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SUNDAY, APRIL 1, 1917.
♦ SOCIETY NEWS
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♦ THE BRAVE AT HOME. ♦
The maid who binds her warrior's sash
With smile that well her pain dis
semble,
The whole beneath her drooping lash
One story tear-drop hangs and trem
bles,
Though heaven above record the tear.
And fame shall never knew her story
Her heart hath shed a drop as dear,
As e’er bedimmed the fields of glory!
The wife who girds the husband’s
sword,
'Mid little ones who weep and won
der.
And bravely speaks the cheering word,
What, though her heart be rent asun
der.
Doomed nightly in her dreams to hear
The bolts of death around him rattle,
Hath shed as sacred blood as e’er
Was poured upon the field of battle!
The mother who conceals her grief
While to her breast her son she (pres-
ses,
Then breathes a few brave words and
brief.
Kissing the patriot brow she blesses.
With no one but her secret God
To know the pain that weighs upon
her,
Sheds holy blood as e’er the sod
Received to freedom’s field of honor.
—Thomas Buchanon Read.
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DENHAM-GATEWOOD.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Denham, of Amer
icus, announce the engagement of their
daughter, Flora Virginia, to Mr, T-
Furlow Gatewood, Jr., the wedding to
take place in June at the First Metho
dist church, Americus.
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MISS M’AFEE ENTERTAINED
NEIGHBORHOOD 42 CLUB.
On yesterday afternoon Miss Madge
McAfee was hostess to the Neighbor
hood 42 Club at her home on Church
street. Honeysuckle and other spring
blossoms were used effectively in the
decorative scheme. Forty-two was
played at six tables, and late in the
afternoon a salad course, followed by
an ice, was served.
Those present were Mrs. Clarence
Pinkston s
Pinkston’s $25 Suits Are
Superior to Any $25
Suit in Americus
Next week we will spec
ialize on $25.00 suits and
will show on the front
rack a lot of fifty suits,
right new, from fourteens
to forty fours. They are
from the best manufactur
ers in America and com
pare with $35.00 values
easily.
Ask to see the suits that
are being specialized at
$25.00 at
Pinkston s
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Davis, Mrs. D. F. Bowles, Mrs. Cloyd
Buchanan, Mrs. Zach Childers, Mrs. B.
F. Mattingly, Mrs. James Bynum, Mrs.
Willis Morgan, Mrs. Neon Buchanan.
Mrs. G. W. Riley, Mrs. W. M. Riley,
Mrs. T. O. Marshall, Mrs. Stephen
Pace, Mrs. Clarence Terrell, Mrs. R. S. I
Broadhurst, Mrs. Eugene Hill, Mrs. S. ■
R. Heys, Mrs. E. H. Bradley, Mrs. E.!
M. Viquesney, Mrs. Gordon Heys, Miss
Fmmae Mae Borum, Miss Callie Slap
pey, Miss Nannie Sue Bell, Mrs.
Thomas McLendon, Miss Emmie Mor
gan, Miss Lena Hardy.
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U. D. C. TO MEET ON
TUESDAY AT LIBRARY.
The Americus chapter of the Unit
ed Daughters of Confederacy will hold
its regular meeting Tuesday afternoon,
April 3rd at 3:30 o’clock at the Car
regie Library.
MRS. SHELTON HARRIS, Sec’y.
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MRS. PERSONS AND MRS.
( LARK ENTERTAIN
Mrs. W. P. Persons and Mrs. Carroll
J. Clark entertained the Workers of
the First Baptist Church on Wednes
day afternoon, at the home of the lat
ter. Early spring flowers and fems
made the interior of the Clark home
very attractive.
The guests whiled away a very
pleasant afternoon sewing, and at the
conclusion of which, an ice course was
served.
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MRS ERNEST TYSON
ENTERTAINS 42 CLUB
Mrs. Ernest Tyson very delightfully
entertained her club on Friday after
noon in honor of her sister, Mrs. L.
P. Griffin, of Columbus.
A profusion of dogwood and spring
blossoms were used to adorn the
rooms. The Easter idea was carried
out in score cards, doilers and dainty
prize, which was awarded to Mrs. Lee
Fetner for top score. After the game
an ice course was served.
Those present were, Mrs. L. P.
Griffith, Mrs. T. F. Mabry, Mrs. Chas.
Bostwick, Mrs. Joe Sutton, Mrs. Lee
Fetner, Mrs. Will Sullivan, Mrs. Ned
Sawyer, Mrs. Irving Poole. Mrs. Clar
ence Nickolson, Mrs. Law Rees, Mrs.
Edd Prather, Miss Mabel Sawyer, Mrs.
Robert Fetner.
Ml SIC STUDY CLUB TO
MEET WITH MRS. HARRIS.
On account of the absence from the
city of Miss Elizabeth Cobb, the Music
Study club will meet Wednesday
morning at 10:30 o’clock with the
president, Mrs. J. W. Harris, Jr., in
stead of with Miss Cobb as announced
at the last meeting of the club. Miss
Sallie Johnson will have charge of the
program and will be assisted by Mrs.
Harris, who will read in her usually
charming manner the opera, “Fran
cesca Da Rimini.”
LEE STREET BOYS
GAVE SURPRISE PARTY
Lee street boys Friday night gave
a surprise party in honor of Miss
Eugenia Warlick at her her home on
Church street, the young folks de
scending in force on the honoree and
enjoying themselves until a late hour.
Refreshments were served late In
the evening and the occasion proved
to be one of the most enjoyable of the
series given during the present season
by the younger set.
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GIRL’S CAMPING COLONY
IS NEW ORGANIZATION
The Girl’s Camping Colony is a new
hiking club which made its formal bow
yesterday morning with a hike to
Holley Springs, on the Dixie Highway,
where they had breakfast. Miss Mary
Hawkes is the chaperon for the club,
and the members are Miss Mary Rose
Brown, Miss Orlean Ansley, Miss Ger
aldine Payne. Miss Mary Sue Cham
bliss, Miss Margery Brown, Miss Mary
Alice Lingo, Miss Mary Sheffield, Miss
Naomi Wright, Miss Eunice Royal,
Miss Margery Kalmon, Miss Pauline
Broadhurst, and Miss Dorothy Cargill.
I&M.TEJIM OPENS
WITH HJIICTIffI
The Third District A. & M. College
yesterday afternoon defeated Colum
■ gus Indistrial High school in the first
baseball game of the 1917 season, scor
ing a 5-0 victory over the aggregation
from the mill city on the local dia
mond.
The game was well played from
start to finish as the small score in
dicates and the defeat of the visitors
was only accomplished after a deter
mined attack by the A. & M. batsmen.
McClellan pitched well for the In
dustrial High team, but was succeeded
by a left-handed huiler when he finally
proved ineffective.
Pantone was never in serious danger
and held the visitors scoreless
throughout the nine hard-fought in
nings.
In winning the opening game of the
season, the A. & M team starts off its
schedule auspiciously, and Manager
Dorman is confident that it will wind
up its 1917 record with a good chance
for the championship of south Georgia.
The line-up of the A. & M. team was
as follows: Bridges, rs; Moran, If.;
Levie. 2b.; Smith, cf.; Sears, ss.; Hill,
3b.; Chappell, lb.; Dorman, c.; Pan
tone p.
LAUGHABLE GOMEDI
IT THE HIGH SCHOOL
“Lost—A Chaperon,” is the enter
taining comedy in three acts which
will be given at the High school audi
torium Monday night by the members
of the Senior class, the proceeds to be
de' oted to the publicatio nos their an
nual. The curtain will go up prompt
ly at 8 o’clock and the general admis
sion is 25c.
The comedy is laughable, and with
the excellent talent from the Senior
class it is assured that the entertain
ment will be one of the feature events
for the school.
DISQUIETING RUMORS ARE
CIRCULATING IN PEKING
ABOUT MAN( HU’S RULE
PEKING, March 31.—Disquieting
rumors are in circulation in Peking
concerning an alleged plan to make a
separate state out of Manchuria and
place it under Manchu rule, with
the capltol at Mukden.
Three sons of the late Prince Ching,
the most famous of the Manchu states
men who directed Chinese affairs dur
ing the last years of the monarchy,
recently went from Dairen to Japan,
where they are to take courses tn mil
itary schools. The departure of these
young Manchns. all of whom arc of
age. prompted mush newspaper dis
cussion as to the plans of the young
princes. Many newspapers in North
China regard Japan’s interest in the
young Manchus with much suspicion.
Yet Hope.
“Waiter, have you forgotten me?'
"No, sir, not yet, sir.” —Masses.
THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
MAFFETT’S
NEW
PRINCESS
SKIRTS
$1.50
-T054.98
$4.98
New shipment
fresh from the
market, in plain
stripes,poeker dots
I
and in the latest
patterns.
J. D. MAFfETT
Hamilton’s Store
Americus, - Georgia
I’ROOF THAT INDUNS ARE
MEMBERS OF THE LOST
TRIBES OF ISRAEL
BERKLEY, Cal., March 31.—The
theory that the American Indians are
members of the lost tribes of Israel
was given added proof here today
when Dr. E. W. Gifford of California
University’s anthropology department
announced his discovery of similar
rites and practices between the
Kawaiisu Indians of the Kern River
section and the ancient Hebrews.
The Hebrews, according to the
Bible, held that if a man died without
offspring his brother should marry
the widow and the flrtsborn of that
union should be known as the dead
man’s child. The Kawiisu Indians ob
serve the same custom.
FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
WARNS COAL DEALERS NOT
TO HOLD THEIR PRICES UP
WASHINGTON, March 31.—There
have been whispers that coal dealers
in the United States won’t make their
annual reductions of from fifty cents
to a dollar a ton in coal on dates from
April Ito May 15. So the Federal
Trade Commission today went on rec
ord as warning the dealers that there
is plenty of coal in the country aud
plenty of facilities to distribute it;
and that if they fail to make their
regular deductions they will be
answerable to the commission. New
York dealers announce they wouldn’t
make their annual 50 cent reduction
beginning Monday. That was how
ever before the Commission spoke.
BUILDING CONTRACTORS
TO REBUILD RHEUMS SOON
RHEIMS, France, March 31.—The
building contractors of Rheims and
representatives of all the building
trades are organizing a mutual and co
oi«rative society with a view to be
ginning the rebuilding of the city »s
soon as the German artillery is push
ed back out of range.
MARRIAGE INVITATIONS
Reception and Visiting Cards
Monogram Stationery Greeting Cards
ENGRAVED IN CORRECT STYLE
Send for Samples and Prices
J. P STEVENS ENGRAVING CO.
47 Whitehall St. 99 Peachtree St.
Atlanta, Georgia
FRENCH HAVE A NEW KIND
OF OBSERVATION HALLOO'
PARIS, March 31.—Abong the latest
triumphs of the French aerial service
is a new observation balloon known as
Lc Caquot. At the beginning of the
war observers other than those in
aeroplanes utilized kite balloons of the
German Drachen type called by the
French soldiers “sausages." There are
still some of these in use at the front
but La Caquot is much preferred.
In shape it resembles a great tad
pole. Whereas the Drachen is incon
venienced by a wind of from 50 to 55
feet a second, Le Caquot can remain in
the air unless the wind exceeds 65 to
75 feet a second.
it takes 50 experienced men to man
oeuvre it for as soon as it leaves the
shed great attention must be paid to
the wind currents so as to save the
envelopes from being torn. Attached
to the balloon is a wicker car, in
which the observer Is Installed with >
his maps, charts, arms, barometers, 1
and telephone, the latter fixed over his;
ears so as to leave his hands free. He
is also provided with glasses and a
white silk parachute for an emergency.i
When the balloon attains an altitude
of from 2,000 feet to 3,000 feet the
windless to which the cable is fixed is
drawn by horses or motorcar at a mod
erate pace to a point near the nemy
lines, where a refuge excavated in
the soil has been prepared. This ac
complished, the observer transmits his
instructions by telephone. Two anti
aircraft posts are established nearby
to keep off the German airplanes. If
the balloon is menaced the crew brings
it down from 5,000 feet in seven to
ten minutes.
Observers frequently pass from fif
teen to eighteen hours in the restricted
space of the balloon cars, communicat
ing with the batteries by telephone,
but even strong men are unable to
pass more than three days at a time at
this exhausting occupation, constantly
exposed to the enemy’s fire.
WOMEN MORE ANXIOUS THAN
AVERAGE MAN TO JOIN NAVY
i NEW YORK, March 31.—“ Are wo
men more patriotic than men?” Dur
ing the past week two women to every .
nan have applied for enlistment in
I the United States Marine corps, ac-|
i cording to Captain Frank E. Evans, |
officer in charge of recruiting here.
“One woman insisted upon being as
' signed to duty on a battleship,” said
Captain Evans. “It was difficult to
convince her that women are not per
mitted to serve in any capacity on
warships.”
A recent ruling of Secretary Dan
iels provides for the enlistment of wo
men to fill clerical positions, only, in
case of war. This has encouraged pa
triotic daughters of America, who pre
fer machine guns to typewriters, to
efier their services as actual combat
ants.
TO PROVIDE CREDIT
ON REASONABLE TERMS
AFTER THE WAR I SOWER
PARIS, March 31.—T0 provide cred
it on reasonable terms to tradesmen
and manufacturers of moderate means
whose situation might otherwise be
precarious after the war, the French
Parliament has authorized the organ
ization of mutual loan guaranty soci
eties and mutual banking societies. It
is proposed that the two types of org
anization shall cooperate in providing
credit. Merchants and manufacturers
are to unite in associations and accum
ulate a fund to be deposited in the mu
tual banks. Then if a merchant de
sires a loan the guaranty company
will endorse his note which he can
discount at the mutual bank. If the
borrower fails to pay the note at ma
turity the mutual guaranty society
must pay it from its collective fund.
The minister of commerce, has been
authorized to advance 12,000,000 francs
without interest to enable the mutual
banks to meet their immediate needs.
SECOND CABLE BROKEN
CONNECTING COPENHAGEN
WITH GREAT BRITAIN
| COPENHAGEN. March 31.—The
breaking of the second cable connect
ing Copenhagen with Great Britain Is
confirmed here. Only two cables now
remain, one of which is devoted entire
ly to Anglo-Russian business. The!
newspapers here are urging the re
sumption of the wireless service which
existed at the beginning of the war.
TO EXTEND BAGDAD RAILWAY
ACROSS THE BOSPORUS
BERLIN. March 31.—German engin
eering experts are preparing plans for
the extension of the Bagdad Railway
across the Bosporus. One of the plans
prepared is for for a tunnel under the
straits, which the other contemplated
a crossing by means of a bridge 660
yards in length.
SENT TO THE FRONT FOR
LECTURING AGAINST DOGMAS
AMSTERDAM, March 31.—Herr Ve
reyen, professor of philisophy at Bonn,
has been sent to the front for deliver
ing a lecture against Christian
dogmas.
WESTERN SUFFRAGISTS
TO INVADE DIXIE LAND
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 31.
To further their plans for a political
alliance between the South and the
West, the National Woman’s party is
all ready for the start tomorrow of its
“Dixie Drive.” A small army of women
in automobiles, led by Miss Maude
Younger, of California, will tour the
Solid South to spread the gospel of
the party.
The states to be visited Include Vir
ginia, North and South Carolina, Geor
gia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi,
Louisiana, Tennessee, Arkansas, Ken
tucky, West Virginia and Maryland.
Six organizers already have preceded
the invaders into the South. These in
clude Vivian Pearce, of California;
Beulah Amidon, of North Dakota; Mrsf
Sh. Clair Thompson, of North Carolina;
Doris Stevens, of Nebraska; Mabel
Vernon, of Delaware, and Lucy Bran
ham, of Maryland.
Mass meetings will be held in all
towns and cities of importance and
state conventions will be held In all the
We Wish to Announce Our Spring
Millinery Opening for Children
Tuesday, April 3rd
HI IJL | We have ju& received
| a new shipments the
I v'‘kuf 1 latent spring styles in Mil-
I I '/V linery. Our stock is com
h !; / 1 posed of a fine assortment
, I I / \| of almost every style, in-
3 p/ \ ■
sJp — 1i I 3 eluding all of the newest
\ I creations.
J\ 1
r Prices from cheap ones
Jhaf'sStunning Marie! to ‘ he ve,y ’ ue ' a tWs
- n made.
wgus/wfcdrC' WoadeM
* , y. . We invite you to call
MISSES HAY & TILLMAN
Map
REFRIGERATORS
REFRIGERATORS
We now have on display one of the nicest and
mofl complete assortment of Baldwin and Leanord
Cleanable Refrigerators.
We have them in the Porcelain and White Enam
el Linings, also with the separate Water Cooler at
tachment.
Call and let us show our line while the stock is
complete in all of the different sizes.
1. 11. S«ITB~H!RNffirRE CCMPANI
ALC AZ An |
THEATREIX |
Monday 5 & 10c H
Paramount Picture
Blanche Sweet, in
“THE EVIL EYE”
- Five acts
Tuesday 5 & 10c S
Metro Pictures
Viola Dana, in
‘•THE MORTAL SIN”
Five acts
Wednesday
Matinee 5 & 10c Nlgbl IOS isc E
Triangle Pictures
Louise Glaum, Dorothy
Dalton and Chas. Ray
—IN—
“THE WEAKER SEX”
Five acts
and a 2 reel comedy Y
capitals.
The Southern women are taking a
keen interest in the campaign. The first
town to be invaded Monday will ba
Charlotte, N. C„ where a council or
war will be held.
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