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VGE FOUR
AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1919.
CUT OFF.
gj Stubbs returned Sunday night
i Atlanta, where he spent severe
and Mrs J. D. M. Wicker. Miss
Wicker. Mr. and Mrs. J. A
and children spent Sunday at
piester, the guests of Mr. and
Dll AUeen 1C Dougherty left Mon-
r her home in Atlanta, after
spent a week here, the guest
>ert Stubbs. „ .
m school opened on Monday,
" with Kev. I. C. Walker as
, and Miss Jessie Bell, from 1
in &s assitant.
D B. Bedenhaugh, Miss Kate
John Lingo, David Beden-.
and Jess Kitchens spent Sun-
Albany with Mr. and Mrs. T.
ichal and Miss Eva Beden-
ronre Dougherty, of Atlanta,
several days here recently with
I uncle, R. H. Stubbs,
r. and Mrs. 8. R. Kitchens were
lay guests of relatives near Amer-
us Laura Stubbs is attending An-
, college at Cuthbert during this
tol year. . .
Jr. and Mrs. J. B. Rouse motored
[.Americus for a few hours Mon-
I Robert Stubbs spent Monday and
lay in Macon.
pt. J. P. Nelson, from Ogle-
e, paid the school a visitto-
■unis. R. H. Stubbs, Miss Aileen
pugherty, Mrs. G. M. Wicker and,
eorge Stubbs spent last Friday near l
Americas with Mrs. R. D. McNeal
Rev. I. C. Walker and Clements
Brightwell were Oglethorpe visitors
Friday afternoon.
Miss Aileen Dougherty was the
honor guest at a party given at the
home of Mrs. Julia Chambliss, near
Americus Saturday evening.
Miss Mary Alice Stubbs, from
Americus, spent a few days the past
week here with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. R. H. Stubbs.
Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Holloway, Rob-
ert, Jr., James Tolen and Mrs. R. H.
Stubbs spent one day in Americus
this week, Robert, Jr., being operated
on for the removal of his tonsils and
adenoids. . _ . _
W. J. Pennington and Rev. I. C
Walker spent Saturday afternoon in
Americus.
Miss Mardel Pennington is again in
Macon After having spent the sum
mer here with homefolks.
Misse Jessie Belle and Beulah
Pennington, A. F. Pennington, Jess
Kitchens, Watson Wicker, Alex Har
den and Robert Stubbs were guests
at R. H. Stubbs’ on Wednesday even-
ing.
Miss Dannie Wicker has returned
to Macon to complete her course as a
student at G. A. B. College.
Clifford Chambliss, from near
Americus was the guest of Mr. and
Mrs. J. B. Rouse Friday afternoon.
Miss Beulah Pennington entertain
ed in honor of Miss Aileen Dougher
ty on Friday evening.
One's Too Many Sometimes.
“If we had two heads,’' remark"'
the man on the car, "we’d have mm
trouble getting them to track than w
have with our feet.”—Toledo Blade.
Your Grandfather Knew Ua
IN BUSINESS HERE 4S YEARS
12th DISTRICT
An interesting sermon was held at
Hebron church Sunday afternoon
v/litn Dr. Carl Minor, >f Americus,
preached a very'impressive sermon.
Among those attending from Plains
were Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Timmer
man, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Lunsford
and little daughter, and Mr. and
Mrs. Hogshead.
Among those going to Georgia
Normal and Industrial College from
this community were Mises Ethel
Nicholson, Kathleen Brinkley, Ruth
and Emma McCoy who felt last
Thursday.
Mrs. Mary Bird, long a resident of
Sumter county, died Tuesday at the
ho mot fher son, Henry F. Bird. In
terment w&s held at the Presbyterian
church Wednesday afternoon at 3:30
o’clockk.
Mrs. C. S. Durden and children
spent Monday with Mr. adn Mrs.
Emmett Mitchell.
Mrs. A. S. CtVn and Louise Mc
Lendon spent a part of Monday in
Americus shopping.
Miss Leila McCrea wil leavo Fri
day for Arlington where she. is ein-
ployel as assistant tiachir in the
school there.
H. C. Padgett is on a visit to his
parents in South Carolina, having
been called there on account of the
serious illness of his father.
Miss Louise McLendon and Mrs.
A. S. McCrea will begin Thursday
to study music at Americus under
Miss Mary Hawkds.
Miss Leila McRae was the guest of
Mrs. A. S. McCrea a ptr of the past
week. i
RECORDS REVEAL
QUEERGEREMONY
Lawyer Unearths Interesting In
formation About “Smock
Marriages." .
WERE GOMMON CENTURY AGO
WILL YOU HOLD
COTTON THIS YEAR?
C Time was when the average Georgia fanner
could not afford to hold his cotton. This state of
affairs is in the pa&. The farmer has money
enough to'hold for a higher price.
CL In anticipation of a holding movement we have
acquired additional facilities for storing more
than 60,000. bales in fine, fire-proof quarters.
Our charge Is only fifty cents per bale per month (or BOTH
STORAGE and INSURANCE.
gt We handle your cotton and carry out your instructions taking
^ for our part a small commission charge. Money loaned on
cotton stored with us.
Write or wire us NOW for particulars. A'
Willinghams Warehouse
Establish.d 1*70
It. 7. WILLINGHAM, PlM.
MACON, GEORGIA -
Church Women Aid
In Raid On Stills
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' your burdens lighter and giving you time for
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You cannot heat an International kerosene
engine for economy or efficiency. It works on the
cheapest engine fuel you can buy—kerosene, and
uses just enough of that to handle the job in hand.
, The International engine is built to (meet your
Beeda. Material and workmanship are of highest quality
—the International standard. It is very simple in do*
sign and easy to operate. It is a kerosene engine, pure
and simple, made to stand the hardest usage.
Then comes the very important matter of service and
repairs. A nearby branch house equipped for any
emergency call is always ready to help us help you.
For 88 years International service has been a household
word for steady, ready, courteous, complete help in time
iol need.
• A close inspection of this engine is going to convince
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Phone 20
INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER
FARM. MACHINES
AA L£S SV-VLV.XCV.
were
for whisky,
ceived by I - ■ _ „
The result was the capture of 3,700
gallons of beer.
The women, whose names were
withheld by the revenue agent, di
rected the officers to the stills. In
the face of something like fifty shots
the women remained steadfast while
the raid was being conducted.
Brides Appeared In 8c*nt Attire to
Protect Husband From Liability for
Her Debts—Varloua Expedients
to Preserve Modesty.
Bangor, Maine.—A Bangor lawyer
attending court In the ancient town of
WIeeasset, Lincoln county, recently
went rummaging In the Colonial court
records of the plnce and In the course
of hi* reading came across the official
registration of a "smock marriage."
Not knowing what a smock marriage
was. the lawyer looked farther, and
got considerable light upon a strangd
custom prevalent In England a cen
tury or more ago and also to some ex
tent In the American colonies.
Smock msrrlnges were weddings
where the bride appeared dressed In s
white sheet or chemise. The reason
for such a garb was the belief that If
a man married a woman who was In
debt he could be held liable for her
VETS CALLED BY
CAPT. STEWART
TOMEET FRIDAY
“Please ttll tha old veterans of
Sumter county,” Cspt. Joe Day
Stewart, camp commander .asked
the Times-Recorder today, “to meet
me at the county court house at 10
o’clock Friday morning. At that
time I will issue the certificates en
titling them to low raillroad fare to
the reunion at Atlanta, so that the
selling of tickets a the railroad of
fice may be expedited.’’
The veterans will leave for At
lanta on the Central of Georgia
train at 6:38 o’clock next Monday
morning. Theer will be at least
three coaches full, according to pros
pects.
Aerial Warehouse To
Need Foreman-Checker
The U. S. Civil Service Commis
sion announces sn examinstion for
foreman and checker, lor men only.
i to b e held at Americus, October 23.
Vacancies in the Aviation General
Supply Depot, at $126 to $160 a
month will be filled from this Ox-
Indebtedness If he received with her j amination.
any of her property: and also, that It Applicants must have had at least
a woman married a man who was In j six months’ experience in positions
debt, his creditors could not take her ( in which the principal duties were
property to satisfy their claims If ho checking invoices, statements, orders,
had received nothing from her at
marriage.
In England, says an antiquarian,
there was at least one ease where a
bride was clothed In purls naturallbus
ATLANTA* Sept. 26.—Two wo
men church workers of Lincolnton . M „ r .
were leaden last week In a big raid ' hTZd.ZJ .fttaS
for whisky, according to reports re-1 * ormed J? the fT®* S
ceived by Revenue Agent D. J. Gantt ■“***« £££
BONES OF 19
GA. CHINESE
SENT ‘HOME’
A tlanta, Sept.
30.—The
bones of nineteen Chinamen,
enclosed In copper boxes made
especially for that purpose were
shipped back to the Flowery King
dom from this city today. The
Ching Kong Tong, the Masonic
order to which thousands of
Chinese belong, had charge of the
shipment, as all the dead China
men were members of this or
ganization. A local undertaker
was given the contract to exhume
the remains from West View cem
etery and under instructions from
the Atlanta Chinese colony made
the grewsome packages ready for
the journey back to China.
The nineteen Chinamen' died
during the period from 1913 to
1919 and some of them were
prominent in the local Chinese
colony. Every few years the
. Ching Kong Tong sends back to
the Orient the bones of its. mem
bers who have died on foreign
soil, the anciept belief of the
:elestials being that unless their
remains finally rest in the soil
of their native land, their spirits
cannot enter paradise.
THE MOSQUITO
IS DEADLY
Disease Carrying Insects Everywhere
a Dang«r.
Mosquitoes have always been with
us but their true character has only
been recognized a short time. They
to perform the ceremony, but finding
nothing in the rubric that would ex
cuse him, he finally married the pair.
To carry out the law folly as the
people understood It, the ceremony
should always have been performed as
It wns In the church at Birmingham,
In the case noted, but, modesty for
bidding. various expedients were used
to accomplish the desired end without
the unpleasant foe tares.
Sometimes the bride stood In
closet and put her band through n hole
In the door: sometimes she stood be
hind a cloth screen and pat her hand
out at one side; again, she wound
about her a white sheet furnished-by
etc., or have had at least one year’s
experience in clerical work tonding
to fit them for the duties of checker.
Special credit will be given for
checking experience in connection
with airplanes, motors and acces
sories ,and for experience in super
vising the work of others. Age 16
or over.
For further information and ap
plications, address the Secretary,
Local Civil Service Board, Americus,
or the Secretary, Fifth Civjl. Serv
ice district, postoffice, Atlanta.
Negro Shoots Man
He Finds With Wife
Gammage Farm Sold To
T. B. and Glenn Hooks
The L. O. Gammage farm of 142
acres, two miles out from Americus
oh the Leslie road, was sold Saturday
by J. H. Purvis to Thomas B. Hook
and his son, Glenn Hooks, for a can
sideratlon of $14,200, or $100 pe
acre.
The farm, which is occupied by
Mr. Gammage ns a home is ond o
the most desirable country places in
Sumter county, being well improved,
with good soil, well cultivated. Mr.
Gammage has nat announced his fu
ture plans.
Frank Harrold On
Staff Of “Pandora”
ATHENS, Sept. 29.—The Board
Jesse Johnson, a negro, went to
his home on New street this afternoon
. in time to find his wife had company,
the bridegroom, and sometime »h® He proceeded to “beat up” his wife,
stood In her chemise or smock. Event
ually. in Essez; county at least, all Im
modesty was avoided by the groom
furnishing all the clothes worn by the
bride, retaining title to the Same In
are carriers of Malaria germs and h | ms ^ lf -x-htii he did In the presence of
other deadly diseases. Dr. Carroll,
government investigator in Cuba
says, "Nataural yellow fever is
transmitted by the mosquito and al
ways and only by the mosquito.”
The mosquito bits is often as
deadly ns n rattlesnake’s.
By every method known to man
kind both the national and local
health services are trying to exter
minate the mosquito. Rut this will
cever be. ... (
We must protect ourselves against
this pest, by proper screening and
the use of TORMENT. TORMENT
is a gaseous vapor in f which no mos
quito or fly can live. It is death
to insects.
Torment is sold by druggists,
general stores and dealers every
where. The price is 25c a bottle;
do not pay more. Manufactured by
the G. B. Williams Co., Quitman,
Ga. For sale by the Americus Drug
Company and Howell’s Pharmacy.
—(adv.)
Americus, Ga.
THIS ADVERTISEMENT.
And $12.60 will entitle the sender to
s regular $25.00 course in Hair
Growing and a $2.00 manual. For •
limited time only. Diploma given on
completion of course. Taught
through mail or personal instruc
tions. Send $2.00 for a six Peeks’
complete treatment of SARDONYX,
and 8c revenue stamps. One box or
bottle of SARDONYX by mail 60c.
We teach HAIR GROWING direct
from the ALMER COLLEGE.
also have a complete line of TOILET
ARTICLES, SOAPS, LAUNDRY,
etc. One trial will convince you.
Write at onee.
PARKER £ GALE CO.,
600 Steelamanna Ave., Lackamanna
N. Y.
and shot the intruder, Reed Floyd,
inflicting a painful but not
rtly fatal wound.
Both Johnson and Floyd were at
the police' station this afternoon
shortly after the shooting occurred,
witnesses, that he it was said Johnson appeared at the
station soon after Floyd, coming t
prove the fact in case he wns 6ued
for any debts, she might have con
tracted.
A marriage of this kind occurred at
Bradford in 1778. nnd.the following Is
a true copy of the record of the same:
Bradford, Dee. ye 74, 1778.
This may cirtlfle whomsoever it may
coacerne that James Bailey of Brad-
give himself up, but chnnged his
mind and went his way before he
conld be taken into custody. He was
rounded up and place<| behind the
ban shortly, however.
(ord^who was married to th? widow World League Issue
8S?y BscoTSov. 22 Inst pa* by me ^ A , abama Election
ye subscriber then declared that he
took said person without anything of
estate nnd that Lydia the wife of
Ellnzer Burbank & Mnry the wife of
Thomas Btlckney nnd Margaret the
wife of Caleb Burbnnk all of Bradford
were witnesses that the clothes she
then.hnd on were of his providing and
bestowed upon her.
WILLIAM BALCH.
Minister of ye Gospel.
It is noted by tho same writer that
In all cases bf smock marriages that
have come to his notice the brides
have been widows.
It Is thought that daring the reign
of George m there were many smock
marriages In Mains, then a part of the
province of Massachusetts Bay, chief
ly In the counties of Lincoln end ^ork,
or In the territory which la now so
GADSDEN, Ala., Sept. 80.—(B>
Associated Press.)—Republicans am
democrats were voting today in th
general election to fill the vacancy in
the Seventh Alabama district caused
by the death of. Representative Bur
nett. The League of Nations was
one of the leading issues.
THIRD NEGRO
IS LYNCHED AH
MONTGOMERY
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Sept. 30._
(By Associated Press.) — Johj
Temple, the third negro to be
lynched here within a period of twelve")*!
hours, was shot to death early taday
in a ward of a hospital here. He was
accused of shooting and fatally
wounding Policeman Barbaree, who
had attempted to arrest him on ml.
nor charges.
Late yesterday Miles Phifer and
Robert Crosky, accused of attacking
white women, were lynched a short
distance outside the city. The ne
groes were being carried to the state
prison at Wetumpka for safe keeping
when a masked mob of about twenty,
five men held up the automobile In
which they were traveling, forced the
offices to lay down their arms, end
then led the negroes about one hun
dred yards into the woods and open
ed fire on them with shotguns.
Peanuts Yield Cash
Crop of $62 Acre
CORDELE, Sept. 30.—E. F. Fair-
cloth, a farmer who resides in the
Thirteenth district today has a gross
return of $62 an acre for this year’s
crop of peanuts. This does not in
clude the nay with which he expects
to pay.the expense of the making.
The figures represented are not
gadded or distorted. Mr. haircloth
Plains Girls Organize
Physical Culture Club
PLAINS, Sept. 30.—Several young
ladies -of Plains organized what ii
known as a “Physical Culture Club"
this week. The motive is to enjoy to
gether outdoor pleasures and sports
The first meeting was held at the
home of Miss Florrie Belle Stewirt
The following officers were elected:
Miss Florrie Belle Stewart, Presi
dent; Miss Allene Williamson, Vice-
President; Miss Bessie Wellon, Re-
Gainesville, is editor in chief and the
two associate editors named are Rob
ert D. O’Callaghan, of Athens and
Frank W. Harrold, of Americas.
These young men are among the
ablest and tnost prominent of the
students in the University of Geor
gia. They will set to work at once
to get out the best Pandora over is
sued here.
Cork Inventor's Name.
The so-cnlled cork legs do not owe
their name to their composition, bnt to
the fact that their Inventor was a Dr
Cork. •
:L*ss«M%a?2i£ c »"«"> j-wi >»- *
in athletic exercise and outdoor oc
casions. Tho members of the club
nro out of school and are looking for
wholesome enjoyment. There ml
also be social ocacsions held at tho
homes of the club members.
- Walrus a Big Beast
The average sized Alaskan walrus Is
as big as an ox and often weighs morn
than a ton. A walrus was recently
killed by some whalers near Point Bar
row whose bead weighed 80 pounfa
and skin. Including flippers, wO
pounds. The animal hnd a girth of
14 feet.
Practice Died Before Revolution.
There la nothing to show that the
practice outlived the revolution. In
Maine, ap to 1862, a husband was lia
ble for debts of his wife contracted
before marriage, and no such subter
fuge as the smock marriage could re-
Ueve him.
Smock marriages were frequently
performed In Vermont about a century
ago. They were entirely honorable to
both the participants, for they pat
wholly aside nil considerations of
financial and selfish Interest. Accord
ing to tradition, they all turned out
hspniiv. pad well they might. The
principle Involved in Them may he sard
to have triumphed in our social Ufi
the great majority of marriages being
now smock marriages In the sense that
the parties are financially Independent
of each other.
By the way, one of the earliest and
strongest arguments for woman suf
frage was the necessity of relieving
women from the financial bondage that
they were nnder to their husbands 60
years ago. A11 that a woman bad then
practically belonged to her husband.
Wendell Phillips, In hts address at the
first national woman suffrage conven
tion, held at Worcester In October.
1861, called attention to a curious case
that had lately occurred In this state.
A man married a woman who had
$50,000 of her own, Inherited from her
father. Dying about a year after his
marriage, this man left a remarkably
generous and manly will—he left these
$60,000 to his wife, so long as she
should remain a widow I
••j There’S no way
• more appropriate
to express thought
fulness than to send
“not just candy,
but—
• ••
GOOD DRUG STORE.”
NATHAN MURRAY, Druggist.
(Formerly Prnther-Ansley Drug Co.)
. Phone 79.
ALWAYS—IMMEDIATE DELIVERY.
You Should Protect Your Cotton.
sheds will
At the present prices for cotton, a few pounds picked from a bale damaged from exposure under op
more than pay our charges for storing and insurance for twelve months. Our storage rooms are built' of fire-proor
walls and concrete floors, equipped with Automatic Sprinklers, giving'us the very lowest insurance rate. Liberal
advances on cotton stored with us. We have just received a carload of the
Genuine Recleaned Texas Red Rust-Proof Oats
Select your seed and plant early for best results. , ^
HARROLD BROTHERS, Americus, Ga.