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MAGNOLIA; SPRINGS
I wish to announce to the public that
I will have the pool at Magno.ia
Springs in first class condition by May
Ist, and I will have cottages ready and
will also be able to take care of table
boarders by June Ist.
I will also be able to provide tenting
ground for people who wish to camp,
season tickets will be for sale up to
June Ist.
For further information apply to
R. H. WISE, Proprietor,
Box 25, Plains, Ga.
The Royal Case
For Ladies and Gentlemen.
Just opened. Gives excellent service.
The menu consists of the best the mar
ket affords and you get what you want
If it is not on menu call for it and if it
is In the market you get it. Everything
new and up-to-date.
S. BANIACAS, Propr.
E D. RAMOS, Manager.
207 Lamar St. .... Telephone 82b
IMERICTS VAMP, 202, YOOBM**
OF THE WORLD.
Meets every Wednesday night in tin
Wheatley Bldg., Windsor Ave. All via
Itina Sovereigns invited to meet witi
>B. J. M. TOBIN. C. C.
N'T LeMASTER, Clerk.
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F. and A. M.
AMERICUS LODGB
Jfr. F. and A. M. m
F. and A. M. meets ev-
ery Becond fourth
Friday night at 7
..o’clock.
S, A. HAMMOND, W. M.
CLOYD BUCHANAN, Sec’y.
M. B. COUNCIL
. .LODGE, F, and A. M„
meets every First and
vffikK •• Third Friday nights.
/ aS/ * Visiting brothers ars
invited to attend.
H. B. MASHBURN, W. M.
LeMASTEIt, Secretary.
'AdHIAGIUN VAMP, AU. 14,
P. O. S. OF A.
’ Ave.s ou Thursday nignts, Wheat
Kj uiildiug, at I;31> o’clock. Alt mem
are urged to attend Viaitori
»v.»..vuied. E. F. WILDER, Pres’t.
u u. REESE, Recording Sec y.
N.U' J.eMASTER. Financial Sec’y.
C. P. DAVIS,
Dental Surgeon.
Orthodontia, Pyorrhea.
Residence Phone 316 Office Phone 818
Allison Bldg.
DR. M H. WHEELER,
Dentist.
tier iu Beil Bldg., Lamar St. Ju«
>l., -n t'osioffice.
>«ti-, I'lKine 7<>. Residence Phone 284
BENJAMIN A. DANIELS, M. D.
Surgery and General Medicine.
Office; AVheatley Bldg.
Telephone Service.
11. A. SMITH, M. D„
Office in Wheatley Bldg.
Office Phone 494.
Residence Phone 457.
WONDER PRESSING CLUB
A. HENDERSON. Prop.
Next Chinese I.sundry.
pressed and Cleaned 50u
p-esseil 25a
' ■■ ’’es’ Work a Specialty.
" ■t< done and delivered same day.
C of Ga.Ry
"The Right Way"
Trains Arrive.
From Chicago, via
vt>,ambus • i s is u a
f Kiii. Columbus *10:00 a m
fr.Hu Columbus 1 7«15 p m
Atlanta and Macon 5;2» a a
hum Macon » 2:15 p nj
F ■■ ■m Macon * 7.30 n
1 rom Albany ♦ « : ,s» att
Fi uiu Montgomery and
a any * 2-10 p ■
From Montgomery and
Albany • jou» p >
From Jacksonville via
Al any • 3:15 a m
Trains Depart
For Chicago via Columbus * 3:15 ant
F<» COlumbur 1 8:00 a is
Fu> Columbus * 8:00 p ■
Fur Macon * 8:39 r, ix
For nu <>u and Atlanta....* 2:10 p ■
Foi Maron and Atlanta.. .*10:39 p n
F<>> igo tn ery and
Albany * 8:29 • ■
For Montgomery and
Albany * 2:16 p ■
For Albany ♦ 7:80 p u
Fot acksouvllle, via
Albany * 1:16 a ar
*1 ally. 'Except Sunday. 1
Btvtv J K. HIGHTOWER.
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CHAUTAUQUA HERE MAY 25TH. TO JUNE 1
Battle of Verdun Has Had a
Great Moral Effect In Erance
PARIS, May s.—The Battle of Ver
dun appears to have had a great moral
Effect in France. It has turned at
tention from irritating discussions
over details of the conduct of the war
mid has cut short an incipient revival
of partisan spirit in Parliament and
in the press, which had been favored
bv relative stagnation at the front. Al
so it seems to have diminished the
number of pessimists and hence in
creased French confidence in the final
outcome.
‘‘They have shot their bolt” is a fre
quent commentary heard in places
where two months ago there were
nervous complaints as to the pro
longation of hostilities. "They can do
no more than they have done, which is
tar from enough ever to shake the
French army.”
Shortly before the Germans attack
ed Verdun some radical Socialist pa
pers attacked the priests, the clerical
'and the “easy” class, charging them
with shirking arduous and dangerous
missions. No priest or aristocrat, they
said, had ever been seen in a trench.
They also accused them of aiding and
abetting the Germans after having
helped to bring on the war in the
iicpe that a disaster to France would
oierthrow the Republican or Parli
amentary regime. They accused them
of sending money to Germany to sub
scribe to the German war loans. A
wineshop keeper of the Department of
Lot wsa repeated the accusations was
prosecuted and sentenced to three
years’ imprisonment and was fined 1,-
000 francs.
The campaign against the priests
and clericals was even taken up by
such a conspicuous writer as Monsieur
Paul Adam, who made similar charges
in the leading radical nwspaper of
the South of France, the Depeche De
Toulouse, and drew upon himself a
.(storm of protests. The Cattle of
Verdun did far more to stop the cam
paign than the conviction of the wine
shop men of the Lot and the protests
against the articles of Monsieur Paul
Adam. It has, perhaps, accomplished
e\en more than the letter of the Prem
ier, Monsieur Briand, declaring that
all such calamities should be punish
ed. Today all parties, including the
Socialists who have just renewed their
declaration in favor of a war to the
bitter end, are working in harmony.
About two months ago it was pos
sible to witness such incidents as that
which took place in a little case in the
center of Paris. Two soldiers in
i stained uniforms, smacking of the
I front, were taking their morning cof
fee in a ertired corner—modestly and
■inconspicuously as is the way with
the men who have seen real service.
| They were concealed from two civil
ians who were discussing Die war.
I‘Tve had my fill of it,” said one of the
■civilians. "It's time it was brought to
a finish. If the generals in command
can t do it they ought to be replaced.’
One of the soldiers rose to his feet
confronted the pessimist. “My
good friend,” be said, “you must have
had a hard time of it. When were you
mustered out. Tell us what you’ve
dime in the war and what the war’s
done to you to give you such a tired
feeling.” The civilian gulped down the
rest of the coffee and rushed out of
the case without replying.
Today the case conversations are all
about some exploits around Verdun
and what will happen to the Germans
it they persist in their effort to take
the ancient stronghold.
There is also less discussion of the
high cost of living than two months
ago, although there has been no ap
preciable easing of prices. This, too,
is accounted for by the heroic resist
ance of the army.
TAX NOTICE.
The law says that tax returns for
state and county taxes close May Ist
each year. Please make your return
for the same at once. Respectfully,
JNO. T. HOWELL,
Tax Receiver, Sumter County.
April 29, 1916. 1-lw
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THE AMERICUS riMi-.S-hECORDER.
The Sport World With Local
Color Dished Time to Time
NEW YORK, May s.—To those who
have seen the Cuban young men and
boys playing baseball upon their na
tive diamond it is not at all surprising
that some of these players should
migrate to the United States and earn
places ofr themselves upon both major
and minor league teams. The Cuban
avaprently takes to baseball almost as
readily as the average boy in the states
and once he has graduated from the
novice class, can field and run the
bases with the same skill shown by
majority of those who play the game in
this ountry. If he has one weakness
ii is inability to make long hits. This
handicap, is overcome to some extent
by the speed with which the Cuban
player goes down to first and from base
tc base.
More of these players are scattered
through the professional leagues of the
country than is generally thought to
be the case by followers of baseball.
Few of them have reached the point of
proficiency where they are assured
permanent places on the big circuits
but a number are playing fast ball in
the minor leagues and appear to be
headed for the majors. A Cuban en
thusiast recently compiled some sta
tistics which show that sixteen of his
young countrymen are playing in the
various leagues under Organized Base
ball and twice that number with well
established and high class semi-pro
se. sional teams. There are also sev
eral other players famed for their skill
with ball and bat in Cuba, who are
ready to try-out in the states and he
gives it as his opinionu that the time
is not tar distant when the Cuban
player will be a factor in the make-up
of the big league clubs.
Another case of "Watch Skipping”
has developed in connection with col
lege boat racing. In the mile and sev
en eights dual regatta at Princeton on
April 20. between the ’varsity eights
bf Harvard and Princeton, the time of
the winning Princeton crew was an
nounced as 9 m. 12 1-2 s. It is now
stated that this was a full minute short
of the actual time of the race, which
was rowed in the "dead” water of
Carnegie Lake. This is a line with the
timing at the Intercollegiate four mile
championship race at Poughkeepsie
last June, when the time of the win
ning Cornell crew was given as 20 m.
30 3-5 s., and later cut to 19 m. 36 3-5
s., and a minute lopped off the an
nounced time of Stanford, Syracuse,
Columbia and Pennsylvania which was
the order in which these eights finished
in the wake of Cornell.
Elaborate plans are being made
throughout China for the holding of a
series of tryout games this summer in
connection with the Far Eastern
Games scheduled to be held at Toklo,
Japan, during May, 1917. These meets,
which are open to the athletes of
China, Japan. Siam, Straits Settlement,
T bilippines and other Far Eastern na
tions and colonies, have been the
means of booming all forms of track
and field athleics to an extent never
dreamed of a few years ago.
Much of the credit for the advance
ment of athletic interests is due to the
Y. M. C. A., which has fostered and
encouraged all forms of competition
for some years. Such interest was
taken in the early athletic games that
the Association officials felt that this
was the Lest means of reaching the
upper classes of Chinese, and in 1908
brought out instructors and establish
ed athletic headquarters at Shanghai.
The first ahletic meeting was held at
Peking in 1910. One of the most in
portant meetings was held in May 1912
at Peking. In Feburary 1913 forty
picked athletes went to aMnila and
competed with Filipinos and Japanese
assembled there for the carnival
games. This event gave rise to the
organization of the Far Eastern Ath
letic Association. The second Far
Eastern games at Shanghai in May,
1915, were quite as successful as the
Manila meeting. The third Far East
ern games will be held at Tokio in
May, 1917, and it is for that this the
Chinese are now- training.
The college baseball situation in the
South is attracting more attention
than any other sport in this section.
Never before has done been quite so
overturned as it has been in the last
few days. Colleges whose teams were
j thought to be impregnable have tasted
for the first time of defeat. In the
j Mercer-Vanderbilt series, Mercer was
I considered to have an easy win in
prospect, but in the first game Wed
r.esday, the Tennesseeans jumped on
the aßptists and landed a victory, 11
to 1. In this farce, the Macon univer
sity broke all records by making thir
teen errors. Men who starred in the
games in Americus against Auburn,
I vied with each other in throwing the
ball away. “Duck” Swann, who won
such praise from local papers on ac
count of his brilliant work around
first base for Mercer, tied with the
leaders in pitching away the horsehide.
Swann in this one game contributed
three boots of the ball, and every one
of them counted heavily in the final
score.
The Mercer machine is a good one,
but there must be no more games like
that of Wednesday, if they wish to
snatch S. I. A. A. honors. The win
ners of that coveted rag are not usual
ly players noted for ability to miss
baseballs, but on the contrary the av
erage winner of the pennant in that
association is able to play ball with
the best professional teams in the
country. But, to return to the game.
Swann was, by no means alone in
the error-making. Right with him was
Holloway, the elongated shortstop of
the Macon Baptists. It will be recalled
by the fans who saw the games be
tween Mercer and Auburn that in every
tight place the Macon team got into,
Holloway proceeded to blow up. And
from reports of the games Wednesday,
he seems to have done this same
stunt. It was apparent when the
games were played here that the weak-
est spot in the Zellars line-up was that
same Holloway. His batting here was
very good, but he was entirely too un
reliable as a fielder to rank with the
remainder of the Mercer players.
The old stand-by hurler, Bloodw-orth
of Mercer, pitched this game, and he
pitched a game far above that played
by his team mates. The score would
indicate that Bloodworth was ham
mered to all parts of the lot, but on.
the contrary, he was fairly effective.
Eight hits were secured off his deliv
ery, but they were not of the home-run
type. His fielding was miserable, how
ever. He was a member of the quar
tette, that contributed twelve of the
thirteen errors chalked to Mercer's
credit.
Opposed to the miserable show’ing of
the above was the good work of “Wim”
Weaver, Ashby Fuss and Charlie Mor
gan. These men played excellent ball,
and if their mates had done only half
as well, the score would have been
changed materially. Fuss went in af
ter the game was lost, but after his
entrance into the fray, the hole was
considerably plugged. Ashby in his
short stay here won the hearts of the
Americus fans by his clean playing,
and the general opinion was that he
was one of the best on the Mercer
line-up. Charlie Morgan, who made
such a hit with all the fans in Ameri
cus, played his usual good game Wed
nesday. As guardian in the left gar
den, Morgan made four put-outs, and
added his usual speed and hitting to
the festivities.
The Mercer boys, however, always
come back, and it is still a good bet
that they win the rag. A radical im
provement must be shown,-though.
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