the sentiment
has grown to such an extent that the
sixtieth congress will pass a bill de
nying the. right of the states in which
liquor is permitted to be sold, to ship
it into those states or counties where
it is prohibited by law.
“The recent agitation of the ques
tion, and the action of Georgia in ab
olishing the sale of liquor will have_
a wholesome effect, and will, in my
opinion, stimulate friendship for an
anti-jug movement in congress to a
point which will result in the meas
ure being enacted into law.
“There was also up for considera
tion at the last session several bills to
prohibit the government from issuing
licenses for the sale of liquor in those
states which have gone dry. I feel
confident that the sixtieth congress
will also enact this legislation, as it
should. States and counties which
abolish the sale of intoxicants by le
gal enactment should be afforded the
full and complete protection of the
government.
“1 am,'personally, in favor of both
of these measures and propose to
do everything in my power, to bring
about their enactment by the sixtieth
congress.”
RAIN OF CHICKEN PIE
FELL AT PICNIC
Heavenly Shower Hits the Hun
gry Via Cyclone.
EAGLE’S MERE, PENN., August
12.—When hundreds of ham and
chicken sandwiches fell here during
a thunderstorm the other day, folks
wondered what miracle was being
performed which should cause food
to drop from the heavens.
For twenty minutes the sandwiches
fell with now and then a chunk of
chocolate caks, to vary the monotony.
Some olives and a few pickles also
came along, and now and then a
pie.
It was explained later, when a
church picnic party came along and
told how a tornado had ripped up
things at the grounds. The tables
has been set and the dinner hell
sounded when a rip-snorting wind
came and carried oft' every hit of the
food.
Strangely enough the several layer
cakes were left behind, and the wo
men who baked them were humiliated.
They said that some unkind persons
might think they were too heavy.
LOST—Lockett chain between first
Baptist church and New York Racket
Store. Return to Mrs. H. C. Turner,
Lee street.
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AMERICUS GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 15, 1907.
A. B. A A. CALLED ON
Board of Trade Takes Up Matter of Extension to
Americus
BVRONVILLE ROUTE BELIEVED TO Bt BEST
Thought That Representatives of the New System Can He Got to Americus
Shortly.
Steps are under way to interest the
officials of the Atlanta, Birmingham
and Atlantic railroad in. the construc
tion of a branch line to Americus.
The Times-Recorder directed atten
tion on Tuesday to the fact that a
man high in the councils of that road
had stated that if the proper interest
was shown in Americus the officials
of the A. B. & A. would lie ready to
consider the matter of an extension
to Americus.
At the meeting of the Board of
Trade on Tuesday night the matter
was brought up for discussion. Much
interest was manifested in the mat
ter b ythose who were present.
Naturally if Americus can by any
possibility get another railroad con
nection, and especially one with a
great system such as the A. B. &
A. promises to develop into, it is im
portant that it should do so. No such
opportunity can he allowed to slip
by.
The general feeling of those pres
ent was that an extension from By
romville to Amerivus, passing through
a section of country that is deficient in
railroad facilities, for a distance of
twenty-five miles, would prove a fine
feeder to the main line of the A. B.
& A., and a good paying piece of pro
petry.
This section of country, it was
pointed out, is fertile, already pro
duces considerable cotton, and with
THE TICKERS STILL SILENT
Both Americus Offices Are Still Bottled
No Business is Handled to Central Points By Either Office, Although Man
agers and Operators Remain on Duty.
As silent as a line of tombstones .
were the lines leading out from the
Americus offices of the Western Un
ion and Postal Co., yesterday, while
inside the buildings the silent tickers
bore mute testimony of the war waged
between the operators and the tele
graph companies.
If possible, the situation was worse
than upon the day before.
Few if any messages were handled
in Americus at all. Up to noon the
Western Union had not handled a
message to any point, and on the day
before a grand total of four messages
were handled there.
Conditions at the Postal Co's office
here are about the same as with its
larger competitor.
Manager Clark and Manager Poole
have not “struck out.” Both remsfin
with their operators at their respect
ive offices, hut unable to transact bus
iness at central points.
No one can predict the end or out
come of tlie strike.
Business ordinarily sent by tele-;
graph is now being mailed to its des
tination. Os course some messages are
sent by wire, as the manager and
wire chiefs in the principal offices
are not union men and iiave been
working day and night without rest
since the strike was declared.
With the exception of the railway
telegraphers and a few leased wire
circuits which have a contract with
the Commercial Union of Telegraph
ANOTHER TAX ON FARMERS
fertilizer Inspection fee is Increased from 10 Cents
to 25 Cents Ton.
ATLANTA, August 14.—8 y a vote
of 104 to 07 the House passed the
bill l)y Mr. Martin of Elbert increas
ing the fertilizer inspection fee from
10 to 25 cents a ton, and in suite of
opposition* to the action ordered the
measure at once transmitted to the
Senate.
This cuts oft' any possibility of a
motion to reconsider.
This bill provides that the addition
al income derived from fertilizer in
spection shall be distributed among
the district agricultural schools of
the State and the State agricultural
college at Athens.
It is estimated that the funds under
FOR RENT. —7-room dwelling house
on Church st, now occupied by Philo
H. Smith. Possession given Sept
Ist, 1907. Apply N. M. Dudley at
Bank of South Western Georgia.
10-12 t.
Every citizen qualified to vote
should turn out today and vote for
bonds for the agricultural college and
the improvement of the county roads.
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What do you think your doctor would
I I 4- W 4-swi* say about feeding your hair with Ayer’s
UOTI T A #/(// Hair Vigor, the new kind? Heknows
v that it feeds, nourishes, strengthens,
w w W T The hair sto P* fallin ß out ’ grows more
\/ _,. ._ f. § *— rapidly, and all dandruff disappears.
Itill/r M 11/ / » We publish the formulas J- C. Ayer Co.,
JI ’l,fy f f JwL A %4’t I of ell our preparation.. Loweinjflaee^
• the impetus that would be given to
! it by a railroad would develop rapidly
into one of the finest portions of
southwest Georgia, furnishing large
quantities of freight to the A. B. &
A.
i A roadway has already been sur
-1 veyed between Americus and that
; point. It is believed that the cost
i of such an extension would be com
-1 partively small, and that once the
officials of the A. B. & A. look over
the field they would be satisfied that
the opening is too £ood a one to
miss.
it is recognized that the A. B. &
A. must have a number of feeders.
An extension to Americus, twenty-five
miles long, would probably prove oue
of the best feeders that could he de
vised both in incoming and out go
ing freights.
While the A. B. &. A. would be bene
fitted Americus would also reap con
siderable trade and shipping advan
tages.
The Board of Trade has opened up
correspondence .with the proper par
ties and it is believed that within a
fortnight some representative of the
A. B. & A will visit this city, talk
the matter over with the business
men, and probably make a hasty
study of the generaT situation.
if Americus can get connected up
with the A. B. <fc A. it will be a big
tiling. Everyone should show a very
hearty interest in the project.
i ers where non-union men are still at
work, tlie great network of telegraph
wires throughout the county are
gripped in the biggest strike in his
tory.
In many small offices union men
are still working, hut at all the ini
tial points, business lias been practi
cally prostrated, though it is still be
ing accepted subject to “delay.”
With the strike in tho New York
offices the remaining cities of the
east walked out. All eyes had been
centered on New York and when the
whistle was blown there as the sig
nal for strike, other cities fell in line,
as union men elsewhere would not
work with non-union men who man
ned the wires.
How long the strike will continue
is problematical and neither the men
nor the telegraph companies advance
any opinion.
The men declare they are in finan
cial condition to make the strike a
I fight to a finish and the telegraph com
• panies have given no indication of
acceding to the demands of the men.
it is not believed the brotherhood
of the Order of Railway Telegraphers
will be affected unless an attempt
should he made by railroads to han
dle commercial business over railroad
wires. In this event it is* said the
O. R. T. will he called out in sympa
thetic strike. Under existing condi
tions the running of trains will not
be interfered with.
this measure, if it becomes a law,
will he sufficient to give each of the
agricultural schools SIO,OOO a year
and the State agricultural college
■ $50,000.
The Martin hill to increase the fer
-1 tilizer inspection fees was taken up as
the special order, displacing the dis
i franchisement bill, which went over
until the afternoon.
It, is estimated that the proposed in
• spection fee of 25 cents a ton will
raise a total revenue of SIOO,OOO for
tlie agricultural schools and the agri-
I cultural college, giving each of the
eleven district colleges the handsome
amount of SIO,OOO.
1 1 !.. ... .. —T
> “Regular as tlie Sun”
,
t is an expression as old as the race,
t No doubt the rising and setting of
the sun is the most regular perfor
mance in the universe, unless it is
the action of the liver and bowels
when regulated with Dr. King’s New
e Life Pills. Guaranteed by Eldridge
r Drug Co., 25c. lm.
1 See that new line of gold Shell
. bracelets at Bell’s, the Jeweler.
! OLDEST AMERICAN
USFS CIGARETTES
At 111. They Are Harmless
Wrapped With Corn Husks
HAS OUT USING WHISKEY
Didn’t Agree With Him After 75
Years-Kidnapped Pretty Girl at
111-Pretty Good Sport
for His Age.
EL PASO, TEXAS, August 14.
Having weathered the storms of parts
of three centuries (the last ten years
of the-eighteenth, all of the nineteen
th and the first seven of the twen
tieth) Jose Guiterrez at 117 is bask
ing in the sunshine of a ripe old
age, awaiting the final summons at
the home of Julian Marquez on the
Jules Porcher ranch near Socorro,
Texas, a few miles below El Paso.
Senor Guiterrez is probably the
oldest man In the country. He was
born at Senacue, a little village on
the right bank of the Rio Grande, a
few miles southeast of the present
city of Juarez, in the year 1790, ac
cording to the baptismal records filed
away in the archives of the old ca
thedral in the sister city over the
river.
He has been blind for the past
three years, which has the effect of
causing him to be cautious in his
movements when abroad afoot, other
he might easily be taken for a man
nearly 60 years his junior.
He is possessed of a most amiable,
not to say jovial, disposition with a
laugh hearty and ringing, a distin
guished feature in fact. For years he
was a wool carder and greatly de
plores the fact that his present blind
ness prevents his still being employed
at his trade.
Up to the time lie lost his sight,
Senor Guiterrez was in the habit of
walking daily from the home of his
brother in Socorro to tho home of an
old crony in Sail Jose, a distance of
seven miles and back—“just to keep
his joints from rusting," as he says.
Cigarettes and Whiskey.
Senor Guiterrez is an incessant
smoker of cigarettes, which he roils
himself, using corn husks for wrap
pers. “I have always smoked Cigar
ettes,” he said. “Cigarettes won’t
hurt anyone if he uses corn husks
for wrappers, ft is the poisonous ,
paper used nowadays that kills.
“Drink? Oh, yes, I used to drink,
I drank whiskey for 75 years, hut 1
found it didn’t pay and I quit it. 1
suppose a little whisky now and then
is good for some men, but it didn’t
agree with me, so I stopped drink
ing it.”
Guiterrez is a bachelor. To ‘tlie ’
peace of mind due to his single bless
edness he attributes his long life and
his good health. He was engaged to
he married when he was 17—about
100 years ago—hut the girl died and
he says he has not had time nor in
clination since to pick another girl.
In all his 117 years he has never {
been sick—this is to say,so sick as to
be compelled to go to bed or to call
a doctor. He has no thought of death
nor is he making any preparations for
his finai taking off.
Enjoys Life.
“bo f enjoy life?” he said the
other day, paraphrasing a question
put to him.
“Why shouldn’t I. 1 am just at
the age when a man should enjoy
life. Os course, I would like to have
the use of my eyes again so that I
could work instead of sitting around
like a young child, doing nothing.
A story is told of Senor Guiterrez
which more than any other illustrates
his sprightliness and his love of fun.
Some five or six years ago a young
man who was in the habit of boasting
of his popularity with the young wo
men attended a dance at Ysleta, ac
companied by one of the prettiest
girls in the village. Guiterrez thought
to humble the boaster and, driving to
hall, went in, gathered the young
woman in his arms, carried her to
the buggy and drove off with her
daring the young man to come to
her rescue.
FARMERS ARRIVING
FROM POLAND
Will Take Up Abandoned Land
In New England.
PHILADELPHIA, August 14.
Among the 500 immigrants landed
here—ysoteiday from the America]
Line Merion, fronT' J bN*l.pool, were .
number of i’olish farmers, ’’JHrfhJiave
had purchased for them abando'nX
New England farms, which they pro
pose to till. Some predecessors who
arrived here two years ago have made
a success of their agricultural ef
forts.
The farmers who arrived on the
Merion understand the culture of
wheat, rye and barley and are not
afraid of hard work. Considerable
effort is being made to get farmers
for the South, hut the newcomers, be
ing used to the cold weather of Rus
sia, prefer in their new homes eondi
-1 tions nearly like those which they
have left.
100 MULES WANTED.
I will be in Americus on August 23
and 24, Friday and Saturday to bu>
100 strong young mules. Aged unr
small mules not wanted. I
Will also be at Plain , otf WeJI 4 -
day and Thursday, August 21st f md
22nd. f
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PLANTERS BANK BUILDING
Amerieus, Ga.
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 J
31st. Just three more weeks to close
out our present stock. Everything I
goes;nothing reserved.
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8 in embroidery edging
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Fine wide Swiss embroid
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50c shirt waist at 3g c
75c shirt waist at 55c
SI.OO shirt waist at.. .78c
$1.25 shirt waist at. 95c
$2.00 shirt waist at.. 1.50
$2.50 shirt waist at . 1.95
$3.00 shirt waist at. .2.25
$4.00 shirt waist at. . v.9s
$7.50 shirt waist at. .4.9 s
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$3.50 Queen Quality ox
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