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THE AMERICUS WEEKLY TIMES.RECGRDER. FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1907.
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PLUNGED TO DEATH
IS TAKEN BY TRAIN.
TO A BU6H0USE.| ST< " V“ lw
A Freight Train Tumbles
Through.
HIGH TRESTLE NEAR CUTHBERT
All Passenger Trains Via Americas
are Compelled to Transfer at
Wreck-Negro Brakeman
Killed Outright..
DISASTER IS GREAT IN
EINESl ALL PARTS OF STATE.
THOSE WHO_C*ME_ YESTERDAY fazy May ft, Worked fy ft| a „ W(|0 Killed Mr. J THESE UTTlf TALES SHORr|p eac |, es a(k | m<)
And Those* Who Went Away-Read |
the List and See if Your Name
or Your Friends is There.
Shouder.
A bughouse for Uundrick is the pro.
I gram suggested from the place ot his
I recent shrreudor, and thetein may lie
John F. Cato here.
Col. and Mrs. /,. S. Childers nre
As the result of the disastrous wreck
on the. Central Hallway, west of Ameri-
■cus, on Saturday night all passonger
trains on this division wero obliged to
transfer passengers during Sunday as spending several days in Atlanta, going
well as on yesterday. Ilp yesterday afternoon ,
A freight train plunged through the
burning trestle spanning Pataulu creek, I Ullie (llovor left yesterday for
and with disastrous, result and loss of I ^ 110011 upon a pleasant visit to her sis*
one life. I tor ’ Mrs - Jat '^ Massee,
The engineer soolng the bridge too f>r. and Mrs. A. H. Campbell, after
late to stop bis train, pulled the throt- a pleasant visit ot two weeks in Ameri-
tlc wide open, and the engine succeed-1 nils, have returned to Atlanta,
ed in getting over, but nino cars went I ... „ ....
through the bridge and were burned. I *..*. !. * C .7’ 0 . T * fton ’ “ 1 ,p
It happened between Hatcher's sta-
Complete line of Pictorial Itev,ew “ e " ,lk *“ “»> i toeo » n “‘ regarding his
Patterns just received at M. S. Holli- ' B “ V ° lun,8ry '^render. A
day's. Phone aid. press telegram from Los Angeles an
nounces that the authorities are in
Miss Mamie McArthur returned yes- doubt as to whether (ieorgo W. Bun-
torday trim a pleasant visit to friends I drlck, who surrendered there last Fri
in t.rlmn. I d uyi j, mentally responsible. There is
Mrs. P. A. Jackson of Chokee wus| no “tuestlon as to correctness of the
the guest yesterday of her sister, Mrs. | 8torr related by Bundrick, but he ap
pears altogether irrational. He lias a
delusion that his brothor, win helped
him kill Nchroeder, Is In jail with him
and is wounded as u result of a tlgh
with the detectives. The "spooky”
brother Is really in the Cleotgla pent'
tentiary, serving sentence for his dia
bolical crime. George Bundrick, sinco
| Penciled Paragraphs Picked in Re
porters Peregrinations and Boiled
Down To four lines. I DAMAGE
Are Hurt.
Will BE INESTIMABLE
UfttOQ-Hurlbut Hot Pressed Vellum Americus and Vicinity as Well as Bal-
loaving the Americus Jail, has doubt-1 at Bell’s, the Jeweler. I gpjg gf ffjg jjgjg Received 3
less been reading the evidence in the Don’t worry, dear, about the peaches. Ifnm-tn.if Rfou, I-
Thaw trial, and has conjured up » Just get the honey ready, and the same KlIOCKOUt BlOW In SUII-
bunch of brain storms, alienists and | delicious combination will 'be worked | day*S FtHCZB.
other bug house attachments to be ap-1 as heretofore,
plied In Ills own ease. He will be I
brought baok to Georgia this week, I And now that the Thaw trial Is really
. — ___ Not in many years has the peach
and then the public will And out the I ended ln “ mistrial, Americus will put I crop been as hard hit as it was Sun-
extent of the prevalence of bats in hls|^f ber ., ,b>t ®* again and proceed to | day night. So many reports are year-
steeple, If any.
DAMAGED GRAIN IS DEADLY.
I guest of his sister, Mrs. K. P. Morgan,
, at her homo on College street.
lion and Morris station, about 12 miles I
from Kufaula. __ | Mrs. K. D. Ansley, pf Macon, is visit-1
Stock Killed in Sumter From Eatinq Spoiled Western
Corn.
The question has oftimes been asked
“what becomes of the mules?” An-
one negro brakeman was burned to *"* M «- C. I- Ansley In this city, her nually hundreds ar0 sold horei ' and „
I formor home, coming yesterday.
I the supply does not seem to increase to
rhe loss is estimated to bo between I Mrs. Monroe S. Worsham, formerly I any extent, the query as to what bo-
•tio.OOO and $30,000. Thoro have not of Americus but now of Macon, is a comes of them is asked and—is still
been any trains coming into Kufaula visitor hero for a few days. | unansweied
torn Macon, but it is expected to be all Theownor who feeds damaged Torn
right in a few days, as a wrecker was ' , , ln ’ aIlor 11 1 ,leasant ' la - . h M k
sent out from Macon. I it os several days in Macon, the guest I . . ..
The passenger train was about of friends, returned yesterday. Just at present, as is usually the case
lne passenger train was about ton I (at this season, there is a startling fa-
minutes behind the freight, and had a Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Davis are enj tality in muiedom, and the demise of
very narrow escape from going Into tertaining anothor handsomo young the long-eared cotton makers is attrib-
ihe same place. The passengers on j son at their homo on Church street. I uted to bad food,
the train were put off and went onto! Mr. and Mrs. Walker Kano are guests! The greater portion of the com sup
'.mama. I of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Sitallincs on Ib'y llscd ln tho country about Ameri-
I Church street,oti route to their home in I t,us conl es from Ohio, Missouri and
I Valdosta. I other western states. It is shipped
\r. , I hero from a cold climate. In cars prac-
Mr. and Mrs. Hooks Burklialtor. after |,
I a visit ln Americus have returned
make the whirl. I ly sent out about the damage peaches
Unfed Americus hopes prayerfully I bav ® undergone that peoplo havo
that rhe spring chicken and the steel-1 i* rown skeptical and are loath to be-
encased hen will relent and come to I Bw such accounts. The statement
town today as feed. I 1,181 Y°ry serious damage was dono
, , , , ,, , I the peach crop Sunday night is true to
Jamestown's Pike will be called the every particular. however, and not
A\ arpath. It Is to bo a ml'o long, and I a blt exaggerated.
ZZZX' th0r0a “" y ' C “' Ped I’eeches can endure freezing woather,
will be about »30. I but they can , t wlth , tand kllllnB frost<
Mr. J, B. Hudson hex been confined I end the conditions Sunday night wero
to his home for three or four days and I ideal for their destruction. It Is safe
... ... is still quite 111, to tho great regret of I lossy that every peach orchard to
that such shipments of corn are dange-1 hi. many Iricnds. | Georgia was damaged.
In the northern and middle parts of-
rous” he said.
•‘The corn is sound and good at the l The “ ,ton ”‘ rket “ * oln P up ' I the state, where the frost waslkillimr
time of loading, but, shut up in tight co “ on ® rop ' ,g Bone ap ” 8lr ® ady - and, in addition, was helped Jong by
cars for woeks in transit, and shipped I a *1.“* ’ d ° Wn freezing temperature, the tojmy dono
rom a cold climate into the warm re-1 * I must have been enormous and can bo
gion of south Georgia, it rots quickly | lletter the money tax, say tho amt-1 estimated only in thousands of dollars.
TREES ARE KILLED IN
Itlcally air tight, and upon arrival very
WOODS NEAR THE CITY|^«’= b “^ a, -r - « “ )o11s - t , m
»ivvi/v I U.nn Ills. VI ■ I I “Wewarn our customers in selling
1 I corn of this kind that it is dangerous
Misses Mattie and Amelia Morton of I feed for stock” said a prominent dealer
I Lumpkin, are charming guests ot Mrs. I yesterday to the Times-llecorder.
Sturdy Oaks Are Blighted!
By Freeze
W. J. Matthews at horj residence on I “Very frequently wo got shipments In
Fitrlow street.
Kev. J, P, Wardlaw is spending
J OTTflN TRAP IS IIIIFIA/ISF HIIPTI ano ** ,or week ,n Dawsen, assisting
iUI IUIN LKOI 15 LIKtWI5t HUKI | w itli the revival In progress there for
a damaged condition, but Invariably
| sell it as such."
"It is this season of seed germination
and great care must be exercised to I able bachelors of the country, than I In the southern part of the stato the
handling It." * walking on carpet tack* with a scream- frost was heavy, but not killing, and,
Not a few Americus produce men I Ing accompaniment. | while damage must of necessity tbaya
have been loser, recently through ship-1 8urely „ mu „ t be iprIn){ a(faln> Th| been done, it wa. not so serious.’
fish are biting, and the automatic! Every stalk of cotton above ground
. _ . . otary flying jenny is once Ikilled* sufd in cases where seed..
can bo saved in part, and frequently It more .. wUhin our J Id „ t ., had been planted recently re-sowing
is the case that ten or a dozen carloads will benocessary. Of course cotton
of western com Is thus exposed to | * Chickens may not be any too plentl- | can he replanted, but then a dlfilcuUy
.is going to bo experienced to gottlng
Fed to stock, it is almost as fatal as denying the fact that the stork Is a «» BO ed, and the farmors will have’labor-
arsenlc. Ode farmer near the city ro-1 doln K business. I od a lot to no purpose,
ports the loss of two lino mulcj a few I AmericusTbawltes aro not pleased! Their loss Is not to be comparod to
days ago, doubtless the result of eating I a t tho mistrial of the case. .Sentiment | that of the peach growers, but still It
damaged corn. And there aro prob-1 here seems to be decidedly in favor of | •» by no means unimportant,
ably many mules killed through the I Harry and Kvie.
same agency. *
One should be careful in feeding | ’^ le a * ca ^ n ® orai!8 U* Americus Is I
stock, and doubly careful in knowing | ma * cin K 8 million for those ln the I
the quality of meal served as bread bu,lneM * rrom * 30to WO per day Is
WORK WEAKENS THE|KIDNEYS.
upon his oivn tuble.
Severe Weather of Past Week Actu
ally Killed Foliage Upon Forest
Trees-Largc Areas Were
Thus Blighted.
the past three weoks.
Mrs. J. N. I'ldcock, of Moultrie, en I
route homo from a visit In New Jersoy, I
[is tho guest of Mrs. W. B. Matthews |
at her home on Furlow street.
UGHT INFANTRY IN PARADE.
| Doan’s Kidney Pills Have Done Great
Service for the People Who
Work In Americus.
Most Americus people work every
PRESIDES FOR JUDGE LITTLEJOHN
Gompany Goes to the Georgia Chautauqua This Morn-
■ >ut west of Americus, in ono locality |
at least, history was ropcated in the <
killing of foliage in the forests by the
recent froezlng weather, as was the [
- aso in 1819. A gentloraan Informed
the Times-Kecorder yesterday that in
Judge Whipple Sits at Stewart Court |
This Week.
ing.
Company L. Fourth Georgia Iiegl
[mont, the Amorlcus I,lght Infantry,
I will Join in tho march of the stato
on account of the illness of Judge/. I troops upon Albany this morning.
«ome sections near here the oak trees) A ' Littlejohn, wlio has been confined to ICaptain Charlei Van Hiper will com-
look as though they had been singed hl “ 1,o m e h »ro for three or tour days by a mand the company, whleh will go
■over, the recent freeze having kmo d 8l bfht inmsuosltlon, Jucige U. V. Whip- thirty or thirty-five strong, making
the young lcavos and tender sprouts. P*® “fUordele will preside at Stewart I the usual fine and imposing appear-
It requires severo cold Indocd lo’klll court ,hl " wcok ' Tho » c «» lon will anco. The Americus military will
tho foliage on oak trees, and if this has| prob8blv Ia8t through this week nndljolnthe two Columbus companies at
been dono, as stated. It would seem| p ® a t, as there is considerable business I the Central depot here, these three
that thero is little hope that the peach *° h® dIs P osed of. During the ten years constituting a battalion of the Fourth
treca should escape unscathed. Tho JudB ° Littlejohn has been upon the Hegiment under command of Major
damage wrought now is not as groat, bench this Is the first time ho has ever Coart. The battalion will leave Amerl-
of course, as at the time oE the mem- ml ' i « od presiding In hts circuit as tho cus by «Ue8:25 Central special, arrlv-
orable and disastrous “forty-niner'' re,uU °f lllnes '' H1 * bo,t of warm
but groat loss will be sustained here, frlond “ wl " wl " h for hlm * pood y r0
nevertheless. |covory.
CHIEF JUSTICE FISH IS BETTER
DEATH Of JOHN BRADFORD
PROSPECT Of PEACH CROP
other towns to a week
ing In Albanyat9:40 this morning. Tho* . , ... _
greater portion of the Americus dele- J “ dg ® F ° rt h “ b60n ' Conflned
gallon of Chautauqua visitors wUl go !° hl * re,,denc ® for three or four daye
by this train a. the schedule t.imore| by ,U,ht lllne ”' the re * ret of
favorable than by the 10 o’clock morn-1 bl * bost offrlon<ls -
Ing train carrying Got. Terrell and I The Windsor rink Is to have a new
party. The military feature today will I maple floor at a cost of probably $200.
be quite an imposing one, as aside I The material for thlk baa already been
from the Georgia troeps It ts expected I ordered from Chicago.
“‘‘‘“J"** ^ mpanI «°f ‘h® «®®ond And now . clob woman declares that
toe nt™ TT eUt V f part * n I It Is a mistake to wear clothes. SHU.
cut X. ‘ .n’, m °t r ?. K ’ Amerl - 8b ® wUl be eomewhat slow about .Urt-
“ d 11 Tl,1,0 " 1 1 w,1, l " ,nr “ ing the atyle in Americus.
here tonight by the special train leav-1
ing Albany at 8.30 o'clock. f Sumter’s formers, the majority of
them, ere now planting cotton—for the
second time. Sunday's frost caught
the cotton thst was up already.
about the average.
Now that the Prison Commission has I
taken a look Into the condition of Sum-1
tor's Siberia, there may be something I
doing In a few days.
No one in Americus Is surprised at J d ®y * n a °mo strained, unnatural po-
the latest turn in the Bundrick case. sWon—bending constantly oyer a doslc
Kroreone suspected a cat to the meal I —r * d * n * on JolUng wagons or car
tub somewhere. | doing laborious housowork; Hftingl
| reaching or puUing, or trying tho back
The regUter. ot the Alton House and L , a hundred and one other ways. All
Hotel Windsor show that more people thele atralllt , end woakon nui
come to Americus In a day than go to' lD j uro the kldn#y> unUHh ey fail be-
Much improved By Recent Trip to Was ,he Prera,s,n 9 Youn 9 son of Expert Inspects the Orchards About Americus and
The people of Sumter are still wait'
Ing for the promised “reforms” In the
county chatagang. So for as known
little on this line has been done.
bind to tbelr work of filtering tlia
poisons from the bloed. Doan's Kid
ney Pilla cure sick kidneys, put new
strength to bad backs.
Mre. W. S. Marshall, It. F. D. No. 1,
Dawson. Ga., write*, "My husband's
back and hips were so still and vor«
that he could not get up from a chair
without help, I got a box of Doan's
Kidney Pills for him at Dodeon's
Pharmacy, at Americus, and after tak
ing the pills he felt relief to three days.
One box entirely cured him.
For sale by all dealers. Prlco 5*
cents. Foster-HIlburn Co., Buffalo,
New York, sole ageats for the United
States.
Remember the name—Doan's—and
take no other.
»
Florida.
Mr. G.W. Bradford,
...... John Bradford, the fifteen year old
The many Americus friends of thief gon #f Mf 0 w „ radfordi dled at
Justice W.H.Flsh of the Supreme ™H hom( ,, BcU atroe , ,„ d Harrold avenue,
are pleased to learn of the recent marked
Talks Encouragingly.
Mr. C. M. Porter still insists that bo
• |iita»tu iu tuuiu ui iuv luci'iiuiiaintii ■ Mntulaw Tl»» htiHnl nraa I and tbe pDSCb gFOW Crs horc-
improvement in bis general health. I Tuoadav ltev It I about8 are wronir. Yesterday bevisi-
He has just returned to Atlanta from I . |»,vin« oflleiatimr The dcceaseii t0d the ° ?C,,ards to the north of
a stay of several months in Florida I?., "“e?unlirv hov Test verging Amotlcus snd brou * bt bn< k “ branch
During this needed restand relaxation I)' (of* fine tree, full of little peaches, all
from onerous duties Judgo Fish gained I , Tbo r am ii v have tho svm. I opparcnlly ln 8 healthy condition,
nty-flro pounds in weight, and is I .. f * friends in tlielr great I "* baV ° vl,lted cvery orchard In
pletely restored to health. Hewlll|P*' hy ofm * ny frlends ln « rcat Sumter county of any consequence ex-
loss ' Icept the Ware orchard, “said Mr.
Porter, "and I am satisfied that this
resume his dutlos upon the bench this
week.
REVIVAL SERVICES
HIS CONDITION IS QUITE CRITICAL
Will Be Held at Furlow Lawn for an
Mr. Cullen Horne Not Expected to Rc-I Indefinite Period.
cover.
Revival services will begin at Fur-
j low Lawn Baptist church on next Sun-
' Friends or Mr. Cullen Horne Jr-1 day morning. Tho pastor. Rev. K. L.
deeply deplore the latest Information n i v ins, will be assisted by Bav. L. R.
coming from his sick room to the effect I Christie, ot Valdosta.
thathopeinhlacaseiapracticaUyaban-l (m weekdays Ihe meetings wlU be
-loned, and that the end may not long j held dally at * p. m. and 7:43 p.m.
bo stayed. Mr. Home has long been a I as both ol the mtnletere conducting
sufferer from a distressing malady! t h e services are speakers of force and
w h(ph, despite the skill of the best sur- 1 eloquence $® meetings will be of
geone. seems incurable. muc h interest.
NEXT WEEK | county will have about 73 car loads of
peaches to ship. I know they wont be
lieve me, but I am thoroughly satisfied
that this is the esse.
"The Bagley orchard wilt turn out
20 to 23 care. Of that I fee) satisfied.
“This morning I got a letter from
Judge 7.. A. Littlejohn will leave to-
day or tomorrow for White Sulphur
Springs, FIs., where he will spend a
few daye in rest snd recreation.
Judge Gober, stating that tbe re-|
ports from Marietta were exagger-
The little girl skaters, bless their
baby hearts, are still making the tiled
ated, and that from his Cedar Hill I pavements ring. And anyone who says
orchard he would get considerable I them nay should be shot,
peaches. So for as the section about
Americus is concerned, I feel sure that
the temperature did not get down low VETERANS WIU HAVE A MEETING
enough to do much damage.
‘The drougb’t held down the crop',.. , , „
but not the celd weather." I IViCITIdridI Doy AS USUSl-TIlC Trip tO
Everybody in Americus and Sumter | Rirhmnml
county hopes thst Mr. Porter Is the mtllinuilU.
true prophet and ell the other* are | Camp Sumter, No. 642, U. C. V. has
TO CULTIVATE CROP Of REYNARDS
Young foxes Will Be Raised Here f*r
the Chase.
false ones, bnt tt is hard to convince I been Invited by the Ladle* Memorial
the peach growers that there la any- {Society end Daughter* of tbe Confed-
thlng in eight for them except disap-1 erecy to unite with them to the deco-
pointmen*.
Famous. Fashionable Faultless.
Proof of pudding,!* tasting thereof.
Use Murray’s Fragrant Cream Violet
for those chapped hands and face.
Prlco 23c. Made only at Eidridge
Drug Co. Come, send or phone 33
and 70. lis.st
E
VSs
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Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tome
bas stood the test 25 years.. Average Annual Sales over One and a Half MOKoa
fatties. Does this record of merit appeal to you? No Core. No Pay. 50c.
ladosed with every fcottie Is a Tas C*at» package of Oove’a Week Hoot. Liver fUe.
ration of the gravee of Confederate eol.
dlers and otherwise assist to the lexer-
cises of memorial day.
The Camp will meet ln tho morning
POLITICS IN LEE GETTING LIVELY | | of April, 26, to discus* buelnese
tors, principal of which will be the
Sumler's Neighbor is Sitting Up and
Taking Notice.
great reunion at Richmond on the last
day of May. It Is desired that all
veterans be present and advise as to
Tbe candidatal bee lie on the buzz, I * 1U f , t * k f l, ,be ,rlp to
>wn In the field, of Lee. From there T'" 0 ''^°. C .° n ^! de, * Cy *,
down
comes the news that already two
Americus men are eald to be'to tbe
race for solicitor general of tbe circuit,
with prospects of some of tbe other
counties fornisblag candidate*. Two
candidates for sheriff are spoken of
and tho*daye ol the future are liable to
bring out other ctndldales for tbo va-
rious places to be voted for next year.
In the afternoon there will be
parade or tbe Camp, a* usual c
Memorial Day.
Furniture, Crockery and
Glassware at Allison Furniture
Co. for better prices than here
tofore offered.
One crop that ts Impervious to frosts
will be raised near Americus this yosr,
as peculiar to Its nature, as rich ln re
sults. Capt. M. B. Council, whose
penchant for running red foxes is
known tho country ovor, rccievcd by
express yesterday a box.filled with
"baby” foxes shipped him from up the
state. For be It known that Capt.
CouncUand other reynard extermi
nators have secured tho brushos of
about all the foxea ln south Georgia,
and it u incumbent upon them to re
plenish the stock hero. This consign
ment of Infantile roynards, cute little
rtd chaps they are, wiU bo turned loosa
In the woods here, snd when fully
ripe and ready to run tho gonial Cap
tain and his friends will enjoy groat
sport until tho local “stock" Is again
exhausted through extermination.
Shake off the grip of your old enemy,
Nasal Catarrh, by using Ely’s Cream
Balm. Then will all the swelling and
soreness bo driven out of tho tender,
in llamcd membranes. Tho fits of sneez
ing wiU cease and tho discharge, as
offensive to others as to yourself, will
bo cured when tne causes that produce
it aro removed. Cleanliness, .comfort
and hoalth renewed by the use of Cream
Balm. Sold, by all druggists ,0
cents, or maUcd by Ely Bros., 06 \. ar-
ren .Street, Now York.
Fon Salk—100 egg Incubator. Phone
15. d 2t w It W. R. Ua.vsK"i.]< (