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OTEMKSMI ornoiis a wmmm 1 THF. AMERICUS TIMESRECORDER. THURSDAY, Alar Sl> The practically boundless prosper ity now being enjoyed by the South, Is ■ Illustrated In the summary of a week's development, printed in the manufacturers' Record, as follows A transportation company at Mem phis, Tenn, has been chartered with $100,000 capital, and plans to build terminals. An investmcht of $1,000,000 for site, , buildings, machinery, etc., for manu factoring kraft paper is planned by the North Carolina Paper & Pulp Com piny, Wilmington, N- C. Oklahoma petroleum will be refined by the Cameron Refining Co., Ardmore, CUa, incorporated with a capital of $I,8O* I 0DO by Ardmoro and Chicago capitalists. Iron mining and manufacturing will be the principal activities of the Shef field Iron Corporation, Sheffield, Ala.. Incorporated with $775,500 capital as a chartered with a capitalization of $50,000. Virginia coal properties will be de veloped by the Long Fork Coal Co., Coeburn, Va.. Incorporated with a capitalization of $50,000 Hosiery to the extent of 2000 dozen pairs daily will be manufactured by the Piedmont Finishing Mills, Burl ington, N. C„ recently Incorporated with a capitalization of .$50,000. j FAIL PREPARATIONS OFTHE GARDEN ILL PAT BIO DIVIDENDS 1 lng weather 1 qomes—"clean up and burn up.” Don’t be tempted, as It Is sometimes advised, to use the leaves, ! weeds' and refuse from' your garden for the compost heap. It Is true they help make humus but they may also help make trouble. Pieces of sod, fallen leaves and material of that kind may be rotted up with manure if you have It to Increase the fertility of your garden next spring, but burn ev erything which by chance may carry j The old saying that “You cannot over trouble for another year eat your cake and have It too” does F „n Trenchluji to Increase Fertility I not altogether apply in the garden. | There Is another opportunity to riTTrnrn I11 rnifnT 0r to pu * ** differently, If you handle roaXe y 0ur garden for the next year 111 I I Kl II IN III II K I your garden 111 the rlght way ln th0 better by giving it an extra deep spad- SUIT FOB DAMAGES COAL SHORTAGE IN SOUTH GROWS STILL MORE ACUTE JUDGE CRISP UETOHUEO TO INSHUIGTOU SATURDAY IDE STAMU Hon. Charles R. Crisp left on Satur day night for Washington, to resumo his duties In congress. Judge Crisp SllktJ , fall you can get a lot of the raw | rg up this f a u. j f it i s „ 8ma ll one I plant foods which it contains "cooked- and usua n y spaded or forked up, yoi. and ready for your crops to use can g0 Q Vet * now and dig it several Fillmore Suber, by his next frisnd, the n e Xt 8eason; and also save the iDChes deeped than usual by throw- F. Suber, has Hied suit against next season’s uso the ’‘left-overs’’ that tng t i le 80 |[ out 0 f tbe fi rs t row nnd the International Agricultural Corpor- otherwise would go to waste from the tben digging up the soil below that, ation for $25,000, for personal Injur plant foods you applied this year. turning it over and breaking it up ies sustained on July 3d. when a scaf-' Th ® plant foad J a “ ,c 8 °“ ** l8,B where It is. The soil from the next . .., ...... . . two forms—called available and rcw if tbrown on t0p D f this, will folding on which he was working at . unavailable,- Th i s simply means , cav0 another strip of the subsoil un- the plant of tho company fell. The that the plant food that Is termed COV ered so that it can be broken up. It has been died ln the City Court of ’’available’’ Is In such forms that the -This trenching” or subsoiling of the Amcrlcus, and the case Is returnable roots of growing plants can make Im- garden not only gives more room for the third Monday in September. James medlat ® UB ® oI **• whlle that termc,J the roots of Your plants to gather their A. Hlxon, HarVy Hawkins and Shipp & ‘; unavalla1 ’ 1 ®" ‘« ln ' 8a ^ c0ndit ‘° n ^ at Rod ln but also makes it possible to A* has to undergo chemical changes < wor i c *» it much sooner in the spring, Sheppard represent the plaintiff ln tho bcfore the p i a „t can take It up. To ag the improved drainage enables it ATLANTA. Aug. 30.—The coal sit- stated that he would attend a meeting uation in the South is becoming mort» wa y 8 an d means committee Mon* than ever acute. It has reached that‘s whgn th6 adv i sa bIUty of floating stage now where the question of sup-: ... . ., . 1 1 1 , n , , ho „ 'ai.other huge bond issue, probably to ply is more Important than that of, - price. Complaints are now coming in falling A ve billion dollars, would be of arbitrary confiscation by the rail- discussed, roads of coal shipments moving over One of the largest rail- Yard-lVide Taffeta and $1.15, Selling (or *1.25 and $U(, Ue tag Examples of the s Offered here. part of the re-organlzatlon plan of the Sheffield Coal & Iron Company. This corporation Is now rebuilding Its Shef- flald fnrnaee, improving its Jasper coke adding to its mining plants, Biver terminals will be constructed by the city of Memphis, Tenn.. which bn voted $500,000 bonds to provide the pacenary funds. An Investment of $500,000 is planned by the Morris Fertilizer Co., Atlanta, Cm, Cor building a fertilizer factory at Stenaea, N. C„ the annual capacity to be 60,000 tons. expenditure of $503,470 Is estl- for the municipal river terminal Improvements for which the city of Mobile, Ala., recently voted $600,000 In bonds. The new construction Is to Incliide a 7500-foot wharf costing $232, SOCIETY EDITOR DDES TO AHMY CONTOilENT >akc tho matter plain for the beginner t0 dry out more rapidly. ( in the soil correspond to the materials 'of various kinds which the cook may have in the kitchen cupboard—flour, ' rice, lima beans, spaghetti, etc. These are all “foods" but not available for human use until after they have been changed by cooking. The parallel may be carried a step farther in that, after they have been prepared, they can Mrs. Daisy O. Onosspelius, who for not bc kept lnde n n itely. and unless the past several months has occupied made use of a large percentage of the post of society editor of the Times- them w m b - e loat or wasted. 1 Recorder, leaves tonight for Greenville, Uurlng the fall, winter nnd early $2,000,000 MORE MAY BE ADDED TO BOND ISSUE BILL WILL FEAGIN GOES TO COMMERCIAL WAREHOUSE Willie Feagin has accepted a posi tion with the Commercial warehouse, their lines. road systems ln the South reports n supply on band only sufficient to operate ten days. Another reports a supply sufficient for only three day3 operation. These are being arbitrarily augumented by confiscation, for which there appears to be no relief other'as cotton shipper. He has entered up- than through the courts. | on b j 8 duties and can In the future be The question of transportation and |ound at that e8tabll8hment . fuel Is reaching that acute stage where | It is Involving the right of the pur Phaser to receive the coal he has 1 bought against the alleged right of a railroad company transporting such coal to confiscate It arbitrarily to such SMit i a road's own use. Tho State Railroad Commission is RESOLUTIONS ON THE DEATH OF ■MRS. MARTHA UOX BIVINS On the night of June 4tb, 1917, the death angel came quietly Into our* „ _ . .... . - WASHINGTON, D. C., August 30.— S C., to accept a position as stenog 8pr ing a grca t deal of the plant food ' T wo billion dollars may be added to rapher, with tho contracting firm cn- ln so n t ba t Is left bare Is carried tbo tota i of bon ds to bo introduced at gaged in constructing the army can- a way in the surface washing and ln tbe pre8e nt session of congress, mak- tonmeni at that point. the drainage water resulting from lng a total of approximately $21,000,- Mrs. Gnosspeltus has displayed Ta i ng 8nd f rom melting snows. In 000 available to the government dur marked ability ln the handling of the tl)e case 0 r nitrogen, which is the most i ng the fiscal year ending June 30, society columns of the Times-Re- valuable of the three plant foods most igig. corder, and her departure will be 1)kcly t0 - 8hor t’’ In any soil—nitrogen, Democratic Leader Kitchin declares 600. 8300 feet of bulkhead costing. noted with regret, although a host of pll08phor |c ■ acid and potash-further that estimates submitted to him by the *33*>6. six miles of railroad track friends throughout this section will , os8 occa8lon ed by Its passing off treasury department make it appear costing *72.000, etc., together with 2.- congratulate her on tho.securing of the alr On0 or th i,. gardncr ’s tbat tho addltlon al authorization prob- 000,0400 cable yards of dredging to such a lucrative position which may mo8t | ml)or t ant pro blems, therefore. ab , W lll he necessary. «*t *120,000. | lead to even better results as the train- to 8ave wbat tbe re may be left of present indications, according to Mr. Non-alcoholic beverages wlll lie ir.g camp activities develop. these available plant foods at the end Kitchin are that $19 000 000 000 wlll manufbeured by the Huntington Co, - ’ ’ Beverage, W. Va., incorporated with it capitalization ot $3oq,000. Shipyards will bo established at Beaumont, Texas by J. N. McCammori at Pino Bluff, Ark., who has leased m plant site and secured an Initial contract to build a number of 3500- ton wooden ships costing $300 030 each Ized for tbe Government Brazoria and Ft rt Bend county (hex as) sulphur and oil properties will b; <lcvek>pco by the bwlft Sulphur A ml ■fo. r.ustor., lu-t, charttered ».’h - a. cai'l'allzatlor. of *250,000. FortUzer and oil will be the pro duct of the Pensacola Fertilzer & OH r^, Pensacola, Fla., Incorporated with l a capUhilizatlon of $250,000 by New York Investors. Hosiery will be knit by the Paragon Knitting Mills, Oklahoma City, organ- with $250,000 capital. Haul lights for motor vehicles will be manufactured b y the “Turn Right” HeadBlht Co., Harrison, Ark., in- cuuwrated with a capitalization of *1000.000. Machinery for deatroying the boll weevil will be manufactured by the . Kyscr Manufacturing Co., Birmingham, IUa,ilnsorporatId with a capitalization of *160,000. Oklahoma mines will he developed by the Marshfleld-Quapab Mining Co., QnapOh, Okla- Incorporated with a capitalization of $99,000. ■Window glass will be manufactured by tbe Model Window Glass Co., For. Ark., lacorporated with a cap! tallzallon of $753)000. lambcr wlll be the product of the York Lumber Co., Charleston. W. va:. Incorporated with a capital of *75,000. Oklahoma mines will be developed by tbe Homes take Mining Co., Miami, Okla., Incorporated with a iapltaltza- tkm ot $60,000. rs will be manufactured by the Hancock Cleanser Co., Chatta- Tcnn., Incorporated with a capl- ion ot $50,000. READ ELMER FRENCH’S of the season for another year. And, meet the expenses of the financial year BID FOR THE SPOT-LIGHT like the surplus foods ln the kitchen. but | t l8 thought best to have a $2,000,- they may be saved by “canplng:” 000,000 margin for emergencies. ' ~ „„ ' it may at first glance seem a rather -i t now seems probable,” he said. ATLANTA, Ga-^ 29 ;^ Go [ ag difficult problem to can an Invisible - tbat the total amon nt of money need something hidden away In a foot or c d f 0r the fl 8Ca i ycar w m be abo ut Into the basement to rake out ashes and clean tlie furnace in prep- g0 of garden soil which would take $19,000,000,000. This estimate covers arat on for the arrival of th o first an expert cheraIcal ana i y8 | g to find. about $27,000,000,000 for loans to the touch of cold weather, Elmer French u . ln reallty lt lg much eagler t h a n the Alllegi three billions of which al- jaanltor of an Atlanta church, found k(nd 0 f canning you do in tho kitchen. ready hag been provided; $1,300,000,- 8 asomen o e . By planting a crop that wlll grew qqq f or current expenses, exclusive of h 0U ?^ T e through th0 w,nter and carly Bprlng the war, leaving about $10,000,000,000 through It. Presently another pane the gurplua available foods, will be for W ar expenses. g aaa **“* w A r ° U *^.»i™d*nn^hs !itorod up ln the r00t8 ' 8tcms and “Included in the war estimate is h 4 HnJrvln J^ |lcavtR pf the growlng pIants ’ and $176,000,000 for the new Insurance bill itnW wrench did nnt « n / a crowd of whcn the8e ar ° pl ° W6<1 ° T 6Paded a, * d *1.000,000,000 for the shipping Janitor French did not And a crowd of dcr |n the gpr i ng and decompose, you hoard. J° y h. e cvnoc?cJr KCt your plant ,ood8 back agaln ’ rcady The ‘»«nty-one billions would be as he expected, but was astonished to (or uge by , he v0 g B , ab icg yo u plant raised as follows: . d Mrd V wTndow a Heht r0 rat'Tilt "ulnn ^ next spring. In addition you till your Dondg fon Allied loans, $7,00,000,- nn^cctod hit the du-t gard6n 80,1 wlth '' 1 ‘ umu8 •' , or vege ' 000; pending revenue bills, $3,000, «^ ™nk. 1 ^n^hrin!ld. h 0 »\h h . tabla m, “ ter ’ Wblch 18 a ’ m ° St ““ ® B ' OWl.000; war certificates $4,000,000.- and 8 moke on the Inside of to( « i gentian for the healthy, vigorous 0 00; bonds for domestic purposes, au- confronted with three complaints midst and bore away to its home above confiscation in Georgia, in which tho'.. . , , . . , , , .. ithe sweet spirit of sister Martha commission is powerless under tho ( law to afford relief to the purchaser of, Bivins, the mother of Rev. R. L. Biv- the coal, and yet, in the opinion here- ins. tofore held by the commission, the | sister Bivins had l^en a conse- railroad has no right to confiscate c °ai crated and devoted member of Central moving over its line any more than It* church for a]mogt a gcor , would have a rlghtvto open a freignti car and take out any other goods of-’ ycars ! sh ® came to lt ln Its Infancy fered It for transportation. (and by he^ consistent life, devoted Only Relief is In Courts. 'interest and constant prayers was Coal movements generally, and all of ] arg ely responsible for Its growth and those in which complaint has come to | ua| developraent . We feel a dl8 . the state commission, are In Interstate i tinct and almost irreparable loss in commerce, which takes the matter out of the jurisdiction of the Georgia!her going, and yet have reason to re commission. In previous similar com-*joice that God spared her for so many plaints the commission has advised years to spread sunshine and the joy that ln its opinion the only reconrso* God . llke a880cIatl0n ln the path8 ot the purchaser ot such coal, or the! those who came ln contact with her. shipper, has for such confiscation, through the courts. In that premises | ^ nd now , whereas, God, In His wis the commission has expressed tho dom, has seen fit to take her from us, opinion that the railroad confiscating after a long and useful life spent In coal of a private party, concern orj H , g gerv , ce and {or the everla8tIn5 manufacturing enterprise, Is liable not ! , , , , , i .. .. . good ot others, our church loses one of only for the price of the coal so con- fiscated, but Is blso liable for the, 1(8 most valued members, therefore, be damages, specific or cumulative. This 1‘ resolved; Is based on the ground that lt the con-1 First, that we are grateful to God ilscation of a shipment ot coal should' for her llfe> the purUy and ten derness necessitate the closing down of a cot-1 .... . , , .. . . . , . , . . of which constrained others to bear ton mill or other manufacturing plant | or enterprise, thereby entailing loss of cr08s w *lh courage, business, the payment by the railroad for the coal It had confiscated would not reimburse the enterprise tor Its fuel supply which It had fully arrang cd for and which had been started in transit to the purchaser. This kind of damage would be cumulative In the Immediate and prospective injury done the enterprise, and the opinion Is held, and has been expressbd by the date commies on, that such n claim Is actionable lu Rie courts and will' lie when brought. minutes bo set aside as a met our deceased sister and tlons spread thereon. Fourth, that a copy of theseif lutlons be furnished the the Christian Index and the l Times-Recorder with the Second, that we as a church extend publication, our heartfelt sympathy to her beloved I MRS! R. L. MAY.VA1 family, assuring them that their sor-j MRS. S. H. I row Is our sorrow also. I MRS. JAS. PERKINS. | Third, that a page ln our church * Just for one instance on advance in Silks, y ard that we have sold all t be have advanced to $u 3 * hol " the retailer’s profit will be that price this fall. 1 With our prices below the cost, this sale will bring , era. At 98c. Yard wide 1 white and colors. At $1.15, Yard wide Taffeta* finish guaranteed. ~ At 60c. Yard Wide twelve patterns. At 76c. Yard wide HabutJ grounds with polka dots. T At 50c. Yard wide Habatl- j only. At 60c. All colors Jap j and black. Fancy Silk Ribbons at lOe, j and 15c. All Silk Ribbons. 3 1-2 tigk wide, pretty patterns, all colon J COTTON IIUCK TOWELS 1,*.x2S INCHES Be. Unbleached Cotton Huck fringed ends, size 15x28. „ NEW FALL PERCALES." New fall Percales made by 0 makers, plenty of Indigo 1 fifty other new patterns to « Yard 12 l-2e to 20c. NEW DRESS GINGHAM. Over one hundred new styles lect from full standard msks colors at yard 15c. THE STANDARD hud turned It Into a mirror, and that growth of your p i,„t 8 as having plenty thcrized, $2,000,000,000; proposed new the game cock, scratching tn tho , Hum.., , RECEIVES COMMISSION III U.S. MEDICAL CORPS ... . ot plant food ln the soli. Humu’i bonds, $2,000,000,000; war savings cer- Z.; n„ . l! TI k6CPB th ° B °" br0k0n UP 8Dd P0r ° U3 ™®" U ®’ ll. 2 00.200.000. cvpntmfY nnrt w n« nroreedinz to drivf and absorb8 the BUr Plus moisture Approximately $11,000,0000,000 of tho his numerous rivals from tile Dremisea 8torlng 11 up tor th ® futu re needs of foregoing amounts are included in the his numerous rl a s p the growing plants during dry weather. bond and certificate bill which the For these reasono you can readily ways and means committee has be-j Dr. Bowman Joel Wise, of Plains, see that the sowing of winter or cove? g Un consider. The bill would has received his commission as first crop a on every square foot of your gar- authorize $7,000,000,000 for Allied 1 lieutenant in the medical corps of the den left uncovered before freezing loans, $3,000,000,000 to be used in re- j United States army, the commission freezing weather is not merely a hob- funding 3 1-2 per cent bonds alread> dating from August 18th. by, but just about as important as authorized; $2,000,000,000 In war ccr-j Several weeks ago Dr. Wise made a putting manure on your garden in the tiflcatea and $2,000,000,000 in war sav- jtrip to Augusta, Ga., where he stood physical and mental examination Sparks Grocery Company PHONES 43 & 279 Always a full line of good thing to eat from the Markets of tli world. AMERICUS SHOWS OPERA HOUSE. Friday. Charlie Chaplin in ’’The Cure." Fox apring. In latitudee north of Phila- ( ng certificates. It also contains a re- comedy, “The Houm ot a Thousand delphta, the best crops for this pur- authorization provision for$2,000,000- Stnndals.” pose are rye and winter vetch. South 000 | n war certificates and would pro- of Philadelphia either these or crimson vlde for taklng over other previously ALCAZAR THEATRE. . clover may be used. Both the vetch authorized bonds In the following Thursday. and the clover are ’’legumes" and not amaun ts: Paramount picture. Wallace Reid only conserve plant food as described p ana ma Canal, $225,000,000; nava! and Myrtle Steadman, In “The World above but gather nitrogen from tho construction, $150,000,000; Mexican Apart,” five acts. air, actually enriching the garden soil bordcr control, Danish West Indes Friday. on which they gbow. The earlier these and A!askan Ra n wayi $1800,000.000; Blue Ribbon feature. Peggy Hy- can be sown the more growth they 3 per cent p an ama Canal bonds is land in "The Sixteenth Wife," five will make before the ground freezes 8ued | n jg 1( j 983,945,480. acta, and Chapter 14 “Mystery of the up. Tho best way la to have enough No aUemp t wl |j be made. Mr. Kiteh- Double Croas.” seed on hand and sow each patch of ln b oii e ves. to odd the newly a jg. Saturday. ground ns soon ns lt la available. In- gegted 32,000.000,000 Isaue to the hill Triangle plays. Jack Devereaux in 8t oad of waiting until you can clear off flow bcfor o the comni iUre. It wlll given by army surgeons for admission to the medical corps, and the commis sion just arriving ln the direct result. He has not yet been assigned to duty, but Is expecting orders at any time. LEAVES TO TAKE POST AT NEW TRAINING CAMP Lieut. Ryan M. Williamson left Mon day for Camp Wadsworth at Spar tanburg, S. C„ to report to the com manding officer of the training camp, where thousands of men drafted Into CARRY YOUR COTTON TO E. C. Parker & Co. ALSO Agents for the OWENSBORO WAGON CO. A Fine Line in All Sizes _ . —- the new national army will be gathered , „ K , . “A" 1 ® 81 ®" 18 ’ T ’“ ta A”* fly ® ac ‘ 8 ’ and a" o' «** gurden. Next spring the come , n „ a 8eparate measure, If at 1 within a few days. He received a Virginia coal and timber land Girl and the Ring, Triangle parU which were eown last can be left , commission a 8 second lieutenant In the wRl be developed by the Pocahontas comedy. for late crops, such as melons and ! veterinary department several weeks Coal Umd & Timber Co., Princeton, beans, so that the cover crops will have : ago and has been awaiting orders a! Va., chartered with a capitalization. Preventive of Tarnish. more of a chance to f row. The clover OFFICERS ELECTED BY his home near this city. of *60,000. To keep brass beds and other kinds can be sown any time up to the first BARACA-PHILATUEA UNION ( ‘ Virginia -marble, onyx and granite of braes work from tarnishing, and wee k of September and the rye and will be quarried by the Virginia Marble also to avoid frequent polishing, tho vetch unU , ear , y froat At a m eetlng of the Baraca-Phila- &On*y Co.. Saltpetre Cave. Va.. organ- b ™ 88 ac “ lT ^ ^ohll.he C,6an ,ho Garden l ’ P Sow th6a Clty Ualoa beW Monday ’ ,h ® an ' fxed with a $50,000 capiui. | qucr 8houId bo opp u ed w | tb a (nu U Too many gardners make the mlt- nual election ot officers occurred after Virginia coal will be mined by | brusb Ten cents worth of lt take of leaving all the cleaning up the regular program, resulting as fol- Dopoy Co., Welch, W. Va., Incorp- w m i ac euer a bedstead. there may be to be done in the garden Iowa: President, W. J. Boyett; first orated with $6,000 capital. VTent Virginia coal will be mined 1 Stonewall Block Coal Co.. Stone- . Va., Incorporated with a capi ta ot $50,000. Want Column *1 ■. 1 1 ■ until spring. Dead vines, bad fruits, vice president. Miss Lets Merritt; sec- WANTED — Experienced man to Value of Yawning. > brash, tomato poles, etc., are left oad vice president, H. D. Hansford; work on farm and oversee same; farm ■A good yawn, medical experts say, where they ere. This not only makes secretary, Mrs. Lottie Livingston; as- near Americus; give reference; ex- le excellent for the lunge, and for all a disreputable looking garden through slstant secretary, Russell Speer; perlence end salary expected, w. h. __ ^ the breathing organs as weu. uut tbe W | n t er and early apring, but fur- treasurer, M. E. Purvta; reporter. Miss Emmet, Atlanta, Ga. Vlratni* coal lend will be developed. there is an art In yawning. j J st ae D | |beg tbe vCry finest kind of a winter Louellen Bragg. (_ Of the Cumberland Co.. Big 8 * oae | , bo “ d Jo ..“delp as posslble. M resort for every bug. beetle and blight The regular monthly meetings ofi I WANT TO DO YOUR fine watch. Gap. Va., Incorporated with a capltalL to brinl[ t „ the mu8cle , c f the »P«re on tbe list that requires special the city union are occasions of Ifiter- clock and Jewelry repairing. Expert ' of *50,000. j t!lroat aBd cb ost Into action, and also quarters for "wintering over." Make eit in Baraca and Phllatbea circle* In service and reasonable charges. R. S. Coat will be mined by the Beaver- ( go - lba lunge with a current of fresh the slogan of the lost week’* work In this city and several special events are Broad hurst. Jeweler. 110 Lamar St, nsthora Coal Corporation. Bristol, Va., air. the garden out-of- doors before frees- being planned for the coming winter, directly In front of postofi c*. 6-it AUTO TIRES VULCANIZED All work done by STEAM and every job absolutely GUARANTEED. - When you have tire troubles phone 506, our service car is AL WAYS at your command. Americus Steam Vulcanizing Co* J. W. LOTT, Manager J REAR AMERICLS AL1C CC.