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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-04-21
OPERA HOUSE,
PICTURES
TODAY GREAT

Don't fail to see the programs ali
the Opera House today and to-
morrow.
They are varied programs and
selected with great care for their
entertainment values, and no mat
ter what your mood you will find
something to please you.
Children will be delighted with
our Edgar Pictures, put over by
clever children.
There is Art Accord, the Cow
boy King, in ''The White Horse
man" serial with blind black nlys-
terry and shrieking suspense that
brings-you back week after week.
There is Harold Lloyd comedy
in "She Loves Me Not" support
ed by Snub Pollard and Bebe Dam
iels.
It's real tragedy in your life
to miss these comedies.
Snub Pollard and Rastus are lin
ed up this week in Late Lodgers"
that has many laugh and a sure
cure for these times.
There is Kineto Review that
spreads nature beauty spots of this
entire world before your eyes.
The Pathe News and Review are
very interesting this week.
Mack Swain will give you many
laugh in Foxy Ambrose" and al
together the best entertainments
value to be found in the world at a
price of 10c.
Children, afternoon shows, Sc.
nnEn HAHH
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-04-21

WANTED-An experienced cook to
go with me to North Carolina, Ap-
ply at once to Mrs. D. w Bagley,
301 Taylor street, Americas, Ga.
21-10t
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-04-21

was told that the "Insincere Seeker
might know his relationship with God
and his fellowman.
DR.. Harrington will speak this af
terhoor on 1.-The Unanswered Pray
en-" and tonight on 1.-The Beguilihe
of t.e Devil" Mr.. Fry win sing at
each service and have the male quar-
tette every time possible. Their sing
ing last evening of Just Outside the
Door," and Why Do You Wait, Dear
Brother" still rings in the hearts and
ears of the people and there is a call
for repetition,
Kan interesting young peoples sar-
vice is announced and planned for
Saturday afternoon at 4 o'clock. DR..
harrington says he is going to speak
about something that is on every
table in Americas and wants all TO
guess his subject Bring written on
paper and hand in at the door.
Saturday night will be the biggest
service of all, as DR.. Harrington
states that everything that everybody
talks about will be told that night, 50
no one who possibly can come, should
miss the biggest subject ever dis
cussed in this revival meeting.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-21
Farm Hand Confesses
Staying Employer for
Cruelty to His Wife

BURLINGTON, Iowa, Sept. 10
George Leroy Specs, of Indianapolis,
Ind, Narrested Saturday for compile
ity in the Staying of John V. Shurtz,
Des Moines county farmer, has made
a full confession according to the
authorities, telling how he slew the
farmer with a sawed-off shot gun as
he slept Tuesday night. September
IL.
Specs told where the shotgun
would be found, and the gun was
located in the spot indicated.
Mrs. Shurtz, who with her 14-year-
old son slept IN a bed adjoining the
one occupied by Shurtz, and who is
under arrest but has steadfastly de-
MED any knowledge of the Staying
was implicated by Specs in his al
legged confession to the police, the
latter stated. Specs declared, ac-
cording to the authorities, that she
had been urging him for six weeks
to STAY her husband.
The woman is about twice the age
Of Specs, who was a farm hand on
the Shurtz farm. Specs claimed that
Mrs. Shurtz fell in love with him and
that he slew her husband because he
felt sorry for her, as he says Shurtz
was cruel to her.
When confronted with Specs in
Jail this morning, Mrs. Shurtz dis
played no emotion, but said that her
attorney would sneak for her
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-21
St. Petersburg Girl
Killed in Accident
On Carolina Road

MCCORMICK, S. c., Sept. 10
Miss Janet Towers, 20 years of age,
was instantly killed near Modoc, this
county, at 4:30 o'clock Monday after
noon when an automobile driven by
". H. Wright. of 2724 Florida ave-
nue., Tampa, Fla, overturned. Miss
Towers, in company with her moth
err, Mrs. Dell Towers, and an older
sister, Miss B. Towers, had been
spending some time in AsheVllle,
N. c., and had advertised for some
one to accompany them on Their re-
turn trip to St. Petersburg. Fla,
who would furnish a car, as they
wanted to drive through in an auto
mobile in tead of by train. V. H.
Wright answered the advertisement,
and the party left AsheVille Monday
morning and drove to Greenwood for
dinner. Leaving Greenwood, they
intended going to Augusta for the
night; but when they reached Modoc
they met wagon on hi. at point
Wnere the sand was heavy and loose,
In passing the wagon, Mr.. Wright
says that he lost control Of the car,
and in trying to get back into the
road, the car darted across the road
and turned over, pinning Miss Janet
Towers ,nder the door of the car
killing her almost instantly.
Mrs. Towers and Miss B. Towers
received only minor injuries and
went on to Augusta, leaving the body
Of Miss Janet Towers at the home
Of A. P. Douglas at Modoc. after
summoning an undertaken from
Augusta. Witnesses in the town of
Modoc who saw the car pass through
say that Mr.. Wright was driving at
a very moderate speed and not eX-
ceeding 20 miles per hour. Mr..
Wright is AZ years Of age, married
and has three children, and has been
spending some time in Asheville for
his health. He is grief-stricken over
the accident which seems to have
been entirely unavoidable. The two
Misses Towers have taught school in
St. Petersburg, Fla, for the past
season and were returning to their
home there, although they are from
Iowa originally. The body of Miss
Towers will be taken to st. Peters
burg, Fla, for interment by the side
of her father, who died last May.
Mr.. Wright came to Mccormick to
surrender to the sheriff, but Mrs.
Towers, the mother. and the sister
earnestly insisted that Mr.. Wright
be allowed to go on with them in
company with the. body of the dead
girl to Florida.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-21
Indignation Tour
Over Florida Road

( JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Sept, 49,
governor Cary A. Hardee has decIin-
ed the invitation to accompany some
1000 road enthusiasts over the
Waycross road" next Saturday in
the indignation motorcade. Tele.
graphing Don M. Barnett, chairman
of the procession, the governor ex-
pressed his regret at not being able
TO make the trip.
= Word came from w. F. Cooke,
engineer Of the state road depart
ment, that arrangements were un-
der way to give the 26-mile stretch
IN Nassau county a rock foundation
by December 1. Two road rollers,
he said, will be put on the road with
in ten days, and the order will be
sgiven for the necessary material.
Two, gangs Of workmen will be en-.
gagged, he said. and the work rush
ed to a completion.
Equipment for building the road
had been ordered since July, the
sengineer asserted, but shipment
had been delayed because of the
rail strike.
z In the meantime, motorists arriv-
ing in the city today from the road
told of it's almost impossible condi-
ton as a result of the recent rains.
: SAT the st. Mary's river" one
irate party declared. IT paid a fifty
cents toll to go onto the bride from
a perfect road. Mid-stream there
was a sign denoting the dividing line
between Georgia and Florida. I
ran off the bridge this side into rs
miles Of the worst mud I have ever
driven through. I passed stranded
cars all the waV"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-21
Traveller Finds San Francis
co Really Dry Town but
Courts Are Crowded With
Liquor Cases

SAN FRANCISCO.-Well, I take
it all back; almost, anyhow. San
Francisco is still wettest Of the big
cities-wet and unashamed.
Two wealthy Italians recently
gave a banquet and next morning
a news picture of the banquet dis
closed the guests sitting amidst
mighty barrage Of California wines
of various well-known brands, while
here and there were seated some of
the city's leading politicians and
officeholders.
Not only did the hosts make no
concealment of the wetness at the
banquet. They actually gloried in it.
True, the big French restaurants
are closed, and the saloons pretty
generally-but over on Broadway,
one block north of the once notorious
and now deserted "Barbary Coast"
lies Little Italy," where, in some
places, you can and do openly order
any kind of native wines you desire
and drink the same openly at prices
ranging from $3.50 upward per
bottle.
am not speaking Of secret drink
ing or bootlegging, socalled, but open
and aboveboard sales of liquor to
any customer who asks for it and
has the price.
Court Clogged
The one federal court empowered
to try liquor cases is hopelessly
clogged with a calendar which could
not be cleared in months with half
dozen judges working overtime!
Just the same, hold to this much
Of my original statement, viz, that
there isn't anywhere near the
amount Of drinking in San Francisco
that there used to be, and that it
will continue to decrease each year.
For example, l have eaten lunch
the past three days in one of the
biggest Of the city's stag grill rooms.
In the old days every table woulc
have had it's stein of beer or bottle
Of wine. Today, buttermilk is stead
lily forcing its way to the table still
holding to nearbeer of various
brands. OF liquor, light wines or
beer, there is not a trace and you
can. tell me that business men who
have formed the buttermlik or near
beer habit for lunch will ever go
back to booze, or would do SO even
if they had the legal opportunity.
I referred to the "Barbary Coast"
OF picturesque, if loathsome, memory.
The main street of the coast was
the waterfront end of Pacific ave-
nue.. Here, in the old days, were
the notorious dance dives, where
painted sirens and their thug COM
panions rolled and robbed the booze
sodden sailor from every port.
The Coast" Is Dead
Here on Bartlett alley and other
dirty, narrow thoroughfares, the
painted faces and half-covered bodies
of a thousand abandoned women
leered.
I have seen a thousand half-drunk-
en- men and women dancing on the
floors of some of the dives" here
and not so many years ago.
Today the Barbary Coast is one
wide dodo and Ginosaur. The build
ings have been turned into public
garages! The women have been driv-
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-21
HAYS IS BUSY MAN,
SAYS INTERVIEWER
BY HERBERT COREY

WASHINGTON, D. C.-You tell
the man at the door you want to
see the postmaster general. Or you
telephone that fact to his secretary.
In either case you eventually find
yourself in a large room, with a
desk, a couple Of chairs and a we'll
fed, jolly, good-natured looking man.
Glad to see you," says the post,
master general.
You turn that over in your mind.
Sometimes you have reason to doubt
whether a public official is really
glad to see you. Some Of them are
drowned in their jobs, and some of
them are trying to get away for q
foursome, and some suspect you are
going to try to entrap them into u
damaging admission. Somehow you
feel that DIR. Work is really glad
to see you.
II want to know" you begin.
Button. Bell. Clerk.
Get all the information for this
gentleman"
Well, that seems to end the Off
cial call. You cannot think of any
SAAA1AS NAoO " 0tAJB cl1l1 p1SpdIS eau
tiOusly to back out. Then DR.. Work
tells a funny story. Not a profess
sional funny story, with a kick at
the end, such as his secretary can
get up if directed, but a personal,
humorous, dry-humor sort of a fun
ny story. You begin to suspect that
this is a good deal of a man you
are talking to. He has had expe.
riences as a practicing physician and
a practicing politician and an able
business man. He tells another fun
ny story. He sees the funny side of
things.
And that postmaster said"
Work did not want an office.
When President Harding took hold
it was generally agreed that Work
should have one, because he is the
man of power in the west, but he did
not want one. Then Will Hays was
made postmaster general, on an i'm
piled understanding that he would
not remain P. M. G. forever, and
Work was seized as assistant, to be
promoted when the time was ripe.
Now he is an epicure on postoffices.
Listen" says he.
And he tells you. No one would
say that Will Hays ever peddled
bunk, because he never did. It was
merely that Mr.. Hays was profess
sionally cheerful. Early in life he
trained himself to say it with smiles.
He was an apostle of go, pep, zip,
catch tentative. He was a sort of eff
ficiency man in politics and the
postoffices. AS postmaster general
he was a corker, but one always had
the feeling that he was enthusiastic
because it was his job to be. He is
a natural-born booster. He could
write ads for corn salve.
Work is an enthusiast because he
likes his job. If he did not like his
job be would quit it. He cannot turn
on sunshine with each new task I'M
less each happens to appeal to him.
There is not a lot Of big -brass-drum.
ming in the postoffice department
now, but, but the employees are do
ing a good deal of quiet cheering for
the doctor. He is cheering right
back at them.
But when he has occasion to say
something harsh-he certainly can
clothe his thought in right-angled
words,
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-21
FAMOUS BARBARY COAST
NOW DEFINITELY DEAD
Mrs. Olive E. Cromwell
Denies She Is Suing
Husband for Divorce
BY CONDO
BY WILLIAM e. NASH

Especial Cable to The Atlanta Journal and
Chicago Daily News-Copyright. 1927
PARIS, Sept. $3.50 far as I
know no divorce proceedings have
been instituted between my husband
and myself" declared Mrs. Oliver Ea-
ton Cromwell, OF Philadelphia, to the
writer's last night, referring to pub
lished reports that she had instituted
such proceedings. you can an
nounce on my side that I have no in
tention, of taking such action at pres
ent nor in the immediate future
though further than that it is unsafe
to predict"
Mr.. Cromwell on his part refused
flatly to confirm or deny the report
From other sources, however, it was
learned that the wealthy young cou-
pie have been living apart for six
months or more, Mrs. Cromwell in q
private apartment on the Avenue
Kleber in the aristocratic Champs
Elysee quarter, and Mr.. Cromwell in
hotels. He spent part of the summer
in Interlaken, Switzerland, and is
now stopping at the Ritz with Mr..
and Mrs. Edward r. Stotesbury, his
stepfather and mother.
Mr.. Cromwell and his parents plan
to leave for the United States this
week, I hear, leaving Mrs. Cromwell
in Paris.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-21
Carolina Republicans
Meet in Columbia

COLUMBIA, S. c., Sept. 49,
South Carolina Republicans met here
at noon today to discuss the ques-
ton of putting up a ticket for the
fall election. Although it had been
reported that full state ticket
might be presented to the voters
for the first time in many years,
leaders were reticent.
A fight on the leadership Of Jo-
seph w. Tolbert, of Columbia, who
has been nominated by President
Harding as United States marshal
for the South Carolina district, also
was expected to develop.
Candidates are to be offered in
the First and Fourth congressional
districts. it WAS said
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-21
Hearing on Croker
Will Is Postponed

: WEST PALM BEACH, Fla, Sept.
19.-But mutual consent the hearing
on the will Of Richard Croker, set
for Monday, has been continued
until October Is.
Mrs. Bula Croker, widow Of the
late Tammany chief, and principal
beneficiary under the will, made af-
fidavit that she had been unable to
reach this city in time for the hear
ing and agreement by attorneys for
both sides resulted in the postpone
rnent.
The suit. entered by three children
Of Mr.. Croker, seeks to have his
will adjudged illegal on two counts,
one Of illegality in the manner in
which it was drawn, and the other
that Mrs. Beula Croker, the widow,
Used under influence in having the
will drawn.
1 Approximately 100000 in real es-
tate in Palm Beach and Irelandn is
involved in the action
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-21
NERVE Of VANITY
EASILY |NFLANED
BY HERBERT COREY

Il WASHINGTON, D. CT is re-
markable how rapidly the vanity
nerve becomes inflamed in Washing
ton. Once a man has tasted ap-
plause, presuming that one can
taste applause, he is lost. He has
formed the habit. He is like a
drifter. If he doesn't get his little
sniff of snow each day he cries like
a child.
"Look at 'um," said a miserable
( cynic in the lobby of the Willard at
!, noon today.
!. great men to take lunch either at
the Willard on Fourteenth street
or the Shoreham on Fifteenth at 1
O'clock. If you want to see the pa
rade pass by, sequester yourself Il
! that hour and wait. When somebody
comes along who is dancing from
right to left and is usually in pow
manages to keep the eye rowing just
the same, do not hesitate or be
abashed. Step right up:
extending the right hand. you do
not remember me, know, but 1 am
Bill Hicks. met you here a few
months ago-with Senator Penrose
! think. How are all the follls?"
There is a 80 per cent chance that
you will get an invitation to lunch.
if you make it fervid enough. Being
entirely and laudably human, the
great men devour this sort of stuff
aalive-alive. Their eyes rove from
here to there as they talk, trying to
catch other eyes and to see if
strangers are impressed. If the
great men can hear some dweller
from the wide open spaces ask a
bellboy who is that fine-looking man
he will be as pleased as a child.
The lunch possibility is based on
the fact that a great man must have
a court. Great men always have
had courts, whether in the days Of
Louis XIV, or Warren G.. Harding.
Nowadays great men do not wear
plush trousers with lace edges and
ostrich plumes in their hats. Be-
ing debarred from the easy way
of advertising they carry the ban.
ner less directly. They like to have
luncheon parties, so that those who
peer in from the corridors-it is a
popularity Of Washington, by the
way. that the public is given d
chance in every hotel to look on
while the great men are fed-can
say:
Wonder who that is at Blinken-
sap's table? Over there-next the
window. Blinkensap is the head Of
the committee on disposition Of I'm,
used Monograph copies, you know.
Stick around here and I'll introduce
you when he comes out"
That. by the way, is an easy way
to- acquire a stand-in with a great
man. Just stick around in the hotel
lobby and introduce some one to him
when he comes out.
Z The other fellow likes it, too.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-21
Marriage Announced of
Miss Marion Bourne

NEW YORK, Sept. TO- The an
nouncement of the marriage of Miss
Marion G. Bourne, daughter of the
late Commodore Frederick G.
Bourne, to Robert Q. Elbert, of this
cit! was made last night Frank
Lyon Polk, legal counsel for the
Burne family. The date or exact
Ll,>ce Of the wedding was not an
nounced.
Commodore Bourne, who for sew
eral years was president of the
Singer Sewing Machine company,
died in 1919, leaving an estate es-
timated at SGD 600. OO0
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-21

en- out by the police and about the
dryest place in the world right now
is the coast.
Where are the women? Some are
waiting on tables in cheap restau.
rants, others are plying their pro-
fession in uptown apartments and
rooning houses, while others are
dead. Some doubtless have reformed.
because all women of this class do
not stay in the business by any
means.
There Is no soliciting on the streets
apparently, or very little or it any
how, and far, less evidence of open
immortality than in the good old
days"
Copyright, 1922, Nea service.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-21
Nation Controlling Air
Will Win Next War.
u. S. Major Declares

= ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., Sept. 10.
The next great war will last but n
Few days, will be won by the nation
Or allied group which controls the
air, Major General George H. Har.
ries, commander-in-chief of the Mill.
tary Order Of the World War, pre-.
dIcted today in an address at the
orders convention here.
The victor, he continued, would be
the contender who, ignoring the ene-
my's army, sent his bombing planes
over the enemy's strategic cities,
dealing out death to their inhabi-
tantS
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-21
Sure Way to Get
Rid of BIQckheads

There is one simple. safe and sure way
that never fails to get rid of blackheads,
that is to dissolve them.
To do this get two ounces of calonite
powder from any drug store-sprinkle a lit
tie on hot wet cloth-rub over the black
heads briskly-wash the parts and you will
be surprised how the blackheads have disap-
peared. Big blackheads, little blackheads.
no matter where they are, simply dissolve
and disappear. Blackheads are a mixture
of dust and dirt and secretions that form in
the pores of the skin. The calonite powder
and the water dissolve the blackheads so
they wash right out. leaving the pores free
and clean and in their natural condition.
(Advertisement.l
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-21
Statewide Primaries
!: Are Held in New York

: ALBANY. N. Y. Sept. 19.-State.
wide primaries were held today to
nominate Republican and Democra-
tic candidates for congress, the legis-
lature and county offices and to Sc
lect delegates to state convention
which will nominate state tickets
and candidates for the U. S. senate.
It is the first time since the enact
ment of the direct primary law that
candidates for governor and other
state offices have not been nomi-
mated at the polls.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-21
Reserve Building
For St. Louis Bank

WASHINGTON. Cept. 19.--By
vote of ia to so the house Monday
a -horized the Federal Reserve
Bank Of st. Louis to erect a build
ing at cost not to exceed "a per
cent of it's paid-in capital stock and
Sllrn1uS
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-21
Germany Pays Allies
Part Of Pre-War Debt

BERLIN, Sept. 19.-The govern
ment, according to the newspapers,
has paid to the allies 100000 gold
marks as part of the installment of
28,400,000 due in liquidation Of Ger
many's private pre-war debts to al
lied nationals.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-21
Hartwell Editor Is
Named Vice President

ATHENS, Ga, Sept. 19.-Louie L.
Morris, editor of the Hartwell Sun.
was made district vice president of
the Georgia Press association by the
Eighth District Press association
here today. This is a newly
office
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-21
Pershing to Attend
North Carolina Fair

RALEIGH, N. c., Sept. 19.-Gen-
eral John J. Pershing has accepted
an invitation to visit the North
Carolina State fair here October IS
which will be celebrated as Military
day" it was announced today.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-21
New FrOCkS

In some of the newest flUcks
circular godet pleats are inserted at
each side of skirt.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-09-04
.SPORTSMEN.
TAKEFIELD
Doves Scarce Hunters Report,
But Hunting Is Hunting
Just the Same on
Holidays

Local sportsmen were out In mum
bers after doves Friday and Saturday,
hut no remarkable records were estab
lishcd 50 Tar rs reports 30. Dry
weather which has dried up many
tanks throughout the county has mad,
dovcs scarce in ,his section, as ,h,
birds as only found whore water Is
plentiful
Although the open season ON migra
tory birds is some distance away Tea
ducks are coming into The country
rapidly ON their pilgrimage south. Th,
season on ducks begins In Kansas, Sep
tembcr 10, but Oklahoma shooters ar,
not permitted 10 shoot them until onS
month later.
IN effort has been made by locn
sportsmen to have the law changed II
order that they might have an euua
chance with Kansas shooters. but with
out success.
The matter has been referred {,
Congressman Carter who has promiset
to see what could be done about tbs
law