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AMERIGU® TIMES-REOORDEB
■thirty-third year.
Copyricht Hart Schaffncr A Marx
Wherever you happen to meet
your friends, you ought to want
to be properly dressed for the
occasion. If you’re wearing
these
Hart, Schaffner & Marx
Clothes you needn’t worry about the way
you look.
Suits $lB and up
W. D. BAILEY CO.
Outfitters to Men and Boys
AMERICUS, GA.
WEDDINGS
'Ve have the most attractive line suited for
WEDDING GIFTS
ever shown in
Americus. We cannot enumerate the many
beautiful and appropriate items we have dis
played, so invite all who are interested to
call and see what a choice selection we have
for them to choose from.
James Fricker & Beo.
[JEWELERS.
409-411 LAMAR STREET AMERICUS, GA
What’s Your Choice?
About all you’ll have to do here, now, is
taste- your style preferense, and we can sup
ply it at once from our new stock of “Alco
system” Clothes for Spring and Summer.
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Warlick Bros. CO.,
Lamar Street.
We know we can, because we
have every good and seasonable
fabric, pattern and style that Is pop
ular. “ALCO” Garments come from
the fountain-head of style authority
in this country, and£we know they
are right. Many of the models are
exclusive “ALCO” creations, and are
tailored with that carefulness and
thoroughness 'which makes “ALCO
SYSTEM” Clothes superior to all
others.'
We can please you; Jit
tit your purse, too.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY MORNING MAY 3, 1911
DEATH OF S. 0. PRYOR
AT HOME IN SUMTER
Aged and Esteemed Citizen
Passes AWay
Captain Sheppard C. Pryor, one if
Sumter county’s venerable and most
esteemed citizens, succumbed yester
day evening to the weight of years and
general infirmities incident thereto
and lay down the burden at his beau
tiful home near Leslie for a brighter
career in the home upon high.
The end came early last night, the
t&red form sinking to sweet and rest
ful repose that knows no waking un
til the resurrection morn.
In view of Capt. Pryor's condition
during the past few days, the end had
been expected at any hour by loved
ones who at his bedside watched th\
flickering spark go out.
Captain Pryor was eighty-four years
of age, a native of Sumter county, and
the greater portion of his long and
useful career was spent in -the country
about Americas. He preferred the
quiet life there, and his beautiful home
has long been one of the landmarks of
this section of Georgia.
With gallant Company iA, Twelfth
Gerogia Regiment, he served his coun
jtry through the four years of civil war
until the star of the South went down
at Appomattox.
Returning to Americas, he was at
once elected sheriff of Sumter, the
only political office he ever sought cr
desired, although other honors might
easily have been his as well.
Captain Pryor is survived by his
aged helpmeet, three sons and three
daughters. These are Robert S.,
Sheppard J. and Guy Pryor; Mesdames
Jarrett J. Wilson, J. P. Uisry and Mrs.
R. E. Braddy, of Macon. All of these
and other loved ones were at his bed
side when the -final summons came.
The funeral services will he held
this afternoon at 4 o'clock at DeSbto,
conducted by Rev. J. P. Dickens and
will be largely attended.
PUTS BULLET THROUGH
HER WEARY BRAINS
Distracted Atlanta Woman
Seeks Relief in Death
Atlanta, Ga., May 2.—Slipping from
her bed this morning at 6 o’clock and
passing through the shaded room in
which he. little son lay seriously ill
with scarlet fever, Mrs. Z. V. Lacy, i
aged 36, fumbled under a pile of
blankets on a dark shelf for a re
volver which she knew her dead fa
ther had loaded and put there -several
months ago, pressed the muzzle to her
forehead and shot herself through the
brain. She is now lying within the 1
shadow of death at the Grady hospital ;
and her attending physician expresses
no hope for her recovery.
The shooting took place at the home
of her mother, Mrs. W. V. Guthrie, 78
Richardson street, and while several
members of her immediate family were
in the house none saw the woman
conscious after she had gone to bed
last night.
Distraction through family misfor
tunes is given as the cause of the
deed. Her father died a short time
ago, her young daughter eloped and
her youngest son was taken ill witn
scarlet fever.
“AGGY” TEAM BEATEN
BY HIGH SCHOOL BOYS
High School Bunch Outclassed
Hopefuls G tc S
The Americus High School team |
turned a neat trick yesterday after
noon when they defeated the Agricul
tural College team by a score of 6 to
3. It is a feather in the cap of the
High School bunch to have defeated
the team which on last Friday wal
loped Cordele, as, with the exception
of two players, the Agricultural team
was the same that played Friday.
The High School won a decisive vic
tory, as they had the call on the agri-j
cultural apprentices in nearly every
department of the game. Monahan
siprrrd behind the bat for the High
School, not a single “Aggy” base run
ner having been able to purloin sec
ond. while Johnson, the opposing re
ceiver, had six stolen bases chalked
up against him.
Several games have been planned
by the High School team, among them
being one with Dawson, probably next
1 r day. A week later they will tackle
the Albany High School team again
on the local diamond. The Albany
bunch Is the object of special solici
tude on the part of the local team,
.vliicb will endeavor to repeat its re
cent victory.
COMPETITION IS SHARP
FOR AMERICOS BONDS
INQUIRIES BEING RECEIVED FROM MOST PROMINENT BROKERAGE FIRM F
THE COUNTRY-SALE WELL ADVERTISED IN FINANCIAL JOURNALS—SAFt-
GUARDS ADOPTED TO SECURE A BUSINESS-LIKE CONSUMMATION OP DEAL.
Indications are that the bonds to be
sold this month by the City of Amer
icas .will bring prices that will be
eminently satisfactory.
Such is the gist, of the announce'
meat made yesterday by Alderman
Lee Allen, chairman of the Finance
committee of City Council. Alderman
Allen and the other members of
Council associated with him on the Fi
nance committee have labored most
diligently and unceasingly to bring
about the happy consummation of af
fairs which now seems assured.
Bids for the -bonds must be in the
hands of the committee prior to 7
o’clock of May 16, acording to the
date stipulated by the action of the
-City Council at its last meeting. As
the bids are to ‘be submitted sealed,
no collusion between the firms bid
ding for the bonds will be possible.
As a further precautionary measure,
each competing firm has been required
to deposit with the committee three
per cent, of any given bid, as a pledge
of good faith.
For the purpose of giving publicity
to the fact that the bonds are offered
for sale, the matter was advertised it-
TO PUT UP TALEEST
BUILDING IN WORLD
New Yurk Nuw tu Have 55
Story Structure
New York, May 2.—The complete
plans for the tallest if not the largest
building of its kind in the world have
been filed with Building Superintend
ent Rudolph P. Miller by Cass Gilbert,
the architect. These plans consist of
a set of seventy-four large blue prints
: and show the complete construction pf
1 this immense structure, w r hich is now
in course of construction on the west
side of Broadway, between Park place
and Barclay street.
The main part of the building will
be thirty -stories high, with a massive
tower extending in the centre an addi
tional twenty-five stories, making a to
tal number of fifty-five stories, thereby
making it the tallest structure of its
kind in the world. The main part of
the structure will be 384 feet high,
while the tower will be an additional
366 feet high, making a total height
the apex of the tower, where will be
of 759 feet from the street level to
located an immense electrically light'
ed lantern which will be visible at
night for many miles around and will
be another beacon light for the in
coming trans-Atlantic steamers.
The plans show that this will be one
of the handsomest structures of its
kind in the entire universe. -In design
it will be a combination of the Ital
ian, French and modern Rennaisance
throughout the main part, vvith Gothic
steeples at the roof of the main struc
ture. The ground floor will contain
stores and the second floor banking
ojees, with business offices above. The
| building will be absolutely fireproof
and will be equipped (with sixteen
i high speed elevators, six running to
the thirtieth floor, six to the fortieth
i floor and four to the fifty-first floor, the
| fifty-fifth floor and the lantern being
I reached by a spiral stairway.
See those Velvet Pumps; they are
beauties. Warlick Bros., Lamar St.
Did You Ever Stop
to Reason it Out?
How many friends of yours wear
ready-to-wear clothes made by Stein-
Bloch?isWe know that a good many
VPtKUk' *V22...-
of them do.IDO YOU?
You ought to. [You cannot give a single
valid reason why you ought not to, as far as
fit, as style, workmanship and above all, val
ue is concerned. All these things enter into
your clothes problem. Stop to reason it out
and stop in to try on a fresh new Stein-Bloch
suit.
RYLANDER *SHOE CO.,
Clofhers and Furnishers.
ten leading financial journals through
out the country. In addition to this
the committee had a statement of the
financial condition of the city made by
the (Southern Auditing Company. Cop
ies of this statement, which gave de
tailed statistics and declared the city
in “healthy financial condition,” were
mailed to al lthe important brokers
throughout the country, accompanied
' by a letter announcing the offering of
the bonds for sale.
In reply to these advertisements and
letters inquiries have been received
from many of the most prominent
brokerage firms throughout the coun
try. Netw York, Chicago, Boston. St.
Louis, Cincinnati, Baltimore, Atlanta
and Augusta firms are included in this
number. AS May 16 is the last day
for receiving bids, it is likely most of
the bids will not be received till a day
or two before the time for receiving the
bids has ended.
The bonds as offered for sale in
clude $40,000 at four per cent., issued
March 20, 1907; $40,000 at four and
a half -per cent., issued April 4, 1911;
$25,000 at four and a half per cent.,
issued April 4, 1911.
COUNTY TO STORE AWAY
BIG CROPS OF GRAIN
Grannery is Being Built in
Advance
Sumter county Is going in to make
hay while the sun shines, and to the
end of housing the bumper crops in
prospect the commissioners are build
ing a huge granary sixty by one hun
dred feet, on the county farm two
miles west of the city. The commis
sioners are long on grain and hay, and
from an eighty-acre field on the farm
Commissioner Bolton estimates a
yield of four thousand bushels grain,
or fifty bushels per acre. This would
be a bumper crop, indeed, but Supt.
Christian has the farm in excellent
trim, well fertilized and fifty bushels
oats per acre will cause no surprise
After gathering the oats a month hence
the eighty acres will -be sown in peas,
and an immense hay crop will be
gathered—a hundred tons of it—worth
S2O to $25 per ton. This yield of oats
and hay will go a long way towards
feeding the one hundred mules owned
toy the county and worked on the pub
lic roads. The county farm is worked
by convicts at odd times and costs the
county very little.
Entire change of Vaudeville tonight
at The Bijou. Don’t miss hearing Mr.
King sing “Steamboat Bill”; also
other good songs. Mr. King will
change from a tramp to a coon to
night.
I
Every article in the house included
in the sale at Warlick Bros. Sale. La
mar street.
Attention P. 0., S. of A.
There will be a meeting of Washing
ton Camp, P. 0., S. of A., tonight at
8 p. m.
, G. L. WILLIAM!?, Pres’t.
J. T. COTN'EY, Sec’y.
New lot of Velvet Pumps just re- j
eeived by express, sale priees. War
liek Bros.
The Higher
Polish.
The distinction of
EFF-EFF Clothes if wjKL
lies in ,'heer quality / „ T r i
Finest fabrics re
firud styles, thor
ough tailoring:, per- \||M c .
feet f it. fl
It is the Higher
The Fechheimer-Fishel Co.
U « New York City
Polish.
Chas. L. Ansley
Agents—
Warner’s Rustproof
and Redfern Whalebone
Fittings to be had Free at Coaset Dep t.
PINKSTON COMPANY,
j Under the Windsor.
Funeral Directors
And Embalmers,
J. H. BEARD, - - Director.
The Allison Undertaking Co..
Americus. Ga.
Telephone 80 and 106. Day Phone 25
Hot, isn’t it? Soda water
and ice cream are the
most desired articles vLll
now-a*days. Just visit
our fountain and you '
will no longer wonder at I
aur great popularity.
CARL HAWKINS’ CAFE
Money Loaned
I can get you money on your improved
City property or plantation in amounts of
SI,OOO and up on long time and on easy
payments. If you need money and fail to
figure with me you will be the looser.
J. J.Hanesley. Americus Ga.
NUMEBR 104.