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0 AUTO TIRES
VULCANIZED
All work done by STEAM and
every job absolutely GUARANTEED.
When you have tire troubles
phone 506, our service car is AL
WAYS at your command.
Americus Steam
Vulcanizing Co.
J. W. LOTT, Manager
REAR AMERICUS AUTO CO.
ANNOUNCEMENT
The ATHENS BUSINESS COLLEGE is
to locate a school in Americus and will
give the same instruction as taught in
Athens.
The Government and Business World are
calling for stenographers and bookkeep
ers and need them more now than they
have at any time.
Send a postal to T. K. MacCARY, care
Cawood House for full information.
Don’t Worry About
Baby’s Milk on Your
Vacation
Take an Electric Immersion Heater
along and heat the milk in your room
in an an instant. A very small but use- .
ful article.
ASK US
ABOUT IT
Americus Lighting Co.
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We are exclusive agents for the '
famous KEEN KUTTER KNIVES
I SHEARS and SCISSORS. Each
guaranteed to give satisfaction.
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| Hightower Book Store
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; i J- W. Sheffield, Pres. E. D. Sheffield, Cashier
) j Frank Sheffield, V-Pres. Lee Hudson, Asst. *•
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This bank and 64 of its friends bought
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; | THIRTY-SEVEN THOUSAND AND FIFTY DOLLARS !
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worth of U. S. Liberty Loan Gold Bonds.
Begin now to save your money. If our country issues
I! more Liberty Bonds be prepared to buy some of them.
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We desire to render service.
; Yours very truly,
i BANK of COMMERCE
Americus, Ga.
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~?f OUR W 4DS FOR BEST RESULT!
AMERICAN NAVAL
BASE ATTRACTING
MUCH MENTION
BASE AMERICAN FLOTILLAS IN
BRITISH WATERS, August 3.—Atop'
a steep acclivity that skirts the har
bor of this port much like the Balli- (
sades on the Hudson river, hundreds
of villagers and folk from a nearby (
city gather each night to watch the.
American destroyers—the trim little,
fighting ships Uncle Sam has sent,
across the Atlantic to combat the sub-j
marines. (On a peaceful, beautiful,
moonlight night these people have a !
picture of silent activity that is hard
tc. beat.
From their high perch the people'
can see for several miles a vast ex-,
panse of hills and water that makes.
a wonderful setting for the fighting
craft at their feet. The British and;
American sailors on shore leave bring
their girls up there and men and wo- (
men trudge baby carriages from miles (
around to watch the silent ships. It
has come to be one of the most popu
lar walks in the country; even the
railroads run week-end excursions to
the spot, bringing hundreds of holiday
clad boys and girls from great dis-1
tances to see the Americans.
Up to a certain hour the ships are
outlined in the darkness by many lights '
but all the time there is a scene of,
activity on board and in the water.
The bluejackets with their little whit*
caps may seem to be always moving
about, motor dories dart here and
there among the ships, orders are call
ed out and occasionally is heard the'
shrill warning of the horn on the,
dories. Always the dories are running
from ship to shore, loaded with men
goini on leaves or returning to ship.
Wireless and searchlights which at ;
night replace the flag signals and sema- I
phores are exchanging messages and'
lights on board each ship flicker up .
and out in Morse code.
In the midst of all this is heard the
strains of spring music—guitars, ban-'
jos and violins —which seem to be fav-!
orites with the American boys. From
the deck of the supply or mother ship, 1
which boasts a string orchestra of fif
teen pieces, Hawaiian melodies en
chant the music lovers on shore. From
other ships music comes from the phon
ographs, with which every ship in the
flotilla is supplied. On week-ends many
of the towns people crowd into small
boats and swarm about the destroy
ers in their anxiety to get as close as
possible to the music.
GERMAN PRISONERS TO
DIG PEAT FOR FUEL
PARIS, August 4. —German prison
ers of war are to be utilized in the dig
ging of peat in order to eke out
France’s failing supply of fuel. They
will work under the supervision of
Territorials familiar with the peat re
gions who will be given long leaves of
absence from the army for that pur
pose. Engineers have been sent to
the principal peat bogs, such as the
‘Grande Briere,” near Nantes, to or
ganize the work. The peat will be
consumed so far as possible by facto
ries located near the beds so as to re
quire the least possible tranportation.
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UNVEILING OF MONUMENT 81
MEfIICUSHMPW.O.WSUIIDtf
'The unveiling of the monument of
late sovereign J. H. Ganey will take
place on Sunday afternoon at Oak
Grove cemetery. All members of Am
ericus Camp and visiting sovereigns
are respectfully requested to meet at
the Woodmen’s hall at 3 o’clock, i
THE ALCAZAR
Blanche Sweet will be seen at the
Alcazar on Monday in the Jesse L.
Lasky production “The Silent Part
ner,” a thrilling drama of business life
written from the story of Edmund
Goulding and prepared for the screen
by George Dußois Proctor. Miss
Sweet is seen as a clever young pri
vate secretary of a broker who saves
him from not only his own wife but
from ruin. In the cast supporting
Miss Sweet are such distinguished ar-,
tists as Thomas Michigan, George He-'
i bert Earnest Joy and Mabel Van Bu-I
[ ren.
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ij COTTON MARKET I
August 3. 1917.
AMERICUS SPOT COTTON.
Good Middling 24 3-4 c
’ Fully Middling 24 l-2c
| Middling 24 l-4c
THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
BELGIANS FORGED
BY GERMANS DO
DANGEROUSWORK
HAVRE, FRANCE, Aug. s.—(Corres
'pondence of The Associated Press) —
The Belgian Government has receiv
ed information to the effect that the
' deported Belgians working in the Thy
' ssen Works at Mulheim on Ruhr, re
-1 dared that as the Germans had vio-j
lated their promise to send them back I
home at the end of four months, they I
. would prefer to die rather than to
continue. The Germans imposed a fine
of 30 marks each and imprisonment
for 10 days upon the men.
| One hundred and eighty Belgians
in another German factory refusing |
k continue work after four months,
were deprived of food and thirteen of
them were imprisoned at Munster.
’ The German authorities imprisoned‘
’ Belgian civilians in their mines, de
prived the men of all nourishment for
five days in order to force them to
work. The directors of this concern
justified their action, saying that the
privation was not absolute, but was
necessary in order to overcome the pas
sive resistance of the workmen.
■ Belgian civilians working at the
munition factory at Grosse Wuserurtz
and at Westfalischewerke were oblig
ed to transport hand grenades after
having vainly protested against being
put to such work .
The Belgian government has other
proofs that a great many deported
i Belgians, in spite of their unanimous
! desire to return to Belgium, were not
' allowed to even attend funerals of rel
atives; sons were refused the consol
ation of going hctpe to bury their
1 mothers. The deported appear to have
' entirely escaped the supervision of the
1 delegates of neutral countries the
'Germans putting forward the pretext
'that they are not prisoners of war.
Whenever delegates have been excep
tionally authorized to visit these civ
ilizians, it has always been in the
presence of German authorities. The
■evidence gathered by the Belgian gov
ernment in these cases is categoric
' and covers a period down to the end
■ of March of this year.
MURDER WILE OUT! WHY
MUSTACHES ARE NOW WORN
ATLANTA. Ga., August 4.—Student
1 officers at Fort McPherson explain
‘ that they wear moustaches to save time
! and not to heighten their beauty. They
are put through such a strenuous pace
that they hardly have time to shave.
Takin.: the bristles off the upper lip
i consumes about four minutes. Hence
they let them grow.
- MEXICO MAY PROHIBIT
t EXPORTATION OF NECESSITIES
f MEXICO CITY, Aug. 4.—The Nation-
- a’ Commercial Congress which con
s vened in Mexico City about the mid-
- die of July recommended to the Na
jjtional Congress that the exportation
j! from Mexico of articles of prime nec
-1 essity be prohibited. The list as out
?'lined in the resolution would include
. | corn, wheat, flour, beans and cotton.
PARIS WANTS ENTRY OF
GAME MADE MORE EASY
f PARIS. August 4—The “Conseil
■General,” the deliberative body of the
| department of the Seine, has asked the
! overnment to permit the entry of
! game into Paris more freely. This
c measure, it is held, would ease the
, ‘ meat and poultry market. The minis
. ter of agriculture has already author
. | ized the shooting of wild ducks. Be
. fore the war the yearly receipts of
, 1 game at the central markets averaged
i 150,000 pheasants, 170,000 hares, 350,-
' 000 partridges, 620,000 larks, 450,000
rabbits and 240,000 water fowl.
NOTICE.
All persons indebted to the late W.
II R. Schroeder are hereby respect-
I fully requested to immediately settle
■ their indebtedness in order that the
( estate may be closed up.
E. J. SCHROEDER, Executor.
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JAPANESE RELEASE AUSTRIAN
PRISONERS TAKEN AT TSINGTAU
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TOKIO. Xu''. 4.—Thirteen natives of
the Trentino. Carso and adjoining dis
tricts of Austria who were serving as
(bluejackets cn the Austrian cruiser
j Kaiserin Elizabeth which was sunk
' at Tsingtau, and who were taken pris
' oners at the surrender of the fortress
I have been released by the Japanese
authorities and are to be returned to
I .Italy.
■ Although nominally enemy prisoners;
'all their sympathies were with the En-j
| tente allies, and their relations with .
3 the other prisoners were, in conse-'
3 quence strained. One of the men was ‘
iC discovered attempting to commit sui-
Our Clearance Sale
Os Hart Schaffner & Marx and other spring
and summer suits is now on.
All men’s and boy’s Palm Beach, Cuol
Cloth, Dixie Weave and other two-piece
suits reduced
33 1-3 per cent
$ 7.50 Suits $ 5.00
10.00 6.75
12.50 835
15.00 10.00
22.50 15.00
All blue serge and three piece suits and
extra trousers reduced 25 per cent
$30.00 Serges $22.50
25.00 18.75
Though clothes are going up every day, we are following our usual custom of dispos
ing of our stocks each season find starting the new season with bright new merchan
dise. It will pay you to see these clothes.
W. D. Bailey Company
cide, his explanation being that life
was unbearable under the conditions in
the camp.
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WAR WORK PERFORMED
BY BRITISH MERCHANT SHIPS
LONDON, Aug. 5. —The British mer
chant marine has carried successfully
t< their destinations 8,000,000 men and
10,000,000 tons of war material, said
Garment should
be a lasting
monument in the
mind of the wearer
carrying a pleasant
memory of its
good quality.
If it does not do
so, it is a failure,
and leaves an
unpleasant recolec
tion of money
badly spent.
It is a hobby of ours
to insist upon
quality when
stocking Ready-to-
Wear garments
and this is your
protection.
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NEW l ATT A T TTV NEW
SKIRTS SKIRTS
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Fall s f Fall
Models Models
Here Here
Dependable Skirts on Sale Monday
Commander Dion Calthrop recently,
describing the work done by the Navy.
In six months of last year only one
in a thousand ships passing through
Dover patrol had been sunk or damag
ed.
Up to January of this year not a
life had been lost in the transport of
men from this country to France.
In the course of the war 1,000,000
ported to this country, more than, 1,-
SUNDAY, AUGUST 5, 1917.
, suck and wounded men had been trans
. 000,000 horses and mules, 50,000,000-
; gallons of petrol, 100,000,000 hundred
i weights of wheat and 7,000,000 tons of
- iron ore.
Referring to submarines he said there
i were a great many German widows and
f orphans who doubted the success of the
U-boat. There were many women in
> Germany whose husbands did not come
■, back.