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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-06-29
TWENTY Y EARS AGO TODAY
Monday morning, no paper pub
fish ed.
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(FTom the Times-Reorderc. June
- 20, 1889

Notl ing short of snow storm
can prevent the meeting of the
Barbecue Club at the usual place
at high noon today. Col. Anie
Gatewood came in from the coun-
try yesterday in rider to be here
in ample irne, and when theclans
gather today no happier or hun
grier man tran he will be among
them.
Genial Tom Black came in yes
terday and registered in a bold
round band, at the Allen House.
Miss Julia Peacock of EllavilIe,
stopped over for a short while yes
terady while en- route to Monte
yuma to visit relatives.
The fire committee of the city
council held meeting yesterday
and ordered 500 feet of new hose
for t he paid fire department.
Mr.. James Furlow has returned
from West Point, N. Y, where he
went two weeks ago to be exam
ined for admission to the United
States NJ ilitary A cademy. He
passes a, most satisfactory physical
examination, and in every study ex-
cept mathematics came up to the
full requirements. He will apply
himself diligently this fall to-
wards mastering this study.
Miss May KilIingsworth, a very
attractive young lady Of Button,
and who has been S p ending sew
eral weeks here, the guest of Mrs.
J. l. Macarthur, left for her home
last evening.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-06-29

Kansas City parachute jumper
who landed on a COW can be
thankful it wasn't her husband
Brazil has her Brazil nuts,
but we have our reformers.
They ship moonshine by mail
in North Carolina, making the
mail more deadly than the fe-
male.
Holland has her windmills.
but We have our Congress.
Chattanooga, Tenn, woman of
So eloped with a youngster of
83-the old cradle robber!
Artic regions have their cold
but we have our foreign policy.
Many patriots who can't sing
beyond tissuf the" are think
ing up verses for Hot Lips"
Sahara Desert has her water
problem, but we have our pro-
blem, but we have our prohibi--
ton.
The old village store which
kept everything has moved to
town and calls itself drug
store.
The Atlantic has its fish, but
we have our oil stock buyers.
Things could be worse. Sup
pose July Fourth was Christmas
and you had to dress as Santa
| Clause?
Quickest way to make both
cucumber.
ends meet is eat a green cucum-
Der.
You can't enjoy yourself
these days. Nine Philadelphia
fans were fined for hitting UNI
pires.
China has Der bandits, but
we have our sugar gamblers.
Astronomers claim it rs an
ways cool on he moon. Now
doesn't that beat the world?
Thirty chorus girls are living
on a Connecticut farm, and an
error spelled it thirsty"
Young people know the val
ne of gas. Boy and girl can be
gone five hours on half a gallon
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-06-29
S Top =. 4. sel loss, Daily Poem b
By
Berton Braley
THE TRACTOR


thing of beauty of charm, y
am ugly | noisy, but I'm strong,
l am built for heavy duty on the farm m
And | do heavy duty right along. u
/ yank a bunch of gang-plows through the sod,
pull a dozen binders through the wheat;
Is labor needing, blowing, harvesting seeding?
Give me gas and put driver my seat!
| am not the sort of thing that artists paint,
don't add much pretty color to the scene, n,
And you couldn't call me picturesque or quaint
And / smell of oil and grease and gasoline w
am clumsy, but I'm. tireless in my might f@
And I'm buster than all the bees that buzz,
And have more vital forces score or two of horses
So reckon handsome is as handsome doesl
It i. min. to helm ii. ,,,n,..
IN glant-at your service here and nowt
VINO Will save you from the WEAKNESS and irE
And the sweat that blinds the ewes and heads +b L,
am ugly, but I'm willing and I'm strong
With an endless store of energy athrob.
an 'ask oone! can dot it. give gas, steer me to it
>" "e sa'e OF modern progression the job
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-06-29
Three SIN lies
Only Slightly Chanped.

An instructor in a church schoil
where much attention was paid to
sacred history, dewitt particularly
on the phrase And Enoch was not,
for God took him" SO many times
was this repeated in connection
with the death of Enock that he
thought even the dullest pupil
answer correctly when asked in ex-
animation: State in the exact Ian
guage of the Bible what is said OF
Enoch's death.
But this was the answer he got
"Enoch was not what God took
him fer"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-06-29
HARDING PLAYS POLITICS
ON HIS WESTERN TOUR.

ON HIS WESTERN TOUR.
All Mr.. Harding said on his
tour Of the west while en- route
to Alaska, did not get in the
newspapers. His press agents
who are accompanying him on
this trip saw to that. Long be-
fore the president started on
this trip there were printed at
the government printing office
carefully prepared advance adj
dresses of what Mr.. Harding
wanted the public out in the
sticks to get. His speeches were
printed at public expense, and
sent out by the Associated Press
to be used wheneved they should
be released. But all Mr.. Harding
actually said did not appear in
any of the copies which reached
scores of southern papers, The
Times-Recorder among them.
1t will be remembered that
Mr.. Harding appeared at the
Coliseum in st. Louis during
the convention of the Interna-
tlonal Rotary clubs speaking for
his. World Court idea when sew
eral Of the southern delegates
were in the audience, among
these being w. w, kainey OF
Columbus, Gag who gives 10 the
Enaulrer-Sun an Interesting
story, few paragraphs from
which we quote;
ut is estimated that some
thing like 10000 people We're in
the Coliseum when the Presi-
dent began his speech at eight
o'ciock Thursday night; before
he had finished at about $3.50.
TINS number had greatly dimin-
ished
Inc concensus Of opinion in
st. Louis was that the Presi-
dents appeal for the World
Court fell flat. He started out
stating that his speech and his
report of stewardship would be
non-partisan. lie had not pro-
ressed very far, before he had
crossed very far, before he had
speech to attack Woodrow Will
son, and also to condemn the
League of Nations.
President Harding evidently
felt that in the home of Sena-
tor Reed, he would find much
opposition to the League of Ma
tons. AT one point in his
speech and with as much drama
tic effect as he could command,
the President said: THE League
of Nations is as dead as slav-
ery." When Mr.. Harding made
this announcement, he paused
for a moment in his delivery,
evidently expecting an enthusiast
tic RESPONSE, but not hand
was clapped, and not even a
ripple Of applause stirred the
Coliseum"
Mr.. Rainey's description of
Harding is interesting He APP
reared immaculate in his blue
flannel coat and white flannel
pants, his hair combed a
'jelIy beam" says Rainey.
The st. Louis Post-Dispatch
editorially said that the Presi-
dents St. Louis effort revealed
Mr.. Harding at his best and
at his worst. That editorial APP
peared under the caption "Mr
Harding surrenders."
whole, those in the audience
To sum up the speech as a
who heard it were Of the opinion
that Mr.. Harding made the mis-
takes stradling; of trying to
please too many different people
at the same time 1870 the result
was that he did not please any
body, and the chances are, that
his speech killed all possibility
of the United States becoming
a party to any international
peace agreement while the Re-
tpubilcans are in power; or at
least as long as President Hard
ing is the leader Of the party,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-06-29
o. p. JoY-RIDING GEMS.

From the Ohio State JournaL)
VIZ suppose our great presi--
dent could stop the Lasker per-
Torrance if he wanted to but he
seems to be proceeding as if
the case came under the flex-
ible p rovisions of the traiff law.
Our unmitigated falsehood for
the day: 1t makes US very hap
by, as we pay the second INSTALL
Rnent of our income tax, to re-
I fleet that we thus have the
privilege Of helping in our
small way to defray the ex-
penses of Mr.. Lasker's delight
fu little party on the Leviath-
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-06-29
Surprised. Indeed.

Bessie was the dearest little dog,
and her mistress was pasionately
fond of her. One day the little girl
was told by her mother that She
must not see Bessie for two or
three days, and then, when at the
end of the time she found her dog,
it was with five puppies.
why, Bessie" said the little
mistress as the little dog leaped
into her arms, why, you dear lit
tie doggie, | didx't know you were
married"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-06-29

H. Hammer has charge of
Amundsen's north pole relief
party, when S. Shovel would
do better.
India has her earthquake, but
we have our presidential cleo
ton.
Big Cincinnati oil company
burned. All the neighbors got
about ten scares to the gallon.
Italy has her volcano, b ut we
have our William Jenning Bryan.
American fountain pen won
the highest award in South
America, before anybody could
borrow it.
The Balkans have their wars,
but we have our prize fights.
A. N. Chew of St. Louis was
fined $50 for biting Avery
Pickerel. Avery claims he is no
fish.
Australia has her kangaroos,
but we have our pedestrians.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-06-29
YES, TIMES
HAVE CHANGED.

A few centuries ago the word
'idiot' meant a member of the
Roman citizenry Citizens in
general would resent the impli-
cation that the word conveys,
today. There are still idiots, but
the application of the world Is
entirely different from what it
was of old.
There was also time when
some advertisements had to be
taken with a grain Of salt. A
few misguided advertisers !
thought they could sell their
goods better By Aisrepresent-
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-06-29
Cause and Effect.

Mistress: 'sYou have seven waists
in the wash this week. My daugh-
ter has only twoS
Maid; Your daughters young
mans bank clerk, Mines a coal
man.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-06-29

The average mans idea of
highbrow music is a phonograph
record with something on only
one side.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-06-29

Every branch of our air serv-
ice breaks records except Con-
gress.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-06-29

Unity, agreement, is always
silent or soft-yoiced; it is only
discord that loudly proclaims
itself.-Carlyle.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-06-29
A Thought

The beginning Of strife is as
when one letteth out water;
therefore leave off contention,
before it be meddled with
Prov. 17:14.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-06-29

FOR neutrality-suspicious. House,
Hampton ST., Phone STA. R. E.
Cato. 27-3t
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-06-29

PHONE 117-JOHN w. SILVER
BEST GRADE RED CEDAR, No.
1 and No 2 PINE SHINGLES 27-tf
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-06-29

We make to order things
that you want: Ice
boxes, porch boxes,
lawn swings, cedar
chests, cook tables,
breakfast suites, lamp
stands and all kinds Of
screens. Repair >ol4 tnd
of furniture. Americus
Screen Mfg. Co. Phone
10. 1877
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-06-29

PHONE 117-JOHN w. SILVER
for SCREENS, for home or Of
flee. 27-tf
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-06-29

Now that business is getting
settled maybe business will be.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-06-29
RAILROAD SCHEDULE

Arrival and Departure of Passenger
Trains, Americas, Ga.
The following schedule figures
published as information and NOT
guaranteed:
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-06-29

FOR SALE-One baby carriage in
good condition, cheap. Can be
seen at d17 L. Lamar street.-dh
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-06-29
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS

C OMPLETE COMMERCIAL
COURSE - Comprising Short
hand, Typewriting, Bookkeeping;
taught in 6 to 8 weeks; easy terms
Address Box 254, Americas, Ga.
LIFT
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-06-29

ROOFING-Phon6 117-SHIVER
Johns-Manville ROOFING, roof
coating, roof cement, creosote,
roof paint. If
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-06-29

Australia has her kangaroos,
but we have our pedestrians.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-06-29

FOR SALE-Limited amount Of
Al FINE SHINGLES from unbled
yjugi as 4s42l4bel, also few more new
5-bushel oat bags. Harold Bros.
Phone 2. 28-6t
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-06-29
NOTICE

CITY Tax Books are now open
for 1928 returns. Books will close
July LIST. Make your returns early.
A. D. GATEWOOD, Clerk and
Treasurer.-(adv.)
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-06-29

DIR. Z. M. HAWKINS, Physician
Office over Americas Drug Co..;
phone, office 1868: residence 523.
eff
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-06-29

FOR SALE-A-No. 1 Grade Reg
ular Second Sheets, 8 IL by II
inches, special per thousand, ST..
The Times-Recorder Job Printing
Denartment.-22-
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-06-29

WANTED - LOANS, LOANS,
LOANS, LOANS-Having a di-
rect connection and plenty of
money at the lowest possible inter
est rate. can save you money on
city loans and farm loans. H. 0.
JONES. 14-tf
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-06-29

India has her earthquake, but
We have our presidential cleo
ton.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-06-29

Thirty chorus girls are living
on a Connecticut farm, and an
error spelled it thirsty"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-06-29

Young people know the val
ne of gas. Boy and girl can be
gone five hours on half a gallon.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-06-29

LOANS on farm lands and city
property. Low interest rate.
Loans promptly closed. See S. R.
Heys or Fl. B. Williams. Phones 48
or So.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-06-29

The Balkans have their wars,
but we have our prize fights.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-06-29

Big Cincinnati oil company
burned. All the neighbors got
about ten scares to the gallon.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-06-29

Italy has her volcano, b ut we
have our William Jenning Bryan.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-06-29

WANTED-=To protect you, your
family and your property. Frank
e. Matthews, Insurance. 18-tf
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-06-29

Astronomers. claim it is an
ways cool on t he moon. Now
doesn't that beat the world?
The Washington times., 1923-04-21
FINN" KELLY
SUSPENDED
BY POLICE
Teams Pitching Star Arrested
for Statutory offense, For
feits Collateral.

The crack pitcher of the police
department is probably out of the
service. He was arrested night be-
fore last on a statutory offense by
Night inspectors Emerson, Wilson,
Brennan and Stott. The girl in the
case is a fireman's daughter. She
is nineteen years old.
Charles e. Kelly, popularity known
as "Finny'' because Of his pitching
abilities, was hailed as the hero Of
the police department last year
when the police defeated the fire.
men in the championship baseball
game. It was mainly through Kelly
that the handsome silver cup that
was the trophy for the winners was
awarded the bluecoats.
Kelly was connected with the
Sixth precinct and was considered
one OF the most efficient men in
that section.
Immediately after the offense is
said to have been committed, Kelly
was suspended by the inspectors.
They caught the couple in a house
in Anacostia. At the Eleventh pre-
cinct station house Kelly furnished
$25 collateral, which was forfeited
yesterday at police court.
The inspectors had received infor-
nation that the policeman was vis-
ting the girl while he was off duty
and they lay in walt for him. He
will be brought to trial before the
police trial board.
The Washington times., 1923-04-21
CLAIMS He
CAN GIVE
PROOF
Rees TO Produce Documents in
Answer to Conspiracy In
dictment in N. Y.
BY JOHN L. SPIvAK.
: international News Service.

NEW YORK, April 21.--An amaz-
ing romance of big business, play
ing for stakes greater than the COM
bined fortunes of Standard Oil and
United States Steel, with interna.
tional intrigue, plot and counter
plot, will be unfolded at the forth
coming trial of the nine men in
djcted for grand larceny in connec-
ton with the Kuzbas autonomous
Industrial colony in Siberia, it was
revealed today by Thomas Rees of
st. Louis, American representative
OF Kuzbas and one of the men in
dicted, in an exclusive interview.
In the revelations of alleged con-
spiracy, Rees and his associates
claim they will make and support
with documentary proof runs tale
of ceaseless conflict between group
of Americans set upon exploitation
of two of the richest terriSASies in
the world and powerful British in
terests, who are said to have tried
to wrest the concessions from Them
Prosecutor Surprised.
On the other hand, Emery C. We'll
Ter, assistant district attorney, who
is prosecuting the cae, expressed
surprise today at the charges made
by Rees, but admitted that the en-
terprise was mot a crooked affair
in the common sense of the word
They merely committed grand
larceny in the course of their ac-
tivities by misrepresenting the facts"
he said. 1--WE are prosecuting solely
on that basis. AS for the charges
of an international conspiracy, all l
can say is that know nothing about
it."
The strip of land in question, and
for which the British interests are
said to be angling. is greater in size
than the State of New Jersey. One
of the territories alone, the Made
jenski Nayod, contains more coal
than the Ruhr basin, according to
reports made by metallurgists, be-
sides unconnted treasure in iron,
copper, silver. gold, platinum, sui
phur, etc.
A contract with the Russian So
Wet government displayed by Rees
calls for the delivery to him and
his associates of 81 .000, 900 in Amer
lean money, by the Russian gov
eminent for the exploiting of the
property.
See British Conspiracy.
These indictments, said Rees,
''are not for the petty $4,000, but
are part of British conspiracy to
discredit our connections with Kuz-
bas so that the Russian government
will cancel the contract. Doyle and
Novak, the two compliments, are
simply tools.
THE absurdity of the grand lar
ceny charge becomes evident when
X is known that at this moment
there is $4,000 in the Phoenix
Chatham Bank to the credit of Roger
n. Baldwin, director of the American
Civil Liberties Union, and myself,
to be used for the purchase of sup
plies for Kuzbas. Another 100000
is on its way here. We have al
ready spent $4,000 for foodstuffs
and machinery.
ut is my personal belief that the
American consul at Riga, who took
charge of Doyle's and the district
attorneys office here, are simply
unwilling tools of the smoke screen
thrown by British interests around
American activities. l made close
study of British activities in Mos
cow and in London, and have evil
dence to support my statements"
The Washington times., 1923-04-21
BIBLE CLASSES
To HOLD MASS
b MEETING
''Christian Citizenship" Will Be
Topic of Mt. Pleasant and
Columbia Heights Districts.

A community mass meeting of
the mems Bible classes of the Mt.
Pleasant and Columbia Heights dis.
tricts will be held Monday evening
at O'Clock in the Columbia
Heights Christian Church.
-. Christian Citizenship" viii be
the general topic of discussion
Homer J. Councillor, chairman OF
the central committee of Mems
Bible Glass Work for the District
will preside The invocation will
be by the Rev. Charles II. Butler
pastor of the Columbia Heights I.u
theran Church.
The Rev. b. H. Melton. pastor
OF the Columbia Heights Christian
welcome. The Rev. G. K. Ray, pas
tor of the Mt. Pleasant NJ e
Church, South, will lead the devO
tlonal services. The speakers will
be the Rev. Isaac Ward, pastor Of
the Fourth Presbyterian Church
the Rev. James II. Taylor, pastor
OF Central Presbyterian Church and
t'ie Rev. Walter A. Morgan. pastor
OF Mt. Pleasant Congregations
Church.
The mems Bible classes from tn,
following churches are co-operatint
in the meeting: First Reformed, I'm
manuel Baptist. Columbia Heights
Christian, Mt. Pleasant M. e.
South, Calvary M r. Fourth Pres
byterian, Gunton Temple Presby
terrain, Central Presbyterian, Col
unbia Heights Lutheran and MI
Pleasant Congregational.
The Washington times., 1923-04-21
DETECTIVES SOON ON JOB
BUT NOT NEEDED BY BANK

CHESTER, Pa. April 214-Thers
was some excitement In the money
center here when one Of the d.
nancial institutions was visited by q
group OF four strange men. Visions
of hold-up prompted some Of the
officials to notify the police and Il
was not long before several detec.
tives were in the banking institu.
ton with their hands on their hips.
ready for action at the least into
nation of trouble.
After an animated conversation IN
the middle of the room, one Of the
men approached the paying teller's
window and asked to have some
Canadian money exchanged for
United States currency and the
mystery was explained. The men
had arrived on q ship that had Just
docked here from Halifax.