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I WHAT CARP WILL NEED.
Admiring friends have sent to Carp ?
A rabbit's foot for luck—
But what he’ll need most July 2
Will be the well known duck.
FORTY-THIRD YEAR.—NO. 128.
1,500 TO 3,000 DIE IN PUEBLO FLOOD
COUNTRY CLUB
PROPOSAL HERE
GAINS IMPETUS
K iwanians Hear Os Pos
sibilities And Endorse
Movement
That high interest in the propos
ed establishment here of a golf course
and country club exists in the ranks
of the membership of the Americus
Kiwanis club was demonstrated al
the club s regular luncheon Friday,
when the subject came up for dis
cussion. No effort was made to
pledge the club or the members to
back the movement, but after some
data on the proposal was offered as I
a matter of information, the mem- |
hers were asked how many felt in
terested in becoming members of
such a club. Nearly the entire mem
bership arose. On instruction by a
vote of the dub. President Lewis El
lis appointed a committee consisting
of W. M. Humber, chairman; W. M.
Jones and Chas. L. Ansley to Co
operate with other committees that
might be appointed by other organ
izations to Participate in the coun
try club mdrement.
The subject came up when Love
lace Eve, who was a guest of the
club, was asked to say something
along the line, he being a member of
the Rotary club’s committee on this
movement and having already obtain
ed some information. In a 10-minute
talk he went into the subject quite
thoroughly. He opened by saying
that there probably would be some
objection at the start to any country
club since an organization of this
kind previously to his coming to
Americus had not been properly con
ducted. He declared the men before
him and others of their standing in
the community had no one to blame
but themselves for the existence of
such a condition, as they had the
laws, the remedies in their own hands,
and that such conditions could not
continue only by their permission.
What It Means Elsewhere
He said that in bis recent visits to
other South Georgia cities and towns
he was impressed with what the
country clubs and their golf courses
are doing for the health and spirit
of the communities. He pointed to
the fact that Americus hag no place
now where a father hiay go with his
son growing into manhood and have
a pleasant afternoon together out
doors at wholesome and enjoyable
recreation—no place whero. the com
munity may meet and mingle in a
democratic way such as would be pos
sible at a country club. He recalled
/ that there is no place and no interest
here now to call the business man
away from his desk and compel him
to take the recreation and exercise
so vital to his well-being; that while
some men have gardens to provide
their diversion, many have not, and
few if any work at their gardens reg
ularly or with the same intensiveness
that they would follow a' olf ball in
an enjoyable game. V ... I
Mr. Eve stated that the possibili-]
ties of a country club and golf |
course had been investigated some
what, anefean entirely suitable place
with anwe acreage for a course and
with a f lub house already erected,
thus requiring little expenditure,
could be had at a reasonable figure.
A pool would likely be wanted and
some other faculties provided, but
nearly everything was already here.
He said preliminary estimates had
indicated that the property could be
acquired on lease, and pool built,
golf course laid out apd put in con
dition. baths provided and every
thing done to tur n the property into a
first-class country club with a mem
bership of 100 men at an initiation
fee of SSO each and monthly dues of
$5 each.
Would Provide Capital
This would provide $5,000 capital
for putting the plant into perfect
shape and leave a surplus, while the
dues of SSOO a month would properly
maintain it- He gave it as his opin
ion at the end of five years or less ;
the money to purchase the property
could be secured from among the
gnembers with the greatest of ease.
Several members followed Mr. Eve
with hearty endorsement of the pro
posal.
"I am often asked, in visiting other
towns,” said W. M, Humbert “if
Americus haS a golf course. I have
to reply in each that we have |
iTPt. It is very embarrassing. I don’t i
think any. one thing would afford as {
fine an advertisement for Americus
right now as a country club and golf
course, and I am heartily in favor of
the movement.”
“Mr. only/Objection.” said Dr.
Carl W. Minor, ‘“would be that since
I have great difficulty now devoting
* much time to my church if a country
club and golf course were establish
ed here I likely would find myself
without a pastorate, for I fear I
would spent much time there playing
golf. Seriously, I think it would be a
splendid thing’and a good thing for
the community. We need it and I
should be very glad to have it realized
here.’*
W. M. Jones said he had heard a
number of persons express the wish
for a golf course here. He heartily
endorsed the movement as one of
Finds Rush to Buy in Markets of
East—Slump Past, Says Bailey
Imbued with a spirit of optijnism •
of good times immediately ahead, and
an era of good business already en
tered in the wholesale markets, which
will be reflected everywhere shortly,
W. D. Bailey returned early Satur- i
day morning from New York, where
he .went several -days ago to ms e
special purshases of summer and
fall goods for his clothing store here.
“I have never seen so many buyers
in New York in all my trips to mar
ket there,” he said. “There were
buyers everywhere and all the deal
ers were swamped. It was with
the greatest difficulty that 1 was abfe
to make, any purchases of goods at
all, and the buying I did required
visits to dozens of houses. 1 was
greatly surprised, as not so long
ago buying was at a standstill
“I found Hart, Schaffner & Marx
practically sold out. but I was taken
care of by telegraph from the New
York office to the factory in Chica
go, and so we will be provided with ! <
clothing of that line. However, I |
was not able to get any cut prices, j 1
The clothiers told me that prices were i :
still up and would remain up, as the I
strike of the clothing workers had ■
been settled with only a slight rcduc- | 1
tion in wages. Also, the strong buy- ■ :
ing from every section is absorbing J
all the stocks and the makers do not j :
have to sacrifice their goods now to [ I
move them.
“In one place I got track of 250 1
CENTRAL HOTEL I
HEAD INDICTED
J. C. Dodgen Charged
With Operating Dis
orderly Resort
An indictment was handed down
by the grand jury shortly before it
finished work this week against J. C.
Dodgen, proprietor of the Cen
tral hotel, for misdemeanor, charging
him with operating a disorderly
house. The indictment is said to
have followed information that dis
reputable women frequent the place,
and on the specific instance of a cou
ple being arrested in the place a few
months ago. Other indictments
were:
Ben Denson, larceny after trust.
Joe Love, making liquor.
Jess Holman, misdemeanor.
Gasoline In Moultrie 1
Cent Under Americus
MOULTRIE, June 4.—Automo 1
bile drivers are putting out eight andr|
a half cents a gallon less for “whizz |
water” now than they had to back |
a few month ago. Gasoline is be-1
ing sold retail in Moultrie, at 251
cents a gallon. The highest point
it ever reached here was 33! 1-2
cents. There have been several
drops -<*’ the price within the last
few weeks, the latest decline being
two cents.
HOSPITAL SHIP
SINKER IS FREED
LEIPSIC, June 4. (By Associat
ed Press.) Formal of
Lieut. Karl Neumann, charged with
sinking the hospital ship Dover Cas
tle while he was in command of a
German submarine during the war,
wa* announced today.
Pastor To Continue
Discourses On Devil
Last Sunday evening Rev. H. T. I
Brookshire, preached on the “Deiil
and His Works” to a larg ■ and at- I
tentive audience in the Central Bap |
tist church. He will continue tl/c’ r
discourse Sunday evening, showing
the deceptions of the devil as taught
in the Bible and every day experi
ence. The public at large is invited
to hear these great addresses.
The male quartette will sing one !
of their pleasing gospel songs.
Barring Os Socialists
On Streets Is Upheld
NEW YORK, June 4. —The ap- ,
pellate division of the Supreme court
decided today in Brooklyn that the
city of Mount Vernon was within its ‘
rights when it refused to all >w Soc
ialists to hold a street meeting on Oc- i
tober. 1920. The Socialists had as
serted the action abridge the right of
free speech.
wTather.
Forecast For Georgja.—Cloudy to
night and Sunday probably unsettled
on the coast; little change in temper
ature.
great importance to the welfare of
the community. Other members voic
ed similar sediment, and. not a
word was raisdp in opposition in any
respect. /
THETIMESBRECORDER
IN THE HEART OF DIX,E~U?a?
’ men’s suits of just the sizes, grades
and patterns 1 wanted, but 1 was too
late, as I was informed that a dealer
from Mexico had snapped them up
just ahead of me. That’s the way it
was everywhere.
1 “The buyers are from
the north just now. but Southern buy
ers are coming into the market, too,
and they will continue to come in
stronger. The one big reason for
the heavy opening in buying, of
course, is the fact that retail stocks
everywhere have been permitted to
run down, in anticipation of lower
prices. Shelves are bare, stocks at
the old high prices unloaded, and now
the retailers are stocking up and ab
sorbing the goods which have been
stagnant in the hands of the manu
facturers.
“Trade seems to be increasing in
the South. A shoe salesman was just
in our store and informed us that his
sales this year, as a result of re
cently increased business, were 75
per cent greater than the same period
last year in quantity, although not in
money value.
*‘l feel extremely optimistic. The
slump seems to be at an end. I have
bought goods for our store and this
morning $2,000 worth of clothing
that I purchased while on this trip
arrived by parcel post. We are going
to sell lots of goods thjs summer and
fall. I know, and we are getting ready
for the demand.”
PASTOR TO TELL
ABOUT VICE HERE
Gambling Hole Uncover
ed Since Grand Jury
Quit, He Says
Dr. Carl W. Minor, pastor the First
Batist church and a member of the
Sumter county grand jury which has
just completed an investigation of
vice conditions in this community,
will deliver at his church Sunday eve
ning his postponed sermon, “The
Banquet of Death.” He promises a
frank discussion of conditions in and
around Americus.
Dr. Minor Saturday indicated that
he would have some new vice topics
to discuss in addition to those which
have come out in recent investiga
tions.
“An Americus woman came to me
since the grand jury adjourned,”
said he, “and informed me that
her husband had lost SSOO gambling
in a certain well known place in
side this city. If I had known
earlier this and some other things
I have learned since the grand jury
adjourned there would have been
something doing on the subject be
fore that body.”
Second Cotton Bloom
Sent In By G. O. White
The second cotton bloom of the
siason reported in this community to
tpe Times-Recorder reached this of
fice Friday evening by mail from
Smithville. It was grown by G. O.
White of the farm of G. B. Dell.
nSar Smithville and was a fully de
veloped, normal blossom.
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COMPANY BUYS
OUT BUCHANAN
Takes 20-Year Lease Os
Building —I o Open
Store Here
was made Saturday
of the consuipmation of a deal where
by the grocery stock of Neon Buchan
an, at the qiiiiher of Lamar street
and Cotton jiv mue, come into pos
session of tltetMct'lurc Ten Cent
company, of !A Hants, together with
a 20-. year lefi»' on the build ng
which is own® by Mr. Buchanan.
The papers w« ® signed in Atlanta
and possession/ .alien Friday, follow
ing the taking of an inventory of
ithe stock. A. B. Long„ (who .re
cently joined the McClure- organiza
tion, is in charge the store. The
grocery stock WiH be Closed out at I
once.
The deal invowes $50,000, the ren- ;
tai for 20 yeaas totalling $45,000 !
and the stock sid fixtures bringing!
$5,000. The (Jpal was handled by j
Sills and Stillnwi, of Americus. The |
building will bj£ remodeled by the I
McClure company shortly, at an ex
penditure of sy,ooo, according to
plans. 5
The McClureiTen Cent company
is owned by W. McClure, well
kncwji Atlanta#, and operates a i
chain of stores in a number of cities ■
in the South, iijiuding Atlanta and
Macon. The Americus store, which
will handle a lye of miscellaneous
merchandise selling at from 10 cents
to sl. will be oitfthe lines of the At
lanta store, it ismannounced. At first
the quarters nmv ocupied by the
Buchanan storefwill be utilized for
the McClure stole and the remainder
of the buildingfwill be rented out.
James Lott will-occupy the rear of
the first floor with his Americus
Steam Vuljaniz&ig Co., having tak
en a 4-year least.
C. W. McCWr, tnc oww of the
lease, is expected in Americus short
ly to direct plans for remodeling the
building and opening the store.
Mr. Buchanan Saturday delelined
to discuss his future plans.
Covintv Officers Os
Georgia End Meet
SAVANNAH, June 4.—Barbecues,
shore dinners, boat rides and other
entertainment given by the local
county officers completed the two
days’ session of the Georgia Coun
ty Officers’ Association. On a boat
ride around the harbor the associa
tion elected officers for the next
year: E. G. White, Dublin, president;
W. L. Grayson, Savannah, vice-pres
ident, and J. P. Cooper, Milledge
ville, secretary-treasurer, the last
named being elected over his pro
test. The convention has been the
largest in attendance ever held. They
will meet here next year.
SCHOOL BONDS BRING PAR.x
VALDOSTA, June 4. —Valdosta’s
school bonds, amounting to $150,-
000, were sold Friday to A. -T.
Strickland of this city and J. 11.
Hillman of Atlanta, jointly. The
contract for the new high school
building, for which this money will
be used, will be let at an early date
and the work pushed to completion.
Who Knows Why Peck’s Boy Was
Bad BoyYTell the T.R. and Win $5
Who wants a brand new $5 bill,
I or a new bathing suit or a pass into
the Rylai.ider theater for a whole
week?
Emory Rylander, manager, an
nounces today that he is going to
give these prizes away—FREE,
through the Times-Recorder.
The first prize of $5.00 will go
to the boy or the girl who, after
seeing “Peck’s Bad Boy,” which will
be on at the Rylander next Friday
and Saturday, writes the best story
on—
" Why Peck's Boy Was a BAD
BOY.”
Here are the rules:
1— Story must not exceed 250 I
words.
2 Must be written on only one I
side of the paper.
3 Must be in the hands of the
editor of ,*the Times-Recorder by
Wednesday, June 15, at. 6 p. m.
4 Address your story to “Peck’s I
Bad Boy,” care Times-Recorder.
The stories written by the prize
winners will be published in Thurs
day’s edition of the Times-Recorder,!
announcing the winners.
MISS MOSTELLER
WINS NEW HONOR!
Essay Awarded Second;
Place in State High '
School Meet
In the state school contest just
decided at Athens, Miss Sarah Mos
teller, winner of district honors at
Ashburn in the girls’ essay contest,
was awarded second place. First
place in the essay contest went to
Winder. W. M. Rogers, one of the
judges, telegraphed Miss Mosteller
Saturday announcing the result. Miss
Mosteller is the daughter of Mr. and
Mi's. J. W. MosUdlci;, of. Amerieuw;
and one of the two first honor grad
uates of the Americus High school
class of '2l.
In addition to being a first honor
graduate, she won the distinction of
completing the usual four-year course
in three years, besides winning the
Times-Recorder medal offered* the
Americus High school senior making
the highest record in English and
composition.
The graduating exercises of the
Americus High school being in con
flict with the date of the state meet
at Athens, there was no representa
tive there of this school. Miss Mos
teller’s composition was in competi
tion with others which had won hon
ors at the various meets throughout
Georgia.
Miss Mosteller is very enthusias
tic over the prospect of attending
Agnes Scott college this fall, and
her friends will follow her progress
with interest in that institution. Ker
record throughout her preparatory
school course promises still fur
hor college course promises still fur
ther honors to this gifted young girl.
CLEAN-UP IS ASKED.
Fire Chief McArthur, who is also
| sanitary inspector, asks that citizens
I clean up their weeds and trash about
. I heir premises without waiting for
the inspector to call Inspection of
| residence propcry is now going on.
Boys and girls, get your mothers
and daddies to tell you all about
the story. They will remember when
they were little fellows and read it
and laughed 'until their sides and
tummies ached.
But Mr. Rylander is not going to
stop with these three prizes. He
says he will let in FREE to Friday’s
performance, the first 50 boys and
girls that come to the theater Friday,
June 10, after 2 p. m., accompanied
by a dog. The dog must have a
rope around its neck, so you can tic
him outside when you go in to see
the picture. There will be a Jong
rope stretched in front of the thea
ter to tie the dogs to.
And then Frank Lawson comes in
and says he will give a great big
lucious ice cream soda, a box of
candy and a package of chewing gum
to the hoy or girl who comes Friday
along with the dogs and dressed
most nearly like Peck’s Bad Boy.
Watch for the ads in the Times-Re
corder and you'll see ’how Peck’s
boy is dressed —in ragged cap, rag
ged overalls and ragged shoes, dirty
face and all.
CAUGHT (MAKING
GROG DELIVERY
Young Man Arrested; 5
Quarts And Car Are
Seized
Five and one-half quart bottles of
moonshine liquor on a table in the
police station at noon Saturday con-1
stituted a haul made by Chief Bragg |
and Officer Redmond shortly before
! when they arrested A. T. Pedigo, a '
well known young man, prominent in ;
social circles, in a downtown alley I
just as he was about to deliver paid
oF Ffic ca??go o? liquor from a sales
man’s automobile which he had in
his possession, but which, he said, he
had taken from his brother without !
the latter’s knowledge. He, had pre
viously made a delivery of liquor at I
the home of a well known citizen, it ■
was said, and was in the act of dis- ■
tributing the entire amount when
nabbed. A warrant was taken by ;
Chief John Bragg for him before
Justice Carter, and also one for E.
F. Bell, charging him with having
liquor.
A brother of the accused young
man declared he was the victim of
other parties, and that he would
“come clean” and tell all about the
liquor affair, involving one of the
most prominent men in Americus.
“I know .someone else is in on this.”
said the brother. “because my
brother had only $lO when he left
home this morning, and he couldn’t
have gotten all that booze with $lO
these days.”
The car was seized by the officers.
Negro City Pupils To
Be Graduated Monday
The annual graduating exercises
of the McKay Hill colored school,
which is a part of the Americus pub
lic school system, will be held Mon
day evening at the Opera House at
8:30 o’clock. The date was originally
set for last Thursday night but was
changed. According to school of
ficials, the exercises will bring the
school’s best year to a close.
Last Tuesday evening the 7th grade
graduation exercises were held at the
! A.’ M. E. church and honor certifi-
I cates awarded to 33 pupils. The to
' tai enrollment for the school is 876.
Following is the program for Mon
, day evening’s graduation exercises:
Song—“ Praise Ye the Lord”
Prayer.
Song—‘O. He Carita.”
Salutatorian —Ben Phillips.
Prophecy—Eddie Jones.
History—Ulysses Todd.
i Song—“ Dance of Pine Tree Fair
ies.”
I Home Ecpnomics Department
i Ophia Cobb.
Valedictorian —Clyde Wiison.
Delivery of Diplomas.
i Cantata —Strange Visitors.
Prof. A. S. Staley, Principal.
Blanche Staley, Pianist.
Car Stolen, Minister’s
Son Will Come By Rail
Guyton Fisher, Jr., will not make
i his planned trip home from Macon
!by automobile as he planned the
I early part of the week. When he
‘ weqt out on College street, that
> city, Friday afternoon, where he
boards at the home of Mrs. Mattie
! Singleton, he parked his Buick cai
in front of the door and went tc
supper. Coming out nd hour latei
to return to his business down towr
he found the car gone, and no traci
or clue has since been found. I
develops that his car was stolei
among the 18 or 20 cars reporter
missing in the big automobile thef
which astounded Macon recently.
Mr. Fisher will come by rail earl
Sunday morning for, a day’s visit t
his parents. Rev. and Mrs. Guyto
Fisher. Mist; Birdie Wimberly, i
: young cousin of Mr. Fisher, wh
i planned to make the motor trip wit
I him, will be prevented from comins
HERE’S ANOTHER EASY ONE.
25 men build a facto’ry in 52 days, each laying
1800 bricks per.day. If bricks were hauled by 16
teams and there were 975 bricks in each load, how
many loads did each team haul?
Answer to yesterday’s: 63 boxes.
TIRRIBLE
DISASTER >
OCCURS IN I
COLORADO |
Rains Continue With
Ark ansas River On
Rampage
PUEBLO, CoiTjunc 4.-—(By ‘j
Associated Press.) The loss of
life from the great flood at 1:45
this afternoon was variously es- 1 |
timated at froin 1500 to 3000,
and the property loss to exceed
ten million dollars. According to
estimates at this hour a hundred |
families lost everything. The
identification of the detrd is a slow J
process.
All the fires Irurning al day
light have been extinguished.
DENVER, June 4.—A dispatch to
the Denver Times fron\ Pueblo this
morning contained the statement that
“hundreds of lives have been lost.”
It was the first direct dispatch from ’
Pueblo since last night.
The message added that most of
the lives lost were in the grove dis- ||
trict southeast of town.
The times announced it had no ,
way of verifying the dispatch, which
came from its regular Pueblo cor
resnpndent.
Another report which came from ;
railroad sources, said there had been
“considerable loss of life find prop-
- erty.”
! ''Cnntimiod heavy rains early to
l day in eastern and central Colorado •
! gave little hope for ’relief from the
floods which yesterday swept those
sections. Meager reports indicated
the loss running into millions, with
the heaviest at Pueblo, where a large
part of the business district and sev
eral residential sections were inun
dated by waters from the Arkansas
river.
Marshall, a town of two hundred,
was threatened by a break in the
Marshall Lake dam. Louisville was
inundated with several buildings
washed away.
At Loveland the dykes of the lake
were broken and part of the town
inundated, the flood putting out of
commission the electric power plant
which supplies the Weld county i
tqwns.
GUARDS KEEP ALL
FROM FLOOD DISTRICT.
PUEBLO. June 4. National
guardsmen are patrolling Pueblo to
day. permitting no one Io enter the !
sections flooded hy the waters from
the Arkansas river. Early this morn
ing the flood waters began to recede
but it was still raining and several
small fires started by lightning were
ablaze. *
JAPNAVYGUARD
WILL QUIT YAP
TOKIO, June 4. -(By Associated
p ie3h .)—The minister of the navy, it
was officially announced, has order
ed the withdrawal of naval garrisons j
from islands in the South Pacific,
including Yap, leaving all the pro
lection to the police force ■
to the civil administration.
Soldiers Beat Chinese
Crowd Seeking Premier
PEKING, June 4.—(By Associat
ed Press) —Several hundred students, j
I teachers and others seeking an inter
view with the premier regarding ar
rears in pay were attavkeu by soldier
guards at the gates of the cabinet
grounds. The soldiers used the butts
1 of their rifles and several persons,
including a director of the national
1 medical school and the vice-minis
< ter of education were reported to
! have been seriously hurt.
Alabama Sheriff Is
Absolved By Ruling
MONTGOMERY, Ala.. June 4
The Supreme court of Alabama to
day dismissed the impeachment pro
ceedings brought by Attorney Gen
. eral against John Strength, sheriff
. of Elmore county, returning a decis
’ ion of not guilty. The sheriff had
been charged with wilful neglect of
’[duty and misconduct in office.
t! 1
t i U. S» Tennis Champ
t Wins New Laurel
y ST. CLOUD, France. June 4—< By
o Associated Press.)-—-William Ifi Fil
n den, of PPhiiadelphia. world’s grass
a court tennis champion, won the
o worlds hard court tennis singles
h championship here todav. defeating
h Washer, of Belgium, in straight sets.
j
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
