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The Holt County sentinel., 1912-07-05

Keep the dies away from the sick, especially those
III with contagious diseases. Kill every Ay that
strays into the sckroom. His body 10 covered with
disease germs.
Do not allow decaying material Of any sort to 60
emulate on or near your premises.
Screen all food and insist that your grocer butcher
baker and every one from whom you buy foodstuas
does the same.
Don't buy foodstu6s where Aies are tolerated
Don't eat where hies have access to food.
Keep all receptacles for garbage carefully covered
and the cans cleaned or sprinkled with oil or lime
Keep oil stable manure in vault or pit screened or
sprnkled with lime. oil other cheap preparations
- 90 per cent Of the flies come from stable manure
and per cent from garbage and other filth.
Keep the streets and alleys clean.
Bee that your sewage system 10 in good order; that
II does not leak up to date and not exposed to Aes
Pour kerosene into the drsiaa
The Holt County sentinel., 1912-07-05

Burn ryrethrum powder in the house to kin the
dies or use mixture Of formaldehyds and water one
spoonful to quarter pint Of water. This exposed in
the room will kill all the flies.
Burn or bury oil table refuse.
Screen al windows and DOORS especially In the
kitchen and dining room.
II you see flies you may be sure that their breeding
place 10 in nearby Alth It may b behind the deer,
under the table or in the euspdors
Remove all refuse and Alth from house. yard and
outhouses and thus prevent dies from breeding o.
your premises
II there 10 no dirt and Alth there will Be no Aiss
IF THERE rs A NUISANCE IN THE NEIGH.
BoRHooD WRITE AT ONCE TO THE BOARD OF
HEALTH.
Health Is wealth." and "an ounce Of prevention
10 worth pound Of cure"
There 10 more health in house well screened thaa
In many doctors visit.
The only safe way 10 to keep ont Tie lisa
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-04-18
WHAT SAVED
her LIFE
Mrs. Martin Tells About a Painful
Experience that Might Have
Ended Seriously.

Rivesville, w. Va.-Mrs. Dora Martin
in letter from Rivesville, writes:
For three years, suffered with wo
manly troubles, and had pains, In my
back and side. was nervous and
could not sleep at night
The doctor could not help me. He
said would have to be operated on be.
fore I could get better l thought
would try using Cardui.
Now, I am entirely we'll.
am sure Cardui saved my life.
will never be without Cardui in my
home. I recommend it to my friends. -
For fifty years, Cardui has been re.
lieving pain and distress caused by wo.
manly trouble. 1t will surely help you
1t goes to- the spot-reaches the
trouble-relieves the symptoms, and
drives away the cause.
If you suffer from any symptoms OF
womanly trouble, take Cardui.
Your druggist sells and recommends
1t. Get bottle from him today.
N. B.-Write to: Ladies' Advisory Dept. Chatta.
nooga Medicine Co., Chattanooga. Tenn. for Special
Instructions, and 64-page book, Home Treatment
for Women" sent in plain wrapper. on request.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-04-18
EXPERIENCE GREAT TEACHER
ton Laws for Advertisers, Says
Printers Ink.

Experience is a great teacher"
says Printers Ink, "but there isn't
any law compelling attendance at her
school"
The other day circular letter came
to hand-the seventh or eighth of a
series from a New England city. The
letter began: Before you throw this
letter into the waste-b basket won't you
admit that | am rather PERSISTENT
What else was in the circular the re-
cipient knoweth not, because at this
point, the writer having made it quite
CLAIR that he expected his missive to
go to the waste-basket, into the waste
basket 1t went.
There Is no law, to paraphrase
Printers Ink, compelling the circular
izer to attend the school Of exper-
fence If six or seven letters fail to
produce results he sends a seventh or
eighth. And doubtless there will be
a tenth, and mayhap a twentieth. All
of which is good for the printer, If not
so profitable for the advertiser.
If three-quarters of the money that
is now spent for futile circularization
should be spent for newspaper adver-
Using in strong, influential mediums
the campaign orators this fall would
all be busy telling the voters just
how their respective parties were en-
titled to the credit for an unprecs-
denied wave of prosperity.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-04-18
WROTE HIS "AD" IN FROST
chicago Merchant overcame Handi.
cap of Ice Glazed Show
Windows.

There is one merchant in Chicago
VINO possesses the faculty of turning
defeat into victory. His opportunity
came during the most recent zero
speh, when frost coated most of the
store windows so thickly that it was
impossible for persons on the side
walk to see the display of goods or
to make out the lettering on the win
dows. For a while it seemed to this
merchant that the only thing to do
was to buttonhole the passers-by and
lead them into his shop. 1t was too
cold to consider such a step, however,
SO he set himself to thinking and at
last worked out plan that gave him
a distinct advantage over his neigh
bors
His idea was to let Jack Frost work
for him instead of against him. His
conciliatory attitude soon won that
careless artist over. In the first place
the merchant let the frost gather In
thick crust on the panes. Then
taking brush dipped in hot water
he applied it to his temporary canvas
and dashed off some clever copy"
that was easily visible from without.
This required slight retouching from
time to time, but there was plenty of
frost for the background and plenty Of
hot water.
To a person walking along the street
the other windows presented a solid
opaque front by no means alluring
When, however, his eye fell upon the
dashing frost written window lad" an
nouncing reduction Of $3.50 shirts
to $1.S8 and an overwhelming chop
ping off in the price of ear caps AMI
muffiers, he was moved to go In ant
invest.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-04-18
GEMINI

Gemini, Ca, April 17.-Messrs. E
R. Lane and o. A. Summers made q
business trip to Winona last Satur,
day.
Mrs. George Slater and children
returned to their home in Graceville
Fla, last Saturday, after spending
two weeks with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. j. F. Dorman.
Several from around here attended
The school picnic in Cut-Off last Fri
day.
ed home after spending two weeks
Miss Annie Pennington has return
very pleasantly with Miss Minnie
Jones, of Ellaville.
Mrs. j. l. Pennington and son, Dali
las, spent Saturday and Sunday in
Americas with relatives.
Misses Mary and Rath Pennington
We're the guests of Miss Ethel Parker
Friday afternoon.
Miss Annie Pennington has as her
guest this week Misses Helen Ton
dee, of Ellaville and Annie Willie
Finch, of Americus
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-04-18

Dublin, Ireland, April 17.-lrish po-
tatoes are being shipped to America
bv the thousands of barrels. Never
before in the history of this country
has there been such a demand for
Irish produce from the United States
If it keeps up a new impetus will be
given to the industry and ambition Of
the Irish farmer.
Reports coming back from America
say that the potatoes from Ireland
are giving full satisfaction in the big
hotels and restaurants and renewal
orders are coming over by mail and
cable
In 1879, when rack-renting land
lordism was at it's height, and its
worst, the ship Constellation of the
American navy was sent to Ireland
loaded with provisions for the starv-
ing people of the west whom the av-
aricious landlords were casting out on
the roadside to die, as in 1S47.
Today ships of commerce are going
from Ireland to America freignted
with the produce of Irish soil, Which
at last is slowly but surely coming
into its own in the markets of the
world.
Not many years will have elapsed
before Ireland will have another sta
pie industry beside agriculture. In no
fewer than five counties experiments
are being made, and with success, in
the cultivation of tobacco.
Some years ago a farmer in County
Meath, whose ideas and ambitions
We're above the average of his class,
commenced to grow tobacco. His lit
tie planting proved successful and
now he is going into the cultivation
of the leaf on a larger scale His -eX-
ample was followed by other go
ahead farmers and now not only in
Meath, but in Louth, Kilkenny, WeX-
ford, Tipperary and Limerick, patches
of land are being devoted to the cult
walton of tobacco.
The total area under such cultiva-
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-04-18
LOVELY HAIR FOR
GIRLS AND BOYS

The man who is bald at 80 can
usually blame his mother.
1t is a mothers duty to look after
her children's hair; to be sure that Il
dressing is used that will destroy the
microbes of disease, will Danish dan
druff and promote growth of hair
Mothers who use PARTISAN SAGE
need never worry about having bald
headed sons at 80 or girls with faded
coarse looking hair at any age.
For Murray & Hooks Pharmacy
know PARTISAN SAGE so well that
they guarantee it to abolish dandruff !,
to stop itching scalp and falling hair,
or money back.
And children as we'll as their par
ents love to use PARTISAN SAGE, for
it is so refined and pleasant and
makes the head feel fine instantly. so
cents.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-04-18
Irish Potatoes Are Shipped to
u. S. By Thousands of Barrels

ton is 120 acres. Seventy-nine acre.
of these are for pipe tobacco, twenty
eight cigarette and thirteen tobacco
for cigars.
1t was only recently that people be-
gan to find out that at one time to-
bacco was grown extensively in Ire
land, but the iron heel of James | and
his successors stamped out the indus
try.
The pioneer is the revival of to-
bacco cultivation in Ireland is Col
Everard of Rendlestown, in the coun-
ty of Meath.
Like most other new ideas the re-
vival has had the usual run of preju-
dice to overcome the hardship to I'M
dergo Tobacco is very sensitive to
climatic and soil conditions. Col. E T..
erard's chief difficulty at the start was
plant breeding. After much labor he
succeeded in obtaining from two va
IISClSS ClOSS WHICH NdS lOuIu "
yield certain desirable virtues and
this gives promise of its taking kind
ly to both soil and climate. Should i
prove yieldful $reland may become
the nursery of a natural industr!,
which is now supposed to be wholly
confined to such countries as Cuba
and Sumatra, the Philippine Islands
and the United States, China and Bra
I'll
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-04-18
S3.45 FOR AN AMBASSADOR.

Washington, April T-Secretary
MacVeagh has appealed to congress
% pay Count Won Bernstorff, the Ger
man ambassador, $3.45 for services in
unsuccessfully seeking information
concerning the heirs of John A. Beck.
He was a civil war soldier, who was
born in Wurtemburg, Germany, AMI
died in 1895 in the government asy-
lum for the insane in Washington.
Beck left an estate. There are nov
no funds ayailale to reimurse the
ambassador.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-04-18

The sense that old age brings to
anybody could have been no use to
him only when he was young.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-03-19

are here. He makes an annual pill
grimage to this place for the purpose
of buying the nuts from these trees.
The trip is a long and tiresome one,
this place being situated 80 miles
from Guadalajara.
Wondert says that the two pecan
trees here are probably the largest
and oldest in the world. They belong
to a Mexican who is 80 years old and
were regarded as very old trees in
the boyhood of this mans grandfather.
The old church which stands near the
trees bears the date of 1716, and it is
considered probable that the nuts from
which these pecan trees sprang were
planted about the time the church was
erected. Each tree is of enormous
size. One of them is about 10 feet in
diameter at the base The limb of
each of the trees cover nearly one
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-03-19
KEEP PACE WITH TIMES
Advance of South Manifested Nowhere Greater THAI
Here.

Savannah's industries and institutions are daily
adding the progressive RIGHTEOUSNESS spirit to hei
enviabe reputation for clean honest and conserva-
tce business methods. and no one of her institu-
tons proves this to greater extent than her new
company, the Commercial Life Insurance and Cas-
uaty Company.
The methods adopted in the organizations of thi;
company have been commended by fnancers and
insurance men the country over Unlike some other
companies which have been organized in the last
several years. it was launched without cent of com
mission to stock statesmen; in other words it is just
company of the most substantial and Trustworthy
business men of Savannah and the Southeast, who
by their records have proven themselves worthy OF
any trust put in them They have seen the necessity
for Southern insurance company organized along
the right lines, and after careful study of the sue
cesseS and mistakes of insurance companies for the
last fifty sixty years, the Commercial Life of Sa-
vannah came into existence. Ways and means were
figured to give the most benefit to the pocyholder
and the company through avoidance of such mistakes
and by adherng to the successful methods, accom-
plished this
Every day people are learning that after all, the
old adage, Honesty is the best policy is absolutely
true, and 1t is being lived up to more and more BY
individuals. The adage has always been recognized
by numbers of men who started out to work the most
good for the most people The methods and the bus
mess policy of the Commercial Life are open to the
most critical inspection of federal or state officers
and citizens OF the South. An officer of the company
few days ago stated thta the companys object was
to go after the safe life insurance business of thu
South, and not to write "wildhre" insurance which
only lasts year so and then apses causing loss
to both the individual and the company. He stated
that when polcyholder is entered on their books t
is their object to keep his there until death or
maturity of the policy. He reced instances showing
that in the life insurance business is better to go
slow than to &c out with the idea of getting the bust
ness regardless of cost to the company the policy
holder.
"On the whole, believe the Commercial Life is a
good, clean, straight conservative and yet wide
awake institution which will give as much in insur-
ance returns as the premiums warrant and as far as
can learn from study of the principles Of life insuP
ance, this Is as much any company can do regard
less OF any attractyey worded and decorated po-
ces that may be presented to the insuring public
be said.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-03-19
TO Be A SEASON OF
BRAID and BUTTONS
Fashion Dictates They Shall
Be Freely Used

New York, March 1S.-That the
season is braid season in the fashion
realm cannot be doubted for myriads
are used on nearly all the tailored cos
tunes, whether they be of silk, linen,
wool or cotton
Open and fancy braids from one to
three or four inches wide are the
vogue, and frogs, buttons, motifs and
cord trimmings are designed to cores
pond
That white suits and costumes are to
have unprecedented popularity may
be proved by the unlimited assortment
of white braids, fringes, laces and
landings, all more or less garnished
with wooden beads.
Buttons are not a whit less import
ant if one may judge by their profuse
use and the elaborate assortment on
the button counters, where they may
be found in every possible size and
style.
For heavy coats and wraps there are
the huge -four hole" styles or smoked
pearl, rubber, bone, or crochet with
matching frog.
Clear or colored crystal buttons are
extremely modish and they may be had
in any color, shape or size. Jet but
tons are widely used in combination
with white gowns, and there are also
a goodly array of gold, silver and gun
metal
Ribbons were never more lovely and
rich in color and ornamentation than
may be found at the present Bordered
effects will be in great demand and
the oriental lowered designs will be
equally favored. The sombre effects in
all the varieties of gold, silver and
tinsel ribbons are particularly beauti-
| full.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-03-19
he product of that small area.


This is Mr. Colbert's first year at
growing celery. 1t is generally pre-
sumed here that if one can grow celery
successfully he is past master at
growing the various other crops usual
to Sanford truck farm and many of
the old-timers here allege that it re-
quires years of experience, care and
much thought to profitably conduct the
cedery growing business. However, it
was left for tenderfoot from Virginia
to blow in here and produce the ban
ner crop of the delta in little over a
year after his arrival.
The question is frequently asked:
what is Sanford irrigated land in a
good state of filth worth per acre?
This is a hard question to answer
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-03-19
HAS ANY one
TRIED CELERY HERE
One Grower In Florida Melted
S2,S49 to Acre

Has any one ever tried to grow cell
cry in Sumter county for the purpose
of marketing it? 1t has been shown
that many vegetables do well in this
section, including asparagus. Exper-
imenting might show that celery Gull
ture would also be very profitable.
Here is an account from the Jack
sonville Times-Union of what was
AMI third acres of celery, from which
he cut a total of ,247 crates of celery
which brought f. o. b. Sanford the sum
of $4,253.75.
Mr.. Colbert came here in the fall of
1911 and rented small farm a nd
planted it to cucumbers and onions
He did so we'll with these crops that at
the close of the 1911 season he rented
a larger place and prepared to grow
celery and other vegetables. He set
aside space of 1870 by $40 feet which
he prepared for celery The crop was
planted and nursed through the many
rainy spells we had during the fall
and winter and was brought up to a
done on single acre at Sanford, Fla:
Another record in intensive farming
as it is carried on in the Sanford Gel.
cry delta was made here this week
when Mr.. w. NJ Colbert marketed one
point of maturity and perfection that
readily created a f. o. b. market for it.
Twelve hundred and four crates were
sold at $3.50 per crate, while forty
three crates of culls brought $1.25 per
crate, making a total of $4,253.75 for
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-03-19

and three brick stores, fronting Cot
ton avenue, will be built there. This
in itself, would change greatly the APP
pearance of that locality.
The company will build the stores as
an investment Around on Wild street
and in rear of the brick block will be
erected another and even larger brick
building, designed especially by the
company for it's bottling plant. The
four buildings will be constructed of
best material and the stores, doubtless,
will find ready tenants.
The changes that will be wrought
from present conditions there will be
most appreciable.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-03-19

when an acre will produce at the rate
of $2,S49 net as in the above case. 1t
costs approximately rs cents per
crate to grow celery and deliver it to
the cars. In the above case the rate of
production was 1895 crates to the acre
the cost of production $777, while the
gross returns amounted to 1895, leav-
ing net profit to the owner of $2,849,
which is equal to per cent interest
on an investment of $35,613.
All of Sonfard's acres do not pro-
duce in the above ratio, however, but
still, when one does occasionally get
in touch with hidden forces that will
bring about such results as we have
just enumerated, it is really hard to
place any intelligent value on one of
Sanford's sub-irrigated acres.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-03-19
FOUR new BRICK BUILDINGS
TO SUCCEED old FRAME SHACKS
Cotton Avenue to Have Improvement That Will Better Its
Appearance

Plans for four brick buildings, to
be erected on lower Cotton avenue
and upon ground now covered by lot
of unsightIy wooden shacks were re-
ceiVed yesterday by Mr.. j. T. Warren
of the Americas Coca Cola Co., and
as soon as these designs are accepted
by the company the long delayed work
of improving conditions in that local
atty will begin.
Mr.. Warren expects now that a start
upon the new buildings may be made
late in April and the four pushed to
completion.
His company purchased recently the
desirable property at the corner Of
cotton avenue and Wild streets and
upon which two small wooden stores
now stand. These will be removed
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-03-19
TWO PECAN TREES
SUPPORT A FAMILY
Can We Look Forward to This
In Sumter?

Ahualulo, Mex, March 18.-Will
Wondert of st. Louis has been buying
pecans in Texas and Mexico for many
years. He is a recognized authority
not only ON the nuts themselves, but
on variety of trees that grow in var
ious sections.
He says that the two most remark
able pecan trees upon the continent
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-03-19
quarter of an acre.

quarter of an acre.
The Mexican owner and his large
family depend solely upon the sale of
the nuts for their support throughout
the year, the annual production of
each tree being about so bushels. VOL
dert has paid as high as $500 each for
the crop of these two trees.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-03-19
FREE ADVICE
TO SICK women
thousands Have Been Helped
by Common Sense
Suggestions.

Women suffering from any form of fe-
male ills are invited to communicate
promptly with the woman s -,rivate CORE
Spondence department CT the Lydia E.
TlhKham M edicine Co., Lynn, Mass.
Your letter will be opened, read and
answered by woman and held in strict
confidence. A woman can freely talk of
ner private illness to woman; thus has
Oeen established confidential CORE
sponaence which h IS extended over
many Years and which has never been
broken. Never have they published a
testimonial or used letter without the
~IIVten consent of the writer, and never
mas tne Company allowed these confden-
''al letters to get out of their possession,
as Che hundreds of thousands of them in
'neir files will attest.
out OF the vast volume of experience
when they have to draw from, it is more
Illdh possible that they possess the very
knowledge needed in your case. Moth
nig is asked in return except your good
wlIi and their advice has helped thou
sands Surely any n9-0N
woman, rich or poor, SE|NS SSZAG
should be glad to W/% NS@ANM
take advantage of - "
tnl2 generous offer w o W
OF assistance. Ad- ~ y
Dress Lydia E. Pink Go\ $40 ~
nam Medicine Co., MN eEsS2GSSS,M
(c0ntidentiaN ,,,oV, (JlI>4 @'-AsSySl
Mass. Nf NM SSS 5 e1S5,|sSfd ~
Every woman ought to have
TSula Il. Pinkham's SO-page
reHt Book. 1t is not book for
seneral distribution. as it is too
OFFENSIVE. 1t is free and only
T;4otainable by mail. Write for
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-01-06

send Us your JOB work.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-01-06

phone and fnd out"
And II ring up Mrs. Black and
Mrs. Hamilton. They may have gone
TO sec Lima and Frances"
In q short time both women ap.
psared on their porches again:
They have not been to the stable
this morning" said Miss Minerva un-
easily, "and Sam went to Memphis on
the excursion train
"And they are not with Lima or
Frances."-Mrs. Gamers face wore
an anxious look. II declare I never
saw two such children. Still. don't
think We need worry as It is nearly
dinner tin and they never miss their
meals, you know"
But the noon hour came and with II
no hungry little boys. Then, indeed,
did the relatives Of the children grow
uneasy. The two telephones were kept
busy, and Mr.. Garner, with several
other men on horseback. secured the
village. Not q soul had seen either
child.
At three o'clock Miss Minerva, worn
with anxiety and on the verge Of q
collapse, dropped into chair on her
veranda. her faithful Major by her
side. He had come to offer help and
sympathy as soon as he heard Of her
distress, and, finding her In such q
softened. dependent and receptive