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    WEEKLY AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER
CITY
EDITION
THE LIVEST LITTLE DAILY IN GEORGIA”
I Cobh John A
SIXTH VKAB.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA. THURSDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 6, 1917
I Fin I
f STOCKS EVER AS8EM-
KKE IN anticipation OF
'SINESS—TKADIXG IS AL-
lively.
lbc last week of the fall
Indian summer came In with
Every merchant In Americus
dry goods, clothing, shoes
is already getting In their
w outlook Is that the supply
Odlse In the Americus stores
er «ill be the largest and
fully selected that have ever
„n here.
»d road s leading out from
in all directions make auto-
asuro and the people in all
he country will find it con-
come here to do their
ult will be the Americus mer-
going to have the big
. _ rc looking for. The prep
aid, they have made will
great movement of ship-
his city. There are plenty
living In a radius of fifty
Americus who want a much
ot goods than they can
ir home markets. They want
!W ds and as late styles as
let anywhere. The up-to-date
merchant is catering to tills
buyers, lie knows that the
m-ns can handle certain lines
as lie can, and that In order
he trade of the heads of the
ommunities he must buy a
roods which they cannot af-
indle, and he must Bell them
, less than they can be sold
5 er cities, where expenses are
her and where It costs the
s more to do business,
ilroads coming to this city
ight in huge quantities of
liaases and clothing dry goods
ins for the Americus mer-
rheso goods have been haul-
atores and are being opened,
lew days all of the shop win-
styles, holding out an In-
» shoppers to come here and
idlng merchants of the city
rat they have never before
;oing the limit on all classes
ai merchants are now adver-
Ir new stockc, and are also
(tractive window displays,
let the trade from now until
to be the heaviest they have
PETROCRAD, September 3.—Refu- GEORGIA SENATOR DENOUNCES MONTE SAN GABRIEL NOW IN POS-
gees from Riga say that many were
killed in the panic that followed the
firing of shells into the city by the
German ships.
Fires started in all parts of the clty r
and the crowds rushed to the depots
Because of the many assaults on the
war profits taxes Incorporated In the
government revenue bill Senator F.
McL. Simmons of North Carolina,
chairman of the committee, had diffi
culty In organising support for the
bill. The fight upon the Income taxes,
too, was severely condemned by the
chairman. Months of hard work were
necessary before the bill reached a pre
sentable stage.
BILLS IMG
llj TIE COUNTY
HE TWENTY THREE HU-
TI1M1I.S HAVE STA11EED—
"MILS OPEN ON SEPTEM-
days are here.
the twenty-three schools in
>' opened yesterday and to-
accordlng to Superintendent
teport a splendid attendance.
Ir 'age of negro help has made
lr >' for many of the children
the cotton Helds, delaying
fiance at school. However,
railon is well above the aver-
>' schools win not open un-
)' the seventeenth. However
ration will begin Monday the
Htte pupils will register 'at
1,001 and the negro pupils at
1,1 *< hool Supt. J. E. Mathis
n K a lurge enrollment.
Colonel, Major and Captain
Removed hom Commands
MACON, Ga„ September 3.—Col. Orr-
ville A. Hall, of the 124th Infantry
(Fifth Georgia) has been temporarily
relieved of his command by the bri
gade commander. In the absence of
Hrlgadier General Harris, who is In
Florida In attendance upon the effi
ciency board meeting at the Instance of
the Southeastern department, the order
was Issued by Colonel Butler, ranking
officer of the brigade.
Major Walter Pre3ton, of the Third
battalion, and Capt. William Coburn,
of Company M, arc also temporarily
relieved of their commands. None of
the officers, because of the fact that no
reasons are given in the order, will
make a statement.
Lieut.-Col. Frank M. Cochran, of the
124th (Fifth Georgia) Is In command
a. the present. It Is not known what
action Brig. Gen. Walter A. Harris
will tako In the matter on his return
home.
The order from the brigade comman
der comes closely upon the visit hero
last Saturday of Col. E. A. Helmick,
Inspector from tho Southeastern de
partment.
UF • HR AGO HUNG
IN IHIGY last night
,0 - HI., September 5.—Mayor
la| e Tliompson today visited
lk( e. HI. county fair, despite
hat city council last night by
l- to g, i ndorsed the gover.
™ in denouncing him.
Thompson was also hung In
tdyht on Michigan avenue,
'tangled from a lamp-post
'then removed It.
"dal Security League Is to-.
h'Hng his Indictment for mal-
office.
(he German guns. Zeppelins dropped
gas bombs, the fumes from which
killed many.
Grand Duke Arrested.
PETROC1RAD, September 5.—Grand
Duke Paul and his morganatic wife
have been arrested, suspected of com
plicity in the counter-revolutionary
plot.
I-80ATS AND AIRCRAFT
GONTINUEJHEIH RAIDS
LONDON, September 5.—A German
submarine bombarded Scarborough last
night, Lord French officially announc
ed this afternoon. Three were killed
and five injured. Slight property dam-
aye was done. Thirty shells were
flred.
The third successive night air-raid
was made by the Germans in the
London district last night. Nine were
killed and forty-nine injured. Twenty
machines were in the raiding party,
and they dropped forty bombs. One
machine was destroyed by anti-air
craft guns near Shcrness. The total
casualties since Sunday are: Killed.
117 injured, 140.
Oysters Are On Sale Here Now
But Not MuchDemand forThem
HEALTH PAMPHLETS ARE
HERE FDR DISTRIBUTION
IlR. AY. It. M 'VIIORTEIt RECEIVES
booklets from government
that he avill give out free
OE CHARGE.
Dr. AV. B. McWhorter, health com
missioner for thee ounty and city, has
received several thousand pamphlets
from the United States government,
treating of malaria, typhoid fever, the
safe disposal of waste mater at un-
swered homes, good water for farm
houses, etc. These books are at his
office in the courthouse, and Dr. Mc
Whorter will be glad for all to ca
and get the pamphlets, which he will
distribute free as long as they las .
l’eannt Meal For Feed.
THOMASVILLE, Ga, September 5.-
The farmers of south Georgla are be;
lng urged to use peanut meal for feed
ing their hogs, Instead of fresh
nuts, as has been the custom for so
long In this section. It is heId th
the peanut meal makes better meat and
firmer lard than the peanuts-tbe
objection to them having been that
they tend to mae bkoth ‘he lard and
meat soft. Velvet bean meal if »»‘ d ‘
he the Boost feed lor Mock and the oB
mill men are anilou. '° r
te go into the raising of beef cattle
for home consumption.
;a refugees tell
OF TEUTON OUTRAGES
•■R” is again In the names of the
months, bo that the oyster season is
open. Housewives who are wise will
greet the succulent bivalve as a life
saver, or at least as a great money
saver, In these times when the prices
of almost all edibles are soaring sky-
ward.
Oysters are about the only food
the price of which lias not doubled or
tripled during the past few years.
Other necessities have been steadily
soaring in cost for some years, and
now the war has put another burden
on the hack of tho consumer. But
tho oyster is expected to sell this
winter for about the same price at
which It has been sold for many
years. There may he a tremendous
increase in the cost of "fancy" oysters
listed by name on menus and consumed
by the luxurious few, but the common,
every-day oyster is expected to be
about as cheap as ever..
cus, hut few are being sold.
LARON LAW IS
BAD SAYS HARDWICK
THIS LEGISLATION AS CNCON
STITUIONAL IN SPEECH TO BAR
ASSOCIATION.
SARAOGA SPRINGS, N. Y., Septem-
»uu ui* l-iumud lusueu lu me ucyuiD, ber 5.—The opinion that the “most
.*'hich were soon made the objective.of dangerous assault upon the autonomy
• - - - o! the states, upon the integrity of 1 o*
cal self-government, that the entire
history of our country records, was
made by the congress of the United
States when it passed the recent so-
called ‘child labor law',” was expressed
here by Senator Thomas W. Hardwick
of Georgia, before the members of the
American Bar association In an ad
dress on the regulation of commerce
between the states under the com
merce clause of the constitution of the
United States.
“If It be within the power of con
gress to pass the recent child labor
legislation, why Is It not within Its
power to legislate so as to deny the
privileges of interstate commerce to
legitimate and wholesome commodities
because they are produced by the la
bor of women?” the senator said.
“Or because produced by union la
bor? Or because produced by labor
that was employed more than eight
hours, or more than six hours per day?
Who can say where it will stop, or
how It will end?
“If congress, on the pretext of regu
lating commerce between the states,
may lawfully regulate the processes of
manufacture and productions may fix
and control the hours and conditions of
labor and may say who shall be per
mitted to work in field and in factory,
or mine and In mine and in workshop
in every state of the j union, then It Is
easy to see how speedily and how com
pletely congress wllloisurp the rights
of the Btates, deprive them of every re
served power, strip them of their sov
ereign police power and reduce them
to a state of Impotent and insignificant
vassalage. ^ :i
“Unless it be speedily checked, we
may not hope to see the glorious gov
ernment founded by our fathers sur
vive, for the chief glory as well as the
distinctive feature of that government
was its nicely adjusted, evenly balanc
ed and finely tempered duality, which
ITALIANS TAKE LAST
AUST
SESSION, GIVIN G THEM DOMI
NATION OVER CITY OF GORIZIA—
TO PUSH ON SOON.
ROME), Italy, September 5.—The Ital
ian army, with the capture last night
cf Monte San Gabriel, Is now In pos
session ot the entire mountain chain
dominating Gorizla. It was tho last
height held by the Austrians.
The Italians are now preparing tor
a push In tho Chappavono Valley, and
to drive a wedge between the north
ern and southern Austrian armies on
the Isonzo front.
TERRELL COUNTY COWS
MYSTERIOUSLY KILLED
DAWSON, Ga., September 5.—M. D.
Lalng, of the south part of the county,
had five cows to die In a week from
some mysterious cause.
The cows would rub their heads and
necks against posts, trees or houses,
which ever was accessible, until they
died. They usually lived from twelve
to fourteen hours after being affected,
and during that time never ceased rub
bing.
Mr. Lalng called In a local veterina
rian, who confessed that nothing like
It before had ever come under his ob
servation, and the state veterinarian
was appealed to That official wrote
that the trouble was due to a poison
ous accumulation of some kind on the
grass In the pasture, and recommend
ed that the cattle be moved from It.
This was done, and since then not an
other death has occurred.
Mr. Lalng says that he has been told
by older citizens that the unusual ac
tion and death of his cattle was due to
eatink yellow jassamlne, and he In
tends to obtain a cheap yearling and
give that theory a test.
AVIATION APPLICANTS
WILL 1IE TRIED OUT IN ATLANTA
eu aim im,.j ............ ATLANTA. Qa„ Septcmbtr 5.—Young
provided combined strength and con- men In the states comprising tho do-
solldatcd power for the transaction of partment of the Southeast who are am-
foretin affairs In matters of general bltioua to enter the aviation arm of
concern, with local Independence and the service should make their arrango-
self-government In all matters that meats to he In Atlanta on the night of
were entirely domestic and yurely !o- Friday, September 14, when an examin
ation of applicants will be conducted In
Taft Hall, Atlanta auditorium, by Major
r. H. JoncB of the aviation section.
It is a mistake to suppose that Un
cle Sam has received so many appli
cants for the air servlco that he can
use no more. The great airship bulld-
|rg program now under way calls for
16,000 to 13,000 aviators, and the gov
ernment wants all tho good first-class
men It can get. Major Jones is mak
ir.g a tour of the different military de
partmenta of the government! and In
the Southeastern department his only
stop will be In Atlanta.
He will exhibit motion pictures of the
Sjr service, give an Instructive lecture,
and subject the applicants to some ot
the gruelling tests which they, must
stand before they can enter the ser
vice.
Statue of Stephen H. Bush
Came All Way From Italy
An is on Exhibition Here
Tho Schneider Marble Company to-
,out as Cheap as eve „ ree clved a unique monument which
The food value of the oyster is ^ ^ ^ lmcrc8t|ng hlslor> .
The monument Is an elaborately
The food value o ne al90 has an interesting history,
cepttonally high. !t Is digestible, n ^ monumcnt an elab
trltlous and wholesome, almost as 8tatuary , h at came
self sufficient as mil ■ •“ P®” th>n flom ltaly , passing through the sub-
^r^erCd Hs value's much In- marine zone on board an American
creased by cooking, the addition of the
necessary starches and fata making It
perfectly balanced food
Tho statue Is a life-size msrhlo por
trait of the late Stephen H. Bush, who
perfectly balanced food _ d|ed at h |. home near Milford. In Ba
Oysters are now on sale in Arne October 16, 1916. II
Huy Lnnd For Fruit Farm
BERRY, Ga., September 5.—R. L.
Marchman, of Perry; A. J. Evans and
D C Strother, of Fort Valley, have
purchased from W. M. Gordon, of At
lanta, 688 acres of land, 464 acres be
ing on the National highway about two
and one-half miles north of town, and
224 acres about two and a half miles
south of town on the National high
way, paying for the same 118,000.
Through their attorney. A. C. Riley,
they have Bled with the clerk of the
Superior court their petition for char
ter to be Incorporated under the name
of the National Fruit Farm. R. U
Marchman, three years ago leased
place above town and planted 22,000
peach trees, which bore their first
crop this year. These places will all
set out In trees the coming win
ker county on October 16, 1916. It
I represents him In a well known pose,
| leaning against a tree, with arms fold
ed, looking out across the fertile aerta
ot his plantation—just as he uaed to
do in real life. The work was execut
ed from photos, drawings and models
of Mr. Bush, and Is pronounced an un
usual piece of statuary carving.
It will bo on public exhibition at the
Schneider plant for several days.
J. E. Oliver Goes to Dawson.
John E. Oliver, who for the past
several years up until a few months
ago has been with the firm of D. P.earl-
man, left today for Dawson where he
has accepted a position as salesman
with Sam Pearlman. Mr. Oliver la rec
ognized as a fins salesman and hla
many Americus friends wish him good
luck in his new position. Mr. Oliver
was accompanied by his family and ex
pects to make his future home In Daw-
sen.
Bl-Weely Bakrheene Feast.
The Americus Barbecue club will
hold Its semi-monthly feast tomorrow,
and as this will probably be the next
the last of the ’cue* for the season.
B full attendance of the thirty mem
bers and their wives. Is expected.
*>♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ There will be no more danvmg mis
WEATHER FORECAST. ♦ season at Myrtle Springs pavilion. The
— ♦ proprietor annouoces that the bathing
♦ GENERALLY FAIR TODAY ♦ pool will be open until cool weather
♦ AND TONIGHT. ♦ sets In. but that dancing Is at an end
♦ until next year. -
Control Sugar Output.
WASHINGTON, D. C„ September 5.—
The refiners today voluntarily placed
complete control of the sugar Indus
try In the hands of Herbert Hoover,
national food administrator.
Republicans Defeated.
WASHINGTON, D. C., September 5—
Tho republicans were defeated In the
house today in their fight to Include
In the war tax bill a provision for
war expenditures committee.
More Loans t o Allies.
WASHINGTON, D. C„ September
The United States loaned France and
Great Britain each a hundred million
dollars today, making a total of two
billion, six hundred million loaned to
the Alliee.
No More Dancing at Myrtle.
There will be no more danvlng this
Captain Frani von Papen, formerly
German military attache at Washing
ton, who was Indicted for alleged con
spiracy In the Von der Golts plot to de
stroy the Welland canal. Is directing
German espionage work In Buenos
Aires, according to several of the
newspapers. They assert that persons
of whose veracity there can be no
doubt bare seen Von Papen accompa
nying Teuton propagandists on a num
ber of occasions.
American Gunners Captured
By Submarines Are Prisoners
WASHINGTON, D- C-, September 5.—
Capt. Albert Oliver, of the American
tank, steamer Campana, and four of
the five members of the naval gun crow
who was taken prisoner when their
ship was captured and sunk August 0
by a German submarine, are In a pris
on camp at Brandenburg, Prussia, the
American Red Cross was advised by ca
ble from Geneva.
The message made no mention ot
Seaman William Albert Miller, tho
othor gunner, and an Inquiry has been
cabled to Geneva to learn his fate.
The four gunners held by the Ger
mans are James Delaney, chief gun
ner’s mate, in charts of the gun crew;
Ray Hoop, boatswain's mate; Charles
T. Kline, gunner’s mate, and Fred S.
Jacobs, a seaman. They, with Miller,
were the first American naval men to
be taenk prisoners since war was de
clared on Germany. It had been fear
ed they and Captain Oliver had been
lost, as a French warship which picked
up the remainder of the tanker's crew
reported that a u-boat liad been sent
down that day by another French war
ship near whore the Campana , waa
sunk.
GAROLINMNS HERE TO
STUDY WEEVIL METHQOS
THEY SAY THE VELVET BEAN
SOLID GAB OF PEANUTS
BOUGHT BY ALBANY RAM
1 HIST CAB SOLD IN GEORGIA THIS
SEASON—ENTIRE LOT RAISED BE
JOHN E. MORELAND, OF, SASSER
TERRELL COUNTY.
DAWSON, Ga„ September 5.—It la
announced that a produce firm oS Al
bany has bought of John E. Moreland,
of Sasser, a carload of peanuts, con
taining 25,600 to 30,000 pounds of Urn
nuts. The nrlce paid for the nuta In
not definite* stated, but Is understood
to have been $1.03 a bushel.
This is believed to be the find ear
load of peanuts sold in Georffa this
season. The nuts sold were all 'good
quality and well cleaned. These pen.
nuts are a few weeks ahead of tha
major portion ot the crop of this aoc-
tlon, as the farmers have not been
gathering for much more than two
weeks, and the peanuts have to dry
out from six to eight weeks before
they are ready to be put on the mar
ket.
The movement of peaunta has not
yet gathered sufficient headway for tha
establishment of a regular market.
Making Sugar at Savannah.
SAVANNAH, Ga.. September 5.—The
government has acted on the request ot
President B. A. Oxnard, of the Savan
nah Sugar refinery, who naked that
the river between King’s Island unit
the refinery be dredged to 21 feet at
low water. Dredge No. 5, with J. D.
Fitzgerald in charge, was put at work
Monday on this portlo not the river.
The fact that the refinery pay* the
government $10,000 a day In Import
duties'on sugar is thought to have
bad much to do with the qule ncLtokn
by the government In dredging this
shallow portion of the upper river.
Tho refinery Is working at top speed
turning out ‘‘Dixie Crystale,” Us 10G
per cent, sutar, to meet the strong de
mand for Southern made sugar In the
Southeastern states. All the refines*
can turn out Is being sold to Jobbery
and the demand Is always equal to the
supply.
DR. H’WHOBTEIl TO HAVE
AN ASSISTANT EXAMINES
A the regular meeting of the board
of education Tuesday night very little
business was transacted. The commit
tee on health and sanitation waa an-'
tlidtized 'o furnish Dr. W. B. Mitfatr-
ler, city and county health officer, antis
n lady aislstant during bis work of ex
amining the achool children.of the rt*y»
in ac.crdnnce with the Ellis health,
bill.
DOCTOR KILLS HIMSELF
TO AVOID PROSECUTION
LIBERTY COUNTY PHYSICIAN AND
TWO OTHERS WERE ARRESTED
AS A RESULT OF WOMAN’S
DEATH.
SAVANNAH, da., September 5.—Re-
IHEY SAY THE J’Jil porta from Hlnesvllle say that Dr. IC
CHOP IN 8UMWEE; !S HNEST YCT L MeU of wmle> near that place, ham
—SHOW N AROIND BY W. J. BOY- ki)|ed ymself, following hla an
ETT, COUNTY AGLNT. on the charge of murder.
He was accused of having been ro-
A party of three south Carolinians .pcjihie for tb e death here of Mr*,
wete tn Americus yesterday, and while W ||||a m Baldwin, of Panama City,
here were with W. J. Boyett, the wh(J d | cd Bs tbo reiU lt of an all
county farm demonstrator. Mr. Boy- cr | m | na i operation.
—I states that the members of the . ,, „—,
Mrs. t» V. Beasley and Oscar
man, of Hlnesvllle, have been
party expressed themselves as well
pleased with the velvet bean crop tn and are bb j n g held pending an lnvcatl-
tlils section, and all assured him they I cnt | 0n
were going to plant that crop next
They were here looking over
the hell weevil situstion.
Gifts Fur Thomas Soldiers.
THOMASVILLE, Ga., September 5.—
Many Chinese to Cobs.
THOMASVILLE, Oa.. Septembers.—
Judging from the dumber of Chinee*
laborers passing through Thoma-.IU*
TnuaiAsv iiiuo, u.., .. j on route to Cuba, it begins to look an it
All of the'soldiers going out to the most of the work on the plantation*
army from Thomas county will carry there will be done by coolies. Another
comfort bags and pocket testaments, train load passed through Thomanm*-
The comfort bags were made by the. yesterday en route to work on tho Mg
ladles of Thomaavtlle and contain many' sugar plantations on the Island, a*M
useful articles, >8ch as the boys will j the average for some time part ba*
ppreclate when away. The testaments been about a trainload a month. Th«r
were bongbt by a fund made up from'art closely guarded all tha way free*
the Episcopal. Preebyterlan, Methodist j San Francisco and look from the wln.-
and Baptist churches, and they will be'dews of the cars with wondering ejmr
given to the colored soldiers as well as' on all of the strange sights of thin
the white. .western country.