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THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER
THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR.
ARTILLERV FIRE
IS HEAVY ALONG
WESTERN FRONT
LONDON. Feb. 5. —No noteworthy in
fantry movements on any front have
been reported.
The firing of heavy artillery contin
ues along battle lines in France and'
Belgium.
A force of the British army marching
towards the relief of General Town
send’s forces at Kut El Amara have
been halted a short distance down the
Tigris river and do not appear to be
able to make much further progress.
Reports from Constantinople declare
that the counter-attacks of the Turkish
forces threw the British back at Fel
haie to their original positions.
The Bulgarians are reported to be
having a hard time in Albania. They
have been obliged to fall back to the
Drind river near the eastern frontier.
The occupation of strategic points
ty Essal Pasha and the Serbian troops
which reformed at Durazzo, makes
Athens believe that a new Bulgarian
expedition towards the coast is diffi
cult.
The Austrian advance down the Al
banian coast continues. The last ad
vises apparently indicate that these
forces are twenty miles northeast of
Durazzo. The arrival of two thousand
Montenegrlan troops at Durazzo is
announced.
Germans Claim Checks.
BERLIN, Feb. s.—(By Wireless)—
The Germany army headquarters an
nounce the breakdown of the French
band grenade attack south of Somme,
and the repulse of the British attempts
to advanre south of the La Basse canal.
The continuation of heavy artillery
fire by the French in the Champagne
country and the Argonne region is also
reported.
Attacks on Saloniki.
ROME, Feb. 5. —The Nazionale, pub
lishes a despatch from its Durazzo cor
respondent this afternoon which says
strong Austrian forces are crossing the
plain of Sanjak and will join the forces
preparing to attack Saloniki.
This indicates the abandonment of
further efforts to occupy Albanian ter
ritory by the Austrians. The forces
being concentrated before Saloniki, it
is authoritatively reported, comprise
besides Germans and Austrians, a
considerable body of Turks and Bul
garians. One hundred and fifty thous
and Turks, it is estimated, have re
cently been brought from the Gallipoli
peninsula far participation in the op
erations against Saloniki.
NEWPORT NEWS, Va„ Feb. 5
Lieutenant Berg, the German com
mander of the British liner Appam
which was captured, has assured Col
lector of Port Hamilton, that there are
no explosives on board the ship which
would endanger shipping in the harbor
if exploded. He did not say though
that the explosives aboard the liner
were not strong enough to destroy the
ship.
PISTON ROD IS
CIUSEJF DELAY
On account of the piston rod on the
engine breaking, the 12:31 p. m. train
ol the Seaboard Air Line was delayed
four hours. The accident occured be
tween Americus and Richland and it
necessitated another engine being sent
to the relief of the dead engine.
Engineer C. U. Howard heeded the
S. 0. S. and made the run to the stalled
locomotive.
PINS FOIIFAITHFUL
FURLOW 5. SCHOOL
The Young People of Furlow r Lawn
Baptist Sunday school will be interest
ed in knowing that the pins, as an
award for faithful attendance, are
here and will be delivered to those who
made the good records during the year
1915, this morning at Sunday school
service. It is worthy of note that a
goodly number of the pupils in this
school during several years have neve"
missed attendance a single Sunday.
This Sunday school has outgrown its
quarters and definite steps have been
taken to enlarge its quarters, and in all
probability ,its facilities will be very
much improved in the very near future.
The attendance at this school is con
stantly on the increase. This is the
second yeare it has qualified as an A-l
school in the standard of excellence
prescribed by the Sunday school board.
A cordial invitation is extended to
everybody to attend its services.
lamoTheads
HAWKINSVILLE
SGBOOLSJN 14
Prof. J. F. Lambert, principal of
the Americus High school, was elected
late Saturday afternoon as superinten
dent of the Hawkinsville public schools
for the remainder of the scholastic
year, and the full scholastic year of
1916-17.
It is understood that Mr. Lambert’s
affiliation with the Hawkinsville schols
will take effect Monday, February 14th,
and he will be with the Americus
schools for this week.
It is likely that Prof. C. M. Hale
will be made principal of the High
school to succeed Mr. Lambert, but
no action has been taken as to Mr.
Lambert’s successor in the science de
partment of the school.
The news of Prof. Lambert's depar
ture came suddenly, and created much
surprise and disappointment in Amer
icus, as he leaves with the 'best wishes
but sincere reluctance of the entire
people.
Prof. Lambert has been in Americus
for several years and during that time
has endeared himself to the public,
both parents and students. He was
graduated from Emory college, and
made a splendid record in that insti
tution.
Although Ameericus regrets to give
him up, ths well wishes of all of his
many friends go with him and his fam
ily to their new home.
LECTURE DE DTT
EAGERLY AWAITED
Few events of the winter season have
been as eagerly awaited as the second
coming of Edward Amherst Ott, the
m ted lecturer, under the auspices o t
the Americus Hospital association on
February 12th.
This most laughable and enjoyable
talk will be presented at the Opera
House and judging from the wide
spread interest manifested throughout
Americus and Sumter county there will
not be a vacant seat in the house. The
subject, “The Spenders,’’ will be espec
ially interesting to men.
This lecture is Mr. Ott’s contribution
<to the War on Poverty. It sounds a
sane, clear, helpful note, it has many
lessons for immediate use and a far
seeing vision.
There is uplift philosophy in all the
Ott lectures.
A PAPER FOR ALL THE PEOPLE
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING FEBRUARY 6, 1916
DEVELOPMENTS
FOR LUSITANIA
CKSE ARE SLOW
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. s.—Pres
ident Wilson and Secretary of State
Lansing will not begin the discission
on the latest answer of Germany con
cerning the negotiations before Mon
day. It is said that the president
wants to go over the communication
very carefully the first thing.
BERLIN, Feb. 5. —No new develop
ments came to light concerning the
[Lusitania case todlay. There is, how
ever, a distinct lessening of tension in
evidence, and news from Washington
is awaited in Berlin with unusual in
terest.
With the publication yesterday of
information touching Germany’s at
titude toward the Lansing-Bernstorff
proposals, considerable anxiety was
expressed, but today much of the spirit
of pessimism has disappeared, and
the Berlin public has strong hopes a
break with the American government
will yet be averted.
Few of the afternoon papers com
mented upon the negotiations in their
issues today, evidently preferring to
await authentic news from Washing
ton, before giving, expression to opin
ion regarding the refusal of the for
eign office in declining to Incorporate
the word “illegal” in its note of re
gret to be sent the Washington gov
ernment. The attitude of the German
press toward this position is generally
interpreted as favorable, but failure to
publish such opinions is looked upon
in Berlin as a distinctly optimistic in
dication.
The Associated Press learns on re
liable authority this afternoon that
Secretary Lansing's proposals regard
ing submarine wmrfare and the arm
ing of merchant ships, have not yet
been submitted to the Berlin govern
ment. These proposals, which are to
be submitted to each of the bellig
erent governments, would establish an
agreement abolishing the arming of
merchant ships altogether, and rules
for the operation of submarines would
also be laid down. Great Britain, it is
reported here, has already declined to 1j
accede to the proposals.
Sim SCHOOL IS ‘
DRAWING INTEREST
I
Interest in the Sunday school work ;
in Americus is at high tension nowa- 1
days, and the attendance at the va- I
rious schools is rapidly nearing th? J
highest record ever attained. In the
First Baptist Sunday school, of which >
T F. Gatewood is superintendent, the ’
atendance last Sunday was the great- i
est in the history of the church auxil- 1
iary. 1
The officers, however, are determin- '
ed to excell even the excellnt stand- 1
ard of attndance already established,.
Efforts are now under way to insure 1
attendance of every unattached Christ- 1
ian residing in Americus. The Baraca i
class of First Baptist Sunday school, 1
the leaders have determined, is to be <
increased to 100 members by next 1
Sunday, and the school body, will be !
pushed upto 500 attendants by that <
time.
The movement to bring unattached 1
persons into the Sunday schools of 1
Americus is spontaneous among the 1
several denominations, and many new 1
members have already been added. <
Musical programs of worth are ren- <
dered weekly at all of the school I
gatherings, and these occasions are 1
made attractive in other ways for those <
attending 1
♦ AGED WOMAN BURNED 4
♦ TO DEATH IN ALA. 4
■4 CLANTON, Ala., Feb. s.—Mrs. 4
4 Katie Candler, aged 75, was burn- 4-
♦ ed to deaeth at her home here. ♦
♦ Her clothing caught from the 4
♦ open fire. She was a relative of 4
4 former Governor Allen D. Candler 4
4 of Georgia. 4
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GERMAN SPY ESCAPES
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Ignatius Timothy Trebich Lincoln.
Ignatius Timothy Trebich Lincoln
was once a member of the British
house of cimmons. Later he became
a spy for Germany, and fled to the
United States. When he told his
,story here he was arrested on a
forgery charge. He was confined in
the Raymond st red jail in Brooklyn,
but was taken every day by a con
siderate warden to another office
where he could have facilities for
writing a book. The other day he in
vited his keeper to dinner in a public
restaurant. He went into the wash
room and out a back door.
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OIREGTRRY GUY
AND THE COUNTY
Active work has begun upon maak
ing a directory of the city of Americus
and Sumter County.
A. S. Murie, director of the working
force now at work in the office of the
Americus and Sumter County Chamber
of Commerce, has arrived and he has
some of the very best ben in this line
of work with him, and Americus and
Sumter county will have one of the
best directories in Georgia.
Americus is the only city of her size
in the state that has no directory. It
will mean a great help to our merch
ants. There will be a section devoted
to Plains, Leslie, De Soto and Ander
sonville. Each one of these sections
will have the name of all residents of
these towns in Sumter county.
There will be installed in the office
of the Chamber of Commerce a com
plete library of all directories printed
i.i the United States. This library will i
enable any citizen to come to the
Chamber of Commerce and find the ad
dress of any one' living in the United
States. This library will be valued
at $2,000.
Now that the homes and places of
business are numbered it is easy to
make the location of our citizens easy
to find. The men will make a house
to house canvass of the city, and it is
expected that the people at the homes
co-operate with the canvassers and ,
give them the desired information with
pleasure. If this is done then our
directory will be complete i;i every''de
tail.
HOLLAND WAKES
WITH ANGER FOR
SINKING VESSEL
THE HAGUE, Netherlands, Feb. 5.
—There is a unanimous demand for
prompt explanation by Germany, to
gether with monetary reparation, for
the torpedoeing of the Dutch liner Ar
temis by a German torpedo boat, in
the North Sea. This demand is given
universal expression in Netherlands
newspapers throughout the country to
day. Punitive measures against the
German commander are openly de
manded in the afternoon newspapers
published here and at Rotterdam and
Amsterdam, chief cities of the Neth
erlands.
Indignation aroused by ;he alleged
unwarranted act is widespread and it is
feared outbreaks may occur. The
(tension along the border has been vis
ibly increased since the disaster, and
guards there have been increased;
Dutch fortifications before the Belgian
frontier are being strengthened to
day. There is little information from
Berlin touching upon the sinking of
the Artemis, and a distinct air of per
simism is everywhere evident. The
Dutch minister at Berlin will formally
protest against the outrage, but the
tender of this protest is being delayed,
awaiting ffull information concerning
the attack on the liner.
The sinking of the Artemis is de
scribed by the Netherlands press today
as a high-handed violation of interna
tional law, and the act is strongly de
nounced as “an act of war against the
Netherlands.” Such strong language
a s the foregoing is said to voice the
universal sentiment of the Dutch peo
ple, who have already suffered many
hardships through the war, although
maintaining a position of strict neu
trality. The speedy punishment of the
German commander, it is said, will be
insisted upon, and failure to comply
with a demand for explanation and
reparation on the part of the Ber
lin government, may result in Hol
land entering the war on the side of
the Entente nations.
MR. BROWN LOSES ON
THE WARM WEATHER
The farmers of the county have been
very unfortunate in the last few dlys
;in preserving their meats, butchered
.recently .
The change in the weather during
the middle of the week is attributed as
being the destructive agent that has
played havoc with the products of the
smoke-house. Two weeks ago the
veather was ideal for hog-killing but
the sudden upheaval of the thermom
eter during the latter part of the
week destroyed all visions of ample
hog and hominy.
W. E. Brown was notified that the
fine meat he had killed recently had
! fcllen a victim to the warm weather.
Mr. Brown’s loss in this instance will
run into the hundreds. He lost several
hams and shoulders besides sustaining
Other losses. But he is not the only
one to suffer loss in the last few days.
Many other farmers have lost consider
able meat and eevry day the reports
become more numerous.
This is a good time for all the farm
ers who have meat stored away to un
pack their supply and see if it is in
( first class condition other wise the <
meat is in serious danger of spoiling. <
The work required is only a matter of 1
a few minutes and the benefits derived
would prove manifold. .
WILSON CONSIDERS
COMING TO SOUTH
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. s.—lt is
announced this afternoon that Presi
, dent Wilson is considering another
speaking tour in support of the ad
ministration military and naval pro
gram. His advisers are urging upon
the chief executive the necessity of a
visit to the Southern states, and
many invitations to visit that section
have recently been received at the
White House.
It is predicted the tour will be un
, dertaken early this month, probably
beginning February 10th, next Thurs
day. Georgia and Alabama points will
be visited, and though the itinerary has
not been considered yet, it is a fore
gone conclusion that Atlanta and Birm
ingham will be among the cities to be
visited. Pressing business occupied
the executive’s attention today, and it
will require several days to dispose
of pending matters.
liceW to
BE ENFORCED IN
SUMTEHOONn
A resolution will be introduced at
ithe regular meeting of the board of
county commissioners of Sumter coun
ty Monday morning putting the people
on notice that the law requiring the
registration of autobomiles and motor.
Cycles will be strictly enforced.
The la wallows owners of vehicles
under this act to use the old tags until
March Ist, but after that time they are
liable under the law. Where no tag is
possessed, now, the law is effective,
and all cases will be strictly enforced.
This is the first move on the part of
the county commissioners following
the mandamus proceedings against
Secretary of State Phil Cook for Sum
ter’s pro rata share of the tax money.
It was alleged at the time that Sumter
wa s not enforcing the law.
The people are to be placed on notice
regarding the enforcement of law, so
the next move is for you to supply your
power propelled carriers with the nec
essary tags and registration under the
law.
seabdabTtTbuild
SIDE THAGK TO FAIR
I
Mr. M. A. Calhoun, Commercial
Agent o fthe Seaboard Railway, was in
Americus Friday and with Secretary
Hyman they held a conference at the
site of the Third District Agricultural
Fair as to side track facilities for
handling the traffic at the fair grounds.
After going over the matter and ex
amning the trackage at the Agricultur
al College, it was decided that , the
long spur track now at the site of the
fair and the lengthening of another i
switch would give the fair a half mile .
cf available side track for the use of '
the fair.
Mr. Calhoun stated that his road de- i
sired to cooperate with the fair in
every way possible.
Machine Folks Interested.
B. C. Faircloth, Southern Sales Man- 1
acer of the International Harvester
Company of Chicago, was in Americus 1
Saturday and together with Allen I
Chappell of the Chappell Machinery Co. 1
called on Secretary Hyman at the
Chamber of Commerce and stated that f
hi 8 firm was deeply interested in
coming Third District Agricultural <
I QUEEN OF ELK’S
’CEMIION TO
: BE ELECTED NOW
i The preperations for the Elk’s Cob
i vention are steadily being perfected
] and each meeting o f the Executive
i Committee brings out a new feature.
. At a meeting held on last Thursday at
.the Chamber of Commerce the nomino
. tion of young ladies for the high honor
, of queen of the Elk’s Convention were
. opened and the Evecutive Committee
I finds the following young ladies have
i been nominated as opponents in the
. voting for queen:
Misses Mattie Lewis Dodson, Mattie
. Sue Taylor, Maud Sherlock, Mary Bell
I Hixon, Mary Ella Davenport. Kathleeai
Denham, Claire Everette, Julia May
Horne, Estelle Holt, Mitch Payne, Mary
Elza Shepperd, Catherine Davenport.
The young lady who is so fortunate
as to be elected for this position will
have her entire attire including a
beautiful floral boquet paid for by the
Americus Lodge of Elk's. This will be
quite an honor as each lodge in the
State will send a beautiful young lady
here as sponsor from their city.
The Queen will have the appointment
of ten maids of honor and two children
as ribbon bearers.
The Queen will ride on a pure white
float, to which will be attached four
white steeds, gaily caparisoned in
white harness and flowers.
As a starter the Executive committee
has voted 1,000 votes to be given each
young lady as a compliment from the
Americus Lodge B. P. O. E.
The votes will be ten cents each and
battot boxes will be placed at the fol
lowing well known drug stores.
Hook’s Pharmacy.
Windsor Pharmacy.
Howells Pharmacy.
Alien’s Drug Store.
Murray's Pharmacy.
Howell-Prather’s Pharmacy.
Eldridge Drug Co.
Where votes can be purchased after
February 10th.
Reduced rates on all railroads in
Georgia have been asked for and will
be granted by Joseph Richardson, Sec
retary Southeastern Passenger Associ
ation, of Atlanta. Ga.
General Chairman C. H. Burke ia
leaving nothing undone to make thin
the greatest Convention the Elks have
ever held in Georgia.
Advice has come in already that Sa
vannah will have a solid train to ar
rive. They are coming after the 1917
convention and no doubt will put up a
good fight for it.
A vast amount of mail is already ar
riving asking information about the
convention at the Chamber of Com
merce and it is being cheerfully and
promptly sent out to all.
BLAME CAPTAIN FOR
LOSS APPAN BOAT
NORFOLK, Feb s.—Sonie of the of
ficers and crew on the British liner
Appam which was captured by the
German raider near the Canary Islands
put the blaim on Captain Harrison for
the loss of the fine boat.
Fair and it was decided that his com
pany, would not only make an extens
ive display of farm machinery, which
would be all in motion, but desired to
donate an Osborne Drag Harrow to be
given as a premium in the Agricultur
al display.
Our fair is attracting attention from
all the big agricultural machinery
manufacturers and live stock men all
over the country.
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