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VALDOSTA UMS GET
BEIDMWLANS
J. E. Mitchell, Organizer, Tells of
Benefits to Be Derived From
Playground Activities
VALDOSTA, May 21—The Lions
club at the regular weekly lun
cheon Wednesday in the private din
ing room of the Valdosta hotel at
once entered upon it program of
the progressive matters of interest
of the community.
Important among these matters
the club unanimously went on rec
ord as favoring and endorsing the
Community Service plans being un
dertaken in Valdosta at this time.
Mr. J. E. Mitchell, organizer for this
service, was present at the luncheon
and made the Lions a talk explain
ing in detail the plans along which
the work will be organized and car
ried out in this community. The
club showed its interest in the mat
ter by promptly, voting its endorse
ment and pledging assistance in any
way toward working out the plans
and carrying forward the work.
TRUCK ACREAGE GROWS
SAVANNAH, May 21.—The acre
age of Chatham county’s model truck
farms under intensive cultivation
surprised members of the Savannah
Board of Trade on their visit into
the county to various of the lead
ing farms. More than 30 members
made the trip to learn the county
and study her farm products.
THE STANDARD
Our ideas of service to you stand
in this order: Worthy Quality, Sat
isfying Variety, the Lowest Possible
Price. And our May Economy Sale
measures up fully to all of these prin
ciples.
500 Victoria $2
Sheets at $1.35
Large size for large double beds,
positively none will be sold after 6
o’clock Tuesday evening. We will sell
them in reasonable quantities as long
as our supply lasts. Bleached snow
white, linen finish, seamless and soft
finish, the best values you have ever
seen for $2. For two days only, Mon
day and Tuesday $1.35
1,000 Regular 50c
Pillow Cases at 29c
Get your year’s supply now. Yau
cannot lose at 29c. This quality sold
for 35c when cotton was selling at
10c pound. This one thousand is per
fect qualjty made of Fruit Loom
muslin and will be sold not over one
dozen each buyer at the price and
this price will be good only on Mon
day and Tuesday, Each 29c
$3.50 to $3.98 Canton
Crepe at $2.38 Yd.
Black and Navy, fine all silk heavy
Canton Crepe, 40 inches wide, beau
tifully finished. Sold only on Mon
day and Tuesday for the price
yard .. $2.38
$12.50 to sls Dresses
At $7.95
Beautiful quality taffeta dresses,
new models, all sizes, made of rich,
heavy taffeta in black and colors.
Monday and Tuesday only $7.95
10 Yards Good Yard Wide
Sea Island for 95c
Here is the greatest bargain that
you will see in a long, fine yard widte
Sea Island, smooth weave, sold only
on Monday and Tuesday for this
price, 10 yards for 95c
Genuine Pequot Linen
Finished Sheeting at 59c
Genuine Pequot Sheeting, extra
heavy linen finished, width for large
double beds. The longer you use it
the prettier it gets. Monday and
Tuesday, yard 59c
$1.50 White Silk
Stockings, 50c Pair
These are pure thread silk (not
fiber). It was the surplus lot of a
big Philadelphia manufacturer. We
bought the whole,, nearly 100 dozen
white. They are worth $l5O pair.
Price for Monday and Tuesday only,
Fair 56c
Standard Dry Goods Co.
Next Bank of Commerce
Foravth St. Americus. Ga.
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Public Platform Scales
To meet the growing demand of the community for a plat
form scale with sufficient tonnage to weigh heavy trucks
we have installed a
Modern Howe Platform Scales
Capacity 20,000 Pounds
Careful weights by sworn weighers. Complete records kept of
all weights for future reference.
All for a nominal charge of 25 cents per load.
HARROLD BROTHERS
Cotton Ave. Phone 2 Americus, Ga.
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I AM DOING ALL KINDS OF
ELECTRICAL WORK
No Job too Small or too Large. I do your work by the
hour and save you money. Ask my customers They KNOW
my ability.
J. C. BASS, Electrician
J TELEPHONE 557.
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, Qhapter 1
The Governor’s Suite.
Room service at the Ajax is of a
quality befitting ttie newest, the
laigest and the <nost expensiae hotel
in iia.las. Wnile the standard of
excellence is uniformly high, never
theless some extra care usually at
taches to a breaklast order from the
Governor’s suite —most elegant and
most expensive of all tne suites—
hence the waiter checked over his
card and made'a final, fluttering ex
amination to be sure that the chilled
fruit "a- chilled and that the hot
plates were hot before he rapped no
. the door. A voice, loud and cheery,
bade him enter.
The pajama-clad guest cast a
hungry eye over the concents of the
rubber-tired breakfast table. He
too, tested the temperature of the
melon and felt the cover of the toast
plate.
•‘Splendid’. - ’ he cried. ‘Nice rooms,
prompt service, a pleasant-faced
I waiter. Why, I couldn’t fare get
ter in my best club. Thanks to you,
: a.y first impression of Dal.as is
wholly delightful.” He seated him.
self in a padded boudior chair, un
folded a snowy servette and at
tacked his breakfast, with the en
thusiasm of a perfectly healthy ani
mak ~ .
‘‘ls this your first visit here, sir.
“Absolutely. Dallas is as foreign
|i t ome as Lhasa. It is the Bagdad of
Imy dreams and its streets are
stiange. Perhaps they are full of
I adventue for me. I hope so. Any
thing exciting can happen in a town
' where one has neither friends nor
acquaintances, eh?”
' “May I ask if you are in oil, sir?
“In oil? Bless me, what a nause
ating question—at this hour of the
day!” , .
“Most everybody hdre is in oil,
We turn dozens away every day,
. we’re that full. It’s the boom. 1 m
in oil myself—in a small way, of
course. It’s like this*, sometimes
gentlemen like—well, like you, sir
give me tips. They drop a hint, like
about their stocks, and I’ve done
1 well —in a small way, of Course. It
doesn't cost them anything and
' some of them are very kind. You d
really be surprised.”
‘Oh, not at all.” The occupant of
the Governor's suite leaned back in
his chair and smiled widely. ‘As a
matter of fact, 1 am flattered, for it
is evident that you are endowed with
the money-making instinct and that
you unerringly recognize it in
others. Very well, 1 shall sec what
I can do for you. But while ye are
on the subject of tips, would you
: mind helping yourself to a dollar
out of my trousers jiocket?”
The waiter, proceeded to do as di
rected, but a moment later an
nounced, apologetically: “Here’s all
I find, sir. It’s mostly pennies.” He
exposed a handful of small coins. „
“Look in my coat, if you will.”
But the second search resluted as
had the first. “Strange!” Mur
mured the guest, without rising. “I
must have been robbed. I remember
now, a fellow’ crowded me as I left
my train. l'ni-m! Robbed —at the
very gates of Magdad! Dallas is a
City of Adventure. Please add your
tip to the <’*!*eck, and—make it two
dollars. I’d like to have you serve
me every morning, for I cannot
abide an acid face at breakfast. It
sours my whole day.”
Calvin Gray, finished his break
■ fast, smoked a cigaret as he scanned
the morning paper, then he dressed
himself with meticuluous care.
Some men possess an effortless
‘ knack of commanding attention and
inspiring coutesy. Calvin Gray
was one of these. Before ma”- mo
ments,, he was in the manager’s
office, explaining, suavely, “Now
that I have introduced myself, 1
wish to thank you for taking care
of me upon such short notice.” -
. “It was the only space we had. If
. you wish, I'll have your rooms
i changed as soon as—”
“Have you something better?”
Haviland, the manager, laughed
. I .-nd shook his head. “Scarcely!
! That suite is our pet and our pride.
There’s nothing to beat it in the
whole Southwest.”
• “It is very nice. May I inquire
the rate?”
“Twenty-five dollars a day.”
“Quite reasonable.” Mr. Gray
beamed his satisfaction.
| “It is the only suite we have left.
I We've put beds- in the parlors of the
others, and frequently we have to
double up our guests. This oil ex
citement is a blessing to us poor
innkeepers. I presume it’s oil that
brings you here?”
Gray met the speaker’s interroga
tory gaze with a negative shake of
the head and a smile peculiarly non
committal. "No,” he declared, “I’m
not in the oil business and I have no
money to invest in it. On the con
trary, I am a penniless adventurer
whom chance alone has cast upon
your hospitable grand staircase.”
These words were spoken with a
suggestion of mock modesty that
had precisely the effect of a deliber
ate wink, and Mr. Haviland smiled
and nodded his complete compre
hension.
‘1 get you,” said he. ’’And you're
right. The lease hounds would devil
you to death if you gave them a
chance. Now then, if there’s any
way in which I can be of service—”
“There is.” Gray’s tone was at
once businesslike. “Please give me
the names of your leading bankers.
I mean the strongest and the most
—well, discreet.”
During the next few minutes Gray
received and swiftly tabulated 1 in his
mind a deal of inside information
usually denied to the average
stranger.
Gray appeared to know exactly
what he wanted . to de, for he
stopped at the telephone booths, in
quired the number of the leading
afternoon newspaper, and put in a
call for it. When itcame through
he asked for the city editor. He
closed the sound-proof door before
voicing the message, then he began:
“City editor? Well, I’m from the
Ajax Hotel, and I have a tip for you,
I’m one of the room clerks. Listen!
Calvin GraA- is registered here—got
in last night, on gum shoes
Gray! Clavin Gray! Better shoot a
reporter around and get a story.
. . . You don’t? Well, other people
know him. He’s a. character—globe
trotter, soldier of fortune, financier.
He’s been everywhere and done
everything, and you can get a grdat
story if you've got a man clever
enough, to make him talk. But he
won’t loosen easily. . . Oil, I sup
pose, but—. . . Sure! Under cover.
Mystery stuff! Another big syndicate
probably. . . Oh, that’s all right.
I’m an old newspaper man myself.
Don’t mention it.”
Into the largest and newest of
Dallas buildings Gray went, a white
tile and stone skyscraper, the entire
lower floor of which was devoted to
an impressive banking room. He
sent his card in to the presi
dent, and spent perhaps ten minutes
with that gentleman. He had called
merely to get acquainted, so he ex
plained.
Be lore he left the bank Gray had
met the other officers, and from
their manner he saw that he had
”1S THIS YOUR FIRST VISIT
HERE SIR?”
created a decided impression upon
them. The bank president himself
walked with him to the marble rail
ing, then said:
“I’d like to have you wait and
meet my son, Lieutenant Roswell.
He’s just back from overseas, and
—the boy served with some distinc
tion. A father’s pride, you under
stand?”
“Was Lieutenant Roswell in
France?” Gray inquired, quickly.
“Oh yes. lie’ll be in at any min
ute.”
A shadow of regret crossed the
callers face. “I’m sorry, but I’ve
arranged to call on the mayor,, and
I've no time to lose. What unit was
1 your son with?”
’ “The Ninety-eighth Field Artill
ery.”
The shadow fled. Mr. Gray was
vexed at the necessity for haste, but
he would look forward to meeting
> the young hero later.
Gray’s fingers strayed to the small
change in his trousers pocket and he
I turned longing eyes back toward the
1 bank interior. Without doubt it was
a temptaf.on, espec : al y inasmuch as
‘ at that moment nis well-manicured
right hand held in its grasp every
cent that he p issessed.
Chapter II
Gray Meets a Friend.
The representative of the Dallas
Post had anticipated some difficulty
in interviewing she elusive Calin
Gray—whoever he might be—-but
luck appeared to be with him, for
shortly after his arrival at th.? hotel
the object of his quest appeared,
Mr. Gray was annoyed at being d:s
covered; he was in faef, loath to ac-
Use-Car-Sale Starts Today
Own A Car
We allow you the most liberal terms on easy payment plan.
Investigate our deferred payment plan on used cars-
SPECIAL BARGAINS
Two Cadillacs —Good as new ones.
( One Buick Six—Recently overhauled and painted-
One Overland 90—Runs fine.
. One Moon—A good buy.
7 hree Chevrolets—Economical Transportation.
One Automobile—Yours if you crank, it.
7 wo Maxwells—Good Maxwells.
I he above plan hai the stamp of approval of many of our
people. This is your best opportunity to own a car.
CHAPPELL MACHINERY CO.
Phone 234
THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDFIR
Tfl RAISE SI D.flDO FOR
MMin PUBLICITV
Columbus Chamber of Commerce
Seeking to Put That Com
munity on Map
COLUMUBS, May 21.—With all
directors present, pledging to give
their own time to assist in raising
the SIO,OOO community publicity
fund the Chamber of Commerce
seeks officials of the chamber ex
press themselves as being confident
that the public will be reached with
in a few days and that the finances
for boosting Columbus will be forth
coming.
The meeting of the directors con
vening as a special committee to
handle the publicity project, was an
enthusiastic one.. The directors are
“sold” on the importance of boosting
Columbus that the city’s growth may
be hastened and her assets increased.
The directors pledged to give of
their time daily until the fund is
raised and with the civic leaders com
pleting all plans for approaching cit
izens for contributions it is believed
that the SIO,OOO will ibe secured
within a week’s time.
CITY SCHOOL TAXES ARE
SLOW COMING INTO TILL
WAYCROSS, May" 21. School
taxes are being paid extremely slow,
according to City Tax Collector Wal
ter E. Lee, considering the faet that
there are only a few days more in
which to pay the amounts which fall
into this classification. There are
still hundreds of citizens who have
not “come up and paid up,” it is said,
j and this is expected to result in a
rush at the last moment which will
leave many delinquent if the'crowds
are too large to handle.
VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA
PUT IN VALDOSTA POST
VALDOSTA, May 21 For the
purpofee of instituting the regular
organized work in Valdosta Capt
and Mrs. B. T. Gover, of the Volun
teers of America, have come here
and are maturing plans for estab
lishing a mission and post for the
Volunteers. This work will be con
ducted under the jurisdiction of
Major Odum, whose headquarters
are in Jacksonville.
SCHOOLS CONSOLIDATE
THOMASVILLE, May 21—Unani
mous vote in favor of the consoli
dation featured the election held at
Patten, near here, to determine
whether or not the Fatten, Prospect
and Hobbs schools should be consoli
dated. Os the forty' votes polled,
■ not one opposed the consolidation.
. knowledge his identity., Usually Mr.
> Gray s secretary saw interviewers.
• However, now that his identity was
. known, he had not the heart to be
i uiseourteous to a fellow journalist.
[ Yes! He had once owned a newspa’-
. per—in Alaska, incidentally, it was
me farthest-north publication in the
| world.
i Alaska was a hard’ country, quite
1 so, but nothing like Mexico during
’ the revolution. Mexican sugar and
mahogany, its t> inspired, had occu
i pied Mr. Gray’s mention for a time
' as had Argentine cattle, Yucatan
. iiennequin, and an engineering en
terprise in Bolivia, not to mention
1 other investments closer to home.
Once the speaker had become
| reconciled to the distasteful neces
sity of talking about himself, he
. suggested an adjournment to his
rooms, where he would perhaps suf
i fer less embarrassment by reason of
his unavoidable use of the personal
. pronoun.
Gray noted the effect upon his
: visitor of the Governo-G suite and
■ soon, had the young man at ease,
. with a Corona between his teeth.
5 Then followed a full three-quarters
of an hour, during which the v’sitor
- discoursed in his very best style and
his caller sat spellbound.
Gray called at several other banks
, that morning. He strode in swiftly,
; introduced himself with quick in
cisiveness, and tarred only long
| enough to fix himself indelibly in
• the minds of those he had come to
■ see, then he left. On the street, his
; long legs covered the ground at
s something less than a run, his eyes
I were keenly alert, his face set in
< purposeful lines. Pedestrians turned
to look after him.
At the mayor’s office he was de
nied admission to the chief execu
; five, but insisted so premptorialy as
’ to gain his end. The call ended by
i the two men lunching together at
the City Club, as Gray had assumed
• it' would, and he took pain# that the
I bankers upon whom he had called
, earlier in the morning should see him
■ in company with the mayor.
(Continued Tomorrow
I BRUNSWICK DAUGHTERS 1
HOLD ANNUAL ELECTION
BRUNSWICK, May 21—Mrs. J.
IP. McLean was hostess to Bruns
| wick Chapter, Daughters of the j '
American Revolution, yesterday as- j
ternoon, at her home on Union : I
street.
There was a splendid attendance, i
and the regent, Mrs. C. H. Leavy, 1
presided, t
Offictrs were elected, with bu‘ few
changes. Mrs. J. P. McLean was
elected as regent, to succeed Mrs. |
C. H. Leavy, who declined re-elec- I
tion. Mrs. Leavy was named as vice :
regent; treasurer, Mrs. Hope Strong; j
registrar, Mrs. Geo. Brown; record
ing secretary, Mrs. Clyde Brown; |
corresponding secretary, Miss A. ■
Jane Macon; auditor, Mrs. J. H'. \
Morgan; hi. torian, Mrs. 11. M.
Branham; chaplaia, Mrs. A. O.
Osborne. t
Annual reports of officers were I
given, showing the large amounts of
good work accomplished by the chap
ter during the year.
SIMILARITY OF NAMES
CAUSES BAD MIX-UP
VALDOSTA, May 21.—Some sim
ilarity in names caused a mix-up in
an arrest through the sheriff’s office
late Wednesday afterjioon. A war
rant was sworn out by Dock Boyd
against J. B. McDonald, charging
the man with shooting at him. The
warrant after being served on J. M.
McDonald, said to be an organizer
of the Klan in this section of the
state. The man under arrest pro
tested he was the wrong man but
was required to give a bond for his
release, as the plaintiff in the case
is said to have told the sheriff that
the K. K. McDonald was the one for
whom the warrant was intended.
‘MATOAKA’ DECLARED PET
NAME FOR POWHATTAN
VALDOSTA, May 21—The late
Col. Powhattan Whittle, of this city ■
who often boasted of his Indian
blood and of the fact that he was a
descendant of Pocahontas, spent the
last days of his life in a cottage on
one of the lakes at Lake Park, and
he fondly called the pond “Lake Ma
toaka.” He did not tell the origin of
the name, but it develops now that
Pocahontas “Matoaca” and that the
name by which she was known to his
tory was a pet name only.
WEATHER FOR WEEK
WASHINGTON, May 21. T’je
weather outlook for the period May
-21 to May 26, 1923, inclusive is:
For the South Atlantic and East
Gulf States: Generally fair weath
er, but with scattered showers and
thunderstorms, is indicated for the
week, and probably normal tempera
tures.
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There is No Mystery about
the Tel ephone Business
are probably some things about the telephone business
which mystify you, just as there are things about other busi-
which you do not thoroughly understand.
Perhaps it is a charge on your bill or some practice about the
service which confuses you, even if it does not annoy you.
When these occasions arise, why not ask the local manager
about them. He will be glad to explain our entire rate schedule
or to tell you the necessity’ for any of our practices.
All-telephone practices are designed to make it easy for you to
do business with us and to improve your service. They are the
result of long years of experience and reflect our best business
judgment. They are flexible and are constantly revised in the
interest of cordial relations with our patrons.
There is no mystery about the telephone business and one of
our greatest difficulties is to induce' our subscribers to tell us
about the things thdt worry them.
We want you to bo familiar with the reason for every charge
we make and to be satisfied, as we arc, that it is a proper and
necessary charge.
Errors are inevitable in ali enterprises using human agencies
and we particularly want you to toll us when there is error in
the account rendered you or when you do not fully understand any *
feature of it.
Our success depends largely upon the measure of the good will
of the community we can win and hold.
Willingness tq. correct error and to cheerfully explain every
detail of our business are, we believe, two prime elements of public
service.
G. C. BECK, Georgia Manager
SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE
AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY ''
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ELLIS HEALTH LAW IS
DISCUSSED AT VIENNA
VIENNA, May 21.—Health and
Food were th.? subjects presented in
a most forceful way to the women of
the Dooly County Federation of
Women’s Clubs, a- embled here for
the regular meeting. The
Ellis Health Law, its provisions and
benefits, was the subject of the ad
dress by Dr. C. E. Waller, who is em
ployed by the State Board of Health.
Mrs. Clark Says She
Can't Praise It Enough
Stomach I rouble, Chok
ng Sensation and Palpi
tation Entirely Over
come by Tanlac, De
clares Brunswick Resi
dent,
“My experience with the Tanlac
treatment has been most gratifying,
indeed, for it has restored me to per
fect health which nothing else would
even so much as help me,” states
Mrs. Mary E. Clark of 501 F Street,
Brunswick, Ga.
“I suffered from indigestion. and j
nervous trouble for two or three !
years, while living at Helena, Ga . '
where I was born and re-ired. My
stomach was so upset that I couldn’t
keep anything down half the time,
and what little I did manage to re
tain caused frightful choking sensa- -
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Look for the Smiling Red Devil
■ You always know a can of genuine Red Devil Lye by s'
the smiling red devil on the label. It stands for a lye that H
■ you can depend upon to do the hard, rough work. For twenty years H
M it has been the standard for good lye. Ask your grocer for the can
g|| with the red devil label. Write for Free Booklet.
Wm. Schield Mfg. Co., St. Louis, Mo.
MONDAY AFTERNOON. MAY 21. 1923
i-OUR NEGROES DROWN
M I )NTI.ZIiMA Ga., M. y 21—Four
negioes, Sonny Career, tee Roach,
E:sie Owe.i. and Pearline Mor-an
were di owned last night when the
Fold car in which they were riding
plunged into 15 feet of water in a
washout 12 feet wide at Halchcr’s
Mill, six miles east of Montezuma.
The washout was caused by a break
in the dam near the public road which
occurred at an early hour last night
and was a result of the heavy rains
during the past week,
y
| tions affl pains in my chest. M;-
I heart would palpitate an l flutter so
: that 1 iften thought i. was going
to stop beating altogether. My
i nerves were so shattered I was irem
.ily and excitable and couldn't sleep
nights to do any good.
“I heard folks in Helena talking
■ about Tanlac, and how good it was
j for indigestion and all the things
connected with stomach trouble and
derided to try it myself. After tak
ing two bottles I felt so much better
I waited a while before taking any
more. Then I took three more bot
tles, or five altogether, and I just
improved wonderfully in every'way.
I could cat anything without suffer
• ing a particle afterwards, slept like
[ a child at night, and in fact, was
i perfectly well again. I can never
praise Tanlac enough for the won
derful health it has given me.”
Tanlac is for sale by all good
druggists. Take no substit. te. Over
■ 37 million bottles sold. adv.