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RICES, AUGUST 17, 191$
The Most Vital
Question
in America today is individ
ual preparedness, not indi
vidual preparedness for war,
)ut individual preparedness
’or anything that may come—
ndividual preparedness to
ive useful, steadfast lives
tor the benefit of humanity
tnd prosperity.
If you are not carrying suf-
«ent Fire, Life, Accident
I Health Insurance for the
>eneflt of humanity and
jrosperity, it might be well
tor you to talk it over with.
J. A. DAVENPORT,
Insurance Offices.
116 Lamar Street.
[ONEY
imember when you
t to borrow money on
improved farm on long
that I can get it for you
c per cent interest.
e contract carry with
the privilege of paying
or any multiple there
of taking up entire
on any interest day,
>ut bonus.
I. HANESLEY
Lamar Street
ricus, :: Georgia
F. and A. M.
AMERICUS LODGE
V F - & A. M., meets ev
fe, jr" ery second and fourth
Friday night at 7
J/ i o’clock.
S. A. HAMMOND, W. M.
BUCHANAN, Sec’y.
M. B. COUNCIL
LODGE, F. and A. M.,
j meets every First and
Third Friday nights.
Visiting brothers are
to attend.
H. B. MASHBURN, W. M.
LeMASTER, Secretary.
SHINGTON CAMP, NO. 14,
P. 0. S. OF A.
on Thursday nights, Wheatley
j, at 7:30 o’clock. All members
ed to attend. Visitors welcom
5. F. WILDER, President.
REESE, Recording Sec’y.
LeMASTER, Financial Sec’y.
DUS CAMP, 202 WOODMEN
OF THE WORLD.
every Wednesday night in the
iy Bldg., Windsor Ave. All vis
ivereigns invited to meet with
J. M. TOBIN, C. C.
LeMASTER, Clerk.
C. P. DAVIS,
Dental Surgeon.
Orthodontia, Pyorrhea,
ce Phone 316. Office Phone 818,
Allison Bldg.
. G. OLVER
ig Machines and Supplies; Key
:k Fitting; Umbrellas Repaired
rered.
AR STREET, NEAR WELL.
NEYTOLEND
Ve are in position to obtain
ney on farm land in Sumter
mty promptly at reasonable
es. If you desire a loan
1 or write us.
# A. iM A. Fort
Planters’ Bank Building.
- ■» —• '■ * ' ''
ie Royal Case
or Ladies and Gentlemen,
opened. Gives excellent service.
B nu consists of the best the mar
ords and you get what you want,
not on menu call for it, and if it
ie market you get it. Everything
od up-to-date.
S. BANIACAS, Propr.
RAMOS, Manager.
miar St Telephone 323.
ALLIES BUYING
SHELLS TO LAST
ONE MORE YEAR
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 17—Huge
contracts for munitions being placed
in this country by the allies plainly in
dicates a belief that war in Europe
will not be fought to a finish before
next summer at the earliest.
Within two weeks immense orders
have been definitely given for shells of
6 to 12 inch size. The total of such
completing war contracts taken last
year. The Baldwin Locomotive Works
was close to the end of the British
shell contract.
Run to Next July.
r Whether the talk here and from
. abroad was sincere or merely intended
tc create a buying situation, or wheth
er the tremendous drive of the allies
cost as much ammunition as to change
the complexion of things, the fact
stands out that new orders have come
in tremendous volume. They began
I tc be placed when producing concerns
I bad ability to take on more orders.
i During the first ten days of the fresh
! flew of war orders to this country all
stipulations were for deliveries run
ning forward to March 31,1917, as the
time limit. This week the final date for
> deliveries has been set forward to July
■ 1 next, or three months later.
• Negotiations are on now with the
( Midvale Steel and Ordnance Company
for another big shell contract. The
concern took one for 55,009 large shells
involving $8,000,000 a little more than
a week ago. The bulk of the work will
, be done in the Midvale works at Nice
town.
The contract just closed with the
, Baldwin Locomotive Works is from the
British government. It calls for 400,-
000 shells of 6 to 12 inch sizes, to be
; delivered by March 31 next. The
amount involved is $15,000,000, and it is
figured that’if everything goes smooth
ly the contract will clear $5,000,000
profit.
Where Manufactured.
Forgings for these shells will be
made by the Standard Steel Works, a
subsidiary concern, with a plant at
Eurnham, Pa., to such an extent as the
facilities of that plant will permit. The
rest of the forgings will be manufac.
tured under a sub-contract which
doubtless will go to Midvale Steel and
, Ordnance Company for its Cambria
. steel plant at Johnstown,
All the machine work on these 400,-
000 shells will be done by the Bald
win Locomotive Works in its new shell
siiop, covering a block at Nineteenth
and Hailton streets. This shop was
built to carry out a French contract
for 400,000 8-inch shells taken some
, months ago. Work on this has been
i ; n progress several weeks now, and is
stated to be proceeding satisfactorily.
Great Britain and France are now
preparing to close for further great
quantities of shells; in fact, for all
that concerns which have demonstrat
ed their ability to make good on ord
ers will contract to deliver up to July
1 of next year.
A month ago word went broadcast
that no more munitions orders were
, likely to come to the United States.
[ This followed the public declarations
of Lloyd George and French Govern
ment authorities that Great Britain and
France were aking huge quantities of
munitions.
Bp
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( Charles Chaplin, Mutual Star.
SESSOMS CUES Dill
. PUHPOEES OF EMO
Congress insthte
e
s WAYCROSS, Ga„ Aug. 17.—The fol
_ loving statement of the purpose of the
e Georgia Land Congress to be held at
B Waycross, Ga., on August 23rd was
given out today by Alex K.. Sessoms,
s chairman of the committee on organ
s ization:
! It is proposed that the owners of
j undeveloped lands in the state of
3 Georgia shall effect an organization
, with the following broad purposes:
Ist—To provide a medium for the
exchange of information and views
j based upon experience, as to what they
j shall do with their lands.
2nd—To bring about, if possible, a
j concerted plan for the realization of
5 profit from their holdings.
t As to the foregoing propositions—no
k extended argument is necessary.
j Who among the large land owners of
. idle land in Georgia has any well
defined plan as to what he will even
i tually do with his holdings’ Where
I the land is still covered with uncut
. timber, the saw-mill and turpentine
, farm offer opportunity for immediate
- activity and profit. But what about the
, lands that will soon be left, and what
about those millions of acres already
> cut over, and covered with nothing but
r stumps’ Shall he hold all, or any part
( of these lands for reforesttration for
i the future lumbermen and turpentine
! operator? If so, what part of them,
i and what shall be the policy? Shall he
. offer them for sale as agricultural
lands? If so, to whom, and when, and
> what if anything may he do to hasten
. the time when they may be so develop
. ed, and sold at a profit to himself and
. with fairness to the purchaser?
i These are living questions as yet
i unanswered, and their solution is
. fraught with golden possibilities. There
i are twelve millions of undeveloped
acres of land in Georgia. Give these
acres an added value of ten dollars per
, acre each, and a colosson fortune of
($120,000,000) one hundred and twenty
million dollars is created. This is not
mere hypothesis. It is a simple prob
lem in business arithemetic, and with
such stakes to strive for, why should
we not at least make the effort to has
ten the day when it shall be at our dis
posal ?
Organization will accomplish that
which individual effort will totally fail
to reach —and what could be more ob
vious than the advantages of an org
anization of intelligence and effort of
Owners of large acres of land into a
common policy of self Service, and
therefore, public service. Because it
necessarily follows that that which
righteously serves the individual
serves society.
What are the problems confronting
Georgia land owners which when ap
proached individually are almost bound
to be impossible, or at least impracti
cable , but which approached collec
tively give every promise of successful
accomplishment. Let us name a few
of these problems:
Ist—The immediate eradication of
the Texas fever cattle tick, as an ab
solutely necessary step to make our
lands available for a profitable live
stock industry, as the necessary basis
for a self supporting agriculture.
2nd—Drainage—where drainage is
necessary—and is justified by circum
stances.
3rd—Road making to render these
lunds accessible.
4th—The systematic supervision of
individual developments. How many
developments begin and thrive for a
time and finally fail disastrously?
These failures are highly damaging to
a community, and what right has an
individual to go into a propaganda that
is either unsound or unfair, or both,
and finally by failure do serious dam
age, not only to himself, but to the
whole community.
sth—Publicity and advertising for
the purpose of making known to the
world what you have to offer, and that
which the world wants in rteadily in
creasing demand.
These are just a few of the things
that an organization may approach and
THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
[ TRIAL MARRIAGE
] BROUGHT TO END
! AT THE ALTAR
NEW YORK, Aug. 17.—The tangled
1- skein of a romance that caused one
e person to commit suicide, resulted in
it two elopments by the principal while
s both were still married, and which
s, finally led the man in the case through
- the divorce court to the altar, has bee®
unravelled in Boston where Mrs. Eli
f nor Hoyt Hichborn was married to
f Horrace Wylie.
n The news did not reach the public
until today coming as the climax of a
e series of sensational incidents that be
s gan in 1910 when Mrs. Hichborn, the
y wife of Philip S. Hichborn, and one of
the most prominent matrons in Wash-
11 ington society, eloped with Wyle,
f twenty years her senior, and fled to
France. She left behind her little boy,
5 about 1 year old. Wylie deserted his
wife and four children.
f Wylie had known the woman who is
1 now his wife before she was married to
- i Philip S. Hichborn, son of the late
J i Philip S. Hichborn, chief naval con
t ■ structor of the United States navy. He
a i v. as a friend of the family and had seen
a her grow from childhood to be one of
a the belles in capital society. After her
t marriage he bacame a frequent caller
'at the Hichborn home, and their
t friendship ripened into affection.
t On December 16, 1910, Wylie vanish
' ed with Mrs. Hichborn, leaving a note
a in. which he told of their elopment.
, Pair Eluded Searchers.
a Both Mrs. Wylie and Hichborn were
1 prostrated, and a world-wide search
I started for the missing pair. They
i eluded all searchers and reached Paris,
• | continuing to live there until their
I identity became known. In the sum
|mer of 1911 they returned to Wash-
: ir.gton, and it was hinted that a double
s reconciliation would follow.
a Then the case took a strange turn.
II Mrs. Hichborn, not sure that Wylie’s
■, love was entirely her own, proposed
’ | that he return to his wife for six
j months. Should he find at the end of
’ | that time that his heart was true to
, the first woman, they were to remain
' parted. For the sake of her children,
j Mrs. Wylie accepted, and for six
, months Mrs. Hichborn did not see
.the man for whom she had given up all.
| But promptly on the last day of tne
i trial period Wylie relinquished his
home and again fled with Mrs. Hich
torn.
They went abroad and were reported
as living in many cities, loitering is-the
j Riviera, in Italy, and Paris. Hichborn
I started suit for divorce, but just before
it came to trial he shot and killed him-
. self, on March 27, 1912. In a tragic
I note he told how his health had
broken under the strain and intimated
that he feared his mind was failing.
Mrs. Wylie resolutely refrained from
beginning an action, clinging to her
I husband's name for the sake of their
four children, one of whom is now a
young man and a Yale graduate. So
Wylie and Mrs. Hichborn lived on in
their odd relationship, shielding them
selves from prying eyes in out-of-the
way places.
But after six years of waiting Mrs.
Wylie felt that her vigil was hopeless;
and began suit. She was granted a di
vorce two weeks ago in Washington
and the marriage of Wylie and Mrs.
1 Hichborn in Biston on Monday furn
ishes another chapter in the story.
! consider, but before which the indi
vidual is helpless.
And it is for the purpose of consid
ering a definite plan of action, based
1 upon these considerations that we
■ have called the meeting on August
1 23rd, and we sincerely hope that every
1 land owner in Georgia will attend this
■ meeting.
■ It is a big thing with potentialities
’ exceeding any movement ever under
! taken in the South.
r NOTICE.
i Camp 14,1’. 0. S. of A.
t Important meeting tonight at 81
. o'clock. Initiatory work and other!
very important matters to come up.l
Every member of the camp urged to be -
s on hand. E. F. WILDER, Pres’t. |
1 O. D. Reese, Re" Sec’y.
JOUR 0. WILLIAMS
IS II THE RACE NOW
John D. Williams, a prominent plan
ter of the Seventeenth district, states
that re is a candidate for representa
tive of Sumter county.
Mr. Williams was a candidate for the
•legislature two years ago, and is well
known in Americus and the county
where he has resided for many years.
Many friends will support him in a
strong race for representative.
With Mr. Williams’ announcement,
three candidates are in the race, they
being Crawford Wheatley and Floyd P.
Jones.
Other developments are expected in
the race for the house.
AMEOHIOS SHOWS
OPERA HOUSE.
Thursday.
Charlie Chaplin, in "The Vagabond.’’
Friday.
Billie Burke in “Gloria’s Romance.”
ALCAZAR THEATRE.
THURSDAY.
Paramount, "Sweet Kitty Bellairs”-*
Five Acts.
FRIDAY. |
Chapter 13 of "Who’s Guilty.”
Chapter lo “Mysteries of Myra.”
SATURDAY.
Triangle, “Little Meena’s Romance”
—Five Acts.
“His Last Laugh”—2 Reel Keystone *
Comedy.
Greatest Live See the products
,®„ ver of « he best
attempted m ...
Southwest nineteen counties
Georgia. in Georgia at
All Blue Ribbon this fair.
Don’t faß to come Agricultural Hall
and learn all about full of fi° e
cattle raising exhibits
THIRD AGRICULTURAL
DISTRICT FAIR
Greatest Exhibition of Products and
Live Stock of best
NINETEEN COUNTIES
IN GEORGIA
PHILLIPS A BUTTEROFF MANUFACTURING COMPANY OF NASH
ILLE, TENN, OFFER THROUGH J. W. H ARRIS, THE HARDWARE
MAN, ONE OF THEIR NATIONAL RANGES, THE BEST RANGE
MANUFACTURED IN THE SOUTH, TO THE LADY BAKING THE
BEST CAKE AND HAVING IT ON EXHIBITION AT THE FAIR ON
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26TH. ALL CAKES CAN BE BROUGHT TO
THE FAIR THAT MORNING BEFORE 9 O’CLOCK. THIS RANGE IS
VALUED AT $65.90.
PHILLIPS & BUTTEROFF MANUFACTURING COMPANY WILL
ALSO OFFER ONE OF THEIR FAMOUS ENTERPRISE NO. 8
STOVES, VALUE S2.MM), WHICH IS THE VERY BEST ALL-ROUND
STOVE MANUFACTURED IN THIS COUNTRY, TO THE GIRL BE
TWEEN THE AGE OF 12 AND 18 YEARS, WHO HAS THE BEST
CAKE ON EXHIBITION IN THE WOMAN’S BUILDING ON WEDNES
DAY, OCTOBER 25TH, ALL CAKES CAN BE DELIVERED AT
THE BUILDING AT 9 O’CLOCK.
THE LARGE PREMIUM BOOKS CONTAINING LIST OF $6,506.06
WORTH OF PREMIUMS WILL BE OFF THE PRESS IN A FEW
DAYS. IF YOU WANT ONE WRITE TO US AND GIVE US YOUR
NAME AND WE WILL GLADLY MAIL YOU ONE. IT WILL CON.
TAIN LIST OF ALL PREMIUMS, AGRICULTURE, LIVE STOCK,
POULTRY, FANCY ARTICLES AND COOKING; ALSO SCHOOL
PREMIUMS.
OCTOBER 23rd to 28th
1916
AMERICUS, CA.
American Poultry Woman’s Build-
Association’s * *HI be teeming
official show. cver With handsome
Over 3,000 fine exhibits of art and cul-
birds of all breeds iums [or all woman . s
in our Poultry work. Extra prem-
Building. Pigeons iums for fancy work
and pet stock in by little girls. Write
endless numbers. for information.
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Americus, Ga. Sv« r
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