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THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER
ESTABLISHED 1879.
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SUPPORT THE CHAUTAUQUA
the opening of the chautauqua only two days away, and
up until a day or two ago very little activity having been apparent
in preparation for it, we are confronted with the uncommon ex
perience of a good thing about to slip up on us, unawares. But the
people of this community are for the chautauqua, and no doubt will
support the offering of 1920 whole-heartedly as they have previous
cliautauquas.
The program offered this year is an exceptional one, and two
numbers on it alone are worth the price of the season ticket. Who
has not known and loved “Pinafore," that delightful, tuneful, comic
opera of Gilbert and Sullivan, the first—and many say the best—
entertainers of this character the stage has known? And who would
not spend the price of a season ticket just for the pleasure of sitting
through an evening’s rendition of this old masterpiece? Pinafore
is one of the offerings of the Chautauqua this season, and a competent
cast of singers, with fitting lighting and scenery, are promised.
Probably not many Americus people have had the opportunity
to see that rollicking, light comedy, "Nothing But The Truth," which
will be presented on another night at the chautauqua, also by a com
petent cast of talented players, according to the announcement. It
is a fun play from start to finish, wholesome and clean, and if played
by actors of experience will prove the hit of the season.
Then there are musical companies, lecturers and soloists in
greater number than ever. Among them is the South's own Opie
Read, who for years has been writing those finely humorous, but
pathos-filled stories of the old South, and who is one of the best
spinners of anecdotes before the public today.
The 1920 program is a great program. It offers an opportunity
for community entertainment and education unsurpassed before and
one that every person should take advantage of. And there is an
opportunity, if we patronize it well enough, for the Americus and
Sumter county hospital to share in the profits.
JURY OF NEIGHBORS.
They have unearthed a new divorce idea in Liverpool, N. Y.
When the Rev. W. W. Brunk and his wife couldn't "get along as
husband and wife” there was no resort to court room, judge or law.
The case of husband versus wife was tried by the neighbors, who
acted as judge and jury. Their verdict advised separation.
Usually when husband and wife disagree the domestic linen is
washed in the publicity of a court room. The judge seldom knows
the complainant or defendant. All he finds out about them is what
is told on the witness stand. He hears many cases, and is very apt to
decide them "from brain, rather than from heart." Not so with a
jury of neighbors. They know the husband and wife; have known'
both for years. None better knew whether they should continue try
ing to live together, or whether they should separate. They know
all the little intimate things of their family life, such details as might
change the whole complexion of a divorce case, but which, too often
are not considered in a court room.
Os course, under present law, such a neighborly decision isn’t
official. It is merely advisory. But it is an interesting experiment.
The jury of friendly neighbors may smooth over a matrimonial
tangle, which, otherwise would end in divorce. Neighbors can do
much toward helping a discordant couple steer clear of the breakers
—if they will! And they, better than a judge, can tell when a mar
riage is "absolutely hopeless’’ and the parties to it should go their
separate ways.
ANNIE LAURIE.
“Maxwelton braes are bonnie
Where early fa’s the dew,
And it’s there that Annie Laurie
Gie’d me her promise true —”
Emma Cutlet-Ferguson, a direct descendant of "Annie Laurie,”
is to marry this spring. Her husband-to-be is Major Vivian E.yr, late
of the royal air forces. Her family home is Craigdarroch, Dumfrie
shire, Scotland. It was there that "Annie Laurie" married Alick Fer
guson, after jilting a lover who actually did "lie down and die,” as ;
he intimated he might be quite willing to do—
“Gie’d me her promise true,
Which ne’er forgot will be;
And for Bonnie Annie Laurie
I’d lay me doun and dee.’’
While Major Eyr isn’t given to poetical effort, it is very probable
that he has told Annie Laurie's twentieth century descendant the:
same old, old story—"For you I d lay me doun and dee.” Most (
lovers say that. It is fortunate that jilting so seldom persuades them J
to lie down and die. Usually, nowadays, he consoles himself with|
the fact that "there’s fish as big in the sea as any that were caught." |
These are not "Annie Laurie" days. They are of 1920.
KEEP COAL HERE. |
CALGARY, Alberta,—Special freight rates on coal during the warm
weather months are being asked by the Red Deer Coal Operators’ Associa- >
tion. The applicants, who will be backed by Premier Stewart, of Alberta !
province claim that this concession will mean that Alberta’s coal mines will i
work all summer with full pay for miners and cars will be utilized that ,:
would otherwise be idle, to head off American coal imports into the Mani-1
toba market.
Great! People in the United States paying enormous prices for
coal and often unable to get any at all. yet this country forces its,
coal on foreigners who don t want it, who take steps to handicap ,
shipments from this side in order to give their own miners work.
As long as America s great natural resources are needed by
Americans, they should not go abroad.
THAT DEPENDS.
Last winter when the Lever act was called into play to enjoin !
striking coal miners coal operators hurrahed.
This spring the same act furnishes the basis for prosecution of
certain coal operators. Through their attorney, former Judge W. L.
Day, they protest:
“The Lever act is unconstitutional."
Sort of depends upon whose bull is gored, eh?
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LIII.DA went to get the meat
* * To serve us for our meal.
When she was four blocks down the
street
We heard our dinner squeal.
We ran into the street in fright
To watch our food arrive.
She brought the dinner home, all
right,
But brought it home alive.
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Muffs for men!
’Tis the very latest Atlantic City
sensation.
A perfectly normal-looking, heal
thy, husky young man came along
in a rolling chair.
He had both hands tucked snug
ly into a brown fur muff that match
ed the fur on his top coat collar.
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James Smith, charged with rob
bery in New York, was accused of
adding insult to injury by reciting
some of his hand-made poetry.
Bu the judge -Sweetzer by name
—got good and even with the tough.
He held him for a while with this:
' i hold you in $5,000 bail,
Which means that you go right back
jail;
Before you go, let me say:
This hold-up game—it does not pay.”
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Judge Root, of Detroit, Mich., has
ruled that SI,BOO is too much for
any woman to spend on lingerie :i
five months. He gave John Bebee a
divorce because Mrs. Bebee, according
to John, had “blown in over $ >OO a
week on lingerie.”
The judge not knowing much about
the subject himself, called for ex
pert witnesses. Miss Bessie Lee, head
of the Housekeepers’ association,
testified that $25 was enough for a
year’ supply of lingerie.
Now having settled that important
case let us call your attention to the
fact that the city administration of
Cheyenne, Wyo., has called a halt on
shimmy dancing.
Waddaye mean, Wild West?
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This will get all the young ladies
peeved:
Mrs. Catherine Sellin, of Kane,
Pa., has attained the age of 95. She
did this, she asserts, by not wearing
high heels and no low-necked dresses,
either of which, she says “is enough
to kill a nerson.”
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Where are you goin’ on your vaca
tion ?
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OUIJA.
’ WISH I were a ouija board
And some rank profiteer
Would ask me where to place his
hoard,
I’d tell him, never fear!
I'd recommend some oil well stocks,
Which soon would rake him on the
rocks.
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I wish I were a ouija board
And when the day was spent,
I’d loose some pleasant words I've
stored
For him who jumped my rent.
I’d tell the Shylock-shocking thief >
That of all robbers he is chief!
(I’d tell him in the flesh, but then I
The cuss might boost my rent again.)
I wish I were a outja board,
I’d hand it to the boss,
And though his name were Schwab
or Ford,
I’d tell him “C-o-m-e a—r-o-s-s-!”
I’d name the sum I’d like to earn
To even up my tax return.
I wish I ran a ouija joint
And then when Woodrow came
And asked me whom he should ap- I
point,
I’d indicate a name.
And if the name were mine—oh, |
well,
That name I know best how to spell. I
I’d also hint a mild desire
Concerning some he still might fire.
I wish I were —and you would see
When some big mutt should come
And lay his loutish hands on me,
I’d be both deaf and dumb.
Or I might be induced to tell
In three short words where he might
dwell.
But if some dainty-fingered miss
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LEAVE HEADACHE
AT DRUG STORE
Money Back While You Wait At
Counter if Aspironal Does Not
Relieve in Two Minutes. Ab
solutely Safe.
Save half an hour or more of head
ache and pain by taking the new As
pironal Elixir instead of the slow
acting tablets that have to wait so
long to be digested and absorbed. As
pironal acts right now and without
the slightest danger to your heart or
annoyance to your stomach.
Your physician recommends Aspir
onal because he knows its removes
the cause of bilious and sick head
ache by gently acting on the liver,
correcting biliousness and constipa
tion and preventing the return of
your headache next day.
The next time you have a head
ache go to your nearest drug store,
hand the clerk half a dollar for a |
bottle of Aspironal and tell him to
serve you two teaspoonsful in a lit-!
tie water. With your watch in your'
hand count off two minutes and call
for your money back, as per manu-i
facturer’s guarantee, if you can’t
feel your headache fading away with- '
in the time limit. Don’t be bashful I
> for your druggist invites you and ex-j
pects you to try it. Everybody is '
doing it.: Same guarantee applies to |
colds, coughs and neuralgia. adv
Should stroke my wood, Oh, boy!
I’d spell her that, or tell her this
And fairly jump for joy.
But if she held me on her lap
And asked about some other chap,
Some other chap whom she adored.
Oh, then I’d be a ouija bored!
(Copyrighted, 1920, N. E. A.
Opais grown on trees is one of the
latest discoveries of science.
L. G. COUNCIL, President T. E. BOLTON, Asst. Cashier
C. M. COUNCIL, V.- P.& Cashier. JOE M. BRYAN, Asst. Cashlar
(Incorporated)
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in addition to the convenience afforded to the depositors
of a MODERN BANK in making possible the transfer of mon /
by the use of checks, the WEALTH entrusted to the BANK dees
not remain idle, but ’> constantly emplo ed in commerce and in
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THE COMMERCIAL CITY BANK has done much Gr tk
development of Americus in the past, and expects to do a grent
deal more during 1920.
Open a checking account with us and watch youx towx
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President. Cashier.
THE FACILITIES OF THE
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Large resources to make the secur
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tention to requests for loans. Pro
gressive and prudent, yet courageous
to protect the customers’ interest.
We shall be glad to have you share
in the abundant resources of this
bank.
CHARTERED OCTOBER, 13, 1891
Bank of Commerce
OFFICERS ziND DIRECTORS:
J. W. Sheffield Lee Hudson, John Sheffi*l«
Frank Sheffield Cashier C. R. Cn»t
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14 19? n
This Day in History
APRIL 14 ? 1865
‘ ABRAHAM LINCOLN
ASSASSINATED
piFTY-FIVE years ago today Pres
-1 ident Lincoln was assassinated
A little band of fanatical seses
sionists, John Wilkes Booth, actor-
Lewis Powell, Geo. Atzerrodt, David
E. Herold, Samuel Arnold, Michael
O’Laughlin and John H. Surratt, had
for months engaged in a fantastic
plot which had for its object the cap
ture of Lincoln and his abduction to
Richmond. When the Confederacy
fell, Booth, changed his plans. The
plot was to kill not only President
Lincoln, but also Vice President
Johnson and Secretary of State Se
ward.
The final plans were not completed
until the day of the assassination.
Bodth was wqll known and liked
about the old Ford Theater on
Tenth street, which Lincoln was to
attend that night.
A few minutes before 10, Booth
entered the theater. Holding a pis
tol in one hand and knife in the oth
er, he opened the box door, put the
pistol to the President’s head and
fired. Major Rathbone, an army offi
cer, sprang toward him, and Booth
struck savagely at him inflicting a
deep wound of the left arm. Placing
his left hand on the rail of the box
Booth sprang onto the stage, where
the horror-stricken company were
huddled. His spur caught in the
Union flag hanging in front of the
box and he fell. Rising, apparently
unhurt, he faced the audience, shout
ed “Sic Semper Tyrannis,’’ the motto
of Virginia, and rapidly ran off the
stage and through the door. Major
Rathbone shouted, “Stop him, he has
shot the President!” but in the con
fusion he was gone.
Lincoln scarcely moved; his head
dropped forward,, his eyes closed.
Tender hands carried him across the
street and laid him upon a bea in a
private house. The bullet, entering
the back of his head, had loged behind
the left eye after passing through the
brain. In spite of the nature of his
wound, Lincoln lived until half past
7 in the morning. As he passed
away, Stanton .broke the silence by
saying, “Now he belongs to the ages.’’
Booth made his way on horseback,
in spite of a broken leg, to Port To
bacco, Md., then across the Potomac,
into Virginia. He eluded pursuit un
til the 25th of April, when he was
surrounded in a barn below Freder
icksburg by soldiers, and refusing to
surrender, was shot. The other con
spirators were either executed, or
sentenced to imprisonment on the is
land of Tortugas, off the Florida
coast. One, John H. Surratt, escap
ed to Canada, thence to Europe, was
afterwards brought back, tried and
released.