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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-15
IRISH PARLIAMENT
MEMBERS CONFER

DUBLIN, August 5.-(By Asso-
ciated Press. AN informal meeting
of the Irish Republican parliament
was the chief manifestation today of
activity observable in both Sim Gein
and Dublic Castle quarters as a result
of the new turn in the Irish negotia-
tions, following the disclosures in the
correspondence Sunday between Pre-
mier Lloyd George and De Valera. A
meeting was held at Mansion House
at noon to give the members, many
of whom had never met an oppor-
tunity to become acquainted with the
exchanges of notes prior to the sum-
moned meeting of the parliament to
be held tomorrow.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-15
TROOPSCUARD
GIRL'SHA.ER ON
WAY T0TRIAL
4 Alabama Companies
Protect Negro, Clyde
Thomas

ANNISTON, Ala Aug. g.15.-Two
companies and two machine gun sec
tions of the Fourth Alabama 'lnfan-
try left Camp McGlelland thia morn
ing for Birmingham to accompany
Clyde Thomas, negro, to Centreville
for arraignment for murder in con-
nection with the death of Frances
Daugherty, who was slain near Ran
dolph last Tuesday. The girl, aged
fourteen, was said by the authorities
to have been chaked to death.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-15
NEGRO WOUNDED
ATTACKING MAN

Sam Montgomery, a negro living
on the farm of Oren T. Summers IN
the 28th district, was shot and proba-
bly, mortally wounded Saturday even
ing at MIR. Summers doorstep. He
fled, with two bullet holes through his
abdomen, and was later found in a
negro cabin nearly mile away. Sun
day. at the direction Of Chairman N.
A. Ray, of the county board, he was
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-15
RENT HOGS

90 TIE battle between landlords and
Tenants in New York is raging with
increased fury because the former re-
fuse to reduce rent to conform with
the reduction in other commodities
and in incomes.
Thirty thousand tenants have re-
ceived notice to vacate their houses
Sand apartments by Oct. and
thousands of appeals have been
made to the county.
1t developed at hearing before
the mayors rent commission that
the only apartments showing rent re-
ductions are those which rent for
from $4,000 to $4,000 per year.
Thirty thousand dollars year
rent for an apartment Do you get
that?
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-15
5DEADIN2AHR.
OIL PLAN TIRE

PHILADELPHIA, Aug ID The
fire at the Point Breeze oil works of
the Atlantic Refining company, in
which five persons were killed and
nearly a score injured, was finally
extinguished early today aftera bat
tie of over "a hours by virtually the
entire city fire department. The loss
is estimated at over $1,000,000. The
cause of the blaze is undetermined.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-15
BERMUDA

Nine thousand cases Of fine
Scotch whisky for transit to Bermuda
we're in the hold of the Cunarder Car
mania when she. arrived at New York
from Europe the other day.
No wonder Bermuda as a resort for
American tourists is enjoying the
most prosperous season in the history
Of the island.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-15
ANOTHER TIP

An Atlantic City hotel proprietor
who has made a study of food and la
Dor costs this year as compared with
year ago, makes this statement:
If the prices on the menu ca
of your favorite restaurant do not
show reduction of from 25 to +
per cent, you are the victim of prof.
teering"
You might clip this and hand it to
the PROPRIETOR of your restaurant
on the chance that he hasn't seen it.
He may take the tip.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-15
ECONOMY

If the economic experts are right
in their contention that the financial
integrity Of the railroads is a neces-
Sary condition precedent to business
revival, we are in sight of better
times.
Less than six months ago the rail-
road net earning figures, taken as
whole, certainly gave color to the
dire predictions of general railroad
bankruptcy.
But the figures today tell an en-
tirely different story.
In July the railway net earnings
in the average showed an increase
Of so per, cent over May and june.
This, Notwithstanding the fact that
there was little increase in traffic
and no increase in rates.
The better showing is altogether
chargeable to economy in operation.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-15
THE INSIDE
NEWS OF
WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.-The
submarine bd1ders were all set for
a drive upon congress for appropria-
tions for large aumbers of subma-
rines for coast defense work and as
battlefield auxiliaries when
The airplane forces grabbed the
spotlight by staging the ship sink
ings off Norfolk.
Here's a tip: Watch for the sub
marine folks to pull off something
soon as sensational as the Deutsch-
land exploit.
wide of the mark" That is the
pharse Secretary Of State Hughes
uses to describe storie supporting
to set forsh the administrations
course in framing a treaty of peace
with Germany.
All sorts of guesses have been
made, but Hughes merely grins at
each of them. To date he has evaded
every trap to get line on his
treaty plans.
81 can neither affirm nor deny,
he recently told ii1alirers. "The sit
uation MS one that cannot be discussed
in parts. Either the whole story
must be told or none of it, and as |
am not yet in position to tell all OF
It, I can discuss none of it"
A hint to the wise is sufficient. And
no one will accuse the big oil inter
ests of these United States of not
being wise.
Result: Since the hint dropped in
official quarters two months ago that
unless American OIL concerns got
busy in securing foreign oil rights,
the best Of the worlds undeveloped
oil lands would soon be tightly sewed
up by competitive foreign interests.
Americans have vastly increased Their
leases on foreign oil properties.
Exact figures are not Forthcoming
for comparison, but it is declared we
are virtual yout of the danger zone
already.
was shot down. | plead for charity
for the dead and your prayers, for
although we may not see his lmper-
fections, God may sec them.
''Pray for him, dear brethren, that,
if there be any stain on his soul, 1t
may be speedily blotted or@ and that
he may enter into the joy prepared
for those who faithfully performed
their task here"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-15
CUCKOOS.

The only bird that lives in fiat
is the cuckoo-and he doesn't amount
to much"
This bit of wisdom is dropped by
E. X. Cormack, president of the Ma
tional Building Supply association,
who is urging people to build their
own homes. Cormack insists you can
build home cheaper this year than
you can next year.
Of course, this argument may be
taken with a grain of salt from a
man in his line of business, but Cor
mack adds something more which is
very true:
"A home isn't money investment.
It's an investment in happiness, COM
fort and good citizenship You really
can't feel like family unless you live
under your own roof. And any one
by hard work and sacrifices can
afauire a home somewhere.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-15
TURKS FLEEAT
SECOND DRIVE

SMYRNA, August Is. - The
Greeks have begun a second often
sive against the Turkish Nationalists
and the later are retiring rapidly to-
ward the Sakaria riyen without Of
fering resistance.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-15
LOOK TO HOME

Will Hays, the postmaster general,
addressing the Rotarians in Washing
ton PASSES out this hot shot:
The total expenditreus of the
towns, cities. townships, counties
and states, excel those of the Fed
eral Government, except only the
payments on the already contracted
war Indebtedness which cannot be
avoided.
The opportunities for economy
are lust as great among these as
with the federal government.
~ propose a nationwide system
atlc, enthusiastic and sincere move
ment to reduce these expenditures
OF local government"
ials:
bills"
Amen!
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-15

confesses the doctor.
very" says his bride.
Nobody expected it. In fact, we
didn't expect it ourselves-that is,
not exactly. / just happened to be
going to Detroit for the day and
suggested to Alice that she might
like to take the trip with me. Then,
| popped:
"While we're up there we can
run over to Canada and get married" :"
She was so completely surprised,
she simply couldn't object. And
away we went without waiting to don
any finery."
Change in Plans
"The only thing we changed was
our plans" exclaimed Mrs. Harding.
"We finally were married in Monroe,
Mich, instead of in Canada"
That's all there is to our little ro-
smance," concludes the doctor, lex
cept that the happy couple are going
to live in my home on Center street. !"
Honeymoon to Washington and
the White House?
Not right away. "But Warren
may run down here before long,"
says the doctor, though he has a
pretty big job and works at it pretty
hard"
DR.. Harding is 76, his bride is So.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-15
YOU AND
MUST REALIZE COLLEGES
CANNOT MAKE BRAINS
THEY MERELY TRAIN
THEM,

COMES the days when many yonul
~ men ana women must decide fin
allv whether they will spend foul
wears or more in college.
/. A recent issue of the national jour
Tal oe great college fraternity espe.
cally noted for its scholarship, car
RED, as customary, obituaries of
members who had died. Most not
able among these was the late Champ
Clark, who rose to speaker of the
House of Representatives and mar
rowly missed the presidency.
Also it carried an item that a curl
GUS customer found more than 200
Fraternity pins in a Broadway pawn
shop where they had been hooked by
College men who had failed.
The fact is, college can't make
brains it merely can trai;n them. 1t
usually makes a smart man smarter;
fool bigger fool.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-15
GREENS

Too many Americans are living out
q boxes and cans.
We need more grab fresh from the
IT would be good for our brains
}aHp GOOD for our bodies.
Ut r. V. Collum, professor of
sU;.toch.e1mistry, s;t Johns Hopkins Univer-
nv School of Hygiene and Public
miealth' ai says we're paying the pen
''tv y, DIV premature old age.
wen and women of 40 look like 60.
. Mother, let's have a fresh salad
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-15

brought to the stockade in Ameriius
by lounty forces, where he was given
surgical attention, after Sheriff Har-
vey had announced Saturday night
his opinion that he was in too crlti-
cal condition to be moved, and that
there was no danger of violence TO
him to remain where he was. No
warrant has been taken for him, but
James Foster. a negro who was with
Montgomery at the time of the trou-
Bile, and who fled when the encounter
began, was arrested and is held in the
county Jail. Foster said that Mont
gomery had been drinking.
1t was late Saturday afternoon
when Mr. Summers, who is a brother
of Deputy Sheriff Tom L. Summers,
reached home from Amerieus and was
informed by Mrs. Summers that the
two negroes had been walking back
and forth past their home, each. with
a pistol. Mr.. Summers lighted his
pipe and sat down on the porch, and
it was only few minutes until the
negroes Suddenly appeared directly
in front of the porch Mr.. Summers
called to Montgomery, who worked
on his place, to know why he had not
come to pull fodder during the week.
The negro Immediately reached for
his hip pocket and started to pull out
a pistol Mr.. Summers stepped back
to the door and went into the house,
where he grabbed his own pistol.
When he came out he found the ne
gro's pistol tangled in his clothing.
The negor then grabbed at Mr.. Sum
mers' pistol and held onto it. In
the struggle, according to Mr.. SUM
mers, the gun barrel came into the
right position and he pulled the trig-
ger twice. shooting into the negro's S
abdomen. Foster had already ran,
and Montgomery then fled.
Ocicers were called and large
crowd congregated. The negro was
finally LOCATED and j. was decidedaf-
ter examination by Sheriff Halvey
not to disturb him.
Some discussion has arisen, now as
to wether the county can legally pay
the bill for the negro'a care at the
stockade. According to Sheriff Har-
rvey, he would have had no authority
to charge theF county for care for
the wounded negro without first hav-
ing arrested him.. making him acounr
ty prisoner, which he purposely did
not do. And as the negro is not now
under custody nor under authority
of the county board. the question il
asked who is to pay' the cost of his
treatment, since he was removed
from his own people.
Montgomery is said to have besS
shot by another white man through
the neck about six wears ago. The
! Foster negro is a tenant on DeputS
! Sheriff Summers farm near tht
tseene of the trouble.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-15
WEATHER

W.. Forecast for Georgia.-unsettled
aL,an Latnfr tonight and Tuesday. Prob
sal soIE showers; somewhat cooler in
East portion tonight.
fAAMERiCus TEMPERATURES
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-15
MARKETS

AMERIcUS SPOT COTTON.
Good middling, IL 3-4e.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-15

NIIIshed bY keXaII Pharmacy,
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1921-12-29
SPANISH SPRINGS PROJECT
WILL BE DISCUSSED SOON

Charles s. Knight. president Of
the Reno chamber of commerce,
L. H. Taylor, representative Of the
Adams interests below Vista, near
the McCarran ranch on the True
kee river, and Walter Harris, pres
ident of the Farmers & Merchants
Bank, of Reno, were in conference
with Governor Boyle and State En-
gineer Scrugham yesterday for the
purpose Of gaining and exchanging
information bearing upon the pro-
posed Spanish Springs reservoir pro-
ject, says the Carson News. Under
the direction of the state engineers
office the situation will be checked
up and all possible obstacles in the
way of the proposed reclamation ex-
tension will be considered and taken
into full account in preparation of a
showing in behalf Of the state for
allotments to be made under the
Smith-McNary bill.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1921-12-29
IN THE OLD DAYS WHEN
MEN WERE WILD

The softening hand Of time has
interviewed to introduce the effete
into this community since twenty
years ago, though some are living
in the old days and find the fact
hard to realize. But twenty years
have introduced conveniences, in
GLIDING the automobile, which make
for closer intercourse between peo-
pie and have made neighbors Of
those who were strangers before.
The Winnemucca of twenty years
ago has passed from the map and
it will not recur because the change
that has come about in the habits
of men is the result of mechanical
invention and the evolution that at,
tends advancement of this char.
acter.
It is the trite privilege of al
American commentators, now ant
again, to shed a tear for the pass
ing of the old west. Yet the west
in many districts, is as western Al
it was in the time Of the notes
plainsmen and the more or les,
heroic desperadoes. The chang,
that has come over it is more NOR
alistic than material. The bas
men Of these days range in tn
cities of the east and the two
gunned bravo with his bronze i !,
discarded type. In that sense tn
old west has passed-with the grad
ual elimination Of its dramatic an,
sanguinary episodes and with tn
harvest by time Of those character
who enacted stellar roles in tn
wild days that come no more.
A man by the name Of "Bat'
Masterson passed recently in New
York City, the last Of the sres
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1921-12-29

Cash, paidup insurance, vocational
training, farm or home aid and land
settlement are options offered vet
Grams of the World War in the five
fold adjustment compensation bill
which congress is being urged by
the American Legion to pass during
its present session.
According to National Command
er MacNider, of the American Leg
ion, who bases his statement on
information given him by Senator
McCumber, North Dakota author Of
the bill in the senate and Represen-I
tatiye Fordney, Michigan, who intro
duced the bill in the House, the
legislation will become law during
February.
The measure will become effective
in July, 1922, as originally provided.
In connection with the bill it Is
significant that the Legion has
termed it adjusted compensation"
from the first as against the COM
mon term, "bonus."
/. Adjusted service pay at the
rate of 81 per day for home SER
vice and S1.25 per day for foreign
service. Maximums of $500 per
man without overseas service; 1926
per man with overseas service.
2. Adjusted service, certificate
(so-called insurance feature) paid
up twenty-year endowment policy.
The face value of this policy will
be 1888 times the amount that
would be received in cash. The face
value of this policy would be pay
able to the veteran at the end Of
twenty years, or IL he dies before
the expiration Of twenty years the
face value would be paid to the
beneficiary Of the policy. Loan
values are also provided for.
8. Vocational training aid Of
s1.25 per day while taking course
in vocational training. The amount
thus paid in no case would exceed
146 per cent of what would have
been paid in cash.
4. Farm or home aid, 140 per
cent of what would be paid under
option No. II the money Is used
to purchase, improve or make pay
ments on approved farm or city
or suburban home.
s. Land settlement.
la) Provides for the establish
ment of reclamation projects for the
development and improvement Of
vacant land. This may be govern
ment land or land purchased by
the government. If possible projects
will be located in each state, the
state paying part of the purchase
price of private land bought for the
purpose. Ex-service men to be en-
ployed on the work of constructing
these projects, II possible.
ID Provides for the sale Of farm
units on these projects when they
are ready for settlement. Terms,
part down, rest in forty years at
five per cent interest on deferred
payments.
(c) Veterans may have their adj
justed service pay applied as first
payment on this land.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1921-12-29
THE CAR OF
PROGRESS


Two years ago the new year
dawned on a business activity that
was general throughout the world
and held out incentive that made
men bestir themselves to the limit
OF their mental and physical capa.
bilities. Great rewards were in
sight and great rewards were at.
tanned. The irony of the activities
of the period seems to be contained
in the backward movement that Is
sweeping away fortunes and an
nulling the results of extraordinary
efforts.
The new year about to be ushered
in holds out brilliant promise, al
though not in the manner of its
predecessor of two years ago. No
extraordinary financial profits are
in sight for those who strive in
business pursuits. The settling
down process is on and men are
striving to place their feet on terra
firma. Nineteen hundred twenty
two will see this accomplished in a
widespread sense in the United
States. The great business COM
post wiz be settled within the Pc
riod and activities will be directed
in q more logical manner than has
been the wont for several years.
The car Of progress has not been
definitely stopped; merely halted at
. way station in the worlds adj
vancement until such time as sanity
prevails. The running schedule of
business was being exceeded and
safety dictated cessation until the
senses of men were restored. 1t
will not be long until this car of
progress will be in full motion
again and it will proceed at a speed
that will make for national and
individual betterment.
Every effort of a wise and well
intending national administration
is being put forward to restore nor
NAL conditions. And these efforts
are already resultful. AS time
passes the wisdom of the great
minds that direct the government
win be further appreciated and un-.
derstood.
We repeat the statement, the
year 1922 holds out extraordinary
promise in nationwide sense. In
northern Nevada it will reintroduce
decent selling figures for the prod
ucts of the farm, range and mine.
The uncertainties of the past will
be removed and men will again be
accorded the privilege of anticipat-
ing the future in fairly approx
mate sense when they lay plans for
seasonal operations.
And the manifold benefits that
must come from the tremendous
sacrifice and labors of the recent
past will be made plain during the
next twelve-month period. It is
reckoned an immutable and in
exorable natural law that great sac
rifces must return great compensa-
tions, and the OUTLAWS put forward
by the people Of the United States
in a cause that was righteous can
not go unrewarded.
-
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1921-12-29

plainsmen-by the test of public
interest-took the long trail. It is
said that this dweller of the past,
whose life in his later years was
that of a sports writer on a great
New York daily newspaper, had the
awesome array of twenty-eight
"notches" on his gun, each the
brief record Of death. No stranger
circumstance may be imagined than
that a character such as this should
come to the end of the chapter at
desk in the heart Of the city. A
very human and splendid integer
of the old west passed with Mas
terson, who seems to have been as
knightly as any Launcelot in his at
titude toward life and his enemies.
When men speak of him they may
well say, "His like we shall not see
again." The era that dramatized
his life is definitely ended.
National fame came to Bat Mas
terson much after the fashion that
it came to Buffalo Bill and Wild
Bill Hickok. They dwelt in land
of peril and license, when survival
was reduced to first principles and
providence favored him who was
quickest at the draw. Into the life
story of each was written such in
cidents as stir US to an apprecia-
ton for human fortitude and in
trepidity, and serve to give con-
viction that he whose cause is just
is indeed thrice armed. Gunner
they were undoubtedly, but not bad
men. The old west would have
been far more lawless but for the
presence Of these public champions,
who created, at the least, an equi-
poise by the alacrity with which
they drew. Outstanding recorded
episodes serve to show US what
manner of men they were.
There were other bad men with
whom we might contrast the Mas
terson type, who took unusual toll
Of humanity and were regarded in
an awesome manner by the more
timid, who feared their staggering
bullying and knew that treachery
lurked within them at all times. 1t
hasn't been so many years ago, as
time is reckoned even in this fast
moving age, when the range feuds
carried death and destruction in the
areas to the north Of this city, and
while it never extended down into
this territory, SO far as the narrator
knows, echoes of the strife were
heard here less than twenty years
ago. This strife resulted in a large
number of deaths and certain
ranges to the north were stripped
of their bands Of sheep. One Ore
gon county whose assessment rolls
enumerated 100000 head Of sheep
in one year, recorded less than
tenth of the number on the year
following. The warfare carried on
was little short Of anarchy and tens
of thousands Of sheep were slaugh-
tered and left to lie as carton for
the beasts of the woods and the
birds Of the air.
No man was safe in those days,
when landholders regarded the pub
lie domain for miles around their
decided holdings as appurtenant to
their private property, and the way
Of the ordinary trespasser was
made hard, and doubly hard when
he happened to be a rowing sheep
man. Uncle Sam reversed the or
der of things with his inauguration
of his forest reserve policies and
removed the incentive for range
feuds. Through him men were
made to dwell in peace and amity,
enjoying only those privileges for
which they paid.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1921-12-29
Magnificent Mathemstiea

Magnificent Mathematics
You Ike to hear that astronomer
talkr
yea" answered Miss Cayenne. He
can talk about billions and billionA
and 1t the same time avoids any sus-
sestion that his enormous figures dxs
liksly 70 call for more taxsAs