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"The Wagon You Can't Overload’"
We have a few of these famous wagons in stock pur
chased before the advance in prices which we will sell at
old prices while they la&. If you are in need of a wagon
and want the be& on the market, you had better make-
your selection now,as shipment en-route will co$t you more.
This wagon will Ia& for ten years without one dollar ex
pense.
“Ask the Man Who Owns a Mitchell."
HARROLD BROTHERS
V. P. DAVIS
nental Surgeon. \
Orthodontia, Pjorrhea.
Residence Phone 316. Office Phone 811.
Allison Bids.
ROBT. E. WHITE
As Age Advances the Liver Requires
aw 11 l ""^fl^r»DTFDxr occasional slight stimulation. CARTER'S LITTLE,
*0 LIVER PILLS correct CONSTIPATION.
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Colorless or Pale Faces Crtrt k- Wfc
Abstracts and Loans
'Americus, Ga.
Mach More Than Your Money’s Worth
ESSIDUPftUth
WHITMAN .
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THE AMERICUS T1MES-RECORDER.
FALL TERM
AND MECHANICAL SCHOOL
Opens September 3rd
BOARDING SCHOOL for BOYS and GIRLS
A STATE INSTITUTION
tudents Admitted from everywhere.
Graduates Enter All State Colleges Without
Examination.
TUITION FREE
WRITE
J. M. COLLUM, Principal
Americus, Ga., for Catalogue
BEST
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ivays Be Sure of the Number
We urge our subscribers to consult
he Telephone Directory whenever a call
to be made. When you trust to your
lemory, your are apt to transpose the fig-
in a telephone number; when you
ust to an old card or letterhead, you are
it to call a number that has been changed.
And when you do call a "wrong
jmber,” you cause inconvenience and
day for yourself and for the party whom
>u call in error. Make it a practice, to
insult the Directory first.
JTHERN BELL TELEPHONE
) TELEGRAPH COMPANY
E. WESTBROOK, Manager.
c.
addition to the ordinary forms of Life Insurance.
THE EQUITABLE
makes a specialty of the following:
ance to protect business firms and corporations, under a corpo
m of policy,
i Insurance, by which employers protect families of em
itile contract, known as the Convertible Policy, which can be
ed by the Insured into an Ordinary Life, Limited Payment e,
lament Policy.
"I issued without medical examination giving the Investor an
for his declining years. .,
' policy is offered under which the insurance isgDOUBLLD,
rsults from ACCIDENT. This policy also embodies the follow-
antafies. It the personwhose life is Insured becomes total!*
rmanently disabled. _
hereafter the Equitable will carry the Inaurance—The Ins
'e nothing further to pay. ...
he Equitable will pay tha Insured an annual Income to
1 one-tenth of the face of the policy,
pon the death of the Inaured the full amount of the Insure
paid to the Beneficiary (or double the amount If death Is a
ti without deduction on account of tha income paid to t e y
e living. (Sec the policy for conditions and details.)
“ are contemplating taking life Inaurance, it will be toif _
to see what the EQUITABLE LIFE has to offer before ie .
France.
A. C. CROCKETT
—. • office Windsor Hotel.
WASHINGTON, D. C., August 27,— WASHINGTON, 0. C„ August 28.—
Canteens and rest stations for tho Because of the shortage of corn in
French and American troops will be*some secions of the South and the
established at once In France by th* * more than usual need tor growing
American Red Cross. [at home all tho feed that stock wilt
The war Council has been trying require, a liberal acreage should be
to find out Just what the Red CrosB sown to winter oats this fall where-
could do most effectively to hearten.over that crop adapted. While many
the French army and give to French farmers had a disastrous experience
toldeiers a token of the fact that with oats last winter when a large
America Is with her Ally with all her part of the crop was destroyed by the
power. The French Army officers! February freeze, a repetition of that
'have told the Red Cross that canteens,occurrence this year is not very prob-
ai.d rest stations would do more for able. Oats are generally recognized
the immediate welfare and content-. 8,1 being ordinarily the best grain crop
ment of the soldiers than anything tor fall sowing In the South, as It
else that could be done. Therefore, 1 usually yields better than other grains,
the problem Is going to be met thor-1 matures early, and both tho grain and
oughly and at once. f? straw ma F be fed t0 ,lve at °® k '
The pollus come out of the trenches, I' 1 fact. It Is a very general practice
to go on leave, mud-stained, vermin- )•“ many sections, cither to cut oa a
covered, reeking with Infection. Theyf° r *>ay or to feed them In bund la,
are marched to the nearest railhead to work to stock, thus providing o
it: that condition, where, perhaps, they ^rain and roughage,
find a little station with scanty ac-j ^ ced Economy,
comodations for a dozen passengers.) The scarcity and high price o Bee
The Red Cross Is going to put oats this fall, due to the short crop
shower-baths there, and laundries and last spring, make It desire e to use
mending and disinfecting rooms, which special precautions to get a goo
will remove the menace of dirt and stand with as little seed as pose e.
disease which these men carry to their! As less seed Is needed when the seed
homes. Then there will be rest rooms is sown early on well-prepared land,
where they can read and write and attention to these points all pay we ,.
play games, to make tho transition 1 Oats usually do best ante a cultivated
to civilian life easier, and small stores crop, such as corn or cotton. , eso
where the can buy tinned delicacies, ! crops have been kept free from nee s,
tobacco, and odds and ends. lit l» best not to plow ‘he land but
Similar canteens will be opened at to make a fine, mellow seed bed two
the railroad junctions where the men'or three Inches deep, with the disk,
must wait enroute. At some of them spring-tooth, or spike-tooth harrow.
now these men, still trench-stained! The disk harrow is the best of these
have to lie on station platforms all'tools/or lth«s purpose though the
night. There will be dormitories at spike tooth or something narr0
such places, and lunch-rooms at all of should be used the ast me ov ® r
them where hot meals can be bought* held » break clods left by the disk
a- a price Just above cost. j and to leave the surface fine and
Nearly fifty thousand soldiers are smooth for the see . *
passing through eleven of these staged may also be “ ade y‘* h tb ® dl " k
tlons every day. They will have a con- harrow on land from whcha opof
vincing proof of American frlenllness cowpea or soy bean hay has been rc-
when they find American women-the moved Plowingis not usually ad-
IWomen's Bureau Is now recruiting vlslable unless the la y
fifty of them for such service—ready, or weedy, as It leaves e g o
, “ loose that it dries out readily. If the
Jusl behL the firing line the Red Add must be plowed, the work should
Cross will put field canteens, E*tend-| b *done at «Mtno ^ dlnked
French* RetTcross^we SP.? Z « = to firm It.
every corps of the French Army. and ! /.* . k u u a wn
u y if the land is rich or If it has been
ultimately our own, has one of these) .
;r. rr «.
cold drinks to the men who are fight- crop, ““ IUI „a.
Ing. Many of them now have nothing ( sary. On most s , ’
to relieve their thirst exceut their, dltion of 100 o h ^°. .
tamers which may be smashed at any is bcnefldal Fertnlzers con .
"canteen is placed in or near'mining nitrogen are u.ualty applied
the second, line, and refreshing drinks t0 b «® 1 ® ' an 8 °* h *
are carried right Into the
*» *•^ ~ °*°r -s
mg point, and has severe, ^ ^ ^
containers holding six to twelve gal-. aHApplcri Bancroft. Cook,
Ions apiece, Four thoaaand .'*‘ de i Hundred Bushel, or Patterson. The
-coffee, tea. cocoa, bouillon lemonade ^ ^ a vcfy popu(ar varlety , ’
mint—are sometimes served from one *» . .. tn Rp( |'
i many sections, Is quite similar to Rea
canteen ln a slngl y. \ Rustproof but has the advantage of
Here, too. American worker, will • earlier.I
be found. The "convoyer” in charge l^Zn^rleneeeee ttnd Virginia*
l ” < I
in this way. Just the cup of coffee,! Seeding Dates |
or the cold drink, may make all the; Winter oats should be sown In Tenn-
8agR ‘ Dg m0rale If'to Octobe'r'is',"accordingthe lo-*
"“to‘carry out 'these plans the War callty. In the Carolina, and the north- (
Council has appropriated about *700.-'em portion of the other southern (
000. which will serve to establish tho states sow from October 1 to Novem- (
canteens and maintain them for about her 1. and In the southern half of Geor-,
throe months. Much of the original 'gia and the Gulf SUtes sow from Oc-,
equipment will be supplied by the tober 15 to November 15. The farther
French Army Dortb 0r th ® hleher tbC eleVall0n at
French A y. whIch the „ e ed is sown, the earlier.
should be the date of seeding.
Sowing Suggestions |
The grain drill Is the beat method
: of sowing oats. II one It not avail
-THE-
UNION
CENTRAL
LIFE INS.
COMPANY
Cincinnati, Ohio
The beSt Life Insurance
The lowest co$t good
Insurance
Ask any of our many t pol
icy holders here
LEE H. HANSFORD
Ag’t., Planter’s Bank
Building, Americus, Ga.
J. LEWIS ELLIS
Attorney at Law
Planter’8 Bank Building
Phone 830.
Americas, Ga.
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TIIOS. E. HAND, Dentist.
Commercial City Bank Building.
Telephone 303.
Aerlcns, Go.
EMMETT S. HORSLEY,
CItU Engineer.
UAWSOX, GA.
LAND SURVEYING A SPECIALTY
WRITE FOR REFERENCE.
Americus Taxicab Company
DODGE and BU1CK CARS
Will Answer All Calls Promptly
PHONE 825
'COMPTON & VAUGHN
HE’S EIGHTY, BUT NOT TOO
OLD TO HELP CONSERVE
COUNTRY'S FOOD SUPPLY
»OI BUW3UJS UOID. » —» -- — — .
WASHINGTON. D: C:, August 28.'able, the seed may be sown with nuj
_..J ara working vigorlously every day!ordinary cotton or corn planter or a,
it my larie vegetable garden in spite one-horse drill. Sewing broadcast and j
o- the fact that I am 80 years years | plowing or discing In requires more f
young," declared Amos D. Curran of seed and Is a poor and uncertain
Bristol Ills:, today In a tetter to the’method. The usual rate of seeding |
National Emergency Food Garden is 2 1-2 to 3 bushels but this may f
Commission, 210 Maryland building, be reduced to 2 bushels If th* seed,
which is giving *5,000 In prizes for the are drilled early on well prepared |
best canned vegetables grown In war land. The seed should be sown only,
deep enough to be be sura that it Is,
covered with moist soil, for deeper ^
seeding delays germination and early,
growth. Sowing 1 to 11-2 Inches deep
is usually sufficient.
How’s This?
Wm offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for Say case of Catarrh that cannot be
......1 ),» Hall's Catarrh Medicine.
nSucitirrh MsdWnehss bwnuken.
by catarrh lufferersforthe past thirty
«v<* vMn and haa become known as tne
•*fjf.f°v!>u n havi taken Haifa Catarrh
M^Wr h a‘lSortU™ -y
dno at once and net rid of catarrh. Sena
I for testimonials, fr**.
1 F. 3, CHENEY ft CO..
Sold by
To Our
Farmer Friends
Beg to announce that the “NEW GIN” of
the FARMERS COTTON OIL CO., is now
ready. Colton Is so high you will want all
that is yours.
1 u
Therefore, we have equipped our plant with
the very latent improved machinery there is to
be had in the United States, for making the very
be& sample and cleaning the seed thoroughly.
We also have the very be£ men we possibly
can get to serve you. We are in the market for
Cottun Seed, Peanuts and Velvet Beans, always
Offering the best prices the market affords.
Our mill has been established and under the
same management ever since the mill was built,
and having met the demands of the times, we
request that you continue giving us your liberal
patronage as long as our service merits it. Re
member the “NEW GIN” and bring us your
cotton.
garden.
Mr. Curran write*. •• It wa» my,
privilege to *erv* three year* In the
great Civil War and I tried to do » :
•good Mt’ for my country. I ettll
want to be of eerrlce to Uncle Sam."
C L. Pack, the president the Cbm-
mlridon, sent Curran 50 canning and
Farmers