About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 23, 1924)
SATURDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 23, 1924 " - bv NEA Service kc BEGJN HERE TODAY The “Nervous Wreck,” an eccen tric young easterner, is driving Sal ly Morgan from her father’s ranch to the station when they run out of gasoline. At the point of a gun the Wreck takes five gallons from a passing car. Later they are held captive at a ranch along the way because Char lie McSween, the foreman, wants Sally for a cook. They discover that Mr. Underwood, the owner of the ranch, was in the car which they hald up. Sheriff Bob Wells, who is Sally’s fiance, comes to the ranch co take charge of the case. The Wreck notifies Sally. “How long do you suppose he’s going to stay?” asks Sally anxiously. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY “Haven’t an idea. Not long, I guess, unless he’s loafing on his job. “Oh, Bob never loafs. He’s too active. He’s a real sheriff.” The Wreck was tired of hearing the sheriff’s virtues related, but he side-stepped an argument on the point. “Well, what are you go'ing to do?” he asked. “Go out in the hills and hide?” “No-o. We can’t do that. But do we dare go up to the house?” “If we don’t, who gets the sup per?” “Oh, I suppose we do,” she said wearily. “But if Bob should http pen to walk into the kitchen—” She finished it with a gesture. “He won’t. He’s busy with Un derwood. Got to take a chance, any how,” “Yes; we’ve got to.” They walked briskly to the house, praying that the sheriff would stay somewhere around the front until they reached the kitchen. Sally did not breathe comfortably until she made certain that the kitchen was empty. The Wreck moved over to the pantry door and bolted it. Only one door to watch now,” he said. “Unbolt it, Henry. Suppose he comes m the other way? I’m going through that pantry in one jump. And vice versa, if he conies in from the pantry. F m not going to be bottled up. He unbolted the door and Salix went nervously about the work of getting supper. “You’d better be careful there’s nobody in the living-room when you set the table,” she warned him. “Take a good look first.” It happened there was nobody 7 in fried chicken supper Saturday Evening 6 to 8 With Hot Rolls Fresh Home-made Cakes For Sale TEA ROOM ATTENTION Poultry Raisers Mrs. G. P. Murrow, poultry expert from Edgar-Morgan Company of Memphis, Ten 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 d7 Cotton Avenue Phone 86 lOW' ■I m iiwl TABLE TONIGHT.” the living-room. As nearly as the Wreck could judge, the sheriff and Mr. Underwood were sitting out front. Every minute or so Sally! went to a window that commanded a view of the corral to see whether the black horse was still there. It always was. She was overcoming her first dismay, and in place of it was growing angry. The old unreasoning resentment against Bob Wells was returning. It made no difference if he did not know who he was pursuing; from the standpoint of Sally it was no less unpleasant. Nor was she any too certain that he would abandon the chase if he knew, for he was 'conscientious to the leaning-back ward point—a regular bull-dog. He had a habit of talking about en forcing the law impartially against all evildoers; he even boasted about it. She remembered when it seem ed to sound very well; but that was before she had a posse on her trail. She wondered how far Bob Wells would really go, if he learned the truth. She was none too sure. When Charley McSween came in she jumped at the sound of his step and a fork clattered on the floor. “That’s cofpany,” said Charley. “And it happens we’ve got company, ma’am. The sheriff of this sovereign and God-fearin’* county has dropped in toget a little mite more informa tion about these desperadoes that he’s expectin’ to exterminate. I just eased iin to tell you he’s stayin’ to supper. Set another plate in the dinin’-room, Henry. He’s goin’ to eat with the family.” “One more doesn’t make any dif ference,” said Sally with an effort at lightness. “It does with the sheriff, ma’am. He’s a powerful eater. I’ve seen him work. He’s a powerful talker, too. He’s been workin’ up a real good appetite, talkin’ to Mr. Underwood. It seems he’s aimin’ to do great things in the line of makin’ the coun try safe for democracy. He’s been tellin’ quite a lot about some of the things he has done already, and the samples is impressive. He’s got a posse down the road a piece, waitin’ for developments. Tomorrow, as near as I can make out. they’re go ing to raise hell among the wicked ” Sally winced inwardly. Charley was putting things in his own words, of course; but somehow t sounded strangely as if Bob Wells himself were talking. “So you’d best get plenty, ma’am,” concluded Charley, “for lie sure has talked himself empty.” Ail of this brought a grin to the face of the Wreck, which Sally ob served, but did not dare resent. But she turned to him abruptly when Charley went out, her mind filled with another thought. “If he stays for supper, that means you can’t wait on the table, Henry.” “I’m not kicking.” “Maybe not. But who’s going to take your place? I can’t.” “I should say not. I guess -we can get one of the boys.” Sally shook her head. She knew cowpunchers. “Timothy!” said the Wreck sud denly. “But I wonder if he will,” she mused. “He will; don’t worry.” “Have you been fighting with Timothy?” and she eyed him sus piciously. “Lord not Timothy won’t fight anybody. But he’ll wait on the table.” She knew that something had passed between the Wreck and Tim othy. She might have guessed ift she had counted the dishes. “There’ll have to be a reason for it,” she said. “You’ll have to be sick. You’ll have to go down to the bunk house and stay there. “And suppose this sheriff comes in while you’re up here alone?” “Oh, I can take care of myself.” He did not like the idea of leav ing her to face possible conse quences, but he could see that it might be necessary. It would take a real reason to avert any possible speculations in th? mind of Charjey McSween, who still had away cf reverting to the fact that Henry Williams was not “very strong,” and who always grinned faintly when he mentioned it. The Wteck-found Timothy in the shed where they kept the big car. He was passing the time in grinding valves. There was a faint look of alarm in his eyes as he beheld the thrower of dishes. “You’re to wait on the table to night,” said the Wreck bluntly. “Bet ter go up to the kitchen now.” “Me wait on the table? I never did. T don’t know how. What for?” “Because I’m sick.” “You don’t look sick,” said Tim othy. “And you didn’t act sick a while back.” “I’m sick,” repeated the Wreck. “How I look has nothing to do with it. It’s nerves. One of my spells is coming on. It was beginning this afternoon—just beginning, you understand?” The look that he gave Timothy bored him like an auger. “I tried to walk it off, but I couldn’t. It’s coming on again. It gets worse. If I don’t get to bed there’s no telling—” Timothy began wiping his hands on a ball of cotton waste. “I’ll wait on the table,” he said gloomly. “Only if I don’t do it right they haven’t got any license to bawl me out. Y’ou better go get into bed right away.” The Wreck went off to the bunk house, where he stretched himself on the blankets and tried to get in terested in an old magazine. He felt like a man who had retreated under fire, but he knew there was nothing else to do. What worried him mast was the possibility that Sally might face a crisis alone. If anything hap pened he wanted to be there. Sally did not find Timothy par ticularly deft, although he seemed to be willing enough, once she had an apron on him. She instructed him in some of the rudiments, and had him practicing at the kitchen table, with imaginary guests to be served. “It’s only for this evrtiing, I’m sure,” she said. “Henry is almost FOR REPRESENTATIVE The friends of A. E. Hines and George W. Riley announce them as candidates for re-election to the General Assembly of Georgia, sub ject to the action of the Democratic primary on September 10. In announcing the candidacies of Messrs, Hines and Riley their friends direct attention to important and valuable service already rendered Sumter county by these two gen tlemen. Both are now members of important house committees and rank high in the counsels of the body. Committees of which they are members will have control and direction of legislation vital to the ■prosperity of this section during the next session of the legislature, and their friends have prevailed upon them to again become candidates solely because of their fitness and value as representatives in the lower house. 666 is a prescription for Malaria, Chills and Fever, Dengue or Bil ious Fever. It kills the germs. , THE AMERICUS TIME3-RECORDER * Melons Her Dish bsx '**■ • *,. w .. r % . f It J--1Y 1 Y-' M V - ■ .R: • .k-y > u *»»«***« W • < I '<l " ' \ . x. -Mik Kay Carlin of the “Artists and i Models” likes luscious watermel on. She won a Kielon-ea'ting contest from her sister choirsters at Chicago. certain to be better in the morning.” Timothy said he hoped so, because the boss was always fussy about how his meals were served, having lived in New York most of his life. Sally felt easier In mind when he reported that the family and the sheriff were at the table. It gave her a breathing spell. She knew that Bob was not likely 10 get up from the table so long as there was anything more to be served. Eating, to him, was a pleasurable job of stoking, as she had learned from plenty of experience at the Bar-M. He was even slightly vain of hi ft* better pipe tobacco ... Why better? “Wellman’s Method” famous old-time secret, now ours > -exclusively > w < Certainly rounds tobacco out! w. r Jg Cut just right, too fdee below) W J In foil,not tin -therefore IOC V Granger Rough. Cut E- The rC *ke.a» due V* l ' ie I ■ method P r ° 1 1 old e auA laMe - vhS Toß* ccoC 1 I ,] achievements as a trencherman; Charley had been entirely right about it. So she kept Timothy busy between kitchen, and dining room, carrying things that made him so hungry to look at that he could scarcely wait for his own turn. In fact, he did not wait, for on one of his trips back to the kitchen Sally observed that he was munch ing something. He brazenly admit ted that he had been “snitching” a biscuit or two. “They look so good, ma’am,” he said with an apologetic smile. And I’m pretty empty. Besides that, it gets on your nerves to hear ’em boosting the food when all you’re supposed to do is carry it round. ’ s Os couise she could not be angry. DE SOTO. i Mr. and Mrs. Allen -Johnson, of Orlando, Fla., have returned home after having been the. guests of Mrs. Geo. W. Bagley, Sr., Mrs. L. C. Summerford is visiting relatives at Banks, Ala. Dr. Geo. W. Bagley went to Ma con Wednesday. Mrs. Bruce Bothwell is visiting relatives in Troy, Ala. Mrs. Sara W. Bagley spent Wedr nesday in Americus. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ferguson visited Plains Saturday. The many friepds of Mr. W. T. Coke are sorry to know he is con fined to the bed from injuries re ceived in an automobile accident. Mrs. Harry Haddock, of Albany is visiting her mother, Mrs. Richard Purseley. | Mrs. Graddick and family, of I Birmingham, Ala., have returned I home after spending ten days with her daughter, Mrs James West. Mr. B. L. Bothwell and Mr. C. C. Womack, spent Wednesday in Americus. Mr. L. L. Wiggins attended the “political rally” in Americus Tues day evening. Mrs. Eshton Howe and daughter, Miss Edith Howe, of Leesburg, were visitors in DeSoto Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Luke visited Moultrie Sunday. Mrs. Lilia May Jones has return ed to Columbus after spending the week end her with helatives. “Who is boosting it?” she asked. “The boss and the sheriff are both doing it," said Timothy. “But you’ve got to admit they make good every thing they say, by the way they lick into it.” It did not surprise her to hear that Bob Wells was enjoying him self. 'What a joke it was! If he only knew! It was some satisfaction to know that you were doing a good job, even if you were conscripted. Timothy kept her informed of the progress of supper, and also made a I report of the conversation. “It turns out,” he said, “that oth er parties beside us have been get ting held up. The country gets aw ful wild when you’re this far from New York.” (Continued in Our Next Issue) PAGE THREE IMTICaiTOI a PRICES PREVAIL Survey of Week August 8-15 . Shows Improvement in Condi tion of Crop in Texas WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.—Cot ton prices during the week Os Au- - gust 8-15 were very erratic' With, fluctuatons broad, according to a ' , survey of ’the cotton trade issued by the United States Department o( Agriculture. Conflicting crop reports by the .... trade were in evidence, which swung prices both ways, but as a >- whole, an improvement in the con dition of the crop was indicated/ particularly in Texas, frpm which state reports came of lower teni i peratures and beneficial rains. Lack of serious bool-weevil damage so far this season has also a tendency to be construed as a bear factor. ' ' Only a moderate'business was re ported from the Southern spot markets with the Texas basis im proved on more inquiry from Euro pean interests. The average of the quotations for No. 5 or Middling spot cotton in the 10 designated spot markets was 27.68 on August 15 as compared with 28.27 on August 8. 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