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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-07-05
IGRAOY BOWEN GETS
TOKEN FROM CLUB

Grady Bowen, who has been sold 10
the Topeka Kansas club in the West
ern league, was presented with a beau
tiful gold watch fob yesterday after
noon by the directors of the Americus
ball club. The watch fob was present.
ed to Bowen when he came to the bat
in the sixth inning. The game was
stopped long enough to allow Prof. J.
E. Mathis to present the fob to the
boy and contrary to custom, which
called for him to strike out. Grady
proceeded to get on by assimilating
one of Fillengem's fast ones in his
ribs. The token of esteem was fob
with a gold locket on it having a
large diamond in the center. On it
are engraved .Grady's initials and a
card with it tells him how the direc-
tors appreciate his clean playing of tha
past two years.
Bowen left Saturday night for To-
peka to join his new club. The fans
hate to see the boy leave Americus,
but the new club is in much faster
company and Grady has been promet-
ed. Not the least bit of doubt exists
in the minds of the fans but that Gra-
dy will be favorite with the Kansas
fans before he has been with them a
week, and that his old slapstick will
accumulate an average of over 300 in
the fast circuit. ~ ZYS
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-07-05
HELLO GIRL HEROINE
ON MIDNIGHT FIRE

Danbury, Conn, July 4-Looking out
a window Of the Central telephone Of
fee in Newton, Miss Jennie Kelley, the
lone operator on duty there, at /
O'Clock this morning discovered FIRE
in a room on the upper foor of the
Grand Central Hotel, short distance
away. The village has no policeman
or watchman, and the streets were
deserted.
Leaving her switchboard, Miss Kel-
ley ran across to the hotel, and beat
ing upon the doors awakened the
sleeping employees and guests. Then,
returning to her office she rang all the
telephones in homes of members of the
volunteer fire company, and soon had
a sufficient force assembled to cope with
the flames.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-07-05

Atlanta, Ga, July An reply tc
charges made by Mr.. Thomas W. Hard
wick against Gov. John NJ. Slaton, the
following statement is given out to-
night by Mr. Slaton:
Mr.. Hardwick says l gave barbe-
cues and am running as a good fei-
low" These serious charges l admit
Barbecues are Georgia institutions, and
after the heat of conflict in the leg
islature, / have been glad to entertain
the members in an old-fashioned Geor-
gia way. Possibly refined Washington
society, to which. Mr.. Hardwick has
belonged for the last twelve years
might turn up it's sensitive nose nj
other dishes than peacock's tongues o,
other drinks than champagne, but
love the old Southern hospitality thai
may be rude, but is genuine and sin
cere. 1t is Georgian.
hope l am good fellow" 1t has
been my pleasure to make the mem
bers of the legislature for seventeen
years as happy as could. l have tried
Ito do this with all my fellow men.
have drawn many bill for new mem
bers, and as presiding officer, l have
given them recognition over their moro
experienced colleagues. If they made
parliamentary mistake, undertooF
to set them right, and they knew they
had friend in the speaker.
Mr.. Hardwick may think it tern
of opprobrum, but l love to be called
good fellow"
The people of this state are a kind
people, and would rather trust power
to him who loved them than to a m ~
whose whole career is filled witt
promises, but is void of achievements
An assumption of ferocity and harsh
ness may become a Russian nobleman
dealing with the peasantry, but Geor.
gia people will not permit it. In fact
they make a distinction between beins
fussy and being a fighter, between tho
small canine that barks at ever!
!, passer, and the mastiff who guards tn
household against real danger.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-07-05
AMER|CUs TO HAVE HOLIDAY
IN OBSERVANCE OF FOURTH

Americus, never lacking in patriotic
feryor, is going to enjoy tomorrow, the
Fourth of July holiday, which business
conditions denied her yesterday. Mer-
chants could not we'll afford to close
their stores ON a very busy Saturday,
and some of the stores will be closed
tomorrow, instead in order that the
holiday may not be missed aitogethe~.
The Times-Recorder, along with other
, enterprises, will observe the holiday
tomorrow.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-07-05
GOV. SLATON MAKES TART ANSWER
TO CHARGES OF TOM HARDWICk

eel post bill which was designed to be
of great benefit to the farmers, and
the people generally. 1t especially
served those living in rural commur
tiles, and no man who was their friend
and wished to give them the conven-
fences of life could have antagonized
this measure.
1t is one bill which would be carried
by an overwhelming majority in every
country district and every city ward in
Georgia. Mr.. Hardwick opposed it
and this opposition will be difficult tc
explain.
Mr.. Hardwick has charged me with
political cowardice." l now charge
him with political hypocrisy, and un
dertake to prove it by undisputed facts
Mr.. Hardwick ran for congress on
the unit rule, and defeated Mr.. Flem-
ing, although that gentleman received
100 popular majority over Mr.. Hard
wick. Now he attacks the unit rule as
being unjust.
Mr.. Hardwick now urges his "expe-
rience" as a reason for his election to
the senate, yet he defeated Mr.. Flem-
ing who stood high in national coun-
ellis and was man of large experience,
on the platform against long service in
congress. Now Mr.. Hardwick would
like to be elected for life. He Opposes (
life tenure of judges, but favors life
tenure for himself.
Mr.. Hardwick urges persistently his
experience, and yet it was announced
through the newspapers two years ag
tnat ne contemplated running against
Senator Bacon, who was senator oi
the very largest experience.
MIR. Hardwick declares with great
gusto how he will defeat every negro
appointment il he is elected senator
OF course, all of us favor the appoint
ment of white people instead of ne
groes to ONCE.
Mr.. Hardwick cannot accomplish anJ
more than the great democratic sena
tors who have constantly fought TIL
confirmation of such appointments.
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these things.

these things.
Mr.. Fielder and Mr.. Hardwick, ap-
parently are dividing the state ia their
canvas. am the only one attacked. In
truth, the voters of Georgia do not
know how their votes will be counted,
if cast for either Mr.. Fielder or Mr.,
Hardwick. The one is ready to swap
with the other, according to the ex--
igencies of the case, and If / know
Georgians correctly, they wish their
votes to be counted as they cast them.-
and not be made the subject of barteS
and sale, like merchandise.
Mr.. Fielder abandoned the state in
the middle of one of it's most import
ant law suits, because fidelity to duty
would have required all his time. This
was not to be considered, however,
when it interfered with Mr.. Felder's
own personal ambition.
Speaking on the stump is much
easier, and he evidently counted on
the people not learning the truth.
Judge Hart had won a magnificent
victory, and Mr.. Fielder saw before him
not only rebuff by the supreme court
of the United States and possibility of
defeat, but also the interference with
his cherished ambition.
The whole of MIR. Felder's career has
been a neglect of the small counties of
the state, and ignorance of their nee
essities and lack of sympathy with
their wants. He has endeavored ID
force impositions upon them and to
make their yoke harder than they could
bear. / am simply awaiting an oppor-
tunity to present the truth of this and
other matters concerning Mr.. Fielder
in indisputable form to the people OF
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-07-05

understand that in various
speeches delivered in Georgia, Mr
Hardwick modestly takes to himsel1
the credit of the passage of practically
all the legislation that has been enact.
ed of late years, and all of the steps
taken for the establishment of the
Democratic party.
At Jefferson ne declared that he had
whipped the Speaker, Underwood, Muir
dock and others on the tolls matter.
wonder if it occurred to Mr. Hardwick
that President Wilson had any infiu-
ence or that Congressman Adamson
chairman of the interstate commerce
committee, was a potent factor, or
that Mr.. Henry, of Texas, or Mr.. Shir-
ley, of Kentucky, were forces to be rec
ognized.
1t reminds me of Private Moriarty
who said that the Duke of Wellington
at the Battle of Waterloo, asked II
Sergeant Moriarity was present, and
when that individual stepped forwar
and announced his presence, the Iron
Duke ordered the battle to proceed
He is like the Federal officer who was
always boasting of the battles he had
won and the rebels he had killed FL
nally his little son asked him: Papa
did any one help you?"
When Mr.. Hardwick, then a member
, of the Georgia legislature, copied the
bill from Mississippi and Alabama, re-
garding disfranchisement, he goi
three votes one time, and about II
votes another time. 1t was only after
he left Georgia for eight years and
strong men took up the matter of dis
franchisement that it became a law. H:
accomplished nothing worth while il
the house of representatives of Geor.
gia.
MIR. Hardwiek opposed general par.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-07-05
GEARY AND PRATT TOO
MUCH FOR The BABIES
The Cincinnati Kid Pitches FOur-Hit
Game, and the Alabama Blond Holds
COrdele to Seven bingles-Geary
Fans Thirteen and Pratt Whiffs
Eight-Eleyen Hundred Fans See
Afternoon Game

Two wins from Cordele on yesterday
gave the Muckalees a clean sweep Of
the series with the Babies and a clean
slate for the week. The morning game
which was played in Cordele, was won
by the Muckalees to 0 and the after
noon game was taken by Americus on
her home lot to l.
Both games were pitchers battles
Continued IN Page Mve)
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CONTEST grows
EXCEEDING WARM;
INTEREST GREAT
MANY CANDIDATES In RACE
Voting Coupons iD Demand
For FavOrites

All Americus is absorbingly inte.-
ested just now in the Merchants Com
mercial Contest" which has struck a
popular chord second to none other
While the contest has progressed only
three weeks, and yet has seven weeks
to run, it has aroused an unexpected
degree of interest and keen rivalry
among the friends and hackers of the
many contestants for the beautiful
prizes offered. A glance at these gifts
is we'll calculated to make any man
or good looking girl get into the race.
whether or not they so desired.
Up to yesterday afternoon the fol-
lowing named people had been voted
for and are, therefore, considered in
the race Others may yet get into
the interesting game. Here they are:
Mrs. z. A. Littlejohn, Taylor street;
Mrs. Geo. Oliver, Church street; Miss
Evelyn Crew, 423 College street; Miss
Emmie Kate Andrews, Church street;
Mrs. w. Bowen, Smithville, Ga; Miss
Mary Lou Perry, Americus, Route 4;
Mrs. L. L. McCleskey, Taylor street;
Miss Ellie Breeden, Hospital; Miss
Mary Kate Livingston, Lamar street
Miss Irene Boone, Church street; rMp.
H. E. Hurley, Furlow street; Mrs. W.
L. Mcneil, Americus, Route /; Mrs.
W. T. Lane, Lee street; Mrs. B. W
Ferguson, DeSoto, Ca. Miss Bess Nc
Leod, Brown street; Mrs. R. S. Broad
hurst Barlow street; Miss Ellie Wig
gins, Smithville, Or. Miss Kate Hiller,
Plains, Ga; Mrs. H. S. Walker, Lee
street; Mrs. J. S. Glover, Americus,
Route 5; Mrs. Tom Smith, Prince
street; Miss Estelle McElheney, Mayo
street; Mrs. O. E. Cranberry, 606 Lee
street; Mrs. c. E. Hare, 149 Forrest
street; Miss Katie Hines, Elm avenue,
Mrs. c. A. Schneider, Forsyth street;
Mrs. Albert Harris, Harold avenue;
Miss Joe Mckay, Church street; Mrs.
H. A. c, Bagley, Americus, R. F. D.;
Mrs. G. D. Jones, Leslie, Ca; Miss
Minnie Lee Perryman, Fielder street;
Mrs. M. E. Scrutchins, Jackson street;
Miss Melva Clark, Jackson street; Mrs.
o. c. Johnson, Finn street; Mrs. W.
M. Tullis, Church street.
Coupons for this voting contest are
given at the following Americus stores
and places of business, each represent
ing separate line. Purchases made at
either of these places entities the pur-
chaser to coupons in corresponding g
amount, and a purchaser or patron
never fails to ask for voting coupons.
Whether in groceries, dry goods, fur
niture or whatever line, there will be
found one representative only. Hei e
is the list of coupon distributors; GO
see them:
Churchwell's, Allison Furniture Co.,
Home Laundry & Dry Cleaning c.,
Opera House, Sparks Grocery Co., Olil
A. Williams Co., Hair & Evans, W. H.
c. Dudley, Jas. Fricker and Bro,
] r p, Americus Coca-Cola Bottling Co
Hightowers Book Store, The Times
Recorder.
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BURGLARS LEAVE
TAUNT FOR victim

Mahoney City, Pa, July 4.-"ThanX
you, Sleepy Head, get up if you can"
was the message Frank Faust, OF
Quakake, found pinned to a tablecloth
in his home this morning. The authors
were burglars who pried open a win
dow, ransacked the house and escaped
with SIS in cash, and valuables. Three
tramps are being detained pending in
vestigation. ---- --''--'''''-
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-07-05

The Alabama Blonde pitched steady
ball in the afternoon game yesterday
and won from Cordele 5 to l. He fan
ned eight of the Babies and seven hi s
were all they could gather off his de-
livery.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-07-05
MONEY ALL GONE,
LADIES WORK IN
field ALL YEAR
one FRUSTRATED BY heat
Lost Their All in Collapse OF
Bank Here

Of the many touching and pathetic
incidents resulting from the disastrous
wreck of the Americus National bank.
wherein more than four hundred
thousand dollars of money entrusted
there has been swept away and many
poor depositors reduced to sheer pov-
erty, none is more pathetic and heart
rending than that of two widowed sis
ters residing near Americus, who lost
their all-probably $4,000 or $1,000
when the crash came in February.
This money, it is said, was the life
insurance left by their husbands. One
poor mother has four little children,
the eldest nine years old, while her
widowed sister has two--one a babe
at it's mothers breast-six helpless lit
tie children to be cared for and sup
ported.
These poor women had entrusted
their little hoard to the Americas Ma
tional, where your money is safe,
ETC." Every dollar was lost, and they
are said to be, today, penniless.
Forced by dire poverty these two
sisters, refined women both, have been
compelled to work in the cotton fields
here, in the broiling sun, all summer.
1t was a new and terrible experience
for the poor creatures, but it was prob
ably that or starvation. A negro man,
it is said, was hired to do the plowing,
while they followed him and hoed the
cotton, the mother of the babe return
ing to the desolate house at intervals
to nurse her little babe and sustain
its fragile life.
The bank had swallowed up their all
enough to have maintained them in
comfort, had not their confidence been
so terribly misplaced.
Recently, while the two sisters thus
hoed cotton beneath a broiling sun, one
avs prostrated by heat and, it is said,
may die from her illness. Without
means, having lost their all, their sit
uation is said to be pitiable in the ex-
treme. Many poor widows lost their
all in the wreck of the bank, which
seemed to have made special feature
Of handling widows Insurance funds,
but no case seems quite so distress,
ing as that referred to in this story.
No comforts, or handsome homes for
these poor creatures; nothing but dire
want, poverty and privation for them
selves and helpless little children.
Another story is that of helpless
cid man, eighty years of age, residing
near Americus. He had boarded Ip
1860 in gold-the savings of life
time-that he might have a few COM
forts in his declining days. His little
all went with the bank and now, old,
notwithstanding by degrees-his
death, like that of the poor, sun-pros-
trated widow, may follow the sweep
ing away of their few pitiful dollars
in the horrible vortex which ruined
SO many here.
Could anything be more pitifu,,
more heart-rending, or cry out more
loudly and appealingly for tardy JUS
tice and restitution?
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-07-05

The Cincinnati Kid who pitched a
four-hit game in Cordele yesterday
moi ming and shut out the Babies 20
0. Thirteen of the Cordele players
famed the air, trying to connect with
his shoots.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-07-05
MUCKALEES MAKE CLEAN
SWEEP C0RDELE SERIES
AMER|CUs TAKES
TWO ON FOURTH
FROM BABIES

AMERICUS TIGHTENS HER HOLD
ON FIRST PLACE BY CELEBRAT-
ING The FOURTH WITH TWO
WINS = THE MORNING GAME
GOES TO MUCKALEES 8 TO 0 AND
THE AFTERNOON GAME IS
THEIRS 5 TO /.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-03-05
WELL, THE KID HAD TO EAT.

WELL, THE KID HAD TO EAT. i
Watts, CAL, March 5.-Allegation
that one of the jury of women that
found him guilty of, riding a bicycle
on the sidewalk was excused so she
might go home to nurse her baby was.
made today by WV. Watts, principal
of the Watts school, who took an ap-
peal. The women jurors recommend
ed leniency in Watts case and he got
OFF with a So fine - rza.=-.. :.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-03-05
Rosemary-Have yol

RosemaY-Have you ever been
impressed by the mystery of Mona
Lisa's smile? Thornton-No. She,
looks to me just like some woman
who is doing her best to laugh at one
of her husbands Jokes,
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-03-05
POINTED

How were the speeches at the
nail manufacturers banquet" t
Right to the point" -
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-05-07
TENER ANNOUNCES
GAME DATES SET

New York, May E-Pres. John z.
Tener Of the National league ANNOUNCE
ed several changes in the playing
schedule including the assigning of
dates for games postponed on account
Of weather conditions. The revision
Of the schedule moves forward the
Cincinnati game at st. Louis, sched-
uled for June 3 to May 8 and the st.
Louis game at Cincinnati, scheduled
for Sept. IA to June 8. Open dates
which have been utilized for the play
ing of postponed games are:
At Pittsburgh, June 4, st. Louis
Sept. IS, Cincinnati; at Cincinnati
June "a, Chicago; Aug. 81 Chicago;
at Chicago, Sept. IA, Pittsburgh.
The following contracts and re-
leases are also approved:
Contracts: With Brooklyn, George
f. Walsh; with Chicago, Jesse Barnes
Releases: By Boston to Cleveland
CA. ID George Beck; by Chicago, I'M
conditionally, Harvey Utrecht; by
Chicago to Birmingham, g.. A.
Charles Stewart; by Cincinnati tc
Dayton, &C. H. Albert Wyckland: by
Cincinnati to San Francisco, Up. c.. L.
Wayne Braham; by Philadelphia tt
Denison IT. ID, J. C. Haislip; by
Philadelphia to Harrisburg IT. S. L.
w. NJ. J. O'Neill
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-05-07
Additional Sport

home, where the busy turnstiles play
the sweetest music in the weary and
down-trodden world. You nasty dol
lar, you.
TO our humble way Of thinking Su-
l,erior is going to be in the running.
and from the facts waited this way 1t
would not be in the least surprising to
see Virginia under the pilotship Of Kid
Taylor, jump out strong and be fight
ing up in the first division all Of the
way.
Winona, Superior and Virginia loom
strong. with Duluth, Grand Forks. Fort
William, Winnipeg and the Fargo
Moorhead combination in the unknown
class.
The Cantillons are pretty certain to
plant a representative team at the
North Dakota metropolis, and it is
generally believed hat under the
guiding hand Of a baseball man of the
experience of Eddie Wheeler, that
Grand Forks will have a better team
than the aggregation Of 1913.
Winnipeg should have a more con-
sistent season than the one of, a year
ago, and the faithful here are strong
and steadfaSt in the belief that the
1914 Duluth White Sox will be pep
perry and hustlers all the "a through.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-05-07
DULUTH SCRIBE SIZES
Up NORTHERN LEAGUE

Bruce, Of The Duluth Herald, dopes
out the situation in the Northern
league as follows:
They are off today, Bill. IN the
Northern Eight teams are at the bar
riersc ready 10 start the race that will
he fought through until the fourth DAY
of browning September. 1t should be
a fine race; one of the. best. that my
of the various leagues in TINS section
of the country have ever contested.
This season the fans OF this city
know less about the White SoX than
has been the case in any Of h DreV1-
o1s This fact is accounted
for by the fact that practically all OF
tha veterans Of the team have been
swept away and in their places are to
be found news faces.
Darby O"Br4en VIII be back at the
second sack. Like the brook MI. Ten
nyson wrote of, the Irish Orator goes
on the inter minable lengths. To the
left and tight of him, and in fact all
around him, will be found the forms Of
the new players that have come to
take the places of our departed friends
of the diamond.
Under the crafty and able leadership
of Lefty Davis the chances OF Wlnona
should be considered very GOOD and
this. too, in face Of the fact n the
Pirates have the shortest home SEIZED
ule of any team in the league.
With a weather eye to the box office.
the magnates of the Northern judi
ciOusly arranged the schedule so that
Winnipeg. the Atlas supporting the
other teams Of the league on its broad
shoulders, should play most Of the sea-
son at home
Last year the metropolis Of the
western dominion drew more than any
other three cities Of the league, and
this highly important fact was not foT
n wavering instant lost sight OF by
the alert schedule trainers.
So, therefore, it should be remem
bered that the Peggers will have a
, large and fatr-haired advantage in
. that there will be a long season at
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-05-07

men, more powerful than myself, but
they are easy for me because they are
unable to make their minds and
muscles perform simultaneously"
Thinking and acting at the same
time Is what makes champions, That
Is why Frank Gotch is such a marvel
u wrestler. He knows just when to
use his strength to the best advantage
and oeheye me he seldom overlooks
n opening an opponent may leave.
have tried to copy Gotch's style
as best T knew how but he is such a
wonderful wrestler that the rest Of us
are rather poor limitations as com-
pared with him.
However, I always do the best I
can to win and 1t will be no fault Of
mine II l do not some day become the
worlds champion"
Ordeman is in excellent condition
Tor his match with Zbyszko on May
Is and is confident of winning.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-05-07
HARVARD EIGHT
IN TRIAL RACE

Cambridge. Mass. May 1.-THE Har-
ward varsity eight yesterday had it's
first trial race since the changes. which
were made after its defeat by the
Middies at Annapolis. 1t won from the
second crew by half a length over a
mile and seven -eighths course. The
time was 10 minutes q seconds.
The four without a coxsWain enter
ed for the American Henley at Phila-
derphia, crashed into a bridge during
practice yesterday. The boat was
wrecked and two of IT'S occupants had
to swim ashore. 1t is uncertain
whether a new boat can be obtained
in time for the Henley race.
The annual interclass race was won
by the sOphomores who defeated the
Juniors and seniors in that order. The
time was 10:47.