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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-02
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
(From The Times Recorder. Jun.
2, 1914)


Little Miss Mildred LeMaster,
the daughter of Mr.. ard Mrs. Nat
IAeMaster, celebrated her third
birthday on Tuesday afternoon, in
viting a number Of her friends t.
a pretty party given at the resi-
dence of Mrs. J. R. Williams, on
Taylor street. Merry games were
played on the lawn and afterwards
ice cream and cake were served
to the happy little guests.
Quite informal and simple was
the wedding on last evening OF
Miss Lynn Mathis and Mr.. Dan
Mckay, occurring at ten o'clock at
the home of the bride on Lee
street. The bride, dainty blonde,
was charmingly girlish in her
simple lingerie frock, which she
changed Immediately after the
ceremony for her suit of black,
with which she wore a green and
black striped marquisette waist
and a hat of black and white. Mr.
and Mrs. Mckay left at ten forty
nine for Greenville, S. G. where
they will live.
Petite Miss Elizabeth Nixon,
of Fitzgerald is the guest of Mrs.
Gordon Heys at her home near
Americas for several days.
Cox and Mrs. N. w. E. Long, of
Hurtsboro, Ala, are guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Thomas Harold at their
handsome College street home.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-02
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~ DAILY POEA1
THE BALLOON MAN

No telling how far he may walk
every day; no telling what cheer he
may bring From morning till night
he is vending his way. In his work
it's the regular thing.
The kiddies all smile when he
comes into sight. They feel that
he's really their friend. The vel,
come they give him by day or by
night is the kind on which he can
depend.
When circuses come for stay
in your town; when Fairgrounds
are open for all, the friend of the
youngsters is bound to be round
he's certain to answer the call.
His wares are in colors quite
startlingly bright, in greens and in
reds and in blues. They float in
the air as a wonderful sight and it's
hard for the youngsters to choose.
If you are a parent you know why
] shout of this fellow who gives tots
treat. You've furnished the price
to your kiddies, no doubt, for bal
looms from the man on the street.
Copyright, 1924, NEA Service
Ine.)
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-02
HOW TO HELP

Soil fertility lies at the very
basis Of human life. AS soil grows
poor the human race dies out.
American consuming and vast
ing its soil fertility at a rapid
rate.
We have come to the point
where our land must be fed if it
would feed US. The question
asks itself: Can soil be kept in
definitely fertile? The answer is
found in our own country, but
the 20 per cent we buy and more,
and is yet very fertile.
Within the memory of men
now living, commercial fertilizers
in America were hardly known.
America now consumes over
six million ttons of these every
year. Of this 80 per cent is from
raw materials found in our coun-
try, but the 20 per cent we buy
from abroad costs us more than
thirty-five million dollars every
year.
This money goes mostly to Ger
many for potash and to Chile
for nitrates. Potassium nitrogen
and phosphorus are the three ele-
ments most needed for soil sus-
tenance and these are what we
seek in commercial fertilizers.
Raw phosphorus we have in
abundance. Indeed, the world
comes to US for it, because our de
posits now open are very rich and
easily worked.
One way to help the farmer be-
sides lending h4m money and
marketing his products, is to en-
sure him cheap fertilizers as q ma
tiOnal policy.-Quitman Free
Press.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-02
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From The Times Recorder. June
2, 1914.)

(From The Times Recorder. June
2, 1914.)
Misses Julia Peacock of Ellaviile,
and Bessie and Annie Wooten, of
Buena Vista, fair pupils of Wesley
an College, passed through the city
yesterday en- route home for tie
summer vacation.
Messrs. S. X. Smith and S. B.
Jones, two former Americas boys,
have a hundred acre melon farm
near Cordele, that is ahead of any
thing in that locality. Mr. Smith
was in Americas yesterday, and IN
reply to a question said they cx-
pected to gather at least fifty or
sixty carloads from the 100 acres.
Even at $50 a carload, which is a
very low estimate, the crop will net
the producers $4,000 which is more
than twenty times that acreage in
cotton would have Melted.
Pretty Girls on Wheels-A pro-
cession Of fifty seven cyclists,
many of them fair ladies, was the
novel spectacle witnessed on the
streets here yesterday. 1t was the
first "run" of the club and was q
decided success. Among the jolli-
est of the riders was Col. w. w.
Thompson, and though seventy
three years Of age, he easily led
the van. His good lady of fifty
three was anxious to ride with him
but could not secure a wheel. A
very large crowd witnessed the
start, and the graceful riders were
the recipients of many compli-
ments.
A delightful german was tender
ed quite a number Of young friends
by Miss Mary Watts at her home
last evening. There were fifteen
couples in attendance and the oc-
casion was most pleasant one.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-02
LaF gillette Throws
Down the Gauntlet

Senator LaFollette, of Wis
consin, virtually announces his
candidacy for the Presidency in
letter to Attorney General
Elkhorn, of Wisconsin, which
news dispatches quote as fol-
lows:
Senator LaFollette virtually
announced he will run for
President on an independent
ticket unless ''the approaching
Demoeritic and Republican con-
ventiOns demonstrate to the peo-
pie whether either of those par
ties can and will purge itself of
the evil influences which have
long dominated them. If this is
done, "a long suffering and
righteously indignant people will
find in the coming campaign eff
fective means, Independent of
both these old parties, to take
back control of their government
and make it truly representa-
tive"
No doubt the above state
ment causes much uneasiness
in the ranks of the Republican
party, for it is the opinion of
most political.ssobservers that
LaFoIlette at the head of a
third party. would split the
ranks of the C. o. P. as did
Theodore Roosevelt when he
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-02
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY

(trOm The Times Recorder. June
2, 1904.)
The meeting of the Board of
Education, at which time teachers
were elected for the coming year,
was the hottest ever held and has
left scars that will require long
time to heal. This was evidenced
in the resignation of one of the
members, recently elected, and by
the movement of the hopeless
minority to leave the hall. These
five were completely showed under
by what they term the application
of the gag" rule. Things We're
fixed to go their way, and the
others had to go back and sit down.
Miss Annie Poole, one of the very
competent teacher in Furlow
school did not desire reelection,
and Miss Minnie Bagley was elect
ed in her stead.
The local baseball fans can now
get the daily results of the game
of base ball of the Southern and
Southwestern Leagues furnished
by the Atlanta Journal. Bulletins
will be posted at the store of John
R. Hudson & Co., every evening.
Capt. &. L. Williams. of the
Light Infantry, exhibited yesterday
two very fine pearl handled pistols,
captured for Andersonville priso-
cTs.
Americas friends of the groom
received handsomely engraved
cards yesterday announcing the
early marriage of Miss Annie Gil
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-02
The Long-Winded
Guy

In every Congress, Legisla-
ture and other political bodies,
there are men who are forever
talking-the long-winded guys.
Nor is this traitor evil-one
of modern times. 1t was true
yesteryear, generation ago
and will be true in the years to
come.
There have been in Con-
gress from its beginning men
who could not resist the desire
to talk, whenever opportunity
was offered them" says the
Columbus Enquirer Sun,
whether or not they threw adj
ditional light on the question
before the house"
An extract from the autobi-
ography of Thomas Jefferson
is given as an illustration of the
point
My colleague, John f. Mercer,
was one of those afflicted with
the morbid rage of debate; of an
ardent mind, prompt magma
ton and copious flow of words.
he heard with impationece any
logic which was not his own.
Sitting near me on some occasion
OF trifling but wordy debate, he
asked how / could sit in silence
hearing so much false reasoning
which word should refute.
| observed to him that to re-
I9te indeed was easy, but to
silence impossible. That in
measures brought forward by
myself, took the laborinp oar,
as was incumbent on me: but
That in general | was willing to
listen. If every sound areu-
ment or objection was used by
some one or other of the nu-
muerous debaters, it was enuogh,
II not, | thought it sufficient
to suggest the omission, with
out going into repetition of
what had already been said by
others. That this was a waste
and an abuse of the time and
did much, may not be prefer
able to one which talks much
and does nothing.
And | believe that If the mem
bers of deliberate bodies were
to observe this course general
~, they would do in day what
takes them a week, and it is
really mroe questionable that
may at first be thought whether
bonapartes dumb legislature,
which said nothing and did much,
may not be preferable to one
which talks much and does moth
ing.
I served with General Wash
1ngton in the Legislature of Vir-
ginia before the revolution. and
during it, with DR.. Franklin in
Congress. l never heard either
Of them speak ten minutes at
time, nor to any but the main
point which was to decide the
question. They laid their shoulders
to the great point, knowing that
the little ones would follow of
themselves
If the present congress (17s3)
errs in too much talking. how
can 1T be otherwise in a body to
which the people send 156 law
yers, whose trade it is to cues
ton everything, yield nothing
and talk by the hour
The gabfest is not confined
to Congress. Wherever men
assemble in numbers. they have
been bored by the "long-wind-
ed guy"
Only in the modern civic club
has this pest met his Waterloo,
for in these gatherings of men.
short shift is made of him who
talks to hear himself talk.
sN-~-~~~~~~N~~~e-N
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-02
RADIoEn

Sending photographs long dis
lances by radio is not going to be
as easy to do as to talk about.
Interference and fading have to be
mastered first. They'll be master
ed, all right. But it'll take time This
is, however, one scientific wonder
that you'll find in general use with
in 10 or 20 years. The entire
science of radio is in its infancy.
One of these days, no batteries for
long distance receiving sets. Sounds
impossible, but it's alrady done by
crystal sets, 80 miles radius. If 30
why. not 5000?
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-02
A THOUGHT

Let us therefore follow after tie
things which make for peace, and
things wherewith one may edify an
other.-Rom. IA 10.
Peace rules the day where reason
rules the mind.-Collins.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-02
"A Sensible and
Practical Method

Early poisoning of the weevil
is practically unanimous in
South Georgia counties. Only
a few have failed to learn les
son from the past. These few
will again meet disappointment
in the fields this fall when pick
ing time comes around.
South Georgia farmers are
following a sensible and prac-
teal method in early poisoning,
says the Triton Gazette, for
They are killing of the first
weeviis that come out, before
they get a chance to raise FAM
lilies.
In practically every field
where the cotton was of any
size, the present week has wit
messed great activity with mop
and poison.
The cotton growers aren't wait
ing for the weevil to raise fam
lilies and get numerous in the cot
ton fields. They are killing the
cotton consumers as they enter
the field, and thus not only stop
ping the breeding of more Wee
wills, but giving the cotton a
chance.
The wise cotton grower hasn't
waited for his cotton to form
squares before putting on poison,
but has mopped the bud to kill
off the weevils before the
squares were formed and before
the weevils had an opportunity
to puncture the squares.
Every time a farmer killed
one weevil this week, he did as
much good as killing a hundred
will do a month later. He stop
ped the pests before they got
started before they had
a chance to raise more.
The battle hasn't been won,
though. The success of the first
application should prove en-
couraging to the man applying
the poison. BY getting the first
application to stick he has got,
ten the jump on the woevil, and
should keep it. Now that you are
in the lead, keep it. Apply the
next application as directed, and
the next; keep up the fight UNI
til your cotton crop is made.
1t takes work, early and late,
to make cotton crop under Wee
vii conditions, but after the crop
Is made and harvested, you'll be
glad you worked and poisoned.
Don't be among the gang of lag
CARDS that will wish they had.
No battle was ever won in
the first skirmish. 1t is the
continual hammering of the en-
emys first line that finally de-
vastates and routes him. The
farmer must continue to poison.
One application helps. but sue
cess comes only after repeated
efforts with sweat and calcium.
The peach men know the ne
cessity of following the rules for
poisoning. Without poison
ing, early and late, there would
be no peaches shipped from
Sumter.
What's true of peaches is just
as true of cotton. Each has q
pest that will ruin the grower
unless he exercises every ener-
gy to get him first"
Keep on fighting and you'll
win.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-02
THE STANDARD

! HERE ARE BARGAINS FOR
MONDAY AND TUESDAY THAT
WILL NOT BE EQUALED AGAIN
THIS SEASON. GET YOUR SUP
PLY BEFORE TUESDAY NIGHT
AS THEY WILL POSITIVELY
BE WITHDRAWN TUEDAY AT
P. M.
Guaranteed all Silk Pongee I'M
ported stock, 81 inches wide, reg
ularly $3.50; here Monday and
Tuesday, yard ----------..-------------95c
Guaranteed all silk Crepe de
Chine, black and colors, 40 inches
wide. Sold by some at $1.98; for
leaders here Monday and Tuesday,
yard .--..--.-..-----.--- ..--.....--.----.---.$1
]. & P. Coats Spool Cotton, Will
fanatic Spool Cotton, all numbers,
black and white; Monday and
Tuesday per spool ..-..-.....-....--4c
Guaranteed 81 grade White Or
CANDY fine featherweight guaran-
teed to equal any dollar grade in
Americas; Monday and Tuesday
Beautiful Imported Irish Linen,
sc inches wide, in some new shades
just received; guaranteed fast coll
or; ready shrunk; Monday and
Tuesday, yard .-.,.-.--.. .-.-....---.89c
Red Star Guaranteed Diaper
Cloth, sanitary, absorbent, durable.
You know the grade; here Monday
and Tuesday, only % inch -.$1.S8
"a inch, bolt.....................-.--.$1.98
Our famous Victoria Bleached
Sheets, seamless with broad hens,
large sizes for double beds; worth
two dollars-Monday and Tues
day -----.--------------. ---..-...-.------$1.4 40
Large Crex Squares for large
double rooms, great variety of
pretty patterns, all good eolors;
Monday and Tuesday ....-$4.35
Katonah Velvet Rugs, size 3Ox
60, great variety of pretty pat
terms; will wear and look like the
SIS ones; Here Monday and Tues
day. each ----.--------------.---.----$2.98
Women's Brown Sandals, plain
or cut tops, rubber heels, flexible,
guaranteed leather soles. So would
be cheap for some of them; choice
Monday and Tuesday ..-,.----$1.9s
Congoleum Floor Coverings, in
great variety of pretty patterns;
regularly 81; Here Monday and
Tuesday square yard ...-..-.-.-..6Oc
Genuine Cooks Linoleum, in
some beautiful patterns, burlap
back, the best that money can
buy; Monday and Tuesday square
yard ...... $1.39
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-02
Old Days In Americas

bert and Mr.. julius Stanfield, the
happy event to take place in June,
at the home of the brides mother,
Mrs. Josephine Gilbert, New York.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-02
ROOSEVELT AND JEFFERSON

Frank Greene, writing from
San Pedro, CAL, reminds you of
this statement made by the real
Theodore Roosevelt at Cardinal
Gibbons silver jubilee. June 5,
1911:
"Our republic, mighty in its
youth, destined to endure for
ages, will see many Presidents
during those ages and it will sec
Presidents who are Catholics as
well as Presidents who are Pro-
testants, Presidents who are Jews
as well as Presidents who are
Gentiles."
Very likely, In Thomas JEFF
ferson it had President that be-
LEVIED in no particular religion
Brisbane in Atlanta Journal.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-02
OPINIONS OF
OTHER EDITORS
WHO WILL 1T BE?

Coolidge seems to have the Re-
publican nomination for the Presi
dency cinched, but everybody is
CUP in the air" when it comes to
the Democratic nomination. Me
Adoo seems likely to go into the
New York convention with NOR
votes than either of the other can
didates, but his nomination does
MT appear to be assured. His
following will perhaps be suffi1
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-02

ran as an independent.

ran as an independent.
Just why this should worry
Democrats, we cannot quite see.
We do not believe the Senator
from Wisconsin would make
any very great inroads on the
Democratic vote. In fact, La
Toilette detection should aid the
Democrats to a marked degree.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-02

Had another volcano eruption
near Hilo, in Hawaii, and it doesn't
matter, but the town sounds like a
Swiss yodel.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-02
EI':A I; !. /
~ bsAbcvt Apple
COMING
imW

0iANG - - n
Business will make a turn for
the better in the not distant future,
predicts Willis L. King. He's vice
president Of Jones & Laughlin,
powerful in the steel industry.
King looks for better times after
the presidential nominating conven-
tons. The really big squirt upward
will come after the fall elections,
according to opinions Of leading
business men.
Times cannot continue dull very
long, that's sure. Stocks of raw
materials in manufacturers hands
and finished goods in retail stores
are low. There has been little over
buying or overproducton.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-02
UNFIT

Uncle Sam is fighting to stop the
packing of salmon which have been
held so long out of water that they
ARE unstable in fresh fish mark
let. Fifty-eight patches seized and
condemned. This is done under the
national pure food act, which is as
sensible piece of legislation as
we've had in our history.
You learn something about BUSH
ness ethics when it takes the gov
eminent, backed by all the power
of the courts, to prevent rotten fish
being sold to the public in tin cans
by a few INSCRIPTIONS Gamers.
But don't be afraid to eat canned
salmon. On the average it's safer
and purer to eat than so-called
fresh fish" in city markets. When
gone bad, it can usually be detecte a
by odor and unnatural color. Most
Gamers pack fresh.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-02

Boston man thinks his wife kisses
other men, so is asking for a di-
soree instead of feeding her onions,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-02

FOA Az made on improved
AAO6AAN Afarm 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 100000 on
farms in Sumter county alone, with
plenty more to lerd.
MIDDLETON MCDONALD
Correspondent Atlanta Trust Co.,
in Sumter, Lee, Terrell. Schley,
Macon, Stewart, Randolph and
Webster counties. 81 Planters Bank
Building, Americus, Ga. Phone SO
RS SAA' -as.A~a --'.,. S---sdhapE'ealla
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-02

6-N
Julius Rosenwald, president Df
the big Sears-Roebuck mail order
house which gets mail by the car.
load and sells millions of dollars Of
goods to farmers, says:
Eve are going to have better
business this fall than we had this
spring. Our spring business has
not been 10 per cent better than
last year, but our fall business
ought to bring this years average
up to about that percentage. The
farmer is getting in better shape
all the time"
All weathervanes show the trade
winds blowing toward rising sun
of prosperity. The recent setback
is only temporary.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-02

cient to swing the nomination to
some other man, however, and
the big question seems to be,
"who will it be?"-Albany Her
aid.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-02
PooRHousE

A luxurious poorhouse for down.
and-out rich men is opened in New
York. It's described as rivaling a
tirst-class hotel in comforts and
beauty. Built and maintained by a
fund of five million dollars, left bv
Andrew Freedman, capitalist and
baseball magnate who died in 1915.
Back of it all is the principle that
II you've never had big money you
don't know what you're missing.
How about rich mems home for
the old age of people who have al
ways rubbed elbows with poverty?
Still better, change the system SC
there wouldn't be any need for poor
houses. Poverty is inexcusable in
the midst of our tremendous ma
tional wealth and prosperity.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-02
BONUS

Handling soldier bonus called
bigger job than the draft" says a
headline. That'll probably be The
case.
Uncle Sam is apt to be a bean
sight more careful handling dollars
than he was handling drafted men
during the war.
The cheapest commodity is hui
man life, when a wars on. That's
because we have a democracy cx-
cept when we need it most-duriag
d war s3MA
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-02

Beautiful Imported Irish Linen,
sc inches wide, in some new shades
just received; guaranteed fast col
Or; ready shrunk; Monday and
yard ..--...--- .-.-.....-..-.89c
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-02

Guaranteed 81 grade White Or
CANDY fine featherweight guaran-
teed to equal any dollar grade in
Americas; Monday and Tuesday
1,ar6 EnC
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-02

j. & P. Coats Spool Cotton, Will
liamatic Spool Cotton, all numbers,
black and white; Monday and
Tuesday per spool -......-....-..-.4c
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-02

Red Star Guaranteed Diaper
Cloth, sanitary, absorbent, durable.
You know the grade; here Monday
and Tuesday, only % inch -.$1.ss
"a inch, bolt..............-......... $1.9S
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-02

Our famous Victoria Bleached
seamless with broad hens,
large sizes for double beds; worth
two dollars-Monday and Tues
daV - .S1. 40
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-02

Women's Brown Sandals, plain
or cut tops, rubber heels, flexible,
guaranteed leather soles. SO would
be cheap for some of them; choice
Monday and Tuesday ......-.---$I.98
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-02

Large Crex Squares for large
double rooms, great variety of
pretty patterns, all good colors;
Monday and Tuesday ........-.$4.35
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-02

Katonah Velvet Rugs, size COX
60, great variety of pretty pat
terms; will wear and look like the
SIS ones; Here Monday and Tues
day, each 90