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build a cotton mill costing $150,00O
to 100000 annually. The Cham
Der of Commerce could help develop
such projects. Let us get together
and cooperate and build up this or
ganization We already nave one OF
the richest counties in the South.
Soon it will be the richest in the
country"
John Sheffield, president of the
chamber, spoke at this point of the
growing reali .ation of responsibility
for the development of the communi-
ty and added, 81 do not think getting
factories is the sole function of q
Chamber of Commerce. We must do
everything we can of a civic nature.
Mr.. Lanier, following the singing
of another song, called on Capt. John
A. Cobb for a few remarks.
Getting together" was the sub
stance of Mr.. Cobb's response. "We
can accomplish anything we want to
if we will only pull together said
he. I'VE have allowed towns on
either side of US to go ahead. Why?
Because their people work together.
If our people are only determined to
take the lead, it will only be short
time before we shall be in the lead.
Do away with the feelings of jealousy
and animosity and we can take the
lead"
1--WE thought there was something
wrong for long time was the brief
closing remark of R. E. Allison. "Now
know we need to get together
Then everyone rose to show his or
her entire support of the movement.
Prayer by Rev. Silas Johnson clos
ed the meeting. Then all stopped in
the aisles to discuss the questions
raised in the course of the meeting.
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community. And let me say that
Americas must have the seed of that
spirit, for | have yet to meet in
Americas a single knocker. This is
remarkable. Which remark won the
speaker around of applause.
( The Spirit Needed.
Community spirit is what is re-
CURED" General Foster continued.
THAT is the propulsive force behind
all civic and commercial PROCESS. |
would have you bear in mind that
civic-commercial organization while
given a certain form and substance
by its housing; by its Office furnish
ings and those physical things which
we see, is essentially a thing of the
spirit. 1t exists and gains its
strength through the spirit of the
people who compose it; who support
it and accept its leadership.
'You will note, therefore, that the
, essentials are an aroused public spir-
it and the willingness to serve. Please
observe that they comprehend only
what the human factor can supplv.
for it may be accepted as fact that
no city can be builded except by the
common and united purpose of its
citizenship. Physical resources will
avail you not if the human elements
are wanting in vision or in those
qualities of mutual consideration
which are an incentive to cooperative
endeavor.
eff there is anyone in Sumter
w re crln L
/ longs here and reasonably satisfied
that things are going all right, have
not met him. You're all hitched up
for team work. Nature has been
very generous to Sumter cuonty, but
you cannot afford to depend entirely
upon her bounty. You ought to con-
slider the matter of helping Nature
along. You only need a little urg-
ing to pull together.
I'm closing, let me remind you that
/ this is an age of cooperation, and,
as / said at the outstart, we will have
missed the one fine thing, the one
legacy of the war which promises to
be a boon to mankind, if he have
failed to gain a new sense of the OBJ
legations of citizenship, and of the
ChdlSS liidL IcsLS upon uS-eaeh OF
us-both in peace and war, to serve
and serve unitedly for the walfare of
ALL"
Then the audience sang, "Good
Morning Mr.. Zip" with ferver. that
charged the air.
Power of Chamber.
! The Importance of strengthening
the sense of individual responsibility
for the welfare of the community was
emphasized by W. W. Dykes, the
next speaker. Sumter county" said
he, "is the third county in the United
States in agricultural products, the
first in Georgia, and the second in
the South. What could not Sumter
county do if all got together? 1t is
of value to establish a packing house
here. 1t will do much for Sumter
county. But if we get a good live
Chamber of Commerce here, the
packing house will be little thing.
We could assess the cotton raised in
Sumter county at SIS a bale and
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Influenza
Increasing

Prevent it. Build up that run
down system. Get yourself in shape
to withstand it. Take HerbO-LaX,
the new root and herb tonic for the
stomach, liver, kidneys and blood,
such as indigestion, dyspepsia, con-
stipation, catarrh of the stomach,
rheumatism, blind and dizzy spells
and a badly run down system.
Mr.. C. A. Gerald, of Woodville,
Fla, says he suffered with indiges-
ton for several years and his system
was in bad shape from it, and after
taking one bottle, he was greatly re-
heved. Mr.. Gerald recommends it to
any one. Herb-O-Lax is sold by all
the progressive drug stores in your
town and as a special inducement to
get you to try HerbO-Lax, if you
will cut this ad out, present it to your
nearest drug store, you can get the
S1.5O bottle of Herb-O-Lax for Sf.04,
and your druggist will give you free
of charge SOC bottle of Healing
Oil free with each bottle this week.
Address all mail orders to DIR. T..
X. Whidden's Drug Store, Pensacola,
Fla, Distributors for Herb-o-Lax
Tonic.-(adv.)
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Million Packets Of
Hover Seed Free

We believe in flowers around the
homes of the South. Flowers brighten
up the home surroundings and give
pleasure and satisfaction to those who
have them.
We have set aside more than one
million packets Of seed of beautiful,
yet easily grown flowers, to be given
10 our customers this spring for the
oeautifying of their homes
Hastings 1920 Seed Catalogue is
now ready. Brilliant cover in natural
coiors, 100 pages of garden and farm
information, profusely illustrated It's
the one worth while seed book for
southern gardeners and farmers. This
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request. Your name and address on
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This 1920 Catalogue will show you
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lower seeds Give different sorts) alb
solutely free of cost this spring. Send
for this catalogue today without fail.
No obligation to buy anything unless
you want to. II. G. HASTINGS CO.,
seedsmen, Atlanta, Ga.-(Advt.)
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LEGAL AID NO. $50
GEORGIA, Sumter County.
To the Superior Court of Said

GEORGIA., Sumter County.
To the Superior Court of Said
County:
The petition of the Johnson-Wil-
son Company shows to the court the
following facts to-wit:
First. That the Johnson Wilson
Company was incorporated by an or
der of the Superior Court of Sumter
County, Georgia, dated the 23rd day
of February, 1910.
Second. That shortly afte the
charter was issued the stockholders
met, organized and accepted the char
ter, and began business in Leslie,
Georgia, under the said charter and
the said name of the Johnson Wilson
Company, doing a general mercan-
| tile business as authorized in the
charter so to do, and that they have
ntinued the said business up until
now.
! Third. Petitioner shows that under
the time of its charter it expires on
the 23rd day of February, 1920.
Fourth. Petitioner shows that at
regular meeting of the stockhold-
ers of the said Johnson Wilson Com
pany held on January 7th at the of
fee of said corporation in Leslie,
Georgia, all of the said stockholders
being represented in person, or by
proxy, it was unanimously voted that
the charter be renewed for a period
of twenty 600 years from tn. said
date of expiration, to-wit February,
23rd, 1920.
Fifth. Petitioner shows that the
name of the said corporation has
heretofore been the Johnson-Wilson
Company but it is desired that the
name be changed and the, said char
ter so amended under the name of
the Johnson-Bolton Company.
Wherefore petitioners pray that an
order be granted renewing the char
ter under the like powers, privileges
and responsibilities as contained in
the original charter for a period of
twenty (2O) years from February
23rd, 1920, and that the name be
changed to the Johnson-Bolton Com
pany, as above set out and of this
petitioner will ever pray.
SHIP & SHEPPARD,
Petitioners Attorneys.
The foregoing petition filed in Of
flee this the 30th day of January,
1920.
H. E. ALLEN,
Clerk Superior Court Sumter
County, Georgia.
GEORGIA, Sumter County;
/, H. z. Allen. clerk of the Su-
perior Court Sumter county, Georgia,
do hereby certify that the above and
foregoing is true and correct copy
of the petition of the Johnson-Wilson
Company for renewal of charter as
same appears of file in this Office.
This the 30th days of January,
1920.
H. E. ALLEN,
Clerk Superior Court Sumter
County. Georgia.
l1-su4t
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CAN DO WORK
WELL AS EVER
Loves to Get Up and Do Household
Work Since Taking Meritone.

81 get up and do my household
work now just as we'll as | ever did
when | was at my BEST" said Mrs.
Helen Barker, of GA Virginia avenue,
Knoxville, Tenn.
Three weeks ago | was discour-
aged aboue my health. For a long
time | was in a rundown condition.
l lost all energy and my household
work seemed almost too much for
me.
my stomach was out of order and
wouldn't digest my food right.
"Three weeks ago today | started
taking Meritone.
Il have a wonderful appetite now
and eat anything and digest it per-
fectly.
my strength has come back and
| love to get up and do my work, and
can do it as well as | ever did when
l was at my best.
After what Meritone has done for
me l gladly recommend it to all"
Meritone is the tonic of real merit
that thousands of people in all parts
of the country are taking. AS gen.
eral system medicine and strength
ener it has no superior and is highly
recommended for ailing conditions
of the stomach, liver, kidneys or for
catarrh, rheumatism, sleeplessness or
lack of appetite.
Meritone is sold exclusively in
Americas by Carswell Drug Co., and
by all leading druggists everywhere.
-(adv.)
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BUSY WEEK IN
CHAMBER DRIVE
Second Mass Meeting Is
Set for Tuesday
Evening
WHEN one new member jumped
upon another new men,
ber's back.
{ Continued from Pa One.)

While that prophetic song was not
sung the Community Conference held
Friday evening in the Carnegie IL
brary auditorium in connection with
the Chamber of Commerce cam
paign, the audience might just as
well have added it to the community
songs which were sung, for it was
the spirit of the gathering. That was
all that those present did-boost
Americas and Sumter county, and
talk of the Importance of getting to-
gether for the purpose Before the
meeting closed the entire audience
of representative Americas men and
women rose and announced its hear
ty support of the project. No one
went away without a feeling that
there was no better county in Ameri-
ca than the one in Southwestern
Georgia in which they dwelt.
Among those present were L. G.
Council, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Shelf
field, Mr.. and Mrs. John Sheffield,
Capt. John A. Cobb, W. W. Dykes,
Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. Davenport, Mr..
and Mrs. E. L. Carswell, c.. S. Glov-
er, Stephen Pace, DR.. R. P. Glenn,
DR.. Taylor Lewis, R. P. StackhoVse,
R. L. McMath, E. Zimmerman, Sr.,
S. R. Heys, Gordon Howell, who, in
the unavoidable absence of Miss Ella
Polk, led the community singing
Mrs. Joseph E. Johnson, who accom-
panied the singing; DR.. Cuyton Fish
er, and Rev. Silas Johnson.
The Best County Anywhere.
Frank Lanier, the general chair
man of the campaign, following the
singing of America and prayer by
Rev Guyton Fisher, set the ball roll
ing. He burrowed in the red soil
of Sumter county and talked about
the value of the peanut crop. He
looked aloft at the tree tops and
showed where the pecan trees of
Sumer county had it all over the wal
nut trees of California. He glanced
across at Souther Field. figuratively
speaking, and pointed out that two
hundred other communities would
have welcomed the prize which came
to Americas.
81 do not believe we realize the
Importance of the Chamber Of Com
merce here" he said. "The govern
ment would not deal with individuals
and had we not had a Chamber of
Commerceowe could not have gotten
the the field. We would not have the
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bcnZRn

Elgin and Gruen Wrist Watches.
Bell, the Jeweler.-tf
Mrs. B. o. Rock, of the millinery
department of Churchewell's store,
has just returned from an extended
trip to New York and Baltimore
where she bought spring goods for
the store.
Charles Berst, of Atlanta, of the
Gamewell alarm system force, drop
ped in on the Americas fire depart
ment Friday for an inspection of the
fire alarm system here. He reported
that he found it in first class condi-
ton and well cared for.
The Young Woman's Auxiliary of
the Episcopal church will meet Mon
day afternoon at 3 80 o'clock at the
church.
Denying a published report that
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new $15O,0O0 Opera House, which
is now being built, had it not been
for the Chamber of Commerce. And
it has had much to do with our good
roads.
I'VE need the Chamber of Com
merce," he continued ''to tell the
world of the wonderful possibilities
of the land of Sumter county. Cali
fornia takes pages of advertising in
the Saturday Evening Post to tell
about the walnut trees of California
and the land valued at $500 an
acre on which those walnuts grow
Think what we can do with land sell
ing at 500 an acre with pecan trees
on it. The Chamber of Commerce
needs money to tell this to the world.
We want to make the Chamber of
Commerce Il Success, for We We got
the greatest country in the world
Democracy and Service.
Then he introduced General Eos
ter, director of the campaign.
Now what sort of a community
organization should you have?" said
General Foster. at should in fact,
be a Chamber of Citizenship by
whatever name it might be called
but the name most frequently en-
ployed for associations of this char
acter- is a Chamber of Commerce.
The most modern and efficient Cham
Der of Commerce is an organization
composed of men and women of all
classes, of all creeds, of all parties
and of all lines Of business, whose
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The Opera House will undoubtedly
be the mecca for those who ENJOY
good entertainment on Wednesday
and Thursday nights. AS a musical
novelty they have never been
equalled in this country and have
scored a tremendous hit everywhere
they have appeared.
The Royal Holland Bell Ringers,
six in number, not only get music
from bells and chimes, but have a
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single purpose it is to make their
community better place in which to
live and to labor, 1t should be rep
resentative of all community ele-
ments and its guiding code should
be the principles of democracy and
service.
at is such an organization which
it is proposed to be formed here
for Americas and Sumter county.
You will agree, | am sure, that the
aims of all good citizens should be to
make their city of the type that peo-
pie hate to leave; of the kind about
which everyone has something good
to say; the sort of city whose every
citizen is its champion. Cities of
that kind receive a quantity and quail
ity of advertising, the value of which
cannot be estimated in dollars and
cents. They attract a citizenship of
the highest type and they hold it.
They achieve prosperity as matter
Of course.
ITO effect real community asso-
citation new spirit must be aroused
"a spirit which will overcome petty
jealousies and narrow gagged self
ishness, and move all to work united
ly for the greatest good of the entire
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PAGElFTvE

the suit of Mrs. C. R. Winchester
against the city was nearing set
tlement, Mrs Winchester yesterday
asked the Times Recorder to say that
this was not the case. 1T is true -
she said, that the city has offered
me 800 in settlement, which have
declined, but settlement is no nearer
than it has been at any time
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The many friends of Mrs. w. X
Hubbard, formerly of this city, VIII
be interested to know that she has
accepted position in the ready-to-
wear department of the J. P. Allen
Company, Macon, Ga. Mrs. Hubbard
will be pleased to have her friends
cell on her at the above company
when in Macon.-15-3t
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6 Royal Holland Bell Ringers 8.
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countless number of other instru-
ments which they handle to perfec-
ton. The whistling numbers rem
dered by Master Teddy and Peter
are superb Both the Holland and
American song numbers are new and
catchy.
A Fatty Arbuckle comedy will
round out two-hour show seldom
equalled in this city.
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j. T Walters, who has been con
nected with the firm of Edgar Shipps
wholesale grocer and provision deal
err here, has joined the sales force of
Swift & Co., at Moultrie. He. has
been connected with the Americas
firm for the last six months.
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Elgin and Gruen Wrist Watches.
Bell, the Jeweler.-tf
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Fmestone Red and
Gray Tubes

The motorist who has FIRE
STONE Tube in the tool box or
under the seat, has no fear of
road troubles.
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Denying published report that
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Buckeye Bumpers

You may drive carefully and
observe the rules of the road at
all times; but the other fellow
isn't always so careful.
When that inevitable accident
happens, the judgment of the
motorist who puts bumpers on
his car is proven.
Let us equip your car.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-08-25
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTEBOOK
By Lee Pape.

After suppir last mite ! was setting
out fr1lnt on the bottom step thinking
and pop was setting on the top step smoak-
ing, and / sed, Pop? a..
Ware have | herd that name before7
sed pop, and | sed, bin making up riddles,
pop, do you wunt me to tell you one OF
them? :,
I'm nootrals sed pop Meening | could
if | wunted, and sed, Wy is respectable
fish like a whole lot?
| give it up cheerfilly, sed pop.
Because its a good eel, | sed.
Help, poleece, sed pop. MeenIng ne
dident think it was a exter good one,
and | sed, Shall / tell you another one,
pop?
j dident wunt you to tell me, that
one, sed pop, Not saying L shouident'
so / did, saying, Wat do you do wen
YOU twist shimpanzee's neck!
Well, wat do you do, lets have IT over
with, sed pop and | sed, You give the
munky wrentches.
/ surrender, sed pop, Meening not
10 tell him eny more, and / sed, jest
one more pop, Jest one more, waits the
diffrents between one side OF an erster
and the other side
Here comes your friend Puds up the
street. run and meet him and spare me
ferther suffering, sed pop.
Wich ! ran down to meet Puds WITH
out telling pop wat the answer was, wien
il was One sides a shell and the other
shells side. Proberly being good thing
| dident tell him.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-08-25

Preserved Vegetable Marrow Remove
pulp and seeds from 4 large vegetable
marrows, weigh them, cut them IN strips
and to each pound OF marrow allow
pound of sugar Law the marrow and the
sugar in pan together over night, adding
2 ounces of green ginger cut IN small
pieces, and add the juice and peel timely
cut OF lemons also TO the pan. In the
morning put this mixture into the pre-
serving kettle and boil II very gently for
4 hours Put il IN a stone crock. When
cool II IS ready for use.
Plum Conserve No. Pit the plums
and put them into the preserving kettle
with a very little water, allowing | pound
of sugar for every pound of pItted plums.
Cook until thick (merely simmeTlng for
about 20 minutes) then add II pound OF
chopped d FL glsh walnuts for each pound
of plums that were put into the kt tile at
the beginning. Boil for minutes more,
stirring constantly and seal IN Sterilized
jars.
Plum Conserve No. 2.-Take 3 pounds
of blue or red plums and an equal weight
of sugar Cut the pltIms In pieces. add a
little water, the sugar, l-3 pound of
raisins, and the pulp of orang Is. Simme
slowly for | hour. Seal IN sterilIzed jars
G. rape Catsup and steam
pounds ripe grapes. Put into kettle
with | pint of water and let them melt
down, then simmer until they are cooked
Strain through puree sieve and add
pint of vinegar, p teaspoon salt and
| teaspoon each of cinnamon, cloves, all
| spice and pepper. Boil until slightly
| thickened, then bottle, cork and seal
Sweet Tomato Pickle.-Iet stand over
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-08-25
SANDMAN STORY.
By Mrs. r. A. Walker.
Copyright, 1919, By the Mcclure News-
paper eyndicAte. New Yorx CITY.
THE BOAT RIDE.
Part II.

Mr.. Fox had seen the chicks scrambling
up the bank and had looked them over
well. They were too young to suit him Just
then, but he had made his plans and when
they came up TO him he smiled as sweetiy
as he knew how.
"Well, my fine chicks" he said. What
are you doing out in the rain2 You will all
take cold You better come home with me,
| have nice fire, and get. warm.
"We are hungry, too peeped the
chicks.
"Oh, to be sure" said Mr.. Fox. "You
shall be well fed, you may depend upon me
for that"
What he planned was to fatten them and
80 save himself from going out all winter
for his food.
''You shall have hot mush and corn
and lots of nice things. Come right along
my pretty dears he said.
Old Mrs. Turtle was asleep by the
pond when the chickens scrambled up
the bank, but she awoke when Mr.. Fox
began TO talk and heard all that was
said.
She was a wise old creature and she
knew perfectly well what would happen
to the helpless chicks if some one did not
save them, so she crawled along to the
chicks and said, "You better go with
him my dears, you will catch cold out in
the rain"
Mr.. Fox did not pay much attention
to Mrs. Turtle He thought her slow old
creature and no one he was interested in
So when she crawled behind them as they
went along the path he did not notice what
she was saying.