About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 15, 1924)
SATURDAY ATTERNQQN. NOVEMBER 15, 1924 L A , . -s^r. ■ =i^- r-j.- -7- ■■ ■• W. M. S. MEETS MONDAY AFTERNOON The Woman’s Missionary So ciety of the First. MethcaisUcLßrcii wil Imeet Monday afternoon' at three o’clock, at the church. Every member is urged to be present. MRS. MABRY HONORS ATTRACTIVE VISITORS As a compliment to her attrac tive week-end house guests, Mrs Edgar Timmerman, of Plains, and Mrs. Ross French and Mrs. Arthur French, of Richland, Mrs. T F. Mabry, was a charming hostess at p. beautiful bridge and forty-two party this morning at her home on Jackson avenue. An artistic profusion of beauti ful chrysanthemums from the Host ess’ own garden forme 1 a lovely decoration for the living room and reception hall where the guests were entertained. Handsome’ yel low and white stemmed blooms, and baskets of daisy chrysanthemums shading from a pale yellow to bnonze were used in the reception hall, and in the living room, pink, lavender and deep rose chrysan themums filled baskets and vases. At twelve thirty o’c'ock, a de licious hot luncheon was served al the card tables. Mrs. Mabry was assisted in en tertaining ,by Mrs. A. 3. Woodard, Mrs. W. C. Sullivan, and Mrs. L. B. Parker. The hig hscore prizes were decks of forty-two cards and br’dge cards. Invited to meet Mrs. Timmerman, Mrs. and Mrs. Arthur French were Mrs. Paul Wooten, Mrs. C. C .Carnes, Mrs. E. J. Tv .son, Mrs. G. W. Riley, Mrs. Walter- Brown, Mrs. C. V. Tyson, Mrs. E. E Schneider, Mrs. Nat LeMaster, Mrs. Charles Hudson, Mrs. Grey Tillman; Mrs. Parrott Poole, Mrs. Willis Morgan, Mrs. R. C. Sneer, Mrs. Nathan Murray, Mrs. Ethel Rob inson, Miss Caroline Worthy, and Mrs. W. U. Barefield. * * sjt MRS. RILEY ENTERTAINS FORTY-TWO CLUB FRIDAY. Mrs. W. D. Bailey was hostess at a beautiful party Friday after noon, at her home on Lee street, having as her guests the members of the Friday afternoon Forty Tv-o Club and a few additional friends to fill vacancies. A graceful arrangement of vari colored chrysanthemums, lovely fail roses, cosmos and marigolds, form ed a charming decoration forth 3 It’s a Happy Fact That Use CREAM VIOLET Make Yours Look Happy 35 Cents MURRAY'S PHARMACY The Rexall Store Opposite P. O. < 'WteFfe• - MM§ffoswwiy Bfe INTERNATIONAI PRIZES M IJt/ g 'Vlffilf S«ws 2/1 l<7Alf/://Z§ <v TWO MXOS-O rTJIBi ».»£- 1 “"1, C . —-JK W— j* *i f ■ zwzx •<onto is trip it. ->■ *caap >*•<*• t« n d» l * I Glare is always a trouble your family through the S6OO SSSFd&i: maker school children, m the two « proper use of electric light » 6W “»'Srr . in the home so that in fu- causes costly erors. In the f"™ X~» <k« ,hall be KfSsSs'SS.--- home its effect is still >“• •»• *™ uble - more serious. It makes In Sumter county, the restless, inattentive pupils children are getting their ot children who do their primers at school (Elec home studies in light not trical Stores) and many ' va ■> properly shaded, and ere- are already busily en- \ 1 ates defective vision by gaged in writing their e»- -.--T yL » sapping the reserve says. All children over " <'y 4 strength of the eyes. , ten years of age who are J attending private, pa- To eliminate the evil es- ro-chial or public school \ WB*W*'feet of glare in the home, are eligible to enter the \ the en l* re electrical indus- contest. Prizes will uc iry is united in a co-opera awarded in this city and live educational activity the winners wil 1 have a /known as the Home chance to win the first Lighting Contest. This is prize which is a $15,000 being operated in the home or one of the ten United States and Dornin- scholarships. ion of Canada and is de- If you haven’t your prim signed to inform you and er, get it today. Sumter County Electrical League Prima Donna •W > ■ ;• ' I prima donna Only 16 years old, Kathleen Ker sting of Wichita is Kansas’ first prima donna. She will make her operatic debut in “Matcuerite ” in Rome next March. Tn her Rome ap pearance the American girl will wear the same costume which Mme. Calve wore when she made her debut many years ago. spacious reception rooms where the guests were entertained. Late in the afternoon, after the conclusion of the game, a delicious salad course with hot coffee was served. Mrs. Bailey was assisted in en tertaining by her sister, Mrs Eu gene Hill . The guest list included four tables of players. * * * MRS. BOYD HOSTESS AT LOVELY PARTIES. Mrs. B. R. Boyd was a charming hostess Friday at her home on Col lege street at two lovely bridge parties, entertaining in the morn ing, and again in the afternoon. Mrs. Boyd’s home was unusually attractive on this -occasion, with quantities of gorgeous chrysanthe mums in almost every shade", roses an dcosmos, artistically arranged in Low bowls and vases being used for decorations. In the living room deep rose, white chrysan themums were used, auti in the diik ing room cosmos, mar golds and yellow chrysanthemum carried o*.t an effective yellow color note. After the conclusion of the games, a delicious hot luncheon with cranberry ice was served. Mrs. Boyd was assi.ted in en tertaining- by Mrs. Lovelace Eve, Mrs. L. F. Grubbs, and Mrs. Carr Glover. Mrs. G. W. Riley and Mrs. J. E. Hightower won the high score prizes, beautiful flowering plants The guest list included five table sos players Rn the morning, and six in the afternoon. Miss Martha English, will arrive late this afternoon from Columbus, where she is a student’ at Lorena Hall ,to spend the week-end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. 1.. English at their home on Taylor street. She will be accompanied home by a school friend, Miss Alice Sharman, of West Point ,and Miss Jessie Schneider, president of Lo rena Hall, and Miss Kate Schneider. V ? * Mrs. Edgar Timmerman, of Plains, Mrs. Arthur F-encn and Mrs. Ross French of Richland, are week-end guests of Mw. T. F. Ma bry, at her home on Jackson ave nue. Dr. and Mrs. J. R. Jordan, of Ellaville, and J. R. Jordan, Jr., wno is studying this year nt the Uni versity of Georgia will be week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. En glish. The prize donated b 7 Mrs. Elinor Tillman Pruitt for the best baskets of white chrysanthemums, and won by Mrs. W. H. Bowers, was inad vertently omitted for the list of prazes published in Thursday’s pa per. Mrs. Bowers also won the prize given by A. Cohen and Son for the best basket of pink blossoms. Mr, and Mrs. John M. Council have returned from a delightful motor trip to Spartanburg, South Carolina, where they were guest of Mr. and Mrs. Jamie Brown and were spend-the-day guests of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Young in Char lotte, N. C. In route home they spent several days in Atlanta. Mrs. W. B. Pickett has returned from Colufnbus, where she attend ed the funeral services last Sun day of her brother-in-law. F. Shel ton Whitman, who was accidentally killed on Saturday, near his home by a falling tree. Her many friends deeply sympa thize with her in her bereavement. Russell Clark, George Oliver and Bill Dykes, arrived Frid iy from the University of Georgia to spend i’.e week-end at their homes here. Mrs. S. S. English is visiting her son, Mr. E. K. E.rglish at Americus. Mrs. Nellie Rouse his returned from a visit to her sister, Mrs. R. L. Scott of Barnwell, S. C. Mrs. Leon Slappey visited Mr. C. A. Slappey Sunday. THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER ’ A $20,000,000 Target i. <9V 1;? ■ College Freshmen Invade High School and Shear Locks of Boys and Girls BA TON ROUGE, La., Nov 15. Three hundred Louisian 1 state uni versity freshmen whose heads were shaved recently by upper class men, went on a rampage today ami be fore things could be quieted down had invaded the Baton Rcughe high school, dragged students and teach ers from the rooms and cut the hair of the women instructors, a number of girl students and scores of boys. Tiie wholesale shearing prove at the university was an annual event, as was the swarming over the city but the invasion of the high school was something not on the fixed program. Tiie freshmen visited the high school last year but c -nfined their activitie sto yelling and interrupt ing the classes. Members of the high school faculty, in anticipation of another visit, instructed their pupils to remain in their seats. The freshman invaded the school, and finding doors locked in some in stances, proceeded to force them. Girls and boys were dragged out of their seats, many of the girls in tears, and taken into the halls anti schoolyard where freshmen armed with scissors and clippers went U work on them. Five oi the teach ers were taken, two of whom wad ed through the freshmen tanks slip ping their captors aside in man fashion. The feminine victims were not (treated ruthlessly, their hair was not “ruined” as one of the girls termed it, but the that-Les of the S ANITA IS HERE ! . , \ I <Llhls I * B \Vi\v SBjMw fJL ALL THE JUST TO way MAKE YOU Santa came all the way Wk HAPPY from the North Pole - ju.t to bring ug a ’ Xi) tFL San ‘« w «"‘ U ail of COME TO TO Yf LAN DTI ? P.leep, and left hi, bag L* 11 see theete toy., com. ln ou i r i store > w*‘h a teps that we have here on. display. Santa made a special trip here; to leave .tore tonight O r any must put' the* tbal ( we Mothers—Fathers— bring the little ones in and let them see the multitude of afternoon, and we will Ntore arid let e you n comc & BUpP^y tOyS Or y°U n gSters to see. Bring them in they’ll be de- ,how each any every, ■'in and see them! “ghted! No obligations. one of them to you. H ® COME and SEE ALL THE TOYS for YOU ‘ ■■■BflSSSili Wraflff ' il ggK HIGHTOWER’S BOOKSTORE AND TOY SHOP I TWO ME STABBED IB MBBCIIS Dance Hall Row Leads to Fight Between Factions Which May Result Fatally to One COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 15.- Two men were stabbed, one prob ably fatally in a disturbance hero last night between Ku Mux Klims men and opposing forces in a local dance hall. Clarence McCammon, salesman for a Ku Klux Klan publication is held in jail. Harry France, 25, is in a local hospital with knife wounds in the abdomen and Arthur B id, 23, was stabbed in the head Bard first was taken to a hos pital the nremoved to jail where- he L held for investigation. The difficulty arose when Mc- Cammon is alleged to have secured the eviction from the dance mil of another person whoso name wos not disclosed. Friends of the ivict cd perso nresented the action and ar argument ensued. jf >-e ’’Je could interfere more thin a dezen members of the two faot’ons were Loys were butchered so badly all of them had to visit barbershops and have it clipped to the sca’p. The U. S. S. Washington, only partially completed i.t a cost of more than $20,000,000, will be sunk during a drill practice off Virginia Capes in December. The destruction of the shin is necessary under the terms of the armament conference. fighting in the hall. A patrolman interfered and sent the disturbers into the streets where fighting broke out anew. Other policemen arrive and dispersed 'he crowd. HEBE WEDNESDAY Amateur Theatrical Staged By Legion Post Features C. Gordon Anderson “Scandals of 1925” to be put on here Wednesday evening Nov. 19tii, at the Rylander Theatre i y the local post of the American Legion prom ise sto be one of the best amateur theatrical performances produced in Americus. It is rich in fjin and with the bright music, attractive an dnovel chorus an ddnnce features and beautiful costumes. The best talent in Americus and middle Georgia is taking part and the play will be present?d in a real professional style, says the promo ters. A feature of the performance will be a song and dance skit put on by C. Gordon Anderson ex-vaudeville performer assisted by “Eunk” Reid PAGE THREE BUSHES II SniJTH UN UPGRADE llffl ‘ Farmers Will Close Crop Year in Better Shape Than They Have in Several Years ATLANTA, Nov. 15—If the Federal Reserve banks ray business is better, business really is better. If, on the other hand, thes banks sound a note of warning to business men, it always is well t«; take he d, • for the warning is justified. This is the opinio nos business men here, who today pointed with , satisfaction to the statement of the I Federal Reserve Ban!: of Atlanta, that business i nthe sixth district — . Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Tennes see, Mississippi and Louisiana — is showing a decided improvement. The statement is additional evidence of the better era opening’ for business 1 in the Southeast with the advance of the Autumn season. “No agency is better able to get > at the facts in business more fully or more accurately than the Re serve Banks i nthe various Federal districts,” said a local financier. "The Federal Reserve Bank of At- ' lanta keep sin close touch with busik ness conditions through its member banks and keeps close watch upon every feature of business life. Smaller banks everywhere are rapidly finding it to their interest to join the federal .system.” STECK TO CONTEST BROOKHART’S VOTE? ■—-I I ' DES MOINES, lowa, Nov. 15. With the official canvass of the senatorial vote completed in all but two lowa counties and Senator W. Brookhart leading Dan F. Steck, his democratic opponent, by only 755 votes out of the total of more than 894,000, a contest for the seat of the junior lowa senator seems a cents inty. Definite announcement of his in tention to contest the election was withheld by the democratic candij date, but close political associates let it be known he preparing a statement to outline the grounds upon wihch he would petition the senate for a recotMU. Ida and Monroe ebwnties were the only ones from wheih on the county canvass had not been received today. < The totals, giving Brookhart a lead of 755 were: Brookhart, 447,- 716; Steck, 446,961.
