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'WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1217, SOCIAL Doings and Goings Miss Sarah Tower, Editress TELEPHONE 99 + CONSTANCY. v ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ V ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ "When your friend reads the book you brought him; When your chauffeur his salary earns; When your child heeds the precepts you taught him; When your chum your umbrella re turns; When your wrist-watch keeps time to a second; When a debtor pays more than is his due; "When your cat will come when she’s becgkoned—• Then you'll find a woman true! —Carolyn Wells. * * * KOBIN SON-MYRICK. The following invitation has been, received, and- will be of much inter* est to many friends in Americus, frhere Mr. Myrick once lived: Mr. and Mrs. James Boykin Robin son, request <he honour of your pres ence at the marriage of their daugh ter, Mary, to Mr. Shelby Myrick, on Wednesday, the third of October, at ■five o’clock in the afternoon. Saint Mark’s Methodist church, Atlanta, Georgia. ♦ * ♦ Charles Dudley, of Columbus, is the' guest of James Holliday. To the Public We desire to inform you thgit we do all kinds of Hemstitching at moderate prices, and guarantee our work to be of the highest quality. We kindly solicit your patronage. Q INGER SEWING O M ACHINE CO. 126 North Jackson Street AMERICUS, Ga. Agents for the Official “Boy’s Scout” Shoes School Days are Here Again YOUR pride in your children’s appearance natur ally prompts you to start the little ones for school looking their very best—and there is no one article as you yourself will undoubtedly recall in which a child takes so much pride as their “new shoes.” We announce the addition of the Playhouse / Children’s Shoes to our already complete line. Bring the kiddies to us and they will have the most careful and painstaking care, we at all times giving them the proper shoes for the occasion—‘and remember IVe Never Misfit a Child Pinkston Company/ ■ MRS. CHARLES LINGO ENTERTAINS. ‘ Mrs. Charles Lingo entertained de i lightfully yesterday afternoon at a Forty-Two party in honor of her sis- ■ ters, Mrs. C. B. Hart, of Tampa, Fla. A delicious salad course was served, i and the home was mots tastefully ar ranged in a color scheme of green and . red. The guests were Mrs. Claude Schneider, Mrs. Russell Smith, Mrs. > Hugh Mize, Mrs. Cleve Tillman, Mrs. Egbert Allen, Mrs. Albert Harris, Mrs) i E L. Carswell, Mrs. Sidney Womack, Mrs. T. E. Bolton. Mrs. Walter Whid . don, Miss Julia Gordon and Miss Janie McCartney, of Tifton. Miss Mary Alice Lingo assisted in serving. * * * MRS. NILES’ DANCE. . r Mrs. C. O. Niles was the charming ■ hostess Monday evening at a delightful , dance at the attractive home of Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Williams, on College ■ street. I MusyMvas furnished by the Victrola, and after dancing delightful refresh ments were served. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. . Hollis Fort. Dr. and Mrs. H. B. Allen, Mrs. J. G. Kimmell. Mr. and Mrs. N. M. Dudley, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Hightower, Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Williams, Miss Mary, Mathis, and Professor Harrold Da/- enport. | BETimns to rnimiF Hi lx ■ ■; LV : •A. . <w- “ ! CADET LEONARD PARKER. This popular American youth return ed last night to Annapolis to resume i b,is studies at the Naval Academy, af ter a vacation of a month spent here. He was the guest of honor at a beau tiful dinner tendered by Miss Mary' Parker on the eve of his departure, j I EPWORTH LEAGUE SOCIAL There will be a social for the mem-; bers of the Epworth League of First Methodist church on Thursday night at eight o’clock, at the home of Miss, Mitch Payne, on South Lee street. All members are urged to be present, as they are assured of a most pleasant' and enjoyable evening. /♦ * ♦ AIRS. HARROLD MILL DELIVER ADDRESS. Mrs. Frank Harrold will leave today i for Milledgeville to attend a patriotic| meeting, having beeh invited to «.e-I liver an address on that occasion. "The American Woman’s Co-Operation in The War,” is her Mrs. Grantland Rice and her young daughter, Florence Hollis, will spend, a day ort wo in Atlanta about October, Ist, after which they will accompany | Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Hogerton, Dr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Hinman, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Crumley and Mr. and Mrs. Lo- j gan Williamson to Americus to attend. the marriage of Miss Mildred Hollis. —; Atlanta Journal. THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER. * /Miss Margarette Jones and Miss f Whitlow Westbrook, of Americus, left yesterday to enter the State Normal school at Tallahassee, Fla. / » * * .< J Mrs. J. W. Goodman and daughters,' : Katherine and Virginia, have returned after spending the summer pleasantly visiting relatives near Birmingham, Ala. | Douglas Waters left Monday for Ox ford to enter the School of Liberal Arts of Emory University, j* * * Mrs. W. I. Williams, of Savannah, i and Mrs. Wade Morris, of West Point, | I are the guests of their mother, Mrs.) Cottrell, on Felder street. * ♦ ♦ Mrs. A. B. Wharton, of Chicago, rep resenting the Kabo corsets, will be at I Churchwell’s in Americus Wednesday 'and Thursday. * * * LESSON IN PIANO AND VOICE Miss Elizabeth C. Cobb’s school of: Music will open for fall term on Mon-j day, September 24th, 1917, No. 505. South Lee Street. Phone No, 191. Pu-j pils may register on or after the 20th< of September. 9-ts; ! ._. | AMERICAN SOLDIERS AT FRONT NOW PRINT A PAPER SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE, Septem ber 19. —So far as is known it has re i mained for the Sixty-Third Ambulance Section of the Ameriican Red Cross |to be the first to distinguish itself by issuing a genuine, regular newspaper. The paper has considerably less than a million-a-day ciruclation but it is a God-send to the members of “Soix ante Trois.” which it calls itself. | The first issue of "Soixante Trois” is .strictly handmade and is produced by (a manifolding process. Nearly all the section comprises the editorial staff, [and about ninety per cent of this staff 'has devoted itself to humorous efforts. I The "Own-Lee” Laundry company is I the most liberaj advertiser with a lur 'iJ page invoking everyone to "fall in ’line” and “follow the example of the [cook who washed her face in the dish ipan.” Then there is a "tonsorial parlor” that invites the readers to “ come in and enjoy the show” —which the ad [vertisement continues includes “ mi croscopic animals contributed'by our patrons.” [ There is a bit of "poetry” or two, also a couple of rough sketches, and I four pages of reading matter, includ ing “Personalities” and a “Dairy of our Own Samuel Pepys.” News as it or dinarily conceived is conspicuous by [its absence, but theSoixante Trois is chock full of fun whch is, perhaps, just as welcome as news to the mem bers of the section. HEALTH FAITS. More than 1,400,0000 death occur in the United States annually. It is pretty accurately determined' ;that at least 400,000 of these deaths are preventable. [■ Hundreds of thousands of people! become physical and mental bank-1 irepts and die prematurely because of, dissipation in many forms, vicious j habits, unsanitary surroundings and the many incorrect methods of living, 1 due to ignorance and willfulness. Doctors, health workers, and statis-i ticans are aimed at the increasing j death rate from chronic degenrative 'diseases in this country. Since 1890 the death rate from these diseases has increased’" 45 per cent, j Dver4oo,ooo Americans die annually | from disaeses of the heart, arteries and kidneys, which is more than three times as many deaths as from tuber culosos, as great as that toll —over 130,000 deaths a year. Periodical physical examinations are ow considered the most effective means of detecting and preventing ■ these insidious diseases. [ Diabetes is not considered a disease, 1 j xactly, but in a certain sense, a, I symptom It runs in some families and, in some cases, possibly, is inher-, ted. Fat people are very prone to it. I They, as well as others who inherit tendency to diabetes, should have their urine examined as often as twice j a year. Bright’s disease is a chronic affair and may become such a serious hand-j icap that it may. like diabetes, lead to physical bankruptcy. Probably the best way to prevent diabetes or Bright’s disease is to keep physically fit. This observation, how. ever, applies equally to the necessity of physical fitness to ward off and contend with any disease, acute or chronic, with which we may be threat ened. Regulated exercise, with freedom from worry, mental excitement, ■ mental overwork are important fac [tors in the prevention of diabetes and, II > a lesser degree, perhaps, in the pfe ! ventton of Bright's disease. I Periodical physical and urinary ex aminations are the best means to de fect these diseases and are needed as well to get a line on other diseases, a.■»«»■ .>,kw, The New Red Cross Boots Are here in all the leading colors. Come in and see them the next time you are up town i r Pjl m ;'4‘i I ' 'ft ‘T* Cross !• • I £ i • • Shoe : J _ p vM n ™ lOWvBi Ross sf! \ Cross t I 1 < Dxfe -di i W I -ff- A JI : wr/cw- B / HL Mapk t : ' ■’' 3k * ‘zdSS 1A '■ A S ** :as **i 60 ® W k - A B You’d never dream so smart a shoe 11 II could be so comfortable 11 = = Your first step in a pair of beautiful Red Cross Shoes will be a i | S | revelation. None of the tortures of “breaking in” that many = = = = women have accepted as unavoidable in a stylish shoe. = = Instead, wonderful comfort, glove-like ease from the very = = E = V ” [oZd nT start. And all without sacrificing one iota of style. Every = = = E \ • Cross ’ model has the exclusive “bends with your foot” feature, the = = = = \ Shoeji excellence of materials and workmanship without which = | = = I perfect fit and permanent shapeliness are impossible. = E HE | oJ Come in and see the many popular priced models, each the H H = E I standard of value for the woman who wants to pay sensible, HE j '"Xa moderate prices. E H H UHUBGHWEH’S BEP’LSTORE II he Zil V A AMERICUS, GEORGIA | g E Ea = == chronic or otherwise, of whatsoever nature. Medical school inspection has de veloped the surprising and most de- I plorable fact that 90 per cent, of the i school children are suffering from i some physical or mental handicap. The fact suggests that national pre ' paredness should and must start with < 'the child, and to secure and maintain it one must keep constantly in mind i | that eternal viligance is the price of .jrrrrrr- I ..... I I How to Cure Sweet Potatoes WASHINGTON, D C., Sept ilß.—,t There is no mystery about building .! a satisfactory storage house for sweet ( 1 potatoes. Southern farmers who are i paying large prices for patented plans ; and equipment alleged to provide the < i only successful way of storing sweet [ < ' potatoes, are being defrauded. Special- i lists of the United States Department I < [of Agriculture whose attention recent-[> Ily has been called to instances in J j which farmers have paid as high as ’ $750 for sets of plans, do not to brand such activities as pain hum-| Ibu-gery. Plans c<! the houses that 1 I incorporate simple principles of stor .age and common sense methods of con .struction. and which have proved suc- Ltssful by years of careful trial, are i [furnished free by the Department of,* Agriculture to any farmer who will ask t O! them. 5 Because reports have been circu-1 < lated in the South that storage housse I recommended by the Department of 1 Agriculture are not satisfactory, it is i believed necessary, now that the time o provide adequate storage for the 1 coming harvest is at hand, to correct 1 .such statements. One man with plans ’ o sell has said that the shrinkage o’ sweet potatoes stored in houses designed the government specialists is > from 16 to 20 per cent, while in houses oi his is practically no shrinkage. The fallacy of such claim. , Department specialists point out, lies i iu the fact that shrinkage is essen-1 efficiency. 1 Examination for military service makes a startling and most shocking showing of the physical unfitness for the arduous duties of the soldier, among the defects being narrow’ chests, flat feet, poor teeth, hammer tees, heart impairments, defective eyes, and impaired hearing, crippled kidneys and stomachs not able to take care of and master the regulation , army fare. ; tial to good keeping of the potatoes. Sweet potatoes stored in the type of house recommended by the Depart ment shrink from 8 to 10 per cent — n weight, not bulk—by reason of evaporation of surplus moisture. Prop er curing of sweet potatoes means getting rid of surplus moisture, and the type of house which the special ist suggest accomplishes this by corn-: bmig the ordinary principles of good ; ventilation with common sense meth-[ ods of construction. Storage houses built according to! plans suggested by the epartment of Agriculture have been in use in every ( tate of the south for five or six years. 1 The Department has no knowledge of failure in any house built an operated strictly according to recommenda t ons. Four years of investigation [ with one hundred houses under ob-! cervatin showed that the average loss by decay, after an average storage' period of 124 days, was less than two I and one-half per cent. In determin ng this loss representatives of the Department personally praded the po tatoes in each house—a total of 228,- 000 bushels. In each case the potatoes were harvested, stored and cared for >y farmers. In the Department’s own storage house at Arlington, Vir ginia, sweet potatoes were stored in October last year and removed the latter part of june showed a loss of less than one per cent. [ Farmers intending to buhd storage PAGE FIVE houses should write to the Depart ment of Agriculture for Farmers’ ’Bulletin 548, “'Storing and ing Sweet Potatoes.” This bulletin gives plans and lists of materials need ed and also tells how to convert buildings such as abandoned tenant houses into storage quarters. County agent W. J. Boyett has a sup ply of these bulletins on hand at the chamber of commerce. Call by and get one. i ■■■ • ■■ —■ - " - -1 11 I ALCAZAn| theatreß | Tuesday 5 & 10c ft Carlyle Blackwell and M June in ■. “THE CRIMSON DOVE” Five acts _— I Wednesday Matinee 5 & 10c; Night 10 &Jlsc K Bessie Baniscale, in H : “HATER OF MEN” Five acts, and “DAD’S DOWNFALL" Triangle Comedy I .T.w——...-,. ■!. ■■■■■, 5 ffi r Thursday 5 & 10c || -I Fannie Ward, in “HER STRAN6E WEDDING” ( Five acts ■mibioi— l. e . >... ..A .«« .