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weekly AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER CITY EDITION THE LIVBST LITTLE DAILY IN GEORGIA" ^Tv7>k. AMERICUS, GEORGIA. THURSDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 1, 1917 • yTISH AND FRENCH ON WAY TO AID ITALIANS IS HIKING STAND W ITH HIS AIIM Y TO RESIST OHIMi GERMANS AND AS. IK, Oct. 31—(Compiled bv led Press from European ig the day.)—Herman and [orces continue drivini; plains of Venetla toward lento river today, while an si army is trying desper- AMERICANS WILL KEEL T1IE FIRST PINCH OF WAR TOMOR ROW WHEN ALL OF THE SPEC IAL TAXES TAKE EFFECT. A ak through the Itlaian de- WASHINGTOX, D. C., * €L ... i'hUi is the last day of grav^j n many new war taxes. ^ Wih the exception of increased i ter rate* and tobacco taxes which go, into* effect Friday, the special stamp taxes on documents, legal instruments and parcel post packages which go President Wilson Inspects New Monster War Trucks the Carnice Alps, en- outflank the TagUamento Khere Gen. Cadorna la ex- determined stand, ima. apparently, succeeded ie bulk of his army whicn positions south of Tolmlno, s not reported heavy cap- o days. Heavy fighting on lento line is expected to a day or two. inesday. the Teutons have hundred square miles of id their greatest advance Dm Tolmino southeastward e of twenty-five mile34 situation in Italy Is im- irly, the military reverses id to solidify opposing opl- comraon policy of national id Br 1 ’i troops, equipped guns and plentt yof sup- on their way to Italy* bably arrive In time to as- lefense of the TagUamento ons. The United States led to the support of Italy Sclent sea tonnago to han- supplies. it there was little fighting, s being busy cnoaolidat- won when they attalened ive yesterday. s apparently prepar- k south of Laon, whero scored a brilliant vlcto- iporting a concentrated ar- or powerful proportions, say s an “artillery battle there. •atches from the eastern issian soldiers, ns did not counter attack In Flanders after the lat- yesterday, but confined tot artillery bombard- won British positions. HER AT PIER Into operation Dec. 1, all special taxes begin to apply at midnight tonight. They include: CJne cent on each dime paid for amusement admission. Three iper cent on payments of freight transportation. Eight per cent on passenger fares. Ten per cent, on payments for Pull man and similar accomodations. Five per cent on oil pipe line trans portation. One ceent for each twenty cents of fraction thereof paid for express pack ages. Five cents on each telegraph, tele phone or rhdlo message costing fif teen cents or more. Various taxes on cigars, cigarettes, tobacco and products. Ten per cent on club dues. Eight cents on each $100 of new life insurance and one cent on each one dollar of fire, marine, casualty and other insurance policies. Although the tobacco taxes do not become operative until Friday, many dealers have already advanced retail prices in anticipation of the tax levies. Other taxes of the new law, including those on hard and soft drinks, Incomes and war-excess profits, have been in effect since the law was approved October 3, but in indirect form. On December 1. the new stamp tax es, including those on parcel post packages, will be payable, putting the entire law Into complete operation, except for increased rates on second- class mail, postponed until JulyJ ADVOCATE SENDING AN AHMY OF TEN MILLION MEN TO FRANCE- WOULD EXPEL ALL OF ITS DIS LOYAL MEMBERS. President Wilson inspecting the first of the heavy war trucks that have been built for the government. The trucks were built according to designs prepared by the quartermaster’s department, the automotive products of the Council of National Defense and the Society of Automotive Engineers. LIST BE PRIZES 10 COUNT! CLUBS Sumter County Cotton Is Sold At Price of 41 Cents a Pound NEW YORK, Oct. 31.—A platform >:C eight planks designed as a construc tive program for the prosecution of the war to a definite victory has) been adopted by the Amercan Defense Soci ety, It was announced today, and will be submltt d for discussion and ap proval to the chambers of commerce | throughout the country and to the Chamber of Commerce of the United jStatcs at Washington. The purpose |of the committee of the American De fense Society which drew up the pro- | gram M announced to be to solidify the nation In the prosecution of the [war. The proposals advocated by the society In ltst war platform are: I That the administration at Wash- iiniton be urged to sond an over whelming force to France. To Intern alien enemies and enemy sympathisers whose conduct Imperils or impedes the war. To warn Qermnay that departures by her from the rules of war will not be endured. To forbid the publication of news papers and magaslnes In the Herman language during the war. Tat congress be asked at Its nest session to declare that a state of war ARE MUTINOUS; GUARDS . DESERT HEN AFTER REFUSING TO GO TO TIIE FRONT DAMAGED THEIR RI FLES AND FIRED ON OFFICERS— SEVERAL WOUNDED. AMSTERDAM, Oct. 31.—According to a news dispatch from Les Novelles, a ecrious mutiny occurred recently .among German soldiers at Beverloo Camp, In Belgium. Reports of the affair are to the ef fect that the men first refused to go to the front, then damaged their own rifles, and Anally some of them fired on their officers, several of whom fired wounded. After some hours the men were finally mastered, howover, and removed from the camp In cattle cars. According to the same authority, It la reported the German frontier guards at Brookhout have deserted their poste. TO BHSE I960 MERE FOR RECREATION FURS RESULT OF THE EXHIBITS HELD AT COURTHOUSE LAST SATUR DAY ARE ANNOUNCED—MERCH ANTS GAVE AWARDS. Tkirly-Six Me. of Webber Variety Bring for Staple and Seed t£ Nearly $9,300—Sold Through Ml. Lee Council. .« i ! Issuance of new securities except by federal license. The following were winners of prizes In the Pig Club competition: First Prize—Leo Kirkland, |23.'d0 Scholarship. Second Prize-Allen Barnes, 35.00 pair of Shoea. given by Churehwcll Bros. The following also won prizes: Judson Mo.gan, 35 0" syringe, given by Allen Seed and Drug Co.; Frank! j or g um j er county raised cotton. Perry, corn sheller. given by J. W. J !Harris. Jr.; Georg*. Dominick, “Gee, ~ “ j " ,ncreh.es In first-class mail rate. I Whizz” harrow, given by Sheffield Co.; | State Fair, given b, N One of the moat Important cotton deala ever made In Americas woa clos ed this morning when Mr. Lee Council, acting as agent, sold 36 bales of cotton at an average price of 41 cents a pound for a total of 37.777.70. The cotton Was a cross between the long and Bhort staple, and la known as the Webber variety. Part of It was also the Dixie Fi-FI. This was the highest price ever paid According to Mr. John C. Shaw, who I It a recommended to ’‘various an* raised some of the thirty-six bales, this t!lorltIo ,.. that tbey forb , d tbe com . cotton can be cultivated easily lnl puIsorjr 8tudy of aarman , be pub- llay. Indicate the Oermana are „ ‘ bab , v l.n be moat generally felt Virgil Dolmen, flashlight, given ly Fourth Pylze-Eve yn wumms, no ■essfuHy trying to frater- *^ 1 .” ULok, Pharmacy; Stonewall Shtr.Vy. to State Fair, given by Coco-Col. Dot- by the people. The law provides that Hooks Pharmacy; ~ Wnr k„ y ,. except ‘’drop” I writing table, given by M. N. Edwards; ‘““f Work'’ the postage on letters, ®“® pl ,! "‘JThUe“‘ VMk’lng ’chair, given by I Ethel Kinard, Louise Bradley, Macy or local letters, shall be 3 cents, and .Seth . . „„.„ rI L MV «nd U cna Forrest won the tovr poM-Vard,7Including private 'cyles-Andrew, Furniture Co.; Hebert Craay end Rena Forres, won the torn * 1 ..... a. llfllllams I .Q11 s:rr2r:=c«h w...**., Mr ** by tha than heretofore. This Increase In- Utead °Je £ iTlcy Pennington won a package of T^n.w 0 3 C .«nt d lettarmte. banters’ Seed Co. I*** Society materials, given by Mis, er raie, inereiurv, rmutem * jvvu “ i . . to-Canada, Cuba,! For exhibiting best sow and litter!Ada Walker. accumulated uiviaunua among aioca- , — - • holders of the Ford Motor Co.. Instead **> W™ 1 ®" 1 « h ® r *’ For America to of using the money to Increase the I®®"* •» overwhelming force should concern’s business was today decided «>®° Oormany’a realization of ,the hopelessness other cause and ma- wlll apply to letters to’Canada, cuna,i ror ~; rded a | Louise Mc'lsmdon won a pair of sil'c accumulated dividends among stock-> our J ,l<l * men t, bo doing more than Mexico, fananfa, England, Ireland, of piss. Green Rprry. was awaraea a^^ g(yen by q ^ Ansley. Scotland, Wales, the Bahamas. Bar- ^tetson a , g e . . McLendon won a pair of silk HAS A FOUR MILLION jeard increase will extend to Canada, the c “““ n ^monstratlon exhibit ALL SAINTS’ DAY AT '•"SS AND SEVEN Cuba. Mexico and Panama, the only In thet horn d CALVARY EPISCOPAL CHURCH |»HEN RAILROAD PIER countries which have enjoyed the do-[tion. the following were pr Cl'. jmoatlc post-card rate. , " C , ^.u-tdeiitv Club, 33.00 in Tomorrow (Thursday!. November i. For consumers’ convenience, books | First Co . , belnf! tbe Feast of All Batata, the occa- llK * Aid.. .Get. 31.—Fir- of postage stamps containing 3-ccnt gol , e; ven y | n i 8 l 0 n will bo observed by a celebration "IPS are in readiness tar .tale and | See B ^ bm , ! of lbe Ho.y Communion in Calvary » eJ of the finest Bal- stamps are in resume. I T -— b Church well Brothers, -of the Holy communion in t«,.ur ) railroad piers at Locust! the department ha» had printed tho gold, g obb c , ub „ 00 In I Episcopal church at II o’clock. The s "hvd in the destruction 1 Banda of 2-cent post-cards. First- Third r u . Pratbcr „ rt , K Rector, Rev. James B. Itawrenco. will •teamshlp which had juit'class mall postmarked tomorrow or gold, given by Howe.. Officiate. rate, but that postmarked thereafter ; Preserving Kettle, glv A- Ohio ulDclals believe the must pay tho Increased tolL .' ^TixMhit hv an Amerlrus Lady - ♦ 'cendiary origin. | Amusement admission taxes MM | Best a Q given by ♦ destroyed had on ^oevdlefiecUve tomorrow . .. It -»,,7T^ 0 K“|irrr. t^n Uu centa e x blbl ,a «,.> The Libert^ Zoan Executtve 4 addition seven deaths re-;any time prior to 12.01 a. • * , ’ Indiv , dual Rxhlblt from entire! bhal linanclal losa of be-iber 2, regardless of t me „t.i 'ronntv—Mrs N. A. Ray, aluminum I* * and four million dollars delivery, will be tr * n,n !' , ^o..7..oI: l 'o!l n ‘ y .„^ r ‘Ke«ie. given'by Sheflleld ’♦ NT. ♦ ♦ * ♦ 4 STATE COMMITTEE * THANKS MR. COUNCIL ♦ FOR SALE OF BONDS. * Atlanta, Ha.,.Oct. 31, 191T. ♦ The of the Liberty Loon Committee for ♦ Sumter county, and at very llttlo more | (c scbon | B expense than other varletioa. Others! , n lu preaamble to tbe p | a ,f 0 rm. growing tho Webber cotton were tho' Aalerlcan Defenfe Socl9ty aawrt , Messrs. Skinner and M. H. McAllleter. ^ , t |( .. gratuled at var | oug , to p. The seed sold for an average of 340 ta j lon bJr t), e administration, congreaa a bale, making a total Income for «aehl an(J tbr0U g b0U t the nation on matters ba 4 le of cotton about 3255. Tile entlro: bear)ng on tbe war against Germany transaction repreesntod nearly 39^00.1, nd bcr aI1|ea and de , Ir , ng that tba The transaction aroused a great deal i ar be pr0iecuted t0 deflnlto r ic tory , of Interest In cotton clrclea. I an d the naton solidified to that end, j Dr. W. B. McWhorter, county health 'urges the fore?olng atepe. commissioner, has resigned his office ! The Soclety'e statement adda; 'to accept the place of Instructor at Mayor Council has been called upon by tho national chairman for training camp recreation activities to appoint a committoe that will raise I960 for Americas. All over tbe country next week money wUl be ralBed for the purpose of maintaining recreation activities at the varloue camps. The assessment for Amerlcus Is $960. , b Tho rnonoy will, go to a general rund, but each Amerlcus boy In the army will share In the aggregate bonoflt. The mayor will name bis committee tomorrow. OB. MUTER TO TAKE COLLEGE JOB "Great Britain, with a population of Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 'about 50,000,000, and France, with a ]will leave In a few days. » inmilOT rnnnl popula,lon nf nl,out 40,000,000, have* Dr McWhorter has made en envtablo AnnlNli rllHIl nlrea " )r contributed approximately|record In Amerlcus and Sumter conn- DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 31—The suit I th0 for more thBn thre ® reught against the Ford Motor Co. an*l » America should send over Henry Ford, as an individual, by Dodge ® ven IMOO.OOO men from It, popula- Brothers to compel Ford to disburse l* 1 ™ » f ov ® r IM.OW.MO R would not. 5,000.000 and 6,060,000 men, respect- ty tor h<s efficient sorvlces. He Ively, end have borne the burden of done particular good in tho medical In- concern's business was today n favor of Dodge Brothers. The suit was brought in the Circuit ‘® r “»> r ® hor, « n w,r ’,™® mor * court here some time ago. and much,®®" »® ■«“<! ‘ h ® fe "® r wl " b * ■ l " n ’ Merest centered in th decision. | • ' rh ® ‘J«® ma , ny . h “ The amount Involved In the ault was 9 w « n of the counts whkh the doctrme about 365,000,000, and one wltnesa tea* of military neceaaty haa Impelled her ttaed Henry 'Ford"" wanted "to'itse The 10 f <> Ilow » ur ® ,y “ " ,rnlD f tha ‘ money to build a blast furnace which i«P»rturee by hare from the rules of would supply raw material for u.e ln wttrr "-® »"» *« endured and If automobile building. MILLION TONNAGE Bf FIRST OF NEXT MARCH given we may look for an adhering on her part to civilised warefare. As It will protect our forces In tbe field and our people both at home and on the high seas, <s I tnot better to warn now than to be compelled to act later?' apectlons In the schools and by tho publication of a series of health arti cles Ip tho Sunday Issues og The Tlmcs-Itec.irder. FEAST OF ALL SAINTS TO BB CELEBRATED RY CATHOLICS Tomorrow (Thursday) being the Feast of All Saints, and an occasion of eolemn observance among Roman Catholics, there will be a celebratRv. of the Mass In the Catobllc church here at 7 o’clock in the mornlnv Father Kenhn, the regular visitant at Amerlcus, will come over from Al bany for the occasion. FROST TONIGHT, BUT I'RORARLY WARMER TOMORRO W WASHINGTON, D C.. Oct. 31.—The weather bureau forecasts frost for to- In advocating that congress declare plght thc and GuIf ,utea I that a state nf war extBta with Aus- b| y aa nouuces the cold wave generally jtrla. Bulgaria anil Turkey, the «t«tc- reanhed Ub creit ear i y this morning. 31.— :meni says: ’’Austria. Bulgaria ani1 ConUnued cold wUl prevail tonight, but WASHINGTON, D. Cl, Oct. „ American shipyards will complete tho Turkey have been practically absorb- r<1 | [lg temperatures are expected dur- constructlon of a million tons of ablp-1od for.all warlike purposes by Ger- | ng Thursday. , ping by March 1st, Chairman Hurley.'many Their active co-operation In ^ of the Shipping Hoard, told a confer-.war with Germany demands, we bo- YORK STOCK MARKET missing nre two officers ’’ « ! 'uner of the British °n hoard the destroyed l " 1,1 by the authorities uf complicity in the waterandTumS ^ lbe fr^the^mM^ent i '°n«t ^n hy> SumtarTuntyt. wd7o“each mem- F'race'ofAltonUc shipbuilder, and gov-Tleve, such notion on our »«*** j*'"" "iHtOKEVIOlENTLY TODAY the are and » cut,Ied ,h * *“ V '™ r^mred to make sworn Thompson fchooL Jardiniere, given ly committees and Individuals * ernment official,, called to discus. a,them. Many Austrian, have been act- JESTS £ treasury. A flat tax Planter.- *-0^ ciimber5 „ worWng ln the recent Ubertyt *'m**~,_ of 1 cent for each child under mi^ed when children are c also Is provided. Passes also are JS officer. 0 mad^chUdren'ututor j by Hlgh.o-cr’ajT ~ ZTZTZJS of' ^culpl th^Zappy Am^blgh IZ transportation share* r-egi, Str !I ’-.rr.dlv^l emn^Rta-, ^ - ** ^ « £2~ T' ^ —— . , „, hnr ent-r- In the individual competIUonv extended to cabaret, or •“> „ere the winners: ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ «! talnment In which the admission i>* FORECAST, 4*1 the price paid tor refreshment,: toer- ♦ ehandlse or service. Person, leasing JU-NIOHt IN EXPOS- -4* theatre boxes must pay ten per cen , : WARMER tomor- 4* OD their rental. cno'aramp. ♦ ♦I Th® "?**. rrizc—8tisy« DeLoaeh (ConUnued on tut W