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FORTY-FIFTH YEAR—NO. 1 I 5
SCHOOL TAX PROPOSAL DISCUSSED
W KEPIS DIKES'
BLLEKE TO BEFEfI
ISSUE 11 VOTERS
Chairman of Finance Committee
of Council Submits Analysis
of School Conditions
not opposed to schools
Gives Population Statistics and
Cites Sums Schools Cost in
Previous Years
E. J. Witt,, chairman of the finance
committee of city council, today
handed the Times-Recorder a pre
. which he discusses
th v is-.ie that has arisen concerning*
toe provision of addition.il money
for Americus’ school system. in
this article Mr. Witt goes exhaust
ivcly into the subject in controver
sy, and pointedly tells W W. Dykes,
c l.ail man of the board of education,
t..a‘ he “will gladly co-operate to
• ling about a vote of tn? people on
inis matter of increased taxation.”
fi’.e comi liinication in full is as fol
lows:
ySince the matter oi expenditure
o the people’s money is of universal
interest to the <• -izens of Antericus
and inasmuch as the city’s finan
cial condition has been severely
criticized and misunderstood by some
of our citizens, and as our public
school board is claiming that the
schools can not be operated on a
basis- of revenue raised by a seven
mill tax levy, plus the money receiv
ed from the state, it will perhaps
be interesting to our people to be
informed with reference to the fi
nancial problems generally, and espe
cially with reference to the amount
demanded by the president of our
school board. ,
‘’The responsibilities going with
the chairmanship of the finance
committee of the mayor and city
council of Americus devolving now
upon the writer, causes, me to feel
that perhaps the writing of this ar
ticle is justified. I wish it under
stood in the beginning that it is
not written in any spirit of ani
mosity; neither is it prompted by
any lack of interest in our public
school system, and let it be further
understood that it is not my purpose
to' criticize a Iversely our school
board nor the faculty, but I hope
in a spirit of perfect candor and
fairness to submit a few observa
tions that will prove of general in
terest to our citizens.
Floating Debt TA> High
“One of the highest ambitions
and purposes of the present city ad
ministration is to improve upon its
financial status if possible to do so.
We find that our floating indebted
ne. s is entirely too great and out
of proportion, as compared with
other municipalities, with our bond
ed indebtedness, and sooner or later
it-will likely require an additional
bond issue to give us 'much relief
All permanent improvements and ex
traordinary expenditures for the
past several years are being carried
as floating indebtedness, such as
money contributed to bring Souther
Field to Americus, the, $20,000.00
or more expended at the pumping
station, the $10,000.00 expended
for the purchase of the play .ground,
paving i ti'i et and other general im
provements incident to keeping up
the general physical condition of
our streets and sidewalks, have all
been charged to floating idebted
ncss since our last bond issue, and
the city's revenue being insufficient
to take care of its operating ex
penses and pay off this character of
indebtedness, we are appalled to
find our floating indebtedness reach
ing the frightful sum of approxi
mately $155,000.00, the annual in
terest; on which amounts to approxi
mately $9,000.00. No city can pros- I
per under this financial status, and I
relief must come .from some source ;
at an early date.
Economy in Budget
“In the. light of the foregoing
facts the city authorities in making j
out its budget of expenses for the I
different departments of the city i
government- for the present year has I
economized in every way possible, i
and still we find it difficult to op- i
crate the different departments '
within the budget, which we are de- !
termined to do. and. which we must 1
do or make our floating indebted- i
ness even greater than at present. [
Notwithstanding these figures and
facts, which arc staring us* in thm‘ (
face like Banco’s ghost and will !
nop down, our board of education, '
through its president is waging a '
persistent fight and demanding more
money for the operation of our [
school system.
‘Speaking for myself, as a mem
ber, and as chairman of the financ/’ ,
committee of the mayor and city
council of Americus. I wish it dis
tinctly- understood that I am now,
have always been and expect alway
to be a friend of education; and
believing that -ur children are en
titled to the best school advantages
possible to be given them, I would
not sav or do anything harmful or
detrimental to onr school system.
However, it occurs to me that our
schools can and should be operat
ed for less, money than our school
board, through its president, is de
manding for this purpose, and in
Fear 2
PEKING GOVERNMENT
1Y ABANDON EFFORT
TO RESCU£CAPTIVES
Extravagant Demands of Bandits
May Cause Government to
End Negotiations
TO KILL TWO TUESDAY
Marcel Berube Carrying Ultimat
um to Peking Demanding
Withdrawal of Troops
PEKING, May 19 —(By Associated
Press)— Telegrams from the Chinese
at Thaochwang near which fifteen
foreign captives are held by the
mountain outlaws of Shantung indi
cate that the government representa
tives are on the point of abandoning
negotiations for the release of host
ages because of the bandits' extrava
gant demands.
The latest such terms were that
the troops be withdrawn from the
entire province of Shantung, the ban
dits to constitute the provincial mili
tary forces.
It is intimated that Wu Lu Yin,
Minister of Communications, who has
been in Charge of the governmental
parleys will be recalled to Peking.
MARCEL BERUBE
CARRIES ULTIMATUM
LONDON, May 19—(By Associat
ed Press) —Marcel Berube, recently
released from captivity by the Su
chow train bandits, is journeying to
Peking to present gn ultimatum to
the Chinese government on behalf of
bandits, says a Reuter’s dispatch
from Tsaochwang.
The ultimatum, according to the
dispatch is that the government
troops besieging the bandits be with
drawn by next Tuesday, failing which'
two of the Anglo-American captives
will be killed.
GOVERNMENT TROOPS
THREATEN REVOLT
WASHINGTON, May 19 —A situ
ation threatening to result in defec
tions among the government troops
sent in pursuit of Chinese bandit
forces in Shantung are reported in
state department advices [received
here today. These advices state that
the soldiers have not been paid dur
ing the past eighteen months and
that they are now reported replenish,
ing their pockets by selling ammuni
tion to the bandits.
AMERICAN CIJLffRS
MHI II TBOBIII
Walker Cup Retained When Am
ateur Team Defeats British in
Two-Day Tournament
ST. ANDREWS, Scotland, May 19
—-(By Associated Press)—The
American amateur golf team retained
possession us the Walker cup by de-
I eating the British team in a two
day tournament ending today, win
ding- six matches to five, with, one
halved.
The cup was won on the thirty
fifth green when Dr. O. F. Willing,
of Portland, Oregon,playing- with W.
A. Murray of the British team, won
a three-yard put to win'his match
two to one.
NEW PUBL ICITY AIDS
NAMED AT WAYCROSS
WAYCROSS, May 19.—Dr. B. H.
Minchew, chairman of the Publicity
of the Waycriss Motor chib, mua
selected to aid him in the work of
this department the following two ,
members: T. S. Linton, of the* Lin-I
ton Tire company, and Frank D. Ad-i
am:. manager of the Orpheum the
ater.
support of my convictions permit me
to submit a few facts and figures
for your consideration:
Perv’sticn Statistics
“Tn 1910 population of Amer
icus, as shown by the government
census, wa? 8,063. In 1920 this I
had incienfcd as shown by the gov
ernment census, to 9,010, an, in
crease of 947. It is safe to say that [
the presen: population is to greater [
than in 1920, due to the removal I
fl ■ : .’»;•*. * iu; of a great-many peo-I
fie who came here as a result of
the establishment of Souther Field.
Thus it will be seen that our popula
tion has increased approximately 1 l
per cent per year. In 1917 the total
of property returned in the city of
Americus for taxation was
$1,5 7 6,0 2 9.0 0. The
public schools of our city were at
that time operating on a 5 mill’tax
levy, or $22,880.15. In 1922 the
total property returned for taxation
in the city of Americus v'as $5,656,-
887.00 and the schools were operated '
on a 7 mill tax levy, or $39,598.21, j
( Continued on Page 3.) i
THE TIMES- RECORDER
*
of Captives May Be Slaughtered
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BIG AMUSEMENT DEAL CLOSED HERE
Ml TlfflES IS
LEASED 11 WILBY
AND KIHCEY OFSELIH
Herbert Kincey, of Atlanta, to [
Assume Charge of Amuse
ment House Monday
WILL CONTINUE OLD POLICY [
New Management to Bring High
Class Road Shows and Pic
tures to Americus
Announcement was authorized to
day of the lease of the Rylander
theater to Wilby & Kincey, of Sel
ma, Ala. Herbert Kincey, of Selma,
who will manage the amusement
.house for Mr. Wilby, reached Amer
icus today and will take charge there
Monday. Emory Rylander, who has
been manager of the theatre since its
erection, authorized the announce
ment.
R. F. Wilby, the lessee, is one of
the best known amusement men in
the South, owning and operating
theaters in a number of Alabama cit
ies. T'tie Americus theatre is the first
to be acquired by the Wilby interests
in this state. Only the highest grade
amusements, both pictures and road
plays are booked by the Wilby man
agement, which has been eminently
successful wherever they have taken
over theatres.
Herbert Kincey, the new manager,
stated today that it will be his pur
pose to continue at the Rylander the
same policy as pursued by the for
mer management. “One thing I want
to drive home to the people of Amer
icus,” he said, “is that tbs Rylander
is an Americus institution, erected,
maintained and operated for the
amusement of Americus people. And
when I say Americus people, let it
be understood this means all of the
people who reside either in Americus
or in rhe trade territory about Amer,
icus. The Rylander is a theatre which
I may say with pardonable pride, re
flects credit upon the communitv in
which it is located, and in the’ direc
tion of its destiny, I plan to make The
Rylander a house in which every per
son in this entire territory will feel
entirely at home.”
Mr. Kincey is an experiehced
amusement man, and during the past
lour years has had headquartiAs in
Atlanta where he directed large pic
ture interests in which he has finan- •
cial interess. He comes to Ameri
cus well recommended, and doubtless
will make of the Rylander an even
greater success than has already been
attained there by the management
he succeeds.
IBDEEDIeST
CM DC®
Connie Mae Maxwell, Annie Ruth
Smith and Alrfed Sm'ih,
All Negroes, Killed Today
Three negroes, one boy and two
F 1! ,- ' vcr ?_ killed this afternoon at 3
o clock when a cave-in ocenrrred on
an unnamed street between torsych
and Crawlord streets in East Amer
icus. sh e dead are Connie Mae
Maxwell, daughter of Oscar Maxwell
” eL known Americus negro post
man; Allred Smith and Annie Smith
all children.
According to best information ob
tainable they had gone into the un
used street to play in a “cave” there
Recent rams had weakened the sup
porting earth which eaved-in upon (
“’em. Information was furnished
7he Times-Recorder, on request, by!
Hie Earnum Undertaking Co., where
two of the bodies were taken to be
prepared for burial.
Believe It Or ,
Not!
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I
Rome, May 19.—Coals to New
castle. | I
Watermelons to Florida.
Strange as it may seem, Floyd
County farmers have discovered a •
market for watermelons in Florida
and South Georgia. They are plan
ning this year to raise a large acre
age of melons to be shipped south
after the early melons of that sec
tion have been exhausted.
This idea was adopted at a far- 1
mens meeting conducted here by
County Agent M. W. H'. Collins
and representatives of the Geor
gia association,
AMERICUS, GA., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 19, 1923
SOB OF GEORGIA
INDICATES STATE WILL
GO AFTER INDUSTRIES
Atlanta Newspaper Announces
Result of Fell cf Editors anti
Bankers of State
TO REPAIR THE TAX SYSTEM
Tired of Politics and Trivial Ques
tions State Soon to Get Down
to Business
ATLANTA, May 19.—Casting out
the petty causes of division among
them, the people of Georgia stand
united today as never before de
termined to press on toward the
state’s manifest destiny. Letters,
reports and investigations dealing
with every section of the state prove
conclusively that the lesgislature
this summer, responding to the in-*
sistent demand of those whose col
lective will it serves, will abandon
politics for the productive field of
practical, sane endeavor.
The legislature will attack those
problems upon the solution of which
hangs the economic fate of Georgia.
It will strive toward these ends:
A fair, modern and adequate sys
tem of taxation.
2. Justice for the farmer; par
ticularly prices for his products
which will insure him greater pros
perity, which is his due.
3. Creation of conditions in the
state which will attract new indus
tries and capital for the development
of its natural resources.
Georgia is aroused. Aware that a
greater opportunity confronts her
today than has at any time in the
past or is likely to appear soon
again, the people of the state are
focussing their attention on those
reforms to enable her to reap the
largest harvest.
She is setting her house in order.
The capital removal issue has been
shelved definitely, thus dimming the
imaginary line of division between
North Georgia and South Georgia.
The water power bills, whose sup
porters have had much to do with de
laying the development of the state’s
resources, are to be abandoned or
ignored. It is in the hearts of the
people of Georgia, that all of the
causes of bickering and irritation
which have operated to retard the
state’s progress shall go by the
board.
Tha taxation system stands forth
*in bold relief, and of even greater
importance are the conditions facing
capital invested in the state from
outside sources. A crippled, inade
quate tax system is to be repaired
and the unsatisfactory condition•
under which invested capital op
erates here are to be made attrac
tive.
There can be no doubt of it. It
is the most cheering message that
The Bulletin ever has had the pleas
ure to convey, anti jt i: an au
thentic message, in order to learn
what the state thought and believed
and demanded today, The Bulletin ■
went to the source, to the people ;
theniselves,i for information. One J
of its inquiries took the form of!
a personal letter to newspaper edi
tors and bankers. Other inquiries
were directed to legislates, to law
yers, to farmers and ministers and [
doctors, to prominent citizens en- j
gaged in every sort of pursuit.
The answer came as from one I
man: Georgia is tired of politics
and trivial “questions.” Georgia
wants action on matters of vital im
portance +o herself. She wants her
industries enlarged and expanded.
She wants her agricultural resources
exploited. She wants prosperity for
all her people. And she is deter
mined to get it.
COMMUNITY BARBECUE
AT ANDERSONVILLE
Friday afternoon there was a
community barbecue served at An
dersonville, with approximately 350
guests present. The occasion was
the annual closing exercises at the
consolidated scheol there, and per
sons were present from Anderson
ville ,Pennington and Cut Off dis
tricts with a number from Ameri
cus also present. Among those at
tending fromj Americus were Mr.
and Mrs. J. W. Smith, Mr. and Mrs.
V. M. Holloway, W. O. Easterlin,
Will H. Cobb and County School
Superintendent E. W. Dupre?.
COLORED TEAM BEATEN
An excitinit baseball game was
played Thursday afternoon on the
ball ground of rhe Americus Insti
tute between the colored teams of
Plains and Americus, resulting in the
home team being beaten, the score
being 4 tp 3 ifi favor of Plains. ,
IMLSIIIUmiT
W Tfflffi GET
GBOD SALARIES HERE
Cost of Education of Children in
Rural Schools Placed at 14
Cents a Day
TEACHERS PAID BY BOARD
Most of Schools Have Already
Elected Faculties for Next
Year With Few Exceptions
lhe Budget that the county school
superintendent is making out for
next year, we are told, will show
something like the following pay for
teachers by the month. This repre
sents the aggregate pay for teachers
at the several schools: :
Andersonville $187.60
Lysian 251.16
Plains 608.72
Concord 246.40
Huntington 95.76
Thalean 274.40
Pleasant Grove . ...,213t80
New Era 240.80
Shiloh 246.40
Union High, Leslie 686.00
Pennington 36.40
These figures are based on the av
erage daily attendance. The board
has recommended one teacher for
every 35 pupils in actual attendance.
This will amount to about 14 cents
per day for each pupil, and will give
the schools equally as much money
as heretofore.
The transportation of the pupils
ttilT-fce paid for
local taxation alone. The county
board will only pay the teachers as
above stated.
Most of the schools irii Sumter
• have elected teachers for another
year. Plains, Union, Lysian, Tha
lean, Andersonville and Concord
have elected practically the samjc
faculty. New Era, Pleasant Grove
and Hunnington are selecting mostly
new teachers, as the matrimonial
market and other things have caused
the exodus of quite a number of ex
cellent teachers there.
BBEILIUmCB
FUR OUTLER SUNDAY
Two Methodist Congregations to
Hold Union Services Dtie io
Pastor’s Illness
Sunday morning at 11 o’clock
Rev. Luther Harrell, pastor of Lee
Street Methodist church, will preach
in the court house,’ where his con
gregation will join with that of the
First Methodist church in union serv
ices. The occasion of the union
meeting is the illness of Rev. John
M. Outler, who is recovering from
a tonsil operation which prevents
him from preaching temporarily.
Sunday evening the two congrega
tions will worship in Lee Street
church, with Mr. : Harrell again
preaching*.
For the evening service, Mrs. T.
H. McLendon has prepared a splen
did musical program, and this being
the last service at which she will
conduct the choir there, it is expect
ed an unusual number will attend
this farewell service. Th? program
as prepared by Mrs. McLendon, is as
follows: '
Organ Prelude—(Mozart,Dvorak.)
Hymn.
Prayer.
* Softly Now the Light of Day
(Sudds) —-Mrs. Buchanan, Mrs. Lee,
Mr. Morgan.
Hark, Hark My Soul —(Wilson)
Chorus.
Scripture Lesson.
The Mttzarene —(Geibel) Mrs.
Buchanan, Mrs. Elam.
Announcements.
Offertory—Old Irish Air (Frances
Leone.)
Lift Up Your Heads—(L. A. Em
erson) Mrs. Buchanan, Mrs. Dixon,
Mrs. Morgan, Mrs. Stackhouse, Mr.
Morgan.
Remarks.
Close to Thee —(Briggs) Mrs.
Olin Dixon.
Lead Me Aright— (Wildermere)
Mrs. Buchanan, Mr. Morgan, Mr.
Stackhouse and Mrs. Morgan.
Doxology.
Posthide —(Gounod.)
90 CASES HEARD AT ROME
ROME, May 19.—0 f the 98 cases
to be heard during the May term
of the United States district court
here, 90 cases are for whisky vio
lations and five for violations of the
Harrison ait'i?narcotic act.
The term will open the third- Mon
lay day in May.
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ATIIIEfllCtlSra
™ i Other Events Scheduled for Week
Culminating in Graduating
Exercises
) NAMES OF SENIOR CLASS
, Final Examinations Yet to Be
Held, Before Names cf Grad
ates Are Announced
[ i Commencement exercises at
Americus High school will commence
• this year on Monday night 21, when
the Lion’s Recitation contest will
take place in the school auditorium
and culminate in the delivery of dip-
i lomas at the Rylander Theater on
l the evening of Thursday June 7.
There are thirty boys and twenty
. eight girls in the graduating class,
i and all of these may receive di-
I plomas, though the final examina
i lions are yet to be held, and no de
i finite announcement of the list of
i graduates has been authorized by
i the school- authorities. Two girls,
. Misses Teress Andrews and Lewill
[ McDonald, who began the year as
. members of the senior class, and one
boy, James Collins, and who would
; have graduated next week, will not
, be among the number owing to their
having left the class to accompany
their parents who now -eside else
» where.
oft’iem’s this year
; are:
3 President, Edwin Gammage;
Vice Fresident, Jasper Parker;
. Secretary, Flora Bacot; Treasurer,
• Clarie Harris; Historian, Christine
. Hines; Poet, Alice Westbrook;
[ Prophet, Mary Earle Allen.
. The class flower is the Marechai
> Niel rose; the class colors, blue and
, gold, and the class motto, “Saber es
I poder”(Knowlegde is Power.) The
i honor students are Ann Heys, val
. dictorian; Mary Glover, salutator-
ian, and Jasper Parker, class orator.
The members of the class are:
Edward Andrews, Theo Barton, Wil
liam Baugh, Seth Belcher, Robert
Bell, David Broadhurst, Robert
Buchanan, James Collins, (gone)
Sam Comer, George Ellis, Charlie
. Everett, Kenson Findley, Edwin
' Gammage, G. W. Harris, Cecil
Howard, Luther Ivey, Sam Lott,
Edward McArthur, Allan McNeill,
[ Jasper Parker, Darby Read, Wai
>lt: ** Reeves, John West Sheffield,
. i 5 Swain, Russell Thomas Wil
lard Turpin, Dudley Witt, Skilman
Young, Marj- Earle Allen, Teress
Andrews (gone) Flora Bacot, Chis
tine Brown, Winona Burton, Par-
• nialee Davis, Dorothy Dunaway,
i Frances Easterlin, Mary Elizabeth
Easterlin, Grave Ertzberger, Ruth
Everett, Mary Annie Feagin, Ira
Gatewood, Mary Glover, Irene Guest,
[ Claire Harris, Ann Heys, Christine
Hines, Lewill McDonald (gone) Net
i [ tie Claire McMath, Eunice Matthews,
; I Lucile Morgan, Carrie Lou Parker,
; Annie Ruth Ray, Eleanor Ross.Ey
li en Rowland, Flora Surles, Jewel
I Jewel Turner, Alice Westbrook, Ed
| win Player.
Class events'Scheduled for next
week and in which wide interest
centers among the friends of the
various conestants, are:
Monday evening, May 21—Lions
Recitation Contest.
Tuesday evening, May 22 Ro
tary Declamation Contest.
Wednesday evening, May 23.—Ki
wanis debate contest.
Friday, May 25.—Junior-Senior
Reception.
Friday evening, June I.—Senior
Play.
- Monday morning, June 4—Senior
class program.
The Senior Class is getting out an
annual this year to be known as
Volume 7 of A-MERt-CAN. This
will be the first number of A-MERI
CAN since 1916.
John West Sheffield is editor-in
chief, and Ira Gatewood is business
manager. Assistant editors are Mary
Earle Allen and Frances Easterlin.
Assistant business managers are
Jasper Parker and Alice Westbrook.
The book will contain scores of
half-tone engravings and zinc etch
ings, and will have about 155 pages.
It will be bound in fabrikoid, and all
in all will be the largest and most
expensive annual ever issued in
Americus. The annual will be out
the last of May.
POULTRY SURVEY.
DUBLIN. May 19 —Miss Fannie B.
Groves will be in Dublin for some
time, making a survey of the poultry
raised in this vicinity.
Miss Groves, has made a special
study of poultry culture and is pre
pared to heln poultry raisers in and
around Dublin on such problems as
culling, feeding of moulting hens and
other such poultry problems,
WEATHER
For Georgia Showers Saturday
and Sunday; cooler •
PRICE FIVE CENTS
CHUggjES
Central Baptist Church
9:30 A. M. Sunday school, R. L.
Maynard, Supt.
11 A. M. Commencement sermon j
for A. & M. school, by the pastor,
Rev. Milo H. Massey.
| 6:45 P. M. B .Y. P. U., Senior
and Junior.
7:45 P. M. Evening service.
»i
First Church of Christ, Scientist
128 Forrest Street.
Sunday school 9:30 A. M.
Sunday morning service at 11
o’clock. Subject, “Mortals and Im
motrals.” Golden text, 1 Timothy a
6:12: Fight the good fight cf faith,
lay hold on eternal life, whereunto
thou are also called, and hast pro
fessed a good profession before
many witnesses.
Wednesday evening meeting at 8
o’clock.
Reading rooms are open daily ex
cept Sunday and legal holidays from
10 until 12. Visitors are. invited to
attend the services and visit the
reading rooms.
Presbyterian Church
Richard F. Simpson, Pastor.
9:45 A. M. Sunday school, A. C.
Crockett, Supt.
11 A. M. Morning service. Sub
ject, ‘Three Parables.”
7 P. M. Christian Endeavor, Mrs.
F. B. Arthur, Leader.
7:45 P. M. Evening service and
Bible study.
A evordial welcome to all strang
ers and visitors.
First Methodist Church
(At Court House)
John M. Outler, Pastor.
Sunday school at 9:30, Wiblo
Marshall, Supt.
Preaching at 11 A. M.
On account of indisposition of the
pastor, Rev. Luther Hariell, pastor
of Lee Street Church, will hold a
union service at the court house at
11 A. M., and at Lee Street at 7:45
P. M.. The public is most cordially
invited to attend these services.
■Lee St. Methodist Church
Luther A. Harrell, Pastor.
The services at Lee Street tomor
row will be as follows:
Sunday school 9:30 A. M.
Devotional services of Epworth ,
Leagues 6:45 P. M.
Preaching by the pastor 7:45 P.M.
The pastor will preach at the
court house Sunday morning at 11
o’clock, and the Lee Street congre
gation is urged to attend the services
there. At the evening service the
congregation of the First church will
worship with us at Lee Street.
A cordial invitation is extended
to all to worship with us. There
will be good music. •
First Christian Church.
* Taylor Street.
Sunday school 10 a. m. J. A.
Baugh, superintendent, work for a
great attendance Sunday.
Prayer and praise service 11 a. m.
Communion, 11:15 a. m.
Preaching services 11:30 a. m..
Subject, “A Hero of Faith,” by V/.
A. Joyner.
Christian Endeavor, 7 p. m. Juan,
ita Mulligan, leader. •
Prayer meeting Wednesday 7:30
p. m. J. A. Baugh leader.
Junior Christian Endeavor Friday
3:30 p. m. Mrs. Chas. McArthur,
leader.
A cordial welcome for you at ev
ery service of this church.
Calvary Church.
The church by the bridge.
Rev. James B. Lawrence, Rector
Whit-Sunday.
Holy Comunion, 7:30 a. m.
Church School, 9:45 a. m.
Morning prayer and service, 11
a. m.
The Young People’s service leag- ,
gue, 7 p. m. ?
Evening prayer and service, 8
p. m.
t Monday in Whitsun-week.
Holy Communion, 11 a. m.
fIffIfSUDfLIM '
LITEM, miss
Former Pastor of Americus First
Methodist Church in Demand
at Commencements
Rev. Guyton Fisher, of Douglas,
was a visitor in Americus today and
while here he and Mrs. Fisher were
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sills.
Last Thursday night Mr. Fisher
delivered the commencement sermon
at Buena Vista High school and
Sunday he will deliver the literary
address at commencement exercises
at Tifton A. & M. school. Today he
is in Macon, where he * went on a
business mission.
Mr. Fisher was until recently pas
tor of the First Methodist church
here, and during his visits here is
always extended a warm welcome
by his friends.
A. & M. COMMENCEMENT
SERMON TOMORROW
The closing exercises of the Third
District Agricultural and Mechanical J
college begins tomorrow with the
commencement sermon tp be deliver
ed at the Central Baptist church by a
(Rev. Milo Massey, the pastor, at the
11 o’clock hour.
The graduation exercises will be
held in the school auditorium Tues
day evening at 8 o’clock,
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