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THIRTT-EIGHTH TEAK.
SUMTER STARS IN
EAST DAT OF TRE
HDUSEiESSIDN
Representatives Sheppard and
Wheatley, the two gentlemen from
Sumter, were conspicuous in the busi
ness of the house during the last ses
sion of the fifty day grind.
Mr. Sheppard figured in the hour of
adjournment, and the following story
tells that:
"The house refused to adopt a joint
resolution to adjourn at 5 o’clock, to
change it to 6 o'clock, or to fix any
hour for sine die adjournment. The
resolution was introduced by Repre
sentative Anderson, - of Jenkins, who
declared the night session is always a
more or less useless waste of time and,
is the two branches stick to business
during the afternoon, everything that
is going to be done can be cleared away
and members who desire will have an
opportunity to go home. His resolu
tion provided for adjournment at 6
P'. m.. to which Mr. Edwards offered at
amendment making it £ p. m. Mr.
Sheppard, of Sumter, moved to tabli
the resolution ,but his motion last, the
amendment by Mr. Neill, of Muscogee,
to postopne action on the resolution in
definitely carrying. 69 to 46.”
Military War Stops.
Mr. Wheatley assisted in laying the
military disturbance in a grave, and
the bill was easily passed. The story
is:
“The bill providing for a revision of
the Georgia military code, to conform
to the new federal regulations, passed
by a vote of 107 to 10. In calling the
bill an its passage, Speaker Burwell
announced that “the warring factions
of Clay and Sumter counties have
reached a peace agreement”—referring
to the point raised by Representative
Arnold, of Clay, when the first effort
was made to put the bill on the house
calendar, and over which there arose
a controversy with the adjutant gen
eral, leading to personal privilege re
marks by Mr. Arnold as a result of a
card printed by Mr. Arnold as a result
of a card printed by Adjt. Gen. Nash. In
the interval between that incident and
the present time the adjutant general's
office, the gentleman from Sumter, Mr
Wheatley, and Representative Arnold
have gotten together and the changes
in the original bill demanded by Mr.
Arnold have been made.
“This having been done, Mr. Wheat
ley, in asking for passage of the bill,
eaid “the measure does not endanger
paralleling of the Western and Atlan
tic railroad; it has nothing to do with
the Savannah recall, nor is it connect
ed with the capital removal move
ment —it’s just a military bill.”
“Speaker Burwell asked. “Does the
chair not nnde r stand that the gentle
man from Sumter and the gentleman
from Clay have gotten so close to
gether on this measure that there is no
chance to parallel?”
"The speaker is eminently correct,”
replied Mr. Wheatley. “The gentleman
from Clay and the gentleman from
Sumter have gone to bed on the situa
tion in perfect peace and harmony”—
and the bill passed.”
Eminent Domain Bill.
A bill to give lessees of railroads the
■ jght of eminent domain affected Amer
icus. and the following mention was
made by Mr. Wheatley:
“The bill to grant lessees of rail
roads the right of eminent domain was
jest through lack of three votes, the
vote being 92 to 53, for passage of the
bill, 95 votes being required. The pur
pose of the bill, as explained by Mr.
Wheatley, is illustrated in a condition
5 Americus, where the railroad com
pany wants to run a side track through
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FUNERAL OF ONIO
PEARLMANJS HELD
The funeral of David Pearlman, who
died here yesterday afternoon, Was
held this afternoon at Albany at 4
o’clock.
The remains were carried to Albany
at 2 o’clock this afternoon, the funeral
ceremonies being held at the residence
on Jackson street. The Americus Ma
sons of Lodges, Nos. 13 and 95, and
the Order of the Eastern Star, assem
bled in a body and accompanied the
body to the train.
Rabbi George Solomon, of Savannah,
arrived in Americus early Thursday
morning, and he officiated in the fun
eral rites.
Mr. Pearlman was 50 years of age,
and had been a resident of Americus
for twenty-nine years. Besides his
wife, he is survived by three daughters,
Misses Jennie, Belle and Ethel, and
one son, William; four sisters, Mrs. Sa
fcah Black, of Valdosta; Mrs. Eddie
Stein, of Russia; Mrs .Ida Meyers; of
Bainbridge; Mrs. Lena Lazarus, of
Ojutman; one brother, Moses Pearl
man, of Boston, Ga.
Many friends and relatives mourn
the death of Mr. Pearlman. He was
prominent in the city, and always
mindful of a tender love for his fellow
man.
ALLIES PREPARE
FDR ATTACKS OF
TEIITI)IIJRGES
The French were busy today prepar
ing for the looked-for German counter
attack in the Somme region where dur
ing Wednesday the French scored im
portant gains on a front of nearly three
miles, thereby weakening the Germans’
hold on Maurepas and Guilloont, which
blocks the allied advance on the im
portant railroad center of Pcronne. Al
ready there is intense artillery actions
in that section, and infantry charges
are anticipated by the French before
morning.
The British today announce advances
west and southeast of Guillemont, at
tacks there being in co-operation with
the French effort referred to in the
foregoing paragraph.
Further evidence of increased stiffen
ing of the Teutonic resistance in Gal
icia is shown today in the Russian an
nouncement that the Slav advances in
that region are being retarded bv
Austro-German counter attacks, which
the Russians claim were all repulsed.
Petrograd announces officially the cap ■
ture of an additional 7,500 men and
46 guns during today’s fighting.
Sophia despatches today report the
repulse by Bulgarian troops of two al
lied attacks <n the Balkans near Lake
Doiran, where military activity is in
creasing.
•French Advance is Admitted.
. BERLIN, A.ug. 17.—1 t was official
ly announced this afternoon that heavy
French and British attacks in the
Sommer region were repulsed yester
day. The report admits, however, that
f rench troops obtained a footing in
German trenches, south of the Somme,
a stretch of street, for which permis
sion has been granted by the city. On
that siding a number of warehouses,
one of them a bonded warehouse, are
to be erected. One property owner ob
jects and the entire thing is blocked,
thus killing the chance of a big city de
velopment.”
AMERICUS. GEORGIA, THURSDAY AFTERNOON. AUGUST 17. 1916
MASS MEETING IS
GALLED FDR ALL
PEOPLE OF GIFT
f
Circulars are being distributed in
Americus today which call a mass
meeting, at city hall, at 8:30 o’clock
They say:
"Come to the big mass meeting, at
City Hall at 8:30 o’clock tonight, and
hear the affairs of the city discussed.
“The question of the present arbi
trary raising of property valuations
will be considered.
“Every one who has an honest in
terest in the future welfare of our
city should be present.
“The people at this meeting will ask
nothing but a square deal.”
No names are signed to the circular,
but it is current talk on the street
that many people are vitally interested
in the tax valuation matters, and will
attend a meeting which is expected to
number a large attendance.
The meeting is an outgrowth of the
recent sessions of the city tax asses
sors, composed of C. J. Sherlock, R. L.
Maynard and Emmet C. Hawkins. They
have finished their work and notified
the property owners of the changes.
A scheme was made known to the
c'ty council at their last meeting
whereby it was proposed to raise the
tax valuations and lower the rate,
which would not involve any more
money being paid for taxes this year.
The city council agreed in the plan by
a called vote.
The meeting is expected to be a large
one tonight.
Wheatley is Named.
George D. Wheatley has been select
ed by the city tax assessors as the rep
resentative of the board as an arbi
trator over the tax valuation disagree
ments which have arisen.
Several parties have filed their ob
jections, and within a short time the
arbitrators will proceed to consider the
matters.
OVER FIFTY THOUSAND
LETTEM ONE HOUR
ATLANTA, Ga., Aug. 17. —Altogether
51.774 letters have just been recorded
as having been stamped in one hour
by the machine at the Atlanta post
office. This means that an average of
82.69 letters flashed down the schute
li? one minute. On this basis, therefore,
every time your watch ticks, 14.38 let
ters were registered by the automatic
counter.
This machine is literally as quick as
lightning. It stamps more letters in a
minute than the famous rapid-fire ma
chine guns of the army “spit” bul
lets.
But it must not be supposed that
this machine stamps so many letters
every minute of the day—oh, no, this
would not be possible at the Atlanta
postoffice, though machines in New
York are said to put Gotham's mark on
an average of about 500 letters every
minute.
On a post near the machine is
marked some of the records made by
the machine. One accredits it with 35,-
640 letters in one hour; just above
this is the record of 51,774 letters for
an hopr. These high records usually
are made around the first of the month
when statements are mailed.
When one puts his letter through the
slot, it slides down the schute into
boxes. The clerks collect the mail in
the boxes and take it to the stamping
machine. The letters are almost
sucked through the machine, passing
along the schute in rapid succession.
A handful of letters vanishes through
the machine in an instant.
ATTEMPTS MADE
TD DESTROY THE
TAMPA LIGHT GO.
T
TAMPA, Fla., Aug. 17.—A number of
masked men unsuccessfully attempted
to burn the plant of the Tampa Elec
tric Company, near here, early today.
( The attempt had carefully plan
ned, and was frustrated only through
the circumstance that one of the em
ployees at the plant escaped and gave
the alarm.
All telephone wires connecting the
plant with Tampa were cut before the
masked incendiaries appeared at the
generatin gstation, but they failed to
properly surround the plant tjefore ap
plying the torch, permitting a lone em
ploye to escape. Those found inside
the plant by the incendiaries were all
bound and left in that condition when
the outlaws departed.
The plant which has been twice be
fore destroyed by residents of that
vinicity, is operated by water, and it is
alleged that water confined by the
power dam overflows and ruins cer
tain farm lands. No arrests have yet
been made in connection -with today’s
attempt, and the identity of the men
participating therein is unknown.
president! a s
GALL FOR HEADS
DE ILLJOIOS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 17.
President Wilson today asked the pres
idents of the principal railroads to
come to Washington immediately to
confer with him regarding the threat
ened general railroad strike. The re
quest was telegraphed from Washing
ton early today, after the conference
with the railroad managers at the
White House ended.
The request for a conference with
executive heads of the various rail
roads is interpreted this afternoon as
meaning the committee representing
the railroad managers, at their con
ference with President Wilson today,
finally and absolutely refused to con
cede the eight-hour day, which the plan
of settlement -worked out by the presi
dent, and that fie now wishes to put
the plan squarely up to railroad heads
for final settlement.
It is understood today the situation
stands:
The railroads flatly refuse to concede
the eight hour day, but are willing to
arbitrate that and all other questions
involved, before any tribunal that Pres
ident Wilson or the men themselves
may choose.
The men are willing to arbitrate
some of the questions, under certain
conditions, but are unwilling to sub
mit certain others to any tribunal
for abritration under any circum
stances whatever.
Viewed from the standpoint of the
shippers and commercial interests
throughout the nation the strike situa
tion, in view of the facts above stated,
is most precarious, the only ray of light
being in the generally accepted belief
that the brotherhood leaders have
determined not to call a strike until
further conferences are held and there
remains no direr method by which the
fssues involved can be settle*. The
railroads, it is said, anticipate mak
ing small effort to operate trains in
the event the general strike is ordered,
Conti ?ucd on Page 5.)
MURE HOMES ARE
NEEDED BF THED.
OF G. IN CITY
With the officials in charge of the
Confederate Veterans’ reunion, to be
held in Americus on August 24th and
2;,th, expecting an attendance of be
tween 500 and 800 veterans, the com
mittees of the Daughters of Confed
eracy announce that they have secured
homes for only 250 veterans.
The Times-Recorder brings this mat
ter again to the attention of the peo
ple, and urges prompt action. It is
less than a week before the veterans
will be our guests, and Americus wants
tc be fully prepared to entertain every
veteran who comes to our city.
If for nothing else than sentimental
reasons every Americus home should
entertain at least one veteran. They
are living representatives of the thous
ands and thousands of grey heroes
who have gone before, and in the
main offered up their lives as living
sacrifices on the battlefields of blood
ard shell in defense of their homes,
and in the full expectation that their
descendants might live in peace, hap
piness and prosperity. The veterans
are the remaining thin lines of grey
warriors who deserve every praise and
tribute heaped upon them. Every
Americus.hdme had some ancestor who
fought and died on Southern battle
fields. The “fame of Jackson and the
.name of Lee” disappear entirely when
•it. is considered, how close the South
ern cause and the Confederate veter
ans touches every Southerner’s heart.
Americus will respond—but they
are slow. The Daughters of the Con
federacy are exerting every effort to
secure the homes. Do your part. Ful
fill the expectations of your city and
the hundreds of veterans who will be
cur guests.
The Daughters of Confederacy will
hold a meeting Friday afternoon at 5
o'clock at the home of Mrs. Frank P.
Harrold, and in this time the matter
v. ill doubtless be discussed. The
Times-Recorder urges that the people
act on this matter immediately.
HOUSE KILLS A Bill
TO HEIHHE LAWS
ATLANTA, Ga., Aug. 17.—Resenting
the implication that the state of Geor
gia is a lawless state, the house of rep
resentatives yesterday killed by an
c verwhelming majority the bill which
came from the senate authorizing the
governor to remove county sheriffs for
misconduct, malfeasance, failure to
perform their duty and various other
causes.
Fought through the senate by Sena
tor Ogden Persons, president of the
senate, the bill was never popular with
members of the house and had no ac
tive champion to push it along. The
rules committee of the house allowed
the bill to come to a vote through the
Influence of Representative Fullbright,
ot Burke, a member of the committee
and supporter of the bill.
It was through the discussion of the
bill that President Persons of the
senate got into a controversy with the
sheriff of Chatham county concerning
the alleged non-enforcement of the
state prohibition laws on Tybee Is
land. This misunderstanding, however,
has now been straightened out and the
president of the senate and the sheriff
of Chatham have exchanged felicitious
letters.
BIIIIISEII TOTALS W
FBEECOUIITIESMW
ATLANTA, Ga., Aug. 17.—The fol
lowing counties in which the work of
tick eradication has been completed
have been recommended by the state
'eterinarian, Dr. Peter F. Bahnsen, for
release from state and federal quar
antine: Bartow, Barrow, Campbell,
Columbia, Henry, Fayette, Floyd.
Jackson, Paulding and Walton. This
makes a total of 52 counties in which
the work of tick eradication has been
completed.
At present 35 additional counties are
engaged in co-operation tick eradica
tion work and the indications are that
four or five additional counties will
complete the work during the year ot
1916.
The general improvement of the cat
tle in the released territory, as well
as the increased market value of such
cattle, is mainly responsible for the
rapidly spreading sentiment in favor of
tick eradication work.
More than 200 dipping vats have been
established in the tick infested area in
which the work of tick eradication is
not in progress during the year 1916,
and many counties are urgently solicit
ing state and federal aid in the eradica
tion of the cattle tick.
J. EIWP IS
BEING URGED TD
APPEALS'DOUBT
Many friends in this section of th a
state are urging J. E. D. Shipp, a
prominent member of the Americus
bar, to make the race for one of the
judgeships of the Court of Appeals.
A law was passed several days ago
by the general assembly increasing the
court of appeals bench to six members,
and already a number of prominem
lawyers in the state have been men
tioned for the positions.
Mr. Shipp would make a delightful
acquisition to the bench of the high
court. He is learned in law and has
contributed a large amount of legal in
terpretations to the courts and law.
When Mr. Shipp was seen by a rep
resentative of the Times-Recorder. he
stated that he was not definitely de
cided what he would do.
A large number of Americus and
Sumter county friends are joining in
the solicitations from other sections to
have Mr. Shipp make the race.
M. J. Yoemans, of Terrell county, is
being mentioned as a probable candi
date. John B. Hutcheson, a member
of the legislature from Turner county,
is being spoken of. Several candidates
have formally announced for the office.
CRISP MAKES TWO
SPEECHES IM TODAY
Congressman Charles R. Crisp spoke
at Butler this morning to a large audi
ence, and will address the voters of
Taylor county at Reynolds this after
noon.
Mr. Crisp has a speaking engage
ment at Georgetown for Saturday, and
many voters from that section will
likely hear his speech.
Thomas G. Hudson, the other candi
date, is still confined to his home be
cause of illness. He is expected to be
out during the latter part of the week '
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edition!
DODLEYMADETHE
FIRST OFFER FOR
BRIDGE ON FLINT
“It’s up to Dooly county about the
bridge over the Flint river at Marray’n
ferry, ’ is the statement made by Ar
thur Rylander, a member of the Sum
ter board of county commissioners, te
a Times-Recorder representative.
Mr. Rylander stated that Dooly
broached the proposition to the com
missioners of Sumter county to build
a bridge at Murray’s ferry and each
county bear half of the cost of the
construction of the bridge— spans and
approaches. To this plan, Sumter ac
quiesced, and the necessary federal
legislation was secured.
At a recent conference at Murray’a
ferry between the commissioners of
Sumter and Dooly, it developed ths*
Dooly would only agree to pay the cost
of building the bridge to the middle of
the river. This, according to Mr. Ry.
lander, is not in keeping with the fin*
proposition which Dooly made, and the
one to which the Sumter commisskm
ers agreed.
It is said that Dooly now says Crisa
would not enter into the agreement,
which causes her to change the plan
of paying half of the cost instead of to
the middle of the river.
The commissioners of Terrell and
Sumter counties agreed to a plan
which Sumter desire with Dooly, fa
the erection of the steel bridge over
Kinchafoonee creek on the Americua-
Dawson highway.
Unless the commissioners can coms
closer together, and in the main, un
less Dooly stands by her original pro
position, it looks as if the bridge wfl»
not be biult within any time soon.
Dooly Wants Bridge.
The Cordele Dispatcn of this week
contains an editorial urging the build
ing of a steel bridge at Huguenin’s
ferry by Crisp and Sumter counties
jointly. The article is:
Congressman Charles R. Crisp an
nounces that Crisp county’s request for
legal permission to construct a bridge
at Huguenin’s ferry has been granted
through act of congress. The way is
clear for a bridge. Now the project
needs some dozen or more business
men of Cordele and Crisp county to
get together and finance it so that
the bridge can be built without delay.
There are more ways of doing it than
digging dowh into the pocket of some
us us who might as yet not be quite
able to afford the money. ■ There fa
room for study and good planning, tor
the bridge is a necessity.
No one could estimate the advantage
to both Cordele and Americus which
might come of making away over
Flint river at this point. Traffic all
along this river needs it, to say noth
ing of Crisp and Sumter. Cordele and
Americus are badly in need of it. We
hear of difficulties encountered every
week or so among those who have to
tiavel this route. It is much avoided
because of the risk and expense.
The right thing is for the commis
sioners of Crisp and Sumter to join
in the construction of a bridge here.
Sumter county needs it world without
end. Americus needs it as badly
as Cordele, and both counties ought
to be spanked for not having built this
bridge long ago.
To quibble over the trade advant
ages is to lose time on the smallest
issue involved. Cordele ought to have
to lose everything that American can
beat us to, and on the other hand
Americus ought not to complain at a
clean-up, if Cordele can put it over.
It is the bridge that both sides need,
and they need it at Huguenin’s. The
right thing is tc build it and share the
expenses.
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