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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-11-16
A COLUMN or CLIPPINGS
Peanut Politicians.

The Americas Times Recorder asks:
VIII the Dawson News and Cordele
Dispatch, who have been quarrelling
whether a peanut is pindar, a
groundpea, or a goober, tell US wheth-
er a gobernatorial candidate is neces-
sarily a peanut politician Not neces-
sarily, but often is Dawson News.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-11-16

The day some men paid their sec
,-snd installment on their Liberty Bond,
shev confidently expected to read in
The, papers that afternoon where the
war had ended
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-11-16
Paying the Editor.

1t used to be the style to bring to
the editor the best of everything on
the farm. Now they pay him in mon
ey, and glad to get out that cheap
Townsville Times-Enterprise
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-11-16

This Is the season when we are re-
5z7ndad of that cid ditty
turkey stood in cranberry swamp
And sang till his throat was sore;
For al day long he sang this song
We'll Meet on That Beautiful Shore.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-11-16

a7e'd hate to be a German soldier
ant nave to invade Venice. Just think
81 svs inning a mile or so up the mid
DUE at n city street at this time of the
yeaTy
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-11-16

With the junk market commanding
the highest prices of all time, now is
an opportune occasion for Georgia to
dispose Of Senator Hardwick
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-11-16

II takes q brave woman ca go out
cyan ~ a fire without camoufiage, but
Essre were several who attended the
Tre ON Cotton avenue early this morn
ing Another argument for woman
suffrage.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-11-16

wandering how a man can be 100 per
,eent patriotic with a turkey and a
sIince-meat pie in front of him. There
znay be times to eat less, but that's
naf one of emf
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-11-16
BACK TO THE FARM"

The Back to The Farm cry is not
new. although it is louder and more
general now, in this country, than It
has ever been.
The drawing of so many men, white
ard black, for the army has created
a great scarcity of labor, and de-
mand everywhere for farm help. At
the same time, the splendid prospe"-
ny of the farmer has inspired many
men in the city with the desire and de-
termination to try it once again, if not
for the first time, on the plantation.
However from time immemorial
there has been a cry of Back to Tie
land
1t is pointed out that in the writings
Of Marcus Terentius Varro, one Of the
most noted scholars of ancient Rome
who died B. C. 81, there is a com
flaint about farmers leaving their
fields to settle in the cities. Varro
wrote
Since now forsooth most of our
gentry crowd into town, abandon
ing the sickle and the pillow and
prefer to exercise their hands in
the theatre of the circus, rather
than in the corn field and the vine
yard, it has resulted that We must
fain buy the corn that fills our
bellies and we have it hauled in
for US, yea, out Of Africa and Sar-
DINA, while we bring home the
vintage in ships from the islands
of Cos and Chios
Only few days ago Senator Rams
dell declared that lax divorce law
started the decline of the Roman en-
pire
Gibbon says that too much peace
led to the decay Of that great nation.
Perhaps, all three were factors At
any rate, it cannot be attributed 20
any particular cause Still, it is in,
teresung to know that one of the most
serious problems with which we are
confronted today was also a matter Of
concern for commentators and soy
ereigns two thousand years ago
For he is inst as 1nightilv raistakDn
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-11-16

Now you take the woman who Dor
Eaws eggs and waits until they drop
'tsswn 10 thirty cents before paying
her re 'glibor back, she's an economist
and a financier.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-11-16

the Suez Canal during the early days,
Of the Sinai campaign When the
Turks were forced back from Romani
to Palestine, the secretaries followed
with British troops. During the
fighting in the Near East, not an i'm
portant station along the line-Kan-
taria, Bir-el-Abd, Mazar, Ell Arish,
Rata, Kahn Yunis, and Deir-El Belah
was without its Y. NJ. c. A hut,
Other secretaries established the sign
Of the Red Triangle" in the western
desert of Egypt, with their headquat-
crs at Mersa Matruh, about 1870 miles
west of Alexandria
There are today 1900 secretaries of
the Red Triangle" serving our SOL
diers and sailors in the United States;
800 of them are serving with the Amer
lean troops in France; ten are with the
Americans in England; forty are
serving the British and Canadian for
ces overseas; sixty-fve are serving
the British in India, Mesopotamia,
and Palestine; ten are serving British
troops in Egypt and East Africa;
thirty-five are serving French troops
in France; fifty are serving Russian
troops in Russia; three are serving
Italian troops in Italy; eleven are
serving prisoners of war in Franco,
Italy and Russia, and seven are sery-
ing in Switzerland.
Today and every day there are one
million letters in the mail from the
soldiers at the front and in the camps,
end every letter bears the sign of the
Red Triangle" showing that the
stationery was furnished free and that
home facilities such as no other Or
sanitation could possibly offer were
afforded to our soldiers by the Y. NJ.
{ A.
1t is to support such work as this
tat the drive for S35, 100000 is on!
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-11-16

These are nights we must sleep on
a telegraph key if we wish to keep
abreast of the times.-Bruswick News.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-11-16

T1se hest camouflage artist of all Is
She vgurnan of fifty who dolls up 20
look Ike thirty.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-11-16

We don't blame a turkey gobbler for
sf171fffng. If we could sell for thirty
ave cents a pound, we'd strut, too!
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-11-16

We read that a woman who was
kzsYwn as fiirt has died of broken
neart. We don't believe it, Fliris
A ven't hearts.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-11-16

We are sometimes puzzled to tell
whefher a lady is carrying knitting
Bag or a bag of clothes to the wash,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-11-16

There may not be any excuses for
me high prices, but certain it is we
haven't heard anybody offer any.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-11-16

win the knowledge that Thanksgiv-
aSx is less than two weeks away, we're
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-11-16

a girl no longer cuts off her nose tc
spite. her face She powders it.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-11-16

We dont see how a man can be
rfrh enough to hoard much food
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-11-16
GEOGRAPHICALLY SPEAKING

Sat and be merry, but eat less AMI
be- patriotic.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-11-16

For he is just as nightly mistaken
in his estimate of their numerical
strength as he is IN his conception It
what is a loyal and patriotic course
to pursue when bis nation is at war.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-11-16
THE Y. NJ. c. A. DRIVE.

One of the fine things about the in
tensive drive for $35,OOO,OOO which tho
y NJ. c. A. is now waging through
cut the length and breadth of the
United States, is the attention tina.
is thus called to the brilliant and self
sacrificing work that has been dore
and is being done by the secretaries
Of the Red Triangle"
Hundreds Of Americas best known
reli ious leaders many Of them sery-
ing without pay-are among the secre-
taries of the 'Red Triangle" All over
the world, wherever fighting in the
present War for Democracy is GO
ing on, these secretaries are to &c
found In Mesopotamia not more
than one hundred yards from the fir
ing line: within easy reach of the
big guns Of the Turks, these secre-
taries established dug-outs, marked by
the Red Triangle, " where they catered
20 the soldiers wants. 1t was these
secretaries who placed the sign of the
Red Triangle on the east bank of
Evening star., 1917-04-01

Boston girls drill for national de-
fense. Three hundred woman en-
ployes of a Boston department store
are ready to take their places in Uncle
Sans preparedness ranks. The first
drill of the entire corps took place at
Fenway Park, the home grounds of the
Red Sox, Boston, Mass, with Capt.
Henry Driscoll, M. NJ G., as drill
Copyright Underwood & Underwood)
Evening star., 1917-04-01

Aeros spur recruiting for navy.
The United States Navy wants to fill
the vacant places in the ranks. and the
aeroplane is the latest means adopted
by the officers to aid them in their re-
cruiting work. 1t drops to earth in
some small village and the officer gath
ers his audience of men, mostly farm
folk, and talks over their duty to their
country. Copyright Underwood & Underworld
Douglas Island news., 1917-12-14
EARLY SETTLER
 DIES AT SITKA
". c. Boyd. Resident of Douglas Nearly Thirty Years, Passes
 Away at Home

". C. Boyd. for nearly thirty years . rs.iisnt af nauglas nrior O" H"''''' n, tbc Pioneers Home at Sitko about tbrec years ago. died at Inc latter pl,cc recently. word Of his demise heinz received here Monday Of this week in a telegram received by about- st ycaS~j5 age GIr f5fy fa52y4 ........ was years he engaged tn prospecting and lived much of Che time aboard a gasboat which he owned. He was instrumental in building Che first road leading from Douglas Co che cemetery and was active in caring for Che cemetery Being a Grand Army man. he went Co a soldiers home iu California some years ago. but. not liking it there returned to Douglas. going later to che home ot SItka He was never married. but Is said Co have relatives In his ma tive state. New Jersey.
 Those who knew Mir. Boyd best assert that only his iudomitablc win power kept him alive during Che latter years of his life.
Douglas Island news., 1917-12-14
NORTHERN BOYS
 ARE PATRIOTIC
Twenty-Two Were Passengers for Enlistment on Sophia-Nore
 to Follow Soon

Matt DcCourcoy. che we'll known pion,cr of Aloska and thc Yukon, who-Icn hero for Che south on Che Princess sophia last Thursday night in a letter sent back from Kctchi- kan to P. J. White, says that 22 younr men were passengers on that steamer who were bound south for the purpose of entering tho army or navy in defense of their countries.
 or thc 22 young men outward hound on thc Sophia fifteen werc bent on joining either the Ameri- can army or navy and Che remaining seven were going Co join Che Cam ndinu army. Tho American boys were mostly from this part of Alas ka. several from Juneau and a mum bcr from Douglas Island. Tho Can adians were from Yukon and north ern British Columbia. So far as thc Island Is concerned. very few young men of military age now re- main here, they having nearly all volunteered their services instead ol waiting fof Che selcctivc draft.
 In'o, "orc Islanders. William Anderson, Leo uE,~, and Carl OI- son win leave on thc Jcueruou. an having been accepted for service. A farewell party was tCndcrcd them by their friends m Eagle Hall Tues day night
Douglas Island news., 1917-12-14
MARRIED IN IOWA

Frank Caraway, son of Mrs. J. N. stoody, of Trcadwcll, and Miss Lena Louis were married at the brides home in Iowa City, Iowa, on Thanks giving day. November go, and after a wedding dinner the groom took Che train for Columbus, Ohio. where he is now in a training camp. Tho marriage was the result of a mutual attachment which began when both were students at the University Of Iowa moro than two years ago. The groom has many friends on Douglas Island who will earnestly hope that he may return safely from the war to the patriotic girl who gave him up SO soon after their marriage.
Douglas Island news., 1917-12-14
LIE PETIT SOLDAT
 TRULY MOURNED
Pretty and Pathetic Story of Amer. ican Soldier and French
 Chestnut Woman

American Field Headquarters. Dee. i.-Lituc Harvey Rcamy. Of Ciu- ciuuati. U. 8. A.. "lc petit American soldier" sleeps today m a grave on a bleak snow-coycrcd hillside Tho wind sings lullaby through Che hin top pine trees. Atop Che grave. half buried iu Che drifting snows a wreath ol flowers marks Che tribute of an aged French woman. She was a chestnut pcddlcr with stand close by general headquarters
 Private Rcamy, of Che United States marine corps dropped dead on Thanksgiving day. He had just finished cooking turkeys for his company.
 On Friday Che old chestnut woman missed che slight-built0 0smiliug ma riuc. She asked about him. His comrades explained tendcrly "Roa- my. well. he is mort" The old woman wcpt He was such a pleas ant. smiling faced American The tears ricked down her weather beaten face. already lined deep with grief at thc loss of her own son missing at Vcrdun for two years, and a husband dying of wounds in a hospital near tho front somewhere.
 Rcomy was a daily visitor at Che old wman's stand His chcery greet lugs somehow helped her forget.
 She learned his name and then always thereafter greeted him with mothcrly prlde-"lc petit soldat' lthc little soldicr).
 It was another tragedy for the little old woman when tho bright faced American passed away More over she had missed thc funeral. missed the opportunity Co see her American boy.
 On Sunday, two days after Rcomy had been laid to rest, General Head quarters received a soilcd and la- boriously addressed envelope. In- side was a brief letter and fifty francs
 "You will permit me. sir" Che let- ter said in its curiously worded dif- Gcult French. "to send you fifty francs. desire to place a wreath on the grave of the little American soldier who died far from his own country. I do not ask even to be permitted to carry thc wreath to his grave. Please, sir, do not refuse the humble offering of a poor French woman who loves America-who loves Che memory of this dear. dear boy who died far from his own mother, while assisting France. Do not refuse to place my wreath for this poor little soldier"
 Tho signature was Margaret Glly the chestnut woman"
Douglas Island news., 1917-12-14
LAUNCHES SwAMPED

After riding out Che Takus of Che previous several days. Che north wind of yesterday yas Che cause of number of small boats ou Che waterfront being svampcd. among them Che Pirate" owned by Babe" Samples and Che Marx" owned by b. A. Slouc and two or three other and smaller craft Both che "pi- rate" and "MarV" are fine. big lauu- ches. among Che best ou Che Chan mel The former made Che trip from Seattle to Douglas under her own power last January and rode che seas like a gull Although there Is extreme high udc today. che wind which has houlcd most Justify for several days past has materially abated and, except from dr.itv0od that may be waited n with Che tide. no further danger exists Go small boats
Douglas Island news., 1917-12-14
REPORTED IN TROUBLE

Word has been received here to the effect that Paul Blocdhorn, for mor Douglas ioweler who wont from this place Co Cordoya last sum mcr. is in trouble at that place, the report being that he is under arrest for scdltious utterancos. While Blocdhorn wos known while hero Co be very patriotic to his native coun- try. Germany, hia former friends express surprise that he was SO in- discreet us Co give vent Co his feel mgs now that America, of which he is a naturolilcd citizen. is at war with Germany.
Douglas Island news., 1917-12-14
ISLAND BOYS
 NOW OUTSIDE
Many Who Left Here in Recent Past Have Enlisted-0thers
 Have Good Jobs

According to Douglas corre8pond- encc in the Juneau Dispatch, nearly an the young men who left here in the past few months are reported by John Mccormick. who returned from Seattle Wednesday night, as having enlisted for service or as holding good positions,
 Billy Barquist was turned down in the medical examination for the medical corps, but. undauntcd, was accepted as a naval recruit and has been transferred as a machinists mate in the aviation corps.
 Sclim Jackson passed a good ex- animation and is at the Mare Island navy yard
 7 Oscar Grundlcr passed his exam .ination for the Engineering corps.
 Pat Casey is now in Seattle, but expects to go into the engineering corps.
 Charley Parker, who left recently. Pat Mcclure and Walter Barquist are all at the Bremcrton navy yard, rapidly advancing and the latter ex- poets to be promoted to gunner's mate.
 Grover Kertls. the Trcadwcll ball player who was anxious to make the aviation corps, failed, but is lined up for service in the medical corps.
 Billy Mccormick is working at Bromerton, making S5.O5 a day and overtime.
 Emmet Carroll is with the Vulcan Iron Works, Seattle, at $5.25 a day.
 Andrew Murphy, formerly of the Trcadwell machine shop, is with the Johnson & Mcdonald shipbuilding yard at Georgetown.
 John Mccormick will again try for enlistment, but he has been in- formed that he will have to undergo an operation before he can be ac- copted.
Douglas Island news., 1917-12-14
TRUE AMERICAN
 GERMAN BORN
Douglas Mother Who Denies Her self for Son Who Enlists
 for His Country

Mir. and Mrs. Gus Grundler are pioneer residents of Douglas who raised their children here and have in many ways become closely iden- uGod with this country. Both are natives of Germany but loyal to the country Of their adoption and of their children's nativity.
 Mrs. Grundler recently visited Seattle, where her only son, Oscar, had been for some time in the em- ploy of the Goodyear Rubber Com pany. Going to tho city it was but natural that she should contemplate the purchase of several new things in the line of clothes and for that purpose she carried with her a neat sum of money.
 About the time she arrived in sc- attIc her son, having been consid- ering the step for some time, de- cided to cnlist-oner himself to his country m MNhANf'l NhUh'lAN A' might be needed He was accepted and is now drilling in the engineers corps. Then it was that mother love and mother pride in an only son asserted itself and regardless of the fact that her son had been making good wages, Mrs. Grundlor forced him to take every dollar she. had taken out with her, keeping for herself only the price of ticket back Co Douglas While she knew that her son would get everything due a soldier from the government, sho realized that there are many things which add to the comfort of @ soldier that the government does not furnish, and it was that her boy might have these that she denied herself the articles she had intended purchasing for herslf put herself in that divincly-blessed class of Am crican motherhood and American womanhood that is going to win the present great struggle.
Douglas Island news., 1917-12-14
DEFINITION OF
 ALIEN ENEMIES
Revised Statutes of the United States Gives Some Timely
 Information

Tho following Is au extract from tbe OF.ciaI Bulletin. and while it de,ls wholly with Germans. war ar1inst Austria had uo, been de- .lar,r by thc United States at Che ume lt was given out AstAusiri- ans arc now classcd as alien enemies. these definitions vi0 apply Co them the same as to Germans.
 Under section l0t7 of Che Re yiscd Statutes au alien enemy is de- fined as follows. Au natives. cite zens dcuizcus. or subjects ot the hostile government being males oi ,br arc of It years and upwards ,pd mol actually uauraiEgd iu Che ---..-a s.-,es At present che only hostile government is the Imperial German government
 tal Gcrmau-boru children ot uat- uralizcd Germans arc not alien cn- cmies. provided naturalization o' parents is completed before che ehil- drcn have reached maturity. oth- r.tugu.eG lurmscurs.
 bl Americau-boru children oi German citizens residing u Che United States are not alien enemies unless after maturity they became uaturalizcI u Germany
 lcl Naturalization oi alien ene-  mics can mot be completed during Che period or Che war.
 lu Germ1n-boru children of Am- cricau citizens temporarily residing iu Germany are not alien enemies. If. however parents residence Is permanent .n Germany Che o6.priuE must have established by suitable action citizenship in Che United States.
 tcl A native. citizen. dcuizcu or subject of Che German Empire re- mains au alien enemy even though hc has taken out first papers ju che United States or has been natural ized in any country other than Che United States.
Douglas Island news., 1917-12-14
ELFsTROM MILDLY SOAKED

J. E. Elfstrom erstwhilc Douglas icweIor. was yesterday sentenced by U. $. Commissioner Burton at Ju- ncau Co 3O days Imprisonment and Co pay a fine of SlO0 for sodiuous uttorauces. People who know Elf- strom best do not doubt his ability Co serve Che 3O days. but digging up Che Guc win be a "hoss Of another color.
Douglas Island news., 1917-12-14
MARRIED MONDAY NIGHT

Mrs. Pearl Griggs and Bcrnt r. Smith were married Monday night at the home of the bride, corner Third and E streets, United States Commissioner John Henson oniciat- ing. A fine wedding supper was later served to about half a dozen guests. Mrs. Griggs has made her home in Douglas for several years. Mir. Smith has been here only a few months. He is in the empoly of the Robertson transfer.
Douglas Island news., 1917-12-14
DIED IN SAN FRANCISCO

Mrs. Chas. IT Pcarcc. a resident ot Douglas nearly twenty years ago. died recently at her home iu san Francisco Mr. Pearce was at one time foreman iu Che Mexican mine hero and later connected with the Perseverance mine He was iusJru mental In assisting in Che sale o. Che latter property. which trausac tou is said Co have uettcd h.m @ nice stake. Mrs. Pcarce visited in this locality only three years ago. Tho family lcft Alaska for Che south alnnt Lon yllrs aEo.
Douglas Island news., 1917-12-14
THERE IS YET TIME

TberN, being no boat for sltka
 bis week. owing to the stormy weather. Mrs. Fcusi has not yet dis matched the consignment she is pre- n,rinr and which win carry with n Christmas cheer to Che inmates Of tbc Pioneers Homo. She says the people ot Douglas have very gem crously contributed but that more candy. cigars. cookies, jelly and such inexpensive but chccr-loden ar uclcs win be thankfully received by her up until thc middle or next week. which win stiu give ample lime 10 get thc consignment Go its destination before Christmas.