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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-05-13

Gov Smith in his Augusta speech
struck back at the newspapers His
argument was liars" It's a pity such
a handsome man should lose his tenn
per. And that too over a joke
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-05-13
c. P. PAYNE.

Next to having money, the most
important thing is how to take care
of it-how best to invest it.
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way-giving you abundant banking
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ance-bCt can also give you valuable
aid and advice about investments and
securities. Open an account with
the Bank of South Western Georgia's
Savings Department and enjoy the
advantages that accrue.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-05-13
KEEPING STEP

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is always up-to-date We make a
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rooms with the latest stationary de-
vices and new designs in closets.
tubs, etc, and our prices are always
fair
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-05-13

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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-05-13
- - l@ CURES
oe oe - BLOOD POISON
a SAFE HOME TREATMENT

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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-05-13

An interesting thing about girl
is not to be your sister-N. Y. Press.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-05-13
Hope Deferred.

Chicago Record-Herald)
Some of the gentlemen who thought
they were going to give Taft hard
run are already looking forward to
the possibility of renewing hope in
1912.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-05-13

No matter how beautiful mans
wife is he never wishes she was
two-faced.- Chicago News.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-05-13
The Tlmes-Recorder Is the

Official Organ of the City of Americas
Official Organ of Sumter County.
Official Organ of Webster County.
official Organ of Railroad Commits
sion of Georgia for the 3rd Congress
sional District.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-05-13

Mr.. Bryans name appeared in his
paper 243 times in two issues.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-05-13

The Americas Recorder, Established
1879.
The Americas Times, Established 1890
Consolidated April, 1891.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-05-13
Some where.

Chicago Record-Herald.)
A man may be absolutely impossi-
bic, but somewhere there is some wo-
man who doesn't think so.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-05-13

(st. Louis Globe Democracy
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-05-13

THOMAS GAMBLE, JR.,
Editor and Manager.
G. W. CORNFORTH,
Associate Editor and Assistant
Manager.
]. w. FURLOW, City Editor
". L. DUPREE,
Assistant Business Dept
Editorial Room Telephone 80.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-05-13

Entered at the postoffice at Ameri-
Gus as second-class mail matter.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-17
Wisconsin
State News
PosTMAsrERs GET RAISED.
NoAN~oNr

NInety-One Offices in Wisconsin to
Carry an Increased Salary.
Under the twenty-ffEh annual readiust-
ment of the salaries announced by the
Postmaster General, ninety-One Wisconsin
postmasters will get an increase of salary
during the coming fiscal year. In all 100
Wisconsin postmasters are affected by the
readjustment. The salaries of nine are
decreased 500 a year while two get in
creases of $500, ten get increases of 5000
and seventy-ive get increases of 500. The
reductions of 500 per annum are An
tigO, Delafeld, Florence, Juneau, Mari
nette, Menasha, Palmyra, WATERFOWL,
Wauwatosa. Increases of $500 per an
mum are: Clinton and North Milwaukee
Increases of 5000 per annum are Blanch-
ardville, CampbellspOrt, Cedarburg, Cud-
any, Kilbourn, Manawa, Marion, New
Holstein, OcOntO Falls, Plymouth. In
creases of 500 per annum are AbbotS-
ford, Algoma, Almond, Amery, Amherst,
Appleton, Argyle, Athens, Beaver Dam,
BelOit, Birnamwood, Black River Falls,
Blair, Brandon, Brillion, Bruce, Burling
ton, Cambridge Chiffon, Colby, Columbus,
Crandon Cuba, Delavan, Depere, Durand,
EOEJ L1JkIISOu. OUuIdIn lily,
Green Bay, Hartford, Hilbert, Horton
vile, lola, GAINESVILLE, Kenosha, Kewas-
KUN, Kewaunee, Maysville, Menomonee
Falls, Milton, Milton Junction, Mondovi,
Montello, Mukwonago, Nekoosa, New Lis
bon, New London, New Richmond, Ocon-
omowoc, Osceola, Oshkosh, Port Washing
ton, Prairie du Chen, Prairie du Sac,
Princeton, Racine, Randolph, Reedsburg,
Rice Lake, Richland Center, Ripon, Saw
yer, Shell Lake, ShuIlsburg, Sparta
Spooner, Spring Valley, Stevens Point
Sun Prairie, Two Rivers, WalwOrth
Waupaca, Waupun, Wautoma, Westfeld
West Salem, Whitehall. The postoffice at
Lake Nebagamon is reduced to a fourth
class Office and the postofice at Winnie
come is reduced from the fourth class to
a presidential Office.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-17
HOPELESS PROSPECT.
Washington Not "a Promising Place
for fundamentally Inclined.

Washington Not a Promising Place
for MatrimOniaIIy Inclined.
For women, our national capital
presents the most hopeless matrimo-
NAL prospect In the world 1t ought
to be a paradise for eligible bachelors
from the West, especially mining men
and cattle men in search of wives who
could gracefully spend their newly
made wealth. The departmental wom-
an clerk Is a most interesting study,
psychologically and matrimonially. She
is generally the support of one parent,
often of two, while few sisters and
bro theirs thrown in are not considered
boo liberal measure. She receives from
$1,000 to $500 per year and hangs
ever the desk-''All hope abandon We
who enter here" A departmental po-
sition is generally a grave Of romance
and matrimonial hopes. You have only
to watch he male clerks streaming out
from the various offices at 4 80 p. m.
to realize this. More blase men may
be seen In Is minutes pouring forth
from certain government buildings In
Washington than one could pass in a
days lounging along New York's RI
alto, which Is saying some. They OF
the government Offices are worse than
blase. They are ambitious and stated.
They see nothing in life beyond more
years at the same salary, on which
they could not support wife without
self-denial. They prefer loneliness and
license
On the other hand, the departments
are filed with pretty girls worth mar
rying, girls who manage to dress well
and still support more or less of a fam
lily because they are petticoated finan-
ciers and economists. Most of them
have moved their families to Washing
ton-and rent out rooms. In the sum-
mer they go on vacations, and some
times marry out-of-town men. These
girls are the envy Of the others who
happened to select the wrong place,
matrimonially, for vacation. The only
department men worth marrying in
Washington are those who work in the
Offices by day mad study law or medl-
cine by nigrr. and they are too busy
to think of marriage.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-17
CURING A TooTHAcHE.
Remedy of New Mexico Cowboy
that Proved Very Effective.

Remedy of "a New Mexico Cowboy
that Proved Very Effective.
One of the cleverest old customers
we ever knew was Judge Booth, who
lived on the Bell ranch along the Red
river in the northeastern part Of New
Elexico, says the Denver Field and
Farm. One morning out on the range
the judge rolled out Of his blankets
with a jumping toothache. and al
though he exhausted all the remedies
In camp, nothing had any effect.
1t was forty miles to the nearest
town, with the chances against finding
dentist there, and it was finally de-
cided to appeal to one Of the Texas
cowboys riding herd five miles away.
He came over in response to the mes
sage, and after taking a look at the
tooth, which was double one on the
upper Jaw, he said "Jedge, 1 can
shoot that tooth out as slick as grease
If you don't mind the scar it will leave
on your cheek"
"Shoot 1t out?" shouted the Judge
at the top Of his voice. "Why, man,
you must De crazy J!
"Wall, then, mebbe, l kin pick in
huff powder to blow it out" elbow 1t
out? Never!' might possibly ham
mer it out with piece Of iron," unused
the cowboy. "And you might go to
Patagonia and beyond!'' exclaimed the
indignant sufferer.
Eyes, that's generally the way with
folks. I'm only tellin' you how we do
1t out here, but If you don't want the
tooth out, Of course you'll have to
stand the pain"
The cowboy started back to the day
herd, but after gallop Of half a mile
he returned to beckon the other boys
aside and said: 'The jedge seems to
be purity squar' sort O. man, though
leetel techy, and I'm sorry fur him."
'Kin he sit on a hoss?" "Some of the
time" "Kin he shoot2" "Only now
and then" "Then 1 think 1 can cure
that toothache."
He spent five minutes unfolding the
plot and then went over to the suf-
ferer and said: "Jedge, I've come
back to say that We are a BOBBY and
coward" '''Nhat!', yelled the Judge
as he sprang up from his seat before
the campfire. "a BOBBY, a coward and
squaw, jedge, and likewise a burned
old liar!'
The judge jumped for him, but the
cowboy ran for his horse. There was
another near at hand with two guns
In the holsters Of the saddle, and the
Judge sprang aboard and gave chase.
Half mile out the prairie the two
men began to shoot at each other, and
it was not until the judge had fired
his twelfth bullet that the kind-hearted
cowboy rode away and left his enemy
to ride into camp and declare: "Well,
by thunder, if that internal toothache
hasn't stopped so dead still that I feel
Just like singingw
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-17

teen years ago in the State Of New
Jersey the proposition was put forth
that the State, from the general treas
ury, ought to pay a part Of the cost
OF building good roads-good roads
meaning those built with a stone or
gravel wearing surface, in substan-
tial, durable manner.
After q most bitter fight (and one
in which the farmers who at first led
the opposition to the movement sub
seQuently became the champions Of the
cause) the necessary law was passed,
whereby the State pays one-third the
cost of such hard roads as the local
authorities decide to build, and to
begin with appropriated $4,000 year
for that purpose. The movement grew
In favor so rapidly and the demand
for roads was SO great that the appro-
prIation was doubled, redoubled and
still increased until five times the
original amount was expended. The
fight which at first was against any
State appropriation, soon changed to
a demand for increased appropriations
for road building.
Connecticut and Massachusetts fol
lowed the lead OF New Jersey, the for
mer paying two-thirds and the latter
three-ouarters of the cost. Then came
New York with the Higbie-Armstrong
State Aid Law, under which an appro-
priatIon of $4,000 was made to begin
the campaign. Although at first 1t was
bitterly opposed, 1t soon became popu-
lar and the appropriation was doubled
and ouadrupled. The farmers who at
first opposed the scheme soon became
so clamorous for the new roads that
i've years ago che Legislature passed
a ioint resolution for a constitutional
amendment to provide FOR bond issue
Of fifty millions of dollars to be ex-
pended through State aid upon the
highways. The amendment was carried
by a large majority, making available
S5OOOO,OOO for State aid during the
succeeding ten years. What q record
Within FIVE years jumping from $50,
900 to S5O,OO0,000.
Pennsylvania began with an appro
prlation Of $4,000 for State aid. and
in three years 1t appropriated $4,000,
600 for that purpose.
Indiana has built the largest mum
Der OF miles Of hard roads Of any
State In the Unioni enough, In fact
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-17
AMONG OUR NEIGHBoRs.

Lawrence X rs, aged 9 years, a son
of Nicholas Kraus, was drowned in Ke-
nosha harbor. He was fishing and fell off
a dock.
The citizens of Gillette fought a des-
perate battle with fire which destroyed
the opera house and threatened the de-
struction of the entire village.
The Wisconsin and Northeastern Rail-
way Company is the name of the new
Poysippi corporation organized to build
eight miles of road from Red Granite to
that village.
Undermined by recent heavy rains, the
two-story brick store building of Alex
ander Deane in Eau Claire, collapsed.
The building is a total wreck and the
stock of furniture was destroyed. The
loss is $4,000.
With a premonition of approaching
death, Thomas Roddin, said to be
Brown county man, visited the Mayors
office in Manitowoc, made his will, and
was sent to the hospital, where he died
within five hours.
Through the efforts of Postmaster e.
w. Keyes of Madison the marine mail
service upon Lakes Mendoza and Monona,
which was tried as an experiment last
year. will be regularly installed for four
months each year hereafter.
All efforts to settle differences between
Kenosha property owners and A. G. Frost,
president of the Kenosha Electric Railway
Company and the Chicago and Milwaukee
Electric Railway Company have been in
vain and a resort to the courts is prom
ised.
Lightning entering the residence Of
Louis Rohloff, one mile east of New Lon
don during a storm, struck the bed on
which Mrs. Rohloff and her four children
were sitting and tore it to pieces without
injuring them. The bed was set on fire
and the house otherwise damaged.
The large brick store of Fred Camp
bell of Three Lakes was completely de-
stroyed by fire, believed to have been
caused by burglars. The loss is estimat-
ed at $4,000, there being an insurance Of
s., 900 on the building and stock. After
the fire, it was discovered that the safe
had be-" blown open
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-17
TAKES HIGH DIVE IN AUTO.

Chippewa Falls Man Goes Over EN-
Observation-Disclosures Unhurt.
Olaf Enger of Chippewa Falls had a
miraculous escape from death in going in
an automobile over a sixty-foOt embank-
ment into Duncan creek. He escaped
without bruises, although the machine
was badly damaged. He was going UP
hill when the machine became unmanage-
able and backed to the side of the road
over the embankment The fact that the
machine was going backwards kept En-
ger close to the cushions, and probably
saved his life The water in the creek
was eight feet deep.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-17
TENEMENT LAW KILLED.
Regulations for Buildings i'm Larger
Cities Declared Absurd.

Regulations for Buildings i'm Larger
Cities Declared Absurd.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has de-
clared the new tenement building law
passed by the State Legislature last year
unconstitutional, on the ground that it is
IAN unwarranted, absurd and unreason-
able interference with the dominion of
every proprietor in his own property"
The law attempted to regulate the con-
struction of all buildings to be used as
tenement houses. The court said that
it would make every habitation lodging
house in case the proprietor allowed per-
son who was not member Of his family
to sleep therein. The law was drafted
by Miss Odessa KunZ, assistant State fac
tory inspector, and created much discus
sion when pending before the Legislature.
John Bennett, a tenement house owner
of Milwaukee, refused to comply with the
law, and when the State prosecuted he
carried the case to the Supreme Court,
finally winning. Designed to prevent the
erection of insanitary and unhealthful
dwellings, in the closely settled districts of
Milwaukee and other large cities in the
State, the law prescribed with great par
ticularity just how tenement houses should
be constructed, how much air space should
be allowed for each person living therein,
how large stairways, areas and courts
should be and what materials should be
used and how much ground space should
be allowed. Justice Marshall, who wrote
the opinion of the Supreme Court, says
that the law in very many particulars is
simply ridiculous.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-17
Poor Highways Interfere with Reg
uIar Distribution of Food
Products.
WHAT SOME STATES ARE DOING
Agricu1turists Who First Opposed
Helpful Legislation Are Now
Its Best Friends.

One OF the most important and press
ing social and economic questions be-
fore the people to-day Is that of i'm
proving the highways. It's Importance
can hardly be overstated. The food
supply of the world passes on wagons
over country roads. In tonnage it
equals or exceeds the aggregate Of rail-
way traffic. The condition Of the pub
lie roads affects the market conditions,
and through these it reaches every citi-
zen. Bad roads interfere with the
regular distribution Of food products,
resulting in an erratic and inconstant
supply for fixed and regular demand.
The result is that some of the con-
sumers must go without certain arti-
cles for the time being, while others
are forced to pay higher prices there
for. The farmer in the meantime
suffers loss from his inability to reach
the market with what he has to sell.
The cost of delivering products over
bad roads is two or three times great
er than performing the same service
over good roads. The general i'm
provement of the highways Of the coun-
try is vastly more important to the
people as a whole than the building
Of the Panama Canal, the improvement
Of the inland waterways, the irrigation
OF the semi-arid lands, or the building
OF the Lakes-to- the-Gulf waterway.
What Some States Are Doing.
The equitable, rational and practic-
able plan for highway improvement In
America is OF recent birth. Some fif-
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-17
A war on BiIIbOards.

City Trustee Carragher, of Sacra.
mento, Cal, is making q fight against
bilIboards, says the Municipal Jour-
nal and Engineer. The matter Of the
excessive size Of these boards was
called to his attention by citizen who,
after erecting a little cottage on a
forty-foot front, found himself hedged
in on both sides by blllboards eighteen
feet high and extending along the
street 100 feet each way. Under the
city ordinance there seemed to be moth
Ing he could do, and therefore Trustee
Carragher thinks the law should be
changed SO as to limit the size Of bill
boards.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-17
BREAK TEETH IN CRASH.

Two Little Girls Collide and Serious
Iy Spoil Each Others Looks.
Edna, the 7-year-old daughter of J. L.
Campbell, agent for the Chicago, Mil
waukee and ST. Paul railroad in Fond du
Lac, is in a serious condition as the re-
suit of being the victim of curious acct
dent In company with several other
girls, Edna was playing, when she sue
denly collided with Celesta Baker. The
force with which the two little girls col
lided was so great that the Baker girls
teeth entered the forehead of Edna Camp
bell and were broken of. A dentist was
called to attend to the little Baker girl,
while a physician had to pry the teeth
out of Edna's head
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-17

to circle the globe at the equator, and
has done this principally by bond is
sues, spreading the cost over series
of years. While it does not have State
aid, the law permits in taxing for hard
roads, the including of cities up to
thirty thousand population. Bonds are
issued In Indiana at the rate of from
one to two millions of dollars per year.
Within the last few years 80 per cent
Of all highways have thus been I'M
proved, as against little over 8 per
cent for Illinois.
At the last session Of the Legislature
In Illinois a law was passed permitting
townships and road districts to issue
ten-year bonds, drawing not exceeding
3 per cent interest, for building hard
roads. This is the first practical step
in Illinois toward permanently solving
the bodybuilding problem.
Michigan has peculiar law where
by the State pays reward or bonus,
ranging from $3.50 up to $1,000 a mile
for good roads built, the amount being
graded according to the class OF the
road; a macadam road being regarded
as the best, draws the highest amount
At the last session of the Ohio Leg
islature a State Aid law was passed
and $4,000 was appropriated for hard
roads.
What Is a Good ROadf
The question, "What is good
road?" will be answered by different
individuals in the light of their expert
ence. The woman In Arkansas who
had been driving laboriously along
muddy bottomland road, said to her
companion, upon reaching 4 stretch of
corduroy road and beginning to bump
over the logs composing it, Gee, but
it's nice to get on a piece of good road.
1 don't see why they don't make more
on EN-"
In the light Of twentieth century re-
quirements, a good road must have
the following features:
1. 1t must be smooth and remain
so, imposing the least possible resist
ance to traffic.
2. The material composing 1t must
be lasting and not affected injuriously
by rain or frost.
g. 1t must be good and disable at all
times. A road that is good at certain
seasons only and bad at others in vary
ing degrees, depending upon weather
conditions, cannot be classed as good
road, even If it be so at times. Such
q road has only the virtues Of balky
horse; 1t cannot be depended upon and
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-17
FISHERMEN UNDER FIRE.

Shots Rattle About Isaac Walton
Disciples on Lake WinnebagO.
Neenah and Menasha disciples Of Isaac
Walton who go on Lake Winnebago to
fish will hereafter go on the lake armed.
Fishermen who were fishing on the lake
shore claim they were made targets by a
farmer who welded a rifle from sec
ond-story window of a nearby building.
No less than twenty shots were fired
and number of these struck the boats,
although none of the occupants was in
iured
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-17
ACCUSED BANKERS FREED.

Court Holds False Report to Comp
trOIIer No Crime.
Holding that the comptroller of the cur
rency is not a bank examiner and a false
report to him was not made with intent
to deceive, Judge A. l.. SanbOrn in the
United States District Court in Eau
Claire quashed an indictment pending
since 1905 against John A. Corbett, G. e..
Herman, and LIE Roy McGill, accused of
making a false report to the comptroller
of the currency in connection with the
failure of the First National bank of
Iadysmith
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-17
ROadbed Plan.

David N. Long, Of Waynesboro, Pa,
has patented a plan for a roadway,
consisting Of paving blocks set at an
angle in the wheel tracks, so as to form
projections to engage the wheels and
draw them on to the tracks. From
time to time these blocks are re-en.
forced by others Of peculiar shape to
hold them in place.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-17
CHANCE UNITEs BROTHERS.

Meet, After Thirty-Seven Years, ON
Way to Sisters Funeral.
G. II. Baker of Iuka, Neb., and J. w.
Baker of Council Bluffs, Iowa., brothers,
met at the railway station in Eau Claire,
to attend their sisters funeral. They
had not seen each other for thirty-seven
years and each was ignorant of the others
whereabouts Their identity was discov-
cred when one asked the other to tell
him the time of day.