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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-08-22
FIRFLfSS COOKERY
HAS ADVANTAGES
Details of Plan Which
Works Well.

NEW YORK, Aug. 21.-(SpeciaD =
The "fireless stove" made and sold
by stores at fancy prices, has arous-
ed some interest among housewives,
but has not come into general use. On
the other hand home made fireless
cookers, costing nothing but little
labor, have been found by many wo-
men to be real savers of valuable
time and fuel The economy and con-
venience of the fireless cooker is I'M
questioned, according to the expert
ence of a Jersey housewife who made
one of material she found ready at
hand
The Jersey woman first heard of
the fireless cooker in an article in a
pure food publication in which an old
trunk was suggested as a good thing
to use for fireless cookery. The Jer-
sey housewife studied the suggestion
and then not having any old trunk to
spare, made one of the cookers out of
an old soap box about 212 feet long,
10 inches wide, and IA inches deep.
First she lined the box with oil cloth
to keep the heat from escaping and
then made a tight fitting top, which
she fastened with small hinges. A
pad stuffed with hay and made just
big enough to fit the box comfortably
was then made The box was covered
with cloth for the sake of neatness.
Next a quantity of loose hay was OBJ
tanned and the fireless cooker was
ready for use.
Fireless cooking to the uninitiated
means the. cooking in a confined
space which will not allow heat to
to escape of any food that has already
been partly cooked, the heat already
in water and food being depended on
to complete the operation. The first
attempt of the Jersey housewife with
her freless cooking was in preparing
rice for the table. Ordinarily, t.
boil rice requires an hour and a half
of hard boiling. In this instance the
rice placed in water in an ordinary
enamelware pot with a cover was
brought to boil on the gas stove and
allowed to boil for fifteen minutes
The tight cover was then put on the
pot, the pot placed in the cooker, and
the hay pressed well around it. The
hay pad was then put over the whole
and the cover shut down and held
tightly in place with a fatiron or
two
This was at p m. The next morn
ing when the 1dulIiy Was I6duy lOI
breakfast the fireless cooker was
ready for breakfast and contents
were piping hot all the water had
been absorbed by the rice in the cook
ing process, and when served hot for
breakfast the rice by unanimous vote
of those who ate it, was declared to
be better cooked than any rice that
had been served in that house
hold The marvel seemed to be that
the heat had been retained all night.
Subsequently potatoes and meats
which had been partly boiled on the
gas stove for ten to twenty minutes
were cooked to perfection in the fire
less stove. 1t was found, for instance.
that if the housewife intended hav-
ing New England boiled dinner she
could put the dinner, partly cooked
on the gas stove, into the fireless
cooker at 2:30 or o'clock in the
afternoon and then go shopping or
make call and come home at $3.50
and have nothing to do in preparing
the meal save to make tea or coffee
set the table, and take the dinner, hot,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-08-22
500 Reward, 500.

The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at
least one dreaded disease that science
has been able to cure in all it's
stages, and that is Catarrh.
Halls Catarrh Cure is the
only positive ucre now known to
the medical fraternity. Catarrh be-
ing a constitutional disease, requires
a constitutional treatment Halls
Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act
ing directly upon he blood and mu-
cous surfaces of the system, thereby
destroying the foundation of the di-
sease, and giving the patient strength
by building up the constitution and
assisting nature in doing it's work.
The proprietors have so much faith
in it's curative powers that they Of
fer One Hundred Dollars for any case
that it fails to cure. Send for list of
testimonials. Address
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, Use.
Take Halls Family Pills for consti-
patton.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-08-22
CHEAPER MEATS
ARE NUTRITIOUS
Packers Will Undertake
Campaign of Education.

South Omaha, Neb., August I'll
(SpeciaD Every person in the en-
tire country is interested in the price
of meats, and will therefore be also
interested in a movement which the
great Western packers are preparing
to undertake, with the object of
teaching the American public that
other portions of beef than the very
highest price cuts are equally as
nutritious, and when properly cook
ed are equally as palatable as the
more costly cuts. The ultimate end
of the lesson, when learned, will be
the cheapening of prices on all grades
Of meats, especially in those cuts
which now are nsuch demand by the
American people. In short, the Wes-
tern packers are preparing cam
paign to teach the public to buy and
eat the whole beef, and not just
few choice cuts of the meat, from
the sale of which the butchers claim
they must secure the cost of the en-
tire carcass, because of their inabili-
ty to sell the cheap cuts which re-
main. This campaign is to be car
ried on through the retail meat deal
ers of the country, who will be coach
ed on the subject so thoroughly that
they will be competent to teach their
customers, and it is through these re-
tail dealers that the packers expect
to lay their plan before the public
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-08-22
LIQUIDATION SALE.

In compliance with the direction
of the stockholders to liquidate the
business of the company, on the 9th
of August, 1908, we will sell to the
highest CASH bidder the following
property, viz:
The entire stock of merchandise,
furniture and fixtures, consisting of
drugs, medicines, chemicals, drug
sundries, soda water outfit, real es-
tate, lease, books and ACCOUNTS,
known and owned by the Davenport
Drug Co., of Americas, Ga.
All sales on and after the 18th
of August will be for cash, and the
amounts together with the purchase
money will be equitably applied to
the debts of the company.
All bids for the stock must be
made in writing on or before the
date of sale.
Store and stock open for inspec-
ton and full inventories of merchan-
disc and Indebtedness, furnished to
any prospective purchaser upon APP
plication to
r. ]. PERRY,
W. B. WORTHY,
d. F. DAVENPORT,
Authorized Selling Committee.
August 18th, 1908.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-08-22
Demand Is for Best Cuts

The packers say that one of the
chief reasons that beef is not cheaper
in America is that the American peo-
pie demand all the best cuts, leaving
. much of the so-caIled inferior
grades on the hands of the packers
that they are forced to keep the
price Of the cuts up, in order to come
clear, but that if the sales of the
chaper grades were increased, the
prices of all would drop materially,
and the cry of high prices" on meats
would disappear altogether.
One Of the arguments which the
packers will use will be from the
year book of the United States De-
partment of Agriculture, written by
George K Holmes, chief of the Bu-
reau of Statistics. In the book Mr.
Holmes tells of the peculiarities of
the ordinary consumer in his system
and among other things, he points
out the mistake made by people of
limited means in always selecting the
choice or most expensive cuts of
meats when many of the unsought
cheaper portions Of the animal are
equally or even more nutritious.
Poor Cooking Responsible
One Of Mr. Holmes comments is as
follows
Although epicureans admit and
chemists demonstrate that the neck
piece is toOthsome and nutritious, it
bears the lowest price In fact, it
would hardly be considered respect
able to ask the butcher for a piece
Of the neck Perhaps a low order
of proficiency in the housewives cook
ing in the past gave to the mech
piece it's low place. The story might
have been different had the cook
known how to utilize the meats in
the making of attractive and deli
cious dishes. The point of the argu-
ment is that cheap cuts of a good
carcass are as good as expensive
pieces when judiciously selected and
properly cooked.
American butchers complain that
the average housewife has little know
ledge of the art of cooking She
does not know how to make a tasty
dish Of the cheap grades of meat She
therefore buys the best steaks, slaps
them on the frying pan and places
them on the table when she thinks
they are properly cooked. On the
other side Of the Atlantic the cuts
are placed on a more equal footing,
the demand for the different cuts
being more general.
Another government expert as
serts that a chuck steak after equal
ly careful cooking, compares favor
ably with a round or sirloin steak
from the same carcass.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-08-22
The Circular Skirt.

Now that the circular skirt is so
much in vogue, it might be well to
caution amateur dressmakers not to
attempt this style with thin wash
goods If so tried, the result will be
an utter failure after the first wash
ing, because the extremely slipping
seams of the new model make it
impossible for such skirt to be
ironed and retain its perfect shape,
unless the fabric is quite heavy.
There is however, very good
hanging skirt pattern that becomes
quite circular by means of gore
seams that will be perfectly satisfac-
tory fashioned from any of the sum-
mer goods.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-08-22
APPLICATION FOR CHARTER

GEORGIA-Sumter County:
10 the Superior Court of Said County:
The petition of B. J. &c E. e. Ranew
and }, l.. Amason shows unto the
court the following facts
FIRST
That they desire for themselves and
associates to be Incorporated under
the name and style of the Ranew
Mercantile Company, with it's princi-
pal office in the town of Leslie, said
State and County, for a term of 20
years, with usual privilege of re-
neWal.
SECOND
That the capital stock of said cor
poration shall be Fifteen Hundred
Dollars, divided into shares of One
Hundred Dollars each, all of which
has been subscribed and paid in, and
they ask the privilege of increasing
the capital stock to any amount not
exceeding Ten Thousand Dollars.
THIRD.
That the purpose of said corporation
is pecunfary gain; and the business
IN which said corporation desires to
engage IN, is that of general mer-
chandlse; buying and selling of dry
goods, notions, shoes, hats and groc-
CiACo, ctuu oil OIu6F ARTICLES J0dC Iney
may deem advisable in connection with
it's said business
FOURTH
That they desire the right to sue
and be sued, to plead and be inn
pleaded, loan and borrow money, take
| and give liens and security therefor,
to own and sell real estate, to have
and use common seal, and generally
to do all things necessary to carry
on its said business.
Wherefore they pray that they may
be incorporated and made a body
corporate, with all the rights, powers
and privileges authorized by law for
such corporations, in addition to
those rights and privileges specialI,
enumerated herein.
MAYNARD e HOOPER,
Petitioners Attorneys.
Filed in office July 31st, 1908.
S. R. HEYS Deputy Clerk, S. C.
GEORGIA-Sumter County:
|, H. E. Allen, Clerk of the Super
Tor Court, of said State and County,
do certify that the above is true
and correct copy of the petition this
day filed in my office.
This the 31st day of July, 1908.
S. R. HEYS, Deputy Clerk
8-1-4t-d
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-08-22
"DRY" STATE MAY
GO DRY AGAIN
Iowa Both FOrbidS and Per-
mits Liquor Selling.

New York, Aug. 21.-(SpeciaD -
Iowa canted, decanted and recanted'
is the way the working of prohibition
in that State is summed up in Apple
tons magazine for September by
Trumbull White, who has observed
the working of the Iowa anti-liquor
law for the past twenty years. Ac-
cording to his conclusions the situa-
ton in regard to liquor selling in
Iowa is much like that in reference to
race-track gambling in New York be-
fore Governor Hughes forced the
anti-gambling act through the Legis-
lature That is to say the selling Of
liquor is forbidden by the law of the
State, but is permitted by another law
through the device of imposing fine
which amounts to no more than a IL
cense fee.
This measure, which is known in
Iowa as the mulct law, provides for
the virtual suspension of the prohibit
tory statutes if the written consent of
a majority of the legal voters in a
city or 65 per cent. of the voters of a
county is obtained. When this is
done licenses may be issued by the
local authorities, the state license fee
being 5000, while the cities may
charge additionally whatever they
choose.
Under this system about one-fourth
of the counties of Iowa, including
most of the counties along the Miss
issippi and Missouri rivers in which
the majority of the cities of the State
are located, have legalized liquor sell
ing. 1t is, therefore, erroneous to
speak of Iowa as prohibition State
for a large proportion of the popula-
ton lives in communities where sa-
looms are allowed to run openly and
legally, although the prohibition laws
passed twenty-five years ago never
have been repealed, and in some of
the rural counties are still enforC cd
An organized movement is now un-
der way, according to the Appleton
article to submit a constitutional
amendment providing for prohibition
to the voters of Iowa. Prohibition
lists themselves declare that if this is
done the amendment will be carried
by from thirty to fifty thousand ma
jOrity. On the other hand those who
are opposed to prohibition insist that
public sentiment against prohibitOry
law has been growing ever since the
present law was passed, and that a
vote of the State would cause it to
return to the license system.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-08-22
WAITER SAID TO HAVE
REFUSED A Tip"
And Walking Delegate
Threatens Strike.

New York, Aug. -(SpeciaD =
Because Honus Muller, waiter at
the Pavilion in East Eighty-fourth
street, overlooking East River, refus>
ed to take tip, Walking Delegate M.
]. Murphy of the Walters Union,
threatens to call a strike of all the
other walters there unless Muller
| is forthwith discharged.
Muller had politely declined the
proffer of 81 on Saturday night,
causing the customer to pinch him
self to find out if he was awake or
dreaming. But nothing more serious
happened. save the sudden and still
unexplained disappearance of the
dollar from the table where the
customer and the waiter left it,, I'M
| til yesterday when in walked Mr..
Murphy.
Stefan Ellis, chief dispenser OF
LIQUID refreshments at the Pavilion,
| noted the newcomer, but had no
| idea of the Importance of the visitor
until explanations had been made.
Where is that Honus Muller?' ask
ed Murphy Il understand he refused
a tip. | am NJ. ]. Murphy, Walking
Delegate of the Walters Union.
must see him Immediately" Muller
| was called.
What do you mean by not taxing
| the tip?" queried Murphy.
| Muller explained that he didn't need
| the money, and was paid by the
Pavilion Company for his services.
Not take tip! Don't you know
| vou'U break up the walters business
| and take bread from the mouths OF
| children? If you are not discharged
at once, I'll call a strike of every
waiter in. the blooming place
Murphy then left. Muller said
| last night that he would hold his job
as long as his employer would let
him. but that if he was discharged he
| intended to go back to his home in
| Dresden.
Il did refuse a tip on Saturday
| night A couple came in, ordered
drinks and dinner, the bill amounting
to S1OO5,', he said. con leaving, the
man offered me ST. l thanked him
told him | never took tips, and the
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-08-22
FOR SALE.

One brick plant 40 to so thousand
capacity, equipped with new machin-
cry, facilities for loading and shipping
can't be excelIed. This plants ter
ritOry covers a radius of one hun
dred or more miles in each direction
and has been operated successfully
for seventeen years, and has never
failed to show good yearly profit.
The trade regards brick from this
plant to be best on the market, for
the past two years it has been I'M
possible to supply the demand for
products of this plant. This plant is
now capable of earning easily 90 per
cent net, present owner too old to
operate plant. viii exchange for de-
sirabIe city or farm property, or sell
for cash easy terms, and take one
half of cost price in brick. VIII lend
purchaser each year enough to run
plant at a reasonable rate Of interest
if desired. Call on or write
w. l.. ENGLISH.
COLIN Americas, Ga.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-08-22

steaming, and we'll cooked, from the
flreless cooker and put it on the
table for serving, cooked to a turn.
1t was found by experiments that
there is scarcely any food, save roasts.
bread, cake, and pie, that cannot
be cooked in the fireless cooker It's
continued use opens up more and
more means of economizing time and
saving gas, while in the summer the
doing away with the heat is an i'm
pOrtant factor.
The proof of the economy of the
cooker in the Jersey housewives case
was furnished when the months gas
Dill came in. 1t was 1910 less than
the previous month.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-08-22
FOR SALE.

200 acres level land. Rents bales
cotton. Price $1,000 acre.
4-room house, with garden. $1,000.
Rent, $12G.
5-room house, in good condition
$4,000.
7-room house, close in, $1,750.00
Rent 10000. This is safe invest
ment, or pleasant home.
100 acres, 8 miles of R. R. SS50.00.
200 acres, half mile of r. r. station.
Groom house, near church and
schools, red land.
265 acres, one mile of r. r. station.
4-room house, and two tenant houses,
running water healthy and pure
drinking water.
Real estate is the safest Of all in
yeStmentS.
If you are looking for an invest
ment or home come to see me.
p. 3. WILLIFORD.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-08-22
A Certain Cure for ASKING Feet

Aliens Foot-Ease, powder; cures
Tired, Aching, Sweating, Swollen feet
Sample sent FREE, also sample OF
Foot-Ease Sanitary Corn-Pad, a new
invention. Address, Allen o. Olnnsted
Leroy, N. Y. 1922.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-08-22
Here is Relief for Women

If you have pains in the back, uni
nary, bladder or kidney trouble, and
want a certain, pleasant herb cure
for woman's ills, try Mother Gray's
Australian-Leaf 1t is a safe and
ueVerfailing regulator. At Drug
dists or by mail so cents. Sample
package FREE. Address The Mother
Gray Co, Leroy, N. Y. 1922
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-08-22

company paid me we'll The man put
the dollar down and went out
| thought | heard a scramble when
my back was turned.
What action the Pavilion manage
ment will take was not announced.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-08-22
The Strong Store
Repair Co.

Repairs all kinds of stoves and
ranges. Will make your old stoves
or ranges like new, no matter how
burnt outor broken. We keep on hand a
nice line of second hand stoves and
ranges to exchange or Sell viii let
you use one while we repair yours.
We do god work and will give good
references.
Shop corner Lee and Lamar streets,
Americas, Ga.
Calls left at Phone 10 will receive
prompt attention. We buy old stoves.
Mordecai Strong, Mgr.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-08-22

This statement proves conclusively
two facts; that the money furry of
year ago is ancient history; that AM
CIRCUS business houses rank "a 1" in
the financial world.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-08-22

1t is a fact, Pearline, that the doors
of the Y. M. c. A. were opened yes
terday, but it was only by the janitor
who went in after his old derby
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-08-22

The old library building, as stated,
is to be removed to the Presbyterian
church lot nearly and converted into
a Sunday school annex
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-08-22

The city council some time since
ordered the laying of tile walks on
Taylor and Forest streets, but the
work has not been started
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-08-22

Messrs. j. E. Mathis and Lee Allen
are the two additional members chos-
en- to represent the city council on the
Carnegie Library board.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-08-22
TALES OF THE TOWN
TOLD IN FEW LINES
Pencil Stubs Picked Up AT
Random.

Yesterday was payday at the Sea-
board shops here, and while the force
is not large, considerable coin was
thus circulated.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-08-22

The Americas public schools will
open for the fall term on Sept. %, and
the rush for seats at this term is
going to be the greatest ever.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-08-22

A business house that is volntar-
lily rendered $4,000 in day.. and
politely declined it, has first rate
standing in the financial world
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-08-22

A we'll pleased audience saw the
moving pictures last evening The
scenes are fine and we'll presented, and
will be shown again today.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-08-22

Residents of Hill and Barlow streets
are delighted at the action of City
Council in ordering sewerage on
those streets, after many years.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-08-22

1t is expected that a start will be
made very shortly upon that big
creamery for Americas, the stock of
which has already been subscribed
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-08-22

small slice of that two million
dollars which the Seaboard is going
to blow in improvements might we'll
be expended in Americas.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-08-22

We say just as disagreeable things
about other people as they say about
us-but of course that's different
Chicago News.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-08-22

There is much speculation as to
who will purchase the Windsor Ho-
tel. 1t is one of the finest properties
in south Georgia, and pays we'll
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-08-22

Americas is in for a trade carnival
today. Cotton money is circulating
now, and with cash in his pocket Mr..
Farmer will get busy.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-08-22

Recent rains have been very gem
eral here. Farmers in the city yes
terday from Smithville to the line of
Schley reported good rains.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-08-22

Hundreds of cotton bales were
marketed in Americas yesterday, and
the sale of the staple, even around
8 IA cents, made business better.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-08-22

Sweltering Americas halls with de-
light the refreshing showers, as it
saves the cost of putting new roofs
on exploded thermometers.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-08-22

Americas will see no more torrid
weather like that of the past week.
Snow is yet some time in the future,
but it is going to be cooler now.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-08-22

of kidney disease.
While kidney dis
order are the
most common
diseases that pre-
vail, they are
almost the last
recognized by
patient and ply
sicians, aohO con-
tent them $ elUeS
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-08-22
Rheumatism Cured in a Day

DR.. Detchon's Relief for Rheuma-
tism and Neuralgia radically cures in
1 TO days. It's action upon the sys-
tenn is remarkable and mysterious.
1t removes at once the cause
and the disease imme-
diately disappears. The first dose
greatly benefits 75c and 81. Sold by
Eldridge Drug Co. Sats