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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-19
OLD DAYS IN AMERICUS


Some time in January the remaining
amount due the schooi teachers on
this years work will likewise be paid.
A marriage of interest at Plains,
and to many friends of the bride and
groom in Americas as well, occurs
in that thriving little city this eve
ming, the contracting parties being
Miss Bernice Irene Harper and
Claude L. Walters. The bride is the
pretty and attractive daughter of Dr..
Harper, while the groom is a well
known young man of Plains.
What is known as the pattern
house. of the Seaboard railway shops
caught on fire last night, and being
small frame building, constructed
Of light material burned rapidly and
was very nearly consumed. The fire
men fought the flames in terrific
freeze, the water sticking to their
clothing in particles of ice through
out the conflagration.
Already the city solons are whet-
ting their pruning knives and casting
about to see where best it can be
applied in the cutting of expense next
year. One item suggested was the
cutting out of a number of street
lights, which will probably be done
at the recommendation of the board
OF the next council meeting.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-19
NEW USE FOR MoLAssEs.

Hl M OUT of gas. Let me have five
gallons of molasses this time. :"
If the owner of car were to make
this remark at an American service
station, there would be hasty phone
call for the police patrol
In Cuba, the same request would
merely provoke smile and secure
for the driver five gallons of the au-
tomobile fuel now used in the ma
jority of Havana cars.
ChArles E. Hires, Jr., of the
Charles E. Hires Company, Philadel-
phia, who has lately returned from
the company's sugar plantation in the
island, says that the passing of the
eighteenth amendment automatically
destroyed Cuba's market for millions
OF gallons of molasses. This molasses
was formerly refined in America and
distributed to the brewing companies.
When the brewers ceased to brew.
molasses became drug on the Cuban
market temporarily.
Now a large percentage is being
converted into denatured alcohol and
forms the base of new automobile
fuel used by practically all of the
cheaper, and many of the more ex-
pensive cars in Cuba. This fuel sells
for 20 cents gallon against fifty
cents gallon for gasoline.
in spite of the bottom having
dropped out of the sugar market
and of prohibition in the United
States remarked Mr.. Hires, "there
are seemingly as many cars on the
streets of Havana as there were a
year or two ago. Cuba has found
market for her molasses crop,
What does not go into automobile
fuel, is turned into pure alcohol and
shipped to South America where
there is no eighteenth amendment. If
Cuba can work out her excess sugar
problem as satisfactorily she has
nothing to worry about"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-19
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY.

(From the Times-Recorder Deem
Der 10, 1901,)
The report of Chief Monahan for
the current year has not yet been
completed, but when handed to the
city council will mack a gratifying ex-
hibit for Americas. Few fires have
occurred this year, and the aggregate
of losses sustained will probably be
considerably less than $4,000.
Hudson Mathews, member of fire
department, has been confined to his
room for two or three days with
symptoms of appendicitis.
The county school teachers of
Sumter county, as well as those of
other counties, will get their salaries
in time to buy Christmas presents.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-19

peatedly hearing myself without
comprehending.
"a man of his reputation Thus
people referred to MeNasters.
Well, what was his reputation? 7
hadn't the slightest idea other than
that it was of kind which Dick
Barnes and Motherdear did not ap-
prove.
Whatever it might be- Dick pre-
ferred to believe l had something to
do with it. He deliberately tried to
think the worst of me.
And thinking so-he had snatched
me to his heart and for one tumultu-
Gus second he had made me forget
that | was on set and acting a part
for my director.
1t was all on account Of that hor-
rid blue dress. | rushed to my dress
ing room and threw off its offending
the thing again, but unfortunately,
'prettiness. never wanted to see
since l had done some interiors in
it, I would have to put it o. again for
the scenes to be shot on location
That evening Cissy took me out in
his magnificent new roadster. |. was
confused and unhappy. 1t was the
first time Motherdear ever had per-
mitted me to go out in the evening
unchaperoned.
She must be encouraging Cissy, I
decided. But I did not enjoy being
alone with Cissy Sheldon was con-
stantly thinking how differently I
would feel if the roadster were
Dicks.
(To be continued)
Copyright, 1929
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-19
AN EDITORIAL FOR BOYS.

A BIG man died the other day. He
was enc of the leaders of St
Louis, city of more than three
quarters of a million people, and his
name is known around the world. He
was George Warren Brown, head of
the Brown Shoe Co., one of the larg-
est in the world, and a product of
his own genius ard ability as an or
ganizer of men and capital His
death took place in Tucson, Ariz., in
his 6sth year.
George Warren Brown was the
best friend / had in the world" said
Lawson Stapleton, of Americas, rep
resentative of the Brown Shoe COM
pany in this section" and / greatly
regret to learn of his death. For
nineteen years he had been my
friend, a fact of which have always
been proud. 1t was many years
ago that was in st. Louis working
and CHANGED to connect with his con-
Germ. | have never regretted it, and
have been with it ever since.
1.-THE life and success of George
Warren Brown should be an example
for every boy in this country. Mr..
Brown went to St. Louis 48 years
ago as clerk. lie then was Just
out of school and 20 years old. Be-
fore he was 81 he was promoted from
shipping clerk to travelling salesman
and he remained on the road for five
years. At the end of that time he
resigned and organized the pioneer
shoe manufacturing concern of st.
Louis and built it into vast enter
prise. The policy of the Brown Shoe
company as outlined and DEVELOPED
by its founder was to make the or
ganlzation out Of employees who had
learned the business in the plant and
when Mr.. Brown retired from active
connection with the company five
years ago he turned its management
over to men who had grown up with
the organization, himself iretiaining
the title of chairman of the board"
The history of achievement and in
dustry in America is full of examples
OF this character which should be
and are to great many, the most
wonderful inspirations and incentives
to boys to make the best of what is
IN them. Taken at is literal mean
ing, there never was greater fallacy
than that portion of the great Decla
ration of Independence which asserts
| that all men were created free and
equal. Men are not equal. by nat
ural ability, intelligence or environs
men. But all men are equal in this
great country of ours in opportunity
and 1t IS up to every boy to make
the best that is in him come out
That is what George Warren Brown
did, and that's what most of our
captains of industry have done.
Americas has produced some of
the very greatest, and it has ma
terial for many more
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-19
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
(From the Times-Recorder Decen
Der 19,1911.)

(From the Times-Recorder Decem-
Der 19,1911.)
CHARLES C. EVANS, a we'll
- known resident of Americas,
died yesterday afternoon, following
an illness of week or ten days. lie
was reared here and the greater part
Of his life spent in this community.
Robert R. Forester, of Leesbrug,
a we'll known young Lee county at
torney, will come to Americas Jan
uary l to take up the practice of
law here in conjunction with Hollis
Fort.
Miss Melva Clarke, quite i'll recent
ly with pneumonia, was better yester-
day, and hope was expressed that
the crisis had been passed
Little Miss Nell Alexander return
ed to Dawson yesterday after a visit
to her aunt, Mrs. L. D. Lockhart, at
her home on College street.
Mrs. L. G. Council and daughters,
Miss Ruth Council land. Miss Eliza
beth Council, will spend the holidays
with relatives in Live Oak, Fla.
Santa. will saunter Saturday to the
homes of the employees of the city
in order that they may have in time
the currency to meet their Christmas
bills. 1t is the custom here to pay
all employees their December salary
in advance, and this year will prove
no exception.
Mrs Charles NJ. Council and young
son, Charles, will go to Macon today
to be the guests Of Col. and Mrs. E.
j.. Willingham through the holiday
season of ten days.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-19
c CONFESSIONS
OF A MOVIE
STAR
CHAPTER LIV.

L
AN EXPERIENCE WITH DICK
BARNES.
MY old blue lawn produced the eff
feet l wanted.
Dick went white at the sight of it.
Then he went through the business
which the director wanted in a most
convincing manner. Dick (the run
away convict had returned to his
home to embrace me 1.-THE abused
wife,. There was an embrace Of
reconciliation, a kiss of contrition in
the scenario, after which | was to
fall in faint
In the midst of the act, whispered
"Oh, Jimmy! Jimmyw with magnif-
cent impudence.
Thereafter, Dicks performance de-
lighted Demaison immensely. Al
though the convict's pursuers batter
ed at the door, Dick could not tear
himself from the little woman who
had kept her faith in him and whom
he never expected to see again. He
managed to flee just in the nick Of
time across the chalked boundary Of
the set and out of the field of the
cameras.
His parting embrace left me as
sured that for once I had made Dick
Barnes own up that he was Jimmy
Alcott.
Dick had left the studio by the
time l came out Of my mock fainting
spell. 1 knew that I wouldn't see
him again until we went on loca-
ton.
At home, that night, my mind
flashed back to the afternoons work
| l perceived suddenly, that l had not
been looking at the scene, as in q
frame, when Dick had kissed me.
had forgotten! For once in my act
ing career, it hadn't occurred to me
that love scene was both silly and
distressing.
Then came the reaction. A horrid
thought left me limp.
Dick Barnes had scorned me! That
was why he had kissed me so.
He believed that | was already en-
gagged to -Cissy Sheldon-so he had
just learned from Bangs and he
believed that l, an engaged girl, could
coquet with him! Could remind him
of our one mad midsummer night of
the previous year!
If he could believe that, then he
must believe the mysterious hints
about the interest McMasters took in
my career! A hint which l was re-
>o-o-0-0~0~~0~o-~-~~-~-~-o
masterful management of cases, and
his legal attainments are Of a very
high calibre.
| The butchers of Americas have en-
tered into an agreement not to sci
or furnish any meats on Christmas
day under forfeit Of $40 for each
and every offense, the amount to be
spent for refreshments for the gang
Hon. R. T .Nesbitt, commissioner
of agriculture, will address the citi-
zens of Sumter county in the court
house at Americas on Jani1arv 10
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-19
BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY.

CURSING or BLESSING?-Curs-
ed be the man that trusteth in man,
and maketh flesh his arm, and whose
heart departeth from the Lord.
Blessed is the man that trusteth in
the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.
1881.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-19
Ed TO RIAL.

You'll notice more comics on the
funny page today than usual. The
sizes of some have been altered
slightly S oas to make the page more
compact and permit larger number
IN the same space.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-19

And now the report is out that a
New York negro, Chas. ]. Anderson,
may get the post in Washington
which the administration sought to
band Henry Line Johnson, Lowden's
$4,000 Georgia blackberry That
won't change the fact of large num-
Der of white girl clerks working I'M
der the supervision of negro poll
tician, but they will not have Geor-
gia to blame.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-19

That cold wave with high winds fiz-
zled out, like most of them do. And
our summer flowers bloom on.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-19

That famous gallows which Seha-
tor Watson has been parading in
photographs turns out to have been
a crane for unloading gasoline in
France, according to a statement by a
man who says he built it. And some
of the senator's most promising wit
nesses are turning out to have been
only incorrigibles, DIRECTORS, rule
breakers and such who had to be
severely dealt with. The senator
shouldn't forget that our army was
made up of human beings, just like
our civil poulation, and that there
was the same crime, brutality and
wrong doing to be expected there as
in civil life.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-19

IN civil NE.
49,
4. Trox Bankston, of West Point, was
insthe sanctum Saturday to deny that
he was ''lady" delegate to the re-
Cent Baptist convention at Savannah,
,assthe Press had him labeled, and ex-
planned what everyone else had al
ready surmised, that he was a clay"
delegate and not what the printer had
made him. 81 just don't want folks
to think / am trading on my religion
to get votes for railroad commission
err he said. And he may rest in
peace, for nobody who knows Trox
would accuse him of that or anything
but a fair and square fight. But
even Trox will have to admit the
Press did perpetrate funny typo
graphical error on him.
Rouge makers are meeting. A
regular Ladies Aid Society.
During the trouble C. W. Morse
might change it to R. E. Morse.
Everybody eats one ton a year"
says Secretary Davis, who must have
a fine cook.
If cussing the weather made US fat
we would all be 300-pounders.
The best thing we got out of the
war was getting out of the war.
Some people are lodging work,
while work is lodging others.
The woman who invented the
Skinny says she is sorry, so that
makes it unanimous.
Pockets have that Christmas feel
ing.
The older a man gets the younger
he wishes he was.
Wonder how profiteer, who can't |
force strike on his men, explains
his high prices?
Aviation has its ups and downs.
Resolution No. 1: We will swear
off and on when needed
Two heads are not better than one
on the morning after.
"You can't tell genius" says an
art critic, who probably means you
cant tell him to get his hair cut.
Most of the free things you enter
are pay as you exit.
All the people who don't fall for
flattery could hold convention in
telephone booth.
Any girl who goes through college
without having her heart broken
twice will make fine teacher.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-19

Any girl who goes through college
without having her heart broken
twice will make a fine teacher.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-19

All the people who don't fall for
flattery could hold convention in
telephone booth.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-19

Most of the free things you enter
are pay as you exit.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-19

Two heads are not better than one
on the morning after.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-19

"You can't tell a genius" says an
art critic, who probably means you
cant tell him to get his hair cut.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-19

Everybody eats one ton year."
says Secretary Davis, who must have
a fine cook.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-19

The best thing we got out of the
war was getting out of the war.
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1921-05-05
Baptist Mems Banquet
At Pine Tree a Success

There were 1O4 in attendance at
the Baptist mems banquet at the
Pine Tree Inn Friday night. Every
one pronounced it one of the best
ever. Many words of praise are
spoken by the men who attended in
behalf of Manager Gardiner of the
hotel, to whom is due a creditable
part in making the evening an. en-
joyable one.
In sizing up the country it was
soon discovered that they were all
bred, born and brought up in the
country. Much wit and humor re-
vived the thrills of boyhood life on
the farm, as one after another re-
lated the experiences of other days,
The debate, Getting the Man Out
of the Country" versus Getting the
Country Out of the Man" was draw,
The round-table informal discussion
on the subject, els the Sunday School
the Place for Real Menu" was both
interesting and instructive and by
common consent was decided in the
affirmative.
Rev. I. w. TalkingtonA with telling
effect, discussed ''The Men, the Sun
day School, the Church"
Too much cannot be said in praise
Of Mrs. B. H. Buck, Miss Eva Will
Hams and Miss Ida Mae Lee and
Eddie Thornhill for the splendid mu-
steal program much enjoyed by the
men.
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1921-05-05
SOUR STOMACH
INDIGESTION
ThedfOrd's Black-Draught Highly
Recommended by a Tennessee
Grocer for Troubles Re.
sulting from Torpid
Liver.

East Nashville, Tenn The effIO-
lency Of Thedford's Black Draught, the
genuine, herb, liver medicine, Is
vouched for by Mr.. ". N. Parsons. a
grocer Of this city. "It Is without
doubt the best liver medicine, and /
don't believe I could get along without
It. I take it for sour stomach, head.
ache, bad liver, indigestion, and all
other troubles that are the result Of
O torpid liver.
81 have known and used # for years,
and can and do. highly recommend it
to every one. I won't go to bed with.
out 1t in the house. 1t win do all it
claims to do. I can't say enough for
It"
Many other men and women through
out the country have found Black.
Draught just as Mr. Parsons describes
valuable in regulating the liver to
It's normal functions, and In cleansing
The bowels Of impurities.
Thedford's BIaCk-D raught liver medi.
dine Is the original and only genuine.
Accept no limitations or substitutes.
Always ask for ThsdfoRda Rm
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1921-05-05
Barney OIdfieId's Car
Used in Tom Mix Play

Tom Mix uses in his new Fox pho
toplay, "The Road Demon" racing
car that formerly belonged to Bar
ney Oldfield and Gil Anderson. 1t
won races at Sheepshead Bay, In
dianapolis and Los .Angeles-Phoenix.
Mix used the same car in the William
Fox picture, "The Speed Maniac"
and it must be good car, because
it has stood up under fiercely hard
usage. In "The Road Demon" in his
car, Mix leaps from an embankment
across a 25-foot stream, lands kerr
PUNK on the opposite bank, and rolls
a hundred feet before he can stop it.
And the old car then was ready for
more.
In the story Of "The Road De-
mon," which will be the attraction
at the Magic City Theater tonight,
Thursday, May 5tA, Mix trades his
horse for the car, which has broken
down in the desert. He starts it go
ing and before he can stop the pesky
thing it drives through a wagon, a
barn, chicken coop; fence, and
lands in cyclone cellar.
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1921-05-05
The Raw Material and
the Finished Product

Humanity in the rough may be Xix.
ened unto a bar of crude iron. Some
one has figured out that bar OF
iron which is worth SIS in the rough
is worth $12 when made into horse
shoes; when made into pen knives, ii
IS worth $4,000, and when made into
balance wheels for watches it is
worth S25O,O0e.
s. p. Brooks as a section hand was
worth $1.15 per day; S. p. Brooks as
the president Of Baylor University
cannot be overvalued as a force that
makes for the worlds sbetterment.
Seth Ward as a pillow boy was
worth 81 per day. But Seth Ward
as a bishop in the Methodist Church
was vested with a v4lue that eternity
alone can measure.
The difference in the bar of rough
iron and the balance wheels for
watches is refinement. The differ
ence between S. P. Brooks, the sec
ton hand, and S. P. Brooks, presi-
dent of the greatest Baptist school,
is education.
The difference between Seth
Ward, the pillow boy, and Seth Ward,
the bishop, is training for noble des-
tiny.
Daniel Webster said: IF I work
in marble, it will crumble. If I work
in iron, it will corrode. But if /
work in the mind I am working in
something that viii rast forever"
Fathers, mothers, can you afford
to make any sacrifice that your boy
or girl may have an education?
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1921-05-05
FIRE DESTROYS GARAGE
I'm NORTHWEST BOGALUSA

Thursday afternoon the residents
Of Northwest Bogalusa got a thrill
when the fire trucks rushed to that
section of the city for the first time
in over a year. The garage in the
rear of the home of J. H. Johnson,
1875 Michigan avenue, burned to the
ground and the chicken house on the
opposite side of the yard was badly
damaged.
The firemen succeeded in keeping
the flames from spreading to the
dwellings, which are in close prox-
unity.
It is believed that children set fire
10 the building while playing with
matches they had purloined. M.
Johnson having sold his car a week
previous, the garage was being used
as a store house.
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1921-05-05
HOME BUILDING
ON THE INCREASE

The increase in the building of
homes continues to make Roadway
and is now exerting a distinct influ-
ence upon the wholesale lumber mar
ket, says the American Lumberman.
For example, last week the volume of
sales of southern pine showed the
greatest increase Of any week so far
this year. Judging from present con-
ditions it seems logical that if strikes
do not hinder the development of the
building movement it will attain very
substantial proportions by the end of
May. Retail lumbermen are begin
ming to place orders for considerable
quantities Of stock and although
there is somewhat more than nor
nal stock in manufacturers hands, it
is by no means easy to secure some
items. Production IS, on the whole,
slightly less than orders, with the re-
suit that the volume Of unsold lun-
Der is slowly decreasing. Wholesale
prices have been advanced slightly
on some items and almost the entire
list of prices shows greater firmness.
In normal times approximately two
thirds of the lumber produced is con-
sumed in building of one kind or an
other, while the remaining third is
used by factories to make manufac-
tured articles Of all kinds. Thus with
building showing a steady increase,
with a better outlook in the factory
automobile body builders, fur
niture manufacturers agricultural
implement makers and the like report
better business-the situation is en-
cOuraging.
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1921-05-05
HERE ON HONEYMOON

Mr. and Mrs. w. A. Barry, of ope.
iousas, La, are spending their honey
moon in Bogalusa as the guests Of
Mr.. and Mrs. W. s. Gardiner. The
happy couple were married last
Thursday and came direct here. The
bride was Miss Dublin of New Iberia
and the groom is a half brother to
Mr.. Gardiner.
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1921-05-05
HoLMEs.LEsLIE

At the residence Of Mr.. and Mrs.
J. F. Holmes in Summit, Miss, par
ents Of the bride groom, Miss Lillian
May Leslie of this city, was united
in marriage to Clinton Jasper Holmes
last Thursday, Reverend R. L. Bun
yard, pastor of the Baptist Church of
Summit, officiating. The young
couple will reside in Bogalusa.
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1921-05-05
Keep Your Blood Pure
Nature VIII Do the Rest

Did you know that ninety per
cent of all human ailments depend
upon the condition of your blood I?
Nature gives her warnings in va
when the appetite fails, and You
become weak and listless and a gen.
eral rundown condition seems to
take possession of the whole body,
Il is an unfailing sign that impuri-
ties will steadily accumulate until
your general health viii be seri-
Ri0us unmistakable ways, so that
Cusiy affected. You shOuld recog-