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BEAT THE BOLL WEEVIL
BY PLANTING
North Carolina Cotton Seed
Ten to Fifteen Days Earlier Than Native Seed
MYATT’S EARLY PROLIFIC
CLEVELAND BIG BOL L
KING
SIMPKINS .PROLIFIC
Also a Number of Other Varieties.
GET OUR PRICES BEFORE BUYING.
PLANTERS SEED CO.
Americus, Ga.
PLANT YOUR GARDENS
NOW!
Conserve the Food Supply
And Live Better By
Raising Plenty of Vegetables.
Plant Early and Plow Often.
u n el Fresh Seeds &£
just received at
Allen s Drug and Seed Store
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; Help to provide for our soldiers who I
J are fighting to save your children
from Autocracy and Poverty.
Buy United States Government War-Savings i
Stamps and Thrift Stamps, which pay 4 per i
eent compounded quarterly. A $5.00 stamp will ;
cost only $4.12 if purchased in January, $4.13 if ]
purchased in February. A “Thrift Card” is ]
furnished to all purchasers of 25-cent stamps.
Produce more and do not waste.
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SHE AMERICUS IHMES-RECORDER.
NATIONAL SONGS ALL
OF US OUGHT TO KNOW
If you are an average American citi
zen you do not know much more than
the first verse of any of our na
tional songs. This should not be true,
but because it is true, and because
the week in which Washington’s birth
day occurs (February 17th to 23rd, in
clusive) is the National Week of Song,
and one of its aims Is to have you and
all other American citizens learn our
national songs, so that all can sing
them. We give below the words of
one song you ought to know, and sug
gest that you cut them out and mem
orize them today. Tomorrow, we
will print another national song you
should know. As you learn the
words, absorb their meaning; also
read the brief history of tlte song that
follows the words.
America.
My country! ’tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Os thee I sing;
Land where my fathers died-
Land of the pilgrim’s pride!
From ev’ry mountain side
Let freedom ring!
My native country, thee,
Land of the noble, free,
Thy name I love;
I love thy rocks and rills,
Thy woods and templed hills:
My heart with rapture thrills
Like that above.
Let music swell the breeze,
And ring from all the trees
Sweet freedom’s song:
Let mortal tongues awake;
Let all that breathe partake;
Let rocks their silence break,
The song prolong.
Our fathers’ God! to Thee,
Author of liberty,
To Thee we sing:
Long may our land be bright
With freedom’s holy light;
Protect us by Thy might,
Great God, our King!
God save our splendid men,
Bring them safe home again,
God save our men:
Make them victorious,
Patient and chivalrous,
They are so dear to us—
God Save our men.
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This song will be used in our sing
ing, which begins February 19th, and
readers are earnestly requested to
> learn the words and practice the song
before that time. The school child
ren arep racticing it every day and
every loyal American should learn it.
LEWIS DEFENDS
WORK OF BAKER
W’ORK OF BAKER—New 18 pt
ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. B—That Ger
man submarines are liable to bob up
any day in Atlantic coast harbors and
shell big buildings with great loss of
life and property, wag the prediction
made here yesterday by James Hamil
ton Lewis, the famous United States
Senator from Illinois. He also pour
ed hot shot into the critics of the war
deparment, declaring Secretary Baker
took charge of a decrepit piece of ma
chinery and in six months built it up
to a point of such wonderful efficien
cy that it has accomplished in less
than a year what it took England’s war
department more than two and a half
years to accomplish.
FINE FARMS
For Sale
900 ACRES, 8 miles of Americus;
about 700 acres open; 300 acres hog
fence; on fine graded road; from six
hundred thousand to one million feet
timber; saw mill on farm; 3 1-2 miles
o', railroad; gray gravel and red
gravel land. Will sell this at a real
bargain.
This is a first class farm and a first
c!ass bargain; 60 bales rent this year;
14 mules; all equipment; plenty of
test labor; one fine residence; one
mile of town and railroad; can give
possession now. Better get busy if
you want this; best grade of red level
land; 925 acres; 24 plows.
Cail on us if you want to buy or
sell, as we have sold eight farms in
the last six weeks.
W.S. ANDREWS
EMMHOT SITE
EIIEITI£IWEISEB
Amsterdam, Jan. 31. —(Correspon-
dence of the Associated Press.) —
“From the beginning of the war up
to the end of 1916 there were over a
million more deaths in Germany than
is normally the case,” says the Berlin
correspondent of the Massbode in a
statement on the effects of the war on
the vital and population statistics of
the German Empire.
“For the first three years,” con
tinues the writer, "the entire loss by
mortality is said to have been 3,700,-
000. Thus instead of the normal in
crease of 2,400,000, there was on Au
gust 1, 1917, a decrease of 600,000, to
which another 700,000 was added as a
result of the decline in birth figures
that still continues. The absolute de
crease in the population after three
years therefore would have been two
per cent, of the number at the be
ginning of the war.
"Other phenomena are to be expect
ed for the near future. Instead of
14,000,000 the men between the ages
of 17 and 45 will only number 12,-
700,000; and instead of 800,000 as
now, the excess of women over men
will be 2,100,000. It is not yet known
how the war losses will be spread ov
er the various ages, but it looks as
if there will be 1,100 women to every
1,000 men of marriageable age. For
these reasons, and in view of the fact
that there will be a large number of
invalids among! the men, tne marriage
chances must be termed greatly re
duced, a fact which will in its turn
produce further shiftings on the labor
market, that on their part will again
react on the population movement.
“The war is not regarded—at any
rate by experts—as harmful for in
fants. Natural feeding is far more
general than formerly in all classes
of the population, and the results are
good, as the food authorities appor
tion to the mother the food for the
child as for example, one litre of
milk per day. Infants have a right
to one litre of milk daily, fifty
grammes of sugar and 200 grammes
of flour a week, and one pound of
oatmeal a month, and can do well on
that.
“The food question becomes more
difficult in the child's second year,
t as vegeables and fruits are scarce,
CLOTHING
REDUCTIC NS
In the face of the fact that prices on
Men’s Clothing fpr next Fall and Win
ter will be almost double of the pres
ent prices it looks FOOLHARDY and
UNBUSINESSLIKE to make reduc
tions on present prices of men’s clothes
but there are are times when condi
tions, over which we have no control,
arise, therefore for a few days we offer
the following reductions on Adler-
Rochester and Scloss Bros. Clothing.
$35 Suits and Overcoats now $26.25
S3O Suits and Overcoats now $22.50
$25 Suits and Overcoats now $18.75
S2O Suits and Overcoats now $15.00
The Largest and Best Line in the City
From Which to Make Your Selection
Only Excnange
BUY CLOTHES NOW AT
OUR CLEARANCE SALE
Clothes a**e costing more and more
each week. These fall and winter
goods we’re offering at reduced
prices would cost us much more
to duplicate new next year
they’ll be worth still more.
You can make some big div
idends bv investing in clothes
now. Hart Schaffner & Marx
made these suits and over
coats of ours you know
what that means; all wool,
perfect tailoring and style,
and good value
The reduced prices mean still
more value, ana these prices are
based on what we paid for the
goods, not what they’re worth
now, due to the rising markets.
That’s a big thing to remember.
$40.00 Suits $30.00
$35.00 Suits $26.25
$30.00 Suits $22.50
$20.00 Suits $15.00
W. D. BAILEY CO.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1918. '