About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 4, 1924)
PAGE TWO GFOPGIJ.! IHl'U'i: CMPISJIW Authorities Estimate Yield in State at Between 35,000,000 and 40,000.000 Pounds VALDOSTA, August 4. —From 35,000,000 to 40,000,000 pounds of tobacco is the estimate by reliable authorities that will be sold during 1924 by South Georgia tobacco markets, this, too, in view of the fact that last Tear’s sale resulted in loses than 10,000,000 pounds. Authorities assert that the in crease in practically every tobacco growing county promises to be be tween 400 and 500 per cent, yet the entire amount raised in Georgia will amount to little compared with the amount used which will run to around 500,000,000 pounds. South Georgia tobacco markets wil open the first week in August, and many arrangements have been made for that opening of the various markets will be located in Fitzger ald, Nashville, Douglas, Blackshear Tifton, Valdosta, Hazelhurst and Hahira, warehouses being located at all of these points. Valdosta has just completed her third tobacco warehouse, covering two city blocks on the Georgia and Florida railroad, and is reputed to be the largest such warehouse in the state with the big Candler warehouse in in the capitol city. SMALLPOX SPREADING DR. DAVIS ASSERTS ATLANTA, August 4. —Blam ing negligence of the public as t ic cause, Dr. W. A. Davis director of the state bureau of vital statis tics, Friday gave out statistic show ing that smallpox has been more prevalent and has taken greater toll of life in Geogria during the first s:x months of 1924. than during any similar period for the past sev eral years. “Smallpox has been so well check ed during the last few years,” said Dr. Davis, “that people recently Jmve failed to regard it seriously. They have neglected vaccination, and this failure is reflected in ilia records of the bureau of vital sta tistics.” According to these records, 2,02') ca i of smallpox have been re ported in the Georgia registration ar< a for the first six months of 1924 as compared to 282 for the same period in 1923 and 695 in 1922. Nineteen deaths were re ported in 1922 and two in 1923. Total deaths so far for 1924 are said to be considerably in excess of both these figures though these figures have not yet been tabulat ed. It founds easy to marry and make your home with the parents of the bride, but it isn’t. Rylander Theatre TODAY AND TUESDAY WHY MEN LEA VE //\ HOME jfy ,• No laughing matter, but 1/ Picture* 1 a picture full of laughs’ f h 10c, 20c and 30c ELECTRIC FAN SALE Beginning Monday morning and continuing during the week I will sell my electric fans at 20 per cent reduction. This is a great saving from the regular price on electric fans, and the hot weather has just begun. These fans are made by General Electric and Westinghouse and are fully guaranteed. Terms Cash. W. W. M’NEILL I lampton and Plum Street Phone 2 71 KENT’SGARAGE Merritt Bldg. Jackson St. To My Friends and Customers: After having been in another state during the past year 1 have returned to Americus to live again. To those who know my work as a finished repairman 1 can only say that hereafter past stand<ards will be maintained and that I will do all work personally. B. B. KENT Merritt Bldg. Jackson St. ■ The question of unit Society i PHILATHEAS TO MEET WITH MRS. YERBY The members of the I'hdatheas Class of the First Baptist church are requested to meet tonight at eight o’clock, with Mrs. T G. Yerhy. at her home on Church street. A full attendance is urged f s impor tant business matters are to be dis-• cussed. Eugene Rushin, of Tifton, the week-end with his family at their home on Jackson avenue. Mr. and Mrs.- Frank Lawson, and children and Mrs. Jenni Lawson have left for a delightful motor trip to De Land and other points of interest in Florida. Mrs. R. L. Royal, of Macon, was week-end guest of Miss Ada Walker at her home on Lee street. Mrs. S. A. Daniels, of St. Peters burg, Fla., is the guest of Mrs. R. E. Cato, at her attractive country home near Americus. »Mrs. Dan iels formerly resided in Americus, and has many friends here who cor dially welcome her on her return visits. Miss LaVerne Thomas has re turned from Walnut Grove, where she spent several weeks pleasantly with relatives. Miss Emmie Glover has returned from Savannah, where she was toe guests of Miss Ximenia Bond for several days. Miss Jean Curtis left Saturday for Macon where she will be the at tractive guest of Miss Margaret Killen for several days. Mr. and Mrs. 11. G. Aird, of Jacksonville, Fla, arrived Sunday from Jacksonville, to visit her par ents, Capt. and Mrs. H. D. Watts. They were accompanied by Mrs. Laura McLeod who has been visit ing in Jacksonville for several months. Mr. and Mrs. John Sheffield, and Helen Sheffield; John West Shef field, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Shef field, and Frank Sheffield, Jr., have gone to North Carolina. where they will spend several weeks de lightfully at Hendersonville and other points, making the trip by au tomobile. Miss Kate Land, after closing summer class in piano, has gone to Alabama to visit relatives for a week or ten days before making a visit of some time with Mrs Armand Carroll at her home in At lanta, where she wil do special mu sic work returning here :n the full. Mr. and Mrs. Heys McMath and children, Heys, Jr., and F.iley, have i gone to North Georgia, where they I will spend a week or ten aays, mak ing the trip by automobile. Mrs. Lucius McCleskey and chil dren, left Sunday in their car for Jacksonville, Fla., where they will spend several days with her sister, Mrs. Roy Bell. &irs. McCleskey was accompanied by Miss Winifred Bell, who has been her attractive guests for several weeks. Mrs. Chris Sherlock, and baby daughter, Maruerite, of Florala, Ala., is visiting Mrs. Gordon Heys, at her home near Americus. Miss Emma Westbrook, and Miss Alice Westbrook returned Sunday from Doerun, where they were de lightfully entertained during the past week, as the guest of Miss Rose Westbrook. Mr. asd Mrs. J.T.Warren and children have r< turned from Byron where they were guests of relatives for two weeks. Miss Clayton Callaway and Miss Mary McCarty, who have been de lightfully entertained at a round of | social gaieties, during their stay of I two weeks in Americus, as the guests of Miss Alice Harrold, re turned to their home in Atlanta Sat urday. Mrs. Eliza Chappell, Misses Ruth Chappell, Carolyn Knowlton, and Homer Chappell are spending ten days in Jacksosville, Fla , with Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Chappell, making the trip by motor. Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Stanfield, and daughter, of Birmingham, Ala., were in Americus today for several hours, guests of their cousin, E. L. Stanfield, en route to Tampa, Fla., making the trip in their car. Mr. Stanfield is a prominent contrac tor and builder of Birmingham. Miss Ruth Everette who has been attenting summer school at the Uni versity of Georgia, at Athens, will return home tonight. a Miss Hulet Humber will return home Tuesday night from Athens, where she has ben studying for the past several weeks at the Univresity of Georgia summer school. The many friends of Miss Bernice McArthur will regret to lears that she is ill at Jonees’ Sanitarium, at Wilmington, Del., where she under went an operation for appendicitis several days ago. EUGENE CHILDS, NEGRO, FOUND DEAD ON TRACKS Eugene Childs, a negro, was found dead upon the tracks of the Central of Georgia railway Sunday morning near Andersonville. The body was found by a train crew and Childs had been dead several hours when found. A coroner’s jury which viewed the corpse Sunday morning decided after a brief in vestigation that the dead man had been struck by a passing train and killed. Information furnished Cor oner Jenkins was to the effect that Childs' had been seen, drinking heavily late Saturday at a point near the railroad, and it is believ ed he law down upon the tracks and went to sleep, being killed by some train passing that point during the night, probably without bein.g seen by the engineer. ST. SIMONS ROAD WILL BE SHELLED ST SIMONS ISLAND, August 4. —The roads on St. Simons Island are to be shelled making them in keeping with the new road built from Brunswick to the Island which is one of the finest gravel roads in this section. Shells are already piled along the roads and work will be gin soon. LEGAL AD No. 723 PETITION FOR DISCHARGE United States District Court, West ern Division, Southern District of Georgia. In the matter of John W. Haw kins, of Americus, Sumter County, Bankrupt, in bankruptcy. To the Creditors of the above nam ed Bankrupt: You are hereby notified that the above named bankrupt has applied for a discharge from all debts prov able aganist him in bankruptcy. The said aplication will be heard by the United States District Judge of said division and district at the United States court room in the city of Macon, Ga., on the 2nd day of September, 1924, at 10 o’clock in the forenoon. All creditors of said bankrupt are notified to appear at the time and place stated and show cause, i if any they can. whv the prayer of said petitioner should not bb grant ed. Dated at Macon, Ga., this 2nd day of August, A. D. 1924. L. M. ERWIN, Clerk. By Meta Erwin, . L Deputy Clerk. THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER ' PROGRAM MUTO FOP PRESTO KT Robert E. Connely, State Presi dent, Will Be Chief Speaker On Program Final details have been com pleted for holding me B. Y. P. U. convention of Friendship asociation and these were announced here to day. The convention will remain in session all day August 20 at Preston, and it is expected that a number of Americus people will go there for the gathering. Ladies of Preston, will be hosts to the gath ering, and the welcome address will be delivered by Cleveland Rees, with the response by Mrs. H. J. Johnston, whose husband is pastor of Leslie church. Dinner will be served upon the grounds by Pres ton ladies, and the program will end with a demonstration by Preston B. Y. P. U. The program in full is as fol lows; 9:30-9:40. Devotional, led by Rev. J. E. Hall, pastor, Plains. 9:40-9:50. Welcome address, by Cleveland Rees, of Preston. 9:50-10:00. Response, by Mrs H. J. Johnston, wife of Leslie pas tor. 10:00-10:20. How to Get and Hold Boys, by Rev. M. B. Brown, Richland. 10:20-10:30. Music by Preston orchestra. 10:30-11:00. Address, by Har ry Metcalf, regional president. 11:00-11:30. Programs and study I courses, by Milo 11. Massey, Ameri cus. 11:30-11:40. Special music. 11:40-12:10. God’s Call to the Young Men and Women of Today, by Robert E. Connely, state presi dent. 12:10-2:00. Dinner on grounds. 2:00-2:20. Music. 2:20-3 :00. Reports and miscel laneous. 3:00-3:40. Demonstration by Preston B. Y. P. U. Adjourn. ELDER® RACE , FOR GOVERNORSHIP (Continued from Page One.) is opposing J. J. Biown for re-elec tion as commissioner of agricul ture. A. J. Woodruff, of DeKalb coun ty, is opposing James D. Price for re-election as A member of the public service commission. O. R. Bennett, of Dodge county, is opposing John T. Boifeuillet. for re-election to the public service commission. Elders’ retirement was made known when he addressed a letter to Mrs. Bessie Anderson, secretary of the state democratic executive committee, in which he formaly an nounced his determination not to be a candidate in the fall election and asked that his name be strick en from the official list of entries of candidates for the governorship in the primary election to be held on September 10. In a statement given out by Elders he asserts that his only rea son for withdrawing is that he has become convinced that he cannot be elected. He states that he has received more than 10,000 letters from every section in Georgia, in which he has been told that, while he had the best platform ever offer ed the people, he could not be elect ed. “If my supporters have no hope,” he says “then in sorrow I quit.” Elders charges that Georgia is in the control of trading politicians and wealthy tax dodgers and refers to his efforts i nthe legislatrue in 1923 to enact tax reform meas ures, stating that he will be a can didate for the gubernatorial seat in 1926 unless the next legislature “does for Georgia what it should.” He adds: “I call upon my people to elect a house and senate next September that will redeem Georgia from the bosses.” In closing his statement, he says; “I grieve for my state because of the lack of interest of her common people in public questions. Go to school, study, think, hope, pray and fight for a better day.” fifteneiiery meal 9 Cleanses tnouth and 91 teeth and aids digestion. H Relieves that over eaten feeling and acid H month. Its 1-a-s-t-l-n-g flavor 9 satisfies the craving for sweets. Wrigley’s is double value in the benefit aad ' pleasure it provides. Sealed in it» Purity Jhejlaror lasts y rffr'A z . z '--A. 1 ■■ lb 1 ‘ W i tI t * I .JMr iB J ' 1 • . i. Wife Even prodigies are likely to have their bad days, as witness Baby Peggy, movie star, l;<id Capital ‘Sassiety’ Frets Over Alice’s ‘Memoirs’ Staid Matrons of Washington Are Worried Lest ‘Princess Alice’ Tell Inside Story BY HARRY B. HUNT NEA Service Writer WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.—Wash ington “sassiety,” both official and unofficial, is all keyed up over word that Alice Longworth, “Princess Alice” of the old Roosevelt days, is writing her “memoirs.” “Will she tell this?” and “Will she tell that?” is being asked on every hand by persons and person ages who know that, if she wrote without reservations, Mrs. Long worth could let, not one or two, but a whole flock of cats out of the bag. For her reminiscences could cover not merely the inside doings of social' Washington for the last 25 years, but could reveal the inner influences that have shaped official and political history through many campaigns and administrations. Probably no one in Washington could so certainly produce a “best seller” as this daughter of “T. R ” Her knack, as a girl, of delighting in doing the unusual, has been carried over into her more mature years in the ability to view and say things differently, and always with a “punch.” Confirmation of Mis. Long worth’s alleged literary efforts, however, is lacking. Possibly site’s getting a lot of fun out of the suspense the unconfirmed- report has caused. Certainly she has the town “guessing.” e * ♦ ♦ Another guessing contest, in which politically minded gentlemen, however, are most concerned, is that of trying to forecast who will be the next, from either of the old parties, to desert to Senator La Fol lette. The list of La Follette lieuten ants, coming over from the ranks of the Democrats and the G. O. P-, is becoming of quite respectable size. Starting off with ony Senator Shipstead and Magnus Johnson as senatorial supporters, he has been joined by Senators I add and Frazier, Republicans, ana by Sen ator Wheeler, Democrat, vho comes as his running mate. A break in the Republican Na tional Committee was caused by the resignations of Ira Lorenz and Round Trip Summer Fares from Americus, Ga, Going and returning via Savannah and steamship New York . . $57.18 Boston .... 70.18 Philadelphia 51.70 Baltimore . . 46.15 Going via Savannah and ship returning rail,or vice versa New York. .$63.60 Boston .... 78.65 Fares to other resorts proportion ately reduced. Tickets include meals and berth on steamer, except that for some staterooms an additional charge is made. For sailing dates, accommoda tions and other information apply to Ticket Office, C. of Ga. Station. Phone H. C White, Agent. Central of Georgia Ry. Ocean Steamship Co. Merchants U Miner* Tran*. Co. Poor Peggy! up in bed after being vaccinat ed at Atlantic City. . Mrs. Julia Schentz, national com mitteeman and committeewonian respectively, from Wisconsin. sp * ♦ Brookhart of lowa, who has voted and will continue to vote with the La Follette group in Congress, will not come into the La Follette camp for purposes of the campaign. He won his renomination as a Republi can and must make his fight for re plection on that ticket. He will have his hands full in his own fight and can help La Fol lette more by getting back to the Senate on the G. O. P. ticket than he could by jumping to the Inde pendent cause and complicating his own fight. Similarly, Norris of Nebraska, while campaigning for re-election as a Republican, will take no part in the La Follette national cam paign but will be a very present and active part of any La Follette “balance of power” in the Senate. ♦ ♦ ♦ Just what position will be taken in the campaign by those two ram- | | I THE FASHION | SHOP | I Announces the departure from Americus | Saturday night of a party of buyers who | will select new and high-grade stocks in 1 every line carried. These t = s I Buyers Now in New York = » Because of their early trip to the Eastern | markets will have unusual opportunity to 1 purchase the latest and most desirable 1 patterns and designs in k | Ladies’ Ready-to-Wear Novelties and Accessories We anticipate good business this fall and our buyers have been instructed to over- h look no opportunity to buy desirable goods of every description First express shipments from these buyers will begin ar riving in Americus within the next two weeks, and will be placed on display im mediately. | The Fashion Shop - J. E. HIGHTOWER, Prop. \ Next to Kress Jackson Street 1 —A - MONDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 4. 1924 > FITZGERALD TD HAVE 18IGTMIMKT Barbecue to Be Entertainment Feature at Opening There Next Wednesday FITZGERALD, Aug. 4. Hun- dreds of tobacco growers and farm ers are expected to be in this city from the surrounding territory for the opening of the Fitzgerald To bacco Market on Wednesday next, it is announced. Several thousand invitations have already been mail ed out. The Chamber of Com merce the Merchants association, and local Kiwanis club are co-oper ating with the local tobacco ware house to make the event one to be long remembered. A big barbecue is one of the entertainment features planned with many others. As a stimulant for better tobac co at a better price, the local Cham ber of Commerce has agreed to pay daily $lO in gold to the farmn bringing to the market the best of fering of tobacco, and: receiving the highest price for each day’s sales, which sales are expected to con tinue for about forty days or more. Two million pounds of tobacco are Expected to be sold here during that period. The sad thing about trying to be cheerful all the time is you soon run out of things to be cheerful about. If barbers talk too much and wo men talk too much how much too much do women barbers talk? bunctious senators, Hiram Johnson, Republican, of California, and James A. Reed, Democrat, of Missouri, is yet to be seen. Miram has not been heard from since he conceded the futility of his campaign for delegates against Coolidge, and withdrew from the presidential race. Reed has kept ominously silent since he lost his fight to head an anti-McAdoo delegation to the New York convention. But anyone who knows the two gentlemen will wager that they have been doing a lot of thinking, and some are even willing to wager they will pull something sensational once the campaign gets under way. Chicken Dinner Wednesday 12 to 2—6 to 8 Hot Rolls 20 Cents Dozen Orders taken for homemade bread. TEA ROOM
