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TIMES-RE CORDER
Pt’SUSHED 1879
' Published by
The Times-Recorder Co., (Inc.)
Lovelace Eve, Editor and Publishei
JCntered as aecond class matter at the postoffice
■t Americus, Georgia, according la the Act *of
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A Thought |
For the wind passeth over it,
and it is gone; and the place
thereof shall know it no more.—
Ps. 103:16.
History fades into fable; fact
becomes clouded with doubt and
controversy; the inscription
moulders from the tablet; the
?tatuo falls from the pedestal;
Columns, arches, pyramids, what
are they but heaps of sand, and
their epitaphs but characters
written in the dust.—Washing
ton Irving.
MORE THAN
$1,500,000 CIRCULATING
IN SUMTER COUNTY.
Men have no time and little sym
pathy for the “born pessimist” or
the “quitter,” but to the sane op
timist and a fighter every consid
eration and respect is shown.
The moment a pessimist or a
quitter enters a crowd, it begins
to disintegrate. We haven’t time
to listen to their woes. On the oth
er hand, that man who is eternally
scrapping to get on top is shown
courtesies and favors even in the
face of his failures.
Sometimes we set our stakes too
high, and because they are too
high, our expectations are not real
ized and the pessimist begins
to howl.
“Things are never as bad as they
seem,” is an old saw usually a true
one. Maybe we won’t produce as
much cotton this year as last, in
fact we will not. But suppose the
crop is 12,000,000 bales, that with
the seed, at present prices, is good
for about a million and a half dol
lars.
If that million and a half dollars
is carefully and judiciously spent,
cancelling out debts and replen
ishing pur needs here and there,
why get the blues and cuss the cat?
One of our local bankers writes
the Times-Recorder this week an
optimistic letter along this line of
thought. He says:
“At the present prices of cotton
and cotton seed, 12,000 bales of '
cotton with the seed will bring
more, than $1,500,000. If we
can put that amount of money
into circulation in this county
and it in circulation, it is
almost impossible to estimate the
amount of indebtedness that it
will liquidate.
“I believe that we should try
to impress upon the people, the
■ importance of keeping our
money in circulation, and Sum
ter county money should be
kept in circulation in Sumter
County.
“It: is alarming when we think
of the amount of money that has
been sent out of this county
this year in payment of products
and farm supplies, which should
have been produced in Sumter
county. It will take 7,000 or
8,000 bales of cotton, or nearly
three-fourths of a million dol
lars to pay for the feed which
has been shipped into this coun
ty this year, and used by our
farmers in making this crop, and
yet we are told that cotton is the
only money crop.
“I know of a few farmers over
county who have good pastures
full of pure bred live stock, their
yards full of pure bred poultry,
plenty of all kinds of feed) in
crops and these farmers are not
worrying about their indebted
ness and very few of their farms
are in the long loans.
“Nothing but hard work, diver
sification, economy and co-oper
ation will ever pay off this enor
mous amount of indebtedness in
Georgia.
“We will have to quit borrow
ing money to spend.
“The press can do as much or
more than any other agency or
institution in creating this desire
among the people,
“Georgians are sending hun
dreds of millions of dollars out i
of the state every year in pay
.ment of product:- or commodi- I
ties which can be produced as
well in Georgia, and of as good
quality, as can be produced in ■
any section in America. Can we
continue to do this and keep over
three hundred thousand children
of school age out of school each
school day in the year?
“I have a very high respect for
theteditor who has the courage
to undertake to correct these
evils and 1 pledge you my co-op
eration in your efforts
“Tell the people to kep Sum
ter county money in circulation
in Sumter county. That will im
prove local conditions more than
anything we can do during the
next four months.
‘‘You will render a great serv
ice to this community if you suc
ceed with your efforts along this
line, and I am in hones, that with
the co-operation of others, you
will- be able to create a desire
on the part of every man to live
economically and pay his debts to
the best of his ability.
“I have been favorably im
pressed with the editorials and
news items which have appeared
in your paper recently.”
And, that is the whole story in
a nut shell: PAY YOUR DEBTS—
That helps you and it helps the
other fellow.
SPEND YOUR MONEY AT
HOME—Every doMa.t yos| spend
out of Sumter county is a dollar
gone forever. If spent here, it is
spent and respent, adding to its
good every time it changes hands.
There are some things that we
must go otutside to secure, just as
there are products that we send
outside and which bring back dol
lars to be used in our community.
But spending, OUTSIDE for what
we can produce INSIDE, will even
tually mi'an bankruptcy if carried
far cnoujjh.
NO LACK I
OF OPPORTUNITY.
Much has been said and written
regarding the exodus of the young
people from the farms. Invariably
the statement is made that our
young people are forsaking the
farm home because of a “lack of
oppoi kunity.”
In the city, the young women,
they say, cam secure employment
in stores and offices; the young
men have the same opportunity.
Some of those going to the city
succeed; some work their way into
good position;?, but the vast ma
jority are no better off than one
young womatn who went from
South Georgia to Atlanta.
There she js working for $6 a
week and her meals. Out of this
$6 she must jciy room rent, of say
$3 at the leas t; she must spend 84
cents a week carfare; laundry and
toilet requisite s will run to another
dollar. At beist, she has less than
50 cents for ALkL OTHER expenses
including her clothes.
The real opportunity is ON THE
FARM. A couple of cows or a
few chicks will ;net her more money
in a week than the young woman
can save in a year in the city.
We publish the following from
a Knoxville newspaper, because
we believe poultry to be the
source of money-making for
many young mi in and women who
are willing to work:
“Fifteen hundred dollars a
week from the sale of baby
chicks and hatchling of eggs is
the record of C. A. Norman, for
mer clerk in Miller Department
Store in Knoxville..
“Entering the poultry busi
ness eight years ago, Mr. Nor
man began with three 400-egg
size incubators. Today his busi
ness requires eight 10,000-egg
capacity incubators and he is
planning to install equip
ment in the fall.
“In the year 1922 this farm
sold $50,000.00 worth of poultry
products. Practically all the ship
ping is done by parcel post, and
the business is all conducted on
a twenty-acre tract of land just
outside of Knoxville. For the
first six months of 1923 he
received 4,500 orders, many •
from neighboring stat ’s. The
farm is only about ten minutes’
drive from the heart of the city.
The thousands of birds are care
fully cared for by a graduate
poultry husbandman ano' five as
sistants.” , 1
lOM SIMS SA YS:
A shoplifter entered a St.
Louis store and got a nice fur
coat and four months.
One of the books we would
like to see written is “Confes
sions of a. Coal Dealer.”
Your lot could be worse.
Suppose you were a rheumatic
whale’s bones weigh 25 tons.
Bootleg booze costs S2O a
quart in Savannah, Ga., —the
crooks.
Makers say fewer cigars are
being smoked. Wait until elec
tion.
Probably thinking it wasn’t
going to hurt a bit, a Pitsburg
dentist shot himself.
Two men ages 63 and 65, fell
out of a Brooklyn tree, perhaps
an old maid was after them.
Man laughed himself to death
in a Petersburg, Ind., movie, at a
serious picture, we’ll bet.
Times change rapidly. Some
body horsewhipped a Ludington,
Mich., man who was not an edi-
I tor.
Captured a barrel of real
hard cider in Montgomery, Ala.,
carried away a barrel of fun.
Way down yonder in New Or
i leans is a frog that sings in
j stead of snoring like other frogs.
Fruit juices are so contrary.
They had rather ferment than
jell.
Portlland, Ore., reports im
provement. Judge sentenced two
sheiks to get their hair cut,
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| Copyright, 1923, IA •! By
N. E. A. Service. 1 Ovlll Berton Braley
BUCCANEERS
Bold bad pirates on a bold bad craft
(Three little kids on a makeshift raft!),
And the captain says, with a cruel lip,
“Men, get ready, an’ we’ll board that ship.
She’s chuck full of a heap of gold, *
Tons of ducats are inside her hold,
Rubio, di’monds! Oh, you better bet
She’s got treasure that we’re gonna get!”
A.
Where’s the ship? Well, to you and me
There’s no ship for the eyes to sec;
But those bold pirates they can see her plain,
A tall, tall galleon built in Spain,
With her captain shaking in his Spanish shoes
As he thinks of the riches he is doomed to.lose
To the bold bad pirates on a bold bad craft
(Three little kids on a makeshift raft’).
Oh, the pirate chief waves his sword in wrath
(To yo and me it’s a piece of
But we’re grown uj> and we’ve lost our sight;
To the pirate chief it’s a swrod, all right!)
He waves his blade and he cries out, “Men!
We’ll board that ship!” and then —just then,
His mother calls and he wails, “Aw gee,
All the time she’s a-callin’ me!”
And the spell is gone, and the bold bad craft
Is just three kids on a makeshift raft.
\OLD DAIS IN AMERICUS
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
(From the Times-Recorder. Sep
tember 7, 1903.)
Friends of Mrs. George 11.
Walker, one of Americsu’ aged an.i
highly esteemed citizens, will be
pleased to learn that his condition
yesterday following an operation
for abcess of the liver, was favor
able as could be expected.
Five thousand bales of cotton
marketed and sold already repre
sented a value of $315,000, or
even more, as hundreds of bales
were sold at a price around 12
1-2 cents to 12 3-4 cents to say
nothing of the added value of $lO
per bale from the sale of cotton
seed, quantities of which are being
sold at present prices.
Johnnie Wagnon, the Americus
bey with the Hornets, was given
SBS by the fans of Thomasville for
his homerun in the last game.
Johnnie is a “Southeril planter’*
and he lives in Americus. He is
a favorite with the fans, and will
spend the winter here with his wife
and two children.
Miss Mattie Sue Taylor will en
tertain on next Tuesday morning
at a very pretty party at which all
the girls have asked to wear mid
dies.
Miss Antoinette Lockett was hos
tess Wednesday, honoring Mrs.
William Lockett, of Albany. Auc
tion bridge was played and Mrs.
J. D. Hooks, by her skillful play
ing won the prize, a blue ribbon
boudior cap.
Miss Genevieve Prather enter
tained Saturday in honor of Miss
Minerva Arrington, of Macon.
Progressive old maid was played
and Miss Nellie Worthy made top
score, winning a beautiful (little
blue bird :ing.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
Monday morning, no paper pub
lished.
Bandit talked politics as he
robbed a train in Oklahoma.
Probably a reformed politician.
Rockefeller is giving away
nickels, but can get more.
Cuba can pay her war loan. A
few bootleggers could pay ours.
Picture writing about a mil
lion years old has been founti in
British Columbia and Hollywood.
Two Kansas City girls are su
ing their father for $3,8000. He
is getting off lighth.
An Eclipse and ten million
pretions of the end of the world
are due Sept. 10.
Magnus Johnson says he be
lieves in books. We believe in
bank books, but no cook books.
Flax crop is large. Go ahead
and get cinders in your eyes.
Help use surplus flax seeds.
New Jersey couple knew what
one wedding gift was, anything.
It was a live elephant.
Pigeon flew from Grand Can
yon to New York. Will find New
Yorkers yawn greater than
Grand Canyon.
FOURTEEN iMILLS
TIFTON TAX RATE
lIFTON, Sept. 6—The tax rate
for the city of Tifton for this year
has been fixed at 14 mills. (X this
levy six mills are for the support
of the school system. Three mills
were levied to take care of current
expenses and five assessed to take
care of the principal and interest
on the public debt s
’ THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER 1
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From the Times-Recorder. Sep
tember 7, 1893.)
A special train will leave the
Jackson street depot at 11 o’clock
this morning for the accomodation
of those desiring to attend the
stock ehibit at Leeton Park,. The
fare for the round trip is only 10
cents.
Messrs. Windsor, Whitley, Jud
son & Bros., are moving from the
Byne block to their commodious
new quarters in the Hotel Windsor
block Capt. P. C. Clegg, it is un
derstood, will open a grocery busi
ness in the store recently vacated
Ly Windsor Wiley Hudson &
Bros.
Cotton receipts were hardly up
to the average yesterday, owing to
the fact that farmers and business
the fact that farmers are busily en
gaged in picking while the fair
weather lasts. It will put in Fri
day and Saturday, however, and if
receipts for these two days fall
short of 1,500 bales, the warehose
men will be very much disap
pointed,
Mr. Clifford and Miss Landis
Prince leave today for Lexington,
Ky., where the latter will enter
Hamilton Female College.
Mrs. Charles R. Crisp left yes
terday morning for Washington
where she will join Speaker Crisp
during the remaining months of
the present Session. Mr. Fred Crisp
and sister, Miss Bertha accom
panied Mrs. Crisp as far as the
capital, the former going to St.
Albans Institute, Virginia, while
Miss Bertha will enter the Augusta
Female Institute.
TAX ASSESSORS GIVEN
$l5O EACH FOR WORK
City council at its session last
night formally agreed to alow P. B.
Williford, Bradley Hogg and Charles
Lingo $l5O each for their services
as members of the Board of City
Tax Assessors. The payment was or
dered after some discussion in which
Aiderman Allison expressed the; be
lief that SIOO would Eave been suf
ficient for this service, and that
$l5O had been paid city assessors
only since the beginning of the war
“when we got in high” as one mem
ber of council expressed himself. It
was finally decided, however, that
inasmuch as the assessors went into
the employment expecting to receive
$l5O each that amount should be
paid them. City Clerk Dudley Gate
wood was accordingly instructed to
issue each of them a voucher for
$l5O in payment for their services.
THOMPSON SCHOOL
HAS 103 ENROLLED
Thompson Consolidated School
opened Monday with a first week’s
enrollment of 103 pupils. As usual
on opening day, a number of pa
trons and friends of the school were
present, many of whom spike words
of encouragement and good will to
the faculty and pupils.
Following a selection of songs and
and devotional exercises led by the
principal, the chief address of the
morning was made by Prof. J. E.
Mathis, superintendent of Americus
city schools.
Principal C. A. Phillips announced
a number of interesting features in
SUCCEEDS WHERE
DOCTORS FAILED
Mrs. Carry B. Dix, Schoolfield,
Va., writes: "I have been sick
i nearly all my life and have taken
I medicine from doctors, but they
did me no good. I tried Beuedicta
and it has done me more good
than anything I ever used.” Mrs.
Dix gave us permission to use her
name, because she felt that Bene
dicta might relieve the ills and
suffering of women everywhere,
(kit a bottle of Benedicta from your
druggist today. r
J3enedicta
Ihealjh builder.
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CLAIRVOYANT
Rubber—77s milllion pounds of
it will be imported into our
country this year. If you could
have foreseen this back in 1911,
when only 72 million pounds were
imported, you could easily have
made plans to bring you fabulous
riches.
In our highly specialized civiliza-.
tion, exceptional success requires
clairvoyance or blundering luck.
Rubber consumption increased
10-fold in the last dozen years. In
the coming dozen years, the rec
ord will be duplicated by other ar
ticles. Guess them correctly, and
later name your price.
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BITERS
The male mosquito never bites.
Ma Mosquito does all the
welt-raising and she prefers to
sink her hybodermic into men rath
er than women. The old belief is
false, that the mosquito dies after
taking one bite, She comes back
for more.
These facts announced by
Johns Hopkins medical scientists.
They’re experimenting to rid us
of the mosquito pest. Success will
come fn this direction—in time.
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PULLMANS
Fifty thousand Americans sleep
in Pullman cars tonight—every
night. Information comes front
James Keeley of the Pullman Co.
He comments: “We really are in
the hotel business.”
You probably will live to see
connection with the school plans for
the year. Amon;? these are the con
tinuation of the vocational work and
farm projects under the leadership
of J. C. Bell.
SHEPARD
B ln,p <r Killer W .
r .Gets ’em 1
M. Kilk Flies. Ants, B
Moths, Bugs, B
Mosquitoes. B
CITY AND FARM LOANS
Made on '•business or Residence
Property and Good Farms. Lowest
Interest. Quick Results.
DAN CHAPPELL
Planters Bank Building
RAILROAD SCHEDULE -
Arrival and Departure of Passenger
Trains, Americus, Ga.
The following schedule figures
' 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
1:55 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
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)
Departs
10:0s am Cordele-Hel’na 5 :15 pm
12:26 pm Cols-M’t’g’y 3:10 pm
3:10 pm Cordcle-Savh 12:26 pm
5:15 p* Kkhland-Cols 10;05 am
F FRIDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 7, 1923
the porter making up your berth
in an airplane. That is, provided
porters can be induced to work on
the Flying Express. Ask the next
one you see.
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VANITY
American women and girls
spend more on rouge, face pow
der and lipsticks than the entire
country spends on bathroom equip
ment. So claims Colonel W. G.
Archer, plumbing engineer.
Nevertheless, it is money well
spent. Cosmetics are used more
as beaulificrs-to-attract than to
gratify the vanity. Civilization is
a theatrical
comedy disguised as tragedy—and
no actor ever is at his best with
out makeup. Everything natural
is good, and it’s as natural for wo
men to beautify as for mating
birds to warble sweet songs and
grow glouripus plumage.
* * *
LATER
Our railroads use 125 million
new wooden tics each year, writes
Colonel William B. Greeley, Uncle
Sam’s chief forester.
This is one of many causes why
our forests are vanishing.
Also, it is one of many items
that will be saved ■>. en freight and
passenger traffic will be in air
planes. No auto roads to pave and
repair then. No railroad tracks to
lay an.d keep in shape.
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HOUSES
This year enough lumber will be
used in United States to build and
furnish a row of five-room houses
which, placed every 50 feet, apart,
would reach from New York to
Seattle, down to San Francisco,
east to New Orleans and back to
New York.
With a lumber demand like that,
and with more trees being chopped
down than planted, it’s easy to un
derstand why we are rapidly head
ing toward a Treeless America.
Brick and concrete are the com
ing building materials in a coun
try stripped of trees to a condi
tion of ugliness.
Americus
Undertaking Co.
NAT LEMASTER, Manager,
Funeral Directors
And Embalmers
Night Phones 661 and 889
Day Phones 88 and 231
L. G. COUNCIL, President. T, E. BOLTON, Ass't. Cashisr
C. M. COUNCIL, V.-P. and Cashier, J. J. KIKER, Asst. Cashier
The Planters Bank of Americus
(Incorporated)
PERSONAL 1
a SERVICE
Every department in this
bank, which is the largest un
der state supervision in
Southwest Georgia, is or
ganized and maintained to
give our customers that help
eo-operation and advice
which is natural to expect
from so substantial a bank
ing institution.
We believe it will be to
your advantage to get better
acquainted with this bank
of personal service.
The Bank With a Surplm
RESOURCES OVER $1,700,000
PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE. ACCOMMODATING
No Account Too Large; None Too Smail
THE STANDARD
OPENS THE FALL SEASON WITH
NEW MERCHANDISE ALL OVER
THE 6TORE.
For men, women, school children
end infants—and many things for
the home, such as Rugs, Upholsteries
Linens, Blankets, etc. All of Stand
ard quality.
FIFTY STYLES NEW
DRESSES FOR FALL
At $5.75, $lO, $12.50, sls, $19.75,
and $25
presses made according to the
latest and most preferred fall styles.
Dresses of unbelievably good ma
terials, heavy and firm of weave,
materials that come up to the high
standard of qality.
durable dress gingham
At 25c. School Dress Patterns.
One would know them anywhere.
The pretty plaids and plain colors,
that take a tubbing so merrily; 32
inches wide, yard 25c
GERMAN LINEN
TOWELING AT 20c YD.
Nothing to equal this toweling for
service; full toweling width, nat
ural linen color, mill ends and short
lengths to close at yard 20c
INFANTS SILK AND
WOOL WRAPPERS AT 50c
Siies 1 to 5, made of silk and
wool; also silk mixed; baby bands at
the lowest prices you have seen
them in many years; all sizes .. 50c
Factory Ends and Short Lengths
of Table Damask at 50c
Worth regularly off the full bolt
75c to 89c, these are in desirable
lengths of 2 12 to 7 1-2 yard pieces;
great variety of beautiful patterns
to select from at yard 50c
I* actory Ends and Short Lengths
of Good Outings at 15c
Get your winter suupply of these.
Are honestly 25c grades in lengths
of 10 to 20 yard pieces, but will cut
in most any length to suit the buyer.
Friday and Saturday yard 15c
PETTICOATS
AND BLOOMERS
100 Jersey and Satin petticoats
and bloomers, every good style
shown in this assortment; arranged
on special rack for your choosing;
Friday and Saturday $2.98
Standard Dry Goods
Company
Forsyth Street, Next to Bank of
Commerce, Americus, Ga.