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The Americus Times-Recorder
(THIRTY-FIFTH YEAR.
i RE-ELECTION OF
TEACHERS HEED
HEHE YESTERDAY
VERT FEW MUSES WIDE
Annual Election of Officers
and Teachers
At the annual meeting of the board
• of education held for that purpose the
officers and teachers of the schools
tv ere elected yesterday afternoon.
There were very few changes made in
the faculties of the High school, prac
tically all the teachers having appliel
for re-election and having been chos
en to serve another year.
Superintendent J. E. Mathis was re
elected by unanimous vote, as was
each member of the faculties of the
High school and the grammar school
who were chosen. The changes in the
schools are comparatively few. With
but one or two exceptions the faculties
of the local schools will be the same
next year as this. Messrs. Holland
.and Crook will not be associated with
the High school faculty any longer.
In the High school two changes
were made. Mr. Connor P. Jones
of Philadelphia, was chosen as in
structor in commercial studies, and
Miss Jean Cameron, of Moultrie, a
teacher of history. Mr. C. C. You
mans was re-elected as principal. This
Will give the High school the following
£ faculty next fall: Mr. C. C. You mans,
principal and teacher of rhathematics:
Mr. C. M. Hale, Latin; Mr. Charles
G. Clement, English; Mr. J. H. Reeve,
science; Mr. Connor P. Jones, business
courses, and Miss Jean Cameron, his
tory. It will be seen from this that a
lady teacher is again assigned to work
in the High school.
Miss Sarah P. Cobb was re-elected
principal of the Furlow school. The
faculty at this school this fall will
include Miss Sarah Cobb, principal,
first grade; Miss Lizzie McLendon, sev
enth grade; Miss Yona Buchanan, sev
enth grade; Miss Emily Binion, sixt i
grade; Miss Mary Mathis, fifth grade;
Miss Lizzie Williams, fifth grade; Miss
Edna Condor, fourth grade; Miss An
nie May Reynolds, fourth grade; Miss
Alice Kelley, third grade; Miss Nannie
Sue Bell, third grade; Miss Claude
UlcLaughlin, second grade; Miss Gen
evieve Morgan, second grade; Miss
Cordelia Thornton, second grade; Miss
Annie Ansley, first grade; Miss Annie
McLaughlin, first grade. Miss Louise
Emingway did not apply for re-elec
tion.
This will leave about two vacancies to
be filled in the Furlow faculty late
while the teachers for the East Ameri
cas and the Brooklyn Heights schools
are yet to be chosen. The teachers
will be notified this morning by Super
intendent Mathis of their re-election
so that they may spend a long vaca
tion pleasantly.
CIVIL DOCKET WILL
LIKELY CLOSE SOON
• Quiet Day in Superior Court
Yesterday
Civil docket in the superior court
will likely be concluded tomorrow
which will terminate the session of
the court for this week. Yesterday
several divorce cases were heard, with
one or two other minor suits.
Monday the criminal docket will be
taken up. About the same number ot
cases as usual will be up for trial then.
The criminal session will likely last
about two weeks. The session as a
whole is a light one this term.
.. . ■rmbus:. ...a
HEALTH BOARD
HAS COMPLETED
ITS INSPECTION
REPORT MADE TO COUNCIL
By Officers of the State
Here Monday Night
After completing an inspection ot
sources of food supply here, officers ot
the state who were brought to Ameri
cus by Dr. J, W. Chamblss, city physi
cian, made their report in a general
way to the city council at a special
meeting Mondays night, having return
ed to Atlanta later.
Those who came to Americus at the
instance of Dr. Chambliss were Dr. P.
F. Bahnsen, state veterinarian; Dr.
H. C. Hutchins, an assistant of the
state veterinarian, and State Pure
Food Inspector Methvin. Accompan
ied by. Dr. Chambliss, these officials
inspected practically all the sources of
public fool supply here, including res
taurants, meat markets, dairies and
abattoirs.
City Physician Chambliss said yes
terday in speaking of the results of
the inspection that a detailed report
would require a long time. Conse
quently he had a general report of
conditions made by the state officials
to a special meeting of council Mon
day evening. The detailed report will
be submitted to that body later.
According to the general repo>-(
made by the state officials,-in which
Dr. Chambliss concurred, conditions
have been considerably at fault here as
regards certain suorces of food.
Slaughter pens were found in practi
cally all cases without sufficient ven
tilation, with inadequate water supply
and with consequent insanitary condi
tios. No adequate means are at hand
for the disposal of offal, which makes
these conditions worse.
Meat markets were found to be sit
uated in buildings oftentimes that were
unfit for such places on account ot
lack of ventilation and light. Lack ot
common cleanliness in keeping sawj
and knives clean in these places was
noted, giving conditions that are very
insanitary and meacing to public
health. Restaurants were likewise
found with insufficient screens auT
with lack of cleanliness in the kitch
ens.
A common fault of the dairies was
found in the fact that in most cases
cows are milked in barns where there
is manure and filth on the floor, in
stead of on concrete floors, with
screens to doors. It was gratifying to
note, however, that T)ottles and uten
siles were found sterilized in most
instances.
Dr. Chambliss said yesterday that in
every instance where attention had
been called to these refects the owners
of the places were already getting to
work to remedy conditions, which
should serve to give the city a muca
cleaner food supply in the future.
LADIES ARE INCENSED
AT TART CRITICISMS
Relative to The Propriety of Riding
Astride.
Atlanta, May 27. —Atlanta Daughters
of the Confederacy are highly incensed
over the statement of Dr. Lyon, ot
Nashville, an officer of the* United
Confederate Veterans, to the effect
that truly refined and elegant ladies
do not ride astride.
The recent official order of General
J. P. Hickman, commander of the Ten
nessee division, prohibiting women
from riding astride during the reunion
In Chattanooga, has aroused protest,
but not in the same degree as the
statement Os Dr. Lyons which has of
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AMERICUS. GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY MORNING. MAY 28. 1913.
EARLY PEACHES
. ARE ON MARKET
IN AMERICUS
. CROP IS VERY SHORT ONE
i “May Flowers” Are Already
Ripening
Already the first peaches of the new
crop are being brought in from local
orchards, and while the quantity is
**
very limited, the fruit is of good quai
!
ity, and will be more abundant a
week hence. The peaches now ripen
ing are of the "Mayflower” variety,
which is among the best of the early
fruit.
That the peach crop in the Americus
territory is going to be disappointing
this year is a fact assured already. The
, most optimistic growers here count
' upon a half crop only, while others
report ten per cent., or less, of an av -
erage crop. In two of the largest or
chards in Sumter county, with 100,000
trees each, there will he a nomin il
. crop only. The trees were not given
. this year the usual care and attention
t and this fact, with adverse weathe.'
* conditions, have combined to cut the
yield down very materially.
The Blberta crop, which can usually
, be counted upon as a sure thing, is
very much off in the yield this year,
i There will be so-me Elbertas, but the
> bulk of the small crop locally, will he
I.'ileys and Georgia Belles, both of
them excellent varieties. The Hileys
will begin to ripen about June 10th to
if'h.
'1 i.i partial failure of the peach crop
is not confined to this territory, as
from the Fort Valley and Marshallville
districts comes the same story of a
prospective peach shortage—about a
half crop there, it is said. There wi I
be many carload shipments from these
points, but few from Americus.
Local growers will, to a very great
extent, dispose of their fruit in the
Americus market, or in small express
shipments to other towns and cities.
Owing to the short crop this year, good
prices are anticipated by the peach
growers here.
fended numbers of Atlanta ladies who
do ride cross-saddle.
As a matter of fact there are very
few Atlanta women riders, who do not
ride astride here. Side saddle is the
exception, and not the rule. In the
Brook wood Hunt club, a riding organ
ization which is made up exclusively
of Atlanta society women, including a
number of daughters of Confederate
soldiers, there is scarcely a wowan
who still rides the old side saddle.
The criticism which they resent from
Dr. Lyons Is in part as follows:
“This unnatural cross saddle move
ment appears but the logical out
growth of the twentieth century agi
tation among a lot of distempered (Wo
men who are clamoring for ‘womans
, right’.
"Women have been encroaching on
us poor fellows for years; they have
robbed us of our hats, coats, shirts,
collars, top boots; have long ben tug
ging at our trousers, and I understand
they began a short time ago to tinker
with our socks. But worst of all they
have jumped astride our saddle horses.
“On the occasion of a recent visit
|to Washington and New York City, 1
(convinced myself that the truly refined
I %
, and elegant ladies of these cities who
exercise on horseback, rode on side
TFB WEATHBB* Generally Fair; Slightly Cooler.
WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND.
V-.'y i X
X
—Briggs in Chicago Tribuna.
VON RUCK VACCINE
CURED SEN. KERN
A. »
Senate Directs Public Health
Department to Investigate
Washington, D. C„ May 27.—Unpre
cedented testimony as to the efficacy ot
a tuberculosis cure was furnished the
United States senate today, when
Senator Overman, of North Carolina,
declared on the floor, that Senator
Kern, democratic floor leader of the
senate, had been cured of tuberculos ! s
by the Von Ruck vaccine.
Senator Kern later admitted to
newspaper men that he was cured of
the disease by Dr. Von Ruck, of Ashe
ville, N. C., six years ago, just before
he became a candidate for vice presi
dent. He stayed at the sanitarium
four months and a half, and gained
thirty pounds in the meantime. He
went there thinking he would certain
ly die. He left entirely cured.
Senator Overman secured unanim
qps consent of the senate to direct the
public health department to investi
gate the vaccine. The navy depart
ment is already giving the remedy an
official test.
MEETING OF LOCAL BAR
IS CALLED THIS MORNING
For Assignment of Criminal Cases For
Next Week.
The local bar is requested to meet
at the courthouse this morning at 9
o’clock for the assignment of criminal
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t WHAT WILL THE I
♦ GRAND JURY DO? *
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♦ It is rumored here very generally that there are a number of blind *
♦ tigers and gamblers in Americus. (’he violations of the prohibition law 4
♦ and gambling are too common here, according to current report. ♦
♦ Now what is the grand jury going to do about it? Will the session 4
♦ of the court pass without the members of the grand Jury investigating r
4- this matter? The good people of Americus and Sumter county, the peo- 4
4 pie who abide by the law and who want to see the law enforced, hope 4
4 that the grand Jury will go to the bottom of the matter. 4
4 Rumors have it that if the grand jury will summon certain po- ♦
4 llcemen they may gain specific information concerning these matters, es- 4
4 pecially concerning gambling. Wuat is the grand jury going to do 4
4 about it? ' ♦
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COLONEL MAKES A DENIAL
I TO CHARGE OF IMBRIETY
i Takes Light Wine Rot Noth
ing More
Marquette, Mich, May 27. —Colonel
f Theodore Roosevelt took the witness
; stand today in his libel suit againsi
I I George A. Newett, who in an edito
. rial charged him with drunkenness
• The former president entered a denial.
- He admitted using light wines wi’h
; his meals, but never touched strong
liquors, except on adyice of his physi
i cians, or after great exposure. H->
: said he does not smoke ncr toucu
beer.
USES AXE HANDLE ON
HEAL OF MOULTRIE MAN
E. L. Evans Has Fractured Skall As
Result of The Attack.
Moultrie, May 27. —In an altercation
last night with L. H. Cook, a prominent
merchant, E. L. Evans received inju
ries that may prove fatal.
The men had a misunderstanding
about a small purchase made by Ev
ans and after passing a few words, ac
cordng to an eye witness, Cook picked
up an axe handle and struck Evans
several blows, fracturing his skull and
breaking one of his arms.
No arrest has been made yet.
cases in Sumter superior court for
trial next week, beginning Monday
morning.
JAMESON WILL
RETAIN POSITION
ASPRESIDENT
OF THE MERCER UNIVERSITY
Declines Offer of Ouachita
College
Macon, Ga., May 27.—Dr. S. Y. Jame
son, president of Mercer university,
has declined the offer of the presidency
of Ouachita college, at Arkadelphia.
Ark. He has written a letter to the
authorities of the college declining the
position. Dr. Jameson gave the mat
ter thorough consideration and even
made a trip to the college to look over
the situation.
He decided, after reflection, how
ever, to remain in Macon for another
year, as his term as president of Mer
cer does not expire until June, 1914.
The special committee which was
appointed by the board of trustees of
Mercer some time ago to investigate
the report of friction between Presi
dent S. Y. Jameson and the members
of the faculty, the student body and
the prudential committee of the trus
tees, will probably make its report to
the board of trustees at the annual
meeting next Monday afternoon.
It will be remembered that the
committee held a session and investi
gated the charges in February. A
number of witnesses were heard and
the committee, after taking of the tes
timony, issued a statement to the effec
that a report would be made to the an
nual meeting of the trustees. This
committee consisted of Judge T. A.
Parker, of Waycross; Rev. Lansing
I burrows, pf Americus; W. A. Taliafer
i ro, of Dublin; C, C. Callaway, of Wash
ington, and Dr. W. B. Hardman, o*
Commerce.
Their report on the situation is ex
pected to be one of the features of
the meeting. Dh E. C. Dargan, chair
man of the board of trustees, will pre
side over the meeting.
BLACK BANDIT IS KILLED
BY POSSE IN PURSUIT
Murderer of White Men is
Shot Dead
Augusta, Ga., May 27, —That Rich
ard Henry Austin, the negro mur
derer from Hampton county, Souin
Carolina, who killed Dr. S. C. Moore,
Magistrate Eden field and Mr. Victor
Bowers several weeks ago, was him -
self killed by a posse in the swamps
nearly 20 miles below Sylvania, m
Screven county, Georgia, early Mon
day night, is the story told in Augus
ta today by members of the posse re
turning to their homes in Carolina.
Austin was pursued by men and
dogs until he had to leave the swam,).
In crossing an open space and while
trying to get into an adjoining sec
tion of the swamp, bullets from re
volvers and rifles and buckshot from
the barrels of breech-loading shot
guns shot him down. The story is
told graphically by a gentleman who
was present, but who on account of
his business''connections, declined to
allow his name, to be used.
FIRST BAPTIST WILL PICNIC
TODAY AT MYRTLE SPRINGS
An Occasion of Much Pleasure Is
Promised.
As announced, the Sunday school of
the First Baptist church will have i»s (
annual picnic today at Myrtle Springs. (
( T*hei picnickers will assemble at the (
NUMBER 127
SOUTH’S HEROES
AGAIN ASSEMBLE
IN CELEBRATION
tffililS OF IfCS till!
7,000 Strong in Meeting at
Chattanooga
Chattanooga, Tenn., May 27.—More
than seven thousand veterans, and a
much larger number of sponsors,
maids of honor and visitors, were
present today at the opening of the
twenty-third annual United Confeder
ate veterans reunion. Threatening
clouds for a time led many to fevi
that the elaborate program of the first
day might be interfered with, but un
easiness later was partially dispelled
when the sun flashed through the
clouds and sparkled on the bright ac
coutrements of the United States car
airy.
As the troops rodes along Market
street to the accompaniment of martial
music, there was a striking contrast
between the dapper young soldieis
and the grizzled veterans, who lined
the sidewalks to witness the spec
tacle. *
Led by Colonel James Lockett, this
cavalrymen from fort Oglethorpe
formed in line on the outskirts of the
city in the vicinity of Chickamauga
Park. . Winding in and out among the
streets of the city, they finally passed
in review before the stands whk'ii
had ben erected along Broad street*
in the heart of the business district.
After witnessing the parade,
majority of the large crowd pri
ceeded to the city auditorium, whei
welcoming addresses and response t
marked the first official gatherin j
of the veterans’ organization at the
present reunion.
A number of interesting events
are scheduled for this afternoon and
tonight. These include the sponsors"
parade, and a garden party for th.-
sponsors and visitors at Warner
park this afternoon, while tonight the
veterans will be guests of the Unite!
Daughters of the Confederacy at a
reception.
Gov. Hooper Was Hissed.
A few audible hisses, which lat*r
wered rowned with cheers and ap
plause, followed the introduction of
Governor Hooper, of Tennessee, today
at the first meeting of the United
Confederate veterans reunion here.
The demonstration delayed the gov
ernor a brief period in beginning hla
address.
Order was restored when Chairman
W. E. Brock, of Chattanooga, rappeit
for order, and the governor delivered
his speech without interruption ex
cept for cheers.
Governor Hooper is said to h»v»
been the first republican chief execu
tive to welcome delegates to a trnfted
Confederate Veterans’ reunion.
Rumors were current at Camp
Stewart ar.d in the city last night that
there was a possibility of a hostile
demonstration. These rumors appar
ently had no discernible source, but
were so persistent that Mayor T. C.
Thompson, of Chattanooga, and other
city officials had taken steps to que I
any disturbance.
Governor Hooper also is said to
have been informed as to the reports
being circulated.
Tlie demonstration, however, was
so short lived that it was not neces
sary for the city officials to take ac
tion. The applause and clleers drown
ed out the few hisses.
church at 8 o’clock, where conveyaa es
will be in waiting. There will be plen
ty of room for all, as numerous auto
mobiles and other conveyances hav.*-
kindly tendered for the occasion^