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PAGE FOUR * ♦ ♦ Local News Items ♦ • "I Our stock of Sterling Silver was never more complete. S. A. Daniels. Miss Susylee Gammage, of Bron wood, is visiting her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Weekly, on Spring street. Miss Eulalie Harrison, of Bluffton, Ga., and Miss Louise Lightner, of Ideal, Ga.. are guests of Misses Lila and Tin one Webb, at Sumter. Miss Light ner will return home Friday, accom panied by Misses Webb and Miss Har rison. Why use only half of your ability when a little training will fit you to use all of your talent and to get the salary you are worth? Take a busi-| ness course. 22-ts Augustus O. B. Sparks came down from Fort McPherson last night, and is spending the day in Americus. Bill Dodson leaves today for St. Mary's, Fla., where he will join a camping party for several days. 25 to .33 1-3% discount "ii Summer- Clothing for Men ami Boys for the spot cash only; for the next few days. Ans ley’s. Mrs. Eugene Kemph and young son, Thomas Faulton, have returned from a visit to Mr. Kemph at Fort McPher son. Miss Clementine Marlin, of Dawson, is visiting Miss Elmer Bell on Lee street. Have your tried COW EASE? If not, why not, found only at PLANTERS SEED CO. . s ' 3t - Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Smith and two children, Horace and Frances are vis iting Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Ross. Miss Eleanor Ross has returned home from a visit to Miss Mamie Col bert at Richland. For the next few days discount sale of 25 t 033 1-3 G on Men's and Boys’ Sum tom- Clothing for spot cash only. Ans. ley’s. Mrs. J. H. Chambliss, is reported ■ to be critically ill. Mrs. Chambliss. has been in ill health for many years and her condition is said to be now very serious. Plant Lookout Mountain Seed Irish Potatoes and have a good fall crop. We hem. Alien’s Drug & Seed Store. THE STANDARD " PHONE 226 SUCH SHOES AS ARE IN THIS OFFERING HAVE NEVER BEFORE BEEN SEEN HERE. OVER TWO HUNDRED PAIRS WORTH UP TO S3.(M». CHOICE NOW $1.75. Every pair offered are strictly fresh (goods; this season's styles; mostly patent leather with one, two and three straps; also oxford ties, most all sizes in the lot. At 35c, worth 50c: Men's Nainsook Underwear, knee drawers, athletic, sleeveless Shirts. At 22 l-2c. Best Standard Osnabura for cotton sacks; will be much highev later. At SI.OO, worth $1.50. Men’s service able Cotton Pants, well made with belt straps. At 49c, worth 75c Knee Pants for large boys, 13. 14.15 and 16 years. At 13 l-3c Yard, worth 17 l-2c. Can non and Elmbroidery Cloth. At sc, worth up to Bc. Choice of three thousand yards Vai. Laces. At 98c, worth $1.25. Odd sizes in union made Overalls. At 50c, worth up to 85c. Boys’ Heavy Overalls of striped denims. At 10c, worth 15c. All Silk Ribbons, black, white and colors. At 85c, worth SI.OO. Men’s High Grade Madras Shirts; sixes 14 to 17. THE STANDARD DRY ODODS CO. Phone 226. Cotton Ave. Americas, Ga. ; Slieuffer's non-leakable fountain pen. Bell, the Jeweler. Misses Bessie May and Dewey | Smith, of Tifton are the guests of Miss 6 Martha Turner, on Jackson street. Mis. E. D. Bass and Miss Elizabeth McDaniels, of Macon, are visiting Miss ' Martha Turner, on Jackson street. I i Beautiful shipment of fail skirts by T hursday’s express. Ansley’s. 3-lt< Miss Susie Lee Gammage, of Bron wood, Ga., is visiting W. T. Weekly and family this week, on Spring street. | i ■ Misses Marion Stalker, Nell Weeks 1 ■ [and Annie Cawood left Saturday for ' Savannah, where they go to visit rel- < atives. i’ Lookout Mountain Seed Potatoes just received at Alien's Drug & Seed Store. :< /Miss Annie Blunt Moseley, of Greens boro, Ga., has been visiting Mr. and t Mrs. W. T. Lane, left Saturday after- i noon for Shellman, Ga., on a short' visit. / Misses Susie Cowart, of Adams and ; Miss Janie Avera, of Leesburb, who ] have been attending the house party of Misses Ellen and Florence Hooks, at Cobb, returned home Saturday. I f I < See Blanche Sweet in “The Silent t Partner” and Fatty- Arbuckle in The “Butcher Boy” Monday at the Alcazar. I Matinee 5 and 10c. Night 10c and t 15c. 11 Ware G. Martin came up from Lees-. burg Saturday to spend a few hours in the city. L |< Mrs. W. L. West and little daughter, { Mariana, of Albany, who have been. visiting Mrs. Wests’ parents at Buena' i Vista, returned to Albany Saturday aft-' ernoon. . ( 25 to 33 1-3% discount on Summer Clothing for Men and Boys for the spot cash only; for the next few days. Ans ley’s. ‘ Miss A’erna Louise Johnson, left 1 Saturday afternoon for Macon, where she goes to spend a few days as a 'house party-buest of Miss Cosby Ault- Iman. Upon her return from Macon, ! she will stop off at Byron where she will be the house party guest of Miss Fannie B. Knight, for a few days. I - Miss Marie Hall, who has been the ■ buest of Miss Verna Johnson, for a few [days returned to her home in Jackson- I ville, Fla., yesterday. Join the Business Class and prepara yourself to fill one of the many posi tions that will be vacated by those who have been called by the draft. 22-ts j I Miss Estelle Boyette, of Morris Sta tion, Ga.. who has been visiting at Plains, stepped over in Americus for a few days upon her return home as the guest of her brother Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Boyett, on Bell street. Miss Mardre Rodgers and Raymond Rodgers have returned from a visit of a few days at Tybee. Now is the time to plant Lookout Mountain Irish Potatoes. Get your seed 1 at Allen's Drug & Seed Store. 1 Miss Rosa Lee McLendon has return -1 ed from a visit to friends in Atlanta. c Beautiful shipment of fall skirts by , (Thursday’s express. Ansley's. 3-it | s Mrs. G. D. Melton and two children ► returned on yesterday to their home in Macon, after a visit to Miss Lily - Poole, on Furlow street. i Miss Nancy Bennett, of Douglas, will r arrive Monday to be the guest of Mrs. W. P. Jones, on Lee street. | Miss Carobel Murphy, of Los Angeles f California will arrive Monday to visit her aunt Mrs. C. C. Hawkins. Miss Mary Hawkins left Friday for y Atlanta where she will visit friends and relatives for several days. Miss Annie Cathings Crum, of Jack k son, Ga.. will arrive today and will be the guest of Miss Mamie Johnson at her home on Church street. I Miss Sarah Walters who has been T visiting her sister Mrs. L. P. Walters of West Point, Miss., returned to her home near Americus Friday. I Miss Agnes Thomas, of Plains, is the guest for several days of Miss Florence Walters at her home near the city, s Miss Emma Kate Andrews returned yesterday from Athens, where she has been attending the summer school at the Georgia Normal College. , I Mrs. W. C. Barrow left yesterday for Macon to spend a week or ten days ■ with friends and relatives. | Plant NOW Ruta-Bagas, turnips, mustard, beets, radishes, cabbage .and snap beans. PLANTERS SEED CO. 5-3 t. Master Wesson Oliver returned yes-J terday from Atlanta, where he spent j ! several days with relatives, and is I busy explaining to his young friends i the many sights he viewed in the “big town.” I Miss Josephine Van Riper has come Horn Savannah to spend awhile with, relatives here. The Athens Business College is now organizing a school to be taught here. For full information send a postal to T. K. Mac Cary, care Cawood House. 22-ts Jesse Bert and Alvin Lyons, of Ma 'con, are the guests of George Walker. C. M. Hall left last night for Macon to spend the week-end with his fam ily who are visiting reltives there. I < r the next few days discount sale of, 25 t 033 1-3 . on Hen's and Boys' Sum mer Clothiug for spot cash only. Ans. ley’s. Mrs. Lucy Matthews has returned from Jacksonville, Fla., where she spent some time as the guest of her two sons, Olin and J. C. Matthews. / Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Furlow have re turned home from Magnolia Springs, where thev have spent the past weeky - f Julius Hoge, an old Americus boy new- residing in Savannah, is in the city to spend a few days with home folks. / Zera Littlejohn, Jr., a member of the Americus Light Infantrycame down from Camp Harris yesterday to spend Sunday with his parents, Judge and Mrs. Z. A. Littlejohn. / , I Mrs. Dr. H. B. Allen and daughters little Misses Mary 1 Earl and Elizabeth, accompained by little Miss Ira Gate wood, left Sunday for Sandersville, Ga„ where Mrs. Allen will visit rel atives for a few days.' f Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Smith. Eric and Vera Smith, of Tifton, who have been the guests of Mr. B. E. Turner and LaGrange, Ga., on a visit to relatives. Miss Elizabeth Harris has returned home from a visit of several weeks .to relatives in Memphis, Tenn. CAMP SUMTEB U.G.V. WILL HOLO MEETING TUESDAY On Tuesday morning at 9:30 o’clock at the courthouse, the regular month ly meeting of Camp Sumter, U. C. V., will be held for the purpose of trans acting important business matters. A full attendance of veterans is re quested. H. T. DAVENPORT, Commander BANK FURNITURE AND FIXTURES FOR SALE. 1 A rare opportunity to get Bank Coun ters, Chairs, Railings, Desks and other; Bank Fixtures. Inquire of the Re . ceiver of the Americus National Bank for particulars. 29-1 w I - iimcus shows ALCAZAR THEATRE, Monday. | Paramount Picture. Blanche Sweet, in “The Silent Partner." Five acts and I Roscoe (“Fatty”) Arbuckle, in “The ; Butcher Boy.” Two reel comedy. i Tuesday. World Picture. Brady-Made in • "Darkest Russia.” Five acts. s Wednesday. I Triangle Plays. Enid Bennett, in “Happiness.” Five acts and “His One - Night Stand.” Triangle comedy. Thursday. t Paramount Picture. George Beban in “Marcellini Millions.” Five acts. I Friday. i McClure Pictures. “The Seventh s Sin.” Al seven stars. Five acts and • Chapter 11 “Mystery of the Double Cross.” Saturday. : Triamle plays. Willifred Allen in ! "The Man Wlio Made Good," five acts, and “A Laundry Clean-Up.” Trianble comedy. (THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER. MAKE GREATEST PROFIT FROM LIVE STOCK MirV ' ~ ' A t PUREBRED SIRE USED AT MISSOURI COLLEGE. (By E. A. TROW BRIDGE, Missouri Ag ricultural College.) Quality becomes more essential to profit in live stock farming each sea son. When labor, land, and feed were cheap it was possible to realize a profit on live stock of an inferior grade, but with the present high cost of these production factors and a constant dis crimination on the market against the “grub,” it has become evident that the greatest profit can be expected only from live stock of good quality. It may be possible for the feeder or deal er to make a profit on inferior live stock if he is able to buy it sufficiently and sell quickly, but usually someone has not realized the greatest possible profit when a “scrub” goes to market. If it is not the feeder, it is the man who produced the animal. At the Missouri agricultural experi ment station lambs sired by a S3O mut ton ram and out of western ewes weighed 2.54 pounds more at three months of age than lambs out of the PECAN TREE CULTURE Should Not Be Set Less Than Fifty Feet Apart In Wide Middles Other Crops Can Be Successfully Cultivated—Do Not Allow Cover Crops to En croach on Trees. (By W. H. HUTT.) Pecan trees are very deep-rooted, feed far below the surface, and do not encroach much on the land until they are big enough to give profit for its use. Pecan trees should jiot be set less than 50 feet apart; 60 feet is better. In these wide middles other crops can be successfully cultivated for years until the trees require all the land. In this way a planter need not be out of the use of his land, but can at the same time be gradually changing an annual crop that adds no permanent increment to the value of his soil to a perennial one that makes his land more valuable every years it grows upon it. I have never seen a pecan orchard that was a success unless it was culti vated, at least while the trees were young. It is for this reason that I pre fer the term “pecan orchard” to “pecan grove,” for the latter term has about it more of the idea of a green, unbroken turf, and, from my experience, I am very sure that this is not the condition 4 I Young Pecan Tree. conducive to large yields of nuts. Prof. Van Deman says “Nature plants groves, but man plants orchards.” Where maintenance crops are grown in a pecan orchard, judgment should be exercised in not allowing the rows to encroach too closely on the trees, thus robbing them of plantfood and moisture. If this is done, valuable time will be lost in getting the trees Into bearing. Maintenance or cover crops should not be allowed to grow nearer than six feet to the tree row, and. of course, no crop of any kind should be planted in the tree row itself. A good farmer who recently, at my solicitation, set out a pecan orchard, asked me one day to look at his trees, because they did not seem to be doing well. When I drove with him to his place I had difficulty in finding his or chard, for the place on which he had same kind of ewes by a “scrub” rare weighed at four months. The well bred lambs were ready for market a month earlier, they ate only about one half as much feed, and they sold for nearly $3 more per hundred than did the lambs by the inferior ram. Just recently two Utah, ranchmen are reported to have sold their cat tle on the same market on the same day. Both used the same amount of national forest range per head and paid the same grazing fee. One had used good bulls to produce his cattle, the other had not. The good cattle brought 840 per head more than the poor cattle. Whether the live stock is cattle, hogs, sheep, or horses, the good ones are appreciated when sold and conse quently bring higher prices and nor mally yield greater return. The mos! practical means of improvement it through the use of good sires, for th* male may become the parent of froi 40 to 100 animals each year. planted it was now a solid field of tall waving corn, which looked as if ii would produce 100 bushels to the acre I could not at first see a single pecat tree, but after locating the corn ron in which the'trees were set I was ablt to find a number of dead ones anc some very small, living but discour ged-looking trees. They would havt had more chance of survival in tht struggle in their native forest than ir that jungle of corn. The field was planted solid with corn, there being just one hill left out where the pecat tree stood. The trees were cultivated and Intensely so, but what chance hac they of surviving, much less of mak ing a satisfactory growth! I believe that when Euclicl, the math ematician of antiquity, said, “It is im possible to have two things in the same space at the same time,” he was thinking especially of a corn crop in a pecan orchard. Corn is too tall a plant and too gross a feeder to be used successfully as a cover crop in any kind of an orchard, unless It is kept at a reasonable dis tance from the trees. SOY BEAN A PROMISING CROP Well Adapted to Whole Cotton Belt— Immature Seed Makes Delicious Vegetable. (From the United States Department ot Agriculture.) Notable progress has been made in bringing about the commercial utiliza tion of soy bean seed for the manu-j facture of oil, meal, and various more or less complex products, according to the annual report of the chief of the bureau of plant Industry. The soy ■ bean, the report states, is well adapt-! ed to the whole cotton belt, and indeed to the whole corn region. In the cot-; ton belt it promises to be an import ant element wherever the acreage of' cotton has been reduced. The imma-' ture bean seds make a very delicious vegetable and are canned with ease. Inasmuch as soy beans can be more cheaply produced than any other bean seed, it is believed that there is a large field for the canning of green soy beans. Efforts are now being made to induce canning factories to put the product on the market. In the grow ing of the soy bean and in manufac turing products therefrom the United States can successfully compete with the Orient. FEW TIPS GN HORTICULTURE Raise Fruits and Vegetables, Don’t Buy Them—lnsects and Diseases Easily Controlled. Frank B. Cross of the department of horticulture at Oklahoma A and M. college, Stillwater, offers the follow ing advice to Oklahoma farmers: Don’t buy your fruits and vegetables •—raise ’em. Don’t neglect Insects and diseases. They are easily controlled by spray ing. Don't forget to use fertilizers, they increase production wonderfully. Don’t prune too much, or too little •—use judgment “An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” Bring satisfaction and good cheer to the bogie and folks by planting flow ers and shrubs about the house and lawn. : Silks: JUST ARRIVED— LATEST PATTERNS 36 inch Crepe de Chine y A^ olora 36 inch Plaid and Stripe 4 36x40 inch Georgette r) yard, $1.75 and Z-J.vyvy Crepe de Chine Wai& $3.25 & $3.50 Also some big values in SIO.OO Waist J. D. Maffett HAMILTON’S STORE Sparks Grocery Company PHONES 43 & 279 Always a full line of good things to eat from the Markets of the world. Want Advertisements i Figure your own want ad. Minimum Charge is 25c. For insertions less than two weeks, one cent per word. Fur 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. W A N TED—M iscellanecua WANTED —To superintend farm beginning November 15th or January Ist. Ten years experience; superin tendent of 50-horse farm now; best cf references; have four or five good hands, or would work five or six horse farm on halves. Address K, care Times-Recorder. 5-lt IF YOU WANT quick reliable AUTO MOBILE service call J. M. WEEKS, Phone 111. Country trips solicited; prices reasonable. 29-tt WANTED—Applications for loans on choice farm lands; low rate of inter est; sto 20 years. P. B. Williford 7-19-ts CHOICE FARM LOANS at 5J% We give lowest rates, easiest terms anc quickest service. Save money by see. ing us. G. R. Ellis or G. C. Webb. POSITION WANTED—Young man of 17 years with little experience in auto mobile repairing, wants position in Americus. Will accept any honorable employment. Address Box 250, Amer icus, Ga. MONEY TO LEND at 6% interest on desirable residences in Americus, Ga. H O. Jones. 18-ts FARM LOANS Can give good terms on farm loans; money plenti ful. W. W. Dykes. 15-ts . C O/? SALP SPIRELLA CORSET—Recognized as the best on the market; endorsed by physicians. Mrs. Mary L. Samson. Cor setiere. 5-lt . SUNDAY, AUGUST 5, 1917. FOR SALE or rent five room house on Lee street, R. S. Broadhurst. POR SALE: F. A. Pruitt place, four miles north of Parrott, Georgia, con tains 1.038 acres. About 700 #rres open land, plenty of runninsr WlUer. fine place for stock, well locate, on two good public roads. Price $10,500. We can make extremely easy terms on this place. Apply The Georgia Loan and Trust Co., Macon, Ga., or W. L. Thomas, Plains, Georgia. 31-ti FOR REN 7 FOR RENT—CaII and see nice froi. bed room. Close in 135 Lee street. 5-ts FOR RENT.—One nicely furnished room suitable for couple, or two young men. All conveniences. 117 Hampton street. 55-lt. FOR RENT—Possession Sept. Ist, 1917, store corner Forsyth street and Cotton avenue. One of the best loca tions in Americus for any kind of bus iness. Alterations and improvements made to suit tenant. Also, store ad joining above on Forseyth. st. Apply to •■26 t Harrold Bros. FOR RENT Six-room apartment house; college street; all modern conveniences; possession Sept. 1. Phone 333. 20-tZ / 087 LOST—FuII set storm curtains from Buick “4” on Plains Road. Liberal reward. Notify this office. 3-3 t LOST—Sigma Alpha Epsilon frater nity pin No. 13721 on back. Reward. Notify W. A. Dodson. 8-3-ts