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VAGE TWO. THE TIMES-RECORDER ESTABLISHED 1871. THE TIMES-RECORDER COMPANY, (Incorporated.) Publisher. Published every alternoon, except Saturday, every Sunday morning, and *s a Weekly (every Thursday). Entered as second class matter at oetofflco at Americus, Ga., under act i March 3, 1878. FRANC MANOUM, Editor and Manager. L. H. KIMBROUGH, Assistant Business Manager. Subscription Rates. Daily and Sunday, Five Dollars Year (In advance). Weekly, Ono Dollar a year (In ad vance). Mr. W. Thomas Lane, Jr., circulation manager, Is the only authorized travel ing representative of The Timer Recorder. Member «( The Associated Press. The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for repubUcatlon of all news credited to it or not otherwise credited In this paper, and also the lo cal news published herein. THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER. 1 THURSDAY, X0VE THE GOSSIPED. | ment In war times as Dr. Walker. The Manatee, Fla., girl who produced It we recollect aright, Dante, In and canned .">,760 pounds of tomatoes his immortal "Inferno,” assigned the on a tenth of an acre last season is ^ gosslpers to a prominent place In the no less a patriot than any of those A COLUMN OF CLIPPINGS Isn't It Awful! The poo r old Timea-Recorder edit entb pit of perdition. But we doubt serving in the hospital at Malta, and •’ downcast beyond expression when^ not that these cowardly sneaks now the thousands of Southern women * !C chronicled the sale of one turkey at occupy an even lower station In the who before the war displayed little nlne dollars and a quarter.—Thomas- infernal regions, probably the bottom or no interest in househould affair.^ Times-eEnterprise. j pit along with all else that is foul and hut are now practically investigating “ unfit, slimy and unclean. I home economics and scientific garden-' Fashions a JIaater of Uolhei*. j We cannot imagine any place too ir.g, are doing their “bit” just as much' The Memphis C ommercial Appeal, noisome or nasty fora gosslper to 1 as the soldier In the trenches do?^ says: “The fashions have proved■ abide in an after-life. The only pity is his, and when the final accounting one that old a B e was largely » | that this contemptible breed cannot| \ r , taken w e venture to say that history! matte r of clothes; unless you see tfnir. be doctored with doses of their own^ will record the women of Georgia faces Y° u can*t tell grandma from^ dirty medicine while they are here on and Sumter did as much, if not more,* granddaughter these days. And^ earth. Hut the general truth is that to help win the war, than tlios^ srandma feels much more like her^ those who gossip most are the ones patriotic Russian women who fought B ,an( tdaughter than if she wore an id- v.ho are in the least likelihood of he-J valiantly in the Legion of Death, ou-|' ,frtiseraeut aRe- ing talked about themselves—not that j. to surrender at the first onslaught' they aro above suspicion, but because of the !3olsevikI before the Winter, Foiling Volfs and Making Noise, they are beneath it. | Palace in Petrograd. I The Knoxvl,Ie Sent?nen says: Not all gossIper 8 are women, al though a woman gossip, with the veu- “The socialist and pacifist anti-Amcr- OFFICIAL ORGAN FOR: City of Americus Sumter County Webster County Railroad Commission of Georgia For Third Congressional District. U. S. Court, Southern District of Georgia. AMERIC AN SAVINGS. the noise they made before the elec tion.” Tammany made the least noise and polled the most votes. Don’t Throw Away Your old Automobile Tires and Tubes. Bring them to us for repairs. Our Steam Vulcanizing Plant is at your service. Every job we turn out is completed by an expert workman. Time will demonstrate the wisdom of bringing your vulcanizing to us. G. A. & W. G. TURPIN J. LEWIS ELLIS Attorney at Law Planter’s Bank Building Phone 830. Americus, Ga. Americus, (in, November 15, 1917. PARftGPAPHICALLY SPEAKING Uncle Sam may turn out Broadway'., lights at 11 o’clock, but he can't make Broadway go to bed at that unearth ly hour. It Is one of the Ironies of fate that talk of making a dry Now York fol lows so promptly on election returns^ _ calculated to drive the town to drink., anguish wrung from innocent eyes!* 1 * 3 Presentment of facts and flguresj . than all of man’s other Inhumanity to shows clearly the enormous volume of, sir Douglas' Salt of Khaki. Ohio remains “wet,” but the bare nan- It has wrecked more homes, J money saved by American workmen^ The jlobile Register says: "Field 1,000 majority in a total vote of 1,000.- ruined more businesses, started more out of thelr " aECS * n tlmca of wldc "j Marshal Sl r Douglas Haig, command- 000 shows that the degree of moisture! Panics, caused more defeats In state- »Pread and general employment at ( lng the I)rltl8ll forces on the westeIn F. G. OLVER LOCKSMITH, Bowing machines and Supplies; Key and Lock Fitting, Umbrellaj Repaired k MAR WELL If we were In Petrograd today, we can elements polled far too big a vole onions, forked tongue of a serpent, is don't believe even the sight of one of ln New York, but their showing at the probably the meanest reptile of tho the new "short and tight” skirts couhl P°**s does not begin to compare with species. There are male gosslpers just tempt us to remain there an honr. a s well and Just as actively. There Is | no excuse, no palliation, for either, bit there is less for a man. He should ^ have more tilings to occupy his time.] The question whether American Keating l'p The Germans. Not all gossip is spoken. Some of ''age earners have shared in recent; Isn't it high time to change the It may bo successfully hinted. Tho national prosperity, or whether their | names of hamburger steak and frank- mere raising of an eye-brow, or the! increased wages have been more than furters.-Albany (N. Y.) Journal. Let covered. Phono 420. inclining shrug of a shoulder, can by the Increased cost of living, thorn remain German. Don't we cat Lee STREET, blaspheme the good name of a woman, 1 *« wo *> answered In a new book en- 1 . them up? or blast the standing of a man, Just| tit'ed "Postal Savings; and Historical' the same as the most indecent words' Critical Study of (he Postal Sav- ( Half Tiger; Half Marsupial, ever spoken. Most vicious of all is ln 8 s I! “t>k Sys tem of the United We have always maintained that innuendo, the suggestive tattling and States," by Edward W. Kemmerer, the Tammany tiger was more than prattling that has a double sign'll- Professor of economics and finance in half 'possum, and Its sudden rosus- cance | Princeton University, and published elation on last Tuesday proves It. Gossip has caused more heartaches b Y Prlceton Unlverstiy Press, Prince-J Never take the demise of that critter than all the liquor ever brewed in tho * on ' **• '* j f° r granted. Manchester (N. Y.) devil's own cauldron. It lias brought 1 It Is conceded the author was with- Union. But w e thought It was the more sorrow and grief Into more' out interest In the subject discuss-j cat—not the 'possum that had nine homes. It has provoked more tears ’ i' 0 d other than that of the student, but lives t. P. DAVIS Dental surgeon. Orthodontia, Pyorrhea. Residence Phoae 316. Office Pboae 811, Allison Bldg. MISS BESSIE WINDSOR, Insurance, . Bonds. Office Forsyth St. Phoae *84 PLENTY OF MONEY TO LEND On both City and Farm Property at 6% Interest No Waiting DAN CHAPPELL, Attorncy.at.Law. Is not such as to hlbltionlBts. discourage Pro- Henry P. Davison says the war is going to be won by America If it takes 15,000,000 Americans to do it. And 15,000,000 Americans will bo found ready to back up his statement. Pennsylvania loads all the' states ln the number of signatures to food pledge cards. And food conservation la Pennsylvania, us respects some familiar articles of diet, Involves real self-denial. AMERICUS UAJBP, 203, WOODMEN OF THE WORLD, | Meets every Wednesday night to front, remains a plain soldier, noa- Fraternal H all, tr eet All vis- craft. politics and commerce, created "‘ages 1 n't cm „„„ -u aA ~ i Fraternal Han, i^amar street, an w more unnecessary ill-feeling, engen- Figures are cited from the United ^ w , t hstanding h>a exalted rank. A well- mng Sovereigns Invited to meet with dered more hates and disgraced more States Comptroller of Currency in^ fltt j ng 8Uit of khaki, without insignia, us. C. J. WILLIAMS, C. C. people than all of the other Iniquities. *" 08 showing that at that time the i 3 h | B c08 . umei an( ) a cavalry saber Is' NAT LeMASTER. Clerk, of the universe combined. I deposits In savings banks In the Unit-. hJa weal , on< - And to complete Ins' The seventh pit ln hades, as awful j 01 * States amounted to *3,660,533,945; | charOT gj r Douglas doesn’t advertise, ur. Dante describes Its punishments to ant * ,hat 98 '* P°r cent °f thes0 »av-| \v e ne , Cr hcar of his say | ng anything be. Is entirely too nice a place for * n Bs deposits belonged to fourteen tho gosslper. | 9tatca ' * cavln8 on *>' •• P«r cent ‘ b *j Million Cigars « Month. For tho gosslper Is too rank, too r< “ alnln 6 states and all the torrl- ^ Drockton r , me3 says . disgustingly foul, for even satan’s tones. Rut, says Professor Kemmerer, fourth Friday night ''J at 7 o'clock. FRANK J. PAYNE, W. 14. I war department is to contract for a j RESC 0E PARKER, Sec*. “ThS worst dive. If burled ln the earth * hesa **8ure s were disputed by tho,,,^ c , gar(| amonth for ^ ^ ^ _ the gossip's coarse carcass will rot tho’ bnnk,nB eternity, on the ground that t))c from , f we on , y know „ ow m I . and A. M. AMERICUS LODOB F. & A M., meets ev- ery second and men were at the front we could figure soil; if cast Into the sea it will create ** le >' referred only to mutual an] n pestilence among the flsh; and If atock aav ‘ n W banks ' "' hcrcas * he 9a '" lhow long cigar would have to last If swung into space, like Mahomet's cot. *"*• deposits of the country Included wo stoppcd Kt , ndln( , , mokes But wfl fin, the whirling world, in trying to a l s ° amounts deposited in the sav- avoid its contaminating touch, would tlcpftrtinents of other kinds ol The, Imerborough boasts that the New York subways are carrying 183.-! probably crash together and bring on' b “nks, 618 more passengers dally than it did'an eternal night and chaos. A report of the committee on Postal M. B. COUNCIL LODGE F. and A. M. ,.<5*? meets every First and ^ Third Friday nights. , . Visiting brother! are , ato not going to stop.” This number m ,|ted to attend, might keep five thousand men amok- DR. J. R. STATHAM, W. M. ing or one bundled thousand men NAT LeMASTER. Secretary. a yea r ago. The Interborough can ul- 1 The sosslper should be scorned hv ( Savings Banks of the American Bank- ways make room In Its cars for al-'every self-respecting person; for ho crs Association, May 3, 1909, present-| dltlonal dividends. v,bo listens is almost as bad as the' 01 * n 8ures showing that In fact the ( one who talks. | -savings of the American people wanting to smoke. Nick KomanolY's Patience. The deposed czar of Russia, nov.* WASHINGTON CAMP, NO. 14, F. O, 8. OF A. Meets every tirst and third Monday nights in P. O. S. of A Hall, No, 111 Lamar St. All members ln good stand | amounted to about nine and a half e, “ 0rc0 ‘* rotrcat ln Siberia, is said t) | n _ invited to attend Benoflclarycertl- Speakers beforo the American Chem- , V „ AT T , |E WOJIl:> ARK DOING. 1 hilllon dollars, exclusive of deposits *'’ 0 * 1 ‘* al '> for the appearnneo of a me*. ficate8 from ,250.00 to 12,000.00 Issued leal Society blamed pure food lawS| j i„ sc hool savings banks, private Ir.-| " onKer summoning him to return to t0 member* of this camp. for the high cost of living. When tho what are the women doing to help vestments of small savings in bona«J th ° tl »rone. If this be true, Mr. Nlch-' T. E. CASTLEBERRY, President high cost declines, as It sometimes^ w | n tke war . This is a question that! lin d tbo savings Invested In homes^"’"a Romanoff is in for a period of O. D. REESE, Recd'g. Seo’y. docs, Is the condition duo to the re- w0 hcar every now and then. Wo'ang homesteads. The Bankers' A.vJ wa ‘ l ‘ n 8 *'ke unto that facing the Oer-' E~Cato~T Dr F L Cato laxation of pure food laws? don't know all the women are doing to 1 soclatlon committee made out tho total " ,an “ wbo are ur 6° d by Von Hlndon- R ' TeI g8 ' R ’ eg ’ Tel M l ————— w(n the , var but t | ley are helping, 1 of American savings to be more than l,,ur8 to " wa * t tor tbo Unboata to do Offlco Telephone 531. "Americans leave Nlcxlco In fear an[ | we b a u eve we are sa [ 0 i n making* three times the 13.660.553.945 re .' tb elr work."—Norfolk Vlrglnian-PIlot. 13,660,553,945 of pro-German mobs."" "North Italy^ (ke assertion that not one per cent 1 ported by the Comptroller of the Cur-'*’ t * ot warned of presence of Germans d* , 0 [ t] 10 slackers are women. T * ' It is in- rency. The bankers’ figures lnclut- I cd 1749,993,000 of the accumulations The Meat Supply. DOS. U.E. &F. L.CAT0. Fhyatclans and Surgeons. Offlco Houre 10 to 12 and 2 to 4. Hereafter when absent from our of- any quarter of the globe that t* what women are doing in all lines of^of building associations, unmistakably if you have a few hogs on your placo dee or homes, calls left at Hooks' from the blight of German Intrigue?. j, 1( j ui!tryi for |„ this war which Is a form of savings, and 13,159,581,000 that are n a marketable condition Pharmacy, Telephone 76, will re- ’ —— I l.nl.i,, in np.nnnL nn.l .. ...... a. , , ■ .. . .' .dll'A nTOSint fit tent (ATI. From the Liberty golf tournamen’a held through out the country on July. 4 last 172,375 was collected for the Red Cros*. The figures Incidentally .-give an Impressive Illustration of the remarkable growth of the game In the 'United States. being fought in arsenals and ship- of assets of life Insurance companies, it might b B the part of prudence to celve prompt attention. yards and hattloflelds. every Industry’ In 1909 the National Monetary Com- 1 -laughter them and dispose of the , . ., , .,1 . . . . * , ...wwww. has some bearing on operation In th9 mission found that out of 6,585 na- meat. The ranch of the National Hog died of hostilities. |t!ona! banks 3,511 reported savings'Company, at Ftnleyvllle has been In the very zone of hostilities there accounts, with a total of 1,964,223 sav-'raided by the government officials and are a number of English women sur-jlngs depositors, and savings deposits! the porkers taken In charge. It Is genus, and at Malta there aro clqhtyj amounting to 1756,827,891. State banks understood that Uncle Sam will patriotic women who have so'e reported savings deposits amounting'slaughter them In due course.—Johni- rharge of the military hospital there, i Mrs. Henry A Pridmore, a Chicago woman, owns and operates an Iron foundry occupied principally ln the manufacture of munitions and Mrs. John A. Patterson, of Aurora, Ills, The former commander of the Rus sian Baltic Fleet believes the present phase of the revolution Is "only anoth er transitory event." and thinks all right-minded Russians will soon some :to their eenses." The puzzle, how- . .. . lias Just taken her husband's place as sevie-, is the number of “right-minded _ , „ a grocery clerk in order that he may Yluaslans. join the colors. The only woman ever to be award ed the Medal of Honor Is Dr. Mary Walker, of Philadelphia, who rcce'v- "In the name of the Belgian wo men” certain patriotic persons have tarred and feathered seventeen I. V. W. operators In Oklahoma. Posslblv Belgian women have seen enough o* lawlessness not to wish to have any one maltreated outside the law bti their account. to 1592.949,131; mutual savings banks town Democrat. But if you slaughter reported deposits of 13,13S„763,705;|cj the hog 8 and tried to store up the stock savings banks, 1495,178,36S; j neat might not Uncle Sam come along private hanks. 132,444,693; loan and and commandeer it? trust companies, 1657.697.417. Of the 19,219 banks reporting, 10,982 carried savings acounts totaling 15,673,861.101. estimate of the Comptroller of Currncy So It appears that the plain amount wu 8 still farther Trom the true mark, of savings by American wage earners | and that the nine and a half billion.! reported In 1908 by the Comptroller^ named by the Bankers' Association of the Currency was far below the was Itself less than the actual sav- total value of money deposited as snv- mgs of the Amerlcaq wage and salary ed this distinction for services dur-! Ings In various forms. If saving; |earners, ing the Ctvll’Wqr. There are hui-!of a character not reported—for ex- Tlie total deposits In savings ban! s and of holdings in building and loan dreds of thousands of other women ample, small checking accounts in n.i who have rendered just as patriotic tlonal and other banks—were to be in-| associations for the yea.- 1916 la re- and needful services to the govern- eluded, it would be found that th; ported at 15,670,976,000 —THE— UNION CENTRAL LIFE INS COMPANY Cincinnati, Ohio The be$t Life Insurance The lu\ve& coSt good Insurance Ask any of our many pol icy holders here LEE M. HANSFORD Ag’t., Planter’s Bank Building, Americus, Ga. L G. COUNCIL, Fres’f. C INC. 1891 T. E. ] I. COUNCIL VIce Pres. and Cashier J. iff BrylJ ^ Planters Bank of Ameri CAPITAL. 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