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Americus times-recorder., 1923-08-03
TWENTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY
Monday morning, no paper ,aA
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From the Times-Recorder. Au-
cp51ct , 1909

| gust 3, 1893.5
Mr.. George Dudley says he would
not take ten thousand dollars for
his experience in the bicycle race in
which he recently participated at
Atlanta. He says he came out first
best, but on the wrong end of the
track.
Miss Anna Harold and Mr..
Harold left yesterday via Savan-
nah for Boston, from there they
viii visit Buzzard's Bay and other
Eastern resorts.
Mrs. c. A. Huntington and her
daughter, Miss Helen, returned
from a lengthy visit to Quincy,
Fla.
Mr.. w. Houdlette Oliver, who has
for some time been visiting his
sister, Mrs. H. H. Steele, on Col
lege street, leaves Friday for Tex
as where he goes to accept posi-
ton with his brother, Mr.. P. Fl.
Oliver, who is no stranger to the
people of Americus.
A hopeful feature of the pres
ent situation is the fact that the
South's cotton crop which will bring
about $25O,0OO,OOO into the country
and should bring $30O,00O,OOO is
now about to come into market. As
t.hree-fourths Of this crop will 90
to Europe. it means that about two
hundred millions in gold must come
back to this country to pay for it.
Americus times-recorder., 1923-08-03
q S''2's1'' z. 4. s.11ss. lass. Daily Poem
ON THE PORCH

ON THE PORCH
The evening air is soft and fair
And everybody somehow has a
Desire to flee outside and be
At ease upon the cool piazza.
Inside the house the lights burn low,
Up in the trees the night-birds coo,
Hammocks are swinging to and fro,
And lovers sitting two-and-two.
On mother knits while father sits
And smokes his pipe or cigar
And young mems feet along the street
Lead where the pretty maidens are
Music soft laughter, seem to flow
The front gate clicks as gates will do.
Hammocks are swinging to and fro,
And lovers sitting two-and-two
Dad ends his smoke, the older folk
Rise to their feet and say good night.
And young romance will have it's chance
With only twinkling stars for Aght
And youthful hearts are all aglow
With wonder that is ever new,
Hammocks are swinging to and fro.
And lovers sitting two-and-two
Americus times-recorder., 1923-08-03
By
Berton Braley

chops on hot stove while hubby
watches the thermometer on the
porch.
They are using rye for money
IN Saxony the rich, of course,
having a pocket full of rye.
These are the nights you
kick off the darn hot sheet that
felt so blame cold last winter.
Vacationists are taking to the
tall and uncut hair.
A June husband tells us she
washed the ice and put it out in
the hot sun to dry.
If you see man talking to a
truekdriver, it may be college
head after footballs players.
Girls don't play tents in bath
ing suits, so have their tennis
pictures made while jumping.
Some June husbands are
working. Others are making
their homes with the parents of
the bride.
Americus times-recorder., 1923-08-03

Dusseldorf ii nice summer
resort. Coffee is 50 high there
they have to drink beer.
While wheat makes flour,
wheat prices don't make flour
prices.
Detroit girl of II has a di-
Vorce already. There is talk of
making her an honorary movie
star.
When a man kicks his radio
on a hot night he has been listen
ing to MasMillion in the arctic.
Salt Lake City man shot at
waiter five times. Why not quit
serving green cantaloupes?
Doctors took II stitches in an
Indianapolis man who stepped
oil a street car backward.
Birth marks, considered HARM
less led to the arrest of Mis-.
souri, bandit who showed them.
Political doctors say the gov
ernor of New York i: some wet
ter.
New star was found by man
IN Flagstaff, Ariz., where there
IS nothing to do but count them
One might say a Spokane fire
man who rescued a little girl
climbed the ladder to fame.
There is no such thing as a
white collar job during August.
The anti-tobacco bugs are at
work again. Spraying with lit
tie common sense is good for
them.
A hero is a boy with enough
money to buy drinks for the
crowd.
Many woman was,,.es pork
which had passed a resolution
against the measure.
In introducing the bill Miss
Kempton pointed out that At
lanta is alone among other
leading cities in the State in the
respect that it has Eastern time.
She is expected to call another
meeting of the Western & At
lantic Committee at an early
date to consider the bill.
The working people are es-
pecially interested in Eastern
time. We can not conceive how
any member would appear
against this reform.-Savannah
Press, ma n
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So 1t Seems.

"Bertie," said mother sorrow
fully, "every time you are naughty
/ get another gray hair"
My wordr' replied BERTHE,
you must nave been a terror.
Look at grandpaw-Fittsburg
Post.
Americus times-recorder., 1923-08-03

LOANS made on improved farm
lands at cheapest rates for term of
5, 7 or 10 years with prepayment
option given. Money secured
promptly. We have now outstanding
over $1,100,000.0 on farm in Sum
ter county alone, with plenty more
to lend.
MIDDLETON MCDONALD
Correspondent Atlanta Trust Com
pany in Sumter, Lee, Terrell,
Schley, Macon, Stewart, Randolph
and Webster counties. q Planters
Bank Building, Americus, Ga. Phone
SO or 211.
Americus times-recorder., 1923-08-03
His Nose Knows.

''Do fishes smell?" says a head
ing in The Literary Digest. I'll say
they do! - Longmont Colorado
Call.
Americus times-recorder., 1923-08-03
CLASSIFIED ADVERT ISEINENTS

WANTED - LOANS, LOANS,
LOANS, LOANS-Having a di-
rect connection ana 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
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1 hre G SIN
Enlightening.

Percy-"I have been greatly
benefited by spending the eve
ming with you. Your intellect APP
peals to me. Are you a literary
woman?"
Merey-"Oh, my no; I am a
teacher in an infant school"
Philadelphia Bulletin.
Americus times-recorder., 1923-08-03
Where Thew Go,

The head of the firm caught the
office boy telling falsehoods.
I'm surprised at your he said.
DO you know what they do with
boys who tell lies?"
Yes, sir" was the reply. when
they get old enough the firm sends
them out as travelling statesmen. -
Boston Transcript.
Americus times-recorder., 1923-08-03

FOR RENT-Two furnished rooms.
1905 Lee ST., or phone 407.
25-tf-dh
Americus times-recorder., 1923-08-03

FOR RENT-Two furnished rooms
for light housekeeping. Phone
.430. 25-tI
Mrs. Brown McLendon.
Americus times-recorder., 1923-08-03
A Thought
A THOUGHT

The eyes of the Lord are IN
every place, beholding the evil
and the good.-Pro. 1873.
Americus times-recorder., 1923-08-03

The Divine mind is as visible
in its full energy Of operation on
every lowly bank and molderlng
stone as in the lifting Of the pill
lars of heaven, and settling the
foundation Of the earth
Ruskin.
Americus times-recorder., 1923-08-03

Detroit girl of II has di-
yorce already. There is talk of
making her an honorary movie
star.
Americus times-recorder., 1923-08-03

A hero is boy with enough
money to buy drinks for the
crowd.
Americus times-recorder., 1923-08-03

chops on hot stove while hubby
watches the thermometer on the
porch.
Americus times-recorder., 1923-08-03

When a man kicks his radio
on a hot night he has been listen
ing to MasMillion in the arctic.
Americus times-recorder., 1923-08-03

Doctors took II stitches in an
Indianapolis man who stepped
off a street car backward.
Americus times-recorder., 1923-08-03

Salt Lake City man shot at a
waiter five times. Why not quit
serving green cantaloupes?
Americus times-recorder., 1923-08-03

These are the nights you
kick off the darn hot sheet that
felt so blame cold last winter.
Americus times-recorder., 1923-08-03

The anti-tobacco bugs are at
work again. Spraying with lit
tie common sense is good for
them.
Americus times-recorder., 1923-08-03

Birth marks, considered HARM
less led to the arrest of a Mis-.
souri, bandit who showed them.
Americus times-recorder., 1923-08-03

Dusseldorf III d nice summer
resort. Coffee is 50 high there
they have to drink beer.
Americus times-recorder., 1923-08-03

While wheat makes flour,
wheat prices don't make flour
prices.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-01

Editor Davis of the Thomasvllle
Press unbosoms himself. Some
body must have been knocking his
paper. Hear him:
The editor prints a thousand ar
ticles in his paper boosting the
town and the county, eulogizing
home folks and their personal af-
fairs, gives the churches and social
functions praise and says nice
things about individuals for which
he seldom receives an encouraging
word or a pat on the back. Every
one takes it as imperative duty,
and it is. But the first time the
editor stumbles upon some subject
that happens not to coincide with
the views of some fellow in his 10.
cal reading audience, that fellow
will walk ten blocks out of his
way to bawl out the editor and
then go out with his hammer and
knock the paper"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-01
ORDERS THAT BOOZE
FLEET MUST GO.

The news that the president
had decided the "booze fleet"
operating off the Atlantic coast
must go, was welcomed news to
the country. That fleet has been
a blot on the good name of the
United States government.
Action is to be taken against
the small craft, mostly swift pow
erboats, which act as lighters,
bringing the liquor to the shore
from the ships that lie at anchor
just beyond the three-mile limit.
1t is explained that the enforce
ment officers have been unable to
cope with them so far, for lack
of fast boats of their own. They
should be provided with craft that
have not only the necessary pow
er and speed but have guns
mounted on. their decks. The Of
tenders, guilty at the same time
of smuggling and breaking Che
Volstead law, deserve no con-
sideration.
1t may be possible also to accom-
plish something with the booze
ships that bring the liquor as far
as the international line and dis
tribute it there. If any of them
are American, there are estab-
lished ways 'of dealing with them,
calling only for an adequate pro-
hibition navy. AS for the foreign
craft, their troublesome activity
might de discouraged, if not pre-
vented, by diplomacy. No friendly
government should approve such
traffic as they are engaged in.
With that seaBoard smuggling
stopped, there might be a begin
ming of real prohibition in the
United States
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-01
EDITORIAL
co M NJ EN- r.

Editor Charley Brown thinks
well of the address of State Secre-
tary Charley Hughes on Americas
participation in the world court.
He says in his Cordele Dispatch:
J Secretary Charles Hughes
rings the bell with his speech on
American participation in the
world court. He's a right sensible
man-and what a pity he has no
more opportuniay to show that he
is! Lodge & Company for selfish
individual low political aims haze
plunged this country into its dark
est era Of world relationships. We
say it because it ought to have
been our greatest era of world
leadership"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-01
WEEKS JUNKET
NEXT IN ORDER.

The army hasn't declared war
on the navy, but a smouldering
jealousy on the part of Secretary
of War Weeks filed the corridors
Of the War Department building
with the acrid fumes of poison
gas the week before the U. S, S.
Grant, carrying Weeks and con-
gressional guests, sailed for Alas
ka. As the explanation goes, it
was all about little matter of
publicity.
When Secretary of Navy DENLY
recently chaperoned an official
junket to Panama, Cuba and Por-
to Rico, all the press associa-
tons and many of the larger
newspapers pdtitioued for space
for staff correspondents. They
saw news in the DENLY trip, which
included war maneuvers in the
Caribbean. About a score Of cor
respondents and cameramen went
along.
For the Weeks junket, however,
not a press service or newspaper
sought space for staff man.
Some gave credentials to other
persons who wished to make the
trip, to protect them in event of
anything big happening, but aside
from some accident or event of
spot news interest 1t seemed to
be agreed the news in the Weeks
trip would be small potatoes and
not worth the cost. Anyway, the
time to send staff men to Alaska
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would be With the presidential
party, later.
Whereupon, It's whispered,
Weeks declared that if the service
and papers didn't think enough of
his junket to send regular staff
men he wouldn't take their spe-
cially accredited men.
Finally it was arranged that
Weeks secretary, John Martyr,
should broadcast to the world, by
army radio, any big" news de-
veloping on the trip. Anybody
who wants to listen in, press as
sociations, newspaper or private
individual, can get it.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-01
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY.
(From the Times-Recorder. May
/, 1879

- 4O1Ds
The two beautiful silver trophies
to be contested for in the tourney
of the Georgia state Gun club in
Americas next week were received
yesterday by Mr.. Hightower, presi-
dent Of the Americas Gun Club, and
are now upon exhibition at the store
of S. A. Daniels.
Charles B. Chambliss, the young
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. C. A. Cham
bliss, is nursing a broken arm as the
result Of an accident SUSTAINED
Tuesday afternoon in a baseball
game.
Il have never seen the prospect
better at this season for a pecan
crop than it IS just now" said May
or NJ. NJ. Lowrey, yesterday, while
discussing the rapid growth of pc
can culture here. "The trees are
filled with blooms and young nuts,
and the yield next fall promises to
be the largest in several years"
With great enthusiasm and spirit.
the first season of the Empire State
league will be pried open in Cordele
today by the locals when they meet
Cordele in the first Of three games
to be played there. A number of
local fans will be in Cordele to root
for Manager Weber and his men.
Friends of doc" Barnett will be
pleased to learn of his continued i'm
provement after recent serious i'll
ness, He has had no fever in sew
eral days and physicians report his
condition as encouraging.
Emmett Hawkins has recovered
from recent illness Of several weeks
duration and is again at his post of
duty.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-01
TOM SIMS SA VS.:

1t is estimated that high water
this spring has washed away sew
eral thousand stills.
A ball player loafs when it is
'too cold to loaf and works when it
is too hot to work.
Since some FIJI kids are tattoed
all over, FIJI parents frequently
beat a tattoo.
Frenchman planning to compete
with Ford may fail. French cars
won't understand American cuss-
ing.
Louis Zehner has been a Balti.
more cop AZ years. Lew must be
20 years ahead with his sleeping.
Woman Mayor says she will run
Thebes, H., like her kitchen, so
she may save a few scraps.
Keeper Donahue has watched
New York ZOO animals So years.
His life must seem like one long
drink. Ma
Mr.. and Mrs. Max Oser have
bought Swiss farm and can set
tie down to raising Alpine yodels.
Kansas City (Mo) wife asks di-
vorce because hubby will not
battle. Springs is so warm in Mis-
souri,.
Pullman Company loses 100000
linen articles year, which may
show why sheets are so short.
Rome has just celebrated her
2676th birthday. Bet Roman ora
tors did as Roman candles do.
No rain has fallen for go days
in Shensi, China, and the fish are
forgetting how to swim.
Irish planning for the Olympic
should be good cross-country run
ners. They run a cross country.
Many young doctors graduate
soon. They should settle down
! near railway crossings.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-01
THE INTERLOPER
By Berton Bral e y

BY Berton Bradley.
You've got it all planned what to do with your life
How a;ngly, youll plunge in the heat of the strife
without being "hampered bound by a wife,
And wrcst your success from the midst of the trong
And then-then girl comes along!
girl comes along And your heart sings song,
Without her you feel that the world would go wrong;
You'll know how it it when girl comes along
You've wanted to travel and to
By mountain and valley and over the foam
Without any family waiting at home
And marriage you think, is "a chain and thong"
And then-then girl comes along!
A girl comes along! Oh her magic is strongs
And you settle down with the housekeeping throng,
For that's how it is when girl along!
You're and discouraged, you're down on your luck
You've lost all your pep and your vim and your pluck,
The crowd seems to trample you deep in the muck
You cannot stand up at the clang of the gong
And then--tben girl comes along!
A girl comes along! Just a girl from the throng,
And courage comes back to you, vibrant and strong,
You rise up again, among men,
For that's how it is when girl comes along!
Copyright 1923, NEA Service, Inc)
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-01

TWENTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY.
(From the Times-Recorder. May
], 1909

], 1909
By the overturning of their car
rage while at Andersonyille Xester.
day Mr.. and Mrs. Walton Galloway,
their little son and Miss vi Galloway,
were thrown out, the little boy five
years old sustaining broken limb.
The little sufferer was carried to
hotel but there was no physician
there.
The resignation of Chief w. W.
Wheeler as the official head of the
police department Of Americas is in
the hands Of the old board Of police
commissioners, and action thereupon
will be taken at a meeting of that
body to be held this morning.
Poking a crumpled and badly soil
ed paper at Judge Allen of the court
of ordinary, yesterday, a detected
looking old negro asked that his
manage license be cashed in at orig
inal cost
Mrs. H. E. Allen returned home
yesterday after a very pleasant visit
of several days in Macon, the guest
Of friends there,
The unexpected discovery of
prolific Dream at Wells Mill yester-
day caught the local fishing club
solidly and stampede in that direc-
ton set in. John Sheffield made this
klondike find in fish, and after pull
ing forty of the tapping, finny fell
lows a wireless message to Ameri-
Gus brought the whole club down
upon him.
Frank Venable, a young man who
some time since came from Macon to
Americas to reside, was examined
for lunacy in the court or ordinary
yesterday and committed to the asy-
lum for treatment.
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
Monday morning, no paper pub
ished.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-01
THE SCANDAL
IN SUGAR.


The advance of Approximately
three cents a pound in sugar
means that the American people
viii pay $500, 100000 more for
their sugar this year than had
the price remained at seven cents.
If the price IS further advanced,
then naturally the consumers will
have to pay the additional bill,
Unless they should decide to cur
tail on the quantity used on their
tables,
When the Peoples Legislative
Bureau in Washington issued a
statement concerning the meth
DDS by which sugar is controlled,
everybody involved started to run
for cover. The Department of
Commerce had previously issued
bulletin asserting that there
would be a surplus of sugar, and
the press release upon upon this
was given as February IL. But on
the 9th day of February Mr..
hoover's statement was put on the
ticker in New York. If a Wash
ington correspondent had been
guilty Of such a violation Of con-
hdence he would. likely have been
spanked" and in accordance with
the custom his name would be
dropped from the Department lists
as entitled to advance informa-
ton" The Commerce Depart
ment claims that its figures were
so juggled in Wall Street that it
was made appear that a shortage
rather than a surplus Of sugar was
a fact.
Some enemies Of the Administra-
ton have been trying to make it
appear that the new tariff is re-
sponsible for the increased price
of sugar This is a subterfuge as
the schedule has not been changed
enough to account for the recent
difference in sugar price.
What is more important is the
news that prominent sugar re-
fners, bankers and spectators,
held conference in Cuba immedi-
ately prior to the first decided in
crease in the price Of sugar. These
interests are pointed out as the
only ones who will reap the bene-
fits Of the higher level that viii be
paid to seaboard refners and their
copartners.
Everybody who wants to can
explain all they wish, but the con-
sumers are quite of one mind in
the opinion that sugar prices have
been advanced in order to enrich
the American and Cuban sugar
gamblers, and not because Of the
actual crop, or legitimate market
conditions, AS usual the public is
told that the Department of JUS
tice is Investigating but that
Is hardly satisfying to those who
feel that prices continue to be
juggled. The same conditions
evidently exist today with refer
ence to the control of sugar by
handful of men as at the time of
the war when the saccharine was
squeezed out of the American
public in order to enrich. the su-
gar trust.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-01

BASEBALL days are here again, the
gIadest of the year; when many
men drink soda pop and wish that
it was beer.
Dancing yourself to death is
very foolish. Almost as foolish as
working yourself to death.
Roses are red, violets are blue;
sugars so high, oh what to do?
British ghost expert claims he
saw the ghost of a horse, and we
claim it was night mare.
The baseball pools, full of
sharks and suckers, are with us.
One reason the marathon dane
es should be stopped IS the girls
are out-dancing the men.
Looks as if the backbone Of
winter is about broken.
Proper way to wake up business
is with a few rousing cheers.
Kisses are the language Of love.
Some girls talk too much.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-01
Three
Smiles


Page The Eye Doctor!
How did you get caught in such
compromising position, Betty?"
We'll, he wanted to see what
color my eyes were"
That's harmless enough"
Yes, but he's so darned near
sighted"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-01

Now is the time to screen your
house. AmericusA Screen Mfg. Co.
Phone 70. 28-tf
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-01

A hem, Maybe So.
Lucile-"Oh, l.. A, how lovely of
you to bring me these beautiful
roses How sweet they are, and how
fresh! ! do believe there is little
dew on them yeti
/. a. W. - Well, yes, there is,
but I'll pay it tomorrow.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-01

Again this season we find the
white serge, flannel or basket weave
suit returning TO favor 1t is usu-
ally tailored in effect but used for
sport wear
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-01

Why Be Like a Ford.
Mr.. NiXon-Why is this class like
a Ford.
Class-Nobody knows.
Mr.. NiXon-Because. it is full of
nuts.
John Hydle-And also has a crank
at the front.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-01

WANTED-Two hundred head Of
cattle to pasture Very best at
tention. Suttles & Goepp, zoe La
mar St.-16-tf
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-01

Wouldn't it be awful if public
officials didn't agree any more
often than the public clocks do?
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-01

ROOFING-Phone 117-SIIVER--
Johns Manyille ROOFING, roof
coating, roof cement, creosote, root
paint. If
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-01

FOR SALE One feather bed; one
cornet; first class condition. Phone
I46, 30-3t
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-01
HINTS OF INTEREST
TO THE FASHIONABLE

Colored footwear is destined to be
popular this summer if indications
are not misleading. Slippers en-
tirely Of red, green and blue leather
are seer as we'll as white ones
strapped and trimmed with colored
leather.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-01

Some Of the newest silk gloves
shown have Egyptian figures en-
broidered in colors from the wrist
to the elbow Others are solidly en-
broidered in the same tone as the
glove.
An imported frock Of navy blue
rep has large patch pockets Of
cherry red velvet embroidered in
green, black and silver. Otherwise it
il untrimmed.