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If you want to secure the entre to
places worth while make sure that
the style of your apparel is correct.
Doesn’t your stock of shirts need re
plenishing. Wouldn’t a couple of new
cravats add to your springtime vigor?
How about a Palm Beach Suit and
keep cool.
Come in and look around—you’re
sure to see something you need.
W. J. Josey
ATTENTION
WHEAT
CROWERS!
I wish to announce to wheat grow
ers of Sumter and surrounding coun
ties, that I will have my modern flour
«n£i ready for making flour, beginning
Monday, June 4th, located 7 miles east
of Americus, at Brown’s Mill.
I have installed an up-to-date roller
mill, operated by experienced miller,
and can safely guarantee satisfaction.
X will appreciate your patronage.
J. C. Brown
Proprietor
Don’t Throw
Away
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
Canned Cocoanut 10c
Dried fine Apples 25c
Grated fine Apples.. 12 l-2c
Apple Butter,2 lb. jars.. 30c
Apple Butter,3 1-2 Ib.jars 50c
Peach and Apple Jam,
2 lb. jars 30c
Pure Lard, 20 lb. pail $4.80
Fresh Vegetables and Nudo
Bread received daily
QUALITY and SERVICE
Your Business
Appreciated
Fletcher’s
PHONE 305
HILL STREET
PARTNERSHIP
INSURANCE
The most important asset of a
firm? The business ability, or
special technical skill of the
individual members.
Why not insure against the loss
.otf this asset?
kfiscrance upon partners or offi
cers of corporations is furnished
at lowest net cost by the Union
.Central Life Insurance Com
pany.
Write for facts and comparative
figures.
UE I. HANSFORD, Agent
Americus, Ga.
UNION CENTRAL LIFE
INSURANCE CO.
Great Annual Dividend Payer"
GUNGREWSBEING
TURNED OUT FAST
BT U. S. WARSH IPS
WITH THE AMERICAN GREAT
FLEET, June 4.—America’s great fleet
for- the moment is a human factor —
grinding out gun crews by the score.
Boys from every corner of the land,
many of whom never saw a gun bigger
than a Fourth of July pistol, are get
ting cured of ‘‘gun shyness,” are learn ■
ing to point, sight and fire big guns,
upon which merchant craft rely for
defense against Germany’s submar
ines.
Boys by the thousands are learning
these and many other lessons which
shall make them better men, men with
the stuff that enters into heroism and
national vigor. For three days I have
seen Uncle Sam’s dreadnaughts with
their men at work and at play—a well
balanced program that turns striplings
into jnen, and men into giants.
Most of those aboard are boys, but
not all. There’s a grandfather ensign.
There’s a Wall Street broker, scrub
bing decks and polishing brass. There’s
a Buffalo business man. There are
college lads, boys out cf grammar
school—folks out of every walk of life,
to whom the lure of the sea and the
call of patrotism sound louder than
aught else.
This is the story of three days with
the fleet.
Later we shall see these great hulks
by day and bfr night, a sight to thrill
the most blase. We shall go with the
men into their daily work and play,
their waking and their sleeping, but
today we are gunning with the lads,
shooting up imaginary German Ü
boats with a gusto and an accuracy
that augurs ill for any they may run
across in later days.
We started at sa. m. The gray
dreadnaughts roll a bit, with their
yawning gun turrets sharp against the
brightening sky. The ships seem
straining to be “up and at ’em.”
Hundreds —yes, thousands —of men
are astir at the call of reveille. They
pile out of hammocks from every
nook and corner of the great craft.
They must attend to their usual early
morning labors, scrubbing down
decks, shining brass, peeling potatoes,
getting everything ready for an estab
lishment which is a floating town in
itself.
The great anchor chains rattle and
smash, as they heave the anchor out of
the deep. The engines puff, as men
below ships “down in the subcellar
five floors below,” shoot in great
chunks of coal or turn on gallons of
oil. Bells and buzzers sound. The
navigator gives his orders and the
ships are off. a line of ugly warriors,
streaking the sky with black smoke
clouds.
Flags bearing strange devices signa
put to the patrol ships, which scurry
forth to open the way for the dread
noughts.
The ships plough into the rolling
waters, while the task of cleaning ship
proceeds, and other drills Including a
snappy setting up physical exercise
are under way.
Once as far as the secret orders call
for, the war vessels spread out in a
giant circle, targets are put overboard
and the gunnery -proceeds.
In squads, the lads take their place
beside the guns, practice at filling,
sighting, and firing the bigger can
non, while the pop, pop of one-pound
ers at the distant target gives a touch
o' realism to it all.
Aft, on all the ships, other crews
are training with dummy guns—one
pounders and five pounders. The shell
and the powder bag go in like clock
work. and with a smash that makes it
seem as though these lads were in
deadly combat with a real enemy.
Up in the turrets with the tremend
ous 14-inch guns, other drills proceed.
Ensigns, fine clean cut chaps, direct
these tasks.
Their gun crews from magazine to
turret run up close to 100 men. The
crews work like the great machines
they man. The shell, the powder, the
ramming, all go ahead like magic.
Elsewhere, men are working out on
charts just the range, elevation and
so on of the target. The ensign yells
his directions down a multitude of
tubes, pushes buttons, flashes lights,
and then up in the secret “fire con
trol” tower, a man pushes some more
buttons and the whole thing shoots—
all the big guns at once.
I sat up in a 14 inch double turret
with a chap named Erickson, fresh
from Annapolis only a short time
ago. Clean cut and commanding of
appearance, he had that gun crew
working like the captain of a football
or a baseball nine would have his
men.
( “Load,” he shouts, and the crew
from the below ships men to the load-
ers and rammers in his turret would
be off like fiends.
“Good,” “that took seconds,”
he”d yell back after a particularly
good performance.
Over in the other turret, they heard
that call of so many seconds, and it
was the call to battle. The second
turret crew’ was a little greener than
the others.
A big husky sailorman with great
splotches of freckles sang out.
“Come on there. That other gang
did it in seconds. Let’s pep it up
and give ’em h—l.”
And the second crew was doing just
that before that day’s drill was over.
Somebody blundered once.
“Watch those lights” came the com
mand.
"There’s a green man here, and he
didn’t get it, sir,” w’as the excuse. But
the gun crew tended to that, and the
ensign didn’t have to say more .
“Well, he’s not so green that he
can’t see, is he?” growled some of the
men trying to beat the record —and
that was the last of the trouble with
the man who didn’t get the lights.
All day, the big vessels shifted
around, firing at the targets, and whip
ping men into shape to man the ships
that go to sea with precious food car
goes. The gun crews develop inside
three months into expert marksmen.
They go out now by the score, ready
to do battle with any U-boat that sticks
its nose out of the waters.
Gunnery training constitutes the big •
gest present task of the great fleet,
but it must assimilate and train eage*
thousands for all the work that lies
ahead of America in naval warfare.
And, it has willing hands and clear
heads for the job cut out.
Mexican Conaressmen Schoolmasters.
MEXICO CITY, June 4.—Of the two
hundred and fifty-six members of the
Mexican house of representatives, eigh
teen are schoolmasters. Irrespective of
party “los professores”, have banded
together tp vote solidly on certain
questions dealing with public instruc
tion and education. They have formed
what is catted the “educational group”
and are a power to be reckoned with
an educational questions.
AMEHWUS SHOWS |
ALCAZAR THEATRE.
Monday
Kathlyn Williams in “Out the
Wreck.”—Five Acts.,
Tuesday.
Alice Brady in “A Woman Alone.” —
Five Acts.
Wednesday
Clara Kimball Young in “The Price
She Paid.” —7 Acts.
Thursday
Pauline Frederick in “Sapphd.”—
Five Acts.
Friay
Anita Stewart in “The More Excel
lent Way.”—Five Acts.
Second Chapter of “Mystery of the
Double Cross.”
Saturday
Wilfred Lucus in "A Love Sublime.”
—Five Acts.
“Hobbled Hearts.”—Triangle Com
edy.
De Soto Banking Company Building
and Lot at De Soto, Giu, to Be Sold.
Having received a bid of $1,500 for
the building and lot owned and form
erly occupied by the De Soto Banking
Company of De Soto. Ga., unless I re
ceive a better bid by June 26, 1917, I
will proceed to ask the State Treasur
er to authorize the confirmation of
sale at this price.
Building is of brick, 22 by 50 feet
in dimensions, one story, tile floor in
lobby. Corner lot, tile sidewalk
around two sides of building.
Clear title will be given purchaser
and the transaction must be for cash.
A. S. JOHNSON, Liquidating Agent,
De Soto. Ga. . 5-27-30 t
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Where He Draws the Line.
A wise and observant man will do
almost anything he can to please a
woman he admires except to kiss her
dog.—Houston Post.
W I
WE NEVER FALL
DOWN ON A JOB
All work we undertake for yon in
the Tin and Smeet Metal line will be
completed quickly and be done prop
erly. Warm air furnace and auto rad
iator work
AMERICUS SHEET METAL WORKS
Phone 7SS. B. H. Allen, Mgr.
THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
AUSTRALIA PLEASED WITH
WAR ACTION OF UNITER STATES
MELBOURNE, Australia, June 4. —
Gratification over the fact that the
United States is now actively on the
side of Great Britain and her allies in
the far is expressed by the newspapers
cf Australia.
“Australians of every class and creed
will join gladly with the people of
Great Britain in welcoming America
into the pact which binds us to our
gallant European brothers in arms,”
says the Melbourne Age. “And our
welcome to America is not the less
cordial because most of us had all but
despaired until quite recently that she
would ever respond to the stimuli
which has already sent 300,000 Austral
ian lads to venture death in pursuit of
anw unselfish and resplendent ideal on
the tortured battlefields of France.
‘ America at war will devote her collos
cause and justified our action in the
manner unexceptional.”
“That the United States should have
decided to join the Allies in the war
is a tremendous event in the history of
the world,” said the Melbourne Argus
“It is certainly the most motentous
event of the war since the fateful days
of August, 1914. It is fitting that a
virile nation like the United States
should decide to fight in defense of civ
ilization. The United States wiil prove
a strong ally—strong in influence and
in resources.”
The Sydney Daily Telegraph, which
had frequently shown impatience with
President Wilson’s policy, said:
“America at war will devote her collos
sal strength to clearing the earth of
the curse of Prussianism.”
The Sydney Sun, an important even
ing paper, asserted that “the worll
may truthfully say of these American
cousins of ours that they never went
to war in a spirit of mere greed nor
with tyrannous ideals set before them.
Their history places them spiritually
beside the great democracies of France
and Britain, and opposed them to the
German ideals of military conquest so.-
conquest’s sake. Historically America
on the battlefield has been ‘on the side
of the angels,’ and once again sha
fights with the forces of freedom and
honor against the darker powers of
cruelty and tyranny with which the
earth is periodically cursed.”
“The mere fact that the first people’s
voice to be heard speaking for modern
liberty is still in the battle has heart
ened up the whole world,” declares the
Sydney Bulletin.
The Latest Ditty.
“Father’s pants will soon fit Willie’’
has been abandoned as a family ditty
for “Sadie’s skirts will soon fit moth
er.” —Cincinnati Times-Star.
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FAMILY AVOIDS
SERIOUS SICKNESS
By Being Constantly Supplied With
Thedford’s Black-Draught.
McDuff, Va.—"l suffered for seven)
years," says Mrs. J. B. Whittaker, ol
this place, "with sick headache, and
stomach trouble.
Ten years ago a friend told me to try
Thedford’s Black-Draught, which 1 did,
and I found it to be the best family medi
cine for young and old.
i keep Black-Draught on hand all the
time now, and when my children feel a
little bad, thdy ask me for a dose, and it
does them more good than any medicine
they ever tried.
We never have a long spell of sick
ness in our family, since we commenced
using Black-Draught."
Thedford’s Black-Draught is purely
vegetable, and has been found to regu
late weak stomachs, aid digestion, re
lieve indigestion, colic, wind, nausea,
headache, sick stomach, and similar
symptoms.
It has been in constant use for more
than 70 years, and has benefited more
than a million people.
Your druggist sei's and recommends
Black-Draught. Price only 25c. Get a
Back age to-day. N. C. U 3
Regain
Your Normal
Weight
You can add one-fourth to
one-half pound a day by
drinking a glass of this delicious
digestant with each meal
Shivar Ale
* PURE DIGESTIVE AROMATICS WITH
SHIVAR MIIEBAL WATER AHO GIRDER
Gives a hearty appetite, vigorous
digestion„rich blood, clear complex
ion and firm flesh. Your money
back on first dozen if not delighted.
At all grocers and druggists.
Bottled and guaranteed by the cele.
bra ted Shivar Mineral Spring. Shel
ton. S. C. If your regular dealer
cannot supply you telephone
GLOVER GROCERY CO.
Wkslesals Distribstsrs far Americas
What Georgia Can
And Should Do
Andrew M. Soule, President Georgia
State College Os Agriculture.
Georgia produced last year about
$160,000,000.00 worth of food products
including the sale and slaughter of
animals raised on her farms. This
sum can be increased by $100,000,000
during the present year. To do this
corn should be planted on the usual
basis, and in addition on the areas
on which winter oats were destroyed
by the February freeze. If this were
done we should be able to raise ap
proximately 100,000,000 bushels of
corn. We can certainly double the
area in sweet and Irish potatoes. The
hay crops of Georgia can easily be
quadrupled since cowpeas, soy beans,
velvet beans, corn, sorghum, kaffir
corn, Sudan grass, millet and various
other crops may be used for this pur
pose. The planting of these hay crops
may be done any time in the next six
ty days. Eatabl.ishing a hay crop
is chiefly a matter of preparing the
land and setting aside a sufficient
area to grow the necessary tonnage.
If we do not provide the forage need-,
ed for our live stock they will lose
their efficiency, as the chances are we
will not be able to obtain food of Ahis
character from the west next fall on
account of railroad congestion.
Every farmer should make his plans
now to grow at least wheat for ten.
persons. This would be seventy
bushels. If this were done Georgia
would supply herself with ail the
wheat needed in 1918. Wheat may be
planted with advantage in cotton land
after hay crops have been gathered.
Our deficiency in wheat may be over
come somewhat by planting upland
rice, and all the truck which can pos
sibly be needed by our towns and cit
ies can be easily produced if the far
mer, the vacant city lot owner and the
gardener systematize their efforts.
Sorghum should be grown on every
farm for syrup. In an emergency su
gar can be made from it. While we
can not immediately increase the num
ber of cows and beef cattle, no breed
ing animal should be slaughtered and
all calves should be fed out as rapid
ly as possible. There is no reason in
the world why we should not double
the number of hogs maintained on
the farms in the northern part of the
state. If steps in the right direction
are taken promptly, we, can supply
ourselves with all the meat needed
for local consumpQpn. The importance
of increasing the corn crop can not
be stressed too strongly as ft sup
plies the chief grain ration for our
work stock and in an emergency may
be made to take the place of wheat
in the human dietary. There is no
reason why we should not double the
output of our poultry yards.
Vigorous action along the lines In
dicated will alone save us from the
disastrous situation which now con
fronts us.
Some Facts
Concerning Hog Cholera
Dr. W. M. Burson, Professor of Veter
inary Med., State Col. of Agriculture.
Hog cholera is an infectious disease.
It is caused by germs. These germs
are present in the blood and all parts
of the sick hog. The germs will live
in infected soil for a long time.
Hog cholera may be spread by any
thing that comes into contact with the
sick hog, the dead carcass or premi
ses occupied by or contaminated by
sick hogs or their excrement.
Hogs suffering from mild cases of
hog cholera spread the germs far and
wide until death or complete recovery
takes place.
Wallow holes harbor infection for a
long time. Disinfect them.
Hogs may become infected with
cholera by being fed on hotel and
restaurant garbage containing pork
scraps. If you must feed this mate
rial protect your hogs with serum.
Hogs fed on offal from slaughtering
develop cholera and many other dis
eases. This should be prohibited by
law.
No breed of hogs are naturally im
mune to cholera. All are susceptible.
Hog cholera serum will prevent hog
cholera. It will cure some cases in
the early stages of the disease. Early
treatment of sick herds gives best re
sults.
The length of time treated hogs are
immune after treatment depends on
many factors, such as age, environ
ment, and method of treatment.
Serum alone is simple to adminis
ter, not apt to do harm and generally
produces only temporary immunity.
Serum simultaneous (serum and vi
rus) if carelessly or injudiciously ad
ministered, may do great damage.
When properly used confers perma
nent immunity.
On infected premises disinfectants
should be liberally used. Coal tar disin
fectant. is cheap and effective. It
should be used in 4 per cent strength
and applied to hog houses by means
of a spray pump.
Whitewash containing 5 per cent
coal tar disinfectant serves a double
purpose. It deodorizes and disin
fects.
Good drainage is essential in ail
sanitary work.
Rotation of hog lots and pastures
does much to keep the hogs healthy.
Americus Taxicab Company
DODGE and BUICK CARS
Will Answer All Calls Promptly
PHONE 825
Compton & Vaughn
Summer is sweet on a new mattress made by us, or we
can make a new one out of your old one. We strive
to be rapid, reliable and reasonable in our business.
Pope Mattress Company
PHONE 120 - - - Cotton Ave.
As Age Advances the Liver Requires
oa« occasional slight stimulation. CARTER’S LITILB
**’ UVER PILLS correct CONSTIPATION.
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signature
Colorless or Pale Faces Mb
EXCURSION FARES
—VIA—
G. S. & F. RY.
-TO
Atlantic Beach, Pablo Beach, Jackson
ville and White Springs, Fla.
Tickets at following round trip Excursion Fares, can be purchased
from CORDELE, Ga., via. G. S. & S. Ry :
SEASON TICKETS: Sold Daily:
ATLANTIC BEACH 8.00
PABLO BEACH $7.90
WHITE SPRINGS $6.75
WEEK-END TICKETS: Sold for Saturday trains, limited, Tuesday fol
lowing date of sale: *
ATLANTIC BEACH OR PABLO BEACH $5.90
WHITE SPRINGS $4.10
FIFTEEN-DAY TICKETS: Sold daily, limited 15-days from date of sale:
WHITE SPRINGS $5.40
SUNDAY-ONLY TICKETS: Sold for G. S. & F. Ry. Train No. 3, each
Sunday morning, limited to return on Train-No. 4, date of
sale:
JACKSONVILLE $3.50
WHITE SPRINGS $3.25
For full details as to schedules, etc., call on R. L. Luffman, Ticket
Agent, Cordele, Ga., or address
J. W. JAMISON. T. P. A.. C. B. RHODES, G. P. A.
Mac-m, Ga.
I Sense
and
Cents
What two cents worth of Gas will do.
1: Bake 30 biscuits and broil a 3 'pound
steak.
2: Bake one four-layer cake with Choco
late filling.
3: Bake one large Angel Food Cake.
4: Cook a full dinner for six persons.
5: Heat water for two baths.
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RAILWAY
Between
MACON AND ATLANTA
THE RIGHT WAY SERVICE
Leave Arrive Leave Arrive
Macon Atlanta Atlanta Macon
»»3:00 a m 6:25 am * 8:00 a m 11:15 a m
•3:58 a m > 6:45 a m *12:30 p m 3:40 p m
*4:30 a m 7:40 a m *4:00 p m 7:20 p m
♦7:30 a m 10:45 a m *8:25 p m 11:22 p m
11:05 a m 1:55 p m *10:05 p m 1:00 a m
*1:30 p m 4:20 p m *10:30 ptn 1:40 a m
*5:00 p. m. 8:10 p m **11:50 p m 2:45 a m
NOTE: ’Carries coaches, parlor or sleeping cars. **Carries local
sleeping car between Macon and Atlanta open for occupancy 9:00 p. m.
at both terminals, and may be occupied until 7:00 a. m.
New Train No. 9, leaving Macon 11:05 a. m„ stops at Forsyth,
Barnesville and Griffin. Connects at Macon with Central of Georgia train
No. 8 from Albany and Americus. Connects at Atlanta with A. & W. P.
train No. 39; S. A. L. train No. 18 tor Abbeville, S. C„ and train No. 23
for Piedmont, Ala.; Southern Railway*train No. 30, for Charlotte, Wash
ington and New York, an (train No, 16. for Rome, Dalton, Chattanooga,
Gadsden and Attalla.
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RAILWAY
THE RIGHT WAY
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