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i HE TIMES-RECQRDER.
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THE AMERICUS RECORDER
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THE AMERICUS TIMES
Established 1890.
Consolidated April 1891.
Editor:
THOMAS GAMBLE, JR.
Local Editor:
FRANK T. LONG.
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OFFICIAL ORGAN.
City of Americas,
Sumter County.
Webster County.
Railroad Commission of Georgia For
Third Congressional District.
C. 8. Court, Southern District of
Georgia.
AMericus, Ga., June 12, 1912
♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
♦ BLIND! ♦
(John Kendrick Bangs, in Harper’s.)
“Show me your God!” the Doubter
cries.
I point him out to the smiling skies;
I show lim all the woodland greens:
1 show him peacveful sylvan scenes;
1 show him winter snow's and frost;
I show him waters tempest-tossed;
1 show him hills rock-ribbed and
strong;
I bid him hear the thrush’s song;
I show him flowers in the close —
The lily, violet and the rose;
I show him rivers, babbling streams,
1 show him youthful hopes ani
dreams;
1 show- him maids with eager hearts;
3 show him toilers in the marts;
1 show him stars, the moon, the sun,
1 show him deeds of kindness done;
I show him joy; I show him care;
And still he holds his doubting air,
.And faithless goes his way, for he
Is blind of Soul and cannot see!
Is blind of Soul and cannot see!
It almost looks like a case where
nobody loves a fat man except the
officeholders.
What the people want just now is
not so much a “square deal” as t
square meal.
Watterson keeps hammering Wilson.
He says: “Circumstances which will
not bear scrutiny made him governor
of New' Jersey.”
This year seems to be specializing
on weather. Its brands are too num
erous and too frequently changed to
prove satisfactory.
Bradstreet’s managers say this sec
tion is not surpassed in prosperity,
soundness of business, nnd general de
velopment.
Teddy hits Chicago the middle of
the week. The militia has been in
structed to be in readiness to respond
to the riot call.
They are doing Roosevelt in the
national committee meeting, but what
Teddy will do to the national commit
tee later on will be a plenty.
A man with dyspepsia says that a
wife ought to have everything over
actual operating expenses for living
with the aveiage husband.
Another scientific movement has
been started to stop kissing babies. As
long as they don’t apply the rule after
the girl babies reach sixteen it's all
right.
It. doesn’t matter much to us who
(wns the Seaboard if they will only
iceognize the growing importance of
this division and of Americus as its
chief commercial town.
Studying current politics from a
scriptural viewpoint the Baltimore Sin:
“For every Goliah with his
brass armor and stentorian voice there
is always a David, fresh from the peo
ple, ready to do battle for the right.'
The Valdosta Times rushes to the
defence of Gov. Brown. It says “>f
Gov. Brown went to see Tom Watson
he did no more than the other crowd
lias done, anrl if he went to the side!
elevator to avoid the surging crowds
in the lobby he did no more than any
other man would have done.’’ Let if
go at that, but the public generallv
believes it was to avoid being seen go
ing to Tom Watson's room. As we
said, the Atlanta political crowd 's
never open and above board in its
■work, and it seems to have contam
inated Gov. Brown, who in many re
spects is as good a governor as Geor
gia has had in many year.
NEW HOAD AWAKENING ATTEN
TION.
The proposed new railroad, of which
Americtis is to be a terminus, is at
tracting much attention in the state
press, and there are many highly fav
etable continents on the enterprising
spirit of the people in-the territory
that it will ttaverse. That the road
will be made a profitable one, that it
will act as a stimulant to development,
and that its stockholders will have no
cause to regret the support given to
it, is the general opinion expressed.
South Georgia is now' so well develop
ed and so rapidly improving in every
respect that such a railroad will pay
to-day where ten years ago it might
have been a flat financial failure. The
tide of immigration that has set in,
the expansion of the farming interests,
and the general building up of busi
ness, insures a volume of freight and
a pasenger traffic that will enable the
new road to make a living front the
beginning.
Discussing the venture, the Savan
nah Morning News says:
“Railroad development in South
Georgia within the last two decades,
v bile phenomenal, is not to be won
dered at when the fact is considered
that the agricultural products, wealth
and population of that section have
doubled within the same time.
“One of the most noteworthy of th ?
proposed new lines is that from Am
ericus, in Sumter county, through
Oakfield in Crisp, Doles in Worth,
Ashburn, in Turner, Tifton, in
Tift, Nashville in Berrien, to Milltown,
near the corner of Berrien, Coffee and
Clinch, thence to some point on the
Atlantic coast, and named the Ameri
cus, Tifton and Atlantic. Notice of ap
plication for charter has been given
and stock is being subscribed.
"The people along the proposed line
are taking an active interest and at
the public meetings held the attend
ance has been large and enthusiastic
and the amounts of stock allotted
each place have been more than sub
scribed.
“This line unites the county seats o r
Sumter, Turner, Tift and Berrien, and
while each already has one or more
lines of road, the territory traversed
is without railroad facilities and is
already one of the richest agricultural
sections of South Georgia.
“Behind the plan are men of ampl"
capital to push it to a successful con
elusion, such as the Betts and Siting
lets of Ashburn and H. H. Tift of Tif
ton. with wealthy citizens of Nash
i vji]e, Milltown a’-d A met ions, all o'
whom are taking an active part in the
organization.
“From Milltown to the Atlantic thf
oute has not been decided upon. Orn
'•oute proposed is by wav of Staten
vitie. the county seat of Echols, w'hicb
has been long without railroad faoil
t;es. another is to connect with the
Hebard road, through the Okeefinokee
swamp, and still another is by the
Milltown Air Line to Naylor, thence
southeast to Jacksonville. An inter
esting possibility is the use of the new
line by the Illinois Central system to
->"ter tacksonville. making connection
with the Central of Georgia at Ameri
cus. The Central is already operating
s through train into Jacksonville,
turning it over to the Atlantic Coast
Line at Albany.”
WILL TAFT W1 \ AMI THEN
RETIRE?
Reports from Washington are to the
effect that President Taft is obdurate
and refuses to withdraw from the
residential race. He can hardly be
blamed for this. He has been so villi
led by Roosevelt and Roosevelt’s
friends that any desire to placate that
'dement of his party must have long
since given way to a deep seated feel
ing of intense resentment. To retire
'n the interest of harmony at this
juncture would lie hailed as an evi
dence of fear on his part, and while he
may he “weak and good natured” he i c
hardly apt to show the white feather
in such a fashion as that.
There are well defined rumors
‘hough, that after the convention
ueets and it is demonstrated that the
president’s forces have the situation
well in hand, with enough of the duh
eated delegates to insure his nomina
tion, even though a vast number of
them do come from the South and rep
resent nothing more tangible than
themselves and the Federal offices
they hold, the president will graceful
ly withdraw from the field of candi
dates and permit of the nomination o'
a man who stands a chance of retini'-
>ng the badly broken forces of th>
“arty, of cementing it anew into a
nnipact, harmonious, fighting ma
chine, To do this, to lay down a tri
umph over Roosevelt, would convince
'he country that Taft puts the inter
ests of his party and the nation over
“ersonal ambition. If he is capable of
such an act of self-renunciation h >
w'll loom much larger in the public
esteem than he does at this particular
time. #
Os course it is apparent to the out
ride world that it would be an act of
political wisdom for him to do this
INo onp, even among his friends, can
believe foi an instant that Taft would
‘•‘and a show of being re-elected with
his party split into warring factions,
and with an enormous number of the
American people, regardless of their j
Party affiliations, disapproving his
course while in office. There has been
very little in his administration that
has appealed to the American people
as a mass. It has been distinctly
“flabby” in its character and in some
of its acts very offensive to the great
er part of the nation. While revenge
is sw’eet and Taft can not be blamed
for enjoying a victory over Roosevelt
in the 4 convention, a sound trouncing
such as would await him in November
would far outbalance the little person
al satisfaction that would come front
tubbing it in on the Roosevelt men at
the national convention.
To retire after convincing the world
that his friends dominate the conven
tion and that the nomination is bis if
he desires it, would be to reinstate
him in a measure on the high pedes
tal from which he has fallen. It takes
a man to do a thing iike that, though '
and in many respects Taft has not
bhown the strength of character that
w'ould lead one to expect such an act
cn his part. Still, there are many w'ho
look for this as the most drastic inci
dent in the convention proceedings. If
it proves so, and Hughes or some oth
er good man is nominated, it will
mean that the democratic party will
have a harder fight on its hands than
it has calculated on.
STAND BY YOUR NEIGHBORS AND
FRIENDS.
There probably is not as much buy
mg away from Americus now as there
was in former years. We hope not
There has been a continuous effort to
awaken a strong local spirit, to de
velop a love for Americus and to en
courage devotion to home business en
terprises that surely must have borne
fruit in a reduction of the “buying
elsew'here” mania that seems to pos
sess a ceitain number of people in
every community, not matter how live
its markets and how fully abreast with
the times their methods of doing bus
ines and the stocks they carry.
The person who buys away from
home is simply helping to impoverish
the town in which he or she resides,
and to lessen the opportunity to make
r. living here. That is the fact that so
many of them fail to recognize. In
any city, and especially in one the
size of Americus, we are all dependent
upon one another. The dollar mad' 5
here and kept here goes on a long
•ound of duty, helping many an in
dustry and business. The dollar made
here and sent elsewhere is a dollai
aken from local circulation and re
moved from the possibility of benefit
ting neighbors and friends who earn
their livelihood here.
A Maine business man has given
his reasons why he should buy a*
oute instead of placing his patronage
elsewhere. While apparently directed
against the mail order houses, the'
apply equally as well to that class of
individuals who are so long on bar
gains and so short on civic pride that
they place their orders in another
ommunity to the disadvantage of th«
.resent and future prosperity of their
own. Here they are:
Because 4 tny interests are here.
Because the community that is good
"Hough for me to live in is good
enough for nte to buy in.
Because I believe in transacting bus
mess with my friends.
Because I want to see the goods.
Because I want to get what I buv
vhen 1 pay for it.
Because ntv home dealer carries me
vhen I run short.
Because every dollar 1 spend at
ome stays at home and works forth"
■'c'fare of mv towm.
Because I sell what I produce here
at home.
Because the man I buy from pays
his part of the town, county and state
taxes.
Because he man I buy from gives
; alue received always.
Because when ill luck, misfortune
or bereavement come, the man I buy
"rom is here with the kindly greetings,
bis words of cheer and his pocket
book, if need be.
Here I live and here I buy.
These are good rules to remember.
Individual identification of the inonev
d interests with the industries of
their own town, reciprocity between
ts business men and patronage of lo
■al stores by consumers—a community
of interests—make for the general wel
ore, in which he who will may share.
Morse ought to stand pat for Taft
even if the whole world deserts him.
The New Jersey Republicans says
It is the sporting crowd tha' ,s oaek
ng Roosevelt." Don’t tell us that. If
'll the baseball fans and others in
lined to sports get behind Teddy
'here will the Democratic candidate
come in?
“Knowing One’s City” is now the
popular movement. People are every
where being encouraged to study their
"wn town and be in position to talk
bitellieently about it. I n that connec
tion the Americus man who studies
the Times-Recorder Forward Edition
will come very near to being fully ed
ucated on that line.
“ITRE EOOir WILEY
SPEAKS AT ( HAITAI QI A
Demorest, Ga., June 11.—Dr. Harvey
W. Wiley, of pure food fame, will he
one of the noteworthy speakers on
the program of the summer school and
Chautauqua to be held at Piedmont col
lege here, beginning tomorrow. Other
notable speakers and educators are
to participate. The college commence
ment has just closed, marking, the end
of a successful college year. The
trustees have not completed tjie elec
tion of the faculty for the next session,
hut no important changes are antici
pated.
THP AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
ROMAN’S IDEA.
— -
Bonham —I think women ought to
be chloroformed at sixty, as well as
men.
Mrs. Bonham—l think so, too. Any
woman who will admit being sixty
ought to be chloroformed.
AND SHE GRABBED HIM.
“I’m surprised to hear of Gruet’s en
gagement. I didn’t think he was a
marrying man.”
“He wasn’t until he met a marrying
woman.”
DOMESTIC AMENITIES
Hubby—l’ve waited an hour for you
to get your hat on straight.
Wifey—Well, I’ve waited longer
than that for you to get your feet on
straight.
AS LONG AS IT WAS WINE.
“You should not look upon de wine
when it am red.”
"Well, I’s not particular about de
color, parson.”
A MATTER OF TASTE.
Hoax —My grandfather lived to be
nearly ninety and never used glasses
Joax —Well, lots of people prefer to
drink from the bottle
THESE ARE JOKES
WILL WORTH READING
NATURALLY QUALIFIED
Pete —Say, Mose, I heah yo’s goin
(oe make a surgeon of dat boy of
yourn.
Mose —Yes, I thought dat wuz de
best, ’cause he’s always cuttin’ some-
I body.
HARD LINES
Grace —She married a widower.
Edith —Is she happy?
Grace —No; when he’s not talking
about himself he's talking about his
first wife.
A FISH STORY
6
i
“Jonah must have been a high
] priced lawyer, pa.”
“What makes you think so?’’
“The whale couldn’t retain him.”
WOULD NEVER DO
Wickson —A pawnbroker would nev-j
| er make a successful baseball pitcher. 1
Dickson —And why not?
Wickson—Because the umpire would j
; be sure to call three balls on him to
; start with.
'I WHAT AILED HIM.
Cse >w I
The Lion—What’s the matter. M r I
Snake? It looks as though you had I
experimented with some hair grower. I
The Snake —No, I swallowed a por- I
cupine.
PRES. SOULE ENCOURAGES
THE BOY CORN GROWERS
By Giving Them Some Timely Advice Concerning the
Difficulties to Be Met With This Season in T heir
Work on Account of Unusual Weather Conditions.
President A. M. Soule has addressed
to Mr. G. V. Cunningham, of Tifton
who is supervisor of the organization
jf boys’ corn clubs for this section of
he state a letter of timely advice rel-'
ative to the peculiar difficulties that
may be met with this season by the
oung corn growers of this section
Mr. Soule realizes the fact that con
ditions are abnormal this year, and I
it is with the purpose of giving spe- j
cific advice in combatting these con-|
litions that he has addressed this let
ter to the diffeient organizers of boys’
orn clubs in the state, with the re
quest that the letter be made public tv
>ll the members of the various corn
lubs.
The letter in full is given herewith, ’
as follows:
Now that you have succeeded in se
uring a large enrollment of club
lentbers, it is of the utmost import
ance that you leave no stone unturned
to encourage the boys in their work.;
The unfavorable seasonal conditions
may cause many fathers to lose inter
est in the boy and deny him the t'acili
'ies necessary to plant his acre of
•orn to the best advantage. The boys
should be advised to plant their corn
even up to the 15th of June, for the
season is long enough in Georgia to
permit late planting and still obtain
a fine crop; in fact, corn should either
be planted late or early in this cli
mate, and according to my observa
tion, the late planted corn often out
yields that planted early.
Tell the boys not to plant the corn
until they have the land ready, to
plow it thoroughly, but not when it is
wet and to prepare a fine seed bed, ar
this is very important. They should
fertilize liberally, using a rather large
amount of nitrogen at least half of
which should be quickly available, if
they can secure vegetable matter to
P ace in the drill row so much the bet
ter. On heavy clay lands, we think a
9 3-3 formula used at the rate of 500
pounds per acre would be about right.
On ltfanty soils which show 4 the pres
ence of some sand, about a 10-4-4. On
light sandy land from 10 to 12 per
cent. Phosphoric arid, 4 ot 5 per cent.
I of nitrogen, and 5 and 6 per cent. o f
{ potash should be used.
On heavy cla.v land and loamy soils
r side application of two to three
hundred pounds should be made. On
j sandy lands probably two siue appo
| cations of two to three hundred
! pounds each can be used to advant
j age. The side applications should be
put on relatively early. Get the last
| one on at least two weeks before the
jeorn bunches to tassel. Tell the boys
j that shallow 4 , persistent cultivation
is of the utmost importance and ad
| vise them to keep it up as late in the
j season as possible. The boys must
not be discouraged, for there is no
place in the United States where cort
may tie planted so late and still nro
duce as high a yield as in Georgia.
The use of side applications will help
the yield in our judgement this sea
son.
The advisabiliy of using nitrate of
soda as a top dressing cannot be fore
told at this writing, but we will in
form the .hoys relative to this matter
later on. We want them to remember
that the college stands ready to give
them individual advice and suggest
ion? relative to the cultivation, fertil
isation and management of their crop.
r J hey have a month yet in which to
plant and still have an opportunity
to make as fine a record as the boy
who seeded his corn in March or
April. Tell your club members not
to be disheartened. Advise wiht th.-i
county school superintendents and ;
the teachers and urge them to eu- !
courage the boys. Ask the local pa- 1
pet s to print any information which I
Those old Daguer
rotypes of grandfath
er and grandmother
taken just after the
war—Money could
not buy them from
you. Are you forget
ful of the fact that fu
ture generations
would cherish just
such a picture of you
•
HEARN
makes ’em.
Phone 777
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, R)) , e
will be helpful. If we all put
gether and do our duty in this
we need not worry about the outcome
next fall.
IMPROVED SERVICE TO
COLUMBUS VIA CENTRAL
OE GEORGIA RAILWAY.
The Centra] of Georgia railway row
has three passenger trains between
Americus and Columbus, leaving and
j arriving as follows:
| l eaving Americus for Columbus,
3:55 a. indaily, 8:00 a. m„ daily ex
cept Sunday, and 3:45 p. m., daily.
Arriving Americus from Columbus,
10:00 a. m., daily. 7:10 p. m„ daily ex
cept Sunday, and 11:45 p. nt., daily.
I For detailed schedules cal! on S. B.
‘ H-Pot eaent, telephone 137 Cir,
or John W. Blount, district passenger
agent, Macon, Ga. 12-lot
DOG GIVES ALARM;
'THEN DIES IN FLANKS
Louisville, Ky., June 11.—After
sounding an alarm of fire by barking
until she had aroused the neighbor
hood, a valuable pointer belonging to
William Smyzer, a dog fancier, re
\ turned to her puppies in a burning sta
| ble on the premises and refused to
leave them. The stable was destroy,|
by fire yesterday morning, and the
carcass of the mother was found be
side her puppies, which she had guard
ed until death.
CENTRAL Gr titGßQlfi
p£U
Current Schedules Corrected te Daft-
Trains Arrive.
From Savannah, Augusta
Atlanta and Macon *7:30 p >u
From Columbus and in
termediate points *11:45 p n*
From Lockhart. Dothan,
Albany, Troy and Monty *10:35 p m
j From Lockhart, Dothan,
Albany,Troy and Mont’y * 2:05 p ai
l From Atlanta and Macon .* 2:15 p m
From Augusta. Savannah
Atlanta a-td Macon * 5:30 a m
From Columbus and in
termediate points ! 7:10 p in
From Colttmotts and in
termediate points * 10:00 a t;i!
From Albany and Jaek
somille * 3:55 a ro
From Albany * 6:40 a. m.
Trains Depart.
For Macon, Augusta and
Savannah * 6:40 a. m
or Albany. Dothan Lock
hart. Troy and Mont
gomery * 5:30 a at
For Albany, Dothan, Lock
hart, Troy and Mont
gomery * 2:15 p ro
For Macon and Atlanta ..* 2:05 p ro
;>r Macon. Atlanta, Sav
annah and Augusta ....*10:35 pro
i For Columbus * 3.45 p ro
For Columbus ! 8:00 a to
For Columbus, Birming
ham and Chicago ....* 3:55 aro
For Albany * 7:30 p ro
! For Albany and Jackson
ville *11:45 p ro
♦Daily.
j ! Except Sunday.
!! Sunday only.
sleeving cat s uetween Americus and
Atlanta on trains leaving Americus
10:35 p, m., arriving Americus 5:30 a.
m. Connects at Macon with sleeping
•ars to and from Savannah. Pullman
sleeping cars between Chicago, St.
i/ouis and Jacksonville on “Seminole
Limited,” which leaves Americus ror
Jacksonville at 11:45 p. m. Leaves
j Americus for St. Louis and Chicago
I via Columbus and Birmingham, ai
3:55 a. m. For further information
[apply to S. B. Ellis, Ticket Agent,
! Americus,, John W. Blount, District
Passenger Agent. Macon, Ga.
FOR SALE
5- house, ceiled throughout, on
j ly SBOO.
| 5-room house, large lot, on one
| the main street, S9OO.
6- house, with barn and crib
I on lot, desirable location, $2,000, one
| fourth cash.
125-acres, 6 miles of Americas, -h'
acres open; plenty wood and timber,
; running water, healthy. Price
I per acre, worth sls per acre.
300 acres, 2 1-2 miles of railroad
j station, 200 acres open, one 5-room
j and one 4-room house, one 2- room
house; land lays well and fertile.
Price sls per acre.
460 acres 3 1-2 miles of Americas o>
graded road (none better); 300 acre
open, 5-room house, barns, cribs, etc
healthy, running water, soil red and
gray. This is one of the choice tarin
of the county; don’t, miss this if > Oll
want land; terms easy. Come to so
me if you want to buy or sell.
P. B. WILLIFORD,
526 Cotton Avenue,
AMERICA GA.