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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-10-21

Mrs. j. N Moses, of Richland, was
the guest of Americas friends while
spending yesterday here.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-10-21

Cold weather is coming. Harold
Brothers coal will keep you warm.
Montevallo, mo Equal" $500. Blue
Gem Jellico, good enough for any one,
$3.50. A cheaper grade Jellico for $3.50
cash. 21-eod-3Od
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-10-21

Mrs. Henry Lanier to the regret of
many friends in Americas, where she
has SO long resided, regret her depar-
ture today for Albany, where she will
now make her home.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-10-21

Rain Coats for the men, women and
children. ANSLEY'S.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-10-21

Mrs. Allie Hayes Richardson will
resume her classes in Physical Train
ing for high school girls at the Y. M.
c. A. gymnasium. Tuesday afternoon,
Oct 18th, at o'clock. 1S-4t
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-19
REVERSING the pRooleAL SON

At Bancroft a son 81 years OF age
has been entoined from entering his
fathers house or going on the fathers
airy injunction at the request OF the
father who says the son has lived at
the parental home refusing any sus-
gestion or request that he go away,
that he disturbs the peace of the home,
makes trouble between the father and
mother and stirs up the younger chill
dren to tncorigibility. Father wants
him to leave.
It is an odd case. Usually such mat
tiers are settled out of court Either
the son has manliness enough about
him to go about his business or the
father stands gaf and makes the best
Of it Perhaps this case is unique in
the fact of a father seeking to en-
join his son to stay away from the par
entail homestead.
OF course the appeal gives but one
side of the row. Dad may be cranky.
He recites that he is in I'LL health in
his demand for the injunction. But
aside from all that the fact remains
that the son is 80, Ibis own man" and
ought to have a home of his own some
where; that if he is an annoyance in
stead of a help he ought to be some
where else. That If his father is in i'll
health and his presence annoys and
disturbs him the son would show to
better advantage away from home than
making trouble by his presence under
the parental roof. The old man seems
to have managed to make home and
earn a farm and the inference is that
he is entitled to live on it in such
peace as he may attain.
After all it is family affair. Neither
neighbors nor newspapers should butt
in. ills more than possible that those
appointed arbitrators would some away
from the Bancroft farmhouse sore from
wounds inflicted by the whole blamed
family including the dog. Let EN-
fight.
But as a general proposition q 81
year-old son living on a farm Of his
own and coming over Sundays with
the children to see "grampa and
gramma" is a safer proposition than
32-year-old son hanging about the
homestead bossing the younger chill
dren and directing matters generally.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-19
Painting Brooklyn Bridge.

Every three or four years II be-
comes necessary 20 paint the Brooklyn
bridge in order to prevent the cor
rosion and deterioration of its struc-
tural members" says the April Popular
Mechanics Magazine. in an illustrated
article. This is task which requires
the services OF small arm. of human
spiders who climbs about over the web
OF cables and stringers with almost as
much composure end agility az IL they
were insects instead Of men.
with buckets and brushes they
cling in the network. swinging in the
wind as the constant stream of traffic
surges across the East river. Between
them and the river beneath there is
more than 200 feet Of space, and the
cables.
Every exposed strand and spot of
the whole structure must be painted. 80
the men scramble over the cables UNI
til they reach the topmos! point of the
great towers, which extent 272 feet
above the water, and finally end up on
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-19
A SUGGESTIVE COMPARISON.

A suggestive and valuable COMPARE
son between a school under medical
inspection and another without should
be given attention by patrons OF
schools and by school boards generally.
Red Oak schools have had the SER
vices of the health physician of that
city, DR.. Thomas. who has inspected
the schools "rigidly" aserts the news
dispatch. Children missing school for
a half day have been sent 10 the hesaiss2
officer for examination before read
mission to the school room. In the
past four years since the health Off
Ger began his inspection but one death
has occurred among the school chill
dren, not case Of diphtheria, two
cases of scarlet fever, very few OF
measles, whooping cough and other
diseases which are scattered by school
children.
The comparison Is made by Superin-
tendent A II. Speer Of the Shenandoah
schools between Shenandoah and Red
Oak. He says that Shenandoah's loss
in time, health and money over that Of
Red Oak are so much greater that no
reasonable comparison can be made
and that the loss on account OF alb
sence in Shenandoah is estimated at
$4,000 last year and that it will be
greater in 1915.
Somebody has spoken Of the state
as giving more attention to hogs than
TO children. 1t might be mentioned in
connection with medical inspection OF
schools that express companies IN
cities where any considerable number
of horses are used in their deliveries
invariably employ veterinary and
carry on a careful inspection Of the
animals in their stables.
Theoretically medical inspection OF
schools is reasonable precaution. Ac-
cording to the comparison instituted
by the Shenandoah superintendent it
is plain common sense and economy.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-19
Dr.. Osler On tuberculosis

SIR WiAiaa Osle1, sae 81 the fsee-
NEST u living medical men. fer
Aerly Of yohns HODkins, Baltimore,
and new Regi1s Professor u MeAI
eine It Ox1o9d, says In His "Practiee
- Medicine dse7). o. DaEe 3lSs
rhe healing u pulmonary tabef.
e0l0sis - sAOSyD clinieally ~ the
elastic tiss1e and bacilli have been
fOaDa. In the Eranulatioas
products and associated Dneunoaia
. scar tissue II formed. while the
smaller GASEOUS areas become Ira
DreEnnted with lime salts. To such
conditions al0ne sA0ald the term
healing be applied"
Many eminent medical authorities
have testified to the efficacy OF limo
salts in the treatment Of tubercu-
losis. and the success Of Eckman's
and bronchial affections may be due
partly to the fact that II contains
lime salt SO combined with other
valuable ingredients as to be easily
assimilated.
Widespread use of this remedy in
numerous cases OF tuberculosis
many of which appear to have yield
ed completely to ft-Justffies our be-
lief that it ia worth a trial, unless
some other treatment already is
succeeding. It contains no opiates,
We make no promises concerning 1t
any more that reputable physicians
give promises with their prescrip-
tons. but we know Of many cases
in which IT HAS HELPED.
Your druggist has It or can get
1t, or you can send direct
EekAan LaborateKys PhiladelDhia.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-19

populi. It 10 safe to assume that the
majority Of the house which passed
it hoped that 1t would ne, er get by
the senate. For the Johnston bill Is q
step straight backward to the system
that gave the supervisors of county
more power than congress, the SUI
preme court, or any other tcdy OF or
ganized government. Under the bill
the county supervisor is the whole
thing, autocrat and monarch Of all he
surveys.
The entire control of road work is
by this bill put back to the county
supervisors. They need not consult the
state engineer upon any proposition.
They need not submit plans and esti-
mates to any commission, they need
pay no attention TO the county engi-
neer. The same old proposition is up
that obtained. The bridge contractor
is again re-established in all his glory.
Not that the average county super
visors doesn't do the best he can. In
stances however are not unknown
where he did the worst he could for
the county and the best for the bridge
contractor. But assuming that the SUI
pervisor board is Of integrity and sin
cere honesty of purpose there is no
reason to be offered why the services
of capable engineers in the counties
and of state engineers and experts are
not of essential value to the counties
and should be scorned by those who
desire to conduct an engineering prop
osition, and scientifically. The very
men who are lighting the highway
commission and the engineers would
not run line Of drainage tile on their
farms without consultation with those
whose education and experience has
fitted them to be safe counselors.
Capitol extension is a very minor
matter as concerns cost and the
amounts involved when compared to
the road work Of this state. For years
we have thrown good money after lost
money into weak anC OlS.olnteQ SyS-
tenn Of highway work. The Johnston
bill destroys organization. It goes back
to the tower Of Babel for a complete
illustration of it's efficiency.
The senate should see to 1t that the
Johnston bill and similar bills fail to
become law. Two years hence most of
those who are being deceived or are
deceiving themselves into supporting it
will be glad it was smothereG.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-19

the whole product Of his poultry yard
at better prices than the men were get
ting who had monkeyed with chicken
raising all their lives.
Probably his simple little printed
statement Of his methods had more to
do with 1t than anything else. No
doubt many OF the old farmers had
equally good methods. But they took
no pains to tell the public about them.
1t makes little difference how good a
mans methods are, how well produced
his goods are how they are selling If
he never takes any pains to tell the
public about it.
The moral is too obvious. Any far
mer who raises staples like eggs, but
ter, vegetables and whose food pro-
ducts are attractive, can get all the
business he wants at good prices in the
nearest large town by spending lit
tie money on advertising.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-19
FARMERS AND ADVERTISING.


The following actual happening was
reported in the papers the other day.
A physician with large and growing
family decided to move out into the
country to save expenses. In order to
help out on his income he started in
poultry raising He had had no exper-
fence whatever at it, and the farmers
of the neighborhood laughed at him.
They thought he would soon retire
from the competition with more exper-
fence and fewer dollars.
The doctor, however, made quite q
study of scientific poultry raising. One
of his ideas was to use printers ink
freely. He inserted with his deliveries
Of eggs printed circular telling the
public about his methods. He empha-
sized the cleanliness and sanitary CON
dition of his poultry houses. He spoke
Of his care to feed the fowls well
balanced ration of both grain and veg
etable food. He told of the care taken
to sort the eggs for size, color and
cleanliness, and ne guaranteed a given
weight per dozen.
The farmers of the town were sell
ing their eggs to the country store for
a small price. Probably the store had
to sell to wholesaler, and they may
The doctor, selling at little better
price than the farmers were getting at
the store, soon picked up good trade
in the nearby large town.
In a short time he was cleaning up
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-19

states. Allison also inquired In the one
ballot that was taken In 1885,.
Leslie M. Shaw had little hope
in 1908. but did not get In on the
balloting and Cummins got seventeen
votes in the stormy convention OF 1912.
James b. Weaver is the only lowan
who ever actually secured presi-
Dental nomination. ana he secured
two. In 1880 he was the greenback
candidate, and in 1888 the populist
candidate.
Horace Boise is the only Iowa demo
GRAFT who ever shone in the ballotlng
on q presidential nomination. In 1885
he was fourth man, with eighty-hve
votes out of total of T52 on the hrst
ballot. incidentally, in 1892 he got
one vote for vice president.
Other Iowans who got in on the Vot-
ing for vice president were Augustus
C. Dodge at the democratic convention
in 1854, and James Harlan at the re-
publican convention in 1858, Wniie
Dolliver was again at the front in lsoS.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-19
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.


ut IL said that Iowa was no dryer
under the old prohibition law than at
present under the mulct. And that 10
probably true. But it will be noted
that the state will be whole lot dryer
on and after Jan. 1 than it was thirty
years ago or at present" says the Oel-
vein Register.
after Jan. l." asserts the Mason
City Globe Gazette 1.-The temperance
people Of Iowa will hardly risk moving
to California lest their neighbors sus-
pect that they are seeking moister
climate"
IF Tipperary was located anywhere
in Iowa just at this time the road
would sem a whole lot longer" says
the Perry Chief
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-19
IOWA AND THE PRESIDENCY.

1SiOuA Slts Ooui nail
From the nice things the Iowa press
is saying about Governor Clarke we
wouldn't be surprised any day to hear
of a presidential boom being started
for him-Dubuque Times-Journal.
Suggesting Hawkeye statesmen fol
the presidency Of the United States
seems to have become quite the fad
and no doubt many Iowans already
have it all pictured out in their own
minds how much better the White
House is going to look when it shelters
an Iowan.
The Cummins boom seems to have
taken on new lease Of life--in a
publicity way, at least-since the
senior senator came out in favor OF
national prohibition and designed
it as the coming issue. True, the Ken
yon boom recently has been making
less noise than emanated from il while
the junior senator was knocking the
slaves out of the pork barrel at Wash
ington, but II is to be assumed to be
not dead, but sleeping. And now we
have the Clarke boom.
Has an Iowan any chance of ever
landing in the White House?
Well, they say that If in 1900 Theo-
dore Roosevelt had persisted in his re-
fusal TO accept the republican vice
presidential nomination it would have
gone to Jonathan P. Dolliver, and that
thus an Iowan instead of New
Yorker would have succeeded Mckin-
lev as president. Then, too George
F. Hoar, writing of William b. Alli-
son and the republican convention OF
1888, expressed the opinion that mo
other person ever came so near the
presidency Of the United States and
missed it."
This is the story: The leaders on
the first ballot were Sherman, OF
Ohio, Gresham OF Indiana, Depew OF
New York. Alger of Michigan, Harri-
son of Indiana and Allison Of Iowa
After much futile voting representa-
tiyes of several delegations met to
unite on a candidate, picked Allison
and pledged support sufficient to in
sure his election. Plat, Miller and
Hiscock had spoken for New York in
the absence OF Depew. Depew refused
to indorse the arrangement on the
ground that it was Allison's friends
that had defeated his own ambitions,
and that upset everything. II 1t had
not been for Depew, Hawkeye in
stead Of a Hoosier would have been the
twenty third president OF the United
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-19
JAPANESE a POTATO KING.
Denied Credit Few Wears Ago, Shinsa
10 Now CAPITALIST.

Reading story Of the visit Of George
Shima, the potato king of this section.
to Los Angeles, in = paper Of that city,
merchants of Lodi recall that not many
years ago the Japanese capitalist could
not obtain credit IN the stores Of this
city, not because he was not honest,
but as newcomer he had not estate
lished credit.
Those business men who refused to
trust did not anticipate that in q few
years Shima would control $1,000 acres
in California, and have 5000 acres In
his own holdings. and have established
a large credit in California banks.
Last July Shima owned about .
quarter Of the 100000 sacks Of pota-
toes in California, and today he owns
half OF the 5UU,UOO SACKS unsoiu in tho
state.-Lodi (Cal) Dispatch to an Ex-
change.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-19
Masonic Meetings.
STATED COMMUNICATION

wv STATED COMm ON'NA 'io'>
Marshall Lodge, No. los A. F. & A. NJ
Friday, March 10. Regular meeting.
John w. Wells, secretary; W. Il.
Steiner, w. NJ.
SIGNET CHAPTER. No. IS, R. A NJ.
Regular communication Monday MarSn
%. l.. S. Kilborn, II. P; John w.
Wells, Rec.
STATED ASSEMBLY. King Solomon
Council No 20. R. & 8. n. Monday a,tas
the third Sunday L T. Forbes recoroe''
George Gregory. T. I. NJ.
REGULAR coNCLAVE, ST. AldenaF
Conamandery No. 80. x T.. IuesoaS'
March % at 1880 o'clock. Regular ousl-
ness. George Gregory, +. C.' NJ .
Mcfarland, Rec.
SPECIAL MEETING Central Chap
"a. school of instruction, 2:Se p. M. ;
dinner 6: 80 p. m; initiation. 1870 P. m
Anna Downing, secretary; Mary siacA
Collins, W. NJ.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-19
Iona Newspapers
The Johnston bill needs going over
with a road drag.


with a road drag.
It might be by way Of thrift and
economy for hunters to note that At
torney Porter has been instructed from
Washington to proceed against viola
tors of the migratory bird law in Iowa.
inme3 the sentences OF Digs and
Caninetti. Every now and then the
federal courts startle a later genera
ton by deciding case that everybody
has had time to forget Perhaps the
modern contemporary Of Macauley's
celebrated New Zealander may read the
final adjudication Of these cases in
valopuk.
rid OF five professors who are nom
mormons. That should open opportun-
ity for certain Chicago professors who
seem to hold no anti -mormonic squeam-
ishness is newspaper accounts are to
be trusted.
Sioux City, however, appears to take
no pride on breaking into the Indian
apolis class.
Like the innocent bystander the neu-
pence.
If bank is a bank it ought to be a
bank and not a private borrowing
agency. Private banks are misnomers.
How soon is the jitney airship due?
Don't laugh but guess.
Funny, isn't it, how suddenly the bot
tom dropped out Of the newspaper sup
port of the saloon in Iowa? But no
stranger than other shifts of opinion.
Given FIVE years more and such bill
as that road bill passed by the house
yesterday will get no more considera-
ton than a lame rooster in a barn
yard.
George Fitch is at Ames today with
the newspaper men to deliver an after
for visit as they all do who have
made beginnings in Iowa and gone
forth to fame and fortune and to be
elected to the lecture in other states.
No doubt he is glad to come and Of a
surety the boys" are glad he is here.
It isn't so very long ago that George
was doing THE Frolics of the Typs"
r5,1
making some Of the best "tsuff' of his
career. He left a good taste in the
mouth Of Iowa when he went away and
everyone is glad of his success.
80
One Of the most readable and laugh :
able of the books Of the last decade is
Irwin Cobbs Europe Revised"
George Doran Company, New York
City,. Not since Mark Twain's
! "Roughing IT, has foreign travel been so
i delightfully."- and humorously cartooned
in prose. Utterly different from Twain
in style and treatment Cobbs book is
funnier and holds more hearty laughs
than the Twain book that set all
America laughing years ago. It is a
'AAtAAo VI eAeeieS anu outlaws, d LuluSi-
Ing OF broad fun, sly humor sarcasm
and shrewd observation! None but a
corking newspaper man could have
written Europe Revised" as none but
good newspaper man could have
written "Roughing It" The combina-
ton OF true humor and repertorial fac
ulty Of observance comes together at
its best infrequently but it seems to
have found perfect mixture with
Europe Revised" as its carburretter.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-19

|the scaffoids suspsndsA bensa1A -
structure, where the vAAstAeaAD OF
passing vessels Scrape unlGr the
plankings, sometimes missing them BY
q margin Of only few inches. This
work continues usually for six or eight
months before 1t IS completed, and
costs approximately $4,000"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-19
Power Of Suggestion.

Mrs. Watkins was entertaining some
week end guests not long ago, when
they were startled by commotion
downstairs.
Mercy! What's that awful profanity
downstairs?' whispered one Of the
guests, in a frightened tone.
Don't be alarmed, my dear" replied
the hostess It's my husband. He's
come in late, and fallen over the new
Persian prayer rug" Everybody's
Magazine.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-19
4 SENATE SERVICE NEEDED

The Johnston dill passed the house
yesterday. Just why and how 1t man
aged to get thru body Of intelligence
is hard to understand unless the mem
bers imagined that the roaring Of the
reac dictionaries represented the vox
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-19
BETTER JUDGES.
Huntington Hawkeye.1


Alfred the Great is supposed to have
invented trial by jury. And Mark
Twain excuses him for it on the
ground that he was not aware that. by
the nineteenth century, conditions
would have SO changed that the jury
system would become most ingenious
and infallible means Of defeating the
ends of justice.
That, of course, is merely the ny
perboie of the humorist. but like most
other things that Mark Twain wrote.
1t has great deal of truth at the bot
/ tom of it.
Call to mind the twelve men of your
acquaintance, in all the walks of life,
who are the most densely stupid; the
twelve men who are the most abso-
lutely incapable of forming rational
opinion on any subject; the twelve men
who have the worst moral character.
AND then realize that under the pres
ent system 1t is possible that the fate
/, of every dollar you have in the world,
| the avails of your life insurance. and
even the question Of your life itself,
may be submitted to these twelve in
icompetents for their disposal.
| Under the present system the only
qualification Of a juror is that he be
an elector.
He may be utterly illiterate and I'M
intelligent, he may be known liar
| and rascal. 1t makes no difference.
| If he can vote, he is eligible to serve
as juror.
At the recent term of court in Coun-
ell Bluffs, two of the talesmen failed
to respond to their names and in
vestigation disclosed that both of them
were serving terms in the county Jail.
To remedy this condition of affairs,
Senator Kimball has introduced a bin
In the senate, known as senate file
213, which merits general support as
1t promises to correct the most glar-
ing defects of the present system.
Briefly, the bill provides that the
judges of each judicial district in the
state shall appoint a jury commission
of FIVE members for each county OF
the district having a population OF
1000 or over. and in which there is
city of not less than 10000 popula-
ton.
The jury commissioners shall be OF
good moral character, reside in differ
ent portions of the county and not be
interested in any litigation to be held
at the next term of court.
The commissioners shall take oath
to select only men qualified by intel
Iligence and integrity, and shall then
proceed, in secret session, to select $50
persons, having all the present qualifi-
cations OF jury duty, from among
whom the grand jurors for the year
shall be drawn, and a list of talesnen,
IN such number as the court may di-
rect, from which the petit jurors shall
be drawn.
1t is expressly provided that no one
shall be placed upon the jury list who
has either sought such nomination for
himself or for whom it has been
sought by another.
There is no question by that the
adoption of the Kimball bill would re-
suit in raising the standard OF juries,
both mentally and morally.