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PLEAS OF GUILTY
HEARD BY COURT
Criminal Calendar Re
duced —Negro Goes to
Trial For Murder
The jury in the case of Jones Jack
son, charged with the murder of his
wife, returned a verdict of guilty,
recommending the defendant to the
mercy of the court. Judge Little
john immediately sentenced Jackson
to life imprisonment in the peniten
tiary.
The criminal calendar was taken
up in Sumter Superior Court this
morning, with a heavy docket of
minor cases to be disposed of. Jule
Felton, solicitor general of this cir
cuit is representing the state, and
Judge Z. A. Littlejohn is presiding.
Before beginning upon the case of
Jones Jackson, a negro charged with
the murder of his wife, Judge Little
john accepted pleas of guilty from a
number of defendants. George La
mar, plead guilty to making whisky
and elected to go to trial on another
indictment charging him with driving
a horse without consent of owner
Harry Hawkins was appointed to de
fend him in this case. Charlie Har
ris, who shot at Sam Gibson, plead
.■guilty to shooting at another, and was
sentenced to serve 12 months on the
chaingang or pay a fine of §125. Al
fonso Hunter, one of the negroes ar
rested in connection with the loss of
freight at the Seaboard warehouse
here, plead guilty to embezzlement;
♦Quallis Stevens admitted he was guil
ty of making liquor and Ulysses Ray
plead guilty to harrying concealed,
-weapons. Robert Clark, a white boy
of Leslie community, plead guilty to
breaking and entering, and by con
sent of Solicitor General Felton he
will be parolled after he has given'
testimony in another case in which'
.he is a witness for the state. T. B. <
Wright, alias Thurman Young, also'
white, admitted he gave Boney Carey
a bad check for a small sum. Judge'
Littlejohn pased all these cases, ex
cept that of Charlie Harris and Rob- i
ert Clark and will impose sentence
later. I
After pleas had been received in,
these cases the Jones Jackson mur-|
tier trial was begun, with T. O. Mar-,
shall and Dan Chappell representing'
the defendant. The motive alleged
for the crime by the state is that
Jackson killed his wife while he was
drunk.
Just before court recessed at noon :
Judge Littlejohn sentenced three of
the defendants who entered pleas
earlier in the session, as follows:
Charlie Harris, 12 months on the
chaingang or $125 fine; Quallis Stev
ens, making liquor, 12 months on
chaingang, provided that after serv
ing 4 months he may pay a fine of
$l5O and be released, and having
liquor, $75, or 6 months on the chain
gang; and Ulysses Ray, carrying con
cealed weapons, 12 months or $l5O
fine, and carrying a pistol without li
cense, S4O or 4 months.
When court re-assembed at 2
o’clock the case of Henry Williams j
charged with rape was commenced.
Cases set for hearing tomorrow are
as follows: R. H. Anderson, lar
ceny after trust and misdemeanor-
Frank Patterson, assault with intent
to murder. Wise Parker, larceny'
from the house and misdemeanor;:
William Turner, assault with intent
to murder; Will Rogers, having'
whisky; Doc Daniel felony; Ernest
Gibson, makin'- liquor; George Hol-!
ley, making whisky; Emmett Mason,
larceny from the house; Willie Jones,
selling liquor; D. M. Lowery, cheat
ing and swindling; Clark Barlow, as
sault and battery; Wesle” Clark, mis
demeanor; Charlie Wilson, having
whisky; George Clark, keeping whis
ky; Rosa Ellis, misdemeanor; A. J.
Williams, stabbing; Jim Williams, re
ceiving stolen 'roods.
Rotarians Pay Surprise
Call on Pastor Member
About twenty-five Rotarians “sur
prised” Parson Silas Johnson at Lee
Street Methodist church Sunday
night, dropping in on him at the hour
of evening service. Some of the
stewards of the church who had
been let in on the secret of the visit,
had reserved a number of benches in
the front of the church and these
were occupied by the Rotarians. The
pastor preached on “The Call of
Christ,” and his discourse was en
joyed alike by his congregation and
the visitors.
Engineers Name Own
Subject for Sermon
Rev. Silas Johnson, pastor of Lee
Street Methodist church has accept
ed an to deliver a special
sermon next Sunday to the local or
ganization of the Brotherhood of
Railroad Engineer -. The subject of
his address on th;:. occasion will be
“Lead Us Not Into Temptation,” and
the members of the brotherhood w.ll
attend the serviie in a body. The
subject upon which the pastor will
preach was suggested by the organi
zation.
$125,000,000 Given
Roads of Equipment
WASHINGTON,’June 7—The im
mediate appropriation of $125,000,-
000 government funds for the use of
railroads to purchase new rolling
stock was announced today by the In
terstate Commerce Commission.
Plunge to Bottom
Os Well Kills Boy
EVANSVILLE, June 7.—While
sitting on a wheelbarrow load of
bricks, the ground gave away and
plunged Floyd W. Lantaff 450 feet
io the bottom of an abandoned well.
He was killed.
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Sharp-Point Pencils, in gold and
silver. .Bell, th» Jeweler.—3o-tf
E. B. Wallace, W. T. Anderson and
F. H. Hines, Jr., all prominent resi
dents of Leslie were business visi
tors here today.
J. A. McDonald, Jr., of Sumter
was in Americus today.
Frank Green, a representative of
the National Pecan Groves Co., of
Washington, D. C., was here today.
He came to conduct a party of inves
tors who visited the property of the
company at Flintside this afternoon.
H. W. Smithwick, local representa
tive of the company, accompanied the
party on their trip to Flintside.
Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Bell and Miss
Eunice King, of Americus, spent
Sunday in Albany.
Judge W. M. Harper, of the City
Court of Americus, will assign cases
for hearing at the coming term of
that court next Thursday morning,
June 10. There ar? several impor
tant civil cases to be assigned.
City Clerk E. J. Eldridge resumed
his duties at the city hall today af
ter being off some time as the result
of an injury to his eye. He is still
wearing an eye shade, but states his
eye-sight is rapidly improving.
Henry Stanfield who moved from
Americus to Moultrie to reside sev
eral months ago, has returned here to
live again. The family is now domi
ciled at 801 Forrest street.
Dancts will be continued at Myrtle
Springs every Tuesday and Thurs
day nights. Everybody invited.
31-ts
Mr. and Mrs. F. E. McCullers, of
Donaldsonville, and Mrs. T. H. Bry
ant, of Jakin, Ga., are guests of Mr.
and Mrs. R. E. L. Majors, of McGar
rah street.
H. B. Shipp, of Augusta, was here
Sunday to spend the week-end with
Mrs. ShXn who is the guest of Mrs.
J. J. Walters, near Americus. He
went to Macon this morning on a
business mission, and will return to
morrow to attend the 'Walter-Haskell
wedding.
Mr. and Mrs. B. K. Hall, of Jack
sonville, Fla., arrived today, coming
to attend the Walters-Haskell wed
ding.
Dan Chappell and R. C. Lane have
returned from a visit to Macon.
i The grand jury of Sumter Superior
i Court will resume its sessions tomor
row morning, after a recess of a
week. It is expected the body will
finish its investigation during the day
and that its final report will be sub
mitted to Judge Littlejohn Tuesday
afternoon.
Jule Felton, solicitor of the South
western circuit, came down from
Montezuma Sunday afternoon to at
tend Sumter Superior Court. The
, trial of criminal cases began there
this morning.
Mrs. Beatrice Smith, who attend
'ed the funeral of her sister, Mrs
George W. Martin on Friday, re
turned to her home in Jacksonville
Sunday.
R. L. Stewart, of Plains, was a well
know visitor here today.
i John Taylor, Bill Ivey and Perry
Clegg, Jr., came up from Cordele
Saturday and spent the week-end with
relatives in Americus.
All the boys of the 1919 class of
the Americus High School are re-
J quested to be present at Bell’s Jew
' elry store Monday night at 8 o’clock,
t Eight baskets, shipped by L. M
• Hansford, 36 crates by J. 11. Poole
& Sons and 200 crates shipped by
D. J. C. Berry constituted the express
I shipments of peaches sent from
I Americus today. The fruit was con
signed to dealers at various points in
several states.
Miss Alice Johnson is spending this
i week in Cordele as the guest of Mrs.
. Perry Clegg at her home in that city.
i The county commissioners were in
' session at the court house throughout
this morning, with a large volume of
Rub-My-Tism la a powerful anti,
septic; it kills the poison caused from
' infected cuts, cures old sores, tetter,
etc. adv (s)
1 business to be transacted. No an-
I nouncement of their deliberations had
' been made at 2 o’colck this after
noon.
i Farmers Hog Sale to
Dispose of Four Cars
George O. Marshall, county farm
demonstration agent, announced to
day that a co-operative hog sale will i
be held Tuesday, June 8, at the
Spring street pens here. Four car
loads or approximately 350 head of
porkers, will be offered in the sale,
i and at least six packing concerns will
be represented by buyers. It is not
: expected that the hogs will bring
! fancy prices, but being already ready
i for market, the farmers will dispose
of them rather than continue feeding
while waiting for a raise in the mar- i
ket.
Carload of Prime Hogs
Bring 14 l-2c, Low Here
Sam R. Heys has just sold seventy
six head of hogs to the Macon Paek
! ing Co. for $14.50 per cwt., the
price being the lowest received here'
| this season. All of the hogs in the
I car were No. I’s, averaging 185
' p junds each, and all were in prime'
I condition. A month ago, Mr. Heys
I sold a car of the same quality hogs to
, the same buyer for $15.40 per cwt., or
| nearly a cent a pound higher than the
price today.
College Street Grading
Delayed by Other Work
The work of grading East College
[street, preparatory to naving there
i was to have started today, but was,
I delayed by the condition of the wood
.block pavement on other streets
. which required immediate repairs.
| City Engineer Tiedemann stated this
i morning that the work would begin,
j however, within the next few days
or as soon as the wood block paving
can be gotten in shape to permit trav
,el again.
Chief Aids Marriage
Os Youth A. W. O. L.
i PETERSBOROUGH, Eng
land, June 7.—Chief of Police Harry
i Wilson was best man here for Pri
l vate Christopher J. Bingham, and
I when the ceremony was over gave
[Bingham to the military guards
who came to arrest him. “A man
who goes A. W. 0. L. to get married [
has my sympathy,” said the chief
: “I’m for him.”
Asserts One Wife
Is His Brother’s
LONDON, June 7.—Lieutenant
Wilfred R. Sinclaire, in jail on a
bigamy charge, says he isn’t guilty
ve Kot but one wife,” says
he, “my brother married under my
name and I married soon after. Now
thev think both of 'em are mine.”
“Bunk," declare the cops.
MONEY TO LOAN
’•‘ARM AND CITY LOANS—6 1-2
per cent. Terms easy. Quick aerv
ce. W. W. DYKES 4-20-ts
THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
GERMAN VOTERS
NAILBERNSTORFF
Defeat Him For Seat in
The Republican
Reichstag
BERLIN, June 7—Majority So
cialists have been elected to 34 seats
in the first Rejublican Reichstag, ac
cording to the latest reports from the
canvas of votes cast yesterday. The
Independent Socialists will hold 24
seats, the German People’s party 25,
the Democrats 16, the German Na
tionalists 15, the Centrists 14, and the
Communists 2.
Count Von Bernstorff, former am
bassador to the United States, run
ning as a German Nationalist, was
defeated.
.Maanr. -.awr—
THESTANDARD
The savings in this sale are really
more important than in former sales,
because this sale cuts deeper into
our own profits.
READ THE WHOLE LIST. EVERY
PRICE QUOTED IN THIS ADVER
TISEMENT WILL BE WITH
DRAWN TUESDAY EVENING AT
6 O’CLOCK.
At 59c many full pieces of our
75c and 98c voiles.
At 29c Genuine Blue Bell Chev
iots, wholesale price today 37 l-2c.
At $2.34 Black Taffeta Silk chif
fon finish, wear guaranteed, yard
wide.
At $2.19 pure Silk Crepe-de-Chine
in all colors 40 inches wide.
At 39c white voiles in short lengths
40 to 42 inches wide.
At 35c Manville Linen finish cham
bray, all colors wholesale price
37 l-2c.
At $3.95 nearly every Georgette
waist in our stock, all colors, value
$5.75 to SB.OO
At 39c ladies’ full fashioned silk
lisle stockings seamed back, all col
ors.
At $1.69 genuine duplex window
shades, green one side white on the
other.
At $11.75 Crex Squares, guaran
teed 9x12 feet, beautiful patterns,
$20.00 value.
At $6.95 matting squares 9x12 feet
pretty patterns, worth from $8.50 to
SIO.OO.
, At 5c genuine J. & P. Coats spool
cotton, 150 yards spools, sold only
with other goods.
At $4.95 ladies’ and Misses’ middy
suits of excellent middy twill, value
$7.50.
At $4.65 beautiful bed spreads,
Marseilles patterns, extra large sizes,
worth $9.00
At 25c one bale good quality mat
tress ticking, regular width.
At $16.75 khoice of almost our
whole stock of ladies silk and serge
dresses, plenty of models in this lot
that formerly sold at $25, $35, $37.50
and S4O.
At $1 one big table of wash skirts
some of these formerly sold up to
$4.50, none worth less than $2.
At $1.25 one big table of voile and
organdy waists, new styles and the
price is just about one-half of their
value.
At 80c, 200 pairs army leggings
made of extra heavy duck value about
$1.50 to $1.75.
STANDARD
DRY GOODS CO.
Porspth St. Next Bank of Commerce
Americas, Ga.
TURPINS OCCUPY
NEW BUILDING
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Equipment Being Placed
In New Auto Show
Room
I
W. G. Turpin & Co. moved into I
their new quarters at the corner of!
Lamar and Lee streets this morning. •
the building being one of the most
modern sales rooms in Americus. It;
will be several days before all of the
equipment to be placed in the new
building is in position, but already
the few cars therein are displayed to
excellent advantage.
The front room on the ground floor
of the building has tile floor, and the
walls have a terracotta wainscotting
about their entire length.
The building replaces the former
unsightly structure which stood therel
for many years, and represents an in-;
vestment of a little more than $25,-
000. The second floor of the build- .
ing, which will be used for garage'
purposes, extends over the Turpin \
stable property on Lamar street, im
mediately adjoining the new building. J
and provides ample space for their in
creasing repair business.
Lost Coin—Butted
Himself Unconscious
NEW YORK, June 7.—When Wil
liam McAlpin lost $Bl of his em
ployer’s money he butted his head
against a wall until he became un- 1
conscious. Found and revived by s
passerby, he said he had been robbed.
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666 has more imitations than
any other Chill and Fever Tonic
on the market, but no one wants
imitations. They are dangerous
things in the medicine line. adv
HOO-DOO
DESTROYS ALL INSECTS
I will be absent from
my office until July I,
1920.
DR. L. F. GRUBBS,
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Mamie E. Cassady, D. C.
Marcia C. Ramsey, D. C.
Palmer Graduate*
Cassady & Ramsay
CHIROPRACTORS
Hours 9:30 —12 a. m. 2—5 P. M
Phone 195. Bell Bldg.
OUR BIGGEST SHOW OF
Dresses and Skirts
WILL BEGIN TUESDAY, JUNE 8. Georgette, Crepe
de-Chine, Silks, Organdy, Voile.
REGULAR PRICES
Dresses from $5.50 to $42.50
.Skirts From $2.50 to $24.50 to be Sold
40ip60
Per Cent Off
.. $6,000.00 Stock to Be Sold at This Sale. Our Biggest
Line of Skirts Will Be Ready THURSDAY.
The Biggest Line We Ever Had Will Be Shown You
Until 10 O’clock Then The Sale Will Begin.
Mitchel Attyah
Under the Opera House.
MOTHER OF FIRST
AMERICAN SOLDIER
KILLED IS FRANCE
Mrs. Alice Gresham Dodd, First
War Mother of the Nation
Gives Entire Credit For Reco u
ery of Her Health to The Well
Known Medicine, Tanlac.
The following remarkable endorse
ment of Tanlac was given recently
by Mrs. Alice Gresham Dodd, at the
Gresham Memorial Home Gavin Park,
Evansville, Ind., which home was pre
sented to her by the patriotic people
of Indiana, as evidence of their appre
ciation of the services rendered to his
country bv her son, Corporal James
B. Gresham, the first American sol
dier killed in France. Expressions of
sympathy were received by Mrs. Dodd
from all parts of the United States,
and the newspapers of the country
carried the story of the first ‘war
mother.’
The shock of her son’s death re
sulted in the serious breakdown of
Mrs. Dodd’s health, but everyone will
learn with interest and pleasure that
she is now in splendid health again.
When seen at her home recently she
made the following statement, giving
the entire credit for her recovery to
the well known medicine, Tanlac.
“After my dear boy’s death, I had
a general breakdown in health,” said
Mrs. Dodd. “At first it was just in
digestion. M" food used to upset me
and I had to diet myself very care
fully, which wasn’t much hardship as
I lost all desire to eat. Then I had
an attack of rheumatism, with severe
pains in my shoulders, back and arms.
Sometimes I used to suffer a great
deal, and mv joints would get all
swollen up and stiff. I was able to do
very little about the house, and at
times couldn’t even cook a meal. I
got very nervous and restless, and at
night would lay awake for hours and
lost many a night's sleep as a conse
quence.
“A friend of mine had received a
great deal of help from Tanlac, and
DATE OF CHARTER, Oct. 13, 1891.
We are at your service, with ample facilities, gov
erned by one policy—to be as useful to the community
and every person in it as possible.
WE INVITE YOUR ACCOUNT.
Bank of Commerce
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS.
J. W. Sheffield. Lee Hudson, C. R. Crisp
Frank Sheffield Cashier John Sheffield
Times-Recorder Want Ads are Result Getters.
MONDAY, JUNE 7, 1920
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MRS. ALICE GRESHAM DODD
of Gavin Park, Evansville, Ind.
I ! it was she who advised me to try it.
I am so glad I did for it proved the
■ \ best medicine I have ever taken. It
■ I soon gave me a good appetite and
■ seemed to settle my stomach so that
i I was no longer troubled with indiges
. ; tion. I don’t know what it is to have
■ rheumatic nains now, the swelling and
. i stiffness has all gone out of my
' joints and I am able to do the work
I! of the house with the greatest ease,
i My nerves are now steady and strong,
; I sleep fine at night, and I feel better
Ii in health than ever before in my life.
; I shall always be grateful for what
I. Tanlac has done for me, and shall
recommend it every chance I get.”
Tanlac is sold in Americus by the
.! Planters Drug and Seed Co., and in
II Sumter by Ewing Merc. Co.