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Newspaper Page TextI HIRTIETH YEAR. 331-3 Per Cent Discount On Overcoats and Raincoats 25 To 50 PER CENT Discount On Mens Suits 33 1-3 PER CENT Discount On Boy’s and Children’s Suits People have confidence in this store, and know that when we offer reductions we give them as advertised. Your money should not lie idle in your pocket now with this opportunity staring you in the face. W. D. BAILEY, Outfitter for Men and Boys. Laxacold Hits the Spot every time. Cures colds, coughs, grippe, headache and neural gia. A laxative tablet. 25c per box. REM BERT’S DRUG STORE NFXT TO POSTOFFICE. rn. :iv THE GREATEST BLESSING EVE(? SENT AN INFANT' ■* SAftDSiFRENCH CROUPSUET ICURES BABYS CROUP at SHOULD KEEP IT IN THE HOUSE ’M|ommended by physicians. . MAN UFACTURED ONLYBY R MENARD Macon Ca. - - ; U.S. PATENT OFFICE WASHINGTON Sale By W.A.REMBERT. Druggist. OUR STOCK Is Unsurpassed Latest Designs, Greatest Variety, Lowest Prices. “EVERYTHING IN FURNITURE LINE.” Furnish Your Home At Least Cost By Buying From ALLISON FURNITURE COMPANY opposite Windsor hotel. AMERICUS TIMEB-RECORDER STORY OF OLD PRISON TOLD BY A VETERAN lime When This City Was in Danger. When fifty thousand Yankee pris oners were held at Andersonville the people of Americus, ten miles away, were in constant dread —a terror which only the people who lived dur ing those dreadful days of weeks and months can fully realke. They believed that, should the pris oners make a dash and escape from the stockade, Americus would be their first point of attack, and the town would be burned. Fire, death and rapine would have marked their march as it did that of the fiend incarnate, the inhuman De vil—Sherman. Americus was a small town then; the men were in the army, and the boys and old men, unable to perform full military service, were guarding the horde of bluecoats shut up in Andersonville. It was then that Wirz, to whom a monument is soon to be erected, was in command of the prison. Once, and once only, the horde of 50,000 desperate prisoners did come very near escaping, and only the lack of a determined leader prevented them making a dash for liberty even to wards the mouths of cannon trained upon them. Mr. George W. Glover, then a youth of 15 or 16 years, was one of the guards at Andersonville at that time t prior to joining the regular army. A few days ago he visited the old prison site and looked upon the spot where the little band of probably 1,200 old men and boys like himself, held at bay a furious horde. Mr. Glover thus told the interesting story yesterday to a friend: There had been a freshet, and early in the afternoon a portion of the stockade collapsed and fell, leaving a gap probably a hundred feet wide. The desperate prisoners saw a chance for escape and were eager to make the dash for liberty. Instantly the alarm was sounded, and every guard rushed to the defense of the stockade. And in the meantime the prisoners were getting busy. They pulled down tents, armed themselves with tent poles for clubs, and with whoops, cheers and curses massed near the broken prison wall. The Confederates were drawn up in battle line, but would have been no obstacle in the way of such a mob. They could have fired but one round from their old muzzle-loading guns, and then all would have been over at Andersonville. Tike a mad stampede of cattle the prisoners would have dashed over this valiant little band and swarmed the country. Americus would have been a bonfire that night, while a fate worse than death would have been that of very many here. But the 50,000 desperate prisoners lacked a leader. There was a battery- of two or three small guns mounted near the prison wall, and these fired blank cartridges over the heads of the pris oners massed near the break. This show of strength, with 1,200 guards confronting them, made them waver. The dash for liberty was not made, the broken wall was repaired before nightfall; the prisoners did not es cape, nad Americus was saved. GREAT SALE OF LACES TODAY AT DUNCAN’S A shipment of 6,000 yards valen cienne and round thread laces receiv ed yesterday at Duncan’s, and worth regularly ten to twenty- cents per yard: Today this entire lot will be displayed on centre tables at only five cents per yard for choice. GIRL’S LOVE WAS TOO STRENUOUS WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 11. (Special)—Does writing love letters calling names, throwing a powder puff in the chosen one’s face and hitting him over the head with a hand bag constitute violent love? That was the question which a jury was called upon to decide in Quarter Sessions Court yesterday. John H. Irvin believes the above mentioned love-making on the part of Margaret Phillips was rather stren uous, in fact violent enough to consti tute assault and battery, upon which charge he had the woman arrest ed. “She wrote me letters for five or six years,” declared Irvin in court yesterday, and “when I paid no at tention to her and tried to get her to leave me alone she called me names, threw a powder puff in my face and tried to beat me over the head with a hand bag at Front and Berks Streets.” “Well, he wrote me letters, too,” said Miss Phillips in her own defense. “Was there any love-making in the letters he sent you?” was asked her. “You bet there wasn’t,” the woman replied. “He was very discourteous.” The jury acquitted Miss Phillips of the assault and battery charge, there by admitting that her iove-making had not been violent. The judge decided, however she should either give bail to keep the peace or promise not to do any more violent love-making* and asked her which she would do. “I’ll leave him alone and leave town,” the pretty defendant an nounced, glaring at the prosecutor. The judge discharged her. Warning to Rifle Shooters. The shooting of “flips” air rifles, parlor rifles, or firearms of any kind upon the streets or in yards in the city is prohibited by ordinance. This ordinance will be rigidly enforc ed, and all violators will be arrested and tried in police court. By order of the Mayor. W. H. FEAGIN, 12-3 t. Chief Police. AMERICUS, GEORGIA, • WEDNESDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 12. 1908. BIG BUNCH MAY ENTER THE RACE FOR HOUSE Several Are Mentioned for Honors. While apparently Sumter’s two seats in the legislature are going beg ging, such is not the case by any means for the boys are grooming themselves for a spirited race. It was told in circles political here yester day that as many as eight prospect ive candidates were being “urged” as urging goes, and that the friends of some of these embryo statesmen would announce their candidacy this week. Sumter has two representa tives, and usually there is a full track of runners long before the date of the primary is announced. There is now just two months of campaign ing ere the primary on April 15th, and ere long the boys will be laying claim to the honors in great shape. AMERICUS IS FREE YET. OF SLEET AND SNOW No Delay of Business at v This Point. The fact that the electric cars were not running in Americus yesterday was not due to sleet, snow, ice and other frigidical “frosts,” ’as in At lanta. In fact, the non-operation of the cars here caused very little com ment, and the people walked right on home through the mud as they did the day before and the year before that. There was neither snow or ice here,a fact worthy of congratulation, though the day was rather raw and disagreebale, and wraps felt quite comfortable. Trains arrived and left on schedule—another very remarkable sact —, as an hour’s rainTgenrally up sets schedules badly. Wire commun ication was not interupted, and Am ericus carried on business notwith standing the Atlanta “monopoly” bliz zard, which extended only from East Point to Decatur and gave Atlantans their first snow under prohibition re gime. ATLANTA ENTIRELY CUT OFF FROM WORLD Both Telegraph and Tele phone Wires Are Down. For two days it has been impossible for Americus, and the wide world as well, to reach Atlanta by telegraph or telephone. During Sunday night a severe storm of sleet and snow swooped down upon that section of Georgia, weighing down the wires leading into that city so heavily with ice and sleet that the lines snapped one by one until at noon Monday the last telephone wire leading to that city from Americus succumbed and communication with Atlanta was cut off. Efforts to reach Atlanta yesterday by telegraph, even by the most cir cuitous routes, developed the fact that every line leading into the city was down, both telegraph and tele phone. Except for the mails that city is dead to the rest of the world. It was also discovered that it was possible to reach any other city in the United States except Atlanta. Georgia’s capital is situated on high ground, and the storm king seems to have selected that city for his especial prey. Communication with points within a radius of thir ty miles is also suspended. It is hardly probable that commun ication can be restored today, though it is supposed that linemen from the capital city are working vigorously to place Atlanta on the map again. The length of the break has nrade the problem of restoring communication a very acute one. OREGON IS TRYING NEW POLITICAL IDE4 Initiative and Referendum Ballot is Long. PORTLAND, ORE., Feb. 11.—(Spe cial) —This state has, in a spirit of revolt against graft and grafters, adopted the initiative and referen dum. In a few months citizens will be confronted with the first fruits of their new initiative and referendum scheme, in the shape of a ballot con taining at least twenty important and complicated measures proposed for adoption. The butefher, the baker, and the candlestick maker will be called upon to drop th<Hr tools long enough to make a cross on the ballot, and thereby enact this legislation. One of the proposed laws deals with Sunday observance; another makes a new system of representation in lawmaking bodies; another establish es a new and untried system of taxa tion ; another remodels the grand jury laws; another provides for recalling from office men who are unsatisfac tory; ail these and other proposals being difficult questions requiring de liberation and discussion. One of the notable features of the initiative scheme in Oregon is the fact that practically any proposal can be placed .before the voters of the whole State. o -w- H R'your doctor fully endorses your 4_ § J £ * F taking Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral for Cl iCJ /Cl MS Q y° ur Hard cough, then buy it and A A Wf W WVUW/ TO use it. If he does not, then do not IVo publish Iho oompkto formulas of all our wke a single dose of it. He knows mojlcmos. Wo aro proud of thorn. Wo haoo *" abo “ , «»■« »PKndld medicine nothing to conceal; no secrete to hide. for COUghs and colds, MOORE IS AGAIN NAMED AS SUPT. 0E SCHOOLS Elected by Board Education Tuesday. Mr. W. S. Moore is again chosen by the county board of education as su perintendent of schools of Sumter, and thus enters upon his fourth term in that capacity. A competitive- ex amination was held on 4th inst. in which Messrs. W. S. Moore,. J. T. Price and F. W. Forth were appli cants for the position of county school commissioner, or superintendent. The board of education took the respective papers under consideration and on yesterday announced its decision, again electing Supt. Moore to the po sition he has ably filled for ten years or longer. ARE NAMED ON STAFF OF GEN. J. W. CLARK Veterans of Sumter Are Honored. In issuing his general order No. 1, General John W. Clark, commanding the Georgia Division, United Confed erate Veterans, dated Tuesday, has announced the appointment of the members of his staff for the year 1908. Prominent Confederate veterans from various sections of the State are ap pointed to staff positions with the rank of aide-de-camp and lieutenant colonel, and Sumter county is honor ed in the appointment of Captain John A. Cobb and Mr. H. T. Davenport. Captain Cobb was formerly brigadier general commanding the Western di vision of Georgia, U. C. V., the posi tion now held by Gen. Vaughn, of Macon county, while Mr. Davenport has for several years been the able and efficient commander of Camp Sumter, 642, U. C. V. Their old comrades in arms and the people of Sumter generally will appreciate this recent, compliment conferred by Gen eral Clark, state commander, upon these gallant old veterans of the sixties and honored citizens of Sum ter county. WIZARD EDISON 61 YEARS OLD Moulding Concrete Houses His Latest. ORANGE, N. J., Feh. 11.—(Special) —Thomas Edison, the wizard of the age of electricity today observed his 61st birthday. Although he has ach ieved financial independence through his hundreds of inventions, the aged wizard is still busily engaged on many projects which will be of the greatest benefit to humanity. Os late he has spent a considerable portion of his time in investigating the pos sibilities latent in concrete as a house-building material, and has per fected machinery whereby such hous es may be molded quickly and in an economical manner. Mr. Edison was born at Milan, 0., February 11, 1847. He began his bus iness career at the age of 12 as a newsboy. When still a youth he be came a telegrapher and it was while engaged in this occupation that he be came interested in the marvels of electricity and commenced the career as an inventor which has made his name fafhous throughout the world. The wizard attributes his long life and the preservation of the activity of his mental processes to the regu larity of his habits. He retires at midnight and arises at 5:30, eats but little and works almost incessantly in his laboratory from 8 in the morn ing until 7 in the evening; ASKS AN ELECTION TO PLACE HE WELL FILLS Mr. Childers for City Court Solicitor. When Rev. Allen Fort resigned the office of solictior of of the City Court to enter another field of duty, the Governor appointed Mr. Zack Childers to fill the unexpired term, a well mer ited compliment to an able, capable and vigilant young attorney, who is ever at the post of duty and who has made an inviable record in the role of State prosecutor. Mr. Childer now offers for election to a full term in this office and, according to long-established precedent, his friends and the voters generally will cordially support his candidacy in the democratic primary April 15th, with a consciousness of the fact that the trust imposed is most worthily bestowed. RAISING FUNDS FOR ORPHAN’S 'HOME Friday night a free lecture will be given at the city hall by Mrs. A. Stafford, in behalf of the Industrial Bible School and Orphans Home at Vega, Ga„ of which her husband, Rev. A. Stafford, is general manager. The buildings are now being put up and it is to secure funds to complete the work that Mrs. Stafford is canvass ing. The needs of the school will be presented, and the good which will come of its sucessful opening pointed out. The school will be undenomina tional. Mrs. G. M. Fomby, one of the collectors, is in the city canvassing for funds. POLICE TO PULL ALL WHO SHOOT ON STREET Bird Hunters Had Better Desist. Americas’ residence streets are in ! tested just now by dozens of men | and boys armed with small rifles, in ' quest of robins, and to the great dan . ger of citizens generally. Several people have narrowly escaped being struck by bullets, while window glas ses and the lead cables of the tele phone company made targets of by those who fail to find birds. This promiscuous shooting is going to be stopped at once by the police and or ders to that effect have been issued by the mayor. Already Chief Feagin has instructed the police to arrest anyone caught shooting a rifle, or against whom such charge can be proven, and the officers will go out this morning to look after the rifle wielders. AGENTS ARE SELLING SUPPLIES IN COUNTY New Methods of Business Here. Coming in direct competition to merchants of Americas, Plains, Les lie, De Soto and other towns in the county, traveling agents are now go ing through this section sellihg gro ceries at retail direct to consumers. It is said that a half dozen of these salesmen, representing a northern supply house are operating in the country about Americus and selling supplies of meat, flour, sugar, coffee and all lines of groceries direct to consumers. It is presumed that they pay a retail license tax for thus doing business in Sumter county, but if they do not, and such tax is required, the matter certainly should be investi gated at once. TEA POTS ARE FAVORS AT MEETING OF CLUB Occasion at Mrs. Cato’s is Enjoyed. The Fortnightly Club, the member ship of which is largely made up of ladies who care little for cards, was handsomely entertained at its recent meeting by Mrs. John P. Cato. The attendance of members and invited guests was quite large and the occa sion was in every respect one of the most enjoyable of the season in social circles here. most inviting in their decorations The parlors of this pretty home were most inviting in their decora tions, violets and white hyacinths be ing used in profusion, while palms and ferns added a pretty effect to an already charming scene. A “tea party” was the program, and prettily carried out. The score cards were dainty des igns of tea pots, and upon these were inscribed the puzzling questions that entertained the guests until all had been answered. When the “tea pots” were put aside and the contest ended, a course of sweets was served. Punch was daintily served by Miss Josephine Turpin. The following club members at tended this delightful fortnightly meet ing at Mrs. Cato’s. Mesdames D. R. Andrews, G. W. Bacot, A. D. Gatewood, M. M. Low rey, J. R. Hudson, Frank Sheffield, Frank Lanier, H. B. Mashburn, Rob ert Scarborough, W. G. Turpin, J. L. Wooten, H. W. Weaver, J. W. Shiver, D. W. Bagley, Lott Warren, R. E. Cato, Frank Cato, C. R. Whitley, P. A. Jack son, R. L. Maynard, Mises Sebie Wooten, Alice Wheat ley, Laurie Hooper, Florence Niles. POSTAGE STAMP WAS DISHONORED Map Design Fooled the Postmaster. WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 11.— (Special)—According to a story going the rounds, a postmaster in a rural New York town found among his Christmas mail a package bearing an odd little sticker with which he was not familiar. “That’s no stamp,” said he, tossing the package to his clenk; “that’s a snap. Put a ten-cent due stamp on that and collect for it when it. is called for.” As a matter of fact it was a map, but nevertheless, a stamp, and one issued by Uncle Sam, too, not later than four years ago. It was the ten cent denomination of the Louisiana Purchase issue got out in honor of the big exposition held at St. Louis in 1904, and instead of presenting the portrait of one of. the nation’s cele brities it showed a map of the country with the territory included in the Louisiana purchase sharply defined by heavy lines. The Panama map stamps form an interesting study. The first of these stamps was issued by the Colombian Republic in 1887, of which Panama then formed a part. The eyes of the world had for years been on the nar row isthmus that connects the two American continents, and the stamp was probably intended as much as anything else to attract wide attention to the possibilities that lay in the opening up of a canal' through this strip of land. Nicaragua has also a map stamp, and this was probably issued with the intent to advertise the suggested Nlc-< araguan route for a canal. I Absolutely {I Jrar the most healthful jffl of fruits, comes the lg chief ingredient of M IROHAL POWDER Jf The only baking powder A ’ Grap e Creant~^^^r l alum •Jit !jV\ or phosphate of lime powders, but with Jj [~j JI jjJjMspp Royal you are sure of pure, healthful food. EDISON TALKS 0E CEMENT HOUSES Should Rent for $5 a Month. NEW YORK, Feb. 11.— (Special) Thomas A. Edisop is enthusiastic about his new concrete houses. He thinks it lias solTeil many of the dif ficulties of the poor man in the ques tion of rent. He says: “At last 1 have solved the problem of decent existence for the poor man —and to the rich, too, I can hold out a glad message. “The cast, by which the cost of cement houses will be reduced many times, is completed. The dangerless electric auto, going a hundred miles without recharge, at twenty miles per hour, if you like, is an accom plished fact. “The problems that confronted me for the last two years or longer are no longer problems. In the palm of my hand I hold the iron cement cast necessary to cheapen the build ing of cement houses to such an ex tent that the very poorest can afford a roof over his head. Here Mr. Edison smiled broadly. “Unless Rockefeller,” he continued, “go€s in heavily for coal—l mean, buys up coal mines right and left—he will lose a great part of his enormous income, for the days of the benzine buggy are numbered. Before I leave for the South with my family, in a few weeks, my new electric storage battery, will be ready for trial, and Lumber, Sash, Doors, Blinds, FINE CABINET MANTLES A SPECIALTY, Full stocks of cement, lime, plaster, shingles and all builders supplies. Paints, in car load lots. Grates, medium to the finest. ORCHESTRA 10c BOX SEATS 15c GALLERY 5c Open from 4-6 and 6:45 to 10 p. m. Glover’s Opera House The Home of Amusement. Special Program for Today. - You Will be Pleased \ The Hub and Comedy Theatre Co., New York. HARRY K. LUCAS, Local Manager. “NOTHING BUT THE BEST.” p. S.—The favorite byword now is “Meet Me At the Picture Show.” NUMBER 37 Vhere will be no doubt that it will be a complete success. By the time I come back, the fac tories will have turned out a hundred of them, suitable for racing, ordinary carriage use, and trucking. Then good-bye, benzine—good bye to high priced chaffeurs. “But this is not the invention on which I particularly pride myself. The proudest moment of my life oc curred a few hours ago, when I put the finishing touches to the iron cast that makes the cement house so much talked about, in reality the poor man’s palace. "To make the'poor man a man who respects himself, 1 calculated we must furnish him with a decent home. De cent homes make decent housewives, decent housewives bring up children healthy in body and mind—a new so ciety, as it were. “My cement houses will be the mak ing of it, but, mind, I have no finan cial ends in view with them. I will turn over the iron casts to a com pany at cost price, and in June next they will commense building, at Spring Lake, between Newark, and Bloom field. “Practically the tenats of my cem ent Queen Anne’ cottage should not pay more than $5 rent per month; $lO per month for a two-family house. Don’t you think that will end the con gestion in the tenement districts of New York and of the smaller cities and towns as well?” The new system of “religious thera peutics,” is curing a good many people who would get fighting mad if told by a doctor that nothing ailed them.— Washington Post.

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Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, February 12, 1908, Image 1