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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-12-12
HIGH SCHOOL Grille
PLAYS HERO|NES PART

ATLANTA, Ga, Dec. 12--Miss Es-
telle Lindsey, junior at the Girls
High school and member of the young
er society set, ia being called a real
heroine today.
Miss Lindsey was quietly studying
her ancient history at her home, IL
Forrest avenue, about II o'clock at
night, when she was startled by a
scream from next door, the home Of
Mrs. ]. r. Stephenson. Instead Of get
ting excited, Miss Lindsay got the po-
lice station ON the phone at once. Then
she found her fathers big revolver,
crossed the yard, and went next door
TO see what was up.
A burglar had been trying to break
into the house, but when he saw the
girl and her pistol approaching, he
broke for an alley and got away.
When the policemen arrived few
moments late they praised Miss Lind
sey highly for her nerve.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-12-12
VOTERS REGISTER
FOR CITY ELECTION
NEXT WEDNESDAY
BOOKS WILL CLOSE TODAY AND
ONLY THOSE REGISTERED
MAY VOTE.

Next Wednesday is the date of city
election for mayor three members of
council, city clerk and treasurer, and
two members of the police commits
sion, and much local interest attaches
thereto in view of the popularity of
the nominees of the democratic pri-
mary, Mayor-elect L. G. Council, AL
der1nen-elect H. o. Jones, E. L. Bell
and N. M. Dudley; City Clerk H. w.
Weaver, and Police Commissioners S.
L. Sills and John Ed. Chapman. The
registration books will be closed to-
Jay, and only those who have paid
taxes for the current year 1914 are en-
tied to. register and vote in the cleo
lion next Wednesday. About $50 votI
,rs had registered this morning. " Z
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-12-12
ANER|CUS BUYERS
STILL DISCUSSING
COTTON SITUATION
MONSTER CROP AND CONSEQUENT
DECLINING VALUES In
EVIDENCE.

Americus cotton factors continue
discussing the cotton crop situation,
emphasized by the bureau estimate of
crop this year of near seventeen mil
lion bales, the greatest cotton crou
ever grown. Had such an estimate
come in normal market there is
hardly a doubt that a break of so to
100 points would have ensued. AS IL
was, there was quick drop of about
20 points from prices ruling Just be-
fore.
Even this decline was more or less
spasmodic or sentimental for an ad-
dition of half to three-quarters of a
million bales is of little significance
this year.
The estimate was 100000 bales
above the bureau estimate of the
record crop which reached 16,1OO,OOO
bales. That crop was swelled by the
addition of 100000 bales. of very low
stuff picked up into the planting sea-
son. However, the bureau nearly al
ways estimates conservatiyely. and
most people make an allowance for
this tendency.
The bureau estimate including lint
ers, is taken to mean a total produc-
tion of about 16,6O0,O0O bales, with a
possibility of 17,OOO,O 900.
The size of the crop has long since
ceased to- be much of factor in the
market. The important question is
now much can be held and how tena-
ciously. 1t is calculated that the sur
plus this year will be around 1000 900
bales, condition quite unprecedented
in the trade.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-12-12
SEABOARD WINS
To TAKE
OFF TWO TRAINS
RAILROAD is PERMITTED TO DIS
CONTINUE NOS. 13 AND 1EPER
MISSION ONLY TEMPORARY

The arilroad commission of Geor-
gia has granted the petition of the
Seaboard railroad to discontinue trains
Nos. 13 and IA between Americus and
the Alabama state line. The petition
of the railroad was hotly contested by
the Americus chamber of commerce,
but the commissioners saw fit to de-
eide in favor of the railroad.
That the seaboard will be ordered
to resume this service Immediately af-
ter the resumption of better times" is
a statement made by the commission
ers that carries with it grain of con-
science for Americas and the other
cities affected by their decision. "The
Seaboard must resume this service
when ordered without their own con-
sent" states the chairman of the
commission.
Prof. ]. E. Mathis, president of the
chamber of commerce represented
Americus at the hearing several days
ago and was assured by the commits
sion that Americas would be cared for
by the commissioners.
While granting the request to dis
continue the trains from Americus to
the Alabama line, the commissioners
ordered the same trains from Ameri-
Gus to Savannah be continued.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-12-12
VETERAN KING
VISITS LINES
ST|RSSOLD|ERS
KING PETER OF SERVIA EXHORTS
HIS ARMY TO DRIVE OUT THE
ENEMY FORCES WIN
BIG VICTORY FROM THE AUS.
TRANS AFTER HIS ADDRESS
KISG VIEWS BATTLE
Especial to mes-Recorder.)

PARIS, Dec. ia Matin dispatch
says that King Peter, the aged mon
arch of Servia, visited his army on the
battlefront before the general attack,
which resulted in sweeping defeat of
the Austrians.
The king, past his allotted three
score years and ten, addressed his
soldiers just before going into battle
and exhorted them to be brave for
their native land.
King Peter addressed his forces
while sitting on his horse. His white
hair and sad face made vivid i'm
preston on his soldiers and when he
rose in his stirrups and begged them
to drive the enemy from our country
the army raised a hurrah that re-
sounded for several miles.
Soldiers, you are all heroes, fight
ing for your Fatherland. ! have faith
in you and know you will win," Il
said. Then the Servian lines form cd
amid the hurrah and in a few short
hours the Austrians were fleeing be-
fore the aged Kings forces.
All during the battle the venerable
monarch viewed the battle from a high
mound in the rear of his lines. Time
and again he begged his bodyguard to
allow him to ride forth and mingle in
the fray, but he was held back by
those near him who told him there was
other work for him to do.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-12-12
COMPANY
MAKING TRANSFER
BUSINESS OFFICE
WILL REMOVE TO NEW QUARTERS
IN THE WINDSOR HOTEL
BLOCK.

The uptown offices of the Americus
Public Service corporation, the ligh-
ting and power company, will soon be
installed in new quarters directly op-
posite its present location in Jackson
street. Officers are being fitted up in
the Windsor Hotel block, next the shoe
store of Tillman & brown, and Mana
ger Emory Mathis and his forces wilF
soon be at home there. This new cor
poration is now pumping the city's wa
ter supply with power generated at the
electric plant. The city's steam equip
ment at the waterworks plant will be
held intact for any possible emergency,
but the pumping is being done by the
new coropration.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-12-12
BURGLARS RAID
SEABOARD DEPOT
OVERLOOK MONEY
ENTERED TICKET OFFICE HERE
But MISSED CASH DRAWER.

Burglars last night broke into the
ticket office of the Seaboard railway
passenger station here, but with the
execution of a fine revolver belonging
to Ticket Agent Marshall, the thieves
got little for their daring work. There
was little money of consequence in
the drawer, Agent Marshall before
leaving the office having put the cash
receipts in a more secure place. The
burglars worked under the glare of
an electric street light only a few
wards away, which fact rendered their
attack the more daring.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-12-12
SUBMARINE ATTACK
ON BRITISH COAST
EASILY REPULsED
= u Wax
(By Associated Press.)

LONDON, Dec. IA news dispatch
from Edinburg reports that German
submarines made two attacks on the
Firth of Forth Wednesday. The Ger
man vessels were easily repulsed and
two of the little ships were destroyed
it is reported. The British admiralty
had not confirmed the report up to
noon today.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-12-12
UNCLE SAM WILL
PROTECT CITIZENS
(By Associated Press.)

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. 1.-THE
stota department today directed Min
,s+or Pleasant Stovall, at Geneva,
Sutherland, to Immediately investi-
oate the report that an American cit
,uo, named Muller had been arrested
IN Geneva as spy. The state de-
rartment ttold the minister to Switzer-
,d IN inform those to blame in q
vary forcible manner that Uncle Sam
wos prepared to punish any offense
ou0,rst citizens of the United States.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-12-12
GERMANS EXPECT GENERAL
ASSAULT BY THE ALLIES
WHILE TROOPS ARE BUSY
FIGHTING WITH RUSSIANS
Berlin Looks for Renewed Offensive Tactics BY the
Allies Within Few Days Fighting IN France LIST
less and of Little Importance Now. Germans Are
Checked Within Fifteen Miles of Warsaw.
(By Associated Press.)

LONDON, Dec. 12.-That Germany Is
looking for sudden renewal OF an OF
fensive campaign by the Allies IN a 1ew
days was the news that leaked
through from Berlin today. The mil
itary authorities in the Kaiser's capital
argue that the Allies will attempt TO
complete their campaign in the west
ern theatre, while Germany is forced
to keep most of her army in Poland,
fighting the Russians. 1t is known
here that the two forces have been
fighting listlessly for several days IN
France. Neither side has been able to
gain materially. 1t is believed this
may be the calm before the Allies
start their offensive move.
Russians Check Germans.
Petrograd notified Associated Press
headquarters at London this morn
ing that the Germans had been check
ed in their march on Warsaw. That
the Kaiser's soldiers came within fif-
teen miles of the ancient city has not
been denied by the Russian authori-
ties
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-12-12
GERMAN CRUISER
HIDING IN PORT
(By Associated Press.D

LONDON, Dec. IL. - A Valparaiso
dispatch to the Evening News says
that it is reported there that the Ger
man cruiser Dresden has taken refuge
in an inlet on the coast of Patagonia.
The Dresden is one of the two German
from the British warships after a dis
trous engagement early this week.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-12-12
BRITISH WARsH|P
NABs GERMAN SHIP
(By Associated Press.l

{. LONDON, Dec IL. - A German
steamer loaded with a cargo of seven
hundred thousand tons of oil from the
United States bound for Italian ports
was seized this morning at Gibraltar
by a British warship. Berlin confirms
this report.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-12-12
EXCHANGE
RE-OPENEO FOR
ACTIVE TRADING
ACTIVITY ON FLOOR OF THE En-
CHANGE REvIVES MEMORIES OF
THE HALCYON DAYS OF TEN
YEARS AGO-EXCHANGE CLOSED
FOR FOUR MONTHS

NEW YORK, Dec. 12.-The New
York Stock exchange, which has been
closed for more than four months, and
which was opened for limited bond
trading two weeks ago, re-opened this
morning for active stock trading. Ac-
tivity on the floor of the exchange re-
vived memories of big days ten years
ago.
The opening of the New York Stock
exchange will materially assist in fur
nishing a stable market for cotton,
stocks and bonds.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-12-12
Chicqgo-JacksonuiNe
Highway is the --latest
Good Roads Project
(By Associated Press.)

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Dec. 12-Gov-
ernor Ralston today issued call for
a meeting of the governors of the sew
eral states between Illinois and Flor
ida to consider building a Chicago
Jacksonville highway. The meeting is
called for January II, in Chattanooga.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-12-12
Dutch Seize
German Boots

AMSTERDAM, Holland, Dec. 12.-It
has been reported here in semi-official
circles that Dutch authorities have
seized fifteen boats loaded with car
goes of grain, which 1t was alleged the
Germans were attempting to smuggle
into the Ratherland by way OF the riv-
er Scheldt. Holland has notified the
nations that she will remain neutral
and that she will neither aid the Allies
or the Germans.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-12-12
TURKISH NAVY
BOMBARDS PORT
(By Associated Press.)

LONDON. Dec. ia news dispatch
from Constantinople, via Berlin, says
that the Turkish fleet on yesterday
bombarded Batum, a Russian seaport
on the eastern coast of the Black Sea
One hundred Russians were killed ane
many more wounded, 1t is reported
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-12-12
Florida Woman viii
Help Fill Stockings
For Chicago Kiddies
(By Associated Press.)

TAMPA, Fla, Dec. 12.-Mrs. Potter
Palmer today shipped three carloads
of oranges from here to Chicago char
ity societies to be used in connection
with the Empty Stocking work in that
city.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-12-12
GRASS FIELD IN FLAMES;
FIREMEN TO THE RESCUE

burning grass field near the Sea-
,o,ra shops gave the fire trucks a
,,. spir out to the southside at
-, today. No damage resulted from
,rciuient ,"hay confiagration,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-12-12
POPE'S PEACE PACT
REFUSED BY NATIONS
(By Associated Press.)

ROME, Dec. 12.-Vatican authorities
today made public documents publish
ed by the Pope in his effort to bring
about a truce between belligerents
during Christmas All efforts have
failed owing to opposition by several
of the powers.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-12-12
Russia Objects to Truce.
(By Associated Press.)

ROME, Dec. 12.-It was learned here
today through official sources that
Germany has agreed to peace truce
on Christmas Day, provided the other
belligerents agreed. Russia raised an
objection, so the Germans refused to
consider the matter further.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-12-12
Congress to Consider
Prohibition and Womans
Suffrage Measure Shortly
(By Associated Press.1

WASHINGTON, d. C., Dec. Pit
was announced that yea and nay votes
would be taken soon on proposed pro-
hibition and woman's suffrage meas
ures which would amend the consti-
tuition so as to enfranchise women and
place a national ban on liquor.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-20
Inherent Ideas of Life.

The problem of the idle thousands
body of atrophied muscles, over-stim-
ulated brains and cultivated passions
and appetites, is ripe for crime and
disease. The slogan of the short life
and a merry one" has done for its
thousands. Thousands are born daily
with an innate distaste for mental or
physical effort The only purpose
they see in life is enjoyment" and
hey never know real true enjoyment
Of life or its meaning. Under the cap
ton ITO Makers Workers from Idlers, -
the New York Commercial publishes
the following editorially:
Kansas farmers will begin to har-
vest an enormous wheat crop about
June Is. The question which confronts
them is, Where will we find the hands
to help us garner? In New York, Bos-
ton, Philadelphia and a dozen other
business, and industrial centres thou
sands of sallow men stand idle, though
in the majority of cases willing to
work.
The two situations, so opposite, seem
TO answer one another and the col
umns of the average city newspaper
bristle with demands of theorists
Take the idlers from the slums and
put them into the fieldsl" The project
has even been practically tried but
the moralizers found that it is useless
to deal with men in accordance with
what they ought to be. They must be
managed as they are.
Most of the huddled masses of hu-
manity gathered voorhees,, almost
hopeless, in the large American cities
are obsessed by an inherent longing
for the culver, clang and elamor of
the crowded streets. Taken out Of the
shadow of the close-packed buildings,
these men and women founder help
Iessiy. The sunshine of the open
country and the wind that blows on
hilifops bewilder, almost brighten
them. The work of farm and mine
calls for use of muscles almost afro
phied at tailor's bench or machine
shop lathe. They suffer with bhstered
hands and tired-out backs. with long
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-20

Copper exports from the United
States are only exceeded by raw cot
ton, iron and steel. The amount of
copper exported during the six months
ending March, 1914, was 495,0o0,oOO
pounds, or equal t. the whole amount
for 1906 and one and one-half times
that of 1902. The manufacturing
countries of Europe take about all the
copper exported from the United
States. The foreign sales have been
steadily increasing, while the price has
been as steadily decreasing, being con-
siderably lower than in 1918. In jan
uary, 1914, it sold for 14.9 cents, COM
pared with 1853 cents in January, 1913,
and in March 1914 for 14.4, compared
with 14.9 in March, 1918.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-20

ing for the songs of cheap theatre and
for the air of corner saloon.
Perhaps they draw pay for week
or two of harvesting, then hurry to
the nearest railway station for a tick
ct "home." Others reach town only
with a sheriffs assistance after hurt
ing the country much more than they
helped it. When they do get back to
their tenements these people nave
gained nothing, learned nothing from
the trip.
The difficulty is not the physical one
of transportation it lies in the men
tai state of the men, women and even
children in question. They must first
be made to truly understand that their
present situation is not the most nap
DIV one open to them; that 1t is I'M
healthy both for body and soul. Ii
their accustomed amusements are to
be taken away from them they must
be offered others and taught to ap-
preciate the pleasures to which they
have for generations been strangers
out of a hundred such mental pa
tients. dozen perhaps will be fit at
the end of year for transplantatlon
Twelve months later another twenty
or thirty may reach the same stage
Fifty per cent. are probably so deep
rooted between subway and elevated
that the best which can be accom-
pIished is to show them that the
Bronx is healthier than the East Side
and that Sunday school for the young
ones is an improvement on shooting
craps.
Essential to the treatment Isl pa
thence and an appreciation of the fact
that they are human beings entitled
to personal freedom in their choice
of surroundings and companions. The
only way to make them choose bet
ter than what they enjoy now is to
teach them the difference between that
and life of open-air production.
Only when they clearly see which is
the best road will they walk it.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-20

within the boundaries of state
the authorities can find employment
for all prisoners under the state use
PLAN" stated William H. Whitaker,
superintendent of the District of CO.
lumbia workhouse at Occoquan be-
fore the interstate commerce commit
tee of the United States Senate at a
hearing on the Booher- Hughes bill
to limit interstate commerce in con-
vict-made goods. One state may solve
this problem in one way and another
state in another. We solve it in the
District of Columbia by honest labor,
sunlight and fresh air on the farm
by doing all sorts of work that is done
in any city of a thousand people.
There is not state in this Union but
has thousands and hundreds of thous-
ands of acres of waste land to redeem
and roads to build; the waste land can
be redeemed and the roads construct
ed with the labor of the prisoners"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-20
Protect the Forests from Fire.

The Forest Service, Department of
Agriculture, is waging a great cam
paign among the frequenters of the
woods and in one letter, sent to the
supervisor of the Apache national for
est, incorporated the following warn
ing, which may be found applicable to
any region:
THE Forest Service is working to
protect the forests, and we ask you as
a forest user to lend a helping hand.
We need your assistance and coopera-
ton to help in keeping fire from get
ting started. Will You help? Will you
be careful with your camp fire? Dig
a pit for it or clear trash from all
sides of it. Be sure your camp fire is
out before leaving it. Be as careful
with lire in the forest as you would in
your own home. Be sure your match
is out before you throw it away.
Matches have heads. but they don't
use 'em to think with.
KNOCK out your pipe ashes and
throw your cigarette or cigar stubs
where they can't start fire. Cigarette
and cigar stubs have no heads at all
you must think for them. Would
you put them in your pocket still
burning? No! Then don't put them
in the forest burning.
Bear in mind that an ounce of
prevention is worth weeks of fire hight
ing. When you see a fire, if you can't
get to it yourself and put it out, will
you notify the nearest forest offlcer?"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-20
STYLES in Housemaids.

Styles in Housemaids.
Young Mrs. Wombat was a dame
Who always dressed in style.
She understood the fashion game,
On dresses spent pile.
oh, she was willowy and slim,
Could wear both checks and strpes.
She liked to have her housemaids trim
And they were slender types.
But she would meet them on parade
And note with many frowns
A pantry girl or parlor maid
In one of her own gowns.
She had to drop her slender girls.
From knowledge caution springs,
And now she hires some portly pearls
Too fat to wear her things.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-20

A. L. Westgard, president and
director of Trans-continental High
ways of the National Highways Asso-
citation. left New Orleans, May II, on
an 1S000-mile automobile trip through
the Southwest and Middle West in the
interest of National Highways and
Good Roads. Mr.. Westgard has done
more than any other man to make
interstate touring possible. His work
during the last ten years as path
finder has made him famous from one
end Of the country to the other. He
has crossed the continent in an auto
mobile nine times from east to west,
and five times from north to south,
always striving to find the best routes
between cities. Altogether, he has
driven about a quarter of a million
miles.