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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-10-16
CHAIN

Chain stores tighten their grip.
In nine months the Woolworth
stores ring up in their cash regis
ters nearly 141 million dollars in
nickles and dimes, compared wth
l25 millions in the corresponding
months of last year.
That rate of gain is about the
same as for most Of the other lead
ing chain store organizations. Re-
failing seems, destined to become as
centralized as industrial pt0dE sion.
andstransportation, ~ e
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WINE

Prohibition 'tightens up" Here's
something that wouldn't have seemed
possible year ago:
A man and his wife of Metuchen
N. j., are fined so cents in L. S.
District Court for making a gallon
Of grape wine, though the mans de-
Tense was that he fermented the
wine for his i'll wife. The fine is
small, inconsequential. The empha-
tic thing is the enforcement of the
law. The trail stiIl leads into the
desert instead of westward.
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Woman would be safer behiud q
Steering wheel if you could tell what
they were driving at.
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Real Estate For Sale
Houses For Sale
los
r. A. HUMPHREYS

Best Northeast location-This fine
home, rooms, h. W. h.. tile bath, cleo.
Ianndry trays, rear porches. garage.
H st. near North capitol-store and
dwelling, rooms bath. gas, lat. heat.
garage. Price $11,600; terms.
Second near G St.-Brick, rooms,
baths. cleo. and gas, h. W. h., ar
ranged for two families Price right
Good corner Northeast--This nice
home, rooms. furnace heat elec.. bath.
laundry trays. You cannot duplicate this
house for price asking;
First, near St.-This fine home,
newly. papered and painted. 10 rooms.
tile bath. furnace heat, gas. Price.
$500; terms arranged. -.
Seventeenth near Columbia rOad-Co-
lOnial home, 8 rooms bath, gas. lat
heat. Price $4,000; $500 cash.
1924 Park road-This home. rooms,
h. W. h.. bath. elec., laundry trays. 2
car garage Best buy in this neigh
borhood for price asking.
Good Southeast location--Brick.. 8
rooms. furnace heat. tile bath, cleo,
garage space. Price. $3.50; easy terms.
1915 D st. 8. W.-Seven rooms. bath.
~; $40 1s Ninth gas St. NEE sNBr G r% rooms
Price $1,000; terms.
1905 M st. 8. E;-semi-detaehed
frame: rooms; h.-w.h., bath. Good
80 - pAbSO easy tSAAiS'
9Th st. N. E.-Brick, 2 rooms, INV.
h., cleo, bath; house newly papered
and painted. Price $3.50. $1,000
cash.
636 Allison st. N. w.--Colonial brick
home. rooms, tile bath, h.-w.h., elec.,
garage space. rear porches. Best buy
in this neighborhood for price asking.
1904 c st. S. W.-Bay-window brick.
. rooms, h.-w.h., gas, bath, newly
painted and papered; now vacant. Price
$3.50. terms.
$50 4th st. N. ~E.-Brick. latrobe heat,
gas. bath, garage. House now vacant,
move in with deposit.
1908 D st. N. E.-Brick. rooms.
bath, gas. lat heat garage space.
Price right. terms arranged.
Riverdale. Nd, Bungalows rooms,
h.-w.h., bath. cleo. and gas, garage,
large outbuilding, lot 50x2oO. Price
Colmar Manor. Nd, Bungalow-4
rooms, bath. furnace heat elec.. SO. $50.
$500 cash.
Virginia Ave. s. E.-Brick. rooms,
tile bath, gas, furnace heat. yard &
concrete cellar. Priced right to sell
quick. Very easy terms
G st. s. W.. 10O7-Brick. 10 rooms,
bath. gas. latrobe heat. $4,000. Very
easy terms.
10th st. s. w.-Frame, 3. rooms,
bath. gas, latrobe heat, vacant 81, 600.
Easy terms arranged
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Legal Notices
r. II. STEPHENS & JAMES C. WILKES,
AfAOPnava

Attorneys. !
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Holding
District Court. In re: Condemnation of
land for the extension Of 4sth street.
at tho Intersection Of l9th street, and
Nash street between 48th street, and
18th place. n: E., in the District Of
SoTnea ANB Bs oR6Es e0T of fT G
TON. Notice is-hereby given, that the
commissioners of the District of Co
lumbia .(pursuant to q certain provision
OF the Act of Congress, approved March
4, 1913, entitled. IAN Act making APP
preparations for the expenses of the
government of the District of Column
thirtieth. nineteen hundred and four
teen. and for other purposes" whereby
they are authorized to open, extend or
way to Conform with SHinu the fJ plan of the
permanent system of highways in that
portion of the District OF Columbia out
side Of the cities of WASHINGTON and
Congress approved March 2. 1898, as
amended by the Act Of Congress APP
proved June %. 1898. by condemnation
one of chapter fifteen Of the Code
Of Law of the District of Column
blal. have filed a petition in this
the land @' necessary s ' for the snteD ~
sion of 49th street south OF Quarles
street. Quarles street at the in
street,
street between 4Sth street and 48th
place. northeast, in the District Of Co
lumpla, as shown on map or plat
filed with the said petition. as part
Court empanel a Jury in accordance
with the law provided for in such cases
to assess the damages each owner of
land to he taken may sustain by rea-
son of the said extension of 49th street
south of Quarles street, Quarles street
at the intersection of 49th street, and
18th place. Northeast, in the District of
Columbia, and the condemnation Of the
land necessary for the purposes thereof,
and to assess as benefits resulting there
from the entire amount of said dam
ages. including the expenses of these
proceedings. upon any lands which the
jury may find will be benefited as pro-
vided for in and by the aforesaid Act
18th DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1924
ORDERED. That all persons having
and they are hereby warned and COM
manded to appear in this Court on or
before the 10TH day of MARCH, 1924,
at 10 o'clock, a. m, and continue in at
made its final order ratifying and con-
firming the award OF damages and the
assessment of benefits of the jury to
be empaneled and sworn herein and it
this notice and order be published twice
week for two successive weeks in
the Washington Evening Star, the
Washington Post and the Washington
Times, newspapers published In the
said District, commencing at least
twenty days before the said 10TH DAY
OF MARCH, 1924. 1t is further Or
dered, That a copy of this notice and
order be served by the United States
Marshal, or his deputies, upon each of
the owners of the fee of the land to be
condemned herein as may be found by
the said marshal, or his deputies, within
the District of Columbia, and the ten
ants and occupants of the same be-
fore the said 10TH DAY OF MARCH,
1924. By the Court: JENNINGS BAILEY,
Justice. A true copy. Attest: (SeaD.
CUNNINGHAM. Assistant Clerk.
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Real Estate for Rent
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
HOTEL BRIGHTON.

A ST. S. E., 6Os--Two bed rooms, din
ing room, kitchenette. private bath,
h. III. electricity. Ink.
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WEATHER OR NOT"

positively get checks with Westminster
Herald Times ads. They In action-in good
bad weather
NJ rain a particle of difference to
these statesmen They ION job" twenty four
hours day-hot or cold, clear stormy-they carry
messages thousands and Thousands
of interested buyers
They favorably with the Mai in that
they their business quickly systena
regardless Of outside weather conditions.
Wherever The Washington Times goes these
little audience he Classified ads
in these big read answered by
Washington people who regular readers of man
opportunities presented in this section paper
of these faithful little
salesmen-Call MAIN 6260 and ask an ad-taker
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Rooms and Board
Rooms--Unfurnished

BRYANT ST. N. W. 62-Two rooms
for !. h. k. h. W. h.. reasonable.
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r. A. HUMPHREYS
Real Estate, Loans and Insurance
808 North Capitol st. N. w.
Main 6733.
Res. Phone Line. 1851

BEST BUYS NORTHEAST.
$5,750-Vacant.
Near. 7th and Florida Ave. N. E..
colonial porch house in first class con-
dition; light rooms and bath, 3
porches; excellent heating plant in eel
lar; room, for garage; easy terms. A
very good buy.
$7,950-K Street N. E.
Between 9Th and 7th SITS. N E.,
colonial porch home, Of 6 rooms and
bath; hot-water heat; very large back
yard. with plenty Of space for garage
Terms arranged. This is an excellent
buy.
Near 9th and Eye SITS. N. E.
Owner leaving town has authorized
us to sell his well constructed colonial
home of rooms and bath; front and
rear porches; hardwood floors: excel
lent heating plant; built-in cold storage
room in cellar; house In perfect con-
dition. Priced at $500 for immediate
sale. Easy terms
Phone Lincoln 897.
. HOWENSTEIN BROS,
7th and H SITS. N. E.
and 3015 14th st. N. w.
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Lots for Sale
1O7

Lots for Sale 1O7
Spring. Md, adjoin. property recently
occupied by U. s. Vet. Bur-; signs on
property. w. F. EIler, agent. 9O7 18th
stN.W., Washington, D. c. Main 26S9.
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Real Estate for Sale
Houses for Sale
SPRING PLACE
AT 10TH NJ. w

AT 10TH N. w.
Beautiful semi.detached home, con-
tanning rooms and bath. This home
u modern in every respect, having
front porch, double rear pOEches, hot
water heat and electric lights; hard
wood floors and instantaneous heater;
two-car built-in garage. The lot IL
large and lie surrounded by paved side
and rear alley. This home il situated
in very desirable locality and is con-
sidered good purchase.
FIRST COMMERCIAL NEAR
14TH and PARK ROAD N. w.
A rare opportunity TO purchase an
e-room house on a lot 80 by i66, we
consider this an excellent buy. Priced
right for quick sale. Desirable for an
apartment site.
lat S STREET N. W,
brick home. containing rooms and
pain. 1t 10 modern. having gas, vapor
heat also garage. Great value for inn
mediate action. This Ia q wonderful
bargain for a discriminating buyer.
Terms can be arranged to suit.
w, p. ARNOLD s. co.
226 Transportation Building,
18TH AT H ST. N. w.
Phone Main 1854. :
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NEAR 14TH & KENYoN--s rooms and
hath with all modern improvements.
semi-detached. $500 cash, balance
like rent. Barnswell. GOT Insurance
.BIdg. Main 64b4.
MT PLEAsANT-From owner. recently
built brick home, large rooms and
baths; garage; near car lines
price and terms reasonable. Col. S726.
9ao0 Block Champlain st. N. w.
rooms, bath, latrobe heat, gas
coionial porch, paved alley, front and
hack Yards, garage. Price, $500; cash
pavment $3.50. Terms arranged
Near 9th and You SITS. N. W.
Two Groom houses; Front and back
Yards: paved alley. Price. $500. Cash
payments, $500. Reasonable monthly
payments arranged to suit.
Near nth and You Sts N. ".
Splendidiy located property; excellent
gas. latrobe heat. Price, $500. Cash.
$500. balance like rent
Near Corner eth and r. I. Ave. N. w.
Splendidly located proprty; excellent
renters. Gas. Price. S1O.SOO. Cash,
Al 500 Terms arranged.
GARFIELD c. THOMPSON,
Real Estate.
North 6i57 Home North sI15.
Northeast Corner 9th and You N. W.
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Bids and Proposals

U. 8. ENGINEER OFFICE. $50 Old Land
=, office Building. Washington. d. c.
Sealed proposals will be received here
until IL m, March 81, 1924, and then
opened. for the construction of the First
and Second High Reservoirs for the Dis
trict of Columbia water supply project.
Further Information IN application.
COMMISSIONERS. d. G.. WASHING
ton. February 20, 1924. Sealed pro-
posals will be received until o'clock
p. M. March 3. 1894. at room 500 Dis
trict Building, for furnishing 2,400 cubic
yards soft coal cinders. use in road
construction. For specifications and In
formation apply to Room 900 District
Building
COMMISSIONERS, ID. c.. Washington,
February IL. 1924. Sealed proposals
will be received at Room 500 District
building until o'clock D. IN. March 4
1924. for constructing the Mt. Pleasant
Branch Library Building. For detailed
information apply to Room 427 District
Building. Cash. money order or GER
titled check In the sum Of SIS will be
required TO insu' return Of plans and
specifications.
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A large 3-story residence, constructed
OF stone and cement blocks; IL rooms
and 2 baths: strictly modern; garage;
income, exclusive of rooms occupied
by owner. $3.50 per no.: price. $13, $50;
easy terms.
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CasNiea0n Sod I1d 10 on
instruction
Local instruction Classe. s


The Marjorie Webster School
or Expression and Physical Education
14l6 Mass Ave. N. w. Main 6941
Two years normal course-One year
professional course - Dormitory - Glass
and private instruction In all forms Of
Dancing.
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COLUMBIA HEIGHTS

COLUMBIA HEIGHTS
A large 3-story residence. constructed
OF stone and cement blocks; IL rooms
and baths; strictly modern; garage
income, exclusive of rooms occupied
by owner. $3.50 per mo-: price. $3.50;
easy terms.
Near 18th and X SITS. N. E.
new and thoroughly modern g.
room brick colonial home for $3.50;
only $500 cash required; lot 17x150; 90
IT. alley.
NEAR LINCOLN PARK
3 rooms and bath on two floors;
electricity; brick; price only $500;
terms.
Near Congressional Library.
A strictly modern and brick colonial
home Of s rooms and bath Con two
floors); brick garage; fireplace; hard
wood floors; price $ll,25o: easy terms.
18th st. near Penn. Ave. S. E.
6.room brick in excellent condition;
garage space: $500; $500 cash; good
Near 10Th and Monroe SITS.
A strictly modern 7-room brick resi-
dence; parquet floors; double rear
porches garage space; price $1O'5OO;
terms.
NORTHWEST !
Located near two car lines; new g.
room home; hot-water heat: electric
lights; hardwood floors: laundry trays;
long back yard to alley; bargain; $3.50.
BUNGALOWS AND LOTS
New subdivision National City
Heights) just started last year. to s.
room bungalows; $500 to $1,000 cash
and balance on easy monthly pay
ments. Lots selling from $500 to $500;
trict. Call us for inspection.
p NORTHEAST
Beautiful 5-room brick home in strict
~ white section, containing hot-water
heat, electric lights. built-in ice box.
concrete cellar, garage space. Only
$3.50, on very easy terms.
NEAR LINCOLN PARK
Colonial brick Of rooms; all
ceptional buy at 1880; $3.50 cash.
Near 9Th ard K SITS. N. E.
Large brick home, 22-ft frontage;
thoroughly modern; 3 .porc.hes; garage
space; bargain at $3.50, on easy terms.
NEAR STANTON PARK
improvements: hardwood floors, hot
water heat, electric light. $500, on
easy terms.
CARAVAN BROS,
DIST. NATL. BANK BLDG.
Main 1929. franklin 3993.
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Real Estate For Sale
APARTMENTS For Sale.

NEAR 14TH & IRvING-s-family apart-
ment; first commercial zone. A. Nc
NEIL q CO., Insurance Building,
Main 5644.
Evening star., 1924-11-02

Cloud road, for instance, which will
run from the Hongkong kowloon
Canton Railway station to the White
Cloud Mountain, some miles away, is
TO be as wide as Pennsylvania avenue
and to have parkway of gardens and
trees running through the center.
This road is new being constructed 1t
Will cut its way through the town,
demolishing not only the buildings on
the roadway, but enough on each side
TO make space for new buildings all
the distance to the slope of the noun
tain.
SO far Canton has no street cars,
but a concession for a tramway has
been given, the company paying to
the city a half million dollars in gold
for the franchise. That money has
been used for new roads. The capital
of the company, amounting to several
million dollars, has already been sub
scrlbed, and the materials are on
their way here from the United
states. The company is composed
of Chinese, the subscriptions coming
not only from Canton but also from
rich Chinese in the United States, in
the Philippines and in Malaysia and
Java. The latter colonies have many
Chinese multi-millionaires who have
made great fortunes in sugar and
other plantations.
Another striking feature of the new
Canton is the park system. Some of
the old yamens and temple grounds
have been taken over and turned into
parks The parks are known as gar
dens, and there is a first public gar
den, a second public garden and a
third public garden, each in a differ
cnt section.
Copyright. 1924. Carpenters World Travelsp
Evening star., 1924-11-02
Was Once Merely Beehve-Modern Factories Under Wav

The whole river front is now walled
with warehouses, stores, Office struc-
lures and fine municipal buildings. A
large, modern department store is
getting the trade of some of the old
business cells I have described, and
here and there are factories springing
up with modern machinery. At Ho-
nan, one of the suburbs, cotton
spinning mill has just been completed,
and not far away new copper
foundry is making sheeting from ma
tive ore. A new shipbuilding plant is
turning out 200 barges a year, and
there are five large factories that
make socks and underwear. 1 have
on pair of tan shoes that cost me $12
in Washington. The secretary of the
mayor. who is sitting beside me, has
on new shoes that look equally we'll
and are quite as well made. 1 asked
him the price, He replies: "They
cost me SO. They were made in the
new shoe factory here in Canton"
Leaving the Bund. the next stage
of our journey will be along the lines
of the great wall that cuts the bee
hive, as I have described. You will
remember how Joshua took Jericho in
his conquest of Palestine. That city
had walls, the remains of which were
being excavated during my last trip
to the Holy Land. The walls were
not one-third as wide as those of
Canton. and the city within them was
not one-twentieth the size of that
within the walls here. They were
great walls, nevertheless, and they
fell fiat at the command of Jehovah
when Joshua, the general of the Is
raelites, had his seven priests blow
their seven rams horns and the peo-
pie made q great shout. The result is
recorded in Joshua, vi.20:
Evening star., 1924-11-02

with huge overhanging roofs of tiles.
You must put them along streets
SO narrow that as you go through
In your sedan chair you are crowded
against the walls when another pas
senger rides by. You observe that
the wheelbarrows which form the
motor trucks and carry the freight
must stop at the corners to let others
pass and that the great loads borne
along on the shoulders OF men and
women force every one back to the
walls. The streets are so narrow
that you can stand in the center and
reach both walls with your hands.
AS You look down you see that
the pavements are flagstones worn
smooth by the tramping of millions
of barefooted celestials throughout
the ages; and as you look up you
notice that the highways are rooted
with straw mating to shut out the
tropical sun.
AS your eye runs up and down the
streets you see that they are walled
with thousands of cells, each of which
has gorgeous sign of red, blue or
gold hanging down at it's side, and
within the cells are Acknowledged,
yellow-skinned merchants who are
making and selling goods of many de-
scriptions. Every one of the cells is
a store or a factory, and the whole
seems mighty museum filled with
the treasures of the Indies and with
the curious merchandise used by
these yellowskinned people of the
other side os the world. To show the
full reel OF the scenes in these streets
would take full evening.
AS l look back again another series
OF pictures comes into view. One
is mighty wall 40 feet wide and
Evening star., 1924-11-02
Canton Chna Biggest Municipality Becoming City of Beaut
Modern Highways New Buildings and Attractive Parks Prod

I pie. At least, that is the estimated
population of the district assigned to
| the American consul general, who has
! his headquarters here.
| 1t is now many years since I first
came to Canton. The city was then
the same as it had been for centuries
1t was strictly Chinese, the only for
eign feature being confined to the
little island of Shameen in the river
that contains the British, the French
and other concessions. On the main
land such a thing as motor car
could not have been used, and all the
trips 1 made through the city were
either on foot or in chairs carried
by sweating, half-naked coolies. We
shall cover the same ground today
in an automobile supplied by the
mayor.
But to understand the changes we
must first have a bird's-eye view of
me Canton of the past. We shall
look at it through the film registered
on the eye of my mind 2O-odd years
ago.
Imagine a mighty beehive Of hu-
manity covering 10000 acres Let it
spread out for three miles from the
banks of a muddy, yellow river
teeming with shipping, and let it be
cut up here and there by canals. Let
the waterways be covered with boats
SO closely packed that one wonders
how they can ever be moved, their
decks sprawline with babies, tied on
with ropes while playing within six
inches OF drowning
!; x X
THESE are but the faint outlines
of the picture. You must cover
this territory with somber, gray, one
and two story buildings built of brick,
Evening star., 1924-11-02

$50 the people shouted and the
priests blew the trumpetS; and it
came to pass that when the people
hard the sound of the trumpets that
the people shouted with great shout
and the walls fell down fiat
< x x *
THE Joshua of Canton is the mayor,
Sun Fro, the owner of the car in
which we are riding. 1t is now only
three years since he sounded the
trumpet in this City of Rains, and now
there is less to be seen of its mighty
wall than that of old Jericho on the
banks of the Jordan. a wide motor
highway, paved with concrete, made
by the crushing of the old brick and
stone, has taken its place, making a
belt road through the city
Other roads have been run off from
this, and a system of white streets,
planned with the aid of civil engi-
neers from America, has been created
There are already more than 35 miles
of concrete and macadamized motor
roads running through and around the
great beehive of the past, and the
provincial highway commission has
made plans for five main roads to go
from here out to the principal cities
of Kwangtung. AS yet there is no
sign of these roads being constructed.
But what has been done in the city
itself is SO remarkable that l dare
not say what may not be done in the
future. Canton has now 500 automo-
bilcs.
Along these new motor roads mod
ern buildings are going up. and some
large structures are alre ady erected
The roads are lighted by electricity.
They have concrete sidewalks, and
many might be called avenues White
Evening star., 1924-11-02
Canton,
NJ FRANK G. CARPENTER.
"a NTnN- q

CANTON, China
~ ONE with me for q motor car
ride through the biggest and
most progressive city of
~ China Yes. motor car ride.
We shall not have to tramp
along on foot, be hauled in jinriki-
Shas or toted in sedan chairs On the
bare shoulders of coolies. This is a
new China, and We are at it's south
eastern end. We are in the latitude
of Cuba and on the other side of
the world. 1t is halfway around the
earth from here to Boston by the
Panama Canal, and We could travel
more than 1900 miles west and north
and still be in China. Peking is
farther away from here than Omaha
is from the Atlantic. and Chengtu,
another big city in a province that
has 45,000,000 people, is as far off
as Baltimore is from Atl2nta-
In Canton we are 60 Neles from the
Pacific Ocean and 80 miles from
Hongkong. We are in city that
was a commercial center when Rome
was at the height of it's glory; the
capital OF the kingdom of Nan Yush
up to a hundred years before Christ
a town that the Chinese say dates
back to fairyland, for, according to
their traditions, it was founded by
five fairies, clad in coats of as many
colors as that of Joseph, who came
riding through the air on five rams.
That is why the people still call Can
ton the City of Rams
The Canton of today has a popula-
tion OF perhaps 100000, but the
greater Canton includes many
suburbs and is tfI commercial center
and port for perhaps 5o,0oo.0o0 peo-