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SUNDAY, MARCH 13, 1921.
HIGH SPOTS IN
GEORGIA NEWS f
Horace F. Taylor, chief engineer
of the Rome fire department, has
been appointed chief of the depart
ment to succeed Albert Sharp, who
has resigned to become state fire
marshall.
The city tax rate of Rome was
fixed at $1.50, a slight raise, for
the coming year at a meeting of the
city commission Thursday.
E. R. Conant, for a number of
years a resident of Brunswick, has
been appointed city manager oi
Mansfield, Mass.
The Grady county superior court
returned an indictment charging
murder and another charging a;
sault with intent to murder again. I
Albert Walden, young white farmer
■who last December shot Raymond
Walker and James «. Majors neai
Cairo. Walker died a few day:
later.
Moultrie conperns have brought
suit against W. D. Powell as eon
tractor and the board of trustees ot
the Ty Ty consolidated school, anil
have asked Judge W. E. Thomas to
appoint a receiver for the school
district. The suit was brought to
collect money due the Moultrie con
cerns for material used in the con
struction of the Ty Ty district
building.
The home of G. Van Landingham
of Caldosta, and all contents were
destroyed by fire Tuesday. The
family narrowly escaped, waking up
as the roof was falling in.
Offices of the Southeastern Ex
press Compan will be opened in Vai
dosta Mdy 1.
W. A. Bruce, of Valdosta, states
that there are several carloads oi
cabbage on his plant farm near
Valdosta that the public can have a;
any time. There are forty acres
covered in cabbage that are good tr
eat but are not in shape to ship.
At a meeting of the South Cobb
County Voters’ League Thursday
resolutions protesting the raise in
telephone rates were adopted and a
ctpy sent to the railroad commis
sion.’
The Atlanta Chapter Daughters
of the Confederacy have unanimous
ly adopted resolutions indorsing the
administration of Woodrow Wilson
and elected him an honorary mem
ber of the chapter.
The Citizens Bank of Eatonton
reopened its doors Thursday after
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ICE CREAM CO.
Phone 645
215 Cotton Ave.
RAILROAD SCHEDULES
(Central Time.)
Arrival and Departure of Passenger
Trains, Americus, Ga.
The following schedule figures
published as information and not
guaranteed:
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RY.
Arrive Leaves
11:59 am Columbus-Chgo 3:40 am
10:28 pm Albany-Montg’y 5:14 am
7:35 pm Macon-Atlanta 6:37 am
♦7:15 pm Columbus *7:10 am
1:52 pm Albany-Montg’y 2:15 pm
2:15 pm Macon-Atlanta 1:52 pm
*ll:4-5.am Columbus *2:30 pm
!10:00’am Columbus 13:00 pm
6:37 am Albany 7:35 pm
5 :li am Macon-Atlanta 10:38 pm
3:40 am Ibany-Jaxville 11:59 pm
2 :58 am Albany-Jaxville .12:36 am
2:13 am Albany-Jaxville 4:2lam
12:36 am Chgo, St. L. Atla 2:58 am
4 :21am Cin, Atl-Macon 2:13 am
(*) Daily; (!) Sunday.
SEABOARD AIR LINE.
Arrives Leaves
5:15 pm Richland 10:00 am
3:10 pm Cordele-Sav’h 12:31pm
12:31 pm Richland-Montg’y 3:lopm
DOINGS OF THE DUFFS . Mr. Bailey Takes A Wrong Hint! BY ALLMAN
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being closed for 40 days by the state
banking department.
J. A. Stow, of Savannah, has
been granted a divorce from Mrs.
Stow on grounds of cruelty. He
stated that she tried to commit sui
cide twice-, causing him mental suf
sering.
A special executive session of the I
railroad commission will be held
March 17 to consider petitions from
15 Georgia cities and towns request
ing the board to reconsider increases j
in telephone rates.
Judge Henry C. Hammond order
ed the sheriff of McDuffie county
to dismiss J. J. Benning, deputy
sheriff and jailer, when Benning ad
mitted on the witness stand that he
had whipped two negro prisoners.
Mrs. Will W. Williams, who with
her son, Bennie Williams and A. L
Campbell, are charged with the
murder of Will W. WMliams, has
admitted giving her husband two
tablets which she thought were as
perin. Williams died of strychnine
poisoning.
The county seat election held in
Calhoun county is in doubt, advo
cates of the removal claiming that in
For
This Week
Only
One dozen Crepe
Toilet Paper 75c
dozen. Regu 1a r
$ 1.20 Value.
HIGHTOWER’S
BOOK STORE
J: W: JONES
Expert Repair Man
on
PACKARD
and
FRANKLIN CARS
also
General Repair Work
PHONE 140 Residence 689
At Schneider Motor Co.
122 Jackson St
WRIGHT
ELDING CO.
WELDERS
Os Anything Made of Metal.
Work Guaranteed. Prompt
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Phone 234 Cotton Ave
(In Rear Chappell M’chy. Co.)
several districts the women who had
not registered according to law had
been allowed to vote and that it
these votes were thrown out Edison
would have the necessary two-thirds
majority over Morgan.
J. J.,Flanders, editor of the Ocills
Star, and his wife were seriously in
jured in an automobile accident
near Hawkinsville Friday.
Admiral Benson, chairman of the
shipping board, was formally asked
Friday by President Harding to
“continue to function as though the
board was fully organized” and to
“assert your full authority under the
law.”
The Montezuma High School girls
basketball team defeated the Vienna
High girls team Thursday .by a .score
of 12 to 3, deciding a tie between
the two teams in favor of Monte
zuma.
H. W. Easterlin, son of Mr. and
Mrs. D. W. Easterlin, of Montezuma,
has been placed in charge of a Coca-
Cola company branch selling office
recently established in San Fran
cisco, Calif.
A bunch of fully mateured oats
were exhibited in Waycross Thurs-
Bob Says
Stop Talking Hard Times! Turn Loose
Those Idle Dollars! Buy What You Need
and Buy It
Because it Rained Today is No Sign That
the Sun Won’t Shine Tomorrow. It Takes
Some Rain to Make the Sunshine Seem
Brighter.
Notice Reduction in National Biscuit Co
Crackers
Nabisco Sugar Wafers
Lotus Sugar Wafers
Anola Sugar Wafers
Two Packages For a Quarter
Chick Chick Easter Egg Dye 5c a Package
Phone Us Your Orders. They Will Be
Appreciated
EDWARDS GROCERY COMPANY
“Where Everybody Gets Service”
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Genuine
Coca-Cola
5 Cents
Including Tax
at .■
Winsor Pharmacy
' ' 7.
Dick Phone T6l Brownie
THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER. ”
day by W. D. O’Quinn, Ware county
farmer. Mr. O’Quinn states that
this has been a good year for oats
and that the yield on his place will
be greater than' any for a number
of years.
Wearing full insignia and regalia
of the Ku Klux Klan, 100 members
of the Klan will parade the streets
of Quitman within a few nights, the
time to be announced by horesmen
in regalia the day of the event.
Northern capitalists have pur
chased from Mrs. Frank Denney, of
Augusta, land opposite the country
club and will build there a winter
resort hotel.
The Athens city council has au
thorized the passing of an ordi
nance creating a curb market in
Athens. The market will be in op
eration within thirty days.
Members of. the Albany .Rotary
Club have abandoned the trip to
Eighth district Rotary conference at
Birmingham, as nine members of
the club have been drawn for jtjry
duty in the superior court that week.
R. R. Niendorf, prize fighter, is in
a Savannah hospital with serious in
juries inflicted by a footpad with
whom he had engaged in a fight after
the footpad had tried to rob him.
Niendorf was struck on the head with
a blackjack.
Mayor Peacock, of Albany, plead
ed for the commission form of gov
ernment for Albany at a meeting of
the Albany Kiwanis’Club Wednesday.
Twelve men have been picked by
Columbus authorities to act as a vice
squad and conduct the clean-up cam
paign against vice in Columbus and
Muscogee county. The city council
of Columbus has appropriated $5,000
for use in the campaign.
The office of General Superin
tendent of the Seaboard Air Line hqs
been abolished and H. W. Purvis, of
Savannah, who has held that position,
has; been transferred to Norfolk
where he will engage in special work
for the road.
W. J. Anderson, roadmaster of the
A. C. L., was instantly killed Thurs
day when he missed his footing as he
attempted to board a moving train
at Waycross.
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