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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1914
If You Should Die Tonigh
your family would lose
that additional insu
rance you intend to
take, wouldn’t they ?
Someone will die to
night, it might be you.
See Lee Hansford and
take out that policy and
avoid the danger of
delay.
Union Central Life Ins. Co
Lae M. Hansford, General Agent
Room 18, Planters Bank Bldg.
“The Great Annual Dividend Payer.”
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Dentists
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Dentist.
Office in Bell Bldg., Lamar St Just
ouposite Postoffice.
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Forsyth Street Over Western Union
OFFICE: RESIDENCE
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Physicians
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Residence 512 Hampton St. > hone 4
It is suggested that agricultural ex
perts migh develop the true laws of
eugenics, and then work 'em backward
on the prolific boll weevil.
COTTON TILLEOS
ARE TURNING UP
SUMTER’S SOIL
Bust 11 (up pimitrat
Prospect is Better Than Last
Season
Farmers about Americus and
throuhgout this much blessed section of
the modern Egypt—the land of corn
and of plenty, are busy now in crop
preperation, and the man at the steer'
ing wheel of the automobile plow is
more in evidence than is the farmer
with the joy wagon. The fact is evi
denced upon every hand that more
work —a great deal more—has been
accomplished already than at this
date last January.
The preparation of the fields is more
thorough than in years past. The re
moval of stumps permits more than
ever the operation of gang plows, pull
ed by gasoline engines, and these la
bor savers are as much in evidence
here in Sumter county as upon the
level plains of Kansas.
Sumter county produced a crop of
near 40,000 bales last year, a*d, with
favorable seasons, will do as well this
year 1914. Sumter county also pro
duced a crop of a half million bushels
oats last year, besides thousands of
tons hay and an ample corn crop, and
is going to make more oats and corn
and hay this year. Sumter’s water
melon crop alone last year brought the
growers probably $20,000.
That there wll be a greater diversi
fication of crops than ever before is
the general opinion owing to the fact
that the boll weevil is expected to
reach this section of the state within a
year or two. Heretofore the farmers
have looked forword to the coming of
the boll weevil as of some enemy in
the future but they have come to real
ize that the time of its coming Is
close at hand and they must prepare
for it well in advance.
Even if all precautions fail and the
boll weevil really gets here there is
going to be plenty of other crops and
though nothing can take the place of
“King Cotton” in the hearts as well as
the pockets of the average south Geor
gia planter, at least the prospects are
that he will have enough food stuffs to
keep the wolf from the door and the
“hog and hominy” will not fail him.
All over Sumter county the farmers
are busy 1 now preparing their land
for the crop of 1914 and the man be- I
hind the plow is in evidence cn every
side. That the acreage planted is go
ing to be a large one there is no doubt
from the quantity of land being made?
ready and also the new land being
taken in.
HE GOULD NOT
DONATE A FLAG
Because United States Makes No Pro
vision to Give Emblems to Schools
Lane Says “No"’ to Teaeber.
Washington, I). C., Jan. 20. —Because
the government does not make any
provision for furnishing flags to pub
lic schools, Secretary Lane of the in
terior department, has, much to his re
gret, been forced to turn down the re
quest of a school teacher living in the
southwest for a flag for her pupils,
who have never seen the national em
blem.
‘‘l have pupils in my school of all
ages up to 16 years, wh# have never
seen a U. S. flag,” the teacher wrote
the secretary, "excepting two very
small ones which I chanced to bring
along with me. This is a new countr*-,
a new district, and is consequently not
so well off financially. I thought 't
might please the department to assist
us in our struggle by supplying our
school with a flag.”
The county in which this school is
located has an area of 870 square miles
and in 1910 had a population of 1,474.
NO SWEED GCiILD USE
ELEVENTH WARD CLUB
SIGN. SAYS IRISHMAN
DONOR “STEALS” IT WHEN RE
FUSED ADMISSION TO THE HALL
Baltimore, Md., Jan. 20. —Somebody
—bad cess to him—had stolen the elec
tric sign in front of the Eleventh Ward
Democratic club. It was froth of a
sign with letters as green as the sham
rock and the barns and back alleys of
the city were combed in search of t.
Hair nor side nor bulb of it could be
found.
Before the motion to buy a new sign
was put at last night’s meeting Michael
Redding rose heavily and announced
that he would like to direct a few re
marks at the unknown thief.
“Hop to it, Mike!" said the rest of
the crowd, and they shifted their cigars
expectantly, for Redding is there witn
the plain and fancy invective.
This night he excelled his former
greatness. He exumed the ancestors
of the shameless thief. After saying
things about, them that made then
twist in their shrouds. Redding turned
his attention to the thief himself. When
he got through the dictionary was on
its back and speechless. He said that
the man who stole that sign would
glory in the theft of a widow’s pig.
"And what is worse,” he finished in a
cloud of brimstone, "the pahlpeen that
tuk it is no democrat —so he ain’t!”
Whereupon Pat Sherry, a prominent
and devout member of the club, rose.
His face was red and he held up a
hand.
“Sthop!” said he. “Sthop, Mike. Ye
go too far. ’Twas I who tuk the sign."
Sherry had given the club its sign
and they wouldn’t believe him until he
had explained. This is how it hap
pened:
Pat passed down the street one even
ing and saw by the fact that his do
nation was sending out its rays that
something was doing there that night.
So he went home and put on his red
tie and his painful patent leather shoe 3
and returned to the club. Pat was
stopped at the door by a large Swede,
who said he couldn’t enter because he
had no invitation. In revenge Sherry
had got out his stepladded, takes don v
the sign he had given the thankless
club and stored it in his garret
When the club recovered from its
surprise, abject apologies were made
and accepted. Sherry promised to re
turn the sign. And just to show that
his heart was correctly situated he's
going to paint the sign first.
NOLAN AAA!
YET GO FREE
Atlanta, Jan.. 20.—Though still ac
cusing James Nolan of the N, C. & St
L. train robbery, it is understood this j
morning that the police have about
convinced themselves that he is not
the man who actually committed the
crime. They hope, however, still to
prove that he had some knowledge of
it and possibly some hand as an acces
sory.
The detectives are at this very time
putting the prisoner through a con
tinuation of the third degree grilling
in the hope that they will force ad
mission from him that will lead to !
the arrest of the real bandit.
An interetsing feature of the situa- j
tion is that when l the prisoner was
first arrested and before the grilling j
began, he talked willingly and answer ‘
ed all questions. Since the grilling
started he is reported to have become
sullen and silent.
Rumor has it today that while tr. -
'police outwardly claim to still believ ■
j Nolan was the bandit, they are m j
[truth so sure he had only some minor j
jhand if any in the plot, that they have *
I promised that he wll be let off with '
I light punishment if he aids them in |
bringing the real hold-up ntan to jus
tice.
It’s hard to understand a minimum ;
wage of $3 a day for government em- i
ployes, unless Unch Sam is going into
the automobile business.
THE AMERICUS DAILY TIMES-RECORDER.
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MYRTLE SPRINGS
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Myrtle Springs, Ga., Jan. 20. —Mr.
and Mrs. J. F. Daniel has as then
guests Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. W. C.
Jordan and children, Mr. R. L. Pilche.%
little Miss Jewell Duncan and Miss
Spivey, from Alabama.
Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Beckwith spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. E. L.
Beckwith at their home near here.
Mrs. J. E. Daniel and children were
the guests Saturday of Mrs. J. E.
Johnston.
Messrs. J. F. and W. C. Jordan were
visitors in Americus Thursday.
Mrs. Emmett Reid is spending some
time with her mother, Mrs. Wiley
Carter.
Mrs. E. J. Arrington spent Wednes
day afternoon pleasantly with Mrs. E.
L. Beckwith.
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Mrs. S. J. Jordan had as her guest
the past week, Miss Spivey, of Head
land, Ala.
Miss Lily Mae Daniel spent Thursday
with her sister, Mrs. W. C. Jordan.
Mr. J. E. Johnston attended preach
ing services at Concord Sunday.
Mrs. J. A. Daniel and mother, Mrs.
Catherine Reid, were the Sunday vis
itors of Mrs. Tom Reid.
Notice
This is to notify all perosns con
cerned that C. D. Poole and C. W.
Colins have dissolved partnership :,i
the bicycle business heretofore run i i
the name of of C. D. Poole's Bicycle
Shop on Lamar street, C. D. Poole
having bought the entire interest and
assumed all the debts. All notes and
accounts due the business will be
paid to C. D. Poole.
This January 19th, 1914.
C. W. COLLINS,
C, D. POOLE.
21—6 t
SIR THOMAS UPTON WILL HAVE I
EXHIBIT AT SAN DIEGO FAll
San D.ego, Jan 20.—Sir Thomas
Lipton will be fne of the exhibitors at
San Dieg Exposition, his exhibit tak
ing the ,:orm <f a Ceylonese tea gar
den, surroundfd by a tea plantation.
"Tea plan s can be successful’y
grown in San Diego,” said Sir, Thom
as, at the tine of his recent visit to
San Diego. "I will demonstrate this
fact during your exposition in 1915,”
he said, and when he reached Chicago,
a few days later he instructed his
American agent there to come to San
Diego and make arrangements for
two acres >f ground on the site of the
San Diego Exposition.
The ground is now being prepared
for the tfa plantation, doubtless the
first of tue sort in the United States
MOVIES WILL SHOW CONGRESS
MEN WHY LEVEES ARE NEEDEtf
Mernjhis, t Tenn, Jan. 20. —Showing
the Mississippi flood devastation, its
magnitude, and the means of controll
ing the stream and preventing floods,
one of the most remarkable moving
picture films ever exhibited in Mem
phis, was shown to a provate audience
at one of the Majestic Theatres yester
day afternoon.
The film is 500 feet long and was
made by S. W. Spangler, of Helena,
Arkansas,
It shews the 1913 flood at its worst
near Helena, Ark., the Beulah crevase,
and the manner in which it was closed
despite a high stage of water.
This film will be exhibited before
members of the House and Senate in
Washington next week. John A. Fox,
Secretary-Manager of the Mississippi
River Levee Association, will use it
as an argument in favor of the Ranea
dell-Humphreys bill, the $60,000,000
flood measure now before Congress.
The picture will be especially val
uable to the levee cause as it shows
conditions impossible to describe.
One of the pictures shows 400 feet
cf earth gradually slipping into the
PAGE THREE
of America. Tea plants of natuJ
growth will be shipped from Ceylol
where Sir Thomas has immense t«
plantations, direct to San Diego, arl
upon arrval here will be set out on til
exposition grounds. By January la|
1915, on which day the San Diego Ex
position will be opened, the tea planl
will be ready for the first harvest (
tea leaves. Visitors to the expoeitio
in San Diego will then t>e given the oj
portunlty of seeing the whole open,
tion of the tea industry.
To make his exhibit picturesque ah]
attractive Sir Thomas has promised ti
bring over a number of Ceylonesf
workmen, for the plantation, an
Ceylonese women to serve the tea i
the garden.
Mississippi River opposite Helena!
Ark; another shows the water heating
the levees from the tops of trees as I*
rushed through the crevasse at Beuljt
ah, Miss.; another gives a view of C
big force of men at work near Helena!'
Ark., sinking mattresses to prevent
further caving. The manner in
the big net works are sunk near thJ
levees asd on the hanks of the rivet!
are shown most clearly.
Mr. Fox, in a few days, will have fj
film made showing actual levee con-,
struction work. This will serve to il l
lustrate to the congressmen from th«s
North, East and West the effectivenesi.
of levees as a flood preventive.
"Progressives anounce Plans.” Hat!
Teddy been talking to himself again':
Digestion by violet rays looks likej
an attempt to defend the absinthe*
cocktail breakfast.
The admision of the divine Sara t:
the Legion of Honor is justified
by the bravery she exhibits in still ap
pearing on the stage.