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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. Si Colorless or Pale Faces Crtrt k- Wfc Abstracts and Loans 'Americus, Ga. Mach More Than Your Money’s Worth ESSIDUPftUth WHITMAN . * ■ . - ■ ■ -■ ••• . - »• - • -• - 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 BE 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. PAGE 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