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Cotton Seed
A Limited Amount
Popular Varieties
Planters Seed Co.
Americus, Ga.
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PLANT YOUR GARDENS
NOW!
Conserve the Food Supply
And Live Better By
Raising Plenty of Vegetables.
Plant Early and Plow Often.
un™ Fresh Seeds
just received at
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MACHINE MOTOR and
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for
$13.50
AMERICUS LIGHTING COMPANY
PHO>>E 555
Not how cheap, but how good we can make your
Photograph, Portraits, Commercial Work, Kodak Fin
ishing. Films developed free. Prints 3c to 5c each.
Satisfaction or your money refunded. Send us your
films; we pay return postage.
L. A. McPheeters FoUh 25 street !
HEAD fBE WANT ADVERIiSLMENIS
AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER. “WB
BIG LOSS OF MEN
FORMNMS
TO REACH CHANNEL PORTS IT
WOULD BE NECESSARY FOR THE
GERMAN ARMY TO SACRIFICE
LARGE Nl MBERS.
NEW YORK, May I.—Dangerous de
pletion of the German reserves hence
forth will be necessary if von Hinden
burg continues his effort to dislodge
the British and capture the Channel
ports, accordinfg to J. W. T. Mason,
United Press war expert.
The Battle of Ypres, which is the
first real battle for the channel ports
in the present, series of combats is in
reality a strategic struggle between
von Hindenburg and Foch. concerning
the employment of their reserves.
There is no longer any doubt but that
while up to the present'Foch has re
fused to hazard his own reserves for
defensive purposes, while von Hinden
burg has ruthlessly sacrificed his own
men. If von Hindenburg is stopped
before capturing the channel ports,
and if the Allies have n o t been thrown
into the conflict, von Hindenburg has
lost by all the rules of the war game,
as even the German people understand
them.
Not only will the total German
slaughter he very much greater than
the Allies, but also the German front
will have been extended to a useless
distance that soon must be volunta
rily shortened. The present battle,
therefore, is a gigantic struggle on the
part of Foch to save his reserves and
save the channel ports, and on the
part of von Hindenburg to use up his
reserves and win the channel ports.
Whether in the end, Foch will decide
it better to lose the ports rather than
his reserves cannot be known at pres
ent. The argument in favor of this
procedure is based on the probability
that it will require more than Ger
many can supply to keep her front in
tact to the channel towns for any con
siderable period. A long thin line
might be cut at a point that would
involve annihilation for the Germans
in Calais and Bolougne.
With a powerful American army in
France by the end of the summer to
increase the allies' reserve strength
strategy might even then be carried
out if in the meantime von Hinden
burg reaches the channel.
The Americans now fighting before
Amiens may be the nucleus for juss
such an opportunity. It is highly pos
sible they are undergoing a post-grad
uate course in trench training now
rather than that they are being used
to guard any critical point of the line
For this purpose Foch is doubtless us
ing only the best proven veterans of
the French army.
THREE MORE TO BE
SENT OFF TO ARMY
Three more men will be sent off by
the local exemption board Friday
night. Their names are not an
nounced, but will be published to
morrow. They will all be young white
men. These will go to Camp Ogle
thorpe. All others have been sent to
Camp Gordon.
DUDLEY’S
Just Received
a shipment of
KODAKS and SUPPLIES
Headquarters
for
Kodak finishing
Vlctrolas
and
Bicycles
Easy Terms
PHONE I
ONE-TWO-THREE
GREAT GREENWOOD
SHOWSAHJIILPABK
Despite the inclement weather, the
Greenwood Greater Shows, in the big
new tent at the ball park, played to
an excellent business Monday night.
This is Mr. Greenwood’s third visit
to Americus, and this time he has
brought a bigger and better show
than before, despite the fact that he
has been unable to obtain a band.
There will be a complete change of
program each night. Doors open at
7.30; performance starting at 8:30.
Ladies will be admitted free tonight,
on account of the rain on Monday and
Tuesday. Admission 10c and 20c. in
cluding war tax.
PROF. J. E. MATHIS ON
FEDERAL GRAND JURY
Prof. J. E. Mathis is in Macon this
week, serving a» a member of the
United States grand jury for the
southern district of Georgia. He is
expected to return to the city the lat
ter part of the week.
MANY RAILROAD MEN THROWN
OUT OF WORK IN ATLANTA
ATLANTA, Ga., May I.—More than
125 railroad freight and passenger
agents were thrown out of employ
ment when the government took over
the railroads of the country and abol
ished all offices except those abso
-1 utely necessary to the handling of
traffic, and the local commercial
bodies and launched a movement to
find positions for these men. Some
have moved to other cities, but the
majority will remain here on account
of the fact that they had boguht homes
and established their family ties in
Atlanta. Most of them are men of
middle age or older and drew good
salaries from the railroads they rep
resented. The stenographers in their
offices have experienced very little
difficulty in securing polstions, as the
demand for this class of work is very
brisk.
Vanta Baby Garments
No Pins No Buttons
EVERY MOTHER —or expectant
mother —will be delighted with these
beautiful garments for babies. 'jfF.
These are the garments recommend- as
4*** e d by doctors, nurses and infant wel- B | |By
Vi fare experts the kind that fasten I
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V Y danger of infection from pin pricks or ||
A | I scratches—no buttons to pull off or r*"WiliiW
\ 1 J be broken in the wringer. Each gar- / / 1 /
I'Ll ment bes securel y w^b cute bttle bows If f I
of twistless tape that tie in front, so Ly jvj
vKJ tbat baby can be f rom to P to
toe without once turning him over. x * s ’
ABDOMINAL SUSPENDERS
BINDER <*?/ , FOR BABY
The modern substitute for J
the old fashioned, inelastic ,T 0 HOLD HIS D,A ™ UPI
srrip of flannel used to hold j A wk 111 \
the naval dressing in place. This is just an example of
A cotton-and-wool knit fab- | j low thoroughly we cater to
ric, firm enough to give the fx MJ .
needed support yet sufficient- the comfort of babies in our
ly elastic to permit the little I Infant’s Department. A lit-
tummy to expand after nurs- . .. ....
ing. Goes twice around the V/Fj tie thing, this diaper support
abdomen and ties at the /'J 7 j er—-but what a difference it
side with three bows of W AA J , • . . , ,
Twistless tape. No ptns— L makes in baby s comfort,
no buttons —no sewing. ‘
”■ PINLESS DIAPER a
'4? The diaper shown in this illustration
V c* is tbe f amous Vanta Pinless Diaper—
/■L Jf ties with three cute little bows of
twistless tape, saving baby from acci- p
j dental pin pricks and scratches and / j
I K x possible infection.
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GJ See our South Window
SPRING GOODS
We have a complete line of Dry Goods.
Our stock is compose of too many numer
ous things to mention, but we just want
you to come in and take a look at what
we have got. It will certainly be a pleasure
for us to show you.
The BEE HIVE, Inc.
“Your Money’s Worth or Your Money Back”
OPPOSITE THE WINDSOR. LAMAR ST.
HUGE LOSSES ALARM
THE GERMAN PUBLIC
LONDON, May I.—A telegram from
Reuter's correspondent at Amsterdam
says
“Extr.irdiunrnervousness i nd de
pression p evail in Germany, owing
to the losses in the offensive revealed
in an article by Capt. von Salzmann
in the Vossische Zeitung, in which he
endeavors to restore their lost confi
dence to the Germans by emphasizing
the importance of the capture of Kem
mel Hill.
“Capt von Salzmann enumerates a
few of the series of rumors current
in Germany. All these stories are
prefaced by the remark, Tn the reich
stag it is said,’ and go on to say:
“Our losses have been enormous.
The offensive in the west has arrived
at a deadlock T) e enemy is much
WEDNESDAY, M A Y 1, 1918.
stronger than the supreme command
assumed We are unable to continue
the offensive, owing to lack of horses.
The region before Ypres is a great
lake, and therefore impassable. The
whole country between our Amiens
front and Paris is mined and will be
blown up. The people, continues
Salzmann, have begun to lose their
nerve. Replying in the reichstag, the
minister of war said something like
this:
“It goes without saying that there
are big losses in such a struggle. Our
losses in one part of the front have
been very heavy. Two-thirds of the
company leaders in many regiments
have fallen.’
“It is said that a certain deputy
thereupon told his electors in a north
German town:
“The minister of war has openly
declared our losses to be so heavy
that the offensive must be abandon
ed.’ ”