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THURSDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 11, 1924
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The “Nervous Wreck,” an eccen
tric young easterner, driving Sa*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 form a
passing car.
They are held captive at a ranch
owned by Mr. Underwood, who was
in the car which they held up
They finally escape front the ranch
run into a camp of real bandits, are
captured a second time, and then
yseapagain. Fleeing from the ban
dit camp, they are confronted by
Sheriff Bob Wells and a companion.
Wells, who is Sally’s fiance, had
been leading a search for the “ban
dits” who held up Underwood.
Angered at the sheriff, Sally breaks
off the engagement and says she
is going to marry the Wreck. The
sheriff promptly places the Wreck
under arrest, and they move away.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY :
The prospect of going to jail did j
not disturb the Wreck. He did not :
take it very seriously. The main!
point was getting Sally back to j
peace and happiness. Whenever
they got through with him he would
go back to Pittsburg, where lie
might forget about things—or
might not. But before that every
thing must be made str tight and
smooth for Sally Morgan. Eng-ag
ed to her? He laughedat himself.
Not that there was any mirth in It,
but it was a form of self-mockery
for which he was in the mood.
The cavalcade was in the wood.-,
where Sally found it easier to fol
low the trail than she expected
Presently they came to a splitt
ing of the tral and Sally could not
be certain of her course.
Then she came to a second spot
where there was a confusion of
footprints and hoofprints, and this
she knew to be the place where she
and the Wreck had discovered ti-eir
mounts.
In the end, retracing of a wand
ering trail brought them to a place
that Sally and the Wreck instantly
recognized. It was the camp of
/the three-man gang. There was
little left but soaked embers, but
there was no opportunity for mis
take.
The sheriff dismounted and ex
amined the place attentively. II?
listened closely while Sally explain
ed everything, including the affair
of Denver and the thunderstorm.
She seemed to stress the part th?
Wreck had played.
The Wreck ieft the telling all to
her. When the sheriff b- gun walk-I
ing to and fro, studying the desert-j
ed camp, the Wreck found himself I
side by side with Sally. It was their I
first proximity since they had|
■mounted the horses at the foot of
the hill, miles back. He moved un
easily in his saddle.
He glanced at her, because it
seemed difficult not to do so. Sal
ly smiled encouragingly. But the.
smile robbed him of his wit.
“It’s a nice day,” he said.
She glanced up at the sky,
through the tree-tops, it was blue
and laughing now.
“Beautiful,” she answered.
“Not so warm as yesterday.”
“No; not so warm.”
He made a nervous gesture that
meant nothing in particular.
“But it’s likely to be warmer to
morrow,” he blurted.
“Yes,” said Sally.
“And it probably won’t rain.’
“Probably not.”
The conversation had exhausted
everything he dared to say. But she
would not let him alone.
“I thinik.” she ffiid, “that the
rest of the summe rwon’t be quite
so hot. It gets cooler at ninght,
you know.”
“Uh-huh.”
“But, of course, we can’t tell. W -
might have a hot wave.”
He looked at her suspiciously.
“Still we might not have it,” she
added. “It’s all luck.”
“Yes; luck,” he nodded.
Now she laughed outright.
“Henry r , please don’t 1 e absurd.
Scold me for something; jump all
•over me.”
“You’re all right,” said the Wreck
lamely.
“That’s not much, but it’s better
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Friday, Se: t L 12, 1924
$2.00 Round Trip
Ticket, on .ale morning trains only. Train leave. Americu. 6:51
a. m. connecting with .pecial train from Macon at Fort Valley.
Ample accommodations for both white and colored passenger,.
See Camp Benning, Special Military Maneuver,. Band Concert,;
special attration for colored people.
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“YOU’LL GET THE HORSE
WHEN I GET MY CAR RUNN
ING.”
than the weather,” said Sally.
He shook his head irritably. He
was miserable at heart ar.a he knew
he was ridiculous.
The merriment faded from Sally’s
face; the look in her eyes softened.
Poor Wreck!
“Just forget it,” she said. “I
didn’t mean anything.”
“Oh, that’s all right.”
“Thanks, old timer.”
From the desrted camp the quar
tet, captors and prisoners, rode over
to where the flivver ha dbeen left, j
It was ridiculously' easy to find itj
by daylight. When the Wreck ,aw j
the car he went into a black rage. I
The flivver was lying on its side I
in a clump of bushes with two
wheels in the air. It was plain!
enough that Nosey’s gang had undv.
taken to turn it around and head it
back toward the main road, but
she turnig room was limited, and
the thing had gone over for want of
a skilled hand.
The Wreck climbed down frvia
his horse and walked around his be
loved car, furious but saying noth
ing. Yet so far as he could see,
there was nothing radically wrong
with the flivver.
“Is it very much damaged, Hen •
ry-” asked Sally.
“No,” he answered, shortly.
“Will it run?” ’ 1
“Os course.”
They were still examining the 1
flivver when two men came down j
the abandoned road and hailed ti c
sheriff. They were the other half
of Bob Well’s posse.
“Good thing you got them
horses,” saaid one of them to Boni
Wells. “We need ’em. Bill and me
have been scoutin’ around while
you was gone and we’ve hit a hot,
trail. But there wasn’t any use
tryin’ to foiler it on foot. If were
quick we’ll nail ’em before sun-,
down.”
“I've nailed one of them already.'!
said the sheriv, with a glance at the'
Wreck.
“Who, him?” The newcomers
stared briefly. “Well, maybe. Only
he don’t belong with this bunch
we’ve got located. We better get
started, Bob.”
, But the sheirff was not ready to
start. The news from the dismount
edhalf of his posse put him in a
quandary. It was plain enough tt -t
what Sally and the Wreck said about
the gang- was true. He related what
he knew about the Wreck and ask- 1
ed for an opinoin.
One of the sheriff’s assistants was
a middle-aged man of solid appear
ance. He studied the Wreck with
shrewd eyes.
“Well, I don’t know anything
about him,” he. said, “but I know
we’ve got some other folks located
that we want bad. And you're
missin’ the chance of your life, Bob,
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Bob Wells was rapid!;.' reaching
the same conclusion. But wl.at
was he going to do about the
Wreck? He could not take him along
on a man hunt, for there was no
spare hors-.-. lie did not believe
that he really wanted him after all,
but he hated to let hi mgo, parcti
cularly when he looked at Sidle
Morgan. Even the man who had
been with him during the hunt oil.
the hills.de acted as though he did
not regard Henry Williams a? a per
son of particular importance, so far
as the law concerned “Sally.”
said the sheriff, suddenly, “I’m go
ing tomake you a deputy.”
“What for.”
| “I’m going to put this man in
Jour custody.”
Sally shook her head.
I “Oh. no no, you don't,” she said.
“Henry Williams is his own boss,
so far as I amconcerned.”
The sheriff reddened.
“I’ll need those horses for try
■men,” he said, with a nod at Sally
and the Wreck. “We‘ll try to come
back and give you a lift latter.”
Sally had never dismounted. Sh?j
was elated. She had never belicv ■
ed that Bob Wells would risk
taking the Wreck to jail. But the
Wreck remaianed in his saddle,
staring at the sheriff.
;i “You’ll get this horse when I get
.I my car running, and not before.”
'he said. “Think you can leave a
lady stranded out here in the
woods, do you?”
“Get down,” remarked the sher
iff, advancing.
“Wait,” remarked th? Wreck.
He indulged in a deliberate
1 pause. “Sheriff,” he said, “I’m a
nervous man and I’m apt to be im
pulsive and do things without con
sidering. But I’ve got this parti
cular thing all figured out to a
hair, and I wass cool and calm when
I figured it, Just as sure as you
i go off and leave Sally Morgan and
j me stranded in the woods I’m going
1 tto make the state of Montana too
| small to hold you.
I “I’ll start campaigning this coua-
I ty, and when I get through with it
i I’ll take the next one, and I'll go
1 through every county in the statu-,
' if it takes me the rest of my life
All I’ll do is to tell the truth. I ll
veil them how you chased your own 1
girl for days and days and didn’t
know it. I’ll tell the mvhat when j
she needed a horse she took your '
tmd left you half your posse on
foot. I’ll tell them how you let a I
stick-up gang go about its business
under your nose while you wen!
toss chasing your own friends and
acquaintances. I’il tell them aboiit
■ the cook you were going to marry,
1 but didn't. I'll tell them every lit
itle thing, from start to finish.”
| He paused again, for it was an ex
ceptionally long speech for the
i Wreck. The sheriff glowed at him.
I “And if you figure you can keep
| on being a sheriff in th ■ statte of
Montana after I get through,” c in
cluded the Wreck, “then I’ll .give
you a chance to find out by running
for sheriff myself.”
I Bob Wells hestitated. After all,
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1 hi* is the last homecoming of
Edward F. “Pop” Geers. The re
mains of the “grand old man of
the turf/’ are being carried into
the residence of his sister, Mrs.
Wallace Cunningham, in. Mem
phis, Tenn., where he had lived
for 20 years during the months
he was not racing. Hundreds of
old friends attended the funeral.
arcbeigearr nr etao seta etataoo
he was a pretty good sheriff, as Sal
ly always said, and when there was
a gang loose in his county he knew
his duty.
“And. of course,” said Sailv.
speaking up in a clear voice, “I’ll
tack up every word that Henry Wil
liams says.”
The sheriff swallowed his pride.
“What do you want me to do?”
he asked, looking at the Wreck.
“I want you and your men to
get busy and put that flivver on her
feet an 4 help get her out of here
so that Miss Morgan and myself can
go about our business.”
“Yes,” affirmed Sally.
Bob Wells turned to his men,
and caught one of them grinning
“We’ll have to hustle,” he said.
“It won’t take long.”
( Continued in Our Next Issue.)
LEGION PREPARES
FOR DEFENSE DAY
THOMASVILLE, Sept. 11.—Tm
committee from the Board of Di
rectors of the Y. M. C. A., which
has beep appointed by President W.
A. Watt to-- prepare for the an
nual campaign for memberships,
has definitely decided upon the
week of October 13th to carry on
this important work. This commit
tee w’ill begin at once to make plans
toward the perfection of an or
ganization, which they hope to
complete by October first.
CHICKEN SUPPER
With Hot Rolls for Saturday
Night
Orders taken for Pies and Cakes
TEA ROOM
JUST A FEW MORE
FANS
that will go at greatly reduced prices. .Also for sale
cheap one 1-h.p used motor; one new 5-h.p. motor,
one used 1 5-h.p. motor. All of standard makes.
W. W. M’NEILL
Hampton and Plum Street Phone 271
YOU WILL BE GLAD
When you see the pretty line of Baby Gifts, that we carry;
YOU WILL BE GLAD
That you gave us the opportunity to show you that we car
ry the nicest gifts to be had, in the jewelry line,
YOU WILL BE GLAD
When we show you our new specialties in Wedding gifts.
WE WILL BE GLAD
To have you call and see the beautiful gifts that we carry.
AMERICUS JEWELRY CO.,
Phone 229 Wallis, Mott, Mgr.
Fresh Creamery
Butter
Nowhere in this section of Georgia
will you find a Creamery that will give
you a higher grade of Pure Butter
than the Americus Ice Cream and
Creamery Company. Ask your grocer
to send you a pound of it, and after try
ing it, you are sure to say that it is the
best. If your grocer cannot supply
you, phone us and we ll see that you
are served.
Americus
Ice Cream and Creamery Co.
Cotton Avenue I. E. Wilson, Manager .Phone 645
LESLIE
Rev. and Mrs. H. J. Johnston arc
spending a couple of weeks
in South Georgia with relatives and
friends.
Mr, and Mrs. D. N. Jordan, of
Moultrie, are visiting at the home
of Dr, and Mrs. E. P. Anderson.
Miss Lola Speer left Saturday for
Cordele where she will t-ach in the
High School.
Matijson Sumerford is able to
be out again after being confined
to his bed for several weeks with
fever.
Mr. R. B. Clifton, who went to
Jacksonville, Fla., some time ago to
work, will move his family there in '
a few days.
Miss Ruth Ranew left Fridaj- fo,’
Atlanta where she will teach His
tory and English in the High
School at College Park.
William B. Perry, who has been
in Ft. Davis, Ala. for several
months was called home Tuesday on
account of the illness of his sister.
Miss Lizzie Kate Perry.
Mr. Roy Wade, of Macon, spent
Tuesday night here with his mother,
Mrs. Sallie Wade.
Sam Welch, of Preston, is spend
ing the week with his ~ister, Mrs.
H. G. Blackshear.
Miss Ruth Harvey left Monday
for Athens where she will attend
school at the Stgte Normal.
Mrs. Walker Carter is spending
the week with her mother, Mrs
Destroys Malarial
Germs in the Blood
and Restores Energy
Grove's
Tasteless
Chill Tonic
60c.
Nona Stewart.
Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Wellborn, of
Atlanta, spent several days iust
week here with Mrs. A. T. John
son.
DAVIS-BRYAN CLUB
ACTIVE IN FULTON
ATLANTA, Sept. ll.—Drawing
attention to arrangement:; which
have been made to plae'? boxes f »
enrollment of members in the Geo-.
gia Davis-Bryan club to each voting
precinct in Fulton county today.
Walter McElreath, president of ike
statewide democratic campaign or
ganization, issued a statement Tuc-s
--| daj' ■, which he called on <rvm*j r
| man ami woman in the state “who
I calls himself or herself a democrat”
■ to join the club.
I Dues in the organization which
i has been form ’d for the purpose of
drawing out the heaviest possible
vote for the democratic ticket in
the national presidential clectiSn
next November, arc $1 all of which
goes to the naational campaign, ho
said.
Charles D. McKinnev of Decatur
and Mrs. Alonzo Richardson, of At
lanta, have been selected as vice
chairmen of the Davis-Bryan club
in the fifth Georgia congressional
district and they are working in
close cooperataion with Mr. Me-
Elreath and the statewide ograniza
tion.
ATLANTA SCHOOLS TO
CLOSE DEFENSE DAY
ATLANTA, Sept. 11.—All city
school will close at noon on Natio
nal Defense Day to enable the child
ren to witness the exercises and
take part in the celebration, ac
cording to Professor Willis Sutton
I superintendent of city schools.
Prenarations are being made for
one of the most impressive patriotic
celebrations in the history of At
lanta, and the American flag will be
displayed from every available floint
nf vantage, according those in
charge of arrangements.
‘ YOUR DRUGGIST IS MORE THAN
A MERCHANT”
Any Child Can Sell Soap
Your Prescriptions Filled Only By College of Pharmacy
Graduates
At—
MURRAY’S PHARMACY
The Rexall Store Opposite P. O.
CUSTOM HATCHING
DIAMOND POULTRY FARM
Phone 845
Eggs set in our Mammoth incubator every Tuesday at 3c
per egg in tray lots; 4c in less than tray lots. Now is the
time to hatch off your chicks for fifty and sixty-cents-a
pound fryers and broilers.
We have large orders for baby chicks, and we will help
you sell your hatch, if they are of pure bred stock. Chicks
hatched in the fall are easier to raise than at any other time
of the year and grow faster.
CL a Ss/fleZ>aDj
FOR SALE
FOR SALE—One bed room suite,
one breakfast room suite, odd
dining room table, and kitchen fur
niture. Price right to quick pur
chaser. See Alton Cogdell. —9-ts
FRESH FALL STOCK Garden and
Farm Seed. T. J. Wallis Garden
and Farm Seed Dept. 30-ts
FOR SALE —Coal, Coal, Coal. I j
will sell you SIO.OO quality Red
Ashe Coal for $8.50 per ton until
October Ist. After that dat e this
coal will cost you more. Save
money by ordering now. C. J.
Clark, phone 303. —11-3 t
FOR SALE —The new Registration
Lists are now ready for distri
bution. Come and get yours. The
Times-Recorder.
FOR SALE— Thoroughbred bull
puppies by G. W. Walters, Unit-
ed Grocery Co. —9-3 t
FOR SALE—Fresh water bream
and trout today. Sherlock & Co.
—lO-2t
LOST AND FOUND
FOUND A cool place in Ameri
cus at Rylander theater “Where
Ocean Breezes Blow.”—30-tf.
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FOUND —A place to buy fresh wat
er bream and trout. Sherlock &
Co.—lo-2t
STOLEN —Girl’s red bicycle. Re
ward if returned to A. C. Crock
ett.— 9-ts.
FOR RENT
FOR RENT Small 5-rom residence
Forrest street. See George M.
Bragg.—2-ts. .
rOR RENTr-Six roonr hou.se cor
ifei* Glessher and Eln; ayenue. G-
FOR RENT—Furnished bed room
with private entrance and con
necting bath. Airs. JI. B. Mash
>urn. —10-3 t
PAGE THREE
ANNISTON MAY BAR
CIRCUS ATTRACTION
ANNISTON, Ala., Sept. .11.—
Everything is set for the Special
meeting of the city council to
night, which has beep called to
vote on an ordinance, which v.>ll
prohibit < ircuses carnivals of
similar attractions from playing in
the city fifteen days before, or
advertise to play in the city fifteen
days aftefr the county fair, or home
products exhibition. At this speci
al meeting a new bond ordinance
will be presented, also, it is an,-
nounced.
This meeting is being held in
response to many requests from
officers of the Junior Chamber of
Commerce, who will ask that the
ordinance be adopted in order
that the county fair, planned here
, for the week beginning Ocjobti 1
! 7, will be without competition of a
; circus, which has secured a F
■ cense contract for the opening
day of the fair. Should the circua
, exhibit here it will mean the fi
nancial ruin of .the fair, the offi
cials assert.
Now the Chicago murdef case is
over, supper won’t be late.
AN liXlin-ARATING EFFECT
A bottle of Ilerbine on the shelf at
home is like having a doctor in the bouse
all the time. It gives instant relief when
the digestion gets out of order or the
bowels fail to act. One or two doses is
all that is necessary to start things mov
ing and restore that fine feeling of exhil
aration and buoyancy of spirits which lie-’
longs only to perfect health. Price 60c,
Sold by
Americus Drug Co.
Carswell Drug Co.
Hall’s Catarrh Medicine
These who are in a “run-down” cond!*
tion will notice that Catarrh bothers them
I much more than when they are in Rood
health. This fact proves that while
Catarrh is a local disease, ft is grAtly
influenced by constitutional conditions.
HAIX’S CATARRH MEIJICIKB is a
Combined Treatment, both Ic-arajid in
ternal, and has been successful in the
treatment of Catarrh for over forty venra.
Sold by all ’druggists. *
F. J. Cheney & Co.. Toledo. Ohio.
MISCELLANEOUS
AMERICUS BUSINESS’ COLLEGE
Fall term opens Sept. Ist, Miss
Lillian Braswell, Prop. Personal in
structors. Bookkeeping, Shorthand,
Typewriting, English, Spelling.
Slathematics, Commercial Lawj
Penmanship. Positions guaran-
teed. Phone 11.7, I*. O. Box 254.
—BOO.
MISS PAULINE BELL will open
her School of Music September
15, teaching piano and violin. I’hontf
688 for registration.—2-1 ot
VLOLIN, PIANO OR HARP stu
dents desiring instructions under
conservatory graduate and experi
enced teacher, phone 456, Mrs. IS.
C. White.—s-6t
WANTED
WANTED—Iron safe in good con
dition; good size. See or write
H. P. Watts, Treasurer, Sumter
County—B-ts.
WANTED Several first class
plumbers. Open shop. Dollar
an hour. Long’ jcb. Address 11.
S. Bonnell, Sarasota, Fla. —6-7 t
WANT TO RENT a small five or
six room house from the first of
fifteenth of October. Must be in
good condition and have modern
Conveniences. Address Box 360.
WANTED- -Ladies of Americus to
come and get large cull Keifer
pears, 25c bushel. O. L. Thompson*
Smithville, Ga.~ll-2t
WANTED—Second-hand baby car
riage in good condition, cheap.
Phone 443.—1 l-£t
IF YOU HAVE any peanuts to be
picked, we will be glad to pick
them for you. Terms right. Cooglai
and Head, Box 53, Oglethorpe, Ga..
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FOR SALE—Qne roll top desk in
good condition. Price very
cheap to Apjdy J. »
P. J.uther, Churchwells slm-v,