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I THIS OUGHT TO START SOMETHING.
Tobacco is the least harmful of the four social
poisons—tea. coffee, alcohol and tobacco Sir
James Cantfle, eminent British surgeon.
FORTY-THIRD YEAR.—NO. 115.
GAMBLERS HGURE IN MURDER SPECULATION
CITY WILL QUIZ
COUNTY ON ITS
PAVING PROGRAM
Council 1 o Ascertain
Plana l or Paving To
Court 1 louse
The question of whether county
commissioners will pave the high
ways embraced in the rural paving
projects to the court house in the
center of the city of Americus, or
to points connecting with the city
pavements already laid, as promised
voters during the bond issue cam
paign, or will refuse to carry out
this understanding, as has been hint
ed might be done, although the mat
ter has never come to a showdown,
will probably be settled definitely
shortly as the result of action taken
Thursday night by the city council.
, In official form, the action of the
council consisted in the passage of
an ordinance requiring property own
ers on Spring and Lamar streets west
of the present pavement to replace
with permanent lead pipes the pres-*
enl iron service pipes running from
the city’s water mains to the curb
ing. The unofficial action took the
form of inquiry by JVlavor Sheppard
from Alderman J. E. Poole, who is
also a member of the county board,
as to the intention of the county re
garding the bringing shortly of the
presedt paving on the Smithville
road to a point of connection with
the city’s pavement on West Lamar
street. Mr. Poole stated that he was
unable to s«iy, and suggested that
representatives of the city go be
fore the commission at its next reg
ular meeting and ascertain what was
the county’s plan, and ff the paying
were to be brought in to inform
city when the city’s streets would be
reached so that the city’s necessary
preliminary work might be finished
in time not to delay the paving
forces. The members of the street
and finance committees with City
Attorney Lane and City Engineer
Tiedeman were instructed to call on
tlm board.
The work neceesary to be done
by the city before paving is laid,
to insure against the necessity of tear
ing up the paving once it. is down,
will requirp some time, it is said
and the citv. by its program, will
, be in a position to afford the coun
tv no physical excuse for not com
pleting its understood program on
this project while it is on the job.
TRAIWRECKERS
COST MAN’S LIFE
AUGUSTA, May 20.—Engineer
Joseph Temple, of Florence, S. C.,
was killed and the mail clerk and
several passengers injured when an
Atlantic Coast Line train bound for
Washington was derailed early today
on the South Carolina side of the
Savannah river near here.
Tr,ain wreckers are reported to
have loosened a rail and lifted it
from the cross ties, causing the de
railment.
Bov Goes Under Knife
To Restore His Speech
Hugh Parker, son of Mr. and Mrs.
R. E. Parker, is quite ill from an
operation performed Saturday by l)i.
L F Grubbs. The little fellow s
throat has been affected for the past
several years, rendering him unable
to talk, and some time ago ir, was
thought advisable to remove the ob
** struction from his throat in order
to permit free air passage through.
Saturday the second operation was
jjeessary, and though his condition
f regarded as serious, it is thought
that his youth and vitality will win
the battle for him.
He is at the home of his parents
on McGarrah street.
4 Irish Ambushers
Slain; Kill One Officer
GALWAY, Ireland, May 20.
(By Associated Press.) Sixty arm
ed men ambushed the district inspec
tor of constabulary and twenty po
licemen at Westport this morning.
One constable was killed and one
wounded.
Four of the ambushing party were
killed and six wounded. The police
attacked the ambushers’ entrenched
position and carried it. The ambush
ers fled across the country.
) Georgia Peaches Held
• Offset Fruit Shortage
WASHINGTON, May 20—Damage
to fruit crops from freezes in some
sections of the country has not re-;
suited in a general shortage, the De
partment of Agriculture said today.
Georgia peaches already are flow
ing to the market, while the straw
berry crop is said to be abundant
in several places. Tennessee is look
ing forward to the largest blackber
ry crop on record.
WEATHER.
Forecast for Georgia—Cloudy to
night and Saturday; no change .in
temperature.
DIFFICULTIES OF A. & M.
SCHOOL BARED BY REPORT
Revealing in a startling way the
difficulties besetting the progress of
the school, the annual report of the
principal of the Third District A. &
M. school was presented to the board
of trustees in annual meeting here
Thursday by Principal J. M. Prance.
The report’s inventory shows the
school property to total in value
$179,955. But it is so hampered by
debts that a large part of its mainte
nance funds is absorbed in paying in
terest and bonds so that scarcely
anything is left after the teachers’
salaries, already cut to the limit,
are paid. The maintenance after
debts are taken care of, amounts to
only sll ,000 a year, the report shows.
Seven teachers draw $9,050, leaving
only $2,000 for fuel, lights, water,
upkeep and improvements. As a re
sult, development and extension work
badly needed cannot, be done.
The report, showing what the
school is doing with its small means,
should be of interest to every citizen
of the district, or that reason the re
port is published here in full. It
follows:
The Report
To the Honorable Board of Trus
tees of the Third District A. & M.
School, Americus. Ga.:
I herewith submit the following re
port of the operations of .this school
for the year 1920-21.
During the present year we have
enrolled 166 pupils as follows:
Long Term, 4th Year.—Boys, 9;
Girls, 7; Total, 16.
Long Term, 3rd Year—Boys, 12;
Girls, 13; Total, 25.
Long Term 2nd Year.—Boys, 24;
Girls, 8; Total, 32.
Long Term, Ist Y'ear.—Boys, 8;
Girls, 7; Total, 15.
Long Term, 7th Gr.—Boys, 14;
Gorls, 9; Total, 23.
Total—Boys 67; Girls, 44; To
tal. 111.
Summer School.—Boys, 16; Girls,
38; Total. 55.
Grand Total.—Boys, S 3; Girls, 83;
Total, 166.
Twelve pupils will graduate this
year, five boys and seven girls. Seven
of these expect to go on to higher
schools. Ten of them expect to
farm.'
The School Farm
The school farm has been put
under fence. A 4-foot, wove-wire
fence ha sbeen set around the entii’e
school property, except the land
about the buildings and directly in
front of the campus. Enough mate
rial has been saved from the old
fences to make all necessary cross
fencing. It has been our purpose to
prepare for growing live stock, in
stead of cotton. The school farm is
infested with nut grass, which makes
it almost impossible to grow cotton
at a profit; especially under bolf wee
vil conditions.
The farm now has 3 mules, • 5
cows and 50 hogs. Six mules have
been worked during the past winter;
3 of these were kept for their feed.
This horse power, togethr with the
Moline tractor, made it possible to
redeem about forty acres of waste
land, and put the rest of the farm in
fairly good condition. >
Enough wheat was harvested last
vear to furnish bread to the dining
Tmll until April 1, 1921. There is
now growing on the school farm 15
acres of wheat which, under good
conditions will practically furnish
bread to the school for another year.
Extension Work.
In November, 1920, the school, the
Chamber of Commerce, the United
States government extension agents
and other public-spirited people of
this section held a .district fair here
at the school. This was said to be
as good as any fair of its kind in the
state.
Beginning July 19. 1920, there was
held at the school a farmers’ short
course and a summer scho-U fbr the
agricultural club members of this
district. This school was well at
tended, the enrollment numbering
175 persons.
It is our purpose to have another
session of this kind beginning Aug
ust 27th.
Miss Evelyn Bullard, of the Uni-
I versity of Georgia, district agent
! for this section, has been located at
the school since August, 1920. Miss
Bullard has conducted weekly lessons
lin nutrition and health here at the
school since her coming. This has
been a most excellent piece of work,
and has been done at outlined by Dr.
Emerson, of Boston, Mass., Miss
Bullard having had this course under
Dr. Emerson. This work has been
done without cost to the school.
The school employed a Red Cross
nurse during the month of Novem
ber, 1920. Twenty young ladies were
instructed in borne nursing, first aid
work, diatetics, hygiene, and care of
the sick. These girls have been
awarded Cei’tificates in home nursing
by the Southern Red Cross, of At
lanta.
Buildings and Grounds
The new Academic building is not
yet completed. However, a sufficient
amount of it has been finished to ad
mit of class room work, laboratory
work, reading room, literary societies
and other public gatherings. This
has enabled us to transfer our liter
ary society work, chapel exercises,
Young People’s Christian Association
and othpr like meetings from the
school dining room to the new audi
THE flilpif^RDEß
mml PUBLISHED IN THE HEART~Sr Diyig~frg~ft?
| torium. This has been a great help
Ito the school. Seven rooms of this
i new building are as vet unfinished.
The interior of the boys’ dormi
tory has been done over at a cost of
$2,000.00. This includes re-wiring
much re-plastering, repairing all
wood work, repainting interior and
new hardware throughout. The old
bath tubs and other fixtures have all
been taken out, and these rooms made
into living rooms. A bath room has
been prepared down stairs in the east
end of the building, where sanitary
sewerage has been put in, together
with ne\Q afid modern equipment.
This room has a concrete floor, walls
of cement, a Wilkes heater, hat and
cold shower baths.
The elementary school building lias
been made into a teachers’ home,
having two apartments of four rooms
each, and a common reception room.
This change has been made at a cost
of about $300.00 for material, the
work has been ddne by the school
boys.
Literary Work
In addition to our heavy course in
•science and vocational agriculture,
I together with eight hours of indus
trial work for each pupil per week,
the school offers as much literary
work and as good as any in the state,
in these grades. This school is now
classed No. 1 in the state iist, and
with a little more laboratory equip
ment and a small library, will be put
in Class 1 of the All-Southern iist.
This has been made possible by the
faithful and efficient work of our
teachers this year. They are as good
a corps of teachers as Has ever been
associated with the school.
Our Needs
These are many. The school owes
approximately $35,000.00, being
bonded for $20,000.00 of this
amount. The interest on this debt,
together with the $1,000.00 bond,
which must be paid each year, re
duces our maintenance to about
$11,000.00
The seven teachers are paid $9,-
050.00; this leaves about $2,000 for
coal, lights, water, upkeep and im
provements. We have already re
duced our payroll to a minimum, con
sistent with the best work. It looks
like we are going to have to sacri
fice efficiency for money with which
to pay our debts and continue to re
duce our payroll. Our most urgent
need is freedom from debt. We
could then go ahead and make many
improvements from year to year as
the people expect us to do. We need a
dairy barn, a herd large enough
to meet our own needs at the dining
hall and enough surplus to go on the
market, and take care of our payroll
on the farm, at least. It is impera
tive that we prepare this farm for
live stock and dairying as rapidly as
our means will allow. Practically nil
that Can be accomplished by labpr
alone has been done. Little has been
invested in material for improvement
because there has been no funds with
which to do this.
Below is given a statement of re
ceipts and expenditures for the
school since May Ist, 1920:
STATE ACCOUNT
June, July and August, 1920 —Mis*
Carter’s Book
Receipts—
Maintenance $5,000.00
Vocational fund 487.50
(Continued On Page Two.)
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AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 20, 1921.
STREETLIGHTS
WILL STAY ON;
CITY SETTLES
Agreement Reached Day
Before Expiration Os
Ultimatum
The ultimatum of the Americus
Lighting company to the city threat
ening to cut off the street lights in
Americus unless the city paid its
street lighting bill for this year by
May 20, expired today, but the
threatened drastic penalty will not
be applied by the company.
Announcement of this fact was
made today by W. A. Dodson, repre
senting the company, following a
‘‘satisfactory adjustment of the mat
ter” yesterday by representatives of
the company and the city. The fact
that a settlement had been effected
was first announced to the city
council last night by Mayor Shep
pard. he statin.g the general terms of
the settlement. The agreement was
reached at a conference between
Mayor Sheppard and City Clerk and
Treasurer Eldridge for the citj*.and
J. B. Whitworth, assistant general
manager for the lighting company.
The demand of the company was
for the payment by the city of its
accumulated street lighting bill since
January 1 1921, of approximately
$3,000. The settlement consisted,of
payment by the city of approximate
ly $l,lOO in cash, the receipting of
approximately S6OO in water bills
owed the city by the company, and a
promise by the city to pay the re
mainder of about $1,300 on or be
fore June 5.
There was no dispute about the
debt, the City acknowledging that it
owed the money, it being only a mat
ter of ability to obtain the ready
cash because of shortage of tax pay
ments, to meet the obligation.
MARTIAL LAW IN
COAL FIELD WAR
CHARLESTON, W. Va„ May 20.
Governor Morgan today issued a
proclamation declaring martial law
in Mingo county.
NON-UNION MINERS
CALLED TO STRIKE, TOO.
CHARLESTON. W. Va„ May 20.
—ln a proclamation signed by C.
F. Kenney and other officers of Dis
trict 17, United Mine Workers, all
non-union miners in Mingo County,
W. Va., and Pike County, Ky., are
called upon to strike with the
promise of union benefits while they
are idle.
Agriculture Survey -
Bill Passes Committee
WASHINGTON, May 20.—The
senate committee on agriculture or
dered a favorable report today on the
Lenroot-Strong resolution authoriz
ing a general survey of agriculture
—and related matter by a joint
commission of the senate and house,
composed of five members of each
body, three Republicans and two
Democrats.
AGED UNCLE TO GET ONLY
PART OF MYSTERY ESTATE
Sidney E. Scarborough, of Annis
ton, Ala., aged uncle of W. K. Scar
borough, who was murdered in his
little store west of Americus last
Saturday night or Sunday, has re
tained W. A. Dodson, local attorney,
to represent him in his claim for
the estate left by the dead man or
a share of it. What this estate is
worth is still problematical, little of
value among the supposed hoard of
riches having been discovered. He
has also instructed Mr. Dodson to
make application in his name for
permanent letters of administration,
which will probably be done. Mrs.
Morgan Stevens, a first cousin of the
slain man, who with her sister, Mrs.
Hampton Stevens, of Ellaville, were
for several days believed to be the
oniy direct heirs, was named tempo
rary administratrix, and her son,
Morgan Stevens, Jr., placed in charge
of the Scarborough store and others
property as her representative. No
COTTON COT 1-3
SAY CRUSHERS
CHICAGO, May 20.—The regional
directors of the Interstate Cotton
Seed Crushers’ association, in con
vention here today, reported the
growing crop of cotton in the United
States to be about thirty per cent
less than last year’s crop.
Held With Bomb For
Wall St. Explosion
JERSEY CITY, May 20.—Guisep
pi de Filippo, charged with conspir
acy to restroy the Federal assay of
fice in connection with (the Wall
Street explosion last September, was
held without bail for hearing May
26 by United States Commissioner
Hendrickson today.
Filippo was identified yesterday
by five persons as the driver of a
wagon of explosions believed to have
caused the disaster.
Harding To Spend
Busy Day In Gotham
WASHINGTON, May 20.—Presi
dent Harding will go to New York
on the Presidential yacht Mayflower,
leaving here late tomorrow and
reaching New York Monday morn
ing, to spend one day there. He
will speak at the banquet to be giv
en by the management of the New
York Commercial, review the 106th
infantry regiment in Brooklyn and
deliver an address before the Acad
emy of Sciences.
Dr. Wiley Hits Blow
At Beer As Remedy
WASHINGTON, May 20. Beer
has no medical properties and has
not been recognized as a medicine by
the medical profession in three or
four decades, Dr. Harvey W. Wiley,
pure food expert, told the house
judiciary committee today at the
hearing on the Volstead bill to pre
vent the sale of beer to the sick.
A German engineer has devised an
instrument which can detect water
and metal in the ground.
will has been found, it is understood.
It develops by reference to the
Georgia code that the uncle, will not,
after all, as was stated yesterday, in
herit the whole estate until a will
turns up, the uncle and the two wo
men cousins sharing equally under
the law. The Georgia code, section
3931, rules of inheritance No. 8,
read as follows:
“First cousins stand next in de
gree (to fathers, mothers, brothers,
sisters, children); uncles and aunts
inherit equally with cousins.” The
Supreme court has ruled that cousina
are on equal foot before the law,
whether on tfie paternal or maternal
side.
The aged uncle has shown much
interest in the case, which he first
learned of Tuesday, and expressed
a readiness to come here whenever
he could be of service. It is said to
be probable that he will come, later,
but not now.
NEIGHBORS WORK
ON HOGAN FARM
DUBBLIN, May 20. —As a proof
of the sentiment in am! around
Dexter in regard to the peonage
charges against U. G. B. Hogan for
which he was recently put under
bond, and the esteem in which he
is held, about 150 of his neighbors
and friends yesterday helped him
out with his farm work by giving him
a day’s work on his farm about one
mile from Dexter. Not only white
people, but many negroes were in
cluded in the list who gathered to
help Mr. Hogan on his farm.
When the ten were car
ried off by federal agents as wit
nesses from his farm several days
ago, •'following his own trip to Ma
con to give bond, the remainder of
his force of hands was completely
demoralized. It is said by a num
ber of white men that the federal
agents acted in such a manner as
to frighten the negroes away from
the place, and some of them were
found hiding at various places on
the farm by Mr. Hogan when he re
turned. Since that time he has been |
badly in need of help on the farm, !
and in order to save him heavy fi-1
nancial loss, friends and neighbors I
gathered to help him out, and state j
they will do this stunt again in or- 1
der to keep his crop in good con-!
dition.
Prominent Men Help.
Some of the most prominent men I
in the section around Dexter were
there personally, and carried hands
also. Included among theme are j
Jerome Kennedy, former mayor of
Dexter; T. C. Methvin, prominent
merchant and farmer; J. G. Johnson,
W. L. Digby, B. F. Wood, R. E.
Dominey, J. C. Spell, J. A. McClel
land, Oscar Mullis, all of Dexter. J.
A. Hogan, of Dudley and a number
of bands. A. W. Dominy and hands,
C. T. Methvin, H. M. Blankership,
J. B. Wall. Ben Lord, Mack Starling,
B. F. Stripling, Dr. W. B. Taylor,
Nobles of Springhaven, and a host
of others. These are among the very
best citizens of that section, who do
not believe that Mr. Hogan has mis
treated or otherwise harmed t)ie ne
groes on his. place, and are strictly
in sympathy with him in this case.
It was a demonstration Os friend
ship and esteem among the- neigh
bors of Mr. Hogan that any man
would thoroughly appreciate and
shows how he is regarded among his
own home folks. The crowd at his
farm resembled an old time log-roll
ing, and there was some real work,
done on his large plantation, work
that counted, and will do much to
ward saving his crop and preventing
financial disaster.
Hogan Writes Letter.
Mr. Hogan has made his public
statement relative to the case in a
letter written to James W. Shell, of
Reynolds. In his letter Mr. Hogan
goes into considerable detail to deny
he is guilty of the charges against
i him, though admitting he has paid
fines and stood bonds for negroes
who have worked on his place. He
claims, however, that he always left
it with the negro himself whether
he cared to take advantage of the op
portunity to get him out of jail and |
has never by coercion cp 1 thiLats
forced anyone to remain in his em
ploy. ,
Mr. Hogan cites alleged abuse of
hi 3 hospitality by agents of the de
partment of justiey, claiming they in
timidated his negro employes, ran
them away from his farm and cursed
him in the presence of his 11-year-old
daughter.
He also points out that now that
his labor has been run away from
his farm he will lose his crops unless
he accepts the generous offer of his
neighbors who have volunteered to
•assist him in harvesting. He claims
he has always treated negroes fair
ly. paying them good wages and pro
viding them good, substantial homes
in which to live.
Offers Senate Bill To
Hold Up Slacker Lists
WASHINGTON, May 20.—A bid
under which the War Department
would be directed to suspend pub
lication of its so-called slacker lists,
pending further investigation as to
correctness, was introduced today
by Senator Stanley, of Kentucky
LET’S TRY THIS ON EDISON.
The sum of two numbers is 48. Their difference
is two-fifths of the smaller number. What are the
numbers?
Answer to yesterday's: 52
GAME DESERTED I
BEFORE KILLING
WAS UNCOVERED
What Did They Know?
Now Question
Asked
i The gambling game which it has
developed, was being conducted regu
lmly in the room built specially for
that purpose by W. 11. Scarborough
in the rear of his store two months
before lie was mysteriously murder-'
ed, again plays a prominent part in
the speculation concerning the per
petrators of th« crime.
It has been pretty definitely estab
lished that this poker game went on
there regularly, particularly every
Saturday night and Sunday, when
week-end pa.v-days brought more
ready money to the card table and
made it easier to secure new victims
for trimming. Scarborough, the
owner of the place, but who did not
participate in the gaming, it is un
dei stood, was killed in his store some
time between early Saturday night
and 4:30 o’clock Sunday afternoon.
According to the best information
obtainable, not one of the gamblers
accustomed to frequent the place ap
pealed at tiie store either last Sat
urday night or during Sunday, the
day his body was found.
, The question which is now being
asked by those accustomed to see
these gambler*, mostly Americus
young men, dropping in Saturday
nights and Sundays is, Why did they -
fail to show up Saturday night and
all day Sunday, unless word had
gotten among them either that Scar
borough was to be robbed or killed,
or that he had been slain?
The Taxi Man Again.
This question was asked of a
Times-Recorder representative who
visited a neighboring city Friday and
was conversing with a young man of
that town about the murder mys
tery. The young man is a frequent
visitor to Americus and he volun
teered some information concerning
vice eonditians here which may have
I some bearing on this case eventually,
j. “I and three other young men of
.this town were jfi Americas one night
j about three wdeks ago,” said this
' young man, “and we were approach- ■
I ed by a well known white taxicab
| driver of Americus, whose name, I
I understand, has been mentioned be
; fore in connection with vice which
has centered about Scarborough's
store in recent developments. This
j taxi man informed us that he would
take us out there to anything we
wanted—a poker game, women and
liquor. ’ W’e didn’t go with him, but
we knew he knew what was going on
out there.”
Coroner’s Verdict
The coroner’s jury met in adjourn
ed session at the sheriff’s office in
the court house Thursday afternoon
at 3 o’clock and examined a few wit
nesses again, all of them persons who
bad previously been questioned and
returned a verdict of murder at the
bands of persons unknown. Those
questioned were C. C. Bryan, local
gunsmith, whose curiosity and inter
est in Scarborough’s store Sunday af
tei noon led to his calling the officers,
resulting in the finding of the crime;
W. W. Fullbright, white tenant on
the Scarborough place, who was
present when the body was found,
and Safronia Smith, a negro woman
who also lived on the Scarborough
. place. It is understood nothing
throwing any new light op the mys
tery was elicited from either of the
witnesses. All were excused after
brief questioning.
Today the mystery continues as
deep as ever, with Sheriff Harvey,
who is busy preparing for court next
week, retieient on what he has dis
covered about the case, if anything.
Street gossip has linked the name
of C. L. Grady, who was released
from the Sumter county chain gang
last Friday, with the mystery, it hav
ing developed that he is missing
fvpm Montgomery, Ala., where he is
supposed to have started from here
to meet his wife. While it has been
j definitely established that Grady re
mained in and about Americus until
after the crime was committed, and
then disappeared, there is said to be
nothing that would lead to the sus
picion that ho had any knowledge
of the killing. It is said in expla
nation of the inability of his wife
to find him at Morfgomery that she
is suing him, for a divorce, showing
that they are not on good terms as
at one time.
It was said today that the ques
tion of employing a trained detec
tive to assist Sheriff Harvey iri un
-1 raveling the case is being discussed
1 by the heirs of the estate and that
probably some action to this end may
• be taken shortly. It is also sa id Gov -
5 ernor Dorsey may be asked to offer a
reward for the capture of the mur
derer.
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