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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-05-14

morgan Had run with GaIIInQer.
Another story was told of Senator
Gallinger Of New Hampshire who il
still in the senate and Senator Nor.
gan of Alabama who died not long ago
at an advanced age. The bill to admit
Oklahoma as state was under dis
cussion and Senator Gallinger had in
troduced an amendment providing that
no intoxicating liquor should be sold
in the new state for twenty-one years.
Then the Alabama senator rose in
his seat and solemnly proposed to Mr..
Gallinger's amendment-an amend
ment to the effect that no one should
sell or give intoxicating drinks to the
inhabitants of the new state, "ex-
cept wines which were made in the
United States" IL
Senator Gallinger, who Is the head
and front of every reform movement
which reaches the senate, looked with
absolute horror at his friend from Ala
bama. The New Hampshire senator
had In front of him in imagination q
picture of the five civilized tribes lay.
ing in seasons supply Of California
port and Missouri champagne. He
FASTENED to tell the senate that Indians
could get drunk on the American prod
uct- as rapidly and as completely a.
they could on the product of the vine
yards of France, and that there were
as many warpath possibilities In bot
tie of one as In bottle Of the other.
The amendment to the amendment
was voted down, and there was just
suspicion Of a movement Of the body
OF the Alabama senator to suggest that
no was laughing.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-06-30

of Trade. Americas, Ga. While this
Forward Edition gives much informa-
ton relative to city and county there
may be additional data desired by
some one considering removal. If
so, letter to the secretary of the
Board of Trade will bring it, if it is
obtainable. 1t is the purpose and de-
sire of the organization to assist ev-
cry prospective settler to as complete
information as possible and to like
wise aid manufacturers, merchants
and investors generally who may have
their attention attracted to this city
and county and who may desire spe-
ciffc Information that is not presented
in these pages.
Sumter County Advertising Club
is projected and will doubtless soon
be organized, independent of the
Board of Trade, yet working in har-
mony with that organization, its spe-
cific purpose being, as its name indi-
Gates, to raise funds and expend them
in advertising Sumter County.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-06-30
Leslie
and


Located in one of the richest agri-
cultural sections of Sumter county.
APPLY called "The Eden of Sumter"
are two of the most f1ourishing and
progressive of the small but rapidly
growing towns of Southern Georgia,
Leslie and DeSoto. These towns are
very near together and the friendly
rivalry existing serves to keep both
in the front line of progress and de-
velopment in all departments.
Backed by magnificent farming
region great plantations as we'll as
model small farms where the most
advanced methods of agriculture are
employed, both Leslie and DeSoto,
as we'll as their smaller sister town
of Huntington, also admirably To-
CdISu Ill IuG SAINT 1dFOI0u IcSlOlJ
draw fine trade and enjoy consider
able prosperity.
According to local tradition the
renowned discoverer, DeSoto, in his
search for the fountain of youth,
camped with his faithful followers
upon the identical site Of the pro-
gressive little town which bears his
name, and while the hidden fountain
was never revealed to the great
Spaniard, it was his privilege to look
upon a rich and fair section of Geor-
gia.
DeSoto boasts all the essentials of
a model little town. Beautiful homes
adorn it's streets and a more hospita-
BILE citizenship does not exist any,
where. It's homes, it's churches, its
brick stores and several Industrial
enterprises, all attest it's progressive
people. The DeSoto Banking Com
pany is one of the enterprising in
stitutions of the town, and does lu-
crative and. at the same time, con-
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-06-30

hold articles that is at once large
and permanent. The variety of arti-
cIes used is, indeed, remarkable, and
the demand for each is exceptional,
as shown by the large sale of all the
goods named in the foregoing cate
CORY, as we'll as of many other articles
of which no mention at all is made.
An Investigation of the success of all
the firms here that operate in this kind
of business would prove of the great
est interest and value to every one
who is contemplating taking either an
interest in such establishments here
or in establishing firms of these kinds
Three widely known wholesale gro
Gerry houses are operating here most
successfully, two of which have been
in business for many years, with con-
stantly increasing trade and prestige
The third one is OF more recent origin,
but its great success has shown with
all the more clearness how wide a
field is still to be covered by enter
prising and hustling wholesale firms.
The three grocery firms to which ref
erence is made are the Moreland-
Jones Company, a recently organized
and very enterprising house, rapidly
developing an extensive business
throughout this section; the Americas
Grocery Company, and the Glover Gro
Gerry Company, these latter two old and
highly prosperous concerns each of
which is now enjoying we'll
merited success in the wholesale field
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-06-30

These wholesale houses are doing a
great work in supplying the trade of
this section with the best groceries at
the lowest market prices, and their
success means much in the general
development of the trade of this Sec
ton.
Two vigorous and enterprising hard
ware houses, which deal not only in
farm and agricultural implements and
machinery, but also in the many sup
plies that are needed in farm work
and activities, are enjoying health
full growth and increase of trade. The
Observation-Disclosures Hardware Com
pany and ]. w. Harris are the two
firms which are so well known in this
section and which are doing such ex-
ceptionally good trade in SUPPLYING
this rich agricultural section with
these needed supplies. Their lines of
hardware are large and we'll assorted
and few are the demands made upon
them that they cannot supply almost
on demand.
AS stated, there appears to be an
exceptional opening here for iobbing
houses in other lines-dry goods.
clothing, hats and shoes, drugs, etc
The territory easily served from this
point is not only large and prosper
Gus, but it is rapidly expanding in
population and wealth, the scale of
living is broadening rapidly and a bet
ter field for wholesale houses in lines
not already covered could hardly be
found.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-06-30

A Thriving Wholesale Trade Here

ami other trade of this section. The
Seaboard has very long and rich ter
ritory from which to draw and gives,
as does the Central, another outlet
direct to the sea-
The varied demand for a general
line OF articles such as are handled
by wholesale firms, is always strong
and active. There is no season of the
year and no condition of business ac-
tivity that diminishes the trade of this
kind to any appreciate extent. The
demand for the goods sold by whole
sale houses is always active and firm,
because the territory surrounding the
city is not only thickly populated with
the best class of people, but it is also
so based in prosperity through many
years of successful and scientific
farming that it is a demand that can
not fail. This is the most substantial
prosperity of which any section can
boast, and it insures the permanent
development and growth of the whole
sale trade of this city and section.
The demand for articles that are
supplied to the wholesale trade here is
for such as are needed in a rich, pro-
gressiye and notwithstanding agri-
cultural section, where large numbers
of the most progressive and wide
awake farmers are located. This
naturally creates an increasing de-
mand for clothing, hats, shoes, no.
tons, drugs, agricultural implements,
farm machinery, groceries and house
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-06-30
The Daily
TnneS-RecOrder

The Times Recorder
Monday daily
with weekly
pion daily year. of weekly year
The TmesRecordr material inter
of Americas county makes
speciality industries and
business in its this
particular section Georgia invaluable bringing
him, day after the city
and making development
No who conemp becoming investor resident OF m
section afford without regular visitor Al
dress THE TINES RECORDER, Americus Ga
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-06-30
Resources of the
New South

The South now has 100000 more
cotton spindles than the United States
had in 1880. The value of its mineral
products last year was 100000, 900,
or 100000 more than the value of
the mineral products in the United
States in 1880.
In the last 80 years the population
of the South has increased 77.5 per
cent, but during the same period the
capital invested in manufactures in
creased $50 per cent, the value of
mineral products 1880 per cent, the
output of coal 1900 per cent, the
value Of farm lands and buildings 305
per cent, the resources of national
banks S91 per cent. and the eXpendi-
lures for common schools 525 per
cent. These figures indicate some
thing of the amazing increase in agri-
culture, in manufactures and in bank
ing capital as compared with the in
crease in population.
The value of farm products in the
South in 1880 was $756,OOO, 900. Last
year the amount was over $3O00,00O,-
600, and was greater by $6OO,000,O00
than the value of all the farm crops
of the United States as late as 1890
The value of exports from Southern
ports last year was $747,000,0O0, as
compared with 1857, 100000 for the en-
tire country in 1890.
The population of the IS Southern
states is 33,OOO,OOO, while that of the
United States in 1880 was 5O,OOO,O0O,
but the capital invested in manufactur-
ing in the South is now $3,000,000, 900,
or $300,0O0,O0O more than the total
capital invested in manufacturing in
the United States in 1880.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-06-30
Americas Board OF Trade

Six years of useful work for the
City OF Americas and the County IF
Sumter make up the history, to date,
of the Americas Board of Trade, an
organization embracing in it's men,
bership all of the leading business in
terests of the city whose name It
bears.
Growing out of an appreciation of
the fact that no progressive city can
afford to be without a competent or
ganization of its business interests,
ready either to fight in its defence or
to stand as a unit in the promotion Of
r., welfare, the Heading me1chant
bankers of the city organized the
Toard of Trade in 1906. Its value 20
tie city and county has ever since
been apparent. Through its medium
both have been extensively advertised
Through it the city has been enabled
to secure concessions from transpor-
tation lines that might otherwise have
been lacking Through it the business
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-06-30

men have been in position to enter
into projects that gave promise of
advancing the general interests Of
Americas. Through it, too, they have
been enabled to suitably entertain Wis
itors entitled to public recognition.
All in all, the Board of Trade of
Americas has well justified the claims
of its original promoters that it
would be of sterling service to both
city and county. Through it's adver-
Using the names of Americas and
Sumter county have been carried over
the entire country. The money ex-
rended in support of the organization
has been money well expended
AS usual with such bodies, one If
the prime duties of the Board IF
Trade is the furnishing of information
about the city and county to those
seeking it. Any one desiring addition
al information about Americas or
Sumter county can secure same by
addressing the Secretary of the Board
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-06-30

sentative business.
When it is known that only a few
years ago the site of DeSoto and of
Leslie, only one mile distant, was a
great cotton plantation of $500 fer
tile acres with the ante-bellum home
of the former owner as the only habi-
tation for miles about, the progress
achieved by the twin towns" is bet
ter understood and appreciated.
Like DeSoto, the pretty town of
Leslie presents an inviting picture to
the visitor There, too, are attractive
dwellings, and a hospitable people
ever ready to welcome the stranger
progress IS indelibly stamped upon
Leslie and her hustling citizens are
keeping the pace they have set in
making their town the pride of its
people.
Leslie's business houses take rank
with those of any Georgia city OF
it's size. Substantial brick stores
adorn it's principal streets, while
several industrial enterprises attest
the spirit of development. It's churches
and more particularly it's public
school building, one of the largest
and most thorough schools in the
county, are pointed to with pride
The Bank of Leslie, with ample
capital to meet all demands upon it..
is one of the institutions of the town.
For the homeseeker, whether pos
sessing great wealth or of modest
means, there is no more inviting To-
cality than that around Leslie, De-
Soto or Huntington. Besides railway
facilities supplied by the Seaboard
Air Line, upon which all three towns
are located, fine graded highways af-
ford an outlet to every portion of the
county and to Americas, but a few
miles distant.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-06-30

No better indication exists of the
wide success and progressiyeness of
Americas than the number of large
and growing wholesale houses that
are enjoying the trade of this rich
and resourceful section of the state.
The number of these, as we'll as the
success with which they have met, is
unusually large and indicative of much
further in this particular.
Every year the wide territory which
is supplied by these houses continues
to grow and towiden, showing clearly
that the possibilities of growth in
this particular are not only excep-
tional, but are constantly being dis
covered and developed. A history of
the growth of the wholesale trade
here, as it has occurred during the
past ten years, would serve to show
this infinitely and in detail, if space
were permitted to give such history
One of the most important factors
in the growth of this trade has been
the exceptional transportation facili-
ties that are offered to such wholesale
firms. Two railroads, the Central of
Georgia and the Seaboard Air Line,
have Wed with each other to give the
wholesale dealers of this section the
very best service that could be de-
sired in this particular. The Central
operates two convergent lines. being
thereby practically equivalent to two
different railroads in the work that
it is doing to develop the wholesale
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-06-30

George i'm
mediately nau
of
the schools the
ndefatii
ftabe this section
increasingly
naming February 1912
Agricultural Department.
the organization of Boys Corn clubs
the interests the coming
of
could be placed in the field college,
the his
nv
entrusted to him. who acquainted with
ida in 1882 He a
Agricultural
Normal School, Athens
and
teacher in Lowndes county in 1905. educational.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-03-16

women IN that camp: We put him In
their hands and l left shortly after
wards"
Il kin tell the rest" said old Kirk
by. Known more about the noun
tains than most people hereabouts
led the men that didn't go back with
Bob an Newbold to the place Were
he said his woman fell. an there we
found her, her body leastways."
But the wolves?" Queried the girl.
He'd drug her into kind OF q
boiler and piled rocks over her. He'd
gone down into the canon, witch was
something frightful, an then climbed
up to Were she'd lodged. We had
plenty of rope, havin' brought 1t along
a purpose, an We let ourselves down
to the shelf where she was a lynn.
We wrapped her body up in blankets
an roped it an finally drug her up
on the old Injun trail, leastways / sup
pose 1t was made afore there was any
Injuns, an brought her back to Ever
green camp, witch the only thing about
1t that was green was the swing doors
on the saloon. We got a parson out
from Denver an give her a Christian
burial"
rs that all?" asked Enid as the old
man paused again"
Nope" =
ooh. the man." exclaimed the wom-
an with quick intuition.
He recovered his senses SO they
told us, an we'en We got back he'd
gone"
"Where?" was the instant question.
Old Kirkby stretched out his hands.
Don't ak me-" he said, he'd Jest
gone. l amt never seed or heerd OF
him sence. Poor little Louise Rosser,
she did have hard time"
YES" said Enid, but | think the
man had a harder time than she. He
loved herr"
1T looked like it." answered Kirkby.
IF you had seen him, his remorse.
his anguish, his horror" said Matt
land, you wouldn't have had any
doubt about 1t. But 1t is getting late.
In the mountains everybody gets up
at daybreak. Your sleeping bags are
In the tents, ladies'; time to 60 to
bed"
AS the party broke up, old Kirkby
rose slowly to his feet; he looked
meaningly toward the young woman,
upon whom the spell of the tragedy
still fingered, he nodded toward the
young brook, and then repeated his
speaking glance at her. His meaning
was patent, although no one else had
seen the covert invitation.
Come Kirby" said the girl in
quick response, you shall be my es-
cort. | want drink before / turn in.
No, never mind" she said, as Brad
shaw and Philips both volunteered.
mot this time"
The old frontiersman and the young
girl strolled Off together. They stop
ped by the brink of the rushing tor.
rent few yards away. The noise
that 1t made drowned the low tones OF
their voices and kept the others, busy
preparing to retire, from hearing what
they said.
That amt quite all the story, Miss
Enid" said the old trapper meaningiy
There was another man."
What" exclaimed the girl.
"Oh, there wasn't nothia' wrong
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-03-16

Read the LETTERS, he Saio.
with Louise Rosser. witch she was
Louise Newbold. but there was an
other man; 1 suspected it afore, that's
why she was sad. Wen We found her
body I knowed It,"
Il don't understand"
'These'u explain" said Kirkby. He
drew out from his rough hunting coat
a package of soiled letters; they were
carefully enclosed in an Oil skin and
tied with a faded ribbon. You see,
he continued, holding them In his
hand yet carefully concealing them
from the people at the fire. Wen
she fell of the cliff-somehow the
mule lost his footin', nobody never
knowed how, leastways the mule was
dead an couldn't tell-she struck on
a spur or shelf about hundred feet
below the brink; evidently she was
carryin' the letters In her dress. Her
bosom was frightfully tore open an
the letters was lynn there. Newbold
didn't see 'em, because he went down
into the canon an came up to the
shelf, or butte head, were the body
was lynn but We dropped down. j
was the first man down an | got EN-.
Nobody else seem me, an there amt
no human eyes, not even my w1fe's,
that's ever looked on them letters, ex'
cept mine and now yourn."
You are going to give them to
me?"
Il am" said Kirkby.
But WHY"
II want you to know the hull story
But why, again."
81 rather guess them letters'n tell,
answered the old man evasively, AN
l like you, and l don't want to see
you throwed away"
What do you mean?" asked the girl
curiously, thrilling to the soIemnity OF
the moment, the seriousness, the kind
affection of the old frontiersman, the
weird scene. the fire light, the tents
cleaning ghostlike, the black wall OF
the canon and the tops of the noun
tain range broadening out beneath the
stars In the clear sky where they
twinkled above her head, the strange
and terrible story. and now the letters
in her hand, which somehow seemed
to be imbued with human feeling.
Kirkby patted her on the shoulder.
Read the letters" he said: they'll
tell the story. Good night"
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rom mere JnaI there Is one or the
most stupendous canons through the
range; nobody ever goes there; 1 don't
suppose anybody has ever been there
since. 1t must have been at least
FIVE years ago that 1t all happened"
1T was four years an nine months
exactly, Bob" drawled old Kirkby,
who well knew what was coming.
YES. 1 dare say you are right. 1
was up at Evergreen at the time look
ing after timber interests, when a
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piacency upon her, confident and sat
listed that his prescription was work
Ing well. Nor was he the only one
who looked at her that way. Marion
and Emma. his two daughters, wor-
shipped their handsome Philadelphia
cousin and they sat one on either side
OF her on the great log lying between
the tents and the nre. Even Bob
Junior condescended to give her ap-
proving giances. The whole camp
was at her feet Mrs. Maitland had
been greatly taken by her young
niece. Kirkby made no secret OF his
devotion, Arthur Bradshaw and Henry
Philips- each . .tenderfoot" OF the ex-
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Continued Monday

A beautiful line Of stationery and
box paper at Tydings & Co.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-11
THos. J. OWEN Z SON. AucT1oNEERs.

TRUSTEES SALE OF yALUABI.E IMPROVED
REAL ESTATE, A TwO-STORY AND At
TIC FRAME DWELLING. IN RENO. ..
c. LOCATED on EILICOTT PLACE NEAR
BELT ROAD NORTHWEST.
By virtue Of certain deed OF trust duly re-
corded in Liber No. 1896, folio 426 ct seq. Of
the land records OF the District of Columbia.
and at the request Of the party secured there
by. the undersigned trustee will sell. at pub
lie auction. In front Of the premises. ON IuEs-
DAY. THE TWENTY-FTRST DAY OF MAY.
AID 1872 at HALF-PAST -FOUR O'CLOCK
D. M the following described land and premises.
situate in the county Of Washington. District
OF Columbia and designated as and being lots
numbered I'VE ~ and six 80 in block num-
Of Giles Dyers estate. known as Reno as
per plat recorded in the surveyors once Of the
District Of Columbia In Book Governor Shep-
herd page 81, together with the improvements,
consisting OF two-story and attic frame DWELL
Ing, located on Ellicott place near Belt road
Terms Of sale: One-third Of the purchase
money to be paid in cash, balance In two
equal instauments. payable In one and two
years with interest at hve per centum per an
num- payable emiannually. from day Of sale.
secured by deed Of trust upon the property
Sold or ali cash, at the option Of the purchaser:
4 deposit Of sloo win be required at time Of
Of purchaser. Terms Of sale to be complied
with within fifteen days from day OF sale,
otherwise the trustee reserves the right 70 r.
sell the property at the risk ana cost OF deIaut-
ing purchaser after i've days advertisement OF
such resale In some newspaper published In
s SSfnsne.SS SECURITY AND TRUST CON-
President JAMES r. WOOD. Secretary.
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