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WEATHER FORECAST:
For Georgia—-Generally fair and
cooler tonight; Tuesday fair and
cooler in east and south portion.
FORTY-THIRD YEAR.—NO. 214.
42.2 COTTON ESTIMATE SMASHES MARKET
WILSON SOUGHT
CONFERENCE ON
DISARMAMENT
Former President’s Plan Reveal
ed By Publication Os Page
Letters
FIRST STEP TAKEN IN
1913, RECORDS SHOW
‘No Future In Europe’s Vision,’
He Wrote, Discussing Great
Defense Waste
NEW YORK, Oct. 3.—The Wil
son administration, as early as 1913,
was pushing plans for a disarmament
-onference like the one called by
President Harding for November.
This fact is revealed in letters of
Walter IL Page, late ambassador to
Great Britain, printed in the October
issue of World’s Work.
The letters point to the efforts of
former President Wilson, Col. E. M.
House and Page to get Great Britain
and Germany together in a confer
ence with the United States and find
a means to use their enormous mili
tary expenditures and resources for
peaceful and humane purposes.
Tn a letter to Col. House of Aug.
28, 1913, Page wrote:
“Here are great navies and armies'
and great withdrawals of men from
industry—an enormous waste. Here
are all the privileges and taxes thati
this state of things implies—every
one a hindrance to human progress.
“There’s no future in Europe’s
vision—no longer look ahead. They
give all their thought to the immedi
ate danger.
“The great powers are mere
threats to one another, content to
check orie the other.’’
Way Out Needed.
In a memorandum, written about
Jr the same time. Page added:
“Away must be found out of this
stagnant watching. Else away will
have to he fought out of it; and a
great European war would set the
Old World, perhaps the whole world,
t back a long way. It seems irnpos
rble to talk the great powers out of
their fear of one another or to
‘Hague l then! out of it. They’ll
never be persudaded to disarm. The
only way left seems to be to find
some common and useful work for
these great armies to do.
“Nobody can load in such a new
era but the United States.
“May there not come such a chance
in Mexico—to clear out bandits, yel
low fever, malaria, '-hookworm —all
to make the country healthful, safe
for life and investment, and for
orderly self-government at last?
“May not the existing military
power of Eurone conceivably be di
verted, gradually, to this use?”
Wilsrn Ethused.
President Wilson was enthusiastic,
wrote House. Page’s idea on the
treatment- of backward nations had
strongly impressed both Wilson and
House. It developed into a plan for
an Anglo-American-German compact
to deal not only with “disarmament,
but other matters of equal impor
tance to themselves and the world at
largo.”
But Paige had no faith in Ger
many. He had no faith in an alliance
that included Germany as an equal
partner. Ho did not hclievo in the
co-operation of the English-speaking
count i re:t.
On Fob. 24, 1914, he wrote House
and referred him to' the campaign of
1870 to reduce armaments, “when
"Id Bismarck dumped the whole bas
ket of apples by marching against
France,”
“You know T sometimes soar some
est of repetition of that experience,’
he added.
Home -in Germany.
This series of letters and England’s
informal approval of Page’s plan
"loved President Wilson to send
bouse to Germany to confer with
'he ex-kaiser. When House arrived
in Berlin in late Mjay, 1914, Ger
many’s military leaders were openly
' pnosed to his even seeing their
ruler,
tVhen House did get an interview,
Vilhelm did most of the talking and
'he subject, was not disarmament. It
whs first the “Yellow Peril” and then
'he “futility'’ of Bryan’s arbitration
4 'reaty which all great nations ex
cent. Germany had already ratified.
Ihe kaiser’s parting words were:
“Every nation in Europe has its
' tvonets pointing at Germany.
Hut' ’ '
''We are ready!”
I’he assassination of the Archduke
' ’"dinand soon after put an end to
’■ 'hen's disarmament plans.
'APAN TO SUBMIT
POP,n ATION PROBLEM.
rOKIO, Oct. 3. (By Associated
! rcss.) Japan’s problem of find
"t an outlet for her increaisng pop
".alien will be frankly submitted to
,h< ’ conference on the limitation of
"rmaments and Far Eastern ques
"ms at Washington, it was declared
'T Asahi Shimbun, of. this city. The
' ' wspapcr says the government will
' '"nbasize the urgency of extending
“ onomic- opportunities for the wel
■'re. of the increasing millions of
Japanese.
9
i Mrs P. I). Cherry is resting quiet-
v ”t her home on Lee street fol
wing an operation which she under
-1 went Sunday.
DON'T USE PENNIES
WHEN FUSES BLOW:
OUT, CHIEF WARNS
Pennies should net be inserted
in electric light connections behind
fuses wnen the fuses blow out, says
I'ire Chief McArthur. Although
such practice is against the law, it
is f requently done in Americus by
unthinking poisons as a matter of
convenience, he says, and often re
sults in fires or burned out elec
tric connections. That is what hap
pens whenever a residence electric
light wire becomes overcharged
from any cause, which frequently
occurs.
An instance of the danger was
cited in a run by the fire depart
ment early Saturday morning. A
broken electric power wire, car
rying high voltage, had become
crossed with a light wire, and as
result the electric connections in
the home of Emory Rylander and
W. H. Cobb, of East Furlow street,
were burned out and a hole burn
ed in th" bath room floor at the
Cobb home.
“I don’t know whether there
were any pennies behind the fuses
in either of these homes,” said
Cihef McArthur, “for I didn’t in
quire, out I am merely calling at
tention to the fact that a broken
wire or some other cause may
bring danger at any minute, night
or day, and that fuses, which
placed in the connections for safe
ty, should not. be tampered with.”
you and i
THE GERMANS’ FINANCES ;
AS LONG AS THEY WORK
LIKE BEAVERS.
J NEEDN’T WORRY ABOUT §
GERMANY has had a national
eight-hour law, since 1918. It
was intended to protect toilers from
Simon Legrec employers, and was so
drawn.
But now the cart is before the
horse. Tine Wirth cabinet finds it
necessary, for purposes of national
health, to ask the Reichstag to pass
a new eight-hour law directed
against the emlpoye, restraining him
from working more than eight hours.
It seems the ambitious German
woikman is so keen about providing
for a rainy day that he works on one
job eight hours, then hustles to an
other job for four or eight hours
more.
Germany’s, financial system may go
to smash and turn the economists’
hair white. But a people who have
to be restrained by law from working
too much are certain to pull their
country out of the hole fast. Work
is what makes any nation. Money is
just the reflection in the mirror.
SPEED
Sadi LeCointe, French airman,
steps into an airplane and flies near
ly three and a half miles a minute.
That makes a new world’s record,
but it doesn’t excite much attention
because it soon will be a common
thing. In another 10 years, three
and a half miles an hour will be slow
flying.
Man, when his artificial wings are
fully developed, will travel like a ri
fle bullet
JOBS.
At the unemployment conference,
the advisory committee recommends
the rotation system, by which the
individual works shorter time so that
there’ll be enough work for all.
Henry Ford installed the rotation
system two weeks ago at his High
land Park and River Rouge plants.
Each worker is idle one week in eight.
This is horse sense. Every one
should share in depression, just as
we all should share prosperity when
it is available.
YEGGMEN.
Yeggmen in the last 12 months
burglarized 240 banks, says the
American Bankers Association. Total
loot was only $239,087.95, an aver
age haul for each “job” of $996. Usu
ally it has to be divided among a
gang.
It’s a queer sort of warped brain
that will risk death or liberty in a
venture that nets only $996.
And for every 166 successful bank
burglaries. 74 failed entireyl. oDes
crime pay? Not even in dollars and
cents.
HOUSEKEEPERS.
Tn New York public schools, girls
are being taught to keep house in
small, cramped flats. Too bad. but
that is necessary, for the increasing
tendency is for people to congest
more thickly in cities.
It will be a red- letter da” when
the tide turns to the farms and city
schools begin to teach girls how to
keep house in the open country with
its fresh air, good health, pure milk
for babies, independent life, glorious
nature and boundless playgrounds
for the kiddies. Living in a city |s
a mild form of insanity.
TRAMPS.
You cannot get away from the law
of sunplv and demand as long as you
live in three dimensions. Einstein
hasn’t told us whether the law holds
1 good in the fourth dimension, but
probably it does. ?"
The Shipping Board cuts ocean
freight rates oq.,grain a third That’s
made necessary'by the rompetjtirrti
of tramp freighters.
When there are more shins than
cargoes, sunnly and demand emakes
the price fall. Same with wages,
THE TIMES'RECORDER
PUBLISHED IN THE ~ HE ARfHor
OWSLEY, FORMER
ASSISTANT IN
CABINET, COMING
Ex-Assistant Secretary Os Agri
culture To Speak In Ameri
cus Thursday
NOTED TEXAN TO SPEND
ONLY 3 DAYS IN STATE
Texan A Power In Organizing
State For Cotton
Association
The people of Americus and Sum
ter cotfnty and surrounding territory
will be given a treat on Thursday
of this week when Clarence Owsley,
who was assistant secretary of agri
culture under the Wilson adminis
tration, and one of the foremost, agri
cultural' men in America, will speak
in Americus. He will bo heard at
the court house- al 3 o’clock in the
afternoon.
Mr. Owsley’s home is in Texas
During the war he was one of the
big men in Washington representing
the farmers, to which class of indus
try he belongs. He was. one of the
foremost leaders in thought and ac
tion in the administration, and some
of bis writing during his time in of
fice arc remembered as gems of wis
dom and advaced thought.
For some time Mr. Owsley, who
months ago became interested in the
American Cotton association, and was
one of the chief factors in signing
up the state of Texas under the Sa
piro co-operative selling plan, has
been busy in his home state, but
this week he happened to be in Geor
gia for three days, and was induced
by the Georgia branch of the Amer
ican Cotton association to spend those
days speaking. Americus was allotted
one address on his first day. lie will
speak in Dawson Thursday forenoon,
driving here for the afternoon ap
pearance. From Americus he will go
to Atlanta and Athens, after which I
appearances he will leave for Texas.
E. E. Elmore, organizer for the
Georgia Colton Glowers’ Co-Opera
tive association, was in Americus
Saturday afternoon conferring with
leading citizens and arranging for
the coming of Mr. Owsley Thursday.
NEGRO WIELDS
AX AT FROUC.
KILLS ANOTHER
Leslie Mullet Supper Scene Os
Midnight Murder—Liqquor
Plays Part In Affair
A mullet supper, at which, liquor
was freely partaken of, resulted in
a negro killing another with an ax 1
about midnight Saturday night in
side the city limits of Leslie. Thej
negro, killed was Oscar (Roscoe) |
Singletary, known as a bad man, and
the slayer, according to the verdict
of the coroner’s inqust, was Webstser
Allen. The back side of the ax was
used on the slain negro’s head.
The frolic at which the killing took
place was held on the Sumerford and
Allen place on the north side of Les- j
lie, just off the main road to Am-1
ericus, ' Both negroes were hands on
the farm. The cause of the alterca
tion did not develop at the inquest,
other than liquor. Coroner Ed Jen
kins, who lives in Lesle. was called i
out at 12:30, immediately after the!
death of Singletary, but Ihe inquest
was not held until Sunday morning.
when men exceed jobs. It works the ‘
other way when cargoes exceed ships !
of jobs exceed men to fill them. We «
all have our ups and downs—but I
they’re mostly ups.
—
BATHS.
Man invented the pottery bath
tub so he could bathe without chop
ping a hole in the river ice. Then
came the wooden tub, next a tin one,
then the more sanitary porcelain-lin
ed tub.
But the hath-tiib, every time you I
bathe, merely dissolves 108,000,000
body germs, invigorates them, sends
them back into the pores, hence it
must give way to the shower bath,
say scientists at Northwestern Uni- ,
versity.
This ought to interest all except ;
house-boat dwellers of the Missis
sippi, who occassionalty sow their
children’s clothes on them for the
winter.
WHICH?
A magazine asks: “If you were a I
part of a watch, which would you ‘
rather be, its face or its mainspring?
That’s an allegorical question, tn \
set yon thinking on what job you’d
most like to hold i-n the business
world. •
Our guess is.that the average per- i
son would pass lip the chance of be
ing the face or the. mainspring of a ,
and select the-job of being
the Pi,etty. girl’s picture jn the back
of the case. After all, the whole
watch runs .pnly for her. So does
the owner. ■’
AMERICUS. GEORGIA, MONDAY AFTERNOON. OCTOBER 3, 1921
Weston At 82 Will Try To |
Walk in Six Days
‘ I” <-
K w ■
k Us : : -
Work! Famous Pedestrian Tells
Walkers They Should “Carry
a Cane”
NEWARK, N. J., Oct. 3.—Edward i
Paysen Weston, although in his 83d
year, firmly believes he can dupli
cate his record-breaking feat of 1874,
in this city, when he astonished the
world by walking 500 miles in a lit
tle less than six days.
He’s here again today and expects
to try the feat in November.
Can he do it?
Well, he’s spry and active as
though he was below the half-cen
tury mark, and shows no signs, either
in appearance or actions, of being
a noctogenarian. He still walks
erect, wit!’ the same stalwart stride
that has made him famous the last
50 years.
Does he look hi: age?
No, despite Aitr white hair and long
white mustacuef- (
We;.lon doesmT -smoke or drink
i liquor, eats three meals .a day, and
makes temperance in everything his
slogan.
Breakfast, the walker’s principal
meal. It usually consists of rolled
oats, eggs, bread and butter and two
cups of coffee.
He doesn’t, believe in medicine of
any k’ind. Salt and water mixed is
his favorite remedy for throat and
other ordinary ills.
He boasts of having had no s«ri
ous illness since 1870, and ascribes
his good health tn exercise of walk
ing to leading a simple, but vigorous
life.
DRIVE ON TO UNIONIZE
SOUTH’S COTTON MILLS
Headquarters To Be Moved From
Charlotte oT Columbus After
A Time
BY NORRIS QUINN.
CHARLOTTE, N. C„ Oct. 3.—Or
ganization into unions of more than
600,000 textile workers is the objec
tive of a ; weeping driv,e just start
ed by the American Federation of
Labor. i
This is one move in the federa
tion's campaign for 5,000,000 mem
bers.
Groundwork for the campaign al
ready is being laid in the South,
where the textile industry centers. By
the middle of October, the push will
he well under way, says Thomas F.
McMahon, int ernational president of I
the United Textile Workers of Amer
ica.
Activity will be greatest in North
.Carolina, .South Carolina, Georgia,
Alabama and Tennessee, where 225-
000 unorganized textile workers are
employed. The campaign also will
reach North into Pennsylvania, Rhode
Tslan dand New England.
Union headquarters are at Char
lotte. A big group of organizers, rep
resenting the federation, the United
Textile Workers and half a dozen in
ternational unions are stationed here
After the. field surrounding Char
lotte has been thoroughly worked,
headquarters will he moved to Co
lumbus, Ga.
Organizers are looking forward to I
a stiff fight. The Southern states
affected are looked upon as non- i
union strongholds. Employers are\
said to be strongly antagonistic t<
unionization.
McMahon and other union lead
ers say industrial abuses exist, in non
union districts which only organiza
tion can cure. They say that:
Workers are getting a low wage
that does not permit them to care,
for their children or save money. '
Girls between 14 and 20 are work
ing from 60 to 66 hours weekly. I
Company houses are cramped and |
provided with poor sanitation or no'
sanitation at all.
Tuberculosis is ravaging industrial i
communities because of long hours'
and poor sanitation.
“PuJ these conditions are not uni-i
versa!,” McMahon says. “There are •
nfhny idea] mills in the South and
ideal comjiatjy villages. There are
many fair and- enlightened employ
i erf.
1 “While the South is frequently
♦
Just now he i doing some lectur
ing about New York. E’e wants to
collect money enough to finish pay
ment of a SIO,OOO debt contracted
on hi:, lae.f ems -country hike, declar
ing he wishes to face his Maker with
a clean slate.
We; Lor. says all walkers should
carry a --.ane, staff or swagger stick,
for it; ’hems to keep one’s mind ofl
the strain, and keeps swelling out ol
the hand: so frequently encountered
when the hand; are allowed to swing
at Hie sides for long periods.
He regards as hi; greatest feat his
500-mile walk against, time in old In
dustrial Hall in Newark in 1874. This
ho completed in 22 minutes short of
six days.
't'hom and: of dollar:: wore wagered
for and agahtsi him. the majority
raying he couldn't do it. Feeling be
came 'o intense near the finish that
Weston’s life was threatened as he!
walked.
The chief of nolice with drawn re
volver took a place by his side, sur
rounded the walker by p, cordon of
detective?, and thus Weston finished
the last five miles amid much excite
ment.
charged with violating child labor
laws, not a single case of violation
of the 1 1-year-old federal statute has
come to our attention.”
Sixty percent of the textile work
ers are women between 14 and 20,
McMahon says. I’he trades included
under textile workers are loom fix
er., weavers, pinners, carders, pick
ers and finishers. Ninety-nine per
cent are native-born Americans.
We are prepared to keep up this
organization work for four years if
necessary,” McMahon says. “Seventy
two international unions will aid by
loaning organizers.
“Already 60,000 Southern workers
have been organized. Employers are
beginning to use the blacklist to
block our efforts.”
McMahon is in Washington discuss
ing the campaign with Samuel Gomp-
• ers, president of the American Fed
eration of Labor. Gompers cannot
go South to direct the campaign per
sonally because of his activity in
connection with the unemloyment
and disarmament conferences here.
BEAUTIFUL OTTER SHOT
SHOT NEAR AMERICUS
A beautiful otter, one of the fin- |
cst of fur-bearing animals, and now ;
rare in this section, was killed one
day last week by Austin Law neat
his home in Seale’s Mill creek, south
west of Americus. The. animal was
:sighted by him swimming down the
creek, whereupon he shot it.* The
I animal was carried to the Thompson
' school where it was viewed by the
I pupils and teacher with great inter
j cst.
The otter just now is not very
valuable for its fur, the fur market
! having been demoralized for sonic
time. Tn recent years, however, a
single skin has been worth as much
I as S4O.
ALABAMA LEGISLATURE
HAS BIG JOB CUT OUT
I MONTGOMERY, Octi 3.—Mem
i bers of the Alabama legislature were
j arriving today for the beginning to-
■ morrow of the special session called
i by the governor to.pass on thje pro-
■ posal tp provide funds to match the
federal good roads appropriations, a
! bill to permit the manufacture and
■ sale of cereal beverages and sixteen
other questions. Among the most im
portant are tie proposals to revise
the Sunday motion picture laws and
covering boycotting a'hd
blacklisting,J
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
6,537,000 Bale Crop
Forecast in the Final
Government Report
Anticipating a4s Per Cent Report, Prices Soar
Cent And a Half, Only To Lose It All And
More When Figures Are Announced —Gin-
nings Under 3,000,000 Bales.
, *
A disappointing government crop estimate broke the cotton market
wide open today. Expecting an estimate somewhere around 40 per cent,
with a consequent production only slightly more than 6,000.000 bales, the
trade bought with a rush at the opening of the exchanges today prior to the
announcement of the government figures, forcing the market up nearly a
cent and a half a pound. The ginners report, showing less than 3,000,000
bales ginned to September 25, was taken as bullish. Then the an- j
nouncement at Washington of an estimate of 42.2 per cent, or a total crop
this year of 6,537,000 bales, and the crash came. Prices in New York tum
bled $9.50 a bale, and in New Orleans the full limit of $lO a bale allowed
at one day’s session. A slight recovery then set in, bringing the market
back a few points above Saturday’s close. It was the biggest surprise and
the wildest market seen in many days.
Spot cotton was unaffected by the futures market, there being no sell
ing on the early rise. . . ..
Little speculation was reported from Americus.
DROP OF $9.50
BALE IN NEW YORK.
NEW YORK, Oct. 3.—The cotton
market, ’’ere made a sensational break
today following publication of the of
ficial condition figures. After sell
ing to 21.95 for December delivery,
prices broke $9.50 per bale.
FLUCTUATION GOES
LIMIT IN NEW ORLEANS.
NEW ORLEANSrOct. 3. The
final report of the season by the de
partment of agriculture on growing
cotton crop cracked the market wide
open here and in five minutes trading
prices dropped 200 points or $lO a
bale from the highest point of the
morning, t.'ie extreme fluctuation al
lowed in one session under the rules
es the Cotton exchange.
CROP NOW PU I AT
6,537,000 BALES
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3.—Further
decline in the condition of cotton dur
ing September resulted in a reduction
of half a million bales in the fore
cast of production issued today by the
department of agriculture, which
placed the total crop at 6,537,000
bales, based on condition on Septem
ber 25, which was 42.2 per cent of
normal. By states shows: Alabama
—Production, 468,000 bales; condi
tion, 46. Georgia—Production, 722,-
000 bales, and condition 33.
A production of 7,037,000 equiva-[
lent 500-pound bales was forecast
last month from the condition of the
crop on August 25, which was 49.3
per cent of a normal, while in Aug-|
ust a production of 8,203,000 bales -
was forecast, based on the condition j
of the crop July 25, which was 64.7 '
per cent of a normal
Last year the crop was 13,439,503
equivalent 500-pound bales, and its'
condition on September 25 was 59.1 i
per cent of a normal, while the ten- 1
year average production is 13,052,256 t
bales and the ten-year average con-'
dition on September 25 is 64.2 per
cent of a normal..
Production forecasts of earlier
months this year, with the conditiin
of the crop for those months, ana the
final production of other years with
the 1 condition on September 25 of
those years, follow: ,
Period Production Condition
Sept. 25, 1921 6,537,000 32.2
Aug. 25, 121 7,037,000 .. .49.3
July 25, 1921 8,203,000 64.7
Final, 1920 . .13,439,603 58.1
Final, 1919 ....11.420,763 54.4 j
Final 1918 ....12,040,532 54.4 j
Final 1917 ....11,302,375 60.4 i
Final 1919 ....11,449,930 56.3 i
Final 1915 .. .11,191,820 60.8 i
Final 1914 ....16,134,930 73.5
Final 1913 ....14,156,486 64.1 j
Final 1912 ...13,703.421 69.6
Final 1911 ....1.5,692,701 71.1
10-Yr Average 13,053,256 6.42
GINNINGS REACH
2,907,950 BALES.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3.—Cotton
ginned prior to September 25 amount
cd to 2,907,950 running bales, t<-e
Census Bureau announced today.
The ginnings this year for Georg a
were 391.750 and lor Alabama z2J,
’927. . rr
Ginnings for the belt to Sept. z->,
1920, trialed 2,21 »,G7 i 1 ales, against.
I, in 1919, 3,770,611 in 1918
and 2,511J1i>8 in 1917. The total
crops in those years being: 1920,,
13,270,970; 1919, 11,325,532; 1918,
11, 1917, 11,248,242.
The first ginnings report showed
returns of 481,788 bales to Sept. L
against 351,589 on t’he same date a
year ago. Texas ginnings to Sept.
1, last, totalled almost 410,000 bales.
World spinners’ takings of cotton
last week totaled 249.000 —largest of
the season, against 123,000 the same
week a year ago and 133,000 two
years ago. This brought total tak
Ings since Amt- L a3t - U P ,o L 992,
000 balse, against 2,276,000 a yeai
ago and 1,447,000 two years ago.
AMFRICUS TEMPERATURES
(Furnished bv Rexalk Pharmacy.!
4 ,arh ,75 4pm ........78
6 am ...75 6 pm 74
8 am ...77 8- pm 74
10 am ~..81 10 pm .74
I Noon 84 Midnight 74
’ 1 pm .....85 2 am 74
aW W «
o I*l I 1
AMERICUS SPOT COTTON '
Good Middling 20 1-lc.
LIVERPOOL COTTON
LIVERPOOL, Ott. 3.—Market
opened irregular, 16-31 up. Quota
tions, fullys, 15.52. Sales, 18,000 -
brales. Receipts, 1,318 bale's, of
which 1,236 are American.
Futures Nov. Dec. ’ Jan. Feb.
Open ...14.43 14.24 13.84
Close- 14.12 13.94 13.23 13.53
NEW YORK FUTURES
Dec. Jan. Meh. May
Prev. Close 20.65 20.33 20.02 19.50
Open .20.90 20.80 20.53 20.05
10:15 am .. .21.50 21.25 20.88 20.49
16:30 21.50 21.29 20.89 22.35
1L ,! O 21.-2 21.50 2l io 20.90
ii.il 5 20.30 19.38 19.9,0 19.25 |
11:30 20.60 20.30 20.00 19.6(1
11:45 20.58 20.30 20.07 19.60
12:00 20.60 2Q.35 20.70 19.60
12:15 pm .20.56 20.28 20.14 19.65
12:30 20.76 20.43 20.26 19.80
12:45 20.85 20.67 20.50 20.04
1:00 .20.86 20.63 20.50 20.00
1:15 20.78 20.65 20.52 '19.96
1:30 20.63 20.55 20.35 19.90
1:45 . 20.79 10.42 20.28 19.81
2:00 . 20.77 20.49 20.27 19.88
2:15 20.80 20.48 20.25 19.85
LIGHT PLANT ENGINEER
STRIKES HEAD IN FALL
A. W. Collier, chief engineer at
the electric plant of the Americus
Lighting company, wag painfully but
net seriously hurt by a full from a
scaffold Sunday morning while at
work at the plant. He struck a beam
with the hack of his head and had
to be taken home. He will be back
atAvork Tuesday, he slated this morn
ing.
The injury occurred while the plant
was shut down for several hours to
make a change in the steam pipe, a
U-bend being connected to permit
increased expansion and contraction
of the steam, and increase to the
efficiency of the plant.
CHECKS STILL COMING
FOR GOLF CLUB SI OCK
“The checks from invited members
of the Americus Golf club are com
ing in nicely,” said Gol. G. R. Ellis,
president of the club, “and we hope
to have the initial membership closed
up within a very few days. A num
ber have promised to hand me their
checks immediately after the first,
of the month, which means that they
will be in my hands at once. When
the fiftieth check is in hand the ini
tial capital stock will be subscribed
and we will be able to proceed ac
cording to law under our charter,
which has already been granted.”
SKIRT REVEALS DRUGS
SIDNEY. Oct. 3.—To make good
her escape from Customs authorities, i
an unidentified woman loosened her
beb and let an . underskirt drop.
Search revealed the skirt lined with
packets of opium which the woman
had tried to smuggle in.
PAYING THE FIREMEN
LONDON, Oct. 3.—Thomas Hep
ley, tenant on Lord Harlech's estate,
couldn’t pay the Osw.estry Fire Bri
gade- for putting out a fire on his
farm. The bill will be paid on the
installment plan.
GO-CARTS CROWD WALK
LONDON, Oct. 3.—Go-carts left ,
unattended on the Broadstairs prom
enade have aroused the city council
to action against their obstruction.
A special enclosure will be provided
for them.
WINE GOES LONG WAY
LONDON, Oct. 3.—Wine makers
of England are meeting increased'
competition from South African -
dealers. In spit e of the long -distance
and added import expense; the South .
Africans have beep able to' break. *
into the British "market.
Mrs. .C. R. McLeod and little son,
Charles, Jr., are-spending a few days ‘
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H.
K. Ertzberger, on Hampton street, ,