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PAGE SIX AMERICUS STEAM LAUNDRY FIRST CONTEST-rWO VICTROLAS Closes JULY 6lh, 1916. TIME SHORT ADDITIONAL VOIE OFFER Vote Certificates issued 10 to lon all accounts old or new, paid in CASH. Good until night of July sth 1916. Take receipts for accounts paid in CASH and present to our office for votes SECRETARY HYMAN REPORTS THE MANY THINGS ACCOMPLISHED 5 .* * (Continued from Page Three.) ance 750, or a total of 2,250 visitors during this convention; Third District Medical society convention, one day, atetndai’.ce 50; Elks’ convention, two days, daily attendance 1,000, or a to tal of 2,000 during this convention. The United States government says that each person that attends a con vention as has been estimated by ex perts, will spend $5.00 a day in a town which they are in. Taking this is a basis, you will see that we have had eight conventions this year, or big cele brations, that have brought to Ameri cus 9,625 people, by days if they had all come in one day; this, multiplied by 5 gives a figure of $48,125.00, a pretty nice net income on an investment of ■t two or three hundred dollars and yet there are people today in Americus, who are howling about the Chamber i of Commerce landing conventions, and 1 actually one man carried an article to one of the newspapers to publish it, J giving this organization the rough end of it for securing conventions. When ( told this, it was not necessary for me I to know that this man was not a mem ber of the Chamber of Commerce. 1 knew it without asking, and called the I turn. I was informed that he was | not. ‘‘We have landed eleven conventions for next year, and your secretary has at least five more in^. sight and Ameri- i cus has already'earned the title, and isl known all over the state by the rail- ' road men as the ‘Convention City.’ “There has been 4.286 letters receiv ed in this office during the year an! we have answered 3,315. Little as you think of this, that we Save not had one dollar that we could spare to place in advertising for Americus, this office has succeeded in getting 65,000 pieces of printed matter, signs, banners, streamers,, circulate and other forms of advertising scattered over this state. We, have had eight full pages and about twenty columns of reading matter giv en us United States. "Your secretary*would not close this tajk without giving the very highest praise to the two daily papers that we in Americus. Their uniform ess and courtesy is to be com- • and your secretary has the ■ht that it is his duty to co-operate v. j: h • Htm to the limit. They have giv• en tft in all columns of read ing matter during the year. These cltj; ingg are cut out and dated and hteld as reference and history of the crfratization. Let us say again that it would have been impossible to have at tained "th#'many ‘stunts and other •J.bi rigs that we have pulled off without the great heln fff the press of Ameri cus.’’ ■«' 1.. 1 '♦ ♦. **4 44444 44 4 ♦ 4 CHINESE FIX HATES 4 ’ 4 ON THEIR EXCH ANGE 4 4 PEKING, June 17. —The gov- 4 ♦ ernmemt has fi*9d the rate of dol- 4 4 la r exchange at 130 copper cents. 4 4 ifecemly tfte exchange rate given 4 4 by money changers in the Chin- 4 *♦ ese city has usually been 135 4 4 efrnts for each Mexican dollar. In 4 ★ the legation quarter and most 4 ♦ high-class exchange places pat- 4 4 rorjized by foreigners the rate 4 4 Fas been about 120 copper cents 4 4 to the dollar. 4 ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦44444444 Following official standing of 15 highest contestants who have reported votes to contest manager in exchange for vote certificates. Ist 386,125 votes 2nd370,950 votes 3rd366,725 votes 4th 271,810 votes sth 200,990 votes 6th148,760 votes 7th 147,420 votes Bthloo 725 votes 9th 88,760 votes 10th 45,685 votes 11th 44,765 votes 12th 43,125 votes 13th 30,950 votes 14th 25,420 votes 15th 23,725 votes We will publish contestant’s name! and number votes reported if contestant prefer. • You will find to your interest to publish name from now’ on. PLEASE NOTIFY CONTEST MANAGER. Votes are valuable and easy to se cure from our customers. “Mr and Mrs. Everybody has got them.” Ask Mr. and Mrs. Everybody’s family for them. July 6th, 1916. First Contest Highest No. votes gets $75.00 Vic trola. Second highest No. votes gets $25.00 Victrola. Call at Dudley's and inspect the ma chines. All votes counted and turned in in first contest, will apply in second con test, which are two Autos and Vic trolas, etc. Report your votes each Friday to Contest Manager for Sunday's publica tion. All accounts, old or new, paid in CASH now count more votes than if pad in coupons. BILLY PARKER NHL S?HK THIS WEEK Billy, Parker, well known in America as a platform speaker, will ; lecture at the court -house Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, • June 19th, 20th and 21st. His subject i.; "The Roman Catholic Church in American Politics.” The advertising literature for the lectures refers to Parker as “this is the man who stirred the state of Flor ida from end to end, and forced the Democratic Executive Committee to rescind its former resolutions. There will be some patriotic pepper Mr. Parker will also touch on local con ditions.” It goes without saying that the Parker speeches will be interesting. STATE CHAMBER COMMERCE WILL HELP CANKERS The State Chamber of Commerce is ' going to help market Georgia's canned goods. A meeting is to be held in At-' lanta Monday locking to this end. The matter will be looked into from its various angles and means will be de clsed, if possible, to relieve the situa tion which is said to be becoming acute. The information is to the effect that it is becoming very difficult to market fruits and vegetables canned at any rice, hence a great hardship is being put upon those who have gone to the trouble and expense to prepare them. This is a wise and provident step on the part of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce, and it is to be hoped great good will come out of this meeting. In addition to discussing the mar keting of the goods a campaign to edu cate the canner to standardize every package will be launched. The girls' canning clubs of the state are doing (this work in a limited way and the state organization wants to do every. FfIEICHT HATES ON INCREASE FDR THE IlflL GOODS HERE ATLANTA, Ga„ June 17.—The Bu reau of Statistics of the Georgia Ship pers Association today gave out the following statement showing the effect of increased freight rates proposed by railroads of Georgia on the pro ducts of the cotton factories and the knitting factories in this state. Cotton factory products is a gener al term including domestics, demins, sheetings, shirtings, tickings, cotton yarn duck cheecks calicoes, prints, cotton rope, thread, yarn and other products. Cotton factory products are now rated 6th class without percentage. The present average rate on cotton factory products, from 5 to 200 miles inclusive, is 16.6 cents per 100 pounds. The railroads propose to place cot ton factory products in sth class, and propose to charge an average rate, from 5 to 200 miles iuclusive, of 26.5 cents per 100 pounds, or an average increase of 60 per cent. Kniting factory products is a gen eral term including jumpers, pants, overalls, unlaundered shirts, socks, underwear etc. Knitting factory products are now rated sth class. The present average rate on knitting factory products, from 5 to 200 miles inclusive, is 26.2 cents per 100 pounds. The railroads propose to place knitting factory products in Ist class, and propose to charge an average rate from 5 to 200 miles inclusive, of 50.9 cents per 100 pounds, or an average increase of 94.4 per cent. The present average rate on knit ting factory products in the state of North Carolina, from 5 to 200 miles inclusive, is 17.7 cents per 100 pounds. This makes the present Georgia rate 48 cents higher than the rate in North Carolina, and makes the pro posed Georgia rate 191 per cent high er than the rate in North Carolina. The present average rate on knit ting factory products in the state of South Carolina, from 5 to 200 miles inclusive, is 23.2 cents per 100 pounds. This makes the present Georgia rate 11.4 per cent higher than the rate in South Carolina, and makes the pro posed Georgia rate 116 per cent high er than the rate in South Carolina. The knitting factory that buys its yarn will be doubly affected by the proposed new rates, for the reason that it will pay an average increase oi 160 per cent in the freight rate on I yarn coming in, and will pay an aver age increase of 94.4 per cent in the freight rate on knitting factory pro ducts going out. The increased freight rates propos ed by the railroads on cotton factory products and knitting factory pro ducts, if they are allowed by the Rail road Commission, will have to be paid by somebody. Either the manufacturer of these products will pay the increased frelghi rates, or the jobbers and wholesalers will pay the increased rates, or the consumers who use the goods will pay the increasedl rates in the form o: increased prices. thing possible to encourage and ai< them. This meeting will be open to th« i public, and any one interested is wel come. THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER. ’AMERICUS TIES THE REYNOLDS PLAYERS In the grandest reversal of form possible, the Americus Tigers, feroc ious and thirsty for the blood of other teams, tied the can securely to Reyn olds Friday afternoon, to the melod ious tune of 7 to 5. The trip to the peach center was via the sliver route, I and despite shaken “innards" the Tig ers broke loose with a growl, and the ' Reynold tossers hied themselves to the tall and uncut timbers. The game, from a local satndpoint, was full of features. They do tell, that the way our own “Bear” Mathis slammed the i horse-hide to all corners of the potato patch—where the game was staged— was a caution. And the manner in which little Clifford Pantone handled the tossing end of the contest, would make old Christy, the veteran with McGraw’s Giants, tremble lest he lose his meal ticket in favor of the Amer icus Tigers’ wonder, but Pantone is a kind person, and would hesitate from snatching ham sandwiches from any one as old as Mathewson is. But the grand feature was the way those Tigers tore off hits; the official scorer stopping work and grabbing a Pied mont after the first inning, because there wasn't an adding machine handy, and it was too hot to work anyway. So in the shade of the old peach trees he slumbered gently. The Americus boys forded back to the home heath in fine shape, and all reached home with visions of the good looking girls around Reynolds, whose cheeks are rivalled only by the peach es, and after all it’s the same, be cause the Sumter county lads say they were peadhes of two genders, feminine and neuter. GOVERNOR GOES TO SEE FOR HIMSELF ATLANTA, Ga., June 17. —In order to find out for himself, if possible, the extent of the damage done to vegeta tion in northeast Georgia counties by the fumes from the copper smeltory at Copper Hill, Tenn., which is near the Georgia line, Governor Nat E. Harris will leave Atlanta Monday morning and make an extensive tour in the affected district. The governor is desirous of securing first hand information before he takes action on the recommendation of the state’s attorneys that the state's con tract with the copper company be abrogated. Under this contract, the Ducktown Copper Company pays claims for damages in accordance with the findings of a board of arbi trators composed of a representative of the company, a representative of the state and a third man chosen by the two. Governor Harris will be accompani ed on his inspection trip 1 y Attorney General Clifford Walker, and will probably spend several days in the counties where it is claimed that the copper fumes are seriously damaging vegetation, crops, fruit orchards, tim ber and other property. In the meanwhile, the governor will suspend action on the petition of cit izens in the affected district asking him to replace J. J. Brown, the pres ent umpire of the arbitration board, with a citizen living in the affected district. The petitioners claim that the company’s representative is the only one of the three arbitrators who is familiar with conditions. INDOOR BASEBALL CAME ’ 15 INSTALLED IK CITY J. P. Chapman is having placed in 1 his building on Windsor avenue, an ! automatic base ball game, which it is said can be played by big, little, old and young, and is a very interesting game for all. Anyone feeling like in dulging in a game of ball, can drop In i and play the game, and there will also bo seats for spectators. The game • will be in readiness for players about - Tuesday of next week, as soon as the carpenters get it up in proper shape. The Gold-Standard” — in Tires // /_ y . jnx \ * * ♦ \ OODRICH Tire Values are not at /y JIWLjL . \ I all “Accidental.” J W\ They spring from Conditions \ which are logical as the Laws of the Uni- \ verse. WwWfX \ The best-intentioned Tire Manufacturer Id) I cannot AVOID being heavily handicapped If | f I when competing against them. v // I Because,—Goodrich “Conditions”sum- f II I marize into this: — /■ W « Bx/ // I 1st — longest Experience in Mfg. fj^l—// I Product. I 2nd—The greatest Leverage on pur- f a B Jsi I - c^ias ' B aw Materials at lowest prices, I through ability to take largest quantities. t I 3rd—The lowest Cost oj Manufacturing, Jgl ll I I ~ through largest VOLUME of Output. \ i ln|— l I 4th —The clearly-demonstrated IN TEN- ill I TION to give Consumers and Dealers the |l| ’3 = [WI I I I b ene fitof the large ECONOMIES re- Illi suiting from possession of the three Cardi [hj Illi na l Advantages above defined. 11l il l I * * * 11 Ms® II I I Product of such a Rubber- IL I B Concern, —when marketed under II || JL such conditions, —giving the bene- 111 11 lll II At °f SU(; i l huge Economies to Consumers Il 111 5„ I fH I may well, and logically, be considered — | the. “GOLD-STANDARD” in Tire Values. ■ii —l! I I | II f —When you pay MORE than the Good- il ' IF~~j] / rich Fair-List prices, here printed, for ANY vi / Fabric Tire, you are merely Jiff” 11 I the difference. / Because,—You CANNOT get “better” M B \\ / Fabric Tires,—at ANY price! ! r \ \\ azS/i / Test them and see! HTWbM / THE B - F - GOODRICH CO. I Akron, O. I Goodrich u Fair-List ” Prices / (SAFETY-TREADS) WWWlgib / 30 x 3 ? vj c- I $10.40 UYVIJ / 30 X 3% 5 - Ford S,zes - \ $13.40 / 32 x 3%515.45 / 33x4----- $22.00 ; - / 34 X 4522.40 - - - - $31.20 36 x 4>z531.60 37 x 5537.35 GOODRICH a r T'T7 /I ~N ew G°°d ric h (f° r y° ur Fett). JL JL xjLI.I —Does for your SHOES what the black “Bare- ■ foot-Rubber” Tread does for Goodrich Tires. —Wears longer than Leather! —ls Non-slippery! ——- —ls more Flexible than Leather! —ls Waterproof! —.s Lighter than Leather! —ls EASIER on your Feet! Ask your Shoe Dealer or Shoe Repairer, for Textan Soles on your next pair of Shoes. GOVERNOR WANTS SPECIAL WORK ON THE SANITARIUM ATLANTA, Ga., June 17. —Governor Harris wil devotes special attention in his message to the legislature, accord ing to persons in close touch with him, to the subject of improving con ditions at the state sanitarium for the insane, at Milledgeville. At the present time this institution is taking care of almost as many in ebriates, paralytics and others who are not insane, strictly speaking, as it is of persons who have lost their minds. In addition to the necessity for remedying this condition by the en actment of legislation that will limit the facilities of the sanitarium to persons for whose benefit it is intend ed, there is also a very pressing need for new buildings, as all of the build ings at the present are grossly over crowded and the death rate of the sanitarium is higher than it should be on this acocunt. These facts will be brought to the atention of the legislature by the gov e>nor, and it is believed that the sit iwtion will be corrected. BOLL WEEVIL WORKING HIS WAY OP STATE News comes from the extreme south western part of the state that the boll weevil is making his appearance in considerable numbers. A news item from Bainbridge, in Decatur county, says that the boll weevil may be more menacing this year than was at first thought is brought out in the develop ments of the past few days. Os course, every strange-looking bug found in a cotton patch, from a flying ant to a June bug, is promptly classed as a boll weevil, but nevertheless several of the genuine article have been found in the last few days. H. J. Bruton, a Bainbridge merchant, who operates a plantation above town, found several well developed weevils in his fields this week. A representa tive of one of the wholesale houses in this city, rturned today from a trip through Miller and Early counties and reports that Clayton Webb, at Kestler, in Early county, has on exhibition a bottle containing fully developed boll weevils. Since the weevil multiplies very rapidly, and since they seem to be getting an early start it may yet be that this section is to feel the effects of the pest heavily this year. SUNDAY, JUNE 18, 191* F. G. OLVER Bering Machines and Supplies; Key -•a Gock Fitting; Umbrellas Repaired «nd Covered. LAMAE STREET AFAR WELL. C. of Ga.Ry “The Right Way” Trains Arrive. From Chicago, via Columbus * 1:00 a at From Columbus *10:00 a ■ Krom Columbus I 7:IS p b From Atlanta and Macon ..* 8:20 a ■ From Macon * 2:10 p ■ From Macon * 7:30 p as From Albany • 6:40 * at From Montgomery and Albany * 2:10 p ■ ’rom Montgomery and Albany • p ■ ■’rom Jacksonville via Albany ♦ 8:40 a • Trains Depart For Chicago via Columbus * 3:40 a R For Columbue ! 8:00 a at p or Columbus * 8:00 p ■ For Macon * 6:40 a m For Macon and Atlanta....* 2:10 p ■ For Macon and Atlanta.. .*10:30 p ■ For Montgomery and Albany * 8:29 a ■ ■■'or Montgomery and Albany » 2:10 p as For Albany * 7:80 p an For Jacksonville, v'a Albany *1:00 a ai 'Daily. 1 Except Sunday. 4vtv 1. B. HWWITWEJR.