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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-09-03
ASKS COUNCIL
TO INVESTIGATE
Resolution Adopted by
Board Trade Last Night.

About fifty of the citizens of Amer
icus attended the meeting last night,
President Lee Allen in the chair.
The object of the meeting was
stated to be the further consideration
of the status of the Dodson contract
and the taking of action relative there
to if those present deemed such a
course advisable.
A discussion lasting over an hour
and half followed during which Mr..
Dodson reiterated the statement made
in the Times-Recorder yesterday, and
gave further information as to the
plans of the company. The contract
he positively stated would be carried
out in every detail All that was de-
sired was an extension of a few
months time. which would be required
for the construction work
Considerable interest was displayed
and several expressed their views. A
more detailed report will be published
tomorrow
The following resolution was finally
presented by Hollis Fort, Esq, and
seconded by Prof Mathis:
Whereas, There have been several
call meetings of the Board of Trade to
discuss the Dodson contract, there
fore be it
Resolved, That we recommend
that the Mayor and City Council take
some immediate action and investi-
gate and cure, if necessary, what seem
to be the following defects: The ex-
tension of time, the reduction of the
price of gas, suitable bond
This was seconded by Prof Mathis
Mr.. Mitchell introduced an amend
ment postponing action on the reso-
luton until next Tuesday night, which
was seconded by Mr.. Frank Sheffield
The vote was 10 to against the am
endment Then the original resolu-
ton was put upon it's passage and
adopted by viva voce vote.
The meeting then adjourned.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-09-03
CRAPPER is FIFTY OUT
AS PRICE OF GAME
Member of Bunch Caught in
Hotel Pays.

It costs fifty dollars, minimum price
to shoot craps in Americus, and the
range of prices runs higher. That was
the figure assessed yesterday by
Judge Crisp when one member of
the bunch pulled at the Windsor Ho-
tel the night before entered plea
of guilty to the charge of gaming.
The other tw omembers of the pre-
cious gang are out on bonds of $125
each, not yet having taken the medi-
cine that awaits them AS told ~
the Recorder yesterday, the
trio were caught by a policeman in
one of the bedrooms of the hotel,
where the game had just started No
other room was investigated by the
officer, report having cen made on
ly of this one where the @crappers'
were crapping.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-09-03
PIANOS, PIANOS, PIANOS!

L. D. Lockhart invites prospective
buyers to call at his salesrooms and
inspect few samples of high grade
pianos made up especially for the
best trade. No reason why you
shouldn't own fine up-to-date piano
when | am offering them at New York
prices. Liberal terms extended if de-
sired You will find in my salesroom
pianos that contain the ''Wessel, Nick
el and Gross Actions" (the standard
of the world Buy piano that con-
tain this Action and you have bought
a good instrument A reasonable
price for excellent goods is valuable
aid to the dealer in selling his instru-
ments and that is why | have made a
success in my line of business. A
standard of excellence is sure to win
the respect and confidence of the
piano purchasing public and the fact
that the majority of prospective buy
ers are educated to look for this STAN
dard in pianos they purchase, should
be an incentive to the dealer to sell
such instruments as will meet the
most critical expert musician. | have
recently secured the exclusive sale Of
my old fayorite, the Celebrated Soh-
mer Pianos Call and price them be-
fore you buy something else that will
cost you, perhaps as much.
l.. d. LOCKHART,
Windsor Hotel Block.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-09-03
COMPANY IS GOING TO
PUT DOWN THE CABLE
To Facilitate the Removal
of Library.

Through the courtesy of General
Manager J. Epps Brown, of the South
ern Bell Telephone Co., the Presbyte-
rian church congregation here is to
be afforded the desired facility in the
removal of the old library building to
the new location on the church lot
Just in front of the library building
is stretched large cable of the tele-
phon company, containing hundreds of
service wires and blocking the re-
moval of the building into the street.
General Manager Brown was COM
municated with yesterday regarding
the proposition to lower the cable to
the pavement until the old building
could be rolled into the street To do
this will entail an expense of at least
1925, and the church could not afford
it. After some deliberation General
Manager Brown agreed to lower the
cable at the company's expense, and
will send a force of electricians here
from Atlanta to do the work. 1t will
be necessary to put in a temporary
cable and do other difficult work,
hence the expense attached thereto.
The people of Americus will appreci-
ate to the fullest extent this courtesy
extended by General Manager Brown
for his company, as it is entirely op-
tional with the company to remove the
cable, aside from the heavy expense
incurred. General Manager Brown
once resided in Americus, and in his
big heart there will always remain a
tender spot for the little south Geor-
gia city.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-09-03
BY DISCHARGE OF GUN
TWO BOYS ARE INJURED
Doctor EIdridge andLeOnarC
Gartner Badly Wounded
While Removing Gun
From Buggy.

Leonard Gartner and Doctor Ed
ridge, young sons of Mr.. L. P. Cart
ner and Mr.. G. Morgan Eldridge
were shot down yesterday afternoon
by the accidental discharge of~an au-
tomato shotgun, the load striking
both boys simultaneously.
Eddie Mathis, the young son OF
Prof. J. E. Mathis. received two or
three shot in his shoulder, but his
wound is not serious
The accident occurred near the
Chambliss place, mile north of the
city, late in the afternoon as the
boys were about to quit hunting and
return home.
That the shooting did not result
more seriously is a miracle.
The boys were putting their guns
into the buggy, showing them by the
muzzle, when the automatic gun of
young Gartner struck an obstacle and
was discharged, the load of birdshot
striking the three boys at very close
range.
Young Mathis stopped at the mo-
ment to pick up a shell and thus es-
capped miraculously only a flesh
wound being inflicted
Young Gartners wounds are the
most serious. Part of the load struck
him upon the hip bone and glanced
fortunately, without penetrating the
abdomen. The palm of one hand was
badly lacerated, while one arm is shot
up as we'll.
Doctor Eldridge's wounds include
peppered arm, the shot sticking from
wrist to elbow. Another wound is in
his side, near the armpit, and one in
the stomach.
The course of the shot was remark
able as shown by the location OF
wounds upon the boys.
With great courage and endurance
they drove to the city and to the home
of Mr.. g. M. Eldridge, where DR.. R
E. Cato was hurriedly called. He ex-
pressed the hope that the wounds
would not prove serious, and early
last night both boys were asleep.
The lads are about Ia or Is years
of age. 1t may be a day or two yet
ere the full extent of their injuries
can be determined
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-09-03
GETTING BUSY ON
GOVT. BUILDING
COngreSSmanLeWiS Reports
Progress in Project.

Congressman Lewis is not idle in
the matter of the new government
building that is to be erected on Lam
ar and Lee streets.
Natural pride in the beginning of
the building during his term of of
fee, which expires on March 4, next
and the desire to do everything in
his power for Americus, has inspired
Congressman Lewis to keep behind
the department officials He has
on several occasions stirred them up
about the matter, and the results
have been all that could be desired.
The outlook now is that the erec-
ton of the BUILDING will be-
gin this year. This is ap-
parent from the following letter,
which is self explanatory:
Washington, D. c., Aug. 81, 1908.
Hon. E. B. Lewis, NJ c.,
Montezuma Ga.
Sir: The receipt is hereby ac-
knowledged of your letter of the 7th
inst, requesting to be advised when
actual operations will be commenced
on the new Federal building which
it is proposed to erect at Americus,
Georgia
In reply I take pleasure in stating
that the sketch plans for this build
ing have been completed, and they,
with the preliminary estimate, have
been submitted to the Cabinet Board
for formal approval, as required by
law, and after being returned the
working drawings will be Immediately
taken up
While it cannot be stated at this
time the date on which the drawings
and specifications will he completed,
the matter will receive careful atten-
ton with the idea of advertising for
bids at as early a date as possible.
Respectfully
JAS. A WETMORE,
Acting Supervising Architect
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-09-03
WHEN BALES OF FANCY
COTTON SOLD AT $40
AmeriCuS Has Seen Prices
Much Lower.

Americus cotton men who recall
prices ten years ago when cotton sold
here at 1-2 and cents per pound
fail to see dire calamity for the
country with the staple bringing 8
ga to 9 cents, or more than twice
the former price.
1t 81 not like getting 13 cents, as
we did last season, but things will
rock along somehow, and there will
be no, grim want in Sumter.
Think of bale of fine cotton-the
very best-selling here at $3.50 to
$40 per bale, and yet dire calamity is
predicted by trouble hunters now
with prices at "a to 9 cents, or
about $45 per bale.
Some difference in the price, but
not in the complaint
1t was in the fall of 1898-just ten
years ago-that the bottom dropped
out of prices in the prospect of an
eleven million bale crop and fell to
.3 1-2 cents
That was ire price paid for the
bulk of the crop that sesaon-3 1-2
to cents per pound, or an average of
about $40 per bale.
1t is true that times were as tight
as Dicks hatband, yet nobody starv-
ed, nobody quit wearing clothes on
account of hard times, Christmas
came and went according to sched-
ule, and people managed to get
along in some manner.
Nor was that the only year of low
prices and tight times" as many in
Americus will recall
men here recall, the proverbial bot
TOM dropped out again and prices
went to the mudsills.
Five cents was a top notch" price
that year for cotton as fine as tn,
fur on a billiard ball, and it seemed
a crying shame when a farmer let
go one of his fancy bales and re-
ceived a paltry twenty dollar bill as
the price total
A glance at the schedule of prices
that year show that values went as
low as 4 to 4>1-2 cents, Business
did not boom in Americus that fall,
as one would imagine, when the cot
ton crop of 9,750,0O0 bales sold for
five cents a pound.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-09-03
HEARTILY ENDORSES
COM. ]. ". LINDSEY
Sumter Veteran Gives His
Views in the, Matter.

The endorsement of the candidacy
of oCl j. w Lindsey for another tern
as Pension Commissioner, adopted by
the veterans Of Sumter Camp at their
meeting on Tuesday, has met with
general approval in Americus and the
county at large. All who are ac-
quainted with the admirable manage
ment of the Office by Commissioner
Lindsey speak in the highest terms
of his capacity as an official, and there
is no doubt that he will receive an
overwhelming majority of Sumters
vote
Commissioner Lindsey is an old
veteran himself" said a Sumter vet
yesterday, and he is in thorough
touch and sympathy with the old sol
diers throughout the state. He has
carefully studied their interests and
sought to protect and promote the
welfare of the widows of those who
have crossed over the river. He
has a record for gallantry in the war
that no one need be other than proud
Of He enlisted at the beginning of
hostilities with the Third Georgia, one
of the regiments that won such a
high reputation for its work on the
field of battle. He served throughout
the war and since the war has been
as faithful to every trust as he was
to his duty as a soldier. I am proud
that our Camp took a straightforward
position and endorsed him for an
other term We are not in politics,
in the ordinary sense, bat we do
know a capable and conscientious Of
fetal when we see him, and we feel
that the old soldiers especially have
right to express themselves as re
gard the office of Pension Commits
sioner."
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-09-03
TWO FARMS ARE SOLD
WEST OF THE CITY

A farm of 265 acres lying few
miles west of Americus was sold yes
terday through Mr.. w. J.. English,
real estate agent, to Mack Harvey,
who will reside there
The property was owned by B. X.
Hall and brought good price, the
amount not being named.
Col. Tom Lane, whose success at
farming is we'll known, added to
his realty possessions yesterday by
the purchase of an additional hundred
acres near Scales mill.
The place is well improved, and
Col. Lane viii be in-the line of deba-
ters at the temple next year, when
crops are discussed.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-09-03
MISS HARRISON is ILL
AND MOTHER is CALLED
AmeriCuS Young Girl StriCk.
en- While on Visit.

A telegram received yesterday by
Mr.. Samuel Harrison announced the
sudden and very serious illness of his
daughter, Miss Arbie Harrison, near
Columbia, S. c., where she is visiting
relatives 1t is feared that the young
lady has appendicitis, and that an op-
Grafton may be necessary Mr.. and
Mrs Harrison are greatly distressed,
and Mrs. Harrison will go to her
daughters bedside as quickly as pos
sible. Their many friends here join
in the hope that the illness of this
fair young girl is not of the danger
Gus nature indicated
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-09-03
Have a Bank Account
WITH THE
Americas Trust & SV'gs Bank

Anyone can make money,
but it takes a wise one to
save it.. Begin with 81 and
get q Home Bank free. Call
and ask about our plan. 4 per
interest paid on Savings De-
posits Compounded. Office in
Americus National Bank
Building, Cotton Avonue.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-09-03
SHIRT BARGAINS AT
so CENTS AT DUNCAN S

High grade shirts for so cents will
be the offering at Duncan's today.
Shirts with cuffs attached, printed
and woven madras, well laundered.
sizes IA to 49, The regular Is cents
to ST kind. You can yet them for soc
at Duncan's.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-09-03

Many a man who makes himself at
home isn't a self-made man"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-09-03
Library Closed for Few Days.

On account of difficulties in the
moving of the old library building,
the library will be closed for few
days. AS soon as it is located on the
church lot the library will be open
as usual
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-09-03
CITY COUNCIL MAY
FIX TIME LIMIT

The City Council meets tonight in
regular session. The question of the
limit for an extension of time for the
street railway and pumping contract,
as asked by the company, is on the
table, and may be taken up at this
meeting. A report on the opening of
Forsyth street east to Mayo will like
ly be made by the street committee.
Beyond these two matters there is
little of interest on the calendar.
The evening world., 1908-02-11
PAID LAST CENT
FOR HOTEL ROOM
IN WHICH TO DIE
Unidentified Man, Wen Dressed
but PcnnlleSS, Shoots Him
self in the Marlborough.
FOUND DYING ON BED.
Sound of Shot Attracts Atten-
ton of Maid--Registered
as Joseph Sindic.
FOUND DYING ON BED.

A well-drrssed man about thirty
years old was found dying on bed on
The second floor of the Hotel Marbor-
ouga at O'Clock this afternoon. \
bullet wound in his right temple showed
his method OF suicide. His life is dis
paired of at the New York Hospital.
Nnthing > known Of the mans iden-
,ity beyond a name which he signed
to the MOTEL register last night-Joseph
ISfndich Manhattan. He entered the
hotel about midnight and asked for a
s. room. He was escorted to room No,
% A maid In the hallway heard the
mufhed report of pistol and hurried
10 the room. The door was unlocked
and her screams brought a Clerk 20 the
-ioor Not a penny was in his posses
sion
The evening world., 1908-02-11
.|NELA WINNER
OF "BABY" EVENT
At NEW ORLEANS
With Notter Up, Beats Kitty
Fisher in the Opening
Dash.
BOBBIN AROUND SCORES
Needmore, at - to /, Is Beaten
Three Lengths by Heidels
Good Mount.
BOBBIN AROUND SCORES

NEW ORLEANS Feb u.-With apol-
ogies to none, Secretary Maginn to-day
presented another of his all selling race
cards at the Fair Grounds. just why
lot of cheap. selling pin,.rs should be
put to use To the detriment Of some of
the better horses in training does not
exactly appear and yet to-day there
w.r. seven races of that variety in
which some of the most ordinary horses
at the two tracks We're given employ
mel mt.
They did serve to provoke lively spec
ulatiun. a circumstance not at all un-
usual. as the cheap horses may be as
well touted as those of better class. The
only race that held any real Interest
was for two year -ulds at three furlongs
and in this there wer efourtcen maiden
fillies starting.
FIRST RACE-Pursc $500: maiden two
ycar-olds; selling: three furlongs.-1nela,
l0i tNotter S to |, TO and To D, won
by head. Nitry Fisher. los tNicoD, to
>, 3 10 2 and ; to .. second. Exotic. IL
". Powers, 3 to |, I To and to 10,
third T!me-O3S i-j. Gaea, Nancy Blues,
Miss iiappsburs, ManorG kenmare
KiGder, Yoska, Essic and Borase also
ran
SECOND RACE Purse s4co; maiden
three -year-olds, selling, five and a half
fnrlongs. Around, III tMcDan-
IeD, II to .. 20 and to >, won by
three lengths; Neeimore. los dIeideD
u to /. . to | and to =, second. Ben
Walmsey, 100 IriberD. 81 to !. ~ to |
and 10 To- /. third, T.me--l,12 Is. Busy
The evening world., 1908-02-11
SET FIRE TO BIG
TEN EMENT HOUSE.

4 Black Hand plot to fire the big
thirty-five family tenement at No. 7S
EhrvStie street was discovered in tim.
10 prevent disastrous blaze this after
noon.
The building is leased by Mrs Roth
stein, who lives across the way She
noticed a flare OF fire in the second
floor nat of Pelligrtno Marino. She
rushed across the street just as TWO
young men Sprang down the steps and
surinteI down Chrvstie street When
she reached the Marno apartment she
found il filled with smoke All Of the
Mar!noS We're away, Heaps OF paper
piled near the door We're smouldering
hut with the assistance Of several ten
ants Mrs. ROtlstein managed TO stamp
out The tre
When the police and firemen arrived
they .ound tne traces of an elaborate
attempt 10 fire the building. \ dozen
burning candles were placed under the
furniture and amid heaps of rags. The
trunks in The place had been pried
open and their contents spilled on the
hoor or hclprd with other rubbish the
lncendiaries had intended TO use as
tnGer,
Capt Cray said that It was undoubt-
elly another Black Hand jon. and AS
signed all his plain clothes men to
work on II,
The evening world., 1908-02-11
MISS ASHFORD
WILL NOT WE'D
SENATOR DAVIS
No Desire to EStrange Aged
Man from Family,
She Declares.

WASHINGTON. Feb. li.-Miss Mari
Ashford. of this citv TO-DAY announced
that she was no longer engaged to
former United States senator Henry G.
Davis. the Democrats candidate fof
Vire-President in the last national cam
paign.
Miss Ashford stated that she broke
her engage cement last night She said
that she and The former Senator had
then discussed the matter and MISS
Ashford referred to the publicity which
had been given the subject and to tue
determined opposition OF some OF the
memters Of MIR DaNis's family to tile
proposed marriase
She said that she had no desire Ia
estrange the senator at his age :r"m
his family. For these reasons she diI
no, care to have the engagement con
tinue.
Mr. Davis declined 10 talk, saving he
had no purpose of making newspaper
statements on ne subject
The evening world., 1908-02-11
BANK DIRECTOR FOUND
DEAD At BOTTOM OF WELL
Henry H. Barnard, Rich Lumberman.
Crazed by Panic, Escapes From
Sanitarium and Wanders
Away to His Death.

The panic" explained Mr. Barnard.
worried my father so that We found It
necessary to send him away for tire =
ment for nervous trouble. We had him
taken to DIR. Sharp's ssnitarlum All
our Information from there was to the
eject that he was recovering.
fhen we got word that he was dead
No'!'ng was said in the report OF hi.
death about any accident | shall ask
my hrother-in-law Arthur Knox, who
Is a lawyer to make an Investigation"
When this was reported to Dr. sharn
he said that he was certain he notified
some member of Mr. Barnards family
of the facts. The notification, he said
was made bv telephone.
Mr.. Barnard" continued DR. Sharn
spent great deal of his time outdoors
lie was allowed to take long walks with
an attendant and appeared 10 be stead
iy improving under our treatment
He had planned 70 leave here on Sat
urday, and on Friday he packed his
trunks and his effects. preparatory to
morning we found that he was missing
from his room.
1--WE supposed that ne had gone To
caution j telephoned to his family.
Later in the day l received a reply
that he had not reached New York
I'VE then instituted search, and in
| the afternoon we found Mr.. Barnard
dead in an old well near the road. con-
sideraoly less than a mile from the in
stitntion. The well has n box curb
around 1t. but It is possible that he fell
in accidentally. We made no efror,s tn
conceal the facts"
People at katonah and Mt Kisco
who claim to be in possession of the
facts. assert that Mr.. Barnard eIuded
his attendants a. o'clock on Saturday
morning and escaped, lightly clad from
the sanitarium. 1t was bitterly cold in
that vicinity on Saturday and the snow
MAS deep on the roads and in the fields
There is no telling how far the de-
mented man wandered before he
stumbled Into the Old we'll.
And so the life OF Henry Barnard was
added 10 the toll of lives and repu,a-
tIons reaped from the seed sown by n
little circle of crooked New York imam
ciers.
The evening world., 1908-02-11
WOMAN'S LETTER
FOILS ATTEMPT
TO KILL HERSELF.

Grace f. Ewing pretty dressrnaker
tying al No. III West Forty sixth
street. attempted 10 end her life this
afternoon by inhaling gas Had she
not written of her purpose ~ friend.
Mrs j. p Combs of No. 365 West FHf-
tieth street. she would undoubtedly
have succeeded.
When Mrs combs got the letter she
hurried round to the Forty sixth street
lousc and summOning policeman
broke into Miss Ewirg's room They
found nor in a chair unconscious, with
sastube IN her mouth. When revived
by an ambulance surgeon the young
woman moaned.
"Oh. let me die
As she was in no danger Miss Ewing
was taken al once To the West Side
Court whore Magistrate SteintW held
her IN 81 40 bail.