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FORTY-SECON fEAR.—NO. 92.
INSURGENT STRIKE LEADERS ARRESTED
‘DON’T HOARD’ IS
SUGAR ADVICE IN
SHORTAGE HERE
Country In For Serious
Shortage Says Local
Wholesaler
Fffink Lanier Sas just received a
tejOam from a New Orleans sugar
deaSfcoffering him one car of plan
tatirT sugar at 25.75 cents per
pound, f. o. b. plantation, or 26.25
cents jer pound laid down in Ameri
cus. “Tell folks to quit using any
more sugar than they just have to
have,” was Mr. Lanier’s urgent com
ment.
“It is my advice that the people
economize right now on sugar; they
are going to have to come to it soon
er or later anyway, and if they buy
only what they actually need now in
stead of grabbing all they can get
their hands on it will make the
hardships less for everybody. It is
my opinion that we are not going to
have any sugar through April and
This was the statement today of
Frank Lanier, head of the Americus
Grocery company, one of the biggest
wholesalers in South Georgia. The
statement was occasioned by a re
quest for an explanation of thei
resent shortage of sugar in the retail
market. The Americus grocery
'•'■'ires are all but bare of sugar, and
;se that have any are selling in
very limited amounts to each cus
tomer.
“The belief among wholesale gro
cers,” said Mr. Lanier, “is that the
big candy making concerns, caught
by the sugar shortage last year, have
gone to Cuba and other sources of
supply and bought about all the
sugar available for this country.
Whatever the cause, we are unable'
to l<uy sugar at any price for pres
ent delivery, and have been promis
ed only a small amount for deliv
ery in June. The result is that the
country will be hard hit in the fruit
canning season, when we need su
gar most.
“A few days ago I bought at his
own price 2,500 barrels from a
dealer. A day or two later I re
ceived word that only 200 barrels of
the order could be filled. Two hun
dred barrels, you know, with us, is
nothing. But that is an example of
what we are up against. I have
bought a small quantity of off-grade
sugar in Chicago, paying 21 cents a
pound for it..
“It looks like the consumer is go
ing to be up against it for sugar
this season, but the worst thing he
can do in the situation is to buy up
and hoard away more than he needs,
for that will only keep the market
bare and force prices still higher.”
Army Recruiter Is
Stationed In Americus
Private John E. .Edwards, of the
Fifth division, Camp Gordon, is in
Americus to spend an indefinite time
on Recruiting duty. He has been
given permission by Mayor Sheppard
to make his headquarters in the coun
cil chamber on the third floor of the
city hall, and he may be found there
practically all day by any young man
interested in obtaining information
concerning opportunities in the army.
Private Edwards announces to for
mer service men that he will obtain
the Liberty buttons for any who
have not obtained them, if they willl
hand him their discharge papers.
These will be sent to Atlanta head
quarters, where the buttons will be
issued, and will then be returned to
their owners.
Services Close At
Ist Methodist Church
A large congregation heard the
sermon last night with which the
series of preaching services was
closed at the First Methodist church.
Rev. Guyton Fisher’s text was, “Ye
have compassed this mountain long
enough; turn you northward.” He
Wr made a plea for progress in the
church, the Christian life, as well as
a moving forward by the sinner.
The sermon was well received, and
an enthusiastic response to the prop
osition made.
The pastor announced that, while
the formal preaching services would
close last night, the revival, which
was really a personal workers’ cam
n”ign, would go on indefinitely.
Classes of applicants will be received
into the church at both morning and
evening services Sunday.
The meeting is regarded by the
members of the church as one of
• " i st in a number of years.
A Berkshire -(Mass.) man has on
his lawn as receptacles for flowers
three marble bathtubs, for which he
paid 850 each. The cost to the origi
nal owner, after whose death they
were sold, was $5,000 each.
THETIMESoRECORDER
NOTABLETALKS HEARD AT
CLUB CONVENTION CLOSE
Miss Polk Given Vote Os Thanks By District
Delegates For Work As Song
Leader
By MRS. R. C MORAN
At the concluding session of the
District Federated club meeting held
Wednesday at the club house, Dr.
Carl W. Minor read the invocation,
followed by community singing led
by Miss Ella Polk, who so cleverly
led the large audience through an in
teresting program the day preceding.
After the program was over, the com
mittee on resolutions made an amus
ing reference to the fact that Miss
Polk had led the club women so dex
| terously over the “Long, Long Trail,”
; and even extended her guidance in
1 “Coming Through The Rye.” They
also chronicled a vote of thanks to
Miss Polk for the pleasure she had
bestowed by directing this communi
ty singing. Miss Polk made a splen
did talk upon the subject of music
in the schools and the great good that
was being accomplished through its
medium. The club song, “Blest Be
The Tie That Binds” was sung, and
a moment of silence followed in com
memoration of the beloved members
of the club who had passed on.
Tell* of Bad Conditions.
Miss Annette McDonald spoke on
“Public Welfare” work, and her talk
was full of magnetism and dynamic
force. She is thoroughly acquainted
with her subject and presented it in
a pleasing manner. She told of the
motive for forming this public wel
fare work in which she was engaged.
One year ago when that terrible af
fair occurred in an orphan asylum
in Atlanta, Mrs. Nellie Peters Black,
who was then state president, made
an appeal to the public that some
thing should be done concerning such
inhuman-treatment. She asked that
all public institutions which had the
care of human beings should be regu
j larly inspected and the conditions re
ported to a commission designated
for that purpose. It was then that
public welfare work came into prom
inence, and since that date of its ap
pearance has been a wonderful fac
tor for good. Miss McDonald spoke
of the many institutions which she
had visited during her connection
with this work, and of the awful con
ditions surrounding some of the coun
ty almhouses and jails. In some in-,
stitutions the work could not be con
tinued on account of the vileness of
' the surroundings. Other and pathet
ic instances were referred to in her
talk, but she said she did not wish to
dwell on the dark side of the work.
There were many bright features
concerning the work, many asylums
visited that were par excellent in
•standard, in cleanliness and in pro
i tection for the inmates. She stress
■ ed the importance of welfare work in
every community, and said the field
' truly was ample in wh'ch to do go d.
Fake Fund Solicited.
At this juncture a very prominent
STUDENTSOFFTO
DSTRICT MEET
Americus Meets Fitzger
ald In Debate There
Tonight
A party of about thirty students
of the Americus high school, accom
panied by three members of the fac
ulty, left over the Seaboard at noon
today for Fitzgerald to attend the
annual high school meet of the
Third District schools, which opens
there tonight and continues into Sat
urday. The party will return Satur
day. Friday has been declared a va
cation day for the high school here.
The members of the team making the
trip, who will represent the Ameri
cus high school were:
Debate, Hertwell Barton and J. W.
Smith; declamation, John Butt;
music, Miss Anne Heys; recitation,
Miss Martha Ivey; essay, Miss Lula
Howard; athletics, George Gardner,
Marvin Bolton. T. J. Wallis, Hert
well Barton, Olin Perkins and Eu
gene Gammage. The faculty mem
bers making the trip were Miss Mar
tha Cobb, J. E. Owens and J. G.
Holst.
Following is the schedule for the
meet:
Thursday, 8 p.m.—Preliminary De
bate—Fitzgerald vs. Americus.
Friday. 9 a.m.—Debate; 10 a.m..
Essay Contest; 3:30 p.m., Athletic
Events; 8 p.m., Recitation and Music.
Saturday, 9 a.m.—Declamation
followed by announcement of win
ners and awarding prizes.
Forecast For Georgia.—Fair and
warmer tonight; Friday cloudy with
probably showers in interior.
PUBLISHED IN THE HE AR T~OT
club woman spoke of a fake solici
tor going ab»ut the country securing
funds for anti-tuberculosis work,
saying that ter endorsement had been
used, as well as that of her husband.
She said tha; she knew nothing of the
woman, whese name is Mrs. Gaston,
and that if her petitions are
ed in this ccmmunity that she should
be exposed to the public for the fraud
that she is.
Mrs. Alonzo Richardson spoke on
the wonderful work which had been
accomplished through the efforts of
Mrs. Nellie Peters Black during her
lifetime, and urged that the Victoiy
Gardens , s» near to the heart of this
beloved member of clubs, should be
kept in op«ration as a memorial to
her memory. In connection with this
she also urged that in the planting
of memorial and flowering trees the
civic committees should take pictures
of the streets before the planting,
and later, after the trees were in pro
cess of giowth and blossom, other
pictures should be made and used in
the club novi ng picture presenta
tion.
Disciple of Ppts and Pans.
Mrs. W. H. Gurr, of Dawson, made
a splendid talk upon Home Econo
mics. All who heard her resolved not
to detest pots and ->ans so cordially 4
in future, but learn to love them
as does Mrs. G<urr. She spoke of the
organization of many economic clubs
throughout the district, especially of
those in Terrell county, and of the
potential influence being exerted on
the public schools through the insti
tution of perfectly equipped kitchens
in the school work. There are four
completely furnished kitchens in Ter
rell county, she said, and three par
tially completed. These are provid
ing proper food daily for the chil
dren who attend school, and by this
means the jhipils are given the well
balanced meals growing youth re
quires. She said it was Ruskin who
said that he saw purple and gold in
everything, but that she could see
nothing else in the cosmos but do
mestic science, spelled with capitals.
She insisted that housekeepers should
no more leave the cooking entirely
to servants than they should consider
letting the kitchen maids purchase,
clothing for the family.
Mrs. T. A. Dixon, a magnetic
speaker, gave a talk on music and its
benefit to mankind. She spoke es
pecially of the influence music had
on the soldiers during the great war,
and that music had indeed charms to
soothe away every rumple in life.
She endorsed heartily the placing of
musical education in the school cur
riculum. and said that no factor was
more potential for good on the mind
and body of the child than music.
She told of the inspiration music is
(Continued on Page 4.)
SLAYS GIRL, 11,
DURING REVIVAL
Prays For His Own Soul
And Death Os
Child
STEUBENVILLE. 0., APRIL 15.
—Harry Miller, aged 26, of Akron,
is held in the Jiefferson county jail to
day after having publicly confessed
to the murder of 11-year-old Frances
South during a revival service last
night at Beachbottom, W. Va., near
here.
Miller went to the church altar
and prayed for mercy on his soul and
for the death of the child.
Kiwanis Charter Night
Is Delayed Till May
Word has been received by Evan
Mathis, secretary of the Americus
Kiwanis club, from R. S. Wessels, of
Atlanta, district governor of the or
ganization, that he will be unable to
make the trip to Americus for the
presentation of the new club’s char
ter for probably three weeks, or un
til early in May. Other officers of
he organization are empowered to
present charters, which ceremony is
the most imposing occasion in the
life of a club, but Mr. Wessels asks
that the occasion be delayed until he
can come, because he wishes person
ally to conduct the ceremony. A large
number of Kiwanians from other
clubs in Georgia are expected on that
occasion.
The regular weekly luncheon of the
club will be held Friday at 12:15
o’clock at the Windsor.
It is not generally known that 5,-
868 Filipinos have served in the
American navy.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 15, 1920.
HUNTINGTONTO
DONOVELALLS;
BANS SILK HOSE
Pledge For One Year
Taken By Citizens At
Mass Meeting
HUNTINGTON, April 15.—-Cloth
ing, shoes and every article of per
sonal adornment having gone so high
that the prohibitive limit has been
passed, the citizens of Huntington
and the surrounding country held
a meeting Wednesday afternoon at
the district court house with Claud
Johnson, chairman, and Mrs. Green
Perry, secretary. It was solemnly
agreed that every one present would
enter into the most sacred obliga
tion, contract or covenant binding
himself to wear overalls, of any j
color, and on all occasions, especially I
social functions, church and wed
dings, this contract to remain in full
force for a year, and to be extended
another year in the discretion of the
chairman.
It was the unanimous voice of the
meeting that silk hose should be
eliminated from the toilet and rele
gated to the scrap heap.
A committee was appointed to de
vise ways and means to escape S2O
shoes.
On the first of May the entire
populaticn of Huntington, men and
women, along with the kids wilj
be found “diked oui” in overalls.
A more enthusiastic ’and deter
mined meeting has been held here,
and it is the avowed and stated pur
pose of this community to Jo its
SiTirc in renting the prn.'« rs to
cover
CHAUTAUQUA TO
OPENTOMORROW
Supt. Minnema Arrives
To Take Charge Os
Program
FRIDAY AFTERNOON
! Introductory Exercises. <
Frand Concert —Sibyl Sammis ?
Singers and Miss Mary Cameron, >
Pianist. Admission 50c and 5c I
tax. Children 27c and 3c tax. >
FRIDAY NIGHT
Concert—Sibyl Sammis Singers ?
and Miss Mary Cameron, Pianist. I
Lecture, “Facing The Task”— i
Dr. H. E. Rompel. Admission 50c ’
< and 5c tax. Children 27c and 3c <
S tax. . S
It was announced at noon today
that the prize winner for the second
day of chautauqua tickets was Mrs.
L. D. Lockhart with $141.57 re
ported.
Americus seven day Redpath chau
tauqua will open tomorrow afternoon
at 3 o’clock in the big brown tent
erected on Jackson street and every
indication points to a splendid atten
dance.
The Sibyl Sammis Singers will be
the attraction for the opening after
noon and a program replete with
good musical material rendered in a
pleasing manner may be expected.
Costumed sketches are a feature of
the Sibyl Sammis programs.
At night the program will begin
at 7:30 o’clock and after a prelude
of thirty minutes by the Sibyl Sam
mis Company, Dr. H. E. Rompe., one
of the greatest dramtic orators of
today will give his great lecture,
“Facing the Task.” Dr. Rompel has
an exceptionally important message
on present time conditions.
John C. Minnema, who will be the
platform superintendent for the week
arrived last evening and began his
work today. Mr. Minnema is one of
the experienced Redpath managers
and comes highly recommended by
the chautauqua bureau. The pro
gram for the week by days is as fol
lows:
Friday, 3 p.m.
Introductory Exercises.
Grand Concert—Sibyl Sammis
Singers and Miss Mary Cameron,
pianist.
Friday, 7:30 p.m.
Concert—Sibyl Sammis Singers
and Miss Mar'- Cameron, pianist.
Lecture—-“ Facing the Task,” Dr.
H. E. Rompel.
Saturday, 3 p.m.
Concert—Emerson Williams Co.
Monologue—To be announced, Mrs.
V. S. Watkins.
Saturday, 7:30 p.m.
Concert—Emerson Williams Co.
Lecture—“ How To Be Young At
Seventy or Old at Forty,” Dr. Caro
lyn E. Geisel.
Monday, 3 p.m.
Concert—Mendelssohn Trio.
Lecture—“ The Wonders of Bur
bank,” Henry A. Adrian.
Monday, 7:30 p.m.
Grand Concert—Louise Stallings
PAVING OF WEST
CHURCH STREET
TO TRACKS ASKED
Property Owners Sign
Up And Petition
City Council
A petition from a majority of the
property' owners of West Church
, street will be presented to the city
council tonight asking that the city
Authorize the paving of that street
j from Jackson street, where the pav
i ing now ends, to the railroad in the
I west bottoms, a distance of several
blocks. It is said the owners of prac
tically all of the industrial property
lin the vicinity of the tracks have
signed the petition. The city is ask
ed only to authorize the paving in the
i usual manner, which means that the
| property owners will pay for the ma
terial, the city only to do the grad
ing and laying of it.
On account of several paving pro
jects having already been authorized
by council, which will have prece
dence, it is likely that this project
cannot be undertaken before late
this year if at all before 1921, but
it is believed certain that the work,
i will be authorized by council. East
■ Church street and West College
I street projects are to follow the pro-
■ ject on East College street now being
undertaken.
The city police commission will
' present to the council tonight recom
mendation that the police department
!be provided with a motorcycle. It
j is understood that the department de
; sires a motorcycle for assistance in
Curbing speeding inside the city.
M. D. Herring Heads
Schley Sunday Schools
ELLAVILLE, April 15.—Last
Saturday and Sunday were red letter
days in Ellaville, the occasion being
the county Sunday school convention
held at the Methodist church. Sev
eral hundred people gathered to lis
ten to talks and addresses on Sunday
school work, made by the following
well known speakers: Miss Flora Da
vis, of Atlanta; Dr. J. A. Thomas,
pastor of St. Luke’s church, Colum
bus; Rev. H. H. Heisler, pastor
Smithville church; Rev. W. K. Dennis,
pastor St. Paul church, Columbus;
Prof. S. E. Denton, J. C. King and
Prof. J. A. H. Granberry, of Ella
ville, and H O. Davidson, of Colum
bus. At the noon hour on Saturday
an immense barbecue was served in
the beautiful grove adjoining the
church, and this with cakes and pies
of all descriptions, filled the wants
of the multitude. The program
throughout the two days session was
interspersed with songs.
At the conclusion of the Sunday
afternoon session, the following offi
cers were elected to serve a year:
President, M. D. Herring; secre
tary, A. S. Rainey; Supt. Children’s
Division, Mrs. J. H. Robinson; Supt.
Young People’s Division, Miss Claudia
McCorkle; Supt. Adult Division, Mrs.
T. H. Walker.
Navy Head Emphatically
Denies Sims’ Charges
WASHINGTON, April 15 Rear
Admiral Badger, head of the navy
general board since the death of Ad
miral Dewey, told the senate com
mittee today that he wished to make
“emphatic denial” of Admiral Sims’
charges that the navy was unprepar
ed for war, had no war plans or pol
icies in April. 1917, and pursued a
vacillating policy for six months af
ter war was declared.
An attachment for ordinary cam
* ras patented by a Colorado man
permits eight separate photographs
to be taken on the same plate or
film. ,
and Mendelssohn Trio.
Tuesday, 3 p.m.
Grand Concert —New York Opera
Singers.
Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.
Concert—New York Opera Sing
ers.
Lecture—“ Human Nature and Pol
itics,” Opie Read.
Wednesday, 3 p.m.
Concert—Orchestra.
Lecture—“ Back to the Farm,”
Hon. C. G. Jordan.
Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.
Gilbert and Sullivan’s Famous
Light Opera, “H. M. S. Pinafore.”
Special scenic and lighting effects.
Thursday 3 p.m.
Lecture—“ Modern Unrest,” Don
ald H. McGibeny.
Thursday, 7:30 p.m.
•Delightful American Comedy—
“ Nothing But the Truth.”
Friday, 3 p.m.
children’ Pageant—“ The Good
Fa ry Thrift."
Concert—Swiss Singers and Yod
lers.
Friday, 7:30 p.m.
Concert—Swiss Singers and Yodlers.
Lecture “Human Efficiency,”
Ralph Parlette.
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DEFIES KANSAS’
NEW COURT
A
ALEX AND£fi WiwT
PITTSBURG, Kan.—Alexander
Howat, district president of the Unit
ed Mine Workers here, is in contempt
of the new Kansas industrial cijurt,
and has been in .jail for several days
as a result. He has refused to tes
tify, stating he does not recognize
the court’s authority. A few days
ago he made a speech to his follow
ers from the county jail in which he
denounced Governor Allen, of Kan
sas as a “skunk.”
BANKERS BACK ”
SUPT. BENNETT
Ready To Pull With Him
They Say, At
Camilla
(By Staff Correspondent)
The meeting of the Georgia bank
ers of Group 4 at Camilla yesterday
listened with intense interest to •T.
R. Bennett, state superintendent of
banks, former president of Group
4. Many of the bankers were heard
to express the highest regard for the
ability of Mr. Bennett and their de
sire to “pull with hiqi.V “He is a
practical business man and an able
banker who knows his business and
his co-operation with the bankers of
the state will mean much to the state
and the banks,” L. G. Council, of the
Planters Bank, said.
Governor Dorsey addressed the
group, telling why he was interest
ed in the Cotton Bank. “The cot
ton bank, with a capital and surplus
of more than two million dollars,
will be only the first step in a co
operation scheme that will mean the
emancipation of the Georgia cotton
farmer,” the governor said. “The
southern farmer's living conditions
are worse than the living conditions
of any other farmer on the whole
globe. We have allowed every man
that touches cotton to get rich—ex
cept the man that produces it.
Farmers in every part of the world
are organized and are getting a fair
return for their productions, while
the southern cotton farmer has
grown poorer. It is up to us here
in Georgia to start the ball rolling.
Once we have this bank going every
southern state will follow our ■ ex
ample.”
More than one hundred bankers
were in attendance at Camilla, in
cluding about 30 representatives
from Atlanta, Macon, and northern
banks, who compose a flying squad
ron that, is meeting with each of
the groups this week.
L. G. Council, of the Planters
Bank, had as his guests attending
the convention, W. T. Anderson, of
the Bank of Leslie; H. F. Dixon, of
the Bank of Ellaville; J. E. McLen
don, of the Americus Bank of Com
merce; Carl Ansley, of the Council
Warehouse, and Lovelace Eve, of the
Times-Recorder.
Crawford Wheatley and N. M.
Dudley, of the Commercial City
Bank, also attended the meetings.
The Atlanta party went down in two
automobiles.
In discussing Governor Dorsey’s
speech, Mr. Council said that the
bankers, the business men and the
newspapers of the state of Geor
gia should begin a consistent cam
paign to “keep the young life on
the farms.”
“Gentlemen, we must act and act
quickly,’’ Mr. Council said. “The
boys are rapidly leaving our farms
and filling up the cities. Before long
if this keeps up there will be noth
ing for us to eat and little to wear.
The prosperity of the country—of
the world—depends on the farms.
We must make the farms more at
tractive to young life. Why, I know
of no business more remunerative
than farming—if a man will only use
his brain and energy. Those men
who have put the same thought and
ZJ aw: —
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
MEN RETURNING,
IMPROVEMENT IN
SITUATION SEEN
Walkout Gradually Dy
ing Out In West; Bet
ter In East
CHICAGO, April 15.—Six officials
of the outlaw railroad unions were
arrested today on warrants issued by
United States Commissioner Mason,
charging them with violating the
Lever act. Warrants have been is
sued for 24 other aleged leaders in
the insurgent strike, it was said at
the federal building.
John Grunau, president of the
Chicago Yardmen’s Association, was
arrested while addressing a meeting
of strikers here today. This made
seven arrests in all.
Reports from rail centers of the
central West and on the Pacific coast
today bore out the assertions of rail
road brotherhood and railway officials
that the insurgent strike was dying
out and traffic conditions were im
proved materially. Strikers were re
ported returning to work in a num
ber of cities, and hi Chicago.
NEW YORK HIT BY NEW
TRANSPORTATION STRIKE.
NEW YORK, April 15.—Police re
serves were sent to the west side mar
ket district today where several hun
dred teamsters, chauffeurs and por
ters had walked out at time when
New York was virtually cut off from
food supplies by rail, and several
trucks were attacked by stirke sym
pathizers.
Gradual subsidence of the unau
thorized railroad strikes in New York
and vicinity was seen today by rail
road officials, although they admitted
the situation still was serious. The
food situation in the city was aggra
vated this morning by the strike of
) teamsters, chauffeurs and porters,
I claiming a union membership of
| 1,400. K
Huntington Chappell
Improving At Hospital
Huntington Chappell, who lies ill
at the Wise Sanitarium in Plains,
has shown much improvement during
the last few days. It was thought at
first that pneumonia had developed
following an operation for appendi
citis, but the high fever abated, leav
ing him without further symptoms of
the disease.
575,704 Bales Cotton
Consumed In March
WASHINGTON, April 15.—Cot-
I ton consumed during March amount
ed to 575,704 bales and 28,668 bales
of linters, the Census Bureau an
nounced today.
British Miners Accept
Offer of Government
LONDON, April 15.—The mem
bers of the Miners federation by al
large majority have decided to ac
cept the government’s offer of twen
lty per cent on gross earnings. Thef
decision obviates the danger of a
, strike.
SUMTER NEGRO PAROLED.
W. T. Lane and Son have just re
• eived word from Atlanta that Gov
ernor Dorsey has approved the parole,
i effective at once of Comer Jones, a
negro who was sent up from this
I county for life, and has served four
effort into farming that a banker or
a merchant puts into his business,
> nave made money and some of them
j big money.
! “I am convinced that there is
money in cotton even under boll wee
vil conditions. The weevil can be
i beat .it ‘ s being beat, by men with
I intelligence and energy. But the
farmer of today must produce other
I things than cotton.
“There’s money in hogs, in grain
and feedstuffs—cotton must be the
; money crop. The farmer who suc
ceeds today has his farm seif-sustain
; ing, and the lands of Sumter county
i are ar productive—or more produc
’ five—than any other lands in the na-
I tion."
The party found excessive rains
and cold weather have materially ef
fected the crops of Sumter, Dough
: erty and Mitchell county. A great
many crops will have to be replant-
I ed, and it was said that the early cot
i ton was practically wiped out.
Magnificent roads were found in
Mitchell county. The roads of
Dougherty and Sumter are badly in
need of scraping, in fact the worst
roads seen by the Americus party
were the roads in Sumter between
Americus and Leslie and from Leslie
to the Lee county line.
Mr. Council entertained his guests
at supper at the New Albany Ho
tel, en route home, arriving Am
i ericus at 9:30, after a profitable and
pleasant day.