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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-01-14

ing died a short time after his inaugu-
ration. My election by the board of
aldermen to fill the unexpired terms
was not of my seeking.
when the new prohibition laws be-
come effective next May LIST they will
be enforced in Savannah. The police
department, headed by Chief Meldrim,
will back me in the enforcement of
the laws, and I will have the support
of the best people in Savannah.
1.-THE fact that the Chatham delega-
ton in the legislature intend, if they
can, to put through the next session of
the legislature an amendment to the
city charter of Savannah that will leg
islate me out of office, has not and will
not alter my intention to enforce the
law. The very same representatives
who now propose to make the mayor S
term two years were the authors of
the charter amendment making the
mayors term four years. Thus it will
be seen that their belief as to what is
the proper term of Office for the may
or of Savannah depends upon whether
the mayor enforces or ignores the
pi OhibitiOn laws.
The Chatham delegation are writ
ing letters to membes of the legisla-
ture asking them to vote for the bill
removing me from office. The legisla-
ture, which passed the prohibition
bills, may accommodate the Chatham
delegation, who fought the bills, but
one thing is certain, and that is that
the prohibition laws will be enforced
in Savannah as long as l occupy the
Office of Mayor"
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GOVERNOR To DELIVER
SPEECH|N EVERY COUNTY

ATLANTA, Ca, Jan. 14-Governor
harris Las announced that when the
gubernatorial campaign opens up ii
is his purpose to deliver a speech in
every county in the state, if that be
possible. He said he wishes to meet
. the voters face to face and discuss
the issues with them. And the gov,
ernor facetiously added. you know
some folk are saying that / am too
feeble to attend to the states business.
l want to show them that l am very
much alive"
Governor Harris will go to New
York January % to arrange the de
tails of discounting the governor
warrants for the teachers salaries
the contract for which has been award
ed to the National Park bank. of New
York. State Superintendent OF
Schools NJ. L. Britain will probably
accompany the governor.
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Famous Tree
Will Soon Be
Mark of Past

ATLANTA, Ga, Jan. 14.-The giant
oak tree, said to be the largest tree Of
its kind east of the Rocky mountains,
at the old home of Judge S. P. Smith,
near Perrys Mill on the Altamaha
river, is fast decaying and will sooa
pass into history.
AS far back as he can remember the
tree was a small twig when Judge
Smith was a child. He is now SO years
be So yeArs old 1t is red Oak and is
"a feet i9 circumference about two feet
from they aground and its branches
reach Is feet in all directions
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MAYOR P|ERPONT A
STRICT PROH| MAN

ATLANTA Ga, Jan. 14.-Mayor W.
) Pierpont, of Savannah, whose re-
cent announcement that he would en-
force the new prohibition laws in that
city attracted attention throughout the
state reiterated his intention while in
the city yesterday.
Mayor Pierpont was here on BUSH
ness and did not intend for his visit to
be made the subject of newspaper dis
.cpssion, but when found by reporters
lie discussed the Savannah situation
very frankly and freely.
~ have always believed in temper
ance and in the principal Of prohibi-
ton" said Mayor Pierpont, and be-
licye also that laws are enacted to be
enforced.
| came to the Office of mayor of
Savannah not of my own seeking but
through proyidential Intervention, my
predecessor, Mayor Davant, hav-
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SAFETY FIRST" IS
RIGHT---PLAY SAFE

Safety First'-that was the title Of
tbs attraction at the Opera House
Thursday evening, and very well for
the title-and the show. There was
plenty of funny stuff" for those who
were not ashamed to laugh, and could
l,ide away their little frowns of en-
barrassment
The costumes were varied-and alb.
breyiated, but tie chorus was not Sc
pretty to look at. A very pleasant
evening was spent with the watch.
word Safety First" &C. w.
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ENGLISH HOTELS
HAVE HAD CHANCE

LONDON, Jan 14.-Hotel life of
London is undergoing an important
change which is proving disastrous to
old fashioned houses. This is an ev-
olution in the management of the mid
ole class hotels. The last decade saw
the introduction of Fashionable res
taurants as the most conspicuous and
profitable feature of the high priyed
hotels. In the old days dining in
public was a continental custom;
British people of theupper class
sought privacy anud retirement When
men were dining out they sought their
clubs, or small restaurants, and la
dies did not dine at hotels or restaur-
ants often except when travelling.
The big restaurants with music and
evening dress were the resort only of
the ultra gray set.
The new hotel life which is faast
coming into vogue means the large
and brilliantly lighted hotels, with
music and crowds, for the middle
classes. In some details these hotels
are patterned on American lines, but
in some respects they go beyond Am
erican customs. Extras" were the
handicap to hotel patrons of the older
days What are now termed "nclus-
i've" rates were hardly known, Charg
es for rooms were reasonable, but
when to those charges were added
separate items for bath, fires, lights
and attendance, stopping at a middle
class hotel became more expensive
than in American cities. Two dollars,
or two dollars and half per day
weh.e the standard rates for the room
alone, without the tariff or extras.
The ultra modern landlords have
discovered that the public wants to
know the round sum that days en-
tertainment will cost. Consequently
the inclusive" rate This charge in
the popular houses now covers bed
room, bath and breakfast, as we'll as
teh lights and fires. Some of the larg-
est houses provide this scale of en-
tertainment for a dollar and a half to
two dollars. All of those houses
are developments of the past three or
four years. They make particular
appeal to the English people from the |
country and provincial cities, and the |
people of the middle class with small |
Incomes, but of good station in life |
are the ones who respond.
Proyincials and army officers tsay-
ing in London crowd these places, and |
more hotels of the same type are ecr-
tain to appear. Meantime the big, !
dreary old fashioned houses are nerly :
empty. Some are closing. One of the
most famous in England has rented |
about half its floor space to the gov
eminent for offices. Others probably |
will pass into the hands of the new
companies.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-01-14

DIXIE GEM-Best JELLICO Coal
in Americas. Spot cash price Six Dol
lars per ton. Your money back If not
satisfied, Telephone 303. c. ]. CLARK.
7-tf
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FOR SALE-One Ford touring car;
practically new; cheap for cash. See
Sam GateWood.
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WANT ADVERTISEMENTS

FOR SALE CHEAP-New Hudson
6, bargain for somebody. Box 1000,
Nontezuma, Ga. 9-tf
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FOUND
LOST

LOST-Lavaliere, somewhere be-
tween Furlow Lawn Baptist church and
Methodist church; contained small
cameo and nine small pearls. Return
to Times-Recorder for reward. 14-2t
STOLEN-Bicycle, Oakland, prac-
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running gear; No. 2551 Notify Times
Recorder and receive reward. 1885,
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FOR RENT-First class stores with
Central railroad sidetrack in rear,
There stores have cellars specially
adapted for meat storage. Well To-
Gated for city trade. Corner Wheeler
and Hampton streets. Apply to Har-
rold Bros. 14-6t
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-03-19

from the coast to establish a mission,
and we were under the Spanish flag.
The father and our men were killed
but for some reason wss taken cap
tive and the forty or fifty Indians
who had surrounded us gave me to
believe that / would accompany them
as had told them as best could
how to dress wounds and several other
things they seemed to marvel at.
"After my capture and the weary
days and nights of travel we began
to meet incoming hunters who told
wierd tales of the earth being on
fire miles to the north and west. /
thought of Vesuvius from their crude
descriptions so they determined to
take me to see the awful place. We
again took up the march and for
three long days and nights travelled.
on. Somewhere north and west of
Apalachicola we began TO see light
ening as from a storm cloud. The
guide hunter said we were getting
on dangerous earth. The other In
dians trembled in superstitious ter
ror. braves though they were. felt
the earth trembling but was not
afraid.
1--WE went on for another day and
about eleven o'clock of the morning
we entered a dense fog of smoke
which was choking and vile. Soon
red glare came from the smoke and
we saw the fire. 1t was not like fire
but red liquid running down lit
tie hill and the bases smelled. The
red stream was oozing out of a small
hilltop of rocks in several places and
the deadly fumes made breathing
sore hard. We could not get close so
camped mile away on the grassy
plain that surrounded the hill. In
the dead of night a great explosion
came The Indians yelled and ran
! for their lives as burst of fire seem
ed to light the whole earth, and then
came a terrible kissing sound from
the midst of the flames and smoke
after a short time all was quiet
again and the light from the flames
died down to an angry glow. BY
morning the sun shone through q
haze of drifting smoke and the scat
tered Indians wandered back to camp
subdued, awed and yet afraid. We
approached the hill only to find the
ugly liquid oozing out and running
down the declivity east and west
kissing, smoking, and bursting into
angry jets of flame as in its path.
eve saw that great stones haC
been thrown out during the explosion
Flat slabs of stone which were ye
smoking. The slabs were large ant
fiat and resembled sandstone. Re
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NEW INDUSTRIES
IN DIXIE LAND

Columbus, Ca, March 1S.-The In
dustrial Index says in its issue for
this week:
Alabama has broken all February
records for the production of pig iron.
Construction details have been com
pleted for the establishment at Sa-
vannah, Ca, of sugar refinery with
a daily capacity of 5000 barrels by a
company with capital stock of $780,
900. A company is being Incorporated
in Savannah to build an extensive sys-
tenn of bonded warehouses and COM
presses. Another cotton mill at Co
lumbus, Ga, will build an addition,
the cost to be approximately S275,000.
Plans are being prepared for a
81 900 900 estate at Palm Beach, Fla.
Real estate transactions in a few
days in Miami, Fla, amounted to
nearly $1,000, 900, many lots having
been purchased as sites for fine win
ter home. An s-story Office building
is to be erected at Miami.
CONTRACTS are being awarded in
Chattanooga, Tenn, for the establish
ment of a steel plant for company
with capital stock of $1,000 900. Com
tracts are being awarded in Chatta-
nooga also for the erection of a r.
story Office building to cost 100000
or more.
"Pinellas county, Florida, has sold
S715,000 of road bonds and will pro-
coed Immediately with the construc-
ton of 70 miles of brick-paved high
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-03-19
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people supplied by parcel post. Call
write or telephone.-Adv.
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LONG AGO FLORIDA 4

In the archives of a West Florida
land company rests an old letter
written by one Jose Matanza in the
year 1865 soon after the settlement
of st. Augustine. The letter, though
brief and void of detail gives a clue
to locations but recently recognized.
In the early days the Indians
along the coast of Florida used to say
that the first white men who came
to our shores were thrown up from
the sea in the form of foam, and
after a time when the sun shone
white men lay prone where the drift
ing foam had been. Then they rose
and walked into the forests inland
to be killed by the savage tribes of
redmen who roamed the interior. The
Indian children liked to hear these
tales, from generation to generation
and with the inherent love of war in
their young bodies begged for more
legends of the foam men who never
came back to their native sea.
Jose Matanzas went from the sea
with priest and a little band who
determined to journey inland and
establish mission somewhere in the
wilds. sThe band led by a cowled
father penetrated the forest and
jungleland only to meet destruction
their mission ended and their dreams
unfulfilled. The man Matanzas was
taken captive because of his peculiar
knowledge of plants, trees and di-
rections and the natives considered
his intelligence quite uncanny as the
men who had sprung from the foam
of the sea were supposed to be use
less and their puny bodies food for
beasts.
The captured Spaniard was led on
ward with the tribe, camping here
and there on lonely difficult trails
After weary months he returned t.
st. Augustine and wrote the worr
old letter which has found its way
down through the generations til
now. The spot he describes has beer
located here in West Florida anC
tallies with the description so vivid
ly as to be startling after $50 years
In part his letter is as follows
aided by inserted words the worr
manuscript make uncertain:
The Old Manuscript.
"old Chart, 1865, latter part 0.
November.
"A flashing, laundering spring OF
a hill in Florida.
Il was captured by Indians sool
after the settlement of st. Augustin,
and kept for three years in the wilt
lands of West Florida. The fathe,
Valdez, and party of our men wer,
trying to penetrate the regions bacl
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awarded as follows:

awarded as follows:
Apartment house, Macon, Ca;
bridges, Arcadia, Fla, Palm Beach
county, Fla; church building, Abel,
Ga; compress building, Augusta, Ca;
cold storage plant, Clarksdaie, Miss;
garage buildings, Bethune, S. c., and
Huntsville, Ala; fire stations, Bay
Minette, Ala; factory building, Dur
ham, n, c.; courthouse, Lafayette,
Ca; paving, st. Petersburg and West
Palm Beach, Fla, and Vicksburg,
Miss; school buildings, ClarksdaIe,
Miss, and Lake Helen and Seabreeze,
Miss; roads, Lowndes county, Miss
issippi, Palm Beach county, Florida,
and Wilcox county, Alabama; theater
building, Columbus, Ga.
Fourteen corporations were form
ed during the week with minimum
capital stocks aggregating $685., 900. I"
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ways for which contract has been
awarded.
'There is more activity in railway
contraction work and more railway
extensions than in long time before.
There is a large and constantly in
creasing volume of construction work,
and week after week more manufac-
turing plants are being established.
'These are some of the things that
mark the rising tide of prosperity in
the southeast.
among the items of construction
work to be done, as reported this
week, are:
apartment houses, Atlanta. Ca,
two, St. Petersburg, two, Miami and
West PLAN Beach, Fla; bridges,
Beaufort county, South Carolina, and
Wilkinson county, Georgia; church
buildings, Brookhaven, Miss, Cochran
and TT. Valley, Ga, and McCo1l and
Rock Hill, South Carolina; clubhouse,
Fort Lauderdale, Fla; courthouses
Pearl River county, Mississippi, and
Wheeler county, Georgia; city hall
Douglas, Ga; drainage, Clearwater
Fla; factory buildings, Brunswick
and Columbus, Ca; fraternal build.
ing, West Palm Beach, Fla; school
building, Albany, Ca; roads, Hous-
ton county, Alabama, and Lowndec
and Winston counties, Mississippi
street improvement, Fairhope, Ala
warehouse, Shortleaf, Ala; water
works extension, Boyle, Miss.
CONSTRUCTION contracts have beer
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-03-19
By c. B. ROTH,
Lynn Haven. Fla.

about was grass covered and not many
pines. A few miles south was pine
covered hill a green mountain COW
cred with oaks, pine hickory and ash.
There were many springs and wild
game abounded, also beasts of fear
some kinds. There were thousands
of wolves.
81 never again saw the blazing hill
and wanted to know more about it.
In my declining years to again seek it
would be an impossibility. 1t lies far
west of big bluff on the Apalachi-
cola river.
81 sign myself farewell,
JOSE MATANZA."
The Journal correspondent, a stu
dent of Florida history, had the OPP
portunity last week and an explorers
privilege and joy of locating the
burning hill" of some $50 years ago.
It lies just beyond Chipley and is now
known as Crock HIP because Of its
peculiar formation and isolation. The
old crater is still covered by the
colossal "hat rock and the same
form characterizes the shape of all
the strewn stones in the vicinity Of
the crater. They fell, resting slant
wise on the slight declivity which
perforce is called a hill.
From the crevices of the covered
crater grows an age old oak and wild
jasmine festoons the hooks and
crannies of the crun1bling stone,
which, like giant tombstones long
forgotten lie prone. In the back
ground rises the SCREEN mountain"
still overgrown with trees. It is said
to be the highest point in the state Of
Florida. Approaching the crater and
seeing the mountain beyond, one can
almost imagine the Thousand
wolves" and picture the camp of the
Indians and their captive.
The volcanic rock is only scattered
for short distance beyond the crater
acres and acres beyond being fertile
farmland. Florida the beautiful
sister" is land of surprises, and the
message left by an old Spaniard
centuries ago, proves that chill OF
fire" existed in this section, for
there lies the 'flat slabs of stone.
There lies the big one covering the
deadly opening of long ago. No one
knows where lies Jose Matanzas
whose time worn letter tells this
story.
The extinct burning hill" is or
property owned by Elwood George Of
Chipley and is being examined By
experts for the location of oil.
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Goon FoR C0LnS.

Honey, Pine Tar and Glycerine are
recognized cold remedies. In DIR.
Pine Tar-Honey these are combined
with other cough medicine in a pleas
ant syrup. DR.. Bells Pine-Tar- Honey
quickly stops your cough, checks your
cold, soothes irritation Of the throat.
Excellent for young, adult and aged.
It's one of the best cough syrups made.
Formula on every bottle. You know
just what you are taking and your
doctor knows its good for coughs and
colds. Insist on DR.. Bells Pine-Tar-
Honey. Only Csc at Druggists.-Ady.
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MAY PURCHASE
THE DEKLE FARM
SPECIAL TO THE Io1JRNAr.

Campbellton, March 18.-Messrs.
Fellers and Griner of Ohio were here
recently looking over the plantation
of Mr.. Dekle with view to settling
here and going into the stock raising
business. They expressed themselves
as being well pleased with the section
Of Florida.
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covering from immediate fear we re-
manned in the neighborhood of the
terrible hill for eight days, the ex-
plosions recurring frequently and
each time throwing out more of the
fat rock which seemed to have been
broken from some giant ledge far
beneath the earth and which caused
the earth to shake grievously at each
upheaval After a few days the ex-
plosions grew less violent and the
top of the hill was covered with a
huge fat rock which rested across
the deadly opening. Yet through
the crevices the gases still Kissed and
little points of flame pierced the
nights with flashes. The glowing
streams grew narrower till they con-
gealed in twisted forms, like snakes
writhing. Then the hill was quiet,
like some dead thing whose anger had
been spent.
eve hunted there for many days
wondering, yet fearful lest the dread
full opening in the top of the hill be
again uncovered and belch forth
flame and gas as before.
eve called it Pine Tar Hill from
the black substance which ran from
it for many days. The country around
New Britain herald., 1916-12-15

ing read with surprise various articles in American papers, representing In dia, as "laboring under an oppressive rule and shaken by revolutionary and seditiOus atrocities'
 These are, of course, the articles which have been written by me on be- half of the "Hindustan Gadar." Tn reply to these "calumnies," Lord Chelmsford says to the corre- spondent,-"go wherever you please throughout the length and breadth of India-no sentry will bar the way and no secret agent will shadow you've have nothing to conceal
 A statement like this is no more than might be expected from the new viceroy,-but the Am erican people will not be deceived. The newspaper correspondents will not be allowed to write freely concerning conditions in India. They are not permitted to do so in England itself, much less will they be permitted in India. I do not know the facts as to newspaper cor respondents in India, except that nothing leaves India unless approved by the censOr,-but, let me ask, why pr. Cook, the noted explorer, was not permitted to travel freely in India, and was twice arrested and kept in jail in Singapore and Calcutta for sev- eraI weeks, and refused permission to ascend the Himalyas, and finally