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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-07-21
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY

TIN AEAkO ANSO IODA
(From the Times-Recorder July
81, 1891).
Capt. j. L. Adderton, one of the
survivors of Rylander's Battalion,
has gone to Marietta where he will
today attend the reunion of Tige
Anderson's brigade. he anticipates
a grand time with his comrades of
the days that tried mems souls in
the early sixties.
The watermelon shipments are
tightening up considerably these days
and the railroad men who came down
where the bulk of the shipping is
being done say that the largest por-
ton of the crop has been harvested
and that there IS but few melons
in the fields now.
Mrs. j. w Harris and Miss Jessie
McLendon, of Atlanta, are visiting
their cousin, Miss Amos Schumpert,
of this city.
Miss Ada Kaigler, who has been
visiting Miss Bryce PiIsbury at her
home IN the city, returned to her
home in Georgetown today.
Clerk ]. H. Allen was able to be
at has office yesterday after being
confined at home quite a while !
sufferer with rheumatism.
The boys of the Americas Light
Infantry may enter the prize drill
at the Augusta exposition.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-07-21
EDITORIAL AND FEATURE PAGE $$$:5$==$$
Confessions Of a Husband!
THE MANS SIDE OF MARRIED LIFE

people might think" ~ stopped
short.
81 suppose you're right. Go ahead
and find out who it is"
at" proved to be Mrs. Maynard,
stout, busybodyish person who
lived upstairs.
q just dropped in to see Dot for
a moment" was the way she greeted
me. Il dare say it'll give you
chance to slip out for the evening.
You men are all alike"
"But Dot isn't home" | told her
won't you come in anyway"
mo, / see you have company,
she replied stiffly.
Dot is out with friend, and ms
wife had been good enough to stay
here and help me take care OF the
child" | explained.
That's very nice" But | could
see she did not approve, and that her
tongue would wag about the incident
for long time.
"Who was that dreadful lperson?"
Edith asked me when | came back
into the room.
explained as well as | could, but
did not think it necessary to add
that Mrs. Maynard was one of the
most virulent gossips in the neigh
borhood. Edith, however, guessed as
much.
81 suppose she'll tell this to all her
friends and they'll tell their friends
and they'll tell everybody else and
then people vii start y in al over
again telling each other" she sighed
ITS terrible to be thought so wick
ed, especially wien - you aren't.
ITO be continued.)
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-07-21
OBSERVATIONS

Stills still still.
Style designers must think every
body was born in Missouri.
The home-brewed Far East ques-
ton certainly has kick in it.
Keep the home buyers yearning,
seems to be the builders favorite
hymn.
A man cusses because it is so hot
he wits the collar some woman
ironed.
You can't make some butchers be-
lieve there is no short cut to pros
perity.
From the rates he charges, one
would think the railroad ticket agent
was bootlegging.
The road to prosperity is marked
by the signs of advertisers who have
gone on before.
Hoover says we can get prosperity
with toll and economy-but too many
don't want 1t that way.
They sused to. carry corn to. mill
by the bushel; these nights they
bring it to town by the gallon.
Move To Bring Troops Home
Brewing in Senate" headline. Per
haps it means 40 Home Brewing.
By 1880 kicking about bathing
! suits WILL be. making a glquatal9' gu'
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-07-21
DR.. BARTON'S
DALYLETTER
HEROlNES.
By DR.. William E. Barton.

One of the incidental points which
have noticed in several stories of
calamity is the heroism of the tele-
phone girl.
A fire breaks out IN a high office
building. The girl at the switch
board calls up every office and tells
the occupants to get out.
A dam breaks, and a flood rushes
down the valley. The telephone girls
stick to their posts and send word
ahead, and many lives are saved.
A burglar comes in the night; a
frightened woman calls the police
sation, but before she gets in her
call, the burglar strikes her sense
less. The telephone girl intuitively
knows the meaning of the interrupt
ed call and tell the police where the
trouble is.
Complain Everywhere.
Such things as these | remember
TO nave read.
! do not know of a town where the
people do not complain of the tele-
phone service.
In common with my fellow men, |
too have seasons Of impatience be-
cause the service is not better.
But every now and then | consider
how wonderful it is that the service
IS as good as it is.
| read how our boys in France
broke into cheers when the first con
tingnet of American telephone girls
arrived. l cheered with them.
have used the telephone in many for
eign countries, and can testify that
in comparison with the service there,
the American telephone girl is an
angel ~
Some Facts.
She has a pleasant voice. She is
habitually courteous. She is re-
sourceful If once in long time
her job gets on her nerves, so also
does mine.
stood a.few days ago beside the
central operator in large railway
station at a time when trains were
coming in in considerable number,
and many people were wanting tele-
phone connections in hurry.
| was impressed by her quiet,
courteous demeanor, her voice that
did not rise, and the rapidity with
which she did her work.
She was doubtless above the aver
age telephone girl, and had a more
responsible position than most of
them; but she is not the only one of
her kind.
Let me suggest that we all try to
be little more patient and courte-
Gus toward the telephone girl.
In the first place, / think she de-
serves it. In the next place, | think
it will improve the service.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-07-21
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY

len YEARS AoO IoDAl
(From the s-Recorder, July
I21, 191D.
Following an illness of few days
only with typhoid fever, Mr.. Walter
MvDaniel died yesterday morning at
the city hospital Mr.. Mcdaniel was
about So years old, and with his lit
tie son, was stricken with fever less
than week ago.
Miss Liloise Reid, one of Atlantas
most attractive and charming young
ladies, is welcomed to Americas by
her many friends, the guest of Mrs.
George Oliver.
To Farmer" Griffith Eldridge be-
longs the, distinction of exhibiting
in Americas the first open boil of
cotton of the new crop, brought in
yesterday from his pretty 200-acre
farm near the city.
Mr.. and Mrs. HinA,e McLendon
are at home again after visit in
Oklahoma, guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
H. w. VanRiper, formerly of Ameri-
Gus.
Miss Fannie Davenport is welcom-
ed again to Americas by her host of
friends. She came yesterday, and is
the guest of Miss Carobel Daven-
port on Taylor street.
Americas won it, Of course, and at
about the usual margin of six to
four. But it was beautiful game
this last one with the Eufaulians, and
the third scalp of the current series
looked good as the Champsstrung it
with many others furnished by the
Alabamans.
Miss Bessie Bivins went to Blakely
yesterday to spend a week, return
ing later to complete her visit to
her sister, Mrs. John A. Cobb.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-07-21
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY

(From the Tmes-Recorder, July
81, 190D.
Scarlet fever made its appearance
over beyond Brooklyn Heights yes
terday and in neighborhood hither.
to free from the disease. .City Ply.
stefan Hudson reported five little
children lin the Livingston family
over there i'll with fever, all the eases,
seemingly developing within day.
The incident is a rather remarkable
one. The fever is in light form for
tunately.
Americas cotton men were little
surprised yesterday to see January
contracts go up ahead of August ii
the crop positions, this being the
first time the months have thus swap
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-07-21

A bottle blowing machine invented
in Germany has a capacity of 1000
bottles. an hour.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-07-21

frees are being felled in Germany
by a steel wire that is drawn rapidly
around the trunks.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-07-21

The lard used in the United States
in a year would fill a pail 295 feet
in diameter and 334 feet deep.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-07-21

The Associated Press exclusively entitled to the for ps
cation of all credited it otherwise
This paper local published herein All rights re-
aton of special dispatches herein contained reserved
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-07-21
EDITORIAL.

a CCORDING to Chairman Lasker
of the new Shipping Board,
President Harding was amazed and
distressed when the facts as to the
financial chaos in the Shipping Board
were laid before him.
Amusement and distress are hardly
strong enough words to express the
feelings e the 1at'cn's long-suff,r-
i.g and over-burd enc, taxpayers
The situation as disclosed by Las
ker makes chapter in governmental
history which for stupidity, reckless
ness inefficiency ard utter disr"-
gard of the public interest, is without
precedent.
Whether or not the element of
downright dishonesty is also present,
Lasker does not say. But he gets
pretty close to it when he makes this
significant statement: 'The books
of the board are not in commercial
sense books at all If a peaceful
effort had been made to keep the
books so as to cheat and defraud
Congress and the country, they could
have been kept in no very different
manner"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-07-21

There were more than 100000
negro slaves in the United States
before 1861.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-07-21

Frog skin makes the toughest
leather known in proportion to its
thickness.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-07-21

The bee martin of Mexico ruffles
up the feathers on its head to re-
semble a flower.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-07-21
HUNDREDS of millions of dollars

HUNDREDS of millions of dollars
of loss to the country are involved
in the financial wreck.
Systematic and persistent decep-
ton of the public and Congress by
officials and employees of the Ship
ping Board is a feature of the tragic
situation, which in some aspects is
the worst of all.
Fer example, when Congress APP
propriated the snug sum of 500, 000,.
600 for the old Shipping Board for
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1921,
it was told that that covered the
boards operations. At a matter of
fact the cost of these operations was
$380,O00,000, nearly four times as
much.
The vast sum of nearly $300,O0O,-
600 has got to be made up this year
at a time when every effort of the
government is being directed toward
economy.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-07-21

~ We IL haye the dead Of winter; also
g., { ~ ha..i.aese Of ,sunnler 4. 4.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-07-21

ASKER very charitably absolves
certain officials of the old Ship
ping Board from blame for the book
Keeping system on the ground that
the system has been in use from the
start, begun under war pressure and
continued in incompetence"
Well if the officials of the old
Shipping Board are not responsible
for continuing an inadequate war
system for nearly three years after
the war ended, who is responsible?
That is what the tax paying public
wants to know.
1t IS obvious that the responsibility
for this reckless if not criminal waste
OF public money lies somewhere.
=
ESE ET'S have a Congressional in
yestigation," did we hear some
body suggest?
For goodness sake spare us such a
farce. as that. A Congressional in
vestigation would mean that at the
end of year or so We would get a
partisan report which would be alb
solutely ineffective.
This seems to be case which calls
for investigation and action by a
federal grand jury.
If there has been crime, the GRIM
mails must be found and punished.
If there has been merely reck-
Iessness, carelessness and stupidity,
the least that can be done is to drive
the reckless, careless and stupid from
the public service.
III England it is almost obligatory
e prove cruelty and infidelity to
obtain divorce. Hence the divorce
records indicate the morals of the peo-
pie. Here are the figures on the
numbers of divorce suits filed.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-07-21

Last year 4132 complaints were
nied by husbands and 1880 by wives.
~ ~ per cent of the suits there
@sfe no children Of the marriage; in
= per cent the marriage had not last
- long as five years, and in 81
cent the couple had married when
Nv, were under age. Are morals
- We have a. 81, -
Hyder Alaska miner., 1921-10-26

Ia tahss lets of time to write ts year friends OutsiAe. but only . MAinute Co mail them . paEaR.
Hyder Alaska miner., 1921-10-26
InPOUIlHT NUIB RULNG FALCON JOSlIEs AlORESS

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 ing tAs corporation Camp NMss s Ot MmS 70 I Valdez S:..4. en ~n.W sA@
Hyder Alaska miner., 1921-10-26

IF? You Anicp Requirements
 INt Groceries, Hardware and Furnishings for the next sixty days, and let submit you prices, assure that you money. CASH at with us, and LOUD NOISE
 BRING IN YoarI aud with
 $alaaon River Trading Co.,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-01-04
Indian and White Bride
Defeat Attempt to Have
Their Marriage Set Aside

Topeka, Kan, Jan. 3-Jackson Bar
nett, aged ~, repute1 oil millionaire
and said to be the wealthiest Indian il
America and his white wife. formely An.
ma Laura Lowe, aged 30. have defeated {;
suit to have their marriage cancelled
By living amicably throughout {
months honeymoon in the Indians
humble domicile near Henryetta. Okla.
they swept aside all evidence presented
in three months of procedure in the
Kansas supreme court and suit to an
null the union has been crossed off the
calendar.
The suit was brought by Carl j.
O'Hornett of Henryetta, Okla, the In
dams guardian, and Cato Sells. u. s
Commissioner of Indian Affairs. 1t S.
forth that Barnette was illiterate and
that last May the Indian and his brio
eloped in an automobile furnished l.
the woman, crossed the Kansas lin
and were married in Arkansas City. 4
the original proceedings instituted il
the Kansas supreme court, GUARDIAN
O'Hornett petitioned that his aged ware
be restored to him. 1t was charge,
that the bride had kidnapped her hus
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-01-04

here today on the screen as a Metro
special and will be given three show
ings at the Colonial theatre.
!. For highly ludicrous situations.
brought about with an adroitness
end naturalness extraordinary in
comedy bordering on farce, this pic
ture exceeds in entertainment value
anything that has ever before been
given at the Colonial. The story
deals with the vicissitudes, matrimo-
NAL in chief, of Reggie Irving. who,
to prove to his wife that he is the
very devil of fellow, conspires with
Polly Hathaway, u girl reporter on a
social scandal paper, to blemish his
reputation. Just as the young and
almost painfully conservative is pat
ting himself on the back at his sue
cess. his wife Angelica who wants to
marry 4 wild man, discovers the de-
eeit. This is just the start of the
complications and from then on there
is no let-up. "Parlor, Bedroom and
Bath" is given as a Metro special
with an all-star cast.
The tenth episode of 1.-THE Moon
raiders" with Art Accord and the In
ternational News will also be given
today.-Adv.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-01-04

fish culture by the State during the
past year, as follows:
Monmouth Hstchery-W. A. Whiting
Superintendent
Square-tailed trout-No eggs were
taken there during the fall Of 1913.
Received from Moxie hatchery,
| 10000; received from Moxie hatch
cry, lingering fish for planting in
Dead River section, $4,000; loss to
time of Matching, 5000; Matched,
$4,000; loss from Matching to plant
ing, 69,250; planted, 252, $50.
Togue-No eggs taken, there during
fall Of 1919. Received from Enfield
hatchery, Dec. 81, 1919, 0,G00; loss to
! time of Matching, 200; Matched, So, 800;
| loss from Matching to planting, 300;
planted, $4,000.
| No square-tailed trout or togue
eggs were taken there during fall OF
| 1920.
Auburn Hatehery-H. X. Curtis
superintendent
No land-locked salmon eggs were
| taken there during the fall Of 1919.
| Received from Raymond hatchery
| 10000; loss to time of Matching
$4,000: hatched. 10000; loss from
Matching to planting. 10000; to be
| wintered, 5000; planted, 100000.
! During the heavy rain Of Dec. IA
, two dams above the hatchery on
. Townsend brook gave way, flooding
| the pond in which the $4,000 salmon
| were being wintered for Lake Au-
burn and liberated 10000 in Town
send brook.
| Land-locked salmon wintered-
! Number to be wintered in winter OF
| 1920, 16,-loss during summer,
! 1920; planted $500.
! Square-tailed trout-No eggs taken
in fall of 1919. Received from a
! Massachusetts hatchery, purchased
| by State, $4,000; received from Clear
! Spring Trout Ponds, West Buxton,
! Me. purchased by the State, $4,000;
! received from Belgrade hatchery
10000; loss to time of Matching, GAS,
| 600; Matched, 80, 600: loss from hatch
ing to planting, $500; to be wintered
| 1900; planted. 1900.
| The superintendent reports that the
unusual loss of the trout eggs above
mentioned was on account of their be.
ing frozen when received.
! Square-tailed wintered Number
wintered winter of 1890 1000; loss
| during summer, 70; planted 1890.
Rainbow trout-No eggs taken ir
fall of 1919. Received from Clear
Spring Trout Ponds, West Buxton
Me, purcha sed by State, 100000; loss
to time OF Matching. 5000; Matched
$4,000: loss from Matching to plant.
ing, 10000; to be wintered, $500
; p'""t"d. 27.hG0.
Togue-No eggs taken in fall Of
! 81" R'""ived from Monmouth
hatchery. 10000; loss during summer
1000; to be winIered, $4,000: planted
Ten thousand land-locked salmon
eggs were taken at this hatchery dur.
ing the fall of 1920
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-01-04

lily. Whatever has been accomplished
in the past four years was due to the
splendid tcamwork-'team is
just the WORD 1 want to use because
it has been the work of everyone, CO.
operating i'll every way"
The Governor expressed his own
and Mrs. Milliken's appreciation of
the beautiful remembrances and as
sured the family" that they would
ever be treasured and cherished to-
gether with the donors. He conclud-
ed with the wish that the high degree
of efficiency shown in the past four
years shall be continued, with every
one showing the Willingness to give
the very best Of his or her services.
Governor and Mrs. Milliken then
took positions IN front of the Speak
er's desk and greeted individually
everyone present. with kindly smile
and word for each.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-01-04
State House Chat

The Executive Council held another
brief session on Monday. 1t is now
recessing from day to day.
The Legislative Budget committee
also met on Monday. Governor Milf
ken said that the committee would
be ready with its report to the Legis-
lattre within the time set. five days
after the assembling of the Legisa-
ture.
Regarding the promptness of Of
ffcials it is pertinent to state that j.
Crosby Hobbs, sheriff of Knox county.
is the first county sheriff to file with
the State Board of Charities and
Corrections his report of the number
Of prisoners in Jail, and L. T. Chabot,
county treasurer of Androscoggin
county, is the first to file report of the
cost of running Il Jail.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-01-04

per cent. of the total trackage there
would be eliminated the haulage and
use of rs per cent. of the total coal Of
the zone.
I'm considering future power de-
mands. with even the large amounts
of water power undeveloped in Maine
it will be necessary to consider the
continued use of coal. There is not
enough water power available to fill
this future demand and the future must
inevitably bring inter connection OF
tide water coal stations and hydro.
electric stations in systems large
enough to eliminate the waste of low
capacity. low efficiency plants. the
water power being used at high eff
cheney and the steam plants carrying
the peak load
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-01-04

the Republican State Committee and
ably assisted in the work of organic
ing the women of the State.
Although Miss Plaisted, the assist
ant secretary. comes from Democrat
tic lineage. yet she is an ardent Re
publican and during the last cam
paign did her bit for the election of
Col Parkhurst. She is the daughter
of the late Gov. Harris NJ. Plaisted of
Bangor. "a sister of EX-Gov. EredAr-
lex w. Plaisted of Augusta--two of
the three Democratic governors that
Maine has had since the, Civil War
granddaughter of the late Francis
W. Hill of Exeter, who was the Dem
ocratic candidate for Governor in
1890 and niece of Francis w. Hill of
Exeter, who has represented his
county of Penobscot in the upper
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-01-04
HEARD WHAT ANOTHER
WOMAN SAID

Mrs. Margaret Bonniere of Murray
Street, st. John. \. B., writes: 81
heard lady saying she bought a
bottle of DR.. True's Elixir for her
children. and it was splendid. l am
glad know OF something good now.
l got d bottle and think it is great"
The laxative mentioned above is DIR.
True's Elixir, the Family Laxativ
and Worm Expeller. 1t is very pleas
ant to take; children like it. and it is
mild in action. No harmful drugs.
It's surprising to know the num-
Der of youngsters and even grown
ups who suffer from worms but don't
realize it. Every one needs a good
laxative to avoid stomach troubles.
Signs of Worms: Offensive breath,
swollen upper lip. sour stomach. pains
about the navel, pale face. eyes heavy
and dull, twitching eyelids itching OF
the ,sn, short dry cough, grinding OF the
teeth. re-; points on the tongue. starting
,uriny steer. slow fevcr.-AdN.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-01-04

branch of the Maine Legislature as a
Democrat Miss Plaisted was edu-
Gated in this country and abroad and
was in Switzerland when the World
War broke out = She and Mrs. Park
hurst. wife of the Governor elect,
have been companions since girlhood.
Miss Plaisted was born on Myrtle
street in this city.
Miss Kanaley is the daughter of
Mrs. Mary Kanaley of Bangor Her
father. William H. Kanaley, died
three years ago. She graduated from
Bangor High school in the class of
1916 and shortly after graduation ac-
cepted position with the firm of j.
f. Parkhurst & Son, working the
greater part of the time for Col.
Parkhurst personally. She is an ex
pert stenographer and typist