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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-11-14
WILL SURVEY ROADS
Federal Bureau viii Investigate
Highways OF Nation.
Seeks information on Cost, Character
of Construction and General Con-
dition of Country's Roads
Asks Cooperation.

Washington. The bureau OF public
roads Of the United States Department
Of Agriculture viii shortly undertake
survey of the mileage, cost, character
of construction and general condition
of the nations highways. The survey,
which is the most extensive ever un-
dertaken and the first in seven years,
is 10 be made with the aid of state and
local officials and individuals the coun-
try over, and is comparable only to
the great task of taking the national
census.
Nobody, in all probability, could
guess today within millions of dollars
what the roadWays total, III dollars
and cents, on the ledger of lie national
assets. Nobody knows how many miles
there are where Wheels may roll. The
strength and the weakness Of the ma
lions transportation arteries likewise
are unknown in detail.
When the survey is completed, all
these and other facts will be known
and Will be available for guidance To
road builders. In addition there Will
be abundant datt to show up cOmpari-
sons Of costs. The well-bult roads OF,
say, PENNSYLVANIA can be laid dollar
for dollar and mile for mile, alongside
| the WeH-bui roads Of California and
| other states. First cost and malnte-
nance of inacadmn, asphalt, concrete
every Kind OF road huilt-rrom one see
ton can De matched against such costs
| from every other section. if desired.
The way to make the dollar most ct1ec-
tive in road work lhus will be pointed
ont.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-11-14
FISH WITHOUT MOUTH CAUGHT
Peculiar Specimen Found in Missouri
Also NoseIess, but Weighed
Five Pounds.

Kennett. Mo.--Going through life
without a mouth or rather with your
mouth grown shut would be u sad
experience for anybody of the human
race, but f. D. Poe, 1t blacksmith Of
this city, has just caught a fish that
was thusly afflicted Poe got the
unusual spccimcn Of the finny tribe
while on an outing at what is known
as Tear Blanket on The Narney
river 1t was five pound buffalo
that had no sign of a mouth.
The fin had the appearance OF hay
ing had its mouth and nose bitten
off up TO and just below the eyes, and
in the process of healing the wound
grew entirely shut. With this excep-
ton the fish was Il fine specimen
and apparently was not handicapped
by its strange deformity or aftiiction.
Poe put the fish in a tank of water
and it swan around Just like any
other fish. Ii seemed to have worked
out scheme Of letting water through
one set of gills and out the other.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-11-14
CORPSE TAPS ON COFFIN LID
Japanese Woman Supposed to Be
Dead Is Removed From Coffin
and Lives Two Days Longer.

Tokyo.-The story of woman who
Knocked on the lid Of her coffin after
it had been prepared and sealed for
burial has been revealed by the Japan
Times and Mail.
It is stated That the woman ap-
parenuy died one morning ana ar
rangements We're Immediately made
for the funeral Priests were gent
for ana a. usual service read over
the coli
Sudd, ro priests and others
heard :; a. knocking inside the
coffin. he was removed and
the mompers ID that the woman
was alive '"hAy "alcd her name.
She replied: II "a rirsty Give me
some water" Wa rs given and
She was removed to Jed, but died
two days later.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-11-14
CAsKET SEIZED FOR DEBT
Detroit ConstabIes Remove Corpse
When Undertaken Can't Get
$500 Fee

- Detroit. Mich.-Fnneral services for
MS Vincent D2iegiusa were inter
rupted by two constables who removed
the body from the caskct TO satisfy Il
writ of repleyin.
Stanley A. Lappo, undertaken, said
he went to the home and asked the
husband 10 give him q note for 5000
in payment for funeral expenses.
Dzieguski chased him from the
house with Il gun. Lappo says.
ConStables acting on writ of re-
plevin issued TO Lappo by Justice John
NJ. Mckinley went to the house to
serve it,
The body was placed on couch.
The casket and rugs were taken from
the house.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-11-14
MAN BEATEN BY ANTS
Perform Engineering Stunts Sur
passing Human Feats.
New York Subway insignificant in
Comparison With Insects Tunnels
Wonderful Works of Cutting
Ants in Texas.

New Ork.-1he SuOWayS ana f.-.9-
nels under the Hudson and East rivers
have attracted attention throughout
the world, and by some have been
named as enc Of the greatest engineer
ing feats i'll this era of wonderful featS.
Man has all the machinery that sci
ence could invent to assist him, cement
and stone To make the tunnels water
proof, Instruments Of precision To help
in the right direction and at the proper
level below the water line or street
level
1t is interesting to compare this
work of man with similar works of
the cutting ants in Texas. Compare
the work Of man with all his ma
chinery and instruments and that of
the ants with only their jaws and per
haps one pair of legs which they use
ut a time, The size and length of the
tunnel with that created by man, and
lastly, the relative size of thc ants and
man. and you must admit that taking
all things into comparison the work
of the ants is of far greater magnitude
than that of man
Or. Henry McCook states that Gen
eral Fountain, While stationed at Fort
Clark, noticed that the troop garden
was constantly being raided by these
ants, which stripped the vegetables of
tfieir leaves, compelling them to aban-
A.. L.. Inn,
selected, surrounded by an irrigation
ditch but before long the ants again
appeared The officers thought That
they had tunneied under the water, and
one of them, skeptical OF their ability
To accomplish such an engineering feat,
investigated He drained the irrigat-
ing stream (Some four or five feet
wide}, dug UP the ned and traced the
insects trail from their point Of enter
ing the garden To their old nest on the
opposite side. There are also other ac-
counts of their making galleries under
the water.
A farmer near Austin, TO get rid of
depredations of an immense colony of
these ants near his home, had set his
men to dig it up. To reach the central
nest he had traced the ants from Il
tree inside his home premises. which
they had stripped of leaves, to Il point
600 feet distant
The nest occupied Il space as large
as Il small cel1ar, the lowest and main
cave being as large as flour barrel.
From this point radiated the avenues
over which the ants marched on their
raids.
Doctor McCook, with the assistance
of civil engineer, proceeded to sur
ycy the main course Of the insects. In
some places the tunnel was as deep as
six feet beneath the surface, the aver
age depth being about eighteen inches.
AZ the exit hole" 4S4 feet from she
nest. The tunnel was two feet deep.
Besides this main line there were two
branch tunnels which detected from
the trunk line to gain entrance to n
peach orchard 100 feet distant
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-11-14
MAY USE MAGNET
TO RAISE SHIPS
Submarine Invention Passes Sal
wage Test of the British
Admiralty.
Believed That Much of Steel and
Metals Lost Through Operations
of Gesman Submarines May
Be Recovered.

Misunderstanding with submarine
magnets for allied ships which Strew
the bottom of the North sea and the
English channel may be attempted on
Il large scale in The near future if an
invention recently placed at the dis
posal of the British admiralty proves
TO be practicable in deep-sea salvage
operations II is believed that the de
vice may recover much of the loss IN
steel ana metals caused by the submit
rines. It is also probable that it may,
to some extent, replace the deep-sea
diver.
Will Lift 10 Tons.
The Submarine electromagnct" is
octagonal in shape, three feet in width
between the opposite sides, two and a
half inches in depth, weighs seven
hundredWeight, and is strong enough
to lift rs tons of metal In salvage
work three magnets win be employed
simultaneously. in order to get good
hold on the larger sections OF armor
plate.
Gigantic searchlights will first be
turned on the wreck and after the
vessel has been blown to pieces by ex-
ploSiyes the magnets will 90 down TO
search for anchors chain cables and
pieces of metal. The power viii be
sufficient TO raise all fragments Of
metal, even though they be encased in
wood
The mechanical divers possibilities
were demonstrated recently at AN eX-
hibition at the Albert docks, Silver
town, attended by representative of
the British admiralty the Port OF Lon
= don authority and the salvage and
Shipbuilding companies. Into So feet
Of water were thrown several staet
Orders weighing two tons, some gas
cylinders. castings, a section of rail
way switch and other metallic objects.
Brought Up Orders.
Swung by a crane, the magnet diveG
and, to the amaZement of the wit
nesses. came up with the steel girders
glued to its under side. The operation
was repeated until the last piece of
metal had been raised
At one stage of The demonstration
there was lively competition between u
human diver and the diving magnet.
The steel railway switch, owing TO its
peculiar shape. could not be located
until Il diver had gone down and placed
the magntf in contact with the rails.
The magnet is not intended To sup
plant divers. said Mr. Neale head Of
the Ncale Magnet Construction com
pany, in charge Of tie development Ut
the invention IT VIII be Of value
chiefly in eases OF wrecks in deep wa
ter or silred up, where divers cannot
go.
I'll will also beiused for loading and
unloading vessels, discfarging metallic
ores, lifting machinery and loading
steel sections from rolling mills. y
current OF 1G ampcres, at pressure
Of 90 volts, supplies the power
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-11-14
Farmer Grams Melons
Into Boys for Robbery

Council Bluffs, la.-To be COM
PEELED TO gorge themselves on a
truckIoad of melons which they
had stolen from field was the
novel form of punishment for
nine young men caught by Wal
ter j. Miller, melon grower.
Miller surprised the youths
and advanced on them with Il
revolver, forcing them to drive
the truck to his house
He then locked them in a
room, and holding them in ter
ror forced them 10 eat melons
that his wife passed through a
window.
Al the end of the melon-eating
contest the robbers were all roll
ing on the floor in agony while
three melons only remained in
the truck.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-11-14
Women Fight Eagle. Save Tot

u 'l0l'9JeQd, Pa.--An eaqla onvo
'' 70 Mrs George Williams of this
IVY and Mrs. b. RuHlng of Greens.
a., ~ "Aen the two women attacked
p.s bird after it had seized
a.-.s,4. MAINS two-and-a-half-y earo old
,..1 @"'et ANA was about to fly away
'.,n The child in its taIons
,sma i'u'nng, armed with club
The t,, 'I'', AID of Mrs Williams, and
n.r,, ,"1' after several minutes OF des.
tbnnoI '9l'Ie' forced The bird to flight
tI ''usH 1t lowered menacingly oyes
the c, ,'ns deep scratches on her bofy.
~i''iu was uniniured
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-11-14
HoW7s Iuis?

do what we claim for it-cure Catarrh or
Deafness caused by Catarrh We do not
claim to cure any other disease.
HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE is a
liquid, taken internally, and acts through
the blood upon the mucous surfaces OF
the system, thus reducing the inflamma.
ton ana restoring normal conditions.
All Druggists. Circulars free.
u. j. Cheney q Co. Toledo Ohio.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-11-14

r.l.o e" York Alleged to have sold
friends - r'i'ai medals TO relatives ana
war No., so'ulers Killed in the World
arrested olarlon Gross, statesman. was
10 d., 49, On a Charge Of using IN mail
H. M, The value of he medal III, i
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-11-14
guenos Ares wars on ulsease.

Buenos Aires. Sunrise every morn
ing finds Buenos Aires, in the down
town section in particular, fresh
washed, clean as 4 Dutch housewives
doorstep and smelling like hospital.
This is q result Of the thorough wash
ing giyel, all the streets every night
and the Abega doses Of disinfectanf
that are spread about iii nrsier tn
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-11-14
New Yeast VitanOn
Tablets Round Out
Face and Figure
With Fn Healthy Energy Beauty
pexon-Easy and Economical to Take-Results Quick

Thin or rundown folks
who want 10 quickly get
some good. firm. solid flesh
on their bones, I'LL out the
holIo|R and sunken checks
with strong, healthy It's
sues, and build up in
creased energy and Vital
ity should try taking u
little Mastin's VITA
MON with their meals.
hlastin's NirAMON is 81
tiny tablet containing
highly concentrated yeast
wtamines as we'll as the
two other still more Inn
portant vitamines Cat
Gnlobla A and Water Soil
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-11-14
Neglecting That
Cold or Cough?

I ETTING the old cough or cold
L. drag on, or the new one develop
seriously, is folly. especially when at
your druggists, you can get such a
proved and successful remedy as DR..
Kings New Discovery. No drugs,
Just good medicine that relieves
quickly.
For over fifty years, standard
remedy for coughs, colds and grippe.
Eases Group also. Loosens up the
phlegm, quiets the croupy cough,
stimulates the bowels, thus relieving
the CONGESTION. All druggists, o0c.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-11-14

by STRENGTHENS
builds body with flesh and tissue and often completely
the whole gratifying results No caused
thin pale haggard looking orlack and
taking Mans NllAMON regularly
satisfied with weight and
IMp0RTANT While the remarkable eah building value OF Mastns
VITAAON clearly demonstrated
troubles, INDIGESTION constipation skin epton
mental condition. should
their weight increased normal
Aashns plIAAON
table ts a all gooidrl
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-11-14

Jan Van Albert, Q feet inches tai.
recently arrived in Chicago Compare
his size with little Lew Rose, who is
only feet himself Van Albert can
not travel in a Pullman as the beds
are too shorm When he goes to a no
tel, two bedSVare put together for him
10 sleep on,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-11-14

Longer Skirts for Teachers Ordered
Lyndhurst, n. J-Longer skirts aud
no silks or satms-this is the latest
order to teachers issued by the lyhd-
hurst school board The order does
not specify the length demanded.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-11-14
THE STANDARD
100 Dress

100 Dress
Patterns at 69c
Monday and Tuesday we will sell
Just one hundred of these Dress
Patterns at this price. You will
find six full yards of full stand
ard Dress Bingham in every one
and now selling in some stores at
25c yard. Here Monday and
Tuesday only, the full Dress Pat
tern of six yards for .69c
5000 Yards of the Best Sea
Island 10 Yards for 98c
Another special sale for Monday
and Tuesday. This is positive
~ the finest and smoothest Sea
Island shown in Americas; 336
and SO inches wide and sold only
in lots of ten yards; no more, no
less at the price Monday and
Tuesday, the whole ten yards
for .................... csc
10 Yards Good Weight
Cotton Flannel csc
Full width with good nap. twill
back, selling in some stores now
at zoe yard. Sold only on Mon 4
day and Tuesday, the full 10
yards for ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. s8s
| 10 Yards Best Standard
FACTORY Checks for CSC
In snail checks and dTesss styles;
some of the patterns look like
! md ogar%f
fast color; will stand boiling:
sold only in lots of ten yards.
Here Monday and Tuesday the
10 yards for --.--..,..-.---...........-. .98s
10 Yards Good Finish
Bleaching for 98c.
Soft finish Bleaching, good weight
at the lowest price you have
heard of it in years; sold only IN
ten-yard lots. Here Monday and
Tuesday, 0 yards for .......9st
10 Yards Standard Mattress
Ticking for csc
Full standard Mattress Ticking;
fun width in medium or large
stripes; sold now in some stores
at zoe yard. Here Monday and
Tuesday only 10 yards for 3d.
Mems Indigo Blue
Work Shirts at soc
| One case Of Mems Work Shirts,
made of standard quality Indigo
Blue Cheviot; sizes Ia to II,
and worth just one dollar to-
day. Here Monday and Tues
day, each ..,.,.--..,,-..-,--.......-..
Over a Thousand Samples
AT Half Price
We will have on display the entire
sample line of Messrs. Rouse
| Hemstone & Co., of Baltimore,
Md. lust one garment of each
kind, but almost full assortment
4 Of sizes. Come early and get
your pick Every garment is
priced Just one.half Of the regsl
lar selling price. Sweaters,
Shirts, Underwear for men.
women and children
/
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-11-14
Bull a Drinker.

Hood River Ore-A bulls over
Indulgence in the contents of mash
barrel, according 10 stories of or
chardists of the Underwood (Wash)
district, led to the discovery by officers
of two stills near Stevenson
The bull. attracting attersion by his
drunken stagger and beloved maun
derigs evidently was pleased with
the effects of The noonshine markings.
Officers followed him as he pursued
an elratic course through the under
brush, The goal Of the bovine topper
was Il barrel tiaif full of mash. Ira
hidden cabin about 100 yards AWAY,
was discovered a stu
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-11-14
10 Yards Good Weight
Cotton Flannel csc

Full width with good nap. twill
back, selling in some stores now
at zoe yard. Sold only on Mon
day and Tuesday, the full 10
yards for Observation-Disclosures So
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-11-14
10 Yards Good Finish
Bleaching for 98c.

Soft finish Bleaching. good weight
at the lowest price you have
heard of it in years; sold only in
ten-yard lots. Here Monday and
rnaedav IN wards for 9g
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-11-14
10 Yards Best Standard

In small checks and dresss styles;
some of the patterns look like
Bingham and every piece is
fast color; will stand boiling;
sold only in lots of ten yards.
Here Monday and Tuesday the
10 wards for .-....................... 81
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1921-10-19
WEAK BLOOD IS
A REAL BARRIER
Growing Children Often Need
GUIDES Pepto-Mangan

Some children grow too quickly-it
saps their strength They lapse into
careless, desultory habits. or develop a
shrinking attitude. Their faces look
pinched.
The blood becomes overtaXed by
TOO rapid growth and poisons from
the system take the place of strength
giving red Scorpuscles in the blood.
Red corpuscles are those little red
particles that swim in blood and give
!. its color Gradually that child loses
interest in its play.
Poor blood needs the building that
the iron in Guides Pcpto- Mangan
gives to weakened blood. GUIDES
Pepto Mangan enriches the blood by
increasing the number OF red corpus
cles. and restores the blood by driving
out the poisons. When the revived
blood gets to work. the appetite be-
comes what a growing child's should
nc. Your druggist has GUIDES Pepto-
Mangan in liquid or tablet form
The name Guides Pepto-Mangan" liz
On every package. Advertisement.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1921-10-19
ONE WEAK SPOT
Many Annapolis People Have a Veal
Part and Too Often It's
The Back

Many people have a weak spot.
Too often it's a bad back.
Twinges follow every sudden twist
Dull aching keeps up, day and night.
Backache is often from weak kid
neys
In such a case kidney medicine is
needed
Doan's Kidney pills are for weak
kidneys.
For bGckache and urinary ills.
Annapolis people recommend the
remedy. Ask your neighbor,
Mrs d. Myers, Madison St. An
napolis. says: Some time ago my
Kidneys got ont of order and I suf-
fered a great deal with pains through
my back and limbs. l had no energy
or ambition and became so run down,
could hardly keep going Dizzy,
nervous headaches made me miser-
able. The action of my kidneys was
never regular \ friend recommend
ed Doan's Kidney Pills and used
them. getting my supply from the
West End Pharmacy Three or four
boxes cured me sound and well. My
kidneys haven't troubled me since
Price 60c. at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills - the same that
Mrs. Myers had. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Mfrs. Buffalo. y Y.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1921-10-19
EVEN MEN ANXIOUS TO GET
IN Y. w. &. A.
Entire Families Clamoring For Ad-
mission To Girls Camp, First
In Belgium.

Entire families. including grand
mothers and brother-in-iaws. clamor
for admission 10 the Y. w. c. a in
Belgium. In report 20 the National
Board Headquarters, COO Lexington
Avenue. New York, Miss Evelyn
Hodges. OF Brookline, Massachusetts,
surveying the summer at the vacation
house at Cog. closing this month.
says: Prices everywhere else were
ruinous and everyone after the hard
winter needed cheap holiday so bad
ly that it was cruel TO refuse Yet
hundreds of girls had 10 be turned
away in August One man pleaded
for hours for seven places for his
'societe': one woman wanted US TO
take her parents, both over eighty
years of age, so that she. worn ont by
long nursing. might rest. Another
woman begged US TO take her baby.
The fame of the Villa Beau Sjour is
spreading throughout the land"
A typical example of what outdoor
hikes. loose clothes and healthful
routine mean 10 the Belgium girls is
given. "One of our girls was pale and
puny and lifeless in manner" says
Miss Hodges. After two weeks she
is plump and brown as an Indian, so
full OF ambition and energy that we
could not believe her to be the same
listless creature that we knew. Her
accounts at the camp are so glowing
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1921-10-19
BYLAW AND ORDINANCE
Imposing Tax Rate for the Fiscal Year
Ending June 80, I922.

Section 1. Re il established and or
dained by the Mayor Counselor and
Aldermen of the City of Annapolis, that
the tax rate for the fiscal year beginning
July 1. 1921. be one hundred cents on each
one hundred dollars of the assessable
property of the City of Annapolis. 10 he
collected pursuant TO the laws contained
in the Charter. and the Bylaws and 0rdi-
nances of the Mayor. Counselor and Alder
men of the City of Annapolis.
Section >. And he it further established
and ordained by the Mayor, Counselor and
Aldermen of the City Of Annapolis that
the Collector and Treasurer Of the City Of
Annapolis. be authorized and directed to
ser aside the following Sums from the pro-
ceeds of the Tax Levy Of 1921 for the pay
ment of interest and sinking fund on sew
eTal bond issues:
For interest fund upon said issues seven
cents upon each 500.
For Sinking Fund Bond Issue az 1888.
one and one-half cents upon each 500.
For Sinking Fund Bond Issue of 1900
three and one-hsif cents on each 800
For Sinking Fund Bond Issue. OF 1906
one and one half cents on each $780,
For Sinking Fund Bond Issue Of 1910
one and one half cents on cash $loO.
Approyed-Sept. Is, 1921.
SAMUEL JONES.
Attest: Mayor.
EMMA ABBOTT GAGE.
Clerk. o23