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THE AMERICUS WEEKLY T1MES-REC0RDER, FRIDAY. JULY 31. 1908.
FIRST CROP OF TOBACCO
IS GROWN IN SUMTER
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TEN"ACRES GROWN BY THE WARE ORCHARD CO. READY EOR HARVEST
—THIS GREAT MONEY CROP CAN BE SUCCESSFULLY GROWN
IN SUMTER. AS DEMONSTRATED*
That tobacco can be grown sui,
cessfuily here In Sumter county, and
with profit to the producer, has been
fully demonstrated by the Ware Or
chard Co., which will begin tomorrow
the harvesting of ten acres of “Sum
atra leaf,” the most valuable grade.
This is the first experiment made
here upon an extensive scale, and the
company is pleased therewith.
This broad expanse of growing to
bacco upon the Ware Co.’s farm,
six miles below Americus, presents a
sight most pleasing to the eye and
attracts general attention.
The company desired to experi
ment in tobacco culture, both in the
open and under shade, the finer
grade, as is well known, being pro
duced under lattice. This latter pro
cess is very expensive, as it costs
largely to thus prepare even_a small
area.
One acre of the weed is cultivated
under cover by the Ware Co., while
nine acres are cultivated in the open
field, both crops adjoining.
Seasons have been favorable, and
the plants have grown luxuriantly,
j The pine acres of plants in the
Bp*n field are now ready to be Cut
and cured, and the jiarvest will be
gin on Thursday.
The shaded tobacco wil be gather
ed some time hence.
In the preparation of this single
acre, the entire field is roofed over
with cloth, or narrow strips of board,
through which the sunlight filters, the
shade tempering the heat and thus
producing a finer quality of tobacco.
This latticed roof is nine feet high,
and already the top leaves of the
tobacco plants are forcing themsel
ves through.it to catch the sun’s
rays without. The cultivation under
cover has resulted in a crop of the
finest quality of “Sumatra wrapper.”
The crop upon this single acre is
worth a small fortune.
Having demonstrated that tobacco
can be grown here successfully, the
Ware Co., will doubtless plant a lar
ger area next season.
Upon the line of diversified farm
ing this opens to our farmers a new
and profitable source of revenue. Soil
experts have declared that the soil
in certain portions of this county
are finely adapted to tobacco culture,
and there is conclusive proof of it.
The success attending the experi
ment of the Ware Co., will result even
tually in the extensive cultivation
of tobacco in Sumter county.
WHY >0T GROW TOMATOES FOK CAXHIHGt
TALES OP THE TOWN
TOLD IN FEW LINES
Pencil Slubs Picked Up At
Random.
Commissioner ot Agriculture T. G.
Hudson came down from Atlanta yes
terday and mingled with his many
friends here at home.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
Miss Camilla Boyd, of Leslie,
dsitlng Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Kelly.
Miss Maud Burke, of CoUb, Ga., is
visiting Miss Florence Gordy at her
home on I#ee street.
BIG REMNANT SALE
Sumter county will do her full duty
In keeping the Third district agricul
tural college open next fall, despite
all hostile legislation.
Sumter's convicts are humanely
treated and well eared for. They are
made to work, but then they are sent'
there for that purpose.
When two Americus men, whose
wives are away for the summer, meet,
shake and wink, the thought of their
great heart grief is really awful.
If that legislative Investigating com
mittee had inspected the Sumter gang
last year it would have bad a horrible
story to tell, indeed.
Many Americus people are figuring
upon a change of homes on Septem
ber 1st, .moving day here, and houses,
as usual, are in demand.
Mesrs. Ross Dean, R. S. Oliver and
Roy Black left Americus last night for
a business trip to New York, Boston
and the East.
That tobacco can be successfully
grown in Sumter has been demon
strated bA the Ware Co. It is a most
valuable money crop.
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In Wednesday’s Times-Recorder there tv as told the story of a local
peach grower who intends next year to establish a cannery in the heart of
bis trees and can his own fruit for the markets of the country. This is not
a new thing. It is new for Sumter county but it has been tried elsewhere
and frequently with success. It is one solution of the glutted market and
low price condition that Is open to every man who grows fruit on a
large scale.
Speaking ot this canning industry, now that we have a large factory
here, capable ot handling many thousands of cans a day, under expert man
agement, is there any reason why it should not be profitable for our farm
ers to add another money crop to those they are now growing? The can
nery pays promptly and well for supplies. The stuff it handles is just as
quickly convened into cash by delivering it to its doors as cotton is ^con
verted into money by bringing it to the warehouse and the cotton buyers.
In New Jersey and Maryland, the greatest canning states in the union,
farmers find tomatdes very profitable. Enormous crops of this magnlflclent
vegetable are obtained from the sandy acres of the first named state. .It
has been demonstrated that tomatoes of a very fine quality can be grown
right here in Sumter. Some of the finest, most solid, and largest tomatoes
that have ever been raised have been produced on the soil around Americus.
is there any reason to believe that, with proper handling of the crop, re
sults could not be had that would be financially as satisfactory as in the
states where tomatoes are an important crop? Farmers, of course, could
not be expected to go extensively into the raising of this or any other vege
table when there was no market save the limited local one. But now that
a canning factory is here, the owners of which would undoubtedly be eager
to welcome tomatoes as an additional crop to be bandied by them, what
reason is (hero for not pushing the cultivation of this staple article of dally
consumption?
might be well for some of our planters to see the canning factory
people and learn from them what they, will be willing to do In the way of
handling tomatoes or other vegetable crops. It may be. probably will be,
found that some vegetables can be raised hereabouts for canning purposes
that will net more to the grower than cotton does.
It Is by the opening up of such new industries, for vegetable growing
for calming purposes Is practically a new industry hereabouts, that our
agriculture will become more diversified and more profitable. I\ is quite
probable that a set price could be fixed for all of the tomatoes that could
be delivered at the factory, payable on delivery, and that one season’s ex
perience would demonstrate that there is money in It for the grower. With
the light now before us it would appear that there is no apparent reason
why Americus should not become the seat of a number of canning factories
which would become an Important factor in the development of the city
and materially aid Its varied business interests in the ordinarily dullest
time of the year, the mid-summer period. The thing is well worth looking
into, and the Board of Trade might take the matter up, in conjunction with
some practical progressive^ farmers, and give the community the benefit
of their investigations.
Yesterday began the “dogday” sea
son, and there was no rain. Accord
ing to time-honored theory, we "are
In for a long dry spell.”
Cleve Webb Is dispensing his win
ning, girlish smiles as the central at
traction in a house party at Miona
Springs, given in his honor.
Those “hot winds” which blew
Hoke Shiith off his base have been
started prematurely this year. No
trouble with the cotton crop as yet.
FOR SALE.
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200 acres level land. Rents 5 bales
cotton. Price $10.00 acre.
4- room house, with garden. $1,000.
Rent, $120.
5- room house, in good condition;
$900.00.
7-room house, close in, $1,750.00.
Rent 200.00. This is a safe Invest
ment, or pleasant home.
100 acres, 3 miles of R. R. $850.00,
200 acres, half mile of R. R. station.
6-room house, near church and
schools, red land.
205 acres, one mile of R. R. station.
4-room house, and two tenant houses,
running water, healthy and pure
drinking water.
Real estate Is the safest of all In
vestments.
It you are looking for an invest
ment or home come to see me.
P. ». WILLIFORD.
A very neat trick a woman has Is
never to crjr when she means it.—N.
Y. Press.
COBB TAKES BALL
GAME FROM B’SOTO
COBB, GA., July 23.—(Special)—In
the game of ball yesterday afternoon
at De Soto between the De Soto and
Cobb baseball teams, Cobb was
winner by a score of 10 to 2. De Soto
failed to score until the ninth
ning, when two runs were made. The
excellent pitching of Clements did
much towards winniug the game for
Cobb', The batteries were: Cobb, Clem
ents and Hogg; De Soto, Ferguson
and Barlowe.
MISS HARRIS IS HOSTESS
AT A HOUSE PABTf
Miss Julia Sawyer and Miss Louise
Markette are spending the week de
lightfully as guests of Miss Ruth Har
ris, who is entertaining a house party
at' her home near Leesburg. Miss
Dorothy Weldon of Albany and Miss
Addis Mims of Leesburg, are also
The man who la forever looking _____ ...
backward never gets very far ahead.— among MlM Harrls gucsta
In some localities west of Americus
tio rain has fallen in eleven weeks,
and in consequence the crop condi
lions there are far from promising.
PERFECT CONFIDENCE
Miss Margaret Burton, the attrac
tive guest of Miss Madge McAfee,
returned Monday to Smithville,
where she is spending the summer
with relatives.
Miss Ethel Gregory of Columbus, is
a fair visitor in Americus, the very
attractive guest of Miss Susie Chap
man.
We shall throw out this week
a magnificent lot of
REMNANTS AND SHORT LENGTHS.
Miss Yonah Buchanan, who has
been attending the State Normal
summer school at Athens, returned
home yesterday. -
Mrs. Albert Harris has returned
to Americus from a visit of some
length to her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Brooks, near Oglethorpe.
Mrs. George W. Bacot and little
daughter, Flora, have gone to
Portsmouth, Va„ to spend some time
with her sister, Mrs. J. Reed Curry.
Mrs. J. H. Daniel of Draneville, and
Mrs. Beulah Crouch, of Atlanta, are
guests of Mrs. R. L. McMath, called
here by the illness of their brother,
Mr. B. H. McMath.
FOR SALE—Family carriage, ex
tension top." Good as new. Apply to
Mrs. Bram Godwin, 309 Forsyth st.
29-3t-&w-lw
PROMOTED JO RANK OF
BRIGADE GOMMANDER
Gen. Davenport at Head of
Western Brigade.
Veterans of Camp Sumter 642
C. V. of Americus, as well as
comrades iu arms throughout
*»,«. win * «... Come at once. Don’t miss this
appointment of Camp Commander H OppOltUIlity. We Wailt tO dear
out what we have in these lines
Americas People Have Good Reason
For Complete Reliance
Do you know how—
To find quick relief from backache;
To correct distressing urinary HU,
To surely cure sick kidneys?
.lust one way—your neighbors know
Have used Doan’s Kidney Pills;
Have proved their worth in many
tests.
Here’s Americus testimony:
A. A. Willett, living two and one
half miles southeast of Americus, Ga.,
savs: “Doan’s Kidney Pills in my
case acted up to representations. I
had been a sufferer for some years
from a dull pain In the small of my
hack, and at times after sitting .
could hardly arise to regain an erect
position. The secretions showed a
sediment, and were very unnatural in
appearance. 1 used a number of dif
ferent remedies, and also rubbed my
back with liniments, but did not re
ceive any relief until I- procured
Doan's Kidney Pills at Dodson’s Phar
macy. Since using them my back is
strong and my kidneys have been res
tored to a normal condition.” You
are welcome to use my name as an
endorser of Doan’s Kidney Pills.”
For sple by all druggists. Price
50 cents. Foster-Millburn Co., Buffalo,
N. Y„ sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name—Doan s and
take no other.
DENTIST CU A TINNER
IN SCRAP AT CORDELL
Saunders May Succumb to
Wounds.
Parties from Cordele in Americus
yesterday gave the particulars of a
serious cutting affray there wherein
Dr. D. J. Williams, a prominent den
tist and reputed to be the wealthiest
individual in Cordele, became in
volved In a quarrel with S. B.
SaundcrB, and Saunders was stab
bed several times with a knife. Sauu-
dcri Is a tinner by trade, and the
trouble arose over some work he had
done on a new building for Dr. Wil
liams. Saunders was moved to the
hospital, and it is said has slight
chance for recovery. Dr. Williams
appeared before the county officers
and gave bond for $2,000 to answer
the charge of assault with Intent
to murder.
Doctor—Do yon ever hear a buzz
ing noise in your ears?
Patient—Of course, doctor. 1
thought you kntw her.
Doctor—Knew whom?
Patient—My wife. — Philadelphia
Press . *
T. Davenport to the rank of brigadier-
general, commanding the Western
Brigade of Georgia.
The appointment was made yester
day by General .John W. Clark, major-
general of the Georgia Division, and
is embraced in the following order:
Augusta, Ga., July 25, 1908.
SPECIAL ORDER—The death of
Comrade J. E. DeVaughn, Command
er of Western Brigade, on July 12,
having created a vacancy: Comrade
H. T. Davenport, of Americus, Is
hereby appointed ommander of the
Western Brigade, by authority vested
in me under Article 4, of Division
Constitution.
He will be obeyed and respected ac
cordingly. By order
JOHN W. CLARK,
Maj. Gen’l. Ga. Division.
B. H. SMITH, JR.,
Acting Adjt. General.
The appointment is eminently
fit one, and Is appreciated to the
fullest extent by the people of Am
ericus generally.
For many years General Daven
port, as commander of Camp Sumter,
has devoted his best energies to the
building up of the camp and with
results highly gratifying, as it is
now one of the largest and strong
est In the state with a membership
exceeding two hundred.
General Davenport gave four ofth
best years of his life to the Lost
Cause, the memory of which is
sacred and dear to him now as in the
days of the sixties.
TRAINMEN OF SKILL TO
FILL ALL POSITIONS
Is Meeting
Favor.
Wltg General
Railway men in Americus, as else
where in the state, are well pleased
with the bill just passed by the Leg
islature and signed Saturday by the
governor, which prohibits the employ
ment ot inexperienced men as rail
way engineers.
Railway men in particular, and the
traveling public in general, will be
interested to learn that Governor
Hoke Smith has signed a bill pro
hibiting the employment of Inexper
ienced men as railway engineers.
The hill was introduced in the
house by Mr. Tift, of Dougherty, and
was strongly urged by the Brother
hood of Railway Engineers.
It provides that a man must have
had three years o< actual, bona-fide
experience as a fireman or engineer
on a railway locomotive or four
years In a railway machine shop be
fore he may be entrusted with the
responsibility of a regular engineer.
A violation of the law is subject
to punjshment as a misdemeanor In
any county of the state wherein the
violation may occur.
White Goods of all kinds and qualities,
Ginghams and Madras Cloths,
Chambrays and Linens, Batistes and Lawns,
Printed India Linons and Muslins,
Silk Mixtures and Printed Silk Muslins,
Percales, Piques, Panamas, Printed, Plain, Pretty.
In this collection you will find
some of the greatest values we
have ever placed upon our coun
ters. The goods are all marked in
figures, thrown out on the centre
counters and there will be no
trouble whatever in your seeing
them all if you will only take the
time and come. Lots of extra de
sirable things for children as well
as grown people.
and former prices will be no crite
rion for this sale.
CHAS. L ANSLEY.
(Successor to Wheatley & Ansley.)
Agent American Lady Corsets and
Butterick Patterns.
CHECK IS SIGNED AND
SENT TO THE BANK
Pending Final Details for
Transfer.
Anent the deal pending in Phila
delphia for several days wherein the
Americus Railway and Light Co., is
to he financed, latest reports Tues
day were ot a nature encouraging.
It is stated that the transfer will be
effected today, quite likely, and the
amount agreed upon, something like
$85,000, as the price of the electric
light and gas plant here paid, over.
In fact, a telegram received Tues
day announced that the check for the
amount required has already been
drawn by parties furnishing the
money, and only the final Inspection of
the deeds, etc., by attorneys of the
purchasers is now required. That
the deal, so long pending, will be
put through at once there seems no
doubt whatever, and official announce
ment to that effect will be forthcom
ing within a day. or tw<j, it Is said.
HEAVY LOSS IN CROPS
AS RESULT OF RAIN
The Georgia cotton crop will be at
least 25 per cent below that of last
year, according to Hon. T. G. Hudson,
Commissioner of Agriculture. He
states that an overplus of rain in
South Georgia, together with a par
tial drought in the Middle and Nor
thern sections, has tended to reduce
the yield far below normal. He
also states that cotton blight and in
sects have injured the growing plant.
OPPOSED TO
STEPHENS’ BILL
Sumter Military Men Ap
peal to Dykes and Taylor.
The officers of the Americus Light
Infantry have united In a protest
against the passage of,the Stephens
bill, providing for the establishment
of a secondary military organization
in Georgia, to be entirely independent
of the federal government and the
operations of the Dick military law.
Copies of thh protest have been sent
to Representatives Dykes and Taylor.
Mr. Dykes is a member of the military
committee of the House and in a posi
tion to exert considerable influence
in regard to the proposed measure,
which is apparently being opposed by
the entire military organization ot
Georgia, outside of Savannah, where it
is claimed, the desire to' maintain sep
arate military organizations is quite
Btrong. $
It Is claimed that the distinct ten
dency of the Stephens bill, if R
came a law,, would be toward the de
moralization and disintegration of the
existing military Bystem.
Georgia's military forces, it is r olnt ‘
ed out, are just getting on a reason
ably good basis through the flnancla
assistance and hearty co-operation ct
the national military department. The
equipment is better than it has ever
been, the discipline is better, j e
training is more effective, and * e
yearly encampments are doing “ n
Immeasurable good in building up the
military spirit. Those opposing tn
Stephens bill claim Its practical effec
will be to tear down all that has be
done and eventually reduce the state
forces to a chaotic condition.
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