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Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-05-09
STATUE OF GENERAL HENRY w. LAWTON, STORM CENTER
OF MEMORIAL DAY CONTROVERSY.

VERY unfortunate disagreement involving President Roosevelt
= and the
awton monument commission has arisen the plan dedicate
Henry Indianapolis
the Filipino insuion killed Filipino
nia Dec 49, He had been soldier
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-05-09
AFTER OKLAHOMA SENATORS.

Washington.-"We are going to
make a fight to win everything in
sight in the coming election in the
new state of Oklahoma next August"
said Chairman Griggs, of the Demo-
cratic Congressional Committee, re-
Gently Our fight will be for the
legislative ticket, which will elect tyo
United States Senators, and for sNSa,
five members of the National HcN ;
of Representatives. We are assisS', J,
of three Democrats in that delega W
with two in doubt, and We Nc-t
them ALL"
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-05-09
A BAIT TO THE SOUTH.
(The New York Tribune.)

(The New York Tribune.)
Our neighbor, The New York Sun,
a day or two ago presented the Hon.
Charles A. Culberson, of Texas, as an
ideal Southern candidate. Mr.. Culber-
son has made a creditable record in
the United State Senate. He is intel
ligent, progressive and capable-on
the whole, as admirable a representa-
tive of the younger Southern genera
ton as can be found today in public
life. The South would do we'll to put
aside the tradition that it's own lead
ers should renounce all claims on the
presidency in favor of Northern Dem
ocrats. That idea is antiquated. Yet
the sentiment behind it is responsible
more than anything else for the
South's spiritless acquiescence in Mr..
Bryan's third candidacy.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-05-09
THE DRUG TRUST Willis.
(The Washington Herald.)

VThe washington HeraId.)
Hon. Joseph b. Healing, United
States district attorney of Indiana, has
about finished his work in the pro-
ceedings against the drug trust. The
trust apparently thinks discretion the
better part Of valor. and surrenders
to Uncle Sam, as represented by Mr..
Healing. In other words, it will go
out of the trust business and stay out.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-05-09

your service and a happy return, to
your family and your grateful coun-.
try! Farewell, my comrade!" y
Tears were in the voice of McKin-
ley as he finished and real tears stood
in the eyes of General Lawton. ST.
lently he took both the extended lands
hands of the president, pressed then
tenderly and left the car. The admir-
ing eyes of a score of great mei s0l-
lowed him with a wordless TIod
speed" s. w g
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-05-17
Pastor WardIaW Will Get to
Work to That End
CAMPAIGN WILL BEGIN AT ONCE
To Collect in the Promised Money
and Have Bishop Gambler Dedicate
Building Before the South
Georgia Conference
Meets in June.

"Yes, am going to have the Ameri-
Gus Methodist church building dedicat-
ed before 1 leave this city, if it is in
anywise possible"
This was the statement made to a
Times Recorder representative by Rev.
j. p. Wardlaw yesterday.
81 have worked zealously to that end
for four years, continued the minister.
81 have labored, in season and out OF
season, to leave the church free from
debt
81 regard this as one of greatest
works of my life. I will be a greatly
disappointed man if [ leave Americus,
at the end of my pastorate, without
having seen this building dedicated to
God, entirely free from Indebtedness OF
any sort"
"What is the financial status now?''
Mr.. Wardlaw was asked.
"When we made our grand rally for
funds we had about SO, 600 debt on the
building. Since then the collections
on the amounts subscribed at that
time have pulled it down to probably
81 900.
''This full amount hasbeen subscribed
but 1t remains to collect it in. [ shall
not cease working to that end and
expect to begin very active campaign
for that purpose later on.
"My pastOrate in Americus ends or
! November 27, when l attend the Soutf
Ga. conference at Brunswick. Before
then l want to get in the $1,000, pay
every cent of debt and have the church
dedicated. 1 want to carry the news
to the Conference that the Americu!
church, with one CT the finest edifice'
in the State, owes not a penny.
''Bishop Gambler has promised if W.
can get the debt settled to come anC
dedicate the church for us. | think W.
ctn get the promises paid up and hav,
the Bishop here before Conference 70
that purpose.
AS the Rev. j. p. Wardlaw is, t.
use a colloquial expression of the day
a "hustler, it is evident that Il ere will
be something dong" later on.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-05-17
READY NOW TO
CALL FOR BIDS
Plans for Y. M. 6. A. Build
ing Are Accepted.
BUILDING STARTS BY FIRST OF JULY
Association Will Be Organized and in
Possession of Beautiful and
Well Equipped Home By
Time Winter Rolls
Around.

The plans. for the Young Mems
Christian Association building for
Americus have been accepted by the
Directors of the Association.
A full description of the building
was given in the Times Recorder on
last Sunday.
1t is a structure that will be a
decided ornament to the city, one that
would be a credit to a city of 5000
people.
When erected and equipped it will
take rank among the finest associa-
ton buildings in the smaller cities of
the South.
Mess. John w. Shiver, w. p. Wallis,
and G. M. Eldridge have been ap-
pointed committee to advertise for
bids.
Thirty days will be allowed for this
purpose.
Bids should be in by June goth, and
probably by July the building will
have been contracted for and work
begun.
1t is hoped to have it completed be-
fore winter sets in.
In any event it looks like an assured
thing that when next Christmas rolls
around Americus will have Y. M.
G. A. thoroughly organized and pre-
pared for the great work before it.
1t is believed it will begin its career
with not less than $50 members.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-05-17
Could BE a Brilliant Success.
GOING FROMAMERICUS
TO Jamestown Exposition to Witness Festivities of
Georgia Day.

Americus will be largely represented
at the big Exposition on Georgia
Day" which is June 10th, as we'll as
during the first week of that month
when many Americus veterans attend
ing the Richmond reunion will go
thence to Norfolk. On Georgia Day"
there will be one of the largest naval
displays ever seen in American waters.
Outside of the foreign fleets which
will haye many representatives there,
eighteen United States battleships and
cruisers will assemble in Hampton
Roads in honor of the occasion and the
visit of President Roosevelt.
The naval display will surpass that
of the opening day of TIE exposition,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-05-17

Hundreds of MaCOnianS to ThrOng
Prospect Park.

Twenty-Five hundred Maconians will
come to Americus tomorrow upon the
annual excursion of the Central Rail
way employees. The special train OF
twenty coaches will arrive here about
10 o'clock, and will be met by com.
mittee of citizens and shown to Pros
pect Park, where the day will be spent.
Many Americus people are expecting
friends and relatives among the pic
nickers, and the occasion will be one
mutual pleasure and enjoyment.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-05-17
ALL ON COMMITTEES.
AmeriCuS Delegates On Prominent
Committees at Convention.

The delegates from Calvary Episco-
pal Church, Of Americus, to the Dio
ce,an Convention at Savannah, have
all been appointed to positions on
prominent committees. On four out Of
the ten committees announced by
Bishop Nelson are found the names OF
delegates from this city. They are
serving as follows:
Mr.. U. B. Harold, on Admission OF
Parishes.
Rev. James B. Lawrence, on Con-
stitutiOn and CanOns.
Mr.. John A. Cobb, on Corporation
Committee.
Mr.. G. M. Eldridge, on Finance
Committee.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-05-17

perhaps that of any occasion during
its existence.
Governor and Mrs. Terrell and the
Georgia party who will go to James
town for that day, will leave Atlanta
in special train on the Seaboard Air
Line at o'clock Saturday June 8.
This will give the party ample oppor-
tunity for rest in advance of the Geor-
gia day festivities on Monday. Re-
turning the special will leave James
town June IL, arriving in ATLANTA on
the 18th, though the tickets will be
good for longer stay if any of the
party do not desire to return at that
time.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-05-17
COMMON SENSE

Leads most intelligent people to use only
medicines of known composition. There
fore it is that DR.. Pierce's medicines, the
makers of which print every ingredient
entering into them upon the bottle wrap
pers and attest its correctness under oath,
are daily growing in favor. The COM
position of DR.. Pierce's medicines is open
to every body, DR.. Pierce being desirous
of having the search light of investiga-
tion turned fully upon his formula, being
confident that the better the composition
of these medicines is known the more
will their great curative merits be recog-
niZed. Being wholly made of the active
medicinal principles extracted from ma
tive forest roots, by exact processes
original with DIR. Pierce, and without the
use of a drop of alcohol triple-refned and
chemically pure glycerine being used in
stead in extracting and preserving the
curative virtues residing in the roots
employed, these medicines are entirely
free from the objection of doing harm
by creating an appetite for either al
coholic beverages or habit forming
drugs. Examine the formula on their
bottle wrappers-the same as sworn to by
DR.. Pierce, and you will find that his
UGolden Medical Discovery" the great
bloodpuriier, stomach tonic and bowel
regulator-the medicine which, while not
recommended to cure consumption in its
advanced stages mo medicine will do that
yet does cure all those catarrhal condi
tions of head and throat, weak stomach
torpid liver and bronchial troubles, weak
lungs and halg-on-coughs, which, if neg
lected or badly treated lead up to and
finally terminate in consumption.
Take the "Golden Medical Discovery
IN time and it is not likely to disappoint
you if only you give it thorough and
fGtr trial. Don't expect miracles. II
won't do supernatural things You must
exercise yotr patience and persevere in its
use for a reasonable length of time to get
its full benefits. The ingredients of which
DR.. Pierce's medicines are composed have
the unqualified endorsement of scores OF
medical leaders-better than any amount
Of lay, or non-professonal. testimonials
They are not given away to be exper:
mented with but are sold by all dealers II
medicines at reasonable prices.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-05-17
SKATING FREE FOR THE LADIES S
Manager WOOten Thus Tenders Them
the Rink.

The ladies, especially those learning
the art skatorial, will be pleased to
learn that Manager Wooten of the
Windsor rink tenders them the use of
it free every morning, provided they
use their own skates, or they can rent
skates at the rink for ten cents. The
Windsor rink is in prime condition
with it's splendid new maple floor, and
the ladies will readily take advantage
of this liberal offer.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-05-17
GRADUATION RECITAL
Interesting Program To Be Rendered
by Miss HARPER.

Miss Georgia Harper, who graduates
from the Americus School of Music,
after having completed it's course of
instruction on the piano, will give her
graduation recital at the studio of the
school on next Tuesday night. There
will be eight numbers on the program.
A large audience of Miss Harper s
friends is expected. Invitations will
be issued.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-05-17
SPECIAL SALE OF FINE uNENES.
Desirable Goods at Reduced Price
Today.

A special shipment of fine white
linenes, SO inch width and sold gem
orally at Is cts is 20 cts, will be offered
at Duncan's today only at 10 cents a
yard.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-05-17

Every lady should have a copy OF
the Argo Red Salmon Cook Book. 1t
tells you thirty-nine different ways of
preparing Salmon. Ask your grocer
for it.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-05-17

y There is nothing more dainty for a
picnic or luncheon than Argo Red Sal
mon sand iches or salad. The Cook
Book tells you how to prepare them.
Ask your grocer.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-05-17

The Foreign Mission Board is doing
mission work in China, Japan, Italy,
Mexico, Brazil and Argentine. A year
ago the board reported 189 missionaries
sent out, and 800 native helpers at
work; an annual increase in member
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-05-17

SIX Room House for rent, twenty
dollars per month, besides water rent.
See Thornton Wheatley. 5-11-tf
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-05-17
WILL ORGANIZE IN AMER|CUS
Citizens Demand Lower Insurance Rates and Will Sc
cure Them

! Shall Americus have home fire
insurance company?
That is the question that is very apt
to be put straight up to the business
men in the near future.
Since the discussion of the matter at
the meeting of the Board of Trade on
Tuesday night, there has been much
talk about the organization Of such a
company.
Two plans have been suggested:
One is the organization Of a purely
mutual company, based on the plan of
the Athens companies, probably the
best known of that class in this sec
ton Of the country.
a Stock Cooperative Company.
The other is the organization of a
stock company which shall be, at the
same time, to some extent a cooper
ative company, dividing its profits to
considerable extent with the patrons
of the company, those carrying in
surance with it.
The latter proposition seems to
meet with considerable favor.
1t is suggested that a company be
organized with capital stock of $780,
900, that being the smallest permis-
sible under the State law 1t is said.
This company could operate under
the plan somewhat like this:
Twenty five per cent of the net prof
it's to go to a reserve fund, to augment
the strength of the company.
Then ten per cent. dividend to be
paid to the stockholders.
The balance Of all earnings to be re-
turned to the insurers as a dividend to
them, reducing the cost of insurance
in prosperous years to a very consider
able degree.
Could BE a Brilliant Success.
Carefully managed, with its risks
scattered and no great risks taken on
any single building Or stock, and no
accumulation of risks in any one
small locality, there is hardly doubt
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-05-17

ship of 2,871, at an expense of about
$315, ,348.48. The year just closed they
have raised over $4OO, 900.
The Home Mission Board does work
in the Southern states, and Cuba, Pana-
ma. Much of this work is on the
frontier, IN large cities and among
foreigners and educational work in the
mountains.
A year ago the board reported $50
missionaries, 1896 baptisms and 12,-
ITS received by letter, making total
addition 27,614; churches constituted
302, houses of worship built and re-
paired POI, Sunday Schools organized
5t1, Bibles and testaments distributed
"a, 798, pages of ira cts distributed 2,217,-
2l6, at cost of $167, 1895, ,8S.
Sunday School, Work
The Sunday School board at Nash
vile, was organized fifteen years ago,
with no capital to work with. In its
fifteenth report last year it reported a
reserve fund of $50,OOO, a building fund
of 900 permanent Bible fund, 81 900
the Seminary guarantee fund 5000 aud
an annual business of SAG, 469.
Last year at Chattanooga there were
present at the convention ], ,451 messen-
gers. The secretaries are expecting
about 5000 messengers and visitors at
Richmond.
There were in the territory of the
convention in 1905, 1,899,4 ,427 white
Baptists. In other states, 1,O9O, JIG
white Baptists in the South, 1,941, ,653
colored Baptists. Total in United
States, 4,931,156 Baptists. In the
world 1922, ,142 Baptists, all of whom
have joined the church in profession
of faith.
In the United States Baptists re-
ported in 1905 contributions to Home
xpenses-$4, ,6O7, $50. To Missions,
$780, ,779. To other benev volence, $685.
500. Total, S6,O83 $3.50.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-05-17
object OF Me citing.

The convention meets for the pur-
pose of "electing, combining and di-
rectlng the energies" of the Baptists of
it's territory sin o1e sacred effort to
the propagation of the gospel along
missionary and educational lines. The
convention has no authority over the
churches, its powers being simply
advisory.
1t has a board of about twenty mem
bers on Foreign Missions located at
Richmond, together with a vice presi-
dent from each state represented in the
convention. 1t has similar board on
Home Missions located at Atlanta, and
also Sunday School board located at
Nashville, where the Sunday School
literature is'published.
The Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary of Louisville, which has an
enrolment this year of 294 students is
under the supervision of the conven-
tiOn
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-05-17
THE BAPTISTS AT RICHMOND
Interesting History of the Convention of this Great
Body.

Rev. r. L. Bivins. of the Furlow
Lawn Baptist church, will probably
favor the Times Recorder with a letter
or two from the Baptist cow ention at
Richmond, Va, which he is attending
in company with Rev. O. P. Gilbert, of
the First Baptist church. The con-
vention began its work yesterday.
In this connection a few facts about
the big convention, which was organ
lied at Augusta, Ga, in l845, will be
of especial interest to the Baptists of
Americus. 1t embraces all the South
ern states, including Oklahoma and the
District of Columbia.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-05-17

but that a company organized and
operated on such a plan would be
made brilliant and financial success.
There is ample money in Amer1cus
that is earning little or nothing.
There is plenty of ability among its
business men to handle suth a propo-
sition successfully.
Throdgh such medium there would
be some element of com pet ition intro
duced.
What is needed in Georgia, more
than anything else, is large number
of this class of insurance companies,
which could operate togeth er in pro-
tecting the state from extortionate in
surance charges.
If every small city in Georgia had
home insurance company, say twenty
to thirty in the entire State, they could
well protect themselves against fire
losses and secure for their people much
Home Companies Needed.
The great losses are in the large
cities. The small cities are footing the
bills. A campaign for home companies
is needed.
Americus might well take the lead.
If Americus, Albany, Cordele Val
dosta, Thomasville. Bainbridge, Rome
Waycross, Sparta, Eatonton, Dawson,
Cuthbert, Griffin, Milledgeville, Haw-
insville, Forsyth and other towns
with plenty of money and ability,
would each organize a home company,
an element of competition would be
introduced that would saYe each of
them many thousands of dollars
year in insurance expenses. and prove
highly profitable to the investors.
The risks of each company could be
SO scattered that the losses in a year
would be held down to minimum.
If something is not done along this
line Americus and other cities of 12,-
600 and under will haYe to submit to
an enormous burden such as they have
been carrying for years.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1907-11-16
ALEXANDRIA.
Deputy Sheriff Fined for Discharpinp
Pistol in Saloon.

Alexandria. La, Nov. 14.-Deput
Sheriff J. D. Gum. Of Tioga, Vas ar
rested yesterday on the charge o
+, having concealed weapons and dis
! charging a pistol in a saloon. n.
was fined 500 or thirty DAYS by thu
Recorder yesterday, and paid his fine
When Gums pistol was discharged
accidentally the bullet caused a
flesh wound near the left eye Of b.
Evans, from Houston, who was sit
ting nearby.
}. P. Roach is under arrest, chare-
ed by the clerk of the Rapides Hotel
with securing $40 from him under
false pretenses. o.
II. NJ. Rogers, of Poland, who came
10 town to attend a circus, was rob-
bed last night Of $3.50 in currency.
checks and notes while getting into
the Valley train to go home.
Hon. John D. Nix, Of New Or.
leans, !. 0. O. F. Grand Master paid
an Official visit to Phoenix Lodge No.
% here last night, and made a talk
on the good of the order.
The temperature was below the
freezing point here yesterday, and the
nrst ice and frost of the season was
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1907-11-16
CONVICTION.
Work Begins on St. Tammany and
New Orleans Electrie Line.

COvingtOn, La, Nov 18th
kindergarten School opened this fal
as an auxiliary to the public schOo
system of the town seems now to b.
on sure foundation and under tn
able management of Miss Ethel A
Decker, of New Orleans, an expert
enced kindergarten teacher, ably as
! sisted by Miss Seymoura MADDEN, o
his place, to be growing daily II
popular favor and usefulness. Tn,
school has just moved into comfor
table quarters in the heart of tn.
town. where the facilities for sue
;essfuI work are much greater than
those they formerly had. and where
he school is easily accessible tc
children from all parts of the town
The result of the six weeks work is
remarkable in many ways. In draw.
ing. paper quitting, clay modelling
and in the exercises of the senses the
advance is easily noticed as well as
in the fact that the attendance has
increased threefold, with a prospe It
Of still larger enrolment in the
hear future.
Work has been begun on the cleo
tric line of the ST. Tammany and
New Orleans Railway, which is 20
connect Covington and Abita Springs
with Vaudeville and thence by fast
boats with New Orleans. Preston
HerndOn, the engineer OF the road.
with two assistants, has begun clear
ing the right-of-way for the line at
POnchatoula Bayou, and from this
point, which is halfway between
and Vaudeville, work will
proceed in both directions. About
half-mile of the right-of-way has
been cleared. stumps blown ont and
the work Of grading has been begun.
No estimate has been made of the
lime 1t will take to finish this part |
'f the work, but it is safe to say that.
IS all the preliminary work has been
lone. the actual construction work
Will be finished in the time specified +
n the petition for special taxes
which were voted. -
The contractors for the new bank
'uiIding of the COvington Bank and
rust Company, which is to be erec-
ed at the corner Of Columbia and
BOSTON streets. began work yester-
ay. The lot is being cleared and |
renches opened for the laying of the
and material is being
ssembled upon the ground. When
ompIeted this will be one of the
andsomeset bank buildings of its
lie in the State.