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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-11-10
New Era
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NEW ERA, Nov, 1O-Mr. B. S.
Parker attended quarterly conference
at County Line Sunday.
Mesdames D. C. Griffin and S. NJ.
Parker were visitors at the home of
Mrs. Sallie Griffin Wednesday.
Mesdames ]. W. Potter and j. d.
Lane spent Thursday and Friday here
at the home of Mrs. S. M. Parker.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. C. Veal and Miss
Della Parker were visitors at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. H. J. Morris Fri
day afternoon.
Mr.. C. D. Griffin spent Sunday with
Mr.. J. L. Potter.
Rev. ]. D. Cook spent few days of
last week here with friends.
Miss Bessie Bradley was the guest of
her aunt, Miss Mollie Harden, last
week.
Misses Della Parker and Bessie Grit
fin were visitors at the home of Mrs.
J. B. Griffin Saturday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. c. Veal, Mr. N. M.
Veal, Miss Bessie Veal and Master
Cortez Veal were Sunday visitors at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. E. W. Parker
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. T. Morris were Sun
day visitors at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. j. W. Potter.
Miss Jewel Mercer was the guest Of
Miss Annie Willis Morris Saturday
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-11-10

G. w. Bagley.
Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Boutwell, went 70
Americas Tuesday.
Mrs. Margaret Scott and daughter,
Mrs. Allen Johnson, have gone to At
lanta, where Mrs. Johnson will under
go a serious operation. Her many
friends hope for her speedy and
complete restoration to health.
Mr.. John Blackburn is in Coleman
visiting relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. H. Simmons, OF
Daphne, were the guests of MIR. and
Mrs. r. E. Howe Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. e. B. Lee and Master
Robert Bagley, Mrs. Uric King and
Mrs. Will B. Heath, of Leesburg, were
the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. R. E. Howe
Sunday afternoon.
Messrs. L. l.. Virgins and Eshton
How're left Monday night for Atlanta
to be gone several days.
Quite a number of De Soto people
attended the Macon fair.
Mr.. B. l.. Boutwell, is having a hand
some bungalow built out on the De-
SoSto-Leslie road.
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LESLIE, Ca Nov. 10.-Mrs. Lii
liam Hair and Mr.. Powell, of Month
cello Fla, were married Monday ev-
ening in Cordele.
Mrs. George Bagley and little son,
George, were visitors here Tuesday
afternoon.
Mrs. Duncan Bass is out-of-town this
week, visiting relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. /. A. Perry and fam
lily spent the day Sunday with Mr.. and
Mrs. Gabriel Parker.
Mrs. Joe Cox will leave Wednesday
for Savannah, where she will make
her home.
Mrs c. p. Davis spent Saturday here
the guest of her sister, Mrs. l.. G. Grit
fin.
Mrs. j. ID. Cooke and Mrs. j. U.
Suggs visited at the home of Mrs.
George Larimore Tuesday.
We are glad to have Mr.. and Mrs.
j. M Green with us again as residents
of Leslie, after being at Fitzgerald
for a year.
Mr.. e. e. Ranew returned recently
from a visit to Mr.. and Mrs. ]. L. ANA
son, at Manchester, Ga,
Miss Anna Raglan, of Rome, Ca, is
the guest of Mrs. w. c. Larimore, at
her home on Bailey ave.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-11-10
SALE OF LAND.

Two hundred acres of the best land
in Gooseberry District Webster coun-
ty; two dwellings, tenant houses, barns
and necessary outbuildings; well tim
bered. For particulars address J. l.
McGill. Dawson, Ga.
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All Georgia Plans Gordeously
Prepare For Celebration Of
Georgia Products Day, Nou. Is

hibits made by the boys and girls OF
Ribb county, and the use Of their ex-
hibits is expected to give great en-
enlargement to their future efforts at
production. Secretary w. H. c. john
son of the Macon Chamber of Com
merce is urging every housewife in
Bibb county either to attend the pub
lie dinner or to serve at home a din
ner of Georgia Products on the 18th.
Athens Expects to Lead the State.
Georgia Products Day will be a
gala occasion in Athens, and the home
products dinner and harvest celebra-
ton is expected to surpass any other
similar event ever held in Georgia. On
the evening of the 18th, with suitable
harvest decorations, dinner that
will tempt any epicure will be given
in the dining room fthe State Normal
School.
The menue will be prepared and
served by the girls of the domestic
science classes of the Normal School.
Percival Chubb, of st. Louis, known
as teh most distinguished expert on
festivals and plays as they relate to
community welfare will be the star
speaker at the dinner.
Americas Has Tempting Menu.
The delightful dinner to be given in
the rooms of the Americas Chamber
of Commerce On Georgia Products
Day, by the domestic science students
of the Americas High School, is as
follows:
Tomato Bisque
Roast Turkey Barbecued Shoat
Crab Apple Jelly
Sweet Potatoes-Southern Style
Dreamed Potatoes Peas
Rice Plantation Salad Hot Biscuit
Apple Pie Cheese Georgia made
Sweet Milk Buttermilk
Georgia Nuts Georgia Raisins
Every item on the menu was raised
in Georgia, most of theb in Sumter
county.
Eaton Has Good Eats.
The Samuel Reid Chapter, D. A. R.,
will serve the Georgia Products Day
dinner in Putnam county. Among the
items on the menu are: Barbecuei
pig, Brunswick stew, Turkey and
dressing, "Possum and Taters," can
died sweet potatoes, rice, potato salad,
rolls, baked apples, baked pears,
brown mread, cornbread, pickles, cot
ice, cake, boiled custard.
With the exception of articles Of ex-
otto growth, such as coffee, all of the
menu was produced in Georgia.
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De Soto

DE SOTO, Ga, Nov. 10.-Mrs. G. w.
Bagley, ST., spent Friday in Americas
shopping.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. B. Stewart and
daughters were the guests of relatives
in the 2Sth Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Simmons of the
2Sth, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
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ATLANTA, Nov. In response to
the proclamation of Governor Nat e.
harris calling on the people of Geor-
gla to observe fittingly Georgia Pro
ducts Day, Thursday, November 18th,
nany communities in the state are
making elaborate plans for dinners
and barbecues, in several cities to be
augmented by parades of floats eX-
hibiting Georgia products.
Among the cities and towns that
Lave indicated their intention to OBJ
serve the day are Sandersville, where
the Pennsylvania Club will give a
monster barbecue for the people of
Washington county, McRae, Folkston,
Claxton, Eatonton, Americas, Colum-
bus, Macon, Brunswick and Atlanta.
Atlanta Dimes One Thousand.
The Domestic Science Glass of the
Atlanta Girls High School, of which
Miss Jessie Muse is principal, will
serve a dainty dinner of Georgia pro-
ducts under the auspices of the Allan
ia City Federation of Womens' Clubs.
The dinner will be held in the Audi
forum, and plates will be laid for
exactly one-thousand persons, only
that number of tickets to be sold. The
tables will be decorated with Georgia
products and a mammoth shield of the
Great Seal of Georgia made up OF
Georgia fruits and vegetables will be
displayed. AS it was found necessary
u limit the number of tickets to one
thousand to prevent an overflow, such
as occurred last year, the demand for
tickets is already intensely active.
Great Celebration at Columbus.
Large parties will come to Column.
bus in automobile runs over each Of
the ten highways leading tC that city
The Commercial Travellers of Column
49, 800 orrop;,;po 4boco rms a
parade celebrating Columbus Week
will be given under the auspices OF
the Columbus Young Mems Business
Club. The Georgia Products Dinner
will be held in the Ralston Hotel, I'M
der the direction of the Ladies Civic
Development Club and prepared by
the domestic science classes of the
CITY and county schools.
There will be demonstrations II
road huilding on the afternoon immeG-
lately following the dinner. The Mus"
cogee County Commissioners will con-
duct this demonstration. The visitors
will be shown a piece of old road,
niece of road under construction with
ali the machinery in use, and they will
roake an inspection trip over some Ct
the fine highways of Muscogee county
To participate in this road demonstra-
ton the United States Government
will send men from the Bureau o.
Roads the Department of Agriculture
and the state Agricultural Colleges Of
both. Georgia and Alabama will SEM
representatives. All of these promin-
emf men will speak at the Georgia
products Day Dinner. On the night Of
the 18th the new Ralston Hotel will b5
formally opened by dance and other
entertainments fOr Ine VlsltolS'
Macon to Celebrate.
The Macon Chamber of Commerce
has arranged with the Ladies AuXil'
iarv of the Young Mems Christian AS
sociation to give the Georgia Products
pav Dinner. Mrs. S. T. Coleman, Jr.
President of the Auxiliary, has secur
cd many of the finest food product ex
hibits from the State Fair to be uset
!, the dinner. Most of them will be eX
an AAETHE Tn EFkE0
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-09

better record than they have the past
slx months. which has been very sue
cessful After the yearly reports, the
election OF Officers took place in which
MI. Richard Ahlstrom was reelected
president for the fourth term: Merle
Dean. vice president: Pearl Shaul. Sec
retary Tor the third term; Floyd
Scritchneld. treasurer; Esther Roller.
ASSISTANT secretary: Chain Watson.
assistant treasurer. Those present
were: Mabel Cromwell. Helen Eber-
nardt, Kate Thompson. Florence Butts,
Elsie Case, Irma Ahlstrom, Esther
Roller. Pearl Shaul, Inex Berridge. Jes-
sic Parrish. Mr.. and Mrs Chubb. Leslie
Eberhard. jay Banta. Guy Butts, Harry
Davidson, Charlie Case, Elmer Ahl-
strom. Orrin Parrish. Floyd Scritch-
aeid. Challen Watson. Rolliu Kriege.
VIII Hamilton. vey Holstein, Charlie
Martin. Merle Dean and Richard Ahl-
strom. Guests We're: Mrs. J. w. Fer
guson. Mrs J. w. Marsh and Mr.. and
Mrs. Shaul
The K. K. KS basketball team will
have practice game Tuesday night.
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ON HIS WAY BACK.
Presidents Friends Now Are Wonder
| ing What He Meant.

Pittsburg, Pa, Jan. Son Board
President Wilson's Train)-President
Wilson was on his way back to Wash
1ngton today after making his first
purely political speech since he as
sumed the presidency. He will arrive
at the capital at 4:4O o'clock this at
ternoon. Gossip was rife among the
presidents friends over the meaning
back OF his statement in his Indian
apolis speech that there may come a
time when the American people will
have to judge whether know what ]
am talking about or not"
Some OF his friends insisted that the
president was merely referring to the
fact that future generations will judge
his actions and that he did not intend
to convey the impression which was
gained by the crowd that he might be
q candidate again for the presidency.
Others Of his friends pointed out
that he evidently realized, because OF
the cheering. the construction that
had been placed on his words, and yet
ne did not correct the expression be-
yond saying: Il didn't intend to start
anything Them
The president is returning to Wash
ington fully prepared to push his gov
eminent ship purchase bill. He served
notice in his speech yesterday that he
will do everything possible to over
come opposition to the bill
Mr.. Wilson will seek to send to the
senate the nomination Of the trade
commission members as soon as DOS.
sible after his return.
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Topeka Industrial Council in
Favor Welfare Legislation.
Open Meeting Well Attended ct
Labor Hall Last Night.

There was an open meeting of the To-
peka Industrial Council hast night at
Labor hall, which was well attended.
T. A. McNeal, Mrs. Lila Day Monroe
and A. A. Hope were the speakers.
In short talk at the opening Of the
meeting. T. b. Garrett spoke Of the leg
islation which organized labor will
work for this year. He said that among
other things which will be strongly
urged will be the minimum wage for
women and legislation for the welfare
OF the human being. Willard NJ. Amos
presided at the meeting which followed.
Mr.. McNeal was the first speaker.
His subject was Money" McNeal told
about the evolution Of money. from UNI
numbered years ago up to the present
DDS OF present day finance. but spoke
optimistically of changes which would
improve these conditions In the future.
Mrs. Monroe urged the council to in
dorse the proposed bill for depart
ment of child hygiene for the state
board OF health. She said the children
OF the state ought to have the same at
tention as the live stock. A commit
tee was appointed by Chairman Amos
to draft resolutions indorsing the bill.
A. A. Hope, an employee of the Santa
Fe railway, was the last speaker and
he made a few brief remarks on Co
looking into and remedying conditions
that cause the soup lines in the
larger cities.
The meeting was a successful one.
The hall was crowded and those pres
emit listened attentively to the remarks
of the speakers. Refreshments were
served at the close of the session.
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STATE IS READY
FOR INAUGURAL
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CURED The state Officers win receive
in the rotunda on the main floor.
while the senator's will receive In
formally in the senate chamber and
the house members receive inform
ally in Representative hall. It il
planned for the state officers and
their wives to meet In the treasurer's
office at 7:15 promptly, So that the
line may be formed in the rotunda 1T
1880. The senators and representa-
tives will gather in their respective
chambers at the same time. When
the reception begins the senators and
representatives will go down the line
OF the state officers and then return
to the two houses where they will re-
ceive informally. The general public
after greeting the state officers and
their wives, will go to the senate and
house and meet tho senators and rep
resentatives. Each senator will wear
a white carnation and each represent
alive a red one. The reception COM
mittee and one hundred officers of
the national guard will divide into
receptions. Refreshments will be
served only in the senate chamber
and representative hall.
Entire State House Open.
With a view of relieving the con-
gestion that has always occurred on
the basement floor, with it's attendant
Inconvenience to the public, it has
been planned this time to throw open
the entire state house except the ro-
ftunda and north and south corridors
on the main floor. The people can
use several stairways in the east and
west wings and the elevators and
reach practically all of the offices
where their wraps will be checked and
where they can sit down and rest I'M
til time to Join the line. There will
be fourteen Offices on the basement
and first floors where wraps can be
checked. The public can pass freely
to all parts of the building on all
floors except the main floor. II one
check room is congested It will not
be necessary for the people to stand
and wait. They can go to another.
The checks will be stamped so that
they left their wraps. All of the doors
to the state house will be open to the
public. except the north and south
doors on the main floor. The best way
to enter will be on the ground floor.
The informal reception to the sena-
tors and representatives ia q new de-
parture and the committee feels sure
it will be popular and that the people
of Topeka, especially, will be glad to
attend and give the members of the
legislature a cordial welcome.
There will be an excellent musical
program furnished by the First and
Second Regiment bands. which will
play during the evening.
Arrangements have been made for
parking automobiles and vehicles on
the state house grounds, and Mayor
Cofran has agreed to furnish all the
necessary police protection.
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BUSINESS IMPROVES,
Heavy Expectation of Wheat and Cot
ton Has Set In.

New York. Jan. 9-Dun's Weekly
Review Of Trade says: Several devel-
opments highly significant of the i'm
proving tendencies in business have
attended the opening of the new year.
The advance in cotton gives promise.
In spite Of the speculative fluctuations.
of ultimate relief to the south. Over
one million bales of cotton have been
exported in the last four weeks and 1t
is announced that large lines of Ger
man credit have been placed in New
York banks in order to finance cotton
shipments to Germany, which also
materially aids the situation.
Bank clearings for the week were
$2,691, 345,350. a decrease of 23.6 per
cent from last year. Wheat exports
were 8,746,943 bushels. as against
5,745, 100 bushels q year ago."
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PICKS SALOON KEEPER
Women's Club Selects q Candidate for
Alderman.

Chicago. Jan. 9.-Members Of the
Woman's Democratic club of the Sec
ond ward who recently advertised in
newspapers for an aldermanic candf-
date of Constructive ability, a clean,
respectable citizen. a friend of woman
suffrage, leader, not a follower and
a possessor of horse sense" have Sc
iected a saloon keeper as their choice
1t was announced today. Applications
were considered from broker. a
clergyman. a machinist, a manufac-
turer and a physician. Albert Russell.
the candidate awarded the support of
the club, already has received the in
dorsement of the mems Democratic
organization of the ward,
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DIES IN WASHINGTON
Wealthy Kansan Among Stranger
Passes Away I'm Hospital.

Washington, Jan. 9.-Wealthy. and
for many years living alone at the
Hotel Dewey. Amos J. Chapman of
Kansas. So years old. died this week
at the George Washington University
hospital, after a brief illness. He had
few friends in Washington, and none
were at the hospital when he died.
Mr.. Chapman came to Washington
from Kansas nearly 40 years ago. He
accumulated a fortune by buying steel
stocks. He belonged to the Sons OF
the American Revolution and the So
ciety OF Colonial Wars. He suffered a
stroke Of paralysis at the Dewey last
F'riday
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Want to Sign Peckinpauei

Cleveland. Jan. 9.-Manager Bill
Donovan Of the New York American
League team, and Joe Tinker, mana
club, are here trying to persuade
Roger Peckinpaugh to sign a contract.
Peckinpaugh indicated that he may
reach a decision today 1t is under
stood taht the New York manager
made Peckinpaugh a nattering offer
which was later boosted to a larger
amount by Tinker
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Washington, Jan. 9.-Cotton a1n-
ming during the last two weeks Of
December surpassed the same period
OF ever other year except the record
production year Of 1911, and brought
the total cotton ginned from the crop
Of 1914 up to 14.447,623 bales, a guam
tity greater than ever ginned in any
other, year to January 1, and 1so. 900
bales more than In 1911
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IBy special wire to T. j. Myers.1
New York yesterday reported the sale
of q cargo of curam wheat to Italy at
$27 a bushel, delivered.
Minneapolis wheat stocks decreased 49,.
900 bushels this week. A year ago the in
crease was $4,000 bushels.
Elevator stocks of wheat at Kansas
City have decreased SO, AT bushels thus
far this week and corn stocks increased
66506 bushels.
Exports from the United States and
wheat 10000 barrels of flour. Isl 900 BUSH
els of corn and IS 600 bushels of oats.
An official India report estimates area
OF wheat to Bombay at 2.147.Q0O acres,
compared with 1,7S9,OO0 acres last year;
northwestern frontier, 3d. 600 acres: year
ago. $4,000 acres.
Exports from the United States and
Canada of wheat and flour. according to
Bradstreet's. this week. were O,365,0OO
bushels, compared with 100000 bushels
last week and 100000 bushels q year ago.
Corn shipments were $4,000 bushels.
A cable from Argentina reads as fol-
but there are complaints of disappointing
wheat harvesting returns from the south
and center and excessive moisture for the
new corn crop. Shipments of new wheat.
oats and flax began this week"
Argentina exported 10000 bushels Of
wheat this week, compared with $1,000
bushels last week and 1884, 600 bushels a
year ago. Corn shipments this week were
ssh 900 bushels, against 3,162.000 bushels
last week and 100000 a year ago. Oats
exports were 100000 bushels.
Kansas City Produce Market
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first Of the week IT st. Francis hos
pital, il rapidly recovering.
A. N. Petro. druggtst.LAdv.
Misses Hazel and Callie Kincaio
will give q shower at their home. 1902
North Van Buren, street. tonight Tor
Miss Mary Zarker.
North Topeka camp No. 1913. "A.
w. A., will install its new officers
next Monday evening. Refreshments
will be served.-Adv.
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Every time you go to the Aidwinter
Exposition you will get q prize and
twice each week the vaudeville and
tabloid bill changes. You will be GO
ing often Get advance tickets, while
they last. At 10 cents. Admission when
exposition opens IL ceutn
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To ABOLISH .Death Penalty

New York. Jan. 9.-Announcement
was made today of the incorporation
here of the anti-capital punishment
society whose object is the abolition
Of the death penalty in New York
s ;dat eoe roger h,ff e1 Rono ~ PRES p.es7
H. Greer. Rabbi Stephen 8. Wise and
Thomas Mott Osborne. warden of Sing
Sing prison, are among the vice pres
identa.
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st. Marys. Kan. Jan. 9.-Mr. and
Mrs. Amos b. Pool, residents. OF st.
Marys since 1876, died within one
week. Mr.. Pool died q week ago.
A few days later Mrs. Pool took ser
iously i'll and was buried here Thurs
day. The Pools resided in Topeka
until 1875 and have relatives there.
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New York. Jan. 9.-BCTTER-Narlket
steady and unchanged.
CHEESE-Market steady. State whole
milk specials. held. 157tQ16c; ditto average
fancy, 15@15Ac.
EGGS-Market strong. Fresh gathered
firsts. &c; seconds, SQ41c.
POULTRY-Iive, quiet; western chick
ems 13lk6714c; fowls, 1336015c: turkeys, lac.
Dressed quiet: western roasting chickens,
15M17,kc; fresh fowls. 12AQl7c; turkeys. II
@20c.
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Chicago, Jan s.-WHEAr-Possibin OF
government embargo on wheat exports
brought about = flood OF selling today In
the wheat market here and caused quick
setback in values. There were also adj
vices that farmers, especially IN Kansas
had shown q disposition to let 20 more
freely OF reserve stocks. An advance at
Liverpool was ignored. So also were dis
Tor wheat were at the highest prices yet
0nered by Great Britain after opening nc
70 INC on. the market here suffered
further sag before beginning to eract
Suosequentiy. export sales led to . sharp
upturn from the low point. Domestic mill
ers were said to have bought freely In
the last fifteen minutes nevertheless the
market again had z bad break the result
OF fresh selling stampede. The close
was emi-demoraEsed, 2hc to 2%c under
CORN-Corn fell with wheat. Commits
SION houses though soon gobbled up the
pit supply. Opening prices, which ranged
from nc to &c down, were followed by a
moderate rally.
Assertion that the Dutch government
had purchased 10000 bushels OF corn this
morning in the United States helpd the
market TO overcome almost entirely the
early weakness The close notwithstand-
ing, was depressed with wheat SIC to sc
net lower.
OATS-Oats took the same course as
other cereals. Rural acceptances were
said to be liberal
PROV!SIONS-Heavy receipts Of hogs
promised Tor next week tended to pull
down provisions. No radical weakness
however. developed.
Chicago Grain Market.
tThe range of prices for grain futures on
The Chicago Board Of Trade as reported
Bids.I Us myers 'f0As'' oo'u"0'a"