Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, November 30, 1925, Page PAGE SIX, Image 6

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PAGE SIX THE TIMES-RECORDER ESTABLISHED 1879 -.t Eve ’ ?i»n* and Publisher ' — ! Ex: er rd aa rrcond claw matter at the poet office e* Americas, Georgia, according to the Act of Tbt Associated Preu ia exclusive!* entitled to the uae for the republication of ill new* dia credited to it or not otherwise credited to j Ms peper and also the local eetrs published here to. All right of republication of special dispatches we reserved. Nai>e«M) Advertising Representatives. FROST j LAMMS a KOHN. 225 Fifth Avenue, New York; j Pangura Gas Bldff., Chicago; Walton Build mg. Mbits EDITORIALS What Will Your Answer Be?— The Sumter County Realty Board. Luther M- Hawkins, presi-. dent, has rented and moved into ! its permanent offices in the Tur- J pin building, where it has been .joined by the Chamber of Com merce. and probably will see housed there the offices of the Americus Trust company. The fhst permanent and pro gressive step forward has been taken. The next will be the re organization of the Chamber of Commerce, with a trained, experi -nced secretary as its head. Americus and Sumter county ire preparing for 1926, laying a foundation for the most progres sive program the community has ever undertaken. The founda tion is being so carefully laid that failure, even in the remotest de gree, seems impossible. For six months Americus busi ness men have seen the opportu nity approaching for capitalizing the splendid assets of this com munity. . 11 L J On January I we will be ready t° go. , No haphazard ill-conceived program will be presented the community. Day in and day out, week after week, a comparative ly small body of men have been studying local conditions and watching the tide of prosperity rs it has swept southward and then northward. They believied the first essential was a highly specialized expert. A number ot men were considered. borne were brought here from a dist ance. Each was investigated until the most efficient was found. He fas been employed and his salary - -more than Americus has ever paid such a man before—has been subscribed by a few of the younger business men of the city. | He will be ‘o‘n the job very The next step in this carefully •hought-out community program as the organization of a realty oard. adequately financed and introfled by Americus men —not akicularly for what they can run from their stock subscrip tions. but for the purpose of sell- ( mg Sumter county lands to pros- [ pective farmers. The Sumter, County Realty Board was the re suit and it now is actively in the field, with 100 local men as stockholders. A budget of not less than $ 15,- ( 000 is necessary for the year s operations of the Chamer of Com merce. Os this sum. $5,000 al ready has been subscribed. The SIO,OOO balance is to be used for advertising purposes, such as road signs stretched from the northern-most limits of the State down into Florida; for publishing and distributing pamphlets and other literature regarding thej wonderful farm lands of Sumter i county; for the completion and operation of a modern tourist ■camp; for meeting all other neces sary expenses of a live, wide awake chamber of commerce, ex cepting the salary'of the secretary which already has been subscrib ed- A few citizens have been rest ive. They have said that Amer icas was not awake to her oppor tunities. That time was being. lost. Far better a slow start with a fast ending, than otherwise. Americus business men have been making haste slowly-—but surely. The great tidal wave of pros oerity that is sweeping Southward i* not a bubble which will ex plode overnight. It is here to stay. A nation is discovering a new Promise Land in South Geor gia. From one end of the coun try to the other the name of Flor ida is being linked with SOUTH GEORGIA. This section of the State is coming into its own so rapidly that we who live here carrot realize its rapidity. Writing of “Progressive South' Georgia” the Rome News makes tfiis observation: R"<ent visitors to that section of the State say that a movement of public improvements not unlike that in Florida is under way in virtually every tov-n or city. It eeems that the spirit of progress chat is making Florida the most famous section of the United States has spread to the southern portion of Georgia. Real estate in South Georgia towns and cities « being bought and sold at rapid- A THOUGHT Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, neither for the body, what ye shall put on. The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment. —Luke 12:22-23. *¥ * * Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and > another of darkness; on the confines |of two everlasting hostile empires, Necessity and Free Will.—Carlyle. I ly increasing values. There is no stagnation there. There is no stagnation here. Indicative of the extent to wliich South Georgia counties and cities are progressing by the process of making large public improve ments is our own splendid white way, which is second to none in the State; of the excellent newly paved business section which is as fine as any paving anywhere in the South; of our great road paving program in the county which has not slackened even dur ing the years of depression; of our efficient country school sys tem that is envy of every county in the South; of our splendid har vests in spite of the most adverse weather conditions. Nor is this peculiar to Americus and Sumter county, for. says the Moultrie Observer: “All over South Georgia there is a revival of interest in paving. Cities like Albany and Valodsta have plans for paving practically all the streets. There is a new paving plan that makes this com paratively simple. “They have a bond election plan - ned in Decatur county for five hundred thousand dollars, this sum to be used in matching a million and a half dollars to be put up by the State and Federal road de partments. Grady county is fall ing to the paving project ’’ Recently, Macon county has joined the groug of progressive South Georgia counties by pass ing a bond issue for government paving along the Dixie Highway. The passage of this bond issue al ready has had its effect, accord ing to a statement in the Macon News from the pen of J. Kelly Simmon, ex-president of the Georgia Press association, for says Mr. Simmons: A Florida realtor, who knew the bond election was pending, had arranged to buy certain property located in Marshallville if the elec tion was favorable to bonds. Good roads bonds won by an overwhelm ing majority, and so the deal was consummated. This is just anoth er instance of what improvement bonds will do for a community. Florida towns and counties are all bonded to the limit at all times, and those that are not are looked upon as rather slow and non-pro gressive. A financier in Hot Springs, in discussing South Georgia's possi bilities said: ‘‘You may not know it, but very soon down in your section of Georgia you will have a great tourist hotel—one not yet mentioned in your press before. 1 know what 1 am talking about.” In his opinion. South Georgia and Florida are inseparable. He said that from Macon southward there would be as great develop ment in Georgia as in Florida. Speaking of this spirit of op timism ‘at home," the spirit which is being manifest all over South Georgia, the Quitman Free Press remarks: “In the days of pessimism and gloom which have so ravaged the optimistic spirit of Quitman, the Free Press has felt very lonely in advocating municipal improve ments,, believing progress is always the foundation stone upon which we may step from depression into prosperity. The Free Press has ■ all the time contended that the situation marking the past has been more imaginary than real. “Now, it would appear, we have stepped out into the sunshine and everybody is happy again and i i the Free Press has lots of con- s genial company.” The job in front of us is a big one- The first great ‘push’’ is 1 the most important and the most vital. To make it a success EVERY man and woman in the city and county must join. There is no place in the ranks for the i laggard or the quitter. He who I has been riding FREE may pay. He of little faith must "get right or get out." The street corner knocker is a pest of the past. If lie is not willing to "pull with the bunch," the bunch will gladly purchase him a railroad ticket to other parts. Some practices of he past will not be tolerated by the men of 1926. Soft-soaping md charitable toleration are fine n their places, but there are times when men will fight and that •ime is here. The program for the future is AH, I PiND, AAR. SLUPE, THAT among many other things \ To" ARE GIFTED WITH A J / HERE, PROF, is p, ; iOOD MEMORY— // PENCIL AN’ PAPER. — x. ( I WRiTe. IT ALL ;! I I 00WN SoS 1 KIN TAKE ‘ ' I |T HOME AN' SHOW IT fl . \_ TO w WIFe - z « IN ORDER TO STIMULATE INTEREST IN PHRENOLOGY AND PERSUADE MUDD CENTER CITIZENS TO HAVE THEiR ©UMPS READ FOR A QUARTER. A HEAD, PROFESSOR SOOONI Gave, a few free demonstrations at the. lOTEL—HE. MADE A GREAT HIT WITH Pop . '.'JPE i OTHER DAYS W AMERICUS TEN YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times-Recorder, Nov. 30, 1915.) Mr. Lewis Ellis entertained Sun day evening at dinner at Th'e Hotel Windsor in compliment to his sister. Miss Florence Ellis, of Dothan, Ala. The guests were Miss Ellis, Miss Maty Ella Davenport, Miss Katherine Davenport, Mr. Quimbly Melton, of Bainbridge, Dr. M. E. Wheeler and Cranston Williams. Mrs. Robert McAfee is spending a few days in Macon with Mr. McAfee, going there this morning. Miss Alice Callaway returned yes terday to her home in Atlanta after a visit of several days here. Miss Lula Hey is spending several days with friends at St. Andrews’ Bay and other points on the Florida Gulf coast. Mrs. 1. T. Hines at her residence on Elm Ave., has as her guest this week, her sister, Miss Annie Lara more of Leesburg. Miss Mary Ferguson of DeSoto was shopping in the city yesterday afternoon. Miss Estelle Smith returned today to Macon after spending several days in the cjfy, the guest of friends. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY ■ (From The Times-Recorder, Nov. 30, 1905.) Mr. E. M. Kendrick was among the several representatives from Plains in the city yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Bell have as their guests this week, Rev and Mrs. Olin Evans of Otnaha. I Miss Georgia Bena Dodson and Mr. Will Dodson, Jr., went Monte zuma yesterday to spend several days. Mrs. W. A. Brooks of Sandersville PEDESTRIANS CAN’T FORM g UNION; NOT ENOUGH OF ’EM BY CHARLES P. STEWART NEA Service Writer WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.—Some thing I said in print recently concern ing motorists’ troubles in Washington fretted Traffic Director Eldridge so that he dropped in, with blood In his eyes, to see me aboue it. “No doubt you’ve been pinched yourself,” he accused, “That’s what makes you so uppity.” “Mr. Eldridge,” I assured him, “out of this country’s entire grown up population I’m one of about half a dozen who never owned or drove an automobile.” His expression changed from an- 1 noyance to deep wonder. “You don’t say!” he exclaimed. “I didn’t know 1 we had one of ’e m here in the capi tal. I’ll notify the Smithsonian Insti tution—anthropological division .Dr. j Hrdlicka’U be wild about you.” I “You see, the director explained I all his anger lost now in curosity, | “we have to bear down pretty hard i here on traffic law violations or there’d be a massacre. “All the states roundabout have automobile registration regulations which make it hard to dispose of stolen cars. But in the District of about complete. The call to com munity service will go forth in the very near future. Your time and your contribution in money will be asked —nay, demanded— 'nd that in quantities you have not been accustomed to give. On the response to that call ' angs the future of Americus and Sumter county. What will YOUR answer be? AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER MUDD CENTER FOLKS will arrive today to join Rev. W. A. Brooks on a visit at The AUen House. Miss Helen Montford, of Butler, Ga., is the guest of the Misses Mc- Laughin for a week at their resi dence on Taylor street. Mrs. T. W. Kennedy of Bronwood is spending several days pleasantly with friends in Americus. A hard shower fell last night, with the promise of more rain today, per haps, but the sprinkle only made tfie Methodists feel more at ease. ~~ Mrs. Hiram Stapleton of Dawson is the guest of Mrs. T. A. Chappell at her home here this week. THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times-Recorder, Nov. 30, 1895.) Mr. W. Pace, a prominent citizen of Albany was in the city yesterday' on a business trip. Mr. James R. Stapleton came tner from Preston yesterday to look aft -r important business. Messrs. Frank T. Lanier, T. J. Stallings and G. O. Loving returned among others yesterday from The Exposition. Miss Gertrude White returned yes terday from Albany where she spent Thanksgiving the guest of her cousin Miss Fonda Gilbert. Capt. and Charles F. Turner have returned from an extended visit to North Georgia, accompanied by Mrs. Turner’s sister, Mrs. Charles Stan ford, who will be their guest for sometime. Mr. Basil Gill of Brunswick spent yesterday in the city, a guest of the Windsor. W. A. Terrill of Greenville, Ga., was registered yesterday at the Windsor hotel among others. Columbia we have none. Conse quently, the minute a machine’s swip ed anywhere in our vicinity, it’s rushed into the District to be dispos ed of, and it sells for a song general ly- “The result is that more totally ir responsible people own autos in Washington than any city in the United States, for its size. They’d race right through the capitol, knock down the Washington Monument and park in the Lincoln Memorial if we didn’t keep a tight rein on ’em. Then I broached to the traffic di rector my great scheme for a Pedes trians’ League of America. “What we pedestrians need,” I argued, “is organization. The auto ists have it. When ther rights are involved they have a big association, with high-powered lawyers, legisla itive lobby and barrels of the money, I to fight for them, i “But the individual pedestrian is | just a poor, lone, downtrodden ped estrian. He wouldn’t be so safe to kick, cuff, browbeat, knock down and run over if he belonged to a powerful league, sworn to defend him.” “There couldn’t,” objected Eld ridge, “be such a thing as ‘powerful’ pedestrians’ league. There aren’t enough of them to form a quorum, let alone a league, with any punch behind it." , Speaking of automobiles, the country around Washington is no place for a man with a weak heart to do his touring in. It’s a country of manv high, steep hills. The typical road is a succes sion of blind curves. These roads. The trees have grown the apples and the wind has shook ’em down. You find ’em, lookin’ temptm, ’mid the leaves upon the ground. Ya pick up jes’ the best ones till a basket’s got its fill. Then you lug your bunch of pippin to the bloomin’ cider mill. They put ’em ’neath a presser, an’ a big wheel spins about They crush ’em and they squash ’em till the juice is running out Ya stand there kinda thirsty as ya watch the sizzlin’ foam. Then ya get yer jug o’ cider and ya hike yer way fer home. Mother bakes a batch of doughnuts and she sets ’em out ta cool. It’s always kinda hard to wait ta eat ’em, as a rule. At last ya shake some sugar, an ya dress ’em nice an’ white, and then ya get the thriller as ya nibble off a bite. v et t er ’ “ the winter > than a doughnut made at home. You II never find as good ones, man, no matter where ya mam An then, ta top the doughnut off, and do the thrill up brown, ya drink a drink of cider jes’ to wash the doughnut down. mostly, are barely wide enough for two cars to pass safely. Mostly, again, they are crowned high in the middle. , The autbist, dashing 30 miles an hour down a stiff slope, comes, let’s say, to a sharp outside curve. He must do one of two things. He must slow down to about 10 miles and keep to the right, where he belongs. If he fails to slow down, his already outwardly-tilted car will fily the road 1 inevitably. Or, stepping on his ac celerator, he climbs the road’s crown, i steering to the left, so as to keep i terra firma under him and whizzes, , nonking, head on into whomsoever may be ascending, around the cor ner, from the opposite direction. That is, that's what happens un- Hess, by pure fool luck, the highway (chances to be clear, in front of him. Sometimes it is and some times it isn’t. Better be deciding what to give your wife for Christmas so she can change your mind in time. Three Detroit boys robbed a bank, proving they do something in Detroit besides make autos. There are so many other football games going on we don’t know if Congress is in session or not. Some women are happy. Others marry men who drinks, or gamble, or fool around with radios. THE STANDARD I A Special Sale for Mon-* day and Tuesday 9-4 Bleached Sheeting, At 43 l-2c Heavy Bleached Sheeting, guaran teed 81 inches wide and bleached snow-white; limit 20 yards to one . buyer at the price. Monday and Tuesday, yard 43 l-2c Alexander Smith’* Tapestry Rugs, at $1.50. All wool face Tapestry Brussel Rugs, in twenty-five pretty patterns.* They look as well as some of the $4 Rugs. Here Monday and Tues. $1.50 Alexander Smith’s Velvet Rugs, at $2.65. Actual size 27x54 inches. Over fifty patterns to select from; floral and Oriental designs; value $4. Here Monday and Tuesday ...$2.65 Alexander Smith’s Tapestry Brussel Squares, at $9.98. Pretty patterns; actual size 6x9 feet, in twelve pretty patterns. They I look as. well as some of the S2O grades , Here Monday and Tuesday $9.98 Genuine French Broadcloth and Flannels, at $1.98. 54 inches wide; in black and many good shades; regularly sold at $3. Here Monday and Tuesday, yd. $1.98 Extra Large Cotton Blankets, at $2.98 Actual size 66x80; plain colors; heavy weight. This price is for a pair. Sold only on Monday and Tues day for this price, per pair ....$2.98 22x44 Bleached Turkish ! Towels, at 25c If we were to price these towels to you at 50c you would not think them too high. One case of fifty dozen to be sold here on Monday and Tues day _—2sc Sample Sweaters at 66 2-3 Cent* On the Dollar 1 The entire sample line of one of New York’s largest sweater houses now on display, at an average of 66 2-3 cents on the dollar. All sizes from the very low priced ones to the best they made. | THE STANDARD DRY GOODS COMPANY hor.yth Street. Nest Deer te Baas of Commerce AMERICUS GA MONDAY AFTERNOON. NOVEMBER 30. 1925 New York expert says fish are better food than hot dogs, but we doubt if fish will enjoy the compli ' ment. Don’t worry at a strange noise at ; night. It is merely the coal bill i climbing up to the roof. After buying our winter clothes we know just how the French feel about their war debts. yew 0 air a CHATHAM LOAN $J2.50 a month oM £IOOO. COVERS PRINCIPAL AND |NTERE5 t J. LEWIS ELLIS Empire Building Phone 830 AmeriTUL, « AMERICUS FISH FISH & OYSTER CO Always Fresh Fish Phone 778 AMERICUS UNDERTAKING CO. Nat LeMaster, Manager Funeral Directors and Embalmers Day Phones 88 and 231 Night Phone—66l and 88 CHEAP MONEY TO LEND we always have money to lend on farm lands at lowest rates and best terms, and yon will always save money by seeing us We give the borrower the privilege of making payments on the principal at any interest period, stopping interest on such payment. We also make loans on choice city property. Write or see R. C. Ellis, President, or G- C. Webb. Vico Preei dent, in charge of the Home Office, Americus. Georgia— Empire Loan & Trust Comp anv Americas. Georgis L. G. COUNCIL. President T. E. BOLTON, Aen’t Caahiei C. M. COUNCIL, V.-P. & Cashier. J. E. KIKER, Ase t Casnier The Planters Bank of Americus (Incorporated) ONE-THIRD OF .• A CENTURY W jyJnp«®ti3 The standing of this bank in s^SrUI rI'HJ ‘ ** >e pu^‘c m * n< f has not come I? suddenly. It is the result of i* t constant loyalty for more tilsi (1 than a third of a century to 'h* best principle* of bank . ’rfi i lng. «>J| 11 *1 aiffatf jSI We invite your account eith ~St.er Commercial or Savings. Capital and Surplus $350,000.00 RESOURCES OVER $1,700,000 Pre. not. Conservative, Accommodating In Dayton. O-, a man turned ban dit to get money to pay his income tax fine. How’s that for honesty? TURKEY DINNER Thursday, 12 o’clock and 6 o’clock Please make reservations early ta insure good service. SIGN OF THE PINE TEA ROOM I LEGAL AD NO. 933 ; GEORGIA, Sumter County. Will be sold, at public outcry, ta the highest bidder for cash, at Ila. m., on Saturday, December sth, 1925 as assetts of Diamond Poultry Farm, the following: One 11,000 capacity incubator, | coal and oil brooders, two 1500 ca pacity brooder houses, four colony I houses, one laying house, and other I miscellaneous material and equip | ment belonging to said business. Same to, be sold as property of said Diamond Poultry Farm, a part nership composed of S. P. Howe, Lawrence S. Churehill and Kenneth > B. Wolfe, by virtue of order of . Judge of Superior Court of said • County in proceeding to dissolve said partnership dated November 21, 1925. Sale to be held on premises on which property is located and where said business has been conducted, being on the Daniel farm located oa South side of Dixie Highway, just outside eastern limits of City of . Americus. This November 23rd, 1925. W. A. CHAPPELL, Receiver. NOTICE! Registration books for the Gea eral Election to be held Decembet 16th, 1925, are now open. A. D. GATEWOOD, JR., Clerk and Treasurer. RAILRODAD SCHEDULES Central of Georgia R’y. Co (Central Standard Time) Arrive Depart 12:20 am Chci-S'tL-Atla 2:53 air 1:53 air. Albany-Jaxv. 2:08 am 2:08 am Chi-Cinci-Atla 1:53 aai 2:63 am Miami-Jax-Alb 12:20 aa> 3:20 am Miami-Jax-Alb 11:42 pm 3:40 am Jaxv.-Albany 11:25 pn 5:29 am Macon-Atlanta 10:35 pm 8:10 am Albany 6:47 pm 10:10 am Columbus 3:15 pa 12:55 pm Chi-StL-Atla 2:12 pm 1:00 pm Chi-StL-Bham 2 :40 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 2:12 pm Miami-Jax-Alb 12:55 pm 2:40 pm Miami-Jax-Alb 1:00 pm 3:35 pm Mia-Jax-Alb 1:24 pbi 6:47 pm Atlanta-Macon 8:10 am 10:35 pm Albany-Mont 5:29 am 11:25 pm Chic-StL-Bham 3:40 at>J 11:42 pm Chi-StL-Atla 3:20 am SEABOARD AIR LINE Arrive Departs 7:55 am Cordele-Helena 9:00 am 12:31 pm Savh-Montg 3:17 p m 3:17 pm Savh-Montg 12:31 pm A. F. FANNING, Loca: Agent. Harness and Suitcases Repaired By N. R. HARRIS Expert Workman ALUMINUMWARE FREE ' r O CUSTOMERS. Phillips Champion Shoe and Harness Shop 111 E. Forsyth St