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THh AMERICAS WEEKLY HMES-RECORDER. FRIDAY. MARCH 22, 1907
THE TIMES-RECORDER W,LL H0KE BE x SLACK wad? good *oak w sumter
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1 “Everybody knows that all j The fact that a few convicts
■ governor* want. later on. to be escape from the jail, or break away
' rolled States Senators. I did my whileat woik on the highways,
self. The more I wanted to be‘ should in nowise discourage or
senator, the more I found myself j check the movement for good
turning into a 'slack wad.’ and roads in Sumter county. More
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THOMAS CAUBLE, J».
Editor and Proprietor.
J. W. FURLOSV, City Editor.
C H. LOWE, Asst. Business Mgr.
Editorial Room Telephone w
The Times-Recorder is the
Official Organ of the City of Americua.
Official Organ of Sumter County.
Official Organ of Webster County.
Official Organ of Railroad Commission, of
Georgia for the Sd Congressional District.
AMERICUS. GA.,MARCH 22. 1907.
Pat in a good word for Americas
wherever you go.
The newspapers are giving away
Rockefeller's money faster than he
can make it.
Everybody outside of Savannah
is wonderiog what on earth they
want free ice waterUanks on . the
streets for.
It’s getting mighty hard to
swallow a lot of these Aleck
Stephen’s swallowing stories going
the ronnd jnst now.
Congressman Hardwick is said
to bean aspirant to succeed Gov
ernor Smith. Comes from the
wrong end ofthc State.
In a tortnight Americas will be
at its prettiest. There is no more
pleasing town to the eye than
Americas in the early spring.
Waycross has begun to pave it
business streets. This news item
will be going the ronnd about
Americas soon. At least we hope
so. t-T
The Vienna News is highly
prosperous. Its editor wants an
oil painting of Hoosevelt taking
advice from Harriman on the
railroad situation.
"If the South is to share in rail
road development it would not do
to be too hasty in prescribing lower
passenger fares sweepingly and at
once,” says the Savannah!* ress.
The Houston Post urges the
Texas legislators not to go so far
■s to discourage further railroad
construction. There are many signs
of a healthful and sensible re
action.
“There is a hollow ring to all
these railroad supplications tor
tolerance and patience and loyalty”
says the Atlanta Constitution.
The conversion of the Constitution
is one of these latter-day miracles.
The Augusta Tribune thinks
Clark Howell should have jumped
on the railroads during the
gubernatorial campaign ami
“qneered” Hoke Smith. lint
Clark couldn’t read the handwrit
ing on the wall, then.
The latest story in that Stevens'
rosignation as chief Panama canal
engineer was due to the effect of
the climate on bis neryous system.
When he wrote the letter he hardly
knew what he was doing. Suffer
ing from a brain storm, probably.
I said I would sacrifice this high
place before I would be a 'slack-
wad.’
This is an extract from an article
by ex Gov. Xortheu. Presumably
a ‘slack wad’ is the man who puts
duty behind when oflicial
preferment is his aiubitioD, the
man woo wnen elevated to one
| oflicial position speedily forgets
the promises that landed him in
office if they conflict with hLsdesire
to rise to a still higher honor.
Xortheu says he aspired to lie
United states Senator. Every
Governor who has sat in the
executive chair of Georgia since
the war has bad a similar aspira
tion. liut Xorthen says that when
he found this ambition was mak
ing a ‘slack wad' of him,
governor without a back bone to
execute the law and to work the
people’s will, then be cast the
ambition aside. >-
The question naturally suggests
itselfattbis time, “Will Governor
Hoke Smith be a slack wad*’
The Governor-elect is already
an aspirant for the senatorshiD, or
the politicians much belie him.
It is understood that he will be
a candidate for the seat held by
Senator Clay. Will he find, as
Xorthen says he found, that to
realize this ambition he must be a
“slack wad” of a governor? Or
have the conditions changed and
made it possible for a man to be a
fearless governor, a governor of
back bone and determination, pro
tecting and promoting the people’s
interests, and still retain strength
as a senatorial candidate?
The state will watch Governor
Smith after his inauguration with
intense interest to learn whether
he, too, will be a “slack wad.”
TRAINED GEORGIANS NEEDED
“Cleveland has reached three
■core years and ten without signs scientific basis,
of senility,” says the Savannah '
Press. There is nothing extraor
dinary In this. Savannah has had
soores of citizens who have passed
the psalmist’s seventy year point
In good possession of their mental
and physical faculties. There are
doubtless thousand of such men in
'Georgia to day.
In his speech at Savannah
Monday night Chancellor Barrow,
of the State University, laid
especial emphasis on the fact that
the great resources of the State are
falling into the hands of outsiders.
The transportation lines, the
utilization of water power, the
industrial development generally,
threatens to be in the control of
those foreign to the soil. That this
isso, the Chancellor held, was due
to the lack ot proper training in
the young in Georgia, the absence
of education that fitted them to
take the leadership in the great
projects of, the time.
Tne thought is naturally sug
Bested, is Georgia now doing all
that it could to furnish educational
advantages for its children, to
protect them in their birthright by
training theta to make the most
of the opportunities that surround
them. If the children of Georgia
are to be merely the bowers of
wood and drawers of water
for others who are to
ploit the lesources of the
State ami draw immense wealth
from its natural riches simply be'
cause of their superior training,
then the State is sadly derelict in
its duty to itself and it offspring,
Crude labor Georgia has in
abundance. It is the trained
mind that it needs among its own
people, the keen intellect,educated
to see and utilize opportunities
To develop these mind* is- the
greatest work before the state-
Its public schools should be
supplemented by a system of
technological schools, fully equipp
ed and conducted by men of ability
devoted to their work. The
agricultural colleges that are now
being elected, one to each < ongres-
ional district, will do great things
in the elevation of farming to a
scientific basis. If each Congres
sional district, or better, each
senatorial district, could have a
well equipped technological school
another generation would find
Georgia with an army of it 'sons
trained for the utilization of every
natnral resource that the State
possesses, men who would be fitted
to lead in the great industrial
development that lies before the
State in the near future.
vigilance, safer quarters, or an in-|
creased guard, will .doubtless be!
adequate to prevent escapes. A 1
great onward movement like that i
for good roads should not be
deterred simply because some
criminals take desperate chances
and make their way temporarily
to liberty.
Good roads are an absolute
necessity to day in a progressive
community. The farmers need
them, the business men need them,
the general public need them. The
farmer is. more than any one else,
benefited by the creation of solid
and safe highways. Through that
medium be is enabled to save time
in his trip to market, he is able to
haul a much greater quantity of
cotton or other prod nets of his
plantation, and the wear and
tear on his wagon and stock is
lessened. He is decidedly the
gainer for every day’s work that
is put in on the county roads. Xo
one should be a more 'persistent I
advocate of goods roads than he,
for he is undoubtedly the chief
beneficiary.
There is no more important work
than that done for the creation of
a strong public sentiment in fayor
oi good roads. The man who agi
tates for good roads is a public
benefactor. He may not be
appreciated as such at the time,
bnt eventually the people realize
that he has been working tor the
benefit of all,that his services have
been of vast assistance to the
county, and be is honored ac
cordingly.
Sumter has far better roads than
they were several years back,
thanks to continued efforts of a
few citizens tq^edneate the public
to'the necessity for them. But
there is still room for greater
improvement. The convicts should
be kept steadily at work until
Sumter can boast of roads as good
as those of any other county in
Georgia.
A Handy Store To Get To
Froni now on it will be worth while to keep your eye on these advertise-
ments, special values will be offered every week and you will always find the
goods advertised here ready for you when you come
While practically every variety of merchandise usually carried In a dry.
goods stock is represented here, this week's special news is confined to these
important offerings
New Silks,
Extra heavy black taffeta silk
yard wide and every yard fully
gurranteed never b fore known to sell
for-less than $1.25 here at per pard
$1.
Waists Silks «t 59c Yd. '
Great variety of new patterns in
this season’s newest things in waists
silks a quality that sells regularly for
75c and worth every cent of that price
too, but for a special feeder we make
the price of this whole line at per yd.
59c.
All Wool Voil For 50c Yd-
All wool voil 38 Inches wide jn
brown, red, green, navy & black reg
ular 75c quality very special here for
this sale at per yd. 50c.
More Printed Silks At 25c Yd.
The silks at this amazing prices
includes all the delicate shades, there
is about 45O yards left in thfc lot
THINK OF THE PRICE ail at per yd.
25c.
Boy’s $3.50 Suits at a $1.40
All Wool 54 Inch Panama At 89c.
All wool panama in black, brown
& blue fifty four inches wide and the
quality thrt usually sells for $l.a5
specially priced for this sale at per
yd.89c
45 Inch Chiffon Voil At $1.
Chiffon voil Asincheswideinplain,
dotted and striped black and colors
equal to any $1.50 goods offered In
Americu* our price per jd.$I.
A marvelous bargain offering. A
be on to parents who desire to dress
the little ones for little money. About
one hundred two piece suits for boys
from 6 to 14 years regular $3.00 and
$3 50 values at per suit $1.40.
Embroideries,
Three thousand yards of Nainsook,
Swiss and Cambric Embroideries,
Insertings to match almost every
piece at half price. 5O designs all this
season’s importation widths from 5 to
20 inches, large and »mal| effects
positive 25c to $1.00 valuesat per yard
15c tn .' 50c.
DUNCAN MERCANTILE CO.
By observing Lent and not getting
married antil after Easter a young
man begins married life without
encountering a gigantic bill for an
Easter bonnet.
The Albany Herald find sent!
ment almost unanimously in fayor
of good roads for Dougherty
county. No up-to-date people
will oppose a good road movement
Railroads freight rates have been
reduced 15 per cent in Iowa and
Kansas. The saving may help the
producer and dealer, but it is safe
to say that none of it will ever reah
the consumer. /''
A Bold Step.
To OTfrcnme tho well-grounded and
reasonable objections of the more Intel
ligent to tho use of secret, medicinal com
pounds, Dr. It. V. Pierce, of Buffalo, N.
Y., some time ago, decided to make a bold
departure from the usual course pursued
by tho makers of put-up medicines for do
mestic use, and so has published broad
cast and openly to the whole world, a full
and completo list of all the Ingredients
entering into the composition of his widely
celebrated tncdichics. Thus ho has taken
his numerous patrons and patients into
his ful! confidence* Thus too he has re
moved his medicines from among secret
nostrums of doubtful merits, and made
them HemalU* of Known Composition.
B/ this bold step Dr. Pierco has shown
that his formulas aro of such eicellcnce
that ho Is not afraid to subject them to
the fullest scrutiny.
Not only dors (lie wrapper of every bottle
of Dr. I’krcc's n oldest Medical Discovery, the
famous medicine for w«*ak stomach, torpid
liver or l>i!lnu*ne*.n and all catarrhal diseases
wherever located, have printed upon It, <11
plain EnglMi, a full and complete list of all
the Incredietits com poking It. but a small
book ha> Ihs-h Compiled from numerous
standard medical works, of all the different
achuol* of practices containing very numer
ous extract-, from the writings of leading
practitioners of medicine, endorsing in the
$trvugf*t powdWr term*, each and every Ingre
dient contained In Dr. Pierce's medicines.
Oneot these little books will be mailed free
to any one sending address on postal card or
by letter, to Dr. K. V. Pierce. Buffalo. N. Y*
and requesting the same. From this little
book It will be learned that Dr. Pierce’s med
icines contain no alcohol, narcotics, mineral
agents or other poisonous or injurious sgenu
and that they arc made from native, medici
nal roots of great value; also that sorie of
the most valuable Ingredients contained In
Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription for weak,
nervous, over-worked, «run-down, 1 * nervous
And debilitated women, were employed, long
yearn ago. liy tho Indians for similar ailments
affecting their squaws. In fact, one of the
most valuable medicinal plants entering InlC
the composition of Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Pn
•oription was known to the Indians 1
•Squaw-Weed." Uur knowledge of the use*,
of not a few of our most valuable native, me
dicinal plants was gained from the Indians.
efficient remedy for regulating all the wom
anly functions, correcting dlsplocements. os
prolapsus, anteverslon and retoryersion,
painful period* tonlnw up the
periods, tontnw up the
•bou* a perfect state of
1 dealers in medicine*
H5Gand 1.7 Forsyth Street John R. Shaw’s Old Stanu.
FOR SALE.
400 Acre, 3 miles of railroad 3 ten
ant hooter, mooing water,$7 tore.
380 aorer, 3 miles of floariiblog.llttle
town. 4 room hooir, running water
(8 per sore,
400,Acrer, 8 room home, fine pasture
lend, enited to stock or general farm
log (10 sere.
300 Acre, half mile railroad on pnblio
road, B. F. D. and telephone. 5 room
boner, two tenent bonier,
cbnrohee and reboot.
8 Boom bonse, new finished through
on*, large lot 83,000,
C Boom borne large lot St.ZOO.
0 linom boner, choice neighborhood
with gee and fewer,ge, oio, little
boine (3,350.
If yon weol a home or investment
come •» „e mr. Now is tbe time to
boj. R«at reUte is ibe safest end best
invotment. It evn't ran away or
evaporate. '
P. B. Williford,
103|Cotton Ave.
TO THE FARMERS
Of Sumter and Adjoining: Counties.
$50.00 REWARD.
For each ot the below dcsciibed
escapes, delivered at Americua, tin.
Wire K. L. Bell, Sheri IT, or W. L.
Thomas Plain, Ga.
$50,00 Gus Nelson—5 feet 11 inches—
200 ponnda. 30 years old. No 13 shoe.
Color, dark ginger-cake. Turpentine
hand.
$50.00 Press Harris—5 feet « Inches,
135 pounds, !H sr 10 years old. Left side
of face badly burned, scar prominent,
t'olor black.
$.50.00 Scab Brown—5 feet 8 inches.
150 pounds. 53. years old. Color black
Small mustache.
$50.00 lausle Hlllsman—5 feet 5
Inches. 150 pounds. 21 years old. Color
black. Railroad negro.
$.50.00 Kd Brooks—6 feet, 190 pounds,
25’yean old. Color dark ginger cake.
Escaped March 18 1907. 19 dlt wit.
For Rent $20.00 Per Month.
Desirable five room dwelling on Jack-
son street. Bath and sewerage. Close
to public schools and 8. A. L. depot.
THOS. HAPPOLD
We are selling this season the celebrated
hlghrrrade brands of the ....
Coweta Fertilizer Company
OF NEWNAN. GA.,
Call on us let us tell you about them.
Pope Brown's special formula for cotton. 9 2-3.
W. A. C.--A pure Blood Guano put up In white
cotton sacks. 12 sacks to the ton.
Coweta High Grade Fish Guano 10-2-2 and all
other grades—ammonlated—and all grades of Dis
solved BONE and POTASH and ACID P OSRHATE.
Johnson & Harrold
AMERICUS, GA.
Brands are Best,
“Coweta’
Why.
Ask the commissioners: of agriculture or the
state chemist for the past 20years.
LOOK
at Bagley’s Harness and Bug
gies- before you buy. We
make harness from $15 to $60.
Up to date white harness mak
ers. That’s all.
H. J. BAOLEY,
Lamar Street.
We buy hides,tallow, beeswax
1ST AS GOOD”“IS NOT THE BEST.”
Buy Only the Genuine SHAW'S PURE MALT, sold
E. J• 3X0"e(3-eliee.