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TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1919
COMMISSIONERS PROCEED-
INGS OF SUMTER COUNTY
Americus. Ga., August 4, .1919.
'> he Board of County Commission
of Roads and Revenues of Sum
ter County met in regular session.
Present, N. A. Ray, Chairman; R. S.
Oliver, J. J- Wilson, S. E. Statham
an d J E. Poole.
Minutes of regular meeting, July
7t h read and confirmed.
Sealed bids were opened for the
2,000 road bonds and Robinson
Humprey company’s bid being $235,-
503.20 was accepted, it being the
highest.
Gene McCray was put on trial as
being a road tax defaulter and fo”nd
not guilty.
A resolution passed ratifying the
lea ?e with the S. A. L. Ry for space
on the right of way for stock pens.
No further business the Board ad
journed.
H. D. WATTS, Clark.
The following bills were approved
for payment f
Bills Rendered Sumter County for
Month of July, 1919.
Americus Bakery '4.40
Pr. N. S. Evans 12.50
G. E. Buchanan, Hdw. 1 1.40
Rapp Bros. Co 8.14
Morgan &Co - 12.55
Americus Welding & Repair
Co - 17.25
Edgar Shipp, Jr 115.17
Americus Gro. Co . 754.65
The Texas Company i 221.29
J. H. PooTe & Sons 341.57
Columbus Sewer Pipe Co 271.23
Williams-Niles Co .. 10.10
Americus Drug Co 26.10
Sherlock & Co 53.92
Hooks Motor Co 161.70
J. Williams 284.10
Pay Roll Sumter Co 1335.00
Southern Printers L. 2.50
Americus Cons. Co 16.96
Americus Automobile Co 27.50
J. H. Myers & Son 16.00
“Smoke Virginia Straight”
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Isn’t this
a fair
question ?
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Honest to goodness, now—would Americans
smoke five times more Virginia tobacco in their
cigarettes than all foreign-£rc".vn tobaccos put
together, if they didn’t prefer Virginia’s taste?
Would Englishmen smoke twenty times as
much Virginia as all the Turkish tobaccos com
bined, if they, too, didn’t like Virginia best ?
Virginia tobacco is the one tobacco ideally
suited by Nature for cigarettes. And it tastes
best smoked straight unmixed with other
tobaccos. '
Try it—real smokin’ —in a Piedmont.
I|| The Virainia Cigarette
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Mrs. C. S. Hobbs 3.25
Glover Gro. Co 487.32
Sheffield Hdw. Co 130.50
Total $4324.90
O. K.'d by—•
J. W. LASSETER, Supt.
, The following bills were approved
! and ordered paid August 4, 1919:
i Hightower’s Book Store 3.90
' H. E. Allen -83.48
Lucius Harvey ' • 11.00
Dr. H. F. Hope 5.00
Elbert Stallworth 25.00
A. J. Johnson 100.00
Ran Phillips • 37.50
Americus Lighting Co 38.66
C. C. Hawkins 15.00
Geo. O. Marshall 125.00
Ed Jenkins 10.00
Dr. J. E. Statham 50.00
S. H. Edge 100.00
Fielder & Allen 1.81
R. L. Maynard 120.00
H. D. Watts 2. 173.28
Dr. B. F. Bond 166.58
Paupers _..i 90.50
Homer Rabon 2.00
J. R. Hale & Sons 953.58
Times-Recorder 21.70
Howell’s Pharmacy 200.55
Mr. M. Q. Castellgw 10.00
G. E. Buchanan 13.25
Spring Creek Farm * 82.30
Leslie Hardware Co 12.50
John Register 3.00
N. M. Dudley, Agt 53.62
Americus Printing Co 4.50
Dr. P. W. Hudson,(June).... 35.00
Dr. P. W. Hudson, (July).. 35.00
Lucius Harvey 11.00
H. E. Allen 8.65
L. Harvey 329.60
Howell’s Pharmacy 6.00
J. W. Harris 1.10
Oliver-McDonald Co. 322.74
City and County Hospital .... 50.00
Ladies’ Aid Society 40.00
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It is said that the Marquis of Blan
ford, eldest son of the Duchess of
Marlborough, formerly Consuelo
Vanderbilt, will visit this country the
coming summer. He is twenty-two
years of age. During the war he
served with the' British army, (c)
Underwood & Underwood.
Baby Shoe an Ornament
The first shoe of the first baby may
be preserved as an ornament with both
intrinsic and sentimental value. A
jeweler plates in gold or silver the
creased and worn little shoes just as
the baby foot formed it.
Carnegie Library 25.00
Fred Campbell 5.00
AMERICUS TIMES RECORDER.
IMPIOVID UMFOIM INTEKNATIONAL
SUNMSOIOOI
Lesson
(By REV. P. B. FITZWATER, D. D.,
Teacher of English Bible In the Moody
Bible Institute of Chicago.)
(Copyright, 1919. Western Newspaper Union)
LESSON FOR AUGUST 17
CHRISTIAN MISSIONS.
LESSON TEXTS—Acts 1:8; 13:1; 14:28.
GOLDEN TEXT-Go ye Into all the
world and preach the Gospel to ever)
creature—Mark 16:15.
ADDITIONAL MATERIAL - Matthev
28:18-20; Luke 24:45-58; Acts 26:12-20.
PRIMARY TOPlC—Helping everybody
to know Jesus.
JUNIOR TOPIC—The whole world needs
Jesus.
INTERMEDIATE TOPlC—Taking the
gospel to the whole world.
SENIOR AND ADULT TOPIC-Chrls
tian missions; alms and results.
I. The Obligation of Missions (Mark
16:15).
God saves men for a purpose. That
purpose is to be laborers together with
him in the salvation of others. Christ’s
parting message, yea, his final com
mission to the disciples was, “Go,
preach the Gospel to every cregj&re.”
This obligation still rests upon the
church. Since the command is to
preach the Gospel to every creature,
this obligation will obtain as long ai
there is one unredched soul.
11. The Power of Missions (Acts
1:8).
This power is the supernatural in
ducement of the Holy Spirit. Mission
ary endeavor without the Holy Spirit
is doomed to failure. Power to witness
for Christ is the purpose of the gift
of the Spirit. Success will crown the
efforts of those who go forth under the
leadership and power of the Holy
Spirit. The Spirit was not given pri
marily to make Christians happy, but
to make them strong to carry the
Gospel to the heathen. However,
those who go fortFTin this blessed serv
ice in the Spirit’s power are truly
happy.
111. The Scope of Missionary En
deavor (Acts 1:8).
The disciples were to begin their
witnessing where they were when the
Holy Spirit fell upon them —Jerusa-
lem. But they were to go out from
there to the “uttermost parts of the
earth.” This is the program for ev
■ ery disciple of Christ. Begin witness
ing where Christ saves you, and then
go to your neighbors next to you, and
on to the remotest bounds of the earth.
There is no such thing as “home mis
sions,” except that you begin at home.
IV. The First Foreign Missionaries
(13:1-14; 28).
1. Who they were (13:2). Bar
nabas and Saul were selected—the
very best two men in the church. The
evangelization of the world is a task
of such tremendous importance that it
challenges the church to offer her best
men and women. Since an institution
is judged b.v its representatives, it be
comes the church to put her most capa
ble men to the front.
2. By whom sent (13:2, 4). The
Holy Spirit chose these men and sent
them forth to their work. The church
at Antioch seemed to have deliberate
ly planned this missionary enterprise.
It was after prayer and fasting that
the Spirit ordered the church to send
forth these missionaries. It should be
the business of the church to constant
ly seek the mind of God relative to
sending forth laborers into the Lord's
vineyard. The Spirit calls and sends
men forth, but ho does this through
the church.
3. Some experiences of the first for
eign missionaries;
(1) Withstood by Elymas the sor
cerer (13:6-12). Elymas moved by the
devil, sought to turn the mind of Sergi
us Paulus from the faith,‘thus barring
the Gospel as it enters upon its widest
mission of salvation. The most vil
lainous act which one can commit is
to turn a soul from the Gospel. (2).
Worshiped as gods (14:8-18). (a) The
occasion (vv. 8-10). God accompanied
the testimony of these missionaries by
his mighty power. He wrought a mir
acle through Paul. At his call the
inveterate cripple—one who had never
walked —leaped up and walked. The
cure was instant, (b) The method (vv.
11-13). They called Barnabas, Jupi
ter, and Paul, Mercury, because he was
the chief speaker. They declared that
the gods had come down in the like
ness cf men, and they brought oxen and
garlands to offer sacrifice, (c) Their
efforts foiled (vv. 14-18) 1. The mis
sionaries rent their clothes and ran
in among the people, saying they were
rot divine but beings of like passions
with themselves. 2. They urged the
people to turn to God. 3. Paul
stoned (vv. 19-22). Stirred up by
wicked Jews from Antioch and Iconi
utm, the rabble who a moment ago were
worshiping are filled with Satanic hate.
Doubtless Paul remembered Stephen’s
experience. God raised him up and he
went forth to discharge his duties as
a missionary. Such men of courage
are needed today.
Without Loyalty to Christ.
A Christianity without loyalty to the
Christ, as its motive and Inspiration,
may be likened to —well, may we say.
our solar system minus the sun.
An Inward Beauty.
There is an inward beauty, life, and
loveliness in divine truth, which can
not be known but when it is digested
into life and practice.—John Smith.
Take heed of the first stumble, for it
Is ominous; and at best there is a good
step lost —Benjamin Whlchcote.
RETAIL MERCHANTS
TO HOLD BIG MEET
ATLANTA, August 11.—Atlanta I
will be th e mecca of retail merchants i
from four states on August 26-27-28 |
at which time the Retail Merchants ,
Association of Georfia will hold their
annual convention and plans outlined
to form a Southern Retail Merchants
Association, embracing Georgia,
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O any unpleasant cigaretty odor. You
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iS You have only to get personally
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We are able to do this because we make a special study of
textiles and fabrics, through the specialists retained by
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We are enabled thus to give every variety of garment that
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Is this not an improvement upon the methods of the old
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South Carolina, Alabama and
Florida.
The proposed Southern Retail Mer
chants Association, it is stated is in
no way usurn or interfere with the
activities of separate state associa
tions which will operate just as they
have heretofore. It is stated that
the scope of the proposed Southern
Association will be to help each of
the state associations build up their
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local organizations, under the au
spices or direction of its state official
and to jointly represent the several
According to announcement all
merchants in th e four states named,
non-members as Well as members of
state associations are invited and
urged to attend the Atlanta meet
ing.