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OLD GUARD OF i
ANDERSONVILLE i
REFUTES TALES
CORDELE. Ap ril2l. —A. J. Child
ress, who was a sixteen-year-old
guard at Andersonville prison one
year of the Confederacy, is here on a
visit from his home in Rutledge. He
went to Andersonville the other day,
the first time since he left the mili
tary prison. The preposterous in
formation he gathers from the monu
ments erected there makes him burn
with indignation.
The intimation that a bloudburst ;
opened up the spring in the prison '
grounds for water for the imprisoned
men was resented by Mr. Childress [
who saw the spring running in all
nature’s purity before even the stock- |
ade was completed. The site was!
chosen because of the fresh water. *
He defended Major Wirz as a braze
and fearless officer full of human!
sympathy and well qualified for his
duties, and performing them well and
faithfully. He recounted that this of
ficer was courtmartialed and shot af
ter peace, an illegal procedure that
made his death a statuatory murder.
Mr. Childress declares, he knows of
the fact that Major Wirz would have
been given his liberty if he had re
vealed the whereabouts of President
Davis of the Confederacy. That test
was put to him and he chose to die
rather than betray his leader. Major
Wirz was a Swede, but a fine man, Mr.
Childress declares.
Mr. Childress says the prisoners
got as good as the Confederacy could
give as provisoins and none of them
suffered from hunger or thirst. Only
one man was shot during the exis
tence of the prison, and this was a
crazy prisoner trying to escape and
whose mental condition was not
known to the guard who shot him.
He says he distinctly remembers
the stockade, the hospital, and the
daily ration. The stockade, he believes,
and also the hospital, were both
approximately what they are in mod
ern warfare, much the same as those
used today with the armies fighting
Germany, so far as he has seen.
Mr. Childress was at the north
gate of the prison, not far away. One
time he was standing on his rail at
his stoop at rest, the only relaxation
allowed. He heard a rumbling. This
was possible to hear because he was
on the stoop and bending his head to
the rail. He called for the corporal
of the guard and a deep tunnel was
disclosed with men in it cut off from
behind by the fence wall of heavy
timbers which had dropped into the
upper wall of the tunnei. These
were prisoners trying to get away.
Mr. Childress is now "2 years of
age and is often questioned on mat
ters concerning treatment of the pris
oners at Andersonville. He is val
uable to the Confederacy today as a
historian and what, he has to say as of
his year as a guard at Andersonville
should become part of the perma
nent records whcih are kept in the
South as a refutation of the Northern
claim that Andersonville was an in
ferno for federal prisoners.
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BEGIN ON SALTS
•
Flush the Kidneys at once when Back
achy or Bladder bothers—Meat
forms uric acid.
No man or woman who eats meat regu
larly can make a mistake by flushing
the kidneys occasionally, says a well
known authority. Meat forms uric acid
which clogs the kidney pores so they
sluggishly filter or strain only part of
the waste and poisons from the blood,
then you get sick. Nearly all rheuma
tism, "headaches, liver trouble, nervous
ness, constipation, dizziness, sleeplessness,
bladder disorders come from sluggish kid
neys.
The moment you feel a dull ache in the
kidneys or your back hurts, or if the
urine is cloudy, offensive, full of sedi
ment, irregular of passage or attended
by a sensation of scalding, get about four
ounces of Jad Salts from any reliable
pharmacy and take a tablespoonful ia
a glass of water before breakfast for a
few days and your kidneys will then act
fine. This famous salts is made from
the acid of grapes and lemon juice, com
bined with lithia and has been used for
generations to flush, clogged kidneys and
stimulate them to activity, also to neu
tralize the acids in urine so it no longer
causes irritation, thus ending bladder dis
orders.
Jad Salts is inexpensive and can- f
not injure; makes a delightful effer- ,
vescent lithia-water drink which all reg- ,
uiar meat eaters should take now and I
then to keep the kidneys clean and the ■
blood pure, thereby avoiding serious kid
ney complications
USZTHEOID
OWSHALL’S
WCATARRH/S/I
ynurr
□n* «t all Drutsuta. ar »ent prepaid by
Vw Wuxuuas Mea. Co., Oxvcuuao. Ohio
For Sale at Howell’s Pharmacy.
108 If. Jackson SL Americus, Ga.
i MERE MENTION |
| ABOUT TOWN |
Just Received shipment of new
SHEET MUSIC. BELL, Itc Jeweler.
23-ts
“I have never seen the allies in the
downtown section cleaner than they
are right now,” said Fire Chief Nay
lor today after he had completed an
inspection, following the periodical
clean-up ordered by him. He declar
ed he had received excellent co-oper
ation from the business men.
Wanted—Five or six good median
ics, regular work, with good pay for
right men. fan use few helpers who
want to learn the trade. Americus
Automobile Co., Walter Rylander,
Manager.
W. B. Brannan, of Albany, was in
Americus today on a business mis
sion.
Automobile Livery. Ring Americus
I Taxicab Co. Phone 825. Res. Phone
j 646. L. L. Compton. 6-ts
A. N. Johnson, of Atlanta, was a vls-
i itor in the city today.
! E. W. Bassett, of Fort Valley, spent
I the w’eek-end with Judge and Mrs. R.
IL. Maynard at their home on Lee
’ street.
Mayor J .E. Sheppard was in Atlanta
again today to appear before the su
; preme court. He was in Atlanta sev
| eral days last week on court matters,
i but spent Sunday with his family here.
fivegTfamilies
HAVEUSEDUPII2
BOTTLESOFDRECO
: Every Member Takes It and A,ll Show
; Great Improvement-—Splendid Tonic
For Old and Young.
I A remarkable thing came to light
recently when through the endorje
' ment given the great tonic Dreco, by
! Mr. J. R. Appling, the well known
| merchant and farmer of Lexington,
' Ga., it was discovered that five fami
’ lies living in his neighborhood had
used up one hundred and twelve bot
; ties of Dreco. Every member of the
j family from the oldest crown to the
youngest took it and all show im
provement. ■
i Speaking of his own case, Mr. Ap
' pling said, "Dreco did me a great deal
, of good in a bad case of constipation
i and liver disorder. It started my
' bowels to acting at once, and it was
I easy, normal and healthy, too. No
< pains, straining or griping about it.
! My liver also began to act. and that
relieved my headaches, dizzy spells,
spots dancing before my eyes and
, that vile taste in my mouth.
"I’ve told lots of people about
Dreco and I do believe all the folks
’ around Lexington are taking it now.
: It’s good and I put my stamp of ap
' proval on it.’’
• After taking Dreco it is noticed that
! the bowels begin to act regularly; the
complexion clears; the appetite in
creases, nerves are quieted, sleep be
comes sound and restful; the kidneys
are strengthened; food digests with
out that annoying gas and bloating.
The whole system takes on renewed
! vim, vigor and vitality. Try Dreco
| one week and watch the change.
All progressive druggists now sell
Dreco and it is highly recommended
in Americus by Americus Drug Co.
adv
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Rub Musterole on Forehead
9 and Temples
A headache remedy without the dan
gers of “headache medicine.” Relieves
headache and that miserable feeling from
colds or congestion. And it acts at once!
Musterole is a clean, white ointment,
-nade with oil of mustard. Better than a
mustard plaster and does not blister.
Used only externally, and in no way can
it affect stomach and heart, as some in
ternal medicines do.
Excellent for sore throat, bronchitis,
croup, stiff neck, asthma, neuralgia, con
gestion, pleurisy, rheumatism, lumbago,
all pains and eches of the back or joints,
sprains, sere muscles, braises, chilblains,
frosted feet, colds of the chest (it often
prevents pneumonia).
30c and 60c j—s; hospital size $2.50
Stop Itching
Never mind how often you have tried g
-rd 'ailed you can stop burning, itching ■
eczema quickly by applying Zemo fur- g
-ashed by any druggist for 35c Extra S
large bottle, SI.OO. Healing beginsJhe |
moment Zemo is applied. In a short £
time usually every trace of eczema H
tetter, pimples, rash, blackheads andtj
similar skin diseases will be removed |
For clearing the skin and making it 1
vigorously healthy, always use Zemo |
the penetrating, antiseptic liquid. It#
is not greasy and does not stain. When!
others fad it is the one dependable!
treatment for sk ntroubles of all kinds.w
• The E.W. Rose Co., Cleveland. |
PEANUT BUYER !
WANTS 50 CARS
AT 6C IN BULK
I
ATLANTA, April 21—The State Bu
reau of Markets has located in St.
I-ouis a large sheller of peanuts who
is in the market for fifty carloads of
white Spanish Peanuts, and is offer
ing 6 cents a pound for them in bulk,
or 6 andl-4 cents sacked F. O. B. cars
at Georgia shipping points.
This price which amounts to $l2O
and $125 per ton, respectively, is con
sidered good. in view of the recent
market in Georgia and is about in line
with what the bureau stated they
should bring, when it advised the
growers last fall, to let them go at
the low prices then prevailing
While in St. Louis a few days ago
on business for the market bureau.
Director L. B. Jackson called on this
firm of peanut shelters and secured
the foregoing offer. The company
desires a strictly high grade white
Spanish Peanut, as they are to be
used as food. The market bureau
will be glad to put in direct touch
with the St Louis firm anyone who
has peanuts of this character for sate.
Plan Melon Market.
Plans for putting Georgia growers
of watermelons and cantaloupes into
touch with markets where they can
secure the highest prices for their
products tihs summer, are now being
made by the State Market Bureau.
The bureau is preparing to secure
information regarding the leading
brokers and fruit dealers in cities all
over the country, and through them
to keep posted on the actual market
conditions in their respective com
munities.
The bureau also desires to get into
close touch with growers of water
melons and cantaloupes, and to have
on file at the State Capitol in the De
partment of Agriculture the name and
address of each grower, the acreage
planted, the probable yieild in carloads
and when thej- will likely be ready
for market. Having this information,
it will be a comparatively easy mat
ter for the bureau, in touch with the
leading markets, to no’.iiy thj piodue
er promptly where the best prices are
being offered.
The bureau is glad to perform (his
service for the prod'ijjrs and only
ask that they wu send in, a.: st on
as possible the nece.isary information
re oting to probable yield and tp-
I i< Ornate shipping time.
To Aid Hog Growers.
If there are Georgia growers of hogs
or a number of growers in any com
munity who have, at any time, a car
load shipment of hogs for, market,
and will notify the State Bureau of
Markets, the bureau will be glad to
bring them into communication with
the markets paying the highest prices.
Investigations have been made by the
bureau in this direction, and it is
prepared to furnish growers of hogs
with information that will be of ma
terial advantage to them when they
have carload lots of hi gs ,o offer.
Baboons Fierce Fighters.
When they are being hunted with
logs an old baboon that is cornered
seizes an attacker with one hand by
:he nearest limb, and, gathering up a
'old of skin in the other hand, tears it
iff, and throwing aside his victim,
.valts for the next. In this way he
will often kill several dogs before he
fives up the fight.
To Carry Heavy Loads.
One way of carrying two buckets of
vater with the least possible expend
ture of energy is the hoop-carrying
nethod of Macedonia. There a small
>oy will carry a man’s load by walking
nside a hoop which keeps the weight
’ree from the body and distributes
iressure.
GEORGIA MAN
HAD QUITE A SIEGE
In Hospital, But Improved Greatly After
Taking Ziron iron Tonic.
In a recent statement, J. H. Martin
, of Mount Vernon, Ga., says;
“I was in the hospital with stomach
trouble and had quite a siege. It
seemed I would never get my strength
back after I came out, I had been so
ill. I ached all over. I was nervous,
restless and yet did not feel like get
ting around. My skin was yellow. My
appetite poor. I was in pretty bad
shape and 1 egan to look around for a
tonic. I felt like part of the trouble
was lack of iron in my blood. I was
so easily worried, so easily upset. I 1
heard of Ziron and knew it would help |
me. I began to take it and the Im- 1
provement was great It strength
ened me, renewed my nerves and
toiicd up my system.”
Mhen you feel that vou need
strength, remember that Ziron Is a 1
perfected preparation of iron salts,
combined with other strengthgiving
ingredients. Try Ziron.
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Your Blood Needs
AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
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When the sun grows warm and the
grass starts to green, ones fancy turns 1
!to post costumes. The skirt is Kumsi
i Kumsa solg woven in great squares,
, the sweater a beautifully woven simple j
affair.. The hat is blue straw, braid- !
ed in a darker brue. (c) Underwood
& Underwood.
WE WILL BUY YOUR
LIBERTY BONDS, ANY
ISSUE OR DENOMINA
TION.
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'Allison Realty Co.
R. E. ALLISON
(Office Rear Allison Furniture Co.)
A/lison Bldg. Phone 25S
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: BACK LIKE A
BOARD? IT’S
YOUR KIDNEYS
TLere’s no use suffering from the
awful agony of lame bacu. Don’t wait
♦ill it “passes off.” It only comes back.
Find the cause and stop it Diseased
conditions of kidneys are usually indi
cated by stiff lame backs and other
wrenching pains, which are nature’s sig
nals for help!
Here’s the remedy. When you feel
.he first twinges of pain or experi
ence any of these symptoms, get busy
at once. Go to your druggist and get
a box of the pure, original GOLD
MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules, im
ported frssh every month from the
Irboratories in Haarlem, Holland.
I’leasant and easy to take, they instant
ly attack the poisonous germs clogging
your system and bring quick relief.
For over two hundred years they
have been helping the sick. Why not
try them? Sold everywhere by re
liable druggists in sealed packages.
Three sizes. Money back if they do
not help <r you. Ask for “GOLD
MEDAL” and be sure the name
“GOLD MEDAL” is on the box,
KEPT HER AWAKE
The Terrible Pains in Back and
Sides. Cardui Gave Relief.
Marksville, La.—Airs. Alice Johnson,
of this place, writes: “For one year 1
suffered with an awful misery in my back
and sides. My left side was hurting me
all the time. The misery was something
awful.
1 could not do anything, not even sleep
at night. It kept me awake most of the
night... I took different medicines, but
nothing did me any good or relieved me
until I took Cardui...
I was not able to do any of my work
for one year and I got worse all the time,
i was confined to my bed off and on. 1 got
j so bad with my back that when 1 stooped
down I was not able to straighten up
again ... I decided I would try Cardui
... By time I had taken the entire bottle
i i was feeling pretty good and could.
; straighten up and my pains were nearly !
all gone.
I shall always praise Cardui. I con
tinued taking it until I was strong and
well.” If you suffer from pains due to j
female complaints, Cardui may be just)
what you need. Thousands of women ,
who once suffered in this way now praise ■
I Cardui for their present gwd health. •
GiveitatriaL NC-133
SOUTHER FLYERS
OPEN BUSY WEEK
FOR PEACE LOAN
SOUTHER FIELD, April 21.—Every
. day is Victory Loan daj at Souther
Field this week, a group of aviators
leaving here for some Georgia desti
nation each day until Saturday, when
the entire flying force in seven planes,
will appear in an aerial circus over
Americus, dropping loan litera: are and
boosting the campaign.
The first expedition of the week and
the fourth since the beginning of the
I loan campaign, left at :50 o’clock
■ this morning for Swainsboro, drop
| pitg literature and per.’orm.r.g aerial
j stunts over the towns en route, nly
crc ship made the trip, an J it cairied
Lteuts. Stout and Henderson, it will
spend the night at Swainsboro and re.
I turn Tuesday.
i The fifth Victory loan squadron, con
| sisting of two planes, will leave here
Tuesday morning, going to Albany and
returning byway of Shellman.
The sixth squadron, ccnsisting of
two ships, will leave Wednesday r'ern-
■ ing from Athens and Elberton, retum
( ing Friday byway of Madison. One
i night will probably be spent at Athens
and one at Elberton.
| The seventh squadron of two planes,
,will leave Friday morning, one of them
going to Quitman and tl.e other to
Thomasville. They will remain over
night. the ship going to Thomasville
using the new landing field which is
being laid out.
The eighth Victory Loan squadron
will consist of seven ships, which will
i make the flight over Americus ‘ in ■ a
I body Saturday. The details of this ex
hibition will be announced later.
J. T. Hays, of Hartfield, was a vis
itor in the city this morning.
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I’b)! Coca-Cola quality. The flavor ' H.l
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I R I successfully imitate it, because |
| I its quality is indelibly regis- (Imll
Wil tered. in the taste of the
American public.
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W vim (F i Demand the genuine by I
wWmFSwI full name —nicknames II
' encourage substitution. I
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Mrs. R. A. Harvey, of Friendship,
. visited Mrs. P. W. Harvey Friday.
Mrs. Tom Wells, of Friendship, was
I in Plains this week.
Clarence Dodson, of Florida, is visit
j ing his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Dod
i son. Mr. Dodson has not been home
in some time and so there was a
family re-union given by his parents
in his honor this week. Those pres
ent were: Messrs Henderson Dodson,
Chapel Dodson, Joe Williams, Pieman
Dodson, with their families and Mrs. N.
D. Britean. of Americus.
Col. John Mercer, of Dawson, was
in Plains Thursdap,'
Mr. and Mrs. John Jennings, of
Douglass, are visiting relatives here.
Misses Alice Ruth Timmerman,
Marguerite Hudson, Berta Will Clarke.
Christine Spann and Mrs. M. L. Cham
bliss will attend Grand Opera in At
lanta next week.
Mrs. L. J. Ferguson is in Concord,
visiting her sister, Mrs. G. A. Strick
land.
Miss Rolalie Huggins is spending
the week-end with Mrs. D. T. Jen
nings. in Americus.
Dolph Oliver is expected home Sun
day from Marion, Ala., where he has
been in school, preparing for entering
Annapolis Naval Academy in the Fall.
J. R. Logan has been to Montgomery
on a business trip this week.
CANADIAN PRIVATES RETURN
RICH; OFFICERS ARE “BROKE.”
WINNIPEG, Man., April 21. —Canad-
ian privates are returning from Eu
rope with considerable money, white
many officers are reaching their homes
practically penniless, according to
provincial officials. Most of the sol
diers had approximately SSOO to their
credit when they left England, only
a portion of the amount being given
to them before embarkation. The pri
vates passed most of their leisure at
recreation camps, where little money
is needed.
Officers, on the other hand, follow-
MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1919.
ed their inclination to "live,” and
with British and American officers,
helped fill the London hotels, accord
ing to returned officers. 1 hey say that
I fraternizing with American officers
proved rather costly, as Americans
receive higher pay and spend it very
freely.
AFTER INFLUENZA-
winter COLDS—
BAD BLOOD
You are pale, thin, weak—with little
vitality. Your liver is sluggish and the
bad blood causes your stomach muscles
to lose their elasticity and become flab
by and weak—then indigestion.
Doctor Pierce’s Golden Medical Dis
; covery, made from wild roots and barks,
I and free from alcohol or narcotics, is
the great and powerful blood purifier of
i to-day. Ingredients printed on wrapper.
| This tonic, in liquid or tablet form, is
, just what you need to give you vim,
vigor and vitality.
Take it as directed and it will search
out impure and poisonous matter
throughout the system and eliminate it
I through the natural channels.
i You can procure a .trial package by
I sending 10 cents to Dr. Pierce’s Invalids’
i Hofei, Buffalo, N. Y.
fLay, Ky.— “ Last winter
I Buffered from stomach
and liver trouble and had
been for about a year. I
was nervous, had pains
under my shoulder blade
and in my left side. Had
‘gassy* stomach and heart
burn and had headache
most of the time. After
each meal I was sick,
could not keep anything
scarcely on my stomach,
, not even water. I didn’t
'■ x k think there was a medi-
* < cine made that would
cure me; but in January
v \ my husband got a bottle
<• I of Dr. Pierce’s Golden
.Medical Discovery. After using it most of my
sysptoms disappeared so I got another bottle and
aftev using the second bottle oil of my symptoms
were gone. I now feel good and can eat anything
I want and it does not hurt me. I will always praxao
this niediH”'* ” — J‘izzie F*?dmck.