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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-10
STOCK EXHIBIT
BEST WITNESSED
AMER|CUS EVER
FARMERS ARE INTERESTED IN EN-
HIBIT HERE.

The splendid livestock exhibition
train operated in southern Georgia by
the State College of Agriculture reach
ed Americus this afternoon and is now
at the Seaboard depot, on Jackson
street, where farmers and others in.
trrested in livestock went during tho
afternoon hours to see the fine stock
brought for their inspection.
These cars of livestock were brought
to Americas for the special purpose ct
advising with farmers who desire to
purchase. beef and dairy cattle,
draught horses and hogs of any pure
bred" type. The train will remain
here until o'clock this afternoon. All
are invited to come and see the ex
hibit.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-10
lMER|CUs HIGH
BASKETBALL FIVE
PLAYING ALBANY
SPIRITED GAME IN ARTESIAN
CITY TONIGHT.

Americus and Albany basketball
teams will measure lances in that city
tonight in one of the strongest games
played this season between the fair
representatives of the two aggrega-
tions. The Americas High school team
will be we'll represented by Misses
Mary Hawkins, Eugenia Parker, Eliza
beth Davis, Mary Glover and Anna
Murray, who are accompanied by Miss
es Genevieve Prather, Cordelia Gate
wood. Mary Hudson and Lois McMath.
The Americas young ladies went down
this afternoon under the chaperonage
Of Mrs. Allie Hayes Richardson, in
structor in physical culture here and
in that city as well. The Americus
team is confident of their ability to win
cut over their fair Albany opponents
ia the spirited game tonight.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-10
PATRIOTIC SONS
ENJOY OCCASION
THURSDAY NIGHT
CAMPS IA AND "a UNITE IN SOCIAL
MEET.

The social session" enjoyed last
night by members of Camps IA and
"a, Patriotic Order Sons of America,
was by far the largest in point of at
tendance here in many months and 4
social success in every way. The
ltrge membership of both camps was
we'll represented, while the presence of
more than hundred ladies and other
invited gusts added very much to the
plasure of the occasion. Following a
royal feast of bivalves, several ad-
dresses appropriate to the occasion
were made by state President G. l..
Williams, Past Presidents Lee Allen
and J. E. Sheppard, L. ]. Blalock, OF
Camp IA, with pleasing remarks by
Past President c. ]. Clark, who pre-
sided as master of ceremonies. The
attendance exceeded three hundred,
and the occasion was most enjoyable
withal.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-10
CROP ESTIMATE
OVER / MILLION
BALES THIS CROP

WASHINGTON, d. c., Dec. 10.-This
years cotton crop will amount to H.
1f1,000 bales Of 500 pounds, gross
weight, exclusive of linters, the de-
partment of agriculture announced to-
day in it's final cotton report of the
season. That compares with 16,134,93
bales last year. 14,156,4S6 bales in
1913, and 13,OS3,2S5 bales, the average
total production, exclusive of linters
for the five years 1909-1913.
The final official figures giving the
exact size of this years crop will be
issued from the census bureau next
March, when completed statistics from
the ginneries have been compiled.
The estimated production, exclusive
of linters, for Georgia and Alabama,
with comparisons, follows:
Average
1915 1914 1909-191S
Georgia 100000 2,71S,037 2,oS6,59S
Alabama 1,O50,00O 1,751,375 1,354.579
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-10
FIRE LAYS WASTE
'MUN|T|ON CITY
ONLY YEAR OLD

HOPEWELL, Va, Dec. 10.-The fire
which swept Hopewell Virginia last
night, has left the city almost as bare
today as the cornfield in which the first
building was erected one year ago.
twenty-five thousand are homeless,
ard there is hardly building left.
The great explosives factory of the
Dupont powder concern situated near
by, was not touched. The villages OF
the company were also unharmed.
Military from Petersburg is aiding
the Hopewell police.
One negro is dead, reported to have
been lynched for looting.
Many were hurt The fire started
in restaurant kitchen and spread
very rapidly.
The explosives plant stopped only
long enough to be sure that the flames
would not reach it while making am
munition for the Allies.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-10
N. { A. Commission
TO GET TO WORK

ATLANTA, Ca, Dec. 10.-The West
orn & Atlantic commission is now
complete, and will soon get down t.
work. E. A. Copelan, of Greensboro
q we'll known banker and financier, has
been chosen to fill the post made va
cant by the refusal of Fuller E. Cal
laway, of LaGrance to serve. Mr..
Copelan was elected by the other four
members of the commission, who act
ed as they had been empowered to do
by the legislature.
The first meeting of the full COM
mission will take place Monday, and
ON that date the actual question of re-
leasing the road will be taken up.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-10
WAR SECRETARY IS
STRONG IN REPORT.

WASHINGTON, d. c., Dec. 10-Sec-
rotary Garrison declares in bis annual
report to the president, made public
last night, that if the administration
plan for a continental army fails, the
United States will face some form Of
compulsory military service.
In what many men in official life
characterize as the most remarkable
report ever made by secretary of
war, Mr.. Garrison passes quickly over
the widespread routine activities of the
war department and devotes practical
ly all of his words to the subject of
military preparedness, the need for
which he sums up by saying:
so long as right and wrong exist
III the world there will be an inevitable
,onflict between them. The right -doers
must be prepared to protect and defend
the right as against the wrong
unsparing in his arguments In an
swer to those who would have no In
crease ii the country's military pre-
paredness, Secretary Garrison de-
tll
iares that tie American people must
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-10
SUMTER GETS SLICE
FROM SCHOOL FUND

ATLANTA, Ga, Dec. 10.-The act OF
the extra session of the general as
sembly in increasing the common
school fund by $150,00O necessitated a
complete re-apportionment of the
common school fund, and State Su-
perintendent of Schools M. l.. Britain
has just completed the re-apportion
ment.
The new apportionment increases
the per capita appropriation from So. Z
to $685..
The city of Americas will receive
S9,019.90. Sumter county will receive
21,4S3.55.
The following apportionments for
several of the counties has been made;
Ben Hill, $S,72O.O5; Clay, $S,6S6.65 /,
Crisp, 1,560.S5; Dooly, $20,900.65 [,
Lee, s1O,766.92; Macon, $13,929.9O;
Quitman, $5,045.10; Randolph, $780,
394.S0; Schley, $6,953.45; Stewart, $14,
Ss4.65; Taylor, $12,133.7O; Terrell,
$1S,3s1.46; Turner, $1O,163.9O; Web
ster, $6,157.3o.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-10
MILLION and HALF IS.
PLANNED FOR ARMY IN.
SECRETARY'S REPORT.

shows that the war college has been
asked to renew its consideration of the
subject in order that certain of its es-
Inmates may be more fully worked
out.
Turning to Our abiding national
policies" the board finds these to the
Monroe doctrine and the policy ,Aol
avoiding "entangling alliances" To
maintain these. it says, a co-ordinated
pt licy of land and sea defense must
be evolved.
The report contains table of the
military strength of the seven leading
foreign powers as of August, 1914, and
also an estimate of the available ship
ping for a military expedition against
the United States. 1t says "reas-
OudUuAo cStimdtc ouVWS thdt Aus III
hungary, with total trained force Of
4, ,320, 900 men, could send 10000 men
With all necessary stores and animals
across the seas within 40.7 days in two
expeditions; France, with 5000 men,
404, ,226 in 80 days; Germany, with 81
600 900 men, 827, 900 in 30.S days; Great
Britain, with 695,000 men, 100000 in 81
days; Italy, with 100000 men, 49,
600 in IS days; Japan, with 2,212,OoC
men, 238,367 in Al days, and Russia
with 100000 men, 104,074 in 40 days
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-10
Concern i'm Greece.

PARIS, Dec. 10.-The Havas Athens
correspondent under a date of Thurs
day, says that the newspaper Ethnos
announces that Austrian and Turkish
officials have advised their Nationals to
Se ready to leave Athens.
An unconfirmed report says that the
Greek general staff is considering Il
partial rehabilitation of the army i.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-10
PARDON WANTED FOR
WOMAN PLEAD GUILTY

ATLANTA, Ca, Dec. 10.-A petition
for pardon has been drawn up and
signed by numbers of Atlantans asking
for the release of Stella Griffin, who
turned states evidence in recent
blackmail case, then pleaded guilty to
perjury, and was sentenced to serve
four years on the prison farm. The
petition sets forth that the girl is sin
cerely desirous of beginning life over
again and behaving herself properly.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-10
MOTHER IN SA \ {
SAID DAUGHTER IN
FIGHT FOR FREEDOM

ATLANTA, Ca, Dec 10 My mother
was insane and did not know what she
was doing when she fred those shots
said the pretty daughter of Mrs. Edna
Perkins Godbee, in plea to the prison
commission today urging a pardon for
Ter mother, who is serving life SEN
tence on the state prison farm for slap-
ing her divorced husband and his
young bride.
Inc daughter is Mrs. Sarah Griner
and she has been unwavering in her
loyalty to her mother At one time sha
even moved from Millen to Milledge-
vile and got work in the latter town.
just to be near her imprisoned mother
Mrs. Griner told story of years Of
cruel treatment and neglect on the
part of Judge Godbee, the slain man.
She declared her mother had been casr
ch and her property wasted. and thai
tie mothed had been prosecuted by
Judge Godbee, even after she had Sc
curd a separation and divorce. She
also said her father had attempted tn
get her and her brother to leave her
mother.
1T was this persecution that drove
ny mother insane, and she did not
know what she was doing at the time
she fired those Shots" continued the
daughter.
1t appears in the petition that Mrs.
Goddess relatives believed before and
curing the trial that Mrs. Godbee had
hred the shots in fit of insanity and
that they begged her attorneys to in
troduce an insanity plea, but that the
attorneys. hoping to get an acquittal or
very light sentence on other grounds,
had refused to introduce the insanitg
plea, though they were over and over
again begged to do So
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-10
ARE.
HITTING ALLIES
WITH THE PUNCH

LONDON, Dec. 10-With the Bulga-
rians heavily reinforced and well sup
ported by artillery they are renewing
attacks on the Anglo-French forces in
Macedonia. The assault lis approach
ing climax.
The pursuit of the Serbians still
continues. 1t is apparent that great
portion of the Bulgarian army is di-
verted against the Allies, and the out
come of the battle is awaited with anx-
iety here, because it will determine in
great measure the immediate futur
for tn Entente Powers in the Bal
kans.
The number and superiority of the
Bulgarians was demonstrated in the
initial encounter and grave doubts
have been voiced as to the ability of
the British to repel the attacks
There is no indication however, that
the British and French found it nee
essary to withdraw further than the
position mentioned in the last official
report.
The French wedge in Macedonia is
threatened from both sides. The AL
lied retreat was accomplished orderly
without serious losses.
| The resistance of the Montenegrins
is stubborn. The plight of the Serb
ians in Albania is growing less ser
ious.
Hard fighting continues on the west
ern front. The Germans have been
driven out of the advanced trench cap
tured by them east of Butte de Souain.
There are no other important develop
ments on the other fronts.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-10

BERNE, Switzerland, Dec. TO-
Peace demonstrations took place not
only in Berlin, but in Dresden and
Leipsig, says German correspondent
tc the Tagwacht.
BERLIN, Dec. 10.-(By wireless to
Sayville. ACCORDING to information
received at military quarters here, the
-Frnech expedition in the Bal
kans has maintained continued re-
treat. They have now entirely evac-
uated Serbian territory
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-10
Danger in Relations.

WASHINGTON, d. c., Dec. 10.-The
diplomatic relations with the United
States and Austria Hungary are III
danger of being broken by the United
States unless the urgent demands CT
the American note to Vienna for the
Cisayowal of the sinking of the Ancor 4
and reparation are complied.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-10
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, NEGROES ON CHARGES =
, OF DEATH MAKE ESCAPE. '

\ HAMILTON, Ga, Dec. 10.--Two :
y negroes sentenced to be hanged, =
\ and one to life Imprisonment, es- =
= capped from the Harris county :
: Jail here today. Another con- :
> demned negro refused to leave, :
= and as he had a wooden leg 1t is :
! thought that the effort was abor :
: tive. .
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-10
EVENING PRAYER
AT CALVARY CHURCH

Evening prayer will be said at Cal
vary church tonight at 1880 D. m. At
ter the service there will be choir re-
hearsal, to which all the members are
urged to come
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-10
PROF. FRANCE CALLED
BY DEATH OF SISTER

Prof. J. M. France, of the Third Dis
tiict Agricultural college faculty, was
called to Marietta last night by the
death of his sister, Miss Pearl France,
who passed away Thursday. His
many friends sympathize with him.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-10
GARRISON sEN0s To
CONGRESS REPORT
ON GREATER ARMY
Plans For Defense
Carefully Made
In Report To
Congress

WASHINGTON, d. c., Dec 10.-Sec-
retary Garrison made public today i'll
connection with his annual report the
special national defense report pre-
pared at his request by the war college
division of the general staff. 1t shows
that the army itself considers that as
a proper military policy to secure con-
tinental United States from attack, it
is necessary to have mobile army of
100000 fully or partially trained men,
1t makes the following specific rec
concentrations for the organization it
believes necessary:
Regular Army:
With the Colors .121.O0o
Reserves at end of eight
year enlistment period ..... .379, 900
Total .o00,00o
Continental Army:
Under training, 8 months
a year for each of three
years - oVNtOoV
On furlough, subject to 8
months additional train
ing before taking the field. 1000
Organized Militia:
No provision beyond annual
appropriation of $7,000,000
and repeal of all acts re-
quiring state soldiers to
be received into United
States service in advance
of any other force in time
of war.
Grand Total, regular and
continental ................. l,5O0,000
In estimating the cost of this es-
tablishment, the report figures as fol-
lows for the first year:
Regular army .......$2 $25S, $3.50, 900
ContinentalS ........... 81, 900
M,lltia ............ ',ooo,ooo
" Total $3.50, ,460, 900
In addition to these figures, Secre-
tary Garrison points out in digest of
the special report, an annual expense
of $20,O00,O00 for each of four years
would be necessary for harbor de-
fenses and reserve material would cost
for the first year alone $129,76S,7S6,
making the grand total for the first
year $5o3,22s,7S6.
1t was the cost of the war college
plan which led Secretary Garrison to
devise the modified plan which has
been presented to congress with the
backing of the administration. Under
that plan the first years expenditure
would be $182,717 036 and a force of
militiamen and continentals of 670,S43
would be produced within three years
which would be more than doubled by
Including the reserves of each branch
which would be created within the fir'
six year continental enlistment period.
The annual upkeep cost of the war
college plan after the system is in full
operation is estimated at $319,473,000
IS against $1S2,234,559 for the admin
stration plan.
Secretary Garrison's statement
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-10

PARIS, Dec. 10-The Journal cor
respondent at Rome says that Zurich,
Switzerland, dispatch states that q
violent demonstration for peace oc-
Cured in Berlin The crowds broke
windows and the police were forced to
charge. The soldiers in the CROWDS
took active parts.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-10
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: WILSON MAKES TWO
= SPEECHES IN OHIO. =


4 COLUMBUS, O., Dec. 10.-Presi- =
I dent Wilson arrived here to make =
\ two speeches and attend public =
4 reception at the capitol. An en- :
4 thusiastic crowd greeted him. =
The weather is cold and refusal =
4 was made to allow a parade.
= National guardsmen and troops =
= lined the streets from the depot =
= station to the hotel. Cavalrymen :
= rode beside the presidential car
= riage. =
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TO CELEBRATE IO0TH :
: BIRTHDAY JANUARY 4, !

\ LUMPKIN, Ca, Dec. 10.-Mrs. :
= Louisa Singer, of this place, will q
= be 100 years old January A. She =
\ is of a prominent family here. \
4 Some of her descendants are well y
4 known citizens of Atlanta, Macon =
= and Eufaula. \
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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-10

view their responsibilities and measurs
slp to them and then goes on to take
up the various arguments of the opro-
sition separately l
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-10
THE EMPTY STOCKING fund
WANTS YOU TO ASSIST IT
ALONG TIE GREAT HEIGHTS

Two weeks frcm tonight hundreds
of children will gleefully dance around
the hearthstone of hundreds of homes.
and gladly anticipate the morrow when
they will rise at the crack Of day ana
see what Santa Claus has placed in
their stockings
But there are many who will have no
Santa Claus to visit them unless Won
respond to the call of the good ladies'
OF Americus.
The Empty Stocking Fund can ac-~
complish a wonderful amount of good
But the people must bear in mind
that Christmas is for all people of
every kind.
You who have plenty, should assist.
1t is a beautiful sight to know that
the children Of Americus are the first
to respond. With their pennies, dimes
and quarters they have assisted the
growth of the fund.
But the business man-will he for
get?
Send In your donation to the fund.
Previously subscribed ....... $3S.1a
Mrs. E. L. Thurman ........ 80
Lon Chas. Gammage ...... 10
Julian and Juliette Gammage. :. 90
Mary Elizabeth Easterlin $50. .25
George Easterlin ........ 10
A Good Friend ............. ss
Tota !. ........., .......s ss4.5s
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-10

TIE Times Reco1der is the ONLY
paper in the Third Congressional
District With Associated Press
service.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-10-25

make host of more than 5,00o,0& /.
Artaxerxes had at one time, before
the battle of Cunaxa, an army nearly
a million and a quarter strong.
Darius of Persia brought more than
a million soldiers to Arbeai.
Tamerlane is said to have met
Bajazet's 100000 with a force of l.
.6oO,OeO.
Terah, King of Ethiopia, had a mil
lion soldiers to call to his standards.
Compared with the extended battle
line of today in Europe the array of
forces at ancient Gamma was but a
.skirmish formation. There were &c.
900 Romans and allies against $4,000
Carthagenians.
Hannibal is recorded as having de-
stroyed 100000 men during his cam
paign in Italy. Just before his time
that, country could send million men
into the field.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-10-25
AUCTION SALES

BIZ SAMUEL H. LUNT, Auctioneer.
AUCTION SALE OF DESIRABLE
HOUSE AND LOT, KNOWN AS
LOT NO. 4. HUME AVENUE,
HUME ADDITION TO ST. ELMO,
IN THE COUNTY OF ALEXAN-
DRIA, VIRGINIA.
Pursuant to the terms of a deed of
trust given on the 18th day of Jln-
uary, 1915, and duly recorded amongst
the land records of the county of
Alexandria, Virginia, in deed book
No. LAG page PAP, to the undersigned
trustees, default having been made
in the payment of one of the notes
secured thereby, and being
required by the holder OF the said
note. the said trustees will offer for
sale on TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2,
1915, at o'clock, P. NJ, in front of
the premises, in the County of Alex
andria, Virginia, all that lot of
ground in the County of Alexandria,
Virginia, with the buildings and i'm
provements thereon, known as lot no.
4 Hume Avenue, Hume Addition to
st. Elmo, bounded and described as
follows to-wit: Beginning at stake
in the north line of Hume Avenue,
said stake being south SO degrees 40
minutes west 1852 feet from an
iron pipe at the intersection of said
north line of Hume Avenue with the
southwest right of way OF the Wash
ington and Old Dominion Railroad,
thence with the north line Of said
Hume Avenue, south SIS degrees 10
minutes west thirty-five feet to
point therce departing from said
Avenue north l degree 20 minutes
west 1850 feet to stake thence
north So degrees 40 minutes east
thirty-tivc feet to stake; thence
south degree 20 minutes cast 1O5. o
feet to the beginning containing 3,675
square feet. The property TO be sold
subject to a first trust of fifteen hun
dred dollars, dated December first,
1914.
Terms Of sale: All cash above said
trust. Conveyance at the cost Of the
purchaser.
SAMUEL ". GUSACK
JOSEPH S. HARPER.
Trustees
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-10-25
AUCTION SALE OF DESIRABLE
HOUSE AND LOT, $40 NORTH
ROYAL, STREET.

BY Samuel H. Lupt, .hJc.j0nccr
Pursuant to the terms Of deed Of
trust given on the 18th day Of March.
1915, and duly recorded amongst the
Land Records Of the City OF Alex
andria, Virginia, in deed book No. 60
page 257, to the undersigned trus-
tee, default having been made in
the payment Ct one Of the notes Sc
cured thereby, ard being thereunto
required By the holder Of tho said note,
the said trustee will offer for sale
on SATURDAY, OCTOBER 80, 1915,
1T y o'clock noon, in front Of the
Royal Street entrance to the Market
Building, in the City Of Alexandria,
Virginia, all that lot Of ground in
the city Of Alexandria, Virginia, witn
the buildings and improvements
thereon. known as No. $40 North
ROYAL Street, bounded and described
IS follows to-wit: Beginning on the
west side Of Royal Street ito feet
North of Queen Street and at the
north line of lot formerly Eagan's
and running thence north on Royal
Street % feet 6 inches TO the middle
of the partition between the house
On the IoE hereby conveyed and the
house adjoining on the north; thence
west parallel to Queen Street 90 feet;
thence south parallel to Royal Stre9t
20 feet inches, more or le&S, tfie
length Of the first linz; ard thence
east in Il direct line 80 feet TO the
beginning with all appurtences to
she same belonging Of in any wise -ap-
pertaining.
Terms OF sale: Cash. Conveyance
ng at the cost of the purchaser.
JOHN D. NoRMCYIE, Trustee.