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At o ; -*'.r{S t\ 25. 1 lack voil, ali wool 50 inches wide- »
Al 5 fl v dj, i c VJ., Frilled Organdie*, beautiful patterns.
At 2 o w-.rJ h 33 i-3. i adics black lace hose. Lisle thread.
At It w rt!i 1 iy 2 ' Mens collars, wtanding and turn uown.
At ,sc. '»or h Qc, Embroidery banos 1 ) inches wide, pretty patterns.
At 29c w 11 h 50 ,36 inch Li gerie cloth silk finish very sheer.
At 2c dozen worth C.C. pearl buttons in three of the most popular sizes.
m ; c dozen worth |uc, pure whiti pearl butt ns all sizes.
At 10 varu worth \2/ 2 Mid Jo, al' silk ribbons, black, whiteand colored.
At Lie worth 25c, Ladies turn overs made of very fine lawn, embroidered.
At 9c b>x worth 15c Amour glycerine toiler soap, box three cakes.
At 10c worth 15, 1 9x jb inch Turkish towi Is, plain, white and colored borders.
At I t l /-2 c worth 20c, pi low cases made of good quality muslin, full size.
At 69c worth 50, Embroidery edging, 18 inches wide beautiful colors
At 9 3=4c w rth 12 1-2 Dre*s ginghams, fast colort and beautiful patterns,
At i 2 I-2c worth 2n Ladies wash belts, silk embroidered back.
At 23c worih 25 to 35, Childrens perfection waists, summer weight
At 10c worth 20 to 25, renin an is of white madras, 3 yard lengths.
At 10c w rth 15, White Persi -n lawn regular width (none sold to merchants.)
At 50c worth 75c, $1 and $1.25, odd lot of men’s madras shirts ail sizes.
At 50c worth 75, the genuine Scriven knee drawers, all sizes.
At 10c worth 25, Men’s white four-in-hand ties of madras, white and colored.
At 35c worth 50, white linen lawn, yard wide every thread guaranteed linen.
At 95c worth *3, Ladies white parasols, full size, plain and hemstitched.
At 23c worte 35 boys shirts made of percals and madras, all sizes.
At 25c worth <>(), men’s suspenders, plenty of them, all silk plaited buckles.
At 2c worth sc, envelopes full XXX 6 1-4. packages of 2 5 for 2c.
At $1.25 worth J. 2.50, Ladies low cut shoes, mostly small sizes all styles.
At 98c worth $i.25, Ladies and men’s umb ellas of twilled .-ilk and steel rods
At 85c dozen, worth 10c each, men’s hemstitched handkerchiefs of fine lawn
QUNCMI MERCANTILE CO.
115 and 1.7 Forsyth Street John k. Shaw’s Old Stanu.
FOR SVLF.
7 Room house, with barn, cribs,
e'c., Store bouse, 5 acres of land.
On one of the best, streets, tine
place for Trucking an 1 dairy. A
pleasant home.
450 a--res 4 r* otn hoi.se, .9 horse
farm open, run dog w ter, sßa<re.
200 acres, 'evel land, one,l room
and one 4 room house with hams,
cribs, #8 acre.
Th-ee 4 r n n houses (new) large
lots, rented t > prompt p*\ing ten
ants at S3O 00 mouth, only $ ,100,
each. S3OO cash, balance Ift
months 0 per cent. Cheaper than
paying rent,. Street cars will run
,uear this property.
10 Room hous l centrally lociful
rented to reliable tenants tor S3OO.
Prices3,2so. This is a safe place
for your idle m >ney.
New ft room housa with bath,
large lo*; rent SIBO, price sl,7s'*.
Safe ip vestment.
P. B. Williford.
103 Cotton Ave.
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Fancy Cattle
supply a 1 the beef w e hand c i hat
is why our beet is so much chohei
than the ordinary \>e ‘olio, ill"
game prac ice »i h
All Our Mi ats.
Onr’am\ muitor, e 1 ork,
etc , I'inin f otn tne it < U o' the
highest grade. So if >uii tradi
f.src you get the best the matket
affords It's just as easy, too.
Our prints are no higher than
is sold
PROFSESION AL CARD
iPhytteiatt* and Suryaont,
, Douglas B. Mays. M. D.
Physician and Surgeot ,
Telephone 479
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J. WADE CHAMBLISS, M. D.
Physician and Surgeon,
AmerU'iiH, <>h.
OFFIOk :—Allison Building. Vtaone 4-9
Residence-118 Jackson St. Phone 451. Calls
* lett at M Laughlin’s drug store, (Phone 9^)
| will receive prompt attention
OR. Q. T. MILLER,
! Physician and Surgeon,
AMERICUS, GEORGIA.
I Special attention given to diseases ot w< -
men and children and to general surgery
Office 'n Planters Hank Building.
K. E. CATO. M. O,
Physician and fcurgeon,
AMERICUS, GEORGIA.
' Residence 310 Fetder St Telephone U 0
renders his professional services to the
leople of Amerlcua and surrounding conn
t'.es. Special attention given to genera!
surgery, diseases of women and children
Office I<V>H Jackson street. Calls left at Dr.
Aldridge's drug*t>re will receive prompt at
tention
DentitU.
C. !P. Davia, ‘Dentist.
Office Kcslderi'—
rimes-Rccorder B1 < % 118 Jackson Street *
PU.metfS* Pdoqc lw>. r
Jfttiorneys.
JAMES TAYLOR
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
SAMERICUS, GEORGIA
WheaMev building, over McLaughln’s
Dru< Store.
JAS, A. HIXON,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law
AMKKIOUB, OPOKOIA
Office in Bvne Butldlrikl
E. A, HAWKINS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Am mucus Georgia.
Office in Wheatley Building.
W. T. Lank, K. L. Maynard,
F. A. Hooper.
Lane, Maynard & Hooper,
Attorneys at Law.
OFFICES —Allison Building. Will
practice in all the courts.
W. W. Dyke.. E A Nisbet.
DYKES l NISBET.
| ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
Americus, Georgia.
Planters Bank Building.
i CUPRAN R. ELLIS.
B ARCHITECT.
P : Ellis Building—Cherry St. A Cotton ave
Is Macon, Ga.
LOANS.
f Farm loans and loans on city
P real estate negotiated at low
rates and on easy terms,
[ G. R. ELLIS, Americus, Ga.
SHELLMAN IS COMING
TO PLAY AMERICUS
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Excellent Game Monday Is
Fully Expected.
After a lapse of two or three weeks
I the Americus ball team will tackle
tomorrow on the local diamond a
foe worthy of their steel. Shell
man's team is coming up again, and
with them a few selected players of
Dawson, Cuthbert and Eufaula. Shell
man has a strong team of her own,
and thus recruited, will he enabled
to put up a game well worthy the
name. Americus will put up only her
usual coterie of players, hut is al
ways willing, with them, to risk re
sults. As this is tin! first game here
in quite a while a large audience will
go out to witne® it.
Notice.
1 will be absent from my office,
until Monday, Sept 2nd. Address
iloskell Post-Graduate Dental Col
lege. Chicago, 111.
S. H. McKEE, D. D. S.
Miss Elizabeth Gilmer Tyler, whose
engagement to Midshipman Alfred 11.
Miles is announced, is the granddaugh.
ter of President John Tyler.
The Pelican and Its Pouch.
Among the curiosities of nature must
be reckoned the pouch of the pelican,
which serves equally well as a net with
which to scoop up fish and as a bag to
convey food to its young. When not in
use the bird can contract its pouch so
that it is barely discernible, but when
it is fully distended It will hold two
gallons of water. When the pelican is
hunting for food it flies slowly about
twenty feet above the surface of the
water, scanning Its depths for any sign
of its prey. As soon as a fish Is seen
there is a sudden folding of a pair of
wings, a downward plunge with the
speed of an arrow head first into tho
sea, the unerring marksman reappear
ing in a moment and floating on the
waves long enough to reveal a glimpse
of a fish gliding down Its capacious
gullet and to shake the water from its
disheveled plumage.
They Quit Right There.
The late Andrew’ J. Dam, a well
known hotel man of New York, was,
at the time of the civil war, proprietor
of a hotel in New Bedford. A num
ber of colored citizens interested in tho
formation of a military company called
upon him and Informed him that they
would be glad to form the company
and allow him to suggest the name*
provided he would pay for the equip
ments.
“Congressman T. D. Elliott has fitted
out a company of white men, and
throughout the war they will be known
as the Elliott Light Guards,” said the
spokesman of the colored men.
“Well,” said Dam, “If I am to equip
and organize this colored company, I
shall insist that they be known ns the
Dam Black Guards.”
The company was never organized.—
New York Tribune.
Why?
Johnny—lsn't a tin horn made of
tin, mamma? Mamma— Certainly it is.
Johnny— Then how Is it that a fog
horn isn’t made of fog?
The beginning of wisdom is not hi
the mind, but In the heart--»Ahbott
(NEW YORKERS DO
NOT FEAR TAFT
Snap Judgement Can’t Be
Taken Against Mes
VOTERS ARE MICH INTERESTED
Indications Already That the Will of
the Voters Will Be felt Through
Delegates-Roosevelt May Not
Be Able to Deliver State lo
Taft.
NEW YORK, August 17.—Their
ears wide open for any news hear
ing on the Presidential situation, Re
publicans are watching every move
in the political game with a degress
of Interest that national conventio.
Taft’s visit to the President on last
Tuesday, the conference with the
party leaders, including Woodruff and
Barnes of this State, that had pre
ceded it and the announcement that
the Administration's policies as de
veloped up to date are to he set forth
in speeches which the Secretary of
War will deliver throughout the West,
beginning with the one in Columbus
on Monday, were topics that were
discussed everywhere.
A member of the Republican Club,
commenting on the interest taken
by members of the party generally,
said he could not remember when it
ever was 'more keen, short of the ac
tual campaign fight.
"Whatever may be done in the
way of planning to deliver the New
York delegation to Taft,” said the
member of the Republican Club,
“there need be no fear of a snap
judgment. The party interest in ev
erything connected with the Presi
dential situation is too keen for that.”
Taft is Teddy’s Mouthpiece.
There was a widespread apprecia
tion of the fact that the forthcoming
Taft speeches wiU be really Roosevelt
speeches, the President speaking to
the country through the Secretary of
War. It was said the interest in the
Taft declarations would not he less
on that account, although more than
one Republican admitted that he
would like to hear what Taft, as a
candidate for the Presidential nomi
nation, had to say on his own ac
count.
A report from Washington that the
Secretary had gone to work at once
preparing his Columbus speech was
received with a great deal of reserve,
few Republicans having any doubt
tliat tiie speech, down to every im
portant detail, as well as those that
are to follow it in Kentucky and Mis
souri and further West, had-been gone
over carefully by the President, Sec
retary Root and Secretary Taft.
Until recently not a few Republi
cans in this city had an idea that
Cortelyou, and not Taft, was Roose
velt's real choice for the nomination.
That view has been dispelled practi
cally by the happenings of the last
week, and it is now taken for grant
ed generally that the President in
tends to exert all his influence to
bring about the nomination of Taft,
reserving the right to shift to a dif
ferent candidate only in event of the
opposition to the Secretary of War
proving too great to be overcome.
What President Roosevelt would
do when it became clear to him that
the Republicans of his own State —
New York—were not to be delivered
to the Ohio candidate furnished a
. fertile field for conjecture. On this
1 point there was an extremely unani
mous conviction that New York Re
publicans would he found at the pro
per time demanding the nomination
of Governor Hughes for President, and
resenting any and all attempts to
swing the State delegation from him.
Intimations were general that
Woodruff, if he tried to commit the
State organization for Taft or any
other candidate except Hughes, would
discover that he had tackled a job
far beyond his strength, and not to
be compassed by any influences which
he might represent.
GOOD NEWS.
Many Americus Headers Have Heard
It and Profited Thereby.
“Good news travels fast,” and the
thousands of bad sufferers in Am
ericus are glad to learn that prompt
relief is within their reach. Many
a lame, weak and aching back is bad
no more, thanks to Doan's Kidney
Pills. Our citizens are telling the
good news of their experience with
the Old Quaker Remedy. He is an
example worth reading:
Preston, Georgia.
Foster-Milburn Co.,
Gentlemen:—You can state through
the newspapers that I have used your
Doan’s Kidney Pills and I found them
a most excellent remedy. They plac
ed my kidneys in good condition af
ter I had used less than a box, and I
know I was getting in had shape on
acount of weak kidneys. Every morn
ing the kidney secretions would ho
very thick and contained a sandy
sediment. My wife insisted that 1
use Doan's Kidney Pills as she heard
them well spoken of, and I sent and
got a box at Dodson's Drug Store in
Americus. Though I thought they
were like other advertised remedies,
I can say they have done me more
good than anything else I have ever
taken, I am glad I used them. I
recomend them to anybody suffering
from kidney trouble.
J. F. WRIGHT,
Preston, Georgia
For sale by all dealers. Price 50
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name —Doan’s and
take no other.
Soe Bagley’s buggies belore yon buv
Special price to cash customers or wi
sell on terms to suit customer.
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TALES OF THE TOWN
[ TOLD IN FEW LINES
g Pencil Stubs Picked Ip At
Rando*
} DAY’S HAPPFNINGS IN. AMERICUS
I Too Short for a Head and Bunched
Together -Four Lines f ulled
Here and There in the
City.
Large elegant assortment pound
and box papers and tablets to select
your stationery from at Holliday's
r Book Store.
Americus would make a ten strike
in getting collection with the Atlanta,
5 Birmingham & Atlantic. It can be
done very easily,
t
Americus has paid the highest price
* yet quoted for a bale sold Wholly on
its merits—l3(4 cents. But this is
! nothing unusual.
1 Thousands came to Americus yes
terday to swap dollars for goods.
• It was a typical busy Satudray, with
! the coin in motion.*
Americus has already a half dozen
’ new cotton bales, and by Saturday
1 next the total will probably go near
■ the hundred mark.
L)r. S. H. McKee left last night for
Chicago to spend two weeks in a
post-graduate course at the Haskell
dental college there.
Rev. J. B. Lawrence returned to
1 the city last night after spending a
week at Kennesaw Mountain and in
picturesque Marietta.
Americus fans are shaking off the
inertia of the past few days and
getting in Trim for two or three good
ball games here this week.
With its own steamship lines to
New York, the A. B. & A, would give
Americus greatly reduced freight
rates. Push the branch road.
A Texas exchange thinks there is
no cause for alarm as long as a pound
of cotton will buy u drink at the
regulation price of two for a quar
ter.
With the mercury at 99 7-S de
gress, Judge Cobb, of the Court of
Ordinary wrote out a half dozen.mar
riage licenses yesterday for as
many happy couples.
SAVANNAH IS DOING
WELL IN STRIKE
Companies Report the Handling
of Business.
SAVANNAH, August 17. —“We are
doing more and better business than
at any time since the strike,” is the
way the strike situation is regarded
by the Western Union and Postal tel
egraph companies. It was stated that
one of the strikers has asked to be
employed. From the standpoint of
several of the operators who walked
out the strike is going well and they
assert that victory for the union op
erators is confidently expected.
MEN ARE POWERLESS
to Pl*ht Attain** niaraw tlnleu They
Strike at the Underlying Cause.
To treat Dandruff, and Falling Hair,
with Irritants or oils on which a para
sitic germ will prosper. Is like scoopfhg
water from the ocean to prevent the tide
from rising.
You cannot accomplish a satisfactory
cure without having a right understand
ing of the fundamental causes of the
trouble.
You must kill the Dandruff Germ.
Newbro's Herplclde does this because It
Is specially made to do that very thing.
When the germ Is removed, the hair
has no choice but to resume healthy
growth and beauty.
‘‘Destroy the cause, you remove the
effect.”
Sold by leading druggists. Send 10c. In
stamps for sample to The Herpicide Co.,
Detroit, Mich.
Two sizes—6o cents and SI.OO.
Dodson’s Pharmacy, Special Agents.
BIG SNAKE IS SENT
UP FROM DESOTO
Huge Rattler is Killed By Ne
gro There.
The Times-Recorder added to its
museum yesterday the stuffed hide
of a huge rattler killed the day be
fore on the llylander Plantation near
DeSoto. This diamond-hack terror
carried eleven rattles and a button,
upon its tailoring department, and
was viewed as a great curiosity.
Endorsed By the County.
“The most popular remedy in Otse
go county and the best friend of my
family,” writes Wra. M. Dietz, editor
and publisher of the Otsego Jour
nal, Gilbertsville, N. Y., “Is Dr. King's
New Discovery. It has proved to be
an infallible cure for coughs and
colds, making short work of the worst
of them. We always keep a bottle in
the house. I believe it to be the
mos tvaluable prescriptition known
for lung and throat diseases.” Guar
anteed to never disappoint the taker,
by Eldridge Drug Co. Price 50c and
SI.OO Trial bottle free. lm.
TntfsPills
stimulate the TORPID LIVER,
strengthen the digestive organs,
regulate the bowels, and are un
equaled as an
ANTI-BILIOUS MEDICINE,
In malarial districts their virtues
are widely recognized, as they pos
sess peculiar properties in freeing
the system from that poison. Ele*
gantiy sugar coated.
Take No Substitute.
L-JU A" ' '-’U . .mt ■
UNCLE SAM TO RAISE
HORSES FOR ARMY
Step is Taken as a Pro=
tection.
IMPOSSIBLE TO BUY ARMY HORSES
Seventeen Thousand Animalsß equirul
Yearly for the Service—Average
Life of a Horse in the
Service,
WASHINGTON, August 17. —It is
the intention of the war department to
raise all horses that are to be used
In the future by the cavalry, artillery
and infantry divisions of the army, as
well as mules for the quartermaster
and commissary departments.
At the present time great
is encountered to supply enough good
horses for the * cavalry. Agents of
the war department scour the country
regions and buy up all desirable
horses.
During the recent Japanese war
talk it was pointed out by army offi
cers that the United States could not
properly mount the different branches
of the service, as there are barely
enough desirable horses on the mar
ket to supply the present standing
army of 00,000.
It would be a difficult problem to
secure horses for additional troops.
At the present time the army buys
17,000 horses every year. The av
erage cavalry or artillery horse lasts
live years, while those in the infantry
branch, which are used by the offi
cers, last about seven years. Every
horse used by the army has to be
replaced every five years.
It is the intention of the \yar de
partment to divide the country into
geographical sections. Remount
stations, where horses will be raised
and trained for the service, will be
established at the Newport rifle
range and other points.
BURIED M THE MUD
Three Philadelphia Boys Barely
Escape Awful Death.
SUCKED DOWN BY BLACK OOZE
Like Quicksand, Soft, Sticky Soil
Draws Them Into Its Dreadful Em
brace Until Only Their Heads Are
Visible—Then Comes Rescue.
Burled to their necks In mud in the
basin of the old Fairhill reservoir,
Sixth and Somerset streets, Philadel
phia, three boys had a narrow escape
from death.
After half an hour of suffering and
/right they were rescued from their
perilous position by policemen from the
Fourth and York streets station.
The boys wbo figured In the unusual
adventure are William Shields, ten
years old, of the southwest corner of
Reese and Cumberland streets; Charles
Stein, ten years old, southeast corner
of Fairhill and Cumberland streets,
and Frank Williams, ten years old, of
the southwest comer of Fairhill and
Cumberland streets.
The old Fairhill reservoir, which for
merly covered the area bounded by
Lehigh avenue and Somerset street and
from Sixth to Eighth street, has long
been a favorite playground for the
small boys in that vicinity. Gradually
the playground was diminished, as the
reservoir was torn down to make room
for the new Northeast Manual Train
ing school and the Carnegie library.
Only the Somerset street side of the
reservoir is now standing.
The three boys started for their play
ground as soon as school was over.
They raced around the top of the em
bankment, playing numerous games
until this sport became tiresome, and
In search of new adventures one of the
trio suggested that they race down the
embankment and across the, basin to
the farthest side. The floor of the
basin appeared smooth and firm and
apparently offered an excellent track
for running. The boys lined up side
by side.
Shields was chosen as starter, and
after he asked if nil were ready he
; ONLY THEIR HEADS WEEK VISIBLE.
Started to count slowly. “One,” he
counted, and tlie boys leaned over to
start; “two,” and their bodies bent
over still farther, and when he said
“three” the lads started down the
steep grade at a terrific rate.
But when they struck the bottom of
the basin their feet began to sink in
the mud, and before tbey bad gone five
yards the soft muddy buttom acted like
a quicksand, and they gradually sank
deeper and deeper In Its treacherous
depths.
They were burled to their knees In a
few minutes, and despite their frenzied
efforts to pull themselves out they were
sucked down inch by inch, deeper and !
deeper in the mire. The harder tbey j
tried to free themselves from the cling- 1
Ing mud the more they became engulf
ed. They fought against the horrible',
death which was staring them In the i
face, until tbey were exhausted !>v thelrt
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CLOTHES FOR
ALL WEATHERS.
Some Clothes seem to be only fair weather Clothes
and cockel and droop in the midst r and rain. Woolen Clothes
don’t, and ours are woolen—
STEIN-BLOCH MADE AND TESTED.
They fit you before your eyes, and they
keep on fitting till you are through —«....
with them. '***«
TRY ANDsSEE.
RYLANDERSHOE CO.
Clothers andjiFumishers.
efforts.
The accident occurred about the time
tlio mills close for JUttl in n
few mill bands who
heard” tb6 Tboys’ cries for help had
climbed to the top of the embankment.
Only the heads of the boys were visible
above the black mud. A score ran for
ropes and planks, while others tele
phoned to the police.
The patrol wagon of the Fourth and
York streets station was soon racing to
tt a scene, and by the time it arrived
planks had been procured by the mill
workers. Grabbing the planks, the po
licemen cautiously climbed down the
embankment and then rested the large
flat boards on the soft mud. On hands
and knees Policemen Messenger and
Moesta moved out toward the boys
and slowly but surely pulled them from
the death trap.
The three boys were then placed In
the patrol wagon. While It was going
down Seventh street the wheels slipped
into a trench, and one of tho horses
was imbedded in the mud. It tools'
more than an hour to free tho animal.
Births Unavoidably Postponed.
Owing to the overcrowded condition
of our columns a number of births and
deaths are unavoidably postponed this
week.—Leesville (Mo.) Light.
There will be nearly 300 vacancies
in the Naval Academy at Annaoplis
next year.
TIN WORK
OF ALL DESCRIPTION
C. P. PAYNE.
“Echo Springs” Whisney. —Our lead
er SI.OO per quart Also other high
grade wines and whiskeys. Orders
given prompt attention.
19 e. o. d. ts W. B. Hudson.
FOB BENT.
Nice, new, 5 room house; also 2 front
rooms up stairs, in my building on
Lamar street. LEE ALLEN.
Miss Ethel Roosevelt, who will
make her formai be-w_to society
winter, will be the eveninlT'W -.
White House fimranent.
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FUTURE BY OPENING
an account at our Savings Depart
ment and adding to it often.
The man or woman who earns and
SAVES always has a steadfast friend
in their bank account.
The man or woman who earns and
SPENDS ALL usually ends up a bur-"'
den to their friends.
Don’t let this happen to you—have
a Saviags Account here, constantly
increasing with 4 per cent interest
compounded semi-annually.
The Plaoters Bankof Americas
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a Office hours
1 1 7:30 to 12, am.
YT\ 11110,10 107
DR. N. SEYMOUR EVANST J
Dentist.
Successor to Wilkes A Kvam,.
OFFICE OVER HANK' SOUTH-WESTERN
GEORGIA.
Jackson and Forsyth Sts.
AMERICUS, GA.
Dr. W. H. Bowdoin
OSTEOPATH
Offices in Allison Building.
Treats all diseases, with
out use of drugs. Spe
made of chronic
Phone 133,
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