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PAGE SDL 1 : OLDSMOBILE S We have recently taken over this line and have j SEVERAL of the LATEST MODELS ON DISPLA • at our salesroom. Call and inspect them. I W. G. TURPIN & COMPANY Agents Buick, Dodge and Oldsmobile S©©©©©©©©©©^®®©®®©®©®©©©©*©*©©©**®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®"®®®®®®®®® 000 * >091 1,360,000 MEN NOW BEAR ARMS SIZE OP UNCLE SAM’S AliJTC HAH GROWN GREATLY—OVER Til Id HUNDRED 'IMOUUAND ABE EEC. CLAES. ALBANY, N. Y., Dec. 15.—Tho State Dcfenso Council baa received from Washington a statement showing what wo are doing In war and what wo are getting for our monoy, and In accord ance with the desire of Governor Whitman Is making It public as fol lows: The latest official figures put tho number of enlisted men in tho ar mies of tho United Stoics at 1,360,000. This Is the force that has grown in aro 1,360,000 of them, alroady one af numbers that would stagger an artll- j tho biggest factors Hlndenburg is U-rist even of so recent a period as _ • M. n Praises reckoning with for tho campaign of tho war with Spain. | “ u * ,n « 9 , M » n 1918. To lead them, thero are over Two hundred and seventy-five thou- Dr. Miles Heart Remedy ..A i.nnnn ntAvn mnrln rfiflllv tO flffht 80,000 officers. When the graduates ennd troops were made ready to fight (uccauful Merchlnt Aft.r invastigati#n of tho second training camp got their Spain In 1898, though only 60,000 or Found a Rom.dy Thst Ro- first ordors tho number will bo over them wore actually engaged. | stored His H.«ith. 100,000—as many officers as thero was Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Furlow Adopt Baby That Is Left With Them Of tho now American force .- JUNIOR ORDER ELECTS 300,000 men aro regulars. In all the world only two regular armies remain : —the Amorican ana tho Japanese. The others have alt been swept away la , the flood of war When tho first! OFFICERS FOR TERM The Americus lodge, Junior Order American onslaught takes placo Ger- Amer , can Mechan | C s. which was or- nan Landwehr and Landstrum troops gnnlie<| here rccently u splendid will find themselves opposed to an c:>ndlUon and the mcmbe rshlp shows army of professional soldiers. a 8Ubsta ntlal Increase. At its last Behind tho rgularB aro 400,000 , n00tlng the lodge held its annual elec- soldiers of the National Guard, regu- —•— lara in experience, many of them, "Thli Is Thanksgiving day In th* State of Pennsylvania, and I want to devote a part of It In writing a letter to you. On the 26th day of November, *11, I was stricken with heart trouble. My family physician called it Angina Pectoris. I had from one to five attacks In 24 hours, in the latter part of Itoc'ember, 1910. Asked to Hold Infant for a Few Minutes While Its Mother Changed Railroad Tickets, They Still Have the Child. Mr. and Mrs. T M. Furlow wore In the union station in Macon yester day afternoon when a lady approached the former and asked him to nurchaso u ticket for her. Mr. Furlow, ever obliging, prompt ly agreed to do so, and took the lady'e money and went to tho ticket window, minute.” When he relurnt-a an presented her with the ticket, she exclaimed: "Why, that ticket 1b to tho wrong place. I’ll go and change It” Mr. Furlow Insisted that he would do so, but she prevailed and then she said: "Just hold my baby for mo o Mr. Furlow tool th, bottle and all. Ha.. tire outfit. The lad; turned.' When Mr. Mr. and i that they had a bah; their first Impulse ni orphanage, but after tor over they decided their homo here in adopt It They arrived the baby Is now t r the Furlow family, cute and Its foater about It Looking toward lie thing to do. But doe cnt. That can't be the thanks to our neighbor the South. After the guard come the 600,000 men ol tho now National Army. The whole military establishment. •mis 18 mo — — me wnoio umuar; eight months out of un army which , V | tb tbo marines and the auxiliary on April 1 numbered only 110,000. I f orcc8 thrown in. numbers a million Most of them aro still in tho train-! an d a half. The expansion that has ing camps. .Many of them are not yet disciplined troops, fully equipped and armed for battle. But there thoy RUB OUT PAIN with good oil liniment That's the suredl way to stop them. The best rubbing liniment is MUSTANG LINIMENT taken place Is as If Grand Rapids had grown In eight months to bo virtually as big as Philadelphia. The first thing to ho dono for tho new army was to provide them with shelter and clothing, food and warmth. That large undertaking Is all but ac complished. Equally groat Is tho task of providing arms. To arm an 'n fantry division In the Civil War meant to provide as many muskets and as many bayonets ns there were men la tho command. In tho present war tho Job is moro complicated. Thorc arc rifles and bayonets to bo furnished tion of officers, the following ing chosen: The following officers were elected: Mr. J. H. Schumako, Jr. Past Coun- ell. Mr. J. B. Freeman, Council. Mr. Russell Speer, Vlve-Counctt. Mr. G. L. Williams, Chaplin. Mr. J. H. McDaniel, Conductor. Mr. R. M. Harbuck, Warden. Mr. E. D. McDaniel, Recording Sec retary. Mr. E. Rogers, Treasurer. Trustees: J. H. Shumakc. J. R. Freeman. O. L. Williams. Miles Medical Co., for Information con cerning my case, and In reply I received i a very kind and instructive letter, which I handed to my family doelor. ar.d he told me to use your Remedies In connection with the medicine he I gave me, ro 1 did. I used live bottles . ; 1». Miles' Heart Remedy and seven 1 tattles, of Dr. Miles’ Nervine. 1 was confined to the house for about four months. The aetlon of my heart Is now, and has been normal for the last ,ix months. I can truly recommend IV. Miles' Nervine and Heart Remedy to do what they are Intended for. It need necordlng to dlreellons. I thank you htndly for your advice in onswrr to ray monthly reports. I am now sixiy- seven years of age, have been In the mercantile business for thirty-five years and lived retired for the Isst thirteen years." A. B. HOI.UNCER. Lincoln, Peima. Dr. Milas’ Heart Remedy Is sold and guaranteed by all druggists, to MILES MEDICAL CO., Elkhart, Ind. ProTCRt nog Cholera. i The B. A. Thomas Hog Powder; h:t3 a record of 96% cures of Hog! Cholera. If you feed your hogs as ; Good for the Ailment! of Horses, Mules, Cattle, Etc. Good for your ott'n A ches. Pains, Rheumatism, Sprains, Cuts, Burns, Etc. 25c. 50c. .*!. At all Denlcrs. 800 Acres In Lee County Sold. .... ,— — > iiuieru. ii you a- -a- —; It Is announced that R. R. Forrester, arc rifles and bayonets to bo furnished ,i j ei , te d t y - u need never tear hog 0 [ Leesburg, has purchased from tho now ns formerly, but thero aro also ,.j, 0 i er#i no r any other hog disease, umpire State Guano Co., 800 acres of grenades and gasmasks and holmets Ard th0 directions are very simple, farming land In Leo county, the con- nnd trench mortars to bo seen to. j ugt Rl) out what you aro doing, plus fi |deration not being announced. Tho Each of tho four infantry regiments g fcw ccnts wor th of B. A. Thomas dial was ntado through English & In a division must havo 480 trench H j> QW dcr In tho feed twlco a !>urvis, of Amerlcns. knives. 192 automatic rifles and three w<?ok _ one-pounder cannon. Usually, though. Cholera gets The 768 men of tho machine gun b( . fore w0 i :now jt . Then it requires (’ongressmnn Enlists as Private. WASHINGTON, D. C.,' Dec. 17 — Ui’HH o no " linn..— —• —> battalion amt ?ho 5.068 men of tne cJosc Qtu ntion ^ hog—each representative Johnson, of South Da- LOOK AT YOUR TONGUE! IS IT BROAD, WHITE, FLABBY? fidd artillery brigade must have mi- hog mu3t b e dosed—and If you will kola, enlisted todey as a private In chine guns and threo-lnch guns 'n )]ngo (1)Cm as dlrccted you w m save , bo regular army and was assigned to hotter than 90 per cent. If you Camp Meade for training, lie has not don't, the B. A. Thomas Medicine yet resigned hla seat In congrees costs you ■nothing. Wo—not some . — . - distant manufacturer — pay your money back. G. K. Buchanan. Investors! Look! Now is the time to invest your idle money, to work and let it be earning you something No investments are so safe as Real Estate. Stocks rise and fall, notes go to protest, houses and business blocks bi REALTY REMAINS. Tornadoes and cyclones cannot blow it away, themselves can only temporarily affect its value. Buy land, carry it ant ' the sure returns of this wonderful country of ours to make you - ' Master of Your Own Future —YOUR BLOOD NEEDS ZIRON! Three Go Off To Join The Aviation Corps and Return When Your Tongue Is White and Flabby, It Is a Sign That You Are Anemic and That Your Blood Needs Ziron Iron Tonic, For the Benefit of Your Weakened System. Home-Rejected by Doctors Thoro aro threo disappointed men in Americus today. Thoy aro: B. B. Kent, E. H. Hill, and L. H. Hutchinson. Several days ago Mr. Kent and his two assistants decided to close up their Look at your tongue In the mirror! ■* It ought to be pointed, pink, clean and firm. .... — If it Is brond, white, coated, flabby, It Is probably a sign that you are garage and enlist In the aviation corps- anemic, that your blood lacks red corpuscles, that you aro not In good health, Al| three of tnem went to Atlanta that your system needs Iron to bring It up to proper condition. •» and _ all tbreo ot them were reject- When your blood nccdB iron, take Ziron, the new Iron Tonic, which con fd Th(>y dM not sttt iaf y tho exacting tains also tho hypophosphltes of lime and soda and other valuable tonic lngre. pbyBlca j requirements of the govern ments prescribed by tho best physicians for this form of trouble. mont. When you feci tired and miserable, lack ambition, suffer from Indigestion, g 0 tboy bave rc t U rncd homo disap- rhonmaUc pains, gastric catarrh, depression of spirits and a genera! feeling ,, 0 j ntcd an a "cussing their luck." Is cl being "under tho weather”, why not try Ziron to help you hack to health . , bo meant i m0 they have reopened Ziron, the new compound of Iron, contains no habit-forming drugs. It Is th(jlr g arag0 . Now Well "Tbedlord-* Black-Draught Is the best all-round medicine lever used,” writes j.A. Steelman, olPattonville.Tex ”1 suffered terribly with Uver troubles, and could get no rellel. The doctors said 1 had con sumption. I could not work at all. Finally I tried rou, me ucn iuui|<vuuu a Bafe reliable tonic remedy—good for men, women and children. Mr R. U Poston, of Lillie, La., writes: # ’’Somo weeks ago I was suffering , j;j; COl'XTY LEGISLATOR IS with something like dumb chills. I Just nched all over, my skin would feel n - amEHHTS FOR 8ATU clammy. I ached worse from my kncce down. I didn't rest well nights, and _ . _ my nppetlto wasn’t good. I was afraid I would get down In bed and so much Hon j Dodd C ||(t 0 n, of Lee county, to do In the Spring of tho year. I began to look -around for something r(prcsen t a t|ve from that county to tha tn help mo and decided to try Ziron...I had not token one third of a bottle , (K[9laturCi wa3 |„ the city yesterday, until I felt much better. I grew stronger, began to get hungry, and did nol Krcc ,ing his many friends. "Leecoun- bavo any more of tho chills. I think Ziron Is a Bplcndld tonic." y enjoyed tho most prosperous year s SPECIAL n-rr.R: Buy a bottle of ZIRON, today, at your drugglst’e !n | t: , history," says Mr. Clifton, "and nnd give It a fair trial, according to directions on tho bottle. If, aftoro-.-orybedy Is looking forward to a big up one bottle, you find it has not benefited you. taka Uw amply boUto back „ to the druggist and he will refund what you paia blm bo there Is no reason why he should not repay you. This otter only applies 40 the first trial bottle. * <ZA3 > U your druggist cannot supply y, r we will send you e buiiie ... post, prepaid. Chattanooga Drug ft Cr •sflcaJ Co Ciauanoogn. Tena SATURDAY THEDFORD’S BLACK- BBAUGHT 200 ACRES, 7 miles of rail- road; Rood land; rent 8 bales cot ton. Price $25 acre, or 20 per cent, on the price. 400 ACRES. 3 miles of Amer icus on Rood road, runninR water; suited to Reneral farming and stock-raisinR. $25.00 acre. 965 ACRES, 500 acres open; 400 acres under wire fence; run ninR water; two deep wells; b- room house: 5-room house, and plenty tenant houses; estimated one million feet of pine saw tim ber, 2 1-2 miles of railroad sta* $18 acre; rent 10 per cent. lion. on ihe i 360 ACRES. 2 1-2 mils Americus. on Rood road- 1 acre. 250 ACRES. 6 mil« Americus; on a R°°d r< 6 room house; two tenant rent 8 bales cotton. $30 acrt ' House; paved sidewall 5-ROOM conveniences; $1,500. 8-ROOM House, nice home, in desirable nei hood; worth $6,000; price $4,500. 7-ROOM House < NeW Lj paved street; cheap al only $4,500. and to my surprise, I got better, and am to-day as well as any man.” Thedtord’s Black - Draught Is a general, cathartic, vegetable liver medicine, that has been regulating Irregulari- Call in or write if interested in an investment of any kind. Ues ol the Uver, bowels, tor over 70 years. Oet a package today. Lying la nothing but cowsrdlco pure and simple. The brave are always IruthfuL TiiiiRiT—iii ir Him in E-70 P. B. W1LUFORG A M E R 1 C US, G EOKOJJ