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THE AMERICUS DAILY TIMES-RECORDER.
(Member Associated Press.)
• Established 1879.
Published every afternoon, except Sundays, by the Times-Recorder
Publish lr? Co. (Incorporated.)
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UUIMBY MELTON Editor
0. W. FURLOW ....City Ed.tur
V. U DUPREE Business Manager
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OFFICIAL ORGAN for City of Americus, Sumter County, Webster County,
■allroad Commission of Georgia 'or Third Congressional District, U. S. Ceurt,
louthern District of Georgia.
AMERICUS. GEORGIA, SATURDA Y AFTERNOON, MARCH 27, 1915
A CITY AUDITORIUM
Americus needs a city auditorium.
A large assembly hall that could be used for conventions and all
public meetings, would be a valuable asset to the city.
An aduitorium would mean mtre conventions for Americus. Con
ventions mean visitors. Visitors to Americus always leave the city
praising Americus and Sumter county.
Good auditoriums have put many a city on the map.
The large Fifth regiment armory secured for Baltimore the Demo
cratic convention that nominated Woodrow Wilson, and Baltimore
secured more advertising during the week of the convention than for ten
years before.
Denver went to the expense to erect a mammoth auditorium to se
cure the convention that nominated Bryan. >
Chicago with her auditorium has drawn hundreds of conventions to
the Windy City.
Atlanta offers a large auditorium as her best argument in securing
conventions.
Americus can well afford to erect an auditorium.
It would be possible to add a third story of the already beautiful Fur
low school. This would provide room for a large auditorium.
It would be even better for the city to build an auditorium that could
be used as an armory by the Americus Light Infantry.
A bond issue of $15,000 would be sufficient to erect a modern arm
ory auditorium for Americus.
America's new superdreadnougnts will be armed with 16-inch guns and
one shot from which, remarks the Chicago News, should make the immor
tal ratio heard around the world.
You are wrong, Chlorinda, Miss Molla Bjurstedt, who won the Ameri
can indoor tennis championship is not a Russian girl as you have been told.
We have it on the best of authority that Miss Bjurstdt is s Norwegian,
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bjabers.
A Arkansas man has discovered that advertising pays. Last week he
inserted a Want Ad to the effect th the wanted a wife. Within twenty
four hours he had two hundred and thirty-five answers.
The Redpath Chautauqua will return to Americus this spring “bigger
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and better than ever before.”'" The Chautauqua week is a big event in
Americus and always brings hundreds of visitors here.
Little Italy has t>een in the li nelight since hostilities began. Now
she shoos the German ambassador out of Rome, mobolizes her army and
practically announces thats he is ready for the music to begin.
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T. L. Collins, division freight agent to the Central of Georgia, while
in Americus today, said: “Things are picking up all over south Georgia.
It doesn't make much difference whether the war ends or not, Georgia is
going to be on its feet by fall and will stay there. Everywhere I visit
1 see signs of returning prosperity.”
In the April American Magazine, David Grayson, writing his storv,
"Hempfield’’ .goes on with his wonderful account of the “Hempfield Star”
and its editors. Hempfield is a small town, and the “Star” is a country
weekly. One of the editors is Norton Carr, a youth from the city, who
conveived the idea of printing the naked truth about things in the paper.
Following is a paragraph he wrote about the village church service. It
was the truth, but it did not get into the paper: “The usual forenoon
service was held in the Congregational church on Sunday. Being a hot
day, the Rev. Mr. Sargent wore his black alpaca coat, and preached ear
nestly for thirty minutes, his text being John x, 3. Miss Daisy Miller
played a selection from Mozart, though the piano was unfortunately out
. of tune. There were in attendance fifteen women, mostly old, seven men
and four children, besides the choir. During the sermon old Mr. John
son went to sleep and Mrs. Johnson ate four peppermints. Deacon
Mitchell took up a collection of fifty-six cents, besides what was in the
envelopes.”
What Our Readers
Have to Say
A Poor Friend.
A practical view of the anti-alcohol
question is taken by Jewell Mayes, the 1
, noted Missouri editor. Explaining why
the town of Richmond stays dry, after
1 having voted itself into that condition
under local option, he says:
“Booze is a poor friend. Many men
in Richmond who believed that the li
cense system was best have learned
that local option is best for the town
Building Again Normal
Sags Industral Index
;COLUMBUS, Ga., March 27.—The
Industrial Index says in its issue for
this week:
“Construction and industrial devel
opments have not been more substan
tial in a year than for the past week,
and the return to wholly normal con
ditions is steady.
“The voting of bonds for municipal
aDd county improvements and the
awarding of contracts for extensive
construction work are features that
demonstrate the trend toward pros
perity.
“The Sarasota, Fla., district has
voted $250,000 of bonds for construct
ing roads and a bridge. Bonds have
been voted by Decatur, Ga., for school
buildings, sewers and waterworks and
by Cedartown, Ga., for school build
ings; Dadeville, Ala., will vote on
waterworks bonds; Hogansville, Ga.,
on electric light plant bonds and West
Point, Miss., on sewer bonds.
“Contracts were awarded at La-
Grange, Ga., for the construction of a
cotton mill to be established at a cost
of about $500,000, the contracts in
cluding the construction of the main
mill building, seven sections of ware
houses and 122 residences.
“A contract was awarded for the
construction of a railroad near Mobile,
Ala., in connection with the plans for
development on Dauphin Island.
"Thirteen apartment houses, nine
school buildings and seven church
buildings are included in the news of
construction work to be done.
“Twenty-seven new corporations
were formed with minimum capital
stocks aggregating $703,500. A bank
with capital stock of SIOO,OOO was or
ganized at Winder, Ga.
“Among the items of construction
work to be done, as reported this week
are:
“Apartment houses, 9, Atlanta, Ga.,
and Davista, Miami and Tampa, Fla.;
church buildings, Durant and West
Point, Miss., Forsyth and Rome Ga.,
and Miami and West Palm Beach, Fla ;
I OPERA HOUSE 9ft
Tuesday Night, March Ov
The Show That Left All Chicago Talking
Le Comte & Flesher Offer the Gorgeous Musical
Spectacle
| The Prince of Tonight
■ liy Adams, Hough. & Howard. 260 times at the
Princess Theatre, Chicago’s mcst popular theatre
■ Overflowing with song hits and stunning show —girls
I METROPOLITAN CAST WITH TOM ARNOLD
I Suoported by Mabel Laffin, Eva Phelps. Vera La Vere, frank fiar.h,
I Tom McKnight, Lew Naden, Charles Corwin and the
yffl PPfIDI P /flfl Process Prize Beauty Chorus Pony
I LI""4U Ballet of Wonderful Dancers.
Poaturoc* lhe 8,118 and s,,ver Ba,le,i Del,t fores t ,n the tand
rudlulGu* the Moon ; Lithe Fairies Dancing in an >merald Gloom; 1
I Water—Fete and Banquet—Grand llluminatioh. Special Feature 1
WILKINS and BURCH
in whirlwind and Society Dances.
PKICtS: First 8 rows trc. M 50, Kalance Fluor $1.(10. Balcony, 75c, |
Gallery 5Dc.
SEATS ON SALE SATURDAY MORNING AT MURRAY’S PHYRMACY ,
THE AMERICUS DAILY TIMES-RECORDER
and its people. It has been tested.
More streets have been paved, more
streets have been lighted, more stores
have been improved, more homes have
been built, more debts have been paid
since Richmond went dry. The courts
and jails are less crowded. The town
is cleaner, stronger, better to live in
and to transact business in—that is
Richmond’s experience.”—Copied from
the Saturday Blade. This is worth
copying. J. P. RAIFORD.
clubhouse, Tampa, Fla.; paving, Bir
; mingham, Ala., and Miami, Fla.; fac
tory buildings and sewers, Forsyth,
Ga.; hotel buildng addition, Aiken
jS. C.; school buildings, Columbus,
I Forsyth and Waynesboro, Ga., Fayette,
Ala., Miami, Pampano and Titusville,
Fla., and Elloree, S. C.; sanitorium
building, Opelika, Ala.
“Construction contracts have been
awarded as follows:
“Abattoir building, Albany, Ga.;
apartment house, Atlanta, Ga.; bank
J building to be enlarged and remodel
ed, Miami, Fla.; courthouse, Lincoln
| county, Georgia; dormitory, Macon.
Ga.; fraternal building, Fairhope, Ala.;
j telephone building, Meridian, Miss.;
theater building, Bradentown, Fla.;
i paving, Hastings, Fla., and Way
cross, Ga.; school buildings, Clermont
1 and Wimuama, Fla.; warehouse, Bay
Minettie, Ala.
I “Industrial plants will be establish
ed as follows:
“Fertilizer mixing plant, Carters
, ville, Ga.; grist mill, Ala.;
j electric light plant, Jefferson, Ga.;
hosiery mill to be enlarged, Fort
Payne, Ala.; lumber plant, Lumber
ton, Fla.; cotton mill to be enlarged,
Rock Hill, S. C.; preliminary arrange
ments are to be made for construct
i
ing private railroad and establishing
! pyhosphate cleaning plant in Florida,
: the plant to be in Tampa; company
has been organized to build a railroad
’ in southern Georgia.
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: TO ERECT MONUMENT
TOR BELGIAN KIDDIES
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PARIS, March 27.—The youthful
Princess Marie Jose of Belgium has
I been chosen honorary president of a
,' committee which will erect a monu
ment in Paris “to the heroic Belgian
I children of 1914-15.”
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By its full name
Accept nothing else
said to be‘Just as Good’
There is no other
drink so refreshing, so
strengthening as
, in bottles. Pure and
wholesome always.
Keep if in your refrig
erator at home at all
times.
AMERICUS
COCA COLA
BOTTLING CO.
J. T. Warren. Mgr.
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LONDON INIS TO
HUNG CH OF O.S.
(By Associated Frees.)
LONDON, March 27. —A great hue
and cry has been raised about trying
for murder the crews of German sub-
I marines which have torpedoed mer
chantmen. The popular clamor has
been that this course should be fol
lowed, and by segregating the crew of
the U-8 recently captured the Admir
alty intimated that conviction would
be sought. But, in the opinion of Sir
Herbert Stephen it would be irregular
and illegal.
“First,” says Sir Herbert, “as to the
allegation that these .prisoners are
murderers. You cannot murder with
out killing somebody, and lam not
aware that these prisoners or any of
them have ever killed anybody.
“I am practically sure that they hav3
not done so within the jurisidction of
the Central Criminal Court, i. e., in
England or within three miles of the
coast, and if so they could not be con
victed.
“Piracy is not in itself a capital of
fense. The deflnation, in English law,
of piracy, is extremely vague, but this
much is certain that all definitions of
it hitherto assayed have obviously re
ferred to matters occurring during
peace, and not warlike operations.”
The writer adds that if empowered
to act by Parliament the authorities
could doubtless “do something very
appropriate and impressive to the pris
oners of the U-8, and I daresay it
might be deserved; but if it were done
it would have to be through some kind
of court martial.”
DIRE DISTRESS
It Is Near at Hand to Hundreds of
Aniericus Headers.
Don’t neglect an aching bask.
Backache is often the kidneys’ cry
for help.
Neglect hurrying to the kidneys’ aid
Means that urinary troubles may
follow.
A danger of worse kidney trouble.
Here’s Americus testimony;
J. T. Bragg, 705 Hancock St„ Am
ericus, says; “Some time after being
on my feet a good deal I have a dull
ache across the small of my back. At
times there are irregularities in the
passage of the kidney secretions. I
have use Doan’s Kidney Pills on more
than one occasion and have always
had relief. They have rid me of the
attacks of backache and put my kid
neys in a normal condition.”
Price 50c, at all dealers. Don’t sim
ply ask for a kidney remedy—get
Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that
Mr. Bragg had. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Props., Buffalo, N. Y. advt
I' L. G. COUNCIL, Praa Inc. I*ol. H. 8. COUNCIL, Cashier.
>; C. M. COUNCIL, Ylce-Pres. T. E. BOLTON, Asst Cashier,
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We make farm loans at 6 per cent interest and
give the borrower the privilege of paying part of
principal at end of any year, stopping interest
on amounts paid, but no annual payment of
principal required.
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THE ALLISON UNDERTAKING COMPANY
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SATURDAY, MABCH 27, 1915