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NEWS SUMMARY OF
THE WEEK IN GEORGIA
Wed
illness
Randall Wallfer, 19, of Quitman,
was fatally injured under the wheels
of a freight train near Cordele Fri
day.
Five of the six negro prisoners re-
tcntly escaping from the Stewart
county jail at Lumpkin have been re
captured.
Sixteen persons were killed in week
end accidents over the south, 11 in
automobile mishaps, three by trains
and two by drowning.
One man was killed and three in
jured in a rear-end collision of heavy
trucks on the highway near Baxley
before daylight Sunday.
Governor Talmadge has accepted an
invitation to <ieli v °r the commence
ment address for the Consolidated
school at Plains April 24.
Warm Springs, the part-time home
of President Roosevelt, wants beer
by a three to one majority, according
to a recent straw vote taken.
J. D. Arnold, manager of the Val
dosta Milling Company, which was de
stroyed by fire a week ago, is rapidly
developing plans for rebuilding.
The Fourth district high school
meet will be held in Barnesville at
the Georgia Industrial college begin
ning this evening and continuing thru
Friday.
At a special election in Washington
Ga., last week, the city court was de
feated by a large majority and will be
abolished Dec. 1. The total vote was
402 to 199.
Final' tribute was paid Thursday to
F. J. Pike, chairman of the Troup
county commission, who died
nesday at his home after an
of several months.
The resignation of Judge Thos. F.
Green, of Athens, as a member of
the State Board of Regents, was ac
cepted by Gov. Talmadge Friday. No
successor has yet been appointed.
The Southern Bell Telephone com
pany voluntarily has agreed to reduce
all rates fifty per cent. “The price of
telephones has been too high,” was
the reason given by the company.
L. K. Robert, Jr., of Atlanta, has
been recommended for appointment as
assistant secretary of the U. S. treas
ury in charge of the public building
program to succeed Perry K. Heath.
R. M. Lufburrow has been chosen
head of the commission of the De
partment of Forestry and Geological
Development at a meeting presided
over by Governor Talmadge at the
capitol.
Captain B. C. Cneelc and his "crew"
began work this week on the grading
contract recently awarded Schley
county on Route 26 by the State
Highway Department, chronicles ti e
Schley County News.
The Georgia Federation of Labor
Satuiday asked Governor Talmadge to
remove the live members of the pub-
lie acrvV-e commission from
“for cause.” The governor declined to
comment on the matter.
A. S. Patterson, Jr., of Madison, a
sophomore at Georgia Tech, died early
Monday in an Atlanta hospital from
i evolved Saturday night
-when his motorcycle and an automo
bile collided near Madison.
W. Carlton Mobley, former repre
sentative of the Sixth district m
congress, Saturday announced forma
tion of a law partnership in Forsyth
with A. M. Zeliner under • the firm
name, Zeliner and Mobley.
Biibb county officers are investigat
ing the death of Louise Holton, young
Macon woman, whose body was found
Macon woman, whose body was iouna Thomaston, Ga., April 8.—At its
early Saturday lying near a viaduct in j utar mee ting last week the Thom-
the yards of the Central of Georgia Kjwanis » lub paid tribute to
Railway, three miles from the city. A 'p homas ton’s “first citizen,” R. E.
negro discovered the body and notl “ | Hightower, Sr., with a special
THE BUTLER HERALD. BUTLER, GEORGIA, APRIL 13, 1933^
De La PerriereWill Handle
Forestry Camp Application
HIGHTOWER HONORED
fied officers.
M. A. Shirah, editor of
Lance, a weekly publication at Moul
trie, is under indictment on a cnarge
of libel as the result of an article
published in his paper attacking Sher
iff T. V. Beard and charging him
with being “the bootleg king of Col
quitt county.”
gram of old-fashioned music, and with
the Free I a birthday cake in honor of his 69th
birthday.
MRS. W. E. HUDSON
MOULTRIE POLICEMAN
PATROLS HIS BEAT ON
EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY
Moultrie, Ga., April 8.—J. A. Col
lier, member of the Moultrie police
force and probably the oldest officer
on active duty in the United States,
GEORGIA RELIEF DIRECTOR
NAMED AFTER GEORGE, RUS- ^
SELL CONFER; BADING GETS celebrated his 80th birthday, by cov-
3,500 APPLICATIONS,
Atlanta, April 10.—Applications
for enlistment in the emergency em-
! ployment reforestation camps, two of
Roberta, Ga., April 11.—Funeral i wbjcb are eX pected to be located in
services for Mrs. W. E. Hudson,
“i | which are expected
ot ! Georgia, should be filed with Herman
Atlanta’s new traffic ordinance is Roberta were held at Union Baptist ■ ])u jJ a p err j ere , director of the Geor-
effective on April 15. It makes down- church, Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock . re jj e f administration, Senators
• • n«„nl. nnel. fl ... T/\i«/lnn nfVJninf !mr \l IX. .. .. l /. n In
town parking regulations much easi- Kev. Yancey Jordan officiating. Mrs. , j (usse u an d George
er to remember. Here they are: Be- ”- J ~- J, - J - * C - QA " ■ • • -
tween 7:30 and 9 a. m., no parking
whatever; from 9 a. m. to 6 p. m.,
one hour parking; after 6 p m., un
limited parking.
Mrs. Richard Holmes Powell, wife
of Dr. R. H. Powell, president of the
Georgia State Woman’s College at
Valdosta has been elected president
of the Valdosta chapter of the Ameri
can Association of University Wom
en. Miss Ruby McKinney has
elected secretary-treasurer,
, ...... announced in
Hudson died a t6:30 Saturday p. m., ; Washington Saturday after a con-
after an illness of a week with pneu- j f eren - e w jth officials of the U. S. dc-
ering his beat as usual. He has been
an officer for more than 40 years and
was at one time sheriff of Colquitt
county.
Mr. Collier is in robust health, as
erect as a soldier and can read with
out glasses.
McLARTY BUYS
LYONS NEWSPAPER
MOTHER OF ATLANTA
EDITOR SUCCUMBS
partment of labor. . Soperton Ga, April 10-B. H. Me
Meanwhile, applications, complete ! Larty .postmaster of Soperton since
and incomplete are pouring into the 11919, has purchased the Lyons Prog-
office of Otto F. Bading, United , toss, newspaper of Lyons, Toombs
States director of unemployment in county, and will take charge lmme-
. 1 Georgia. Mr. Bading said Saturday lately. His resignation as postmaster
Atlanta, April 11.—Mrs. Mattie • ht that he wouW be glad, of course 1 was submitted several days ago the
McPherson Paschall, 87, mother of to transm i t applications to Mr. De La Soperton News reported.
John Paschall, managing editor of the Perv j erp but had not been directed to Mr. McLarty has engaged in news-
been I Atlanta Journal and mother-in-law of j do so by t b e labor department. paper work before, and is well a,c-
j Norman H. Davis, President Roose- gading directed attention to the ouainteu with newspaper needs of
, „ . . velt’s special ambassador in Europe, f t tbat a pnlications should include the section where he will he located,
Steffen Thoms the Bavarian sculp- died ln Atlanta Tuesday after an ill- gf whether married or single,
tor Whose name became well J«town j ness of seV eral weeks. ' 'number of dependents and whet nev SENATOR SISK
| an ex-service man. He said that more
Albany, Ga, Friday was awarded a
first place among cities of less than
20,000 population in the annual na
tional fire waste contest conducted by
the National Fire Waste council and
the chamber of commerce of the Unit
ed States.
Miss Elilabeth Stayer, Tampa, Fla.
was chosen by the students of Wes
leyan college Friday as editor in
chief of the Watchtower, the college
newspaper, for the coming year. Miss
Sue Mansfield, Columbus, was named
business manager.
In a state-wide spelling contest
held among senior classes in the high
schools last week Richland senior
class averaged 89.1 per cent, all but
t' -eo of the .'lasses making more than
90 per cent. William Phillips led the
class with a grade of 99.
The common schools of Georgia
will receive from $30,000 to $50,000
f-om <he sale of state-owned automo
biles by orders of the last legislature
under authority of a ruling by At
torney General M. J. Yeomans de
livered to Gov. Talmadge Saturday.
Henderson Hallman, prominent At
lanta lawyer and civic leader, is still
confined to Crawford Long hospital,
recuperating from a hip fracture re
ceived during the slippery freeze sev
eral week? ago that sent many At
lantans sprawling on the pavement.
Governor Talmadge has pardoned
Mrs. Nora Duren, who was convicted
ten years ago of killing Ira James, a
railroad foreman, at the Duren store
near Waycross. Mrs. Duren’s pardon
was issued along with padons to four
other persons, an,; a parole for an
other. ill I’|Y|?I
W. B. Mann, director of the income
division of the state department of
revenue, was removed from office
Tuesday by the revenue commission
■after he had clashed with P. H. Doyal
chairman of the (Commission, over the
personnel to be eliminated from the
division in an effort to reduce ex
penses of operating the office. Four
other employes of the department, in-
eluding Mrs. Bessie Anderson, for six
years secretary of the state demo,
critic executive committee,
throughout Georgia through splendid
work on the bust of Henry Grady, has
opened a studio for sculpture in the
Glenn building, Atlanta. He has re
cently done a very fine bust of Judge
John S. Candler, leader of the Atlan
ta bar.
Arthur S. Bird, an outstanding gro
cery executive of long experience, in
cluding three years in Atlanta, has
been elected president of the Atlanta
Piggly Wiggly stores, it was announc
ed Tuesday by W. R. Lovett, retiring
president, who becomes a director of
the company. Mr. Bird will assume
his duties immediately.
The personal library of the late
Dr. E. J. Forrester of Sparta will be
given Mercer university by his widow
ut a presentation ceremony Friday
afternoon in the university library on
the campus. Mrs. Forrester’s presen
tation of her husabnd’s books will be
a feature of the annual Parents' Day
celebration at the school.
Time limit for buying 1933 auto
mobile togs without paying a penalty
expires Saturday night. The state
revenue department, in reminding
that the time limit for purchasing
tags expires April 15, said 175,000
togs had been sent out and estimated
between 12g,000 and 150,000 car own
ers had not yet purchased tags.
Claude Schnider, 52, formerly state
president of the Travelers’ Protective
Association, died at an early hour
Saturday at his home in Macon, Mr.
Schnider was bom and reared in
Americus, but had lived in Macon for
the last 16 years. He was identified
with leading stores there during most
of that time, but recently was con
nected with an insurance company.
Members of the State Prison com
mission were inspecting the new state
prison farm in Tatnali county Tues
day, preliminaryrto deciding on just
what improvements can be made
there with the limited amount oi
funds the commission has available.
The recent legislature failed to make
provision for the new buildings that
are needed at the new farm, it was
said.
A verdict of death by gur.shot
wounds at the hands of a person or
persons unknown was returned Fri
day by a coroner's jury at Dublin in
the death of H. S. Mathews, young
Lovett man Thursday night. Mr.
Mathews’ lifeless body, with a Mau-
i.er rifle clenched in his hands was
found in the barn at their home in
Lovett after his sister, Miss Lthel
Mathews heard two shots fired.
Confederate Memorial day will be
observed with more interest than
usual in Ft. Valley this year. For
the first time in history a woman will
be the Memorial day speaker, Miss
Emily Woodward, popular newspaper
woman an'd prominent in political, pa
triotic and club circles in Georgia. In
honor of Miss Woodward and other
guests and the veterans and their
widows there will he a dinner served
at the noon hour,
CHALLENGES
REPRESENTATIVE EPTING FOR
DEBATE ON BEER BILL
BANKING EXPERIENCE
QUALIFIES GEORGIAN
FOR NEW U. S. POS
APPOINTMENT~REVE ALS .. rm
ROBERT, FORMERLY OP
ticello, as banker as W?
AS BUILDER. tL
Atlanta, Ga (LKSt—Am.
the ability of L. W. Robert ft 11
Atlanta, as an architect and ft,n
mg engineer is widely recognteS
was not until after his aSS
last week as assistant secre;aro
the treasury in charge of y
works that many of his
JOSEPH BLOUNT RILEY DIES I than 3.500 applications had been filed
AFTER FIVE-MONTHS ILLNESS ( week, senators
, signed an equitable quota of the 250,- I Elberton, Ga., April 10.—Senator J.
Macon, April 11.—Joseph Blount qqq pers0 ns to be selected for refores- T. Sisk of Elberton, who said recent-
Riley, who for almost hnlf a century Nation work. j ly he was opposed to the calling of a
had been identified, with the whole- present plans of the department, “beer session” of the state legislature
sale drug business in Macon, and who j t was anno unced in Washington, call , Monday made public a challenge to
at 72 was one of the oldest wholesale f or the enlistment of laborers only. Representative Eugene Epting of
druggists in the South-east, died at Those selected for employment will lie Clarke countv to a series of debates
7:30 Tuesday night at his home in recruited by the army and navy re- ( on the question.
Macon, after an illness of five ; stations in the state. Army Sisk .said he challenged Epting or
months. j supplies now on hand will be ava'I-, "any other representative or senator”
I "ble for use. Actual manual labor will to a series of “friendly" discussions
be required and army discipline will I of the subject in an effort to “throw
TIFTON GIRL, QUEEN
OF FESTIVAL, WINS
HONORS AT HAVANA
he maintained. Recruits will be furn
ished food, lodging and medical treat
ment and $1 per day and will be re-
i quired to allot a substantial part of , YOUNG HUSBAND DEAD
-La- | their ensfc allowance to the benefit of
lone their families and dependents.
" e Georgia senators pointed
g^ese temporary nlans are
change, modification or en
St. Petersburg, Fla., April 8.-
den with many honors, Miss
Beverly, brunet queen of the 19331 Bot
Festival of States, has returned from j out tH
Havana, climaxing the annual glam-1 •uiMeri
nrous queen’s tour. Before returning ( largement and proper announcements
to her home at Tifton.l Ga., the beau- , of such .changes will be made from
tiful winter visitor will be compli- time to time,
mented by several dances and parties.
VICTIM IN DOUBLE SUICIDE
IN ATLANTA WAS FORMER
RESIDENT SUMTER COUNTY
Columbus, April. 10.—Oscar Kaig-
piains, Ga., April 10.—Mrs. Wm. T. ler, Jr., son of the clerk of Quitman j Cummings had been
Stewart who ended her life by county at Georgetown, charged with I suade his wife to return to him. She
asphyxiation and poison at her homo • the slaying of Bryant Stokes, 28, of j had left her husband Thursday and
in Atlanta Saturday, about the same I Phenlx City, Ala., at a roadhouse a j was living with her mother, Mrs.
time that her husbnnd leaned to his'mile east of Eufaula on last Thurs- n, - u — AWV '-"
denth from the Walton building, was dy night, has been released on bond
• • “ • — ! according to information from Eu
faula, where the father and two broth
ers of the deceased live.
Jim Shattles and his wife were ar
rested as accessories in the case but
have also been released under bonds.
Kaigler, who claimed self-defense,
was treated following the affair for
injuries about his head. He claimed to
have been' attempting to quell a dis
turbance at the time.
born and reared in Plains. Her mai
den name was Miss Winona Evans
She was a daughter of the late Mr.
and Mrs. I, B. Evans, of Plains,
mother died a few years ago.
GEORGETOWN MAN FREED
ON BOND, MANSLAUGHTER
CHARGE NEAR EUFAULA, ALA.
more light on this question than the
people are now being given.
AND WIFE BADLY HURT
IN TROUP SHOOTING
Publ'
friends recalled the fart that ft
is a financier of note. a
The success of Mr. Robert a
architect probably has won him
fame throughout the country n,
any of his other activities. ' i n i„
spectacular endeavors, however
has been equally successful. By’vi
tue of his position as director of ti
First National Bank of Atlanta t
largest and one of the oldest natior
banks in the south, he has had '
experience in the financial WO rl
thus adding to his qualifications f»-
the post of assistant secretary of
treasury.
In addition he holds directorates
the Seaboard Air Line Railway a
other corporations. The firm of
ert ^ Co., which he organized i
1916, has designed more than $250
000,000 worth of construction in ?’
states.
“Chip” Robert is a native of Ge
gia, having been born in Montice
where he attended the public schoo
before entering .Georgia Tech. He
43 years of age. Mrs. Robert also
a Georgian, formerly Miss Loui
Ayres of Macon. They have two chil
dren, L. W. Robert, III and L
who was a members of the 19
Olympic swimming team.
JOHN DOWNER FOUNDGUILTY
OF CRIMINAL ASSAIL
LaGrange, Ga., April 11.—Ralph
Cummings, 20, died at Dunson hos
pital in LaGrange Monday morning
and his estranged bride, Margaret
Cummnigs, is in a critical condition
at the hospital, as a result of gun
shots which Cummings is' said to
have inflicted upon his wife and him
self, in Hogansville, Monday morn
ing.
According to relatives of the girl,
seeking to per-
Her
BIBB SPECIAL H. D. AGENT
GIVEN PROMOTION AT CAIRO
Macon, April 11.—Transfer of Miss
Cornelia Daniels, special home dem
onstrator for Bibb county to Grady
county (Cairo) as county agent, was
announced Monday by Miss Rosa Mc
Gee, district agent. The transfer is
effective at once, and Miss Daniels
left Macon Monday. She had been
ALLEGED BANK ROBBER
IDENTIFIED BY CASHIER
Walter Abbell, of Hogansville.
MURDER MYSTERY
BAFFLES SHERIFF
Moultrie, Ga., April 11.—Arnold
Home, cashier of the Norman Bank-
— - . , . „ . „ ,lng company at Norman Park, Ga.,
working at Macon since last Septem-! identified Mote Welch, of
ber. " l, ^!-' w W
Miss Daniels will succeed Miss Lil
lian Knowlton in Grady county. The
latter has been granted a leave of ab-
DEATH CLAIMS WELL KNOWN
RETIRED BUSINESS MAN
Frank Stevenson, club professional
of the Americus Golf Club, Monday
tendered his resignation to directors
of the club. He will soon assume new
duties as representative in that ter
ritory of the Professional Golf Com
pany of Chattanooga, Tcnn., it is
said He has not yet selected his
headquarters. Stevenson has ‘been
club pro at Americus for a number of
years and is one of tbe best known
professionals in southern golf circles.
Only four teacher training schools
will be conducted in the state this
summer, Supt. M. D. Collins an
nounced last week. The reduction in
number of schools was made as
an economy move. Training courses
will be given at the College of Educa
tion of the University of Georgia at
Athens, and in the state institutions
in Statesboro and Valdosta, and
Woman’s College at Milledgeville.
Possibility of another _ session at
Dahlonega is being considered, Mr.
Collins said.
REFORESTATION JOBS FOR
GEORGIA MEN UNAVAILABLE
UNTIL AFTER (APRIL 18th
Columbus, April 11.—Following an
illness of three weeks, Julius l<ried-
laender, a well known retired busi
ness man an<i for more than two score
years a resident of Columbus, suc
cumbed Sunday night at his residence
at Columbus. Death was attributed to
a heart ailment diagnosed as coro
nary thrombosis.
Mr. Friedlaender was a native of
Germany, being bom in Tohm, No
vember 29, 1861. He arrived in Co
lumbus Aug. 16, 1889, and has made
his home in Columbus since that time.
Mr. Friedlaender was active in busi
ness circles until about two years ago.
He operated the Julius Friedlaender
bagging and tie company.
GEORGIA INCOME
TOTALS $32,031,506
Albany, on trial in Colquitt superior
court as one of the two men who
robbed the bank of $1,000 last Octo
ber.
Welch is being tried on an indict
ment charging him with being one of
the robbers. Jimmie James, also of
Albany, has entered a plea of guilty
in the case.
Home was on duty in the bank at
the time it was robbed. He said that
both bandits were unmasked, that lie
obtained a good look at them and
added, “I am certain that he is one of
the robbers,” as he pointed at Welch.
MONTEZUMA BOY EARNS
CULVER’S SPORT LETTERS
Macon, April 10.— With investiga
tions of a weekold double murder
still incomplete, Wilkinson county
i fficera were confronted, with another
brutal murder mystery Sunday morn
ing when the body of a negro was
found piled in his fireplace and burn
ed almost beyond recognition.
The murdered man was Henry
Parks, 60, who lived with his brother
Rev. Louis Parks, a negro preacher,
in the northern part of Wilkinson
county.
Sheriff T. Sanders, in Macon Sun
day night, continuing his investiga
tion with Macon officers concening
last week’s double murder, told de
tails of the new one. A nephew of the
slain man passing his house at 10:30
discovered the body, and the sheriff
was summoned. The negroes at first
believed the man had suffered a
stroke, fallen into the fire and been
burned to death.
MULBERRY STREET CHURCH,
MACON, MAY GET ED COOK
Atlanta, April 8.—'the total income
of the state government last year was
$32,031,606.32, State Auditor Tom
Wisdom reported to Governor Tal
madge Saturday after completing the
annual audit of tne treasury.
.The gasoline tax, chief source of
revenue, decreased 10 per cent during
the year but the income from poll tax
increased 22 per cent, the revenue de
rived from income taxes was five per
cent higher than the previous year
and the occupational tax levied on the
professions increased 29 per cent.
The greatest decrease was shown
in the gross sales receipts levy and
the inheritance tax. The former
plunged downward 71 per cent and
the latter 42 per cent.
The general property tax was five
per cent less and the cigarette and
cigar levy was off 12 per cent. The in
come from the sale of automobile li
cense tags slumped 10 per cent.
The income was dispensed to the
various state departments and agen-
Culver, Ind, April 8.—Cadet Walter
Ben McKenzie, of Montezuma, Ga.,
has won his varsity sweater in swim
ming and football at Culver Military
academy. The teams on which h<
competed met strong opposition but
usually came out victor. He is an ex
pert swimmer and played halfback on
the football team last fall. He is
senior.
Young McKenzie is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Oscar McKenzie of Monte
zuma. He has two brothers, John T.
of Montezumr and Fred, of New
York. The E. H. McKenzies of Macon
are his cousins.
He is expected to attend the Uni
versity of Georgia after his gradua
tion at Culver Military academy.
GARDEN CLUBS AWARD
PRIZES AS COLUMBUS
* CONVENTION CLOSES
Atlanta, April 10.—TheVe will be
no jobs available for Georgians in
reforestation camps until after a con
ference of Southern state officials in
Washington on April 18, and tne
places available then will be for a
limitpfl class of unmarried men. it _
rfstoted Monday by Herman de la ciea $27,908,126.96 going to those de
Pierriere director of Reconstruction partments which receive direct allo-
Finance Corporation relief work ln cations by law and by the uppropria-
this state turns act of 1931. The balance was
The statement followed a rush of spent under the provisions of the ap
several hundred men to the office of propriations act alone.
Director de la Perriere at the camtol j Wisdom said the audit showed
were Monday, following announcement from about $4,000,000 in taxes for 1932 and
droppd from the pav roll in order that (Washington Sunday that Mr. de la previous years remained uncollected
the division might be placed within ptrriere would have charge of em- and he saw no indication that it could
Its budget. 'ployment for forestry camps. I be collected any time soon.
Macon, April 12.—A successor to
the late Dr. C. C. Gregory as pastor
of the Mulberry Street Methodist
church probably will be appointed
late Wednesday, Bishop John M.
Moore of the South Georgia confer
ence said in Atlanta Tuesday night.
Bishop Moore said that he had not
decide on the pastor for the Macon
church and would make no further
statement.
Meanwhile rumors were persistent
that Dr. Ed F. Cook, pastor-, of the
Vineville Methodist church, would be
given the Mulberry appointment and
that Rev. Silas Johnson pastor of the.
First Methodist church in Thomasville
would come to Vineville church.
Dr. Cook is now serving his sixth
year in the Vineville church. Rev.- Mr.
Johnson formerly was pastor of Trin
ity church in Savannah and conducted
a series of revival meetings in the
Mulberry Methodist church about five
years ago.
MAN DIES IN FALL,
WIDOW TAKES GAS
Lexington, Ga., April 8.—A
trial of John Downer, a negro fou
guilty of assault upon a white girl
a trial in.a special session under mi'
tary guard of Elbert Superior <
about two years ago, has been
sensation during the session of
court at Lexington. The sentence t
electrocution that was given the
cused upon his conviction in the
bert court has been stayed by ap
made by his attorneys to all s
courts and then to a federal co
this last court having granted a
beas corpus which was equivalent
granting a new trial.
When the case came up for a
ond trial in the Elbert court
weeks ago attorneys moved for
change of venue. The state attorney
agreeing to this, Judge Moseley or
dered the case transferred to Ogle
thorpe county and .«et Tuesday, a in
ferred session of fhe court haring
been set for the week to begin ft*
trial.
Upon the convening of the coat
the large array of witnesses for ft*
prosecution was begun and continued
until four o’clock Wednesday after
noon. Only two .witnesses were put
by the defense when the accused jv
put up to make his statement,
he did in about 15 minutes,
facing the jury, denying the cha
and making a plea that no
be done him.
Upon completion of the statemc
of the accused court adjourned
Thursday morning when argumen'
were begun. This was computed
noon, when the court recessed for d
ner. Upon the reconvening at i
o’clock Judge Moseley charged
jury, taking about half an hour
delivering his charge, and the jury
tired to make up a verdict.
At a few minutes after three or
the jury brought in a verdict of
ty and Judge Moseley sentenced t
negro to be electrocuted on
April 28.
guil
Friday
MAY THIRD DATE SET FOR
BIBB COUNTY FLOWER
SH0
Columbus, Ga., April 9.—The Gar
den Clubs of Georgia, closing their
convention at Columbus, announced
the following prizes had been award
ed:
eachtree achievement prize to
Mrs. Alexander Boardman, of Au
gusta, for her work with iris; Mrs. R.
Ei. Cooney, of Atlanta, prize for best
collection of native wild flowers; and
to Mrs. Tom Brumby, of Marietta,
Mrs. W. D. Hooper, of Athens, prize
to club securing the largest number
of new members to the Chapter Cir
cle Club of Columbus.
The Mrs. George Burrus, of Colum
bus, prize for scrapbook w-ent to the
Rose Garden Club of Atlanta, with
second prize going to Mt. Berry Gar
den Club of Rome. The Mrs T. J.
Stewart, of Ma.oon, first prize for the
Atlanta, April 8.—Wm. T. Stewart
fell to his death from the ninth floor
of the Walton building Saturday and
a few hours later his wife died in
Grady hospital from the effects of
what hospital attaches described as
gas asphyxiation and poison.
Police said Mrs. Stewart was found
in her home two hours after her nus-
band was killed. She was hurried to
the hospital in hopes that her life
could be saved.
Questioned before her death, Mrs.
Stewart was quoted by an interne at
the hospital as saying she did not
know her husband had died ’a short
time before as the result of falling
from a building.
Identification of Stewart was by
means of a postcard bearing his name
and a laundry mark on his clothing
and by neighbors who knew him.
There were no witnesses to the fall
jbut Herbert Scroggs, an engineer on
added
cl®*
Macon, April 11.—The Bibb Co
ty Flower Club will hold its Nin
Annual Flower show in the Municip ,
auditorium in Macon on Wednesday
May 3. This date has just been ar
nounced by J. D. Crump, P resl ,®
of the club. He also announced tn:
Mrs. Kenneth Dunwody, of Macon
would be general chairman for
show this year.
Many new features will be
to the show. Of particular interest
the out-of-town clubs will be a
which has been added for the w
time this year for clubs, organ®
tions and Garden clubs outside
Bibb county. Mrs. Burton Hayes,
Shirley Hills, Macon, will be cMi
man of this new section. Anv
outside of Bibb county are lnvitoa
(Compete. They are asked to c°
municate with Mrs. Hayes.
Other new features this year
be the exhibits of still life m■
furnished by the show committee
economy luncheon tobies whi&n
show that artistic luncheon ta
can be arranged economically
hibitors in this section will be iet l
ed to furnish a statement of the
of their tables and appointment..
Ei
most constructive program to Vine
ville club, of Macon, and second prize the Walton building staff, heard the
to the Charter club, of Columbus, 1 crash as the body hit the court roof,
with third plac« going to the Mar- .The injured man died before an am-
gerite Club, of Cslumbus. I bulance arrived.
G. S. C. W. CLOSING ,,-
PLANS ARE MAP
Milledgeville, April 8.—-Dr. •
Sammons, president the G .
Baptist convention and , wel1 “
Macon minister will deliver tne
calaureate sermon to the S ia
this year, and W. T. Anderson, j
and publisher of the Macon Telert^
will deliver the literary T a(1 ’ lrP a ' ;
announced by President J. t*.
this week. .
The graduating exercises 'Up
held on Sunday, June 4, and M
June 5, this year. The class »
large and the exercises will
ptessive and beautiful.