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To Our Patrons and the
General Public
We wish to announce that the name of our firm [
has been changed from the A. W. Smith Furniture Co. j!
to the GYLES-ANDREWS FURNITURE CO.
We wish to express our appreciation to our >
patrons for their business in the past and will thank !
them for a continuation of same in the future.
GnES-ANMEWS FURNITURE CO.
J. E. GYLES E - Y - ANDREWS
WANTED—
Seed Wheat, South Georgia Rye,
Abruzzi Rye, Fulghum Oats, Texas
Ru& Proof Oats, Georgia Collard t
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S’lo C ASH
FOR THE RED CROSS
On Friday, June 22nd, we will give 5 per cent of our
cash sales for that day to the
Red Cross Society
Hightower’s Book Store
Grain Growers Attention!
We have a large supply of second hand Burlap bags
on hand for sacking grain etc. Call 596 for prices.
A. COHEN & SON
REMEMBER THE NAME : IT HAY SAVE YOUR LIFE
VHbW FEVEDtfAGUE
■ S&riF TONIC
Ou,c,t Re,iel for Malaria. Chills and Fever. Bilious Fever. Colds and
LaGnwe. at vour druggist 25 and 50 cents or to mall from
® THE F. M. PLANK MEDICINE COMPANY JACKSONVILLE, FLA.
J. W. Sheffiield, Pres. E. D. Sheffield, Cashier I I
Frank Sheffield, V-Pres. Lee Hudson, Asst. *•
This bank and 64 of its friends bought
THIRTY-SEVEN THOUSAND AND FIFTY DOLLARS
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worth of U. S. Liberty Loan Gold Bonds.
r Begin now to save your money. If our country issues
more Liberty Bonds be prepared to buy some of them, i
We desire to render service.
Yours very truly,
BANK of COMMERCE ‘
Americus, Ga.
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ALLISON UNDERTAKING
COMPANY
Funeral Directors and Embalmers ■
Day Phone 253 Night Phones 36 -657 -106
«DIRECTORS
DECIDEJI PLAN
The compaign to secure the $4,000
necessary to carry the preparations
for the Third Agricultural District
fair to completion will be conducted
not by canvassing committees working
among the citizens of Americus and
Sumter county, but by means of an ap
peal in an open letter to the genera’
public.
This plan was decided upon at a ’
meeting of the fair directors held yes
terday afternoon and after much dis
cussion of various methods practicable
ii. the present status of the fair, the
open letter idea gained favorable con
sideration.
There is about $4,000 outstanding on
stock subscription pledges made by
citizens of Americus and Sumter
county. These pledges are in the form
of notes which matured in September,
1916, but which have never been paid,
although more than half of the stock
subscribers have fulfilled their obliga
tions and paid up their pledges.
It is necessary to secure these funds
before further progress can be made
on the fair and if an exposition is to
be held in Americus this fall, the
money must be raised without delay.
The directors decided to rely on the
appeal to the public to support the
fair, dispensing-with soliciting com
mittees and putting the matter square
ly up to the citizens of this section.
They declare that the obligation retsts
upon those who have subscribed for
stock in the fair and have not thus far
liquidated their indebtedness, as ex
pressed in the notes given in payment,
for their stock.
The necessary funds must be raised
during the present week or all further
work on the fair will cease, and as far
as the Third District Fair association
is concerned, nothing further will be
done to promote the project.
TRAMP AND HOBO NO LONGER
SEEN THROUGHOUT OUR LAND
ATLANTA, Ga., June 19.—What no
amount of legislation and no multi
plicity of warnings could accomplish in
years has been brought to pass in a
few brief weeks by the entrance of the
United States into the world war—the
railroad tramp and the hobo have mag
ically disappeared.
No more are his breakfast fires to
be seen burning under the bridges or
beneath the overhangin,?, branches of
streams beside the railroad track
There are no more hangouts at the en
trances of tunnels and the side-door
Pullmans are no longer tenanted by
unshaven and ragged specimens of hu
manity.
Anyone eaught on a railroad right
of-way these days must have means o!
proving instantly that he is above sus
picion. or he will find himself in ser
ious trouble with Uncle Sam.
OUT IT. GIRLS, SOLDIERS
NEVER NEED UKELELES
ATLANTA, Ga., June 19.—Girls, it’s
alright to be kind to your soldier boys
in camp, but don’t send them any uke
leles or silk sox. There are things
they need more.
Just now the girls are sending pack
ages with more enthusiasm than
judgement. A Spanish war veteran in
ei.e of the camps here suggests that the
girl who sends her sweetheart a box
oi silk shirts or a box of silk sox is
making a slight mistake. If she mus’
send sox, send woolen sox, and if you [
must send shirts, send the brown wool
en kind the government uses.
It is pointed out that while there
may be a beautiful sentiment in send
ing a mandolin or a ukelele to a sold
ier boy in the camp or the trench, ex-1
perience has shown that the amateur’s
performance on these instruments is
usually a worse nuisance than snake"
or mosquitoes. About the only resul.
thus far accomplished by the sending
of several gross of ukeleles is the es
tablishment of* a conviction among
soldiers that there are some things
more to be dreaded than war.
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| COTTON MURKET |
June 19, 1917.
AMERICUS SPOT MARKET.
Good middlin...g 25 l-4c
Fully middling 25c
Middling 24 3-4 c
COTTON FUTURES MARKET.
The New York cotton futures mar- ■
ket was quoted at the open and
I open and noon today: Open Noon
January 26-70 26.43
I July 26.30 26.45
■October 26.20 26.29
'December 26.60 26.40
Tuesdays Closing.
['January 26.2 C
! July 26.36
I October 26.13
L December .' 26.2'
THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER,
STOCKHOLM MOST
PICTURESQUE OF
EUROPEAN CITIES
WASHINGTON, D. C„ June .19.
The National Geographic society issues
the following war geography bulletin
on Stockholm, now so prominently in
the public eye as the convention city
of the socialists:
"Although it is frequently styled
“The Venice of the North,” owing to
the fact that it is built upon a num
ber of islands and peninsulas, Stock
holm, the picturesque capital of Swe
den, bears small resemblance to the
Queen of the Adriatic, for whereas the
Italian city is built upon a number of
delta-formed fragments of land only
a few feet above sea level, the islets
and promonotories on which Stockholm
stands are rugged granite rocks, which
must be blasted away whenever a
new building is erected.
“Few European capitals have ex
perienced such prosperity as Stock
holm. It has much more than dou
bled in population since 1880 and in
1913 had overtaken and passed Wash
ington, D. C., by more than 30.000.
Among the commercial and industrial
centers of Sweden it is in the van
guard, with extensive iron foundries,
ship-building plants, sugar, tobacco,
leather, cotton, soap, furniture and
fcod-products factories.
“Stockholm” owes its foundation to
Birger Jarl, a broad-minded and abl i
statesman, who married the sister of
King Erik Erikeson and upon the
death of that sovereign ruled as re
gent for his own son Valdemar, for
16 years, during which time he inaug
urated the establishment of Sweden’s
oversea empire by leading an expedi
tion into Finland in 1249 and building
ti e fortress of Tavastehus. Five years
later he established a fortress on th a
rocky islet which lies in the mouth of
the channel connecting Malar Lake
with the Baltic Sea. This was the be
ginning of Staden (the city), which
forms the heart of the present Swedish
capital.
“Being built of wood, Stockholm was
frequently swept by fire during its
early history, and it also suffered
greatly from periodic raids by the
Danish kings. On one of the latter
occasions (1520) the Danish monarch
Christian IL, in order to make sure
his hold upon the Swedish country, .as
sembled the leading nobles of the
kingdom in the Stor-Torg, the cen ■
fal and highest point on Staden Is
land, and there had them decapitated.
Thus the "Stockholm Blood Bath’’
phrase came to designate this spot
In the Stor-torg is the exchange, where
the leading factors hi Sweden’s busi
ness world congregate at 1 o'clock
every day.
The oldest church in Stockholm is
the Storkyrka (Great Church) which
iv supposed to have been founded by
Birger Jarl in 1264, but which was re
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When you’re lucky to have
“a skeleton in the closet”
Til 7E’RE talking about Hart Schaffner & Marx skel-
VV eton lined suits; now is the time to have one—
A during this warm weather.
S I ” Hart Schaffner & Marx have reduced the linings
4 to a mere f rac ti° n — no extra weight. The fabrics are
A• ~ tailored so that the garment never loses any of its
A? 1 " original snap or vitality.
These skeleton suits are made of lightest weight
fabrics—Dixie Weaves, all-wool and shape-keeping.
A- I There’s nothing like these suits for cool c omfort;
I no su * ts at com fr’ ne needs of summer and style
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” selves.
/ W ¥1 j SUMMER NEEDS
j It Light, airy shirts in Oxfords call for silk
1 all the new patterns, hose; they’re here in all
Z® $1.50 up. , cn J
colors at 50c and more.
if New neckwear; the . . „
“ FfraMra I very latefl arrivals; Arrow soft collars--
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Wl juglS II I ones at 50c up. comfort—all styles, 15c.
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built about two centuries ago. Thd
most interesting sacred structure, how
ever is the Riddarholms-kyrka, with its
open-work cast-iron spire rising to a
height of nearly 300 feet. This is
Stockholm’s Westminster Abbey, or
Pantheon, for in it are buried the
kings and heroes of the nation. Here
rest the great warrior Gustavus Adol
phus, a.:d the able and enlightened
Gustavus 111., who abolished torture,
granted liberty to the priss, fostered
commerce and science, and in return
was assassinated at the instigation of
disaffected nobles. Here also is the
tomb of Bernadotte, one of Napoleon’s
generals who was elevated to a throne
by his master, but who fought agadnst
tlie military genius when the latter’s
star of empire began to set.
“There are many magnificent public
buildings in Stockholm, chief among
which are the royal palace, with its
800 apartments; the splendid riksdag
bus parliament house) completed 12
years ago at a cost of more than two
and a half million dollars the royal
library, where one copy of every book
published in Sweden must be filed and
which boasts of one of the greatest
collections of pamphlets and manu
scripts in Europe, and the offices from
which the Nobel fund is distributed
The royal collection of weapons is the
finest in the world.
“Although Stockholm is within a
few miles of being as far north as
Cape Farewell, Greenland, ice breakers
keep the harbor open in winter. Petro
grad lies almost due east across the
Baltic and Gulf of Finland, a dis
tance of 450 miles. Copenhagen is 330
miles in an airline to the southwest,
and the German city of Danzig is the
same distance due south,”
HARD TO SELECT
BEST SOUTHPAW
NEW YORK, June 19.—Selecting the
greatest southpaw of all time in big
league endeavor isn’t a matter of gath •
ering the dope on Babe Ruth, Ferdie
Schupp, Ed Plank, Rube Waddell, Doc
White and the others on down the lis*
cf off-handers who have made base
ball history.
Eddie Plank undoubtedly has built
himself a pedestal on which he stands
pretty firmly in a class by himself, but
Waddell and White also attained
heights any youngster would be glad
to reach. With Waddell it was more of
a joke than anything else, but his rec
ord is so fine —his ability too pro-
TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 1917
nounced to be left out of a line of hurl
ers who have flashed a wonderful lot
of stuff.
It’s hardly fair to say that Baba
Ruth is the game’s greatest left-hander
new, and it is equally unfair to say
that Ferdie Schupp of the Giants is
entitled to the palm. Ruth has done
remarkably well against National!
league pitching, but Schupp never has
had the chance to show what he could
do against the American league kind.
So there is no chance for comparison.
Doc White was one of the chief reas
ons for the White Sox championship in
1906. He and Ed Walsh between them
made the Fielder Jones reputation.
When the two of them departed from
American league ways championships
among the White Sox became very,
very scarce.
Waddell picked the Athletics up al
most by his own bootstraps and he still
was going great when he Became a
member of the Browns. His gradua l
decline until he found himself a North
ern Leaguer was just as brilliant. He
never did anything that didn’t sparkle.
His eccentricities and utter disregard
of training rules sent him to the min
ors and finally to his grave.
Undoubtedly honors among south
paws should be equally distributed be.
tween Plank and Waddell, both mem
bers of the Athletics when in their
prime.