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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-11-10
For Alderman

The friends of Henry B. Mashburn
announce him as a candidate for re-
election as Alderman of Americas,
subject to the action of the Democratic
primary November 14th.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-11-10
For Police Commissioner.

The friends of Allen Ghappell an
nounce him as a candidate for police
commissioners of Americas, subject
to the atioin of the approaching pri-
mary.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-11-10
For Poliea Commissioned.

The friends of R. E. Allison an
uounce him as a candidate for Police
Commissioner of Americas, subject to
che approaching democratic primary.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-11-10
For Mayor.

The friends of George R. Ellis an
nounce him a candidate for mayor Of
Americas, subject to the action of the
approaching democratic primary.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-11-10
Ear police commissioner.

The friends of S. L. Stills announce
him as a candidate for Police Com
missioner of Americas, subject to the
action Of the approaching democratic
-
primary -
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-02-09

unpleasant experience in the past. He
recorked the bottle, placed it under
his arm, and muttered:
"You betcha Guess they won't like
this so much Sprinkle it in their ole
eyes!"
1t now became his purpose to make
his way cautiously to the front stair
way, descend to the front hall, and
thence, by the front door, reach the
outer air. So, with slow and noiseless
motions, he put himself once more in
possession of his ak and carving knife,
thrust the latter in the breast Of his
jacket, and, though encountered to the
point of difficulty by the ak, the gun
and the camphor bottle, returned to
the upper hall and began an advance
in force.
He went forward a dozen steps with
some confidence, then halted alb
ruptly.
What stopped him was something al
together inside himself. In the dark
ness a green vapor appeared Though
not at the other end of the hall, where
he thought 1t did) and there emerged
from 1t the shocking figure of an
old man lying in the rain at the mouth
of a wind-swept cavern. The vision of
the sawdust box-spiteful, like all
other visions-chose this particular
moment to recur to the author Of
Harold Ramorez."
He was standing by the portal Of his
own bedroom. Gasping, he hoped
across the threshold, kicked the door
shut, and maintained possession of
his armory, though, perhaps, not of
his faculties, huddled himself upon
the bed and buried his face in the pill
low.
1t is not altogether d~iscreditable to
q boy in the dark that he sometimes
initiates an ostrich. But it is unfor-
tunate, because, when one is already
in the dark, very little relief can be OBJ
tanned by closing the eyes.
Penrod, b%urrowing into his pillow,
| could see the old man rather more
plainly than if he had allowed his eyes
to remain open. He saw him through
the pillow and through the wall; it
| seemed that the old man vas lying
on the hall rug just outside rhe
| closed door, and that before long he
would get up and come into the bed
room and bend over the bed and
But the Imagination baked in ultimate
horror.
without lifting or turning his face
penrod managed to sguirm inside th
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-02-09

wrong direction, and for the second
time within that half-hour Periods
light went out. To a person in his
condition it was a disaster, and, ut
tering an exclamation of horror, he
stumbled and fell from the chair with
a light crash.
He was up again in an instant, cut
ting the air in all directions with the
carving knife; then he CROPPED for the
ak. found it, and stood still nee more,
on the defensive, listening intently, ex-
pecting the worst and painting, with
an effect, upon that stiffness, almost
uproarious.
He moved about, and cautiously felt
his way round the table and debauch-
ed to the mantelpiece, where matches
were sometimes to be found in a small
porcelain slipper, madly believed to
be decorative.
A chill struck to his spine at a verit-
able sound behind him. This n was
a faint creakx the result of some cap
Hilary action in the wooden floor, but
so far as Periods nerves were con-
cerned it might have been a shot.
Wheeling, he struck a frantic blow
with the ak, which, completing a fine
curve, miraculously failed to ampu-
tate the wielder's left foot at the
ankle, but, as an incident, permanent
ly relieved all members of the house
hold from troubling to put any more
matches in the porcelain slipper.
Thereupon Penrod decided to go
outdoors. The decision itself was a
simple matter; action upon it was de-
ferred because of extreme hesitation
to move at all. But after a gruesome
period of inertia he began to tiptoe
backward in the direction of the door,
keeping his eyes, AK and carving knife
warily toward where the v~illainous
creak had sounded. Thus r%etrogress-
ing, he presently found himself In the
side hail, which separated all the front
part of the roomy, old-fashioned house
from the dining room and kitchen.
The doors leading to the forward
rooms were closed, and the thought of
opening them filled him with horror;
in his minds eye he saw them, gaunt'
huge, full of black shapes of furniture,
lurking places that might conceal
anythingl
An empty house in the nighttime
has few attractions for a boy. In
closed darkness sickens his soul ana
likewise has a discouraging physical
effect; climaxing In the pit OF his
stomach--which is the seat OF courage,
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-02-09

This tabled point, in the case of Pen
rod, was becoming more and more sen
sitive every moment. He suffered from
an unpleasant conviction hat he vas
surrounded by vital dangers which be-
came the deadlier for ench slightest
movement that he made. These dan
gers were all the more deadlier be-
cause they were underlined the inscru-
tible darkness held Secrets-and, put
ting out his hand to feel the wall near
the kitchen door, he encountered n
of them. His fingers very, very brief
ly closed upon something that felt
like a head of wet, cold hair. 1t sank
from his touch, and there was a thick
sounding thud upon the floor.
"Oof p moaned Penrod, the question
of going out through the kitchen thus
definitely settled, and when he became
again conscious of his whereabouts he
was on the second floor at the top OF
the back stairs.
Mops had driven greater than Pen
rod.
He was sorely shaken, but not dis
nosed to linger in the vicinity of stairs
that led toward Il kitchen inhabited by
surprises of this kind. He fled into his
fathers bed chamber, bruising him
self %variously in the passage thereto.
and, abandoning his weapons for the
moment, slid his hand along the wall
until it came to a forbidden object
that hung there.
1t was an Enfield rifle, a muzzle-
loading relic. last put to use by Pen
rods grandfather on a day in the year
1868, and it was truly unloaded. Pen
rod got it down, pointed the muzzle
waveringly in the general direction of
the door by which he had entered, and
whispered feebly and TREMENDOUSLY:
"Now let's see whu-what you were
goin' to do so mum-much !"
He maintained this attitude until the
weight of the extended rifle became
insupportable; then he grounded arms
and leaned against a bureau, breath
ing ever more yehemently than before.
His elbow touched a bottle he seized
upon it and smelled the contents-spir-
its of camphor. Suggestion was i'm
mediately reused by the memory of an
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-02-09

strawberries in the yard took curious,
changing shapes, and Penrod kept a
wary eye upon them as he threaded
his way to the kitchen door.
1t opened to his hand, revealing
nothing save by reminiscent odor: but
there was a dim light in the dining
room. Thither he proceeded, his I'M
nerved condition being at once i'm
proved by the sight of viands and vege-
tables, for there was a plate upon the
table at his accustomed place, and
food p~lenteous, though grown cold.
A conjunction of suggestions, &C.
curing as he ate, recalled something
like an echo of Della's voice; gradu-
ally he became susceptible to an i'm
preston that his father and mother
and sister had not dined at home.
Then abruptly it struck him that he
might be alone in the house.
"A1l alone in an empty house |" As
the words formed in Periods mind, it
was as if a husky voice had uttered
them somewhere overhead. He was
%grievously startled.
IAN empty house!"
At the upper end of the table was
a part of a cold ham, beside which lay
a large, horn-handled carving-knife f;
and Penrod, after swallowing dryly
once Of twice, lunged suddenly al his
implement, grasped it, and stood upon
the defensive. He remained in a tense
attitude, listening; and there was no
sound either within the house or with
out nothing could have been more
ominous. Finally, carving knife in
hand, he went back to the kitchen,
where he had left the ak, and returned
to the dining room doubly armed.
Again he stood to listen.
Suddenly Penrod whirled straight
about, with ak and carving knife both
lifted to strike at something behind
him.
Nothing was there except the side
board, so he 'bout-faced suspiciously
again. Then, laying the ak Upon the
table, but keeping the knife in his
right hand, he stepped upon a chair
and extended his left hand to the gas
fixture, meaning to turn the jet on
full. But he pressed the key in the
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-02-09

Ian the empty rooms md vacant has
and passages. Burglars a opeheu
| the door and looked at him.
Stopl Had they only looked at MIN!
Had n of them come In the room
when the door opened? Was he there
now?
Or was ii the old manf
That finished Penrod.
With a SCATTERING yell of terror ne
| sprang from the bed, clutching all his
armory somehow and anyhow; got n
door open, plunged blindly through n
hall and DOWN the front stairs to the
landing, where he tripped oyer the
| stock of his gun and fell all the rest OF
the way. believing o~utrageously ana
accompanied by the rifle, the camphor
bottle and the carving knife and the
aX.
II sounded like the Eiffel tower fall
ing downstairs.
He came to a pause in a sitting pos
ture at the foot of the newell. The
hall was brightly lighted. SO were
the rooms opening from it, and out OF
these rooms issued sounds of sudden
| confusion and disturbance. His moth
or rushed to him through the near
est door.
"Penrod What on earth
/ Then through the open front o
came Margaret and four young men
who had been spending the evening
| with her on the front porch.
Then, following Penrod's mother,
came three of Periods aunts, one
uncle, and eleven other alarmed ladies'
and gentlemen, most of them holding
cards in their hands.
Then through the door of another
room came Periods father, three OF
Periods uncles, n aunt and the
eleven remaining members of the
Thursday Evening Bridge club, the
hospitable superintendent OF which
organization had occupied most OF
Mrs. Schofield's time that evening aft
err her return, with her husband and
daughter, from dining with an elderly
relative.
Over the banister above leaned
Della lin extreme negligeel, and Della
likewise demanded to know, What on
earth Then. by means of the back
hall and the back stairs, Katie ana
an alleged cousin, who had been sit
ting quietly on the back porch, joined
Della. Katie also wanted to know,
What on earth!
''What is the matter, Penrod?" his
mother walled.
Penrod coughed, gulped, and an
swered feebly:
"Just-playing"
But what made you get up?" his
mother cried.
"Get up-where?"
"Out of bed | slipped away and
looked IN your room awhile ago and
you were sound asleep. What did you
get up and dress for and
81 was just pretending!"
"Pretending what?'
"Just pretending"
He answered absently and in a pre-
occupied tone, his mind having some
what conferred upon the number OF
human beings in the circle about him.
AS his mother remarked afteward,
there were more people in the house
that evening than she had entertained
for years. Including the family and
Margaret's callers there were 33, she
said.
At that she forgot to count Penrod
and Della and Katie, and Katie's
cousin.
Altogether there were 81.
"Mom-muh?" Penrod began as he
rose from the floor.
You put those things awayp p COM
handed his father.
"MOm-muh?"
"And then you go straight to bedl"
his father concluded sternly.
"Mom-muh, aren't you going to
have ice cream?"
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nedclothes and 10 cover himself com
pletely, as far as the top of his head,
FOR the old man was but one OF the
monsters that threatened.
Burglars!
Burglars were creeping through the
halls upstairs and downstairs; the
air of the whole house became MUIR
murous with the whispers and rust
lings.
Penrod, still not moving his head
pulled the AK and the camphor bottle
beneath the sheet slid the gun off the
coverlet, and pushed it as far under
the bed as he could. Burglars might
be more merciful If they believed him
but a little lonely sleeping child in
tending no resistance.
He gulped la%mentably, and a poig-
nant bitterness began to form no in
considerable part of his condition.
What kind of parents were they Che
asked himself) who could go blithely
off and leave a little lonely child to
%things--in a great, horrible, hollow,
empty house? Probably his father and
mother were somewhere with a whole
crowd of people, in brightly lighted
rooms; no doubt at this very mo-
ment they were both talking and
laughing.
Laughing!
His indignation extended to
the cases of his nineteen-year-old
sister Margaret, and of Della, the
cook, and Katie, the housemaid. Most
likely all three of these marble hearts
were also somewhere, talking and
laughing!
Big, . strong, old grown people
every one of them-well, maybe they
would be sorry tomorrow Besides,
he would get even with them-if he
lived.
He was making up his mind In what
manner a general revenge should be
accomplished upon the household
when the handle of his door clicked
family, and yet distinctly; was softly
turned, and the door opened a little
way.
Penrod's heart did not stop, but his
breath did. He lay motionleSs.
The door was closed again, gently.
Then heart and breath both bound
ed. There was no doubt about it;
something had certainly opened his
door-and had looked at him. He had
felt it.
1t was too much for closed eyes!
Penrose lifted himself on his elbow
and stared whirlingly about him until
his gaze became fixed in utter hor-
ror upon the threshold of the door. A
thread of light glimmered wanly along
that threshold.
Shaking TO the verge of spasms, g
rod gathered his weapons again.
Then the light disappeared, and
there was darkness-and silence, and
silence, and silence!
And whatever the color of the CLEAN
beneath the door, the thread that re-
NAMED upon the fixed retina of Pen
rods eye, after the actual light had
gone, was green.
Now, indeed, out of the darkness
over the frenzied boy did Chimera
peer and monster hover! The green
thread broke and twisted into shapes,
bodiless, faceless eyes came closer and
closer and closer, while animals
breathed hot upon his cheek.
The silence grew tenser with noises
Just about to burst forth; the dark
ness became charged with unthinkable
visions just ready to make themselves
visible; raw heads and bloody bones,
blenching phantasm and raven1ns
vampire, bugbear, bugaboo, mummy
and nightmare, CHASTITY thing that had
ever got into Periods head was issued
forth and now hung over him.
And outside the door were the bur-
glars. There were burglars rampaging
all through the house by this time, in
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-02-09
PLEASANTvILLE TRANSFERS.

Alvin p. Risley ct ux. to Mary
Boehm, lot No. IL as shown on map
of Lorraine Ave. plan of lots in Pleas
antville belonging to Lake & Risley
Co.; $500.
Herman Boehm ct ux. to Peter N.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-02-09

Maison, 90x121.4 #. Southwest side of
Adams Ave. 124 fit. Northwest of Shore
Road; $4,000.
Alfred j.. Perkins, Sheriff, to Pleas
AWHILE l.. & B. Asso. 30x14O #. North
west side of Columbia Ave. Southwest
30 #. from Fernwood Ave-; 500.
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ments for insertion under this head
ing in every issue of the Durant
Weekly News and the Saturday
Morning Advertiser until the Pri-
mary. Aug. s, is $500. invariably
cash in advance. Included in this sef-F
vice candidate may use not to exceed
one-half column for any statement he
dc>!r"s to make to the public. An
nourccnents accepted only for both
papers, and only On the above terms.
The following ANNOUNCE their can
didacy for the office under which
their names appear. subject to the
faction OF ,hc Democratic voters at
th" primary 10 be held on Tuesday.
August .. 1915:
For Judge Sixth Judicial District
j. 81 CROOK.
For County Attorney
CIiAS. =. ABBOTT. tre-elec
tom.
VICTOR G. PHILLIPS.
For Sheriff. Bryan County
DAVE WRIGHT
W.. NJ. McFATRIDGE.
EMMETT BOYDSTUN.
For County Clerk
JOHN FINNEY. (re-election)
!
w. A. JONES. (re-election).
W. S. tScott) SHANNON.
For Comfy Treasurer
CARL BEATTY. re-election)
For County ..%>SrssOr-
LONNIE GLENN.
REV. J. r. CLINTON. Calera.
For County Superintcndcnt-
J. LEE CUNNINGHAM.
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For County Commissioners. Dist. -
W. II. YEATS. "',.
SAM b. ROSS.
Fer County Commissioner, Dist. -
| BILL BRAY. (Albany):
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For County Wciehcr-
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d. F. PINSON.
p. B. (Pinkl DORSEY.
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Political News

The formal announcement OF the
candidacy OF Will Durant for Gov
Iernor WAS made in last Sundays
Daily Oklahoman, when q com mittee
Of Mr.. Durant's friends bought a
full page OF space IN which to give
his platform to the people OF the
State.
A. y. Leecraft has rendered his
resignation to Governor Williams az
member Of the State Board OF A.
fairs. effective May !. in order to
make the campaign for State Treax-
urer subject TO the Democratic prI.
mary neIt August.
It Is understood thad Governor
Williams will. name e.. o. johnson
Of DuFant to succeed Mr.. LeecrafV.
Much significance is believed 10
attach to tho fact that r. E. Stafford
10 no longer editor OF the Daily Ok
lahomAn, being succeeded by E. X.
Gaylord. general manager OF the pa
per. II Ia believed that insomuch a.
Gaylord 10 . Republican. or said TO
| be, that the political complexion OF
the paper may change.
II Aeems that: Charlie Carter Ia TO
have opposition foy reelection TO
Congress from this district. the new
e,odgling being Tom Neal OF Poteau.
Mr.. Carter has made about AZ good y
record. lately. IN the ballet OF his
friends. ~ he has aver made. and
very little serious attention IL being
given his ,opposittOo..
Congressman Jim MeClintic. from
the Eleventh. District. 10 to have OPP
kposition In Claude Miller, farmer
tbusiness man OF Ahus.
There appears to be an under
st2nding between candidates for
State office that they will keep their
names and principles before the pub
lie through the press. and other
meanso and refrain from making any
political speeches this year. They
feel that tho people are In no mood
to hear political speeches.
| Bill Murray IL expected to start
bis storm for Governor sometime
this month, or the first OF May.
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The knitting departement turned
out the following articles during tho
past week: Six helmcnt, s mufflers.
f3o socks, s sweaters. 4 wristlets, I
wash rag
The surgical dressing department
reported for the week: Wipes. SKA.
2.20i; AKA, 2S0, and 1873 many
tails
Following the campaign for Red
cross workers, IL was found that
i12 women had signed up for work
IN the Red Cross rooms, who had
not formerly offered their services;
and .? more signed the pledge to do
relief work in their homes.
| The supply OF yarn. which has
been very short for some little time.
is now relieved and II is believed
mediate needs
The first morning class in surgi-
cal dressing was held at the work
room at s:30 a. m. Thursday, and
will held each Thursday morning
hereafter.
Interest Is increasing in the night
classes held in the rooms each Mon
day and Thursday night. Hereto
fore there has been but one night
class each week. but two have been
made necessary owing to the in
creased number Of workers.
Mrs. Joe Lou Adams OF the Nor
NAL is planning student talent Op-
eretta to be presented in the near
future for the benefit OF the local
chapter. Still another production
OF some kind is to be presented by
faculty members OF the Normal
May Send Parcels to American
Prisoners.
The Atlantic Division OF the Am
lerican Red Cross announces that Il
has been granted by the German
War Trade Board an exclusive blan-
ket authorization for the sending OF
food. letters and money through the
American Red Cross to American
and Allied soldiers in German pris-
ON camps. Two te1-pound parcels
a week may be sent from Berne 10
American prisoners. The parcels
may contain two heavy loayes oi
bread every week. tobacco and soap
Special articles for invalids may be
sent when necessary. Because OF
the Overcrowded condition OF the
mails, however, the Red Cross ad
vises that parcels b. not sent to the
Allied prisoners. but that money be
mailed 10 the Bureau OF Allied PriS
oners' Relief. which will arrange
for the purchase and forwarding o,
food and tobacco. Letters should bt
addressed. with the prisoners name
number, rank. regiment and com
pany. to the prison camp in which
be- is held. via New York" In thu
upper right hand corner OF the on
velOpe should be written "American
Tor Allied) prisoner Of war; post
free" The letters should be not
longer than two pages. written on
one side Of the paper At New York
they will be turned over to the Ma
tional Censorship Board. Money
should be sent through the Bureau
OF American Prisoners Relief. Am
erican Red Gross. Washington, as
the Government wishes to keep a
record OF funds sent. Checks. drafts,
and postal orders must be made pay
able to the American Red Cross. UIt
is advised that these directions be
clipped out and kept in families
having members in the army.)
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Four thousand bushels Of wheat in
warehouse at Oklahoma City, and
belonging to Robert l.. Rowley were
forced on the market by the Food
Administration Wednesday.
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FOR HALE-iSEAL ESTATE

LAND FOR SALE - John Folsom
l6o acre allotment. about e mile
south Of keneftck: all best black
'labd; price $l25 per acre; terms is
ossh, 1-3 nine years: Ia eight an
uua1 payments Calvin Newbegry
s0-aefe allotment. NY OF NWH u
29-7-S about g miles west OF Calera:
all fine land: price SIS per acre:
tHfmt same as Folsom land Bay
abod land; pay Is cash, next Ia
Me. rent last 1-3 will he oovered
BY jpcrease In value OF land. Write
your Texan friends about these
tracts. Equitable Farm Mortgage
Company. Oklahoma City. Ok. vsS
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