About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1925)
THE TIMES-RECORDER aaraJUULSfiXD irr» ft if to. ~ Cdltw PabiU/iM 1 _ ~ ______________ Suiterea •• ««eotr<t c<*ea aaanex ai t*a poet ofiioe A THOUGHT Axneru-.ua. Geordi*. accord lag to the A*t e< C«>r<r<*M •*—'• -*■ * - As vinegar to the teeth and as Fh« AMvciated Prew la exclusively to smoke to the eyes, so is the slug -he uae for the republication of all nova die- j s .i . i . i i • n X,, tn it or not Otherw«w. rtedKod to « ard them lhat Send him * PrOVI m>.< k «pei »..J 4.« v cue local new* published here- <-> r- s r t. "• -epubJ.auoo ox execial diapatehee iWIaSO. *.*a reserved —_ —— * A sluggard takes a hundred senoMi .lavertiaiua . /KOST , 1,1 -1- ..ANDIS * KOHN. a?. Fifth n.« York; because .e would ot take ope P >, c.. t;.i, Chic.,., v.h.. «oiHi M . ;in due time.—German Proverb. • ’ *nta I The Realty Board and Other Things The Americus Realty Board became a FACT and not a VIS ION when more than I 00 Amer icus business men and Sumter county farmers became stock holders. At a meeting last night of a number of the subscribers to the realty board stock, the lists showed something like 11 0 sub scriptions of $125 00 each and the temporary officers issued a call for payment of the first in stallment of $25.00. F.obably this action means more to Sumter county than any other movement since the estab lishment of Souther Field. It means that more than 100 busi ness men will be actively pro moting the sale of Sumter lands; it means that the man who comes to this county seeking farm lands will have a large, en ergetic and efficient organiza tion to aid him in securing just the type and size of farm he de sires; it means that connections will be made immediately with concerns bringing farmers into Georgia; it means that other con nections will be formed with real estate agents in Florida who will turn farmers this way. But above all else it mean* that the men of Americus and Sumter county believe in their own lands and are putting up their money and giving their time to settle these lands with high class farmers. And more than that, it means that a square deal will be given buyer, seller and agent. The man who attempts to sell a piece of land by knocking and criticizing other lands will be about the most unpopular individual in this county. The Sumter Realty company, represented by Stephen Pace; the Atlanta Trust company and the Farm Development company, represented by Luther Allison, and other concerns deal ing in real estate are members of the Americus Realty Board and will work with the board. There is no division of interests. Ail have as their one object the sale of Sumter lands. Credit for the vision which has made this board possible is due first to M. H. Fletcher, of the Seaboard Air Line; Hollis Fort and Harvey Mathis, temp orary officers, and Luther Haw kins, the present agent for the corporation. Aiding them are a dozen or more other citizens who gave liberally of theit time for the past few weeks in mak ing this splendid vision into a reality. With this movement out of the way, it is now the duty and the privilege of Americus and Sum ter county business mep to com plete the reorganization of the Chamber of Commerce, which no doubt will be done during this month. A handful of business men already have subscribed to a fund sufficient to secure a train ed high-class chamber of com merce secretary and a commit tee, of which Herbert Hawkins is chairman, is searching for the right man. A decision from this committee may be expected within the next week or ten days. Numbers of applications have been considered and several ap plicants interviewed. The com mittee is moving with consum mate wisdom, neither rushing nor marking time. As the chair man expresses it, "We are de termined to find the right man; the most valuable man; the man who is big enough to handle this job in a big way, and until that man is found we will continue to search." The next 12 months will de termine the future of Americus ff every man does his duty, this section will witness its greatest prosperity and advance ment; if our citizens fail to put their shoulders to wheel now Opportunity will have knocked at our doors in vain and she will pass to a more cordial welcome elsewhere. Now is the crucial time. It’s put up or quit; get together or get out. Speaking with the utmost frankness and earnestness be fore the Rotary club yesterday, C. B. Marshall, .of the Marshall Auto company, had this to say Sumter county and her possi ble future: “Ten years ago Sumter coun ty was the best advertised county in the State of Georgia. You were known as few other coun ties in the State. I recall the riv alry that then existed between you and Albany. Both were pull ing, but Albany has gone ahead of ur. “Until a few weeks ago I lived at Reynolds. Today I am a citi zen of Americus, coming here because I believe in this city and county. “The reason I came was be cause on investigation I found Sumter lands selling—or bving offered for sale—at about one half of their real worth. I' de cided to come down here, secure options and sell these lands and double my money. I know it can be done. I intended to equip busses and bring farmers from j the Carolinas and elsewhere into this county. “Soon after I heard of the realty board that was being or ganized and I decided that in-» stead of jumping into the land game for what I could make out of it, I would join this board and work for Sumter county and not myself. “I saw in this board an unself ish movement and I am with them—and you—from now on. Instead of my brining a few farmers, this board of more than 100 men should bring in 500 farmers, and if each of us do not get into this movement now we will miss the opportunity of a lifetime, for the opporttfhity is here.” Mr. Marshall has been one of the wheel-horses in the organi zation of the realty board, prov ing that his statements are not empty words. The past few months have not been wasted by Americus citizens. We have made prog ress —more than in the three previous years. The white way has been made possible and soon will be a real ity. Our business streets have been repaved. A tourist camp has been started and will be completed soon. Beautiful overhead signs on ' all the roads of the county have been made possible and will go up during the fall. Some road signs have been erected and others will be pro vided as soon as the Chamber of Commerce is functioning. Many thousands of pamph lets, telling about Sumter coun ty, are being printed. Auto signs have been secured by James Lott and most of our cars are equipped with them. A great trade day is being planned and will be put across some time in November. This record of the past three months is one that should meet the applause of the entire com munity, and the fact that it is only a beginning is simply an in dication of what may be expect ed of Americus in the near fu ture. Have you, Mr. Citizen, done your part? Will you do your part in the future: * ¥ Y Railroad Crossings— Hardly a day passes that someone in an automobile is not killed at a railroad crossing. The number of automobiles in this country has become so great that it is now the duty of gov ernments —state, county and city —to see to it that all raihoad crossings on main highways are provided with a viaduct or a subwav. Traffic stopped ford ing streams in the country years ago. Every stream on a main highway has a bridge. The same protection must be afforded at railroad crossings. MUDD CLN I tK KJLKS say, Caleb, wasn't it* L _ \ EDGAR ALLEN POE TW£T WROTE ANNABELLE 7 N LEE? > i w BfOFR i pv«»o'- 1 aAwW//'' ) O p EITHER. ONE OF ’EM- Y'Y AW'//' A ASK FANNY BUZ'Z. over. fc' \' ?/SA I«r Postofficeshe handles all the OTHER DAYS IN AMERICUS TEN YEARS AGO TODAY | (From The Times Recorder, Oct. 1,1 1915.) Nearly seventy-five points down from the high point' a few days ago is the cotton futures market today. I December option at noon today was | at 12 cents. The marketing of cot-i ton here to October Ist, was 13,525 bales, with good middling worth 11 1-2 cents to 11 3-4 cents. On Octo ber 1, 1914, 13,125 bales were re-| ceived good middling grades werth 6 1-2 cents, with very little de mand for cotton at any price. The most biting blistering blast ing condemnation of sin one ever heard will almost describe Arthur Moore’s sermon of Thursday even ing. The oldest horse in Americus an-; for a quarter of a century a famil iar object here, has ended an hon orable career, and gone on a last trip to the crematory. The horse was owned by G. A. Turpin and a more gentle and faithful old family relic was never known. The streets I that have known “White Steamer” will know him no more forever. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Americus Times Re corder, October 1, 1905) A party of Americus negroes left yesterday for Los Angeles, where they have been living for two years as servants of families there. Re-' cently they have been visitig rela-j tives here, and now go back 3,000 miles to their new home on the Pa I cific coast. Balbriggan underwear for men j the latest out, and rare offered! for less than wholesale price at I EDITORIALS It is of course no news to us' Americans that we are the center of the world VV e have always been the center. In fact the home town of each of us has always been the cen ter of the country and of the world, and each one individually has been the center of that town. Human nature is that way. But, getting up on the mountain | top and surveying the world im personally, is an exceedingly new I thing. Ten years ago Europe was as lit concerned with us as we we with Europe. The history of uor world had taken place mostly in Europe, and the center of most things was still there. We were a great, new, crude peo ple, interested in our sheer big ness and in our childish pride in it. The “certain condescension in for eigners” still applied to us, and some of us still had inferiority com plex to accept it, « * * Not now. We may be unpopular and misunderstood, but we are nev er ignored. 55 hat we do or think about things is mo—' considered than what any body ' 4o'-«. Wo have become the financial and industrial center bf the world and are potentially its chief political and military factor. If we are idealtistic. as we were during and immediately’ following the war the whole world rises our I Duncans’ today, 35c per garment. The hacks made good yesterday i and even a boat line operated upon < some of Americus’ streets would done good business. I Miss Maggie Buchanan has gone ito New York to spend several I months further perfecting herself in music at the conservatory there. 1 Miss Callie Bell left yesterday • for Macon where she wil 1 enter * Wesleyan Conservatory. Receipts at the Amercius ware houses were light for Saturday at ' this season and indicated that there 3 would be no more big days as here- 1 tofore. Futures declined several j points and sales here were around j 10 1-2 cents. 11 THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY For sometime several prominent business men of this city have been { perfecting a new plan which will be I largely instrumental in inducing immigrants and homeseekers from the North and Eas tto settle in < Georgia. The plan is co-operative 1 and consists in having land owners I who desire to sell property at con servative prices to list the same with them, giving full description | * of land terms of sale etc. The county school board of Sum ter met in regular session on Mon- I day, Messrs. Sheppard, Battle, Me- 1 ! Donald Bass and Sec. Moore being ‘ | in attendance. One of the minstrel men, it is said, carried off a fine pointer dog on leaving Americus, the property !of Vernon Watts, Chief Gerald of ' Columbus, recovered the canine and ! returned him here yesterday. ... —1 t inspiration. ( If we suffer a sordid reaction, as i i we are doing so does the world, i If we will wear Paris fashions, 1 they are the world’s styles If we re ( j fuse Paris changes them. Nobody . I likes us —great success is never | loved—but everybody reckons with I us. ; It is a new experience to be thus, taken at what had always been our own valuation. * * * We are the center of things in time, as well as in space and in im portant, That too, is always hu ’ man nature. I Time consists of past, present J and future, and its center is what ever instant we happen to be living. . i But, just to be more self-centered 1 consider some of the reasons why .i we will be al&o a center of atten , i tion a thousand years form now. [, Life became human with two in | ventions—fire and stone tools. ; Then for countless age man roamed I the world with no changes beyond slight improvements in those tools . | and the things made with them. . I Then came a few thousand years -1 of bronze and a few hundred years II of iron. -1 Then one more major invention the alphabet, and intellectual and social progress began. r' Several thousand years of ups - and downs, and finally two more i major inventions—gunpowder and ’ the printing press. Then, for the first time, the ? j world speeded up. And then the r i steam engine, the railroad, the tele s ; graph, the telephone, (he bicycle. ’• j the automobile, the airplane, and e | the radio. | A long list, but nearlv all of “ r with its social and industrial cons?- . he L..V ie s . un , ,s disappearing, and the evening’s settin’ in, and it s chilly wmds you’re hearing, with their whistle and their dm, you regret that summer’s leavin’. You regret that winter’s nigh It s the cold that sets you grievin’ o’er what’s cornin’ by and Since it’s much too cold for swimmin’, and the picnic davs have passeo, and the trees are due a trimmin’ of the green that ”r" n k ° y^ U See a cornin’ through the clearness e s y. To the south the birds are hummin’, ’cause the snow j is gonna fly. ’ Light the oven in the kitchen, let the parlor fireplace glow. Do your readin ; do you- stitchin’, for your gadding spirit’s low., When it s only chill that greets you each and every time you home et y ° Ur ° Wn S °° d j udgment heat y° u to a better time at I I? fOrt , comes to th , ose . who make it. It’s an easy thing to ! 7f Fk you ve got to do is take, as the chance is daily met. 1 ?; et the feezing winds come blowing. What’s the difference L, ey .° ‘ ou won 1 m *nd it if you’re showing common sense, it s up to you. .. quences, almost in the last second i of the last minute of the last hour of man s day on earth. Whatever mdy happeq in the fu ture, to transform the external or the internal life of man, he will have to look back oh these few gen erations as having made more pro gress than a hundred years before. 53 SIMS In Newark, N. J., bandits got SIO,OOO worth of lamb skins, so now they cau make themselves some diplomas. The more you live as if you were the only person in the world the more you are out of it. This is a great country. It has old men who never have seen trains and children who never have seen cows. A fossil horse with claws has been found in Asia. In a few years you may find horses with bumpers here. Six Cleveland men who raised glasses and said, “Here’s looking at you,” never will look again. A dancer called “Yellow Charles ton” was executed at Sing Sing, but not for dancing the Charleston. Isn’t it strange that a jumpy dance like the Charleston should come from a section famous for good roads? In New York a jeweler attacked three bandits with a feather duster, but couldn’t brush them off. Tom Edison, an inventor, seems to want Coolidge’s job. He made a speech of only one word over the radio. Great Britain has a coal crisis, If she wants another we can let het have ours until next spring. You might say one who feeds hubby eggs every morning is just egging him on to something des perate. Perhaps this world catastrophe which Doyle says draws near is only the end of the bathing girl liud' UZ.SO \ A MONTH OM IjOOO. COffRS PRINCIPAL » AMD INTCRFST e : J. LEWIS , ELLIS , Empire Building * Phone 830 Americtis, Ga. 1 f F F » I season. J 1 The nice thing about not getting I what you want is you still think j you want it. y * Klim > Speed, accuracy and | | efficiency! These Q 3 ma are the Big Three ■■■ results obtained by IjJ pl completing a busi- W LmJ fiess course accord- LU 1 3 ing to our special L*F methods. |r| LjJ Prepare here for Success I' 1 [□ THE AMERICUS |jj M BUSINESS M UJ COLLEGE fcJ Dr. R. B. Strickland Dentist Americus, Georgia BELL BUILDING Over Western Union Telegraph Co. WANTED I Hens and Fryers Market Stronger AMERICUS HATCHERY AND SUPPLY CO . Americus, Ga. Americus Undertaking Co NAT LEMASTER. Manago- Funaral Director* And Embalmer* Night Phou.tr 661 and 88 Dev Phonaa 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 (Incorporated) Independence iC.. dwP/j-' Tho fir “ ,tep for p ermanen ‘ n ’WvW »■««•»• i» to save. Why not LV:?.? 1 1 '’' ‘“ I - ’•* our Savings Department T/" 1 ’I I /,'.!’*) l»e of service. We pay 4% Compound interest semi-an “ua,ly‘. L,ter OD ro “ gfc >f find this a wise move For in- dependence and happiaess. Capital and Surplus $350,000.00 RESOURCES OVER $1,700,000 Prompt, Conservative, Accommodating DANCERS SATISFY CLOTHES CENSORS j LITTLE ROCK. Ark., Sept. 30. ] Ordered by the Little Rock board of , tn put on some clothes, ; a dancing trouple last night aston- . : '-ed and amused local theatre pa i trons by appearing in rain coats, I boots and derbies. The price tags j ...re left dangling from the new ’ to indicate that they ' would be disposed of when the dan cers left the city. < Every summer we think we will save money in the winter. And ev ery winted we think we will save it [in the summer. IB STANDARD ; FALL MERCHANDISE f I 50c Cotton Suitings. At 29c. 36 inch Fancy Suitings, in nov elty checks and stripes; large as sortment of colors. 33 Inch Indian i Head, at 19c i This is the best grade of Indian , Head, doubled and rolled; sold on ! ly in lots of not more tha:. 20 j yards to one buyer. ■ . | The Best Gingham, ( At 15c Yard In about one hundred different ! patterns, all guaranteed fast col ors, at just about the wholesale price, yard -,.15c 9x12 Art Squares, At $4.99 Imported Squares, in twenty pat terns. For wear they have no equal. For this sale only, each $4.99 50c Pink Silk Striped Brassieres, at 35c Hook back—pink broche and sat in striped, all sizes. $1.50 House Dresses, at 98c Crispy new, smart styles, fast colors, sizes 36 to 46. Children’s SOc Socks, 25c Manufacturer’s samples, in over one hundred styles to select from. Sizes up to 10. Choice, pair ....25c $1.50 to $2.00 Gloves, 89c Ladies’ Suede Gloves, in fancy gauntlet style. Many that were made to sell at $1.50 to 2.00. Here real choice of 200 pairs 89c $1.50 Overalls, 99c For youths’ and boys. This price is for any size. Extra well made of best denim, pair 99 c THE STANDARD’ DRY GOODS COMPANY Forsyth Street, Next Door to Bank of Commerce AMERICUS, GA. RAILROAD SCHEDULES Central of Georgia Railway Co. (Central Standard Time) Arrive Depart 12:20 am Chi-StL Atla 2:53 am 1:53 am Albany-Jaxv 3:55 am 2:53 am Mia-Jax-Alb 12:20 am 3:20 am Jaxv-Albany 11:42 ptr. 3:35 am Chi-Cinci-Atla 1:53 am 3:40 am Jaxv-Albany 11:25 pm 5:29 am Macon-Atlanta 10:35 pm 8:10 am Albany 6:47 pm 10:10 am Columbus 3:15 pm 1:24 pm Det-Cinci-Atla 3:35 pm 1:54 pm Atlanta-Macon 1:54 pm 1:54 pm Albany-Montg 1:54 pm 3:35 pm Mia-Jax-Alb 1:24 pm 6:47 pm Atlanta-Macon 8:10 am 10:35 pm Albany-Montg 5:29 am . 11:25 pm Chi-StL-Bham 3:40 am 11 -42 pm Chic-StL-/*tla 3:20 am SEABOARD AIR LINE -■ | (Central Time) ! Arrive Departs 7:66 am Cordele-Helena 9:86 am 12:26 pm Savh-Montg 3:28 pa 3:23 pm Savh-Montg 12:28 pm J. A. BOWEN, Local Agent.
