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THE TIMES-RECORDER
DAILY AND WEEKLY
The Americus Recorder, Established
1879.
The Americus Times, Established 1890
Consolidated April, 1891.
THOMAS GAMBLE, JR.,
Editor and Manager.
C. W. CORNFORTH,
Associate Editor and Assistant
Manager.
J. W. FURLOW, City Editor.
W. L. DUPREE,
Assistant Business Dept
Editorial Room Telephone 99.
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Official Organ of Sumter County.
Official Organ of Webster County.
Official Organ of Railroad Commis
sion of Georgia for the 3rd Congres
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Americus Ga„ Feb. 12, 190*.
Governor Hughes has had liis
beard trimmed. This will lose him
the PopuDst vote.
If the truth hurts, let it hurt. That's
the way the Athens Banner looks
at the Wirz inscription.
If Taft wins Hitchcock will probab
ly be postmaster general. He ca"
then hand cut the pie to the faithful.
The defeated candidates in next
June’s primary will think the period
of depression is still on in Geor
gia.
Japan is preparing for a great
international fair in 1912. That ought
to keep the peace for the next four
years, anyway.
The men who are holding cotton for
fifteen cents do not seem to be any
nearer the mark than some time ago.
The more the pity.
The Macon Telegraph says Mrs.
Roosevelt is never heard from. Teddy
doesn’t give her a chance to even get
in a word edgewise.
Judson Harmon believes that the
tariff is responsible for more abuses
in a month than all the railroads ever
committed in a year.
“No more voters but better mo
thers” is the way one woman sizes
up the needs of the country in op
posing female suffrage.
With a great automobile mee* and
a hot local election in sight Savannah
is in a fairway to lose sight of pro
hibition, as the chief topic of daily
talk.
A rabbi of Boston says the Ameri
can public is beginning to learn that
“Business is business” was not among
the maxims handed down on Mount
Sinai. -
If the weather man will give the
farmers of Sumter half a chance there
will be many thousands of acres plow
ed up for the next crop within the
coming fortnight.
The lawyer who makes a business
of soliciting business is a menace tc
the community in which he lives, says
the Rome Tribune. Sometimes he
reforms and gets into high offices.
Days like Monday are a convinc
ing argument in favor of paving the
business section as quickly as possi
ble. When it comes to mud rs. bricks
there is no doubt as how the public
stands.
The Tribune wants Rome to gel
out of the “about-to-be” class. Cer
tainly. Rome should get in the class
with Americus, the class of cities
that are already there and moving
ahead.
The negroes may remember the
Brownsville affair, says the New York
Tribune, but those in office are pretty
apt to remain loyal to the federal
appointing power . Pie beats preju
dice everytime.
A titled European says with a
sneer, “There is no society in the
United States.” Ten to one he has
never read the society pages of our
city dailies or he would certainly
know much better.
The public will have an ample crop
of candidates to select from at the
coming primary. The offices are all
important ones and the selection ol
those to vote for is a matter that de
serves careful consideration.
The normal, natural revival ol
eighty milion purchasing people
whose regular consumption is itsell
a tremendous market, has begun, says
the Philadelphia Press in an optimistic
look into the business future.
It is proposed to move the statue
of George Washington away from
its position in front of the capitol at
Washington. Here may be Pennsyl
vania’s chance to secure a site for
its statue of that immortal patriot
Matthew Stanley Quay.
Gov. Cummins of lowa, is said tc
have his eyes on the Republican pres
idential nomination, in the event that
Taft cannot make it. Cummins was
the original tariff revisionist of the
G. O. P. but the party will hardly go
that far west for a standard bearer.
The suggestion that J. Pierpont Mor
gan be elected President of these
United States, the Washington Post
says, ' “is both interesting and valua
ble.” It certainly is. And to think
of the barrel that J. P. could put up
without calling on the corporations!
TIME NOW FOR THE INCOME TAX,
Now that the government is facing a great deficit in its income foF the
ensuing year, witn the country still struggling with adverse business con
ditions, and with the public mind more than ever concentrated on the fact
that great wealth should be made to bear more of the burdens of govern
ment than it has heretofore been doing, the times would seem tb be propi
•ious for the renewal of the income tax measure in Congress.
Both of the great party leaders stand committed to an income tax.
Bryan has always favored it, and Roosevelt has several times given utter
ance to views along that line. It is safe to say that the vast majority of
\oters throughout the country are committee to the same principle of taxa
tion and would hail the passage of a law by Congress that would meet the
objections heretofore held against such auspices of taxation by the Supreme
Court. The opinion is widespread that wealth—predatory or otherwise--
has not been and is not beai-ng its full quota of governmental expenses
and that the burdens bear down too heavily on the man of average or
email means.
Representative Hull, of lowa, is talking of bringing the matter before
the House again. If he does he can rely upon a pretty solid Democratic
support. In a recent interview Representative Hull said:
“Every reason now* exists in support of some action by Congress that
wBl result in securing a review by the United States Supreme Court of the
Important constitutional questions in this law which were by that court
decided adversely to the Government in the face, of a uniform line of
decision to the contrary extending o\er 100 years of the nation's history.
Furthermore, this decision of the Supreme Court only declares invalid
certain portions of the Income Tax law. while other provisions were treated
as within themselves valid by the court. It is due the country and due the
Supreme Court, in my judgment, that an opportunity for further considera
tion of these controverted questions, so vital to the power of Congress,
should be given the Supreme Court.
“To cite a case in point, a majority of the Supreme Court rendered a
decision that the Treasury notes of the United States were not a legal
tender for the pavment of private debts, but immediately thereafter, after
the court had been re-organ a contrary decision was rendered which
yet stands as the law. The Government is almost in the act of facing a
?!00,000,000 deficit; the enforcement of the Income Tax law would easily
bring into the Treasury $75,000,000 to $100,000,000. Congress must regain
much of its taxing power destroyed by this decision before an equitable
efficient income tax can be levied, especially the power to thus reach in
vested personal property, bonds, stocks and investments of all kinds; also
the income arising from the renting of real estate.
“This course would enable the wealthier class to assume what it has
so long avoided, a part of its just share of the burden of taxation, and so
make up the impending deficit Why should not this course be pursued?
It is the most feasible. Democrats generally favor the income tax. The
President favors even a graduated income tax. So let these questions be
again reviewed by the Supreme Court, in the hope that the court as now
composed may return to the original doctrine. It is not sought to enforce
that portion of the law imposing tax on incomes from State and municipal
bonds.”
A LIMITED PARCELS POST |
Both in the Senate and Lower House
of Congress bills have been introduc
ed providing for a limited parcels
post. None of the bills goes any fur
ther than to provide for a cheap rate
for packages which originate at the
office from which the route starts. For
instance Americus merchants could
have the benefit of this rate for goods
they desired to send by mail to cus
tomers living on rural routes start
ing here, but could not get the same
rate on rural routes running out of
Plains or Cordele.
These bills side-step the recommeh
dation of Postmaster General Myers,
which provided also for a reduced
rate for the mail order houses of
the large cities to any rural route
in the United States. Representative
Griggs of Georgia, is the author of
one of the bills in the Lower House.
Should the proposed parcels post
be adopted, it might be .of some bene
fit to the rural route patron who
had a telephone and a line of credit
with the town merchants but the
added cost of 5 cents for the first
pound or less, would make it differ
ent from ordering goods delivered in
town by telephone, where the mer
chants have a free delivery system by
wagon.
Os course the Government will lose
heavily on delivering packages at 5
cents for the first pound and 2 cents
for additional pounds, but there is
some consolation in the belief that
the patronage of the mills at these low
rates would be small. It would be a
case of a merchant selling goods be
low cost, for the Government, the
more he sold the worse off he would
be.
While the proposed parcels post is
of a comparatively harmless type,
except when the people come to
foot the extra bills in postofflee appro
priations, there is danger that it
may be attempted to use it as an
entering wedge for a general parcels
post, when the big mail order houses
will be able to place its goods in the
local merchants territory at a nomi
nal charge. The evils of such a par
cels post have heretofore been point
ed out. If this should be its effect,
the proposed law could not be con
demned too strongly.
Anyway, there is little to be gained
even by the proposed limited parcels
post, and there might be evil con
sequence. It would be a good thing
to let alone.
MAKING PORTUGAL A REPUBLIC
Efforts to make Portugal a Repub
lic since the killing of King Carlos
have been unsuccessful. Last week
a wide-spread plot at Oporto to es
tablish a Republic was nipped and
numerous conspirators arrested. For
the time being the Government is in
control.
But regrettable as was the regicide,
it is not likely that the move to
make the Kingdom a republic will
be restrained on that account. The
killing has not been definitely fas
tened on the republic party, and was
probably the work of anarchists who
were working under cover of the pop
ular agitation against Premier Fran
co.
Reforms do not usually go back
ward, so that the chances of Portugal
joining the list of republics is bright.
In the present unsettled condition of
that country, the new member of the
family of republics will not reflect any
great credit on the name.
An English rector has invited the
men to “bring their pipes to church.”
If the women were only invited to
bring their cigarettes wdth them the
church would become a very popular
instituion. But one cannot help won
dering what would become of its
refining and elevating influence if
the sadists in the pulpit were allow
ed to have full sway.
THROUGH TRAINS TO HAVANA
The first train has just been run
over one of the most remarkable lines
of railroad in the world, the exten
sion of the Florida East Coast Rail
way from Miami, to Knight’s Key, on
its way to Key West. At Key West
steamers will ultimately carry the
entire trains to Havana, a run of
nine hours. The road Is built over
the intervals between keys, one space
being three miles in length. The
trains will be “ocean going.”
This railroad building has been
made possible by the coral foundations
at no very great depth upon w-hich
the cement piers were builded. If
the matter had been left the coral
insects in ten thousand years they
might perhaps have built up the gap
themselves, but this was a little
too long for President Henry M.
Flagler, whose dream it has been to
complete the East Coast to Key West.
Though in recent years the road
has felt the stringency of money, yet
one way or another it has been kept
going until a long link has been built
which in itself brings Cuba and the
United States several hours nearer to
gether.
Forty-seven miles yet remain to be
built before Key West is reached, but
the success so far obtained will insure
the rest of the work. In two or
three years it will be possible to
get into a sleeping car at New York
and land in Havana without leaving
the car. Tourists as well as business
men will be the gainers by this great
work. Trade should be stimulated
and this country come into her own
as the chief supplier on Cuba’s ne^ds.
SEIZING THE OPPORTUNITY.
Holders of the second and third in
come bonds of the Central of Georgia
have entered suit to compel the pay
ment of the full 5 per cent dividend
on these two classes of debentures
for the fiscal year ending June 30
last. At the annual meeting of the
directors of the road held last Aug
ust the thirds were left entirely out,
while the seconds got less than 4
per cent. Interest on the incomes
bonds is payable “when earned” and
it is the contention of the complain
ants, that the dividends were really
earned, and that the manipulation of
the earnings of the Ocean Steamship
Company, which is owned by the
Central, prevented the books from
showing the requisite net earnings to
have made the full 5 per cent inter
est on all three classes of bonds nec
essary. The suits have been institut
ed in Savannah.
Without going into the merits of
the case, which will be fully argued
by both sides, it is a safe prediction
that there will be nothing to wrangle
over for the fiscal year which ends
June 30, next. It is doubtful if the
firsts will even be able to show in
the next distribution. It may be a
case of now or never with the second
and thirds.
Hon Joseph M. Brown has already
pointed out that Central of Georgia
securities were owned by a large
number of widows, eleemosynary in
stitutions and estates. The efficient
work of the Georgia Railroad Com
mission in contributing so generous
ly to the production of conditions
which will leave the bondholders of
the Central with the empty sack to
hold next time will not tend to allay
the rising tide which the “reformers”
are encountering. “Help me Cassius,”
may yet be the wail of Gov. Smith.
During the snow and sleet storm
which swept over North Georgia
Monday, Atlanta was cut off from the
rest of the world. How the rest of
the world managed to survive the
deprivation will no doubt be a mys
tery to the Atlantans.
Occasionally a detective tries to
disguise his breath with a clove.—Ex,
RHEUMATISM
BLOOD FILLED WITH URIC ACID
Rheumatism comes front an excess of uric acid in the blood. This acid
circulating through the system acts as an irritant to the different muscles,
nerves, bones and tissues of the body, and produces the inflammation and
swelling of the joints and the sharp, cutting pains characteristic of the dis
ease. AYhen the blood is overburdened with uric acid it continually grows
weaker and more acrid, and poorer in nourishing qualities. Then Rheuma
tism becomes chronic, and not only a painful, but a formidable and danger
ous disease. Sometimes the heart is attacked, the general health is affected,
and the oils and fluids which lubricate the muscles and joints are destroyed
by the acrid matter which the blood is constantly depositing in them ; the
muscles shrink and lose their elasticity, the coating of the joints becomes
hard and thick, and often the sufferer is left a hopeless cripple. S. S. S.
attacks the disease at its head, goes down into the circulation, and by neutral
izing and removing the uric acid from the
circulation and building up the thin, acrid
blood, cures Rheumatism permanent! y.
S. S. S. changes the sour, acid-burdened blood
0 nvß to a rich, healthy stream which quiets the
excited nerves, eases the throbbing, painful
PURELY VEGETABLE muscles and joints, and filters out of the
system the irritating matter which is causing
the pain and inflammation. Begin the use of S. S. S. now and get the cause
out of your blood so that the cold and dampness of Winter will not keep you
in constant pain and miserv. Book on Rheumatism and ativ medical advice
free. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, GA-
FILES A DEFENSE OF JOHN D.
(Texas Medical Journal)
Everybody abuses Rockefeller. It's
the fashion—because he has made an
immense fortune. I file a brief for the
defense, not of Standard Oil but of
this alleged hard old fellow. He will
live in history as "one who loved his
fellow man," like Ben Adhem; but,
unlike Ben, he is one of the world's
benefactors. It was a benefaction to
distribute coal oil all over the world,
to put it in reach of the poorest. Who
minds a few cents more or less for
a gallon of lamp oil?
I remember that, when a boy, I used
to get my lessons by a single “star”
candle; my father got his by a home
made tallow “dip," and he used to say
that his father got his by "light-’ood";
that is,- pine knots split up. Our first
lamp burned lard oil; the next were
“camphene” and “phosgene,” explosive
as dynamite. The introduction of coal
oil as a luminant was a distinct ad
vance and a blessing to millions.
Well, what a luxury a coal oil lamp
would have been to her who, with a
single thread, 'sewed at a shirt
and a shroud.”
But Rockefeller gave $50,000,000 to
education at one pop. Peabody isn't
in it a litle bit, nor Carnegie either.
These things, however, I did not
intend to allude to. What was in my
mind to say was that Rockefeller gave
New York city $5,000,000 to found an
“institute for medical research.” The
institute is now in operation, and one
of the very first—if not the first—dis
coveries by “research” made possible
by this misunderstood and absurd old
gentleman is one of inestimable value
and far-reaching importance. It is
no less than a small quantity of Ep
som salts, hypodermically administer
ed, is an anaesthetic, local and gener
al, void of the dangers that attend
chloroform, ether and cocaine. And
this discovery was made by experi
ment on a dog. Now, mind you, I love
a dog, and I may say as my friend
Frank Johnson used to say, the more
I see of some men the better I like
dogs. "Not Caesar less, but Rome
More.” I love humanity more; and
while the necessity of animal experi
mentation in the laboratory for the
advancement of medical science and
the prolongation of life is to be de
plored, still it is necessary.
Big Insurance Policies
(Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)
Some men achieve greatness in
one way and some in another. Rod
man Wanamaker, son of John Wana
maker of Philadelphia, is famous for
carrying more life insurance policies
than any other man in the country.
His i>olicies aggregate $4,000,000 at
the present time, according to a table
published in New York, while his fa
ther carries policies of $1,500,000.
President Roosevelt, it is stated, is a
patron of the life insurance compan
ies to the amount of $85,000. James
C. Colgate is insured for $1,500,000,
and there are a score of New York
ers with policies exceeding half a
million. One interesting feature of
the table is a list of the women who
carry large policies, the name*of Mme.
Schumann-Heink, the singer, being
at the head. She pays premiums on
policies amounting to $135,000. It is
stated that there are 5,000 persons in
the country who carry policies on
their lives exceeding $50,000.
He Has His Doubts
(Chicago News.)
You tell him anything you please—
That black is black or white is
white,
That curdled milk makes cottage
cheese,
That blind men have no, sense of
sight.
That rabbit’s tails are rather brief,
That cocks will crow and ducks
will swim.
He looks at you with_unbelief;
You’ve got to prove all that to him.
He doesn't mean to doubt your word,
He’s no desire to give offense,
But he's a pretty wary bird
And wants to see the evidence,
He knows that there are snares and
traps,
And so he waits in silence grim;
It may be very true, perhaps,
But you must prove all that to him.
«
And you might affidavits bring,
By notaries in form attest.
Os witnesses a perfect string
And books until you couldn’t rest,
Your chance would still be pretty
slim,
Os show-ing him that he’s a fool;
You never could prove that to
him.
Exports of cotton for the season
are nearly 400,000 bales below last
year, but the takings of American
mills are more than 200,000 hales lar
ger. On the other hand the amount
of cotton brought into sight for the
season is more than 1,500,000 less than
last season. Unless there should be
a very material decrease in the tak
ings of mills as compared with the
same period of last season, a sensa
tional rise could be expected as the
season draws to a close and mills
have the alternative of paying 15
cents or shutting down.
THE PUBLIC MIN'D AND TARIFF
• Baltimore Sun>
In view of the impossibility of get
ting tariff reform at once, it may be
very desirable to have a nonpartisan
commission to collect facts and sug
gest a tariff for the Congress of 1909
to- consider. The hearings and the dis
cussions attending the work of the
commission will have an educative
value. The public mind will be in
structed in regard to the absurdities
and enormities of the exisiting tariff,
and public sentiment in favor of
reform may acquire a volume and
momentum that will make it irres
istable. There are those who be
lieve that the anti-railway rate dis
cussion and legislation fostered for
several years by the President were
initiated partly to divert the public
mind from the tariff and its effect in
fostering trusts. It will be recalled
that President McKinley, just before
his assassination, announced a policy
of tariff reduction, and the public
mind at that time was much occupied
with the subject. A diversion was
needed. The outcry against trusts,
pointed directly to the tariff as their
fostering cause. The diversion came
shrewdly in the shape of denuncia
tions of*the railways. Standard Oil
and other interests not protected by
the tariff. The tariff has been kept
out of sight by the President. But
the diversion does not last, and in the
meeting at Washington we have the
spectacle of protectionists them
selves reverting so President Mc-
Kinley’s program.
THE LENGTHENING ROLL.
• New York World)
Morse has lost his fortune and
fled.
Let those who lose al 1 faith in fair
ness, who think that the laws were
always made against the poor and
humble and lawyers for the rich and
powerful, who believe that a stolen
fortune always protects the robber
from the consequences of its theft,
who imagine that because there some
times seems no justice in law. there
fore there is no law of justice—let
such as these take heed of the growing
list of those who in the last two
years, thinking themselves above the
law, were punished by the law or
perished by the law.
Let them think of those who like
Hyde and McCurdy and Morse have
been exiled by the law’s like
Walsh and Burton, Gaynor and Greene
and Schmitz, have been found guilty
in courts of justice, who like Alexan
der have been broken and like Bar
ney and Maxwell have been driven to
suicide by that implacable higher law
which has never favored class or
privilege.
Let them think of the lengthening
roll and know that retribution is
not recreant.
Lovely Woman
(Somerville Journal)
She got into a street car on
A freezing winter day;
She left the front door open—O
What did the people say:
She bravelv took a hammer, and
She tried to drive a nail:
The catastophe that, followed
Made every one turn pale—
Lovely woman!
She started to a party, just
A half hour late;
At the door she asked her husband:
“Have I got my hat on straight?”
They got her in the court room, and
They asked her: "What’s your age?”
Says she: “I'll own to twenty-five”—
Now that, was pretty sage.
Lovely woman!
She bought an automobile veil,
A hundred inches long;
She'll have an automobile, when
They’re selling for a song.
She worked and read and talked all
day
As every woman ought;
At midnight, when her husband came,
She told him what she thought—
Lovely woman!
She's not at all athletic, as
A'ou’re often heard her say,
But she’d jump on the piano, if
A mouse should come her way!
Can she keep the man a-busting? You
Can simply bet your life!
Still we wouldn’t do without her,
As sister, sweetheart, wife —
Lovely woman!
JEP S ls an or<leal vhich a^
BE. g* #M? JsSbSTSJr,^
A HakiTHER awartisu
of the suffering and danger in store for her, robs the expectant mother
of all pleasant anticipations of the coming event, and casts over her a
shadow of gloom which cannot be shaken off. Thousands of women
have found that the use of Mother’s Friend during pregnancy robs
confinement of all pain and danger, and insures safety to life of mother
and child. This scientific liniment is a god-send to all women at the
time of their most critical trial. Not only does Mother’s Friend
carry women safely through the perils of child-birth, but its use
gently prepares the system for the coming event, prevents “morning
sickness,’’ and other dis-
comforts of this period. M 33
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containing valuable information free. MfflSHtT3
The Bradfield Regulator Co., Atlanta, Ga. Jr fflWm Mma uW MU W
WHAT TO DO WITH THE HOLIDAY BOOKS!
\
Just now this is a leading question in many thousand
" American homes.
How can all the new books, with their attractive bindings
be displayed to the best advantage, arranged and classified
so as to always be accessible. * . r.*. .« x♦ - *»
Ncm> is the most propitious moment of the entire year to settle
this question for all time to come, by procuring BlotcAvcr»iwk«
“Elastic” Book Cases which are graded as to height to fit the
books of any library, and in lengths to fit most any room.
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only patent equalizer that absolutely prevents binding.
Three different * styles are described in the catalogue —
Standard, Mission and Ideal—each one a distinctive type.
“We carry the goods in stock and sell at catalogue prices.
t ' “
A. W. Smith Furniture Co. _
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If you want good home made Har
ness buv from
W. O. BARNETT,
Manufacturer of all kinds of Harness.
FISH TALES are often exaggerations,but
we have n > need ot stretching the truth in
our business as FISH DEALERS. Fie h
ness Is an absolutely indispensable quality
in unsalted or unsmoked fish and we nand e
none about wnich there may betneslightest
doubt. We kee every kind in seasonYrom
the game y tTout to solid mullet. And we
d- n't trv to make a fortune on cerv p unl
of fish we sell either. 5 H- It LOCK & CO.
Phoue No. 3^.
An indignant citizen has asked
the aid of the Railroad Comission in
maintaining his contention with a
fail road company that his saddle is
baggage. Trying to saddle more
trouble on the commission.
Scab Wright is still thinking of
shying his castor into the senatorial
ring. If so he will make his issues
federal prohibition of the shipment of
liquors into dry states and the aboli
tion of speculative dealings in cotton,
wheat, etc. Senator Clay has already
taken a strong stand for the first and
undoubtedly favors the latter, if it is
possible. Seab had better trot out a
new issue.
!L. G. CorKciL Hest, K. J. Hkkv, A Hf-l’iot, t. M («. t mu, Cashier.
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Security, Liberality and Courtesy Accorded Its Patrons.
DIRECTORS;
C. L. Ansley, G. M. Eidridge. R. J. Perry
W. A. Dodson, Thos. Harrold, A. W. Smith,
N. X. Dudley, H. R. Johnson.
L. A. LOWREY, President. 31. M. LOWREY, Cashier.
CRAWFORD WHEATLEY, Vice. Pres. It. E. McNTLTY, Asst. Cashier.
AMERICUS NATIONAL BANK
The Only National Bank in This Section.
CAPITAL $100,000.00. U. S. BONDS $100,000.00.
Under the supervision of the
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT.
Accounts of firms, individuals and coporatlons invited. Certificates of
deposit issued bearing interest.
J. W. SHEFFIELD, President, FRANK SHEFFIELD Yin-Fie*.
E. D. SHEFFIELD, Cashier.
BANK OF COMMERCE,
Americus, Ga.
A general banking business transacted and all consistent
courtesies extended patrons. Certificates of deposit issued
earning interest.
Patentees and Mfrs., CHICAGO if WITH THE
3j|| aVd SAVINGS BANK but St takee a wise one t 0
G. M. Bragg’s Market
’PHONE No. 94.
Choice Beef and Pork,
Brains, Ribs and Back Bones.
Fresh Shad Fish and Oysters.
Pork Sausage a Specialty.
Mutton for Saturday and Sunday.
»IN THE FAMILY CIRCLE
there’s nothing so conductive to real
enjoyment as good music. Certainly
no well-regulated home should be
without a piano. That is to say. a
high-grade instrument. None better
made. The piano is not only perfec
tion of construction, tone and action,
but also of handsome design and beau
tiful finish. Not so expensive either.
L. D. LOCKHART,
G. C. HALL
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER
BRICK WORK A SPECIALTY
Contract work solicited in Americus and surrounding towns
All Work Guaranteed. Office B. C. Hodges Store
Forsyth St. Phone No. 418.
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