davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-04

]. w. Mcpherson, with c. G. Prouty
wholesale grocers of Des Moines, spent
last Thursday at Colfax. He is the
same old Mac and when with him you
will never get the blues. He reports the
finest trade last year of any year since
travelling out of Des Moines. 1t rs re-
ported he secured Ed Concannon's Or
der book on his retiring, which he
thinks may help him to much bet
ter business this year.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-08-12
BETTER LIGHTS COMING
FOR AMFRICUS AT LAST
Will Be the Best In Use In
Georgia
Order Placed Yesterday
With General Elec-
trio Company

within four weeks Americus will
be the best lighted small city in the
South said President A n Walker
Of the Americus Railway & Light
Company last night.
By that time seventy-one new cleo
trio lights will be in position, giving
Illuminating power over three times
rs great as the present lights
Yesterday morning President Wal
ker took up the matter of getting the
lights promptly with the general
Southern office of the General Elec-
Il Company at Atlanta
A conditional order was placed
some time ago for new lights WIFI
this company. Yesterday it was de-
cided to increase the Illuminating
power of the lamps that are to bo put
H. The original lights ordered were
Of the same power as those used in
Jacksonville, four and a half am
pheres. 1t was decided to increase
this by nearly fifty per cent. The
agent Of thC company at Atlanta was
cot on the phone and the order chang
ed to Lights Of six and six-tenths am
pheres, with the understanding that as
many of the lights as possible should
be shipped at once.
Last night word was received from
the General Electric Company that
prompt shipment could be made of
part of the order
1t is accordingly probable that
within two weeks some of the new
lights will be in position, with the
others following as speedily as posi-
BILE.
President Walker leaves today for
the North. 1t is intimated that while
away the arrangements for the com
pletion of the power plant will be
made.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-08-12
Bessie Tiff College, Forsyth, Ga Grade "A'COIeges

FOR GIRLS
family
student
estimated
beautifully Illustrated catalog~ address
c. s. JACKSON, President
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-08-12
TO OPEN CLUB HOUSE
CHRISTMAS DAY
Plans Being Pushed For
Country Club
Committee To Lease
Land and Contract
For Home

The club house of the Sumter Coun-
ty Country Club will be opened on
rnext Christmas day with a dance ano
other Festivities
That IS the program that is outlined
for the initial event in the life of a
club that is undoubtedly destined tC
play an important part in the social
life OF Am2Ilcus and Sumter CO ,nty
Within a n0nu work will be undel
way on the beautiful club hou = out
on Lee street. The plans will ~ com
pleted at once by Architect Lock
| wood of Columbus, who prepared the
sketches that were regarded so favor
ably by those instrumental in the or
ganization of the club.
Yesterday afternoon a meeting OF
stockholders of the club was held at
the office of MIR. Crawford Wheatley
Several were out of the city, but tie
stock represented was a majority OF
that subscribed for.
Mr.. A. n. Walker was made tenn
porary chairman and Mr. Thomas
| Gamble temporary secretary.
After a general discussion of the
project it was decided to appoint a
committee of five to complete the
lease of the land, to secure plans for
the building and contract for its erec-
ton
Messrs. Crawford Wheatley, W. A
Dodson, Thomas Harold, Frank La
nier and Thomas Gamble were ap-
pointed on this committee.
The committee will at once direct
the completion of the plans and will
make the necessary lease arrange
ments for the hundred acres of the
Agricultural College land that the
club will occupy.
This land will have an entrance
frontage of over three hundred feet
| OH 1A6C SIl CCI, DCl WCCI IlC OuIlS dllN
Bahnsen places. A broad drive will
run back a thousand feet from Lee
street, with tennis courts on either
side, circling around a great bed OF
| flowers to the front of the club house
In the rear of the club house the
great fields embracing nearly a hun
dred acres are located. Here the golf
links will be. This land extends al
most to the Council mill pond, and ii
is probable that later arrangements
may be made for the use of this by
the club members for fishing and
other purposes.
Great interest is manifested in the
club movement not only among the
stockholders, but among the many
citizens who will become members OF
the club as soon as it is organized
Committees will be appointed at an
early date to prepare bylaws for the
club and otherwise perfect the ar
rangements for its organization
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-08-12
MATINEE AND NIGHT IN
BENEFIT FOR HOSPITAL

That the benefit performance at the
opera house this evening" in the inter-
est of the Americus Hospital will be
a pronounced success in reflected al
ready in the advance sale of tickets
many hundred having been sold
There will be two performances, the
matinee at $50 this afternoon and
the regular performance at s o'clock
Manager Bickford, who tenders the
benefit complimentary to the Hos
pitaI Association, has received sew
eral very beautiful and entirely new
films for the moving pictures, and
these will be among the finest ever
shown in Americus.
The musical features, too, will be
unusually fine.
Mr. Christopher Dahl the celebrat-
ed baritone will sing THE Toreador, >
from Carmen, as one of his selections
At the close of the program Mr.. E. A
Nisbet. in his usual happy vein, will
present the prizes for the sale of tick
els.
The contest closes at S p. NJ, and
Mrs. James Taylor requests that the
little girls selling tickets report to
her at the opera house at that hour
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-08-12
BOND MONEY is READY.
THE BOARD GAN BUILD
Check for $23,5OO for
School Building
Awaits Order of Board
of Education Regard
ing Disposal.

TWenty-three thousand five hundred
dollars, represented in the check Of
the company taking the issue of Amer
icus bonds for the erection of a pub.
lie school building, was received here
yesterday and the much needed
school building is just that much
nearer reality.
With the money in hand the build
ing is assured as soon as a site is
selected and purchased and the board
of education gets to work
But this will scarcely be done in
the immediate future; probably not in
several weeks
The board Of education has not yet
selected a site for the new school
building, a most important matter
and one that kept the City Council in
a dilemma for months until referred
to the board of education, which now
has authority
Then, too, plans for the new build
ing have not been drawn by the archi-
tect, as this was deferred until the
bond money was actually in posses
sion
This, therefore, will necessitate d
delay of several weeks
Several available sites are at the
disposal of the board, but no selec-
ton has been made.
Barlow street on the south side
Brannon avenue, Harold avenue
East Americus, and other localities
possess building sites that will com
mand the attention of the board when
a selection is made
The $23,500 check-a beauty-has
not yet been turned over to the GUS
tody of the City Treasurer Hawkes.
but this will doubtless be done as
certain preliminaries yet devolve up
on the City Council regarding the
bond issue ere the money is expended
upon the building.
And, unless the board of education
is going to purchase a lot and begin
building Immediately, the money may
be deposited at interest among the
banks here, city repositories, until
needed, as the interest accruing in
four or six months would purchase
the building site.
The board of education will proba-
bly, hold a meeting shortly to deter
mine the initial steps regarding the
proposed building.
Furlow school, recently rebuilt and
made commodious, is in readiness for
the opening of the city schools in Sep
tember, and the new building may
not be erected now until some time
next spring
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-08-12
RESIDENCE IN CITY IS
SW.YPPED FOR A FARM
DIR. Eva~T. Mathis DispOses of Lee
Street Home.

DR.. Evan T. Mathis has sold his
handsome Lee street residence to Mr..
Thomas B. Hooks, who secured the
property as an investment rather than
as home, as he owns already one of
the handsomest country places in all
southern Georgia. The consideration
in the transfer yesterday was 435
acres land near the Hooks Mill, seven
miles south of Americus, and valued at
$4,000 DR.. Mathis was anxious to Sc
cure a fine farm in exchange for his
city property, and thus made the eX-
change The farm is fertile and val
liable one, and DR.. Mathis and family
will go there shortly to reside.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-08-12
To Enjoy

the full confidence of the Well Informed
of the World and the Commendation of
the most eminent physicians it was essen
tial that the component parts of Syrup
of Figs and Elixir of SIENNA should be
known to and approved by them; there
fore, the California Fig Syrup Co. pub
fishes a full statement with every package.
The perfect purity and uniformity of pro-
duct, which they demand in laxative
remedy of an ethical character, are assured
by the Company original method of man
ufacture known to the Company only
The figs of California are used in the
production of Syrup of Figs and Elixir of
SIENNA to promote the pleasant taste, but
the medicinal principles are obtained from
plants known to act most benefcially
To get its beneficial effects always buy
the genuine ne-manufactured by the Cali
fornia Fig Syrup Co. only. and for sale
by all leading druggists.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-08-12
NOTICE.

Traymore Tailoring Company will
have a special representative with us
Friday and Saturday, August 13 and
A. Come in and inspect their line.
S-12-13-14 WOOD & APPERSON.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-08-12
GOING TO CINCINNATI, NEW
YORK AND NIAGARA FALLS
Americus Party Has Planned Delight
full Trip.

Miss Lula Hay, with two of her
valued assistants in her millinery bus
mess, Misses Eleanor Tillman and
Loubelle Speer, leave today upon a
pleasant trip East. The young ladies
go first to Cincinnati, thence to Mag
ara Falls for a stay of a few days, go
ing thence to New York City, where
Miss Hay will purchase her fall lines
of fine millinery. The party will be
gone about two weeks, and the trip
will prove a very delightful one for
all.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-08-12
CALLED II INSULT
TO CITY COUNCIL
mo Peace Until Settled
Right, Said Aid. Allen.
How Dissensions Are In
juring Interests of City
Tuesday Nights
Discussion.

The warm discussions at the Board
of Trade on Tuesday night were con-
siderabIy discussed yesterday espe-
cially in bushes scircles. Much in
terest was felt in the action that was
taken, although expressions upon it
differed according to the position held
by the individual with regard to the
proposed municipal lighting plant.
When the Walker communication
was read at the meeting Tuesday
night Mr.. Lee Allen promptly moved
to table it. Mr. DOdsOn appealed for
a hearing on the subject, and insisted
that it was a proper theme for dis
cussOn before a business body. Pres
ident Lanier said that in his opinion
it would be better to have the matter
threshed out, as otherwise it would
surely come up again.
Allen Starts Ball Rolling.
Mr. Allen then insisted that Council
was amply able to take care of the
question. He maintained that the
Board of Trade had absolutely moth
ing TO do with the questions involved.
He vigorously resented the effort to
introduce the lighting matter into the
deliberations of the Board of Trade.
1t is not the duty of the Board he
declared, to foster corporations that
are inimical to public interests, but
to protect the public from any cor
poration that is seeking to impose
upon it and infringe on the rights of
the people.
President Walker, in reply, declar-
ed that Mr.. Allen had simply repeated
the set speech he had delivered on a
number of previous occasions, with
the single omission. of his c1cr..-s+sh!sss,5 +hs /
he was not &etuated by personal feel
ings MrYWalker insisted that he
had endeaored, in the interest of the
! people Of Americus, to get the city to
make N contract only until January
next, sdnder which the people would
| AZ once get up-to-date lights, and
Council, under Mr.. Aliens leadership
! lhad refused to consider it. He had ac-
/ tcordingly brought the matter to the
Board of Trade as the representative
of the business interests of the COM
| mnnity.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-08-12
Walkers Position.

Mr.. Walker claimed that he repre-
sented outside investments here of
nearly $150000, and that it was the
purpose to invest here $4,000 more
if protection and sympathy was ac-
corded to them. The object of the
Board of Trade, said he. is 10 foster
rew enterprises and to bring foreign
capital here. 1T is always inviting
outside money here. 1t should show
that it is it's desire and intention to
protect outside capital when it does
come here, as otherwise it can hardly
expect more capital to come in No
one. he declared, expects the City
Council to ever build street car
line. Mr., Allen and Mr.. Clarke will
not put cent in such an enterprise.
Yet a street car line and a fine power
plant would be great factors for the
development of the city But no cor
poration will put in a street car line
without the other features of the con-
tract, the lighting of the streets and
pumping of the water to help carry it,
| 1t was, he held in the interest of citi-
zens generally, to have the matter set
tied and the work carried through
J. E. D. Shipp, Esq, held that no
good was to come from long argu-
ments. The City Council has abso-
lutte control of the streets and the
Board of Trade had no right to inter
fere in such a matter The debate
could do no possible good. He sec
Onded Mr.. Aliens motion to lay on
the table, but it was lost and the dis
cuSSiOn was resumed.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-08-12
Did Not Represent People.

Alderman Clark then took the floor.
The Board of Trade, he held, did not
represent the whole people and the
injection of this matter into it's meet
ings simply meant the breaking up Of
the organization. THE Board of Trade
will soon be no more" predicted Mr..
Clark. IF a corporation is going to
come in here and ask favors from this
body, why should not the ordinary
citizen do likewise?" he asked. He
held that it would not mean money in
the pockets of the citizens to do as
Mr. Walker requested and assist him
TO carry out his plans, that Temporal
rily it might seem so, but the fran
chise was to be for twenty years and
the people would pay dearly for it in
the end. 1t would be foolish for a
temporary benefit, he insisted, to give
away these valuable privileges 1t
was remarkable exhibition of gener-
osity on the part of the company's
representatives to come before the
Board of Trade in an effort, as they
declared, to save the people money,
but Mr.. Clark asserted that if the peo-
pie owned their own lighting plant in
side Of ten years the taxes would be
reduced because of the revenues it
produced and by its competition the
citizens would save money on their
individual gas and electric lighting.
He held THAI it was unjust to tax the
people for water and lighting in or
der to carry a street railway that
would be used by but a few and bene-
fit only a few.
Walker Presents Rates.
President Walker quoted rates from
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-17
toughest Railroad in the Count

Roughest Railroad in the Country.
Des Moines Register and Leader:
For years heard travelling men
argue about which was the toughest
road bed in the United States said
Lee Miller of New Hampton, one of
the best known fancy horse men in
northern Iowa, yesterday. as ne ficked
the ashes from his cigar and blew
smoke rings toward the Slavery sky
light, and l really expected that
question never would be settled to
the satisfaction of all. But | had an
experience the other night that l be-
lieve will convince the most skeptical
and forever set at rest the argument.
The Illinois Central certainly is the
winner of the controversy
Il got on the sleeper at Waterloo
and handed the porter 50 for my
berth. When we were out a little
ways he brought back a half dollar,
but had my clothes in the hammock
by that time. so slipped the coin in
my night robe pocket In the morn
ing l found it had dropped out, SO
told the porter to look out for 1t. AS
we were getting into the suburbs OF
Chicago the porter showed up. He
handed me quarter, two dimes and
a nickle. Now If you know of any road
that will break half dollar up finer
than that in one nights ride, I'd
like to hear about It,"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-17
New Treatment Of prunkards.

Cedar Falls Record: The ques-
ton of handling drunkards is having
a new experiment in New York. A
recent law makes a very notable de-
parture from the disposition usually
made of the common drunk. After
studying the procedure of peace officers
and courts as affecting these common
charges upon society some persons of
a philanthropic spirit conceived the
idea of interesting the state legisla-
ture in measure that would offer
what was believed to be solution of
the perplexing problem. According to
the terms of the New York statute,
there will be a standing committee
who will deal with this class of Offend
ers without bringing them into court.
This committee will have probation
airy oversight over men arrested for
drunkenness, and will, according to
the theory of the statute, seek to pre-
vent the reoccurrence of the offense.
1t is argued in favor of this proceed
ure that if the first offenders were
taken in hand they would be saved the
humiliation which a man not used to
the police court sentence feels the
first time he is arrested His pride
will be appealed to, and in some cases
at least his first offense will be ais
last.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-17
ing impurities and killing harmful
germs.

The Des Moines Register and Leader
is not unfriendly to state constabu-
larry of the kind employed by Pennsyl-
vania and Canada. But the Marshall
town Times-Republican points out
that we don't need it, inasmuch as
Iowa has no great aggregation CT for
eign miners and large communities
where bloody riot is likely to break
out suddenly. Tie only call for a
state constabulary is in connection
with the enforcement of the liquor
laws, and the Times-Republican wise
ly insists that we would better try
out other methods first
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-17
THE RANKIN CAMPAIGN.

The crusade for the prohibitory
amendment in Iowa will be headed by
A. C. Rankin He will take the field
Immediately and with his assistants
hold meetings in every community in
Iowa within the next eight months.
Clubs will be formed in some central
location and about these clubs will be
a network of smaller organizations.
Funds are already being contributed
and people all over the state interest
ed in the cause will be asked for as
sistance. The Des Moines Tribune
sounds a note of warning in these
words.
NO one should underestimate the
effect of an anti-saloon campaign in
Iowa under the leadership of a. G.
Rankin If the present law is not
enforced to the letter in the next two
years, and the people are not satisfied
that 1t is as effective as any anti
saloon law can be made, the state
will go back to statewide prohibition
by an overwhelming majority. Mr..
Rankin is live wire in the prohibit
ton movement. There will be some
thing doing In the next Two years.
The Tribune's warning is timely and
wholly warranted. 1t is upt to the
liquor men primarily and the peace
officers of the various communities in
the state secondarily to say by
their manner of observance and
enforcement respectively of the
mulct law whether liquor shall
continue to be sold under
protection of law in Iowa or whether
its sale shall be made unlawful under
any and all conditions Nothing short
of strict compliance with the letter of
the present law will satisfy public
sentiment and avert majority in
favor Of statewide prohibition. The
saloon keeper or the city official who
cannot see this should be taken out
and bored for the simples
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-17
human society becomes better organ

! human society becomes better organ
/ lied, every member of /. bears increas-
/ ing responsibilities toward the other
members. Therefore there is dis
/ tinct brotherhood responsibility on the
part of the country toward the health
fulness of the urban regions; and
/ no less reciprocal responsibility on TIE
/ part of the city toward tn country.
IN specifying some of the deficien
cies of public health in rural districts
Professor Bailey mentioned the lack
of good posture and good carriage, too
long hours of work, too little atten-
ton not only to bodily cleanliness
but also to the Importance of tidy and
we'll kept surroundings; too great fear
of fresh air at night, WIDESPREAD ig-
norance OF the nature of contagious
patent medicines, monotonous, innu-
tritive and poorly prepared diet, dan
gerous wells. unclean creameries, and
finally the presence, especially in the
south, of the hookworm, which causes
disease said to afflict four million
people. This parasite has been termed
the germ of laziness." The disease
is not amenabie to teaching or
preaching. Nothing but medical at
tention will do any good.
Professor Bailey looks to the coun
try school, when faced about, to be
an essential factor in the desired evo
luton of country life. He would have
the school represent and reflect the
life of the community and work out
suggestions for the betterment of the
community The whole country status,
in his view, should be frightened up
and loosened up. and new life put into
it. He doubts whether this can come
about until we evolve new processes
in government of rural communities. !
He suggests that we may even need
new systems OF government in these
communities. He is not at all sure
that the systems now chiefly in vogue
are such as are designed to develop a
new structure OF society; they have
not proved themselves. We are be-
ginning to study municipal govern
ment: he seems to think we are in
equal need of fundamental recon
sideration Of the way in which rural
communities may be governed.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-17
Sions of Proaress.

Chicago Tribune: A hundred
years ago smallpox was hurnanity's
greatest scourge In Europe the
woman wlose face was not SCARED
with the marks of this dread disease
was considered beautiful, while those
who died with it far outnumbered
those who survived The death rate
among children was frightful. Today
smallpox is almost unknown, save in
communities and among those who
will not vaccinate.
Yellow fever in the south has ceased
to be tae terrible scourge it once was
for no other reason than that insani-
tary conditions that produced it have
been abolished. So cholera, a filth
disease, has been practically wiped out
in all civilized countries. What has
been done with the diseases mentioned
can and will be accomplished in time
with all the known preyentable
diseases.