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The Americus Times-Recorder
(THIRTY-FIFTH YEAR.
DEATH CLAIMED
L. (i. MUNDON, JR.
ONSATMAY
hu pan ii iheik
End Followed Illness With
Appendicitis
The death of Mr. Lawson G. McLen
don, Jr., which occurred at 11:15
o'clock yesterday morning brought
sorrow to a wide circle of friends in
Atnericus, where he was well know 1
end universally esteemed, and deep
est sympathy is extended the stricken
parents, brother and sisters in their
hour of sorrow.
The announcement came as a dis
tinct shock to many, as while he had
been seriously ill for a week, follow
ing an operation for appendicitis, he
had seemed to improve, and his ulti
mate repovery was expected.
Quite recently, however, an unfav
orable change came about, and a few
hours thereafter he had passed peace
fully away.
The deceased was the youngest son j
of Mr. and Mrs. L. G. McLendon, a
young man of most excellent charac
ter and high integrity and esteemed
i
among all who knew him. Cordial 10
his friends, of genial nature and pleas
ing personality, no young man in
Americus claimed a greater number
of friends.
Mr. McLendon was 22 years of age.
He was reared in Americus and has re
sided here all of his life. For a long
while he had held a responsible posi
tion with the Americus Auto Co.
The deceased is survived by his par
ents, one brother, Mr. Hinkle McLen
don, and six sisters, Mrs. H. W. Davis
Mrs. C. A. Ames, Misses Elizabeth,
Kathleen and Ellie McLendon, of
Americus, and a half sister, Mrs.
Charles L. Traynor, of Massillon, 0.,
a former resident of this city.
The funeral services will be con
ducted at 3:30 o'clock this afternoon
from the family residence on Hill
street by Dr. Lansing Burrows, of
First Baptist church. Messrs. D. R.
Andrews, Emory and Walter Rylande",
J- E. B. McLendon, Walter Brown,
Herman Horton, Robert Cox and Tal
niadge Crabbe will act as pallbearers.
Friends of the family and of the de
ceased are respectfully invited to at
tend the exercises.
FARMERS CAN
RAISE COTTON
i IN SPITE OF j
BOLL WEEVIL
Atlanta, Ga„ Sept. 20.—(Special.—
I am more convinced than ever that
cotton planter who fights, can
ra ise cotton in spite of the bool wee
is the statement made today by
a, e Entomologist E. L. Worsham,
o has returned to his offices in the
■'■ ate capitol, after a tour of Missis
s Pl>i and Louisiana where he saw
dread boll weevil, destined to en-
K I'-i western Georgia next year, at its
Bj 11 st - As a result of this tour, Dt
lu 's now engaged in prepar-
H| lh ‘ r a comprehensive bulletin on the
BP weevil which will be distributed
l ong the farmers this fall, in which
1 'kill outline a plan whereby “fight
-1 8 t* 11 ' ravages of this dread cotton
■ I)esl tan he thwarted.
Bn 11 " <lu “f means by which the boll
H 1 is ,0 he stopped is by plant-
SH t ll ' ln ‘ ai 'ly maturing variety of cot-
SB "hich will bring cotton bolls
ahead of the time when the
|H . ' ""‘ HI gets in its deadly work,
|||||B Us wa >' come to maturity in
f|H " 10 g *'t off the pest.
THAW’S MOTHER
JOINS FUGITIVE IN
NEW HAMPSHIRE
IMIM PUN OP uwtas
Hearing in Extradition Case
’ Tuesday
Concord, N. H., Sept. 20.—Plans of
the defense in the extradition pro
ceedings against Harry K. Thaw were
completed this morning and awaited
ti-e approval of the Matteawan fugi
tive's mother and sister, who with the
latter’s husband, George Lauder Car
negie, arrived late this afternoon.
Thaw was anxious to explain to his
family his reasons for placing hit
case wholly in the hands of his New
Hampshire counsel. The latter are
working in complete harmony with
former Governor Stone, of Pennsyl
vania, the personal representative of
the Thaw family.
Reports that Governor Felker was
inclined to give Thaw his liberty anl
leave the final disposition of the case
to the federal courts, finds no support
in a statement from the executive to
day in which he said he would ap
proach the extradition proceedings oa
Tuesday with a perfectly open mind.
His only determination was, he said,
that justice should be done.
Thaw slept later than usual this
morning, and when he appeared at
breakfast, he was in the best of spir
its. He was ready for an
other hard day's wore: with his corres
pondence, and the law books, which he
is searching for precedents bearing
on his case.
“My counsel are working verv
hard, you know,” said he, “and I shall
do my part.”
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FOOT BALL A COURSE AT
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
Middletown, Con?.., Sept. 20.—Foot
ball has been advanced to the dignity
of a “special course” at "Wesleyan uni
versity this year. The faculty an
nouncement, made at the opening ex
ercises today, included this statement
and assigned Daniel Hutchinson, of
the University of Pennsylvania, as
special football instructor, assisted by
Dr. Fauver, professor of physical edu
cation.
Hutchinson has begun driving the
football candidates hard in preparation
for the game -jdth Yale next Wednes
day
PROPERTY VALUATIONS IN AMERICUS
OVER FOUR ANOJUARTER MILLONS
Assessors Have Completed Their Work and the Footings
Indicate the Value of Property as Returned for
Taxation. The Sum Aggregate is About the Same
as That for Last Tear.
Four million, two hundred and
thirty-six thousand dollars is the ap
proximate valuation of city property
returned for taxation, as shown by
the flies in the office of City Clerk
and Treasurer H. W. Weaver. The
board of city tax assessors have com
pleted their work and the figures giver,
out represent the sum total of ail
city property returned.
The result is about as expected, and
the amount upon which the forthcom
ing tax vote for the current year will
be gased is about the same as last
year.
AMERICUS. GEORGIA. SUNDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 21. 1913.
TRAIN DERAILED;
TWENTY INJURED
MANHATTAN, KAN.
THE LOSS OF LIFE IS LIGHT
Eight laches of Train Left
Rails
Manhattan, Kas„ Sept. 20.—Twen
ty passengers were injured, one prob
ably fatally, when passenger train
| No. 4, on the Chicago, Rock Island and
Pacific railroad, east bound from
Denver and Colorado Springs to St
Louis, was derailed on a curve a mile
west of here early today.
Eight coaches left the rails, one of
ithem, the combined steel baggage
and smoking car, rolled down a 20-
foot embankment, turning over three
times anl landing upside down. The
smoking compartment was full of
passengers, most of whom were in
jured, but none seriously.
The smoking division of the car
was inundated and the passengers in
the car bespattered by a flood of
cream from a consignment in the
baggage compartment.
Os those hurt, a conductor is the on
ly one whose injuries are believed se
rious. Passengers in the steel chair
car, and in the three sleeping cars,
were shaken up and badly bruised. The
more seriously injured were taken to
local hospitals.
A defective rail is said to have caus
ed the accident. The train was run
sing about 20 miles an hour when it
left the rails.
AUCTION SALE OF FARMS
OUT ON THE BELL PLACE
Four Desirable Small Farms
Offered
The former Edwin Bell farm of 203
acres on the Americus-Plains road
kid less than two miles from the city
has been sub-divided into four desira
ule small farms and will be sold at
public outcry on Tuesday afternoon
next, 23d inst., by the Carolina Devel
opment Co. The home place contains
a good dwelling, barns and 75 acres
la.- d. As the terms are very liberal,
culy one-fourth down and long time
on deferred payments, this is a fine
opportunity presented to buy a good
I.itle farm that will enhance rapidly
in value
Os the sum total, $2,236,000, the
following division is made. Property
returned by white residents, $3,585,00(1
by colored residents, $425,000; corpo
rations, $226,000. This later amount
was the total returned by corporations
for last year and it is assumed that
the figures this year will be practically
the same.
The total taxable valuations in
Sumter county is a little more than
$7,250,000, while that for the city of
Americus, as given abovg, is $4,236,000
or considerably more than half the to-
I tal amount in the county.
THE WEATHER:— Continued Rains.
FIRST BAPTIST
CHOIR PRESENTS
SPECIAEPROGRAM
MUSIC MORNING AND EVENING
Concert Th's Evening nf Es
pecial Interest
The musical program to be present
ed at the morning and evening ser
vices at First Baptist church today
will be of a high order of excellence,
and many doubtless will avail them
selves of the privilege of enjoying this
hour of song.
At the both services Mrs. Marianne
Dozier-Clements will render a solo.
This will probably be the last appear
ance here of this gifted lady prior to
her return to New York city, where
she will sing at two churches during
the autumn.
The program, morning and evening,
follows:
Morning Service.
Prelude, “Allegro”—Alex Guil
mant.
Anthem, “In Heavenly Love Abiding”
—Rinck.
Offertoiry, “Pastorale”—Lefebure-
Wily.
Solo, “I Come to Thee”—Mrs. Ma
rianne Dozier-Clements.
Postlude, “Fughetta”—Rembt.
Evening Service.
Prelude, “Andantino” —Fisher.
Anthem “6, Jerusalem” —Archer.
Offertory, Choral, “Vosspiel”—Mer
kel.
Solo, ‘Morning and Evening,” (Max
Spickler)—Mrs. Mairianne Dozeir-Cle
ments.
Choral, “O, Light Eternal”—Miles.
Solo, “A Perfect Day”—Carrie Jac
obs—Bond.
Postlude, “Fugue In F Major”—
Bach.
Choir —Mrs. Ernest Tullis, Mrs. Hol
lis Fort, Miss Clara Willie Prather,
Mrs. Fred Morgan, Mrs. Marianne Do
zie Clements, Mrs. John Daniel, Mr.
Fred Morgan, Mr. Ames, Mrs. H. O.
Jones, organist and director.
PREFERRED SUICIDE
TO STARVATION
Working Girl Tired of Going
Hungry
Chicago, 111., Sept. 20. —Social w:l
--fare workers were interested today
in the fate of Selma Petersen, a 19-
year-old girl, ebployed in 'a clotn
ing factory, who committed suicide
alter she had lived for six months
on meals which food experts had
-aid were sufficient to sustain life.
Her reason for her act was given in
e. note as follows:
“Wages too low Life not wortn
living.”
In a notebook she had set down
her weekly expenditure, showing that
meals, room rent, car fare and laun
c’.y took $7.25 of her $8 wages.
There were entries which stated that
her daily diet consisted of the fol
lowing:
For breakfast, coffee and rolls; for
d nner, beef stew and milk and rice
rudding; for supper, fruit, salal,
graham crackers and milk.
Shortly before the girl died she re
gained consciousness. To a physi
c an she said:
“Doctor, did you ever live for six
Kimths on 20-cent dinners?”
The menu in the girl’s diary was
submitted to an expert on food
values, who asserted St contained all
of the elements necessary to support
life.
LOCAL COMP ANT
WOULD ENLARGE
SUPPLY SYSTEM
LARGER Mill! ARE SEEDED
To Supply Gos Consumers in
Suburbs
To the end of serving more satisfac
torily the very large number of pat
rons in the suburban districts, and
particularly out in the rapidly growing
southside section, the local gas com
pany has under consideration the ex
tension of the system of gas conduits
in that direction.
The use of gas, especially for fuei
purposes and manufacturing is in
creasing rapidly, and while some of
the mains were replaced a year or two
ago it has been demonstrated already
that larger supply pipes are needed to
meet present requirements.
This is true in the near-in residence
sections as well as out in the su
burbs.
The company expects at no distant
date to lay another large ten-inch
main in the direction of the Southsiie
traversing Forrest street to College,
along College to Lee, and out Lee to
the city limits. This addition would
meet all requirements for many
years.
From this principal main smaller
pipes would supply consumers in
other sections, and the demand would
be met ail along the line. Fuel gas
is an essential, and with an enlarge
ment of its mains the company would
secure many hew patrons.
Just at this time, however, with
legal proceedings pending the com
pany does not feel authorized to make
these extensive and costly additions,
although it assuredly will be done
eventually. Americus is growing rap
idly, and such utilities must be af
forded where the demand is so great.
Judge Littlejohn will, on Thursday
next, hear the petition for injunction
instituted by the mayor and council of
Americus versus the Americus Power
Co., to the end of preventing a con
solidation of interests of the two local
corporations.
SON WHO HOPED TO SEE
FATHER BURN IN HELL
CUT OFF WITH $5.00
Starkville, Miss., Sept. 20.—“1 hope
you will go to hell when you die, and
1 want to be there to heap coals of
[iie on y<Aur damn body. It will do me
good to stand by and see the work well
dene.”
That language, appearing in the will
of \V. A. Janies, a wealthy planter and
r.l.’eged to have been used to him by
his son, is given by the father as his
reason for cutting the son off with a
$5 share in the valuable estate
The will was read before Cnancellor
Bobbins yesterday in the chancery
ciurt.
According to the last clause, the son,
!•'. L. James, called on his father three
<
vx-eks before the latter’s death and de
manded that he go his bond on a
charge of peonage The elder James
•efused, whereupon the son, it is said,
in aped vilest curses upon him, con
cluding with the language quoted in
the will
While on his death bed Mr. James
railed in a justice of the peace and
haa inserted the special clause barring
his son from an equal participation la
!he division of the estate with tfcs
ether children —four daughters and an
other son
AMERICUS MILLS
BUY COTTONSEED
AT HIGH PRICES
FARMERS SELLING READILY
Seed Bring S2O Per Ton
. Readily
The Americus oil mills'are laying in
large supplies of cotton seed just now,
*nd find little difficulty in getting all
they want at current prices, S2O per
ton. Not a few farmers are selling at
least a portion of their seed supply,
and scores of wagons thus loaded come
to Americus daily.
While this is true of many farmers
others here prefer to keep their cotton
seed for home-manufactured fertilizer,
and are not tempted by the excellent
price offered.
Mill men here state that S2O per ton
is full price for seed just now, as the
product, is green and recent rains add
very largely to the weight of a load of
cotton seed. In large quantities thev
are very apt to become heated, and
spoil.
At current prices, the seed from
bale of Sumter county cotton is wor n
just ten dollars, a product which, in
former years, was absolutely thrown
away. This, added to the value of a
cotton bale at current prices, 13 cents,
or $65 per bale, makes the actual
worth of a bale $75.
As Americus receives 35,000 bales
wagon cotton every season, the value
of this great staple crop, including
seed at current prices is $2,625,000. Af
ter all, cotton is the “king crop.”
ALABAMA MAY HAS
HIGH PRAISE FOR AMERICUS
Roy S. Peace, who until recently
has bene traveling Alabama for a
Louisiana rice and coffee concern, wa3
among the visitors in Americus yes
terday, making his maiden trip over
this section of Georgia, and so waG
pleased was he with the conditions i i
and around Americus, that Mr. Peacs
decided to remain here over Sunday
He is a live business man, and thor
oughly acquainted with conditions all
over Alabama, especially in the agri
cultural sections, but says the landa
surrounding Americus are the most
magnificent he has yet seen anywhere
“And your roads,” said Mr. Peace yes
terday. “They are splendid. They arc
quite equal and even superior to the
streets in many of the smaller towns
I have visited recently.”
MR. BIVINS IS CALLED
AGAIN BY HIS CHURCH
Is Requested to Continue
Pastorale There
While the expiration of his present
year’s pastorate is still some time in
the future the congregation of Furlow
Lawn Baptist church in conference as
sembled has extended to the pastor,
Rev. Robert L. Bivins a hearty and
unanimous call to that position for an
other year, and while Mr. Bivins has'
tne subjecet now under consideration
hope is expressed that he will consent
to retain the position he has filled to
ably and well for sixteen years consec
utively. Mr. Bivins is the only pastor
this large church has had since Its
organization, and while he has had
repeateed calls to other and larger
churches he has remained continuous
ly with that over the destinies of
which he has so long presided
MMBER I
BRIAN DEFIES I
APPLICATION OF
MOUTHSTOPPI-
M1 MIME I) SK| I
William Makes Big Moe\,\
on the Job M
Washington, D. C., Sept 20.—■
retary Bryan today commenting up4|
the termination of his engagemeoaL
announced that he would continue w
lecture as long as he remained seJI
retary of state, whenever he felt thezmt |
was occasion and a desire to do so. aft
“This evening is the last of thjfc
Chautauqua lectures for this seasonsp
The total income from chautauqus®
lectures this year is a little over
OAiO, the net receipts after taking out#j
the necessary expenses are something®*
over $6,500. The number of wholaiij
week days which have been used for-S
the lectures is, according to my recol-*
lection, seven. The remainder of th»f
lectures have been delivered at places |
near enough to this city to leave in 5
the afternoon, sometimes as late aa I
3:08 o’clock, it would not assume f
that the public was interested in thesa
details were it not for the fact that
thhe representatives of a few news
papers have regarded it as a matter of
great importance.
When Mr. Bryan was asked if he \
would lecture any more during hia
connection with the state department,
he replied:
“I expect to lecture whenever I
deem it desirable, or necessary to dos .
so, and have not in the least altered
the plans which were made at thi
time I assumed the duties of the of
fice. The criticism that has been di
rected against my lecturing is no moro
bitter than the criticism I have under-,
gone at other times, and for other
tilings, during my connection witlx
politics.”
«l
MURDERER SCHMIDT
KEPT REVOLVERS
\
The Police Find an Arseni l
Hidden There •
_____ i.
New York, Sept, 20. All of th»
ib t.lh certificates filed since the first
of the year, 15,000 in number, were?,
examined today to ascertain whether;
thev included any papers forged b&
‘ Father” Hans Schmidt to conceal tier
murder of other persons besides Anna
Aumuller.
Schmidt has confessed that he pre
pared theseb lank certificates forth 4
purpose of accounting fer the death
of persons hopelessly sick or crippled
whom he meant to kill painlessly for
their own good. He denied, however,
that he had put his plan into effect;
yet, or that he had any victims be>
sides the girl, portions of whose body;
still lie beneath the waters of th*
Hudson river.
Revolvers found in the quarters of.
Schmidt and of Ernest A. Muret, hia
dentist friend, gave the detectives to
day additional reason to believe that;
the association between the two men
was closer than they have admitted.
The weapons are alike in nearly all
details, and made by the same factor*
in Germany. The ammunition witK
which they were loaded is the sam*
make. I-
Muret says that he bought his pis
tol eight years ago in Germany.