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. EDITORIAL.
MAKING five to ten ears of corn
£Tov> where but one grew before
was the most notable achievement in
the life of a Georgian who has just
passed on from this life. It was an
achifvemnt of which any person
might be proud, and one of genuine
service to mankind.
The man was B. F. Watkins. Jr.,
of Butts county. He was 71 years
of age. and for many years one of
the most prominent planters of Geor
gia. A few years ago he attracted
the attention of the entire country
by producing 175 bushels of corn
to one acre of Georgia land. He was
interested in all phases of farming
and live stock growing and had ex
hibited at the State fair in Macon
and the Southeastern fair in Atlanta
a number of times. His individual
display of home cured meats took the
premiums at every fair where these
products were ever shown. At the
time of his death he was arranging to
take an exhibit to the State fair at
Macon.
’THAT is 4 our idea of a worth-while
. citizen—and Sumter county has
a number who are entitled to recog
nition in the same class, although
they have not made quite the indi
vidual iecbfd a< hieved'by Mi: ’Wat
kins. Cotton was not king in Mr.
Walkins’ domain, for the crown wa.
worn by Mr. Watkins himself.
It is often said that Georgia can
not compete in the production of corn
and other grains with the great corn
states of the North and Middle West
Which is utterly without foundation
The great corn states do not produce
on an average as much as 30 busnels
' of corn to the acre. True, they do
not use commerical fertilizer, but
they do not have cheap labor, and
. what advantage they have is won
through the general use of modern
machinery and the willingness of the
white man to get out in the field him
self when necesasry, which is often,
and make a “hand,” as well s| to
oversee the operations of his farm.
Mr. Watkins gave the lie to the state
ments that the South cannot compete
in corn growing. The South GAN
compete successfully. And does so
wherever a man makes up his mind to
do it—and mixes enough brains and
brawn with his fertilizer.
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CUN DAY, November (>, just pre
ceding the world conference on
disarmament at Washington, has been
proclaimed by Governor Hardwick as
a day for prayer for peace in Geor
gia, and undoubtedly it will be gen
erally and devoutly observed as such
throughout the state—a state in the
hearts of whose people dwells a vast
and deep longing for world peace. <
The governor said in his proclama
tion:
“Whereas: The Evangelical Min
isters assocation and the Christian
Council of Atlanta, have requested j
that I issue a proclamation setting
aside and declaring Sunday, Novem
. ber 6, a special day for prayer, self
examination, and suplication for
God’s guidance of the International <
• Conference on the Limitation of Ar
maments, to convene in Washington
Armistice day, Friday, November 11.,
"Therefore, 1, Thomas W. Hard
wick, governor of Georgia, do here
by issue this my proclamation, urging
that the people of Georgia of every
creed and faith gather in their re
spective places of worship on Sun
day, November 6. for united prayer
that God may lead the nations of
the world into the ways of peace, and
put an end to the misery and destruc
tion inevitable as the results of war.
"In witness wehereof, I have here
unto set my hand, and caused the
Great Seal of the State to be attach
ed.
Fashion says women must wear
skirts longer. How much longer
six months?
Britain and Ireland can’t plav
without notes.
It is great to be rich enough to
afford a nervous breakdown.
♦ * *
In a railroad lobar fight, as in
most fights, the innocent by tandei
gets hit.
♦ « J’s
Beauty Hint: Frowns are wrinkles.
When a single girl asks a single
man if he snores the plot begins to
thicken.
* *
Bad money shows tomeone i
forging ahead.
♦ ♦ ♦
One time this world will need re
forming is after it reformed.
♦ ♦ *
Home-brewers can be held for cre
ating disturbances.
* * ♦
Grass-widows are not green.
« * ¥
In the social swim it is the survival
of the flitest.
Told days in americus
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TEN YEAgS AGO TODAY
(From the Time- Recorder Oct. 20,
1911.)
’THE many mends of the beautiful
I * yeung bride, once a resident
■ here, will be interested in the mar
" riage of Miss Miriam Whitaker, of
- Coin M■ ■ F. D. Kiiven, of
New Rochelle. N. Y . which ceremony
1 to. place at the First Baptist church
in Columbus on Wednesday evening.
’ Mr. Joseph E. Johnston will soon
have a pretty residence out on the
Southside. Yesterday he purchased
from Mrs. Mary Boone and Miss Har
rold a desirable vacant lot at Har
rold avenue and Furlow street, on
which he will erect a pretty seven
room bungalow.
Yesterday marked the arrival of
the new boiler that is to be installed
at the local pumping station, which
forms one of the prinicpal items of
the improvements planned for the
station in accordance with the $25,-
000 bond issue voted last April.
With 30,000 bales wagon cotton
marketed at the warehouse already,
and with the assurance of receiving
probably 10.000 bales additional be
fore the 1911-12 season closes, Am-]
ericus warehousemen and buyers are,
felicitating, at least ,on the size of i
the crop of this section this year.
By the enactment at its last meet-1
ing of an ordinance to provide for
the issuance of executions against
I abutting property owners for paving
I the streets, the city has taken the
first step toward the collecion of that
portion of charges for paving which
property owners will be expected to
pay.
After one of the most successful
and enjoyable sessions in the history
of the Friendship Baptist association,
the annual meeting of that body
came to a close yesterday.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From the Times-Recorder Oct. 20,
1901.)
Rev. J. N. Yohannen, a native Per
■ian pieaching in the- South, will fill
the pulpit at the First Baptist church
this morning at 11 o'clock, and at
Furlow Lawn at 7:15 tonight. In
the evening his lecture will be on
“Persia ahd the Gospel,” and many
interesting curiosities gathered in his
country will be displayed in illus
traf ion.
A dwelling house on the Methvin
place, near Americus, occupied by a
negro tenant was burned yesterday,
with the loss of 5 bales of cotton and
the seed from as many more bales.
Two young children barely escaped
with their lives.
Mr. W. M. Chambliss, an aged and
esteemed resident of Sumter coun
ty, living near Americus, died Sat
urday morning after a long illness.
Ke was 67 years of age, and is sur
-1 vived by nine i ons ami daughter
Every manner of country produce |
was brought to Americus yesterday.
But the load that caught the crowd ;
and caused a scrap was a cargo of >
| WHEN A WOMAN TELLS
BY RUTH AGNES ABELING
CHAPTER LXXI
I MEET PHILIP AMES’ WIDOW
SOHENSEN, isn’t it?” the,
woman was saying in the most ■
wonderfully modulated voice 1 had
ever heard. ' Miss Howard said she
called you, so I expected you.”
So fascinated with the poise of the
woman had I been, that had not no
ticed the figure sitting in a chair
in the far corner of tne private of
fice, barely visible through the open
door.
The head was thrown r lig tly ba .
One hand clenched the arm of
chair, the other had dropped
it I caught the gleam of meta;
was the body of Philip Ames.
I started, as the realization came
to me, and found it impossible o i
swer the woman who had beer ta >
ing.
“You had better come over h ■
1 heard her saying. She had .' r■ •
a chair for me out of the range vs
vision of the motionless figure
“It it terrible to look at!” she i :
hoarsely. »
“Yes—especially for too - -• ,
knew him.” My voice ounderl
st range.
“For those who knew him!” the
woman repeated after me. And ?.<■-
she said, “I am his wife.”
Her voice was low, reminiscent,
mysterious—weighted with feeling,
but void of tears.
T looked in amazement at the fact
which the circle of light from the
desk lamp revealed. Lila was right
Mrs. Philip Amps. was beautiful
She was beautiful in a poised, silept
way; the way in which woman
achieves her highest charm. In her
very wordlessness was her attractive
ness. Where other wclnen would
have lost their opportunities through
an endless babble Mrs. Ames height
ened hers in a shoud of silence.
There was that fine intelligence
about her which soerns a meaning
less patter.
A knock at the door aroused me.
It opened and two officers walked in.
Behind them came the man whom I
opposed was the coroner.
Thdy wasted no words, but set im
mediately at their rather superficial
examinations. There was no attempt
to make the tragedy anything but
one of suicide.
The undertaker came. When the
question of where the body should be
taken came, I asked for a few words
with Mrs. Ames.
W’hen I told her that the John
Ames homes open to her for any-
I thing, she thanked me and said that
the body might be taken there, foi
i ’possums. Americus has oftimes
), {had wagon loads of corn, cotton and
i rutagas, but never before a two
d I horse load of 'possmus at a half dol
tl las each.
- , Many farmers are disposed to hold
f their cotton for the advance they are
1 i sure will come later in the season,
y, and to these Mr. L. G. Council is
l ready to advance money at a low rate
• of interest.
Messrs. W. T. Lane and B. L.
‘ ' Jciner, Sumter’s representatives in
1 the house, will go to Atlanta on Tues-
• day. where the legislature convenes
-of Wednesday. Among matters to
i come up will he relative to the City
- Court of Americus, and the amend
dent to the city charter making the
police commissioners of Americus I
I elective by the city council.
i Americus i?nd Sumter county' dele
gation to the reunion of Confederate I
Veterans in Macon will leave Wed-1
nesday morning.
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From the Times-Recorder Oct. 20,
' 1891.)
! Married on Sunday afternoon at
{ the residence of the bride’s father,
, Mr. J. W. Cobb, in East Americus,
i Miss Kittie C. Cobb and Mr. B. L.
| Guerry, Rev. R. M. Williamson of-
I ficiating.
Hermann, the great magician of
modern times, gave his inimitable ex
hibition at the opera house last night,
and in his acts of brain entangle
ment and optical mystification he
thoroughly hoodwinked his intelli
gent audience.
Only six miles more of track to be
laid and the Savannah, Americus and ■
Montgomery road will be complete.
The intervening trestles, consisting
of six openings, are all that delay
the work.
Early Sunday morning the crowd
began to gather at the First Meth
odist church to witness the exercises
by the Juvenile Society, which were
to close the Woman’s Missionary con
ference, and not one of the large
audience regretted coming or found
anything tedious in the program.
The 12th annual conference of the
Woman’s Missionary society of the
South Georgia conference* was held
in Americus October 15-18.
Americus, with the resumption of
her electric railway and a free postal
delivery system, will take on new life
and the values of sudburban real
estate will reach their real standard
The work of paving our principal
thoroughfares must soon conn* before
the people as a vital question, and
the relative merit of brick and gran
ite as a durable and lasting material
for that purpose are now being fully
tested in other cities.
A meeting of the road commission
of this community has been called to
; meet at the court house in Americus
at 10 o’clock Saturday, October 24th
\ for the purpose of sending delegates
io thci conventio nwhieh meets in At-
I Santa on the 27th of the month.
pier home was in a hotel, and so, tak-
I ing the body to his brother’s home
l would simply simplify matetrs.
■ There seemed to be nothing fur-
I ther for any of us, so we started to :
1 go.
Mrs. Ai,. • walked into the private
loftice and -tood for a second before
{the basket in which the form of a '
man who had been her husband lay
She took one of his hsuyds, held it
for a and ;.ut ;t gently
I back.
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’ THE AMERICUS TIMES RECORDER.
ADVENTURE’S E 1
OF THE TWINS
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BLOWY BAL LOON FISH
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After the hurrying sack went the
oh!” cried Nancy, pointing
after the sack which was
swimming rapidly away. There goes
the Fairy Queen’s bag of gold. Nick,
we’ll have to go after it.”
“But how can it swim?” Nick
wanted to know, scarcely believing
his eyes. He had seen all sorts of
bags with all sorts of things in them,
but never one with fins outside.
“It’s the gnomes,” said Nancy.
“They know that we have discovered
their gold and they have given the
bag fins—magical ones—so it can i
swim away from us. If we hurry,
we may catch it.”
After the hurrying sack went the i
Twins in their magical Green Shoes,
which were just as good for swim
ming with as magical fins any day. j
And then something still stranger
happened. The bag began to swelli
up until the children were sure it
was going to burst, and the more it
swelled, the nearer it got to the top
of the water. '
OBSERVATIONS
An expert says the world is 8,000,-
)00 years old. That’s bow many
lard winters we have bad.
China's argunicml is that she wants
o mind her own p's and queues.
Placing Thanksgiving at the end ,
>f the football ■ eason was very;
hotlgntful.
Sometimes a man’s better half lie
tomes his better three-fourths.
Going into debt is keeping up with
nost neighbors.'
Houses are not as scarce as the 1
rent is.
A Harvard astronomer says he i
ecs crops growing on the anoon.
They don’t grow that fast here.
They may be making moving pic
tires of congress but it doesn’t
ound possible.
“What’s good for chaps?” asks a
?irl subscriber. Depends on the
cind.of chaps they are.
“Sleeping outdoors makes one
oeautiful,” says a beauty hinter. Oh,
lee the pretty policeman.
One cure for insomnia is have
■omeone pound on your door and tell
you to get up until you go to sleep.
DENTAL NOTICE
Dr v E. E. Parsons. Office Hours
•rom 8 A M. to 5 P. M. Upstairs,
Commercial Warehouse Building.
■Vii; give you good service. Painless
Extracting or No Charge.
T.. G. COUNCIL, President. T. E. BOLTON. Asst. Cashier.
C. M. COUNCIL, V.-P. & Cashier. JOE M. BRYAN, Asst. Cashier.
(Incorporated.)
The Planters Bank of Americus
The Bank With a Surplus
Resources Over $1,700,000
CERTIFICATES
OF DEp osrr
’in In these ( ' ays safet y
Ji y° ur principal demands first
Kliiji liiliim consideration. After that
fl |S comes your rate of interest,
Biird the negotiability of
tffri gu'iu [S your investment.
U ‘ALOu • Certificates of Deposit
are always worth 100 cents
on a •Tillar; they pay 4 per
cent and are always negotia-
Lie.
We welcome new accounts.
PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE, ACOMMODATING
No Account Too Large; None Too Small
Your Banking Business Invited
We Pay 4 Per Cent Interest On Time Deposits
BANK OF COMMERCE
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS:
Frank Sheffield Charles R. Crisp
John Sheffield Lee Hudson
Organized Octobebr 13, 1891.
Twins in their magical Green Shoes.
:i “Wh-what’s going to happen?”
I grasped Nancy. “Where’s it going
; now.”
By this time the queer looking
sack was quite on top of the water,
-so up popped the heads of the Twins
right after it. Overhead, sea-gulls
were circling about happily, white'
clouds were loafing comfortably in
the blue sky, and jolly old Mr. Sun
was laughing down at them. Not
far away two porpoises were turn
ing somesaults in the water and
I blowing as loud as two steam whis
tles.
But the next thing that happened
| was strangest of all. The sack lifted
itself completely out of the water by
its fins (which now looked more like
i wings) and away it flew through the
air.
“Goodness,” cried Nick. “It isn’t
a sack at ail, Nancy. It’s got eyes.”
Just then one of the gulls called
down, "Why, hello there, Blowy Bal
loon Fish! Out for an airing?”
' ‘KAYDET’ VERSION!
OF THE 23D PSALM I
‘ Z i
The .INI is my airplane; 1 sbail not
want another.
It makelh me glide down into the
l palmetto and the alligators.
It landeth me beside stagnant
] waters.
It tortures my soul.
li guideth well above the airdome
I for its name’s sake; but on the cross
country it is a bum.
Yea, though I fly over the hangars
in the morning, 1 fear no evil,
I The con-rod and the crankshaft
; they discomfort me.
It preparest a bum landing in the
■ piesence of mine instructors.
i It annointeth my goggles with oil;
I the radiator runneth over.
Surely, goodness and mercy shall
follow we all the day.- of my life.
( And 1 shall eat in the mess hall for
ever, shall 1 not remove it from the
j hangar.- Carlstiom Field News.
TAX NOTICE.
Tax books for the payment of 1921
. city taxes are now open.
E. J. ELDRIDGE,
10-3-11-3 Clerk and Treasurer.
.
FREEZONE j
j Corns Lift Off /'
with Fingers <
Drop a little “Freezone” on an ach
ing coni, instantly that corn.stops hurt
ing, then shortly you Lift it right off
with fingers. It doesn’t hurt a bit.
® Your druggist sells a tiny bottle of
‘Freezone” for a few cents, sufficient to
remove every hard corn, soft eorn, or
sorn between the toes, and the calluses,
without a particle of pain.
Substantial
Reduction
In prices on
Oliver Chilled Plows y
AND
Genuine Oliver Parts
WE CARRY A COMPLETE STOCK
Chappell Machinery Co.
Cotton Ave and Wheeler Sts Phone 234
QUICK LOANS
On Improved Farm Lands at 6 1-2 Per Cent
Interest. Reasonable Commission.
Middleton McDonald
Exclusive Correspondent for the Atlanta Trust Company
33 Planters Bank. Americus Phone 89
PLEASE-Take Notice
DO YOU CALL FOR DOMESTIC WHEN
YOU WANT BREAD
BE SURE YOU GET DOMESTIC
Guaranteed to Please. Pound and Package Cake Headquarters.
MODEL BREAD CO.
124-128 Forsyth St. phone 32
Hunting
Coats ‘
HUNTING VESTS AND LEGGINS
i hese Goods are Just In and the Prices Are
Remarkably Low
GUNS, GUN SHELLS, FOOTBALLS
BASKET BALLS, AIR RIFLES,
ROLLER SKATES
WILLIAMS-NILES COMPANY
HARDWARE
Artesian Corner Phone 706
ATTENTION
AUTOMOBILE OWNERS!
Here is where you find first-class general repairing by
mechanics who know how.
Auto electrical carburetor repairs, all kinds a specialty.
We are expects on reconstruction of wrecked autos.
Bring yours to us.
IVEY MACHINE & ELECTRICAL CO.
118 So. Jackson St. Phone 794
Kent’s Garage
AUTOMOBILE and FORD
REPAIRING
12 Years’ Experience In Americus
GET OUR PRICE BEFORE HAVING
YOUR WORK DONE
B. B. KENT
Lamar Street. Opposite Rylander Gafag e
' THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, W/