About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 26, 1924)
.» ■ - tonight. , Saturday | < Heavy frost in interior tonight if < clear?. j ? FORTY SIXTH YEAR—NO.-2W T " ~~ ' —— - ■ " •' . ‘C-* ’,f \ t" 1 . ■ 7? " ;: O. O O O' OOP O o r / OrO>f 0%0 TO® 011 Hundreds Are Made Happy By ffiptj l® Os ASSOCIATED CHARITIES POT BUI BASKETS Itl H 0 ME S Every Needy Family Reported Was Cared for Through Do nations to T.-R Fund z The Times-Recorder's Empty Stocking Fund amounting to $275.36, placed in the hands of ‘Mrs. C. I. Sherlock and other members of the Associated Charities, made it possible to ad minister Christmas cheer to many who otherwise would have spent an unhappy day. This morning, Mrs. Sherlock stated that more than seventy baskets, containing fruits, nuts, meats and groceries were deliv er to the unfortunate ones dur ing Christmas. That portion of the money which, was not expended Chris mas day will remain in the treas ury of the Associated Charities to be used for buying wood, coal and groceries for suffering fam ilies in the community during the next few cold months. "Yesterday was one of the most successful days the Asso ciated Charities has experienc ed,” said Mrs. Sherlock to the Tmes-Recorder Friday morning. “We desire to thank all those who had a part in aiding us to alleviate suffering in our midst, particularly the ladies of the sev eral churches, all of whom lent a hand in the day's work, giving us their cheerful, co-operation; also I want to express my appre ciation to the merchants who aided us, and to The Times-Re corder for its help in raising the needed funds- “So far as we know there was not a family in Americus which was not given food, wood or coal, clothing or toys on Christ mas day.” mn!¥« MONITOR' IS OEM (By The Associated Press Y ELIZABETH, N. J., Dee. 26. Daniel K. Lester, ’B6 years of age, an engineer on tin* old Monitor, •which’ participated in tne famous battle between the- Merrimac and the Monitor died here of pneumonia this morning. Before becoming engineer of the Monitor before the war, Mr. Lester was an engineer on a Mississippi river train transport. For forty five years he was chief engineer of the ferries flying from New Jersey points to Staten Island. MISS PARKMAN TO SPEND 6 WEEKS AT UNIVERSITY Miss Bonnie Parkman and moth- D. R. Parkman are spend ing the holidays wit hrelatives and friends in Columbus, Georgia and Seale, Alabama. January sth, Miss Parkman will leave for Georgia University and State College of Agriculture, where s’ e will study for six weeks, taking special courses in Home Economics for Home Dem onstration Agents of Georgia, | LITTLE JOE * OWE OF THE SURPRISES OF CHRISTMAS MORNING 1$ OPENING PRESENT AND FINDING IT ISN'T WHAT YOU..KNEW IT WAS ° In Vol R 11 • /fkvT ° 1 Viifl Dll* o i «^ o£ Radio Fans Lose Prize Entertainer Convict Harry Snodgrass Leaves PrLft Ft / 1/.: i 4// J W" if a w \\ j v\ \ \ THMr \\ tW E-WB // .. A;-.....-Ax "A ' A 1 tig wtw When Harry Snodgrass, voted radio’s best entertainer, leaves prison o n January 16, bia f.uno goes witlj him. Radio fans may »ipt hear him as often as they did through st ation WOSlat Jefferson City, Mo;, Above, Snodgrass is shown ashc broadcasts his r’ ano pieces. At the right is cayitol dome from which his playing was flashed. A t lower left, the prison he leaves h chind h'tn when he regains freedoir Christmas Day Most. Orderly In Americus No Serious Accidents Reported; i Only Two Drunk; No Fires, Chiefs Report • The most orderly Christmas in I Americus history, was the report of i the police department this morn ing. | No fires, not a call, said the fire ■ chief of the fire department. I At the police barracks were sev< | eral negroes whose Christmas egg nog was embib.ed in too large qiian ities; one white man had been given lodging over night to sober up- a slight cutting afray among two dusk ies and the case of Ike Hoss, color ed, completed the chief’s recital of the Christmas festivities. Ike, with took much bad booze inside, and a- quantity in his car, succeeded in breaking a show win dow glass in the Higntower Book Store about -4 Wednesday after noon. Ike's car was parked m front of the Commercial warehouse, he start ed to back out and couldn’t stop, , Across the street he crashed int > another car, driving it into the largo glass window, which will cost ike ■ about S6O in time <w labor. Ike still fe recuperating in the police barracks. “It was the most orderly Christ mas day we have ever had,” said Chief Bragg. “Very few calls for help came in and those were most from negroes overloaded with Christmas cheer. Our only excite ment was in safely landing a fight ing drunk negro woman, who was the drunkest drunk I ever saw. i.’But she’ll be sober when she gets , out—some day.” Chief Bragg said' there were the usual amount of: fireworks, hut no fir°s resulted, ad ded Chief McArthur, ! YOUNG BILL McMATH INJURED BY TOY CANNON Young Bill McMath, sen of Mr. aqd Mrs. R. L. McMath, Sr., was painfully injured whyi a home . made cannon exploded, burning his face .hands and legs. It was first thought the young boy', eyes had been injured, howev -r. occur ts state today that no permanent in jury' t<» his eyesight is expect I - Christmas morning Young Mc - Math constructed a toy cannon, com pleted it, and loaded it with gun powder. In some wav the powder was ignited, and the toy exploded before expected. Thongs and tough cords, instead of the familiar hammer and pegs, are used by cobblers of the South Sea Islands. p ME HITS. AUTO, MN CARRIED 1? MILES ON PILOT Three Members cl Party Hurt; and Baby Hurled Across Tracks, but None Killed (By The Associated Press) INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 26. - Thrown on to the pilot of a pas senger train locomotive, alter it had crashed into her automobile at a grade crossing, Mrs. Ken neth Clark had a wild, nerve racking ride of 12 miles before she fell from the speeding en gine and landed in a ditch near the tracks outside of Oakland, Indiana. Although unconscious when found, Mrs. Clark is not serious ly injured, it is thought, though she is suffering from the expo sure and slight bruises sustained tn her nerve-racking ride. A baby only 20 months old was hurled from the automobile when it was struck by the engine but later was picked up unin jured. The train crew was unaware of the accident, they say, until the rain came to a stop at An derson, Ipd. mH flooded BI BPOKEN OB RICHMOND? Va. Dec. 26. -Four more bodies were found today' in the muck from the dam that btokc here last Wednesday right and flooded the lower section of this city with much damage ..The ad ditional bodies bring the total deaths up to thirteen The bodii found are those oV children ranging in age from three to ten years ol age. Seven persons are : till report ed as missing. Os the twenty injured persons ii I he Salt iville hospital only three arc suffering from pneumonia. AU ar, reported' by attending physicians a: not very serious and have excellen chances of recovery- Six house were washed away in the floot that attended the brisking of th. BULLETIN ATLANTA, Dec. 26.-Gov crnCr Walker for the second time has refused to grant clemency to Gervis Blood worth and Willie Jones, the two Taylor county youths sentenced to hang for the murder oF Haword F. Under- . wood January 9th. The gov- - eernors refusal was contained in a letter mailed to the de fendants today in answer to personal appeals from BSE MITO ffIIOEHFS HERE CKTMS OH No One Hurt; Fords and Buick in List; All Towed in by Local Garages Nine automobile accidents Were reported here today caused by the festivities ofl the season. The strangest part of thaw accident- is the fact that no one v’/.;,’ hurt, and the cars only'slightly “bunged” up. Crabbs Service slatio.r reported hauling in four ,while the Arperieus Automobile Company rt’ports five. Fords, and one'Buick <-cmprLmd the.) list. The most spectacuier of the* nine was the fact that the Block, while in the act of dodging a chick en crossing the road, skidded, in two or three different directions, finally turning over in the ditch, but Dame fortune smiled uuon the'own vr and while turning earn the rear bumper and spare tire caught on the bank, and held he weight of the car off of the top, thus saving the lives of the occupants, and nor injuring anything except one of the lights, and breaking one of the windshield arms. EARTH TREMORS ROCK ROANOKE BUILDINGS ROANOKE, Dee. 26.—Roanoke and its vicinity was tartled shortly before midnight Thursday by severe earth tremors. Pictures were shak en front the walls, v.-’os crashed from tables, and buildings rocked. A watchman at a local silk mill reported the floor of a brick build ing h<- was patrolling as severely trembling during the hock tnd the furniture in the building liinudfl up a; .lowii on lie rs. 1 VI NINO. I’RAYI |{ Alßjgii CALVARY CIWB F. .Mi.ne |'r.. ? .i •?.i ! mfISNE < ■.. ' i ' fl < opm FOMO'M PIO Mffl Prisoner Who Has Made Mil lions of Friends Soon to Be a Free Man By NEA Service JEFFERSON CITY. Mo. Dec 26. -- Radio soon will lose one of its best entertainers, when Harry Snod grass leaves prison. In the loss, however, radio will win the credit of having reformed a criminal. * An unsuccessful ho’d-up in St, Louis, a three-year term, half of it lopped off for his goo,! tecord, and now the famous “Kag of tho Ivories" intends to return to his wife, his son and a flattering job when he leaves January 16. Those eighteen months in prison, rather than raised them to such a height \thul he feels confident of success here after. i “I'm going straigt forever,’ he reiterates. “1 am thicugh A’h white mule. that, ted me into t’W I have several offers of Jobs. 1 sip pose I'll take one and settle down with my wife and son.’ "Several offers of jobs’ is Snod grass’ way of describing the numer ous enticing propositions made to him from theaters, vaudeville cir- cafes aiid ddnee orchestras. To has his eye on one job, however. " nt is, making m'usie rolls for a i play r piaho company. ' t Fund Colic:tcd , Popping these expressions of ap preciation by the fans is a jued that is being collected for hint" through station WOS, from which Snodgrass has been broadcasting, ; In one night 1500 tcldgrams were I received announcing rontributidng I were on the way. They -ange alt the way up to $lO from each fan, and | come from such distances as Rhode Island, Salt Lake City, Winnipeg and New Orleans. That means practically, the 1 end of radio entertainment for Harry Shod grass. Short, sallow and Wiry, Snod grass looks little like a piano piay er. * But when he touches the keys his stature is forgotten. Hie playing has attracted radio fans throughout the United States and Canada to tune in on Station WDg. hei’e, es pecially when the Missouri State Prison Band is schediileu to bread cast. He has brought rehown to WOS, . broadcasting station of the state board of agriculture. Wires from fans all oven the country come into the capitol dome, where the studio is located, pruning him. Fan» Respoid Proof of Snodgrass’ fame aj piano broadcaster is sh iwn by the thousands of telegrams.be rece’ved, the mash notes he, has had to turn down, the gifts of candy, tobacco musical instruments and other valu ables and his election to the highest honor in fand-dom. That honor isi first prize as most popular radios entertainer jn the country. i With the publication of this -.t’J nouncement by a ra’dk. magazimj came offers of adopt of financing his educaiion/kSjB lion ■ tiring j,,| )s and ,'eekijl parol. ■. T„ all |... • ugß;/ I back. *" ,p OVER EATING BLAji FOR I.OXIIIIX, 1)..., n;. fl '■ 1,11 " " 1 K "i- i i,,0.1.1,. ~ <■ Cl, injfefl rI J j Five Othi 9 - Injured W cuine., (By ih.-Br'i; Hnl’.Al; ! ■ , 132 bodies, loud recog'lwion, Wiry m</i g' U(> in others it mining as a re ui < ve. fire at the dist at Babb’s switch, 7'l Hobart citizens to tinning- their effort dead and planning- 1 At a mass .meet by Mayor F F. G tees were nam«i t detail of the sad t was going forwan It has been dec the unidentified in in the Hobart ceme day a crew of men that blanketed the j throw up a longjgfl ' Jiftd 9 jfl TB fl in- 'T,'.e W “’fl er l ivitik neaflHfl rcbe.'l. 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