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PAGE FOUR MOVEMENT STtBTED TO MO SCHOOL DEPT. Sumter Rural Children Want Technical Man to Serve Vari ous Consolidated Schools A movement has been started by Sumter county school authorities to raise the standard of rural schools in this county by- the addition of a technical expert who would teach the boys “how to put together a steam engine, run a tractor, weld iron, shoe a horse, and build a plow stock.” Tht? quotation is from the statement of J. E. D. Shipp, chair man of the county school board, who is an ardent advocate of the plan. Under the tentative plan being ad vocated such expert would visit one of the six largest consolidated schools each day in the week, when classes would be conducted in this branch of industrial education. . Such a man, it is estimated, would cost the county schools approxi mately $1,500 a year, and it is hoped through the operation of the Barrett-Rogers act, half of this sum may be procured from the general government. The matter has been taken up with N. H. Ballard, state school superintendent and he is ex pected to aid in the effort to in stall this course here, the installa tion to mark a departure from past custom in Georgia’s rural schools. In presenting the matter to Super intendent Ballard, in a letter written Thursday, Chairman Shipp, of the county board, among other things, said: “Thesq schools are the jewels of Sumter county and we are just as proud of them as if they were big Kimberly diamonds; but my dear Superintendent there is one great desideratum; we want a teacher to go to the six largest consolidated schools one day in every week to teach the boys how to put together a steam engine, run a tractor, weld iroji, shoe a horse and build a plow stock. “What we propose is that we can employ a good technical man for Fifteen hundred dollars per annum, and that as Sumter county already is at the highest tension, that it seems possible for us to pay seven hundred'fifty dollars of this salary, and weiwant the Barrett-Rogers fund to Bay the other one-half of it. Just think of the untold advantages that would come to us if we could take the boys in the sixth grade and teach them mechanics one day in the week foj five years, or until they graduate in our public schools. “I have tried to get Mr. Hill to work this thing up for us and with us. He is in the office at this time and he qdvised that this letter be written to you because he thinks that if jrpu want us to have it real bad you will find away to get it for us. But Mr. Hill thinks that out of the Rogers-Barrett act, because Sumter County is already getting about $2,000 a year, that it would be difficult for us to get any more, but it seems to me that if you would start this thing up with us that it would be of such tremendous bene fit that the idea would be seized in every other county in the state and it would make Georgia a great man ufacturing state and nothing else would do this so well. “The education of our boys has been along different lines and while Sumter County has now taken the lead and offers to do this by paying one-half of the teacher’s salary it seems to me that you might be per suaded to make up the other and meet us half way. “You could, at any rate, accede to any other county the same priv ileges and you would find it diffi- I Jfofcy / I - p7hj <Hy 'U Filth and disease all house flies r\ freight, 1 h Germ s on t h ei r feet aco u in ulate, I SPRA Y DEVILMENT— / EXTERMINATE— The Deadly Fly. You can rid your home of flies, mosquitoes moths, ants, bedbugs. etc.. quickly and easily by spraying Walker's Devilment. Don't "swat the fly." Spray Walker's Devilment and sweep them out. It is easy to use. It ia unfailing in re sults. Doth your drugr stand your grocer have it instock. SPRAY WALKERS DEVILMENT FOR INSECTS j I- ' Its a killer iffy Harmless humans Vil'i Boz. BOTTLES tEK/X-4 j£jU also-quart-gauon ANO -FIVE GALLON CANS ft W' H SOUTHERN SPECIALTY C 0» Thomasville. Ga. If unable to buy from your local dealer, »end $1.35 for one quart sample and nand sprayer. By Edmuhd shell. itiwsr rated by This' unusual series of stories deals with the exploits of “Chi nese’” Pennington, a detective sent by his government to Bri tish North Borneo to run to earth The Yellow Seven, a gang of Chinese bandits. James Varney's bungalow was a landmark. It it stood on the Summit of a hill at the foot of which the turbit Tembakut river -—sweeping from some mysterious point of origin in the Borneo hint erland—swerved abruptly and, i leaving in its wake a muddy delta infested with crocodiles, contin ued its onward course to the sea. Varney knew that river and he charted it as accurately as it was possible to chart anything in the lesser-known regions of a perplex ing Orient. He understood the habits and customs of the Dyak villagers whose dwellings clustered along the palm-girt banks. It was possibly for these reasons that a discriminating syndicate in London —had seen fit to entrust him with their interests. Varney was thirty-seven; he was short, moreover, and stockly bulit, with a rugged, kindly con tenance upon which the tropical sun had set its unmistakable sign and superscription. He had a dog—a shambling, friendly ani mal of unknown breed—an exten sive library of faded, cloth-bound books, and a marked preference for Dutch tobacco. Varney—who despised all other forms of person al adornment—had from time to time solicited the aid of the most skilled t'atooer on the lisland—one Zara-Khan—and, excepting for a space the size of a dinner-plate on his broad chest a corresponding vacancy between his shoulders, his body was covered with the grim masterpiece of Zara-Khan. Before the cyclone came, Var ney had been worrying over those two bank spaces. Zara-Kahn—a tall, slim, brown-skinned scoun> dr6l, with an ingratiating smile, a gaudy turban, and a suit of white ducks—had looked in on one of hjs periodical visits to Varney’s area. He had passed to a neighboring rubber estate, hoping on the re turn journey to find his lucrative client less exercised in mind. Com ing swiftly on the heels of aper fect tropic afternoon, the storm fiend had spread its cloak over the entire heavens. It .seemed that nothing short of a miracle could have spared Var neys’ house; but, as luck would have it, the frenzy of the gale had merely lifted the sage-thatch un til 5t stood on end, allowing the ensuing deluge to pour in; had, deposited Varney's dog in the river a couple of hundred yards away, and left half the crockery in the bungalow intact. The more sheltered buildings—offices, clerks quarters, store-houses, and the like, had crumpled, like a pack of cards. cult to get any other county in the state to offer to pay one-half of the salary, because they have not been educated up to it and it will be a long time before 160 counties in Georgia would be willing to put money in teaching their boys any thing more than is embraced in the three R’s.| Sumter county stands squarely on the three H’s now and we are expecting and extremely anxious that you tind some way to help us in this proposition.” JNASH MARKETS Picnic Hams ... 15c Extra Good Steak . 171 c Nice Beef Roast . . ISc Kingan’s Bacon-Squares 2Oc Extra Nice Pork Roast . 2Oc Brisket Stew . . . lOc Whole Ham-Saturday Only 29c NASH MARKETS ! Chang—the dog—had crawled I back to the veranda and crouched \ : in a corner over a chunk of raw ' meat pillaged from a ruined store.' | Varney, returned from a prelimin-1 .ary investigation of damage, was! greeting the imminent fall of I darkness through a tumbler of am- ; [her fluid wherein countless silver j bubbles scurried merrily upward, | ; A half-dazed Chinese boy—bare i ;to the waist—endeavored from a ' .complete packet of matches to dis-i ’cover one that would serve to ig-' nite the wick of the oillamp. Some- ! i thing sputtered feebly, then leapt into flame and the servant emitt-1 ed a grunt of satisfaction. The Chinaman shuffled beyond the rays of the lamp; the dog growled with sudden fierceness • and bounded toward the entrance, where the trader intercepted it skillfully—and, as if tossed by an unseen hand over the veranda-rail 1 j a piece of pasteboard fluttered j through the crpwd of humming in-1 I sects that encircled the lamp and I came to rest on the sodden j , bpards almost at Varney’s feet.' I Varney raised his Voice. “Chong-Hee! Come here! Go 1 down and see who’s porwling around outside.” I lie stooped and picked up the card. It was as long as his middle ■ finger—a narrow, flexible thing with rounded corners. He turned ! it over curiously between his sing- I ers—then starter back in horrified amazement. “The Yellow Seven!” A second later he was turning i over a jumbled heap of moist , documents, searching for the cir cular he had received only two days before from Captain John Hewitt—Commissioner of Police at Jesselton—a kind of formal warning that this yellow seven was the sign employed by a powerful | secret organization—and that its i receipt signified a warning of I death! He hooked forward a chair and, I pouring himself out a generous (helping from the square bottle, ex amined the document and the card' in turn. Presently he folded the docu ment carefully over the paste board and, thrusting both into a tunic pocket, leant back in his chair. It was fully ten minutes before Chonge-Hee returned. He stood : |on the threshold, shivering like a man with the ague, and Varney i beckoned him to approach. ‘I saw nobody, great tuan, but I heard the voice of a spirit.” The trader started. “The voice of a spirit?” he echoed. 5 ah, tuan. It was a powerful spirit for its words rose above the wind in the trees and the flow ing of the river.” “Ah!” The trader set his back firmly against the wall and stuck both hands into his pockets. “And the spirit said?” “I have come with a message for . the white man who lives on the ! hill and who—up to a point—is good.” “Exeremely kind of him, I’m sure.! Go on!” Bargains in filing cabinets at j Southern Printers. 31-lt I ; 666 quickly relieves Constipa tion, Riiiousness, Head«?hes, Colds and LaGnppe. adv. THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER LEHONIIMRES Will BOOST EOS GUM Delegation to San Francisco Meeting Plans to Advertise State Throughout Nation COLUMBUS, Ga„ Aug. 31. Georgia as a state will be boosted by the Georgia delegation attend ding the national convention of the American Legion in San Fran cisco in October and more than 100,1)00 pieces of literature will be distributed, it was announced here following a meeting of the special state publicity committee of the American Legion. The committee decided to allow every community to send as mtuiy individual pieces of two kinds of their literature as is desired. In addition they will have printed 50,000 copies of a broadside, showing a large Georgia peach on one side and the other devoted to facts about Georgia as a state. The large peach, in colors, will attract the attention of many thousands attracted to Frisco for the national meeting of veterans. The broad sides, in addition to being posted about the convention headquarters and other places the veterans will gather, will be distributed from a Georgia Peach booth. The Georgia Peach will be built in the shape of a peach and within will be two Georgia “peaches,” th most beautiful to be found, who will distribute the broadsides and the booklets and literature from the communities. In addition to the distribution at San Francisco, the Georgia Legionnaires will dis tribute thousands of booklets en route and on their return. State Commander Edgar B. Dunlap is interested in the project as he sees an excellent opportun ity to make the publicity project put Georgia before thousands of young men who have not definitely settled down jn any community and who are looking for a place with plenty of opportunities. The' slogan over the peach will ■probably be: “Come to Georgia, Veteran,” Posts of the American Legion in Georgia are asked to send sgugestion to the committee Box 864, Columbus, Ga. HELPS PREVENT NERVOUSNESS Even heels prevent shocks to the Spinal Cords. Ask your doctor. Let us fix yours. JENNINGS BROS. F inest Shoe Repairing and Rea! Dry Cleaning Phone "Seben-r o'-Nine” Fat Stew Beef? with that rich gravy on potatoes, grits or rice? And veal stew to make chicken pie of? I here is nothing better Choice cuts of steaks, pork and mutton chops. M!k and honey and other good eatables. YOU GET IT AT BRAGG’S Phone 181 —• i - r. There’s a ROGERS Store near you Snh c Fuc hon Isa C erf aunty Saturday, September First A MIGHTY GOOD TIME TO START SAVING t 5 lbs. Fresh I Fancy Grits . ■ 1O Quaker Oats, 10" j Q ua^er 10c 5 lbs. Fancy O O Full Head Rice . Sugar Crisp Corn Flakes 9hn I Cream of Wheat 71 p 3 For .... , j p kg , 10 Bars Large Size Octagon Soap . OU Post Bran, 19,- Kellogg’s Bran, 1 7f> Flakes, Pkg- 13L Pkg. 13U Rogers’ Fancy New Crop F* Peas, No. 2 Can . . I No. 3 Can Del Monte I No. an on^e 71 n Fruit Salad j Fruit Salad 31L Gold Seal Butter /I Q Found .... Eagle Brand 91 n * Tropical Palm Soap, 9Cn Mill Zeil j 6 For have added to our FLOUR White Lily Self-Rising French’s Mustard, 15-oz. Jar Asst. 2| g 24 lb. Sack White Lily 111 FLOUR, Selfrising . . I e 11 Nc. 2 Can Grated W ' No. 2 Can Sliced 91 ~ Pineapple| Pineapple 311 24 Pounds White Lily Plain FLOUR . . I.UZ Wesson Oil, Fancy Lemons, 9£z> Pint Can Dozen 24 lb. Sack Surenuff Selfrising OZ* FLOUR .... OO 10 Pounds Ice Cream lip Fancy Fresh Eggs, OR -» Sait liL Dozen 24 lb. Sack Pillsbury “J Plain FLOUR . . J e Vi/ Rogers’ Bread, F Whole Wheat Bread 13-oz. Loaf uv 13-oz. Loaf * C No. 10 Pail /IO Pure Lard . . 1 b4<s Fancy Peaches, 91 n Fancy Prunes, 1R Pound Alt Pound OE* Pound Sack O 1E - SUGAR 2.15 10-Pound Sack Whole ££., I Sweet Mixed Pickle, Uvl I Pound HjC 100 lb. Sack q e? ROGERS’ DAIRY FEED . Home Baked Cake s For Saturday 100 lb. Sack <-> ■■■« ROGERS’ HEN FEED . . 209 Forsyth St. ! 10 N. Jackson St. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 31. 1923