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FORTY-FIRST YEAR.—NO. 90.
M’CAULEY SETS RECORD
APRIL 26 IS SET
FORVALIDATING
BOND ISSUE TO
PAVE HIGHWAYS
County to Employ Engineer to Map
Projects as One of Preliminary
Steps
BOARD TO INVITE BIDS ON
ALL VARIETIES OF PAVING
Government Sounds Warning to Con
tractors That Work Must
Be of Best
——
An order has been issued by Judge■
Z. A. Littlejohn, of the Sumter Su- j
perior court, setting April 26 as the |
date tqe the validation of the $500,000
bonds voted by the county April 9 for
the construction of permanent roads,
to be used in conjunction with an
equal amount of government funds.
T t the validation of the bond is
sue activities looking toward early ac- i
tual beginning of the road building j
will be started. The board of county ■
commissioners plans to hold a special:
meeting at an early date for the pur-1
pose of laying plans to get the road j
program under way. A message has i
been sent to W. R. Neal, state highway
engineer, asking him to name a date
when he can appear in person before
the board for the purpose of assisting
in the working out of necessary details
and to answering questions regarding
proceedure to meet the requirements
of the government in the federal aid
offer.
One matter to be taken up first is.the
employment of a civil engineer. It was
stated at the highway meeting at
Macon last week that the government
required the preliminary work to be
done at the expense of the county and
by an engineer approved by the state
highway commission. Before a con
tract for federal aid will be entered
into by the government, the projects
to be undertaken must be mapped in
detail, with surveys made. These are I
passed upon by government agents, j
and, when approved, orders are given
for proceeding with the work, with the |
government paying-one half the cost
as the work proceeds, including the
subsequent engineering work. Local
engineers may be employed, if ac
cepted by the state department, or the
department will supply a man, if ask
ed by the county.
It was stated at the Macon meeting
by Mr. Neal that the engineering work
would not have to be completed before
the July apportionment of government
funds in Atlanta, the validating of the
bonds making the county eligible to
share in this appointment. However,
a new application must be filed by
Sumter county, this to be accompan
ied by a map embracing the projects
to be undertaken. This matter of a
new application will be attended to by
the commissioners probably at their
next regular meeting.
The county board has already agreed
informally, in order to obtain the
best possible terms in buying mate
rial for the road paving, to retain an
open mind on the charaetar of paving
to be used and to advertise lor bid*
•for all varieties, including concrete,
bricki, asphalt and any otaer of a j er
manent nature. Due consideration will
be given all varieties of materials,
and that which appears to be the best
under all considerations accepted.
In this connection it was brought
out at the Macon meeting by W. A.
Crossland, United States district high
way engineer, who has been assigned
to Georgia, that only the very best
built roads would be accepted and
paid for by the government.
“I want to serve notice right now
on all contractors,” he said, “that
every foot of road constructed with
federal aid must come up to the let
ter of the specifications. I say this
now, in order that every contractor
who undertakes this work may know
what to expect and make his prices
high enough so that he can be sure
of doing exacty the kind of work that
we demand. The United States is go
ing into this road building program
for permanency, not expediency. Its
engineers will be on the job at all
times, and every bit ofwork will be
tested—and it must all meet the most
J Dandelion Comes [
to Rescue Thirsty
; Ga. Sons of Rest j
1 A TLANTA, April 17. Even <
. though a bone-dry law is now in _■
j effect, nature has come to the res- <
> cue of the thirsty “Sons of Rest.” <
> Instead of the amateur gardener $
) devoting his time exclusively to $
< spring vegetables, he will help >
? mother with the lawn this year, as f
there is a little plant growing out i
') of the green grass that will yield >
I > rich returns. Ignored, considered .
? by many who know not its quali- >
1’ ties almost an outlaw, it will now <
be cultivated in great profusion, for ;
secreted in its tiny petals is to be /
found the nectar of the gods. >
5 After being put through the S
1 proper process, it will yield a wine s
beyond the dizziest dreams of the <
thirsty. After partaking liberally ?
of this delicious beverage a man ?
S will no longer walk into a drug j
< store and put his foot on the bot- S
I tom rail and say reminiscently as <
he sips fake dimitations, and say, <
|> “They was the days.” /
!S Gentlemen, the golden dandelion ,
, $ swayeth in -the breeze. S
COLQUITT GOES
FOR ROAD BONDS
! NEARLY SOLIDLY
MOULTRIE, April 19—Colquit coun
i ty' followed the lead of Sumter coun
ty gloriously yesterday in voting
almost unanimously for paved high
ways with federal aid. The proposi
tion was identical to that of Sumter
county, being on the issuance of $500,-
000 bonds. The total vote for the
bonds, as tabulated this morning, was
2,471 for the bonds, to 171 against, this
figure including even the illegal bal
lots.
In the sixteen precincts were Fun
ston, which polled 171 votes, and
Ty Ty, 107, both unanimously for
bonds. The Moultrie district showed
a vote of 926 votes for bonds and
three against.
The bond campaign was conducted
under the auspices of the Moultrie
Chamber of Commerce under the di
rection of W. J. Vereen, of Moultrie,
| who acted as chairman, and C. B. Cald
well, who is secretary of the trade
■ body.
1 1 The election was called six weeks
.go and soon after the campaign began
‘ a county wide organiztion was form
ed, a district chairman was named for
' each of the sixteen districts and this
chairman in turn appointed committee
members to assist him. In the elec
tion today automobiles were sent from
Moultrie to all of the districts to be
used in carrying voters to the polling
places. No campaign in the history of
the county has ever been as vigorous
ly forked as this one which resulted
in a great victory for good roads bonds
and the committee which directed the
work is greatly gratified over the re
markable showing that has been;
made.
I
Soldier’s Insurance
Law in Ga. Test Case
ATLANTA, April 17.—Whether Ln
cle Sam can decline to pay war risk
insurance obtained by a soldier when
at the point of death will be deter- ’
mined in an important test case sched
uled for hearing at the present term i
of the United States court at Athens, ’
Ga. In contesting the suit filed by
Nuna Mapp, a negro woman of Athens,
• who claims payment of SIO,OOO due
■ her as beneficiary in a policy taken
■ out by her brother, who died at Fort
I Riley, Kans., while in the army, the
• government disclaims liability be
-1 cause the deceased wa ssuffering a
mortal illness in a military hospital
' when his insurance application was
■ filed. United States District Attor
-1 ney Hooper Alexander, who prepared
' the government’s answer to the suit,
1 has been advised by the war risk in
' surance bureau that the decision of
' the court will have far-reaching in
-1 fluence in serving as a precedent for
’ the bureau’s future policy.
• rigid tests. As a result, the people
i of the counties where roads are built
i, with federal aid may rest assured that
1 i their roads will be the very best, for
s the government will be watching and
tjwill accept nothing else.”
ERIC
THE TIMEsBrECORDER
PUBLISHED IN THE HEART OR
AMERICUS, GEORGIA. THURSDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 17. 1919
* FIGHT OPENED
BY RETAILERS
ONS-MILLTAX
L PLANFORCITY
Mayor’s Program for Liquidating
Debts Called Disastrous to
Best Interests
That the proposed special tax of »
mills, to be levied by the city for five
years to pay off its floating indebted
ness, would be disastrous to the best
interests of Americus, was the concen
sus of opinion as brought out at a
spirited meeting of the Retail Mer
chants’ association held last night.
This proposed tax measure is to be
brought before the coming session of
the legislature as the program of the
present city administration, worked
out by Mayor Sheppard personally,
of solving the city’s financial diffi
culties.
A committee of the merchants asso
ciation was appointed at the meeting
to make a thorough study of the sit
uation and report back to the asso
ciation at the very earliest possible j
date. I
I A committee was also appointed to •
arrange for representation before ‘he I
state ta xcommission, which will hold :
a hearing at Albany on April 25 on !
the proposed new tax bill. Americus
bankers will also be asked to co-op
erate in arranging for this hearing
It was an enthusiastic and largely ;
attended meeting, and a number of I
other matters, of interest to th easso- |
ciation, were discussed.
Bootlegger Nabbed
Inside Court House
■
Will Patterson, a negro who owns
half interest with his brother in a
considerable tract of land a few
miles northeast of Americus, is under
S4OO bond to appear before Judge
Harper at the next term ofCitv court
on a charge of selling whisky and hav
ing whisky in his possession. Pat- !
terson was captured by Sheriff Har
vey last Saturday in the courthouse. ■
The negro being under suspicion,l
Sheriff' Harvey kept an eye on him
when he entered the hall of the
courthouse, and when he and another
negro entered an unused closet the
sheriff stepped in upon them. Pat
terson had a bottle of whisky i i his
hands, but threw it to the lour, and
when it failed to break he jumped up
on it .smashing it. The other negro
was not arrested. Patterson announc
ed his intention of fighting the case.
Czecho-Slovaks Now
want American goods
I
ATLANTA, April 17.—One hundred
I milllion dollars worth of American
I raw products and manufactured goods
■ are wanted in the near future by the
I New Czecho-Slovak republic, accord
ing to Charles Perglar "on' mission er
of the little nation to the United States
who is in Atlanta addressing a num
ber of the leading commercial and
I civic bodies.
At the top of the list of American
i raw products needed by Czechi-Slo
-1 vakia is the cotton of the South, states
Conunisioner Pergler, and he expects
■ while here to make ar am'en enu for
the purchase of 1000 000 bales or. the
basis of good middling.
| Next after cotton comes American
machinery of all kinds beginning with
! agricultural implements and tunning
on up to manufac -eing machinery
for industrial plants of‘numerous
kinds.
LOCAL SPOT.
Good Middling 27 1-4 cents .
NEW YORK FUTURES
Close Open Close
Prev. Low High
May 26.7 26.90 27.39
July 25.36 25.40 25.80
Oct 23.70 23.70 24.20
Dec 23.28 23.25 23.75
Holidays, Friday and Saturday.
LT. COL. RADER
NAMED AS NEW
COMMANDER AT
SOUTHER FIELD
: Officer Ordered Here from Texas
Field—Medical Major at
Air Post
• SOTHEtR FIELD, April 17.—Offi
cial word wa sreceived here this
morning that Lieut. Colonel R A.
Kader, J. M. A., who has been sta
tioned at Ellington Field, Houston
Tex., has been appointed commanding
officer at this post, including both the
flying field and supply depot, and will
report for duty at once. The appoint
ment is dated April 14 .
Colonel Rader is not personally
known at Souther Field, but is an
officer of an excellent record in the
air service. He will as-uine the
place made vacant by the accidental
death two weeks ago of Lieut. Col.
Dickman.
No word has been received affect
ing Major E. S .Schofield, who has
been in command as the ranking offl
| cer since the death of Colonel Dick-
I man and Major Butts, but it is as-
I sumed he will remain here, and prob
i ably be left in charge of the ware-
I house, under the command of Colonel
Rader, he being better qualified for
that position that any jnan in the ser-
I vice, having been in command of the
: warehouse until its recent consolida
| tion with the flying field.
Major Courtney Perry Grover, of the
: medical division, reported today at
Souther Field for duty as post surgeon,
| coming from Carlstrom Field, Arcadia,
j Fla. Capt. Bridgeman, who has been
1 post surgeon, is understood to be pre
| paring to leave the service.
4 Killed in Milan
j in Group Outbreak
MILAN, Italy, April 17. —(By Asso
ciated Press.) —Four persons were
killed and several wounded daring
the disorders here Wednesday, inci
dent to clashes between socialist and
anti-socialist groups. The offices of
’ the newspaper Avant iwere wrecked
i ty socialists.
Workmen of Milan, Bologna, Turir
end Genoa, the principal ma mfactur
ing cities of northern Italy, began a
24 hour strike today.
U. S. Sells 15 Ships
Built in Emergency
WASHINGTON, April 17.—(8y As
sociated Press.) —The sale of the ;
war built merchant fleet began today [
by the Shipping board with the trans
fer of fifteen modern steamships to j
the Nacilema Steamship Co., of New
York, at $650,000 each. The fleet !
will be operated in trans-Atlantic
trade, five out of New York, five out
of Havana, and five out of New Or
leans. Cargoes for all fifteen have
been booked in advance.
STEWART SUPERIOR COURT
CONVENES NEXT MONDAY
LUMPKIN. April 17.—Stewart Su
perior court is to meet in session in
Lumpkin next Monday, with Judge Z.
A. Littlejohn presiding, and with Sol
icitor General Jule Felton, of Monte
-1 zuma, attending.
On account of the prevalence of in
fluenza in October last ,a very short
! session was held, an dthere is quite
an accumulation of business before the
1 court at this session.
BOND COMMITTEE TO MEET.
’ The Sumter Count yßond Campagn
> committee will meet with Chairman
Hixon at the courthouse Saturday af
ternoon at 3 o’clock for the purpose
of considering the formation of a
permanent organization whose object
it shall be to see that the bond pro
gram is carried out just as the com
mittee told the people in the cam
paign that it would be. /
> GOOD FRIDAY SEIIBICES ■
t AT CALVARY CHURCH
I The service for tomorrow, Good
i Friday, in Calvary church will be as
i follows:
i Morning Prayer 11 A. M.
Evening Prayer .....* BP. M.
Greeted Our Boys in Luxemburg :
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It’s the spirit that counts. That is why our doughboys cheered this
odd-looking American flag as they marched through Luxembourg with the
Army of Occupation. The woman, who is displaying it so proudly, made
it and the American soldiers did not have the heart to tell her she had
the stripes running the wrong way and that the field of stars was all
jumbled up.
SUMTER WOMEN ORGANIZE
FOR VICTORY LOAN DRIVE
Americus women have been organ
ized for the coming Victory loan drive
and Mrs. W. D. Ivey, general chair
man for Sumter county, announces to
day the ladies who have been named
on the various committees.
Mrs. Samuel Lumpkin, of Atlanta,
will speak nevt Tuesday night and
her address is sure to arouse a great
deal of enthusiasm.
Mrs. Ivey wishes to stress the im
portance of a meeting which will be
held Friday afternoon at the Carnegie
Library at 4:30 o’clock, and she urges
that every chairman be present. The
list of appointments follows:
General Organization.—Mrs. W. D.
Ivey, chairman; Mrs. T. O. Marshall,
vice chairman; Miss Mary Parker,
secretary.
Mrs. Walter Rylander, special
chairman, Posters.
i Mrs. Olin Williams, Rural Schools.
Mrs. H. B. Allen, Campaign Public-
i ity.
| Daughters of Confederacy.—Mrs)
j Frank Harrold, chairman ;Mrs. E. L.
! Carswell, Mrs. W. J. Josey.
Auxiliary, B. of L. E. —Mrs. C. U.
Howard, chairman; Mrs. C. A. Cul
pepper, Mrs. G. W. Lewis.
Eastern Star —Mrs. R. A, Shy,
chairman; Mrs. Edna Battle.
Chrysanthemum Club.—Mrs. D. R.
Andrews, chairman; Mrs. Ernest Sta
tham, Mrs. G. R. Ellis.
Red Cross. —Miss Louise Marshall,
chairman; Mrs. Stephen Pace, Mrs.
Eugene Cato, Miss Georgia Bena Dod-
! son, Miss Mary Hawkes.
First Methodist Church. —Mrs. R. L.
McMath, chairman; Mrs. John Taylor,
Mrs. John Sheffield, Mrs. R. P.
i Stackhouse.
Schools.—Miss Sara Cobb, chair
man.
Hospital*—Mrs. Z. A. Littlejohn,
chairman; Mrs. J. L. Sparks, Mrs. J.
R. Williams, Mrs. John Oliver, Miss
Mary Lizzie Glover.
First Baptist Church.—Msis Emma
Mae Borum, chairman; Mrs. Hollis
; Fort, Mrs. C. M. Council, Mrs. J. W.
Harris. Jr.
Presbyterian Church.—Mrs. C. P.
Davids, chairman; Mrs. A. C. Crockett,
Mrs. L. G. Henderson, Mrs. C. M.
Johnson.
Central Baptist Church. —Mrs. Lynn
Bell, chairman; Mrs. E. L. Carswell,
Mrs. R. L. Maynard.
Catholic Church. —Mrs. D. R. Brin
son, chairman.
Episcopal Church. —Mrs. C. O. Niles,
chairman; Mrs. Emory Rylander, Mrs.
Tracy Cunningham.
Daughters of American Revolution
Mrs. C. U.’ Rogers, chairman; Mrs.
Howel) Simmons, Mrs. P. L .Holt,
Miss Lula Mathis.
Lee Street Methodist Church. —Mrs.
E. B. Everette, chairman.
Plains—Mrs .Thad Wise, chairman.
DeSoto.—Mrs. Hugh Ferguson, chair
man.
Leslie—Mrs. J. J. Wilson, chair
man.
Methvin’s Store—Mrs. H. A. Bagley,
chairman.
Andersonville.—Mrs. Joseph Rooks,
chairman.
Sumter City—Mrs. Bessie McDonald,
chairman.
Dr. Crawford to
Fill Pickett’s Seat
DAWSON, April 17.—At the election
held in this county yesterday, Dr. O.
G. Cranford was chosen as Terrell
county’s representative to take the
place of DeWitt C .Pickett, who died
here some weeks since. Dr. Cranford
was elected without opposition and it
is confidently predicted that he will
make a faithful and efficient member
of the legislature. He is a successful
physician living in th etimn of Sasser.
He is also extensively interested in
farming and has large real estate hold
ings in this county.
Call Cuban Workers
to Strike on Prices
HAVANA, Aprl 117. —(By Associat
ed Press.) —Workers throughout the
republic have been called upon to ex- 1
press their sentiments in a general
strike to enforce 30 per cent reduc
tion in prices of foodstuffs and other
necessaries of life.
TOBACCO WAREHOUSE TO
RE BUILT AT LUMPKIN
LMPKIN, April 17.—Material is be
ing placed on the ground in readiness
for construction work, which will be
gin in a few days, on the tobacco
warehouse which will be erected here
to care for the crop produced in this
vicinity. The warehouse will be
about 100x200 feet, sufficiently large
to care for all the tobacco grown here
for several years.
HOME
EDITION
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
TO JACKSONVILLE
AND RETURN BY
11 A.M.; CROSSES
U. S. IN 19 HOURS
Flyer, Balked by Weather on Last
Leg of Trip Yesterday, Makes
up Time Today
AVERAGES 137 MILES PER HOUR
IN TRANS-CONTINENTAL FLIGHT
Off For Fort Worth at Noon, After
Round Trip in Forenoon U
Florida Metropolis
Major T. J. McCauley, commanding:
officer at Taliaferro Field, Fort Worth,
Tex., who arrived at Souther Field
early yesterday afternoon in a non
stop Hight from Fort Worth, today
completed his trans-continental flight
for record by going to
Fla., in two hours, giving him a flying
time of 19 hours for the 2,600 miles.
.On this trans-continental flight, which
began at San Diego, Calif., Monday
morning, only four stops were made.
They were at Tucson, Ariz., Sweet
water and Fort Worth, Tex., and
Americus. The average speed for the
entire distance was 173 miles per
hour. DeHaviland planes wees used
for the flight.
Major MacCauley started on ills
round trip to Jacksonville from Sou
ther Field early yesterday afternoon,
but 100 miles ou the encountered a
storm and returned. This morning
he took to the air at 5:40 o’clock and
landed at Jacksonville at about 7:40.
He spent an hour and 20 minutes
there, leaving at 9 o’clock and arriv
ing here at 11 a. m., having covered
a round trip distance of over 400
miles. At 11:45 he was on his way to
Fort Worth, which he expected to
reach before night. His flying time
from Fort Worth to Americus yester
day was 7 hours.
Major MacCauley does not stop for
lunch on any of these long flights, but
carries with him several bars of milk
chocolate which he eats while in the
air.
BRITON MAY START
OCEAN FLIGHT FRIDAY.
EAST CHURCH, England, April IT.
—(By Associated Press.) — Major
Wood, the British aviator, who is to
attempt a trans-Atlantic flight from
Ireland, announced his intention this
morning of flying to Limerick thfe af
ternoon. If the present weather con
ditions continue, he said he would
start his flight across the Atlantic to
morrow.
Cue Club Prepares
for Friday Feast
A barbecue is today being prepar
ed by the Americus ’Cue club for Fri
day, when all of the members, their
wives and guests will meet at 1
o’clock at the club grounds for bar
becue dinner. A number of new mem
bers and their wives will be official
ly welcomed by the club at this time.
The officers of the club request that
all members be present.
205 SUBMARINES SENT
TO BOTTOM SAYS SIMS
NEW YORK, April 17.—Rear Ad
miral Sims, who commanded the
American fleet during its war time ac
tivities in European waters, said in a
speech here that he believed there
were “205 German submarines at the
bottom ofthe sea.” In a speech at
the Bond club, a Victory loan organi
zation, he said the fleet “found many
submarines stuck on the bottom with
indications showing that many of the
men caught inside either committed
suicide or killed each other.”
For Georgia.—Fair tonight; cooler
in northeast nortion; possibly light
frost in north and central portions.
Friday, slightly warmer in interior.