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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-08-27
AGG|E SCHOOL NOT
MISS SESSION BY
FAILURE Of eOLOhs
TO TO PASS Ass MEASURE MEASURE
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE HELD
ANOTHER MEETING TO CON-
SIDER AFFAIRS OF SCHOOL
YESTERDAY AND GEORGE ELLIS
WAS APPOINTED TO CONFER
WITH GOVERNOR CONCERNING
MATTER.

A meeting of the commissioners OF
the Americus and Sumter County
Chaplber of Commerce was held yes
tereay afternoon for the especial pur-
pose of considering the affairs of the
Third district Agricultural and Me-
chanical school here, and to make
certain that the institution would open
its session on time next month.
At this meeting George r. Ellis was
appointed committee of one to con-
suit with Governor Dorsey regarding
the status of the school, and, if nee
essary, to go to Atlanta, and there
talk with the governor at length re-
gafding the condition of affairs there.
In accordance with this resolution,
Mr.. Ellis called Governor Dorsey
over the phone and held long con-
versation. the result of this CONVEX
sation being the authorized announce
ment that the school will open on
September third, and that the session
will continue uninterrupted through
out the school year.
Several days ago the trustees OF
the institution, after the consideration
of the. difficulties confronting the
school, resulting from the failure of
the legislature to provide funds nee
essary for the completion of the Ad-
ministration building on the campus,
issued an information" which result
ed in the Chamber of Commerce inter
esting itself in the affairs of the in
stitution. AS a result of the inter
yention of the business mems organi-
cation the schools difficulties have
been practically all smoothed out, and
the faculty and prospective students
have been notified to be present for
tho openil g session,
There has gone abroad an in:ima-
tion that the school would not open
this session. and the Chamber OF
Commerce is anxious to counteract
this impression as emphatically as
possible. Governor Dorsey has prom
ised to communicate with the author
tiles here either this afternoon or to-
morrow, and when his communication
is received further announcement
on the subject may be anticipated.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-08-27
WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN

WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN
FRANCE, August 27.-The linden
burg line has been penetrated by the
British troops at point east of Heni-
mel.
British forces are established in
the northern outskirts of Bapaume,
aecording to the official statement is
sued at the war Office today.
British forces in the great battle
1s northern Picardy are making pro-
gress towards the village of Beug-
Ratre, 2 1-2 miles northeast of Bap-
aume, according to the official state
ment issued at the war Office today.
There is hard fighting around Croi-
stiles, further north, the statement
says.
Since last Wednesday, the British
have taken 21 900 prisoners che state-
ment says.
Australian forces nave made sub
stantial progress toward Dompierre,
south of the Somme, and east of Su-
zanne, north of the river, the state
ment adds.
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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-08-27

WHO'S WHO
IN SUMTER COUyTYl
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-08-27
RUSSIAN SOLDIERS
REFUSING To HEED
APPEAL To FIGHT
CZECH -SLOvAK ARMY
LENINE AND TROTSY HAVE BOTH
LEFT PETROGRAD AND ARE
ABOARD SHIPS READY TO FLEE
INTO GERMANY-LATER PLEADS
WITH RUSSIANS TO STRIKE AT
COUNTER REVOLUTIONISTS.

WASHINGTON, D. c., August 81
Nearly all the Bolshevik leaders have
LETT Petrograd and Moscow and it is
almost impossible to see those who
are left, according to information
reaching the state department today
from Stockholm from man who left
Petrograd August 13. He reported
Lenine, the Bolshevik premier, on "a
battle ship at Kronstadt and Trotzky
aboard the former emperor's yatch,
a short distance below Petrograd
TIis report is denied by the Swed-
ish press, but the department infor-
n.ant said it was current when he
left Petrograd. His message told also
OF a meeting held. at Kronstadt in an
endeavor to get the soldiers there to
agree to fight against the -Czecho-
slovaks. There were about 1000 sol
diers present to hear an address by
Trotzky. but it was intimated that
most of them could not be persuaded
to move against the Czechs.
Several arrests were reported made
at Jaroslav in a counter-revolution-
airy plot, and the prisoners sent to
Kronstadt as prisoners only to be set
free by the garrison.
As an example of the difficulty of
travel in eastern Siberia. the state de-
partment made public today informa-
ton from Pekin reporting the arrival
there of an Englishman from Irkutsk
after twenty-five days on the road
Two Americans arrived at Urga on
August Z. having been forty days trav-
cling from Irkutsk.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-08-27
SALE Of OUROCS
At ARIES GREAT
SUCCESS; MANY
BOUGHT STOCK

FIFTY ONE HEAD OF BRED SOWS
AND gifts SOLD FOR AN AG-
GKEGATE OF SEVENTY.FIVE
HUNDRED DOLLARS, OR AN AV@
ERAGE OF s14S.4s.-THOSE WHO
PURCHASED HOGS AT SALE
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-13

the regular features and VS
the strangely irregular
form. When they had sang
the others in the group
went on to the next hospital without
her. Miss Teyte had remained to
talk with an old friend, very dear
friend" they said to the disappointed
ones.
Before she sailed back to all
her engagements in America the love
affair that had been interrupted but
only interrupted, by her marriage was
renewed.
81 had to propose to him." she said when
he still loved me. l saw that he did not
intend to ask me to marry him. SO one
day said, Seymour you're going TO marry
me. You've got to-"
The face on the pillow flushed to the
rich red of health. The eyes that had been
dim frightened with great light
"But. Maggie"-- The voice had
stronger timbre. 1t was that OF the boy OF
Midlands.
mot a word" she commanded Cor
rather, only one word | shall only allow
you to say Yes"
Eyes," he said, and they laughed rs they
had before careers and a Paris husband
and world war had shifted the channel
of their young lives.
There was an affectionate parting, in
which the nurse and the doctors and the
others in the hospital were keenly inter
ested, but which they deliberately pretend
cd not to see. 1t was the day before tho
prima donna sailed for America
Thank heaven, dearest, you have right
hand. You can write" said the little prima
donna
He wrote often in the two years that fol-
lowed. The letters were filled with his
love and his pride In her career "sand
me cuttings of every notice." he repeated
in each letter. He said little about him
self.
."How are you? Are you gaining? VIII
you soon be out OF the hospital?" The
questions were evaded or were unanswered
Others, friends of both, answered them
Bear up. old girl. 1t will be a shoc,
Know. But you'd better know that there
mas been another operation" And, Gle
may never be better Face it, NV child
as one of the unforgivable horrors the
Huns have wrought"
His letters were tender, but there wore
fewer Of them. They were filled with
Copyright, 1915 By Star Comnon
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-13

by two men, it is the man who makes the
more show who wins her:
81 believe that Seymour loved me. But
he was self-contalned He was deep in
his studies. He was establishing himself
in the practice of the law. l was in Paris.
M. Plummon was III Paris. / saw him
every day. Every woman likes attention.
| married him.
"But as always happens when a woman
has mistaken her hearts voice, my mar
riage was from the first only tolerably
happy. 1t became less happy. 1t degen-
Grated into failure"
lncompatbility, that blanket that covers
multitude of differences OF taste and TEN.
permanent and personal standards, was Of
Ten spoken in the divorce proceedings of
NJ. and Nine. Plummon. But each wished
the divorce. 1t was granted
Maggie Tyte was free and her fame
and her voice had grown at corresponding
rate But she was not happy. Not quite.
And then the war. Letters from old
friends of the Black Country and of London
wrote her: Seymour Robertson Is in
dred and Seventeenth Regiment"
Miss Teyle went homo that Summer.
she had been invited to visit the mistresses
or some or the palaces Of Newport. the
social capital. muti-millionaire had bent
the knee OF homage to her. a member of
an old knickerbocker family had offered
ms name and wealth TO the maid from the
Mldlands. But she declined these and
other offers and sailed for England.
hut Why?' asked American a6mirerc
The Atlantic is sown with mines and
u-boats Stay in safe America"
don't know just why ] am going. I
feel that | ought" she said with a girlish
biush: Ihen, Il have no doubt | can ne
useful"
She was. She offered to act as "yisit.
ress one who went from one supply store
TO another TO see that all nccessares were
furnished.
Wise old England declined this offer and
asked her to use her voice in the service
OF her country She joined party of four
ana gave concerts at the hospitals
Poor brave fellows" Tears rise to her
clear gray eyes at memory or them. "They
called themselves lucky ones Lucky be.
cause, with leg or arm or with both leg
ana arm gone, they were still alive. "Often
sang ten or twelve numbers. The boys
ilked the ballads. Their weak voices
joined III the choruses"
London hospital. His thin face was yerv
c clear cut against the background of the
pillow But the form beneath the white
coverlet was strangely irregular.
An officer His left arm and his right
leg are gone said the nurse
Those who had come with her Tn sinp at
the hospital parted. They wandered into
me nails or looked out the window. For
me wounded man had called in n weak
voice, Maggie"
And at the sound the great little prims
uo.'ha mad sunk upon her knees beside the
COT Her hand lay uDon his shoulder. Her
go ,chea ms race. She hurled her
race in the bedclothes and went.
10 the man who stood at the window
came drifting words. Lieutenant Robert.
sons voice, weak but joyous, saying. OTIS
nothing much, Maggie How are Won
ue AR Very grand and famous, hear"
MISS Teyte's voice, like broken flute.
repeated, oh, Seymour. SEYMOUR"
She went daily to sing at the bosnit.,
AMays she stood very near and looked At
inc cot where lay the handsome face with
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-13
t&T .3FTENANT ROBERTSON has
broken our engagements

$&T .aFTENANT ROBERTSON has
broken our engagement
Maggie Teyte, tho famous
grand opera prima donna, spoke with n
sob In her voice. The smart folk and the
muSlcally great of New York, who had
crowded her dressing room or waited their
turn for word of homage to her could
not believe
But lie loves you'll"
Yes"
Then why?"
Out in the orchestra space the con.
ductor was making ready for tho
last act of Ambrose Thomas's tuneful
story of love and longing scrape, scrape.
The violnists were drawing their bows.
Last act, Miss reyte," Warned the call
boy in uniform
me unsteady reverent withdrew with
bows and in silence. For an instant the
door of Miss Teytes dressing room was
closed Her siyerhaired maid, her face
grave. wtth'rcw into the wings. But with
the rise OF the curtain Maggie Tevte in
her rags of Mignon was again herself She
sang with fine authority. She depicted the
sorrows OF Mignon. TOO WE'LL" said one
In the audience who knew her. For she
Is suffering as Mgnon suffered"
True said another who understood
nut with the difference that Mignon was
Jealous of Philine. Maggie Teyte is Jealous
ol a mans transcendent sense of honor"
me story. which is being told in sympa.
the'ic tones i'll the foyers and where serI.
ous'iaced women in white roll guaze band.
ages Tor the boys over there, is that of
me ioVe OF boy and a girl Not love
lhat doomed and faded as last Sum
1ner s roses. but one that grew with their
CROWN ana strengthened with their years
me story which ended with the sad
little scene in Miss Teyte's dressing room
on the night OF her debut with the Ameri
can Singers Society. began ever so long
ago she would tell you. And so it seems
70 her. though the petite singer is only
MIDWAY OF her twenies
seymour was seven years older than 7.
Always looked up TO him. because he was
Older and seemed ever so much wiser"
lhey lived in the Miiands i'm England
these children. They called ii. as did
their elders, The Black Country" She
was the "Tcyte BABY" TO him, he the "bie
Robertson boy to her. But each admired
profoundly the other.
She has told the story Of their voutI,u,
love and understanding.
"ent TO convent school, then father
LOOK me to the Royal College of Music i'm
London. Sir Hubert Parry, director OF the
college, refused TO teach me- He said
was TOO young. He said, She is too young
ana 700 httie.' That was the reason |
went to Paris. If hadn't gone TO paris
10 study il might all have been different.
Haa been accepted as a student at
ihe Royal College believe my life would
nave Hown in different and happier chan.
mel. would have been most of the time
IN London would have met Seymour
Robertson pegging away at his law There
would nave been that entire understanding
that absence mars.
But went to Paris. lean de Rcszke
lorgave my youth. he taught me.
created part in The new opera, Gree. |
Eugene Plummon
mere ] stop 10 ask myself the cues
tion' 'Why?' For with all my girls heart
loved my boy playmate OF MidIands
sas%cr. Because when woman Is loved
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-13

VII inc tdS or the SsS$$TffSS
opening Of the Ameri- ySs$S8%&s
can Singers Socictys WS SS&$Ss
season came this let V&SX
ter: %@&#
maggie. Ny Darl-
ing-This is my last
letter. Done for? Bless
you. no. When
go back to MidlanGs
| may find myself
the oldest man there And you know how
old they grow in the Black Country
But our engagement is at an end. All
hope that 1 can ever again be man
among men is gone. The wasting con-
tlnues. 1t cannot be stopped. ] will not
allow you TO sacrifice your fresh young life
and your genius TO a poor human remnant.
No. Maggie, | won't permit you to make
the sacrifice.
"If you come back to England don't seek
me- Maggie. should not want You to see
me as l am. Proud? Maybe, little
But its good-by for all time. Go on
with your work. Some day you will meet
another chap whom you can love. Let him
be musician. One who can aid your
career
Don't listen to any one who says girl
would better give herself to half or a
quarter OF man who has fought than a
whole man who is Stacker.
ne, o"iuerudSil, ola girl. DON'T need
H. lor have but one thought now in the
worid-that is. that you shall be happy.
IL doesn't matter about me.( 1t doesn't,
really. SE,YNOIIR"
Maggie Teyte will try to obey this final
ietter. DO we not try to carry out the
wishes OF our beloved who have died? And
seymour Robertson, lieutenant of the
british One Hundred and Seventeenth. Is
as one dead
seymour is older than l." she SAYS in
voice that is like a broken flute and
re always seemed so much wiser"
:. Great Britain Rights Reserved.
Middletown transcript., 1918-03-16

Broadly speaking, America must be
content to allow its allies to dictate
the military and naval policy of the
coalition. 1t should be willing to place
at their disposal its available economic
and military forces, says New Repub-
lie. They have the experience, and
the war is being fought on European
territory and in European waters. But
in deciding matters Of political policy
it has a point of view of its own to as
sert, and the assertion of its interests
will strengthen the political position
of the whole coalition. Alone among
the members thereof it is peculiarly
pre-occupied with that part Of the pro-
gram which is of common concern, apd
it can assume, consequently. in refer.
ence to the special objects of the pos~
ers the attitude of mediator and rec10-
ciler-and If necessary Of opponent 1t
can help to organize political unity and
convert it into an offensive weapon.
Middletown transcript., 1918-03-16
GOOD RoApe MovaNel,r.

It Is realized more and more by
thinking men that facilities for dis
tribution are essential to public wei
fare, and that among facilities for dis
tribution good roads occupy an impor'
tant place. It is a scandal that when the
farmers toll has been rewarded with
bountiful crops consumption may be
retarded by inability Of farmers to
make deliveries unless the Almighty
freezes the roads in the North and
withholds the rains in the South" The
appreciation Of this fact is going to
be manifested in q practical way in
the near future. All over the coun-
try, and notably in the middle West.
wide-awake citizens of late have been
lending their influence to the good
roads movement. Recent legislation,
state and federal, provides machinery
by which the good roads movement
may be made effective. Wisconsin will
perform her part in the Improvement
of the country, says Milwaukee Eve
ming Wisconsin. Before long there will
be trunk line highways, crossing one
another at intervals and stretching
across the state from east to west
and from south to north. The con-
struction of these highways will cost
money, but the investment will bring
large returns.
Middletown transcript., 1918-03-16

The wonder grows where all the
fur comes from and If any fur-bearing
animals are still alive SO popular is
FUR this season. Hudson seal coats
IRE very much to be met with in the
street, either plain or trimmed with
their own material or a contrasting
fur. Forty, 48, and so inches are the
lengths, and their style is very much
the same as was worn last winter.
Fur capes are the newer thing this
season, but a great many animal
throws and stoles are used. Fox In
natural and dyed color is the leader
IN furs, though nearly every kind OF
pelt Is in demand.
Middletown transcript., 1918-03-16
This war has given US q new natiO

This war has given US new nation
al view of what is real value. We
have come to subscribe to the prin-
ciple that only that is sacred which
serves. A human life is valuable only
as it contributes something to the good
OF all. The individual value Of life is
practically nil. It is cooperative ef-
fort which counts and no life Is wasted
which seeks to do it's part along with
others for the common veal. 1t is this
conception of the value Of human life
to attain democratic ideals that has
inspired our fighting sons to "carry on
the struggle against tyranny until 1t
is ,dethroned, says Philadelphia North
American. 1t is this new national view
that will be Endorsed by those who pay
the supreme sacrifice and better, tru-
er civilization.
Middletown transcript., 1918-03-16

And then there is q whole lot OF
pretty good sort of mo mans land" in
the United States that about million
Of trifling rascals and loafers of the
,.ities ought to be made to cultivate
md make something for the army to
eat. In time Of war and food short
age, we need a rule of mo workee, no
fightee. no eatee."
Middletown transcript., 1918-03-16

The college world may well think
over the suggestion Of President Hop
kins of Dartmouth that q degree of
bachelor Of military science would be
far more fitting for the students who
have gone to the front than the mis-
leading bachelor Of arts"
Middletown transcript., 1918-03-16

A Baltimore judge-Maryland has a
law to compel everybody to do useful
labor-has ruled that bootblacks and
gypsies are idlers. A man should
shine his own shoes, says the court.
But take the case, your honor. Of the
fat man; he can't.
Middletown transcript., 1918-03-16

A letter Of recommendation from 8
Sunday school teacher does not
amount to much. What the prospec-
tive employer wants is letter of that
character from one who knows you
the other six days Of the week.
Middletown transcript., 1918-03-16

A college professor with German
sympathies who has not succeeded In
learning to keep his mouth shut Is not
likely to be able to teach much to any.
one else.
Middletown transcript., 1918-03-16

The cry is going up against the ex-
pensive banquet as something that Is
not fitting In war times, whereas many
have contended that all banQuets
should have been abolished long ago.
Middletown transcript., 1918-03-16

The new conservation slogan for
hoo6ewives: Don't stuff your hus-
bel4 husband your stu&"
Middletown transcript., 1918-03-16

It Is q safe rule that q rumOr detri-
mental to the government or its allies
isn't so.
Middletown transcript., 1918-03-16

Perhaps the feelings It the nag
ought to be taken into condderatsoa
by those who are forcing pro Germans
to kiss Il.
Qnlna does not IKE the agreement
between the United States and Japan
whereby the United States recognizes
certain interests Of japan In China. It
may be that the situation win be i'm
proved upon China's fuller under
standing Of what has been agreed
Middletown transcript., 1918-03-16

THE TRANscRIPT-91.00 PER YEAR.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1918-10-03
HOLD TO LIBERTY BONDS
When Anyone Seeks to Buy Them,
Proposition Should Be In
Vestigated.

The effort to separate Liberty Bond
holders not familiar with stock and
bond values from their Liberty Bonds
has taken new turn. The manipu-
lators, instead of offe- to buy the
bonds at inadequate prices, offer in ex-
change for them the stocks and bonds
of various wildcat corporations, whose
face value is large, but whose actual
value il little or nothing
The safest investment in the world
is a Liberty Bond. For patriotic
American, Liberty Bonds are the best
investment in the world 1t is not only
wise thing to hold them; it is a
patriotic thing to do. The soldier that
takes a trench and then voluntarily
gives it up is. not to be compared with
one who takes trench and holds it
against the enemy.
And American who buys a Liberty
Bond and then sells it is not 80 good
an American as one who buys bond
and holds it. This does not apply,
however, to one who sells his bond be-
cause of real necessity; here is legiti-
mate trading in Liberty Bonds which
the treasury recognizes.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1918-10-03
Attention Merchants

You must keep your sugar
record is such shape as to bear
Government inspection at any
time.
Merchants will not be permit
ted to average cost of any old
sugar with new; they vii not be
allowed to advance pre- sentprices
until present stock of old sugar
is exhausted.
The price Of sugar will be de-
termined by the cost to the mer-
chant. The merchant may add
the freight he has to pay to his
cost of sugar, and then add one
cent COD which is his profit.
A merchant must not sell more
than two (2) pounds per person,
for each member of the family,
per month.
A. t. STovALL,
Co. Food Administrator.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1918-10-03
Groves Tasteless chill Tonic
destroys the malarial germs which are transmitted
0 the blood by the Malaria Mosquito. Price Coo.
TRUSTEES SALE

By virtue of the provisions Of cer-
tain Deed of Trust executed on the
9Th day Of February, 1915, by Lewis
Taylor and Sarah Taylor, his wife, to
secure a certain Indebtedness therein
mentioned TO Hawkins & Hodges,
wherein | was made Trustee, and
which Deed of Trust is duly recorded
in Book III at page 262 of the
Record OF Trust Deeds in the Chan.
Gerry Clerks Office at Houston, Chick.
asaw County. Mississippi, and default
having been made in the payment Of
, aid indebtedness, will on Monday,
The 4th day of November. 1918, in
front OF the court house door in the
City Of Okolona, Mississippi. within
legal hours, offer for sale and sell to
the highest bidder or cash, the follow
ing described property. situated in
Chickasaw County. to-wit:
Lots Nos. Four, Five. Eleven and
Twelve a. 5, II. end 12) Block No.
Seveny.Seven III. according to
the Randolph survey oil the CITY Of
Okolona, Mississippi.
Said sale will be made to satisfy
said Indebtedness and the cost of
executing this trust.
The title to said property is be-
lieved to be good. but shall convey
only such title as is vested in me as
Trustee.
This the 25th day of September.
1918.
sc. HODGES.
Taustee.