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The Americus Times-Recorder
•THIRTY-FIFTH YEAR.
AMERICUS PLEDGES $25,257 FOR Y. M. C. A
SUCCESSFUL CAMPAIGN FOR
FUNDS CLOSES WEDNESDAY
The Fund Raised is $1,257 More Than Was Asked For.
Building Will be Repaired and Opened Within Short Time.
WORKERS ENDORSE - TIMES-RECORDER
WEDNESDAY’ REPORTS BRING THE TOTAL FOR THE REHABILITA
TION OF THE Y. M. ('. A. UP TO $25*257. CAMPAIGN WORKER*:
HOLD JUBILEE MEETING AT V EMORY —HONORS GO TO J. E.
HIGHTOWER WITH T. 0. MARSHALL SECOND
Citizens’ Committee-J. E. Mathis, Chairman.
Previously Reported Yesterday Total
Team Leader No. Amount No. Amount No. Amount
1. Carswell, E. L„ 31 745 18 260 49 1005
2. Fort, Jus. A » 280 3 138 12 41S
3. Hightower, J. E 20 1077 43 986 63 2061
4. Jones, 11. 0 20 455 3 31 23 48(5
5. Mays, Dr. I). B 22 418 8 111 30 529
C. Smith, W. F 16 205 9 101 25 30(5
Total »8 3187 84 1627 202 4805
Business Mens Committee—John W. Shiver, Chairman.
Previously Reported Yesterday Total
Co. Captain No. Amount No. Amount No. Amount
A. Davis, Dr. C. P 14 402 1 50 15 452
B. Gardner, G. S 15 285 1 < 310 17 310
C. Marshall, T. 0 35 1227 17 442 52 1669
D. Melton, O. Q 1« 235 6 65 22 300
E. —Morgan, L. A 16 435 10 209 26 614
F. Payne, Frank J 9 155 3 55 12 219
G. Prather, Dr. W. S 17 480 5 75 22 555
..Total 122 3219 59 1206 166 4140
Miscellaneous 11l 1594 2 371 113 1(5312
GRAND TOTAL 351 22338 61 1893 481 25257
The dial points to $25,257.
The task is done. Americus has sail
ed her Young Men’s Christian Associa
tion. Americus has proven that her
new slogan is a reality. Americus has
responded splendidly to the call of her
boys and young men and has opened
her purse.
Americus not only raised the $24,000
asked by the Y. M. C. A., but also
raised $1,257 more than the sum set
The Y. M. C. A. will be opened in
J. E. MATHIS
Chairman of the Citizens Committee
Americus and will become a factor for
good in this growing city. The last
day of the campaign found the amount
on hand was SI6OO short of the sum
wanted. The committees buckled
down to work and carried the total
v ay above the $24,000 mark.
Last night the workers met at the
armory to celebrate tiheir victory. Ic
was a veritable love feast. Everyone
was overjoyed by the success of the
undertaking. The speeches of those
AMERICUS SAID SHE WOULD AND SHE DID
AMERICUS. GEORGIA. THURSDAY MORNING. JANUARY 22, 1914.
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* WHIRLWIND WORKERS *
* APPRECIATE ASSISTANCE *
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* The following is taken from a *
" resolution passed last night at the *
* jubilee meeting;
* Resolved, That we extend to *
* The Times-Recorder our deepest *
* gratitude for the magnificent sup- ”
* port which it has given ns through *
* its columns and the personal as- *
* sistance of its editor, Mr. Quimby *
* Melton, to which we feel that the *
' ; success of the present campaign is *
“ in a very large measure due. *
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who had labored for the cause were
ringing and prophesied* the future suc
cess of the association.
The laurels for doing the best wor.<
go to Team 3, captained by J. E. High
tower. Co. C, headed by Captain T. O
Marshall, was a close second with sub
scriptions totalling $1669. In all 48:
persons contributed to the fund.
AMERICUS Y. M. C. A. BUILDING
TT;e success of the whilrdwind campaign to raise funds for the Young Men’s Christian Association assures the
early 01 eni ll( rcf this modern Y. M. C. A. building. Americus has proven that her slogan: "The City With High
ideas and the Cash to Back Em Up, is not a myth.
Too much / relit cannot be given the "army’’ of workers that devoted most of their time for five days to
securing )fcrids ter the Y. M. C. A. The'r untiring efforts made it possible to pay off th* debt on the building
and open it after repairing it and installing a swimming pool.
Chromender-in-Chlef UO. Council, together with Chairman Mathis and ’’’Gigidier Bringie” Jno. W. Shiver
are to be congratulated on the way they conducted the campaign. I
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At the meeting held last night, tic
following resolutions were unanimous
1; passed by a rising vote:
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Leads Successful Campaign
Commandar-in-C.ief Council
HUFF TESTIFIED
AT LENGTH IN
SPEER HEARING
ACCUSED JURIST IS DEPICTED
Before Board as Having
Abused Power
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Macon, Ca., Jan. 21. —Judge Emory
i
Speer today heard himself described
before the house judiciary committee as
a ‘Xascal’’ and a corrupt judge in
whom the people oif his district had
i lost confidence and respect, and who
| was regarded by lawyers and the pub
lic generally with suspicion and dis
favor. He heard himself pictured as
| a jurist, who was oppressive, tyrannl
leal, despotic, unfair, arbitrary, heedless
loi the rights of others. He heard him
self accused of making a law partner
ship contract between his former pri
vate secretary and his son-in-law—the
former being the standing master in
j chancery for the court. He heard him
j self depicted as a judge whom the big
business men of his district feared,and
; who, by the exertion of his immense
,
1 power, had made lawyers afraid «»"
him.
| Only two witnesses occupied the wit
ness stand during the morning hear
ing today—Col. W. A. Huff and VV. C.
Snodgrass, the latter an attorney from
Thomasvilie.
Col. Huff, the 83-year-old ex-mayor
of Macon, a man who is celebrated
throughout the south for a trenchant
and fearless pen, and whose bank
ruptcy case is notable in the annals of
litigation, the man who practically
started the governmental wheels of in
vestigation, and who has pursued Judge
Speer relentlessly and doggedly, was
the principal accuser.
| Attorney Snodgrass corroborated
the opinion previously expressed in
the hearing by John R. L. Smith, the
j Macon lawyer. He declared that
| Judge Speer was regarded in his
FOB CITIZEN
MIENS DIED
AT QUINCY FLA.
Ml Mill ME Will
Eusural This Morning al
Tazeweli
Mr. W. O. Hogg, formerly of Ameri
cus, but during the past several years a
resident of Quincy, Fla., died in that
city yesterday morning. Intelligence
of the dealh of Mr. Hogg was conveyed
in telegrams to relatives here, among
Ihese being cne of his six brother-',
Mr. C. S. Hogg. The deceased was
very much esteemed in ’ Americus,
where a wide circle ot/ friends are
saddened by the announcement of his
death.
Mr. Hogg was thirty-two years of
age, a native of Buena Vista, and a
member of the weilknowh family of
that section, his parents having long
resided in Marion county.
After a residence cf some length in
Americus several years ago he remov
ed to Quincy, where he engaged in
business. He As survived by six broth
ers, among’them Mr. C. S. Hogg, of
this city. Four brothers reside in Ma
rion county, and a fifth one in Boston,
Mass. He has three sisters, Mrs. O.
Jenkins, of Upatcae; Mrs. W. E. Pick
ard, and Mia. M. L. Hol!°y. of Taze
well, a village near Buena Vista.
The bod. arrived in Americus last
night from Quincy and will be carried
by the Central train this morning to
Tazewell cemetery for interment at 1 1
o'clock.
part of the state as a judge who did
not deal fairly with litigants, and
whose court was a menace to parties
seeking judicial justice.
Col. Huff declared that some law
yers would not accept cases before
Judge Speer, because they were n>t
“in good fellowship" with him.
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JNO. W. SHIVER
Commander of the Business Mens Brigade
WIDOW CANNOT
RECQVEB DAMAGIr
HUSBAND'S DEAL
ertHTtIIHIM Bill
In Case Carried Up Iri
Americus
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The court of appeals, in a deci|
rendered yesterday, sustains the S?
ter superior court in the position *
Mrs. C. M. Dixon did not have vs
action against the Central of Geo*
railway in the suit instituted to|
* cover for the death of her husbamf
1 M. Dixon, a fireman for the Cen t
and who was killed in an accident?
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curring in the Americus yards of I
Central nearly two years ago.
! In this catastrophe, it will be
called, Engineer Adams was killed!
was Fireman Dixon, who, however, 1
not on duty at.the time, it was clai 4
by the railway company, on wj
fact the defendant based its plea T
demurrer to the action filed.
Dixon was not on bis regular ]
but was a passenger on the train. ]
left the passenger coach and wen I
the engine, where he rode, and i
killed. It was held that he was tli
in direct violations of the rules of
company, that he had no duty or b;
ness on the engine on this par tic
occasion, therefore his widow hat !
valid right to recovery for his dt
The accident, it will be recalled,
curred in the southern limits of At
icus when the morning train from
con left the track at a switch | ;
turned over, both Engineer Adams •
Mr. Dixon being killed and the i
gine and coaches demolished.
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