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iHIRTIETH YEAR.
.. Copyright 1908 by Hart SchafFner & Marx
IF you go summer-resorting,
you’d better go in good clothes;
no telling who you’ll meet, and it
may make some difference to you what
they think of you. If you’re inside one of our
Hart Schaffner & Marx
fine suits, you’re sure to make a good im
pression, if you behave yourself as well as
your clothes look. We’ll show you some
very stylish, snappy two piece suits—coat
and trousers; you can wear a fancy waist
coat if you like—such clothes as are much
wanted. All-wool, light, dressy and well
tailored.
$20.00 to $30.00.
This store is the home of
Hart Schaffner & Marx clothes-
W. D. BAILEY,
Outfitter for Men and Boys.
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Os Fine Quality
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FINE SOAPS,
CHEAP SOAPS,
DAINTY SOAPS,
The Best SOAPS.
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REMBERT’S DRUG STORE
113 Forsyth Street.
next to postoffice.
Get Ready For Fly Time
By having John W. Shiver Wire Screen your dwelling.
Greatest comfort at slightest cost.
IF READY TO BUILD A HOUSE
See John W. Shiver for Everything needed, from Foundation
to Tile or Shingle roof. Full stock of cement, lime, plaster,
shingles and all builder’s supplies. Paints, in car load lots.
G. C. HALL
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER
BRICK WORK A SPECIALTY
Contract work, solicited in Americus and surrounding towns
AJI Work Guaranteed. Busisess Phone No. 418
\ Residence Phone No. 416,
AMERICUS'' TIMES-RECORDER
SMALL | COMPRE SSOR
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Water Committee to Hear
Proposition Today.
Shall the city buy a new compres
sor for the waterworks, or shall they
not?
That question is right now before
the Water Committee of the City
Council. An informal meeting of
the committee was held yesterday
afternoon, and another will be held
this morning, at which the represen
tative of a supply house will submit
a proposition. A compressor can be
obtained at prices ranging from sl,-
800 to $2,800, or even higher.
As already stated in these columns,
the present equipment is working at
high pressure to supply the demand
for water, and it is realized that pro
vision must be made for more water
in the near future. Recently two big
consuming industries have been es
tablished here, a new ice plant and
the canning factory, and it is the
needs of these two which have some
what embarrassed the water depart
ment. As each pays a handsome rev
enue to the city, it is not to be
thought that they shall be hampered.
The only thing which stands in the
way of any improvement in the pres
ent service is the fact that the city is
on the eve of placing the pumping of
the water in the hands of a private
corporation, which is building a plant
of its own. Until this matter is defi
nitely disposed of one way. or the
other it is not thought desirable by
many to add any machinery, which
will be worthless in case the new
company completes the deal.
BELTS RING IN BUENA
VISTA AT WEDDING
Stokes-Evans Marriage On
Wednesday.
A beautiful church wedding at
Beuna Vista yesterday morning was
that uniting Miss Evelyn Stokes and
Mr. Frank Evans. The Methodist
church presented an enchanting pic
ture in its superb floral decorations
and was filled to the doors with a
fashionable assemblage. The mar
riage rites were solmnized by General
Clement A. Evans of Atlanta, grand
uncle of the groom. A superb wed
ding luncheon followed at the home,
of the bride’s parents, after which
the wedding party, accompanied by
General Evans, came to Americus b’v
the noon train. In the party dining
at the Windsor were the bride and
groom, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Evans,
General Clement A. Evans, Misses
Minnie Lowe and Carrie Wooten; Mr.
Robert Stokes, Mr. and Mrs. Henry
M. Stokes, and Mr. Evans, brother of
the groom. Mr. and Mrs. Evans left
in the afternoon for La Grange, their
home.
AUTOISTS YIELD
TO GENTLE MEANS
Appeal to Square Deal
Was Used.
MIDDLEBORO, MASS., June 24.
Massachusetts has discovered a
method of controlling automobile
speeders without recourse to the ma
chinery of the courts, without speed
traps and their attendant charges of
grafting officials, and without any of
the disagreeableness attending the
usual methods of regulating speed.
The idea originated in Middleboro,
and has been successfully employed
for more than six months. Automobil
ists who have learned of it have
become enthusiastic over its success
and have inaugurated it elsewhere, un
til it is about to be adopted practi
cally all through the State. The
effort is to be made to extend its ap
plication nationally, and to this end
automobile clubs are being canvassed
to secure their adoption of the plan.
The method employed is a species
of moral suasion. The Automobile
Club of Middleboro, organized for the
purpose, has taken the regulation of
speed out of the hands of the police
and constituted itself the mentor of
the autoist. It has made a direct
appeal to the drivers of motorcars,
and found 90 per cent, willing to aid
them. By the processes of a few
months it has teen able to gradually
reduce the other 10 per cent, until
the speeding Autoist in Middleboro is
practically unknown.
This is the way it was done; The
Middlesboro autoists organized at
the suggestion of one of the towns
men, and then approached the Select
men of the town to secure the control
of speeding. Assisted by the police,
they started to put their idea into ef
fect. Setting out guards at various
places where the heaviest automobile
traffic was, they hailed and stopped
every car that approached. Then they
handed the driver a card inscribed:
: MIDDLEBORO. ;
: 12 miles per hour thru town. :
: We give you a square deal, :
: Give us one.
: Middleboro Automobile Club.
The effect was what was expected.
The cars drove on at the required
speed. A few passed the flag without
stopping. The numbers of these were
recorded, and a letter was sent to
the owner, detailing the nature of the
effort at control and inclosing a card.
In nearly every case a courteous
answer was received, promising to
respect the regulation. Frequently
letters requested that a number of
the cards be sent to this or that au
tomobile club that the idea might be
introduced elsewhere.
There was not a single arrest; yet
so pronounced was the effect of the
campaign that within three or four
weeks the police acknowledged the
complete success of the plan, and
ceased their surveillance. Soon the
guards were only stationed at fre
quented roads on Saturdays and Sun-
Does riot dolor the Hair
Stops FaSling Hair
AYfR’S HAIR VIGOR
AMERICUS. GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING. IUNE 25. 1908.
WAITING LIST IS GOING
TO TILL THE YARDS
Schools Will Be Crowded
in September.
The “waiting list” in the Americus
public schools at the opening of the
fall term promises to be the largest
ever, as the attendance of pupils will
fill the schoolrooms to overflowing.
The “waiting list” will constitute the
scores and dozens of pupils who will
be unable to gain admission and must
wait for a possible vacancy in one
of the departments. Years ago the
attendance of pupils at the Americus
schools far exceeded the capacity of
the buildings, and while the excess
has grown annually there has been
no stretching of walls to accommo
date new pupils. Two years ago
the absolute necessity of another
building was painfully apparent and
an issue of $25,000 of bonds voted
therefor, but the bonds cannot be
utilized and, consequently, the new
school building is but a dream. It is
barely possible that a dwelling house
may be rented by the Board of Edu
cation and fitted up temporarily as a
school building, but even that, much
has not been done as yet. Probably
100 or 150 school children may have
to be turned away at the opening of
the fall session, unless room for them
is provided beforehand.
NEVER HAS BOUGHT A
BUSHEL OF CORN
Record of Sumter County
Farmer.
Mr. Armstead Dodson, one of Sum
ter's successful farmers living near
Plains, was in Americus yesterday,
and with greatest pleasure reported
a fine rain in that locality the day
before. This was the first rain in
nearly two months, and crops were
in bad plight as a result. Mr. Dodson
thinks the cotton crop injured but
little, and is of the opinion that the
rain will save the corn crop to an
extent, although it will be cut short.
In his long career as a farmer Mr.
Dodson has never bought a bushel
of corn, but recently he feared that
this fine record would necessarily be
broken this year, as a result of the
drought. The rain came to the res
cue, however, and farmers like him
self in that locality will now make
sufficient corn to do them next year.
ELBERTA 15 HERE. THE
QUEEN OF PEACHES
The first basket of Elberta peaches
were sent to Americus yesterday from
the orchard of Mr. C. T, Broadfield,
near Huntington, and, like all of his
peaches, are large and luscious. Mr.
Broadfield has one Elberta orchard
of trees that have borne a dozen
crops, and are still vigorous and
heavily laden. He has a fine crop of
Elbertas, and will begin shipping next
week.
REGAINED SIGHT
BY SHEDDING TEARS
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Remarkable Cure of Base
ball Playar.
NEW YORK. June 24.—(Special)
James Cantillion, a member of the
Des Moines professional baseball
team, regained the sight of his right
eye in Bellevue Hospital yesterday in
a manner that surprised the special
ists of Bellevue.
Seven months ago, while Cantillion
was working in Chicago, he was
struck in the left eye by a flying piece
of iron. After suffering much ago
ny for a week the young ball player
went to the Presbyterian Hospital, in
Chicago, to be examined by an eye
specialist.
Meanwhile the right eye had be
come sympathetically affected and the
Chicago specialist decided that in
order to save the right eye, it was
necessary to remove the left one.
This was done, but the other kept
growing weaker until the man was
totally blind.
Dr. Wurtele and his assistants took
a great interest in the case, since it
was a rare one, and had been giving
the man constant treatment. Their
efforts were not successful, and add
ed to his blindness, Cantillion grew
ill, probably due to worrying, and
recently had been too weak for the
operation that the hospital specialists
had decided upon.
Yesterday it was found that the
operation had been postponed toe
long, and Dr. Wurtele had the un
comfortable task of telling Cantillion.
who is just 22 years old, that all
hope was gone, and that he probably
would be blind the remainder of
his life. The shock threw the young
man into hysterics, and he was taken
in charge by doctors at the hospital.
When he regained his normal mind
he grew suddenly excited again.
“I can see! I can see! he shriek
ed.
Dr. iWurtele heard him and doubt
ed the truth of his words. Cantillion
insisted, however, that he could see
again and finally the specialist ap
plied a test. To his amazement it
was proved that the baseball player
could distinguish different objects, and
now the specialists expect to restore
the sight of his right eye completely.
days. And shortly after this, they
were withdrawn entirely, and in their
place a series of banners slung in
conspicuous places taking the place of
the cards and bearing the same ad
monition. At present there is no
speeding in any of. the many places
that have tried the plan long enough
for it to become known.
Middleboro’s experimentation has
proved that 90 per cent, of automo
bolists will heed a direct reasonable
appeal of the sort, and that moral sua
sion soon swings the other 10 per
cent into line.
WEDDING AT HOME WAS
QUITE A PRETEY ONE
Uniting Miss Weeks and
Mr. Tillman.
One of the prettiest of June wed
dings in Americus was that last eve
ning uniting Miss Jessie Marion
Weeks and Mr. Cleveland Tillman,
solemnized at the residenc of the
bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M.
Weeks, at half past eight o'clock.
The interesting event was witness
ed by a large company including
many out-of-town guests.
The decorations in parlor, hall and
dining room were very pretty, white
and green being the colors for the
parlor while green and red were used
in the reception hall.
Miss Sadie Weeks was maid of
honor and Mr. Walter Brown best
man. Miss Eleanor Tillman with
M,r. Wallis Mott, and Miss Ada Gar
rett of Columbus with Mr. Gray (
Tillman were the other attendants.
The bride wore a beautiful gown of
chiffon over white taffeta, made prin
cess effect and trimmed in cluny and
baby Irish lace. The maid of honor
wore white lingerie trimmed in
French val lace, and carried pink
carnations.
Miss Tillman wore net over white
taffeta while Miss Garrett wore pink
voile, the bridesmaids carrying bou
quets of pink and white carnations.
The bride’s boquet was brides
roses and maiden hair fern.
After Rev. R. L. Bivins had com
pleted the very impressive ceremony
and congratulations had been ex
tended, a delightful wedding menu
was served, Mr. and Mrs. Tillman
leaving at 10:40 for north Georgia
upon a wedding trip.
Many very beautiful wedding gifts
in silver and cut glass attested the
esteem in which the bride and groom
are held.
The bride is a young woman of
many charms and accomplishments
and esteemed among a wide circle of
friends, as is the groom, a staunch
and popular young business man.
Among the out of town guests wefe
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Tillman of Mont
gomery; Mrs. Dan Tillman, Miss Gar
rett and Mr. Watkins, of Columbus;
Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Boswell of Monte
zuma, Mrs. W. C. Kent of Macon, be
sides relatives residing near the city.
These were entertained at G
o’clock dinner on Tuesday evening by
Mrs. W. F. Livingston.
LITTLE ONES ENJOY A
PRETTY LAWN PARTY
Miss Sara Oliver, the pretty little
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Oli
ver, was fair hostess yesterday at a
lawn party, the occasion being her
fourth birthday anniversary. A half
hundred little belles and beaux res
ponded to the invitations sent out by
Miss Oliver, and the lawn party was
the Junetime event in circles juve
nile. After the little folks had romp
ed upon the lawn until 6 o’clock,
dainty ices and fruits were served
them.
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Office of
W. E. BROWN,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer In
Groceries, Dry Goods and Shoes, *
Plantation Supplies a Specialty %
215 Forsyth Street. * ' .
AMERICUS, GA., March 4th, 1907.
Empire Life Insurance Co.,
Atlanta, Ga.,
Gentlemen:
On the principle that a dollar spent at home stays at
home and to that extent adds to our prosperity, I have
insured with your Company feeling perfectly secure to
the extent of my policy
Yours for the upbuilding of the South,
W. E. BROWN.
I BTUFE THAT FAILED IS
THAT ON THE CHIEF
Alleged "Vet" Paid License
On Coon Show.
Americus got rid of a festering sore
yesterday when the bunch of odori
ferous ’coons and dilapidated show
tent departed, and hope is expressed
that they never come back. The “old
vet” racket, which aimed to do the
city for the license tax of sls, failed
to work here. Chief Feagin had lev- ;
i£d upon the outfit, and when the,
white individuals running the negro !
shebang found out that the Chief j
was game they paid over the tax and j
the costs as well. It has been a long j
time since Americus has been afflict- j
ed with such an aggregation, and the !
city authorities should see to it that [
nothing like it squats here again.!
One of the white persons, Harris, is !
said to have left an unpaid board bill 1
of about S2O and Chief Feagin is try- 1
ing to locate him for the proprietor
thus touched. But at all events the
shebang is gone, and the city re
joices to that extent, anyway.
ECLIPSE ON SUNDAY IS
THAT OF THE MOON
Americus will have to light the gas
for a few minutes Sunday morning
shortly before the noon hour, at
which time Fair Luna, with true
feminine proclivity, will be chasing
Old Sol into a leap year proposition
of some kind. This, one of the most
notable annular eclipses, as it is
called of recent times, promises to
be for America at least the principal
astronomical event of the year. The
phenomenon will be visible in the
United States, Canada, Central Am
erica and the northern part of South
America. At Tampa, Fla., the dark
ness will be little short of total and
in Americus the sun will look like' a
narrow ring of silver light about the
dark face of the intruding moon. As
tronomers all over the country are
preparing to observe the sun under
the most favorable circumstances and
from 10 o’clock to 12, thousands of
telescopes will be pointing skyward.
Get your smoked glasses ready.
TOUCHED TO THE TUNE
OF TEN IS TINSLEY
Because he raised a rough house
at his suburban villa and' threatened
to start a funeral of large propor
tions in the neighborhood, Sid Tins- 1
ley was touched for a tenner, which
he considered base, in police court
yesterday. The wife of Sidney's bos
om told how he threatened the house
hold, and Officers Barrow and John
son told of the warlike preparations
in progress when they reached the
scene of conflict and restored tran
quility by putting simple Sid in the
ice box.
TO CLOTHING BUYERS.
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There are many, many men who have not
as yet bought them a spring and summer suit of
clothes but are still sweating out that last winter’s
suit. Now that is the poorest economy for you.
If you do not feel inclined to one of those
SUITS—S2S.OO to $35.00.
why simply let us show you of those
j broken lots of odd suits, made by the sanrie high
! class tailors, same grades fine wool fabrics* same
linings, in fact same everyway except pr^ce—
j which is exactly half—for the suits which
SIO.OO to $25.00 are now:-- 'v |
$5.00 to $12.50.
We will “show you”:—
The Best line Sicilian and Alpaca Coats.
The largest line and swellest styles
of PARAGON TROUSERS.
The most beautifully made MENS LINEN SUITS
of America’s most famous makers for whom
we are sole agents in Americus.
The greatest line “Eclipse” negligee shirts—sl and $1.50.
Largest line Seri veil’s nainsook and drill underwear.
Best 50c Balbriggan and check nainsook shirts and drawers in
America. V
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Unmatchable line lislen sox, blacks and colors, 25c and 50c.
Nightrobes, Pajamas, Neckwear, Suspenders, Collars, etc.
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We are head quarters in these lines and it will repay you
to see us. ,
CHAS. L. ANSLEY. f
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