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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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OUR STOCK
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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 TJMES-RECORDER
GLOVER CO. WILL
BUILD ADDITION
Wholesale' Grocery Ware
house Needs More Room.
In a few days the contract will
be let for a 40 x 350 foot addition to
the warehouse of the Glover Grocery
Company. This will fill the gap be
tween the warehouse and the ice fac
tory on Cotton avenue. Except for
the limit of space the addition would
have been a larger one. When com
pleted, the entire warehouse will he
140 feet long by 150 feet deep.
As soon as the contract is awarded
work will he begun. It is expected
that the addition will be completed
within the next ninety days. It will
be o fbrick and will connect by door
ways with the present house occu
pied by the Glover Grocery Com
pany.
Last year was the best in the his
tory of the company, which has been
in existence just a quarter of a cen
tury under the present management.
Plans were drawn last summer for
an addition, but when the financial
troubles in the East came on, these
plans were held in abeyance until the
results of the panic could be
determined. As the trouble has prac
tically blown over, the company must
build at once to care for their stead
ily growing trade.
''Notwithstanding the stringency
last fall,” said Mr. Glover yesterday,
“we sold more during the months
of November and December than for
the same months of the year_ before.
We have been in need of additional
room for some time. We only wish
we could get space for a larger
addition than the one about to be
made.
“The coming year gives every evi
dence of being even better than the
•»
past one, which was the banner year
for us. Our territory was but little
affected by the panic. The farmers
have been cashing their crops of cot
ton, peas and oilier products with
little interruption. Perhaps half
of the lines handled by a wholesaler
is composed of articles other than
strictly necessary things, but there
has been no diminution in the sales
of any class of goods. The people
in our territory are prosperous and
of course that makes us prosperous.”
TOMORROW ST.
VALENTINE’S DAY
All Kinks of Remembrances
to be Sent.
Tomorrow' is St. Valentiness Day.
For two weeks a tempting display of
fine and comic valentines has been
made in bookstore windows. Some
contain messages of love, w'hile
others are cheat) and contain on one
side some alleged humor which is
supposed to fit the recipient in some
way.
Old maids figure most conspicuous
ly in these “funny ’uns,” but as this
is leap year the quips will lose a
part of their sting, for there are
many more months yet before the
bell is rung for the four years wait
until another leap year. Many pro
posals can be made in that time.
In the morning the postman will be
burdened with the messages from
friends and enetnies and also from the
joker. The display of handsome faces
on the cheap valentines is unusually
liberal this season.
Origin of the Day
Like many another of our Chris
tian customs and observances our
“Festival of Love,” which we cele
brate on February 14, originally was
a heathen festival. Long before the
Christian era the Romans celebrated
the feast, of the Lupercalia—on Feb
ruary 15, each year. Pan was a rus
tic god, formed in similitude of na
ture, whence he was called Pan,
which means “all.” It was feigned
by the poets that he struggled with
Love, and was conquered by him and
it became proverbial that “Love con
quers all.” Juno was the Goddess
of Marriage, the “yoker” of youths
and maidens.
In the year of our Lord 496,
Roman youths and maidens still were
celebrating the Lupercalia, at which
the names of you fig women were
cast Into an urn and drawn by blind
folded men. The maid thus drawn
was the young man’s “valentine” and
the association resulting from this
drawing of lots usually lasted for a
year. The festival ended in an ex
travagant feast, and quite, often, in
scandalous orgies. This sort of
thing became offensive to the church
and Pope Gelasius ordered a change.
Changed to St. Valentine
Now, is so happened that one of the
most austere saints in the Christian
calendar, good Bishop St. Valentine,
had been put to death, during the
Claudian prosecution, on February 14.
A. D. 270, for the simple miracle of
opening the blind eyes of his jailer’s
daughter. Accordingly the day of the
festival was changed to Feburary 14,
and the name of the good bishop sub
stituted for the old one. The names
of saints were substituted for those
of maidens in the public drawings and
each youth was enjoined to intimate
the virtues of the saint whose name
lie drew.
The reason the average girl falls
in love with a man is she suspects
some other girl of getting ready to.—
N. Y. Press. ’ • •
AMERICUS. GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 13. 1908.
DIG INCREASE IS MADE
IN SUPPLY OE WATER
New Artesian Well Affords
50 Per Cent.
Americus is assured an abundant
supply of purest artesian water in
the new eight-inch well, recently com
pleted at a cost of probably $4,000 or
$5,000. This well, the finest one iq
the city, has a depth of more than
1,200 feet, while the daily capacity
is three hundred and sixty thousand
gallons, or fifteen thousand gallons
per hour. The city now has three fine
artesian wells at the reservoir with
a combined daily capacity of probab
ly 800,000 gallons. The auxiliary
supply, which is obtained from springs
in the vicinity, insures a total of
more than a million gallons of the
purest water daily. Few cities are
so blessed with an abundant supply
of water as Americus; pure water
in plenty,' and requiring no filter
ing.
FAMILY IS STILL CONFINED
TO HOME BY ILLNESS
Mr. N. A. Ray and nearly all the
members of his family are still con
fined to their home by illness. Mr.
Ray has had pneumonia for a \yeek,
but his condition has improved con
siderably within that time. Mrs.
Ray and others of the family are
quite ill with la grippe,
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DECISION IN FAVOR OF
VOGT VS. MITCHELL
Supreme Court Has Decided
Case.
The Supreme court has just ren
dered a decision in the case of Mit
chell versus the Henry Vogt Ma
chine Co., ,and vice versa, appealed
from the City Court of Americus and
bearing upon the plant, in whole or
part, of the City Ice Co. The decis
ion of the higher court affirms the
verdict of the City Court of Ameri
cus, which found in favor of the Hen
ry Vogt Co., in considerable amount,
and likewise awarded Mr. Mitchell
a much smaller sum. The case has
been in the courts here for some
time, the amount involved being about
SB,OOO or more. It is not yet known
what further steps, if any, will be
taken in this litigation.
ENGINEER POE IS MADE
MEMBER OF SOCIETY
Os Civil Engineers at Re
cent Meeting.
The last issue of the Engineering
Record states that City Engineer 11.
T. Joe, Jr., was elected an associate
member of the American Society Y»f
Civil Engineers at their annual meet
ing in New York last week. Mr. Poe
is one of the youngest members ever
admitted to this Society, and his
friends in Americus will tie pleased
to learn of the honor conferred upon
him. Among his former employers
who recomended him were A. L. Scott
and W. T. Snow of Boston, D. H.
Whitmer of Denver, formerly Chief
Engineer of the International Water
Co., J. W. Ledoux, Chief Engineer of
the National Gas & Construction Co.,
Consulting Engineer of the Simplex
Valve & Motor Co., and the American
Pipe Manufacturing Co.
SYRIANS AT ALTAR TO
HAVE THE KNOT TIED
Mr. Thomas and Miss Sa=
liba Wed Here.
Two well known members of Amer
icus’ Syrian colony, Miss Josephine
Saliba and Mr. Isaac Thomas, were
united in marriage last night, the
ceremony being performed by Rev. O.
P. Gilbert of First Baptist churchy at
his residence on Taylor street. This
is the first wedding of foreigners of
this nationality here in some time,
and joy reigned supreme in the col
ony last night at the reception which
followed the marriage.
SPECTACLE OF “ALI BABA”
WILL BE SEEN TONIGHT
One of the scenes presented in
the moving pictures last night was
was the magnificent spectacular pro
duction “Ali Baba” in hand-painted
and colored effects. This beautiful
Oriental picture, with its palaces,
dancing girls, etc., delighted the au
dience to such extent that Manager
Lucas lias consented to present it
again this evening, although' this is
contrary to custom, in order that
others may see this entrancing scene.
It is impossible, simply impossible, for any
JT • T'l*| r y one to enjoy the best of health if the bowels
9 'i # i O areconst 'P ate d* Undigested material,waste
Li I C/C / JL rHo products, poisonous substances, must be
Ask your doctor if he knows a better dail Y removed from the body or there will
fill for a sluggish licet than Ayer's be ‘fOUL'le, and Often serious trouble, too.
Pills. Then follow his udcice. Avt ’s ti h. :ud nature,that is ail. LawtcF, °m
THE SAUSAGE IS GIVEN
A SQUINT BY OFFICERS
Americus Links Inspected
as Well.
Comissioner Hudson’s sausage de
partment of the Pure Food inspection
has finished with that wonderful
mystery, the sgusage, and the yer?
dist its written. Sausage for inspec
tion was ordered from Americus and
other points and an inquest duly held
to determine whether foreign sub
stances were used in their construc
tion. The Americus product seems to
have passed muster all right, but
several Atlanta founderies where
the “mysterious’' its made were jack
ed up and given a roast. Eleven of
the samples sold as pure pork sau
sage were found to be mixed sausage,
which is a distinct, violation pf the
pure food law, and offending parties
are notified that they will in future be
prosecuted. A number of other sam
ples were found to contain various
chemical preservatives which are pro
hibited by the pure food law', and at
.tention was directed to several spe
cific instances where sulphite of soda
was used. Commissioner Hudson’s
order warns ail dealers using such
preservatives that they are violating
the law, and that prosecutions will
follow unless such violations are dis
continued,
PIPE ORGAN TO ARRIVE
IN A LEW DAYS
Line Instrument for First
Baptist.
The First Baptist church of Amer
icus will install its beautiful pipe
organ this week, and the occasion
will be one of much interest to the
church congregation and public gen
erally. The organ, a very handsome
Estey costing $2,500 at the factory,
was shipped from Brattleboro, Ver
mont, on the 7th inst., and should ar
rive in Americus today or tomorrow.
When the cp-gan is installed a public
recital will be arranged and a delight
ful musical program rendered. The
church is to be congratulated upon
this very desirable acquisition, which
it lias long sought to attain.
A MEETING OF STOCK
HOLDERS HELD TODAY
Americus Will be Repre
sented There.
Several Americus holders of
Southwestern Railway stock will go
to Macon this morning to attend the
annual meeting of the Southwestern
Railway Co. While this division is
leased to the Central Railway, a
separate organization is maintained
and officers elected annually to look
after the interests of stockholders. A
considerable amount of this valuable
stock is held by Americus investors,
and these, with others, will enjoy
their annual free ride to Macon to
day to attend the meeting. The north
bound train yesterday w r as well
filled with stockholders and their
large and interesting families, all of
whom are entitled to this annual
trip.
MEMORY OE ABE GROWN
DIM IN AMERICUS
Occasion is Not Observed
Here.
Americus evidently forgot yester
day that Abraham Lincoln had been
born at all, as the anniversary pass
ed unobserved and Abraham un
honored and unsung. In former years
the colored people gave some obser
vance to Lincoln day, but the matter
seemed to have been overlooked yes
terday, and the street parade of the
long ago was conspicious only by
its absence.
DECISION OF COURT IS
AGAINST WALTER REESE
Walter Reese, the Americus negro
sentenced to twenty months in the
chaingang. or healthy fine, is up
against it, tjio supreme court sus
taining the sentence imposed in the
city court here a few weeks ago.
Reese, it will be remembered. did
some remarkable gunwork in a bar
room here just before the dawn of
drouth, and for the pistoloric pleas
antry will do time in the gang under
sentence of the court.
HOW BOOZE IS BOUGHT
EASY 4T THE CAPITOL
Lightning Trick is Turned
There.
Americas has been obeying the pro
hi law strictly since the drought set
tled ui>on us and not “tiger” has
growled in this good town since booze
ceased to flow on January Ist. But
other towns are not as good, and the
oil of joy is accessible,
The ' T-ightning Express' is the new
hame for the blind tiger in Atlanta,
or at least for a system which ans
wers essential purposes.
There are said to be runners for
the “lightning express” who have no
difficulty in finding customers.
The way it is worked is some
what after this fashion. A number of
packages of liquor are shipped to
various persons, known as Bill Sykes,
Tom Jones, Sam Williams and others,
whose names may not be in the di
rectory.
An Atlantan goes out in search
for a drink.
He runs upon a “runner” for the
lightning express whose mission it
is to supply refreshment for the
thirsty. There is, it is said, an ex
change of cash for an order on the
express company to deliver to bear
er one package addressed to Sykes,
and the trade is consummated.
The owner of the order goes to the
office, gets his package and is happy
as long as it lasts.
Since there is nothing in the law
to prevent the company from keep
ing on hand packages consigned to
any person to whom they mav be ad
dressed it is easy to send several such
packages where they are retained un
til disposed ot by the rmimrs.
If anybody, It is the runner who
vie! e-5 the lr»;, ns <■ case of sale
could be made out against him, pro
vided he is caught.
COMPAXIES I‘AY LOSSES IX
THE RECENT 810 FIRE
The Queen Insurance Co., of Am
erica and the Citizens Insurance Co.,
of St. Louis were the first to pay
their losses in the recent disastrous
Americus Compress fire. These com
panies are represented by F. B. Ar
thur.
EXHIBITS ON TRAIN OF
INTEREST TO MANY
Americus Will be Reached
March 6.
When the educational train arrives
in Americus on Friday, March 6th,
for a stay" of probably two hours,
during which brief time lectures will
be made and exhibits displayed, there
will doubtless be an audience of sev
eral hundred people, if not more,
waiting at the depot.
Dr. Soule, president of the SIOO,-
000 agricultural college at Athens,
and who is in charge of the train, has
outlined an itinerary which will take
it into every county in the State and
will make 150 stops at which 300,000
people will be reached.
State School Commissioner Pound
and Commissioner of Agriculture T.
G. Hudson are expected to travel
with the train, from time to time, and
deliver lectures.
Dr. Soule has provided for five lec
turers to be aboard this train and
make brief talks at each town visited.
In order to provide for the “College
on Wheels,” a special train has been
made up of two baggage cars, for ex
hibit purposes, and three day coach
es for lecture rooms.
This train will run on special
schedule and side track for a course
of lectures at each town visited.
One as these lecturers will go into
the subject of fertilization and tell of
properties found in the use of cotton
seed meal as a fertilizer and show
exhibits which have resulted from its
use.
“This is the first attempt of the
State College of Agriculture to get in
touch with the people it is designed
to serve, the farmers. It Is the first
attempt ever made "to disseminate ag
ricultural information on such a
comprehensive scale in the South.
The spirit and attitude of the far
mers of Georgia towards agricultural
education is cause for sincere con
gratulation.
ALLISON HOME IS SOLD
FOR A GOOD PRICE
Mr. Lowrey Buys Desirable
Home.
Mr. M. M. Lowrey, cashier of the
Americus National, purchased yester
day from Mr. R. E. Allison his pretty
residence on Church east, near
Prince, and one of the most desirable
in that residence section of the city.
The consideration was not made
known but such a pretty home doubt
less brought a good price. Mr. Low
rey will take up his residence there
eventually, but for the present will
lease the property until he is ready
to occupy it. This is one of the pret
tiest small homes sold-in Americus re
cently.
Did you ever see a girl start any
where without waving good-by to
somebody?—Chicago News.
A New Photograph
Studio for Americus
LANGFORD’S STUDIO on the corner near
the ',^ es , an *® now open ready for business.
We have been delayed about thirty days
owing to the delay of the skylight, but we are
now ready.
You are cordially invited to call and inspect our work.
Why go to a larger city when you can get just as good work
at home as you can anywhere in the state?
Don t take our word for it, but come and see for yourself.
We do all kinds of photograph work. Amateur finishing.
Penny pictures for the school children. View work of any
kind- But high grade portraits a specialty.
We are not transient, but have leased a place and located
permanently. Make our Studio your headquarters. You will
always find a hearty welcome.
LANGFORD’S STUDIO.
Corner Lamar and Lee Streets.
|£ Southern Standard of Satisfaction I
Snowdrift
IhoglisslariJ
Made by Nature. As pure, as
healthful, as wholesome as the
grape of the vine or the fig of the
For all cooking—better, cheaper,
and healthier than the best of the
hog—as good as butter for most -4
We Buy and Sell
Real Estate # Negotiate Loans.
List you property with us if you want to
buy or sell.
THE ALLISON REALTY CO.
R. E. Allison, Pres. & Treas.
Office in rear of the Allison Furniture Co., Store
Allison Building, Americus, Ga.
Phone 253.
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.
Glovers Opera House
The Home of Amusement.
PROGRAM TODAY:
“Episode De Franco”
“Prussian War”
“Blue Beard”
“Parson of Hungry Gulch.”
j - .....
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.”
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