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Interest in the Sunday baseball is.
sue hasn't abated by any meanA and
the subject Ia being discussed upon
the streets in lively tones by many
citizens. Few of these have express
ed opinions favorable TO the practice,
while practically all who have ex-
pressed themselves have condemned
Sunday ball unhesitatingly.
The communication written The
Times Recorder by Major Carlisle N.
Wash few days ago, in which the
commapder at souther Field made
the assertion certain people presum-
lug to speak for majority of the
citizens of Americus," has excited the
resentment of at least one minister,
who called at The Times-Recorder
Office, and while discussing the sit
uation, directed attention to the state
ment OF Maj Wash, taking exception
thereto This minister, Rev. Paul w.
Ellis, Is pastor of First Methodist
church here, and one of Amerieus
most influential preachers.
The resolutions condemning Sun
day baseball said Mr.. Ellis, to
Tines Recorder representative, were
presented before and voted upon by
every church congregation and Sun
dav school in Americus, and adopted
unanimously, and / think majority
of the people here are church-going
God-fearing people," He then went on
tc explain that those who attend
church and those who attend Sunday
school, very often, represent an en-
tirely different set of people, and es-
timated that in the aggregate prob
ably two thousand persons hers
heard the resolutions read and voted
thereon, without one dissenting vote
being recorded.
The resolutions are a strong pre-
sentiment of the objections held by
the ministers and people of Ameri-
Gus having been prepared by R. L.
Maynard, one of Americus prominent
attorneys, who is member of Cen
tai Baptist congregation, and y.
lere reproduced, as follows:
1T is with sincere regret that we
note ths announcement of Sunday
Baseball OF camp Souther Field, for
Sunday July 21st, 1918.
I'VE regret it. ID because it is un-
doubtedly a desecration of the Sab
bath day, the influence and effect of
which, will be harmful, to the soldier
body and of this entire community as
we'll (2) Because there is no need
for Sunday baseball, because the sol
dier boys, who want this recreation,
have Wednesday and Saturday afterA
moons to have these games; go Be-
cause 1t is an unwritten law of this
state that the playing of baseball on
the sabbath day shall not be indulg-
ed in;
Therefore, be it resolved, that we
most earnestly protest against the in
auguration at souther Field. of sun
day baseball, and most strongly sp-
peal to the ofaeers in charge of the
Continued on rage Two)
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FIGHT
HARD To STOP
BIC ADVANCE
REPEATED ATTACKS AND COUN-
TER THRUSTS RESULT IN VII
LACE OF SERGY CHANGING
! HANDS MANY TINES.

WITH THE FRENCH AND AMER
ICAN ARMIES, in The Field, July 29
1925 P. M)-The Germans are
fighting desperately to retard the
Franco German advance northward
from the /ourcq. Repeated enemy
counter attacks southeast of Sergy
have resulted in that village chang
ing hands four times, although it
finally remained in possession of the
French.
South of Sergy a German grenade
division attacked the Americans who
firmly held their line and inflicted
tremendous losses, while the newly
won positions north of Fere-en1 Tar
denois have been firmly established.
In the woods west of Champagne,
the French captured great quantity
OF materials today, including num-
ber Of "seventy-sevens" and several
hundred milimeter cannon Both ar
mics are engaged in a terrific artil-
lery duel along the southern edge OF
the salient, and in addition the Ger
mans are dropping great quantities
of gas shells into the Marine and
Aisne valleys.
At 4:32 this afternoon the Germans
we're defending Villa-en- Tardenois an
strongly resisting on the line from
Chambrechy southwark. Chambrechy
is only a mile east of Villa-enTar-
denois. The Boches attacked Hill No.
1888 south of Mont Sansonom this
morning, but the attack there was re-
pulsed Afterward this was renewed
and still continues.
1t is apparently the purpose of the
Germans to retreat further ye,
they are burning the village of Query
House, Tanneries and Charive on the
line between Fismes and Scissors
French troops took Buzancy yester
day and captured two hundred pris-
oners there, but were unable to hold
the position.
At four o'clock this afternoon the
French and Americans swinging
northward from the 0urcq line had
reached a point within eight miles,
the important German concentration
center on the river Vesle There is
desperate fighting in progress in the
new pocket between the 0urcq and
Vesle rivers, where the Germans are
strongly covering their retreat to the
latter line In some places the Amer
leans and French have pushed ahead
several kilometers beyond the ourco.
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OUR BOYS G:::Z =: :! <
ALL GEtRG|ANs
To DEFEAT HIN
THE TEMES-RECORDER is In Pos
SESSION OF A REMARKABLE
LETTER FROM SERGEANT L. r.!
DOZIER, JR., OF MACON.

from across the broad Atlantic, a
Voice from No Mans Land, the voice
Of the American soldier boys, has
come ringing to Georgia.
1t says
Beat Senator Hardwick!"
The Times Recorder is in possession
D. remarkable letter-a letter Ie-
markaLls. for its simple eloquence, as
for its eloquence, as well as for its
contents--that should act as clarion
call to every patriotic citizen of Geor-
gia. 1t is a letter written by Geor-
gia boy who is even now in the very
thickest of the fighting in France.
It is not only request, but it an
open appeal to patriotic Georgians to
do their duty in this world crisis. A
part of this duty, as this splendid
young American sees, it, and as he
expresses it for his comrades who
are also risking their lives that free
dom and Democracy may live, is to-
defeat Senator Hardwick for re-elec-i
ton.
vote against the man who never
misses a. chance to make our lives
harder than they would be- is the
argent, literal request from the bat
tlefields of France.
This letter from the front, this
stirring entreaty from the blood
soaked country where more than a.
million American youths are bravely
battling for us, ought to electrify
this state 1t ought to move every
Tight-thinking Georgian to greater
appreciation of those boys, and to a
greater Consciousness of his own po-
litical duty
This was written Somewhere in
France" on May 8, this year, by Ser
geant e r. Dozier, Jr., Macon boy,
who Isl in Company B, 151st Machine
Gun Battalion. He is a son of E.
r. Dozier, a well-known and highly
regarded citizen of Macon, who has
permitted The Times-Recorder to pub
lish tn. letter. The communication
passed the censor, first being APPROX
ed by Lieut.. G. NJ Douglas. and was
received in Macon on June 9Th. 1t is
published as follows, word for word,
Just as Sergeant Dozier wrote-and
he probably wrote it with shells burst
ing overhead and some of his com
rades shedding their life blood alino st
in his very sight:
Dear Dad:
AS it is about time for your birth
day viii write you to let you still
know that every one of the family
is in my thoughts every day. Hope
by time your next birthday comes
around will be home to eat new po-
tatoes with you. Well, dear father,
hope you will have many more birth
days and every one will be more
happy than the list.
Things are going fine Am still
we'll as can be and we are giving
the "Boche" all the r. we can.
By the way see where the race for
Senator is about to get started in
full swing. Sure wish I was in the
state so 1 could vote against Tom
Hardwick. Il they would let our out
ut vote over here he would not get
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SENATOR I1ARDWICk" Is THE APPEAL. MADE,
}GLA SOLDIER IN FRANCE TO FOLKS AT HOME,
'AMER|CUS MINISTER TAKES ISSUE
WITH MAJOR WASH CONCERNING
NUMBER OPPOSED To SUNDAY BALL

RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY VARI-
GUS SUNDAY SCHOOLS AND
CHURCHES HERE CONCERNING
THE INNOVATION WERE SUBMIT
TED TO AND VOTED UPON BY
PROBABLY Two THOUSAND PER-
SONS AND ADOPTED UNANI-
MOUSLY.
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SlJPRE

by EDWARD w.

up to the hour of VIZ
supreme effort" to
victory By smashing
les lines has been a q.
failure. The Huns had
worth mentioning, and
100000 men. More ii
peared they had lost d
to denolish the defens
and had sustained a ID
play havoc with the
troops and with the !
civilian population of
AS soon as the Ge'
eemed safely checked
Initiative and
- n that sent /.
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Oxford eagle., 1918-08-01
SOME ARMY QUESTIONS
ANSWERED.

Clip this out and keep it ready fo1
reference.
An army corps is 10000 men.
An infantry division is $4,000 men.
An infantry brigade is 1000 men.
A regiment of infantry is 5000
men
A battalion is 1000 men.
A company is $50 men,
A platoon Is so men
A corporal's squad is s men
A field battery has 195 men.
A firing squad is 80 men.
A supply train has 2S3 men.
A machine gun battalion has 2o6
men
An engineers regiment has l.0es
men
An ambulance company has &c men.
A field hospital has 55 men.
A medicine attachment has 13 men.
A major general heads the field
army and also each army corps.
A brigadier general heads each in
fantry brigade.
A colonel heades each regiment.
A lieutenant colonel is next rank
below a colonel.
A major heads = battalion.
A captain heads a company.
A lieutenant heads a platoon.
A sergeant is next below a lieu
tenant
A corporal is q squad officer.
Oxford eagle., 1918-08-01
But One Way to Peace, and That Is the
Way to Berlin"

Editor Manufacturers Record:
My opinion is that we cannot con-
slider any terms of peace whatsoever
with the German Government as now
constituted. Germany must be licked
and the Hohenzollerns kicked off the
throne before we can talk peace with
out out-aging our self-respect-
The German military ring must be
broken and so shattered that il can
never be reunited. Those who have
been responsible for the rape of Bel
gium and France; those who have
been responsible for the heinous out
RACES upon the civilian populations
overridden by Germany; those who
have been responsible for torpedoine
passenger vessels and hospital ships,
and for dropping aerial bombs on
snore hospitals; those who have been
responsible for killing and manning of
women and children in London and
Fans with aerial bombs; those who
have been responsible forbreaking
the most sacred treaties and obliga-
tons OF nations-have placed them
selves beyond the pale and cannot and
must not be barYained with in any
peace arrangement.
Those militaristic bandits of the
breed of Attila who cold-bloodedIy
prepared to plunder the world and en-
slave mankind, and to that nefarious
end planned TO violate every human
Oxford eagle., 1918-08-01
OXFORD LADY WRITES
THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

Oxford, Mississippi,
Route 1, Box SO.
July /, 1918
To the President of the Board Of
Supervisors.
Dear Sir:
/ had a brother and every time he
fished it would rain within q few
hours after he begun fishing. He
lived to be fifty years old and have
known of him fishing many times and
never saw it fail 10 rain He wAs
sensitive about il for a long time, and
would 20 only when he wanted 20. ts1f
the last few years he lived he fix "a
good many times Just 20 make e
rain.
In July 1916 I vent toMernphis near
the river. and stayed three days II
was very dry and no sign Of rain when
started but Il rained the next day
after i got there and kept raining un-
I'll came home. In July 1917 I went
TO Arkansas Just across the river from
Memphis and right near a large lake
The weather was very dry then and
NO sign of rain, but II rained the next
day and kept on until / left / stayed
three days. asst Monday / vert out
TO the Quick Mil Pond and fished all
day. 1t rained Tuesday. Went just
to see If it would rain. / intend, from
now on, to go near some body of
water every time we have a drought
and would like to get the Board Of
Supervisors to watch it. Am going to
test it thoroughly.
/ know it sounds foolish but that
does not matter If we c@n get rain BY
it when needed. It is caused, / be-
lieve, by magnetism. Hoping that
you will see this in the same light
that do, / remain,
Yours very truly,
MISS LILLE STOATE.
Oxford eagle., 1918-08-01
CoMPLAINTs-wHAT'S THE REMEDY7

The Eagle complain these and confusion
We tried avoid complaints this office But
will unless the
Eagle after has placed the post
office
mailed placed the posofce
IL o'clock The Eagle work late for
when the pOce early Friday
in order Friday
After having several calls telephone about the called at the
dispatched table had been
pays postage consideration
other entering held the
poce from thirty before delivery the subscribers
injustice subscribers which
tinued viii detract from its patronage and support
much complaint about tcass mail having remain
the office the charge
ter which Holly and 7S0 p NJ, will not leave
this office NJ notwithstanding
train that mail north $3.50 A. NJ
the Oxford
office after o'clock the although mail
s37 p. n
The the of the potoff
variance and it that the postoffce is ruling
For the benefit of the general public the poce rules should be
changed The pOce public for the benefit and
cOnveniences public the
general public demands
violation rules pOstoflce disregard
open
and distribute
We make general public
greatly upon policy
Government the people efficient
postoffces Of the country, and Oxford
Oxford eagle., 1918-08-01

obligation and attribute of duty
mercy and decency, are not fit Ia
place their names to a peace compact
beside those of the heroes who shall
with sacrifice of blood and treasure
save the world from their clutches.
Anyone proposing peace with Ger
many before haiserism shall have
been crushed out of existence should
either be interned or be placed in an
insane asylum for medical treatment
There Is but one way TO peace. and
that Is the way TO Berlin. II will he
a long, hard, expensive and bloody
road, but II is the only road. and when
suppliant, kamerad-calling populace
to deal with. and the terms which We
shall then make viii not be the terms
OF any bargain. but merely terms i'm
posed by US according to ideas of lust
ice.
Justice viii make one inexorahle
demand on that occasion. and II will
De that Germany shall bear the bund-
en- OF rebuilding and reimbursing Rel
gum and reimbursing Belgium and
the desolated portions of Northern
France IN full measure. and Alsaee
and Lorraine must be restored to
France.
What other terms may be impos-
ed viii matter far less.
Landing p. O., New Jersey.
HUDSON MAxIN.
Oxford eagle., 1918-08-01
LIFT YOUR C0RNS
OFF WITH FINGERS
Tells how to loosen tender corn
or cailus so II lifts out
without pain.

You reckless men and women who
are pestered with corns and who have
1t least once week invited an awful
leath from lockjaw OF blood poison
IRE now told by Cincinnati authority
o use a drug called freezone, which
he moment few drops are applied
any corn or callus the soreness is re-
ieved and soon the entire corn or cal
us, root and all, lifts of with the fin
.crs.
freezone dries the moment il is ap-
lied, and simply shrivels the corn or cal
us without inflaming or even irritating
he surrounding tissue or skin. A small
ottle of freezone viii cost very little
t any of the drug stores, but win posi-
ively rid ones feet of every hard or
oft corn or hardened eallus. If your
iruggist hasn't any freezone he can get
(. at any wholesale drug house for you.
Oxford eagle., 1918-08-01
SOME GOOD ADVERTISE

The wheat-growing campzigI
on in Mississippi is attracting |
attention outside the sta.e.
In fact, the agricultural prOgz
the state generally during Tie |
period has won its millions Of !
worth of advertising in the
known publications in the cOu1
This means that when the I
over and normal times come
thousands Of good farmers are
to flock into our commonvsz
take advantage Of the wus
natural resources Of the state
The St. Louis Post Dispatch =
the wheat-growing drive:
Mississippi, having advances
corn production to large propaI
has taken up the question Of !
Present figures show that
acres We're planted last fall q
goal for this fall is set for j
which win provide her own Whss'|
ply on fb1f5re the war eOn1a(
basis The increase from ls.oe
of 1916 planting TO $4,000 ac1
1917 planting has encourages
erection of several flour n
the state. AS example TO other
ers, the state prision farm h2s]
vested 270,O00 bushels from
acres and the commissioners
showing how profitable a eFo1
wheat is for the state.
No state is going to proiil
the agricultural changes brOugsi
war more than Mississippi. he
tire crop scheme is being rea]
lzed. In the mere matter OF Pa
the state yield for 1917 Is plsc9
1892, 900 bushels, while al q
than 2.000, 900 bushels had beeA
ed this year. +
Anoiner remarkable feature
changing conditions is the den1ss.
improved agricultural marn'
Tractors are in demand. 50 az
proved cultivators and other
inery that viii do the work q =
dozen negroes, the reason beihs
so many farm laborers have g
war or TO the munition plants :
wages a negro never dre@Hee
sible are paid, and that implimea5,
maximum work are necessary.
these comes a demand for crop Z
require a minimum of labor-
the South gets her labor back .
the war she viii be in posiu,Ss
apply intensive cultivation 70 :.
her acres. jackson Daily W
Oxford eagle., 1918-08-01
RATTLE SNAKES To
FIGHT THE GERMANS.


Loneome Jack" Offers To Catch. Sun.
ply and Exterminate Teuton Army
Lonesome Jack" Altman. of los
Angeles, Cal, king of rattle snake
catchers, offers to gather 10000 side
wlnders or hornet rat6esnakes IL the
government will let him, dump them
into trenches vacated to the Germans
oy the Americans and let the snakes
90 the rest The side winder is a
death dealer extraordinary. strikes
three times as fast as any other ratt-
Ter, and, unlike others, does not act on
the heart. but paralyzes the nerves
within 20 minutes.
Altman would have no trouble in
gathering them in Arizona and the I'm
periai Valley, he says. The Gennans If
they possessed such a deadly weanon
would not hesitate TO use II. Altman
believes. ''ai'
The beauty of my idea is that the
rattler can live five or six months
IN captivity without either food or
water and they will be Just as effect
I've during that time, says Altman
4 have am antidote for rattlesnake
Oxford eagle., 1918-08-01
GIRLS LEMON JUICE
IS A SKIN WHITENER
Ho~ 10 make creamy beauty lotion
for few cents

The juice OF two fresh lemons str.;,.s
INTO bottle containing three ouncas 20
orchard white makes a whole oparter
pint OF the most remarkable lemon st;r
heautiiier at about the cost one rn,st
pay Tor q small jar of the ordinary cold
sreams Care should be taken 10 s.rs;a
he lemon juice through a fine cloth - :,
40 lemon pulp gets in, then this lotion
~lll keep fresh for months. Fvevx
~onan as knows that lemon juice is used
- n.sAeh ana remove such blemishes as
the ideal skin softener. whiteper as =
beautifer ana
Juss try It, Get three ouDces =,
orchard white at any drug store .nd
two lemons from the grocer and mall ~.
a quarter pint of this sweetly fragr.nt
lemon lotion and massage IL daily into
the lace, neck. arms and hands.
Oxford eagle., 1918-08-01

President Wilson has spoken subject
sd something of vital Importance the
His IS Of especial
somewhat too free with ynchings in the
There the
and be kept at a minimu
Here two from the
should be remembered by citizen
Join a
Germany has outlawed herself
dregarded the sacred obligations of
anxious with
pnde and fixed resolution which
Il plainly
moa but ats betraye and does dedt
dsloyaty her Of
statesmen the sacrifices of
make suffering people believe her be their
With these clear before
afford to indulge nchng pro-
to Russia Germany the Balkans everywhere proud
being
Iynchlaw must stop-Jaekson Daily News.
Lynng the the indication mobs
deny attempt to deny the
privileges at the ballot box by intimidation otherwise
number Of places where called
a to cause them to make of themselves community
The idea Of painting platform yellow, platform
and patriotic hands decorated the side
that patiotismf No. that is type of mob-spint-
There other Of mobsp which
truly patriotic and Democratic citizen
by that overpatio
second thought, would be ashamed O
Mobspt and pro-Gmanm as inseuarat
able as the Simese twins and grebe that spirit
civilized country.
Wilson the man that il ex.r
csng good quality his makeup knows
that Democracy is what fighting for il his
sire to see Democracy rule in Ame-ca-and it viii
Oxford eagle., 1918-08-01

When YOU yawn a good deal in the
daytime, feel dull, achey and want to
stretch frequently, it Is an unmistak-
able symptom of malaria. and unless
you do something az once YOU are
are booked for spell of chills. HER
BlNE Is the chill medicine that will
prevent or cure the disease. Ii drives
out the impurities on which the ma
lanai germ thrives, strengthens the
liver and cleanses the bowels. Price
6oc- Sold BY A II. Kendel. Adv.
Oxford eagle., 1918-08-01
N&A =
HUDSON MANN.

bite that could be supplied TO anyone
that handles them, but the Germans
would not know what stunp them
my idea would be to catch them
and then soak their tails in warm
water. Then the shell that rattles and
gives warning could be removed with
out injury to the snake. Their fangs
are so sharp that unless the warning
Is gwen with the rattles a person
would hardly know what bite him
TO twelve feet" -Oui
Oxford eagle., 1918-08-01
CALL 5o.eeoNEGRO
DRAFTEES TO COLORS

Washington, d. C., July23-Fifty
thousand negro registrants, qualified
Tor general military service, We're call
ed TO the colors today by Provost Mar
shai Cen Crowder. The men will
entrain between Aug / and 5 and viii
come from Il states and the District
Of Columbia.
Oxford eagle., 1918-08-01
HoW's This!

We offer One Hundred Dollars -
for any case OF CatarFh that esnn.'
cured by Halls catarrh Medicine =
Halls Catarrh Medicine has been =
by cafarrh sufYerers for the past th7
fiye years. ana has become known = :.
most reliable remedy for CatarfI,,, ,,,.,s
Catarrh Medicine acts thru the -
the Mucous surfaces. expelllng -. -.
son from the Blood and healing -
essed portions. r.,s
After You have taken Hau - =
Medicine for n short time you =. -
great Improvement In yoai M
health Start taking Halls LAS q
cine at once and get rid Of cat-s'--
for testimonials. free. nss
F. ]. CHENEY 4 CO., Toieo''
Sold hx ell Druggists. &c.
Oxford eagle., 1918-08-01

IL you SIT in cold draft when Won
are heated and get a stiff neck a lame
PACK, you viii be looking for someth-
ing that will ease the pain. Fixvon,.
mind on BALLARD'S SNOW I'M
MENT and don't be talked ont Of =
because 1t is the best pain reliev;ng
nniment You can get anywhere. Pr;ce
zoe, 2Oc and si.OO per bottle. Sold bv
ui' Adv.
Oxford eagle., 1918-08-01

"Is Loyal?"
OF he is otherwise he would voting against
the Ship Purchase Bill the Foifon Bill
and because saving Government millions Of dol
lars In the Hog Island investigation that he sova
In Congress supposed
let's delegate this with legislative power and save the
Government the
Congressman Senator who has to
his the best interest of the more suitable for
work timber than for congressional timber - ~
Oxford eagle., 1918-08-01

The Bank of Oxford has contracted and Oneourh
the Oxford Eagle which donated the Red
this public spirited and popular
sted BY the ladies Of the Oxford Chapter
Ms Christopher Longest assisted charge
Of the publicity message
interest the winning
the W
Oxford eagle., 1918-08-01

When the bill of the
by direct Mr. Harrison Mississippi
o when presented the lower house Congress
and for final We
on Senators by direct of the people for the
We favor of ectng the
pomasters This appointing
and growing more and unpopular with the people
Oxford eagle., 1918-08-01

Inc county paper is working 70,
you and the development Of The
county's resources and Won .hou,s
support it 'u