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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-12-31
CHICKEN FARM OUT
In EAST AMERICUS
PFettieSt Poultry Exhibit to
Be Found in Sumter.

Known only to a comparatively few
citizens, there is now in successful op-
Grafton over in East Americus, on La
mar street, a chicken farm that gives
bright promise of developing into a
highly successful and very profitable
plant. Already much progress has
been made and the results so far
achieved are a good indication of sub
stantial development along the right
lines hereafter.
Mr.. DeBruney is the owner of the
poultry farm in question. He came 70
Americus a few months ago, quietly
bought place out on the hill, began
the work of building runs and houses
for poultry, installed his hens and
cockerells in modest way, and to-day
has the we'll established beginning for
a plant that may yet make Americus
widely known as the home of fine
chickens
Mr.. DeBruney is confining his at
teat!on to two breeds, the white leg
horns and the Rhode Island Reds. His
flocks of these birds are a feast to the
eyes of the lover of good stock in the
poultry line. He has now probably a
hundred or more hens of the very fin
est breed and large number fcocks,
many of the latter being held for sale
to those desiring birds of fine pedigree
The success he has so far achieved,
and the lessons that experience has
brought to him, has convinced the pro
prietor that there is every opportunity
to develop a good paying industry in
Americas. 1t is not his purpose 20
raise feed, but to devote his attention
entirely to the breeding of fine stock
Next year he expects to have four OF
five hundred hens, and will add addi-
tional houses to the two long buildings
he has already constructed.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-12-31
0 LET US Be JOYFUL
SAYS COL. CRAVE.
No Reason for Any One
Around Here to Nope.

The outlook for the coming year is
brighter by far than i expected It
would be some weeks ago." said Vice
president Crawford Wheatley, of the
Commercial City Bank yesterday.
To tell the truth was feeling blue
about the prospects some time ago. .
continued the banker, "but that feeling
has now largely passed away and /
am feeling decidedly more buoyant as
to the prospects for our people the
coming year.
While it is true our crops this year
were off in quantity the bettered val
ues helped to make up to some extent
Ior this. Collections were slow in the
TALL, but December brought an INNS,
ually large amount of actual cash into
circulation. The holiday trade was i'm
mense for city of this size and the
proportion of it that was cash trade
seems to have been unusually large In
looking over our deposits of merchant
patrons for the month l was especially
struck with their size, and on compar-
ison with a year ago found that there
was a very great increase. This is All
aA' eedingly healthful sign.
Il anticipate that the spring bust
ness here will be good. The farmers
will go at their operations for the com
ing crops with vim and the determine
ton to make fine crops. Given good
weather conditions they will succeed
and make a new crop record for old
sumter. There may be the period of
summer dullness, but it will be no
worse than in other years, and the fall
and winter, with good weather condi
tons during the crop making and gath
ering period, will see Americus in the
hey day of prosperity. No, sir. I am
not blue about the prospects at all. /
am getting genuinely sanguine. You
simply cannot hold this town or coul-
ty down more than a few weeks at A
time to save your life"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-12-31
The COMPANY TO ELECT
OFFICERS ON MONDAY
Captain and Lieutenant to
Be Elected.

The Americus Light Infantry will
hold an election at the armory on
night next for the election If
captain and lieutenant, thus filling
the vacancies existing Since the res
ignation of Captain Brown McLendon
month or two ago Lieut. Charles
P Davis has had command of the
Light Infantry, and it is quite proba-
BILE that in the election on Monday
night Lieut. Davis will be honored with
the eaptainey of this excellent com
mapd. Lieut.. Davis has served on the
general staff of the state troops and
his long experience in matter military
eminently qualities him for the po
sition. The Light Infantry is in the
very best physical condition, wit
large membership and excellent equip
ment.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-12-31
TO WATCH THE FLIGHT
TONIGHT OF OLD YEAR
Parties Here Will Thus Keen
Lonely Vigil.

In Americus tonight, as elsewhere
parties will sit up to watch the pass.
ing of the old year 1910 and welcome
the birth of little 1911. A watch ser
vice will probably be held at one Oh
more of the churches, while in many
homes here parties of young people
will dance the old year out and would
dance the new one in as we'll but for
the fact that it would be dancing up
on the Sabbath morn. Doubtless there
will be many regrets at the passing OF
the old year mingled with good wishes
for health and prosperity during the
new one so soon to be ushered in II
is quite likely that the Shrek of the
fire whistle at midnight will announce
the dawn of 1911.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-12-31
WILL There BE A
CENSUS OF OUR Dogs F?
RumOred City May Revive
Head Tax on CANNES.

Several years ago the city had tax
on dogs. 1t is rumored now that the
tax may be revived and all owners
of dogs required to take out a badge
from the city clerk, costing 81.
If this is decided upon by council
it will be necessary, in all likelihood,
for the police to take a dog census.
From house to house the valiant de-
tenders of the public peace then go,
demanding the names and pedigrees of
all the canine members of each house
hold.
How many dogs there are in Ameri-
Gus no one knows. Doubtless the num-
ber runs well up into the thousands.
If the city puts a tax on, as so many
other cities do, the mortality in the
dog family would be something fright
ful to contemplate. A dog cemetery
would be necessary to accommodate
the corpses, and the number of speci-
mems leaving for the country would
be incalculable.
Whether council will have the tenn
Gritty to tackle the dog problem re-
mains to be seen.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-12-31
MAKING UP BUDGETS
FOR COMING YEAR
Departments to Be Held
Down in OutIayS.

The chairman of the various commit
tees of council, cooperating with the
official heads of the departments, are
at work preparing budgets of proba-
bic expenses for the year 1911, to be
submitted to council for it's approval
at its next regular, or some special.
meeting.
Heretofore there has been more or
less OF haphazard method of operat>
ing the departments. They have gone
on running up bills and council has
been called upon to pay them No de-
partment has been given a specific
amount for its expenses for the year
and required to hold down its expen-
ditures within that fixed limit.
But from now on it is proposed to
run Americus as other properly ad-
ministered cities are run. Each de-
partment will submit to council an es.
| innate of the expenses it will proba-
bly, be put to in it's work for the com
ing year. Council as a committee of
the whole will scan these figures care
fully, pare them down when necess.
ry, and then make an appropriation
for each department.
No department is to be allowed to
| exceed its appropriation without the
consent of the council.
The budgets that are now being pre-
pared will be awaited with interest
They will give information to coun-
Gil and the public that will be of
value hereafter. Under the new sys-
tenn it is probable that the city's f.
nances can be decidedly better admin
istered than heretofore.
Alderman Brown introduced the res
olution under which the budgets will
be made up. His experience as chair
man of the Finance committee demon
strated to him the necessity of some
such change in the system.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-12-31
LITTLE Ones ARE WELL
REMEMBERED HERE
Contributions Sent to Baptist
Orphans.

The annual contribution to the State
Baptist Orphans Home at Hapewell,
Ga, from the First Baptist Sunday
school of Americus, was sent forward
yesterday, and was as liberal as freely
given. There We're boxes and bags
of hams, -four, sugar and other staple
groceries to the value of $40, while in
addition thereto was a purse of $50
in cash, which will be used by the
home in the purchase of articles mos
needed for the unfortunate little in
mates. The Sunday school of Furlow
Lawn Baptist church likewise sent a
cash contribution of $2370 to the
home, while there were individual con-
tributions as we'll.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-12-31
POOLE SHOT TO DEATH
STANDING AT DOOR
Small Boy Uses Gun With
Deadly Effect.

Helena, Ca, December 30.-Henry
Pool, who was somewhat deaf, knock
ed on the door of the home of James
Saunders near here late last night,
wishing to use the telephone Saund-
ers 12-year-old son asked who was
at the door, but his question was not
heard and unanswered, and he fired
through the door, killing Pool in
stantly.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-12-31
ATLANTA is Scene
OF SHOOTING SCRAPE
In Which Two Are Perhaps
Fatally Wounded.

Atlanta, Ca, December 30.-C. NJ
Moon, 40 years old, a cabinet maker,
was shot twice by George Murray, an !
Murray was then shot through the
head and fatally wounded by j. !
Basemore's Moons father-in-law. The
shoitng occurred in cabinet shop at
lG 1-2 Peters street, Moons wounds
ere not fatal, but Murray will die. The
trouble was the outcome of Moon s
alleged attention to Murrays wife
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-12-31
WANDERER TO SING TONIGHT
AGAIN AT THE OPERA HOUSE

"The Wanderer,r that mysterious
opera singer, will render two selec-
tions at the opera house tonight, the
first, ooh, Thou Sublime, Sweet Even
ing STAR from the opera of Tam
hauser, followed by the sweet South
ern lullaby, "Doan You Cry, My
Honey" the latter by request.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-12-31

DR.. N. S. Evans has just spent sew
eral months in Atlanta, taking private
instruction and doing practical work
of all kinds. He has recently opened
offices in Americus at Miss Bells for
mer music rooms just below Geo
Wheatley's. He has complete equip
ment and is well prepared to do any
thing in dentistry at reasonable prices
30-W1t-d3t
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-12-31
COUNCIL FIXES NEAR.
BEER LICENSE AT $500
Election of Officers Deferred
Until Next Meeting.

The city council met last night in
special session and took up the mat
ter of special or privilege taxes for
the coming year, the only item of in
terest fixed being that of the tax 10
be paid by the local near beer deal
ers, which was placed at $500 per an
mum, the same as for the present
year.
The election of city officers for the
incoming year was passed for the
meeting, and will be acted upon al
the next regular meeting of council.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-12-31
WOMEN AND GIRLS IN
STRIKE BREAK WINDOWS

Chicago, December 30.-Riots of the
striking garment workers which ceas-
ed the week before Christmas We're
renewed today Five hundred strikers,
most of them women and girls, march
ed to the tailoring shop of Hildebrand
& Company and shattered the win
doWs.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-12-31
THIRTY-FIVE HUNDRED
HOMELESS IN MESSINA
On Anniversary Of Earth
quake.

Messina, Italy, December 30
Three thousand persons are homeless
today as result of fire which broke
out yesterday, one day after the an
niversary of the earthquake calam-
ity, and caused the loss of over 81 :
100000, The fire was gotten under
control shortly before dawn today
after large number of buildings
erected since the earthquake had
been destroyed
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-12-31
TWAS THE CREAM OF WIT.
Soda Fountain Girl Bottled Up the
Fresh Drummer.

Winsted, Conn, December 30.-A
drummer approached a girl in charge
of soda fountain in Willimantic and
before giving his order asked, 'How
is the milkmaid tonight?
milk isn't made; it comes from
cows, you fool was the retort He
was glad to keep his mouth closed
after that.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-12-31
MODERN GUNS.

Modern guns are simple, durable and
perfect in every way. Only two makes
of Goth Century guns on the market
this year. They are to be found in
II, 16 and 20 guage, as light as 5 lbs
8 or, and moderate priced, al
SMITHWICK'S GUN STORE.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-12-31

Any ladies' or child'S s,.. or cloak;
any mans or boys suit or Overeoat,
at exactly half price. All other items
same reduction as before until further
notice. Watch for notice big rem
nant sale. Warlick Bros. Co.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-12-31

Any ladies' or child's suit or cloak;
any mans or boys suit or overcoat,
at exactly half price. All other items
same reduction as before until further
notice. Watch for notice big rem
nant sale. Warlick Bros. Co.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-12-31
AUTO STRUCK A PIGI.ET
INSTEAD 0 FA PICK

In noting the accident occurring to
Mr.. Joseph Johnsons car a day or
two ago it was stated that the wheels
struck pick, thus upsetting the car,
when really pig in IT, road was the
obstruction, and not IA small one
either Charles w adromkorth, the
meehanieian aboard the car, is out
again, though still bruised considera-
bly,,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-12-31

1t is better to forgive than to spend
a week in the hospital.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-12-31
LADIES' LONG COATS
AT HALF PRICE

HAMILTON & 60.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1910-04-01
TOO OLD TO TOP GRAFT

w. S. Carpenter, Tumwater, WASH,
writes Il have quite a number OF
old trees that [ would like to change
by top grating. They are mostly
sweet apples. Could you tell me where
to get scions and what would be best
to use? These are old probably
so or 60 years old. Would a scion do
any good in an old limb when it is
looking fairly we'll? Also can you tell
me " here can get Loganberry roots
propogated in 1908. | thought like
this, if they could be bought of some
farmer they could be purchased for
much less tn an from some nursery
man.
My judgment is that a tree is too
old at 80 or 60 to be top grated. L
would never try to work over tree at
that age. The best thing to do with
trees that old is to "Oslerize' them,
that is, kill them off. do not want
trees of any kind in my orchard that
are 80 years old. AS | said few
months ago IN these columns we make
a mistake in fruit growing to allow
our Jr ees to get very old. Ii trees
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1910-04-01

and would like your opinion as to the
best variety to plant. Had thought OF
setting out Winter Bartlett but don't
know anything about it, and do not
want to experiment if l can get along
without it. Any information you can
give Will he appreciated
1t has often been a wonder to me
that people living in the Puget Sound
country do not grow more pears. SO
far as | have been able to learn, this
section is ideal for pears. Pears
grown on Puget Sound will not be
ready for market as soon as those
grown in the warm valleys east of the
Cascade Range, but that in my judg
ment is an advantage rather than a
drawback for when the pears here are
ready for market those east of the
Range will be out of the way. | have
no hesitancy in saying that the Bart
lett-not the winter Bartlett-is the
best all round pear for money max
ing. The trees commence to bear very
young and keep at it as long as there
is life and health in the trees. The
Beurre de Anjou will ordinarily sell
for higher price in the eastern mark
cts than the Bartlett, but from my eX-
perience, believe that during the
first fifteen years in the orchard, the
Bartlett will bear ten times as many
as the Anjou. From this 1t is easy
to see which of the two will pay the
better.
The Winter Bartlett is not very we'll
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1910-04-01
GROW MORE PEARS

Mr.. e. o. Lovejoy, Coupeville,
Washington, writes under date of Feb.
oath: 81 have been referred to you
as authority on fruits. | expect to
set out few acres of pears this spring
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1910-04-01
Horticulture

is very unwise not to have the matter
settled definitely. Friend Fairbanks
will confer great favor by seeing to
this at once. The pear blight cost
California $40, 600, 600 in loss of trees.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1910-04-01

tested, being comparatively new
pear and and I would not risk it any
further than to plant few trees as an
experiment. For a winter pear, |
would plant both the Winter Nelis aud
the Buerre Easter. The Nelis is one
of the best pears in quality that grows,
but it is small and the tree is ill-shap-
ed. People who know the Nelis will
buy it on account of it's high quality.
For very early pears | would grow
Bueire Clifford. 1t is fine in quality,
bears we'll but will not keep long. 1t
could not be shipped any great dis
lance. The Easter is a fairly good
pear, the tree is vigorous grower
and the fruit sells well in the east
ern markets. There are many other
good pears but | have given the ones
| would prefer and ] speak from my
own experience. 1t is always a good
rule for the person who contemplates
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1910-04-01

after they come into bearing we ought
to be we'll satisfied. There is vastly
more money in young trees than to be
tinkering along with old trees. We
plant our corn and SOW our small
grains every year and are better salts
fed, why not be with our trees If they
bear p1ofitably from ID to % years?
Crafts will grow to some extent III old
trees but it is an awful job to top
graft a tree so years old for you must
do your work away up in the air and
if they bear it is a hard job to reach
the fruit.
1t is a hard matter for a farmer who
is busy in the spring of the year to
put up few CRAFTS to be sent away
by mail. There is absolutely no mon
ey in the business. The same is true
about the LOganberry roots. | do not
know of any farmer who has any.
If | we're going to work over these
trees at all | would graft them to such
apples as would do we'll on Puget
Sound. The King, the Baldwin, the
Northern Spy and Hubartson Non
such do we'll on the Sound.
ABOUT THE STAYMAN WINESAP
V. R. Herbert, Albion, California,
writes under date Of Feb. 22nd:
"Will you kindly give me the infor-
I oL~t oIY
Stayman Winesap scions, or some or
chards where the SJayman Winesap is
grown, want to give this apple
tt ial in this section. Would also be
pleased to learn whether there is an
other name for Smith Cider, if so,
what?
1t is not difficult matter to give
the names of fruit men who raise the
Stayman but whether any one can
furnish scions, l can not tell. j. ID.
Laughlin, Toppenish, WASH, r. f. ID.
No. /, grows quite good many Stay
man apples but whether he can take
the time to cut and put up for CARL
age by mail, a package, do not know.
Mr.. Laughlin is most excellent
gentleman and is ever ready to ac
commodate a neighboI and will comply
with Mr.. Herbert's request if he can
conveniently do so. To charge price
that would be really a compensation
for the trouble would look like extOr
ton. Few know how much trouble it
is to select and put up few scions
and deliver them to the postotfice.
1t is a question among apple men
whether this apple should be called
Stayman Winesap or simply Stayman.
1t is a Seeding of the WInesap and
was originated by DR.. j. Stayman in
1866, at Leavenworth, Kansas and
bore it's first fruit in 1875. Van De-
man says it is the best variety of the
Winesap class. But one objection has
ever been noted against it and that is
that it does not color as we'll as its
parent. 1t is larger, just as good in
quality, keeps as long and sells better
because it averages larger. In the At
lantic cities it's lack of color is again
it.
Smith Cider, like many other ap-
Piles, is known under numerous syn
onyms. These are choice kentuck,
Fowler, Fuller, Jackson, Winesap,
Pennsylvania Cider and Poplar Bluff.
ex.I - b.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1910-04-01

the seed it passes out of spout into furow
mistake about its actually being sown Sow
ing instantly stopped by quick cutoff There are more g&o
page IRON AGE tools displayed by our
agents Illustrated descriptive material sent free on request
Write for it.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-11-30
STRICKEN TOWNS RISE.
Seventy-five New Buildings Erected
at Beaudette and Spooner.

Spooner. - Seventy-five residences
and business houses are ready for oc-
cupatiOn at Spooner, while in Beau
dette practically every person is liv-
ing in newly constructed houses, and
the council is planning permanent i'm
provements.
Beaudette is in an excellent condi-
ton financially. A modern city hall
of brick will be one of the first build
ings to go up next spring. Cement
walks are to replace the old board
ones and the erection of school build
ing to. cost $4,000 probably will be
decided upon. In the meantime work
is going ahead on four school build
ings for use this winter.
Among the Beaudette business
blocks which will be erected is one
of solid brick, 100 feet square, with
Office apartments on the second floor.
Architects are drawing plans for not
less than twelve brick business houses
and concrete structures also will go up.
Albert Berg has moved his bank fix
lures and funds from temporary quar-
tiers in the Shevlin- Mathien lumber
mill offices into a new building. Mr..
Berg, who at one time was secretary
of state of Minnesota, had planned on
retiring from active business, but ow-
ing to the losses sustained by the fire,
will continue an active force in his
institution, the Security Bank.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-11-30
News Of. S scandinavia
Principal Happenings Of the Week
in the Scandinavian Countries.

The public school at Odensy:, neaI
Vasteras, was closed on account Of
several cases of infantile paralysis II
the neighborhood. II
Herman Lantz, a Swede who a
making canoe voyage thru Europe,
hao Dad mishap on the river Rhone.
france. He left Gothenburg in Aug
ust, followed the coasts of Sweden,
denmark and Holland, and continued
MS voyage up the river Seine to Paris.
where he spent two weeks s;ght-see-
ing. Then he went up the Seine still
further, and crossed the country by
rail to the Rhone. Down this river he
had an easy time of it until he came
within a few miles of. its mouth. The
light from the steamer. Ganigou mis-.
led him, and his little craft ran
against the steamer with such force
that 1t was disabled and went to the
bottom. The crew of the steamer
saved his life, and he says he is bound
to complete his trip. Mr. Lantz in
tends to go thru the Mediterranean
sea, the Egean sea; the Black sea, and
the Caspian sea, and to sail up the
Volga and return to Sweden by way
OF st. Petersburg. He pays his way
ny writing correspondence for the
Seglaren.