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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-06-30
The Weather. the Soils, the Products, the People

been known half century Peculiarly favorable conditions
surround this especial territory bringing to it heat
that plant requirements these requisites combining with
unusual combination of soils make land that the
number of its products already established and the possibilities fo
introducing others that have yet been gwen trial.
the list is tell the story Following closely upon the heels of
the important crop yet with Its output Sumter OF
$4,000 to 10000 bales oats, hay wheat Passing
fruits found peaches pears pums, ounces pomeganates. hs
watemeons. cantaoupes, Strawberries rapbees and Others In
vegetables the variety unsurpassed omaoes sweet potatoes
BEANS peas asparagus lettuce unp and Others In nuts the walnut
and chestnut native The culture of the spreading
idly and promises to become important industry.
All do we'll and regards found profitable crops for
local markets and long distance Shipments obaco has been
demonstrated be crop that oushe while the sugar crop
has for years been prominent factor the Georgia syrup made
Sumter and adjacent counties having envabe reputation for its
favor finding eager purchasers excellent prices Passing other
spheres of farm activity chickens thrive and the poultry business
offers tempting advantages; hogs and cattle rapidly increasing
number and the openings the live stock and dayng lines
tracing attention In the following pages details gwen
idea conveyed what be done along these lines
But edition such this possible tell the full
story All that hoped present picture of life this section Of
Georgia that will be sufficiently impressive by its accuracy well
by its deneaon of wonderful opportunities induce possible
immigrants and investigate before definitely selecting loca
The experiences of who have established homes here
the past few years given Then tales the tales that told bv
all who have their lot this favored of lands by all who
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-06-30

have enrolled themselves among the developers of this immediate
of Georgia Not only have they found health and happiness
only have they found life enjoyable environment but
they have accumulated property propered and progressed The
best advertising agents for Sumter county to-day the from
other states who have come to it IN recent years.
But climate soil, crops those important of factors do
make all that offered Men live by bread alone Ma
era things important but there other elements of life that are
equal consideration, which full weight be given And
here, Sumter county confidently urges all and
what offers the way of moral and intellectual atmosphere the
of educational opportunities the of high class law
abiding progressive citizenship the way of social pleasures the
of recahons points to its churches its Schools its
highways, to its homes to people They speak for themselves
The right hand of welcome extended the of proper cabe
be he wtodo who here and become
part of the life of the He encouraged he is stimulated
he made with those who have long resided here If there
democratic community, the highest of the word than
this be found Here WORTH character sterling
qualities of manhood, given their value
The door of opportunity here open the of enterprise Of
industry of determination Land values advancing but they
still cheap In the city and there openings business and
industry Investors here find profitable Farmer merchant
manufacturer capitalist all urged Americas Sum,
county, and its countless study conditions for them
selves what this exceptional city and its tributary country have offer
them. This Forward Edition merely bring salient features to
their attention They will find that there has been exaggeaon
that the plain, simple truth has been down. that indeed the half
has not been told The door open, Come!
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-06-30

For agreeaben of climate for variety of SOIL for range of prod
ucis for uniformity of and poaeness of yields Sumter
county stands unexceed among the of Georgia among the
counties of the South
This may sound like exaggerahon. But it i fact
that recognized by widely travelled and keeny obsevant 1t
fact that has been vouched for by experience students
agriculture soil experts who after close analysis of conditions
Sumter and adjacent countless have openly expressed the firm
ton that few if any, of the United States offered the
ideal advantages and the remarkable opportunities that here
open the with progressive ideas and reasonable knowledge
of practical farming
Many things combine make this Climate of course always
and properly the first consideration Here Sumter and Its
sister urge investigation The bring little weathe.
that unpleasant that of the type further North
and West From December March the days that pleasant
that invite open-air life the majority Frequently
marked throughout by but few days when forms The cold
weather simply just adequate to the SYSTEM to
life The long but they enervang depres
ing Sun stroke unknown The nights generally COOL When
od conditions prevail the Eastern and Western when
the dispatches bring their reports of suffering and death from
heat the people of this section indulge their usual
work and pursuits undstubed by such conditions Life
here lived under climatic conditions favorable be found
section where life outofdoors enjoyable three hundred days
the year surely has do other than present the plain,
unvarnished facts
While there little practically and extremes
of heat cold the rainfall adequate and of drought
nfrequen To this due the fact that real crop failure has
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-06-30
The Climate of This Section is Perennially Pleasant

temper and perennial optimism to every other
resident. Drouths are very rare. Protracted
dry weather is almost unknown. When such
periods do come they are more often experi-
enced during the fall or winter than during the
spring and summer seasons. For this reason
crops are rarely injured to any great extent bv
drouthS
The date of killing frost, which is of such
vital Importance to the one who wishes to know
what given section offers in regard to freedom
from damage to growing vegetation by climatic
changes is usually SO late in the fall or so early
IN the spring, that most crops escape injury en-
tirely. Those that are damaged suffer only to
small extent, unless the season is an abnormal
one he damage to growing crops in the fall
may be entirely ignored. as all crops have been
harvested before the first annual autumnal frost
arrives, so that the small percentage of loss from
frosts whenever there is any loss at all, is negl-
gible.
Statistics, which are reputed never to be de-
cephve, show with accuracy and clearness that
the farmer in this section need not fear the
damage that may possibly be done by killing
frosts at late day in the spring season. From
the tabulated statement given herewith it may
be seen that in the last twenty years killing
frost has not occurred later than April !, with
the sing lie exception of the year 1910, when
killing frost occurred on the night of April d.
This is the latest killing frost that has ever BEEN
known here. Using the table as basis OF
judgment, it would probably not occur once .
twenty years The first frost in the fall during
the last twenty years has not occurred earlier
than October a. 1t ordinarily comes in No
vember and sometimes as late as the first wees
in December.
The accompanying table. gives dates OF fr'E
and last killing frosts at Americas, has beer
compiled from the records of the local weathef
station, and is as follows;
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Those who enjoy mild winters will find a
haven of comfort in Americas and this imme
diate section The farmer and agricultural
ist here find the winters so mild that such crops
as onions, cabbage, turnips, beets, lettuce and
many other crops may be kept growing through
out the year By using a. light cloth cover or
other device, lettuce, English peas and other
garden crop; may be kept green all winter.
There is no snow to harm them, and the win
ter that has just closed (l9ll-l9l2) afforded
an excellent opportunity of observing that
Americas escaped sleet and snow when other
sections almost adjacent had at least touch
of both. One may say with practical certain
ty that this section is essentially free from the
harm that snow and sleet bring to vegetation
and crops.
Other crops. such as small grain, among
which may be classified oats, wheat, rye, barley
and kindred crops. grow throughout the win
ter without damage. The loss of even part
of these crops by freezes and cold during the
winter. is negligible, as they are not harmed at
all during the average winter. The stretch OF
green fields of growing oats during the winter,
is sight to gladden. the eye of the farmer and
every one at the season when the freshness O.
growing crops cannot be enjoyed at all in
many parts of the country. These winter crops
form very important part of the harvests gar
nered by the farmers of this section, where
there is no season of the year when active agrl-
cultural work cannot be engaged in.
With freedom from seet in winter goes
similar immunity from hailstorms in other
seasons. While hailstorms occur occasionally.
the damage to crops from this source during
The past twenty years has been very slight es-
peciaIly when compared with the results or
such storms as are experienced In so many other
places whose climate approaches in mlldness
and desirabiIity that afforded by this section OF
The Souther states Practical immunity from
tornadoes is also enjoyed here, as the paths
of these and other storms have been so ordered
by nature as not to leave any signs of destruc
ton upon this widely favored territory
AS the normal annual temperature and rain
fall during The year go very far toward dete,-
mining the comfort and pleasantness of the
weather thu living proof of the desirability of
The climate Here is given in tables that embrac
complete figures dealing with these features OF
the weather An equable temperature through
out the year. with no extreme of either heat or
cold, is what makes up the weather that
breeds optimsts, successful farmers and bust
ness men. Americas and this section has re-
cord IN this particular that is indeed pleasing
.ne. as the accompanying table, showing nor
NAL monthly and annual temperature and pr4ci-
citation. indicates graphically:
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-06-30

union over country and section where the
skies are SUMMER or the climate more pleasing
for business or for pleasure throughout the sea-
sons Of the year.
1t was genial Mark Twain, the king of hui
NOR, who prefaced volume with descriptions
of every possible kind of weather, giving IS
his reason the fact that half Of the average novel
is made up Of illusions to the weather Wher
ever in the course of Twain's story a reference
to the weather was suggested, the reader was
referred to that portion of the preface where
description of that particular kind of weather
could be found.
No rational man, or woman, either, for thai
matter. will question the Importance of the
weather, as humorously indicated by Mark
Twain, for is not the weather the chief topic
of conversation among many people notwith-
standing the fact that the stern edict of socie-
tvs disapproval is supposed to have been issued
against it? But, had he lived in Sumter coun.
ty, Twain would not have felt called upon .
preface his volume as he did With no insin-
uation that the weather is not an important topic
of conversation here, as everywhere among civ
ilized as we'll as uncivilized peoples, but be-
cause of the fact that the main things said here
about the weather are pleasing, because the
weather itself is pleasant
For this reason the humorist's preface would
have been reduced to at least half Of its volume
because the references to disagreeable weather
would have been eliminated, while on the Other
hand, such agreeable weather as is experienced
in Sumter county has tendency to mollfy and
appease ones temper and to cause one to a large
degree to forget the weather. In proof of this
statement one has but to make inquiry of any
one of the many residents of Sumter county,
who have come to this section from distant states
in the Union and even from Canada
1t would be difficult to find section of Geor
gia or the entire South where climatic conditions
are more equable and more pleasing than those
of this immediate section of the state. The
summers are neither too long nor too hot, while
the winters are short and temperate. Snow or
seet rarely falls, while the average winter
brings but comparatively little ice. Freedom
from harsh and destructive winds, which are
met with in so many other parts of the South
and the union, is a distinctive feature of the
climate that makes this section most inviting
to that large portion of mankind who do not
mind the weather if the wind doesn' blow
AS regards rainfall, which is of such vital
Importance to every one in climate of this
kind, whether engaged in agriculture or other
industries the distribution of rains throughout
the year is most satisfying. While the annual
rainfull is abundant it is not excessive. Best of
all, it is distributed equally throughout the
year, insuring success to the farmer and good
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-06-30

These figures, together with those given for
the earliest and latest frosts, tell eIoquentIy
the story of the many advantages that this eli
mate affords for the homeseeker and the far
mer. Taking the year as whole, there is no
pleasanter climate anywhere in the nation 1t
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-06-30

way places Sumter county has all the desir-
able elements Of climate with rich soil and
lively business life included. If that is as much
as Utopia, then this section is Utopia in sub
stance, inste ID of in fancy. Whatever one term
it, it would be hard to find in searching the
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-06-30

is true that the summers are rather long, but
they are never excessively warm. The nights
in summer are invariably cool, with a good
breeze usually to temper the warmth, furnish
ing in this way pleasing and timely relief after
the comparatively few days during the course Of
the summer that might be termed unusually
warm.
There are no Utopian climates any more
than there are Utopian governments, peoples
languages or laws But there are climates that
approach Utopian climates, without being as
ISOLATED with lands and cities that are sit,7ted
in inaccessible mountains or other out-of-the
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Qnier desee adquirir I'm mo5iliario
para sala, compuesto de doce sillas.
cuatro sillones, dos butacas, un sofa Y
una mesita centro, MADEIRA caryada de
Viena, tiene ahora propicia oportuni.
dad.
Hay ademas, una mesa y seis silas
para comedor; un guarda-comidas. un
chinero, un tinajero con su piedra. un
tiltro y una mesa con piedra marmol
para el servicio del comedor.
Tambien puede adquirirse, una CANA
de hierro, para una plaza, uu laYabo.
Este mobiliario esta completamente
nnevo Y puede verse, en- la casa n1mero
38 de la calle de Tetuan.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1912-01-31

FL sab4ao, las nueye treinta de
Ia manana. sali5 BE e>ta capital b comi-
tiva de invtados ID Inauguration de
a casa aapacadorA de Ia eom0nidad DE-
Bayam6n In u comitvs iban, ade-
mas del 05bernador, senor Cotton, su
qyudante senior PARA Cap5 Y su secre-
.ario particular sc1or Zimmerman los
,enores Bonner, Brown. Wilson. Annexy.
algunos ofciales del Gobierno JOS
representatives he los darios de San
lTeraIdo Espahol El TEMPO La
Demoqraaia" y BOLETIN MERCAN-
TIL
Los ietes de la Casa Empacadora pu-
sieron un tren especial. de III empresa
tel senor Vald6s, a disposition de los in
vtados, treu que. euando faltaban un
par de kilometres para legar a Baya-
mon, Sc empen6 en- no seguir arrastran-
do la maquina que tuvo no sabemos que
deSperfecto Y los pasajeros tuvieron
que ir pie hasta Bayam00 donde ha-
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A las once y media Sc iz6 la bandera
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Benedcenea eieeut5 q himno De Wash
ngton. in1aediatamente pronunei6 una
oracj6n beudiio al edid-io q Revdo.
Pcarce
FL 81 Wilrox presidcnte de la Cor
poraci6n di6 Il bienvenida todos en
un li,enno en 81 cual explic6 los fines
| dc aqu.fla. H. Isui5 ga q uso de- Ia
Ipahum GoberuadoI. de Puerto Rico
senior Cotton. aIa Iav5 mn Ii,eurSo
Tanto "a SENIOR Wilcox como
a senior Cotton fuaron aottudidisimos
A IA uua mol.a I. sfrgi5 = almuer-
20 1ua na. atrry-nas llaaar baoo,,.t.
iGran ,ar.I.I 4. .,,.;s,. n.;l.
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lbundaa.a.
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Ounce vistas del pals

Mr. + Liebig ha tcnido una idea fe-
liz la de hacer una collection de Wis
tas de Puerto Rico, en- forma dc una
gran tarjeta postal, seleccionado los 81
tios mas pintorescos y panoramicos de
la Isla.
Sc trata de IN trabajo insuperable,
hecho EN- Alemania son ounce Gro
mos que constituyen el mejor adorno
de una casa la nota mas artistica de
III album
El senor Liebig que ha concebido esta
simpatica idea q. puede contribuir tan
eficazmente a que Sc conozcan fuera
de aqui las beIIezas del pals puerto
riqueno, Sc propone poner la venta
en- vari0s establecimientos de esta cin-
dad la preciosa collection de ounce
yistas, al precio de tres dollars.
El dep6sito general estara EN- la ca
lie de San Francisco 40, establecimien-
to de los senores b. Suarez S. en- G.
San Juan.
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ci6n, quedo de I'd atentamente Il.
II. TODD. "
Agreg6 eD senior Vivaldi que eI Sc
nor Todd personalmente Ie habia ma
nifestado que Ia disoluci6n del Comi-
te Ejecutivo del Carnaval obedecia
sola eXcmsivamente a las razoles
eXpuestas EN- la carta preinserta y EN-
modo alemo la actitud asumida por
la iurentud en- este asunto.
I'm vista del mforme del seuor Vi
yaidi la Asamblea acord6 por unani-
mdad declararSc disuelta por cuanto
no fut su prop6Sito. II iniciar sus ira
baios nj 10 ha sido nunca, aduenarse
dc Ia direction de las tiestas solo ten
dia "a que Sc Ic reconociese su derecho
"a eStar dignamente representada on esa
direction
Y ,icndo asi que desaparece. por
.causas agena, Ia voluntad de todos
el Comitt Executive del Carnaval. no
cree iustifcada la continuation de los
tranajos que So vicnen rcalizaudo.
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Pcrmtome comunIrar q usted que a.a-
80 de recibir uoticias sobrr an gran in
eendio oeurrido EN- IA noche irI 10 del
rorrientc en Ia casa de los >enore~ Julio
A. Anez y 60, Beckmaun + Co. Icl
comercio de Maracaibo Venezuela.
Las ptrdidas se caleuian cu 9-5OOOO
Como son casas nuy umportautea y
pueden afectar en algo alguua ronexi6n
en esta plaza, >uplico a listed hacerlo sa-
ber del pdbIioo y demas ntere>aIos.
AnIcipole las debidas graeia~ y me
repito de listed alto $. 5. y amigo
Enrique Pocafora
Consul
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Un incendio en-
Maracaibo

FL senior consul de Venezuela en- eata
cludad. nos remite Ia slguicutc carta:
Enero %. 1911
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1912-09-18

ant on hand for you lust ut present.
And. say. Cornell, don't you fool your
self too much about that old fellow
having q brainstorm. He's pretty
wise old bird. Any man who can In
vent the scores OF little things that
he's put on the market, and run a sue
cessful business at the same time. is
no fool, let me tell you. The thing
may develop into a freak case, but
believe me, old Brundage has some
real reason for mourning our bill"
The nth day Of the case a roughly
dressed young man came in to see
Gerber. Gerber took him into his pri-
vate Office and closed the door, so II
was impossible for me to see or hear
what went on between them. But the
fact that such secrecy had been OBJ
served put me on my guard. and when
the young fellow came out managed
to have something to do that brought
me near to him. IL seems ridiculous,
possibly to the layman. to mention as
the starting point in an exciting case
a Whit of an odor. but such was the
real cidIbilS punt VI Nut DIuHudBt
Novelty Company case from my stand
point.
I caught the odor OF gasoline from
this young man as he swept out of
Gerber's private office.
or course the thing meant moth
ing at the time. II suggested nothing.
The only situation opened by 1t was
this: Gerber had some dealings of
private nature with young man who
smelled of gasolene.
At the same time, 1t opened up an
other possible clue for us to work on,
for In our previous investigation we
had not found Gerber in any dealings
with anybody who smelled of gasolene
or who might have occasion to use
that fluid. AS our task was to inves-
tigate all angles of Gerber's career,
with a view to finding something to
substantiate old Brundage's indefinite
suspicious, the young man with the
gasolene odor promptly became an in
teresting factor.
Across the street was one of our
men, waiting. When the gasolene man