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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-01-15
RYLANDER PUTS ON
CLEVER VAUDEVILLE ACT

Having completed a circuit Of the
chain of Leow's plays houses and
featured on all the vaudeville cir
cults throughout the United States,
Americas will have an opportunity
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of
seeing the Royces in one of the
most attractive acts on the stage
today, according to a statement made
today. by Manager Emory Rylander
of the Rylander theater,
Incorporated in the splendid act
which the Royces will put on are
comedy, singing, talking and dane
ing, all picturing beautiful and gor-
geous costumes worn by Villa and
Fred Royce, who know vaudeville
as few actors know it.
Regular prices will be charged,
and there will be two acts daily,
the first coming in the matinee aft
the first showing Of a splendid pic
ture, and the other in the evening
Immediately following the first pic
ture. Programs will be changed
daily.
The ROyce's are putting on an ex-
traordinary attraction, according to
press comments, among them being
from notable paper like the New
Orleans Times, which says, "it is
an act of exceptional merit"
Pittsburg Post remarks that Fired
Royce's baritone is most pleasing"
and the Detroit Free Press says that
Miss Royce is Erim full Of per
sonality."
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-01-15

FARM LOANCJ-Loans on
forms lands
at 6 1-2a6 interest and 10 commits
sion to company. Also Ga interest
and usual commission. Quick SER
vice. GORDON HOWELL, Repre-
senting Chickamauga Trust Co. Small
city loans at reasonable rates.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-01-15
MERCER CELEBRATING
HER GOTH BIRTHDAY
Shows She Has Grown Much
Since The Old Penheld
Days

MACON, Jan. 15.-Starting from
what was known as Mercer Institute,
back at old Penfield, with only three
members of her faculty, Mercer Uni
versity of the present is today cele-
brating the ninetieth anniversary of
her beginning.
From this primitive growth there
has come -seventy-three members to
her staff with an enrolment of near
ly 900 students now. Back at old
Penfield the faculty, students and
classrooms were housed in a building
of logs--the faculty and students
combining, as recorded in the his
toric records of the university, IMAM
ual labor with study"
Those ninety years have been
place one on the other with such
devotion to the early ideals of the
founders that when today the cele-
bration begins, the celebrants will
honor the founders with ore long
stream of remarkable facts-just a
long period of achievement.
Situated as Mercer is today on a
campus of eighty-seven acres of city
property, facing beautiful Tattnall
Square, forty-one buildings included
and assets making it the next largest
capitalized corporation in Central
Georgia, the historian realizes the
achievement when reading thus from
the memoirs of Ira D. Mcdaniel, the
first assistant to Ellington Sanders,
first president of Mercer Institute:
Memory brings up to my mental
vision a picture of the site of Mer-
Ger Institute, as l saw it in Deem
Der, 1882. Beautiful for situation
loes it appear, but almost in a print
tive forest state, with the historical
cabins in course of construction. A
group, consisting of Jesse Mercer, B.
Sanders, James Armstrong, John
Lumpkin and Jonathan Davis, mem
bers OF the executive committee, are
in session on the grounds, sitting on
a log, and the business under con-
Sideration is closing the contract
with the assistant teacher for the
first year. That done, B. M. Sanders.
secretary of the board, makes the
proper entry of the transaction upon
the minutes, and all depart for their
homes, through the surrounding for
ests.
Memory also recalls wildly pic
ture of cotton field, in the spring
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-01-15
YOUNG ANIER GIVEN 80
DAYS TO FIND POSITION
Must Pay Peggy $4,000 Monthly
Alimony And $4,000 At
torney's Fees

MACON, Jan. 15.-Judge Math-
ews late Saturday allowed Mrs. Peg
gy Lanier alimony of $40 a month,
$3.50 attorney fees and ordered that
he begin payment so days from now.
This allows Lanier 60 days to get
a job.
The first payment is to be made
March 10. The attorneys fees are
collectable in 60 days.
"If the boy has got, the money
then, you can get it," was DR..
Lanier's only, comment.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-01-15

High producing Cows are
sure to let the milk produc-
ton run down, unless they
are fed properly. PURiNA
COW CHOW is just the feed
for your herd. Make a test
and the Cows will show you.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-01-15
STEWART SEEKS ENI0IN
.SEABR0OK FROM OFFICE.
Court Has Petition Under Con-
sideration-Both Sides Given
Hearing Tomorrow

SAVANNAH, JAM Is. - Attor-
neys representing Murray NJ. Stew
art, who is to contest the election
of Paul E. Seabrook as mayor, has
filed a petition with Judge Dickerson
of the Alapaha Superior court cir
cult, asking that he declare Stew
art elected mayor and that he di-
rect the judges of the election in
Savannah to cancel the certificate
of election granted Seabrooll and
that Seabrook be enjOined from taxi
ing office next Monday.
Judge Dickerson has the petition
under consideration.
Judge Dickerson will hear attor-
neys on both sides tomorrow.
HTK
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-01-15

A cubic foot of water is convert
lble into 1862 cubic feet of steam.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-01-15

1t is estimated that 1900 thunder
storms are always in progress all
over the world.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-01-15
BLANCHE RING, MILTON MOBILES, CHARLES
W1NNINGERRAMONG CELEBRITIES BOOKED
At Rylander For Early Date-Mark Twain
Master Comedy At Opera House

amusement lovers will be intensely interested in the
carried today by the Rylander heate and Dud
ley's Opera House
The Rylande the booking of Blanche Ring and
Ohares Winnnger AS You We're musical show of
ordinary merit which will appear in February Milton Mobiles
returns January - in Lghnn for performance. Neil
Brien here during the month This week the Rander
re an added attraction of The Royce vaudeville of
and Wednesday.
Manager Dudley for today and Mark
IVAN great comedy, "A Connecticut Yankee in King Ar
thur court one or the popular moving picture comeds
OF the year picture that enjoyed equally much the second
time witnessed as the first
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-01-15

CT 1888. Nest of the students are
engaged in chopping out cotton with
the hoe. Those who WELD the hoe
dcXteriously are far in advance;
those who use that implement
awkwardly, though laboring hard,
ale falling further behind, while the
leader is passing rapidly from boy
to boy and giving each an illus
tration of the proper use OF the hoe"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-01-15
BLANCHE RING AND
CHARLES WINNINGER

CHARLES WINNINGER
Blanche Ring and Charles Winn-
niger have been booked by the Ry-
lander theater, in their newest must
cal hit, "As You We're" They will
appear at the local theater late in
February, probably about the oath,
Manager Emory Rylander announced
today.
Miss Ring-rather Mrs. Winning
err, for her co-star is her husband
is playing at the Atlanta theater
this week. From Atlanta she goes
to Jacksonville, Birmingham and
New Orlean, stopping in Americas
on the return lap of her southern
tour.
''As You Were" is a musical play
in two acts of six scenes.
Advance criticisms that have pre-
coded Miss Ring and Chas. Winning
er show that they have met with
great success in their tour of the
South, just as they did last season
in the "Whirl of the World"
In this new musical play Miss
Ding sings some new songs, and,
as she is always gracious, she sings
some of the old ones that she has
made popular too. She and Mr.. Win
ringer have the two chief roles in
the play, of course, which is that of
prosperous baker and his frivolous
wife.
The baker is interested in pastry
solely and lives for his bsuiness. His
wife has social ambitions and helps
him spend the money he makes. lie
gives her everything she wants, but
when he discovers that her attentions
are centered on another man, he de-
cldes to leave home and go in search
OF place where there are no deceit
tIl women. AS he is about to leave.
a chemist appears who wants him to
finance Il new discovery, transit
pill" which viii transport the per
son who takes it to other lands in
other days. WoffIestcin, the har-
raised baker, gets possession of the
pills, takes one, and finds himself
in France in the dayes Louis XIV.
But he finds deceitful woman there
IN the person of historical charac-
ter, and another pill takes him to
Athens, Greece, in the days of Hell
en- of Troy. Helen is a gold digger
too, and he goes to Egypt and meets
Cleopatra. Cleopatra tricks him too
and then wants to feed him to the
crocodiles. Wherever he goes he
lind that women are all alike and
that human nature is pretty much the
same today as it ever was. Finally
ne goes back home, discovers that his
wife really loves him and that his
going away was all a mistake.
1t is frothy story, but it is all
good, clean fun, with the two princi-
pal characters admirably played by
Blanche Ring and Winninger and
their support is entirely adequate.
and they have rafting good chorus
who can sing and dance, and some
Of the others in the cast are Edgar
Atkinson Ely, the Four Entertain
ers, a corking good quartet; Char
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-01-15
SMALL BOYS WOUNDED
WITH AN empty" GUN

HAZLEHURST, Jan. 15.-Willie
Taylor, 16, and Leon Taylor, ID, sons
of Leonard Taylor, prominent farm
err, are in a local hospital suffering
from serious gunsbot wounds, the
result, according to officers who in
vestigated the case, of being fired
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-01-15

That Delighted Americas Theatergoes Season Before Last
PRICES Entire Lower Floor, $3.50; Balcony
Boxes $780, Balcony 81 Gallery,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-01-15
VOTE TO CONTINUE
STRIKE ON A., B. & A.

ATLANTA, Jan. 15.-At meet
ing of the chiefs of sixteen standard
railroad unions in Chicago yester-
day, a vote was taken to continue
the strike on the Atlanta, Birming-
ham & Atlantic railroad operating IN
this state and Alabama:
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-01-15
POSTMASTER GENERAL TO
MEET POSTAL EMPLOYEES

ATLANTA, Jan. 15.-Postmaste
General Work and Assistant Post
master General Bartlett will attend
the conference of postal employees
of the state, scheduled to assemble
at Atlanta, January 20.
According to the program made
public today, Governor Hardwick
and Mayor Walter Sims will welcome
these Washington postal officials.
The principal speech will be deliver
ed by Postmaster General Work, fol-
lowed by Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral Bartlett. The program calls for
an "open forum" at which the work
ers from every postoffice in the state
will be given an opportunity of pre-
senting their own postal problems.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-01-15

upon by a 7-year-old brother. The
older boy had been hunting and gave
the gun to his young brother, after
he thought he had unloaded it.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-01-15
NITRATE AT COST SEEN
FOR SOUTHERN FARMER

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.-An eff
fort will be made to sell to the farm
ers of the South sodium nitrate and
calcium arsenate at cost, if favor.
able action on a resolution by Sem
ator Harris is made. Those who are
watching developments of TIE reso-
luton creating revolving fund of
$4,000 believe the house will pass
the measure.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-01-15

lotte Osgood, who sings well, and
Elby and St. Leo, d nigh-class dane
ing team.
The Dolores star., 1923-04-06
For the Man of the House.

Equipping an electrical den for the
man of the house is a project that
will not require as much money as
one may think. These are some of
the things that go with it: An electric
log fireplace, an electric cigar lighter,
humidltier that clears and perfumes
the air of every taint of tobacco
smoke, and even in these days the
electric cocktail mixer cannot be over
looked. Other articles for the den
are a clock that never has to be
wound, and an immersion heater
which may boil water for hot drink
or for shaving In ten minutes. His
couch can be fitted with an electric
comfort which covers 1t entirely. and
softly shaded reading light will
surely be most welcome companion
at his shoulder.
The Dolores star., 1923-04-06
HOLD CONVERSE BY SIGNS
selves Understood Amid the Deaf
ening Din of Heavy Machinery.

Among Lancashire weavers there is
soundless system of communication
which has been in use for generations.
Amid the crash of the machinery
when no human vsice could be heard,
the workers converse easily with one
another by means of lip movements
and signs made by the hands. Knowl-
edge of the weavers' language is II
necessity to the craftsman and the
little "tenters' study it along with
their lessons in weaving Usually the
first thing learnt is the time of day.
forefnger crooked and held up, then
four fingers held up, signifies n quar-
ter to four. If the crooked finger
moves to either side it means n quar-
ter past four. The pupil watches the
movements of the lips. At first he
can only comprehend their meaning
when the words are simple and the
movements are exaggerated. In n sur
prisingly short time, however, he
is able to talk to his fellow work
men with perfect ease, during the in
tervals when the looms do not need all
OF his attention
The Dolores star., 1923-04-06
DEPRIVED OF FORTUNE BY HATRED

her son did not secure a dollar of her
fortune. Three years ago she had a
narrow escape from death while walk
ing over the crossing of the Illinois
Central. here, and the quick action
of Grover c. Ennis. brakeman, saved
her from being MANNED or killed.
She was so grateful that she pre-
sented him with a check for $1,000
and later gave him deed to her
farm, but retained life interest In
the property. When she died recently
and her will was admitted to probate,
objection was filed by her son, but
his protest was overruled.
He then appealed the case to the
higher court. The will provided that
$1,000 in cash was to go to the son,
providing that he did not attack the
validity of the will. In the event
that he did, the money was to be
divided between three sisters of the
testatrix, the latter evidently being
certain that the son would endeavor
to recover the farm, and that in so
doing he would bs In danger Of los
Ing also the $4,000
The Dolores star., 1923-04-06
WAS HERE BEFORE COL LUMBUs
Claims Put Forward That Danish
Navigator Landed on the Ameri-
can Continent In 1476.

Several months ago Dr. Sofus Lar.
sen of the University Of Copenhagen
reported having discovered among old
Portuguese and Danish documents. eyi-
de1ce that John ScOlvo or ScoIf. II
Danish navigator reached the Ameri-
can continent and landed there in
14I6. l6 years before Columbus
sailed.
According TO Doctor Larsen's ac-
count, the Portuguese prince, Henry
the Navigator, after his twentieth at
tempt to reach India by sailing
around the lower end of Africa had
succeeded, conceived the idea that
ships could reach another part of
India by sailing northward across the
Atlantic. He got in touch with Chris
tian of Denmark, his broi her-in-law.
and asked him to assist In dispatch
Ing an expedition from Denmark in
starch of northwest passage to
India. Christian fell III with the plan
and chose John Scolvo. an expert
enced, competent sailor. to pilot the
ship. Finally the ship reached the
coast of Labrador in safety, and
found harbor In what is now called
the Gulf of st. Lawrence.
The Dolores star., 1923-04-06
SURELY HAD A BUSY DAY
Novelist Must Have Been Kept Fully
Employed, Judging From tho
Result of His Labors,

English novelists are effete. They
go In too much for style. There's n
lack of red blcud in their work.
"At Dime, in country inn
where we were staying together. I
said one evening to an English nov-
elist:
"'Well. dashed off 5000 words to-
day. Wha. did you do?'
"'Oh. I was immensely busy said
he. 4 corrected the proofs of my
new essay
"'Make any changes?' I asked.
made one very important
change he said. I took out n
comma
81 couldn't help giving disgusted
laugh.
land is that all you did all day.
said-'take out comma?'
"'Oh, no. said he. After deep re-
Election l put the comma back"
The Dolores star., 1923-04-06
Both Are Still at Large.

"1f there were 800 brave men in
Petrograd," Carl Radek. the Bolshe-
visit journalist, once said to Lenine,
you would be put in Jail"
The man who ruled Russia with
an iron hand received this sally
calmly.
"Some comrades may go TO JAIL" he
said slowly. but on the basis of prob
abilities 1t Is more likely that l will
send you to Jail than that you will
send me-"
The Dolores star., 1923-04-06
Purse of King
Tut Is Missing

are, and consequently much valuable
historical information is lost.
"The pyramids-those tombs which
were to serve as the eternal homes for
the early pharaohs-were robbed of all
their valuables by the sons and grand
sons of the rulers for whom they were
built.
CONSTRUCTION Of these enormous and
magnificent houses for the dead proved
an expensive business and resulted in
the financial ruin of Egypt, a change
of dynasty and period of chaos dur
ing which the rulers got what burial
they could.
Built Their Graves In Cliff.
"With the next period. the monarchs
or mobiles started new burial custom.
Instead Of building tomb, they ex-
cavated a burial room In the face Of
the cliff.
"In the plain west of Thebes, be-
tween the city and the edge Of the des.
ert. the Egyptians erected their mortu-
ary temples. but, on account Of the
many grave robberies, they went two
miles farther back into the hills for
the actual place Of burial. There they
made tunnels from 200 to 700 feet long
Into the rocks.
"Tut-Ankh-Amen's tomb Is one of
these. 1t only escaped the depreda-
tions of the ancient and modern grave
robbers because Rameses VI. king
of the Twentieth dynasty, was given
berth directly over Tuts tomb. All
the earth and rocks from Rameses' bur
lal chamber fell down over the face of
Tuts tomb, completely burying It."
The Dolores star., 1923-04-06
Explorers Fail to Find WelI-FiIled
Wallet Left in Tomb by Ancient
Egyptian King.
Find SMALL IMAGE OF KING
Antiquarians Treasure This as Most
important Discovery Of Ali-Eoyp-
tolooist Tells How Tomb Was
Saved From Robbers.

Luxor, Egypt.-king Tut-Ankh-Amen
took some of his money with him when
he died, but 1t was gone and his purse
also when the outer chamber was
opened by Howard Carter.
The psychologists were quite sad
about this. for they believe there Is
! only one example of such purse In
existence.
OF all the fine things found In the
outer room of the disturbed resting
place of King Tut-Ankh-Amen, the
finest, from the antiquarian stand
point, is the "Ushabti," small image
Of the king himself That, at least, Is
the opinion of Lord Carnarvon.
The "ushabti." or "answerer,' show
Ing the defunct monarch In the guise
of Osiris. customarily was placed in
royal tombs with an inscription stat
ing that the image was prepared to do
any work imposed upon IT, Then the
tomb was sealed so tightly no one
could get to the 'ushabti.' and re-
quest it to do something.
Back In what Tut-Ankh-Amen may,
In his language, have referred to as
the good old days Of yore. the pharaoh.
when he died, was accompanied to the
underworld by slave, sacrificed dur
Ing the royal funeral ceremonies. In
more modern" times the slave was
allowed to live and the "ushabti" was
substituted for him. This was done In
the case OF Tut-Ankh-Amen.
Rich Loot In Graves.
Chicago.-Tombs of the pharaohs
have been Aladdin's caves and fair
spoil for robbers since the days OF
Egypt's glory. and the earl of Carnar-
Won Is not the first to find rich treas
ure in the grave of dead ruler.
In speaking of "what Tut-Ankh-
Amen missed" Prof. ID. d. LuckenbilI,
Psychologist in charge of the Haskell
oriental museum OF the University of
Chicago, came to the defense Of Car
narvon and Carter, whose excavations
In the valley of kings" have recently
been termed by some grave robbIng"
at should be remembered" said Pro
fessor Luckenbill. that If competent
Psychologists had not found Tut's
tomb. natives would have, and with
far less desirable results for science
Just In the last few years these ma
tives have discovered some very i'm
pOrtunt tOmbs-we know this from the
exquisite pieces Of jewelry they have
offered for sale to orientalists. Natur-
ally. they will not tell where the tombs
The Dolores star., 1923-04-06
Mothers Bitterness Toward Son
Shown in Will Case.
Fafm Valued at $4,000 Decided to
Brakeman Who Saved Woman
From Death While Walking
Over Railroad Crossing.

Arcola, IlL-Hatred of mother
a. child. and which was recip-
ro(hted in kind resulted in a re-
m1fkable action by Mrs. Ruth A.
CnIttenden of this vicinity. and which
booame known when her will was
adhitted to probate.
: 9he owned farm Of 260 acres In
Douglas county, valued at $5O, 1000. and
V1ich she had inherited from her
her. Her only child, Marion, be-
edjhs estranged from his mother and
j the antagOnism between the two In
;. creased with the passing years.
; The mother frequently informed her
friends that she proposed to see that
The Dolores star., 1923-04-06

The son Is said to have declared
that he would make an effort to oh
tain all of the property, and would
not be content with small portion
rs provided in his mothers will. 1t
Is said that Ennis has disposed of
the farm and that 1t will be difficult
to recover possession, thus making II
reasonably certain that the mother has
succeeded In her effort to prevent her
son from securing possession of her
estate.
The Dolores star., 1923-04-06
Appliance for Intensification of
Sound Makes Ticking of
Watch Audible in Hall.
IS BIG BENEFIT TO INvALIDS
Specialists in Distant Cities May Be
Consulted by Patients In Far
off Places-German Scientists
Perfect Apparatus.

Berlin.-The great interest mani
tested by German surgeons and
electrical scientists in the use Of the
stethoscope at long range, with the
aid Of telephone and microphone. re
calls early achievements of that
character. AS far back as June "a,
1910, there was published an ac-
count of the first telephonic auto
The Dolores star., 1923-04-06
Equal Divorces" In Britain.

London.-lt may soon be just as
easy for a woman to get a divorce n
England as for a man.
The house OF commons by a vote Of
2S1 to % has passed the second read.
ing Of q bill under which 1t will no
longer be necessary for a wife to al.
lege cruelty or desertion in addition
to infldelity. Under the existing law
the husband only has to establish In,
fidelity.
The Dolores star., 1923-04-06
The Reason

Il make my children mind. or know
the reason WHY" declared Gap John
Son of Rumpus Ridge to the gents as
sembled in the crossroads store.
well, what is the-p'tu-reason
why" sarcastically inquired old man
Sockery.
"They gener1v don't want to; that s
the-confound em!-reason why r.
Kansas City Star.
The Dolores star., 1923-04-06
A Wordy Picture

The little girl of eight had returned
from school and was telling her par
ents about the picture they were go
ing to get for their room at school.
We'll" said she, "it is a picture of
Washington, I think. giving up his
sword and going back to be human