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MONDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 25, 1921
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Gray laid strong hold of himself,
but it is not easy to subdue thought
and he could ieel tnose strong,
smooth, velvet arms encircling him.
Disorder without ana chaos witnm
this house! I'he heavens rumbieu
like a mighty arumnead, the ligm
ning maae useless tne teeole ray
in ins hand. It was tne piace, uv
hour of impulse. Gray swore sav
agely at himseit, tnen he stumoiea
into his room ana dressed nimseu
more fully,
"Well, mere doesn’t seem to be
much cnange," he said, cneertully,
as he opened Allie's door awnuv
later “Tne tires don't seem to he
spreading. ’ bile was sitting where
he had left her, she had not moveu
"Anything new on tins side,'.'”
Allie smugged; slowly she turn
ed, exposing a lace tragic and
stony; “1 guess you don t think
much of me,’’ she said.
"Indeed!'' he declared, heartily.
“This enough to frighten any
body. 1 don’t mind saying it has
upset me. But the worst is over.”
He laid a reassuring hand upon her
shoulder. _
Chapter XXVII
Introduced to a Lady.
Buddy Briskow had difficulty
in getting out of the valley on his
way for a doctor, for never had the
roads been like this. He drove
recklessly; where necessary he dis
regarded fences and pushed across
pastures that were bub deep; he
even burst through occasional
thicjcets in defiance of axle and
tire. He drowned his motor finally
in fording a roily stream arifl aban
doned tne car. " '
Ke came into Ranger that after
noon on the back of a truck horse
that he had borrowed—without the
owner’s consent. For a time it
seemed that if he got a doctor at
all he would have to follow a. sim
ilar procedure, but the Briskow
name was powerful, and Buddy
talked in big figures, c; eventual
ly he set out on the return journey
—‘this time in a springless freight
wagon drawn by the stoutest team
in town. A medical man was on the
seat besiiW him.
It was, alter-midnight when Bud
dy and hist miserable companion
gained^the s ea»? gp
the last rijdgtf, that Hinty,
which lay the Erls-’
kow
Buddy stopped at a drilling camp
where lights showed the occupants
to be ast f, <fnd there he receiv
ed confirmation of his fears. The
flats beyond were inundated to a
dt T, tb - Tendering travel impossible,
and although some of t,le men sta-
there had managed to
their way back, others, were;:
off tlme hopelessly cut)'
_ “I glless I 'can swim, if I' try.
hn i C tT do /hiost anything if he
has to. How about you, Doc?” Bud
i y turned to his traveling com
panion.
tiv bv 6 , shook his head posi-
I’d probabl y d>own. li we didn’t
wed be burned alive when that
loose oil catches fire.
Buddy cursed furiously and
lurched toward the door. It took
force to restrain him from going
of Cea ? ed with the Pacing
f nca ? s *°™ > b ot the late
?• the nlght were thick and
the fires continued «to burn It
conm? d aS ‘ f mornin S w °uld never
With the first light Buddv
mounted one of his horses, and, re*
gardless of admonitions, set out.
n miles he had no great distance
■to go; nevertheless, it was midday
before ha came in sight of his
father’s unpai.ited farmhouse, and
when he dismounted at the front
porch he fell rather than walked
through the door.
Even after he had been helped
into the kitchen and his wet clothes
had been stripped from him, he
could tell little about his trip, but
hot food and drink brought him
around and then, indeed, his story
was one that deeply touched the
man.
Already the waters had ceased
to rise, but Buddy’s difficulty in
getting through proved the folly of
attempting to escape for the time
being; his horse had been forced
to swim with him in more than one
place; in others he had waded waist
dep, stumbling through thickets
hauling the animal after him by
main strength. There was nothing
to do, it seemed, but await a subsi
dence of the flood. Then, too, the
boy was half dead for sleep.
Late that evening, after Ailie had
gone to bed, Gray had a long talk
with his young friend, during which
he told him more about the affairs
than he had made known ever to
Roswell, the banker.
Buddy listened with the closest
attention. He dre*iv a deep breath
at last and said: “I kpew you was
in deep, but I thought; it was just
your v.sy. Now I krc.v it was Nel
son’s crew that fired our gasser.”
Gray continued the. conversa
tion. ‘Do you think ysur father!
AMERICUS ABSTRACT & LOAN CO.
We Make Abstracts of Title To Lands
City and Farm
We have the Abstracts already made. No time lost in
looking it up.
We have on hand at this time local money to lend.
Loans made by the Atlanta Joint Stock Land Bank
are at 6 per cent, interest. No commission. The cheapest
money available.
R. L, MAYNARD, President
would trust me? Do you think he’d
go it blind on my say-so?”
“If 'he won’t, I will. I got money.
So’s Allie.”
Gray declined this offer with a
positive shake of the head. It
must appeal to him on its merits. 1
wouldn't permit you to go contrary
to his judgment.” .
"Judgment? What’s Pa’s judg
ment worth? He knows its’ no good
an’ so do we. Everybody’s tryin’
to do him up but you; you’re the
only one he trusts. An’ the same
here. There’s my bank, roll—you
can shoot the whole piece. I don’t
care if it never comes back. Tryin’
to get you killed! An’ spoilin’ a
well on me!”
"Thank you, Buddy! You—make
me slow to trust my own judg
ment. I—l seem to be developing
a conscience. But I’m sure this is
the thing to do, for you and your
father as well as for me. People
can’t stand still; they must go for
ward. The Briskow fortune must
grow or it will crumble.”
“I dunno if we’ve got as much in
us as you seem to think,” the boy
said, doubtfully.
Gray smiled. “You have common
sense, at least, and that’s some
thing you can’t get in school. Men
wear smooth from ocntact with
one another, and it is time you got
in touch with something bigger
than mere drilling. If you’re will
ing, I’ll take you to Wichita Falls
with me.”
"Willing?” Buddy’s eyes sparkl
ed. Guiltily he confessed: "It’s
been pretty—lonesome out here
with the scorpions. But I wanted to
show you I could make good.”
News of the damage wrought by
the recent storm was naturally of
grave concern to Henry Nelson,
but owing to the fact that lines
were down, about his only source
of information, during the days
immediately following it, was the
press reports. He was reading the
Dallas papers with interest one
morning when his attention, was
arrested by the name of Calvin
Gray. Now Gray’s name in print
affected the banker almost as dis
agreeably as did a sight of the man
himself; therefore it was with in
tense resentment that he read the
hiticle in which it appeared. It was
a vividly written account of the
formers’ experience during the
flood, and, due no doubt to Gray’s
personal touch, it read a good
deal like fiction.
The next time Tom Parker came
into the bank Henry called him into
his private office and had a talk
tyith him.
' Old Tom listened silently; never
theless, it was plain that he was
heeply shocked.
"I s’pose you ain’t lyin’,” he said
coldly, when the banker had finish
ed.
’* “It’s a matter of record, Tom.
He ean’t deny it.”
“What was it he did?”
“Conduct undecoming an officer
and a gentleman’ is the way the
record stands. That covers a lot.”
“Did he weich—quit under
fire”?
“No.”
“Steal something?”
“No.”
• "Woman scrape?”
"There was —a woman con
cerned. Pretty nasty mess, Tom.
He s the sort of man to intrigue
any foolish woman. Women can’t
see far.”
In great perturbation of spirit
Tom consulted Judge Halloran.
ihe Judge listened to him in as
tonishment; angrily he cried: “You
ami I will go directly to the scoun
drel, tell him we are aware of his
infamy, and order him out of town
Ha! That’s the way to go about it;
cut deep and quickly. Tar and fea
thers are too good for—”
“Trouble is,” Tom repeated,
with a reluctant sigh, “I like him
and I ain’t sure—”
"The trouble is you’re a weak
ling!” Haliooran snapped. “You
are a—sentimentalist. You lack
my stern, uncompromising moral
fiber. Like him! Pah! What has
that to do with it? I have no weak
ness, no bowels of compassion. I
am a Spartan. I am—”
“You’re a damned old fool—if
you think you can run him. He’s
liable to run you.”
If Calvin Gray's affairs were in
a precarious condition, he showed
no signs of it when he returned to
Wichita Falls. On the contrary, he
was in an exultant mood, and even
on the train young Briskow, who
accompanied him, was amazed at
the change that had come over his
friend. With every mile they trav
eled Gray’s bouyancy increased
and upon, his arrival he trod the
street to his office like a conquer
or. McWade and Stoner, who came
in for a conference with minds
preoccupied and faces grave, left
with a smile and a jest.
(Continued Tomorrow)
Women’s working hours may
be reduced in Illinois, but this
doesn’t include married women.
NEGROES LOSE JOBS
IN NORIHERH CLIME
Migration of Blacks Northward
Encounters Serious Economic
Obstacles
ATLANTA, June 25.—The ne
gro migration northward is now
about due to encounter serious
economic obstacles, accirding to
agriculturists and civic| organiza
tions here who have discussed the
question. It is stated that the de
mand in the North for negro labor
gives evidence of being supplied.
There is a slackening of activity
in various lines, due to causes
which may or may not, it is assert
ed, bring about a depression of
considerable proportions; it will, it
seems today, be temporary and in
considerable. But while work halts
the trek of black folk in search of
higher wages and supposedly Letter
working conditions goes on.
What may happen when the
even minor reaction sets in, when
common labor is laid off employ
ment is tne question being asked
here.
Form reexperiences in St. Louis,
Chicago and elswnere should give
the colored man an answer to make
him pause, Atlanta labor leaders
declare. The hunger and general
misery of negroes out of work and
far from familiar environment, the
savage outbreak or race hatred,
these things a few years ago, it
is pointed out here, drove home
to the South of negroes
who have now forgotten the les
son.
suspect' overcharged
WIRES CAUSE OF FIRES
MOULTRIE, June 25.—Assert
ing that there is at least ground
for suspicion that the power lines
carrying lights into Moultrie
homes and places of business are
too heavily charged, C. W. Pid
cock has issued a statement urging
members of council to have an ex
pert elect\cal engineer come here
and makes a test.
"It is possible that the trans
formers are not sufficiently reduc
ing the voltage coming in from the
power plant of the Georgia-Ala
bama company,” Mr. Pidcock in
sisted. He urged that if such a
state of facts did exist this could
have been responsible for the fires
here this week.
“This suggestion is not made in
the form of unfavorable criticism
to any one 'connected with the city
administration or the power plant
here. I can’t help but believe
however, that there id suffneent
basis for suspicion to at least war
rant an investigation, that would
reassure the public, even if it
didn’t do anything else.” Mr. Pid
cock concluded.
COLQUITT POULTRY MEN
TO STAGE SALE JULY 3RD
MOULTRIE, June ) 25.—Col
quitt’s next co-operative poultry
sale will be held here on Tuesday
Juyl 3, according to an announce
ment made- by County Agent Strat
ford. It was at first planned to put
the sale on in the latter part of
June, but because of the unfavor
able market conditions, the ad
visory committee of farmers that
co-operates with Mr. Stratford in
arranging the details of the poultry
sales, it was decided to move the
date forward.
It also was believed that more
chickens would be available the
first week in July than in the last
week in June.
GUYT FISHER PREACHES
TO MASONS AT DOUGLAS
DOUGLAS, June 25.—Wilcox
Lodge No. 668 and Douglas Lodge
No. 386 of Masons held special
services at the Methodist church
Sunday morning, observing St.
John’s Day. Rev. Guyton Fisher ex-
Grand Chaplain and pastor of the
Methodist church preached a spe
cial sermon to those present at the
regular hour.
Only nice thing pbout most
troubles is you soon have some
new ones to take their place.
In Des Moines, la., only one
high school girl in 309 says she
wants to marry, but just wait.
I \\ FLIES. ANTS
MOTHS, BUGS
k; J// fleas, m ites
MOSQUITOES
Spray
SHEPARD
INSECT KnK
[POSITIVELY NO KEROSENE]
VALSO KILLS GERMS ,
ERAGG’S MARKET
Choice Meats—Best Service
Beef, Pork, Veal. Tender
and Toothsome.
Give us orders early for a
choice roast.
Red Snapper fish again
this week; and a variety of
other good things for your
menu. Ask us.
We Buy Choice Beef Cat
tle, hence our good quality
fresh meats.
Our Phone No. 181
r THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER ’’
ANSLEY S Americus, Ga.
JUNE
Five More Days
i r A -r K’A
OUR DETERMINATION to make THIS June the largest in volume
of business in our history will mean much to YOU. YOU who want
either — ' V, .. p:
Ready - to - Wear Garments or
PIECE GOODS
It is way ahead already—but we’ll make the LAST 5 DAYS more
than interesting—Just to pile up a still greater volume and clear out
all READY-TO-WEAR and all REMNANTS OF PIECE GOODS.
At Just About ’ values sl7 50 FQR $5 0Q
va to ls $35.00 for $10.50
J ES $45.00™ $14.75
SILK DRESSES 'To B $50.00~519.75
from Lowest values nn ao .
to Best J/Mu for $24-75
* ■—
ALL Offerings are NEW SPRING TOGS
sfr o M—.in*—, Il«>
FstockSILKS 20
Cent OFF
‘ FINE
* +
ALL FINE COTTON GOODS WILL
BE OFFERED AT GREATER REDUCTIONS
Than We’ve Ever Made This Early in the Season 4
+ —•*
On Five Center Tables on the
First F100r...... We’ll Carry On
A PERFECT WHIRLWIND CLEARANCE
J REMNANTS F
Kinds LineilS
' ■' ' 1 I 1 I, . 11
House ?! ack ;X? ite At Cool dainty At
Dots-Wftite Voiles
_ Jthch $3 50 n and 4 7 CA
Dresses Trimmings DreSSCS Swisses $/.JV
I Cool T aXOnS $ 5 - 00 Cool DaintieSt A t
I issues _ bwisses /Al
Ginghams lo and 4 10
Dresses Organdie $6.50 Dresses Voiles
‘ THE LAST 5 DAYS IN JUNE
j YOU SHOULD
. ’ ■
! VISIT.
' ™ ANSLEY’S
WHERE A A The Begt , 8 Sold Charged
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PAGE THREE
ROUND-TRIP
SUMMER FARES
From Americus. Ga.
Going and returning via.
Savannah and shin
New York $5748
Boston $69.74
Philadelphia. $51.70
Baltimore $46.15
Going via Savannah and ship
returning rail or vice versa
New York $63.60
Boston $78.65
Fares to other resorts propor
tionately reduced. Tickets in
clude meals and berth aboard
ship.
For sailing dates, accommoda
tions and other information ap
ply to Ticket Office, C. of Ga.
station. Phone George Ander
son, Agent.
Centra! of Georgia Ry.
Ocean Steamshio Co.
M. &M. T. Company
Clean Up!
For a few days only SI.OO size
Bell’s Silver Polish 50c
YOUREX SILVER SAVER, reg
ular price 50c, introductory
price .Z... 25c
They keep y«ur silver nice and
clean when pa'tlre'd away. Think
of having your silverware ready
for use after being packed away
for six months.
Tho«. L. Bell
Jeweler and Optician
Compton’s Bicycle Shop
First Class Repairing
Parts of All Kinds. New and
Second-hand bicycles for sale
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 Americut Steam Laun
dry
SOUTH JACKSON STREET ’
Our Motto:
“GIVING all we can for what
we get, instead of getting all we
can for what we give.”
Jennings Bros.
Dry Cleaning, Steam Pressing
Finest Shoe Repairing
Phone "Seben-Fo-Nine”
Special Sale
Your choice of any SI.OO and
M .25 beads and ear drops at 50
cents, each. The higher priced
beads and ear drops will be sold
at half price.
See our nt)w line of Whiting’s
Society Stationery.
Americus Jewelry Co.
WALLIS MOTT, Mgr.
I
LOANS made on improved farm
lands at cheapest rates for term of
5,7 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
Corresfioryient Atlanta Trust Com-
Ipany in' Sumter, Lee, Terrell,
I Schley, Macon, Stewart, Randolph
. and Webster counties. 21 Planters
•Bank Building, Americus, Ga. Phon,
I 89 or 211. . H