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MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1918.
Tax Notice
The tax books will open
February 1, 1918, for the pur
pose of receiving state and
county tax returns and will
close May Ist, as the law re
quires. You will be required
to give numbers of your land
lots of country property and
street and number of your city
property, each house and lot
separate. I will be in my of
fice each Friday and Saturday
until my rounds are completed,
and then I will be in my office
each day until my books close,
the first day of May, as stated
above. Please come in and
return your property. Yours
respectfully,
GEO. D. JONES,
Tax Receiver of Sumter
County.
J. LEWIS ELLIS
Attorney at Law
Planter’s Bank Building
Ameiicus, Ga.
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Don’t Throw
Away
Your old Automobile Tires
and Tubes. Bring them
to us for repairs.
Our Steam Vulcanizing
Plant is at your service.
Every job we turn out is
completed by an expert
workman.
Time will demonstrate
the wisdom of bringing
, your vulcanizing to us.
G. A. & W. G.
TURPIN
The
Fragrance
of Orange
Blossoms
is no more pleasing to
the nostrils than the fla
vor of the sun-smacked
California oranges which
makes
ORANGE
CRUSH
at once the most 'palata
ble and ths most whole
some of fruit drinks.
Risk a nickel on our
recommendation.
5c the Bottle
AMERICUS
Coca-Cola
Bottling Co.
J. T. HARREN, lunger
WELFfifiE OF FEDERfII-
EMPLOYEES If WISHINGTON
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 4.
The federal government is not only
giving close attention to the matter
ot the proper housing of its new ap
pointees in Washington, but the gen
eral welfare of the employees is now
considered in greater measure than
ever before. Many of the young pco-'
pie who have come to Washington,
for work are hundreds, even thousands .
of miles from home for the first time]
in their lives. They are strangers in]
a strange land, and it is not wonder
ed at that they become homesick and
magnify the troubles that they are
bound to meet during the pe.iod oi
adjustment to new conditions. The
department heads realize that a good
clerk must be a contented one, and
many offices have appointed welfare
workers whos e business it is to make
an unobtrusive interest in the affairs
of the employees and to try to help
them with their difficulties. Experi
ments along this line have had such
good results that the number of offices
which employ welfare workers is in
ci easing.
Since the war began about 25,000
employes have been added to the civil
service in Washington. The United
States Civil Service Commission,
whose duty it is to recruit this branch
of the service, estimates that this
calendar year will add another 20,000
Stenographers are being appointed in
great numbers. There is also need
for clerks, both men and women, who
arc trained in certain special or techni
cal lines, ship draftsmen, mechanibal
draftsmen, and workmen in trades
connected with shipbuilding.. The
representatives of the civil service
commission at the post offices in all
cities are prepared to furnish definite
information and application blanks.
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For Sale.
104 acres of extra fine land, three
miles from Americus, on good road.
Most all of this place under wire
fence; good dwelling, barn and ten
ant house. An ideal little home.
Price, $75.00 per acre.
Westbrook & McDonald.
RAILROAD SLEUTH IS
KILLED BY OFFICERS
NEW YORK, March 4. When
Lieut. Howard Snyder of the Erie
Railroad detective forces discovered a
man in blue overall and red rubber
boots crouching under a freight car
in the Croxton yards in Jersey City
late yesterday he summoned his assist
ants to help corner the intruder.
Five men who were patrolling the
yard watching for thieves who con
stantly break into freight cars and
plunder the contents, resonded to
Snyder’s call. The advanced in a
wide ring, encircling the car and try
ing to guard gainst the hiding man’s
escape. He sensed his danger and
turned to flee. Before could lose
himself in the maze of cars the de
tectives fired.
When the gun fire "had stopped, in
the vague light of the yard lamps,
they saw a black figure huddled on
the ground in the direction in which
the fugitive had gone. When they i
bent over it they found it to be Lieut
Snyder.
Snyder was breathing heavily and
one of the detectives rushed to call
an ambulance. The surgeon’s exam
ination showed the Lieutenant had
been shot in the back and he was
rushed to the Cfty Hospital in Jersey
City, where he died several hours
later. 0
Th e police arrested Harry Cropper,
one of the patrol party, on a charge
of manslaughter. They say Lieut.
Snyder aroused much antagonism not
long ago by charging that some of his
men had been helping thieves to plun
der cars in the ■ Croxton yards and
accepting plunder for pay. Some de
tectives were arrested.
Snyder was forty-one years old and
lived at No. 88 Orient avenue, Jersey
City. Cropper lives at No. 11 Park
evenue. West New York.
How’s This?
We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case of Catarrh that cannot be
cured by Hall’s Catarrh Medicine.
Hall’s Catarrh Medicine has been taken
by catarrh sufferers for the past thirty
five years, and has become known as the
most reliable remedy for Catarrh. Hall’s
Catarrh Medicine acts thru the Blood on
the Mucous surfaces, expelling- the Poi
son from the Blood and healing the dis
eased portions.
After you have taken Hail’s Catarrh
Medicine for a short time you will see a
great improvement in your general
health. Start taking Hell’s C itarrh Medi
cine at once and get ti l of catarrh. Send
for testimonials, free.
y. ,T. CHENE V &CO . Toledo, Ohio.
Sold by al! D’-uggists. 75c.
THE AMERICUS HMES-RECORDEM.
THE GRIM HARVEST OF WAR
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In the midst of the devolution of war in northern France lie a German
ransport driver and his team, killed by a single high explosive shell.
TEN PEH CENT RISE
SftVANNAH GAS RATE
SAVANNAH, Ga., March 4.—A new
gas rate of a ten per cent increase
on each rate became effective in Sa
vannah yesterday. The request for
this increase wa s made by the Savan
nah Gas Company to the Georgia rail
toad commission recently and was
granted because the commissioen
realized the abnormal expense to
which all gag companies are now sub
ject. The increase is only a temporary
one to offset expenses.
There Is a strong probability that
the Savannah Gas Company’s plant
may be commandeered by the- govern
ment before the war closes. It is not
expected this will happen soon, though.
The government would want to extract
from the gas totuol, from which the
high explosive T. N. T. is made. This
is the explosive which destroyed Hali
fax. Many northern gas plants have
already been taken over.
BEE KEEPERS
MAY USE SUGAR
Which is mo'fe valuable —prospects
of ten pounds of honey next summer
or a pound of sugar this spring. The
food administration, trusting in the in
dustry of the beet, has decided that
even in the fact of a world war su
gar scarcity, bees are entitled to their
share.
Bee keepers throughout the country
have been reporting to the United
State Food Administration their in
ability to secure sugar with which
to prevent starvation among their
colonies. Last season was a patricu
larly unfavorable one one. Owing to
drouths and failure of clover and
other crops in some sections, the bees
were unable to store sufficient food to
carry them through the winter. Un
der such conditions a syrup made from
white granulated sugar is needed to
feed them. Any other kind of food,
except w’hen bees are ffying frequent,
ly, tends to produce a condition of
the bees known as dysentery. But
some dealers fearing they might
violate rules or at least the spirit of
of food administration, have hesitat
ed to deliver sugar to the bee keeper?.
In handling this problem the food
administration has not only authorized
but encouraged the delivery to the
bee keepers of a sufficient quantity of
.sugar to meet urgent bee-feeding re
quirements, Dr. E. F. Phillips, api
culturists of the Ufl Sti Department
of Agriculture, estimates that every
pound of sugor now’ fed to starving
bees will resit in the production of
at least ten pounds of honey next
season. In many cases the increase
will greatly exceed this.
DMI SUFFER
Use Soothing Musterole
When those sharp pains go shooting
through your head, when your skull
seems as if it would split, just rub a
little Musterole on your temples and
neck. It draws out the inflammation,
soothes away the pain, usually giving
quick relief.
Musterole is a clean, white ointment,
made with oil of mustard. Better than a
mustard plaster and does not blister.
Many doctors and nurses frankly rec
ommend Musterole for sore throat, bron
chitis, croup, stiff neck, asthma, neural
gia, congestion, pleurisy, rheumatism,
lumbago, pains and aches of the back or
oints, sprains, sore muscles, bruises,
chilblain®, frosted feet colds of the
chest (it often prevents pneumonia). It
is always dependable.
30c and 60c jars; hospital size $2.50.
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PROHIBITION RECORD
111 GtW IS USED
ATLANTA, Ga., March 4. —Aiding in
the prohibition campaign now being
waged in Minnesota to banish the
saloon, James A. Christian, superin
tendent of the Georgia Anti-Saloon
i League, has enjoyed a splendid op
! portunity to present to the voters of
; that state the facts showing how pro
. hibition has affected Georgia, and in-
I formation just, received here from
Mr. Christian is to the effect taht the
story of conditions in Georgia is get
ting good results.
Mr. Christian has shown that pro
hibition in Georgia almost immediately
resulted in a very marked reduction
in crime, and as month aften month
went by it almost emptied the jails
and chaingangs. He has shown that it
resulted in a general increase in pros
perity and good times. Merchants
have enjoyed better collections and
sold more goods of better quality.
School attendance has been larger.
Labor has been more reliable both in
the city and on the farm, and has pro
duced a greater output than ever be
fore.
One of the first questions that will
come before the Georgia legislature
w’hen it meets this summer is action
cm the prohibition amendment to the
federal constitution, which is now be
fore the state legislatures on a referen
dum, having passed congress forever
prohibiting the manufacture, sale and
importation of alcoholic liquors. It
is generally believed that the Georgia
legislature will ratify it by a very
large majority.
NO fIOVERTISEMEfiITS
OE FLDOHNO SUGAR
ATLANTA, Ga., March 4.—After
May 1 the Food Administration will
place a ban on advertisements of flour
and sugar, on account of the fact that
both these commodities are extremely
short and the Food Administration is
exerting every possible effort to cut
down consumption in order to avert
an actual and distressing lack of them
in many communities.
Farmers who have bought a greater
supply of flour than the regulations
•permit would do a wise thing by dis
tributing their surplus among their
neighbors at actual cost, or selling it
ack to the dealers from whom they
bought it. The food administration is
going after flour hoarders in a sys
tematic and determined manner, and
expects to round up all of them.
The rule against slaughtering hens
and pullets is being rigidly enforced
so as to conserve the supply of eggs.
Merchants, peddlers or other dealers
having live hens and pullets on hand
will be prosecuted, unless the same
are sold for laying purposes.
SAVANNAH HI OPENS
OWN SAVINGS BANK
SAVANNAH, Ga., March 4.—The Sa
vannah High School Savings Bank
opened with fully seventy-five per cent
of the entire student body as depos
itors. The success of the initial open
ing was far greater than expected. The
purpose of the bank is to encourage
thrift among the students and as the
money is deposited it is converted into
thrift stamps and turned over to its
protector, the Hibernia Bank. The of
-of the bank were elected from
the student body. The furniture and
counters of the institution was built
in the school work shop. The bank is
a “regular” one with cashier, teller
and bookkeeper’s window.
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I Special for I
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■ We have two dozen 6 lb. I
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Westinghouse Electric Irons
U listed at $5.00 to sell for J
I $4.25 I
Americus Lighting Co. i
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0 'pHE undersigned has pur- S
f| chased' the entire capital
$ stock of the Americus Home £
® Mix tare Guano Co., and in fu- ®
ture this plant will be operated as 9
L. G. Council’s •
Fertilizer Works •
The manufacturing and mixing
department will be under the su- .
r K 1 pervision of Mr. E. F. Wilder, a
I as h a£ l 25 years experi- $
ence in manufacturing Fertilizers. O
Planters and dealers are assured •
that nothing but the best grade ®
of goods will be manufactured. ®
W es t q Ua lity w iH b e used.
Th e pT an t is conveniently Io- .
®® ® ® ® cated for wagon delivery.
Your patronage is respectfully .
solicited.
• L. G. COUNCIL •
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• Saxon Six $llOO •
• Delivered, Full of Gas and Oil •
® See the Leslie Auto Co., of Ameiicus, •
E. B. Lee, of Leesburg, Plains Auto
S Co., of Plains, and let them explain •
" to you the merits of tne Saxon Car
before you buy any kind of car. ®
• The Saxon Car is the most •
• economical car on the market. •
• Two Passenger Roadster SSOO •
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