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THE TIMES-RECORDER
tsiABLiSHKD 18<0.
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A THOUGHT
And He said unto them, Take
heed and beware of covetousness:
for a man’s life consisteth not in
the abundance of the things which
he possesseth.—Luke 12:15.
The first principle of all human
economy, individually or political,
is to live with as few wants as
possible, and to waste nothing of
what is given to supply them.
Ruskin.
OUR HAT IS OFF TO
FLORA, CHAMPION COW.
Georgia needs a few more young
Tnen like Robert L. Biggs, now
a senior student at the Georgia
State College of Agriculture.
Biggs has a cow, and his story is
told Tn a bulletin just issued by
the State Agricultural Society.
Hear it:
Raleigh Boy’s Flora 391,991,
a jersey, owned by Robert L.
Biggs, a senior student at the
State. College of Agriculture,
Athens, has become the senior
four-year old class leader of
Georgia. She produced 11,472
pounds of milk and 658.58
pounds of butter fat beginning
test at four years and eleven
months of age. This betters the
state class record by 49.56
pounds of butter fat. Flora’s
average test was 5.74 per cent.
She calved within the required
time to qualify for class A. A.
She was sired by Fern’s Ra
leigh Boy 103,800, a Golden
Fern’s Lad Eminent bred bull,
and she was out of Tormentor’s
Flora White 254,496, a fine
daughter of Tormentor’s Tor
mentor 3d 69,328.
Examples of progressive thrift
like this cannot be told too of
ten, and when it comes to the ad
vancement of anything having to
do with datfy farming in Georgia,
the world is llbtter off for such
news.
Flora is in a class of her own.
She shows what can be accomplish
ed almost anywhere within the
bounds of the state, and if Geor
gia, and indeed the section around
Americus, can raise a few more
fine Jersey cows of the type that
Flora is, we will soon be indepen
dent of the pests to which cotton
and all other farm products are
heir to, and the dairying interests
of the state will soon receive such
a boost as has never before been
experienced in recent years. The
record of Flora is given as an ev
ample for others to follow. May
her kind be duplicated in every
nook and corner of this God-fav
ored section of our great state.
SHOWING THE WAY
BACK TO THE SOIL
It is an interesting experiment
in the direction of normal living
and reasonable thinking, and a
sane view of life and its problems
that the enterprising city of Wich
ta in Kansas, is undertaking. Al
though Wichita has sprung into
. prominence and wealth by the dis
covery of oil in its soil, L. W.
Mayberry, superintendent of the
schools is convinced that the pros
perity and happiness of the com
muity still contiues to center in
its agricultural possibilities. To
make children familiar with the
basis of real and uncontestable
prosperity Mr. Mayberry has con
vinced the city of the necessity of
establishing in its environs, a farm
of thirty acres, on which high
school pupils will be instructed in
the theory and practice of agri
culture.
Wichita is taking a step in the
right direction, and is furnishing
an example for other cities, large
and small, to emulate. Every cum
inunity in America—and especial
ly every rural community—should
devote thought, resources and es
. fort to the movement to bring the
children back to the soil, to place
. them in intimate contact with the
forms of life that spring from the
soil. Such a contact would be
physically, mentally' and morally
helpful. It would stimulate the
sense of proportion and furnish
an insight into the delights of con
tributing, however small in quan
tity, to the supply of the essential
material things.
It is not from the farm that the
army of loose thinking and spend
thrifts is recruited. Contact with
the soil may not stimulate imagi
nation, instill dreaming and culti
vate the faculties of fancy, but it
does produce that requisite to the
propeq solution of the world's
problems. The project of bring
ing the children back into close
contact with the soil, which was
OLD DAYS IN AMERICUS
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY.
(From the Times-Recorder Jan. 11,
1913.)
Mrs. John R. Gatewood passed
' away at 8 o'clock last evening at
: her residence on Elm avenue, the
' end following an illness of many
i months duration. The death, of this
good woman, therefore, was not un
expected to her family and friends,
though none the less deplored among
all here.
At the meeting held Thursday
night for the purpose of selecting of
ficers to serve the First Baptist
church and Sunday school for the
current year, the re-election of all
the old officers was the result, their
work being so successful and har
monious that they were chosen to
serve again. Messrs. T. E. Bolton,
Clerk; E. T. Murray, treasurer; T.
F. Gatewood, superintendent; Chas.
Chambliss, assistant superintendent;
Charles Lingo, finance committee; C.
C. Hawkins, chairman of purchasing
committee.
In Americus, spot cotton market
quotations were 12 1-8 to 12 1-4
cents for good middling.
A need is now felt, and has been
felt by the business men of Ameri
cus for a directory that will give
the necessary facts relative to local
population, names, industries, etc. In
brief, what is now recognized to be
a modern and complete city direc
tory.
Mrs. Cornelia Jennings and son,
David Jennings, of Plains, were
guests of relatives while spending
yesterday here.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY.
(From the Times-Recorder Jan. 11,
1903.)
Os the several corporations in
Americus few have been so
ful as the Americus Grocery com
pany, as evidenced by the splendid
financial showing made at the close
of the eleven years of its experi
ence, and the very high standard it
has attained. In the election of of
ficers yesterday Mr. Frank Lanier
was once again made president; Mr.
Henry Lanier, vice-p(resident and
manager of the company’s house at
Albany, and Mr. R. L. McMath, sec
retary and treasurer.
Night Clerk W. L. Britt of the
Hotel Windsor, alter a stay of sev
eral months in Americus, goes to Ma
con today to take a similar position
with the Hotel Lanier. Mr. E. A.
Ni'bet is to succeed Mr. Britt as
clerk of the Windsor.
BY BERTON BRALEY.
“My father!—Well, I guess if he
Should find som ■ giants kidnaped me,
He’d foiler ’em right to their cave—
My father’s awful strong an’ brave!
An’ when he caught ’em he’d yell ‘Hey,
5 ou let that boy go, right away!’
An if they didn’t— 1 tell you
My father'd break ’em plumb in two!
1 guess he’d learn ’em to be good,
I hat ’s how h’d do—my father would.”
“Your father! Aw, he ain’t so grand,
My father'd lick him with one hand,
And if some giants was around
Why just the minute that they found
My father lived here—te.ll you what,
They’d run like fun until they goto
A million miles away! - They’d be
Afraid to THINK of touchin’ me!”
And thus two ordinary men
Os fivt foot six or eight or ten,
A litte soft and fat and gray,
And commonplace in every way,
Are by their children’s honest pride
Heroic figures, magnified.
A man must be o perfect zero
If to his kids he’s not a hero
(Copyright, 1923,)
TOM SIMS SA YS:
Most of those who swore off are ! i
swearing on. i <
Know thyself—but don’t tell ev- ■
crybody about it. 1
He who hesitates is old-fashioned.
Shooting dice for a living is a
shakv business.
■
Curiosity killed a cat and a cat • ’
has nine lives.
Some of these books being bound |
ought to be gagged.
To be a picture of health a girl
must have a good frame.
Many a plan to get rich quick has
a poor ending.
Next month is the month in which
you pay 30 days rent for 28 days.
the heritage of the earliest an
cestors, is worth the most serious
consideration that can be given
to it by educators and parents.
Wichita is emphasizing a signifi- I
cant national work of nationaliza
tion, and a plan modeled after i
■what is being accomplished in this
western city might apply equally
as well in the smaller cities of the
s9Uth = j .a x. i«M
| City Clerk John McGarrah tender
, ed to the city council at a special
'meeting yesterday, his resignation,
' ' effective at once, and will accept
I
a more lucrative position as account
ant for the Americus Oil Co., suc
ceeding Mr. H. C. Mitchell there, who
will become assistant postmaster.
Senator Thomas Hudson, the able
’ land popular representative from the
Thirteenth district, was circulating
among Americus friends yesterday.
Mrs. William Dodson returned
I home yesterday after a pleasant visit
1 of a week in Montezuma the guest
of her mother, Mrs. Lewis.
City Engineer J. B. Ansley, so far
as known, has not yet determined
whether he will remain in Americus
or secure a better position in anoth
er city.
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY.
(From the Times-Recorder Jan. 11,
1893.)
Miss Emma Joiner was the recip
ient of a beautiful and valuable
birthday present yesterday from her
father, Mr. Thomas E. Joiner. It
was an expquisite upright piano
which he had ordered direct from
New York, and the delight and sur
prise of the fair recipient when she
found the beautiful instrument in
her parlor can better be imagined
than described. Miss Joiner is one
of Americus’ fairest and most cul
tured young ladies and has many
friends who will congratulate her
upon her happy birthday anniver
sary and its attendant pleasures.
Several days ago the Times-Re
corder announced that Dr. S. H. Mc-
Kee, a well-known dentist of Tal
botton, was in Americus with a view
to locating here if satisfactory ar
rangements, then pending, could be
made. A day or two since Dr. Mc-
Kee came again, and on yesterday
purchased the dental office of the
late Dr. J. J. Worsham, and will en
ter upon the practice of his profes
sion here about the 20th inst.
Clever Joe Hightower left Tues
day lor a visit to his former home
in Damascus, where he will hunt and
fish and enjoy himself generally for
a few days.
Miss Ella Bacon, who has been
the guest of her cousin, Mrs. M. Cal
laway, for the past several days, left
Tuesday for her home in Albany.
Mrs. E. W. Milter and Miss Helen
McCall, of Buena Vista, arrived yes
terday and are guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Edgar J. Miller on Jackson
street.
HER O E S
is the upkeep on a marriage li
cense. T '
Wait for things to turn up and
your nose is all that does it.
The only reliable weather forecast
is: Winter, spring, summer, fall.
An lowa hen has broken the egg
laying record and more than likely
the rooster is crowing yet.
What is more costly than making
history?
Making love doesn't take as long
as it did once, but it doesn’t stay
made as long.
Farmers raise crops in the sum
mer and questions in the winter.
The concert of nations is singing
on American notes.
When a woman gets her husband
up a tree she makes a monkey out
of him.
YOUTHFUL A?RON For the
youngster who likes to borrow a bit
of pie crust and perform her own
experiments in the kitchen, black sa
teen will make a serviceable apron.
Flowers cut from bright-colored
chintz are appliqued to form dimini
tive pockets.
TRE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER. ’
State News Gleaned
For Busy Readers
The Tifton Board of Trade begins
i the year 1923 with the largest mem
bership it has ever had, numbering
to date 151. On Friday night the
board will hold its annual meeting
for the selection of officers and di
rectors for the present year. A bird
supper will be served at the im
mense tobacco warehouse; the hunt
ers are already at work to secure
the necessary quail. Tht following
will be the program: Invocation,
Rev. C. A. Jackson; T. E. Stubbs,
president, presiding; report of offi
cers; election of officers; addresses,
Selling Georgia to Georgians, W. T.
Anderson, Macon; five-minute talks
by home folks. Music will be fur
nished by the Lions band of Tifton.
No trace of John Theas, a convisf
serving a life sentence on the Cof
fee county gang, who escaped last
Saturday night after overpowering
a gaurd, has been found, officers an
nounced at Douglas. Nina Broxton,
Theas’ companion in the escape, was
captured yesterday afternoon near
his ohme in Broxton, Ware coun
ty, by Warden J. D. Pridgen. Theas
was convicted more than two years
ago of the murder of an eighi-year
old girl, member of the Rowell fam
ily of Coffee. Broxton was found
guilty in Waycross two years ago
in connection with the slaying of
James and Truman McQuaig, young
sons of J. W. McQuaig, Ware coun
ty tax receiver. Lem Walters, an
other young white man, was convict
ed with Broxton of the McQuaig
youth’s murder.
The Savannah Kiwanis club took
steps to begin a piovement to bring
back the war veterans bureau, if pos
sible. The bureau headquarters
were recently transferred to Macon.
The club also got underway to head
off the threatened removal of the
coast guard cutter Yamacraw to
some other port in the district on
account of alleged complaint of a
lack of docking facilities here.
A meeting of the Laurens County-
Poultry club is to be held in Dublin
on January 15, next, when it is de
sired that all poultry growers of not
only Laurens, but all over this sec
tion, be present. J. H. Wood, poul
try expert at the Georgia State Col
lege of Agriculture, will be presen,
and discuss spring breeding and
hatching.
Members of the sheriff’s force in
Bibb county are looking for the
driver o fan automobile that ran
down and painfully Injured Alice
Gornto, daughter of William Gornto,
I ormer foreman at ' the Central of
Georgia shops, at Mikado Place late
yesterday afternoon. The child was
picked upand taken to the Macon
hospital where her injuries were
dressed. Her scalp was lacerated.
W itnesses said that a woman was
driving the automobile that struck
the child and did not stop. The num
ber was taken, but does not appear
on the automobile directory.
Usher Wynn, 21, died Tuesday
night at Rome from injuries receiv
ed when a truck driven by him was
hit by a fast Southern passenger
train at Rockmart early Monday
morning.
Frank A. Blount, Chandler Wim
berly and F. Kamp Blount were
elected to the city council of Way
nesboro after -i spirited contest in
which 257 votes were polled. C. W.
Wimberly received 147 vo l ?s over
his opponent, Cliff Hargroves; 110
from the First ward; Han p Blount
from the Second ward received 256
votes, and in the Third ward Frank
Blount recei 'cd 160 to his opponent,
Sidney Palmers’, 1)7 votes.
hire destroyed the buildings oc
cupied by Thackston’s Restaurant
and the Harold Smith Jewelry Store
at Statesboro yesterday. The build
ing was occupied by Barnes mothers
was damaged.
Miss Annie Gober. 28, member of
a well known Marietta family, was
killed last night when the automo
bile oi Herbert Clay, former presi
dent of the state senate, in which
she was riding, crashed into a guy
wire on the Atlanta road. Neither
Mr. Clay, who was driving the ma
chine at the time of the accident,
nor Mrs. P. L. Knott, wife of a Ma
rietta physician, the third occupant,
was injured. Avoiding to reports
the glare from the headlight of an
electric interurban car caused Mr.
Clay to lose control of his machine,
which plunged into a ditch. Broken
glass severed Miss Gober's jugular
vein and she die dbefore <4l could
be reached.
At the invitation of Senator J. K.
Larkins and other of Brantley coun
ty, the Waycross Dairy assoication
will hold its next meeting at Ho
boken. The program as mapped out
by the association includes the ter
ritory in this section of the state as
well as that immediately within the
bounds of .Ware county, and the
meeting in Hoboken will be given
over largely to di cussions calculat
ed to interest the citizens of Brant
ley county in the dairy program. The
program will be devoted to practical
talks .based on what is actually be
ing done in this section and to a
. | discussion of the best steps for the
immediate future.
STARTING IN EARLY
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The One-Man Woman
BY RUTH AGNES ABE LING
THE TRUNK—THE VOICE
Begin Here Today.
Kate Ward, living with her father,
Justin Parsons, has a visitors, China
town Alice, woh says Kate’s dead
husband, Dan Ward, was father of
Alice’s child, Dorothy. As Kate and
her father sit discussing the case
in the evening, their dog Monk’s,
whining leads them to follow him to
a lonely spot where they find the
body of an unconscious man. They
carry him to their home where, when
he regains consciousness, he says his
name is James Latham and that he
was hurt in an automobile accident.
Go on With the Story.
When Kate started Zearing away
the breakfast things, Justin Parsons
set out in the direction of the acci
dent of the before.
He came back as Kate<was finish
ing putting the clean dishes away.
“Car’s there,” said Justin.
- Caught in the trees on the embank
ment; can’t be hurt much.”
“Perhaps you had better tell him,”
from Kate. He might w-ant to
make some arrangements about it.”
“Big, \car.” Jd' a ?n ex
plained. “Must have cost the young
man a pretty penny.”
With that the elderly man turned
and went toward the room occupied
by the owner of the car.
Shortly he returned with the news
that he had been instructed to get
the Sullivan garage on the wire and
have them get the car, repair it and
get it back as soon as possible.
Justin went about carrying out
the instructions. Ke rather liked
having something unusual to do. He
had always had a bent for tinkering
with machinery, so he stayed with
the car and watched while the me
chanics got it into shape to move.
Meanwhile Kate went on with the
duties of the little cottage, until she
heard a voice from upstairs.
“Oh, Lady Fair!” James Latham
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Passengers, Packages and Small
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RAILROAD SCHEDULE
Arrival and Departure of Passenger
Trains, Americus, Ga.
The following schedule figures
published as information and not
guaranteed:
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RY.
Arrive Leave
11:55 pm Columbus-Chgo 3:45 am
10:35 pm Albany-Montg’y 5:14 am
7:21 pm Macon-Atanta 6:37 am
I:sspm Albany-Montg’y 2:14 pm
2:14 pm Macon-Atlanta 1:55 pm
10:15 am Columbus 3:15 pm
6:37 am Albany 7:2lpm
5:14 am Macon-Atlanta 10:35 pm
3:45 am Albany-Jaxville 11:55 pm
2:58 am Albany-Jaxville 12:37 am
12:37 am C.hgc, St. L. Atla 2:58 am
2:06 am Cir.-ti & Atlanta 1:50 am
FLORIDAN
ALL-PULLMAN, Tri-Weekly
!l:10 pm Cols & Chicago !2;40 pm
'2;4opm Albany & Jax 11:10 pm
North Bound Tuesday, Thur, Sat.
South Bound Wed., Fri., Sun.
SEABOARD AIR LINE
(Central Time)
Arrive Departs
10:05 AM Cordele-Helena 5:15 PM
12:26 PM Cols.-Montg’y. 3:10 PM
3:10 PM Cordele-Savh. 12:26 PM
6:lb I’M Richlaud-Col* 10:06 AM
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KATE SUDDENLY FELT HELP- '
( LESS AND YOUNG.
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| called. “Lady Fair, I‘m deserted and
i I'm lonely and I want to be talked
to.”
“Coming!” Kate started lightly up
I the stairs.
“Os course, it isn’t always that one
I hastens to do the bidding of a man
—but you’re ill. That make: a dif
j ference. Now what do you want to
I talk about?”
■‘Yourself, for instance—l haven’t I
j been told your name,” said Lantham. !
i Kate told him. And James La- I
'tham straightway informed her that I
he would call her nothing but “Lady ‘
Fair.”
“You're altogether too lovely for
the plain, substantial name of Kate,”
with mock gravity, “You're—why
you’re like a bunch of orchids with
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, a diamond in the center.
“Foolish child!” said Kate.
“But you are!” he insisted, and
caught her hand again as she neared
the bed. “You’re like crystal and
velvet and perfume.”
His voice softenend as he spoke.
Once more Kate found herself
■ gripping to her heart the image of
Dan. She felt suddenly helpless and
j young—younger than the youth be
fore her. She drew her hand away.
She started to speak and then
halted in the middle of the sentence,
realizing how foolish her question
would sound. She wanted to ask
James Lantham about a trunk. She
wanted to call him Jim. She felt as
it shh were being urged by some in
ner force to do so. She wondered if
he would understand if she told him
about the “Voice.”
(To be continued.)
For Sale
One car load nice Ken
tucky Mare Mules j ust
arrived.
M. J. STEVENS.
LOANS made on improved farm lands
at cheapest rates for term of 5,7 or
10 years with., pre-payment., option
i given. Money secured promptly. We
i have now outstanding over $1,100,-
■ 000.00 on farms in Sumter County
I alone, with plenty more to lend.
i MIDDLETON M’DONALD
I Correspondent Atlanta Trust Com
! pany in Sumter, Lee, Terrell, Schley,
ster Counties. 21 _ Planters Bank
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-81dg... Americus, Ga... Phone 89 or
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