Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-11-30
TRAILING
THE NEWS
OF THE DAY
Plan Sc, 200, 900 Memorial.

Plan $4,000, 900 Memorial.
Final plans have been adopted
for the erection of Victory Hall,
New York City's memorial to her
soldiers, sailors and marines who
took part in the world war.
According to the plans the hall
will be the largest building of its
kind in the world and it is propos-
ed to make it an established fact
before the end of next year.
The building will cost between 5
and Z million dollars, and the land
about 8 million dollars, the total
amount to be raised by popular
subscription. The site selected is
in Pershing Square, facing Grand
Central Station.
The Camel Walk Is Indecent.
The "shimmie,' the "camel
walk" the "cheek dance" and SIM
liar dances today were denounced
by the Kinds county, Miss, grand
jury as "vulgar, immoral and in
decent"
MANY Ministers Are Heretics."
Many ministers of the gospel are
heretics, it was charged at a Pres
byterian Bible conference at st.
Louis, the other night The Rev.
DIR. John Mcneil, of Birmingham,
Ala, and the Rev. William B.
Riley, of Minneapolih, asserted
many ministers believed Christ was
only an unusual man without di-
vine powers.
A Professor Can't Buy Shoes.
Carnegie Institute of Technology
professors are so poorly paid that
some of them are unable to have
eggs for breakfast and at least one
of them is unable to buy himself
badly needed pair of shoes, says a
Pittsburg dispatch.
These statements are said to
have been made at a meeting of
the general faculty and made pub
lie when resolutions asking the
trustees to revise the salary sched-
ule we're sent to the trustees.
Fortune A Hero's Reward.
Elmer Flickinger, of Columbi-
ana, O., is $4,000 richer today
because he saved the life of a
Montgomery, Ala, woman two
years ago.
Fhckinger, while private in the
37th (Ohio National Guard) di-
vision, in training at Camp Sheri-
dan, rescued the woman in a runa-
way accident. He was notified last
week by an agent of the Cohasset
Iron Mining company that, by the
womans will, leases of mining
rights on lands near Mont
gomery had been given him.
$50
Chaplins May Adopt A Boy.
Filmdom's king of mirth may yet
have an heir.
If he does, it will be the old
fairy story Of the waif who became
king come true. For Mildred Har-
ris Chaplin, beautiful wife of
Charles Chaplin, has asked permits
sion to adopt tiny boy-one Of
three born week ago at the Los
Angeles, Calf, county hospital, to
Mrs. Elizabeth Fullerton.
If the mother wrI1 consent to
give up her child, he will be taken
to the little Mother Goose nursery
out at the Chaplin home in Holly
wood to fill the place in the Chaplin
hearts when their own little boy
was buried after three brief days
on earth.
City Men Can't Afford Wives.
1t is the farmer boys not the city
fellows, who are getting married
these days, says Miss Mary Hale,
OF Ford county, Kans., one of the
SIX women probate judges in Kan
sas. She is particularly interested
IN Cupid's tactics.
Kansas wheat money is per-
hitting the farmer boy to get wife
and furniture, but the city boy ON
salary is kept busy to provide for
himself" said Miss Hale.
Il =
Family Has Unknown Slayer.
The coroners jury at Salina,
Hans, has returned verdict OF
murder in the death of Ed. Bunch,