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GROWTH OF THE A., B. & A. System Operates Nearly 500 Miles PUSHING FORWARD TO BIRMINGHAM Nothing Heard Yet as to Prospect of Americus Connecting Up With the Enterprising Road (hat Is Set ting the Pace in Georgia. "On to Birmingham” Is now the slogan of the A. B. & A. Step after step Is being taken which brings Brunswick closer to Birmingham and another link forged in the chain unit ing the Alabama coal fields and steel mills with the ocean. Where other systems smiled at the ambitious plans of the A. & B. a year or two ago, every one Is today tak ing notice. For the A. B. &A. has nearly 500 miles In operation and as an independent system Is building up a traffic every hour of the day which It will control exclusively. Wadley Present Terminus. Wadley, Ala., Is the new terminus the Roanoke-Wadley extension hav ing been opened Monday morning. Thenew stations are Peary, 46 miles west of Roanoke, Blue, 8 miles and Wadley 14 miles. Pyrlton, Ala., is the new bbjective and construction between Wadley and that point will be pushed. .This will be the Junction point with the Atlanta division. Work Is being push ed also between Warm Springs and Atlanta. 1 Details of Interest. The total mileage of the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic now under operation Is as follows: Main line Brunswick to Wadley, Ala., 325.6 miles. Waycross branch, Waycross to Ses- soms, 26.0 miles. Thomasville division, Thomasville to Fitzgerald, 80.5 miles. Alabama division, Talledega to Ashland, Ala. 32 miles. iE AMERICUS WEEKLY riMES..RECORDER. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1907 STATE TO G0NTEST SUITS OF RAILWAYS To Prevent the Enforce ment of Rates GOVERNOR STATED HIS POSITION In Speech at Sparta YesterJay-Rail roads Will Be Made By. the Courts to Toe the Mark In Rates. ATLANTA, GA., Sept; 10.—The state is making careful preparation for fighting the suits of the railroads which were recentlly Instituted to prevent the enforcement of reduced fares. The governor spent some time yesterday in consultation with the members of the railroad commis sion and attorneys. Just what line of action has been agreed upon has not, It is stated, been fully agreed upon,, but It Is known that the state Is sanguine as to winning its fight In the end. The position of the governor as re gards the railroads Is clearly stated in his speech whleh^he delivered to day at Sparta. He stated that the grand juries of the various counties should act as well as the railroad commission, and if neither of these were able to carry out the laws the governor himself will take a hand. The governor .and members of the railroad commission do not believe that any federal Judge will annul the orders of the comnfisslon after hear ing the case on Its merits. A Humane Appeal. Lost and Found. Lost, between 9:30 p, m., yesterday and noon to-day, a bllllous attack, with nausea and sick headache. This loss was occasioned by finding at El- drldge Drug Co’s, a box of Dr. King's New Life Pills, the guaranteed cure for biliousness, malaria and jaundice. 25c. A humane citizen of Richmond, Ind., Mr. U. D. Williams, 107 West Main St., says: "I appeal to all persons with weak lungs to take Dr. King’s New Discovery, the only remedy that has helped me and fully comes up to the proprietor's recommendation.” It saves more lives than all other throat and lung remedies put together. Used az a cough and cold cure the world over. Cures asthma, bronchitis croup, whooping cough, quinsy, hoarseness, and phthisic, stops hem orrhages of the lungs and builds them up. Guaranteed at Elddrldge Drug Co. 60c. and $1.00. Trial bottles free. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL UEEfe* 11 ™ f “/" s ^ ™ I SAME AS AT PRESENT) TOLD IN FEW LINE Brevities That Tell of Movements of AmericusRailroadswiTNot Reduce Pencil StubsPickea Up Folk sand Friends. Rates Lower Randor CbwkW tlllfl) In 0 tSAUOOV 001 TO OStMl RATE I DAY’S HAPPENINGS IN AMERIC0S’ Four Gents for Round Trip East Year Too Short for a Head and Bunched and as Regular Rate Is Nearly j Together-Four lines Gulled News Items of GIty, life That Are Readers. Genuine leather purses and Card Cases at Bell's, the leading Jeweler. E^W. Hill was among the Atlantans registered yesterday at the Hotel Windsor, O. B. DeVaughn and W. P. Taylor of Birmingham are guests at the Ho tel Windsor. W. F. McHann of Cairo, was a busi ness visitor In Amerlcus yesterday, among others. Mr. JuJIan S. Rodgers of Atlanta, officiated yesterday In the cornerstone exercises here. Mrs. J. F. Watson of Leesburg Is visiting relatives in.Amerlcus, her home for many years. Call up Loving’s Stables, phone 81, for baggage transfer. tf. That Figure It Will Be Fair Rates. Here and There In the City. M. C. E. Hopkins of Savannah’ was a business visitor In Amerlcus yester day morning. ... . Amerlcus people who attend the I School books, new and second hand. Mr. L. b. Slappey la now greeting annual AtIanta fairs In October, will and full line school supplies at lowest his friends at the new store of Sills BCarce * y eet any re <iuctIon this year I Prices. Holliday’s Book Store. and Schneider. I 016 rate * now In effect, as under | The long whistle of several manu facturing plants here at 4 o'clock yes terday afternoon marked the hour of the cornerstone exercises. and Schneider. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas K. Bates of Norfolk are visitors In Amerlcus, ar riving yesterday. Mr. W. D. Crawford came with others from Beuna Vista to Amerlcus yesterday morning. Mrs. R. L. Parker Is spending sev- I .... eral weeks pleasantly with relatives „ cou P° nB attached. rw_ta._Aa.-_ /t I Thn llRtinl rata hna the orders of the Railroad Commission ] fares are already reduced to the us ual “fair” rates. Atlanta Is going to have another I fair In October, although the fact has not bqen advertised to any extent Now that the "cornerstone,, haa his B0 S ectl„^™f! a '« " lany fr ° m be6n Iald ’ ,etS lay a ,aw thousand h Anrt W nn attend. others upon top of It and thus hurry And Just now Atlanta la concerned in completing the building, about the railroad rates—tickets with In Talbotton, Ga. Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Starr of Ma con are visitors in Amerlcus for few days, coming yesterday. Mrs. J. N. Scarborough has return ed from Atlanta, accompanied by her daughter, Mrs. Jarrell, who will spend a week here. Miss Evelyn Rutherford has return ed to her home here to spend two or three days with her mother, Mrs. Nettle Rutherford. The usubI rate has been a fare and I general discomfort t^hf situation* a ‘ h ': d °i; H b f sldes de,ayIag ‘be Important work I —M-lAVU UVIUJ lug I Mrs. Benjamin Brooks, of Columbus, round tr *P> dur log the course of tho I of cotton picking, visiting Mrs. Neon Buchanan at falr ’ The regular rates now In effect is visiting Mrs. Neon Buchanan her home on Jackson street. the pretty guest of Mrs. Home Beard this week, at Her home on Jackson street. Mr. D. S. Derrick and daughters, Mrs. Camilla Hite and Miss Lula Der- | rick of Plains, were visitors In Amerl cus yesterday. 5““- and the road8 | The bond of 825,000 made by the | 1_ cut it no further. new electric company with tho city This rate is open to Atlanta and of Amerlcus has been filed 1h due form Miss Willie Prothro of Richland la ° p ®“ “ Atla T aad of Amerlcus has been filed 1h due le pretty guest of Mrs. Home Beard °° ... a,r nt ? y ’ * nd . tbe ab ' wlth the clerk and treasurer. . Bence of the coupon Is what is perter- lng Atlanta. Modern Progress In New York. Mrs. John Sheffield returned yes terday from the North Carolina moun tains. where she spent the summer months very pleasantly. Mr. and Mrs. I. B. Small are now at home at the Clarke residence College street,-east DEATH OF MRS. EMILY WILLIAMS Aged Lady Passed Away Near Smithville. Mrs. Emily Williams, .aged sixty six years passed away quietly at the home of her daughter, Mrs. T. J. Suggs, near Smithville, on Tuesday, last She was the widow of the late Hen ry J. Williams and was a member of the Methodist church. She had been Ill to rabout two months, but not seriously until short time before her death. She- was laid to rest by the side of her husband and at the family grave yard near Smithville, Rev. McMlchael of Plains, conducting the funeral ser vices. A high old time—a grandfather’s clock. THE QUOTATIONS IN AMERICUS \ ” ' > ' - Cotton Market as Reported Daily by L. G. Council. Amerlcus, Ga., Sept. 11.—We quote the local cotton market quiet, as fol lows: Good MlddUng 12} Middling 12} Low Middling 11} NEW YORK FUTURES. New York,Sept. 11 ( —Spots: Middling steady at 13.00, —Contracts opened steady and close d easy. Open Close Oct ' 11.93 11.91 Dec 12,01 11.99 Jan .....12.03 12.03 TRANSFER OF PLANT DELAYED FOR TIME Necessitated By Death of Mr. Harrold. The contemplated transfer of the plant of the Amerlcus Illuminating & Power Co., to the newly organized Am erlcus Railway And Light Co., will necessarily be delayed for a few days as the result of the death of Mr. U. B. Harrold yesterday. Tbe trans fer was to have been effected yester day afternoon, when proceedings were brought to a sudden and unexpected halt for the reason stated. The dj- lay, however, will be of short dura tion, it la said, and the transfer will doubtless be effected in a few days. Cores Hay Fever and Sommer Cold. A. J. Nusbaum, Batesvllle, Indiana, writes: "Last year I suffered for three months with a summer cold so dis tressing that It Interfered with my business. I had many of the symptoms of hay fever, and a doctor’s prescrip tion did not reach my case, and I took several medicines which seemed to only aggravate my case. Fortunate ly^ insisted upon having Foley’s Hon ey and Tar In the yellow package, and itqulckly cured me. My wife has since used Foley’s Honey and Tar with the same success.” Sold by all druggists. TAKES A POSITION IN SOUTH AMERICA Former Americus Boy Goes to Brazil. SAVANNAH. Savannah, Gs.Sept.il,—Quiet. Spots: middling 12} -cents. LIVERPOOL. Liverpool, Sept.ll.—The cotton mar ket opened quiet and closed quiet. Spots: MlddUng, uplands 7.80. WAREHOUSE RECEIPTS. Received yesterday by wagon 231 Received previously by wagon’ 8,877 Total 4,108 Felder Furlow, son of CapL C. T. Furlow, assistant state treasurer, a graduate of the Tech, baa gone to South Amerlcn, where he will be em ployed upon the construction work of the new Brazilian railway, which is to be built by John M. Eagan, former president of the Central of Georgia Railway Company. It la stated there will be about two and one-half yeara preliminary work on the construction of this line before a rail can be laid. BREAKING ALL PAST RECORDS Lusitania Will Record Best Time Across Ocean. NEW YORK, Sept. 11. (Special)— TbeLusItanla Is breaking all previous records on her race across the Atlan tic with the Lucanla and qUll reduce tho best previous time by fc—*— hours as Indications now are. Miss Sarah Wheeler will return home tomorrow from Colorado Springs and other points west, where she spent the summer. Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Gatewood and little daughter returned yesterday Amerlcus fan-atlcg are almost as crazy a3 tho Atlantans over the re sult q£ the league series, and all hero , are rooting frfr Atlanta. Office building 26 stores high, con taining a thousand offices, hotels cov-1 Just now the head of the family Irr erlng a city block, containing 1,400 Americus is confronted with Involun- rooms; many, very many, painted with tary bankruptcy buying books for L. & M. from Atlanta, where the”y "spe^t a week I „ MaC !“ nery pr ° d “f B & « at 50 nlensnntiv times less cost for labor than If made pleasantly. by hand. Mrs.-Nettie Rutherford and Miss Wil- 8a " T T L ’ * M mlxed with 3 I the “standing room onlj ie Rutherford are at home from f allan » L nseed 01l > fresh from be hung out next Monday. his horde of hopefuls. Registration in the city public schools is still going forward, and the “standing room only” sign will r lie Rutherford are at home Hendersonville, N. C„ where spent a month delightfully. from , they Mi*a. Jack Massee of Macon, is visiting her sister. Miss Lillie Glover, at her home on Brown street. Mrs. Barlow Council left yesterday for Atlanta upon a visit to her sis ter, Mrs. Helen Bellingrath. Col. U. B. Harrold ’has been con fined to his home for two or three days by a serious Indisposition. Miss Lillie Carmine of Jacksonville Is the fair guest of Miss Lillie Belle Scratching at the Allen. House dur ing a pleasant visit of several days in Amerlcus. the barrel at about 60 cents per gal lon, makes 7 gallons of paint at coat of less than |1.20 per gallon. If any defect exists In L. &. Though frost days are not yet at hahd, the average Amerlcus woman „ —™ m<i*s already inspecting coat suits and Paint, will repaint house for nothlgfc. having a few laid aside Donations of L. & M. to churthes. 1 Sold by George Oliver, Amerlcus, Georgia. Mrs. R. E. Cato and young son, I Eugene, returned yesterday from the North Carolina mountains, where | they Bpent the summer months. “MAUD" IS NEEDED TO GET AUTO TO TOWN Final A halt seems to have come In realty deals, though for a time only, It is hoped. Few sales in Amerlcus are reported now . Mr.’ T. J. Wade came with others from Leslie to Amerlcus yesterday morning on business. Don’t let any cotton factory wlll-o- the-wlsp distract attention from that A. B. & A. branch line. Amerlcus needs tho railway most Miss Chloe Littlejohn Is at home again after a delightful visit of _ month in Statesboro, where she was the recipient of many charming so cial attentions. Col. and Mrs. F. A. Hooper return ed yesterday from Hot Springs, Ark., where they spent a month. Mr. J. I. HtUer was a well known citizen of Plains In Amerlcus yester day on business. Miss Lula Hay haa returned from New York, where she spent several weeks selecting her fall lines of fine millinery. Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Shipps and Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Boone arrived last night from Macon, summoned by the death of Mr. U. B. Harrold. Fuel Supply Failed on Lap. w, ' T . Amerlcus consunmes a vast quantity onMmlhH B aboard bis n « w of "soft drinks” not to mention hard . automobile, came In from Macon ones Three fnctnrteo Miss Mary Baglay left yesterday yesterday morning. Tho trip of prob- here bottling tho beverage T for Greensboro, N. C., where she I ably eighty or ninety miles by road coverage, will visit her sister for several weeks, was made all right, the auto working . , , finely until the last mile was reelei “ » ® i°“, B l"* Miss Belle Jones of Plains, left Sat- off - Whcn near tbe Central depot , t th y p ° ga * urtbay de ‘ urday for Forsyth, where she will on- bere the B "PP>y failed and tho ^ arebumhhriETthta ter Monroe College. | excursion stranded. One of Tom | nets are bu, 't higher this year. Mitchell’s hgyburners at the Ice fac- „„ . „ “ ., , , gone to Pensacola upon a visit of sev- , P “ ade W,th Maud Valley orchards and receded the neat eral days to relatives In the Florida metropolis -4- sum of 836,000 for them. Miss Pearl Parker of Richland la the guest of Mrs. James R. Webb, at her home here. w« off.- <w W wnn!5 I * T . iw, » I Th0 char,ot of " Klng Cotton” con- We offer One Hundred Dollars Re- tinned to swing low yesterday, and ward for any case of Catarrh thatcan- few of the farmers who rode cared to ™^,?^VcZ^Tr it r r th , e ? m cenu station - — - ' It Is hoped that 1,600,000 farmers Miss Flossie Dunn returned home L ^’c^neyforttflMt KyMreand Wbo are pledged not’ to’sell ^cotton to tend f . rom vn, v r n, B0Be ,en * h under 15 coot. w.H sit steady after to friends In Mllledgevllle. J bUB j negg tran8actlong and financially | yesterda y s Bevere *>«• TO URGE NEW SECRETARY Roosevelt Wants Member for Cabinet. WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 11. (Special.)—It la currently reported in administration circles here that when Congres convenes the presi dent will recommend the creation of ar new department, that of transporta tion, the head of which shall be a member of the president’s cabinet and that Republican leaders In Con gress will push through such a meas ure. — able to carry out any obligation made The Misses Read, of Cordele, are by h(s firm, charming visitors here this week,'the .. Waldln, Klnnan & Marvin,... guests of Mrs, W. P. Wallis. | Wholesale Druggists, Toledo O. crADrtADn w/i, i Hall’s Catarrh Cure Is taken In-1 SEABOARD WILL ternally, acting directly upon tho MAKE NO FIGHT blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials £ent free. Price | Acepls the Two and A Half 76c ' per bottle. Sold by all druggists, r “ Take Hall’s Family Pills for consti- Cent Rate. ” patlon. ATLANTA, GA., Sept ll.-(Speclal) MADE ’^M A PRESENT —The announcement Is.made thattbe . — Seaboard Air Lino will accept the two OF PAST DUE BILLS ,ront of Rylander’s shoe store. and a half cenjs a mile passenger - rate, laid down by the commission, Americus Man KeeDS the Rec- I' Tb,s month *• »Pellcd with tho r r r, and will make no fight in the courts | p ord Straight. • •• The price of cotton Is off Just one cent a pound or 85 per bale from quo tations a week ago. But oven cents Is not a bad price. — Isn't it about time to think about the circus. Last season these joy promoters came early in October, and a welcome awaits them here. Americus still leads the list snake- etically. Will Dudley killed a rattler, last night on the tiled pavement in against the reduction. INDIANA WAS IN DANGER Fire on Battleship Nearly Reached Magazine, WASHINGTON, D. C.. Sept. 11.— (Special.)—Reports received by tie navy department brought the alarm ing Information that on September fifth fire In the coal bunkers of the battleship Indiana nearly reached the magazine. It was only NEGRQ LEGISLATOR There la one man in Amerlcus, at I I least, who Is carrying no “N O” ac-1 counts on his books. s, all right, and already the venture some in Americus arc eating ' oys ter r r r r __ .. Americus Is the only city in Georgia I mi mo uuukd. He had a lot I getting a quarter million dollar invest? RESIGNS. SEAT of thum-worn accounts, and when he ment In these days of antipathy tow- _____ I presented these a day or two ago to arda corporations. the elusive debtor for the ’steenth time, every hill not paid was receipt- The cotton picker and the pick Only Negro in the House Will Be a Quitter. ATLANTA, Sept 10.—Representa tive Rodgers of McIntosh county, the only negro member of the Georgia legislature, will resign his scat In the House as avprotest at disfranchise ment. Rodgers has been a.member of the legislature, for several years. His seat was contested at tho recent session by a white *— — ’v “••• ICVCipi- *'•wnvu 1'ivnvi uuu LUC yiUf ed and handed as a gift to the fellow came to town yesterday with a i who settled not Some of them laB full of niuuey and swapped It doubtless accepted the gift gladly and cheese and mullet considered themselves that much ahead iu life’s game. Tho Amerlcus deadbeat was horn “nervy” and has had many relapses. Healthy kidneys filter the Impuri ties from tho blood, and unless* they do this good health Is Impossible. Foley’sJCIdney Cure makes sound kld- and will positively cure all of kidney and bladder disease, strengthens the whole system, by all drugglsta. The public schools of Amerlcus ’ open one week hence wtih a __ breaking attendance, the largest rollment ever known. Of Interest to Many. Foley's Kidney Cure will cure an* case of kidney or bladder trouble i*»pq Is not beyond the reach of medicine. No medicine can do more. Sold by all druggists.