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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-07-10
THE BR|DGESIAND
.R0AD5OF SUMTER
SUFFER IN RAIN

Reports from over Smter county
during Sunday and Monday brought in
stories of the havoc which had been
caused by the heavy rains of four
days. Roads and bridges have suffer
ed intensely, although the steel struc-
lures in the county have stood the
Onslaught of water in fine shape.
Not single steel bridge has been
lost. Several have had the approach
es and abuttments damaged but this
can be remedied in a short time.
Carrier Morgan Stevens IS only able
to cover half of his route because Of
damage to the bridge on the Myrtle
Springs road. 1t appears that this i'm
mediate section suffered more than
any other in the county.
The Central Of Georgia Railway was
not seriously affected by washouts and
bridges although several of their
trains were delayed. The Seaboard
Air Line railway had trains moving
Sunday.
County Warden Henry Christian
was busy throughout Saturday and
Sunday doing necessary work in the
protection of bridges and roads.
Reports have been received that the
fills in the approaches to Wilburn's
bridge, over Kinchafoonee creek be-
tween Americus and Dawson have
suffered terribly.
1t is reported that the county COM
missioners will soon order the gangs
to delay building new roads and start
Immediately to reshaping and repair.
ing the old and damaged roads of
the county. 1t is known that this is
being considered
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-07-10
German Officer Visits.

NEW YORK, July 10.-Baron Won
Haniel, counsel of the German en-
bassy, has been sent to Baltimore II
ascertain the exact status of the un-
derwater liner Deutchland.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-07-10
Heavy Rain Monday.

An exceptionally heavy rain fall on
Monday afternoon about 2:3O o'clock
for twenty minutes 1t was preceded
by strong wind. The people are warn
ed to carefully prepare their homes
and buildinge for the strongest pos
sible attacks of wind and rair.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-07-10
Story Of the Boat.

BALTIMORE, Md July 1O.-The
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-07-10

CONTINUED on Page 81
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-07-10

The TimeS-Recorder is the ONLY
paper in the Third Congressional
District with Associated Press
service.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-13

today of the method he pursued in solving
the cryptogram said:
81 had never tried anything of the sort
before, but as | have been reading the
EVENING LEDGER since 1t first came out,
I thought | would see what L could do.
SO on the 10th of March. when the story
of Monte Crispen was first announced, and
| read that could get the first instalment
in a little book form. / went down to the
EVENING LEDGER office and asked for one.
THAT night at home I sat down and
looked at the cross for about half an
hour before trying to find where to be-
gin. Then / laid out the alphabet in
a line and placed under it the cryptic
alphabet. Then / started in, beginning at
every possible corner of the cross, without
getting anything that would make sense
after at least a hundred beginnings
that showed virtually from the outset that
] was on the wrong track, / suddenly con-
cluded that the IL set apart in the corner
was perhaps the key So, taking the first
letter D. as shown in the upper right hand
corner of the bar of the cross, / tried Sc
locting the 18th letter following the first
letter II. which would be @. These two
when transferred to the corresponding let
ters in the cryptic alphabet gave me
Re; and, following along this line,
knew just as soon as I had few words
that made sense that was on the right
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-13

The annual election of the Anti-Cobden
Club will be held tonight at the clubs
headquarters, 1914 Germantown avenue
The polls will be open from to p. m.
The following officers are unopposed candi-
dates for re-eection: President, David
Martin: first vice president, Edward Buch-
holz; second vice president, William w.
Turner; recording secretary, John Leon
ard: financial secretary, William NJ. Tur-
ner: treasurer. Rudolph b. Dutt; board of
trustees Give to be elected) Edward
Buchholz, Godfrey Luckhardt, Erwin
Rosenberger, George c. Faber, Josiah
Thompson. The election officers are:
Judge, Nehemiah L. Miller: teliers, Viii.
Liam II. Finch and William Deacon.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-13
BROAD STREET SHINE
WITH EASTER FINERY
$500 in Prizes to Reward Win
ners in Show of Spring
4 Clothes

Philadelphia will have it's own board
walk promenade" on Easter.
Instead of going to Atlantic city TO
display the beauties of their new spring
clothes, folks can do it this year right
here in Philadelphia. About $500 in
prizes win be given for the best dressed
people and the prettiest girls. The Easter
parade in this city viii be i'm the afternoon.
The route will be from Broad street and
Fairmount avenue TO the Park entrance
and return along the Parkway TO City
Hail
The pfan was hatched today by the
Fairmount Avenue Business Mems Asso-
citation.
New York has her 5th avenue, Atlantic
City her Boardwalk. but Philadelphia has
never had any definite Easter parade. and
it's high time to get started" said Oscar
Dahns today. He is chairman of the COM
mittee of Arrangements. The prizes are
on display in his chicken store, at 2o23
Fairmount avenue.
There is a gold watch and a large dia-
rnond stickpin that will be presented to the
best-dressed couple in Philadelphia's first
annual Easter parade The girl wearing
the prettiest hat will be presented with a
beautiful gold bracelet. To the prettiest
Is-year-old girl will be given another gold
bracelet. It was not explained how this
age could be definitely determined. Prizes
viii also be given the best-dressed boy
and girl not more than IL years old. Six
Judges will be stationed along the prone
made. Whenever n likely prize winner is
spied he or she will be asked to sign
card, with the name and address.
Large department stores, millinery
stores and others are cooperating with
the idea, and will take advantage of the
chance to display their newest and most
attractive finery in the parade. Many
other business mems associations are
enthusiastic over the idea. 1t was said,
and will see to It that goodly delega-
ton from their respective sections are in
line on Easter.
Get ready your high hats and silk
spats.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-13
Workers in Demand at Hammonton

HANfNONTON, N. j., April 13.-There
is a good demand here for female help. as
the result of the operation of the William
F. Taubel hosiery plant, the Theodore T..
Baulig underwear mandatory and the in
auguration of work at the plant of the
Aaron Dress Suit Company which has
just leased Bellevue Hall and is installing
machinery. The situation will be further
strengthened by the building of a $4,000
factory by Mr.. Baulig, 40 by 143 feet.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-13
CRYPTIC CROSS HAD NO
TERRORS FOR HUNDREDS
Confined from Pnro One

Continued from Page One
35i Broad street Station, this city. Mr.
Elsesser won the second prize of $50
It was not until more than n week later
that the next correct solution was Fe-
ceived. The morning mail on March 2t
/ brought letter from !. II. Tracy, wyn.
cote. Pa. that won him the third prize
of S25. The fourth prize-the first Of the
$40 awards-was received on March 20
and the remaining four early the next
morning.
MANY SOLVE RIDDLE.
Mrs Bertha X. Moore. of harrington
N j.; Mrs Hoyt, Merton Pa Mrs w
Aubrey Merrck. Newtown. Pa JOSEPH
A. Carraeha 73S North 4Sth street Phila-
delphia; Miss Ethel M Thomas. Bureau
of Highways. City Hall; f. NJ. Djorup
251t South Colorado street, Philadelphia
Victor Il. LecOq. 1876 Pine street, Harris.
burg Pa. and Scott II. Lilly, Swarth-
more, Pa, sent in solutions to the cryptic
cross that were only one degree removed
from perfect, before the instalment tell
ing of the destruction of the Monte
Crspen Iron Works appeared I'm the
EVENING LEDGER
That such large number Of people
were able to solve the crytogram almost
perfectly without any clue as TO what IL
might be all about is considered remark.
able by experts. A particular feature of
note is the large percentage of women
who were among the first 20 send in these
solutions The widely separated points
from which answers were received shows
the great interest that was taken in this
contest.
The points of the compass from which
responses came were no further apart
than the kinds of persons who sent in solu.
tlons. Lawyers, physicians, educators,
publicists and engineers We'd with day la
borers, trainmen, tradesmen, mechanics
and students.
MORE ADVENTURES OF MONTE,
In view of the widespread interest
aroused by the story of Monte Crspen
the EVENING LEDGER will soon print the
second of the Philadelphia hero's adven-
lures. 1t will deal with Monte Crispen
in Kensington. More detailed announce
ments will appear from time to time.
Despite the publicity given to the an
nouncement that no solution could be con-
sidered which reached the EVENING
LEDGER after noon of Saturday, April l.
large number were received after that
time. These were not considered III
awarding the prizes.
The correct solution to the cryptic
cross Is as follows:
RE.-PROPERTIES HELD IN TRUST
NJ. c. IRON WORKS: WEST
MILL DOUBLE-MINED; EN-
IRA HEAVY II y NJ T 10
CHARGES; WIRELESS; 80, "a,
20. 6S, a. TEXTILE MILLS:
STRIKES FOR HIGHER WAGE.
SHORTER HOURS ARRANGED;
6S, 35, ~. SHIPYARD: OPPOSE
TION TO NEW NAVY PRO
GRAM; 30, a. HEIR-NO BUS
MESS EXPERIE NCE OR
PACITY. NEGOTIATIONS
PROGRESSING; COMPANY OF
FICIAL WHO SEEKS TO I'M
PAIR VALUE PROPERTIES TO
BUY THEM CHEAP WHEN NJ.
c. QUALITIES ACTUAL OWNER
UNDER UNCLE'S WILL
The method of solution was fully eX-
planned in the course of the story.
HOW HE READ THE RIDDLE
Paul L. Elsesser, of 1892 South 18th
street, an 1S-year-old youth, Philadelphia
born, employed as accident file clerk in
the telegraph department of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad in Broad Street Station,
who won the grand prize of $50, speaking
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-13

And especial degree the Eleventh Edition has been
dssined to meet The needs Of everyday men and Solenae-
ularIs those who did not go 10 college"
this edition bar to pocket
books So the publishers have aaas wonderful neg issue
smaller ia but with line ana word every
and illustration intaea work absolutely unabridged and nn-
ehanEed.
This Handy Volume" Issue obtain, for little
while OnetiFd the Of the Cambrdge University Issue
and for first payment of ONLY ONE DOLLAR
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-13
Did You Miss College Training?

There need to be ashamed did,
American and American have without.
do without FUND KNoW
quickly from the place that Edison and joseph Pulitzer
gained theirs
fsoa ths EAsyelosasaz BEitsAaisa.
Many persons believe thai this magnificent
highbos" college professors rich folks The
already given that It Is precisely the opposite,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-13

King George with 90 portraits
of the noted men who have ad the greatest work
Twenty of interesting diaogs teng OF the ee BRfAN
"A clever story abqpf the yehndg IN get inteess5mt
Portraits hNobe xjAhers contributors to the
Eleventh Edition.
Nearly hatOne illustrations plates specimen pages
questions.
Whether
family thoroughly reading
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-13
ALL THESE MEN PURCHASED THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA
BRITANNICA AND ALL OF THEM USE 1T CONSTANTLY.

ALL THESE MEN PURCHASED
BRITANNICA AND ALL OF THEM USE 1T CONSTANTLY
Mr. Edison has set Of the Eleventh Edition
incessant of it,
The late Joseph Pulitzer who this
many the and to be the foremost newspaper editor OF
The meaning all this that the the Poor Who
On However college
life the lack OF it not bar to the in American life
Theessenha tng the grit this finding
For this the Encyclopaedia Britannica Eleventh Edition.
parable work 1t is university training itself
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-13
The Passion of Great Minds

There is one conspicuous trait common to all
these dominating men. That is a PASSION
FOR KNOWLEDGE. And it is curious to find
how deeply almost all of these men have been
influenced by the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Mr. Edison has mind that is simply mine
of varied information, that is a perpetual
source of surprise TO those who associate with
him. Where he got it all is beyond their
comprehension.
So with James j. HILL The extraordinary
range of his information has been one of the
secrets OF his amazing success. Whether il
be the price of nails in Yokohama or what could
be grown in the soils of Montana, he seems to
know everything that could draw traffic to his
railroad
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-13

The body of Mrs. Anna Coyle, of 1886
Mitflin street, was found floating late yes
terday afternoon off the NGifTlin street
wharf by the crew Of the police boat King.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-13

track The rest was easy. It took me
about three hours In ALL I sent the so
Iutiof in 90 the EVENING LEpGER office by
messenger the next morning, March II.
II certainly am glad to have won the
second prize, and shall always read the
EVENING LEDGER in the future, as / have
in the past Here is a copy of my solu-
tion, with the alphabets under IT.
Re-properties held in trust NC iron
works West Mil double mined extra
heavy dynamite charges wireless 33,
"a, 26, 6S, n, textile mills strike for
higher wage shorter hours arranged
IS. as, a. ship yard opposition to
new navy program 35, n, heir no
business experience or capacity ne.
gotiations progressing company off
cial who seeks to impair value prop
critics to buy them cheap when NC.
qualities actual owner under uncle's
will
(MC. means Monte Crispen)
b c d EFG @ II I J X In
OF @ r. T l. VwX WA
MOP STU vwX W
B c ID Il + q II ] X l. NJ n
Mr.. Elsesser is only year graduated
from the Southern High School. his pre-
ceding education being in the lower grades
of Philadelphia public schools He has
and with the Pennsylvania Railroad since
August last. Previously. he had been in
the employ Of the Heed Duplicating Com
pany of Philadelphia. He lives with his
parents.
PoB'S GOLD BUG" A KEY.
Edgar Allan Poe's short story. "The
Gold Bug" was the means Joseph H.
Tracy, of Wyncote, employed to solve
the cryptogram Of Monte Crispen. Mr..
Tracy's solution, which was the third to
reach the EVENING LEDGER, won him the
third prize of $25.
After deciding THE Gold Bug" and the
directions the story contains for decipher.
ing codes was the best way to set about
attempting the solution. Mr. Tracy found
his work easy. He finished IL all. work
ing out the correct answer, in a little
more than an hour and "A half, he said
today.
Into THE Gold Bug" Poe put the
knowledge he had gained in many years
of studying cipher and codes. The story
dealing with the discovery of q fabulous
fortune buried by the pirate, Captain
Kidd, on an island on the South Carolina
coast, turns on the solution of cryptic
message which gives directions for 10.
cationg the treasure. Poe solves the mes.
sage in the story and explains in detail
how 1t is done. 1t was this that gave Mr.
"T had looked over the story" said Mr..
Tracy. land when the Cryptogram ap-
peared I thought ia try to work 1t out
1t meant nothing to me until | thought of
getting The Gold Bug Poe prints Il key
which he says will solve any cipher. lie
gives list of the letters that occur most
frequently in ordinary words in the or.
der of their frequency.
II simply used that. 1t was compara-
lively easy | saw almost at once that
the cross should be read downward in
the vertical columns, beginning at the
right Using the key from The Gold
Bug and working out the letters in or
der in the vertical columns, it was not
long before l had n skeleton idea of the
message. 1 checked this over two or
three times adding letters, and presently
had the solution. 1t would have been
much more work without The Gold Bug
to help me-"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-13
HOW IIE READ THE R1DDLE

Paul L. Elsesser, of 1892 South 18th
street, an 1S-year-old youth, Philadelphia
born, employed as accident file clerk in
the telegraph department of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad in Broad Street Station
who won the grand prize of $50, speaking
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-13
Send For It To-day S
You Must Act Quickly

The rearka bla Offering last only little while longer
The contracts cr the Handy Volume Issue made before the
began.
The drastic materials impossible
cent-binders boards cent etc.
they supply at the present low prices
eriltive BOOK aad uu details As 70 this offer
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-13
All these famous
men were once
MOI ONE ever
had a
College Education
Did You?
THE ROMANCE OF ACHIEVEMENT

lhe days of the ever-new romance of the Poor Boy
with the Will to Win-are not over. The telegraph
operator of yesterday is the Edison Earng Of today
Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Charles M.
Schwab, almost all of our great captains of industry,
started at the very bottom of the ladder They climbed
to the top because they gained the HABIT Of OVER
COMING They did not win because they had no col
lege education early advantages but in spite of this
Semi-weekly herald., 1916-12-14
A REPUBLICAN HOUSE

There is no disputing that the
country mdorsed the Wi,son admin
istration by substantial margin
in the popular vote and by enough
in the Electoral college to give it
second term. Neither can it be de-
MED that the President was strong
er than his party by thousands of
votes.
There is ample evidence, however,
that the country did not accept the
record of the Sixtyfourth Congress
with the same appreciation that it ac-
cepted Mr.. Wilson's record and the
Republicans probably will come into
control of the House of Representa-
tives as result. 1t is a most un-
usual thing for President to win
the election and fail to carry the con-
gress with him IN victory, Csrtsin II
Semi-weekly herald., 1916-12-14
DECISION IN FLOTATION
PROCESS CASE

The decision in The Supreme Court
in upholding the patent for the flo
tation concentration process of the
Minerals Separation company, Brit
ish corporation, and ordering an in
fringment injunction against James
NJ, Hyde of the Silverton camp came
as quite a surprise to most of our
people, but our progressive citizens
do not believe it will prove ruinous
TO mining in the San Juan. While it
appears the decision will necessitate
the purchase of machinery or pay
ing royalty to the British company
It is not anticipated the demands of
the company will be exorbitant
enough to materially affect mining
activities in the section.
Semi-weekly herald., 1916-12-14
LINGERING COUGHS ARE
DANGEROUS

Get rid of that tickling cough that
keeps you awake at night and drains
your vitality and energy. DR.. Kings
New Discovery is pleasant balsam
remedy, antiseptic, laxative and
promptly effective. 1t soothes the
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germs; your cough is soon relieved.
Delay is dangerous-get DR.. Kings
New Discovery at once. For nearly
fifty years it has been the favorite
remedy for grippe, Group, coughs and
colds. Get a bottle today at your
Druggist, SOC.
Semi-weekly herald., 1916-12-14
STOPPED CHILDREN'S GROUP
COUGH

"Three weeks ago two of my chill
dren began choking and coughing,
and | saw they We're having an at
tack of Group" writes Billie May
berry, Eckert, Ga. 81 got u bottle of
Foley's Honey & Tar and gave them
a dose before bedtime and soon their
cough stopped and they fell asleep.
Next morning their cough and all
sign of Group was gone" Foley's
Honey and Tar is standard low
priced remedy for colds, bronchitis,
la grippe coughs. S. 6. Wall. Du-
range Drug Co.
Semi-weekly herald., 1916-12-14

it that there were reasons for wip-
ing out Democratic majority of q
IN that House that do not appear in
a hasty analysis.
Republican delegation to congress
and retires such experienced legisla-
tors as Representatives, Burke, Ko-
mop and Reilly; when New Jersey
rejects Scully; Chicago turns down
ravenner; Indiana Cullop and Kline,
and Massachusetts returns Represen-
tative Tinkham, Republican, from a
district normally Democratic by TO-
900, there must be sound and sub
stantial reasons.
Manufacturing centers which pros
per by a reasonable protective tariff
turned against the Democratic tariff
for revenue only. More progressive
renters rebuked the extravagance and
waste that the rivers and harbors bill
and the public buildings and lands
act only partly concealed. Then again
there was some resentment against
The constant heckling which big bust
ness has had to undergo at the hands
f the Sixty-fourth Congress.
Control of the House means much
o the Republican party. 1t may ini-
Late and put thru progressive legis-
alton and it can block much radical
egislation that emanates from the
Upper Branch of Congress under
Democratic control.
Thus it may be possible for the Re-
publican party to take the hustings
our years hence and wage cam
paign backed up by accomplishment.
1t may not have to depend solely up
On critical program such AS featur-
ID the campaign of the past four
months, but may present to the peo-
pie a constructive platform of useful
egislation, initiated and put on the
tatute books by the G. o. P. control
in the House of the Sixty-fifth Con-
Washington Herald.
Semi-weekly herald., 1916-12-14
BANK OFFICIAL RECOMMENDS
THEM

4. J. Norrell, V. +. Bank of Cot
tonwood, Tex, writes: Beyond doubt
] have received great relief and take
great pleasure in recommending
Foley Kidney Pills. Kidney trouble
makes one worried and hopeless, by
aches, pains, soreness, stiffness,
backache, rheumatism. These symp-
toms, as well as sleep disturbing
bladder disorders, yield quickly to
Foley Kidney Pills. They cast out
poisons and purify the blood. s. G.
Wall. Durango Drug Co.
Semi-weekly herald., 1916-12-14
CHRISTMAS CHEER FOR
DURANGO POOR,

Y The Salvation Army will as usual
distribute Christmas boxes contain
ing provisions to the worthy poor of
this city, and will have Christmas
tree for the poor children at our hall
on Tuesday, Dec. 26th,
The citizens of this community are
invited to contribute to this effort to
make the poor hearts happy with
Christmas cheer.
Gifts of either cash or provisions
will be thankfully received at our
hall at 1919 Main Ave. Phone, either
Durango 81 or Durango 11J2.
Semi-weekly herald., 1916-12-14
TfUT0NIC ALLIES ASK FOR PEACE IN NAME OF GOD AND HUMA
AND STATE Terms UPON WHICH THEY WILL END HELL ION EAR
WORMS EASILY REMOVED

Mother, if your child whines, is
frctfgl and cries out in sleep, he is
probably suffering from worms.
These parasites drain his vitality and
make him more susceptible to serious
diseases, Quickly and safely kill and
remove the worms from your child's
system with kickapoo Worm Killer.
This pleasant candy laxative in tab
lot form quickly relieves the trouble
and your child brightens up. Get
liickapoo Worm Killer ut your
Druggist. PIC.
Semi-weekly herald., 1916-12-14
Sowing Seeds Of Peace

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.-It is
the concensus of official opinion here
that Germany can offer no peace
terms which the Allies will accept at
present.
The United Press has learned from
two of the best informed admins
tration officials they see no success
at present in Germany's move, but
they feel the eutons are sowing seed
for Fastening peace.