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THE TIMES-RECORDER
■BTABLISHED 1879
m TIMES-RECORDER COMPANY,
(Incorporated.)
Publisher.
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Assistant Business Manager.
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OFFICIAL oßGai\ «:
City of Americus
Sumter County
Webster County
• ail road Commission of Georgia For
Third Congressional District.
C. 8. Court, Southern District of
Georgia.
Americus, Georgia, June 11, 1918,
PARAGPAPHICALLY SPEIKING |
Why do people persist in calling
June the “month of brides?”
When May and December are wed,
divorce is often their first offj
Wring.
We positively refuse to comment up
on the new summer skirts. They are
too thin a subject for this column t
discuss.
Alimony may not be the root of al
evil, but we are beginning to thin’
this evil lies at the bottom of many
marriages.
Building operations here are be
ginning to boom again. And this i
the one surest barometer of prosperit,
in every community.
No matter what a man may say or
do he is absolutely on his best be-;
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havior when his mother-in-law is a
visitor in his home.
Some ignorant person writes to in
quire whether a tomato is a fruit or
a vegetable. Sakes alike! tomatoes
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are delicacies at this season.
The peach basket hats that come !
way down over a woman’s ears are ‘
peculiarly becoming on a certain type
of beauty we have in mind.
We heard a man gay the other day: j
“Make ’em all blondes,” and his wife
being a pronounced brune’te, we just
wonder what he did mean. ■
There is at least one advantage in
marrying a grass widow: She can
never tell about how good
sweet John was” during his life
time.
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Doctors have decided there is no
positive cure for asphasia. But that
doesn’t matter if such a cure existed
jutphasia victims are so absent-mind-'
ed they’d forget all about taking their
medicine.
Probably we’ve no business repeat
ing what other people say, but we
heard a man observe today that the
new oxfords look mighty neat when'
encasing a pair of properly developed
ankles.
Somebody has suggested that if the
new secret device of the navy de
partment fails to catch the u-boats,
a corps of old maids and widows
should be assigned the job. They may
miss the boats, but they’ll catch the
men they go after every time.
The recent dry spell has destroyed
many- fine gardens about Americus,
but our appetite remains as vigorous
'ever. Which! remainds up that
this is the season of the delicious egg
plant, than which grows no more
toothsome vegetable.
This is the season when wifey at
the seashore writes home daily tell
ing how she’d love to be back in the
hot city again, while hubby darling
writes just effusively that he’g just
dying to be at the seashore with wifey,
and both are secretly glad to be rid
of the other.
GETTING) BEST OF GARDEN BUGS.
The gardener who has carefully fol
lowed the various steps of preparing
his soil, making it suitably rich, plant
; ing his seed, getting the best of the
‘ first crop of weeds, and thinning out
the surplus plants, may feel that he
; has earned “all that is coming to
him.” without further trouble. But,
there is olne more difficulty to over
come before the long desired goal is
reached. The army of gi-dcn bugs,
beetles and worms, has got to be met
and licked, and they have to be licked
in short order or, like the true Huns
that they’ are, they will destroy every
thing before them as they go.
The first thing to learn in fight
ing insects in the garden, is that you 1
cannot fight them all in the same
way. The gardener’ who waits unt’l
some insect enemy appears and then
goes into the nearest store and asks
for “something to kill bugs,” is fore
doomed to failure. It can't be done'
as easily as that. On the toiler hand|
the gardener who attempts to hunt up
a particular “cure” for every bug and
insect he meets, is not only spending
money foolishly and needlessly, but is
not likely to meet with succeess. The
very first thing to learn in the fight i
with insects is ;what the different
methods of fighting them are and w’hati
to use in each particular case. W’hen !
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one stops to think that there are two|
one stops to think that there are
or three different insects for most of
the different vegetables we grow, and;
two or three different remedies for J
every insect , it looks at first glance
as if it would take several years ex
perience and course in a medical col
lege. This, however, is not the case if
one will take the trouble to learn a
few simple rules. The first of these
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is that the remedy to be used in any
particular case depends on how the in
sects, or bug. or beetle in question at*
tacks.
There are three distinct classes:
the eating insects, the sucking insects,
and the borers and maggots, which*
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work inside of the stem or in the root. 1
The eating insects bite off and
swallow portions of the foligae or.
fruit of the plant attacked, and their,
presence can, therefore, be very easily
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detected.. The potato bug and thel
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green cabbage*worm are familiar ex
amples of this class
The sucking insects work more
stealthily and are much harder to de-'
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tect because they do not destroy
portion of the plant, but suck the plant
juices in just the same way as the
mosquito sucks blood, that is, they,
go under the surface and draw up '
the vitality of the whole plant
of destroying any part of it
The borers and root maggots, the
common aphis or green plant lice,
and squash bug are familiar examples';
of this class.
The borers and root maggots, of
cqurse, cannot be seen until their
presence is suspected by their effect
on the health of the plant. This is
i generally indicated by an unnatural>
wilting of the leaves on hot days and]
the- stunted growth.
If one stops to think a minute, it!
is quite evident that it will be use-
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i less to use an ordinary poison applied
I to the surface of the plant for either
' the sucking insects or root maggots,
so the following simple rules can
readily be kept in mind. First, for
eating insects use a surface such as
arsenate or lead or Paris green. Ar
senate of lead is better because there
is less danger of injuring the plant
and it will stay on longer. Second,
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for sucking insects, use a contact
poison such as nicotine extract or oil.
I The most effective of these and the
most convenient is 40% nicotine sul
phate which, when diluted with w’ater
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makes a clean, readily applied spray.
, For some purposes a little soap is
, added to make it stick better to the
foliage.
Borers or root maggots are either
t removed by splitting the stem of the
- plant with a small knife blade or take
» and destroy the plant to prevent fur
j ther injury to the plant.
t< Using the right thing in the right
, place is only half the fight, however.
1 Others have to be used in the right
time, and that is either before the bugs
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appear or immediately upon their first
appearance. A delay of a day or two
may mean that you will be too late
' to save your plant.
* Arsenate of lead, nicotine extract
and other insecticides or fungicides
likely to be needed should be carried
on hand ready for immediate use.
You should look over your garden
carefully every time you go through
it for the first sign of any insect trou
ble.
An Alabama man wants to know if
“dry” wine is permissible in Georgia,
this being a “dry’’ state. We don’t
understand what he's driving at. but
if he means to slip a little of the bev-!
! erage across the Chattahoochee river, 1
we warn him to e careful.
With the consumption of gasoline
about to be restricted to “business pur
poses,’ we are led to believe that
only a few of our former pleasures
I are to be enjoyed during the contin
uance of the war.
THE SITUATION AHEAD
There is little pessimism displayed
anywhere notwithstanding certain lo
cal elements where labor appears to
be somewhat demoralized. The situa-j
tion in Europe is somewhat clouded
by military operations, the outcome of
w’hich are yet uncertain.
There are, however, two very en
couraging factors in home business
affairs; the outlook for a big cotton!
crop and also a large wheat crop, ]
both of which at this period promise
to be record breakers. These are two]
of the most important crops raised]
in the United States, and their prom-;
ise of abundance is as encouraging
to our Allies as to themselves. In
other respects the crop situation is
favorable, and if present expectations
are realized they will tend to check
high prices and profiteering; for while
the Food Administration has accomp
lished wonders in the latter direction,
the law of supply and demand cannot*
be ignored, and the task of regulat
ing prices will be much easier under]
abundance than under scarcity. In
all industries pertaining to the war]
there is intense activity, and effort is
being steadily shifted from the un
necessary to the necessary products.
One source of uncertainty has been
removed, and that is labor which is
displaying a high degree of patriotism'
and steadily increasing its output!
thus offsetting to some extent the loss
es through drafting into the army.
British labor has doubled its output
since the war began by means of in-*
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tense effort and better methods. Such[
an increase of product here, however, ]
hardly to be expected, for reason [
that American labor has long been re
garded as more efficient than Brit
ish and less inclined to unfair re
striction.
Our industries are still moving in
the direction of more absolute gov-j
ernment control. The steel industry
| will probably be entirely regulated
' at Washington within a very short
i time; and now the textile manufactur
ers are looking in the same direction,
preferring the uniformity of govern
ment control to the confusion of un
certainties of part government con
trol and part private control, with at
the same time widely fluctuating mar
gins of profit and labor problems to
contend against
Tn all industrial affairs the pros
pects are for stricter government di
rection of both production and distri
bution during the war. Such efforts
were at first restricted to the supplies
of raw’ materials, but are now being
directed to not a few’ semi-manufac
tured products. Whether government
intervention will extend into retail
distribution cannot be foretold.
The war bread they’re serving now
adays is no w’orse than that produced
earlier in the wheat conservation pro
gram, but dog-goned if we don’t be
lieve it has grown a shade darker.
A buschh pudding made from rice
flour biscuit may properly be called
a “rice pudding” if we are correct in
our guess.
For Sale
700 Acres on north side city limits.
All in one tract or sub-divided.
440 Acres south side of city limits.
110 Acres at Parker’s Crossing.
1750 Acres on Dixie Highway in
Sumter county.
400 Acres 3 miles from Bronwood.
100 Acres 2 miles from Shellman.
Also 4 brick stores in Americus, and J
5 or 6 residences in Americus.
One stock of merchandise and sev
eral hundred thousand acres'of pine
! timber in South Georgia and Florida.
FRED B. ARTHUR
J. LEWIS ELLIS
Attorney at Law
Planters Bank Building
Ameiieus, Ga.
, HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTING,
latortor Decorating,
Get My Estimates.
JOE FITZGERALD.
1 109 E. Lamar St.
AMERICUS CAMP, 202, WOODMEN
OF THE WORLD.
Meets every Wednesday night in
■ung Sove’-eigiu invited to meet with
Fraternal Hall, Lam; street. All ris
ers v elccr_e. C. J. CLARKE. C C
<4AT LeMASTER, Clerk.
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F. and A. M.
AMERICUS LODGH
F. & a. M., meets
J-,.-;'*’*! eVei7 BeCond &nd
fourth Friday night
at 8 o'clock.
E. E. SCHNEIDER, W. M.
d L. HAMMOND, Secy.
1 M. B. COUNCIL
2* LODGE F. and A. M
meeta every First and
Third Friday nights.
Visiting brothers are
mvued to atteadL
DR. J. R. STATHAM, W. M.
NAT LeMASTER, Secretary.
G. S. & F. RY-
Effective May 12th 1918*
Trains leave Cordele:
2:00 P. M. —For Jacksonville and
Palatka, via Valdosta.
6:35 P. M—Local for Tifton.
3:08 A. M.—Jacksonville and Palat
ka, via Valdosta or Tifton.
4:50 A. M.—For Jacksonville, via
Tifton, connecting at Tifton for Val
dosta.
2:10 P. M.—For Macon, connecting
for points North.
&:50 A. M.—Local for Macon, con
necting for points North.
2:25 A .X. —For Macon and points
North. “Dixie Flyer.”
2:08 A. M. —For Macon and points
North, “The Southland.”
Schedule shown as information to
the publie; not guaranteed.
‘ J W. JAMISON, C. B. RHODES,
Agt.. ?. T. D. Macon, Ga. Q. P .A,
Kimball House
ATLANTA, GA.
400. ROOMS
MODERATE PRICES
CENTRALLY LOCATED
Entirely Remodeled and Redecorated
UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT
L. .1. DINKLER C. L. DINKLEB
Prop, and Mgr. Asst. Mgr.
AMERICUS
Fish & Oyster
Market
WHOLESALE ud RETAIL
John Nita A Co., Proprietors.
Fresh Spanish Mackerel, Fresh
flfator and Salt Water Trout, Red Snap
pers, Red Bass, Sheep-head and all
kinds of Bottom Fish. Shrimps, Crab*
and Oystera and Fish Rolls.
QUICK DELIVERY
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til Wejt ”onytk
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High Grade Investment Securi
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Banking Business.
Bank of Commerce
’ Americus, Georgia
Americus Undertaking Company
Funeral Directors and Embalmers
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Day Phones 88 ano 231 Night 661 and 13,
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Funeral Director
And Embalmer
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TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 1918.