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AMERICUS SPOT COTTON
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FORTY-FIFTH YEAR—NO. 126
SIMMONS FACTION BACKS COURT ATTACK
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NEGRO MAN SAVES YOUNG GIRL’S LIFE
IM CHILDREN Bl
BURNED T B DEATH: I
MOTHERALSOBURNEDI
St. Charles, Mo., Scene of Horri- I
ble Holocaust When Frame
Cottage Burns
NEGRO PASSErTsAVES ONE <
Only Intensity of Flames Pre
vented His Re-Entering Burn
ing Building for Others
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ST. CHARLES, Mo., June I.
Two children were burned to death ■
and another seriously wounded and j
their mother severely burned in at- -
tempting to rescue them when fire ,
today destroyed t,he frame cottage f
occupied by Frank Oberle here. <
Anegro passing the scene of the ]
fire, carried o’ne child, badly burn
ed from the building, but was un- ,
able to return to effect the rescue <
of the others because of the inten- i
sity of the flames. ;
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CONSENT VERDICT ENDS
LENGTHY LITIGATION <
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VALDOSTA, June I.—When a
- verdict was signed in the
Superior Court, in the case of
Burrus against perhaps 1
■ the most interesting, the longest
and the hardest fought cage tried 1
in the Superior Court in imany 1
years was brought to an end. ‘
It is said that the basis of the 1
settlement gives the contesting of 1
heirs about 75 per cent of what
they claimed, which is 45 per cent I
of the total amount*nf his alleged s
gifts, and in dollars and cents 1
amounts to something over S2O,- 1
000.00. i
The case involved a considera- <
ble amount of money and as is us- 1
ual in such cases where family rel- 1
ation are involved, the lines were
tightly drawn and the interest 1
tense.
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HOUSTON BAPTIST ASSN-
• • STARTS CAMP JUNE 11 TH
CORDELE, June 1. —The Hous
ton Baptist Associational encamp
ment will be held at Dooly camp
grounds this year beginning June
•11, and running through June 15.
The lead will be entrusted to J. T.
Henderson secretary of the lay
men’s movement for the Southern
Baptist convention, with headquar- -i
ters in Knoxville, Tenn.
FEDERAL COURT TO
HAVE LIGHT DOCKET
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VALDOSTA, June I.—With the
June terms of the federal court 1
in Valdosta only , about three weeks[
off, there seems to be a dearth of |
new civil business coming up. ) ,
Few suits are being filed and those )
going on the calendar are of an I
ordinary kind, involving little I
value. However, it would appear |
that the criminal side of the court I
will be one of unusual activity, I
from the number of cases being
set for trial.
FLOYD FARMER WILL
PLANT WRAPPER TOBACCO
ROME, June I.—J. H. Barton,
farming on ’the Floyd and Polk
county line, is planting tobacco
this year and has about a hundred,
acres of .it planted.
He states that he has planted
the variety that grows in the shade
and is used for wrapping purposes.
He has another variety that grows
anywhere as cigar fillers.
CROPS BADLY DAMAGED.
MOULTRIE, June 'l.—Crops
have been badly damaged by
heavy rains during the past. ten
days, according to A. R. Rogers,
Moultrie merchant, who was just
returned from Macon, where he ’
spent two or three days. Mr. Rog
ers made the trip through the l
country. The highways from Cor
dele north aro in a bad state of Te
as a result of the heavy rains, Mr.
Rogers declared.
HARRIS AT LUMPKIN
LUMPKIN, June 1. —Senator W.
J. Harris was in Lumpkin yester
day and addressed a large and ap
preciative audience in the court
house. Included in the matters of
national importance discussed by
Senator Karris-were many in which
the Southern people are especially
interested.
Wall-paintings which have been
hidden under witewash for 600
years are now being restored at
Paston Church, Norfolk England.
GA. .CMP CONDITION
FIXED AT 85 PER CENT
111 DEPT. ESTIMATE
Condition cf Entire Crop in
South as of May 25,- Placed
at 71.9 Per Cent
OMIT ACREAGE ESTIMATE
Frequent Abandonment of
Young Cotton in Previous
Years Given as Reason
WASHINGTON, June I—The
condition of the cotton crop on May
25 was 71.9 per cent which com
pares with a condition in 192 L of
73.6 per cent, the Department of
Agriculture announced today in the
first cotton report of the season, the
Georgia crop condition being 65
per cent.
The first estimate of the acreage
planted which is usually made in
connection with the May 2o canvass
will not be made until after the
June 25 canvass, which is announc
ed for July 2.
This change was made because oi
considerable abandonment of acre
age after May 25, which is found
to frequently occur.
GEORGIA CROP BEING
DAMAGED BY RAIN
ATLANTA, June I.—That Geor
gia’s chances for even a moderate
ly large yield of cotton are dimin
ished by every additional shower of
rain .offiicals of the Georgia De
partment of Agriculture declare.
“The rains of the past few weeks
have done untold damages to the
state,” declared Commissioner! of
Agriculture J. J. Brown. ‘There is
no chance for a big crop of cotton
in Georgia. There are thousands
of acres in the state that were to
have been planted in cotton which
have scarcely been touched.
“South Georgia and Southwest
Georgia are in fair condition but
in many cases, while their eotton
is already up, the rains have pre
vented any work and the crop is in
need of cultivation. The middle
and southeastern section of the
state are in very bad condition.
The land sare water-soaked and
much of the cotton is not planted.”
ALLEGED ALA. KIDNAPER
GET NOT GUILTY VERDICT
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., June I.
Ernest G. Jacks, Ketona dairyman;
was acquitted of the charge of kid
naping in connection with the flog
ging of Dr. J. D. Dowling, city
and county officer, by a jury ver- i
diet brought shortly after 5 o’clock I
Thursday afternoon. - The jury de-1
liberated upon the case about 15
minutes. A demonstration in the
court room aroused the ire .of
Judgte O. A. Steele, trying ttye
case.
WILL BORE FOR OIL
IN WILCOX THIS MONTH
ABBEVILLE, June I.—A refin
i ing company has contracted for
leases on several thousand acres of ■
oil land near Abbeville. The com
pany expects to bore for oil at •
once. They have options on the 1
Shackleford, Oscar Cannon and!
George F. McLeod properties, just 1
north of Abbeville.
Drilling is expected to begin in
two or three weeks. The same
company is drilling near Mcßae
now.
G. P. M’KINSTRY
IS CRITICALLY ILL
G. P. McKinstry is critically ill
at the City hospital following an
operation for appendicitis, which,
physicians stated, was toB long de
layed.
For some time Mr. McKinstry
has been suffering acute attacks of
appendicitis, but hesitated at hav
ing the necessary operation. His
I condition today, therefore, is re
. garded as critical in the extreme.
PICNIC AT LUMPKIN,
LUMPKIN, June I.—At a picnic
given thursday in Lumpkin the
crowd attending was estimated at
fully six hundred people.. This pic
nic is the clumination of a contest
recently waged by the Lumpkin
Sunday school. From a member
: ship in the beginning of about 100,
the attendance was increased until
' the last day of the contest there
i were 636 present. When this con
; test was begun five weeks ago it
was agreed tha.t the losing side
should entertain the other. Those
i on the Red side having won by
) majority of thirty-five over the
t Blues, the entertainment was to
day given by the Blues.
THE TIMES- RECORDER
RUSSISN SIBEBMI
MWIES SEIZE I
HP FMOG CRAFT I
Crew of Seventy-Two Are Im- |
prisoned for Operating With
in Seven-Mile Shore Limit
TOKIO REPORTS SEIZURE I
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Heretofore Fishing Has Been Al- (
lowed by Soviet Authorities
Outside Three-Mile Limit
TOKIO, June I. (By Associat
ed Press) The Russian author- <
ities cf the Soviet administration <
in Siberia have seized a Japanese i
fishing vessel and imprisoned her 1
crew of 72 f r operating within the i
7-mile limit. ’ t
Heretofore the fisherben have ;
not been molested unless they were f
within three miles of shore. (
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SINGERS TO BEET ;
SUNDAY IT ME i
James Lane Allen to Be Among i
Visitors and Will Direct
Singing
Next Sunday afternoon, beginning
at 3 o’clock there will be a com
munity singing at the Third Dis
trict Agricultural and MechanicM
college here. It is expected there 1
will be singers here from Crisp,
-Schley, Mation, Macon, WebsteX
and Stewart counties, and at this
meeting the question of when an‘d
where to hold the annual South
west Georgia Singers convention ,
will be decided. James Lane Al
len, a noted singer of Greenville,
S. C., will be among the dis-> ,
tinguished visitors, and will direct .
the singing. <
OHIO KIAN IS B Os
kiwanis clubs
Henry C. Heinz, of Atlanta,
Named First Vice President
At Session Just Ended
ATLANTA, June I.—The Ki
wanis International convention end
ed here Thursday with the selection ,
of Denver as the next convention .
city.
Edmond F. Arras, of Co’umbus,
0., a well-known real estate man,
was elected international president
over Elwood J. Turner, of Chester,
Pa. Both men have been serving
as international trustees. Other
officers elected were: First vice- ,
president, Henry C. Heinz, Atlanta;
second vice-president, Douglas J.
Scott, Winnipeg, Canada; third
vice-president, George E. Snell,
i Butte, Mont.; treasurer, Ressell E.
Ward, Jackson, Mich., (re-elected);
j trustees, H. W. Gill, Atlantic Cijy;
I Dr. I. C. White, Morgantown, W.
jVa.; Leslie D. Henry, Pasadena,
| Cal.; and John H. Moss, Milwau
kee, Wis.
•In conformity with the report of
its committees on laws and regu
lations Kiwanis clubs international
in the closing hours of its conven
vention here ordered a constitu
tional convention for the purpose
of making a careful, scientific and
analytical revision of the funda
mental laws of that body.
VALDOSTA BURGLAR GETS
SENTENCE OF 40 YEARS
VALDOSTA, June I.—ln the
Superior Court here on case of
burglary resulted in an aggregat
ed sentence against the confessed)
burglar of thirty years to forty I
years.
Boisy Lambert plead guilty to
two charges of burglary and Judge
Thomas sentenced him to a mini
mum of fifteen' iyears a maxi-’
mum of twenty years in each case.
This is the negro who did such
'lively business of burglarizing
residences in Valdosta some time
' ago.
E. W. CONEY RETURNS
HAWKINSVILLE, June I.—E.
; W. Coney returned here today to
accept the position of cashier for
■ the Georgia State bank. Mr. Con
ey, while a young man, has had
many years in the banking busi
ness and is thoroughly equipped
for this very important position.
AMERICUS. GA., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE I, 1923
BILLIONOW'OFFEB
IS CALLED SUMMER
DREAM |Y LASKER!
Inquiry by Government Agen-,
cies Ends With Decision Not
to Accept Bid
NO PAYMENT PROSPECT
Chairman Lasker States Definite
ly That Slack’s Offer Will
No Longer Be Considered
WASHINGTON, June I—A thor
ough investigation has convinced
Shipping Board Chairman Lasker
it was announced today that there
is no prospect that the bid’ of more
than a billion dollars made by John
W. Slack, of Silver Creek, N. Y., for
the board’s merchant fleet would
ever be executed If it were ac
cepted.
The inquiry was conducted by the
board in conjunction with other
government departments with which
Slack has had business transactions
with the result, Lasker said, that
the offer had been definitely
classed as a “summer dream.”
BODY BE U
IB STATE4I HOIF
Former House Leader to Be
Buried at Scotland Neck
Late This Afternoon
SCOTLAND NECK, N- C., June
11._The body of Claude Kitch’.n,
once leader of the Democrats m
the. house of representatives, lay
in state today at his old home
place in quaint little Scotland Neck
and as the sun lowers in the west
this afternoon .vid be i:..torred next
to the body of his. father in the.
Baptist cemetery here.
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BALI MASS MEETING
Approximately 75 Persons Pres
ent in Legion Hall to Aid in
Organizing Team
A mass meeting of . baseball en
thusiasts held at the Legion hall
Thursday was attended by approxi
mately 75 persons, including mem
bers of the Americus Municipal
band, which furnished music for
the occasion. Robert C. Lane act
e das chairman.
Talks were made by T. L. Bell,
H P Everett, Stewart Furlow,
A. C. Crockett, R. C. Lane and
Theron Jennings, of Americus, and
Luther Bloodworth, of Macon, the
last named having been invited to
become manager of the team in the
event organization is perefeted. All
of those making talks were enthus.
iastic in wanting baseball here this
summer. •
A telegram received from Gor
don Reynolds, of Albany, ad
dressed to Walter Rylander, pledg
ed SSO toward sustaining a team
here, an another, telegram from
Cliff Panone, read’before the meet
ing offered to bring a nucleus of
the University of Georgia team to
play in Americus uniforms if satis
factory arrangemetns can be per
fected. A letter from G. E. Rey
nolds to Walter Rylander was also
read, this letter telling of the en
thusiasm toward baseball in Daw
son, Arlington and Albany.
After these had beer heard, it
was resolved to solicit funds from
Americus people to support the
conduct a campaign next Monday,
team, and committees named to
i R. C. Lane, T. L .Bell ,H. P. ’Ev-
I erett, Stewart Furlow, iA. C.
Crockett, Theron Jennings, Dan
Chappell, Sam R. Heys,‘ Bradley
Hogg, Nathan Murray and Alton
Cogdell were named on this com
mittee, which will be divided into
solociting parties for Monday’s
canvass.
The Americus Municipal Band
furnished excellent music for the
entertainment of all those attend
ing the meeting.
SIGN AGREEMENT.
DUBLIN, June I.
al men have joined with the busi
ness men of the city in preparing
to close their places of business
for a half holiday each Thursday
afternoon during the summer. An
agreement to this effect has been
signed by them.
GEORBA LAWYERS
HEAR JUDGE U. B.
JENKINS AT TYBEE
“Technicalities of Law” Dis-!
cussed by Georgia Appeals
Court Judge at State Meet
LAWS CALLED VICIOUS
Judges Should Not Be Empow
ered to Bend Established
Wisdom to Fit Individuals
SAVANNAH, June I.—Judges
should not be empowered to bend
or wrap the established wisdom of
experience in order to meet a per
sonal or public conception of in
dividual justice, declared President
Judge W. R. Jenkins, of the Geor
gia Court of Appeals in discussing
the “Technicalities oj the Law”
before the meeting of the Georgia
Bar asociation at Tybee Island to
day.
‘lt would seem that a failure to
do so may sometimes result in sub
jecting the law to the brand of
being ‘technical,’ ” he stated, “but
if we wish courts to have such au
thority, it is a benevolent autoc
racy we crave and not liberty un
der government of law. Better
that justice should actually suffer
in some particular ease than that
the safeguards of society should be
destroyed.
‘ But some will say, if the con
tention be true that, under our
system of government and juris
prudence, the uniform and univer
sal administration of the law ag
find it according to its spirit and
substance can never be justly crit
icized as techincal, then the fact
must be that the laws themselves
are vicious in this respect, elsp
why and how are the decisions
complained of?”
Judge Jenkins said that, since
lawyers might sometimes be inclin
ed to regard technicalities which
favored them as good technicalities
and those favoring the opposition
as bad, “the layman’s conception
as to what consttiutes the legal
quibble would ' seem to be, I a,nd
naturally so, more comprehensive
than that the lawyer. He is more
apt to lodge the complaint of
‘technicality’ whenever some basic
or fundamental principle of law ap
pears to obstruct the enforcement
of concrete justice in a cause which
otherwise might adjudged aj le
gal. Both laymen and lawyers
must finally agree that in any such
conflict the underlying fundamen
tals should prevail.”
Judge Jenkins enumerated sev
eral instances, quoting sections of
code which might be termed as
techincal if strictly observed, of
which, he declared, “to strike any
single one of them from our or
ganic law would be to imperil the
liberties, of every memebr of so
ciety.
“Having thoroughly committed
myself to the proposition that law
should be administered according
to its reasonable meaning and in
tent, it follows that substance, even
in the strict consideration of crim
inal statutes, should not be sacri
ficed to purely artificial subleties
as to form.”
AUSTRALIAN BALLOT
SYSTEM IS ADOPTED
VALDOSTA, June I.—-With the
recommendation of the grand jury
last week that the Australian bal
lot system be adopted in Lowndes
county this law is now in force.
The previous grand jury had made
a similar recommendation and
this one last week was all that was
needed to tscabUsh the new plan.
The detai’s of the law and i’.s op
eration will be presented to the I
county commissioner?; perhaps at |
I the meeting next week, when the |
I official declaration of its adoption
I will be promulgated.
BIG EGG IS BROUGHT
IN BY HUGH JOYNER
I
Hugh Joyngr, a farmer living I
near the Sumter-Macon county I
i line, in what is known as Cut-Off |
community, was here yesterday, ex- I
hibiting a huge egg laid by one of
his hens. The egg weighs 21-4)
ounces and measured 2 1-2 inches I
in diameter, by 6 3-8 inches in cir-'
cumference, the short way, and
7 1-2 inches around the oval shape.
The egg was shown at the office
of the Times-Recorder and measur.
ed by the news editor, being
weighed at the same time on a pair
of postal scales, tipping the beam
at the above stated.
IE MBl [.YOUNG
MISSING SIB FBM
BELIEVED MURDERED
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, No Trace of Pretty Girl Can Be
Found by Distressed
I Parents
I
LAST SEEN IN ATLANTA
: Was Then y : n Company With
Man Known as Frank Thayer
of Syracuse, N. Y.
MARIETTA, June I.—Fear of
foul play in connection with the
disappearance of Miss Elizabeth
Young, 2(1, who left her home last
Friday and has not been seen or
heard from since, was expressed to
day by the girl’s parents, who have
instituted a nation-wide search for
the young woman.
According to her father, the on
ly information he has is that the
girl was last seen in Atlanta with
a young man known to him as
Frank Thayer, said to be from
Syracuse, N. Y.
GEORGIA MS SELL
FORSL2SBU.NDW
Cured Potatoes Have Been
Shipped to All Parts of the
Country During Past Year
ATLANTA, June I—Nine plants
for curing Georgia yams «by the
Beck Forced Air System, have so
far been established throughout the
state by the Georgia Yam Curing
Company, and plans are under way
for erecting more, John A- Manget,
Atlanta capitalist president of
th.e company announced today.
Two of these plants are in Grif
fin and one is located in each of
the following places: Jonesboro,
Gay, Social Circle, LaGrange, Ma
rietta, Cataula, and Hamilton. Yams
cured in these plants last fall are,
now selling for $1.25 $ bushel, f.p.b.
plant and have been, shipped to ev
ery part of the United States, ac
cording to Mr. Manget. However,
he says, the supply in every plant is
now practically exhausted, and no
more carloads can be shipped to
northern markets until this year’s
crop is matured.
FRANCIS BREWTON
LICENSED TO PREACH
SPARKS, Ga.. June I—Eleven
students of Sparks College, includ
ing Fii’.ncis Brewton, of Americus,
were licensed to preach in the Val
dosta district of the South Georgia
conference of the M. E. Church,
South by vote of the district con
ference held in Sparks May 29-31,
the Rev. J. C. G. Brooks, of Val
dosta, presiding elder of the dis
trict announced today.
FEAGIN LOSES S7O
ON STREETS TODAY
Gordon Feagin, who clerks in
the postoffice here; had the
fortune to lose S7O out of his pock
et on the streets of Americus this
morning. The money was in seven
$lO bills, and was lost somewhere
between the postoffice and the
Feagin home on Prince street, be
ing all of the money Mr. Feagin
had. He had a small hole in his
pocket through which the roll of
bills disappeared.
MACON CONGREGATION
WILL BURN MORTGAGE
MACON, June I—The congrega-l
tion of the; Tabernacle Baptist
! church will celebrate its freedom
from indebtedness on the church
building Sunday night at, 8 o’clock,
when the church mortgage will be
burned in a huge bonfire on the
lawn of the church. A special pro
gram has been arranged, including
I arteries of musical numbers.
VIRakIAN IS BUSINESS
MANAGER ROME PAPER
ROME, June I. Robert E.
Turner, Jr., of Norfolk, Virginia,
has been appointed business mana
| ger of the Tribune-Herald, and
, has assumed his duties.
Mr. Turner is the son of Robert
I E. Turner, Sr., who has for forty
yeats !>>bn general Vnanager pf
the leading Virginia-Pilot, one of
the leading newspapers of the
I South. Mr, Turner, Jr., has been
: connected with that newspaper un.
: der his father, for many years in
various capacities, and is thorough
ly familiar with every department
of newspaper work.
Diamond feels much colder to
i the tongue than does paste * or
glass, .
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WEATHER
For Georgia: Generally fair to
night and Saturday. •
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PRICE FIVE CENTS
‘EMPEROR’ SUSPECTED
OF HAIG INSTIGATED
SUIT AGAINST EVANS
Indications That Klan Faction
Backs New Move in Courts
Found at Atlanta
COBURN MAKE STATEMENT
Declares Present Suit to Straight
en Out Allegations Form
erly Made by Simmons
ATLANTA, June I.—lndica
tions that the faction in the Klan
supporting Colonel W. J. Simmons,
founder, and at present holding the
title of Emperor, is backing the
litigation launched here yesterday
when the affairs of the organiza
tion was again placed in the hands
of the Fulton*Superior court, came
today with a statement issued by
W. J. Coburn, leading counsel in
the receivership proceeding.
Coburn declared that the pres
ent suit is intended to “straight-*
en out and correct the very things”
alleged by Simmons in his recent
suit aganist Wizard Evans, which
resulted in a compromise.
WlfflEß SOTIMS
TUB *ET EBB CBOPS
Climatic Conditions Unfavorable
to Growing Crops in All
Southeastern States
WASHINGTON, June 1. Weath
er conditions during the week end
ing May 29 generally were too wet
or too cool for growing crops in the
South and Southeast, according to
the weekly weather and crop re
view of the Department of Agri
culture made public. It was gen
erally and decidedly too wet in the
Southeastern states, except in parts
of the Carolinas, while sunshine
was deficient and the nights too
cool during part of the week, for
warm weather crops.
Conditions varied*in trans-Mis-<
sissippi states. It was generally
warm and sunshiny in Texas, with
beneficial showers at many points,
and was generally favorable for
field work and crop growth. Con
ditions were decidely unfavorable,
however in Oklahoma and much of
Arkansas.
The weather continued unfavor
able for cotton in most sections,
the review said.
JOHNSON STRICKEN
WITH ACUTE ATTACK
E L. Johnson, of Oglethorpe, was
stricken with acute appendicitis
while eating in a case here last
night and for a time it was thought
he would die. Dr. J. W. Chambliss
attended him and succeeded in re
storing a normal condition, after
some excitement had been occa
sioned by the attack. Mr. Johnson
had been engaged in logging near
Americus recently and come here
for medical treatment, but was up
town when stricken with serious ill
ness.
BUSINESS VOLUMEAT
MACON SHOWS INCREASE
MACON, June I—The volume of
Macon business in May was practi
cally 50 per cent greater than for
the month of May last year, accord
ink to reprts of bankers last night.
The total debits to the individual
account for the month of May this
year reached $27,265,267.60, the
higest figure that was ever
here, according ‘ • records of the
banks. For the corresponding month
a year ago the total was $18,114,-
343.27.
SIX WHITE WOMEN ARE
ARRESTED AT MACON
MACON, Ga., June I.—Six white
women, who gave their names as
Frieda Waters, Verna Brown, Ruby
Smith, May Stevens and Nora
Bailey were arrested this morning
at 12:30 o’clock in a Broadway ho
tel by Detectives Stevens and Fann.
Frieda Waters was charged with
violating the license ordinance atxi
running a disorderly house, find
the others were charged with loiter
ing.
to have~exhTbitat
HIGH SCHOOL TONIGHT
A
Beginnig tonight at 7 o’clock at
the Americus High school, there
will be an exhibit of all the handi.
work of the classes in manual train
ing and domestic science. Young
ladies constituting the domestic sci
ence classes will assist in displaying
the work of these classes, while
boys who have executed exhibits
in the manual training department
will assist in showing there. The
public is invited to attend the
showing, and there will be no
charge at the door. _