Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-11-23
still KEEPS
DELIVERING
FARM PRODUCE
THOUGH LEFT HALF MILLION
Sudden Wealth Has Not Up.
set This "GOIdyIOCks"


how, last spring, when Ross Fl. Win
ans died at Baltimore, leaving 100000
to Newport girl, you and all the rest
of the newspaper readers discussed
how this inn-keeper's daughter would
conduct herself on coming into pos
session Of this sudden wealth?
well, November finds her just the
same girl she was before Winans left
her fortune. There are two reasons
for that; one is that she has not yet
received the cash, and the other IS
that her inclinations are all for the
simple life Dorothy Bateman has
given no sign of having her head
turned by sudden riches.
She is going to receive the money,
or large part of it very soon. There
was talk of a contest of the will be-
cause the two sons of Prince Henri
de Bearn of France grandsons or
Winans, had not been provided for
But Miss Bateman and others named
in the will decided that the grandsons
should have 100000 each and they
were satisfied. This allowance cuts
Miss Bateman's portion bit but not
enough to worry about. With that
point settled, the distribution will be
ordered within the present month
Miss Bateman has nothing 10 say
about this fortune. She firmly de-
clines to meet interviewers or to be
lionized in any way. Her parents
content themselves with the predic-
ton.
THE money will make little change
in Dorothy. She now has enough
money to enable her to live as she
chooses She could go more into so
ciety than she does if she cared to. 1t
would not have been hard for her to
obtain money at any time since this
legacy was left her, but she has pre-
ferred to wait on the law.
And how does the girl live? Early
each morning she makes the round Of
the Bateman farm customers deliver
ing eggs, butter, fresh produce and
such things as the farm has for sale
Back at home she takes up her share
of the duties in caring for the Bate
mans Point Inn, an exclusive hostelry
In the afternoon she rides horseback
and plays tennis. In the evening she
takes her automobile and attends So
cial functions. =.
Ross Winans was one of the old
time guests at her fathers inn. Thir-
teen years ago, when he and his fam
lily spent the summer at the rambling
house that is more like farm home,
he liked "Goldylock" as the Bateman
girl was called. Several years later,
after his wife and daughter had died.
he was saddened and lived alone in
his great house in Baltimore. The
season of 1911 found him again at
Bateman's Point ! II and to his amaze
ment he found that "Goldylocks" was
young woman, but he found her as
attentive as formerly and she made
the summer pleasant for him.
After he went home, she wrote to
him often and one night he called her
to the telephone to hear her voice 1t
was his first use of the telephone in
many years. because when wire talk
was a novelty financial order he had
given through the transmitter ha
been misunderstood and a heavy loss
resulted. He overcame this prejudice
to hear "Goldylocks" voice. A few
hours later he died
Miss Bateman was as much curpris-
ed as anyone that she was named as a
principal heir when the will disposing
of the 100000 Winans estate was
read.