Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-12-12
Americas, Ga, Dec. 18th, 1908.
WHAT TWO YEARS WILL BRING
FORTH

The office of a prophet is a de-
lightful one. All that is necessary,
if the prophecy is to be of an opti-
mistic nature, is to lie back, closeI
ones eyes, peer into the future, and
predict all sorts of bright things
Surely there could be no more pleas
ant avocation than that, nor any
more conducive to the spread of good
feeling.
The Times Recorder believes in
prophesying good things for Ameri-
Gus. 1t believes that ninety percent.
of such prophesies will come true,
and the failure of the other ten will
only be of a temporary nature, a sort
Of postponement of the realization of
the dreams.
Knowing this, we-are going to ven
ture into a prophesy of the next two
years and what they will do for Am
CIRCUS.
To begin with, the work of sidewalk
ing the city will be pushed vigorous
". By the close of 1911 there will
not be a sidewalk on prominent
street that is not strictly up to date.
Americas will have the honor then of
having the best system of sidewalks
in Georgia.
Then the highways In the bust
ness section there will be a fine sys-
TEN of paved streets. From the Cen
trail railroad depot up Cotton avenue
to Lamar, along Lamar to Lee, along
Lee to Forsyth, along Forsyth to Cot
ton avenue, and along Jackson from
Forsyth to Lamar-those blocks will
be improved and will give a tone to
the city that will be a tremendous fac
tor in stimulating other improvements
and in adding TO the sentiment OF
civic pride already strong here.
OF course the Federal government
building will be completed by that
time. Facing on Lamar street from
Lee to Windsor, it will make a mag
nlfcent Improvement. The old frame
buildings on Lee street will have
IL.
running south on Lee street from
Lamar has stated, we understand
that as soon as the government be-
gins work on the new public build
ing he will begin work on the re-
moyal of them and the erection il
their stead of a row of handsome two
or three story brick stores and Office
buildings. Then the other old rock
cry will come down and a fine bust
ness building will stand in its place
The business heart OF the city will
then wear a finished look. There
will practically be but one vacant lot
in the business section, that next tc
the Planters Bank, on Forsyth street
and who knows but that within the
next two years modern building Of
high grade will be built upon it also
The business section of Americas
with these and the minor improve
ments that are always under way
will, and we assert it without feal
of successful contradiction, be equa
to, if not superior to, the business
centre of any city of 10000 to $1,000
population anywhere in the United
States. Some of us really don't ap
preciate what a fine looking bust
ness part of the town we will hav,
when the streets are paved and thu
improvements referred to made.
There is really but one thing thai
Americas will then lack, and We ever
venture to prophesy that that Iacl
will have been removed before two
years have yassed. We refer to the
need of a fine new opera house. i
is unnecessary to knock the present
one. 1t has stood condemned in the
public opinion for many years as
away beneath what city of the size
and Importance of Americas should
have We want new theatre badly
we must have it, and we are prone
to believe it will be forthcoming.
Our people may feel little depress-
ed Just now, but the feeling will speed
lily give way to spirit of buoyancy
Inc next lNO years eAS AAhSAS " "
the most progressive that Americas
has had in twenty years. There is
every reason to believe that they
will be. The business section, we
know, will be vastly improved, and
in the residence section expanded by
the advantages that will ensue from
the construction of the street rail-
way. many new and attractive homes
will arise.
There is only one possible draw
back to our future continued expan-
sion. 1t is the absence of varied in
dustries. That is the thing we must
now grapple with. We must have
cotton mills and other manufactures.
May we not all hope that the next
two years will also bring some of
them?