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FORTY-FOURTH YEAR.—NO. 83
SIX DIE WHEN TWO PLANES STRIKE IN MID-AIR
CITY’S FLOATING
DEBT DECLARED
OVER $150,000
Aiderman Warren Forecasts Com
ing Auditors’ Report In Dis
cussion Over Paving
An inkling of what may be ex
pected in the auditor’s report on the
financial condition of the City of
Americus came out at last night s
meeting of the city council in debate
over whether the city should con
tinue paving as already planned at
this time or not. Aiderman Warren,
chairman of the finance committee,
to whom financial features and pav
ing matters are referred, informed
the council that the city’s floating
indebtedness now is at least $150,-
000.
Other members of the body having
been given this information previous
ly, it caused no evidences of surprise
on the floor of council, despite the
fact that the report of the mayor at
the beginning of the present year, in
presenting the budget for this year,
showed a floating indebtedness of
only $83,154.18. It was to wipe out
the floating debt, then reported as
amounting to SIOO,OOO, that an extra
3 mill levy was made two years ago
to run a maximum of five years
with' understanding it was to liqui
date the entire floating debj in that
period. The new audit report is
expected about next Monday, the
auditors now being engaged in com
piling it at their offices in Atlanta.
City Not In Shape.
, When the matter of paving West
Church street at .this time was
brought up last night, after postpone
ment at the last meeting, Mr. Warren
reported that the city was in no shape
to spend the money for its part of
the project; that while its share
might not be more than SI,OOO the
city was in no condition to finance
any amount. He said he would fav
or proceeding only if the property
owners paid the whole cost except
the street intersections, leaving this
much as the city’s whole share. It
was mentioned by Mr. Burke that this
was out of the question as it would
require a charter change.
Mr. Allison declared he favored
proceeding with the paving. He said
W. E. Mitchell has already financed
the project for the city and he didn’t
believe the city should stop progress.
“If any street needs paving, that
is it,’’ said he, “for in the summer
nearly every bale of cotton brought
to Americus is hauled on it and the
dust is terrible.”
Mr. Warren replied that the city’s
floating debt was more than $150,-
00, and that if the city kept piling
up indebtedness progress would be
forced to stop much more suddenly
than if the city were to stop spend
ing at this time.
School Vouchers Pile Un.
Mr. Burke said Mr. Mitchell
wanted action. He declared plenty
of cities were worse in debt than
Americus, and that there was no
cause for alarm.
Mr. Warren responded that he
would recite a detail to show what
the city was up against. He said
it now owed the Planters Bank $40,-
000 on school vouchers and that the
bank had refused to cash any more
vouchers until some of the old ones
were taken up. He stated that, fac
ing this contingency, ' Friday was
school pay-day, with a $5,000 teach
ers’ payroll to meet and only $2,-
500 in the bank. “We’ve got to get
the money somewhere,” said he, “but
I don’t know where it will be. If
we keep on adding to the floating
debt it will make it impossible to
proceed.”
“I believe in doing a little paving
every year,” said Mr. Allison.
“I believe in wearing good clothes
if you can pay for them, but not
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cemetery. Rotarians from all sections of the country attended.
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LUMPKIN RADIO
CLUB ORGANIZED
Officers Authorized To Raise
Funds For Immediate Instal
lation Os Receiving Set
LUMPKIN, April 7.—The initial
meeting of Lumpkin Radio club was
h“ld Wednesday morning in the office
of the county school superintendent,
temporary officers being elected and
authorized to raise the funds for pur
chasing and installing a radio tele
phone receiving set, which will re
ceive the broadcast radio business
messages and entertainment features
now being sent out daily from At
lanta and from the Northern and the
Eastern cities.
W. T. Halliday was elected chair
man, and A. B. Scaife secretary and
treasurer. Represent (lives of sever
al electric companies were present
and an order was placed for a com
plete wireless receiving set, to be de
livered as soon as possible for it to
be manufactured. The Lumpkin club
hopes to install this set within one
month.
The club is to be provided with an
instrument which will magnify the
sounds so they can be heard all over
me room in whicn it is installed.
WIFE OF GREEK CROWN i
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ATHENS, April 7. (By Associat
ed Press.) —Princess Elizabeth, wife
-r Crown P>-inn e George, is seriohsly
ill with typhoid fever. Her mother,
Qheen Marie, of Roumania, has been
summoned, and she is expected to
arrive tiday.
if you can’t,” retorted jMr. War
ren.
Here the colloquy ended and the
city engineer was instructed to pro
ceed with the raving on a motion by
Mr. Burke, Mr. Warren being the
only opposing vote.
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( EXPLAINS LONG DELAY IN
STREET DRINKING FOUNTS
Asking Council concerning the rea
son for the delay in finishing the well
and drinking fountains at the Dough
boy monument, City Engineer Chas.
Wheatley last nighT informed the
Council that when the fountains were
first bought a mistake had been made
in the shipments, indoor fountains
which would have been liable to
freeze in winter, havijig been shipped.
A new order was placed by Julius
Schroeder, plumber, he said, and the
j equipment was reported shipped last
! Saturday. He declared that so far
the citv was concerned the well was
ready for operation.
CARSWELLS BUY
NEW DRUG STORE
Business Will Be Re-Opened Mon
day With C. R. and C. H. Cars
well As New Managers
Announcement is made today of
the sale and transfer of the Americus
Drug company to E. L., C. R. and C.
H. Carswell, by Stuart Prather, for
mer manager.
The sale was negotiated by George
ID. Wheatley and J. H. Purvis, the
I amoun tinvolved not being made
public.
“We are today taking stock and
will re-open Saturday,” Dr. E. L.
Carswell stated to a representative
lof the Times-Recorder. "This pur
chase in no way affects the Carswell
d’ug Co., which will be conducted by
me as in the past.
"We will continue to operate the
Americus Drug Co. under that name.
C. R. and C. H. Carswell will be in
active charge of the management. Dr.
R. S. Everett, who has been with the
concern for some time, will remain
with us as prescription clerk.
“The entire show room, fount,
showcases, etc., were very recently
installed by Dr. W. S. Prather and
Stuart Prather. We believe we have
one of the handsomest drug stores
in South Georgia, and no effort or ex
pense will be spared to give to our
many Americus and Sumter county
friends a welcome and a service not
equalled elsewhere.
“We find the stock is full and am
ple, but wherever necessary, immed
iate additions will be made, so that
every call can be filled instantly.
“The same perfect delivery service
and courteous treatment will await
our friends here that has always
marked our places of business.
“For two days we have closed, tak
ing stock, re-arranging and getting
ready for openina again tomorrow,
Saturday.
“Plea'-e extend to our friends and
the friends of Dr. Prather and Stuart
Prather a very cordial invitation to
visit us, both for me and in the name
of Messrs. C. R. and C. H. Carswell.”
PLAINS HOG SALE.
Two carloads of hogs sold at Plains
Thursday in a co-operative sale there,
brought SB.IO for tops. The ship
ment brought a total of approximate
yqs2,soo, the purchasers being Har
per Bios., of Albany. All of the hogs
offered were in excellent condition,
and, the price was a shade above the
prevailing market quotation.
LENTEN SERVICES AT VALVARY
CHURCH.
Friday, April 7, evening prayer
and address 7:50 p. m.
Saturday, April 8, evening prayer
and address 4:00 p. m. This serv
ice is for girls in particular.
AMERICUS. GEORGIA, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. APRIL 7. 1922.
PLENTY WATER,
TOO MUCH LOAD
And Price Would Be Prohibitive,
Is Information From Council
On Swimming Pool Request
That the city has an abundance
of water, but cannot afford to add
such an extra burden to its pumping
system as would be required to sup
ply the swimming pool, and also
could not furnish a supply of water
at a price that the Playground could
afford to pay was the information
that came out last night at the city
council meeting during and after the
appearancA of J. Ralston Cargill,
head of the Playground, and commit
tees cf the three civic clubs, to ask
the council to make a price on a
temporary supply if it had the water
to furnish. After Mr. Cargill had
explained the situation, practically
as outlined in advance in this paper
yesterday, the matter was referred
to the water committee with instruc
tions to report back to the council
its recommendation.
Mr. Cargill impressed that he
wanted no gift, having pledged the
council when the Playground was
purchased that it would never be ask
ed for anything more for this prop
erty. He said, however, that a tem
porary supply was needed until the
pool well was completed or tested,
and he asked information which he
might lay before the Playground as
sociation.
After the meeting, in informal
discussions, City Engineer Wheatley
stated that the city has an abudn
ance of water, but said the plant
should not be given an extra load
of the size needed to supply the pool
—IBO,OOO gallons per day. He said
the city is now pumping 600,000
gallons a day for its own use, which
requires 12 hours. During the oth
er 12 hours, he said, the machinery
is constantly being overhauled and
kept in shape. He said the plant
could handle the extra load, which
would require 3 extra hours of pump
ing, but should not be required to
do so.
Mr. Burke stated that the city is
now losing money on its water de
partment, instead of making a good
profit as citizens generally suppos
ed and been led to believe, and that
every 1,000 gallons pumped was
costing 20 cents, the household rate
charged, and that on the two or three
large consumers which had a rate of
15 cents the city was losing heavily.
He said that even at the 15 cent rate
the needed water for the pool would
cost the Playground association $27
a day, which would be prohibitive.
“The only way to complete the
pool and put it in operation,” said
he, “is to sell more pool bonds. I’ll
buy $25 wortii more and I am sure
many others will do the same. I am
not against the pool. I have built a
gate through my back fence to make
it convenient to get to the pool from
my home for bathing during the sum
mer. B ut I can’t see how the city
can possibly furnish the water at a
rate which the pool could pay.”
N. Y. COTTON MARKET
TO BE CLOSED APRIL 29
NEW YORK, April 7.—The New
York cotton exchange, it is announc
ed, will be closed April 29, in order
to facilitate movement of ts equip
ment to temporary quarters in Wall
street. Operations will be resumed
May 1. The present home of the ex
change is to be torn down and a new
22-story structure erected,
FRENCH GENOA
DELEGATES GET
INSTRUCTIONS
Lloyd George, Smiling, Yet With
Careworn Countenance, Leaves
London For Conference
PARIS, April 7. (By Associated
Press.) —The Ftfench cabinet ,thisi
afternoon approved the text of Pre
mier Poincare’s written instructions
to the French delegation to the Get
noa conference.
The instructions are based upon tie
government’s memorandum of Jan
uary 31, in which discussions of rep
aratons were declared to be outside
the scope of the conference pro
gram.
D’ANNUNZIO TO REPRESENT
ITALIAN SEAMEN AT GENOA
GENOA, April 7.—Gabriele D’An
nunzio is to participate in the coining
international conference here as the
representative of Italy’s Seamen, ac
cording to Italian newspapers pub
lished here.
LLOYD GEORGE LEAVES
LONDON WITH PARTY
LONDON, April 7.—(By Associat
ed Press.) —Smiling cheerfully, but
unable entirely to conceal a careworn
expression, Premier Lloyd George
headed the British party of twenty,
including hi- wife and daughter, who
left today for Genoa to attend the
economic conference which opens on
Monday.
PRECAUTIONS TAKEN
AGAINST INDISCRETIONS
PARIS, April 7. (By Associated
Press.) —Extraordinary precautions
are being taken to prevent indiscre
tions by members of the French dele
gation at Genoa. Louis Barthou,
head of the delegation, has warned
his collaborators that the first person
who communicates directly with Pa
ris in regard to the proceedings of
the economic conference will be im
mediately sent back to Paris.
policelikelyto do
STREET TAX COLLECTING
The city police in all probability
will take the burden of collecting
the city street tax off the city mar
shal this year. Stating that the mar
shal would have his hands full this
year collecting delinquent property
tax, Aiderman Warren asked last
night in city council to have the po
lice assist in this matter. Mayor
Sheppard said he would make such
a recommendation to the police
board today, with all likelihood of
such an order being issued?
CITY OFFICES ORDERED
TO KEEP LONGER HOURS;
Hereafter the city hall, meaning ;
the offices of the city clerk and
treasurer and the water department,
will observe bujd"»/ss hours, remain
ing open until 6 p. m. daily includ
ing Saturday, by order 1 of the city
council, passed last night at the rec
ommendation of Chairman Warren
of the council finance committee.
The closing hour in the past has been
5 o’clock daily and noon on Satur
day.
Mrs. India Fulton, of Shellman, ar
rived yesterday to snend some time
with her daughter, Mrs. S. I. Saun
ders.
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TRASH CAN AND SIDEWALK
SIGNS FIND LITTLE FAVOR
The Council last night heard the
sixth request for permission to place
125 or 30 large covered trash cans,
■ bearing advertising, on the streets of
the city without cost. Mr. Burks,
chairman of the committee handling
such matters, said he had recommen
ded against such applications before
and would not recommend this one,
but would like to see one before
passing final judgment. The matter
went to his committee for action.
Mayor Sheppard reported that the
practice of defacing the sidewalks
with painted signs had been called to
his attention, and on suggestion of
Aiderman Burke, follr>wing disap
proval of the practice by Aiderman
Taylor, the ordinance committee was
instructed to report at the next ses
sion of council an ordinance prohib
iting such practices in the futu>-.
BIG BESSEMER
PLANT NOT TO
RESUME WORK
Sixty-Two Non-Union Mines De
clared Closed With Organiz
ing Efforts Continuing
YOUNGSTOWN, O„ April 7.—A
further effect of the coal strike on
the steel industry was felt here to
day.
The Republic Iron and Steel Com
pany, which had announced that its
Be-'iemer plant, which has been idle
for a year, would resume operations
next week, has cancelled the orders
for resumption of work there, it was
learned here today owing to, the
stiike situation in the aFyette coun
ty coal fields.
Two of the company’s three non
union mines in that district are clos
ed for lack of labor, it is said.
IMPORTANT TO ALL WOMEN
READERS OF THIS PAPER
Tousands upon thousands of wom
en have kidney or bladder trouble
and never suspect it.
Women’s complaints* often prove
to be nothing else but kidney trouble,
or the result of kidney or bladder
disease.
If the kidneys are not in a healthy
condition, they may cause the other
organs to become diseased.
You may suffer pain in the back,
headache and loss of ambition.
Poor health makes you nervous, ir
ritable and may be despondent; it
makes any one so.
But hundreds of women claim that
Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root, by restor
ing health to the kidneys, proved to
be just the remedy needed to over
come such conditions.
Many send for a sample bottle to
see what Swamp-Root, the great kid
ney, liver and bladder machine will
do for them. By enclosing ten cents
to Dr. Kilmer & Co.. Binghampton,
N. Y., you may receive sample size
bottle by Parcel Post. You can pur
chase medium and large sizC bottles
at all vug stores.
Mrs. C. V. Tyson continues to im
prove after a severe illness of sev
eral months.
Mrs. William Pierre, of Birming
ham, is the guest for several weeks
of her mother, Mrs. Ida Sargent, on
Lee street.
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PARIS-LONDON
AERIAL EXPRESS
IN COLLISION
Pilots Os Both Planes Among
Killed Wreckage Comes
Down In Flames
PARIS, April 7.—(By Associated
Press.)—The Paris-London aerial ex
press collided in mid-air this after
noon over the village of Phieloy, 70
miles north of Faris.
Both planes were going at high
speed in opposite directions.
The pilots of both airplanes, three
passengers and one mechanic were
killed.
MRS. J. E. KIVEN.
Mrs. J. E. Kiven, 84 years old, and
a former resident of Americus, died
Thursday at 3 o’clock at her home in
Atlanta ,where she had resided for
the past 25 years.
The body will be brought to Amer
icus Saturday afternoon on the 2:15
Central of Georgia train and will be
taken to the First Baptist church,
from which place the funeral exer
cises will be held. Interment will
follow in Oak Grove cemetery, by
the side of her husband, who died
many years ago.
The funeral services will be held
at the First Baptist church Saturday
afternoon, the pallbearers being E.
L. Murray, F. W. Morgan, Lon Gam
mage, James Myers, F. W. Colbert
and C. B. Pouncey.
Surviving are three daughters, Mrs
Charles H. Weekley, Mrs. John D.
Blakely and Mrs. Bessie Cotney, of
Atlanta, and two sons, V. A. Kirven,
of Atlanta, and Clyde Kirven, of
Shreveport, La. Mrs. F. W. Colbert,
of Americus, and a number of other
grandchildren, also survive.
Mrs. Kirven was the widow of the
late S. W. Kirven, a former resident
of this section, who operated a large
plantation on the Dawson road, four
miles from Americus. They were pio
neer citizens of the county, and dur
ing their residence here were well
known and greatly beloved. She was
a member of the Baptist church and
was closely affiliated with the activ
ities of the congregation in Atlanta,
where she had worshipped for many
years. She had been ill only two
weeks, old age contributing to her
death. Americus friends will read
with regret of her death.
Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Prather
leave Monday for Poughkeepsie, N. '
Y., where he will take a special
course in finance. Mrs. Prather,
who has been much feted since her
marriage, wifi accompany him.
Miss Ellen Estes, who has been in
Boston for several months studying
expression, has returned io her-home
here and is the guet of her moterh,
Mrs. W. H. Estes, on Rees Park.
, Mrs. Richard B. Winchester, Miss
Ella May Ranew and Miss Mary Car
ter, of Leslie, were in Americus
shopping today.
Baptismal services will be held this
evening in the Christian church on
I aylor street, at the conclusion of the
regular preaching services. Miss Me,
va Clark will sing at the services'
and the friends of the congregation
are especially invited to be present.