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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1924
Page
3
The local chapter of the Order of Eastern Star will entertain at 7:30 PM tonight at W E Mitchell Masonic Hall with a Christmas tree for members and friends. An interesting programme is planned, followed by installation of officers for the coming year. Invited guests include Americus chapter members.
Invitations issued by Mr and Mrs Christian Sixtus Hutter for the marriage of their daughter Caroline Elizabeth to Cranston Williams on Saturday January 19 at 9 oclock at St Pauls church Lynchburg Va Williams formerly of Greensboro Ga. He was executive secretary to Senator William J Harris and connected with the Americas Times Recorder.
Moultrie December 29. W B Breen once vice president of the Fairburn Banking company convicted in 1920 for embezzlement and burning of the bank building was pardoned on Christmas Eve by Governor Clifford Walker. Breen left for Fairburn with his family and is expected to return to Moultrie to reclaim his home and work as a county clerk for Colquitt County.
A stream of crossword fodder lists many across clues from storage towers to exclamations and obscure terms like vertica and horizonte. The narrator muses about men who insist on checking their combed hair amid a jumble of stray entries and partial phrases.
J. W. Heath of Atlanta was the weekend guest of his sister Mrs. Charley Burke at her home near Lee. Mr. and Mrs. Millard Shy have returned to Macon after spending the holidays with relatives in Americus. Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Prichard, whose Christmas week marriage was a social event in Fitzgerald, have arrived in Americus to make their home.
We thank our friends for kindnesses during our father and grandfather's illness and death. Special thanks to Dr J W Chambliss and Mrs J J Kinard. May God's richest blessing rest upon each and every one. Mrs W A Parker, Mr and Mrs Bernard Bradley, Mrs S J Bradley and family.
W P Black a 39 year old farmer of Mon Trose Laurens County was killed in a late Saturday automobile crash on the Macon and Dublin highway ten miles north of Dublin. His car collided with another driven by a man named Baker. Black was trapped by the windshield and died hours later at the Dublin clinic. Investigation found the accident unavoidable due to bad roads from recent rains and dim lights on both cars. Black was unmarried.
Paris on December 29 recounts the holiday revelry following Christmas Eve. The city’s restaurants and cabarets were packed as saloons sold champagne at festive rate, with over one million dollars reportedly spent. Hatless millionaires in evening dress hurried between venues as American music and entertainment dominated the nights.
The Grand Council Order of De Molay, based in Kansas City, designates Saturday January 3 as DeMolay Day of Comfort worldwide. Members will bring flowers candy and entertainment to hospitals orphanages homes for crippled children old folks homes Old Soldiers Homes county farms reform schools detention homes and sanitariums.
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