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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-02-28
Connection of Santiago With
Interior of Domingo is Begun

on the Vague river, near Santiago
which when completed will furnish ell
ectricity for Santiago, Moca, La Vega
and Puerto Plata, the four principal
cities of the Cibao and north coast
With the exception of San Pedro de
Macoris and Santo Domingo City, San
tiago and Puerto Plata are the only
cities in the Republic now having ell
ectric lighting service.
Other public improvements that are
to me Immediately undertaken include
the rebuilding of bridges on the road
from Santiago to Monte Cristi. Seven
bridges on this highway were burned
by reyoiutionists last spring to check
the advance of United States Marines.
In the southern part of the island
WORK has been commenced or is about
to be on several projects. Bids have
,ttn askel for the Blu lding of the
first sixteen kilometers of macadam
road from Macoris to Santo Domingo
City, distance of approximately 50
kilometers. This road will also con-
rect with one now under construction
from Macoris to Hato Mayor. a dis
lance of twelve kilometers.
The foundation of a new $4,000
customs house at Santo Domingo City
has already been laid and work on the
new municipal building in the capital.
which has been almost ten years in
building and which has been interrupt
ed lrequc1tly by revolutions, has been
resumed and the building will be oc-
cupied within six months.
Other projects, including the erec-
ton of several government buildings
to take the place of rented quarters.
are being planned now that a stop has
been put to revolutions and with tn"
continuance of order throughout the
country funds are being made avail
able for many large public and private
projects.
Since the American occupation there
have been many inquiries regarding
lands and large tracts have bee1
bought up in Cibao chiefly for the
growing of tobacco while in the South
ern part of the Republic much land is
being purchased to be planted to sugar
cane. Several large investments of
Porto Rican capital have been made
chiefly in sugar lands while the same
interests have made preliminary plans
for the establishment of bank in the
capital with a branch at Macoris.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-02-28

VITRIMONT, near Luneville,
France, Feb. 2S.-American sympathy
with the civilian sufferers from the
war has been given more concrete ex-
preston in this little village than in
any other part of the devastated coun-
try Immediately behind the French
fighting lines.
When Mrs. William Croker, of San
Francisco, chose Vitrimont in which to
carry out her idea of reconstructing
with her own means one of the vii
lagos destroyed by the German troops
in their first rush into France. she
met with much doubt and suspicion.
The people of Lorraine are practical
and hard-headed and also object to
partake of anything given in the form
of charity. 1t was, therefore, neces-
sary to make the proposition a purely
business-like one before laying it be-
fore the villagers.
All the men of fighting age are at
the front with their regiments. One
of the villagers while in the trenches
one day received from his wife let
ter giving details of the plan of re-
construction. He Immediately replied.
Don't waste ink on telling me fairy
tales. You are ready to swallow any
yarn told you. Just make up your
mind as | have done that we have
lost everything, and don't dream that
good fairies are going to restore all
to u.s."
In order to convince this man and
many of his village neighbors serving
in the same corps that somebody was
really taking an interest in them, and
that they would not merely have to
be content with the government in
demnity of sixty per cent. of thei"
losses, Miss Daisy Polk, also a Cali
fornian and now administrator of the
plan, gave printed plans and details
of the scheme to the wives left be-
hind. These were forwarded at once
to the men at the front, who could be
assured only by documentary evidence
of this kind of the good fortune to be
conferred on them and their depend
ents.
Administrator Lives at VitrimOnt.
Miss Polk, who since the beginning
OF the war has been occupied in re-
lief work of various kinds, was chosen
by Mrs. Crocker to administer her
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-02-28

PUERTO PLATA Dominican Re-
public, Feb. 2S-EXensive repairs on
the Dominican Central railroad, con-
Meeting this port with Santiago, in the
heart of the rich Cibao country, have
been commenced in accordance with
the desire of the military government
to have transportation between these
points brought up to a satisfactory
basis.
Tons of tobacco and coffee and ca
Gao, the accumulation of year, re-
main unmoved at Santiago while there
has been practically no freight moved
inland by rail- from here since Aug
ust. The railroad. owned by the re-
public, has for years operated at in
frequent and uncertain intervals.
The engineers are now working on
two deviations from the present route
which will reduce the grade from
twelve per cent. to a maximum OF
three per cent. These grade reduc-
tions will eliminate the necessity for
racks, which heretofore, have been in
use, and will make traffic both quicke"
and more certain. The locomotives
and rolling stock also are to be put in
disable condition and when these
changes and repairs are made it is
expected that the road will be in more
serviceable condition than at any time
since its construction.
Only on one or two occasions has
the road ever been operated profitably
and then not for long periods. Gen
orally it has been a heavy expense to
the Government when it was operated
and long periods of idleness due to re-
volutionary operations have made re-
pair and upkeep charges heavy.
Other extensive improvements are in
course of construction here and with a
stable government are expected to
push to completion without unneces-
sary delay. The new 400-foot wharf
which the government is building at a
cost of s15O,OOO is well under way and
when completed will be the finest
harbor improvement in the Republic
In addition to the wharf new Gus
toms house to cost $4,000, is to be
built at the entrance to the dock. The
dock is to be Ala feet long and ships
drawing not more than 20 feet of
water can come up along either side.
Hydro Electric Plant.
Engineers are at work en- the de-
velopment of a hydro-eleetric project
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-02-28
NOTICE To TAX PAYERS
OF SUMTER FOR 1917

The books were opened first day OF
February for the purpose Of receiving
tax returns, and will remain open I'M
I'll May 1st. according to law. Please
return your taxes early, as have pos
tive instructions from the comptroller
general to close my books on May 1st
This gives you three months without
any cost to you to return your taxes.
will be in the Office Friday and Sat-
urday of each week, until I make my
rounds, and then will be there each
day until books close. Hoping this
will meet the approval of all, 1 remain
Your respectfully
GEO. D. JONES,
Tax Receiver, Sumter County.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-02-28
HOW THIS MOTHER
Got Strength To Do Her Work

Fair Haven, VT was so nervous
and run down that | could not do my
homework for my little family o.
three. | had doctored for nearly two
years without help. One day l read
about Vinol, and thanks to it, my
health has been restored so l am do
ing all my homework once more. am
telling all my friends what Vinol has
done for me- Mrs. James H. Eddy.
Vinol contains beef and cod liver
peptones, iron and manganese pep
tonates and glycerophosphates which
create healthy appetite, aid digestion
and make pure blood.
Hooks Pharmacy. Also at the lead
ing drug store in all Georgia towns.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-02-28

Tax Receiver, Sumter County.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-02-28

Cloan'S Liniment is assigned its
AZ place among the trusted family.
remediesin thousands ofmedi-
cine closets. Confidence in it is
based on the uniform effectiveness
with which it banishes the pains of
Thrumatism, neuralgia, govt, lumbago,
anre stiff muscles, bruises, sprains and
strains. Cleaner and easier to use than
nusSy plasters or ointments. 1t penetrates
and relieves quickly quhhout rubbing.
AT all druggists, Csc. Soc. and $l.00.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-02-28
JG[i&
MI SGkZE
NAPLES LOSES MUCH
OLD SPIRIT BY WAR

NAPLES, Feb. 2S.-"La mella Nap
oil" of the days before the war has
ceased to be. The tourist hotels along
the waterfront and on the heights oy-
erloOking the crescent of the bay
are virtually empty Many have board
ed up their windows and gone out OF
business entirely. The army of guides,
interpreters, hotel runners and money
changers has become an army of sold
iers, scaling the mountains of the Car
so hundreds of miles to the north,
where eternal snow replaces the etern-
III sun of Southern Italy.
The ouays are deserted. Where
year ago 260 ships were plying be-
tween Naples and the United States,
With tonnage of 100000, there now
are eleven, with a total of less thah
so 900 tons. OF ten companies, not
counting the German and Austrian
aues, running 81 transatlantic pas
SINGER ships, one Italian line now
runs the boats, one British line two,
and a French line one. That is all.
Before the war, the traveller to Amer
lea had a choice of some 6O SHIPS
from Naples; today he has choice OF
FIVE. Passenger rates have gone up,
5ut as there are virtually no first
and second class passengers the in
crease makes little difference to the
steamship companies, because the
Steerage rates are about the same.
Seldom does one see now curtains
of drying sphagetti screening the mar
TOW ways between the houses in Ma
niles. There is a scarcity of food
Thursday and Friday of every week
are "meatless days" when no meat
may be purchased or. sold in restaur-
ants, and the Neapolitan is forced to
I've on fish, macaroni, rice or more
vegetables. Friday, Saturday and
Sunday of every week are "sweetless
DAYS" when neither sugar nor cakes
nj any kind can be served, at least IN
urbIie. Every day is BUTTERFLIES day.
ard even cream is a rarity entirely ous
a, reach of anyone but the most lux
UrioUs.
In Naples 80 per cent of the IN
babitants lived directly or indirectly
by the sea, or by the tourists the sea
brings them. There are no more
tourists, and the activities directly
connected with shipping have so fall
en- off as to leave 80 per cent OF the
Neapolitans in bad way. In the Day
- Naples. no more boys dive for pen
v;es The raucous-voiced postcard
SELLERS now listen to the sterner voice
nf a drill sergeant up any one of the
side streets in the newer quarters Oh
the town. where rudimentary military
training goes on constantly. There
are plenty of men in Naples, as IN all
If Italy, but almost all in UNIFORM
barsaeliori. with their cocked-feather-
az hats and hob nailed boots; trlpol-
IN; with red. rimless caps from which
b,na tassels hang by a long string
nacers with capes thrown over thei"
sboplders like Spanish grandees ana
staggering carabineri, the terror OF
evil doors. The system seems to be 10
o,u one class after another, brush up
their military training, then give them
seaye of absence, thus keeping theih
under martial law and subject to mill
itary orders.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-02-28
NOTICE.

All parties owing me past due notes
or accounts are requested to come up
and make settlement at once, or l
shall have to resort to legal proceed
irgs to collect them. !. S. BOLTON.
16-tf
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-02-28
WOMEN CARPENTERS
LEAVE FOR FRANCE

LONDON, Feb. 28.-Nineteen young
women carpenters have left for
France, where they have contracted to
remain for the duration of the war in
employment mainly connected with
the building of barracks for the Brit
ish army.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-02-28
HONG KONG GIVES FIVE
MILLION DOLLARS TO WAR

LONDON. Feb. 28.-Hong Kong
croot Britain's Chinese colony, has
made gift of five million dollars TO-
K,rds the prosecution of the war. 1t
ill he paid partly from current rev.
onue and partly from the proceeds OF
local loan of three million dollars
-,;sed in the colony.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-04-04
HANCOCK COUNTY CITIZENS
TO CUT COST OF LIVING

Hayesville, KY, March 31.-The
determination Of the citizens OF
Hawesville and the farmers of Han
cock county to cut down the high
cost of living has been much in evil
dence the past week. Every foot of
available ground is being utilized to
protect either something for the ia
bic or high priced salable crop.
Two other progressive ideas are
being rapidly developed in this coun-
ty. The one is the improvement Of
the livestock. Several years ago,
some Of the farmers went in togeth-
er and bought a fine Coach stallion.
They kept him for about three years
when an accident caused them to
lose him. But the Improvement is
much in evidence today for the plug
team is now as rare as formerly the
fine team was. This spring another
bunch of farmers organized and
bought another fine stallion. The
same is true in every other line of
the livestock business. From
chickens to horses, each owner is
trying to develop a pure breed
that was unthought of
few years ago. The other odea is
the change of opinion upon the road
ton a bond issue for good roads in
this county would have been the
same as to have asked each individ-
ual to give Won large sum of mon
ey. TODAY the sentiment is entirely
changed and the bond Issue is only
question of time, for the younger
generation is interested in good
roads and are wanting them. .
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-04-04
GOVERNOR WELCOMES
TROOPS BACK HOME

Frankfort, KY, March 30
Through a general order issued to-
day, by the Adjutant Generals office.
Gov. Stanley welcomes back to "Old
Kentucky officers and men of. the
Kentucky National Guard, who have
seen service on the border.
THE Governor Of Kentucky de-
sires to offer his congratulations on
the Homecoming of the officers. and
men Of the Kentucky National
Guard, and to welcome them after
the service rendered to the Govern
mont on the border.
From, the records received in this
office. the Kentucky troops have sus-
tanned the reputation for which Ken
lucky soldiers always have been not
ed. and they are to be praised and
commended for their high military
efficiency and duty in time of nation
al crisis.
"fn welcoming you home again, I
speak for all Of the good citizens Of
this Commonwealth who have found
in your service the old spirit of her
many brave sons who have made his
tory in the pasts'
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-04-04
BEGGARS RESCUED
BY A PATROLMAN
We're Almost SuffOcated BY SmOke c
From Frankfort Restaurant
Fire.

Frankfort, KY, March 31.-Two
beggars, one legless, the other blind,
are in critical condition at the
Kings Daughters Hospital, suffering
from the effects of suffocation as the
result of a fire in the Busy Bee Res
taurant, across from the Union Sta
ton, about o'clock this morning.
The men were rescued from the sec
ond-story by Patrolman David Rea-
gan. who wrapped wet sheet about
his head and CROPPED his way through
the smoke to their room. Both were
unconscious and were revived by a
lung motor. The attending physi-
clan said both have rallied, but are
not entirely conscious. Their names
are unknown.
The damage to the restaurant will
amount to only few hundred dol
lars.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-04-04
WOMEN SCORE.

Steps favorable to Woman Suf-
frage were taken in two States last
week.
The Iowa House of Representa-
tives by vote of So to 20 passed a
joint resolution submitting to the
people a constitutional amendment
which provides for woman suffrage.
1t has already passed the Senate.
BY the action of both parties,
Democratic and Republican, in In
diana, women are to be represent
ed in the constitutional convention.
1t seems also not only probable but
practically certain that there will be
two or more women on each of the
party committees of the State.
These with the prospects in Eng
land give advocates of equal suffrage
reasons for feeling encouraged.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-04-04
WHERE WAS LEACH?

The special session of the General
Assembly was called to deal exclu-
sively with the tax question.
canvass was made of the mem
bers and among those who thought
there existed an emergency and
hence favored the call was, as We re-
member, our own Senator ]. A.
Leach. Yet at the very time the
first important measure (the Oliver
bilD came up in the Senate, Mr..
Leach is reported as absent or not
voting" ..s...
This bill has created great interest
and is of vital importance to every
tax payer in Kentucky. Senator
Leach has had ample opportunity to
study 1t and hear IL discussed for
forty days. Is it possible he had no
opinion as to the merits of the bill ?
OF course the Senator may have
been unavoidably prevented from at
tending that particular session. but
we have. seen no report that would
indicate that.
The people Of this district are en-
titled to some explanation.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-04-04
ROW IN 1RAnsYAvAM|A
UNIVERSITY, LEXINGTON
DR.. CrossfieId and Other Menu
bers Charged by University
Students.

A Lexington dispatch inf State
Journal says:
Certain students Of TraRsyfvania
College have published charges
against President r. II. Crossfield,
Professors w. C. Bower, E.. e. Snod-
dy, A. w. Fortune and G. M. Henry.
These men are described as 'destruc-
tive critics who are in control of the
faculty. One of the professors 10 un-
der the charge of being an evolution
list; another has aroused the antag-
onism of the students because he
said the pithecanthropus erectus is
the missing link between man and
animals;' another because he does
not believe in the literal meaning
of the book of JONAH and another
for the reason that he said be must
explain what he meant by God be-
fore he could explain how God an
swers prayer.
President Crossfeld and the ac-
cused professors made a sweeping
denial. characterizing the charges as
partly false, wholly misleading and
to destroy the, interest of
free Christian education They |
llso. in published statement affirm
ID their fidelity to the fundamental
rutbs Of Christianity as revealed in
he Bible and to the historic princi-
lies of the Disciples of Christ.
"Eighty-seven per cent. of the,stu-
ents of the college signed a protest
gainst the charges. and expressed
in the ability and Chris
ian lives of the accused members of
he faculty. /,
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-04-04
EASTER SUNDAY

According to the rule fixed in the
early part of the Christian era next
Sunday is the day set apart to COM
memorate and celebrate the resur-
rection OF Christ. II Is always the
first Sunday following the first full
moon that occurs after the twenty
first day of March. the time of the
vernai equinox, called the paschal
full moon. For this reason Easter al
ways occurs between March 22d and
April 25th. and is regarded as the
great movable feast of the Christian
year, In Acts xii, 4, IL D referred to
as the days of unleavened bread or
Jewish Passover.
Until some time early In the
fourth century there was much I'M
certainty among the. christian
churches as 10 the day to celebrate,
some contending for one and some
for another. as the Passover next af-
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-04-04
COUNTY POLITICS,
DEMOCRATIC.

SHERlFF-We are authorized t.
announce S. +. Bennett as a candi
date for the Democratic nomination
for Sheriff of Ohio county. Primary
Saturday, August A. 1917.
JAILER-WE are authorized tc
announce j. l.. COlyer as a candidate
for the Democratic nomination for
Jailer of Ohio county. Primary Aug
4. 1917.
JA1LER-We are authorized to
announce Newton II. Baize as a can
didate for Jailer of Ohio county, sub.
ject to the action of the Democratic
party. Primary August 4, 1917.
JAILER-Ke are authorized to
announce Buck Collins as a candi-
date for Jailer, subject to the action
of the Democratic party. Primary
August 4. 1917.
CLERK-We are authorized to an
nounce Guy f.. Robertson as a. can
didate for Clerk of the Ohio County
Court, subject to the action of the
Democratic party. Primary August
4, 1917. .= .i. t..-,i;. ...
JUDGE-We are authorized to
announce S. S. May a candidate for
the Democratic nomination for Judge
of the Ohio County Court, Primary
Saturday, August 4.
MAGISTRATE-We are authoriz-
ed to announce j. u. .Hagermau a
candidate for Magistrate from the
Hartford District. subject to the ac-
ton of the Democratic primary. Sat
urday. August 4. g.. Halfway
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-04-04
REPUBLICAN.

JUDGE-We are authorized to
announce Judge n. II. Wedding as q
candidate for the Republican nomi.
nation for Judge Of the Ohio County
Court. Primary Aug. 4. 1917.
CLERK--We are authorized te
announce w. G. Blankenship a can.
didate for the Republican nomina.
tion for County Court Clerk of Ohio
county. Primary August 4. 1917.
SHERIFF-We are authorized &c
announce G. A. Ralph as a candi.
date for the Republican nomination
for Sheriff of Ohio county. Primary
August 4, 1917.
JAILER-We are authorized to
announce Worth Tchenor as a can.
didate for Jailer subject to the ac-
tion of the Republican party. Pri-
mary August 4. 1917.
JAiLER-We are authorized to
announce NJ. G. ShrOader a candidate
for Jailsr Of Ohio county, subject to
the action of the Republican party
Primary August 4. 1917.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. are au-
torized to announce Mrs. i. 4. Mason
a candidate for the Republican nom-
ination for Superintendent of Coun-
ty Schools OF Ohio county. Primary
August 4.
NPte-Women who are. legally
qualified. are entitled to vote for
School Superintendent in both Pri-
mary and Final Election.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-04-04
NOTICE.
To my Customers and Friends Of
uorxforI soA nASo HonHty.

To my Customers and Friends Of
Hartford and Ohio County: Il
I have been in the restaurant bus
mess for the past ten years. I have
tried to do a straight business, and
nave. have had some success and
some failures. Z e. ~
About three months ago came to
Hartford and tried to start straight
business and had very good bust
ness. Now, some persons Just
through prejudice have employed a
detective agent ithe piano man) to
catch the "bootlesgers"-of course
he had to do something. And me
having in my restaurant nutromal
sold and labeled as a non-fntoxicat-
ing drink, has charged me with sell
ing Intoxicating liquor; selling to
minors. etc. '-T e
Now friends this is all mistake.
I haven't sold a drop of liquor in my
life. The nutromal which have
been selling is the same dope which.
the other restaurant keepers Of
Hartford have been selling.
I beg to remain, your friend with
malice toward none.
Yours respectfully,
c-. ]. A. TATE
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-04-04
DISCRETION OF DEPENDENTS.

County Judge Wilson as an officer
has troubles of his own" Some OF
the most pestiferous cases in his court
are those charging desertion of chill
dren or other dependents. This de,
plorable condition seems to be grad
ually getting more serious notwith,
standing the diligence of the Officers
in prosecuting and Furnishing the of,
tenders.
Recently the following have been
In Quarterly Court: Clarence Aull
for deserving an infant child, Knox
Wright, failing to provide for his
dependent mother. Will Peters
charged with deserving a child. Geo
Hillard for deserving six children
two of them twins five months old
Eldridge Miller for deserving a child
Besides these there are some in
dictments pending In Circuit Court
based ON similar charges.
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