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“All right. How much is it?”
“We have not the price,” said the
chief saleswoman.
“They were not sent up with the
hats. Bußt if monsieur—
“ Never mind. .Monsieur can tel) a
cheap hat when he sees it, likewise
ft strongly built hat. .Miss Brooke ,
buys this hat. Tell them to send up
the bill, ’phone me, by the way, as I
want to get it in my records today
and sent the regular requisition.
Now, you can bundle up all that ,
millionaire stuff and sell it to the |
easy-marks. Good day.”
The two ladies from the Luxem- i
bourg put the extragant hats back in <
the boxes, while Constance nurried ;
up to her rooms. She planted her- i
self before a mirror and made a ;
snort speech to the hat.
“You little dear!” she exclaimed
softly. “I love you for being so plain
and simple and cheap. And I’m so
glad they sent up all the other horrid
ones. But —oh, I’m afraid somethi
ing is going to happen. But he
bought you; he said so. And J won’t
give you up. I’m going to make sure
of you by wearing you—right now!
We’re going out for a walk, little hat
-just you and 1. Come —let’s hur
ry !”
While Constance and her little hat
went for a walk. H. Hedge was grin
ning in satisfaction.
“It’s not going to be such an aw
ful job to put economy and effici
ency across on this house, after all,”
he mused. ".Miss Brooke has just
learned an important lesson. Took
it sensibly, too. That girl has a head
on her shoulders, if she'll only use it.’
Twenty minutes later the tele
phone rang.
“Oh, it’s the Luxembourg, is it?
Ail right. Yes, I took that small hat, ]
It’s what? Oh, I don’t car e anything I
about the model being exclusive, j]
That stuff is all rot, anyhow. No. ,]
and I don’t care whether it’s from 1j
Paris or Pittsburg. That’s more rot, | ]
too. Just send the bill and let me I
l ave the amount now. What?” <
M. Hedge’s dark hair bristled.
“Say that again! What?”
He had started to write a memo- ,
randum, but his fingers trembled. t
“A hundred and fifty dollars’ Cut j
that out! I didn't buy all the hats—
just one! The little one!
He swallowed hard and listened a- !
gain. 11
'That was the most expensive hat ;
n the bunch? Paris—exclusive? And
a hundred and fifty! Say, are you a
milliner or a burglar? Wait Hold the
wire!” |
He raced out into the hall and ',
bumped into Matilda, 1
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$ I 50.00 value»
One 6-Piece French Walnut, $125 00
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' One 4-Piece French Walnut, slls 00
$1.65.00 value
One 6-Piece White Ivory, $95 00
$ I 50.00 value -
One 3-Piece American Walnut, S9O 00 '
$150.00 value
Odd Vanity Dressers in Walnut and_Mahogany, $35 00
$65.00 values, specially priced, at
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‘Tell him? Not for a minute—just put him out, that’s all •”
“Where is Miss Brooke?” he de
manded.
“She went for a walk a few min
utes ago.
“Did—did she wear a new hat?”
“She did,” answered Matilda stoni-
Hy.
H. Hedge gulped, wiped his fore
head, and walked slowly back to the
library. The receiver off the tele
phone hook . atracted his attention.
He picked it up gingerly.
“Send up your bill,” he said.
“What? Why, certainly! I know a
hat when I see one.”
Then he sat down heavily and be
gan marking aimlessly on a pad. But
the marks gradually assumed the
form of letters:
STUNG
♦ ♦ *
Billy had been crisscrossing the
floor nervously, with his hands deep
in his pockets. The outbreak alarmed
Alice, white it inspired astonishment
in Constance. Normally, Billy was
easy-going.
“Oh, it’s all right for you to smite,
Connie,” h e said savagely. “You
- IIKWT-
- worked him good and plenty, but
only because he didn’t know, it A
fool hat is one thing, and gasoline
is something else. But it isn’t that
so much either. I don’t care if 1
never get anything out of him. It’s
the talk.”
“What talk?” asked Constance
hastily.
“Oh, these good old friends of the
family—the rubber-neck crowd. I’ve
been out a bit today. I’m hearing
the gossip, so I couldn’t explain. But
they’re all asking questions about E.
E., and every one of ’em has differ
ent dope.”
“Everything! One line of talk is
,ent dope. What are they saying?”
that father has picked up some
favorite nephew andm ade him a
i portege and taken out guardianship
i papers.”
"He doesn’t need a guardian,” re
i marked Alice with a shake of her
j head. “He needs a keeper and a pad-
• I ded cell.”
“There’s another yarn that this
I guy is a British nobleman,’’continued
Billy, ignoring his younger sister;
. 1 “that he is a house guest for an in-
definite time, and that maybe he’ll
be a son-in-law.”
I Constance flushed vividly.
“How absolutely absurd!” she ex
claimed.
“I’m only giving you what they
say,” declared her brother wrathful-
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Attention Farmers
Sowing Grain
The season is now favorable for the thor
ough preparation of land for grains. Plow and
harrow carefully, and then drill in the seed,
(j The recent drouth has caused a shortage of
feed in this section, and the farmers should
realize the importance of planting more grain
than usual. There is no better time to insure a
crop than to plant now.
May we offer this suggestion?—Fertilize
your oats when you plant them, use two bush
els of seed to the acre and drill in with them one
sack of well prepared 9-3-3 Guano.
We have installed new mixing machinery,
and are prepared to supply first class goods in
every respect. Let us serve you. Your pat
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ly. “Another one has it that he’s a
classmate of mine who is just back
from South America, where he’s
been on a ranch. And—get this—
there’s another yarn out that E. E.
is a famous portrait-painter who’s
putting the whole family on canvas.
They’ve gone so far with that that
Alice is already painted, and I’m
going to be exhibited next spring
Thty’re going to call it’Girl With
Fan,’ or something like that.”
“It’s unbearable,” declared Con
stance.
“Unspeakable,” affirmed Alice.
“Well, it’ll end and any time you
say,” said Billy, coming to a halt and
indulging in an emphatic gesture.
Alice displayed alert interest.
“I don’t understand,” said Con
stance. “You mean that you have a |
plan” You have some way to end it?’
“Sure. I’ve had one from the first.
Only you’ve been going into argu
ments with him.”
The son of JohnW. Brooke spoke
with assurance and ease.
“The plan, please,” said Constance.
“Chuck him.”
“Now?”
“Me.”
Billy stretched lazily and glanced |
down at his own considerable bulk.
“You propose to ttell him to leave
the house?”
“Tell him? Not for a minute. Why
tell him? Juse put him out; that’s
all.” I
Alice looked at her big brother and -
betrayed excitement.
“Really,” Billy?” she exclaimed.
“Why not? Any reason why it
cannot be done? You two have been
beating around the bush with your
schemes, when there’s only one easy
way. And it’s so darned simple. I sup
pose that’s the reason you never
thought of it.”
He viewed his sisters magnani
mously.
Constance pursed her lips and con
sidered the idea. Beyond question it
was necessary to terminate the dicta
torship. Argument and compromise
had failed. Yet Constance instinctive
ly revolted at anything so vulgar as
the employment of force. It was
something unknown in the Brooke
household; something foreign and
distasteful. Still the situation was all
so new and unknown since the day
she could first remember anything.
“I’m for it,” declared Alice pro
mptly. “Will you really do it Billy?”
“Watch me.”
“How about you, Connie?”
“Well,” said Constance cautiously,
“I’ll watch—if he’ll do it.”
“Come on.”
(To Be Continued)
A pessimist is one who has eaten
chestnuts in the dark.
A man seldom turns over a new
leaf until he has finished the old
one.
Tramp, tramp, tramp, the tramps
are hoarding south.
Hall’s Catarrh
o «JiS will do what we
claim for it
rid your system olf Catarrh or Deafness
caused by Catarrh.
Sold by drugguti for ovrr 40 ytart
F. J. CHENEY &. CO., Toledo, Ohio
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Desperate because he faced a sl,-
000 fine for non-payment of his in
come tax, Elliott Gabler, president
of the Gem City Engineering com
pany of Dayton, 0., held up a bank
messenger and robbed him of $lO,-
000. He was arrested and confess
ed and the money was recovered.
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COMES WITH
PROMOTION
CHICAGO, Sent. 29.—After a
ea* efui survev of the entire labor
situation extending from office boy
to president, indications are that
positions showing increases in sal
aries require experienced help.
Consulting the president of one
of our largest industries, the writ
er inquired regarding she rapid
success of a certain young man who
had become general manager, and
who a few years ago was but office
boy; his answer was, Brown start
ed as office boy, the lowest salaried
position in our office, he was am
bitious and managed to purchase a
typewriter on small monthly pay
ments and after three weeks of
practice at home he was promoted
to bill clerk, which position gave
him knowledge of the selling price
of all merchandise. His next ad
vance was that of typist, which
taught him the numerous forms of
letter-writing and enabled him to
hold a stenographic position, giv
ing him complete knowledge of let
ter-writing. He was then made sec
retary, bringing him into contact
w>th all business details and quali
fied him for the general manager’s
office at ten thousand per year.
The same opportunity awaits ev
ery man and woman. Educa
tion or age have nothing to do with
operating so simple a machine as
the type writer. We are informed
that a great piece of benevolent
work is being carried on by a large
Chicago mail order house in fur
nishing typewriters to people wor
thy of credit, by selling on small
monthly installments, so low as to
average about eight cents per daj
and actually teaching thei. custom
ers how to use and operate any tpe
writer in about three weeks’ time
You can get other information bi
writing the International Type
writer Exchange, 184 W. Lake St.,
Chicago, Illinois.— (adv.)
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The Brougham ’1450 n
The 7-Pass. Sedan *1650
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And for those who desire, these cars may
he purchased for a low first payment. The re
maining payments conveniently arranged.
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I HCkSDAi Al i ERNOUN, NOVEMBER 12, 1925
SHILOH
Rev. M. B. Brown of Richland fill
ed his regular appointment at the
Shiloh Baptist church Saturday and
Sunday.
Miss Sallie Lee Lansford spent the
week-end with Mary Annie Short.
Miss Mary Annie Short had as her
guest Sunday, Miss Mildred Daniel
and Sallie Lee Lansford.
Mrs. Charlie Marshall intertained
the young people Friday night with
a party, those who attended the par
ty were Miss Mildred Daniel, Miss
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The South’s Supreme Hotel
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GEORGIA-TECH FOOTBALL
GAME
Five Minutes Walk From
Tech Football Field
A place where comfort, service, cuis
ine, plainly proclaim the Bowman
standard, —within the price range of
ordinary hotels.
The amplest assembly facilities in the
South.
600 homelike outside rooms with bath,
single, $3.50, $4.00 and $5.00: double,
$5.50, $6.00, $7.00 and SB.OO.
Club breakfasts 60c to SI.OO.
BUSINESS MEN’S LUNCH
SI.OO - $1.25 - $l5O
Bowman service means the assurance of every ele
/ment of regardful attention that puts a hotel guest
thoroughly at his accustomed domestic ease.
Reservations for the Georgia-Tech football game,
should be made NOW.
HOLLAND B. JUDKINS, Vice President-Manager
WILLIAM C. ROYER, Associate Manager.
Mary Annie Short, Mildred Wellons,
Bobbie Pilcher and Mr. Hilder Pilch
er, Lloyd Hassell, Clarence Short and
W. G. Short.
The many friends of little Ralph
Cheeks are gad to know that he is im
proving.
Mr. R. C. Brady has returned to
his home after spending several days
in North Georgia.
The one nice thing about one kind
of cheese is you can’t tell when it is
spoiled.
A loafer usually wishes he was do
ing something else._