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' 40NDAY AFTERNOON. MAY 28? 1923
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thi? f Cordla ! ( interest to friends, in
me t ?\T nitv WiU be the announce-
KHehen- he < mai ? aCe of Miss Thelma
Kitchens, daughter of Mrs V \
kitrhens as Fort Pierce> FJa
w-i V f D Da , ViO -' l , Ga., a id. Mr. Joel
Wilson Parker, of F ort Pierce, Fla ,
formerly of Cordele, which was tol
emnized Saturday evening, May 26,
V U le ?T e , ? t the br de ’s sH’cr, Mrs.
J. E. Kohn, in Fort Pierce.
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ORDER OF EASTERN STAR
IO MEET TONIGHT.
A meeting of the Eastern Star
be held tonight at 8 o’clock in
til Masonic hall. A full attendance
J®rged.
Tea~'gam.dl
Roy Leslie, was’ a busi
ness visitor in Americus today.
Rev. Milb H. Massey left last night
for Jefferson to spend several days,
returning Friday.
Mrs. Harry Hawkins and young son
James, anved Saturday from Miami
" spend a month with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Hixon on Lee
street.
Miss Mary Godwin, who has been
studying at Wesleyan has arrived in
Americus to spend the summer with
her mother, Mrs. R. B. Godwin.
Miss Betty Castellow is at home
from Bessie Tift to spend her sum
mer vacation with her mother, Mrs.
Meta Castellow on Church street.
Milton Mize, who graduated nt
Georgia Military Academy at Col
lege Park, this year is at home for
the summer with his narents, Mr. and
Mrs. tl. L. Mize, on Lee street.
j . , er and chil-
dren left Thursday for Americus,
where they will spend a few days a*
the farm.—Fitzgerald Herald.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Lingo, who
have been spending the past two
months in St. Louis, where Mr. Lin
go underwent a serious operation,
have returned to their home. Mr.
Lingo is improving rapidly and gain
ing strength each day.
Miss Jonnie Davis and Miss Annie
Davis, who were members of the
Grammar school faculty here two
years ago, will arrive in Americus
tonight to bi the guesrs several days
of Mrs. Emory Math s at her home
on College street. They have been
members pf the Cochran H gh school
t faculty this ybar, an dare en route
to their home in Meigs to spend the
summer vacation.
MELON DISEASE UNDER
CONTROL AT LIVE OAK
•IVE OAK, Fla., May 26.
ler, specialist in plant diseases,
from the U. S. Extension, State Uni
versity was here and went over the
county with County Agent Matthews,
inspecting melon cr ps . Dr. Weber
found all plantings were where dust
ing had been applied under disease
control and those that had not been
sprayed showed considerable sign of
Anthracnose. He advises that there
is yet time to save those crops if
dusting is done immediately and
urges upon the growers the need of
quick action, otherwise they will
lose heavily on their melon crops.
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No cure for it, but welcome
r v relief is often brought by—
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Phone 41 124 Forsyth St
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BEGIN HERE TODAY
Calvin Gray Occupies the most
expensive suite in the most exclu
sive hotel in Dallas. For a friend,
I who is vice president of the big
, gest jewelry bouse in Dallas, Gray
I undertakes a journey to Ranger to
i sell valuable diamonds to Gus
I Briskow. He meet:? Ma Briskow
1 Allegheny, the daughter, and Oz
ark, the son. Gray makes a good
sale and starts home in the same
machine hired for the trip to
Ranger. Having prepared himself
against a holdup plot Gray thr'ows
vapor gas into the eyes of an ad
venturer, named Mallow, when he
and a pal attempted to hold up
Gray’s machine.
NOW GO ON WITH STORY
The jeweler was delighted. “Good!
he cried. “I detest the deserving
poor as heartily as you do. And now
I’d like to open a bottle of cham
pagne with our breakfast.”
| On the very day that the new
sign, “Tom and Bob Parker,” went
l up over the door of the insurance
office at Wichita Falls, the junior
partner announced:
“Well, dad, the firm gets busy at
once. I’m off for Dallas tonight.”
1 “What for?” Tom was dismayed
by such a prompt manifestation of
energy.
, “I ll have to tell you—-” Barbara
perched herself upon her father’s
desk hnd began speaking with a note
'of excitement in her voice. “ I heard
; Henry Nelson was in town, so I went
'to the bank this morning to see him.
He’s such a big man in the oil busi-
, ness I thought he might help me.
He was there, but in conference with
his father and another man. There
were several people waiting, so 1
sat down. When the man they were
talking to came out, it was Pete,
that driller who put down the first
well for us. He was glad to see me,
and we had quite a talk, but I no
ticed he was fidgety. He said he
was runing a rig over near ‘Burk,’
and had a fishing job on his hands.
With all the excitement and every
body running double ‘towers’ and
trying to beat the other fellow down
to' the sand, it struck me as queer
that a contract driller like Pete
would be here in Wichita in confer
ence with Bell and Henry Nelson,
when he ought to be out on the lease
fishing for a lost bit. I told him I’d
bet he had a showing of oil and was
trying to borrow money to buy the
offset or to get the Nelsons! to buy it
and carry him for an interest. Well,
that wretched man turned all colors
whAi I accused him, and tried to
‘shush’ me. He said I mus*.n t talk
about things I knew nothing about—
somebody might overhear me. Ke
declared the outfit he was working
for were no good and wouldn’t pay
a driller a bonus if he made a well
for them. He was sick of making
other people rich and getting noth
ing for himself. . . It was time the
drilling crews shared in the profits.
I. . . He'd see that nobody froze
i him out again if he had to spoil the
i hole. He wound up by denying
everything, and I prtended to swal-
regular year in and
YEAR OUT
customers is good evidence
of satisfaction.
WE HAVE LOTS OF
THESE
and by our service in every
way, are adding confidence
every day.
When you want to get good
meats, fresh vegetables, etc.
Bragg’s Market
Phone 181
LOANS made on Improved farm lands
at cheapest rates for term of 5,7 oi
10 years with., pre-payment., option
given. Money secured promptly. We
have now outstanding over $1,100,-
000.00 on farms in Sumter County
alone with plentv more to lend.
MIDDLETON M’DONALD
Correspondent Atlanta Trust Com
pany in Sumter. Lee, Terrell. Schley
ster Counties.. 21. Planters Bant
Macon, Stewart, Randolph and Web
81dg...’ Americus, G»- ’'tone 89 o
211. _
Compton’s Bicycle Shop
We just received a shipment o‘
, large and small bicycle baskets. Go
1 carts retired while you wait. •
low it, but when he had gone I went
over my maps and located the lease
where he’s drilling. Three of the
adjoining tracts are owned by the
big companies, so that elminated
them, but the twenty to the west be
longs to Knute Hoaglund. Henry
was glad to see me when my turn
came to go in and—ldidn’t forget
to call him ‘Colonel,’ and that pleas
ed both him and Bell. Then I told
them that 1 proposed to become a
rich and successful oil operator and
wanted their advice how to begin.
Old Bell was amused, but Kenry was
more diplomatic. He tried to con
vince me that the oil game is alto
gether a man’s business and that no
woman could succeed at it. It is a
call this evening, for I did so wish
contest of wits,’ he explained. I was
to have him teach me what little I
was capable of learning. But he
coudn’t come, because he had been
called to Dallas, unexpectedly. That
was my cue. In my most sweetly
girlish manner I said: “Oh, indeed!
Do you expect to see Knute Hoag
lund while you’re there?’,”
Two hectic spots had come into
“Bob’s” cheeks during thiJ recital;
she was teetering upon the desk
now like a nodding Japanses doll,
and her blue eyes yere dancing.
“I heard Old Bells chair creak
and I saw him shoot a quick glance
at Henry. Henry admitted, casual
ly, that be might drop in on
knute. Why?
“ ’You’ll be wasting time,’ I told
him, even more sweetly, ‘for dad and
I have that twenty west of Burk
burnett.”
“Well! You’d have thought I had
stuck a hatpin into Bell. And
Henry’s mouth actually dropped
open.”
“But—we ain”t got an option! It
takes money to lease close-in
stuff.” Tom was bewildered.
“Os course. And they realize
that, or Bell did ,as soon as he’d had
time to collect himself. But it was
too late then; he ibetrayed him
self and he knew it.”
“Bod” laughed again, a bit hys
terically. “That’s about all, dad.
They agreed to put up Uie money
and carry me—us, I mean—for a
quarter interest if I can get the lease
from Knute Hoaglund. So, I’m leav
ing on the night train.”
wlllh’X 1 Give the Children all the Good
® Bread they want
And you could not give them
better bread than Domestic.
Between meals the kiddies are
J bound to grow hungry—for their
''fe strenuous play necessitates more
i nourishment than is required by
the average adult.
\ our reat l f° r ** s purity and its consistent
h * good quality.
Model Bread Co.
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THE AMEPdCUS TIMES-RECORDER
The publicity, Calvin Gray receiv
ed from his exploit at Ranger could
be nothing except agreeable to one
of his temperament. Gratefully he
basked in his notoriety, meanwhile
continuing assiduously to cultivate
the moneyed men of Dallas.
He was relieved one day to re
ceive a telegram from Gus Briskow
asking him to meet Ma and Allie at
the evening train and “get them a
hotel.” Ke managed to securfe a
good suite at the Ajax, and it w«s
with genuinely pleasurable anticipax
tion that he drove to the station. *
Dismay smote him,however, at
first sight of the new arrivals. Ma
Briskow resembled nothing so much
as one of those hideous “crayon en
largements” he had seen in the farm
I houses—artrocities of an art long
j dead.
If the mother’ appearance was un_
i usual, the daughter’s was startling,
i what with her size and the barbaric
i latitude of color she had indulged
herself in. Allegheny’s’ get-up
srceajncd.
They were enough to daunt a
stronger man than Calvin Gray
these two. He could well imagine
the sensation he any they would
create in the lobby of the modish
1 Ajax. But his first surprise was
succeeded by a gentle pity, for Ma
Briskow greeted him rapturously,
and in Allegheny’s somber eyes he
detected a look of mingled suffering
and defiance. Enthusiastically he
took charge of Ma’s lunch basket;
against Allie’s muttered protest he
despoiled hSr to her billions near
leather suitcase.
Allie answered his phone call
about eight o’clock the next morn
ing.
“Ready for breakfast?” he in
quired.
‘Why, we et at daylight,” she
told -him, in some astonishment. “I
been ridin’ since then.”
“Indeed! Flitting roses in your
cheeks, eh? With whom did you
go?”
“Oh, one of the elevator men.”
“B—but—” Gray sputtered deep
ly shocked. “Why. Miss Briskow
they're negroes; Riding with a nig
ger! My heavens! Where did you
go?”
‘Nowhere. Just up and down.”
It was a moment before the man
could speak, then he said, in a queer
|ly repressed voice: “That—is quite
; different. I’ll run down and get a
bite and join you in no time.”
“Seems awful funny not to have
any housework to do in the morn
jing,” Ma Briskow confessed, as
- they left the Ajax. “A hotel would
spoil me in no time."
“I couldn’t keep her from makin’
up the beds,” Allie announced.
I Gray took the elder womans hand
in his and scolded her gently, Smil-,
ingly, he lectured her on the art
doing nothing, and voiced some ele-
mental truths about living.
The mother nodded, a bit vaguely.
“That kind of like p® talks. He
sent you this, and says to tell you
it's our first spendin’ spree and act
accordin’.” From her pocket she
drew a folded check, made out in
blank to Calvin Gray and signed
Gus Briskow.
“So! I assume that I‘m to pay
the bill. Very well. The sky is the
limit, eh?”
“That’s it. Os course, I don't need
anything for myself—this dress and
bunnit are good enough—but Allie’s
got to have new fixin’s, from the in
side out. I s’pose her things’ll eat
up the best part of a hundred dollars
won’t they?” The speakers look of
worried inquiry bespoke a lifetime
of hatitual economy.
“We’re not going to buy what you
need, but what you want. You’re
going to have just as many pretty
things as Allie.”
Mrs. Briskow gasped, she rolled
her eyes and fanned herself; she ap
pealed to Allegheny* but it was evi
dent that the latter had kept her
eyes open and had done some think
ing, for she broke out, passionately:
"You make me sick, Ma! It’ll
take all Pa can afford, and then
some, to make us look like other
people.’
Gray determined that the girl
should not be disappointed if he
could help it, so he went directly to
the head saleswoman of the first
store, and asked her assume the
role of counselor where circumstance
compelled him to relinquish it. Al
though the woman agreed to his re
quest, he found before long that his
trust in her had been misplaced. Not
only did she threaten to take ad
vantage of her customer’s ignorance
I but also, to Gray’s anger, she dis
played a poorly veiled contempt for
and amusement as his charges.
For once in his life Calvin Gray
was at a loss, and knowledge of that
fact caused him to chew savagely at
his cigar. Engaged thus, he became
aware of a stranger who looked on
at the pitiful comedy without amuse
ment. She was a pretty thing. Gray
stared at her openly and his scowl
vanished. When she moved away,
he made a sudden decision, excused
himself, and followed her.
He was gratified at the manner in
which she acepted his breathless
apology for speaking to her.
I “You can save the reason of a dis
tracted man and add to the happi
j ness of two poor, bewildered women,
if you will.” he concluded, earnest
ly. “It isn’t a funny situation; it’s
tragic.
“What do you wish me to do?”
‘the girl inquired.
I “It’s a lot to ask, I know, but
! won’t’ you help them buy the things
; they need and save them from fur
ther humiliation at the hands of
these highbrow clerks and lowbrow
customers? I—l want to punch
somebody in the nose.
(Continued Tomorrow.)
Mrs. Burke Says Help
Arrived Just In lime
Scarcely Had Strength to
Keep Going and
Couldn’t Eat Without
Suffering, Says Savan
nah Resident. Praises
Tanlac for Restoration
The evidence regarding the value
of Tanlac in the treatment of stom
ach trouble with its many attendant
ills is too conclusive to even admit
of doubt. Upwards of seventy-live
thousand well known men and wo
men have publicly testified to the
remarkable merit< of the medicine
and the list of endorsements con
tinues to grow daily.
# Among the thousands of Georgia
people who have realized the pow
ters of Tanlac is Mrs. Rozzie Burke,
620 West Broad street, Savannah.
Mrs. Burke relates her ’ experience
as follows:
“Tanlac undoubtedly saved me from
a complete breakdown. I had suf
fered from stomach and nerve dis
orders for nearly a year and scarce
ly had energy and strength to keep
me goings I could not eat even the
most delicate food without suffering
frohi indigestion.
L. T. TURNER, Electrical Contractor
House Wiring, Etc., at Reduced Rates Month of May. Estimates
Cheerfully Furnished
118 Windsor Avenue Phons 809
They all like
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PROBABLY half the JI '
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By the hundreds of thou-
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Whereto buy USTires.
Loving Oil Co., Americus, Ga.
IG. A. & W. G. Turpin
Americus, Ga.
LADIES’ SILK O M f IT
UMBRELLA
To close out quickly, my large stock of ladies Silk Umbrellas.
New patterns and designs; new color combinations. Cash only.
Out they go right at the beginning of the season —at cost-
All $3.50 Silk Umbrellas $2.25
All $6 and $6.50 Silk Umbrellas $4.45
All $7.00 Silk Umrbellas $4.95
CASH
W. FRED SILLS
Lamar Street ■ Americus Ga.
Japanese policemen are finding it
necessary to shut down dance halls
: in Tokyo and Yokohama.
“My sister, who had taken Tanlac
with splendid results, persuaded me
to try the treatment, too, and before
1 had finished my third bottle 1 was
delighted to find that I was feeling
like a new person. I had a good
appetite every meal and could di
gest solid food for the first time
in many months. I had gone down
in weight on account of stomach
trouble, and during the few weeks
I took Tanlac I gained several
pounds. It is the finest; ton/ic I
have ever known anything about and
I never miss an opportunity to rec
ommend it.”
A dull, dragging feeling of the
body, a sluggish mind, depression
of sprits, nervousness, stomach trou
ble, headache, backache, pains in the
pit of the stomach, sides and
kidney region and general debility,
are among the numerous symptoms
of a condition from which thous-'
ands of people suffer. They simply
need something to tone up the sys
tem and assist the vital organs in
performing their proper functions.
Tanlac is a powerful reconstructive
tonic and always produces most
gratifying results.
Tanlac U for sale by all good
druggists. Accept no substitute.
Over 37 million bottles sold. —adv
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