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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1922
Page
6
The Times Recorder announces Lovelace Eve as business manager and Kirkpatrick as editor. The paper, an evening daily except Sunday, outlines subscription rates for daily and weekly editions and lists official designations for local and regional bodies. It also carries a biblical verse and a Sir Humphrey Davy quote.
In this editorial the Georgia railroad commission contest is praised for integrity. It notes vacancies from Candler and Perry, with Candler retiring and Perry seeking re election. It highlights Perry’s strong record, opposition’s weak links, and the need for honest decisions on public utility rates. An Ohio man buys wood and finds dust.
The Moon-Man Peerabout falls from the Moon and lands in Old Orchard atop an apple tree. He encounters Buskins, a quirky elevator operator in a tiny treehouse. Buskins offers a ride skyward as Peerabout seeks a return to the Moon. To be continued.
Molly Wayne is torn between Donald Manning Ben Wheeler and Billy Barton as she plans to elope after Manning’s midnight express to Pittsburg. In a tense scene the trio clashed at a dance, Barton’s help stalled by fear, and banker Bennings arrives to offer a ride home and reveal Molly’s plan to marry and leave Midvale.
R and Mrs DBY Passmore return from a two week bridal trip to Florida and reside with Mrs J N Scarborough on Church Street. Miss Thelma Palin of Albany visits Miss Mary Bell Hixon on South Lee Street. Ethel Loving travels to Atlanta for a house party with Ruth King. Helen Argo plans weeks in Memphis then St Louis before returning home. Lizbeth Hollis departs for Indian Springs to stay with Miss Mattie Lewis Dodson. Evelyn Crew hosts Leah and Mary E Ashley of Mobile.
A 1902 feature lists Mrs. W. T. Lane and her young sons visiting relatives in Shellman. A cordial group from Americas spends a week at Myrtle Springs, including Judge R. L. Maynard, Mrs. Perry, Misses Ora and Ira Perry, W. C. Carter, Charles Burke, Clarence Price, Miss Murph, Mrs. Scarborough, and Miss Leila Scarborough. Jesse Davenport returns from Miona Springs party. Marie Lamar, visiting Miss Ulmer in Savannah, ill with fever and may return home. Lizzie May Oliver visiting relatives in Bronwood. May Wheatley back from Atlanta with Mrs. Floyd Furlow. Mrs. George Brunner departs for Knoxville Institute study.
Thirty years ago today in 1892 Miss Jennie Hollis left for a visit to Barnesville. The piece notes Joe Mize is an heir to a French estate valued at about 40 million dollars with potential proceeds around one million. An heirs convention is planned in Raleigh or Atlanta with Charles L. Mize of Cavon likely attending for South Georgia heirs.
A collection of quips and satirical lines attributed to Tom Sims on social norms, love, debt, fashion, law, gardening, traffic, and personal troubles, punctuated by sharp witticisms and a fatalistic undertone.
A humorous item notes a man with two wives in one house who rises early on Sunday and claims laziness for choosing that schedule. The joke suggests he wants more time to loaf, asking where he found space to hang his clothes.
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