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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-04-17
BLIND TIGER KING TESTIFIES
AGAINST EXPRESS COMPANY

ATLANTA, Ca, April 17.-Georgia
is now bone dry and the Southern Ex-
press Company's whiskey depot in At
lanta is closed and deserted, an empty
building in a remote section of the
city, but Atlantas negro blind tiger
king" is unfolding in the criminal di-
vision of Fulton Superior court an as
tonishing confession of the magnitude
and scope of his operations under the
two-quart shipping law before the bone
dry bill was passed at the recent ex-
ira session,
He has testified since he took the
stand that he ordered not less than
100, 900 packages if whiskey between
May list, 1916, and the closing of the
whiskey depot; that his bill at one
dealers in Chattanooga was $4,000;
that his express charges often went as
high as $10O a day at the rate of so
cents a package; that he employed ne
groes regularly and sent them INTO the
whiskey depot in the guise of express
company porters and that these negro
employees aided him in obtaining de-
livery of his shipments; that clerks OF
the company in the whiskey depot also
rendered him aid and cooperation in
carrying on his business.
Boyd is the principal witness for the
state in its prosecution of the South
ern Express Company on a charge OF
violating the two-qaart shipping law.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-04-17
FEDERAL SECRET SERVICE
MEN WORKING CONTINUALLY

ATLANTA, Ga, April 17.-Federal
secret service agents in Atlanta are
getting SO many reports of suspicious
characters that they can't begin to
investigate the people reported to them
and are, figuratively speaking, calling
on the public to let UP and have some
mercy.
They say they do not wish to dis
courage the patriotic alertness of the
people, for in this lies their most val
liable source of information and tips,
but great many of the suspicious
characters reported to them are not
in the least suspicious or dangerous,
but are quiet and law-abiding.
Every now and then, however, a
wide-awake citizen will telephone to
the Office of the department of justice
agents to report the name of an indi-
vidual who has excited their suspicious
and will find that the agents already
have him under surveillance.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-04-17
ARMENIAN REFUGEES ARE
IN CRITICAL CONDITION

NEW YORK, April 17.-Agents of the
American Committee for Armenian and
Syrian Relief who are distributing in
Armenia and Syrian the money and
supplies forwarded from America by
the committee are making arrange
ments for reestablishing the Frustrated
industries of those countries, the COM
mittee announces The agents state
that the demand for cattle, implements
and seed for planting is urgent and
preparations have been made to sat
isfy it, so far as possible.
In addition, the committees repre-
sentatives are planning to establish
wooden, cotton and leather industries
in the chief centers of population and
are making arrangements for the pur-
chase of material for manufacture in
small factories.
Supplies now are being forwarded to
the destitute Armenians and Syrian
refugees in the trans-Caucasus region
by new route from Moscow to Alex
andranopol and Erivan. Future deliv-
cries by this new route, will be COM
paratively easy, the committee an
nounces.
Notwithstanding the relief already
afforded, the agents of the committee
in Armenia and Syria, in messages just
received here, state that conditions
are worse than last year" because the
stores of supplies have been exhausted.
1.-THE conditaion of refugees has
reached a critical stage" wires the
agent at Erivan. Nearly two years eX-
lied from their homes. What little
money of possessions they were able
t. bring with them now exhausted.
Great distress from hunger Bedding
entirely lacking. Appalling numbers
of widows with dependent children"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-04-17
REMOVAL OF WHEAT DUTY
MAY FORCE PRICE OF FLOUR
DOWNWARD in UNITED STATES

OTTAWA, April 1.-THE government
has placed wheat, -four and semolina
on the free LIST, thus opening United
States markets to Canada and Canad-
ian markets to the United States in
these products.
Under the reciprocal clauses Of the
American tariff, the United States will
admit free wheat and wheat products
CT any country which admits American
wheat without duty. The Canadian ia
riff has heretofore prevented this priv
ilege being availed Of.
The action taken by the Canadian
government removes the duty and au-
dramatically opens the markets of each
country to the other
The order is due to difficulty of ex-
port abroad owing to shortage of ocean
tonnage, and the fact that the British
market has been virtually closed to
Canadian wheat of lower grade.
The duties removed are 10 cents a
bushel on wheat and 40 cents a bar
rel on -four, and may result in de-
cine in price of breadstuffs in the
United States.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-04-17
CHASING L0AFERS AWAY
FROM CITY TO THE FARMS

ATLANTA, Ga, April 17-Atlanta
viii do its share toward furnishing
the farmers with laborers to plant and
cultivate and harvest the crops, for
the state of Georgia's vagrancy law,
which is one of the best in the coun-
try, is now being rigidly enforced both
by the city and county police.
Orders have gone forth that every
man and woman who cannot make a
satisfactory showing as to a means of
livelihood must be arrested and ar
raigned for vagrancy, and where they
are found guilty they will be given the
choice of going to the city stockade or
going to the farm.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-04-17
"PIE' WEAVER ENLISTED IN
NEW NATIONAL AVIATION CORPS

ATLANTA, Ga. April 17.-Lamar
Weaver, better known as Pie" At
lantas nearest approach to Apollo
Belvidere, and one of the best known
basketball players in the South, has
enlisted in the aviation corps and ex-
poets within a year to be flying over
the battlefields of France. Of course,
pie" experienced no difficulty in pass
ing the physical examination, drastic
though it is, for he could meet the
requirements of most any physical
test in the world; and his many At
lanta friends predict that he will fly
and fight his way to a place in the sun
with the late Kiffin Rockwell, Atlanta
famous aviator killed in action some
months ago, if he is so fortunate as
to be sent 10 France.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-04-17
AMERICUs SHOWS
OPERA HOUSE.
Friday.

OPERA HOUSE.
Friday.
Mary Pickford in THE Poor Little
Rich Girl"
Saturday.
Charlie Chaplin in "Myrth of Ma
ton" and Life of Buffalo Bill"
ALCAZAR THEATRE.
Wednesday
VIM. Desmond in "The Iced Bullet. "
Five Acts.
"The Honest Thieves. Triangle
Comedy.
Thursday
Marie Doro in Lost Won" IS Acts.
Friday
Alice Joyce and Harry Morey IN
"The Courage of Silence. Five Acts.
Chapter 10 1.-THE Secret Kingdom"
Saturday
Bessie Love in Nina, the Flower
Girl. Five Acts.
"a Noble Fraud. Triangle Comedy
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-04-17
W. A. WINBURN BACK FROM
WASHINGTON CONFERENCE

SAVANNAH, Ga, April Nv A.
Winburn, president of the Central of
Georgia railroad, has returned to Sa-
vannah from Washington, where he
went to confer with other railroad
leaders as to preparedness on the part
of the roads. He said the government
in all it's departments, had the war sit
uation well in hand, and that the rail-
roads were able and ready to do their
part in transporting troops or sup
plies.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-04-17
,
= GERMAN CAPTIVE CONTINUES
= CAREER OF FRIGHTFULNESS I

= LONDON, April 17.-Lieutenant :
: Emil lehman, German naval :
= captive, ran a career of frightful- =
= ness even after his capture and :
= temporary Imprisonment in Eng =
= land. breaking loose from his :
= guard, lehman escaped from :
= Manchester and took refuge in a =
= Methodist church where he made =
: bonfire on the floor with all the =
= bibles me could find Lehman is :
= charged with sacrilege.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-04-17
Only Temporary.

A man whose married life had not
been OF the happiest lay dying. Call
ing his wife to his bedside. he prom
Used to leave all his worldly posses
sions to her on one condition, that be
ing that she would erect a tombstone
and inscribe on it. at rest" This she
faithfully promised. but, finding moth
ing had been left her. she added TO the
above epitaph, It'll come"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-04-17

Charlie Chaplin in "Myrth of Ma
ton" and Life of Buffalo Bill"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-04-17
SEAT LESS MEAT" SAY
ATLANTA MEAT MARKET MEN

ATLANTA, Ga April 17.-Atlanta
meat market men are appealing to
their customers to practice economy
on tie following lines:
Eat less meat.
Waste less meat
Have one meatless day week. They
know they will lose business, but they
know that unless the people buy spar
ingly now they can't buy at all, later
on.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-04-17
COTTON MARKET
AMERICUS, GA.
April Il, 1917.

The Americas spot cotton market
was quoted today at local warehouses.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-04-17
DUY al HOTEL
InnLnnnriIIn

Opposite postoffice, hot and cold wa
ter; elevator; telephones. Rates.
Rooms without bath, 81; two persons
same room, $3.50; with bath $1.50, and
two persons same room $500
w. S. Jones, Mgr.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-04-17
INDICTED TRUST HEADS
ENTER NOT GUILTY PLEAS

NEW YORK, April 1.-THE seven
men indicted here last week charged
with violating the Sherman antitrust
law in connection with the news
print situation, today entered tentative
pleas of not guilty. All were releas
ed after furnishing bonds of $4,000
each.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1917-06-13
KEEP TIL SEhRCHLlGHT ON

the .adEcnse vote Of congress on
tho censorship has only scotched the
snake. 1t will be showing its ugly
head again in connection with some
war measure, and we may we'll be-
lieve that the same people who have
wanted censorship now will be want
ing 1t then. This is a case where
eternal vigilance will he the price of
liberty for the press of America. A
president of a university has the
power to suppress college publica-
ton which does not conform to his
views of editorial or journalistic pro-
priety. BY analogy of reasoning it is
easy to sec how certain type of
president of the United States might
think he should be clothed with like
power over the press of the country
Such type of mind does not yield
readily, even to superior force, and
it often finds another means of ap-
preaching and accomplishing its end
1t behooves the press OF the country
to be watchful. .-
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1917-06-13
THE REPUBLICAN, WAY

The modern Guy Fawkes who are
laying plans to resist the draft wiz
find that thgsssssiss,p..s1shment fos
them even sfor Ae Sgunpowdst
iihk Of the ltaft aaXof all mattefs
c6nneeted wifi it isl charge of dns
tof the mosta1apa blAbfficers in thn
military establishment-Gen. Enock
H. Crowder, the judse-advocate gent
eral of the army. 1t may not be in
vidious to say that Gen. Crowder is
a republican promoted to his present
rank by President Taft, and that he
is giving to the country splendid
demonstration OF republican effici-
ency in office. We hope the admin
stration will also take note OF it,
because there are other capable re-
publicans who might we'll take up aud
carry forward successfully the tasks
which are now being muddled through
by deserving democrats.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1917-06-13
Perfect HeaIthIs
EyeryWoman sBirthright
A Prescription That from Girlh0Od> to
Old Age Has Been q Blessing
to WOmanfOOd.

When a girl becomes a woman,
when a woman becomes a mother,
when woman passes through the
changes Of middle life, are the three
periods of life when health and strength
are most needed to withstand the pain
and distress often caused by severe
organic disturbances. :. 49,. *.
At these critical times women are
best fortified by the use of DR.. Pierce's
FaVorite Prescription, all old remedy
of proved worth that keeps the entire
female system perfectly regulated and
in excellent condition.
Mothers, if your daughters are weak,
lack ambition, are troubled with head
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", DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription
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and make them strong and healthy.
For all diseases peculiar to woman,
DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is
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of tens of thousands Of women the
pain, worry, misery and distress caused
by irregularities and diseases Of q
feminine character.
If you are a sufferer, if your dh,gh-
ter, mother, sister need help get DR..
Pierce's Favorite Prescription in liquid
or tablet form from any medicine
dealer to-day. Then address Doctor
Pierce, Invalids' Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y,
and get confidential medical advice
entirely free. You can also obtain a
book OH wotnan's diseases, sent free.
DR.. Pierce's Pellets regulate aud in
vigorate stomach, liver and bowels. Keep
the body clean Inside as well as outside.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1917-06-13
slLo SIZE mosr|lmpoRrANr.

The size of the silo" is the prob
lem confronting more farmers right
now than ever before, q most import.
ant one, for there Is best sized silO
for the economical feeding of various
sized herds. The agricultural engi.
neers at Iowa State college give the
following timely suggestions on silo
capacity:
The average ratio for dairy COW or
beef animal is 35 lbs. of silage day
or II tons in a season of $50 days.
For 30 head of cattle, then, 100 ton
silo is needed. This capacity may be
secured in silo measuring 12X3S it.,
14X32. or 1Gx2S it. Experience shows
that it is not best to build q silo un-
der 30 feet high. The, tall silo is less
expensive for each ton of capacity;
the pressure is Increased and the sill.
age keeps better. Silos from so to GO
feet high and taller are giving, good
service.
The diameter of a siio should be lin
tied by, the amount of, .silage fed in a
day. Fresh silage exposed to the air
will soon spoil. Hence Il to 2 inches
ought to be fed each day. This means
that for 10 foot silo there should be
II head of stock; for IL foot, 25
head and for a II foot, 30Aor more.
The following table will give capaci
ties for few of the more common
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1917-06-13
Peace IL, ~ Hours

for Stomach Sufferers who take Mayrs
Wonderful Remedy. Don't neglect your
Stomach Ailments another minute. What
appears to be only minor Stomach dis
orders may often be symptoms of Cam
GER and Ulcers Of the Stomach and In
testines;EGa Stones. Acute Indigestion
.Gastritis, Auto Intoxication, Yellow
and other dangerous ailments,
of which the sufferer is not aware until
too late-@s An ideal prescription for oveEs
coming quickly stomach, Liver and ID:
testinal Trouble is Mayr's Wonderful
Remedy Millions of people have beer
restored by Ut. One dose will PROVE
that. 1t will help you. Mayr's Wonder,
fnl REMEDY is for sale by Rudolph
Knalll. .. y
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1917-06-13

Henry Fritz Christian Schutt, Milan
John Schweiger, Leroy Clinton Ship
man, Walter Miller Simmerman, Theo-
dore Macintosh Slemmons, Ira Glen
Smith, Edward Frederick, eSteckelberg.
Henry Carl Steckelberg. Frank Steiner,
August Herman Steinkuehler, Frank
Lloyd Stewart, Guy Carl Stoker, George
Harrison Stoker, Frank NJ. Summers Al
den Lee Sykes, John Raymond Tate, Paul
Ignatius Tate, Edward Henry Theobald,
Robert Palmer Theobald, Henry George
Theulan, Fred Warren Thomas, Hugh
Silas Thompson Ray Harlan Thompson,
Leslie Tomkins, John Detlcfh U,nland,
Emerson Van Dusen, Michael Wahl, John
Mckinley Ward. Edwin Martin Wenzel,
Emil Robert Wnnzel, Ernest August
Nen2el. Otto Wehlan, Ole Tohan Wig,
Fritz Wint:ellaannn. AL IerSchlinr
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1917-06-13
State Of Ohio. City OF Toledo.

Lucas County, So.
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he
Is senior partner Of the firm. Of +. J.
Cheney & Co, doing business In the City
Of Toledo. County ana State aforesaid,
and that said firln will pay the sum Of
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each
and every case Of Catarrh that cannot be
cured by the use Of HALLS CATARRH
MEDICINE. FRANK j. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in
my presence. this 9th day Of December.
A. y. 1885, A. w. GLEASON.
(SeaD Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Medicine IL taken In
the Mucous Surfaces OF the System. Send
for testimonials. free. ,-.e*
!. Il. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo. o.
Sold by all druggists. 75c.
Halls Family Pills for constipation.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1917-06-13

Roughly in a 10 it. diameter silo
the capacity increases about 21a tons
for every foot Of depth; a IL foot In
.creases about tons per foot Of depth;
a IA foot, 8 to 10 tons, and a 16 foot,
!, rI1iiGiuL III -aL--
/. Low spots will do paying business
for farmers who believe in drainage.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1917-06-13

1t is much easier to get up a riot
against the umpire than against con-
scriptiOn..
The herald., 1917-08-23
Hurled Into Sunshine.

y was in PetrOgrad during the first
appraisal Of the new assets" writes
isaac +. MarcoSSOn IN EverybOdy's.
Like prisoners long immured in the
Dark and suddenly hurled into the sun
shine, the people blinked in the strange
light Of their unfamiliar emancipation.
The one-tlme balliwick of the cars
vas study In scarlet-animate like
IN American city during a national
convention. Its great thOrOughfare-
NE Nevski Prospekt-once the Street
VI Sacrifce, was now the Highway OF
happiness. Never was there such glad
reunion. II was Ike the meeting of
os' tribes after much wandering in
me Wilderness. Exiles streamed In
Hem Siberia uEder the general am
aesV; Jews came forth from their
eng restraint, for creed lines were
a0wn; delegations Of troops flocked
run the front. Equality was the pass
sord thtat loosed every tongue"
The herald., 1917-08-23

Fairfax Harrison. the railroad man
who is ut the head of the war board
of the American Railway association,
has issued Il notice 10 all railroads, as
follows:
"First-ConsOlldate where practical
BILE. through passenger train service,
md eliminate those trains which are
not we'll patronized.
"SeCond-Reduce the number Of spe-
cial trains, and give Up running excur-
sion trains.
"Third-On branch lines, where two
trains are operated, try to reduce to
one train day.
"Fourth-Where practicable, subSu-
tute mixed train service for separate
passenger and freight service on
branch lines. Closely review number
of scheduled freight trains where ton
The herald., 1917-08-23

Motorcycles and bicycles are becom-
ing popular throughout Siam.
Australians available supplies of iron
ore are estimated at 100000 tons.
Soil composed entirely of sand Is
practically OF no value for garden
purposes.
The state Of Texas Is assisting in
the reclamation Of 100000 acres Of
overflow lani1
The book OF the Bible called Levitt
Gus is so called because it relates
principally 70 Levites and priests.
All the common house rats belonged
originally to the old world, from which
they came to this continent in ships.
Nettles, regarded useless weeds be-
fore the war, are now being collected
In Germany in large quantities for tex
tile purposes.
The tail of the rat is a most impOr-
tant appendage. Ii has more muscles
than the human hand, being used az
n hand, as a balancer and ~ q spring
TO aid in jumping.
The herald., 1917-08-23
TOLD IN A PARAGRAPH

The manufacture Of airplanes In the
United States has increased almost loo
per cent within the last year.
The legion. the chief subdivision OF
the Roman army, contained about SIX
thousand men and a contingent OF cav
airy.
Safety is the chief advantage or a
new electric switch which Is inclosed
In q locked box and operated oy q
crank that projects through one side.
The brown rat, enormously called
the Norway rat, was originally d
native of India and Persia. 1t en-
tered Europe through Russia about
17.5. and was brought to America
about 1I75.
The first crossing of the Andes made
by aerouauts was accomplished by two
men from Argentina. Their balloon
started from Santiago, Chile. and four
hours later landed near Mendoza, Ar
genuna.
The herald., 1917-08-23
SEAL ATTACHMENT FOR CARS
Goods in Transit Cannot Be Tempered
With or Fraud Committed With
out Detection.

The Scientific American in describ-
ing car seal, the invention Of P.
Schmitz of Cowletz Prairie, Wash.
says:
The seal is for attachment to
freight cars and the like, whereby the
goods therein cannot be tempered with
or a fraud committed without detec-
ton. and to this end the invention
includes a main casing in which is
inclosed and locked part Of an iden-
tificatiOn strip, the other part being
detached before the seal is locked, and
separately forwarded 20 the same
destination as the goods"
The herald., 1917-08-23
BIG UNDERTAKING IN CHINA
American Engineers and Capitalists
Working for Greatest Railroad
Scheme Ever Known.

American engineers and capitalists
acting for the Chinese government, ara
working on the greatest railway under
taking that China has ever known. The
plan calls for q line two thousand
miles long. to cost more than one hun
dred million dollars. It will cross half
a dozen mining and agricultural PROV
inces in the central part Of the empire.
The Youths Companion.
The herald., 1917-08-23
Destruction Of Heath Hens,

current Items OF Interest contains
u account Of the increase of the heath
ven on Its reservation on Marthd's
Vineyard, In which 1t was stated that
10e Increase in numbers had been
Saaoned by q destructive fire. Two
A's 10 the reservation by E. r. For
Msn' state ornithologist Of Massachu-
s'A revealed that the decrease had
Yen very great, only 126 birds being
wed on the island, where 500 or more
~ oeen the preceding year.
The herald., 1917-08-23

place in Nigeria, The kamerunS, north
ern RhodeSia and probably the Bel
gian Congo. The total mileage that
has been added for military purposes
is difficult to estimate, but 1t would
hardly be in excess of from 20 to -
per cent of what would have been built
had the peacetime rate of construction
been maintained. Moreover. Ike all
strategic railroads, this military con-
struction is worth far less as an eco
nomic asset than an equal mileage of
line built for purely commercial pur'
poses.
The herald., 1917-08-23
PLAN COMPACT FOR VICTORY
Railroads Unite in Effort to Produce
Maximum Of National TransPor-
tation Efficiency.

One of the great compacts for VIC
tory which have been entered into in
this early period of the war is the
pledge taken by the railroad executives
in session in Washington. The execu-
tives pledged that during the present
war they will coordinate their opera
tons in q continental railway system
merging during such period all their
merely individual and competitive &C
tivities in the effort to produce maxi
mum Of national transportation eff
cheney"
The herald., 1917-08-23
GIRLS Do BIT ON RAILROADS
Younq Women Of Ohio Are Working
at Manual Labor to Fill Jobs OF
Men Who Have Enlisted.

Women of Cleveland are doing their
bit by working at manual labor TO I'LL
the Jobs of men who have enlisted.
Fifty Of them, clad In Overalls and
dark-colored MILDLY blouses, are wiplng
engines at the Erie roundhCIse. Two
dozen or more are working In the
shops, running lathes and the such
Thirty-fve more have gone to work as
checkers for the Baltimore & ONO
railroad. And everyone Of them like
their work. mo harder than washing
or ironing" Is the chorus.