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THE TIMES-RECORDER.
(Member Associated Press.)
ESTABLISHED 187 S.
Publisher every Sunday morning and
every afternoon, except Saturday, and
Weekly, by the Times-Recorder Co.,
(Incorporated.)
Entered as second class matter at
postoffice at Americus Ga„ under act
Os March 3, 1879.
G. R. ELLIS.
President.
CRANSTON WLuLIAMS,
nRf Editor and General Manager.
T. M. MERRITT, JR,
Assistant in Business Department
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authorized traveling representative of
the Americus Times-Recorder.
OFFICIAL ORGAN FOR:
City of Americus.
Sumter County
Webster County.
Railroad Commission of Georgia F.r
Third Congressional District.
U. S. Court Southern District of
Georgia.
Americus, Ga, March 1,1916
Let’s abolish congress.
This March month and its winds.
No warning now, and you shoot on
sight.
You’re for bonds —the kind that peo
ple vote.
Polities is interesting Louisiana,
but they are only human.
Don’t cuss a fellow’s looks, as he has
too much sympathy for you.
Dublin Bay must have about as
many folks in it, as Tipperary has.
According to reports in some quar
ters, a battle is on around Verdun.
Ambassador Gerard was mutilated
somewhat while out skiing in Ger
many.
Wednesday is the day which counts,
even Tuesday was thrown in good
measure.
They shoot traitors in war times, and
this is the time to shoot a few con
gressmen.
Serbia is the name of a race-horse
in New Orleans, which should add
i
interest to his speed.
This typewriter runs like a drunk
man— it halts, it crooks, it jumps, and
it has the hiccoughs.
With the whole world to look after
the United States has taken over Haiti,
adding fuel to the flames.
Thing that makes up against suffer
age, is that women would break the
nation betting hats on the election.
Another sucker is contemplating a
trip to the North Pole, and hope it’s
in the same place Doc. Cook put it.
Time for the Democratic party to
live up to its emblem, and if you leave
it to some within our ranks they’ll do
it.
A fellow is apt to stop this paper
because he doesn’t like something
that’s in it, but we’d hate to see the
law slaughter all that folks didn't like
in him.
• We are with you, Mr. President, and
nobody’s with them. Georgia has some
political tricksters whom some people
are just now finding out, while others
always knew them.
General and General
were commanders on different wings
for the French around Verdun. Tomb
stcne people will have an easy time on
carving that description.
Henry James, the American born
converted Englishmen, is now since at
the age of 73, passing away in London.
The poor paragrapher must find
aenther refuge, while Henry is hunt
ing his.
A COMMUNICATION.
The editor of the Americus Times-
Recorder is in receipt of a communica
[ tion from a prominent citizen of Les
, lie ,our neighbor to the east ,of
I Americus, in which charges are made
t concerning “blind tigers” said to ex
-1 Ist in that community.
The article is too lengthy for publi
cation in a newspaper the size of this
—limited in the space which it is able
to devote to different matters.
The trend of the entire article is
that “blind tigers" in large numbers
. exist in Leslie, but that no one will
J take the lead towards suppressing
, these menaces.
' | If the author of that article pos
£ sesses the information which he states,
and with the convictions which he
seems to have, then as a citizen of Les
lie—of all Georgia, it behooves him to
j take such steps as the law plainly sets
> cut, and with every means at his dis
j posal bring these parasites on society
1 into the state courts in order that
f ■ punishment may be meted out as their
f guilt demands.
The position of the Americus Times-
Recorder on law-enforcement is well
known and unmistakable. There is
no statute on the codes of our entire
r legal system but which we are in favor
of enforcing. From the petty misde
meanors to the grand capital charges,
we have always insisted upon law en
forcement.
Our attitude towards prohibition is
I'kewise well known. Whiskey is the
root of evil which is a blight to hu
t manity. It brings to mam’s sad reali
zation the fearful penalty of disaster,
disease, destruction, ruin and death.'
. Macon has paid a ghastly price, and
God forbid that Leslie, Americus —any |
other city or community, shall be
called upon to answer likewise.
Inability to publish the entire article
of the citizen of Leslie makes it neces-'
i sary that this mention be made of his'
article, and the opportunity taken to
re-iterate the views and attitude of the
i Americus Times-Recorder.
A WISE CHOICE.
The friends of the proposed bond'
(issue for the city of Americus to be
voted upon on March 15th. were wise'
in their selection of Prof. J. E. Mathis
as chairman of a general campaign
' committee to have charge of the move
ment with the purpose of assuring
success at the polls.
A goodly number of Americus’ citi
zens attended the meeting at the
Chamber of Commerce Tuesday night,'
and unanimously expressed opproval
of the selection of Prof. Mathis as the
man who will lead the fight for the
success of the bond issue.
This man is a fortunate medium for
the advancement of the city. The ques
tion of bonds is not a personal matter,
tut one which belongs to the entire
city. Let no citizen mistake himself in
n belief that a single citizen of Ameri
cus has an “axe to grind" by the suc
cess of the bonds at the polls.
The entire matter is before you and
a thorough explanation of all the af
fairs of the city as regards this mat-|
ter will be made before March 15th, on i
which day you will be expected to go j
to the polls and vote your convictions i
—with a bigger and better Americus
uppermost in your mind.
HOW THEY DO IT.
Statesboro, too, knows how to do
things in a modern way when it is a
matter of getting new industries lo
cated there. After a few weeks of
agitation the movement for the es
tablishment of a meat packing plant j
has crystalized to the extent of over j
$12,000 in subscribed stock. With'
rapid progress in the eradication of!
the cattle tick, which for many years
has been a bar to the development of
the cattle industry in Georgia, the
prospects for success are far more en
couraging to the man who is asked to
invest his money in an enterprise of
this kind. In the territory from which
a packing plant at Statesboro would
draw cattle there is a great acreage
available for grazing lands sufficient
to take care of large herds.—-Savannah
Morning News.
Statesboro and Bulloch county is to
be congratulated, and the day may be
hastened when other counties will join
the movement.
(THE AMERICUS DAIL) 1
EDITOR LAWRENCE.
Friends of Editor J. Lawrence, of
the Wiregrass Farmer, published at
Ashburn, have announced their inten
tion of proposing his name to the state
convention os a delegate from the
Third congressional district to the na
tional democratic convention to be
.held in St. Louis.
Mr. Lawrence is a citizen of Turner
county, an acquisition to the Third
district which she is proud to possess.
He has been identified with the prog
ress of his county, section and state;
well known and versed in political af
fairs.
His many friends over the syte, and
especially in the newspaper fraternity,
will view with pleasure his selection
as a delegate to the St. Louis con
vention.
THE FRENCH DEFENSE.
Those who have been saying that
the French are a decadent nation—
that the French soldier is no longer
the warrior that he was in the days of
,Napoleon—are due the French an
apology. There is nothing in history
: that outshines the splendor of the
! people of France in their getting to-
■ gather and driving out the Germans,
, when the well-equipped armies of the
invaders were within a few miles of
Paris.
The German machine is the most
that has ever been put in
I
action. The German people under
stand the art of organization, of con
centrating their efforts and of throw-
■ ing their entire resources against a
’/given point. Their attacks are almost
irresistible, because they are made
j without regard to cost. It is “do" or
“die” with them.
It is said that the assault which was
jnade ,by the Germans against the forts
around Verdun during the last few
, days have been the heaviest of the
entire war. The great guns of the
Germans have hurled a perfect storm
of fire against the French defenses.
The German army surged forward
like a mighty river, breaking over bar
riers and beating against forts from
which a flame of fire came against
them. The dispatches today say that
■ the German losses are enormous—so
. great, in fact, that there are not
enough men left to hold the points of
advantage against the on-rush of new
’.French troops.
The reports this afternoon indicate
that the French are not only holding
their own, but have thrown a mighty
movement against the Ger
mans. The French guns, from two
different directions, have poured a
withering fire against the German col-i
umns. It is awful war that is being
waged between the two armies. It is
no longer a sporadic exchange of shots
between hidden cannon, but it is the
open fight—the withering sheets of
flame from big mouthed guns, with
sputtering bombs, creating a great sea
of flame and explosion.
The first reports of the Titantic
struggle indicated that the Germans
were getting the better of it. That was
due to their perfect organization and
their concentrated action. But later
reports indicate that the tide is turn
ing in favor of the French. Even if
•the Germans succeed in capturing
Verdun with all its forts, will the
game be worth the cost? We doubt it..
It will be a spectacular achievement,
ut it will not be a decisive victory by
any means.
The defense which the French have
made against the onrush of the Teu
tons is just as spectacular as the Teu
tonic attack. It contributes its full
measure toward making the battle of
Verdun one of the greatest in the his
tory of the world—a struggle in which
Holenden and Balaklava fall into in
significance.—Valdosta Times.
March Ist is the day when the Kaiser
let the submarines aloose again.
FOR OVERWORKED WOMEN
This is the season of the year
when the wife and father begin to
feel the strain of household and so
cial duties, and gets into a run-down,
nervous, weakened condition. To
all such our local druggists, Hooks’
Pharmacy, say: “We have a rare!
combination of the three oldest tonics
known, in Vlnol which we guarantee
to restore strength, make you eat
better, sleep, better and feel better,
or we return your money.
THE NEWSPAPER TALK |
A “local bill’ ’is expected to come
up from Savannah before the next
session of the legislature that will seek
to oust the present mayor of that city.
The new mayor is threatening to en
force the law down there, and his pur
pose is disturbing the populace.—
Moultrie Observer.
A Harvard man has invented a ma
chine for detecting liars, but nature 1
beat him to it when she made a wo
man.—Macon News.
"Men’s styles are what their wives
make them," remarks The Atlanta
Journal. For the lift of us, we can
see no good reason who one should be
gratuitously offensive to good women.
—Augusta Chronicle.
There seems to be a grave danger
:n Georgia of the individual citizen try
ing to shuffle the responsibility of ed
ucation off on the state. The state is
doing its duty and manfully. We need
more individual responsibility. The
state cannot come in and do the duty
which rightly belongs to the parent. ]
There is no w'ay of shifting this re
sponsibility.—Lavonia Times.
If this office could pay off its debts
in sweet potatoes it would be one of
the strongest newspapers, speaking
financially, in the state, for we have
been getting more ’taters than we can
dispose of in any manner. The saying
“ ’taint no ’taters” sure doesn't apply
H Ew Boil' kw
IF®- ffiHl Ml
Chero-Cola ’
is a universal favorite
because it is
sure
Wholesome OZ]
Kef reding; I
Sold only in labeled bottles \
You will enjoy its uniform flavor, I
and the certainty of its cleanliness. 14
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SAVES DAUGHTER
Advice of Mother no Doubt Pre-
vents Daughter’s Untimely End.
Ready, Ky.—“ 1 was not able to do
anything for nearly six months,” writes
Mrs. Laura Bratcher, of this place, “and
was down in bed for three months.
I cannot tell you how I suffered with
my nead, and with nervousness and
womanly troubles.
Our family doctor told my husband he
could not do me any good, and he had
to give it up. We tried another doctor,
but he did nut help me.
At last, my mother advised me to take
Cardui, the woman’s tonic. I thought
it was no use for i was nearly dead and
nothing seemed to do me any good. But
I took eleven bottles, and now 1 am able
to do all of my work and my own
washing.
I think Cardui is the best medicine in
the world. My weight has increased,
and I look the picture of health. **
If you suffer from any of the ailments
peculiar to women, get a bottle of Cardui.
today. Delay is dangerous. We know
it will help you, for it has helped so
many thousands of other weak women
in the past 50 years.
At all druggists.
Writ/ t»: Chattanoog Medicine Co., Ladies'
Advisory Dept.. Chattan oga. Tenn., tor SftcM
Imtrocthni on you: case ano 64-page book, "Home
r reatment for Women,” in (lain wrappet. H.*7. ill
,to us. They were given us on back
i subscriptions—Lumpkin Independent.
Fitness and efficiency should be no
less regarded than honesty and faith
fulness in selecting a man for office.
The Tribune does not believe in vot
ing for any man who is incapable of
ir telligently discharging the dutoies of
an office to which he aspires, regard
less of how many other good qualities
he may possess.—Walton Tribune.
L. G. COUNCIL, Pres’L lac. 1891 H. 8. COUNCIL, Cashier,
C. M. COUNCIL, Vice-Pres. T. E. BOLTON, Asst. Cashier.
Planters’ Bank of Americus I
■ CAPH Al. SIRPIIS AND PROFITS $2i8,000.00
TOTAL DEPOSITS (DECEMBER STH, 191$) $539,512.92.
With a quarter of a century ex ;
' F perltnce Id succ ssful banking !
I »wß|t| HHl’ and with our large resources and
! IwSfiS tyUSisßir clo>epersonal station to every
I Intinst consl lent with sound
I 8% B 3 banking,we stilt It jour patronage
I Interest allowed on lime ctr-
’ j?sur iur ***“
j Prompt, Conservative, Accommodating. We want
your Business
No Account Too Large and None Too Small.
Member of Americus Chamber of Commerce.
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SHIPMENT
STEEL WHEEL, BALL BEARING
Roller Skates
J ust arrived
$1.50 pair
ALL SIZES
You better hurry if you want a pair
THEY A?JE GOING FAST
Williams-Niles Co.
Opposite P. O. HARDWARE ’Phone 706
THE ALLISON UNDERTAKING COMPANY
. . . FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND EMBALMERS . > •
Daj Phones Night Phones
253 80 and 106
J. H. BEARD, Director, Americus, Ga
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I COAL : DOMESTIC : COAI
! GENUINE MONTEVALLO—MOUNTAIN ASH JELLICO
L. G. COUNCIL
8 Telephone 38-3 Rings Your Order
I Prompt S<r/ice Guaranteed.
YOUR PATRONAGE WIl L BE APPRECIATED
Member of Americus Chamber of Commerce.
MONEY LOANED! ■
We make farm loans at 6 per cent interest and
give the borrower the privilege of paying part of
< . principal at end of any year, stopping interest
on amounts paid, but no annual payment of
principal required.
i G. R. ELLIS or G C. WEBB
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PREPAREDNESS
KAY-LAX
Mr. Wise prepares for the onslaught of his enemy “The Army of Dis
ease with the proper defense—
KAY-LAX
KAY LAX cleans the liver, stomach and bowels; aiding digestion, rrlleving
sour stomach, constipation, colds, biliousness, headaches.
For men, women and children.
Endorsed by chemists—every bottle guaranteed.
For sale by
HOOKS’ PHARMACY
The Profit-Sharing Drug Store Open All Night.
HERBERT HAWKINS ’
insurance and Surety Bonds
Special'y—Autos at 2 per ct. -
Planters Bank Building ? ’Phone No, 186
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1916