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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 \ \ 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. . - '-■■■ ■ ■ ■ : 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 .