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District with Associated Press
service
riIIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR.
HALF HUNDRED IS
REACHED FOR THE
CAMPAIGN FUND
The Wilson campaign fund took a
little jump today.
Who’ll help it along some more?
It’s business, and this money is
needed quickly. The election comes
off in less than a month.
The contributions are:
Previously subscribed $43.00
G. Lester Williams 1.00
Charles R. Crisp '-.... 5.00
Lee Johnson , 1.00
Total $50.0 J
These contributions carry the Amer
icus subscription to the SSO mark. We
want to make it $250, or SSOO, or
SI,OOO. What about it?
From day to day you have seen the
names of proimnent people who be
lieve that they should help in the great
cause of Wilson and Democracy.
He kept us out of war.
He gave us prosperity.
Don’t you think he deserves some
credit for 18c cotton?
Come on across.
Let us have your contribution at
cnce.
BIRDS PASS OVER LAST
NIGHT AND SIGN OF COLD
Last night was featured by the noise
—to a trained ear—of the birds going
south, which is a sure sign of winter
approaching. These air fowls made
their customary visit through this sec
tion last night, according to an author
ity on game subjects. So, you see, be
sides this cool spell and the slow, driz
zling rain, there are other signs that
cold weather is coming, besides the
forecast published in yesterday’s
Times-Recorder, predicting a probable
cold wave.
DAWSON OIL MILL IS
NOT SOLD BY RILEY
The Dawson News of this week
says: The report published in last
week’s News that Mr. George W. Riley,
of Americus had disposed of his hold
ings in the Dawson Cotton Oil com
pany to Mr. King Stillman, of Atlanta,
was premature. Mr. Riley has not dis
posed of his stock in the company,
and it is said, has no present intendnm
of doing so, though negotiations for
the sale were pending.
ALABAMA MTS OR. 0.
ROSS BAKER TO STAT
Birmingham and the Woodlawn Bap
tist church, wants to keep Dr. C. Ross
Baker as their pastor. Dr. Baker was
called to the First Baptist church,
Americus, several weeks ago. and the
Alabama Advocate, of Birmingham,
has the following to say:
The call which came to Dr. C. Ross
Raker, the eloquent pastor of the
Woodlawn Baptist church, from the
First Baptist church of Americus, Ga..
caused the following resolutions to be
passed by the Baptist Ministers’ con
ference of Birmingham.
“We notice in yesterday’s papers
that Dr. C. Ross Baker has been call
ed to a church in Georgia, and that
we are in danger of losing him from
the state. Dr. Baker is one of our
strongest men and active in denomina
tional life in the state, and his re
moval would be a decided loss to us.
Therefore, we sincerely hope that he
see his way clear to remain and that
his church in this city may prevail
on him to do so. GEO W. M’RAE,
“Secretary.”
It would be a great loss not only to
the Birmingham district, but to Ala
bama to have Dr. Baker leave the
state. He is ranked not only as one
of the South’s greatest, pulpit orators,
but has been of invaluable service as a
teacher in the preachers schools, con
ducted throughout Alabama. He has a
warm place in the hearts of both the
city and thfe country preachers. Per
sonally, we hope Dr. Baker and his
charming wife will remain in Ala
bama,
THE ONLY PAPER PUBLISHED IN AMERICUS AND THIRD CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT WITH TELEGRAPHIC SERVICE
HEW MOS THE
SQURGEBOOKPAPER
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 18.—That
a satisfactory quality of book paper
can be made from hemp hurds, the
waste stalk fragments produced in
preparing hemp fiber for market, is a
conclusion reached by specialists of
the U. S. Department of Agriculture as
a result of commercial tes’ts made in
cooperation with a paper manufactur
er. The experiments and the econom
ic conditions surrounding the use of
hemp hurds as a paper-making mater
ial are described in a new Professional
Paper of the Department of Agricul
ture, Bulletin 404.
The investigations demonstrated
that the hurds can be reduced chem
ically to paper stock by the soda pro
cess under practices little different
from those employed for the manufac
ture of pulp from poplar wood. Slight
ly more bleach was necessary, and
beating was found desirable for a
somewhat longer period. As against
these items of increased expense in
comparison with poplar wood as a
raw material, the first preparation cf
the hurds at the mill is less expensive.
It is necessary only to sieve the la:
ter, while the wood must be chipped
with expensive machinery. Storage
possibly would be more expensive for
hurds, as storing in the open—the
method employed for wood —probably
would be impracticable.
Because of the lightness of the
hurds, charges of this material in the
digesting chamber must be smaller
than charges of poplar wood. The ex
periments showed that the weights cf
the charges ran about 60.5 per cent, of
the weight of poplar wood charges.
The total yield of air-dry fiber from
hurds was 33.1 per cent as compared
with about 47 per cent of air-dry fiber
from poplar wood.
Hemp is now grown in Kentucky,
Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Cali
fornia. In Kentucky, however, the
fiber is separated from the stalks by
hand brakes moved about the fields,
and the hurds, therefore, are sc scat
tered that their use for paper making
is not economically practicable. It is
only in the other states named, wTiere
large machine brakes are employed
and the hurds are deposited in stacks,
that the waste may be drawn upon
practicably as a paper-making mater
ial. About 5,000 tons of hurds are pro
duced each year in the machine brak
ing districts. This is an insufficient
supply of the material to warrant the
erection of a pulp mill or even to jus
tify transportation to existing mills,
but it is expected that the available
tonnage will increase, because of the
extension of hemp growing and in
creasing use of machine brakes.
Calculation by the Department’s
specialists of the raw material and
acreage necessary for a permanent
supply of materials for a pulp mill
producing 25 tons of fiber a day for
300 days per year, or 7,500 tons a
year, shows that the annual growth
from 40,500 acres would be required
Would Shorten Five of The
Commandments; Also a Prayer
ST. LOUIS, Mo., Oct. IS.—Revision
and shortening of five of the Ten Com
mandments as they appear in the Book
of Common Prayer and the elimination
of Good Friday prayer, which classes
Jew with “Turks, infidels and here
tics”, were proposed In the report of
the joint commission on the Book of
Common Prayer submitted to the gen
eral convention of the Protestant Epis
copal Church today.
The commission, consisting of seven
bishops, seven clergymen and seven
laymen, under the chairmanship of Rt.
Rev. Courtland Whitehead, bishop of
Pittsburg, was appointed by the 1913
convention of the church to revise and
enrich the book of common pdayer,
adapting it to modern conditions.
It was proposed to eliminate por
tions of the first five commandments on
the ground that the arguments for
the observation of Divine Law in the
Ten Commandments may actually be
understood in the laws themselves,
and also to shorten and make more
impressive the church service. Furth
er, it was held that the reason, which
AMERiKSSRMESSffIROER
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
AMERICUS, GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 18, 1916
MEETING OF CHURCH IS
CALLED FOR THURSDAY
The full membership of the First
Baptist church are requested to meet
at Thursday evening’s prayer meeting
to consider some important matters in
reference to the recent call for a pas
tor. It is hoped that the full member
ship of the church will be present.
NEW VARIETY OF COTTON
GROWN IN SOUTH CAROLINA
ATLANTA, Ga„ Oct. 18—Black cot
ton will be exhibited to Atlanta scien
tists and students of botany by Arthur
W. Brabham, of Olar, S.*C., the “Bur
bank of the South,” *who has not only
succeeded in evolving a strain of black
cotton, but also strains of gray, pink
and yellow cotton, and who is shortly
to be entertained in this city by his
friend, Mrs. John H. Macy. If Brab
ham’s black cotton proves out in ac
tual test, so that the seed will produce
clack cotton year after year, he will
have solved one of the big dye prob
lems of the textile industry, and
should his other colors of cotton give
the same results, there seem to be no
limits to the possibility of deevloping
strains of various colors.
TAKES FOUR THOUSAND FOWLS
A DAY TO FEED ATLANTIANS
ATLANTA, Oct. 18. —It takes four
thousand fowls a day to feed the city
of Atlanta, according to estimates just
compiled by local butchers and poul
try dealers. Included in the list are
chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, squab,
guineas and numerous others, includ
ing quail which are surreptitiously im
ported into the city during the hunting
season, but which are not counted in
the list because they are not for sftle
in stores, by reason of the Georgia
game laws. Besides the thousands < f
packing house fowls shipped into At
lanta from the w’est and from adjoin
ing states, farmers within a radius of
200 miles find a ready market here for
all the live chickens they can raise.
CONDITION OF JAMES
MORGAN GROWS GRAVE
Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Siffimons left for
Leesburg "Wednesday afternoon, hav
ing received a message that the condi
tion of Mr. James Morgan, father of
Mrs. Simmons, had grown worse. Mr.
Morgan is well known in Americus,
and is the clerk of Superior court of
Lee county. He has many friends here
who trust that he will be restored to
usual health soon.
in the case of wood as against the
annual production of hemp hurds from
10,000 acres.
The cost of manufacture of paper
from hurds has not been estimated by
the investigators, but, because of the
increasing cost of wood pulp and the
increasing acreage of hemp grown in
the United States it is believed that
the time may come when the use of the
material in the paper-making industry
will be profitable.
applied in Israel do not necessarily
apply today. The revised version of
the five commandments as proposed
follows:
1. Thou shalt have no other Gods
but me.
2. Thou shalt not make unto thy
self any graven image, nor the like
ness of anything that is in the heaven
above, the earth beneath, or in the
waters under the earth; Thou shalt
not bow down to them nor worship
them.
3. Thou shalt not take the name of
the Lord, thy God, in vain.
4. Remember that thou keep holy
the Sabbath Day.
5. Honor thy father and thy mother.
The commission’s report recom
mended that the present Good Friday
prayer, have mercy upon all Jews,
Turks, Infidels and heretics,” be re
vised to read, “Have mercy upon all
who know Thee not, as revealed in
the Gospel of thy Son.” Thus elimin
ating a classification which to many
has been objectionable.
Numerous suggestions for the en-
RUMANIA COMES
BACK TD THEIR
FIGHT ON BORDER
The Rumanians, who were recently
driven back onto their own border in
Transylvania, during last night resum
ed the offensive southwest of Kron
stadt and are driving back the Teu
tonic forces there, the Bucharest war
office announced today.
Three German counter attacks on
French position in the Sailly-Saillisel
sector of the Somme front, were re
pulsed last night with heavy Teuton
losses, says the Paris statement before
noon today.
The tide of battle, apparently, has
changed materially during today along
the Transylvanian front, where Ber
lin concedes the stiffening of the Ru
manian resistance, while the Buchar
est government declares that all mili
tary news is now reassuring from
their viewpoint. A strong Russian
force is reported to be helping the Ru
manians and to have enabled them to
repulse the Teuton advance, the of
fensive being assumed by King Ferdi
nand’s army today.
The rapid approach of winter is ac
companied by no diminution of activ
ity along any of the fronts, and it now
seems that in certain areas at least
the Entente nations are redoubling
their efforts against the Central Pow
ers. Notably along the eastern front
from Volhynia to the Rumanian boun
dary, there is continuous fighting,
with a virtual deadlock resulting, and
neither army able to score substantial
success. Farther south the Teutonic
attempt to drive a wedge between the
Russian and Rumanian armies, near
Morna Watra, in the southern Carpa
thians has reached a most uncertain
stage, dangerous alike to Entente and
Central forces.
In the Morna Watra sector today,
Berlin despatches record the capture
by Teuton troops of some heights,
while the Petrograd war office state
ment declares that all the attacks were
repulsed.
IDE COTTUN SOLO
in urns today
A Sumter county farmer was in the
city today with four bales of cotton
which he put on the market. It was
sold at Parker’s warehouse and the
four bales netted $430.38, weighing
2,391 pounds, and sold for 18 cents a
pound, and had all the bales weighed
the same would have averaged $107.59
per bale.
SLEETING IN GATE
CITY LITE TGOIT
It is sleeting in Atlanta this after
noon, according to information receiv
ed at the Times-Recorder office just
before going to press.
This is another indication—along
with a great many, which points to
the cold wave which will hit Americus
and this section tonight.
Get out the blankets, and fill up the
coal barrel. Cold weather is here.
GORDON HOWELL NOW IN
R. L MAYNARD’S OFFICE
Gordon Howell, well known in the
city and prominent young lawyer in
this section, now has his offices in the
office of Judge R. L. Maynard, in the
I'lanters’ Bank building. His many
friends will be interested in this an
nouncement.
richment of the prayer book to meet
modern conditions were advanced.
Among these were the adoption of
prayers for labor, for the army and
navy, for schools and colleges, for
state legislatures and a patriotic
prayer for Independence Day.
GRAWFORD WHEATLEY IS
GONE FOB A MEEFING
Crawford Wheatley, third vice presi
dent of the Georgia Chamber of Com
merce, left today for Atlanta to attend
a meeting of the executive committee
of that body to be held on Thursday.
He is prominent in the affairs of the
state.
PRICE ON FOOTWEAR
HAVE BEEN ADVANCED
ATLANTA, Ga., October 18. —The
w holesale prices on footwear have
been advanced from 50 to 75 cents a
pair within the past week, according
to information received by Atlanta re
tail shoe dealers. Certain lines have
been withdrawn from the market en
tirely because of the shortage in
leather. Manufacturers claim they are
obliged to pay from 37 to 60 cents a
pair more for upper stock and 8 to 10
cents a pound more for leather.
WAR DEPARTMENT RULING MAY
AFFECT FUTURE COLONEL CROP
ATLANTA, Ga., Oct. 18.—If the war
department in Washington should pro
mulgate a ruling that members of the
governor’s staff cannot wear their gay
and gaudy uniforms, it is likely that
future chief executives will experience
no little difficulty in securing friends
to serve in this highly important sar
torial capacity.
Wearing their uniforms as colonels
and aides-de-camp has hitherto been
the principal, not to say exclusive,
function of members of the staff of
the governor of Georgia, and if the war
department deprives them of this priv
ilege, on the ground that none but offi
cers of the United States army and
the National Guard can bedeck them
selves in such regalia, then what is
left but the title?
ATLANTA FOLKS HAVE
ADOPTED NEW FAD
ATLANTA, Ga., Oct. 18. —The much
exploited “Yellow Peril” has nothing
on the Hawaiian invasion, which has
swept Atlanta musical and Terpsich
orean circles off their feet, so to speak.
The famous Hafaiian ukelele and
Hawaiian guitar have taken the place
of the regular American guitar and
mandolin, and Hawaian songs and
dances are all the rage.
The famous Hawaiian ukelele and
amazingly popular among the younger
set that some of the cooler-blooded
conservatives of greater years and ex
perience are beginning to get uneasy
because of the trend in steps and dips
and movements. They are afraid the
will be dancing the out
and-out Hawaiian dances unless a
curb their enthusiasm.
A daring social event recently sug- ■
gested, but not carried, was a Hawai-I
ian carnival in which the debutantes
should dress themselves in straight
Hawaiian festive oostumes and dance
to the subtle music of the ukele and
Hawaiian guitar.
Woman Fighter Leads The Men
To Battle For The Fatherland
CAPE TOWN, S. A., Oct. 18.—There
has appeared in the Kilimanjaro re
gion, a German woman warrior who is
leading a force of native troops with
out the assistance of any other Euro
pean.
Near the Mountains of the Moon this
desperate woman waged a guerilla
warfare against the Allied forces, and
thrilling stories are told of the strange,
wild life which she and her black fol
lowers led.
Among the fighting forces and resi
dents in British East Africa this white
Amazon is known as Bibi Sacharini, a
name which has been given her by the
natives.
The native story is that she is the
wife of a German commandant who
was killed in the fight which took
place at Longido on September 25,
1914. She was so grief-stricken over
the death of her husband that she had
openly declared to be revenged.
The natives, who spoke of her as a
mad woman, said that her anger was
particularly concentrated against the
King’s African Rifles, in a skirmish
Americus Is Warned of The
Approaching Gales on Coast
Already Scattering Damage
HO HIGHWAY BODIE
PLANNEDJHIS ffl
The first proposed highway routes in
Georgia under the new federal co-oper
ation with the states do not touch
Americus nor Sumter county. Os
course, everybody can t get a highway
on the first attempt—and Sumter has
the best in the state, anyway. So, we’ll
worry along until one comes through
here—by the state. The state highway
commission met yesterday in Atlanta,
and the following dispatch tells of
their work:
ATLANTA, Ga., Oct. 18. —The Geor
gia highway commission at its meeting
Tuesday afternoon decided upon sev
eral tentative routes for highways to
be built in Georiga with federal aid.
The plans will be sent to Washing
ton for approval as soon as a few de
tails yet unfinished can be worked our.
The Georgia commission stated that it
will remain for the Washington de
partment to decide which routes shall
first be developed. The projects pro
posed to Washington will require more
money than will now be available, so
it will be necessary for some choice to
be mad’e.
Among the proposed state highways
decided upon to be submitted to Wash
ington are the following:
Atlanta to Macon.
Columbus to Dawson to Albany.
Macon to Milledgeville to Eatonton
to Madison.
Augusta to Athens to Atlanta.
On some of these routes all of the
counties have already agreed to fur
nish the necessary co-operation in or
der to obtain federal aid. In other in
stances there are one or two counties
which have not been heard from. It
is anticipated that there will be no
difficulty in lining up these counties.
The counties which have asked for
federal aid through the Georgia com
mission are as follows:
Fulton .Clayton, Spalding, Pike, Mon
roe ,Bibb, Turner, Chattooga. Quitman,
Brooks, Lowndes, Heard, Ben Hill,
Jefferson, Troup, Clay, Lumpkin,
Mitchell, Catoosa, Macon, Forsyth,
Dade, Rabun, Wheeler, Sumter, Madi
son, Banks, Bacon, Walker, Putnam,
Cherokee Floyd, W’alton. Oconee, Mus
cogee .Wilcox and oM’-gan.
WILLIE WILLIAMS IS
REPORTED AS WEAKER
Reports from Willie Williams’ bed
side at Alberquerque, New Mexico, are
to the effect that he is daily growing
weaker. This news will be received
with regret by the hundreds of friends
. of this noble young man in Americus,
j where he is honored and loved.
with which force her husband had been
slightly wounded, and the East African
Mounted Rifles.
In the early days of the East African
campaign, before and even after, the
arrival of the Indian troops In Novem
ler, 1914, there was a great deal of’
guerilla fighting, and on both sides
there were retirements before super
ior forces. The Bibi Sacharini was
seen on several occasions, her force
varying from 100 to 200 natives.
Through glasses many officers of the
British forc-s have seen this white
woman commander in her kraal sur
rounded by blacks. Never since the
Lcngdido fight has she been seen in
the company of a European.
She is described as a big woman with
flaxen hair. She rides astride and is
armed to the teeth. She seems to have
a wonderful control over her native
followers.
The Askaris tell wonderful stories of
the Bibi Sacharini’s prowess with the
gun. She has the reputation of never
missing anything on which she can
pull a trigger.
ruv
Veditionl.
COTTON TAKES LEAP WHEN THE
GALE HITS THE GULF COAST
WIND IS NINETY-EIGHT MLLES
AT MOBILE—GENERAL ALARM IS
SPREAD BY THE GOVERNMENT.
The storm warnings have gone up,
and Americus is warned of the disturb
ance in a telegram to Postmaster Dav
enport from the weather bureau of the
United States government.
Yesterday’s Times-Recorder carried
the Associated Press stories concern
ing an impending tropical disturbance
and this morning the government is
disseminating the information through
out this section of the country .
Following is the telegram to Post
master Davenport:
“Tropical disturbance approaching
middle gulf coast. Will probably cause
destructive gales over Western Geor
gia, northwest Florida, Alabama and
Mississippi, especially southeast Mis
sissippi and southern Alabama.
“Please post notice and distribute in
formation widely.”
Storm Felt Here.
Indefinite delay to Pensacola and
that section was reported at the West
ern Union Telegraph Co., office here.
This is due to the havoc of the storm
in that country.
The press dispatches of the Times-
Recorder have been greatly delayed
because of the reported wire troubles
in this section of the state following
continuous rains and heavy winds.
Intensity of Storm Increasing
WASHINGTON, I). C„ Oct. 18.—The
West Indian hurricane is rapidly ap
proaching the Gulf coast early today
and is expected to move inland first at
some point between New Orleans and
Apalachicola, Fla. Hurricane warnings
have been hoisted between these points
and many small vessels have put into
the nearest harbors to wait until after
the hurricane subsides. Indications
are that the storm will increase in in
tensity as it nears the coast, and that
extensive damage will be wrought
in Alabama, Mississippi, south Geor
gia and western Florida.
Cotton Leaps Up as Storm HRs Mobile.
NEW ORLEANS, La., Oct. 18.—Ru
more that the anticipated hurricane
had struck into the cotton region
around Mobile, adding to the damage
already sustained there by July floods,
caused the price of the staple to jump
nearly $4.50 a bale on the strongest
months around the opening. July op
tions went up quickly to 19.17 cents,
the highest price ever recorded on the
New Orleans futures board.
Wind 98 Miles an Hour at Mobile.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 18.—An east
to southeast wind averaging in velocity
ninety miles an hour, and with gusts
reaching ninety-eight miles, is blowing
at noon across Fort Morgan, located
at the entrance to Mobile Bay, about
thirty miles below the Alabama city.
At 6:45 o’clock this morning the wind
at Fort Morgan became most violent,
according to a Marconi Wireless com
pany message received here about
noon, and the gale continued unabated
at that hour.
A news despatch received over the
wire of the Postal Telegraph company
from Mobile shortly before 9 o’clock
this morning said the wind was then
blowing ninety miles an hour within
the city, and that much damage had al
ready been sustained. Shortly after
this message came through all wires
between Mobile and the outside world
ceased to operate, and it has since been
impossible to secure inofrmation con
cerning conditions there.
The wind was racing along at sev
enty-two miles an hour at Pensacola
at 8:15 this morning, according to a
report received by the New Orleans
weather bureau this morning. The
wind at Pensacola at that hour was
come out of the northeast and increas
ing in strength and violence momenta
rily.
Strong Gales at Interior Points.
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Oct. 18.—The
weather bureau this afternoon ordered
advisory warning of strong gales sent
to interior points in Georgia, Florida,
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