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THE AMICUS WEEKLY nittES-RECURDER, FRIDAY, f O)
THE TIMES-RECORDER
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BEING THANKFUL
DAILY AND WEEKLY
The Amerlcus Recorder, Established
1879.
The Amerlcus Times, Established 1S90
Consolidated April, 1891.
THOMAS GAMBLE, JR„
Editor and Proprietor.
C. W. CORNFORTII,
Associate Editor.
J. W. FL’RLOW, City Editor.
Editorial Room Telephone 99.
The Times.Recorder Is the
Official Organ of the City of Amerlcus
Official Organ of Sumter County.
Official Organ of Webster County.
Official Organ of Railroad Commis
sion of Georgia for the 3rd Congres
sional District.
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Amerlcus, Ga.
Amerlcus, Ca,, Nov. 29, 1907.
For the first time In history, eggs
are being imported from England
This may be intended merely as l.
warning to members of the theatrical
profession.
it has remained for a Chicago
school teacher to suggest a new
subject for the class room—that of
courtship. lie will next be wanting
to teach a duck how to swim.
In a New Orleans paper's headline
is the statement “Big Delegation Go
ing to Wash." That such an incident
should be worthy of special notice Is
rather remarkable when there is so
much water at hand.
Gov. Comer, in his Thanksgiving
proclamation, prays for “the passage
of the financial brainstorm, creating
a dementia of business." There was
once a Pharisee who uttered a prayer
-along the same lines.
The Central of Georgia has cut
down Its forces at the Savannah, Ma
con and Columbus shops 10 per cent.
The attitude of the faction in power
in Georgia towards railroads Is win
ning supporters every day.
Kaiser Wilhelm left a little tip of
$10,000 to be divided among those
who served him Nit Windsor Castle
during his visit to King Edward.
■Even kings and emperors cannot es-
••cape the malignant "open palm.”
Tills Thanksgiving Day will differ in
many respects from its predecessors.
While there are numerous things for
the American people, the people of
the South, of Georgia, of Sumter
county and of Amerlcus, to be thank- r
ful for, a feeling of anger also is
abroad.
The thanksgiving is for large
crops, freedom from great disas
ter and for the blessings of peace
and prosperity guaranteed by the
Constitution and obtainable when you
can. The anger—or more properly
speaking, Indignation—which the
American people feel is towards the
system and men In Wall street which
made the recent disturbances pos
sible.
It is not that Roosevelt set in
motion the machinery which re
sulted in the alarming disclosures of
rottenness in financial dealings which
hurts, but that these conditions were
able to grow unchecked. The South
has been particularly hit by the re
sults which followed in not being
able to move the cotton crop, which
meant that lower prices also had to
be accepted for distress cotlon.
But the situation has Improved suf
ficiently to justify the feeling of
thanksgiviug so appropriate for to
day. While meditating on the boun
ty of God in so generously providing
an unusually rich year, the mind will
naturally turn to consider the causes
which have led up to the nullifying
in a measure of these bright pros
pects which nature held out.
If from the recent panic are derived
some valuable lessons for the fu
ture—and to thinking men there cer
tainly will be such—then it will not
have been an unmixed evil. Specu
lators, with their demands for mon
ey at rates higher than legitimate
industry can pay, should be scourg
ed from the temple. They toil not,
neither do they spin, and In the
world of business there is no use for
them.
Its something for which to be
thankful that the eyes of the people
have been opened and that such dis
turlmnces as the recent one will not
be present to cast its shadow over
another Thanksgiving Day.
' WOMAN OU I LIED
i mortality table
Has Drawn $13,000 <J
; Investment of $3,300.
II
A food to sing on—
Energy and good-nature in
every package.
The most nutritious wheat
fosd.
In moist: f .re and
dust proof packages.
NATIONAL BISCUIT .COMPANY
THE FARMER’S DAY. OF TRIUMPH
Prices are falling. It is announced
that radium can now be made for
$1,000,000 an ounce, instead of three
times that sum, which has been the
current quotation. Consumers of rad
ium will no doubt be rejoiced af the
heavy cut.
Reform Is reaching out after preach
-era who use tobacco. A law has
been passed by a Reformed Presby
terian synod forbidding their preach
era the luxury of a cigar or pipe. A
-fiery debate is said to have ensued
I Over the proposition.
Mobile threatens to secede from A1
abamn since the passage of the state
prohibition law. Florida or Mlssl-
aippl are suggested as desirable con
nections. What If those states should
go dry too? Mobile may have
move out beyond the three-mile line
Into the Gulf.
Prohibitionists In New York state
~are agitating for a temperance cru-
sade by which the sale of Intoxicating
'liquors shall be made unlawful. Ins-
-Plratlon has been gathered from the
action of Georgia and Alabama. ,,
ticket is to be put out pledged to pass
a prohibition law.
Flipping a coin Is the lastcst way
for President Roosevelt to make his
appointments. This plan was pur
sued In the case of the South Dakota
patronage, where the Senators were
unable to agree on the men. Roose
velt must have had such scenes as
this in mind when he darided to or
der the removal of "In God We
Trust” from the coins.
Cotton growers in Sumter county
who are so fortunate as to have
cotton still on hand, are viewing the
reaction from recent low prices with
pleasure. Prices are yet considerably
below the views of holders, but
tilings are coming their way with
more celerity thau has been in evi
dence since the financial crisis gave
the hears a change to sound the an
vil chorus with renewed fury.
Some very hnrd knots have been
tied In the tail of the bear kite by the
recent ginners' report, which show
ed that the amount ginned thus far
indicated a crop of around 12,000,000
bales. This Is on the basis that less
than 5,000,000 bales remain to be
ginned, which has held good up ti
date In the history of the trade. Be
sides the Government figures, private
estimates have been made of the
same tenor. Texas, which was the
bulwark of the big crop last season,
showed 1,709,000 bales, which Is cer
tainly discouraging for the bears
who have been seeing a 4,000,000 bale
crop from the Ixme Star state. Some
good Judges cannot find proof for a
crop larger than 11,000,000 bales.
The present situation Is n great
triumph for the farms who
have held back their cotton, selling
only enough to meet necessary de
mands. The bucket shop advocates
declared that the farmer was ruined
when Georgia abolished the wire
houses, and that the producers had
cut off their beBt friend and their
only hope In carrying the crop. Well,
the farmer Is still alive, with some
good cotton on hand, which It does
not bring 15 cents wilt be n great
deal nearer that It Is now.
The hears are on the run and It
will be a case of "curses come home
to roost." The worst has passed and
farmers who did not turn loose at
low prices during the financial crisis
will certainly not do so now, so that
those who have merrily sold ahead
something that didn’t have, will reap
a full harvest when they are called
on to fill (heir paper contracts.
The Southern farmer has declined
to let speculators fix the price of his
great staple. No tears will lie shed
In tills section over the plight of the
gamblers who joined Issue—and lost.
The Georgia Railroad has thrown
down the gauntlet to the Railroad
Commission, declining to obey an ord
er Issued on an anonymous investiga
tion and directing extraordinary haste
In repair work. The company de
clares that “It is a thing unprecedent
ed in a country where despotic pro
cedures and methods are abhorred
^that a person accused should not be
lfronted with nls accuser or should
called ou to answer to an anony-
— publication.’'
EARLY SHOPPERS 6ET
PICK 0E XMAS GOODS
MILLS OF JUSTICE IN
WHIRL AT THE TEMPLE
Don't Put Off Buying Until
Very Last.
This year Americus merchants de
sire to encourage the buying of
Christmas goods early. In fact, their
reasons are so good that they will
doubtless appeal to a large number
of buyers, especially for their more
important purchases. The candy and
fireworks can bo laid in almost on
the eve of the festivities.
Session of Court Begins
Monday.
'With Judge 52.' A. J.itllcjohn pres
iding, and Solicitor General Hooper
representing Interests of tile State,
the November term of Sumter super
ior court began yesterday. The bus
iness at this term Is lighter than in
several years and the session, there
fore, may not be a very lengthy one,
Mobile's threat to secede from Ala
bama Is not even a good bluff.—Phil
adelphia Inquirer.
) NKW YORK, Nov. 27—(Speclal).
Mrs. Betsy Gage of Brooklyn,
celebrated her 100th birthday-
week, received from the EouiMhil
life Assurance Society on the i 0
versary day a present of $121.80 an.i
i a k 0 , u< l u et of roses In honor of heJ
■ distinction as the most successful
investor in life Insurance on record!
Mrs. Gage has set at naught all th«f
calculations of learned actuaries hi
outliving the expectation of mortal
life and has made useless to her owd
case any application of the America!
experience tables, which calculatl
that the age of 95 is the present Hmil
of human existence. "
Mrs. Gage began her experiment
life Insuranco In 1880, when she i
72 years of age. She purchased i
$2000 an annuity of $275, payable
long as she lived. The expectancl
tables at that time gave her el eh
years’ time on earth.
, six years later she Invested $1:
In another life annuity of $211.00
that time the mortality tables ga
her a little more than. five years
life.
But Mrs. Gage outlived the ealeu
lations. with the result thnt she ha
drawn more than $12,000 on an lit
vestment of $3300. The Insurant!
company officers were so Intereste
IB her achievement that they sen
her a quarterly Instalment on hi)
birthday. Paul Morton, president -
the society, sent a letter, In wl
lie said:
“I take pleasure In extending „
you our respectful and cordial said
tattons on your 100th birthday. 1
hope that for many a day you wil
continue to enjoy healtlj, strengtl
and comfort.
"You occupy a unique position,
you are the only member of the Eq
table Life Assurance Society y
has lived a full century. We had
had pleasant business relations wit)
you for 27 1-2 years, and there
many In this office who hold
In respectful esteem.”
WARUCK’S STORE,
Shoes, Shoes, Shoes]
“There are many advantages to possibly consuming not more than
the early shopper,” said a prominent ten days, or two weeks at best.
tuprpll nt vociosiln f ••T’l, A l Tim 4..... >
merchat yesterday. "They get the
pick of the goods, and moreover have
time to select with deliberation and
with less of the feeling of rush which
Is inevitable later.
“So many people wait until the
last week or two to do all their
buying. The natural result is that
the stores are crowded and at the
best the clerks cannot get around as
fast as Is desirable, no matter how
.large Is the force. There Is no good
reason In most Instances for defer
ring .these purchases, except the nat
ural procrastination in making up
one's mind ns to what shall be
bought.
"Then It Is the part of unselfish
ness to come early. The clerks and
all employes arc enabled to get
through the holiday trade with less
strain. They can also give more
undivided attention to their customers
and give their best advice In the
selection of presents.
"The merchants will be highly pleas
ed to see the Christmas trade start
early In December, though the vol
ume will not he more than If crowd
ed Into the last two weeks, or v.-orse
still, the last few days. It Is to the
Interest of the shopper as' welLas of
the merchant that purchases be made
as early as possible."
All over the country a systematic
effort is being made to get Christ
mas buying started early, especially
In the larger cities. Department
stores have been asked to Insert
their advertisements the following:
"Buy your presents early—early In
the day and early in December. That
will be your biggest gift of the holi
days to the workers behind the
counters and on the delivery wag
ons.”
NEGROES ARE HELD ON
CHARGE 0E KILLING
Crime is Committed on
Cannon Place.
CANDIDATES CAUGHT
AT COURTHOUSE
The able candidate for honors al-
dermanic fell u|k>ii hard lines yes
terday., When court convened not less
than four of the half dozen who are
striving for the«lleshpots were hauled
up for jury duty, and only one or two
were excused from serving. With the
election only a week off, and most of
the other jurors, being from the
country and therefore not open to his
convincing argument for votes, the
able candidate is up against It real
hard.
Mr. Bryan appears In a new role as
the banker*’ friend—Baltimore Sun.
Kate Slappey and Sum Ware, two
young negroes, were hrougfiht to
Americus yesterday by Deputy Sher
iff Fuller and jailed as the result of
the killing of Jewell Davis, another
negro, on the Cannon place. Little Is
known of the tragedy beyond the fact
that the woman and two men were In
a house together Saturday night, it is
said, when Davis was killed by a
gunshot wound. It is said that the
entire top of his head was shot away
ami death was probably instantan
eous. The Slappy woman and Sam
Ware, tho only known witnesses to
the killing, assert that death was due
to the accidental discharge of the gun,
but Coroner Duckworth ordered that
both be held. Ware os principal and
the woman as accessory to the crime.
The grand jury was organized with
Mr. G. M. Eldrldge as foreman. This
grand jury Is one of the best that has
ever served the county, and Is made
uu of the following well known citi
zens of town and county:
G. M.‘ Eldrldge, J. J. Wilson, W. K,
Bell, W. M. McMath, G. D. Hayes, R
R. Stewart. J. P. Cannon, A. B. Con
nors, G. W. Riley, C. A. Chambliss,
J. L. Johnson, II. C. Mitchell. John
Sheffield, J. S. Johnson, John Sims '
G. E. Buchanan, T. Wheatley. C. N
Griffin. J. H. Daniel, H. L. Mize, D. M
Borum, J. J. Dupree, J. L. Sparks.
The charge of the court to the grand
jury was clear and forceful, as are
all charges delivered by Judge Little
John.
After explaining fully their duties
as jurors, regarding the Investigation
of affairs of the county and of the
various crimes presented, the court
charged especially upon violation of
the liquor laws, even as applied to so
cial clubs, where Intoxicants nre
dispensed to minor*. This feature of
the charge wns listened to with more
than usual Interest by the Jury and
spectators.
Judge Littlejohn also touched upon
the flagrant violation of the game
laws In the county and instructed the
grand Jury to investigate such charges
and Indict the violators of the law.
This applies to the dynamiting of
streams by pot fishermen, which It Is
said to have been done here to great
extent In recent yearB.
After the grand Jury had proceeded
to business Judge Littlejohn entered
u 1*011 the trial of civil cases, and the
entire week will be devoted thereto.
The civil docket is n very light one,
none of the cases entered thereupon
being of great interest, and those
ready for trial will be disposed of In a
few days.
The criminal docket will be taken
up next Monday, December t.
And Patent leather shoes that are guarantc
not to break, if they do you get a new pair.
We are sole agents for the Burt & Packartj
shoes for men, the only Patent Leather She
where you run no risk in buying, as every pair c,
them is strictly guaranteed not to break; if thej
do we will replace them with a new pair. All $4.0(
Drop in and see the pretty styles we are showing
We also carry a pretty line of shoes foj
women and children.
Agent for New Idea Pattern, the Best 1<
Pattern on the Market.
Store,
Warlick’s
PLANTERS BANK _
THE STORE THAT SELLS THE SAMEJGOODS FOR LESS MONEY
We lead the sale'in J
SANITOL. |
Special sale of the
A choice as
sortment of 10
Preparations
Factory through us till Sin every day use
January 1st, 1908! * or
* $1.00.
RECEIPTS AT COMPRESS
REELECT BIG CROP
$2.70 Value for $1.00*
Running Well Ahead of
Last Year.
Senator Platt's declaration for
Taft appears like an attempt to work
the forward pa** on the Administra
tion.—New York World.
The Americus plant of the Atlan
tic Compress Co., Is having a prosper
ous season, as evidenced by the In
creased receipts over last year, and
shipments will yet continue for
several months. Up to this date the
Amerlcus press has handled 33,000
bales of cotton, against about 27,000
at this date last Bcason, or an In
crease of probably 6,000 bales. Supt
Tobin has kept pace with tho heavy
receipts and at no time this season
has the press been ‘ Jammed'” though
at times the yard was full of bales to
the overflow point. Labor ha* been
scarce at times, as was the case with
all industrial plants here, but ship
ments were little delayed thereby.
At this date the press Is well up with
receipts and la ready and waiting for
the cotton held In warehouses and
which-advancing price* will bring to
an early sale.
Place your order with us
at our store, or ’phone us
for one of the cards to be
signed by you for them,
and we will see that you
get every item delivered
to your door. Out of town
customers can mail us $1
direct and secure them.
Davenport Drug Co.
Call Upon,
Phone or No. 410 LAMAR ST,
Write Americus, Ga.