About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 24, 1924)
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'''• '' dr.esdav 1921, within > legal and approximately at BBBb| * - n "" n -•> ’ following HMM the estate of j. w. to-wit: goods, consisting <-f a SS^H o ''' hardware, includ- all of the articles SKHppd '■' a hardware store, R^H ; ’ s •" ca,e< l > n the store gMfcch belonged io said de ■Bpateii cn Law ar St., in g’BbL'if Americus, Sumter ' and being No. B. Lmnar St.; a-complete stock of fix- Bjkwd * n the aforesaid bu‘!d- Itai Eheluding counters, eases, 1 f s3>' (writers, adding ma- ■ chairs, safe, cash register, ■-tor, <ord truck, scales, etc. Bd safg will be held at the ■houiffiin which said stock of ■ andgixtures are now located, K Ng. 302 W. Lamar St., Hst®k of goods and fixtures xl for sale in bulk, as and then in such the undersigned might B^ B W vi ng the right to accept ■EUjMHf "AltTMs. i S..' rS- i|l i itemized state ■■ t of gird.s an. HHBt shown any i’arty in any one of th& fftllow- all of Americas- -&A, IjBTJi. B. McLendon. J. A. W. Dykes or Stephen of sale will be ra-b.. B. B- m lendon, Administiator. Ku SCHEDULES ' ’ ■Departure of FYssengi. Americus, Ga. Geor.fi?. Ry. 1 lard Time H J Depart H ‘ Bt.i H v“ - ' Btefe ' Bk Z r l '2 x j iIHHb r iiili <Mf R eVOit O* TOY s. ACHRISTMAS PLAY WITH A MORAL BY OOYY SUTTON . , s ri’ - •• v . i CEAHACTEJ.S: ' J Boar Ginger-Bread Doll China Rabbit .Rocking fltjrvjl ■p Little Boy. | THE SCtNE: The front parlor, three’nights j after Christmas. ... A low fight! burns. . . . The Christinas tree I stands lop-sided, bedraggled , and torn, in .-. comer ojf the ; room About rfa<* floor are ccatteied toys, marred and brek- : 1 en. ( 1 he marble clock on the man tel sDlKee tweiyr. . . The bat- tered tovs are seen to stir. . . . JACK-IN-THE-BOX (Conies out of his box with many squeaks and groans:) Oh, say, I hope and pray I’ll never See< nnother day • Like thir'. . . TEDDY BEAR (Blinks' his remanfin’g glass eye:) He jabbed 1 And ear, i Till I Nor hardly hear. CHINA RABBIT (Hop§ across the floor on three legs:) This bunny’s rr.ad, ' > I’ll cell you that; ■ tie hit my leg . With a basketball bat. TIN COSSACK (In a rage:) He knocked me off my horseki And took my swordski avey . . I Vodka! Vodka! . . . ■ GINGER-BREAD DOLL , He ate my :, it and ate my curls. I And then he bit my ear; He ate the shoes right off my feet— He’ll eat me, too, I fear! ROCKING HORSE (With an angy whinny:) Ke rides me in the morning, He rides me in the night, He beats me with a leather whip Because I cannot bite. ALL THE TQYS ; We’re beaten and broken and I / hammered apart, y ' We’re trampled and battered and shot, I We’re set upon, sat upon, all I through the day— Oh, ours is a terrible lot! (The room becomes filled with . I the mournful wails of the toys. J Then the wailing turns to angry ’ murmurs The Jack-in-the-Box shakes his I head with vengeance. The Teddy ■ Bear emits a low growl. The China ■ Rabbit digA.his claws into the car-: , pet. The Tin jCossaak (inds his sword and waves it overhead. The 1 , Ginger-Bread Doll Ttpmy; her feet | . with feminine wrafn. The Rocking | 1 Horse kicks high into the air.) I JACK-IN-THE-BOX: t Comrades . . . comrades . . .! TEDDY BEAR Sh-h-h-b! 1 (The clamor in the rocn. dies; s down.) ■ ' ... May this Yulcti e bring you the \ fulfillment of your c r ery wish. Whitman CANDIES nnally’s Americus Drug Co. JACK-IN-THE-BOX Comrades, the hour to'.strike it here! CHIN/ RABBIT Hear! H ar! Hear? JACK-IN-THE-BOX Lef’s n r. delay, but follow ric As up the - i nirs I creep; - Tn ;> pink-waimd room nut far away Fn? viiiair lies .'..leep! (Very csiitioi’My wh! t ipr-'’Thg among themselv/ s, the toys start up (he stairway. As they tumble up the steps, a marvelous thing hap pens. The toys grow bigger and b’gger and bigger. ... \ Bv the tin:>? they reach the door of the Pink-Walled Room, they’re life sized. All of then enter through the dc.or except the Rocking H • . sc, who stick.- his head through ami neiglis v'hy'loUd. The '-.ourc wakes up tne I ittle Boy wne lie: in bed.)' LITTLE BOY (Rubs his eyes) Who’s there? JACK-IN-THE-BOX Six mutilated toys are we Who’ve bpen afraid of you; Tonight com" to let you taste The same thing we’ve been through. TIN COSSACK Cottie on—let’:-, do our stuffski! (All the toys come up to the bed with fearful cries.) JACK-IN-THE-BOX Let me twist his neck—- TEDDY BEAR Let me claw bis eyes put ■ I m iruKiiiL. d May Christinas bring you and |! yours only joy and cheer. Open All Day Tomorrow I ■if THOMAS FI-ORAL CO. | ''D ’ ' 'W- ' G i rm Americus time A-recorder CHINA RABBIT I want to break his. leg.%*- T’N COSSACK I'R run my swordski through him — GINGER-BREAD DOLL Let me tear his hair out— rocking horse (From doorway) I’ll kick over the wall onto him! (Just-as the toys are about to spring onto the Little Boy, a tre mendous sound fills the room • • • It is the ringing of a great bell . . . The toys stop dead in their tracks) ALL THE TOYS Oh! Oh! Oh! (The bell keeps on ringing. . . • It is an alarht clock on the bureau. . . . And now another marvelous thing happens. The toys seem to grow smaller and small' l ' smaller —and then melt away alto gether into thin air.) LITTLE BOY (The ringing ceases) dh, mom! Oh. mom! VOICE IN ANOTHER ROOM What is it, sonny? LITTLE BOY (Sobs) Oh, mom, I’ve had a fearful dream To tell all girls and boys— Perhaps ’twill make them want to be More careful with their toys. CURTAIN. Manv re’cs of the brmr.-e age and of'th: period of 'he Roman oc cupation I ave been brought to light by excavations at Stonehenge, in England. mTPKE Bf POM W 111. MSI Birmingham Doctor Still Held On Charge of Murdering Mate ? (By The Associated Piess) BIRMINGHAM, I»c 24.—N0 trace of poisson was found in the; viscera of Mrs. Annie Lou Edwards, by the State Chemist, according to the report of Solicitor Perry today. Mrs. Edwards was mysteriously! slain in her home here on December | second, and her husband, the Doctor j George T. Edwards was recently in-; dieted under the charge of murder. 1 QASIFIEOADVEmENTS WANTED HOME TlES—Keep them intact. Even though your family may be scattered, you can still send them flowers. Let us telegraph your selection. You know how much hey’ll be appreciated. Say it with Flowers for Xmas. Thomas Floral Co., phone 490 —9-ts. WANTED—'Every one to drink Flint Rock Ginger Ale for an ■appetizer—before and after meals. 5c per bottle. On sale at all gro cers. 16-ts SANTA CLAUS WILL CALL on any child or old person in Amer icus and Sumter county, if name is furnished P. O. Box 216, Ameri cus. 16-tf-dh WANTED—Top work arid bud your pecan trees. James and Carl McMath. Phone 65.—16-10 t WANTED Three or four-room apartment, close in to business section of city. Man, wife, and four-year old chil l. Unfurnish'd. See Mr. 'Vood, at t! e .Atlantic &. Pacific • Tea Co.'- FOR RENT FOR RENT—Downstairs apart ment. Phone 971. 29-ts PECANS WANTED Spot cash paid for them. Neon Buchanan. | Phone 337. —l-ts I FOR RENT—Small cottage, 803 I Forrest street. Apply G. M. | FOR RENT—My farm, Mrs. S. H. Young. ' 22~>t HO.USE-FQU,JIENT---.-Set\ _S._y 1 : fflOS 1 CHIPGIB WITH I'BIBBSiIKHUSBIS Vital Organs of Man Dead 7 Mcnths Reveal Traces of Poi soning, Examination Shows COSHOCTON, Ohio. Dec. 24. Seven months after the death of her husband, Mrs. Clara S McCurd; has been arrested, charged with his mur der and anothe rdomestic mystery confronts the state of Ohio. William A. McCcvdy. a 65-year old farmer living near 12 miles east of here, died May 7, 1924. It was supposed his death was caused by nephritis.. But those vague rumors which circulate mys teriously around a small community | caused Joseph Sheplar, prosecuting I attorney, to order an autopsy. The vita lorgans were sent to Co lumbus. Doctors Long and Brun dage, the chemists who figured in ! the Sheatsley furnace mystery, re ] (ported the discovery of arsenic in i McCurdy’s body. Mrs. McCurdy’s arrest followed 1 late Tuesday. ri l jf^fe^-U-- ii3 S | z , j y ;;4 > More health —Mere wealth to you we sing. Still more of it may this Yuletide bring. IfPIGGLY WIGGLY! j CLASSIFIED RATES I 5 This size type, first in- < ( sertion. 2c per word. Eaeh 5 1 consecutive insertion, lc ■ s per word. This size type, first in- ) \ sertion, 4c per word. Each $ < consecutive insertion 2c < ’ per word- INo display space will be j sold in the classified col- S ( umns. . < MISCELLANEOUS THE'S AMERICUUS BUSINES College is in operation; morning, afternoon and night. Miss Lillian Braswell, President. Merritt Bldg. FARM LOAN MONEY Plenty m cheap interest rate and du easy terms. W. W. Dykes. 9-ts COAL Why pay more for Coal when you can buy AS GOOD for less money from C. J. Clerk, Telephone 303—8-ts. TO SAY IT WITH FLOWERS for Christmas means happiness to ev eryone. The choicest of Pot . Plants, Baskets and Cut Flowers to I select ftom. Thomas Floral Co., phone 490. —9tf. fi i m • 1 rv w 1 — yt ;i ,'t —•—w i LOST-BA®edale pup, with collar. laadel, phone' 812.—24-tr. The numbers On the face of a vaUh owned by a St. t. uis man Ainy_ pllotQt^APbS-pf the juem- WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 24, 1°24 STANLEY GETS PRISON BOARD SECRETARYSHIP U. S. Stanley, of Laurens coun ty, has been appointed secretary of the Georgia prison commission fol lowing resignation of T. J. Den mark, t was announced Monday. Mr. Denmark was retained as bookkeeper and auditor. He resign ed as secretary because he found it impossible to attend to the duties of bookkeeper, auditor and secre tary as well. PREDICTS GREAT PAINT BUSINESS IN 1925 H. N. Cooledge, Cooiedge ahd Sons, Atlanta, manufacturers of paint and varnish, predicts the greatest paint business in history for 1925. “Never before in our 45 years bl business, have we been forced to keep both our paiif- and varnish plants operating at full capacity at this time of the year,” says Mr. Cooledge. “Plans for immediat expansion are being made which in cludes another large p’ant in At lanta and several warehouses in various cities.’ «•> v He attributes the sudden increase in the paint business largely to enormous amount of eonstrnctlet being carried on all over the South. FOR SALE > FOR SALE—Large pecans. See ? J. S. Bolton. 12 IC-t ; FOR SALE—3 pair Everwcar Silk j Sox in Christmas box for. $2.00 ; the box. Josey-English-Dupree Co. i —23-2 t i FOR SALE—Hard Coal for incu bator purpose. Harrold Bros. —23-3 t . FINE MULES We have just re ceived fifty head of fine Ken- ( tucky mules; we are selling therp cheap. Come to see us. G. A. & W. G. Turpin. 11-ts I' OR SALE—Frost-proof Cabbage plants; SI.OO per. thousand. Thomas Floral Co. 28tf. FOR SALE—I9O Lightwood Posts: Phono 800—W. H. Cobb.—2o-tf LOST AND FOUND SI RAA ED— 1 Jersey colored cow ’ and 1 black yearling with white » spot in face; also one yellow and . white spotted cow. W. J. Jofcgy. —23-3 t ] FOUND—In business section, purse containing small change. Owner may get same by describing and ' paying for ad at Times-Recorder. —24-tf-dh LFppND—Everwear Silk pair in Christmas box. $2.00 the ' i box. Josey-English-Dunree Cn. ■ ■■M LOST—Between Churchwells store i | and Kress’ one® large cameo 11 brooch. Finder please ( return to -l^'ld nippdpljtine
