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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. PAGE SEVEN