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THE AMERIClS WEEKlY TIMES-RECORDER. FRIDAY. JULY 19. 1907
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THOMAS GAMBLE, J«.
Editor and Proprietor.
J. W. FL'RLOW, City Editor.
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The Times-Recorder I* the
1 Orjaa of the City of Ametlcua,
OSetal Ocean of Hum ter County.
OSoal Orean of Webater Conntr.
Offldal Organ of Railroad Communion of
Georgia for tne Id Comrreaalonal Dlatrlct.
AMERICUS AND STATE PROHIBITION.
AMERICUS. GA., JULY 18 1907.
The Constitution says the fight
is over and prohibition is assnred.
Was there aDy fightf It didn't
seem like even a decent skirmish.
It wonld be interesting tq knot*
Gov. Hoke Smith’s real thoughts
as to what prohibition will mean
for Georgia and whether he be
lieves it will really prohibit.
Inside of ten months the Demo
cracy bits the fork of the roads and
decides whether to follow the path*
•way of the pass or diverge to the
unknown path with its new fang-
led ideas.
Wonder ii any of the legislators
are looking around for that 9250,-
000 Dr. Broughton discovered had
been raised to prevent state
prohibition! Good men like Dr.
Bronghton onghtnot to indnige in
aneb wild yaporings. They hart
themselves and their cause.
The pop jlation of Maine is almost
stationary. In 1806 it was 026,-
279, and now it is bnt 710,000.
Massachusetts in the same time
has grown nearly 150 per cent.
The Philadelphia Record says
“the prohibitory code sufficiently
explains why immigrants do not
eontribnte to the growth of Maine,
without searching for other more
or less remote causes.”
To a limited extent Americas will suffer hecau-e uf S ate prohibi
tion. Tnere are nine bars here, from which the City bus derived an
lneome uf 89,000 a rear. This revenue will be cut uff. The city’s
expense- canuot be pared down rogueet (he decrease in income from
business licemses, and the *9,000 will hare to be made np, presum
ably, by a heavier tax rate on realty and personalty, or a higher
assessment of those classes of property. As a general proposition it-
can be said that real estate is always called upon to meet additional 1
hardens under sn-.h conditions as these.
Outside of this necessity of raising more revenue from realty, there {
will be a few stores vacated on January 1, and a few people thrown
out of employment hefe. Some of these stores will be speedily occu
pied for other business purposes. Of that we have no doubt. Some
that are not advantageously situated may remain vacant temporarily,
bnt probably before a year has passed the nine will be used for
pnrpose$|^bat are not outlawed by the State. There will be bnt a
temporal loss of income to the owners of the stores now occupied by
bars.
Bat beyond these effects we do not believe that Americas* will
suffer materially as a result of State prohhdtion. State prohibition
will not injnre Americas, in the opinion of the best jadges, anywhere
near as much as Sumter county prohibition would do. If the connty
went dry, and numerous places were near by where liqnor. could be
had, Americas would undoubtedly, as beforennder like circumstances,
lose trade and perhaps suffer severely. Those who have studied the
situation most carefully, in the light of past experiences, are satisfied
that it is far better for Americas that Georgia should go dry than
that Sumter connty by itself should go dry.
State prohibition is not going to diminish the cotton receipts of
Americas by one bale. It will not affect the production of the other
crops that tend to promote the welfare of the city. It will not affect
Five mound yards cotton fabrics for sale at falf frige.
Many of these fabrics cannot be bought again at wholesale for the former
prices for which thsy were retailed, but that makes no difference we are going
to clean up There never was a time when it would pay so well to lay away
dress patterns for next season as it will pay now If there are dresses still to
be made the material will cost v.ry little and there is a broad and beautiful
variety to select from.
Over three thousand yards in one of printed batiste, organdies, mulls
etc. The former selling prices were 15c, 2Uc, and 25c. this entire tot has been
priced on sale at per yard iOc.
One thousand yards batiste f ull regular width great variety of neat fig
ures and floral designs worth in the reguiarway 10c here now at per yd 4^c.
a single industry in the city, or eut off a single railroad employe that
lives here and contributes to the prosperity of the community. ‘It will
injnre a few individuals, as we pointed out, bnt the damage to the
city as an entirety we decline to believe will be of any moment.
We feel, like onr friends of the Albany Herald, where forty bars
will be closed np, that the growth and well being of Americas do not
depend on bar rooms located here. Savannah, Augusta, Macon and
Colnmbns seem to think that their prosperity is forerer over if
Georgia goes dry. Amencus does not believe anything of the sort
We do not believe in prohibition, but it is folly to say that
Americas is going to have a terrible back set because Georgia goes
dry. It is not going to have anything of the sort. It is going, to go
ahead, jnst as it has been doing for the past two or three years. To
be sure blind tigers will probably take the place of the licensed bars,
jugs and bottles will come into the city and the county from across
the Alabama line, and from other states, and plenty of liquor will be
consumed, jnst as before. These things are the natural consequence
of prohibition which does not eliminate the desire of men for liquor
nor prevent them from getting it if they really want it. Bnt the
prosperity of this city does not depend on its licensed sale, no matter
how much better that system is than the unlicensed sale and the
importation for nse in the home.
Americas will be a bigger Americus one year after next Janaary 1
than it is on that date. It is going to keep on thriving and develop
ing, because its people are united to that end, because it is the heart
of one of the finest sections of Georgia, and because its business men
are enterprising, Prohibition cannot and will not stop its growth, no
matter how much prohibition proves to be either a success or a failure
as a preventative of the consumption of liquor.
The Times-Recon^er believes
the telegraph companies shoald
be supervised as to rates and that
the national government, through
the Inter-state Commerce Com
mission, shoald regalate their
inter-state tariffs. But it really
does seem going a trifle too far
to pnt an arbitrary fine of (50
on a company for the failure to
deliver a message “promptly,” as
Representative Dykes, of Sumter,
provides In his bill. This is a mat
The legislature ol Georgia shoald
not allow itself to be influenced by
the Southeastern Tariff Associ
ation into the enactment of laws
that would make it difficult to
organize and condnct additional
home insurance companies. On
ttte contrary it might better spend { er t hat should be left to the courts,
its time investigating the South- j A „ iD j ured individnal can sue and
eastern and doing what it can to genera n y recover damages if he
relieve Georgia of the insurance
monopoly under which it now
■offers.
Having been through the fire
one time the Macon papers hold
that the less litigation there is
the better for the creditors of its
broken bank. They bold that “it
does not take very many demur
rent, interpleadiugs, injunctions
and other legal processes to
thoroughly obliterate a hundred
thousand dollars of good assets.”
The MacoD papers overlook the
fact that bank failures are plums
sent by providence for the enrich
ment of those lucky enough to get
toe jobs.
President Akin was right when
be said that the rights lof country
people throughout., Georgia had
been violated by reckless auto-
mobilists. The average city man
owning an antomobileacts as if he
were drank when he gets out on a
country road, and violated all of
the laws of decent condnct toward
those driving on the public .'high
ways. It is really a question as
to whether a few hundred auto*
mobilists own the roads of Georgia
, or the more than 2,000,000 that
don’t ran motor cars. We rather
believe the two million will have
tilings their way In this con*
H section.
suffers any financial loss or anguish
of feelings by non-delivery prompt
ly of a telegram. The legislature
might well lay this bill on the
shelf as unnecessary
The Georgian is patting itself on
the back about its stand for prohi
bition and serving np a page of
laudatory stuff al»out itself every
day. Modesty is one of the vir
tues that don’t exist in the sanctum
of the Georgian.
The way to kill a bad law, GeD.
Grant said, is to enforce it. If
prohibition is bad the best way to
demonstrate the fact forcibly will
be to rigidly enforce it, without
fear and without favor.
Albany will have, they say,
about forty vacant stores when the
bars are closed. Americus has
but nine bars, and they will be
speedily occupied for other lines
of business.
An Albany farmer is selling off
his Jersey cows. He knows that
the day of the milk punch is near
ly over at Albany.
Judge Roddenberry of Thomas-
vUle says prohibition will)ast for
ever In Georgia. _
Law is an uncertain commodity
A Federal Judge in North Carol!
na has enjoined State officers frem
enforcing a law limiting railroad
fares, just as another Federal
Judge in New York enjoined
State officials from enforcing a law
reducing the price of gas. Bnt
a Federal Judge in Missouri acted
as an arbitrator and arranged for
a trial at the end of which time the
railroad companies are to come
into court and show how badly
they are hart. And now a Fed
oral Judge in Iowa refnscs to in
terfere at all with the enforcement
of a Two cent-faro law on the
ground that no injnry to the roads
was shown and the complaint that
the new rate wonld redace divi
dends was not proved.
Over-Work Weakens
Your Kidneys.
Unhealthy Kidneys Hake Impure Blood.
All the blood In your body pas;;} through
your kidneys once every three minutes.
The kidneys are your
bloo'd purifiers, they fil
ter out the waste or
impurities in the blood.
If they are sick or out
of order, they fail to do
their work.
Pain;, achesandrheu-
matssm co'r.ie from ex-
cccs cf uric acid in the
blood, due to' neglected
kidney trouble.
Kidney trouble c-iusea quick or unsteady
heart b:a-.3, and mai-.es one feel as though
they had heart tv>ufc!e. because the heart is
over-worhing in pumping thick, kidney-
poisoned blood through veins and arteries,
it used to be considered that only urinary
Women’s $1.75 Kimonas at $1,12.
Women's $1.70 Kimonas made of
fine quality printed batiste und lawns
made in the newest style*,ail lengths
and sizes regularly sold for $1.7s
now at each $1 la
Pearl Buttons at 5c Dozen.
Fifty gross pure white pearl but
tons in three of the most popuiarjsizes
one dozen on a card worth as usual
ly sold ioc, Ijere now at per dozen sc.
Linen Lawns
Linen Lawns, full 36 inches wide
and every thread guaranteed to be
pure linen, sold by the bast of stores
for 50c. Herd while the lot lasts in
the rebuilding sale at per yara 29c.
Ladies’ Low Cut Shoes.
Three hundred pairs L*dieg’ low
cut shoes in every good style shown
this season. The only trouble with
this lot is that most of them are in
small sizes; tbe former prices ranged
from $1.50 to $2 50 and $3.00. If you
wear a#, 3. 3V1 or 4 you have a
chance to get the best bargain you
ever saw, for they are truly worth up
to $3. Now you can take your pick
of about three hundred pairs at per
pair $1.25.
Misses Low Cut Shoes at 75c
Every pair of misses shoes under
this roof is included In this sale at75c
pair, strap sandals, and ties patent
leather, vlci kid and tan, the former
prices were $1,1 50 and $2, all on big
center counter and priced for your
choice at per pair 76c
Linen Suitings.
Linen Suiting, 38 Inches wide, and
every yard guaranteed to be pure
linen. We will make any person a
present uf a full bilt if ypu will find a
thread of cotton In this linen. The
Regular price is 35c, and it Is sold for
that price in every good store. We
have made the price less th»n cost of
production and say rebuilding sale
price prr yard 18c
MERCANTILE CO.
115 and 1.7 Forsyth Street John K Shaw’s Old 5tana.
The news comes from Atlanta
that the financiers of the House
expect to get 9100,000 revenue
from the little ‘electric moving
pictnre shows of the state. It-is
estimated by them that there are
a thousand in operation. We will
wager there are not over a hun
dred in tbe entire state and that
many of them will fold np their
tents and depart in the night
with a 9120 a year tax on them.
The financiers will have to try
again.
Joyner’s Removal Sale.
STILL GOING ON,
Have yon attended this great sale yet! Gome right now and save
something for yonrselt and family. Lots and lots of specie's are
pit ked up every d»y by onr customers.
Down in the second district they
believe that Judge W. N. Spence
is slated to succeed Justice Cobb
on the Supreme Court bench. A
deal is reported to have been made
yrithGov. Smith by which the
appointment waslpromised Spence
if he wonld help Roddenberry, of
Thomasville, in his congressional
aspirations. Just to think of a
position on the Supreme Court
being bartered in this fashion
under a reform administration.
Immigration seems to be a live
wire that Gov. Smith is afraid to
tackle. What's tbe nse of talk
ing againt the real wishes of the
people. They don’t want imml
11 -jku id kb gonjMrea inn on;/ . , . . ,
troubles were to te traced to the kidneys, grants from Austria, the governor
but now modern science proves thst nearly
il constitutional diseases have their begin
ning In kidney trouble.
If you are sick you can make no mistake
by first doctoring your kidneys. The mild
and the extraordinary effect of Dr. Kilmer's
Swamp-Root, the great kidney remedy ia
soon realized. It stands the highest for its
wonderful cures of the most distressing
and Is sold on its mertts
by ail druggists in fifty-
cen.t and one-do!!ar siz-
You may have e'
sample bottle by mail
free, also pamphlet telling you how to find ,
knows it, and he does not propose
to waste any valuable time on
that line. It is not a vote catcher
in Georgia, and probably never
will be.
1 The Carmen pay the tax of fer-
I tilizer inspections, and therefore it
bn* right that the proceeds
lieo, auw bmituium iciiin£ YOU IIOW 10 1100, " . .
out if you have kidney or bladder trouble. 18h01lld go to th© agricultural COl
Mention this paper when writing Dr. Kilmer Jeges. This is One Of few instances
& Cv„ Binghamton, N. Y, - | ™ , . . ., ,...
Don’t make any mistake, but remember Where the man who JOOtS the bills
gel. th. directDenUlt.
N. Y.. on every bottle.,
50c Long Mite per pair 35c.
25c Real Pearl Bnokles each...10c.
6O0Belts with Pearl Buckles...25c.
$1. Long Lisle Gloves per pair 6O0
50c Ladies fine hose suppor era
per pair 25c
19c loDg four in handTies each 9o
OSomens nice shiits 39c
65 a mend elastic drawers, pair 35c
65o mens wash pants, pair 43c
25c lot of straw bate each 10c
75o nice umbrellas each 48c
15o polka dot Unene ylard life
15c white 8 -norita Linen 9 l-2<
15c Flowered Organdie 9 l-2c
2.00 Long Silk Gloves 93c
35c milano Silk per yard 19c
15c 4 inch white lawn yard 8l-2«
7c one lot calico yard Be
10 yards good Gingham 45c
40c beautiful table dauiaek yd. 25
*10.00 mens Batts cow 96.98
98 50 mens suits now 95.98
94.60mens suits now ---*1.98
All boy’s snits at cost.
60o h°ndled glass sherberte set 30c
40c best desert plates Bet „..15c
90 j Real china plates set 69c
75c best white cnpB saucers set 39c
90c decorated cups and saucers 59c
25c nice glass tumblers set 15c
30c iatge enamel pana each...15c
35o large enamel boilers each...l5o
23o 10 qt. milk bucket each 12c
25o S qr. dish pan each 11c
JCc 12 qt dish pan eath 16c
26c m&jeetic crank sifter each 10c
25qnlce wotk baskets each 12c
19c extension curtain reds each 10c
25 u lOxj.2 pictures with glass 16c
25c 10x12 gjod mirrors each 15c
91.00 children’s leghorn hate 49c
Si 25 heavy large counterpane 98c
rhe be^t maus suit in stork 97.97.98c great value eoonterjmne 46c
W. A. Joyner,
628 Cotton Avenue.
No Argument
however strongly it may be pre
sented, will stand unless it is based
on truth. Customers, who have
bought their groceries from us for
years, need no argument to con
vince them that they were] trail
treated. They got good reliable
goods and excellent value for their
money. They know it, are satis
fied, and stay with ns, To those
who do not deal with ns, our
strongest argument is merit- |Hon-
cst- groceries at honest prices.
SPARKS-M ASH BURN COMPANY.