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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-08-28
SIO5, ,458 is THE INCREASE
IN SUMTER'S TAX VALUES
Tax Digest is Completed and Figures Show Hand
some Increase Over I9O7---TOtaI Property Values
in the County Well Exceed Six Million Dollars.
One hundred and five thousand, fou
lunderd and hfty-eight dollars.

One hundred and five thousand, four
hunderd and fifty-eight dollars
That handsome sum represents the
increase in property values in Sumter
county this year over the returns made
last year; a splendid gain under pres
ent conditions
The compilation of figures was com
pleted yesterday, and the result shows
an increase in property values this
year of $105,45S
And every citizen of Americus and
Sumter county is proud of it.
While other counties have shown g
fearful slump in property values this
year, old Sumter comes up with an
increase, as she does always, and this
is $1O5,458.
Never is there a decrease in pro
perty values in Sumter; each years
returns evidencing a gain.
Very nearly half the counties o1
the State will show loss in property
values this year, ranging all the way
from a few hundreds to the half mil
lion mark.
But dependable old Sumter is moi
in their class.
She stands in the front line OF
progressive counties with the goods,
and these goods are worth over six
million dollars.
Comparative statements from the
books of Tax Receiver w. R. Speer
are quite interesting, and evidence
the fact that he has done his work
we'll in receiving property returns.
The total of all property returned
this year is $6,340,9SO, against $6,235,-
522 last year-a gain of $105,4
That is what Sumter county is
worth; six millions, three hundred and
forty thousand, nine hundred and
eighty dollars. At least she pays taxes
on that amount
And this value is divided under the
following heads.
Farming lands this year are re-
turned at $2,14O,67O, against $2,O51,-
243 last year, a gain of $S9.427 this
year
Merchandise is returned at $477,-
147 against $524,439 last year-show-
ing a slight loss
Our household goods are returned
at $282,43O, whereas last year they
were worth but $276,35S, evidencing
the fact that we have more furnituge
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-08-28
A SPRINT AT MIDNIGHT
OF NEAR TWO MILES
Trucks Have First Run in
Long While.

An alarm of fire at 2 o'clock yes
terday morning called the fire de-
partment far out Fielder street, a
stiff run of a mile and a half, to
the dwelling occupied by Mr.. H. G..
Stanfield and family A small lamp
left in the sick room of a little child
had been upset, but Mr.. Stanfeld, af-
ter telephoning the department, sue
ceeded in putting out the blaze. Some
clothing was burned but the loss was
not considerable With the excep-
ton of a blazing bayfield, out Eln.
avenue recently the fire yesterday
is the first one occurring here in
months, and the firemen are thus
enjoying enforced immunity from
hard work
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-08-28
AMERICUS PEACH
GROWERS TO JOIN IN
Movement to be Inaugural
ed at Atlanta Meetinq.

Americus and Sumter county will
be well represented at the gathering
of peach growers which has been
called to meet in Atlanta on Sept. 10.
1t is believed that by cooperation in
the marketing of the peach that liv-
ing prices may be obtained
More peaches than were ever grown
before in Georia were gathered dur
lug the season which has inst passed
But the net returns were less than in
previous years. Rich, juicy peaches,
which were vainly longed for in a
hundred marts, were thrown into the
maelstrom of competition of a few
large cities and the price was ham
mered relentlessly Commission men
were interested only in their pay, and
left the growers to hold the sack.
But it is proposed to change all of
this. Next season, unless plans fail,
New York and the larger markets will
be supplied very cautiously with
Georgia's luscious fruit, and the COM
mission men will be looking out for
supplies rather than sitting idly by
while the wealth Of the Empire State
orchards is dumped recklessly into
the vortex. Unless New York is will
ing to pay good prices next season,
New Workers can go peach hungry
That's what the growers are working
for anyhow.
The interests of the peach growers
will be placed in the hands of compe-
tent agents, who will route the cars
to such markets as demand them. In
union there is strength in marketing
peaches California has learned this
lesson long ago.
For the coming season Americus
will be right in the front rank as
peach center, and any movement look
ing towards securing the best prices
will receive careful consideration in
this section. With the hundreds of
thousands of new trees which will
come into bearing next season, Amer
icus will probably be the leading peach
market of Georgia
Hopes Good Results.
We had just as well go out of bus
mess if we can't get the proper dis
tribution,' said Mr.. W. ]. Josey yes
terday. There is money in raising
peaches if the product is properly
handled But the way it was done last
season is losing proposition The
growers lost, when they should have
made money.
BY making arrangements for
marketing beforehand, a very differ
ent story can be told l believe
THE subject is one of vital interest
to Sumter peach growers, and | for
one will be ready to join in any feas-
ible plan to market the next crop to
the best advantage. | hope that the
meeting in Atlanta will devise a
working plan to that end"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-08-28
FIVE PRIZES GIVEN
AT DUNCAN'S TODAY

So much interest has been aroused
in the advertisement of the Duncan
Mercantile Company, and it's offer OF
one dollars worth of goods free to
the finder of two misspelled words
that Mr., Duncan has decided that, in
stead of giving one prize, as first an
nounced, he will give five Those who
do not care to come down at 73O
O'Clock, can come at a later hour and
stand the same chance of winning.
The prizes will be awarded today
at the following hours: 1880 a. M,
$3.50 a. M, 1880 a. M, $3.50 D. m. and
$3.50 p. m. The first purchaser, after
the hours named, of one of Duncan's
Dollar Day" Bargains will be pre-
sented with any bargain of the four
teen the winner may select This will
gives everybody a chance to be on
hand at one or more of the times
mentioned and get a chance at a
prize.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-08-28
CONTRACT FOR STANDS
AT DRIVING PARK LET

The contract for building the grand
stand, judges stand and the bleachers
for the Americus Driving Club at
their new park. was awarded yester-
day to Contractor G. C. Hall. The
grandstand is to be 80 rs feet and
will accommodate 1900 people. The
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-08-28
oss,. ss PHOTOGRAPHS csS,. so

Through the month of August the accompanying cou-
ponS will be redeemed Studio face value The
oO cent coupon will apply all orders for cabinets
The 25 cent will apply orders of Dozen
This special inducement through the dull and
is good only to Sept Corner Lamar and Lee Streets
STEPHENSON'S STUDIO.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-08-28

Blobbs-''A politician always re-
minds me of of piano." Slobbs-
How so?" Blobbs-aIf he's square
he's considered old fashioned"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-08-28

bleachers will hold about 900. Work
will be begun at once, and will prob
ably be completed by the middle oi
September.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-08-28

Some people repeat everything they
hear, and a lot they don't.-Ex.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-08-28
Have a Bank Account
WITH THE
AmsriCus Trust & SV'gs Bank

Anyone can make money,
but it takes wise one to
save it. Begin with 81 and
get 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 Avenue.
Smyrna times., 1908-04-22
..J..0-3 CT THE SEAL
The Way The Animals Are slauo,,+.r.d

'"0 @y '''S T'"'nHSIS Are Slaug ghtered
- tao iiunter-.
Inc ice cchueS no footballs. so tha
murder cf ,Ae seal is StelIthv ,ct
Yes. it seems like murder. On the nan
lies Il whitecout alone. Cp TO if hur-
rleS enc Of the hunters. L.iftino his
bat above his head. he measures the
distance; then. swinging downward tbn
IRON shod point he strikes the skuiI of
the seal such Il blow that it is crusba,
IN as If of paStebOard Tossing aside
the bat ana whipping out the s,.,lrin.,
knife. While the creature is still ol.iver.
ing with swift undercut aud two or
tlree side strokes the keen blade has
severed the hide and the LAYERS of f,t
beneath 50 they can he rolled iuto ,
peit, the hide holding the fat in its
folds. The next whitecoat is with it's
parents Their hide is coarser but
worth having. so the gunner tal,o.
quick aim. lodging Il charge Of shot in
the mead Of the growing mate lust NJ
the base of the brain. Here the skuu
IS thlnneSt. One of the batters stands
guard over the blOwhole to nravant
the mother from escaping. while nm
other bats the cub Then the female
who would desert her offspring 70 save
her own life, is dubbed on the head
few strokes Of the Knives ana tbro,..
more bloody carcaSses crimson the ice
The pelt Of the first seal is piled Wit,
the other three in pan The fagm,.,
STICKS a hIg hy its side. and the bun.-
ers hurry forward. leaving the neIts +,
be toWed back to the ship when tbe
hunt is ended.
thus the slaughter continues HON.
after hour until nightfall only ends tbp
stroke Of the bat and thrust of tho
Knife. If it began at daybreak ~,
neld may be strewn with thousands q.
dead seals, for if the pan of ice i.
thronged with them. as is somptimes
the case. hundred men will Kin tn,
times their number in day. since moSr
OF the seals are harps, which seldom
try to protect their young. and are
siam without attempting to defend
themselves.-Day Allen Wiley in Met.
rOpOiitan
Smyrna times., 1908-04-22
Rifle and Smooth Bore.

The main difference between a rifle
and a smooth bore gun is that the in
ner surface of the rifle barrel has one
or more spiral grooves cut into it. The
object of this is to permit a portion of
the material of the bullet or proiectile
to sink into the grooves. AS the pro-
Jectile is forced out of the barrel these
projections into the grooves tend to re-
main there, thus giving rise to IA spin
ming motion. In fact, it is not ONLY
going forward, but is rotating RAPIDLY
as it goes. The axis will tend-in ac-
cofdance with the gyrOscopic principle
to maintain without change it's direc
ton. But that is really saying that
the projectile will tend to remain in its
true course. SO this rs why rihed
gun shoots straighter than a smooth
bOFe.-St. Nicholas.
Smyrna times., 1908-04-22
The Swaying Skyscraper.

Through the chance perfect adjust
ment in the way of balance of row
of large photographs that hang on the
wall of an office on the twenty-second
floor of an Office building downtown
the clerks in the place have a good
deal of quiet amusement with persons
who visit the place for the first time
Owing to this balance the pictures are
easily swayed by the wind that blows
through the open windows, and since
the Office force goes in for fresh air
the year round the pictures are never
still. The joke lies in catching the
Mortified expression on the faces of the
callers when they get sight of the
swinging frames. Then it is alwavs
explained with due solemnity if the
boss Is not around that the swaying OF
the frames is due to the oscillation of
the structure. 1t usually takes some
time for the object of the joke to see
the point. Meanwhile he has suffered
a considerable shOck.-New York Press
Smyrna times., 1908-04-22
WHY 1T SUCCEEDS.
Because It's for One Thing
Only, and Smyrna People
Appreciate This.

Doing one thing we'll brings sue
cess.
Doan's Kidney Pills do one thing
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They cure sick kidneys.
They cure backache, every kidney
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Mrs. Sumner Ransom, living in
Spruance City, Smyrna, Delaware,
says: "DOan's Kidney Pills have been
a great help to my husband and he is
always glad to tell others about them.
He suffered off and on for twenty
years with diseased kidneys, his worst
misery being dragged down pain
across the back. His kidneys were
weak and irregular in action, causing
him much annoyance, and loss of
sleep. He finally learned of DOan's
Kidney Pills, procured them at Clifton
& Raymond's Pharmacy and since
using this remedy he feels better than
for years. Doan's Kidney Pills are
deserving of all the praise that can
be given them.
For sale by all Dealers. Price
SO cents. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Buffalo, New York, Sole Agents
in the United States.
Remember the name Doan S
and take no other.
Smyrna times., 1908-04-22
From the Start.

AttOrney-When did your husband
first show signs of insanity, madam?
Wife-The day he married me. l then
discovered he was making only $40 a
week.
Smyrna times., 1908-04-22
TIE
TIE
NEW YORK WORLD
THRICE-A-WEEK EDITION.
Read Wherever the English Language
is5SpOkeB.

The Thrice-a-Week World expects TO be a
better paper in 1907 than ever before. In
the course of the year the issues for the
next great Presidential campaign will be
fOreshadowed, and everybody will wish to
keep informed The Thrice-a-W Week World
coming to you every other day, serves all
the purposes Of a daily, and is far cheaper,
The news service of this paper is con-
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f9lly, accurately and promptly every event
OF Importance anywhere IN tue world.
giving you facts, not opinions and wishes
1t has full markets. splendid cartoons and
interesting fictioL by standard authors.-
The Thrice-a-Week Worlds regular sub
sCrpton price is only $1OO per year, and
unequailed newspaper and The SMYRNA
TIMES together for one year for S1.75.
The regular subscription price of the two
papers is $500.
Smyrna times., 1908-04-22

1t takes two to make a bargain. but
only one of them gets it.-Puck
Smyrna times., 1908-04-22
G,ay Versus Brown Camels.

The length of stage varies through
out Persia. depending on the character
of the counrE. and is reckoned in far
saks. the old Greek parasang. The far
SAX is a most elastic and uncertain
measure. and as animals are paid for
per farsak as many as the creduiity OF
the Traveller will allow are crowded
into each stage "uoW far" | once
asked an old Kurdish muleteer. lis a
farsak:" "As far as one can distin-
guish gray from a brown came"
was the discreet answer They aver
age about four miles and the stage
about six farsaks, or twenty-five miles
Atlantic
Smyrna times., 1908-04-22
His Nerve Gnnd-

Dissatisfied Committeeman Yol.
made "A disma! failure in your effort tc
please our audience. shall not pay
your fee in full.
Egotistic Lecturer-Oh. indeed. You
must. sir! | assure you worked much
harder than | should have had to labor
with a less difficult audience. Besides.
think how much rarer sight have
given YOU by failing than | should
have given if had succeeded!-Ly.
ceumite aud Talent.
Smyrna times., 1908-04-22
rhouch. Il, Could Buy Them Cheap

Elderly German (aS he calls at a
lodging house doOrI-Gind lady. | saw
yes der advertisement in der evening
paper dat you have a pair of paiamas
to sell, yes? Boarding House Mistress
Indignantly Paiamas: You Old fool,
do you think this is Il department
store? Where is the advertisement?
The German producing the advertise
ment and reading it aloudl For sale.
Won almost new bedroom suit, cheab'
Gall and see it."-Bohemian
Smyrna times., 1908-04-22
Bunicns and Rank

1T is extraordinary" writes Sir Hen
ry Drummond Wolff in "Rambling Re-
oIlecuonS, TO observe in England the
weakness that most people have fo.
boasting of their friends in high places
ana the Difference that they show f.
them. The daughter of a lady of very
high rank had some pain in her ro1.
which the mother asked the governc;
to be good enough to look at. The hi
ter after examining it said. II it were
not for her Iadyship's exalted rank
should say it was a bunion.'"
Smyrna times., 1908-04-22
Elattered.

Editor Ito Miss Oldgirl, age about
fOrty)-YOur work shows promise. but
do you know, madam. good literary
work is seldom done by a woman until
she is thirty or thirty-fye? Several
years hence YOU will be able to write
acceptable articles. Miss Oldgirl (as
she IeavesD-That was the most de-
lightful man ever met.
Smyrna times., 1908-04-22

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Smyrna times., 1908-04-22
A pramatic Author

Like most actor managers, Macready
was pestered by would be dramatic an.
thors. An ambitious young fellow
brought him a five act tragedy one
morning to Drury Lane.
My piece" mOdestIy explained the
author, lis chef dOeuvre. will an
swer for its success, for l have con-
suited the sanguinary taste of the pub
lie. My tragedy is so tragic that all
the characters are killed off at the end
of the third act"
with whom, then," asked the man
ager, do you carry on the action of
the last two acts?"
with the ghosts of those who died
., The third!'-CornhiIl Magazine.
Smyrna times., 1908-04-22
A Twenty Year Sentence.

81 have just completed a twenty
year health sentence impose by Buck
lens Arnica Salve, which cured me
of bleeding piles just twenty years
ago, writes o. S. Woolever, of Le-
Raysville N. Y. Bucklen's Arnica
Save meals the worst sores, boils,
burns wounds and cuts in the shortest
store. - .
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1908-12-24

are paid on or before the third Mon
day in January, 1909, to wit: Janu-
airy IS, 1909, YOU property will be
sold at the Court House door, in Car
son City, Ormsby County, State of
Nevada, at 2 o'clock p. m. of said day,
to pay said taxes together with 10
per CEN delinquency, and the cost of
advertising, and you are further nOti-
fed that such sale win be subject to
redemption within six months after
the date of sale by payment of all
said sums together with 3 per cent
per month thereon from the date Of
sale until paid. E. o. PATTERSON,
County Treasurer and ex Cficio Tax
Receiver of Ormsby County, Ne
vada.
Office of the County Recorder and Ex
Oficio Auditor of Ormsby County,
State of Nevada.
Carson City December IA, 1908.
Notice is hereby given that the fore
going list contains the names of all
delinquent taxpayers, a description of
the property on which the taxes are
delinquent, together with the amount
of taxes due upon said property as
shown by the delinquent tax list for
the veal 1908, as returned to this Of
fee by the County Treasurer and eX
officio Tax Receiver of Ormsby Coun-
ty, State of Nevada, and is a true
copy of said delinquent tax list for
the year 1908. JOE STERNS,
County Recorder and ex oficio Audi
tor of Ormsby County, State of Ne
vada.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1908-12-24
PROPOSALS FOR SUPPLIES

Sealed proposals for furnishing
supplies of groceries and provisions,
also meats of all kinds, to be deliver
ed at the State Orphans Home, Car
son City, Nevada, for six months
from and including January LIST 1909,
will be received up to noon of De
cember goth, 1908, according to the
requisition furnished by the Super
intendent of the said Orphans Home,
now on file in the office of the Sec
rotary of the Board of Directors of
the Orphans Home.
All articles to be first class of their
kind, and to be delivered in such
quantities and at such times as the
superintendent may direct, quantity
varying each month as may be re-
quired.
All articles not satisfactory will
be returned at the Contractors ex-
pense.
Bids to be directed to the Secre-
tary of the State Orphans Home
Board of Directors, Carson City, Ne
vada.
The Board reserve the right to re-
ject and and all bids.
ORVIS RING, Secretary of the
Board, Carson City, New. Dec. %, 1908
- .- 10000
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1908-12-24

FOR RENT-Business cornor, oppo-
site State Capitol formerly occu-
pied by DR.. Van Radeskey. Terms
reasonable. Inquire of F. w. Day.
Agent.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1908-12-24

Judge Goodwin, in his weekly is
again commiserating Nevada and
talking about the good times coming.
He ought to change his dope. Ne
vada's all right.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1908-12-24
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Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1908-12-24

Liquors-the best in the market in
any quantity at whole sale prices-at
Livingston's.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1908-12-24

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Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1908-12-24

The Humboldt Star says an army
of tramps are travelling through the
state.
Billy Booth, in the Tonopah Bo-
nanza takes a crack at Rice, of the
Nat Goodwin Brokerage company.
Rice is east.
Reno Reveille reprints a story from
the Denver Post by Charlie Van
Loan. He will be remembered in
this city from a visit to the editor
of The Appeal and his stories about
Considine, then Warden and about
John Gernant, the versatile conductor
at Mound House.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-11-25
WILL PROVIDE
FOR THE POOR
THE JOURNAL WILL RECEIVE DO.
NATIONS FOR THE LADIES'
WILL DISTRIBUTE GIFTS TO
POOR FAMILIES CHRISTMAS.

In addition to receiving donations
for the poor of Pensacola to be dis
tribUted Christmas by the Salvation
Army. The Journal will also receive
donations to be distributed by the La
dies. Auxiliary TO the B. =. o. f.
These donations can be sent to The
Journal Office any date aft.N Deem
Der /. when the work of providing
Christmas for the many poor families
of the city will commence.
The Ladies' Auxiliary a few years
ago undertook to assist the worthy
poor Of Pensacola, and since then the
good work has been continued each
year 18th very marked success The
ladies this year plan 10 make the dis
tribution upon a larger scale, and are
satisfied that the residents of Pensa-
cola will assist literally. Their dis
tribution will not include clothing or
food supplies. but simply candies, toys.
etc, and is more for the children than
for older people.
After December l parties sending
money, toys or any article TO The Jour
nal Office for the Christmas distribu-
ton should specify by whom IL is to
be distributed, whether the Salvation
Army or Ladies Auxiliary. In send
ing clothing, however, this will not be
necessary as ali such articles will be
turned over to the Salvation Army.