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GEORGIA
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Throughout the State Con
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POTATOES BRING GOOD
PRICES IN BROOKS
QUITMAN, January 19.—Coun
ty Agent Stratford announces the
sale of a solid carload of sweet po
tatoes, which were bailked. The po
tatoes brought $1.50 per 100
pounds.
Mr. Stratford has sold another
car of cured potatoes for $1.75 per
bushel. There are about 10,000
bushels of cured potatoes now in
curing plants in the county.
POLITICAL BALL
STARTE DROLLING
COLUMBUS, January 19.—Aft
er a series of false starts, the Mus
<h>gee county political ball was ac
tually started rolling Friday with
the announcement by Judge John
H. Lewis, of the Columbus Munici
pal court, that he would make the.
race for judge of the Superior
courts of the Chattahooche circuit.
CO-OP. ASSOCIATION
PAYS OVER $7,000,000.
ATLANTA, January 19. Up
wards of $7,000,000 already has
been advanced to Georgia cotton
producers of the 1924 crop, by the
Georgia Cotton Growers’ Co-opera
tive association, • according to a
statement authorzied by J. E. Con
well, president of the association.
DUNLAP NAMED ON
LEGION COMMITTEE
GAINESVILLE, January 19.
John R. Quinn, national command
er of the American Legion, has ap
pointed Edgar B. Dunlap, state
commander, Georgia department,
on the national legislative commit
tee, headed by Aaron Sapiro, of
California. Mr. Dunlap leaves for
Washington Sunday, January 20,
to assist in the fight for adjusted
compensation for th e veterans of
the World War.
BRANTLEY MEN JAILED
ON LIQUOR CHARGES
WAYCROSS, January 19.—D. B.
Johns, Isaac Thrift and R. H. Lee,
all of Brantley county, are in the
War e county jail charged with vio
lation of the federal prohibition
law, as a result of a raid conducted
by Federal Prohibition Agent C. II
Parks and Sheriff W. H. Howard,
of Brantley county.
MULE IS DROWNED;
MAN ESCAPES DEATH
BOWDEN, January 19. With
creeks and rivers here over bridges
and lowlands J. E. Lee, a justice
of the peace, of Kansas district,
near here, tried to cross the creek
at Lovvorn’s mill and came near
being drowned. Small boys on the
banks swam to. his rescue and saved
him. The mule Mr. Lee was driv
ing was drowned.
SILOAM BANK
NAMES OFFICERS
GREENSBORO, January 19.
Stockholders of the Bank of Siloam
at their annual meeting declared
at 12 per cent dividend and elected
the following officers: John F.
Holden, president; J. B. Dolvin
vice-president; W. M. Reynolds,
cashier; Miss Grace Johnson, book
keeper.
The directors. are John F. Hol
den, J. B. Dolvin, W. M. Reynolds,
S. B. Freeman, J. A. Reynolds,, W.
H. Lewis and C. B. O’Neal.
CENTRAL EMPLOYES TO
RAISE WINBURN FUND
MACON, January 19.—Local em
ployes of the Central of Georgia
railroad have begun raisining funds
with w’hich a testimonial to the late
W. A. Winburn, former president
of the system, will be erected at
on e of the central points of the
road. Macon, Savannah and Co
lumbus all stand a good chance to
get the monument.
Local officials of the road be
lieve that M:/wn wjll have the
monument placed in the front of
the Terminal Station.
FAUST IS PRESIDENT
GREENSBORO NATIONAL
GREENSBORO, January 19.
The stockholders of th e Greensboro
National Bank have just elected
the following officers: President,
J. G. Faust; vice-president, 11. D.
Goodwin; second vice-president, H.
H. Chapman cashier;, F. A. Ship
ley; assistant cashier, E. A. Kim
brough, and directors, J. G. Faust,
G. W. Miles, H. D. Goodwin, 11. H.
Chapman, E. G. Pennington, E. G.
Adams and R. L. Caldwell were
re-elected.
NEW COUNTY AGENT
TAKES UP DUTIES
SUMMERVILLE, January 19.
B. M. Drake, of Newnan, who has
been farm demonstration agent for
Coweta county for the past seven
years, has accepted a similar posi
tion with Chattooga county and has
assumed his new duties.
Mr. Drake is a native of Mis
sissippi, a graduate of Centenary
college, Louisiana, and Vanderbilt
university, Tennessee. He has
taught at Centenary college, Emory
'and Henry college, Vanderbilt uni
versity and other schools. He has
been farming in Georgia since
1905. He will have offices in the
county court house.
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THE TIMES RECORDER
IN THE HEART OF
FORTY-SIXTH YEAR—NO 17
COUNCIL IS URGED FOR GOVERNOR
□ O O O o 0.0 O O O O O.*x O’O'O o o o o
WOULD MELLON PROFIT THROUGH OWN TAX PLAN?
THE SEA—IT EITHER M/1
—IT M/ PER
HOW SPELL OF SEI’
WOVE ITSELF INTO
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Woman Skipper Has Equipped
Cabin of ‘Jennie Crocker’
With Every Home Comfort
6 WEEKS ASHORE PLENTY
Couple Tried ‘Land-Lubbers’
Life But Faile After Relief
Period in Rea! Home
By JOSEPHINE VAN de GRIFB
NEA Service Staff Writer
PERTH AMBOY, N. -i ■
19.—The spell of the - ea—it wove
itself into the hearts of a boy and
a girl and set them looking out over
the horizon with namele-'-' lengin" .
It took possession of the Eves of
a man and a woman and called
them awAy from hearth and kin
dred. It sent them adventuring
into strange ports to bargain with
strange men. It broke them, it
hurt them, ~it tossed them, r :
still it calls them. They’re the
slaves, it the master until th t > 1-
sail shall have been hauled in.
And that’s doubtless why the
cabin of the “Jennie
so much like home. It’s the only
home that Captain Nelson Crock
er and Captain Jennie Crocker
know.
Once they tried fixing up a
home in Cliftondale, Mass. It w.t
a seven-room house and there was
a place to raise chickens and a lit
tle bed for pansies. They tried it
six weeks and gave up.
Back to Sea.
The sea called them back. A for
rent sign appeared on the seven
room house.
Now there are carpets on the
floor of the cabin of the “Jen
nie Crocker” and draperies at the
doors, a phonograph is in th e cor
ner and on the table, screwed to
the floor to keep it from sliding, is
a grass basket with a bit of em
broidery.
For Captain Nelson Crocker and
Captain Crocker have given
up. They’re not going to leave
the sea any more.
That’s why Captain Je'i-ii
er took out th e paper, th
day that made ol^v wo-
man captain on the seven sen-.
Now Captain Jennie Ui ■ .er i
getting ready to command h ■ f: -t
expedition, xlt’s a little j;> nt k
and around to St. Joe. : ; .
lumber. Nelson Crock; ' goin:'
along as chief mate.
But whether either of them ■
along as captain or as chi f i
neither of them is going t-> 1c . e
th e sea any moj-e.
SFLECMr
ORDERED BT M
Sub-Committee Named. io 1 x
Date and Suggest Methods for
Financing Election
ATLANTA, Jah. 19.—A deeisi n
to hold the democratic pr ' leniiit"
preference primary in Georgia wir
reached shortly after the opening >.•'
■the meeting here today, of the stat ■
democratic executive committee.
A sub-committee was named to
fix the date for the primary and i.>
suggegst measures for financing ii.
BANK WITH MILLIONS IN
DEPOSITS FAILED TODAY
GRAND ISLAND, Neb., Jan. 19.
The Grand Island Natio.ial Bai:..,
the oldest banking institution in the
city, failed to open its doors th::’
morning.
it’s capita stock was SIOO,OOO,
with a surplus of $125,000 and th"
bank’s statement of December 1
gave deposits as $1,167,01 1.
Miss Louise Bragg and Miss
Verna Bragg, who have been the
guests of relatives in Macon for
some tifne past, return to their
home her e Friday.
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the Jennie Crocker, the schooner ;
over which th© first woman, skip- |
per will henceforth have com- :
mend. Below, Captain Jennie
Crocker “sighting” and at the
vZicch Inset, Captain Nelson
Crocker.
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lions tc Remove Tack from
L™„ o f Infant
' CHURCH! GIVES FUNDS
iV-s Lcie A. "’’a ■ .■•_!.•. Accompa
nied f Babe on Fast
Trip From St. Louis
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 19.—( I ■
su Moore, 8 month, old, who was
rushed to th:.' city from St. Louis
for :.n operation to remove a tack
from hi. tun. -, arived here early this
morr,ing.
The baby was placed in a crib at
the University Hospital, where Dr.
Chavelli r Jackson made prepara
tions to o’» ite later in the day.
The infant was w'atched with
greatest care on the trip east by
Mrs. Lota ?x. Parrish, assistant sup
erintendent of nurses, at the city
hospital St. Louis. The trip here
was made possible, by a church or
ganization which furnished the
, money.
I MOTHER OF MRS. STOVALL
DIED TODAY IN SAVANNAH
SAVANNAH, Jan. 19.—Mrs. Har
i riot H. Ganahl, of Augusta, mother
! of Mrs. Pleasant A. Stovall, died
I this morning at the home of her
I daughter. She was 85 years old and
had been ill only a, week.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 19, 1924
SHEFFIELD FLAYS
SOUS BEFORE CLUB
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Declaring tnkt officers o£ the
1 American Legion are misleading
j their members irv the fight they are
■ making for a bonus; that if the bo-i
: nus bill ill passed cost in ad-1
i vancc taxc ; re W!’ year than
I-pittance” they will receive in the I
I so-called adju ted Compensation;!
that ifi would be the proudest day'
of liis life if the local legion post
'I would go on record as opposing the I
ll.ejius, Joint . .. ffield, -. ..• i .at oil
■ k.e Rotary club, spoke to the Ki-1
. i ; • ib ship Frirl yon ;h.
■subjic: of t .-ttcroclness of the bal-i
Fred Smith, chairman of rhe!
ram ct remittee introduced Mr. I
< a"
'is filling I'.is p: ice in hi. community, I
.meeting every demand and obliga-l
lion of his citizenship a: few men
'have ever done.”
i Mr. Sheffield’s remarks, wjiich !
i were receiv.-.l with the greatest en-l
i thusiasm and compliments by ih. ■
: members are a.; follow.: :
I ‘ Sometimes I stand still and I
■ wor.dec what it’s all coming to; t!:i.
i marvelous growth of these great]
jcivic orgi.rDations, and how, with
j'out, subscribing to an oath or a
1 promise, th? members are becom-i
! ing bound together with unbreak
;abi< bonds of friendship, and in
spired with feelings of esteem a id
love, not only for each., other, but
.for all mankind .
! “l want to speak to your for a
fev. minutes foday on a subject
■ which would seem to be peculiarly I
| —— ■
poo THREE
RffiMß
Fire on Farm Near Emporium,
Pa., Fata! to Three—Hus
‘ band May Also Die
[;
EMPORIUM, Penn., JaJn. 19.
.'Mrs. Jacob Smith and her three chil
•|dren were burned to death today
I,when fire destroyed the family home
• I on her farm near here.
I [ H®r husband Hin a critical con-
I dipion.
much as this is an election year
when men arc to be selected for
nearly every office, from Justice
lof the Pea. e, to President of the
I United States.
“politics is taboo by Kiwanis and
-lit has been the been the bugahoo of
' no.n-political organizations for all
(time and for Kiwanis club as a
: club, to advocate or endorse the
(candidacy for office of any man, is
Ito plant a germ colony that will
I soon . or later mean club disolu-
I tion, but for men of the type and
’character of which real Kiwaniansl
I: i . made, to regard lightly their
i right of tanchi.m, failing to use it,
lor for men or measures with-
i ut first being BUXO of their worthrj
Iness, i : to plant a gem colony of thei
I most malignant type and one that:
I v.iil finally mean national di<-o-|
‘ lution. I
I "Only recently we witnessed the:
. .-;.ee: ..vie of a United States Sena-,
tor going up and down the coun-
Itici U our state, proclaiming him-;
J self great because he had succeeded
Jin getting the federal government
Ito spend some money for our spe-
I cial benefit. ’
“Not long ago, we stood idly by
J and allowed the woman’s suffrage
amendment to be written into our
constitution, when few men wanted
111I 11 - -u .1
i A little over four jmars ago, j
there our shores about
I (Continued On Page Four)
MMKIMT
IS T« MEET
Spanish War Veterans May
Held National Convention in
Havana, if Plans Go Thru
HAVANA, Cuba., Jan. 19.
Spanish War veterans of the United
States have be<*n formally invited by
President Zayas to hold their 1921
convention in. Havana in conjunc
tion with Cuba’s veterans of than
’war, it became known today.
FORMER NOBILITY
RUSHES FOR JOBS
NEW YORK, January 19. —An
advertisement in local newspa
pers for the services of several
gentlemen possessing bona fide
European titles today brought
20 applications to the manager of
a new dancing pavilion who de
cided he wanted noblemen*! or
hostels and dancing instructors.
Os the 20 who applied, 6 were
Austrian counts, three claimed
British titles, three Russian and
one German who said he was a
second cousin of the former
Keiser.
PHLITBI MPS
MlßlGiFiOfiin
git mm im m
I
Won’t Desert People of Sumtej,
During Such Critical Season,
He Asserts
TALKS ON TAX PROBLEM
Tax Situation Already Hurting
Georgia, Says Mr. Council
Taxes Must Be Paid
ATLANTA, Jan. 19.—The poli
tical gossips are busy again. Tv
latest advices that during the com
ing week a delegation of Atlanta
business men will go to Moultrie and
ask William C. Vereen to make the
race for governor. • The effort io
get, either the younger or older Ve
reen into the race persists.
Another name heard in connec
tion with the governorship is that
of Lee Council of Americus. .It
seems to be on the slate that if Mr.
Vereen does not run, a strong effort
will be made to get Mr. Council to
do so. The idea of those who have
Mr. Vereen or Mr. Council in mind
seems to be that Georgia’s greatest
need at the momenW is a business
man for fovernor. Mr. Council is
one of the most successful business
men in this section of the state. He
would no doubt draw- to his support
a very formidable array of business
men if he should become a candi
date.
COtJNCIL discusses
SITUATION IN STATE
When asked today concerning thel
foregoing news dispatch from At-1
lanta, Mr. Council talked most in
terestingly concerning the problems
that, confront Georgia, but stated
emphatically hat he would not ba
la candidate for governor.
“I’d like to make the race,” said
'Mr. Council, “because I’d like to aid
[in bringing Georgia out of the mire
[into which the politicans have led
iour state durng recent years. Noth
i ing would please me better than to
I give of my time and humble Ef
forts to putting Georgia’s affairs
upon a business basis,'and there is
Ino sacrifice I’d refuse to make for
the welfare of my state. But it
isn’t possible for me to become
candidate for Governor at this
time.
| “Only a consuming love for Sum
ter county and Sumter’s people pre
sents my giving the goverorshir;
serious consideration. Never before
have the people here needed heli#
moi e than during this good year,
and I am determined to place my
every resource, every dollar I pos
sess, at their disposal to the end
that happiness SaaTl reign in every
Sumter county home, and prosper
ity shall mark every worthy busi
ness venture here. All my varied
interests are centered here in
I Americus and Sumter county, and
imy love for this people is too
I great to permit me even to think of
deserting them at such a period as
this present.
‘The man Georgians are demand
ing today is one who is big enough,
;and strong enough and brave enough
[and bold enopgh to come right out
I into the open and fight with every
energy the forces that apparently
are at work to destroy Georgia and
her established institutions. This is
no time for a man inexperienced in
affairs of busness to put at the
helm. Few such critical years ha. j
ever been faced by Georgia as those
lying imemdiately ahead of the
state.
“The policy of ‘let business pay
the freight,’ that has become so
popular atnonfc certain Georgia
politicians is bringing anything but
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New York Futures
Strictly middling 321-4 cents.
Pv.C Open Hi Low Close
Jan. . 32.70|32.95|33.00|3,2.95|33.00
Mar. 32.96‘33.18|33.21j32.92|33.18
Mav .33.2a|33.50|33.50|33.10|33.43
July . 32.15132.3Q|32.40!32.06132.40
.ct. . 28.00,28.16128.20127.90128.01
PRICE FIVE CENTS
TOW SlCBETffi
tHIUM T 8 TELL
M IE *L «FIT
Michigan Senator Defies Mellon
to Tell Nation in Detail What
Securities He Owns
TAX PLAN IS~CRITICIS]ED
How Much Would Mellon Bene
fit Through Reduction in Sur- •
Taxes is Pertinent Question
WASHINGTON, January 19.
Secretary Mellon wqs challenged
today by Senator CouSeens, repub
lican of Michigan, to Inform the
country how much he would bene
fit personally from a reduction of
income sur-taxeg which he propos
ed in his tax revision plait.
“So long as you have entered
into a record of my securities,” the
senator wrote, “will you tell us
what you securities are, how much
you own of each, and how much
you will benefit by a reduction of
sur-taxes as proposed by you?”
HtNY ■ EPISCOPAL
SOCIIL MS®
Interesting Address on Social
Needs Ddiivered at Parish
House by Augusta Rector
A number of Americus people rep
resenting practically every religious
denomination here heard Rev. H.
Hobart Barber, of Augusta in an
' address on social needs in the par
lish house of Calvary Episcopal
I church here last night. The speak
er asserted that in Georgia “there
150 jails, twice as many as in
any other State in the south ex
cept Texas, three times as many as
in South Carolina. These 150 jails
represent an investment of more
than ten million dollars, dealing with
more than 10,000 annually charged
with crime, and costing yearly more
than a million dollars for administra
tion, and with but little interest
shown on the part of our citiaens
generally.”
“Christian society should stimu
latte interest among our leading citi
zzen s in jail conditions, work for im
provementand get the right kind of
legislation,” Mr. Hobart declared,
“convicted criminals, except for a
six month or less sentence, are not
committed to our county jail, and
even for that srort period judges
rarely jail the convicted, and know
ing that close confineemnt is det
rimental to health and morals, send
them to the chaingang or State
Farm.”
'Such problems,” continued the
speaker, “as the fee system by which
the county allows so much, 61 cents
in Georgia, lor feeding each pris
oner per day; the sheriff giving his
ward, two or three meals, scant or
full as he elects, saving for Jiimself
what he may out of the allowance,
a speedy trial for the accused, the
problem of bonds for the poor who
cannot furnish bond, and therefore
must suffer imprisonment, proba
tion and Social Service Coi/rts These
problems require careful study.’
BURIES MAN ALIVE
WAYCROSS, January 19.
i Buried under a pile of dirt and
debris when the arm of a derrick
;collapsed, J. B. Caldwell, a negro
| laborer at the Atlantic Coast Line
[shops was literally consigned to his
grave alive. The boom of the
['derrick struck him and buried him
so deep under the debris that it
was thirty minutes before the fev
erish work of his companions could
reach his body.
OPPOSE CARD PARTIES
SAVANNAH, Jan. 19.—Claiming
[that they could not give their ap
-1 roval to a plan to raise funds for
school that had in it the element
of gambling, the ministerial Union
of this city went on record at its
recent meeting as opposed to the
iplan v of the Parent-Teacher asso
i ciation to raise money for schools
|by card parties. The Parent-Teacher
! Association has voted to continue
[the parties and it is expected that
[a protest from the ministers will be
presented to the school board and
;he Parent-Teacher associating, .