Georgia Historic Newspapers

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THE TIMES-RECORD ER
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EDITORIALS
Prosperity In
Macon Pictured
3he Macon Telegraph issued
this week a 14-page Prosperity
Edition, filled with the Central
City’s march forward. Among
the high lights pictured ll erein
were these.
Bibb county is planning the
erection of four public institu
tions—a new alms home, tuber
culosis sanitarium, a quarantine
station and probably new con
vict camp buildings—at a total
Cost of $200,000.
There are forty-five school
buildings, many of them hand
some brick structures built ac
cording to the most modern meth
od-. A number of the small
country schools have been con
solidated. There fire 330 teach
ers employed, who receive sala
ries totaling $368,739 a year.
The newest addition to the
city’s attractions will be the
$500,000 tourist hotel for which
a charter has been applied for.
The entire stock was taken by
Macon business and professional
men.
Macon’.- Chamber of Commerce
has emerged from a position of
semr-obscurity. From a former
working budget of $16,500, the
body i. now able to take its place
in the vanguard of Southern cit
ies with annual budget of more
than $50,000.
, Macon prosperity is on a sound
basis and its citizens predict a
city- of 100,000 within a few
years.
Magon’s bank deposits’ set a
high record, with between $27,-
000,000 and $30,000,000 on de
posit, and $8,000,000 in savings
accounts.
Times are more prosperous and
merchants' are buying larger
Stocks /or the tall trad.- than at
any time since the World War,
according to the Macon offices of
Bradstreet & Company and R.
G. Dunn & Company.
Since 1919 forty-one miles of
roads have been paved in Bibb
county on a $700,000 bond issue
set aside in that year. This now
makes 72 miles of paving within
the county, thirty-one mlies of
pavement in the streets of Ma
con, bringing the total to this
figure.
Wesleyan college, the oldest
chartered woman-5 college in
America, had 616 pupils enrolled
the past year, with 60 officers
and teachers, and now has a.i en
dowment fund in excess of a
half million dollars. A site for
a new college plant has been pur
chased consisting of 132 acres.
The plans for rhe new buildings
on this site call fur an expendi
ture of $1,009,000.
With thirty-nine students, two
professors and two log cabins,
Mercer University opened on Jan.
14, 1833, at Penfield, Ga. With
1,135 students, 81 faculty mem
bers, and 45 buildings, Mercer
opened its ninety-second year on
Sept. 21, 1924, at Macon.
Macon has nine civic clubs—Ro
tary, Kiwan.is, Lions, Civitans,
Exchange, Pilots, a Junior Cham
ber of Commerce besides Chamber
of Commerce.
Reflecting the rapid growth
ami progress of Macon, as well
as its properity, are its railroads,
which operate daily over eighty
ptissengi r trains in and out of
the city, bringing annually thous
and of visitors here. Further re
flecting the prosperity and prog
ress is the increased freight traf
fic handled by them, which in the
past ten years has nearly doubled.
This is but a barometer for what
the future holds. Here is lo
cated the plant of the Central of
Georgia which employs about 2,-
500 workmen. The Southern
railwa y has also located here a
shop employing a large force.
The Macon, Dublin & Savannah
employs about 80 Macon people
in their shops here. The month
ly payroll of all shops combined
amounts to about $275,000.
One ; - ite plant in the city
product now 100,000 cross ties
each month, it output doubling
in the pa-t three months.
Although there were some huge
building contracts let la. t year,
indications are that this year’s
building activities in M’-con will
equal, if not exceed the record of
the previous year. Last year
there were 1,561 permits i:--wd
for construction work costing
$1,762,649, while for one year
of 1923 tie r were 2,064 permits
issued' for work costing $1,502,-
883.
From : n industrial standpoint,
SSTABUSHUI 117.
A THOUGHT ~
I have no greater joy than to
fear that my children walk in truth
—John Ill: 1, 4.
♦ * *
God offers to every mind its
choice between truth and repose.
Take which you please, and you can
never have both. —Emerson. •
an increase of $1,306,390 in tne
value of th” m.-.nufm’iuri'd prod
ucts from Macon’s : eventy-fivc
plants was shown over the pre
vious year. 'J he total for the
record year of 1921 was $26,-
504.744.
Macon’s waterworks system is
being kept well ahead of the
growth of the city, a necessary
thing to do, engineers say.
Following the building of a 3,-
000,000 gallon reservoir on See
on street, excavation for which
is now under way, and possibly
before this is completed there will
be a new battery of boilers pur
chased for the pumping station
at Riverside.
When Macon's million dollar
auditorium is turned over to the
cily this fall, turnkey job, th..-,
city will have the finest building
of the kind in the Southeast and
in fact one of the best in the
country. It is already attracting
attention throughout the country
and several architects and ar
tists have been here during the
last two' weeks to inspect the
building and get ideas. With
liberal space for aisles and with
no effort at crowding, the audi
torium will have a seating ca
pacity if 2,900 on the main floor
and 1,1000 in the balcony, a
lotal of 4,000 persons. And should
occasion arise this .eating ca
pacity could be easily increased
with temporary chairs.
Macon has two splendid daily
papers, The Telegraph and The
News, both ably edited and
eternally fight for those things
which build well-rounded pro
gressive cities.
The story of Macon, to a
greater or lesser degree, is the
story of every progressive city in
Georgia. There may be those
who have lost faith in theii
State, but the more we go into
actual figures, the clearer it be
comes that Georgia has entered
period of great prosperity
EDIT ORIALS
; < S. ' aS
SOW'i’ll;
Albert P. Taylor, librarian of the
archives of Hawaii, writes to the
papers asking the kamaainas for in
formation whether the original lo
cation of the royal tombs on the
palace grounds was on the present I
site of a hibiscus lei, or a trifle j
Ewa and a bit mauka of that spot. I
An old photograph, he says, shows
a wall on the Waikiki and Kawaia
hao sides.
This is the English language, as
""spoken ami vVritten in Hawaii. No
body thinks of it as foreigii.
After the luau on the lanai is
pan, the kamaaina host apologizes
for so much pilikia, especially to a
malihine. Noticing j a mystified
look, he adds another apology for
his hapahaole speech.
On Kamehameha day, the hale a
na alij lead the procession. And so
on.
This process, in Hawaii, is doubt
less finished. With the diminishing
numbers and increasing Americani
zation of the native Hawaiians, no
more Hawaiian words are likely to
be added to the language. Even
some now used may be dropped.
For instance, “humuhumunukun.
ukuawapaaa” is a rather formidable
name for a very small fish.
But if English once becomes tire
“universal language” which seems
to be its destiny, whqt will happen
to it in other far countries? Will it
break up into new languages, as
Latin did into Italian, Spanish and
French? ,
Or, if modern fluidity of travel
and education prevent that, will it
acquire a large vo<:i+»u’ary in each
country which is not used, or per
haps even known, in the others?
Already this is beginning to hap
pen in the colloquial speech of Eng
land and America, and to a smaller
extent in the written language. Ami
the orient ami the antipodes have
their own variations.
“Tiffin” means luncheon and
“ ; -r> 1 ,wn” means warehouse, all over
- or backwoods, in Australasia.
the orient, while “bush” means for-
In Apia it is perfectly intelligible
English tn lament the downfall of ;>
friend who took to the lava-lava and
i went faa Samoa, and in Shanghai a
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GORNEY CRABB has HAD HiS SHOES SHINED '
and pop slupe has Purchased one of
those Ready made neckties off the.
CARD IN CALEB SYKES STORE, SINCE IT '
has become Rumored that the new lady
Boarder at grandma iidpkins'house goes to
THE Post office at Four O'CLOCK EVERY day.
OTHER DAYS IN AMERICUS
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
, (From The Times-Recorder, Aug.
5, 1915.)
Three bales new cotton received
■ today at the Council and Parker
I warehouse made a total of four new
bales for that house and a total of
seven for Americus to date. The
new cotton finds ready sale at eight
cents, for good middling grades,
where the staple has been picked and
handled carefully, and is not dam
aged by gincut or rain.
Sumter’s fine potato crtip is now
being harvested to an extent, and
grace the breakfast table fried and I
at dinner baked. New potatoes, the |
fii S i on< s, are selling in Amt ricus j
just now at top prices—$1.60 per
bushel, but in a few weeks will be
most plentiful at 50 cents.
Miss Corinne Sills left today for
Columbus, where she will spend the
week end the guest of Mrs. Wil!
Crawford. Quite a number of en
tertainments have been planned for
Miss Silis by Columbus friends. To
night she will be honor guest at a
thing that is my pidgin is not your
bu. iness.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE IS
SPREADING FAST
Increasingly, around the world,
the English language is becoming
the accepted common speech.
Everywhere, unless in Europe, it
is assumed that an educated man
of any race speaks English, and that
the ignorant or uncivilized, if they
have any contact with e foreigners at
all, speak “pidgin” English.’
French remains “a” language >f
diplomacy, but no longer “the” lan
guage. In everything else, English
is supplanting it.
HOW TO BUILD THEM
EARTHQUAKE-PROOF
The cables say that Santa Bar
bara is to be rebuilt in Spanish
style. That is interesting.
But much more important than
artistic styles of external architec
ture is sound internal construction.
It is possible to make buildings
earthquake-proof.
In fact, any well-articulated con
struction, whether of wood, bamboo,
steel, or reinforced cooncrete, is
safe against earthquake of even
much more than the Santa Barbara
intensity.
Second-class brick or stone con
struction falls down. The experi
ences of San Francisco and Tokyo
have established knowledge on this
subject and multiplied men who
know it.
Santa Barbara, being warned,
will probably heed. But also, hav
ing during the life of the new build
ings, been hit once, it is probably
safer, than the places that think
themselves immune. The most dan
gerous place is the one that has
been long without an earthquake.
In the earthquake belts, says Dr.
I Jaggar, the fammous volcanologist,
1 this means Los Angeles and Hono-
I lulu. In the regions of longer inter
vals, it means Chicago and New
I York.
| An earthquake will come to anv
of these regions if. we wait long
enough, and the chances are near
est for those that have already wait
cd longest. ,<
YMF AMERICUS TIMES RECORDER
fancy dress ball given by A. C.
Chancellor.
J. E. Hightower, the Central's
genial and popular chief of the Am
ericus agney is in Savannah today
in attendance upon the Central’s
family reunion there and at Tybce
today and tomorrow.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From The Times Recorder, ’ Aug.
5, 1905.)
Miss Susanne Simmons is attend
ing a house party at a delightful
countr yhorne near Columbus.
Americus continues to adu to her
I cotton receipts and yesterday after
| noon counted the fifth one of the
new crop marketed here thus far.
This bale was from the.farm,of Mr.
Jcre Bolton. It weighed 'SBO lbs
and was sent to the Chambliss ware
house.
The annual barbecue on the great
Hugonian plantation yesterday was
a royal occasion and fully in keep
| ing with the princely hospitality so
lavishly dispensed there. Mr. G. T.
Jones, the very genial superintend
ent of the Hugenin place, presided
over this feast of the season, to
which hundreds of friends from
Americus, Cobb, and DeSoto were
present a. the special guest of Mr.
and Mrs. Jones.
One farmer here yesterday who
made fifteen bales to the plow last
year, says he will not get five this
year owing to bad crop conditions, ,
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
Monday, no. paper published.
A man tells us he isn’t so fat now.
Says he used to back up to a door
to ring the bell.
There’s lots of money in interior
decorating. You never see a good
dentist broke.
EXPERT WIRING REPAIRING
«
SEE—
J. C. BASS
Electrician
Estimates Furnished
Expett House Wiring Repairing
FOR SALE—I 2 .hp 220 Volt Motor.
106 East Church Street Phone 854
NOTICE
I pay highest cash price for Iron and Steel
Scrap, Junk Autos, Old Tires and Tubes,
Metals and Rags.
T. L. DU RHAM
HAND BAGS, SUIT CASES AND
LEATHER POCKETBOOKS REPAIRED
By N. R. Harris, Expert Workman
Aluminum Ware F ree to Customers
PHILLIPS CHAMPION SHOE AND
HARNESS SHOP
11 1 E. Forsyth Street
HOME
TALENT
The evening meal is over and the family’s ill at ease. Io
break the spell of quiet, sister’s drumming o’er the keys. The
old piano’s tinny and the notes are kinda flat, but strains of OI
Virginny and the like sound good, at that.
Dad gets to feelin’ tuneful, as his fav’rite songs are played.
He takes his old mouth organ and he joins the serenade. While
mother, at her sewin’, now and then suggests a song and as they
turn to playin’ it, she hummin’ right along.
It isn’t long till cousin starts her fiddle in to squeak. She
frankly tells them all she hasn’t practiced for a week. Then
brother Bill adds vigor to the rhythm of the tune by joinin’ with
the family on his tenor saxophone.
The neighbors sit in silence as they lend a willing ear.
There’s something quite appealing in the music that they hear.
A family joined together is a gath’ring hard to beat. Perhaps
it’s just that thought that makes the sourest tune.
Women may be slaves to fashion.
But their burdens are light.
Society’s easy to stay in if you
can’t look bored enough.
Love laughs at locksmiths and
cusses bill collectors.
Every failure thinks he could
come back if he only had someone
willing to put him on his feet.
Take advantage of your .opportu
nities. If you had started 100 years
fgo you could be the world’s oldest
man now.
Many a man who objects to his
wife’s crying thinks she should en
joy his cussing.
Youth may be served, but it’s
bard 'to get a young chicken in a
case.
Many a flame is started by the
flicker of an eyelid.
Men will never be owmen’s equals
until they know things are all right
even when they look all wrong.
Fat men don’t stand the heat bet
ter than skinny people, but they
seem to sit it .out about as well.
NEW ERA
Mrs. 11. A. Parker and children
left Saturday night to join Mr.
Parker in Jacksonville, where they
will make their home in the future.
Misses Bernice and Louise Brad
ley and Sara Lee Ryals and Doro
thy Cassedy spent the week end at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. S. J.
Bradley.
Mrs. W. A. Parker left Saturday
night for Deleon Springs, Fla. to
spend some 'time with her sister,
Mrs. W. B. Compton.
Everybody is cordially invited to
the singing at Bethel Sunday after
noon, Aug. 9, at 2 o’clock, also the
sinking school the folio'. me' week.
Misses Beulah Harris and Lucile
Kinard returned to their homes Sun
day after sneftdinv ;> f- w da"s at
the home of. Mr. an: Mrs. W. T. 0.
Bray.
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WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUSTUS,
Mr. and Mrs. W. E- Carter were
dinner guests at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. W. T. O. Bray Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Harden spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. E. W.
Parker.
Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Bradley and
little son, Charles, were dinner
guests of Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Veal
Sunday.
L. B. Bray, of Bonaire, spent
part of last week here with his
brother, W. T. O. Bray.
Billie and Clark Carter spent
Sunday with Hugh Bray.
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. McNeill and
Misses Mattie and Ruth McNeill
Too Late to Classify
"Notice ’
On September fitst we will move i
to 118-120 Cotton avenue, the.
store formerly occupied by 801-'
ton Brothers and colored drug
store. Telephone No. 224.
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Bell Building
AMERICUS, GA.
Americus
Undertaking Co.
NAT LEMASTER, Manage
Funeral Directors
And Embalmers
Night Phones 661 and 88
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L. G. COUNCIL, President
C. M. COUNCIL, V.-P. & Cashier
The Planters Bank of Americus
(Incorporated)
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Success --
Independence
The fir . t .u P for
irenf IrrLilW O pj success is to save. Why not
i ' et our Savings Department
rqiT- jb fl be of service. We pay 4’ 0
Compound interest semi-an
nually. Later on you will
find this a wise move for in
j dependence and happiness.
Capital and Surplus $350,000.00
i RESOURCES OVER $1,700,000
Prompt, Cunservative, Accommodating
were visitors at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. M. C. VeQl Mfoid.iy after--.
noon. ~ rndIOSL',2I JIXIHTB
Mr. and Mrs. H- 0. Mprris spent
;| ie week end wrth his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. H. J. Morris.
Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Bray, of,
Dooly county, were guests at the
home of Mrs. Mary Gyles last
Thursday.
Mrs. C. N. Bailey spent last Tues
day with Mrs. M. C. Veal. .
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• MERCHANT FINANCIAL WRECK
“I a financial wreck because
of the expense of doctors and
medicine for my wife. She has been
a chronic sufferer for 10 years.
: Some pronounced it gall stones,
some gastritis and some intestinal
inflammation. I happened to read
an ad of Mayr’s Wonderful Remedy
ami from the first dose my wife has
steadily improved.” It is a simple,
harmless preparation that removes
the catarrhal mucus from the in-.,
testinal tract and allays the inflam
mation which causes practically all
stomach, liver and intestinal ail
ments, inclduing appendicitis. One
dose will convince or money refund
ed. For sale bv all druggists.
(dv.)
TILOUfOFSORfsT
So Was This Americus Woman
Who Tells Her Experience
All too often women accept their
pains ami aches as natural to their
sex. They fail to realize that weak
kidneys are often to blame for that
backache, those headaches, dizzy
spells, am.V that tired, depress’d
feeling. Thousands have found
new health and strength by helping
the weakened kidneys with Doan’s
pil| s __ a stibulant diuretic. This
Americus case is one of many:
Mrs. Lula I.eamon. 927 Ogle
thorpe Ave., says: “When I swept
I sharp pains shot up from the small
tof my back and racked my whole
1 system. My back was weak and T
was so tired 1 hated to get out of
bod mornings. 1 was dizzy and
everything turned black. I used
Doan’s Fills from Howell’s Phar
macy and soon felt 100 per cent
better in every way.”
Price 60c, at all dealers. Don’t
simply ask for a kidney remedy—•
get Doan’s Pills—th-.- same that
Mrs. Leamon had. Foster-Milburn
Co., Mfrs., Buffalo, N. Y. adv
$5,000 Local Money
To Loan
LEWIS ELLIS
Dr. R.B. Strickland
Dentist
Americus, Georgia
BELL BUILDING
Over Western Union Telegraph Co.
~EGG PRICES
STRONGER
Sell us your Eggs. We
pay the top of the mar
ket for Fresh Egos.
AMERICUS
HATCHERY AND
SUPPLY CO .
Americus, Ga.
RAILROAD SCHEDULES
Central of Georgia
Railvzay Co.
(Central Standard Time)
Arrive , Depart
12:01 am Col-B’ham-Chgo 3:55 am
1:53 Alb-Jaxv. 3:35 am
3:20 air.’ Ja’v-Albany 11:42 pm
3:35 am Cb.go-Cin-Atl 1:53 am
3:55 am Jax’v-Albany 12:01 am
5:29 am Macon-Atlanta 10:35 pm
6:34 am Albany 6:47 pm
10:10 am Columbus 3:15 pin
1:54 pm Atlanta-Macon 1:54 pn?
1:54 pm Albany-Montg 1:54 pm
3:10 pm Albany 10:12 am
6:47 pm Atlanta Macon Cf A am
10:35 put Alby-Montgy 5:29 am
11:42 pm Chgo-St.L Atl 3:20 am
SEABOARD AIR LINE
(Central Time)
Arrive Departs
7:55 am Cordele-Helena 9:35 am
12:26 pm Savh-Montg pm
3:23 pm Savh-Montg ■ 12:26 pm
J. A. BOWEN, Local Agent.
T. E. BOLTON, Ass’t. Cashier 5
J. E. KI KER, Ass’t. Cashier !