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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1912-03-02
TEACHERS TO
MEET HERE

The Tri-csaaty Teachers Assoea-
ii9n FlH be hesa in Calekasha th.s
m0uth. Aareh ei.zs County Super
inssn5eaz G. r Newell Is working 81
ths program noH ana wal Announce
fhe speakers later
Among The principal STATE educators
Who VIII - invited are Thomas Butch
er, eIfE superintendent 81 the Enl5
public schools r. H wilson. isis
superintendent. and A. Grant Evans.
formerly president q the state Ent
Eefs.tg
Teachers q Grady. Stephens and
Jefferson counties arc exgscrel 20 a.
tsud re meeting The first ereaAs
Til b given oesr 70 reception lor
tle visiting te4aaefs.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1912-03-02
Little Public Land
Left in Oklahoma

Guihrie Okla. March According
- official figures i rom tss land
office ai Nashihg.ea. there afs sz
SO acres LEFT open Go Oklahoma 81
ias present fime for homestead sa-
tFT il edition to Ehe Navajo irriga.
fioa site s JackseH and Kisaa c0ua-
Eea o. f.zes acres. waica IS open o.
March q, aad for enfEg AmnTa The
land Fei open for entry Is the state
S either rough o. sandy in great pzrs.
ed E. divided sman & TIE tsfisas
counties ID the Guthrie laad district
8 f0ii0Fs Blaine county. 1sss ae-
res. cadda county. SO acres CanadI
81 e94ig isi acres Cleveland county.
sss acres Custer eouotv as aeres
Dewey county. 5ei8 acres EIis coun-
+. 8.szs acres. Grant county. s. acres
kiHsiisaer county 81 acres Kioz4
sgaafr sfe acres LiaceiH Hfs H
acres Logan county 3 acres Potia-
waspmie county. isg acres. Oklahoma
county, acres Roger Mis- county
s.f5f acres WashiEa county. s. acres
8eekaam county s.zlQ acres Conan.
efe COUNTY. 1925 acres Greer county.
$50 acrez Jacksoa county. zsl5 ao.
RS, 1n9 Iillman county. 40 acres
ffers + 30 faeaat land remafning To-
settlement auder iae homestead iaaz
s. the woodward lard district. som
posed q the counties of Woodward.
ARA Major Alfalfa Hafper. Besvr.
Texas and cimafroa
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1912-03-02
4 YEARS FOR
BURGLAR

I1ere Has 20 delay in netns oat
lasiice as Herbert Quincy Aberaatae.
ire negro Nao hgrglaTizss TIE GlEex
lsfooe Hardware store iast Saturday
hight as Is o'clock Three hours after
stealing q pocket knife and a siz
saooler TIE negro was in ne county
5al and today Jess thsn week from
The time taa theft was committed Abet
aetaegs plead Guilty before Judge
Frank = Bailey 81 the District court
aad was senteHeed 30 fosr wears in
fae state Fsiorm1'orF e. Grzaste 0kia
- Wn = feid e Cdiekasts untl
prisoners are fTai 4t ife reforms
t1rY ag1la
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1912-03-02
Norwood Takes Place
as Grocery MANAGER

O. T Norwood has zeceues sas
management 81 sbe Atro6d GroesrY
store as The corner o. zad srest znl
CAickssaa avenue % take tae place 81
81 H Brannoa aho has resigned s.
Norwood has been connected Fith -
D01l0llz1e bookstore b1E has SID Aa
Interest t. 81 B saorfFisss Hs s
tor several years manager 1i tha
stapheasoz Broans Luuter Company
go tals elfg ard Is one sf ihA progress
s.se y9aag saslaess Iea 3 ihe .ssH.
He Is iiltei ief me RaHas sneaf 8l
an ap = date roaery and a'ii defese
ais time % tae Interests ~ ihe AL
wood G. . p grocery business.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1912-03-02
NEUTRALITY
DECLARED

Telegram ~ United Press
Nzsh1nEton. March go Taft today
issaed PROCLAMATION declaring neu.
trzlitg q the United states Go Mexico
IAia Is taetirss official recognition Ay
The government of affairs ia Mexico.
The PROCLAMATION vas decided upon
e. ne special eabin-f meefiag and
is a warning D Americans tt4t 3 state
q war EXISTS
Americans iu Mexico must take their
rharoas 50 they remain
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1912-03-02

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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1912-03-02

Eaere aFe plenty of ducks and
zea=a fof haatars along ihe sITers. Z
ssil joe DeRs deputy game warden
.lz t1f district today. Aloak the
soaia Canadian the geese are dick
a1a faere az ssntfeds 81 ducks along
tas #afhi's River continued Sir
1sHs iae Palms aa9 STOW storms 0s
re M ~ aeeks have been driving
81 Haes aHa geese s8rth ana ihe
fe f. 'lAf same q lals kiaa IS sery
liai along a- rivers and ponds
a Hn flultr
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1912-03-02

Bring soms clear ss,oq rsss to ,hls
sf'iss - snss and get me spos slsh.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-12-17
SUMTER'S ROADS
IN EXCELLENT
CONDITION NOW
TOURISTS SHOULD SEE THEM
Progress Made on Friendship
Road

If the Illinoisans who will spend
Friday next at Andersonville at the
unveiling of their state monument in
the federal cemetery would only take
an automobile ride to Americus, as
doubtless some of them will do, they
will see twelve miles of excellent
Sumter county highway
The Americus- s-Andersonville road is
in the pink of condition just now 1t
has recently been worked over the
entire distance and is as smooth as
is desired. A drive over this road
would be most enjoyable.
Beyond. Andersonville the Macon
county road forces are completing
rapidly the seven-mile stretch to 0gle-
thorpe. Some two or three miles of
sandbed yet remain, but this will be
worked over within a month and the
last link between Americus and Macon
finished, an end long very greatly de-
sired. The Sumter county road forces
under Supt. Christians direction, are
working the Friendship road. Sew
eral miles of this highway leading out
of Americus have been worked over
entirely quite recently.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-12-17
ARCHIBALD BEGINS
DEFENSE TODAY
Judge Under Impeachment
to Present His Side

Washington, D. c., 16.-With all tho
testimony against him submitted to
the senate, Judge Robert w. Archibald,
of the commerce court, through his at
torneys, today began the task of show
ing by testimony that he had been ac-
quilted of the misbehavior and misde-
meanors charged against him in the
impeachment trial
Many of the facts brought out by
the house managers as prosecutors in
the trial will be admitted by the de-
fense. The great contest will be over
the motives which prompted those acts.
A number of witnesses will be called
to show that Judge Archibald acted
purely from friendship in interesting
himself in the litigation and CONNER
cial adventures of his neighbors at
Scranton, Pa. A still larger number
of witnesses, prominent in religious,
political and business people of Penn-
sylvania will be called some time dur
ing the week to testify to the judges
good reputation.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-12-17
ODD FELLOWS
ASSEMBLE IN
ELECTRIC CITY
AMERICUs IS REPRESENTED
Division Convention In SeS.
sion Today

Americus Odd Fellows and repre-
sentatives from the various lodges
of this division of that popular order
will meet in Columbus today for the
division convention, which was an
nounced seme time ago by Division
Deputy Grand Master F. G. Oliver, of
Americus.
From Americus will go delegation
of members of the order to the Co
lumbus meeting. Division Deputy
Grand Master Oliver will go, of course,
to preside over the convention. The
delegates who have been named from
the local lodge are Messrs. Lee Allen
and w. w Roberts. 1t is very likely
that both of these gentlemen will at
tend the meeting in Columbus.
The growth of the order here and
throughout the division since the last
annual convention has been marked
and encouraging, according to Divis-
ion eDputy Grand Master Oliver. Not
only have many additional members
been added, but the general tone of the
order has been improved
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-12-17
WILSON and PARTY
land IN new YORK
President to Take Charge Of
Affairs at Trenton

New York, December 16.-President-
elect Wilson returned today from his
vacation trip to Bermuda. The
steamship Bermudian, which carried
him and his party, docked here a few
minutes after am
Not an announcement as to politics
or anything else, did the governor
have to make on his arrival,
Il am going to devote myself to New
Jersey affairs he said.
After a few hours in New York he
planned to go direct to his home
in Princeton. so as to be on hand at
the statehouse in Trenton early to-
morrow for the regular budget of
state business.
. The president-elect brought with
him his annual message to the New
Jersey legislature, which meets on
January IA. 1t embodies every plank
in the democratic state platform. New
Jersey is just now paramount in the
governors mind and it is quite likely
that until he is able to complete his
program of progressive legislation he
! will not only continue in office as
governor, but will take up many
of the preliminary tasks Of Office fill
irg with respect to his presidential
administration. H08
AS to appointments, Governor VIZ
son admits that while selections have
been running through his head :,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-12-17
0UTD0ES ALI BABA
AND THE FORTY THIEVES
Blind Tigers Adopt Some Ingenius
Schemes.

Atlanta, Dec 16.-Ali Baba and
the Forty Thieves, or some old char.
acter from the Mysteries of Udolpho.
have been in Atlanta recently, poach-
ing on the preserves of the purely
local blind tiger operators.
Such a labyrinth of secret panels,
time-locks, oubliettes, false doors,
mysterious walls, the Atlanta polics
didn't believe existed anywhere OUT
side of fiction until they happened on
a stable In West End, where by the
accidental touching of a secret spring
they set an alarm clock whirring.
which in its turn opened and disclos,
ed hiding place in the wall where
1000 pints Of whiskey had been cons
cealed.
The officers haven't yet solved tina
mystery. They are working on ii to-
day and believe they will catch big
game. Among other things they
found consignment of absinthe. the
high-priced French liQuer which has
been contraband in the United Statea
for a couple Of months past.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-12-17
DIRECTORS OF
empire LEAGUE
MEET JAN. 4
AMERICUS TO GET Meeting
Five Teams in the League
Already

Acting President James Sinclair,
of the Empire State league has issued
a call for a meeting of the directors
to be held on Jan. at Americus. The
meeting will make plans for the open
ing of the 1913 season on May Is, and
may arrive at some decision regarding
the sixth member of the league.
Five teams entered the league at
the conference hid in Waycross in
Novmber. They are Valdosta, Amer
icus, Brunswick, Cordele and Way
cross.
Just what city will land the other
berth is unknown, but from the efforts
several are making the directors will
experience no trouble in completing
the league.
1t is said that every possible care
will be used to enforce the salary linn
it of the new league as this is re-
garded as the chief need of such
league. The directors at the Ameri-
Gus meeting will perfect the Empire
State league by adopting bylaws and
electing a permanent president and
secretary.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-12-17
NOMINATIONS
CONDUCTED BY
P. 0. S. OF A.
At ROUSING MEETING HERE
Banquet Was Enjoyed by the
Members

At rousing meeting held last even
ing at the K. of P. Hall Camp o. "a,
Patriotic Order Sons of America held
nominations for the various positions
to be filled for the coming year. These
nominations will stand until the cleo
ton itself occurs, which will be on the
last Monday in this month, December
Both
After a business session the mem
bers of the fraternity enjoyed an oy-
ster supper and other good things that
had been provided for the occasion.
This was an especially pleasing fea-
ture of the entertainment enjoyed by
the members of the organization and
some of their friends.
The closing meetins for this year,
' the last of which will be held Monday
\week, will mark one of the most sue
pessful years in the history of this or
!, ,ganization here, which has always
peen especially popular and flourish
eng. There was an exceptionally large
1atendancelasteveningtoenjoythebus A
!, attendance present last evening to en-
Joy the business session and the social
features.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-12-17
big NUMBER
CANDIDATES
FOR SHERIFF?
SUCH RUMORS ARE CURRENT
The List of Voters Is to Be
Revised

The special election for sheriff OF
Sumter county to fill the vacancy oo'
casiored by the death of Sheriff w. H.
F'eayin, will not be held for several
weeks yet, due to the fact that the list
of registered voters will have to be
revised and other legal conditions
compiled with. Not before some date
early in February can the election be
held. In the meantime, as announced
already, former Deputy Sheriff @. w,
Fuller, will perform the duties of
sheriff, having been duly appointed to
that Office by Judge John A. Cobb, of
the court of ordinary, last Saturday.
The legal opinion of County Attor-
ney r. L. Maynard was sought yester-
day by Judge Cobb as to the require
ments governing the election. This, in
part, is to the effect that the 1912
registration list must be revised, aud
only those who are otherwise qualified
and who pay the 1912 taxes, are en-
titled to vote.
1t will be necessary for Tax Col
lector Small to furnish to the county
registrars, Messrs. James A. Fort,
John Feagin and Drew Murray, the
qualified list of voters in the 1912
October election. A list, also, of all
who are ON the above list and who
have not paid their taxes for the cur
rent year-1912.
This, it is held, must be done fifteen
days before the date of said election.
Any eligible voter, not now upon the
list, can register and qualify any time
before the board of registrars make
up their list for the special election,
which they will do five days before the
date of the election for sheriff.
Those entitled to vote for sheriff
will be those already on the October,
1912, list, and who will have paid this
make up the new list Judge Cobb
has not yet fixed the date for the
election, but thinks now that it will
be called for date during the first
week in February.
In the meantime the prospective
candidates are hustling among the vot-
ers. Three tickets are already in the
field, it is understood, and others may
be announced in due time.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-12-17
SPECIAL CHRRISTMAS
NUMBER OF THE 7. R.
Sunday December q Copy
Placed in Every Home

The Times Recorder will issue a
special Christmas Number on Sun
day, December %, three days before
the holiday, giving to merchants a
Z agnifcent opportunity to do some
special advertising in very effective
way.
The special edition will have Il
beautifully illustrated and colored
cover and will contain some very en-
tertaining Christmas stories and othSr
matter suitabl for the season.
1t is proposed to issue larger
number of copies of this Sunday pa
per than usual, and copy will be
placed in every house that does not
already receive the Sunday Times-Re-
corder regularly. This will make its
value to advertisers that much the
greater
Parties wishing space, either for
display advertising or for readers, or
for the Want Column, in the issue Of
Sunday, December 20, are requested
to advise the business office as prompt
iy as possible.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-12-17
MEDICOS TO
ASSEMBLE.
WEDNESDAY,
To ELECT new OFFICERS
Meeting TO Be Held al the
Country Club

Members of the Sumter County Med
ical association will meet in Americus
Wednesday evening at the Country
club for the purpose of holding the an
nual session of that organization. The
main matter of business is the election
of officers for the approaching year.
1t was announced yesterday by DR..
Louie F. Grubbs, president of the So
ciety, that it is necessary, in view of
the requirements made of county So
cieties by the American Medical asso-
cialion, that the officers for the local
county organization be chosen before
the first of the approaching year.
The county medical association has
enjoyed a rapid and encouraging
growth during the past year. 1t Is
hoped that the organization will con-
tinue to form such source of good
for the physicians of the county.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-12-17
CITY ELECTION
TOMORROW IS
Of INTEREST
NEARLY 800 ARE QUALIFIED
Appear Upon the Registration
Lists Today

Nearly three hundred citizens Of
Americus-just 296 to be exact-are
registered and qualified to vote to-
morrow in the election for mayor,
three aldermen, city clerk and treas
urer, and while the election will be
formal only, the candidates having al
ready been chosen in primary, the oc-
casion is of interest.
AS the result of this election the
city administration changes to the ex-
tent of mayor and three aldermen,
Mayor-elect NJ. M. Lowrey and Alder
men-elect Bell Oliver and Mashbura
succeeding Mayor ]. E. Mathis and
! \ldermen Council, Riley and White.
ESity Clerk and Treasurer Harvey
W. Y eaver, who has been filling very
ably AZ d efficiently an unexpired term
of more taan year, will be duly elect
ed for Thea full term of two years.
The police commissioners, Messrs.
C. j. Clark and H. C. Horton, will also
be elected for the full term.
The registration for the regular
election, which, requires the payment
of taxes for the current year, is not
large in comparison with the vote US
ually cast in spArited city primary
1t is less than 300, Vas compared with
500 voting in the late primary for
mayor. aldermen and clerk.
The election tomorrow will be under
the direction of Justice J. I. Hudson,
with Messrs. A. c. Crockett and j. T.
Cotney as managers; Messrs. Thomas
Marshall and Rob Hawkins, clerks.
The hours for voting are from a. m.
to 4 p. m.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-12-17
CROP REPORT
ISSUED TODAY
Estimates on Various Crops
for Year 1912

Washington, D. c., Dec. 16.-The de-
partment of agriculture's final esti-
mate of acreage, production, price on
December l, and total value of the
country's principal crops, announced
today at 2:15 p. M. follows:
Corn acreage, 1O7,O83,0O0; produc-
ton 3,124,746,0OO bushels; price, 1871
cents; value, $1,52O,454,00O.
Winter wheat acreage, 26,571 900;
production 99,919,O00 bushels; price
500 cents; value 1923, $4,000.
Spring wheat acreage, 19,243,0O0;
production, 1903, 3,348,000; price 70.t
cents; value $231,7O8,OOO.
All wheat acreage, 45,814O00; pro-
duction 730,167,0O0 bushels; price,
76O cents; value $555,2SO,0OO.
Oots, acreage, 37,917OOO; produc-
ton, 1,418,337 900 bushels; price 319
cents; value $452, ,469,0OO
Barley-Acreage, 100000; produc-
tion, 223,824,OOO bushels; price, sos
cents; value, $112,957,000.
Rye-Acreage, 2,1110O0; produc-
ton, 223,S24,O00 bushels; price 5O.1
cents; value $23,636,OOO.
Buckwheat-Acreage S41 900, pro-
duction 2S,073,0O0; price, $115; value
32,423, 900.
Flaxseed -- Acreage, S41, 900; pro
duction 2S,O79,OOO; price s1.15; value
$32, 100000. 4
Potatoes-Acreage, 3,11IO0O; p&r
duction, 42O O.647 900 bushels; price e
cents, value, $21,550,00O.
Hay-Acreage 49,53O,0OO; pr
ton, 72,691,OOO tons; price sY4s
Tobacco-Acreage. 1,225,800; II
duction s62,S55. 900 pounds; price ~
cents; value $1O4,O63,00O. n
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-12-17
CAPTAIN SPENCE
Will INSTRUCT
Light INFANTRY
COMES HERE IN few DAYS
Company viii Be Instructed
in Riot Duty

The Americus Light Infantry, Com
pany /, Second regiment, will be given
special instruction in riot service and
other important duties by Captain r.
E. L. Spence, of the regular army,
whom Capt. James Fort is advised will
come to Americus in a few days, per-
haps next week.
This instruction upon the part of
an army officer will be highly benefi-
cial to the Light Infantry, which, how
ever, on not few occasions has
done riot service in this and other
counties, and very effectively, pre-
venting upon one occasion double
lynching of white men.
The regular annual inspection of
Company is dated for January 27,
and, as usual, will be very thorough.
Already the command is being re-
cruited, and will show up in excellent
form both as to men and equipment.
Never before has the Americus Light
infantry been in better physical con-
dition generally.
Captain s nee is well known per.
sonally to Q men, who will accord
him a we me upon his next visl
Nhere.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-12-17
NARRATIVE OF OOFE
WHAT MIGHT
HAVE BEEN
is TOLD BY CAPTAIN COBB
Relative to Illinois Pdriy's.
Visit Here

Editor Times-Recorder: The COM
| ing of the governor, his staff, mem
bers of the Grand Army of the Re-
public, and other distinguished citi-
zens of Illinois to unveil the monu-
ment to their soldier dead at Ander-
sonville brings up memories of the
past, connected with a man from their
state who they all loved and honored
and are proud to claim him, as having
come from Illinois. And it seems
proper that those memories should be
given some public expression at this
time.
| refer to Abraham Lincoln. Al
| though he wore no handsome uniform
| with epaulets and gold braid--was he
not soldier? He was commander in
chief of the army and navy Of the
United States. Forty-seyen years ago.
in April, 1865, my father, Majoc GrE-
eral Howell Cobb, commanded the
Confederate forces of the Department.
of Georgia. | was member of his
military staff and was standing near
him one day when he received an olli-
citl telegram. When he read it mis-
face turned as white as sheet. and
throwing up both hands he excl4imed.
ID
nated-this is the greatest caiamity
that could have befallen our people.'s
How true were his words and pre-
diction time has too fully proven
1t is not surprising that the 4ssas-
sination of Lincoln Influenced the
Northern heart and created bitterness
against the Southern people At that
critacal period and gave the opportu-
nifty to the extreme fanatical element
Of the North to shape the polic; ar
the government in dealing with he
Southern states, after the surfende~
Os Lees and Johnston's armies. And
this !lings us to consider
What Might Have Been?
Abraham Lincoln was great, good
and wise man, with a big, loving
heart. He always held that the South
ern states were never out of the un-
ion. He had the love, confidence AMI
respect of his people, and if he had
lived his policies would have bees
carried out--a request from hinSs ID
the Southern states to elect their SEN
ators and representatives, send them
to Washington and again become a
part of a reunited union of sovereign
and Independent states; we would not
have gone through the farce of recon
structing what he claimed had never
been divided
We would not have had the outrag-
eous manacling of Jefferson Davis,
thereby wringing the heart of great
and brave people by putting this hu-
initiation on their chieftain, whom
they all loved, honored and admired.
when they were helpless to protect or
defend him, The Southern people
would not have had to go through the
trying, expensive and humiliating
times of so-called reconstruction"
The Freedman's Bureau and its anti
toxin, the KuKlux Klan would never
been heard of, and the dove or peaca
with the olive branch of brotherly love.
nearly fifty years after, would not
still be lowering in mid-air, wanting
to proclaim-what all good and true
men in this entire nation earnestly
wish and pray fora united and loyal
people, knowing no North, no South,
no East no West
JOHN ADDISON COBB.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-12-17
POLICEMAN IS HURT
ARRESTING A POSSUM
Falls From Tree and Sus-
tajns Injury

Policeman Summerford, while on
duty Sunday night, was seriously in
jured in fall from one of the large
willow trees in city hall park, to
which he had climbed after 'possum
Securing the game, Mr.. Summerford
fell from lower limb, striking heav-
lily upon a large root of the tree. The
ligaments in one of his lower limbs
were broken by the fall, inflicting an
injury which may confine him to his
home several weeks, even if it does
not prove of permanent nature.