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Newspaper Page TextSUNDAY, MAY 22, 1921 ROTARY SEATS NEW OFFICERS Retiring President Pre sented With Handsome Silver Pitcher One .hundred Rotarian, their wives and friends were seated in the l ea Room Friday night when Frank Lanier, the -incoming president of ihe Rotary club, received the gavel from President J. E. Hightower. President Hightower presided at the early part of the program and be fore relinquishing his seat delivered a well-written paper, telling of the work of the club during his year’s •Jministration. W. W. Dykes presented Frank La nier, the incoming president. After taking the chair President Lanier expressed his appreciation of the love and confidence shown him by his unanimous election, and then pre sented the other new officers. He also presented the retiring president with a handsome silver engraved water pitcher. Both Mr. Lanier and Mr. Glover's teams failed to attain 1(10 per cent attendance Friday night. Mr. Glov < r's team, winning for the night with the highest percentage. Music furnished by the mandolin club composed of John Ed Chapman, Oscar I English, Will English, (lot don Brooks and Linton Lester. All of those present were the RYLANDER THEATER MONDAY Anita Stewart In one of the greatest dual-role per formances ever seen on the stage or Screen ‘The Yellow Typhoon’ Also Pathe News X Yw&K - e * z *’to 0 Ay! w. '7 | Alcazar - Monday I $ N ft-» fx - .. /?« M I ' " xV a| ? N i®| ' ra §r 7&X\ hi II . W\ FM A£ Utf! <g tlg-fM* , v . - A\ 8 <9 i\ V s£ - ■. t t 1 . |L I bd | rs M *w. f/ | ! f<d*w W I $ a w flow wu ly W *JS flEho ® V wIM • . JS> f I 'fl * 9m ®E gy vfi 1 4 T, \W‘ Jl®Sa Sb * o KSa&t \ a I uw w ' S K n ■ ———a. m| £ ■BETHEL CLAYTON |&| f| U—J ARTCRAFrSTAH &Y W IN JESSE L. LASKEY’S &H | “The Price of Possession" I ft ’ - ~xrawm ■( j'l “What I have I hold—and L. m? heaven help those against me!” Fre ® b 8S All her life she had had nothing. Now her chance had come, and she fought rW to make her family motto come true. Fought like a tigress for home and HJ adj. happiness. And after a struggle that goes to your hearts she won! Beauty, love, luxury and adventure, and a L; £X . trail of romance half atound the world! KI | ALSO MONDAY FOX NEWS PICTURES i guests of Walter Ry lander at the I Ry lander theater to sec Mack Sen nett's ‘A Small Town Idol.” Ethel Clayton has a dramatic and' I appealing role in ‘rhe Price of Pos- ; • session,' which Manager McCord I Prather will pre -ent at the Alcazar ! Monday. Co-starring with Miss - Clayton is Rockliffe Fellows, Maude : Gordon, Reginald Denny, Pearl Shep ; pai d and others. The story opens in Australia. Hel 'en Barston, wife of Jim Barston, a brush ridel, is left alone in the world because of the mysterious | death of her husband. She finds some papers that advertise for in | formation concerning James Bin.Aon, ,j son of Stephen Barston, and heir of Gerald Mortimer Barston of Bars ton Manor, Silvergate, Surrey, Eng land. She goes to England and lays her . papers of identification before the ■ | trustees of the estate and is soon ~ installed as mistress of Bar. ton Man dor, although she has not been able I to produce the birth certificate of I her husband. While this action is i not. regular, the trustee.; of the es tate are so impressed by Helen’s sin i verity that, they allow tier to proceed J without any opposition untlil such ,' lime as her claim shall prove to be j wrong. , She establishes herself in the ‘ hearts of the servants and tenants land makes many improvements for ! their benefit. At the cluse of the; first, reception for the people of tin-! ..county, the real Jim Barston, a cous-l ; in of her husband’s calls and shocks I ijher by telling her that the papers] tjwilh which she has established herl claim to the estate were stolen from] him. She denies this, but Barston | produce;; a birth certificate and she; liegim- to doubt for the fir:>l time. I Helen still believes that she is in; Ihe right and accuses the rightful 1 heir to the Manor of stealing the birth certificate from her husband.: She plans to steal it from Barston. i Helen places a sleeping potion in I Barston's night cap, but is caught in i the act. She leaps through the win i dow not knowing that there is water below and Barston goes to her res cue. While carrying Helen to the Man-! or, the box in which Barston carries his birth certificate, slips unnoticed into Helen’s bodice. She discovers ! it in the morning and calls Barston ■ lon the telephone to tell him that she ! is returning the certificate to him. I He accuses her of stealing it, and I ' tells her that he will immediately take legal action to force her to re turn it. In the meantime, the county peo ple, realizing that Helen is worried by Bar.-ton’s presence make plans to drive him away. They attack him, but Helen hurries to the scene and saves him from the mob. Helen now decides to give up the fight. She send.- for Barston and tell him that he is the rightful heir to their estate and that she is going back to Aus tralia. Bartson lets her go, but soon realizes that the Manor is not worth much to him without Helen. lie follows her to the steamer and pre vails upon her to return with him to the Manor. They come to an un d< r .-landing and are married. r®M] - n -J . ' ' -I I > < JESSE D. COCKE LESLIE, Ga„ May 21. The death of Jesse I). Cocke Sat urday at 0:30 a. m. came as a great shock to the family. Mr. Cocke had been in feeble health most of the time for more than two years and the end Was expected at most any time. ile leaves a wife and four children, Dennis, George, Annie Byrd, and Ethel and one brother and one sis ter, Will Cocke and Miss Lillie < >cke, of DeSoto. Mr. Cocke was born in Lee e >unty and was the son of the late Jesse Cocke. The funeral will be conducted Sun day afternoon at 4 o’clock, central time, at the Leslie Baptist church by his pastor. Rev. T. J. Herring. Mr. Cocke was a good citizen, was widely known and loved b” a host of friends who join in sympathy to the bereaved family. Chisholm’s New Church Opens Fund Campaign A campaign for funds to pay for I their church building will be put on this week by the members of the I'nion Tabernacle Baptist church, col ored. of Americus, of which Rev. J. J. Chisholm is pastor. Committees will call on the citizens this week. This church was organized by Pas tor Chisholm after he had been de posed as pastor of Big Bethel by mem hers of his congregation who, he said, denounced him as a “white man’s ne gro.” His new church, starting with a handful who left the other church with him. now has 84 members, he 1 says, 55 having been added during the recent revival, nine of them by baptism. The campaign will end next Sunday With the ordination of font deacons. THE AMERICUS TIMES RECORDER. SUPERIOR COURT OPB Names Os F irst And Second Week jurors Listed The May term of th Sumter Su perior court will corv; ri .don toy with Judge Littlejohn ■ the b ..<.h. Civil business and di'- - w- ' . taken up Monday, and - ness will come the record -.vi Tie following names have I- . 1 jury duty the first and I v. Traverse Jury, First Wee 1 W. M. Howard. W. I-. Ba.-- C. Slappey. S. 11. Edge. E Brov. •-. -I R. Britton. IL D. Ha !- i 1 E. I Lane, W. T. Freeman. H Wet. W. t . PeFry, Olin J J. < Dixon. -I. W. L. Daniel < . O. H ii- E. C. Reid. .I. 11. Quan m, B D. Bone. J. C B. - ton, H ( \ ' -I V. Everett, F. M. Flourm 11. .1 I't-.i ley. Carlyle Buchanan, < I. Blown. (>.' T. Rav. Cha: . I . R- i.-. M. I' Morgan, W. B. Worth Sr.. W. M Kinard. .1.11 I .c.'-t- i. I >1 . - I. A. Perrv, M. N- \V. P.Finch, L. D. Wi - .1. \. D.r, nport, E. W. Wilder, S. Tillman. Traverse Jury, Sec- I Wc-L G. L. Mathew?. Win. llumir-r, D. IL Horton, C. L. Oliver 11. T. Cob man. It. H Fletcher. It- . C. It. Win. gard, T. B. Wooldridge. 1.. C. Sum- FIRE, LIFE, CASUALTY INSURANCE HERBERT HAWKINS Phone 186 14-16 Planters Bank Building Farm Loans Farm Loans in Any Amount Promptly Nego- | Gated and Closed. T. O. MARSHALL 36-38 PLANTERS BANK BLDG. AMERICUS, GEORGIA ■——————————— — y/ie I mRM&mJI new EDISON IVHI EHr T "ir vH Artist Recording an Edison Re-Creation ffi| fl (flii •’■! J N||M||M|||iiUuir4llll x Sam? Artist proving theRe'CREATioN by Direct Comparison Only the NEW EDISON sustains the Direct Comparison Test \ » 77//s means that the New Edison is the only phono- ~ . Ill* a copy of that newest Edison graph that gives you exactly what the artist or YJ Booklet “what Ediwn tikes i» . . . I'l 1 Music.” It’s free for the asking. It ; artists sing or play into the recording horn when teiis you lots of things you wai>t to know, —what Mr. Edison’s 25 favorite tunes making a Re-Creation. 1 are, —what he thinks about selecting I IB music for home use. It also names 6 ? selections he believes every one should This means that no other phonograph or talking I own. Our suj>ply of these booklets may I «;j 1 . not go around, — better act promptly to machine can give the iife-hke realism you hav U | £ ct your copy. ! j H a right to expect for your money—the absolute —— _ realism that Mr. Edison spent three millions oi Bring or send this coupon. ’ || Mark the items you want. his dollars to develop, no darge or obligation. And finally, this means that, if yon are interested in an * buying a phonograph, your good judgment ' should bring you to this store to ask us to prove Addres# the above claims. We shall welcome your visit. - —— What Edison Likes in Music. ’ \ e Q Booth’s etching of Edison, 12 x 19, for framing. \ HOWELL’S PHARMACY □ & Music —the Story of the | ; - j| New Edison. Phone 23 . Jackson St. □ w >»t Did Edison Do During the I » War? (Bulletin) | - - - ’ 'merford, Wible Marshall, J. C. HofT ' man. W. J. Hili, Sr., J. R. Mask. S. G. Duckworth. IL C. Davis, C. J Dupree, It. A. Slappey, W F. Smith Dupree, R. A. Slappey. W. F. Smith, M. I. Stevens. Sr.. I J Manry Jas. H. Glaw - A E Hines. J. L. Glawson, R R -. Philo il. Smith, Roy Hor ton, .1. D. Sims. J. W. C. Horne, G A. Player, McCord Prather, J. C. McArthur, I. H. Dodson, H. 15. Grad dy J. T. Atkins, F. P Jones, ( lem r. 'Davis, W. R. Rool. ;. I . F. G ite waod, Jr., P. E. Bass, C. C. Luns ; ford. | ’ope Appeals F or Irish Settlement ill. - DALL.. Ireland, May 21. |i By Associated Press.l- The pope wiitten to Cardinal Logue, pri .n.ito o>' lr-'land. appealing to both tile I' n.li-h ami Irish to abandon violence and propo ing that the Irish question ‘ be settled by a body selected by the ao|<- Irish nation. The pontilf sent ; ' • < mdmal two million In foi llr I Iri h hire Cross. New Pastor Building Up Colored Church lu v. I. H. Holloway, of Cuthbert is the new pastor of Big Bethel col-1 - n-d rhiirrh, which a few mouth ago! dc|;o;;ed Rev. .1. J. Chisholm. The; new pa t w ha- been bidding .revival I ■ivive,. lor two weeks which will; ci r o tomi'lit. Fort ; have al - ii-ady been added here by him, it is aid, since the revival began, and 81 have been added since he assumed his pastorate recently. NEW ERA Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Morris, Misses Thelma and Lillian Morris, Floyd and Linwood Morris spent Thursday! at the homi of Mrs. S. M. Parker. Jimmie Lee Potter- was the guest of his couisn, Charlie Griffin, last! week. Little Miss Ruth Ledger was the! guest of her grandparents, Mr. and! Mrs. A. J. Ledger, last week. [ Perry Parker spent Friday night ; with Marsha! and Forte Parker. Mrs. Mary Giles and Mrs. E. W. Parker spent Saturday night in Am-! ericus with Mrs. J. P. Gholson. .Mrs. 1). C. Griffin, Mrs. S. S. Led-i ger and children were visitors at the ■ Expert Repair Man on Packards and *» «■* Franklin Cars ~ ■ .1 General Repair Work On All Makes J. W. Jones «»•»• I At Schneider Motor Co. 122 Jackson St. Phone 1 10—Residence Phone 689 | PAGE FIVE home of Mrs. S. M. Parker Saturday ”■ afternoon. Mrs. J. T. Morris is ill at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. T. O. Bray. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Freeman, ! <»f Americus, were Sunday visitors at the home of their grandmother, Mrs. Mary Giles. Mr. and Mrs. Alex Harden were ‘ Sunday visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Parker. Engraved Cards. Bell, the Jew eler. CARD OF THANKS. We wish to thank our many friends for their kind expressions of ; sympathy during our recent bereave i meat. MRS. W. D. SMITH and FAMILY.

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Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, May 22, 1921, Page PAGE FIVE, Image 5