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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1»17
FWEBS FOR THE
FARMING OF STATE
TO MEETIT MACON
MACON, Ga., Feb. 27.—The agricul
tural forces of Georgia are being mar
shaled to meet a crisis. The state is
right now facing the biggest problem
of its history and is threatened with
devastation more serious than that
which Sherman spread on his famous
march to the sea. that is unless the
state awakens and prepares to meet
the crisis.
The State College of Agriculture is
waging a fight throughout Georgia to
prepare the state for the coming of
the dreadful boll weevil, that left wreck
and ruin in its path from the Mexican
bcrder almost to the heart of the Em
pire state. To show the farmers of the
state what they must do to save them
selves from the ravages of the weevil
with resultant financial ruin and possi
ble starvation, a number of teams com
posed of agricultural experts are con
ducting series of meetings throughout
the state. In all 100 counties are in
cit ded in the campaign and more than
500 meetings are being held. More than
100,000 farmers will attend these meet
ings and hundreds of them are profiting
by wbat they hear and have come to
‘he realization that only in the gospel
of diversification does their salvation
lie.
Dr. Andrew M. Soule, President of
the State College of Agriculture, has
called all of these teams to assemble in
Macon March 22, 23 and 24, for the fin
al rally of the campaign and is extend
ing an invitation to the agricultural
forces of Georgia and the South to
join them here.
For Other States.
Georgia is anxious that the people
in other southern states interested in
agricultural should attend the 801 l
Weevil Conference in Macon and there
are two important reasons why they
should do so. One is that Georgia
wants to learn from other states the
art of diversification and stock raising
and the other is that it would be to the
interest of all who have stock to sell
to come. Georgia is going into the live
stock business on a large scale. The
) farmers want to buy.
Discussing the coming meeting, Dr.
Soule says: “A great Agricultural
Conference has been planned at Macon
for March 22 to 24. Leaders of Na
tional reputation will submit proposi
tions for discussion and conclusion.
. Three special conferences has been
provided for, one for the consideration
of the boll weevil problem, the second
for the promotion of animal industry,
and the third for the marketing prob
lem. These three subjects are funr
rmentally related to the welfare of our (
problems.” “We need the experience
and the cooperation of every progress
ive organization in making these meet
ings serve the purpose for which they
are intended. The leaders have been
requested to state their plans and
propositions briefly so as to leave time
for full discussion. We want each org
anization to send one or more dele
gates. Let us make this a truly repre
sentative and aggressive gathering of
southern agricultural leaders. We can-.
not do this without the aid and co- ’
operation of all agricultural institu
tions.”
"In view of the definite relations of |
such conferences as these to the t'u-.
ture progress and welfare of osuthern
agriculture and our economic ad
vancement generally, I hope we may
have the pleasure of welcoming a large
□umber of delegates.
NOTICE. |
All parties owing me past due notes
or accounts are requested to come up
and make settlement at once, or I
shall have to resort to legal proceed
ings to collect them. -L S. BOLTON.
Ift-tf
NBTICE TO TAX PAYERS
) Os SUMTER fOOIOI/
The books were opened first day of
February for the purpose of receiving
tax returns, and will remain open un
til May Ist. according to law. Please
return your taxes early, as I have pos.
itive instructions from the comptroller
general to close my books on May Ist
This gives you three months without
any cost to you to return your taxes,
j will be in the oflice Friday and Sat
urday of each week, until I make my
rounds, and then I will be there each
day until books close. Hoping this
will meet the approval of all, I remain
Ycur respectfully
GEO. D. JONES,
Tax Receiver, Sumter County.
HARRIS STILL JUGGLING WITH
EXTRA LEGISLATIVE SESSION
ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 27.—Governor
Nat E. Harris will call an extra ses
j sion of the Georgia legislature for ac -
tion on tone dry liquor bills, if there
I is a hitch in the passage of the bone
bone dry amendment to the postoffice
appropriation bill in congress.
I This can be stated for a certainty;
I and it can also be stated on the very
' | best of authority that the governor
• may call an extra session if the bone
> dry amendment does pass congress
i' and become a law, for the advocates of
i 1 an extra session are strongly urging
t the governor to go ahead with his
; 1 prohibition program and place the,
>' state in a position where it will not j
t 1 be dependent upon federal statutes to
I keep liquor out of the state.
J Both the house and senate in Wash-
> ington have passed the bone dry
f amendment, but owing to differences
c between the houes and senate over
i details of the postoffice appropriation
- bill it is not certain that the amend
» ment, which is merely a rider on the
- bill, will become a law.
I It is argued by advocates of an ex-
- tra session that should the state de-
- pend on federal law to keep out li-
- quor, it might find itself flooded by a
t repeal of the federal law or soma
- amendment thereto; whereas if the
i' state legislature goes ahead and enacts
i a law prohibiting the shipment of any
- liquor into the state, then the ques
rl tion will be definitely settled and will
> become the fixed policy of the state.
II
\ MAY CHANGE NAME OF TOWN ON
ACCOUNT OF WHISKY THIEVES
5 1
j' ATLANTA, Ga., - Feb. 27.—The name
. I of Gabbettsville in Troup county may
_ 1 shortly be changed to Grabitville in
■ ( honor of the enterprising thieves who
j steal the whisky out of the express of
fice quicked than it can be shipped in,
J thus leaving the honest citizen thirsty
, and irate.
' | The state railroad commission has a
i petition requesting that the express of
; 1 fice be abolished entirely, as the rob
r beries cannot be stopped, owing to the
t fact that Gabbettsville is a small unin
, ccrporated hamlet without adequate
, police protection.
’ | A citizens’ committee a few nights
! ago caught a young white man who
was trying to force an entrance into
„ 1 the express office, but despite the
| capture the robberies went right on.
' | THE WONDERFUL FILM.
L I
The Americus Times-Recorder an
nounces that on March sth at the
Opera House the first exhibition of
’ Wilbur H. Durbrough’s supreme
■ achievement in motion war pictures
of the present great war. See the bat
tle with your own eyes, graphic mo
tion pictures of Germans great drive
on Russian fortress, entitled “On The
Firing Line With the Germans.” This
1 film, 8,500 feet in all, will be shown
one day continuously at the Opera
House,
The pictures present a consecutive
narrative to the fall of Novo Geor
gievsk. Through a great variety of
incidents they move with rapidity,
keeping the observer almost at mili
tary attention. Every phase of the
mechanics of the modern army has its
showing from the “goulosh cannon” to
the bayonets—fixed on the Polish
, stronghold. The prisoners are shown,
• displaying contentment toward life
and consuming liberal helpings of
food. Hundreds of refugees are seen
returning to their demolished homes.
j All of the system and the waste of
j war is illustrated. These films taken
expressly for the Times-Recorder.
have never before been seen in Ameri
cus, and are presented here simultan
eous with their showing in other cit
ies, under the auspices of the Times
-1 Recorder's sister papers.
CHAS. AYASH
Fresh Groceries
Your Business Appreciated
Phone 70S, Cotton Ave.
li
AIRiISC J l
Tin and Slate Roofing, Gutters.
Ridge Roll, Valley Tin. Galv. Iron
Tanks, made to order. Job work and
general repairs.
Price right. Work guaranteed.
Americus Sheet Metal Works
B. H. ALLEN, Manager.
11l So. Lee. Phone 78$.
HOES UDE COMING
TOFOREFHONTNOW
COLUMBUS, Ga., Feb. 27.—“ Fifteen
wagons loaded with fine hogs formed
the propsperity procession a few days
ago from two farms in Baker county.
Georgia, to Albany, where the hogs
were loaded in cars and shipped to
the packing plant at Waycross,” says
the Southeast Live Stock, published in
this city by Col. Walter J. Woodall.
i “One year ago a hog breders asoscia
■ tion was organized in Dale county, Ala
bama, with eleven members. Today the
association has a membership, of more
than 200, and on two designated days
of each month makes regular ship
ments of hogs to market. The associa
tion’s last shipment, forwarded a few
days ago, consisted of 610 hogs, which
filled, seven cars. The shipment [
brought the Dale county raisers SB.-
282.35.
Twenty-seven cars of hogs, 47 of cat
tle and 63 of corn have been shipped
to market this season from Mitchell
county, Georgia.
“More than 100 carloads of hogs and
*SO of cattle and 100,000 bushels of corn
will be shipped to market from Jack
son county, Florida, in the period be
tween October 1 and March 31, next,
according to estimates based on ship
ments to this time.
“Co-operative shipment of hogs to
market from Mississippi counties has
attracted wide attention, because of the
j volume of shipments and the success
in marketing.
“These are but incidents which illus
trate what is being done in the raising
and marketing of live stock and the
substantial growth of the industry in
the Southeast. Many other counties
and sections are making similar rec
ords in greater or less degree. Large
quantities of hogs and cattle raised in
the Southeast are being bought daily
by the seven meat packing plants now
in operation in the Southeast. It may
be added that architectural and engin
eering plans have been completed for
another great packing plant in the
Southeast that will cost approximately
$1,000,000.
“The money received from the sale
of live stock is helping substantially
even more to create record-breaking
bank clearings and deposits in the
Southeast, and the live stock industry
is but just making a beginning. But of
much greater importance to this line is
the cast amount of money—millions in
the aggregate —that, formerly went to
other sections ofr live stock products,
is to be kept in the Southeast to aid in
the enrichment and development of
this section.
“The Southeast has more natural ad
vantages for the raising of live stock
than are possessed by any other part
of the country, and should it sell live
| stock products to itself only it would
only have a customer with the enorm
ous demand. But in addition, it will
habe opportunity to help supply great
markets in other parts of the world.”
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most serviceable garments imagi- S
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; washing without removal.
Bien Jolie Brassieres, if not stock- s
1, prepaid, samples to show you. S
1 Warren Street. Newark. N. J A “
The Wagon You Can’t Overload
In this day and time with graded roads throughout the
country, it is not a question of how much can my mules
pull, but “How Much Will My Wagon Carry? We have
used four of these famous wagons in our business for the
last eleven years without even having to shrink a tire.
Call and see our complete stock of the numerous mod
els and different width tires.
HARROLD BROTHERS., Agents
“Ask the Man Who Owns a Mitchell.”
IHE AMERICUS TIMuJS-RECORDER.
GEORGIANS SEND
MONEY_ FOB FUND
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Feb. 27.—A
financial statement issued here today
by the George Washington Memorial
Association shows that Georgians
throughout the state have begun to
contribute in varying sums to the j
purpose of the organization. That is, I
to erect on the site of the old Pennsyl
vania station here. where President
Garfield was shot, a memorial build
ing to George Washington.
The association plans to start work
on the structure this spring. The site
has already been donated by Congress.
The building, when completed, will be
known as a center for the spread of
knowledge of all sorts through this
country and foreign nations. In it will
be a tremendous auditorium, seating
10,000 people, which will be open for
1 use, free of charge, by national and
international congresses and conven
tions on such subjects as peace, med
ical science, art, history, education, and
so forth.
In the structure each state may
have a room for its own use and as a
permanent headquarters. Any organ
ization of this kind has to pay rent.
The beautiful $3,000,000 building is to
be given to the nation free of charge.
Already more than $300,000 is in the
treasury of the organization, and every
day the contributions, ranging from 10
cents to a thousand dollars, are com
ing in.
Anybody who gives as much as a
dime is sent a button which bears an
inscription that the wearer if it “owns
a brick” in the memorial.
All contributions should be sent to
Mrs. Henry F. Dimock, President, 1301
Sixteenth Street, Washington, D. C.
Mrs. Dimock is the president of the
association which has charge of the
project.
TOOK A MODERN SOLOMON
TO DECIDE OWNER OF DOG
ATLANTA. Ga., Feb. 27.—A case
hinging on a rivet in a coon dog’s tail
has just been settled by a modern Sol
omon sitting in a justice court in
Fulton county. Claimant No. 1 as
serted that he could prove ownership
of the dog by a rivet in its tail. Claim
ant No. 2 denied that the tail contain
ed any rivet. To settle the question,
the justice made an examination. He
found no rivet, but he did find a place
where a rivet might have been, where
upon Claimant No. 1 declared that
Claimant No. 2 had taken the rivet out.
Considering the character of the two
men and the general condition and ap
pearance of the dog’s tail, the justice
awarded the dog to Claimant No. 1.
MISS BESSIE WINDSOR
Insurance.
Bonds
Office Forsyth S l . Phone 2M
ATLANTA IS INFESTED
HITH BEGGARS AND CRIPPLES ,
I
ATLANTA. Ga., Feb. 27.—Atlanta
has again become infested with beggars
and cripples and paralytics sitting by
the wayside asking alms, exhibiting
their deformities as they used to in the
days of the Goliph Haroun in Bagdad,
and beseeching the passer-by in their i
whinning professional voices.
There is a law in Atlanta against
: beggars, but it isn’t enforced, though
| some times the cripples who sit all
over the public sidewalks downtown
' offer pencils and shoe-laces as a pre
text for their presence.
One fellow who sits on Broad street,
whose legs were cut off a couple of I
years ago, puts a fresh white bandage
one one of his stumps every morning
so that passersby may imagine he is a
suffered just out of the hospital.
There are maybe two or three crip
pled pencil sellers in Atlanta who ac
tually work at their pencil-selling
trade, and who don’t want alms, but
they are the exception.
Just as the cripples infest the down
town districts, the house-to-house beg
gars become a pest in residential
neighborhoods, while even the officer
buildings are from time to time in-t
sguAMakesToast
Crisp, crunchy toast done to a
lOZI AH HF golden brown, spread with rich,
.ctL creamy butter —that and a cup
g Luzianne. There’s
a breakfast in itself that’s hard
to beat — mighty hard. You buy
a can of Luzianne today. If it
doesn’t go better and farther than
any other coffee at the price,
The Luzianne Guarantee: your grocer will refund your
if, tfter ating the contente money, without question or
quibble. Ask for profit-sharing
cer will refund your money. Catalog.
The Reily-Taylor Company, New Orleans
I DODGING RESPONSIBILITY JO
I GETS A MANS REPUTATION JW
I ALL OUT OF SHAPE!
I / " ~ cCc g-
Furniture that we have sold tn this town never
dodges its responsibility. It’s supposed to look well
and wear well and our satisfaction guaranteed way of
doing business is sufficient guarantee cf this. Our little
at-a-time payment plan will furnish your home at once
with the articles you need.
You’ll always find us courteous and anxious to sell
you furniture. Those who trade at this store get the besl
attention and most efficient service. We appreciate the
confidence reposed in us.
Allison Furniture Co.
J. W. RtNFtUI, Wgr.
If You Are Looking for Seeds that Grow and Produce
Allen’s Seed &Drug Store
is the place to buy them. We have fresh selected stock
from the best known varieties, because they are sold to
us as such by the best known seed houses. Seed you
buy from us will give you better and larger crops, and
satisfactory results.
Remember we have a select stock of Drugs, Toilet
Articles, Soft Drinks, Cigars and Sundries.
Our Prescription Department is at your service at
all times with every safeguard placed around it for pur
ity, accuracy and prices not to be criticized.
Alien’s Drug & Seed Store
Phone 148, Forsyth St.
vaded by persons whose hard luck
story usually costs the hearer a dime
or a quarter.
SOUTHERN RECEIVES NEW
ALL-STEEL PULLMAN CARS
ATLANTA, Ga.. Feb. 27.—Twenty-'
[five all-steel electrically lighted
[ coaches of most modern design have j
just been received from the Pullman
Company by the Southern Railway
system, and will be placed in use on
their main line trains.
In designing these coaches, especial'
attention was given to the comfort and
convenience of passengers. The smok-
I ing compartments are of a new type,
with seats upholstered in leather. The
lighting features will be especially
pleasing to passengers wishing to read
at night, a light having been placed
over each seat. The coaches seat 88
passengers.
The steel cars formerly used in the
trains to which these new coaches
have been assigned, will be transferred
to other through trains, releasing
steel-frame and steel-underframe cars
to be placed in strictly local trains,
releasing wooden equipment now used
that will go into reserve.
CONTRACTING
i BUILDING
1 REPARING
House moving and Brick I
Work. Phone, call or
write
J. F. DANIEL
Leslie, Georgia
Phone 83
' Best Workmanship
Prompt Service
Prices Reasonable
SMITH
PRESSING
CLUE
For best work and quick ser
vice phone us at 216
Office: 208 Jackson Street
1
Alabastined
Walls
Protect
Children
Tint your walls with
Alabastine, the beauti
ful, sanitary wall tint.
Alabastine will not rub
off, chip nor peel when
0 applied ac
cording to
directions on
package.
Economical,
lasting. Come
and see the
beauti f ul
fashionable
colors for
your home.
Williams-Niles
Company
Phone 706.
‘Quality and Service."
O.K. PRESSING CLUE
Our prices are lower
Than ever before,
With ten thousand sample*
To satisfy the poor.
Our pressing is the best,
And you never will regret,
If we get them to press
They will make you confess.
That we always try,
Everyone to satisfy.
In passing you can stop
At the satisfying shop.
ED WEST, Manager
Phone 749 314 Lamar St.
PARTNERSHIP
INSURANCE
The most important asset of a
firm? The business ability or
special technical skill of the
individual members.
Why not insure against the loss
of this asset?
Insurance upon partners or o®-
cers of corporations is furnished
at lowest net cost by the UnUn
Central Life Insurance Com
pany.
Write for facts and comparative
figures.
LEE I. HANSFORD, Agent
Americus, Ga.
UNION CENTRAL LIFE
INSURANCE CO.
“The Great Aannal Dividend Payee’
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