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j-ORTY-FIFTH YEAR —NO. 12
| Go to Church
Sunday
You Will Be Welcomed in i
Americus’Churches
Calvary Episcopal Church.
* (The Church-by-the-Bridge.)
Rev. James B. Lawrence, Rector.
Second Sunday after Epiphany.
Holy communion 7:30 p. m.
The church school 9:45 a. m.
Morning prayer and sermon 11:00
a. m.
Evening prayer and sermon 7:30
p. m.
First Methodist Church
(Preaching in the Court House.)
John M. Outler, Pastor.
The Sunday school meets at 9:30
a. m. every Sunday, Wible Marshall
is the superintendent. Every mem
ber is urged to attend regularly and
others are invited to come and join
us.
The hours for preaching on the
Sabbath is 11 a. m. and 7 p. m. There
will be good music, a warm welcome,
and the pastor will preach at both
services. You are expected to at
tend, if a member, and cordially in
vited if a stranger or visitor.
The Young People’s Missionary
society will meet at 6 o’clock Sunday
evening.' The young people should
’intend this service.
The mid-week prayer service is
Wednesday at 7 o’clock.
No greater calamity could come
to Americus than for everybody to
adopt the habit some have fallen 'nto,
that of staying away from the church
services on the Sabbath. Evgry man,
woman and child should seek to over
come every obstacle that has inter
ferred with their attendance upon
divine worship. “Come t'ifou with
us, and we will do thee good!”
First Baptist Church
Carl W. Minor, D. D., Pastor.
9:30 a. m. Bible school, T. Furlow
Gatewood, Supt. We made a great
beginning for the new year last Sun
day. Let’s do our best to keep it up.
11 a. .m worship. Subject, •'Real
izing Our Debtorship.”
6 p. m. Senior, Intermediate and
Junior B. Y. P. U.’s will meet in
their respective rooms.
7 p. m. worship. Subject, “Some
Conceded Fats.”
7 p. m. Thursday, praise, prayer
and privilege.
Extra good music, good teachers
and a most cordial welcome. You
are invited to study and Worship with
us.
Central Baptist Church
IL T. Brookshire/ Patsor
Sunday school 9:30 a. m. R. L.
Maynard, superintendent. ,
Preaching service Ila. m. and 7
p. m. Morning text, Exodus, 15:23-
27. Evening text, Luke 12:8-15.
B. Y. P. U. 6 p. m.
Mid-week prayer meeting Wednes
day 7 p. m. Meeting of officers and
teachers of Sunday school Thursday
7 p. m.
Lee Street Methodist Church.
Luther A. Harrell, Pastor.
Our slogan for Lee Street is, “Go
to Sunday School and -Remain for
the Preaching Service.” Put this
slogan into practice tomorrow,
9:30 a. m. The Sunday school
. session will begin promptly at the
time appointed. Classes for every
one. Men’s Bible class especially
- invites the men of the church to
attend Sunday.
11 a. m. Preaching by the pas
tor. Subject for the morning hour,
“Christian Missions and the Church.”
The officers of the Missionary so
ciety will be installed at the con
clusion of the service.
6 p. m. The Epworth Leagues
will hold their devotional services
in the league rooms at the church.
7 p. m. Special evangelistic mes
sage at the evening hour by the pas
tor.
7 p. m. Mid-week prayer service
Wednesday evening.
To all the services of Lee Street,
the membership is urgently request
• ed to attend. Make Sunday a great
r day in our church. Good music,
plain gospel preaching and a wel
come awaits you. The special fea
ture of the morning hour is a five
minute sermon to the junior mem
bers of the congregation. Conte
and worship with us.
Presbyterian Church
Richard F. Simpson, Pastor.
9:45 a. m. Sunday School. A. C.
Crockett, superintendent.
11 a. m. Morning service. The
regular quarterly communion service.
Sermon, “A New Commandment.”
6:15 p. m. Christian Endeavor,
Mrs. F. B. Arthur, leader.
7 p. m. Evening service. Ser
mon, “The Duties of Believers as
Taught in Old Testament Types.”
Read second chapter of Numbers and
Joshua 5:13-6:20.
The sacrament of the Lord’s sup
(Coirtinued on Page Three.)
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Above, at left, American troops preparing ,o return to the United States after spending many months in Germany as.part of the Amer ican Army of Occupation on the Rhine. Most of the troops are happy
at the thought or leaving a European tinder-box, where the flames of w a may break at any minute. At right, Elberfeld, one of the mos t important cities in the Ruhr Valley, just occupied by Fiench forces.
FRENCH FLAG TORN DOWN AT ESSEN
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McKOIN ‘THE BULL IN CHINA SHOP’
I
STUCKEY DECLARES
FINER 808 MI
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Norsworthy, Planter, Testies
Richards and 'Dao?el Knew
Too Much
SAYS HE’S NOT KLANSMAN
Had Conference W<th Capt. Skip
worth When They Discussed
Disappearance Os Parties
BASTROP, Jan. 13.—William 13.
Stuckey, a lawyer and former state
senator, testifying in open hearing
of masked band activities, declare®
the theory had been advanced in
Mer Rouge in connection with the
alleged attempt to kill Dr. B. M.
McKoin, former mayor, that McKoin
shot up his own car in an effort to
gain support of members of the
klan.
! Stuckey declared that McKoin in- '
curred the enemity of many people
because of what he termed a bull
in china shop methods of McKoin
as mayor.
FRIDAY’S DEVELOPMENNT
AT BASTROP HEARING.
BASTROP, La., Jan. 13.—Will R.
Norsworthy, Morehoues parish plan
ter, testifying Friday in the open
hearing investigation of masked
band depredations in Morehouse and
the slaying of Watt Daniel and
Thomas Richard, victims of a black- |
hooded mob, credited Captain J. K.
Skipwith, leader of the parish or
ganization of the Ku Klux Klan, with
having said Richard and Daniel
“knew too much.”
Norsworthy was testifying as to a
conference he 'said was held with
Skipwith in the latter’s home at :
Vaughn, La. The discussion led up
to the disappearance, of Daniel and
Richard.
“He made the remark tnat all of
this trouble had occurred from two
eery sorry boys, very sorry charac
ters, or something to that effect.”
Norsworthy testified, “and he says
‘if the boys hadn’t been so smart we
Intended to give them a trial in the
courts for shooting at Dr. McKoin,
tut he said ‘they got so smart and
had too much to say at the ball game ,
' and there at Jim Norseworthy’s bar- '
I becue at the Bonibee, that, he says |
j ‘the boys’—he didn’t say ‘we’ that !
i time—he said ‘the boys decided they j
: knew too much.’ I believe those were ;
words he used—the best f can ’
I remember. ”
Norsworthy is a brother of J. T. j
' Norsworthy, who testified that he !
was a former klansman and “cap
tain” of the Morehouse chapter of
the Klan.
Was Not Klansman.
Will Norsworth declared he was <
not a klansman.
Will Norsworthy explained that i
I bis conference was to ascertain the |
1 I authenticity of a report that he had .
. been accused of agreeing to' accept i
$1,500 to kill Skipwith and Dr. Me-
, Koin.
“Skipwith told me it was lucky 1
-for me that I had friends in this
5 county.” Norsworth said.
“I asked him about th.? kidnaping
1 report. He said he had a letter that
I had been hired by citizens of Mer
- Rouge to kill him and Dr. McKoin.
(Continued on Page Five.)
THE TIMES- RECORDER
MUSCLE SHOALS
Army Money Bill Also Author
izes War Secretary To Incur
$10,000,000 Obligations
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—Funds
for the completion of Dam No. 2 and
the installation of eight power units
—all that the war department consid
ers will be needed for several years at
Muscle Shoal-—are provided in the
army appropriation bill reported Fri
day to the house. The bill appro
priates $6,908,800 for work during
the next year and in addition author
izes the secretary of war to incur
obligations on contract to the amount
of $10,501,200.
In reporting the bill the appropria
tions committee adopted a provision
making the language specific so that j
the $10,000,000 authorization should
be used solely for completion of the
dam and the installation of locks and
hydro-electric machinery and not for
general construction.
sumS SIE JfiST
TOG smi«
Miss Bennie Parkman At Athens
For Series Os Lectures And
Demonstrations At College
Miss Bonnie Parkman, home eco
nomics agent for Sumter county, is
attending the fifth annual series of
I winter short courses in agriculture
and home economics in the State
College of Agricuture at Athenp.
The plan of the course offered is
for graduates of normal schools and
other junior colleges, giving oppor- .
tunity for increasing technical skill j
in agricutural and home topics i
throughout the field.
from all parts of the I
state are' gathered thure for the
present course, and during the past I
4 years more than 236 agents and
students have been instructed at the
college, from Georgia, Alabama,
South Carolina and North Carolina.
In addition to the regular in- :
struction from the college staff, |
members from the state’s relation '
service and other bureaus from the I
U. S. Department of Agriculture will I
give lectures (and? demonstrations,
j and representatives from the board
I of health will aid in nutrition clin
| ics.
I Included in the. subjects wihiqh
1 Miss Parkman is perfecting herself
' in are demonstration in clohting
:ind millinery; cooking methods, 23-
‘ pecially those relating to advanced
j methods in bread making;.home fur
nishing and decoration; horticulture,
< particularly for young girls in home
beautifying; poultry and husbandry;
I agriculture education, pertaining to
i rural community problems; nutri-
I tion clinics, ’ dyeing, especially for
home use; conferences conducted by
home demonstration agents, district
i agents and specialists.
: Upon her return to Sumter coun
ty Miss Parkman will impart to the
various girls and women’s clubs
throughout the county and rural dis
tricts the knowledge gained in the
course, and hopes to be the moans
of transmitting to the girls of the
I schools the value of such training.
AMERICUS, GA., SATURDAY AFTERNOON. JANUARY 13. 192 3
THIRTY YOUNG MEN
JOIN ARMY AT CORDELE
CORDELE, Jan. 13.—The recruit
ing station here for the United
States army has during the past
month sent away thirty or more of
the young men of this section to be
gin army life in the ranks.
Enlistment has seemed to charm
the boys of late. Seven were re
ported as having enlisted yesterday.
wteillG'
II LOOSE in DUGS
Reported Are Anxious For War
If Conference Breaks
J?own
VALETTA, Jan. 13. (By the As
sociated Press.) —-It is reliably re
ported from Smyrna, says a Reuters
dispatch, that the Turks are fever
j ishly preparing to resume hositili
ties in the event of a breakdown at
the Lausanne peace conference,
num Ws w
®«uiL
Former Amaricus Officii Made
General Agent Operating De
partment In Savannah
Americus friends of Harry B.
Grimshaw will be interested to
know that he has been appointed
general agent of the operating de
partment of the Seaboard Air Line
railway, fmd that he has just arriv
ed in Savannah to assume the duties
of his new position.
This appointment means much to
the section traversed by the Sea
! board, both east and west of Amer
i icus..
Mr. Grimshaw is well known in I
! Americus, and his friends are de- •
I lighted with his deserved promotion, j
He has been an official of the Sea- '
i board for years, starting with the I
| road as a civil engineer, working
bis way through the various depart- i
ments of operating, after going to I
Macon, Dublin and Savannah as gen- ,
oral manager of that line, the latter
| road beig part of the Seaboard sys-
I tern.
IMRM
SEARCH UfAVEHS
See Peculiar Phenomenon, Sun,
Moon and Star Plainly In
Bright Sunlight
Early morning star - gazers in
Americus noted a peculiar phenom
enon in the heavens, and folks here
cannot account for it.
As early as 7 o’clock this morn
ing it was noticed that a bright star
; hung on the point of the new moon.
Again about 9 o’clock, high in the
heavens, it was noticed the star
seemed to have Outdistanced | the
moon in its race across the sky, and
what is more peculiar, something
amateur astronomers cannot explain,
■ is that in the bright sunlight, the
: ; sun, moon and the star were all
: in elose proximity to one another, a
: condition which many here do not re-
I member to have ever noticed before.
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im<»™
OB SLOT HOM
Son, Who Followed Father Into
Street After Tragedy, Struck
With Heavy Vase
WOMAN FLED, WOUNDED
Cause Os Attack Unknown
Metts Held In Jaill Without
Bail
AUGUSTA, Jan. 13.—Mrs. Cora L.
Metts is at a hospital in a dying con
dition, and her ten-year-old daughter,
Mnry, is-Ffrtftrrtfflr+rom a slight flesh
wound in the leg, as a result of an
alleged attack upon them this morn
ing at the Metts home by James
Metts, the woman’s husband and fa
ther of the girl.
Metts is said to have entered the
| home ths morning and fired on his
| wife who, though wounded, fled to
I the home of a neighbor, who sent her
to a hospital.
Mary Metts, when she attempted
to protect her mother, was shot in
the leg. '
Guy Metts, 14, a son of the couple,
followed his father into the street
where his father struck him on the
head with a heavy vase.
The cause for Metts’ attack on his
family is unknown.
Metts was arrested shortly after
the tragedy and is now held in Rich
mond county jail without bail.
THREE CORDELE WOMEN ON
CITY EDUACTION BOARD
CORDELE, Jan. 13.—Cordele is
starting the new form of govern
ment with three of the most effi
cient women in town serving on the
tipard. Mis. Max Land is secretary
' of the new board of edu:..'.ion. Mrs.
I W. P. Fleming and Mrs. J. M. Diffee
t arc members of the public library
I commission. Judge O. T. Gower
I heads the new board of education.
NOT TIME TC AMEND
DEBT FUNDING LAW j
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—Presi
dent Harding and Republ’can house
leaders, after a thorough canvass of
situation, decided this is not the
t : me to seek an amendement to the
debt funding law liberalizing terms I
of settlement ty nations owing mon- |
ey to the United States.
RECORD OF COTTON GINNED
William P. Persons, who has .
charge of reporting cotton statistics ,
from Sumter dounty, tells the Times-
Recorder that there were 22,059 I
I bales of cotton, counting round as j
I half bales, ginned in the county ■
I from the crop of 1922 prior to Jan- |
uary 1, this year, as compared with |
| 18,088 bales ginned to January, i
’ 1!,22 ‘ : i
Miss Louise Lawhorn, who under- ;
| went an operation Friday at the
I City hospital for appendicitis, is re
' I ported to be in an entirely satis-
I factory condition today.
■ I The banana has no seed at all.
, | Japan has 3000 newspapers and
■ magazines.
I Rugby football celebrates its cen
i tenary tibs year.
- ■ China has magazines for women,
. I but they are all editeu by men.
I TWO MACON BOYS
KILLED BY AUTO
MACON, Jan. 13. —Guy Jones, 10,
and Robert Bruce, 12, were killed last
night when a bicycle they were riding
was struck by an automobile driven
by W. A. Roush, president of the
Standard Handle Company. The boys
were on their way to a festival and
witnesses told sheriff’s deputies that
they attempted to cross the street at
the rear of a street car, when they
were struck. The Jones boy sustain
ed a broken neck and the Bruce boy’s
kull was fractured.* The automobile
did not pass over either boy, however,
both being hurled from the bicycle to
the pavement.
FftKEfifflS
GIVEN PRISON TERI
Fleeced New York Man In Sav
vannah Out Os $15,000 By
Betting Scheme
SAVANNAH, Jan. 13. James
Christian, alias Calvin French Rob
erts, was convicted in the Superior
court last night of larceny after
trust and sentenced from one to
five years in the penitentiary.
Christian was convicted of hav
ing worked a fake race horse scheme
on Geradys Schiperoort, of New
York, wihle he was in Savannah a
year ago, and fleecing him out of
slsft)oo.
ESCHPED COSTS IS
Dura ™
Five Os Eight Who Made Get-
Away Back Behind Bars In
12 Hours
AUGUSTA, Jan. 13.—Captured ,
less than 12 hours after they made j
their escape from the Richmond
county chain gang by holding up the
guards at point of the guard’s gun,
I five of the eight convicts, who made
a getaway yesterday aftefrnoon,
spent last night behind the bars. I
, Two of the men who are yet at
large, are white.
inliM Imk
FHWK Os GE«
Secretary Invited Tc Attend Meet
ing At State College Os Agri
culture Jan. 22
ATHENS, Jan. 13.—Secretary of
i Agriculture 11. C. Wallace has been
i invited to deliver an address at
I “Farmer Week” here January 22 to
27, which will assemble at the Geor
gia State College of Agriculture in
j Athens. •
Several thousand farmers from
i all over Georgia and a’ galaxy of
speakers from all parts of the Unit
ed States will attend.
NEW MEXICO CONGRESSMAN
DIED SUDDENLY TODAY
I WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—Repre
sentative Montoya, of New
died suddenly at his home here this
, morning. He was stricken while
shaving and died in a short time.
j WEATHER TX T
I For Georgia Fair tonight and
j Saturday; cooler tonight.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
KJIS HOISTED 2 MILES
OUT AT STEELE BY
KIIPIING TOOK
Coming On Eve Os Respite
Granted Germany On
Payments
MAKES SITUATION GRAVE
All Lenient With Germany, Ex-
cept British Representative
Who Declined To Vote
BERLIN, Jan. 13.—At Steele,
two miles outside Essen, the French
flag which was hoisted hy the occu
pying troops, was torn down and de
stroyed, says a dispatch.
GERMANY GIVEN TIME
TO MEET PAYMENTS.
PARIS, Jan. 13.—The reparations ''“vii
commission this morning .postponed
until January 31 payment of five
hundred million gold marks due from
Germany next Monday.
France, Italy and Belgium voted
for the delay. The British members
did not east a ballot.
Steps have been taken to notify 3
the German government of the de
lay.
SPECIALI®! FOR i
KWOCIEH I
Recently Elected Officers To Be
Installed At 11 O’clock Service
In Lee Street Church
Special services will be held in
the Lee Street Methodist church at
11 o’clock Sunday morning, with
Rev. Luther A .Harrell, prfstor of the
congregation, ’directing an appro
priate message to the Lee Street
Methodist Missionary society.
At the same hour installation ex
ercises will be instituted for the re
| cently elected officers who will serve
the society during the year.
A beautiful musical program has
been arranged for the service, and
the public is cordially invited to wor
dlip with the congregation and wit
ness the impressive exercises.
STATEMUSTKEEP OH
mowing mm j
•
It’s The Mainstay Money Crop,
Though Peanuts Lead Last
Year
—
ATHENS, Jan. 13.—Despite the
damage the boll weevil has done in
Georgia during the past five years, ;
the growth of cotton in this state
must not be abandoned, has been de
clared in an annual survey by Pro
fessor Westbrook, of Georgia State
College cf Agriculture, made public
this mo mi ng.
Peanuts was the best money crop
for Georgia farmers the past year,
survey said.
‘
PROF. WALKER PRESIDES
AT STATE TEACHERS MEET
II ,
ATHENS, Jan. 13.—Prof. Roose
velt Walker, professor of English in
the University of Georgia, will pre- |
side at the: initial session of the
Georgia Association of Teachers of
English in Atlanta, January 19 and
. 20.
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