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rp* m. p / to wish every one of its readers and the public of Americus a MERRY CHRISTMAS. May Christmas fold it’s mantle of peace around you and the old year leave
1 #26 1 Imes-Kecoraer y OU satisfied to prosper , to find in each dag some new joy, and to know the companionship of true friends, is our Christmas wish for you.
The Americus Times-Recorder
* IKTY-FIFTH YEAR.
AMERICUS HAS GREATEST DAY
OF A RUSY CHRISTMASTIDE
Great Crowds of Shoppers Came Yesterday and Made
Glad the Hearts of the. Merchants—Stores and
Streets Thronged With Light-Hearted Seekers After
Christmas Cheer—Christmas Eve Night a Gala Oc
casion With Noise Makers Abroad in the Land.
Americus will have today a joyous
Christmas if this fact is reflected in
the preparations therefor completed
yesterday and last night. It was the
culmination of the Christmastide. the
last oppo'tunity for buying gifts for
loved ones, and the thousands of hap
py, busy buyers thronging the streets
arid stores did not fail to take advant
age of it. Such a prosperous, joyius
Christmas eve has nat been witnessed
In busy Greater Growing Americus.
Every arriving train came crowded,
dozens of automobiles from nearby
towns, brought light-hearted shopping
parties; people from the country came
by thousands, while the entire pop l
lace of the city seemed to be abroad
as well; all intent upon the one object
—that of getting a share of the Xmas
trix for their loved ones.
But even, with such a vast throng
filling the streets, good order prevail
ed throughout the day and even into
Ladies of Benevolent Aid
Society Extend Thanks
The Times-Recorder: The ladies of
the Benevolent Aid Society wish to
thank everyone who so generously
contributed to the Christmas gifts for
the poor. Surely God will bless and
prosper them. Even when the poor
widow gave a part of her scanty store'
ot meal and oil to one of His servants
in need not only was she blesAd in
other things but the Holy Record runs
that “the barrel of meal wasted not,
neither did the cruse of oil fail. Ac
cording to the word of the Lord which
he spake by the prophet Elijah.”
Especially do we wish to thank “A
Friend” and the Elks, Mrs. Bagley, for
the use of her store on Cotton avenue,
and the Times-Recorder. What shall
BODY OF EWING TAYLOR
FOUND IN THE RIVER
Montgomery, Ala., Dec. 24. —Sixtee 1
days after he was drowned in the Ala
bama river here, the body of Ewing
Taylor, was found this afternoon, about
twenty-five feet from the spot where
he was last seen alive.
The body was seen from the shore
by a ferryman, who notified relatives
of the dead man.
Ewing Taylor, whose father is chief
of police of Montgomery, was drowned
while attempting to swim across the
river. His brother on the bank of the
muddy stream, was powerless to ren
» der assistance, the young man oeing in
|) the middle of the river when he was
> seized with a cramp and sank.
the night. Only the clash and clang o»
the overworked tin horn or the ex
plosion of the Christmas cracker
brought discord, and even this was
very readily' overlooked. It was
“Christmas Eve” and everything went
merrily.
Despite extra precautions taken at
the postoffice for the delivery of holi
day packages, the 'orces there were
absolutely overwhelmed, thanks to the
beneficient parcels post. Before 8
o’clock Postmaster Davenport and As
sistant Postmaster Howard each wore
an expression of near-hopelessness as
they viewed the pyramids of packages
that had just arrived, fully enough to
fill three freight cars, and with other
quantities to come.
The forces worked overtime yester-,
day and far into the night, and the ov
erflow of Christmas mail will be de
livered some time today to expectant
resipients.
we say of that editor, who as a gener
ous friend, in the Empty Stocking
Space has thought out for others op
portunities Tor doing good? How glad
we are that such a man is editor and
that he is endowed wtth the happy
power of winning everyone’s wishes to
his own way of thinking.
May much peace and happiness rest
upon the head and heart of everyone
that has helped to bring joy to a child
this happy Christmas tide. To every
one that has helped the poor, may the
blessing of Him, who was ready to
perish come seasonably upon him
And finally may “that peace that pass
eth all understanding” be there’s evei
more. Gratefully,
MRS. E. B. EVERETT, President.
COLUMBUS FIVE
HITFING STRIDE
CHAMPION BASKETBALL TEAM OF
SOUTH AGAIN IN GOOD TRIM
Columbus, Ga., Dec. 24. —The Colum
bus basketball team, conceded to be
the undisputed champions of the south
for the past four seasons, is fast round
ing into form, and is leaving no stone
unearthed to carry ot ffhe champion
ship honors this year. The team has
engaged in two battles this year, win
ning both with comparative ease. The
first encounter was with the Bessemer
(Ala.) Athletic club, which they smoth
ered, 59 to 13; the second was with
the Fifth regiment. Company G. quin
tet, of Atlanta, which they won, 71
to 19.
The Columbus team has tasted de
feat on their home court once in five
years. Mobile (Ala.) Y. M. C. A. ac
complishing the stunt year before last
iii a close, nerve-racking game.
Coach Bridge his not yet completed
his schedule for the present season.
AMERICUS. GEORGIA THURSDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 25. 191 i.
MASONIC LODGES
OF AMERICUS TO
INSTALL OFFICERS
OCCASION ON FRIDAY EfENIS
Banquet Will Follow lostai
latioo Exercises
The Americus Masonic lodges, 13
and 95, will unite on Friday evening
for the public installation of officers
recently elected for the next Masonic
year and the occasion will be one of
interest and importance alike. The
ceremonies will be conducted at Mas
onic Temple, and all Masons and their
families will be invited to be present.
Committees appointed have completed
all details ofr the occasion.
The installation exercises, beginning
at 7 o’clock will be conducted by
Judge Z. A. Littlejohn. The Masonic
address will be delivered by J. E.
Mathis, past worshiful master of. M. B.
Council lodge No. 95.
Upon the conclusion of the exercises
of installation, a banquet will be
served the large assemblage, and good
cheer will prevail. The officers of
,the two lodges, elected at meetings
held a week ago, are as follows:
| Americus, No. 13: L. J. Blalock,
worshipful master; John M. Ansley,
senior warden; Prank J. Payne, junior
warden; S. R. Heys, treasurer; Irving
Biddings, secretary. The other ap
pointive officers have not yet been
named.
M. B. Council Lodge, No. 95, elected
the following named officers:
J. E. Sheppard, worshipful master;
H. B. Mashburn, seenior warden; W.
F. Smith, punior warden; J. E. High
tower, treasurer; Nat LeMastcr, sec
retary; J. R. Statham, senior deacon;
Lee Hudson, junior deacon; Frank
Walder, senior steward; W. H. Cobb,
junior steward; J. W. Cobb, tyler.
Two Most Beautiful American Women,
Says Paul Hellu, French Artist.
Paris, Dec. 23.—Paul Helleu, who ;
has just seen many beautiful American
women, has just picked Mrs. L. M.
Thomas and Miss Vera Maxwell fts
the most beautiful of all. He is the/
kind of an artist who ought to know |
what he is talking about. His spec
ialty is etching portraits of women
on “dry plates,” and so successful
has he been that he receives SI,OOO
for a very small portrait
M. Helleu was in the United States
M KIDDIES SEND
LETTERS TO SANTA
CARE TIMES-RECORDER
Old Santo Has Gotten Every Single
One of Them and This Horning .the
Boys and Girls of Americus Will
Find His Answers in Their Stock
ings
' Two hundred and sixty-eight kiddies
sent letters to Old Santa Claus this
Christmas in care of the Times-Re
cyrder and the old fellow has gotten
everyone of them and he has notified
jus that he is going to bring the boys
and girls exactly what they want this
Christmas. >
I Old Santa sent up the follow ing tele
gram yesterday morning bright and
I early.
Editor Times-Recorder, Americus, Ga.
j I have started on my way to visit the
kiddies of China. I’ll be in Americus
tonight and I am going to bring the
boys and girls exactly what they want
or something nicer. I want to thank
the Times-Recorder for publishing the
children’s letters; it has saved me a lot
of extra work and I have been as busy
as could be this year. The Times-Re
corder goes into practically every home
in Americus, and for that reason I
know that the letters they published
cover the ground completely. If you
will be so kind, I want you to reserve
some space in your paper for me next
Christmas.. Merry Christmas to all. 1
am not going to forget you.
OLD SANTA.
Os course, we are going to let Old
Santa have ali the space he wants
next Christmas. He can hgve the
whole paper if he wants it. Next
Christmas we will be “on the job”
again and will take pleasure Ln pub
lishing any little kiddles’ letter.
The following letter came near being
too late, but we telegraphed it to Mrs.
Santa and she will have the things
ready by the time 1 Old Santa doubles
back from China on bis way to Amer-
i recently, having been brought paint
the ceiling oY the new Grand Central
station in New York, the depot of
the New York Central railroad.
While that piece of work has not been
'highly praised, his other work in the
United States has been (he subject of
laudation. Before he left he had
some dozen or more American society
women pose. He made etchings for
'which he is said to have been paid
SI,OOO.
TIMES-RECORDER
FORCE WILL REST
M TODAY
The Times-Recorder force from the
big boss down w-ill take a holiday t>-
day, and the people by Americus will
have to wake up tomorrow and miss
their morning paper. Every single
man on the paper has worked hard an j
even married ones have done their part
during the rush holiday season and the
management feels that they deserve
a holiday.
Saturday morning the paper will be
back on the job, though, and the peo
ple of the city will find that the paper
turned out will be an improvement, as
the boys will have a chance to catch
their breath today and then get down
to business again with renewed vigor
and zeal.
QUEEN HELENA SAID TO
RE DANGEROUSLY SICK
Zurich, Switzerland, Dec. 24. —Queen
Helena, of Montenegro, mother ni
Queen Helena, of Italy, is understood
to be dangerously ill in the capital of
the little Balkan kingdom. Dr.
A. Genhat, of this city, has received
an urgent summons to proceed at once
to Cettinje to attend the queen, who |
has been indisposed for several weeks.
Yesterday symptoms of her sickness
suddenly became serious.
icus.
Dear Santa Claus:
I am in the third grade. I want you
to bring me a tool chest, a football, a:i
Indian suit, a watch, $3 worth ot
works, a toy pistol, a bottle of toil-t
water and a box of candy.
FRANK CHILDERS.
Adams, Ga., Dec. 24, 1913.
With Old Santa, we want to wish, ev
ery kiddie in Americus a Merry Christ-
I
mas.
Mrs. Thomas is a well known society
woman of New York. Miss MaxweU
' has been less favored socially. She
was a member of F. Ziegfeld's "Fol
lies of 1911,” and was one of his stara.
t At this time she is in Paris where she
‘ is said to be playing.
While the selections of the French
’ man may not suit the American no
■ tion of beauty, they at least show
I what kind of women a French artist
thinks are beautiful.
NO NEW BATTLES
DOIANJN MEXICO
Washington, D. C, Dec. 24.—Even in
Mexico the holiday season is bringing
seme measure of peace. State depart
ment advices indicate a general slack
ening of hostilities. There has been
nothing in the nature of a battle since
the unimportant skirmish, of Dec. 19,
at Altamira, near Tampico.
Today’s reports showed that Tor
reon and Concepcion had been reoccu
pied by federals and that the rebels
had re-entered the towns of General
and Parras, all without real
| fighting.
I From the west coast, Commander
* Ziegmier, on board the Annapolis at
j Acapulco, reported the condition there
quiet.
SHOOTS WIFE WHO
REFUSED HIS GIFT
Baltimore, Dec. 24. —Walter Grimes.
34 years old, shot and probably fatally
wounded his wife, Edith, 36, and then
committed suicide at their home here
late tonight. The tragedy was the
outcome of Mrs. Grimes’ refusal of
her husband's proffered Christmas
j gift of a gold watch and chain after
couple had quarreled.
GAAAING LAW
IIIAYJE VIOLATED
ATTENTION IS CALLED TO STATE
CODE PROHIBITING RAFFLES,
LOTTERIES OR GAMES FOR
PRIZES
It may be that certain concerns in
Americus arc violating the state gam
ing law. Our attention has been call
ed to certain sections of the state
code that place raffling in the same
class with gambling on horse races or
playing stud poker.
We duplicate sections of the code
that have been furnished us by a prom
inent lawyer of the city, who thinks it
best to inform the people that may
be unwittingly violating the law be
fore they get “in dutch” with the
courts, or city authorities, for we
know that they would not intentionally
violate the laws of the state.
Code, Sec. 298. If any person shall,
by himself, servant, or agent, keep,
have, use, or maintain a gaming housa
or room, or shall in any house, place,
or room, occupied by him, permit per
sons, with his knowledge, to come to
gether and play for money or any
other valuable thing at any game or
device for the hazarding of money or
other thing of value, he is guilty of a
misdemeanor.
Code, Sec. 398. No person, by him
self or another, shall keep, maintai l,
''mploy, or carry on any lottery in this
state, or other scheme or device for the
hazarding of any money or valuable
thing.
Code, Sec. 1065 provides that per
sons guilty of a misdemeanor may bo
fined not to exceed SIOOO.OO or sentenc
ed to the cbalngang for a period not
to exceed twelve months, or both in the
discretion of the judge.
In the case of Wilson vs. State 67 Ga.
658, the supreme court of the state of
Georgia construed the code sections
here mentioned and held that a person
kept an office or shop or whatever it
may be called, a device with numbers
on it for which one with bis consent
( might pay for a number or numbers,
jand might in this way gain or lose
money, or thing of value, such person
I was guilty of a misdemeanor, under
the code sections mentioned.
CRISP ARUUSES
RESENTMENT OF
CAPITAL PAPERS
I TfIREAT TO MIT Oil
leesuse if Dll tally
lilrodoced
Hon. Charles R Crisp, the able and
popular representative cf the Third
district in congress, returned from
Washington last night, and will spend
•he congressional holiday at his home
in Americus. His many friends
throughout the district will be pleased
to greet him, a pleasure they had
scarcely anticipated, in view
situation in congress this week in the
passage of the long-fought out cur
rency bill.
Judge Crisp has 'been decidedly t j
the limelight of the capital since the
introduction of his bill, opposing coi
gressional appropriation of six mil
lions of dollars annually towards the
support of the capital city, which has
called down upon his head the opposi
tion of "interests” there and of the
Washington press.
Rf 1 resentative Crisp in his right
eous fight for the people, has the hear
ty support of other democratic mem
i ers, and the issue will be of national
importance. In speaking of his meas
ure Mr. Crisp said:
“I have introduced a biYl repealing
the law forcing the people of the Unit
ed States to donate yearly six million
dollars for the city government of
V ashington. Os course, the beneficia
ries of this special interest are howl
ing, and for the last four days I have
been advertised In ‘box car letters’ in
all the local papers.
“I welcome this issue, despite the
*act that the special interests are or
agnizing and threatening to defeat me
end other who seek to take away from
t'tm the special privileges they are
now enjoying, and which they are not
entitled to. I have made a speech on
the bill and expect to circulate it in my
d'strict.”
Judge Crisp will spend two wes'.rA
Americus and in mingling with friends x
‘hroughout the Third district.
CARNEGIE LIBRARY
CLOSES ALL DAY
The Carnegie Library will be c’
today, and will close at 1 sac ji f .
afternoon during the rest of t’ je we ek
Miss Gunn, the efficient librarian w pj
keep open in the to a ]] ow
anyone to get books to 1 away the
holidays.
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COURTUOUSE TO BE
CLOSED TODAY
The courthouse will be closed todavA
and the officials will all be at home cc|y
ebrating Christmas. No business will
be transacted at all at the county
capitol. /
‘ TH7* WEATHER. •#
For Americus and Vicinity.— ♦
4- Fair; Warmer, probably. *
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