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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-04-14
DIVISION OF THE SCHOOLS
Adequate Buildings In Widely Separated Localities il
Deemed Advisable.

one in East Americus, and one al
! Brooklyn Heights.
| BY this means the young children OF
those three sections of the city would
be saved the necessity of making long
walks in all kinds of weather, they
would be scattered in three schools in
stead of being concentrated together
, and they would be saved from associa-
!! ton with children much older than
, themselves.
Take the children in the Brooklyn
Heights neighborhood, for instance,
They are compelled to walk from a
mile to n mile and half to school,
crossing a railroad, where there is al
ways danger of them being injured.
In rain aud shine they must take the
long walk, no matter how small they
are orNhoE delicate they may be,
Il cannot be convinced that the
interests Of those children, and the
interests of their parents, would not be
best served by the erection of a school
building in that neighborhood, build
ing costing perhaps $4,000 or $4,000,
which would be ample for the needs of
that district for many years to come.
''In a measure the same argument
applies in the East Americus district.
I do not see why the young children
there should be required to go long
distance to central school I believe
that the parents in that district would
also decidedly prefer local school
building to which the younger children
could go.
Reese Park already has a small
school, but the growing requirements
there necess1tate larger building.
That portion of the city is developing
rapidly, and its necessities for many
years could probably be met with a
school building costing say $4,000
''One thing has been very noticeably
in the Reese Park school, and that is
that better results have been obtained
with the young children there than in
the larger school, in every instance, L
helleve, the Reese Park children
winning in competitive contests with
those of the big school / do not be-
lieye they are naturally any brighter,
but 1 do believe that better results are,
and always will be, obtained, by hav-
ing the young !children in distinct
schools for them.
8 [ am firmly fixed in my opinion
that three separate school buildings in
widely separated neighborhoods would
best meet the requirements of Amerius
This would relieve the Furlow School
building and lallow ample room there
for the older children. AS the'children
reached certain age they could be
transferred to the Furlow School.
TO summarize my position, l be-
lieve that Rees Park, being probably
the section with the most young chill
dren, and growing the most rapidly,
should have a building costing about
$4,000;
Brooklyn Heights should have
building costing $4,000 or $6,OfO;
East Americus should also have a
school costing about $4,000 or $4,000;
THE Furlow school could be reno
waited to the extent of $4,000 or So 900,
and reserved entirely for the older
children
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-04-14
PneumOnia'S Deadly Work

had so seriously affected my right
lung" writes Mrs. Fannie Connor, of
Rural Route 1. Georgetown, Tenn,
that L coughed continuously night and
day and the neighbors' prediction-con-
sumpt1on-seemed inevitable, until my
husband brought home bottle of DR..
Kings New Discovery, which in my
case proved TO be the only REAL cough
curer and restorer ofweak, sore lungs
When all other remedies utterly fail,
you may still win the battle against
lung and throat troubles with New
Discovery, the REAL cure. Guaran-
teed by Eldridge Drug Co. soc. and
s., 90 Trial bettle free.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-04-14
ARTISANS BUSY ON COLLEGE
Good Progress Is Made Upon the Buildings During the
Past Week.

ing material at hand now. and the con-
tractors viii rush the work as fast as
can be done in safety. The contract
time for the completion of the agricul-
tural college buildings is December
1st. but it will doubtless be finished
well in advance of that date. A pro-
gram for the cornerstone exercises has
not yet been entirely completed, but
this win be done within the current
week, no doubt, and Americus will in
vite the people of the entire Third dis
trict to participate in this very inter
esting occasion early in May
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-04-14

AS busy as bees are the two score
carpenters and brickmasons iemployed
upon the main buildings of the Third
District Agricultural College, and ex-
celIent progres is shown there already.
The contractors, represented by Mr.. j.
M. Bassett and'Mr. John w. Shiver,
began active operations there three or
four days ago and already the main
walls of the large academic building
and the boys dormitory are rising rap
idly About forty men are employed
upon the college buildings, and from
this time forward progress will be
quite rapid. There is plenty of build
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-04-14
OF interest To women.

To such women as are not seriously OuS
of health, but who have exactlng duties
tn Derform, either in the way OF house
hold cares or in social duties and func-
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as we'll as to nursing mothers, DR.. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription has proved most
valuable supporting tonic and invlgorat-
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avoided. The operating table ana the
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seldom have to be employed II this most
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10 in good time. The NFavorite Prescrip-
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Rear in mind, please that DR.. Pierces
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patent medicine, against which the most
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averse. because of the uncertainty as to
their composition and harmless character,
but IA a MEDICINE OF KNOWN COMPOST
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printed. in plain English, on every bottle-
wrapper. An examination of this list OF
Ingredients will disclose the fact that it IS
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in its makeup. In this connection 1t
NAV m VI not be out of place to state that the
FavoTite Prescription" Of DR. I'll Pierce nre ds j9
woman,s Deculiar weaknesses and all
mesl ments, and sold through druggists, all
the ingredients of which have the I'M
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several schools of practice, and that too
as remedies for the ailments for which
SFavorite Prescription is recommended;
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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-04-14
GROCERS TO CLOSE AT SIX O'CLOCK
Retail Firms in AmeriCuS Enter Into
Agreement.

This summer a number of the retail
grocers Of Americus are going to join
with merchants in all other lines in
closing their stores al o'clock in the
afternoon, Saturdays and Seaboard pay
days excepted. The grocery stores
have never closed at 6 heretofore, but
these toilers see no reason why they,
like others, should not have an hour
for recreation in the evening. Alrea iy
the Sparks Mashburn Co., Neon Buc-
hanan, the Gatewood Grocery and L.
NJ. Furlow have signed an agreement
to begin closing at pm. May lst, and
others here will do likewise
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-04-14
JUST ONE LITTLE VOTE
IN TOTAL OF LEADERS
Hundreds of COupOnSIVOt-
ed Saturday.
EACH ASPIRANT GETS BALLOTS
A Difference of One Vote Only Be
tween Miss Greene and Miss
BivinS..IRtereSt in the Race
Growing Daily.

dIterence OF one little vote only
IN the totals of the two young ladie!
leading today in the exposition ticke
contest marks the result of the week!
balloting, though ell four have made
very substantial gains, as shown by
these figures.
Miss Louie Greene .s,s. ......... III;
Miss Matte Bivins. s................ III
Miss Mary Stevens. ns..,...,......... 81
Miss Mabel Sawyer. r................76 .764
The positions of all the contestants
has changed little.
| Last Sunday Miss Matte Bivins led
by 20 votes, while today Miss Lulie
Greene leads by one vote. Miss Mary
Stevens takes third place, coming up
from fourth.
Friends of all the fair contestants
worked like baeyers the past week,
with the result that 1,4l9 votes were
polled yesterday.
of this goodly number, Miss
Greene received 434, Miss Bivins
413, Miss Stevens 327, Miss
Sawyer 245. More coupons were voted
yesterday than on any day of the con-
test, thus evidencing the interest among
the several contestants.
And this interest will increase as the
voting proceeds.
| The city is raked over for Times Re-
corders, from which the coupons may
be clipped, and while large number
are thus being voted every week it is
doubtless true that as many more are
held in reserve. to be sent in at later
date.
Pick favorite and help the Times
Recorder send her to the jamestown
Exposition. If you do not take the
paper now subscribe for 1t month and
get busy clipping coupons.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-04-14

at Oakgrove Cemetery to do honor to
the memory of the Lost Cause and place
garlands upon the graves of the six
hundred heroes in gray sleeping there.
The Memorial Society will meet Tues
day afternoon at o'clock at the home
of Miss Maria Harold on College street
for the purpose of completing the Me-
mortal Day program in which the
Confederate veterans, the military and
civic societies and citizens of Americus
and Sumter county generally will take
part.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-04-14
NE THODlSTS TO ENDOW HOSPITAL
Quarter Million Dollars viii Be Raised
in Atlanta.

The Methodists of Atlanta and vici-
nifty have inaugurated movement to
raise $3.50, 900 by private subscription to
enlarge, improve and endow the Wes-
ley Memorial hospital and church. In
this connection it is announced that
Asa 6. Gambler, the we'll known
capitalist and philanthropist, has al
ready subscribed $4,000.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-04-14

Commencing on May lst,
we, the undersigned Grocers
will close our places of busi-
ness at 6 o'clock p. m. except
Saturdays and Seaboard Rail
way paydays.
NEON BUCHANAN.
THE GATEWOOD GRO.
.SPARKS-MASHBURN co.
TIM MFURLOW.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-04-14

Elm Avenue Chapel. Near the Sea
board Shops.

Sunday school exercises are held
every Sunday afternoon at Elm Avenue
Chapel, near the Seaboard shops, at
o'clock. The superintendent, w. w
Lowery, invites everybody to come to
the exercises and help in the work.
Come and bring the little folks
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-04-14
Notice TO Water Consumers.

All water rent not paid by noon Mon
day water will be cut off Monday,
meter consumers not excepted. So call
early Monday and save time and
trouble. w. A. JETER.
14k1t Asst. Supt,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-04-14
REV. BIYINS TO PYTHIANS TODAY
Services of interest at Castle Hall at
$3.50 P.

AS announced yesterday, Rev. Rob-
ert l., Bivins, pastor of Furlow Lawn
Baptist church, will preach special
sermon before George f. Cooper
lodge, Knights of Pythias, at Castle
Hall this afterndp pn at $3.50 o'clock.
These services milp Jourof more than
usual il = cine for,st a large
and ndnd vice every The gen.
We have mo-
lfNnf @S& Mr NS@ tho formulasol to at
teni
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-04-14

PILES CURED iN 6 TO "a OAYs.
PAZO OINTAENT i3 guaranteed to cure
anv case of Itching Blind, Bleeding or Por-
trnding Piles in 6 to II days or money re-
fun led. l0c
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-04-14
LETTER TO a. F. HoDG :
Americus, Ca.

Dear Sir: A year-old boy came
into store for a quart of white paint
and SAID: ''They are nice letters Devoe
writes, ant they, Mr.. Knight?' In
Bridgeton. Maine.
''Are they what brought you here?''
asked the merchant. Eyes; ma said
get a quart of white; and I've come for
the least gallons paint. "
That boy'll be a man before his
mother.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-04-14

There is reason why Queen Quality" Shoes are pre-
TERED above all others by of discrimination taste
10 ordinary shoes they Worth gown ordinary
dress Only shoemaking genius mpart their chic and
style and marvellous fit Such shoes could be produced
small quantities only exravagan price Queen Quality
methods bring them prices higher than you pay
for ordinary shoes.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-04-14
Yours truly


30 F. w Devoe 81 Co
P. S.-Americus Construction Co.
sells our paint.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-10-24

methods by which the Bell companies
transmit more than 100000, 900
messages a year.
The japanese have been installing
throughout their empire a telephone
system modelled directly upon that
with which engineering skill has over
spread practically the entire United
States. The little brown men seldom
make mistakes in their choice of in
dustrial models. Sir William Preece,
engineer in chief and electrician of
the British government, which con-
trolls portion of the long distance
telephone traffic of the British Isles,
leaving the local traffic to the national
telephone company, has for many
years been a keen and enthusiastic
observer of the telephone develop
ment of the United States, has kept
in touch with representative Ameri-
can telephone engineers and has
visited this country in quest of the
latest information. Foreign scientists
of Sir Williams type who witness
the remarkable extent to which Amer
leans employ the telephone in all the
affairs of daily life go back to their
own countries and preach doctrine
which inevitably results in improve
ment of conditions even though this
improvement may be a little slower
than would be tolerated here.
In most European countries sta
tistics are kept of the number of tele-
phone messages handled each year. 1t
is observable that in the more prog
ressive nations the use of the tele
phone is doubling about once in six
Or seven years. That seems to be a
pretty rapid rate of growth, though it
is undeniably slower than in this
country, where for some years past
the traffic of the Bell system has been
doubling at the rate of about once in
tire and one-haIf years.
Germany, which is the best tele-
phone user among nations of contin-
entail Europe increased the total of
its messages from 766,226,337 in 1901
to 1,207446,753 in 1905, At the same
time the use of kilograms in the
Fatherland increased only from 49,,
146,291 to 5O,S37,315. In four years
from 1902 through 1906 the National
Telephone company of Great Britain.
which somewhat corresponds to the
Bell system in this country. saw its
total of messages mount from 7S7, 900
900 to 1.200.000,000. In Austria from
1901 to 1906 the growth in the number
of conversations was from 104,S47,-
O69 to 166,477,1S3; in Belgium, be,
tween 1901 and 1905, from 3S,753,357
to 53,977,696; in Denmark, between
1901 and 1905. from 59,410,855 to 10S,-
75O,O35.
France is country whose tele-
phone service has long been notori-
ously poor-so bad in fact that citi-
zens have organized an association
for the sole purpose of forcing the
government to accommodate better
the business men and residents who
would like to see established in
French communities such facilities
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-10-24
All the Earth on Wire

New York, Oct. 20,-The beginning
of the year 1908 will see nearly il
not quite 100000 telephones in ope-
ration on this whirling globe of ours
II they We're arranged in tandem on
circuit between the earth and the
sun there would be a telephone sta
ton every twelve miles. This, is, of
course, only beginning. according to
enthusiastic telephone engineers. who
foresee a time when practically
everybody everywhere will be in tele-
phonic communication with every
body else.
But it is pretty good beginning,
when one considers that hardly thirty
years have elapsed since Bells in
vention began to be commercially
useful. and that the most important
improvements. those making long
distance telephony possible, have
been made in still more recent years.
It is just thirty years ago, for ex-
ample. this coming winter. when
Alexander Graham Bell and that VI
vacious American journalist. Miss
Kate Field. first introduced the teye.
phonic marvel to the public of Great
Britain. securing an enthusiastic let
ter of approval from Queen Victoria
who was present at one of the early
demonstrations. Today the utility
which annihilates space and time is
making its way into the most distant
parts of the earth, 1t has almost
everywhere beaten out the telegraph
in popular favor and in many coun-
tries its records are rapidly over
hauling those of the post Office
All the while the telephone re-
mains a peculiarly American utility
one In which our people take espec-
ial pride because we still use many
more telephones than al the rest of
mankind put together. A careful esti-
mate Of the worlds telephones at the
beginning of the present year indi-
Gated that at that time they num-
bered altogether about 100000.
This figure concerns. of course, what
the engineers call Stations" that is,
combinations Of transmitt9 and re-
ceiver, from which one may talk and
at which one may receive a message
the telephone as meant In common
parlance. OF these Subscribers sta.
lions" approximately 100000 were
found in the United States on Janu-
airy 1, 1907, 100000 of them belong
ing to the Bell system and 100000
representing the aggregate strength
of very large number of independ-
ent companies. Two million more
telephones were in Europe and about
100000 elsewhere.
These figures are very favorable to
our national pride but because Ameri-
cans have been so much more pro-
gressive than other people in adopt.
ing the most important of time say.
ing conveniences, 1t must not be in
ferred that other countries are now
standing still. There have been many
drawbacks to the general adoption of
the telephone in years past among
foreign peoples. Europeans particular
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-10-24

boards and other apparatus for use
in foreign countries is steadily grow
ing. Engineers who come here to fam
iliarize themselves with American
methods of operation are apt to decide
very quickly that these can be put In
to force only if they are applied to
the right kind of standardized appara.
tus. Accordingly, for some years a
policy of supplying telephone materi-
ais to all parts of the world has been
in force and this, by recent arrange
ments under which the Western Elec-
trio company will sell its apparatus to
anyone who wants it either in this
country or abroad, is likely to be
greatly furthered.
New Zealand, to take specific ex-
ample is a country which is suppos-
ed to be very self-sufficient and self
satisfied. 1t has thus far not been very
well developed telephonically; but
American appliances have been intro
duced and the popularity of telephone
service, particularly in the four lead
ing centers of population, is steadily
increasing as shown by the fact that
the number of subscribers in New
Zealand grew from $500 in 1902 to
1888 in 1906 In a manual published
some time ago in France, descriptive
of the telephone and telegraph sys-
TENS of the world, it is somewhat sur
prising to find noted in out-of-the-way
lands, such as the Straits Settlements,
Natal, and Mozambique, the use of
Bell telephones Meantime everywhere
in the European nations American
telephones are in active competition
with the clumsier and more primitive
instruments manufactured by Swedes.
Germans and English.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-10-24

as practically all Americans enjoy.
Yet even in France, according to the
somewhat belated statistics which the
government issues, a total of 17O,SS5,.
ia telephone conversations in 1902
grew to about 236,0O0,O0O in 1905.
Switzerland is well governed coun-
try, alert to adopt modern methods,
and it has a good telephone system,
at least as judged by European stand.
ards. This in 1901 handled 81 ,935, 222
messages, in 1905 36,S03,4l5.
These totals appear small when
compared with the enormous figures
Of Bell telephone messages in the
United States-in 1908 there were
more than S.OOO,OO0,OOO of these and
in 1906 nearly 5,5vO, 600, 0O0-but they
indicate what a world wide movement
for interconected telephone service
there is. Most countries are awaken
ing to their past deficiencies and are
seeking TO install the most up-todate
apparatus and to place this in the
hands Of telephone engineers who are
familiar with American methods. The
demands upon the Western Electrical
Company, the manufacturing asso.
ciate OF the Eel companies of the
United States, for telephones. switch.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-10-24

ly are by nature more conservative
than Americans. Then in many contin-
entail countries the right to admins
ter telephone service has been lodged
with governmental bureaus. That
means usually extreme inertia, in
sufficient appropriations and a general
disposition to wait until public de-
mand has become over t.slming be-
fore adequate facilities win be sup
piled. Even where the telephone has
been in private hands the growth of
the business has been hindered in
some cases by governmental inter.
ference, as In Great Britain. where
for many years the post office depart.
ment which administers the tele-
graphic system, was party to at.
tempts to strangle the telephone in
dustry.
In spite Of hindranees, however. the
use Of the telephone is now increasing
rapidly in practically all countries
where il has been introduced. Bust
ness men have become so convinced
that this is one OF the most indispen-
sable Of modern methods Of communi-
cation that engineers from various
countries are constantly coming TO
the United States to examine the
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-10-24
OLD SOAKERS
Get Saturated with Caffeine.

When person had used coffee for a
number of years and gradually declined
In health, it is time the coffee should
be left OF In order to see whether or
not that has been the cause of the trou-
bic.
A lady In Huntsville. Ala. says she
used coffee for about 40 years. and for
the past 10 years has had severe stom-
ach trouble. Il have been treated by
many physicians but all in vain. Ev-
erything failed TO give relief, Was
proStratedforsome time, and came near
dying. When recovered sufficiently to
partake of food and drink tried coffee
again and II soured on my stomach.
81 finally concluded that coffee was
the cause OF my troubles and stopped
using II. tried tea in its place and
then milk, but neither agreed with me
then commenced using Postum, had IL
properly made and il was very pleas
ing to the taste
II have now used Il four months. and
my health Is so greatly improved that
l can eat almost ANYTHING | want and
can sleep well, whereas, before. l sur
fered for years with insomnia.
Il have found the cause OF my trou.
hles and a way to get rid Of them. You
can depend upon IL | appreciate Pos
tum." There's a Reason" Read The
Road to MELVILLE" in pkgs,