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TUESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER Z, 1924 FULTON ffltfffl SEE LAST HANGING White Woman Who Slew Her Mother-in-Law May Be Last To ‘Decorate’ Gallows ATLANTA Sept. 2.—After having taken its toll of human life tor many years, the gallows of t! ■- Fulton County tower, from which many persons have dropped into their eternity, is very soon to be replaced with the more up-to-date and modern manner of carrying U death those thus sentenced by tho cour ts—the electric chair, to be in stalled at Milledgeville. Only one mor e man —a negro by file name of Will Johnson is to pay the death penalty by swinging by tiis neck until pronounced dead. September 19th is the date set for him to forfeit his life for having Taken another, that of a Greek restaurant keeper here. Governor Walker has so far refused to inter vene and unless the unexpected oc curs Johnson will so meet his death on the gallows, having oeen sen tenced before the legislature passed the measure of Representative R ■O. Perkins, of Muscogee county. And Johnson will be remembered a. TTle last man to die by the gallows in Fulton county. , Besides JohnsoA, only one other person is under a death sentence, and this a woman,Mrs, Ida Hughes, now lodged in Fulton Tower await ing the judgment of the Georgia Supreme Court for a new trial on the sentence of death imposed on her for the murder of her mother in-law, Mrs. M. C. Hughes last De cember. If the Georgia Supreme Court re fuses her a new trial, and provided the prison commission refuses to recommend commutation, and then the Governor does not extend execu tive clemency—she will meet death by hanging from the gallows. And if she is hanged, her death will mark the last human being in Fulton county to face eternity on the gallows which for so many years has counted its numbers sentenced to such death for having taken the life of another. Others who will be sentenced to death, will pa,' the penalty in the electric chair at Milledgeville.” FO TOLL STARTS II COLLFCFS THIS M Mercer and Athens to Play An nual Opening Game Saturday, September 27, at Athens ATLANTA, Sept. 2.—This weeK sounds the clarion call for football an practically every college and uni versity in the South where the grid iron game is played as an intercol legiate sport, and Georgia teams are eager and ready to go at the whitsle. Hundreds of football players in Georgia will answer the summons tc practice during he week, and the work will be intesnive almost from the outset in spite of the baseba 1 weather, for tough contents are scheduled for many of the teams in the season. Georgia and Mercer play their annual opening game at Athens on Saturday, September 27. Georgia Tech gets away to its season’s start on the sam e date, the 27th—with Oglethorpe furnishing the opposi tion on historic Grant Field. Oglethorpe and Piedmont will open the season with a game at Oglethorpe Saturday, September 20, a week ahead of the other eleven throughout the state. Announcement was made at Geor gia Tech that for the first time in history, every man was on hand for the first practice held Monday. Games to be played oy Georgia teams for the first three weeks of the season include: Saturday, September 20—Ogle thorpe vs. Piedmont at Oglethorpe. Saturday, September 27 Mer cer vs. Georgia at Athens. Fiekf leth ° rPe VB ‘ TeCh 3t Grant Saturday, October 4—Fort Ben ning vs. Oglethorpe at Oglethorpe Athens Car ° lina VS> Ge ° rgia at lanta° r^*R "^ vs ’ L a *- At- al simth will SPEAK FOR DAVIS NEW YORK, Sep. 2-—An agree ’ment bv Gov. Alfred E. Smith, ot New York to speak when and where the democratic national speak ers’ bureau may request and the re fusal of Representative James v. MeLintoek, of Oklahoma to remain ht the head of that bureau, because of its removal to New York, wer.- in democratic political circles here, outstanding developments today Govenor Smith’s promise Was an nounced by Thomas J. Spellacy, di rector of eastern campaign quarter/, after half an hour’s conference with the titular head o fthe New York de mocracy, Mr. Spellacy said however that the govenor would not begin stumping until after the New York state convention at Syracuse on Sep tember 25. Chicago man married a widow with nine children, putting the round-the world aviator daredevils in Second place. BOOTS AND HER BUDDIES- Ann Can’t Remember to Worry J f'' H'*7 T 7.. QjZy REDUCE 7 %kt X. ? / • w/ nJ JiMwr zM® VO7 nl I dTi vTT/ /Im ’ IT .JO W ? y 7"* ~ ' \ ✓/tyr <Copyright. 1924. hv NF,A Service. Inr » y SALESMAN SAM Sweep Out Padded Cell No. 6666 By Swann /^\3bOH\r- 1 gotta nouC lan' W'-: Told he. to> z 'po hod tSvxeT~Y ido nt knoli-~'x Z , c lohpi'T lodge. 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J J-; < ~ MAYBE ITS JUST AS WELL.- \ LA GRANGE COLLEGE 7Q OPEN ON SEPT 17 LA GRANGE, Sept. 2.—With the opening of .LaGrange College ie *3 than three weeks off, everything is being put in readiness for the ar rival of teachers and students to be gin on Sept, 17. Examination an 1 classification will begin on the next day, continuing ’till the formal opening on the morning of the nine teenth. Many improvements have been made buring the summer, both of the grounds and buildings. The student enrollment already exceeds the total enrollment of last year, very little room now remain ing for the accommodation of addi ional students. LEGION POST TO MEET TONIGHT John D. Mathis Post, No. American Legion, will meet in reg- ular session tonight in Legion , headquarters on Forsyth street. The ] hour for meeting is 8 o’clock and j all members are urged to be pres ent. It .announced that in connec tion with the meeting ex-service men who so desire may have their bonus applications properly certi fied at that tim 0 and place. IMPROVED CABLE SERVICE PROMISED NEW YORK, Sept. 2.—-Trans mission of trans-oceanice messages at five to eight time sas great as the highest speed now attained in stand CUTS-SORES Cleanse thoroughly—then, without rubbing, apply— VISITS Ovtr 17 fitiUivn U"d Ytarfy THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER ard cable practice is the promise] held out by the Western-Union | Telegraph Company with the laying I of the American end of a new j type submarine cable at Rockaway! Beach, Long Island, today. Com pletion of this cable will afford tlw first direct connection between the United Sates and Southern Europe. A sure thing is when daughter de cides she is going anyhow. j EIGHT PAGES FUNNIES FOR ATLANTA JOURNAL The Atlanta Journal’s superb Sun day paper has been made even mor’ attractive by the addition of fou' comic pages increasing its colored comics to two sections. The Sunday Journal will continue to have the splendid features that have made it famous: Eight pages of rotogravure pictures, a 32-page magazine section, a sporting depart ment unequalled (edited by Morgan Blake and 0. B. Keeler) two soc- .Bankrupt. 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