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THE AMERICUS WEEKLY TIMES-RECORDER. FRIDAY. MAY I. 1908.
Duncan’s Store.
Announcement
Extraordinary
RELATIVE to a most unusual sale of
MEN’S AND WOMEN’S UMBRELLAS AND
PARASOLS BEGINNING MON. MAY 4th.
COTTON TURNED
UPWARD AT LAST
In Local Market Stagna
tion Prevailed.
Involved in this decidedly important Offering are very nearly
two hundred pieces—the entire sample line of the most renowned
makers.
The assortment of styles is immense—conservatively, there
are probably more than one hundred different designs—and every
umbrella is fresh without the slightest inspection, as they were
only used for a sample line, in a New York office. Beginning Mon
day morning, May 4th, we will offer the entire collection divided
as follows:
Ult i—Umbrellas of twilled Silk,
American talfeta, steel rods, Paragon
frames. Regularly $1.50, at each 98c
#>.50 TO $5 UMBRELLAS AXD PAR
ASOLS AT *1.80.
Lot 2—No two alike, every umbrella
Is covered with rich, heavy taffeta
silk, all have silk cases, handles are
mounted with sold and sterling[Sil
ver. All of lot No. 2 will be sold at
each L* 1 ’ 80
$2.00 TO $2.50 UMBRELLAS AXD
PARASOLS AT *1.25
Lot 3.—Umbrellas made of. twilled
silk with silk cases, for ladles and
gentlemen. Great variety of pretty
handles trimmed with gold and silver
plaited mountings. None worth less
than $2. More than two thirds of the
lot are the regular $2.50 grade. No
two alike. Choice each $1-25
PRINTS, GINGHAMS, PERCALES
AND ORGANDIES 5c YARD f
We have arranged one great table
tilled with prints, ginghams, percales,
colored lawns and organdies. There’ll
be lively selling here Monday morn
ing as many of these pieces cant be
duplicated under 10c and 12%c yd.
Just for a flyer here Monday and
Tdesday, yard 5c
MEN’S GUTOT SUSPENDERS 19c
Men’s Guyot suspenders in a great
variety of new, pretty patterns, el
astic back. Regularly sold for 25c.
Here for Monday and Tuesday at
per pair 1®°
MEN’S PERCALE AND MADRAS
SHIRTS AT 48c.
Men’s shirts made of good per
cales and madras cloths, attached or
detached cuffs. Regularly sold for
76c. Here Monday and Tuesday at
each 48c
LADIES’ WASH BELTS AT 10c
Ladies’ wash belts In white and
colored buckles to match. They equal
the 25c ones In every way. Not more
than one dozen will be sold to one
TALES OF THE TOWN
TOLD IN FEW LINES
Pencil Stubs Picked Up At
Random.
buyer at the price here Monday and
Tuesday at each 10c
LADIES’ $1215 GILT BELTS FOR 65c
Ladies' fine gilt belts In white and
every color. Gold, and oxidized buc
kles to match. They are the ones
sold regularly for $1.25. Here Mon
day and Tuesday at each 65c
J5c SILK FANS AT 39 CENTS
MMonday morning we will place on
kale a shipment of new fans under
price. They are of pure silk with
imitation Ivory sticks. If they are
worth a cent they are as good -75c
values as you ever saw. Here for
Monday and Tuesday at each .. 39c
PRINTED MUSLINS AT 8 l-2c YD.
Just for a leader we will offer one
thousand yards printed, muslins and
organdies at 2 l-2c yard. Not more
than 10 yards will be sold to one
buyer at the price, and will be sold
only to people purchasing other
goods Monday and /Tuesday, yd 2%c
DUNCAN MERCANTILE CO
115and 117For«yth St John R.Shaw’s Old Stand.
DEVE8TATI0N OF
FORESTS APPALLING
Appalachians Would Yield
$28,000,000 a Year.
/Forest Service, Dept, of Agriculture)
extremely conservative. Even with
only 1,400,000 horsepower, the an
nual return at $20 per horsepower
per year would amount to $28,000,000.
That Is equal to a gross Income of
3 per cent on a capital of about $933 -
achieve the'benefits promised.
HEN ROOSTS IN GOOP
ON GHARGE OF THEFT
th« years go on mill owners are
painfully aware that the tow-water
periods are growing longer and long
er. This Is because the forests at
the headwaters of the streams are be
ing cut off, with the result that the
melting winter snows and., the
spring ralnB pour off thedenuded and
hardened land In devastating flooto,
sending down for a few weeks tar
more water than they. can use and
moreover, reducing the capacity ana Jiul w ...... —
usefulness of their millponds by fill- j upon the charge of burglary,
ing them with hundreds of tons ot F ) a tlll holds the stolen loot
sand and soil which the floods scour *eagin
Henry Jenkins and Otha Slappey,
the pair of black bucks arrested in
connection with the robbery of the
Eulle Black store here, are still
held at the barracks, where Chief
Feagln Is still extracting bits of
store robbery history. They will
be transferred later to the county
jail to await trial In superior court
Chief
Off lhs unprotected upper slopes.
Nowhere are business men wider
awake to the danger than in tne
South. If Indiscriminate cutting or
the forests on the crests of the water
shed can be stopped, there is a possi
bility, according to a recent report of
experts, of Increasing the develop
ment of power up to anywhere from
3 to 30 times the 1.400.000 horsepower
at present available. Wlthdut It, al
most nothing can be done. The meth
od proposed to develop the Appala
chian river resources to the total ot
12,000,000 horsepower is by storage
reservoirs, which would catch the
surplus waters of the spring and re
tain them until the summer month*
When the mills now have to fall hack
on ftiel or close down.
The United States Geological Sur
vey has kept records of streamflow in
the 'Appalachians far a number of
years and recently they made a care
ful study of the possibilities of stor
age reservoirs In that region. The
Forest Service has published their
report under the title "The Relation
of the Southern Appalachian Service’
Circular 144, and will Bend It free
to anyone upon application. The ex
perts of the Geological Survey who
made the Investigation, after picking
out reservoir Bites and estimating
their capacity and the area from
which they would receive the run
off, consider the figures given above
“Now Is the Time to Buy.”
(Savannah Morning Nows.)
,t on a capital « auou. The wise Invertor buys when the
000,000. These figures seem to Justify j level prices Is low a Fjj, 4 A er to
a considerable outlay o L , money to eve^rearen «
the technical magazines takes the
position that there was never a bet
ter time for the purchase of construc
tion materials and the making o,
building contracts than the present
Everybody knows—“feels it In his
bones”—that the period of depression
Is passing away, and that within a
short while prices of lumber, brick,
mortar, steel shapes, cement and
other stuff - that goes Into building
projects, will take an upward turn
and very probably go to the high
level that obtained a year ago. The
labor market, too, Is stiffening, with
the Increased demand. Just at pres
ent, however, prices and work and
wages are a bit slack, relatively
Bpeaklng, and those who have-suppllea
to sell are In the market ready to
accept any reasonable offer.
In every community, In every line
of industrial endeavor, there is a real
ization of Imperative necessity for
construction and repair. The rail
roads, the manufacturing .plants, the
marine builders, the home-makers,
the farmers, know that p reaction Is
coming and they look forward to It
with composure. But are they plac
ing- orders In proportion to their
faith? Are they not holding back,
waiting for a demonstration of the
arrival of the better times before ob
ligating themselves for expenditures?
The way to hurry along the Im
provement, and- at the same time
save money—which amounts to mak
ing money—Is to take advantage of
the "bargains” that are to be had
on every side, In building materials
and labor. The vast army of the Idle
are anxious to work for fair pay. and
the great stores of lumber, cement
and construction iron are awaiting
the work of the man or the corpora
tion needing new buildings to bring
together once 1 more the prosperity
forces. ; . . .
There seems to be no longer a lack
of money for all legitimate pur
poses. The thing needed Is to in
spire tho confidence of those . who
own the money; and tho chance to
save and make money on the low lev
el of present prices ought to prove
inspiring.
A well informed physician is fre
quently Ill-Informed.—Chicago News.
pointed out by JenkinB at his old
rendezvous, the barn on Harrold ave
nue, where $160 in money and a lot
of groceries were found Monday, the
money having been stolen from the
safe In the Black store.
SMASHED TO PIECES IN
THE SAME OLD WAY
The usual runaway, which started
in the usual manner from the usual
plqce, the artesian well, ended at the
usual place of destruction a block
away, the hack looking as though It
had flirted with an express train.
There was no one in the vehicle, as
usual, When It reached the Byue cor
ner, top down and wheels In the
ozone. Luckily there were no ladles
or little children driving In the vic
inity ot the time, else the casualties
might have been greater.
A woman has an Idea that —
your breakfast in bed is being i
society.—N. Y. Press.
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Was it the turning of the tide, or
th? excess of the tide Water on the
cotton fields which boosted the cot
ton market Wednesday. Liverpool
suddenly got In a repentant mood and
after opening at losses firmed, up
and established considerable net
gains. Under this stimulus the Am
erican markets opened 6 to 14 points
up, and as the English market con
tinued to advance, followed suit
While activity was not pronounced,
the market grew stronger as the ses
sion advanced, though prices ran
off a little at the close at New York.
News from the fields was not as en
couraging aB heretofore, as a result
of the recent floods, and this situation
dawned on the English talent Wednes
day, and later lifted values on this
side.
New York opened 10 to 13 points
up. A little-uncertainty prevailed In
the first hour, after which the trend
was uniformly upward. Just before
the close realizing hurt prices, though
the last was 15 to 18 points net
higher for the day. Spots were un
changed. New Orleans opened 5 to
14 points higher, but eased off a few
points. In the afternoon a material
Improvement was In evidence, the
close being 16 to 23 points above
the last figures for Tuesday for the
active positions. Spots were unchang
ed at 9 13-16.
Liverpool opened 3 to 4 points low
er, but soon advanced. The close
was steady, 6 to 8 points above the
previous final. The market is due un
changed this morning. Spots were
reduced 1 point, the sales being 8,000
bales.
No business was transacted- local
ly. Buyers were generally without
orders and no cotton was offering.
Quotations are unchanged from Tues
day.
THE QUOTATIONS
IN AMERICUS
Cotton Market as Reported Daily
by L. G. Council.
Americas, Ga., April 29,—We quote
the local cotton market dull, as
follows:
Today Y’st’day
Good Middling »T 9}
Middling 8| 8|
Low Middling 8 6
. NEW YORK FUTURES.
New York, April 29.—Spots: Mid
dling at 10.00 Futures closed steady.
Open Close
May 8 - 19 826
July 8.80 8.85
Oct S-P 8 t 82
Dee i 8.88 8.30
NEW ORLEANS.
New Orleans, 14* April 29.—Close
barely jeteady. Spot* middling, 0
13-16 cents. *•
LIVERPOOL. '
Liverpool, April 29. — The cotton
market eloied ’ steady. Spots:
Middling uplands S.ld
STORES ARE GOING TO
BE MADE AS NEW
Improvement in the Gotney
- Building.
The Cotney property on Forsyth
street, the double stores now occupied
by the New Book Store and H. W.
Smlthwlck, are to be greatly improv
ed and will be mhde among the most
commodious houses here.
Carpenters and brlckmasons thus
got busy yesterday, End the building
will be entirely renovated.
Most Important of all, the floors
are to be lowered to tho pavement
grade, which will give nearly three
feet additional depth of celling. The
front, too, will be made more at
tractive, very handsome show windows
being placed there.
The stores will be made ten
twelve feet deeper, by an addition to
the rear end. Work upon this addi
tion was started yesterday. Steel
ceiling wiii be put in both stores, and
other needed Improvements ma£e in
this work ot . renovation.
The New Book Store will remove
soon to the Windsor Hotel block un
til its new quarters are completed.
Hammocks, baseball goods, fishing
tackle and tennis goods. Phone 246.
HOLLIDAY’S BOOK STORE.
Courthouse officials have little to
do now except talk state politics,
And they are about evenly divided on
the governor's race.
Those who Insisted that "cotton
Just can’t go lower,” were given
a rude Jolt yesterday. And the bears
may squeeze It harder
AMERICUS LADY SAVED
FROM THE CYCLONE
etui.
Judge Littlejohn is still engaged at
Stewart superior court this week, and
several members of the Amerlcus bar
have business there as welL 1
The' Amerlcus peach orchards have
not been Injured to any great extent
by the recent rains, and the peach
crop outlook is still propitious.
Amerlcus horsemen are becoming
Interested In racing, and propose
building a park for the racing of
horses and automobiles as well.
Col. Tom Joiner came to the front
yesterday with a handful of ripe
blackberries. The country is now
safe, whether Joe or Hoke Is elected.
The great lumber plants all over
south Georgia are either closing
down or going into liquidation. An
evidence of onr great prosperity.
The opinion prevails now that
Brown will carry Sumter codbty by a
flattering majority. It would be a
great victory for Sumter. N
The slump In cotton futures yester
day brought spot prices In Amerlcus
to near the 9 cents mark. The far
mers are thus warned In time.
Thirty-six new. names as members
of the Board of Trade were secured
yesterday. Amerlcus business men
are backing the B. of T. solidly.
A colored undertaker here has
bought a Bwell new hearse, and the
average Amerlcus negro Is almost
dying for a chance to ride In it
Sumter county, very luckily, was
not struck by the recent cyclone at
any point, while the crop damage
was even less than first reported.
Amerlcus Is very glad the Central
will not discontinue any of Its trains
between this city and Columbus. All
trains are to remain.
Having recovered from his recent
Involuntary bath at Wells’ Mill, Col.
Littleton Is now very busy forecast
ing the blackberry crop.
A New York man objected to dining
in the samo hotel room with Booker
Washington. Tho New York World
takes occasion to write an editorial
on "The humbug ot race prejudice.”
It may he "humbug” In, the metropolis
but ten to one the editor ot the World
thinks otherwise as ho travela south
ward. . j i» • »*h>'A*
Mrs. Cryder Has a Fearful
Experience. «
Mrs. R. L. Cryder, formerly of
Amerlcus and well remembered here
as Miss Rutherford, had a frightful
experience during the cyclone which,
swept Haris county Saturday morn
ing, escaping with her life, though
several others about her were in
stantly killed.
Mrs. Cryder wrote her mother, Mrs.
Nettle Rutherford, yesterday other
terrible experience.
Awaro of Impending danger, Mr.
and Mrs. Cryder / seized their two
children and with the intention of
leaving the house, but Just as they
reached the door the storm burst in
Its fury. .
In the Inky darkness they could see
no object except during the Inces
sant flashes of lightning. _
Their homo was partially wrecked,
and furniture was blown out of the
house through the doors and, win
dows. Husband and wife each held
a little child, expecting momentarily
to be killed by falling timbers if
the dwelling collapsed.
And thus In agonizing suspense they
crouched upon the floor of the dark
ened room until the fury of the
hurricane had passed.
And when day dawned the picture
was one of desolation and death.
Mrs. Cryder’s colored nurso lay
dead In the yard. She had been hurl
ed a hundred yards by the storm
and her neck broken. The old col
ored cook law in the yard with her
hack broken, and will probably dio
yet from her serious Injuries.
In the lot six fine mules lay dead,
killing by falling timber.
The little village near which they
resided had been wiped from tho face
of tho earth, but one single house
remaining. There, and In the
country round about, as at tho Cry
der farm, many had been killed out
right or sustalnfcd terrible Injuries.
It will bo several days yet until
full reports of tho dead and injured,
and of the enormous property loss,
can bo collected.
PARTY WAS GIVEN IN
HONOR OF VISITORS
Miss Fay Williams was hostess
Monday evening at a very delightful
party, given at her home on Jackson
street in honor of Miss Myrtice
Strange and Miss Georgia Hair, fair
visitors here. Amusement for the
large number of guests was afforded
In an unique contest, that of pinning
a missing molar in the rosebud mouth
of tho Immortal Happy Hooligan,
which difficult feat was accomplished,
after great effort, by" Mr. Duko Crock
ett. Another feature ot interest was
that of “progressive conversation
in which tho prize was awarded to
Miss Bell of Quincy, Fla. Refresh
ments In the form of cake and deli
cious Ices were served,.and the oc
casion proved a most enjoyable one
withal.
It Is a noticeable fact that thd
Smith forces here are not taking any
straw ballots., The result would be
overwhelmingly against him.
Interest, politically, centers In the
race between Messrs. Dykes and Wil
liams for sollcltor-generaF, which
will be determined on June 4.
The price at which a Jackson street
property sold for a day or two since
emphasizes the fact that Amerlcus
dirt brings the money.
These is considerable gratification
here In the fact that the "shoo-fly”
to Columbus Is not to be taken off;
at least not for some time, If at all.
Amerlcus is sorely In need of addi
tional public school facilities and
must have another building ere tho
fall term opens.
The meeting of Joe Brown sup
porters Friday night will be the most
enthusiastic held In Amerlcus in
years; a rouser, in fact.
After today the stores and business
houses In Amerlcus generally will
close at 6 o’clock. Don’t forget this
fact, dear Mrs. Lateshopper.
Gene Allen, a negro convict doing
a year’s term In Sumter, was sent
back to Sylvester yesterday where
he Is wanted for some offense.
One or two of the Smith men re
turning yesterday from the Cordele UPHJU , u „ r —. „ _— —
speechfest, were none too enthu- struments In which bod been used in
elastic. Maybe they saw those lemons. «“>£»**£*
One single bifatllng Brown sup
porter received fifty-live new mem
bers yesterday for the Joe Brown
club in Sumter. "And there were oth-
.ers.
TOO MANY DOGS.
WANTS DIVORCE
Chicago Woman Objects to
Second Place.
CHICAGO, ILL., April 29.—(Special)
Mrs. May M. Sharp filed a bill for
divorce yesterday from Harley C.
Sharp, alleging that she is tired of
working for her husband and his
dogs.
When a mistress ot the household
must see her cooking utensils used
to prepare spoiled meat for the
dogs, when the animals use her bath
tub and make towels out of her
sofa covers, then, Mrs, Sharp be
lieves, tho limit of human endurance
has been reached.
The complainant avers that her
husband has endangered her health
by keeping sick dogs in the house,
in tho cellar and in the back yard.
At one time, sho complains he had
twenty on tho premises, in all con
ditions and of all ages.
Husband's Faults.
Sho epitomizes her husband’s al
leged offenses as follows:
Spends his money on the dogs.
Allowed the grocery bill to run
for ten months without attempting
to pay It
Used the cooking utensils for
cooking decayed dog meat and filling
the houso with a vile odor.
Had dogs with' tho mango and
abscesses In.tho houso.
Used tho cooking pans to boil In
in the death of Bishop Capers, of
South CaroHna, on Wednesday, the
Protesant Episcopal church lost one
of its leading prelates. _ The South
has been peculiarly fortunate In Its
bishops of this church, oil of whom
have reflected honor upon this sec
tion as well as upon the religious
body with which they were Identified.
Tho State committee requires
each candidate to file a statement as
to how much money was spent In
the campaign. This will be one of
the Interesting afterclaps^. no matter
who wins.
Kept sick dogs around when Mrs.
Sharp was III and when her attend
ing physicians said that their pres
ence was dangerous to her.
Permitted his wife to work for her
hoard in 1907 nnd bought a sliver
dog cup for $18.
Went to theaters with other women
and sometimes also went automobile
riding.
Left unpaid grocery bills, tailor
bills and dog and doctor bills.
Gave dogs a bath In her bathtub
nnd then wrapped them in a spread
used on the lounge.
Went on hunting trips and allow
ed bills to remain unpaid while the
collectors annoyed Mrs. Sharp.
Had trouble with many landlords
because ot the dogs.
Mrs. Sharp asks the court to al
low her to resume her maiden name,
which was May M. Smith. They were
married November 15, 1905, and
separated on Feb. 10, of the present
year.
Trouble soon pines away and die
It neglected.—Chicago News.
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