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THE AMERICUS WEEKLY TIMES-RECORDER. GATHERING CORN IN THE BIG CONTEST Neighbors to Superintend Work on Farms. And Make Up Signed Statement of What the Results Were the Acre. BACK TO SUMIER FROM OLD KENTUCKY This Place for Ambitious Young Farmer. PLAN BIG INDUSTRY IN CANNING OF POTATOES TO REMOVE TO NEW 1 RATTLER ON fOAST IS STORE IN OCTOBER EEAST FOR LAWYERS. 10M ON THE COTTON i HUDSON'S ijjjjl Here Now. on The corn on twenty-two acres on as many plantations, is to be weight'd in the next few days in order that the Mr. Young Will Once New Enterprise to Be More Engage in Rais- Profitable and Furn ish Market for Surplus ing Stock County. m This Mr. S. H. Young has returned to Americas from Kentucky, is looking for a farming location, and will once Six Carloads to Be Canned Fresh Stock to Be Sold At Americus Negro Prepares “Only Two thirds of a Savory Feast. Crop of last Year; Was Damaged By J cessive Rains j, J Opinion of C 0n sioner Hudson. Crop. prizes offered to the growers of the more establish himself In Sumter coun- lie8t yield to the acre may he award-1 ty, this time to stay permanently, td on September 20. Mr. Young came to Sumter from It is impossible to have a single Kentucky some three or four years committee of two or three citizens-ago and bought a farm out on the Lee make the round of the county, going .'street road from Mr. LigUley. There from plantation to plantation, mea&-jhe engaged in the stock business, the luring an acre wherever designated I raising of cattie and hogs. He found and watching the gathering of tho it a satisfactory and profitable buei- corn and its weighing or measurement.' ness, was well pleased with the re- £o it has been decided that the best , suits, but as is often the case, a !itt:e way. to get the exact facts relative! feeling of home-sickness and a spies- to the yield on the acre selected uy j dSi offer from Mr. Tim Furiow fo: each contestant is to have two or three ' the place lead him to sell, neighbors, who must he land-owners, J Mr. Young returned to Wilmr.re, measure off the acre, superintend tha!Kentucky., for a time before decid Two hundred and fifty thousaur. pounds sweet potatoes are to be can ned at once at the plant of tire Ware- j Progress Co., in Amerlcus. Arrange jments to this end have been perfected, j and the process of canning will be gin just as soon as the company can contract for all the potatoes require). ■ This is. a brand-new enterprise in Amerlcus and will not only prove re- I m-jnera'tve to the company, but sup- ready market for Tempting Prices. Charles L. Ansley Of- Lawyers Are Asked to fers Public New Fall ’ Dine Upon Stewed, Goods at Special In-' Fried or Broiled Snake ducements. On the first of ^October we hope to be able to move to/iur now store, now on Toast. 10 lt * cot b ( - - - ... the eurpiu potato crop. , etc., etc. The process of. cannng is quite situ-} Having just returned from a trip to p.e, and canned potatoes sell readily L in any market. , j the " orl;! * ,rn a ""i eastern markets, in fact, the canned sweet potatops I where bought one of the most at- An Invitation has been extended a ‘'Expert opinions number of Amer'cus attorneys to at- notwithstanding ( ;eor ■ . , .... . i tend and partake of what is probably this vear u-in i.’ , £lasc wioj. e ng ciec e a t..e corner of Jackson j tiie m0l3t nove | aD4 j unusual feast ever thirds of what th "° tt ° re and Fors.vth streets. | spread here, the piece de resistance Such is the eniphat^ 1 '' * as io H Prior to that time we shall offer i being diamond back nattlesnake, the by Commlsslone/ o'f stateni Mt| ost extraordinary inducements to' home-raised product served up id'Hudson. ° 8rlcuit «re 1 cash buyers for any and everything! styIe ]llost nppetlaing. I Mr. Hudaon takes is s ,» . ,, , , , , ,. . Ratiler on toast, broiled snake, plain' who vn vp I—,,,.. . In the way of dry goods, ladies ready-1 ,. . , . _ . . j 110 ^ a ' e issued optimistic i or with omelette; diamond-back fri?:l, regarding the off* , f . uc to-nvear garment.' of ail descriptions,| und rattlesnake stewed, is the appe-[i n enhancing the ^ ^ men’s, boy's and children's clothing. | tizing menu. crop and increasi-t U ? ° f tbe . . <u » us output j gathering and measuring or weighing as to his future course. Lands oi't of the corn from it. and sign the j there sei! any where from flfid fa Slide statement as to tne exact results to be. an acre. Roads are fine out there, tne forwarded to Mr. Joel W. Hightower 'country Js well developed and a goa l In Amerlcus. !fam rents by the year for a sum a). The corn must be slip shucked berj.most sufficient to buy a farm in G?;r- fore being weighted or measured, analgia. the statement must be prepared and! The more Mr. Young thought over signed up ae soon as the^ weighing it the situation the more he felt cm. completed and forward to Mr. High- vincetf that there was no place for an enterprising, progressive, ambitious young farmer like Georgia, and that in .. Georgia there was no place like Sum- their test acre will yield 100 or more ter county, with its rapidly developing (bushels of corn. .Vo one can spent system of fine roads, its glorious c'i- ■with any definiten&ss, thought until the 'mate and its varied products. So back actual gathering and weighing or to Sumter county he decided to come measuring has .heci done v,...„ I trade n not fir.) tower. Great interest is felt in the results, Jt Is claimed by several growers that Measuring has been done. Those who are successful in winniu the prizes offered in the cante And here he is. Mr. Young will look around and se cure himself a farm of 150 to 200 _. . , . ‘i ““"•'u “ 'aim ui row to UOO which will be awarded as soon as the acres, well VatcrOj, and there he will returns are in, will be requested to once more engage in the raising oi wake known the system under which stock. they worked in growing the corn, the) “The results In stock raising here fertilizers used, the quantity to the are very satisfactory,” said he yes- acre etc., so that all of the farmr-s terilay. “jjlock can be raised cheaper of the county may have the benefit of here by far than it can be in Ken- tbeir experience and profit thereby. j tucky and many other states, there is It is probable that the returns will up trouble in disposing of It, and I be- all be in within the next week or ten lieve it is an industry that will grow days and the list of winners compiled to considerable proportions fn Sumter and announced to the public. county. Vow that I am back here, 1 . - - ^ anxious to got to work once nioro ESCAPED THE ROPt lu ^ZiSitOTOr •will throw off my coat and got to are as staple as granulated sugar ;i:! tractivi ! =aa he found today upon the shelv, , 'ried. , l every retail giccery store in Amet- .cus. which buy them from Georgia canneries. Now, however, a tome plant| will supply tile commodity. Plant Prepared For Business. The Ware-Progress Co. canned and shipped from Americas in July last probably twenty carloads canned peaches, put up at its plant here. The plant is adapted to the "canning of other products as well, and the com pany will now look after the pleblu.i potato. Small potatoes, those about the sizi of walnuts, are best for canning, and these potatoes the company will j Pay goodiprices. j ----- .— These small tubers are peeled, bo>l-l m F ts ° E aearI 5’ all these lines rather I in . .... .n . . . . The invitation was extended :ra! members of the local bar yeste 'V, declares that the showers aS 'r- late to be of any material valjl .r.v In position to offer the u inducements that they will 'sewhere. There are a good many lines which we are contemplating discontinuing altogether and we are particularly de sirous of closing these out to avoid the trouble of moving. We had hoped when we began build ing that our new store would be ready ■ i '7*y »•« « vi auy material vai Jay by Moses Henderson, a well known | “The cotton crop or ji„ ar , 1 negro here, who proposes to provide it* maturity by September 1" t^he rattlers and serve them at a cafe ( dared Mr. Hudson. “After t or not tnjjjft ■ave ever yet car- i here one night next week. it is either made . .v wiuci ujaue 0 Henderson Is an ante-bellum negro, nothing can retard or aj-.1 and his fondness for rattlesnakes 1.. general rain 'of a few' dnTlS proverbial, He declares there is noth- .tio-nr—.i ‘•' S2 P| ing sc juicy and tooth'some as a well cooked rattlesnake, and he insists up on his white friends enjoying til's savory dish' which he will gladly pro vide. - Henderson already has two hugh dia mond-hacked rattlesnakes In a coop and. the rain was of no ben.s. at his home over on Mullet street herej -The cotton was given a serk and will keep them fat for the com-' hack by the continuous ra'- slight good in north Georgia wj. cotton crop i a late, hut the- w the result will not bo appreciatid, .situation in South GeoreJ "In south Georgia a large po-j the cotton is dead and that rtit , lived ir.id advanced as far as h j CCDI/C iait criurncr I orr “ y Cost ani] - ol tj OI LIVL LUNG oENIFNC’E Work wlth a v,m - Sumter county suits • • me, and here I propose to stay with my family." ' Negro Gels Dozen Years! — for Rape. j SMALL FARM SELLS AT A VERY FAIR PRICE. Two Hundred Acres Brings $6,200. George Reese, a Sumter counl y black brute, Will serve twelve years in the penitentiary, and may thank bis •lucky star to escape the halter. Recto ■was convicted of rape in the Superior court yesterday, his two victims be ing littlfi negro girls, aged seven and nine years respectively. Tie evidence ■was very revolting and the brutal ne gro was # tried upon one case only, tin; other still being held in abeyance. Judge Littlejohn sentenced him : > ■twelve years in the pen. SPECIAL UMIEIMYE.Ut SALE AT TVARLIIK BEOS. CO. \ ladles W ill Appreciate These Bargains ; In Underwear. AVarlick Bros. Co., succe-raors to) Pinkston, are to put on a rema li able sale in muslin underwear, be ginning on next Monday and running all through the week. Tree goods are the output >>r factories that make a epecialtv tn these lines and Warlick Bros. Co. offej the most tempting bar gains possible of them for friends. The sale yesterday 1 of 200 acres of land for the round sum of $6,200 con stituted the land sales In front of #.e temple, it being legal .sales day. The farm thus disposed of Is known as the Kirven Place, and is located a few miles west of Amerlcus. It was sold at executor's sale and bought In v Mr. William Andrews at near $20 per acre. STOMACH FEELS FIXE. ed in a caldron of hot water, husbe.. of them at a time, and then put up ir. I 2-!b. cans, hermetically sealed. V.J -sugar :s require^ in the ginning pro-1 ceTs; only the potatoes, and these a.i I ready to he served by the housekeepei at a moment's notice. The process Is easy and Inexpensive :r.d a savory -dish can be prepared for dinner at the cost of a dime. Fine Markets Afforded. The canning 0 f potatoes will furaLh market here for the surplus stoci. and especially the small potatoes fo.- h-'ch there is really little tleman'.*. .Oftlmcs t’is local market is over stocked with potatoes, and in suth event they can he sold to the cannet .■ at good prices. The 5-lb, can sells for 10 cents and those sold in Amcr:eu= at present are pat up in Darien, Ga. The Ware-l’rogress Co. will can about three thousand bushels as Its first attempt in this direction, and ns business increases will for us by September first hut unavoid- j lag feast. I . latter part of May M(| J;ja ~" able delays prevented, therefore wc! shouId ibe guests dispose of the To (he damage done l.y i ae stu have be--n ohiiged to allow our stock! a:l t0 ° can go Into dampness was added th- daaa» shipped as ready.' but rather than re-11 ° f Mucka,ee creek ' j" st . b >' '»e drougth of several Ji ......... ' : beyond bis home and kill a half dozen followed and w 'ch move a this additional stock .we otter rattlers while the hungry guests genera, rains of'a 1 • she! offer the trade special induce-1 wait | excessive rains of the period Rattlers swarm over there, and ed filled the cotton with gras. ^Mraes has killed hundreds of big fel-1 drouth following ctnniej trouble of moving them, j, r' than have „ We cordially invite every one int.r- in ,b * Parker woods ' - I Hope of recovery f ; .. ' . c It is a fact well known that many Prom a carefir st i lv nf th# T ,U , C8J a3 t V ee " hat "" Wi " esteem the rat- Hon of .ho Zon Z ,n7 for you during the next few weeks. | tlesnake a 3 an article of diet, and have of Georgia, I am convinced As you well know it is cot custom- j « at *B tbe m for a generation. The ms.it I crop this year will not tie i ... - lie white, juicy and savory, they s iy, two-tidrds of the crop of las and even more delicate than fish' or j Mr. Hudson s opinion is is chicken. Many negroes, in Amerlcus ' contrast to the opinion reres have eaten rattlesnakes. | pressed by Ed Inman, of Inn The guests Invited by Moses Hender.; ft )aman , cotton brokers, anj son to the snakefest next Tuesday the effect that the rains of a* mg.it still have the subject under con- had tremendously advanced tit sideration. j j, 0Ct3 of the cot;on cr0I) for j and that the state of Gnrfi PULLED GUN ON NEGRO ary to offer reductions right at th; ibeginning of the season but the fac: that wq are obligated to move makes us do so at this time. CHAS. L. ANSLEY WHITE MEN CAUGHT ON CHARGE OE LARCENY. Theft of Watch and Jew elry Charge I. Stole Gum Register From Bolton’s Store. BUT FAILED TO FIRE. COMPANY IS READlj BEGIN ON MR I T..’ree white men were captured yes terday by Sheriff Feagin, near Sumter it output during the winter and” utriri I tk ? Chargc ot !arc ^ y and a- • e petch canning season begins July next REV. BIVINS WAS AGAIN CALLED BY CHURCH Enters On His Fourteenth Year. I now held In Jail here pending Invest!-, gation. It is charged that the men en-i tered a dwelling some distance below j ‘Amerlcus yesterday and stole then-1 from two watches an dother jewelry ' One of the watches was found upon tl.c person of one of the ■ suspects. The trio are young men under 21, seeniine- ly, and claim Tampa as t..- .r. home port. Two Mi-o-na Tablets Drive Away Di,- tress From Stoniacb. their The "Grilling of the Coon" was the thrilling' drama enacted at the court Mouse yesterday, a sfory told in many chapters. HEALTH INSURANCE The man who Insures his life Is wlsefor his family. s The man who insures his health Is wise botlj for bis family and himself. You may Insure health by guard ing It. It is worth guarding/ At t h e first attack of disease, which generally approaches through the LIVER and manl- l Test* itself in Innumerable ways Itake. And save your health. Get a 60-crfht box of MI-O-VA tab- !et$ at Dodsou's Pharmacy today a.v! learn for yourself how easy it is 11 put your out of order stomach in per fect condition. MI-O-NA stomach tablets give la slant, relief—and do more. They- build up the stomach so quick ly that in a few days belching, sou ■ ne*3. heartburn, heaviness, biliousnes-, ' headache and dizziness will disappear. | MI-O-VA stomach tablets are guar anteed by Dodson’s Pharmacy to cure indigestion and all stomach HU, or 1 money back. 1 "1 have had trouble with my stom ach for two year". I tried everything I heard of. MI-O-VA stomach tablets did me more than $25 worth of good. Trey are the best In the world."— Dennis Stephen. Conderspqrt, Pa., Feb 1st i i fty cents for a large box of Mi-C- VA at Dodson's Pharmacy, and drug gists everywhere. HY0MEI ■ I (fum/ao wch o mo B Cores catarrh or money back. Just breathe it in. Complete outfit, including inhaler fl. Extra bottles 50a Druggista Concluding b:s thirteenth successive year of service as pvstor of Furiow Lawn Baptist church, Rev. Robert I.. Bivins enters this week upon his four teenth' year of labor, provided he de cides to accept again the call of his congregation, made unanimously on Sunday morning. I’AIB EXCHANGE. Hugging to his breast a chewln£ gum register anj sprinting for h:s ( Cife. a country negro made a Mar.t- ! thon race course of the Lamar street j pavement weat of Bolton BroC. 'yes, | tp fday. And right in the waks of the . fleeing gum snatcher came Alderman I Bolton ,In high gear, brandishing ; 1 revolver of the vintage of 112 and call- j .ng uiion the black delegate to ha’t j and deliver the goods. Down 'tit-5 j street the pair of sprinters speeded, j !m: at l “ e alley near the Howell drug j store the frightened darkey dropped his burden of chewing gam and few stray r.ickeiu and kicitej out of sight Sixth Factory In An -Starts Short!).I The stockholders of the formed fertilizer company p charter under the name 0! th State Guano Co., and the sii prise of this kind in An* 1 * yesterday and perfeetei orp Mr. Frank Lanier was (MS dent, Messrs. George Oliver d Oliver vice presidents; uJj llanAl. Humber, seceriar?^ urer. The company $20,000, and wi i do an Hi' nes.3 in mixing and commercial fertilize i Xt w Back For an Old One—Hon h Is Done in Amerlcus. ., . -- “•»", vyuMHBiwai * t . _ ____ j 11 1,0 r, ' ar °i '-he bindings there. Il-i! j has already begun the • ■- The back aches at times wl'a a dull 1>1 * t ° , 1 be '' n of th ® brew of re <tent large plant at the font ef9 ndescrlbable 'll* * ^ w . 9 » ‘hat cuf-s cm the lines of .he t> ' J IfcJow- Indescribable feellug, making you tire would have sustained weary and restless; piercing padns, out, with gunerai trimmings. •hoot across the region of the kidneys ! and again tha loins ate so lame to AX'OTHER FARM SELLS AT •toop is agony. Vo use to rub or ap- j THE PRICE OF $26,000 *-■ • • — mu or ap- That he will do this is the beartfe!-. I P‘J' a plaster to the back in this con- wish, not only of every member of th,. church body, but of the people of Americas. Mr. Bivins, may make hi3 intention,: known on Sunday next. V/.v-n the subject was taken up on Sunday last, at the conclusion of th;- morning service, the love borne the pastor by his congregation was abur- dantly evidenced. Vo other name- was considered, or even suggested, an! by unanimous and rising vote he was again called as pastor. This church has known no other pastor, than Mr. Bivins. Widen It I was organized thirteen years ago he ontered upon his ministerial duties there. It was his first church, and he its first pastor, and together they have waxed strong In the cause of right eousness and in the love of an entire community. Mr. Bivins has received many flat tering and advantageous calls from other Churches during this period, bill the unity here has ever remained un broken, and the fervent wish of ail i» that it may so continue. ‘ V' */**viv tidia EUU- - ■ ditlon. You cannot rsacb the cause Sumter LamN An- Still Greatly lu Be. Exchange the bad back for a new and I niand. stronger one. Follow the example of ! th 3 Amerlcus citizen. I The sa'e yesterday of another fine J. W» Hodges, 312 Rets Park, Arner- Su31tcr cari,nt >’ farm for the round leus, G.', says' "I am only tco glad' ‘ ,r!ce of Is reported, but fo: to recommend Doan's Kidney Pills ot>vlo,u r<!,snna "’■> •- Not only is marriage a gamble, but it's on a very slim margin. are a valuable remesy. 1 suffe-ed foi a ,ong tone from dull pains through tbe small of my back and I also had trouble with the kidney secretions. The passages of the secretions were irreg* uiar and broke my rest at night, Read ing of Doan’s Kidney Pills, I decided to try them and procured a box. Their use quickly rel'eved the pain aud corrected the kidney weakness." For sale by all dealers. Price ft) cents. 'Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo. fOHBECTIOX IX RE PART obvious reasons the parties to th* deal did not wish to give out at this time ail the information thereupon. The purchaser will take possession shortly, and will then disclose any thing of general Interest bearing up on the transaction. Tho sale was made through Arthur & Wosbrook. real estate agents. The deman'd for farm ing land here Is aa great as ever at any time recently, and all offerings are^quickly absorbed at good prices. V. Y., solo States. Remember tbe lake no other. agents for name—Doan’s—and A perspiring populace here will en dure about two weeks more of dog days, then the equinox and the frost of Indian summer. the United OF OOUXTY COJIMISSIOXEUS In the report of the meeting of the Sumter county commissioners of Sep tember 5, the amount of ‘bills approv ed for payment should have been $6- 0S5.65. Watch Americus grow. Next to a lecture advice I* about the moyt useless thing. board railways and will guano in time for tie tall GREAT SALE ITT OX AT IV. Prices Based <»n Fisc* I* teen (flits (nil' Mr. XV. P. Warlick, in the Planters’ Bank la this morning a phenoa Ive sale in dry goods, etc. A large stock, wa fL ufacturero' cost, has ** Vho regular large stoc« and the whole is t' 1 ™ 3 ers on a basis of 25 cfl lar. Tlie bargains seen to he appreciated ‘ of customers I 3 l,n “' : ... to bo great. A lars e capable assistants has handle the sale and t e disposed of quickly. ter goods to go so ning of a season Is * the prices are lo w - CAST0 For Infant! a» Hie Kind You Haw