About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 4, 1924)
PAGE FOUR IF’EVERY ONE IN SUMTER COUNTY VISITS OUR FAIR ONE TIME IT WILL BE A SUCBESS 1 1 I M K S REC <- *D K B rcßusHtD un Published by Tb» Titnes-Recorder Co., Lovelace Eve. Editor and Publisher Cnwrr* 4 m yrood eiw mat tot at ih« poturffigg a« ACNn.ru* Gaontfa. according to th* hot at Ihe Awociated Fro** it exclotlraly Mtitk' t« tv act* for the republication of all news 4W- Mtcbea credited to it or net otberwiae credited to <bM paper and also the local -*•*• pobHehed bore* "t ill right of repubbcatioa of apecial HUpalehee me also received. National Adeertiaini Repreaestatlreli, fßttS‘l .ANDIS A KOHN, branawieb bldg. Rew Yetto. efunka Gat Bldg. Chicago A THOUGHT | The ante are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in tho rummer. —Krov. 30:25 • » » Look ere thou leap, :ee ere thou go.—Thomas Tusser. Shall We Progress? Vote For Bonds The men and women of Americus, who ai;e registered, will vote tomorrow on the street emergency paving bonds. The mayor and council have asked for $60,000 to be used in re-paving the wood block street?, and their request should be granted. The present mayor and coun cil have been re-elected and will serve for another term, so the expenditure of this money will be made by them- It is our opinion, as well as the opinion of many others who have watched the present mayor and council, that they have and will continue to administer the affairs of the city as few other councils have done. They have reduced the floating debt; they have remained inside their bud “* ■get arrangements and thei? re quests should be granted. ' In deciding how you will vote, these questions should be kept in mind: v.li. It is now costing as much or more to repair these streets as the interest and principal on the bonds amount to. The cost of repairs will in crease each year, and this ex penditure is a pure waste of money. Under the wood blocks is a splendid sub-pavement of con crete which soon will begin to to pieces and crumble un- less a permanent paying is now laid. If that concrete base is _ allowed to disintegrate, the cost of re-paving will be double what it will require today. . The wood blocks are unsani tary, unsightly and are causing a tremendous depreciation on ev ery automobile that goes over them. It is one of the worst ad vertisements the city has. r The passage of these bonds .will NOT increase your tax rate : nor will it increase your tax as jsessments. We have the word of •the mayor and the members of for this. The passage of the bonds will NOT prevent the mayor and council from retiring the floating debt. It will not af jfect’ that debt at all. Every dollar from the sale of fbonds will go! into the streets on ’.which there are wood blocks. ‘Not one cent will be diverted to ■ any ofher use. It can not be and Jwill not be. Street corner gos sip to the effect that a part of ’.the bond money will be used to retire some of the floating debt 5? without authority and is a re flection on the honesty and in tegrity of the mayor and every .member of council. The Times- Recorder would be the first to ‘ expose them if they should at tempt to do such an illegal r thing. ‘ The bonds can be issued le gally. We have the opinion of several attorneys on that ques- as well as the opinion of . bend experts So don’t let that ‘point worry you. The bonds can not pass un less three-fourths of the register ed voters actually vote, regard less of whethey they vote for or against the bonds- Os those voting, one half must vote for bonds, or they are lost. Unless those men and wo men who favor the passage of bonds get busy tomorrow the i issue will not be passed. Work ers at the polls and automobiles will be needed. Every man 1 and woman who is registered should be requested to vote and it is up to the citizens to put 2 the bond issue over. * Valdosta citizens almost j unanimously voted as 2 70,000 bond issue last week. Albany : is paving and re-paving her 1 streets. There is scarcely a i town in South Georgia that is not making some progress along ; this line, and we know’ of no town that has turned down a feond issue in the past year for permanent improvements. Is Americus and her citizens less progressive? Is our city to lag in the procession of prog ress that is to sweep South Geor gia in the next few years? Can we afford to allow our streets to become mud valleys? Wouldn’t it be the height of folly to refuse to spend today when we KNOW that the cost will be very much gi eater a year or two years hence? There isn’t a finer town nor a Tner people th?.n those who come to Americus. We arc ii- Hally scupd and finan cially able to move forward To refuse to ratify this issue of at' 000 would be a step back ward. The answer to all of these questions must be made tomor row by every man and every woman who is registered. VOTE FOR THOSE BONDS. Unfortunate Errors In the rush and hurry of a newspaper office occasional er rors will occur. Some of them are amusing, others more seri ous. In an interview yesterday with Judge Crisp, he said, speaking of his experiences in Indiana in the presidential campaign: “Up in Indiana I was forced to follow Senator Watson, an able Republican spellbinder, who was going over his state waving the bloody shirt. Some how he can’t forget that th ecivil war ended 60 years ago. In following him I told those Indiana folks that if Abraham Lincoln were on earth today there was not a square foot in Dixie that would not welcome him. I told them that their boys and our boys fought and died to forget that the civil war ended and that so far as we in the South were concerned, the evd war and its horrors were forgot ten. When the Linotype operator set the above paragraph he left out one word and changed an other, making the interview read: “In following him I told those Indiana folks that if Abraham Lincoln were on earth today there was not a ‘fool’ in Dix'e that would not welcome him.” Judge Crisp’s sense of humor, no doubt, prevented the editor from receiving a justly merited complaint. Flies travel at the late of fie feet a second, but it takes them all summer to leave you alone. Most suicides occur in midsum mer, so this is one thing which can not be blamed upon the price of coal. More than 800,000 women pay in come tax in this country, but most of them are either already married or ugly. The average brunet has 46 miles of hair on her head and a few acres on her comb. But the average b'ond has 90 miles of hair, which may be why they are considered faster. There are 926,000 motorcycles in Great Britain, it being illegal to kill a motorcycle driver there. Even though daily oroduction of tires in Akron has reached 70,000, no puncture shortage is reported. There is one motor vehicle for every 7.2 people in the United States, the fraction p'obably be ing father. Thomas Edison eats spinach, to matoes, carrots and sardines three times a day. Anyway, they claim he does. Learning to write shorthand is very easy. The only difficult part is reading it afterward. The dingo or wild dog of Aus tralia catches sheep, real sheep and not the kind the st >ck market catches. Egyptian ivory often cracks in temperate zones, so should never be used in congressional heads, WOMAN KILLED IN LEAP FROM WINDOW HARRISBURG, Pa, Nov. 4. The body of a wonvan who register ed at the Penn-Harris notel here Saturday night as Mirs Norma C. Kelly, Syracuse, N. Y., was found Monday upon the roof of a build ing adjoining the hotel. Her d?ath, physicians decided, was due to in juries resulting from a fal! or from jumping from a hall window on the fifth floor, where her lOvm was lo cated. The woman was at mt 35 years old. She occupied tie room Sat urday night, but about 1.30 o'clock this morning it was so ind vacant, and several hours later ti e body was discovered. \ " ahp if '>bu sTuttf macp anp /APE W A X ZTT’V-I ( oPLE | GeT SOUE LESSONS, jOAieDAV Vpo ( Wjcow I \ I’M A CI?OSS-WOCPI will BE able To wen <eoas- Wpowy wom‘T7haT L J / „ I SnwTitoNjueseu:-S Mow sToPIOUS HE’S JusT WORIONfiA \ J 'jbUE HUSBANP zrfSag&N i/U-UYfc; / CROSS-WOUP-PUZZLE CYfr —A y " VES'M-AVEJZVSAPCASe. X ; ■ This rjoe caaploulpaiT Hl Thihk of The NiNEIeENIH EHBPS ylj 1- W LETfei? w The ancient (iaX V INCA alpmabeT anp he "k, z-x wcnTcoo-coo Before .xOrSfc? I Il HE F/NISHEP HiS CROSS- ft- !- j (V/tLN' Y X. I worzv- Puzzle " I * ""A DiciioNAfZY /m The newspaper blame me tor j Old Days In Americus TEN YEARS AGC TODAY | (From The Times Recorder, Nov.) 4, 1914 ) Miss Mattie Sue Taylor, the at tractive daughter of Mr and Mrs. . John Taylor, is expected home to morrow on a short visit to her par ents, Miss Taylor will attend the Auburn-Tech football game in At lanta Saturday as one of the Au burn sponsors. Miss Josephine Bagie-', of Ameri cus, who was one of the at at the McManus-Kernaghan wed ding in Macon, is now with Mrs. W. E. Shelverton. Deputy Court Clerk Sam Heya felt doubly elated yesterday, h's re-election taking ou added charm in the arrival of a handsome son and heir at his home. A pretty little part'- o.’ last even ing was Miss Quenelle Hauo’ds' Hallowe’en entertainment of the members of her club, the A. E. C. Those present were Misses Margery Kalmon, Eugenia Collins, Mary Eva Gnospelius, Mabel Ellis,. Atyfe Ki lis, Agnes Gatewood, Mniy Dudley, Gertrude Davenport, Ruth Wiler and Edith Shy. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times Recorder. Nov. 4, 1904.) Mr. and Mrs. II Hawkins, announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Agnps Hawkins, to Mr. William W. Dykes, tne raarrwgi to occur on the evening of Wednes day, November 23rd at iheir resi dence on Lee street. This announce ment will be received with pleasur able interest in Americus, the social prominence of the bride and groom elect rendering the event one to be anticipated with no little pleasure among a host of admiring friends. For the first time since the cot ton season opened in August, re- j ceipts in Americus y csterdav fell under the hundred mark. Eigh-y bales made up the toal at the ware houses here. Spot cotton broughc 9 1-2 cents readily, though t'he fu ture market was not as strong as on the day previous. Better than a government bond is the farm, large or small, located near Americus, for the owner has in it an asset that has appreciated one hundred-fold, within a brief period of years and the value of which is still enhancing every day. The sale of the Cobb plantation of nearly 2,000 acres for $37,000 is a recent transaction ,as is the Teoke place at S3O an acre. Only a day or two ago a hundred acres near town sold for $3,500, while other recent sales are in like proportion. The Scarborough place of 550 acres was reported sold yesterday for something like SB,OOO. THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times Recorder. Nov. 4, 1894.) The Times Recorder prints this morning the list of the white Demo cratic voters of this the 27th dis trict of Sumter county. Os this number, nearly 300 faiL'd to vete in the October election. The list is published today for the purpose of calling the attention of every man to the fact that ne is “on the list” and expected to turn out and vote Tuesday. During the performance at the opera house Friday night a negro man sitting in the gallery fell asleep and came very near toppling over the rail and falling in the midst of a fashionable party of ladies ?n< THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER I gentlemen occupying seats ( parquette. Our annual egg crop is worth $163,000 while the chickens are worth $142,000,000. In 1892 the I total output of our gold and silver I mines was only $107,900,000 or about two thirds the value of our eggs. Mr. G. Ed Greene of Forsyth, the twin brother of handsome and popular Walter Greene vvi'.l come 1 down today on a short ' uit. LESLIE i Rev. H. J. Johnston preached his ( farevzell sermon as pastor of the , Leslie Baptist church Sunday even- , ing. There was an unusually large crowd but to hear his message. The people of Leslie and community hate very much to have Rev. and ) Mrs. Johnston to leave. They will leave for Hazlehurst Thursday where he has accepted a call to the Baptist church there for full time. ; Mis.( Lucie Furlow spent the week end at her home in Americus. Misses Lucy Kate and Ouida Wil liams entertained at their home Thursday evening the Juniors and Seniors of Union High school with the following visitors: Fanny Harp, Daisy Sims, Russell Bailey, Arthur Davis, Hugo Bradley, Mills ! Kaylor pud Harvey Kcese. Misses Nelle Bradley, Frances Sin s, Fanny Harpe, Daisy, Janette Sims, Thelma Harpe, Ou : da Wil liams, Elizabeth Pollock, Ethel Barrow, Gene Mulholland and lone Stewart for a hike Saturday afternoon. While out th<y had a marshmallow toasting. Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Lamb had as their guard Sat urday and Sunday i their ihother, rMs. Martin of Bain bridge. Mi's. F. A. Wilson, Sr., spent several days last week at Fitzgerald i with relatives. Mr. ; ncl Mrs. Tom Allen wade are moving to their home in the country today. Mr. A. C. Doney, of Cleveland, Ohio, spent last week here, visiting at the’ home of his sister, Mrs. F. A. Wilson, Jr. The Hallowe’en entertainment put on by the Parent-Teacher asso . ciation Friday ev nUg at Union High school auditcrii: a was as fol lows: Black Cat Orchestra, by ' School Boys and Girls; Reading, “Hallowe’en,” by Christine Martin; Violin Solo, Miss Glady Taylor; “Pumpkin Songs of Pieville”; Ghost Story, K. J. Johnston, after which refreshments were sold, the pro ’ ceeds to go for the school. Mrs. J. F. Pool, of Cordele, spent ‘ last week here, visiting at the home of her son, Mr .G. M. Pool. Mr. Tim Furlow, of Americus, was a visitor in town Monday morn ing. ONION EXPERT TO WED AMERICAN GIRL 5 ALEXANDORPOL, Armenia, November 3.—An international be ’ trothal of wide interest is announc ed here. Miss Katherine Tucker, of t Albany, N. Y., director of nursing ; for the Near- East Relief, will short ly marry Douglas Orbison, a British ‘ scientist, who has lived the greater I part of bi- life in India. He came to Armenia two years ago on the ? invitation of the Near East Relief J as an agricultural expert, and has f> developed onion farming on a large r scale among the native population, t The couple will take a honeymoon .<1 trip to America. MJbert Awsie BOOZE In three years Uncle Sam’s sleuths have arrested r’7,000 for violating the prohibition iaw. That s 59,060 a year—or one out of czei. 1900 Americans. Which certainly is a very small fraction of the scll ) ers and drinkers. / Prohibition cannot be successful until the campaign against liquor reverts to what it used to be — educational, rather than an abstract plea to obey the law. lhe educa jtional campaign was dropped too soon v j* * * INTOXICATING How much alcohol m ikes a bev evage intoxicating? Any step to ‘ case” the prohibition regulations 1 will hinge on this ques’.on. Possibly <" scientific clinic will result, to test the effects of liquor on people. Con scription would hardly be neces sary. Intoxication depends on the di ink er. A hyper-thyroid person, virtual ly immune too stimulants, gets less kick out of a of brandy than the average man out of two drinks. • • • SHRINKING American railroads have about 250,600 miles of tracks. In eight years there was a shrinkage of o'ei 4000 miles. With the country growing, railroads should be extend .ng instead of auandoniog trackage. Yet even a greater u-ansportatio l : problem is in inadequacy of termi nals, particularly for freight. Th (.rouble is less in the haul than in .oading and unloading and switch ing where traffic congests in cities. 3COPOLAMIN The “truth serum” (scopolamin apomotphia) is a success, it’s cl lim ed at convention of Eastern So ciety of Anesthetists. This drug, to make people tell the truth wheth er they want to or not, i > a humane form of third-degree After reading the list of in :omc taxes paid by some of America's presumably rich men, we suggest that scopolamin be administered be fore swearing to the truthful ness , of an income tax report. That is . not beyond possibility. JAY-WALKERS 2 A safety-first official in New . York defends jay-walkmg He rays t arresting a jay-walker is trespass ! ing on liberty. “The pedestrain has . the right to the highways, whereas it is only a privilege for vehicular I traffic to operate upon the Ugh ; ways.” This is ridiculous. A pedestran's , rights, if we are going to be prac-' • tical ,are limited to sidewalks f«om City Taxes Now Due All city taxes are now due and must be paid before December 1, - to avoid extra costs which will be assessed after December 1. A. D. Gatewood, Clerk and Treasurer Americus 1 Undertaking Co. NAT LEMASTER, Manager f Funeral Directors And Embalmers Night Phones 661 and 88 i _ t Day PhQßej 8S aad 231 1 \ D-AILY J WHAT do you read, when you read, young man? Zy? What Is it that takes your eye? What sort ot / / script do you daily scan; what sort of books do Ay you buy? —/ Newspapers, surely, for everyone does, so s to know / what’s the news of the day. Scareheads and scandal /f. make readin' folks buzz ere they’re throwin' the paper ■/ away. Car ads that scream from the street car sides; bilL. // CV boards that fair seem to yell. A man always sees 'enin, -whenever he rides and he reads what they're aimin’yt, a/z to tell. > / l Latest ot novels that come from the shop where bookworms and other folks drift. Good selling titles that make a man stop. Tales that give tiredness a VFJ ► Constantly readin'! We’re all at the game, and from this unto that we will roam. The .best readin’ matter? ///n " Allow me to name, the letters you get from back home, '/'AfA (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc-) X /jffl which autos are barred a* d cross ings where street sintersect. He Las i no more business on the pavement) between crossings than he has cn ) railroad tracks. Trespassing he in vites accident. FATHER WOUNDED BY 19-YEAR-OLD SON, DIES ATLANTA, November. 3. —Er- nest Stanton, who figured sensa-; tionally in the Stigall killing less I than a year ago, died at Grady hos pital at noon Sunday, following complications from a bullet wound in the leg, inflicted by his 19-year- ) old son. The shooting was the as-1 NOTICE! Pursuant to a resolution and ordi-1 nance passed by the Mayor and City Council ot 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 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 onen 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- per annum, which interest shaii 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 ‘ housand dollars each, two of which ionds shall be retired on the first j lay of January of each year after heir issuance, for a period of hirty years. The amount of mon y necessary to be collected an- ’ ■'ally by a special le.-y forth S' irnose to nay the uinual interest ‘h - ; s’) ,jf saijj bonds <1 to retir i s id bonds an : u illy will h ( t’* ■ thousand dollars or the purpose of retiring two of (id bonds each year and $2700.00 or the purpose of paying interest I in 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 bo 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’clocx p. m. on said last Saturday before the date of said election. A. D. GATEWOOD, JR., Clerk and Treasurer. S2.Y, NCIL ’ President T. E. BOLTON, Ass’t. Cashier C. M. COUNCIL, V.-P. aj»d Cashier. J. E. KIKER, Ass’t. Cashier Hie Planters Bank of Americus (Incorporated) OUR CUSTOMERS P'jJ i-' With a reasonable knowledge of 11 w hat each of our hundreds of wTV jfcErwla customers want, coupled with ° Ur plcdge to he “sympathetic EOWHItI l' « IWjljW t 0 eVery necd ’ and fa >t hf ui to Wegrr ~- '• ever y trust”-—makes this bank an iastitution preferred. We cordially invite *cur account— commercial or Savings. 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Coats for Dress and Coats for ev ery need; the whole fifty go on sale Wednesday morning at ..$19.95 Mer s Dress Shirts at 98c Made of fast colored Percales and Madras, attached or collarless style; sizes 14 to 17 1-2; special here now, each -98 c Guaranteed Pure Linen Table Damask at $1.50 Every thread guaranteed to be pure linen, fine silver bleached, 70 inches wide; beautiful patterns; now at- the lowest price in ten years, Yard - $1.50 Men’s Rubber Lined 4 Rain Coats at $3.95 * Rubber lined throughout, as near waterproof as they can be made; sizes 3ft to 4G; now here, each $3.95 j ' : Beautiful Aluminum ' Ware at 39c Some pieces in this lot that sell regularly at 75c and SI.OO. Come, look the lot over; displayed on center table; your choice ...,39c : B?’.e.ifu’ Wool Blankets at $lO Pretty Wool Blankets, in great {variety of pretty plaids; heavy {weight; regularly sls, now at {Pair SIO.OO j Misses Flannel I Brasses at $2.98 New styles; beautiful plaid and I ch eked materials; well made; this price is less than the materials i would cost; all sizes $2.98 2." C-dors in Beautiful L:n-n Handkerchiefs at 25c Christmas Handkerchiefs, hand kerchiefs for every day use, twen ty-five beautiful colors; plain, hem ! stitched or fancy embroidered cor , ners; choice 25c ' Boys Fleeced Lined Union Suits at 98c For boys from 4 to 16 years old; slightly heavier than the ribbed suits; natural peeler color, at per . suit _ 98c PKUP SIG Standard Dry Goods Company For»yth St. Next Bank of Commerce AMERICUS. GA.
