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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-04-25
The Titnes-pecorder IL the

Omctal Organ of the Citylof Americas,
Omclal Organ of Sumter County.
Onicial Organ of Webster County.
Onicial Organ of Railroad Commission OF
Georgia for the 81 Congressional. District
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-04-25
Shoe Repairing.

First-class shoe work in every
detail. Invisible patching. Shoes
made to order. ALI work guaran.
teed, if unsatisfactory return and
we will fix without cost.
n, L. LAMAR.
Corner Lamar and Jackson SITS.
over Rylander's Shoe Co.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-04-25
Or. S. Weir. Mitchell, the Great NeuroIo.
glst, Warns Americans Who Neg
IeCt Their Nerves.

IN Busy centcfs the nUmbes Of deaths due to neevos
caues has increased twenty per cent In forty years One
io"rth OF the deaths 20 cities to-day from nervous
diseases"-Dr. S. WeiR Mitchell
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-04-25

Mems elastic seam dra"eiT
regular soc quality at &c.,
Good quality check muslin 49,
1Oc quality check muslin &C.
All the best brands Percale anu
Madras at Sc.
Laces striped Misses Tan' "n Inv
and Black hose, 25c quality az i''
All Silk Taffeta ribbon IN "'
colors, Doc grade for l0e'
Call and inspect my stock spring
bargains and you will go away
lighted.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-12-30
New Years In French Canada.

New Years day 10 the people OF
French Canada is as much of social
holiday. as mts.h of childreD's fes-
tfval, as Christmas is to their English
speaking fellow citizens. AS in the
United States. France and England. SO
in the province OF Quebec the religious
observance of Christmas IL very much
more imposing than that Of New
Years day. but among the French
Canadians the day of social festivity
and family reunions and of the giving
and receiving OF gifts IL not Christmas.
but New Years. To many or the
younger portion OF French Canada's
population New Years day IN still
known, as IT wasfin those provinces OF
France from which their fOrefathers
came. as lie jour des etrennes-the day
of gifts
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-12-30
Total Expended Aggregates
S1,OOO,O0O---Over 200
Dwellings Making
Homes for 1000.

Improvements costing more than a
million dollars were completed in Rock
Island in the year 1905. More resi-
dences were built this year than ever
before in the history of the city. many
Of them being costly structures 1t IS
estimated that the amount so expend-
ed aggregates $685.. 900. Many of these
are on the outskirts of the city, the
growth being extensive toward the
south the full length of the city. The
most conspicuous improvement on Sec
ond avenue is the remodeling of the j.
p. Williamson and the J. p. Sexton
stores, which was done at a consider
able expense. The Woodmen building
was completed this year and has been
occupied since last spring.
The first asphalt pavement was laid in
Rock Island this year, and there is an in
dication that it will be largely the ma
terial of the future for street improve
ment in this city. Fourteenth avenue
Fifteenth street, Nineteenth street,
Twenty-first street and Eighth-and-a-
half avenue were improved this year.
involving an expenditure of about $75,-
600 Besides this. the city has enter
ed into contract for improvement at
the waterworks To the amount of $25,-
900, which must be followed by a CON
siderable amount more.
At the Rock Island arsenal the chan
mel tail race has been completed at
cost TO the government of $130.5OO
Besides this, s32, 900 was expended for
machinery, $4,000 for new officers
pairs.
The Tri-City Railway company as
usual is numbered among those put
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-12-30
The weepinx Toad.

In the ancient churches OF the Tyrol
the sacred edifices are kept securely
closed on the evening before the new
year. and the people OF that romantic
district are firmly convinced that at
this time. when no one ia present, a
huge toad crawls before the altar and
prays. weeping bitterly. These toads
are supposed to be the reincarnations
of Christians who have failed to make
a pilgrimage, and no Ole In the Tyrol
ever molests them as they go hopping
about. striving, perhaps. to find their
way TO shrines which have long since
ceased to exist.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-12-30
Outlook for 1906 Bright for
Continuation of Prog
resS That Has Mark
ed Past Years.

Towndrow, 1901 Fourteenth avenue,
cottage.
William Daebelliehn. 1906 Four
teenth avenue. two cottages
Henry Rohr. 41O4, 4106 Fourteenth
avenue. two residences.
Johnson, Forty-third street and Four.
teenth avenue, residence.
William Daabelliehn. Forty-second
street and Fourteenth avenue. two resi-.
dences.
William Bleuer. Thirty-eighth street
and Fourteenth avenue. residence.
Kirk Leveridge. 1926 Fortieth street
residence.
Ross Ulman 1910 Forty-third street,
residence.
NJ Taxman. lis, III Seventh avenue
two-story double house.
Anna Bleuer. 1909 Seventh avenue
residence.
Mcdonald. Sixth street and Fifth av
enue. rebuilt.
Hubbard Gates, Ninth street and Six.
teenth avenue residence.
Schroeder & Geiger. Ninth street
and Seventeenth avenue. residence.
William Gest. Fifteenth street. Tenth
avenue. residence
Fred Moore. Fifteenth avenue. Tenth
street, residence
Fred Felskie. Fourteenth avenue
Tenth street, residence
Mrs. Colts, Fourteenth avenue,
Tenth and Eleventh streets. residence.
Charles Hanshaw, Fourteenth street,
Tenth and Eleventh avenues. residence.
Carl Schnook. Fourteenth avenue
Tenth and Eleventh streets. residence
DR.. B. F.. Hail. Sixteenth avenue.
Tenth and Eleventh streets. residence
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-12-30

NeOK at IL, Mabel-how IT gilt
- tiers, as IL a mass OF melted
~ jewelsi l toast you IN some
OF the most incompatible No.
I'd JOY that was ever imprisoned In
Faves OF oak Sweetheart, your
fealth,"
Mabel Brentwood inclined her stately
head and raised Z glass of lemonade
as she sat opposite 70 RoberS Mumford.
her affianced husband. in her mothers
drawing room ON New Years eve.
Il am sorry l cannot Join you In
drinking whisky, Robert, but you know
my horror OF alcohol. My father was a
three bottle man. and he died OF govt.
my uncle shot dear fri md while un-
der the influence OF the Incompatible
liquid joy and you have broken veins
in your cheeks"
MY lady chooses to be sarcastic"
replied Robert. II hope you are not
becoming fanatic"
Robert, how can you treat so serious
n subject In such y trite manner" said
Mabel earnestly There is no moral or
Physiological defense for the use OF
alcohol. Physicians use IT only AZ q
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-12-30


horsepnh Uses spur. They have test
ed its terrible reaction. Heart, lungs,
kidneys. unite IN rejecting il as u dead
ly enemy. 1t puts Il premium on muir
der. inspires thievery and makes strong
men strike defenseless women"
Here Mabel stopped. overcome with
emotion.
~ why. my dear girl, did not know
that you took the matter SO seriously.
What has stimulated your interest III
the subject SO remarkably
Mabel arose and walked to his side.
She ran her slender fingers through his
bronze curls: then she leaned over and
kissed him on the forehead.
You. Robert, are responsible. l have
watched you since you have been COM
ing here to visit me lately. Why. you
drank a quart of claret ut dinner this
evening and you have visited the side
board six times since dinner tonight
Robert sat erect i'll his chair and
shook of the caressing fingers. Il did
1 not know that l was Alphabetically I'M
der surveillance" he said coldly.
That's the way with u man." re-
piled Mabel sorrowfully. Tell him
the truth and lie always meets it with
\ Continued. seating herself on the arm
OF his chair and putting her arm
around his neck, I'm not going TO
quarrel with you. but I'm willing 20
bet you a box OF bonbons against
pair of gloves that you cannot give up
drinking for one month"
I'll take your bet. sweetheart" said
Robert. Modified by the caress, lust
10 show you that I'm not the confirmed
sot you evidently think me. Drinking
IS merely habit which, perhaps.
have encouraged n little. but il went
cause me the least annoyance to give
II up for n month to please you"
For many years he had been con-
sistent drinking man. In summer he
drank alcohol in some of its favorite
DISCUSSES to make him cool and in win
ter To warm him up. Every meal was
, Santicipated by n cocktail 10 give him
e appetite. In fact. brandy or whisky
was panacea for every i'll. Alcohol
vhad been the crutch upon which he
lad leaned for so long u time that 1t
had become n necessity. And now that
he had thrown the crutch away he be
\ gan to realize the terrible contract he
bad undertaken.
New Years day he spent at his club.
where the holiday was celebrated in
the traditional fashion. with steaming
punches and all the delicious concoc-
1ions SO dear 10 his palate. Every
nerve in his tortured body whimpered
for its accustomed stimulus. And the
tight had only just begun, He remem-
bered with self contempt that all his
torture was caused by the within OF
woman. And he was TO endure this
torture for thirty days. He could not
do il, he thought. Then il began TO
dawn upon him that Mabel was right;
that he really was the refined drunkard
\ she had limited at And with this
Rthought the mirth and jollity of the
ilb became unbearable TO him, and
donned his coat and rushed out into
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-12-30

thusiasm at his home coming, the fit
ting out OF other expeditions and the
co1onizing of the new land. Happily
then he knew naught of the chains and
indignities that awaited him. The fu-
ture was all roseate. He had discov-
cred the western way to the Indies; he
would return and flndi gold, and hence
forth fame and fortune should be his.
The feast which the Spaniards had
that New Years day In Guarico was
something novel for European palates-
First there was bread made of Indian
maize. or corn. over which Columbus
grew so enthusiastic that he carried
quantity of the grain back to Spain.
Another form OF Indian bread was
made from tuber called manioc. The
white men were also introduced TO the
West Indian pepper pot" which Is
still highly esteemed. Then they were
asked TO try condiment called ale.
which proved too strong even for the
seasoned stomach of a Spantard. There
were meats as well made from a sort
OF rabbit, dumb dog" a lizard, or fg-
uana. TO say nothing OF boiled parrots.
There were also fruits and vegetables
In such quantities that Columbus wrote
IN his journal it was the most protract-
ed feast he had ever enjoyed
1t is also narrated that after the
feast the Indians smoked the delicious
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-12-30

Albert LentZ, Sixteenth avenue.
Tenth and Eleventh streets, residence.
Charles Tom. Seventeenth avenue.
Tenth and Eleventh streets, residence.
Ans Anderson, Fourteenth avenue.
Tenth and Eleventh streets. residence.
Mrs Wadsworth, Fourteenth av-
enue. Tenth and Eleventh streets resi-
dence.
jackson Hill, Sixteenth avenue, Elev-
enth and Twelfth streets, residence.
George NJ. Elliott, Sixteenth avenue,
Eleventh and Twelfth streets. resi-
dence.
McQuaid. l4IS Twelfth street, resi-
dence
William Fitzsmmons, 1891 Four
teenth street. residence.
Fred Phillips. Eighteenth avenue and
Twelfth street, residence.
William Boyer. Eighteenth avenue
and Fourteenth street. residence.
George Quist. Fourteenth street. Sew
enteenth and Eighteenth avenues, res
idence.
Scheuermann. Fourteenth street, and
Sixteenth avenue. residence and store
Joseph Gross, Fourteenth street and
Fourteenth avenue. residence.
p. F. Trenkenschuh. 1928 Fourteenth
street, residence.
Bert Peterson. 1927 Fourteenth
street, residence.
Mrs. Cooper, Fourteenth street and
Twelfth avenue. residence.
Cloudas. Fourteenth street and Eley-
enth avenue. residence.
Hans Paulson. Twelfth street and
Twelfth avenue. brick residence.
John Nolk, Fifth-and-a- half avenue,
thirteenth and Fourteenth streets. two
residences
John Anthony. Fif;h-and-a-h av-
enue and Fourteenth street. residence
William corcoran. Sixth avenue and
Thirteenth street. remodeled two story
residence.
Frank sweniine. SIS Thirteenth
street. residence.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-12-30

Thomas CralIe. 1916 Ninth avenue,
double house
George Siemon. Fifth-and-a-ha1f av-
enue, Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets,
residence
Mrs. Morrison, Twenty-third street.
Ninth and Tenth avenues, residence
John Scheuermann, Twenty-third
street and Eleventh avenue. residence.
Daniel Montgomery, $50 Twenty-sec-
ond street, residence
Morris Wilcher, Twenty-second
street and Eleventh avenue. residencet
S e. Mattison. Jr, Twelfth avenue
and Twentieth street. residence
Lewis Salzmann. Thirty-fifth street
and Seventh avenue, residence.
Herman Shove. 1893 Thirty-fifth
street. residence.
Davis company, Fifth avenue and
Forty-second street, remodeled.
John Virgins. Ninth avenue and
Forty sixth street, concrete residence.
A. A. Rounds, 11I7. 1119 Sixth ay-
enue. two cottages
Schnitzer, Eighth avenue and Forty
fifth street. residence
Boates. Eighth avenue Forty-fifth
street. residence.
John Ingraham, Eighth avenue For
ty-fourth street, residence
Niequist ForIy-third street. Eighth
avenue, residence
Joba Bladel. Forty-third street,
Eight avenue. residence.
Engstron. Forty-fourth street
Twelfth avenue residence
Brookman, Forty-fourth street.
Twelfth avenue, residence.
r. b. Kerr, 919 Forty-third street,
residence
Arthur Van Dale. 1896 Fourteenth
avenue. residence.
C. verhaIe. 1870 Fourteenth avenue,
residence
Joe Helstern, Fourteenth avenue and
Forty-irst street. two cottages. two
residences. saloon building.
E j. Picksrd, 4211 Fourteenth
avenue. residence.
E Hooker. 1909 Fourteenth avenue.
residence.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-12-30
9ogA JsLApD'S lynPRogalnHp WIS
fDl 7aeR 1915.

Fifth avenue. residence.
Charles J. Carlson. 525 Twelfth "
enue. residence.
Philip Mcdonnell, Sig Thirteenth ay.
enue. residence.
C. r. Snoeck, 500 Thirteenth avenue,
residence
Jerry Woodin. SIC, SIS Thirteenth ay-
enue. two residences.
Jerry Woodin. Goa. COS Thirteenth
avenue, two residences.
John Scheuerman, sol. sos. 509. 6l5
Fourteenth avenue, four residences.
Henry Horst, 645-647 Fourteenth av-
enue. two residences
Mrs. Williams. GA Thirteenth av-
enue, residence.
Albert Fohrman. 7O3 Thirteenth av-
enue. residence.
Martin Sutler. 71s Thirteenth av-
enue, residence.
Ole Olson. 725 Thirteenth avenue,
residence.
Henry Brady, 7O5 Thirteenth av.
enue, residence.
l.. Bersman, Seventh avenue and
Eighth street, brick residence.
Charles Etzel, Eighth street. Elev-
enth and Twelfth avenues. residence.
Henry Butler. sos Twelfth avenue,
residence
w. II. Hartnady. Twelfth street and
Twelfth avenue. residence.
Robert Smythe. Twelfth avenue near
Sixteenth street, residence. ~
j. b. Winter. Ninth street, Seven.
teenth and Eighteenth avenues. resi-
dence.
Hudson G. Collins, Fifteenth avenue,
Ninth and Eleventh streets. four resi-
dences.
Henry Fluegel, Jr.. Eleventh avenue,
Eleventh street, residence.
Anna Bleuer, 1011 Seventh avenue,
residence.
F. A. Graves. 1902 Eleventh avenue,
residence.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-12-30

ting a great amount of money into i'm
provements in this city. For the re-
newing of tracks alone $4,000 was
spent. About $4,000 was put into the
power house. $4,000 for new cars and
IS 900 for paving
The Rock Island reconstructed it's
round house and made improvements
TO the amount of $4,000. Besides this.
there were general improvements in
the line of buildings amounting to be-
tween $751; 900 and $4,000.
One of the Milan bridges was rebuilt
this year at a considerable expense to
the city and the running of electric
cars to that village was inaugurated.
Prospects for next year seem at this
time to be good and there are indica-
tons that the building season of 1906
will find two new blocks on Eighteenth
street.
Following is the list of the build
ings that have been completed this
year:
Apple Bros. Eighth street and Third
avenue. addition TO store
Ralph Atkinson, 725 Second street,
rebuilt
Harry McCaskrin, Fifth avenue, Sec
ond street. one story addition.
Ben Ransom. 40 Third street. resi-
dence.
August Sehnert. 1894 Third street,
residence.
William Osenburg .11I6 Third street,
residence.
Charles Schuerman. 500 Ninth av-
enue. rebuilt.
Emil Voik, Fourth street near Sixth
avenue. one story cottage and one story
butcher shop.
NJ. W. Battles. $50 Fourth avenue.
cottage.
John Matson. el2 Fourth avenue,
residence
]. NJ Beardsley. 1112 First avenue,
residence
Negus fats. Thirteenth street and
Second avenue. remodeled
B. ID. Connolly. 1106 Second avenue.
residence.
Phil Miller. Thirteenth street and
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-12-30

=
PASSED.
West Indian tobacco and invited the
whites to do likewise, but this was too
heathenish Il custom for the dons. So
tobacco was IL luxury unknown in Eu-
rope till Raleigh started II Oh its way
To make incense around the world.
Columbus left part OF his crew, but
they treated the trusting natives in So
Spaniardly fashion, if the term may
be used, that the red men turned
about and murdered the entire outfit.
1t was here in the West Indies. by the
way, that the great tGscoverer was aft
erward placed i'll chains by some titled
nobody who was sent over TO represent
the Spanish king. 1t is not alone re-
publics that are ungrnteful
But the memory of that initial New
Years. which was also the first day
of new epoch in the history % man.
kind, will be cherished along with the
fame of him who drew the veil from
two continents and made 1t possible for
the weary world to look into a later
golden age I'm another Atlantis.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-12-30

In Scandinavia the favorite beverage
New Years day is drunk from silver
or wooden tankards or from horns of
the urox, an animal now extinct, which
custom substantiates the antiquity OF
the Morse New Years day. Many OF
these horns are old enough to have
been used by Thor and Odin.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-12-30
The Retort Bitter.

NO. I have NO dinner for you" said
the housekeeper sternly, 'and don't
you come here after dinner again.
Beg pardon. lady" replied the
tramp. but / didn' s'pose you'd have
dinner over dis early III de day. Y
amt very stylish. are yerT-Philadel-
phia Press.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-12-30

In Russia the new year Is ushered In
by a long and rather tiresome New
Years religious service, which is fol-
lowed by strenuous drinking. frequent
Iy interrupted by prostratIons before
the all powerful icons. or holy pictures.
without which no Russian household
IS safe and which have played so prom
inent a part in the war in the far east
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-12-30

while the lands he discovered support
nations that are in the morning splen-
doris of better age.
Whatever the formal ceremonies at.
tending the first New Years day in
the western hemisphere. its notability
is not lessened. That Columbus and
his men took some note of its passage
goes without saying. Even in a time
so crowded with other emotions the
fact that he was greeting another year
on the shore that he had seen so long
III yisiln must have filled the heart of
the daring discoyerer with quickened
JOY and thanksgiving. His mind would
naturally travel back "A twelyemonth
to the day that he had completed with
his sOyereigns the negotiations for the
voyage that had eliminated in success.
Ju.t as naturally he would look for
ward 10 another year. picturing the en-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-12-30

Continued on Page Ten)
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-08-18
con NBIA HERALD. FRIDAY; AUGUST Is 1905.
LOCALS

The indignation of our citizens was
deeply aroused Thursday morning when
II was discovered what had been done
during the night along the public square.
J. Tate jenkins sign was torn down
and carried away, a pane of glass was
broken out of the front door to Warnock
a. Co. s store, and other signs of dlsor-
derly conduct were found. 1t was after
closing hours, and near mid night, when
about half dozen boys started in for
their "fun," feeling, we suppose, that
they would not be blamed for what they
did.
DR.. Emmett Anderson was out on the
Southport road Wednesday, and reports
negotiations completed for the right OF
way from Southport to a point about
one mile this side of Scott's Mill. This
is good news to many who are in touch
with the situation. 1t is "hard row
to hoe" this getting our road built, but
there is no such word as fail in the lexl
con of Mt. Pleasant.
On account of the inclement weather
the lawn party which was to have been
held in the Frierson lawn Friday night,
was postponed indefinitely.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-08-18
LIBERAL OFFER FROM
\. D. RUHM.

Editor Herald Chronicle:-R Referring
to the question of making some provl-
sion against the recurrence of the floods
that annually do so much damage to
the lower portion Of the city, petition
was presented to the council nearly a
year ago signed by many heavy taxpay-
ers asking that the question be investi-
gated and if found feasible with rea-
sonable cost, that the work be done by
the city.
The writer at the time offered to per
form the engineering work necessary for
such investigation without charge for
his services No action was taken and
no reason given therefor.
Now that the subject is again in mind
it is we'll to keep it agitated as much as
possible in the hope that something may
be done before another food sets in.
[ stand ready to make the same offer
made before, SO that the council can, at
least, find out whether the work is FEAST
BILE or not with little or DO expense for
the preliminary investigation.
H. D. RUIN.
Mount Pleasant, Aug. II, 1905.
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