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FORTY-FIFTH YEAR.—NO. 58
Go To Church
land Sunday
School
FIRST METHODIST CHURCH.
John M. Outler Pastor.
(Preaching in the Court House)
Sunday school meets every Sun
day morning at 9:30. Wible Mar
shall Superintendent. This is a well
organized school, and a cordial wel
come awaits all who attend.
Preaching services at 11 o’clock
A. M. and 7:30 P. M. The pastor
will preach a special sermon to the
young people in the morning on the
subject “Characte r Builders”. It is
greatly desired that a large number
will arange to attend this special
semon.
The pastor will preach at the even
ing hour a sermqn that will appeal
largely to those trying to follow the
Master.
The midweek prayer meeting is
held Wednesday evening at 7:30.
The Revival services fo r the First
Methodist Church will begin the First
Sunday in April, the preaching will
be fay the pastor.
The members, and all who realize
the need of a genuine revival are
urged to pray and plan for this series
of services.
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST,
SCIENTIST.
128 Forest St.
Sunday School 9:30 a. m.
Service Sunday at 11 a. m. Subject
man.
created man in his own image, in the
Golden Text: Genesis’ 1:27. So God
created man in his own image in the
image of God created he him; male
and female created he them.
Wednesday evening meeting at
7:30. Reading Rooms are open daily
except legal holidays ad Sunday. Here
all Christian Science literature may
be read.
The public is invited to attend
the Service and visit the Reading
Rooms.
FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
Taylor Street.
Sunday School 10 a. m, J. A.
Baugh, superintendent.
Let loyalty be your motto in your
Sunday school attendance.
Praise and prayer service, 11 a. m.
Communion, 11:15 a. Hi.
Teaching Service 11:30 a. m. Sub
ject: “The Pica of the Christian
Church.” By J. A. Joyner, elder.
Christian Endeavor, 6:30 p. m.
Herbert Baugh leader.
Junior Christian Endeavor, Wed
nesday 3:30, Mrs. Chas. McArthur,
leader.
Prayer meeting, Wednesday 7:30,
J. Fort Holt, leader.
You are cordially’invited to all our
services.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
Richard F. Simpson, Pastor.
9:45 a. m. Sunday School —A. C.
Crockett, superintendent. We had a
splendid attendance last Sunday. Let
us make it larger tomorrow.
11 a. m. Morning Service—Ser
mon by the pastor; subject Tut
ankh-Amen.
6:15 p. m. Chrustian Endeavor —
Mrs. F. B. Arthur leader.
7:30 p. m. evening service. Ser
mon subject: “Isaac.”
A cordial welcome to all visitors,
and strangers at each of these serv
ices.
“Come thou with us we will do
three good.”
First Baptist Church
9:30 a. m. Bible school, T. Fur
low Gatewood, Supt. All present
on time will make the school go fine.
11 a. m. worship. Sul) j etc: “Es
sentials of the Christian Religion.”
6:15 p. m. Senior, Intermediate
and. Junior Baptist Young Peoples’
Unions will meet. A good place for
all our young people for an hour.
7:15 p. m. worship. Subject: “A
Three-Leaved Book.
7:15 p. m. Wednesday, praise,
prayer and Bible study.
Extra good music, gospel teaching
and a most cordial welcome await
all who will worship and study with
us.
Morning Service
Prelude— Horage to Grieg, Whit
ing.
Quartet —Homeland, Folksong.
Offertory To the Rising Sun,
Torjussen. .
Quartet —Jesus Meek and Gentle,
Pease.
Postlude in C —Rockwell.
Evening Service
Prelude —Intermezzo, Dunham.
Offertory—Twilight, Frind.
Solo—Prayer (Wolcott), Miss Mel
t - va Clark.
Postlude—March, Worthing.
Choir First soprano, Miss Melva
Clark; second soprano, Mrs. James
Lott; first alto, Miss Sara Ham
rick; second alto, Mrs. Jameq Berry;
organist, Mrs. H. O. Jones.
(Continued on Page Five)
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DNIDEHTIFIED BODIES
Wakulla Deputy Sheriff Reports
Finding Corpses Washed
Ashore
FOUL PLAY IS SUSPECTED
Men Well Dressed And Large
Sums Os Money Found In
Clothing
TALLAHASEE, March 10.—The
bodies of four unidentified men have |
been washed ashore on the Wakulla
county beaches the past two days,
according teg reports brought here by
Deputy Sheriff Morrison of that
county.
According to Morrission, there
were indications there had been a
wholesale foul play in alien smug
gling trade. A report that six bod
ies had been washed ashore is un
verified.
Morrison said the four bodies were
well dressed and had large sums of
money. One body bore marks of
much violence, while there were ir
regular hurts on the others.
Twenty-four smuggled foreigners
were captured in that section last
week.
FBiSiSs
BUSSED EARL?™
Very Little Saved Loss About
$20,000 —Origin of Fire
Unknown
MACON, March 1.0. —Fire start
ing in the rear of the home of Stan
ley Lokey on Glynn avenue and
Lanier place, destroyed four resi
dences and a part of the household
goods in each house early this morn
ing. The loss will exceed $20,000
it is expected.
Members of the Lokey family had
barely time to escape. The origin of
of the fire is unknown.
BARN ON WHEATLEY PLACE
IS CONSUMED BY FLAMES
Fire of unknowar origin Friday
night destroyed a barn belonging to
C. M. Council on the former Wheat- i
ley place, two miles from Americus.
At 10:30 o’clock the fire department
was called, the blaze having gained
considerable headway before their
arrival. Two yearlings in the barn
were completely burned together
with a quantity of roughage and
feedstuffs.
A second barn, containing more
than 500 bushels of corn, was saved
by the constant playing of water
against the sides and roof. This
would have caught, it is said, had
not the wind been blowing from the
barn instead of against it.
The burned barn was practically
new, having been built by Crawfo~d
Wheatley only a few years before
his removal from the home place.
The amount of insurance carried is
not known, nor the replacement
value of the building.
TO SPEED UP HERMITAGE
SHIPMENTS OF NITRATE
ATLANTA, March 10.—Only two
farm organization from other states i
were successful in their efforts to
obtain nitrate of sade at the recent ;
sale at the Old Hickory Powder plant
at Hermitage, Tenn., according to ■
information received at the state de- I
partmen tof agriculture.
Out °f the 100 awards made, how- '
ever, 76 of them were made to Geor- I
gia farmers, it is stated. A total of I
3,250 tons of the nitrate is coming I
into Georgia as a result of the sale,
it is reported, at an average saving
of more than ten dollars a ton to
the farmers.
To aid the sucessful bidders in [
getting good weights and to speed i
up the shipments into the state, W.
T. BenncM, of the state department
of agriculture, has been sent to Her
mitage by the department. It is ex
pected that shipments will be started i
within the next few days. 1
IRELAND AND ST. PATRICK’S DAY, 1923
There' s’more interest in Ireland this year than ever before in its
history. The ability of the Irish —or that part of the Irish who
live in the Irish Free State—to govern themselves is on trial. The
new Irish government, the fruition of centuries of struggle, is
fighting for self-preservation. And it’s fighting its fight against
Irishmen. In its way the Irish situation today is the most dramatic
THE TIMES- RECORDER
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BURNING OIL PIPE
CAUSESDESTBUCTION
Stranger Believed Perished .In
Flames By Roadside Os Cali
fornia Highway
LOS. ANGELES, March 10.—An
unidentified man, believed to have
been burned to death, is missing and
a numbe r of houses and a dairy was
destroyed by fire which swept an
area of more than quarter of a mile
in length and a hundred yards wide
as a relust Q fa fireak in an oil
pjpe along the highway near Artesia,
18. miles , southeast of here, accord
ing to reports.
The missing man is said to be a
stranger who attempted to pass over
the flame-swept road in an automo
bile. Cries for help were heard
soon after he disappeared. Rescue
parties found the burned machine
but no trace of she man.
MONTEZUMA BANKER
SEES PROSPERITY AHEAD
MONTEZUMA, March 10.—A pe
riod of unprecedented prosperity foi
this section is the prediction of' W.
L. McKenzie, president of the Citi
zens Natonal Bank, and one of the
leading peach growers of this sec
tion. Mr. McKenzie has made a care
ful study of the peach situation since
his recent return from Cuba, and
states that while the severe cold of a
few weeks ago killed some of the
buds, he believes no real harm was
done, as it is impossible for the tree
to mature all the blooms.
He considers the boll weevil a
friend rather than an enemy of the
South.
“Instead of one money crop—cot
ton —we have now,” he declares,
“many money crops, cotton, peaches,
asparagus, melons and 1-ve stock.”
Having opportunity as president
of one of the leading banks of this
section to feel the general financial
pulse, he states that business men
are doing business on a saner, more
solid basis than has been the case
for years, and thal the farmers are
in the best shape they have ever been
in.
“Though the trees are not yet in
bloom peach buyers are already on
the ground bidding for the crop and
cotton buyers are offering 25c a
pound for fall delivery of cotton. !■
may be too optimistic,” he concluded#
“but I look for several years of un
precedented prosperity. It looks good
to me.”
Your white clothes will be much
white r if you add a teaspoon of pow
dered borax to the water in which
the clothes are ringed.
AMERICUS, GA., SATURDAY AFTERNOON,, MARCH 10. 1923
HAVE COTTON FLOAT’
AT PEACH FESTIVAL
Americus Civic Organization Pre
paring To Go To Carnival
At Fort Valley
The Kiwanis club, in co-operation
with other civic clubs in Americus,
are planning to have a cotton float
to represent Americus at the Peach
Festival to be held in Fort Valley
the latter part of this month .
This decision was made Friday t
the meeting of the club at its weekly
luncheon in the Windsor hotel.
George O. Marshall, county farm
demonstration agent and an en
thusiastic booster for Sumter county,
was unanmiously elected chairman
of the committee on arrangements,
and he was instructed to select as
sistants to help him with the work.
This being the first occasion upon
which Americus has participated ac
tively in the fesival, much en
thusiasm is being manifested by
Kiwanians and civic club members
in preparation of a representative
float from this section.
LUMPKIN BAPTISTS TO
OBSERVE PRAYER WEEK
LUMPKIN, March 10. —The Wo
man’s Baptist Missionary Union of
the Southern Baptist convention hav
ing designated this as a week of
prayer to be observed by the women
throughout the convention, the Bap
tist women of Lumpkin have been
observing it, and their meetings are
well attended each day. Much inter
est is being manifested in the meet
ings, which are being held in the
Baptist church.
A program was arranged for the
w»ek by the Woman’s Baptist Mis
sionary Union of the convention, and
a different leader is in charge each
day. After the closing session, the
women will spend an entire after
noon at the residence of Mrs. D. G.
Bland, which they will spend in sew
ing for the Georgia Baptist Orphans
Home in Hapeville.
BOY SCOUT MEETING
WAS LARGELY ATTENDED
The scribe for Troop No. 1 of the
Boy Scouts, sends in this report of
a meeting of the troop held last
night;
“The meeting was called to order
at 7 o’flock. We have a full troop
now, and are planning the trips for
the season. A committee was pres
ent from the Kiwanis club. We de*
cided upon the plans for the log
cabin, and we are planning a trip for
next Friday. After playing some
games’the meeting was adjourned.”
on the international stage today. So NEA Service sent Milton
Bronner to Dublin to answer the question, How Will St- Pat
rick’s Day, 1923, Find Ireland Under the Irish Free State?
Bronner’s success in covering this assignment is a real achieve
ment. He secured an extraordinary “first time” interview with
Governor General Tim Healey and a signed article by President
REVIVAL SERVICES AT
IST BAPTIST CHURCH
Series To Start April B—Pastor
Will Be Assisted Bv Rev.
Owen.
A series of protracted services will
be begun in the First Baptist church
here in April, the first sermon to be
preached* Sunday, April B.* Prepara
tional services for this series were
held in the church Thursday evening,
which registered the largest attend
ance at weekly prayer services in the
past five years, according to Dr. Carl
W. Minor, pastor of the congrega
tion.
Dr. William Russell Owen, pastor
of the the First Baptist church in
Macon, will conduct the protracted
services, preaching morning and eve
ning, and much interest is being
manifested by Americus Baptists in
his coming. Dr. Owen is regarded
as one of the ablest evangelical min
isters ini Georgia, having preached to
large congregations throughout the
state.
Song services will be under
the direction of Pierce Rowland, of
the Baptist Home Mission Board, and
already plans are being made to as
sist Mr. Rowland with an augmented
c|ioir composed of the best singers
|in the community.
From now until the beginning of
the services weekly preparatory serv
ices will be held each Thursday eve
ning led by Dr. Minor, when sub
jects will be discussed which will
lead -up to the topics to be present
ed by Dr. Owen in April.
ARMY FLYERS JOURNEY
TO HAVANA SUNDAY
MIAMI, March 10—Captain Thom
as Lanphier, commanding the fleet
of army airplanes here on a flight
to Porto Rico, announced that the
planes would leave for Havana about
8 o’clock Sunday morrfing. He has
notified the American embassy at
Havana to this effect.
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TWO WOMEN KILLED; MAN
IS INJURED IN EXPLOSION
FAIRFAX, Okla., March 10.
Two women were killed and a man
was seriously injured in a mysterious
explosion here early today which
wrecked t^ e home of Bill Smith.
Smith was badly burned and his
wife and Miss Nellie Brookshire
were killed.
The residents were aroused oy the
blast and found the bodies in the
debris.
SAVANNAH IS HOST TO
NATIONAL COMANDER
OF MIEEU LEGIBN
State Commander Rodney Cohen
And Alvin Owsley Will
Share Honors
FIRST DIST. POST CONVENES
Committee Headed By Mayor
Will Meet Owsley At
Station
SAVANNAH, March 10. The
city was given over today to the
Chatham County Post of the Ameri
can Legion and the entertainment of
National Commander Alvin Owsley.
Events of the day began with the
arrival this morning of Rodney Coh
en, state commander and State Ad
jutant Kart, who were entertained
at a breakfast by Dr. J. W. Daniel,
chairman of the reception commit
tee. At 10 o’clock the first dis
trict convention of the post adjut
ants and commanders convened with
addresses by the officials. A com
mittee headed by Mayor Paul Sea
brook will meet Commander Owsley
at the station this afternoon.
GRADY FARMER TO ffl
PENALTY ON GALLQK
First Time In History of New
County To Hang White Man
June 29
CAIRO, March 10.—For the first
time ir! the history -of Grady county
a death sentence, late last night,
was imposed on a white man when
Ira Bryant, a farmer residing near
Calvary, was convicted of murder
February 16 of' James Lewis.
Judge Custer set June 29 as the
execution date.
BRITISH miD
TRADE_FALLS OFF
Lack Os Jobs For Working Class
Cause of Chronic Destitu
tion In England
BY MILTON BRONNER
NEA Service Staff Correspondent.
LONDON, March 10.—“ France,
we know has her regions terribly de
vastated as a result of the war. But
we in Britain also have our de
vastated regions. They are visible
in our unemployment figures.”
This statement, made not long ago
by a great British statesman in re
sponse to French protestations, set
forth both an actual fact as to Bri
tain’s present, and a deep apprehen
sion as to Britain’s business future.
If you travel in northern France
you see town after town in which
once prosperous factories are lying
in ruins, smashed by German cannon
or gutted by fires lighted by German
troops. If you travel in Lancashire,
in Yorkshire and in Scotland you see
hundreds of factory chimneys smoke
less, or mills working part time. So
far as British workmen are con
cerned, the places might just as well
have been smashed by German
1 cannon.
Market Gone
For the war, by impoverishing cen
j tral and eastern Europe, has made
i hundreds of millions of people in
j capable of satisfying their normal
needs for ods. It used to be Bri
tain’s chief job to furnish those
goods.
But the thing that is causing the
greatest anxipty among the far-see
ing is a slump in Britain’s great
business of manufacturing half-fin
ished articles which were then
shipped abroad to be finished.
In South America the U. S. has
been edging them out. In the Far
I East we have been dividing the ter
i ritory with the Japs. Even Australia,
i which used to be a British preserve,
now buys 77,000,000 pounds of
British goods and 36,000,000 pounds
American.
- The cost to Britain in taxes, in loss
of profits, in loss of wages is enor
mous beyond computation. Figures
as a rule are dull. But sometimes
(Continued on Page Two.)
Cosgrove. Bronner has written this story of Ireland in five sep
arate articles, the first to appear in The Times-Recorder Monday,
.lira second Tuesday, and on through the week. Never before
has an American newspaper had such comprehensive and inter
estin/f material for publication in connection with Ireland and
St. Patrick’s Day.
WEATHER '«?
For Georgia Fair and slightly
warmer tonight; Saturday increasing
cloudiness and warmer.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
ITALIAN BANKES IM
AMONG KK EM
HEART OF NEK ffll
Institution Had Two Millions On
Deposit, Savings Os Italian
Colony
EXCITED MOB AT BANK
Delegation Os 20 Foreigners
Were Referred To District
Attorney’s Office
NEW YORK, March 10.—Twenty
Italians, accompanied by their coun
sel, called at police headquarters
and reported that Vincenzo Thbo,
who conducts a bank on Mott street
and having deposits of two million
dollars, had disappeared Thursday
night.
The delegation w-as referred to
district attorney’s office.
A telephone call to the bank was
answered by a policeman who said
Tisbo was “among the missing” and
the excited crowd gathered around
the bank which is patronzed chiefly
by Italians.
PRESIDENT'S PARTY
NOW AT PM BEACH
Reach That Resort Ahead Os
Schedule For Round Os
Golf On Links
PALM BEACH, March 10.—-Al
teration in tentative plans, brought
Harding and his vacation party here
today slightly ahead of schedule.
The president had expected to leave
the houseboat “Pioneer” this fore
noon at Hobesound,3o miles north
of here for a rbntfd of golf, sphere
elaborate plans had been made for
his entertainment. Through a change
of plans, today’s golf ganfe was
changed to the links here. Whether
the party would remain here over
Sunday it was undecided.
LniBNMSfflE
TO MT MIHM
Will Participate In Charter Night
Exercises There Next Friday
Night
Twenty-five Americus Kiwanians
will go to Montezuma Friday night,
March 16, to participate in “charter
night” exercises of that club, accord
ing to plans formulated Friday at the
weekly noon luncheon of the Kiwanis
club in the Windsor Hotel. These
are Sam R. Heys, James W. Lott, Joe
M. Bryan, E. B. Everett, W. M. Hum
ber, Nathan Murray, Mike Holloway,
W M. Jones, W. O. Easterlin, R L.
Edwards, W. F. Smith, Dr. Carl W.
Minor, Evan Mathis, G M Bragg, Dr.
C. P. Davis, Lee Hudson, H. M.
Sellers, Chas. L. Ansley, R. L. Mc-
Math, Jr, and Miss Susan Stallings,
who will participate in the entertain-,
ment program.
Judge C. R. Crisp, who is spend
ing his vacatioh at his home here, will
go as a distinguished guest of the
Americus club, and it is probable he
will address the Montezuma Kiwan
ians.
Charter night is being anticipated
with interest by the Americus club,
and a number of other visitors be
sides those named will motor to
Montezuma to hear the program.
PLAN 2 CO-OPERATIVE SALES.
RICHLAND, March 10.—Two co
operative hog sales are scheduled for
; Stewart county next week under the
'supervision of County Agent O. D.
Watson. The first will be held at
Omaha, on Tuesday, and the next at
Richland on Wednesday.
ERECTING NEW CHURCH
PRESTON, March 10.—The citi
zens of the community are taking
part in the erection of Presbyterian
church building. All persons in the
community are joining hands with
the denomination. The builcting will
possibly be completed by May 1.