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fdIKTY.SEVEIUTH YEAR
COMMITTEE HAS
ORGANIZED FOR
bushipb
Americus is getting ready rapidly
for the Georgia State Sunday school
convention and the entertainment of
the thousand or twelve hundred dele
gates and visitors who will attend, and
to that end, especially, a meeting or
the superintendents of all of the Sun
day schools here was held at 5 o’clock
yesterday afternoon. Plans were out
lined, and the city divided up into dis
tricts for the convenience of home can
vassers.
The annual state convention of Sun
day school workers assembles here
Just three weeks hence, April 21st,
and it behooves the local committees
to complete their several duties as
rapidly as possible.
At the meeting of superintendents
yesterday, the matter of providing
homes and entertainment for the hun
dreds of visitors was discussed at
length. The city was divided into
fourteen working districts ar.d two
canvassers are to be assigned each
district. Every Americus home will
be visited, and provision thus made
for the entertainment of the delegates.
The names of the twenty-eight can
vassers have been selected, and these!
will meet on Friday afternoon next at
4:30 o’clock at the Presbyterian
church, when they will receive instruc
tions from the superintendents upon
the work assigned them. The names
of the twenty-eight canvassers will be
announced after the meeting on Fri
day. It is expected that every home in
Americus will be opened to the Sun
day school visitors.
Other committees here are at work
preparatory to the entertainment of
the big convention, and all details will
be quickly and carefully considered.
Americus is going to entertain the
convention, and do it handsomely.
LESLIE SCHOOL NOW
IN STANDARD CLASS
I
(Special to Times-Recorder.)
LESLIE, Ga., March, 31. —Through J
The cooperation of the trustees, teaen-1
ers and pupils, the Leslie school has
recently been placed on the standard
list of public scnoois. Mr. Brittain, !
state superintendent of education, has
issued the diploma offered cy the
State Board of Education tor such at
tainment.
This will be presented Friday after
noon, April is, by Mr. G. G. Maughon,
superintendent school* at Richland
Mr. F. E. Land, state supervisor !
education, of Macon, will make a
short address along educational lines. |
After this part of the program is |
completed. Hon. Charles R. Crisp will!
speak on some subject which will be of j
like interest to the school and town at,
large.
The school authorities feel that they
are exceedingly fortunate in securing
men of such reputation for this occas
ion. It is expected that the people of
the tohVh and'surrounding country will!
give them the audience which men of
their ability deserve.
(LUES SEEK PROTECTION
OF ENGLISH UNION JACK
(By Associated Press.)
LONDON, March 31.—A list of 237
aliens to whom certificates of natural
ization have been granted, ar who
have been readmitted to British cit
izenship during Feburary, is published
in the official Gazette. Os these, 46
are of German nationality.
LOOK OUT
JACK FROST
ON HIS WAY
Let the water out of the radiator.
Cover up the tender plants in "the
backyard garden.”
Put another blanket on the bed.
For Jack Frost is due to pay us a
visit again tonight.
The weather man up in Washington
predicts for tonight fair weather with
killing frost as far south as central
Florida. Georgia will experience a
record-breaking cold snap, according
to this wise one’s dope.
Wintry storms swept over the en
tire southeastern states last night, ac
cording to Associated Press dispatches.
Snow fell in South Carolina, Tennes
see, and north Georgia. A heavy rain
prevailed further south.
In Alabama considerable damage
was done to the growing crops by a
heavy hail storm which extended south
of Montgomery.
GERMAN FORCES
SEIGt JERDDN
(By Associated Press,)
LONDON, March 31.—Reports from
the front state that the Germans are
making new attempts to retain their
positions along the Franco-German
border. German forces are bombard
ing Verdun In an effort to dislodge
French troops there. The bombard
ment of Nieuport also continues.
LORD ROUGH
DEAD IN LONDON
(By Associated Press.)
LONDON, March 31.—Lord Roths
child, head of the English branch of
the famous family, died here today at
the age of seventy-four. He was con
sidered one of the leading financiers
• f this country, and was closely con
nected with the Rothschilds of Paris.
CITY COURT IS GRINDING
ALONG ON CIVIL DOCKET
nvo MINOR CASES TRIED TIES
DAY AND TWO TODAY.
The routine of city court does not
develop any cases of particular inter
est, and the two disposed of yester
day and a like number this morning
were of minor importance. Civil bus
iness will be continued throughout the
current week.
WELCOME HICKS IS WELCOMED
TO BASTILE IN SCHLEY
WHERE HE AWAITS TRIAL UPON
CHARGE OF BURGLARY.
Welcome Hicks, who with Tye Jen
kins, is charged with attempted bur
glary at the store of Mr. Charles Mauk,
last week, was carried from Americus
yesterday evening to Ellaville by She
riff Lumpkin, of Schley. Hicks, it is
said, has told of the raid upon the
store. Jenkins Is still at large.
AMERTOMMORDER
AMERICUS, GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 31. 1915
AUSTRIA DENIES
REPORT BUI THE
ALLIES CLAIM
BIG VICTORIES
(SWISS NEWSPAPERS SAT BUS
SI ANS HAVE ANNIHILATER SEV
ERAL DETACHMENTS OF AUS
TRIANS IN CARPATHIAN MOUN
TAIN’S
4,0G0 WERE KILLED
IN ONE SHORT HOUR
Holland Sends Out Report That Ger
mans Are Preparing to Abandon
Positions in Belgium and Will Fall
Hack Before Allies.
(By Associated Press.)
LONDON, March 31. —After brief
fighting for possession of Dukla Pass
in the Carpathians, the Russians have
brought up heavy reinforcements and
resumed the attack on the Austrian
positions. Vienna reports say the Rus
sians have not been able to gain their
objective at any point along the Car
pathian, front and that an invasion of
Hungary at this time is Ipossihle. Ac
cording to these despatches the Rus
sians were defeated in Bukowina dur
ing yesterday.
Dispatches published today in Swiss
newspapers, however, say the Aust
rians have suffered enormous losses in
northeastern Hungary, where it is es- 1
timated they lost eighteen thousand
i
men during Monday's fighting. The j
Russians are credited with having an
nihilated a column of four thousand
Austrians within an hour. The in
creasing pressure eing exerted by the
Russians in the Carpathians, togeth
er with their capture of Pzremysl may
soon have its effect upoq operations
in the west.
It is reported in Holland that the
Germans are contemplating the early
abandonment of their present line in
Belgium in favor of a less extended]
front, running slightly west of Brus- I
sels. The withdrawal of German ca
valry, it is said, has already commenc
ed, but authentic confirmation of the
report is impossible at noon.
A Reuters news dispatch from Con- !
stantinople says the allied fleet has
resumed its bombardment of the vil
lages near the outer forts of the Dar
danelles, but that no attempt has been
made to again enter the narrows. No
estimate of damage wrought during the
shelling of the coast town is given by
the Reuter correspondent.
German warships in the Baltic Sea
attacked the Russian port Libau dur
ing yesterday, two separate attacks
being made during the day. Three
persons were killed during the bom
bardment and considerable property
damage inflicted, after which the
warships retired, steaming in a south
westerly direction.
WHAT WOULD YOU THINK?
What would you think if a friand oi yours found a SIOO.OO bill on the street, and didn’t have enough
energy to bend over and pick it up? What would you think if a friend of yours had an opportunity to
secure $1,200.00 in Valuable Prizes and then didn’t have enough ambition to use a little spare time and effort to
secure them?
It seems to the Thrift Club Manager that any young lady or young man whose friends had entered them
in the Times-Recorder’s big $1,200.30 Thrift Club would have ambition enough to make the race that was ex
pected of them by these friends.
If you are one whose friends have entered you in the race, TAKE HEED before it is too late. When they
nominated you in this campaign they did so because they believed you to be made of the stuff that makes
WINNERS. They believed you to be an aggressive person who would go Into this race with the ‘‘neved-say
die” spirit, and WIN OUT. Now it’s right up to you—not your friends—to make good during these last few
days. If you don’t make a creditable showing you will not only fail to win a prize, but your friends will lose
all confidence In you. They will see that they were MISTAKEN in you; that you were only commonplace
after all. ONLY COMMONPLACE. DO YOU UNDERSTAND?
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
PASSENGER BELIEVED TB
BE RESPONSIBLE EBB THE
EIRE ON LA 10URAINE
♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
♦ LIVED IN ’FRISCO. ♦
4 ♦
4 (By Associated Press.) ♦
♦ WASHINGTON, D. C., March 4~
4- 3i. —State department officials ♦
♦ today said Raymond Swiboda ♦
4- made application for a passport 4
4- in New York during February, ♦
4- giving his address as San Fran- 4
4- cisco. 4-
1 4- Swiboda is being held by the -
, 4 French officials under suspicion 4
. 4 of having set fire to the LaTou- 4-
4- raine, a passenger steamer, sev- 4
| 4 eral weeks ago. 4
44444444-444444-4-
(By Associated Press.)
PARIS, March 31.—Raymond Swo
boda, one of the passengers aboard the
French line steamship La Touraine,
the safety of which was imperilled by
fire at sea on March 6th, was arrest
ed here today charged with setting
fire to the vessel, according to Mat
ine’s. The newspaper, in its after
noon issue asserts Swoboda was sus
pected of having “close relations with
the enemy,” and correspondence found
in his room is said to indicate con
clusively that he had been charged
with the task of blowing up the La
Touraine. Following his arrest, Swo
boda was taken under heavy guard
from Paris to Havre.
Investigation o| the explosion is
declared to have led experts to be
! lieve the flames were caused by some
detonating device, and a close watch
was kept upon suspected persons. Ray
mond Swoboda, was listed on the ship's
passenger record as thirty-eight, years
old. He claimed to be an American
financier and is said to have mention
ed to fellow passengers on board the
La Touraine they might need the
attention of nurses and doctors be
fore reaching their destination.
Secret service men declare Swoboda
is well known in financial circles in
Paris, having been connected with
several more or less important trans
actions. He is supposed to be a Rus
sian citizen, as he spoke familiarly
of connections at both Petrograd and
Moscow.
ABURDIT Bl
AFFORDS RELIEF
GROWING CDDPS
The fine rains yesteiday and last
night were general throughout th.s
section and will vastly benefit the
young ft?ld crops and gardens. The
farms, especially, needed rain lo
bring up the long-planted corn crop
and prepare the ground tor cotton
plsrtUg as well, while the wheat and
oat crops needed moisture as well.
Gardens and truck farms were show
ing the effect of drouth, and will be
AMERICUS Will
BE REPRESENTED
AT CHATANOOCA
ROAD CONGRESS
E. G. COUNCIL AND J. E. MATHIS
WILL LEAVE AMERICUS TOMOR
ROW FOR CHATTANOOGA W HERE
THEY WILL PRESENT OUR
CLAIMS FOR THE “DIXIE HIGH
WAY.”
MEETING LAST NIGHT
WAS WELL ATTENDED
Matter of Hc-Organizlng (he Chamber
of Commerce Taken Up and Com
mittee Appointed to Devise Means to
Rehabilitate the Trade Body.
Americus and Sumter county are go
ing after that national highway run
ning from “The Hoosier State to
Dixieland.”
At the meeting of citizens last night,
Messrs. L. G. Council, mayor of Amer
icas, and J. E. Mathis, superintendent
of the city schools, were elected dele
gates to the Chattanooga meeting and
instructed to land the highway for
Sumter and Americas.
These two gentlemen armed with
good roads data, will leave for the
Tennessee city tomorrow. They are
prepared to present our claims in a
way that is sure to land this highway
for us.
The fact that Sumter county Is ac
knowledged to be the original good
roads county of the state. If not of the
South, will go u. Ibng way towards se
curing this national highway. Sumter !
county’s goou roads are known all over j
Dixie and even up in the Hoosier i
state.
The Chatianuoga convention will last I
two days, Friday and Saturday. Vue !
Governors O' all state that will be tra- 1
versed by this Dixie Highway, will he '
present at the meeting. Practically
every city that wants the road to pass)
their way will also be represented at j
the meeting.
To Re-Oneanize The Chamber of
Commerce.
Acting on the suggestion of the
Times-Recorder that the Chamber of
Commerce be re-organized by the citi- j
zens present last night, a committee
was appointed to take the matter un
der consideration and to call a meet- j
ing in the near future. President Ma
this, of the trades body, and Mayor
Council were appointed on this com
mittee.
The meeting last night was well at
tended despite the stormy weather and
demonstrated that Americas people arc
awake when it comes to live issues.
greatly benefitted by the refreshing
rain. If an end to cold weather will
only come, as is quite likely after the
Eastertide, conditions generally, will
*
he very greatly improved.
GERMAN CRUISER
TO RUN GANTLET
ALLIED WARSHIPS
—————
! S XIEEN HUNDRED TONS OF COAL
WILL BE LANDED ON PRINZ
EITEL FREDERICK AND BIG
WARSHIP MAY ATTEMPT TO
M IKE IT BACK TO FATHERLAND
•
(By Associated Press.)
NEWPORT NEWS, Va„ March 31.
Sixteen hundred tons of coal are being
loaded in barges today at Swell’s
Point, Virginia, for the German auxil
iary cruiser Prinz Eitel Frederick.
Since it would take about this amount
to carry the warship back to German
"alers, it is believed she is preparing
to run the gantlet and return home.
It is known here that several allied
warships are just off the Virginia coast
v. living for the Eitel Frederich and it
ic believed the cruiser will have a
hard t,me evading them.
SUBMARINE GETS
TWO STEAMERS
(By Associated Press.)
LONDON, March 31. —The British
steamer Flaminia has been sunk in the
English Channel by the German sub
marine “U-28”, according to official
Imlleuus published today. The entire
cicw was rescued.
It is also reported that the steam
ship Crown of Castile has been sunk
cy the same submarine.
UNBEE SUM Will SPEND
120,000 TOJISE "r-f
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 31.
Secretary Daniels today authorized the
expenditure of $20,000 to raise the
sunken submarine “F-4” from Hono
lulu harbor. The boss of Uncle Sam’s
navy set aside this sum after re
ceiving a message from Rear Admiral
Moore saying that the present equip
ment there was too light to raise the
little warship. Early this morning
the hawser attached to the submarine
broke while dragging the boat to
wards the shore.
That.every member or the crew held
captive beneath the water, has perish
ed is now accepted as a certainty. For
men to survive for so long a time cut
off from air Is impossible authorities
state. The auxiliary air chamber of
a.submarine is sufficient for only a
short time.
School Teacher
Gives Seven
Sons to France
(By Associated Press.)
PARIS, March 3T.—A school-teachei
of the department of Doubs is creditej
with the painful glory of having th
largest number of children among tlu
dead on the field of battle. Os his
seven sons in the army, five have been
killed and one of the others has bee’i
wounded.
riTY
V< EDITION 1
AMEIIIGIIS NAS
REDUCED STOCK
DURING QUARTER
Americus warehousemen have cause
for felicitation at the amount of cot
ton sold during the quarter ending
with today, and also at the substan
tial advance in values within that
period. At the beginning of the New
Year the warehouses hem were packed
with 25,000 bales cotton, for which
there was little demand even at pre
vailing prices, which were a little bet
ter than six Cants. Today, local stocks
are reduced by 10,000 bales while val
ues are two cents per pound, or $lO
per bale higher than at the beginning
of the quarter.
Today the demand is fairly good for
the month-end at prices satisfactory .o
sellers.
Toward the end of every month this
season there has been a relaxation in
the spot demand. This is only natural,
for buyers are busy closing up the
month’s shipments, and are therefore
not yet engaged on the next month’s
commitments.
Yet the bears use this monthly con
dition over and over as evidence of
satisfied demand. They always claim,
too, that the rest of the crop is sure
to be crowded on the market. This
was a serious danger several months
ago. but it is quite different now. No
great quantity of cotton is to be
had even at current prices; it is only
at successively higher stales that
holdings are drawn out.
Ail the weaki.ey held cotton was
sold long ago, except perhaps some
speculative lots here and there.- Ex
porters will want fully 1,500,000 bales
more before the end of the season, and
American mills about as much more.
A higher price will be required to
bring or# such a quantity.
GASOLINE SHORTAGE
hurts™ BUSS
v ßy Associated Press.)
BERLIN, March 31. —The automo
bile omnibuses, which in the streets of
Berlin have shrunk in number from
325 operating on 13 lines to 83 on six
lines since hte war began may disap
pear entirely, owing to shortage of
gasoline.
The company which opereatees the
big autos has been restricted to a
supply of 100 barrels per month —one
half of what it is now using. It has
appealed to the police to allow the
use of at least 50 barrels more than
this, and if this is not granted will
have to reduce its lines to three, all
operating along the Frieddrichstrasse.
It is even anticipated that operation
will cease entirely, and that the old
time horse-drawn vehicles will once
more hold complete sway.
JAPS MAY BE BARRED
FROM BOLDING LAND BY
LOUISIANA LEGISLATURE
t
(By Associated Press.)
NEW ORLEANS, La., March 31.—1 t
became known here that land
reclamation interests have asked the
civic commercial bodies of New Op
leans to unite in making a request of
on Governor Hall to recommend to the
state legislature that all Japanese be
prohibited from holding land in the
state. It Is not known whether the
civic bodies will heed the request nor
whether the governor will make such
a recommendation.
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