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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, MAY 10, 1934.
MEWS SUMMARY OF
THE WEEK IN GEORGIA
W. K. Sutlive, editor and publisher
of the Blacks hear Times has an
nounced his candidacy for a seat in
the state house of representatives.
Mr. R W. Trimble, 67, promi-
net citizen of Hogansville, died Sun
day in an Atlanta hospital, where he
had come for treatment several days
■go.
It is said that a youthful gang of
chicken thieves who sell the stolen
fowls, then rob the buyers and resell
them, was under arrest in Atlanta
Friday.
Marion H. Davis, 55, a merchant
of Toccoa for a number of years, ,
was killed Saturday when a pistol 1
he was cleaning was discharged ac- ,
cidentally,
Heat claimed the first victim of |
the summer in Atlanta during Tues- j
day as the mercury climbed to 85 de- |
grees, when George Tinsley, 33, was .
overcome.
Guy T. Helvering, commissioner of
revenue, says 33,423 Georgians filed I
individual income tax returns for !
1932 incomes, compared with 27,659 •
filed for 1931.
Automobile registrations this year |
are expected to surpass all previous j
years, Marcus McWhorter, director
of the Btate motor vehicle department
has announced.
Approximately 1,500 hives of bees
have been shipped to Canada by the
Puett Company, a Hahira, Ga., hon
ey concern, during the last three
weeks it is stated.
Pine trees planted ten years ago
at Soperton, now are large enough to
furnish pulpwood, foresters of the
United States Department of Agri
culture have reported.
After 15 years, it is stated, E. W.
Philo, veteran Wilkes county poui-
tryman, has succeeded in developing
an entirely new breed of domestic
fowls, laying white eggs.
Little Marydean Home, the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. M.
Horne, of Ellaville, might well chal
lenge the world with this record. She
has nine living grandparents.
Serious damage is being done to
crops of northern and western Ware
county, and counties west of Way-
cross, by the prolonged drought, ac
cording to reports made here Tues
day.
iMissEthel Adams, dean of girls
and head of the English department
in the Griffin High School, will be
dean of women of the Georgia State
College for Women during the 1934-
35 term.
I F Keel, filling station operator
ar.d tobac-o planter of Hahira, died
yesterday of injuries suffered when
he was struck by an automobile in
front of his filling station late yes
terday.
Georgia has arranged for another
fine exn:'j:‘. at the Century of Prog
ress Exposition at Chicago under a
commission of leading citizen-), of
which Wiley L. Moore, of Atlanta, .s
chairman.
Charles Mitchell Miley, Jr., four-
yenr-ol 1 if Mr. and Mrs. C. M.
Miley of Hahira, was killed Friday
when struc.: oy the crack Ponce De
Leon passenger train of the South
ern railway.
George Groom, of Atlanta, 12-year-
old Boy Scout “tenderfoot,” was be
lieved safe from the venom of a cop
perhead snake Monday, as the result
of fast action on the part of hisl7-
year-old Assistant Scoutmaster.
Nineteen high school seniors from
all part of the southwest will meet
in Atlanta Saturday morning to com
pete in a national “intellectual tour
nament.” Thirty University of Chica
go scholarships, valued at $9,000, are
oitered as individual prizes
Jack H. Brewster, who has been
operating the McDonough Advertiser
has been placed in charge of the
Manchester Mercury by Editor Win
field G. Johnson, who is devoting his
energies to the Milledgeville Times.
The Manufacturers Record reports
the awards of contracts totaling
$186.245,000 during the first four
months of 1934 in 16 southern states
for construction, engineering and
buildirg projects—a new three-year
high figure.
Mrs. Rebecca Hughs Stevens, wid
ow of the late W. M. Stevens, died
Friday in Perry, where she had made
her home for the past several years
with her sister, Mrs. George Riley.
Mrs. Stevens would have been 85
years old June 5.
Many schools will visited in south
west Georgia towns this week by
teams of Georgia Southwestern col
lege students, who are explaining the
university system’s program, and tell
ing what the board of regents have
planned for higher education in Ga.
Of more than merely local interest
is the announcement by the highway
department that a contract will be let
May 10 for the paving of approxi
mately five miles of the Cuthbert-
Dawson highway, beginning at Cuth-
bert and extending eastward to Pa-
taula creek.
State support of schools, roads and
health services will be advocated at
the annual convention of the Asso
ciation of County Commissioners of
Georgia at Macon on May 14, and a
definite movement in that direction
is expected to be made .
Bulloch Hall, at Roswell, Gn . the
birthplace of former President
Roosevelt’s mother, beautifully
painted by Mrs. Frances L. Turner,
Df Atlanta, has been chosen by Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt to hang in the
White House it is said. i
Representative Braswell Deen, of
the eighth Georgia district, Monday
arranged an informal luncheon of the
state delegation in Washington in
honor of Jack Williams, editor ol „.ie
Waycross Journal-Herald ano retir
ing president of the Georiga Press
Association.
Z, Moore Haughbrook, Cordele ne
gro, Friday pleaded guilty in Crisp
superior court to a charge of mur
der for the slaying of Policeman J.
D. Mallard and was given a life sen
tence. The policeman was fatally
wounded when he attempted to
search the negro.
The first shipment of drouth-relief
corn arrived in Thomasville Monday
and was distributed _to the farmers
of that section eligible to receive
such assistance under the regulations
laid down by the Georgia Emergency
Relief Administration. The carload
of corn weighed 70,000 pounds.
Herman C. Fincher became post
master of LaGrange, Ga., Tuesday
by confirmation of the senate. The
senate also confirmed four other
Georgia postmasters, Robert E.
Walker, Roberta; Jessie Gunter, So
cial Circle; Alfred L. Morgan, Syl-
vania, and William O. Wolfe, Uvalda.
Twenty-one carloads of Tomato
plants were shipped from Tifton dur
ing the past week to northern mar
kets. One train of seven cars carried
approimately 5,000,000 plants. Be
tween 12 and 15 hundred farm work
ers are being employed in 1 ift county
in pulling, grading ar.d packing the
plants, it is said.
Award of the contract for the erec
tion of the Columbus Porch addition
to the Georgia Hall at Warm
Springs was announced Saturday,
having been let to J. P. Barfield, Co
lumbus contractor and work is
scheduled to start this week. The
project is being financed by funds
raised in a popular drive recently.
Just three weeks remain of the six
weeks closed fishing season now, so
fisherman who have complied with
the conservation laws of the state
wiil have all restrictions removed on
June 1. The commissioner of game
and fish, Zack D. Cravey, Saturday
issued a statement thanking those
fishermen who observed the law in
the interest of conservation .
At the May meeting of the Talbot-
ton Woman’s Club the following new
officers will be installed: Mrs. H. E.
Hutcheson, president; Mrs. E. H. Mc
Gee, first vice president; Mrs. J. A.
Smith, second vice president; Mrs.
W. C. Thomas, corresponding secret
ary; Mrs. W. L. Perryman, recording
secretary; Mrs. E. L. Bardwell, audi
tor; Mrs. W. M. McKeithan, treasure.
Albert Boiter Jr., the 13-year-old
boy preacher, who has been conduct
ing services in Augusta and along
the Horse Creek valley section in
Aiken county, South Carol.na, will be
heard at Aor.ia Baptist church, Wash
ington, Ga., twice Sunday. He is a
member of the Woodlawn Baptist
church in Augusta, and has had
preaching ambitions since he was
four years old, it is sid.
Unveiling of a portrait of Mrs. Ina
Dillard Russell will take place next
Sunday, “Mother’s Day” in the Ina
Dillard Russell Library building .-f
the campus of the Georgia State
College for Women at Milledgeville.
Mrs. Russell is the wife of the chief
justice of the Georgia Supreme
Court, Judge Richard B. Russell, and
the mother of the junior United
States Senator from Georgia, R. B.
Russell, Jr.
« Important roles in the “New Deal”
bo be played by cotton ginners, fol
lowing the passage of the Bankhead
Bill and the adoption of the market 1
ing agreement, will be discussed in
Atlanta May 23-25 at a meeting of
more than 1,0(10 members of the
Georgia Cotton Ginners Association.
Meetings will be held at the city au
ditorium. Dr. L. B. Kensington, of
Cochran, is president of the organi
zation and F. N. Watkins, of Dub
lin, is executive secretary.
According to a news disp.atch from
Atlanta Monday all monthly produc
tion records of the Chevrolet plant in
that city since 1928 were broken dur
ing the month of April when that
organization turned out a total of
7,000 cars. That this enormous pro
duction is not only a criterion of
rapid recovery in the automobile in
dustry, but for Atlanta as well, was
indicated by the estimate that the
7,000 Chevrolets sold at an average
of $700 each, .produced in the Atlanta
territory the sum of $4,900,000.
TWO IN FAMILY DEAD,
2 ILL FROM MEASLES
Valdosta, Ga., May 8.—Complica
tions from an attack of measles have
taken the lives of two members of
the W. A. Hancock family of Lenox,
and the father and a son are still in
a serious condition.
A 4 year-old boy died Friday at
the Hancock home, and a 17-year-
old girl was claimed by death Satur
day. A 12 year old boy was reported
in a dying condition Monday, and
Mr .Hancock was also in a critical
condition, following illness from
measles.
ATLANTA WOMAN DIES AS
SHE LEAPS FOUR STORIES
Atlanta, May 5.—Despondent over
her inability to secure employment,
Miss Crystal Bosche, about 45 ye^rs
old, jumped to her death Friday from
the fourth floor of her boarding
house.
The woman, who had been living
at the home for three days, went to
the top floor of the home immediate
ly following breakfast Friday. Mak
ing a path through the numerous
packing boxes stored on the fourth
floor, Miss Bosche jumped from a
window' to the street below. An am
bulance was called, but she was dead
when the ambulance physician ar
rived .
HANCOCK’S OLDEST LADY DIES
Sparta, Ga., May 7.—Mrs. Sarah
L. Mincey, 105, died at the borne of
her daugntei, Mrs. B. F. Montgom
ery Monday She was the oldest
woman in this section of the state
j and had been in very good health up
| to the time of her death. Until her
; hundredth birthday she made it a
I point to pick a hundred pounds of
I cotton each year.
TWO NEGROES KILLED
Moultrie, Ga., May 8.—Two Syl
vester negroes were almost instantlj
killed Monday night when the auto
mobile in which they were rid ng
collided head-on with a truck driven
by Paul Mashbuin, of Moultrie
Mashburn was hurt, but not serious
ly. He was en route to Atlanta with
a load of cabbage.
MACON BRIDE’S FIRST MEAL
SENDS HER TO HOSPITAL
Macon, Ga., April 29.—The first
attempt of Mrs. Lula Warrick
Gregory, 24, a bride of Friday, to
prepare a meal for her husband sent
1 her to the hospital. She used kero
sene to start a fire and an explos.en
resulted. Mrs. Gregory was burned
about the legs, arms and lace.
CHILD IS KILLED
IN THUNDERSTORM
Dublin, May 6.— Margaret Curl,
9-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
George Curl of Brewton was killed
by lightning this afternoon.
According to information reaching
here, the Curl family went in a house
about two miles from their home aux
in a thunderstorm. Starting in the
house Margaret lost her hat, and as
she ran back to get it she was struck
but lightning.
94-YEAR-OLD WOMAN
OBSERVES BIRTHDAY
Newnatl, Ga., May 6.—A large
number of relatives and friends
gathered at the home of Mrs. Roxie
McDonald last Sunday to celebrate
the ninety-fourth birthday of her
mother, Mrs. Amanda Carpenter
Neely. A birthday cake with 94 lights
adorned the table at dinner
Mrs. Neely is the widow of David
Neely. She is one of the pioneers of
this section. She is in good health
and is looking forward to the cele
bration of her birthday next year.
CONVICTED SLAYER
SENTENCED TO LIFE
Cordele, Ga., May 2.—L. J. Sassev
21 year old negro who was indicted
by a grand jury in Crisp county su
perior court for the murder of Mil
dred Felder, negro girl, was convict
ed Monday of murder by a jury
which recommended mercy of the
court. Judge A. J. McDonald sen
tenced Sassey to life imprisonment.
The murder was committed March
25, at the home of the victim on the
farm of Leo C. Mercer, about seven
miles northwest of Cordele.
SOUTH GEORGIANS
ARE CHARGED WITH
MURDER OF YOUTH
Cairo, Ga., May, 7-.Murder charges
were docketed Monday afternoon
against H. T. James, well-known
Grady County farmer, and his twe
sons, R. T. ar.d B. F. James, as re
sult of the death early Monday, of
the former's grandson, Edward llor-1
ton, aged 8. j
The trio have been in jail here'
since Frinday night, when a family i
quarrel led to asliooting and cutting |
j affray at the Horton home. Blackman
Horton, father of the dead child, w as '
shot with buckshot and then his
throat slashed and a portion of the
buckshot charge entered the child’s
body, inflicting fatal wounds. Hor
ton remains in a critical condition.
FAIR PEACH HARVEST
EXPECTED IN GEORGIA,
EXCHANGE HEAD SAYS
Macon, May 4.—A fair-sized peach
crop may be expected in Georgia
this year C. Bewley, general
manager of the Georgia Peach Grow
ers’ Exchange, announced.
After a survey of the southern and
main belt, Mr. Bewley said he had
never seen the orchards in better
condition than at present. Cultivation
has been extensive, he said, and dust
ing and other control features are
being carried out.
WHITEE MAN KILLED n
BY APPLING NEGRO
Baxley, Ga., May 7.—Wesley Hol-
to, 37, of thiscounty, was shot and
killed Sunday afternoon near Pine
Forest swimming pool this county,of
Buddy Ashley, Negro.
According to information received
here Nooge Ashley, negro, brother of
Buddy Ashley, was creating a distur
bance and Mr, Holton rebuked him.
Nooge is alleged to have resented it
and asked his brother for a pistol.
Buddy is alleged to have stepped up
near Mr. Holton and shot him thru
the neck.
POLITICAL PAPER FOR
WOMEN ENTER WEEKLY
FIELD IN THIS STATE
Atlanta, May 5.—(GPS)—Now
that women are taking more interest
in politics in Georgia and are, in
many instances, planning to contest
the mere male’s traditional rights to
hold public office, the Georgia Wom
an’s World, political newspaper in
Atlanta, has decided that it should
go to press oftener. Printed as a
monthly for the past five years, it
will enter the weekly field with plans
to cover every “nook and corner” of
the state. The announcement was
made on the occasion of its fifth
birthday last week when it opened
offices in Atlanta .
Mrs. James Rogers Wakefield,
brilliant writer and civic leader, who
is managing editor, announces that
Joe Rosenfield, Jr., former promotion
manager of the Atlanta Constitution,
has become associated with the paper
as business counsel serving as ad
vertising and circulation manager.
“We know that our women want
information on current political
events, especially when these events
bear directly on community better
ment, and one of the main purposes
of this publication is to watch such
events, report them carefully and
accurately ar.d then rely on our read
ers to endorse and support such
movements as they elect to sponsor,'
Mrs. Wakefield says editorially in
announcing weekly publication fo*
the future.
BURGIN TO BE AT
WASHINGTON DINNER
Columbus, Ga., May 8.—Enroute to j
Wasnington where he will attend a
reception and dinner in connection,
with the acceptance by President I
Franklin D. Roosevelt of the Warm ‘
Springs foundation fund, raised by a j
series of balls, Joe S. Burgin, of |
Buena Vista, former state senator,
from this, the 24th district, was in I
Columbus Monday. |
The reception will be held at the i
White House on Wednesday evening
at 7 o’clock, and a dinner will follow
at the Shoreham hotel, begining at
8:30 o’clock.
Henry L. Doherty is chairman of
the national committee which had
charge of the movement to raise the
fund. Approximately $1,000,000 was
raised by the series of balls.
TOM LINDEER TO
BE SUCCEEDED
BY W. C. MOBLEY
Atlanta, May 7.—Governor Eugene
Talmadge, returning to his office to
day from the Kentucky Derby, im-
nmediately accepted the resignation
of T. M. Linder, his executive secret
ary, who Saturday announced his can
didacy for Commissioner of Agricult
ure.
Governor Talmadge appointed W.
Carlton Mobley, of Forsyth, to suc
ceed Linder immediately, Linder, how
ever, will remain in the office a few
days to acquaint Mobley with his new
duties, the Governor said.
Declaring Linder had been associ
ated with him since 1927—when Tal
madge was elected Commissioner ol
Agriculture and Linder named his as
sistant—the Governor praised him
for “efficient and valuable service."
DUNWOODY’S DEATH
IS CAUSED BY GAh
Macon, Ga., May 8.—John Alfred
Dunwoody, 44, member of a promin-
net Macon family and manager of the
Hotel Winccoff, Atlanta, died early
yesterday from carbon monoxide asp
hyxiation from the exhaust of his
automobile parked in a peach orchard
a mile south of Hampton.
A coroner’s jury lound he“came to
his death by his own hands,” press
dispatches reported.
Funeral services will be held here
in the chapel of Hart’s mortuary at
5 p. m. today, the Rev George M.
Wilcox, pastor of the Vincville Pres
byterian church, officiating, inter
ment will be in Riverside cemetery.
Mr. Dunwoody, a brother of Dan
Dunwoody, Bibb county tax receier,
and Mrs. Leonard McManus of Ma
con, was assistant manager of the
Hotel Dempsey here until about 10
years ago, and for the last nine years
had been connected with the Winecoff
hotel.
11 PERSONS LOSE LIVES
IN 5 PLANE CRASHES
Eleven persons were killed Sunday
| in the crashes of five private air-
I planes.
Mrs. Arthur Johnson, 18, drowned
in San Francisco bay when the plane
| of Harold Christman stalled and
| plunged into the water. Her husband
and Christman were saved.
I At Soda Springs, Idaho, W. A.
George crashed fatally on a take-off.
A woman and three men died a
mile from the Houston, Texas, air
port in the fall of the private plane
in which they had taken off for a mid
night excursion. At daybreak Sun
day searchers found the wrecked
plane and the bodies of Bob Glyn,
31, pilot; Miss Gladys Wood, 20; Fred
Burnett, 23, and Leroy Grandy, 22.
A woman and two men were burned
to death at Fulton, N Y., when their
plane fell 300 feet. The dead were
Leon W. Holly, the pilot; Miss Irene
Clark, 20, and an unidentified man.
Lowell Markwith, 39, the pilot and
George J. Kuntz, 24, were killed at
New Market, N. J., when their plane
apparently lost a wing in midair and
went into a nose-dive.
ALMANAC’S EDITOR
FOR FIFTY YEARS
DIES IN SAVANNAH
Savannah, Ga., May 2.—Otis Ash
more, superintendent of public
schools in Savannah and Chatham
county from 1896 to 1916, and editor
of Grier’s almanac for 50 years since
1882, died at his residence in Savan
nah.
He had been in ill health for some
j years due to a paralytic stroke De-
I spite this handicap, he kept up his
j work with the almanac. He went to
Savannah in 1887 as professor of
science in the public schools. He was
noted as an astronomer. He was born
I March 6, 1853, in Lincoln county,
| Ga., and educated in the public
schools there. In 1892 when the
1 state normal school started in Ath
ens, Mr. Ashmore was on its facul
ty, the school being then only a sum
mer session. His department was ge-
i ography and related subjects, such
I as map drawing, chart making, star
gazing and everything else that
j came to hand.
Entries For September
Primary Closed Saturday
With The Following Line-Up
Following is the state ticket thus
far to be voted on in the September
12 primary:
For Governor—Eugene Talmadge
(incumbent), Claude Pittman and Ed
A. Gilliam.
For Secretary of State—John B.
Wilson (incumbent), Alf Traylor.
For Commissioner of Agriculture—
G C. Adams (incumbent), Columbus
Roberts, J. T. Sisk, To Linder, Dr.
J. M. Sutton.
For State Treasure—George B.
Hamilton, (incumbent).
For Attorney General—M. J Yeo
mans (incumbent), Howell Cobb, Al
bany.
For Superintendent of Education—
M. D. Collins (incumbent), W. Irving
Kigdon.
For Comptroller General—William
B. Harrison (incumbent), Madison
Bell.
For Public Service Commission—
Jud P. Wilhoit (incumbent) agaist
James A Perry and Robert N. Spring
field, J. B. Daniel (incumbent) again
st Walter McDonald.
For Prison Commissioner—Vivian
L. Stanley (incumbent), Hill C. Tug
gle, U. B. Sammons.
For Chief ustice of Supreme Court
—Richard B Russell, Sr. (incumbent)
Supreme Court Justice
For justice of the Supreme Court
(for unexpired term of late H. War
ner Hill): John B. Hutcheson (in
cumbent); Jule W. Felton, Monroe
Stephens.
For justice of the nSupreme Court:
Marcus W. Beck (icumuent).
For justice of the Court of Appeals:
I. H. Sutton (incumbent), Buford
Boykin; Hugh J. MacIntyre (incum
bent), Joseph Quillian
For commissioner of commerce and
labor: Hal. M. Stanley (incumbent).
Superior court judges and the can
didates who have qualified against
them:
Atlanta Circuit: John D. Hum
phries, E. E. Pomeroy and Virlyn B.
Moore, incumbents; G Seals Aiken
and James V. Poole oppose Judge
Humphries.
Atlantic Circuit: J T. Grice, in
cumbent.
Augusta Circuit: A. L. Franklin,
incumbent.
Brunswick Circuit: J. H. Thomas,
(incumbent); W C. Little, Gordon
Knox.
Cordele Circuit: A. J. McDonald,
incumbenh; D. Edward Griffin.
Eastern Circuit: John Rourke, Jr.
incumbent; Edgar Oliver, George H.
Richter.
Flint Circuit: G. Ogden Persons,
incumbent; E O. Dobbs.
Griffin Circuit: William E. H.
Searcy, Jr., incumbent .
Macon Circuit; Malcolm D. Jones
and Louis L. Brown, incumbents; W.
R. Douglas Feagin opposing Judge
Jones.
Middle Circuit: R N. Hardeman,
incumbent.
Northeastern Circuit: B. F. Gail-
lard, Jr., incumbent.
Ocmulgee Circuit: James B. Park,
incumbent; C. A. Giles.
Pataula Circuit: Chas W. Worrill,
incumbent .
Rome Circuit: James Maddox, in
cumbent; Claude H. Porter.
Southern Circuit: Wm. E. Thomas,
incumbent; L. L. Moore.
Stone Mountain Circuit: James C.
Davis, incumbent
Tallapoosa Circuit: James R.
Hutcheson, incumbent; Price Eld-
wards.
Toombs Circuit: C. J. Perryman
incumbent.
Waycross Circuit: M. D. Dicker-
son, incumbent.
Western Circuit: Blanton Fortson
incumbent
For Solicitor General
Northeastern Circuit: Robert Mc
Millan, incumbent; G. F. Kelly.
Cordele Circuit: Allen C. Garden,
incumbent.
Atlanta Circuit: Oliver C. Dorsey,
C. L. Cowart, E C. Elmore and J. P
Dukes, incumbent.
Tallapoosa Circuit: Homer Wat
kins, Hal C. Hutchens. Solicitor
General S. W. Ragsdale is not run
ning for reelection.
Toombs Circuit: J Cecil Davis, in
cumbent.
Waycross Circuit: Homer L. Cau
sey, John S. Gibson. A. B. Spence,
solicitor general, is not running for
•eelection
FOR REPRESENTATIVE
To the Voters of Taylor County
I respectfully announce my cam
daey for Representative from t
lor County in the General AssenZ.
of Georgia, subject to the
cratic primary to be held Sent h
1934. If elected I shall endeavor k
serve to the best of my ability L?
county and state. * 00111
Respectfully,
C. H. NEISLER.
ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE
GEORGIA—Taylor County:
By virtue of an order granted i
“-Court of Ordinary of^Tii
at the April term, 1934, will be so l
on the first Tuesday in June i Jr
before the court house door ’of J;,i
county to the highest bidder f or , ,1
within the legal hours of « u i,, .1,
following described lands of the
tate of Jim Winters, late of sa ?'.
county, deceased, towit: u
One hundred eighty-seven acres of
land, more or less, lying and beiJ
n lot No. 186 and bounded as f"i 8
lows: East by Bloodworth; West bv
lands of Jack Nelson; South by lands
of Mrs. S D. Anthony; North bv
lands of John Montgomery; West bv
i i? nds W? lt€r Gaines and known u
tha Billy Montgomery place; also in
acres in lot No. 184 and six (6) »cre«
in lot No. 185, bounded as follow*
West by lands of John King; North
by lands of Manson Trussed; East
by Z. T. Nelson; South by Mrs C
L. Pyron. All of said lands'lving and
being in the 14th land district of
said Taylor County, Ga
Said sale for the purpose of pavimr
debts and distribution.
This 3rd day of May, 1934,
„ E. E. CORLEY, Admr.,
Estate of Jim Winters, Deceased
CITATION
GEORGIA—Taylor County:
By virtue of an order granted
the Honorable L. T. Peed, Ordin
of said county will be sold on
first Tuesday in June next, to
highest bidder for cash, within
i legal hours of sale as the property
the estate of Mrs. S, F. Robim
| deceased, before the court ho
;door of said county, the follow
described personality, towit:
I States Government boi
of the par value of One Thousa
Nine Hundred ($1,900.00) Dollars
The undersigned reserves the ri
to reject any and all bids below
value of said bonds.
Said sale for the purpose of p
ing debts and distribution
This 7th day of May, 1934.
_ J- R. LUNSFORD,
Executor of Last Will of Mrs. S.
Robinson, Deceased.
No. 1
From
Page One
lor county.”
...
To date there has teen no deluge
of letters from Americus, as was an
ticipated by Perkins and several
others who left their addresses on
a board fence in that fair City.
...
As if we didn’t have enough show
spoilers in this Company, Dist. “H”
headquarters has seen fit to inflict
THIRTEEN others on us for a three
weeks’ cooking school. We may sur
vive, but we will never be the same.
• » .
Last Sunday, a group of men in
terested in Civics, History and re
lated subjects was taken to visit the
National Cemetery and site of the
Confederae stockade at Anderson-
ville, Ga. During the Civil War some
49,000 Union soldiers were confined
in the stockade. The largest number
of men confined in the twenty-seven
a"re stockade at one time was 33.-
000. There is a large drawing of
the stockade in the home of the Su
perintendent of the grounds, which
shows the stockade as it appeared
during the war, when filled with
soldiers. The tarditions and history
of the place formed the basis for
much interesting discussion of the
Civil War. Ali who went ag ■»‘d that
the trip was a most enjoyaole out
ing.
SHERIFF’S SALE
GEORGIA—Taylor County:
There will be sold at public outc
to the highest bidder for cash, t
tween the legal hours of sale befo
the court house door in Taylor cou
ty, Georgia, on the first Tuesday
June, 1934, being June 5, 1934, t
following described property, t
One Ford truck, 1932 model, o
ar.d one-half ton truck body No. 1
lettered "B B”, Truck motor >
6052305. Levied upon and to be s<
as the property of L. H. Vanlar
ingham to satisfy a fi fa issued
Taylor Superior Court in favor
The Universal Credit Corpporati
against the said L H. Vanlandir
ham.
This 7th day of Mav, 1934.
R. P. MicGUFFIN, Sheriff
CITATION
GEORGIA—Taylor County:
To Whom It May Concern:
The appraisers appointed to i
apart a year’s support for M
Ouida C. Turk, widow of T. G. Tui
late of said county, deceased, havi
filed their return betting apart
year’s support for said widow a
minor children, this is to cite all a
singular, the creditors and next
kin of said T. G. Turk, deceased,
show cause, if any they can, on t
first Monday in June next, before i
Vhy said return should not be ma
the order of this Court.
Witness my official signature tl
7th day of May, 1934.
L. T PEED, Ordinary,
Taylor County, Georgia.
FOR DISMISSION
GEORGIA—Taylor County:
Mrs. Mary R. Lunsford, Guardian
of Mrs. S. F. Robinson, having nleu
her final return and her petition to
be dismissed from her guardianship,
this is to cite all and singular th e
creditors and all parties interested to
show cause before me on the fi r?
Monday in June, 1934, why ?81 “
guardian should not be dismissed.
This 7th day of May, 1934.
L. T PEED, Ordinary, ,
Taylor County, Georg 18 -
METTER FIRE DAMAGE
PLACED AT S20.000 j
Metter, Ga., May 8.—Fire Monday I
at the Metter Lumber Comp 88 - |
plant burned most of the P 18 '1
which was one of the model luf'jrj
establishments in this section of |
The Metter Lumber Company
owned by M. E. Trapnell and '' "l
Brannon and is the largest mam 1 ',1
turing plant in the city, with one J
the largest pay rolls in the c0 VJj
Officials of the company y |
that it carried no insurance, it * in
timated that the loss will be
$20,000 to $25,000.