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THE AMERICUS WEEKLY TIMES-RECORDER. THURSDAY. APRIL 21. 1910
THE TIMES-RECORDER.
DAILY AND WEEKLY.
THE A.'IEIUCUS RECORDER.
Established 1879.
THE VMERICUS TIMES,
Established 1890.
Consolidated April 1891.
Entered at tbe postofflce at Amerl
cus an i«; uad-clasa mail matter.
THOS. GAMBLE. Editor and Manager
J. W. 1 UHLOW City Editor
W. L. Dl 1 FREE. Aast. Business Dept.
Offlclul orgaD of the City of Americas.
Official organ of Sumter County.
Official organ of Webster County.
Official organ of Railroad Commis
sion of Georgia for Third Congres
sional District
Official organ U. 8. Court, Southern
District of Georgia.
Editorial Room, Telephone 99.
A morions, Ga„ April 21, 1910.
IF THEY ONCE SEE SUMTER COUX
TY TilE-Y’LL COME.
HEADED THIS WAY FROM SOUTH
CAR(U>IKA.
TIIE FARMER AND THE AUTOMO.
BILE.
One of the most pronounced cur
rents in tbe stream of immigration
pouring into South Georgia is that
from South Carol’na. Into Sumter
county as we are all aware, there have
come a number of enterprising farm
ers from the Palmetto State, men with
ample means to secure farms for them
selves and establish themselves in
permanent homes with every prospect
of a successful career In their new
environments. Still others have made
investments here, but Dave not as yet
pulled up roots and established them
selves amid new surroundings. These
and others will eventually find their
way into the country In the vicinity of
Americus. Indeed, it Is fairly safe to
assert that within tbe next one to
three years there will be a decided and
most welcome addition to the South
Carolina colony, progressive, experi
enced planters who will play their
part In the future development of this
section.
But Sumter county Is not the only
one that Is having Its population in
creased from this source. Into othei
counties more of tho sturdy, desirable
South Carolina stock Is steadily flow
ing. Many settlers In Georgia recent-
In order to induce them to come' ]y bave bailed from that state and
south demonstration farm* are to be . , ., ,, ...
conduc ed by tho Central of Georgia ba '° brousht * itb tbLm newa tbat ar
uu the billboard plan. This plan con- ’ army of others regard Georgia as their
sls*s. says tl.«a Savannah News, "in j Eldorado and are eagerly awaiting an
cultivating str.ps of land In winter | opportunity to become citizens of this
crops close to the lines of the rail- 1
roads, and where they can be seen
state. Over in Anderson county there
easily “from the windows of tho rail- Is said to be a marked disposition
•way coaches. Grasses and grain crops to dispose of valuable plantations with
will be started and possibly stock will thIg Intont[on . still others expect to
appear. Coining from a sect on of ice ...... . . . . .
and snow Ihc home3eeker would bo com6 i n the fall, and by next wimer
delighted with green fields in mid- a well developed movement Into Geor-
wintcr, and this hind of advertising gj a from not only Anderson but other
may prove very effect.ve. 1 prosperous communities of South
Two now plan is practical and will *
appeal to practical men, and If the Carolina is to be loo ted for.
Central of Georgia will establish a South Georgia is being discovered,
billboard farm in every county it pass- ag n were. The movement this way
es through it will certainly secure a
large number of Immigrants from the
west; and they are the kind of men
the south
Heraitl.
needs.—Birmingham Ag
were.
is but in Its inciplency. Not only
South Carolina but.a dozen other states
will be contributing to it before long.
, It is Just beginning to be realized
that no other part of the counlry of-
that tends to fers lands so cheaply that can he
Of course, anythin
attract at ention to the agricultural m nde to yield so prifltably that no
possibilites of this section must bo other section offers greater oppor-
commemied and welcomed. But so far (unities, that here the home seeker
as Sumter county is concerned it will can work under tbe best of conditions
not bo necessary for the Central’s new ana with greater assurance of success
immigration agent to resort .o 3uch than anywhere else. Lands are still
an expedient as this. All that Is to be had In various parts of South
necessary for lilm to do Is to bring Georgia at five to fifteen dollars nr
a few farmers here at any timo during acre. Even here, in highly developed
the spring or summer or early fall Sumter county with its magnificent
from different parts of the North or roai j 3j w it b its plantations presenting
Northwest, show them the county, take one ot the prettl est pictures of ag.l?
them In automobiles ovo Its magnlf.- cultural progress and prosperity to
cent highways, let them look at tho bc seen , n the Sou . h> wlth cvery ad _
■"■““sands upon thousands of well cul- vantaEe ttnt Is enjoyea by any BCCt , on
ffirated acres extending In all dlrec- any many that aro not to be foun(1
tlons. let them feast their admiring elsewhere, lands are still obtainable
•yes on what is already here in high- at prIcea that seem rialcu i 0U sly low
ly developed lands, let them know that comparison with those of weste-n
lands are still to be had at $10 to state3 where opportunItleB are not
»10 an acre that will almost pay for ha)f gQ great No wonaer tlmt a3 thp
themselves In a season’s crops, and faetg become mcro an(1 mor# c . rculated
they will hie back to the western mcn are g|ttl up> paylng atfonti o„,
country from whence they came with nnfl BettlDg ready to scIze tho oppor .
but ono Idea in their heads—to sell
ont as quickly as possible and mi
grate to Sumter county, Georgia. I
This Is a wonderful county. The
half of Its possibilities has not yet
been roal'zed,, and the half of what . . , _ — -
has already been done has not been ears ' F ve to en years from now Sum-1 and the way they are paying in cash,
j ter county will be one of the star with as little fuss as It they were
counties of the United States. Think! buying n draught horse.
tunlty:
The development of Sumter and
other South Georgia counties has been
rapid of late, but nothing to compare
with what It will be In the next -flva
The farmers at first were invclin-
ed to condemn the automobiles. The
impression was strong that they
would destroy the market for stock
and that the prices of horses and
mules would go down, that as a re
sult there would be a decrease in the
demand for food supplies, and that the
farmers would be Injured financially
as a result. In addition the farmers
opposed the motor cars on the ground
tha‘ innumerable accidents would
result and that the roads would be
made unsafe for them.
As a matter of fact, experience has
knocked all of these theories complete
ly In the head. The prices of stock
are today higher than ever before
and ike demand for food stuffs for
stock has Increased until the values
are almost prohibitive. Instead of
accidents being of common occurrence
they ure infrequent. Horses soon
showed their usual common sense, be
came readily familiar with the autos
and show little alarm when passing
them. And In addition the auto has
brought the good roads program to
tbe attention of the country as It
would never have been done but for
Ihc advent of the motor cars in large
numbers.
All over the land, too, farmers have
tuqned in and bought autos and
are daily using them for business and
pleasure. Especially Is this said to
be the fact In the West, although In
many sections of the South' the plant
ers are not far behind their Kestem
brethren In the desire to use im
proved transpotation facilities.
Writing of conditions In the West,
a paper in that section describes them
as follows:
Kansas fanners spent $3,200,000 for
automobiles during tbe year 1909 and
$2,730,000 In 1908. In one Nebraska
town of 800 population forty autos
were sold last year to farmers near
tbe town. Careful estimate of the
number of automobiles owned by far
mers in the entire United Stales 13
70,000.
Tho farmer h'as more good reasons
for having an automobile than an.'
other man. It is commonly said now
chat many city men are buying autos
who cannot afford them. Garage and
chauffeur costs are large responsible
for this condition.
But the farmer takes to the auto
mobile like the proverbial duck
water. In the first place he knows
machinery. He handles It all day
long and has to be his own repair
man. As a result he is his own best
chauffeur, and so is his son
The autc fits Into tho farm work
as If It were made for It. It doesn't
replace the horse—not a bit of it The
horse goes into the field In the morn-
ng and the auto runs the milk to
town or goes to tho mill for flour In
a hurry, or makes a quick dash to the
machine repair shop in town for
part to repair the binder or threshing
machine. It saves the time in many
Instances (as many farmers testify)
of a big gang of mcn In the field ir
’an emergency. It pays for Itself In
real service by the end of a year or
two.
Sixteen automobile makers are ad
vertising autos to tho farmer in the
150 farm papers of the country, and
most of them are arguing that the tu
tomobllc will keep the boy on the
farm. Automobile men are constantly
being astonished at the prices farmers
are willing to pay for the best cars.
ROAD WORK COUNTY
\S NOW 5lbV WIIH.
Much Repairing of the Old
Roads in Progress.
told to tho world at large. We trust
that Immigration Agent Jackson will
make it a point to spend a day or two
Jn Americus, visit all parts of the
county, and be convinced that there
fa nothing on the whole line of the
Central of Georgia system that ex
ec's or oven equals what Is offered
here to .the very class of farmers his
railroad wlshos to Induce to corns
South, tho substantial, progressive,
desirable type of men who have made
the West what It Is today.
of a county twenty miles square In
which there wil' be over 300 miles of
the finest highways to be found any
where, whose crops In a year will ag-
grega’e In value $8,000,000, with u
capital eltv approaching 20,000 In pop
ulation, with a clt'zenry unexcelled In
prosperity, In character. In Intelli
gence, and you will know what Sum
ter county will be before the next
census Is taken.
THE POSITION OF MERE MAX.
It would be Interesting to know to
what extent the reception of Roosevelt
In Europe Is govenrned by tho belief
Now comes a horrid railroad to sav
that women-do less work for the pry that he w! » be the next Pre3ldont ot
MOTHER GOOSE OX TIIE COST OF
LIVING.
(Uicllard Llnthlcum in X. Y. World.)
Jack Sprat could eat no fat,
His wife no lean could eat,
And so they l'ved on vegetables.
Which cost as much as meat.
L'ttle Bo Peep, she sold her sheep
And bought her some diamond rings
A house and lot ..nd a great big yacht
And other beautiful things.
than men. Why 1s It that railroads the UnItod States -
have no tact? It was Jay Gould who
said that a railroad man htjd no par- Mark Twain Is reported very
hr prejudices and we see that a rail- again. Mark smiles' and makes
road without tact does well to keep mos t of It, but tho fear grows stronger
out of politics. And yet we see that the remaining days of the aged
the B. & O. cannot truthfully deny humorist are but few.
that It receives valuable servces from
women whose names do not appear
■pon Its pay rolls—If a man works
well In nine cases out of ten more
credit Is due to his wife than to him.
But for his devotion to his wife tho
The Georgia Weekly Press Associa
tion meets here In a few weeks. An
other batch of visitors to bo enthused
over Georgia’s mos‘ attractive small
natural place for man s among sav- clty and the flnest roads wlthln tha
borders of the state.
•ges; when he owns hts wife he Is
always a savage, and when h’s wife
owns him be begins to climb toward
leaven.
A poet whoso verses have undoubted
merit has just been pardoned from
the Minnesota penitentiary.
The king was in Us counting house
Counting out his money.
The queen was In the parlor
Eating bread and honey;
And just because the king, sir.
Had to buy the -bread and honey,
It kepi him busy all the time
A-counting out |ils money.
HI diddle diddle,
The cat played the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon;
And now you knqw why
That beef is so high.
So let’s hope she’ll come down pret
ty soon.
Senator Tillman 1s much exercised
over the Roosevelt mania. But he
sl-uild remember that anti-RooseveU
mania is danyc-O'ts for an Invalid.
The New York Sun says that if the should be immediately filled by one of
democrats nominate another man In the numerous poets whose verses are
1912 it will be over the prostrate form unpardonably atrocious,
of Bryan;
More than 30,000 Immigrants will ar-
IIIs cell i rive In New Orleans this week, which
cugut to help some In solving the
servant problem.
The work on ihe improved Ameri
cus to Eliavllle road, that Is to con
nect this city with the Schley coun
ty metropolis by a new edition of
the Smithvllle and Plains roads, has
been completed some four miles be
yond the city. From there until the
Schley county line is reached the work
is light and can be pushed rapidly.
The force of sixteen convicts that
Is to complete the work has been used
a great deal of late In repairs to thh
roads around that section of the coun
ty, the Idea being to use them for that
purpose while the camp Is in that sec
tion, so that there will be no necessity
of taking them back there once they
have been removed elsewhere.
Schley county Is understood to be
pushing the work on Its part ot the
road and before summer Is well on
the highway between ‘he two places
should bo In good shape, making
another magnificent addition to the
system of good highways that Is
springing up In this part of the state.
Work on the Leslie road is soon
to be taken up and It will then he
pushed to completion. This is another
Urn-' highway that astonishes visitors
and traverses some of the finest agri
cultural sections of the county.
The old Oglethorpe road will also
he Improved In tho near future tor
some distance, helping travel on the
way to Andersonville.
Now that good roads have been built
to show cvery one In Sumter tbe dif
ference between a good road and a
road that Is merely a makslllft to travel
over when conditions permit, there is
a strong and per3lsient demand
springing up In all quarters for such
avenues of travel. While there has
been no more talk about a bond issue
it Is believed public sentiment in fa
vor of an issue has been materially
sprengthened by the .'practical exem-
pliflcaiion of what use the money
would be put to and the gre-.* bene
fits that would floi- from it.
"God helps those who help them
selves." While this remains true the
preacher who calls upon heaven to
regenerate Jittsburg might do better
if he impressed some sense of public
duty on the voters.
Professor of biology doesn't blame
women for wearing birds upon their
hats, but the milliners, and thep don’t
care. As for the women who wear
tho atoms of dead songs, they’ll think
it a good excuse.
Libel for Divorce.
Lillian Ha'r
vs.
Robert L. Hair
Libel for Divorce in Sumter Superior
Court, May Term, 1910.
To Robert L Hair:
The defendant Robert L Hair is
hereby cited and required to be and
appear personally or by attorney at
the Superior-Court to be beld in and
for said county on the 23rd day of
May, 1910, then and there to make
answer or defensive allegation, in
writing to the plaintiff's libel, as In
default thereof the court wilfbroceed
according to the statute in such cases
made and provided.
Witness the Honorable Zera A
Littlejohn, Judge of said court. Tills
the 19th day of April, 1910.
H. E. ALLEN, Clerk Superior Court.
21-28 May 5-12.
A Storekeeper Says:
“A lady came into my store lately and said:
“‘I have been using a New Perfection Oil Cool:-2‘-rv f . , v
in my apartment. I want one now for my summer :• c.ns.
1 thin]
these oil stoves are wonderful. If only women knew yvhati
comfort they»sre, they would all bave
one. I spoke about my stove to a lot
of my friends, mid thty were aston
ished. They thoueht that there was
smellfland smoke from an oil stove, and
that it tiered a room just like any other
stove. I told them of my experience,
and one after another they got one, and
now, not one of them would give hers
up far five times its cost.* **
The lady who said this had thought*
an oil stove was all right for quickly
heating milk for a baby, or boiling a
kettle of water, or to make coffee
quickly in tbe morning, but she never
dreamed of using it for difficult or
heavy cooking. Now—she knows.
Do you really appreciate what a New
Perfection Oil Cook-Stove meant to you ? No
more coal to carry, no more coming to the
dinner table ao tired out that you cant eat.
Juat light a Perfection 8tove and immediately
the heat from an intenae blue flame ahoota
the room i. —-— .
smell, no outalde heat, no drudgery In the
kitchen where one of these etoves Is used.
Oil Cook-stove
It ha® a Cabinet Top with a shelf for keeping plates and food hot.
nickel finish, with the bright blue of the chimneys, v.uktj the stove ornat
and attractive. Made with 1, 2 and 3 burners; ti.c 2 and 3-burner i
can be had with or without Cabinet.
Every dealer everywhere; if not at yeurs, writ:* for Descriptive Circular
to the nearest agency of the
Standard Oil Company
(Incorporated)
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