Georgia Historic Newspapers

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THE TIMES-RECORD ER
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I EDITORIALS .
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Americus’ Water
Supply—
Not for a day or an hour lias
Americus suffered from want of
water during the past few
months, and while the unprece
dented drought continues, there
is no indication that our water
supply will decrease. lor a few
weeks springs supplying Amer
icus with water failed to put
forth the usual volume, hut
even then the flow was adequate
and no effort was made to cur
tail its consumption in the city.
Not every city in Georgia
and other States as well—has
been so blessed. In one city
there has been a SSO fine assess
ed against any one using city
water to sprinkle lawns or wasn
automobiles. In still another
city, water was pumped into the
pipes for only four hours a day.
The Georgia Railway and
Power company is petitioning
for an 1 I per cent reduction in
Atlanta’s street car service in an
effort to conserve hydro-electric
power. An official of that com
pany states that if the drought
continues six weeks longer hy
dro-electric service must be
abandoned if the present load
on its high-tension wires is con
tinued.
Nathan Murray, chairman of
the water committee, states that
the flow from the springs has in
creased materially in the last
few days and no uneasiness was
felt regarding a sufficient vol
ume of water.
That's something to be really
thankful for. Americus is pe
culiarly blessed with a plenti
ful volume of water, of the
purest and coldest in the State.
Her water is one of the city’s
finest assets. Plenty of water
in the dryest and hottest of
years is a record to be proud of
—and thankful for.
The heat this summer has
been terrific over the entire
country. What would have
been the suffering if there had
not been plenty of pure cold
water?
To appreciate our water one
should travel about a little,
sampling the warm, tepid water
that others must use.
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7 he Oil Leases —
Senator Thomas J. Walsh is
fiec’y predicting that the higher
court will reverse Federal Judge
K ' l'nedy s udm'.’ ;n the I capot
! nie i• and will decide it
in favor of the government.
lie declares the case is paral
lel to the Elk Hills case, which
the government won. and that
both should be decided the same
way.
He may or may not be right
in his prediction. But here s a
thing to keep in mind:
Both of these cases will come
up for review by higher courts,
and neither case can be said to
have been settled yet. So it
might be well to reserve _ all
comment about the victory.. of
one side or the exoneration of
another until the two decisions
have been passed on finally.
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The Politician —
M. Painleve, the distinguish
ed mathematician who is premier
of France, is nothing if not ab
sent-minded.
The other day he went to a
gymnastic display by a great
group of trained athletes.
“Behold,” he said in a little
speech, the future defenders
of Fiance.”
He had forgotten they were
Czecho-Slovak visitors.
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In New York,
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In New York State they have
been having trouble between
the State Legislature and the
(governor over the matter of a
State Park Board.
The Governor Las wanted the
park board drawn up and con
stituted in one way. Ihe Leg
islature, of a different political
complexion, wanted another ..
In newspaper coments on
battle we hear much of strat
egy,” of looking ahead to the fall
campaign ol political astuteness
and so on.
But somehow there seems to
be strangely little thought, by
anyone, as to what program
would really be best for the
common people, who, after a.I,
pa z the bills.
jjsn’t it about time our po-
A THOUGHT
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He is in the way of life that keep*
eth instruction: but he that refus
eth reproof erreth. —Prov. 10:18.
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There are few, very few, that
will own themselves in a mistake.—
Swift.
lilical leaders stopped looking
at every piece of legislation to
see what it can yield in the way
of party or personal advantage,
and gave a little thought to the
best interests of the State?
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Wanted, a Moses —
Among other indications of
growing prosperity in South
Georgia is the number of new
hotels that are being built or
projected.
Valdosta is building two ho-
Vadosta is buiding two ho
tels.
Douglas is building a new bo
tch
Vidalia is building a new hotel.
Macon has completed a $500,-
0(H) fund for a tourist hotel.
Savannah is starting a move
ment for a tourist hotel.
Thomasville has opened the
handsome Three Toms Tavern.
Hotels are not often filled in
a dead or dying section. In
fact they are about the first to
suffer in times of depression,
therefore they may be taken as
reliable barometers.
Real estate transfers in the
past two weeks in the section
around Bainbridge indicate that
close to $200,000 worth of city
and farm property has changed
hands, a number of purchasers
coming from a distance. Farm
lands in Seminole county have
brought S6O an acre, we are
told, and in Decatur county SSO
an acre.
Around Fitzgerald recently
capitalists have paid out $132,-
000 for farm lands in Ben Hill
county. Much of this land was
developed, but the new pur
chaser, we are told, will spend
considerably more in further de
velopment.
Other sales of consequence we
have noticed have occurred in
Crisp, Toombs, Lowndes,
Twiggs and other South Geor
gia counties.
Almost daily we receive re
ceive requests for advertising
rates or letters asking for infor
mation from Florida realtors
asking about Sumter county
lands. A typical letter is the
following which came today:
Cut-over lands in large acres
or improved farm lands wanted.
Give me listings and I will sell
your lands. I have Northern
connections who will pay one
third cash, balance in one, two
and three years, (> per cent inter
est. Now is the time to sell and
I can sell them.
South Georgia is moving lor
ward. Is there « man versed
with the situation that doubts
this-' Granting this be true,
what are we of Sumter, one of
the richest counties, potentially,
in all of the Southeast, doing to
secure our share'-'
The situation is simply this-
We have the lands, hundreds of
acres, with superb climatic con
ditions, a 12-month growing
season, churches, schools, ex
cellent roads everything to
make life worthwhile. Almost
in our midst are thousands de
siring these lands.
What’s needed? Nothing
more than the brain, vision and
energy necessary to bring to
gether these two—a Moses.
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[ Women Smoke Five
Billion Cigarettes—
American women will smoke
five of the seventy-five billion
cigarettes sold in America this
year, the president of one of the
large tobacco companies state.
That’s not so bad as might
have been expected—only five
only five out of 75 but we
out of 7 s—but we can’t be held
for accuracy of the figures.
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Summer Business
Good In South—
Summer business in the por
tion of the South included in the
| Sixth Federal Reserve district,
' which embraces the “heart of
the South,’’ has been satisfac
tory and has shown a steady im
provement over previous years.
This is the summing up of the
report of the Federal Reserve
Bank in Atlanta, based on a re
view of trade conditions for the
month of June and a part of
July. sfi a
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A man's face may be his fortune.
So may a woman’s. Then a vanity
case holds a lot of fortunes.
Gul th. • a mr"' 1 ■ ir will really
I stay parted is after he has parted
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NEW 3HbCK OF HAIR Z.EB’3 EXPLANATION
ms changed appearance. Hasn’t Fool-
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ONVINCED THE PRETTY BOARDER. AT GRAND-
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I OTHER DAYS IN AMERICUS J
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
Monday, no paper published.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
I (From The Times-Rccordcr, Aug. I
19, 1905.)
A hundred laborers with pick and J
shovel are now at work at the Cen
tral depot, frading the new exten
sion of Cotton avenue, necessary to
the erection of the passenger shed.
This work was entered upon yester
day morning, and a mountain of
dirt thus moved.
The funeral of President Lyman
Hall of the State Tech will be con
ducted in Atlanta, probably Sunday
afternoon. As is well known Capt.
j Hall was born in Americus, the son
j of Dr. John E and Mrs. Hall.
i Auto riding by' moonlight is now
i a popular pastime here, and numer-
I ous parties enjoy nightly an outing
! on Americus’ smooth streets.
I The Sable cotton picker will come
in today and exchange his dime for
! the diminutive melon. The mullet
of long range odor will also tempt
him.
Five hundred interested specta-
I tors, in luding lawyers, doctors,
I deacons, elders, cotton buyers,
scribes, and chair warmerg of the
courthouse contingent, to say noth
ing of politicians, lined the rail
fences out at the Godwin farm yes-
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We have just celebrated the hun
dredth anniversary of three instru
mentalities of liberation—the rail
roads, the Unitarian church and
1 Pomas 11. Huxley. The first set
loose the bodies and goods of men;
the second was the first organized
American institution for the un
shackling of their spirits, and the
third was the great apostle of scien
tific freedom of thought.
Now we have added to the rail
load the telegraph, telephone, auto
mobile, airplane, moving picture and
radio; to the first liberal church the
liberalizing movements in all the
others, and to Huxley the schools,
the Scopes trial, the Associated
Press and the yellow journals. Ex
cept for poverty, which we have not
really tackled, the only shackles left
are those of voluntary ignorance.
It has been a dizzy century— so
swift that we have not yet adjusted 1
our institutions to the new machine
ry nor our minds and characters to
the responsibilities of the new free
dom. This, far more than mere ilis
covery, is the task of the future.
Men Must Be Adjusted
to Institutions
What Greece and Turkey did to
each other, Poland and Germany
are now imitating. Because guns
and vehicles are commoner than
ideas, and violence is easier than
thinking, we are more ready to de
port racial or national minorities
than to devise some way of living
with them.
Men must bo adjusted to institu
tions rather than institutions to
men. Like Procrustes of old, if
our guest does not fit our bed we
cut off or stretch his legs until he
does, ore else, as in these recent
instances, throw him out altogether.
Changing the bed itself does net
occur to us. If our minds can not
contain the ih a that institutions
might be other than geographic,
then we may have to make otir pop-
W. AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDOI ”
terday. The occasion was the first
horse race, or trotting contest, as'
it is politely termed now.
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
I (From The Times-Recorder, Aug.
19, 1895.)
Lester Windsor and Cliff Clay,
Jr. took a little trip down to De-
Soto yesterday afternoon, astride
their steeds of steel. The distance
of fourteen miles over an ordinary
country' road was made in one hour,
and twenty minutes. The ride was.
rather as costly one for Mr. Wind-'
sor as he lost his handsome gold
watch valued at $l5O.
Mr. P. P. Potter is a Sumter coun
ty farmer who raises his supplies I
and makes his cotton strictly’ a sur
plus crop. Monday he brought in a
bale of his last years crop and sold
it for 6 1-4 cents, while last fall he
was offered only’ four cents for the
same cotton.
The party of ladies consisting of
Mrs. Thompson, Misses Nellie and
Alice Kay’, Lou Hamil and Mamie
Dudley, who. have been spending
some time at Magnolia Springs, re
-5 turned to the city f esterday.
Misses Rosalie and Gertrude
Smith, Elizabeth Harrold, and Mary
Davenport returned home yesterday
■ from »a delightful visit of several
weeks to their cousins, Misses An-
■ nie and Mattie Pfohl of Columbus.
ulations ge ograph ic.
It has even been suggested that
the negro question in America might
be solved by setting aside certain
states for black and others for
white rule, individuals of either
race to be admitted to the states of
the other only on condition of ac
cepting whatever government and
treatment they found there. That
is simpler than thinking out a form
of government in which both races
might inhabit the same territory
without either ruling the other.
Government Was Not
Always Geographic
It was not always so. Govern
ment was not always geographic.
For ages, sovereignty was personal
rather than territorial; it extended
to certain individuals, rather than
over a certain space. Each man,
wherever found, was subject to the
rule and judged by the law of his
own sovereign.
The principle still survives, in our
claim of extra-territoriality, in back
ward countries. An American citi
zen. in China, is still tried there by
American judges, under American
laws. It is doubtless too late to ro
vivo this principle for the unman
pable populations of the scrambled
corners of the earth; but unless wo
can discover something more intelli
gent than the brutality of deporta
tion or the absurdity of majority
rule for these regions, they will con
tinue to hatch wars for the rest of
the world.
It is not beyond the wit of man
to invent institutions that would fit
this situation. It may he beyond
bis character to accept them.
Conference Would Be
Only an Experiment
If we finally do hold that confer
ence on Chinese extra-territoriality,
i as promis .1 by the four-powi r
treaty, U is only just to remember
■ that, [he delav is due largely to
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If you want to see grace, that is right in its place, it i. >- A ■'
■ you hie to the beaches. For there, ’mong the women, who ready
go swimmin’, you’re sure to be eyein’ some peaches.
In bathing suits neat, they are reaiiy a treat; quite the best
you can find in the land. Cute capers they’re cutting while doing
I their struttin’, and playin’ around in the sand.
They’ll shiwer and shake when the first step they take and
they’ll shout that the water is colder. And then, in a minute
' they’re all the way in it and feelin’ much bolder and bolder.
At last they are swimmin’ and gracefully skimmin’ through
I water that leads to a log. The divin’ board’s ready. .They pose
ajbjb_ steady, then leap through the air like a frog.
The beach folks enjoy it for, really, oh, boy, it’s a treat for
the eyes that are sore. We hope, when they’re done, they get
half as much fun as the people who sit on the shore.
reluctance of China itself to have
the issue raised beofre it was pre
pared to meet it.
Wc have agreed that our nation
als shall be subject to Chinese law,
administered by Chinese courts,
whenever China provides modern
laws and courts to do it. Such
courts, it is claimed, have now been
established in the principal cities.'
No one pretends that they yet exist
elsewhere.
The utmost that a conference
could concede would be the experi
ment of Chinese jurisdiction for
certain cases in a fe weities. The
rest must grow.
ENGLISHVILLE
Miss Willie Ruth English spent
last week with Mesdames. J. A. Mc-
Gill and Jewel English, near Ella
ville. ( '
Miss Julia Duke attended the .
.three day course for canning club
girls at Miona last week.
Misses Haru Duke, Vai Kleekley''
and Willie Ruth English and Mrs.
A. N. English spent Thursday at j
Miona.
Mrs. Charlie Kitchens and Miss |
Mattie Lewis Kitchens spent Fri-!
day with Mrs. S. J. English, near |
Fountainville.
Mrs. John Aycock, of Anderson-1
ville, spent Sunday’ with Mr. and i
Mrs. S. B. Duke.
Mrs. Bell Grantham, Mr. and Mrs. :
James Grantham and Mr. and Mrs. I
; Horace Walker, of Lacrosse, spent •
1 Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. L. L. |
1 Holloway. i
I Mr. and Mrs. Joe Rooks, of And- i
j ersonville, spent Sunday with Mr. .
I and Mrs. J. H. Jones.
I Mrs. C. W. Sanders and children. |
iof Americus, spent the week emi
here.
Mr and Mrs. J. T. Smith. I heron
and Mary Harden, of Fountamvill >.
spent Sunday with Charlie Kitchens
and family.
I Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Smith and
j daughter, Sara, attende dthe barbe-,
| cue at Fellowship Friday.
I Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Duke and
1 children spent Sunday with Mr. and
J Mrs. Roy Justice.
I Mr. and Mrs. Lee Kleekley. of
' near Oglethorpe, spent Friday’ aft
' ernoon with Charge FmD’sb.
I Mr and Mrs. W. H. Harden and
son Rev. W nl Sm Z.h M’-'- and
’ Mrs. B. M. Kitchens.
. Little Virginia English spent the
j week end with her grandmother,
i Mrs. J. B. Mathis.
CUT-OFF
The public is especially invited
to attend services at the Lutheran
church Sunday morning at eleven
o’clock.
Misses Mardelle Pennington,
Janilu Holloway, Ho’vard and Dur
wood Pennington, Henry Beden
baugh and Owen Barswick at
. tended the movies in Americus Sat
. urday evening.
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Americus, Ga.
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Mrs. J. T. Morris is visiting rel
atives at New Era.
Mr, and Mrs. James Maxie re
turned from a 2 weeks visit with
relatives at Athens and were accom
panied home by Mr. and Mrs. Tom
Maxie for a few days visit.
Misses Lucy Belle and Agnes Mc-
Donald, of Spaulding, spent a few
days here this week with Mrs. Lizzie
Bedenbaugh.
Miss Mary Edgar Hart, of Ella
ville, Robert and Charlie Stubbs, of
Albany, attended the Epworth
League meeting Sunday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Rob Holloway, Mr.
and Mrs. Ernest Holloway, Mr. and
Mrs. Ernest Coker, Janies Tolen,
Will Rasberry, A. F. and Howard
Pennington entertained at a fish
fry dinner Wednesday, honoring
Mrs. Bill McKenzie, of Oakfield,
and Mrs. A. F. Pennington and Mrs.
J. T. Morris of this place.
I Misses Eula Kitchens, Janilu Hol
loway, A. F. Pennington and E. W.
Holloway, spent Sunday afternoon
I at Andersonville with Mr. and Mrs.
I Olin Holloway.
| Mr. and Mrs. George Wicker were
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ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Bell Building
AMERICUS, GA.
Americus
Undertaking Co.
NAT LEMASTER, Manager
Funeral Director*
And Embalmer*
Night Phone* 661 and B<s
Day Phone# 88 and 231
L. G. COUNCIL, President T. E. BOLTON, Ass’t. Cashier
C. M. COUNCIL, V.-P. & Cashier. J. E. KIKER, Ass’t. Cashier
The Planters Bank of Americus
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Independence
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jiL* * et our Savings Department
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V■ Sp* Compound interest semi-an-
MHHalEmEwt'Mtf nuaily. Later on you will
f,nd th! * a v * se move •»-. ■
dependence and happiness.
Capital and Surplus $350,000.00
g RESOURCES OVER $1,700,000 i
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•’ Prompt, Conservative, Acc'’T>'modatin<’
shoppers in ahkuvu.,
and while there were guest of Mr.-
and Mrs. Gordon Feagin.
Mrs Drury Norris and children.
o f Hill, spent Tuesday wi-.n
Mrs. J. A. Smith.
Renew Your Health
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i n g your vitality? Lun., y-ut -n
--tire'TWm by tdfohg a thorougn
course Os Calebs, once or
twice a week for several weeks- -
and see how Nature reward.-, you
with health. ..
Calotabs are the greatest of an
system purifiers. Get a family
package, containing full directions,
price 35cts.; trial package, lOcts.
At any drug store. — (adv.)
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Americus, Georgia
bell building
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RAILROAD SCHEDULE*
Central of Georgia
Railway Co.
(Central Standard Timo)
Arrive Depart
-12:01 am Col-B’ham-Chgo 3:55 am
1:53 Alb-Jaxv. 3:35 nm
3:20 am Ja’v-Albany 11:12 pm
3:35 am Chgo-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 pm
1:54 pm Atlanta-Macon 1:54 pm
- 1:54 pm Albany-Montg 1:54 pm
3:10 pm Albany 10:12 am
6:47 pm Atlanta-Macon 6: r '4 am
10:35 pm 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 5:35 am
12:26 pm; Savh-Montg 3:33 pm
3:23 pm Savjj-Montg 12:26 pm
J. A. BOWEN, Local Agent.