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V EDITION I
THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAH
SANT ANNA SAFE ON WAY TO AZORES
ITALIAN RESERVISTS
ON STEAMER SAFE ON
WAY TO AZORES NOW
Pope Has No Idea of Broaching Peace
Now As He Fears it Would Not
Be Acceptable To The Allied
Nations
BULGARIA HAS ORDERED
RESERVISTS FROM ITALY
ROME, SEPT. 13—All Bulgarian reservists in Italy
have been called to the colors.
NEW YORK, Sept. 13.—(3:20 P. M.)
—The New York steamer Sant Anna it
safe and proceeding to the Azores un
der escort, according to a wireless
message received at the Fabre offices.
LONDON, Sept. 13. —The Austro-Ger
man armies on the eastern front are
making progress everywhere, except
no the Galician frontier, where the
Russians report another success.
The north, the Russian lines are
being straightened out by withdrawal
of some of the Russian forces. At this
place Field Marshal Von Hindenberg
is directly a violent drive towards
Dvinah and one crossing of the Dvina
river in the center.
Crown Prince Leopold has forced
his way over Mie Selwinaka and is at
tacking in the vicinity of Skidella.
In the south Field Marshal Macken
sen on both sides of the Pinsk rail
road is pressing eastward toward
Pinstk. These movements have re
sulted in the capture of several thous
and Russians.
The final objective of the Teutonic
invaders is still a matter of conjec
ture, but General Rusky, commander
of the Russian northern army, stated
positively that Petrograd would not
•fall this year.
On the other fronts there is little tv
report. The British papers give
much space to the announcement of
Lloyd-George that England must great
ly increase her efforts if the victory
of the entente is assured.
NEW YORK, Sept. 13. —Although the
sea has been searched by wireless for
several hours after the first reports
that the steamer Sttnt Anna, bearing
1,600 Italian reservists frfom New
York to Naples, was on fire, nothing
has been heard this morning.
A brief message last night said that
the vessel was three or four days
from the nearest port.
A member of the firm acting as
agents for the Fabre line, which owns
h the Sant Anna said that several ships
* of the Fabre line had been set on
Are recently.
The authorities took extraordinary
precautions when the Sant Anna sail
ed, attempting to prevent infernal ma
chines or bombs being taken aboard.
The vessel carried no war material,
the officials state.
Pope Has No Peace Idea.
ROME, Sept. 13.—Newspapers i.i
Rome often considered of importance
by the Vatican, say that the Pope has
no idea of offering mediation to bel
ligerents now as it would not be ac-
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4 MEXICANS ATTACK U. S. A
4 CAVALRY PATROL. 4
4 BROWNSVILLE, Tex., Sep. 13. 4
4 —Mexicans attacked a patrol of 4
4 American cavalry two miles up F
4 the Rio Grande river at daylight V
4 this morning. Two troopers were 4
4 wounded. • *
4 One American trooper was 4
4 killed and two hurt, one proba- V
4 bly fatally, when Mexican bandits ♦
4 estimated to number forty, at- 4
4 tavked a small calvary patrol V
4 guarding the pumping station 4
4 several miles up the Rio Grande. 4
4 The Mexicans are believed to 4
4 have crossed to Mexico. Other 4
4 members of the cavalry squad V
4 heard the shooting and rushed to 4
4 the scene, but too late to be of ♦
4 assistance. ♦
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NEW RECORDER
HOLDING ALOFT
JUSTICE SCALES
PRESIDED AT FIRST SESSION TRIS
MORNING.
With characteristic and becoming
dignity, Judge Thomas O. Marshall
presided today for the first time as city
recorder, the position to which he was
recently elected unanimously by city
council. Not a few of Judge Marshall’s
friends were present to witness hu
first official session, and had only com
plimentary criticism for the fair deal
ing of justice from the scales held
aloft. It was a heterogeneous and de
cidedly motley assemblage occupying
the mourner’s bench when Grand Vi
zier Weaver rang up the curtain, the
odoriferous society of Bull Neck, Black
Ankle, Hell’s Half-Acre and Pepper
mint Alley being pungently represent
ed in the Sunday scrappers arraigned
there, with a few auto speedbugs to
accentuate the color motif of yellow
and black. Fines were not as heavy
today as they may be later, when the
new recorder takes note of the famil
iar faces that appear often, and usually
tell the same tale of sad repentence.
cepted by the quadruple entente.
In discussing Cardinal Gibbon's
i visit to President Wilson, the paper’
say that the Pope is trying to influence
public opinion in favor of peace.
AMERIBSBMES'REEORDER
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
M’ADOO TRIG TO
RID DEPARTMENT
OF ALL f ’REO TAPE”
HAS REQUESTED THE CO-OPERA
TION OF ALL DEPARTMENTS UN
DER THE TREASURY FOR SIM
PLIFYING MATTERS
Secretary of the William
G. McAdoo is making an effort to rid
the treasury department of all “red
tape” which can be disposed of.
Postmaster D. F. Davenport, oof
Americus, has received a communica
tion from Washington which makes
known the plan of Secretary McAdoo,
whereby he has appointed a commis
sion of prominent officials in the de
partment to go over its work and sug
gest changes which would remedy con
ditions for the betterment of the ser
vice and the public.
Sub-committees will be appointed to
study the work in the following
branches: Customs, Internal Revenue,
Coast Guard, Public Health, Auditing
and Fiscal Bureaus, Treasurer’s Office
and Sub-Treasurer’s, Mints and Assav
Office, Bureau of Printing and En
graving.
foira of
BOOSTER PARADE
IS ANNOUNCED
WILL BEGIN PROMPTLY AT 7
O’CLOCK, NEAR SEABOARD DE
POT, AND MARCH TO THE
GRAVE.
The Booster Parade, he gala avent
for Americus, will form at 7 o’clock
Tuesday evening, at the Seaboard Air
Line depot.
The parade will begin promptly at
7:30 o’clock, with not a minute’s de
lay. It will move towards the busi
ness section of the city up Jackksoc
street to Lamar street, thence to Cot
ton avenue, to Forsyth street, to La
mar street, and then Lee street to the
vacant lot in front of the city hall,
where he grave will be ready for he
remains of Mr. O. U. Knocker, that
infamous character who will be in
terred Tuesday night:
Platoon of Police.
Chamber of Commerce Band.
Booster Chaplain.
Fourteen pall bearers with the re
mains of Mr. O. U. Knocker.
Americus Hospital Nurses.
City Officials.
County Officials.
Kirmess Dancers.
Merchants of Americus, Leslie, De-
Soto and Plains.
Manufacturers.
Secret Orders.
Other Citizens.
Boy Boosters of Americus.
Mrs. George Dolvin, of Macon, has
kindly donated all the decorations for
the dining room of the Windsor Hotel
where the Dollar Dinner will be held.
She is well known where she had so
many decorated cars in the Macon at
the Jubilee parade.
The color scheme will be white and
old rose, and as a relief morning glo
ries, wisteria vines, intermingled with
green foliage, will be used.
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4 ANOTHER ZEPPELIN RAID 4
4 WITH NO CASUALTIES. ♦
4 LONDON, Sept. 13.—Another 4
4 Zeppelin raid over the English 4
♦ east coast is reported last night, 4
♦ with no casualties. 4
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AMERICUS. GEORGIA, MONDAY AFTERNOON. SEPTEMBER 13, 1915
MUST DESTROI
ILL LNFESTEO
GOnON SULKS
PLAN OF CAMPAIGN AGAINST BOLL
WEEVIL.
The particular object of the boll wee
vil meeting which has been called in
Thomasville on Friday, September 17,
is to stress the importance of thor
oughly cleaning up all cotton fields by
October 1. The meeting has been call
ed by the Georgia Board of Entomology
in conjunction with the Board of Trade
of Thomasville, and it is being widely
advertised throughout south and south
west Georgia in the hope that every
county in the southern section of het
sate will be well represented.
Destroy Stalks.
The most important thing to do
right at this time, according to State
Entomologist E. Lee Worsham and
those associated with him, is to de
stroy every cotton stalk in the in
fested territory and in territory con
tigious to it by the first of October.
There are many farmers who will not
understand the importance of this step
unless it is forcibly impressed upon
them. Th e trouble in many cases is
that they will have left a small top
crop, which at present prices they will
hesitate to destroy.
As a matter of fact, however, this
year’s cotton crop was unusually early
and, with the exception of the very
small top crop which really will prove
almost negligible, all the cotton wi j
have been picked by or before Oc
tober 1.
Breeding Places.
Every cotton stalk left in the field
■with a boll or square upon it means
an additional feeding and breeding
place for boll weevils. It means that
there will be just that many more of
the insects to go into winter quarters
under trash and stubble and particu
larly under Spanish moss on the bor
ders of the fields. It means further
that there will be just that many more
weevils to begin breeding and multi
plying and destroying the new crop
next season
It is for these reasons that the de
partment is urging every cotton plant
er in infested territory to root out
and burn every cotton stalk, or to
plow them under on October Ist. With
comparatively few of the weevils car
ried over to next year, it will require
a longer time for them to multiply in
sufficient numbers to do serious dam
age.
Early Planting.
"While this is the important thing to
be stressed right now, there are other
er preventative measures which will be
stressed upon the farmers at the
Thomasville meeting. These include
early planting and the use of the best
possibly early maturing see dobtain
able. It has been pointed out that it
will probably be the middle of August,
next year before the weevils appear in
sufficient numbers to do serious dam
age.
Early Planting.
While this is the important thing to
be stressed right now, there ar eother
preventive measures which will be
stressed upon the farmers at th*>
Thimasville meeting. These include
early planting and the use of the best
possible early maturing seed obtain
able. It has been pointed out that it
will probably be the middle of August
next year before the weevils appear in
sufficient numbers to affect complete
destruction of the crop. For'this rea
son it is important to plant and culti
vate cotton sq that it may be gathered
by the Ist or 15th of August.
The department of entomology will
continue its work of organizing cotton
breeding clubs in the counties most
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4 ANOTHER CASE OF * i
4 BUBONIC PLAGUE 4
♦ NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 13—The 4
4 discovery of the first human case 4
4of bubonic plague since last 4
4 October was announced today by 4
4 Dr. R. H. Creel, of the public 4
4 health service. Dr. Creel report- 4
4 ed that a girl of 19 had been suf- 4
4 sering with the disease in a mild 4
4 form, but recovered before the 4
4 diagnosis was confirmed. This is 4
4 the thirty-first human case re- 4
4 corded since the disease was 4
♦ found here in June of last year. 4
4 The doctor said that this did not 4
4 indicate any new outbreak of the 4
4 plague. 4
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JOE Oil SIEWERT
WITHDRAWSFRBM RACE
Mr. Joe Day Stewart ,one of the first
candidates to announce for county
treasurer, has withdrawn from the
race, and makes the following state
ment to the Times-Recorder:
“Rather than continue longer in a
political scramble and distasteful to
me, I hereby withdraw from the race
for ounty treasurer.
"I sincerely thank my friends fo’-
their kind expressions of confidence
any many assurances of loyal sup
port.”
WERE MARRIED ON SUNDRY
AT HOME OF BRIDE
WEDDING (IF MISS JORDAN AND
J. R. GREENE.
On Sunday afternoon at the home
of the bride on Prospect Heights, Miss
Ida Jordan and Mr. James R. Greene
were united in marriage. The rites
were solemnized by Rev. J. A. Thomas
in the presence of friends of the con
tracting parties. After the ceremony,
Mr. and Mrs. Greene left for the home
of the groom out on the Plains road,
where an informal reception was held
and where congratulations were ex
tended the happy pair.
likely to be affected. These organiza
tions have already been perfected in
those counties where the boll weevil
has now appeared and as a result
many farmers have supplies of the
right kind of seed to use.
Six Foreign Nations Are
Represented at New Emory
ATLANTA, Ga., Sept. 13.—The shift
ing of the educational center of the
world from Europe to America it
forcefully demonstrated in the an
nouncement tht it is already known
that at least six foreign lands will be
represented among the students at
Emory this fall.
Applications of these foreign stu
dents come in convincing confirmation
of the recent statements of Bishop
Warren A. Candler, chancellor of Emo
ry University, that the European wars
will give people of the South undream
ed of opportunities and obligations for
the education of the world. The inter
national outreachings of Emory Uni
versity are strikingly shown in the fact
that the South’s new Methodist institu
tion is drawing such a big share of the
foreign students coming to America
I this year.
I Already applications for admission
WEDNESDfIy 10
WITNESS BITTLE
OF CMIDIDJITES
ELECTION FOR COUNTY TREAS
URER THAT DATE.
Next Wednesday, 15th, is election
day for the office of county treasure’
of Sumter for the unexpired term of
one year and four months, and the
candidatal hot-footers are busy on the
job. Only ten able citizens have offer
ed for the office, which pays a mere
bagatelle of $3,000 or more annually
and each candidate has confined to
friends the secret that his own elec
tion is absolutely assured beyond a
shadow of doubt.
Some little discrepancy will be de
veloped when the returns are sent in
but the candidates are sure of election
right now.
Two thousand able voters constitute,
the line-up in Sumter for election day,
and the candidates are endeavoring to
buttonhole every man of that host and
get a pledge of his support. Some of
the sprinters have made the round
trip two or three times and feel per
fectly confident that every man thus
interviewed will vote for him next
Wednesday for county treasurer at
$3,000 per.
Following the treasurer’s election,
and after the nine fellows who failed
to land the job quit the trenches, the
election for Jap Pea of the 789th dis
trict follows. This hot race is staged
for Saturday next, 18th, with Col.
Weekly and Col. Winchester as the as
piring candidates for judicial ermine
laid down by Col. Hudson.
BISHOP CANDLER MADE
POWERFUL ADDRESS
Bishop Warren A. Candler, of the|
Methodist Episcopal Church, Soutn,
and chancellor of the new Emorv
University, occupied the pulpit at the
First Methodist church Sunday, at
both morning and evening services.
Two magnificent discourses were de -1
livened by the bishop in which he dis
cussed the place of the South in higher
education. In an eloquent manner lie
plead for the promotion and full assist
ance in the undertaking of the church
to build a university in the South
which would soon take its place among
the famous institutions of the world.
While in the city, Bishop Candler
was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Lee G.
Council.
into the Emory School of Medicine in
Atlanta have t>een made by one student
from Cuba, two from Porto Rico, one
from Spain and one from Korea, while
in the School of Theology in Atlantal
there will be a student from Japan
and in the School of Liberal Arts at
Oxford, two Korean and one Chinese
students. It is believed that the open
ing will fi d even more than this num
ber present.
In the opinion of Bishop Candler,
the completion of the new Emory Uni
versity buildings and the opening of
new departments will result in a much
bigger colony of foreign students.
Emory’s School of Theology in At
lanta, and the School of Liberal Arts
at Oxford will open September 15th,
while the School of Medicine in At
lanta will open September 22. There
will be special exercises on all occas
ions. All indications point to a big
attendance in all departments.
citv
W EDITION 1
AGENTS FROM 0.
S. DEPARTMENT
OF JDSTIGE WILL
MEET ARCHIBALD
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 13.—Act
ing under instructions from the Whit 3
House, agents from the department of
justice will meet James Archibald, the
American correspondent involved in
the case with the conduct of Count
Dumba, the Austro-Hungarian ambas
sador, when he arrives in New York
from Holland.
The officials are maintaining a strict
silence on the Archibald case, but ir
is reported that they are acting under
the idea that possibly Archibald vio
lated a federal law.
The question as to whether he knew
what the papers contained has an im
portant bearing on the matter.
Ther e is no indication of any fur
ther move in the case.
Captain Von Papen, for whom Archi
bald also carried a letter, ?s military
attache at the German embassy.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 13.
Secretary of Stat® -Lansing announced
after a conference with President 'Wil
son that no decision had been reached
on Germany's proposal in the Arabic
case. An indication in official quar
ters is that both Germany and the
United States agree that to arbitrate
the indemnity question involves the
arbitration of justification and the
facts.
•
COTTON CROP IN SUMTER
SHOWS MILLINE DEF
DECREASE OF 714 BALES TO FIRST
SEPTEMBER.
The shortage of the cotton crop in
Sumter county, as elsewhere, is re
flected in report upon cotton ginning
to Sept. Ist. Up to that date,this
year, the bales ginned numbered 3,797
against 4,511 ginned to same date in
1911, a decrease of 714 bales.
NIRS. H. V. MULKEV
DIED THIS AFTERNOON
Mrs. H. V. Mulkey, a highly respect
ed lady of Americus, died this after
noon at 2 o’clock at her home, 202 Lee
street. She was 80 years of age, and
a member of the First Brfptist church.
She is survived by several neph
ews, Dr. M. K. Ford, of Dothan, Ala ;
Dr. Ernest Ford, of Dothan, Ala.; Rev.
Clarke, of Montezuma.
The ffuneral arrangements will be
announced later. ,
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4 ANGLO-FRENCH BOARD 4
♦ TALKS ABOUT MONEY *
4 NEW YORK, N. Y„ Sept. 13. 4
4 —Financiers from the west and 4
4 northwest, headed by James J. 4
4 Hill, arrived to confer with the ♦
4 emmissaries of England and 4
4 France concerning a huge loan 4
4 from the United States. Hill is 4
4 said to be floating such a loan, 4
4 which is of great importance to 4
4 the United States and the two 4
4 countries interested, as it will 4
4 allow payment on all commodi- 4
4 ties. 4
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