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i MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1918.
J. LEWIS ELLis
Attorney at Law
Planter a Bank Building
Ame>ieu8 t Ga,
PLENTY OF MONEY TO LEND
Da beth City and Farm Property at
6% Interest. No Wafting.
DAN CHAPPELL,
Attorney-ai .Law.
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HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTING.
Interior Decorating.
Get My Estimates.
JOE FITZGERALD.
W 9 E. Lamar St.
C JP. DAVIS
Dental Surgeon.
Orttaodontla, Pyorrhea.
Residence Phone 316. Office Phone 318
Allison Building.
MISS BESSIE WINDSOR,
Insurance.
Bonds.
•Kee Forsyth St. Phone 284
• M. B. COUNCIL
LODGE F. and A. M.
Ak JBaMk meets every First and
Third Friday nights.
r Visiting brothers are
Invited to attend.
DR. J. R. STATHAM, W. M.
NAT LeMASTER, Secretary.
AMERICUS CAMP, 292, WOODMEN
OF THE WORLD.
Meets every Wednesday night in
tttag Sovereigns invited to meet with
Fraternal Hall, Lamar street. All vis
ora welcome. C. J. WILLIAMS, C. C.
NAT LeMASTER, Clerk.
F. and A. M.
AMERICUS LODGE
F. & A. M., meets
A fflßgfc every second and
fourth Friday night
at 7 o’clock.
FRANK PAYNE, W. M.
J. ROSCOE PARKER, Secy.
WASHINGTON CAMP, No. 14,
P. 0. S. of A.
Meets every first and third Monday
nights in P. O. S. of A. Hall, No. 213
Lamar street. All members in good
■landing invited to attend. Beneficiary
eertificates from $250.00 to $2,000.00
issued to members of this camp.
T. E. CASTLEBERRY, President.
O. D. REESEfi Recd’g. Secy.
C.ofGa.Rv
••The Right Way”
Trains Arrive,
From Chicago, via
Columbus *12:05 a ni
From Columbus ...111:45 am
From Columbus ! 7:15 p m
From Columbus ! 110:00 a m
From Atlanta and Macon. .♦ 5:19 a m
From Macon * 2:11 p m
From Macon * 7:90 p m
From Albany .....* 6:37 a m
From Montgomery and
Albany * 2:11 P ni
From Montgomery and
Albany *10:45 p m
From Jacksonville, via
Albany •• * 3:40 a m
Trains Depart.
For Chicago, vi* Columbus * 8:40 a m
For Columbus ’ 7:00 a ffl
For Columbus * 8:00 p m
For Macon and Atlanta ... * 6 :37 a m
For Macon and Atlanta... .♦ 2:11 p m
For Macon and Atlanta *10:45 p m
For Montgomery and
Albany * 5:19 a ■
For Montgomery and
Albany • 2:11 p m
For Albany * 7:80 p ■
For Jacksonville, via
Albany ...... *12:05 a m
•Daily ’Except Sunday. USunday
aaiy.
Mv. GEO. ANDERSON, Agent
Seaboard Air Line
Re Progressive Railway ol the Swtl
Leave Americus for Oerdele. Ro
eMie, Abbeville, Helena, Lyona, Col
11m, Savannah, Columbia, Richmond.
Portsmouth snd points £ut snd Uoutb
12:31 p m.
1:20 a. m.
Leave Americas for Cordele, Abbo
rtlle, Helena and intermediate points
5:15 p. at
Leave Americus for Richland, Co
■abus, Atlanta, Birmingham, Hurts
boro, Montgomery and points West
susd Northwest
8:08 P« ***-
Seaboard Buffet Parlor Sleeping Car
•a Trains 13 and 14 arriving Americus
from Savannah 10:40 p, m., and leav
ing Americus for Savannah 1:20 a. m.
Sleeping car leaving for Savannah al
1:30 a. m.. will be open for pasteng
jra nt 10:40 p. m.
For further information apply to H.
P Bverett. Local Agent, Americus,
On.; c. W. Small, Div. Paes. Agent,
Savannah, Ga.; C. P. Ryan. G. P A.,
Norfolk, Ya. . _ ,
LOWER STANDARD
FOR DRAFTED MEI
GOVERNMENT WILL NOW PUT
MANY IN ARMY WHO HAYE
BEEN PREVIOUSLY REJECTED—
GRANGE IN WEIGHT, HEIGHT.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—Changes
in the physical requirements for men
of the national army, by which thou
sands who have been or will be re
jected under the first regulations can
now be accepted for service, have been
announced by Provost Marshal General
Crowde*.
The modifications indicate that the
war department is determined to hold
for service—either general military or
special—all men registered except
those whose physical condition can
never be remedied to make them fit
for any kind of service.
Physical defects that can be reme
died and make the men fit for service
will be remerided or the men put into
some special work, not so rigorous
as trench fighting, Crowder says.
Height and weight requirements
were both lowered and increased. Flat
foot or club or claw foot and several
foot troubles no longer are causes ofr
rejection, and local boards are order
ed to reject no foot cases. Any re
jection for these troubles must b*e
made by the medical advisory board.
Chances for rejection for eye and ear
defects were greatly lessened and the
dental requirements were modified.
Hernia and similar trebles, the cause
o! many rejections under the first
draft, must be very serious to win
repection. Only complete nasal ob
structions will reject, which means
that adenoids and enlarged tonsils are
no cause for rejection.
The minimum height for men of
the new army was lowered from 61
to 58 inches by the new regulations,
although all the cases of men be
tween 58 and 60 inches must be re
ferred to the medical advisory board
by the local physicians.
Practically all the maximum height
restructions were removed, indicating
that Uncle Spm sees no reason why
the giants should not fight. The old
regulations placed the limit at 6 feet
3 inches, but the new order provides
that men above 6 feet, 6 inches may
be accepted if they are well propor
tioned.
The weight minimum was lowered
from 110 to 100 pounds,, although
those whose weight is less than 100
pounds, because of illness, are to be
held for service pending better health.
Only extreme cases of obesity are to
to cause overweight rejection. Regis
trants in good physical condition, but
under the weight requirements for cer
tain heights, are to be tccepted.
With the exception of those hope
lessly crippled of foot troubles, such |
as hammer-toes, buinons, and the vari- j
ous types of flat-feet that do not in- j
terfere with the wearing of an ordi
nary shoe, ther egistrant is to be ac
cepted. All doubtful cases go to the
medical advisory board.
Spinal troubles must interfere seri
ously with weight-bearing power to re
ject it, and the wearing of a plaster
jacket will not of itself disqualify the
registrant.
Those who can hear with one ear,
spoken words at a distance of ten feet,
will be accepted, only complete deaf
ness being a ground so rejection by
local physicians. Deafness in one ear
is referred to the advisory board.
Color blindness no longer will be a
cause for rejecton and those w’hose
eye troubles can be well corrected
wth proper glasses will be accepted.
If a man has six good teeth on each
jaw he will be taken. Formerly if
three were missing the man would be
rejected.
Only irreducible cases of hernia
will keep a man out of the service un
der the new regulations. Local phy
sicians are not allowed to reject ab
dominal cases.
Venereal diseases will be rejected
only tvhen they make a man perma
nently unfit for service. Other regis
trants with these defects will be ad
vised to accept treatment pending re
ceipt of orders to report for duty.
A strict and careful examination of
the lungs is ordered, with a view or
keeping to minimum the number of
pneumonia and tubercular cases in the
camps. Conditions at camps now
indicate- physicians should be most
careful in the respect, Crowder says.
Extreme cases of chronic alcoholism
will be rejected.
Under the new regulations the power
of the local examining physicians is
greatly restricted Local boards can
repect or accept for physical disquali
fications only when the registrant
comes withincertain standards. All
other cases and those of doubtful in
terpretation go to the medical advis
ory board, similar to the district ex
emption board. _
THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
THE WORTHY MAIDEN.
(Published by Request.)
One morning as the sun shone bright
And the wind blew soft and cool;
A beautiful maiden in a dress of white
Was walking near a pool.
As she walked along, she seemed to
to hear
A groaning that sounded a little
wild;
And then she saw in the water clear,
The form of a little child.
And then she stooped down on her
knees,
And looked with wondering eyes;
And thought of how- her parents would
grieve,”
How in the pool she lies.
She laid her books down on the ground
And jumped into the pool;
And found that she was not yet
drowned
Althouth she was getting cool.
She carried her to a dwelling near by,
And found it was a doctor’s home;
She called for help and tears came in
her eyes,
And th© doctor came along
They carried her to the patient’s room,
To see if she had gone to death;
They thought at first 'twas the little
child’s doom,
But, alas- she caught her breath.
Soon the parents of the little child
came;
And then they told the maiden their
name
And he carried them their wander
ing child.
The maiden told them the story
Os how she had saved the child;
And they blessed her with all their
glory
For saving their precious child.
Then she hastened on her way to
school
With a heart that was full of fate,
And told of the child in the pool;
Although she was sorry she was
late.
Then let us all be worthy and true
And help others all we can;
Each day some worthy deed to do
And lend the poor our hand.
—LOUISE ARRINGTON.
Americus, Ga.
GOV. DORSEY STILL
HOLDING TONGUE
ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 4.—Having
made no speeches between the time of
hi s election and inauguration, Gover
nor Hugh M. Dorsey is keeping up
his record since taking.
He was recently scehduled to de
liver an address to the soldiers at
Camp Gordon on the subject of war
savings stamps, but canceled his en
gagement at the last moment, and
Hooper Alexander, U. S. district at
torney, filled his place.
He was scheduled to introduce ex-
President Taft at the luncheon given
to that distinguished visitor in At
lanta last Friday, but excused himself
on the ground of a sore throat, and
Mayor Asa G. Candler did the honors
both on behalf of the city and the
state.
Before taking office, Governor Dor
sey declined to make any public
speeches on the ground that he was
not yet governor and did not wish to
appear to be usurping the guberna
torial prerogative.
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WHISKEY SPECIAL IS
HELD IIP HI QUITMAN
QUITMAN, Ga., Feb. 4.—The “whis
ky special,” . scheduled as No. 57,
Atlantic oast Line, from Jacksonville
to Montgomery, was held up and rob
bed in Quitman last night.
The bandits wee none other than
Sheriff Wade, accompanied by Offi
cers Geiger, Hurley, Bainton, Sharpe
and Deputy Sheriff Colon Clanton,
and the booty was not the money and
jewelry of the passengers, but six suit
cases, loaded to the gunwales with
Jacksonville whiskey.
It all happened at 2:15 o’clock this
morning at the Coast Line depot when
No. 57 rolled in a couple of hours
late Out in the cold the sheriff and
his posse had waited patiently for
hours.
The officers were not alone in their
vigil. Early in the evening, Arthur
Williams, a young white man from
Thomas county, drove a Ford truck
down to the depot and waited for the
train.
Young Williams saw the sheriff
about the time the belated train
blew its whistle. He attempted to run
down the track and warn the blind
tigers, but Sheriff Wade arrested him
on the spot and turned him over to
his deputy.
The sheriff and his posse met the
train instead. Tom Williams and his
brother, Arch Williams, alighted and
along with them came six suit cases.
There was argument and indigna
tion on the part of the new arrivals.
Tom Williams, according to the sher
iff, attempted to draw his pistol, but
the weapon was taken away from him
and warrants against all three, in
cluding the driver, were shown them
by the sheriff.
The three spent the night in Quit
man. So did six suit cases of good
whiskey.
“One of the handles pulled off of
the suit case when I tried to lift it,”
said the sheriff. “It was just that
heavy. Each case was packed as full
ss it would hold. I estimate there
wag between S4OO and SSOO worth
of whiskey in the six suit cases.”
The Willaims brothers live in
Thomas county about four miles west
of the Brooks county line.
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midil rnmit ict
LONDON, Feb. 4.—ln recognition of
their courage in fighting with their j
fists a cougar which attacked them.
King George has awarded the Albert
Medal to two children of Cowixhan
Lake, Vancouver Island. The children
are Doreon Ashburnham, eleven, and
Anthony Farrer, eight years old. Ac
cording to the account of the inci
dent, recorded in the Official Gazette,
it transpired as follows:
On the 3rd of September, 1916, the
two children left their homes at
Cowichan Lake for the purpose of
catching their ponies, and when about
a half mile from they were attacked
by the cougar. They were almost up
on the animal before they saw it
crouching in a path at a comer. The
cougar first sprang upon the little
girl and she was knocked down with
her afee to the ground, the animal
being on her back. The boy at once
attacked tl|e cougar with his fists
and riding bridle, driving the animal
off the girl ;it then attacked the boy
and his companion, getting to her
feet, came to his rescue, fighting with
her clenched fists and bridle, even
putting her arm into the cougar’s
mouth to try to prevent! it from biting
him. She succeeded in getting it off
the boy. It then stood on its hind
quarters and fought with her, but ev
idently was disturbed by some sound
as it presently slunk awav and ran,
under a log. where it was afterward
killed.
The cougar measured over seven
feet from noes to tip of tail.
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