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The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1924-05-01
What the Tourist Means
to Marietta
The New Hotel
at Greenville, S. c..

study The
IN for whom building to whom
ra1Oad advertising
travelling
recreation of
culnist or employer. ~
the great majority that
o ana willing the He has
especially attract him. He
IN Marietta at cheaper rates than Atlanta he will
me Tourist and his party buy clothing foodus every sort
e Sperd money Tor The dollar
one hand the other
muniy. 1000 - ~ "ll' '0''ts III
essential that hotel
and sufficient
we %
Co., tourist business value INTEREST,"
travellers Marietta O '"0 ~ NlO0A
Wh are we going to do? Are Tourist
comodatOns Atlanta
tel ana Marietta?
BUSINESS because of historic
But this Hotel for The will attract conventions -
but who before
when we have modern hotel accommodations at lower rato
can be bought in Atlanta. ~ A"V0 u
Orthe investors The New Hotel WILDE investment The
calling Preferred Stock share One e %
Stock value will also be ao
OF Preferred Stock. 0f0l' ~"
The Hotel be leased experience operator on basis ++ m
ole 10 pay dividend the Preferred Stock
The Hotel Committee Commerce has homo e. or
experienced financially responsible
which this. Wv NV" '00 On rent
Not Alone Safe Investment But
Civic Duty, Too.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-15
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY

(From The Times Recorder. Sept.
Is, 1914.)
The Americas High school, the
Prospect Heights Grammar school
and East Americas Grammar school
will open on Monday next, 2lst, for
the fall session. these three schools
will accommodate about coo pupils,
while the other white pupils, prob
ably 700 viii be taken care oil III
the the Furlow Grammar schooi.
The board has adopted the plan OF
Saturday attendance n FurloW
school. This win be continued until
the time lost by delay in getting the
building in readiness is made up.
On toward eight cents the price
of cotton is advancing and the pre-
diction is freely made that this bet
ter price will be paid at Amerlcus
warehouses before the end Of the
current week. Already it has adj
vanced a half cent within the last
few days, and the spot demand is
excellent. Seven and a half cents
was freely offered here yesterday
for the clean white grades while
several sales at an eighth better
were reported Today, ga cents
is a probability.
The discussion created here re-
Gently, resulting in the enforced
closing up on Sunday last of the
cigar stand in the Hotel Windsor
and of the several restaurants, here,
was authorized neither by the police
commission, or was it the worl, of
the recently organized law and or
der league. This fact was fully
brought out at a meeting of the
police commission when the act of
ordering the cigar stands closed
next Sunday at regularly licersed
places of business.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-15
Editorial Opinions Cleaned
Serious and Otherwise
From Press and Magazine

berry and murder. He had known
for years what it was to shoot
it out with posses when pursued
and forced into close quarters.
In those days his hand had been
steady, his trigger finger quick,
his eye unfailing.
Six bullets from one police
mans revolver all "went home"
as the Joplin reports went horne
Daugherty got every one of them9
and, strange to say, none of his
bullets hit anyone. He evident
ly stayed bandit too long. That
might not have happened if he
had been 10 years younger. So
ciety is much better off as a
result of this passionate killers
Informal execution by police. If
more executions of this kind could
be had the profession of crime
might be discouraged. Killing
them with their boots on is lot
better than adding new words
to the dictionary in the process
of trial to defeat justice.-Daw-
son News.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-15
Destroy the Cotton
Stalks

If we would produce more
cotton in 1925 than in 1924,
now is the time to begin and the
first step is the destruction of
cotton stalks just as soon as all
the cotton is picked out.
If we could persuade every
farmer to destroy every stalk as
soon as the cotton is out there
would be vastly fewer weevils
to fight next year. for there
would be fewer to go into hiber-
nation. 1t would act like long
and severely cold winter.
This winter may not be a Sc
we're one; the chances are that
it will be decidedly more tenn
porate than last winter. In that
case there will be more weevils
to live through the winter than
last year. By destroying the
stalks this fall the same benefit
will be secured. Fewer weevils
means less poison, less expense.
One of the leading govern
ment authorities on the boil wee
vii recently made the statement
that no other part of the weevil
fight is so important as the
EARLY destruction of cotton
stalks, says F. M. Conner, devel-
opment agent of the Seaboard
Air Line.
Next summer may not be so
favorable to weevil control as
this and we should start our fight
now We CAN produce more
cotton next year than this. Sum
ter county has the soil, the eli
mate and the farmers with en-
ergy, brains and Intelligence suf-
hcient to do whatever we set out
to do.
We must not stop this year
until every stalk has been de
stroyed.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-15
old Days In Americas

titles the holder to get fifty shines
at Bailey's chair free of cost.
Mr.. Neill R. Ray, residing four
or five miles north of the city, snf-
fered the loss of another gin house
about o'clock yesterday morning,
the second within the last two years.
The fire was evidently THE work of
incendiaries, though there is 10
clue Of the guilty parties.
Several bales of cotton wrapped
in burlap were marketed at one Of
the warehouses here yesterday. Ve2y
little of this covering is being
used, however, since the jute sharks
failed in their effort to force an
advance in the price of 5agging.
The At Home Club met at the
residence of Misses Chloe Belle
and Gertrude White Thursday
evening. The evening was per
feet one, and the moons soft lays
never shone ON a more charming as
semblage of young people grouped
as they were around the spacious
verandahs or on the lovely lawn,
while congenial, matronly friends
enjoyed the pleasures of the even
ing inside the portieres. The prin-
ciple feature of the entertainment
was indeed unique in its execution,
though it did partake of eye old
en- times" A Cinderella party it
was. The name alone brings YER
sions of the handsome prince and
lovely maidens, fair to look upon.
On this occasion there were so many
of equal prominence that the gentle
men drew for the honor of trying
the dainty No. 1 blue sating slipper,
and 50 finding queenly Cinderella.
Mr.. Charles Robert Crisp drew the
prize and a gallant prince he prov
ed, for he exercised all the patience
of his genial nature to make the
slipper go all the gaits, but not
so; Miss Nina Fish was the only
one who could wear the dainty
shoe, and was crowned Cinderella by
the prince, Mr.. Crisp, in one of his
happiest and most eloquent speech
es. The entire program Of the we'd
ding march and other features of
the pretty fable story was carried
out.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-15
The Pictorial Farmer

The witty remark of John w.
Davis in his Omaha speech that
he is not even a pictorial far
me-" recalls to mind the recent
pictorial propaganda of the Re
publican National Committee in
which Candidate Coolidge is
depicted in various bucolic
stunts. One shows him present
ing a sap bucket to Henry Ford,
which ought to have been given
to William M. Butler; another
portrays him in overalls pitch
ing hay, which for a combination
of portraiture and landscape eff
feet artistically ranks with the
celebrated jeu d esprit entitled
Secretary Slemp Making Hay
on the Meadows of Dan"
There are cynical persons who
scott at the idea of palming off
Mr.. Coolidge on the public as a
farmer when it is well-known for
the last twenty-five years he has
successfully held eleven public
offices. These should remem-
Der that office holding does not
interfere in any way with pic
tonal farming, and that in the
hands of Republican National
Committee not overburdened
with conscience the camera as a
farming implement is as mighty
as the pillow. At least it is
valuable aid to a candidate in
diverting the mind of cautious
voters from the candidates ac-
tual qualifications for the office
he seeks. The danger of sub
shutting the camera for the pillow.
the hay rake or other agricul-
tural implement is that many
millions of THINKING voters
will see the deception, which the
slight-of-hand publicity director
is attempting to put over on
them.
1t is greatly to the credit of
John w. Davis that be is not
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-15
SON NeN
EiP75A /. 4! e,
X RsAIhe1& ApgaAc
FUGITIVE

FUGITIVE
Alabama man fled his home y
years ago, thinking he had killed
man. All these years he has kept
under cover, suffering the tortures
of remorse. Recently he learned
that the man he shot recovered and
lived. His soul paid price for
something he didn't do.
This victim of fate's irony IL
wolves interesting problems in phi
losophy. For instance if man tries
to murder an enemy and his c1lrie
is frustrated by his cartridges be.
ing blanks, is his intent as evil as
the actual deed? The law says not
even though the man did everything
in his power to accomplish the kill
ing.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-15
Conquering the Moth

About this time of the year
mother is going over garments,
laying aside the summer ones
and taking from storage those
for winter use. Often a garment
that was perfectly good when
stored away is found full of
holes from the depredations OF
moths. The loss from these lit
tie destroyers runs into millions
every year.
Garments containing greasy
spots are seldom left untouched
by the moths. For that reason,
thorough cleaning is necessary
before storing away.
DR.. Titschak, of Leverkusen,
according to story in the Scien-
tific American. has discovered
how to checkmate the moths,
and eventually, exterminate
them.
Titschak experimental with
1000 chemicals before he found
what he wanted. Finally he got
the right chemical. For instance,
he takes raw wool and applies
the chemical to it. No ordor,
no destructive effect on the
wool. No trace that the chemi-
cal has been used. But, forever
after, moths will not eat this
wool. They crawl around on it,
in the worm stage, and die OF
starvation.
Later, we presume, this chemi-
cal or something similar will be
placed on the market. So far the
experiment seems to be in the
laboratory stage.
Everything has, in nature, its
destroyer. That is the principle
that researchers like Titschak
base their work on.
Destruction by moths must
run into hundreds of millions of
dollars every year, the world
over.
A discovery like permanent
moth destroyer might, in the
long run, save as much money
as was wasted in the World
War.
Moths do not eat cotton or
other fabric materials taken from
plant life. Excepting paper and
cork. One kind of moth spe-
cializes at attacking wool and
hair. Another goes after furs.
Still others concentrate, in turn,
on cork and paper.
The Scientific American arti-
Gle says that the moths so often
seen flying around a house are
males. To kill them does not
help much, for there are several
hundred males to each female.
And the female moth, though
it has wings, rarely flies
out where it can be seen.
it hides in dark corners and lays
thousands of eggs. These eggs
hatch into worms. By the time
the worms are large enough to
be seen crawling about, they
have already done most of their
damage.
Why does nature send these
pests to annoy us? Answer this
and you'll have the answer why
nature sends all other troubles.
The purpose seems to be to keep
us busy fighting for existence.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-15
pRoHIBIT CHILD LABOR

The best judgement of the Ma
ton is that the regulation of
child labor should be a state
function.
The New York World insists
"that the states have shown them
selves incapable of handling the
question" A correspondent Of
that paper shows that in all of the
Southern states child labor is
prohibited under the age of IA,
with the exception of Georgia.
which permits children between
the ages of IL and Ii who are
orphans or the children of widow
ed mothers, to be employed un-
der permits. Last year only 127
such permits were issued in that
State. Texas prohibits child labor
under the age of Is years.
The Savannah Press was of the
opinion that the recent session of
the State Legislature in Georgia,
which rejected the national
amendment, as it ought to have
done, should have perfected the
State law. However, it seems
that very few children are EN-
ployed under the age of ID
Savannah Press.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-15
Henry Brown S Faith

Here's story from the Coun-
try Gentleman that should be
read to the young man who de-
sires to take his profits from
the farm and invest" them in
some business in the city. If you
know of such fellow, read this
to him:
A year ago Henry Brown sold
his farm and moved to town, full
of faith that he could win a liv-
ing. running a nice grocery store.
He was beginning to want to
take things a little easier.
He did not know very much
about small town groceries, but
he thought that by honesty and
square dealing he could gain suf-
ficient trade to bring him a mod
est competence. So he paid cash
through a lying real estator 10
lying merchant for a stock of we'll
nigh worthless bones and tails
and spent more cash in stocking
up.
Every dead beat in town forth
with invaded Henry and bought
on credit as large bill of goods
as he thought Henry would stand
for. Pushers of worthless adver-
Using schemes came on the run.
Good ladies and gentlemen inn
portuned him for funds to pant
the painless heather in far-off
Mammalian. The silver cornet band
sought contributions. In fact,
!. every member of the Gimme
Gang proceeded to hook innocent
Henry.
The town fined him for plac-
ing wares too far out on the
sidewalks. The landlord, seeing
so many people passing in and
out, increased his rent.
When finally Henry endeavor-
ed to collect the sums that were
justly due him for goods sold and
delivered, declined to fall for con-
fidence games and grew grim and
irascible he acquired so many
enemies, but so very little cash,
that in disgust and distress he
sold out what was left of the
stock and, because he was home
sick for the sights and sounds of
the country, FASTENED to rent
the old farm from its possessor,
and thankfully set to work
where he had begun years ago
before.
Henry Brown still has faith,
not in the grocery business, but
in the good old honest earth.
Retail merchandising is a high.
ly systematized and most exact.
ing profession. AS a rule, the
retailer works on short profits
depending on quick turn-overs
his expenses are high and diff
cult to hold down to a safe mar
gin; competition is keen anc
sometimes ruthless.
No unframed, inexperienced
man - young or old-should
think of tackling any business
Ri
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-15
The STANDARD
By Ahern
TUESDAY IS DOLLAR DAY

TUESDAY is DOLLAR DAY
Many Shoppers Are Taking Ad.
vantage of Our September Sales
They're Full of Exceptional
Values.
81 will buy II yards OF solid color
Chambray, all colors, full width.
81 will buy 3 mems NainsOok
Union Suits, all sizes.
81 will buy boys Athletic Union
Suits, all sizes.
81 will get your choice of over
one hundred Misses Bingham Dress
es.
81 will buy 2 Princess Slips, pink,
blue and lavender, all sizes.
81 will buy one Lingette Princess
Slip, all colors, full regular make,
81 viii buy one Ladies Crepe
Night Gowns, pink and blue.
81 viii buy z yards Mercerized
Crepe, pink, blue, lavender, white.
81 will buy yards best STANDARD
Outing, full regular width.
81 viii buy Z yards of the best
25c Dress Bingham, one hundred
patterns.
81 will buy beautiful Chiffon
Silk Hose, black and colors.
81 will buy one pair Boys Over
all of the best standard quality.
ST. vii buy one pair mems Pin
Checked Trousers, full run of sizes.
81 will buy one dozen mems Col
lars, mostly large sizes; regularly
25 cents.
81 will buy yards best standard
8-oz Osnaburg, full width.
81 will buy 4 Bleached Turkish
Towels, size 22x44 inches.
81 will buy three PeppereI OF
Gold Seal Pillow Cases, full size
81 viii buy two of the best Work
Shirts you ever saw; mems and
boys sizes.
81 will buy 8 yards STANDARD
quality Apron Bingham, guaral
teed fast color.
81 will buy Envelope ChemiS
of good quality Nainsook.
81 will buy 8 pairs Children
Sateen Bloomcrs, all sizes.
81 will bug Two square yard
Congoleum, lengths up to twelv
feet.
81 will buy two Eorgoleum
hats, size 36x35 inches; pretty rat
tens.
81 will buy 4 yards new Fal
Suiting Checks and Plaids.
81 will buy 5 yards Challie' y
inches wide; beautiful patterns.
81 viii buy 3 yards 864lncn
blue and black Serge; excellel
quality.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-15

until he at least is familiar with
the fundamentals. He's sure to
be another Henry Brown.
The man who has made a
profit on the farm had best stick
to that avocation unless he has
thoroughly prepared himself for
another.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-15
THOUGHT

The sluggard will not plough by
reason of the cold; therefore shall
he beg in harvest, and have moth.
ing.--Prov. 2O:4.
80
That destructive syren sloth is
ever to be Horace.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-15
TOURISTS

Back from Europe, friend tells
us he had to pay $50 a day for a
room in a second-grade hotel in
London. So it's easy to believe that
American tourists are leaving 500
million dollars over there his year
as experts claim. Three hundred
thousand made the trip this sum
mer.
One big result of this is That for
eign currencies have been propped
up by the demand for foreign mon
ey by Yank tourists.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-15
NOISY

Grand jury investigates com
plants made against noisy airplales
by resident of Long Island, N. Y
Sleeping is going to be quite a j i
when joy-riders by the thousands
fly low overhead at night. shouting
and flinging empty TASKS and trash
overheard.
The airplane, a great blessing
will also be nuisance. In solving
one problem We generally create
several new ones.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-15
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
Monday, no paper published.

THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
Mr.. w. D. Bailey has introduced
a novelty that is quite popular. He
has set up a chair for snoe shining
in front of his store, and every one
who buys a pair of shoes from him
is presented with a card which en-
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-15

Molasses candy in your wife,
false teeth stops the conversation.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-15
WASTE -oF PUBLIC MONEY

busting cotton with calcium
arsenate by means of airplanes
and listening for signals from
Mars seem to us to be expert
ments of the same order. Bot1
within the realms of possibility,
but highly impracticable and of
little worth to mankind. TIE
only benefit to be derived from
either experiment will be increas-
ed knowledge of the possibilities
of the airplane and of the radio.
For that they may be justified
Rome News Tribune.
But politician will play most
anything to get a vote even to
signalling Mars or busting poi
son from an airship. However,
this years cotton crop is prac-
tically matured, and as for Mars
we don't know anything about it,
except that it is a beautiful rel
star that shines to the southeast
of us.-Dalton Citizen.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-15

lending himself to any cheap
subterfuges. but is always his
natural self, devoting his time TO
a discussion of the issues of the
campaign. specifically pointing
out the country's needs and pre-
senting a constructive progress
sive program to meet them.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-15
WE'D LIKE TO KNOW

George Nelson, Of Brooklyn,
N. Y, was fined SIS for spooning
with a girl in Forest Park. Mel
son explained to the magistrate
that the girl was his wife, but
the latter said that made no diff
ference.-Barnesville News-Ga-
zette.
Nelson should have asked the
Judge this question: If a man
cannot spoon with his own wife,
with whose wife can he spoon and
be safe?-Enquirer Sun.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-15
BITTER

made on improved
LOHAA NSfarm lands at cheap
est rates for terms of 5, z or 10
years with prepayment option given
Money secured promptly. We have
now outstanding over $1,100,000 on
farms in Sumter county alone, with
plenty more to leId.
MIDDLETON MCDONALD
Correspondent Atlanta Trust Co.,
in Sumter, Lee, Terrell, Sehley.
Macon, Stewart, Randolph and
Webster counties. 81 Planters Bank
Building, kmericua, Ga. Phone SO
Rx 2l1. ~, =. 49,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-15
COPIED

A prowler in origins announces
that the crowbar gets its name iron
the beak of the crow which it re-
sembles and from which the inven-
tion Of this prying steel bar orig
mated.
Nearly all inventions are just cop
les of things that exist in nature
either singly or by combinations Of
copied parts. The airplane's shape
is the birds. There is nothing new
under the sun-but there are new
applications in infinite number.
BITTER
A New York convict escapes frcm
an honor" road gang. His father,
an Italian, delivers him back to the
prison warden. The convict ap-
parently returned voluntarily after
talking with his father.
Bitter for both of them, but both
act wisely. There may be escape
from prison. But there's no escape
from conscience and the fear of re-
capture.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-15
SALARY SYSTEM TRIUMPHs

The Macon News feels a par
donable pride in the overwhelm-
ing majority by which the fee
system, not only in Bib county,
but apparently in Richmond,
Chatham, Muscogee and DeKalk,
was defeated, and legislation pro
viding for the placing of county
officers on a salary basis was
ratified.
The News has been fighting this
battle for many long year. j.
has fought against the system
without regard to personalities.
1t was advocating the adjustment
of the fee system before any of
the present county officers, with
one exception, had been elected to
his present position. We like to
believe that all the present in
cumbents are now, and have al
ways been, our friends.
We have simply felt that the
system was intinsically wrong,
in the first place, and in the sec
ond place that we owed it as
duty to the taxpayers of the
county to bring about a more
economical administration of the
county's affairs.-Macon News
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-15

Another notorious killer, whose
career extended over two decades.
has gone the way of the bandit,
has died with his boots on, shot
full of holes in a pitched battle
with the police, in Joplin, Mo.
Roy Daugherty, ga, who had rob-
bed banks, trains and individuals,
who had killed 10 men in his
time and who had operated in
three states, Missouri, Kansas
and Oklahoma, at last got what
was coming to him. At that, how
ever, he probably died as he wish
ed, in action and with his boots
on.
Daugherty, now a good bandit
because he is as dead rs he ever
will be, had borne a somewhat
charmed life in his career of rob