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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-04-24
Value of the Farm WOOdIOt
J. 3. Berry, Prof. Forestry, Ga. State
College OF Agriculture.

Just what value do you place on
that patch of woods on your farm,
or do you consider it only as an OBJ
stacle to the cultivation of the land?
A hundred years ago timber was very
plentiful and prices low. At the pres
ent time the best of the timber in
the East and South has been logged,
or destroyed, and lumber prices are
advancing rapidly. No longer are the
big timber holders of the United
States reckleSsly logging their lands
rather, they are holding their tim
Der to take advantage of the rapid
increase in wood values. 1t is con-
servatively estimated that the pres
ent forests of the United States
cannot supply the demand for
more than seyenty-fve years.
When this is gone We shall have to
compete with England and Germany
in the worlds markets. Daring the
year 1914 lumber prices in Germany
ranged about four times as great as
in the United States, and these prices
showed an increase of 10 per cent
to Is per cent over the current prices
of the year 1918. If this then is true
that the present lumber prices of the
United States will be increased 800
per cent or 400 per cent during the
next twenty or twenty-five years-can
there be any doubt as to the value
of a timber investment?
The South is particularly favored
in the matter of wood produc-
ton. Nowhere else do trees and for
ests grow more rapidly. During the
course of twenty years a second
growth thicket of old field pine and
yellow poplar has developed into a
forest, the trees of which average l.
TO Is inches in diameter While trees
of this size do not produce high per
centage of good lumber, there is a
strong demand for this class of mate
rial in the production of boxes and
packing cases. Even as rough lumber
the product of these trees would have
a value of from $50 to $40 per thou
sand feet, and, at the present rate of
increase, these prices will have dou
bled in ten years, quadrupled in TWEEN
" years. If this is true, and there
can be no doubt of it, are there any
other portions of the farm with the
potential value of these thickets OF
Young trees? What, then, is TO be
thought of a man who clears away
this young timber, often from steep
slopes. with the object Of placing the
land under cultivation for 4 few years
until erosion has carried away
the surface soI) and then abandon
ing the area TO weeds and small
trees until nature has painstakingly
and slowly re-esrablished forest GOV
or? Instead Of creating wealth, is he
not in reality destroying it,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-04-24
MARSHALL A. HUD-
son To RALLY WITH
SOCIETIES Of CITY

Tuesday is to be a grand day with
the Baraca and Philathea societies OF
this city Marshall A Hudson, or
ganizer and president of the National
Union of Baraca and Philathea unions,
Of Syracuse, y. Y, is to be here and
address two meetings, in the after
noon at the Furlow Lawn Baptist
church and at night at the First Bap-
fist church.
Delegations from other towns are
expected to be here and help to swen
the attendance to large proportions.
Splendid preparations have been made
to entertain the prominent guest, rs
" ell as all others who may come. An
interesting and attractive program has
also been arranged.
The distinguished guest will arrive
this afternoon from Albany, where Oh
yesterday he delivered several ad-
dresses. While in the city he will lie
tie guest Of Mr. and Mrs. Everett
Schneider and MIR. and Mrs. T. F.
Getewood The entertainment COM
nittee will provide an auto ride over
the city Cars will leave the First
Baptist church at 10 o'clock sharp, and
all Barracks and Philatheas who have
cars or can get them. are requested to
meet at the church at the above named
hour. Those who can or expect to fur
nish cars to take part in the parade
viii please notify James Lott
This is going to be a red letter day in
Baraca and Philathea circles, and all
who can should take part and enjoy
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-04-24
TIMELY AGRICULTURAL
BULLETINS ISSUED

Among the recent bulletins issued
BY the Georgia State College Of Agri-
culture which are for free disrriba.
ton within the state are Soil Survey
of Stewart County" Forest Schoo.
Announcement" Teachers Manua.
Of Agricultural Club Work An.
rouncement Of Veterinary Degree
Course" CaraLog 1851, Boys Pig
Clubs, 1915"
Circulars recently issued have been
on the following subjects: Corn Cul.
tivation." Lime and It's Relations to
Potash" Peanut Oil Production,
Cotton Variety Tests" Poultry
Clubs, 1915" Summer Courses in
Agriculture, 1916"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-04-24
LOMBARD
FOUNDRY, MACHINE, BOILER WORKS
and MILL SUPPLY STORE
Augusta, Georgia.

Capacity, 800 Hands. Hundred
Thousand feet floor space. Cotton, Oil,
Gin, Saw, Grist, Fertilizer, Cane, Shin
gle Mill Machinery, Supplies and Re-
pairs and Castings, Shafting, Pulleys,
Hangers, Wood, Coal and Sawdust
Gratebars, Pumps, Pipe, Valves and
Fittings, Injectors, Betting, Packing,
Hose, etc. Cast every day. One hun,
dred machines and good men ready to
do your work quick.
FORD Motor Cars, Supplies and Be.
pairs In Stock. Quick Delivery
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-04-24
CARRANzA TROOPS IN Ah0l HER
FIGHT WITH U. s. SOLDIERS
Continued from Page IL

afternoon, and is regarded by military
authorities as fully authentic.
1t is stated on reliable authority thai
Villa was since the clash between
American and Mexicans at Parral at
Monoava, about So miles by trail south
west of Satevo, where Pershing's main
column now rests.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-04-24
Carranza Getting Impatient.

WASHINGTON, D. c., April "a
General Carranza today asked the
state department for an early reply TO
his note of April 18th suggesting the
withdrawal of American troops from
Mexico.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-04-24
Villa to Attack FerShmg.

Ell PASO, Tex, April 24-Mexicans
arriving from the interior today say
villa, at the head of a band of follow
ers. is returning north to attack the
American troops commanded by Gen.
Tersbing.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-04-24
Sumter County:

Whereas, o. NJ. Mitchell administra-
tor Of Viney Mitchell, represents to
the court in his petition duly filed and
entered on record, that he has fully
administered Whey Mitchell's estate.
This is, therefore, to cite all persons
concerned, kindred and creditors, to
show cause, if any they can, why said
administrator should not be discharg-
ed from his administration and receive
letters of dismission on the first Mon
day in May, 1916.
April Ord. 19I.
JOHN A. COBB, Ordinary.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-04-24
Bandits Executed at Chihuahua.

Ell PASO. Tex, April 24.-Pablo L0-
PEI and three Villa bandits captured
with him have been publicly executed
at chihuahua City, says arrivals here.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-04-24

One cent a word each Insertion.
Minimum charge of 25c.
No classified advertisement will be
charged to any one unless their name
appears on our subscription books.
All advertisements for "HELP or
SITUATION WANTED win be In
serted one time free.
When number of insertions exceed
CWO weeks 81 cent q word.
Hher aumber of insertions exceeds
four NNtA IS 1-2 cent a wore.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-04-24
RATE RAISING IS
POSTPONED FOR
INSURANCE HERE

Jos. s. Raines, secretary of the
Southeastern Underwriters Associa-
ton, has advised ]. A. Davenport, an
Insurance man of Americas, that the
proposed increase in the fire insurance
rates of Americas will not lie made at
this time
The people of the city are familiar
with the agitation which has taken
place during the past few days over the
fire insurance question. The advice of
Mr.. Raines is an outgrowth of the
strenuous objection interposed by the
Chamber of Commerce, the people Of
Americas and the fire insurance agents,
The regular meeting of the mayor
and city council will he held Tuesda~
n ght at the City Hall. 1t is expected
that they will take up the question
looking towards doing their part, in
treating the insurance companies and
the people fair in the matter Of the
special license tax. Their action is
awaited with interest but their expect
81 stand is not known.
1t has teen brought out that no re-
sjriedons are laid around gasoline BIZ
the city ordinances but this matter has
been under the Amusement OF the city
council, and it is likely that an ordir-
al-ce will be passed remedying the MAJ
ter. This is a feature which seriously
affects fire insurance.
The Chamber Of Commerce has Sc
cured data on the fire insurance situa-
ton from cities in Georgia about the
same size Of Americas. This informa-
ton will be placed in the hands OF the
Mayor and City council at their regular
meeting
Some of these figures are
Dalton.
Life Insurance, each company $1,000
AT -.'t''..... '..'.,-.......... 1000
Plate Glass Insurance for each
company ..........-...... 800
Athens.
Broker of Insurance E~.rL r. =
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-04-24
Want Advertisements

FARM LOANS-at 6 per cent. inter.
est. Terms satisfactory. R. L. May,
nard
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-04-24

BUY the large sizes of JONES'
BALSAM OF BENZOIN when your
horses are troubled with scratches
thrush, CALLED shoulders, swellings and
flesh wounds. Sod on the money-back
plan. Ask your dealer for it. 9-1m
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-04-24

The people whose advertisements
you read in this paper are on the level
They're not afraid OF their goods.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-04-24
WANTFD--Mi Miscellaneous

WANTED-A sales representative in
this territory to sell Paints, Varnishes,
Roofing Cement and specialdes. Big
opportunity for the right rarity. The
Glen Refining Co, Cleveland, Ohio.
24-1t
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-04-24

surance Agent or Broker shall pay
tax of l 1-2 per cent. of the net prem
iums collected upon policies of insu~-
aace written ~ his agency.
Fire insurance, for each company
represented-$5O.OO. Agents, in addi-
ton to the tax paid by the company,
shall pay on the license question.
ThOmasYilIe.
Fire Insurance, each agency rep
resented net .............. $500
Life Observation-Disclosures. $500
Health and Accident ........... 1000
Bonding Companies .......... 500
COrdele.
Special License Tax for each COM
pany doing business in the city of $40
year.
DEuHS NlChs
Life Insurance, each company rep
resented .................. $1,000
Health and Industrial ....... $500
Fire and Accident Insurance. 49,. $500
Brunswick.
Insurance Broker handling one
or more Companies ...... $4,000
4 License of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. $500
Fitzgerald.
Life Insurance, each company $500
Fire Insurance, each company. 1850
Flate Glass, Accident and Casu-
ality, for each company 49,. 1900
Dublin
Life Insurance, each company s25.0J
Accident or sick, each company $500
Casualty, each company ...... 1900
Fire Insurance. each company =. 1920
Newman.
Life Insurance, each company $1,000
Fire Insurance, each company -. 1905
Live Stock Insurance .......... 10000
Griffin
Life Insurance, each company. $500
Fire Insurance, each company $500
Each local agent pays special
price license tax of ........ 800
Elberton.
Fire Insurance, each company 10. 90
Life Insurance, each company =. 1000
Casualty and Accident, each
company .................... 1000
Albany.
Agency-Fire insurance COM
panies, each, if represented and
not otherwise taxed, where
gross premiums do not ex-
coed $500 per year ........ $500
Above $500 and not exceeding
$1,000 Observation-Disclosures. $500
Above $1,000 observation-disclosures. 5000
Insurance, Marine .............. 5000
Insurance Broker .............. 1907
Gainesville.
Fire Insurance, each company $10.Ca
Ihfe Insurance, each company $500
Accident Insurance, each COM
| pany. Observation-Disclosures. 1905
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-04-24

LOANS made on farms At Sir Per.
Cent. Interest. ]. J. Hanesley.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-04-24

tie pleasures and benefits to be deriv-
e5 therefrom.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-04-24

FOR RENT-Eight-room house with
modern Improvements, on Lee street,
No. 131; close in; possession at once.
f. E. Cato. 13-tf
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-04-24

NASSAU GROCERY COMPANY
This side Seaboard Depot, Clark Bros.
cid stand All kinds fancy groceries
and fruits. Phone SO. 29-1m
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-04-24

WANTED-Two lady canvassers for
Americas and vicinity. $500 week
salary and expenses. Bestever Mfg.
Co. East ST. Louis. III. 23-3t
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-04-24
SEE US

1t is now spring and house-cleaning
time. Why not let US make your Mat
tresses over for you, or make you a
new one. The rule is for every person
to get an average Of eight hours sleep
q day; so if you are going to spend a
third of your life sleeping, why not
sleep comfortably. on a good mattress
Try us at 120.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-04-24
FOR RENT

FOR RENT-Two nice upstairs fur
nished or unfinished, connecting
rooms; close in. Phone 699. J. P. Can
non, 400 Lamar street. 2O-tf
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-04-24

FOR RENT-House and ,ot 1855 Tey.
Tor street, now occupied by ]. T
Stukes. See r. E. McNulty. Sd
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-04-24

FARM LOANS - Can give goo6
terms on farm loans; ,mcqey plenrl.
full. w. W. Dykes. 15-ti
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-04-24
Pope Mattress Company
NOTICE!

Have Veates & Son do your
paint work, Ford cars $500
up. All work guaranteed,
1t is our desire 70 give you
the greatest value for your
money. Phone us at ga,
Americas, Ga.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-04-24
RATES.

"sss sSss
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-21

ger. If you know that by lifting the
ladder slightly the hook which holds it
is released, letting it slide along guiding
grooves to the ground, very we'll II
you do not know this there Is no reason
why you might not spend five or ten
minutes trying to pull It down first;
that is, providing you know that there
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-21
NEVER MIND WHAT PEOPLE
MIGHT THINK; TAKE A TRIP
DOWN YOUR FIRE ESCAPE.

There are any number OF reasons why
the night of the fire is not the time to
explore your house for fire escapes. In
the first place, you can't give your whole
mind to it. In the next place, when you
do locate the iron stairway, one glance
down along its spindly grillwork to the
sidewalk eight or ten floors below is
apt to make YOU wonder If it is worth
the risk, especially if you are weighted
with household effects.
Perhaps if you had taken the trouble
to survey it before, under less trying
circumstances, or even have taken the
sillv precaution of climbing down TO Ia
miliarize yourself with its turns and the
workings of the ladder at the bottom, 1t
might not be such terrifying thing to
contemplate at this time, but, first
viewed when it is half obscured in
smoke. with no assurance that 1t VIII
even bear your weight except the fact
that it is supposed to, it becomes haz-
ard which may well cause you delay.
And delay is not what you want
Furthermore. you can go only as far
as the second floor by the iron stairway.
Here you find a ladder contrivancc,
which, if you know how to work it, is
simplicity ITSELF if you do not, it is
merely another form of delay and dan
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-21
Why Wait Until a Fire Breaks
Out to Make Your First
Trip Down This?

point to climb down the fire escape and
work the ladder at the bottom there
would be so many people doing it that it
would cease to be conspicuous action
and would not lay the perpetrator open
to the suspicion of being a second story
worker, as it now does. The very fact
that to think of doing such thing has
touch Of the ludicrous about it TO the
average reader shows how absolutely
foreign it is to everyday procedure. On
the night of a fire it loses some Of its
comedy element.
And then there is always the chance,
pessimistic as it may sound that the
fire escape will be cut off. If flames are
pouring out from any window on the
way down, so that to reach the bottom
you would have to go through them, it
would hardly pay to start. In that case,
have you a definite plan as to the next
course to take?
Do you know where the stairway is
which leads to the roof? In case the
halls were filed with smoke you
wouldn't find it at all easily unless you
knew the way. Electric lights have
way of going out during a fire. and
whatever you do may have to be done i'll
the dark.
These supposititious cases may sound
like moving picture scenario. The
common, everyday man in a derby hat
finds it hard to picture himself under
such conditions, but, unimaginative
as he may be, his practical business
sense, on which he prides himself, must
tell him that as an insurance PROPOSE
ton he is poor risk.
II wouldn't take long some Sunday
morning to locate the fire escape and
amble down the ladder. Neither would
it cut in much on the day TO go up TO
the top floor and see just how the door
leading to the roof works and just what
sort of place it is when once You get
there. And yet you have never done
il. and neither has the writer-and
neither had the five people in the house
on Forty-fourth Street.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-21

is ladder there at all. a few weeks
ago a young man who didn't realize this
fact fell through the hole headfirst TO
the pavement and was killed.
In large number of apartment
houses and tenements, moreover, the
ladder at the bottom of the fire escape
has not the guiding grooves through
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-21
Bv FIRE COMMISSIONER ADAMSON

After fire starts is late for to begin to learn
geography his flat apartment house, Every person
should exactly before fire occurs where the fire
exits the roof located and how to
reach hen Many been lost in fires because those
who were had given thought to Just how they
of fire. In the excitement and confusion
a is hard for one to locate emergency exits
they exactly where they beforehand Every
dveIer in flat apartment house should make it his first
concern famarize himself fully with all emergency exits
might in of fire. This is Just i'm
pOrfanf safety home fire drills i'm schools and
i'm factories n the labelling of exits i'm theatres.
only necessary know how to reach fire
and is Just vital to know how to reach
the roof by of the back stairs
thing for fire and main SfarwayS
off flame, and to the roof and crossing
the adjoining building is frequently the
means saving many Very few people who live in
apartment reach the roof of their apart
nrenfs On WashingfOnS Birthday we had fire i'm
large rooming where the stairway cut off and
inmates had known how TO reach the roof by
ladder running from the hallway 10 the
scuffIe no lives might have been lost.
common for every woman and child
ahead for the OF fire. which is liable TO
and when instant thought and
action necessary lives This only elemental
form of preparedness.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-21
Do You Know How to Lower the
Ladder That Connects the Sec
ond Story with the Ground?
Bv ROBERT G. BENCHLEH.
Wv THERE is the fire escape in your
w apartment?
W Are you familiar enough

W Are you familiar enough
with it 10 descend through the smoke
with baby in one arm and a suitcase IN
the other?
When you get to the bottom, do you
know how to unlock the ladder that IS
supposed to get you from the second
floor to the ground?
If. on starting down the fire escape,
you were forced back by flames shoot
ing out from the window below
(such a thing might happen, even IN
yo1u apartment house,, where would
you try next?
Do you know how to get to the ROOF?
Do you know how to get from your
roof to the roof of the next house?
Simply because you work in an I'M
porting house or bank and go DOM in
the subway every morning without ever
having had anything out of the ordinary
occur in your life IS no reason why you
might not wake up some hight with the
smell of blistering varnish IN your nos
trils and discover haze of smoke seep-
ing out from what used to be the coat
closet of your apartment.
Supposing, for the sake of argument,
that this is a barely possible contir-
gency. Being a practical man, the first
thing that would suggest itself to YOU
would be to find the quickest and safest
way of getting yourself and family
downstairs and out of the apartment.
But to accomplish this there are
several details, such as the questions
listed above, which would have 10 be
settled first, and at that time you
would be in no mood for details. You
might as well, therefore, settle them
now
They are trivial enough questions
when considered at high noon around
the luncheon table, but along about 3
a. M, in a fog of singing smoke, they
loom up pretty large in the general
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-21

which it may be dropped to the ground.
These are an innovation. On your fire
escape it may be necessary to lift the
ladder from its hook and lower it, with
nothing but your own strength and dex-
terity to keep it from pulling you over
into the street.
At the office Of the Tenement House
Commissioner one of the inspectors told
of the risk that is faced in an inadept
manipulation of this ladder.
Even with the new style of groove"
he said, at is well to take care not 70 let
yourself be pulled forward by the
weight of the ladder as it slides down.
| usually, on lifting the ladder from the
hook, lean back with all my weight and
let it down slowly. With the old style
way of lowering the ladder, which is
still in vogue in a great many houses, it
is no easy matter to balance yourself
and manipulate a heavy ladder at the
same time. A woman would have a diff
ficult time doing it under the most fav-
orable circumstances"
MANIPULATING AN IRON LAD
DER, WITH A BABY IN ONES
ARMS, IS NO TASK FOR
NOVICE.
Here we have an important manGu-
vre in a successful escape from fire, one
the fire escape in question and one with
which an official, whose duty it is TO test
such appliances, feels it necessary to
take particular care each time he does
it, and yet you can wait until midnight,
when you are clad in your nightclothes
and are leading the way Tor your wife
and family, with blistering heat strik-
ing at you through broken windows,
to investigate as to whether the
ladder is new or old style, whether it
will slide in grooves or will pull you over
into the network Of hose on the sidewalk
below unless you manage it in just the
right way.
1t is all very we'll to say that there
ought to be some better and safer way
of getting from the bottom of the fire
escape to the ground. Some day there
may be. But between tonight and that
time valuable citizens will continue TO
drop cigarette stumps into rubbish piles,
electric wires will continue to get cross
circuited and elevator wells will con-
tinue to be one of the best known con-
ductors of flames. And YOU are going
to be subject to the result.
If every person, on first moving into
an apartment house, should make it