Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-09-07
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mo of awe, as II something Ao4y
Nd nassed through the streets.
Monday night Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam Tanner started for the MOVIES.
Crossing the railroad tracks at the
s+ation. Mrs. Tanners foot slip
Nod into the crevice between the
track and the planking. The head
Tobt of the train was SHINING
Jewn the tracks as it rushed from
Glencoe. The fagman and the
husband. worked to free Mrs. Tan
ner's foot. nh, -
There were three children at
home There was an old mother.
There were years of work and
booltb ahead. William Tanner,
cashier in the office of the B. q
a railroad, Strengthened to his feet
and put his arms around his wl1e
10 stood there-free to step INTO
safety, his back to the oncoming
train, Some hysterical persons on
the station platform saw 1T an
nor and his wife framed IN the
halo of a locomotive searchhgnt'
Jobn Miller, the fagman at the
crossing, jumped. The. tram slae-
sw;ned him. The Tanners We're
lifted together into the air, SMASH
ed against the ground forty feet
away and killed.
"This is the place." said the
new fagman of train passing the
scene of the place,a couple OF DAYS
Later Then there was talk. One
woman cried as she looked at IT,
And then she raised the question
that all Chicago is discussing
whether the husband should nave
elected to remain with his wife
and make the supreme sacrlhce as
he did or whether he should nave
saved himself for the safety Oh
his children.
But in the Tanner home the
epic wore another air. Three chli-
dren were playing on the porch
with a dog named Rab. A whlte-
haired old woman sat in CHAIR
rocking. She is Mrs. W. d. Chat-
Low Tanners mother. Long ago
her husband was killed by rail-
road train. Tanner was her only
son and now he's gone
The children don't know about
Monday nights tragedy. No ar
rangements have been made for
the future care of the children
one of the women who spent the
morning at the house said. All
were awaiting the arrival OF Mr.
Tanners sister from New York.
Here's mighty fair and square
thing a state is doing for its re-
turned soldiers. The Wisconsin
Soldiers Bonus Bill, providing ap-
proximately Is million dollars, TO
be obtained through taxes, which
passed the recent legislature with
a refendum amendment attached
to it. at a special election through
out the state last week, was ratl-
fed by wide margin.
Under the measure, soldiers,
sailors, marines and nurses, who
enlisted in the World War, Will
receive $40 for each months serv-
ice, the minimum 70 be $50.
About 9 million dollars will be OBJ
tanned by tax of three mills on
every dollar of general property
assessment and the remainder
from surtaXes.
"Uncle Johnny Shell, probab-
ly the Oldest man in the world,
celebrated his 131st birthday at
Lexington, KY. day or two ago by
sending for a life insurance agent.
"You never can. tell what'll hap
pen sonny" he told the agent,
"and I want to prepare for the
worst"
The agent looked over his rate
rate and found that his card COW
cred only the 105 years of mans
life. The agent is now busy with
his headquarters trying to learn
if he can insure "Uncle Johnny"
If this story had ended by the
agent being able to fix Uncle
Johnny" up with policy one
might have suspected that an in
surance man concocted the whole
yarn. But still, who can tell? It's
not bad bit of press agenting
for the life insurance men at that.
The navy is having great diff
Guilty in getting enough recruits
to replace the emergency men as
they are discharged and of this AS
sistant Secretary of the Navy
Roosevelt has brought back to
Washington a new story:
The assistant secretary was Wis
iting the naval base at Newport
recently and desiring to go down