About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 20, 1924)
PAGE FOUR Peggy and Dad Racing for ‘Honors’ Ai Most Married of All Americans WHIM I fl GIN Ik BfRBER MO WIED THPFE TIBES HIBSELF Famous Marrying Actress Has Younger Stage-Struck Sister Who is Constant Companion WAS ORDINARY CHILD Beauty Visited at Farmville Home Just Before Last Mar riage With Count Morner BY STEPHEN HANNAGAN ] FARMVILLE Va., August 20. Peggy Joyce has been married four times (or is it five’:'), but her father runs her a tlose second. George Upton, the Barber nt Farm ville, has been married three times. And Peggy looks much like her father. At 61, h e h'as a small mouth, bright blue eyes and skin of baby pink. Upton’s first wife and her baby d : ed. Then came Peggy’s mother. Peggy was the only child of that ur ion which was dissolved by di vorce. Peggy mother was married again and is living in Virginia. Old residents of Farmville say she was a very pretty woman. The Uptons live in a three-story 12-room frame house surrounded by trees and shrubs. There are three children, Lucile, 20, Cecil, 11, and a five-year-old boy. Lucille was educated to teach at the state normal school here, but she has aspirations to follow Peg gy on the stage. At present she is with her sister at Atlantic City. “I don’t want her to go on the stage,” her father told me, “and I made her promise that she wouldn’t. Lucille toured the country with Peggy last year, but her sister has tried to dissuade her, offering her two years’ schooling in Europe if she would give up her ambition for the footlights, .. ». “I don’t want her to g (EYEWATER a <. I X . n H. I H CHEAP MONEY TO LEND We always have money to lend on farm lands at lowest rates and best terms, and you will always save money by seeing us. We give the borrower the privilege of making payments on the principal at any interest period, stopping interest on such payment. We also make loans on choice city property. Write or see R. C. Ellis, President, or G. C. Webb, Vice-Presi dent, in charge of the Home Office, Ameticus, Georgia.— Empire Loan and Trust Company Americus, Georgia WALKER’S k “The Store of Quality and Service.’’ Thursday Specials One lot Shantung Pongees in all colors; worth $ 1.00, at yd Thursday 79c Yard Only Crepe de Chines and Georgettes, an extra value • at $2.00 yd. Thursday $1.69 Only Genuine Imported English Broadcloth, in White and 1 an; {worth $1.25 yd. Thursday 98c Yard Only All Children’s Low-cut Shoes, Educator Brand, none F better x. Half Price Thursday H. S. WALKER & CO. I • PHONE 44 ... PEGGY AND SISTER IN BATHING COSTUME On this side you have Peggy Joyce, who has become one of the most famous wbmen of the world through her startling expe riences in matri mony. Many men of great wealth have been attract ed by her. What is her peculiar charm for them? I lit I * y k 1 WWBMBL jflkx ••iMFTy stage, but if she insists I shall help her all I can,” Peggy says. Both attended a party recently. “Offer her a cigaret she won’t smoke it,” was Peggy’s challenge to other guests. “Offer her a drink —she won’t take it.” Here in Farmville, Lucille is im mensely popular, hbe stood high in her classes. Her father enrolled trnafi fgr a post-gradua-e course and looks as thought I’ve lost that mon ey,” he says. “I don’: think she’ll return to school.” Many here recall the childhood of Peggy. “She was just an rgly little kid with a pug nose when she came here,” one of her you'bf’i? admir ers told me, “but she was l:ke ... ... II—■« ■ ■■■l * | wt *W '- v it®*' j/ hr ■ w r jS Jim W jKJF 1 / s ’ **• "J* I able and attractive. “She knew rr.ora of </.’3 work’, and its ways at 13 than mo. t wom en do at 40,” another told me. “We used to play house togeth er,” another young man told me. “She was sweet and had a beau tiful singing voice. There was something different about her, but I can’t defin e it.” Peggy leftshere when she was 1G to 17 to make her home with her maternal grandmother. Shortly after that she began to make matri monial history. Just before her marriage to Count Morner she returned to Farmville for the first time in 14 years. AH the girls from the state normal school and the fellows from Hamden-Sidney Boys College came to town to get a glimpse of her. One of Peggy’s boyhood beaux is a strapping big fellow and wears Fifth Avenue styles on Main Street, where he is successful in business. But neither he nor other youth ful admirers met her at the station. They are married now. Wives don’t throw rolling pins as they once did because they don’t know where to find them. Poloygamy has been forbidden in Turkey except in unusna cases, which, perhaps mean when a man sees a new dizzy blonde ' THE AMERICUS TIME3-RECORDER SECURITIES COMMISSION ADOPTS TWO NEW RULES ATLANTA, August 20. Two new rules affecting application for sale of stock in this state have just been adopted by the Georgia se curities commission. One provides that stock issued for patents, copy right, formulas or other tangible as sets must not exceed one-third of the common stock of the company, nor will applications- be considered from companies issuing preferred stocks for any consideration except cash or its equivalent. No promo tion stock will be allowed, and to tal expense of stock sales must not exceed 15 per cent. The other new rule adopted pro vides against consideration of an application from a Georgia com pany issuing n on-par stock, as the commission holds that there is no provision in th e Georgia law for these companies obtaining charters from Superior courts. POLARINE OIL __ ■ , ____ 1924 Auto road map of Georgia 1 can be obtained- FREE; i \■: /' ff at F ><W/ STANDARD SERVICE STATION . Standard Oil Company ter INCORPORATED I J —-- f ■ r ■ ■■■■ , I M B a" HR Crown Gasoline .. jT 1 v *- ' Byway of con trast you see on this side Lucille Upton, Peggy’s 20- year-old sister and her constant com panion. They were photograp he d at Atlantic City. Lu cille is many years younger than her famous sister. To date she is little known, but insists she will go on the stage. Has the fame of Peggy changed the plans of her little sister, who started out to be school teacher? BORDEN CONCIRH ' SEEKS LOCATION: _ c Condensed Milk Corporation Abandons Proposed factory Site at Selma, Ala. SELMA, Ala., August 20.—The 1 Borden Milk Co., one of the largest ' manufacturing and distributing ( milk companies in the United States, which has devoted sortie time to making investigations of Selma as a ; suitable site for on e of their branch plants, has written tnat they have - decided that they would not be in- , terested in making an investment here. It has been known for several weeks that the Borden company was quietly engaged in gathering data about Selma and the suitabil ity of this field for one of their plants, having sent two sets of their field men here to gain some first hand information, and the hope was strengthened that this big company would become identified with the milk interests here. It is known that further effort will b e made to have the Borden | people recede from their decision not to come her e but it is thought by those in close touch with the proposition, that the dicision of the company as indicated is final. COTTON STALKT HAS NINETY BOLLS SELMA, Ala., August 20. Showing what can be 'lone with good seed and cultivation, a cotton stalk about four feet high with above 90 full bolls on it is attracting attention of Dallas fanners. The stalk is from the Whitehall planta tion of John Faulk and hangs in front of the Faulk store on Wash ington street. Mr. Faulk has some thing like 300 acres in the White hall fields alone with most of it in cotton of the same size and fullness. SCHOOL POPULATION GROWING AT SELMA SELMA, Ala., August 20.—An increase of 815 children of school age in Selma is shown ia the bien nial enumeration which has just been completed. This increase rep resents nearly 22 per cent and is highly gratifying to the school '4hj thorities. The total number or children of school age in the city is 4,634 and of this number there are 2,301 whit e and 2,333 negro children. The enumeration two years ago showed a total of 3,819 the divisions being 1, 993 white and 1,826 colored. Some .towns are so lucky. fn Indianapolis a movie organist broke WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 16, T)2? CAPTURED CANNON COMING TO GEORGIA ATLANTA, August 20.—Georgia will be allowed her share of cap tured war trophies to be distribut ed to the states, territories and pos sessions of the United States and tc the District of Columbia, under an act approved in Congress June 7th, 1924, after the bill had received the approval of th e House Military Affairs Committee, according to a communication received recently by Governor Clifford Walker. Although Governor Walker has not at this time received any defi nite information from the War De partment as to the number of cap- ATTENTION Poultry Raisers Mrs. G. P. Murrow, poultry expert from EdgarrMorgan Company of Memphis, I en nessee is with us for a few weeks. She is here to render service to the poultry rais ers of this community, and will give pointers and infor mation that is very valuable. This service is absolultely FREE. We want everybody that is interested in poultry to meet Mrs. Murrow. HAPPY FEED STORE 808 EDWARDS POULTRY AND STOCCK FOOD OF THE BEST Headquarters For Poultrymen and Stockmen 307 Cotton Avenue Phone 86 lured war devices Georgia will be allotted, it is certain that thia state will receive an equal share for its part played in the World War. None of the distributions to the various states however, will be an nounced, until the needs of th« many national institutions have be* n provided for, according to Secretary of-War Weeks. Divorces ar e increasing in Ger many where two can starve more quickly than one. A chorus girl was dischargee from a New York show because of i notoriety, so shine your shoes for millenium.
