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TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 12, 1924 - ffl[ WBE IMP 18® IB ISE ET Exclusive Gun-Club Organiza tion to Stage Shoot in Atlanta During October ATLANTA August 12.—Some of , p bM t irapsnooters in the country ■vnccted to attend the Five “ re , Shoot which is to be held hero * 'the 'local Gun Club about the mid at f' October. This will mark J,. largest trap shoot held in tne ok is expected to draw to city some of the best shots in t h e United States. n r . H. N. Alford, president of the Atlanta Gun Club, has been working on the Indian .shoot for niany months, and by the time too bil! . shoot is held, it is expected that th,- membership will be the largest of any Indian organization in the country. The Five Tribes is an organiza tion of trapshooters composed of five Indian tribes, each tribe covers three states. The Seminoles include Georgia, Florida and South Carolina the Cherokees, Alabama, Mississip pi and Tennessee; the Chickasaws, Virginia, North, Carolina, and Ken tucky; the Chotaws, Arkansas, Louisiana and Oklahoma, and the Creeks, Texas. Membership in the tribes is said to be very exclusive, and can be gained only after being vouched for by two warriors in good standing and then passed on by the war council. Then, if the high chief tains vote unanimously on the ap plicant, he is then elected as a member of the Five Tribes. The Atlanta Gun Club has offer ed .SI,OOO in silver trophies to be carried home to the squaws. The shoot will last for three days, and will consist of 400 16-yard targets, 10(1 handicaps and 50 pair of double All targets will be registered. ' CORN CROP PROSPECT REDUCED BY DROUTH ATLANTA, August 12.—Al though the prospects for a bumper corn crop in Georgia W’ere reduced by dry weather in parts of the state the latter half of July, the condition August 1 was fully average and the indicated production still above the final outturn last year, it is shown in the monthly crop report of the Georgia Cooperative Crop Reporting Service, made here today. Early upland corn In the northern half of the state was needing moist ure and firing badly in some Sec tions, particularly in western, north western, and north central Piedmont counties. Lowland corn is progress ing nicely and a splendid crop in southern Georgia is practically made the report states. ■ i» .1 " " ' — — NEW WHITE BELTS by today’s express, 50c and 75c at Ansley’s. CHICKEN DINNER 12 to 2—6 to 8 Wednesday With Hot Roll* Orders for all kinds Cakes I tea room Cj*SSWti) A D $ PINE TIMBER WANTED Any size tracts from one million feet up. Have cash buyers who will* buy 'if price is right. Do not wait but "’rite us. at once. Joe J. Battle & C°., 512 Atlanta National Bank Bldg., Atlanta, Ga.—6-9t —— —— AMERICUS BUSINESS COLLEGE l ull term opens Sept. Ist, Miss Lillian Braswell, Prop. Personal in structors. Bookkeeping, Shorthand, Typewriting, English, Spelling, Mathematics, Commercial Law, Penmanship. Positions guaran- teed. Phone 117, P. O. Box 254. FOR RENT—Six room bungalow <l3 Forrest S.t See G. M. Bragg. _ —3l-tf APARTMENT FOR RENT—Phone 309, 207 East Church St.—ll-ts FOUND, A cool place in Ameri eus at Rylandfer theater “Where Peean Breezes Blow.”—30-tf. I'OR SALE—I lignt delivery Ford truck. Good condition. Crabb’s fr'rvice Station. Phone 180—17-ts FARM LOAN MONEY Plenty at eheap interest rate and on easy terms. W. W. Dykes. 9-ts S! '-F L. W. BROWN at Americus , P'l Co., for all kinds used ma chinery, engine boilers, motors, I Roof expert) For sale cheap everal log drays and log carts. 1 OR RENT—Very desirable offices 112 Jackscr. street. Phone 118. —l-ts FOR RENT— One of the Schumpert houses on West Church; posses- s 'on Sept. 1. gee Miss Annie Pick- L. 1, 213 Forrest street.—2-ts. FOR SALE—One grown white and sable collie dog. Phone 619. Mrs. R. Jackson—l2-3t IyE.JMh . 7 ©1924 - BEGIN HERE TODAY - Sally Morgara has to go 35 miler front, her father’s ranch to catch a train for the east. Sheriff Bob Wells, her fiance, is unable to ride with her to the station. So the “Nervous Wreck,” an eccentric young easterner visiting at the ranch, offers to take her in his little automobile. The sheriff ridicules the sugges tion, but Sally and the Wreck set out anyhow oygr the rough, uncer tain trail. Running out of gasoline, the Wreck is refused a loan of five gallons by the occupants of a pass ing car. The Wreck holds them up at the point of a gun, forcibly takes the five gallons and leaves them with the same amount after letting the air out of their tires. To cap the climax, the Wreck makes the large man in the car crank has ma chine before starting out. * * ❖ NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY He, reached over, threw tiie switch, and the engine was off with a night-splitting platter.- The big man saggered wearily toward the. side of the road. His gait was ac celerated when a mud guard nudged him roughly as the flivver sprang into life. They heard him shout something; it sounded like a threat, although they could not catch the words. Then the Wreck took a solid grip on the wheel and began to drive. Once Sally looked behind her. The headlights of the motionless car had faded to small points. She glanced at the Wreck. It was not possible to see his face deary, but she could imagine the expression. He ivould be gritting his teeth and staring truculently at the''road, quite in his glory. It was five minutes before she spoke, and then she cut loose. “You’ve done it now!” she ex claimed. “You sure have fixed the pair of us this time. Have you gone stark mad?” “Don’t argue,” advised the Wreck. “Don’t you know what you’ve done? Don’t you realize anything? Do you think you. can get away with a thiffg Tfke that? Why, you've coin .milted a crime! And if they catch us—” ’ She left the sentence unfinished, for it was leading to things too aw ful for contemplation. “Who in blazes is going to catch us?” he 'demanded. “They won’t. ■lt’ll take them half an hour to blow up those tires, and they’ll burn pret ty ip arly a gallon of gas doing it. Thai’H' leave thens abput four gal- alid after fifteen miles or so dead, like we were. Don’t you worry about getting caught.” Sally shook her head in despair. “Why, we’ll be caught before day light !” “Bet you five dollars.” “Tomorrow, anyway,” she went on, ignoring his challenge. • “And they’ll have a perfectly good case against us. You held them up with FOR SALE—Delicious shelled pe cams. Neon Buchanan.—6-ts. FOR SALE—Belgian and New Zealand Rabbits. In pairs or From SI.OO to 1.50 per pair. Marion Young phone 593—1-tf-dn SOW TAKEN UP—Owner can re cover by describing and paying damage to G. W. Walters. —9-3 t FOR RENT B-rooin two-story house in good condition; newly painted; large lot and nice garage. 606 East Church St. Phone H. O. Speer—9-3t LOST OK TAKEN through mistake at Playground, pair gold rimmed spectacles with flat temples. Phone 391—11-3 t WANTED—Warehouse space with sidetrack or reliable company to receive and store sugar, coffee, rice, etc. C. D. Kenny Co., Colum bus, Ga. —12-3 t FOR RENT —Store room located at 215 Cotton avenue, formerly occupied by Americus Ice Cream Co. Apply Chamber of Commrece. FOR SALE—BUICK “Six” cheap for cash. Phone 607—dh-lt. FOR RENT —Apartment 312 Col lege St. Phone 530. —9-3 t WANTED—Overseer’s position; ex perienced in peaches. Good ref erence-'. L. V. Smith, Tazewfell, The motto usually runs, put off until tomorrow what you don’t ab solutely have to do today. Trouser pockets are places that men put hand that get in the way. The older a man gets the more he hates to buy a new suit. . Slilftß o SALLY WHIRLED ABOUT, HER CHEEKS SUDDENLY PINK. a gun—my gun.” “They ought to have been held up They had it coming to them. They ought to have been shot full of bul- 1 lets,” said the Wreck, nercely. Sally was angry, but of course he could not see that. She sat with her fists clenched and her lips set tight. The flivver went on steadily through the night. VI CHAPTER VI An Act of Providence It was after sun-up when be aroused her by a touch on the arm. Sally’s eyes blinked rapidly as site straightened in the scat. The fliv ver was moving along at a slew pace, intended to promote the com fort of a sleeping passenger. “’Morning,” said the Wreck. “Sorry to wake you, but I wanted your expert opinion.” “’Morning,” yawned Sally; then shook herself into full wakefulness and inspected him. “Have you been driving all night?” If he had, she was prepared to acknowledge a tremendous respect for his endurance, for he was not flying any signals of weariness. But he shook his head with a grin. “I stopped for a while, after you got asleep. I didn’t need any sleep; I just can’t sleep. But I let the engine cool out. There wasn’t any hurry, anyhow.” “Nobody—passed us?” She asked it anxiously. The Wreck shook his head and laughed. He was in fine spirits for a man with guilt on his soul. “What I wanted to ask you about was. this wire fence,” he said. “We have been following it for a couple of miles. What’s it mean?” Sally inspected the fence, whien followed the line of the road. “It’s somebody’s wire, of course,” she answered. “It means there must be a ranch around somewhere.” “Do they have breakfast at ranches?” “They better had.!” “My idea, too,” he said, “Where abouts would this ranch lie, reckon ing without the aid of any moun tains or other visible landmarks?” That brought a smile to her face. Plainly, the Wreck was in excellent fettle this morning. He was disposed to be almost playful. “I’d say it’s on the same side of the road as the fence,” replied Ssjlly. “And if we haven’t passed any gate yet, wed better keep on until we hit one. There’s sure to be one.” He nodded and continued to drive, while Sally studied the coun try. It was not mountainous, but decidedly hilly, and she knew at a glance that it must lie at a consider able distance from the Bar-M. Presently her thoughts returned I to the big car and its passengers, I THE AMERICUS CREAMERY Has won its increased business on a policy that has established it in the confidence of the dairy farm ers of a wide territory. You will do well to talk to a customer who has been operating his farm on the cream returns and let him get you started in the right direction. There is no need of bankrupt cy and starvation in any farm in this section of wonderful opportunity. Let us help you put your farm on a paying basis. Americus Ice Cream and Creamery Co. Cotton Avenue Phone 645 ■ ——' 1 i ■" ■ - ■ SUMTER-MAID BUTTER AND ICE CREAM SOLD BY ALL DEALERS THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER 7 - * t ■ ■- n I i- - - - i- .l .. , _ * a-* OWMLL SIMM Centennial of Gen. LaFayette’s Tour of South to Be Appro priately Observed COLUMBUS, August 12.—Peter A. Brannon, curator of the Alabama department of archives and history was in Columbus yesterday, having been to Russell county for the pur pose of making arrangements to celebrate next year the centennial of the visit of General LaFayette to the state of Alabama in 1825. General LaFayette, who had serv ed on George Washington’s staff during the American revoluton, was invited by the American congress in the spring of 1824, to visit the Unit ed States. He accepted the invita tion and spent nearly a year in America. He Arrived at New York on the 17th of August and the last cue of the American states visited by him, Louisiana, was in May of I the next year. He passed through ! Alabama twice during his visit tray cling over the Federal road from Milledgeville, the Georgia capital, through the Creek Indian nation to Cahaba, the Alabama capital, thence to Mobile and New Orleans, It is proposed to celebrate at four dif ferent places in Alabama the cen tennial of his visit, A pageant wjil be held at Bainbridge on the west ern boundary line of Russell county and approppriate exercises will be held at Montgomery, Cleburne and Mobile. and she caught herself looking back ward over the rolling road wonder ing what had become of. them. “Here’s a gate,” said the Wreck. There was more than a gate. Threre was a plain road, running under it and off into the hills be yond. Without waiting for a con sultation, he climbed down, opened the gate, then drove the flivver through. He was going straight ahead when Sally stopped him. ■‘Alw'ays close the gates after you out U this country,” she said, jump ing out. “They’re put there for a reason. Cattle.” “I was in a hurry for breakfast,” he explained. The private road was a long one as Sally judged it would be; she knew something about the size of ranches. It was nearly a quarters of an hour before they came within sight of anything but hills and hol lows. Then the ranch buildings flashed abruptly into view as the road emerged from a patch of young spruce. Sally studied the picture with a professional eye. The ranch house, the stables, the outbuildings, the corrals, all classified themselves swiftly under her survey. “That’s a pretty big house,” she commented. ‘*Look£ sort of new, too' They’ve got a nice location. See the way those hills rise, off yonder, back of the house. Pretty, isn’t it?” “I can’t see anything but bacon and eggs,” said the Wreck. ‘And when they ask questions, we’re a couple of tourists. Don’t forget that,” said Sally, significant ly. “I’m supposed to be a dude, too.” The flivver came to a stop in the dooryard, just as a man emerged from the house. He was a tall, lean man, with scraggy mustache, and he stood studying them for several seconds, in evident surprise, before he approached. “Good morning,” called Sallv, with a wave of her hand. “’Morning’, ma’am.” As he walked over to the car ho was still scrutinizing them with a pair of steady blue eyes. “Are you the proprietor?” inouir ed Sally. She knew better than that, but she was trying to play a part. “I’m the foreman, ma’am.” “Oh! Well, I’m sure you’re the very person I want to see. Can we get breakfast?” Mount Geikie Conquered! -w ■ *. .■■■■■■!■ ■■»■ I I ■ I I ■■■■■■■■■■ ass .... ■— ,■ I . . - ■■ I ... .. .J ' A ■ JI" MJ -'KT . hj * wRrwT ? ■ ■ F 1 IB W -|R J % ilh c. They’ve done it. These three men have reached the top of Mount Gpikie—once called the unclimable mountain”—in Jasper National Park, Canada. The The foreman rubbed his chin and gave her a further appraisal. “It sort of depends,” he said. “Can you cook?” “Yes!” It was a chorus from two in the flivver. For a few seconds the foreman transferred his gaze to the Wreck, who seemed to have acquired sudden interest in his eyes. “It happens, ma’am, that we ain’t furnished with a cook. We had a Chinee, and a Chinee helper. But they blew on us yesterday. But there’s plenty of grub, and if you want to cook it, help yourself.” He waved a hand in the direction of the kitchen. There was a scram bling exodus from the flivver. The Wreck beat hei- to the kitchen door by a couple of yards. The foreman followed. “I’ll show you where everything is,” he said. “Tell you the truth, I’m kind of hungry myself. The boys had to rustle their own break fast this mornin’, and they didn’t make out none too well*. let some of it and I knew what I’m talkin' about. So if you don’t mind, ma’am while you’re cookin’ up something, make it liberal in quantity. My name’s Charley McSween.” He looked expectanty at the Wreck. “My name’s Williams,” said the Wreck, taking the hint. The foreman shook hands and glanced in the direction of Sally, who was already clearing a place on the stove. “My wife,” said the Wreck. “Pleased to know you, Mis’ Wil liams.” Sally had whirled about, her cheeks suddenly pink. Sne shot an amazed glance at Henry Williaihs and receiveci a look of warning in return. Charley McSween laughed. “I’ve seen honeymooners before,” he said. “I was married once my self. It ain’t nothin’ against any body.” Sally opened her lips to say some thing, broke into a queer laugh and turned to the stove again. ( It was the kind of a breakfast that comes once in a long, long time, when you are ready for even the meanest and find yourself sitting down to the best. The Wreck ate with a concentration that was ap palling. Even the foreman, who was accustomed to all sorts of appetites; watched with an admiring eye. Sally and the Wreck were still eating when Charley McSween pushed back his chair. “I’m sayin’ that was a regular breakfast,” he declared, as he wiped his mouth. “The lady sure knows ho>- to fry bacon. I kind of like tc have my eggs flopped over; but JHL “In buying a piece of jewelry I had an interesting experience. After asking prices in various second rate shops, I summoned courage to step into a store whose name is famous around the world. To my surprise, the price was actually lower —and there was no suspicion about the quality.” Our store is not known around the world, but—lt does stand for highest quality. IT ALWAYS PAYS TO BUY AT BELL’S. ribno« < . >'■*-■ «: . • mountain i« 10,854 feet high. The climbers, left to right, are W. D. Geddes, Calgary, Alberta; W. A. Flynn, St. Louis, and C. G. Wates, Edmonton, Alberta. that’s nothin’ against her, because I didn’t say so. Coffee was A-l. I can’t say as I usually eat toast, but I've got no objections to it. Can you make biscuits, ma’am?” (Continued in Our Next Issue) ATLANTA GREEKS ARE ALL BASEBALL FANS ATLANTA, August 12. No more enthusiastic baseball fans can be found in this city than in At lanta’s Greek population. A re cent fund was raised to purchase a present for Benny Karr, Cracker Ace, who has dene much to keep the Atlanta club to the forefront, and the Greek fans were among the first to contribute. Rylander Theatre WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY ■' z f : I w [warner BKOS?4 PRESENT VM zmarbiage) DIRECTED CIRCLE „ /CRNST / l,&. LU BITSCH Florence Vidor Marie Prevost .Monte Blue Adolphe Menj ou Harry Myers Geigliton Hale ■**a She, inbred with the wile, of the' tigress, laid her trap for the one-woman man. Instead of steel and vice she adopted the odor of Egyptian perfumes created in the ages past by sorceresses of the Nile, not for the nostrils, but to subdue the resisting powers of decency. Cleopatra in all her glory would have cried with envy at the foot ot the chaise longue that held the lithe form clothed in all the latest creations of lingerie that was made only the secret eyes of milady’s boudior. 10c, 20c and 30c PAGE THREE DROUTH RELIEVED; CROPS LOOK GOOD’ ‘ LA GRANGE, August 12.—The condition of the crofts >n general are ameliorating throughout the the county from the rain of tha past few days, according to the re port made by M. F. Gaddis, county farm agent. The rains have meant more to the corn crop which was beginning to suffer slightly in some sections of the county . But with the pres ent conditions there is bright pros pect for the crop this year. The cotton has also livened up from the rains. The boll weevils so far have dor.o but little damage, and if they do not make a heavy attack on the cot ton, it is believed the crop this year will be better than any in the past two or three years. MANY WOMEN DOCTORS PRACTICE IN GERMANY BERLIN, August 12.—German women doctors have made great strides the empire became a republic and this summer attended European international medical congresses in larger numbers than in any other period. The leader of the German delgation which at tended the Medical Women's In ternational Association meeting in London recently is Dr. Hensler- Edenhuizen, a specialist in wom en s diseases, and who has a repu tation in Berlin as high as any of her male colleagues. Dr. Heusler-Edenhuizen is one of the pioneers of medicine for women in Germany and studied some years ago in the time when mairiciulat.ion was impossible for female students and they had instead to beg each individual professor for permission to attend his lectures. It. Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kemp ner, of Berlin, a specialist in tu berculosis, Dr. Toni von Langsdorff, of Essen, and Dr. Laura Turnau, of Berlin, are other German women physicians who attended the Lon don association meeting. 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