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SI A D AY, APRIL 1, IVI7. NEW EASTER GOODS IN ALL DEPARTMENTS OUR EASTER SALE is attracting much attention on account of the startling low prices and Money-Saving opportunity of excellent merit. "Buy Here Where Everything Is Sold For Less” New Skirt Goods New Silks Children’s Easter Hats 75c quality sport stripe, plaid and figured skirt materials, This is a great silk season and our stock is complete with s * low ' ng o( our reat! y' to ‘ wear hots, beautiful all the new shades and stripes, plaid and solid color chiff- y large assortment to select from at on Taffeta> at $ 1.50 , a < 'Y/v i Boys wash hats, all colors and styles at 59c yard $1.39 yard 50 cents New Lot Sport Skirts, Waist, Dresses and Millinery Children’s White |#s Easter Sale of Ladies’ Organdy Dresses Wu ft //jfc \\ -H W Suits and Dresses, at Extra fine quality, beautiful styles a. jXk/ | $19,75 and neatly trimmed sizes,6 to 12, / - F /'j / x / \ ' ' /p \ \ Beginning Monday and for one $2.50, $4.50, $6.50 Ibj \ ! week only our entire stock of SPftHT CKIRTC VW Ladies’S2s, $27.50 and $30.00 □run 1 i o / j/ 1 Suits and dresses will be on sale,at New lot of pretty sport skirts, rr r r' SIQ7C plaids and stripes, in silk and TVetr Lot of ratterns Hats for Laster Wool, at Our Millinery Department will be a regular style show from now until Easter. Hun- No suits or dresses charged at this special price and $6.50 & SIO.OO dreds of new pattern hats and shapes will be on display all during this week which will alterations will be extra make this department of special interest to those that love to see pretty hats. WASH SKIRTS Special lot of Ready-to-wear hats at EASI ER WAIST Now is the time to buy your $4.00, $5.00, $6.50, SB.OO Beautiful sport style Georgette and Crepe de Chine wash skirts; we have a hundred Come Early and Avoid the Rush. or more different styles to show 1 $4.98 you in pique, gabardine, etc, all y] ie new Kabo Live model corsets will be cm display this sizes at week, at Olher silk waist at $1 00, $1.50 $1.98 SI.OO, $1.50, $2.50, $5.00 $1.50, $2.50, $6.00 TELEPHONE Church Well’s Department Store Send us Your “sell’s it for less” Mail Orders Americus, ------ Georgia MS NOTES FROM AMERICOS SCHOOLS- ♦ GRAMMAR SCHOOL. * I ..DIIOR-IN-I HIEF— Elizabeth Sheffield. ASSOCIATE editors Hallie Walker. Frances Sparks. Susie .Johnston. (ourtaey Ivey. Marvin Giddings. Norman McLeod. The weather has been lots mor# agreeable last week than the week be fore, because we haven’t had so much rain, except the first of the week. ■I hen lots of kids had to go home, be cause they got soaked. Mr Council has had a letter from the mayors of several cities asking Americus to join in a patriotic cele-, bration on the sth of April. Os courae ( the schools are going to do their part. We are for President Wilson and country all '* i May will soon be here, so we have I I started up the contest for “May i Queen.” The candidates are Hulet i Humber, 7-1. and Mary Bowers, 7-2. ! Both are lovely "Irish blondes,’’ so ; either will make a good queen. The number of votes up to Friday was 162 < to 179 in Mary Bowers’ favor. Any outsiders, grown or not, can i vote, if you will call, and we certain-j iy will appreciate it It costs 1c to vote, but that is not very much; nei ! ther is a nickel, nor a dime, nor a , quarter. If any one wants to vote. put in as much money as you want to, and make your candidate win. (No- . body’s credit is good.) We have been practicing folk dances i and many other kinds. The Seventr grade girls are practicing the May-Pole • I dance and the ones that do it bes, will be the queen s attendants. We are doing fine. Miss Hardy says. The ‘ Sixth grade girls are learning. “Reap ing The Flax.” a little dance that we Seventh graders remember very well. The other grades are practicing danc ing. but we haven’t space to mention them all. We are afraid that the board is not going to give us money enough to 1 frame all the pictures we have order -1 ed, so we are going to try to make it by selling sandwiches on the grounds. ( 7he girls of the 7-1 hava charge of. • it for the first week, beginning Mon day. We had heard that Mr. Holst w’as too sick to leave Texas with the other soldiers and Thursday Mr. Mathis sent a telegram to Maj. Furlow, asking i about Mr. Holst. He received a reply I that night. It read like this: “Ccn i dition Sergeant Holst fair; steadily i improving. Date of return to duty un certain.” We are all very sorry to hear that he is seriously ill, but we are sure he must be out of danger now’. Here’s some hard luck for the Sev enth-2 grade. Mr. Mathis came in the room and said something about a poem called “Abou Ben Adhem,” and asked S. L. Hammond if he knew the poem .Ik was talking about. S. L. said: "No, sir." Mr. Mathis said: “Well, you get a copy and learn it by Friday.” Miss Mary wrote it on the board and all of us had to learn it. Friday, for a little change, we play ed basket ball, with seven on a side, instead of five. We had a good game. Earring a few little fu??e«. The score • was S to 0 in favor of the Sixth grade. Everybody pitch in and give us as much as you can spare for the "May Queen.” Choose your candidate and work for her to get it. The monev which comes in goes ’o the school li ( brary. THE AMERICUS TIM£>RECORDER. ♦ HIGH SCHOOL. ♦ (BY FRANCES M’MATH.) Although monthly examinations were held last week and we were busy studying for them nearly all the time, preparation for the High school meet have progressed steadily. Nearly two. hundred and fifty representatives xromj other schools will be here on the thir-| teenth and fourteenth, and the people j of Americus have loyally agreed to entertain them while they are here. The contest to select the Americus! representative in recitation was held Thursday. Sarah Britton and Quen elle Harrold were the only two con testants. The judges, Miss Cameron and Miss Keatley, Mr. Deßruyne, Mr. May and Mr. Agnew, decided four to one, in favor of Sarah Britton. This very excellent speaker will represent up in the coming event. There were three students trying in the music contest, which was held Friday. They were Hazel Horne,; Alice McNeill and Pauline Bell. The judges were Mrs. H. 0. Jones, Mrs. C.; l). Terrell and Mrs. T. B. Hooks, who' decided in favor of Hazel Horne for first place and Alice McNeill for sec ond place. The boys’ declamation contest will ~e held next Thursday at the chapel . hour. Four boys, John Butts, Henry Clay. Henry Allen and Loring Smith will contest for this place of honor. Eli Horne has been chosen repre sentative in spelling, and Frances Mc- Math in ready-writer’s contest. Eli represented us last year in spelling and we feel confident that he will win; l this year. ' The U. D. C. essay medal ipr the | I High school, it has been j was won by Lula Howard, with hon orable mention to Elizabeth Harris. ' who won second place. I The High school baseball team is practicing to get itself into full fight ing trim for the game that will prob ably be staged here during the High school meet ' The Senior play which was adver tised for last Friday night, was post poned until Monday, April 2. The' proceeds of the play will go for the ! Annual and therefore, a large crowd is ! urged to come. The play will be pre sented entirely by Senior talent. SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM TO BE BEGUN AT TOhlO TOK 10. March 31.—The Imperial, University at Tokio has decided to in augurate a department for the teaching of journalism IKE LA NE. NEG RO FARME R, SUCCESSFUL RAISING HOGS . j ATLANTA, Ga., March 31.—White' farmers are taking the lead, but they ; haven’t by any means got all the hon ' c rs in Georgia hog-ralsing. Ike Lane, a negro farmer who lives j : near Waycross, and who is one of the I best negro farmers in the whole | South, according to prominent white' people who know him, has raised two hogs this year that weigh between 800 and 900 pounds each. Ike. has six other hogs that weigh over 800 pounds and haven't yet at tained their full weight. He is confi dent that some of them will go over i.OOo pounds before they are ready for rale. The hogs are two years old and have cost him practically nothing to ! raise. Each one of the Immense porkers makes an entire dray-load. ATLANTA FOLKS WANT FIFTH CAMPED AT LAKEWOOD PARK ATLANTA. Ga.. March 31.—Uncle ' Sam is having to dig pretty deep into his pocket to pay the board of mem , bers of the Fifth regiment. Georgia National Guard, just back from the Mexican border and still held in ac tive service on account of the impend- | ing declaration of war against Ger many. j They are boarding at restaurants 1 and paying restaurant prices for ev : erything they eat, which prices are vastly more than the rock-bottom price paid by the government when it buys provisions by the wholesale to feed ' troops in camp. An effort is being made by Atlanta ' civic bodies to have the Fifth regiment 1 stationed here, and Lakewood park, , which is owned by the city, has been ' offered as a camp site free of charge. ICELAND FACING STARVATION OWING TO LACK OF FOODSTUFFS COPENHAGEN, March 31.—Iceland I which has been cut off from shipping , connections with Europe and the Unit ed States for nearly six weeks, is sac s ing starvation, owing to its small sup ply of foodstuffs and the failure of ships to arrive with expected supplies. ! As a result there is strong sentiment ; here that a Danish warship loaded • with supplies be despatched to the . island country. ,; The submarine menace is, of course, . responsible for the suspension of ship t ping to Iceland. There are more than ■ one hundred Iceland merchants now ir. Copenhagen who are unable to re turn home. PAGE THREE