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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-01-10

Milledgeville has a splendid record
for 1915. Our death rate has been so
per cent less to the thousand popula-
ton than the city of Atlanta, which
claims the lowest death rate of a ny
other large city in the United States.
Atlanta's death rate was between Is
and II to the thousand for the year.
Milledgevilla's death, based on a pop
ulation of 5000 has been 8 1-3 to the
thousand Milledgeville News.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-01-10

1t is an interesting and hopeful sign,
one which portends much good that
al! the papers are noting the fact thai
throughout Georgia less liquor was
consumed and less drunkenness was
in evidence than in years. Verify are
the people learning the evils of in
temperance and in the smaller cities
and towns, at any rate, there is vast
Experimentation Advertiser.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-01-10
THE NEWSPAPER TALK

For fear some of our nimrodic
friends may be laboring under mis-
apprehension, we state on good au-
thority that it is not against the law to
give away a quail. We believe we
could eat a partridge a day for thirty
successive days-Cuthbert Leader.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-01-10

Doubtless the appointment of Carr
Nick as a field marshal in the British
army carries with it the privilege of
having an additional uniform and
wearing another large medal on his
imperial chest.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-01-10

The best cure-all ever patented is q
starvation liet; little judicious alb
sence from the dinner table or the
loved one is an equally effective rem
edy for dyspepsia or a grande passion.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-01-10

Any man who hungers for military
glory can get it by moving to Texas
and being made a colonel in thirty
days.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-01-10

If man would show as much blind
enthusiasm in praising his wife as he
does in praising his motor car there
would be no such thing as matrimonial
unrest-perhaps.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-01-10

1t was Seneca who said AS the soil,
however rich it may be, cannot be pro-
ductive without culture, so the mind
without cultivation can never produce
good fruit"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-01-10
Americas, Ga, January 10, 1916.
Help the farmers exchange along.
Sumter is city courtin' this week.

Youngstown, Ohio, is on the map
now. There is always way to get
there.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-01-10

There's a fellow in Germantown,
Pa, named A. Truth Jerker. But we
don't know his profession, but know
it could be.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-01-10
THE BACHELOR GIRL.
(By Helen Rowland.)

(By Helen Rowland.)
Smash, splash, crash!
Are the armies crossing the sea?
All, no, it is only the sad refrain
OF the broken vows as they fall like
rain
The VOWS they will make-and break
again,
Next year, to you and me!
How many women can a man really
love in lifetime. Well, dear me, let's
see How many women are there?
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-01-10

The noted sculptor who. said Mr..
Rryan's mouth is beautiful in re-
pose,' evidently got a glimpse of him
while he was taking nap, for it is Il
well established fact that his mouth is
rever in repose, save when he is
asleep.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-01-10

What is fame when your name is
printed wrong in the newspapers. AT
ter all the money he has spent here is
the Richmond Times Dispatch speak
ing of Frank Ford's Peace Party"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-01-10

We shall not believe that the world
has really grown better until house
wives cease treating the family to
bread pudding.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-01-10

A great many New Years resolu-
lions have been wrecked as a result of
q collision between the water wagon
and a schooner.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-01-10

London has its Soho square and
New Orleans it's Hobo square, which is
directly in front of the city Hall.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-01-10

For further information apply to H
P. Everett, Local Agent, Americas
Ca; C. W. Small, Div. Pass, Agent,
Savannah, Ca; G. B. Ryan, a, 2. A
Jolfolkx Va.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-01-10

Poker and love are two games a t
which the amateur should never play,
and in which beginners luck" nets
nothing in the end-but experience.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-01-10

In a short time we shall know if
congress is prepared for preparedness
or pork.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-01-10

People living in the country used to
be opposed to automobiles, because
they scared horses and mules. Now,
farmers are the largest purchasers of
the gas buggies. The world do move.
--Hartwell Sun.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-01-10

The little city of Commerce is rca!
proud of herself In fact, she Is shaB-
ing hands with herself There is a
BASIS for tbs city civic pride, and f:r
Ieai congra.I 'ations in the TAFT that
CITY one arrest was made in this place
during the Christmas holidays. And a
Comerce man did not provoke that 1t
was a Madison county man.-Com-
merce News.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-01-10
The ouInlns That Does Not Aztec, Tho Head

Because of its tonic and laxative effect LAXA-
TIVE BROMO QUININEi is better than ordinary
Quinine and does not cause nervousness nor
ringing in head Remember the full name and
look for the signature of Z. W. GROVE. 25c,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-01-10

OFFICIAL ORGAN FOR:
City of Americas.
Sumter County.
Webster County.
Railroad Commission of Georgia For
Third Congressional District.
U. s. Court, Southern District OF
Georgia.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-05-03
4 scAsoIINE suBsTITUTE

Ed. Lewis, an Elmlra, N, r., inven-
tor, says he can make a motor per-
form the same function as with gaso-
line by using an ounce of sulphuric
acid to each gallon of water.
The acid can be purchased for less
than cent an ounce. Lewis says the
hydrogen gas generated by battery
current. would show higher test than
the best gasoline on the market.
He would equip the regular gaso-
line tank with two electrodes, one
positive and the other negative.
These, connected with storage bat
terry, would generate hydrogen gas,
which, Lewis says, would pass
through any carburetor into the mo-
tor as effectively as gasoline.
An open-air vet in the tank would
give on outlet for too high pressure
of gas and backfire would be quench-
ed by the water.
If such revolution in the price of
fuel for generating power can be
brought about the automobile owner
will be pleased. vi
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-05-03
TICKET SALE FOR
BIG MUSICAL NIGHT
Is GROWING FAST
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Continued From Page One)
Rapids musicians will be in Friday
evenings engagement as follows:
Joseph Guthan, director, Curtis Tul-
Ter, first violin; Joseph Pavese, first
violin; Francis Hegel, viola; Leo
Ruckle, cleo; Percy Smith, bassoon.
Howard White, first cornet; John
Herbig, first French horn; Louis
Grant, second French horn; Anthony
Gutham, cello; John w. link, bass
vol; Leon Crap, tympian chimes, etc.
Mrs. w. H. Fairfield, pianist accom-
PIANIST.
OF the local musicians appearing,
A. V. Flick will play first violin;
Henry Gildemeister, second violin;
Edward Estabrook, first clarinet;
Ernest Allen, second clarinet; Ward
Gould, second clarinet; Tison Hale,
trombone; Floyd Darling, trombone;
MILFORD Bricker, traps, drums and
bells, and Bert Rummler, piano.
, See the big ad this week for price
of seats, etc. Get your tickets early.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-05-03
PUBLIC SENTIMENT AROUSED

Not since the sinking of the Lusi-
tania has public sentiment in America
been so aroused as over the German
reply in the matter of the Sussex.
The Sussex was a French channel
boat, employed in passenger service
between Folkstone and Dieppe, and in
that ferry service carried neither am
munition or troops. She was sunk by
a submarine at 2:55 p. m, on March
"a, being loaded with passengers,
many of them neutral, and several of
them being Americans. In the wreck
was found pieces of torpedo of Ger
man manufacture. The torpedo struck
forward, blowing up the entire for
ward part of the boat.
Germany's answer to America for
this wanton act of murder is that she
did not sink the Sussex, but sank an
other ship, at the precise spot des-
cribed, at the very same minute, and
the torpedo striking in the same part
of the ship. What the ship was she
does not pretend to know, but the
captain of the submarine, so deep be-
low water that no passenger of the
Sussex saw the boat, has made a
sketch of the boat he sank, and this
imaginary picture does not look like a
cut of the Sussex clipped from the
London Graphic.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-05-03
DANGER IN MEXICO

A month ago we said that the entry
of our soldiers into Mexico was likely
to lead to war with that country, but
that whatever the consequences of
that entry might be, our troops should
not be withdrawn until its purpose
had been accomplished.
The flower of the American army
is in the heart of hostile country,
exposed to perils from every side, its
line of communication in danger of
severance at any time. 1t has taken
it weeks to reach the present positions
without opposition. It's withdrawal
under fire would be a matter of grave
difficulty. Unless vigorously support
ed its total determination would be
within the bounds of possibility. That
support should be on the way without
delay and it should be sufficient in
numbers to impress upon Mexico the
folly of attack upon the punitive force
within its borders. The United States
has no desire to war with its southern
neighbors; it has no designs upon their
territory; but it cannot permit viola
ton of its soil to go unpublished. The
leaders of the attack upon Columbus
must be brought to justice. America
can brook no opposition to the achieve
ment of that purpose.-St. Louis
Globe.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-05-03
STATE EDUCATIONAL

This years class at Battle Creek is
the largest ever graduated from that
high school There are 40 in the
class.
Alma College is planning on a cam
paign for 100000 for an endowment
and building fund.
The operetta Contest of Nations"
was given in great splendor by the
pupils of Monroe.
Olivet College defeated Alma Col
lege in debate on the question, "Com-
pulsory Military Service"
The Hillsdale county fair will have
a building for school exhibit next
fall. For the past two years the
schools have not been represented.
All Charlotte teachers are asked to
remain another year and are given in
creases in salary aggregating $1,000.
An extra teacher will be employed in
the high school.
Tustin taxpayers by vote of 35
to 15 gave the school board authority
to build such additional rooms to the
school building as will be needed to
properly care for the school attend
ance.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-05-03
A MISTAKEN IDEA

1t is a remarkable fact that there
are great many people who are
wasting their time and energy talking
about the United States wanting to
fight Germany or some other country.
There is no truth in any such argu-
ments and there is not a word in the
notes that have passed between the
United States and Germany to the
effect that either nation in any way
desires to fight the other. The men
at the helm in both countries are real
men who are not capable of getting
down to jingoism in their dealings
with each other. All that indicates
that war might result from the ex-
change of notes is the fact that the
United States has taken the position
that neutral nations have certain we'll
defined rights that are bound to be
respected by belligerents at all times.
In speaking for herself the United
States speaks for all the neutral ma
tons and there is not a point in the
present controversy over the action
of German submarines that does not
as vitality affect every neutral nation
as it does the United States. Uncle
Sam is today fighting for a great and
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-05-03
A GOOD LESSON

Judge Connolly of Detroit did the
right thing when he sentenced Will
liam Dorah to prison for from three
to fifteen years for killing a man.
says the Grand Rapids Herald editori-
ally. "Dorah's crime was that new
slaughter, automobile murder. With
his motor car he ran down and killed
William c. Nutter, Jr. The jury was
convinced that Dorah was intoxicated
when the accident happened.
There is altogether too much of
this thing. Grand Rapids has seen
it; this effort to mix whisky and gaso-
line, as Judge Connolly aptly phrased
it. A drunken man is out of place in
the drivers seat of an automobile.
The lesson may seem hard on
Dorah who must be the example, but
an example was needed, and the sem
tence is none too severe for the crime
of manslaughter. The drunken driver
of an automobile is very near to being
as dangerous to the community as the
drunken engineer of locomotive"
And yet Grand Rapids and Detroit
both allow the saloon and whisky traf-
fic full sway, contributing their share
in the crime.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-05-03

The seventh grade defeated the
sixth grade in an exciting ball game
one night last week.
spelling contest is running in the
eighth grade. The score at present
is very close.
Clyde Stall, who has been absent
on account of the measles, has return
ed to school.
Margaret Friedly is i'll.
ton of the leader, Mr.. Bailey, has
ton of their leader, Mr.. Bailey, has
organized ball team.
Robert Howard is absent on account
of the chickenpox.
Gayle Mehney's side is fifteen points
ahead in the six-one spelling contest.
Mildred Hogan's side is 36 points
ahead.
The Wabasis Campfire Girls are
selling extracts and tube favors to
earn their dues and campfire expenses.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-05-03
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES

Winnifred Thompson, Mable Smith
and Leone Hale were visitors in the
high school last week.
The regular spring schedule went
into effect Monday, May /. School
begins at 8:15, closing at 800.
Miss Emma Mcdonald of, Detroit
visited Miss Wright Monday after
noon.
Mr.. Bignell is taking his regular
spring fishing trip. Mr.. Pond is doing
the janitor work while he is gone.
Some fine improvements have been
made in the grounds the last week.
Mr.. Pond has put the terrace and
curbing into good condition again. The
tulips, set out last fall, are just be-
ginning to blossom.
This is the last week of the second
term.
The Misses Elfinda Mason, Eliza
beth Brown and Mura Treat took
Teachers examinations at Ionia
Thursday and Friday.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-05-03

Six hundred cotton manufacturers
representing $500, 900, 900 of capital
invested, most of it in mills located in
the Southern States, have joined in
urging upon Congress the speedy en-
actment of Tariff schedule that shall
adequately Protect and insure the
permanence of the dye-making in
dustry i'm the United States. Such
was the tenor of the resolutions
adopted April 4, at the twentieth an
nual convention of the American Cot
ton Manufacturers Association in At
lanta, Georgia.
Rightly these Southern Industrial
lists emphasize the one indisputable
remedy for the scarcity of dyestuffs
that affects injuriously the great bust
ness of textile manufacture in this
country. That one and only remedy
is the enactment and indefinite reten-
ton of Tariff high enough to guar
antee that American producers of
dyetsuffs shall not be driven out of
the American market as soon as the
return of peace conditions in Europe
opens the way for Germany to deliver
her dyestuffs at prices with which our
own makers cannot possibly compete.
The fact that Southern cotton-mill
men so fully recognize and so earn
estly urge upon Congress the vital
need of Protective Tariff is signific-
ant of the general trend toward the
Protection policy in the South. 1t is
hopeful sign that in the not distant
future there will be no North and
no South on the question of Protec-
ton. When that time comes the union
the States will be complete.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-05-03
MANUFACTURER
OF BEtDING WAS
TAKEN BY DEATH
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proving a successful venture.
Mr.. Knapp was born in Wayne
county, New York, at South Butler,
July 16, 1850, residing there with his
parents on the farm until he arrived
at the age of twenty years, then he
left there and came to Grand Rapids.
In 1847 he married Miss Jeanette
Northway in Smyrna and soon after
their marriage went to farming which
he continued until 1884, a few miles
west of Smyrna. Mr.. Knapp was in
the milling business at Coopersville
previous to his work as a commercial
traveller. He was loyal member of
the Maccabee order.
The funeral was held at his late
residence Monday at 1890 o'clock a.
m, and was largely attended by
friends of the family, the many floral
offerings attesting to the high es-
TEEN in which he was held. His pas
tor, Rev. c. M. Pease, officiated and
gave a most excellent sermon. The
hymns-"Thy Will Be Done" Beau
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-05-03
WILL ENFORCE THE
AUTOMOBILE LAW
To Autom ohile Owners:

To Automobile Owners:
Section 16 of Act No. 3O2 of tn,
Public Acts for the year 1915, pro
vides in par tas follows;
Every motor vehicle or other
vehicle equipped with an using
electric lights or lights upon any
of the public highways of this
State, shall be provided and
equipped with some practical and
efficient device or devices where
by the forward light or lights of B
such vehicle may be dimmed or
lessened at the will Of the driver
or chauffeur to such an extent
that such electric light or the re-
Election therefrom through said
forward light or lights will not
interfere with the sight of nor
temporarily blind the vision of
the driver of an approaching We
hicle; and it shall be the duty of
every chauffeur or driver Of such
motor vehicle or other vehicle
equipped with and using electric
lights upon the public highways
of this State to effectually apply
such DINNER to the forward light
or lights of the vehicle being
driven by him and cause such
light or lights to be dimmed and
lessened so as not to interfere
with the sight or temporarily
blind the vision of the driver of
any approaching vehicle"
This is one of the most just of al
laws that have been passed relative
to the regulation of the operation
Of motor vehicles. When properly
this law will greatly lesser
the danger of collision nd accident
upon the highways, and will be 6
great convenience to the operator OF
every automobile, as well as drivers
Of horse vehicles upon the highways
The public officers have so far beer
enient with the enforcement of this
aw in order to give every one an OPP
Dortunity to get their automobile
equipped. However, the sea
son is we'll advanced now, and nuner.
,us complaints having been made to
he officers, it is high time that the
owners of every electrically lighted
should see to it that their
lights are properly dimmed at al
times as provided by law.Automo-
Diles can be provided with DINNERS
1T very little expense. and we hereby
make an appeal to automobile owners
70 cooperate with us in the enforce
nent of this very practical law.
Herbert c. Hall,
Prosecuting Attorney.
Ed. N. Lowrey.
Sheriff.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-05-03
~. Team Defeated Eighth Grade

The boys of Mr.. Bailey's "Y"
group trounced the eighth grade boys
in seven-inning ball game Tuesday
evening by a score of 6 to 5. The
battery for the "Y" boys was Hecox,
Skellenger and Stahl. Outman and
Coyle did the twirling for the grade
team and Outman, brother, handled
the pill at the receiving end. 1t was
hard fought battle from start to
finish and it was lucky "nose i'm
for the "Y" boys.
The "Y" team plays Mcbride in
the near future.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-05-03

tiful Isle of Somewhere" and "Jesus
Lover of My Soul" were sung by Mrs.
E. K. Hudson, Miss Edith Lunn, Ell
mer Cook and Fred Cornell.
The pallbearers were: j. B. Essex,
A. H. Smith, Edgar l.. Berry, A. S.
Dimmick, John Weeks and E. C.
Lloyd, four of whom accompanied the
remains by automobile to Grand Rap
ids for interment in the family lot
in Greenwood cemetery.
Besides his loyal and devoted wife,
he leaves three sons-Clyde A. Knapp,
Clayton Knapp and Clifford Knapp,
and one daughter, Mrs. Edith Berry.
He also leaves one brother and two
sisters, who were unable to be pres
ent at the funeral-Austin r. Knapp
of Palmyra, N. Y, Lydia Hubbard of
Elmira, N. Y, and Lucy Newton of
South Butler, N. Y.
Relatives present from abroad
were: Mr.. and Mrs. Hovey Smith of
Kalamazoo; Mrs. Mary Ellis of Grand
Rapids, and Frank E. Knapp of VOL
colt, N. Y.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-05-03

The Ellis school children are max
ing May baskets.
Merrill Fitzjohn is absent on ac-
count of illness.
Rose and Ellen Hilton have entered
the first and fourth grades, respec-
lively.
Eleanor Griffith has entered kinder
garten from Grand Rapids.
Gerald Kempher has been absent on
account of the measles.
Elva and Bernice Johnson entered
the Ellis school from the central
building last week.
Irene Irwin and Ada Cook have
moved to the country.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-05-03

fundamental principle Of war and the
safety of the entire world in the fu-
ture depends upon whether he wins or
not. II Germany comedies what is
claimed by this country all will be
well, but if on the other hand she re-
fuses to play fair in war, then the
world will face great menace. Pea
nut politicians are fomenting trouble
over the issue for the purpose Of
strengthening themselves with what
they choose to call the German-Ameri-
can note.-Traverse City Herald.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-05-03
SECOND WARD

Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Demo visited the
first grade Monday morning.
Mrs. John Sager visited the first
grade Wednesday afternoon.
Glenn Gould celebrated his birthday
Monday morning.
The children are enjoying the spring
flowers.
The kindergarten children made
May baskets last week.
There were no tardy marks in kind
ergarten last month.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-05-03

The new staff which takes charge
of the *School Life" this week is as
follows:
Editor-in-C hief.-Royal Davis.
Athletic Editor.-Carl Huntley.
Society Acknowledgements Cusser.
Reporters:
State Educational.-Elva Wheeler.
High School.--Mary Ravell.
Grammar Dept.-Harry Connell.
Third Ward.-Lynda Kassner.
Second Ward.-Marguerite Foy.
Ellis School.-Dale Klock.
This is the second division of the
eleventh grade.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-05-03
RESOLUTIONS Brother JAS. Aver

IN RESOLUTIONS brOIneT jas avery
Whereas, Through the death of our
esteemed brother, James Avery, Beld-
ing lodge No. 335, F. & A. M. are
called on to mourn faithful member
of our lodge, useful citizen and a
true friend and comrade, therefore,
Be it resolved, That we unite most
heartily in praise of the many manly
qualities Of character and faithful
ness of our deceased brother.
Resolved, That these resolutions be
engrossed on the records of the lodge
and also copy of same be presented
to the wife of our deceased brother,
and published in the city newspapers.
III. j. Leonard,
John S. Donovan,
Art Foss,
Committee.