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His train being two hours late,
Clifford Walker reached Jackson yes
terday too late for his 11 o’clock
speech, so he cancelled his engage
ment at Gray and spoke at 4.
Ralph Mosteller, Atlanta bacteri
ologist, is home from Vladivostok,
Russia, where he served in the Am
erican Red Cross 14 months. He left
Vladivostok July 11. He says condi
tions in Siberia are chaotic.
A special party of South Georgia
tobacco farmers, arranged by the
State College of Agriculture, the
Georgia Association, county agents,
boards of trade and county officials
will leave Sept. 26 to inspect the
tobacco farms and markets of the
Carolinas. Through sleeping cars
will leave Cordele and other points
over the A. B. & A.
The fall term of the Berry School
for Boys at Rome opened Thursday
morning with an enrollment of 147,
the largest in the school’s history.
One of the most spectacular street
parades ever witnessed in Columbus
was the one given Wednesday night
by the local Ku Klux Klan in which
Col. William J. Simmons of Atlanta,
imperial wizard of the order, took
part,
Allan Marie Eubanks, infant
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Eu
banks, Atlanta, died Wednesday
night at a private hospital from
burns received Sunday night when
she accidentally overturned a cup
of hot coffee on herself.
Objecting to the attention he was
paying to a young lady at Pensacola,
P, W. Lawson, wholesale grocery em
ploye. formerly of Atlanta, was
roughly handled the other night by
several young men. He was picked
up by an automobile and carried
into the country by three masked
men and threatened and beaten. He
had them arrested.
The outlook for the opening Sept.
15 of the Emory Academy at Ox
ford this year is very bright. All
dormitory rooms have been taken
and many students have been placed
in private homes.
Mrs. Eliza Harrison died at the
age of 72 years at her home in Mar
shallville Wednesday. She was the
cousin of Mrs. W. L. Peel of At
lanta, who is a daughter of the late
Phil Cook and was born and reared
near here.
Nearly 1.000 officers and men are
scheduled to arrive at Camp Ben
ning, near Columbus, next week.
Farmers declare that Colquitt has
the finest cane Crop produced in
DON’T BE MISLED
Sumter -
“DORSEY CLUB, Americus. “MUSCOGEE DORSEY CLUB, Columbus:
“Don’t be misled by manufactured propaganda of m Your telegram received. Congratulations. Hoke Smith
Atlanta Journal. Dorsey had the largest political meet- will lose Sumter county. We’ve got them beat. Smith
ing in the history of Muscogee county. There were twice H ® S| ® wv? forces now are frantically trading for Watson votes, as
as many people as heard Smith. Three floors of the opera Jf they did j n the presidential primary, when all but 96
house were full. Several hundreds of people were turned Watson votes were thrown to Senator Smith. Smith’s
away. Audience was spell-bound throughout his address. * B speech here this week lost him votes. Our people realize
Muscogee county two to one for DORSEY. Wire us im- that it is a COMBINATION of Smith-Watson against
partial outlook in Sumter County.” Dorsey. They are again sacrificing Watson for Smith.
“MUSCOGEE COUNTY HUGH DORSEY CLUB.” ■ SUMTER COUNTY DORSEY CLUB.”
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Smith Forces Only Hope is Combination of Smith-Watson
Tom Watson Again Being Sacrificed by Politicians
The issue is clear. It can’t be concealed by SMITH smoke-screens. VARDAMAN, of Mississippi, KERBY,
of Arkansas, REED, of Missouri, HARDWICK, of Georgia, GORE, of Oklahoma, BAILEY, of Texas, (who es
poused the cause of the poison squad), all have been ignominiously defeated. AND SENATOR SMITH IS THE
NEXT. The eyes of the United States are on Georgia. ARE OUR PEOPLE UNLIKE THE PEOPLE OF
OTHER STATES?DON’T BE FOOLED BY POLITICAL CHATTER AND NEWSPAPER PROPAGANDA.
Sumter County Dorsey Club
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many years. The weather , which has
been too wet for cotton for a month,
or more has been fine on sugar cane.
Columbus’ $210,000 bridge bond
issue scheduled to come before the
people for ratification next Saturday
week, has been postponed for one
month by the city council, the ac
tion being taken because of the state
primary coming Wednesday of next
week, which the members of council
thought ■would detract so much from !
the election as to defeat the cause.
Ware’s school for boys at Cordele j
will begin the eigth year’s work Mon- ■
day, September 6.
, The state board of health is now ■
engaged in four malaria control proj- I
bets at Albany, Thomasville, Cairo
and Savannah. More than a hundred
towns, villages and mill settlements
have been doing similar work and ac
cording to reports to the state board,
the results have been most satisfac- j
tory. It is shown that malaria has j
been reduced from 70 to 95 per
cent at a relatively low per capita I
cost.
Two hundred and twenty five wo
j men, registered in Richmond county
! yesterday. The total registration to ;
j date is 382. Os this number five are I
i negro women. The heaviest registra-
I tion is from the Sixth Ward, The Hill
i section, fashionable residence quar-
THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER
ter of Augusta.
General Walter Harris left Macon
today for Atlanta, where he will ad
dress a rally of the anti-Watson-
Hardwick forces of the American Le
i gion tonight. Judge Andrew Cobb of
i Athens and other speakers are on
the program.
Application has been received by
I the State Railroad Commission from
the Montezuma Light and Power com
pany for authority to increase its
| lighting rates from 16 1-2 cents to
21 1-2 cents per kilowatt hour.
After twenty years of association
i in business in Macon, under the name
of J. S. Schofield’s Sous Company
Iron Works, J. S. Schofield, who has'
interest Tuesday of
been vice president of the company,
bought out the interest Tuesday pf
his brother, A. D. Schofield, former
ly president of the company, It is
understood that the ‘consideration
involved was between $300,000 and
$400,000.
The Bronwood schools opened I
! Sept. 1 with full attendance dnd Prof. I
W. A. Wheeler again in charge as!
superintendent.
A Chevrolet road race will be held |
jin Albany next Saturday, starting
at 8 a. m.
I Mrs. W. A. Doyle, formerly Miss i
; Alice Lockett, of Albany, died at her
home at Jacksonville, Fla., Wednes-
; day night. The funeral was held in '
\ Albany today.
The official weather observer at ■
Albany reports that August, 1920, i
' had the highest mean temperature in ■
! ten years for that month .
A negro funeral was delayed 24
hours in Moultrie this week when i
the friends of Ed Williams, who died
in the north, were forced to raise
S7O to pay charges on the body which !
was sent C. O. D. They had pre-j
viously sent S3OO to pay for bring-!
ing the body home, they said, and!
' resented the second demand.
The Moultrie Union stock yards are j
I to be formally opened Oct. 1.
The Atlanta Kiwanis club has open
ied permanent headquarters in the !
Kimball house where visiting Kiwan- j
: ians are welcome at any time.
James West, 11 months old, of At
lanta, died Thursday afternoon from
| drinking kerosene from a can in his
parents’ home.
W. H. Wright, superintendent of
the Savannah division of the Cen
tral of Georgia railroad, returning
from a fortnight’s vacation spent in
New York, declares that in the past
several days the Cox sentiment in
that state has been steadily gaining
and the chances appear for the car
rying of New York by the
Democratic candidate.
, When John R. Cooper, otherwise
‘ known as “Bunk,” of Macon, candi
j date for the senate, sent word to
: Hoke Smith that he accepted his
I challenge to debate in Atlanta next
Monday night, Senator Smith’s rep
resentatives replied that the chal-
■ lenge was not to him but to Governor
Dorsey.
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True Gentleness.
True gentleness is founded on a sense
of what we owe to him who made us.
, and to the common nature which we
all share. It arises from reflections
1 on our own failings and wants, and
from Just views of the condition and
’ duty of men. It is native feeling
i heightened and improved by principle,
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Notice of Petition to Validate School
Bonds, Plains High School Dis
trict, Sumter County, Georgia.
To the Trustees of the Plains High
School District, Sumter County,
Georgia:
WHEREAS, The Hon. Z. A. Lit
tlejohn, Judge of the Superior Courts
of the Southwestern Circuit has set
the hearing for the confirmation and
validation of Fifty Thousand ($50,-
000.00) Dollars in bonds to be issued
by the Plains High School District
of Sumter County, Georgia, for the
purpose of building a schooi house
at a site to be selected by the Trus
tees of said school district; the bonds
to run serially and to be paid off the
first One Thousand ($1,000.00) Dol
lars on January Ist, 1926, and a part
of the same each year thereafter
on the first day of January for each
year until January Ist, 1950 when
the last payment of Three Thousand
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 3, 1920
($3,000.00) Dollars is to be made.
The said bonds to bear Five (5) per
cent interest per annum, to be paid
annually; said bonds to be dated
September Ist, 1920. The .-aid hear
ing to be had at the court house
in Sumter County, Georgia, in Am
ericus, on the 7th day of September,
1920, at ten o’clock a. m.
You are hereby notified to file any
objection that you may have on or
before the said hearing, why the said
bonds should not be validated. Any
citizen of the said school district or
any person interested, may appear
at the said time and place and be
made a party thereto.
Witness, my hand and offical sig
nature this' the 28th day of August,
1920.
S. R. HEYS,
Deputy Clerk Superior Court, Sumter
County, Georgia.