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TIMES-RECORDER
PUBUSIItI) 1879
Published by
The Times-Recorder Co., (Inc.)
Lovelace Eve, Editor and Publisher
Entered aa second claw matter at the poatoffice
•t America*, Georgia, according to the Act of
Congrew.
The Ataociated Press !s exclusively entitled to
the use for the republication of all news dis
patches credited to it or not otherwise credited to
this paper and also the local news publish* d here
in. All right of republication of special dispatches
are also referred.
National Advertising Representative*. FROST
A KOHN. Brunswick Bldg., New York;
Peoples’ Gas Bldg.. Chicago.
A Thought
If a ruler hearken to lies, all
his servants are wicked. —Prov.
29:12.
He who would teach men to
die would at the same time
teach them to live.— Montaigne.
ALABAMA’S PLANS FOR
MANUFACTURING PLANTS.
Every state and community in
that state has its own plans for
getting manufacturing plants lo
cated “in its community. Over in
Alabama several cities are mak
ing a drive for new industries
and as usual they are adopting
methods different from others
to induce manufacturers to turn
their way. Selma and Mongom
ery are particularly active just
now, judging from the Alaba
ma exchanges which come into
our office. The Montgomery Ad
vertiser in commenting on a
speech recently delivered in that
city on the location of new
plants says:
“The investing people of
Montgomery have the capital
necessary to belt this city with
industrial enterprises. There
may not be among them the,
skiilled specialist needed to oper
ate the plants, but they can find
this talent. They will find, too
that the bigger interests outside
will be more ready to come to
Montgomery once they find that
local capital is willing to invest
with them. Factories have the
herd instinct like sheep. Once
the bellwether teada: off toward'
a new Axthers follow. If
ever we get the factory ball to
rolling toward Montgomery, it
will not stop,' 'but will gather
weight and increase its size reg
ularly.”
Overeat Selma, that city is
offering to new manufacturing
plants sis an inducement; for
coming to Selma, that taxes will
be free for a period of years,
ten years we believe it is.
It may be all right for a city
to make such an inducement,
but it seems to us that of itself
alone would not be a drawing
card if we were,a manufacturer
and hunting a location. Manu
facturers, as a rule, are busi
ness men, and they go to a
place not so much to accommo
date that place, but to make
money and they therefore ex
pect to share their part of the
burdens falling upon the city.
We believe it poor policy for
any city to make the tax-free
campaign the one and only in
ducement to offer the manufac
turer.
We believe that much good
time is literally wasted by eham
bers of commerce going after
the big fellow when their atten
tion should be directed to | the
little fellows. More would be ac
complished and besides a small
city would be benefited more to
have several small concerns that
make a variety of articles than
one large one that turns out
just one product.
taking the news
WITH GRAIN OF SALT.
It has got to be an almost
daily occurrence in newspaper
offices that news to the effect
that some man or other has
“disappeared” from home under
mysterious circumstances, or
that a man who is supposed to be
carrying large sums of money
is "sandbagged” by some lone
highwayman, and that after
wards he turns up with some al
most incredible story of his dis
appearance or of the way he was
“knocked out.”
It seems that the Associated
Press lately have “fed” us up on
such stories to the exclusion of
other news. Unless the happen
ing is within the state, such items
are of little news value.
Our theory is that, as a rule,
when a man is supposed to have
any money at all about his per
son and is met with so called
foul play at the hands of anoth
er person, and that in broad day
light, it’s the money of his em
ployer which is stolen and not
his own. We have known of such
cases where its all a putup job,
and the man uses the slugging
story to cover his own shortcom-
ings. Same way with most sto
ries which have to do with
“disappearances.” The . alleged
victim just naturally wants to
get away from certain asso
ciates and maybe from his own
family and simply vanishes for
all time. No doubt about it,
most of the folks who are now
breaking into the news columns
qs mysteriously ‘‘disappearing”
are very much alive but far
away from their old haunts.
It would be surprising to most
folks to know that in most
cases the two classes of news
stories here mentioned are fakes
pure and simple, concocted and
palmed off on the newspapers
and the news associations to
cover up some rascality on the
part of the alleged victim who
usually gives the story out as
news.
SHOWING RESPECT FOR
THE AMERICAN FLAG.
No real American needs to be
told to Reverence hndl .respect
his flag. No real American ever
fails in showing respect to the
Stars and Stripes.
Sometimes a real American
may fail in respectful treatment
of his flag from lack of knowl
edge that what he does is not
respectful. There is occasion to
decorate—April 26, thirtieth of
May, July the Fourth, Washing
ton’s birthday or what not —no
matter what the occasion may
be. Mr. American Citizen gets
out a lot of American flags and
drapes his place, of business or
his house. He drapes the flag
in rosettes, in festoons in criss
cross and circles. And he does it
because he thinks the American
flag the most beautiful in the
world, and wants to honor the
occasion with his flag. It doesn’t
occur to him that he is doing
wrong, or that his pretty curli
cues and intertwined streamers
are a desecration of his flag.
It is therefore unfair to
blackguard him as unpatriotic,
or ridicule him for lack of taste,
what is to be done is to edu
cate him. Ke is to be taught
that the flag, representing the
heart and soul and ideals of
this country, is never to be used
as a decoration for something
else! It must be treated as a unit
in itself. It must hang free, or
be stretched flat against a wall
or house; never draped in ro
settes or circles. Tel the offen
der he can use all the red, white
and blue bunting he wants in
any shape his fancy dictates;
tell him he can make his ro
settes and his drapes of any
thing he pleases, but that the
American flag is The American
Flag, to be honored with thj|
first place, and the finest posi
tion, the utmost freedom, and
never to be twisted or tied or
curled or draped so that it be
comes a mere embellishment to
something else.
Nothing comes ahead of the
flag!
beacon lights
OF BUSINESS.
Along perilous coasts, light
houses throw their guiding rays
far into the night to warn the
mariners and help them safely
past the shoals.
Business, too has its beacons.
are the advertisements,
which throw a powerful light to
guide you in your buying. They
show you what to buy, where to
buy and when to buy.
Spend a few minutes a day
running through the advertise
ments in this paper. Then buy
the products that have proved up
in the light of advertising.
Merchants u.u manufacturers
who adverse deliberately focus
thousands of eyes on their prod
ucts. Their wares must be good,
their values honest and their
prices right or they could not
advertise successfully.
In the advertisements you see
products that have made good
under the critical inspection of
•buyers. These products are full
value products. They return
you dolalr for dollar. Buy
them.
Let the beacon oif advertis
ing guide you as it is guiding
so many astute buyers.
Then you can know that ev
ery cent you spend buys its full
quo.ta of value.
EDITORIAL
COMMENT.
Naughty, Bill; We Mean Peache*.
Bill Biffem in the Savannah
Press comments thusly on a re
cent headline in the Times-Re
corder:
Why not bring them down to
Tybee and dip them?
Georgia Belles ready for final
spraying —. Headline Americus
Times-Recorder.
| OLD DAYS US AMERICUS
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
Monday morning, no paper pub
lished.
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TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From the Times-Recorder. June
16, 1903.)
Ten and a quarter cents, basis
of middling, was offered in Amer
icus yesterday for September cot-
I ton, and no matter whether the
[growing crop be large or small the
I farmer is thereby put upon notice
now that his staple is going to
bring a good price. He can sell now
at 10 1-4 cents or take the chances
of getting even more next fall.
Reports yesterday concerning
the condition of Mrs. John T.
Argo, were far from reassuring
and caused gravest apprehension
upon the part of her many friends.
Mrs. Anna Russell and Mrs.
Elizabeth J. Wilson of Brooksville,
Fla., and Mrs. Selma Tompkins, of
Richland, all sisters of Judge T. M.
Allen, are guest at his home in
happy reunion this week. May their
visit be prolonged and a happy
one throughout.
Zach Childers, guiding a house
party to a point where food sup
plies are reported plentiful left the
ctiy yesterday for a week of I
steady duty. 1
Copyright, 1923, TTdllv PoATTI
N. E. A. Service. A 1/C ill Berton Braley
EXHUMED
The dinosaur is seen no more,
The dodo is planted deep;
Old Cheops, hid in his pyramid,
Will never awake from sleep;
Hector is dust, his sword is rust,
Croesus, for all his jack,
Is laid aw r ay in the clammy clay;
But Willard is coming back!
Methuselah’s dead in an earthy bed
And Moses is ’neath the clod,
Samson the strong has joined the throng
Under the grassy sod;
Caesar is through, Napoleon too
Will never again attack,
But out of the past comes a figure vast,
Jess Willard is coming back.
Jack Dempsey sits on his thronej his mitts
Are idle, but none the less
He eyes the bulk of that mighty h.ulk
That’s otherwise known as Jess.
I have a hunch that the Dempsey punch
Will furnish the final smack,
But miracles do at times ensue,
And Willard is coming back.
TOM SIMS SA YS:
Whoopping cough is breaking
out among the royalty of Eng
land, but we don’t give a whoop.
Great baseball news from ■
Washington today. Figures show
about a million acres of pea
nuts planted.
Milk statistics show we are
drinking so much more milk the
cows may have to work some
at night.
Chicago cops raided eight
bucketshops because the buckets
leaked.
Lightning struck a Seattle
church. May have been after a
man who dropped buttons in the
collection.
Doctor says men make the
best cooks. We say men marry
the best cooks.
'Southern Trade Congress
opening in Washington July 9
may trade the South for some
arctic regions.
Isn’t it time for comment on
the money Jack Dempsey makes?
Why, Jack is his first name.
The presidential race, which
will be held next year, is in
full swing right now.
Flirting is a very umigerous
pastime. In New York, 224 mar
riage licenses were issued in one
day.
French are making wine to
ship us when Volstead act Is
repealed. May be real old when
we get it.
The British will hold an
Aerial Derby. The Americans
are holding aerial straw hats
every day.
Philippine news is bad. Bunch
of fanatical Moros who thought
they were bullet proof were not.
Mr. Noe, saiior on ship
Polar Star, sued for S6OOO.
The judge ruled “yes” so the
Noes have it.
“Irritation” says a typograph
iacl error, “is improving west
ern crops.” All farmers have
plenty of it.
Professor Dewey of Columbia
wants to make war an interna
tional crime. We want to say to
make war is an internatioal
L crime * i
THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER ’
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From the Times-Recorder. June
16, 1893.)
Mr. John Kay. the merchant
tailor, had a narrow escape yes
terday from what might have prov
en a painful accident. While at
work in his store in The Windsor
block, several square yards of
plastering fell from the ceiling
with a great crash, barely missing
Mr. Kay and one or two other
gentlemen present.
The Thomson - Houston Co.,
owners of the defunct railway in
this city are making preparations
to remove the rails wires and other
appurtenaces fro mthe streets un
der a recent order of the city
council, requiring its removal with
in thirty days.
Dove shooting is now the popu
lar thing with the local sportsmen.
Messrs. Stoney Glover, Tom Stall
ings and two gentlemen living on
the Chambliss plantation in the
28th district, killed '< ninety-one
birds in a hunt on that place yes
terday.
Miss Lou Hamilton who has been
attending Agnes Scott Institute,,
near Decatur, returned home yes
terday.
Our guess at the Dempsey- *
GJbbons outcome is. as good as <
any. We bet Christmas comes
next winter. 1
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Next thing you know New
Yopk will be exporting booze.
Here’s the news from Canada.
Borers ruining the corn crop.
This bug may be kin to Senator
Borah.
China is having trouble with
Japanese, but not as much as she
is having with the Chinese,
Good news from London.
Lawyer business over there is
poor.
French airplane makpr says
he sees us all flying in a few
years. We say he had better
look again.,
West Undies fireflies are so
bright you can read by their
light, but, of course, they can’t.
Good news from Holland. Po
litical graft being stamped out.
Keeps the Dutch from getting
in Dutch.
Three Smiles
, Like the Doughnut.
‘Harold,” said the father of a
precocious five-year-old at the
super table, “don’t you think
that is a pAtty big piece of cake
lor a boy of your size?”
“Well, I suppose it looks big,
pap, replied the little fellow, “but
it s sponge cake and nearly all
holes.”
( I” Mourning.
What are you wearing that
thing for? asked Mrs. Gabb, when
her husband came home with a
band of crepe around his hat.
For your first husband,” re
plied Mr. Gabb. “I’m sorry he
died.”
Unintentional.
Judge—You are charged with
breaking a chair over your wife’s
head.
Prisoner—lt was an acicdent,
your honor.
Judge—What! Didn’t you in
tend to hit her?
Prisoner-!. Yes, but I didn’t in
tend to break the chair.
LOANS made on improved farm
lands at cheapest rates for term of
■>, 7 or 10 years with pre-payment
option 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.
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CtASSinEDADVERTISEMENT
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 loans and farm loans. 11. O.
JONES. 14-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 73
WANTED —To protect you, your
family and your property. Frank |
E. Matthews, Insurance. 18-ts
LOANS on farm lands and city
property. Low interest rate.
Loans promptly closed. See S. R.
Heys or H. B. Williams. Phones 48 1
or 52.
ROOFING—Phone 117—SHIVER '
Johns-Manville ROOFING, roof
coating, roof cement, creosote,
roof paint. ts
We specialize in
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
DR. L. M. HAWKINS, Physician—
Office over Americus Drug Co.;
phone, office 363; residence 523.
6-ts
PHONE 117—JNO. W. SHIVER—
Let us fit your home with
screens before the rush is on. 28-ts
FOR SALE —Fine milk cow, giving
three gallons milk daily. Phone
398-W. ' 14-3 t
NOTICE
City Tax Books are now open
for 1923 returns. Books will close
July Ist. Make your returns early.
A. D. GATEWOOD, Clerk and
Treasurer. — (adv.)
$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
Night Phones 661 and 889
SATURDAY AFTERNOON. JUNE 16, 1923
PHONE 117, JNO. W. SHIVER, or |
call and see the best RED CE- |
DAR SHINGLES. Wil! last 20 or 30 i
years. Bpst grade eever No. 1 and
No. 2 Pine Shingles and Laths, ts
FARM LOAN MONEY plentiful at
cheap interest rate and on easy
terms. W. W. Dykes. 9-ts
FOR RENT—Two fur
nished rooms, close
in. Phone 407 or call at
1 005 South Lee street.
■ 23-tf-dh
FOR SALE —Attention Pig Club
Boys. We have some extra fancy
Duroc pigs for sale. W. J| Josey.
29-ts
FOR SALE—Electric irons guaran
teed one year, $4.65. Supply lim
ited. W. W. McNeill. 5-ts
FOR RENT —Bee Hive Store, La
i mar street. Possession September
first. W. W, Dykes. 4july3
FOR RENT—Apartment 207 East
Church. Phone 309. 7-ts
FOR SALE—HONEY and bee sup
plies. E. J. Tyson, 510 Barlow St.
i 16-s
iFOR RENT—Unfurnished apart-
ment close in; desirable. 308
West Church street. 9-ts
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WANTED—-Conditioned grammar
school pupils. Summer school to
open July 2. Miss Clebe Kemph,
11’hone 458. 11-6 t
FOR SALE—New 5-bushel oats
sacks. Harrold Bros. Phone 2.
I 13-41
FOR RENT—Desirable first floor
apartment. Address “Apartment,”
Times-Recorder. 13-ts
LA ESCUELA DE ESPANOL—-Will
coach pupils in Latin and Span
ish, at my home, 918 Oglethorpe
Ave. Monday, June 18, if six
weeks’ course is desired. Lula How
arth ___ 12-5 t
MAKE $25 weekly at home, furnish
ing names and addresses. Exper
ience unnecessary. Particulars Free.
United Mailing Co., St. Louis,
j 16-lt
. FOR RENT—Four rooms in apart
ment house; close in. J. F. Chan
i man. i 6 _3 t
L. G. COUNCIL, President. T. E. BOLTON, Ass’t, Cashist,
C. M. COUNCIL, V.-P. and Cashier. J. E. KIKER, Asst. Cashier
The Planters Bank of Americus
(Incorporated)
PERSONAE
SERVICE
Every department in this
bank, which is the largest lin-
W der state supervision in
i Southwest Georgia, is or-
fl- I? ganized and maintained to
BSjjalStvly t g ’ ve our cHstomers that help-
it II co-operation and advice
KKauil oil I|X which is natural to expect
from so substantial a bank
piuuffing institution.
»! We 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
WANTED—High school pupils. Mrs.
J. H. Ross, Phone 298. 12-4 t
FOR SALE —Rhode Island Red
baby chicks. Put them with the
hen. She will raise them. Fhone 845.
FOR RENT—Two downstairs con
necting rooms, close in. Phone
619.15-3 t
,FOR RENT' Four connecting
rooms and bath. Phone 418.
15-3 t
LADY with five years’ Experience
in dry goods store wants position
in Americus. Good references fur
nished. Address Clerk, P. 0. Box
1316, Americus. 15-5 t
FOR RENT —Desirable four-room
apartment; screened, bath, hot
water, garage. Phone 800. 16-ts
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COMPLETE COMMERCIAL
COURSE Comprising Short
hand, Typewriting, Bookkeeping;
taught in 6 to 8 weeks; easy terms.
Address Box 254, Americus, Ga.
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6% Money. Bankers Reserve Sys
tem 6% loans are made on city
or farm property to buy, build, im
prove, or pay indebtedness. Bank
ers Reserve Deposit Company,
Keith Bldg., Cincinnati, Ohio.2l(s)
BOY WANTED to distribute adver
tising matter in spare time. Work
pleasant and profitable. Write at
once. Royal Bead Co., 1265 No.
Paulina St., Chicago. 16-lt
RAILROAD SCHEDULE
Arrival and Departure of Passenger
Trains, Americus, Ga.
The following schedule figures
l üblished as information and not
guaranteed:
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RY.
Arrive. Leave
11:55 pm Colum’s-Chgo 3:45 am
10:35 pm Albany-Mont 5:14 am
7:21 pm Macon-Atl’nta 6:37 am
1:5'5 pm Alb’y-Montg’y 2:14 pm
2:14 pm Macon-Atla’ta 1;55 pm
10.T5 am Columbus 3:15 pm
6:37 am Albany 7:21 pm
5:14 am Macon-Atla’ta 10:35 pm
3:45 am Albany-J’ville 11:55 pm
2:58 am Albany-J’ville 12:37 am
12:37 am Chgo.St.L.’Atl 2:58 am
3:45 am Cin & Atlanta 1;35 am
SEABOARD AIR LINE
(Central Time)
Arrive Departs
10:05 am Cordele-Hel’na 5:15 pm
12:26 pm Cols-M’t’g’y 3:10 pm
3:10 pm Cordele-Savh 12:26 pm
5:15 nm Richland-Cols 10;05 am