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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-05-11
Canadians Training at Big
Cqmpin Realistic Manner

pearance of ghostly figures in gas
masks. Charging across the open
space of No-Man's Land into a storm OF
drifting smoke from smudges, repre-
senting poison gas, they rout the
enemy" from his trench, and go about
consolidating the position-just as they
will have to do in France tomorrow.
There is no childs play about the
battle. Bitter hand-to-hand encoun
tiers with spring bayonetS. harmless
but painful, are fought in the commun-
icating trenches, the wounded" are
carried back to the British lines on
stretchers. while the raiders work like
madmen, blocking the communicat-
Jig trenches and getting their Lewis
guns into position.
This is a new phase in the training
this sham warfare under typical
condition. And Canadians back from
the front declare that already it is
showing good results.
Another thing the Canadians in the
Surrey camps are trying for the first
time is a new system of bayonet fight
ing in the trenches. The Old-and the
French-system was to feint with the
bayonet, draw the Hun off his
cuard and then lunge over-handed at
his chest. Today the Canadians lunge
straight from the hip, dropping the
Init of the rife and bringing up the
point of the bayOnet sharply if they
Miss.
go right out after him." is the new
mand to a Tommy learning this phase
of the fighting, and it appeals to the
Canadians more than any other form
OF battle. GO right out after him." is
a sort of watch-word around Bran
shot and Whitley anyway-it's symbolic
Of the Canadian spirit.
These Canadians today are different
from the first overseas contingent.
And those that came with the first call
have changed, too. In 1914 and 1915
the complaint among the British off
GERS was that while the Canadians all
fought like the devil" they were not
well disciplined and were apt to run
wiiG. Today the same old dash and
is there, but the Canad-
ians are doing something even more
useful for the Allied cause. They are
making records daily as the best dis
ciplined. best. trained units of the Brit
ish army.
Canada and Britain and the Allies
can thank Bramshot and Whitley for
this new found efficiency which has
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-05-11
Copy of War Time Newspaper
Tells of Consumption In '6Os

days, ON a day to be fixed by the COM
mander of the brigade, to re-organize
said companies, battalions and regr-
ments by electing their officers which
they had right, heretofore, to elect,
who shall be commissioned by the
president;
Provided further, That all persons
under the age of IS years or over the
age of 35 years, who are now enrolled
in the military service Of the Confed
crate States, in the regiments, battal
ions or companies hereafter to be or
ganized, shall be required to remain in
their respective companies, battalions
and regiments for 80 days, unless their
places can be supplied by other re-
cruits not now in the service, who are
between the ages of IS and 35 years,
and all laws providing for the re-en-
listment of volunteers and the organ
ization thereof into companies, squad
rons, battalions or regiments shall be,
and the same are hereby repealed.
BE it further enacted, That al
soldiers now serving in the army Or
mustered into the military service of
the Confederate States, or enrolled in
said service under the authorizations
heretofore issued by the secretary of
war, and who ar continued in the SER
vice by virtue of this act who have
not received the bounty of $50 allowed
by the existing laws, shall be entitled
to receive said bounty.
BE it further enacted, That each
man who may hereafter be mustered
irto the service and who shall arm
himself with musket, shotgun or rife,
accepted as an efficient weapon, shall
be paid the value thereof, to be ascer
tanned by the mastering officer under
such regulations as may be prescrib-
ed by the secretary of war, if he is
; willing to sell the same, and if not,
then he shall be entitled to receive
one dollar month for the use of
said received and approved musket,
shotgun, rife or carbine. =
BE it further enacted, That each
company of infantry shall consist of
1876 rank anu file; each company OF
field artillery of $50 rank and file; each
company of cavalry of so rank and file.
BE it further enacted, That all
persons subject to enrolment who are
now in the service, under the provis-
ionso of this act, shall be permitted
previous to such enrolment, to vol
unteer in companies now in service"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-05-11
CRAVATH, ONCE DUMPED NOW
REABY TO SLUG WAY TO TOP

NEW YORK, May I'LL. G. Hamil-
ton, the we'll known sporting writer
says Gavvy Cravath, mourned year
ago as lost to the Phillies when he
failed to open campaign of fence
busting, has headed his horses straight
for fame again by starting the season
with several home runs.
The demon slugger almost slid out
of the National league last summer af-
ter he had been benched for inability
to hit. Waivers were asked on him
and he was headed for the Pacific
Coast league. However, it was a
wrong bunch, for the National leaguers
wouldn't waive and Gavvy stuck
around.
1t was in 1915, the year the Phillies
won National league championship,
that Cravath banged out twenty-four
home runs and hung up a record for
the league. But when his team strug
gled into the worlds series Gavvy and
his heavy bat might just as we'll have
been in a locker in the clubhouse. He
fell down with considerable gusto.
That may have taken the pepper out
OF him. Anyway, it was different
Cravath who reported for duty the fol-
lowing spring, and when the season
o1ened he was woefully weak at the
hat. With his average suffering from
a slump Gavvy rapidly became useless
in other points of the game and he was
finally stationed on the bench, and
then started for minor league berth.
When the slugger showed up this
spring the wise critics began to figure
him for pinch-hitting job and an oc-
casional day of fiy-chasing when the
other outfielders needed rest. Claude
Cooper was voted his job. Cravath,
however. fooled them. His bat began
doing its deadly work early in the
training days and when the season
opened there he was, doing patrol duty
in his old right field berth.
Before the season was two weeks
old Cravath had slammed out three
home runs and any number of the
other kind of hits.
They don't come back, 6ut GaTvy
Cravath is making an awful effort to
disprove that none of 'em can
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-05-11
BY F. W. GETTY.


WHITLEY, England, May 11--Can-
ada's part in the Great War is not
nearly played Fifty thousand broth
ers of the Canadians who saved the
day at Ypres" are here today, getting
ready to carry on the share of the
burden the Dominion has shouldered.
Spread out over the rolling hills OF
Surrey are the two greatest Canadian
camps in all England Here, in what
was once a wilderness of pine and
spruce and ivy, Canadian officers are
drilling Canadian men to take their
places in the big offensive already un-
err way on the west front.
Whitley, the largest of the camps
and Bramshot, where the raw recruits
fresh from Saskatchewan or Nova
Scotia are drilled are exclusively Can
adam organizations. The few units OF
Americans have moved off to the front
Imperial officers are here only on
visits.
The result is that the spirit of Can
ada and a new-found efficiency which
the commanders declare is making the
overseas forces the finest trained in
the world permeate the camps. The
men are fighting for England, but when
they speak of home" they mean Can
ada
Canadian officers in charge of these
camps have begun a new system OF
preparing the men from overseas for
actual warfare in France. Conditions
paralleling as closely as possible those
at the front, either exist or are manu-
featured at Whitley.
The pines of Gibbet Mountain, over
! looking the picturesque Devils
Punchbowl," see just as strange sights
these days as when hanged men kicked
in the wind in Cromwell's day. Top
ping a ridge that winds for miles
through the thiekly wooded or green
meadowed country. trench, with the
yellow clay soil thrown up on either
side, standing out wildly against the
landwscape, zig-zags its way. Paral-
leIing this trench and separated from
it by few hundred feet of waving
grass and here and there clusters OF
/ barbed wire is another-the "Boche's. f"
For a moment everything is quiet,
save for the occasional harsh cawing
of a flock of crows. Then the silence
is broken by crash of musketry and
The rattle of the deadly machine-guns
"a weird yell. rising from the depths
of the trench. is followed by the ap-
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-05-11

They made full use of the conscrip-
ton idea back in the days of the War
Between the States, when the Confed-
eracy was putting forth every effort to
Mace armies in the field to cope with
the ever-increasing numbers of the
FederaIs which were gathered from
all corners of the North.
Foes of the CONSUMPTION plan that is
about to- be put into operation in this
country to provide an adequate army
for our war against Germany will do
well to glance over the provisions OF
the CONSUMPTION act as passed by the
Confederate Congress in August, 1862.
In a copy of "The Daily Rebel" a
newspaper published in Chattanooga,
Tenn, during the troublous days OF
the Sixties, the full text of the con-
scription law then in force, may be
seen.
| J. p. Chapman, of this city, better
known as Uncle Bugg", has in his pos
session a copy of "The Rebel" con-
tanning the text of this much discussed
measure and for the information Of the
readers of the Times-Recorder, the
more important sections are re-produc'
cd herewith:
In view Of the exigencies of the
country and the absolute necessity o.
keeping in the service our gallant army
and of placing in the field large
az ditional force to meet the advanc
ing columns of the enemy now invad
ing our soil; therefore,
Section l. The Congress of thu
Confederate States of America do enac
That the president be and is hereb!
authorized to call out and place in thu
military service of the Confederate
States, for three years unless the wa
shall have sooner ended, all white mel
who are residents of the Confederate
States, between the ages of Is and 3
years at the time the call shall b.
made, who are not legally exempted
from military service. All of the per
sons aforesaid who are not now in thu
service of the Confederacy, and whose
term Of ST viii expire before thu
end of the war, and shall be continued
in the service for three years from thu
date of their original enlistment un
less the war shall have been sooner
ended; provided, however, that all suci
battalions or regiments whose terms
of original enlistment were for /.
months, shall have the right within A
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-05-11

added to the most fearless fighters
they possessed the quality of discipline.
A new system of intensive training, re-
Gently instituted, is making the Canad =
ians the equal of any troops in the
world.
There's a secret about this system
they got it from the Boche.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-05-11

Mister, I'm a stranger IN town. I'm
lost and can't find my way to the
depot" Better settle right here, my
friend" advised the booster. "Yor
couldnt locate il a better place"
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1917-02-22
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!. WEDNESDAY lat HOME" :.
/. VERY PRETTY EVENT :.
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Mrs. II. l.. Merryday and Miss Marie
Merryday delightfully."- entertained at
an AT Home" on Wednesday after
noon at the Merryday residence on
Ridgewood avenue, which proved a
very charming social event
In accordance with the proximity
of Washington's birthday red, white
and blue, the color note of the decora-
tions was abundantly carried out in
the rooms, thrown open en- suite. Red
and white carnations in artistic ar
rangement were the floral theme.
Plants. potted and palms. ferns and
smilax added their beauty
Five tables of bridge were occupied
by guests and when the pretty Wash
ington birthday tallies were totaled,
handsome prizes We're given Mrs. f.
Nj. Wilmington and Miss Dora Will
liams.
The refreshments We're pleasing
novelty American flags appeared up
on each plate of the luncheon course
adding much to the attractiveness of
the repast and calling forth sincere
admiration of the guests
Mrs. Merryday was daintlly gown
ed in a cream wolfe creation heavily
embroidered. while Miss Marie was
very pretty III navy blue taffeta after
noon frock With embroidery touches
Honor guests who received with the
hostesses We're Mrs. j NJ. Rogan. Mrs
j, j. Gray and Miss Fannie Walton
all OF Rockdale. Tennessee, the for
mer home OF Mrs. Merryday
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1917-02-22
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Friday-Matinee Musicale by Music
department of Palmetto club at
clubhouse.
Card party at RidgeWood. Mes
DANES Matthews and Foster as
hOsteSSes
Mrs T. A. Newell and Mrs. Edith
Newell entertained at cards at
Daytona Beach.
dancing at Casino Bursoyne
from $50 to l0.30
Saturday Weekly hops at Despland,
Ridgewood, Prince George.
Mrs julius Breckwoldt, Mrs. q.
w Ward and Mrs. Nm Breck-
woldt, bridge party at BrechWoldt
home on Halifax avenue, Sea
breeze.
Mrs. f y Newell and Miss
Edith Newell entertain al
their home at Dastona Beach at
cards.
Mr. and Mrs James H. smith
OF Daytona Beach. entertain at din
ner at Automobile club.
Sunday Sacred concert at the Casino
BurgOyne.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1917-02-22
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!. MRS. DAVIS ENTERTAlNS /.
!. WITH AUCTION BRIDGE I.
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Daintilv engraved salt spoons and
lemon forks We're the attractive favors
each of the feminine guests received
when Mrs. NJ +. Davis. of Cornwall
on-the Hudson, entertalnd at bridge at
the Prince George yesterday after
noon.
Three tables of bridge were arrang-
ed for the players in the foyer OF the
hotel and several hours We're spent
With auction. When counts We're add
ed. first and second prizes We're award
ed to Mrs Henry Hiteman. who re
ceived a pair Of lemonade spoons, that
paid tribute to Florida in their Orange
blossom handles. and Mrs. +. NJ
Bailey who received Il silver bonbeu
box. Third prizes. which We're 5len-
der silver sardine forks, went to Mrs
y. @. Holroyd and Mrs. James Hitch
cock. Punch and waters We're serve
after play.
Enjoying Mrs. Davis gracious hos
pitality We're MIR. and Mrs. Paul Jus
tice, Mrs. Alexander O. Holrovd. Mrs
3. NJ Bailey. Mrs w w Hilvayd
Mrs, NJ L. Qouliu, Mrs Henry 1Iite
man. Mrs James Hitchcock. Mr.. anG
Mrs. $. Johnson and Major NJ +
Davis.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1917-02-22
MRS. POTTER HOSTESS AT
PINK TULIP LUNCHEON

Pink tulips riotcd through the bridge
luncheon which Mrs E l.. Potter gave
yesterday at her home on Ocean boule-
ward to honor her sister. Mrs +. \
Viele, Of Evansville md and Mrs
Arthur Moody and Mrs G. L. Ragon.
guests OF Mrs Frank I.aughlin. From
the lovely centerpiece to the dainty
place markers the flowers were used
III every conceivable fashion
The luncheon table was laid with q
lace cloth. While the graceful center
piece Of pink tulips gave the key note
to the dominant motif of pink used in
the appointments OF the pretty affair
Place cards We're hand painted tulips
and the ices were eleverlv nodded in
flower forms. The attractive flower
idea was used in many original ways
i'll the course luncheon
After luncheon the guests repaired
to the living room for bridge. At the
end Of several interesting rubbers.
scores We're counted and prizes, lap
anese prints were awarded to Mrs
Arthur Moody Mrs. Rayfrand keenv
and Mrs. William Durrctt Mrs. Pot
ter is q talented hostess and made the
occasion q charming one to her guests
who We're the honorees. Mrs +. n
Nielc, Mrs. Arthur Moody and Mrs.
G. / Ragon and Mrs Frank Laugh
lin. Mrs 3. Moore. Mrs. S. Elliot
Billiard. Mrs William Durrett. Mrs.
William Sawyer. Mrs Mortimer r.
Fuller, Mrs r. G Wilkinson Mrs.
RAYMOND keeuy and Mrs. Louis Ship
perd
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1917-02-22

Miss Mildred Gilbert Of California.
an expert interior decorator, has taken
up the cause of woman suffrage and is
now one of the most active of the lob.
oyists In Washington in its behalf.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-08-03
RUN AUTOS WITH COAL GAS
London Motorists Find 1t Cheaper
Than Gasoline at Present High
Price of Latter.

Great interest has been aroused by
the reference made in the London
Telegraph recently to the economic adj
vantags of the utilization of coal gas
as substitute for petrol (gasolfne),
says that newspaper. 1t has been eS-
tablished by actual practice that 250
cubic feet of coal gas-the ordinary
gas that is used for household illumina
ton purposes equals one gallon of pc
troll when applied to the work of driv-
ing a motor vehicle. If gas costs 70
cents 1000 cubic feet it is equivalent
to petrol at 18 cents a gallon, and at
SO cents 1000 cubic feet is equivalent
to its competitor at q cents gallon.
AS petrol cannot be bought today
for commercial purposes at under 4S
to 5S cents a gallon, it will be seen
how great is the economy effected. So
far as the alterations rendered neceS-
sary to the engine of a motor vehicle
are concerned, the only additional ex-
penditure is about $3.50. and the gas
bag container for the storing of the
vapor costs $75. Thus, for the ex-
pendtiure of $3.50, an ordinary petrol
using motor vehicle of any description
can be converted into gas driven one,
and the driving expenses reduced enor-
mously.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-08-03
PLANTS FOR AROUND THE
HOUSE
BY LIMA r. ROSE.

A great deal of discriminating care
should be exercised about the plants
located close to the house, those set in
such q manner as to hide the founda-
ton of the house and relieve the bare
ness should be plants that do not grow
much higher than the wall.
Some of the best plants for this sort
of adornment are the herbaceous spi-
reas, dicentra and perennial phlox.
Such ANNALS as ten weeks stock.
aster, nicotiana, nasturtium and
coreOpsis can also be used effectively.
Make homes instead of houses by
the good taste exercised in your plant
ing around the home grounds and dis
play your originality along conServa-
tive lines and make your planting ar
rangements artistic.
Gladiolus furnish q brilliant display
in midsummer and the tuberose is a
fragrant plant that also should have
place near the house.
Scatter bulbs for early blooming all
through the lawn and close to the
path. Old-fashioned plants are al
ways a happy selection because they
possess genuine merit and have been
proved.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-08-03
GOOD HUM0R IS CONTAGIOUS
Petty Vexations of the Day Disap-
pear Quickly If Met With a
Smile or a Laugh.

Nothing in the world is so con-
tagious as good humor." 1t may cost
n little effort to keep oneself
good-humored in the midst Of all the
petty vexations that occur daily, but
if one has the habit of making light
Of these trifing annoyances, half Of
them will disappear. The annoyance
will be but for a moment and cleared
I'D with a smile or a laugh. Permit
ting these small vexations to take hold
of your spirits is mistake, says the
Milwaukee Journal. They wear out
nerve and temper and bring permanent
frowns to the face. They impair good
health. They unfit one for present du-
ties which must be performed in a
cheerful, genial frame of mind. Work
done in a resentful spirit never reaches
perfection. 1t misses the finer per-
sonal touches, which one gives when in
hearty, free, genial humor. Giving
way to vexation takes from courage
and self-cOnfidence. and this is evident
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-08-03

necessary to keep it within bounds, but
it covers a screen of ordinary height
with a thick mass of foliage that will
be found entirely effective in hiding
unsightliness or protecting the inmates
of a home from the observation of
passers-by.
When in bloom it challenges the
admiration of those who pass ordinary
plants by without attention, and when
out of bloom it is even much more at
tractive than the ordinary average
vine, because of the density of it's
foliage and its graceful habit Of
growth.
Before any plant can be grown with
success the soil must be- right. Heavy
soils can be lightened by Incorporating
them with sand, loan, anything that
will make them more porous. Wood
and coal ashes will answer this pur-
pose to some extent.
Old mortar is excellent. And what
ever you find available, and work 1t
into the original soil until its heavy
condition is relieved. At the same time
add plenty of fertilizer of some kind
ard work this In, too.
Use leather instead of cloth in tack
ing vines to the wall. Cloth will sell
dom last longer than a season. Then
if the vine has not found some per
manent sort of support for itself there
is danger of its falling down, and once
down it viii be found almost impos
sible to put back in a satisfactory
manner.
AS basis for vine support, try wire
netting. If possible fasten the netting
to the cornice above and then to stake:
in the ground below, drawing it al
tight as possible. Where this is don,
there will be q space between tn,
walls of the house and the vfnei
through which the air can freely cir
ctlate. This viii benefit the vine anC
will not injure the walls.
HOneysuckle is only adapted to tn
lower story of house. Taller growing
vines are necessary where one want
the vine to extend to the roof.
This matter of vines about the hous
is worthy of careful attention and ono
you have made up your mind what yo1
want to grow-go ahead.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-08-03
Would Know Worst.

John was an affectionate child am
was never quite contented unless he
was loving his mother. One evening
he was particularly generous with his
bear hugs and just a little rough and,
as his mother was tired and perhaps
a little cross, she said: Johnny, dear,
won't you please stop pulling on moth
er so and sit over in that chair, or
else 1 might not like you any more?"
John did as he was told and was
quiet for quite a while, all the time
looking as though he had lost his last
friend. Finally he said, in the most
plaintive little tone of voice imagin-
able, Mother, is that all you've got
against me?"