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FORTY-FTfTH YEAR—NO. 60~
Ireland and St.
Patrick’s Dav
1923
BLACK DESPAIR IS FELT
OVER OUTLAWRY.
BY MILTON BRONNER
Corres P°ndent
OUBLIN March 13.—Boom!
it s the blast of high explosives.
, w IT *inutes later a congenial
official enters the office of the Free
State cabinet minister with whom I
am conversing.
• you heard the explosion,
sir. lie says. “I just wanted to tell
»i° U i , a *" they have blown up Paddy
Mahon s printing works.”
One’s first impression after this
beginning of a sunny day is that
tragic Dublin is still tragic. But
‘ tragic” would not accurately de
scibe the capital of the new Free
State today.
rr, Two Sides to Picture
The situation is two-sided:
Throngs of pretty, well-dressed
young women shopping in fashion
able Grafton street; gaunt, timorous
women following you a block on
Suffolk street, begging a penny.
T oung sqiureens in from the coun
try on perfectly groomed horses Mind
themselves in perfectly tailored
clothes; newsboys walking the ice
cold pavements in bare feet.
A handsome new department store
opening its doors on wide O’Connell
street; a stone’s throw away a whole
block of artillery-smashed and fire
twisted wreckage of hotels and busi
ness houses.
A committee meeting to hear re
ports of damage wrought to farm
houses by torch plied by Irregulars;
another commission meeting to con
sider how to improve Ireland’s canal
system.
Stern suppression of British news
papers which print Irregular projw
ganda; walls of public buildings de
faced by defiant sentences painted
there at night by daring bands of
young women opposed to the Irish
Free State.
People complaining about the high
cost of bread; others about how dear
violets are.
Employment exchanges- crowded
with men women seeking jobs;
fashionable hotels and restaurants
crowded with men and women drink
ing tea and eating fancy cakes.
Despair Takes Hold.
It seems a mad world, but in es
sence is the same as Ne;v York or
Cleveland or Los Ange’es or any
other city. There’are the same con
trasts of rich and poor, of the com
fortable and the comfortless, the
law-abiding and the lawless, of good
and evil,
Still there is in Dublin, and in
much of southern Ireland as well,
something like black despair—ex
cept in the cabinet; where optimism
rules!
People are wondering whether the
country will ever settle down to the
peace and quiet they ad wane so
eagerly.
Every day they read in their pa
pers the same tragic list of events:
a fine country house has been
burned, a farmer has lost his crops
by the torch, a shopkeeper has been
shot while resisting armed bands,
a railway train out of Cork has been
destroyed by Irregulars.
There is probably not a person in
the Free State who hasn’t had a
kinsman affected by this kind-of
warfare.
But pull long faces? Not the Irish!
Everybody is trying to “carry on”
as usual. But there is a slowing
down everywhere.
A good indication of general eco
nomic conditions is the report of the
Dublin United Tramway company.
For the year just ended it showed a
deficit. Bad business, unemploy
ment, and the lighting of la?t June
account for this.
Tomorrow: The Free State’s
campaign against the Irregulars.
mssWbw
PASSES AWAY AT HDME
Funeral Services From Family
Residence Wednesday Morn
ing At 10 O’clock
Miss Mary Ranew, 79 years of
age. died Tuesday morning at 2:uo
o’clock at her home five miles-north
of Americus. Death followed an ill
ness of short duration.
Funeral services will be held Wed
nesday morning at 10 o’clock from
the family residence, and interment
will be in Andrew Chapel cemetery.
Surviving are three sisters, Mrs.
C A Campbell, of LaCross; Miss
Sarih Ranew and Miss Emma Ranew,
of Sumter county; and brother,
Charles Ranew, of Fitzgerald. Be
sides a number of nephews and
nieces, a large and prominent family
connection survive.
C S. Ranew ,of Americus, ana
A L Ranew and W • E. Ranew, with
whom she resided, are nephews liv
ing in Sumter county.
Miss Ranew, who one of the
most beloved women of her com
munity, was a membeh of the Meth
dois t church, attending Its services
and assisting in the work of the Sun
day school and tributaries She had
spent all her long and useful life in
Sumter county, gathering about her
hundreds of friends and acquaint
ances to whom deep sorrow has been
brought by her death,
4 IRISHMEN
■LEGEOfffISTM
ilfflE CLEM SWEEP OF
PROPERTY 111 HIJffIT
Several Persons Reported Injured
From Topoing Houses—No
Deaths Yet Reported
NEGRO BOY BADLY HURT
Greenville, In, Meriwether In
Wake Os Storm During The
I Late Afternoon
BAINBRIDGE, March 13. —Two
lives were lost and several build
ings were blown down this morn
ing when a windstorm struck Boyd
ville, a small saw-mill station on
the Alla liic Coast Line railroad,
18 miles east of here.
According to information re
ceived here this afternoon, the
large commissary building of the
Boyd Lumber Company there was
entirely razed.
THOMSON ,March 13.—Between
40 and 50 houses were destroyed,
with a property damage estimated at
many thousands of dollars in a wind
storm that struck the southern part
of this place last night.
No loss of life is reported.
At Taylortown, a negro settle
ment, 3 miles from here, 10 shanties
are said to have been destroyed. Nu
merous residences and tenant houses
in the surrounding country are de
stroyed.
Several persons are reported to
have had narrow escapes from top
ping houses.
A NEGRO BOY
BADLY HURT.
THOMSON, March 13.—A negro
boy was seriously injured and sev
eral houses were destroyed by a
heavy windstorm which struck the
outskirts of Thomson at 7:30 o’clock
last night.
Occupants of one of the dwellings,
a family of seven negroes, miracu
lously escaped injury when the house
was blown down and parts of the
furnishings scattered over an area of
several hundred yards. The negro
boy was in bed at the time and was
unharmed except the mother who
stuck a nail in her foot while walk
ing about the debris after the storm
had subsided.
STORM IN MERIWETHER
COUNTY, TOO.
GREENVILLE, March 13. A
storm passed over this place at 3:30
o’clock Monday afternoon, blowing
down a number of small houses and
damaging a number of residences
and business houses. No personal
injuries- were reported.
KENTUCKY STORM LOSS
PLACED AT MILLION
LOUISVILLE, March 13. Nine
persons are dead and more than St
others are reported injured and an
estimated loss caused by property
damage over a wide area close to a
million dollars, stood as a toll oj a
violent windstorm which swept Ken
tucky Sunday night and Monday
morning.
111! PREVENTATIVE
MNUKKCHKI
Has Been Experimenting Since
1915—Success Seems
. Assured
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark., arch 13.
—“Pulling the fangs of influenza,
has been the chief duty of Dr. Harri
son Hale, head of the department o.:
chemistry at the University of Ar
kansas, who has evolved a “flu pre
ventative that has received national
attention during the past two weeks.
During the influenza epidemic of
1918, Dr. Hale began experimenting
with chlorine gas as the solution of
flu germ control. He experimented
with a group of forty young men and
women and so successful was his
work that only one of the number
suffered even a light attack. The re
sults formed the basis for several
specific articles in scientific and med
ical journals of the country.
With the start of the present epi
demic in this state, Dr. Hale again
got out his chlorine apparatus and is
now offering free preventative treat
ments to those who desire them. The
treatments consist of breathing a rat
ified chlorine treated atmosphere in
the chemistry building of the uni
versity.
From the start, many have taken
the treatment, the groups including
from to 150 daily. Five minutes a
day in the chlorine treated air makes
up the treatment.
Although statistics are not yet
available on the effectiveness of the
treatment during the present epi
demic, it is believed by university
officials that many days of school
work already have been saved by the
method.
THE TIMES- RECORDER
Anti-Flrt Club in Capitol
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Because bold, bad morn the
nation’s Capitol have fallen rea a \.
their daily etiquet colui. an( j Wk
hence overlooked thefforty of .
an introduction, Washing: gj r ] g v
have organized to protechem
selves from unwelcome aqjces. '"'w ' - •
Here are some charter merng o f
the Anti-Flirt Club. Inset.owg Js
Alice Reighly, president. ,/•'
MISS LOIS DOWEL
VISITS RUBEL SCHDOT
State Agent Praises Work Os Cl <
Girls In Consolidated Schools
Os Sumter County
Miss Lois P. Dowdle, state age
for girl’s clubs, has just completed P
tour of girls’ clubs throughout Sure]
ter county, having included in thlh
itinerary I eslie, Hunting-ton, Thomde
JFdalean. Accompanying
Miss Dowdle was Miss Bonnie Park-f
man, Sumters’ home economic agent
Miss Dowdle met with the regular
classes of girls, giving each club a:
taU on the advantage to be gained)
from club work, ’
“.Many girls are paying their way:
.through, college with club work pro
rS’r s did Miss Dowdle before one
of the consolidated schools Friday af
tern6on/Tt is remarkiible the growth
Which club work has made in the past !
several years and the interest being i
manifested. From a few interested
girls who took up the work, the
classes have grown until many of the
state schools are filled with students
who are paying their way through
college.
“I have in mind the case of Lois
Callawy, of Griffin, who is now a
student at the State University at
Athens with her club work profits.)
Last year Miss Calloway actually
cleared SI,BOO from her pepper fields,
having- planted 8 acres to .Pimento
pepper, which netted her 400 pounds
of fine seeds that sold for S 3 per
pound.
The pimentoes were sold to a near
by canning factory for marketing,
while letters were received from all
over the state requesting seed from
her plants. Miss Calloway started
two years ago with a teaspoonful of
seed direct from Spain, saving the
first year 3 pounds of seed, which
she planted on the 8 acres this year.
She is now at the State University
doing extra work in college, prepar
ing herself for a home economics
agent. What Miss Calloway has done
other club girls can do.”
Miss,Dowdle and Miss Parkman
visited the woman’s demonstration
club at Thalean Friday afternoon,
where the state agent spoke to the
mothers and club girls of the impor
tant part they were ’flaying in state
economics. Miss Dowdle stressed the
importance of the girls having a wo :
man’s- department behind the work,
this feature encouraging the younger
people in their efforts. -
Miss Dowdle especially commented
on the work being done in Sumter
county, stating that she considered it
her banner county. She spoke of the
excellent organization which Miss
Parkman has accomplished, and
praised both director and girls for
their work.
Miss Parkman has all classes well
under way for spring work, and
meets now with the rural clubs twice
each month, instructing them in sew
ing and other branches. Work in mil
linery was begun this week, and will
continue until the spring beds have
been arranged for canning club work.
CONDITION OF LENINE
REPORTED AS SERIOUS
LONDON, March 13. — (By Asso
ciated Press.) —A Reuter dispatch
from Helsingfors says Premier Pre
mier Lenine of Soviet Russia, had an
apoplectic" seizure yesterday/: His
condition, the message adds, is stated
to be serious.
A Moscow dispatch of March 7
quoted -Leo Kameneff as stating Len
ines’ health as gradually improving
after having suffered from overwork
following his last summer’s illness.
TUESDAY AFTERNNOON, MARCH 13, 1923
PAY PENALTY
IWffISMETIIG
i FOR CHILD WELFARE
Conference Being Held In At
lanta— An Interesting Program
Features Conference
ATLANTA, March 13.—A full
wA e 7 m tac , ed the delegates to the
’h?ld W 5? nferenc , e Southern
mild Welfare workers, opening here
his morning with the annual con
eience of Southern State Welfare
•epartments in the director’s room
I mu Chamber oi Commerce.
The Child Welfare conference
toper is scheduled to open this af
trnoon at 2:30 o’clock in the audi
-177-°* thc Chamber of Commerce
tth discussions of the “The State
dverument in Child Welfare work ”
-t the necessity of team work in the
ipntenance of the normal family.
-Leaders in the discussions during
i 1 two-day conference will be C. C.
Istone, Child Welfare League of
erica; J. Prentice Murphy, Chil
i s bureau, Philadelphia; Mrs.
tha P. Falconer, American Asso
lon of Social Hygiene; William
son, Russell Sage foundation;
n R. Lovejoy, Naitonal Child La
tommitteeman; Miss Emma C.
fterg, Federal Children’s bureau;
us Bronson Reynolds, American
J Hute of Criminal Law and Crimi
rV; Willis Sutton, superintendent
Atlanta Public schools; W. W.
Aider, Southern Inter-Racial
c (ssion.
’ feature of the conference din-
is to be held this even
*nas been announced as “The
■ Li ; Terms in a Community’s Plan
I lo i Care of Illegitimate Chil
l dri
! . principal subjects for discus-
! the evening will be “Leg
lsl;lfor Children, and “The
1 Adt jjt Girl.”
('among the outside events for
■ todfere the addresses delivered
at *ions of the Kiwanis and Ro-
’ tars s and the League of Wo
mepT’ts in what was termed a
c h'elfare” program.
REIILC SBEI
IffilT ANERICUS
Rex, h. Massey, pastor of the
First B t church at Jefferson,
Ga.. Yiive in Americus Wed
; the mid-week pray
|er ser\ Central Baptist church.
' Dr. ;y comes at the special
invit isl the pulpit committee o
i Centralist church, and his visit
I to thisggation is regarded with
1 much it by Americus Baptists
i ar) d otq oni i Ila tions.
.Possqunusual scholarly at-
I tain men: Massey has established
I a reput f or being one of the 1
I ablest nj-s j n the state, and it 1
is expechrge audience will heat 1
his mesffednesday evening. 1
HARDfoUSEBOAT
PAPjuST DRIFTING”
FORTiERDALE, March 13.
' F res identj n g’ s nomadic vaca
tion crui Vn t h c Fi or j da E ast
coast toq ame even more no _
amadic. | been dependent for
the past on iy on w hims of
members b P art y> hut for the
past 24 !, ad to take in con
sideration t e and fall of the i
tide.
PL l A r i w?v’ FF AT HAVANA
FA VAN p h 13._ Six United
States armjmeg | e fj. c an ip Co
lumbus ne^ na at 8;2() o’clock
this niorninjuantanamo, a dis
i tance of olj t
FRENCH TO RETALIATE
IF MORE TROOPS KILLEO
00 ATTACKED IN 818
Burgomaster Os Buer And Four
Town Officials Held As
Hostages
WARNING HAS BEEN GIVEN
Plans For Exacting Coal For
Reparations Account About
To Be Realized
March 13 —(By the As
sociated press.)—The German popu
’atl °" of the Recklinghausen district
has been warned by General Laig
nelot, commanding the district, it
was announced today, that in the I
event any further French troops ars
assassinated or ambufehed. the burgo
master of Buer, who is held as hos
tage, together with four other town
offiicals, will be shot at once as a
measure of retaliation.
WILL EXACT COAL
iFROM INDUSTRIALISTS.
| ESSEN, March. 13.—(8y the As-I
| sociated Press.) —A civil mission of
engineers, headed by M. Coste,
French inspector general o/ mines,
which came into Ruhr to exact coal
reparations from industrialists, has
begun the realization of its plans. I
A party of engineers were escorted I
by a battalion of French infantry
and seized today a state coke plant |
near Westerhold with a thousand
tons of coke on hand.
1 WHITE, 3 NEGROES
ARE KILLED IN JONES
Two Men Are Held In Jail At
Gray, Charged With Sunday
Murder Near Bradley
GRAY, March. 13.—A white man
and three negroes are dead as the
result of week-end disorders in Jones
county. Two men are held in the
county jail, charged with murder.
Tom Jackson, a Jones ebunty far
med living near Five Points in the
western part of the county, was shot,
and killed by Ferd .Gresham, farmer.
The killing, officers said, resulted
from an old grudge between the fam
ilies. Gresham is held in the Jones
county jail charged with murder.
T wo years ago the men had trouble
and Jackson is said to have shot
Gresham and his wife. This trouble
was finally settled in the courts. Sun
day afternoon Gresham Was out nearl
his home trying to kill a hawk, ac-j
cording to a staement he made to
officers, and Jackson came by. An I
argument a'rose, it it stated, and
Gresham shot Jackson, he said, in
self defense.
Following an argument over a di ?
. game near Bradley Sunday afternoon
, I rank Lester and Ed Young, negroes
, | shot one another to death. Both ne
. .groes pulled pistols about the same
| time, witnesses said, and began
, j snooting. When the smoke cleared
away both were mortally wounded.
Saturday afternoon a Round Oa K ,
Dan Waldrop, negro, shot and killed
Ellis Jackson, negro. Ellis Jackson
and his brother, Carlton, were riding
in a buggy when the killing ‘oik
place. Waldrop shot to kill Carlton
Jackson, the police said, and shot El
lis. Carlton was wotinded in the
shooting. Wadrop is held in the
Jojies county jail.
LUTHER iW
IT HO® IN ATLANTA
♦ al
Had Been 11l Several Weeks—
Was Leading Attorney In
Noted Frank Case
ATLANTA, March 13.—Luther Z.
Rosser, ■Sr., 64, and one of tile lead
ing lawyers of Atlanta, died at his
home here this morning after an ill- .
ness of several weeks.
He was the senior member of the .
firm of Rosser, Slaton and Hopkins, I j
and attracted national atte/tion in
connection with the Leo Frank ca->e I .
a few years ago. I j
OWSLEY CANCELS
VISIT TO COLUMBUS
COLUMBUS, March 13.—National
Commander Alvin Owsley, of the |
American Legion, who today was to I
have visited the’ Columbus Legion j
post, has been unable to fill his en- |
gagement because of his health, it is j
announced heje. The visit has been ■
postponed to April 13.
Orrin Guerry is critically ill at the
home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A.
M. Guerry, on Jefferson street.
Elza and Mildred Bell, young chil
dren of Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Bell, are
ill with gastric influenza, at their
home on McGarrah street.
FOR CRIMES
808 GIBSON AND HARRY
ALLEN TO FIGHT HERE
The boxing bout to be pulled oft
Wednesday night at 8 o’clock under
| auspices of the American Legion
Bost here promises,to be full of excit
ing events in which six men are to
take part.
The work of Bob Gibson, a Plains
ooy, will be one of the features. He
is to fight a six-round bout with
Baii'y Allen, of Macon, one of Pa
Stribling s stable, and that alone wilt
c well worth the admission price.
Hevs 717 s ° n the Program are:
Heys Arnold vs. Albert Thayer 4
lounds, and Ken Kimsey. of Cor
dele, vs. Marion Lee, of Leesburg,
both A dS ’ .- Arno!d a n d Thayer are
both Americus boys. The bouts will
lv aT? 7 the Le < ion Hall - former
ly A. L. I. Armory, 5n Forsyth, street.
BLACK HANDING IS
CHARGED TO NEW
Claim. To Bo Ku-Kloxer-Fleeo
ed Friend Out Os His
Money
mons. The chilH ‘ VV . r ,lam
hurt and Fle'X,.
Shortly after
saying his case h-i 7 ° a letter
the -K. K K V’ and I . tried b - v
Xt “TLf"’lto x°‘
Hammons and told of it °
iff n P° lic e we re notified and Sher
SX d hX,?x s jl J ,r irjv
skufi/an? f l he letters had rude 1
I skulls and cross-bones on them. i
cSuise rp 1 > party ls mak ing the
eruise, resumed a struggle with
I sand bars early today and at. 8
Hill°1 k 1S ( /eperted to have passed
caSfl 7 ma 7 t£ntative schedule still
CHAPMAN-JOI INSON CASE
HEARD BY GOVERNOR
Atlanta March 11 c
Thomas w w S" • . —Governor
nomas W. Hardwick yesterday
heard argument i n support o f the
on commission’s recommendation
■ C. K. Chapman, each serv
-e Bentence for the murder
m Americus of Walter H. Wade
.lhe record from the prison com
Sl bm Ca h me l d ° Wn about two weeks
g , but had just been reached bv
the governor. After the arguments
?r°obabh r h Hardwic . k -hl it would
Probably be several weeks before his
order is issued in the case, since
he wants to carefully go over the
h ” tie'” " ’ h " ,y pr “ sure
GROVE DEFEATS
glen holly BASKETEERS
oJtrntin ° nnie ? arkman , home dem
onstration agent for Sumter countv
was a visitor at our school Wednes-’
thH,- i She Came t 0 give the girls
for the benefit of the club work,
mitfpn ne wly elected program com
’ h r n met M ° nday and
the following program: Devotional
reading, Mrs. Owen; song, “The Old
Willi'°P by Societ y; jokes,
W.-lhe Ruth Methvin; reading, Estelle
i Annie Ruth Barton;
m ta Jj? n ’ G ? ad y s Murphy; story,
Mrs. (hambliss; riddles, Annie Coo
gle; piano solo, Methvin-
Play, “Samuel’s Proposal.” Charac
ters: Samuel, George Methvin; Het
tie, Gladys Murphy; duet, “Beautiful
I Home Somewhere,” E.dna Braswell
I and Annie Ruth Barton; play, ‘Cora’s
I Callers. Characters: Cora Barnes,
■ Estede Methvin; Aunt Cornelia, Ruby
Methvin; Marie Gaines, Annie R.
j Barton; George, Douglas Lane; Hari
iry Speedy, L. G. Methvin; Cecil
I Howe, Sam McGlamry; violin solo,
I ’The Automobile Race,” Miss Ruth
’ Bryant; play, “The Merry Maidens
Club.” Characters: Mary, Annie
Coogle; Neva, Stella Ethridge; Lil- 1
lie, Edna Braswell; Jane, Mildred
Murphy; Helen. Lizzie McGlamry;
Cora, Thelma Morris; Horace, Doug
las McNeely.
Dr. Bond was a recent visitor of
our school.
Miss Annie Coogle was the guest
of Mrs. Otis Morris Saturday.
The Pleasant Grove boys and girls
basketball teams will return the
game of ball with Gien Holly Friday
afternoon.
uO.vlmjl3
PRICE FIVE CENTS
hem mm s*
FREE STATERS FOB
■NIG BIDEICE
Three Others Put To Death 'ln
Dublin—Two Caught In
Bank Raids
— *
BOTH MEN REPUBLICANS
A Third, James O’Roukre, Shot
For Attack On National
Army Troops
C ORK, March 13. (By Associ it
ed Press.)—William Healy was ex
ecuted here this morning by the
I-iee State authorities. He was ar
rested while in ‘possession of arms
during a recent attack on a house in
Blarney street, when an attempt was
made to burn the home of Mrs Pow’
ell, a sister of the late Michael CoF
Ims.
three more executed
IN DUBLIN
rin?H B L' N ’ , March I- 3 -—(By Asso
ciated Press.)— Michael Creevy a id
Huary Keenan, Rephblicans, were ex
ecuted here today.
The two men were arrested after
a raid on the bank at Oldcastle, and
convicted of possessing arms as w .,]i
as large sums of money. Creevy was
a leader among the Irregulars
m n,7 neS °’£ ourke w as executed this
nart in 8 ’ aft 7 c ° nviction of taking
armv 7 on the National
month 1 PS ln a DubHn hotel I::st
WME EWB
WMWfWj
SL Dli| rS M rg - Residents Holding
D aHy Meebngs. Preparing
F°r Convention
-<SpeS E i SB p"&'.Ma-h 13
are holding dailv m Kotarians
luncheons programed % a “ei. model
eight hour tho , f °rty
bership have J»i?i g ’- 1° local mt ‘m-
Johs!woo g d S idei7 hile in
the entertainment oVZT ble
visitors while Boy Ely£ th°
who will feed tk. ; y >- S the cha P
Jommittee heads who
Harold th q lr Sba ‘ e of dut >es include'*.!
Ha old Sommers,• Charley Carr IY
-sug.e, Frank Jonesburg Al Lane-*
Frank Fortune Pulver Rill e. ' h’
and Eb Lewis. ’ 1 Straub
The convention falls on the Hl
two days o f the alni ual “Festival of
events of „» *? Sts season - Sport
events of every nature will be under
way when the Rotes hit town and in
fireworks P r ra i L>S haVe been arran 8-
tirewoiks displays, outdoor paegents
massed band concerts, yachting ami
features' 81 SOngfests and other
Many of the visiting Rotes have cr-
M.‘?M d o t 1 ° t amVe in St ‘ Petersburg
“ IS i V * ew the float
Parade and also to take in the water
sports and fireworks display
Following the Rotary meet, alarm
number Rotarians have made reser
vation through Bayard Cook, local
’’?, ember to visit Cuba, going on board
the big steamer “Cuba” plying be
tween here and Havana. The party
will be headed by Roland Du Bois and
his corps of expert Spanish guides
and interpreters.
St. Petersburg is already attired
in holiday dress for the visitors and
Central avenue, the city’s main
thoroughfare is gaily decorated with
flags and bunting. Tall white col
ums pilasters, each bearing the Ro
tary emblem, a huge gold and blue
wheel, have been placed in the cen
ter of the street for ten blocks in the
heart of the hotel and shopping cen
ter.
ODD FELLOWS-REBEKAHS
TO ENJOY SOCIAL MEEI
Americus Odd Fellows and Rebek
ahs will meet this evening at 7:30
o clock in the Odd Fellows frater-’
nal hall in a social gathering, the
outstanding feature of which will be
a grand barbecue served at the con
clusion of the exercises.
It is expected that about 50 Odd
Bellows and Rebekahs will partici
pate, together with a few invited
guests from nearby organizations.
The program of entertainment
will include music by the Mandolin
club, interspersed with readings and
songs and bright talks by members
of each lodge.
Much pleasure is being anticipated
from the meeting tonight, which is '
the annual occasion of social gather
ing of the Odd Fellows and Re-
. bekahs.
Mrs. Clyde Williams, who has
been visiting in Atlanta for the past
■ few days, is expected to return to
her home here today s