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SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 4, 1920
CROPS BETTER.
SAYS GLESSNER
Former Americus News
paper Man Pays Visit
. Here on Trip
Majfcr J. J. Glessner, former pub
lisher of the Times-Recorder and for
a number of years held agent for the.
Southern Ruralist, of Atlanta, paid!
his semi-annual visit {to Americus |
Saturday, where he greeted a num- j
ber of old friends and looked over
agricultural conditions.
He reports crop conditions to have
improved greatly over the cotton belt
recently, with prospects now favor
ing a fairly good cotton crop in most
sections.
Major Glessner has been preach
ing modern farm machinery for the
south for many years, in 1888 mak
ing a speech before the state body
on the subject. “It is coming,” he
said yesterday, “but slowly. The ex
odus of the negro to the north is
proving a blessing to the south in
that it is forcing the abandonment
of old methods. The'other day from
a train between Atlanta and Macon
I counted 72 single plows and mules,
and not one modern two-horse cul
tivator.
“The farmers say that the negro
can not handle modern machinery.
But that is all bosh. He thinks noth
ing about teaching the negro to run
his automobile, and it is a much more
complicated piece of machinery. But
conditions are forcing the change
and it is coming speedily now.
“In many instances you will hear
farmers deplore the departure of
‘cheap labor.’ I was talking to one
not long ago. I asked him how many
plows he worked. He said eight. I
remarked that this meant eight ne
gro men, and that 1 supposed they
were mostly married. He said they
were. I replied that this meant he
had forty people to feed and clothe
before he made a red cent, which,
after all, wasn’t such cheap labor as
he had believed.
“I find,” said Major Glessner “that
they are discovering how to handle
the boll weevil in some places. Last
fall I heard of the great crop of cot
ton being harvested by Dr. Living
ston on his 175 acres in Laurens
county, near Dublin, despite the boll
weevil. Having been around and
seen what the weevil and wet weath
er had done in other places, I desired
to be shown. And I was shown. I
saw his field in the middle of the cot
ton picking season. Pickers' reports
showed he was getting a bale per
acre. All around his field were other
fields with fine large green stalks
without a boll on them, while his was
filled. I asked him how he did it. He
said he hfid used calcium arsenate,
but it had rained so much he did not
know whether it had done much good
or not. But he had religiously seen
to the picking up twice weekly of all
fallen squares, and the weevils were
prevented from developing.”
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Fresh Vegetables and
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THE BOOK OF ANN. |
1 Find a Friend in Morrison, Who
Was With us in Mexico.
“There! There! Mrs* Lorimer!”'
There was a queer gentleness in the'
big voice. “You are just like my own'
little girl, you know! So do what I
say. You sit right down there a min-'
ute, while I find out what the big !
guy is up to,” he whispered. Then'
he beckoned to the small man and to- 1
gether they consulted, in a most
friendly fashion, with the prosecut
ing attorney.
When he came back to me Mor
rison said: .
“Maybe you’ll talk to me in a pri
vate room, Mrs. Lorimer?”
“I must talk to you. And I want
to go anywhere away from here,”;
I replied. “I only came to save dad-!
dy, you know.”
“Sure we’ve got to look out for'
the old man,” he agreed. Morrison
has worked for Daddy Lorimer very;
often and he always refers to him
as “the old man.”
“Don’t worry! I know the state he
is in.’
“I wish you knew the state I’m
in, Mr. Morrison. I never was so at
sea. I don’t know my own duty!”
“Sometimes I wonder if I know!
mine,” the detective said solemnly.
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“I’ve been working on this case ever
since I was called, twenty minutes
after Ives was shot.”
Morrison drew his chair close to
mine. We were alone in a small of
fice.
“And every worth-while clue I’ve
found so far leads straight to my
best friends. The key—your auto
number-—and other things—involve
some member of the Lorimer family.
Might as well lead to my own home,
Mrs. Lorimer.’
“You don’t need to count those
clues. I can do it myself,” I said
suddenly.
“I thought so!” Morrison sighed
deeply. “Nov.’ I’m going to swap con
fidences with you. This is a woman
case, of course. A man might have
shot Ives from the woman’s wing
of the bathhouse. A man could have
got in the plac; in disguise. Some
body whose wife or sweetheart had
been intrigued by Ives. Or the wife
who made the mistake and ruined
her home might have killed her lov
er.’
“If so, it was some simple little
woman,” Morrison continued, “Some
angel gone wrong. Nobody but an
unsophisticated girl would have run
away leaving a yellow satin bathing
suit and a gun in the same box.”
THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
Suddenly my faith in ztruth and
frankness as the best guides to con
duct returned to me.
“Please come home, with me, Mr.
Morrison,” I said Don’t ask me ques
tions. It isn’t to see daddy. Before
I tell you what I know, I’ll have to
ask the poor girl’s permission,” I ex
plained.
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Folks are just beginning to learn that batteries wear out just as surely as
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And having learned that fact they ask how many months or how many
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Americus Automobile Co.
BATTERY DEPARTMENT
Lamar Street Phone 105
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Morrison chatted about our Mex
ican experiences all the way home in
the car.
“But gosh! I’m glad I’m on this
case,” he concluded. I ought to be
somewhere in Mexico, but I had a
touch of fever down there. Sort of
lost my hankering for foreign coun
tries, too. Then this happened. The
boss turned it over to me.’ ’
As we entered the front door of
j the wide Colonial hall of Ann’s new
house, I saw a small figure slip out
of the rear door. Morrison saw it
too. He shook his head sadly.
“Poor little mouse!” he exclaimed
after I had motioned the servant to
■ leave us. “God! How I hate this
PAGE SEVEN
job sometimes! There’s no sport in
trapping—a—a baby mouse!”
He mopped his forehead and turn
ed to me:
“Don’t worry her! Don’t get her
flurried! She can’t get away’ Mrs.
Lorimer. The place has been sur
rounded for twenty-four hours!”
(To Be Continued.)
