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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-09-04
GALA DAY IS
PROMISED ON
SEPT. 14TH BY
FIELD FLYERS
AIR WILL BE FULL OF FLYERS
FOLLOWING GRAND PARADE,
WHICH WILL BEGIN AT 2P. NJ
EIGHTY PEOPLE WILL PARTICI-
PATE IN BIG MINSTREL AFFAIR
WITH OTHER FEATURES.

Beginning at two P NJ. Saturday,
the 14th instant, the public will be
given the greatest variety of the high
est class entertainment and amuse-
ment ever enjoyed in this section OF
the country The program is as fol-
lows:
Promptly at 2 o'clock street pa
rade by the Souther Field Minstrel
Troup will begin. The troup consists
of eighty people composed of expert
musicians, singers. dancers and star
boxers, etc, etc These are all stars
Not novice in the group.
Immediately after the parade the
elements will be full of air ships loop
ing the loop, doing the nose dive, the
tail spin, and performing many other
dangerous and wonderful stunts in
mid air, all under the personal super
vision of Major Wash. This will con-
clude the afternoon entertainment
The great minstrel show will be
staged on some street in the business
section yet to be selected, this section
being curtained off, well lighted, and
ample seats provided.
This section Of the street will be in
perfect order for dancing, and when
the show is over the street dance be-
gins, and will continue until those
who indulge in terpsicorean amuse-
ment are thoroughly satisfied. The
best of music will be furnished for
this dance.
A small admission fee to the min
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-09-04
JACKSON STREET.
NOT TO Be USED.
BY SONS OF VETS
FOR Bic BENEFIT
MERCHANTS ALONG THOROUGH
FARE WHO SIGNED AGREEMENT
TO PERMIT USE OF STREET FOR
MINSTREL SHOW WILL CONTRI-
Butte TO CAUSE INSTEAD. =
THOSE WHO SUBSCRIBED.

The committee representing the
Sons of Veterans in the entertainment
proposed to be given for the benefit
OF Camp Sumter, Confederate Veter-
ans, have decided to call the affair
off, in SO far as pertains to Jackson
street, the merchants along that
thoroughfare having requested such
action.
In lieu of permitting Jackson street
to be closed on Saturday, September
l4th, the merchants along the block
in question have signed the following
agreement:
Whereas, we,- whose names are
hereto subscribed, have heretofore
signed an agreement for that section
IF jackson street, between Lamar and
Forsyth streets in the city of Ameri-
Gus. to be closed on the evening of
Saturday, the 14th inst, for the pur-
pose Of an entertainment for the ben
eft of Confederate Veterans, and
whereas, after further consideration
of the effect this would have on our
business;
We agree on or before September
14th to contribute to the Sumter coun-
tv camp Confederate Veterans the
amounts set opposite our names, on
condition that said Jackson street
shall not be closed at the time and
place here above mentioned
Signed:
Tillman & Brown, $25OO; Pinkston
Co, $500; Walkers, $1.OO; Gyles-
Andrews Furniture Co., $500; Alcazar
Theatre, $500; S. H. Kress & Co.,
$500; Sparks Grocery Co, $500;
Thos. L. Bell, $3.50; Hay & Tillman'
$50; H L. Mize, IS.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-09-04
JONES IS OUT OF
RACE; WILSON IS
LESLIE MANINOW

F. P. Jones, of Leslie, in conversa-
ton with Times Recorder man this
morning authorized the withdrawal of
his name as a candidate for the board
of county commissioners. Explain
ing his action he stated the decision
to withdraw was reached after he and
Mr.. Wilson, the other candidate from
Leslie, had talked over the situation,
and agreed two candidates should not
run from Leslie vicinity. A formal
statement from Mr.. Jones has been
mailed the Times-Recorder, and
should appear in these columns to-
morrow.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-09-04
CANAL DU MORO.
BEET REACHED by
ARMY SAY
british REPORTS
MANY TOWNS FALL BEFORE AD-
VANCING ALLIES-NEAR SOMME
RIVER BRITISH FORCES HAVE
CAPTURED HAUT-ALLAINES,
TWO MILES NORTH OF PERONNE
-CROIX DU BAG CAPTURED TO
DAY.

LONDON, Sept. 4.-The British have
secured a hold On the west bank of
the canal Du Nord by taking Rumau-
court to the north of Saius-Lez- Mar
quiou, according to advices from the
battlefront today.
Further south along the canal they
are reported to have captured Inchy
Ea-Artois, Demicourt. to the east Of
Doignies, and Hermies, three miles
northeast of Bortincourt.
Near the somme the British, the
advices state, have crossed the canal
at Haut-Allaines, slightly more than
two miles north of Peronne.
From Hermies southwark the Brit
ish line is indicated as running to the
west Of Ruyaulcourt. a mile and a
half east of Bertincourt.
Midway between Nieppe and Sally
in the Lys salient the British have
captured the village of Croix Du Bae.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-09-04
STATHAN AND JONES
CALLED TO ATLANTA
TOATTEND MEETING ]
or HARRIS LEADERS
WILL MAKE TRIP THROUGH THE
COUNTRY IN FORMERS BIG CAR,
AND BOTH ENTHUSIASTIC OVER
PROSPECTS FOR ADMINISTRA-
TION CANDIDATE INTHIS SEC
TION

DR.. J. Richmond Statham and Hon
H. o. Jones are two prominent Amer
icus men who will attend a big meet
ing of William j. Harris leaders in
Atlanta Friday. They will leave Amer
icus tomorrow and will make the trip
through the country in DR.. Statham's
handsome Buick car. They expect to
be gone only day or two.
DR. Statham and Mr.. Jones, who
have been active and ardent support
ers of Harris since his entry into the
senatorial contest are both enthusias-
tic over the prospects for their can
didate not only in Sumter but in ad-
joining counties. and at the meeting
Of Harris leaders to be held in the
Kimball House will report Sumter
safe for Harris.
The Harris club, here, of which H
o. Jones is president and DR.. Statham
one of the prominent leaders, has re-
Gently done some very effective work
for Harris. with the result that the
general sentiment here now is that
every vote cast for Howard is a vote
for Hardwiek. The loyalty issue in
this county has become so clear cut
within the past two weeks that can
didates are. no longer discussed so
generally as is the issue, with very
large majority of voters here solidly
lined up behind the president in sup
porting Harris for senator.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-09-04
CARLTON RODGERS
SAFE OVERSEAS"

Friends and relatives of Carlton
Rodgers, of Sumter, have received
cards announcing his safe arrival
overseas Mr.. Jones, who is a mem
Der of a prominent Sumter county
family and well known here was call
ee into service only a few weeks ago,
and his arrival overseas was who'll
ly unexpected by his friends here. He
vent from Americus to Camp Gordon
and received his preparatory training
in the camp there
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-09-04
LENINE SAID
TO Be VERY ILL

LONDON, Sept. 4.-The condition OF
Nikolai Lenine the Bolshevik pre-
mier, against whose life an attempt
was made last Friday, has become
highly critical, according to a dis
patch from Moscow to the Central
News Agency. The crisis is expected
within three days. Surgeons have
removed a bullet from Lenine's body.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-09-04

strel show and the street ball win
be charged, and the net proceehis
eurned over to the Confederate Vet
erans, whose reunion win occur at
Tulsa, Oklahoma, on the "a instant.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-09-04
ATHLETIC ASSO..
HAS LIBERAL BY
LAWS AND RULES
SOUTHER FIELD ATHLETICS WILL
FURNISH SPORTING EVENTS
DURING THE ENTIRE WINTER
FOR THEIR FRIENDS.

The Souther Field Athletic asso-
citation, recently organized with Ma
jor Carlisle H Wash, has completed
its preliminary plans and adopted a
formal constitution and bylaws for
the government and its activities. The
rules of tbs association are exceed
ingly liberal, ano promise the furnish
ing of much sport this winter for the
entertainment of the friends of the
post here.
The constitution and bylaws ar> as
follows:
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-09-04
Constitution.

Article l. Section 1. The name of
the organization is the Souther Field
Athletic Association.
Article 2. Section /. The associa-
ton will be located on the military
reservation of Souther Field, Ca, with
principal headquarters in the Souther
Field Headquarters Building.
Article 8. Section l. The purpose
for which the association is formed
are: l. To promote the physical we'll
fare of the enlisted men of Souther
Field 2. To do this in a way that
will be pleasure to them rather than
an irksome detail of army routine,
3. To encourage competition and stim-
ulate mental as well as physical ac-
tivity, and develope clean sportsman
like principles. 4. To make the field
attractive to the entire personnel dur
ing their hours of leisure
Article 4. section l. Every officer
and enlisted man of Souther Field is
eligible to membership, subject to the
provisions laid down in the bylaws
of the association.
Article 5. Section l. The associa-
ton shall have power, acting through
the executive committee, as follows
Section 2. To hold athletic meets at
such times and at such places as it
may select.
Section 8. To arrange schedules
for individual and squadron and de-
's.thment contests.
Section 4. To award trophies to
winners of such contests.
Section 5. To raise money through
dues. subscriptions and contests, and
tc Cisburse same.
Section 6. To receive new members
and to expel old members, asprovid-
cd in the bylaws.
Section Z. To carry out campaign
of publicity.
Section 8. To enforce the bylaws
cs the association.
Bylaws.
Article L. Section /. The association
shall be governed by an executive
committee consisting of one officer
ana one non-commissioned officer or
private from each squadron and de-
,achment on the field Said officer
Continued on Last Page)
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-20
Tells of Trip Along
the First Line Trenches
and War Torn Fields

A trip along the front line
trenches is graphically described by
Warren Jay Ninton, attached to the
American embassy in France. writ
ing to his wife in Detroit. Mrs. Vim
ton will be remembered in Harris
burg as the daughter of Mrs. Mabel
Cronise Jones, 105 Locust street, The
writer of the letter is also widely
known here.
The trip taken by Mr. Vinton
began with departure from
Paris. heading almost east. The party
reached MeauX where a few marks
of the German advance of 1914 were
seen. They crossed the Aisne river,
reaching Scissors where the "cathe-
dral is a shell, light passes through
its walls and towers from every side,
yet the form and much of the struc-
ture is intact" Passing on 10
Rheims, they arrived at the greatest
of all martyred cities by night. Find
ing no lodgings, they proceeded to
Chalons-s sur Marne. the nearest large
occupied city. Even here it was i'm
possible TO set lodgings for the town
was filled with Americans on leave,
the first in. six months. After dill
gent search the Bureau de la Place
finally found beds for the party in a
hospital. Returning to Rheims the
party transacted business there. Mr..
Ninton says of the famous cathedral:
1t is diyinely sad. The main form
rests; the towers stand; the gables,
the portals and much of the statuary
are still here. But in what a state!
Not the smallest detail is intact. 1t
all looks picked and chopped and
mutilated, and moreover, it has been
ravaged by fire"
Heading for Laon, they followed
for a time the famous Chemin des
Danes, the most terrific battlefield
of all. The open fields so far as
the eye can reach are literally moth
ing but sheilholes. They actually
touch and overlap each other and
not a blade of grass can be seen.
Where there was a small wood there
are no trees, not even stumps, moth
ing but a little kindling, wood mixed
with dirt. The loot and booty left
behind passes belief. German he'll
( NETS are everywhere. Shell cases OF
all sizes, great, tremendous German
shells themselves, wicker baskets for
carrying the shells. wrecks of guns
and tanks, everything massed into
unbelievable chaos"
The party visited Laon, passing on
to st. quentin and after visiting the
major portion of the front, returned
to Paris.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-20
Need of Food Saving
Grows With End of War

We are facing the starvation of
millions. With all we can do. a mil
lion people are destined to starve in
Russia this winter" said Miss Mary
Ruth Fisher, food expert, and Dau-
phin county representative of the
Pennsylvania Safe College Home
Economics. Extension, at a meeting
of restaurant, hotel and eatinghouse
proprietors in the Y. NJ. c. \. yester
day afternoon.
Miss Fisher declared that while
restrictions 'have been modified to a
certain extent the necessity for con-
servation is greater than ever before
She showed by statistics that il is
necessary to be as conservative i'm the
consumption of food as during the
war. She declared that the conserva-
ton at the present time would be the
supreme test of patriotism.
New federal food rulings as they
relate to the propTietors were out
lined by Donald Mccormick, Dau-
phin county food administrator, who
also emphasized the need of con-
tinued conservation of edibles.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-20
r. R. Station Closed
to Make Town "Dry"

Pittsburgh, Kan.-When in doubt
about how to close booze town in
wet state. next to a dry town., call
upon the Railroad Administration.
This is the advice of country officials
here.
Just across the Missouri line for
years the Missouri Pacific has had a
station at Minden. at which beer and
and booze. in carload lots. have been
unloaded and which later found its
way into the mining camps on the
Kansas side. All efforts to stop the
practice failed.
Recently County Attorney II. w.
Timmonds. of Barton county, Mo-.
asked Director General McAdoo's
help. An order was issued closing the
Missouri Pacific station in Minden
and all freight is sent via Frisco,
which was to switch from this side.
Result. booze in the mining camps is
becoming scarce.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-20
Senator Denounces Cable
Seizure by Government

Washington, Nov. 20.-Government
seizure of the transatlantic cable five
days after the war had ended, in
connection with the Presidents an
nounced intention of attending the
peace conference, was severely crit
icised in the conference of Republic
an Senators yesterday.
1t was declared that, regardless
of explanations offered by the post
master general, 1t will be impossible
to avoid the conclusion that the gov
ernment has taken possession of the
cables in order to control the char
acter of information which is sent to
this country while the President is
in Europe, and the character of
comment WHICH might otherwise be
sent from here to the European cap
ltals respecting the revealed pur-
poses and activities of the President
at the peace conference.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-20
TIME IS EXTENDED
FOR WAR PARCELS
Nearest Relatives Also May
Apply For Necessary
Seals

Vne following rulings received
Aom the division headquarters OF
<he Red Cross in regard TO sending
Christmas parcels were made public
&o-day by the local chapter:
~awing to the fact that several
~Yvtsions of the army in the active
$,mbat section could not distribute
All dispatch the Christmas parcel
Nbels until the last week of OCTOBER
Re Postmaster General, at the re-
GrSst of the War Department, has
ihade a ruling that Christmas par
cells may be accepted for mailing up
to and including November 80.
Further. the War Department has
authorized the Red Cross to have
printed sufficient additional Christ
mas labels TO be furnished by chap
ters to individuals who have not re-
ceived a label from abroad or have
lost or destroyed it.
"In order to obtain the label and
carton, the prospective sender must
file a statement with the chapter to
he approved by a person duly au-
thorized by the chapter. such state
ment and approval to he in the fol-
lowing form:
The undersigned hereby makes
application to forward TO
'''''' -
Name Address
a Christmas parcel. The undersign-
ed hereby declares that he or she is
the nearest living relative in the
United States of the proposed recip-
lent. that he or she has not received
a label from abroad and that should
such label be received ii would no,
be used and that to the best of his
or her knowledge and belief, only
one Christmas parcel will he sent the
proposed recipient.
.......... ......'.. ....''
Signature
Approved. ....... Chapter. \. r. c.
y..............
The procedure as 20 inspection
and mailing should be as already
outlined.
Parcels to persons whose normal
postal address is in care of the
American EXpeditionary Forces re-
quire only sufficient postage to carry
the parcel TO Hoboken. y. j., while
parcels sent to all Other persons
must have sufficient postage TO reach
their ultimate destination
Local headquarters of the Red
Cross for inspecting parcels are in
the old Ford display rooms.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-20
QUICK RELIEF FROM
CONSTIPATION
Get DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets

That is the joyful cry of thousands
since DR.. Edwards produced Olive
Tablets, the substitute for calomel. I
DR.. Edwards, a practicing physician
for IL years and calomel's old-time
enemy, discovered the formula for Olive
Tablets while treating patients for
chronic constipation and torpid livers.
Dr.. Edwards Olive Tablets do not
contain calomel, but a healing, soothing
vegetable laxative.
No gripping is the keynote" of these
little sugar-coated, olive-colored tab.
lets. They cause the bowels and liver to
act normally. They never force them
to unnatural action.
If you have dark brown mouth"-a
bad breath-a dull, tired feeling-sick
headache-torpid liver and are consti.
pated, you'll find quick, sure and only
pleasant results from one or two little
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets at bedtime.
Thousands take one or two every
night just to keep right. =" Try them.
10c and 25c per box. ALI druggists, :
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-20
Bathrobes, Breakfast Robes
and Beautiful KimOnOS

Hardly necessary remind you that ready to meet
your need in the way OF Bath Robe Breakfast Robe or
Kmono large stock OF all designs awaits your mSpecon'
at prices moderate to surprise you.
Breakfast Robes in heavy crepe de chine OF beautiful rose
shade with neck handsomely trimmed with long rnge on
collar and sleeves and asses unusually rich in design and
material $3.50 .
Another heavy quality crepe de chine elaborated with
braid embroidery and tassels, $3.50 .
Egyptian SpOn in Oriental coors and designs braided
cord Of same material with large, flowing sleeves $lIOO
Mateesse Breakfast Robe with shawl or roll collar and
white silk embroidered, $l6.50 to $500
Bahrobes figured designs and stripes made of Beacon
blankets, soft as eiderdown, $3.50 to S115O.
Other Robes and Silk Kimonos as low as $5.98
Kmonos in crepe fowered and plain oors; some
embroidered trimmed in ribbon with elastic waist well
as straight waist collars coaress many different effects
$1.98 to $3.50,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-20
Girl Makes Good as
Blackmith's Helper

. Butler. Mo.-Miss Hazel Crosslen,
of this city. when out of her work
hours plays the piano, sings. knits
for the soldiers does housework and
other womanly accomplishments.
In her work hours she is black
smith.
Her father. w. O. Crosslen. owns
a large blacksmith shop here. Every
time he hired a new man. General
Crowder. also n Missourian, took
him. At last Hazel said: why not
hire me?" Her father did. AS yet
she hasn't shod a wild horse.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-20
White Fabric
For Winter Sewing

White Dimity in checks and stripes 22c 29 and 39c per yd
White Flaxon plain, 29c and upwards.
White Flaxons, in checks and stripes, SOC yd.
White Lingerie Crepe, 80 inches wide very fine quality,
39c yd. . . -
White Nansook SO inches wide in lloyd pieces $98 per
piece ~ -
English Longcoth 80 inches wide in lloyd pieces $3.50 per
English Longcloh So inches wide, in lloyd pieces $500
per piece
Nulinon SO inches wdea most desirable fabric for coat
suits skirts and nurses uniforms Soc yd
White Popln, u inches wide; excellent quality, 39c yd
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-20
Pencil in Pocket
Saves Life Of Lad

Des NIoincs, Ia.-A metal lead
pencil in his pocket stopped bullet
and practically saved the life OF
Glen Catlin, twelvc-year-old son OF
Rev. Catlin, of Council Bluffs, dur
ing war game here.
Several boys had built cave In
the outskirts of town. and whlle
Young Catlin was advancing TO the
cave Eddie Emig. fourteen, who was
standing guard, fired a 22-cailoer
rifle in the general direction from
which the Catlin boy was adVahclls.
The bullet tore button OH MS co"'
and was stopped by the pencil.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-20
Kaiser's Swan Song
IS Given Out by Huns

Paris. Nov. 2O.-Tu end the discus
sion as to whether William Hohen-
zollern has really abdicated as Ger
man emperor, it is understood the
German government intends to pub
lish his decree of abdication. This
consists of an attempt to Justify the
war on the ground of Germany's iso-
lation.
The abdication decree, according
to the correspondent at Zurich of
L'Informat tien, concludes with these
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-20
Fish Prices Doubled,
Trust Suit Reveals

Boston, Nov. 20.-The price of
haddock rose SS per cent. from 1915
to 1917, while Increases of from so
to 100 per cent were recorded on
other varieties of ground fish, gov
'ernment attorneys asserted when the
hearing of the equity suit of the
United States against forty-one
wholesale fish dealers, who are al
legged to be conducting the fish bust
ness of New England in violation of
the Sherman antitrust act, was
opened here yesterday.
1t IS alleged that the dealers con-
trol the ground fish business at the
ports of Boston and Portland and
that 90 per cent. of the ground fish
consumed in the eastern part of the
United States is landed here.
The government asks that the al
legged combination be dissolved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-20
Opens Coffin of "SOn,"
Finds a Stranger

Guthrie. okla.-J. D. Williams, OF OF
Covle. near here, received message
few days ago that his son. Robert
Williams had died at Camp runs
ton, Kas. 4 few days previous wofu
had been received from the boy In
France.
Two days later coffin was re-
ceived by Mr.. Williams, but when
opened did not contain the oody OIL
his son. but stranger. 1t was snip
ned back to camp.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-20
NAME ON CASUALTY LIST

Lieutenant George j. Shoemaker's
name is carried on the casualty lists
of to-day, mentioned as slightly
wounded in France. His wife, who
lives at 2034 Fulton street, recently
received word that he is improving
and is at base hospital near Paris.
Lieutenant Shoemaker was formerly
in the Governors Troop, being later
transferred to Company b, of the
One Hundred and Eighth Machine
Gun Battalion. His wounding was
reported unoliicially several weeks
age
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-20
Food Prices Jumped,
16Per Cent. in 1918

Washington. Nov. 20.-Retail food
prices we're 2 per cent. higher dur
ing October than in September, the
bureau of labor statistics announced
An increase of 16 per cent.
was reported for all articles of food
last year. and a comparison of prices
for the five-year period from Octo-
ber. 1918, to last month showed an
average increase of rs per cent.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-20
Shower Rivals Autos
With Crates of Eggs

Huntington. w Va.-Automobiles
carrying Ashland KY, high school
boys. who came to call upon local
high school Sirla, looked like an
omelet on wheels before the youths
of tn Huntington school had salts
fled their Jealous emotions. Three
crates of siXty-tive cent eggs were
shattered on the visitors.