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THE AMERICUS WEEKLY TIMES-RECORDER. THURSDAY. MORNING JULY 14.1910
MIES Of $70,000 ARE
- r MADE IN ONE WEEK
More Carolina Coin Invest
ed Near Americas.
MR. CARfER IN RACt
E0R4EAT IN HOUSE.
Walker Pl&ga is Bought
by J. C. Witt -«»alker
Buchanan Buy
' Again.
Enters For the Primary of
August 23.
RECORD SESMON ENDS
EOR WEEKLY EDITORS
Mr. J. C. Carter is an aspirant for
honors political In Sumter and today
announces his candidacy for the le«
Mature as one of the two members
from this county. This action upon
tt*e part of Mr. Carter will be gratify
ing to his many friends. He is one of
Sumter's solid citizens, a progressive
and successful farmer and man of af
fairs and one in whom any trust, po
litical or otherwise, may safely-be im
posed at all times. His candidacy
The sale yesterday of the Walker
A Buchanan farm of 875 acres, three
miles west of Aniericus, to Mr. J. C.
Witt, of Orangeburg, S. C., is the third
Important land sale of tbe week, and wl " bring bint a strong suijort ai:
runs the total of South Carolina - over the county in the primary on Au-
snoney thus invested here within the BUSt 2Srd '
period of a few days to J70.000.
The round total of Caroiina inves:-
-snent near Americus within the past
lew months reaches now to the ha f
million mark, and is still growing rap
idly.
The Wlalker-Buehanan farm brought
(the round price of J13.000. Posses
sion will be given on December lBt
next, and until that^date the present
owner* will continue the operation of
their large dairy interests there.
After ti-iat time Messrs. Walker and
Bugbanan will buy other property
here and conduct separate dairy
farms.
These thrifty citizens came here
from Virginia two years ago and they
bought for a far less price the fine
farm sold yesterday through the South
ern Land Company, of Americus for
$13,000, thus netting them a hand
some profit. They will buy two other
Harms near Americus in the fall.
As stated, this sale yesterday is
the third one of the week.
The Wooten farm, sold through Mr.
P. B. Williford, brought near 135,000,
while the Andrews farm near the Lee
and Sumter county line sold for some
thing more than $20,000. The sale
TO FINISH AT RAYMOND
ORGHARD IN FEW DAYS
All Old Officers Re-elected
Without Opposition.
Cartersville is Place of
1911 Convention. Ed
itors Left for Apa
lachicola.
GEORGIA BAPTIST 10
MEET IN M0UNFAINT
Attractive Program for the
August Gathering?
The twenty-fourth annual session
of the Georgia Weekly Press Asso
ciation came to a close here yesterday
morning, and the delegates and those
who accompanied them, left for Bain-
bridge and Brunswick on the after
noon train, via thie Seaboard.
The attendance was not only a rec
ord-breaking one, but was the most
representative tha: any convention of
the association has ever known, The
newspaper men left withi the highest'some few hundred acres beautifully
Atlanta. Ga., July 13.—Atlanta Bap
tists are beginning to plan for the
Georgia Baptist Assembly, which is
to be held on its Assembly grounds at
Blue Ridge, Ga„ August 7-21, right on
top of the mountain, the highest point
in the state, on the L. & N. Railroad, a
hundred miles above Atlanta. The
program In chorge of State Sc tool
Commissioner M. L. Brittain, offers
many attractive features. It consists
of lectures, addressed and sermons by
many of the most eminent men of the
South. There will be popular enter
tainments, a debate between Mercer
Literary society, entertainments by
the young ladies of Bessie Tift, Short'
er and the Southern Female colleges.
The assembly, grounds consists of
praise for the entertainment afforded [ shaded and well watered. There are a
Immense Crop is Gathered
Very Nearly.
yesterday will bring the total of sales
Fifty carloads peaches will repre
sent the total shipments from the
beautiful Raymond orchard near
Americus, when the .final car goes
forward a day or two bence. Reports
from there yesterday were to the ef
fect that picking was about over with
and the trees weMnigh bare of the
beautiful and luscious peaches that
ibent low their boughs recently. Per
fect system in picking and shipping
the crop at the Raymond Orchard ac
counts for the celerity In getting it to
market and in such condition as to
cdmmand the best prices paid for
Georgia peaches. This yield of fifty
carloads Is most excellent for an or
chard of 100,000 trees and will pay
lor the week up to $70,0<)0 very eas
ily. , i
Mr. Witt is the first comer here from
the owners handsomely upon the In
vestment
the Orangeburg district, and will In- CHILD IS' WORRIED
dt-ce others of his friends there
come here also. He is a well known
banker of Us thrifty city, Orangeburg.
BS PRAYED FOB A FLOOD
OVER HIS FORTUNE
JSnmter Farm Lad In SnpfClcatlon Ask-
Chicago,' July 13.—Little Robert St.
BECAUSE WEARY OF WOEK D ^™fortb is ^f ser ‘° s *V d * r
the proposition of plabning bis whole
future life in harmony with Col. Dy-
renforth’s will. To hie twelve-year-
old judgment the conditions already
—loom as superhuman. He says, "]
will do my best”
The fact is,” said big uncle, Wil
liam H. Dyrenforth, into whose family
b,- ed a Shower,
.'ll
The nine-year-old lad out in the
28th district, east of Americus, who
late in May prayed lustily, for rain In
order that he might not have to work [of four boys and two girl* he has been
In the cotton field every day, is nor/
willing that Jupiter Pluvius shut
down the waterworks.
Y 'And in the meantime his drowned-
■out neighbors regard hiqi savagely as
Wey view the ruin wrought by the
continuous flood here.
The little chap worked daily In his
father's field, and the weather
fiowerful hot In May.
taken, “the courts will liberally con
strue the provisions of the will. I am
a lawyer, and the boy will bave earn
ed and will receive the money It he
lives up to the spirit of the will.
“Take the provision, 'He must be
ware ofw-omen.’ That is not a stip
ulation but a warning, for later' the
was j will says he must not marry beneath
' I Mm. It might mean that he must be-
One day at noontime he expressed [ ware of low women. (Now, no sane,
the wish that it would begin raining, ( healthy boy can beware of hie little
and rain on during tfe year. To back girl playmates. And though -little
up his wish he fell upon bis knees at girle grow to be big girjs he must
the end of a particularly hot row of ^ then exercise discretion and tda con-
cotton and prayed for a half hour that [duct must be that of a gentleman,
it might rain. - j “I am quite positive the courts will
And since it has actually rained near- not hold that he must beware or keep
fly every day since this lad, now well out of the company of all women. We
rested, considers himself tte biggest will do our best to make him beware
glossom in the whole cotton patch.
LOCAL DEALERS BUY BAGGING
FOB WRAPPING UP COTTON
Prices Arc a Trifle Higher Now Than
Last Tear.
of a certain class of women.”
The boy said:
“I don't see why grandfather wants
me to quit the girls. I have a lot ..f
little girl friends who are pretty nice,
and I know he will not care so long
as. we are just chums. I would tnte to
think he wanted me to quit them. Lit
tle girls are all right, and I don't want
any big ones.”
“ft reads that I must study dancing’
and music 1 especially, and if I was to
Carloads of jute cotton bagging
hauled yesterday to the warehouses of
local supply dealers was a reminder
of the approaching harvest, although, keep away from the girls altogether I
It will be a light one In Sumter this | wouldn't be allowed to dance. ! guess
pear as a result of the long-continued,It Just means that I am not to get
rains which have so seriously i ijur- f foolish about them, and I won't do it.”
cd the cotton crop here. There Is an “Ttte woman question is a difficult
abundance of bagging and ties, and one for a young man to master.’Mn-
prices are but a trifle higher than terposed Mr. Dyrenforth, "but we are
large number of bold, firestone
springs gushing from the mountain
side and one of tl* best minferal
springs in the state. The grounds pre
sent a delightful feat of artistic de
sign. The beautiful streets and drive
ways are unsurpassed. On the grounds
are a large auditorium, commodious
restaurant and bath house. There is
a lake of fine, cool water of some ten
them by the citizens of Americus and
Sumter county.
•All the ofilcers of the association
were re-eiected, which retains the fol
lowing personnel among the ofilce'-s
of the association. *
President—A. S. Hardy, Gaines
ville News.
Vice President—C. M. Methvin, East,
man Tlmes-Journal.
Secretary W. A. Shackelford, Ogle- acres for bathing and swlndnlng.
th-orpe Echo.
Treasurer—B. T. Moseley, Daniela-
vil’e Monitor.
Corresponding Secretary—Hal M.
Stanley, Doublln Courier-Dispatch.
, Cartersville was chogen as the next
place of meeting. In addition to Car
tersville. the names of Savannah, Dub
lin and Swainsboro were offered, al
though the Invitation to Dublin wis
later withdrawn in favor of Swains-
goro. It was the sentiment of the con
vention that tDe convention'should go
to North Georgia In 19X1, as the South
ern section of the state had It this
year. . |
The text of a resolution by Mr. W. j
Trox Bankston, of West Point, thank
ing the people of Americus for their
entertainment of ttie convention, was
as follows:
MASONS WILL UNITE IN
CEREMONY AT PLAINS.
Laying of Corner Stone on
Saturday.
Americus Masons will unite with
those of Furlow Lodge at Plains in
the impressive exercises of laying the
corner stone of the handsome Meti>
odlst church building, now In pro
cess of erection there. The exercises
will take place at 10 o'clock on Sat
urday morning next, 16th. Grand
“Resolved, That the Georgia Week-1 T H « nry ®“ ks '_ of the Ma80nlc
Iy Press Association return thanks to ° v rand of Georgla ' wlU conduct
the generous, hospitabe and clever tte ceremon es ' and th « occa8lon wl »
residents of Americus tor one of the “ se “ ble a large crowd at plalns 00
most delightful meetings held since tho date thercof *
Century to 0811 ” 081 ‘ °\ MB - CALLAHAN WAS HOST
“We found the latchstring on tlJ T0 B0D * « EDIT0BS
outside, and It was-indicative of the,’,' , _ .
cordial greeting and entertainment we I AcC0n,panle9 “ ExCBr8,on U
were to receive from the citizenship! , Florida. ^
of one of Georgia's most progressive 1 . . .
cities whose maxim is Upward and! ln Americas yesterday w*»a party
Onward, Commercially, Socially, Re-
igiously and Educationally.’
Duncan’s Ston
Show Cases, Fixtures
AH Merchandise
for Sale.
an
All Parties Owing Accounts Here Are Req Ue
to Call and Settle At Once.
It is Impossible for Us to List Everythin!
Have for Sale in This Advertisement, So
You Do Not See What You Want Listed
Here Please Ask the New Price.
EVERYTHING HAS BEEN
REDUCED.
Ladles' Skirts, made of Panama cloth,
trimmed • with satin and taffeta
bands. Regularly $5, here now to
close, at each $2.48
Men’s Seamless Half Hose,
beeis and toes, all sizes,
10c pair, to close now at pa
Ladles’ Fine Toil Skirts, made of Air
man Voil, beautifully made ' and
trimmed. Regularly $10, here now
to close at each .. $4.93
Ladles’ Combination Suits,
nainsook and fine long clot!
med with embroidery and vsl
The former prices were 98c
-here now to close at per
and 98c.
Black and colored Dress Goods, 50
inofaes wide, all colors, regularly $1,
$1.26 and $1.50 values, here now to
close, at yard 60c
All our fine Silk Plaited Walk
great variety of beautiful
Former prices were 15c to
to go in one big lot, here
yard .. .^
of representative citizens of Bain-
bridge, headed by Capt. J. W. Calla-
■Especialiy to'Ttoes-R^order,'^ a “;,. wh “ “ p _* "TZZ* “!
L. A. Morgan, the Board of Trade,
the ladles, the genial hosts, lovely hos
tesses and clever people who contrlh- . .
uted to our pleasure and entertain- Gu V' wl » * made aboard the hand-
ment. are we grateful for the hospt- ■«" st , eamer ' f hn W ' Callahan,
which piles the lower Chattahoochee
and is owned by the gentleman whose
name it bears.
weekly editors from Americas to
Apalachicola. The greater portion of
tils trip, from Balnbrldge to the
tali:y that will ever remind da of
Americus and Sumter county.”
The first part of the session was
taken up with a hearing of the pap>r' - _ FOK . BRmF „
of Hon. T^umas A. Early, of the A BAtE 10B A BBIDE
Georgia State C:liege of Agriculture,I A PICTURE OF INTEREST
Athens, who delivered a most practi-
Table Covers and Doylies, some are
hemstitched, some art \ cut work.
Sizes up to 15 x 15 inches, most of
. the lot are 25c values, here now to
close at each ,, ....... .. .. 5c
Men's Rubber Collars, extra
quality, all sizes, 14 to IS. A?
price, three for
Five thousand oakes of Toilet Soap,
good 1 quality. Some may be slightly
soiled from display, full 2 oz. size
cakes, sold In most stores for 6c,
here to close, ln an-y quantity, at
per cake 1c
Men’s Standard 25c Half Hose of fine
lisle thread, tan, black and navy
blue. Always 25c, here now to close
at pair 16 2-3c
Men’s Four-In-Hand Ties of ritl
silks, full regular length, i
•riety of pretty patterns. W
this way up to 50c, choice
each i.
Fine Belt* fer tk.
$2.50, $2.00, $1.60, $1.00 and'
all to go at the same price £
of course these are not (
newest styles, but most of t!
are good. Take a look at tl
way, if you like them, take it
for ,
• -' -• . /
Duncan Mercantile
cal and interesting discussion of that Which. Entertained a Host at
topic.
The following well known newspa
per men were elected to honorary
membership in the association: Mr.
James Freeman,'of Douglas; Mr. ti.
G. McNelly, of Atlanta, and Mr. L.' A.
Morgan, of Americus.
The weekly editors are In for
another good time, as they left Amer
icus on their way to Apalachicola,
where they will enjoy an outing on
Apalachicola Bay. There was a verv
large and representative number left
for the outing trip.
FOR THE MEN THIS WEEK AT
Anslej’s.
Lot of those $15.00 to $20.00 Odil
Suits now $3.00.
Opera Honse.
Romance and a swift automobile arc
blended ln one of the handsome pic
tures shown-at the opera house last
night, and to be repeated tonight.
It Is entitled, “A Race For a Bride,”
and Cupid at the steering wheel was
an easy winner. Another film, "The
Senatoy and the Suffragette,” is also
good. A pretty new soubrette will
delight the audience there tonight.
BRIDE OF TWO DAYS
ATTEMPTS TO END LIFE
flast year.
MR. BARROW A CANDIDATE
FOR SEAT IN LEGISLATURE be liberal If the conditions
'Announcement Brings on Contest
Lee County.
The many Americus and Sumter
‘Friends of Mr. George W. Barrow are
certain that Robert will grow up
model in that respect. There is no
limitation on marriage except the
words ‘beneath him.' -The courts will,
prove
impossible.”
AMERICUS BEAT LEESBURG BY
SCORE OF FIFTEEN TO THREE
(Special to Tlmes-Recorder.)
Atlanta, Ga„ July 13.—Mrs. D. T.
Hurst, a bride of two days, took an
Excellent Open Knit Underwear 25c[overdose of poisbn at the home of her
garment. Shirts and Drawers. mother, Mrs. J. H. Tucker, 146 Hayned
Nulnsook Undershirts 25c. All sizes, t^ect, here this afternoon and was
Mumthon 73c Shirts and Drawer*:, conveyed to tMe Grady hospital in a
now 50c. serious condition. She is Just sev-
BcautHuI 73c Silk Socks for 50c. | enteen ( years of age and refuses to
Grandest line Negligee Shirts 50c to. tell why she wished to end her life
$2.00.
Come here to supply your wants,
get what yon need and save money.
BACON.BBOW1N.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE.
crested ln the fact that he Is a can- TIgefs Put Stripes Upon the Boys
te for the legislature in Lee coun-, Down In Lee.
and will wish ktm success in thyj —
Gendin gcampaign. Although a res!-| The Americus Tigers, the Junior
ifleitt of Lcc.’Mr. Barrow is as well team of twirlers from the ranks >>f
Shown here, and numbers his frlenJs ( which) the older Champs have recruit-
-^throughout the realm of Sumter. He ed some -of their heat men. cleaned ud
* • 8~lal gentleman and man of abll-. the Leibur* bunTln tCgaTrter.
•Mr as well, and Lee county would |Pool« and Monohaa did the box work
herself in thus honoring Mm for tho Tigers, and the score stood 15
the capacity he seeks. , . to 9.
litJafch --w*
To the Voters of Sumter County:
At the solicitation of a number of
the good people of Snmter county, I
have decided to entep the race for the
Legislature ln the primary of August
23rd. Should I be honored with the
nomination for Representative, I
pledge my best efforts toward the
progresiive upbuilding of oor County,
City and State. Hy candidacy Is an
nounced subject to the rales of tho
Democratic primary. „
CALVIN CARTES.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Edmund Ba-
con, of Plains, Ga., announce the
engagement of their daughter, Idn'Lcn-'
nx, and Mr. John Richmond Bfjwn,
of Arab), Ga., the wedding to take
Place at the Methodist cbnrca, Au
gust third
John % Shaw's Old Stand, 117 Fonyth'
Next to Rembert's Drug Storey AmericttI
Warlick Bros.
LAMAR STREET.
Beginning July 7th, we wiJ
place oti sale downstairs
clean-up of ,
LADIES’ SILK WAISTS.
pla
FOR SALE—Thoroughbred Scotch
Collie pups. W. R. Hansford. Phone
345 i 2. I Jy9-d2t-wlt
The Americus light Infantry now
ranks as twelfth tn efficiency and
strength among the many commands,
of (he Georgia state troops.
You will find messaline, taffeta
de chine and fancy silks, white,
colors and fancy patterns. They
sold here regularly af from $3.50
$6.50. Your choice as long as v
last, $1.98. Wonderful values th
At the same time we will sell
silk gloves that have been selh
$1 to $1.50 at the ridiculous l
of 50c. You will find to'*
black, white and colors and
all i
■am
SUCCESSORS TO ALSTON CO.
«r Xet$e—Year Money Bask U In