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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-11-08
JEWS IN POLITICS.

With so much interest centering in
Poland, where Russias whole Jewish
population, numbering hundreds Of
thousands and constituting perhaps,
the greatest Hebrew colony in exist
ence, has existed during many years
despite rigorous official oppression, It
it but natural that world interest has
turned to the political prowess of the
Jewish race.
Benjamin Disraeli afterwards Gre
ated Earl of Beaconsfeld, was the
first Jew to attain great political
prominence and power in England.
His ambition, stated upon his entry
into the political arena, was the prime
ministership, and that office he held
for seven years. Not only in poll
tics was he successful, but he also
achieved fame as a novelist.
keynote to Disraeli's character is
found in the expression which he de-
liyered after his unsuccessful maiden
speech in the house of commons in
1927, when he was only thirty-two
years of age. He then said;
Il have begun several times many
things, and have often succeeded at
last l will sit down now, but the
time will come when you will hear
me-"
And the time did come when his was
the most powerful voice in all Eng
land, when his every word was atten-
lively listened to by the nation
Newspaper men find special inter
est in Disraeli. because he consid-
cred himself one of them. In 1888,
when he was protesting in the house
of commons against the curtailment
OF the freedom of the press, he said;
"As for the press, l am myself
gentleman of the press, and have no
other escutcheon."
pisraeli belongs to a period and a
generation only once removed. There
are many still who knew him. But
his type, replete with dramatic values,
is reflected in a measure by Kerensky,
who is at the head of the Russian ma
ton, and the end of the war, whpn-
ever this may come, in all probability
means the dawn of a new freedom foi
Jews in Poland, and an era of pros
perity unknown in that country since
lis jealous neighbors cast greedy eyes
upon its fair possessions and began
plotting. avariciously, it's partitioa
among themselves.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-11-08

Harvard undergraduates and alumni,
while the navy stands second, with
$40 men from that college engaged in
its work.
In addition to those enumerated
above there are 1885 men now train
ing in the Harvard Reserve Officers
Training Corps, not included in the
comparatively small number named
above who have already finished the
course of instruction and are ready
to enter active service whenever call
ed upon to do so.
The record, on the whole, reflects
credit upon Harvard, as well as Illus
tyates aptly the distinguished service
given the nation in this hour of
stress by institutions of higher learn
ing. What is true of Harvard is cor
respondingly true of every other first
class college in the United States,
and it is to these institutions that
army and navy authorities look for
continuous supply of officers to
command additional units of the Ma
tional army as these are called into
service, though it must not be over
looked that in such a democracy as
that under which we live, promotions
from the ranks are but the natural Sc
quence of raising such a huge army
from civilian ranks, where men of
a high order of intelligence are call
cd upon to shoulder arms in defense
Of the nation.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-11-08
CLEANING THE SLATE ANNUALLY

1t is a Chinaman's religion that he
must not sleep at the end of New
reay's Day until he has paid every one
of his hills.
In a country where probably nine
tenths of all business is transacted
on credit basis, as is the case in
the United States, such policy is
perhaps, impossible Yet is is refresh
ing to consider what happy results
would accrue from the adoption Of
such a policy here in Americas.
Suppose each one of us were to
adopt such a policy-what new life it
would give trade! How the mer-
chants would smile and glow and rub
their hands, as the checks and dollars
rolled in! And is it saying too much
To infer that with the removal of all
losses through unwise credits, that
profit margins could safely be reduc-
ed, and the cost to the consumer sub
stantially lowered?
1t is within the bounds of Chart.
to state that somebody pays. the mer-
chant for every dollar lost through
misplaced confidence in the profess
s'onal dead-beat, or even the honest
person who because of unexpected mis-
fortune, is unable to meet his obliga>
Il rs. Men skilled in the handling OF
credits are at the head of business
everywhere, and these men are not
without information concerning losses
sustained-and such information al
most without exception, is expressed
in percentages That these percentage
losses are added to the profit the mer-
chant must make in order to continue
IN business, is easy to infer
1t is a familiar fact that merchants
always declare that their most satis-
factory customers are the people OF
the so-called middle classes-those
who pay cash for goods purchased or
else go without them. OF course, the
latter method does not quite suit all
dealers, who get their stocks to sell
rat at least they know where they
stand, and do not have to wait per-
haps for whole year, until some
wealthy ard diliatory patron gets
ready to sit down and write dozen
words on a slip in his check book.
1t is a discouraging fact that the
very ones who need most to pattern
after the conscientious Chinese and
pay their bills promptly, are in many
instances, those to whom debt paying
means no greater exertion than draw
4,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-11-08
A COLUMN or CLIPPINGS
Flowing in Milk and Honey.

Bibb county folks have been told
so often and it has been so generally
true that they have come to accept as
settled forever and day the perma-
neLt superiority of the dirt roads of
HiLb, where Providence ready mixed
the ideal sand-clay material for high
ways. But what has been true in the
days that used to be can only be kept
trl,e by the most unremitting care and
attention to the naturally unequaled
advantages we have.
There are other sections of Geor-
gia close upon our heels in the ex-
Ceilency of their dirt roads, smaller
counties many of which have 10
build their roads at much greater
trouble than we do ours are doing big
things, and some of them are doing
them on the main travelled through
lines, such as the Dixie Highway
routes For instance, there is a
stretch Of road between Dawson and
Cuthbert that is the equal of any
stretch of road of equal length in
the state of Georgia, and there is one
piece of it, running from Shellman
to Cuthbert that is today for its en-
tire length equal to the best days Of
our own Lorraine Speedway ever know
Americas and Sumter county now have
stretches Of road the equal of our
own, and are working on better things,
while from Americas to the Alabama
line, although the section that takes in
Dawson Plains, Preston, Richland,
CuthDert, SheIlman and Fort Gaines
have neishborhood roads the equal Of
the average high roads in a state that
is famous for its through dirt high
ways.
1t Is all part of the wonder
works that have been wrought in
South Georgia, that wonderland of al!
the Southeast Rich an dfruitful lands,
bursting barns-with paint on them
well-flled hog pastures, field after
field of stacked fodder, new automo-
hles singing along every road, cottol
piled high on every station platform,
cattle fattening in every field, fences
I'll and going up everywhere, towns
that are becoming cities and villages
growing into towns, negroes driving
mules worth in no case cent
than $500 and hitched to ew buggies
rocked out in new light driving hay
ANoo al q pant Vi Aht WOiluClS anu
tie triumphs that have been work ID
out of the great grey and brown lands
of the plain between the Chattahoochcel
aud the Flint
Middle Georgia has for long been
supreme as the best all-around farm !
ing section Of the state, but that day
has passed when these honors may
any longer be lightly worn or taken at
all without strong effort. Southwest
Georgia has come into the feld-not
only coming, but is established in it,
and will not be denied--Macon Tele-
graph.
The further into Italy the kai5sI
goes the further awnv from homo
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-11-08

We asked a girl friend the other day
how long a grown woman ought to
wear her skirts, and she said until
the style changes" How many inches
is that?
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-11-08

Next year about this season, Ameri-
Gus folks will be telling the visitors
about the wonderful exhibits on dis
play at the Third Agricultural District
fair here.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-11-08

A local statistician has figured out
that Sumter farmers sold crops other
than cotton this year to a value Of the
whole crops produced here in former
years This is making cotton into d
SORT of velvet fabric, as it were
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-11-08

viii somebody tell us the differ
eace between a Chicken" and y
FIapper?" Had one of the latter point
ed out to us the other day, but the
only difference we saw was the
"swagger stick" she carried
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-11-08

The Sumter County Sunday School
association, which held its annual
convention at Plains this week, CO.
tinues to increase it's Christian intiu-
enee in every community, and it may
be zsid through it more members are
added to the church rolls than any
other one agency.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-11-08
ing a check.

This is the the season when the ice
man and the coal baron are most I'M
comfortable But then the dear pee
pull" ought to have an inning once in
while.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-11-08

That offer of years subscription to
any white man who will openly ac~
knowledge his intention to vote for
Tom Hardwick still standardization
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-11-08

Not that we intend to discontinue
the sending out of monthly state
ments but merely to complain about
something, we would remind our out
of-town subscribers that each bill we
nail them now costs us three cents
and that the price of the paper hasn't
advanced any to this writing.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-11-08
WASHINGTON CAMP, NO. IA,
p. u. =. OF A.

Meets every first and third Monday
nights in p. 0. S. OF A. Hall, No. 215
Lamar st. All members In good stand
ing invited to attend. Beneficiary certi-
Coates from $4,000 to $2,00o.00 issued
to members OF this camp.
T. E. CASTLEBERRY, President.
o. D. REESE, Recd'g. Sec'y.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-11-08

Amercus postoffice receipts in
creased approximately 10 IL per cent
last year-and this doesn't include any
Scent letters. either.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-11-08

That tourist who asked at local
hardware store a few days ago for
solicited alcohol, evidently was not
familiar with Georgias prohibition
laws.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-11-08

If there is a mattress factory any
where that will renovate Georgia's
devastated mint-beds, we'd like to
know it.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-11-08

Every now and then a working man
wishes he was out of job, but he IS
seldom of such opinion on pay-days.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-11-08

Any man who will kick against such
weather conditions as have prevailed
here recently is hard to satisfy
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-11-08
PARAGf APHICALLY SPEAKING

The latest best seller-Cotton seed
at $81 ton!
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-11-08

Thank goodness, our mail is getting
lighter as the month grows older.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-11-08

The further into Italy the kaissf
goes the further away from home
he finds himself
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-11-08

know it.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-05-24
HENRY.

Miss Lue Starkweather went to
Florence Saturday and visited until
Tuesday evening with her friend, Mrs.
Will Olson.
Hattie Hammel, nurse in Luther
hospital, spent Sunday with home
folks.
Mrs. Hopkins, of WATERFOWL, visited
Tuesday with her sister, Mrs. Keyes.
Mrs. Albert Gilman and Winnie
Doms left Monday morning for AIbee,
to visit their sister, Stella Doms, who
is quite sick.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. b. Andrus. and
Lola visited relatives in Clark, Sun
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Keyes and Mrs. Hop,
kins autoed to Garden City Wednes-
day for a days visit with the Wag.
ner family.
Mr.. e. w. Schoonover returned to
his home Sunday morning after visit
ing for several days with his son, Err
nest.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-05-24
Seed flax for sale. Flax Fibre Co
YAHoTA AND FULLER.

The Farmers club did not meet
Friday night on of the bad
weather.
Rev. w. F. Sauer held services at
the Lake View school house, Sunday
afternoon. He will preach there
again in three weeks, at four O'Clock
in the afternoon.
Miss Thelma WEIGH was home over
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs Smith Robbins and
little Lois called at Kenilworth farm,
Thursday evening.
Andrew Daley was a caller in the
neighborhood. Thursday afternoon.
John Stroup and family spent the
week end with Mr.. and Mrs. c. W.
Clapp.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence OTTaole of
Florence visited over Sunday at the
Ed 0'Toole home.
Mrs Carl P-eaersan spent Friday
night at the W W. olds home.
Mr.. and Mrs. John stroup and Mr..
and Mrs. w. G. Clapp and families
took Sunday dinner at The ST. Clair
home.
Miss Kaiser spent Friday night at
the o. r. Schmeling's.
Mr.. and Mrs. Smith Robbins made a
trip to South Shore, last Thursday
morning.
Mr.. j. F. Leonard was so unfortunate
as to break two Of his ribs last week,
but he is getting along as well as can
be expected.
Mr.. E. Borns Miss Mable and Mas
Ter Elmer Borns and Mrs. D. Borns
visited at the win Meseberg home,
Sunday.
a number of the ladies' or the
neighborhood gathered at the IN, w.
0ids home last Wednesday afternoon.
The party was In honor Of Grandma
Dlas. the occasion being her ssth
birthday anniversary. She received Al
shower Of gifts of every description,
showing the esteem in which she is
held By those present. Late In the
afternoon Mrs. w. w. Odds served re-
freshments.
Last Friday being the last day of
school, Miss Kafnke and the pupils
Of the Mace school held a picnic at the
O'TooIe farm Miss Kannke left the
next day for her home at Waseea.
Mimi.
We are glad to state that Mrs. i.
Robbins y much better at the pres
ent writing
Twelve Of the ladies Of the neigh
borhood surprised Mrs, Ed. o,Toole,
last Thlrsday They took their lunch
and very pleasant afternoon was
enjoyed BIZ al.
Farmers club will meet al the q,
~schrneling home. Friday night.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-05-24

Today, IN considerafion of the TACT
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-05-24

tween the United States and Ger
many. Congress is expected to accept
the recommendation By ~ large ma
jority
The message declares that the order
10 the Brazilian authorities enjoining
the observance s0f neutrality was only
intended to have effect until congress
met. 1t continues:
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-05-24
A Boy in a thousand

The Saturday News has no DISPOSE
ton to single out this lad for special
mention because of the standing of
his kin in the community, but rather
for the purpose of calling attention
to what may be termed a phenomenon,
so far as boys are concerned, and
to paint a moral, so to speak.
This boy was reared in the home
of plenty, where he could have every
thing that was necessary for a boys
comfort and well being, although it is
assumed from the general inclination
of the lad that luxury for luxury's
sake was never showered upon him.
Yet, as we say, having been born
in a home in a semi-metropolitan city,
having been reared in metropolitan
environments, where he received his
common school education, having en-
c%ountered more or less of social life
as it is known in a city of several
\ laCdcdhN fAiiliubfIoiIlo- tliS wy Wliite
he doubtless enjoys social amenities
within certain limitations and may
hap delights in the social dance now
and then, prefers a life of usefulness
to n of pleasure-prefers to eschew
the foibles and follies of mere social
functions incident to city life for life
on the farm.
We don't know that this boy is par
ticularly smarter, as one may say,
from a mental or physical standpoint,
than thousands OF other boys, or than
hundreds of other boys right here in
Watertown; in fact, for the purpose
for which mention is herein made, it
is assumed that he is o
And it is not presumed that the boy
doesn't enjoy life, as other boys do
for that's a matter that we are not
passing upon.
But, having had opportunities, in
all probability, to accept life behind
a bank counter, OF in some other ca
pacity find employment in the city,
yet he prefers the experimentation and
the toll incident to stock-raising, hav-I
ing taken a course in animal husband-
~ in one of the best-known a~gricul-j
tural colleges in the west, rather than
life which would warrant the wearing
OF a boiled shirt and a stand-up COLI
lar each day Of the week.
Very likely some of our readers
have already guesses whom we have
in nlind,-and maybe some Of them
may think the story a little over
draRn,--but. be that as it may, we
think all will agree with us that it's|
peculiar, to say the least, that Ludlow
~Fahnestock should prefer to lead the
life Of a farmer and stock-raiser TO
that of a bank official or that OF the
president Of d mercantile establish
ment.
There are lots OF other boys who
have done Just as much and are doing
Just as mueh.-boys reared Id the
country and boys reared i'll the town.
but the boys who do such things ar
the exception rather than the rule,
and they are boys with ideals who
try to live up I'd the standards they
have respectively set Tor themselves.
,
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-05-24
kAMPEskA AND RlcHLANp.

Mrs. Roy Wellington knows exact
ly how to plant potatoes.
A little miss arrived Saturday at
the Peter Molln home to make her
residence there. Her name is Anna
Marion. Mother and babe are doing
nicely.
Roy Wellington called at the E. H.
Oleson home Monday, this week.
Mr. and Mrs, Frank Carnes called
at the Peter Molln home Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Toms and fam
lily and the Misses Sarah Smith and
Irene Patterson called at the A, A.
Carnes home, Sunday afternoon.
Mr.. Benson called upon Mr.. and
Mrs. Beach, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Zene Tobey were
callers at the Will Toms home the
last of the week,
Mr., and Mrs. Carl Zweig left for
Lime Ridge, Wisconsin, to visit Mr..
Zweig's parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Wellington were
Sunday visitors at the Virgil Wish
ard home.
Frank Wellington is helping at the
Roy Wellington home al present.
Mrs. John Molln and Mrs. Wing
we're callers at the Peter Molln home
Sunday to see the e mother and
babe.
Mr.. chas. Wellington and Miss
Blanche were witty visitors Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. e. H, oleson and
family were city shoppers, Saturday.
Mr.. H. C. Tigner returned home
from one of the local hospitals, Wed
nesday last. He is getting along
nicely, although quite weak YET. Miss
Grace Tigner is under the weather
at present also.
Miss Gladys McDougal was a home
visitor yer Sunday
Speaking of the patch of alfalfa OF
the which We mentioned in last weeks
issue Mr.. Fred Brown said TO us that
a lad who worked for him some time
ago who hailed from Nebraska had
stated it was quite customary in the
section of the state in which he lived
to plow or break their alfalfa fields
(where they We're several years old
and they desired to break them up
some) in the fall of the year, grow
a crop OF wheat on The ground the
following year and let ii go back 10
alfalfa gain, the legime coming on in
good shape after the breaking. MFR.
Brown thought 1t might work here
but felt il would need to be broken
in the spring to avoid winter killing.
BY the way. there GEMS to have
been considerable winter killing Of
alfalfa in this state the past winter.
The writer has patches Of alfalfa In
his fields that produced heavy yields
last year that are barely showing w
at all this spring. The Grimm came
through all right. No doubt the.
Grimm is very hardy, The new Cos
sack seems To combine the hardness
of the Grimm with d greater yield BIZ
hay. If s :, It will prove more desir-
able than the Grimm
And here is q suggestion for chick
e rover which suggestion NJ no.
ticed lii one OF our @far nannrs VIZ
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-05-24

last Thursday.
Willie Nisbet and Bonnie Warner
drove to Croker last Sunday after
| seed corn.
Miss Ida Kerkeby spent a few days
visiting Miss Mildred Groves last
week.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-05-24
From the Rural Precincts


drinking fountains getting dirty by
the chickens scratching around them,
place upon a wide board or small,
low platform; this will assist you
greatly.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-04-12
SheriT's Sale.

Nv virtue and authority Of Il special eyecu-
ton issued from the Office Of the Clerk of the
Cire,ti, Court Of Iron County, Missouri and to
nae. the undersigned Sheriff, directed. in favor
Of tie State Of Missouri, at the relation and to
the Use Of 3. p, gurnham. Collector Of The
gayeu,,s for Iron Cnuaty. Missouri ul4;nt;lY.
ard a@atnst
Henry p 1Ttilno II living mr. the ,,,k no,on
.c,sort bair. ard d.yi,oos ,y r1,rrs y u,lIor
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-04-12
Sher;h's Sale.

BY virtue and authority Of a special eXecu-
ton issued from the office of the Clerk OF the
Circuit Court Of Iron County. Missouri and TO
ME. the undersigned Sheriff. directed. in favor
Of the State of Missouri. AT the relation and 10
the use of B. P. Rurnham. Collector Of the
Revenue for Iron County, Missouri. plaintiff,
and against
J. l.. Guff and Jennie Golf, his wife. ii liv-
ing. or the unknown consorts heirs and devil
sees of ]. l.. GoH and Jennie Gogf. his wife.
if they be dead. W. f. Minton and Vim. r.
Edgar. Jr,, Trustee.
defendants, bearing date February 2tth, 1917.
and returnahle to the April term. 1917, thereof,
| have levied upon and seized the following des-
cr;hed rcai estate and property, lying and he
ing in Iron County. Missouri, as the property
IF said defendants, described as follows. to-wit:
Tract |, in Section 10, Township 81, North,
Of Range 3 East, 1867 acres.
as shown by Murdoch Crumb plat book 3;
all Of the above described land being subject to
mineral reservation made by Big Muddy Coal
& Iron Company, in Book IS, Page 24l, Iron
County Land Records.
And | will, on
SATURDAY. APRIL 2sth, 1917.
at the east front door Of the Court House. in
the City OF ~Ironton, Iron County. Missouri. be.
tween the hours Of nine o'clock in the forenoon
and five O'Clock in the afternoon Of that day,
| and during the session Of the Circuit Court,
sell, at public venGue, All the right. title, claim,
, estate and property Of said defendants, Of. in
and 70 the above described real estate and
| property, for cash in hand. to the highest bid.
der. to satisfy said execution and costs.
W. II. BLUE, Sheriff Iron County. Mo.