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The Americus Times-Recorder
f HIRTY-FIFTH YEAR.
HUERTA CELEBRATES
BIRTHDAY AS THOUGH
NOUS WERE WRONG
REVIVES OLD CUSTOM OF CELE
BRATIJiG BIRTHDAY OF PRESI
DENT, THOUGH REBELS ARE
HOT ON HIS TRAIL
BUT CHRISTMAS WILL
BE DULL IN MEXICO
Strife Has Caused Mexicans to Forget
AII About the Holiday Seasons—
Business Houses Are Not Decorat
lag
Mexico City, Dec. 23. President
Huerta today revived the old .custom
of celebrating at the national palace
■with, great formality the anniversary
of the birth of the chief executive.
He was born on December 23, 1854.
These birthday celebrations were an
annual affair during the regime of
General Porfirio Diaz.
Before daylight this morning mili
tary bands from the regiments whica
have their headquarters in the fed
eral capital marched up and down
in front of the palace and serenaded
the provisional president. During the
forenoon Huerta received the con
gratulations of committees repre
senting all departments of the gov
ernment.
PRESIDENT HUERTA
The Greaser Chief Celebrates His 59th
Birthday.
The Anal event in the day's cele
bration was a reception to the diplo- <
matic corps at which all the foreign
representatives were present, with
the exception of Nelson O'Shaug
nessy, American charge d’affaires.
The Spanish minister, Jacinto De
Cologan y Cologan, dean of the diplo
matic corps, delivered an address of i
congratulation.
BULL CHRISTMAS
FOR MEXICO CITY
Mexico City, Dec. 23. Feeble ef
forts have been made to arrange hol
iday festivities in Mexico City this
year.
Govorner Corona, of the federal
district, has enlisted a few of the 1
city’s fashionable women to assist him i
»
inholding a Kermess in one of the pub- ;
lie parks, but even this show of hvl
day spirit is half apologetic, it being
announced that the proceeds are to go
toward buying clothing for the poor. ( i
Merchants in Mexico annually dress
their windows and stores to attract the
gift-giving public, but unlike the stores
in the United States, the rush is not
over until one week later. Only a few
Mexicans buy presents and distribute
them on Christmas, but all of them
want to give tokens of their love and
friendship on New Year's day.
This year the merchants hav<|
made little effort to capture the hol
iday money. Sentiment has dulled the,
buying spirit and war has drained |
the money ha ;s. As a people, the I
Mexicans are impoverished.
CHRISTMAS EVE
BUSIEST PERIOD
OF THEHOLIDAYS
SHOPPERS ARt COMING AGAIN
On Final Hound of the Gift
Buying
Americus will again be the point ct
concentrated attack today by the
thousands of shoppers, many of whom
defer until Christmas Eve the purchase
of gifts they know must be had, and
unite in a pell-well rush upon Dm
stores where stocks are more or less
depleted and confusion reigns supreme.
Tbe rush will come today, and will
prove irresistible. Thousands of shop
pers will fill the stores to the capacity
point.
Merchants had a continuation yes
terday of the excellent trade accorded
since the holiday buying opened up,
and business was at the flood-tide all
day.
The stores, many of them, will be
.kept open tonight until the midnight
hour. “ ’Tis the night before Christ
mas,” and everybody will be busy un
til the holiday is really ushered in at
midnight. It will be the last oppor
tunity to buy, as, according to time
honored custom, stores will be closed
on Christmas day _and business very
generally suspended in workshops and
all lines of industry here.
The small boy w-ith the tin 1 horn
will be abroad tonight and add “to
confusion worse confounded.’ 1 Mayor
Lowrey and Police Chief Johnson will
not permit the exploding of dynamite
crackers, however, or the use of fire
works that would endanger life or
property; a wise precaution.
MAYOR PUTS BAN
ON FIREWORKS
JNO BALOONS
CHIEF OF POLICE WILL MAKE A
CASE AGAINST ANYONE VIOLAT
ING LAW
Elsewhere in this issue of the Times-
Recorder is a card from the chief of
idice warning anyone against the
exploding of fireworks within the fire
limits or the sending up of balloons
anywhere in the city limits.
Mayor Lowrey has ordered the po
lice to be especially diligent in en
forcing this rule and has announced
that he will make a case against any
one violating this order.
TEACHERS ABE PAID
ALL SAURIES FOR YEAR
The public school teachers of Sum
ter will have spending money for the
Christmastide, as they do always, aa
the result of the system of prompt pay
ment monthly in Sumter. Supt. W. S.
Moore drew- checks yesterday for all
of the county teachers in payment o i
the December salary list, and every
dollar due the fifty or sixty county
teachers employed during the current 1
year has been paid them.
BOUGHT LOT ON LEE;
WILL BUILD A HOME
As the result of a realty sale yes
terday, another pretty residence ouc
Lee street is assured. Mrs. J. 1. K«i
--l mon purchased the Sawyer vacant lot
j near the residence of Mr. John E.
I Ansley, and will build there early in
the new year.
AMERICUS. GEORG
SHIP TO SAIL THROUGH
CANAL ON CHRISTMAS DAY
New York, Dec. 23—Panama ad
vices here today state that consider
ation has been quietly given to a
proposition to put the U. S. S. Buffalo
or some other . government vessel
through the Panama canal on Wednes
day as Col. Goethals’ Christmas gift to
the American people.
Washington, D. C., Dec. 23. Offi
sials of, the isthmian canal commis
sion have not heard of a plan to put a
ship through the Panama canal to
morrow as a Christmas gift to the
American people. Private advices
from Panama reported that such a
plan was quietly being considered by
Col. Goethals. Latest reports to the
headquarters here do not indicate
that the latest movement of the
Cucaracha slide has been sufficient
ly removed to permit a ship to pass.
WANTED HUBBY TO
SPEND CHRISTMAS
WITH DER KIDDIES
Atlanta, Dec. 23.—“1 wanted my
husband to be free on Christmas so
that be could play Santa Claus for the
children,” w-as the sobbing excuse
Mrs. M. E. Manley, aged twenty, gave
for smuggling a steel saw to her hus
band in the Fulton county Tower.
The saw was discovered, it is said,
in time to prevent what might have
been a wholesome jail delivery.
But instead of securing her hus
band’s release, Mrs. Manley is herself
now a prisoner behind the bars and
the children at home will have neither
mother nor father to play anta Claus
for them.
She was bound over to the higher
court in the sum of SSOO, and in de
fault of bond there was nothing to do
but lock her up.
One Hundred and Thirty One Dollars
And Ninety-One Cents Raised By The
Times-Recorder Empty Stocking Fund
♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
♦ THE TIMES-RECORDER’S *
♦ EMPT STOCKING FCJfD ♦
♦ ♦
♦ Previously Acknowledged.sl27.34 ♦
■f • Grey Wolfe” 1.00 ♦
♦ Benjamin Davis 07 ♦
♦ J. P. aCnnon, Jr 10 ♦
♦ Geo. Lombard Cannon ... .10 ♦
♦ Erma Cannon 10 ♦
♦ Clarence White, Jr 25 ♦
♦ Eugene Hawkins White .. .25 *
Frances May Castleberry.. .25 ♦
♦ Geo. Stallings 50 ♦
♦ Capitola Castleberry 25
♦ 1: ances Sparks 50 ♦
♦ t-ltk Williams .50 *
♦ Kui.yeW Clark ' .10 v
♦ Can oil Clark 35 v
♦ Egbert Clark 25 ♦
♦ ♦
♦ Total $131.91 ♦
♦ In a.dition to cash donations, ♦
♦ Mrs. j T. McLendon contributed ♦
♦ a tack of flour. ♦
The Empty Stocking Fund is closed
for the year. One hundred and thirty
one dollars and ninety-one cents ha'i
been turned over to the Woman’s Be
nevolent society to spend in making
the kiddies of Americus enjoy them
selves this happy Clwistmastide. The
people have been generous in their
contributions and they have made it
possible to bring happiness to the
hearts of a large number of unfortu
nate people in tbe city.
In addition to the cash donations
contributions of coal, nuts, fruit and
A. WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 24. 1913.
LUTHER GLOER;
SAFE CRACKER
RETURNED HERE
IS CAUGHT IN CINCINNATI
Again Does Stripes After Long
Freedom
Luther Gloer, formerly of Atlanta,
but more recently a bird of passage u
Cincinnati, ciame back to Americus
yesterday, donned his old suit of
stripes and hit the road at daylight
with the county chaingang, from which
he escaped in February. It was a sad
trip coming back, after having had
such a good time this year up in the
big city on the Ohio, and Gloer’s heai t
glowed not at the prospect.
Supt. Christian had the noted old
safe cracker in tow and brought him
back to Sumter without trouble. Glo
er’s capture by the Cincinnati police
was due to the treachery of a "pal,”
who after a row with Gloer over some
trivial affair "turned him up” to the
officers. Gloer has had a good time
for eight months since he escaped from
the county stockade here early in Feb
ruary.
Highway Supervisor
Well Known In City
News of the apopintment of Thomas
P. Stanley as highway supervisor for
the state of Georgia will be of interest
to many people in Americus who know
him well. At one time he was located
in Americus as head engineer in
charge of the construction work on
the proposed interurban railroad from
Macon to Americus.
Mr. Stanley is also related to sev
eral prominent Americus families.
flour were received that will easily
make the fund turned over to the Be
nevolent society equal to $l4O or $l5O
in cash.
The Empty Stocking Fund has been
a big success. It has made it possible
tor every kiddie in the city to have a
merry Christmas. It has brought joy
to iwdowed mothers that are having
a hard fight to keep the roses in the
little tots’ cheeks It has brought
joy to the numerous contributors who
helped swell the fund to its large to
tal. •
In all over four hundred people con
tributed something to the fund. Ev
ery gift that came was prompted by
i To*
IMoflow
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SPECIAL COMMISSION
CONSIDERS THAW'S CASE
Concord, N. H., Dec. 23.—Harry K.
Thaw, fugitive from the New York
state hospital for the criminal in
sane, spent the greater part of today
before the commission appointed by
the federal court to determine whether
his mental condition is such as to
make his release on bail a menace
to public safety.
The commissioners first held a
brief consultation in the office of
General Frank S. Streeter, one of
their number, at the conclusion of
which Thaw was summoned before
them. The proceedings were secret.
prettym!
DIMS FIVE CDPS
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 23.—Miss Eula
Ernest, a pretty but somewhat be
draggled. joy rider who was hailed to
a police station last night, became al
most insane* when she found she was
actually behind prison bars, and in
her hysterics injured herself severe
ly by hammering her curly golden
locks against the iron bars of the ceil
window.
She would probably have butted her
brains out if police officers had not
Interfered. When they tried to pre
vent her from hurting herself she
fought like a tigress and it took four
or five men finally to subdue her.
She was sent to the Grady hospital
where her bruises and cuts were treat
ed.
Sues Woman for $5,000;
She Bewitches Him
Rochester, N. Y„ Dec. 23. —Thomas
F, Gannon, who lives at 12 Kay ter
i.tce, has instituted an action against
Mrs. Margaret T. Gordon in the Unit
ed rates court for $50,000 damages, be
cause, he alleges, she exercises mys
tic power over him. Mrs. Gordon is
prominent in Scranton society. Gan
non’s home town is Scranton, Pa., and
he met Mrs. Gordon there.
love for the unfortunates of Americus.
Every donation from the pennies
counted out by the little tots to the
checks sent in by the business con
cerns and fraternal orders bore a mes
sage of the true Christmas spirit. Ev
eryone that has had a thing to do with
raising and distributing the fund is
well pleased and has taken pleasure <n
making it possible to make it a merry
Christmas for the kiddies of the city.
The-entire-amount raised has been
turned over to the Benevolent society
and they have already carried the bas
kets with the stockings and toys out
to the homes of the kiddles that they
are to play Old Santa for. In all they
have provided Christmas for some
twenty-five families, with an averaga
of five or six kiddies to the family.
The “Christmas Editor" of The
Times-Reeorder wants to thank every
one who contributed to the fund and
wants to wish them a merry Christ
mas. The ladies of the Benevolent so
ciety want to thank the contribute-s
to the fund, and last, but not least, the
kiddies who are to be made happy on
Christmas morning will thank each
and every one of you. The Empty
Stocking Fund will make its bow again
next Christmas.
With the same feeling, we exclaim
with Tiny Tim: “God Wees us every
one!"
* THE WEATHER. ♦
For Americus and Vicinity.— *
Fair; Cooler. ♦
COIN AWAITING
ALL EMPLOYEES
OF THE COUNTY
XMAS MONEY THEIR S TODAY
Every Employe of the County
Gets His
Every man who draws a salary,
be it great or small, from Sumter
county, will receive today his entire
pay for December, arid, therefore, can
spend it ad libitum during the holidays.
The county commisisoners have pass
ed an order to that effect, and every
employe will get his pay check to
day.
This includes courthouse officers
who are not on the fee system, the em
ployees in the county roads depart
ment and others on Sumter’s lengthy
salary list.
Tbe commislisoners have also order
ed paid all of the annual appropriations
■made by the county to the Americus
Hospital association, the Carnegie Li
brary, the Benevolent Aid society, and
any other charitable or public institu
tion to the support of which the county
contributes.
The city’s forces, including all fire
men, policemen, city hall officials and
employe s in the waterworks depart
ment, will also be paid in full today
fer December, and tbe circulating me
dium ini Americus will be increased
considerably.
PRESIDENT WILSON
APPOINTSJOSTMASTERS
Washington, D. C., Dec. 23. —Presi-
dent Wilson has made these nomina
tions;
Postmasters:
Georgiai,—Annie Ard, Lumpkin,
Harvey C. Bunn, Waycross; J. H.
Cotter, Manchester; Walter R- Har
rell, Quitman; Frank S. Murray, Ft.
Valley, J. M. Scott, Bainbridge; Wil
liam M. Webb, Hahira.
Florida —Alma P. Carmichael, Mel
boumes, Corinne T. Dummerlin, Fort
Meyers.
North Carolina—Louis G. Daniels,
Newbern; W. A. Gibson, Bryson City;
R. S. Montgomery, Reidsville; A. M.
Panders, Smithfield; John R . Swann,
Marshall.
Virginia—Charles A. Funkhouser,
Dayton; Wm. C. Menefee, Rock;.
Mount; Hay T. Thornton, Richmond.
Santa Will Come
To New York Town
In An Aeroplane
Cring, N. Y., Dec. 23.—Santa Claus,
will come to Vornlng by aeroplane to
morrow. Tbe Corning Business Men’*
association has hired an aviator from
Bath to fly to Corning and distribute
gifts to children of the city from his
aeroplane as he flies over the trees.
i .-
FOR HIS UNBELIEF
IN OLD SANTA CLAUS
MAN IS PUNISHED
New oYrk, Dec. 23.—The man who
does not believe in Santa Claus was
fined $3 today for trying to convert hi 3
6-year-old son to his creed. The chief
witness against him was his sister-in
law. She testified that she had plead
ed and wept when he tried to persuade
the boy that Santa was a myth. Her
cries brought a policeman to the house
and the policeman brought the man to
the station, where he was docketed for
disorderly conduct. The man is Gus
tav Kotch, a printer, and he lives in t.
flat in Brooklyn.
1 IS >
NOIBE# 305
U SIGNS
CURRENCY BILL
TIIESDAI NIGHT
X
SENATE PASSES THE ADMIMSTRA
TIOJJ BILL BY A YOTE OF FORTY
THREE TO TWENTY-FIYE
PRESIDENT LEAVES FOR
SOUTH AFTER SIGNING BILL
Three Republicans and One Bull Moose
Vote For The Bill
Washington, D. C., Dec. 23.— The
report of the congressional confer
ence committee on the administra
tion currency bill, revising the fiscal
system of the United States, was
passed by the senate thiß afternoon.
The Vote was 43 to 25. The bill
previously had been passed by the
house and now’ goes to President Wil
son for his sig.iature. s *
Three republicans voted/ for the
conference report, Senators Jone 3,
Norris and Weeks. Senator Poindex
ter, progressive, also voted for the con
ference report.
Six o’clock tonight was the hour
set by white house officials for Presi
dent Wilson to sign the bill. Five
hours later the president will leave for
Pass Christian, Miss., for a three weeks
vacation.
Senator Owen and Rp/presentative
Glass, co-authors of the bill, with
members of the congressional bank
ing committees and leaders in con
gress, were invited to attend the
ceremony. The president signed the
bill with two gold pens and presented
one to Senator Owen and the ottur
to Representative Glass.
The president had a cabinet sessio/l
early today and exchanged Christmas
greetings with his official family.
Generally speaking, the first steps to
be taken to bring into operation the
tniion’s new financial system will be
thiough an organization committee*
consisting of the secretary of the treas- I
ury, Secretary of agriculture and the/
comptroller of the currency. Banks
have 60 days within which to file their
applications for membership in tl/a j
t-<‘W system, and one year’B time is a!-
lowed before the government will com- /
pel the dissolution of any national bank /
that refuses to join.
The new law will make little direct
change in the operation of the present
national banks, except to allow them '
to loan a certain amount of thelr^undS,
upon farm mortgages. Its chief pur
pose is to add a new piece of machin
ery to the banking system that will j
“take up the slack” during the chang- /
ing business conditions of each year;
that will give the banks a place to- j
quickly convert their assets into cash
in time of need, and that will bring
out new federal currency when it *».
needed, and retire it v/hen money be
comes “cheap."
Banks are now required to keep a
certain percentage of their deposits as
"reserves”, part in cash in their own
vaults and part of which may be re- *
deposited in the banks of New York. i s
Chicago, St. Jjouis and other desig-
nated cities. In times of sudden finan- '
oial demands when banks have loaned -
up to the full limit of their reso.
these reserves furnish little relief,
cause if they are paid out to meet the
demands, the banks are loft in a pre
carious condition.
To Get Reserves in Action.
The basic principal of the new law *
is to get these reserve funds out into <•
circulation when necessary, without t
lessening the safety of any bank, and j
to provide a place to which local banka ■,
may rush in a crisis and get cash for .
•f\ fl
the “prime commercial paper” ■\ I f
hold In their vaults. a
This is to be accomplished tlU_7LTjjl
chain of regional reserve h %>rr ml|
“reservoirs of reserves,” In ■“"“fji
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