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We ha'e some line Diamonds al
right prices. S. A. Daniels.
W. T. Lane and family returned Sun
day from a pleasant visit to relatives
in Shellman.
Sweet Potato Plants: —My people
promise to increase shipments this
week, and I expect during the week
200,000 plants. R. D. Stewart. 6-ts
Latest improved Vulcanizing Ma
chinery; work promptly done; prices
satisfactory. G. A. and W. G. Turpin.
7-ts.
A. J. Bell and Gordon Howell stood
examinations for the officers’ training
camp yesterday in Atlanta.
Make the use of POLISHTONE a
HOUSEHOLD HABIT and your
FLOORS will acquire a HARDWOOD
Fl MSB. Sold in 25c, 50c and SI.OO
sizes, and guaranteed by WILLIAMS-:
NJ EES CO. Phone Ao. <OO. <>-2t
25-lb. sack of sugar $2.38. Lowe’s
Cash Grocery. 6-2 t
W. T. Lane and J. E. Sheppard were
Americus citizens going to attend the
Leesburg court today, on business.
For anything you wish in the seed
line, phone 502, Planters Seed Co. 6-lt
Don’t wait for blow-outs and rim
cuts— it costs far less to prevent them
than to repair them. Let us vulcanize
them. G. A. and W. G. Turpin. 7-ts
A. A. Pressley was a prominent plan
ter from near Americus transacting
business in Americus today.
Bathing Suits. HIGHTOWER’S. 26-tr
We are now showing our Sport anU
Mid-Summer Hats in white. Misses
Hay & Tillman. 3-ts
Sam McGarrah was a farmer from
Friendship doing business in Americus
today.
Make the use of POLISHTONE a
HOUSEHOLD HABIT and -your
FLOORS will acquire a HARDWOOD
FINISH. Sold in 25c, 50c and SI.OO
sizes, and guaranteed by WILLIAMS
NILES CO. I’hone No. 700. 6-2 t
THE STANDARD
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PHONE 226
SPECIAL SALE FOR MONDAY
AND TUESDAY. : : : : :
FOULARD SILK AT 29c.
AD Silk Foulards in black and white j
and a few other shades, actual value
75c; Monday and Tuesday, yd 29c.
LADIES $3 SHOES $1.98.
Ladies’ Patent Pumps, Baby Dolls;
all have solid leather bottoms, flexible
soles, all sizes, very special Monday
and Tuesday $1.98.
40-INCH WHITE LAWNS 8 l-2c.
No more than 20 yards will be sold!
to one buyer at the price; actual
width 40 inches and worth about fif
teen cents. Monday and Tuesday at
yard 8 l-2c.
PINK AND BLUE
CHAMBRAY 8 l-2c.
Not more than 20 yards will be sold
to one buyer at the price; full regular
width and fast color, regular 12 l-2c
grade, Monday and Tuesday, yd. 8 l-2c.
THE BIG 10c WHITE
GOODS SALE.
There are pieces in this lot that are
actually worth 25c; some of them were
carried from last season, and the old
low price was 20c; this lot will be
placed on sale Monday morning and
offered, choice yd., 10c.
MOKE WHITE SHOES AT $1.25.
Ladies’ White Low Shoes in Pumps,
Strap Sandals, Oxford Ties, Baby Doll
styles, all have either leather or rub
ber soles, with solid rubber heels;
cchoie of over two hundred pairs at
$-25.
N’EW LACES AT sc.
Just received by express some of
the best imitations of Linen Lace you
ever saw for the price, edgings and in
sertings to match, several widths, all
at yard sc.
THE STANDARD DRY
GOODS CO.
Cotton Ave., Americus, Ga.
it Sheaffer’s nou-leakable fountain pen.
| Bell, the Jeweler.
i- 1 .1. S. McGarrah was transacting bus
's iness in Americus today.
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I Everything points to still higher
c prices for new tires. Why not repair
s the old ones now? G. A. and W. G.
s Turpin. ’- t£
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j Arbuckle Coffee 22c lb., 5 lbs. to a
customer. Lowe’s Cash Grocery. 6-2 t
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i John Wheatley visited Atlanta yes-j
terday where he was examined for the,
officers’ training camp.
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Fishing Tackle and sporting goods.
26-ts. HIGHTOWER'S.
Judge Z. A. Littlejohn is at Lees
bi.-rg today, opening the Lee Superior
| court.
| A small lot of plants for sale, Pepper,
Egg Plants, Tomoto, Zinnia Giant, Mar
igolds double, and Collard. Phone 502,
Planters Seed Co. 6-lt
NEGRO UNDER ARREST
FOR MURDEROUS ASSAULT
George Heath, a negro employed on
the plantation of C. C. Hawkins on the
Ellaville road, is in the county jail!
charged with assault w.ith intent to
murder another negro boy on the Haw
kins place.
The fight in which Heath figured oc
curred Sunday afternoon and Sheriff!
Harvey captured him at DeSoto as he[
was making a hasty exit from this'
county. His victim, who was struck
over the head with a piece of scaiitling,
is in a serious condition.
WANTED TO JOIN MARINES
AT AGE OF FOI,’RTEEO YEARS
NEW YORK, May s.—While Con
gress debates over the age limit and
Ex-President Roosevelt’s plans to
head American troops oversea are
being formulated, Harold Letcher of
this city, does not intend to wait for
the final decision before he joins the
colors.
Early yesterday morning he applied
for enlistment at the local Marine
Corps, recruiting station. Although
but fourteen years of age, he weighs
151 pounds, is 5 feet 10 inches tall
and has a chest measurement of
33 1-4 inches.
“You see,” Harold said, “I want to
do my part. I’m big enough and I
want to join the Marines —they’re the
kind of fellows I like. They get to
fight first.’’
He was rejected on account of his
extreme youth for military service.
Don’t Throw
Awav
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Your old Automobile Tires
and Tubes. Bring them
to us for repairs.
Our Steam Vulcanizing
Plant is at your service.
Every job we turn out is
completed by an expert
workman.
Time will demonstrate
the wisdom of bringing
your vulcanizing to us.
G. A. & W. G.
TURPIN
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THE STAR. f \)
OF TOUR. \'X_ 'U
AtABITIOH ? JcYn*' V
If the star of your ambition is fame
money or comfort, or if you are pos
sessed with a three-starred ambition,
you have discovered by this time that
you can reach your goal with more
certain swiftness if you are stylishly
appareled in the modish manner of a
modern man.
We are haberdashers to his Ameri
can majesty, the well-dressed-fellow
Whatever liftle stylish touch your
! ■ardrobe needs from sox to scarfs,
from belts to balbriggans, we can styl
ishly supply you.
W. J. Josey
•SOIFITS REPDrtI
■IS FULL OF ■
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'■ The following summary of demon
stration work done in Sumter county
during April, has just been compiled
■ by W. J. Boyett, the county demon
stration agent:
During this month I have made sev
enty trips to farmers in response to,
■ or in pursuance of my regular work.
Have visited ten schools and given
' | the boys instructions relative to their
corn and pigs, and have visited sixteen
1 individual pig club boys.
i Have distributed 275 bulletins, and
put up 75 posters on truck crops and
I gardening.
I Have written 97 letters to men and
j boys, and sent out 900 circular letters
on safety.
Had 27 consultations in the office
and over phone.
Have inoculated 64 hogs and bought
j one more syringe.
Attended five meetings with an at
tendance of approximately 500 per
sons.
Built one more terrace drag. Others
will use these another season.
Have lined up fifteen potato storage
bouses as soon as blue print? can be
secured.
Organized farmers’ truck growers’
exchange at Leslie.
Have completed an enrollment of SI
members in pug clubs. Boys who secur
' cd pigs last year are taking good care
for the mosts part of their sows and
young pigs. From the pigs let to boys i
last year there are now in the county
more than 250 other pigs, with more to
'ccme. These are from the pigs let
■to the boys. Some of the boys owned
'their own pigs.
801 l weevils have already shown up
■in the county. Some earier than was
expected. Am planning to have som
munity field meetings right soon all
over the county to teach farmers and
their labor how to find the weevils.
Respectfully submitted,
W. J. BOYETT, County Agent.
WILL ELECT SPOILS AND f
DELECITESTO REUNION
At a meeting of A. S. Cutts camp,'
Sons of Veterans, to be held tomor-1
row morning at 10:30 o’clock at the
courthouse, the election of sponsors
and delegates to the Confederate reun
ion at Washington in June will be the
principal business to be transacted.
All members of the camp are urgent
ly requested to be in attendance at
this meeting.
NEW VULCANIZING PLANT
OPENED BY G. A. A AV. G. TURPIN
A new vulcanizing plant has been j
cj ened by the firm of G. A. & W. G.,
' Turpin at their establishment on East
luimar street. Modern equipment has
been installed and every facility af
forded the motorists of this section in
the way of tire repairing.
Competent mechanics are in charge
of the vulcanizing department and pa
trons of the concern are assured of
satisfactory service. On another page
of this issue will be found an an
nouncement concerning the new fea
tu re.
AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS ARE
WANTED BY THE GOVERNMENT
ATLANTA. Ga., May 7. —Automobile
drivers and truck drivers are wanted
by the government to serve in the
quartermaster section of the enlisted
reserve corps with the rank and pay
cf sergeants, and the Southestern
Quartermaster’s Reserve Enlistment
Committee, of which Asa G. Candler.
Jr., of this city is chairman, is hope
ful of securing a large number in
• this section of the country.
Application blanks tor enlistment
can be obtained from any regular
army recruiting officer. This blank is
filled out and indorsed on the back
by two citizens, then handed back or
mailed back to the recruiting officer.
It is sent to Governor's Island and
in the course of a week or two, if the
applicant is provisionally accepted, he
will receive instructions to report to
an extmining board in his locality to
take the necessary practical examina
tion.
” ATLANTA STILL HOPES FOR
VISIT FROM MARSHALJOFFRE
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x ATLANTA, Ga., May 7.-Atlanta has
not yet given up hope of securing a
- visit from Marshal Joffre, the idol of
a France, who stopped the Germans on
the Marne and is now in the United
States and England and France in the
prosecution of the war.
It is still hoped that Marshal Joffre
’’.and General Lonard Wood can be
'•brought here to raise the flag on the
'steel flag pole recently erected at Five
I I'oints opposite the Fourth National
I ank building by popular subscription.
Tlie pole has been erected, painte
Ifil AMERICUS TIMiIS-KECORDER. •
[ MEETING THE HIGH COST OF LIVING
f Timely Topic to Be Discussed on Chautauqua Here by One Who
i Has Made a Close Study of Foods and Labor Conditions.
G
i EORGE L. M’NUTT, the “dinner
r pail man,” who is to speak at
the Chautauqua here on “Meet
ing the High Cost of Living,” says that
the tragedy of the city is that it sep
arates the worker from the soil. Mr.
McNutt has made numerous interest
ing experiments in gardening. The ac
companying photograph shows him in
a unique garden which he planted and
cultivated while a resident of Val
paraiso, Ind.
The garden was one of the show
spots of the city. Only 40 by 80 feet,
it was made to produce over SSO worth
of foodstuffs and at the same time be
a thing of beauty. This was done by
constant interplanting, preserving a
continuous growth of vigorous greens.
The aesthetics were secured by
screening an ugly alley and some tum
bledown fences and barns by three
rows of sunflowers along two sides of
. the garden. As the picture shows,
j these attained to almost the stature of
trees, being nearly sixteen feet high.
At the same time these served as poles
for Kentucky Wonder beans.
Along the other two sides was a
hedge of cosmos. These with care at-
white enamel and a concrete balus
trade has been placed around its base
to protect it from the wheels of
heavy vehricles. As yet the huge
American flag, purchased for the pole,
has not been unveiled.
| If Marshall Joffre consents to pay
' Atlanta a visit, it is planned to
Used successfully a whole year
i g!/ over the South '
e ■QUCKEYE
SHat « ' fjLintless
''LL W Hullshave
been fed by
v'ii fin* farmers, dairy- j
> fe: ' men and stock-
men through- i
, out the South
l for the past (
J - year. Reports t
1 from these feeders indicate that these lintless hulls when j
properly fed, are a great improvement over the old style ,
, hulls. ; i
t By actual use, these feeders have found the following f
, advantages of using
VRAOS MARK
BUCfSEYF
; . IL HULLS X
LINTLESS | 2
S i I
Every pound of the Buckeye Hulls contains much more food v&!u*
because the lint on the old style hulls has no food value.
1 The price oer pound of real roughage in the form of Buckeye Hulls
is very much less than in the form of the old style hulls. Buckeye
1 Hulls do not clog or flux the digestive tract. Other foods mixed with
p them are readily assimilated. I
They are free of trash and dust. £
They are sacked and easy to handle.
3 They take half as much space in the barn.
’ If you have not tried Buckeye Hulls, please remember that thousands
of feeders are using them and will use no other roughage. If you
have not given Buckeye Hulls a fair trial, let the experience of these f
successful feeders guide you in using them as they should be used.
Mr. Ocwey Yarber, Booneville, Ark., A
has fad a carload of Buckeye Hulls to cows and calves
E to get them readv for the range. He had been feed-
ing'hey and he finds that they did much better on Buck-
s eye Hulls as roughage. He has another car of Buckeye
Hulls bought.
To secure ihe best results and to develop the ensilage odor, wet the hulls
thoroughly twelve hours before feeding. It is easy to do this by 1
1 wetting them down night and morning for the next feeding. If at any time
I this cannot be done, wet down al '.east thirty minutes. If you prefer to
feed the hulls ary, use on!; half as much by bulk as of old style hulls.
Book cFM&ed Feeds Free e
Gives the rin'it formula for every combination of feeds used in the c
South Te’ls how muc’- *o feed for maintenance, for milk, for fat- j
= ter dng. for work. Describes Buckeye Hulls and gives directions for j I
e using them properly. Send for your copy to the nearest mill.
Dept, j The Buckeye Cotton Oil Co. Dept, j
Atlanta Rimingkam Greenwood Little Rock Memphis 1
Aasasta Charlotte Jackson Macon Selma
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tained a growth of nearly six feet. As
the cosmos is a fall bloomer, sweet
peas were planted near enough to use
the cosmos to climb on, making a very
beautiful effect, peeping out through
the mass of green of the cosmos.
Rev. George L. McNutt is unique
among lecturers. Indeed, few men
have in any degree come into contact
with men in so varied circumstances
as this experimenter in the laboratory
of human nature. For seven years he
toiled day in and day out along with
the common laborer to see the world
as the ordinary man viewed it.
He held charges in Chicago, Indian
apolis and New York. At the time he
left the ministry he was pastor of the
Presbyterian church at Urbana. 111.,
the seat of the University of Illinois.
Mr. McNutt did not go as an onlooker
and a man of independent wealth, but
lived with his family upon the wages
he drew for his daily labor.
First, as a roustabout, he labored in
steel mills and then as laborer on con
struction gangs, as a "white wing” and
as a mechanic he worked through In
diana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland,
finally traveling northward through
New England into Maine.
make the raising of the flag an oicas- I
ion for the greatest patriotic demon
stration ever seen. The Tri-Color of
France will be raised with the Stars
and Stripes of the U. S. A., and Marsh
al Joffre and General Wood will de
liver addresses to the great audience
assembled at Five Points. , /
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Always Be Sure of the Number
We urge our subscribers to consult
the Telephone Directory whenever a call
is to be made. When you trust to your
memory, your arc apt to transpose the fig
ures in a telephone number; when you
trust to an old card dr letterhead, you are
apt to call a number that has been changed.
And when you do call a “wrong
number,’’ you cause inconvenience and
delay for yourself and for the party whom
you call in error. Make it a practice, to
consult the Directory first.
SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE 4’ X
AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY V
P. E. WESTBROOK, Manager
rSave Money!
by having your old Mattress made new, also
consider the more comfort you will enjoy. Call
120 and let our prices be quoted you.
Pope Mattress Company
A Limited Amount
MEXICAN JUNE SEED CORN, ALSO GOLDEN
DENT, WHITE DENT AND HICKORY KING
Sparks Grocery Company
Telephones 43 and 279
Want Advertisements j
Figure your owu wut ad. Minimum
charge is 25e- For insertions less
♦han two weeks, one cent per word.
For insertions between two and four
weeks, three-fourths of a cent per
word. For insertions of more than
four weeks, one-half cent per word.
WAN TED—Miscellaneous
CASH PAID for ion cords oak wood
end swamp wood by A. C. Alexander.
Phone 355. l-25t
MONEY TO LEND—We hold several
thousand dollars for quick loans or
purchase money notes. Shipp &
Sheppard. 9-lm
FARM LOANS Can give good
terms on farm loans; money plenti
ful. W. W. Dykes. 15-ts
Any Hat made new. YEARWOOD.
4-26 t
MONEY TO LEND at 6% interest on
desirable residences in Americus, Ga.
H. 0. Jones. 18-ts
FARM LOANS at 51 per cent inter,
est. City loans at 6 per cent, inter
est Apply to R. L. Maynard, Amer
icus, Ga. 11-ts
CHOICE FARM LOANS at
W e give lowest rates, easiest terms wnd
quickest service. Save money by see
ing us G. R. Ellis or G. C. Webb,
MONDAY, MAY 7, 1917.
TOR SALT
FOR SALE —Registered Hampshire
bogs; a choice stock to select from
Arles Plantation. 23-tl
FOR SALE: F. A. Pruitt place, foul
miles North of Parrott, Georgia, con
tains 1,038 acres. About 700 acral
open land, plenty of running water
fine place for stock, well located, or
two good public roads. Price |10,50t,
We can make extremely easy terms
on this place. Apply The Georgia
Loan and Trust Co., Macon, Ga., or W.
L Thomas. Plains, Georgia 81-ts
FOR RENI
FOR RENT—One house, 5 rooms
and bath. 209 E. Lamar street; SB.OO
per month. One house, 4 rooms; sani
tary connections, 207 E. Lamar street;
$6.00 per month. Plnjne 169, or see
B. E. Turner. 30-ts
FOR RENT—Furnished rooms. 117
South Prince Street. 15-25 t
Fishing With a Worm.
To make the most of dull hours, to
make the best of dull people, to like a
poor jest better than none, to wear the
threadbare coat like a gentleman, tc
be outvoted with a smile, to hitch
your wagon to the old horse if no star
is handy—this is the wholesome philos
ophy taught by fishing with a worm.—
From “Fishing With a Worm,” by Bliss
Perry.