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PLANES TO DROP
GUM FROM SKY
Four Free Ridei Tickets
Also Coming To
Somebody
As you wander down the street
sfurinp- the next few days, fellow cits, !
keep a weather eye on the sky, for
a fleet of “Spearmint Air Ships” are
bound hitherwards. They expect to
arrive in Americus, Wednesday, Jan
uary, Jan. 21, and remain over
Thursday.
Three latest type Curtiss air
planes, similar to those used by the
U. S- army, and fully equipped for
leng-distance flying, are making a J
tour over eight states, visiting 150 [
eitie.i and towns. The planes carry I
> consignment of Wrigley's chewing i
for the Americus Grocery Co., ■
the Glover Grocery Co. and the More
jiandrJones Co., the local distributors
—the first delivery on record of this
product by aeroplane.
Always a keep enthusiast on the j
latest developments in any enter- j
prist, and especially in commercial
aeronautics, Wm. 'Wrigley, Jr., of
• Chicago, the largest chewing gum ’
.manufacturer in the world, has char- ‘
tered these planes to exemplify com
saerical flying.
Tku tour is under the direction of !
Aoh? N. Hammond, representation i
the Transcontinental Aerial Com- j
p&n.y. Mr. Hammond recently re- |
Cuovsd from overseas service with the j
2J6tt Division.
The airplanes are painted white
and ornamented with the Wrigley
Itauie marks and packages. They
will >lrop twenty-five small para
dhuhi's upon arrival over the city,
eseris parachute carrying a package
wff jgum, and four of them contain
ing x. complimentary ticket which
wsH be honored for a free ride in
of the aeroplanes. Finders of
•fees* tickets ride free—others will
hr taken for a bird’s eye view sight
rsaaang trip at sls per ride.
So much for the Spearmint air
ateips and the minature parachutes,
fc'jifcs, and get a taste of Wrigley’s
ST’S MAYBE, if you are lucky enough
&r ftnd one of the tickets, a taste of
fte newest thrill—aviation—the
<avta>mg transportation.
Supreme Court Upholds
Clay Will Case Ruling
Word has been received here by/
attorneys in the case of the decision
She Georgia Supreme Court in the
of Cliff C. Clay vs Mrs. Mary
■Oay. Judge Littlejohn’s decision
OHrerruling a demurrer by Hixon and
IWe for Mrs. Clay having been as-1
ftTirted. The other attorneys were
Shrpp and Sheppard, representing
Mr. Clay.
TOe case involves the interpreta
tion of the will of the late C. C.
Oay, father of the plaintiff and hus
of the defendant. The text of
the decision not having been receiv
here as yet, it is not known
whether the case will now be sent to
•nal or not.
L.ONDON—Mrs. Mary Moyal, who
exossed Niagara in a barrow, won’t
permit the London health authorities
Ko renovate the 300-year-old house
sfte lives in.
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
FOR JUDGE CITY COURT.
To the Democratic Votes of Sumter
County:
respectfully announce my can
dfidacy for re-election to the office of
■JwUge of the City Court of Ameri
cas, subject to the action of the Dem-!
•aaatic primary on March 3rd. 1920. >
I will appreciate your support, and'
.sff re-elected, I will discharge the du-
Sww of the office to the best of my
■BBity. Respectfully,
W. M. HARPER.
FOR TAX RECEIVER.
T« the voters of Sumter County:
I hereby announce that 1 am a I
•andidate for re-election to the of- j
iftce of Tax Receiver, subject to tile
democratic Primary, March 3, if
rfccted will perform the duties of the
atfk-e to the best interest of all par-
Bues concerned. However, first: I
a® not physically able to visit your
Wm- in person. Second, the law re
spanres me to get on the job Febru
ary 1, so I hope my past record has
such that you will look after
my interests at the polls. Respect
•Wßy,
GEO. D. JONES.
itS-eod&w
FOR CLERK SUPERIOR COURT
8 hereby announce myself a candi
for re election to the office of
Cxark of Superior Court of Sumter
«o«nty. If elected Sam R. Heys will
as my Deputy, and we earnestly
deficit the support of the people of
tfte county and pledge a faithful per
formance of the duties pertaining to
office. Subject to the action of
Democratic primary.
19-eod H. E. ALLEN.
FOR TAX COLLECTOR
H hereby announce myself a candi
date for the office of Tax Collector,
■safeject to the action of the Demo
cratic primary, March 3, 1920. I will
ammreciate your support.
19-ts I. B SMALL.
mrtovtD UNiroiM iitteiiutioiui,
sumsrsoiooi
Lesson
(By REV. p. B. fcITZWATER, D. D.,
Teacher of Engliili Bible in the Moody
Bible Institute of Chicago.)
(Copyright, 1110, Western Newspaper Union)
LESSON FOR JANUARY 25
PETER STANDS UP FOR TRUTH
AND HONESTY.
LESSON TEXT—Acta 5:1-16.
GOLDEN TEXT—Lying lips are abomi
nation to the Lord: but they that deal
truly are his delight.— Prov. 12:22.
ADDITIONAL MATERIAL-Ex. 20:16;
Prov 11:1; Matt. 6: 2-4; Gal. 6:7, 8; Eph
4:15, 26 . 30.
PRIMARY TOPlC—Telling the Truth.
JUNIOR TOPIC Two Disciples and
W hat Became of Them.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP
IC—The Polly and Sinfulness of Lying.
In this lesson we see the new com
munity now called “the church” (v.
11) vindicated. In the boldness of
Peter and John we see that the break
with Judaism has come —the authority
of the Sanhedrin Is repudiated with
the determination on the part of the
disciples to be led by the Holy Spirit.
It is for thia reason that the body now
gets the name "church.” Since the
break has coine it must be shown to be
a holy body; it must have recognition
as being sacred. The sanctity of the
tabernacle is transferred to the new
body, which is God’s dwelling place
(Eph. 2:19-22). The church Itself, as
well as the people about, did not know
this until God’s judgment burst forth.
I. Characteristics of the Primitive
Church (4:31-35).
1. It was a praying church (v. 31).
For every want annd every need they
betook themselves to God in prayer.
2. It was a Spirit-filled church (v.
31). A praying church Is a Spirit-filled
church. The Spirit is given In an-;
awer to prayer (Luke 11:13).
3. It was a church which had great
boldness in preaching the Word of
God (v. 31). The minister In a Spirit- !
filled church will not offer an apology
for the Bible, but will fearlessly
preach It.
4. It waj» a united church (v. 32).
They were “of one heart and one
soul."
5. It was a charitable and generous
church (v. 32). As needs arose sup
plies were given from a common fund.
6. Its ministers had a powerful tes
timony (v. A3).
7. It was a church whose member
ship exhibited unblemished characters
(v. 33). For “great grace was upon
them all ”
11. The Sin of Ananias and Sapphira
(vv. 1-11).
1. Its occasion (vv. 1,2). This whs
their hypocritical imitation of the gen- (
erous sot of Barnabas (4:36. 37). Be
cause of the peculiar distress of the
early church when the open rupture '
was made with Judaism, the members i
for a time bad a “community of
goods.” This was not universal not .
permanent : some continued to own '
their own homes, as for example John '
Mark’s mother, who used her home In I
which to entertain Christians. Ananias
kept back a part of the money re- |
reived for his land while pretending to )
have brought it all. His wife was a
partner in it. They wanted the honor ,
of generosity without paying the price.
2. The judgment (vv. 3-10). Ananias I
allowed sntan to fill his heart and lied
to the Holy Ghost in keeping back a
part of the price of the land. It was j
most likely an acted lie. They were ■
not under obligation to sell their land. !
or having sold It, to bring any of the I
money and place It in the common 1
fund. Peter declared that they were |
absolutely free to do as they pleased
with ft. Love of praise is causing I
many today to make the same dread
ful mistake. People are walking in |
the way of Ananias and Sapphira
when they make a profession of re
ligion for temporal gain and pleasure;
or even preaching sermons not their
own. Frequently men preach the ser
mons of Moody and Spurgeon without
giving credit. Physical death was vis
ited upon Ananias and Sapphira for
their sins.
111. The Effect (vv. 11-16).
1. Great fear came upon the church
and upon all who heard of these ;
things (v. 11). Irreverence is an out- I
standing sin of this age. The church
should be recognized as holy—the very
dwelling place of the Most High God.
2. Multitudes of men and women
were added to the Lord (v. 14). This
caused the fame of Peter to be spread !
far and wide, so that the people were
anxious to come under his shadow.
Were the holiness of the body of
Christ recognized, there would be
many coming for pardon and salvn
tion.
3. The hypocrites did not dare to
Join (v. 13). It is Interesting to note
that this vindication of the holiness
of the church did not deter any but
hypocrites from joining It. Nothing
unhallowed nor any unregenerate per
son has a place In the church. This
applies to our offerings as well as to
our person.
Daily Prayer.
Oh Lord, we thank thee that men
turn to thee; the measure of their need
is the measure of thy supply. Let thy
spirit dwell In our spirits, and then ail
shall be well within and peaceful with
out We pray thee to give us a fuller
•ind firmer, and more continual, and
more vigorous and efficacious confl
dence In thyself. Through Jesus
t'hrlst our Lord. Amen.
I
Character Building.
Life Is mainly nu opportunity for
character building and testing.
BIGGEST NITRATE
PLANT IN WORLD
I
Mammoth Alabama Fac
tory Built In Eight
Months
By GARRET SMITH.
Lifting the ban of war secrecy has ,
I just now brought to light for the first
time one of the most stupendous feats
of construction In history—the plan- 1
ping and building in less than one year
; of the largest ammonium nitrate plant
Jn the world and of a city around It
j for the housing of its 25,000 workmen ■
and their families. At the same time ’
Is revealed one of the chief reasons
why Germany suddenly surrendered a
year ago. The German high command
knew that the United States was
ready at Muscle Shoals, Alabama, to ,
manufacture 13 per cent of all 6he
high explosives needed by all the Al
lied armies on all fronts In the expect
ed drive of the following spring.
The first person on construction
work reached Muscle Shoals on No
vember 20, 1917. On February 16,
1018, ground was first broken for a
permanent plant building. On Octo
ber 26, 1918, eight months and eight
days later, the manufacturing plant
had begun the production of ammo
nium nitrate.
When America entered the world
war in April, 1917, she had no means
of producing the enormous quantities
of high explosives necessary to pro
vide the huge army she planned to
raise. The very fact that our indus
tries were already worked to capacity
providing ammunition to the allies
seemed to make further production for
our own use Impossible.#
Fertilizer Process Turned to War Use.
At this juncture the Ordnance De
partment turned to cyanamid, a com
mercial fertilizer, which had for some
! years been produced successfully at
Niagara Falls, by a process the Ameri
can rights of which were obtained in
1907 from Germany by Frank Sher
man Washburn, head of the American
Cyanamid Company.
By this process cyanamid was pro- ,
duced by extracting nitrogen from the
air and combining It with calcium ob
tained from limestone rock and carbon
from coke. By putting cyanamid
through three more processes both am
monia and nitric add can be extracted
from It and combined Into the explo
give, ammonium nitrate. Mr. Wash
burn was Invited to present plans and
estimates for the construction In the
shortest possible time of an ammonium
nitrate plant at Muscle Shoals, Ala
bama, and a contract between his com
i pany and the United States was enter
ed Into under date of November 16.
1917
To have general supervision of plan
nfng and carrying out the work an or
ganlzation known a- rhe Air Nitrates
Corporation was formed to act as
agent of the Onlnance Department
This corporation provided the general
desists, supervised all rhe work and
operated the camp, the town and the
plant. It also Installed all equipment
tn the chemical plant. The various
other section* of the work were sub
let to organisations that were special (
Ists In the directions In which they ,
were asked to help
New City Built From the Ground. J
It was necessary to build a new
town to house the laborers. For this
job Westinghouse Church Kerr Com '
pany was called In as contractor. This ,
company also built the buildings of the '
chemical plant. Within four months ■
12.000 workmen had been assembled ,
and a city capable of accommodating !
25,000 Inhabitants had been completed,
with lodging, restaurants, stores, of
fices, police headquarters, schools, fire
departments, hospitals, motion picture
theaters, electric light and sewerage
systems
The construction of the plant proper
was begun on February 16, 1918. Just •
eight months and eight days later the:
big plant began a steady output of am-'
monlum nitrate. The plant contains,
113 permanent buildings, with a roof
area .of over 26 acres.
To provide the electric current it
was necessary to build a steam power
electric plant, for It would have taken
three years or more to complete the
dam and hydro-electrtc station now un
det way. This plant, built by the J. G.
White Corporation, Is one of the larg
est steam plants for developing elec
trical energy In the world.
Th' output of the plant Is 300 tons of
ammonium nitrate a day, and this can
be produced at Muscle Shoals at a cost
less than ona-half the standard fixed
price paid by the Government for am
monfnm nitrate produced by other
methods and one-fourth to one-fifth the
cost of other high explosives of equal
strength. Comparea with the older
nrocess of making ammonium nitrate
the savings made by this plant would
have paid the $60,000,000 cost of the
entire plant in about one and one-halt 1
roars of operation.
Aa a military weapon It is one of the
wisest and most economical axpendl
tures that the Ordnance Department
has undertaken. As an agent tn stop
ping the war and as a future protec
tlon to the country Its value is tncalcu
table.
Ingenious Picture.
There is In one of the continental
ifeture galleries a painting called
Clottdland." At first sight it looks
Ike a huge, repulsive daub of con
uw?d color, without form or Cornell
iess. As you walk toward It. It proves
o be a mass of exquisite little cherub
aces like those at the head of the can
as in Raphael's “Madonna San Slsto.”
AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
I PREACHER SAYS
WIFE'S SPIRIT
PAYS HIM VISIT
——
It
■ aawmaaaaaM
Rev. Russell H. Conwell.
Much comment has resulted from
the declaration of the Rev. Russell
H. Conwell, pastor of the Baptist
Temple in Philadelphia, that the
spirit of his wife has visited him at
his bedside on three occasions. He
says that heavenly beings return to
earth only at the Deity’s bidding.
You Can Learn
a Lot From
Advertising
— L ' ~a——■■———»—M——CT wa——r min i—■—■—w—_
I
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The main thing an advertiser wants to do is to tell you
plainly just how and why his goods are worthy of your
consideration. You can learn a great deal from that alone,
because many things you see advertised are the things you
buy and use in your regular daily life. By reading the ad
vertisements, you can learn the names and read descrip
tions of the things that are best and most satisfactory.
But advertising teaches fortably, ways to keep the
even more than that. All house and grounds looking
advertisers try to make w ell they have learned all
their advertisements them- L hese things and many
, i i i t other things just by read-
selves valuable to you.
ing advertisements.
A good many people have n j i
Kead the advertisements
learned a whole lot about rl?ht along and you
good music, good books, j e am a great deal that will
good clothes, ways to keep be helpful and valuable to
healthy, ways to live com- you as you go through life.
%
49 CO DOWN ON
U. S. SHIP MACON
Founders On Rock Off
Sweden—Powhattan
Not In Peril
STOCKHOLM, Jan. 19. Forty- ]
nine members of the crew of the Am
! erican steamer Macon, which struck
a rock off Midingen light and found
' ered, were lost. The only survivor '
I was the second-mate.
TRANSPORT POWHATTAN
IN NO IMMEDIATE DANGfiI
NEW YORK, Jan. U. S.
Army transport Powhattan, in dis- 1 '
tress about 700 miles east of New '
York, reported by wireless this morn- ■
ing at four o’clock that, although she ,
was leaking and the boiler room was J
flooded, she was'in “no immediate !
danger and her five hundred passen- •
ers “were calm and comfortable.”
When the sea is smoother the pas- '
sengers will be transferred to the '■
liner Cedric, which is standing by. ;
Newspapers Exempted
In Hun Shop Councils
BERLIN, Jan. 19.—German news- :
papers have*been exempted from the 11
operations of a proposed law creat- i
ing shop councils in various indus-' i
: tries. Publishers and editors had pro
tested against the measure in its orig- i
i inal form which gave the mechanical i
departments the right of representa- ;
tion in meetings of the directors and :
of looking over the balance sheet of <
! the business offices. ■ 1
Was With Duckworth
Here Until 8 O’clock
It developed today, following the
argument of Dan Chappell, his attor
ney, for a new trial for Sam Duck
worth, convicted as wife slayer, on
the ground of newly discovered evi
dence, has discovered witnesses by
which he is able to show Duckworth's
’ 'hereabouts on the evening of the
killing from the time he finished trac
ing, during his trial his movements in
Americus until after the body was
found. Duckworth was convicted of
cutting the throat of his wife and
throwing her body in the well. His
alleged confession to Sheriff Harvey
was the principal testimony against
him during the trial.
Mr. Chappel has an affidavit sign
ed by W. N. Brewer, a well digger,
now located at Montezuma, but
whose home is in Dawson, in which
Brewer says he was in company with
Duckworth in Americus on the night
of the murder from shortly before
7 o’clock until a little after 8 J. N.
Worthy and H. A. Lee, two Ameri
cus policemen", have, also' signed affi
davits, in which they swore they saw
Duckworth and Brewer together in
Americus about 8 o’clock the night
Mrs. Duckworth was killed.
Evidence introduced at the trial
accounted for Duckworth’s where
abouts until about 6:35 o”clock in
the evening, after which time he fail
ed to give an account of his move
ments. The woman’s body was
found at 7:35 o’clock.
On the stand, Duckworth neither
denied nor admitted killing his wife.
He is an ignorant and uneducated
man, and in the course of his state
ment stopped short, apparently un
able to proceed further, and prob
ably awed by the presence of court
officials and others. The affidavits
were presented to judge Z, A, Lit-
MONDAY, JANUARY 19, 1920.
tlejohn, in the application for re
hearing.
To Resume Trading
In Sugar Futures
NEW YORK, Jan. 19.—Trading in
sugar futures will be resumed on the
New York Coffee and Sugar Ex
change February 16. Fluctuations
will be limited to one cent per pound
in either direction'in any one day.
DOCTORS SAY CHENEY
EXPECTORANT BEST
REMEDYFOR COLDS
Remarkable How Quickly Coughs,
Colds, Whooping Cough Disap
pear After Taking This Wonder
ful Remedy.
Hase you tried the famous reme
dy for coughs and colds that makes
taking a pleasure? If so you appre
ciate the wonderful virtues of Che
ney’s Expectorant and how delight
ful a cough and cold mixture may be
made. Cheney’s Expectorant has
been the wonder of the drug trade
for over 30 years. Its sales have
steadily increased from year to year.
During the “Flu” epidemic last year
the sale of Cheney’s Expectorant was
so great that the manufacturers could
hardly supply the demand. Physi
cians recommend Cheney’s Expec
torant for all kinds of coughs, colds,
sore throat, whooping cough, asthma,
headaches from colds, runnings of
the nose, and that generally miser
able feeling which coughs or colds
afflict us with. They tell us that the
“Flu” will return this fall. Cheney's
Expectorant will prevent as well as
cure. Keep it handy.— (adv.)