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The AMERieUs WEEKLY TIMES RECORDER. THURSDAY. MoRNiNC JULY 28.1910.
“FROM NORTH TO SOUTH
THE BEST IN SUMTER”
ED
HORNADY TO ENTER 135 VOTES IN COUNTY AMERiCUSIS SHY UPON
THE RACE. VS. GRAY POLLED LOR SENATOR.; STOCK Of COT ION
Roads Here.
Commission.
Mr. Ansley Makes Trip
From New York in
Auto.
The many Americus friends of Co..
E. B. Horuady and the legion through
out Southern Georgia are Interested
in the formal announcement yester
day of his candidacy for state railroad
commissioner. Mr. Hornady will op
pose present Commissioner Gray, who
is filling an unexpired term.
Mr. Hornady was In Americus last
week and to close friends here
The best roads of any county in tlw
■United States from New York to
Georgia.”
Such is the verdict of a prominent 1 state(1 at tbat t j me jffcat bc serious./
■citizen of Bainhridge in Americus two consjdered ener j ng the contest,
days ago en route home in his auto | A former regent of Americus, and
fro man extended trip North which of-, nQw Qf Buena y] s ta, he, Is one of the
fared abundant opportunity of seeing ^ begt known trave u ng men In Georgia,
Wood roads and passing Judgment upon j .i, av j n g represented various prominenl
Here Now.
of t Sumter’s roads from Ellaviile here, years
R V. Connerat, who drove the Buick ( Hg
pathfinder, said to Frank Sheffield:
"That is the finest long stretch of
road I ever traveled.”
Mr. Connerat has toured all over
the eastern half of the United States.
C. K. Ausley, who was driving the
Bainhridge car and keeping company
with the scout, had just returned from
a motor trip to New York. His com
ment was:
"X did not see a road between Geor
gia and New York equal to the road3
in Sumter.”
Houston is building a splendid road
from rk>rt Valley to the Bibb line.
The pathfinder saw Houston’s roads at
n disadvantage, as there was a heavy
rain falling when the pathfinder made
the run across the county.
Houston is making her road 30 feet
wide and is reducing grades and wid
ening curves. Some of the cuts are
heavy and expensive, hut when the
•work is completed Houston will have
« beautiful link in the great highway
across Georgia.
Macon county will build from Mar
ahaliville to the Houston county line.
Macon has a good road from Mar-
ehallville to Montezuma. There has
Seen an enormous amount of traffic
over It since the peach' season start
ed and the road is considerably cut up
now, but soon this road will be iron
ed out with the drag.
Macon county will have a Bplendld
Toad completed from the Houston line
to connect with the road whichi Sum
ter is building from Americus toward
Anlersonvllle. That is the short
route, but the twelve miles of sand
between Oglethorpe and Americus.
the vote in Tuesday's election for Americas warehouses have very few
lenator was consolidated yesterday' bales old cotton to otter he trad
morning and a total county vote of 135 that is ransacking Southern town for
f" Senator Collum declared. This cotton to tender on contracts There
was the result In Sumter, and was, no are probably less than fifty balea. a
dcmbt, correspondingly light in the together, of last year’s crop still hel
....„ othtr counties. Senator Collum In Americus. though as a rule se '<- ra \
left Americus yesterday for Atlanta hundred hales are generally carr.ed
to serve out the unexpired term of through the summer. The deman
twelve days, to which he was eulected. for old cotton as a tender on cm
But the pay Will be good, as Ms will be .tracts ha s put the price away up in
entitled’to the full senatorial salary the teens, and any farmer who had
of So for the job. and In addition held his hales would be aboard the
hereto will draw mileage at the rate!gravy train. There will be -
of ten cents a mile each way—1S5 1 ceedingly few August bales n Ameri-
. _ .. $37 ra nroad fare. Besides cus this season as the result of gen-
having represented various prominent “»«* * ent of ?237 , t, cinches the eraJly poor and late crops i-thU.ec-
title of senator, which holds good in-1 tlon. although as a rule from 3.000 to
definitely. The senate will also pay 3.500 bales rfew cotton are marketed
!ars ’ ... f- t-e Widow of the late Senator Mur- fere from August la to September 1st
■ He is a native of Americus, a son , ‘ . f $200 t0 w hicn each season.
'of Dr. A. C. Hornady, who went into 11111 s “ d • *
the Confederate service as a lieuten-j ■ * wo. d have been entit.ed hut fo.
ant in the Sumter Light Guards, serv- idness and death.
them. j business IrouseB on the road in th:3
After coming over eight miles of one , more than twenty-seven
ed through the war and died in 180
as the result of art illness contracted
at that time.
Mr. Hornady’s family moved into
the country at tlae beginning of the
way and he remained on the farm un
til he was twenty years old. Then ho
took to the road, traveling for ths
SIX-WEEKS-OLD BABY
W AS ABANDONED TO INSECTS
LIGHT VOTE IS POLLED
HIRE FOR SENATOR
Cape Charles, Va., July 26.—A baby
gi:i, about six weeks old, was found
in the woods one-half mile fr;m Me:fu
took to the road, traveling for ths Station this afternoon by J. R. Guy, a
firms of Moore Marsh & Co., Irnnau, farmer, who was driving to the station
nrms oi moore, .uarsu vw., was attracted oy
Mr. Collum Will Succeed
Senator Murray.
Smith & Co., and the DougLerty-Ward-
Little Co.
In the course of the next few days
it Is Sir. Hornady’s purpose to make
a formal statement to the public con
cerning his candidacy.
and whote attention was attracted by
the pitiful wailing of the infant.
The child’s face and arms were bal
ly scarred from this bites of mos
quitoes and other Insects. It Is be'
lieved the babe was deserted by
BALKED ON NAMES OF
DAGOES IN THE MINES
Italian Names Stagger the
Reading Clerk.
With scarcely a hundred ballots
cast in the election here yesterday for
senator. Mr. Morgan E. Collum, of
Schley, is elected to the vacancy oc-
a 1 casioned by the death of Senator W.
stylishly-dressed woman, who wesjo. Murray. Mr. Collum had no op
seen to alight from the New York ex-lponsnt In the race-little interest was
press train and go in the direction oi.taken by his friends in Americus, and
the woods early this morning, carry- consequently, a light vote was cast
ing a child in her arms. Her identity | here. Mr. Collum will have but a few
is unknown. She was not seen to leave days to serve .as the General A?sem-
.Vlelfa and cannot be located in the ] y will adjourn early in August and
he only fills an expiring term. The
race for the full term of two yeais
between Messrs. J. E. Sheppard and
No ginning outfit is so
economical and efficient
The efficiency of a pinners
plant is what brings him ms
business-its economy in opera
tion is what gives him his profit.
No ginning outfit turns out
such a perfect sample as the
Muneer System-nor does any
other gin cost so little to operate
or require so little repairs.
The Munger System uses a
smallerfan than any other system
of equal capacity and this one
fan both elevates the cotton and
blows the seed. The continu
ous suction gives a steady load
lo the power instead of the
jerky load of other outfits.
The Munger System will
handle cotton perfectly under all
conditions, having a greater
cleaning and drying capacity
than any other gin. Having n
cleaner section in the Lint rli
Mungj
System 0
Atlanta, Ga.
it also cleans the cotton afte- it in
Our double drive distributor r
to successfully run six gins in a t
only one condenser and press. /
time one or more of the gins nurj
without stopping the others. 1
, We have prepared and copyrig^
didly-illustrated book which givesij
the Munger System in its differentca
It has cost us considerable to prod
but we will be pleased to sendafr
who are interested in cotton ginni
Continental Cin Company
Birmingham, Ala. Dallas, Texas. Memphis, Tenn.
(Special to TimesTRecorder.)
Atanta, Ga., Juyl 26.—When Gov.
Brown’s message on the Durham mine
trouble wa3 read In the house by
Reading Clerk D. F. McClatchey, who
got along all right until he reached
the names of the Italians who figured
in the affair. Then he balked.
GIRLS COrLD NOT WITHSTAND
STRAINS OF MESMERIZING MUSIC
Ceveland, O., July 27.—'Twenty-eWIt
girls employed in the hot rollers,
Jeff Taylor, of Americas, will create
more interest, and will be determined
at the general primary on August 23.
CLEARANCE 8AI
50c Sterling Brooches and Waist Pins 1
$1.00 Collar Pins, nobby designs for
150c Belt Pins for 15c.
THOS. L. BE
THE LEADING JEWELER.
girls employed in me noi «skfftfRS”
kneeders and cutters’ room at the PENNSYLVANIA “SKEETERS
IlJ A CLASS TO THEMSELVES
Sellnsgrove, Pa., July 22.—Mosqui
toes have become so plentiful lo Sny-
r a r ec m ondUm S e. fr ° m 6 ° lD8 ^ ^hetti, Eatemup B,-
Macon county has Improved its lognl.” and the house howled.
roads from the Oglethorpe city lim
its to the Schley line with the excep
tion of one mile which for some rea
eon was skipped.
KILLING OF MAYOR B0C8MAN
REMAINS A MYSTERY
Identity of Dynamite Hurler Not Re
vealed.
(Special to Times-Recorder.)
Roanoke, Va., July 26.—Deepest mys
tery sGil shrouds the assassination of
Mayor Bouemao. Citizens are qulsL
fcut If the fiend who hurled the dyna-
«nite bomb which killed Mayor Boui-
man on Sunday night is captured he
■will nudoubtediy be lynched. Mayor
Bousman was thus cruelly murdered
while Vying upon the lawn of his home
tiere Sunday nigbt last.
American Chicle Co.’s plant, driven
to desperation by the tantalizing mu
sic at a dancing pavilion in a nearby
park, went on a strike yesterday. toes a aw ,— — —
- — The girls have been getting $10 per d);r county as to even interfere with
- — • Then he ba day. They want $1.25, the wages paid farmers in this busy season of toil.
Some one moved that the clerk be, tb0 wrappers of chewing gum. Ti - e , While Zack Goodman was cultivating
excused from reading the ■names, but. troub , € brewe( j when they reporte for! corn a long the Susquehanna river low-
It was voted down, and he made an today j ]andBj lD Monr oe township, he was
The work room was like a bake- surrounded by millions of tbe buzzing
oven. Outside, though, tbe thermom- lngect g f which attacked him with un-
eter was registering a record-break- re ] ent j ng determination,
ng heat, there was at least a breeze, j Tbe mosquitoes bit the horses so
though. | repeatedly that the animals lay down
May Calver threw off her apron tn thp fl e ] d and rolled: then, becom-
when the music came floating through lng tangled in tba harness, ran away
the window. "Gee, girls,” she said, followed by Goodman.
"if the superintendent does not raise
us. let’s go on a strike.”
“We’re on.” chorused the others.”
When tbe demand was taken to the
superintendent he asked for twenty-
four hours to consider. Tbe girls
refused him a minute. He told them
to quit.
The strikers proceeded to the pa
vilion. There they danced and talked
over the wage question.
“Go on, Mac,” seme from the floor.
’Mac” made another desperate at
tempt and was finally excused from
further reading.
Accompanying tbe message tbe gov
ernor sent to the house some sample
weapons taken from one of the Ital
ians arrested by the troops. These
were a long dagger and a stilletti,
both manufacturer by the Italians
themselves from files ground down for
the’ purpose.
TRYING TO 8AVI ThiEF
MA Ml! HEN T’V OWN I'Ofl
Chiestcif, Pa- Ju'Y 26.—’llryln
save tbe life of a thler who robbed
him, Thomas Hargreaves, a hotel
man, was, seriously bitten on the leg
by his Boston bulldog.
Hargreaves detected a man connect
ed W ith a prominent family taking sev
eral quarts of high priced liquor from
ghe show room of his hotel and knock
ed him down, knocking out two of his
teeth. The bulldog went to the
distance of his master and attacked the
prostrate thief, who would have been
strangled, but for the Interference of
Hargreaves, wbo put out his foot
Btop the rushes of the animal and hud
his leg torn and mangled In the Strug
gle that followed. Hargreaves suc
ceeded in breaking the dog s grip, but
the thief escaped, and the victim it
tlJe dog’s teeth consulted a surgeon.
DEATH OF J. T. MIDDLETON
AT HOME IN AMERICUS
Mr. J. T. Middleton passed away
yesterday morning at his residence on
Glessner street after an Illness of
Borne length. The funeral services
will be conducted this morning at 19
O’clock at the residence by Rev. O. P.
Chester, of First Methodist church.
Friends of the family are Invited to
attend.
TALLULAH FALLS A PARK
CONTROLLED BY STATE
Beautiful Region Will be Preserved
That Way.
Atlanta, Ga., July 26.—In the sen
ate a movement has been started look
ing to the preservation of Tallulah
Falls as a public park. Senator Bur-
well has introduced a resolution pr>
viding for the appointment of a com
mission of five to Investigate tbe re
port on the feasibility of the state’s
acquiring this property and turning it
Into a park.
CHEER UP, DOGGIES,
WORST YET TO COME
INNOCENT OWX DARKENS
STREETS OF COLORADO CITY
RESCUER OF GIRL GETS
SMILE FO RHIS HEROISM
Washington, D. C„ July 27.—"For ^ name,
research work,” or In other words, for
vivisection, all dogs picked up on the
streets of Washington are to be sold
to the Bureau of Animal Industry of
the Agricultural Department at a
price not less than fifty cents a head.
The commisisoners have passed an
order authorizing the poundmaster to
sell them to the enrichment of the
district government.
Atlantic City, July 27.—Joseph O.
Patterson, Jr., a well known Phdla-
dephian became a hero late this after
noon when he swam through the
breakers to save the life of a young
woman who had been gripped by the
off-shore current. Life guards .were
running down the beach to the girl,
who was off Virginia avenue, when
Patters n plunged In and reached her
and brought her to tt-e shore.
The young woman was revived and
left the beach with a smile of thanks to
her rescuer, but refused to give her
Boulder, Col., July 22.—An owl, pos
sibly possessed of tt'e ancient prover
bial wisdom of his species, but not
modemly wise, partly wrecked the
plant of the Central Colorado Power
Company and plunged this city Into
darkness last night.
The bird, flying down Boulder Can
yon, hooked a claw about negative
and positive wires, short-circuited the
current and burned out the plant.
Too owl. with claw burned off, was
found today.
Bad Smells or Musty
Cellars and Closets
USE 5 CHLORIDI
An ounce of disinfectant is
worth a pint of medicine.
REHBERFS DRUG STM
saves money when you need disin
STORM HITS THE MACHINES
SEVEN ARE DESTROYED
Thing the Howard Watch Co. ever
bring out a 21 Jewel Railroad Movemen
have just been put on the market, an
received the first one in a 25 year, g
case. Call and see what a handsome w
HUNGRY SQUIRRELS RAID
JERSEY BAKER’S WAGON
East St. Louis, July 27.—Seven aero
planes, stored in a tent at a local
park, were demolished last night when
a heavy wind storm struck the city.
The Farman aeroplane, with which the
French aeroplanlst won- a world's rec
ord. is a total wreck. It was owned
by J. W. Curzon, of Hawthorne, H'-
The other machines be'onged to local
amateurs. The total loss is’estimated
at $23,000.
Cedar Grove, N. J., July 22.—About
one hundred squirrels raided a breal
wagon belonging to Harold Dominier,
,of Paterson, on Pompton turnpike, re-
j cently and before they were driven off
svriet gu*eii,iiicui. ( a number of them were killed and all
That the health authorities of U> e j tbe bread and pies spoiled.
—let are acting under orders from; The dr | ver had been delivering
commissionllrs was broug.it to brcad wben the squirrels swarmed in
to the wagon. He jumped In to drive
them out. The squirrels jumped on
Mm and bit and scratched his head,
face and hands. Robert Downy came
BUSHELS OF FISH CAUGHT
BY PARTY AT WELLS
James Frlcker & j
Watch Inspectors, Fifth Division, S. A. L. Raflroad, Amr
Farm Loans Negoli
Trout Weighing Six Pounds Arc Taken
With Others.
district are acting under orders from;
the .
light after a vigorous refusal on tin
part of district officials to disclose any
information in the matter of the deal
with the Bureau of Animal Industry. ^ ^ ^
Protests became so strong two years a]ongj and fl na uy the squirrels were
ago against vivisection In Washington drlvpn away a fter a number of them
pmeyskidneycbm
Makes Kidneys and Bladder Might
that the commlssoiners were forced
by public feeling to cease turning dogs
over to the bureau.
Friends of Joe. Hoke and the “legis-
( lator” boy* are anxious for tbe ball
season to end, that the voters may get
dawn to politics again.
driven away, after a number of them
had been killed.
There was scarcely a loaf of bread
or a pie In the wagon that had not
been bitten Into by the squirrels.
FOmSBONH^IAB
Dowlheew$hwaii«el»Iiira «*<> W®** tto trBUl *
My New York connections £ re sUC
can get you time money promptly at 6
cent, interest on your farnx Failing
when you need money you will b e
Old loans of any Company renewed-
The prize catch of the season at
Wells Mill was made yesterday by
four of the club members, Messrs. It.
E. McNulty, James Walker. Eshton
Buchanan and Edwin Bell. Just what
variety of bait was used the flshermeu
did not state, but It is a fact tt.ut two
automobiles filled with big and little
fish weighing from two ounces to
splendid six pound trout, were brought
hack to tho city for a “club supper’’
last night.
The courthouse melon club Is out
of business thb season. They find it
too easy to victimise people lor drinks,
J. J. Hanesley, Aincrit
A. W. SMITH, PresL
Q. M. Eld ridge, V. V.
Bank of South-Western
Americus Ga.
C Security, Liberality and Courtesy Accor e
IDIRECTORS:
Gt b. AMUy
W. A. Dodson, O. U. Bdrtdn,
Ijy. N. U. Dudley, ’ Tbe* HKTold.
jT. JLD. Hum*