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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-08-02
CONTRACTS LET
FOR FIVE Of THE
FAIR BUILDINGS

The contracts for the construction of
FIVE of the buildings at the Third
Agricultural District fair were given
Wednesday morning at the offices of
the fair at the Chamber OF Commerce.
The Agricultural and Merchants and
Manufacturers buildings were given to
the Americus Construction Company.
The Automobile and Educational
buildings were let to John W. Shiver,
CT Americas.
The Woman's building is to be built
by T. L. Cranberry
Several buildings are to be erect
ed Immediately, and the work will be-
begun very soon. The approximate
cost of the five buildings is $4,000.
The actual work of construction un
der the contracts awarded Wednesday
will begin as soon as the material can
tie assembled. The contracts will rush
the work through, and prepare the fair
for the best in this section of the state,
and one that will make history.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-08-02
WEATHER DEFERRED
WORK OF SCAVENGERS

Chairman E. L. Bell, of the street
committee, stated this morning that
tie recent rains with extraordinary
weather had prevented the scavenger
department from keeping up with their
work. He states that it was impossi-
BILE for the workmen to put in full
days work at any time during the past
three or four weeks, and this is the
cause of the delay in moving trash
from the streets.
Chairman Bell has other depart
ments of the city cooperating with the
scavenger department in moving the
trash today.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-08-02
SAND IS
CAUSE OF THE DELAY

Sand is delaying the laying of the
pavement on Lee street, according to
Chairman E. L. Bell, of the street COM
mittee. He states that the authorities
believed they had found high grade of
sand near the city, but upon examina>
ton by the state geologist it was
found to be defective. This necessi-
tated ordering sand from Columbus,
and with its arrival assured today and
tomorrow, work will be begun imme-
diately on the paving.
1t is hoped that section of the
street will be ready for travel when
the Confederate Veterans hold their re-
union here.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-08-02
RVLANDER STRUCTURE
NEARING COMPLETION

The Rylander building on Lamar
street is rapidly nearing completion.
The outside is practically finished and
the inside work is now being done as
rapidly as possible.
This building IS three-story brick
,tructure, modern in its design, and
when finally completed will be an orn-
,ment to this part of the city, and is
N evidence of the faith and confidence
D, the builder, Arthur Rylander, in the
future of Americus.
Mr. Rylander has reason to be proud
of his building, and is to be com
c,ended for the faith he has shown in
he future growth and prosperity of
'ur city.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-08-02
GERMAN GAIN On.
VERDUN FRONTS.
BEEN ADMITTED.

German troops gained ground last
night after a series of violent attacks
in the Verdun region, according to an
admission in the French official re-
port today. The Teutons attacked af-
ter a series of violent bombardments
over front from Chenoise to south of
Damloup, using asphyxiating gas un-
der favorable weather conditions. The
first attacks being repulsed, the Ger
mans continued sacrificing men until
slight advances were scored
During the night fighting, French
troops operating north of the river
Somme took a strongly fortified Ger
nan position there. The resistance was
of most determined character.
A press dispatch today tells of the
sinking of the Dutch steamship Zee
kand, bound from Scotland to foreign
port by submarine. The commander
of the submarine permitted the crew
Of the Zeekand to take to the ships
boats before destroying the vessel.
Thirty-three aerial engagements
we're fought along the Somme front
yesterday, says a Paris dispatch, the
fighting resulting in fifteen German
machines being forced out of action.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-08-02
MORE BODIES ARE
FOUND FROM THE
EXPLOSION RUIN

JERSEY CITY, N. j., Aug. 2.-The
finding of two more bodies of Sundays
explosion victims brings the death list
today up to six. One of the bodies
found today has been identified as that
of Capt. Leydon, of the Lehigh Valley
railroad, but the police have been un-
atle to identify the other corpse.
AS a precautionary measure guards
were placed today at all. terminals to
prevent the passage of explosives
through the city or the storing of ex-
plosives on piers.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-08-02
Not at Cape Henry at 2 O'clock.

CAPE HENRY, Va, Aug. 2.-The
Deutschland had not been sighted here
at 2 o'clock this afternoon, and ma
rine men at that hour believed the
vessel must have stopped up the bay
at some secluded spot. The vessel is
now overdue four hours here, if it pro
ceeded at even moderate speed since
sighted at $50 this morning in Tan
gier Sound.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-08-02
FIVE HUNDRED LOSE LIVES
IN CANADIAN BUSH FIRES

TORONTO, Ont, Aug 2.-Refugees
from bush fires in sections of Ontario
reaching Toronto today estimated the
loss Of life there at five hundred. Many
sections where these fires are raging
have not been heard from in 4S hours.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-08-02

PARALYSIS 4
EPIDEMIC SPREADING 1

= NEW YORK, Aug. 2.-Forty-one 4
= children died and one hundred \
: and sixty-six others were strick- \
: en- with inafntile paralysis during \
: twentyfour hours ending at 10
, o'clock this morning. 4
= The seat of violent infection =
= appears to have shifted to Man \
: hatton borough where more deaths
, and new cases were reported than \
= during any previous day. =
= \ \ 4 \ \ 4 \ y y \ y = y =
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-08-02
KITCHEN PRIZE
BEING 6 SOUGH 7
BY THE A. |. |.

CAMP HARRIS, Macon, Ca, Aug. 2.
Company l, of Americus, is also in
the ring" for the best kitchen prize
offered by Lieut.. Paul F. Brumm, of
the commissary department. The en-
tire Americas company worked yes
terday making new dining tables, in
renovating the kitchen and cleaning
the company street.
Disappointment reigned in camp
when it became known that the pres
ent pay rolls would not include pay
for the month of July.
An order was issued from brigade
headquarters announcing that when
rolls were properly prepared payment
Of the troops would be made to in
clude June 80. Under this order the
majority of the men will draw pay
for eleven days. New pay rolls when
funds are available The funds, ac-
ccrding to advices from the war de-
partment, will be available as soon as
appropriations are made.
The eleven days pay probably would
have been of considerable assistance
to the soldiers but for the fact that
most of it had been spent in advance
during the long wait for pay day, and
the greater portion of the pay will be
used in settling canteen accounts.
A canteen account is not like a gro
Gerry account at home, and there is no
chance to "stall'' around en- pay day
and preserve the hard cash. Canteen
checks-good for anything sold in the
canteen, which looks like a country
store at a fair-are distributed on the
first pay day plan and the first thing
that must happen on pay day is set
tlement in real money, otherwise there
will be no more eanteen checks COM
ing when money is short again at the
end of the month.
private soldier who draws SIS a
month, or $3.50 in eleven days, and has
drawn S. worth of canteen checks this
month will have exactly so cents to
last him until the appropriation men
toned by the war department is forth
coming.
"Oh, they'll catch hell today said a
private yesterday, as he watched the
third battalion of the Second under
the command of Major Wilder, march
Off "over the hill"
When the major sits real straight
en- his horse like that he means busi-
ness. Brother, believe me, I'm glad
I'm on kitchen police today. That'I
he a dead bunch when they come in"
KimbrOugh at Work.
Lieut.. Col. James NJ Kimbrough, of
the Second, takes turns about in drill
ing with the three battalions of his
command. Yesterday the colonel
drilled with the third battalion; to-
day with the first, and then with the
second. Yesterday he also instructed
the second in the formal guard mount
ing ceremonies.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-08-02
WHEAT SCORES ADVANCE
OF SIX CENTS ON REPORTS

CHICAGO, Aug. 2.-Wheat options
advanced sensationally on black rust
being reported in the Canadian wheat
fields. The market closed more than
six cents up from the opening figures,
with trading lively.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-08-02
Y Y ? Y Y =
; WILSON UNCHANGED
REGARDING SUFFRAGE 4

= WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug. 2. =
=. President Wilson has not =
\ changed his position regarding 4
= woman suffrage, which he con- =
= siders a question to be dealt with =
: by the states themselves, it was =
= announced at the white house to- =
= day The statement was brought =
= forth by Charles E. Hughes, re- =
publican nominee for president, :
y that he favors constitutional =
: amendment comforting suffrage =
= upon women. =
4 y \ 4 \ 4 4 = \ 4 \ \ 4 4 +
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-08-02
RECRUITING DETAIL IS
IN THE CITY FOR WORK

The recruiting officers detailed from
the Coast Artillery of the National
Guards for service in the Third con-
gressional district arrived Tuesday af-
ternoon from Macon. They will make
their headquarters at Americus, and
work from the A. L. /. armory.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-08-02
MANN'S OBJECTIONS HITS
SOUTHERN FLOOD SUFFERERS

WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug. q
The objection of Republican Flood
Leader Mann today prevented the pas
sage in the house of the Burnett reso-
luton appropriating $4,000 for the
relief of Southern flood sufferers.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-08-02
EASEMENT END IS
HERE ON THURSDAY
= y \ 4 \ \ \ = \ \ 4 \ \ \ y
= EASEMENT TO GET NO +
\ REPRIEYE-L0RD CECIL 4

= LONDON, Aug. 2.--Lord Rob =
: ert Cecil this afternoon authoriz- =
= ed the Associated Press to state =
\ that Sir Roger Easement will be =
\ hanged Thursday. No reprieye =
\ will be granted the famous pris- =
+ oner Lord Cecil emphatically as =
= serted today. =
= + \ = = 4 4 \ 4 \ y \ y 4 \
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-08-02
THE RECRUITING
PREPARE
FOR THEIR WORK

ASSA uAth1S uSldli OF NdtlOnaE
Guards of Georgia for the Third con-
gressional district, is making head
quarters at the armory of the Ameri-
Gus Light Infantry. Captain R. t.
Waller, Jr, Coast Artillery corps, sa-
yannah, is in command, with Sergeant
Robert N. Grower, Corporal E. ]. Nell
and Private j. T. Waller, Jr., complet-
ing the detail.
The following order was issued by
command of Major-General Leonard
Wood, in regard to the recruiting in
Georgia:
Headquarters Eastern Department.
Governors Island, N. Y, July 27, 1916.
Special Orders, No. 174.
(Extract)
13. The following-named officers Of
the National Guard State of Georgia.
now at the state mobilization camp.
Macon, Ga, are detailed as general re-
cruiting officers for the National Guard
Of the United States and state of Geor-
gia, with stations set opposite their
respective names.
Capt. Robert F. Riley, c. A. c., sa-
vanah, Ga; Capt Raymond D. sulli-
van, G. A. c., Albany, Ca; Capt. Robert
t. Waller, Jr., C. A. c., Americus, Ca.
First Lieut.. William W. Mangum, c.
A. G., Columbus, Ga; Second Lieut..
Oren ]. Metcalf, C. A. c., Atlanta, Ca:
Second Lieut.. John F. Ross, G. A. c..
Rome, Ga; Capt. Peyton A. Leard, In
fantry, Athens, Ga; Capt. Dorroh L.
Novel;, Infantry, Gainesville, Ca;
First Lieut.. Jaes E. Kelley, Infantry,
Augusta, Ca; Second Lieut.. Andrew N.
Drake, Infantry, Brunswick, Ga; First
Lieut.. Ellie W. Leard, Infantry, Vi
dalia, Ca
The officers named will proceed with
a recruiting party of enlisted men, Na-
tional Guard Of Georgia, not to exceed
one sergeant, one corporal and one
private, to the points designated, and
there establish recruiting stations. It
being impracticable for these detach-
ments TO utilize rations in kind, the
quartermaster corps will pay the en-
listed men of these recruiting parties
communication of rations in advance at
tie rate of $1.00 per day. All quar-
termaster accounts will be settled by
the quartermaster at Ft Oglethorpe,
Ca, to whom all needs will be made
known, instead of submitting estimates,
of funds required to the department
quartermaster as directed in para.
graph 10 memorandum, these head
quarters, dated July 12, 1916. Subsis-
tence for applicants for enlistment win
be provided as directed on Form No.
les, @. NJ. C. The quartermaster corps
will furnish the necessary transporta-
tion and subsistence. The travel di-
rected is necessary in the military SER
vice.
BY command of Major General
Wood.
GEORGE T. BARTLETT,
Colonel, General staff, Chief of Staff
Official:
w. A, SIMPSON,
Adjutant General, Adjutant.
Begin We-E Soon.
Captain Waller intends to lay out a,
plan of visits through the congress-
ional district, and with the necessary
authority from the war department he
topes to establish a regular plan Of
visits to neighboring cities.
The definite plans for recruiting in
Ceoroia ara in procasc nf formation
and it will be several days before ac~
tive work begins.
Any information desired concerning
the service can be obtained from Capt
Waller, or any member Of the detail,
at the Americas Light Infantry armory
on Forsyth street.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-08-02
IS
OUT Of SIGHT Of
OBSERVERS NOW
2 4 4 4 \ 4 \ \ = 4 y 4 \ 4 .
+"UNTER-SCHOOT" BOAT 4
= SPEEDING TOWARD CAPES. 4

4 NEWPORT NEWS, Va, Aug. 2. =
= The German undersea freighter =
= Deutschland was sighted off Tan =
= gier Sound, at 6 o'clock this NOR =
= ming proceeding at high speed. =
= The vessel when sighted, was =
= headed toward the Virginia capes, =
= seventy-five miles away, off =
= which the real chase after the =
Z submarine by allied warships y
= will begin. =
= y \ 4 \ y \ = = y y \ \ \ >
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-08-02

The TimeS-Recorder is the ONL Y
paper in the Third Congressional
District with Associated Press
service
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1916-12-28
MUSIC IN THE NAMES.
Stevenson and the Tunsfui Nomsnola.
turw of This Country.

Stevenson and the Tuneful Nomenola.
turs OF This Country.
To our house In Monterey Mr.. Ste
venson came often of an afternoon to
read the results of his mornings work
to the assembled family. While we
sat in a circle, listening in apprecia-
tive silence, he nervously paced the
room. reading aloud In his full, sonor-
Gus voice. voice that always seemed
remarkable in so frail a man-his face
flushed and his manner rather embar-
raised, for, far from being overconf-
dent about his work, he always SEEM
ed to feel a sort OF shy anxiety lest it
should not be up to the mark.
In this way we heard 1.-THE Pavilion
on the Links" which he wrote while
at Monterey and read to us chapter
by chapter as they came from bis
pen. While there he began another
story which was to have been called
ARIZONA Breckinridge; or, a Vendetta
In the West" This story, with its
rather lurid title, was to have been
based upon some of his impressions
Of western America, but his heart
could not have been in 1t, for it was
never finished.
The name Arizona came out Of his
intense delight in the 'songful, tune
full" nomenclature of the United
States, In which terms he refers to
it in THE Amateur Emigrant." The
name Susquehanna was a special Joy
to him, and he took pleasure In roll
ing 1t upon his tongue, adding to its
music with the rich tones of his voice
as he repeated 1t: "Susquehanna! oh,
beautifulw While on the train pass
ing through Pennsylvania he wrote
some verses about the beautiful river
with the ''tuneful" name in letter to
his friend, Sidney Colvin, of which
one stanza runs thus:
think. hope, dream no more
The dreams of otherwhere,
The cherished thoughts of yore.
have been changed from what was
And drunk too deep perchance the lotus
of the air
Beside the Susquehanna and along the
Delaware.
Again, in writing the poem entitled
''Ticonderoga," 1t was the name that
first drew his attention, and
It sang in his sleeping ears;
It hummed in his waking head,
The name-Ticonderoga-
Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez, r. L.
Stevenson's Sister, in Scribner's Maya
zine.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1916-12-28

1t would be interesting to have a list
of the names by which the police are
known. Copper. peeler and bobby are
probably the most prevalent. and they
carry their derivations with them-an
officer who cops people is a copper
and the name of the founder of the
force, Sir Robert Peel, explains the
other two styles. In many parts po-
liceman is called slop-a corruption
of "ecilop' c'police" spelled BACKWARD.
In Dundee a policeman is snout, the
name having originally been got from
the fact that he wears helmet with n
bold peak fore and aft.-London Stand
ard
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1916-12-28
OUR OLD PRIVATE COINAGE.
Territorial Gold Pieces Minted by Pri-
Vate Assayers.

sWsTttort1I Golo FieceS Minteo py Frt-
vate Assayers.
The old territorial gold pieces. while
they never had the sanction Of the
United States government. passed at
different periods as legal tender In that
they were accepted as a medium of ex-
change between buyer and seller.
Territorial gold pieces were struck
by private assayers In Georgia in $780,
In North Carolina from 1881 to 1850
in California from 1S49 to 1855, in
Utah In 1s49. 1850 and 1860, In Oregon
In 1910 and in Colorado in 1860 and
1861.
There was nothing illegal In their is
sue, and the procedure was considered
in no sense as counterfeiting. In fact,
1t was not until 1864 that a federal
statute was passed forbidding a con
tinuation of the practice.
z. Fl. Adams of New York told an In
teresting story about how this statute
came about.
"a man named Gruber," he said,
Senior of the firm of Clark, Gruber
& Co. of Denver, had large private
mint, and one day he showed Salmon
p. Chase, who was secretary of the
treasury from 1861 to 1864, a fine
twenty dollar gold piece of his own
coming
mfr. Chase told him that 1t was a
counterfeit, whereupon Mr.. Gruber re-
mark ed that 1t was no such thing; that
there was no law preventing the issue
of such coins.
Then shall see that there is one,
Mr. Chase replied, and he made good
his prediction. That conversation took
place In 1861. and in 1864 the law was
passed"
Mr.. Adams explained why these coins
had been privately struck. He said that
in those days gold, in the shape of dust
or nuggets, was used for money in the
states where it was mined. This neces
STATED great deal of trouble. Scales
had to be used whenever purchase
was made, and then there was always
the question of how it could best bt
carried
So to expedite matters the assayers
adopted the custom of taking the golt
and making 1t up into their own coins
That certain of these were full value
Mr.. Adams added, was shown by thu
fact that on several occasions whei
they were redeemed for official none!
the gold In them was found to exceet
the face value.-W. w. B. in Bait
more News
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1916-12-28

nlmseir known, said that ne was ana
ious to have his portrait painted, but
as he was in a great hurry he could
spare but two hours, at the end OF
which the portrait must be done. Halls
went to work and finished 1t, and Van
Dyck was much pleased
But portrait painting seemed a very
little thing to Van Dyck, and he asked
Halls to change places with him. Halls
did SO, and as Van Dyck finished his
work Halls Rugged him enthusiastical-
", saying, "You are Van Dyck. No
one but he can do what you have
done" And so the two great masters
became acquainted. - London Tele-
graph.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1916-12-28
Presidential Nominations.

The statement is often made that no
man ever declined a nomination for
president A convention of the Adolf
ZIONIST party was held in New York
city In November, 1847, and nominated
John p. Hale of New Hampshire for
president and Leicester King of Ohio
for vice president. Mr.. Hale declined
the nomination. and the ticket was
abandoned.
In 1852 the Free Soil Democratic
party held national convention in
Pittsburgh and nominated Hale for
president He accepted and at the cleo
ton received 1866 $40 votes In twenty
states.
Party nominations for vice president
have been declined number of times
Exchange
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1916-12-28
BLACK M0LES.
They Are Always Danger Signs Calling
For the Surgeon.

They Are Always Danger Signs Calling
For the Surgeon.
At an operation performed less than
three months before his death DR..
John B. Murphy called the attention
OF his students to black mole on the
patients face with this remark:
"a black mole Is always a sinister |
lesion and one that is to be regarded |
with distrust, so that the first thing !
want to do Is to remove 1t. A black |
mole must be handled with wholesome
respect, for one dares not traumatize
1t with impunity, either by accident or
design. l therefore shall go wide of 1t
into healthy tissue when removing It,"
In the latest issue of the CLINICS Of
John B. Murphy" DIR. Broders and
MacCarty are quoted as saying that
black moles certainly predispose to
form Of skin cancer called "melano-
epithelioma" and as insisting that all
augmented areas of skin, such as warts
and moles, should be removed when
these are In locations which are or
have been subjected to injury.
The danger lies In what Is known by
physicians as ''metastasis," which is
the shifting or transference of a dis
| eased condition from one organ to an
other. A mole is diseased condition
of the skin In one spot and generally
confined to that spot, but when an in
jury takes place nearby 1t often hap
! pens that malignant cells migrate from
the deeper parts OF the mole and take
up their position in the wound, where
they grow and spread and produce a
form of cancer. A magnified section
of mole shows that the augmented
cells extend sometimes quite deep into
the tissues below the skin. The migra-
ton of cells seems to take place by
way of the lymphatics.
All cancer specialists agree that a
mole or wart developing late In life is
to be regarded with so much suspicion
that the only safety lies In having II
cut out.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1916-12-28
CRUISING UNDER WATER.
Submarines Are Light Moving and Are
Easily Controlled.

Ashore we make the mistake per-
haps of thinking of a submarine as a
heavy, logy body fighting always for
her life beneath an unfriendly ocean,
whereas she is a light moving, easily
controlled creature cruising in a rather
friendly element
The ocean is always trying to lift her
atop and not hold her under water. A
submarine could be sent under with a
positive buoyance so small-that Is,
with so little more than enough In her
tanks to sink her-that an ordinary
man standing on the sea bottom could
catch her as she came floating down
and bounce her up and off merely by
the strength of his arms. Consider a
submarine under water as we would a
toy balloon in the air, say. Weight
that toy balloon so that 1t just falls
to earth. Kick that toy balloon and
what does it do? Doesn't 1t bounce
along and after few feet fall easily
down again and up and on and down
again
Picture a strong wind driving that
toy balloon along the street and the
balloon as 1t bumps along meeting an
obstacle. VIII the balloon smash itself
against the obstacle or what will 1t do
What that balloon does is pretty much
what submarine would do if while
running along full speed under water
she suddenly ran into shoal water. She
would go humping along on the bottom
and meeting an obstacle, if not too
high, she would be more likely to
bounce over 1t than to smash herself
against it.-Collier's.