About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 12, 1925)
WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 12. 1925 Society HALSTEAD-REGISTER WEDDING LOVELY HOME AFFAIR Marked by beauty and simplicity was the wedding of Miss Olga Hal stead and Mr. John W. Register, which took place at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Halstead, near Myrtle Springs, at five o’clock Tuesday afternoon, Au gust 11. The reception rooms were thrown together for the occasion and beau tifully decorated with quantities of summer flowers in the lovely pas tel shades. Judge Price of Huntington, per formed the impressive ceremony in the presence of a small group of close friends and relatives. The bride is a young woman of splendid traits of character, and pleasing personality, and has a host of friends throughout the Myrtle Springs community who will regret that her marriage takes her else where to reside. Mr. Register is a prominent and prosperous planter of Huntington and has many friends in that sec tion. Immediately after the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Register left for his home in Huntington, where they will res ide. Among those present at the wed ding were Judge Price, J. L. John- T. Mackey, of Huntington; Judge W. T. Lane, of Americus, and a number of friends from the Myrtle Springs community. » » * CASS-WAITS ENGAGEMENT OF INTEREST IN AMERICUS The announcement recently of the engagement of Miss Dorothy Cass, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John T. Cass, of Fitzgerald, to Mr. Elmer Lee Waits, centers the inter est of a large number of friends throughout the state, but of special interest to friends in Americus who kpew Miss Cass so cordially during her residence of several years here. Miss Cass is an unusually charm ing young woman, and for several years she was a member of the fac ulty “of the Furlow grammar school, where she was popular with the mem bers of the faculty and student body. She posseses a beautiful voice and was heard on numerous occasions in the churches and be fore civic clubs, and various benefit performances. The wedding will be a beautiful church ceremony, taking place Wed nesday, August 19, at St. Matthews Episcopal'church in Fitzgerald, at high noon.' After the ceremony they will mo tor to North Carolina for a stay of several weeks before returning to Fitzgerald to make their home. Mr. Waits is prominently identi fied in business and social circles of Fitzgerald and holds a responsi ble position with the A. B. and A. railroad in that city. A number of out-of-town guests especially from Americus will at tend the marriage, among them will be Mrs. Joe Poole, with whom she made her home during her residence in Americus. EXCURSION To FLORIDA And TYBEE SATURDAY, AUG. 15th. ROUND TRIP FARES FROM AMERICUS Tybee 4 $ 6.00 Jacksonville 7.00 Miami 16.00 Tampa 14.00 St. Petersburg 14.00 BRADENTON $14.00 JACKSONVILLE BEACH $ 7.50 DAYTONIA 9.75 ST. AUGUSTINE 8.50 ? FORT MYERS 14.00 SARASOTA 14.00 HOLLYWOOD 16.00 WEST PALM BEACH 14.50 MOORE HAVEN 14.00 WINTER HAVEN 14.00 . i Special Train Dixie Flyer Southland ; Lv. Americus— 1:20 p.m., Aug. 15 11:42 p.m., Aug. 15. 3:35 a.m., Aug. 16 Tickets to Tybee, Jacksonville, Pablo Beach and St. Augustine good re turning leaving those cities prior to midnight of August 19, 1925. Tickets to South Florida cities good returning those cities prior to midnight of August 23, 1925. Stopovers allowed at all points south of Jacksonville. Special trains. Pullman, Parlor and Sleeping Cars, and Coaches. Phone 137. Courtesy and Efficient Service Always CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RAILWAY “The Right Way" Sells Ice dr"* Red Grange isn’t the only college student who sells ice during the summer. Miss Marie Gross, an un dergraduate at the University of Minnesota, has turned ice man for the summer at Hazel Park, near St. Paul, and totes ice around each day. Mr. and Mrs. Talmadge Crabb and children have returned from a de lightful motor trip to Birmingham, where they spent five days with their mother, Mrs. Fannie Crabb, and Mrs. and Mrs. W. W. Tucker. Miss Alice Worthy, Miss Lizzie Worthy and Miss Caroline Worthy will leave early Thursday morning for Florida, where they will visit relatives in Lake City, and other points, making the trip by automo bile - * t ft Miss Elizabeth Belcher and Miss Ruth Bailey left Monday for Lake Junaluska, to take an additional course in Epworth League work, and will be away about two weeks. Mrs. E. Pearlman and Miss Jen nie Pearlman have gone to New York and other eastern markets, where they will purchase a full line of fall and winter goods for their store in this city. Miss Marie Gaines and Miss Lu cinda Gaines have returned from Montgomery, where they were the attractive young guests of Miss Frances and Wilmer Castelberry. Miss Grace Tomlinson, of Jack sonville, who has been the attrac- Used Knife '■vSs ? J ■ Mrs. Pearl Sowatin 18, of Kahsas City, Mo., is held on a charge of murder following the death of Miss Olga Einenstein, 35. The two quar reled in the office of a friend and Mrs. Sowards stabbed Miss Einen stein. She says she did it in self defense. She's 102 3 tßu ;■’> ‘J* ' . 111 Neighbors from miles around came to help Mrs. Susan Norman, of Marion, 111., celebrate her H)2d birthday. She’s “Aunt Susan” to half of southern Illnois. five guest of her sister, Mrs. W. T. McMath for ten days, left Tuesday for Savannah, accompanied by her sister, Mrs. L. E. Woods, where they will be guest of Mrs. E. T. Byrd, for several days. Mrs. A. E. Hines left Tuesday foi Atlanta, where she will spend this week with Representative Hines, and while there, will undergo medi cal treatment. Rufus Godwin, who has been in structor at Alabama Polytechnic Institute at Auburn, since his gradu ation at that school has return'd to Americus, where he will be a member of the High school faculty, as instructor in science. THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER ’ Inches or Pinches 1 ft wiFic jft a t A x -JrcTr sH JEKr > \ ' win t* Ina Jraw X w .. Girls at Coney Island, N. Y., will have to keen their bathing suits down to the prescribed legal length m else they will find that the offi cers of the law will “pinch” them and take them into the toils of the law. This shows one of the beach policemen measuring Gertrude Sel den’s bathing suit to see if it. is not too abbreviated to be proper. PROSPERITY NOW SMILES ON AMERICAN FARMER—JARDINE (Continued from rage One) “Last year hogs were cheap while corn was a poor and expensive crop. “This year conditions have been reversed. I found the average cost of packer and shipper droves of hogs to be 13.69 a hundredweight at Chicago, compared with $7.46 last year. And the prospect is for a heavy crop of corn. “The wheat situation is not so Quick start snappy pick-up more power with CROWN GASOLINE *_ r Always Better ’ A, ' It pays to standardize on POLARINE. Nothing will do more to keen your motor in tip-top condition. Oil Company INCORPORATED IN KENTUCKY rfe ■ good when compared with last year, when America’s crop was exception ally good and crops throughout the rest of the world exceptionally poor. “Our winter wheat crop this sea son is about 185 million bushels short of last, while the foreign crops have improved. “At the same time, my observa tions convince me that there will be a splendid crop of spring wheat, and this will greatly befenit the wheat raising states. “The sheep raising industry, in the far west, I found very prosp erous. “The cattle industry I found in distress—as it has been for years —but there seems to be a general belief that the worst period is over and that the industry is now due for slow but sure improvement. “I found evidence which appears to bear out this belief in Chicago, where choice steers were bringing $13.56 as compared with $10.70 last , year. “The Pacific coast has been con fronted with a particularly diffi cult marketing problem, but has ef fectively solved its difficulties by co-operative organizations. Condi tions there are now reasonably stable, while the sentiment is opti mistic. “In th<* Cotton Belt, indications point toward a large crop and fav orable income, except in certain sec tions of the southwest that have DRESSES C«SHC? IN NEW FALL CREATIONS! New brocks! All as new as the season itself are here Jpjb ready for your review. Among them are beautiful Crepe and Satins. So interesting is the pres- VJHf B ent selection and so mod- erate are the prices that % evrey visitor to this store is certain to find the Frock she wants. We have new Fall Dresses 4 FA TO coming in every day. Come // in and see them. We have I] dresses at all prices. I PEARLMAN’S Lamar Street Aimericus, Ga. PAGE THREE been stricken by drouth. “The east ?- not in ' such gomi shape. Last year’s low prices for po tatoes and hay .together with eco nomic difficulties in the dairy in dustry, are having their effect. “The cast and drouth-stricken southwest must be viewed as dark spots on the agricultural landscape. But taking the country as a whole, there is stronger evidence of ap proaching agricultural prosperity than I have seen for five years.”
