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THE AMERICUS WEEKLY T/MES-RECORDER.
FRIDAY.
JULY 17. 1908.
Duncan’s Store.
Remorseless Price Cutting.
Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars Worth of New
Merchandise At An Average Saving of About
50 Cents On the Dollar.
We enthusiastically invite you to this sale, confident that we
are doing more than we have ever been able to do in behalf of
your interest.
This sheet only gives a small list of the marvelous values you
are asked to look over.
Fifty dozen men’s negligee shirts made of madras and percales, attached or detached cuffs.
Many were 75c and $1. Whole lot on center table now at each-..- 43c
One hundred dozen black spool silk, said to contain 100 yards each, as strong as any 10c spool
silk. Sold here sale per spool 3c
Ladies’ wash belts nude of mercerized belting, silk embroidered, regularly 39c, here now sale
each......
Ladies’ umbrellas made of twilled silk, steel rods and Paragon frames. Regularly sold for
$1.25, here now each * 77c
Men’s balbriggan underwear shirts and drawers to match, the grade that you have always
paid 39c, here in the COST SALE at per garment. .1 ••• 21c
Men’s finer grade balbriggan underwear shirts and drawers to match, very elastic, never be
fore known to sell for less than.50c, here now at cost 38c
Ladies’ very fine elastic ribbed vests, tape neck and shoulders, sizes 4 to 7, regularly 12s l-2c
and 15c, here now, at cost ••• “
Ladies’ embroidered collar sets containing one pair cuffs and one collar to match, regularly
sold for50c, here now at set- w —v 18c
Ladies’ shell back combs, very large ones, the grade that you have been paying 25c for, here
now at each 10c
A new lot of about five thousand yards valenceinne laces including all the new patterns of
round thread laces rangingin values from 8c to 20c, will be offered here at yard 5c
Silvered hat pins set with beautiful colored stones, great variety of new patterns. Regularly
50c, here at each 250
Ladies’ fast black hose, high spliced heels and toes, full regular length. Regularly sold for
12 l-2c, here now at pair 7c
No 150 very heavy black taffeta ribbons, a grade that usually sells for 40c, here now at yd. 19c
One hundred dozen men’s straight 15c collars in all the new turn down shapes and guaran-
teed to l>e as good as any 15c collar offered. Here for this sale at e^ch-—.... .....10c
DUNCAN MERCANTILE CO.
115 and 117 Forsyth St. John R. Shaw’s Old Stand.
PASS THE CONVICTS.
PLEASE. SAYS SUMTER
County Has Already Asked
for Pro Rata.
Sumter county will ask for her
dare of ttye convicts to be worked
n the public roads, provided the
Ill now pending becomes a law. In
ict, Sumter applied for them before
le present bill was Introduced..
Eighteen felony convicts will be
umter’s pro rata. • These, added to
tie misdemeanor force now Improv-
ig the .county roads, will provide a
arce which it Is expected will work
ronders in perfecting Sumter’s sys-
?m of throughfares. If any coun-*
ies cannot use their share of the
onvicts, Sumter might use some of
CANNING OF FRUIT AND
SALE OF THE PRODUCT
Discussed By Captain Cobb
Before .Society.
But every rose has tt thorn,
lmter will have to forego something
,-qr $400 which the county now
■aws for the public school fund as
jr part of the profits from the lease
’stem.
“Sumter will certainly ask for her
mvlcts,” said Chairman N. A. Ray,
; the Boigd of County Commission
's yesterday, “Good roads have
»en" one of the especial policies of
le Board, and such an opportunity
i the present, If the bill passes, will
Jt be overlooked. The labor of
ghteen convicts for a whole year
ight to greatly Improve our roads."
Mr. Frank Sheffleld, one of the
ewly elected members of the Board,
an enthusiastic advocate of good
)ads. In fact, It was Ills chief plank.
“I think the addition of the felony
mvlcts wilt be of great benefit do
umter,” said Ms. Sheffield'yesterday.
3umter has near a thousand mile*
t road and the extra hands will
ecompllsh much In bringing' the
tileage to the' best state. 'This
leans much for the farmers In
tany ways. I heartily advocate ev-
ry measure for the Improvement of
le county highways, and this Is
ne of the most Important. ' By all
leans I would favor bringing the
ilouy convicts here.”
Captain John A. Cobb of Americus.
Is preparing a paper to be read at
the annual meeting of the Ge.orgia
Horticultural Society at Cornelia on
August 12th, upon the subject "Can
ning and preserving fruits, and com
mercial sale.” In view of the fact
that fruit culture, and particularly
that of peaches, has reached enor
mous proportions In Georgia, ren
dering It next to cotton the principal
money crop of the State, it behooves
the fruit growers' and orchard own
ers to study the best methods for
utilizing the valuable product. It has
been demonstrated that a large fruit
and crop cannot be sold profitably, per se,
and the canning factory is destined
to solve the problem of over-produc-
tloV or rather lack of demand, at
prices profitable to the shipper. With
one of the largest canneries In the
State located In Americus, Captain
Cobb has had opportunity to gather
valuable Information from personal
and careful inspection of this great
Industry, and the facts and figures
embraced In bis admirable article
prepared for th eHortlcultural So
ciety will be read with interest
throughout Georgia. Captain Cobb
will give results likewise as secured
from private canneries, like that of
the Ware Company, operated right In
Its orchard and which utilizes prac
tically 4he entire crop grown there
upon. The cost of operation will be
given In detail to the end of showing
how private or “neighborhood” can
neries may be successfully conduct
ed right at the farm or orchard. Cap
tain Cobb will also Impress the ad
vantage of plantlnk large crops
of vegetables . that are suit-
able for canning, to the end of
affording material for the? canneries
six months of the year Instead of six
weeks, as Is now the case with peach
es alone available. -
BODY IS CARRIED.T0
HOME IN KENTUCKY
The remains of Mr. James S.
Beavers, who died a day or two
since in Dawson, passed through
Americus yesterday en route for his
former home fn Elizabethtown, Ky.,
for Interment. The body was em
balmed by Mr, Homer Beard of the
A. W. Smith Undertaking Co., of this
city. The deceased was only thirty-
three years of age and leaves a young
bride of two month's. Death followed
an operation performed for appendi
citis.
Here is Belief for Women
That extinct Norwegian poet nam-
Jonas Lie can now be referred to
the past tense, without canting a
A man has been arrested who
murdered his wife' fifteen years ago.
Since then he has married twice.
He should be turned loose. He Has
keen punished enough.
Mother Gray, a nurse in New York,
discovered an aromatic, pleasant herb
cure for women’s ills, called AUSTRA-
LIAN-LEAF. It is the only certain
regulator. Cures female weaknesses
and backache. Druggists or by-mall
60c. Sample FREE. Address, The
Mother Gray Co., Le Roy, N. Y.
HORSE-SWAPPING DAY
TO BE ESTABLISHED
“Horse- Swapping Day" Is to be
inaugurated by the Board of Trade at
an earty day. ThlB was decided on
at a meeting of the Board last night.
Mr. T. E. Mitchell Introduced the res
olution, and told of the success of the
Institution In a Texas town where he
lived.
The idea Is to establish a day
when farmers and horse owners with
stock to, trade will come to town with
the assurance of meetlDg others on
a similar mission,* and thus establish
a clearance mart for transactions in
horse and mule flesh.
Short.talks were made by a num
ber of members, and tl^e scheme was
considered a good one. On niotlon, It
was decided that President Allen
should appoint a committee to take
charge of the matter. It U’ expected
that a program of horse racing, base
ball, automobile racing and games
will characterize the first event of the
kind ever held In Americus..
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
Both House and Senate Confronted by
Important Legislation.,
Atlanta, July 11.—The' state road
will not be extended to the sea this
year. The house on Friday after de
voting three sessions and a half to ar
guments why the road should be ex
tended and'why It should not bo built
to the sea, voted, with a single,excep
tion, to adopt a substitute offered to
the Alexander bill by Mr. Wright, of
Richmond, which turns the proposal
to extend over to a commission of
nine, who shall Investigate the propo
sition and make a report to the next
general assembly, and. If feasible,
offer a bill to extend the road to the
sea.
No bill of more general Interest or
Importance has been Introduced at
this session of the legislature than
that of Mr. Deen, of the fifth senato
rial 'district, which creates In the
treasury department of the state of
Georgia a bank bureau, and provides
for the appointment of a bank exam
iner, etc.
By a vote of 26 to 16, the bill by
senator Whaley relating to the estab
lishment of new counties was defeat
ed.
lenghty report from the peniten
tiary committee was read. This re
port pictured the condition.of the va
rious convict camps and suggested
several remedies which will probably
be introduced In the senate In the form
of bills.
Several committee reports were sub
mitted. A minority report signed by
Senators Henderson (39th) Wilkes,
Overstreet, Williford and Knight, op
posing the passage of the bill by Sen
ator Hayes, which would give certain
waterways the power of eminent do
main . ■
A meeting of much Importance was
that held Friday night In the hall of
the house of representatives In the
Interest of the bill, which. If passed
by the house and senate, will appro
priate funds sufficient to begin a sys
tematic and earnest fight against tu
berculosis In the state of Georgia by
establishing the Georgia State Sanita
rium for Incipient Tuberculosis.
Many learned and distinguished phy
sicians were present to address the
members of the bouse and senate up
on the Important Issue.
on recced as being opposed to the ser
vice pension measures as offered by
Mr. Foster, of Cobb, ft required 122
to pass the constitutional amendment.
Under the terms'of -this measure,
the constitution of Georgia Is to be
amended so as to allow for the pay
ment of pensions to all confederate
veterans sad their widows, provided
they married prior to 1870, and are
In possession of less than $1,000 In
reality and < personal property.
An effort was made to have the
wealth qualification placed at $1,600,
and to allow all veterans enlisting
from Georgia but serving elsewhere to
come - under this measure, but both
were defeated.
One of the most Important measures
Introduced at the session of the sen
ate on Monday was that by Senator
Felder to so amend the act to create
a prison commission tor the state of
Georgia so as to provide for the dispo
sition of certain felony convicts after
the first, of April, 1909. The bill
provides that these convicts Bhall be
placed on the prison farm instead of
being leased out.
The senate passed the resolution by
Mr. Candler of DeKalb, which carries
out the governor's suggestion giving
the university of Georgia the privilege
of sharing In the Carnegie foundation
fund. ,
The bill by Senator Farmer to author
ize the superior courts of this state to
grant charters In vacation to such
corporations as they are authorized
by law to create, was favorably rec
ommended by the general Judiciary
committee.
After an executive session lasting
several minutes, the general agrlcul-
tral committee of the house reported
favorably the measure by Mr. Trent,
of Heard, which proposes that all dogs
not muzzled In Georgia shall be slain.
This puts the question up to the gen
eral assembly now, and there Is a
great sentiment In favor of Its pas
sage. Mr. Trent, the author of the
measure, appeared before the commit
tee and Bpoke In favor of the meas
ure.
HIS FAITH WAS THAT
OF A LITTLE CHILD
With faith of the brand that will
move mountains, an Americus pro
duce dealer comes to the front and
demands the belt. At bis store on
Cotton avenue he sells the Joy-
breeding watermelon, and It Is his pos
session of these bombs of gladness
that develops the Innocence of a little
child who would select a spittoon for
a playhouBe or toy with the tail of
a bulldog. At his store yesterday
.was displayed this legend upon a
placard surmounting a pyramid of-
melons. “Five and Ten Cents; put
the money under the Door.” Thus
Is tho story of amazing confidence
told, for at night the melons are left
upon the pavement, with only the
placard to prick the conscience of
the midnight stroller who passeth by.
The lone policeman, the visiting dele
gate, the common clt are alike trust
ed by this man whose only admoni
tion Is “help yourself, pick the big
gest melon, but put the money under
the door." Evidently all men aro
not wholly bad, and there Is
balm in Gilead.
Ask for Allen’s Foot-Ease
yet
A powder for swollen, tired, hot,
smarting feet Sample FREE. Also
Free Sample of the Foot-Ease Sani
tary Corn-Pad, a new Invention. Ad
dress Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y.
HIS DEATH A DISTINCT
LOSS TO THE STATE
A very delightful thing about hu
mor Is when it's your own.—N. Y.
Press.
ivi.-v'; .*
Atlantd, July 13.—The beginning ol
the end is In sight when the general
assembly, this week, takes up the con
vict bill, for it has been conceded
this Is tho most Important bit of leg
islation which this body will have to
solve this session.
Briefly outlined, the measure pro
vides: The Judge may use discretion
in sentencing! temale convicts; all
convicts or a county may either be
leased by the county or worked by the
county; no misdemeanor convlyts are
to be farmed out to private parties;
the convict proper is to be eliminated
by having the lessees sign a contract
to return to the commission all con
victs v.’hich, for any reason, they
cannot work. It allows the commis
sion to separate the races.
Saturday for forty-two minutes the
bouse transacted business In record-
breaking fashion and adjourned until
10 o’clock Monday morning.
During this time tblrty-two bills
were passed and fourteen new bills
Introduced.
Asking the general assembly ol
Georgia to stlok the probe Into the
Georgia prison commission. Represen
tative Shaw of Clay, Introduced In the
bouse Saturday morning a Joint reso
lution, calling for an investigation ol
Us affairs. The resolution provides
that three from the house and two
from the senate shall act as the In
vestigating committee.
After a week of unusual activity the
senate adjourned on Friday until
Monday morning at 10 o’clock.
During the week $15,000 was ap
propriated to the Georgia Normal, and
Industrial college at Mllledgevllle fot
needed Improvements, and the commit
tee favorably recommended appropria
tions for the State Normal school at
Athens, the University of Georgia and
the Georgia School of Technology. It
Is understood that thees measures will
pass the senate with little opposition.
The bill by Senator Hardman re
quiring the election of the pension
commissioner by the people was pass,
ed. The bill of Senator Whaley pre
scribing the manner In which new
counties may be formed was lost.
The blit by Mr. Adamas, ol
Chatham county limiting the amount
of Interest to be levied to 5
per cent per month was vigorously
fought In the committee room, but
with only one dissenting vote the bill
received a favorable recommendation
and will probably bn voted on by
the senate during the present week.
Atlanta, July 14—Whether the dis
franchisement amendment to the con
stitution, If ratified In October, as its
supporters believe it will be, may be
suspended going In operation until
January 1, 1909, Is tbe question which
Is now absorbing the attention of
those who bad the measure’ put up to
thq. people last year.
At a meeting of the geenral Judlcl
ary committee of the house it was
stated that In the event the amend-
men is adopted, as it now stands, it
will go Into effect at once, and no
one, except those who qualify under
Its provisions, before tho registrars oi
the state, can vote In the November
By a vote of 113 to 24, the bouse ol
Atlanta, July 16.—'’’An examination
and investlgatlon-lnto the conduct and
management of the prison commis
sion, its officers and employees and
all convict lessees" was declared for
by the house Tuesday following a spir
ited debate,and nn aye and no vote,
by 141 to 15. .
Som B Measures Introduced.
Following the action on the resolu
tion calling an investigation of the
prison commission, officers, employees
and lessees, with, superior court pow
ers, the house turned to the Introduc
tion of new measures.
Mr. Hall, of Bibb, Introduced his
measure to change the time of holding
the legislature from the fourth Wed
nesday In June to the second Wed
nesday In January, 1909.
A' bill to abolish 'the leasing of
convlctB to private parties was Intro
duced by Messrs. Alexander of IDeKalb,
Burwell of Hancook, Candler of De-
Kalb, Covington of Colquitt, and
Wright of Floyd, *
It provides a constitutional amend
ment which will forever abolish this
system and calls for the Issuance .of
$750,000 in state bonds, the purchase
of farm lands, materials, tools, live
stock and the like, for use fhereon
where convicts may be worked.
This Is to come up before the consti
tutional amendment committee later.
‘the senate held a lengthy and Inter
esting session Tuesday morning dur
ing which time a resolution by Sen
ator Felder calling for a thorough In
vestigation of the charges made by the
The death of Captain J. E. Do-
Vaughn, which occurred a day or
two since at his home In Montezuma,
Is a distinct loss to his county and
state and particularly to that im
mediate locality where the best years
of his useful life were passed. CapL
DeVaughn was well known In Atner-'
icus as throughout southern Geor
gia, and here os elsewhere his death
Is a source of sorrow. He located in
Montezuma Just after tne civil war,
engaging In the mercantile business.
He began with no capital, and leaves
an estate valued at nearly one-half
million dollars. He was one of the
largest land owners in southwest
Geofgla, and carried one hundred
thousand dollars life Insurance. He
was a prominent and active membor
of the Baptist church, and ia gallant
lieutenant In the Confedrate army'
and a most loyal citizen.
BUNCOED BY AGENT ON
A SHIPMENT OF FRUIT
All that glitters In the alluring ad
vertisements and letterheads of
fake” produce brokers Is not gold,
as more than one trusting, confiding
peach shipper has probably found
out to his cost this season. An Am
ericus shipper, quite recently,' was
stung to the extent of near $200 worth
of exceptionally fine peaches, ship
ped to Tampa. The fruit consisted
of his choicest Elbertas, 160 crates
of them, and not only did he lose .the
last Juicy peach In the lot. but was
touched for the express charges and
cost of the crates besides. And his
experience has doubtless been that
of others here who shipped to un
known 'or irresponsible alleged com
mission men and never afterwards
heard a word from them relative to
any cash returns. •
DRILL OE THE KNIGHTS
MADE A FINE FEATURE
committee appointed to examine Into
the state by a Joint committee of three Thousands Saw Pythians at
from the senate and five from the d II n I
house, -was adopted unanimously. • Q0||
The bill carrying an appropriation
of $15,000 to the normal schol al - ““ I
Athens was passed. The report ol
the committee reporting unfavorably
the bill requiring all engines In tbe
state to be equipped with electric head
lights was disagreed to, and the bill
known as the Martin tag tax bill was
returned to the house with an unfa
vorable recommendation, and at the
request of the chairman of the com
mittee was recommitted to that com
mittee.
A number' of tho leadjng .bank
ers of the state appeared before the
committee en banking of the senate
to discuss the legislation proposd by
Senator Deen affecting the banks of
the state.
The bill known as senate bill 185,
which provides for the creation In tbe
treasury department of a bank bureau,
was Indorsed. Various bankers pres
ent offered suggestions as to minor
amendments, but tbe main purpose ol
the bill was approved.
Nsgro Lynched In Tennessee,
Nashville, Tenn., July 16—tA Mid
dleton, Tenn., dispatch says that Hugh
Jones, a negro, was strung up to a
sapling limb near that place by
mob of a hundred men at daylight on
Tuesday morning. Jones had attempt
ed to assault Miss Ora Yoppe, aged
seventeen. He was captured <it.La-
Grange, and was being brought to
Middleton by special deputies when
the mob appeared and took charge o(
the prisoner.
representatives Monday morning went regular semi-anni
Dividend for-N., C. A St, L.
Now York, July 16.—The Nashville,
Chattanooga and 8t. Louis Railway
company has declared a semi-annual
dlvl'Jend.of 2% per cent, which Is a re
duction of H of 1 per cent from the
ual dividend.
The competitive drill of six divis
ions of the uniform rank, Knights of
Pythias, colored, attracted a vast
audience., estimated at 3,000 to 5,000,
ericus Wednesday morning formally
where for tw ohours the several
different divisions contested for the
prizes offered.
The divisions thus entering the
contest were those from Augusta, Ma
con, Atlanta, two from Savannah, and
the Americus division.
Each company, it is understood,
was drilled twenty minutes, and
'drilling of the several Bquads t
highly creditable.
The committee of Judges, It was
learned, awarded the prize to one of
the Savannah divisions, the drilling
of which was indeed excellent. Two
companies of cadets, young pickanin
nies fully uniformed, and carrying
swords, were present, coming fi
Savannah.
The ‘division, with two bands
music, made a good appearance
they marched to the ball park
the visiting delegates and tho
of others In their wake.
The festivities of the day e
with a Pythian banquet last night I
city hall and attended by hundr
of delegates and friends.
/ Never In the history Qf
has their been such an immense g
ering of colored peoplo here,
such an orderly one.- With t
of them here, there has not 1
the slightest disorder,
made by the police for any
The visitors represent I
of the race; They
and their general
the mi