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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-01-26
IRVING GIDDINGS TO OPEN
NEW DRUG STORE IN AMERICUS

The storehouse under the Central
hotel, corner Cotton avenue and For
syth streets, is being remodeled ami
rut in shape for drug store, which
business will be established there
about February 1st by DIR. j, l. Gid
Gings, who will put in full line Of
drugs and druggists sundries. His
stock has already been ordered, and is
en- route to Americus now. The loca-
tion selected is good one, and DR..
Giddings has hosts of friends in the
city and county, who will wish him
much success in business.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-01-26
CONGRESSMAN FINLEY
PASSES TO BEYOND

CHARLOTTE, Jan. 26.-Represent
ative Finley, of South Carolina, died at
sanitarium here today, death follow
ing a brief illness.
The dead congressman was suffer
ing with pneumonia. and early today
his condition became critical, death
occurring shortly after noon. The
body will be prepared for burial and
held here pending arrival of relatives.
No funeral arrangements have been an
nounced.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-01-26
OVER 1900 DELEGATES TO
CLIMB STONE MOUNTAIN

ATLANTA, Ga, Jan. 26.-0ver 1000
Inen will climb the worlds greatest
boulder when theS delegates to the
annual convention of the National AS
sociation of Builders Exchanges are
taken to Stone Mountain on February
1ith to view the largest granite quar-
ries in the Southeast. This trip. fol-
lowing one to the marble quarries of
north Georgia on the previous day,
will reveal to the foremost eonstruc-
tors in the United States the unsur-
passed material which this section OF
the country produces for building
work.
The trip to Stone Mountain will re-
veal not only the wonder of the vast
mass of granite rising hundreds of
feet into the air from the level plain,
but will also give the delegates
glimpse of the most stupendous un-
dertaking in sculpture that the modern
world knows. Gutzon Borglum, the
noted sculptor, is hard at work on the
face of the cliff, carving figures of the
heroes of the Confederate army, each
ere fifty or more feet in height, out
of the solid stone.
The builders convention. which is
one of the largest of the national con-
ventions to come south this year, viii
meet in Atlanta from February ~ to
February II, inclusive.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-01-26
LOCAL BANKER
URGE PEOPLE To.
Be HERE JAN. 80

The three Americus banks are be-
hind the boil weevil meeting to be held
in Americus on January Both. They
have issued a statement, especially
calling attention to the presence of j.
M. Taylor, Mississippi banker, on
the program.
The meeting will be one of the great
stimulants utilized for a determined
fight on the boil weevil. The State
College of Agriculture is interested in
the meeting and the authorities on the
weevil will be here.
The notice from the three banks In
this city is:
I'VE, the undersigned, take this
method of inviting and urging the
farmers of this county to attend the
anticipated boil weevil meeting to be
held on January 3Oth, 1917, at 2:30
D. M, at the Sumter county courthouse
in Americas, Ga.
OnC VI pl A1NAP0A 2PSNiASAS
be Mr.. j. NJ. Taylor, vice president and
manager of the Mississippi Southern
bank, at Port Gibson, Miss. He is a
practical man who has lived through
boil weevil plague in the days when
scientific methods had not reached
their present degree of efficiency IN
stemming the weevil's ravages.
Mr.. Taylor and his bank not only
lived through those perilous times, but
he and others like him have brought
the great state of Mississippi into
new era of wealth and prosperity, sur
passing in every way the dynasty of
Old King Cotton.
Mr.. Taylor will visit Georgia as the
result of arrangements made by the
Georgia Bankers association. His ex-
renses will be betrayed by the Clear
ing Houses of Atlanta, Savannah, Au-
susta, Macon and Savannah. which pay
Cne-half, and by the United States de-
partment of agriculture, which pays
one-half
I'VE believe this is an excellent OPP
portunity for our farmer friends to
get an insight on the boil weevil sit
uation, and we respectfully urge them
tc be present at this meeting and hear
Mr.. Taylor and others on this i'm
portant subject.
PLANTERS BANK OF AMERICUS,
by L. G. Council, President.
BANK OF COMMERCE, by Frank
sheffield Vice-President.
COMMERCIAL CITY BANK. by John
l.. Mathis, Teller.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-01-26
BURGLAR CHASED
BY WOMAN WITH UMBRELLA

SAVANNAH, Ca, Jan. 26.-Breaking
out panel one one of the inside
doors of the residence of Mr.. and Mrs.
w H Bird, an Park avenue, and
squeezing through the aperture, a
negro burglar ransacked the place and
may have escaped with his loot, but
for the timely arrival on the scene of
Mrs. Bird, armed with an umbrella.
The intruder got away with seven
pennies only.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-01-26
WANT TO BUILD MONUMENT
TO FAMOUS BUFFALO BILL"

SAVANNAH. Ca, Jan. 26.-Savannah
has been invited to participate in a
movement to erect a monument to the
memory of Col. William W. Cody, bet
tre gnown as Buffalo Bilr,, the cost
of which is to be met by contributions
o. the new Buffalo nickels. The matter
was brought to the attention of the
savannah Board of Trade through a
similar organization in Atlanta, where
the idea is said to have originated
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-01-26
CHICAGO FEELS HER
COOLEST WEATHER

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Jan. 26.-Chicago is
in the grip of the coolest weather of
the present winter, with the official
thermometer registering four degrees
below zero at 10 o'clock this morning.
Much suffering and deprivation has
been caused by the severity of the
weather.
Villages and towns connected with
Chicago by interurban lines reported
before noon varying temperatures,
the mercury in some of these going
es low as ten to twelve degrees below
zero.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-01-26
DANIELS PLANS To
MAKE OWN SHELLS

WASHINGTON, D. c.. Jan. 26.-Sec-
retary Daniels of the navy department
today began preparations to begin the
manufacture of American naval pro-
jectiles in government Plant. The
action was taken because of the re-
fusal of the British government to per-
nit the firm of Hadfield's, Ltd, to do
the work.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-01-26
GERMAN VESSEL
SHELLS SUFFOLK
ENGLISH COAST

LONDON, Jan. 26.-An unidentified
German vessel during last night she'll
ed the Suffolk coast of England, es-
Gaping before destroyers sent to the
scene arrived. There were no casual
ties, and the warship is believed to
have been either a submarine of new
type or a commerce raider that sue
ceeded in eluding North Sea patrol
vessels Of the British feet.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-01-26
CHURCHWELL GOES
BACK TO coupons

Churchwell announces today that
they return to the custom of giving
coupons and premiums with all cash
purchases. 1t will be recalled that
they announced the withdrawal of this
plan several days ago.
Manager Taylor, of Churchwell's
stated that the demand of the public
for the coupons was so strong that
this strong firm could not afford not
10 satisfy the people.
They carry full page announce
ment of the fact in the Times-Recorder
today.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-01-26
No CHANGE IN THE
POLICY ON MEXICO

WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. 26.-The
withdrawal of American troops from
Mexico does not forecast any radical
change in the United States Mexican
policy, Secretary Lansing said late to-
day.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-01-26
Gnynemer Gets 2sth Plane.

PARIS, Jan. 26.-Lieutenant George
Guynemer brought down his twenty
eighth enemy airplane yesterday, the
war Office announced today. Lieut..
Guynemer also brought down an enc
ply airplane the day previous.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-01-26
EVENING PRAYER TONIGHT
AT CALVARY CHURCH

Evening Prayer will be said tonight
in Calvary church at 1880 P. NJ. After
the services there will be choir re-
hersal. A full attendance is urged.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-01-26
, = y ! 4 = = = y = = = = 1
, DAILY WEATHER FORECAST 4

' The weather forecast for Amer A."
> icus and vicinity follows:
= Fair tonight and Saturday with I
y probably frost tonight.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-01-26

The Times-Recorder is the ONLY paper
in the Third Congressional District with
Associated Press Service.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-08-22
Still HOPEFUL
BELIEVE RAILROADS IN TINE
WILL DEVELOP RESOURCES
OF LITTLE BEND.

Pierre, Aug. although promo
ters of the Little Bend power project
have failed in their attempt to land
the government nitrate plant. they
are encouraged to believe that in
time the possibilities of the site will
receive attention.
The possibilities of a great power
plant at Little Bend have attracted
the interest oil railroads operating in
South Dakota. Railway engineers
have been investigating the project.
Several railroads operating in South
Dakota are said to be preparing to
electrify certain parts of their lines.
w. b.. Finlay, chief engineer for
the Chicago and Northwestern, who
assisted the committee in presenting
the possibilities of this site to the
government, in connection with the
nitrate plant, says of the project
The physical features are adapt
ed to the construction of water pow
er by means of a diversion dam and
canal of approximately 40-foot head.
The minimum flow of the Missouri al
Little Bend is approximately 10, 600
second feet. The approximate cost of
a hydro-eleetric development at Lit
tie Bend upon a safe and permanent
basis would be, in my judgment, at
least $40. 000, 600"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-08-22
STEEL AND COPPER
ESTIMATES READY

Washington, Aug. %. - Preliminary
estimates of steel and copper produc-
ton costs have been completed by the
federal trade commission and will go
to President Wilson for use in fixing
prices for the governments war re-
quiremCnts.
Fiaures on costs of other basic ma
terials win be ready soon.
The government and industry have
been farther apart, perhaps, on the
price Tor steel than on any other com
modify. At present all government
purchases are made on tentative price
bases. with the final price to be de
tern med after the government has
gone over the commissions figures.
The navy department is paying sos
a ton and the shipping board $50.
The commissions report goes more
deeply into actual cost figures. II
recommends, it is understood, that the
president designate some government
agency TO pursue a constant inyesti
cation into steel costs of production
of each government order, because oil
the great difference in production
costs in various mills.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-08-22
PRESSMAN HURT


Aberdeen, Aug. 22.-Ivan Thomas.
pressman for the Aberdeen American,
lies at a local hospital. seriously in
jured, as the result of an accident
on Sunday morning. The young
mar was sitting on a chair. operat-
ing the lever to the press. when he
unconsciously extended his left leg.
and the foot was caught between the
spoke of the wheel and the drive bar
of the press. The injured boy dis
played great presence of mind, pull
ing the lever to stop the press. but
the wheel made a half turn before ii
could be stopped. Thomas then di-
rected his assistants in the work of
releasing him, which necessitated
turning the wheel another half turn.
The foot was taken off and several
bones in the Leg were broken, and
the leg itself fearfully mangled.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-08-22
GUNS FOR DAKOTA
WAR DEPARTMENT ALLOTS QUO
ia FOR HOME GUARD Or
CARNATIONS.

Washington. ID. c., Aug. 22.-The
war department has advised Senator
Sterling that there have been allotted
to Gov. Norbeck for the use of home
guards 500 Springfield rifles with Is
rounds of ammunition per rifle.
Authority has also been given to the
governors of the several states to
call upon the educational institutions
and rifle clubs for such rifles and
ammunition. the property of the
United States, as may be in their pos
session. The authorization for the
issue of rifles and ammunition is
contained in a law passed last June.
Recently several bills have been in
troduced in the senate intending to
curb the activities of the I. w. w.
and Senator Sterling has been APP
pointed on a subcommittee of the ju-
dietary committee to consider fur
her legislation which it is hoped will
be effective in restraining the l.
w. w.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-08-22
WHEAT PRICES
STATE MARKET COMMISSION AID
VISES HOLDING GRAIN.

Pierre, Aug. 22.-The state mar
ket commission, on complaints of
many farmers on wheat prices, in
vestigated the range and found that
on August IA prices ranged from
SITS to $3.50 at different points in
this state with the same freight rate
to Minneapolis, and that for the
same date the Minneapolis price vas
$3.50 to SO. At n station it was
found that on 30 carloads of new
wheat shipped out the price paid was
$3.50, except on August IA, when it
was $2.40.
AS a result of this the market de-
partment recommends that farmers
hold their grain until the market be-
comes settled, or sell at the local
market only under contract for set
Element at the terminal market price
less freight and a reasonable COM
mission for the handling OF the grain
or on contract with the local dealer
to handle the product for shipment
at an agreed price per bushel.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-08-22

OF the railway 10 reach Petrograd, a
distance of 5000 miles.
Jay says Russia offers the greatest
opportunity for development he ever
dreamed of. They need railways
most. They have main lines ~aplenty,
but no feeders, and for that reason
the country is ~undeveloped, but he
says a James j. Hill will get over
there some day from America and see
that the country is opened up.
He says the people have all they
need to eat and wear, but adds that
they do not expect as much TO eat and
wear as we in America. The bread.
he said, was impossible stuff, and
black as the ace of spades. No Amer
lean can stomach it, but the Russians
eat it and get fat. They issued bread
tickets, but the bread is not worth a
ticket to an American.
The entire party was under a Ger
man bomb plane while sitting in a
railway coach, and saw the Russian
antiaircraft burst shrapnel within a
few feet of the enemy plane. but il
went its way without doing any dam
age other than scouting.
The party was present when 1900
German prisoners were brought in
the rear. Jay said they were from
16 to so years of age, the greater
number boys and young men, vel
fed, but dirty and ragged and seant.
lily clothed.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-08-22
STATE NEWS.

Mitchell-Kenneth G.. Foster. of
Mitchell. has successfully passed the
entrance examinations into the army
aviation corps at Omaha, according
to word received by relatives here.
Yankton-Leo M. Fitzpatrick, at
torney of Tabor. was before United
States Commissioner T.. T. White.
charged with violating the p~ostoffice
penal code, in using letters and post
cards with intent to defraud. Fftz-
patrick, who is very well known, was
bound over in bonds of $4,000 TO APP
pear for trial next October at fed
eral court in Sioux Falls.
Brookings-South Dakota leads
Group Z states in the campaign rails
ing funds for army Y. M. C. A., the
total having reached s16,500. The
other states in this group are North
Dakota, Utah, Oklahoma, Arizona,
Louisiana, Montana, Maine and New
Hampshire. The various counties in
this state are setting their marks at
$1,000 to $1,000. The cities have
already completed their funds with
amounts ranging from $1,000 to
$4,000.
Sioux Falls-Park Davis, aged so,
one of the best known attorneys of
South Dakota. died al the family
home here this morning after a pro-
longed illness. He was a native of
Vermont. In 1874 he represented st.
Adams in the Vermont legislature.
He had been a resident of Sioux
Falls since 1856. For some years
prior to that time he was engaged
in the practice of law at st. Paul,
Mimi. He was a prominent Mason.
A former partner, j. Howard Gates.
now is a member of the South Dakota
supreme court.
Hudson-The war in Europe is
coming closer each day to the
people of South Dakota. Mrs
Archie Duncan, of Hudson, has just
been advised hat her brother, Glenn
Oaks, had been killed in France. He
was a son of William Oaks, a well
known resident of the Hudson terri
tory. Young Oaks enlisted in 4 Ca
madam regiment two years ago and
had been carrying supplies to the
first line trenches with automobiles
for some time. He was fatally
wounded on the field of battle and
died a short time later in a hospital to
which he was rushed. The body viii
be sent TO Winnipeg, Can. and Mr.
Oaks. who is a veteran of the civil
war, will go to Winnipeg and bring
the body to Hudson for burial.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-08-22
COMPANY MASCOT
MORE DRILLS, HARDER WORK
PROMISED-MARkSNEN
BEING TRAINED.

Company + has adopted a mascot.
The wistful look which has haunted
the eyes of the men is dissipated now
and complete contentment reigns. 1t
Is a mongrel pup with a month of
earthly experience and of three days
military training. In appearance it
Is not so much, seeming, as Booth
Harrington would say. TO be the re-
suit of a series Of strange mesalli-
ances. AT first its name was Hatch"
But there afterward developed a dis
satisfaction with the appellation, and
though champions fought manfully
for the name, in solemn c%onclave as
sembled. the company changed it.
and the pup is now called to meals
by whispering joy"
Some days & the company had a
pig which gave great promise of be
ing a successful military adjunct to
the camp. But eve with a red rib
bon about it's sweet little neck il
would not conform gracefully to sol
der life and il was mustered out OF
service. The fate of the animal will
forever remain in doubt. for none
will tell of its passing or destination
at prevailing prices.
There Is a regular schedule of
studies followed now by the com
pany, divided in squads over the
grounds. The non-coms have school
for an hour under the more expert
enced officers. then take squads out
and teach them what they have learn
ed. This morning there were classes
in Workmanship. rolling camp and
bedding equipment. manual of arms,
and various other things going on in
at least eight different places on the
parade.
Pictures of the company have been
taken at different times. and Photog-
rapher A. C. Floe trained a panoram-
ic camera on them again this morn
ing-mascot. cooks and all. To fur
nish two buglers for the camp. Trum-
peter Leonard Cook was placed al
one wing of the half circle. When
the camera had been turned on and
began revolving past him. he ran be
hind the Gamer and took up his sta
ton at the other wing, thus register
ing twice in the same picture-which
is as ii should be.
Capt, Linstad said this morning
that there were three hikes laid out
for this week. Friday morning they
are to hike eight miles. and records
kept of distance. time, cadence. form
and the condition of the men and
their feet. Another dance is being
arranged for the nea future, but
after that the captain a y that things
are going to tighten up, and a more
rigorous discipline maintained. Ear
lier hours for lights out, and moro
work will be the order of the day.
closely approaching that idea eX-
pressed by the bromidous expression.
intensive training"
Workmanship is being taught
and a record kept of the approach tC
perfection. A gun is mounted OF
rests, aimed al a white card at a dis
lance of so yards. A mark the size
of a nickel is held on the white sur
face, and the man is given three
shots Il il, calling mark when he
has it spotted each time. and the
position of the spot Is marked. The
eloseness of the marks made indicate
the accuracy of the aim.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-08-22
MIRROR IN CLOUDS
Priceless Telescope Reaches
Home on Mount Wilson.
WEIGHS FIVE TONS IN ALL.
Armed Men Watch Over Largest Re-
Hector In World on Way Up-Since
Reaching This Country Eight Years
Ago II Has Undergone Polishing
Process to Make 1t Perfect.

Los Angeles, Cal.-Accompanied by
an armed escort, the priceless concave
mirror for the hundred inch reflector
telescope was successfully transported
from Pasadena to the Mount Wilson
observatory. The mirror, which weighs
five tons. was taken up the tortuous
mountain road on a specially construct
ed cradle on a truck geared to run two
miles an hour.
Because of a report that an effort
would be made to wreck the mirror on
the steep mountain road special pre-
cautions were taken to guard 1T. Dep
uty Sheriff L. III. Hayden and Deputy
Constable K. l.. Rodgers. the one riding
ahead and the other behind the truck
guard. The convoy included about $50
persons In thirty motorcars.
The truck with the mirror left the OBJ
~servatory shops In Pasadena at Z a. m.
and arrived ut the top Of the mountain
at l p. m. The arrival of the mirror
and those who accompanied 1t was Gel
ebrated by a flag ceremony at the OBJ
servatory. An immense United States
flag was draped over the door OF the
dome which Is to be the home of the
mirror. When the truck passed inside
the building the flag was unfurled
across the doorway and the crowd of
200 persons applauded.
The glass disk. which is the object Of
intense interest i'm the scientific world.
Is 101 inches In diameter and thirteen
inches thick and weighs 10000 pounds.
1t was cast In France and brought to
Pasadena eight years ago. since which
time Ii has been subjected to a slow
and careful grinding and polishing
process. This was under the supervi
sion of Professor G. w. Ritchey.
The framework of the telescope has
been built and Is ready for the installa-
ton of the large mirror and the smaller
mirrors which will be used with it.
The great apparatus will be ready for
use I'm about three months. II will be
the largest telescope in the world, and
astronomers declare II will be impossi-
BILE to make a larger one successfully
since the drawbacks increase rapidly
as the size and light gathering capacity
of the mirrors increase.
The telescope is Of the rejecting type,
with no light passing through the glass.
as I'm the case of the old style ~refract-
ing telescopes. The Immense conceived
mirror, silvered on the lower side, viii
repose at the bottom of a tube, where
Ii will reflect the image of the heavens
to smaller mirrors set %diagonally at the
upper end of the tube. The observer
will get the image from the small mir
rors and not the large one. Because OF
the size and power of the glass 1t Is be.
lieved II will open up vast undiscoy-
cred areas in the heavens. The enter
prise of building the new telescope was
i~naugurated by DR.. George Il. Hale. di-
rector of the observatory.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-08-22
Ghost Shows Gold,

Roseburg, Ore.-Chen Waung, a Chi
nese cook of this city, recently found
500 In gold In the house of Hop Lee,
who was a victim of the tong wars two
years ago. He says that the ghost of
his murdered friend directed him to the
treasure. The money was found in q
paper bag I'm plain sight OF all who en-
tered a that had never been oc-
cupied since the murder. Chen Waung
believes that Hop Lee would have
killed him IL he had not obeyed the
ghostly summons.