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THE AMERICU5 WEEKLY TIMES-RECORDER DECEMBER 29. 1910
TO STRENGTHEN FENCES
WITH THE NEW YEAR
Col. Sheppard May Make a
Little Tour ot State.
NOT IN FAVOR OF -
ANOTHER BUREAU
Er-
Gov. Smith Corrects An
roneous Idea.
Vfhen the holidays have become To the Editor,
but a memory, and the state has set-j Amorims Times-Recorder,
tied down to the usual routine of bus-j Americus, Georgia,
iness Col. J. E. Sheppard will prob- Dear Sir:
ably take a little tour of the outlying
districts in the interest of his candi
dacy for president of the next Geor
gia senate.
TRAINS TO AMERICUS TO
ARRIVE IN GOOD TIME
Neft Schedule is Effective
Sunday.
Central railway schedules, effect
ive for many years will undergo an
important change next Sunday in ac
cordance with the reguest of the
Americus Board of Trade and other
trades bodies along this division of
Your editorial of December 20th,
with the heading "Why This Sugges
tion from Gov-Elect Smith,'' is before!the Central road,
me. I have just read it. In it you quote! The trains thus effected are numbers
Col. Sheppard has had some flatter- j briefly from my speech made at Union! 7 and 8, now arriving in Americas
ing assurances of support from all City on the subject of an appropria- from Atlanta and Macon at 10:30 p.
over the state, and in his forthcora-j tion by the Legislature for the distri-
ing trip will call upon some of the {button of information on agricultural
senators who will support him, as subjects In the State,
well as others who have not yet com-: My object in writing you is to cor- • doned after Saturday night,
mitted themselves to bis candidacy, jrect a misapprehension which your Beginning Sunday night train N'o.
There are the usual reports going ] editorial shows. I am deeply interest- 7 will reach Americus at 7 o'clock in
m. and returning to those cities at
4:25 next morning.
These schedules are entirely aban-
the rounds already about the next ed in work which will advance the
senate being controlled by the corpo- [ farming interests of Georgia. I be
rate interests, or that the liquor men lieve I have made a good suggestion
have managed it so that they control
the upper body of the Georgia legis
lature tor the next two years. Col.
Sheppard doesn't place much stock in
such rumors and gossip.
the evening and go on through to Al
bany, instead of stopping over night
here as at present. Xo. 7 will reach
Albany dally then at 8:20 p. m.
leaving Albany next morning at
5:20 as train Xo! 8, it will reach
Americus at 0:33 o'clock and arrive
in Macon at 9:35 a. m. This tram
will be of great convenience to peo
ple residing In towns south of Amer-
and i am unwilling for it to be crit
icised because misunderstood.
Let me assure you that nothing
which I said was a reflection upon
Commissioner Hudson or the Agrlcul-
"We heard that last year and the.tural Department. My suggestion
year before and the year before that," went much beyond the clipping which
said he. “But I saw no signs whenjyou produced. It was this: There are leus.
I was at Atlanta that the senate was a few farmers in Georgia who havej They can then spend an entire day
not a thoroughly honest body, not: succeeded in making the soil yield a here shopping. If desired, leaving home
governed by corporate or liquor inter-! very large return per acre of corn and j at a reasonable hour in the morning
ests, but rather governed by principle of cotton. If the way in which they and returning either by the noon
and the desire to do what it thought have brought about this result could {train or 7 o’clock,at night,
best for Georgia's interests. And so be prepared in simple narrative form | Train No. 7, which will reach
It will be with the Incoming senate, 1 and furnish as bulletins to all farmers Americus from Macon at 7 p. m.,
of Georgia would not this stimulate f leaves that city at 4:15 p. m., instead
the same character of farming and!of at 7:40, as at present; This train
help to bring about largely increased; has no Atlanta connection, although
ator-elect fro mthls district, "and it j crops all over the State? Americus still has three convenient
will b« continuously so. Corporations i 1 further suggested the advisability: trains for that city.
• and special interests have learned of getting up bulletins on corn* and’ Beginning Sunday next train Xo. 5,
that it is just as well to make a clean, cotton raising, showing the modes by' from Atlanta and Macon, arriving
calm statement of their side of the which the most successful results here now at 2:07 p. m„ will arrive at
case and leave matters to the good have been accomplished, and of using .2:15 P- m., eight minutes later.
judgment of the legislators and the them in rural schools by reading them | —
public and not put an army of lobby- to the children and requiring them to r . nT||| , rn __
ists in the Held, buttonholing and stand examination upon them. uArlnlN liUDD IS GIVEN
worrying legislators. That day has! I did not suggest the creation of t‘ DDCOIllFlirv nr nmnn
passed in Georgia and I do not tbiuk new bureau of any kind. -My sugges- I iltulUtlVuI UF HOARD
It will ever return—for which we all; tion was that the Department of Ag-;
have reason to be grateful.” rlculture, the State College of Agri- .. ,, ,
culture and the Commissioner of Ed- InBrilGO HOIIOF IS ACC0nl6(
ucatlon might work together, the Leg-! .
islature appropriating the necessary | HOIlOrBQ CltiZBIl
TO INCREASE THE EAST AMERICUS ENJOYS
YIELD OF COTTON BIG IMPROVEMENT
Coftoo Seed Crushers to Help Lamar Street Out There 1
the Planters.
Fine Boulevard.
The Interstate Ccttcnseed Crushers' East Americus is almost ready to
Association will endeavor to develop'^ve a celebration over the comple
tion of the work of improving Lamar
street in that increasingly popular sec
tion of the city’
am assured.
"There is less and less effort at lob
bying In Georgia,” continued the sen
HNEY PRATHER IS DEAD
AFTER BRIEF ILLNESS
Young Lad Passes Away
Yesterday.
Of the several deaths occurring re
cently in Americus none other is
fraught with keener sorrow than that
of Terdery Prather, the young son of
Dr. and Mrs. William S. Prather: the
end coming yesterday afternoon, and
following an illness of only a few days
with dread pneumonia.
in the flush of early young manhood
scarcely sixteen years ot age. the
death of Verdery Prather, or, as hi;
close friends called him, "Tiny” Pra
ther. is sad Indeed.
Of rather frail constitution, the in
sidious disease was ineffectually com
batted, and death triumphed over the
skill of physicians.
The funeral services, conducted by
Dr. Lansing Burrows and Rev. R.
Bivins, will be held at 3 o'clock this
afternoon from First Baptist church
Friends of the deceased and of the be
reaved parents are respectfully In
vited to attend.. The sendees will be
concluded at Oakgrove cemetery.
Members of the young lad's Sunday
school class, Samuel Gatewood, Tbad
Reese, Roney 8talllngs, Charles Poole,
Klncben Worthy, Fred Sills, Charles
Hudson and Carl Hawkins, will act as
pallbearers.
AMERICUS TO SEND BIG
STRING OF RACERS
Track Horses to Cordele Next
Week.
A bunch of a half dozen or more
Americus horses will be sent to Cor-
dele next week it the races scheduled
, there are held any day except Monday.
* In the list of steeds that will go are
Harrold G., Luxenbourg, True Tucker
and other local celebrities in horse
flesh, to compete for prizes there. Sev
era! patrons of the track here will go
as well, provided the races are not held
on Monday, as that will be a busy day
in business circles here, as elsewhere.
money for the purpose of gathering
and distributing the information.' ’ i Th .
You refer to the agricultural train' of 1
which went over the state during my ! , . .
last administration and which I am 1
glad to see 'is to travel again during I D ii men .
the coming year. I believe thorough-
ly In this work. hoDored
I believe that the agitation of bet
ter methods of farming can double the
crops of corn and cotton raised In the
state. Instead of criticizing what I
said I write to ask that you use your
columns to print the story wherever
you can get it of how a farmer has
made 100 bushels of corn to the acre
or over a bale of cotton to the acre.
Let us all join together and
every means possible to stimulate in
vestigation of wbat our soil will pro
duce and inspire a willingness
make the necessary effort to bring the
highest production. Whenever I see
an opportunity of saying anything that
will attract attention to the subject of
improved agriculture I think It my
duty to do so. Whenever any news
paper base a chance to write some
thing upon the subject that will help
I am sure our mutual friend, Tom
Hudson, will thank us both for wbat
we do.
Very truly yours,
HOKE SMITH.
Atlanta, Ga.
(The news clipping Gov. Smith re
fers to leaves the impression that he
favored another state department for
the gathering and dissemination
agricultural Information. His letter
shows that the governor elect has no
such object in view and that his pur
pose was misconstrued.)
Americus Board
g Captain John
deucy of that body
appreciated com
one )d£‘Americus’ most
and esteemed citizens, and
such action of the Board will meet
with general and hearty approval.
At the meeting of the Board Tues
day night Captain Cobb was elected
to the presidency to succeed the late
O. W. Glover, for .many years presi
dent, while Mr. Arthur Rylander was
elected Captain Cobb’s successor as
vice-president
Both selections are most excellent,
U8e »* the Board h^s no more enthusias
tic workers than are Captain Cobb
and Mr. Rylandet.
In point of service President Cobb
has been a member of the Board of
Education a longer number of years
than any other. He feels a personal
pride In the splendid success attained
by the schools, not a small amount of
which is due to his untiring and In
defatigable efforts in their behalf.
Americus and the Board of Educa
tion are alike to be congratulated In
the election to Its head of such men
as Capt. Cobb and Mr. Rylander.
CANINE U RABIES, IN
OPINION OF EXPERT
Treatment Will Be Given lit
tle Girl Here.
EXPERTS EXAMINING
AFFAIRS OF BIG BANK
Suspension Leads to Inves
tigation.
BEV. ALBERT MX DEADj
WELL K.VOWX .MINISTER
Macon, Ga., December 28.—Rev. Al
bert Six, superintendent of tbe Geor
gia Industrial Home, died at the home
at t o'clock yesterday morning atetr
a brief lllneas. Rev. Mr. Dix was
i iof the beat known Baptist min-
ln the "state, and before taking
of the home here was pastor
First Baptist church In For
He is survived by a wife and
children.
The setter dog that attacked
bit severely little Gladys Smith,
seven-year-old daughter of Mr.
Mrs. Philo Smith, of Americus, while
lu Macon on Christmas, was afflicted
with rabies, In the opinion of Dr. Har
ris, of Atlanta, who made a careful
examination of the dog's head. This
Information was conveyed in a tel r-
gram sent Mr. Smith yesterday by Dr.
Harris, and little Gladys will be given
the Pasteur treatment the required
time. Air. Smith, the moment the dog
attacked the little girl, borrowed a
shotgun from a resident of Macon,
Jumped Into a buggy conveniently at
hand and following the fleetug dog a
half mile before he could shoot
and secure the head for examination.
Xew York, December 28.—A staff i*
experts under tbe direction of Bank
Superintendent Creaey today Investi
gated the affairs »f the Xorthern Bank
of Xew York, whose recent suspen
sion brought to light the news that
O. Robin, who held control of the
bank, had committed suicide
night before In .a sanitarium. Robin
not only controlled the Xorthern bank,
but according to State Superintendent
of Insurance Hotcjikiss, largely con
trolled several ptfifr companies.
IS CALLEB TO ATLANTA
BV DEATB OF BBOTHER
me ns to increase the yield of cotton
per acre by putting into the bands of
the planters the instructive bulletins
of the Federal Agricultural Depart
ment As a first step' lu orgauizlng
this campaign, tbe association has
sent out tbe following letter to Its
members and to mill men generally:
Gentlemen—The undersigned com
mittee was appointed by the Interstate
Crushers' Association to devise some
means by which the association could
help Increase the yield of cctton pet-
acre.
The committee have concluded that
it was most desirable to do something
which might assist with the 1911 crop
They have had the permission of the
Executive Committee to take the mat
ter up at this time and present the
following data.
Through the very kind assistance
of the Agricultural Department
Washington, we expect to prepare
series of from six to ten circulars or
bulletins. These will have to do
with the cultivation of the land, seed
selection, planting, fertilization, et 1
They will he mailed so as to reach the
planter! at the appropriate time be
tween the first of January and the
maturing of his crop; 1. e., to give him
the necessary Information at the
time he needs it.
These circulars will be sent in bulk
direct from Washington to such
mills (members of our association) ag
become subscribers to our plan. Sim
ultaneously with the sending of these
circulars from Washington, a letter
will be sent out by this committee
calling attention to the fact that the
government la sending the corculars
and asking the oil mills to be on the
lookout for them and arrange for their
distribution.
If all our membera became interest
ed we could distribute to something
like 500 oil mills and each mill could
distribute to anywhere from twenty to
forty teed shippers, agents or corres
pondents from whom they are buying
cottonseed. We thought that each one
of these agents would come In close
contact with a certain number of
planters whom he could Influence to
use the Information.
If you take 500 oil mills with twenty
seed shippers or correspondents each
and have one each of these reach
twenty planters. It means a total ot
200,000 planters scattered all over tbe
(South.
There la nothing new In the Infor
mation which the committee will furn
ish the planters In regard to Increas-
Ing the yield of cotton per acre. It :■
the same Information which the gov
ernment has had for several years
and which they have been ready, on
the request of any person In tbe South
to furnish. The same data baa been
put out by state experiment stations
and some of the large railroad com
panies.
It Is not tbe printing of the Infor
mation Itself and (ending It to the
oil mills which la going to do any good
at all In this matter. It la rather en
tirely a matter of whether our mem
bers can see that this Information Is
distributed and used. If our associa
tion can furnish a means of getting
this Information to the planter and
seeing that he use* It, they can ac
complish great good, but the work
must be along the line of seeing that
gets t o the planter and that he
use* It. Thla will require a lystcm by
which the oil mill would follow
the Information given to their seed
shippers and correspondents In a
personal letter every time a circular
is sent out
Every oil mill manager will have to
take a personal Interest In the num
ber of planters around the towns of
each one of bis seed shippers who
had taken this matter up and were
following the suggestion* given
our circular by the actual cultivation
and growing of hla crop. The manag
er would have to keep in touch with
this, ask about it all of the time, then
look Into it when he visited the towns
himself and have hla traveling men
to do tbe same.
It seemed best, after some consider
ation, to make a nominal charge to any
East Americus has frequently hod
reason to complain that It got but
scant attention from the city, bit
this latest improvement is one th.
goes far toward removing the grounds
for complaint. From the Intersection
of Jefferson street, on for half a mile,
Lara a r street is rapidly being convert- i
ed into a veritable boulevard, thirty!
feet wide in the roadway with a seven j
and a half foot sidewalk on eac.. j
side.
Xo one who has not traveled thatj
way recently can anpreciate tie great
difference that has been made in the
appearance of that section by the
broadening and tbe straightening of
l-amar street. The property owners,
-■vph one exception only, cheerfully do
nated the land to permit of the Im
provement; In the one instance
Crawfo'd NVheatley bought the prop
erry so as to remove the stumbling
block.
l-aruur street In East Americus Is
now as fair a stretch of road as the
eye cau land on anywhere in Sumter
county, l.lgbt out to the city line it
is to be a perfect road. But the ap
proach from the courthouse
the East Americus district Is still sad
ly In need of attention. Once tbe
grade to tbe newly Improved-part of
the street Is lessened and the western
portion of the street otherwise Im
proved. East Americus will take a de
cided rpurt In progressvieness. That
Is a work tbe city and county should
undertake together. Lamar street
leads right Into the Oglethorpe road,
which Is being Improved by the coun
ty to Sumter's bounds, and it Is
pity that the first part of the ap
proach to it should not be up to the
section east of Jefferson street.
Mr. Wheatley has bought and
moved three houses that were In tbe
way of progress, Is improving them,
and will make nice properties of them.
This will also help In the betterment
of that Immediate section..
Other Improvements are likely to
follow and East Americus bids fair to
become a decidedly more popular sec
tion. For the man of small means that
section offers a tempting opportunity
to secure a home at a very moderate
cost The time Is probably not far
off when It will feel the impulse ot
new life and enjoy a rapid develop
ment
Store Ne
\
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LADIES.
WANTED OATS;
GETS 5,000 GATS
HOSE
?o$|.5o! C ° lors “* J
Lisle and Maco, black,
plain and embroidered, I!)
GLOVES
SCARFS
VEILS.
Kid, Mocha and Cape, $|J
Plain and embroidered,
All sizes and colors 50c t
50c to $3.00,
HAND BAGS
Plain black leather, „
give satisfactory service,!
HANDKERCHIEFS.
V 1
The prettiest stock in I™
fail hand embroidery ml
25c to $1.50. 1
“Armenian” hand drawn j
made lace, $1.00 and $15
Princess and, Irish LactE,
Initial Handkerchiefs, red]
per box of six. $1.00 and i]
Plain Hemstitched Linen,]
BARRETTES
Plain and Fancy, ..
break, 25c to $2.50.
SCISSORS.
“Diamond Edge”
sharp, 50c to $1.25.
HAT PINS
Sterling Silver, white l.
brilliants, fancy colored (
the novelties, 35c to !
BELTS.
ii 'V
The new Gold and
Belts, fancy jeweled I
holly boxes, $1.50.
Persian Belts, spit a
holly boxes, $1.50.
The new Tapestrv I
Suede Belts in all colon I
Wrong Letter in the Ad is
the Cause.
Nellgb, Xeb., Dec. 28.—The substitu
tion of a lower-case letter "c 1 ’ for the
letter "o” in an advertisement In the
Sioux City, Omaha and local news
papers has caused John C. Trotbers,
a grain merchant here, all kinds of
trouble.
Trothera, wishing to replenish his
supply of oats, concluded to advertise,
Writing his advertisement on a type
writer, he manifolded It and aeu:
copies to tbe newspapers as follows
"Wanted—Delivered on track
Xellgh 10,000 bushels of cats. Will
pay highest market price."
Xot noticing the error he awaited
results which came sooner than he
expected. - Within a week cats of all
kinds and descriptions commenced to
arrive consigned to Trothers. Some
were sent prepaid and others collect.
They came from the East, the West
the North and the ?outh. The agent
of the Northwestern road became
alarmed. He was being swamped by
cats and wired the superintendent for
instructions. That official not know
lug what else to do, wired back:
"Release all cats not accepted.
Still cate continued to arrive and
still Trothers refused to accept the
felines, hut his troubles did not end
there. Boys about town had learned
JABOTS
SWEATERS.
New style* for Christum!
All colors and sizes, $1251|
COATS AND SUITS.
We have just received a k
of this great line.
CHILDREN.
INDIAN SUITS.
Americus Man Called There
EXPRESS THEIR THINKS.
Ga., Dec. 28, 1910.
in and Lee Brown de-
most sincere
many friends for
to them la
Dr. X. S. Evans has just spent sev
eral months in Atlanta, taking private
instruction and doing practical work
of all kinds. He juts recefltly opened
offices in Americus at Mis* Bell's for
mer music roouuwjust below Geo!
Wheatley's. He lygi. complete equip
ment and is welt prepared, to do any-
thing in dentlatry^tjreafeuafrlt’pricea.
_»XV l"Vr ' * " »T
Mr. Henry T;
Americus,
was called unegpscjjety^to Atlanta
yesterday evening,tftitlio sudden death
there of hla brother,' Mr. W. T. Cole
man, a well known contractor of that
city. The telegram gave no particu
lars beyond the fact that Mr. Cole
man had died of pneumonia, after
very brief lllneas. The deceased was
38 years of age, and is survived bv
his young wife and little son. The
funeral will take place in that city to
day. . -
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that he was in the market for cats,
mill wishing this service, nnd to only They commenced to catch the Btrays
give the service to the oil mills who and take them to his place of busi-
want It and signify their want by ness. Some days last week he refused
paying a small fee for It. The gov- as many as 500 cats brought in by
ernment officials have emphasized! boys and three and four times
very strongly to us the fact that an many coming by rail.
Immense amout of this literature! It Is estimated that fully 5,000 eats
which they get up is sent out and have been shipped Into Xellgh, and the
never used, and our committee feels end is not yet, stealing a
that it Is absolutely useless to simply 1
make a general di.tributlon of a very We hope to .how our members have
large number of these circulars to oil been able to persuade a large number
mill, without knowing whether or not of planters to adopt the government's
they would take any interest In their method for increasing their production
With feather head drtsl
f 2.00. Also Cowboy
uits.
GLOVES.
Kid Gloves, Mittens *»l|
popular prices.
SWEATERS.
All the popular colon
and Sweater Coats, 50c NN
FUR SETS.
For the girls we art
pretty Muffs and
$7.50 a set.
Collin 1
COATS.
For bovs and girls-
ment of the favonte i
been received.
GENTLEMEN.
TIES.
The “Keiser" 0»«“!
boxes are the handsome
shown, 75c to $2-00- I
“Keiser Bar*®"!
The "Keiser -v.,.
solid- colors are the bt* |
50c.
HATS.
"Hawes $3.00 Hfe ■
brands, at $1-00 to 5- |
HALF HOSE.
, plain and.
themselves seriously.
distribution.,
The fee of |5 per mill which we are
asking for this service Is not Intended
to cover Its coat, but more to place a
value upon It, 10 that we'may know
that those who ask for it are going to
take some Interest In It.
The committee would like very much
to be able, at the nest annual conven
tion In June, to present some statis
tics showing that a considerable num
ber of’oB mills have taken hold of this
... Happiness may be a matter of mind,
30-wlt-d3t •:-V j but It takes a; flippy mind to enjoy it.
... T~ ,V: -> j.rP j ... , -—rr-n — scheme, and to be able to show the
Its a Joke jhqq some.fleoifetake 'pirlsttnjis gifts are a sort;of hostage actual number of planters that at least
J to social fortune. I some of them have been able to reach.
of cotton.
If we receive enough favorable re
plies to this communication mailed to
all oil mills members of this associa
tion, It Is our purpose to Issue nearly
Immediately the first circular which
will have to do with the boll weevil,
the cultivation of the ground and the
selection of cottonseed.
We aak your co-operation and sup
port In this matter, believing that It is
one of the most Important things our
Interstate Crushers' Association nas
ever taken up In which every oil mill
ha; an Interest. I
Silk and Lisle,,
50c to $1-00. Other t
to 35c.
CLOTHING.
M
Suits and Overcoats
Hackett-Carhart:
the Paragon and Cro«
Chas.L. An
TI1E SETT STORE OX THE E0Btf a
• . ' 'T N .