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Americas Population
12.000.
Sumter County
35.000.
TWENTY-NINTH YEAR.
You May Not Think Os It,
But it Does
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make a big difference to you who makes the clothes you
wear; especially if the maker is willing to tell you what
he makes them of; and how.
That’s one thing we like about Hart Schaffner &
Marx clothes; they are made of strictly all-wool fabrics
and the makers seem to want everybody to know it.
They advertise the fact extensively; it’s the most impor
tant tact about any clothes.
They are plenty of good looking clothes for sale that
are not all-wool, the makers don’t claim that they are;
they don’t say much about it.
We like to sell clothes that our customers can be
positive about; goods that you don’t have to take any
body’s word for; clothes you know are good. It’s easy
to sell such clothes; and the’re a satisfaction to
everybody.
It isn’t simply that we sell Hart Schaffner & Marx
clothes that you find it worth while to buy your things
here.
That’s a pretty good reason; but there are others.
We’ve a lot of things that men wear, that are worth
having too. If you havn’t found out that this store is
the headquarters for quality stuff, you’ve got something
coming to you.
W. D. BAILEY.
Outfitter for Men ami Boys |
Forsyth St. and Cotton Ave Americas, Ha
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AMERICUS TIMES-RECOKI )ER
CITY MAY DEMAND A
PARE OF THE SUGAR
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In Levying a License Tax
on Clubs
STATE WILL NOT GET WHOLE PIE
Deficit in City Treasury Caused By
Loss of Saloon Tax May Be
Made Ip in Part by Tax
on the Clubs.
While Americus is going to have
her “Dewdrop Clubs” in conformity
with the Wright hill, it may cost a
trifle more to operate them than
would be supposed at first blush. For
the city may take a hand in the tax
levying process.
The tax of SSOO to be paid under
the provisions of the locker bill of
Uncle Seaborn, he of juicy, liquid
memory, goes to the State, to help
the very badly depleted treasury.
Not a penny of that SSOO does the
city receive.
Americus will lose SB,OOO next year
by the closing of the saloons and
loss of the special license tax, and
this may, to a limited extent, be made
up by special license tax imposed
upon the Seabaceous clubs, the Dew
drops.
The city council, in January, will
determine this point.
The question social clubs will
have to he dealt with by the cities.
The way the people go about the -or
ganization of these clubs means much
to the failure or success of prohibi
tion in this state.
It is not known now how many
clubs will be formed here, nor is it
known what action council will take
on tlie matter. It is up to the cities
to do the best thing possible to help
enforce the law now that it has been
passed by the legislature and has re
ceived official sanction.
A number of social clubs paying
a tax of SSOO will bring a good deal
or revenue to the state.
Many are of the opinion that the
law will allow social clubs to keep '
whiskey in their lockers without any 1
special tax. It is said in some of
the cities of the state that the people
are willing to pay a very high license
for the privilege of doing a locker
business.
Clubs of all kinds will be formed,
it is supposed—clubs for the rich, the
poor, the well-to-do, the middle class,
the white man and the black man.
The question of allowing social
clubs to do a locker business will
have to be taken up and discussed by
council. The state tax is SSOO, and
if the cities put on an additional tax,
there will still be a large number
who are willing to pay this license.
This would take the place of the
income from the liquor license.
MEETING OF ELKS IS
CALLED FOR TONIGHT
Young Elklets Will Have Horns
Put on Them.
There will be something doing in
Elkdom tonight. A lot of young
•’fawns” jumped the fence yesterday
and are now in the corral. Tonight
the seasoned old stags will toy with
the innocent elklets and put antlers
upon them and likewise give them
food and drink, that they be refresh
ed and made real elks. The process
of initiation will be heard distinctly
for a half mile, hut no real harm will
be done the fawns. Interest in cir
land on the Central of Georgia right
of-way and will put up an oil yard
Americus, and the local lodge will
extend the glad antler to numerous
fawns during the next few months.
Already the lodge here is among the
largest in the state in point of mem
bership.
House For Kent.
Four rooms, Brannan avenue,
Possesssion Aug. loth. Apply to
4-ts. CHAS. R. CRISP.
That onr American rorests abound in
plants which possess the most valuable
medicinal virtues is abundantly attested
by scores of tiie most eminent medical
writers and teachers. Even the untu
tored Indians had discovered the useful
ness of many native plants before the
advent of the white raco. This informa
tion, Imparted freely to the whites, led
the latter to continue investigations until
to-day we have a ricli assortment of most
valuable American medicinal roots.
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Dr. Pierce believes that onr American for
ests
to* the cuYbwjf most obstinate and fatal dis
eases. If wtvwSbtdproperly Investigate them;
and of this conviction, he
poim<<with oriJSva> il;u-aJmnat,.mnrvi:luua
cures effect -d j.y his "( ; ‘' l,lon Medical JU»-
covi-ry,” which has proven Itself to he the,
most, ettlclent stomach lonic, liver invlgor
iiior. In-art tonic end regulator, and blood
cleanser known to medical science. Dyspep
sia. or indigestion.' toroid livuErunctlonal
and even valvular and other affections of
the heart yield to Its curative action. The
reason why it cures these and many other
affections. Is clearly shown In a little book
of extracts from the standard medical works
which Is mailed free to any address by Itr It
V. Pierce, of Buffalo, N- Y., to all sending
request tor the same.
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Not less marvelous. In (he unparalleled
cures It is constantly making of woman’s
many peculiar affections, weaknesses and
distressing dvrar-'merits, is I)r. l’lerce's
VaVoritc\l’rescript,ieCvj\s Is amply attested
by thousands Oil _'
tributed b>V>3T''ful paTrpn*. who have been
after many otV> r LvuriLeu Hiouiclnes. and
physicians had failed.
Roth the above mentioned medicines are
wholly made up from the glyceric extracts of
native* medicinal roots. The processes pbi
ployed In their manufacture were
Ei t h Dr Pierce, and they art* can ed on by
skilled chemists and pharmacists with the
aid of apparatus and appliances specially
designed and built for this l-nrpose. But*
medicines arc entirely free from alcohol and
Si other harmful, habit-forming drugs. A
fill list of their Ingredient* L* printed on
each bottle wrapper.
AMERICUS GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY MORNING. AUGUST 21, 1907.
FARMERS GOING TO MEETING
Os District Institute to Be Held at Ellaville
Official Program of Occasion on Friday. 30th.-fine Occasion is
Assured.
The Farmers Institute of the Thir
teenth senatorial district, comprising
Sumter, Schley and Macon counties,
will be held on Friday of next week,
August 30th at Ellaville, and will be
an occasion of much interest and im
portance to all attending.
Many, farmers of Sumter and the
other counties as well will attend
the Institute, lasting one day.
Aside from the interesting addresses
and other convention proceedings, the
citizens of Schley will, with proverbial
hospitality, provide royal entertain
ment for the visitors.
That all may attend conveniently,
the Central Railway will be requested
to send up a special train from Ameri
cas on the morning of that date, re
turning in the afternoon. It has been
suggested that the yard engine here
might thus be utilized.
Captain John A. Cobb of Americus,
is president of the Institute, Mr.
Thomas B. Hooks one of the vice
presidents, and Mr. Crawford Wheat
ley secretary for Sumter county.
Following is the official program
arranged for the meeting:
Open at 10 a. m. at the Courthouse,
R.E. L. Eason, Vire- President, presi
ding, with prayer by a local minis
ter.
Object of the session explained by
the President.
Address: Farmer’s Institutes; their
Purpose, Scope and Benefit; Also
Suggestions on Practical Farming and
Curing Meat Winter and Summer, etc.;
Questions and Discussions Solicited,
by Dr. H. E. Stockbridge, of Atlanta,
Address: The Rural Home; for
STILL DEPENDS ON PNONES
And Mails for Getting News and Transacting Busi
ness.
Despite the oft-repeated assertions
of the telegraph companies that “bus
iness conditions are wholly satisfac
tory” they are far from satisfactory
in Americus, where the effect of the
telegraphers’ strike is felt as greatly
as in the beginning ten days ago.
Both offices here continue bottled
up, and no business of any nature is
transacted there.
Americus continues to depend en
tirely upon the long distance tele
phone for the transmission of busi
ness, and finds it a first class medi
um, by the way. The telephone serv
ice is prompt and reliable.
The mails, too, facilitate business in
handling telegrams, as the lines are
open from all over the country as far
south as Macon, from which point
telegrams are mailed here.
In cotton circles the hope is ex
pressed that telegraphic communica
tion will soon be resumed, as cotton
quotations will soon be in great de
mand, and a continuance Os the strike
Will hamper business to considerable
extent, here and elsewhere.
The strike situation yesterday was
BANK BOOKS IN BAD SHAPE
Grossly Inaccurate, Said Examiners-Stockholders to
Be Assessed.
" MACON, August 20—The final re
port of expert acountants to Receivers
T. N. Baker, B. P. O’Neal and E. D.
Schofield of the Exchange Bank of
Macon reveal all the capital stock
and surplus, which together amount
ed to $650,000, has ben swept away,
and there is a deficit of $8,500.
The books of the hank were said to
have been the most inaccurately kept
ever handled by the expert account
ants.
There was a difference between the
final report and the temporary report
thirty days ago amounting to more
than $400,000. This, it is said, was
due to the great inaccuracies in the
accounts as kept by the officials of the
bank.
The final report will he made to the
Superior Court by the receivers to
morrow, and the effort will be made
to have the temporary receivers made
STACK ON SHOPS IS
TALLEST IN STATE
Central's Shop Has a Towering
Smokestack.
MACON, GA., August 20.—The
smokestack of the new Central rail
road shops will be a monster affair.
Its height, exclusive of the concrete
base on which it will be built, will
be 175 feet. The stack of the Central
will be provided with an elevator to
carry persons to the top. One can
imagine what a view of Macon and
surrounding country can be seen
from the top of the monster stack.
j, y OU think you need a tonic, t-.kj
1 4 T _ / /* yourdoctor. If you think you need I
V 077 IdOnOliC) something for your blood, ask y ur|
-V Vi l UtWflUlfW doctor . If you think you w ouid;
£? 3 -a like to try Ayer’s non-alcoholic,
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Farmers, their Wives and Youths, etc.,
by Mrs. .1. H. L. Gerdine, of Decatur,
Ga.
Midday Recess for General Acquain
tance, Social Intercourse and Re
freshments.
Evening Session; 2:00 P. Mi-
Address: Insects and Diseases of
Fruit Trees; also Garden and General
Farm Products, etc., with Best Rem
edies; Questions and Discussions ask
ed, by Hon. L. R. I. Smith. State En
tomologist, of Atlanta.
Address: Selection of Seed, Fertil
izing and Cultivating Corn and Small
Grain, etc.; Questions and Discussions
Solicited, by Prof. J. M. Johnson, of
the Department of Agriculture of the
University of Georgia, of Athens, Ga.
Election of District Officers for the
ensuiiig term', and selection of place
for holding institute in 1908.
The Institute is held under the sup
ervision of the University of Georgia,
and the Board of Control of the Agri
cultural College, aud is a traveling
school for the benefit of farmers, their
wives and youths; also the general
public; aud all are earnestly solicited
to attend.’
The Legislature made appropria
tion for conducting these Institutes,
and they are strictly educational, non
partisan and non-political; a help to
the agriculturalists of the Empire
State; and all that posibly can should
thus prevail themselves.
Plan and prepare in advance, in
vite all your friends and neighbors,
Like a day off and enjoy a “feast of
reason and flow of soul.”
expressed in the following report
sent out by the companies.
New York, August 20.—E. J. Nally,
vice president and general manager of
the Postal Telegraph Company, today
gave out the following;
“Noon reports from all points, East,
West, North and South, indicate that
we start this morning under almost
normal conditions, with improved
traffic and increased force.
“Not a single place in the com
pany’s system this morning where
we are not giving good service, and
where we are not prepared to give
prompt handling to any business the
public may file with us. So far as
the Postal Telegraph Cable Company
is concerned, the strike is over.
R. E. dowry, president and gen
eral manager of the Western Union,
said today;
"The Western Union Company's
force of operators is sufficient to han
dle its traffic with little or no delay.
In fact, it can be said that normal
conditions have been resumed. The
telegraphers’ strike altogether is a
thing of the past.”
permanent.
The affairs of the bank will be
•wound up as rapidly as possible. The
depositors will get all their funds,
and acording to best estimates there
will he a small assessment upon the
stockholders.
Figures said by expert accountants
to be accurate reveal that there was a
shortage, in the accounts of former
Cashier Orr amounting to $94,080,33.
This much was found in the books
since 1900, and the accountants say
that the loss of Orr’s books from Sep
tember, 1905, to January 1907, blocked
them in determining what other
amounts there might be.
Orr delivered up all his possessions,
consisting of farms ip the northern
portion of the county, amounting in
value to nearly $50,000, hut there is
still the shortage which has been re
ported. y
SAVANNAH IS READY
TO UNLOCK LOCKERS
Already the Social Clubs Are
Being Formed.
SAVANNAH, Ga., Aug. 20— Local
clubs are talked of in Savannail al
: ready. It is said that some of the sa
loon men will at once begin work
1 organizing them. This is made pos
i silile by the SSOO tax put on social
i clubs having liquors In lockers. Had
I the tax been kept at SIO,OOO as the
l Senate desired these proposed clubs
would not have been possible.
BILLION DOLLARS
MADE BY OIL KING
Said He Would Give Away
One-Tentli of Earnings
HAS GIVEN AWAY $100,000,000
But, Friends Point Out, Rockefeller
Has Made No Attempt to Parade
His Charities-Where His Great
Donations Have Been Placed.
NEW YORK, August 20.—John D.
Rockefeller, upon whose oil monopoly
the United States Government has
just laid a penaly of $29,240,000 for I
violations of the law aginst rebates,
has given away, up to the present
time, more than $100„000,000, “for
public good”—to churches, schools,
hospitals, asylums and missions.
, In an address some year% ago be
fore a Cleveland religious gathering
of his own Baptist faith, Mr. Rocke
feller told the story of his early strug
gles. He said he had always followed
the Scripture rule adopted by him
when a poor clerk, of giving one
tenth of his earnings to charity. Ac
cepting this statement as true, it fol
lows,’ from a simple mathematical
calculation,, that the oil king has
made during his business career at
least $1,000,000,000 in order to have
given away $100,000,000, unless, per
chance in an excess of zeal for the
public weal, he has trespassed on his
capital.
It is the general testimony of those
who have been brought in close con
tact with Mr. Rockefeller that he has
likewise followed more closely than
the ordinary public benefactor that
other Scripture maxim in regard to
the right and left hand in the act of
giving.
! He has never, so far as known,
handed out a list of his donations, al
though it is said that such a list has
been compiled by one of his secretar
ies and is now in the inner acliives
of the General Educational Board.
Four Great Forms of Charity.
Personal gifts and annuities and
strictly private charities do not appear
on this list, notwithstanding they
are said to have absorbed in the aggre
gate about $10,000,000 of the Rocke
feller accumulations. John D. Rock
efeller's charity has assumed four
great forms of expression;
Church and mission work; $15,000,-
000; general and Southern education
boards, $44,000,000; University of
Chicago, $22,000,000. Private gifts
to schools, individuals, churches, parks
hospitals, societies and reformatory
and benevolent Institutions have ab
sorbed the rest of the $100,0(50,000.
During the first quarter century of
his business career, Mr. Rockefeller's
charities did not exceed beyond chur
ches and misionary work. He began
his activity in that direction in Cleve
land, where he gradually built up,
in conjunction with other rich Bap
tists, a splendidly equipped church
and parish. He has always consider
ed Cleveland his home city, and has
given large amounts to nearly every
one of the publicly-supported institu
tions there, including the parks in his
donations. He is also credited with
having dispensed a large amount of
private charity in the Queen City of
the lake.
From Church to Misions.
As the oil king grew in fortune? he
gradually became a dominant figure
in the Baptist denomination through
out the United States and gave sys
tematically to the f oundation and
maintenance of Baptist churches
throughout the length and breadth
of the country. He early became in
terested in the “working church”
scheme, and under the guidance of
Dr. Judson, of this city, and others
“invested” largely in the new idea.
The “working church,” it was ex
plained to him, would solve the in
difference of the masses in the great
cities toward the cause of religion.
From church work to mission work
was hut a step, and as Mr. Rockefel
ler grew interested, first in foreign
afid then in domestic missions, he
gave up millions for these two causes.
In mission work as in church work,
he at first restricted his outpourings
in the Baptists. Little by little,
though, he was drawn toward the
Congregationalists, until now he -is
open to the appeals of mission work
in any and all denominations.
TILING IS GOING TO
BE LAID ON AVENUE
Property Ovyners Agree to Use
This Material.
The west side of Cotton avenue,
from the Wheatley corner to Parker's
Warehouse, is now receiving atten
tion at the k-anus of the street de
partment. Yesterday the granite
curbing work upon that side was
completed, and the new pavement to
be put down in lieu of the brickbats
will be of concrete tiling. It is un
derstood that all property owners up
on that side have agreed upon tiling
as the best and most desirable mater
ial, as well as the cheapest, and the
new walk will be tiled its entire
length. And now that street work
upon Cotton avenue Is begun, several
hundred citizens are waiting with in
terest to see what will be done with
the line of rotten wood sheds that
now disfigure the street and, many o,
them, a menace to pedestrians fj
well. m
HAM.TON CO.
PLANTERS BANK BUILDING
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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
goes;nothing reserved.
Specials in embroideries
and laces, 10c val laces
at 5c yd.
8 in en-broidery edging
at 10c yd.
Fine wide Swiss embroid
ery at ~2ocyd»
50c shirt waist at 3pc
75c shirt waist at 55c
SI.OO shirt waist at.. .78c
$125 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. 95
$7.50 shirt waist at. .4.95
$?.50 ladies’ oxfords. .1.95
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Proprietors.
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$3,00 Queen Quality ox
fords at 2.50
$3-50 Queen Quality ox
fords 2.65
One counter of children’s
slippers all one price
per ppir.. 50c
40c matting bytfnTH^d/
vd 22^
25c matting by the roll
yd ..15c
$7 5O large tapestry hall
portieres, red and green
per pair 4.9 S
iOc figured muslin per
yd 7&c
Good yd wide bleaching
per yd 10c