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Newspaper Page TextAMERICI18 TIMES-REGORDER. ItlUM' ■SECOND YEAR. AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1900. NUMBER 23 tail Announcement!^ The change of season is now upon us and every one naturally begins to think of their Fall and Winter buying- and where is best to go for their supply of Dry Goods, Clothing. Shoes, Hats, Etc. I have just returned trom New York, the greatest market on earth for such goods, where I spent my time and money to get the best things to be had. About eighteen years ago I began my career in the Dry Goods business in Americus and since that time 1 have given my entire atten Ition and study to this business and the wants and needs of the people in and around Americus, and think I know what they need and want. I struck the market at the low water ark, and as a consequence can sell you goods cheaper than who went on earlier and bought before the decline. This season we will make a special effort m our Dress oods department, and in Ready Made Clothing. Every- ing that is New, Stylish and strictly in it from a fash nable point of view will be shown over our counters. For 1 ack of space, ard therush of business and opening tw gocds, we are unable to quote prices in this “ad,” but ill do so later. Call on us, see our goods and get prices e will not be — those Undersold on Any Article, As we are out for business, and will have it, no matter that the cost Yours for Business, EE ALLEN. A MIRROR OF EVENTS IN CITY AND SUBURB Tales of the Town Told in a Few Lines. NEWS ITEMS ARE BOILED DOWN For IConvenience That Those Who Ban May Bead.—Some Bits of News That Transpired Here Yesterday Truthfully Told. Harris Lithia Water in bottles and on draught, at Hudson's Drugstore. Capt. J. B, Felder is prepared to gotiate loans on realty, (arm or city, at per cent. His advertisement appears elsewhere this morning. A short crop and a high price means more money in the pocket of the farm' Only the warehonse man and the railroads profit by sheer force of nnm' bere in the bales, A picture of sublime and serene con' tentment, celestial satisfaction and joy unutterable was that of the rural black who fingered a quarter yesterday at a loaned fish stand. Mr. H. T. Coleman has closed out bis merchant tailoring establishment and haberdashery here and leaves to day for Moultrie to accept a position with a house there. Wagon loads of sweet potatoes, peas and other farm products were bronght in from tbo eonntry yesterday and bronght as satisfactory prices as did ootton at ten cents. John Jennings, a black moke, looked down a pistol barrel yesterday to see if it was loadsd. It was; and soon there after John was loaded on a dray and hauled off for repairs. PENNSYLVANIA PURE RYE, LIMIT YEARS OLD. ,,LU SHARPE WILLIAMS ull; uuahts or this i "I II, PURE RYE. ^3-50, EXPRESS PREPAID. proval In plain, scaled Imyxch, Indicate contents. When test It, it It is n«»t satlsfac • «>ur expense and we will re \\ e guarantee this brand to ■'} ElKht bottles for W50, 1 •' bottles for iJ.50 exprei Mug. leading brands of Rye •whiskies in the market, and ■ w t»er cent, on your purchases. ‘our bon. urboii...! “ car Pepper).. - U |tye 1 '' lnK 'V s > ' «rs'oid)’. 'years old)... °nly a tew brands ol the 4rry 111 »tock. Send for catalogue. 1*. ,. s gallon, such as Corn 1 and Apple Brandies, etc,, > low, from 91,16 gallon up- FOR SALE. 550 acres, 5 miles of Amerl cus, only $6 acre. The Geo. McNeal place containing 2000 acres. The J. A. Reid place, two miles of Plains, 672 3-4 acres. The celebrated Magnolia Springs is on this property. The George Horn place, 297,2 acres. 200 acres, 3 miles of R. R. Rents tor five bales cotton. Price $1,600. Seven room house, corner Hancock and Hill streets only $1,200. Six room house, Furlow st modern conveniences, large lot; rents for $12.50; price $1,250; cheap at $1,500. Five room house, Church street, close in, $l,loo. Six room house, Prince st, rents for $12.5o; price $1,150. FOR RENT Price place adjoining city limits, 4o to 50 acres, Now is the time to invest your idle dollars. I have a few bargains not in this list. Come to see me if you wish to buy, sell or rent P. e. WILLIFORD, There will be an exodus of Americas youths and maidens this week to the various colleges in north aud middle Georgia, as well as to institutions of learning in the North. Good chickens can be obtained in Manila at SI.23 per pound. The finest cut of beef, if any cut of beef is fine in that locality, is available for the small amonnt of (2 per ponnd. Tax Collector Dunn got himself on a boom yesterday in the way of collect ing taxes, ne used to split rails and plow, but that was dead easy compared with handling the dollars. , Americas buyers paid eleven cents for cotton yesterday. Wonder what the Columbus correspondent of the At lants Constitution thinks of that “small Georgia town” now. The fragrant mullet got a move on yesterday, attached to the colored brother, who was very much in the swim with a pocket full of cotton mon 0y to invest in “delicacies. The thermometer keeps up with the cotton market in the way of banting the top. Tbo weather for the past two days has been excessively bot, and a change would be appreciated. lion. W. A. Dodson received a tele gram last night from Mr. Tbad Glover, iu Galveston, announcing the safety of himselt and brother, Henry. Neither were hurt by the reeent storm. Now that Sumter's tax rate baa been fixed, and is tbo lowest in several years, let the rank and file show their appreciation by marching to the cap' turn's office and squaring mattera. One will soon huvo to i^se a telescope to sco the top of tho cotton market. It just keeps going higher and higher, and no one can seo the end. Farmers may now hold for eleven cents. Rev. and Mrs. Sam C. Dean have given up tbeir home on Lee street and hare taken apartments at the residence of Mr. D. M. Romm, 717 Lee street, where they are comfortably located. The slight damage to the new Uni- rcrsalist church, resulting from a bulging wall, has been repaired and THE RATE IS LESS THAN WAS IN 1899. 8umter Will Pay Less Tax Than in Many Years COMMISSION MADE A REDUCTION CAUGHT WITH KODAK ABDUT THE DEPOTS. People Who Came and Went Away Yesterday. Rate is Cnt From 89 50 per Thousand Last Year to 89 This Year and Thu With Decrease in Values of 8290, 000. The taxpayers of Sumter county will be gratified to learn that a very aub- stantial reduetion in the tax rate for the current year was made by the Board ot Commissioners yesterday. It ie a redaotion of SOets. per 91,000 from the rate assessed last year. The County Commissioners met Monday for this purpose and labored long to the end of reduoing tho rate of taxation. A grave problem confronting them was the heavy alomp in the digest this year, property values showing a very considerable falling off from values as shown by the digest for 1890. But in the faoe of all this the com' missionere reduced the rate. Last year the taxpayers paid $9.50 per $1,000 whereas the rate for this year has been fixed at 99 even. And this, too, in the faoo of the adverse conditions noted above. The speciflo rate for oonnty purposes is 8.80 mills and for the state 5.20 mills, or a rate of less than one per cent, the smallest in many years. Bnmter's commissioners oat even deeper than did the state authorities, the latter making a redaotion of 10 mills while the connty board cnt it 84 mills. A SNAPSHOT AT THE COACHES. 8ome are Yonr Friends and Some are Not.—Who Come and Go in a Day.— Is Yonr Name Written There With the Others? BUILDING AT SEABOARD SHOPS. Several New Homes Erected in That Locality. in 1 :)19i JACK80X STREET. , , msjut IUUC auu FU will have our RC. “rion. special Inducements of* Altmayer & ^tau Liquor Co. 503 «; e ' r "hipped same day receipt of 5 °8. 510,512.Fonrth-st Near Union-Passenger Depot Phone 265. ac °n, . Georgia, pARM and CITY PROPERTY FOR 5ALE CHEAP,AND ON EASY TERMS, McLendon farm, W acres, east ot cemetery. Bagiey farm, M7H acres, IH miles out. Carter farm, iso acres, Lee county. Freeman place,« acres, out Forsyth St. Hudson Block on Lee and Jefferson streets and Hudson alley. The Uurke-Coleman city home place. Also other valuable Lee street, Forsyth street and Mayo street property. GEORGIA LOAM A TRUST OO. See B. T. Davenport the work remaining to be done upon tae building will be poshed rapidly. Ad Americus cotton buyer baa gone to Macon on a bant for the fleecy sta ple, probably finding that market ao much lower than the Americas market as to render the shift to bis advantage. The riae and fall of the cotton mar ket yesterday earned not a ripple of excitement among the conrthonae loungers and chess players. They had no cotton, so the merry game went on. A well known ootton man Mid last night that it noW looked m though the staple would sell for 12 cents within a few daye. The market tonched lie yesterday and buyers were kept on the jump. ling the vicinity of the Seaboard Rail' shops, and the sound of the saw an hammer blends in harmony with the blasts of whistles and whirr of machin ery. In addition to a dozen residences eompleted ont in that locality recently, Mr. Ed Stallings had erected a large plant at Fnrlow stroot crossing for manufacturing purposes, while Mr. E. D. Ansley is now ereoting a com modious storage warehouse on the railroad front, near Hill street. Many other buildings are contemplated, in cluding two pretty dwellings to be erected on Barlow street by Mr. Em mett Bolton and Mr. T. M. Furlow. Near the>e will be two very pretty dwellings just completed bv Mr. B 8. Broadband, who contemplates build ing two or three others shortly, in cluding a handsome home for bimeelf st Barlow and Hill streets. In fact, there is a veritable building boom on oat that way, and the end is not yet by a good deal. AMERICUS MEN AT GALVESTON. Hoped That No Danger Has Befallen Them. News of tbo awinl calamity at Gal vestoo, resulting in the loss, prob ably, of thousands of lives and destruc tion of millions of dollars worth of property, causes profonndost sorrow here as throughout theSonth. Several former residents of Amerions, Messrs, Engene Hawkins, Jr., Thad and Henry Glover among others, are in Galves ton, and very natnrally tbeir relatives bere will feel a bit uneasy until tbeir safety is assured, t'ol. E. A. Haw kins tried to wire his son yesterday, but a'l wires are down in the vieinity of tbo wrecked city and it may bo sev eral days before communication is agoin restored. WILL CLOSE DOWN THE MILLS. Unless Cotton Goods Advance or Cot ton Declines A gentleman iu Americus yesterday stated that the rapid advance iu tbe price of cotton was giving some of tbe mill men a fright. The price of cotton goods is low as compared with tho price of raw cotton, nnd tbe mill men tro likely to be squeezed. He quoted a prominent and successful mill presi dent near Atlanta as having declared that unlesa tbe price of cotton declined somewhat or tho price of manufactured goods advanced within tbe week that he would be compelled to closo down bis mills next Monday until tbe value of tho two commodities get nearer together. THE PRESSES ARE SCBAPPINO And Cotton Goes Whirling np to 860 per Bale. A Columbus newspaper correspon dent refers to America* as “a small interior town that paid loots, for cotton on Friday.” That's what she did, brother; and beat yonr "city” a foil quarter cent, too. Greenville, Sept. 10.—A cotton war is on iu this city between tbe squire bale and tbe roqndlap ginneries, and the prices each is paying is sufficient to keep both running day and night, and still the street* are peeked with wagon*. These ginneries are paying 10} cents per ponnd and 29 cent* per bnsbei for the seed, making the ootton net the farmer something more than 980 per bale. We went yonr inspection on onr en tire line of gentlemen’s, ladies' and obildren’s shoes. Schuhpert Shoe Co, Miss Bessie Harper returned yester day from a visit of some length to rel atives in Atlanta. Miss Lizzie Williams has returned to Buena Vista after a vieit of several, days to friends in Amerions. Mr. H. T. Davenport loft yesterday for middle Georgia upon business for tbe Georgia Loan & Trust Op. Miss Opal Hines left yesterday for Leesbnrg, her former home, where she wilt visit relatives this week Miss Cailye Coney, of Coney, Ga., is the charming gnest of Mrs. P. Oiegg this week at he; home on Lee street. Mr, and Mrs. Walter B, Brown re turned yesterday from a sojourn of two weeks at White Sulphur Springs. Miss Helen MoOali, a pretty yonng lady of Bnena Vista, was here yester day en ronto to Forsyth to vieit friends. Miss Yonah Buchanan leaves today for College Park to complete a three years course, this being her senior year. ' nr x Mr. James A. Riviere oame np from Emannel oonnty yesterday and will spend some time in Amerions, hie for mer home. Miss Ora Perry has reoovered from her recent illness, while the condition of her sister, Miss Ira, is very mneb improved. Mrs. M. Speer and Miss Carrie Speer, after a pleasant summer stay at Monteagle, Tenn,, will return home tomorrow. Mr. and Mrs. Lawson Stapleton and young sons retnrned yesterday from a stay at Indian Spring and short visit in Atlanta. Master Olin Williams leaves today for New York, vis Savannah steamer, where he goes to study music and voiee culturo. Mrs. James Davenport leaves today for Atlanta upon a visit to her mother, Mrs. D. H. White, and aiBter, Miss Gertrude White. Miss Alice Slade, a pretty yonug lady of Dawson, came yesterday to visit Mibs Lonise Pugh at her home on Church street. Miss Allie Belle Adama, after a pleasant visit of several weeks to Miss Ettie Tallis, leaves today for her home in Greenville, S. O. Mrs. Will Green Tnrpia will return from Knoxville tomorrow. Mr. aud Mrs. Turpin will have apartments at tbo home of Mr. W. M. Tallis on Charoh street. A REUNION OF COOKS’ BRIGADE. Survivors of Four Regiments to Meet in Atlanta. The Timea-Reeorder several dava ago announced that survivors of the old Sumter Light Gnarda would attend a reunion of the Fourth Georgia Reg iment, C. 8. A , in Maoon on Sept. 26th. and 27th. Yesterday Mr. H. T, Davenport received from Commander Robert Yonng, of Doles-Cook Brigade, notice of a reunion of the entire bri gade, composed of the Fourth, Twelfth, Twenty-first and Forty- fourth Georgia Regiments at that time. The railroads offer a rate of one full fare going, returning free. Many from Snmter and counties snrronnding will attend tne brigade reunion. BROUGHT HIM BETTER FIGURES Difference in Price in 8ale of Two Bales Cotton. Tbe average oolored farmer looks more at the aotnai amount of money paid for a bale of ootton than at frac tional figures and weights. One of these sold a good bale yesterday at 10} cents or better, and received the amonnt of 958.75 for it He aaid that he sold a bale equally as good at this dote last year and received only 927.25 for it. Thus hie cotton this yoar brings more than twice the amonnt realized last year. BIBLE INSTITUTE IN AMERICUS. Convened Annual 8etsion Will be Here Shortly. The annual session of the Bible In stitute of the South Georgia Confer ence will be held in Amerions either next week or tbe week after, and there will probably be a large attendance. Bishop Candler and other distinguish ed members of the Conference will at tend, and the session of three or font days will be a pleasant and profitable one. THE ELDER8 STILL PRE&CHING. Country Holding Meetings in the Near Americas. Tbe two Mormon elders who have been working near Amerions for some time past, are still bere. Sunday night they preached to a rather slim congregation out near Newpoint Evi dently tbe elders are not making mnoh headway bere in preaching their faith and teachings, though they bold on im ' with grim tenacity. JOHN F. CATO GOES TO DE SOTO. Mrs. Engene A. Hawkins and Miss Lncia Hawkins, who spent thesnmmer near Asheville, N. C, are on route heme and will arrive within or two. May Engage in Business in that Thriving Town. Mr. John P Cato, who left Ameri cas a year ago to embark in bnsiness in Macon, goes to De “oto shortly. It is said that be, with others, may es tablish a large mercantile business there, tbongh the report has not been verified by Mr. Cato. NEILL’S REPORT IS DUE TODAY. Think His Estimate Is Going to Be Bearish. Tbe monthly report of Henry M. Neill is doe today. Tbe Timea-Reeor der learns from a good source that his estimate of tho cotton crop will be in the neighborhood of 9,750,000 bales. It yon eat without appetite yon need PaicxLST Asn Bitters. It promptly removes imparities that clog and Im- dav I ,,e< *® action of thedigestive organs, ’ I creates good appetite and digestion, stiengthof body and activity of brain Tbe ootton crop of Georgia i* now estimated at 07 per cent., while in Au gust it was 74 per oent, It is now be lieved at the Agricultural Department that tbe crop will not go to 900,000 bales, while the state averages a mil- film bale*. . INDIGESTION Constipation, Bloating after eating. Heart burn, Nervous Weakness. Impurities in the Blood and every disorder in the Kidneys or Liver is set right by PRICKLY ASH BITTERS THE SYSTEM REGULATOR It brightens th& eye. steadies fhe nerves, sweetens.the.treath;! brings jwtorjtf the cheekJcreaterappetiteTmakes* theVbody strong and the bralqjietlveT SOLD'AT; DRUG 8TORE8, PRICE,? f.09. Dr. E. J. -ELDR1DQE, Agent. ■ . * ... ..

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Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-1902, September 14, 1900, Image 1