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THURSDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 2, 1923
STUDEBAKER SALES
81, B 8 O_IEW CARS
New Record Established for Six
Months’ Peiiod Ending
June 30th
Word has just been received by
Gatewood Motor Co., local Stude
baker dealers of the new record es
tablished by The Studebaker Cor
poration for the first six months
of 1923, when a total of 81,880
Studebaker cars were sold.
“All Studebaker plant continue
at capacity operations,” says Mr.
Gatewood “and the present output
of 15,000 cars per month is insuf
ficient to meet the persistent de
mand from the first of the year
Studebaker has experienced a de
mand that has continuously been j
far in exoess of production, al
though the plant capacity was i
creased during the spring when a
number of new factory units at;
South Bend and Detroit, were com-I
pletted and equipped.
“While Studebaker sales for the
past six years have increased each
year, the newest record can be bet
ter appreciated by comparisons.
The sale of 81,880 cars in the first
six months of 1923 shows an in
crease of 36 per cent over the best
previous six months* business in
Studebaker history—that of 1922,
when a total of 60,053 cars were
sold.
“Compared with sales for the
year 1918, the half-year record of
1923 shows an increase o$ 243 per
cent. It is 108 per cent greater
than sales for the full twelve
months of 1919. It exceeds the
sales of the full year 1920 by 59
per cent and is 23 per cent great
er than the sales for the complete
year of 1921.
"Studebaker’s accomplishment
becomes even more significant,”
according to Mr. Gatewood, “when
it is realized that Studebaker is
strictly a builder of high quality
cars which range in price from
$975 to $2750, and in capacity
from two to seven passengers, and
that Studebaker manufactures sixes
exclusively. To us it means that
the public wants quality and
wants Sixes in ever increasing num
bers. And by providing us with
THE NESCO-PERFECT j
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,
The Oil Cooking Stove
with a record of com
plete satisfaction. Bakes
Boils, Roasts, Fries.
All sizes in stock and
displayed in our store.
Opp. Postoffice. Phone 706
Americus
Undertaking Co.
NAT LEMASTER, Manager
Funeral Directors
And Embalmers
Night Phones 661 and 889 i
Day Phones 88 and 231
LAST CALL
BARGAINS
$65.00 Magnetos, any make (brand new) $25.00
Ford Grey Goose Shock Absorbers SIO.OO
Premier Sun Visors (a fine buy) $7-50
A Good Sun Visor $3-50
Spotlights (a necessity) $5.00
Famous Schwartze Horns, only .. $6.50
Handy Gasoline Cans 95c
Handy Gasoline Funnels ....; 50c
Spark Plugs for all makes of cars *- 50c
These are real bargains.
Chappell Machinery Co.
Phone 234
.three distinct models, Studebaker
has enabled us to fit the buyer
I with the car he needs there are
other reasons why Studebaker has
been able to achieve new records
yeai after year. These include:
Seventy-one years’ experience in
the manufacture of high grade ve
hicles; Continuation of the found
ler s policies of honest value and
integrity, manufacture of vital
parts in own plants, saving the
middlemen’s profits and insuring
the quality, quantity production
methods in which the first and
final consideration is quality,
$90,000,000 of actual net assets in
cluding $45,000,000 of plant facil
ities.”
GEORGIA CONCERN SUES
ON BIG WAR CLAIM
ATLANTA, Aug. 2—The Chesta
tec Pyrites and Chemical corpora
i t’on of Georgia has filed in the dis
-1 trict supreme court at Washington,
|D. C. a petition for a mandamus
j against Hubert Work, secretary of
i the interior, to compel him to take
i jurisdiction of a claim of the com
pany under the war minerals claim
act of March 2, 1919, as amended.
The company claims to have suf
fered a net loss of $919,172.73 in
producing and preparing pyrites for
th.e needs of the nation in the pros
ecution of war. The difficulty with
the interior department seems to
center over the claim of the com
pany to recover interest which is
paid on the sum of $695,000 which
it was obliged to borrow to carry
on its work.
Secretary Work, it is contended,
holds that the interest charge does
not come under the purview of the
act and refuses to refer the ques
tion to the department of justice
or to the court of claims as asked
by the company.
ATLANTA MAN HEADS
GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI
ATLANTA, Aug. I.—As the re
sult of balloting recently complet
ed by membership of the Georgia
teen Aiumi association, Geo. T.
Stout, of Atlanta, was elected presi
dent of the National Alumni asso
ciation of the Georgia School of
Technology. This signal honor is a
demonstration of the wide popular
ity of Mr. Stout, known to his
friends as Tommie Stout.
Election for officials of Georgia
Tech Alumni association are-carried
on by balloting conducted through
the mails on account of the fact
that so many members live in other
states. Ballets are sent out to each
member of the association, and
wh n all have been returned the
ballots are returned and counted.
COTTON ROTTING IN
FIELDS IN LOWNDES
VALDOSTA, August 2. Many
farmers who have some open cot
ton in their fields for several days
past cannot pick it on account of
the weather. Being permitted to
remain in the boll through this
rain the open cotton is reported
to be already showing signs of rot
ting, which is adding to the dam
age to growing crops. A few farm
ers have picked a small amount
of cotton during the few dry days
of last week.
NEW CANCELLATION STAMP
SAVANNAH, August 2.—Within
a few days the cancellation stamp
on outgoing Savannah mail will
bear an inscription advertising the
Savannah Tri-State Exposition,
which is to be held at Savannah
October 27 to November 3. This
has been brought about after three
I annual attempts to have the post
office department recognize the lo
cal fair sufficiently important as to
warrant its advertisement on can
i celled mail.
It doesn’t matter, but Pilsud
sky, who has fought a duel,
sounds as if he was named for
beer.
MYRTLE
SPRINGS
BARBECUE
FULL MEALS
OR SANDWICHES
Served Thursdays, Fridays
and Saturdays. Regular
Dinner on Sundays.
J. L. GLAWSON
MENTOR 8f ICE DIED
BROKEN HEMITED M
Appaiachicola Man Was Cheat.,
ed of Great Invention by Man
in Whom He Confided
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 2.
—Dr. John Gorrie, of Appalacha
cola, Fla., the inventor of artificial
ice, died broken hearted, while a
Frenchman to whom he had im
parted his' secret, before he could
interest financial circles suffi
ciently to back him to place his
product on the market, was ac
claimed the greatest benefactor of
mankind when the manufacture of
the fleecy substance was finally
perfected.
This story is related by Mrs.
Carrie Floyd Stewart, of Milton,
Fla., a granddaughter of Dr.
Gorrie, who is on a visit tq rela
tives here.
Recognition of the great service
rendered by Dr. Gorrie came sixty |
One Gallon 01
POLARINE OIL
At Opening of New Standard
Oil Company Service Station
Jefferson Street
and Cotton Ave.
STANDARD OIL COMPANY
SATURDAY “Tb
Crown ObiMlne at our naw Barrie* Station at Monro* and,
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5 Standard. OC Service Station
EMf COUPON Na.
GOOD FOR
To each customer purchasing five gallons of O
Crown Gasoline at this new Standard Oil Com- COUPON fl No.
pany (Ky.) Service Station at the corner of Jeffer- Zrf
son Street and Cotton Avenue will be given free of COUPON IXst, No.
£ GOOD FOR
charge, a Card, same as reproduced to the right £
herein, with four coupons entitling the customer to
receive free One Bulk Gallon of Polarine Oil up
to, and including, Tuesday, September 4th. The
customer will have the privilege of taking this oil,
- one quart at a time, upon presentation of the Cou- get FREE
i , , , W Coupon Card, redeema-
pon Card and any unused coupon not detached bi e up to and including
therefrom at any Standard Oil Company (Ky.) September 4th at any
Service Station in Americus. Standard Oil Company
(Ky.) bervice Station
in Americus.
S 0 STANDARD OIL COMPANY
incorporated *******
THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER
I years after he had exhibited a block '
! of the greatest of all hot weather’* i
! blessings at a banquet in his home ’
I town, by the erection of his statue
in the Hall of Fame in Washington,'
I his great gdandaughter, Miss Mary !
i Louise Stewart unveiling it in 1914. 1
It required two years of expert- i
, mental work by Dr. Gorrie to bring
forth a sample of artificial ice,
when during the yellow fever epi
demic of 1852 it was in great de
mand.
He did not have sufficient
■ means to market and went to New
York in an attempt to interest
1 capitalists. He obtained a patent,
but met with little enthusiasm and
’ so returned to Florida.
While on board ship during his
New Pork trip Dr. Gorrie impart-
■ ed his formula to a Frenchman
named Currie, and two years after t
the inventor’s death the Frenchman I
was acclaimed the savior of man- j
kind when he suceessfuly placed ;
the product on the market.
Friends of Dr. Gorrie investigat
ed, only to find that the former
patent had disappeared, and that I
the formula of Currie was almost '
identical with the Gorrie formula. |
I Friends of Dr. Gorrie in Florida I
were much disturbed, but took res
’ titution in the fact that his name
i and likeness repose in records of
j fame in the nation’s capital.
NEWEST SHRINE HOSPITAL
SHOWN IN THE MOVIES
ATLANTA, Aug. 2.—Membors ;
of the Mystic Shrine in Atlanta I
and many parts ot the south are
interested in news films which are
being shown this week on the dedi
cation exercises of the Shreveport,
La., unit of the Shriners Hospital
for Crippled Children, which occur
red about the middle of April.
Past Potentate Forrest Adair, of
Atlanta, secretary of the national
board of trustes of the Shriener’s
hospitals, who was instrumental in
locating the hospital at Shreveport,
. Illustrious Potentate Bayne Gib
! son , past Potentate Henry C. ■
i Heinz and Noble Malcolm Turnei
; represented Yaarab Tenjple at the !
! dedication exercises.
The Shreveport unit is rnodled
after the Scottish Rite Hospital for
I Crippled Children in Atlanta, and
, was the first of the big chain ot
i Shriners’ hospitals to be completed 1
' and put into operation. As a re-
sult of its work surgeons have cor
rected the deformities of many
poor little children and sent them
home to grow up as useful citizens.
ELLAVILLE TEACHERS
ACCEPT NEW PLACES
ELLAVILLE, August 2 Ai
I number of Ellaville and Schley i
county teachers have recently ac- *
cepted positions with the faculties ■
of different schools in this section, i
among these being the following: i
Miss Jewell Jordan and Miss '
Nina McMahan, Broxton.
Miss Mary Edgar Hart. Ebenezer.
T. M.. Strange and Mrs. Edwin
Stewart, Glen Holley.
J. L. Duncan and Miss Mary
Tondee, Fellowship.
Miss Rena Lee Walters and Miss
i Myrtle Thetford, Concord.
Miss Doris Arrington, Ideal.
Misses Minnie and Ora Reid,
j Junction City.
Miss Myrtle Mott, Muscogee
1 cuunty schools.
Miss Nell Livingston, music,
Junction City.
Miss Louise Walters, Miss Hat-1
ti e Arrington. Miss Leila William
son, Mrs. J. H. Robinson and Miss
Bessie Lou Lightner, Ellaville Hi I
WHERE DO YOU FIND
GOODS AND PRICES AS
ADVERTISED?
. Fat hens this week 20c lb.
Sweet Potatoes .. . 50c Pk.
' Fresh Country Eggs 35c doz.
Choice cuts Beef, Po.k, Veal,
; Hams, Bacon, all the time-
Mellow Pears, Apples and
Bananas
Sweet Milk 10c and 15c
Follow the crowd to
BRAGG’S MARKET
Our Phone 181
FOR QUICK SERVICE AND
HEAVY HAULING PHONE 121
WOOTTEN TRANSFER CO.
Office in Americus Steam Laun
dry
SOUTH JACKSON STREET
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