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Dad Murphys Rrevity.

Old Dad Murphy, as he was affec- tionately known to the boys on the road, was a conductor on trunk line transporting large shipments of live stock from the west Dad had been in the service so long that the rules of railroading had become second nature to him, and the result of the superin- tendent's frequent orders to the train- men to answer with military brevity all questions and messages, especially those by telegraph, to relieve the bur den on the wires had reduced Dad to habltually short, concise replies, even to his conversation. On baking hot July day, when not breath of air was stirring and the sun beat on the car roofs till the pitch pulled the soles off the brakeman's shoes, Dad in looking over the train discovered that eight hogs had succumbed to the heat When passing the next telegraph sta ton he threw off q message to the su- perlntendent:
 Burhons, Sunlight hogs dead acct heat advise. MURPHY, No. IS. At the second telegraph office he re- ceived his answer:
 Murphy, Condr. 7e.-What is the present condition of the hogs? Ans. ok.
 CURTAINS. Dad grunted, shifted his quid of fine cut and wrote as follows:
 Burhans, Supt.-Hogs still dead
 MURPHY, 7S. Judges Library.
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While the New Haven boys have talk en no part in the social affairs of the class they have done more than their share in carrying off honors for high scholarships. The following is the list of men receiving either honors or hon. orable mentions:
 New Haven boys are unusually prom inent in the list of honors and prizes given in all three classes of the Shelf field Scientific school which were an- inounced yesterday, thirty out of about 100 names mentioned being students who belong in this city. The New 4Ha- ven winners follow:
 Glass of 1907: General two years fion- or; for excellence in all studies: Louis Beiman, civil engineering; Charles Eben Canada, electrical engineering; Lawrence Diley Mcsweeney, Frank Taylor Quinlan and Joseph Rosen- baum, mechanical engineering; Ralph Julian Marsh, chemistry; veoder New ton Leonard, biology; Clifford Joseph Mcrahan, chemistry.
 Recipients of the Sheffield scholar ship: Jacob Lewis Jacobs, Clifford Jo- seph Monahan and Joseph Rosenbaum.
 Prizes for excellence1 in mechanical engineering: Lawrence Riley McWee- ney.
 Honorable mention: For excellence in electrical engineering, Charles Eben Canada.
 Class of 1908: Honors for excellence in all studies of the junior year-Carryl Arthur Asher mining engineering; Clarence Halloway Cogswell (select); Constantine M, Constantine, chemistry; Morris selde True, chemistry; Herbert Hartley Gurst, chemistry; Nathaniel Heig, mining engineering; William Walter Taylor, mining engineering.
 Honors in special studies awarded to students not recipients of general hon. ors: George Franklin Atwater, in French; Edward F. Congdon, in Eng fish history and social sciences; Joseph Tllen PecR in French and German: Herman Lewis Wittstein, in German
 The Rogers scholarship for excel fence in their studies of the chemical course awarded to Herbert Hartley Gurst.
 The Penfleld prize, of excellence in numerology awarded to Nathaniel Heroz. with honorable mention to Will liam Walter Taylor.
 Class of 1909: For excellence in all the studies of freshman year. Robert Prince Winton.
 For excellence in mechanical drawing, Alfred Bryant seeley and Robert Prince Winton, honorable mention.
 For excellence in elementary Spanish, Nathaniel Herz 0S.
 Two years honors for excellence in all studies: Benjamin Rossiter Foote of Guilford, electrical, and Juen Ii Hsia, Hangchow, China, electrical engineer ing.
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COURIER JUNE a5 1907

played in the so-called minor sports Jol Dilworth and Rog filling have won applause on the hockey team Henry Yales wrestler won the inter collegiate championship, as a matter of course. Bashful Bug Naething splash ed about in the swimming tank during the coldest of weather, and developed into the president of the Intercollegi- ate Swimming association. Eddy But Ter, the university champion gymnast could be seen at any time hanging to the horizontal bar after the fashion of our ancestors.
 Frank Bennett, and Brooks Nichols burned midnight oil, and good cigars in the News office, but of course Benny Benet who has written nearly every thing worth hearing in these histories is our real literary light. Tn that quiet hour which hangs like a shroud about Shelf. Vanderbilt between the time that Fat" Ward, goes to bed. and Jessie Brownback and Walt Pinkus begin to come home, Bennie has often provoked the patient Muse. Need
 
 1907 s. in the realm of music Let me merely mention in passing round the bouquets that Bartholomew is the composer of Big Chief Eli" and that Kent Shaeffer has been known to publish few ragtimes in those rare moments in which he is not riding in his bubble" And lastly we proudly number as one of us, Buck Stuart the old song and dance artiste, king of the vaudeville stage, and the suc- cessor to Johnny George as president of the Chorus Girls union. And while we are discussing celebrities, la dies, let me call your attention to Johnny O'Toole Madden, voted the most attentive mart to the fair sex in our class.
 The winter dragged itself out and unlike the present year, spring came in its proper season, Johnny Madden, Gil Kinney and Charlie Chapin as three clever bali tossers as ever hailed from Erin's Emerald Isle, occupied positions on the Varsity ball team, which beat Harvard, although it was defeated by Princeton,
 In an athletic way the spring of 1906 was not as successful as the previ- ous year, but far be it from us to withhold credit on that account from those who gave Yale their best efforts. Jim Marshall repeated his performs ance of Freshman year winning the high jump in all the track meets and was elected captain at the end of the season.
 The still, small voice of Donnie Barkalow-he of the brief atomic weigth--was in the stern of the light cared shell, while Carl Schuneman and Stan Rockwell did more than half the work in the four pared crew which won from Harvard, hands down.
 The surveyors went once more afield to be burned by the rays of the sun, and to be sampled by the sharp tooth and not over particular mos quito, and Junior year whose happy memories will long dwell in our hearts, has passed never to return,
 The history of senior year was given by Charles Talbot Porter and was as follows: .J&
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ourselves where ere upon life's sea He sail. there shall come time when our hearts shall turn homeward and then proudly shall we hail thee Mother, Old Yale.
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SHEEP SENIOR
 GLASS EXERCISES The Leading Wits of the Class Make Fun of Their Fellow Class
 mates.
SENIOR YEAR HISTORY
 VERY INTERESTING
Johnny Madden, the Base. ball Star, Comes in for Some Good Natured
 Raillery.

The class of 1907S. held their class day exercises on the lawn in front of the Sheffield Biological laboratory yesterday morning. An amphitheater had been erected and occupying these circus-lke seats were "the proud rela- tives and loving sweethearts' of the hosts, as one class historian had it. At 10:O0 o'clock the reverend seniors marched in and took their seats In the middle of the amphitheater It cannot be said, however, that their conduct matched in dignity their academic cos- tune, The class pipe was passed around, lemonade was quaffed and the exercises were off.
 Johnny Madden, who because of his taking away with the fair sex, was especially elected the champion ship of the class-day committee, pre- sided. Down in front of the rostrum was the Second Regiment band under the bewitching eyes of the fairest of the fair, they played as they never have before or ever will again.
 The class histories were given by three members of the class day history committee and the delightful little hits at the various members convulsed with laughter the fellow classmates of the one discussed, while in the guest seats 1t was an easy matter to pick out the young ladies interested in the different seniors, there being a tittering maid here, or blushing damsel there, while the eccentricities and hobbies of their knight gallants were held up for their kindly diversion.
 The class day committee was com- posed of the following seniors; J, w. Madden, J. F. Cheney, H. J. Pettengill, G. N. Van Brunt and P. L. Veeder. While the class day history committee was composed of the following men: c. 1T Porter, second chairman; M. M. Bartholomew, j. A. Baker, G. H. Cong don and C. B. Stuart
 The history of freshman year given by M. M. Bartholomew was as fol- lows: Z
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-02-27
AND DEPOSITS OF S42O,OOO.OO
Stock in Is Years Has Paid for Itself
and Created Big Surplus Besides.
The Bank is Differed By Messers L. G.
and C. M. Council and R. J. Perry,
Whose Prominence and Achieve
ments in Financial Circles is
Distinct Compliment
to Americas.

For many years Americas has en-
.joyed banking facilities of a superior
character, her banks being strong,
numerous and liberal. The attractive
force of their financial responsibility
and conservative policy has done
much to make the city the growing
town it should be. 1t is in no sense
a boom town. They have done their
part well to make it's development
solid, to make it a good city to live
in, to thrive in; good for business,
good for investments
One among them which ranks not
only as one of the safest, but as one
of the strongest and most conserVa-
tive, playing most CONSPICUOUS and
a most important part in the white
hot conflicts that have proven neces-
sary in the great development that
has resulted is the Planters Bank.
The people have rewarded it's en-
terprise ana public spirit by giving
to it the largest depos is of any bank
south of Macon, and business suffi-
cient to enable it to create a large
surplus and pay regular annual divi-
dends of ten per cent. The stock
issued in 1892 when the bank was
organized has, besides paying this
dividend, paid $50 cents on every
dollar of itself This is a record of
which the Messrs. Council are just
ly proud, and one in which The
Times-Recorder takes pleasure in
felicitating them upon just at this
time. 1t is also just cause for which
the city and good county of Sumter
may well congratulate themselves,
showing as it does, the great ma
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-02-27
VAST ADVANTAGES TO ANrERICUs
Will Be the Third District AgricuI-

VIII BE the Third District AgricuI-
.tural School.
To her fine public school system
more than any other source, perhaps,
is credit due for the rapid increase
in Americas population and her
material growth, and the location of
the Third district agricultural col
lege here, thus extending her educa-
tional facilities, will induce many
families to come here to reside in
order to secure these exceptional
school advantages for their children
Already quite a number of people
have expressed such determination.
Among these is a large manufactur-
er, now residing in eastern Georgia,
and whose wealth is estimated at
near the quarter million mark, who
already has announced his determi-
nation of building. a splendid resi-
dence in Americas and making this
his home permanently when the ag
college is completed. This
splendid institution, in connection
with our admirable public school sys-
TEN, and proposed free kindergarten,
will induce many families to make
Americas their place of residence.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-02-27
OvP Kindred THOUSAND DOLLAR STRUCTURE BY
THF GOVERNMENT ALREADY ASSURED.
Railroad Projects not up IN Air but Construc-
ton Almost Certainty.
Business Enterprise and Push and Vim Of Americas People
Reflected fn the Many Notable Projects of Perma-
nent Character Set A-foot in the Last
Six Months.

The meeting was held at UnadiHa,
| and attended by delegations from
Americas and Hawkinsville.
Dirt has been broken for the
handsome twO-story brick building
which Mr.. NJ. S. Holiday will erect
upon his vacant property on Lamar
street, directly opposite The Wind
sor. The new building will have
frontage of probably forty feet
and adjoins the Holiday bookstore
on the east side. The building will
be completed as fast as possible, and
already is under lease to the Hamil-
ton Company for a number of years.
Just beyond this proposed building
the Allison Company is at work up
on a handsome and commodious
three-story brick structure, which
will be among the handsomest bust
ness buildings in Americus This,
together with the extensive additions
to the Rylander Shoe Co.'S. building,
and the paving of Lamar street at
the same time, lends an air of I'M
usual activity to that portion of the
city.
Nothing reflects more the pros
perity of the state than the array
of figures contained in the report of
Hon. Philip Cook, secretary of state,
issued a day or two ago. And in
this prosperity Americas shares with
the other cities where new banks
and railroads have been established
During 1906 thirty-seven railroad
lines were chartered, of which thirty
five were steam roads and two inter
urban electric lines.
Work has already commenced on
considerable number of them
These thirty-seven lines represent q
total mileage of 2,775 and a capital
stock of $9,710,000 The longest
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are made up of dark-colored goods, (,
yet it is seldom possible to get AM
emplOye who will give sufficient
study to the subject as to qualify
for producing the best and most
striking effects.
Those who have watched andV
studied the development of store dis
plays have not failed to note from
time to time~the changes in style of
the fixtures. A few years ago nickel
and brass fixtures of massive SHAPED
for windows were very popular, butt
the expense of such an outfit for thel
small retailer was almost prohibitive.
Various firms are now, however,
| offering a less expensive and quite
| simple and effective line of the mis-I
sion or 'weathered' oak variety
There is an air of simplicity and,
| solidity about the display they set
up which somehow suggests old
fashioned worth and honest wear in
connection Win up-tO-date goods
that never fail to prove effective and
make the stocks most attractive.
/ 'One of the newest display devices
installed in the South is our Hurd
garment cabinets, enabling us to
show 1900 garments in a 60foot
double-deck case to the best effect.
| These cases also enable us to carry
much larger stock than could be
carried on shelves or counters made
especially for them and likewise pro
tects the clothes from moths, dust,
heat, etc. "
Only the best of everything, equip
ped as no store south of Atlanta, the
Rylander Shoe Company will carry
in stock all the best there is
: in the clothing, shoe, hat and gents
furnishings lines. The Stein-Blocl
, clothing, the Manhattan shirt E.
w. collar, and the Stetson hat viii
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-02-27
The Windsor Hotel
Pride of Americas

Americas boasts of one of the
handsomest and most costly hotels
in Southern Georgia, with the ex-
ception of the DeSoto at Savannah
Erected in 1894, when the city num-
bered less than 5000 people, the
hotel was considered by those who
always prophesy on the wrong side
of every question too large for the
town, and the original promoters
were frankly told so. To this an en-
thusiastic Americusite replied that
when he was small his mother, who
made all his clothing, always cut
them too large, SO that he might
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PLANTERS BANK AND IT'S CAREER
ADVERTISEMENT FOR SUMTER

are wainscoated with Italian marble
The handsome burglar proof vaults
OF the Planters Bank are the finest
in the South. The ceiling is of en-
bossed work of light gray effect. The
second and third floors consist /of
offices, steam heated, electric lighted
and well ventilated, while the fourth
floor is occupied by prominent fra
ternal order
No more handsome and expensive
building in South Georgia outside
of Savannah. 1t rivals many of the
new buildings in Jacksonville in the
important matters of design, conven-
fence and comfortableness
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grow to them, and that Americas
would live to grow to the hotel in
time How we'll this prophesy has
been established the facts set forth
in this issue of the Times Recorder
family tell.
But it was the purpose of the
writer to speak of the present man
agement and the dining room SER
vice of the Windsor, rather than OF
the building and city in general.
Proprietor Wooten is a past mas
| ter in the rare art of acting hos
| His meals would make a sick mar
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hungry, and the neatness OF his
office, lobby and rooms-calls for the
unstinted praise of all But all this
would be worth but little without
the glad, hearty handshake, the out
ward expression of the inner-soul
which, belonging only to great and
noble natures; would make a poor
mans cottage -a@prince's palace.
Environed by every modern con
venience, housed and fed by every
luxury and comfort known to mod
ern hotel keeping, The Windsor
guests yet get the glad handshake
the come back again wink, the famil-
lar home treatment and courtesy
that, while it cost no money, is price
less in the eyes of men of true worth
and real affection. But, before /
forget When in Americas and you
want the best always stop at the
Windsor.
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Modern Advertising Ideas Which Are
Taking Proper Place in Americas viii
Be the Means Of ReVOlutiOnizing the
Methods Of Our Merchants in the
Future.
VALUE WINDOW DISPLAYS
Rylander Company Now Spending Over
$4,000 in Window, Show Case and
Interior Decorations and Displays.
Clothing Carrier Cabinets Something
New.

In the study of publicity from the
view point of the retailer there is
not quite so much of the element
Of mystery and magic as the aver
age merchant is likely to believe
While the problem, especially in the
smaller cities, is always with us and
the solution elusive, the study is
somewhat narrowed by the limita-
lions of the retail business, local
conditions and the sort of trade one
caters to.
Leaving aside the question of local
newspaper advertising, the use of
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line is $50 miles and the shortest

line is $50 miles and the shortest
two.
The largest capital stock is ST.
100000 and the smallest $4,000.
During the year 1906 Secretary
Cook issued charters to seventy new
banks. In 1905 eighty-fve new
banks were chartered with a total
capital of $2,475, 900, while in 1904
there were only thirty-nine, with a
total capitalization of $975,000.
Secretary Cook issued thirty-four
charters to insurance companies dur
ing 1906, most of them being or
ganized on the mutual or co-opera-
| tive plan without capital.
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MIN She Was Pleased.

Tess-Did Mr.. Borem ever call on
Won? Jess-Yes; he called last even
ing | was quite delighted when the
girl brought up his card. Tess-Oh,
come now. You weren't really dellght-
ed? Jess-Certainly. You see, if she
hadn't brought up his card might
have gone down to him, thinking 1t
was some one else.-Philadelphia Press.
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space for the more prominent display
of shoes, clothing, hats and gents
When the front-foot valuation of
the space occupied by the show
windows, showcases, garment cahl-
nets, etc., are considered it is per-
fectly apparent that the space saved
instead of being wasted by the use
of poor glass, bad lights, careless
methods in displaying goods Will more
than compensate the interprlslng
members of the company for the
great expense incurred in adopting
these improvements, which more
than almost anything else that has
taken place in Americas in the las
few years, serves to demonstrate the
culture and artistic influences a
work among our business men. i
marks a new era in the line Az
of retailing in small city and will
no doubt be fOnowed by other busl
ness men who have never been founC
slow in adopting any and all I'M
provements calculated to promote
trade, establish confidence and broad
en- the extent and scope of profita
BILE retailing.
MIR. Andrews Talks of the Improve
ments.
"A show-window," said Mr.. D. R
Andrews, manager of the company
is a joy to the merchant and the
pride OF a shopper, the result being
reflected in the cash-drawer the mo
ment the curtain goes up on Monda!
morning. In a street where hun
Hdreds of shoppers pass every day al
attractive, well-dressed window sellI
goods in marvellous fashion. 81
does an interior display.
"One of the great difficulties o
properly illustrating an article b.
such displays is the seeming impos
sibility to secure good trimmers
Some of the most attractive display
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be made leaders. The stock carried
now approximates $25, 200.
The firm, which was first estab-
lished in 1886, is composed of Arthur
Rylander president, and d. r. AM
drews, manager No firm in the city
has more friends or is more Tecid-
eddy deserving of the confidence and
patronage of the people.
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$500 49,
Am."nu=. HL ms moment SCdil ,
supou Oae threshold OF the greatest
Sera of prosperity mat she mas ever
sEnowu au. her ciuZehs, cohHdehC
sof her fUue are now WORKING To-
Ngptbar il thai. spirit OF harmony tnat
assurps her solid and substantial eX-
mansion
TpoH every side are evidences OF
material PROGRESS, while a vast vol
#ume of work is Yet to be done here.
A half million dollars will be put
g lin bricE .Hm"er ana mortar during
i the good year 1907. Even now the
work is under way and the success
I of other enterprises fully assured.
Public buildings and private;
stores and residences, railroads ana
power plant. paving ana oJhef I'M
sproyemeur= make up the magnificent
4 Dist that viii combine to make Amer
irus more than ever the electric city
hand proud 8p.taI of South Georgia.
The light of prosperity's dawn is
upon the good city, and her people,
ever alert. ala alive to the opportu-
nifty.
Among the institutions and enter
prises fully assured, the following
Iarp mentioned briefly:
The Government building, which
will cost, completed, $4,000 or
100000.
The hotel park property has been
accepted by Inc Treasury Department
Fat Washington as the site of the
Federal building to be erected in
Americus. aud IL is now confidently
expected that building operations
will be entered upon within the next
few weeks.
The Third district agricultural col
.lege upon which a start will be
made i'm two or three weeks, means
an investment OF at least $50, 900.
The contract for two buildings,
represeutlHg q cost of $4,000, was
let lDg pas. Neeh' Dut mere Is stlIl
a lolId od'--h'5-llle slrIs 9orIlllo-
anu 'g''.g. Jus ,r,3 ui itdIs ~
Oe 81 s',.l '-..,.' ms In Il9oli WI ~
''L'U. y ,-'. .''--' i'l 'oAeiio Vi al u
sans H. l-g' e.. 1905, ,,,
inc ufu r6st co. 60o ~
The handsome buildino of the
AmeriaDs V0rn@ Mems christian As
sociation means an outIav of sac -
Gao and This will soon he started
The Holiday buiIding costing
10000. The Pfrkston building cost
ing a large sum: three-story build
inc of rhp Allison Comnany. to saw
NOTHING of improvements costing
e. o0u rada Inv tho PvIandar Shoe
Co. are evidences of activity in the
business centre.
The old Cranberry corner and the
artesian corner buildings are to be
entirely modernized, and at consid-
cradle cost.
And ia the march of progress
AmerLcns is going to pave all her
business streets, the city spending
S+o,''4 THIS year IN street paving,