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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-01-05
Widows Death Gives
University $4,000

SAVANNAH, Ca, Jan. 5.-The
State University at Athens will come
into active realization of a bequest of
about $4,000, as a result of the
death of Mrs. B. A. Denmark, resi-
dent of this city, whose husband dy-
ing some years ago left $1,000 to the
institution as memorial tribute to
his son and the entire estate to the
institution on the death of his elder
son.
His wife, the widow, whose death
occurred here Sunday, was not salts
fed with the will and litigation fol-
lowed, an agreement being reached
five years ago whereby a substantial
part of the estate was to be held in
trust for the University till Mrs. Dem
marks death.
'Denmark's dining half has been
for years a most helpful factor among
the campus facilities offered young
men of Georgia, who want an educa-
ton.
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WOULDN'T TAKE ANY
AMOUNT OF MONEY
FOR GOOD 1T DID HIM
Columbus, Ga, Man Tells the Good
Dreco Did His Stomach. Liver,
Kidneys and Constipation.

81 have just finished my second
bottle of Dreco and honestly I feel
So much better l hardly know how
to tell you," said Mr.. J. M. Fuller,
of ABS Broad Street, Columbus, Ca,
continuing he said:
81 am "a years old and for the past
few years have had some rheumatic
trouble that continued to grow worse
all the time and although took many
medicines recommended to me, none
of them helped me the least bit, in
fact, my rheumatism continued to
get worse and panied so at times I
cid not feel that I was able to keep
on my job. I decided Dreco would
be good for me. so bought a bottle
and from the first dose I began to i'm
prove. The pains are all gone now;
| sleep fine and go to my work feel
ing fresh and fine every day, and
instead of WORRYING about the
pain as l used to do, l can pay more
attention to my work. I have gain
ed ten pounds already and il gives
me pleasure to recommend Dreco to
any one suffering as I did, for I know
it will do them good"
There is not another remedy on the
market today that is like Dreco, as
it is made entirely of herbs and con-
tains no iron, mercury, potash, or
other harmful minerals.
1t is what the people who have
taken Dreco say that sells it and not
what the manufacturers say.
All progressive druggists through
out the country now sell Dreco and
it is highly recommended in Americas
by Americas Drug Co.-(adv.l
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a kindly interest in me and encour-
aged me to continue my work in the
ministry, pointing out the advantages
of going to college and personally
helped me in that respect by sending
me to the United States. l have writ
ten DR.. Charles w. Gordon ralph
Connor), whom l knew while in Win
nipeg, of my willingness to take the
job with the miners. While spades
are trumps as rule among these min
ers, | believe that l can tell them
something about Christ, who is the
ace of hearts, and am confident that
he will take some tricks"
did you ever play cards for
money!" he was asked.
eyes, but l didn't know it at the
time. 1t was in France. l was
spending the afternoon at the home
of French colonel. The colonePs
daughter and a countess with whom I
had been associated in a Red Cross
bazaar, suggested that we play bridge
| learned the game that afternoon
and at the end of-the game l noticed
the women counting up, but it never
dawned on me that we had been
playing for money until the colonel
told me had won. 1t was rather an
embarrassing position, so I took the
money and turned it over to the fund
for disabled French soldiers.
az am not content to be a drone in
the beehive of the kingdom of Cod
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-01-05
PASTOR GOES TO
'HE-MAN' PULPIT
Ohio Minister Answers
AID of Manitoba Min
ing Camp

COLUMBUS, o., Jan. 5.-Found
A preacher who can play poker and
knows every card in the deck.
A minister has bten discovered who
perfers the rough and READY life in a
Canadian mining camp to a $4,000
Job in an Eastern city.
The Rev. R. Arthur Basham, a
young Presbyterian minister of Col
umbus, has answered the call sent
out by miners of the copper camps at
Athapupuskow Lake, in Northern
Manitoba, for parson who SIS he
man, wears a nIackinaw jacket, can
paddle a canoe, play coed game of
poker and give a go.d account of him
self in a knock-GoWn-and-drag
row"
The advertisement reads.
Wanted-A minister CT the gospel
for Athapupuskow camp. Must be a
good poker player No namAypamby
ddde preachers need apply.
Il am not an adept poker player,
but I can learn, just as expect these
lniners to learn my game" declared
Mr. Basham-he prefers not to be
called reverend.
1T is the only call to preach that
appeals to me. I'd rather be Santa
Claus to bunch Of miners than a min
lister to all the elders IL Christcndo,n.
l do not think a church should fail to
supply those fellows with prealer,
and the kind of preaher they wart."
Once a Circuit Rider.
Mr. Basham served as a circuit RI
del in Northern Manitoba before ne
vellt to France as a 7. II. C. E..
worker.
Il had a 40-milec i~cuit and lets of
times l had to run aloag behind the
dogs and the sled to keep from free
ing to death. One of the h4tpiest
recollections of my life Is meeting, up
in the North cou try. 4 de,elict. &
Cornell graduate. The minute / met
him he said, 'Basham, I'm a drunk
ard liked him, and his case i'm
pressed me. MANY a nignE l played
chess with him all night, trying TO
helF him forget liquor. I spent lot
OF time with him, and one nigh. it
was necessary to knock a man down
in a saloon because he tempted my
friend with a bottle of whisky. After
that they let him alone. I count as
one of the greatest achievements of
my life the wooing of that man from
the grip of liquor. He now is one Of
the most splendid fellows | know"
81 spent eleven years in the pit and
eleven in the pulpit" said Basham.
"At the age of IL, I was a coal miner
in Wales and spent eleven years there.
Now l have six brothers in the mines.
There were eight of us in the war.
One was killed and all were wounded.
am not green at the JOB. l know
the lives of these miners. / have
played cards with them and 7 an will
ing to match the miners bible-a deck
of cards-against the Bible I teach
any day.
"Oh. yes, I have played cards. /
was tried for heresy once for PLAYING
whist in the home of one of the elders
of my church. Because the action of
this church received great publicity,
T. f"~'oos 7. Gordon. Winnipeg, took
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-01-05
SCOUTS TO TURN
TABLES A WEEK
To Hand Motto To Pub
lie On Tenth An
nlVersary

With an invitation to every man,
woman and child in the United States
to adopt for one week at least their
habit of doing a good turn daily,
470, 900 members of the Boy Scouts
Of America are developiuy plans to
make the celebration of the Tenth
Anniversary Of the Scout movement.
the week of February 8 to ii, the
most pretentious program of demo.
cratic goodfeeling and genuine
Americanization the nation has wit
messed.
Through some channel everyone
in the laDA will be asked to assist
this CANT align of national usefulness
by pledgng themselves to do for the
period that marks the Boy Scout
birthday at least one good turn, to
someone each day.
In every one of 10000 communi-
ties where troops of Scouts are or
ganio'd, programs of definite serv-
ice and celebration are planned, and
il is the hope of Scout officials that
every citizen and every child to 10 a
GOOD turn will be so universal as to
make every community in the nation
feel the definite benefit thai Will in
evitably result from this nationwide
campaign of mutual helpfulress.
Efforts are being made to have
every church service for Sunday,
February 9Th, devoted to the doe
trine of the Good Turn, and in CO.
operation with church officials, Good
Turn Services are being planned for
churches of all denominations every
where.
On Sunday evening, February s,
at Sis, Scouts of every city and
every village throughout the United
/ States will unite in a renewal Ct their
i Scout Oath, and wherever he may
be ct that hour and time, every one
/ of the 470,000 members of the Boy
Scouts of America will stand at
Scout salute, and take anew his OBJ
/ legation to do his best to do his duty
to God and his country and to obey
/ the Scout law; to help other people
at all times, and to keep himself
] physically strong, mentally awake
and morally straight.
''The Boy Scouts of America clos
es the first decade fits successful
bodybuilding service on February 3,
1920" said James E. West, Chief
/ Scout Executive of the National Boy
Scout Council "Out of the expert
ences of years that are past it pro-
jects into the future a program of
/ extensive development to reach more
boys and of intensive development
| to better serve every individual reg
] istered Scout. The National Cow
Gil, to whom is given the nation wide
/ administration of this work, is ask
/ ing for the renewal of the co-opera-
ton of every 1919 helper for the
| bigger piece of work before it in 1920
and the enlistment of another 100,-
900 volunteer leaders to make pos
sible the extension of Scouting s
benefits into new fields so that a
tremendously larger proportion of
the boyhood of America maye be
! e,a,rr,rs,3
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declared Basham. eff so per cent of
US ministers were to go on strike
American Professionalism would not
suffer in the least degree. We aren't
essential, but most of US are not
willing to admit it.
ain one city of thirty thousand
people, where | was asked to preach,
there are forty ministers, and they
drag the life and money out of the
people to support them. l am not
needed there-they have twice as
many preachers now as they need,
if they were doing their duty"
Mrs. Basham expects to accompany
her husband and help him in his work.
"No doubt they will have pair of
deuces when they get u.s." Basham
said.
Before going to France, Basham
held a pastorate in Buffalo, N. Y. He
rented a theater every Sunday and
preached there instead Of in his
church, and the theater was packed
every service.
Mr.. and Mrs. Basham were mar
ried in France in May. Before her
marriage Mrs. Basham was Miss Ha-
eel Hulve, formerly of Columbus.
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MERE MENTION ABOUT TOWN


Eyes examined and Glasses htted.
BELL the JeweIer. 2S-tf
Mr.. and Mrs. B. Compton have
taken apartments with Mrs. j. Il
Sutton on Rees Park
Mrs. and Mrs. James Baugh have
returned from Athens, where they
spent several days with Mrs Hattie
Lowe.
Drink Chero-Cola, cents.-3-3Ot
Leo J. Flanagan, of Columbus, is
in the city.
All Hats to go at half-price. Elinor
Tillman, AIT
"Mr. and Mrs. Homer 3. Mathews,
of Americas, are at home for the
winter with Mr.. and Mrs. J. Lucas
Baird, at 2 Peachtree place." says
the Atlanta Journal.
WOMEN'S WEAR HALF-PRICE.
ANSLEY'S-5-1t
julie FELTON,, Jr., and Yancy Hill, of
Montezuma, was Sunday visitors
here.
J. D. Holman has just received a
carload of Tennessee and Kentucky
mules.-2-3t
Mrs. w. W. Norman and daughter,
Elizabeth, have returned to their
home in Griffin after visiting Mrs.
L. L. McCIeskey.
Rev. Guyton Fisher will leave
Tuesday for Brentwood, to spend
several days.
c. w. Stewart, of Atlanta, is here
for several days.
]. D. Holman has just received a
carload of Tennessee ard Kentucky
mules.-2-3t
Misses Emma Love Fisher, Mary
Rose Brown. Mary Sheffield and Ma
bel and Annie Ellis will leave tonight
to resume their studies at Wesleyan,
after spending the holidays with their
parents here.
E. K. Howell is here from Atlanta
for a few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Logan Mckenzie,
Miss Myrtle Harris, Miss Esther, Mil
ton Riley and Raymond Tooke form
ed a congenial party motoring over
from Montezuma Sunday. They took
dinner at the Windsor Hotel.
N. McFadden, of Atlanta, spent a
short while here this morning.
The Wesley Bible class of the First
Methodist church. will hold business
meeting at the Y. M. C. A. Tuesday
afternoon at $50 O'Clock. Every
member is urged to be present.
Drink Chero- Cola, S cents.-3-30t
The boys who will return to Tier
Ger University tonight to take up
their studies after spending the
Christmas holidays at home are
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Ralph Lane, Ed Everette, Frank
Easterlin, Joe Hamrick. Those re-
turning Sunday were, Pulaski Holt,
Henry Clay, Louie Hansford.
K. w. Campbell returned Sunday
to Covington, after spending several
days here.
Miss Thelma Howard, of Helena,
arrived Saturday and is the guest of
Mrs. E. A. Gammage on Brannon
avenue.
Drink Chero- Cola, 5 cents.-3-3Ot
Miss Helen Moffett, of Montezuma,
visited friends here Saturday.
Miss Mary Walker left last night
to resume her studies at Brenau.
Mrs. Floyd Lawhorn, of Richland,
is the guest of Mrs. E. A. Horne.
Miss Winnie Lansford is visiting
Mrs. Ben Marshall at Lumpkin.
George Minis. of Macon, is visit
ing his sister, Mrs. George Horne.
Miss Kate Gillian, who has been
visiting Miss Mary Sue Redman, has
returned to her home at Gainesville,
Ga.
Roscoe and Francis Myrick have
returned to Macon, after spending
some time here with Mrs. E. A.
Horne on Lee street.
Miss Mary Glover returned Sun
day to Hollins, Va, where she is at
tending school.
Miss Mary Sue Redman has re
turned from Cordele where she visit
ed relatives.
E. c. Wilder and son, of Macon,
are the guests of Mrs. NJ. M. Pow
ell on Lee street.
E. T. Stalker has been moved from
his home to the City Hospital. His
condition is reported UNCHANGED.
Neill Ray and Chas. Smith left
Sunday to take up their studies at
Emory after spending the holidays
at home.
Marry A. Calhoun, of Savannah, is
ere for the day.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Laramore and
Fred and Addie Earamore, of Lees
hrre. were the SUNDAY quests of Mrs.
Clarence Jordan, on College street.
Six snlendid work mules former
" used by the county in road work,
are to be sold to the highest bidder
before the courthouse tomorrow
morning at 10 o'clock. The animals
/ average 1,5CG mounds in WEIGHT and
arc al in ecod condition their sale
being determined upon because of the
Introduction Of tractors which now dc
their work Sheriff Harvey win con.
duct the sale
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Matching Of Trout Enua.

A trout egg takes from thirty-fvc 70
sixty days to hatch according 70 fl7a
temperature OF the "ot-~
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Oldest New Mexico Town.

kcoma N. NJ, an Indian village, is
cider than st. Augustine, first Euro
pean settlement in America. Acoma is
mentioned in chronicles of 1920
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The Colorado statesman., 1920-01-24
WASHINGTON

pupils something about the 1920 cen
sus. the Census Bureau has prepared
q special circular for the use of teach
ers
With much pork" eliminated, the
annual rivers and harbor appropria
tion bill carrying funds for the next
fiscal year has been reported to the
House by the ways and means com
mittee. The bill would appropriate
only 12,400000, slashing down of
$50, 100000 from the total submitted
and considerable cut from the amounts
usually carried.
Many marine mines which We're car
ried away by the heavy storm which
prevailed over the North sea for sew
eral days are floating through the
Scandinavian straits.
Validity of the federal constitution
al prohibition amendment is to be de-
termiued by the Supreme Court, which
today granted the state of Rhode Is
land permission to institute original
proceedings To test it and enjon its
enforcement in that state.
SuffraglstS are specializing which
state will give the Susan Il. Anthony
amendments the vote necessary to rati-
ficatlon. Twenty-siX ratifications have
been achieved, four special sessions
have been agreed upon-Wyoming,
New Mexico, Idaho and Arizona. Three
full suffrage Washington, Ne
yada and Ollahoma-and West Nir-
sinia. where the legislature is pledged
and the governor has declared he will
call session sooner or later-bring
the number to thlrty-four, leaving the
thirty-fifth and thirty-siNth to be won
from Delaware, New Jersey, Msss-
sippi. Maryland, Vermont and Con
necticut.
President Wilson may go to Hon
pluIu at the expiration of his term of
office. Al least Alexander Hume
Ford rendered the President an invi-
tation to become active president OF
the Pan-Pacific Association and to
"consider residence and leadership In
a land where there is no race preju-
dice"
Secretary of the Interior and Mrs.
Lane have announced the engagement
of their only daughter, Nancy, to Phil
lin C. Kauffnann, son of MIR. and Mrs
victor Kauffmann. The wedding will
take place in the late spring.
The Colorado statesman., 1920-01-24
GENERAL

More than S3OOO,0OO worth Of
whisky and spirtuous liquors has been
conflscated by the internal revenue Of
ficers in New York since the eight
eenth amendment went into effect.
Chicago faces Il deficit of more than
ST,OOO,OOO for the coming year, ac-
cOrding to n report submitted to the
council committee ON finances by City
Comptroller George f., Harding. Mr..
Harding said the cty's resources i'll
1920 would be about SI2, 2,00O,0o0, while
the anticipated expenditures were
placed at more than S39,OOO,OOO
-Four witnesses heard at the opening
of the trial by general court-martial
at Camp Zachary Taylor of Lieut.. l. c.
Cottenkeine, who, as supply officer of
the Fifth Field artillery, is charged
with having embezzled his regiments
payroll of $4,000 for May, 1919, while
the first division was in Germany, tes-
titled that he had left but little over
10000 of the 4SG,Tl6 marks paid him
when he was arrested by German civ
ilian authorities at Freiburg, four
months after his disappearance. Cot
tenkeine, Il native of Germany, is al
legged to have squandered the embez-
zled money. The case was continued
until depositions are received from
Germany.
A Trade Union College" under the
auspices and control of trade unions
of Washington, ID. c., and vicinity has
been opened at Washington.
The United States Steel Shipbuilding
corporation, Il $2,500,000 war industry,
in which numerous Chicago city hal!
officials and eX-officiuls invested their
funds, foundered financially before
any of the three vessels it was to have
constructed for the government left the
ways.
Salem, Ore, Jan. 19.-The Austral-
ian ballot, in use in Oregon for more
than thirty years, has been discarded
by strong partisan vote of the Ore
gon Legislature in special session at
Salem. The straight party voting sys-
TEN is provided for as the official bal
lot of the state.
The last will and testament of Ade.
lima Patti, the famous singer who died
recently, reveals that she failed to be
aueath her throat to Il London hos
pital as she had promised years ago.
She said ut that time that she would
he pleased to allow surgeons TO eX-
anime the wonderful structure of her
vocal organs for the benefit of stu
dents.
Miss Clara Schwartz. 10, committed
suicide ut Peoria, Illinois, by ty-
ing three flatirons around her neck
and sticking her head in tub
of water She had been dead
several hours when discovered by rela-
lives. Dependency over the gradual
loss of her hair is said to have been
responsible for her act.
\ real funeral ceremony, with cof-
fin and pallbearers and with BILLY"
Sunday presiding, was held mt Norfolk,
Va, over John Barleycorn. The taber-
nacle was jammed when Sunday
preached the funeral sermon.
The Colorado statesman., 1920-01-24
FOREIGN

The Countess OF Warwick has been
chosen ns the prospective candidate
for parliament from East Waltham-
stow by the Labor pnrty.
Horses and mules sold by the Amer
lean forces IN Germany between Nov.
~ and Nov. IS, last year, brought to-
tai of SlO301S. or about $40 each.
The animals sold were reported as un-
scrviceablc,
Hamburg no longer rnnks in the
class of cities having Il population of
100000 and more The war and the
blockade have reduced its number OF
inhabitants to 9Sl,OO0 ns compared
with .035. 900 recorded in the last year
before the war.
Paul Deschnnel was elected presi-
dent of the French republic by 734
votes OF the $3.50 members OF the
national assembly voting His major
ity was the largest since the, election
of Louis Adolph Thiers, the first presi-
dent after the fall of the empire, who
was chosen unanimously
George CASTOR Quieil. convicted and
condemned to death in September last
on charges of having had reasonable
| dealings with the Germans and having
betrayed to them Edith Cavcll, the
English nurse. appeared before II court
martial for trial for the second time
in Paris.
4 single lock of hair from the head
of Napoleon realized 500 at sale of
| G,sI,,I,,... tl,. In ri
was presented by the little COrsican's
valet to Capt. Henry HollngSworth,
captain of the twentieth regiment
which was on guard at st. Helena, ut
the time of the emper0rs death.
All the documents respecting dlplO-
matte intercourse between Berlin and
Washington before the German peace
offer of 1916 and the events leading
| to the proclamation of POlund's indie
pendence will he published in Berlin.
This announcement is made in Il wire
less message from Berlin.
Explaining that it is impossible for
the German government to take an of
/ flcial stand on the question, an official
of the foreign office said Germany
necessarily must adopt II hunds-off
policy in the event the Bolsheviki in
vndcd Poland. Emphasizing that this
was a personal view. he doubted such
an invasion would take place.
Efforts to mediate between employ
ers and workers in Sweden have
failed. and lockout. has been de-
clared As result $4,000 men in ell
gineering shops, iron works and other
plants will be thrown out of employ
ment. The employers association may
later extend the lockout to all skilled
labor. \ commission appointed by the
government begins work today in the
interest of conciliation..
The Colorado statesman., 1920-01-24


WESTERN
j. II. Evans, ~ years old, son of
Congressman Robert T.. Evans of Da-
kota City, Neb., was Instantly killed
In an automobile accident at Sioux
Falls, S. ID.
Starvation is believed to threaten the
elk of the Sun river district in Mon
tann. There are 5000 animals in the
herds there. The range was in the
drought area and has been visited by
heavy storms
Rather than serve thlrtyfive day
sentence in the Oakland city iuil, Pearl
Whitford, 23, eluded the matron ana
climbing through nm open window on
the fourteenth floor of the city hall,
jumped 300 feet to her death. Hun
dreds of persons Witnessed the trag-
edy.
Theodore Bell, counsel for California
wine interests, has announced that
some or his clients would submit to
prosecution in order To test the valid
ity of constitutional prohibition. Manu-
facture and sale Of wine for purposes
OF testing the law would take plaCe
soon. lie said.
Bank notes worth $4,000 were
stoleh from the mairoom of the
steamer Cheloshin just before the
boat entered Vancouver harbor from
Prince Rupert, Il. G. The mailroom
was broken into and mail sacks were
cut open. Police did not reach the
boat until all the passengers had left.
A dense fog, the first in the history
of Douglas AriZ., obScurinS objects
only Il few feet away, caused almost
total suspension of business for onc
day. A hendon street-cur collision, re-
sulting in the injury of both the mo
tormeI, and an automobile truck col
lision. in which one man was injured,
occurred.
First installation of wireless tele-
phones for commercial purposes i'll
Utah was completed when cement
manufacturing company at Ogden
erected aerials above its offices and nl
fits plant thirty miles north OF Ogden.
Similar equipment is to be installed for
a coal company with mine at Rock
Springs, Wyo.
Production of oil from California
fields amounted to 1Ol ,221,TS4 barrels
In 1919 the daily average being 217,-
$50, according to figures announced by
tile Standard Oil Company. Total
crude stocks amounted to 32,042,923
barrels onDec 81, 1918, and 30,4SO,323
on Dec 81, 1919, decrease of 1,562, 500
in the crude oil reserve. Wells to the
number of $50 were completed and IS
wells were abandoned during the year.