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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-01-28

candles, the coffee service being pre-
sided over by Mrs. H. T. Davenport
Sandwiches were served with the cor
fee.
About two hundred guests called be-
tween the hours of eight and ten.
next Friday afternoon in honor of
Miss Hazel Tower, whose wedding
occurs on the sixth of February. There
will be three tables of bridge and a
stocking shower for the bride-elect af-
ter the game.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-01-28
For Mis5 Wiley and Miss Farmer.

Mrs. Frank Cato entertained on FIJI
dav evening" at her home on Lee street,
to Miss Evelyn Farmer
and Miss Hazel Wiley, the guests OF
Miss Mattel Lewis Dodson.
The hostas had arranged clever
game of ms on the names of the
different g. ksts and an exciting game
of old-maid WAS also played. AT the
close of the game, salad course fol-
lowed by a sweet course, was served.
Those invited were Misses Wiley,
Farmer, Matte Lewis Dodson, Kaie
Wheatley. Lynn Mathis, En- Eldridge'
Pearl Vereen, Clara Bell Davenport
Ruth Hodges and Gertrude Jossey
Messrs. J. d, Hooks, G. D. Wheatley
Glen Hooks, Charles and Eustace Ans
ley, jamie Fort, Gordon Statham, Hen
ry Christian, Rob Hawkins, Herber
Hawkins and Gene Hill.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-01-28
For Miss Pearl Yereen.

A number of entertainments have
Reen planned for Miss Pearl Vereen,
II Moultrie, who is the attractive guest
II Miss En- Eldridge at her home on
Fee street
Miss Ruth Brown will entertain at
small morning party, Miss Lynn Ma
|his will have four tables of bridge
Pn Tuesday afternoon. Miss Clara
Fell Davenport will entertain one
pay during the week and Miss EN-
EIdridge will have a very large bridge
party on Thursday afternoon for her
quest There are probably two or
|hTee others who will entertain also.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-01-28
Six O'clock Dinner.

WITS, Il, j Willingham, who is being
,'s9uenuy entertained during her Wis
y " Oer daughter, Mrs. c. M. Council,
"' the honor guest at six o'clock
VI, on Monday evening, given by
.Sor 60 VIC
u, D'"uer was served in the private
e.uIng room, which was prettily dec
''7u IN white and green. On the ta-
r wy, the centerpiece was of white car-
o0OAS, and the candles shaded with
green.
N0'ers We're laid for fourteen per-
ri .' Nose present being Mrs. vii
n ,a7''''1' Mr. and Mrs. c. M. Council
M r~p~ and Mrs. John A. Cobb, Miss
p a1'0eja Cobb, Mr.. and Mrs. Franz
n, a''o'd' Mr. and Mrs. w. A. Dodson
w. WI, Geo. D Wheatley, Miss Kat.
c, 4ya'Iey Miss Emma Lee and Mis-
as a'.er dinner, the party attended tn
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IN THE SOCIAL WORLD
MISS REBE GOA MATHIS.

WiilHngham, Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Sheffield,
Mir. and Mrs. NJ. NJ Lowry, Mr.. and
Mrs. C. NJ. Council, Mrs. Mary Clay
and Mr.. and Mrs. Harold.
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For Mrs. WiIlingham.

Mrs. L. G. Council was hostess at an
informal dinner party on Friday ev-
enihg, in honor of Mrs. E. j. Willing
ham, only six persons having been in
vited.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-01-28
MatrOns' Club.

Mrs. Crawford Wheatley will be
hostess to the Matrons Club at a
morning bridge party on Thursday of
this week.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-01-28
Continued Oh page eight.

woman isn't necessarily a society
leader because she leads her husband
around by the nose.
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Look! Sc Goods, Now SC I'd.

Sc Genuine Cliffside Bingham ..5cyd.
Sc simpsons "Eddystone" "a Per-
Gale ..f.. d. :. sc yd.
Sc Solid Color, fast dye, Chambray &c
1Oc Remnants of light and dark
Outing. -. .... sc yd'
Sc Extra heavy Unbleached Drili-
ing .. -. -. %. 49,. DC va
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-01-28

the erg cement of their daughter,
Inez, to Mr. Harold Ingram Williams,
OF Sa,aJ nah, the wedding to occur
early in the spring.
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For Mrs. E. ]. WilIingham.

'Or Mrs. E. J. WilIingham.
tsi. 'nd Mrs. Frank Harold enter
dar at d SIX o'clock dinner on Tues
wm .'enlng in honor of Mrs. E. ].
"lc,. HI. of Macon.
Mo,. sS We're laid for ten the center
Whit. I'll the table being of red and
cd ,ri, carnations and the candles shad-
va, 'ooorate dinner in eight courses
''Ved the following guests, Mrs
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Toe Dress Bingham &c Yd.

/ 900 yards of absolutely new dress
bingham in a great assortment Of
new patterns Case just come nj a
real loo value to go now for &c va.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-01-28
JOyner'S
Winter Clearance Sale
all winter price is cut deem
others third
be for Stock Come
euck if you want to get some the bargains
Look At These Prices

10 yards good calico 39c. Only 10 yds
of this good calico to a customer
In this lot we have several different
patterns in red, black, white, lights
etc,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-01-28
Zoe Fancy Suitings SC I'd.

Here is your chance, You see we
have cut these exactly one half.
Many styles of beautiful suitings TO
go at SC yd. 10 yards to customer.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-01-28

Engagement Announced.
Mr.. anC Mrs. w. T. COttrell announce
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-01-28

FREE-A nice Plush Cape to the
first 10 ladies trading $500.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-06-23
Locals

Gideon Johnson paid this office 2
visit last Tuesday and went to sleep on
a stool and fell over with his face in a
pan of paste which we had just made
fresh and which was still hot Gid
woke up with yell and run outen the
office and never stopt running until he
got home. He sent US back word b.
his little boy, Sammie, that he had a
turribie time getting the paste outen his
whiskers and to stop his paper at once.
Mrs. Jerushy Perkins has our thanks
for q canned BURBERRY pie which she
left on our desk last Thursday. The
office cat had ct up the most of the pie
by the time we got back to the office,
but what was left was prime. Person
ally we are a great hand for blueberry
pie. So is our cat We amt noticed
any of our subscribers leaving any
strawberry shortcake on our desk so far
this season. Why is this?
Jabez Crum was in Bingville one day
last week Jabe lives two miles west.
He says he notices great many
changes in Bingville since he last visited
our midst seven years ago. We are
glad to hear this. Jabe is a man who
sticks purity close to home and tends to
his own business.
Eph Higgins, our accommodating
postmaster, had letter to come into
the Office with a speshial delivery stamp
on for Ranse Smiley, who lives three
miles west last Monday ev'g, and there
was nothing for Eph to do but shut up
the office and take that speshial delivery
letter and walk all the way out to
Ranse's and deliver If. Eph waited to
hear what was in the letter and it was
a notice from a man in the Co. seat for
Ranse to pay bill he had been owing
there for several years, and this made
Ranse so mad that he ordered Eph TO
git often his premises or he would kick
him of. Eph returned TO Bingville
footsore and weary He says he hates
the very sight of speshial delivery let
ter now.
Mel Skinner is Singing some patches
on the open places on the roof of his
barn. Mel intended to single the whole
roof this spring, but now he thinks he
can patch up the roof so as it viii do
another year or SO. Let US hope so.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-06-23
EDDYToRIUL

We are agoing to write a breef
eddytoriul this wk. on the subjeckt
of "What Good is a Muskeeter ?"
The anser to this questshion is, ''It
amt no good !"
What in tarnashion muskeeters
was ever made for is more than
our powerful eddytoriul brain can
comprehend. Why this pusilani-
nous inseckt was ever put on this
| earth is beyond human understand
ing. Nobody has ever ansered the
questshion as to what Good Is a
Muskeeter?' and we don't calkilate
they ever will anser it.
Muskeeters amt never been SO
thick in Bingville within the reeol-
leckshion of the oldest inhabitants
as they have been this season, and
as result the pain and anguish
resulting from same is simply I'm
bearable and immense, as we might
say.
Most everybuddy in Bingville,
inclooding our most respectable &
| prominent citizens (becuz muskeet-
ers amt no respecters of persons
of either high or low degree) has
been bit up somethink awful. A
| person cant set out on their front
| PLACER in the evg. without being
pestered to deth by rnuskeeters un-
til they become disguised and gil
up and 60 into the house and slam
the door behind them and go to
bed and shet down tite all the WIN
| ders in their bedroom and then
sleep with the bedclothes over their
| heads no matter how hot it is,
ruther than to be ct alive by these
pestiferous pests.
If we could think of annythink
meaner to say about muskeeters
than we have said We would say il
with great cheer and we believe we
Voice the sentiment of the very best
element, of the community when
we say that everybuddy will be
turrible glad and rejoiced when
the muskeeter season\ passes.
| Then, and not until then, kin we
ihave peace.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-06-23

the shoe on the horse wrong end to and
famed the horse so as il couldn't scarce
ly walk.
BY Friday Bill had drunk up the ei-
der, so on Saturday he lit out for the
Co. seat to get jug Of whiskey and he
was ttrrible ragged loekin and sick
when he left Bingville. He arrived back
in Bingville late Satterday night, how
ever. In good spirits, and Sunday morn
ing he come out of the house about 10
a. m. just as people was on their way TO
church. Bill went to his blacksmith
shop and got l2-pound sledge Then
he went out into the street in front of
the shop and begin to pound on the
sidewalk with all his might. Deacon
Butterworth with his Bible under his
arm walked aerost the street 70 where
Bill was pounding and askt him what in
thunder he was a-doing
"T'm killing snakes" says Bill. Look
at that big reptile, viii you'll There it
is right under your feet"
With that Bill struck At the snake
and come within inch of smashing the
deaeon's foot into a pulp, The deacon
NCAAE lliAt hAAC Gil WIN a EAA hlAh E1N
outen Bills way. 81 don't see no
snake" hollered the deacon, and then
he continued to church on the run. Yves
Woodruff next come along. and being
as Yves didn't know Of Bills condition
Yves helped Bill tear UP about rod Of
sidewalk to find the snakes which Bill
said was under 1t. Then along came
Seth Dewberry, our town eonstuhhle.
Seth told Bill to stop tearing tip board
walks on Sunday morning and dishs-
gering the town or he would put him
Under a rest With that Bill grabbed
Up the sledge and took after Seth and
chased him clean outen town. Seth said
afterwards he would have rested Bill
except he was going so fast that he
couldn't seem to stop hisself. Bill then
went hack and throwed the sledge ham
ner through the winder of his black
smith shop, breaking FIVE lights of glass
Then he went into the house and got
into bed and went to sleep.
Later he got awful sick and got 10 hol-
lerin and yellin, and Doc Livermore, our
horse doekter & human specialist. was
called in, and when he examined Bill he
pronounced him sufferin from deliriuin
trinins.
AS we GO 10 press Bill is still in bed.
His wife says he don't pear TO see as
many snakes and elephants as he did a
few days ago. but is still KEEP awake a
good cal at nights by green spiders in
his bed. This only shows what two
gal. jug Of hard cider. follered by a lit
tie whiskey will do to a person.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-06-23

out, just as they preferred. It was
about dusk when Hi entered the P. O..
for his mail, and being as he can't see
very we'll anyhow, and being also tired,
he set down on the box to rest, and
when he got up the fly paper stuck to
him and Hi went on down to Hen
Weathersby's store without knowing
that it was fast to him, and when the
boys in the store saw it they hollered
and yelled and LATED and when Hi
found out he grabbed the sheet of fly
paper and pulled 1t off, and then Il
stuck to his hands and he would pull it
off of one hand with the other hand
and it would stick to the other hand
and then he would pull it off with the
other hand and it would stick to the
hand he pulled it off with, and Hi got
mad and swore because he couldn't
seem to get rid of the fly paper, and so
he stepped on it with one foot and
pulled it from his hands and then II
stuck to the sole of his boot and he
then went outside of the store and got
it off on foot scraper at last. P. NJ.
Higgins says Hi will have to pay him
for that sheet of fly paper or he cannot
get his mail at the P. o. in the future.
Hi says he will walk to the Co.. seat
after his mail before he will pay for
the sheet Of fly paper.
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This is all this week. News are very
scarce. More a non. SCR1BBLER-
Society

Hen Weathersby, prop. OF our general
store, give a smoking party in his stors
last Saturday night. Hen furnished the
tobacco and the others furnished their
own pipes. The affair was great sue
cess, and it is our opinion that il ought
TO draw trade TO Hens store. The TO.
bacco was some Hen had had OH hands
for 20 or 80 years and was so musty
that he couldn't sell il, but it didn't
smoke bad.
Miss Sally HosSins sent her regrets
to a party which was perpetrated by
Miss Amelia Tucker last Friday eve.
Some says that Sally done this just TO
cut Amelia and some others says that
Sally used some new kind of face paint
which she rubbed so much Of on her
face that she had to scrape some Of il
off, and in doing 50 rubbed her face
most raw until it wasn't fit to be saw
in publick.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-06-23
Sndix!
1hem's Whot Bill Hepburn Our Ar
tiStick Blacksmith Has Got at
Present, but Not so Menny Of
en- as He Did Have a Few
Days Ago

Last Saturday Bill Hepburn, Our ar
tistick blacksmith, made his usiual trip
to the Co. seat and got full as full as
heretofore or fuller, if anything. To
make matters worse Bill had been
drinkin' pretty heavy for several days
before he started. The first of last
week he made trip down to Snake
Bend to collect a bill of a dollar owed
to him by Lem Quigley for blacksmith
ing Bill askt Lem if it would be con-
venient to pay him over that doller,
being as if had run on and on for five
years, and Bill said he would like to
collect II before he forgot all about if
or before it was outlawed, if possible.
Lem told Bill that he didn't have no
dollef By him and hadn't saw a doller
for so long that like as not he wouldn't
recognize one if he seen it rollin up
hill, but Lem said he had some choice
old two-year-old hard cider down in his
cellar and if BNl was mind to he
would give him 2-gal. Jug of that in
std of the money and they would call
the debt squared up.
Bill told Lem that since he had men
toned about the hard cider he (Bill)
calkilathd he would a site ruther have
1t than the money, and to FIJI up the jug
at once, being as he had walked fur
and had a thirst in his throat which
water couldn't squeneh.
Lem, he went and filled the jug and
brought it out to Bill and Bill he tilted
Il up and took awful pull outen the
jug and then put the corn cob back into
the neck and started to walk home.
Before he went very fur Bill was
walking all over the road, as you might
say. Then along come Pete Wilkins
from tother direckshion with a four
boss load of lumber on his way to the
Snake Bend sawmill When Pete seen
Bill approaching and occupying the
whole entire road he hollered at Bill
and asked him to turn out, but Bill hol-
lered back and told Pete to turn out his
self If he wanted anybody to turn out,
and if he didn't feel like doing that to
jest kindly git down often the seat and
he (Bill) would wallop the ground up
with him.
Pete he didn't want no trouble with
Bill if he could help it, being as him
and Bill did have squabble two years
ago when Bill was in Ticker. and on that
auspishious oecashion Bill handled Pete
in sich manner that when he was done
with him Pete couldn't see daylight
outen one eye and precious little scenery
outen tother one, besides having his
nose smashed and handful of his whis-
kers puld out into the bargain.
So Pete he turned out into the ditch
so as Bill could pass and Bill went on
zig-zagging lords Bingville and a-sing-
ing songs which there wasn't no tune
to. Pete said afterwards he didn't
mind givin' man afoot free passin'
room on the highway, but he hated like
thunderashion to see a person make SIGH
hog of theirself as to make four
boss team with a load of lumber turn
out to let them git by.
Bill staggered into Bingville that same
afternoon and KEEP right al that 2-gals
of hard cider day after day. He wasn'i
soairsly FIT to be in his shop. Corn
Smiley took his horse to Bill to be shod
and blamed if Bill didn't go and mai
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-06-23

BingvilIs
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-06-23
Marriages

Willie Pike and Miss Samantha John
son of Calamity Corners drove up to
the patronage Of our beloved pastor,
Rev. Samuel Moore, last Saturday and
asked to be married. Rev. Moore re-
fused to marry them at first on the
grounds that they was too young
Willie offered Rev. Moore S. 10 per-
form the operashion, however, and
promised that he would get the license
as soon as he was Of legal age. In view
of this the psrson reconsidefed the
questshion and spliced them UP good and
fast
The Bugle extends congratulations
and hopes that as this happy young oou.
pie embsrks on the turbulent sea Of
matrimony that they may have smooth
sailing and fine crop Of children.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-06-23
Stuck Up Ell

Hi Cranky met with what you would
naturally call an axident in the P. O.
the other ev'g. There has been a great
many flies in the P. o. of late, and at
last Postmaster Higgins purchased a
sheet of fly paper and placed it on a
box and set it Just inside the p. o. door
70 keteh the flies coming in or going
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-06-23
SNAKE BEND

Seth Winslow, while repairing his
fences last week, came upon black
snake which Seti says was seven feet
long if it was a inch. Seth started for
the house, not stopping to kill the snake,
being as it was just about his dinner
time
Miss Barbara johnson, the bell of
Snake Bend, appeared out last, Sunday
in a new chintz dress which her mother
made up for her. II is turrible rice
FIT and looks awful becoming to Bar
bara,
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-06-23
Country Correspondence
SORROW HOLLOW

Ben MeAllister has a bealing in his
ear. Last year about this time Ben had
a bealing in his ear and a boil on his
neck. Ben is better off this year than
he was last.
Jemima Hoff, while counting out eggs
to sell TO the market man one day last
week, had three eggs to fall outen her
hands and break on the floor.
A fox run through the main street
of our village last Monday. Jim Haw-
ley's hound took after the fox and Jim
amt saw the hound sinst. Jim's hound
is turrible good fox chaser.
TINO
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-06-23

Pins

! have took to whiting out close
pins for saIei There is several vim
men in Bingville and visinnity as have
told me that their cIosepins Is al
ways going back on them-getting
broke, getting lost or something, and so
! am whiting out cIosepins in or.
der 10 ELL long felt want. make
these elosepins during the hours I am
resting in Hen Weathersby's store. My
capacity is ? cIosepins a hour per-
yiding my penknife is whet up sharp.
How are you of for elosepins? Bet
ter try some Of mine and see how
you like them. Don't go and buy
store closepins. They break or get lost
within a week. I charge for these close
ns>aceording to whatever you are able
to pay. If you are well off I'll charge
you 70 cts. per dozen, but if you're
poor as dirt I'll charge you only 2
cts. apiece. These elosepins is all
hand made. Give me your order
right away.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-11-07

In addition to President McArdle,
the following members of the board of
education were present at the regular
meeting last night; MRS. Rolley, DIR.
Carpenter, Frame, Smith and Hanna
her.
After the reading of the minutes of
the last meeting the committees made
the routine reports. The teachers COM
mittee reported that 1t would be nee
essary to secure another teacher for
the high school making seven in all,
and this was agreed to, but no selec-
ton vas made at the meeting.
Treasurer Mitchell reported that
there was in hand $16,S52.47 in the
school fund.
The report was that additional text
books were needed in one of the
schools by a of the fact that
twenty five sets of books had to be
destroyed by fire on account of
measles being in the room.
Mr.. Frame moved that the health
committee consult with DR.. Olson as
to the medical inspection of the chill
dren j n the schools during the school
term.
1t was decided to ask Secretary
Gutherie to write to Professor Bah
cock of the University of North Da-
kota to ascertain the relative value of
the AeHlCn anu WdSlDuTn Goals. DOtl
of which have been burned in the fur
naces of the schools. of the city.
On recommendation of Architect
Sam Crabbe the board accepted the
new Agassiz building from Contractor
Riley, but as there is much yet to
do in the building proper, it was not
accepted from Contractor Johnson.
There were four bids for furnishing
the trees for the new Agassiz build
ing: the Hankinson Nursery Co, the
Valley City Co, William Tietgens and
the Shotwell Co, of this city. 1t was
recommended that the Shotwell bid
be accepted. The trees are to be
planted twenty-four feet apart, one
half to be elm and the others to be
o elder at $65 per hundred. The
contractor Is to keep the trees in con-
dition during the year 1914 and to
plant them mex spring. Bills for the
month were read and approved.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-11-07
The POLLARDS COMING
Young Australians Are Now Over o.
600 Miles From Home-Here
Again Saturday Night.

The Pollard's Juvenile Opera Co.,
coming here next Saturday. is h
same company that had the honor Of
opening the Walker theatre in Winr.-
peg, and still the holder OF the record
business Of $24,724 for a three weeks
engagement at the best theatre in Cam
ada.
The whole Pollard system is OF the
most unusual interest. The operate
idea was evolved twenty-seven years
ago by John Pollard, who formed the
organization, which in Australia today
is the biggest theatrical firm, employ
ing some 800 people. Among Mr.. Pol
lard's kiddies in the first company was
his little daughter, who has since
grown to Womanhood, and who became
Mrs. Nellie Chester some years ago.
Upon her fathers death Mrs. Chester
and her brother, G. A. Pollard, took
up the work, bringing the first Pollard
company to Fargo in 1908. Up to this
time there have been ten juvenile Pol
lard companies, two of which have
meen seen here; and five adult COM
panies recruited from the rank of the
Juveniles, which have not been seen
a " in Australia and South Africa.
The troupe will, after it's Fargo en-
gagement play the Walker theatre in
Winnipeg for a week. then direct east
through Canada to Halifax, then down
to Boston and possibly New York, and
return to the Pacific coast next sum-
mer, where they will embark for a
tour of the eastern coast of Asia,
across into Africa and sail from Cape
Town for Sydney, Australia, making
to all intents and purposes a complete
circle of the globe. The company has
previously made this tour four times.