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The Washington times., 1923-08-13
STORK PAYS VISIT TO
EMERGENCY HOSPITAL

Emergency Hospital was bit
f1ustered last night when Old Man
Stork lowered about it's corridors
for the second time in the history
of the new building. The rarity OF
the occurrence WED with the par
ents for the most whispers.
The mother was formerly Miss
Martha Wooda1l, q nurse at the
hospital, and the father was then
an inferno at the hospital, DR.. Will
liam M. Goodman, 4201 New Hamp-
shire avenue northwest.
Mother and son are doing WELL"
The Washington times., 1923-08-13
SOROPTIMIST CLUB
POSTPONES MEETING

The regular monthly social meet
ing Of the Soroptimist Club, sched-
ufed for Wednesday night at the
home of Mrs. Bessie Edmonston,
has been postponed out of respect
to President Harding.
Mrs. Edmonston is a first cousin
Of the late President, her mother
having been a sister of the late
Presidents mother.
Instead Of the evening meeting
q luncheon meeting will be held at
1915 o'clock Wednesday at the City
Club.
The Washington times., 1923-08-13
MYSTERIOUS BLOW FELLS
SOLDIER; FOUND ON STREET

Attacked from behind, Private
Charles Weir. twenty-three years
old, stationed at the Walter Reed
Hospital, was beaten into uncon-
seriousness last night and left lying
on the side walk, where he was
found by Elmo Gordon, colored.
employe Of the Green Grove Tea
house. The attack occurred at
Georgia avenue and Dogwood street
northwest.
Weir said that he heard some one
walking up behind him. He turned,
he said, just In time to receive a
blow from blunt instrument on
the forehead. He said that he could
give no reason for, any one attacking
him,
The Washington times., 1923-08-13
TEMPLE OF BROTHERHOOD
WINNING SUCCESS HERE

"The Temple of Brotherhood" has
made rapid progress toward religious
Fellowship in the last few years,
the Rev. William l.. Darby, secre-
tary of0the Federation of Churches,
said at the open-air services of the
District Grand Lodge Of Masons, at
Temple Heights, Connecticut and
Florida avenues northwest, yester-
day.
DR.. Darby said that racial broth
erhood had not made the same
progress, and he scored the type Of
newspaper that Seems to take a
Satanic pleasure in creating racial
Dreiudice"
The Washington times., 1923-08-13
PRO AND ALTERNATIVES.

The whole country, it seems,
is becoming divided between
pro-Bananites and anti-Ban-
nantes, the old timers and
high-brows voicing the unani-
nous sentiment that eyes, We
Have No Bananas" is a lyrical
idiocy which should not be toll
Grated.
The popularity attained by this
"idiocy" just goes to prove our
contention that high-brow poet
ry or music is not appreciated
by nine-tenths of the people.
The Washington times., 1923-08-13
Well, Gmyhow, the earth
qwGkes in California sho.O
that she is settling doUn at
last tn spite of the constant
disturbances at Hollywood.
PETE.
WAITING FOR PAPA!,

I am sitting alone, in my desoIate homo.
"nne the clock on the mantle
He'll arrive I'm q hack, all split an tho
hack,
And set up a horrible roaFf
Now, while this Is bad, he's O GOOD
hearted lad,
And loves every hair In my head;
He'll swear he'll stop drinking, but
sure, I'm thinking,
He will when they bring him homo
Last night. full of booze. pulled off
And pleaded. "NOw. Miclv. have
Then mp with a spring, he started to
"Yis. yis. We Have No Bananasw
whenever he's full he rOars like q bull,
And pulls off his popular ditty,
But q gent next door got tired Of his
roar
And what he pulled off was a pity.
With hop, step and skip, he hit him
Then went out the door with a rush:
Now Mlcky, poor Lad, is sure looking
And can't eat a thing but soft mush!
c. Fl. TURNBULL.
"The Wontan oliOGys pays"
says an old proverb. A Seattle
1OonsGn complained of her has
band staying out so much and
the Judge sentenced hin, to stan
at home for three weeks.
The Washington times., 1923-08-13
PATENTS APPLICATIONS
SHOW LARGE INCREASE

Receipts Of patent and trade.
mark applications in the last two
years have been heaviest in his.
tory, the Patent Office announced
today.
Increase in patent applications
was so per cent and trademarks
100 per cent, 1t was reported.
The Washington times., 1923-08-13
Took Window for Door,

John Muncie, alias John Doe
colored. of All New York avenue
northwest, drank some "jump.
steady" yesterday and stepped out
Of the front window from the third
floor. He was dead before physi
clans from the Emergency Hos
pital arrived.
The Washington times., 1923-08-13

That sOonsGn UhO divorced and
remarked her husband four
times soGs probably just taking
q VGcGtion IN bet1Oeen marriages.
The DID, fashioned girl used to
roll up her sLeeVes Whem she
started to 1CorLe. These sleeve
less go1Oies don't mean anything
of the sort.
The decoIette gowns some
sUomsen 1UeGr simply mean that
they haze at last "thro1On off
the yoke"
If a "coGt of tan" mould keep
ne 90Grm in 1Uinter, summers
vacation money 1UoMLd be weI
spent.
The steam shoveI engineer
raises most everything, bat
every time he RAISES" in q
poker game it doesn't mean that
he's got anything.
Love is but a deliriMm; the
TremGms cured theirs By a
HANK HA WKINS.
u a
The Washington times., 1923-08-13

Aunt sally had been arrested for
hitting her erring spouse with an
andir0n and as @ result she appear
ed before the Judge, who cleared his
said:
What II your ago?"
ledge, subj" she answered, II 10
either 81 or &c."
what do you mean?" asked the
wondering Judge.
well, subj" she replied, Il means
dat i don't know just 'xactly how
old I Is, cause 1 done got NAH age
an bust meaure mixed"
JOE HOLMAN.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-15

ment Of the La Montague broth
ers."
And he worked on many other
important cases.
But trouble seems to follow him
wherever he goes.
In a short time be was indicted
in the gigantic Bookkeeping con-
spiracy.
He is now out on $4,000 bail
awaiting trial.
But he isn't worrying.
Give been able to get out of so
much trouble before" he says con
fidently, chat Pm sure I'll get out
of this, too; AS is usually the case
l am not guilty.
But hate to have it interfere
with my detective work, even for q
short time"
lie is now taking it easy, dividing
his time between Colonel Folders
office and his home in Washington,
D. c., where he sits down with his
children and tells them, not fairy
tales Of idle creation, but real de-
tective stories that makes the
youngsters blood ti~,ye.
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CASTOR Means, the Man Who Loves Trouble
Is In Its Clutches Again : And Happy
Sellars attended the meeting Of &c

allars attended the meeting Of the
teachers association in Americas
Saturday, a. m.
Rev. Crumbley filled his regular
appointment at Shiloh Church Sun
day and delivered an able address
to a large and interested congreg-
alton.
The junior B. Y. P. U. gave an in
teresting program at the church
Sunday evening.
The faculty and Trustees of Shi-
loh school were royalty entertain
ed at the home of Rev. and Mrs.
j. E. Daniel last Friday evening.
Four New Era pupils were added
to our school enrolment this week,
making the total to date 11S.
Shiloh school is going to observe
Educational Week Nov. 1928.
There will be a special program
each day beginning at 8 o'clock.
Miss Parkman Will make the
school a visit Friday. She wants
20 get the work going early in the
season. 1t is her desire to meet
the former club girls and others
who intend joining any of The
clubs for the coming year.
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Xxx (continued)

"You know what men are Taey
like to call a spade a spade and be-
damned to it. Our sort didnt have
a chance They couldn't compete
So, we made up our minds 10 com
pete in the only way possible We
leave OF our corsets at dances 50
they can get anew thrill old oi Us.
then sit in an automobile ana drink
and have little petting parties OF
two. And We slip out and have an
occasional lark like tonight. We're
not to be worried about, either
why cryptic after your really
admirable frankness? But there's
always a point beyond which WON.
en- never will go when confess;ag
their souls. suppose yoG
think you're as hard as nails. no
you really imagine that you viii
ever be able to fall in love and
marry and want children?"
Don't mem"
Ancient standards are not an.
initiated in one generation"
There's got to be beginning to
everything. hasn't there? One
would think The world stood still.
to hear you talk But anything
new always makes the fogies sick
Nothing makes me as sick as
your bad manners--you- and all
your tribe. Men. at least, don't
lose their breeding if they choose
to sow wild oats But women 60
the whole hog or none"
Other times, other manners.
We make our oan. and you have 10
put up with them whether you like
it or not. See2"
Il see that you are even siIlier
than l thought You need nothing
so much as sound spanking"
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He had informed Madame Zatti'
any's butler over the telephone that
he would call that evening at half
past nine, but he returned to his
rooms after a day at the office with
tagging steps. He dreaded another
evening in that library by the fire.
1t was beyond his imagination to
foresee how she would treat him,
what role she would choose to play,
and although he was grimly deter
mined to play whatever role she
assigned to him (for the presently,
he hated the prospect. He was in
no mood for a game" This WOO
ing was like nothing his magma
ton had ever prefgured. To be
put on trial to sit with
the woman in the great solitude OF
the house and the very air vibrat'
ing between them or froz'
IN self-conscious as a
schoolboy up for inspection j
afraid Of making false move. \
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Maude A. King, of North Caro-
DINA.
While out shooting one day, she
was killed. Means, who was with
her. was indicted for murder in the
first degree.
It was a sensational trial. Colo
mel Thomas B. Fielder, who has
been kept busy getting Means our
of trouble every time he got in,
went, from New YORK to North
Carolina to defend him.
In a short time the jury acquit-
ted him.
Then came long line of ew
charges and indictments following
the filing of a second will Of Mrs.
Kings millionaire husband. There
mAlbon dollars were involved.
Means and others would have bene-
fitted by it. Judge Judge Jesse
Baldwin of Illinois called it a
forgery.
An appeal followed, and with it
came long drawn-out litigation
brought to a close last month
when the Supreme Court of Hi
nois ruled to throw out the second
will.
When cleared of all charges
growing out OF the Mrs. King
death and will contest. Means went
back to his investigating work.
Standing trial for murder is ex-
citing enough" he says, but 1t
takes real sleuthing to give a real
thrill"
He became a special agent for
the Department of Justice invesri-
eating liquor cases.
Il unearthed the society boot
Logging conspiracy" Means SAYS
which resulted in the imprison-
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-15
BY ALEXANDER HERMAN
NEA Service Staff Writer

NEW YORK. November IS.
CASTOR B. Means is in trouble
again.
But he likes it.
For he has become a cham
pion at it-charged in his time
with murder, forgery, conspiracy
and fraud.
Freed of all, he now faces an
other indictment. This time as the
alleged principal in gigantic
bootlegging conspiracy.
But he merely shrugs hi4 Shout
ders and laughs.
Great fun this" he says. I'm
going to get a big kick out Of it.
For it's the thrill of SUCH adven-
ture that makes life worth living
Ten years ago Means WIS a
school teacher down in the Caro-
lima Mountains. But the dull rou-
tine Of school work paHed on min.
when | was kid" he went On.
Il always dreamed Of the time
when | would grow up to be a
real detective. 1t was my bcyhood
ambition.
when the chance came to give
up my school work, grabbed it.
l wanted to go north and indulge
in the fancy of my childhood
dreams"
And he did. He soon gave up
his job Of being representative for
some cotton mills, and became IN
investigator for a private detec.
tive agency. Most of the time he
worked for William j. Burns, now
head of the United States Secret
Service.
In 1914 he became a special
agent for the German government.
He received 500 day for his
work.
81 worked for Captain Boy-Ed,
German naval attache," he says,
and got mixed up in innumera5le
messes. But it was all part of fine
game.
when | foresaw that the Ger
mans were forcing this country in
to the war, l quit their service and
began working for our govern
ment. Following a tip, l discovered
that the Germans were making mr.
engagements to get Huerta of Mexf-
co into this country. l exposed the
whole scheme, and Huerta was ar
rested as he tried to cross the
border.
II dug deerer into the intri-
guing Of the German spy system
and discovered the plots to blow
up the capitol at Ottawa and the
Cfaadian Bridge. Both schemes
were nipped before their execu-
tian. Van Horne the German spy,
being caught red-handed as he was
approaching the bridge"
Meanwhile Means had been
acting as business advisor to Mrs.
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CUTOFF

| Several from the communiting at
tended the Armistice Day program
at the high school building at
Montezuma Sunday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIII Greene, Of
| Mo1tezuma were Sunday after
noon guests Of Mir. and Mrs. Philip
Greene.
Dir. and Mrs. Monroe Greene,
annouce the brit hof a daughter
Sunday, Nov. 4th, named Thelma.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hewitt Joiner and
Mrs. j. T. Morris were Americas
shoppers Friday
Mr.. and Mrs. Coma Peek and
family Of Andersonville, were
spend-the-day guests, of Mrs. Lou
Holloway, Sunday.
Greene Norris, Ernest Cocker,
Howard Henry and Oscar Beden-
Daugh, made a business trip 70
Americas Friday.
Misses Beulah Pennington, Eva
Bedenbaugh, of Albany spent this
weekend with homefolks.
Our community was well rep
resented at the Macon County club
girls exhibit and county flower
snow in Montezuma, it was a very
pleasant and profitable day.
NJ and Mrs VIII Ward of
Hawkinsville We're Sunday guests,
of their parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
ward.
Messrs. James Tollen, will Ras-
Derry, Will Allen and Joe Collier,
were Sunday afternoon visitors at
darshallville.
Mrs. Gene Webb end Tom Webb
Of Pleasant Fill, spent Sunday af-
,ernoon with Mr.. and Mrs. j. B.
Mcdonald.
David Bedenbaugh, A. F. Pen
aington, James Tolea, Will Ras-
berry, and ]. A. Smith ATTENDED
she Masonic meeting at OgIe-
,norpe, Monday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Grady Kitchens,
rlounee the birth OF a daughter,
riday Nov. 9th, named Willie
Aae.
J. B. Mcdonald, made business
rip to Montezuma Saturay.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. J. Holloway,
Mrs. r. H. Stubs, Misses Janilu
Holloway and Mattisu Stubs were
hoppers in Americas Friday
A party Of IS Of the young set
chaperoned by Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest
Cocker, went TO the cane mill at the
home Of Mr.. and Mrs. J. I. Pen
nington at Pennington Tuesday
evening.
Miss Lydia Jones, of Leslie, is
visiting her niece, Mrs. Grady
Kitchens. inI1t
so Whom II May Concera:''
Listen! Community citizen, of
community citizens, there will be
an oyster, coffee and sandwich
supper, at the Cutoff school
building. Thanksgiving" night.
Let's do without our big dinner
so over to the school building, that
night and get a big supper, as they
both are for good purposes one
to nourish the body and one 10
nourish the school funds.
W''l expect you to meet us there
as We are expecting a good time,
as will help US to have a qet-to-
gether meet, so as to know each
other better.
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Your own manners are hone too
good, You've handed me one in,
suit after another"
I've merely talked to you as
your father would if he were not
blind. Besides, it would probably
make you sick to be respected
Come along. Wen go round to a
garage and get a taxi. Why on
earth didn't you ring for taxi
from Farren' 50"
81 tried to. but it's an apartment
house and there was no one down
stairs to make the connection. Too
late. SO footed it" She yawned
arodieiously I'm ready at last for
my little bunk Hope you've en-
joyed this more than / have. YogA
be a scream al q pett,ng party.
Clavering paid his small account
and they issued INFO lie s,ogm
once more 1t was impossible to
talk. In the taxi she went to sleep.
Thank Heaven! He had had
enough of her. Odious brat More
than once he had had z sudden
vision of Mary Zattiany during that
astonishing conversation at the
counter. The past" she had 5ug-
gested to his tormented mind was
almost literary by contrast, She,
herself, a queen granting favors,
beside this little fashionable near
strumpet. They didn't breathe the
same air, nor walk on the same
plane. Who, even if this little fool
were merely demi-vierge, would
hesitate between them? One played
the game in the grand manner, the
other like a glorified gutter-snipe,
But he was thankful for the diver
sion, and when he reached his own
bed he fell asleep Immediately and
did not turn over for seven hours.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-15
COMB SAGE TEA
INTO GRAY HAIR
Darksns Beautifully and Restores
Its Natural Color and
Lustre At Once

Common garden sage brewed into
heavy tea. with sulphur and alcohol
added, will turn gray, strealled and
faded hair beautifully dark and lux.
uriant Mixing the Sage Tea and Sui
phur recipe at home, though, is trouble
some. An easier way is to get the
ready-to-use preparation improved b.
the addition of other ingredients A
large bottle, at little cost, at drug stores.
known as "Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur
Compound" thus avoiding d LOT Of
muss.
While gray, faded hair is not sinful
wefall desire to retain our youthful an
pearanec and attractiveness. BY dark
ening your hair with Wyeth's Sage and
Sulphur Compound, no one can tell, be
cause it does it so naturally, so evenly
You just dampen a sponge or soft
brush with it and draw this through
your hair, taking one small strand al a
time; by morning all gray hairs have
disappeared After another application
or two your hair becomes beautifully
dark, glossy, soft and luxuriaut and Vol,
appear years younger.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-15
NEW FIR A.

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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-15

ease than l have for five or six years.
/ owe it all to your great medicine. -
MARTHA HOOKER, III College Avenue,
st. Paul, him.
When women who are between the
ages of forty-fve and ffty-fve are besat
with such annoying symptoms as ner-
vousness, irritability, melancholia and
heat flashes, which produce headaches,
dizziness, or a sense of suffocation, they
should take Lydia T. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound. 1t is especially adapted
to help women through this crisis. 1t
is prepared from roots and herbs and
contains no harmful drugs or narcotics.
Write to Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine
Co., Lynn, Massachusetts, for a free
copy of Lydia E. Pinkham's Private
Textbook upon Ailments Peculiar to
Women"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-15

run GOWN cCnQlLlOn
and the troubles a
woman has to go
through at that time,
hot flashes, nervous
ness and headaches.
At times / was not
able to do my work,
but since takin g
Lydia &. Pinkham' S
We &c table Com
pound | am gaining
every dayand can do
INV yuOrl- with ,,,Oro
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-15
SHILOH

The people Of the community are
cordially invited to attend the P.
1. A. meeting at the school house
Friday afternoon.
Mrs. r Glenn and Mrs. J. G
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hsya1s 5ad book B. zap0iias Jsa1 SONAR 3ae~ .vs y
K y1BILACK OXEN
GERTRUDE RTHERTON y NJ

by arrangement Associated First rational
Pictures the produced by Frank
Lloyd with cornne Griffith Countess zattiany
Copyright AtAsrOa -
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WOMEN FROM
FORTY TO Fifty
VIII Be interested in Mrs.Hooker's
Recovery by Use Of Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound

St.Paul. MINI Il was going through
the Change of Life and suffered from q
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-15

EVERYWHERE you see suggestions
identifying the home. Our sug-
gestlon is to lower the rent.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-15
YOUR MIND AND
YOUR MONEY

Your mental peace depends upon
your financial security.
Worry about possible losses from
fire, storm or accident leaves you
w;th lust that much less mental eff
ticiency to apply to your business.
Insurance relieves you of all wor-
~ 1t leaves your mind free for
constructive thinking.
We can give you all forms of
Property Protection Policies.
BRADLEY HOGG
Phone 1856
Representing the
ALLIANCE INSURANCE CO.,
OF PHILADELPHIA
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20 at q" pr''e

Substitutes are gener-
ally more expensive in
the end than genuine
articles. Housewives
have learned - they
KNOW this is true
where bakings are con-
Cerned.
Self rising fours are
Classed as substitutes
Tor plain flour and good
baking powder The
use OF these special
mixtures is very liable
TO result IN false econ
omy, failures and waste
on bake day.
Remember there is a
big difference, in many
ways, between biscuits
and other bakingsmade
from these so-caIled
selt-rising aours and
those made from good
plain flour and a de-
pendable leaVener. Try
the eXperlment-make
baking from each
convince yourself.
You will find the baking made from -four
and baking powder far more attractive
in appearance. 1t will raise higher
retain its full food value and taste better.
For best results, do not fi.I to use Calu-
met, the Economy Baking Powder, and a
reliable brand of plain -four
Just think of 1.-THE sale of Calumet is
212 times as much as that Of anv other
brand. 1t contains only such ingredients
as have been officially approved by the
United States Food Authorities. 1t is
pure and sure
You save when you buy it-you save
when you use it.
PACKED IN TIN
KEEPS STRENGTH IN
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BRACES
MARKET
RAILROAD sCHEDUtE

Arrival and Departure of Passenger
Trains, Americas, Ga.
The following schedule figures
Cblished as information and not
- Ia r.ArnI.
Evening capital. [volume] (Annapolis, Md.) 1922-1981, 1923-01-10
Special Numbers At
Concert On Jan. 10

interesting musical numbers at the
concert TO be given at the Executive
Mansion on January Is will be two
groups Of songs whose composers will
play the accomplishments. These are
the songs by Miss Elizabeth Starr, OF
Baltimore. that Mrs. Elliott Burwell
VIII sing, accompanied by Miss Starr
and group of songs by Charles t.
Ferry which will be sung by Gertrude
Lyons. Mrs. Lyons and Mr.. Ferry who
viii be her accompanist on her com.
ing concert tour, will come from
Washington to take part in the con.
cert. In addition to accompanying
Miss Lyons, Mr. Ferry will play a
group Of his own piano compositions
and viii accompany Miss Elizabeth
Mott in her songs. Mr.. Ferry and
Miss Mott have frequently done con.
cert work together in the West.