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DAILY
CITY
EDITION
FORTIETH TEAK
FRESH ENEMY
IRQOPS Fill
TO STOP HAIG'S
LINT OF STEEL
MENS ARE BEING PUSHED RACK
ON FRONT OF MORE THAN
TWENTY-FIVE MILES, AND ARE
NEARING OLD HINDENBURG
LINE.—BA PA FME IS BEING
SLOWLY POCKETED BY ALLIES.
NEW YORK. August 26.—(Compiled
from news Dispatches during the
day.)—Extending the Picardy battle
line far to the north into the Artois
sector, the British launched an attack
this morning in the Scarpe region
east of Arras. This attack may be
considered as a new r development of
the terrific battle east of the Ancre
rive r which has been going on since
last Wednesday.
The British war office says that
food progress is being made in the
sew attack which has begun in an
area where the Germans hold strong
ly fortified lines which have been
held by them for the last two yea' s.
.Tost, to the south of the Cojuil river
the British have seemingly encoun
tered a slight setback, for today’s
reports show that they are fighting
west of regions where the battle was
said io be going on yesterday.
Bapaume is seemingly being slow
.* pocketed by the British. Favreuil a
mile and a Jpalf to the northeast has
been taken by the British who have
passed beyond the village, while fur
ther north Mory has been left behind
by Field Marshal Haig’s men.
Progress on each side of the S'omme
river is officially reported from Lon
don and it is said that the British
are advacing towardd Mouricourt,
four miles northeast of Bray.
There has been great artillery ac
tivity from Roye to the Aisne river,
according to the French official re
port, but there is no mention of new
infantry in this vital sector. German
surprise attacks on the French lines
in the Vosges sector have been re
pulsed, according to Paris.
BRITISH STRIKE
HEAR ARRIS ARD
AIAHTTOWISFALI
AS HUES MOVE
LONDON, August 26.—This morn
ing's attack by the British was
launched between the Scarpe river
and Fampoux and the heights north
east of Xevilie-Yitasse.
In a few hours the-British made an
advance of two miles on a front of
four miles, according to advices re
ceived here from the battle front. '
Monchy Le Preux. Guemmappe and
Wancourt, a little less than five miles
southeast of Arras, have been taken
in today’s attack. Farther south the
British have taken Mory and made
progress to the southeast of the vil
lage
In the battle area south of the
gomme General Debenev’s French
army als 0 has made a slight advance
between the Ailette and the Aisne.
WHO’S WHO
IN SUMTER COUNTY!
AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDEK
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This photo of the harbor of Zee
brugge, Belgium, was taken several
weeks ago, long after the British had
VETEOARS HERE
IITERESTEO IN
AMENDMERIS TO
BE NOTED UPON
AMERIUUS CONFEDERATES, ALONG
WITH OTHERS IN GEORGIA WILL
SUPPORT MEASURES DESIGNED
TO EXTEND OPERATION OF
PENSION LAW TO INCLUDE
WORTHY BENEFICIARIES.
Americus Confederate v eterans,
members of Camp Sumter, No. 642,
U. C. V., it is stated, will hehartily
support the tw 0 constitutional amend
ments to be voted upon in the No
vember election, affecting the status
of Confederate pensioners.
Capt. John A. Cobb, ordinary here,
received a letter from Penison Com
missioner Lindsey Saturday, calling
his attention to twtf constitutional
aniendmeiU, of importance to Con
federates which will be submitted to
the voters at the November election.
One of these is the proposition to
s'rike out of the law provision limit
ing the property possession of pen
sioners. This provision • denies a
pension to any veteran or widow of
a veteran who owns property to the
value of $1,500.
The second proposition- to be voted
upon is one to change the date upou
which widows who married Confed
erates since the war may be entitled
to pensions. Under the present law
only those widows who married vet
erans prior to January Ist. 1870, may
draw pensions, and the pending
amendment provides that this date
shall be extended until January Ist,
1881.
There is considerable local interest
in the tw D propositions, and it is
probable that the veterans of Camp
Sumter will formally endorse the two
propositions / at their next meeting
The two propositions, if adopted,
will become effective during 1919.
Four hundred prisoners were taken
by this army yesterday.
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IN SUMTER COUNTY!
AMERICUS, GEORGIA. MONDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 26, 1918
sunk cruisers filled with cement to
block the channel and prevent ll
boats from escaping. The picture was
obtain' d from Holland and the origi
PLEA FOR MERCER
IT FIRST BAPTIST
BT DR. BURROWS
IS HEARDJT MINT
DEAN OF AMERICUS MINISTERS
TOLD OF NEW FACULTY AND
t
URGED BAPTISTS TO SEND
THEIR SONS TO COLLEGE AT
MACON.—PLAN OF WILSON FOR
EDUCATING SOLDIER BOYS COM
MENDED.
At the 11:00 o'clock service at First
Baptist church Sunday morning Rev.
Lansing Burrows one of the trustees
of Mercer University, and an en
thusiastic worker in behalf of that
institution, presented the new faculty
tj Americus Baptists. He told in de
‘ail of each of the new men who have
been gathered together by Dr. Rufus
W. Weaver, as ai new faculty for Mer
cer. and expressed the conviction that
the hand of God direetel the gather
ing of the able organization only re
cently perfected.
Dr. Burrows then appealed to Am
ericas Baptists to support Mercer
more liberally by sending their boys
there to receive an education and as
serted that no other university in all
Georgia is better equipped for the
work of educating the youth of the
state than Mercer. He also com
mented the plan of President Wilson
to educate bays under twenty-on
years of age who are called into the
army at government expense, and
asked all parents present to confer
with him regarding the proposition
which has been evolved by President
Wilson and approved by the War de
partment.
At the evening hour in this church
the congregations of Central Baptist
church and of Presbyterian church
me. with that of FVrst Baptist in ex
tending a welcome to Dr. Carl W.
Minor, new pastor of the last named
church.
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IV SUMTER COUNTY!
nal had come from Germany. It.
shows 'try little space for U-boats
to leave their base, from which they
had preyed on allied commerce.
MINISTERS ARE
CONSIDERING 1-
MINUTE PRATER
PROPOSAL NOW
REV. GEORGE F. BROWN WILL SE
CURE EXPRESSIONS OF OPIN
ION FROM MINISTERS HERE
RELATIVE TO PROPER HOUR
for Observance of sugges
tion ALREADY. ADVANC ED.
The ministers of .Americus are con
sidering carefully the subject of in
augurating one-minute prayers daily
for the success of American arms,
and it now appears quite probable
the custom will be established here.
Dr. Leroy G. Henderson, president
-it the Ministers’ association here, is
out of the city for 'ten days, but be
fore leaving he asked Rev. George F.
Brown, pastor of Central Baptist
chutch to secure expressions of opin
ion from other ministers on this high
ly important subject. The opinion of
citizens generally is also invited, and
The Times-Recorder will gladly pub
lish the opinions of all who care to
express themselves in these columns.
It is the purpose of the ministers
here to first arouse public sentiemnt
before asking city council to formally
proclaim daily observance of the one
uiinute prayer custom, and it is be
lieved there will be a ready and gen
eral response to the appeal for ex
pressions of opinion. All who do not
care to write a communication on
the subject may call either Rev.
George F. Brown, at phone 726. or
their own pastor, and give their ap
nroxal of the project.
Rev. Paul W. Ellis, pastor of First
Methodist church, whose congregation
is one of the largest and most influ
ential in Americus. is out of the city
this week and definite action on the
proposal to ask council to act in the
matter will probably be postponed
until he has returned and placed the
matter before his congregation at the
prayer meeting hour Thursday night.
In the meantime, there appears to be
WHO’S WHO
IN SOFTER COUNTY!
GRANT KILLED ID
AUTO ACCIDENT OH
DIXIE HIGHWAY FIVE
MILES FROM CITY
WELL KNOWN YOUNG FARMER
DIED SHORTLY AFTER ACCI
DENT IN WHICH CAR WAS
WRECKED AND CHAMPION
SLIGHTLY INJURED. VICTIM
BURIED SUNDAY AT NEW ERA
CHURCH.
An automobile accident which re
sulted fatally for Julian J. Grant, a
well known farmer residing a few
miles from Americus, occurred Sat
urday night near the M. B. Council
place on the Dixie Highway. The
scene of the accident is about five
miles from this city, and hundreds
of persons visited the spot during
Sunday, the wrecked car remaining
wedged between two trees practically
all day yesterday.
With Grant at the time of the acci
dent was John Freeman, his brother
in-law, and the accident is said to
have been due to Grant’s inexperience
as a driver. According to informa
tion given The Tinies-Reeorder by a
relative of Grant and Freeman, the
accident was unavoidable. At the
spot where the Grant car left the
roadway there is a slight depression
where a small branch formerly cross
ed the highway, and in passing a ear
in the same direction Grant must
have turned tao far one side, his car
swerving suddenly off the road, and
striking a tree, the impact demolish
ing the entire front of the car, the
driver being fatally injured as well.
Following the accident, soldiers
from Souther Field took the two in
jured men to the military hospital
there and their injuries were attend
ed to,. Grant lived, perhaps, two
hours after the accident, and died in
the hospital, while his companion.
Freeman, was not seriously injured.
The car in which the two men were
riding at the time of the accident had
only recently been purchased by
Grant, and had a high-powered mo
tor. capable of developing unusual
speed
The unfortunate victim of the ac
cident was a son of J. J- Grant, a
well known farmer of New Ear dis
trict, and the remains were carried
Pleasant Grove for interment Sunday,
the remains being laid to rest in the
cemetery there.
The dead man was twenty-two
years of age. and is survived by his
wife, who was formerly Miss Naomi
Johnson; his parents. Mr. and Mrs.
J. J. Grant. Sr.; two sisters, Missses
Ethel and Lucille Grant, and four
brothers, Leroy Grant, William A,
Grant, William Grant, and John W.
Grant, all residents of Sumter coun
ty. He was a member of Pleasant
Grove Baptist church, and of Ameri
cus Camp. No. 202. Woodmen of the
World, which organization was in
charge of the funeral exercises. Rev.
E. T Moore, of Andersonville, was
the officiating minister, and the pall
bearers were W. P. McArthur. J. C
Pouncey, Berry Parker. J. R. Edge, J.
A. Murphy and C. H. Johdan.
a very general sentiment favorable
to tbservance of the one-iuinute pray
er custom here, and all that remains
to be decided is the hour when all
w’t join together in this daily inter
cession with God for our boys who
are fabling in France.
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IN SUMTER COUNTY!
SASTE SUGAR
WRIT ROTS ARD
WHO'S WHO WILL
DE FEATURES OF
GOMING^EDITION
T.-R. IVII.I, ISSUE BIGGEST PAPER
EVER PRINTED IN AMERICUS,
AND ITS CONTENTS WILL FORM
VERITABLE CYCLOPEDIA OF
VA LUABLE INFORMATION
ABOUT PEOPLE HERE.
“Who's Who,” versus “What's
Nots." That’s the issue.
The Times-Recorder has sounded
the people and the response is unmis
takable. People here want to know
“Who’s Who.”
The “What’s Nots” are the fellows
who are not progressive. There are
a few of these in every community.
They are the hewers of wood and
the drawers, of water. These fellows
will not be mentioned in The Times-
Recorder’s big “Who’s Who” edition,
The big people are the ones who will
have their records written in the
pages of the big issue.
There are always enough of those
who have signified their intention of
coming to insure the success of the
issue. It looks now like there will
be thirty pages of the paper, and
that it will be the best compendium
of Sumter county history ever of
fered the people of this section. Ev
ery day there are new features sug
gested, and many of these will be
adopted.
Vioday a man dropped Into the
Times-Recorder to talk about the
coming edition. T want my farm
writlen up,” he said “No historic;
edit mu of your paper shall appea"
without a write-up of my place. The
people ought to know about the fine
hogs eud cattle I have out there. 1
want them to know what fine cotton
crops are produced annually on my
farm.' And he is right. There are
many business men in Americus who
are farmers in the county, and who
are proud of their achievements as
sons of the soil. Thus write-ups of
several farms will be an added fea
ture of the edition.
Another man who has a son in
the army in France says he wants
people to know about his son's rec
ord. There are others like him, and
so it now seems there will be at least
a page devoted to the boys who have
gone from Americus to the Great
War. Their parents’ records, made
during the sixties, will be recorded
along with those of the boys who are
fighting today for democracy. One
will not outshine the other. The
Times-Recorder will carry pictures of
,he soldiers of three armies, and the
veterans of the sixties will be fea
tured along with those who fought
in the Spanish-Amerlcan war and
those who are fighting today in
France.
AUSTRIAN TROOPS
REACH WEST FRONT
PARIS, August 26.—The appear
ance of Austro-Hungarian troops on
tne western front did not surprise the
tew papers, which declare that the
presence of the Austrians behind '.he
German lines was actually known for
several months. The presence of tb»
Austrians as fighting troops at the re
quest of Germany is declared to be
striking proof of the seriousness of
the enemy’s situation.
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IN SUMTER BOUNTY t
NUMBER 198