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OFFICIAL ORGANt
City of Americus.
Sumter County.
Webster County.
SaTroad Commission of Georgia For
Third Congressional District
0. 8. Court Southern Mstrlct of
Georgia.
Americas, November 12, 1913
Christmas is coming. Shop early
ami trade at home.
Courtesy costs but little but it re
sults in big dividends.
Sumter Product Day—Thanksgiving
Day—Christmas. Call the doctor.
is celebrating her silver an-
adversary. Wonder how old Amcricus
is?
It's migbty hard on a fellow that
liasn't credit at the coal yard these
adaya
Will Teddy return and lead the
Jtough Riders into Mexico if Huer* t
*ets too sassy?
Two things Americus must have be
fore another twelve months— That l'n
| Son Station and a county fair.
Ueisman will send eleven men n
pagainat Georgia next Saturday wi'.u
jlUsc Instructions "Keep your eyes on
McWhorter.”
A new comer to Americus said th ■ •
| other day, “1 have written i.ome all
L about thiß place. If they believe h i.f
Tn>f what 1 wroi“ three quarters of the
people in will move to Amer;
*ns.”
The Southern Hell wants it's cus
j tome in to “Smile" when they phone,
i* If everyone would smile when ev. r
[ they speal over the phone or face to
j'ahirs just think what a pleasant world
fjthis would be.
JL l!p in Boston they are working ini
immigrant girls, that can't speak Bn®.-
| lisft, in th*°ir factories and paying
i "them a mere pittance of 58 cents a
It-'writ. Seems to us Boston once rais
jjwsl a row about slavery somewhere,
el# o' ther case of the mote and the
rm.
I’unless to Try
' .Vending some ribbon one day, while
! .nn a very small Southern town, we
threat to the one store there,
t “Ribbon?” questioned the storekeep
jtar. "Well, we-all just mislaid our
Week of ribbons, but if you-all come
later. I'll see if 1 can find them. ’
| So back we went later. He bad found
ahem.
I “What color did you-all want?"
I "Blue.'' we replied.
J “Ob. blue!” he exclaimed in disgust,
haven’t got any blue. Blue is so
■papular we don’t even try to keep It."
■—Harper’s Magazine.
THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOOD ROADS
Augusta is going to have a Good
Roads Congress and a good many
sermons will be preached on the sub
ject of good roads.
j Here's one on the Righteousness of
Good Roads that is hard to beat. It is
well worth your reading. It brings out
an individual thought for all of us:
Whither have ye made a road toda- ,
—I Samuel, xxvii, 10.
This sermon is by the Rev. Robeit
Nelson Spencer:
Whenever civilization has turned a
sharp corner it has been because some
one made a better road for it that day.
Civilization has journeyed to the u p
lands and savagery has remained In
the jungle because the one was a road
maker and the other was content with
a path. The African explorer tells us
that he found the heart of the dark
continent all criss-crossed with such
paths, criss-crossed because it is no;
the way of savagery to make its paths
straigat.
A tree falls across the way, or a
rock rolls upon it, or the drag of the
hill is too great; and the ilrst native
that com's that way goes around it
and the others follow his line of least
resistance, and a permanent bend is
made.
There can never be any great com
monwealth, there can never be any
great municipality, except there he
great roads leading through them and
to them. An age that has become im
patient of sending its messages by
men and has called down me lightn
ing to carry them will not take the
time and trouble to go anywhere uc
less there is a good road to travel.
And now let me put the emphasis
where I feel it most. It is not the
economic importance of good roads,
vital as that is. It is not because it is
wicked and wasteful in such a good
world to have anything bad that can
be better. I plead most of all for good
roads today because they are kind.
They are kind to the people who
hve out in the lonely places—live
there, some of them, at least, because
some one must live there, some one
must plow and sow and reap that we
may eat and live. lam far from pity
ing the farmer, who might better, per
haps, pity us who are huddled in the
town. His profession is older than the
most of us, and his business is cer
tainly as divine as any man's can b*.
But is it lonely work, and it means
toil early and late.
I want the folk who live in the hard
and lonely places to have what facil
ities there may be for the making ;f
their work easier and the marketing
of their product better. I want them
to have good, straight roads upon
(By Wightman F. Melton.)
“What cracker is this same, that deata
our ears
With this abundance of superfluous
breath?” —Shakespeare.
Boasting getteth a man no whither
This statement is not paraphrased,
quoted, or stolen. It is a statement <;i
■ r truth so old that it may at least be
put in the earliest form that will b:;
readily intelligible to the average
reader of English. The boaster usual-
Ij has nothing but an abundance of
breath, and wastes that—“superfluou
breath,” Shaespears calls it. But Vic
tor Hugo would call it by its real
name —"hot air."
The president of a large boarding
school far girls says that a close ob
servation extending over a quarter o T ’
a century leads him to the conclusion
that the girl who is harest to please
at school is accustomed to the fewest
comforts and inconvenienves at home.
, and that the greatest boaster, girl or
boy, woman or man, is the one who
has the least possessions.
Among several girls who were es
■ pecially hard to please this president
■ speaks of one as the high priestess of
complaint. Her people at home
- thought from her letters that she w is
- happy and contented; but in school
? she boasted that at home they had
’ larger, better-ventilated room*, broad-
Ni *'
1 er beds, real Irish linen tablecloths
and napkins, and a greater variety o l '
better-cooked food.
The president was traveling in her
. section one summer, and drove up to
> her home, three miles from any other
’ house, just before dinner. He was
tired and hungry, ate heartily of the
1 which to come to town, when the day j
) work is done, or on a holiday, anl
- that they may feel safe and sure ‘if
them in the dark. I want to know
f them better, that some of their
3 strength and goodness may j ass upon
t the strength of the town.
I plead for good roads because they
) are kind to the beasts that have to
toil on them. There is no way 'n
. which we can so surely lighten the
burdens of these faithful servants of
man as by making the roads better.
Because I am for drinking fountains
for the horses; because I believe that
the Christ who was born among th*
cattle would have added that a bucket
of coid water given to a thirsty beast
shall not fail of its reward, either; be
cause I am for these things I am for a •
good read, which is kindest of all.
D; you think that this is fancy? Go
then, to some tired horse that has been
i pulling a load against the drag of the
hill and stroke his soft nose. Tell
in that way that you know, even if he
is so much stronger than yourself.
You can’t tell him in words, and he
wouldn’t understand you if you did;
but at the touch of that sympathetic
hand you will see those deep eyes fi'l
with light, and you will know some
thing of the touch of the tender hand
of God upon the burdened lives of
• men. I believe in good roads most cf
; all, my friends, because they are kind.
Whither have ye made a road todav?
We can make them everywhither *f
we will for the materials are all to
■ our hand. The psalmist, who knew a
; great deal about God and a great deri
about man, also says in one of hi 3
: songs, “The heavens, even the heav
■ ens, are the Ix>rd's, but the earth hath
, he given to the children of men.”
i If that be so-, we may leave off a lit
' tie worry about the golden streets of
the New Jerusalem—the Lord will take
1 care of them; but he has given us the
slighted roads of earth for cur job
So I preach today about good roads
for this present earth. When we
have done for them what we can let
each man rest in his house by the
road as one who has done his woik
and earned his rest —
I.et me live in my house by the side of
the road,
Where the race of men go by;
They are good, they are bad, they are
weak, they are strong.
Wise —'foolish; so am I,
Then let me not sit in the scorner’s
seat.
Nor hurl the cynic’s ban;
Let me live in my house by ti e side of
the road,
i And he the friend of man.
i —The Augusta Herald.
THE BOASTER
dinner, and appreciated it ; but it con
sisted principally of fat bacon and
cowpeas, served in an old, long,-crack-
I
ed yellow platter, propped on a salt,
cellar and a fork in the middle of a
swayed-back extension table that had
lost its fifth leg. He remained over
night and slept in a small shed room, 1
on an old, rickety cord bed, under
which onions were scattered to dr .
The room had one window, two feet
square, closed by a solid wooden shut
ter on hinges made of old shoe soles.
The parents in this house were hum
ble, hard-working people, whose high
est ambition was to train their chil
dren properly and give them a good
education.
The president remembe-s another
girl who did not complain of things at
the college, but talked much about the
Brussels carpet and mahogany furni
ture in her palatian home. Their plan
tation was large, the horses fine and
fast, etc. This girl was called home
before the close of school to accom
pany her mother, she said, (o a fam
ous hospital where she was going for
treatment. After the girl had gone, r
negro maid found and handed to one
of the teachers the opened letter that
had-called the girl home:
"Dear Sal: Ma is down with her
back an’ ain’t been able to cook a
bight in three weeks. You’ll have *o
i come home an’ take h-r pleace outell
me and Da gets the crap out of the
grass, if the is enough money left
• j from your ticket, please get me a
i j number 10 pair of shoes so I can .- , o
- •to the big meetin’. ”
1 1 There is no harm in telling, in the
: proper way and at the appropriate
THE AMERICUS DAILY TIME3-RECORDER.
• time, what one has done or has not
• done, and what one owns and does noi
1 own. One should, even then, be sure
of one’s audience. The boaster
seldom a worthy friend and seldom
has honorable friends. —Christian Ad
vocate.
JIOVY TO START A CO-OPERATIVE
EGG-SELLING ASSOCIATION.
Any number of farmers from six up
can start an egg-selling association.
Should have enough hens to furnish :it
least two cases of eggs per week at
the season of the year when egg pro
ructicn is the lightest.
Should secure some central loca
tion in the neighborhood that would be
accessible to all who would wish to
join the association.
The delivery of the eggs to the cen
tral point must be taken into consid
eration.
Amount of capital necessary to start
on as small as SSO to SIOO depending
upon the number of members.
Initiation fee of $5 to get the neces
sary capital; or enough members bor
row from the local bank the necessary
capital to begin business, each fanner
endorsing the note.
A schoolhouse In the winter or dur
ing a school term could be a place for
the gathering of the eggs, and could be
brought in by the children when they
come to school.
Organize by getting the farmers and
their wives together to talk the matter
over. There should be four or liv*
meetings and the subject thoroughly
discussed before getting down to busi
ness.
Constitution and by-laws should he
very simple. An arrangement in writ
ing that nothing but fresh, clean eggs,
gathered daily and delivered at leaset
twice a week to the association for a
given period; and rules should be
made that if a patron brought in bad
eggs over three times, he would be
dropped from the asosciation.
A stamp should be given each mem
ber with a number on same, as a
means of identification, together witn
an agreement to attend a meeting
when called by the president. This -3
about all that is necessary to start on.
Officers should consist of presiden*,
secretary, manager, and treasurer;
possibly best to combine the offices of
secretary, treasurer and tnanager; tli*
governing board of directors from four
to six.
The duty of the president is to call
the association together and preside at
all meetings; to help increase the
membership.
The secretary should look after th;*
correspondence, sell the product, look
after the shipping; if combined with
treasurer, to handle all funds and pay
out all moneys.
He should be* pa d a commission o'
so much p r crate, or so much per
dozen for all eggs handled, and, of
course, should be allowed the neces
sary funds to cover the expenses of
j the business.
I Some near-by market should be se
i lected and a good groceryman found
who desired a good quality of eggs,
j Hotel and college trade should also be
i cultivated.
Shipments should be made two or
i three times per W'eek in warm weath
|er. and twice a week at other times o*
i
the year.
Select only customers who are good
■ pay. Ask your local bank about their
credit.
i A record should be kept cf all eggs
received, and if any profits, should oe
divided among the patrons at the end
of the year, in propo~don to the
amount of business furnished.
Cash should be paid for all eggs a.?
bought. Should be careful not to
promise too much to your patrons to
i
start on.
Take some daily paper and watch
I the daily markets.
| Start the association in a small way,
give it a name, and sell your eggs
under this name.
Have all goods packed In (artons.
. —W. J. Shufcrd, in The Progressive
Farmer.
Hard Luck
’’Terrible accident over in the 6ido
show,” | •
“That so—what was it?”
"The ossified woman threw herself
at the head of the living skeleton.”
The Return of
Blood Eruptions
No Reason Why Anyone Should Suffer
Such Disheartening Experience.
No case of poisoned blood Is ever cured
until the last destructive germ has been
eliminated from the system. And the only !
remedy that Is assimilated In the tissues ■
and stimulates cellular activity to over-!
come harmful germs Is the famous blood
purifier, 8. S. S.
The skin is but a fine network of tiny
blood vessels, and the specific action of
S. S. 8. is declared by eminent authorities
to be a pronounced stimulation of the activ
ity of these cells.
The reason for this Is In the peculiar
action of 8. S. 8. which enables the cells
In the skin to select from the blood the
nutriment It requires for regeneration.
Not only this, but if from the presence
of some disturbing poison there Is a local
or general Interference of nutrition to cause
boils, carbuncles, abscesses and kidney
troubles, S. 8. 8. so directs the loeal cells
that the poison Is rejected and eliminated
from their presence.
This fact has been demonstrated year In
and year out In a wonderful number of
cases of Revere skin eruption that had
seemed to be incurable.
You can obtain 8. 8. S. at any well
stocked drug store, if you insist upon It,
but be sure you are not talked Into some
thing "Just as good.”
8. 8. 8. Is prepared bv the Swift Specific
Co.. 215 Swift Bldg.. Atlanta, Ga.
Write for their Illustrated book on skin
diseases.
EDUCATIONAL NOTES
Several of Arizona’s school laws are
models of simplicity and effectiveness,
according to officials of the U. S. bu
. reau of education.
The result of adequate industrial
education will be “peace, precision
and prosperity in industry; happiness
, and hope in our homes," in the opin
ion of Secretary of Commerce Red
, fled.
The people of Macon county, Illl
j nois, are planning to do honor by a
[ memorial volume and in other ways,’*--
the memory of the late John Trainer,
“father of the modern country school.’
, That the hundreds of health-teach
ing agencies in the United States
should organize into a general body
. for united and co-operative action i-s
. the assertion of Dr. F. B. Dresslar, o'
the United States bureau of education.
Student insurance is a feature of
German continuation schools. For an
insurance fee of 19 cents per half year
the students in the schools ior build
ers, for example, are insured again-:t
all accidents that may happen to them
in the school room or on the way to
and from school.
When 500 girls between 14 and it>
*
years of age in Chicago factories were,
asked: “If your father had a good
job, so that he could have afforded ix>
keep you in school, would you prefer
Ito stay in school or go to work in a
factory?" 412 replied that they would i
still prefer to be in the factory.
| The high cost of living and related I
problems are attacked in a series of]
home economics lectures at the Teach- 1
ers’ training college in Baltimore. The]
f llowing are a few of the practical
topics considered: What Is the food
1 lequirement for one day for a young
woman 17 to 20 years of age? A stud/
of actual lunches that can be prepared
’ for 3 cents and 5 cents. The value of
pure food. How- doeh the sanitatio.i
1 of the school affect the health and effi
ciency of the child? How can we as
consumers influence economic and san
-1 itary conditions by careful buying?
t
1 Grand aßpids, Mich., has a printing
department in the junior high school.
1 it is for three distinct classes of stu
dents: First, the part-time boy who
■ attends half a day a week without loss
i
1 of pay from has regular employment;
second, the boy who is there all the
jtime and is learning the trade; third.
‘ the boy who takes an hour or two a
i week to find out whether he wants to
follow printing as a life work.
What He Missed
Paul Revere
Upon that hoke
Should have had
A motor-byke.
IL. G. COUNCIL, I‘rss’C lie. I*9l. C. M. COUNCIL, Vies i res
H. S. COUNCIL, Cashier.
Planters Bank of Americas
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jJyfflSl JKtlon to every interest consistent win
Gound han - kin ** we Bolicit y° ur patron
Interett allowed on time certificate*
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Studebaker, Hudson and
Ford cars.
We carry at all times a
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The Ocean Accident and Ouarantee Corporation
T. M. EVERETT
SPECIAL AGENT
Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co,
Office in Commercial City Bank Building.
This company offers unexcelled values in pol
icy contracts. Would be pleased to submit
same for your consideration.
To All Farmers:
We will be delighted to handle your cotton
for you tnis year. We know we can give
you good service, and we have the onl>
compartment close storage Warehouse in
the city. Besides this, we have at a cost of
SI,OOO, installed an
Automatic Water Sprinkling System
in these storage rooms. This gives us the
best protection known from fire, and the
cheapest insurance in Georgia.
BRING US YOUR COTTON
IIARROLD BROS.
DR. PERCY W. HUDSON,
Veterinary Hospital.
Accommodations for all classes of domestic
animals. Reasonable rates. Corner Jackson and
Wheeler streets. i
Hospital I’hone 278. Residence, 587
HERBERT HAWKINS
Insurance And Surety Bonds.
Specialty—Autos at 2 per cent
PLANTERS BANK BLDG. Phone No. 185
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 191 J