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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-08-02
INVENTOR OF ICE DIED
BROKEN HEARTED MAN
Alphabetical Man Was Cheat
ed of Great invention by Man
in Whom He Confided

GAINESVILLE, Tenn, Aug. ,.
DR.. John Gorrie, of Appalacha-
cola, Fla, the inventor of artificial
ice, died broken hearted, while a
Frenchman to whom he had inn
parted his secret, before he could
interest financial circles suffi-
GENTLY to back him to place his
product on the market, was ac-
claimed the greatest benefactor of
mankind when the manufacture of
the fleecy substance was finally
perfected,
This story is related by Mrs.
Carrie Floyd Stewart, of Milton,
Fla, granddaughter of DR..
Gorrie, who is on a visit Ia relg-
tives here.
Recognition of the great service
rendered by DR.. Gorrie came sixty
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-08-02
NEWEST SHRINE HOSPITAL
SHOWN IN THE MOVIES

ATLANTA, Aug, 2.-Membors
of the Mystic Shrine in Atlanta
and many parts OF the south are
interested in news films which are
being shown this week on the dedi-
cation exercises of the Shreveport,
La, unit Of the Shriners Hospital
for Crippled Children, which occur
red about the middle of April,
Past Potentate Forrest Adair, Of
Atlanta, secretary of the national
board of trustees of the Shriener's
hospitals, who was instrumental in
locating the hospital at Shreveport
Illustrious Potentate Bayne Glib
son past Potentate Henry c.
Heinz and Noble Malcolm Turnel
represented Yaarab Temple at the
dedication exercises.
The Shreveport unit is nodded
after the Scottish Rite Hospital for
Crippled Children in Atlanta, and
was the first Of the big chain of
Shriners' hospitals to be completed
and put into operation. As a re-
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-08-02
STUDEBAKER SALES
8 8 8 D NEW CARS
New Record Established for Six
Months Period Ending
June 30th

Word has just been received by
Gatewood Motor Co., local Stude-
baker dealers of the new record es-
tabhshed by The Studebaker Cor.
poration for the first six months
of 1928, when a total of $3.50
Studebaker cars were sold.
"All Studebaker plant continue
at capacity operations" says Mr..
Gatewood land the present OUTPUT
of $4,000 cars per month is insult
ficient to meet the persistent de-
mand from the first of the year
Studebaker has experienced a de-
mand that has continuously been
far in excess of production, al
though the plant capacity was ~
creased during the spring when a
number of new factory units at
South Bend and Detroit, were com
pletted and equipped.
while Studebaker sales for the
past six years have increased each
year, the newest record can be bet
ter appreciated by comparisons.
The sale of 81 $3.50 cars in the first
six months of 1928 shows an in
crease of SO per cent over the best
previous six months business in
Studebaker history-that of 1922,
when a total of 6O,O53 cars were
sold.
Compared with sales for the
year 1918, the half-year record Of
1928 shows an increase Of 243 per
cent. IT is 1903 per cent greater
than sales for the full twelve
months of 1919. 1t exceeds the
sales of the full year 1920 by SO
per cent and is % per cent great
er than the sales for the complete
year of 1921.
"Studebaker's accomplishment
becomes even more significant"
according to Mr.. Gatewood, when
it is realized that Studebaker is
strictly a builder of high quality
cars which range in price from
1915 to $2750, and in capacrry
from two to seven passengers, and
that Studebaker manufactures SKIES
exclusively. To us it means that
the public wants quality and
wants Skies in ever increasing num-
bers. And by providing US with
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-08-02

three distinct models, Studebaker
mas enabled US to fit the buver
with the car he needs there are
other reasons why Studebaker has
oeen able to achieve new records
year after year. These include:
S,eVenty-one years experience in
the manufacture of high grade We
hlcles; Continuation of the found
ers policies of honest value and
integrity, manufacture of vital
parts IN own plants, saving the
mlddIemen's profits and insuring
the quality quantity production
methods in which the first and
tlnal consideration is quality,
100000 of actual net assets in
Guiding $45,000,00O of plant facil-
tiles"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-08-02
COTTON ROTTING IN
FIELDS IN IOWNDES

VALD0STA, August 2. - Many
farmers who have some open cot
ton in their fields for several days
past cannot pick it on account Of
the weather. Being permitted to
remain in the boil through this
rain the open cotton is reported
to be already showing signs of rot
ting, which is adding to the dam
age to growing crops. A few farm
ers have picked a small amount
of cotton during the few dry days
of last week
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-08-02

were much disturbed, but took res
titution in the fact that his name
and likeness repose in records Of
fame in the nations capital.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-08-02
NEW CANCELLATION STAMP

SAVANNAH, August 2.-Withln
few days the cancellation stamp
on outgoing Savannah mail will
bear an inscription advertising the
Savannah Tri-State Exposition,
which is to be held at Savannah
October 27 to November 3. This
has been brought about after three
annual attempts to have the post
office department recognize the To-
cal fair sufficiently important as to
warrant its advertisement on can
celled mail.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-08-02

suit of its work surgeons have cor
rected the deformities of many
poor little children and sent them
home to grow up as useful citizens.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-08-02

1t doesn't matter, but Pilsud-
sky, who has fought a duel,
sounds as if he was named for
beer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-17

Now, I met while was out there, some very charming per
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-17
Better Practice if
 You Talk to TriSta!

Back like a charming treasure that has been lost among fragrant rose leaves for awhile, will come to America one Mayo Thach- now Mrs. Franklin Kline-Birming- hams own.
 With experience gathered from all parts of the foreign world overseas, she will return with her husband to New York City the sec ond or third of July. With them descending the big gang-plank will be their baby daughter, Trista, who is so used to hearing French and Italian and a jargon of other tongue-twisting languages, that most Americans over here will seem very much lacking in un- derstanding to her. When she re- quests something in words extract ed from the Latin or ancient Greek and is only looked at as if she is speaking baby talk, her dis gust will probably be profound.
 At the least, she cannot help but have mental reservations.
 MT. and Mrs. Kline have lived abroad for a long time, MT. Kline being interested in an artistic career. Their recent days have
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-17

away. That's what you realize at Cascade. It is substantial.
 The management has everything out there to entertain you with winter or summer-ice cream, steam heat-everything
 The vast place is enclosed. You pass through a gate which leads you to a swimming pool so wide you don't have to hold your arms to your sides for fear you'll strike the walls on either side after you have made three or four forward plunges north, south, east or west.
 And satisfying = cool-looking - and pleasant!
 Here's some unsyndicated advice to girls.
 If you want to be considered beautiful, you can plunge in at SdSCduc WlIilOuC QidlHls hc1 ' . every sort of soft trembling light to make your complexion perfect and your costume get-up of the gods, during evening times. And you don't have to worry you'll get drowned while you're being beau tiful, since the swimming instruc- tor-who is a mighty engaging young chap-gave me the posi- tive information that there are three life guards present, two of whom are on duty all the time. The water in the basin replenishes itself automatically every ten hours, he said. So don't fear there'll be a lack of water. There are nearly a million gallons of water in the pool all the while.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-17
Tournament Won't End
 Until This Week

While it was expected that the golf tournament at the Country Club links at Lakeview would be finished the past week, the end is not yet.
 All the contests which will de- eide who is to win the prizes of fancy golf balls and clubs will not be over until this week. This stretches out the fun and the sus- pended moments of climax.
 "No-no fights yet. Everybody sweet and pleasant so farp came the response of Mrs. Robert Thach, closely questioned. We wanted to be sure no rivals had been killed or buried out there upon the trampled fields of battle.
 n It's womans' tournament now, and the men are enjoy ing standing by and seeing their wives and sisters and sweethearts rush on to hoped-for. victories. Or they're ready with kindly encour- agement when the little Gods of Fate seize a ball and carry it thitherward and hence on a for eign tour, or leave it right where it will do the player the rottenest score good in the world. Those
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-17
1 Amy Young, Miss Florence Young and numerous others. City All Sci Up
 With New Play Place

I had a wonderful trip out to Cascade Plunge the other night.
 That's Birmingham's brand new this years contribution to the play time and pleasuring of the city's public. And l did play while l was there. And it brought me memories.
 I went back-oh, I went back long number of years-'way yon- der before the world war when l was little youthful thing-and I found myself sitting in foreign ice palace like they have for your great joy and your infinite spec ulation in Berlin, Germany.
 Seems to me my memory never is able to picture those places less than a whole block square, and the thought came to me:
 Here's this little old Birming- ham, Ala, set down amidst the hills of Jefferson county,-right in Mir. Jones valley, to be precise-with a pleasure resort almost as big as any of those the Germans used to brag to me about by the hour in Berlin. I'll bet they'd be green with envy, over there along the street called 'Unter cen Linden, if they only knew about this. One thing I'm sorry is they DON'T know about it."
 For that was just how perked up felt.
 There is supreme satisfaction to walk in and sit down in any place you feel is substantial and not just something put up for car nival time and that pretty soon the elephants and things will be moved
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-17
So Pleasing Were the
 Nashville ViSitorSg

Now, I met while I was out there, some very charming per sons.
 They were MT. and Mrs. o. F. Whittle and MT. and Mrs. I. A. Whittle, all of Nashville.
 The Whittle brothers are oper- ating the Cascade under their es- pecial system of pleasure resorts, and their wives-who are just about of a size and exceedingly worth while knowing-had come down to be present at the big opening. Other such pleasing folk were MT. and Mrs. Strfcker Coles.
 We stumbled into their party, and result was We all were com pairing notes about Nashville and Birmingham in jiffy-and some of us were trying to put something over on Nashville by insisting that if the visitors would move here, they'd find this the greatest city outside of-well, some fine little burg where you've got some senti- mental memories laid away-like little old spot where you used to recite poetry to your sweetheart, or where you loved to walk some lit- tie old trail with someone, or where some old tired time you had dropped down on park bench to watch the birds play hide-and-seek among the trees.
 Or-oh, shucks. You KNOW.
 After the dinner dancers enjoy the floor until 9:30 o'clock, gen. eral dancing begins, when young folks and old folks trip the merry hours apast till 1:45.
 Curfew then, and everybody's off.
 But even the children have a part in that pool.
 Mr. Bosworth showed me the wading space for kiddies-though the management has not barred them from the larger swimming paths if they are in the protection of parents, or older folk. There is a maid in charge if they are to be left wading while grown-ups dance or swim.
 The location of this new pleas ure resort here really does mark a big step in the progress of the city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-17
| Phoenix Club and!
 IHIillcre est Join Forces

Here's the big news of the week.
 The Phoenix Club has decided to join it's forces and consolidate with the Hillcrest Club.
 This action was taken few nights ago following the report of joint committee from both clubs. which had been appointed to as- certain whether it would be pos. sible to effect consolidation
 The membership passed up the measure, and these are tl,e plans, for the present.
 The Hillcrest Club. which is To- cated upon the top of cool, grassy slope at Edgewood, is to be enlarged so as to accommodate the increased membership. This work will be started at once, said Mr. Lee B. Veil, president of the Phoenix organization, day or so ago.
 Between thirty and forty thou sand dollars will be expended upon the Hillcrest Club house proper, cnlarging it's especial apartments now inadequate for service.
 Eventually the golf links are to be made broader, and to incor- porate Is holes. But this will not be done at once.
 The meeting was held in the vestry room of Temple Emanu-El, representative attendance being present.
 The downtown Phoenix Club house was suddenly put out of com mission during the winter when an overloaded furnace set fire to the handsome building at the foot of South Twentieth street and de- stroyed practically everything of value, including an adequate and treasured library.
 It was the scene of many bril- liant festivities, and the member ship never failed to offer it's hos pitality to strangers here at con ventions, or in town for pleasure, business or play.
 It is expected that, with the con solidation of the two organizations, more brilliant festivals than ever will be celebrated and that the fame of Shades valley will be car ried afar by strangers and guests like the fame of the former allur- ing Red Mountain view has been.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-17

are moments a fellow needs a sym pathizer.
 Mrs. Thach, who is head of the womans' golf committee, said she had been too busy along profes- sional lines lately. Thus she had sadly neglected her game, and so got badly beaten up and put on the rollers when she went out to take hand the past week end.
 q was floored. I was perfectly positive where I wanted my ball to go, but what I needed was a strong wrist and proper stroke. Those little things were all. Out side of that, I was absolutely per feet"
 There are GA women in the tour nament, and the lucky player so far has been Mrs. Crawford John son, who won her flight, finished 1t day or so ago, and who couldn't be fooling around while northern climates called her out of this sultl'y Augusty weather. So she took her golf bag and went right away for play day.
 Her flight was the first in the second division. In all, there are eight flights of eight in the entire tournament.
 Among those who are playing and who have lent happiness to the conflicts have been these;
 Miss Florence Jordan, Miss Nal vina Coleman, Miss Ann Lanier, Mrs. Hinson Sibley,, Mrs. James Mercer, Mrs. Hartsfield, Mrs. Cecil Gaston, Miss Hulda McNeill, Miss Mary Nabb Phillips, Miss Mary Leary, Miss Minna Stovall, Miss Jane Conner, Miss Jordan Prince, Miss Frances Jenkins, Mrs. Will liam Moore, Miss Annie Todd Per ry, Mrs. Carl Leibold, Miss Caro- line Harris, Miss Mary Harris, Miss
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-17

album, ali the summer wind storms and winter suits we must buy pret- ty quickly now, and Hail Among the Pines" while you wonder whether the brick yard hens are sun-struck. All of this would make clever weather pictures for posterity and home comfort. Can't you figure how gripping would be the likeness of Sister Arabella getting home from business mount ed on a mule that could pull the mud, rather than in her usual air plane velocipede which had settled in the mire at the municipal start ing field never to get free again except at the $150 siren whistle of an airplane wrecker?
 Looks like the seasons climatic changes are trying to keep pace with the modern tendency toward flapperism. A weather book would be an interesting feature for fu- ture curio museums, with pictures of mamma and papa and all the little ones going through the vicis- situdes of sun, rain, sleet, snow, hail, wind, waters, floods, strange atmosphere, autumn leaves and hoary frosts at every season of the year, yet still growing on and living to be men and women, some of whom reach the age of 35 years,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-17
Some More About How to Enjoy the Weather

I got a new idea for Birming- ham the other day.
 We have so many different kinds of weather, and all of it so absorbingly entertaining-why not les have weather picture-album? It would lay the old scrap-book, with it's slim-necked, sugar-and- cream beauties and it's poems of "Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight, ," and q Never Loved a Dear Ga zelle"-in the refrigerator.
 The picture weather-book would have so much more animation so much more creative, virile soul about it. It would be like watch ing the primeval struggles of pre- historic man-so original.
 Why, the kodak album, with "Baby's First Tooth" and with Cousin Pearl and her girl-chum wearing Tommy Jones-zez soldier pants in the back yard would be of such idle interest as common case of measles.
 And I'll betcha Ive seen as many as 300 groups of such girls wearing Tommy's pants!
 A mere autograph album, in comparison with Birmingham climate book this season, would be placed alongside of Senator Snort loud's lecture on Down with the Perils of Solitaire; while Through the Rockies with Red Hearted Pete,' would soon soothe you to sleep.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-17
Fishing Fine if
 Y@m0re 0n HlGlllSehl2f

Hasn't been but a little while ago that Dr. and Mrs. Scale Har- Ifs got back from dandy trip down Mobile and Pensacola way.
 They visited number of places in the Everglade state, and, Mrs. Harris declared:
 "Mobile was just like a little breath of Elysian lands to us. It was all the time delightfully."- cool and charming. As we used to live there, we were naturally very much interested and delighted by the fact that so many new houses were go- ing up.
 "The Mobilians have erected, particularly, handsome new Country Club house which I had not seen-since it has been nine years since I was there."
 The two spent few days at Gen. tury, Florida, as the guests of Mrs. E. A. Hauss, and were a week in Pensacola, where they were enter tained by Judge A. c. Blount on his house boat.
 Dr. Harris enjoyed the fishing so much, Mrs. Harris had Hercu- lean work to get him back home.
 The house boat is delightful affair, and the meals served there on not to be approached by camp service anywhere, the visitors felt.
 They liked the hotel, as we'll, at Mary Esther.
 'It's the first time l ever saw
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-17
Wor1lan's Club to Have
 Eine. Arf GnHNecfinrA

Two more of Birmingham citi- zens can boast of Nicholas Brewer portraits in their homes.
 They're MT. and Mrs. Leo K Steiner, whose pictures-as indi- vidual canvases-Mr. Brewer has completed as his last work in Bir- mingham before going north.
 Which reminds us that the way Birmingham has had several art ists here this season is really giv- ing the town sort of metropolitan atmosphere. Time was that if the citizenry wished to have family portraits it was necessary to go east or north, or even abroad. Now, not only are distinguished painters be- ginning to consider the city, but we have, and are developing, some real artists right here in our own Alabama.
 Visiting artists are recognizing this.
 So listen:
 The Woodlawn Woman's Club has determined to start a collec- ton of really fine paintings which will be the beginning of the first public assembling of good pictures in Birmingham.
 And MT. Brewer has said to the members, by way of encourage ment:
 "Now, after the Woman's Club has bought and paid for picture made by a Birmingham artist, l will present the club with a land scape."
 And how many of you think the members are going to miss getting the landscape?
 don't. know better.
 In fact, one of the officers con- fided to me few days ago, she was already thinking up ways and means to raise d certain quota of money she wanted to give toward the purchase of the local pie ture.
 For the drive was shortly to be put on for said picture by the club In fact, as soon as the S2,50O "In- dian picture" had been paid for At last reports, the balance needed for this latter canvas was $500, with several persons anxious to have their names enrolled as con trbuting to this first really good picture ever to hang in a public school here. It is placed in the li- brary of the Woodlawn high.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-17

been spent on the coast of Brittany.
 They do not intend to come to Birmingham to live, but will re- side in Gotham. Mrs. Kline's par ents are MT. and Mrs. Robert Thach, of Bi1.mingham,r and it is possible-though not positive-that Mrs. Kline will come to the Magic City for "a little visit during the fall season.