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Evening star., 1918-07-24
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Council Of National Defense has
sent to state councils throughout the
country statement to show the saw
Ing in labor. materials and transpor-
tation facilities which may be effected
II the public responds to the councils
appeal to forego the giving Of pres
ents next Christmas.
About 1.40O employees of the War
Department. their sweethearts and
friends, journeyed to Marshall Hail
last night to attend the 'moonlight
picnic" given by the supply division
of the ordnance department. During
the river trip things were kept lively
with Jazz music. furnished by the
Camp Meigs band. While passing
Mount Vernon the band played .iThe
Star Spangled Banner" Athletic
events and prize dancing were the
features Of the evening.
Half q hundred newcomers to wash-
ington this evening will be guests Of
the Y. NJ. c. A. and the Y W. C. A. on
a sight seeing tour Of Washington.
These tours will be given frequently
for newcomers. The tour will be
made in sight seeing automobiles.
Evening star., 1918-07-24
Restricted

I do not like the sawdust bread
l eat three times day;I'd like
nice white loaf instead-but
nothing do ! say. I summon up
e cheerful grin, a beaming smile.
l wot, and push the coarse brown
slices in, as though they hit the
spot. Our fighting soldiers need
the wheat, to keep their strength
and heft, and am thankful ]
may eat whatever stuff is left.
So bring along your wooden loaf,
and slice it with a saw; I am no
cheap, disloyal oaf, the line at
that to draw. I do not like to.
eat hen, when l prefer a steak;
but, lining up with loyal men,
no protest do l make. If beef is
needed over there, to help sup
press the Hun, I'll feed myself
on grizzly bear, if l can find my
gun. The soldiers need the beef
and wheat, that Germany may
fall; it does not matter what /
eat, or if eat at all. l like some
sugar in my tea, l like it on my
rice. but Hoover lately said to
me, MAKE one more sacrifice !!
If sugar from your board you
shoe, you may some Teuton
halt" And so / make the fra
grant brew, and sweeten it with
salt. I'm eating things that 1
detest, I'm drinking things I
hate, and all the time l do my
best to keep my smile on
straight. With cheerful brow,
with queenly grace, obey all
rules in sight; the patriot with
grouchy face is only half way
right. WALT MASON.
Evening star., 1918-07-24
TO POST RECREATION PLANS.

To keep workers in the government
departments advised Of the recrea-
tional facilities offered here the new
ly organized Government Recreation
League plans to place bulletin boards
in all government departments carry
ing the dates and places to which en-
ployes in the departments are invited.
An advisory council to cooperate
with the Y. W. C. A., the Y. NJ C. A.
and the War Camp Community Service
has been appointed to look after the
social needs of the, workers. This
committee consists of Mrs. Susie Root
Rhodes, Miss Cecil B. Norton. Harold
Keats. Miss Marjorie Day, c. N. Gif-
ford, Eugene Bond. Capt. julius Pey-
ser and Col. C. s. Ridley.
Evening star., 1918-07-24
". q. shaffer Dies on Wharf.

William H. shaRer, nfty-two years
old, 11ie Robinson street southwest,
last night about 1850 O'Clock WA
taken Ill on the steamer Charles
Macalester's wharf. Water and N
streets. and disd before physician
from Emergency Hospital reached
him. His death resulted from q hem-
orrhage Of the stomach.
Evening star., 1918-07-24
Funeral Of Miss Koran.

Funeral services for afiss Catherine
Horan Of. HyattsvilIe. who was
drowned at Benedict. Md. Sunday win
be held at the chapel at Glenwood
cemetery tomorrow at II o'clock. In
terment will be at Glenwood. Miss
Horan. who was sixteen years old.
was the daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. Jo-
seph H. and Emma Koran Of Hyatts-
vile.
Evening star., 1918-07-24
CITY ITEMS.

Choice Evsp. PsaeheA He, Seeded
Raisins, 10c; Booths Berring, 1Sc;
Fish Roe, 15o and soc: Red Kidney
Beans, 1870 can; Navy Beans. 15c;
Lima Beans. 18c: Is OF. Sardines. 16c;
Tea, CSC; Perfect Blend Tea, &c. II
7th. ne. and all the. J. T. D. Pyles
Stores. -
Evening star., 1918-07-24
The Star by Mail.

-E sure to have Zhs Evening
and Sunday star follow you.
- IN most cases The Star wiz
be ct the brsskfass table the
next morning, and always give
al Of the latest news from wash-
ington Of the day before. cns
address may be changed AZ fre-
qusntly a. desired BY giving the
old ~ wsll a. ths nsw address.
The price Of rhs star by man
daily ana Sunday = 70 cents Per
Evening star., 1918-07-24

A plan for the production of stand
ard underclothes, at fixed prices, has
been approved by the British govern
ment's wool textile production depart
ment, and is to go into effect early In
September
Evening star., 1918-07-24

Mems suitsA Uniforms CIeaned.AltereA
Norris. 10 sth 1T. NV. Phi. Franklin 1884
Evening star., 1918-07-24

Claliin Optical Co, 907 r Sc.
Flat and Toric Glasses.
Evening star., 1918-07-24

vprfs THEATER AND GARDEN
LINN 18th and Irving sts. NV.
GEoRGD WALSH. in TIE KID le
CIEVER." A story which has . thrill.
pep and speed. Also Latest Pathe News.
Evening star., 1918-07-24

oy A7A l34 9Th ST. NV.
CLALA Toby AND TOMORROW
Evening star., 1918-07-24

cO1IIr Auditorium. I3&N.Y.av.
ulfAoVINAS VIVIAN MARTIN, In UN-
CLAIMED GOODS" Also = Bray Pieto-
graph.
Evening star., 1918-07-24

taANUES CARMEL MYERS. IN
THE CITY OF TEARS."
Evening star., 1918-07-24
RECENT-WASHINCTONPARK

GLADYS LESLIE, in .sTHE LITTLE RUN
AWAY" (vitagraph Blue Ribbonl.
Also CHARLIE CHAPLIN, in THE
COUNT" (Scfeamingly FUNNY
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-10-27

fruit, with tender limbs already torn
off, in some instances, where these
have ceen unable to bear the weight
thus placed upon them.
In the clean-kept stock lot adjoin-
ing one of these pecan groves there
are to be found some of the finest
Duroc and Berkshire hoge produced
on any plantation in this part of Geor.
gia. These are one of the most in
teresting divisions of the big farm,
and with the city dweller never fail
to inspire a yearning to get back on
the land There are half a hundred
of these of all ages, and in finest of
condition, ready for slaughter any
time, and without further fattening of
any kind.
But these will not be killed for some
time yet There are too many goob-
ers left in the fertile field just in
front of the home where Mr.. R. 3.
Clifton. the gentlemanly superintend-
ent of the main plantation, has just
finished gathering mammoth yield
Of the new money crop. When the
W ork of gathering the last of the pea
nuts that can be gotten with the mod
ern machinery employed for that pur-
pose has been garnered, and after
the toothsOme hay has all been baled
and stacked away for consumptlo,
later in the winter these fine hogs
will be pastured in the field, where
many bushels of fine peanuts will still
lay for their fattening.
The Barrow farm is one where ev-
erything consumed on the place is
raised from the soil, with the eXcep-
ton of coffee and limited number OF
manufactured products. This policy
has led the owner to plant crops Of
every conceivable description, and one
of the finest fields on the whole plan
tation is that devoted this season tt
! the production of rice, and where
bouuntiful yield of this splendid food
will be gathered. Wheat, corn anC
rye and other crops are produced OF
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-10-27

No better indication exists of the
wide success and progressiveness of
Americas than the number of large
and growing wholesale houses that
are enjoying the trade of this rich
and resOurcefuI section of the state.
The number of these, as we'll as the
success with which they have met, is
unusually large and Indicative OF much
further in this particular
Every year the wide territory which
is supplied by these houses continues
to grow and to widen, showing clear
lw that the possibilities of growth in
this particular are not only eXcep-
tiOnal bupt are constantly being dis
covered and developed. A history of
the growth of the wholesale trade
here, as It has occurred during the
past ten years, would serve to show
this mirutely and in detail, if space
were permitted to give such history.
One of the most important factors
in the growth Of this trade has been
the exceptional transportation facili-
ties that are offered to such wholesale
grms. Two railroads, the Central Of
Georgia and the Seaboard Air Line,
have We'd with each other to give the
wholesale dealers Of this section the
very best service that could be de-
sired in this particular. The Central
operates two conyergent lines, being
thereby practically equivalent to two
different. railroads in the work that
it is doing to develop the wholesale
and other trade of this section. The
Seaboard has very long and rich ter
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-10-27

"Nati LeMaster, manager of the
Americas Undertaking Company, has
been a resident of Americas for about
nine years-long enough to make him
self one of the best-known and most
highly regarded of the younger cit
liens. AS an undertaken and embalm-
er, he has a statewide reputation,
and is so esteemed by his associates
that he has been elected president of
the Georgia Association. Under his
direction, the Americas Undertaking
Company has built up a large bust
ness, that receives orders from a num-
Der of the surrounding counties. With
every modern equipment that goes
with an undertaking and embalming
establishment, supported by years of
experience, the Americas Undertaking
Company handles funerals with the
highest degrees of efficiency. and their
service is also marked by distinct
courtesy of treatment to its patrons
Mr., LeMaster was connected with the
leading firms in Augusta before COM
ing here, but was born and raised in
north Georgia, where his relatives
still live. He has two brothers in the
army, one in France.
As a member of the various fra
ternal orders, Mr.. LeMaster is widely
known. He holds responsible Of
noes with the Masons, Lodge No. 80,
with the Woodmen of the World. the
Patriotic Sons of America, and other
orders.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-10-27

w o. Barnett, who forepas came
from Liverpool, England, a short
while before the Revolution which
resulted in freedom and independence
of the Colonies and many Of whom
have held positions of honor and
trust came to Americas in December
1889 and Immediately engaged in the
business of manufacturing harness.
His business grew and developed UNI
der his wise and skillful management
until larger and more c0mmodious
quarters were procured in order to
provide room for his ever increasing
patronage.
He invented and had patented the
Big Chief" chippewa" and Pillow
Poy" horse collars which are manu-
featured by him and shipped broad
cast throughout the country. He is
also manufacturing auto Fan Belts
fer all makes of motor cars which he
il sending throughout the United
States. He is the inventor and owner
OF six Lesful patent rights-all of
which ere manufactured and sold by
him at his plant in this city.
Mr.. barnett is a useful, highly re-
spected business man of this city and
section. His wife is daughter OF
former Chief of Police of this citk,
W. W. Wheeler, and they have an in
teresting family of six children.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-10-27

Mr.. W. NJ. Jones, president of the
Moreland-Jones Company, wholesale
grocers, has been resident of AM
CIRCUS SINCE 1873, coming here from
Baker county as a boy. He. began
work at the age of sixteen years, and
Tor the first six months worked with
out salary, for the business experience
ne could acquire. He made only five
changes in forty years.
Mr.. Jones married. Miss May Davis,
daughter of the late Henry S. Davis.
In connection with Mr.. w. D. More
land, he organized the Moreland-
Jones Company n 1911, after both had
had considerable experience in the
wholesale grocery field. The COM
pany is owned by Mr. Jones nd Mr.
Moreland, the latter being vice-presi-
dent and treasurer. Mr.. Cloyd Buc-
hanan is secretary and assistant treas
urer.
This company has been very sue
cessful, doing a splendid business each
year and making continual growth
It's courtesy to its customers, its alb
solute reliability in little as we'll as in
bigi matters, and its promptness to
afford conveniences of every character
to it's patrons has made it popular with
a clientele that extends over eight or
ten counties.
MIR Jones' is one Of the most pro-
gressive citizens of the community.
He is a profund thinker on public
matters, and is a man whose pjudg-
ment is accepted as being sound and
deliberate. He was formerly presi-
dent of the Chamber of Commerce. AS
a young man he was one of the or
ganizers of the Americas Light In
fantry and held a commission in the
company for a number of years.
Though not having good health incent
months, Mr.. Jones is now on the road
to complete ecovery, and is actively
connected with his company in all of
its affairs. He is one of the most sub
stantial citizens of the community and
one whom it delights Americas to
honor.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-10-27
HERBERT HAWKINS

A thoroughly organized insurance
business is that conducted by Her
bert Hawkins, known to his hundreds
of friends as Hawk" He represents
many OF the leading life, fire and acct
dent insurance companies of the world
and does an exceptionally large vol
ume of business. 1t is said that he
has written more insurance policies
than any other man in the city during
the last ten years.
Some of the leading companies that
he represents are the Aetna Accident
Company, the United States Fidelity
and Guaranty Company, the Aetna
Fire Insurance Company, the Hartford
Fire Insurance Company, Insurance
Company of North America, Spring
field Fire Insurance Company, Marine
Insurance Company and the National
Fire Insurance Company, He writes
all kinds of insurance.
Mr.. Hawkins is a son of the late
yol Sam Hawkins, who was the presi
dent of the S. A. and M. railroad and
in his time one of the leading citizens
of the state. His insurance office was
established in 1907 and has prospered
consistently from that date
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-10-27

S%$%~$AA%$$~S,~~~~S1> s~s~ S~S ~"S~%S ~~S
ritory from which to draw and gives,
as does the Central, another outlet
direct to the sea.
The varied demand for a general
line of articles such as are handled
by Wholesale firms, is always strong
and active There is no season OF the
year and no condition of business ac-
tivity that diminishes the trade of this
kind to any appreciable extent. The
demand for the goods sold by whole
sale houses is always active and firm,
because the territory surrounding the
city is not only thickly populated with
the best class of people, but it Isl also
so based in prosperity through many
years of successful and scientific
farming that it is a demand that can
not fail This is the most substantial
prosperity of which any section can
boast, and it insures the permanent
development and growth of the whole
sale trade of this city and section.
The demand for articles that are
supplied to the wholesale trade here is
for such as are needed in rich, pro-
gressive and constantly growing agri-
cultural section, where large numbers
of the most progressive and wide
awake farmers are located. This
naturally creates an increasing de-
mand for clothing, hats, shoes, no.
tons, drugs, agricultural implements,
farm machinery, groceries and house
hold articles that, is at once large
and permanent The variety of arti-
cles used is, indeed, remargable and
the demand for each is. exceptional,
as shown by the large sale Of all the
goods named in the foregoing cate
CORY, as we'll as of many other articles
of which no mention at all is made.
An investigation of the success of all
the firms here that operate in this kind
of business would prove of the greet
est interest and value to every one
who is contemplating taking either an
interest in such establishments here
in establishing firms of these kinds
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-10-27

the fine Barrow farm, but the velvet
bean yield there this year will excel
it is believed, any ever before record
ed in that part of the county. Hhere
is maintained on the farm drove Of
fine cattle
A beautiful peach orchard from
which select varieties of peaches bear
two months of the summer, furnishing
a bountiful supply for home con-
sumption
A bountiful supply of timber and
firewood fringes the big plantation
about, and when the hands have time
a quantity of this is brought up to
the house where, burned in the big
open hearths there, its warmth brings
JOY and cheer to all within the cham
ed circle of the household. Located
in the very heart of a community of
fine farms and home-lOving people,
the Barrow farm is truly one of the
show places of the section, and the
enterprise of the owner who brought
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-10-27
FERTU E FARMS OF SUMTER ARE WORTH HIGH PRICESl
AMERICUS NOW HAS THRIVING
WHOLESALE BUSINESS DISTRICT

Three widely known wholesale gro
Gerry houses are operating here most
successfully, two of which have been
in business for many years, with con-
stantly increasing trade and prestige.
The third one is Of more recent origin
but its great success has shown with
all the more clearness how wide a
field is still to be covered by enter
prising and hustling wholesale firms
The three grocery firms to which ref
Jones Company, a very enterprising
house, rapidly developing an extensive
business throughout this section; the
Americas Grocery Company, and the
Glover Grocery Company, these latter
two old and highly prosperous con-
Germs each Of which is now enjoying
we'll merited success in the wholesale
field. These wholesale houses are do
ing a great work in supplying the
trade of this section with the best
groceries at the lowest prices, and
their success means much in the gem
eral development of the trade of this
section.
AS stated, there appears to be an
exceptional opening here for jObbing
houses in other lines-dry goods,
clothing, hats and shoes, drugs, etc.
The territory easily served from this
point is not only large and prosper
Gus, but it is rapidly expanding in
population and wealth the scale
living is broadening rapidly and bet
the field for wholesale houses in lines
not already covered could hardly be
found.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-10-27

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One thousand broad and fertile
acres comprise the splendid plantation
principally owned by Mr.. Geo. W.
Barrow, of Americas. and located IL
miles southeast OF Americas, where
the line of Lee county joins that OF
Sumter, three miles from Leslie, ana
inc one of the most desirable section
of that end of the county.
1t was just twenty-eight years ago
that Mr. Barrow first went to live
upon his splendid plantation, then a
wilderness of virgin timber and I'M
cultivated land. With his own hand
he felled many Of the fine trees that
once covered the magnificent farm
where profitable crops Of corn, velvet
beans, peanuts and peavine hay are
now produced, to say nothing of the
vast quantity of cotton annually gath
cred there. The home house, an Illus
tration of which is shown on this
page, was one of the first buildings ever
erected in that section, and today it
is one of the most comfortable and
substantial to be found anywhere.
Situated in the center of modest
grove, every tree in which was plant
cd by Mr.. Barrow himself and hedg
Cd about in front with half a dozen
''stunted cedars," the home presents
30 the vision of a passer-by at once
a scene of comfort and country ele-
gance, A pretty lane is created along
the roadway in front of the home
by many broad-spreading oaks whose
cooling shade add to the comfort of
the casual traveller as well as the
workmen coming in from the fields
at noon, and again at the close Of
the day. A deep bored well from
which is lifted thousands of gallons
of water daily supplies the water
for the farm, and the temperature and
quality of this is unsurpassed by any
the writer has ever been privileged
to drink Coming up from the bowels
of the earth in large stream, this
water is forced into a large steel tank
monted high above the tallest struc-
ture on tie farm, where it is instant
ly available for drinking and other
purposes anywhere about the premis-
es.
These are only few of the beau
ties of Mr.. Barrow's fine farm, and to
leave untold the many other attrac-
lions would be to neglect to tell the
people of Americas and Sumter coun-
ty some of the most pungent facts
about one of the finest farms in the
whole section. There are two splen-
did pecan orchards upon the place.
end either of these, in its present
state of cultivation, easily represents
a fine fortune, measured even by the
present-day high standard of values.
These trees, all of them of superb
varieties and budded by specialists in
their lines are loaded with one of
the greatest crops of pecans ever
raised on any one place in this section
The trees are SO heavily fruited as
to bend beneath the weight of the
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-10-27

it out of a primeval forest to its
present high state of cultivation, en-
titles him to a high place among
Who's Who in Sumter County" a
place his neighbors have already ac-
corded him, and an honor that pos
terity will be delighted to bestow upon
his accomplishment in years to come.
Mr.. Barrow, after making COM
Portable fortune upon his farm retired
from active operation of the place
this fall. and with his wife and help
meet moved to Ameicus, where he pur-
chased the former Rittenberry home,
one of the splendid new residences,
located just beyond the bridge upon
fashionable South Lee street. Here
he has made hundreds Of friends al
ready. and among his neighbors and
citizens generally he is highly esteem
ed. The imes-Recorder feels that
in including Mr. Barrow among
Who's Who in Sumter County" hon
or has been done Americas and the
county alike
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-10
SEASONS SPIRIT
AT DOLL SHOW
The Real Joy of Giving Felt
at Annual Event at
Y. w. C. A.

Amid gay decorations of laurel and
shining Christmas trees a hundred
dolls will smile happily down upon
the visitors at the annual Doll Show
in the John Y. Boyd Hall of the Y.
w. c. A. this evening. After the
show about the time when Santa vis-
its numerous chimneys a hundred
little orphans of the city will smile
more happily when through the AS
sociated Aid the dolls will be given
to them,
The girls of the Central High
School Club under whose supervision
the show is given have been working
hard, making candy. dressing dolls
and planning programs and decora-
tions.
The candy committee under the
chairmanship of Ruth Langdon is as
follows: Mary Bright, Elizabeth Hal
lahan and Grace Peake.
The doll committee have worked
under the direction of Miss Lillian
Roster. The members are: Naomi
Grand, Elizabeth Hause, Mary Shib-
ley, Dora Billet, Frances Burkholder,
Naomi Michaels, Mabel Thompson,
Jean Peifer, JOY Matter, Doris Stew
art, and Eloise PealSe.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-10
INTERESTING PERSONAL NEWS
Sunshine Is Planning
Its Christmas Giving

In the absence of Mrs. Frederick
f. Downes, president of the Sum
shine Society, Mrs. Homer Black,
first vice-president, presided at q
meeting held yesterday afternoon at
the Y. NJ. c. A.. where Christmas
plans of the society were discussed.
The special committees selected by
Mrs. Downes include: Care of Grip
Piled children, Mrs. Howard NJ. Hoke
and Mrs. Harry G. Keffer; wooden
caps for open air pupils. Mrs. c. l..
Wright; toys and candy. Mrs. Will
liam E. Seel; baskets of fruit for
Shut-ins, Mrs. Charles S. Boil, Mrs.
Arthur A. Herr. Miss Matilda HES
ter will see to the purchase of shoes,
hosiery and rubbers for poor chill
dren, assisted by Miss Mary Miller
of the Visiting Nurse Association.
Mrs. ]. H. Burlington was elected to
membership: