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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-15
GEORGIA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TO
LAUNCH A VIGOROUS PAIGN

A number of other local organiza-
tons have assured the officers of the
Chamber of Commerce of their sup
port later on.
These trades bodies that have al
ready become affiliated represent to-
tai membership of nearly 5000 and
in addition to this, several hundred in
dividuals have become members of the
state chamber. New membership cards
are being received every day from four
or five thousand farmers, business and
professional men of the state to whom
letters have been addressed soliciting
their membership. So far only a small
part of the state has been covered
but gradually the campaign will eN-
tend into every county in the state,
and it is the purpose Of the officers u
the state chamber to wind mp the fin
ancial campaign before Thanksgiving
Day In the meanwhile, much i'm
portant work is being done along thu
various lines for the purpose of
which the state chamber was arrang-
i ed
Special effort has been made in the
past two weeks to obtain 1000 charte"
members, and it is hoped that this
will be accomplished before the first
of November. on or about which time
the application for a charter will be
made in accordance with instruction Of
! the convention at Macon on Septembe
18th. Those who have been requested
to become charter members are urged
TO send in their applications for mem
bership at the earliest possible date
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-15
Receipts in Americas,
New York Cotton.

New York, Oct. ID. - There was =
renewal of last weeks selling move
ment at the opening of the cotton
market today, owing to easier Liver
pool cables and favorable weather
conditions. Active months sold to 10
under the previous closing figures
right after the call, with January
contracts touching 1890.
Trading became quiet on the rally
and the market turned easier late IN
the morning under renewed liquid.,-
ton, with prices at midday about IA
to q points net lower. Estimated re-
ceipts today 10000 bales
After showing a net loss of about
10 to 26 points, the market steadied
to 4 points from the lowest during
the early afternoon on covering, but
reports of easier eastern belt spot
markets seemed to discourage an"
general support,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-15
CONGRESSMAN PENS
BOOK FOR CHILDREN

Washington, d. c., Oct 14.--Repre-
sentative Sanford fitzpatrick, of the
Sixth Iowa District, has leaped into
the literary game. He has Just com-
pleted a book entitled Letters From
Grandpa" written about animals and
other subjects Of juvenile interest.
Mr.. fitzpatrick hopes to establish
with the aid of the proceeds, home
for 100 fatherless and motherless
oh ldren.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-15

The executive committee of the
Georgia Chamber of Commerce has
just closed a contract with the Will
SON McKeand Company, Detroit Mich,
the purpose of which is the compile
ton of the organization Of this body
along thoroughly up-to-date lines.
This company of expert organizers is
composed of some of the best knowh
organizers of trades bodies in the
United States. Messrs. A. w. Nc
Keand and l.. e. Wilson, the leading
members of this firm, are thoroughly
known to the commercial secretaries
of Georgia as men of large and sue
cessful experience. Mr.. McKeand has
recently been in the state for the pur-
pose of organizing a board of trade
at Gainesville and the Griffin ana
Spaling County Chamber of Commerce
This company is also well-known in
Augusta and Athens. Associated with
them will be about ten other men of
experience along the various lines o.
| ao,,,,,oro;oI cro-o N ;yo 4ior WORK The
tenn OF The contract covers period
of four months, during which time this
company will undertake not only TO
secure an individual membership OF
5000 including representative men
from every part of the state and the
cooperation of all the local trades
bodies, already organized, but will al
so undertake the organization oil
trades bodies in as many as practic9-
BILE of the counties of the state tn VI
have not as yet Q local organization OF
this kind.
An important part of the work OF
this company will also be the install
lation of a thoroughly up-to-date sys-
TEN of work for the Georgia Chamber
of Commerce based upon the expert
ence of other state organizat ons.
Under the leadership of Charles J
Haen, president, Atlanta. and Charles
ID. Mckinney, acting secretary-mana-
ger, Decatur, the Georgia Chamter of
Commerce has already secured the co
operation of thirty local trades bodies
including Americas, Macon, Columbus
LAGRANGE, Albany, Waycross, Morgan
County, Charleston. Decatur. LithoniA
Kirkwood, Springfield, .Cordele, Bail
bridge. Athens, Fitzgerald Newman
Swainsboro, Brunswick Clarksvllc
McDonough. Perry, Ocilla. Dublin, Ca
mAla, GAINESVILLE, Jesup, Washington
Sylvester.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-15
Chicago Markets.

Chicago, Oct. Wheat today sui
fered a sharp decline owing to weak
cables and to large receipts at Win
nipeg. Fine weather and the wheat
weakness pulled Down corn Oats were
heavy in sympathy with other grain
Shorts covering put a little backbone
into provisions.
The close in wheat was nervous, to
1cent net lower. The close in corn
was at a decline s0l to : net.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-15
A FAIR FOR SUMTER COUNTY

greatest good out of them. That can
be done only by having it well under
stood in January, say that there is
going to be a fair in the following Oc-
tober or November. Then farmers,
their wives, sons and daughters can
begin to plan exhibits of their crops
and handiwork.
The committee or association that
is to get up the fair should make up
the prize list before the farmers BE-
gin planting the crops from which
their exhibits are to be made. The lists
should be printed and distribute
throughout the territory from which
the fair expects to draw exhibits. The
announcement is made that Tiff coun-
ty is not to have a fair this fall, but
that next year there will be one and
that preparations for it are going -
begin early in the year If that plan
is followed out the prediction is safe
one that Triton will be the scene of
very successful fair. Other counties
that have not made very great sue
cesses of their fairs might find the ex-
PLANTATION in the fact that they didn't
begin to work for them early enough
in the year.
IF there are certain crops to which
the farmers are paying too little at
tention it might be wise to offer d
special prize worth winning for the
best exhibit drawn from those crops.
In a county, for instance, in which not
as much acreage was given to truck
as should be given good prize might
cause the county's yield in truck 10
show a considerable increase. The an
nual fair, without question, can be
made of great value in building up the
county, but it must be handled in a
business like way or much of its value
will be lost"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-15

Vice-president Marshall will use a
motorcycle instead of an automobile
ia making his trips around Washing
ton says press dispatch. Wonder
what the shades of George Washington
and Abraham LINCOLN will think as the
vice-president goes whizzing down
Pennsylvania avenue on the buzzing
bicycle
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-15
REGISTRATION NOTICE.

The registration books for the pri'
mary on October 29th, 1913, are nov
open and will remain open until noon
on October 25th. 1t is necessary fOl
you to appear in person or by written
request if you desire your name to ap
pear on the registration lists. Pleast
govern yourselves accordingly.
III. w. WEAVER,
Clerk and Treasurer.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-15
Letter TO
DR.. kilmer & Co
BinghamtOn, n. Y.
Prove What Swamp. Root VIII Do.

Prove What Swamp. Root viii Do.
Send to DR.. Kilmer & Co., Bingham
to, n. Y, for sample bottle: 1t will
convince anyone You will also re
ceive a booklet of valuable informa-
ton, telling all 9bout the kidneys and
bladder. When writing be sure and
mention the Americas Times-Recorder
Regular fifty-cent and one-dollar size
be tiles for sale at all drug stores. -
sdvt.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-15

Two suffragettes,. ON tramp for the
cause, were footing it along the dusty
road in the hot sun.
I'm just about baked" exclaimed
one.
Thank goodness" said the other,
quickly; "for | am almost starved. -
Chicago Record-Herald.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-15

Here's the new Americas slogan,
"Americus, with high ideals and the
cash to back it up" We know a city
= he eastward of US which could use
that slogan with slight variations
such as "S******h, with high balls
and the thirst to lap them up."-Way-
A.uss Herald.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-15
All subscriptions payable in ad

All subscriptions payable in ad-
vance.
Advertising rates promptly furnish
&o Wpon application.
Memorial Resolutions, Resolutions
g. Respect, Obituary Notices, ETC.,
Salser than those which the paper may
deem proper to publish as news mat
Ter, will be charged for at the rate Of
cents per line.
All advertising copy requiring two
eoaumns of space or less should be In
the business office not later than noon
OF day prior to date Of Issue in order
TO insure its prompt insertion. All
copy for space Of more than two col
arms should be submitted not later
ahan O'Clock OF the day, two days
wgiGr to date Of issue.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-15

Washington officials are inclined to
believe that Japan's recent request for
a new treaty has more to do with
commerce than alien land rights. This
is well, in view of the fact that the lat
ter question is matter which only
can be settled by our own constitu-
tional provisions.-Grifin News.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-15

The suffragettes in England did a
very foolish thing the other day They
burned down am insane asylum thus
d stgoying one of the places of refuge
they may have to seek.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-15

There is no getting around the fact
that a county fair is a good thing for
any community. Sumter county needs
an annual fair and the sooner she gets
one the better The Savannah Morn
| ing News gives some sound advice 90
organizing a county fair Sumter
county should begin to plan this fall
for one to be held next fall. Here is
the editorial from the Savannah pa
per;
lone thing is made evident by the
present season of county fairs in Geor-
gia. and that is that the most success
full fairs are those that are plannet
not a week or two but nearly a year
in advance. The fair that is worth
holding at all must be prepared for
many months before the time for in
stalling the exhibits. 1t must be look
ed forward to by the farmers and the
housewives in the planting season and
there must be time to advertise t
thoroughly throughout the county and
in neighboring counties. Fairs are not
going to Just happen" The best
ones, the ones really worth while, are
the result of a great deal OF hard
work, work that cannot be well done
in a few weeks That Georgia coun-
ties are recognizing that fact is APP
parent because during this year prep
arations for some of the fairs were be-
gun as long ago as January.
There is no need here 10 discuss
the question of whether or not county
fairs are worth the trouble and eX-
penses they entail. Every live farmer
long ago found out they are worth
while, that they pay well the farmers
who take part in them and those who
only visit them. And if the fairs are
worth while the only problem to be
considered is that OF getting TIL"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-15

Can Hobson gain anything by at
tacking Underwood. VIII it help
Democratic chances for him to accuse
Oscar of being in the employ of Wall
street?
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-15
GEORGIA AND THE GEORGIANS

Work on the new union depot will
begin before long and when completed
We will invite the state of Georgia here
to inspect the several sites proposed
for the capitol-Macon Telegraph.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-15

baseball is certainly national
game. The other day the house was
forced to suspend business until u
quorum of congressman could be
found and brought into the house. The
larger majority OF the missing states
P;en were found receiving the returns
from the worlds series.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-15
Savannah News.

The South furnishes the world win
cotton, and now they are calling on Us
t. furnish the meat supply Of the ma
lions. We can do that also if you will
give up a little Montgomery
Monitor.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-15

Secretary McAdoos order directing
that Arabic instead of Roman numer
ais be used on public buildings in
dates, etc, reserves approval. Mos.
persons find it difficult to figure out
what the Roman numerals stand fOr.
Savannah News.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-15

The Star Spangled Banner" was
written ninety-nine years ago, but it
is doubtful if the man who wrote it
would know it if he could hear a mod
ern band playing it.-Valdosta Times.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-15

Christopher Columbus discovered
America but Christy Mathewson is of
more interest to the average Ameri-
ran school boy.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-15
Call Money.

New York. Oct. 14.-Money on call
firm, 3iMa: ruling rate 81; closing bid
31@t Time loans weak; 60 days 40
Z; 80 days 5Q3; 6 months ).
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-15

Wonder if Connie Mack could han
ale those greasers as well as he dld
the Athletics, asks an exchange.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-15
Mercantile Paper.

New York Oct 14,Prime mercantile
paper $500. Sterling exchange 4.S1.25
for 60 days; 4.S5.60 for demand
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-15

The way to get the male population
to church is to advertise a sermon for
men only with admittance at the side
door.-Bulloch Times.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-15

That husband of mine always gets
things twisted"
"Indeed?"
Yes: ! sent him for soda crackers
aud he came back with pretzels."
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-15

Dent get the idea that freedom of
the press" means take the paper AMI
refuse to pay for it.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-15

There does no seem to be much. of a
law breakers in Mexico.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-15

He-They tell me i was beautiful
haay.
She-I don't doubt it. The handsom-
est babies always turn out to be the
homeliest people-Exchange
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-15

The next thing on the program will
be the State Fair.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-15

October is nearly half gone-ShoD
early and avoid the Christmas rush.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-15

Old man Diaz should not be afraid
to take the chance of returning to
Mexico. He's old enough 10 die any
way-Brunswick Banner.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-15
MARKET REPORTS
Quotations on Cotton, Grain, Money
and Produce Reported Daily. Amer
icus Cotton Market in Detail.
In the Americas cotton market ~ "a

In the Americas cotton market II "a
cents was the ruling price yesterday,
the futures positions still exhibiting
bearish tendency. The demand for spot
cotton was fair only, although the
greater portion Of that offered was
ABSORBED at prices around the top fig
ure With continued heavy port re.
ceipts little Improvement at present is
expected
In the Americas market warehouse
receipts yesterday were $50 bales, with
quotations as follows:
Good middling .............12 3-4c
Middling ...................12 1-2c
Receipts in Americas.
Bales
Received yesterday ............ S55
Received previou sly ...........17,S15
Total to date ................1S 1910
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-15
New York Futures.

New York, Oct. 14.-Cotton futures
closed steady
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-15
OFFICIAL ORGAN:

OFFICIAL ORGAN:
City of Americus.
Sumter County.
Webster County.
Railroad Commission Of Georgia For
Third Congressional District.
C. s. Court Southern District OF
Georgia.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-15

Americas, Ga, October Is, 1918
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-15

oct9- 1928 24-advt
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1913-10-01

1t is being advanced that Mr..
Roosevelt will be a candidate for
the Republican nomination for
President in 1916. We cannot
conceive of the Republican party
being guilty of such piece of
fOOlishness as to choose him as
the leader, however. Had Roose-
welt accepted the mistakes of
the party last year with quies-
cence and refrained from bolt
ing he would have been the man
for 1916, as it is he is impossi-
bic. That the Republicans will
have to put forward a leader of
progressive leaning, if they are
going into the fight with any
notion of winning, is already
foregone, but thev will have to
look to a man who has kept his
party record straight. The best
hope now above the party hori-
zon is Senator Cummings, of
Iowa. LaFollette voting with
the Democrats on the tariff bill
has put himself beyond the pale
of Republican preferment.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1913-10-01
Another Swindling Scheme
To Work the Farmers.

The attention of the Missouri
Agricultural Experiment Station
has been called to what seems to
he an organized attempt to hold
up Missouri fruit growers by
Offering them a worthless mix
ture which is guaranteed to cure
al complaints of fruit trees.
The first complaint came from
the vicinity of Mober'y. Mo.
Similar reports have come from
other states in the west.
Those attempting to sell this
serum pose as the authorized
representatives of the West Vir-
ginia Agricultural Station, and
in order to make their business
bear more weight they claim to
be cooperating with the United
States Department of Agricul-
ture and the Missouri Agricul'
tural Experiment Station. These
men are openly violating the fed
eral insecticide law, which was
passed two years ago, and are
thereby laying themselves liable
to fine and Imprisonment.
1t is the duty of the Missouri
College of Agriculture to inves-
tipate and recommend remedies
for pests and diseases attacking
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1913-10-01

fruit trees in Missouri. Fruit
growers are warned against
spending money for any quack
serum which is guaranteed to
cure all complaints. Each par
ticular pest and disease requires
specific treatment, and there is
no >ucA thing ;io IL serum that
will cure all complaints, such as
b.;::'it. pr;crs:. .:nl:ers, etc. An
attempt vi; H.: made to run
down and ,ecute these men
should the, ,:ontinue to violate
the laws. farmers and fruit
growers should promptly notify
the Missouri college of Agricul-
ture at Column ola OF any attempt
to sell this qr:ack remedy.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1913-10-01

The meat packers held con-
vention in Chicago last week
at which many suggestions were
made how the high cost of meat
might be overcome. Invariably
the speakers laid the proposition
up to either the consumer or the
stock raiser, never once did a
packer suggest to suspend the
operation of making multi mil
lionaires through the business
of supplying the people with the
meat SO necessary to them and
cut the cost by trimming the fat
Off of the profits in the packing
houses. One speaker, with evl
dent seriousness, made the Sug
gestion that the government
should go into the stock raising
business on the public lands and
employ the soldiers as cowboys,
selling the cattle to the packers
at cost. There is something in
this idea of the government rails
ing cattle that recommends it
to our socialistic way Of think
ing, but why give the packers
the advantage of it by letting
them do the distributing. If
government stock ranges, why
not government packing houses
and government meat markets,
letting the consumers be the di
rect beneficiary Of the process:
Star ting with the suggestion of
the packer, whose selfish inter
est probably prompted it, the
soclalizing of the meat industry
looks both reasonable and feast
bic, and the people might we'll
give the proposition a serious
thought, that is. if they are real
ly interested in bringing about a
lower cost of living.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1913-10-01

tablishment of three crosS-state
highways and the construction
of 900 miles of road incident to
that contest. In fact, Demo
cratic ne wspapers are challeng-
ed to point to anything that the
present administration has done
that deserves cOmmedation that
ISM a continuation and imitation
of the work of the last Republi-
can state administration.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1913-10-01
Socialist Editor Takes His Turn.

A suit for $4,000 damages has
been filed at Benton, Mo-, by
Phil Hafner, editor of the Scott
County Kicker, a Socialist organ,
against County Collector r. L.
Buck, who formerly, if he does
not now, owned the Morley Ban
ner, a Democratic paper, that
minced no words in dealing with
the subject of socialism and
Hafnerism. Hafner was former
ly a Democrat himself and some
years ago ran a newspaper at De
Soto.
Hafner bases his suit for dam
ages on articles appearing in the
Banner, of which he charges
Buck to be the writer and pub
Usher. One of these articles
contained such choice bits of
argument against Hafner and
socialism as this: Socialism
reduced to Hafnerism means
anarchy, anarchy means dyna-
mite, dynamite in the hands of
anarchists means slaughter of
human beings and destruction
of property; are you a Hafner-
ite?"
Hafner has six counts in his
petition, based on different ar
ticles, and on each count he asks
$1,000 damages. He is appar-
emily turning the tables on one
of the members of the Demo.
cracy in Scott County, which
made things rather unpleasant
for him a year ago, when Prose
cutting Attorney McWilliams
flied suit against him because OF
an article that Hafner published
in the Kicker. Hafner was Civ
en- a trial or two, but the verdict
against him was nullifed by q
ruling of the court,