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THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER
THIBTY-EIGHTH TEAS.
THE BmCfl AND
PHILATHEA UNION
PLAN FOLMEETS
The Baraca and Philathea unions o'
Americus met in joint session at the
First Baptist church Friday evening.
The meeting was a most important
one in that it was the occasion for
the election of officers to serve the
Baraca Union for the ensuing year.
The election resulted as follows:
President, E. J. Witt of the First
Baptist Baraca class; secretary,
Thomas Merritt of the First Baptist
Tom Merritt of the Furlow Baraca
class; treasurer, Mr. John W. Lindley
or the Presbyterian Baraca class. The
office of vice president was left open
but at an early date some one will be
selected to fill this position. It is ex
pected that it will not be long before
a Baraca class will organize at the
First. eMhtodist church and this class
will become a member of the union in
which case the vice president will
in all probability be chosen from this
class.
After the election of officers it was
discussed among the different mem
bers as to whether the Baracas ano
Philatheas of the City Union should
be two separate organizations or if it
would be best to consolidate the two
organizations after some discussion
of the matter it was deemed best to
let both of the unions come together,
this making the City Union stronger
and enabling each member of the Ba
racas and the Philatheas to do du
more efficient work in every way.
Preliminary plans were discussed
and talked about looking to the ar
rangements for entertaining the Ba
raca-Philathea convention that meets
in this city next year. Every one was
enthusiastic over the prospects for a
profitable and pleasant gathering at
this time.
Mr. E. J. Witt, who was elected pres
ident of the organization, is deeply in
terested in the work as is evidenced
by the following extract from hie
speech of acceptance. Among othe . -
things, he said:
This year the name Baraca-Phila
thea in Americus will mean more
than ever before. We have decided to
concentrate our efforts and resources
on one great event, the 1917 Baraca-
Pbilathea convention, a convention
composed of the very best that Georgia
affords in the way of young manhood
and young womanhood, a convention
which is coming to our city about
six to eight hundred strong in antici
pation of the greatest event in the his
tory of the Baraca-Philathea move
ment, and it is going to be up to us in
a large measure to see that these an
ticipations are fully realized. In order
that we might discuss plans for prop
erly entertaining this gathering of
young men and young women, and
get our machinery in motion at the
earlest date possible this meeting was
called.
"First of all, I can not too strongly
urge upon you the importance and
absolute necesisty for co-operation. In
reviewing the history of the Baraca-
Philathea movement, the predominat
ing feature, and the feature to whic i
we can in the largest measure attrib
ute our success, has been co-operation.
Let us hope that these pleasant rela
tions may be lasting, and let us con
tinue our efforts to show in every
way possible our loyalty to the inter
ests of our churches and Sunday
schools, and to all that concerns the
upbuilding of our city and section.”
Meetings will be held monthly, on
the third Monday night in each month
The next meeting will be at the Fur
low Lawn Baptist church the third
Monday night in August.
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5. COURT DF.GLAIMS
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WASHINGTON, D. C., July 15.
President Wilson today nominated
Representative Hay, of Virginia,
chairman of the house military af
fairs committee, to be judge of the
United States court of claims to suc
ceed George W. Watkinson, retired
from age.
Congressman H. H”. Dent, of Ala
bama, automatically becomes chair
man of the military committee. It is
expected that Hay’s nomination will
be immediately confirmed.
Congressman Hay has been a mem
ber of congress since 1897, represent
ing the 17th Virginia district. He has
been prominent in the Democratic af
fairs of the state.
STOCKHOLDERS
DE THE FAIR TO
MEETONTUESDAY
The stockholders of the Third Agri
cultural District Fair will hold a
• meeting at the Americus and Sumter
1 County Chamber of Commerce rooms
1 on Tuesday night, July 18th, for the
1 purpose of organizing and electing of
ficers for the association for the year
' 1916.
There is not a single stockholder,
• but who should attend this meeting.
Surely they are interested in one of
1 the biggest things that could possibly
happen in Americus this year.
The fair is attracting notice from
1 all over the United States. This is
1 not given to you as purely “hot air’’,
but concessions have been sold to
£ew York City firms, and even to Min
neapolis, Minn.
The fair is figuring with thre large
circus companies, one of which will
- be at the fair, inside the grounds ,on
1 ore of the days of the week. There
will not be an idle minute on the
grounds, from the time that it opens
• on Monday morning at 9 o'clock until
! it closes on Saturday night at 12
1 o’clock.
1 At the meeting on Tuesday night
there will be a president, vice presi
-1 dent, secretary and seven directors
• elected, and from this number of offi-
• cers there will be elected an executive
committee who will have direct charge
of the working out of all details of
the fair in conjunction with the presi
dent and secretary.
Let every stockholder come to this
meeting and take part in the work to
be done.
NEGRO BOY IS DROWNED
IN THREE FEET OF WATER
A little negro boy of John Nelms,
two years old, was drowned Wednes
day afternoon in a three-foot ditch in
front of his home. Nelms resides on
■ W. M. Kinard’s place, four miles south
of Plains. When Nelms went to
■ Plains for a case for the child, he
stated that he and his wife had gone
into the field to work and had left
the child with several older children
eating watermelon in the yard, that in
some way the child strayed off from
• the others and when they next dis
! covered him, he was bobbing up and
(town in the ditch. He had separated
i from the other children and stepped
off in the ditch, and being so young
did not realize his danger and drown-
I ed without any one going to his res
cue.
A PAPER FOR ALL THE PEOPLE
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING JULY 16. 1916
ITALY MAD WITH
GERMANY ON THE
AGREEMENT NOW
The German war office admits that
the British have penetrated the Ger
man lines taking ground between Poz
ieres and Lonuval, having also occu
pied the Trones woods.
The fighting continues, and the
British claim the capture of ten thous
and prisoners since the Somme battle
begun.
Rome dispatches say that allega-
I
tions that the Germans are failing to
live up to the agreement guaranteeing
the dights of Italians in Belgium and
Germany have caused a situation more
tense than any since the beginning cf
the war. No state of war exists be
tween Germany and Italy.
The British Saturday morning re
sumed the offensive along the Somme
front, forcing the Germans back over
two-thirds of their position at one
point, according to the London war of
fice. More than 2,000 prisoners were
taken.
The French report a violent artil
lery duel raging on the Flury sector
of the Verdun front. A German at
tack in the Avocourt region was re
pulsed.
Big Fire May Reach Athens.
PARIS, July 15. —It is feared early
today that flames which spread to the
forest after destroying the summer
residence of the Greek King may
reach Athens, says a Havas dispatch
from that city. The head of the royal
secret service, a colonel of engineers
and twenty soldiers perished during
the rescue work at the chateau. Fifty
other soldiers were injured.
Italy Denounces Germany.
ROME, July 1116. —The agreement
between Germany and Italy providing
for the mutual, respect of the rights
of each other's subjects has been de
nounced by Italy owing to Germany’s
hostile attitude, says the Girona’e
D’ltalia.
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 15.—The
state department has formally ruled
that the German submarine, Deutsch
land, is a merchant vessel entitled to
the treatment as such.
Acting Secretary of State Polk said
that this was not to be taken as a
precedent, as future similar cases
would ce dealt with on their own
merits
howeiiTbe - with
HOOSDinFfICES
As was forecast in his formal an
nouncement for congress Thomas G.
Hudson will open headquarters in
Americus. This feature of his race
will be in offices near the Van Riper
studio, with Gordon Howell, well
known in the city, in charge.
Mr. Hudson stated Saturday that
he had spent a good deal of time dur
ing the last week in visiting over
the district, and that his headqua--
ters would be occupied and corres
pondence cared for during his ab
sence.
Congressman C. R. Crisp is expect
ed to arrive within the next few days.
He has accepted an invitation to
speak at a barbecue in Stewart coun
ty on July 28th, He will make an ac
tive campaign of the district, and has
alerady signified his willingness to
meet Mr. Hudson on the stump. It is
likely that a joint debate will be ar
ranged.
♦ INFANTILE PARALYSIS *
♦ CONTINUES RAVAGES ♦
■F NEW YORK, July 15.—Twenty- ♦
♦ seven deaths and one hundred ♦
4 and four new cases of infantile -F
♦ paralysis during the last twenty -F
“F hours have been reported. ♦
■F The Rockefeller Foundation "F
♦ has donated $50,000 to aid in ♦
♦ controlling the epidemic. ♦
GREWOEHECTOR
IS SAVED EHOM
DEATH ON WATER
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 15.
Al! the marines on board and the crew
of the naval collier Hector, caught at
tea in Fridays’ hurricane, were saved,
according to a wireless received at the
navy department today from the com
mandant of the Charleston navy
yard. The chief engineer and one
fireman were seriously hurt and the
ship’s carpenter broke his leg.
The Sector grounded off Cape Ro
main at the height of the storm, and
was broken in two by the waves. The
vessel is a total I<|ss. On board at the
time were one hundred and thirty
nine persons altogether, and part of
the men have been landed at the
Charleston navy yard, while othj"
survivors are on vessels in the har
bor at Charleston.
Two hundred persons from the
storm-swept section were brought to
the Charleston navy yard this morn
ing by the tug Wilmington. Four of
these refugees are injured and have
been taken to a hospital. There were
no lives lost, so far as is known here
today.
CHARLESTON, S. C., July 15.—Cap
tain Newell and twenty men have
landed on the Cypress at the Navy
Yard at Charleston.
Enormous seas broke over the Hec -
tor beginning Thursday morning.
They flooded the. engine room. The
wind blew from 110 to 120 miles per
hour, and the Hector drifted while
the wireless caled for help.
The boat stranded on Cape Romain
Friday and the tug Wellington which
lost two barges with five men each
sighted the Hector and begun rescue
work.
A small boat with a line atached
was used as a ferry, and after six :
hours the condition of four injure 1
men compelled the tug to abandon
her work of mercy.
The Wellington is searching for he r
lost barges.
Sentenced to Death.
LAREDO, July 15.—Four alleged
I
bandits who claim to be members of
the Mexican Constitutional army, con
victed of murder’ng Corporal Ober
leis, of the United States cavalry,
have been sentenced to death.
TWENTY MILLIONS IN
LONDON IN 1975 NOW
LONDON, July 15.—1 n 1975 Lon
don’s population will have increased
tc twenty millions, Arthur Crow, a
leading architect, told the Royal So
ciety of Arts, while outlining plans
for housing so many people. To pro
vide comfortable quarters for such a
population would require 1,040 square
miles, allowing thirty persons to the
mean, Mr. Crow added, a city with a
acre for the whole area. This wpuld
radius from its center of eighteen
miles.
TAX ASSESSORS
FOB CITY MAKE A
STATEMENT NOW
The tax assessors of the City of
Americus for 1916 wil soon enter upon
their duties. They have been elected
and taken the oath, the body being C.
J. Sherlock, E. C. Hawkins and R. L.
Maynard.
The assessors are confronted with a
problem in the city’s affairs which is
not an enviable position, but the com
mittee will enter upon their duties
with a determination to make the best
of every condition.
The assessors have issued a state
ment “To The Taxpayers of Ameri
cus,” which is interesting:
“Owing to the fact that the city has
a large floating indebtedness for tin.
payment of which there are no funds
in the city treasury, and the parties tc
whom said sums are due are demand
ing payment, and in view of the fact
that the income of the city from cer
tain special licenses, has been cut off,
and is no longer available to the city;
and as there is no way by which the
obligations of the city can be met ex
cept by taxation; and in view of the
fact that the total assessed value of
the property in the city for the year
1915 is considerably less than that of
our sister cities, the tax assessors for
your city appointed by the Mayor and
City Council for the year 1916, feel it
to be their duty, in assessing the
property within the city limits for
taxes for the current year, to increase
the value of all property subject ti
taxation about fifteen per cent, so
that the revenue of the city may be so
increased, as will enable the Mayor
■ and City Council to discharge the obli
gations of the city.
“It is our aim and purpose, as
best we can, to equalize the value of
property, so that each person owning
property, will bear a proportionate
part of this increased burden.
“We are in the discharge of a pub
lic duty, and we ask the hearty co
operation of the taxpayers and citizens
of Americus,
‘Many citizens have not made re
t.irns of this property for this year.
Such are tax defaulters, and are sub
ject to be double-taxed. If you will
immediately make returns, you will be
relieved of the penalty imposed upon
defaulters.
' C. J. SHERLOCK.
E. C. HAWKINS.
R. L. MAYNARD.
Assessors.
LITTLEJOHN TO GET
INCREASED SALARY
Judge Z. A. Littlejohn, of th J
Southwestern circuit may get an in
crease in salary from $3,000 to $5,000
per year, if the constitution amend
ment now before the legislature
passes that body and is favorably vot
ed on in the state.
The many friends of Judge Little
john are interested in the bill because
they feel he should have an increase
along with other superior court judg
es in the state.
The press dispatches, referring to
the matter, said:
“The bill to increase the salaries ot
isuperior court judges in the circuits
in which Clarke and Floyd counties
are situated was, with amendments,
carried, 135 to 3. Originally the act
provided that these judges pay be
raised from $3,000 to $5,000 a year,
provided the home of the home of
FEES FOR SOLICITORS
IS EXPECTED TO PASS
ATLANTA, Ga., July 15.—The fees
of solicitors-general will be abolished
by the legislature during the present
session is the belief of well-informed
members of the house and senate.
In the house yesterday, on a test
vote to disagree to the adverse report
of the constitutional amendment com
mittee, 1125 votes were cast for the
bill and only 6 were cast against it.
This vote alone was sufficient to
have passed the bill, had it been on
its passage, notwithstanding the fact
that as a constitutional amendment it
requires two-thirds of the whole
house, which is 126, and notwithstand
ing the fact that the attendance in the
house yesterday was very slim.
SEMOmGENT
IS WORKING FDR
FAIR ALONG LINE
J. N. Mcßride, agent of the Seaboard
Air Line Railway, notified Secretary
Hyman that he has been working al
ong his line of railroad the past week
in the interest of the fair. Mr. Mcßride
brings in fine reports of exhibits com
ing to the fair.
Stewart county will have one of the
finest agricultural exhibits that will
be brought here and included in this
exhibit will be a large special exhibit
of bright leaf tobacco.
Crisp county will be represented by
a full agricultural exhibit. This mat
ter has been arranged by Mr. Mcßride
with one of the banks of Cordele, who
wil] take charge of the exhibit and see
to it that agricultural resources of
Crisp conuty is well shown up.
The agricultural department of the
Seaboard Air Line Railway has lately
placed a fine short Horn Bull in the
Huntington community on the farm of
J. Lee Johnson, and this animal wih
bo exhibited at the fair.
B. L. Hamner, general development
agent of the Seaboard Railway, has
given instructions to Mr. Mcßride to
work up exhibits in every county
through which the road runs, for the
Third Agricultural District Fair. Many
individual exhibits will also be so
ured from prominent farmers, who
ave a pride in what they grow, and
while furnishing a supply to the
collective county exhibits of their
counties will also have an individual
display.
MRS. W.T. MAGKEY ILL WITH
RELATIVES IN PLAINS
Mrs. W. T. Mackey has been ill of-.’
the past several days at the home of
relatives near Plains, where she is
visiting.
Mr. Mackey went to Plains yester
day, returning in the afternoon, he
reports that his wife is very much im
proved, and that she will be able to
return home in a few days.
52,000 Ready Or Going.
NEW YORK, July 15.-52,000 Na
tional Guardsmen of the eastern de
partment are at the border or en
route, as the anouncement of Major
General Leonard Wood.
the judges be in the two counties
named. It was amended so as to
include Sumter county, and the pro
vision as to judges’ places of resi
dence was stricken.”
W.A.DDDSONDDES
NOT THINK RATE
GIN BUIISEO
The future of the Americus Public
Service Co., is occupying a great deal
of attention in the city, especially
since the decision of the Railroad
Commission in which they denied cer
tain powers to raise the rates.
Judge R. L. Maynard, representing
the trustees in the company, has ap
peared before the Mayor and City
Council, giving his opinion on the
plant as it relates to a public utility
company, with a request from the
trustees to raise the rates in accord
ance with the proposed scale of rates
which were presented the Railroad
Commission.
The Mayor and City Council decid
ed upon a special session of the city
fathers, to be held with the trustees
and Judge Maynard. It is likely that
Mayor Council will call that meeting
for Monday night.
Hon. W. A. Dodson, who is repre
senting the citizens protesting
against the raise, returned Saturday
from Atlanta, and when seen by a
Times-Recorder representative, who
inquired as to the next move of the
consumers who object, he stated:
“Upon my return to the city after
an absence of a week I was informed
that Judge Maynard had advised the
Mayor and City Council that the gas
and electric plants are municipal
plants. I am at a loss as to how, un
der the law and the facts, that he can
come to this conclusion at this late
hour.”
Continuing, Mr. Dodson said:
“Judge Maynard certainly was of a
different opinion as to the law gov
erning the rates, as he made applica
tion to the Railroad Commission,
which is the forum created by law to
pass puon public utility rates when
not a municipal plant. The Railroad
Commission decided it was not a mu
nicipal plant, and on that commission
are three eminent lawyers—one of
whom is an ex-judge of the Superior
court of the Atlanta circuit; also a
special attorney for the Railroad Com
mission, who is an ex-judge of the
Superior court, concluded after they
had heard the application and refused
to raise the rates, not on the ground,
however, that it was a municipal
plant.”
“Under my construction of the facts
and the law applicable to same this is
not a municipal plant,” said Mr. Dod
son. He said, “the city does not own
cne dollar of the stocks or bonds ot
the gas and electric company, anl
has only an option when certain
things are done, as expressed in the
option for twenty years, then it shall
deliver’ to the city, and if any one
oi the agreements at any year for
twenty years are not complied with,
then ‘all right of the Mayor and Ci»y
Council of Americus to acquire the
property of the Americus Public Util
ity Co., shall cease and determine, and
the Americus Public Service shall
be under no obligation to transfer the
same,’ which is the exact language of
tLe agreement.”
Mr. Dodson concluded by saying
that 'the Americus Public Service Co
in my opinion, is not a municipal
plant, and neither the Mayor and City
Council of Americus, or the trustees,
either singularly or collectively, have
the legal right to raise the rates.”
The views of Judge Maynard on
the question have been published in
the stories of the meeting of the City
Council Tuesday night.
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