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SUMIER JS SMITH'S BV PLURALITY OF 133. THE AMERICUS WEEKLY TIMES-RECORDER. THURSDAY. ai?«l'ST as, imp IKE VOTE IN SUVUER FOR STATE TICKET .Smith Vote is 685; Brown Total of 1,276 Ballots Vote 542. Cast Here. StimU-r county is again in the eol- uma ci Hon. Hoke Snv.t.i by a plurality role or 143, as shown by the consol idation yesterday of the total vote '■east in' the primary the day before. This is a gain ot just twelve votas over that of two years ago, when he carried It bv 131 over Governor Jo seph M. Brown. These figures evidence the line-up in Bumter and discloses the fact that both candidates bald well their for* mer strength In the campaign just ended. Gov.-Elect Smith thus made a gain I 'cf just a dozen votes. The senatorial and legislative race here aroused greatest interest, and the splendid majority of 313 votes ac corded Senator-Elect J. E. Shaepard attested the esteem In which he- is yield by his fellow citizens throughout the county. < Mr. Sheppard was detained in At lanta by legislative duties, and only spent a few days in the field here prior to the election, urging his cause before the people. Mr. E. A. Nisbet, who led the ticket for the lower house .was likewise ; A total of 1,276 votes were east in Sumter county 111 Tuesday's pi'lnvy of a total of 1,450 voters register;!; a fact which reflects the deep ittf r- eet felt throughout (he county In t'.'e result of the election. Herr In Sumter, Secretary of State Phii Cook led the ticket 1 with the to tal vote to his credit, Comptroller tVright being two votes behind him. For attorney general the vote here was Thos. S. Felder, S72; Hewlett A. Hall, 381. For prison commissioner, Davidson, 744; Hutchins, 513. Railroad commissioner, J. A. Perry OSS O. B. Stmetu, SiS. For, railroad comimssloner for the unexpired term ending December 1, 1911, the vote was Hornady 851, Gray, 409. Mr., Hornady thus getting a good vote, though defeated. Hon. T. G. Hudson for comission >r of agriculture, received 1,270 votes, while Congressman Dudley M. Hughes received 1,266. Brittain carried Sumter over Zet- rle ■ 'or state school ct mmlslsoner by 863 votes. W. J. Speer, for treasurer, received 998 votes; Hawes 496. SMITH HAS 198 VOTES; BROWN HAS HO VOTES Ex-Governor Has a Great Lead in the Convention. DELEGATES ARE NAMED TO STATE CONVENTION He Carried Over Counties in Primary In eluding Brown’s Home and Euiton. fVtnPtV < s i )ec i3l fo TlmeS-Recorder.) lilvlj Atlanta, Ga., August 24.—Hon. Hoke Smith was yesterday overwhelmingly | nominated for governor of Georgia for the second time, defeating Gov ernor Josep,.' M. Brown for renorni- 4 nation for a second term. Edward H. Walker lai.ed to carry a single county. The returns reecived from every county in the state indicate that Mr. 21.—Hokei SmItll wil i have a majority of not (Special to Times Recorder.) Atlanta, Ga., August Smith on a progressive democrat o less than 32 votes in the convention, platform, was nominated yesterday i. Returns from over the state.show for governor over Governor Joseph' M. Brown'. He carried over 9(L.coni'- As Representatives- of Sumter County. The delegation- that will represent Sumter county in the Democrat'u State Convention for 1910 was selected yesterday and includes representative citizens of both city and county. The delegates named are as follows: Fifteenth District—J. T. Ferguson, W. J. Hill, E. A. Luke, T. J. Wade, E. L. Wilson. New Sixteenth!—W. A. Webb, Tom .Markett. Old Sixteenth—J. J. Wilson J. Peel, A. B. Connors. .Seventeenth—D. J. Murray, J. A. McCrea, Jno. D. Williams, J. F. Nick olson. . O.d Twenty-sixth—J. I. Hiller, Reese. M. Andrews, E. Timmerman. A. Ft. lmgan, J. B. Nicholson, Armstead DoJ- PEOPLt WHO ^ VISIT IN Ai — "M As Well as I hose Away I _ ] Judge z. A. Utti-jAn , J again, greatly refresh! „ , ^ ted by his stay oi^ J beautiful Nttcoochee Valiev $48,000 PRICE PAID FOR FARM IN SUMTER Senator-Elect J. E. Sheppard. accorded a very flattering vote, re ceiving 909 of the 1,274 cast. The consolidated vole for all the offices was as follows: • ■ ■ For Governor—Hoke Smith, 685; J M. Brown, 562; Walker, 8. , For Senator, Thirteenth District.— if J. E. Sheppard. 777: Jeff A.'Taylor, 464. Sheppard’s majority, 312. »For"Representatlves (Two to be elected)—E. A. Nisbet, 909; J. T. Fer guson, 541; J. E. Mathis, 569: J. C. Carter, 496, Messrs. Nisbet and Fer guson thus leading, the latter b>' two votes margin over Mathis. As the vote was so close! Mr. Ma this asked of the Executive Committee a recount of toe liallofs, but this re quest was not granted by that body. A plea was also filed with the com mittee to the effect that several bal lots were thrown out of the Friend ship precinct, thus creating an alleg- Another Big Dea! is Closed This Week. Forty-eight thousand dollars is the handsome consideration in another farm laud deal just consummated in Americas, whereby a South Carolina investor secures one of the best cot ton farms In the county aifd at a price not considered at all high by those ■ who know. 1 Twelve hundred acres land at the price of $40 per acre. The deal has been closed, it Is re ported, but the name of the purchaser and that of the seller are withheld for the present. •" I The farm In question, however, is situated about seven miles from Amer icas, and upon one of Sumter'3 superb roads, a fact which enLuuces Its value. As soon as the necessary details are. ■closed up ail Information regarding the sale will be given. This Is the second large farm in Sumter county that has been Sold to Carolina investors at this same price —$48,000, although the first farm sold ,vvas of a larger acreage than that purchased yesterday. Both are con sidered among the best cotton plan tations in Sumter clunty. ! , Other large sales are pending, as the South Carolinians are greatly In terested In Sumter farm lands and (others still are coming thjs way. SUCCESS OF AMERICUS MAN JS FLEASING TO FRIENDS Holds Position of Responsibility Willi Savannah House. The man^ Americus and Sumter county friends of genial Tom Slappey, for many years occupying a re sponsible and lucrtlve position with the large wbojesale house of Frank & Co., of Savannah, rejoice in bis con tinued, prosperity. This bouse is among the largest ill that city, occupying its ,own new building of five floors, and among the most trusted and va.ued turpliyes among' the "knights of the road” is Tom Slappey, the farmer "plowboy of Schley” and all round good fellow. When business hours end Mr. Slappey is the envy of others ns he speeds over Chatham's fine roads in his own handsome auto, a splendid Chalmers car of latest model. There 1s some class to “T. R." and his thous ands A friends know jt. that each candidate concentrated his eon. efforts, on the counties which he lost New Twenty-sixth—A. W. Buchanan, two years ago. and a number of C. C. Sheppard, J. S. McGarrab. lies, against Governor Brown's 45, c ; ia „g e3 j n both columns were noted. Twenty-ninth—B. F. Easterlin, A. F. including Fulton, his own, and Cobb, j Governor Smith carried 81 counties Hodges. Goernor Brown’s county. His conver.- and Governor Brown cjrried 61, leas- Twenty-eighth—Dr. H. H. McKellar, ;ion vote will be 193 against Governor ing 4 counties yet to report. It will J. T. Methvin, C. S. Hogg. Brown's 110. jta'ke't.'e consolidation of the returns j Twenty-seventiu-M. B. Council, W. In the Tenth district, Thomas Vi. to definitely settle the precise majority | W. Daws. J. R. Statham, C. J. Clark, Hardwick won in the congressional of the successful candidate, and Ah'.s <L S. Gardner, AV. T. Lane, E. D. fti'- distrlct over Oswa.l Eve and A. Wiiii3 is expect'd to he announced toniglrt. jterson, J. W. Shiver, N. A Ray, T. J. Evans. He carried seven counties, The fight just closed was one of 'Morgan, J. T. Taylor, H. R. Johnson, with a convention vote ot 16. , the most vigorously contested in the George M. Rodgers, C. C. Harden, Joe William Schley Howard defeated Cel.' history of the state. Four years agOjN. JohnsoD, W. T. McMath, A. T. OH- Lon F. Livingston for congress In the ' Mr. Smith swept the state overwhelm- ver Fifth d!s;rict. He has a convention . ingly. Two years later be was defeat- vote of 16 to 8 for Col. Livingston, j ed by a man whom he had removed carrying 6 coupties. from the office of railroad cqmm's- 'Congressman Thpmas H. Bell was sloner. This year Mr. Smith again se re-nominated in the Second distric:. i cures the upper hand and deals defeat hie opponent being H. H. Perry. j to the. man who two years humiliated Judge S. A. Roddenberry, in the him. Second distriCT; Hon. Dudley M.. Rarely has a more systematic cam- Hughes, in the Third district and Con-, palgn been organized in Georgia. Ev- gressman W. C. Adamson, of the ery county and every militia district Mr. W. M. Harper has been chosen chairman of the Sumter County Dem ocratic Exeoutice Committee to serve during the ensuing term. SAIL AGAIN TO EUROPE EARLY IN SEPTEMBER Misses Harrold of Ameri cus Return There. Misses Anna and Elizabeth HarroU returned to Americus yesterday from Macon, and are at the homes of their brothers, Messrs. Thomas and Fran a Harrold. for two or three weeks. The many friends of t! ';se young ladies I will he interested In learning that they | will again sail for Europe early in j September for another delightful so- . journ of two or three years, spent In travel there. They spent two years abroad recently, and will go hack to visit many points of Interest not in cluded in their former Itinerary, among others Oberammergau during the presentation of the Passion Play iij early fall. They propose spending the winter in Egypt. Upon this de lightful trip they will be accompanied by their aunt, Miss Marla Harrold, of this city. se. aft er \ -latives in q Mrs. William p. p of several weeks to • vine, Fla., returned ^ home in Americus. Mrs. Allen Fort and ( ters, Misses Floyd and G»Lj are welcomed to their home kZ, ter a summer's visit in Tenn^ Mrs ; H. Egbert Allen and Mrs. .George Nix, have retard Americus after a pleasant so two weeks with relatives |„ : Misses Lizzie and C.allie S| 1M turned to Americus yesterday,, visit of two weeks in Swll ttu | Columbus respectively. Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Adams,, visit of several days to relathi Americus, returned yesterday t home in Atlanta. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hawki t J turning from North Carolina,! spending two weeks In Ameri fare going to Seattle to residtl Hon. T. G. Hudson, state i eianer of agriculture, few days pleasantly at his hoi| E. ,C. Gammage came Bronwood yeterday having baa Americas. Col. Howell Beaziey came ajjj day from Leesburg to bring :a| of his good county and felieijJ friends. Mr. Oscar D. Glover. foraJ Americus, but now a resident! con, in spending a Jay or n| relatives htrq. Rev. George P. Scott retur his home in Dyers',;;rg. Tea tevd'ay. it is greatly hoped i ili return here to reside. Mr. J. M. Byrom, a promind chant of Byromvilie, Dooly was in Americus yesterfla; ness. MARRIAGE OF MISS lMXTOJl AND MR. ROV Alilil HON. HOKE SMITH, Nominated in Tuesday's Primary to be the Next Governor of Georgia. Fourth district, were re-nominated was thoroughly canvassed by bo h without opposition. j sides; the state waa raked with a Una Congressman Charles E. EdwarJs tooth comb, and the man with the card is apparently nominated in the First i ndtx °f voters was in evidence at district over E. P. Giles. I both headquarters. ' P. M. Hawes, with a neavy vole' Easiness men organized the state for against W. J. Speer,‘with only a few, *«* ° »wo ,ead ng candldat ?^' counties to be .,'eard from, is prae'.i-* H ' Y ' McCord ' lhe wel ‘ known whola - caily nominated for state treasurer. sale grocer of Atlanta, and Paul Trum- : ed irregularity. The committee will Mss BUCHANAN TO AVED i sit again next Wednesday, August 31,| MAJOR J AMEH FURIOW ior the purpose of hearing evidence to, ' this effect. Should the plea as filed be sub-: i etantlated and t'ne > vote of the Friend^] .ship precinct thipwn out, it would change materially the complexion of (the legislative race. I Mr. Nisbet was. of course, declared ) elected by the committee yesterday, j but the commission of the other nomt- j sfee will be held up, as between Messra. [Mathis and Ferguson, until true com- I mittee decided the Friendship precinct 1 AVcddlng in September AVID be of In terest Here. Mrs. Nancy Buchanan has announc ed the engagement of her daughter, Margaret, to Major Janies AV. Furlow, . Eleventh Infantry, U. S. A., the mar riage to occur late in September. The announcement will be of interest to their many friends In this and other cities of the state. \T:Z nexi he 3,s, ear,nS ^ ^‘(^THAM. ALEXANDER’S t It was a close race; too close he comfortable for either candidate. COTTON LETTER i Those who dance must pay the piper, If they can't have tie music charged. 6 or 6 doses "666” will cure any j tue of Chills and Fever. Price 25c. New York, August 24.—Tfcie cotton market had a moderate reaction to day on reports of shower* in Texas and forecasts for more tomorrow. Spot #ales, none; quoted ten poin-s lower. In the Fulton county legislative race “ e11 * of Dalton ' one ot rao3t I ,ronl ' AVaiter McElreath, Dr. George Brown De " t ment ln North Georgla ' were thr ’ and George Westmoreland were non.-! e , ade ™ lu handling the " m: ' algn f ' J ’ mated. H. A. Alexander was defeat- ' Mr ' Smita ' In the Bro " vn «?“*» were ed ( J. R. Smith, the well known Atlav,- T. C. AValteraftnd Gen. Clifford L. ta merchant ' who successfully organ- Anderson were nominated us countv ‘ zed l ' ae state tor Brown two ^ ars commissioners, defeating Frank W!.- 3g:i ' and Hon ' G ' Ed ' Madd °*. a b ri:- •hy, Dr. H. Grant and J. J. Woodsldo. ,;#nt young attorney of RoDle ' C. AV. Mangrum was re-non.inatedTu ' At this toar returns indicate that sheriff of Fulton coun:y, over Roan ‘- nnt!l tas carrit 'fl tbe following coun- and Shields. ' tles: r, , , ,, ,, .. , _. „ Hart, Muscogee,.Miller, Troup, Hu, Present indications are that Taos S cocki Carroll( Wl;ke8( Putnaln , New . Felder, of Macon, has defeated Hah Xalia f err0i Ttl0mas , Green „ • or a orne> g,r.era.. 'pierce, Slay, Randolph, Pike, Meri- The ])rison commission race be- . „ ... , „ (’ _ wether, Fannm, Lincoln, Henry Frank- tween G. R- Hutchens and R. E. Dav- „ Morgan> Columbia, Calhoun, Jen- idaon 1 8 still In doubt. I klM , Forsyth, Terrell, McIntosh, The contest in the Eighth district 1 Campbell, Gordon, Murray, Upson, El- betweon Congressman Howard and S. bert, Jasper, Clayton, Jones, AValker, J. Tribble for congress is close and Sumter, Fayette, Murray, Troup, impossible to decide now. lAA'ortb, AVhite, Hall, Oconee, Haber- Tbe Sixth district congressional ra:e shorn, Taylor, Rockdale, Appling, will not be settled until the convention ! Mitchell, Screven, Mflcon, Pulaski, meets. Bloodworth' has 10 convention J The following counties were Carrie j votes, Bartlett 12, Flint 2, Reding 2. iby Brown: DEER CAUSES HORSE TO DEMOLISH BUGGY Bangor, Me., August ’^--Francis i?. Mitebe!!, a New A'ork man, vacation ing In Maine, had the surprise of hia | life yesterday while driving along ! road a few miles from here. He was | sitting back In the seat eqjoying the , beautiful scenery when he was start! 1 ed to see a frightened deer sprin. from the forest at the roadside and leap lino the carriage, falling betwse i the dashboard and the horse. I The latter kicked until the vehlc'e t was demolished. After both the horse and deer had kicked about for about three minutes, the child of the forest managed to extricate Itself and ran back Into its retroat, apparently none the worse for its experience, i The story when told was not credit- ; ed iby some, but the eloquet testi mony of the wrecked carriage was convincing. A'ounir Conpie Thus United! ’ Saturday. AVIFE’S DAIRY PROVES * 1 INTERESTING READING Bartlett wil probably be nominated. Fulton county voted for the salary system for state and county officers. Indications are that J. F. Gray han McDuffie, Grady, Glascock, Chatham, Marlon, Pickens, Floyd, Cherokee, winnett, Whitfield, Jeff Davis, Beu Hill, Gilmer, Coffee, Lumpkin, Wilcox, defeated E. B. Hornady for railroad, Houston, Douglas, Crawford, Bibb, commissioner, while the race between Burke, Turner, Crisp, Colquitt, Ca- O. B. Stevens and J. A. Perry is un- toosa, Jefferson, LaurenB, Bulloch, decided as yet, with Perry In the lead. Dawson, Ware, Banks. I Chicago, August ?>.—Why women attempt to steal the husbands of otha: women is discussed in a naive manner ln a dairy which Mrs. Alice E. Law rence says she kept. It is to be pait of the evidence In a suit which she has filed for separate maintenance against George R. Lawrence. She wrote In the dairy on March 8, 1910, about her husband's Infatuation for Louise Huber; ' ^ "No woman should ever accqjt at tention* from a married man. She lias allowed her love of conquest to control her actions, instead of her knowledge of right and wrong., "Sho may think hie Is rich, for he has told her so. No woman wou;1 take him from his wife and children for other than mercenary reasons.” Under the same date Mrs. Lawrence puts it that her husband is due for an awakening as to the wiles of wo man. "AVhan he learns his ‘affinity' gushes over others, he will Realize what a donkey he hag been.” able wrote. Miss Mamie Es;elle PanliniJ Roy S Alexander were rai marriage at 9 o'clock yesserdt Ing. The ceremony took pbril vary church, the .rector, Rst [ Lawrence, officiating, and nessed by several friends -■ t py pair who thus by,In of life under brightest au;p« ‘‘ILLITERATE” DOES CLEVER SWlI Perpetrates Forgery Ml Banker. SisterviUc., A' r . Va. Ast \ man Tice was held to tee P% here today. He walked ^ National Bank, and c!a:mingj unable to wriie, us»el Jackson to make out a eWW and sign It with the maie ■ Barnhart, a liveryman. He mark,* representing to Barnhart, making the simt fj tlons afterward to •°1- ,ire , shall, who certified to the Tice cashed the <-liefl£ la and with) some eompaaM*fi to get drunk. He « li irr AJ fraud dlecovered. and arra-^ the same Justice who c,r;; I check. HARDTACK CARD AVON SOI.IHEB HI’] Cracker Tossed Out «* ' Caught i'lfl 5 O | Derby, Conn, August »• J Osborn, ot Meriden, manoeuvres last sumnie ‘ Company I of thi . Guard, and as ,g through Brockt«»' ■ote his name and ad «_ hardtack and tossed d _ pretty girl wh0 ***^ , cheer the soldiers front at Boston. J It struck tW* 1 of tional ^passing wrote of _ window. A to the meal