About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 23, 1924)
PAGE FOUR TIMIS-RS CCIDU fcsusmd Ptrtlislbed by The Times-Recorder Co., vine./ Lovelace Ere. Editor an»l Publisher t>t«r M 4m» «*itM U il» MMMUflat M AjDMt ..’ ». 4<«wnpK iu«a(4i< t« '■*• Act *4 C«f*. TVt .Wmrv.MW Pnwa • MCltif ' *• if a* >jt Jn# vspuiidtaiHAj d *3 new* iMh M£g>«« u l <n oc< ABorwiM* .reUitea <• 7a?«ar *aa ei* he uoU --w» ’UDdfectru % 4J r<'j at -epubiHMtioa it «v«cUm d*p<«»aiw» .•w rw wr»<w Zwautw*. *WST ♦V " *■' i 9ff.aw.Jt Bt4* '** «• ’ '*•' - “ j A THOUGHT | Like a father pitieth his children* so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.—Ps. 103:13. » ♦ * Pity melts the mind to love Dryden. In the Heart of Americus Many, many times have we heard the name of Walter Fur low during the past six years. Every one in Americus seems to have known and loved him. Wightman F. Melton, writing in the Atlanta Georgian a few days ago, paid this tribute to the former news editor of The Times-Recorder: There are only three cities in the United States with the name Americus. They are in Geor gia, Kansas and Missouri. In Americus, Ga., a little while ago, there was the only Colonel J. Walter Furlow in the world. Browning says, “Open my heart heart and you will see, ’graved inside of it, ‘ltaly. ” Open the heart of Americus, Ga., and you will find, ’graved inside of it, “Colonel Walter.” Mayor Quimby Melton now with the International Proprie taries, Inc., formerly city editor of The Atlanta Constitution, and prior to that time editor of the Times-Recorder, Ameri cus. says it is doubtful if the State of Georgia ever had a more versatile writer than J. Walter Furlow, who for many years was city editor of The Times-Recorder. “Colonel! Wal>- ter,” as he was known to every body in Southwest Georgia, was a character all to himself. It is probable that no more bril liant mind than his ever graced the newspaper profession in Georgia. Colonel Furlow “broke in” on The Times-Recorder in the early eighties and for more than twenty years was on the job every day in the year—with no vacation at all. His constant delight was to brighten the pages of his little daily paper. Most of what he wrote never went further than the circulation lim its of his paper; but many of his routine stories are a real contri bution to Georgia literature, and would make as interesting reading, if collected in book form, as Longstreet’s “Georgia Scenes,” in an Augusta paper, and Thompson’s “Major Jones’ courtship,” in a Madison paper. J6c4 Chandler Harris doubtless would have been pleased to place -th m side by side with his “Uncle Remus” stories. Walt Furlow had certain peculi arities. He refused to learn to write pn a typewriter. He was correspondent for many years of the state papers. Every line he sent in was in long hand. He always said, “I can’t think when a typewriter is pecking away.” News in a small city such as Americus was twenty years ago, was scarce; but there was always a certain amount of space to be filled. Furlow was “city editor” in name; but he was, in fact, managing editor, city editor, star’ reporter, cub reporter, copy boy, make-up man; and, when things got in a rush, he often helped to feed the old flat-bed press on which the paper was then print ed. Walt Furlow was never hap pier than when he was writing. He even reveled in those days when there was no sport news and he was forced to grind out copy from his fertile brain. The files of The ' Himes-Re corder reveal many a classic de scription of a Georgia barbecue. On one occasion he devoted a column and a half to a negro mul let supper describing, in detail, the “creations” worn by the cooks and washerwomen of Amer icus. Recently, The Times-Recorder, in a column on its editorial page, headed “Twenty Years Ago in Americus,” copied the following “news” item, which is typical of “Colonel Walter’s” own style: “Miss Jennie Jones and' Bob Smith were married at the Jones mansion last night. The bride is a daughter of Constable Jones, who is a good officer and will un doubtedly be re-elected this spring. Ke offers a fine horse for sale in another column. The groom runs a grocery store on Main street and is a good patron of our ad columns and has a fine lot of bargains this week. All summer he paid more for butter than any other merchant in town. The happy couple left on the 10 o’clock train for Pawson to visit the bride’s uncle, who is report ed to have lots of money and Bright’s disease.” Colonel Walter Furlow could write about anything and make it interesting. He knew exactly what to say to please all classes of society. If he had had the opportunity he would have made a larger name for himself as a descri , ive writer. It was “Colonel Walter,” the friend and neighbor, as well as Editor 1 urlow, who so endeared himself to his section of the j state that he will live forever in the heart of Americus—-in the heart of Southwest Georgia. The memory of Walter Fur low will live for many, many many years in the minds and hearts of the men and women of .Americus. He was a news genius, peculiarly fitted, in mind and temperament, to fill the place he occupied on the Times- Recorder. Rulers of the Earth The real rulers of the earth are the land owners. Dirt is man’s safest investment. A tired man, figuratively chained to an office desk or a work bench or a store counter and yearning for the great out door freedom that people had before the coming of "effi ciency," must have sighed en viously if he caught this little news item: William Ingram of England, sues a New Yorker for a balance of $5500 due on the purchase of the island of Little Tobago in the West Indies. The New Yorker claims the Englishman told him there were 600 birds of-paradisg on Little Tobago. The buyer figured on selling these birds of gorgeous plumage to millionaires whose estates they were to ornament. Instead, he says, he found only 12 of the birds. The thing that will interest the reader most is that the en tire island, a tropical paradise in the wonderful climate of the West Indies, sold for only $lO,- 000. Imagine being able to buy such a place. There vou would be king. The lure of the South Seas is not the hula dancers nor the weird wailing of ukulele and steel guitar. What fascinates people is the idea of the free dom from worry and work sup posed to be an inevitable ac comoaniment of island life. Here is Little Tobago, for in stance, selling for SIO,OOO. There must be thousands of such islands. It is a marvel that people do not save their money, buy these little kingdoms and go there to live—far from the in come tax, politicians, traffic regulations, city stenches, nasty dispositions of nerve-wracked people, and the other discom forts of “civilization.” How’d you like to round up your friends and their families, buy an island and flee for good from the maddening crowd? Radio and newspapers and magazines would keep you in touch with most of the things you’d miss. It is impossible for any man to be "monarch of all he sur veys.” The closest approach is to own a strip of land. There is no greater pleasure than the realization that a definite section of the earth belongs to you, even if encumbered by a mortgage. Few of us can escape the "sys tem" and live on tropical is lands. But we all can own a house and lot in our home town or a small patch of ground with a "shack" and garden out in the country where a cow, a few chicks and freedom await those who desire quiet and content ment. Xi' &is In New York, a boy died from eat ing face cream and we hope this is a warning against petting parties. Dresses, they say, are getting shorter to match bobbed hair, so here’s hoping they never shave their heads. Chicago prisoners are kicking about the way the place is run, and it really is said to be too confining. Every man says the country w ill go to the dogs if he isn’t elected, but it never has come true. All the good men are not dead. From the suith filed autoists run across a few now and then. Breaking a mirror is seven years’ bad luck and breaking a law may be seventy years worse luck. In Boston, a neighbor's rent was cut because the landlord’s baby cried at night. Atta baby! Some business men travel around so much when they do eat at home they look for the menu. WHISKY ROW ENDS IN DEATH OF MAN TOCCOA, Ga., Oct. 23.—Alex Holcomb, 18, charged with stabbing Herschell Acree to death about 5 miles from here, will go on trial in Stephens court next week, it was announced by court officials here today. Holcomb is liel lin the coun ty jail without bond. The stabbing is said to have oc curred in a fight over liquor. Hol comb claims that he stabbed Ocree to death when the latter advanced on him with a large stick and that he acted in self-defense, off.cers sa y. . A B o’s® Eevery little youngster knows the famous A ,B, C that the teacher harps on daily in the school. I mean the kind that start with A and end with X, Y, Z. You have them in your lessons as a rule. But, do you know the modern brand; the brand that means so much? Just study them and think them over twice. They’re worthy ot your thought if you can get the proper touch and realize they’re based on good advice. The A stands for Always do as Mom and Daddy say, and Ask no questions ’cept when you’re in Old Days In Americus TEN YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times-Recroer. Oct. 23, 1914.) Americus is going to celebrate tonight. Every man, woman and child in the city is invited to at tend a big open-air mass meeting at 8 o’clock. The meeting will be held to stimulate interest in a greater Americus. Good times are ahead for the city and Americus feels like celebrating. L. G. Council, candidate for mayor, was elected to office yester day over E. A. Lockett and Lee Allen by the largest vote that has ever been given a candidate for RESULTS Bankers express worry because it’s estimated that 400 million dol lars are hidden away behind the clock and similar places by hoarders who do not trust banks. This money should be working and earning more for its owners, incidentally creat ing jobs. But for every $1 hoarded $46 are banked as saving deposits. Behold, here, the result of educational cam paigns conducted by bank advertis ing in newspapers. Hoarding and fear’ of banks were common a gen eration ago. Now they are excep tional. • ♦ » killers One Indian in every five, on res ervations in our country, has tu berculosis or tranchoma, a medical association learns. Nevertheless, the full-blooded In dian population is increasing steadi ly. Disease doesn’t matter as much as the power of resistance —the body’s ability to fight and hold m check invading germs. The Indian , Hacked by diseases brought by tli .ate man, are more than holding heir own because they live in th healthful outdoors. Confine them in cities and one generation wo ulu virtually wipe them out. Health is out in the fresh air and quite. • • » WARNINGS Nature looks after us. She will not permit anything that w>uld make us live longer than she in tends. But she does want us to live our intended time. As cities become larger and more congested, their residents' health averages worse. Epidemics may be prevented, but the “all in” or half ill feeling multiplies. A man can be 50 per cent dead and still not be statistically sick. Quite obviously, nature is attack ing the man’s health 'o warn him to get out where he was intended to live—close to nature. The airplane will make escape possible. » ♦ « REDS A cablegram from Moscow says the latest official statistics show the Communist party in Russia has only 336,000 member?. In a country with million ■ of peo ple, that would be government by minority’ in its most extreme degree, But how much can you believe, of what supposedly comes out of Rus sia? , ... ‘ ‘ TAXES Ten thousand million dollars and more was the cost of government in our country in 1923. This includes national, state and local expendi tures. It’s claimed (that sls out of every SIOO of the people’s income: went for government—s9l apiece during the year. This is what you are paying sci the privilege of voting. Are you go ing to use that privilege? ... GLUTTON Suppose you could collect aH the wages and salaries paid by every manufacturing plant in the Uah.ec States. Pooling it, you would have just enough to cover the cost of na tional, state and local bovernmon’ claims National Industrial Confer ence Board. The public has left its ineom< from farming, transportation, wbok saleing, retailing and other brane’.e of business that are not include, in manufacturing. The high cost of government i; one of the main factors in high cost of living. Economists foresaw this before we entered the war, [citizens didn’t. . THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER » doubt. They’ll always gladly tell you why they want each thing its way and it never gets you anywhere to pout. The B means Be considerate of grown-ups that you know. Beware of being selfish or unkind. Be mindful of the fact that you are young until you grow, and you will be much happier, you’ll find. The C means Cause your mother and your father to be glad. Con sole them with caresses, if you please. Then also catch the mean ing of the lesson you have had, that’s taken from the modern A B C’s. mayor in a city primary. Harvey Weaver, popular clerk of the city was elected by a vote of 617 to 227 over his opponent, Mr. Samuel Harri son. John Ed Chapman and S. L. Sills were elected on the police com mission. Nine girls of the High School set have organized a bridge club which they will call the N. D. Club. The members are Misses Catherine Davenport, Annie Ivey, Martha Dedman, Flora Denhma, Edith Jer sey, Mary Parker, Hazel Case, Maude Sherlock, and Kathleen Den ham. Jeff Taylor came down from Buena Vista this morning to get the election result and join in the gene ral felicitation which will be Jet loose here tonight. Miss Frances Chappell of Rich land, is an attractive visitor here the guest of her sister, Mrs. Boyce Woodard. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times-Recroer. Oct. 23, 1904.) A handsome young furniture dealer here is putting new furniture into his Lee stree residence. The outlook is both promising and eddia fying. A school of instruction has been opened at the Seaboard shops where employes will be instructed in the use of airbrake appliances aboard trains. Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Smithwick .returned yesterday from St. Loui and are at home at their pretty resi dence on Brooklyn Heights. The many personal friends of Mr. James A. Pinkston, in fact che voters of Americus generally, will ote with pleasure his announce ment for aldermanic honors. He i. ,v;st completing his first term a< a ember of the board, and it an be id in all truth that Americus never hod a more painstaking an : , conscientious official in that cap Clements is intcrestei u ; ii:> -nno.-ncement that he is nov -h the Ocean Steamship Co, ; > • ravelling passenger agent, wit; I icadquarters in Savannah. I THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times-Recorder. Oct. 23, 1894.) The forces are now well organi -1 zed and active work for the re-clee l cion of Speaker Crisp has already - begun. Yesterday the committs for : the citys districts were made up as follows: Frank Lanier, T. N. Haw » kes, B. H. Jossey, John Windsor, i J. B. Pilsbury, J. E. D. Shipp, H. B. • Council, J. H. Albritton, J. B. La- - mar, J. W. Mize, D. C. N. BurkhuL J ter, Dan Autrey, J. O. Battle, W. B. ? Heys, I. N. Mott, W. T. McMath, Tom Guice, T. S. Glover, Georg? - Wheatley, George Stapleton, J. A. 1 Ansley, Jr. > Mr. Thomas Gresham of this city, ? has in his possession a bottle 118 years old. It was made in Phila delphia in 1776 and bears upon its side a likeness of George Washing s ton. It has been in Mr. Greshams ? immediate family for more than fifty r years. Col. and Mrs. W. T. Lane rc- - turned’ yesterday from Shellman where Mrs. Lane has been spending • a week with her parents, Capt. and f Mrs. Crittendon. Capt. John A. Cobb and Col. S. H. Hawkins left yesterday for At lanta where they go f a- a few days on important business. : NEW ERA Mrs. Z. A. Bailey, of Americus, was a visitor at the home of Mr. s and Mrs. M. C- Veal last week, e Mrs. Harriet Harden, Miss Mollie Harden and Mrs. W. B. Bradley r were visitors at the home of Mr. i- and Mrs. T. A. Bradley Friday aft ernoon. Mrs. S. M. Par.ker was a visitor at the home of Mrs. S. S. Ledger e Thursday afternoon. y Misses Martha Carter and Irene d Beard were visitors at the homes of e Misses Florrie Bailey and Eva Hill i- Sunday. h . Miss Della Giles and C. C. •- Harden spent Friday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Bray at their e home near Vienna. e Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Parker, Mr. s and Mrs. R. P. Parker, Mrs. H. A. d Parker and children were Sunday visitors at the home of Mr and Mrs. s W. A. Parker. t Miss Della Loper spent Sunday s and Sunday night here with Mr. a and Mrs. Charlig Griffin. 4 Mr. and Mrs. J. r. Lane, Mrs. OUR BOARDING HOUSE By Ahem SNY BV LhDS I A HhSW • > f THE.V ME. ’THfXT / H/WE- E.XCE.PTIONfX\- * E.XVT WOULD BE. TH BEST VIERE ft FEW VIEMC I SftW'EM DO THEm H £ Zoo sXotE U ™- SPOTS ~THE« SW T. L WBUCI- WHKT Tot wkt when th- F fe KIND OF BN NT 00 / I ENCQRE euRTNN X ( THEY PUT ON W , V f* °X.TTOTH°k R TT [ J ? FIXMEf— I LOOK ft IF 9 < FOR THEM TO BE } U ST I HENOLINERS IN I VauDEX/ILLL BEFORE/ V LONG ' = aW ■i X. - I z- 1 B B I — Kt J ft I p /if r ® xiT nI. r / M 1 MIHE MAJOR POLISHES UP DUGAN AC i } B. J. Lane, Wade Land and Mr. and. Sam McNeally were visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Bradley. Mr. and Mrs. Afex Harden were Sunday visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Parker. Mr. and Mrs. W. T. O. Bray spent Sunday with Mrs. M. C. Har ris at her home near Huntington. Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Griffin and Young son Leonard Loper were vis itors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Coople Monday. Hugh and Louise Bray spent Sunday at the home of their grand mother, Mrs. S. M. Parker. Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Mercer were visitors at the home of their daugh ter, Mrs. A. D. Autry Sunday. Several from here went to the circus in Americus Monday. Mrs. A. D. Aurty, Misses Bessie and Eunice Autry visited relatives here Monday afternoon. Mrs. W. E. Carter and Mrs. E. W. Parker were visitors at tho home of Mrs. T. A. Bradley Mon day afternoon. Two heads of bobbed hair to run your fingers through may often be much safer than one. NOTICE! Pursuant to a resolution and ordi nance passed by the Mayor and City Council of Americus on the second day of October, instant, calling a bond election to determine whether street improvement bonds in the sum of sixty thousand dollars should be issued and fixing the date of said election as the fifth day of No vember, 1924, notice is therefore hereby given that an election will be held at. the usual voting place in the City Hall in the City of Amer icus, on the fifth day of November, 1924, to determine whether an is sue of serial bonds in the amount of sixty thousand dollars shall be issued by the Mayor and City Coun cil of Americus for the purpose of street improvement within the city. The polls will be open at 9 o’clock a. m. and close at 6 o’clock p. m., for the purpose of holding this elec tion on November fifth, proximo. Said bonds shall be issued January l, 1925, shall bear interest at 4 1-2% per annum, which interest shall be paid semi-annually on the first day of January and the first day of July of each year, after their issuance. Said bonds shall be issued in denominations of one thousand dollars each, two of which bonds shall be retired on the first day of January of each year after their issuance, for a period of thirty years. The amount of mon ey necessary to be collected an nually by a special levy for this purpose to pay the annual interest on this entire issue of,said bonds and to retire two of said bonds an nually will be two thousand dollars for the purpose of retiring two of said bonds each year and $2700.00 for the purpose of paying interest on the entire amount for 1925, the first year after issuance, and the amount levied and collected to pay interest on the unpaid bonds of this issue will be decreased each year for the entire period of thirty years by the sum of ninety dollars, so that the last year of said period of thirty years, to-wit, 1954, a suf ficient sum to retire the last two outstanding bonds of this issue amounting to two thousand dollars and the interest on same, amount ing to ninety dollars, must be levied and collected for this purpose. The registration books for this elec tion are now open and will be kept open until the last Saturday im mediately preceding the date for which the election is herein called and will be closed at 5 o’clock p. m. on said last Saturday before the date of said election. A. D. GATEWOOD*.JR., ... filerfc and Treasurer. THURSDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 23. ]g FOR QUICK SERVICE AND HEAVY HAULING PHONE 121 WOOTTEN TRANSFER CO. Office in Americue Steam Laundry SOUTH JACKSON STREET WANTED ! All of your Frying size Chickens —hens and eggs. Americus Hatchery and Supply Co. I CIAIVS made on Improved lands at cheap est rates for terms of 5,7 or 10 years with pre-payment option given Money secured promptly. We have now outstanding over $1,100,000 on farms in Sumter county alone, with plenty more to lend. MIDDLETON McDONALD Correspondent Atlanta Trust Co., n Sumter, Lee, Terrell, Schley, Vlacon, Stewart, Randolph and Webster counties. 21 Planters Bank WiiJding. .* merictw Ga. Phone AS .. »i • NOTICE City Taxes Nov Due All citv taxes are. now due and ho pa’d before Pacember I. avo’d ■ i-’tra co-:t '.vhiv-b will b assessed afteit Deqeniter 1- A D Gat.’ w.- '• i. Clerk mid T<T-a-?m-a,. ’ RAILROAD SCi-IEDUI.ES Ait. ai ant. Departure of Train;--, Americus, Ga. Central of Georgia Ry. Central Standard Time Arrive Depart 12:01 am Cols-Bghm-Chgo 3:45 am '2:37 am Chgo-St. L., At! 2.53 an; 1:54 am Albany-Jaxvil’e 3:45 am 2:53 am Albny-Jaxville 12.37 an '8:45 am Cin-Atl-Chgo 1:54 am 3:45 am Albny-Jaxville 12:01 am 5:29 am Macon-At'anta 10:35 pm 6:51 am Albany 6:47 pm 10:20 am Columbus 3:15 »m 1:55 pm. Albany-Montg’y 2:15 pm 2:15 pm Macon Atlanta 1:55 pm 3:10 pm Albany 10:22 am 6:47 pm Macon-Atlanta 6:51 am 10:35 pm Albany-Montg’y 5:29 am SEABOARD AIR L’NE (Central Time) Departs ■ 0:05 am Cordeie-Hel’na 5:15 pm 2.26 pm Cols-M’t’g’y 3:10 pm 3:10 pm Cordelfc-Savh 12:26 pn kichlvnd-Cnl. !O-0S «n- Americus Undertaking Co. 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