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THIRTIETH YEAR.
KNOX HATS
Spring 1908
tlf you want
the best in the
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The new
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Outfitter for Men and Boys.
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You Want
Fresh
Garden and Flower
Seed.
Rembert’s DrugJStore
is the place for all
kinds of new crop
seed*
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REMBERT’S DRUG STORE.
Have You Been to See
The Allison Furniture Co’s.
BIG SHOW WIDOW SALE.
I
Everything marked ‘in ,
plain figures. Cost has not i
been considered in this
sale. We need the money.
ALLISON FURNITURE COMPANY
OPPOSITE WINDSOR HOTEL.
AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER
LARGE CROWD HEARD
VISITING LECTURERS
Educational Special Arrived
on Time.
For two hours the Educational
special of the State Agricultural
School stood at the Central of Geor
gia depot yesterday, while its speak
ers addressed an audience which aver
aged about 900 people, the crowd
coining and going. Many ladies were
auditors, standing near the station or
inside the waiting rooms.
The train was practically on time,
arriving a few minutes after one
o'clock. A crowd of near a thousand
people had gathered to welcome the
visiting special. Many expected that
Gov. Smith would be aboard, but in
htsitehy were disappointed.
A platform had been erected on the
east side of the station, and from
this the various speakers held forth.
Each speaker was given close at
tention. Many phases of farming
were discussed, including cotton grow
ing, wheat raising, dairying and other
topics. The talks were delivered with
earnestness and showed that the
speakers were familiar with their
themes. -
In the audience were hundreds of
farmers, while the town was well
represented.
President Collum, of the Third Dis
trict Agricultural college, headed a
delegation of a hundred students,
while the city schools were present
in a body.
Exhibit Car Attracted
A part of the crowd heard the
speakers, while others inspected the
exhibit car. A constant stream of
visitors flowed through the car, ex
amining with delight the various ob
jects. Samples of cotton, corn, wheat
fertilizers and labor saving machin
ery were shown.
President A. M. Soule was the first
speaker, but only said a few words.
This will be his last appearance with
the train, as he is worn out by the
strain. He left yesterday for Athens.
Other speakers were Messrs. M. P\
Jarnigan, J. M. Reid and E, L .Wor
sham, the last named being State En
tomologist.
Hon. T. G. Hudson was in charge
of the baggage car, and directed the
visitors. Mr. S. T. Carter of the
Americus Cotton Oil Company, was
with the train, being relieved here by
another representative of the asso
ciation.
President Collum, of the Agricul
tural College, joined the train at
this point and will remain with it
today.
Accompanying the party were news
paper representatives from Atlanta
papers. One of them took a snap
shot of the crowd about the speaker’s
stand.
DEMONSTRATION
OF UNEMPLOYED
New York Police Anticipat
ing Trouble.
NEW YORK, March G.—(Special)
New York police officials are prepar
ing for trouble such as was recently
experienced in Philadelphia, when
the “army of the unemployed’’ in the
metropolis attempt to hold a great
demonstration in City Hall Park to
morrow afternoon. It is expected
that a small army of police, both
mounted and foot, will be on hand in
case the demonstration is carried out
on a large scale and will use harsh
measures to put down’any move tow
ard rioting.
The Central Federated Union, rep- j
resenting union labor in New York,
has refused to give its sanction to
the demonstration. Conservative la
bor leaders declare that the move
ment is a political scheme to further
the interests of the Socialists and
their chosen leader, William D. Hay
wood. It is rumored that Haywood
will address the meeting of the un
employed tomorrow.
In their appeal to the unemployed
to take part in tomorrow’s demon
stration, the promoters of the move
ment say:
Appeal of Leaders
“The conference recognizes that
measures of immediate relief are
imperatively necessary. The confer
ence therefore calls upon all labor
organizations to give it prompt and
energectic support in inaugurating a
great, systematic and aggressive
popular demand upon the Mayor and
Board of Aldermen of the city, upon
the Governor and Legislature of the
State and upon the President and
Congress of the United States, that
these public authorities use the law
making and taxing powers to the fol
lowing end:
[ “To undertake useful public works
1 upon a large scale and thus give
j employment to those thrown out of
\ work in private industry, such work
; not to be done by contract, but under
j a system of direct employment by the
city, State and nation, so that all the
i moneys t appropriated shall go to the
workers and none to useless middle
men, and all such work to be done
under union conditions as to hours of
labor and wages, so that the general
standard of living may be raised rath
er than lowered by such public em
ployment.”
When a woman smiles it can mean
anything except-what it seems to.—N.
Y. Press.
AMERICUS. GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING. MARCH 7, 1908.
FIDDLERS' CONTEST
", ENJOYABLE AEEAIR
Large Audience Hears Old
Time Melodies.
Ye Olde Tyme Fiddlers Contest last j
night at the opera house proved an
enjoyable affair. From far and wide
the audience gathered, many coming
for miles to witness the performance.
Every seat was filled early and the
expectant audience settled down to
the full enjoyment of the evening.
Seated on the stage were the con
testants and judges, each fiddler hav
ing his favorite violin within easy
reaching distance. Though the ex
perience of appearing in public was
new to some of the contestants, they
bore the honors easily.
Frequent applause greeted the ren
dition of especial favorites. The
friends of each performer were on
hand to encourage, and this nerved
the players to their best efforts.
The judges had a hard time in de
ciding the various contests. The prize
winners will he published tomorrow.
The entertainment was an unusual
one and for that reason was espec
ially enjoyed.
Between the two parts of the pro
gram special musical numbers were
rendered,
AN AUDIENCE IS AGAIN
DELIGHTED BY RECITAL
Occasion at Church Im
promptu One.
Quite a large party of ladies and
gentlemen enjoyed an impromptu or
gan recital at First Baptist church
yesterday morning. Miss Eda Bar
tholomew, who delighted on the eve-
I ning previous probably the largest
assemblage ever gathered in that
spacious auditorium, very obligingly
played again yesterday morning for
scores of music lovers who were un
able to gain admission to the crowded
church at the first recital. Miss Bar
tholomew is a most accomplished per
former upon the pipe organ, a cul
tured, charming woman withal, and
during her brief visit in Americus as
the guest of Mrs. Frank Sheffield
formed many new friendships. Among
those attending the recital yesterday
morning was Prof. E. H. McNeil, of
the Americus School of Music and
organist at First Methodist church,
and he, too, rendered several selec
tions, which were greatly appreciated
by the assemblage. Miss Bartholo
mew returned to Atlanta yesterday,
carrying with her many pleasant rec
ollections of her delightful visit in
Americus.
VISITORS ARE GIVEN A
DINNER ROYAL HERE
Guests of Mrs. Thomas G.
Hudson.
One of the several very delightful
features marking the stay of the ag
ricultural train in Americus yester
day, and a most agreeable surprise to
the gentlemen in charge, was a sup
erb dinner served them in their Pull
man dining car by Mrs. Thomas G.
Hudson, the charming wife of Geor
gia’s popular commissioner of agri
culture, The menu of roast turkey,
savory barbecue and other tempting
dishes had been prepared at her
home here, and when the exhibition
closed at 1:30 o’clock the tired “tour
ists” were invited into the dining
car where the feast royal awaited.
Mrs. Hudson’s generosity w r as appre
ciated in the fullest degree, as at
tested by the manner in which the
tempting" viands vanished.
LADIES ARE AGAIN TO
SERVE LUNCH TODAY
Again the ladies of the Kindergar
ten Association will serve delicious
lunches today at their exchange in
Miss Fowler’s store, next door to
Neon Buchanan’s. Not only will a
superb “merchants’ lunch” be served
during the noon hours, but through
out the day the ladies in charge will
sell the finest home-made cakes of
every desired variety, besides deli
cious candies and other sweets. The
“Ladies’ Exchange” has an established
reputation upon the fine cakes sold
there, and today the varieties offered
will* be more than usually tempting.
House-keepers and others desiring
cakes for their Sunday dinner would
do well to see the beautiful ones of
fered today at the exchange and thus
avoid the worry and expense of bak
ing them at home.
Crisis Approaching.
’ CARACAS, VENEZUELA, March G.
—(Special)—Senor Rest repo, agent of
the Government of Columbia, who
( has been here trying to settle the
Jill Mil
W S j XfT alcoholic Sarsaparilla. Ask him if he pre
£ M 0 JJ /“) O scribes it for pale, delicate children. Ask
A A fiirn if he recommends it whin the blood
r> j , , , . . ~ is thin and impure, and when the nerves are
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NO DANGER OF DOORS
IN SCHOOLS OF CITY
Americus Would Escape a
Holocaust.
Should a fire, or panic, occur in
either of the Americus school build
ings, the result would not be attended
with serious, if not fatal consequen
ces. The recent holocaust at Cleve
land, wherein 170 innocent little lives
were blotted out by fire, calls atten
tion to the construction of exits in
all school buildings and in the Am
ericus schools, as elsewhere, it is
found that all the doors open upon the
outside of the halls, instead of in
side. Closed doors was the cause of so
many deaths in the Cleveland funeral
pyre. One of the scenes of supreme
horror that attended the fire occur
red at the rear doorway of the
building before the firemen arrived.
This door, like the one in front, open
ed inward, and it was locked, the
children were piled up high against
it, and when it finally was broken
down by their weight and because
of the fire that had partly burned and
weakened it, those who had gathered
on the outside, saw before them a
mass of white faces and struggling
bodies,
CAPT. EURLOW AT HOME
UPON A BRIEF VISIT
After Absence of Several
Years.
Captain James W. Furlow, Fourth
Infantry, U. S. A., arrived in Americus
yesterday after an absence of four
years, most of this time being spent
in the military service in Cuba. Quite
recently Capt. Furlow has been trans
ferred from his old regiment, the
Eleventh, to the Fourth, which he
joined in New York two months ago.
The Fourth sailed yesterday from
San Francisco for a two years ser
vice in the Philippines, and where
Capt Furlow will join it at the end
of his vacation in Americus. He had
been so long away from home—four
years—that a fourlough of two months
was granted him, and this he will
spend with his mother, sister and
brother here. During the ten years
he has been in the regular army
Capt, Furlow has risen from the
ranks, where he enlisted as a private
during the Spanish-American war, to
the position he now occupies, and
has seen years of hard service in
the Philippines, Cuba and Porto
Rico.
TRANSACTION IN
IMPROVED REALTY
Mr. W. L. English Sells
Property to Mrs. Horne.
Mr. IW.1 W. L. English oil yesterday
sold a house at the corner of Barlow
and Furlow streets to Mrs. Cull Horne
The consideration was $1,500. The
house formerly belonged to Mr.
Frank Hooper, hut was bought by
Mr. English a few weeks ago for an
investment.
“Improived real estate is bringing
good prices,” said Mr. English yester
day. “Buyers are on the lookout for
bargains, and when these come along
they are promptly snapped up. Some
prospective investors complain that
prices are too high. They are how
ever coming to realize that Americus
property is valuable and sure to ad
vance.”
BOOKS ARE READY FOR
READERS AT LIBRARY
The following list of books have
recently been received at the Ameri
cus Library:
Romance of an Old-Fashioned Gen
tleman, by F. Hopkins Smith.
Walled In, by Elizabeth S. Phelps.
The Ancient Law, by Ellen Glas
cow.
Captain June, by Alice Hogan Rice.
House of Fulfilment, by Geo. Mad
den Martin.
The Summit House .Mystery, by
L. Dougall.
The Helpers, by Francis Lynde.
His Version of It, by Paul' Leicester
Ford.
Christian Science, by Mark Twain.
On the Wings of Occasion, by Joel
Chandler Harris.
The Ravenels, by Harris Dickson.
navigation and boundary disputes be
tween the countries, reports that he
has been unable to come to an under
standing. He asserts that a crisis is
approaching.
AMERICUS IS SHORT IN
HER SUPPLY OE ICE
Not a Pound is on Sale
Friday.
Americus sweltered yesterday with
the mercury bubbling away up near
the eighty notch in the tube, and not
a pound of ice in all the town. Not
a factory of a local dealer had a
pound to sell, and the public did
without it.
Such was she condition of affairs
in a city of 12,000 people.
Os course there may have been
many sick patients here who needed
ice, but all such had to get along
without this summer necessity.
The same conditions existed here
last season, as hot weather and
plenty of it had come long before
either of the two factories here de
cided to start operations. And the
same ice shortage is probable now,
unless we buy it in other markets.
There are two factories here, but
it is not known when either will be
gin making ice again.
And in the meanwhile Americus
continues to get hotter.
Since Christmas, when the supply
of the local plants was exhausted,
Americus dealers have been forced by
absolute necessity to buy their ice
supply in Macon, Cordele, or any
other town where this article of daily
necessity was to be had.
Consumers here were compelled to
have ice, and the Atnericus plants
did not supply enough.
And there may be no improvement
in conditions this year.
Yesterday the soda founts and
cases here were compelled to serve
drinks without ice; families were
forced to do without, while the sick
suffered for lack of it. Butchers and
green grocers doubtless sustained a
loss in not having a pound of ice.
Something ought to be done to re
, lieve any further ice famine in
Americus this summer. Twelve thou
sand people '"should not be thus
compelled to suffer for this necessity.
ARE FORCED TO CLOSE
THE SMALLER OFFICES
Within the past two or three days
many of the small and unimportant
telegraph stations on the lines of
railroads out of Americus because of
the nine-hour laws, have been dis
continued. In others the time of
work has been reduced, the offices be
ing closed much mure of the day
than formerly. Several new opera
tors have been put on in the city
and yard offices.
WHY VETERANS WERE
PAID QUARTERLY
Gov. Smith Wanted to Help
School Teachers.
In repl/ to an avalanch of com
plaints from all over the states over
the change of method of paying the
Confederate Veterans from a yearly
to a quarterly bas*s, Gov. Smith, in
his official organ, has issued a state
ment to the public.
He says in part:
“The appropriation act for 1906-7
provided $850,000 annually for pen
sions. When the legislature met last
summer the fact was brought to their
attention that in a number of coun
ties the pensioners had received noth
ing for 1907. The appropriation
was $42,717.65 short and the com
missioner of pensions asked this as
a deficiency appropriation to be
paid at once. He also asked that
the regular appropriation be in
creased to $950,000 annually as he
considered that sum necessary to
meet the pension roll.
“The state school commissioner
about the same time brought to the
attention of those charged with hand
ling the finances of the state the
claim that the teachers for 1907 were
further behind in receiving pay for
their work than ever before at the
same period of the year. The legis
lature was passing the prohibition
bill cutting off $250,000 of revenue
of the state.
“It was perfectly apparent that the
money which the state would have on
hand could not pay up the $42,717
which had not been met in 1907 and
also pay $950,00 in advance to the
pensioners at the first of the year
1908 and also meet the other current
liabilities of the state.
“I do not believe an old soldier in
Georgia would wish his pension paid
• in advance and require the teachers
I to wait months a&«r their work is
done before receiving pay.
“There may be cases where it will
. cause trouble this year to pensioners
who did not receive all of their pen
j sions in advance, but many of our
[ teachers have widowed mothers and
i aged fathers dependent upon them.
Would it be fair to leave them to
work and to wait for months for
■ their pay while we pay the pensioners
in full in advance?”
The Buffalo News, after consulting its
files, discovers that about this time
in 1904 Mr. Bryan was “the only log
ical candidate for the Democracy.”
“And,” it adds, “you know what hap
pened!” Yes, indeed; and so does
Judge Parker.—Washington Post.
Where the finest biscuit, fl
[7LI cake, hot-breads, cruSts U
or puddings are required |f|
jftl ‘Royal is indispensable. |l
| 'Royal I
ill Baiting Powder m
Absolutely Pure In
Luxl Not only for rich or fine food fa
SP| or for special times oi service.' fl
IRoyallßoyal is equally valuable in the jjH
preparation of plain, substantial, mM
every-da/ foods, foi all occa- |H
sions. It makes the food more Uj|
taSty, nutritious and wholesome. tU
“AUCTION PRICES” AT f
ERICKER’S CONTINUE
Reductions on Parity With
Recent Bargains.
In response to numerous requests,
Flicker & Bro., have decided to con
tinue their sale of jewelry at auction
prices up to and including March 10.
The plan upon which the sale is be
ing conducted is: Anyone desiring
to purchase any article in stock asks
for the “auction sale” price on that
article. Mr. Flicker or one of his
assistants names a price which is on
a par, as near as they can judge with
the prices which were obtained for
similar articles during the recent
sale conducted by Mr. Raven, the
auctioneer. This price will of course
be at very material reductions from
the regular selling price, which is
plainly marked on every article in
the store.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
first auction sale made sharp inroads
on the supplies, the firm is anxious
to convert a further share of their
magnificent stock into cash.
Remember, any article in the stock
—diamonds, watches, cut glass, sil
verware, liandpainted china, can be
bought at these reduced prices.
FIGHTERS ARE GIVEN A
FINE IN POLICE COURT
A Scrapfest in the Bottom
Comes High.
Twenty-five good dollars rolled in
to the city’s strong box yesterday
morning as the result of a free fight
in the bottom the night before, a
white man and woman being in the
mix-up. A bedslat was used with
telling effect in the bestowal of car
esses, and the bellicose batters pres
ented a battered appearance as they
told of the one rund battle. Fights,
like prohibition drunks, come a tri
fle high, and His Honor touched the
bottomites for ten and fifteen plunks
respectively. Recently a new sched
ule of fancy drunks, with trimmings
on the side, was established in police
court, and ten wheels of silver’is now
the roll for a high class jag.
AMERICUS LADY MAKES
ANOTHER TRIP NORTH
Her Travels Would Circle
Globe Six Times.
Mrs. M. T. Elam returned yesterday
from New York, where for two weeks
she has been busily engaged select
ing her spring stock of fine millinery.
Despite her advanced years Mrs. El
am withstood the fatigue of the long
trip very well, and with the exception
of two slight snowfalls during her
stay, found the weather pleasant
enough. Her return to Americus yes
terday concluded Mrs. Elam's seventy
eight round trip to New York, or one
hundred and fifty-six trips each way,
of 950 miles. The total distance trav
eled by her is 145.200, or very nearly
six times the circumference of the
earth. It is equal to twelve round
trips to China or the Philippine Is
lands, yet in all her travels Mrs.
Elam has never received injury in a
railway accident. Then, too, Mrs.
Elam has paid the railroads a snug
little sum for transportation. The
straight fare, Americas to New York,
is S2B, and In her 156 trips she has
contributed about $4,400 to the cof
fers of the railroads. Mrs. Elam is
still strong and hearty years,
and expects to round out many other
trips to the metropolis yet awhile.
number!
Song of the Forlorn
(By an Americus Old Maid) fl
Tell me not in truthful accents, fl
Every girl may have a beau, fl
For there's many who can’t find one.H
Though they seek one high and lowfl
Life is real, life is earnest, fl
Matrimony is the prize, fl
Yet could make our lives sublime, fl
If we only had a husband, fl
Who Could dress us up to time. ■
Husbands who when walking with us.B
Through the crowded street,
Make us envied by all other women, I
That we chance to meet. ■
In the world’s broad field of battle, 1
In the busy whirl of lives, I
No one wishes to live single, 1
All had rather be a wife. I
Let us then be up and doing, '
Waiting, watching for a man,
And the first who comes to woo us,
Charm and keep him, if we can.
HAMILTON
&CO.
Lamar Street,
Opposite Windsor Hotel
Extra Special for
MONDAY and
TUESDAY
***************
40 Inch Sea Island
6c yard.
Fruit Loom Bleaching
Per yard 10c.
36 inch Long Cloth,
worth 17 l-2c, as a
Leader for Monday
12il-2c yd.
***************
40 inch White Lawn,
short length, worth 15
and 20c per yard,
10c.
***************
$3 Jeffersonian Hats
Monday
$2.49.
***************
SI.OO Corsets, 50c.
50c Corsets, 39cJJ
***************
New Waists, New
Belts, on sale Monday.
***************
Big line sample Hats,
$1.50 to $2 values, 98c.
**#«##*#*******
Hamilton,
Sells It For Less.
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