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THIRTY-SEVENTH TEAR
LOYAL GATHERING OF AMERICUS
CITIZENS RISE AND PROMISE TO
PULL FOR A GREATER CITY
Americus witnessed last night the
most cheerful “funeral” since the
foundation of the city and departure
of the Indians four decades ago. The
occasion marked the obsequies of a
gaunt and despicable creature that
long had infested the town, fighting
progress, fighting business and enter
prises, fighting everything that was
being done for the city’s advantage,
and for no reason, except that he, 0. -
“it”, opposed advancement along any
lines whatever.
“0. U. Knocker” was consigned to
earth in the public square, amid the
sounds of a funeral dirge and “eulogy”
that but added to the general torridity
of his new abode.
This unique “funeral”, the final
elimination of this town curse, “0. U.
Knocker,” was under the auspices of
the Americus-Sumter County Chamber
of Commerce. It was conceived and
planned by Secretary-Manager E. H.
Hyman, who is due a large mede of
credit for the splendid success of the
occasion, from the start of the glitter
ing pageant at 7:30 o’clock until the
banquet ended at midnight.
And Americus turned out en masse
to enjoy the carnival parade, made
brilliant by flaming red flambeaux and
fireworks, and also to merrily throw
clods upon the coffin of old “O. U.
Knocker,” defunct.
The pageant, containing several
floats and with fourteen draped pall
bearers at the front, cheerfully carry
ing the casket of old 0. U. K., made a
tour of the business section, led by
the excellent cornet band of the
Chamber of Commerce. The “casket,”
built for the occasion, was twenty fee”
in length and six feet in width, but
even then, too small to hold all of
Americus’ more active knockers.
At the open grave, opposite the
city hall, the coffin W’as dumped into
the place to which all knockers, real
and imaginary, should be consigned,
for the public weal, Secretary Hyman
in priestly habiliments, delivered the
funeral “oration,” as unique and sting
ing as it could be made. Every citi
zen of Americus should have heard
it.
Willing hands then threw clods up
on the casket, and the sound was tune
ful music to progressive citizens who
are working for the upbuilding and
advancement of Americus, and who
had, in spirit at least, eliminated tha!
miscreant “0. U. Knocker.”
Gathered around the banquet board
•last night at Windsor Hotel was an
array of business men of Americus,
who by their presence endorsed the
plan of a Greater Americus; asquiesc
ed in the burial of Mr. O. U. Knocker.
The banquet hall was handsomely
decorated for the occasion and the
tables were arranged in three rows.
The courses were served between the
speeches during the evening.
The occasion was pleasant and ideal
in its result. Although the number
present was not as large as was anti
cipated, the “fighters” and “boosters’
were there to a man, and when the
hours of midnight were approaching,
and voting on the resolution of Mayor
Lee G. Council, the entire gathering
arose and voted to boost, talk, push,
pull and assist in the advancement of
Americus and Sumter county.
Col. E. A. Nisbet in happy and witty
vein, presided as toastmaster, an I
made the occasion merry by his ready
speech.
Secretary-Manager E. H. Hyman, of
Americus and Sumter County
Wished All The Best Can Give
Th e following telegrams were read at the DOLLAR DINNER from
prominent citizens of Georgia:
“All Georgia joins Americus and Sumter county in celebrating the
return of prosperity to our state. W e rejoice with you in your enter
prise and the forward steps you are taking for the good of your sec
tion and the commonwealth.” —N. E. HARRIS, Governor of Georgia.
MOULTRIE, Ga, —“Neither the family of Knockers, nor any of their
relatives live in Moultrie; hence we can furnish no mourners at the
funeral, but Moultrie congratulates Americus that the chief enemy of
progress in that city has passed. May his tribe decrease.”—JNO. W.
GREER, Secretary. •
ATLANTA, Ga., —“We are surprised to find there was even one
Knocker in Americus, and rejoice to know he will soon be buried. We
shall expect to see the people of your beautiful city pull together and
develop the wiregrass region as ne'er before.” —W. G. COOPER.
BAINBRIDGE, Ga. —“—Ameiicus has my best wishes for the best
of everything.”—QUlMßY MELTON. Secretary Board of Trade.
the Chamber of Commerce, tendered a
general report of the work he had
done, and beseeched the gathering for
co-operation and assistance in the
work w'hich will mean much to the
city and county. His speech was char
acteristic ,and overflowing in the
short, snappy truths which he fired at
the unbeliever and Knocker.
Hon. Thomas G. Hudson appealed
to the people of Americus to foster
manufacturing enterprises, and bring
the city where it would have a weekly
pay roll. His speech was heartily en
dorsed.
Mayor Lee G. Council made the cul
minating appeal when he urged the
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necessity of a better spirit and a more
closely identified working body of
citizens for the best interest of the
city and county.
Capt. John A. Cobb, as the “grand
old man of Sumter” made a few strik
ing remarks in which he made known
the fact that he had never purchased
a single article outside of Americus
and Sumter county which he could
buy here.
Mr. Jno. Shiver, a. moving power
with the Chamber of Commerce, fol
lowed the trend of the evening by ap
pealing for a broader-minded people
and a better-spirited push.
Other speakers during the evening
were Judge Thomas 0. Marshall, A.
N. Walker, of Scranton, Penn.; Wal
ter Phillips and Cranston Williams.
The following were the loyal citi
zens of Americus present at the Dol
lar Dinner, and who arose and prom
ised on their honor to assist, boost
and help Americus: Lee Hudson, I
W. Hightower, B. H. Brown, A. B.
Howard, R. P. Moore, Watts Markette,
John M. Flournoy, Cranston Williams
J. E. Johnson, A. D. Gatewood, F. B.
Arthur, T. E. Bolton, Chas. L. Ansley.
Geo. A. McNeil, Chas. S. Ansley, F. S.
Allison, G. T. Cunningham, A. N.
Walker, Dr. C. K. Chapman, E. A. Nis
bet, A. H. Walker, T. 0. Marshall, W.
F. Smith, J. W. Westbrook, Wible Mar •
shall .Frank P. Harrold, Thos. Har
rold, Dr. H. B. Allen, S. R. Hays, Cap'.
Jno. A. Cobb, S. A. Moses, J. W. Har
ins. Jr.. W. J. Josey, J. W. C. Horn, B
L. deßruyne, Edward Mathis, D. Pearl
man. J. W. Furlow, W. W McNeill, T.
T. Cochran, B. F. Close, T. F. Gate
wood. Jr., Dr. E. J. Eldridge, Cloy.l
Buchanan, J. E. Griffin. A. R. Royal.
P. B. Williford. T. C. Tillman, W. M.
i Burke, W. D. Phillips, F. A. Slade, H.
AMERIMMEMraRDER
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
hMERICUS, GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 15, 1915
E. Allen, Alford L. Dana, Nat LeMas
ter, Lee G .Council, W. P. Jones, Jno
W. Shiver, D. F. Davenport, Carr
Glover, J. E. Hightower.
ICCEPTf iIICL
DH COMMITTEE OF
LENGTHY HICHWIY
I
Lee G. Council, of Americus, has ac
cepted the appointment of Governor
Nat E. Harris to serve on a commit
tee in the promotion of a Jefferson
Davis Highway which will ultimate
ly extend from the Atlantic to the Pa
cific oceans across the southern part
of the United States. '
A letter concerning the matter from
Frederick R. Jones, Governor Harris’
private secretary, is self-explanatory
“The United Daughters of Confed
eracy have undertaken to promote the
befferson Davis Highway that is ex
pected ultimately to extend from ocean
to ocean across the southern part of
the United States, and the organiza
tion in each state is appointing com
mittees from that organization to
promote the work.
“The president of the Georgia di- j
vision, U. D. C., has requested Gov
ernor Harris to name a committee of
men to co-operate with the U. D. C.
committee from Georgia in the promo
tion of this enterprise.
“The governor has directed me to
ask if it will be agreeaable to you to
serve on this committee without ex
pense to the state.”
FINAL CUE OF SEASON
IT GROUNOS OF CLUB
That very popular social organiza
tion, the Americus ’Cue club, will as
semble again tomorrow at the club
park out Lee street for what will, in
all probability, be the final feast cuetic
of the season. The club has given this
summer many very delightful club
dinners, and is a potent factor in the
city’s social realm. The feast tomor
row will be particularly fine and de
lightful withal.
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♦ U. S. DEPTARTMEM’ 4
♦ OF AGRICULTURE; 4
♦ WEATHER BUREAU. 4
♦ ATLANTA, Ga., Sept. 15. *
4 Weather-Crop Conditions in Geor- *
4 gia for the Week Ending Tues- 4
4 day, September 14, 1915: The *
♦ past week was intensely hot and ♦
♦ dry with maximum temperatures *
4- breaking all previous records for ♦
4- September in some places. Lo- 4
4- cal showers at a few places near 4
4 the close Os the week, brought 4
4- partial relief, but rain is gener- 4
4 ally needed for potatoes, truck 4
4 crops and gardens, and to soften 4
4 the soil for plowing. The 4
4 weather favored the picking of 4
4 cotton, which is progressing rap- 4
4 idly; the cotton crop is short, 4
4 and there is no prospect for a top 4
4 crop. Large yields off corn and 4
4 fine crops of hay have been se- 4
4 cured. 4
4 C. F. VON HERRMANN, 4
4 Section Director. 4
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MEXICANS BEGIN
CELEBRATION 8V
FIRING INTO U.
S. TERRITORY
SAN BENIVO, Texas, Sept. 15.—To
day the Mexicans began celebration of
the anniversary of Mexico, and the
event was ushered in with disturbed
conditions here, and firing into the
town of Simon, near Laredo.
It is reported that Mexican soldiers
would attack this town today, and
has caused a heavy patrol of soldiers
to be sent here.
If the attack was intended the Mex
icans probably changed their plans,
probably because of the arrival of the
soldiers.
The cavalry and infantry will re
main seevral days, however, and pa
trols along the border have beer,
strengthened and sharp attacks are be
ing met.
Prepare For Any Outbreak.
PHOENIX, Ariz., Sept. 15.—Because-
Mexicans might try to liberate their
countrymen from the penitentiary at
Florence tomorrow ,has caused offi
cials to take extra precautions. The
soldiers to guard against threatened
outbreak at Tucson have been sta
tioned.
merchantsTre
PREPARING FOR'
GREATER TRADE
That Americus merchants anticipate
a heavy fall trade with the approach
of cooler weather is reflected in th'
heavy shipments of goods received
daily. The front of every modern ad
vertising store is piled up with cat
loads of freight which a corps of busy
employes unpack and place in stock.
People last fall, through strenuous ne
cessity, were forced to deny them
selves many things in dress apparel
and household necessities, which, un
der more favorable conditions, they
will purchase now. Every advertising
Americus store is alive to this fact
and will tell the people of it through
the Times-Recorder. The dead ones—
well—they went with 0. U. Knocker
last night. Tread lightly in their de
serted stares and frighten not the bat?
and spiders.
GERMAN AGENTS
CAMPAIGNING ID
STOP THE ANGLO
FRENCH LOANS
NE WYORK, Sept. 15.—The Anglo-
French financial commissioners today
heard that German agents were alarm
ed by the momentum being gained by
the billion dollar loan proposition and
had instituted a country-wide cam
paign against some of these agents.
The commissioners have heard that
men are active in spreading the Ger
man propaganda as when Doctor Dern
berg was in the country.
One proposal is to attempt to float
a half billion dollar German loan in
order to make it difficult or impossible
to fulfill the loan of the allies in the
United States.
It is believed that this country
could not handle two such-loans. An
other threat is to make heavy with
drawals from any bank which partici
pates in the loan.
The campaign to persuade bankers
not to participate in the allied loan is
systematized to a remarkable degree
It is reported that a veritable flood of
protests are coming into the banks of
New York.
Protests Are Coining In.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 15.
Several telegrams from various parts
of the country, protesting against the
proposed Anglo-French loan, habe
been received at the White House.
Two communications criticised the
plan, and as far as has been made
public by the government, no protest
has been received from Germany.
Germany Disavows Hesperian.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 15.
Commenting on Germany’s disdain
that the steamer Hesperian was tor
pedoed, it was said that the United
States did not have enough evidence in
the case to make a representation to
Germany.
Diplomatic negotiations on the
Arabic case have lulled.
The German ambassador, Count Von
Bernstorff, has left for the summer
embassy at Cedartown, Long Island.
Germany is not expected to reply for
a week or ten days.
INDICTED MURDER
OF MONO HER
DAUGHTERJN FLA.
CLEARWATER, Fla., Sept. 15.
Mendel Hall, a prominent business
man, has been indicted for the mur
der of Mrs. Bessie Elliott and he'
daughter. Miss Susie Elliott, on a road
near here, July 2nd.
The partially charred bodies were
found under a burning automobile.
Hall said he had hired the car to
take them riding, and Gus Temple, the
chauffeuir 1 . states that Hall struck
cne woman and fired at him.
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4 COLLEGE PRESIDENT DIES 4
4 AFTER AN OPERATION ♦
4 CHARLESTON, S. C., Sept. 15. 4
4 Doctor Howard Jones, president 4
4 of Coker College, died in a hospi- 4
4 tai at Florence, S. C., following ♦
4 an operation. ♦
GERMANS HOLD RAW LEADING
ID PETROGRAD, WHILE RUSSIANS
BATTLE FURIOUSLY ID STOP IWOVE
COLLEGE FORCES
110 IN ML
PROBIJM
COUNTY DEMONSTRATION AGENTS
AND OTHER EXTENSION FORCES
OF COLLEGE AT FARMER’S CALL
ATHENS, Ga., Sept. 15.—The assist
ance of the demonstration agents and
College forces in general is being giv
en to meeting the boll weevil prob
lemns, is the statement of President
Andrew M. Soule when asked what the
College of Agriculture would do in
the way of assisting farmers in the
weevil territory. On the subject he
said:
“Os course, the fight against the
weevil itself belongs essentially to the
State Board of Entomology and the
State Department of Agriculture
where the quarantine and genera'
regulatory power resides for tse con
trol of insect pests.
“The work of the College of Agri
culture is in demonstrating what the
farmer can do in spite of the boll wee
vil. This it is doing through its var
ious agents in the field, through pub
lications, correspondence and every
other possible means. Realizing that
the boll weevil was certain to come
and that south Georgia especially
would suffer eventually heavy losses if
it continued to grow cotton exclus
ively, special work has been done by
demonstration agents and other ex
tension agencies of the College of Ag j
riculture, to lead the farmers of tha”
region into other lines of agriculture.
County agents have Meet! sent to wee
vil infested territory to study cotton
raising methods under weevil condi-1
tions. So that the College forces have j
been prepared to do effective work I
Many farmers will not believe that he
weevil will do them serious damage
until it has been done, hence there is
much work for the demonstration
agents of the College yet to do to lead
farmers out of their trocbles.
"The effectiveness of the Smith-
Lever funds in such an emergency is
apparent. Every effort possible will be
made to induce the farmers to engage
in diversified agriculture, and county
agents will be available to show how
to grow other crops and advise in
every possible way.”
PRICE COTTON
STILL CLIMBING
RICH ATTITUDE
Eleven cents is the ne wpace set
for cotton, the price having already
well passed the ten cents point in its
steady advance towards the zenith. To
day Americus buyers are paying 10 1 4
cents for the staple, and it seems i
quite certain that eleven cents will
be reached ere the end of the current
week. So rapid has been the advance
within the past few days that only with
difficulty can sellers keep tab upon
offerlr gs made daily. Farmers con
tinue to sell at topnotch prices, and
while they have only a half crop this
season the unexpectedly higher pricer
evens up the situation to an extent.
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WEDITION JL
LONDON, Sept. 15.—Although the
cavalry of Field Marshal Von Hinden
I berg is astride the Petrograd railway
| and the Germans habe made a large
capture of prisoners and guns in
Courtland, the Russians are agai.i
counteracting these efforts by not on
ly checking the attempt of the Aus
trians to resume the oeffnsive in Gal
icia, but by inflicting another reverse
on the Austro-German forces in the
same vicinity.
At Svlentsiany, where the German
cabalry has cut the railroad, it is half
way between Vilna and Dvinsk an-1
about 400 miles from Petrograd.
The Russians assert that this raid
has formed a dangerous salient in the
Russian line of which the Germans
are bery likely to take advantage.
In whatever strategic move may b 2
involved in the advance that recen:
events indicate the near approach of
an Important engagement in the re
gions of the Vilna districts which was
predicted a fortnight ago by General
Polibanoff, the Russian minister of
war.
The German armies operating on
both sides Nieman river have not yet
formed a junction, and the Russian
rear guard is still withdrawing.
The Russian military writers are
warning the people not to expect too
much from their recent Galician suc
cesses.
Germans Have Passed Height
LONDON, Sept. 15. —The Germans
are said to have shot their bolt. Earl
Kitchener says “The advance in Rus
sia, which at one time averaged five
miles per day, has diminished to less
than one mile per day.”
udllWil is
FOUNDINSUMTER
BY AUTHORITIES
ASSISTANT STATE ENTOMOLO-
GIST AND REPRESENTATIVE OF
RAILWAY FIND PEST IN SUM-
I E IL
The boll weevil is in Sumter county.
This is the discovery and statement
of W. V. Reed, assistant state entomol
ogist, and T. O. Plunkett, manager of
farm improvement work for the South
ern Railway, who are in Americus to
day, having visited sections of the
county during the past twenty-sou.-
hours.
Mr. Reed states that he has found
the boll weevil on the farm of Mr. M.
L. Lowry, near Plains, and also on the
Negro Industrial Farm, near Ameri
cus.
With the Mexican insect already
having been announced in Lee county,
it. was hardly likely that it would not
find its way into Sumter.
Very shortly it is expected that
State Entomologist Worsham will visit
this county, and that the quarantine
will be extended by the Department of
Agriculture.
Messrs. Reed and Plunkett toure-J
Sumter county in the company of
Thomas G. Hudson, formerly commis
sioner of agriculture, and prominent
in farming work.
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