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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-15
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY

(From the Times Recorder, Aug
Is, 191D.
a LII the arrangements for the good
"A roads barbecue at Richland to-
morrow rendered the GcorgiaAla-
bama Good Roads Association, by the
Richland Board Of Trade, have been
perfected
Most gratifying is the rapid in
crease of membership at the Carnegie
Library since membership has been
made eligible for residents Of the
county as we'll as those of the city
There can be no doubt that the great
increase is due to this new condition
of membership, as the report of Mrs.
Lucy Barrow Taylor, librarian, for
the month of July shows that out of
the 104 additional members received
during the month, 95 of them were
from the territory outside the city.
Recently Mr.. A. B. Croxton pur-
chased a far min Terrell county
which is considered one of the best
farms in the state. The purchase price
of the farm was $4,000, Mrs. CroX-
ton having bouht it direct from its
owner, Mrs Gardner.
Nearly 800 bales of cotton have
been marketed in Americas to date.
And the figures will stand at 5000
by September |.
The cane fields of Sumter, resem-
bling canebreaks in height and YER
dure give promise of fhe abundant
yield of sugar cane and syrup! so
much desired by the farmers.
Mrs. James B. Fitzgerald, of Oma-
ha, was the guest yesterday of her
sister, Mrs. E. L. Bell, returning here
with Miss annie Sue Bell, who visited
her in Omaha recently.
Miss Christine Hooper, who has
been spending month in Americus
is the guest this week of Mrs. w. F.
Clarke.
Mrs. Eliza Freeman passed away
Sunday evening at the residence of
her sister, Mrs Jesse L. Chambliss,
near Americas, where she had resided
more than a year.
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WHEN A WOMAN TELLS
BY RUTH AGNES ABELING

l wonder how John Ames will be
tomorrow morning.
1t will be- hard to meet him with
out some little betrayal of what has
gone before. | can't believe that he
will ignore me as his brother Philip
did Yet ! would wish he would-if
it weren't that it would make me
understand that, like his brother, he
too is a weakling. And | don't want
to think that John Ames is I'M
worthy.
1t was nearly midnight when
heard Lila Ames' light laughter at
the steps below my window, and
glancing out, saw her and Philip
standing there together, | couldn't
help thinking, as | watched them, of
the strangeness of the ways of men
and women.
Closed in his room, just up the
hall, was John Ames, lonely and I'M
happy because a woman preferred to
flirt. And below in the garden were
Mrs. Philip Ames, probably alone and
unhappy, because a man preferred to
flirt AnAd below in the garden were
the two flirting-and, as | already
knew from fact, Disconnected because
they were flirting.
! had never seen Philip Ames' wife
and ! wondered as | looked down or
him what kind of woman she wa;
and the why of it all. Had she pur
posely let him go? Was she, too
philandering?
For while after | heard the
rustic of Lila Ames' movement a.
she came upstairs and made ready
for bed, / sat huddled at my window
my lights dim and warm dressing
gown pulled closely about me. Sud
denly something flew in the window
A movement Of my hand to brush
away what l thought was huge
white moth, struck the thing to tht
floor.
Should I touch it? I was fearful
| moved it carefully with the toe 0.
my slipper and then saw it was jus
a folded bit of white paper ] pickeC
it up and felt pebble weight in it.
Copyright, 1920.
Ito Be Continucd).
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CHAPTER XIV
| RECEIVE AN ODD MESSAGE

WHEN. ats length, in the darkness,
w | crept to my room after my
strange meeting with John Ames, my
eyes were wet with tears and some
thing was clutching at my heart.
1t had been a big adventure for
me, this dipping into the love affair
of another man and another woman.
1t had shaken me.
! had never spoken to John Ames
before He had seemed so detached
50 little part of the household. l
had come to feel that perhaps he
was tired of matrimony, a little bit
disconnected, but willing to let things
shift along, with his wife leaning on
another man for affection.
Thus finding him broken and with
that flimsy intimate garment of his
wife's crushed in his hand, startled
me.
And his words, as | remembered
them, just before | slipped away to
my room thrilled me strangely and
disturbingly.
81 knew it was you-and I'm not
sorry you were there" he said, and
then added slowly, Il wish" but
he didn't finish it.
| wonder what he would have said
In the darkness ! couldn't see his
face, but it seemed that as he added
the last two words his eyes were
searching mine.
What could he have wished?
Perhaps it is only sympathy.
1t is so hard to find the line Of
demarkation, to find where sympathy
ends and love begins-but what did
he wish?
Life is so complex Why couldn't
Tom, fighting for my affection, have
appealed to me as did this strange
man, crushed over the failure of ii.
wifc's love for him? 1t seems SC
much easier to do the wrong thing
than the right thing.
But there is always duty, and foil
who are strong can rake themselves
do things when they know it is theil
duty.
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TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY

From the Times-Recorder, Aug
ust Is, 1901).
Thrifty farmers are already bring
ing some new corn to Americas and
it is hoped that this WI terri to
bring the price below the COLLAR
mark.
Mr.. John Goolsby has leased the
Jones property on Lee street, near
MINIS store, and wiz take phis res
idence there very soon.
Miss Mary Tower, after a visit of
a month to friends in Washington,
Ga. has returned to her home here.
Mr.. Joel W. Hightower left yester-
day for White Sulpher Springs, Fla,
to spend several days.
Andersonville High school opened
on August 18th with flattering pros
poets.
Sumter's tax digest, showing a gain
of $4,000 over last years's tax re
turns, was sent to the office of the
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DR.. BARTON'S
DAMYLETTER
OUT OF OLD STOCK
By Dr. William E Ra.4n,.

q.
There was fire in San Francisco
some years ago There may have
been an earthquake before the fire,
but 1t is not polite to mention it. 4
certain firm in Chicago got busy nj
the first news of the fire. The firm
manufactured iron beds and springs.
They loaded onto cars all their
older stock and shipped it bv fast
freight to Frisco They did not wait
for orders. They cleared out their
odds and ends of stock, their SAMPLES
and discarded patterns, and everv-
thing In the attic of the storage ware
house.
Good Business
1t was great stroke of business.
They were the first men in the mar
ket with any considerable stock, and
they Sold their beds and wire springs
as fast as they could pull them out of
the cars. Nobody stopped to ask
whether bed was of the latest style :
peorle needed place to sleep
The firm turned into ready cash a
large accumulation of dead stock.
And they won the gratitude of many
people who were without comfort
able beds.
The sale of old stock cannot often
be accomplished in such fashion.
But it ought to be done Many a
firm goes broke because it doesn't
know how to get rid of its old stock.
There comes time when it
is good business to sell goods at
less than they cost.
Suppose a firm buys dozen lamps
at cost of five dollars, each, and
readily sells ten of them at six
dollars each, but the last two do not
sell. They have recovered their
sixty dollars, but have lost their
time, rent and overhead charge.
Unite the Money
Those two lamps left over absorb
all the possible profit. Suppose they
can be moved quickly at five dollars,
or even at four. The basement bar
gain counter where articles are sold
below cost becomes a profitable ven
ture.
In times when trade is slack, it
is well to 90 over the stock and dis
cover where money is unproftablv
tied up in goods that might be moved
dI prices DGlOW CU5ls anu IOOli maui
for staple articles or new varieties
when business warrants some eX-
pansion.
The same principle applies to a
mans mental stock in trade, and
every man may make his own APP
plication observation-disclosures
ing such situation if we were to EN-
ploy only logical deductions as
though NORMAL CONDITIONS ex
listed, it would be easy to figure how
and why cotton should sell at 6 o
! Z cents per pound. But wait! Th'
backs of all nations, as well as tn,
shelves of all the stores in the world
were never before SO bare Of cottol
fabrics as they are this minute. Be
yond all question of doubt we viii
soon be enjoying the greatest deman,
in all history as we'll FOR THESI
| REASONS WE PREDICT WITH ALB
! SOLUTE CONFIDENCE THAr
4 COTTON WILL SELL ABOVE l.
CENTS PER POUND BEFORE NC
Il yEMPEP 15TH y
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OLD DAYS IN AMERICUS

Comptroller General several days
ago, and in acknowledgement receipt
of same Comptroller Wright compli-
mented Receiver Raiford upon the
very crcditable showing and the sat
isfactory manner in which the work
was done.
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Gus, even daring, when conditions are
depressed Even common sense tells
US that when prosperity is at the
peek we should look out for the inev-
liable ride down the toboggan instead
Of PLUNGING with never thought
of tomorrow. All markets are in
reality WEAKEST at the top and
STRONGEST at the bottom. This is
an infeXible economic rule. This
very instant we are very near bottom,
having touched it month ago and
are now assuredly on the upgrade. A
big opportunity is at hand
*&%
NEXT, let US see what is the exact
financial situation! We are firm
in the belief that ALL the country
now needs is to have the flood gates
of the great Wall Street money de-
positaries (POOLS) opened in order
that financial strength may percolate
through the veins of commerce and
industry, revitalizing them and per
hitting the business of the country to
become rehabilitated. Three days
ago the New York WORLD said edi-
torially-THE FARMERS NEED
NOT CHARITY BUT CREDIT. THE
| COTTON THEY ARE HOLDING is
| EXCELLENT SECURITY. IT is A
| NEEDED CROP: ARTIFICIAL FL
| NANCIAL CONDITIONS CANNOT
| HOLD IT OFF THE MARKET AS a
| WORTHLESS PRODUCT a FOR
! EVER This is entirely true, too.
| Let US see now how poor-or RAJ
fther how RICH this country really is!
AS a nation we are worth TWO
HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE
BILLION DOLLAS NET. Our near
. est rival is England worth only
EIGHTY BILLION DOLLARS. We
have three-fifths of ali the gold il
the world, and gold is the basis q
: credit for nations and individual
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Astronomers can measure the dis
lance from Mars to Venus, but can
they measure the distance between
Tellegen and Farrar?
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sEABoARD AIR LINE.

Arrives Leaves
5.15 pm Richland-Cols. 1000 am
3:10 pm Cordele-Sav'h 1881 pm
1881 pm Ricbland-Mortg'y $40 pm
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alike. In our banks there is more
actual money than in all the rest of
the banks of all the civilized coun-
tries of the world COMBINED. Pom
der well over this fact. No ether
country compares with ours own in
quantity and quality of raw products,
cultivated and cultivatable area: our
water power is matchless. We have
greater and more efficient amount of
manufacturing facilities than any
other country, or several of them to,
gether. Then, considering all Of
these wonderful advantages, why
should we be in the dumps now?
UHERE is probably the most i'm
pcrtant single item of all. Read
it very carefully so that you, too, can
readily appreciate that all in the
world this country needs now is the
loosening of the bankers purse
strings. The ratio of total reserves
of the Federal Reserve System a
year ago, after setting aside the re-
quired IS per cent against deposits,
was AIS per cent. Today it is 1910
per cent. The bills held have been
reduced, roughly, $500,0O0,O0O. To-
tai earning assets have been, pulled
i'down from above $3.50, 900, 900 to
/ $4,000, 100000 a fall of fully ST..
120, 100000 The net demand de
posits of repairing member bank.
have been reduced Through calling
of loans) from ST., 100000 ;
year ago to less than $10,OOO,00O,0 COZ
today. Meanwhile the gold reserves
of the Federal Reserve banks hav,
4 increased 100000, or no les
than % pe9eent.
Now, as to COTTON! Truly, /
looks at the moment as if the amour
Of cotton on hand throughout tn
! world around December. LIST, VIII b
the very largest in all history. Fac
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The answer to "Where did you
go on your vacation?' is Broke. J"
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The Associated Press exclusively entitled to the for
dispatches credited otherwise credited
this paper and the published herein All rights
publication of special dispatches herein contained
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EDITORIAL.

As harvest time grows nearer the
observer is able to find more and
more cause for optimism in Sumter
county. Despite the more or less
general wall, Sumter crops, taken as
whole, are far from bad. The av-
erage corn crop is good. A fine oat
and wheat crop was harvested The
hay is first class. The sweet potatoes
are about as fine as ever Extra
large peach and watermelon crops
were harvested and sold. And the
cotton crop, now about to come in,
viii surprise the pessimists.
True, the boil weevil is busy. He
has done much damage. But despite
that fact, and despite the fact that
the acreage has been reduced and the
use of fertilizer restricted, Sumter
county is going to market a fairly
good crop of cotton Level headed
men, who refuse to be Influenced by
the general Respondent talk, are est
mating 10000 bales, which will be
an excellent yield under the condi-
tons Cotton market men here as
sert their belief that it will bring Is
cents by November or December. 1t
has been the cheapest crop of cotton
Sumter has produced in years-possi-
bly, that has ever been produced here.
And the returns from it., while they
may pull few entirely out of debt,
will GO a long way toward relieving
the situation.
Better times, not worse or equally
bad, are upon US. World conditions,
national conditions and local condi-
lions are gradually but constantly inn
proving 1t is time for every man to
get out of the old rut of thinking and
talking hard times and trouble, and
start anew.
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RAILROAD SCHEDULES

Central Time.)
Arrival and Departure of Passenger
Trains, Americas, Ga.
The following schedule figures
published as information and not
guaranteed:
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PROSPERITY and Depression move
in cycles, one following the other
with the same precision and regu-
larity as the sun and moon. When
prosperity is at the top of the cycle
the vast majority are gleeful. 1t is
then that Amateur Sages are cock
sure of the future. The horn of plen-
ty is seemingly inexhaustible Life
is to be lived with laughter and song,
skipping and dancing in the never
ending. scintillating sunshine. But
alas! When depression takes its turn
at the top of the wheel the exact re-
verse is true. The majority vie with
one another in weeping and wailing.
Things in general are headed for the
demnibion bow-wows with no ashes
on the slide to retard, the decent.
Dark, foreboding clouds indicate a
hopeless future; panic seems immi-
nent.
Tine ffsie to display canton. ever
timidity, is during BOOM times. Il
IS far mare profitable to be courage
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JACK Oliver, formerly of Atlanta,
now member of the cotton brok-
erage firm of Oliver & Houghton, of
New York, puts out an interesting
letter this week, which we are pass
ing along. 1t may help some ef our
readers to look up a bit: He says:
This is no time for gloom-cotton
will surely sell at Is cents. The
writer has Just returned from a tour
of careful investigation throughout
an important portion of the cotton
belt. He was not content with visits
to the larger towns and cities, SO rode
many miles out into the rural sec
tions and discussed matters with big
and small farmers alike-he sat on
rail fences and listened attentively to
all that 'Silas Homespun' had to say,
whitfield sticks out in front of cross
roads stores while being RECALLED with
the opinions of the village oracle,
quizzed small country merchants as
well as the larger ones in the cities
and discussed FUNDAMENTALS at
length with prominent bankers and
manufacturers
Frankly, he heard not one hopeful
or cheerful note. There was not a
single rift in the clouds of gloom.
Despair stalked broadcast. The war
time symphony of prosperity and con
tent had been turned into iazzy jan
gle by yelping yawkers-a jaundiced
yellow of pessimism had superseded
the recent roseate aurora of abund-
ance. The poor house was getting
nearer each day, each hour in fact
the country sheriff was bent under
the weight of attachments, while
court house doors were invitingl!
open to bankruptcy proceedings.
was indeed an indiscriminate, awe
inspiring, illuminating indulgence i
an iniquitous indigo-hued industria
and commercial attack Of acute ind
gestion. Fortunately, however, thes
things were purely imaginary.
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CENTRAL. OF GEORGIA. RY.

CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RY.
Arrive Leaves
1859 am Columbus-Chgo $40 am
10 :28 pm Albany-Montg'y 5:14 am
1925 pm Macon-Atlanta 6.37 am
1915 pm Columbus *6:50am
1:52pm Albany-Montg'y 2:15 pm
ais pm Macon-Atlanta / :52 pm
I'll 100 am Columbus *2:30pm
1000 am Columbus 1880 pm
6:37 am Albany 7:25 pm
5:14 am Macon-Atlanta 1923 pm
$40 am lbany-Jaxville 1859 pm
2:5S am Albany-Jaxville 12:41 am
12:41 am Chgo, ST. L. Alta '2:58 am
(D Daily; o. Sunday.
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StepstOne
Willie Raglan, Correspondent
.sss

Mrs. L. B. Wilson and son, Allie,
were in Mt. Sterling Saturday.
Mrs. Alice Weldon, Mt. Sterling,
visited her mother, Mrs. s. j. Rat
lift, the past week.
Mrs. Frank Brown, of Mt. Ster-
ling, was here this week.
Mrs. Richard Goodpaster, who has
been sick for some time, continues
poorly.
Mrs. JEFF Station, who has been i'll,
continues about the same.
Carl Garrett and family visited
his mother, Mrs. Deer, at L. & e.
Junction, this week.
John and Lee Maxey visited
friends at Spencer Sunday.
Chester Ray, Charles Blevins and
Robert Turley went to Bourbon
county Sunday.
Lloyd and Sherman Alexander
spent Friday night with their sis
ter, Mrs. Charles Payne, at Camar-
go.
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Modern English is composite of
Latin and the language of the an
cient Britons who were conquered
by the Romans, together with many
scandinavian words introduced by
the Danes when they conquered
England, German words brought by
the Saxons, and French words by
the Normans. There is scarcely
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1921-12-08

Cooperative shipping associations
are furnishing one Of the cheapest
methods whereby farmers Of the
state can market livestock, accord
ing to reports received from organ
izations in different counties by ID.
G. Card, marketing specialist at the
College Of Agriculture. Not only
haYe the associations saved their
members money in placing stock on
the market, but also they have had
a tendency to improve the class Of
livestock raised in the territory COW
cred by the associations and have
developed a spirit Of cooperation
among farmers Of the community.
Cooperative livestock shipping assoc
Citations are among the most simple
Of cooperative marketing organiza-
tons and constitute one Of the cas-
lest methods by which farmers may
undertake this form Of work, accord
ing to Mr.. Card.
During the past year members Of
the association in Ballard county
have made an average saving Of APP
proximately $50 on each Of the II
cars Of stock which they have ship
ped, a report from r. B. MILFORD,
manager OF. theassociation, states.
The total saving Of II cars when
10000 pounds was taken as an av-
erage carload was more than $4,000.
It cost members of the association
an average Of about IS cents a
hundred to ship comparatively,
whereas it had cost them from $1.3g
to $1.75 to ship through a local
buyer before the association was
formed.
Similar results are being obtained
by an association recently organized
in Union county, the cost of ship
ping having been reduced about 80
cents on the hundred pounds by
measo of the cooperative plan. This
association has shipped five carloads
up to the present time at cost of
from 35 to As cents a hundred
pounds. Marketing through a local
buyer cost farmers in the county
from IS to rs cents a hundred
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event when they held a junior club
carnival, having appropriate side
shows and a number Of other attrac-
tons, according to report from As
sistant County Agent H. R. Cottrelk
Proceeds from the carnival will be
used to purchase a sewing machine
for the club.
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pounds.
The Onton Livestock Shipping AS
sociation in Webster county, one Of
the newest ones to be organized, al
ready has obtained results which in
dictate that the association is to be
successful in reducing marketing
expenses. Fifty-nine hogs we're ship
ped in the first carload at cost of
SO cents hundred pounds.
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language that has not contributed
something to modern English, but
those mentioned have been the larg-
est contributors. Many technical
words have been taken from the
Greek
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BOURBON FARM FOR SALE

A splendidly improved 15O-acre
farm, lying in Bourbon county close
to the Montgomery county line. Can
be bought well worth the money If
sold at once. For particulars apply
at this orice. (14-tf)
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FOR SALE

Rear wheels, frame and body for
Ford chain drive truck. Clel Cock
rel, phone 700. (16-2t)
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FOR SALE

A fve-passenger Ford car in per-
feet condition. Will sell at a bar
gain. See Lille May Keith or call
phone S97, Mt. Sterling. (16tf)
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A newspaper Cor hungry people,
which could be eaten after it had
been read, was once published in
Paris. 1t was printed with an ink
guaranteed non-poisOnOus on thin
sheets of dough.
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Poultry, dairying, seed selection
Oreahrding and swine feeding are to
receive special attention from the
farmers in the oFrest Grove com
munity Of Crittenden county during
the coming year, these phases of
farming having been included in the
community program of work which
they have outlined under the direc-
ton Of County Agent John R. Spen-
Ger.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1921-12-08

Lawn tennis has recently become a
craze among girls and young women
in China.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1921-12-08

Something for our charitable So
cieties to worry about; Russia has
abolished everything except hell and
hunger.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1921-12-08

Members of the Mackville Junior
Agricultural Club in Washington
county recently staged feature
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FARM AND HOME NEWS
FROM OVER KENTUCKY

Campbell county farmers have
given special attention to cover
crops this fall with the result that
few fields in the equity in which soil
washing might occur will be bare this
winter, according to a report from
County Agent H. F. Link