Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-11-07
Observations Gathered
Here and There

"A woman IN New OK, so W.
are told, won a $1,000 verdic
against her landlord after thu
ceiling of her kitchen gave way
and showered debris on her.
This was not so much because
her injuries were serious. But
never since the accident has she
been able to bake pie as she used
to.
The price is small indeed. A
woman who can really bake pie
as it ought to be baked is worth
her weight in gold. Hardly any
sum, it seems, is enough to COM
pensate for the loss of the art.
The boys in the High school
and out at the A. and M. school
are playing mighty good football
this year and should be receiv-
ing the moral backing of the
community.
What wouldn't these husky
youngsters do if a hundred or
more Americas business men
watched from the side lines?
Youth longs for the applause
of those of more mature years.
That boy at school often gets
down to business, studying hard
er and longer, when be knows
that dad is watching and betting
on him.
Captain Warrington Pritchard,
one of the oldest vesselmen on the
Great Lakes, is dead at Fort Will
liam, Ont, at the age of 1907
years.
What a pity that this man
wealth of Renaissance could not
have been put down in print for
US before he died. 1t would have
made absorbing rea4ing-vol-
umes of it.
Our inland seas have their own
romance, though we often fail to
realize it. There is material for
endless thrillers in their lost his
tory. Some day, let US hope,
some one will arise able to write
them. Governor Walker isl
sure to call an extra session of
the Legislature, one of its mem
bers tells US this week. He says
that while the Governor has not
definitely decided just what
questions will be included in the
call, the call is a certainty.
From recent letters and state
ments, the Governor seems to be
inclined to include the question of
a bond issue for roads and educa-
tional purposes.
So far as outward indications
point, there is no public de-
mand for the extra session.
Practically all of the papers in
the State believe an extra session
unnecessary, but the Governor is
now trying to change public
opinion, in so far as the session is
concerned. The session is rather
much of Va certainty now and
bonds will be included in the
call, we believe, along with pen
sions and probably other matters
which the Governor believes to
be OF importance.
A famous old Chicago saloon.
padlocked at last after 40 years
OF existence. is to be reopened-
but as gospel mission
Really. no more fitting thing
could happen to it. Despite all
talk of the cheer and good fell
lowship and companionship that
the saloon furnished it is a fact
that every good old-time saloon
needed some sort of gospel mis-
sion to come along and clean up
after it.
q If people could learn, once anc
for all, that you never can ge
something for nothing in this life
the army of swindlers and con
hdence men would vanish over
night.
For the desire to do just tina
is the reason for the loss millions
of dollars annually in sucker in
Vestments.
A man wants to put a few hun
dred dollars into a project tina
will make him wealthy Not t.
work for his wealth, not to spenc
years of toll and energy in layin,
by a competence; but to get
for nothing, without earning it
And presently some smooth Of
, stock salesman comes along an,
there is another sadder and wise
man.
You don't get things for moth
ing in this life. Things simply
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