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CJEXY AMERIBIS TtMEfrBEEORDER CFJLY
THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR
•IMPS HIE 1
FROM COM
CONDITIONS BEST
CITY ENTIRELY FREE OF CONTAG
IOUS ILLNESS OF EVERY
NATURE.
Doctor Douglas B. Mayes, chy phy
sician, at the recent meeting of city
council, made official report of the fact
that health conditions in Americus con
tinued excellent, and that there was
not now, nor had there been recently,
any case of contagious or infectious
disease of any nature. In fact, the only
illness ®f the kind that has been known
here in a very long while was an oc
casional sporadic case of diphtheria,
or infectious fever, but there are no
cases of this nature here now, Dr.
Mayes told the council.
Americus’ health record will com
pare favorably with that of any city
of like population in the South, a fact
due to painstaking care and the scrup
ulous enforcement of sanitary regula
tions.
And it is the desire and purpose, of
Dr. Mayes, backed by the municipal
authorities, to keep it so.
Not in years has there been even a
mild case of smallpox or variloid here,
a fact due largely to compulsory vac
cination and strict sanitary regula
tions. This rule applies especially to
pupils attending the public schools, and
the result is that, with an attendance
of nearly two thousand pupils, a case j
a of illness of this nature has never de
* veloped there. ,
In his address before the city council
Dr. Mayes asked the co-operation of j
that body in enforcing sanitary laws,
and this support will be accorded.
Several important suggestions were
made by Dr. Mayes relative to general
and thorough cleaning of premises and
the elimination of surface closets
wherever possible. He requested the
appointment of a sanitary inspector,
and a man with sufficient energy to
enforce these regulations will be ap
pointed in due time. Dr. Mayes pro
poses to make the "clean-up work”
thorough and complete, and without
fear or favoritism. By this means, he
feels assured there will be no difficul
ty in maintaining our record.
Dr. Mayes was thanked for his ad
dress and the suggestions presented,
and assured of the fact that the city
authorities would co-operate with him.
BERLIN ADMITS
RUSSIANS HAVE
INVADED HUNGARY
(By Associated Press.)
LONDON, Feb. 12.-—The Carpathian
situation apparently favors the Rus
sians today, with Berlin admitting the
Russian invasion of Hungary has pro
gressed at several points. These ad
vances, say Berlin despatches, cost the
Russians dearly.
The Russians are now pressing the |
Austrians at three important places,
M and fighting between the opposing ar-
rules continues, though Austro-German
retirements are under way, and it is
now generally believed the Russians
are soon to be the acqnowledged mas
ters of the Carpathians.
Balkan states are reported as trying
to settle mutual differences prior to
Rumania and Greece casting their
strength upon the side of the allies, and
negotiations to this end have pro
gressed as far as the tender of material
territorial concessions by both Servia
and Rumania to Bulgaria in order to
guarantee the neutrality of that na
tion.
Eye Glasses
Imitate
Flour
(By Associated Press.)
NEW YORK, Feb. 12.—An increase
in prices ranging from twenty-five to
fifty per cent, was inaugurated by
whole sale dealers in eyeglass lense3
toay, the only explanation of the ad
vance given being “the European war
is responsible.”
Manufacturers interviewed by Asso
ciated Press representatives after the
avance had been announced by the
wholesalers, declined to discuss the
subject.
FIVE KILLED; MANY HiiRT
BY EXPLOSION, IN
ARSENAL
(By Associated Press.)
STOCKHOLM, Feb. 12.—An explo
sion in a local ammunition factory last
night cost five lives and destroyed a
considerable supply of ammunition, but
did little damage to the plant itself.
The accident, it was stated in official
circles early today, would have small
effect on the available supply of am
munition and supplies for the Swedish
army and navy.
An investigation of the affair has
been ordered, and will be prosecuted
vigorously.
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BUFF WHILE
EFFECTING LEW
ATTACK WAS MADE TODAY UPON
BALIFF KLECKLY.
Baliff John Kleckley, while in the
discharge of his official duties ( this
morning, was attacked by a negro upon
whose household effects a levy for sale
was being made. Doubtless angered at
the proceedings which was about to
deprive him of his effects, the negro
struck Bailiff Kleckley a stunning blow
upon the head and then ran away, mak
ing good his escape. Baliff Kleckley
was not seriously injured by the un
expected attack and arrived safely at
the courthouse front with the goods.
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Senate Still
In Session
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 12.—Sev
eral proposals to report a cloture rule
to end the republican filibuster on
the administration shipping bill were
discussed without action todav by the
senate rules committee.
Following the committee adjourn
ment it was reported in different cir
cles that such a rule will soon be re
ported unless the filibuster is ended
voluntarily.
•
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 12—Pres
ident Wilson this afternoon rejected
the proposed compromise ship pur
chase bill drafted by democratic house
leaders, and made a counter proposi
tion, through which a settlement of
existing differences may be reached.
T*his proposition is now being consid
ered in conference.
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 12. 1915.
John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie
V» v n oooj ♦♦ r •.Ni'ccvfcee*,
These are the two best photographs
ever obtained of the two richest men
in the world, Andrew Carnegie and
John D. Rockefeller. They were taken
when the two appeared on the witness
J. C. DENHAM TO BUILD
HOME ON FELDED STREET
ATTRACTIVE RESIDENCE WILL BE
ERECTED OUT THERE.
Another attractive residence will
shortly be added to the improvements
being made out on the southside in
the erection of a residence for Mr.
James C. Denham, who owns a desira
ble lot out Felder street, opposite the
residence of Mr. JF W. Harris. Archi
tect B. C. Hogue will superintend the
building, and the new residence will
be completed in the early summer.
BLACKCONFESSES
KILLINGJDNTER
. (By Associated Press.)
ELIZABETHTOWN, Tenn., Feb. 12.
—Clyde Stover, a negro, held here as
a suspect in connection with the mur
der near Welaka, Fla., of Arthur G.
Gardner, a wealthy resident of Bal
timore, Md., has confessed his guilt,
declares Sheriff Wilson, who has the
negro locked up in the county jail.
According to Sheriff Wilson, Stover,
not only admitted the killing of Arthur (
Gardner, but also confessed he killed
Horace B. Gardner, of Springfield,
Mass., a brother of the Baltimore man,
who has been missing since shortly
after his brother’s death.
In his alleged confession, Stover re
lates how he piloted the Gardner’s on
a camping expedition, and shot both
men from behind because they com
pelled him, in a moment of hilarity,
to dance at the point of a gun. Stover
is being held in jail, awaiting the
arrival of Florida officers, who will
take him to Jacksonville for trial.
GERMANY INTERFERB
WITH 11. S. AMBASSADOR
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 12.—The
United States government has sent an
official inquiry to Germany based on
the complaint of American Minister
Van Dyke, stationed at The Hague,
Holland, that German military com
manders are interferring with his dip
lomatic communications with Luxem
burg.
I stand at the inquiry of the Industrial
Relations Commission in New York. In
years gone by Mr. Rockefeller has
shied away from photographers, hut
this time a large camera was placed
RUSSIANS
FALL BACK
AS ENEMY
ADVANCES
(By Associated Press.)
PETROiGRAD, Feb. 12.—Today’s offi
cial Russian statement admits a retire
ment in East Prussia is under way,
and explains the movement as one die
ted by military preference, rather than
a forced retreat after sustaining se
rious reverses. The statement ex
plains the reasons actuating the retire
ment vaguely, the inference being that
Russia is on the eve of inaugurating
great military operations which must
definitely solve the East Prussian
struggle, and as to the outcome of
the forthcoming movement no doubt is
expressed in military circles.
Today’s statement declares that ab
solute necessity of completing plans
before information of Russian inten
tions reaches the German precludes
the giving out of information regard
ing coming operations in the near fu
ture, though it is intimated to be the
policy of the czar to protect his army
behind Russian fortresses rather than
attempting to oppose heavily re-in
forced German forces. The continual
shifting of German troops, it is point
ed out cannot continue indefinitely, and
with great bodies of Russians at nu
merous points the czar is in position
to strike where the Germans are weak
est, this being signally illustrated in
the encounter before Warsaw, where
Von Hindenburg’s weakened army was
compelled to evacuate Lodz in the face
of superior Russian attackers.
The bulk of Germany’s eastern ar
my *s now concentrated in East Prus
sia and the Carpathian region, where
with their Austrian allies a tremen
dous effort is being made to expel the
Russians. These efforts so far have
failed signally, according to Russian
information, and the Pzremysl garrison
is reported in despatches from Galicia
as even now exhausting itself in fruit
less sorties against the besiegers, who
have succeeded in keeping their line
of communication out during more
near him, and he did not try to avoid
it. Sin<!k the steel man is eighty years
of age and the oil man seventy-six, it
is possible that such good photographs
of them will never again be taken.
LADIES OF HOSPITAL
PLAN A SILVER TEA
A delightful occasion planned for
Saturday afternoon is the “Silver Tea”
under auspices of the ladies of the
Hospital association, and which will
take placa at the residence of Mrs.
C. C. Hawkins, on College street. The
hours are three to six o'clock, and
dainty refreshments will foe served.
The ladies are desirous of raising
, funds for a pressing need, and ask the
patronage of their friends upon this
pleasant social occasion.
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REGRETORDER
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 12.—Offi
cials here are anxiously awaiting de
velopments they fear may follow the
' expulsion from Mex.co of the Spanish
Minister, Jose Caro, under orders of
Venustiano Carranzo, whose faction is
now in control at the capital. Caro,
it is believed, has gone to Vera Cruz,
where the United States battleship
Delaware has been ordered to take him
aboard.
Carranza charged Caro with harbor
ing- Spaniards who aided Gen. Villa,
and summarily ordered his expulsion.
The Spanish government has thus far
failed to intimate what course of ac
tion it will take as the result of such
unprecedented methods on the part of
Carranza.
than tw months past.
On the heights of Koziouvka, where
much of yesterday’s most violent fight
ing occurred, the Germans occupied the
Russian after tw-enty-two brilliant as
saults, during which a murderous fire
poured into their ranks cut down whole
companies at a time and decimated en
tire regiments during a single charge.
A Russian counter attack subsequent
ly dislodged the Germans from their
dearly bought trenches, and forced the
Teptons to retire upon their former
position, leaving the battlefield strewn
with corpses and the air filled with the
cries of wounded and dying soldiers.
! Russian losses during fighting there
1 were severe* while the Gel-mans, it
i
is said, wer£ literally mowed down by
Russian machine gun fire.
Germans Free
Newspaper
Girl
(By Associated Press.)
BERLIN, Feb. 12.—Miss Carolyn
Wilson, an American woman arrested
on charges of espionage several weeks
ago, has just been released as the re
sult of vigorous representations by
Ambassador Gerard. '
Miss Wilson was formerly Berlin
correspondent for a Chicago newspaper
and as a result of her activities in
seeking news was arrested by Ger
man military authorities. She releas
ed on condition that she leave Germany
without delay.
RUSSIANS BUSY PREPAR
ING THEIR SECONDARY
DEFENSE
(By Associated Press.)
BERLIN, Feb. 12.—News dispatches
from Russian border points today tell
of feverish activity along the Russian
second line of military defense, where
thousands of men have just commenced
the work of strengthening the works.
Inhabitants of the region along the
East Prussian frontier, where much
activity is noticeable, are reported as
panic stricken, many believing the
strengthening of these defenses means
an early Russian retirement.
BANKS JOINED
WAREHOUSES IN
NATIONAL REST
Both in local banking and warehouse
circles a “doubleheader” holiday was
enjoyed today, with little doing in a
business way. Lincoln’s birthday, a
national holiday, closed the cotton ex
changes, while the banks had a double
incentive for closing in the fact that it
was "Georgia Day” as well. In this
latter proposition the city schools par
ticipated as well, as, after brief ex
ercises in the schoolroom, followed by
the Georgia day exercises, a half hol
iday was given, the hundreds of pupils.
(EIMULBE
40,000 AT LODZ
(By Associated Press.)
PARIS, Feb 12—An official statement
issued late this afternoon announces
the complete failure of the German
offensive in Poland, after more than
florty thousand Germans had been
slain. This statement says Von Hin
denburg’s position is precarious, and
that his rear is threatened by a larg)
Russian force operating in northern
Poland, which is about to effect a
junction with another column that has
been pushing forward pn the German
right flank.
(By Associated Press.)
LONDON, Feb. 12.—A Rotterdam de
spatch to a London newspaper says
h German submarine stopped the Dutch
steamer Duiderdljk, while flying the
Dutch flag in the North Bea, and forc
ed her captain to show the ship’s pa
pers.
When her papers were found to be
regular the Duideddijk was permitted
to proceed to her destination, while
the German vessels disappeared be
neath the surface of the sea.
MAKING SUCCESS
111 CULTIVATING
OLD PLANTATION
“BACK TO THE FARM” AND PROS
PERITY IS THE WATCHWORD
If, to attain success, a man must be
in love with his work is indeed a tru
sim, W. E. Brown is going to excel
along agricultural lines this year. Al
ready a successful farmer, as well aa
merchant, he will pay assiduous at
tention this year to his fine plantation
of 1,400 acres east of Americus, and
will set a pace in raising grain and
hogs that others here will do well to
follow. Mr. Brown made 250 bales
cotton last year, but he will not pro
duce half that number this year, he
states now. #
In fact, he will raise wheat, corn,
oats and hogs, instead, and will make
these crops almost pay the operating
expenses of his large farm.
Today Mr. Brown is hanging up four
thousand pounds pork, which will go
a long way towards supplying his farm
with meat. This year he expects to
kill 125 hogs and, therefore, will buy
no meat in 1916. .He has a pasture
of 160 acres under fence, where his
Red Durocs and Poland China porkers
revel and grow fat. Hog-raising is
going to be a prominent feature on
the Brown farm hereafter.
Mr. Brown has planted wheat » for
seventy-five barrels flour, and will be
disappointed if the yield is less. Fifty
carrels of this flour he expects to sell,
while the remainder will be quite suf
ficient for his own needs. His wheat
field js a solid stretch of verdure now
and promises well, as does his large
field of oats. Corn in sufficient quan
tity will be planted, along with cane,
potatoes and other crops, while cotton
will be a surplus strictly.
One large field will be planted in
Bermuda for hay, and also as a range
for his hogs and cattle.
To say that “Farmer" Brown is in
love with his work expresses the truth
but mildly. He foresees the possibil
ities resulting from stock and grain
raising, and will spare neither ex
pense nor energy in attaining rich re
sults along that line hereafter.
UNCLE Stllll ASKS
JOHN BULL DELAY
DISPOSOIJTEAMER
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 12.—The
United States has proposed to England
a postponement of the plan to take the
American steamer Wllhelmtna before
a prize court, so the owners can pre
sent evidence they say proves the car
go is not subject to seizure, and the
proposition is now under considera
tion by Great Britain.
The Wilhelmina carries a cargo of
foodstuffs consigned to Bremen, and
intended, say the owners, wholly for
civilian consumption.
CRISP WANTS 50,000
10 READ ‘DRY' REBATE
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 12.—The
reading public is to be fully informed
on the recent debate in the House oa
the nation-wide prohibition amend
ment by a resolution of Representative
Crisp, of Georgia, introduced today,
providing that 50,000 copies of speech
es on this question be printed for dis
tribution as a public document.
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