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Americus Population
12.000.
Sumter County
35.000.
TWENTY-NINTH YEAR.
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models in Fall
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have ever offered
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faeries.
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SUITS -A.T
$lO, Sis, S2O, $25, to S4O.
Remember always, that in buy
ing a s*<it itV the value and not the
pries that makes the bargain.
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AMERICUS TIMES-RECORI
vestments.
as nearly every om knows, more than
rhe opinion of those who are in a posi
tions the maximum price is far from
BHditions, such as the mines gettipg
people have obtained control of
even slight competition, it
SLuro you will set. prices much lr-
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write us abont our patial
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; COURTS TO PRY TODAY
I INTO THE OIL TRUST
l
i Standard Will Be Spitted
Again
HEARING IS OF NATIONAL INTEREST
Government Begins Today its Deter
mined Fight to Dissolve the
Standard Oil to. Because
of its Trust.
NEW YORK, Sept. 2.—With the
taking of the first testimony here to
morrow in the government's St. Louis
suit to dissolve the Standard Oil
Company and sudsidary corporations,
on the ground that they constitute an
illegal trust, the initial shot will be
fired in what will probably become
one of the greatest legal battles in
history.
The hearing will be held in the New
York postoffice building and will be
presided over by Former Judge Frank
lin Ferriss, of St. Louis, appointed
special examiner to hear testimony in
the case.
Frank B. Kellogg of St. Paul, and
C. B. Morrison of Chicago, will act
as counsel for the government. Sev
eral officials of the oil trust, as well
as many independent dealers and re
liners will be heard.
The suit was brought by the govern
ment at St. Louis and is for the pur
pose of putting the trust and seventy
allied corporations out of business.
Dissolution is prayed for under the
Sherman Anti-Trust law. Should the
court order dissolution, the appoint
ment of a receiver for all Standard
Oil properties throughout the coun
try would follow.
In addition to the government suit
and the fine of $29,240,000 recently as
sessed by Judge Landis in Chicago,
the Standard Oil company is now un
der indictment in five federal dis
tricts. These include Western New
York, Western Louisiana, Northern
Illinois, Eastern Missouri and Western
Tennessee. There are sixteen sepa
rate indictments for rebating pend
ing in these districts, embracing 5,738
counts. |
Inasmuch as each count covers a
separate offense, the Standard Oil
Company is liable to lines aggregat
ing $114,760,000, which is in excess of
tlie present capital stock of the par
ent corporation.
CRACK OF RIFLES
HEARD ON RANGE
Riflemen Are Busy at Sea Gert
Today.
SEA GIRT, N. J., Sept 2.—The crack
of many rifles again resounded from
the famous Sea Girt range today, her
alding the beginning of the seventeen
th annual shooting tournament. Many
of the riflemen in attendance on the
national matches in Ohio last week are
participating in the contests. General
Bird W. Spencer, formerly president
of the Natioanl Rifle Association, is
in charge of the matches, which will
continue throughout the week.
The program, as usual, consists of
rifle, carbine, revolver and pistol mat
ches.
There are thirty-two trophies of
fered, some in time-honored annual
catches and others to be won out
right. New matches include those
for a prize donated by Senator Briggs
for regimental teams, to be confined
to rapid fire and skirmish runs; a
prize given by Colonel Anthony R.
Kuser, and a slow-fire match for re
gimental teams, the trophy to be giv
en by ex-Governor and ex-Attorney
General John W. Griggs.
The big event, as in past years, is
the Dryden trophy match, which will
be participated in by teams of eight
men each from the infantry and cav
alry of the United States army, the
navy, marine corps. Annapolis and
West Point and national guardsmen
of the various states and territories.
Os Interest To Women^
■pn as are not seriously out
vtio have exacting duties
ler in the way of house
in social duties and func
riously tax their strength,
rsing Ur. Pierce’s
ription has proved a most
rting tonic and invigorat
ing nervine. Ky its._t!nmly use, much
serious sickness 'SAi-hg,
he oiii rating table and the
surgeons' knife, "would- it is ..helieveu,
seldom have to_be cnrnloved if this most
valuable wOTiamsTSmalv 'VTC rcftfUid
to in good time. The"!'avorite F rescrip
tion’’hasproveira great boon to expectant
mothers by preparing the system fur the
coming of baby, thereby rendering child
birth safe, easy, and almost painless.
Bear in mind, please that Ur. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription is not a secret or
patent medicine, against which the most
intelligent people are quite naturally
averse, because of the uncertainty as to
their composition and harmless character,
but is a MEDICINE OF KNOWN COMPOSI
TION, a full list of all its ingredients being
printed, in plain English, on every bottlo
wrapper. An examination of this list of
Ingredients will disclose the fact that it is
non-alcoholic in its composition, chemic
ally pure, triple-refined glycerine taking
the place of the common**’ used alcohul.
In its make-up. In this connection it
mav not be out o,f place to state that the
"Favorite Proscription” of Ur. Pierce is
I ilie only mwlliduo put up for tho cure ot
j woman's peculiar weaknesses ana ail
* ments, and sold thvouph druggists, all
the inpredidlits of which have the un
-4 animous cudorsement of all the leading
* medical w riters and teat hers of all the
4 several schools of pniiti*. and that too
l as reme<lie> for tin* ailments for which
' •Favorite Prescription” la rocommenafd.
1 A little book (if these rndon enu'nts will
be sent tu any address, post-paid, ana
absolutely free if you request same by
postal card, or letter, of Or. R. • Pierco,
Buffalo. N. Y.
I)r. Pierce’s Plonsant Pellets cum con
stipation. Constipation is Urn cause of
many diseases. Cure the cause and you
cure tho disease. . Easy to take as candy.
AMERICUS GEORGIA. TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 3. 1907.
RIDING LESS EXPENSIVE NOW
REDUCED RATES CARRIED INTO EEEECT YESTERDAY
Seaboard, Central Southern, Coast Line and All Larger System Reduce
Fares to the New 2 I*2 Cents Rate.
“Ticket to Macon; all right sir;
$1.77 please,” and the handsome paste
board manipulator at the Central
Railway ticket office in Americus
handed over the yellow slip yesterday
to a passenger, and received $4.77,
instead of $2.13, as before.
For the new passenger rate of 2>4
cents per mile went into effect yes
terday, and riding is cheaper.
Both the Central and Seaboard sold
tickets at their Americus offices at
the new rate, and pasengers thus res
erved a snug amount from prices paid
heretofore.
On all of the larger lines in Geor
gia, and Alabama as well, the new 244
cent passenger rate became effective
yesterday, and the old rate of 3 cents
a mile is but a memory. The smaller
lines may. charge 3 cents, but the big
ones cut the rate.
Front Americus to principal points
the new rate puts the price of tickets
at following figures:
To Savannah $4.96; to Macon $1.77;
to Columbus $1.70; to Montgomery |
$3.50; to Atlanta $3.65, to Albany, 90
cents; to Cordele 76 cents, to Eufatila
$1.77; and other points in proportion.
These rates went into effect here
yesterday morning.
The Central Railway will contest
MANY REGISTER IN SCHOOLS
INDICATIONS POINT TO A VTRY LARGE ATTENDANCE
Registration on first Day is 109 Against 30 on First Day Last Year-Amer*
icus Schools Will Be Crowded to Capacity.
If the rush of pupils in the Anieti
cus public schools to register for the
fall term is an indication of attend
ance, as it assuredly is, the capacity
of the school buildings will be taxed
oven beyond their capacity, when the
doors are opened on Sept. 16th.
Yesterday morning Supt. Miller
opened the registration books at
Furlow School, and during the morn
ing hours 109 pupils registered, as
against 30 on the opening day a year
ago.
And today several hundred will
probably register
The schools will open just two
weeks fence,' and everything points
to a record attendance. Last session
the attendance reached the 1,600
mark, and by the time the fall sea
son is well under way the enrollment
of pupils will reach 1800.
And what is to he done with such
a large number?
Present schoolroom facilities are
wholly inadequate, for during the
HIGHER TAXES TOR SUMTER
ADVANCE THIS YEAR WILL BE VERY CONSIDERABLE
Gounty Commissioners Met Monday and Levied Tax Rate of $9.50 Per
SI,OOO for the Current Year.
Every citizen of Sumter owning i
SI,OOO of property will pay to the
county and state this good year of
prosperity and no bonds the sum of
$14.50. Os this amount the county
gets $9.50 as its portion, while the
State’s rakeoff will be only $5.
Both the state and county rate is
much higher this year.
The county commissioners met
yesterday in regular session and
among other matters discussed the
tax rate for the current year, fixed
at the amount mentioned.
The combined state and county rate
is $14.50’ per thousand, which is an
increase of $3.50 over the rate levied
last year. The rate last year was
.62 for the country and .48 for the
state, a total of 1.10, or sll per
thousand. But it is higher now.
The rate this year, as levied yes
terday, is .95 for the county and 5
mills for the state, a total of 1.45,
TAKE PUNT ON SATURDAY
NEW COMPANY TO TAKE OVER VALUABLE PROPERTY
Os Recently Organized Railway and Light Co.-All Details Complete and
Property to Be Transferred Then.
Next Saturday Is the date fixed forj
the transfer of the lighting plant here
to the recently organized Americus
Railway & Eight Co., as northern rep
resentatives of the company have
I written that they would reach Ameri
cus by that date or the Monday fol-
I lowing. Mr. W. A. Dodson received
[ a letter to this effect yesterday, and
j within a week, at the furthest, the
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* ’ blond, gray, or even snow-white, Ayer’s Hair
WV Vigor, the new kind, will not make it a shade
• T I ----- darker. Ask your doctor if this is not so.
cstam
I the matter in the courts and has al
ready instituted proceedings. Upon
this point Vice President Lawton
makes the following statement:
“We have taken the necessary steps
to put the reduced passenger rates
into effect. The action of the com
mission not having been enjoined we
cannot afford to do otherwise.
"We shall press for a hearing at
the earliest possible date and hope
and believe that when the court has
considered the evidence submitted by
us and that submitted by the defend
ant, it will grant an injunction. If,
it does so we expect to withdraw the
reduced rates and restore them to
the scale in force before the reduction
became effective.
“We earnestly hope that if and when
this shall be done, all officers and
citizens will recognize the supreme
law of the land in the Constitution of
tlie United States and the Constitution
of Georgia and will not undertake to
violate them by disregarding the in
junction.
| “If we are disappointed in this
hope, there is but one course for us
to pursue, and that is to vigorously
protect our rights to the end and ear
nestly defend the law of the land
| against the assaults of those who
would violate it.”
past spring session many pupils were
turned away for lack of room. Al
ready the buildings are taxed to their
teapocity, and children cannot be
crowded too much.
It has ben suggested that a large
residence be leased for a term of
years and converted into a school
room. But where is such a resi
dence? Not one can be had in the
city. The district college is up against
the same kind of a proposition.
There will not be nearly enough
room out there for the puipils attend
ing, and none whatever for the girls,
unless a dwelling is secured.
Americus needs enlarged school
facilities', and despite prospective hard
times and increased revenues more
schools must be provided. The city
is now paying about $17,500 per an
num for her public schools, and tills
cost will increase.
The situation at least evidences the
city's rapid growth in population, as
in all other respects
or $14.50 per thousand.
But even this increase of $3.50 per
SI,OOO for the county is not as great
as was expected.
When the bond proposition, which
would have ben far less expensive to
the taxpayers, was turned down by
the voters at the polls on August 15,
it was a foregone conclusion that the
tax rate would be much higher than
for several years.
The voters preferred direct taxa
tion to the easier and better plan of
bonds, and the increase of $3.50 in
their tax rate is the result.
It was really expected by many that
the tax rate this year, state and coun
ty, would be at least sls, but the com
missioners shaded it down a hit and
fixed the figure at $14.50.
The rate, of course, will remain
high until our debts are paid.
The commissioners discussed road
working at some length and transac
ted much routine business.
| new company will take possession
I and will soon begin the erection of the
' great power plant out Lee street, in
which the newly purchased electric
lighting equipment will be installed.
The new Railway & Light Company
will soon get down to business, a fact
which means for Americus better
[ lights, cheaper lights, an all day cur-
I rent and, best of all. a well equip
■ ped electric street railway.
JAILS MAY YAWN
FOR THFM
I
Gunning for Western Rail=
road Magnates
LANE HAS STARTED LOR LHEYVLSf
:He Will Continue Investigations of
Alleged Violations of Rate Laws-
Intermediate Prison Senten
ces Will Now Be in Order.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 2—The
opportunity to sent! a few railroad
presidents and other general railroad
officials to prison may he presented
to the government sooner than had,
been expected.
Rebating is charged against sev'i*
eral western rail roads-since the Hep
burn rate law went into effect, and
if these can be proved, then the im
prisonment penalties provided by the
new law may be imposed, instead of
the fines, provided by the Elkins law,
under which all prosecutions to date
have been brought.
Interstate Commerce Commissioner
Lane left here today for the West to
investigate charges of rebating made
by special agents of the commission.
The offenses, he explained, have been
committed since the new law became
operative, and can, therefore, be pun
ished by imprisonment.
He would not specify what roads
are implicated, nor the particular sec
tion of the country in which they are
located, except that they are western
roads.
If the charges are found to be well
established, the commissioner, will
certify the different instances in
which the law has been violated to
the Department of Justice for prose
cution, and the attorney general will
be able to proceed against the roads
under the new law, and, therefore,
will be in a position to demand the
imprisonment of the corporation of
ficers responsible for the offenses
committed.
The fact that the charges are made
by special agents of the Interstate
Commerce Commission sent specially
into the West to ascertain if the law
was being observed gives them a de
gree of importance which might not
attach to ordinary complaints.
The interstate commerce commis
sioners believe these men would have
made no charges at all, unless cer
tain of their ability to sustain with
evidence all the accusations they
present.
Because of this, it is believed at
the Interstate Commerce Commission
that some prosecution and probable
imprisonment clauses of the Hep
burn law, are now imminent.
Lnmlis Ruling Cited.
Under Judge Landis’ ruling in the
Standard Oil case, every loaded car
upon which a rebate is paid con
stitutes a separate offense.
Had the imprisonment of the Stan
dard offices been possible as punish
ment in the cases in which they had j
been convicted, the whole company
would probablyJiave been locked up
for life.
Similar ruling in these new instan
ces of rebating may make it possible
to imprison some of the railroad offi
cers for a long term of years.
That imprisonment will be demand
ed by both the government and the
public seems certain, in view of the
fact that the offenses have been com
mitted after all the railroads had sol
emnly proclaimed their intentions of ■
obeying the law.
PALACE OF GEMS IN
ARRAY OF BEAUTY
Handsomest Jewelry Store in
Southern Georgia.
With new store complete, and stock
ed with the most superb lines, the '
jewelry emporium of Mr. S. A. Dan
iels ranks any in the state outside of
Atlanta and Savannah and is the ad
miration of hundreds of Americus
connoisseurs who have inspected the
array of dazzling gems and fine jewel
ry so artistically displayed.
Mr. Daniels has leased for a term
of years the spacious store on Jack
son street, formerly occupied by the
Dodson Pharmacy, and painters and
decorators have transformed it into
a palace of beauty indeed.
The building has been entirely over
hauled, and with the many handsome
new show cases, filled with magnifi
cent diamonds, watches and fine jew
elry is a veritable description, the new
store is a veritable fairy land and eas
ily the handsomest in this section of
the state.
Mr. Daniels carries only the best
goods in jewelry and cut glass, and
not an article of the cheap or "shod
dy” can be found in all of his im
mense stock. When he sells an article
it is with absolute guarantee as to
genuineness, fully x>rotecting the buy
er in every purchase made.
During a business career of several
years in Americus this house has
quickly won the confidence of the
public. There, one finds the very
latest in the jewelry line, and prices
are always most reasonable. In this
way Sir .Daniels has already built up
a most successful business, and holds
a record for fair dealing most envia
ble.
He invites the general public to
come at all times and inspect his
beautiful new store and magnificent
lines of fine jewelry, cut glass, hand
painted china and other beautlfulj
goods.
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Our New, Home Grand
Opening Sale, Saturday,
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August 31st, and lasting'
days.
Prices, quality
dealings will establish us 1
in our new home.
HAMM
Proprietors.
Lamar Street Opposite Hotel Windsor,
Americus Cigar Company
Makes the very best Cigar upon the
market today,
“Americus Maid”
is the only Brand made, an all YiM
vana cigar, Hand made, and wen
worth a dime is but sold for 5 cent J
Patronize a Meritorious Home Industry^
and call for the “Americus Maid” at
all cigar stands in the city.
Ladies and Gentlemen: If it is cleaning
and pressing you want done remember
THE PRESSING CLUB.
H. O. oANIEL and J. L. MORE, Props.
Located in THE ARTESIAN BLOCK, next to Davenport’s Drug Store
Ladies Skirts, etc., a specialty. ALL v\oll(t G1 ARANTEED.
All work called for and delivered all orders at The Press^^—
J. W. SHEFFIELD, Pre
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