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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-05-09
HI STUDENTS WILL
HAVE A MINSTREL

The boys of the Americus High
school forming the minstrel to be
given at the Opera House held drill
p 'actice Monday night at the High
school auditorium.
Miss Lena Hardy, of the department
OF music, is directing the entertain
ment and the school supplies excellent
talent. The songs are the latest out
the jokes are the funniest on record
and the drills are the prettiest imagin-
able.
Edward Mathis, captain of the foot
ball team and all round popular boy
is there with the goods as interlocutor
And Frank Harold, Jr., the school
orator and essayist, is csream as a
black-face and performs to perfection
On the end.
Many other bones will be present
to make Americus forget Mexico, hard
times, war and hard luck The school
Guartettes are in tune for the big show
ard the minstrel lovers-and every
body will appreciate the harmony
they dispense. A special act of young
othletes has been arranged and the
conquerors of Albany Y. M. G. A. jun
icrs will do their best stunts for those
present.
special Blues" act will be given
and the people of Americus who liked
the strains of the Memphis Blues
will have another opportunity to hear
the latest songs of old Handy and his
"Blues."
Another feature will be the "Politi-
Clans Number" in which several down
and outs of national politics will be
portrayed The date of the minstrel
will be announced later.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-05-09
.AMERICUs CITIZENS ATTEND
INC EPISCOPAL CONVENTION

The Diocesan convention of the
Episcopal church is being held at st.
Marks Episcopal church in Bruins
wick, this week Rt. Rev. Frederick F
Reese, Bishop of Georgia, is presiding.
Prominent Episcopalians from all
over the state, both ministers and lay
men, in large numbers are present at
this meeting, among whom are Rev. j
E. Lawrence, rector; Capt John A.
Cobb, ]. D. Stewart and F. P. Harold
all of Calvary church this city.
Rev. Lawrence attends as a member
Of the board of missions, and as a
member of the standing committee
Capt. Cobb is attending as senior war
don; Mr. Stewart as treasurer, and
MIR. Harold as vestryman from Cal
vary church this city.
Matters of more than usual import
arce are to come before the convention
and will without doubt be one of the
most largely attended conventions in
years.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-05-09
NEGROES ARRESTED
BURGLAR. CHARGE

The Rylander Shoe Co., was burglar
lied Sunday night. and four negroes,
Capin Kimbrough, Will Reese, John
Seay and Will Coin, are being held by
the police authorities on charge Of
Burglary in connection with the affair.
The latter htree negroes were arrest
Cd in Albany Tuesday morning after
being suspected by the authorities in
that place They were brought to this
city today by Sheriff Har vey, Chief OF
Police Johnson, and Dave Andrews of
the Rylander Shoe Co.
Capin Kimbrough, a young negro
boy, was arrested in Americus, and
suitcases with clothing. shirts, etc..
have been secured from the negroes
taken into custody.
The store of D. Pearlman was bur-
slarized on the night of April 18th, and
it is alleged the negroes now being
held are also connected with that
affair.
The burglars entered the Rylander
store by going through the transom
ard skylight on the top of the store.
he store operated by a Greek under
the Opera House was entered Monday
night about II o'clock, the intruders
entering through the transom over
the door. hey secured several dollars
il cash, tobacco and several other ar
ticles. he officers have implicated the
negroes now held on three other
charges in the affair, and it understood
they have given discriminating evil
dence.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-05-09
COL. I. H. CLARK
DIES At MOULTRIE

MOULTRIE, Ga, May 9.-Colonel z.
H. Clark, aged 50, banker, capitalist
and one of the leading Baptist laymen
of Georgia, died at his residence in
Moultrie, Ga, Monday following an
illness of nearly three months. Death
came suddenly, due to heart failure,
from which Colonel Clark had suffer-
ed for years.
For over a quarter of a century he
had been identified with the Baptist
church of the south, and had aided in
its forward movement materially since
his appointment to the highest honor
which the denomination can give to
a layman member of the supervisory
committee, or the committee of five, as
it is sometimes called
The funeral will be held here this
morning and will be attended by lead
ing clergymen.
Rev. ], A. Haymore, pastor of the
church of which he was member will
officiate, assisted by DR.. Cree and other
BAPTIST churchmen.
Besides his wife, Colonel Clark is
survived by three daughters, Misses
Anna Warren, Rebecca and Elizabeth
Clark, and two sons, y. H. Clark, Jr.,
and William Clark.
The title of colonel" was conferred
on Colonel Clark by three governors on
whose staffs he served They were
Governors Northen, Terrell and
Brown.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-05-09
COTTON MARKET
TAKES A JUMP Up
DURING TUESDAY

The best happening around Americus
IN months is the rise of the cotton mar
ket 1t is being watched with more
interest than the presidents call for
the national guards in Arizona, New
Mexico and Tuesday.
In the futures May opened at 1886
Tuesday morning and closed at 1892,
over a quarter of cent rise. January
went from 1909 on the opening to 13.45
at the close, and July waltzed from
1916 to 1904 October opened at 1892
and closed at 1921, while December
worekd itself from 1906 up to 1888.
1t is estimated that between 1000
and 5000 bales of cotton is now being
held in the warehouses of Americus,
and there has been a perceptibIe SELL
ing has brought the warehouse cotton
now being held to one of the lowest
points in the history of the city.
There is speculation now on the sale
Of the 1916 crop, and several farmers
have been heard to say that with a rise
continued they will sell portion of
their crops.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-05-09
{. A. NISBET To ADDRESS
LEESBURG HIGH SCHOOL

Eugene A. Nisbet, OF Americas, has
accepted an invitation to deliver the
commencement address of the Lees
burg High school, at Leesburg Monday
evening May 22nd, at 8 o'clock. Mr..
Nisbet is an eloquent orator, and
Leesburg is to be congratulated on
securing him for this occasion The
people of Leesburg are very high in
their praise of Mr. Nisbet, having had
him with them on special occasions this
will make the third time, within the
last few years. Those who hear Mr.
Nisbet's address will have a treat in
store for them.
The Leesburg High school always
has on an interesting program during
their commencement exercises, and
this year the best program of many
years is said to have been arranged.
Prof. Cowart, who is principal of the
school, has left no stone unturned to
make the commencement exercises this
year the very best, and the school all
the year has had fattering attend
ance.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-05-09
TEXAS. NEW MEXICO AND ARIZONA OTTT

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= surance carried unknown. Z
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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-05-09
WILSON CALLS ON THE
NATIONAL GUARDS OF.
BORDER LAND ON DUTY.

Immediately available approximately
four thousand additional men.
In addition to the national guard es-
adjustments Of Texas, New Mexico
and Arizona, three thousand additional
regular troops have been ordered sent
to the Mexican border Immediately.
These regulars consist Of the Thir-
$eenth Infantry, now at Plattsburgh,
N. Y, the Twenty-First Infantry, now
at Vancouver barracks, and the Third
Infantry, now at Madison Barracks.
Two battallions of the Fourteenth In
fantry, one of which is now at Fort
Lawton, and the other at Spokane,
will be sent to the border within few
days.
In announcing the disposition to be
made of additional troops ordered to
the border Secretary Baker stated he
had read published reports that the
recent raid on Glenn Springs and AL
pine, Tex, had been organized on this
side of the border, and that he has
telegraphed General Funston to
investigate the statements.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-05-09
HARD FIGHTING
CONTINUES FOR
OF VERDUN

PARIS, May 9.-After a violent
hcmbardment of French positions at
H1l 3O4, the Germ ans attempted to
advance at three o'clock this morning,
but the war Office says the attack was
repulsed.
French troops counter attacked east
of the Meuse during the maneuver and
succeeded in driving the Germans out
of some parts of the trenches they
had taken west of Thiaumont
An intense German bombardment ID
.in progress in the fifth Chatille Sec
tor and between Bousamont and Vaux,
frenade fighting continues at Apre-
mont, and in the Fecht valley.
South Of Autree, near scissors spirited
fighting is also in progress.
A German attack at Bolant was re-
pulsed early today, and in the Argonne
forest French forces captured two
small German posts, after killing all
their occupants. No important devel-
opments have occurred elsewhere.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-05-09
ArredOndO to See Lansing.

WASHINGTON, D. c., May g.
Emelio Arredondo, the Mexican am
bassador- designate made an appoint
ment today for an immediate interview
with Secretary Lansing. The subject
of his mission was not disclosed, but
may have some bearing on the critical
situation developed at the border.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-05-09
MAY MEAN GULF
STATES TO CONE
Big News of Day
Is Call For
Troops

WASHINGTON, D. c., May AT
the war department this morning it
was announced that President Wilson
had formally called into the service of
the federal government the entire
national guard establishments of the
states of Texas, Arizona and Mexico.
Mobilization of these troops is ordered
to proceed at once, and as soon as
commands reach their respective mil
itary rendezvous, they will be assigned
t5 border service. No reason is given
for calling these troops into the SER
vice of the federal government at this
time, but the action is believed to have
been instigated by the recent bandit
raids into Big Bend county, Texas, re-
sulting in the killing of several
United States troopers besides citizens.
Strength of the Guards.
Texas has 50 general staff officers;
Arizona 7, and New Mexico IA.
Arizona has 80 regimental and COM
pany officers; New Mexico "A, and
Texas 145.
Arizona has total of 46 commits
stoned officers; New Mexico So and
Texas 225
Arizona has 492 enlisted men; New
Mexico 1912, and Texas 1852.
The total force of officers and men
of the three states is Arizona, 538;
New Mexico, 623, and Texas, 2,777.
The total force, according to the
test figures available for the entire
national guards of these three states
is 1888, although it is very probable
that they will not muster nearly up to
this Strengtn.
Arizona has a reserve, unorganized
militia, of 58,962; New Mexico, 1907
and Texas, SO4980. These figures are
from the 1910 census and include all
male citizens between the ages of IS
and a years.
Strength Of Georgia Militia.
The general and general staff of off,
GERS of Georgia number 35; the regi-
mental and company officers number
1873. and the total number of officers is
22S. The enlisted men of Georgia
number 2,723, with total force of
2946.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-05-09
white Star Liner Cymric Sunk.

LONDON, May 9-Lloyd's bureau re-
ports the former White Star liner
Cymric sank at o'clock this morning.
All on board were saved.
The Cymric, one of the modern lin
ers in trans Atlantic service between
New York and Liverpool, was requi-
sitioned by the British government
several months ago, and was engaged
in admiralty work when torpedoed by
an enemy submarine. The attack took
place II an unstated point in the At
lantic ocean. The ship carried nc
passengers when attacked.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-05-09
1000 Additional Troops TO Border.

WASHINGTON, D. c., May g.
Secretary of War Baker issued a state
ment shortly before noon regarding
presidents call ordering the militia
cf three border states into the federal
service. The call directs these troops
n report to General Frederick Fun
ston at Fort Sam Houston, near San
Antonio. for assignments to stations
along the border. The national guards
men will be ordered to do patrol duty
,nd thereby relieve regulars for duty
bcyond the border. The call makes
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-05-09
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SERVICE FIRST.

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= daily paper to keep up with the =
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= 1t tells in this issue every de- :
= tail of President Wilson's action =
= calling the national guard troops =
= of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona =
. into federal service to guard the =
= border, together with the num- =
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= ments after the latest Mexican \
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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-05-09
"Fighting Fred" Advised Wilson

WASHINGTON, D. c., May O.
General Funston advised President
Wilson to order out the militia last
night it was announced here at noon.
The request for national guard troops
was sent the president by General
Funston direct from his headquarters
at Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio,
Tex.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-05-09
JOINT MEETING Of BARRACKS
AND PHILATHEAS TONIGHT

There will be joint meeting of all
the Baracas and Philathea classes in
the city tonight at O'Clock in the
Earaca room of the First Baptist
church to discuss the proposition OF
inviting the Baracas and Philatheas of
the state to hold their annual meeting
il Americus next year. The annual
meeting this year will be held in
Savannah, Ga, early in June and it is
expected that full delegation will go
from Americas.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-05-09
%THREE BUILDING OF ATLAS :
= POWDER co, DESTROYED =

PATERSON N. j., May 9. :
= Three buildings of the Atlas Z
Powder Companys plant at Lake =
= Hopatcong, north Of here are re- 4
= ported to have been blown up at =
noon today =
: First advices brought to Pater- I
= son by courier said between fifty 4
and one hundred men were killed =
, ty the explosion. =
= The cause of the catastrophe is \
' unknown, but is believed to have y
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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-05-09
German PIotters Sent to Atlanta

NEW YORK, May 9.-Robert Fay, a
former German army lieutenant, con-
victed of plotting to blow up Allies
munitions ships, was today sentenced
to serve eight years in the Atlanta, Ca.
penitentiary. Walter Scholz another
Of the conspirators was sentenced to
four years Imprisonment and Paul
Darche, another of the defendants, was
given two years. All with be sent at
once to Atlanta to begin serving their
sentences.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-05-09
Carranza Approves Protocol.

WASHINGTON, D. c., May o.
Special Agent Rodgers at Mexico City,
talegraphed Secretary Lansing at noon
today that General Carranza has indi-
cated his approval of the tentative
border protocol practically concluded
during the recent conference between
Generals Scott and Funston and Gen.
Obregon at the international bound
Continued On PAGE o.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-05-09
Germans Take French Trenches.

VeTHdhS luhe FTeHCu iTenCHtss
BERLIN, May 9.-The capture OF
several French trenches on the Verdun
front south of Haucourt, is announced
by the war Office today.
According to private statistics COM
piled here, the Italians have lost three
thousand officers since the war began
perhaps, because of the very large at
tendance at his school, the First
Methodist of this city, of which he is
superintendent, on go To Sunday
School Day of this year, February IS,
when 1,077 were present.
Mr.. Furlow is an earnest worker in
tie Sunday school field, man OF en-
gaging personality, an impressive
speaker, and those having the pleasure
cf hearing him in Atlanta viii be high
lv entertained and edited.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-05-09

The TimeS-Recorder is the ONLY
paper in the Third Congressional
District with Associated Press
service.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-12-18
APART FROM WORLD
JEWELLERS IN ARCTIC CIRCLE
LEAD SECLUDED LIVES.
Know Nothing of What Transpires Be-
ycnd the Narrow Limits of Their
Own Territory-Warfare a
Thing Undreamed OF.

Battle history halts at the arctic
circle. Beyond that human life is so
difficult to sustain that its willful
waste is unthinkable. The Laps and
Samoyeds of arctic Russia, like the Es-
KINDS of North America and Green
land, are so often compelled in times
of dearth and famine to sacrifice their
aged weaklings that this form of death
has become vague religion and So
cial principle with them.
The armies of the great white car,
like those of the king-emperor, are not
recruited in such distant places; in
deed, the men are of such meager
stature and intellect that a military
training is next to impossible-cer-
tainly not thing to be thought of
in the days of a great campaign, Pear
sons Weekly observes.
The population of arctic Russia, both
in Asia and in Europe, outside the of
fetal and mercantile classes, contains
few elements which are truly Slavonic,
but in the minds of insular Britons the
reputation of arctic jewellers pertains
to all the people living in Siberia, which
is always portrayed as a land of ice
and snow and unhealthy marsh.
The Siberian battalions, which have
won SO great fame in the Russian
campaigns, are drawn mainly from
territory as near the equator as Great
Britain. 1t is undeniable that their
winters are terribly severe, but in the
hot summer crops of the utmost value
cnn be sown, ripened and harvested.
life in the Siberia of military Russia.
The real natives of the Arctic can
endure hunger and fatigue-can march
in their own fashion through hurri
cane and blizzard-but their value is
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-12-18

raIner TO the explorer or the InnoSpI-
table North than to the soldier. As
hunters they are wonderfully clever,
yet they are curiously formal in adj
ministering the coup de grace.
They will apologize to the fierce
white bear which they haye cornered
before advancing to a close attack
with bone-tipped arrows and spears, a
duel in which the odds seem decisively
on the bears destroying the man. They
are therefore not towards in any sense,
and few British sportsmen would risk
their lives against bear and wolf and
walrus protected only by futile weap-
ons and their own personal dexterity.
How goes the news of war to these
arctic dwellers?
Most casually and slowly, without a
doubt There are colonies in the fro
zen North which have not yet heard
of the Russo-Japanese war, and cer-
tainly have no knowledge of the pres
ent war.
They are free from national duties
and taxation, and their intercourse,
even with fur traders of blood alien to
their own, is meager indeed. There
are dialects spoken by these tribes
which have never been interpreted and
never reduced to writing, and their
ideas of the great world outside the
tundras and steppes are very crude.
A generation may pass before the
story of the grand dukes great cam
paign filters north. and even then it
will be incomprehensible to persons
to whom q crowd of even a hundred
human beings would be marvel. Now
and again a stray whaler or explor-
ing ship comes within sight of the
shore camps, and a little barter by
means of signs is carried on, but the
inland jewellers have not even this
communication with the outside world.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-12-18
.vISITSsACREDsPOT
DAUGHTER OF LIVINGSTONE
SEES PLACE WHERE HE DIED.
Brick Memorial Has Been Erected in
Enclosure Where the Heart of the
Great Explorer and Mission
airy Was Buried.

Mrs. Livingstone Wilson, only surviv-
ing child of DIR. David Livingstone, the
explorer, recently made journey to
Old Chitambo, where her fathers heart
was buried. Old Chitambo is north
east of Rhodesia, a cleared space in
the heart of the bush, and it took over
month to reach it from Capetown.
AT New Chitambo, which is 30 miles
farther on, Mrs. Wilson was going to
stay with her son, who is a medical
missionary, and her daughter, who is
a nurse.
At the Victoria falls. discovered by
her father, she secured photograph
showing the point from which he
caught the first glimpse of this great
rush OF water. At Broken Hill she was
met by her daughter and later by her