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»'HIRTY-SEVENTH TEAK
RUSSIANS CONTINUE CLAIMS OF VICTORY
DUN A WILL NOT TALK
BUT HAS HAD MEETING
WITH BERNSTORFF
Activities Are Reported on The Aus
tro-Italian Fronts, But No Reports
Have Been Received From
Vosges and Aigonne
BLAZING DAYS
STILL BLISTEH
MIERICUSIFOLK
WEATHER ABOUT THE HOTTEST
OF SUMMER.
Americus wilted under the scorch
ing heat today ,and the linen collar
of summertime was a mockery. The
earth narrowly escaped destruction
from spontaneous combustion, and
the palm beach suit of the son of man
resembled a bathing suit just out of
the surf at a busy splash resort. As
on yesterday, the mercury climbed up
to the hundred notch and would have,
gone higher had not owners put then:
in the ice box for safety. Not a lea
stirred today in the breezeless town,
where Muckalee creek has dwindled
to the dimension of a thread of li
quid mud. The weather sharps in
Washington promise cooler weather
tomorrow, and those who live through
today will find needed relief.
G. N. & I. C. ADMIT
NO MORE STUDENTS
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga., Sept. 11.-
There are no more vacancies for stu
dents in the Georgia Normanl and In
dustrial college at Milledgeville, ac
cording to the announcement of Presi
dent M. M. Parks. The doors of the
college must be closed to future appli
cants this fall because of lack or
more room.
The college has already had to re
fuse hundreds of applications in all
parts of the state, and this public
Fight On 801 l Weeoil
Is Pushed In Georgia
Plans for an immediate campaign to
as far as possible check the ravages
of the Mexican boll weevil, which
made its appearance in a number of
Georgia countieg a few days ago, wih
be outlined at a mass meeting of south
Georgia farmers, bankers and busi
ness men to be he'd at Thomasville,
about September 16.
State Entomologist E. Lee Worsham,
who is arranging for the mass meet
jng announced that the meeting would
be held under joint auspices of the
state entomological department and
the Thomasville board of trade.
Mr. Worsham says it is highly im
portant that the farmers be impressed
with the necessity for at once begin
ning to cut down the cotton stalks and
NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 11.—Doctor
Dumba, the Austro-Hungarian ambas
sador .left for his summer home at
Lenox, Mass., this morning, refusing
to make any comment or statement. He
had another long conference with the
German ambassador.
LONDON, Sept. 11. —Another success
on the south Galician front, resulting
in the capture of 5,000 men, has been
announced by the Russians. The Pet
rograd newspapers, however, admit
that this section of the fighting has no
vital importance since the Germans
are still hovering along the line of
minorforts which form the last re
maining defenses in the way of com
plete control of the railroad system
desired by the invaders.
The Russians declare that the ini
tiative in the isolated engagements is
gradually passing into their hands.
Near the center of the line, Field
Marshal Von Mackensen is still push
ing his way vigorously towards Pinsk,
near Grodno, and on the road to Rovno.
a strong offensive movement has de
veloped.
Official reports do not show as much
activity on the other fronts as in the
east.
Sarp figting is in progress along
the Austro-Italian line, but no fresh
news from the Vosges or the Argonne,
where the Germans launched heavy
attacks, has been receive!.
NEW YORK, Sept. 11—Count Vo i
Bernstorff, the German ambassador to
the United States, emphatically enied
that he used James Archibald, the
American newspaper man, as messeu
ger. It has been stated that Archibald
carried papers for the German diplo
mat as he did for the Austrian am
bassador.
announcement is made to save unnec
essary disappointment.
The college will open September 14
with the largest enrollment in its his
tory.
either burn them or turn them unde"
very deep, so as to minimize as far as
possible the propagation of the wee
vil.
Since Tuesday the investigators of
the department of entomology have
discovered the weevil in three addi
tional counties—Dougherty, Lee and
i Terrell. This makes eight countie.-
;in which the weevil has been found
the previous five being Decatur, Grady.
Brooks, Thomas and Mitchell.
Mr. Worsham says there can be lit
tle doubt that the intervening counties
are also infested and he says he is
. quite certain that invesigations now in
progress will show the presence of the
weevil in Baker, Early, Calhoun, Clay,
Randolph, Quitman and, perhaps other
counties.
AMERWOT®»ROER
MEMBER ASSOCIA TED PRESS
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i 4 Times-Recorder as it will contain 4
4 especially one page of four ad- 4
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LUTHERAN CHURCH HAS
BEEN AIDING GERMANS
ROCK ISLAND, 111., Sept. 11—The
Board of Foreign Missions of the
General Council of the Lutheran
Church in America reported at the
biennial convention of the general
council here today that, owing to the
world war, the Lutheran church in
America has been called upon to ren
der aid to a number of German mis
sions. The general council's foreign
board has added to its care missioma
ries of the Gossner, Liepzig, Schles
wig-Holstein and Hermansburg mis
sions in India. Another effect of the
war is that a number of Lutheran
Missionaries who had planned to gc.
cut from America a year ago have
been kept back, there being a force of
14 missionaries who are waiting to
be commissioned in some special ser
vice.
The proposal to establish a joint
seminary at Madras, India, in which .
Lutherans of Europe.and America are
to co-operate has been delayed, also
on account of the war.
The year 1917, in addition to being
the 400th anniversary of the beginning
of the Reformation will mar kthe 75th
anniversary of the departure of Father
Heyer from Philadelphia to found the
first Lutheran mission in India. It
is proposed to make the anniversary
of a general missionary celebration in I
the Lutheran church.
The receipts for foreign mission |
work during the year were $215,352.
IRISH LEAVE ENGLAND
111 SEARCH FOR CROPS
MANCHESTER, England, Sept. 11.
—ln Cheshire and Lancaster, counties I
on the west coast the farmers rely I
largely on Irish laborers forth? i
harvesting of their grain crops, but
this year the supply of this labor has
beeen seriously depleted by the depar
ture of most of the laborers for Ire
land, in order to escape the National
Register.
The farmers gave the laborers ev
ery possible assurance that the regis
tration did not involve them in any
fresh responsibilities and did not
mean impending conscription. The
men, however, seemed to be convinced
that the registration form meant that
in some way they would be placed un
der the eye of the government and
sooner or later snatched for military
service. In most parts of Ireland reg
istration is not required.
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4 FRTEZING AND SNOWING 4
4 WHILE HOT HERE—WHEW! 4
4 WASHINGTON, I). C., Sept. 11. 4
4 —While some of the hottest 4
4 weather of the year prevailed in 4
4 the south and east, the tempera- 4
4 ture is below freezing in the 4
4 Western Canadian provinces, and 4
4 it is snowing in Helena, Montana. ♦
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AMERICUS. GEORGIA, SATURDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 11, 1915
DOLLAR DINNER
WITH THE UNIQUE
FEATURE PLANS
The parade and Dollar Dinner to
follow at the Hotel Windsor is going
to be one of the biggest events ever
pulled off in the state of Georgia.
The big coffin, 20 feet long and four
feet wide, is now at the Chamber of
Commerce and will be finished and fit
ted up with the necessary silver han
dles and ornaments by Mr. Nat LeMas
ter of the Americus Undertaking Com
pany. It is, indeed, one huge af
fair.
There were many callers at the
Chamber of Commerce today, after the
remains of Mr. O. U. Knocker arrive!,
to view th e big coffin. Many ex
pressed the sadness of being a knocke
and said they would never be caugh*
knocking this town again. The re
mains will lie in state in front of the
Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday af
ternoon from 4:00 P. M. to 7:00 P. M.
Many telegrams poured into the
Chamber of Commerce this morning
stating that they would send hun
dreds of handsome souvenirs to be
given away free to the guests of the
Dollar Dinner. The souvenirs are
valuable; there are many of them,
from a pair of silk socks to a box of
Nunnally’s candy.
The tickets are going lively,, and
will all be sold out long before Tues
day. Only 200 plates will be laid, as
this is the capacity of the dining room.
When these are all sold there will
positively be no more issued.
I
The Dollar Dinner is for men only
This announcement is made, because
it was thought by some that the ladies
would be invited. We hope to reach
every Americus business and profes
sional man that night, and there is not
sufficient room for all. The ladies will
have a Booster Dinner given to them
very soon, and at that time a Woman’s
Improvement Commission will be or
ganized as an adjunct to the Chamber
of Commerce.
LANSING CALLS ON
GEORGIA SEED CRUSHERS
[ATLANTA, Ga., Sept .11.—Hon. I
Robt. Lansing, secretary of state, has >
notified President E. C. Ponder, of the ■
Cotton Seed Crushers’ Association of |
Georgia, asking that members of thi s |
association furnish to the state de-<
partment copies, in triplicate, of any
cable messages passing between these
members and the European countries,
which are known not to have been de
livered, as claimed in the protest file I
with the department of state by the
various cotton oil men throughout the
Souh.
This information was contained in a
letter which has been sent out to
the members of the Cotton Seed Crush
ers’ association of Georgia, by Seer?
tary E. P. Chivers, of this city, and as
a result of this call it is expected tha*
a number of complaints will be lodged
with Secretary Lansing.
It is recalled that several weeks .
ago the membership of this association
through its individuals, protested to
the department of state against the
alleged unwarranted interference, on
the part of cable service between the
South and European countries, on
the sale of cotton seed products.
It is impossible to conduct trade
relations without the use of he ca
ble, and any Interference on the part
of Great Britain is working a hardship
on the South.
Secretary Lansing advises that the
plaints, with copies of undelivered i
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I 4 HE SHOT HIMSELF. 4
, 4 ATLANTA, Ga., Sept. 11—Alf 4
i 4 C. Ford, the advertising manager 4
i 4 of the Atlanta Georgian, died 4
■| 4 last night at the Grady hospital, 4
I 4 denying he shot himself, after he 4
j 4 told a story immediately after 4
4 the accident that he shot himself 4
4 accidenally. 4
4 Detectives have been put on the 4
4 case, and considerable mystery 4
4 has been aroused over the com- 4'
4 plete change in the dead man’s 4
4 statement. 4 j
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DIXIE HIGHWAY MEET
ATJMIILLE
JACKSANVILLE, Fla., Sept. 11.—A
Georgia-Florida Dixie Highway con
vention will be held in Jacksonville
under the auspices of the Jackson
ville Chamber of Commerce, Sept. 2$
and 29. The purpose of this gathering
will be to promote the Dixie Highway
project, branch roads leading into
the main artery, and good roads
throughout the two states generally.
The convention has been called by
the good roads committee of the Cham
ber of Commerce, which is meeting
daily, excep Saturdays, and Hs chair
man, John H. Williams, will act as I
general chairman of the gathering. It I
purpose is to make this inter-state
| convention the greatest of is kind sine?
the inception of the Dixie Highway
idea.
The governors of Georgia, Florida i
and other states affected by the Dixie
Highway; county commissioners of the
various counties of the two states in
terested in the movement; mayors an I
councilmen of the cities through
which the main or branch roads lead,
officials and delegates of various goods
roads associations, chambers of com
merce, boards of trade, automobile as
sociations and similar organizations;
Dixie Highway commissioners from the
several states, and officials of the
Dixi e Highway association will be in
vited to attend.
SOUTH ANSWERS BOLL
WEEVIL WITH HOGS
; COLUMBUS, Ga., Sept. 11. —More
i certificates of membership in ana
l tional association of breeders of one
of the principal breeds of pure bred
hogs have been issued to hog raisers
in Georgia this year than in any other
state in the union, as shown by an ar
ticle by the secretary of the associa
tion, which will be published in the
September issue of Southeast Live
Stock.
“This is part of the answer of the
Southeast to the boll Weevil question,’’
says Walter J. Woodall, editor of
Southeast Live Stock. A large part of
the remainder of the answer is to be
found in the shipment of solid train
loads of beef cattle from Southeastern
states to Western markets. Ship
ments of this character are now be
coming frequent. The Southeast has
never made greater strides in any
great business endeavor that it is
■ making now in the live stock industr ■
—and the raising of live stock means
necessarily the growing of more grain
and hay crops, which automatically
reduces the cotton crop. It means also
the keeping in this section of literally
millions of dollars which heretofore
have been sent to other parts of the
country for live stock products.
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messages, will be forwarded by him to i
the Ambassador at London or Paris, ;
in support of the protest being made i
by such interference on the part of this [
government.
CAPTAIN JNO. fl. COBB'S ADDRESS
LT LESLIE BOOSTER MEETING
MSTBHL WELL
is mu nuns
Hmm
NEW LONDON, Conn., Sept 11—II
dustrial preparedness, hand in hand
with military preparedness ,was urg
ed by Albert Greene Duncan, of Bos
ton, president of the National Asso
ciation of Cotton Manufacturers, in an
address before the semi-annual mtet
ing of that association here today.
"We have,” said Mr. Duncan, "for
many years relied on our splendid iso
lation, and neither in military prep
aration nor in the full development of
our resources have we ever built up
that independence, as a nation, that
has been, in relations between man and
man, the keynote of our government
from its inception.
"As the expanse of oceans which
separate our shores from possible
foes have made us indifferent to ad
mittedly inadequate provisions for de
i sense, our separation from the severe
commercial rivalries of Europe have
closed our eyes to the necessity ot
commercial independence. Serene in
our determination not to be a party to
i any Europan struggle, we never imag
ined we could be the victims of a quar
rel not of our own making, nor tha'
any possible embroilment of other na
tions could be so far-reaching that we
should suffer from its effects in our
world trade relations and even in our
domestic affairs.
"Military preparedness and indus
trial preparedness should go hand in
hand. The sinews of war must b ■
provided by the latter before the for
mer can be developed to its full ex
tent; and by commercial preparedness,
I mean not only the strengthening of;
those industries which would necessa-'
rily contribute supplies for a possible i
war, but all enterprises of manufac
ture, transportation and distribution,
so that we can put behind any body of
j men enlisted in the nation’s defens ?
I a united, prosperous, contented, de
termined population, and be able to'
supply all the varied wants of our
people and furnish the fullest support
to the government in any time of
trial.”
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BELGIAN’S BURIED MONEY
IS SAFE FROM INVADERS
LONDON, Sept. 11.—A refugee Bel
gian professor, who buried his entire
fortune, consisting of $250,000 worth
of stocks, bonds, jewels, gold and
plate, in his garden at Malines, before
h e fled from that city, has just receiv
ed word from the United States consul
at Malines that his property is safe,
and has been taken under the guard
ianship of the United States govern
ment. The house was bombarded and
later burned to the ground, but the
buried treasure in the garden was
not disturbed.
Some time after he reached London
the professor went to the American
Embassy here, gave the man detailed
plan of his house and garden and told
them where his treasure was hid.
The search was successfully carried
out by the American consul at Mal
ines and the property is now regis
tered in his name, pending Its re
lease from German trusteeship when
the war is over.
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W EDITION JL
Prominent among the speakers at
the Booster Meeting at Leslie yester
day was Judge John A. Cobb, of the
Court of Ordinary of Sumter, and
president of the State Agricultural so
ciety. Judge Cobb, upon coming to
reside in Sumter county more thai
fifty years ago, acquired very larga
farming interests in the locality now
occupied by the flourishing town of
Leslie. In fact the town site is upon
lands which he formerly owned, and
he has watched with pride its growth
and development.
It was peculiarly fitting, therefore,
that he was invited to address the aud
ience of two thousand people present
upon this occasion. Judge Cobb’s ad
' dress in full follows:
My Friends: It it a great pleasure
for me to be with you today. When I
come to the Fifteenth district, I cau
fully realize the feelings of the Scot
tish chieftain who, on returning to
his home after a long absence, proud
ly exclaimed, "McGregor is on his
i native heath.” It is inspiring and
cheering to me among you, for ft
brings back many pleasant memories
of the past—for here I spent many of
my happiest days. I do wish to claim
to be an old man, for although I have
lived many years on this earth, age
does not bear a heavy hand on me; yet
when I look back to the time when I
first came here, and think of the won
derful changes that have taken place
since, it brings before me the uncer
tainty of life, h>r today A. T. Roberts
is the only white man now living in
this district who was here when 1
first came.
There are other great changes. The
county was considered a new one—the
eastern portion, where the growth was
oak and hickory, was considered the
most productive, and was being bought
up and owned by non-residents for
cotton plantations, to be worked by
negroes; not one-third of the area had
been cleared; wild game of every kind
was plentiful; the soil productive,
easy of cultivation and grass interfer
ed very little.
The western part of the district,
where we now are was an almost solid
pine forest; a few isolated settlements
of white people, with small clearings
around their homes, depending largely
upon sheep and cattle for a support,
the area being used largely by the
plantation owners of the eastern part
of the district as a stock range.
In sight of where I now stand is
land lot No. 124, which I bought of
Wm. B. Johnston, of Macon, since the
war for $125.00. It did not appear on
the tax books of Sumter county, but
was entered by him in Bibb county, as
"wild land.”
Two acres of that lot would sell for
more than I gave for the whole lot.
A wise Providence in developing th’s
country, has brought here an intelli
gent, progressive and energetic peo
ple, as is shown by the present condi
tions; see your magnificent, well culti
vated and productive farms, your fine
mercantile buildings, churches, school
houses, banks, handsome residences,
well laid-off streets, pure and invigor
ating water brought from the deep
bowels of the earth from streams
having their origin in the Blue Ridge
mountains, three hundred miles dis
tant.
The agricultural interest is the main
stay of the prosperity of this count: y
—much has been done and great im
provements made, when we fully real
ize that with our climate, soils, sea
sons anything can be raised here, and
profitably, that can be grown any
where outside of the tropics—our full
possibilities have not yet been reach-
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