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Sunday, april i, 1917.
SMITH
DRESSING CLUB
or best work and quick sei
vice phone us at 216
Office: 208 Jackson Street
—_
MISS BESSIE WINDSOR,
Insurance.
Bonds.
Dffice Forsyth St Phone 284
CHAS. AYASH
Fresh Groceries
Hour Business Appreciated
Phone 708, Cotton Ave.
F. G. OLVER
LOCKSMITH.
Sewing machines and Supplies; Key,
nd Lock Fitting, Umbrellas Repaired
nd Covered. Phone 420.
wSTREET. NEAR WELL
MRICL’S CAMP, 202, WOODMEN
OF THE WORLD.
Meets every Wednesday night in:
raternal Hall, Lamar street. All vis
ing Sovereigns invited to meet with
g. STEPHEN PACE. C. C.
NAT LeMASTER, Clerk.
F. and A. JL
a AMERICUS LODGE
F. & A. M., meets ev-
t ery second and •
fourth Friday night
'*A at 7 o’clock.
FRANK J. PAYNE, W. M.
RESSCOE PARKER, Sec’y.
H M. B. COUNCIL
LODGE F. and A. M.
meets every First and
Third Friday nights.
f V? Visiting brothers are
ivited to attend.
DR. J. R. STATHAM, W. M.
NAT LeMASTER. Secretary.
WASHINGTON CAMP, NO. 14,
P. 0. S. OF A.
Meets every first and third Monday
f|s in P. O. S. of A. Hall, No. 21J
ar St All members in good etand
ig invited to attend. Beneficiary certi
cates from $250.00 to $2,000.00 issued
> members of this camp.
S. A. JENNINGS, Pres’t
O. D. REESE, Recd’g. Sec’y.
C.<rfGa.Ry
’’The Right Way”
Trains Arrive.
(Tom Chicago, via
Columbus * 1199 a la
f’rom Columbus *10:09 a ni
>'rom Columbus 17 sl& P ®
from Atlanta and Macon..* 5:29 a m
<Yom Macon * 2:11 p Ml
from Macon * " P U1
<Yom Albany »* 9140 a m
’Tom Montgomery and
Albany *.2.11 p m
From Montgomery and
Albany *10:89 p m
From Jacksonville, via
Albany * 3:19 a re
Trains Depart.
For Chicago, via Columbus * 3:40 a ni
For Columbus 1 8:00 a tn
For Columbus * 3:00 p m
For Macon * 9:40 a m
For Macon and Atlanta *2:11 p m
For Macon and Atlanta . ..*10:39 p m
fur Montgomery and
Albany , 5:29 a ra
For Montgomery and
Albany * ?:11 P m
For Albany * • :3» P m
For Jacksonville, via
Albany ' a m
‘*Dai!y ! Except Sunday.
adv J. E. HIGHTOWER, Agent.
Seaboard Air line
[he Progressive Rbllwbv ot rhe Si.hh
Leave Americus for Cordele. Ro
chelle, Abbeville. Helena, Lyons, Col
lins Savannah, Columbia, Richmond,
Portsmouth and points East and South
12:31 p m.
2:30 a m
Americus for Cordele, Abbe-
Helena and intermediate points
5:11 p* ni.
Leave Americus for Richland. At
lanta. Birmingham. Hurtsboro. Mont
gomery and points West and Northwest
3:08 p. m.
Leave Americas for Richland. Col
umbus. Dawson, Albany and interme
diate points
10:00 a m
Seaboard Buffet Parlor Sleeping Car
on Trains 13 and 14 arriving Americus
from Savannah 11:25 p m.. and lea -
ing Americus for Savannah 2:30 a. m
Sleeting car leaving for Savannah at
2:30 a. m . will be open for passengers
at 11:40 p. m. „
For further information apply to H.
P Everett. Ixx-al Agent. Americus.
Ga.. C. W. Small Div. Pass. Agent.
Savannah. Ga.; C. p G. P. A..
Norfolk. Va.
FOUR SUITES WILL
COMPEL TICK WORK
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 31.
passage of recent tick legislation in
Texas and Arkansas makes —or soon
will make—tick eradication compuls
ory in four states—Texas, Arkansas,
Louisiana and Mississippi. In Missis
sippi teh law is now in force and is
expected to result by the end of 1917
is driving a wedge of tick-free terri
tory through to the Gulf of Mexico. A (
similar law will go into effect in Lou
isiana in 1918. In many sections of
the state, however, the people are an
ticipating the law and systematic erad
ication work is planned for this seas
on in about 20 counties. Many >f
these, it is expected, will be ready for .
released from quarantine on or before
December 1, 1917.
In Arkansas a number of acts were
passed by the legislature in Feburary
and have been signed by the Governor.
They now provide for a five cent tax
on each head of cattle in the entire |
state, the money to be expended in tick I
eradication, and appropriate as well'
$50,000 for eradication work in Ute
next two years. In addition, the coun
ties are authorized to nse county funds
for this purpose if the members of
the county court consider it advisable.
Altogether. It is estimated that during)
the next two years there will be aibout;
$120,000 of state funds available for;
tick eradication, exclusive of what the.
counties may contribute.
Practically all of this money, it is (
said, will be expended on the employ-,
ment of men and the purchase of the
necessary building material and chem
icals for the dipping baths. The labor
necessary in constructing vats will be
supplied by the people who are to
use them. This has been the practice;
in the past and the increasing interest
in the work makes it certain that the
people will be more willing than ever
to contribute in this way.
.The Texas eradication law divides
the state into three zones and places
the administration of the law under
the Ssate Live Stock Sanitary Com-,
mission. Beginning with 1919. the
law becomes effective in each >f,
these zones in successive years. the
delay being intended to give cattle-;
men an opportunity to adjust their
business to the changes which ac- (
company eradication.
The adoption in these states of the
principle of compulsory eradication is
indicative of a great change in the’
popular attitude toward the tick and j
will, it is believed, do much to
the conquest of the pest in its re- ,
maining strongholds. Practically ill,
o’ Virginia, the greater part of Nortn
and South Carolina and Mississippi.’
and much of Alabama have already,
been freed under the plan of leaving
to each county to determine whether j
or not it should rid itself of the tick.!
The steady increase in the tick-free
area has, however, made it all the more
important to complete the work with
out delay, for the full benefits of er
adication can not be realized as long
as a tick-freee county is surrounded by .
or adjacent to tick territory. Eradica- 1
tion is, therefore, ceasing to be a mat- j
ter of local and is becoming one of
state concern.
ATLANTA. FLAG-DECKED WAITS |
NATION’S ENTRANCE INTO
ATLANTA. Ga, March 31.—Prospect
of war has decked Atlanta in Ameri- j
can flags from center to circumfer-,
ence. and for the first time in the his
tory of the city the stars and stripes,
are flying from office buildings and
stores and private homes.
A few months ago the flag was a,
rare sight except on gala occasions
when it was displayed as the predom-,
mating feature of decorative schemes.
It was not flown on the flag-pole
of the city hall nor on the public
school buildings.
But now the flag is everywhere, and
a good many Atlantians who treat
patriotism a-s a sacred thing like their ■
religion are beginning to object to a
continuous display of the colors, point-.
ing out that France has flown her fa
mous tri-oolor only a few times
ing the whole course of the war. They
contend that it’s alright to show the
flag on special occasions for a day or
a few days, but to hang out a flag and
leave it flying day and night for an
indefinite length of time, rather tends
to lesson its patriotic significance
♦ ♦ ♦
♦ DIF. DOG DAY FOR ’
♦ THE HOBO BOW WOWS ♦
♦ BAYLOR. Mont., March 31. ♦
♦ Die Dog Day was celerated here ♦
♦ today. The entire village took ♦
♦ this Saturday afternoon off. and ♦
♦ executed the death penalty pro- ♦
♦ nounced on hobo dogs. Numer- *
♦ ical superiority of canines form- ♦
♦ ed a menace to peace.
JOE JRCKSON MEANS
TO WIN TOP HONORS
NEW YORK. March 31.—Tris
Speaker's sudden elevation to the
heights of batting championship,
sought many years by Joe Jackson, is
likely to precipitate one of the hottest
scraps in the American league dash
for the top of the average list this
year that Ban Johnson’s or any other
man’s circuit ever saw.
Joe struggled along for years,
cracking the leather on lots of base
balls and attaining dizzy batting
heights,, but Ty Cobb always was
jnst good enough to pull out in the
lead. Speaker came along, got ?et
with a new club, and hit ’em so fast
and often that Cobb was forced to
look on from a rear seat, while Jack
son merely hooked on in third place.
Joe has issued his challenge for
this year. He says the name once
boasted by a President of the United
States is going to be right at the top
when Ben B. promulgates next sum
mer's most important list in the lives
of batters. Cobb, he says, may be
second, or even Speaker may get that,
far, but he has served warning that
Joe is going to ride the winning
horse.
Cobb also has made some passing,
remarks in which he intimated that
there isn’t going to be glory without
a few sprints in the summer. He has
set his eye on that batting champion
ship and wants it badly enough to
stretch his legs hard for every blow.
Cobb, so one story tells it, was a
very much disappointed peach when
the last season was over and the cus
tomary Cobb was lacking at the head
of the American league averages. He
had acquired such a Ben Adhem habit
that it was hard to let go. He was
grieved and somewhat astonished to
observe that it wasn’t Jackson who
challenged him, but Speaker, main
cog in a machine which shouldn t
have placed him that high.
And just to keep competition from
growing stagnant and carrying all in
terest to the younger league, the Na
tional league probably will fling a
i little dust around in staging its bat
tle for leadership. Jack Daubert. long
. recognized as a king, didn’t like it a
■ bit when he nosed out a year ago. He
. likes his hits perhaps better than any
| other star in the game, so he prom
. ises to give Hal Chase, Roger Horne
' by. Lew McCarthy and some other
aspirants the climb of their young
j lives for John K. Tener’s heaviest bat-
I ting average.
All around it should be a busy lit
tle season for the average fiend.
STEUENEN BERG’S POEMS
DISTASTEFUL TO KAISER
I
ATLANTA. Ga.. March 31.—1 f Cap
tain George Steunenberg were still in
the Seventeenth Infantry, V. S. A., and
back with his regiment at their old
post at Fort McPherson in this city,
his poetic talents would probably win
him more popularity than they did a
few years ago, for it will be recalled
that one of his poems is said to have
violently offended the Kaiser, who then
maintained a mask of friendship for
the United States. It ran like this: |
Now he who seeks promotion must
subsist a solid year
On pretzels, cheese and weinerwust
and good old German beer;
And notify the colonels —sound the:
warning near and far —
That they’ve go to sing "Die Wacht am
Rhein" before they get the star, j
This was by poking fun at American j
army officers for studying German tac-.
tics, and it is said they nearly got him
into serious complications with the;
department in Washington.
But now that relations between the
United States and Germany have un
dergone a, change, and. Fort McPherson
filled with interned German sailors.
Captain Steunenberg is on the retired
list because of ill-health, at his own
request.
POOR FOLKS IN COURT TO
HAVE BEST ATTORNEYS
NEW YORK. March 31.—Because
unscrupulous lawyers have caused
poor people to get unfair treatment
r. New York courts, a corps of the best
lawyers money can buy is being org
anized under the direction of The
Public Defender to see that the poor
get a square deal.
John D. Rockefeller. Jr., and other
wealthy men are backing the plan
financially, The Public Service bureau
will open Monday. Each case will be
prepared for trial by experts and a
capable member of the staff assigned
ea defend it in court.
The plan is fathered by members of
the New York bar. who say that,
crooked practitioners have not only
dealt unfairly with their poor clients
but have in some instances treated
thtir cases in such a manner as to
lead them into the life of the con
firmed criminal.
THE ’AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
PRE EASTER SALE
KASSEL’S
PROFIT-SHARING STORE
In the heart of Americus there is the New Kassel’s Ladies’ and
Children’s Ready-to wear Store—a store of style, quality and always at
the lowest prices. In this Pre-Easter Sale we are going to offer ex
ceptionally low prices all next week, beginning Monday, 2nd, until
Saturday night, the 7th, giving great values all through our store in
every department. Special values will be given in our Ready-to-Wear
and Millinery Departments.
The following prices will convince every lady of Americus that
Kassel’s is a money-saving store:
Pre-Easter Sale on Spring Coats and Suits
We are determined not to carry over any coat or suit in our store.
Now is your chance to save money in this Pre-Easter Sale. Buy one
now; a coat or a suit.
SPRING SUITS SPRING COATS
$ 2 5.°0 and $20.00 Suits will go at ... $13.95 S IBOO and $16.00 Coats will go at . . $9.95
$15.00 Suits will go at . . . $9.98
$12.00 Suits will go at . . . . $7.95 $12.00 and SIO.OO Coats will go at . . $7.50
Silk Dresses
A few dresses left of the $22.50 and S2O ones, will sell them in $1 f) SO
sls and $12.50 Silk Taffeta dresses, in all colors, {gQ Qff
will go at ***
$11.50 Silk Poplin Dresses,
will go at ”" •VW
$1.25 and $1.50 waists in lawn, organdy voile, will Great Values will be given in Silk
sell for and wool sport skirts. They are the
95 CCIItS very latest styles and are of the
newest materials. They will go in
$3 Crepe de Chine waists, will sell for p re _E aS ter Sale at 3 great FC-
$1.98 duction.
$8.50 Georgette Crepe waists, will sell for sl’so Wash Skirts will sell for
$5 95 95 cents
I
zx > I? Great Values in Easter Hats
Our Mens Furnishings, . ...
~ 7 Among the shipment of hats that we receive daily you
T) Qiiif c and L'bill dron ’q are to be sure to find one that wiJlßt “ l you in Btyle and
DOy o 011110 CUlvl VyllllHiVllo price. In our la& shipment we received especially some
. i J „ beautiful tumed-up ones.
Dresses are greatly reduc- ,
, T . n All of our Ladies and C hild-
ed. It Will pay you to ren’s Hats will go at
dXhere before s °' ng Reduced Prices
/W Forsyth St.
AMERICUS, - - GEORGIA
JOHNNIE KILBANE OUT
WITH DEFI TO THREE OF
LEADING LIGHTWEIGHTS
NEW YORK, March 31— Johnny Kil
bsne, the champion featherweight,
ii;g beaten all the featherweights they
can dig up for him, has been trying for,
a long time to get a crack at the top
notch lightweights with but little suc
cess. So just to show what a good fel-
Icw he is, and what a whale of a
wrapper he is, today issued a deft to
the three best who claim lightweight
class and offered to meet them all in
Ithe same night
He began with Freddie Welsh and
went right down to Benny Leonard and
I Richie Mitchell, the two latter having
'been extremely persistent in telling
' what they would do to Ki 1 bane if the
opportunity ever offered.
However, there is the cutest little
joker imaginable in Johnny’s chal
lenge that tempera his boldness to a
considerable extent. He specified in
his death-defying edicit that he wanted
each of these men to weigh in at 133
pounds ringside, which long has been
i recognized as the legitimate light-
v eight poundage.
"They aren’t lightweights," Johnny
announces, "and they won't take my
offer However, I’m willing to fight
any of the three or all of them at any
old weight they name, one a night. And
I'll do the best job of housedeaning in
the lightweight division this country
has seen for many a long day.”
The champion featherweight is a
most awful lonesome boxer. Instead
of all the boxers in his class following
him around the country and clamoring
for matches, an experience most of
the scrappers of high rank have, they
a!) get out of his way when he starts
traveling. A great many of them have
felt the full force of that deadly right,
and more of them have heard tales of
it that fill them with respect.
I So Johnny is rather froced into it-
If he- can ever get Welsh’s consent to
, meet him in a ring the fight fans in
! this nation will wear out the railroad
• ties getting to the scene of the mill.
I
,1
Polemic Solon.
Dragging a congressman Into a dls
.ussion is almost as difficult as teaeb-
’ • ng a duck bow to swim.
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