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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 191*
Business District of Americus Modem in Every Respect
Progress is stamped all over the
business district Os Americus, a com
pact, well built brick district whose
bustling activity at certain hours of
► | &e day leads the stranger to believe
he is in a much larger city than
Americus really is. The well-paved
highways of the trading section of
the city present a picture of anima
tion during the greater part of the
day, a condition that becomes very
pronounced in the late hours of the
afternoon when the stores are fre
quently thronged with shoppers and
the streets are often a mass of auto
mobiles moving in all directions. The
business district compares favorably
not only with other cities of 10,000
population, but with those claiming
more people.
The past five years have been an
era of decided improvement in this
part of the city. A number of new
stores have been erected and old ones
remodeled to meet modern require
ments. Once the spirit of renovation
set in there was no checking it until
today the retail stores of the city pre
sent as attractive an appearance as
can be found in any city of moderate
size, and in some instances are the
peers, in the beauty of their furnish
ings and completeness and up-to-date
ness of equipment, of the leaders in
their lines in the largest cities of the
state. In every line of trade enter
prising merchants are found, men of
experience, of progressive ideas, of
ample capital, who have surrounded
themselves with well-trained salesmen
and offer large, carefully selected and
varied stocks, rendering it unneces
sary to send from Americus for any
desired goods. In the past five years
the tendency in trade here, as else
where, has been toward specializing,
toward a departure from general mer
chandising and concentration of capi
tal and efforts on special lines. As a
natural result there can be found in
Americus today well stocked stores in
every line of retail business, as well
as several large houses conducted
along department lines. Traveling
salesmen from the North and West
speak in the highest terms of the
Americus of today in this respect, of
the revolution that has come in the
past few years in the character of its
retail establishments, in the “smart
ness” of their style and the broad,
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Heart of New Business District, Showing New Postoffice and Planters’ Bank Building—Entire Business Section is Paved With Creosoted Wood Blocks
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liberal spirit shown by the merchants
in expanding to meet the demands of
a prosperous and critical buying clien
tage.
Americus is the retail buying point
for a country district extending for
twenty miles, or more, in all dire
-.lions. Not only Sumter county, with
Its 35,000 population, but Lee county,
with its 6,000, Webster, with its 6,000,
and Sohiley, with its 6,000 largely do
their purchasing here. It is not un
common on Saturday the great trad
ing day of the week, for several thous
and customers to be in the city, secur
ing supplies, while on every fair day
the popular shopping trains bring
many shoppers in from the country
and the smaller towns. Fortunately,
Americus enjoys excellent railroad fa
cilities in all directions for the con
venience of retail shoppers, trains
coming in from Bix directions at con
venient hours and leaving on schedules
that permit of shopping under satis
factory conditions. This is one of the
great factors in the commercial pros
perity of the city and with the rapid
development of the surrounding
country in all directions that is now
in progress Americus is unquestion
ably destined to become a more than
ever important retailing centre. The
competitive spirit is strong, leading
to the careful selection of stocks, to a
critical study of the comunity’s tastes
and profit reductions to as low a
point as business judgment will per
mit. Experience has shown that in all
lines goods can be purchased as cheap
ly here as elsewhere and with a£
broad a‘range of selection as is possi
ble in any city of its size—in both
respects Americus far surpassing the
greater number of cities of the 10,-
000 class.
The business section, as is shown In
the accompanying illustration, ! s
well-paved with the finest class of
creosote*! wooded blocks, the entire,
business district enjoying this modern
pavement. The sidewalks are of con
crete blocks. The lighting is of
course, by electricity—the latest pat
tern arc lights. The streets are care-*
fully cleaned, stringent laws against
waste paper and other trash are in ef
fect, and the whole appearance of tho
business streets is a gratifying one to
citizen and stranger alike.