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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. 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