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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-22
COMMERCE WITH EVERY LIVE RESIDENT A LIVE MEMBER
Old Days i'm
An1eY-iCnS
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
(From the Times-Recorder. Jan.
%, 1914.)

(From the Times-Reeorder. Jan.
%, 1914)
Mr.. W. 0. Hogg, formerly of
Americas but during the past several
years a resident of Quincy, Fla.s
died in that city Yesterday morn
ing. He was 80 years of age, a
native of Buena Vista, and mem
Der of the well known family of that
section. He was buried in the Taz-.
well cemetery
Americas Elks anticipated with
interest the occasion arranged for
this evening at the handsomely app
pointed quarters ofthe local lodge.
Several young fawns are to have con
ferred on them the 'antler degree"
of initiation into the yelled mys~
teries of Elk dom. ~
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Carruthers
removed yesterday from their form
err home on Lee street to the w. L.
Clark residence on Oglethorpe road,
which Mr.. Carruthers purchased e.
Gently.
Mr. and Mrs. James Rees return
ed to Americas after having spent
some time in Atlanta,
DR.. j, r. Statham has gone to
Baltimore, Md on a visit that will
extend over several weeks, during
which time he will take a post grad
uate course at the famous john;
Hopkin University, Of which insti-
tuition he is a graduate
Miss Lynn Mathis wishes to an
nounce the terms of her dancing
club: 81 for one month, single even
ings, 81.
Friends of Mrs. w. S. Ivey,who
on yesterday was operated on for
appendicitis at the Americas hos
pital, will be pleased to know that
her condition remains very favor
able.
The following resolution was
passed last night at the jubilee meet
ing: Resolved, that we extend to
Times-Recorder our deepest graft
tude for the magnificent support
which it has given the Y. NJ. c. A.,
building through its columns and
the personal assistance of its editor,
Mr.. Quimby Melton, to whom We
feel that the success of the present
campaign is largely due.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-22
Climate Changes.

The climate of the United
States is changing. So claims
iEIias B. Dunn, former weather
observer for New York City.
Dunn says this change has been
slowly but surely taking place
since about 1895.
Old settlers in various parts
Of the country frequently make
the same claim, especially in
the Northern and Eastern states.
They have in mind the very
deep SHOWS of former genera
tons, SHOWS 50 deep that horses
pulled sleighs right oyer the
tops of the fences, with drifts
10 feet deep. or more.
Weather Bureau officials in
Washington, D. c., have dis
agreed. They say that climate
merely moves in cycles - very
warm for a while, then very hot.
They check up old records and
say that, if you take the wealth
er average over periods Of 10
years each, the average tempera-
ture of these periods or cycles
has never varied more than a
ew degrees since the first Off
cial weather observations were
made.
Dunn, nevertheless, is lining
,p with the old settlers. He is
positive that the climate is
hanging, and he blames the big
irrigation projects in the West.
About l9 million acres are now
lnder irrigation. Tbs means a
tremendous amount of moisture
med up in what otherwise
would be dry country.
Water in a dry country nat
Irally evaporates quickly. This
evaporation changes the mois-
.ure of the air and, affecting the
barometric condition, generates
storms which are not only local
but go travelling So, Dunn rea-
ons, we have cloudbursts, floods
and general freaks of weather
Dammed-up water evaporates
last in dry climate. In the
Ohio valley, evaporation is 40
inches a year. 1t is over 100
inches a year in Mexico, Ari-
IONA and Southeastern Califor-
MIA.
The old settlers often advance
the theory that climate has been
changed by the destruction of
forests, which formerly stored
up a lot of moisture and kept
the snow from melting quickly.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-22
Ei'4i I.
~ bgAbert Apple
SHAME

We talk about this being a great
country TO education. But SCI on
of every 1000 boys and girls whc
enter high school quit and go t.
work before they graduate. These
are average figures for the Who'll,
country.
Considering the prosperity of our
nation, every child should have {;
high school education. Only {;
minority Of them get it. And onI!
about half who enter high schoo
graduate. This is the deplorabi
thing to remember when statistic
experts talk about big production .
steel or autos. Brains, our creates
form of national wealth, should BE-
our chief investment for the future
Unfortunately, not.~
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-22
MUSCLE SHOALS HEARING
CONTINUED FOR A DAY

WASHINGTON, January 22.-
After a two-hour hearing the house
military committee put, over furth-
err consideration of the Muscle
Shoals problem until tomorrow.
Assurance is given the com
mittee that within few days new
bid calling for the manufacture of
fertilizer would be submitted.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-22
OPINIONS OF
OTHER EDITORS
THE HOME FIRES BURNING

The Augusta Chronicle pub
fishes an interesting letter from
Abbeville, S. c., whcih gives the
information that the colored peo-
pie are returning in a steady
stream from the North.
Five solid cars filled with ne
groes left Washington for the
South Christmas day and were
dropped along the route until on
ly two cars remained attached to
the Seaboard Air Line train when
it reached Abbeville. 1t is said
that every train coming through
was so packed with negroes re-
turning South that the gates in
Cincinnati and Washington sta
lions We're packed with colored
passengers. Finally special
trains were made up to get the
crowds out. Some of the trains
were run in three sections and on
the second section were twenty
two day coaches filled with ne
groes returning to their homes in
the South.
Of course, these darkies do not
all admit that they are coming
home for good. The letter says
the negro race is sometimes
close and mysterious when it
comes to talking to white folks"
Some claim to be home on a visit,
and when asked if they expect to
return to the North invariably in
swer: I'VE may, and we may
notm
However, experiences given by
many of the returning 'emigrees'
IS disconcerting. The mercury
went down to zero in the West
and North. Negroes with large
families found they could not
rent desirable house in Chicago.
Property holders are looking out
for the wall paper and the win
dow panes so that the colored
family man has to go out to the
outskirts to live. The negro pill
grims were not allowed to whip
their own children in Northern
cities. This is looked upon as g
violation of personal liberty"
because the practice of flaying
the offspring Is one which, in the
average colored mind, ought not
to be abridged. Work. slacken-
ing, winter set in up North, and
the Southern negro began to pine
for the hghtwood knot fires of
the old home.
The writer contends that many
Of the negro families who moved
away when the boil weevil de-
stroyed the crop a, year ago are
going back to the country and re-
turn TO the farms in earnest.
Many acres of fine farm land
had 70 lie idle last year because
of the scarcity Of labor and the
return from the North Of the me-
gro farm hands will be welcomed
by everyone with the good of the
country at heart.
It may be that some of them
are just coming home on a
Christmas visit. But it is very
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-22
SOVIET PREMIER DIED
AT MOSCOW TODAY
Continued From Page One)

CONTINUED From Page One)
participation in the socialist move
ment. He organized Union for
the Liberation of the Working
Class."e
Unlike many of his intellectual
contemporaries, Lenin took no part
in terrorist plots, but devoted
himself to the education of the
workers in politics and economics.
This, however, was enough to bring
upon him the vengeance of the
police. He was arrested in 1897
and exiled by Imperial ukase to
Siberial
There he continued his revolution
airy studies and writings. On the ex-
Firation of his sentence he was for
hidden to reside in any of the large
cities, industrial centresy or unye.-
sity towns of Russia. He went into
western Europe and with q group Of
comrades founded a paper, ''Iskra,'
which became the center of an ard
emit group Of revolutionary exiles.
The Cars police however, did not
cease treir, pursuit at the Russian
border Tracked by the notorious
I'Okhrana." Lenin lived successfully
in Munich, Paris, London and fin
ally in Geneva, which became his
home. for several years.
Twice during his ,Lenin's life was
the object of attack by would be-
| assassins. In Augusta, 1918, he was
shot by a girl, Dora Kaplan, said to
have been an agent of the Social,
Revolutionist party Two bullets
entered his body and for weeks his
life was despaired Of =
Lenin is described by those who
knew him as man zeaIously deVot-
ed to his ideals but always practi-
cal in their application. This was
shown in the gradual change from
the extreme Communist program,
which followed the revolution, to the
compromise of the New Economic
Policy" which is in force in Rus
STA today.
Representatives of the foreign
diplomatic mission and others
agreed expressing the opinion that
Lenin's death would probably pro
duce no general disquiet in Russia
but nevertheless would have impor'
tant political effect.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-22
BRAIN

They talk a lot about Muscle
Shoals and similar projects. NToo
bad, of course, that these natura.
resources are not developed. But
our greatest national resource i.
brains of the young.
Many a boy, doomed to child la
lor under our present system, might
become an Edison or a Gary if en-
abled to develop his brain.
Brains and Drawn are the only
forms of national wealth, in the long
runs Emotion-heart and charact-
er-is a separate thing. 1t has to
do with happiness. Uncle Sam neg
lects his best investment, child
brain.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-22
our Daily
IS Poem
THE URBANITE

Some may find "books
In running brooks"
Or country hooks
That shelter
The lowing kline"
But | find mine
Where crowds move helter-skelter
The hum of bees,
The signing trees
May serve to please
The poet;
But l prefer
The noise and stir
OF urban ways-you know it.
Let others dream
OF field and stream
And hills that CLEAN
With glamor,
Of birds that sing
Give me the ring
And clang of steel and hammer.
The rush of feet
Upon the street,
The sounds that beat
Above it;
The "bitter strife
Of city life,'
Believe you me, I love it!
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-22
A THOUGHT

Except the Lord build the house,
thew labor in vain that build its eX-
eept the Lord keep the city, the
Waterman waketh but in vain.-
Ps. 1874.
In mans most dark extremity
Oft succor dawns from heaven.
Scott.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-22
GOLD

Well, we have 48 per cent of the
worlds gold in the United States
now. Our gold stock is over 4247
million dollars, to be exact, in case
you're glutton for statistics.
Nearly everybody's proud of this
big gold reserve-though the chief
thing it does is keep prices high.
The more gold, the less unit Of
gold will buy. A few have the gold.
Some others have a gold-brick.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-22
TWENTY YEARS. AGO TODAY
(From the Times-Recorder. Jan.
22,1904.)

(F'rom the Times Recorder. Jan.
22,1904.)
While cotton generally brought
IA cents in Americas yesterday one
lot sold for Ia 1-2 cents, probably
the highest paid by any Georgia
market.
1t is rumored now that another
very pretty piece Of shelf goods in
Lee street home will soon be
waited to,a neighboring city, a fair
bride.
When Mayor Hawkins raps the
council to order tonight each SCION
will loll back comfortably in a beau
tiful walnut double rotary safety
valve rocking chair and answer to
roll call. The cost of the chairs
might have painted the water tower,
but this council can do that when
ever necessary and without sacrifice
ing city pride to Pink Pills for Pale
People.
At the regular monthly meeting
of the county board of education on
February 6, occurs the election If
school superintendent, the position
so admirably filled by Supt. w S.
Moore for long number of years.
1t goes without saying that his re-
election will be favorably consider
ed. /
Miss Bessie Hopkin, of Thomas
vile, is the fair guest of Miss Sara
Cobb at her home on Lee street.
Hon. Alma C. Hill, one of Terrell
county most prosperous and prom
inent farmers and men of affairs
was in Americas yesterday, and says
that Bronwood is coming to \ the
front rapidly, with substantial brick
buildings and new brick hotel, now
ornamenting that beautiful little
city. Land is worth $25 an acre, Mr..
Hill says, and high price cotton and
general prosperity combine to
make the farmers of this setcion
happy this year.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-22

and would think couldn't live.
wonld have hot flashes, then. would
come weak spells. was so weak |
would think / couldn't ever get
meal ready. My work was burden
to me. / was not able to do my
homework half of the time. A friend
advised me to take Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, and it
has given me strength and health.
The hot flashes left me and / got bet
ter of the numb spells. That summer
l could do my homework and worked
in the garden a good bit, | tell all
sick women what your wonderful
medicine did for me, and will always
recommend it. / am known to all
my neighbors, and you can publish
this statement because it is true. -
Mrs. JOHNW. WALSH, r. No. /, Box
SO, Warrington, West Virginia.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-22

evident that more have returned
than will ever get back to the
North. Conditions in Northern
centers are found to be very diff
ferent from those on Southern
farms.-Savannah News.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-22
BLISS

. Speaking Of courage and opti-
mism, an Englishman in London,
"a, recently married a girl of II, His
II children objected to the match,
but love overcomes all obstacles.
The bride has won beauty prize.
Think of this case when trying to
understand the simpler thing Of
life--sueh as tax reduction, foreign
affairs and attempts to communicate
with Mars.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-22

LllE LuIIl Va lllS. l.
had been sick for
8 even ye ars. l
would get a little
b better, til EN- l
broke down again.
1t would be hard
for me to describe
how Twas orIwas
d perfect wreck.
i suffered with
a pain in my left
side, then I would
have numb spells,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-22
EXTRA! LEAP YEAR! EXTRA!
SOCIETY

Mrs. Sorich is sorry to announce
the engagement of her really beau
tiful daughter, Mary, to Mr.. Ernest
Frank. Mr.. Frank works in the
bank counting money, but has none
of his own to count.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-22
PROPAGANDA IS FOUND BY
FAIRLY FAMOUS EDITOR

Married men live longer than
achelors," say 1928 statistics. Even
| is true (and it is true) it looks
ke Leap Year stuff. Bachelors do
Ut live as long as married men be-,
use they have only themselves tc
anne for their troubles.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-22
EDITORIAL

The word "scofflaw" has been
ihosen as a fitting title for bootleg
1rinkers. We fail to see it's improve
nent over corpse and nervous
wreck" the words being used now,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-22
THREE SMILES
softening the Sound

Co-Ed-Your new overcoat is
rather loud.
Frosh-It's all right when l put
on a muffler.-Mt. Union Dyna-
mo. -
Well Informed.
First StudentLAre you sure your
folks know I'm coming home with
you?
Second Student-They ought to.
l argued with. them whole hour
about it-Hamilton Royal Gaboon,
Clever Deduction.
Say, amt you de Teller vat | met
in Philadelphia?''
philadelphia? amt never been
dere,"
Vel, neider have I, guess it
must have been two odder felIers.-
colgate Banter.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-22
AUTOS

Some years ago, the closed auto
was a curiosity. Now more than
a third of the cars that come from
factories are closed models. Very
convenient in bad weather, yes. But
the closed car also keeps she pas
sengers from getting plenty of fresh
air. And fresh air, after all, was the
greatest blessing the auto brought
to city folks.
Civilization increasingly is a pro-
cess of slow suicide.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-22
RUINED

a firm in Pawtucket, R. l., used
to have many jobs running 500
braiding machines. A strip of braid
was necessary on long skirts, Short
skirts now, and the firm goes into
the hands of receiver.
The most uncertain business in
the world is the manufacture Of gar
ments for women. That's one rea-
SON why womeh's garemnts cost so
much. Women-or, rather fathers
and husbands-pay a tremendous
price for style" A change in
fashion, of course, usually comes as
carefully propagandized scheme
to sell clothes. So, where one firm
loses, others gin.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-22
women OF
MIDDLE AGE
Read How Mrs. Walsh Was Helped
by Taking Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound

Warrington, w. Virginia. 81 took
the Vegetable Compound whenhaving
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-22
BOOK NOTES

Congressional library has 3,O00,-
900 books. No one ever steals
books. Everybody's got one.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-22
BEAUTY SECRET

Save your powder until you see
the white that soap brings.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-22
RADIO NOTES

To take the squel out of vacuum
ubes knock the tip off and put
title oil in there.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-22
MUSIC NOTES

We would like to be man opera
singer, but not a woman. Fat wo-
men are out Of style.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-22
WEATHER

Rodolph Valentines book Of
oens is selling well. This is the
lrst sign of spring.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-22
LATE NEWS

The only nice thing about being a.
night Waterman is he goes to bed
when. others have to get up.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-22
TAX NOTICE

Don't spend yet what sou may
gain by promised lower taxes.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-22

THIRTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY
Monday morning no paper pub
lished.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-22
WEDDINGS

Mr.. and Mrs. Russell of Chicago
win the loving cup. The Russells
lave stayed married 62 years.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-22
ADVERTISING

Due to lack of space Tom sims,
Newspaper announces it has no ad-
yertising today.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-22
BRO. TOMS KITCHEN

When making candy you get be,-
ter results if you buy it.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-22
MARKETS

A cheap bird is guy who rides
to the end Of the car line Just to
get his moneys WORTH
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-22
SPORTS

Babes in the woods" chucklcs
the Detroit News on learning Babe
Ruth swings a wicked ak But it Is
said his ak often hits the groun6,
instead. This is because the ground
is bigger than the wood.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-22
COMICS

\ Look at all the gold in Tut's tomb!
Been buried 1000 years.
That's nothing, l got quart Of
real 12-year-old.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-22
FOREIGN NEWS

Unlike the mark the franc viii
never drop SO low as to come out
on this side of the earth.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-22
HOME HELPS

Always have a bottle Of iodine
handy when using a can opener.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-22
BEDTIME STORY

you build the fire in the morn
ing or | don't cook breakfast"
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THE STATE

vingston-Horace M. Albright
SUPERINTENDENT of Yellowstone park
has announced the official opening
of the park, June 20.
Great FaIIs-Arge Nathan, pioneer
clothing merchant of northern Mon
tana, if not of Montana, died few
DAYS ago in New York, where he had
gone some weeks ago for an opera
ton.
MissouIa-Nick F. Raskob, for 18
years an engineer and fireman on
the Northern Pacific railway, and
prominent in Brotherhood circles,
has been appointed chief OF police OF
the city of Missoula.
HeIena-AndreW w. CORY of Mt.
st. Charles, won the intercollegiate
oratorical contest at Bozeman with
William Moore of Montana State and
Alvin Taylor of Intermountain Union
tied for second.
HeIena-John w. Cole, who was
recently selected by Governor Joseph
M Dixon as successor to M. w.
Potter as warden of the state prison,
took official charge of his new duties
last week.
Missoula-For the first time an
appointment of a postmaster from
within the civil service ranks has
been made here, with the announce
ment that Robert T. Richardson is
to be the new postmaster for this
city.
Hinsdale-Four horses belonging
to MILFORD Wilson, a farmer on
Frenchman creek, near Barr post
office, were drowned, and Wilson
narrowly escaped 75-foot fall into
the SWOLLEN creek, when one of the
horses became frightened and plung-
ed over an embankment, dragging
the other three with it.
CoIumbus-That the sheep bust
ness will again show q nice margin
of profit on the sunny side of the
ledger of the growers insofar as 1924
at least is concerned, was assured
when the agents for the saltwater
County Woolgrowers' association
sold the local pool to Tom Mulvihill,
field buyer for SHERMAN company.
The pool consisted of about $4,000
fleeces and will aggregate in weight
100000 pounds. The price of 43
cents means around $4,000 for the
pooled wool, and the price is most
satisfactory to the members of the
organization.
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bootlegging business afterward, as
liquor was found on his person at
the time of the shooting, and MS
cache of liquor was afterward dis
covered near the fair graunds.
1t is said that feeling ran high In
Libby and some claim there was
possibility that had he not died, there
would have been a lynching. The
man did not commit suicide, as was
reported in Kalispell, but in the gun
fight with Marshal Bockman was
wounded in the throat and died OF
his injuries the following day. The
only witness of the tragedy was War
rem Hill, whose call for help precipi-
tated the shooting.
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SLAYER OF MARSHAL DIES
HIS IDENTITY UNKNOWN

A peculiar circumstance of the
shooting at Libby in which City Mar
shall Fred Bockman was killed, is
that his assailant is unknown, and
the man, who is now dead, although
informed that he could not live, re-
fused to give his name or say where
he was from.
All that is known of the slayer is
that he had been in Libby for about
a month, and had worked a short
time at the plant of the Niels Lumber
company, and evidently went into the