Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-09-29
HELP BUILD UP SUMTER COUNTY
AND AMERICUS.

worthless without peop.e to develop
ami enjoy them
First, get your people, and they
will take care of your resources.
Every permanent settler in Geof-
gia means much more than merely
another man or another family in the
city or community. 1t means that
greater wealth has been added to thai
city or community and that the value
of every mans property therein has
been indirectly enhanced and tie more
there are of such sttlers, the greater
the Observation-Disclosures Georgian.
Get your people and they will take
care of your resources"
That is the position the Times-Re-
corder has taken right along in the
matter of advertising and bringing
desirable white farmers into sumte.'
county.
Get them here and they will become
great factors in assisting those already
here in the development of the county
and the building up of the city
Every time man of intelligence.
progressiveness and some capital is
brought in Sumter county the county
is enriched and Americas is benefited
Every time new settler comes here
and locates and bcomes a working fac
tor in the upbuilding of the county
and city every man III tie county is
benefited.
If we can get one hundred white
farmers into Sumter county in the
next year, men who will take farms
of 100 to 500 acres, settle on them, de
vote their brains and their enegries
to getting everything out of the soil
that is possible under modern inten-
stve methods, who can deny that
Sumter county and the city of Amerl
Gus will be enormously benefited
THEREBY?
The more there are of such set
tiers the greater the enhancement. No
one can deny that, no one can even
call it into question.
The Board of Trade is concentrat,
ing it's efforts on this line. 1t is
realized that this is the line it's eff
forts should take, that it is for this
purpose it's funds should be expend
ed.
Fill up Sumter with a high grade Of
white farmers, add several hundred
white families to those already living
in tie country sections about the
city, and the difference in the. trade
of Americas will be enormous. Life
in the country will be made far pleas
anter, every part of it will be made
to blossom like a well kept garden.
1t can be done. There is no doubt
of that. If advertising will draw go :
600 to $4,000 home seekers to Florida
in a year, and hundreds of thousands
to Texas, surely advertising, on a
more limited scale, will draw a few
scores to Sumter county.
1t is up to the citizens of Americas
to decide whether the results are
worth the effort and the little expen-
diture of money. The Board of Trade
can carry an effective advertisements
in dozen farm Journals of the South
and North or West by an expenditure
of $500 a year, advertisements tnat
Will reach thousands of men who are
looking for new homes in a climate
where the rigors of winter are un-
known, in section where life can be
enjoyed throughout THE twelve months,
Surely there are enough entrpris>
ing men of public spirit in Americas to
permit of this, to guarantee by tkeiI
membership sufficient funds to carcy
on a campaign that is so inexpensive
and that may be fraught with such
results
Think it over. If YOU are not al
ready a member of the organization.
give your name to the soliciting COM
mittee. Help to advertise Sumter
county, help to build ap Americus.