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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) Eflggg -»Ccaysrqppnp T 1 13 'HIDm-mmwumrmw onr/v**’ COUPON TWO WEEKSIRIP TO NEW VOI Tills ballot for the two weeks to New York, ottered by the Amerlc a Times-Recorccr, fs cast In favor \ Contest Closes May 31. Each ballot Counts l SPECIAL COUPONS. Special coupons will be given at the Times-Recorder office ml. 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