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THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER
ESTABLISHED 1879
Published by THE TIMES-RECORDER CO., (Inc.) Arthur Lucas,
President; Lovelace Eve, Secretary; W- S. Kirkpatrick, Treasurer.
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A THOUGHT
Now the end of the commandment is charity, out of a pure
heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned.
I Timothy 1:15,
He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth
keep i n g.—l zaakWa It on.
1 homas E. Watson is dead.
[he state has lost its junior Senator. The world has lost
one of its most picturesque figures. Literature, the realm of arts,
has suffered the keenest loss, in the death slumber of the
remarkable mind that achieved the fascinating and -penetrating
History of France," "Life of Napoleon” and the many other
literary works which will make the name of Thomas E. Watson
famous in the South when his political philandering will have
faded into the dim background of the past.
l ew Georgians of this generation have, in going, "left be
hind them footprints on the sands of time.” Watson will be
classed among the few.
With all his impetuosity, ail of his bigotry, all
of his overshadowing egotism (and the measure of his life will j
reveal all these traits) Thomas E. W'atson, at times, was sub
lime.
He had a sublime faith in the future. He had a real rev
erence for the past. History to him was an open book into which,
his mind* delved with all the abandon and joy that allures’
youth to the covers of a fairy book.
Pacts that eluded men of other times, events that puzzled
historians of no mean mental breadth, Watson took a joy in
solving and revealing for the benefit of others.
Keenly analytical, his mind reached into the forbidden
recesses of history and pounced upon facts, that, brought into
the broad light of present day research, revealed men and
motives long lost to the world by neglect and shameful
stupidness.
fhroughout his History of France this was proven;
throughout his Life of (Mapoleon, the diminutive Watson, dimin
utive in statue, but big in brain, takes issue with the greatest
minds of all times on the greatest of all minds, that of Bona
parte, and bids them to combat his deductions which portray
Bonaparte, not, as he has been portrayed by historians with a
paitisan pen, but, as the great Corsican himself might have Eked
to have been portrayed, had he been able to stop in his labors
long enough to have put time and thought into his own
autobiography, before St. Helena overtook him.
Lhe mind that could so clearly reveal the motives and
thoughts of the world’s greatest warrior, was the same mind that
could concern itself with small bickerings on bigoted platforms
and could rise to combat, in the political arena, those who had
done 1 im even small harm and who were “distasteful” to him.
In Georgia, Tom Watson, will never probably be as fully
understood as he is in the country at large; we have had too close
a view of him. Our perspective has been narrowed through the
fact that his greatest efforts have been dwarfed in our eyes by his
greatest follies.
In life, Senator Tom Watson was an anathema in politics
to a large number of people in the Empire State of the South.
In death, his followers mourn a great leader, the state
mourns a brilliant son and the world will miss a great historian
and student.
i om Watson was a man.
Whatever else may be said of him—by friend or foe. His
manhood was admitted by all.
He was a genius. No human being could have written as
he wrote; spoke as he spoke; lived as h>lived; helped friends as
he helped them; made powerful enemies,’ as he did, and yet
never, once, bend a knee to the forces which draw concessions
from genius and fool alike.
Watson will go down in history as; one of Georgia's great
men —great in heart, great in mind, great in strength. No man
could have gathered about him the thousands of loyal—blindly
loyal—friends and followers that Watson has had for a
generation, without being an extraordinary m n among men.
Like all geniuses, Thomas E. Watson had his faults. He
could never be a follower. The very nature of the man com
pelled him to lead —lead regardless of which path his feet were
to tread. Men of great mental attainments could not long
remain among his friends. Ihe friend of today, was, too often
the enemy of tomorrow, because Watson demanded that he lead
in all things.
To the “average man"—the man of the street, the man
behind the plow, the unfortunate man —Watson was more than
a man —he was a being to be idolized. And while he broke
with the leaders of men, he stood loyally and steadfastly by the
thousands of men who were his followers. To him, the "average
man must be cared for, and he never forsook or forgot him.
Long after the thousands of followers of Thomas E.
Watson l-.ave died and have been forgotten, there will remain
many volumes of history, the product of the mind of this genius,
lhe book shelves of the nation are richer because of his
phenomenal literary achievements.
As a writer, as a speaker, as a leader, Georgia has produced
few greater men.
In his passing let Georgia, the Empire State, bow her
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My, bow he did storm up and down.
*j‘*WELVE TOES, the Sorcerer,
* was furious when Light Fingers
i:turned without the Fairy Queen's
automobile. Just furious!
My,. how lie did ustorm up and
doryn with rage arid stamp his foot
and tear his hair and bite his nails
and gnash his teeth!
Poor Light Fingers, the bad little
fairy who worked for him, didn’t
know here ttf look. He had done
the best he could.
It wasn’t his fault that, just at
the very minute he was going to
scatter the tacks on the road in
front of the magic automobile that
Nancy and Nick were taking to the ■
Fairy Queen, someone grabbed him '
by the collar and stopped him.
“I’ll fry again,” he said when
Twelve Toes got over his rage.
“Very well, ’ said the Sorcerer. ■
"I’ll whistle, for Comet-Legs to'come j
and give us some good advice.”
So he put two lingers in his mouth
and whistled like a fire whistle, and
| OLD DAYS IN AMERICUS
TEN YEA7S AGO TODAY.
(From the Times-Recorder Sept. ,
27, 1912.)
Americus is to have a third motion
picture theater but under the same
management of the Savoy already
successfully! conducted here. Yes
terday Manager G. C. Wall of the
Savoy effected a lease of half the
store now occupied by Hamilton &
Co., and will tit up handsomely as
a picture theater.
Miss Wilh’e Rutherford, well
known here as one of the most en
thusiastic members of the council
•of safety chapter D. A. R., has just
been notified/that she has been ap
pointed as a member of the national
committee on historical research.
The iii 't step in reorganizing the
local Y. Al, ('. A. was taken in the
election of a new board of directors
to succeed the old. On the board
were elected George Oliver, C.
Yoeman, L. G. Council, C. C. Haw
kins, L. A. Morgan, W. M. Crook,
T. Tillman, ,1. A. Davenport, N.
M. Dudley, John Sheffield and Dr.
C. P. Davis.
What is considered some of tl
finest fruit grown here in the shape
of Japanese persimmons and pecans
were brought to the Times-Recorder
.office? yesterday by IT. W. Smith
wick, well known orchardisl and
fruit man.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY.
(From the Times-Recorder Sept.
•27. 1902.)
The Epworth League will enter
tain this evening at the home of Mrs.
| TOM~ SIMS SAYS
There is a big prune crop. Heaven
help the boarders;
Married life in a flat has a ten
dency to become that way.
Oh, what is so rare as a quiet day
in Ireland? •
.The bonus bill rates another
wound chevron.
What makes a cat madder .than
seeing a dog catcher loafing?
The Shaker Cult at South Uion,
Ky., is bankrupt. That reminds us,
Ford closed his plant.
Forth.? land’s sake, pay the far
mers for their crops.
Our oil output is increasing. And
since school opened the castor oil
intake is increasing.
When you see a man laughing he
may be a coal dealer who has just
looked at the calendar.
John J. Butler %as killed while
shaking a rug. Show this to your
wife next time.
bead a moment in grief, for the passing of a great intellect —
an intellect, that no matter how twisted or warped it may have
been the conception of those who came in contact with it, to
their joy or their sorrow, an intellect that in these days and
amid the scenes of a renewal of the great upheavals of all
nations, Georgia and the world can hardly afford to lose.
The soil that gave him birth, the clay from which the body
drew its first conception of life, the state that gave him to The
world, and which reflected alike his sins and his virtues, has taken
him back into its arms again and a soul struggling for long years
has given up the struggle and gone home.
IHE AMERiCUS TIMES-RECORDER. *
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, pretty soon there was a whizzing in
* the air.
; Comet-Legs appeared, his ei'ooked
legs wrapped around the star he
always rode.
He tied his star to the top of a
tree and climbed down
“What’s wrong?” he asked when
he had shaken hands with Twelve
Toes, the Sorcerer, and Light Fin
gers, the bad little fairy. “What can
1 do for you?”
Twelve Toes answered:
“Light Fingers here stole the
Fairy Queen’s automobile for me,
j and then the Twins, Nancy and
1 Nick, got it back. I sent Light Fin
gers back for it by of a magic
: bean-r.tr.l’:, buttheappie-tree fairy
caught him and stopped him. Now
we don't know what to do. Can
■ you help us?”
j “Sure!” nodded Comet-Legs, posi
tively “I’ve got air idea already.”
(To Be Continued.)
(Copyright, 1922.)
j Julia Everett on College street. Fol
. lowing is the program to be render
ed on this occasion: Vocal solo, Miss
Maggie Buchanan; recitation, Miss
Helen Argo; instrumental solo, Miss
Allie May Kleckley; reading, Miss
Jessie Davenport; prayer, J. W.
Shiver; conundrum, Dr. C. P. Davis;
vocal solo, Miss Esther Nease; reci
tation, Miss Annie Chambliss; poem,
Miss .Marie Morgan.
The farmer chuckles as he re
ceives the big ipi'ice of 20 cents a
dozen for eggs and 22 cents for
breakfast bacon.
Miss Beulah MeMath has returned
to the city and has reopened her
dress making parlors over MeMath
Bros, store on Forsyth street.
Senator and Mrs. T. G. Hudson,
of Ellaville, visited friends here yes
terday.
1 The Pearlman stock of good has
been removed from the Byne block
on Forsyth street and the store will
now be occupied by Sills & Co.
THIRTY AGO TODAY.
(From the Times-Recorder Sept.
27, 1892.)
Miss Mary Haynes returned today
from New York where she has been
; for two months studying the latest
dots in dressmaking. Miss Haynes
’ | is an accomplished artist in her pro-
I [ session and is prepared to receive
i patrons at her home on Church and
I K'ampton streets.
Miss Clara Guerry, o the bright and
. • nretty little daughter of Hon. and
Mrs. Dupont Guerry, of Macon, re
- ; turned home yesterday after a visit
. ■ here to relatives.
Clemenceau, the French Tiger,
may come over here for an attack
on American banquets.
“My Wild Irish Rose” is a new
movie. Lloyd George thinks it is
what the Irish did.
Milkmen’s association protests
tramps steal cream. Sounds like
vanishing cream.
Raving a two-dollar bill may be
bad luck; but not having one is
often worse than that.
Some wives think their duty is to
play bridge and Work Bridget.
The mpn who talks to himself
wants to hear something he can be
lieve.
Rickenbacker, famous aviator, is
married. While he works his wife
will look up to him.
Harvard has good football pros
pects, but Yale plans to spill the
, Boston beans.
Bread' wasn’t made 4 yeast
until 1650, but some of it hasn’t kept
very well.
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and claimed the suspicious stranger as
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THE STANDARD
Navy Serge Dresses at $6.75.
Several styles of practical navy,
and pretty styles; every one brand
and pretty sties; eery one brand new
new just from the manufacturer; ail
sizes, at each $6:75.
Unsually Effective Dresses i
at $12.50 to $16.75.
Made of poiret twill and trico-!
tine; beautifully made and trimmed;
about ten styles.
Beautiful AH Silk Jersey
Petticoats at $2.98
Fashionable, : lender line, longer
styles that new autumn frocks re- ]
quire; almost every color to select j
from.
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A Line of Boys’ and Men’s Sample
Hats and Caps at Half Price.
No two'alike; about five to seven
hundred in the lot, every size, every
shape for men and boys’ at an av
erage of half price.
Fine AU Wool Storm Serge
at 98c Yard.
Fine, all wool storm serge in navy
and black, 45 inches wide, and regu
larly sold at $1.50; special now at
yard 98c.
38-lnch Sea Island at I 1 jc.
The act.nl wholesale value of this
Sea Island on today’s market is about
12Jc, but we bought this some time
ago and w : ll pass it on to our cus
tomers at the same fates we paid for
it
Women’s Fine One-Strap
Pumps at $4.95
Genuine custom made, all hand
workmanship by the same shoe ex
pert from start to finish Grace,
style and sturdiness
Women’s Odd Slippers
Values Up To $5.00 at Si,oo
Here is r. chance,to get you some
good shoes at about 20 cents on the
dollar; almost every size in the lot;
all on center tables and priced for
your choice at Pair ...... SI.OO
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Standard Dry Goods Co.
Forsyth St. Next Bank of Commerce
For Quick Service
And
HEAVY HAULING
PHONE 303
P. L. WOOTTEN
CLARK’S TRANSFER
E ROY DUNCAN
Architect and
Electrical Engineer
Exchange Bldg. Columbus, Ga I
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AMERICUS
UNDERTAKING CO.
Funeral Direclora
And Embalmer*
< NAT LEMASTER, Manager j
Day Phones 88 and 231
Night Phonea 661 and 889
* 1.. G. COUNCIL, President. T. E. BOLTON, Ass’t. Cashier, j
g C. M. COUNCIL, Vice President and Cashier.
| The Planters Bank of Americus I
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* Conservative
A conservative and far-see- 5
2 WWoRW W SSHII sng bank is a p r °g rcssive in
ya fluence in any community. S
5 it ® ur i nl >mate contact with *
*■ every Pl lase °f business life !
* 18 in this community and with >
, i ji .fej invariable adherence to con- |
■ serv ative banking principles, I
i# iOMiMB f ' tS US adn,irabl y t 0 re P r - !
1 £ The Bank With a Surplus ' *
j RESOURCES OVER $1,700,000 !
PROMPT. CONSERVATIVE, ACCOMMODATING
No Account Too Large; None Too Small J
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LOANS ON COTTON
This bank will make loans on cotton
stored in any of the Americus ware
houses protected by insurance. We do
not mean by this to advise any one to
hold cotton, but merely to offer our /
services to those who desire to do so.
BANK OF COMMERCE
Americus, Ga.
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS
Frank Sheffield Lee Hudson
John Sheffield Charles R. Crisp
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In buying your Drugs there are two para !
mount things to consider; honesty and pur
ity. Where there is one you will usually
■ | find the other.
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We make these two principles our stock in
trade. You are always sure of both at
jl NATHAN MURRAY, Druggist
“A GOOD DRUG STORE”
Phone 79
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DR. S. F. STAPLETON, Veterinarian
Graduate Veterinary College, Ohio State University-
Sails Answered Day or Night. Day Calls, Chamber of Commerce. I h° n
Night and Sunday Callsj Cawood House, Phone 776. Americus, <>»•
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