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PAGE EIGHT
COMMISSIONS OF
A. H. S. OFFICERS
SIGNEDBYBAKER
Commissions, signed by Secretary of
War Baker, the secertary of the High
School Volunteers of the United
States, and by Principal C. M. Hale,
the commandant, will soon be awarded
to all the officers of the Americus high
school company of cadets. The com
missions have already been received
by Commandant Hale and will be pre
sented as soon as school interests be
come settled again.
The Americus High School, to which
the military feature was added three
years ago, has this year been doing
all that has been possible in this line
under the well known adverse cir
cumstances.
The cadets have been taking a live
ly interest in their organization which
is known as ’‘Company A, of the 17th
Regiment. High School Volunteers of
the United States.” The roster this
year contains more names than ever
before. Recently a panoramic photo
graph was made of the company and
a copy of this will be sent to H S.
V. U. S. headquarters in New York.
Another copy will be put on display
at the Chamber of Commerce, while
Secretary Perkins will send a third
copy to the War Department in Wash
ington.
The officers of the cadet corps of
the High School are as follows: Rob
ert Monahan, captain; George Ball,
first lieutenant; Charles Smith and
Robert McNeill, second lieutenants;
George Riley, first sergeant: Finis
Dunaway, Neill Ray, Rufus Godwin,
Frank Wemm and .loe Fred Hamrick,
sergeants; William Pearlman, H. S. V.
U. S. adjutant; Walter Calhoun, John
Butt. Louie Hansford, George Cobb,
Enloe Wallis, Hubert Baugh and
Charles Culpepper, corporals. Hert
well Barton is acting left guide. A
number of others are acting as cor
porals pending permanent appoint
ments.
The commissioned officers wear the
cadet nsignia prescribed by the War
Department while the non-coms wear
cadet chervons, although they could
wear the regular army chevrons. The
equipment consists of 87 army rifles.
Luther D Wallis who was the first
ANNOUNCEMENT
EXTRAORDINARY
In announcing a continuation of our SEMI-CENTENNIAL
Sale until Saturday night, February first, we are induced to do so by reason
of the fact that there are a great many of our va'ued and old patrons of many years
standing, in Sumter and all the surrounding counties, who have been prevented
from attending this sale up to now by reason of the flu epidemic and other
causes in their homes.
We are not in the habit of boring the public with “fake” or so-called “sales”
every month in the year, but when we speak we back every statement we make
with worthy merchandise, one of the strong points which has built up this half
century business. By reference to The Times-Recorder you will find price quotations (present special
sale prices and former prices) which are unmatch-able for meritorious merchandise.
The sale, up to the present time, has been the most successlul, for the time of the year, in our history
and we are going to make this coming week even greater.
Look for our big display ad in Sunday morning’s Times-Recorder carrying figures on various items
throughout the entire store.
ANSLEY’S
Writes of Honor to
Lieut. Edw. Murray
Lieut. Henry Gordon Howell, of the |
Seventh Infantry in France, found in ,
the American London Mail, an an-.
nouncement of the officers of the
American unit picked to guard the
peade conference at Paris, among
them. Lieut. Edwin T. Murray, of
Americus, and he has sent the clip
ping to Lieut. Murray’s mother here,
together with a letter remarking on
the honor done her son. The clipping
follows:
"Two hundred and fifty of America’s
smartest soldiers, who will act as the
Presidential and Peace Commission |
Guard, with their Allied colleagues,
aie in Paris, having been chosei.
by Major-General Edwin F. Glenn,
of the American Embarkation center
at. Le Mans. They are captained by
Captain Burton F. Hood, under whom
are Lieutenants Edwin T. Murray, J.
W. Ennis, Alfred Z Funk, Max A.
Taylor and Arthur W. Rogers.
“General Glenn spent two days in
specting troops and personally inter
viewed many. His were bas
ed on physical condition, leadership,
intelligence, personal qualities and
general value to the service. Eighty
one sergeants, who had qualified for
commissions at the Army Candidates
school just before its close, gave UP
their stripes to be privates in this
guard of honor.
"General Glenn, realizing that the
American guard would be shoulder to
shoulder with the veteran Poilu and
Tommy, picked men of strong build,
snappy appearance and efficiency in
drill. Complete new equipment was is
sued to each man before the company
left Le Mans. The majority of the
men chosen have had a college
education.”
captain of the cadet corps, has only
recently received a commission as a
second lieutenant. Barney Ball, the
second cadet captain, was a non-com
in the S. A. T. C. unit at the Univer
sity of Georgia last fall. The first
commandant of the high school cadet
corps, Edwin H. Agnew, went. t<>
France last year as a first lieutenant
in charge of a detachment of engi
neers. The second commandant, Mark
A. Smith, was made a second lieuten
ant irf the United States army, but did
not see overseas service.
AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER. ”
STOCKMAN SEES
GOLDEN FUTURE
FOR S. W. GEORGIA
ALBANY, Jan. 24. —John M. Hazle
ton, editor of the American Hereford
Journal. Kansas, City, who recently
visited this section to inspect the big
herd of Herefords on the farm of John
D. Little, 6 miles from Albany, was
so well impcgssed with Southwest
Georgia, that he devotes several col
umns of space in the current issue
of his publication to praise of , this
section as a live stock country.
Editor Hazleton spent several days
here and carefully examined the agri,
cultural and live stock possibilities'
of this section.
“Southwest Georgia is destined to
be one of the leading live stock pro
ducing sections of the South,” the
Hereford Journal man writes, “it was
made for a cattle and hog country, but
the cotton growers beat the stockmen
to it.”
Mr. Hazleton discusses at length the
many crops that can be and are
grown in this section at all times of
the year, and contrasts this with the
conditions iprevailing in his own sec
tion, where snow covers the ground
several months of the year, and it is
necessary to keep live stock under
shelter and fed on gathered forage.
‘‘Why shouldn’t this land become as
valuable as that of the corn belt, that
is selling from S2OO to S3OO an acre?"
he quotes an Albany man as asking,
and adds: “Well, why shouldn’t it? It
will grow anything that the best corn
belt land will grow, and as much of
it to the acre. It provides everything
needed for successful live stock grow
ing and has a climate that makes it
unnecessary to house and feed ani
mals during the long winter months.
“Some of these days Southwestern
Georgia is going to be rated as one of
i the leading live stock growing sec
tions of the country, and some of the
gray-haired individuals will live to see
that day.”
PEMBROKE JONES DEAD.
WILMINGTON. N. C„ Jan. 24. (By
Associated Press.)—News was receiv
ed here today that Pembroke Jones,
one of the wealthiest and best known
men in the South, died at Thompkins
ville, N. Y„ this morning, following
an operation.
TEXAS DROUTH
PAUPERS NOW
RICH OIL MEN
DALLAS, Tex., Jan. 24 (By Asso
ciated Press.)—Some of th? West
Texas farmers who deserted their
homes last summer in pitiful white
lines of old prairie wagons, are now
going back in automobiles. Driven
out by a three years’ drougth they are
going back as oil men.
Streches of land where the drongth
had airtually withered every leaf of
vegetation and from which the dis
heartened farmers departed for the
cotton fields and other more prosper
ous sections, are within the new oil
district.
Some of the farmers who straggled,
almost penniless from the "parched
zone” a few’ months ago can qualify
as oil magnates, according to Vance
Muse of the Fort Worth Chamber of
Commerce, who has just completed a
tour of Ranger, Eastland. Cisco,
Breckenridge. DeLeon, Moran, Corman
and other towns in the heart of the
new oil district. He says the popula
tion in many counties, almost com
pletely deserted last summer has
reached unprecedented figures.
i Leases are being sold for a few
acres at vastly larger sums than entire
farms would have brought a year ago
and enormous investments have been
made.
The legislature had expected to
adopt measures for relief of drought
sufferers, but since the discovery of
oil little interest has been shown in
the proposed action. There have been
abundant rains that assured crops in
districts outside the oil territory.
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Milwaukee About tO‘
Swat German T ongue
MILWAUKEE, Was., Jan. 24—(By
Associated Press.)—The teaching of
the German language in Milwaukee 1
grade schools may disapp<?ar entirely
when the new semester begins in Feb
ruary. In only one school in the city
now is German being taught and. un
der the resolution of the school board
abolishing foreign language instruc
tion, it would be discontinued at the
end of the term in June.
In 1916, 200 teachers were employed
to give instruction in the German lan
guags to 30,000 pupils and at the
end of 1918, only one teacher was
employed to instruct 400 pupils in the
German language.
One of the final instances in con
nection with the elimination of Ger
man instruction came with the recent
announcement that Leo Stern, assist
ant superintendent of schou’s in
charge of the foreign language de
partment., had resigned. The school
board last August voted to abolish the
foreign language departmet at the end
of the present year. Mr. S’ern’s term
expires June 30. Mr. Steri in his let
ter to the school board said that alter
a service of 35 years in the Milwau
kee schools, he felt that he was “en
titled to a rest.”
Mr. Stern was president of the Wis-
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consin branch of the German-Ameri
can alliance from the time of its or
ganization in 1906 until it was dis
banded in 1917. He was also at one
time a vice president of the national
organization.
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