Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, February 12, 1908, Image 1
I 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.
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NFXT TO POSTOFFICE.
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ICURES BABYS CROUP at
SHOULD KEEP IT IN THE HOUSE
’M|ommended by physicians.
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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 ’
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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.