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times-recorder
PUBLISHED 1879
Published by
The Times-Recorder Co., (Inc.)
Lovelace Eve, Editor and Publisher
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A Thought
Better it is that it be said un
to thee, Come up hither, than
that thou shouldst be put lower
the presence of the prince whom
thine eyes have seen. —Prov. 27:7.
Whenever you see a man who
is successful in society, try to
discover what makes him pleas
ing and if possible adopt his sys
tem.—Beaconsfield.
SON SHOWS DAD HOW
TO RAISE PORKERS.
Ermon Haag of Larned, Kansas,
member of the Pawnee County Pig
Club fed a barrow as his 1922 pro
ject, and by good care and prop
er feeding for one hundred and
twenty days, he put 310 pounds on
it, or an average of 2.6 pounds per
day. His father had a herd of
about the same breeding. The boy’s
barrow was a pure bred Poland
China, and the father’s were high
grades of the same breed. The
latter were made to rustle for their
feed, and a typical barrow of his
group gained seventy-five pounds,
or .62 pounds per day during the
same period.
“I consider that the lad’s pig
~beflt the father’s because it was
given better care when small, also
because the boy kept it free from
lice and worms, while the father’s
were infected with both,” says
(ar] L. Howard, Pawnee County
Agent and Pig Club leader. “The
boy’s hog was given all the grain it
■ could eat and all the skim milk it
could drink, while the father’s pig
was limited on grain and had no
milk.”
The lad’s account at the end of
his project stood as follows:
Pig, 100 lbs, at .07, $7.00; 1 bu
corn at .70, $5.95 2 lbs tankage,
at 03 1-2, .70; 1-2 bu. wheat at
•SO, .40; 920 lbs. milk, at .50 $1.60
Oil for pig, .05; Total cost of pig
$18.72.
The lad sold the pig on a poor
market getting only $5.75 per
cwt. he pig weighed 410 pounds
which at $5.75 amounted to $23.75
leaving a profit of $4.85.
Old dogs are learning new
tricks,” from the pig club boys
and girls these day,s and many
farmers are witnessing the fulfill
ment of the prediction that “A lit
tle child shall lead them.”
WOODROW WILL
VS. SHAKESPEARE.
How many words do you know
the meaning of? The average per
son can read and understand from
8000 to 10,000 different words.
Dr. Frank H. Vietelly makes this
estimate. He’s managing editor of
the New Standard Dictionary.
Quite different matter is the
number of words we have at the
tip of our tongues and use in talk
ing, compared with words we grasp
when we read them.
' cry few of us use more than
7000 words in talking, according
to some authorities who have
checked up.
Shakespeare’s vocabulary includ
ed about 24,000 words.
Woodrow Wilson, in 75 speech
es used 6221 words, and Dr. Vize
telly estimates that Wilson in his
writing used a vocabulary of at
least 60,000 words.
Words change style the same as
Dr. Vizetelly comments.
He illustrates by pointing out that
the sport who wore a silk shirt was
formerly called a dude, but the
word “dude” has gone out of style,
now that the rank and file of the
People can afford silk shiits.
Changing word styles are more
evident in slang. “p ut on a litt]e
speed” changed to “Make it
snappy,” then to “Jazz it up ”
Once she was a ‘ flirt,” now a
■vamp.” The “cop” of a former
generation now is called a “bull.”
In another century no one will
be able to read one of George
Ades “Fables In Slang” and under
stand it without using a slang dic
tionary, for slang rapidly becomes
obsolete and forgotten.
Most of the short stories by O.
Henry aer similarly handicapped.
Richard Huelot compiled the
first dictionary in 1552. The sup
ply of words has grown enormous
ly since then. Contemplate a
modern dictionary, growing rapid
. Iy to suitcase size though printed
in small type on thin paper, and it
is hard to believe that such a maze
of words are made up of varying
• combinations of only 26 letters of
the alphabet.
The finest shades of emotion,
the infinite ramifications of hu
manl thought, as well as every
thing in our dimensional material
world—all these can be expressed
accurately and graphically by
changes in the mathematical ar
rangement of 26 alphabetical
letters.
The simple little alphabet is
right up near the head of the list
of greatest inventions.
DRUNK FOR
SIX YEARS.
Guinea pigs that have been
drunk six days a week for six
years are being studied by scient
ists of Cornell University Medi
cal College. They get their jag by
inhaling alcohol fumes much
more potent than drinking, for the
intoxicant reaches them, through
their lungs.
Worse and more of it, these
drunken guinea pigs seem not to
be injured by their chronic drunk
enness. They are as heavy as pro
hibition guinea pigs, also as
healthy, and live as long.
But the alcohol takes its toll in
the second generation.
Few' offspring are born to the
alcoholics, and the ones that are
born are decidedly inferior to the
offspring of abstainers.
The third generation of guinea
pigs, born from hard drinking an
cestors, are better than the sec
ond generation, but not up to nor
mal.
The fourth generation, however,
puzzle John Barleycorn’s enemies.
For, while only hardy ones live, the
survivors are stronger, heavier and
more alert than guinea pigs whose
ancestors indulged not in the fiery
cup.
All of this, of course, is a sort
of post mortem on J. Barleycorn,
an attempt by scientists' to learn
the truth about alcohol’s effects
in heredity. About 7000 guinea
pigs have, to date, been used in
the experiments.
It’s too early in the game to
make definite announcements. But
it begins to look as if the experi
ments show that alcoholism is bad
for individuals but that it may
benefit the race by weeding out
the unfit —eliminating weaklings
early in life or preventing their
birth altogether.
Dr. Charles R. Stockard, head
of the Cornell guinea pig invesi
gators, say:
“Should any one deside to apply
these experimental results to the
human alcohol problem, it might
be claimed that some such elimin
ation of unfit individuals has bene
fited the races of Europe, since all
of the dominant races have a def
inite alcoholic history, and the ex
cessive use of alcohol was decided
ly more general three or four gen
erations ago than it is today.”
Similarly, it will be at least
three generations before the ef
fects ,of liquor prohibition can be
estimated with accuracy. The ef
fect on our generation will be
much less than on our descen
dants.
SAVINGS EXPRESS
THRIFT OF COUNTRY.
An increase of more than $682,-
000,000 in one year in the amount
of savings on deposit in the Unit
ed States is reported by the sav
ings bank division of the American
Bankers Association whose annual
compilation for the fiscal year
ended June 30, 1922 has just been
published, as it requires about a
year to gather and compile the
data from all of the institutions
which receive savings deposits, ac
cording to the well informed Man
ufacturer’s Record.
This exhibit of thrift is splendid
evidence of the progressive char
acter of a large portion of our
population, especially in view of
the fact that the aggregate of sav
ings deposits is more than $17,-
300,000,000. There was also an
increase of very nearly 5 per cent
in the number oi savings deposi
tors during the same year and it
is also shown that the number of
school children having savings de
posits increased from about 803,-
000 to more than 1,271,000 in the
same period.
The total deposits are distrib
uted among the several classes of
institutions as follow: Mutual sav
ings banks, $5,696,439,000; State
banks and Trust Companies, $7,-
530,292,000; National banks, $4,-
074,281,000. There are 621 mutu
al savings banks with average de
posits of $590 in seventeen states;
the number of state banks is 20,-
308 and trust companies, 1489 in
twenty-eight states, with average
savings deposit of $503; the num
ber of national banks in the coun
try is 8235, with average savings
deposit of $334. It is to be noted
that in most of the states there are
no mutual savings banks, hence the
small number reporting. Alto
gether there are 30,323,320 sav
ings deposited accounts in the
United States, an increase of 3,-
685,489 during the year.
W hen we learn how hungry a
bear is, we can tell you how
hungry camping out makes peo
ple.
| OLD DAYS L\ AMERICUS
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(Fro mthe Times-Recorder. Au
gust 9, 1903.)
A realty deal reported yesterday
was the sale of the Joe Brown prop
erty on Brannon avenue to Mr. H.
C. Horton. Mr. Brown goes to
Columbus to reside, hence the sale
Mr. Horton paid $l,lOO for the
dwelling, an advance of S3OO upon
the original cost of sometime ago.
William Speer, the fifteen year
old son of Mr. Ed C. Speer had the
misfortune to break his left arm
near the shoulder yesterday.
After a pleasant stay of some
length at Tate Springs, Tenn., Mrs.
L. D. Lockhart has gone to Way
nesville, N. C., where she will spend
the remainder of the summer sea
son.
Miss Martha Wheatley has re
turned from an extended visit to
Macon, much to the delight of her
many friends.
UnUder the soft rays of the Au
gust moon a party of young people
journeyed to Myrtle Springs Fri
day, where till we small hours
they reveled in the beauties of the
popular resort. The fete was in
honor of Miss Verna Munn., a
charming young lady of Columbus,
who is the guest of her aunt, Mrs.
Eugene Sheahan.
Mrs. Eula L. Hollis has gone to
Fayetteville and Asheville, N. C.,
to spend some time the guest of her
sister, Mrs. Maultsby.
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From the Times-Recorder. Au
gust 9, 1893.)
Miss Mamie Hillman, of Athens,
and Miss Rosa Long, of Macon, are
visiting at the residence of their
grandmother, Mrs. M. E. Jossey, at
her home' on Lamar street.
Mr. and Mrs. George H. Fields,
accompanied by Mr. and Mrs.
Philpot and Mrs. Wilder, of Albany
went out to Magnolia Springs yes
terday where they will spend a
week.
Another bale of new cotton was
brought in yesterday by Mr. C. P.
Brady and stored with Messrs.
Johnson & Harrold. It weighed
637 and was classed as low mid
dling.
Yesterday County School Com
missioner W. S. Moore conducted
“’-S Daily Poem B „ tM % ra , ey
CASTLES
7 he castles of marble or granite stand fast
Tor ages, but finally crumble.
The wind and the weather destroy them at last
And over their ruins we stumble.
I hough high be the battlements, thick be the wall,
7 hough lofty their chambers and splendid,
let sooner or later they topple and fall
And all of their splendor is ended.
01., men must build castles of iron and stone
To house their material glories,
Stiong castles whose beauty and wonder are known
And told in the bravest of sories;
Yet these, too, shall pass as the centuries beat
Against their great bastions and towers,
And they shall be dust ’neath humanity’s feet
In ages far distant from ours.
The castles of granite and steel fade away,
But ever more brillinatly gleaming
Out dream castles stand with their parapets gay
And all of their bannerets streaming;
No foe can destroy them, time storms them in vain,
They' glow with enchantment supernal,
The castles of stone turn to dust of the plain,
But Castles in Air are eternal.
TOM SIMS SA YS:
Be good this hot weather Jail
is too confining.
United we sit.
A crowd to the wives is not
sufficient.
Nothing is as deadly as a mos
quito. He murders sleep.
Having cold feet doesn’t
keep you cool in August.
Judge says a man can marry
on S9O a month. We say he can
if she doesn’t know about it.
The mad college graduate in
forms us several men working
under him make more than he
does.
THREE SMILES
Just So. I
Old Lady: “What’s that awful
smell?”
Farmer: “That’s the fertilizer
we’re puttin’ on the field yonder”
Old Lady: “For the land’s sake!”
Former; “Yes, ’m.”
—Wheeling News. [
Unreasonable Question.
Exhibiting intense irritation, the !
schoolteacher flounced into the
home of Pattrick Hogan, Sr.
“It’s about that son of yours,”
she complained. “He was very ini
pertinent to me today. I asked him
why and he replied rudely that he j
didn’t give a hoot.”
The father studied ponderously. |
THE AMERICUS
the examination of three young
ladies who had presented themselv-i
es for admission to the Girls Nor
mal and Industrial school ata Mil
ledgeville, and three bright and am
bittious girls will represent Sum
ter at Milledgeville the next ses
sion. They were Misses Lillie Mc-
Garrah, of Americus, Josie Jerni
ga nand Camilla Derrick of Plains.
Miss Ora Brooks, the charming
daughter of Mr. T. S. Brooks of
Macon county,' is in the city, the
guest of Miss Dora Williams.
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
(From the Times-Recorder. Au
gust 9, 1913.)
When a wagon carrying four
bales of cotton rolled in from the
country yesterday and unloaded at
the Council warehouse the news
went forth that cotton was count
ing in by the wagon load. It tran
spired, however, that it was a lot
of old cotton which the owner, a
Mr. Hart, of Schley county, had
carried over.
A big business this fall is what
the Pinkston Company is expecting,
and their buyers, Messrs. Brown
McLendon and Walter Page, are
already in New York busily engag
ed in selecting the choicest and
most varied stock of fall goods that
can be secured for the large circle
Mr. Thomas B. Hooks has pur
of customers, of that popular firm,
chased the interests of Dr. E. L.
Murray in the drug business here
tofore conducted under the style of
Hooks Pharmacy. The business,
Mr. Hooks announced last night
would for the present be under the
management of Glenn Hooks, who
assumes this new duty tomorrow.
Little Miss Ann Walker cele
brated her birthday on Saturday af
ternoon of last week inviting a
number of her friends to a pretty
party at the home of her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Walker on Lee
street. Punch was served on the
porch by Miss Mary Walker and
Miss Fannie Furlow.
Miss Mary Alice Lingo was hos
tess on Wednesday afternoon at an
enjoyable rook party, complimen
tary to her guest, Miss Louise
I Blackwell, of Columbus, and Miss
Ethel Ryals, of Macon.
Bootleggers are too Busy to
take their vacations now.
Very few trains have been
knocked off the track in the an
nual drive against them by
autos.
Los Angeles race horse man
is seeing ghedts. May be just the
ghost of a chance.
Weeds are keeping out let
tuce from getting a head.
Days are getting shorter, but
the hot ones are not short
enough.
We like winter better than
summer because fh’e° J on’t.
Wonder if you throw rocks
at a girl in knickerbockers?
i “Well,” he replied at length.
’ what of that? Who does?”
Sounded Difficult.
Down in Texas the short cotton
crop forced a large number of ne
groes to the cities. One of them
[applied for a job at one of the large
j employment agencies.
There s a job at the Eagle Laun
dry, said the man behind the desk.
“Want it?”
lhe applicant shifted uneasily
from one foot to the other.
“Tell you how it is, boss” he
said finally. “ I sure does want a
job mighty bad, but de faek it, I
.ain’t never washed a eagle,”—The
p P enßoa d<
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CtASSIFIEDAWEmSEMENTS
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. H. 0.
JONES. 14-ts
WANTED—-To protect you, your
family and your property. Frank
E. Matthews, Insurance. 18-ts
LOANS on farm lands au.d city
property. Low interest rate.
Loans promptly closed. See S. R.
Heys or H. B. Williams. Phones 48
or 52.
ROOFINGV—Phone 117—SHIVER
Johns-Manville ROOFING, roof j
coating, roof cement, creosote,
roof paint. ts
E. W. Horne, Jr. ‘
FOR SALE —A-No. 1 Grade Reg-!
ular Second Sheets, 8 1-2 by 11
inches, special per thousand, sl.
The Times-Recorder Job Printing
Department.—22-ts.
FARM LOAN MONEV plentiful at i
cheap interest rate and on easy :
terms. W. W. Dykes. 9-ts ‘
PH QNE 117—JOHN W. SHIVER
for SCREENS, for home or of-'
fice. 27-ts ■
t
STOLEN—Tuesday afternoon at
Americus playground during ball
game, Ford touring car, motor No.
6570528; two holes in top over front
seat; windshield cracked lengthwise
in top section; back bow of top
broken on right-hand side; rim dim
ly scarred by collision with tree;
back wheels have Goodyear cord
tires; front wheels. Miller tires;
Liberal reward if returned to Frank
Timmerman, Plains, Ga., or for in
formation leading to recovery.
’ 26-ts.
Mrs. James Lott.
FOR RENT—My home, No. 11l ’
Taylor St., for 1 year. Posses
sion Sept. Ist. Phone 854. Mrs. J. J.
Holliday. 26-ts
$5,000 TO LOAN
On Americus
Residence Property
LEWS ELLIS
Phone 830
Mrs. Ernestine Sykes.
LOANS made on improved farm !
lands at cheapest rates for term of
5,7 or 10 years with pre-payment j
option given. Money secured '
promptly. We have now outstanding i
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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THURSDAY AFTERNOON. AUGUST 9, 192 3
FOR RENT—Dr. Burroughs home,
122 E. College St. Apply Miss
Mary Rochester, Sumter Hotel. 6-ts
PHONE 117—JOHN W. SHIVER
BEST GRADE RED CEDAR, No.
1 and No. 2 PINE SHINGLES 27-ts
FOR SALE—One baby carriage in
good condiiton, cheap. Can be
seen at 117 E. Lamar street.—dh
Mrs. C. B. Veates.
LOST—Canary bird. Rward if re
turned to Times-Recordcr. 9-lt
SCREENING our spe
cialty. We make new
and repair furniture.
Americus Screen Mfg.
Co. Phone-73. s’tf
i ——
LOST Blue silk umbrella with am- i
ber handle and tips. Notify Beat
rice Parker, 613 Elm Avenue, or
Mr. Smith at playground. 7 4t
DR. S. F. STAPLETON
VETERINARIAN
Office in Chamber of Commerce
Phone 8
Residence Phone 171
Mrs. C. W. Henderson.
RAILROAD schedule
A.rrival and Departure of Passenger
Trains, Americus, Ga.
The following schedule figures
3 üblished as information and not
guaranteed:
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RY.
Arrive Lej-e-j
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
1:55 pm Alb’y-Montg’y 2:14 pm
2:14 pm Macon-Atla’ta 1 : 55 pm
10:15 am Columbus 3:15 pm
6:37 am Albany 7:21 pm
I 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 ani
3:45 am Cin & Atlanta 1;35 am
SEABOARD AIR LINE
(Central Time)
i Arrive Departs
10:05 am Cordele-Hel’na 5:15 pm
I 12:26 pm Cols-M’t’g’y 3:10 pm
t 3:10 pm Cordelc-Savh 12:26 pm
I 5:15 »» Richland-Cols 10 ; 05 an.
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The Planters Bankiof Americus
(Incorporated)
PERSONAL
SERVICE
department in this
bank, which is the largest un
i’il Tff Ja EmljWwl der state supervision in
Southwest Georgia, i 9 or.
MfgS? ?i if If if I" panized and maintained to
5* g> ve our customers that help-
II I?•BHmJ co-operation and advice
y '* ■» ? h,ch 18 natural to expect
M'lw iIF from so substantial a bank-
lng institu t*on.
We believe it wall be to
"** n*~ J y our advantage to get better
acquainted with this bank
of personal service.
The Bank With a larpiQ.
RESOURCES OVER $1,700,000
PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE. ACCOMMODATING
No Account Too Large; None Too Small
FOR RENT—lmmediate possession,
offices recently occupied ny
Chamber of Commerce. Steam heat
and every convenience: Ground
floor. One of the best locations in
Americus. Americus Automobile Co.
8-
FOR SALE CHEAP—Pair of Howe
Platform Wagon Scales. Capacity
6 000 lbs. Harrold Bros. Phone 2.
4-6 t
WOOD FOR SALE—Four-foot split
pine and stove wood. S. R. Heys.
6-10 t
WANTED TO RENT—Used two or
three-burner oil stove. Phone 430.
9-
IF YOU ARE NOT getting the At
lanta Georgian, Constitution or
Macon Telegraph, phone 760. 9-3 t
FOR SALE CHEAP—Four-room
house, West Church street. Apply
H. W. Suggs, Phone 546. 7-4 t
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PLANTS
Phone 99
Marion Cook.
FOR RENT—Two connecting un
furnished rooms, private entrance
in Brooklyn Heights. Rent very rea
sonable. Apply 621 Park Row.
6-tf-dh
Genuine Gillette Razors
1 4 Kt. Gold Plated
on Sale Saturday
98c
Americus Drug
• Company