Weekly times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1910-1917, July 26, 1917, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextWEEKLY TIMES- j.mmh vkab. AMERICUS. GEORGIA. THURSDAY AFTERNOON. JULY 26, 1917 hington Kll.UDO.W 13. c„ July 25.— airplane bill became esurJax afternoon with Presi- llwn'i signature. wmensc appropriation la only Buing Of preparations for the intended to jvercome Ger- 0 [he air. More than 20,000 ■ e ,o be built as a first lncre The Srst task will be the In- array of Amerl- of t v realizing the danger of the Ipaign. already is fetferishly The element therefore. Is foremost in build- REV. P. I ELLIS ASSISTS. IR MEETING IT Rev. Paul W. Ellis, pastor of First Methodist church, is assisting In a se ries of revival meetings held at Mt. Zion church, near Leslie. The revi val is In charge of the pastor, Rev. C E. Cook, and thus far the meetings have been most cuccesstul. Rev. Geo. M. Acree, pastor of the Lee Street Methodist church, will conduct the reg ular prayer meeting at First church tonight in the absence of Rev. Ellis. merkan fleet. This feature, p hasized today in a statement ard e. Coffin, chairman of the production board of the Coun- ;ationa! Defense. program must be carried out ro- ptness equal to that dis- b- (engross in passing the f ho said. 'It is a task <le- »all tie initiative and power of id industry for its consumma- ,! jtst tor that reason, one to h( nation will respond, world's records for industrial mint of a new art must be Cnder ordinary conditions at • ear would be required for the a! preparation which this pro- jnands. Yet we have no such f tim*- in which to perform the v In spite cf our previous in ner. in quantity production of , lanes, we must have thous- f them for next year’s use to he contribution which the Al- iDSt Le remembered that a few i will necessarily elapse betore tiard results of our industrial rill show in the shape of quan- f finished lighting machines. It anncurced, however, that must nziroitcss on this preliminary atioa already has been ade. lin a comparatively short time II have enough of the type re fer training tens of thousands America is the last great lr of material for war pilots, I as for airplanes. Already the twenty-four big new train- i* are completed and instrilc- them has begun. onsidering the size of the ap- ion it must be borne in mind •t than half this amount is to nded in the purchase of air- alone. Personnel, armament mtific maintenance, spare parts. Nations, armament and scienti al! are to he provided for. and ten thousand officers m«n will be needed. The i is is one which appeals imagination of our people and • of our American engl- v antities of spruce which will 'd for airplanes will be sup- tlu* rate of $io5 a thousand half the price paid by hirers, under an agreement 'hel between government rep- lvts a ’*d spruce producers. NEW YORK, July 25.—The retreat ing Russian armies bid fair not to stop until they reach the line they held be fore the big offensive of last year. The Germans announce today the; occupied Tarnopol. Despite Petrograd disturbances, offi cial and unofficial Russian dispatches are not pessimistic. There remain two encouraging factors; the Germans ad mittedly haven’t enough men to inaug urate a general offensive in the east, and are afraid to take them from the weft, while the Russian provisional government has dependable reserves which can replace the dis-loyal sold iers at the front as soon as they are weeded out. Entente superiority in the west has again been illustrated by the French winning thp long-drawn strugsle for commanding positions on the Craonne front. The Germans tried to regain these this morning but were repulsed. The French continue holding all the ground gained and have consolidated their positions. Russian forces penetrated the Teu ton line south of the Carpathians to day. but were halted at a German pro tective position, so Berlin reports. Ger man troops have occupied Stanlslau and Nadvorna, in Galicia. The bom bardment in Flanders continues. ADVOCATES IRE WASHINGTON. D. C-. July 25.— Institutions tor negro education are inadequate Ur. Thomas Jones, ot the United States bureua ot education re ported today. In his report Ur. Jones fcurgests co-operation toward develop irent of a few Institutions ot univer- s'ty and college grade, and stated the location of one or more negro instl tutlons in some Southern cities Indi cated a wasteful duplication of forts. AGED HELD kshear. aged 98 years, died Miknce. near Maddox. Sum- l 30 o’clock this morn- lr Hlackshear was ill for only L fte days. Kkfhear Is survived by. three *• Mrs. K. a. Beauchamp; A Countryman, Mrs. W. A. “ 1! *f Sumter county. He was r °f Rehobeth Baptist church. born in Houston county, but fn a resident of Sumter for years. Passing away of this good man one of the oldest men in the He ha; s spent a useful life and ** * Js his triend. wrviee, will be hold thl, r °m the residence at ‘‘ v R- L. Bivins will officiate *»t - m he at the family burial EIGHTY RILLED IN MINE T OF CITY TREASURY The annual report of E. J. Eldridge. city clerk and treasurer of the City of Americus, was presented last night to the City Council at the regular meet ing of that body. It is as follows: Clerk and Treasurer Report for Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1917. Receipts. Cash in banks and on hand July 1st, 1916 $ 3,575.72 Taxes (current year) 60,680.24 Taxes (previous year) 5,407.72 Taxes (street) 3,156.00 es (interest) 77 Special license 16,223.00 Police fines 4,106, Curbing 1,810.30 Paving 12,623.12 Sever connections 385.71 Sale material .. 373.82 Miscellaneous 108.92 Water rents 18,943.61 Meters 1,225.86 Miscellaneous 480.53 Ponds and loans 120,8J Cemetery 325.00 Unclassified 1,458.36 Total $252,545.20 Disbursements. Mayor $ Aldermen Clerk and Treasurer Legal Tax assessors Elections Printing and supplies Advertising 180.00 510.00 1,300.00 1,805.11 510.00 15.00 233.58 272.40 Incidentals 1.566.19 Equipment Public Health— Refuse disposal 583.31 431.30 Supplies 190 * 00 169.95 60.00 Sanitary Repairs Incidentals Equipment ; 1.211.66 Fire Department- Salaries Forage Supplies Repairs Fuel and lights Incidental Equipment Police Department- Regulars Specials Supplies Maintenance of prisoners Transportation Incidentals * 343.00 5,350.73 366. 644.53 256. 4.19 497.73 2,632.90 7,140.00 436.1 1,090.00 42.80 wages 1,181.45 51.55 148.56 Equipment . Cemeteries— Salaries and Supplies Incidentals .... Water Works— Salaries and wages 1,661.JO General supplies and r pairs P S. supplies and repairs Pumping contract Sewer contract Printing and stationery .. Refunds Incidentals Meters Equipment Extensions Street improvement fund Street department . • Street, curb, gutters SMI CU1RDSIIIEII ACTION HD noenra tow of tmk polict WASHINGTON, D. C„ July 25.— More than seven thousand guardsmen In North Carolina, seven thousand In Tennessee and forty thousand others Jn various New England states, were mobilized for the draft Into federal service today. South Carolina troops arc also mob ilizing. 1 DOING THRIVING WORT T ~ BASE AMERICAN FLOTILLAS BRITISH WATERS, July 25—Cloister nuns, In a home for sisters of Good nI .1 _ _ n,l, loll 254.03 105.21 7,058.34 525.82 116.12 17.86 91.71 1,882.48 1,517.45 110.41 Shepard near the? base from which the American flotillas are operating against German submarines, have been doing a thriving laundry busi ness aong the bluejackets. Through the intercessions of two of their de voted women friends with the Amer ican Consul and Vice-Admiral Sims, the nuns obtained permission to re ceive any work the American naval men were willing to turn over them When the Jack tars learned that this was virtually the only means of support the secluded women had, they at once showed an eargerness to aid As a result, there has been growing laundry list «ach week. Although the nuns have been de voting many hours daily to this work, they never see Tho, young Americans who have been so generous In their patronage The laundry is sent the convent in motor launches from the American destroyers as they re turn from patrol duty. The bluejack ets declare the work is such as to make the modern American laundry man envious and at prices consider ably lower than on the other side of the Atlantic. The work the nuns are doing is, of course, only a small part of the fleets washday output. The great bulk of i* is done on board the supply mother ship In an electrically operat ed laundry which is said to be most complete ever seen in this part or the world. Prices charged the men are less than half of those charged by American laundries. Collars one cent each, socks per pair one cent, negligee shirts five cents and towels five mills. Ninety percent of the receipts are divided among the Jnundrymen, while the remaining ten per cent covers the losses and cost of soap supplies. One of the features o' the ship’s laundry is a miniature soap factory NEW ORGAN SNIPPED FOR CENTRAL BAPTIST bond HALIFAV, N. S., July 23.—Klghty Company’s mine at New wau ”™- , , according to a report from Sydney | received here this.afternoon. Twelve ..uni bodies of victim? bad been recovered up to noon. CANADA MAY OBTAIN SHORT TIME CREDIT 19,731.38 10,757.58 3,130.00 2,097.65 81.89 2,337.17 399.75 79.20 11.53 594.63 532.73 11,145.31 WASHINGTON. D. C.. J “' J ' 2 ’’ Secretary McAdoo today notified the Supplies Repairs Incidentals Clean streets Equipment Light 8 a. so, gi Public schools Bonds Floating debt Interest (bonded debt) .. Interest (floating debt) . Library Donations public Lands and Bldgs— 2,000.00 73.688.46 14,051.42 578.83 2,300.00 1,803.99 The new pipe organ to be Installed In the Central Baptist church has been shipped from the factory in Hart ford, Conn., and Is expected to arrive here within the next two or three weeks, providing no unforeseen delays develop In transportation. The Instrument will be set up Im mediately on its arrival, as the re modeling operations at the church have reached the stage where the In stallation of the organ can he pro ceeded with. Practically all the wood work has been completed and the orkrnen are carrying forward t construction as rapidly as possible. The new organ Is of the most mod ern type and will be one of the finest Instruments cf Its kind in this section of the state. 346.00 Canadian finance mlnlster_t.h_.t_no oh- Wages^. ^ 160.28 ere under way with New Turk ban* ora ready to advance the funds. Incidentals Unclassified Cash in Banka— General fund 133.00 425.08 20,825.38 Sinking fund 3,231.26 Street Improvement Bond fund 1L0«- 92 Cash in drawer 985.65 3,405.15 Total OF WASHINGTON, D. C., July 25.— ‘We must build ships; not talk about them.” said Edward N. Hurley, whose nomination as chairman of the ship ping board, to succeed William Den man, is expected to be speedily acetd upon. ”We are going to buck down and get busy,” he said. It Is announced that the resigna tion of Theodore Brent, vice chairman of the board, has been received at the white house, but not acted upon. The president’s method of ending the controversy on the shipping board by accepting the resignation of Gen. Goe thals and requesting the resignation of Mr. Denman, came as a great surprise to official Washington, who had lieved he would make a final effort to compose the situation by dividing deft nitely between the shipping board and the manager of its corporation powers conferred on the executive by congress. Mr. Wilson, apparently be came convinced, however, that Denman and Goethals never could work In har mony, and that both were in a measure t( be blamed for the delay in the ship building program. Virtually from the start of the trou ble it became known today, Mr. Den man did not have the full support of the board for his wooden ship pro gram. Mr. Donald and Mr. Stevens consistently supported General Goe thals, but Mr. Brent and Captain White stood with the chairman. General Goethals announcement of his program furnished the cause for a definite split between him and Mr. Denman. Much of the Goethals plan was the original program proposed by the shipping board, but Mr. Denman is said to have resented the fact that the general In making it public de clared* he would proceed without con suiting the board. The president’s order conferring tho powers given by congress authorize the board to operate ships and the corporation to build them. General Goethals, reinforced by a letter from President Wilson, which he declared he would not be hampered, took the order to mean he would have a free hand. Mr. Denman, with a letter from the president which he thought charg ed the shipping beard with responsi bility for tho expenditures of the funds supplied by congress, promptly block ed the general’s plans. Difficulties then developed thick and fast, and another letter went from the white house to General Goethals. I' culled the general to account for an ncunclng the program without first consulting the beard, and made it clear that he was not In supreme charge of the building program and must not proceed without the approval of tho shipping board. In reply the general wrote a letter offering to resign. DU ABOARD A-7 WASHINGTON, D. C.. July 25.—An explosion yesterday on board subma rine A-7 at Cavite. In the Philippines killed five and Injured three other offi cers and men. The dead are Lieut Arnold Marcus, Machinists' Mate H. B. Lang, Gunners’ Mate O. Hopewell, Chief Electrician J, H. Curry and Ma chinists' Mate K W. Kunz. BRITISH SECURITIES SCORED ItlU ADVANCE DURING MONTH LONDON, July 25.—According to the Bankers' Jlagazlne, the value of 387 representative securities during this month shows an advance of seven mil lion pounds sterling. Although a sub stantial Improvement la recorded among foreign government securities, bank shares and Iron and steel shares, this has been offset by a setback In J. M. WEEKS PLEASED WITH VISIT TO MOUNTAINS J. JI. Weeks, who is spending a while with his daughter In Bryson, N. C„ writes back In glowing terms of the Land of the Sky.” Mr. Weeks is en thusiastic about the climate and the beautiful scenery of North Carolina, and the appearance of health and pros perity everywhere. This Is Mr. Weeks' first vacation In several years and be Is enjoying It to the very fullest extent. BEGIN GALLING MEN TO APPEAR FOREXAMINAT COUNTY BILLS IN AT THIS SESSION WASHINGTON, D. C„ July 25.— The race .between varloua states to be the first to call their draft quota li on In earnest, tho calling of men for physical examination beginning this morning in several districts.. De tails for actually calling the men to service and sending them to mobiliza tion camps are being worked out, and as soon as the men arc posted and ac cepted they will he under military law. Should any attempt to ovade re sponsibility as to service they will be tried by courtmartial. Men dratted In various states are to be assigned to the nearest cantonment, and with troops from their own state, as far as possible. 4 General Crowder In conversation with newspaper men here today, Indi cated a second draft would not -he need within a year. E DISAGREES ON CONTROL BILL ATLANTA, Ga., July 25—The declar ed policy of the speaker and the house rules committee that there shall be no special orders until the last seven daya of the session which has been reiterat ed In an Interview by Vice Chairman Garland 5f. Jones, has put the new county advocates to guessing lost what the status of those four bills will be when the session ends. Vice Chairman Jones declares tho committee is absolutely opposed to fix ing any calendar for the house durlnc the first forty-three days, that this Is. the policy of the speaker, and that I purpose of the committee la to hats the house proceed on Its own numeri cal calendar. The rules committee os | yesterday heard the resolution asking! that the Treutlen county bill be made ta special order for Wednesday and re ported the resolution to tho house this, morning without action. Tho Treutlen county bill, which waa- the first of the four to be Introduced, Is House Bill No. 90 and the house has so far disposed of three general bills only. Tbe appropriations bill and the general tax act will have right-of-way ver everything when they come In. and the big guess now Is what will became- of the bills seeking to create Treatihn, Atkinson, Cook and Wilson counties fn i the final shuffle. If no speefaf orders^ are to be fixed, it Is felt and admit ted by some ow the new county advo cates there is no chance for their Mila to get a hearing on the floor of the- liouse prior to the last seven days, and. therefore, it centers on a proposition ol whether or not the rules commit tee Is going to crowd them oft tho boards for other legislation. The samn condition will, of course, apply to quite e great deal of general legislation now- pending, partlcularlytohs e bills which aro being Introduced, or have been In troduced In tbe past few days. Under the existing circumstances and because of the new policy announced the main play now appears to be that of getting In'general bills at this time with a view to having them ripe,’if pos sible, for the next session, in the hope that they may be reached then. IT that Is to be the obtaining custom the balance of the session, however, with WASHINGTON, D. C. t July 25.— The food control bill was sent to conference by the house today with' an y considerable continuation of theta* instructions to its conferees to disa gree on all senate amendments. This presages belated approval of Join con gressional action on war expenditures. The conference committee will meet tomorrow. I0LESALE RAID IS STARED IR PENSACOLA PESACOLA, Fla., July 25.—Follow ing a conference between Governor Catts, the county solicitor, sheriff and others, two hundred women residing in Pensacola’s red light district were arrested in a big raid covering the whole district. The conference fol lowed receipt of a letter from Secre tary Daniels of the navy department, saying unless the “red light” district be abolished at once, the naval train ing school located here would either be transferred ^>r withdrawn from Pen sacola. NEGRO BUR KILLED John Carson, a negro brakeman em ployed by the Seaboard Air Line rail road, was killed late Tuesday after noon In tbe railroad yards at Richland. Hla body was almost cut in half by the wheels of a freight car which was being switched. Carson lived In Richland, but was % member of the train crew of which f, E. Woods, of Americus, la conductor. troductlon of now matter and the same custom obtains next session in respect- to the operation of the rule* commit tee as a steering committee of the house, there Is now In the legislative hopper—measured on tho present prog ress of the house—more legislation tlmn another session can dispose -ot nnd there will be no room for the In troduction of any further new matter with the hope of passing it next year. A. J. BOBEBIS WAS BURIED TUESDir A. J. Roberts, one of Sumter coun ty’s most respected citizens, died Man- day morning at six o’clock at his resi dence In the eastern portion of the county after a short Illness. Mr. Rob erts was in hla etghty-rourth rear, a man of excellent character, who wan esteemed by all who knew him. He was a Primitive Baptist and a consistent member of Ebenezer church In Crisp county. Mr. Roberts Is survived by thl sons, Edwsrd and Cars Roberts, Sumter county, and Jack Roberts, of IN RICDlAND HJESDI! V,, “ ,; ""““'‘“" , “" , ”“ Wright, of Ashburn, Ga., and Mrs. Lena skinner and 5Ilss Alpine Roberta, ot Miami, Fla. Tho funeral services were held at noon on Tuesday xt Zion church, 1 Lee county, a large- number of so rowing friends attending. ♦ WEATHER FORECAST. PROBABLY LOCAL THUN-8 the value of some British and Indian I Details of the accident have not been j-4- DER SHOWERS .TODAY AND ♦- funds ss well as In American gold received here, as % formal report has .♦ TONIGHT. j not been rendered. *♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ onds. the news while it is ^—.COMPREHENSIVE LOCAL AND TELEGRAPHIC SERVICE—THE HOME PAPER PAR EXCELLENCE

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Weekly times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1910-1917, July 26, 1917, Image 1