About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 17, 1924)
GEORGIA Brief Items of News Events Throughout the State Con densed for Busy Readers. CAMPAIGN GETS OFF TO LIVELY START MOULTRIE, Ga., Jan. 17.—The campaign for county offices in Col quitt has gotten off to alively start. Although the primary date was only announced a day or so ago three have announced for sheriff. They are T V. Beard, who is asking re- T. Duncan and W. W. Boyd, former sheriff. MONTEZUMA BANK ELECTS OFFICERS 'MONTEZUMA, Jan. 17.—The Montezuma branch of the Georgia State Bailk has elected the follow ing officers for the ensuing year; W. D. Manley, president; J. A. Sasser, vice-president; L. R. Ad ams, vice-president; G. M. Chastain, vice-president; Richard Forrester, cashier, and H. R. Graves, book keeper. " ' FARMER LOSES HAND IN PEA THRASHER FITZPATRICK, Jan. 17. John Cannon,.a prominent farmer living in the eastern part of this coun ty, while operating a pea thrash, had the misfortune to have one of his hands crushed, in the machin ery. The'accident to Mr. Cannon is all the more unfortunate since his other hand had been impaired permanently some years ago. TAYLOR COUNTY SHERIFF BURIED NEAR BUTLER COLUMBUS, Gm, Jan. 17.—-Fun eral services for J. R. Beeland vet eran sheriff of Taylor county, who died at his home near Butler late Monday afternoon, were held from the residence Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Beeland, who was 60 years of age at the time of his death, had served as sheriff for the past eigh teen years. He had been in declin ing health for some years, THRIFT WEEK BEING OBSERVED AT MACON MACON, Jan. 17. National Thrift Week, which began today, is being observed Jn Macon. The movement is fostered by the Y. M. C. A., and is endorsed by the leading civic, industrial, educa tional and religious organizations of the country. • Thrift Week always begins on the birthday aniiversary of Benjamin Franklin. Each day of the week is devoted to some specific attribute to thrift. - i in PALMER ELECTED WAYNESBORO MAYOR WAYNESBORO. Ga., Jan. 17. The city election held Wednesday resulted as follows: Mayor, F. S. Palmer; Gray, first ward; R. J. Ellison, second ward; H. G. McEhnurray, third ward. In the race for council from the third ward there were three con testants. H. G. McEhnurray was elected with 114 votes and W. W. Hargroves received 6«3, and B. J. Hatcher, 44. ARLINGTON WOODMAN ELECT NEW OFFICERS ARLINGTON, Jan. 17.—The of ficers elected for the year 1924 of the local camp No. 254 of the Wood men of the World wore installed at the regular meeting this week were: R. C. Ward, consul copmian der; B. A. Grantham, advisory lieu tenant; W. C. Tindol, clerk; C, G. Jordan, banker; Jesse Perry, escort; J. L. Jordan, watchman; George Kaleel, sentinel; W. W. Calhoun, physician; J. E. Toole, C. L. Cook and A. A. Calhoun auditors. MCADOO SUPPORTERS TO ORGANIZE FRIDAY ATLANTA,'Jan. 1-7. Plans for the formation of a state organiza tion in support of the campaign of William G. McAdoo for the Demo cratic Presidential nomination are to be considered at a meeting Fri day here of McAdoo supporters from all parts of the •State, it was learned today. The meeting is to be an informal gathering of friends of the McAdoo Randolph, Atlanta at torney, at whose offices the meet ing will be held, starting at 11 o’clock Friday morning. SKIPPER CLAIMS HE’S INNOCENT MACON, January 1 7.—Clarence Skipper, 21-year-old white man, of Hawkinsville, held in the Bibb coun ty jail in connection with an at tempted attack on a prominent young married woman of the Hay nesville community, inr Houston county, late Tuesday afternoon em phatically his innocence, in. spit e of the fact that he was positively identified as the guilty man yesterday by the alleged in tended victim and Charlie Jones, an aged negro, who protected her. STATE TOBACCO IS UPHELD ATLANTA, Jan. 17.—A consum ers’ tax on cigarettes and cigars i# this state, enacted by the legislature last summer, was held constitution al by Judge Bell in Fulton County Superior court here Wednesday. Judge Bell denied th ( . petition of local dealers for an injunction to restrain collection of the tax and dissolved a temporary order that had been in effect. The court’s decision automatical ly I Continued on Page. , PUBLISHED IN DIXI FORTY-SIXTH YEAR—NO. 15 AIRSHIP ADRIFT 6 HOURS RETURNS . \ « w * t *1 > ’ '* »’« ■ ** NAPIER ADVISES IN MUDDLED SCHOOL SITUATION THERE’S TWO OF MOST EVERYTHING IN DOUBLE-UP TOWNS OF| TWAIN ISTATES STATE LINE BUNS ffl BIS STREET CENTER fi TMffl, IIBK Half of Town in Texas, and Balance in Arkansas, But No Fiction Exists HAS TWO SETS OFFFICERS Curious Condition Faced by Ccrut Engaged in Trying Clerk Accused of Theft I’ve traveled a sight in this land of our’n, From Florida clean to Montana: And what struck me as the queer est town Was the city of Texarkana. —Ballads of a Wanderer. TEXARKANA, Ark.-Tex., Jan. nary 17. — (By NEA. Service.) In this city a man -can slip on a banana peel in Texas and pick him self up in Arkansas. Snowballs hurtle through the ah’ from Arkansas and find their marks in breezy Lone Star Staters, living in their own Texas. s For half of Texarkana is in the one state and half in the other. Right through the center of the (town runs State Line avenue. On one side the city is governed by the laws of Arkansas; on the other by he laws of Texas. Besides the two state govern ments, "’there are two full sets of county officers, two public school systems, two complete municipali ties with two mayors, two city coun cils, two police departments, two U. S. courts —two of nearly every thing. At one time two U. S. sena tors had their residence in Texark ana—Sheppard of TeSas, and Kirby of Arkansas. The federal building and the un ion station are the only - buMd’.ngs that stand in both states. Besides the postoffice and station Jhe only other things of a public nature that serve both cities are the fire de partments, individually owned by each city but operated as one, and a joint sewage disposal plant. Recently a postal clerk pilfered a letter and the case was taken into the U. S: court for the western dis trict of Arkansas. During the trial the question of jurisdiction was raised and it was necessary to de termine whether the offending clerk's work table was located in Arkansas or Texas. Newspaper reporters have a tough life, for when their work of newsgathering is complete in one state, they hustle over the line and do it all over in the other. The close individual and official friendship of the twin cities was demonstrated in the recent golden jubilee celebration here, when the governors or Arkansas and Texas and the mayors of Texarkana, Tex., and Texarkana, Ark., marched up State Line avenue and clasped hands across th e line. SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CONCERT HERE SUNDAY The program for the Symphony Orchestra concert to be given in the Rylander th'eater Sunday, afternoon at 3 o’clock has been completed, and will be printed in Friday’s issue of the Times-Recorder, according to an authorized statement from Alfred A. Gane,» director of the orchestra By special stage setting, under the direction of Os C. Johnson, an added attraction, yvill be afforded which is promised will greatly please the public. »The public is cordially invited to attend, and no collections ‘ will be ; taken or admission charges asked. I As promised m the beginning, the i concerts are for the purpose if i fording Americus people the byne | lit. of good music on Sunday after noons and to encourage the devel )opmenteuf musical talents in the < community. The piano to be used foi'the con cert is offered by the McMath Music Co., of which E. J. MeMath is owner. _ AMERICUS,"GEORGIA, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 17, 1924 .... Dotted line shows how Arkan sas and Texas divide the town of Texarkana along the principal thoroughfare of State ~Line ave / nue. Below at right: Governor Neff of Texas (elft) shaking hands with his contemporary, Governor Mcßae of Arkansas, on the occasion of the town’s golden jubilee celebration. WEATHER —-For Georgia Fair tonight and Friday; somewhat colder to night. KIiiSIETS LIT f FOR PART IN IDS HUM'S HOM® Was Accused of Conspiring to Plant Dynamite Under House Blown to Pieces CRIME DONE LAST APRIL Mrs. Henrietta Wagner, Alleg ed Principal in Murder, Also Under Life Sentence PADUCAH, Ky., Jan. Mrs. Emma Skillian was sentenced to life imprisonment here today on a charge of being an \ccessory Is l murder growing out of the killing of Mrs. Rosetta Warren and her unborn child here last April. The State charged that she con spired with Mrs. Henrietta Wagner who was recently convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment, to plant 10 sticks of dynamite under Mrs. Warren’s bed. BARKER LECTURES HERE FOR DELIVERY NOW Copies of Dr. Barker's lectures which were ordered by the’ Ameri cus Rotary club for distribution among Americus residents have ar rivedvand'are now ready for dis tribution, President John Sheffield announced today. The lectures, as stated during the Barker meetings, are to be distributed through the Hightower Book store, here, and are sold at 5 cents a copy, with no prof it made one connected with their distribution, this being the price charged by Rotary Interna tional, and being barely enough to corer the actual cost of printing. LEE ST.CONGREGATION GIVES PASTOR SHOWER Rev. and Mrs. Luther Harrell were honor guests at a pantry show er last night when the congrega tion of Lee Street Methodist church gave them a delightful surprise at the parsonage on Lee street. The pastor and%very member of his fan*- ily had been kept in complete ig norance of the plans of the eongre gation and the surprise element was carried out in full detrill. Many members ol the congregation as well as friends participated in the gener ous shower given the pastor, who during a brief social period spent at the parsonage expressed gra«pf’d apreciation for the well stocked pantry which was left after the guests_had jleiKuled... IJBBKKL- '\ SCHOOL HEAD’S JOB JUMPS INTO LIMELIGHT One of the most interesting situ- created by recent activity in political circles here centers about the office of county school super intendent, now held by E. W. Du pree, and for which it is stated; there will be more than one appii-; cant in the approaching primary. This officer it will be recalled, was vbted for only by residents of the county during the last rimary at which Supt. Dupree was elected. BELOW FREEZING EXPECTED FRIDAY ATLANTA, January 17—Below freezing weather is expected ,to jrjp this section tomorrow, accord ing to government weather bureau announcement. IMLIBS AGREETO ffl TOBIKI! IM ATLANTA, Jan; 17.—Collection of 10 per cent state tax on cigars and cigarettes will be continued pending decision by the Supreme court on litigation brought by lo cal dealers, it was agreed at a meet ing® between Attorney General N«er and attorneys for the deal ers today. The actibn of Judge Bell*’in the Fulton county Superior court yes terday in denying permanent in junction to dealers is to be made the basis of appeal. COLD WAVE SPREADING 1 OVER UPPER MISSISSIPPI WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 17-- A cold wave of marked severity ht.s overspread the upper Mississippi Valley and, the Northern plains states and cold weather continues over the Western Canadian province the United States Weather Bureau announced. Temperatures of far below zero were reported in Northwestern Wis consin. Minnesota, Western lowa, Kansas, the Dakotas and Eastern Montana, while a marked rise has been noted i the temperature east of, the Mississippi RivAr,’ which will result in rain 'ami snow in these states. SPARTA COURT CONVENES SPARTA, Jan. 17.—-The January term of the' City Court of Sparta is in session with Judge R. H. Lewis) presiding and -Solicitor Thomas M.' Hunt, attending to the state’s inters, estr. Most of the docket will be i This was due to a provision con tained in section j 47? of the Geor gia School Code, which provides in I effect that residents t>f any inde- I pendent school district, such as {Americus constitutes, may not vote I for county school superintendent. (Following the election at which Supt. Dupree was ele.cted, Governor. Clifford Walker, then attorney gen- (Continued On T-airexThree) * —• )Bira RAIL UNIS W ALLBI imp Locomotive Men Refuse to Ac cept Pay Reduction Authoriz ed By Railway Wages Board LONDON, Jan. 17. —A strike >f British locomotive men who have re fused to accept a reduefoin in wages authorized by the railway wkges board will begin at midnight I Sunday, according to announcement made this noon. ITALIAN ARISTOCRAT JILTED BY DIXIE GIRL STOVALL, Miss., Jan. 17 —Gor- geous wedding gowns have gone to storage, wedding invitations havp -been recalled, Miss Louise Fowler Stovall, of Stovall, Miss., has gone into seclusion, and Major "Tastave Bacci del Marchesi di Marieno has gone back to Italy. j There will be no wedding of I Southern aristocracy to Italian no 'bility at St. George’s Episcopal I church, at Clarksdale, Miss., Sat urday, January 19, contrary to an i nouncements that have been carried lon society pages of virtually every Inewspaper in the United States and I especially the South and East. The wedding has been indefinitely i postponed, was the word sent out |by the bride-elect’s mother, Mrs. Mrs. John Willis Stovall, yesterday' to offset the wedding invitations that have been out several 120 C EPWORTH LEAGUERS MEETIN IN MERIDIAN MERIDIAN, Miss., Jan. 17. Mope than 200 officers of the Ep worth League, junior organization of the Methodist church, assembled ' here for their annual convention. At the opening meeting Bishop H. M. Dubose, of Nashville, urged I the erection-of a church memorial iat Los Angeles in honor of the <>i ■ [ganization. It was in that city that ! the Epworth League was started, he 1 pointed out. Representatives from i Fayetteville, Ark., Dalia-, and Sav annah, GaTsare making strong bids I Do Creameries Pay in Georgia? This is a question that is occupying _ the minds of many farmers. The answer is to be found in the experi ence of others w'no have given creameries a test. On page six of this issue is some valuable informa tion bearing upon the sub ject of creameries. Ev ery fanner and business man should rend this ar ticle carefully. It is one of several, similar articles, to \ be published from time to tim e ki _ The Times-Recorder SHENANDOAH 1$ SAFE AFTER NIGHT FLIGHT ITREMENDOUS GALE Great Dirigible Brought Back to Hangar After ‘Runaway’ With Every Man in Crew Safe BIG GAS BAG COLLAPSED Other Damage Also Sustained By Air Giant During Mad Chase to Staten Island LAKEHURST, N. J., Jan. 17. The ‘‘Shenandoah,” the largest di rigible in the world, poked her nose into her hangar shortly after 4 o’clock this morning, after having been in a runaway flight all last night. Not a man in* her crew of 22 was injured. x * The giant dirigible broke away from her mast during last night's storm,wwith Captain Anton Heinan and chew -aboard. She swept in a mad Staten Island and then Captain- Heinan succeeded in turning her nose into the teeth of the storm and maneuvered her hornor- The airship’s nose was battered and/she was somewhat scratched up, and the gas *bag collapsed. The covering on her upper fin had been tripped off and wrapped around the rudder and the outer covering was rent nearly up to her nose, when the Shenandoah was finally brought to safety in her hangar here this morning. The breaking away of the Shen andoah, whiclf was moored to the massive mast in a ten-day test of its capabilities in such a position, cast a shadow over the station. The test was in preparation for a flight to the North-Pole, and as the giant craft slipped away in the rain and wind before the very eyes of the men jgho had helped build her and had flown her, they saw their hopes dashed. Then came message by wireless from Commander Picjrce, who with Captain Heinen, helped the the ship, was in command when she tore away, assuring the officers that ‘'everything is O. K.; we will ride out the storm.” The Shenandoah tore loose with a crash. Alli day she had been swayed to and fro by a strong wind ami and there was considerable specula tion as to whether the ship should h< returned to her hangar. Those in command, however, declared that the test was to determine how strong a wind the ship could stand ! ants ymy. were confident she would I remain aloft. Captain McCray and Command-1 er Weyerbacher both had been. aboard the Shenandoah a few mo ments before she broke loose. They had descended, however and were I .t dinner when a sudden crash in formed them something was wrong. WIRE REPORT OF - PERSONS CONFIRMED W. F. Persons, resident agent of the Census Bureau in Sumter coun ty, has been advised by W. M. Steu art, director, that telegraphic fig-i ures of cotton gining in this coun-1 ty have been verified and' found. orreet by the department jifficiuls. This report shows there were 12,- 299 bales of cotton, counting round aS half bales, ginned in Sumter county from the crop of 1923 prior to January- 1, 1924, as compared with 22,059 bales ginned to Januaty .’.V.tt!?? “Mt New York Futures PC Open High Low Close Jan. ~33.70|33.40|33.40 33.25! Mar. .33.53{33.60|33.60 32.89(3239 May ' • July ,32.60133.60’33.69132.02(32.02 Oct. . 28.10|28.07(28.40'27.90(27.90 Strict middling 324-2 cents.' PRICE FIVE CENTS EXPECT FORD TO KT DEFINITE STATEIKNT M SHOALS SOON Chairman Kahn Informs House Military Committee Flivver King May Reconsider s MAY GET NITRATE PLANT No Information Given Commit tee, However, Except Bare Prediction Ford Will Act WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—Pre diction that Henry Ford within the next few days will make a definite statement as to whether he would be willing to take over the govern ment’s nitrate project at Muscle Shoals, Ala., was made today by chairman Kahn of the House mili tary committee at a hearing on the question. Mr." Kahn gave no details to the committee. HOPE TO TOW TACOMA AGAIN 111 DEEP WATER Three Compartments Flooded in Disabled Cruiser, Wireless Report States WASHINGTON, Jan. 17. The States Cruiser Tacoma aground on Blanquillas reef off Vera Cruz, has three compartments flooded, accord ing to wireless reports from a ship received today at the navy depart ment. . • Tugs were standing by and it was hoped to draw the cruiser into deep er water as soon as the heavy seas subsided. ROW Hl HONOR VISITORS Evan Mathis, of Kiwanis, and R. P. Ewing, of Lions, Attend Club Luncheon at Windsor Evan Mathis, president of the Kiwanis club, and R. P. Ewing, president of the Americus Lions club, were honor guests at the Wed nesday Rotary luncheon in the Windsor hotel, when Walter Rylan der presided. The meeting was de voted largely to a discussion of th-? Dr. Barker meeting here, and to a vote of appreciation given Amer icus’ other, civic clubs, for their co operation in making the meetings so successful. Personal appreciation of the aid •given by the Kiwanis and Lions in ‘putting ,over” the Barker meetings voiced by president Rylandet. and the Rotarians also passed res olutions thanking the Times-Reeor fler for publicity given in connec tion with these lectures. The Bar ker lectures, it was unanimously agreed,'' were one of the most help ful ateps yet taken in tne promotion of community health and morals here, and it was decided to follow up these talks with suitable ad dresses at later periods, the idea being to reap the greatest possible benefit from the seed sown in Americus and Sumter county by Dr. Barker. Speakers to deliver these addresses, of course, will be select ed from time to time, and in all probability will be chosen from among outstanding moral and intel lectual residents of other communi- , ties than Americus and Sumter county. . The matter of attending the'Vis trict Rotary conference in Macon March 17-P8 was brought to the at tention of the membei*, and it wa-: unanimously agreed that the clul members would attend? this gather ing a hundred per cent , strong, ev ery Rotarian present signifying hi' personal intention co be present in Mason when the conference is call ed to order there. > POLITICAL EDITOR OF NEW YORK SUN IS DEAD NEV. G. Riggs, for .many years political editor of the New York Sun and since his resignation in 1913 in charge of the publicity department for the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad, died today at his home in Brooklyn. He was 68 years «kL ■ ' .
