Americus times-recorder. [volume], November 21, 1915, City Edition, Page PAGE SEVEN, Image 7

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KIN DAY, NOVEMBER 21, IMS
A Voice From The Long Ago Is Heard
From The Files of The Times-Recorder
Bs J. W. F.
Many Interesting Items Are Gleaned From The Valuable Files of This Paper of Happenings
Around Americus Just Thirty Years Ago
Americus, thirty years ago todav,
was shivering in the first snow storm
of the season, which came unexpect
edly. Business was suspended for the
time, and natives went sleigh-riding in
bathtubs and other improvised rigs.
BfCity council had just elected the
entire police force, consisting of A. P.
Lingo, chief; W. W. Wheeler, W. D.
Smith and Buck Reagin, policemen.
City council at same meeting elected
WTab” Oliver chief of the fire depart
ment, with Tom Cobb assistant.
ig The old volunteer department, in its
annual report to council, showed a
total of 198 men. The Wide Awake Co.
had 50 members, the Mechanics Co. 30,
■ bile the two colored companies had a
I total of 118 men.
' Americus sportsmen were gunning
tor robins, a favorite game bird in
those primaeval days.
I The S. Cohen residence on Church
street, a landmark of Americus, was
burned. The residence of C. L. Ansley
occupies the old site.
i Americus wanted a cotton compress,
pnd Messrs. Bascom Myrick, W. M.
Hitt, S. McGarrah, 1. .J Williford and 1
Amos Clarke, organized a company and '
built the press still in service here.
I Bugg Chapman, thirty years ago,
lost another setter dog and advertised
a reward for the recovery <f ‘'Jack.”
KA county election had just been held,
esulting in the election of N. H. |
A'hite. sheriff; J. H. Allen, clerk of;
Ucourt; T. M. Furlow, tax collector; J.
®A. Daniel, tax receiver; C. C. Sheppard,
- * treasurer.
The Baptist church building having
Sheen burned by an incendiary, the
leased, temporarily, the
B Presbyterian church which, at the
time, was without a pastor.
Later, the congregation used Watts
Hall (over Poole's store) and also the
opera house, until the present church
# was erected several years thereafter,
i, The Bank of Southwest Georgia was
H organized, with M. Speer, president, J.
4 W. Wheatley, vice-president, and W. H.
■(. Dudley, cashier. The capital stock,
SIOO,OOO, was raised in a day, and a
V premium of $lO a share refused for it.
.b U. B. Harrold, E. J. Eldridge and A.
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ANNOUNCEMENT!
We wish to anr ounce to the people of Amer
icus and vicinity that owing to the demands made
on us as druggists, we have decided to give a long
felt want in an
ALL NIGHT SERVICE
We will at all times have on duty twenty-foui
hour a day, a licensed prescription clerk. Oui de
livery service remains unexcelled in the city.
Don’t over look the fact that ours is the profit
sharing store. vVith each cash purchase we issue
coupons (which cost you nothing,) when a suffi
cient amount has been accumulated you can ex*
change for any article listed in our big catalogue.
SEE OUR DISPLAY
HOOKS’ PHARMACY
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The Profit Sharing Store. Phone 75
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W. Smith resigned as directors of the
I Bank of Americus, and took interest
i with the new bank, just organized. j
Col. U. B. Harrold returned from
Savannah, where he had just been el
ected a director of the Central Rail
,way, of which E. P. Alexander was el
ected president. Enthusiastic Amer
icus citizens met Col. Harrold at the
depot with a brass band.
One of the three little narrow gaug
ed engines of the A. P. and L. Railway
turned over at the foot of Church
street. This was the first accident on '
that road, now the Seaboard Airline, i
A railroad project agitating the
"Americus mind” was the proposed ex
tension of the little A. P. and L. to '
Gum Creek, on Flint river. It finally '
went there, on its triumphal route to 1
the sea. j 1
The Americus Recorder of that date , 1
published the result of the “drawing” |
of the Louisiana State Lottery, in 1
which many of "the boys” here took a j
shot. But none of them drew a prize.
A new tin sign had just been hung ,
at the entrance to the newly organized ’
Americus Y. M. C. A., which had two 1
rooms over the Eldridge drugstore. *
Genial Charles Hardy was Y. M. C. A. (
secretary. j'
Mr. A. A. Willett, of Americus, ex- . *
I ]
pected to inherit a vast fortune from
the estate of a deceased relative in '
England—s4oo,ooo. He was disappoint
ed in getting the legacy.
Cooper Godwin, an estimable citizen, ’
left with his family for Sanford, Fla , *
to reside.
Mr. J. J. Granberry, as recived for
Davis & Callaway, requested debtors |
of the firm to call and settle up.
“Master Eugene Hawkins has accept
ed a position in Atlanta with the R.
and D. office,” was an interesting news
item of the day.
The present city hall had not been
erected, and the city council leased
y darters in the old courthouse, where 1
meetings were held for some time.
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Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Kendrick had gone
to visit friends in Atlanta.
The A. P .and L. bought at that 1
(
time the fourth little engine owned by
s
that pioneer road. It was a Baldwin, (
and named the “R. F. Watts.”
Dr. Wisdom and family removed
from Buena Vista to Americus to re
side. They lived here many years, on :
Hill street.
City council authorized the sale of ’
bonds issued for installing Americus’
waterworks system. This was the
first indebtedness incurred by the city,
and is probably cancelled now.
1 Mr. Seth Seth Rodgers, a well known
resident of Americus, died at an ad
vanced age.
I The A. P. &L. railway had been
, "built to Lumpkin, and its friends were
in a quandary as to whether to go on
to Montgomery, or build into Colum
cus instead. To Montgomery it went.
Sheriff N. H. White, recently re
elected to that office, died, and was
I
suceeded by Joseph F. Markett, in a
hot race with Joe Mize.
The program for laying the corner
stone of the new county courthouse
was being discussed.
Mrs. T. B. Hooks and many friends
will appreciate the following social i
item, given verbatim: Miss Nannie,
Lou Hawkins, the talented little
daughter of Col. S. H. Hawkins, has
composed and had published by Hard
ing & Co. a beautiful piece of music
entitled 'The A., P. & L. Polka’.”
It was indeed an instrumental gem.
While DeHaven’s circus was in town
an employe attached the show for an
alleged debt due him, and Americus
kept the elephant for some time, to,
the delight of Frank Lanier and Ed
Littleton.
BRUISH PEER GIVES TALK
EACH WEEK M PROGRESS
LONDON, Nov. 20. —The spectacle of
the British peerage in the almost ob
solete paternal role of Lord of the
Manor, is found in Devon, where Lord |
Fortescue gives his close personal at
tention to the affairs of his tenants.
Since the beginning of the war, he has
called them together each week and
given them a lecture on the progress
of the fighting. The lectures are
staged in the village school room at
South Molton.
THE AMERICUS DAILY TIMES-RECORDER
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Chappell Machinery Co., Local Distributors. Allen Chappell, Mgr.
Twelve Thousand Square Miles
Will be Freed by Tick Wotk
On December Ist in Big Fight
WASHINGTON. D. C., Nov. 20.
Areas amounting in the aggregate to
12.313 square miles and situated in
the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Lou
isiana, Mississippi, North Carolina and
1 irginia will be freed from the tic*
quarantine on December 1. Previous ,
Releases bring the total for the year's
work to about 50,000 square miles — (
the greatest area released in any one
year since systematic tick eradication
was begun in 1906. At that time there
were 741,515 square miles under
quarantine; after December 1 there
will be 465,755, or less than two-thirds !
of the original area.
The new order releases the whole of
five counties in Alabama ,one in Ar-'
kansas, one in Louisiana, three in Mis
sissippi and three in North Carolina.
In addition, parts of two counties m
Alabama and one in Mississippi are
freed, together with those portions of
two counties in Alabama, one in Mis
sissippi, and one in Virginia which
were formerly under quarantine. All
told, twenty counties are affected in
whole or in part.
More territory—s,34s square miles—
is freed by the new' order in Alabama
than in any other state. The success,
ot the season’s work there is attrib
luted by federal inspectors to the
hearty co-operation of the state au- j
thorities, and the people in the com
munities concerned Ths co-operation,
it is said, sprang from a definite pur
pose to raise more and better cattle
and eradication of ticks has been ac
complished in several instances by the
importation of pure bred stock and
the erection of silos.
In Lowndes county, for instance,
for example, two brothers built five
concrete silos of 250 tons capacity
each, and brought in from Kentucky
a $1,200 Hereford bull and 55 Here
ford cows for the purpose of raising
pure-bred Herefords for the market.
In Dallas county 32 registered bulls
had been brought in by September 22
and 15 new silos built.
As the work of eradication pro-
g’essed, it became possible to ship in
to the open market cattle which had
i
been federally inspected and found to
be free from ticks. The higher prices
I which these cattle brought demon
strated conclusively the value of the
i
campaign. In Limestone county,
which was freed in September, about
( 1,700 head of cattle that were shipped
out in this way brought an average of
i $lO a head more than the prices pre-
I veiling below the quarantine line. The
I cost to this county of freeing its 15,-
000 cattle from ticks is estimated at
' approximately 55 cents a head.
| In counties with a greater number
of cattle, the cost of tick-eradication
' per head has been considerably small
-ler than this. Thus, the 42,000 cattle
jin Marengo county were cleaned for
less than 30 cents a head, the cost of
each dipping being less than 3 cents.
In this county 103 vats were built be
tween March 15 and May 1, and 14
more at odd times thereafter. These,
together with the 68 vats which had
i
been in existence before, were suffi
! cicnt to clean up the 978 square miles
in the county in one season of sys
' tematic work.
Experience has shown that sucn
. work is possible only when the people
themselves realize its Importance. In
' the counties in which the campaign
' has been pushed to a successful is-
I sue this year, work was begun after
1 the question had been submitted by
these counties to the people at the
[oils, and eradication carried by ma
jorities of from 4 to 1 to 9to 1. There
after, the whole influence of the more
progressive elements in the commun
ity was brought to bear upon the few
recalcitrants who refused to dip their
cattle. In the majority of cases this
was sufficient to bring them into line
without resort to legal proceedings,
but where these were found necessary
the local judges took pains to impress
upon the defendants the fact that their
individual preferences would not be
permitted to thwart the will of the en
tire county.
This marks a distinct advance over
previous years, when in eome coun
ties eradication had to be abandoned
because the people were not sufflcient-
I ly united in the matter to make effect
■ ive work possible. No penalties wre
imposd upon those who refused to dip,
| and in consequence, those who did dip
’ found the task of getting rid of the
tick an endless one. “Tick eradica
tion” reports one federal inspector ‘is
a work of the people.”
I Additional evidence on this point is
afforded by the experience of one
Alabama county which voted 9 to 1 for |
tick eradication in 1914, carried on
preliminary work that summer and
began active work, under state quar
antine, on April 15, 1915. Despite the
large majority in the election, consid
erable opposition developed in one
corner of the county, which culminat
ed in July in the destruction by dyna
mite of three dipping vats. The vats
were Immediately rebuilt and rewards
f.-*- * 1 . ■
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Ever Get Mad as
Fury with Central?
Ever get mad as fury <
i when you were discon- ■
nected right in the mid
dle of a talk ? Most of us
have and we have “burn
ed” the wire trying to
find out why it happened.
This is something that
is liable to occur. Work
ing with a great many
cords in a small space,
the operator may move
yours and disconnect
you, leaving you in the
middle of a word.
Less than one out of
every hundred calls gets
in this trouble. 99 per
cent efficiency is good,
but we are trying to im
prove it ,
SOI TH EBN BELL TELEPHONE
AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY
PAGE SEVEN
for the apprehension of the offenders
offered by both the state and the coun
ty live stock associations. Dipping
continued in this section, but it was
somewhat irregular and unsatisfactory
and as a result, only a part of the
county is released on December 1. In
that part of the county which is re
leased, tick eradication has been ac
companied by the completion of 25
siloe.
| The following table gives the names
and areas of the counties freed under
the new order: Square Total
I Counties miles sq. miles
ALA—
Wilcox (all) ....896
Marengo (all) ....966
DIPPING VAT STORY—2
Dallas (all) 957
Hale (all) 646
Lowndes (all) ... .739
Perry (part) ~...701
Henry (part) ....440 5,345
ARK— ‘
Marion (balance) .576
Woodruff (all) ...577
Cross (balance... .519 1,672
LA.-
E. Carroll (all) ..520 420
MISS—
Warren (all) ....572
Oktibgeha (all) . .457
Copiah (all) 769
I.sake (balance).. 81
Yalobusha (part). .330 — 2,209
N. C
| Bladen (all) ....1,004
Johnson (all) .. 694
Sampson (all) 922 2,620
VA
York (bal.) .... 47 47
Total 12,313
SUNDAY’S TIMES-RECORDER IS
AN ADVERTISING FEATURE. Read
every line of the advertising.
MONEY TO LEND
We are in position to obtain
money on farm lands in Svmter
county promptly at reasonable
rates. If you desire a loan call
on or write us.
Jos. fl. 5 John A. Fort
Planters Bank Building.