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Valdez daily prospector., 1916-05-20

Spring Samples in heavy weights, for Alaska wear. Guy F. Cameron, Tailor. if
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-05-20

Just received fresh line of box candies. Candy Kitchen. If
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-05-20

The Barber Shop next to the Post Office is now being run by Brown and
 Hudson. If
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-05-20

Several pieces of desirable proper ty for sale. Oscar Fish. t
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-05-20
LOCAL BREVITIES

LOCAL BREVITIES
 Several pieces of desirable proper. ty for sale. Oscar Fish. ti
 Just Received-the latest Popular Songs and Music. Valdez Drug Co. t1
 A fine display or nugget jewelry al Valdez Drug Go. ti
 For good home-cooked meals try Mrs. M. Olson. on Hobart street.
 X new line or Middy Su,us, just re. ceived at E. Winters. ti Valdez Drug Company has a fine line of School Stationery ti
 Banquet Steel Ranges, plain and polished tops. at Mead's. ti
 The Barber Shop next to the Post Office is now being run by Brown and Hudson. If
 Just received fresh line of box candies. Candy Kitchen. tf Spring Samples in heavy weights, for Alaska wear. Guy F. Cameron, Tailor. W
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-05-20

notice you pay to your co-owner who has performed said annual labor, the proportion thereof due from you as aforesaid, your interest in said claims will become the property of said CO., owner.
 Dated, February 26, 1916.
 ROSS BADEN. First publication February 26, 1916. Last publication May 27, 1916. sat
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-07-16
RAILROAD MEN WANT
MAIL PAY SETTLED

ATLANTA, Ca, July 15.-Promin-
ent railroad men here and through
cut the south are urging upon con-
g essmen the acceptance of the Unit
ed States senate's proposed DISPOSE
tion of the railway mail problem and
thereby, it is stated, achieve a defin-
lite and permanent solution of this
perennial controversy.
Under the "Cummins amendment"
in the postoffice appropriation bill,
which has passed the United States
senate, the question of mail pay goes
to the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion with power to fix rates, which
rates hitherto for years have, it is
claimed, been very unfair to the rail-
roads.
The railroads, according to local
railroad men, have always insisted
that all they asked was equitable
treatment and just compensation, 81
the reference of the whole dispute to
the Interstate Commerce Commission
is a compromise which, it is stated,
should be cheerfully accepted by all
the railroads. 1t is also a compro-
mise, as has been pointed out, which
must necessarily appeal to the pub
lie Judgment as a reasonable AMI
common sense solution of a vexa-
tious question.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-07-16
NO RED GROSS FOR
GERMANY IS REPLY

PARIS, July 15.-The French au.
thorides have refused to allow free
passage into Germany OF American
Red Cross sanitary equipment and
supplies Notwithstanding the society s
claim that such passage is justified by
article 20 of the Declaration Of London
and article 16 OF the Geneva Conven
ton OF 1906.
The French authorities held that
article 20 of the Declaration confines
itself to asserting that material ex-
elusively for the use of sick and
wounded is not to be classified as con,
raband of war" but these words co
not prevent such material from being
captured and confscated for violation
CT blockade nor from being held up 81
the way Moreover, they add, the
Declaration Of London was neve,
ratified and therefore has no obliga,
tory force.
AS to article 16 Of the Geneva Coz.
yention the French authorities now
intimate that, considering German
methods of conducting war. they see
no reason for departing from their
prohibition of May 1916 against send
ing any goods whatever into Germany
so cannot make any exception in favor
of the American Red Cross Society
uore especially as to the supplies
"end by reproyisioning Germany with
raw material that is often easy to re-
cover after usage and of which the
German government has pressing
need for its military operations"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-07-16
SOME PROH|S. BACK
GOV. HARRIS RACE

Atlanta, Ca, July 14.-Members o.
ire legislature who took leading part
in the enactment of the prohibition
laws give full credit to Governor Har-
ris for making possible the enactment
OF the laws by including prohibition in
his call for the extra session held last
fall, and they devlare the prohibition
lists over the state should rally to the
governors support.
The fact that four candidates are in
the race for governor and that all of
these strongly endorse the prohibition
laws makes the reelection of Governor
Harris question purely and simply
this: will the prohibitionists stand
by him."
This situation, which is perfectly OBJ
yious to all observers, is the one that
is counted on by the opposition 20
Governor Harris as their only hope of
eEcompassing his defeat. That is to
say, if the prohibition vote can be split,
the governor may not be reelected,
whereas the prohibition vote islands
together, his reelection is certain.
In an editorial which has attracted
widespread attention, Editor volney
Williams of the Waycross Journal
Herald, calls upon the prohibitionists
who urged Governor Harris to include
tie bills in his call to make the real
issue an open issue, and inasmuch as
he is going to lose the anti-prohibition
vote for what he did, to see to it that
the governor gets the prohibition vote
for the very same reason"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-07-16
Peronne Is Rich With The Old
History Of The Early France

"Peronne was the scene of another
act of treachery against a French rul-
er five hundred years later when the
bourgeoise king, ouis XI, trusting
tc the diplomacy of gold, visited
Charles the Bold Two days after
Louis arrival in Paronne on a mission
of Cancellation there came the news
of supposed massacre of the bishop
and ducal governor of Liege. The
rumor was false, but Charles suspect
ing Louis of double dealing, threw the
king in prison and kept him in a cell
until he consented to sign the Treaty
of Peronne, insuring all Flanders
freedom from the jurisdiction of the
parlement' in Paris. This treaty was
the most humiliating episode in
Louis life, for the people of Picardy
taught their tame jays and magpies to
cry 'Peronne' and Perette' in derision
of the sovereign. Thoroughly mort
fed, Louis determined to find a scape-
goat and Cardinal Jean Balue was the
unhappy victim. Balue fed and joir-
ed HaraEcourt, bishop of Verdua, IN
revolt. Both were captured, and Bar
ne was kept a prisoner for Ii years
While Harancourt was confined in an
iron cage, like wild beast, for 13
years.
The history of Peronne goes back
to the days Of the Frankish king Clio
Wis II, who owned a villa here and
who gave ii to his mayor of the pal
ace, Erchinoldus, founder Of tbs
monastery of St. Fursy in the seventh
century. 1t received It's charter from
the French crown in 1909.
The town is situated on the Somme
River, 81 miles by rail north of Paris,
and 50 miles east of Amiens. It is 90
miles by rail east of Fricourt, one of
the first villages taken by the British
in their offensive which began on the
first day Of July"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-07-16

WASHINGTON, D. c., July 15-Per-
onne, the first important objective Of
the Frenh and English forces when
the allies big push" was inaugural
ed, is described in today's war geogra-
ply bulletin of the National Geograh-
IL Society as follows
The important center of Peronne,
rich with historic associations OF
ancient and medieval France, was a
town of less than 5000 people at the
outbreak of the war, and it had little
Industrial or commercial significance,
but for nearly three hundred years it
bore an honored nom de guerre, lie
Pucelle, (The Impregnable) this dis
tinction having been accorded it in
1885, when the courageous woman,
Marie Foure, also known as Catherine
de Polk, successfully defended it
against the imperial forces of Charles
V commanded by the Count of Nassau.
The title impregnable was dropped by
tie city in 1875 however, for in that
year it was captured by the Duke %
Wellington Its name stands high,
however among the cities of courage
in the days and only capitulated be-
cause the civil population was being
decimated by an epidemic of Small
pox.
The French maintained as small
military stronghold Paronna until ten
years ago, when its Notifications were
RACED, bat up to the time of the own
ward sweep of the Germans toward
Paris in the summer of 1914 the four
lowered castle was still standing and
visitors were shown the cell in which.
in the tenth century, the unhappy
French king, Charles the Simple, post
humous son of Louis the Stammerer,
was starved to death. Charles was
kept a prisoner here by the treacher-
Gus Herbert, Count of Vermandois,
who had promises to aid the sovereign
against Rudolph, Duke of Burgundy.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-07-16
NEW PLOWS CUT THE
COST To LOW LEVEL

PARIS, July 15.-The latest types
of traction and motor farm nipple.
ments experimental with at Gornay
sur Marns under the direction OF a
representative of the Academy of AS
riculture reduced the cost of blowing
land more than twenty-five percent in
comparison with the best previous
records.
Two aud half acres were plowed
in light soil with an outlay of ten gal-
Ions of gasoline in four hours; be-
tween thirtees and fourteen gallons
were required for the same work with
the most efficient machines tested last
fall. In heavy soil the difference in
favor of the new implements was
about the same
Inc wear and tear OF the machines
tried was considerable on account OF
difficulties of fabrication in lying
dust, but the results were so favorable
in comparison with animal power that
the verdict of the Academy Of Agri-
culture is favorable to motor nipple.
ments and a general extension Of
their use is recommended.
The greatest difficulty encountered is
the scarcity of men TO operate them
the rural population being little used
to machinery. The Academy propos-
es the organization of training
schools for conductors of traction and
motor implements at once. since
these machines must be relied upon
to make UP for the shortage in meu
and horses for fall seeding.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-07-16
SCARLET FEVER WAS
CAUSE Of A SCARE

PEKING, July 15.-Scarlet fever
broke cut among the two hundre1
American marines stationed in Picking
as a guard at the American legation
In an effort to prevent the spread If
the disease, Colonel Neville, command
ant of the guard, ordered the men TO
move out of the barracks and placed
them under canvass, with only two
men in each tent The tents were
pitched on the recreation ground ad-
joining the legation compound ard
outside the compound wall, where all
Chinese could see them plainly.
Immediately rumor was circulated
that the American legation had
brought extra troops from the Philip
pines to protect foreigners against
possible rioting which might result
from the unsettled political condition
ard the financial stringency brought
about by the moratorium. This rum
OF grew, and added to it was report
that the japanese were also to bring
in thousands of troops from Tsingtou
and Japan for the protection of for
eigners.
These reports became so insistent
taat the Chinese government issued a
formal denial, explaining the reason
for the tented colony outside the AM
erican legation compound.
Only FIVE of the American marines
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-07-16
ATLANTA IS PUTTING
WARRANTS ON RUN

ATLANTA, Ca, July 15.-If the
farmers of Georgia experience q
shortage Of hands to hoe cotton, pick
peaches and perform other labor OF
the farm this season, it will not be
the fault Of the police department of
Atlanta, which is doing it's dead
level best to put the Migrants on the
run.
Since the new prohibition law went
INTO effect on May l the loafing ne
gToes have been forced into the pool
rooms and to the streets, and are
therefore easier for the police to find.
AS a means of further prosecution the
anti-yagrancy war, it has been urged
that pool rooms, both for white ami
colored. be abolished entirely, as the
police say most of them are resorts
1or idling and lettering.
Recently a "curfew" rule promulg-
ated by Police Chief Mayo which re-
quires all persons on the streets af-
Ter 2 O'Clock in the morning to give
an account of themselves, and this
rule is being rigidly enforced as still
means of keping the Migrants on the
run.
When arranged in police court the
sons of rest" are given the option of
a term in the stockade or leaving the
city, which is intended to operate for
the benefit of the farmers by driving
the loafers to the rural districts.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-07-16

hH6d bpIIASS,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-07-16
TELEPHONE COMPANY NOW
ENCOURAGING THRIFT TO ALL

ATLANTA Ca, July 115.-The
American Telephone and Telegraph
Company plan which provides for
employees of the Bell system becoming
stockholders Of the American Tele-
phone and Telegraph Company has
resulted, according to reports received
ID Atlanta today, in encouraging thrift
among employees on a large scale.
No less than per cent of enl-
ployees of the New York Companies
eligible under the plan became sub
scribers, or 80 per cent of the total
number of employees of the compan-
les. Of $4,000 additional shares offer
ed to employees of the entire Bell
system, 1O,45S were subscribers by
Ell employees of the New York
Telephone Company.
A typical subscription to four
shares at s11O last year required a
monthly payment of IS, so that at the
end of the year the employee had
paid in 500, received $32 in dividends
ard had balance of $11272 after
STEPS had been deducted for interest.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-07-16

have the scarlet fever. These are
quarantined in gun-shed on the city
wall adjoining the legation.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-07-16
RHEA SPRINGS,

Is again ready to receive guests.
Come where the best water flows. No
better for recuperation, health or
pleasure. All amusements, including
dancing. Prices sensible. Make reser-
walton now Write US for information.
Rhea Springs Co.,
Rhea SPRINGS, Tennassea
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-07-16

The people whose announcements
YOU read In this paper are ON the level
They're not afraid Of their goods.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-07-16
NkYR'swosDstasig REMFnv
W. STOMACH'trsGa5'lg

Gall Stones, Cancer and Ulcers of the
Stomach and Intestines, Auto-Intoxica-
ton, Yellow Jaundice, Appendicitis and
other fatal ailments result from Stom-
ach Trouble. Thousands of Stomach
Sufferers owe their complete recovery
to Mayr's Wonderful Remedy. Unlike
any other for Stomach Ailments. For
sale by druggists everywhere.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1916-08-10
Champ Clark 1l.s"- ,.'- History ldorses
SissOn for Reelection

T. IT, Ssson Congressman from this District has done
for the Fourth District and iaobusha county in particular
than any other congressman the civil Notwithstanding
this fact for the sake of raising something by which to bolster up
weak candidate minded unfair factlonal poI
have attempted circulate untruthfu and misleading state
regard Congressman Ssons standing Congress and
with Admins tration leaders.
Herald did believe the stories that Little
Willie and some of his crowd trying float but to put
crmp such dsreputabe underhanded dirty politics in this
county at least the editor Champ Clark Speaker of
the house. put the question that distinguished Official
knowing he would the truth and the people of Yaobusha
county would be miSlead by schemng politician
Following reply to oar letter of inquiry 1t not only clears
the atmosphere of all the attempted misrepresentation but
endorsement Congressman Sson by the great c
President Wilson power prestige and leader
ship The letter follows
The Speakers Rooms
House REPRESENTATIVES
Hon. Louis C. Barber, Editor and Publisher,
Water Valley Miss.
dear Mr. Barber: 1t has been policy interfere
lights outside of bawck but would be chursh not to
your of inquiry concerning Hon. T. U. Sisson
Replying your inquiry will that regard Tom Ssson
very useful member OF Congress He not only works like
Turk is always his post and he is meay ymouhed
afraid about expressing his opinions He member OF what is
perhaps important committee the House the commit
Appropriations and it takes lots of to resist the ban
dshment of people seeking break into the Treasury through the
Appropriation Committee and Ssson always guard to
tect the Treasury.
He debater how take of himself and his
committee
So being antagonstic the admnra-
tons policies there entirely much of that
of twaddle do remember whether Sson differed with
President Wilson and he did he had peect right to-
If the people of that district want rubber stamp Congress
they had better beat Son because he of that sort
But if they VINO looks after their interest continually
they could do better than to reeect the Hon. Thomas U.
Sisson
Your Friend,
CHAMP CLARK.
= North Mississippi Herald. (adv)
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1916-08-10
Men of Experience
Needed in Congress

But public office is not {
personal favor. 1t is a public
trust and should be filled by hin
who can give the public the best
service.
Everything else being equal,
the man who has most exper'
ience il public affairs is best
qualified to fill the position. Tt
accomplish anything worth while
in Washington congressman
must not only have ability, but
must be familiar with the
methods of procedure and have
a wide and influential acquaint.
ance with other congressman.
The longer one serves the more
knowledge, acquaintance and in
fuence he acquires and the
better service he can render the
people.
An inspection of the Con-
gressional Directory shows that
the chairman of every important
legislative committee in Congress
has served many more than two
terms:
Hon. Champ Clark, Missouri,
Speaker of the House, has served
for twenty-five years.
Hon. Claude Kitchen, North
Carolina, Chairman of the Ways
and Means Committee and Dem
ocratic Floor Leader, has served
for sixteen years.
Hon. ]. ]. Fitzgerald, New
York, Chairman of the Appro-
priations Committee, has served
for eighteen years.
Hon. A. F. Lever, South Caro-
lima, Chairman of the Committee
on Agriculture, has served for
sixteen years.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1916-08-10

The campaign in the Fourth
Congressional District will soon
be brought to close. Congress
man Sisson's duties in Washing
ton have made it necessary for
him to remain at his post, and
it has not been possible for him
to be in the District and make
an active campaign.
The campaign made against
the Hon. T. u. Sisson by his two
opponents is purely in the nature
of a personal campaign. So far
as we know and have heard they
have made no charges upon his
public record. We are sure that
if this record had been bad, at
tention would have been called
to it, but if Mr.. Sisson's record
is bad, then the record of the
Democratic administration is bad,
because he has on all essential
matters voted with the admins
tration.
One of the points urged
against Mr.. Sisson in this cam
paign is that he has been there
long enough. 1t is urged that
no man should hold Office for
more than two terms; that at the
end of that time he should get
out of the way and give some
body else a chance. That argu-
ment is based upon the assump-
ton that public Office is simply
personal favor to be passed
around. If that be true then
two terms is too long. If limit
ed to one term it would be pass
ed to twice as many. Even at
that thousands of good men
could never be reached in their
turns.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1916-08-10

Hon. J. L. Burnett, Alabama,
Chairman of the Committee on
immigration, has served for six
teen years.
Hon. w. C. Adamson, Georgia,
Chairman of the Committee on
Interstate and Foreign Com
merce, has served for twenty
years.
Hon. Jas. Hay, Chairman OF
the Committee on Military
Affairs, has served for twenty
years.
Hon. L. P. Padgett, Tennes-
see, Chairman of the NavaI
Affairs Committee, has served
for sixteen years.
Hon. John A. Moon, Tennes-
see, Chairman of the Committee
on Post Offices and Post Roads,
has served twenty years.
Hon. Dorsey w. Shackelford,
Missouri, Chairman of the Com
mittee on Roads, has served for
eighteen years.
This list may be continued
through the important commit
tees of the House, and in each
instance it is found that only
men of long service are at the
head of these committees.
If one of these men, who now
occupies a Craftsmanship, had
come from a district in which
the two term rule prevailed he
could never have gotten to the
head of the committee and such
district would never have had a
craftsmanship.
The office of Congressman is
one of very great Importance to
the public. The people have not
usually chosen men to fill it who
had not previously gained some
experience in public matters by
service in lower offices. The
Congressional Directory further
shows that the men who occupy
important positions in Congress
are almost without exception
men who had ripe public eX-
perience before they were sent
to Congress. Of course now and
then some genius has sprung up
whose overpowering ability was
so great and so apparent that
the people have sent him to Con-
gress without experience. But
usually one has been required to
show himself faithful at small
things before he is entrusted
with greater affairs. One is not
ordinarily made a General until
he has served as a captain and a
colonel.
Of course Mr.. Sisson's friends
expect that he will have some
opposition due to the fact that
there are some men dissatisfied
who were applicants for post
Offices and failed. We predict,
however, that this opposition
will not amount to much because
the people will understand that.
Most of these applicants are
sensible and fair-minded men.
They understand that where
several ask for the same appoint
ment some must be disappointed.
AS rule they are not men who
would vote against a man simply
to crafty a grudge.
Mr.. Sisson has been an able,
active and useful member of
Congress. He has accomplished
ed much for the people and they
are not likely to put him asit e
simply to pass personal favor
to new untried man.
There are so many grave mat
ters before Congress just now
that it is important to keep tried
and experienced men on guard.
Herald. adv.