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THE TIMES-RECORDER
BSTABLISHED 1871.
CHS TIMES-RECORDER COMPANY,
(Incorporated.)
Publisher.
Published every arternoon, except
Saturday, every Sunday morning, and
M a Weekly (every Thursday).
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'''March 3, 1879.
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OFFICIAL ORGAN FOR:
City of Americus
x Sumter County
Webster County
gjdlroad Commission of Georgia For
Third Congressional District
U. 8. Court, Southern District of
Georgia.
Americus, Ga- February 7, 191*'.
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PABAGRAPHICALLY SPEAKING
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THE MAIL BROUGHT THIN TODAY.
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They talk of our loved ones.
The saying is true.
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They talk about me,
They talk about you;
If we go to the dances
Scmeone will say
We should go to church
And learn how to pray
If we go to church
And offer up prayers.
They say we are hypocrites
AUd putting on airs.
If we are rich,
They call us a thief,
"Scoff at our sorrows
And laugh at our griefs.
If we are poor
They say that we shirk,
We’re always lazy,
And never would work. f
They talk of our prospects.
They talk of our past,
And if we’re happy
They say it can’t last.
They talk of our loved ones,
They talk of our foes,
They talk of our follies,
They talk of our woes,
They talk of our fears,
They talk of our smiles,
They talk of our tears.
Though we live like an “angel”,
With circumspect walk,
Our efforts are useless,
FOR PEOPLE WILL TALK-
We’re now going to have a corn-'
bfed generation.
The trouble with those who break
in society i s that they keep on mak-;
i
ing breaks.
It is beginning to look like a man
may commit treason by eating too
many biscuits.
Some couples have a perfectly <
splendid quarrel by never saying a
word to each other.
Why doesn’t a subscriber call up
some time and say the paper did
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come? It would break the monotony,,
anyway.
We think the congressmen ought to.
show the spirit of Hooverism by re
ducing the number of words in their
speeches.
A subscriber wants to know if it’s
polite for a lady to hang up the ’phone ’
Ik a gentleman’s face. It may not be
polite, but it is quite emphatic.
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Pretty soon when a man wants to
dissipate he’ll go to a Greek restau-'
rant and order two biscuits, an egg, ■
and four lumps of sugar.
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An esteemed lady contributor sub-'
Baits this for publication:
‘"You may talk about women.
But, oh, how we smile,
When we see a cornfed
In this new bustle style.”
PEEVING THE POLITICIANS.
The frantic endeavor of the coterie
, of Atlanta hot-house and flesh-pot poli
' ticians, whfi for years have been
' running political affairs in this state,
chiefly for the benefit of Atlanta
J frantic endeavors, and wild and fur-j
ions efforts of those profesisonal
politicians to keep W. J. Harris out
l o f the Senatorial race are really more
amusing than alarming.
This is one time when these Atlanta
politicians have not been consulted
about a political slate.
Mr. Harris did not ask their per-
I mission nor make any overtures to
I them. He has not solicited their ad
vice nor negotiated for their support;
they are not In his confidence, nor
will they ever be. But his greatest
' crime of all is that he is not from
i Atlanta.
For months these politicians and
their hirelings, and cl'acquers and toad
ies, have maintained a whispering
campaign, starting all sorts of reports
to the effect that “Harris won’t run,”
or “Harris is not going to resign,” or
“If Harris does enter the race he will
withdraw," etc. They have tried des
perately to put a half dozen other
men into the race. They made a fu
tile effort to entice Judge Andrew
Cobb, but he was too smart to be de- ,
■ ceived by their camouflage. They
sought to make it appear that the na
tional administration wants Schley '
Howard, when as a matter of fact, Mr.
Howard never could get the national
administration endorsement the
which, for that matter, has been given
unqualifiedly to Mr. Harris. They are
the ones who are keeping Murphey
Candler on the nervous bench. They
give W. D. Upshaw just enough en
couragement to flatter him. They even
give Cooper, of Macon, a considera
tion now which heretofore they have
denied him.
But these methods will prove una
vailing. Mr. Harris is going to run,
and is going to win. Says the Way
cross Journal-Herald, Volney Wil
liams,-editor:
“Now, we have tnis to say to that
of men who live in Atlanta,
and spend the greater part of their
time warming the Kimball House
chairs, that the .people of Georgia are
getting on to their tricks and are find
ing out who are keeping them there,
and paying them for it, and that they
are not fooling any one very long but
themselves. People who travel about
and talk to the folks have every rea
son to believe that W. J. Harris will
be the successor of Tom Tardwick,
and they also know that all this
talk about the people out in the woods
being against sending soldiers to
France is political rot. These Kimball
House chair w’armers may talk theif
heads off about the coal situation hurt
' ing Bill Harris, and that some great
{ orator who could meet Hardwick on
■ the stump should make the race, but
f they will not be able to fool the boys
out in the sticks. We have their num
ber, and when they say that they want
to see Hardwick defeated and Harris
elected we know that they are telling
a blank, blank, and that the real truth
is, they want to see a third man I
elected.”
THE FIRST GREAT SHOCK.
, America’s first great shock of the
/ war has come.
. With bated breath almost, many, es
pecially the thousands whose relatives
«re assigned to foreign service, have
waited for some such disaster as has
. occurred in the sinking of the Tuscania
with the loss of more than a thousand
young American soldiers.
The fact that the transport was un-
I der the exclusive protection of the
. British navy' affords some consolation.
, though in the sudden taking of a thou
sand fine lives there is little comfort
to bo had at this time.
. The blow hurts. It cuts deeply. It
I stirs the. deep anxiety of every father,
mother, sister and brother in this
.country. But it brings home all the
more impressively and awfully that we
are at war!
In such a war as this we must ex
pect terrible losses, and we must be
prepared to receive them with the for
[ titude characteristic of our people.
There is no doubt that Germany has
THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
concentrated its entire u-boat energy
toward crippling the over-sea service
of the United States, and it is fortu
nate, indeed, that the loss of the
Tuscania, as heartrending as it is, is
the first we have suffered. In the
| movement of millions of troops across
| three thousand miles of open water,
it is naturally to be apprehended that
many lives will be lost. Yet there
cannot but be a choking in the threat
a mist before the eyes, coupled with a
grim determination to win this war at
any cost and crush the Germans, as
we pick up the papers and read such
startling news as was given the Amer
ican people today!
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BOARDING-HOUSE SLACKERS.
A new type of unpatriot has devel
oped in the land.
He—sometimes she —is the board
ing house slacker.
They are the folks who are now
turning up their noses at corn muffins,
grits, rice, buckwheat cakes, or oat
meal.
They insist on having wheat flour
biscuits. They want biscuits three
times a day, and as many at a meal
as they can cram down their throats.
Smal] wonder that the good ladies
who are conducting boarding houses
are at their wits’ ends.
With such people at their tables,
.their problem, at present, is more than
aggravating.
To get flour they must also pur
chase, pound for pound ,an equal
amount of other cereal products. They
must, therefore, serve these products,
prepared in various ways, in similar
proportion.
•But these boarding-house slackers
haughtily scoff the proffered dish of
corn bread. They “don’t like” oatmeal.
They “don’t like” buckwheat cakes,
although there’s nothing better for
breakfast. They “don’t like” rice,
than which there is no more whole
some or substantial food. They
“don’t like” grits, a dish on which
they were probably raised.
, These slackers ought to be given a
stiff lesson on patriotism. They ought
to be told that their conduct is noth
ing short of deliberate unpatriotism,
narrowly approaching the treasonous.
They know 7 , or should know, that we
must send nearly four times as much
wheat abroad this year as we have
been sending, and that any of us will
be lucky, two or three months from
now, to have biscuits even once a
day.
We are seeing the last white flour
for many years. Already the baker
ies have discontinued making whole
flour bread. The new 7 “Victory" bread
has twenty per cent, some other ce
reals in it. All public eating places
are forced to serve something besides
flour breads on two days of the week.
Housewives are limited in their pur
chases of flour. So are the farmers.
But these boarding-house slackers
feel that they are in a special class,
better than anybody else, and must
have the best in the land. The idea
of making a sacrifice themselves, the
very thought of doing what everybody
else is doing, is preposterous from
I their viewpoint.
Every time one of these boarding
house slackers makes some slighting
remark about the new war menu their
landladies are forced to serve them,
1 some patriotic person at the table
ought to break a plate over their heads
and, with one of the jagged pieces,
write “Slacker” across their foreheads.
Long Heads and Short Skirts.
The Times-Recorder says that even
a long-headed woman may be short
skirted, Yes, and in these days of
high prices many a long-headed man
may lx? short-shirted —Walton Trib
une.
Notice Him Too Much.
Now that Col. Roosevei is in Wash
ington, we may expect him at any
minute to convene himself in special
■session and pass a lot of new laws.—
Americus Times-Recorder.
The Colonel will not have any new
laws passed. His business is that of
scolding, and it would seem that en
tirely too much attention is being
given him by the press. -Dalton CIU-
J. LEWIS ELLIS
Attorney at Law
Planter s Bank Building
Amei icus, Ga.
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Attorney.at .Law.
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> M. B. COUNCIL
LODGE F. and A. M.
meets every First and
Third Friday nights.
“ Visiting brothers are
Invited to attend.
DR. J R. STATHAM, W. M.
NAT LeMASTER, Secretary.
AMERICUS CAMP, 202, WOODMEN
OF THE WORLD.
Meets every Wednesday night in
Iting Sovereigns invited to meet with
Fraternal Hall, Lamar street. All vig
ors welcome. C. J. WILLIAMS, C. C.
NAT LeMASTER, Clerk.
F. and A. M.
• AMERICUS LODGE
JgX F. & A. M., meets
> every second and
fourth Friday night
~ at 7 o’clock.
E. E. SCHNEIDER, W. M.
S. L. HAMMOND, 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
standing invited to attend. Beneficiary
certificates from $250.00 to $2,000.00
Issued to members of this camp.
T. E. CASTLEBERRY, President.
O. D. REESEfI Recd’g. Secy.
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Trains Arrive.
From Chicago, via
Columbus , *12:05 a m
From Columbus 111:45 a m
From Columbus 1 7:15 p m
From Columbus 1110:00 a m
From Atlanta and Macon..* 5:19 a m
From Macon * 2:11 p m
From Macon • 7:10 p m
From Albany * 6:37 a m
From Montgomery and
Albany * 2:11 p m
From Montgomery and
Albany *10:45 p m
From Jacksonville, via
Albany • • * 8:40 a m
Trains Depart
For Chicago, vi* Columbus * 8:40 a m
For Columbus 1 7:00 a m
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 m
For Montgomery and
Albany . 2:11 p m
For Albany ♦ 7:30 p m
For Jacksonville, via
Albany *12:05 a m
♦Daily. ! Except Sunday. !! Sunday
only.
•dv GEO. ANDERSON, Agent
V
Seaboard Air line
me Progressive Railway o! the SoaW
Leave Americus fur Cnrdela. Ro
chelle, Abbeville, Helena, Lyons, Col
lins, Savannah, Columbia, Richmond,
Portsmouth and points East and South
12:31 p m.
1:29 a. nL
Leave Americus for Cordele, Abbe
»llle, Helena and Intermediate pointe
6:15 p. n.
Leave Americus for Richland, Co
ambue, Atlanta, Birmingham, Hurts
boro, Montgomery and points West
and Northwest
8:08 p. at
Seaboard Buffet Parlor Sleeping Car
on Trains 13 and 14 arriving Amertoiu
from Savannah 10:40 p, m., and leav
ing Americus for Savannah 1:20 a. m.
Sleeping car leaving for Savannah at
1:20 a. m., Will b. open for paseeng
»ra at 10:40 p. m.
For further information apply to H
p. F-rett, Local Agent, Americus.
?a.; C. W Small, Dtv, Pass. Agent, ’
Savannah. Ga.-, C. P. Ryan, G. P. Jt,j
Norfolk, Va.
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