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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-30
CHILD SM0THERS IN COTTON
Little Oklahoma Girl Digs Hole in Pile
and Then Accidentally
Tumbes In.

Guthrie, Okla.-The nine-year-ol
daughter of Paul Richey, farmer liv-
ing near Prague, thirty miles east of
here, was drowned" in a pile of cotton
in her fathers field.
When the little girl was missed, her
parents started out to search for her.
Her father finally saw her shoes on
top Of the huge mound of cotton, and
closer examination disclosed her body
buried, head first, in the fluffy mass.
She evidently had dug a hole in the
pile and then accidentally fallen into
1t, the loose cotton packing about her
and smothering her.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-30
is L0NELIEST OF PUPILS
Missouri Youth Has School and Teach.
er All to Himseif-sports
Are Esehewed.

Chillicothe, Mo.-Livingstone county
has the smallest possible school in
the world-it has just one pupil. But,
despite the small enrolment, it keeps
grinding steadily away, combining it's
activities principally to the text books
and eschewing football and other
forms Of athletics.
The school in question is in district
No. in Medicine township and Miss
Mary Phillips is the teacher. The list
OF matriculants has not been pub
lished. When the term began five
weeks ago, it was anticipated that a
number of children would enroll, but
only this one boy came, so the teacher
started in with the course.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-30
CAN'T PROVE He is DEAD
viii of Man Who Has Been Missing
Twentyone Years, Offered
for Probate.

Denver-For the first time in the
history of the Denver county court
the will Of man of whose death there
is no record has been lodged with
the clerk of the court. It may be-
come necessary to have the maker,
George T. Sheets, declared legally
dead before the instrument is offered
for probate.
Sheets, contractor, made the will
in 1898. He was then seventy-two
years old. A year later he disap,
peared. The family did not know of
the existence of the will until a few
days ago, when Attorney Edwin Parke
discovered the document in his safe.
Parke turned it over to the clerk OF
the court.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-30
MORE JOBS THAN CHEMISTS
Scarcity of Engineers Shown at Co.
lumbia University Since Out
break of War.

New York-Since the outbreak of
the war and the resulting increase in
chemical projects in this country the
demand for chemical engineers has
grown so rapidly that the companies
are finding 1t difficult to fill the many
places that are now open
Indication of this was given at Co
lumbia university when Dean Fred
erick A. Goethe of the graduate en-
cheering school reported that he had
received a call from a mining COM
pany for several chemical engineers
familiar with the iron and steel in
dustry, but that he has been unable
to find any of the recent graduates
who were not already well placed.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-30
THE STRIPPING CASE.

The good year 1915 was not allowed
to pass without a premature explosion
il state politics.
Certain elements and forces in the
state seem to be bent on making oppo-
sition for Governor Harris, regardless
Of any act of his. It is nauseating to
have these propogandist flourish their
trumpets so early in a campaign
which will doubtless mark 1915 as a
period Of turmoil in the cycle of years.
For some cause which mas not been
made plain the board of prison com
missioners as constituted at present.
has not passed on the petition of
Thomas Edgar STRIPPING for pardon.
1t is true that the commissioners have
issued statement-but action is what
the people want.
Some forces are making an effort to
corner Governor Harris in the matter.
The governor need have no fears I'M
less the bombastic nature of Georgia
politics turns upside down and listens
TO the grating of some sensational
demagogue.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-30

Some interesting figures have been
compiled by Hon. William ]. Harris,
of the federal trade commission, show
ing the amount of last years crops in
Georgia and the live stock in the state.
The report figures that there are on
the farms of Georgia $4,000 horses,
100000 mules. 10000 mich COWS, $780,
Geo other cattle, 10000 sheep, and
2,042,000 swine. The estimate of corn
produced in 1914 is 56,OOO,OOO bushels.
The cotton estimate is 2.71S,O37 bales
There were 100000 bushels of oats
raised in Georgia; 1,694,0OO bushels of
wheat; 100000 pounds OF tobacco;
5,195,OOO bushels of peaches. The ay-
erage value of farm land per acre in
Georgia was set in the report at s13.74
This includes, of course, a great deal
OF waste and uncultivated land, as
there is some farm land in Georgia
intensively cultivated for truck farm
Ing which is worth as much as 500
an acre.-Moultrie Observed.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-30
sleepy desolation."

sleepy desolation."
Thus began primer on war geog-
raphy issued today by the National
Geographic Society, which describes
the strategic entrance into Northern
Albania, and Montenegro, port which
in view of reports, may soon be used
as giving the most direct line of COM
munication with the Montenegro and
Servian fronts. With $4,000 Seryians
warning on the Servian-Albanian
border and with the Montenegrins
heavily engaged on every front-both
entirely dependent now on their AL
lies for materials-it is most probable
that, whether Allied troops land here
or not, San Giovanni di Medu will
blossom under an undreamed of rush
Of business, handling munitions and
IOou supplies. II e primer continues.
Despite its unimpressive appear
ance, Medua has been coveted by Ser
via and Montenegro, both of which
countries demanded it as price won
in the war of the Balkan League. The
port lies at the head of wide bay
formed by the estuaries of the River
Drin. A range of frayed, unkempt,
rispirited hills, stretching from Boiana
to Alessie, constitutes the background.
To the south, lies a melancholy waste
of swampland, which reaches out so
gradually toward the sea that there is
no line of demarkation between land
and salt water.
There is no harbor works, wharves,
piers, warehouses or docks at Medua.
A line Of stones piled into the sea has
served the ports full purpose for
many year. The shore shelves gem
thy out, and the bay is very shallow.
Landings of travellers and freight were
made by lighters, in the days before
the war when the steamers of the
Austrian Lloyd called here. Boatmen.
like opera-bouffe brigands, animated
arsenals and true Albarians, served
the places traffic.
From Medua the road runs to Scut-
ari, or Scodra as the natives call it,
the Albanian capital. 1t, like the port.
is recognized only by courtesy; its
principal property of being road is
that of direction. For a short dis
lance out of the port, and, at the other
cud, for short distance out of Scodra,
roadway is apparent. In between,
however lies the uneven Zadrima
plain, the crossing of which is compli-
Gated in all by dry weather, by the
Inconsistent wanderings of the Drin
River.
''Medua could be made into sea-
port of some Importance; and it's use
by the Allies might bring a blessing in
diskuise, blessing of the nature of
army engineers "a nucleus of harbor-
works, and the beginnings of a sound
roadway to the ancient capital"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-30

Many people feel, in a way, that
Governor Harris should have a second
term, that he has made a good COVER
nor and deserves reelection. Import
ant and beneficial legislation has been
constructed under his administration
aid the prohibition element in Geor-
gia feel that they should back hmi.-
Early County News.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-30
JUHN W. NALTEKS,
COrdele Georgia.

On the side of prohibition has provok-
CT much praise throughout the state.
Journalism is honored as a great
profession, and the south needs more
of the fearless brand of editors who
are guided by no other light than the
eternal beacon of truth.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-30

A man will play poker until day
light, but if he has to sit up and meet
one of his wife's relatives on the $50
p. m. train it is all he can do to stay
awake. And will complain to his
wife that she is making him lose
sleep.-Macon News.
In the latter game he knows what
he is going to draw, but in the other
he thinks he might have chance
Albany Herald.
Queer how so many editors persist
in talking about poker Wonder which
Georgia editor is an expert, anyway.
Waycross Journal.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-30
Anti-Giri Club Formed.

Kendallville, Thirty-five young
bachelors of this city have organized
the "Anti5Girl" club. To be caught
taking a young woman to a theater,
dance or other social function, or
home from church, or even to make
a social call, will cost the member SIS.
The high cost of entertainment" is
given as the cause for organizing.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-30
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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-30

The governor is making a good chief
executive, and is a gallant old Con-
federate veteran who will undoubtedly
be the last of the "Old Guard" to
hold this high office. From every
standpoint, it would seem that he will
be clearly entitled to the customary
second term, unless he should make
some big mistakes in the meantime,
which he is far too wise to do.-Cedar-
town Standard.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-30

Out of consideration for the Macon
News we'll say that the Chicago wo-
MAN who swallowed a knife had sharp
pains. They wanted to make it an
even million paragraphs
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-30

The Atlanta Journal devotes an ed
iknrial. Welcome News" to the fact
that Caruso and Farrar will be in that
city for Grand Opera Mayor Jim
woodward will likely join in the Choir
us on 81 Hear You Calling Me-"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-30

That paragraph was very rich when
he said that many man who can
speak five or six different languages,
can't speak in one while he is asleep
Ebich his wife doesn't know.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-30

When boy kisses a girl his first
time he thinks that all is happiness.
And like the Macon News comments,
RiF next step is to get his first shave
at the barber shop.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-30

When we peeped in on Johnnie
Spencer in Macon the other day he
soId us about one of those typographi-
cal errors so common to newspapers.
This one appeared in Philadelphia
gazette, but as yet he hasn't had the
nerve to mention it in that first qol-
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-30

General Huerta is ill. The Kaiser
is sick And tell the truth, we are not
Keeling well ourselves.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-30

When you hear merchant say he
hasn't anything to advertise it is
pretty good sign that he hasn't any
thing to sell.-Dalton Citizen. :.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-30
THE NEWSPAPER TALK

Going the limit may be alright but
you seldom have company when the
limit is -Waycross Journal.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-30

Macon is having trouble with her
drug stores selling lunches. Prepared
ness for yon First of May.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-30

Miss Teresa Granda y Pezet is an in
teresting addition from the diplomatic
circle to the list of debutantes in
Washington society this winter. Miss
Granda is spending the winter at the
Peruvian legation with her uncle and
aunt, the minister from Peru and Nine.
Pezet.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-30

Tie Kaiser will not likely recover
from ncnfhftyeinxvcbgey much to the
regFet of his many friends.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-30

The firm of Lace & Everest, in
Toronto, Canada, are said to be busy
men What's in a name
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-30

The girls with the ankle watches are
with us, like the poor.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-30

Cut out the jay walking. Turn the
corners square.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-30

Henry Ford said, peace in the air"
Thought it was somewhere out of this
world.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-30

ENJOYS want to see the Queen of
Greece instead of the King now.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-30

charlie Chaplin must be taking a
vacation.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-30

Those fur trimmed stockings cause
q dsxp#r insight.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-30

A bunch if $500 counterfeit bills are
m circulation. The needle, quick, doc
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-30

Sir Henry IVd cries out -"Veni,
yinci-weiner"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-30

You can make a resolution now, and
anotler one on May list.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-30

Resolutions are not made from any
bard substance.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-30

You can begin practicing on writing
fa-1916.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-30

OFFICIAL ORGAN FOR:
City of Americas.
Sumter County.
Webster County.
Railroad Commission of Georgia For
Third Congressional District.
u. S. Court, Southern District or
Georgia.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-30

Americus, Ga, December 30, 1915
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-30

Why is a Leap Year?
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Why is a Leap Year?
Charlie Chaplin must be taking a
vacation.
You can begin practicing on writing
R-1s16.
Sir Henry Ivd cries out -"Veni,
yinci-weiner."
Cut out the jay walking. Turn the
corners square.
Resolutions are not made from any
bard substance.
Those fur trimmed stockings cause
a dsEpsr insight.
The girls with the ankle watches are
with us, like the poor.
You can make a resolution now, and
another one on May list.
Enjoys want to see the Queen of
Greece instead of the King now.
A bunch if $10O counterfeit bills are
IN circulation The needle, quick, doc
Henry Ford said, peace in the air"
Thought it was somewhere out of this
world.
General Huerta is i'll. The Kaiser
Is sick. And tell the truth, we are not
Keeling well ourselves.
Macon is having trouble with her
drug stores selling lunches. Prepared
ness for yon First of May.
The firm of Lace & Everest, in
Toronto, Canada, are said to be busy
men. What's in a name.
The Kaiser will not likely recover
from ncnfhftyeinxvcbgey, much to the
regret of his many friends.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-02-20
MADISON GRAIN MARKET.
SIOUX CITY LIVESTOCK MARKET

Sioux City, Feb. 20.-Cattle re-
ceipts were in the moderate order,
estimate calling for 500 head, as
against 1,103 a week ago and SIC the
corresponding day a year ago.
Conditions surrounding the market
for killing cattle proved very salts
factory from the sellers view point.
With moderate receipts and urgent
demand from both packers and ship
pers sellers were again able to secure
prices that were stronger. Fresh adj
in most instances figured a
dime, making the gain on steers this
week right at 80 a Acc. while the up
turn on she stuff is quoted 25G35c.
The few odd punches of stockers
and feeders included in the run this
morning met with a good active in
quiry and prices were strong with the
previous day. This branch of the
trade also shows Improvement for
the week.
Unevenness featured in the mar
ket 70 Rive pork. Supply was again
of liberal proportions. A few sales
at the start were steady, then prices
weakened 5@10c, while the close
was steady with yesterday. Average
for the day was about a nickel lower.
Tops $6.45. Bulk of sales $3.50
GAS.
Not enough business was transact
ed in the sheep house to afford an
adequate test to conditions. Wires
from outside points indicated a con-
tinuation of strength.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-02-20
JUDGE FOR YOURSELF
Which Is BetteI-Try an Experiment
or Profit by "A Madison Citi-
zen's Experience.

Something is an experiment.
Must be proved to be as represent
ed.
The statement of a manufactures
is not convincing proof of merit.
But the endorsement of friends is.
Now supposing you had a bad back.
A lame, weak OF aching one,
Would you experiment or it?
You will read of many so called
cures.
Endorsed by strangers from far
away places.
It's different when the endorse
ment comes from home.
Easy to prove local testimony.
Read this Madison case:
ID. w. Perry, Standard Oil agent
Madison, says: 1T gives me pleas
ure to recommend Doan's Kidney
Pills again and confirm my former
endorsement. l have taken this rem
edy occasionally during the past sew.
eral years and it has never failed to
give the best results" =
Price SO cents at all dealers. DOM
simply ask for a kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mr.. Perry had. Foster-Milburn Co..
Props, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-02-20
MRS. MOORE SEEKS DIVORCE
Action Filed mt Sioux Falls Result
of Shooting ARRAY.

Sioux Falls, Feb. 20.-As the Sc
quel to a sensational shooting affray
at Hartford last October, Mrs. Ber-
tina Moore of that place has insti-
tuted in the state circuit court in this
city a suit by which she seeks to Sc
cure a divorce from her husband, Ar
thur II. Moore.
In her complaint Mrs. Moore al
leges cruelty. She sets forth the al
legation that on November IS, last,
her husband struck her and knocked
her down, with the result hal the
police had to be called in. The cou-
pie were married January 4, 1905, at
Maryville, and have one daughter,
Evelyn l.. Moore, aged 6.
During a term of the state circuit
court which now is in session in
Sioux Falls, Mrs. Moore was fined 81
by Judge Jones, she being accused OF
having shot and wounded the alleg-
ed affinity of her husband.
In a fit of jealous rage she trailed
her husband and his alleged affinity
Miss Dorothy Swenson. and openeo
fire upon them with a revolver. One
of the bullets struck and wounded
her husband, and Miss Swenson was
also wounded. The wounds were
only of a superficial character and
both recovered.
Mrs. Moore, it was said, in order
to conceal her identity and be better
able to trail her husband and the
young woman, attired herself in q
suit of her husbands clothing. Wher
the supposed mar burst into the
kitchen of a home near Hartford, tC
which she had traced her husband
and the young woman. they were de
ceived by the disguise. and not unit
she drew a revolver and opened fire
did they realize that they had beer
Swallowed by the angry wife. Moore
was shot twice in the legs. The
Swenson girl dashed from the room
but not in time to escape n of The
bullets. which slightly wounded her
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-02-20

would not be deprived of their liber-
ty, and our state would not be bur-
dened with heavy expense for their
care, had they not gotten drunk in
the saloons of Moorhead. The time
has come when this iniquity should
be banished forever. You, who will
suffer all your life because of your
misdeed, may unconsciously by your
act arouse public sentiment to the
end that such offenses will not be
repeated and that their contributing
cause will be removed. 1t is devout-
ly to be wished that such will be the
case.
THE sentence and judgment of
the law is that you, Robert Hendrick-
son, be confined in the penitentiary
at Bismarck at hard labor for and
during the remainder of your natural
life. Let judgment be entered ac-
cordingly."-Local w. c. T. U.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-02-20
COUNTY DOCTOR
Circuit Court at Aberdeen Rules in
Favor of County Commissioners.

Aberdeen, Feb. 20.-In state cir
cult court Judge Bouck ruled in the
case brought by the states attorney
on petition of seventeen taxpayers,
seeking to set aside the contract
made by the commissioners with DR..
f. w. Freyberg as county physician,
that the action of the commissioners
had been legal in all respects, and
dismissed the case. The only ques-
ton left for decision was the matter
of determining the compensation of
the county physician. Both the
states attorney and e. b. Harkin,
representing DR.. Freyberg, agreed
that the compensation of the county
physician should be based upon bills
presented after the service had been
rendered and as this is the system
now being followed by the board,
there was little left to the case. The
court held the board of commission
ers was the court of last resort SO
far as the contract for a county ply
stefan was concerned, and that the
circuit court had no jurisdiction in
the matter.
The suit was brought when the
county commissioners awarded Dir
Freyberg the contract as county ply
sician at a salary of SIS a month and
so cents a mile mileage. one way, al
though DR.. j. o. F. K~raushaar had
offered to do the work for $40 a
month and Is cents mileage.