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HANDSOME CURTAIN
GIVEN PLAINS HIGH
Needed Accessory in Auditori
um Made by Miss Cla: k’s
Sewing Class
PLAINS, May 30.—Friday eve
ning was “Home-Made” night at
the school auditorium. • Supt.
Bridges presented the handsome
Curtain to the school made by Miss
Licy Kate Clark’s sewing class and
the play “Blossom of the Gypsies,”
given by the pupils of the ninth
and tenth grades, written by a
ninth grade girl, was enthusiastic
ally received by the audience. Fol
lowing is the synopsis of the play
the east of chraaeters:
A little girl long.- for the finer
things of life. A kind hearted fam.
ily discovers her worth and brings
about a change.
Prologue, “Chloe Medlock.”
Cast of Characters—Blossom (a
little Gypsy girl) Gladys Logan;
Mvra (Blossom’s Gypsy mother)
.Ellen Smith; Uncle Joe (A Gypsy)
—.Tames Dodson; Si (a horse trad
er); R. E. Shirley; Gypsies, Otis
Gaston and Eschton Kall; Father
Dennis( an aged man) Hugh Gib
sson; Dr. Gilbert, John Emmett
Howell; M». Southwick (a success
ful busincs matri Joseph Cranford;;
Mrs. Southwick (his wife) Mildred I
Mackey; Richard Southwick, Harold]
.Keniirick; Vivian Southwick, T.yn
nette Jennings; Frank Southwick (a
teast) Ed Lynn Bridges: Olivia
Vivian’s visitor ) Ruby O’Quinn;
College Girls— Helen. Verna Lake
Wise: Agnes, Gladys Murray; May,
Hazel Timmerman: Sue, Allie Mur
ray;’ Dorothy, Mildred Andrews;
Alice. Gladys Wiggins; Virginia,
Martha Taylor; Nadine, Blanche
(in charge of a school for young
ladies) Elizabeth Dodson; Gvpsv
Girlsu—Ruth Medlock, Mary Lizzie
Ratliff, Marie Johnson, Marilou
Johnson; Fortune Tellers—Bertha
Jones and Mary Murray.
The play was well written and
creditably presented.
HENRY PARRISH, 87,
DIES AT HOWELL, GA.
HOWELL, Ga., May 30 Henry
Parrish, aged eighty-seven years, is
dead' at his home here after an ill
ness of some duration, marking the
passage of one of the best and most
widely known residents' of that sec
tion.) He had resided herb forty
seven years and reared a large
family.
The deceased is survived by five
daugthers and four sons, as follows:
Mrs. Geo. Rentz, of Sparks; Mrs. P.
D. Cowart, Naylor; Mrs. H. Velen
tine, of Howell; Mrs. IL C. Davis,
of Rowell; James Parrish, Zach
Paris, of Howell, and Cyrus Par
rish ,of Adel; Mrs. Wm. Rentz, of
Lois.
| !Stomach, Liver and Boweh>
Amazingly BSSS2
FOR
CONSTIPATION
INDIGESTION
BILIOUSNESS
SICK HEADACHE
STOMACH TROUBLES
Gassy pains that crowd the heart
Stout people like them
Never fail - no griping or nausea
Small cost - only 25c. Sold everywhere
For Thursday
Morning Only
We have on our racks to close out, fourteen
Silk Dresses from our Spring, 2023, line,
consisting of
2 Sport Dresses, formerly $12.75 at
$6.00
1 Black Canton Crepe, formerly $22:50 at
$11.25
8 Canton and Flat Crepe in Black, Cocoa
and Navy formerly $27.50 and $25.00 at
$16.75
3 Taffetas in Navy and Black, formerly
$25.00, at
$15.75
No Exchanges No Approvals Prices Cash
Cohen's
The Satisfactory Store
Phone 596 217 W. Lamar St.
FLOWING 7x4
mt Rex BtACH
KinwoUTAM MfYrfJPAPtK if avici,
BEGIN HERE TODAY
Calvin Gray occupeis the
most expensive suite in the most
exclusive hotel in Dallas. He
makes friends with Gus Bris
kow, who has struck oil in Rang
, er, and meets Ma Briskow, Al
leghney, the daughter, and Oz
ark, the son. Bod Parker, daugh
ter of Tom Parker, comes home
from college and goes into the
land basiness. She buys and sells
for Colonel Henry Nelson, son
of Bell Nelson, banker. Gus
Briskow tells Gray of 4 trick
that Henry Nelson works on him
to beat him out of the sale of
some land. Gray offers to take
a hand against Nelson, who is
his enemy.
NOW GO ON WITH SSTORY
“You know them Nelsons?”
“I konw—Henry.”
'He’s hard-boiled ’n his old man.
They got a lot o’ money behind ’e’m
—too much money to act like he
done with me. I sure hate to see
him git that Evans lease for next
to nothin’, after the way he done.
I’d call it cheatin,’ but—well, 1
can’t han’le it.”
The man at the window wheel
ed suddenly, and his face was white
his brows were drawn down. “By
God!” he cried.’ tensely. “Ha won’t:
ge.t it. Where’s that option.
“I got it right here.” Briskow i
banded over- a paper. “An’ I got
the hull title abstrack, too. Had it
all ready for Neslon.
When he had swi’tly scanned
the document. Gray said: “This
deal means little to you, Briskow,
zut it means much to me, and I’ll
make it worth something to both of
us. At short, but —I work best when
I work fast. You’ve had your
chance and failed. Now then, step
aside and let a man run who knows
how.”
Mr. Roswell, president of the
bank where Gray nad first made
himself known, was a’shrewd ,force
ful man who had atttained a posi
tion in business and arrived at a
time of life when he could well af
ford to indulge his like and dislikes.
Roswell had liked Gray upon
their first meeting, and that liking'
had deepened. Owing to that fact,
he had neglected to secure a report
upop him, assuring himself that
there was always time for such
formalities. Ho was cordial today
when Grav strode into his office
bringing Gus Briskow with him.
The banker listened with inter
est to waht he was told, then he
studied the map that Briskow
spread upon his desk showing the
location of his own and other near
by wells.
“That looks like a sure thing,”
Roswell said, finally. “As sure as
anything an oil can be. What is
on your mind?”
"I’d like to get the option of the
bank’s oil expert,” Gray told him.
This was a mater easily disposed
of; the expert was summoned and
he rendered a prompt opinion. He
knew the property; he considered
it a cheap lease at a thousand dol
lars an acre. It was proven stuff
' and within thirty days it would
probably treble in value. When he
had gone the banker smiled.
“Well, Gray,” said he, “I knew
you’d land something good. You’re
a hustler. You’ll make a fortune
out of that land.”
Gray handed him Gus Briskow’s
option', and the assignment thereof
the ink upon which was scarcely
dry. “There’s the joker. It expires
tomorrow night and— it will go to
the Nelsons. They’ve double-crossed
Mr. Briskow.”
“Then don’t let them get away
] with it. Take it yourself.
“It is now three o’clock and this
is the golfjng season in New York,”
Gray told him. “1 couldn”t reach
my associates and get any action i
before Monda|,%”
‘No funds of your own avail
able?”
“Not enough, at such short no
tice.”
■Well?”
"That lease is worth one hun- ;
dred and sixty thousand dollars, |
isn’t it?” The banker nocjded, ‘l’m !
going to sell it before six o’clock
so thousand. I know peo
ple here v/;<> will take it, but I’ve
come first to you. Get together a
little syndicate right here in the
bank and buy it. I’ll agree to take
it off your hands within thirty days
at one hundred and sixty thousand ;
dollars.”
“Is your guaranty any good?”
“That is tor you to determine. |
Assume that it is not, and I'll bet- |
ter mv first offer. I’ll understand ]
to sell of the land in twenties j
right here in Dallas, double your i
money, and divide the profits there
after with you. It is a safe spec
ulation and a quick one. You know
I can put it through.”
Mr. Roswell considered briefly :
before replying. ‘There’s no use de- >
nying that we’ve made money on ;
deals like this—everybody has. So I
its’ nothing new. There’s a big play
on Ranger stuff and we couldn’t
lose. But I know nothing about you
except the little you’ve told me.
When I go into a deal I put my
trust more in the map than the
proposition.”
“And I trust my own judgment
of human character-more than that
of strangers,” Gray said, quickly.
“So do you. Thirty days is a long
time with me, and the oil business
is just my speed. Permit n?e to re
mind you that time is flying and
that I have given myself only three
hours in which to turn this prop
erty.”
“I like your energy,” the bank
er confessed, “and I’m inclined to
bet some of my own money on you.
Now”—he pushed a button on his
desk—“let”s see if there are any
others here who feel as I do.’
It was early evening when Gus
Briskow returned to his wife’s and
his daughter’s rooms at the Ajax.
He slipped in quietly ahd sank into
a chair.
“Mercy me! I thought you was
run over,” Ma Briskow exclaimed.
“I feel like I was,” the nester
declared, with a grin. “Say! Mister
Gray sold the Evans lease an’
—we got more money than ever.”
‘Then mebbe you can afford a
Thursday Morning Special
New Display
SUMMER DRESSES
Just Arrived
*
These dresses were by express this week
direct fro mthe hands of the designers. Figured
Crepe de Chine, Voiles, etc. Some are trimmed with
• tiny ruffles, others with each one showing
the new lines and are the last word in fashion.
You have to see these dresses to appreciate their
beauty and daintiness-
$9.95
Thursday Morning
PEARLMAN’S
In Rogers—NASH MARKET—In Rogers
Thursday Morning Only
White Cornfield Ham . 22c
Western or Native Steak, pound 20c
In Rogers—NASH MARKET—In Rogers
For Thursday Morning Only
31bs. Golden Glow Coffee
$1.09
ROGERS’
THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER
WORK STARTED UPON
66 NEW FREIGHT CARS
First Installment of SGO Ordered
at Waycross to Be F : nished
Scon as Possible
COLUMBUS, May 30.—Active
construction on the proposed Sun
day school annex so r the First
Baptist church of Phenix City, has
been started, according to announ
cement made yesterday by T. W.
Britton, chairman of the trustees
and building committee of the
church. Contract for the building
which is to be a three-story brick
struct Are, was let to the Butts
Lumber Company, of Phenix City,
and placing the material on the
ground will begin immediately,
new suit,” Allie told him. "You look
like sin.”
Her father nodded, but his mind
was full of the incidents of that
afternoon and he began at once to
recount them. He told the story
badly, but in a language that the
women understood, when the girl
interrupted him to exclaim:
“Wait! Why Pa! You mean to
say Mister Gray ain’t got no
money?”
“Ke had less ’n a hundred dol
lars. An' him livin' here like a
king with everybody bowin’ an*
scrapin’!”
Ignoring the effect upon Allie of
this intelligence, he continued his
recital. “All 1 done was set around
while him an‘ them bank people
talked it qver,” he said, finally.
“Then they got their lawyer in an’
he examined the title papers. Seem,
ed like he’d never git through, but
he did, an’ they signed some things
and we come out, an’ Mister Gray
told me I'd made forty-eight thou
sand dollars.”
‘■‘Goodness me!” Me Briskow s
eyes widened. “Why, that Evans
place ain’t wuth the taxes.”
‘lt’s more’n likely wuht a million
But think! Him tillin’ me I’d made
forty-eight thousand dollars! It give
me a jolt, an’ I says I didn’t make
it. 1 told him I’d fell down an
turned the hull thing over to him.
'lt’s you that’s made forty-eight
thousand,’ I says.”
■ What?’ Allie in quired, sharply.
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Then when her father had repeated
himself, she asked with even great- 1
er intensity: “WhatM he say to
that? He didn’t take it, did he?
“He laughed kinda queer an’ |
says all 1 got to do to give him a .
good night s rest is to wire Henry ‘
Nelson the deal's closed. An’ him
.with less ’n a hundred dollars!’’
Allie spoke again in great relief.
“Lord! Tou give me a turn.'' Her
expression altered, her lips parted
in a slow smile. “So! He’s pore, eh? ;
Pore as we was. Well, 1 declare!” 1
She rose and turned her back upon
her father.
“No, he ain’t pore,” Briskow said ]
irritably. 'Not now he ain’t. I says
it’s a deal an’ his money, an’ we ]
got plenty. An’ I stuck to it.”
Allie wheeled suddenly at this I
announcement.* She uttered a cry i
of protest; then, “What are you I
talkin’ about ( she rougnly de
manded.
“We had some argyment an" I
got kinda r’iled. Finally he says if
I feel that way we’ll go pardners.
lie wouldn’t listen to nothin’ else,
an’—, that’s how it stands. He made i
twenty-four thousand an’ I—“
“You —- You fool!’
Gus Briskow looked up with a .
start to find his daughter stand- '
ing over him, her face ablaze, her i
deep bosom heaving. He stared at
her in frank amazement, doubting
his senses. Never had Allegheny
used toward him a word, a tone like
this, never had he seen her look
as she did at this moment.
‘Allie—Allie!” the mother gasped
She, too, was aghast. ‘You—you’re
talkin’ to your pa!’ 1
“You give him twenty-four thou
san‘ dollars? Give it to him- Wha’d
you do it for? What’d you—”
A harsh exclamation burst from
the girl to the astonished par
ents it sounded like an oath, but it
could not have been—then she
swung herself heavily about and
rushed blindly into the next room,
slamming the stout metal door be
hind her with a crash that threat
ened to unhinge it.
“Well, I be—darned!” Gus Bris
kow turned a slack, empty face
upon the partner of his joys. “I—l
never ’sposed that girl would turn
out —greedy.”
Chapter IX
An Electric Giggle Stick.
Os all the oil excitement, that
which occurred in North Texas
was perhaps the most remarkable;
at any rate, the world has never
witnessed such scenes as'were en
acted there.
The strike at Ranger lit the fuse,
the explosion came with the first
25 lbs. Sugar $1.99
24 cakes Jergen
Toilet Soap 1.06
$4.05 value for 3.05
For Thursday Morning
This is good as long as supply of soap lasts.
Come early if you want yours.
ft'’.' r . • ‘ '
~ CLEAN UP
BARGAINS
7X Mr.fFarmer
One New RacineJThresherJ
This thresher will thresh oats, wheat,
rye, all kinds of grain and peas, shells and
shucks corn, shells velvet beans, will
thresh anything.
Riding Cultivators, $55
We have just a few more of those Oliver
and Buckeye Riding Cultivators, with the
shovel attachments, and listen, we are go
ing to make you a price on these cultiva
tor
Listen at this, Fellows —
$20.00 Weeers Going at SIO.OO
P. S.—Our shipment of Jewett Sports
and Standards is almost here. Get your
order in early.
CHAPPELL MACHINERY CO.
Phone 234
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. '’l’
gush of inflammable liquid from the
Fowler farm at Burkburnett.
“Burk” was a sleepy little town,
dozing amid parched wheat fields.
The paint was off it; nothing much
more exciting than a crop failure
ever happened there. The main top
ic of conversation was the weather
and, as Mark Twain said, everybody i
talked about it, but nothing was
done. Within 60 days this spor- .
ific village became a roaring beuiam,
every town lot was leased, derricks
rose out of chicken rqns, boilers
panted in front yards, mobs of
strangers surged through the
streets and the air grew shrill with
their bickerings.
Naturally a little country town
like this could not hold the new
comers, therefore Wichi’- Falls be
came their headquarters. Here
there were at least a few hotels
some sort of office quarters—sheds
beneath which the shearing could
take place—and there the herd as
sembled.
(Continued Tomorrow.)
WORK PROGRESSING ON
ECHOLS ROAD CONTRACT
LAKE PARK, May 30. The
work on the lower end of the road
from Lake Park to the state line
through a portion of Echols coun
ty, the contract for which was re
cently let to a Jacksonville con
cern, is progressing rapidly. The
contractors are already laying some
of the gravel. From the start made
on the project it would appear that
this end of the road will be com
pleted well within the 60-day lim
it on which the contract was based.
POSTPONE M’MICHAEL
LIBEL CASE IN 8188
MACON, May 30.—1 n an attempt
to clear the calendar in Bibb Su
perior couit of cases against de
fendants being held in jail in de
fault of bond, the case of criminal
libel against E. H. McMichael, mem
ber of the general assembly from
Marion county, has been postponed
and will be heard at a later date.
BOYS BREAK CAMP
ROME, May 30 —Camping, even
in wet weather, is great sport, ac
cording to the Darlington School
boys w"ho have just*returned from
Whitemore’s Bluff where they had
camped for two night. The boys
spent most of the time on Capt.
Holbrook’s houseboat, the F. B. H.,
which furnished sleeping quarters
as well as transportation.
FOR A
GRADUATING
PRESENT ’
Give your boy or your girl a
nice Watch. Something that
will last them a lifetime.
We have a new stock of Wrist
Watches and new styles in
young men's Watches.
Come and let us show them
to you. ‘
AMERICUS j*
JEWELRY CO
WALLIS MOTT, Manager
Phone 229
LOANS made on improved farm
lands at cheapest rates for term of
5,7 or 10 years with pre-payment
optijHi given. Money secured
promptly. We have now outstanding
over $1,100,000.0 on farm in Sum
ter county alone, with plenty more
to lend.
MIDDLETON M’DONALD
Correspondent Atlanta Trust Com
pany in Sumter, Lee, Terrell,
Schley, Macon, Stewart, Randolph
and Webster counties. 21 Planters
Bank Building, Americus, Ga. Phone
89 or 211.
Compton’s Bicycle Shop
We have just received a shipment
of large and small bicycle baskets.
Go-carts retired while you wait.
DR. S. F. STAPLETON
VETERINARIAN
Office in Chamber of Commerce
Phone 8
Residence Phone 171
FOR QUICK SERVICE AND
HEAVY HAULING PHONE 121
WOOTTEN TRANSFER CO.
Office in Americus Steam Laun
dry
SOUTH JACKSON STREET
Say It With
Flowers
W are prepared to
handle your orders for
GrJtluaSdon Flowers for
less —always fresh. Any
Joy Flower Shop
Phone 490
It Cooks the Food—Not the
Cook
Ease,
Comfort,
Economy, i
Are All Combined in the
Nesco-Perfect Oil Cook
ing Stove
Fries Anything,
Boils Quickly,
Bakes Easily,
Roasts Perfectly
We sell this stove on an Abso
lute Guarantee that it will suit—
and let you be the judge.
WILLIAMS-NILES CO.
HARDWARE
Opposite Postoffice Phone 706
“You Want It, We Have It”
AMERICUS
DRUG CO.
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Snappy Soda
Good Music
All the Time; Served by
lolly Dispensers
You 11 Like the “Feel at
Home Atmosphere”
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