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DAILY
CITY
EDITION
FORTIETH YEAR
OLD HINDENBURG
LINE BROKEN 01
BRITISH EASE OF
HENINEMEPORT
BRITISH TROOPS ABE ESTABLISH-
ED IN THE OUTSKIRTS OF BAP-
AUME.— TWENTY ONE THOUS
AND PRISONERS TAKEN IN
PIUABDY SINCE WEDNESDAY-
FIGHTING CONTINUES DESPER-
ATE.
WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN
FRANCE, August 27. —The Hinden
burg line has been penetrated by the
British troops at a point east of Heni
■eL
British forces are established in
the northern outskirts of Bapaume, I
according to the official statement is
sued at the war office today.
British forces in the great battle
ia northern Picardy are making pro
gress towards the village of Beug
■htre, 2 1-2 miles northeast of Bap
aume, according to the official state
ment issued at the war office today.
There is hard fighting around Croi
silles, further north, the statement!
says.
Since last Wednesday, the British'
have taken 21,000 prisoners, the state
ment says.
Australian forces have made sub
stantial progress toward Dompierre.
south of the Somme, and east of Su
sanne, north of the river, the state
ment adds.
BRITISH SMASH ON
IN PICNRBT WHERE
DESPERATE'BATTLE
IS IN NOW RAGING
FRENCH ADVANCING IN THE VI-J
CINITY OF ROVE WHERE HEAVY ;
GERMAN COUNTER ATTACKS (
HAVE BEEN MADE»—BRITISH
PROGRESS IS SLOW BUT CON
TINUOUS ON WHOLE LINE.
NEW YORK. August 27.—(Compil
ed from news dispatches during the
day.)— Smashing through the German
lines in the battlefield of northern
Picardy, British troops have reachei
the western and northern outskirts of
Bapaume, the town which has been
considered the keystone of the enenr
lines in that sector of the front.
The official statement issued at
London today shows slow but con
tinued progress in almost every part
of the line from Croisilles, far to the
north, to well below the fiomme river.
The British are advancing towards
Beugnatre, two and a half miles
northeast of Bapaume Nearer the
Somme river they have moved east
ward along the difficult ground that
boders that stream. They are report
cd east of Suzanne, which is situated
on the northern bank of the river and
are closing in on Dompierre. which
may be the pivot of the German lines
south of the Somme in the direction
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WHO’S WHO
IN SUMTER COUNTY!
AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER
"UVEST LITTLE DAILY IN GEORGIA."
fiHEATEST ISSUE
HEN GOTTEN BUT
Will 8E "WHO'S
WHO” EDITION T.-l.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE WILL BE
ASKED TO ENDORSE PROPOSI
- AD WHOLE PAGE IS TO BE
DEVOTED TO AMERICUS INDUS
TRIES—BUSINESS HOUSES WANT
SPACE RESERVED.
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Active work of the Times-Recorder’s
big “Who’s Who in Sumter County’’
edition has commenced.
Solicitation in behalf of the great
newspaper which will contain so much
valuable informat ion about Sumter
ad surrounding counties began thia
afternoon, and when Mrs. Gertrude
Butts, who is directing this- feature,
returned to this office at night, she
brought with her several cont racts j
for write-ups. Few of those ap
proached failed to grasp the opportu-1
nity offered to record their history
in this greatest of all histories of
Sumter county. The Chamber of Com-1
merce will be asked to endorse the
issue this week.
Business houses are interested in ‘
the issue, which it is planned to Is
sue near the end of September, and
already two or three big houses have
reserved space. The smaller estab
lishments will also advertise in the is-,
sue, and when the big newspaper ap
pears its pages will comprise a com- ■
plete business and professional di
rectory of the community. There will >
be space for all who apply, and it
is anticipated that every house here '
—big and little—will apply for space. I
Individuals who have records pfj
interest in the community will occupy '
the major portion of the edition, how
ever, as it was especially with this j
purpose in mind that the edition was .
first conceived. The Times-Recorder
wants to present to the community a
complete, accurate and extensive his
tory of every man of prominence here.
We want to tell the people “Who’s
Who” and the issue will be replete
with the recital of the life histoi' .
of men who have made Americus and
whose work have contributed so
largely to its upbuilding. Those who
have given of their genius to the n
tion and those who have offered their .
lives in defense of the realm, all will
have a place in the big edition, and
The Times-Recorder has every reason
to believe /Chat all Americus and
Sumter county will feel proud of it i
NEGROES HERE LIBERAL
WHEN SCHOOLS NEED
Negroes in Sumter county are lib
eral in their support of the rural
schools. according to Supt. E. J. Mc-
Math who told a Times-Recorder rep
resentative this morning that when
patrons of a certain negro school
earned the state appropriation and
other funds available were not suffi
cient to provide teachers during the
usual term, they went
into their pockets and provided most
of the money necessary. At the same
time they pledged the remaining
funds needed, and the school will op
erate throughout the term as a re
sult of their action. The attitude of
. the negroes toward their school is
most praiseworthy, and this paper
takes pleasure in recording their ac
tion in providing needed funds as an
act at once patriotic and commend
t
able.
WHO’S WHO
IN SUMTER COUNTY!
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 27, 1918
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eral Pershing, the Ameriacn comman-
005SIII SOLOIEOS
BEIUSHIS TO HEID
APPELL TO FIGHT
OTTOH-SLOVIKAOMT
LENINE AND TROTSY HAVE BOTH
LEFT PETROGKAD AND ARE
ABOARD SHIPS READY TO FLEE
INTO GERMANY—LATER PLEADS
WITH RUSSIANS TO STRIKE AT
COUNTER REVOLUTIONISTS.
WASHINGTON. D. C„ August 27.
Nearly all the Bolshevik leaders have
lett Petrograd and Moscow and it is
almost impossible to see those who
are left, according to information
reaching the state department ■ today
from Stockholm from a man who left
Petrograd August 13. He reported
Lenine, the Bolshevik premier, on a
battle ship at Kronstadt and Trotzky
aboard the former emperor’s yatch.
a short distance below Petrograd.
This report is denied by the Swed
ish press, but the department infor
mant said it was current w r hen he
left Petrograd. His message told also
of a meeting held- at Kronstadt in an
endeavor to get the soldiers there to
agree to fight against the Czecho
slovaks. There were about 7,000 sol
diers present to hear an address by
Trotzky, but it was intimated that
most of them could not be persuaded
to move against the Czechs.
Several arrests were reported made
at Jaroslav in a counter-revolution
ary plot, and the 'prisoners sept to
Kronstadt as prisoners only to Ge set
free by the garrison.
As an example of the difficulty of
travel in eastern Siberia, the state de
partment made public today informa
tion from Pekin reporting the arrival
there of an Englishman from Irkutsk
after twenty-two days on the road.
Two Americans arrived at J'rga on
August 7, having been forty days trav
eling from Irkutsk.
WHO’S WHO
IN SUMTER COUNTY!
der. after they had been in conference
<m i Fie offensive by which the Ger
mans have been driven to the Vesle.
J. 1. STBTTTB 15
HEW SUPERIHTEHT
ALABLMfI DIVISION
SELBDLRB AIR LINE
FORMER GENERAL MANAGER OF
D. A C, AND ONE OF BEST
KNOWN RAILROAD MEN IN
GEORGIA. NAMED TO SUCCr.EH
C. S. PATTON AS HEAD OF THIS
DIVISION OF SEABOARD.
The appointment of J. A. Streyer
to lie fUi>Tintendent of the Alabama
Division of the Seaboard Air Line is
of interest to Americus people, as the
i Seaboard lines through this city are
a part of the Alabama division. Mr.
Streyer succeeds C. S. Patton, who
has been superintendent here during
several years, has been named super
intendent of motive power of the en
the Seaboard system, with headquar
ters at Norfork, and will go to that
city within a few days to begin his
new duties.
Mr. Strayer, wh o will be in charge
of the Seaboard here in future, was '
until recently general manager of the
Macon, Dublin and Savannah rail
road, an important short line operat- ■
ing bet ween Macon and Vidalia. Ga.. >
and one of the best feeders on this
division of the Seaboard system. He
is one of the best known railroad of
ficials in Georgia and is an opera--
ing official of known ability.
Mr. Patton, who has been superin-
I
tendent of the Seaboard here during
several years, is popular among all of
the employees of that line as well as
in business and social circles here.
His elevation to be superintendent of
motive power for the Seaboard is a
well deserved tribute to his ability as
an official. His removal from Ameri
cus will be learned of with regret by
many friends here although all of
these will congratulate him upon the
substantial promotion given him.
WH(FB WHO
IN SUMTER COUNTTI
HE SCNDOI NOi
MISS SESSION BT
f/HLURE OE SOLONS
TO MSS JEWE
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE HELD
ANOTHER MEETING TO CON-
SIDER AFFAIRS OF SCHOOL
YESTERDAY AND GEORGE ELLIS
WAS APPOINTED TO CONFER
WITH GOVERNOR CONCERNING
MATTER.
A meet’iig of the commissioners ot
the /mericus and Sumter County
Chai.il,er of Commerce was held yes
terday afternoon for the especial pur
pose of considering the affairs of the
Third District Agricultural and Me
chanical school here, aud to make
certain that the institution would open
its session on time next month
At this meeting George R. Ellis was
appointed a committee of one to con
sult with Governor Dorsey regarding
the status of the school, and. if nec
essary, to go to Atlanta, and there
talk with the governor at length re
garding the condition of affairs there.
In accordance with this resolution,
Mr. Ellis called Governor Dorsey
over the 'phone and held a long con
versation, the result of this conver
sation being the authorized announce
ment that the school will open on!
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September third, and that the session I
1 M I
will continue uninterrupted through-,
out the school year.
Several days ago the trustees of
the institution, after the consideration .
of th® difficulties confronting the i
school, resulting from the failure of
X.
the legislature to provide funds nec
essary for the completion of the Ad
ministration building on the campus,
issued an “information” which result
ed in the Chamber of Commerce inter
esting itself in the affairs of the in
stitution. As a result of the inter
vention of the business men’s organi
zation the school’s difficulties have
been practically all smoothed out, and
the faculty and prospective students
have been notified to be present for
the open!, g session.
There has gone abroad an intima
tion that the school-would not op -n ■
this tension, and the Chamber of
Commerce is anxious to counteract
this impression as emphatically as
P<.ssit>ie Governor Dorsey has prom
ised to communicate with the author
ities here either this afternoon or to
morrow, and when his communication
is received a further announcement
on the subject may be anticipated.
HARRISON IS TO
BEGIN OVERSEAS
SERVICE FOR “Y”
Dr. ,1. B. Harrison, who left Amer
icus sometime ago to begin training
for Y. M. C. A. war work, has advised
friends here of his departure from
Yv'ilmingten, where he has been train
ing for New York, whence he expects
t G be ordered overseas for active
1 duty Dr Harrison was formerly pre
•-tr ; tionist for the Howell-Prather
drug store here, and was prominent
in Mas >nic circles here. His many
friends will learn with interest that
he has r-ompened his training, and
v.ill wish for him a successful car?er
as a “Y" man »• the front
WHO’S WHO
IN SUMTER COUNTY!
StFGAH
MAN
who
SALE OF DUROCS
LT ARLES GfIHT
SUCCESS; MINI
BOOM STOCK
FIFTY-ONE HEAD OF'HRED SOWS
AND GILTS SOLD FOR AN AG-
GREGATE OF SEVENTY-FIVK
HUNDRED DOLLARS, OR AN AV-
ERAGE OF $148.43.—-THOSE WHO
PURCHASED HOGS AT SALK.
The recent sale of bred sows and
gilts at the Arles Plantation here,
was, probably, the most successful
in the history of that splendid plan
tation, being largely attended by
prominent stockmen from ail parts
of Georgia.
Only registeed Durocs were offere
ed, and there was lively competition
among the bidders for several of the
pribe specimens offered. The largest
price paid for a single sow was $47 &
paid by J. A. Matthews, of Reynolds,
for an exceptionally fine animal,
which after several other bidders had
offered large money for her, Dr. B. T.
Wise, of Plains paid $1,505.00 for « t
bunch of eleven Durocs, being the
largest purchaser at the sale.
Other purchasers were Peacock and
Hodge, of Cochran, Ga.; W. A. Jen
nings, of Thomasville, Ga.; T. M.
Merritt, Americus, Ga.; Chas. L. Ans
ley, Americus; H. W. Manor, Dal
las, Ga.; J. S. Matthews. Americus;
R. S. Pryor, Smithville, Ga.; Walter
L. Wight, Cairo, Ga.; W. O. Easter
lin. Americus. Ga.; J. W. Adams. Wes
ton. Ga.; E. M. Sanders. Alapaha. Ga;
M. S. Edomnson, Americus; R. P-
Stackhouse. Americus; B. A. Conner,
Higgston, Ga.; Chas. F. Oxford. Daw
son, Ga.; b. B. Tobin, BamsweJl, S.
C.; J. T. Bolton. Americus, and C. B.
Hunter, Nashville, Ark.
The sales wetfe conducted along
tile same line as others held at Arles,
and the guests present were enter
tained at dinner with Manager W. T.
Calhoun as host.
DEATH OF MRS. GEO-
E. SPEARING MONDAY
Mrs. George E. Spearing, until re
cently a resident of Jacksonville, Fla.
died here Monday, death following an
illness of one month. She was twen
ty-three years of age and had resided
in Americus only three months, mak
ing hep home with Mrs. J. T. Alex
ander, on bee street. She wae
popular among a wide circle of
friends and was universally loved
here She was of kindly disposition
and always ready to assist those in
need. The deepest regret was know
ing that she would have to leave het
husband and baby the latter just four
teen months old.
The remains were taken to Jack
sonville at 12:45 o’clock this morning
and the funeral and interment will
be held there. v
Surviving relatives include her hus
band, George E. Speaking, Jr., her
step-father and her mother. Capt. and
Mrs. F. A Santina, of Jacksonville.
Fla., and one sister. Miss Agues
Mixell. T o all of these is extended
the sympathy of their many friends
in their hour of bereavement. (
WHO’S WHO
IN SUMTER BOUNTY!
NUMBER 19»