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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-22
OLD DAYS IN AMERICUS
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY

hlKl YEARS AGO TODAY
(From the Times-Recorder, Aug
81, 1870.
Mr.. W. S. Cox, a prominent gentle
man of LAGRANGE, is visiting friends
in the city.
Mrs. NJ. c. Bivins is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. W. f. Murphey, on
College street.
Miss Genevieve Morgan returned
from Gainesville yesterday where
she has been visiting friends and rel
atiyes for the past several weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs S. X. Taylor returned
Wednesday from a pleasant summer
vivsit. The Judges many friends will
be glad to welcome him on the streets
again.
DR., T. NJ. Baker, Mr.. G. C. La
Count, Mr.. A. c. Curry and Mr..
Prince, Of CordeIe, were in the city
yesterday in attendance on the K. of
P. reunion last night.
A wedding Of cordial interest to a
number of Americas friends was that
on Thursday of Miss Beulah Royal
Carson and MIR. j. William Bivins.
which was solemnized at the First
Baptist church in Cordele. Exactly at
3 o'clock Mrs. R. NJ Brown began
the wedding march. to which entered
two pretty little flower girls, Ethel
Shipp and Carobel Murphey. Rev.
W. b. Davis performed the ceremony.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-22
EDITORIAL AND FEATURE PAGE
WIVES WHO FAIL
DON'T READ YOUR
OLD LOVE LET
TIERS TO YOUR
HUSBAND
BY RUTH AGNES ABELING.

To be sure she cared more for her
husband than any one else, 9th
crwise why should she have married
him?
There were five or six others
whom she could have married, and
she had selected him-so, Of course,
there was not the least shadow Of
fond Of.
But, in that dizzy past Of hers,
a doubt about whom she really was
there were so many disturbing things,
Up in her trunk she had letters and
letters, dance programs, silly little
bits of this and that. souvenirs pick
ed up on various occasions and pho
tographs.
1t wouldn't have been so bad if
she had put the trunk in the cellar
or the attic and locked it and for
gotten where she put the key.
But she didn't.
She kept turning the key in the
little brass lock, springing up the
top and then delving in that mass
reminiscent Of her pass. There was
her first husband She kept his pie
ture, and some of his letters and the
necklace he gave her. And. of
course, every time she put the latter
on she sighed and looked consciously
regretful for a minute or two. Wasn't
that the right thing for woman
with a sufficiently tender heart to
do?
Then when her husband came
lDy,n li,,ror .ba'I t.1l him, oil
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-22
DR.. BARTON'S
DAILYLETTER
IT'S ALWAYS WORSE SOME
WHERE ELSE.
By DR.. William E. Barton.

BY DR. William +. Barton
HlS mas Deeh not summer,
From many parts Of the. world
we nave had Word tnat records We're
broken for sustained and oppressive
heat. | nave been IN Callfofnia,
which IS not my home. Along the
| coast 1t has been almost too cool fof
comfort. In the interior 1t has been
hot.
One can find more xmas or climate
IN California IN shorter DRIVE than
anywhere l nave ever traVeIed'
l.. But wherever ! nave peeIi III Cdi!-
fornia, have noticed that the resi-
dents CT the region where was
were SubllmeIy sure that they had
the best climate on earth. no per
tormances OF me Ihe ei2 l'1s ln .3'
| ed them from then fixed belet that
| they were IlVl4g IN the most oeiighI-
full spot IN all the world.
Very Optimistic. ,,,, ,..
If 1t was hot, they sad, we nave
| only to get INTO our auto, ana IN an
hour we are IN the mountains or by
the Shofe; ana no matter now llo1
/ the days, we always nave cool
nights Ill.,
Ana they added H. Is ho''ei
everywhere else
like this trait IN my California
friends IN certain Ihu IL way
! they admit that even NaIlloIhla may
have some dlSadVanta%eS, put IntS
are sure that the disadvantages are are
few and unmportant, ana IhaC an II
the rest CT the world mas more II II
is hot in California, theV are sure u
is intolerable everywhere else what,
ever hanpens,, they, thank the L LI!
thrice daily ina IIheY ilVe III N"'i-
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-22
VXTALLY WOODBRIDGE and his So they hunt

So they hunted another spring but
it had very little water in it. In
deed they soon drank it all up.
After while they We're thirsty again
and hunted three springs before they
found one with water in it. N.Y." de-
clared WaUy. - wonder what's
wrong But Wen be there soon, now,
Tn sure. The blue mountain is
changing to brown and that's sign.
1t must be chocolate cake with white
icing I'm, yum! Let's hurry Mrs.
Woodchuck."
So they hurried, but poor Mrs.
Woodchuck's feet were VERY sore.
THE ground seems extra hard!' she
complained.
oh, everything's all right just so
long as it doesn't rain" said Wally.
But the next time they hunted for a
drink they couldn't find any water at
all. The springs and the creek were
as dry as teachers chalk.
TO be continuedD
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-22
RAILROAD SCHEDULES

Central Time)
Arrival and Departure of Passenger
Trains, Americas, Ga.
The following schedule figures
published as information and not
guaranteed:
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RY.
Arrive Leaves
IL $50 am Columbus-ChgO 3 40 am
1928 pm Albany-Montg'y STA am
1928 pm Macon-Atlanta 6.37 am
+7:l5 pm Columbus *6:50am
l so pm Albany Montg'y 2:15 pm
2:15 pm Macon-Atlanta :52 pm
I'll 200 am Columbus *2:30pm
.l0:0 am Columbus 1880 pm
6:37 am Albany 1925 pm
5:14 am Macon-Atlanta 1898 pm
3 40 am lbany-Jaxville II 80 pm
2:5S am Albany-JaXviHe 12:4I am
12:4l am Chgo, St. L. Alta 1858 am
(D Daily; CD Sunday.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-22

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you h'Io" 'i''V am not Such Oao IoC
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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-22
SEABOARD AIR LINE.

Arrives Leaves
5.15 pm Richland-Co 1000 am
$40 pm Cordele-Sav'h 1891 pm
1873 pm Righlsnd -Montg'g 3;10 pr
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-22

TIE Atlanta Constitution publish
es very interesting comparison
Of Georgia and Florida in matters Of
school support, showing that Florida
spends annually fer school main
tenance alone for both races an av-
erage per capita, based on school
population, of $31,10 to Georgia's
$1028 That Florida is forging to
the head as one of the most pro-
gressive states in the union, to say
nothing Of the South, is a well known
fact, with which the question of edu-
cation undoubtedly has much to do.
Discussing schools, taxes, etc, the
Savannah Press Eliminates interest
ingly as follows:
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-22
WHEN A WOMAN TELLS
BY RUTH AGNES ABELING
| Learn How Grace Met Tom

Iyou know, when you're in the mood
! was in-you grasp at straWs. ~
Grace seemed to be finding it diff
cult to go on. | waited IN silence.
I'VE started to talk and found that
we were each in the same mood. lie
had been married only a month prev
iously and his wife had been killed
the week before while out driving one
night with a man friend when she was
supposed to have been visiting her
parents.
I'VE seemed to have something
IN common, so he suggested that
go to Chicago with him went.
we stuck together about six
months was known as Grace De
Lane, his name-and then we began
to drift apart. He found another
girl-and married her afterward.
And | became part of the
flotsam in the soiIed tide of the
city's life.
Drifting around, after that, ev-
cry now and then, saw that man
across the theater, or at another table
IN a restaurant-and no one knows
how ! felt. No matter how many men
in her life, there is always one man
the first man, the one whom she first
cared for in big way-whom she
never forgets.
4 just kept drifting and drifting,
until / reached the bottom.
"And it was there, Miss Sorenson,
that Tom Bradford found me.
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Associated Press exclusively entitled to the for publ
cation dispatches credited to otherwise credited in
@ paper the local published herein All rights
nybaon special dispatches herein contained reserved
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PAGE FOUR.

Everywhere I found general feeling of hope and d
eef that conditions are going be better. Howard
lott, chairman Northern Pacific Railway Co.. recently
eturned from a trip Northwest.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-22
EDITORIAL.

q S. BuRNEY, travelling sales
man Of Rome, the other day
met a former resident of Rome in
Houston, Tex, where he is now re
Fsiding Meeting the former Geor-
gan, Mr.. Buney listened to him
while he related the glories and
greatness Of that Texas city.
This town is a reach," said the
ex-Romah. Alive and all that. Now
Rome is Il good town, but Mr. Bur
ney there is something the matter
with it,
Mr. Burney listened to him a
while, and then started in to do
some of the talking.
Young man." he said, "Rome
sells thousands of pairs of pants in
Houston and Texas, and Houston
does not sell a single pair in Rome;
Rome sells Houston thousands of
pairs Of hose and Houston does not
sell Rome pair; Rome sells Texas
one-fourth Of its plows, and they
don't even make them in your state;
Rome sells Texas and Houston hun
dreds of stoves, and they don't make
them out this way Rome sells this
part of the country too many things
for me to mention, and it doesn't
sell us thing Houston may be
bigger than Rome. In fact, it is
but Rome is better town"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-22

0THE Columbus Enquirer-sun, in
alluding to the large amount Of
money spent for public schools in
Georgia, calls attention again to the
notorius fact that the majority of the
counties in this state spend little or
nothing on their schools except what
they get out of the public school
fund The Enquirer-Sun suggests
a proper local school tax whereby
every county is required to spend
one dollar for every dollar drawn
by it from the state treasury.
That, at least, will give Us. more
and better common schools"
"Hon. David s. Atkinson. in his
address before he Kiwanis club
Wednesday lassf in Savannah, called
attention to the fact that the big
cll11esssln nc nc state had about eight
cen votes in the general assembly;
with the larger towns we could.
muster between fifty and one hun
dred. The country had the remain
der of the two hundred and seven.
And so you can see where we stood
on a vote
eff the ad valorem tax is to be
repealed and the income is put on the
statute books instead, Mr.. Atkinson
predicts that some counties will pay
no taxes at all and the cities will
carry the bulk of the loss Mr.. At
kinson ntimates that it may be well
to encourage the country and far
per boys, but there are things in this
condition which should make th'
eople very thoughtful about voting
ktaxes and granting large boun
>the system of apportionmet
hy which the. legislator
aah counties are Civ
political con
4als assembly
wn that xth
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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-03-28
The Farmer Gets Busy

7 ne Farmer Gets BUSY
The farmer was among those who
had his period of shock and daze when
prices which had been sent sky high
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-03-28
REVELATIONS
OF A WIFE
BY ADELE GARRISON.

With a lightning fash of intuition T
knew that the prOwler was Mrs. Allis.
Had she, too, watched the departure
of the Cosgrove family, and resolved
to seize the opportunity to accomplish
the nefarious purpose which I believed
had brought her to the farmhouse?
I heard Dicky's snores coming from
the other room, and knew that it
would be very difficult to awaken him.
He would not miss me were I gone
for hours.
With quick resolve I threw over
my nightdress \ silk petticoat and XII
mona, drew on my feet a pair of high
fur trimmed slippers took from under
my pillow the electric hashlight I al
ways have with me, and stole into the
hall. On the bottom steps, in an at
titude of listening, stood Mrs. Allis.
The light from my flashlight cleaned
on something round and black held
against her dress. For a moment
thought she had a revolver in her
hand and shrank back in unreasoning
terror against my door, Then with
a mental execration at my own cow
ardice I looked again and saw that the
supposed revolver was only another
flashlight like my own.
With the utmost nOnChalanCe Mrs.
/ Allis glanced UP at me as the CLEAN
of my pocket lamp struck her eyes.
Did you hear a noise. too?" she
asked. Her tone held only casual
friendliness. Il was sure I heard
something queer. and I at once thought
of what your brother said of the enor
nous value of these paintings. You
| see, when the rooms in the house are
full, as they are now, the family sleeps
; in the bungalow outside. so I knew
there was no one in the house to look
after the paintings and I thought I
had better see what was going on"
Her words and tone We're so pIausi-
BILE, so convincing, that for a moment
distrusted my own intuition which
had warned me against this woman
as being dangerous. Was I making q
mountain out of a mole hill?
I started to speak of what I had
seen, then closed my lips again. I did
not know how much Mrs. Allis knew
of conditions at the farmhouse and re-
solved that she should receive no in
formation from me.
Il suppose we might as we'll go to
bed again. I fancy we were alarmed
for nothing"
Mrs. Allis, the woman who had the
next room to ours in the Cosgrove
farmhouse in the Catskill mountains,
where Dicky and I were sojourning
for an autumn outing. came back up
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-03-28
RETURN OF NICK CARTER

Detective Nick Carter whose ex-
ploits a generation ago were translat-
ed into ~ languages, is being shown
in the movies. His re-birth extends
TO fiction, reprints now selling into
the millions of copies. They are print
ed from original old plates and much
of the action seems Anticipated today.
For instance. when Nick wants to
hurry to another village to arrest the
blackmailer, he rushes to the livery
stable and hires a boss an'buggy.
The theory back of the reprinting of
Nick Carter is that a new crop of
readers has grown up.
This theory also explains why old
jokes go the best-in burlesque, in
print and in movie "digests."
You of mature years have heard
the joke before. You snort But the
bewhiskered gag starts roar of
laughter ali around you. That's from
the rising generation. to which the old
stuff is new.
In the days when the pyramids were
built, the Egyptian kings reared with
glee a. the seven original jokes-tne
mother-i n-law or relatives joke, the
towns or mistaken identity joke, the
pun or play on words, the ancient egg
or boarding house joke, the joke that
mustn't be told in public, the joke of
the unexpected or of pompousness
subjected to ridicule, and the gag
about the ridiculous.
Jokes are eternal Nick Carter re-
turns. Plots survive and persist IN
new DISCUSSES. there being only 10
dramatic situation, most exciting Of
which is when someone arrives Just
in time.
That there is nothing new under
the sun in jokes or plots. would be a
discouraging outlook, were it not that
there is steady improvement in the
way fiction characters, reflecting an
advancing people. react under the
basic dramatic situations.
Thus the 18th century heroine went
and tainted. The goth century hero
Inc masters the situation instead Of
being mastered by It
And there Is always the elusive hone
that some genius will conceive the
eighth original joke or a 14th drantaic
situation for future heroines or Nick
Carters.-N. e. A. Editorial.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-03-28
100000. 1t will be correspondingly
less If Germany pays in full sooner.
Can Germany pay that much?

In 1913 the great Dresdener bank
one of Germany's four ID" banks, most
powerful money trust in Europe-is-
sued booklet in honor of the kaiser's
silver jubilee. This booklet boosted
that Germany's national wealth was
equivalent to 100000.
Give Germany the benefit of the
doubt end subtract the $62,500. 00O, 900
which Privy Councillor Hickman. re-
Gently claimed as the amount Germany
has lost in forfeited territory and
supplies
On that basis the principal of the
proposed indemnity is only about six
and a half per cent OF Germany's ma
tional wealth.
The Dresdener booklet further
claimed that Germany's normal in
crease in national wealth IS equal to
about s1,OOO.o00,00O a year. That in
crease could come very close to pay
ing the total indemnity.
OF course, figures can be juggled to
show anything, but the above Stats
tics are Germany's own-and Germany
surely knows the truth about her
wealth and earning power.-N. E. A
Editorial.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-03-28
AFTER Rain

The sky is bright, like a scrubbed blue
floor;
And the air is washed till it's sweet
once more;
The grass and the trees. that showed
neglect,
And the flower bed by the winter
wrecked,
Are changed. and clipper with self
respect.
The paving stones all the way down
street
Shine under the passing horses feet;
And the sidewalks respectable seem TO
lie.
AS not ashamed of the human eye.
And laxative women are stretching
lines
For their washed clothes; and
veranda vines
Are being trimmed UP by whistling
men;
And the children are loud at play
again;
While there on the bird-house sits
Jenny Wren.
Every one moves in a lively style;
Even a stranger receives a smile;
And the doors are open, and windows
wide,
And you smell the dinner, cooking in
side;
And you know that you couldn't feel
sad If you tried.
by Alfred Arnold.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-03-28

the stairs to where l stood in the hall.
I watched her, fascinated. Her tread
was absolutely uOisless as she came
up the stairs of the old farmhouse,
stairs which I knew would have
credked loudly 70 my step.
Ny earlier suspicious of the woman
revived. Her proficiency in creeping
stealthily along Dassa geways and up
and down stairs must come from long
practice, practice which could only
mean that she had been under frequent
necessity for moving surrer titiously.
There was q tiny. amused, sardonio
smile playing around Mrs. Alliss lips
as she pressed the button of her fash
light and threw its CLEAN fun in my
face. sensed the hidden antagonism
of the woman toward me as she spoke,
although her tone was friendly enough,
and even held a note of confidence.
do you know" she said, putting her
face close to mine and speaking in
such low tone that it was less audi
BILE than a Whisper am certain that
no one two feet away could have heard
her-"that I believe there is something
queer about this place and these
noises at night. Doesn't it seem strange
to you that they should be in such ig-
lAA'4 s-AlS Z ~ tt1Gy - bASoS W NC VI tA4G
value of those paintings? / believe
that If the truth We're known those
paintings don't belong to them at all.
The We gotten possession of them in
some undeThand way. Tell me, is their
value really so enormous as your
brother said it was? He is an author
ity, I suppose?"
There We're several things about this
little speech which made stronger nv
resentment against the woman. Her
thinly yelled sheer at Dicky's judg-
ment concerning the pictures, her evil
dent vindiCtiveness against the Co.'S
grove family, almost like a personal
grudge. the secret of which I could not
fathom, intensified the feeling of dis
trust l had for her.
The personal equation in my feeling
toward Mrs Allis was growing strong
er. | could not help a malicious little
thrill at the thought of her coming
discontinue when she should find out
her mistake concerning the relation
ship between Dicky and me. She had
assumed that we were brother and sis
ter. DicSy in his love of testing had
fostered the delusion, and Mrs. Cos
grove. who I was sure disliked Mrs.
Allis even more cordially than did.
and with more reason for her feeling,
had also abetted the mistake.
With d sudden mental nausea felt
that I could not stand the woman'a
presence any longer.
L think you can be very sure that
Mr.. Grahams valuation Of the pictures
| is absolutely correct" I said stiffly.
"As to the other matter, having ar
rived here only last night I, of course
know nothing of it. I agree with you
that we would better go to bed again
good night"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-03-28

by hectic conditions, with all t-house
conditions. came tumbling down, and
just kept on falling. He, like many
Others was frankly hit and was due
the gloom period that glow and prom
Use that attend so many people de-
manded as their inalienable right and
were not happy until they got it.
But as the days began to grow long
er and the smell Of the soil came@1n
those early spring days in February,
the farmer cast off the spell, got out
the plough and was off to the field.
The habits of lifetime are not to be
resisted and this, glory be, sometimes
is true of good habits as well as bad.
In short, the farmer has gone to work,
just as usual. The turned fields and
the miles and miles of new burrows
made each day now, tell the story. If
you are still just a bit respondent. Mr..
City Man, just go out in the country
and see how the farmer is applying
himself to the task with old-time cour-
age. It will be a revelation and an
inspiration to you.
Severe was the farmers disappoint-
ment, it is true, but there was a time,
not so many years ago, when ten cents
was regarded as a good price for cot
ton and fifteen cents was simply vel
vet.-Chipley Banner.