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(THE TIMES-RECORDER
MTABUSHKD 18T».
Published by
Tb« Times-Recorder Co., (Inc.)
Lovelace Eve, Editor and Publisher.
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Md also the local news published herein. All right of
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A Thought
The Lord is nigh unto them
that are of a broken, heart, and
saveth such as be of a contrite
spirit—Ps. 34:18.
No change, no pause, no
hope! Yet I endure.—Shelley.
A SOLOMON ON
FINANCING FARMERS.
Some folks say that what is
the matter with this country is
not due to after-war conditions
nor to lack of legislation in be
half of the farmer, but to the
farmers themselves, some of
whom insist on too much joy
riding, according to C. S. Walk
er, of Des Moines, president of
the lowa Manufacturers’ As
sociation.
The Times-Recorder takes it
that Mr. Walker is speaking of
conditions in his state. But, it
plied with equal force to certain
seems to us this could be ap
parts of Georgia as well as
lowa. “It”s the automobile
that nearly ruined the farm
ers,” Mr. Walker asserts. ‘‘You
know a farmer will spend his
last dime for gas. Why, they are
motoring all over the country.
They pack up in the fall when
there is a lull in the farm work,
and set out.” In relating the
experience one farmer had with
his banker, who is a Solomon
when it comes to "dealing with
tile financial side of the farm
ing industry, Mr. Walker is
quoted as saying.
'The ibanks are doing )nore
than anything else to put the
farmers on their feet. They
are doing it by stopping credit.
One day a farmer came into the
bank of a man I know and
wanted to get some more mon
ey. ‘Your credit is all used up,’
they told him. But he insisted
that he had to have money for
legitimate farming purposes
and finally the banker said:
‘Well, if you’ll deliver the right;
front wheel of your automobile
to me as security and guaran
tee that you won’t get another,.
I’ll let you have it.”
Os course this indictment
cannot be subscribed to as
touching every section, even of
our own state, Georgia, nor of
this immediate section for be it
known, many farmers find auto
tomobiies of the greatest help
in marketing their farm pro
duce. Os course it is a fine thing
for farmers and their wives to
enjoy cars going about over the
country if they can afford it,
and many of them are, but the
idea of going about with no
particular objective, especially
when needed on their farms,
does not particularly appeal to
us.
WOODRUFF OF DE KALB
AFTER THE POOL ROOMS.
The pool room in Georgia
now promises to be a storm
center when the Georgia legis
lature meets next month if rep
resentative Albert J. Woodruff
of the county of De Kalb keeps
his health and gets into action
as hopes to d >.
Woodruff is a business man
and has close dealings with the
lumber men of the country, and
they complain to him of a short
age of laborers, and yet when
he makes personal visits to all
the dives around Atlanta he
finds from 25 to 50 men and
boys in each place wasting their
time, their health and destroying
their souls in ‘these gambling
dens which . ai*e commonly
known as pool rooms.
Now comes another solon,
Herbert Clay, president of the
senate who declares that he will
fight the proposed bill of Wood
ruff. To quote Mr. Clay: “To
pass such a law would be a ser
ious attack on the liberty of the
citizens of this state. I am not
in favor of dives or resorts of
vice, but believe that Decatur,
Bainbridge or Rabun Gap
should regulate their own pool
ropms and let Atlanta, Way
cross and Tybee Light have bil
lard parlors if they want them.
That’s democracy.”
.Without discussing the merits
or the demerits of the proposed
legislation, there seems to be
too much loafing, especially in
laborers, and if the abolition of
the pool rooms of the low type
is not away out, then it seems
to'us that the authorities in the
respective communities affected
with the menace should get into
action and do a little house
cleaning on their own account.
The larger cities like Atlanta
are more afflicited than any of
the small twons, and we believe
that the negro dives which in
fest Decatur street i nAtlanta,
as well as some places where
the white youths and men
sqaunder away valuable time,
so much much needed in our in
dustries and on our farms, they
should not be allowed to con
gregate in these places and then
these dives would be obliged to
close up without cluttering our
law-making machinery with
further legislation than we now
have a law to cover this very
point aimed at the proposed bill
of the gentlemen from De Kalb.
RETAIL GROCER BLAMELESS
FOR THE SUGAR GOUGE.
Agitation against the inde
fensible price of sugar)—espei
cially in the being
waged by women—is helping
to exonerate the grocer from
and part in the orgy of profi
teering that has already taken
nearly $100,000,000 from the
pockets of consumers. House
wives are learning through their
investigations and the informa
tion that is coming to them that
the Sugar Barons give the groc
er and small dealer very little
margin of profit in selling their
wares. The proceeds of the
“gouge” go almost wholly to the
Sugar Barons.
The women of the country
are learning that the duty on
sugar accounts for about 2.07
cents of the average price of 10
cents a pound, for which it is
selling in the groceries. The re
tailer is not to blame for the
tariff nor for the pyramiding of
the duty by the refiners, brok
ers and wholesalers. For the
most part the retail grocer sells
his sugar practically at cost
when the time he spends and the
bags and twine he used in wrap
ping it are taken into account.
All the millions that have
ibeen plundered from the Amer
ican people since last February
have gone to the sugar Barons,
for whom the Republican tariff
was enacted. They haven’t di
vided the spoils with any one
else.
Tom Sims
Says:
Over in London Bonar Law
iias resigned, wh'cl) reminds us
“••.ho rem inters tt.e bonus
ua we pli<> 1 to pass.''’
Here’s rows from China
General I!, is losing c u-trol
•>f his trocy-. May be Wew
vll d Ho, ’ for Ho.
Bryan, Wm. J., asks public
officials to quit drinking. We
ask them to quit acting as if
drunk.
A couple of quacks got chas
ed out of Buffalo, N. Y., be
cause they were not smart
ducks.
Here’s news from Italy.
When in Rome, a light earth
quake did as the Romans did.
Both shook.
Prof. McDougall of dear old
Harvard wants society divided
into classes. We ( nominate the
middle class for (first class.
Bad news from Paris. Fat
women may come back ih style.
It costs more to feed the fat
ones.
Representative Sweet of
lowa hugs his secretary. Cff
course he does. They are on
their honeymoon.
People picking (jirdsidenitiid
possibilities are working on the
old saying every boy has a
chance to become president.
Kansas needs farm {hands.
We are always lending Kansas
an ear, and now she wants our
hands.
One American soldier is still
on the Rhine. That’s too many.
Tom Edison wants to use mov
ies in schools. Maybe the bath
ing girls would teach figures.
Miss MacFarlane of Bessem
er. Mich., has been a bride
maid 184 fimes, without any
luck.of her own.
New York beggars make
from sls to S2O a day. Their
hardest Work is to keen look
ing bad.
Os course spring is - time for
for the old warning “Get an
auto or an auto will get you.”
Hindenburg says it will take
Germany 100 years to get
back where she was before the
war. We say she shouldn’t go
back.
| OLD DA IS US; AMERICUS
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY.
(From the Times-Recorder.
May 29, 1913.)
Marching in the parade of Con
federate veterans in Chattanooga
and holding aloft the same old
battle flag beneath which he
fought in the sixties, was Mr. J.
P. Chapman, of Americus.
A. A. Forrest, Sumter county’s
first bale man, during many suc
cessive cotton seasons, was in
Americus yesterday, and wh : le he
insists that he will not contest for
first bale honors again this year,
the condition of his cotton crop,
as reported would seem to put him
well at the front for first bale al
ready.
Miss Clebe Merze Kemp and
Miss Margaret Morgan have re
turned from Athens, accompanied
by Miss Esther Walsh, of Bain
bridge, who will be their guest for
several days.
Miss bosephine Bagley, who has
been attending Shorter college is
at home for the summer vacation.
High praise has been given to
the work of Miss Virg’ni? Gunn
•is librarian of the Carnegie l ib
rary here, the 'deserved tribute
bovine come from no oth n r than
Miss Katherine Hinton Wooten,
librarian of the Carnegia Library,
of Atlants.
M" Mrs. St. T, Sills entor-
Mrc E. L. V"w. Mrs
T w (%<■<!•><»■ n”' l Mrs. F'qrr-.-
v>„..i fnT . n fish dinner at Well’s
ifUl vnetordnv.
Three Smiles
No Machine Work.
A small chap was offered* a
chance to spend a wee* in the
country, bit refused. Coaxing,
pleading, arguing, promising of
untold wonders, alike brought from
nothing but the stubborn ultimat
um: ‘‘No country for me!”’
“But why not?” some one asked
finally.
“Because,” he responded, “they
have thrashin’ machines down there
an’ it’s bad enough here where it’s’
done by hand.”—lnterior.
A Penny Wise
“Abie, mein son, why for you
go der shtairs up two at time?’
“To save mein shoes, fader.”
“Veil, be careful you don’t shplit
you pantz.”
Fair Play
“What a peculiar looking thing
on your upper lip.”
“My dear man, never knock a
mustache when it’s down.”
SAFETY SIGNS ERECTED
BY WAYCROSS AUTO CLUB
WAYCROSS, May 29. The
Waycross Motor Club has recently
erected six signs in furtherance of
its w\rk. These signs- were put up
by the accident prevention depart
ment. W. S. Rysden is chairman of
this department and G. T. Green
and L. W. Elliston are the two mem
bers assisting him.
Two of the danger signs "have
been put up at the junction of Plant
avenue and Albany avenue and two
at the corner of Bebeau street and
Albany avenue. These signs are red
and have printed on them in large
letters, “Danger, Drive Slowly.”
The two direction signs—those
put up for convenience of travel
ers—have been placed, one in
front of the court house and one at
the corner of Church street and
State street. Both of these signs
call attention to the way to follow
the Woodpecker Route out of the
city.
It is the purpose of the Waycross
Motor Club to post every mile of
road and every dangerous place
within fifty miles of Waycross as
soon as the funds are available,
states, Mr. Rysden.
COLLEY NOTIFIED OF
ESCAPE OF CONVICTS
WAYCROSS, Maq 29.—Notifica
tion of the escape of two convicts
from the Florida State Farm, at
Raiford, Fla., has been received by
Chief Police J. W. Colley of Way
cross. The convicts made their get
away without leaving a trace by
which they could be recaptured.
Authorities in S >uth Georgia as
well as Florida cities are being sent
descriptions. One hundred dojlars
reward is offered for each.
Hubert W. Cooper, aged 24, ac
countant, convicted of forgery, if
described as a young man about 24
years of age, five feet 6 1-2 inches
tall, somewhat stout with brown
hair and brown eyes.
John Steward, negro, aged 25,
convicted of breaking and entering
a house, weighs 120 pounds, is five
feet 3 1-2 inches high and has two
gold teeth in his upper front jaw.
AMERICUS STUDENT WINS
DEBATE HONOR AT SPARKS
SPARKS, Ga., May 29.—Francis
Brewton, a student at Sparks col
lege from Americus, has the honor
of being on the winning team in the
champion debate that was one of
the features of the commencemen
program this year, it was announced
today.
The champion debate between the
Dixie and Woodward literary so
cieties of the college is one of the
most looked forward to events at
Sparks, and to be on the winning
team is a coveted honor. Brewton
is a member of the Woodward Lit
erary Society, and was on the nega
tive side of this year’s debate. The
subject of the debate was “Res
olved, that immigration into the
United States shduld be prohibited
for the next twenty years.’’
Other members of the winning
I team included Felker Lewis of
Monroe, and Charlton Tebeau of
1 Springfield. _x_
THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY.
(From the Times-Recorder May 29,
1903.)
Five years ago there were, in
Americus, 2,068 children of school
age. It is expected that the June
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uuixaiennig ine aw ox i»irs. vou
sun, anu u»at ox ner broUier, Coley
cewis, was given a sentence ox 15
years, fit teen m tins case and three
aor having burglarized the nome ox
Phil Uatcuings.
Mrs. G. K. Ellis returned home
yesterday after an extended visit
in Alabama. She is acompamed by
her sister, Miss Etta Bryan.
A recent issue of the Athens
Banner contains mention the mar
riage of Prof. Harrold Davenport
and Mrs. Sallie Flemmin Lacey, of
the classic city.
With two strings tied to her bow
Americus is in a fairway to get
that knitting mill and overalls fac
tory, either through the company
which proposes to locate a plant un
der certain conditions, or else
through the formation of a local
company w'illing to risk money in
such an enterprise.
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY.
Monday morning, no paper pub
lished.
Daily Poem
By BERTON BRALEY
When the world is all of a golden
glow-.
And the blood in your veins is a
tingling flow,
And joy is calling you to and fro
Where laughter echoes and songs
ring true;
It’s an irksome thought that you
have to slave
At a task afar from the play you
crave,
And often and often you rail and
rave
At the daily wo'rk that you’ve GOT
to do .
♦
how glad you’d be "f you dared to
dren
The work of office or farm or shop
If you could only afford to stop
Whenever the impulse bade you to
And scamper away to have your
fling,
Like a capering lamb in the flush
of spring;
Ah, often enough it’s a wearisome
thing,
The daily work that you’ve GOT to
do.
But when, with sorrow and woe and
pain,
You’re sick of heart and of soul and
! brain,
And your courage is cracking be
neath the strain,
And skies are sullen and gray to
view;
And then, you’re glad that a task
is there!
A rock to cling to ’mid seas of care,
And the thing that shall rescue you
from despair •
Is the daily job that you’ve GOT
to do!
(Copyright, 1923, N. E. A. Service)
EPISCOPAL LAYMEN TO
MEET DURING SEPTEMBER
CHICAGO, May 29.—Arrange
ments are already in full swing xor
cbe reception here during Septem
ber of the largest gathering of lay
men of the Episcopal church to be
neld this year, when the fortieth an
niversary of the Brotherhood of St.
Andrew is celebrated.
Not only will every Episcopal
parish in the United States be rep
resented by men and boys, but al
most every parish of the denomina
tion in England, Scotland, Ireland,
Australia, Canada, New Zealand and
the West Indies also will send dele-1
gates and members. The gathering
is known as the International con
vention of the Brotherhood of St.
Andrews.
UNUSUAL BANKRUPTCY
ISSUE BROUGHT OUT
BRUNSWICK. May 2{9.—What is
considered by local attorneys as a
case without precedent, or at least
a very unusual proceedings, was the
bankruptcy hearing called before
Referee Harry D. Reed, of Waycross
in which J. H. Morgan of Brunswick
was seeking to be adjudicated a
bankrupt.
The hearing was attended by the
creditors of Mr. Morgan, and when
the usual showing was made by
his attorney, Judge E. C. Butts, a
protest was made by an Augusta at
he bankrupt
torney, representing the creditors
of the bankrupt. It was alleged by
the Augusta attorney that Mr. Mor
gan was not bankrupt and he’ de
manded that a trustee, instead of a
receiver be appointed to take charge
of the assets of J. H. Morgan and
the Brunswick Buick Comapny.
Judge Reed agreed that a trustee
be appointed, as requested, assets
to be placed in his custody until a
final adjudication of the matter was
reached.
WAYCROSS JUNIOR
CHAMBER TO MEET
WAYCROSS, May 29.—A meet
ing of the Junior Chamber of Com
merce of Waycross will be held to
night at 8 o’clock at the Chamber
of Commerce rooms in the city hall.
This meeting is called for the pur
| pose of discussing matters of irn
iportance that have come up since
1 the last meeting.
ANOTHER GOOD WAY OF KILLING A GOOSE
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CORDELE, May 29.—Grant dan
iels, colored, exhibited a turtle—•
an alligator turtle as he caleld him
—in the streets today which meas
ured thirty inches from nose to tip
of tail, twelve inches in thickness
and* 14 inches broad. The turtle
was ploughed out of -the soil in
the Easom Holland farm near
Eeven Springs in the rear of the
Read Phosphate Company fertilizer
works. It wds one of the largest
captured in this section and was
supposed to have come into that
vicinit y from the river Seven
Springs is on Gum Creek.
ENTERS PLEA OF GUILTY ;
GETS YEAR’S SENTENCE
WAYCROSS, May 29.—Joe Sim
mons, young white man of the city
who lives at a boarding house on
Albany avenue, entered a plea of
guilty to a charge of forgery, be
fore Judge J. I. Summerall, of
Ware superior court. He was sen
tenced to 12 months imprisonment
or the payment of a fine of $l5O,
when the case was tried as for mis
demeanor.
Although still in the county jail,
it is understood that Simmons ex
pects to pay the fine instead of Ser
ving the time. He has a young wife
who visits him daily.
TWO ARE ARRESTED FOR
BREAKING KRESS WINDOW
ROME, May 29.—T. D. Autry
and F. H. Smith, white, were ar
rested here by the police but later
were turned over to the county of
ficials and charged with a misde
meanor. Then in a scuf fie ac
cidentally broke one of the large
show windows of the Kress store.
The warrants were sworn out by
H. R. Hubbard, manager of the
store, before I Judge Treadway.
They were redleased on bonds of
S2OO.
VALDOSTA TO SPEND
$12,000 ON NEW WELL
VALDOSTA, May 29.—For an
approximate cost of five thousand
dollars the city council Friday let
the contract for a well to be sunk
on the site of the present water
Plant, the Gray Artesian company
of Pensacola getting the contract
out of a field of five contenders.
Engineer W. G. Eager, after pre
paring the plans and specifications
invited directly six of the most
prominent concerns in the country
to bid and five of them responded,
among them being the largest well
drilling concerns in the world.
FARM Loans 5 1-2 per
CENT I NTEREST
« 1.2 PER CENT. NO COM
MISSION TO COMPANY.
GORDON HOWELL, REPRE
SENTING CHICKAMAUGA
TRUST CO.
$5,000 TO LOAN
On Americus
Residence Property
LEWS ELLIS
Phone 830
Americus
Undertaking Co.
Funeral Directors
• And Embalmers
NAT LEMASTER. Manager.
Day Phones 88 and 231
Phones 661 and 889
TUESDAY AFTERNOON. MAY 29, 1923
aASSIDEDADVERTISEMENTS
WANTED LOANS, LOANS,
LOANS, LOANS —Having a di
rect connection and plenty of
money at the lowest possible inter
est rate. I can save you money on
city loanfc and farm loans. H. O.
JONES. 14-ts
FARM LOAN MONEY plentiful at
cheap interest rate and on easy
terms. W. W. Dykes. 9-ts
Sumter County National Loan As
sociation has unlimited money to
lend on farm land. Remember this
is the cheapest money you can bor
row. See Geo. O. Marshall, Secy.-
Treas. 7-ts 15-30t-junlß
Porch boxes made to
order. Furniture repair
ed (right). Ice boxes
made to order. Screens
our specialty. You must
be satisfied.
Americus Screen Co.
Phone £3
WANTED—To protect you, your
family and your property. Frank
E. Matthews, Insurance. 18-ts
WANTED —Pecans, any quantity.
Neon Buchanan. 21-ts
LOANS on farm lands and city
property. Low interest rate.
Loans promptly closed. See S. R.
Heys or H. B. Williams. Phones 48
0r
FRONT ROOM for boarders. Also
table boarders. 130 W. Church
street. 26-3 t
ROOFING—Phone 117—SHIVER
Johns-Manville ROOFING, roof
coating, roof cement, creosote,
roof paint. ts
We specialize i n
screens. Our adjustable
half screen has a metal
track and runs good un
der all weather condi
tions. Our all over
screens are ideal. Amer
icus Screen . Mfg. Co.,
,Phone 73. 21-ts
PHONE 117—JNO. W. SHIVER—
I Let us fit your home with
screens before the rush is on. 28-ts
L. G. COUNCIL, President. T. E. BOLTON, Ass’t. Caahiav.
C. M. COUNCIL, V.-P. and Cashier. J. E. KIKER, Asst. Cashier
The Planters Bankw Americus
(Incorporated)
PERSONAL'
——SERVICE
Every department in this
' W bank, which is the largest lin-
f™iS Iff. der state supervision in
-H-M V Lawr• Southwest Georgia, is or-
It MTIwH ganized and maintained to
MSiWai HtH ggi-® VS HWM Rivc our customers'that hclp-
(Wrrr?? wwl tl' 9 vflßli co-operation and advice
, jj-ll- OaJWlldl which is natural to expect
f rom . so substantial a bank
(?■*« SajwffiaW ’ n * institution.
JjwJ'feyhdjg I e believe it will be to
your advantage to get better
acquainted with this bank
of personal service.
The Bank With a Surplus
RESOURCES OVER $1,700,000
PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE. ACCOMMODATING
No Account Too Large; None Too Small
FOR RENT—Very desirable front
room. 313 College St. Phone 971.
12-ts
We make to order—
Ice boxes, porch and
lawn swings, flower
boxes, and we repair
your furniture right.
Americus Screen Mfg.
Co., Phone 73. 21-ts
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PHONE 117, JNO. W. SHIVER, or
call and see the best RED CE-
DAR SHINGLES. Will last 20 or 30
years. Best grade eever No. 1 and
No. 2 Pine Shingles and Laths, ts
LOST—Platinum bar pin, diamond
center, pearl each side. Return
Ethel Reese, Americus Laundry.
25-2 t
FOR SALE—Brabham, speckled
and yellow crowder peas. Any
quantity. B. L. Bothwell, DeSoto,
Ga. 25'-2t
FOR SALE—Rooted geraniums, all
colors. Mrs. Max Cawood. 26-2 t
FOR SALE—One 6-year-old mule
cheap. Call 748. 26-3 t
FOR RENT—Upstairs apartment.
Unfurnished or nartly furnished.
Bath on same floor. Sink in kitch
en. References. Phone 941. 28-3 t
FOR RENT—Two fur
nished rooms, close
in. Phone 407 or call at
1 005 South Lee street.
23-tfdh
FOR SALE—Gas range, tables, oil
heater, porch rug and swing.
Brussels carpet and others. Bedroom
suite and handsome desk. Fhone 979
or see Mrs. B. C. Keister. 29-3 t
FOR SALE—Attention Pig Club
Boys. We have some extra fancy
Duroc pigs for sale.' W. Ji Josev.
29-ts
We do all kinds of
LIGHT WELDING
Go-Carts Re-Tired While You
Wait
COMPTON'S BICYCLE SHOP
250 Cotton Avenue
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