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mnvrwfiwk '"’■rwjw {THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17,1921.
HIGH SPOTS IN GEORGIA NEWS
lithlc company, a Virginia corpora-{star witness in suits of bank dep?si
tion, has been withdrawn and the citi
zens have agreed to pay the cost
of paving assessed against them. The
Moovoavu u h uiua» M|bllll *..«
WrmetJKieiW a,iens by thc score * as placed placards in the court house su it grew out of the refusal of the
e applied for naturalization pa- “* J ~ • *’ ’ ’
at the Savannah Federal court.
Horo applications came from Ger-
Ipans, Austrians and Turks than all
Eher countrips combined.
W:The BpJliCreek convict camp, near
felumbu£zW*« burglarized Friday
Horning and two tires, worth $15**
Klen.
b Notices‘have been sent to all sher
iffs in Georgia by Secretary of State
£ G. McLendon, telling them to be
ran the lcfokout for autos and motor-
gycles running after March 1, with
Kt a 19 21'tag.
| J The Ben Hill county farm bureau
.federation passed a resolution at a
[meeting Thursday to buy no more
f. i tilizer* xrntrf'it reaches pre-war
prices. n; 1
To replace the damage done to
vigtreets and/ewers in Home by the
high water^ caused by the* recent
'Bains, will.cost $20,0U«, according to
the estimate of City Manager King
[made to this city commission.
There wme 51 births in Rome dur
ig the past four weeks and only It
mths, according to the city secre
I jury. 1.. H.-t
Major JI„jG. Lightner of the Unit
f i State.vl’pblic Health service, testi-
ed in cqjjjcJ at Macon that Henry
I 5. Mitchej}. colored, of Dooly coun
ty, came tv his death by arsenic pois
oning ad pi mistered through the
mouth in the trial of M. C. Mitchell,
negro physician, formerly of Montc-
zuma, whp;is charged with murdering
fiis nephew in order to collect $24,-
D00 insurance carried on the life of
ie deceased.
The Georgia. Railroad Commission
is granted- permission to the At-
ntic CqasX Line railway to with-
Iraw from aorvico its passenger
[trains Nvs, .1,87 and 188, operating
Ifitwcen Dothan and Thomasville, ef
fective FgJb l.v* *
Represjjq^^iyiU Crisp, of Georgia,
[Friday took a position in defense of
:|he Southern farmer against the
plans of Nebraska interests appealing
to ways and means committee of the
house for a tariff of $50 per ton on
imported, potash.
The jurjAof. the Decatur county
Superior court returned a verdict in
' favor of ^.dpfpndant for $7,000 in
the case -of. Anna Wells vs. John
Barton Pf£9£, director general of the
United States Railway Administra
tion Friday, The- amount asked for
was $2. r >,dftpV .The case grew out of
‘the killing.afiSam Wells, C. E. Haw-
kina and,#, F. Wells while attempt
gng to cro%»i,tfif:tracks in an auto.
W. M. Strickland, of LaGrange, a
[witness ity,#ic Troupe Superior court
in the cauafi of Pat Cohen, charged
with murde^ ( .\f;i« fined $15 for car-
prying b pistol while in the courtroom.
| The Ncftyfo^fpt school, one of the
largest buildings in Coffee
county, was destroyed by fire Wed-
r-d»jC. Jugcil - *■
| S. C. I}a/Jcc4r,.of Milan, will touch
ftff LOOOjjjjjoimUa of dynamite next
[Thursday to blow out a 2,000 foot
Jaitch.ln n^tevt pasture of thc Central
I of Gttorgig.jfrcro. The explosion will
gfcmovo aps*a^punt of dirt sufficient
to fill CO fre^g^ carK
g Graham,;ignore, J8, well .known
mcrchant r -ajid former tax colelctor
of Rockbtjdgev county, committed
rsuicide at/bis. home in Buena Vista
Thuvadayiji'it ■
I Verner Dorsett, 22-year-old Allan-
[tn girl, hpft confessed that she was
[tho person^ who effected the jail
wreaking live convicts in Camp
bell county last December. She smug
gled saw?-(p : her aged father, Guy
l^orsett, who was sentenced to serve
two years, fpp making whisky. Dor-
aelt has wit; been rc-captured.
men tq pay for paving done by tho
there hearing the order of thc judge
against spitting on the floor andj com p an y abutting their property,
walls of the building. The Woman’s \V. E. Harvin, of Dickey, was in
club is co-operating in the movement stalled as president cf the Georgia
to protect the court house from
abuse.
J. Newton Liming, Confederate
veteran, of Atlanta, has been cleared
of bigamy in the Atlanta Municipal
court. The charges, according to his
statement, resulted from his marry
ing again, after hearing that his
wife, had left him, had died, and
when this explanation was made, he
was released.
William Knight, a resident of
Whigham, who was found with Swi-
cord, 12-year-old son of F. I*. Swi-
cord, of Whigham, in New Albany,
Ind., after disappearing last Septem
ber. has been arrested and returned
Georgia on a charge of kidnapin
Swicord. He is in jail at Cairo
fault of $1,000 bond.
Five persons wore injured when
train struck an auto in Atlanta Fri
day. Three of them, Mrs. J. C. Port
er, Mrs. A. H. Miller, and Miss Be:
sir Gainey, of Millville, Fla., were
seriuosly injured and had to he car
ried to a hospital. Mr. and Mrs,
T. Shores, of College Park, were
bruised and shocked.
Mrs. Annie V. Blake, of Savannah
was given a verdict against Mr
Catherine Harris for a diamond er
gagement ring valued at $000, in Sa
vannah city court. Mrs. Blake tes
tified that the ring was given Mr?
Hards as security for a ban and
when tho money and interest was of
fered in payment Mrs. Harris ref us
ed to give up the ring.
Comm ilia Sellars, a deaf and dumb
girl from Pensacola, Fla., was robbed
of her train ticket and money and is
now in Savannah, destitute. Miss
Sellars' aunt, living in Darlington, S
C., bearing that her niece was desti
tute in Pensacola, sent her cnougli
money to pay her fare to Darlington,
While on the train she went to sleep
and the money and ticket were stol
en. She bad to get off at Savannah
and is now in the hands of Volun
teers of America there while they
try to raise money to pay her way
on to Darlington.
Northern people spending the
winter at the Bon Air Hotel at Au
gusta, which was burned a short
while ago, are remaining in Augusta,
renting furnished houses and putting
up at commercial hotels for the win
ter season.
Five members of the International
Printing Pressmen’s Union in Atlanta
went to jail Tuesday rather than pay
fines assessed for contempt of court
for alleged violation of an injunc
tion against interfering with non
union employes in n strike now on
in several jab printing offices there.
Governor-elect Hardwick is being
urged by personal and political
friends to have n big out-door inaug
uration instead of holding tho cere
monies in the hall of the house of
representatives next July.
The annual convention af the Geor
gia Retail Clothiers’ and Furnishers’
association will be held in Augusta
March 15-1G. Thomas W. Hardwick
will address the meeting.
Dr. G. M. Anderson, for two years
health, commissioner for Colquitt
county, has forwarded his resigna
tion to the board of health and an
nounced that his suit against the
commissioners for several months'
back salary h«3 been settled.
The work of planting 777 trees in
Augusta’s “Kero Grove,” dedicated
to the world war veterans, has been
completed. *
Petition of tho Georgia, Southwest
ern & Gulf railroad against the
R. C. B&cheller, former cashier of Georgia-Alabama Power company
tbe Bank of Palmetto, was indicted j and the Hardaway Contracting
Thursday -by'th# Campbell county j pany for an injunction against the
grand jury on a charge of embezzle- completion by the defendants of a
. ni< nt.» Ba^feqller disappeared about a canal connecting tho water behind
’ y« ar ago a shortage of $50.000'thc present dam in the Muckafooneo
wa; discoyfifod jpjiis accounts at the! creek with the waters to be impound-
’Pat Cohen, charged with the mur-| struction in Flint river, has been de-
der of Wftjtor. Howard in LaGrange, nied by Judge R. C. Bell of the Al-
d behind thc dam now under con-
New Veay.Vf. fiay., .and captured byjbany circuit.
Sheriff Christian, in Webster coun-j The First National Bank of Law-
ty, was found guilty of murder with rencevilie has been organized and will
I ^commendation’of mercy in ’.own
des county Superior court Friday.
For more-, than a month the nurs-* cashier,
open for business March 1. C. R.
Ware is president and R. II. Young,
in the Mucon hospital have been
so terrified.by almost nightly visits
of burglar*! .that they have forsaken
their room?.' and all sleep together
in two or three rooms. It is believed
that the chief burglar was captured
JPriday night x|ben a negro was cap
tured as he was attempting to climb
Hie fire ottrarf?.
■f Z. T. Rogers, for HO years train
Her at the* old Union Station
Oscar Robinron Wilson, 14-year-
old son of Mrs. W. O. E. Wilson, of
Rock Spring road, near Atlanta, war.
killed Tuesday when ho walked into
a high tension wire that hod been
blown down in the windstorm Mon
day.
^The license of the I.nngford-Lo*d-
ford detective agency was revoked
by the Atlanta police commission aft
er the commission had held that Ncw-
fthe Termlnd-Station, at Macon, died: port Langford, head of the agency
Kriday momhiir, 'Apoplexy is though; j and former chief of the city detec
to have beVn the cause of his death.; tive force, was guilt;* of bribery in
, John Knox, 12.years old, of Du- j connection with the alleged violation
|uth, was stvYinUily injured Thursday; of thc dry law in Columbu?. II. W.
An
thc accidental discharge of a .22 i Lightfoot, private detective, told the
Ie in th*‘h:mds of one of his com-1 commission that Langford gave him
8 while ont hunting. j $1,500 to get him out of Columbus
infant, said to have been IS'where bo bad 15 men indicted on
irs old,- was found on tho door-j charges of violating thc prohibition
law.
John Edwin Booth, 711, treasurer
of the Blanchard-Bootb company of
at! Columbus, died at his homo in Wynn-
! l0 * Tuesday after an illness of two
Sn-j months.
.j Mrs. J. L. Patrick swooned when
nah | her husband was sentenced to ten.
S5. - years in tho penitentiary by George
an|P. Munro in court at Columbus
nh ' Thursday. Patrick, with two others,
an i; entered pleas of guilty to robbing the
in Columbus Loan company several
ks.
i of arvlisliburn physician by tw.
j ladies Monday afteroon. The home
e physician hti; been unoccupied-
December as he has been
I hospital for treatment,
farion Liresis, j»o*tmaster at
hnnh. wltt resign that position .
< Mef of police of Savannal
salary‘of tho chief will bo $5.
■ 200 a yeat/ tho- largest ever paid ai
|*ff*Ce of that, character in Sa\nnnah
^G. IJ. liSokmiui, yems „J,l,
* *. Georg*. Anderson. 72. b.-t'h in
•to* of the County Home «>f fiieh
•nd county-were married Thurvd
^Augusta. Hickman has been in:
four-time* nnd Mr*. Ilickm
State Agricultural society at a meet
ing of the society in Macon Wed
nesday.
Two of Augusta’s brick manufac
turing plants have resumed opera
tion after a shutdown of four months.
Officials of the others have announc
ed that they will begin operations
in Munch. There are 12 plants then
employing several hundred men.
As a result of the heavy receipts,
break in tho Eastern markets and
ild weather, eggs went to 52
cents, the lowest wholesale price in
years in Atlanta Wednesday.
Mrs. Wilma Lineweber, star figure
a white slave case in Atlanta
awaiting action of thc U. S. grand
jury, furnished bail several days ago
and has been released. Mrs. Line
weber’s mother dropped dead in thc
street soon after visiting her daugh
ter in the Fulton Tower.
Fire destroyed the frfamc ware
house of Stevens-Mnrtin company at
Carlton Monday and the brick stor
of the Tiller-GIenn company was
badly damaged. Thc less is estimat
ed at $100,000.
The first straw hat of the year ap
peared in Savannah Wednesday when
a prominent business man was seen
wearing one. When asked why h<*
did it he replied that he .didn’t see
why he shouldn’t when the thermom
eter registered above 80.
To cover increases of $fi,000 in
teachers salaries, the annual budget
for the Fitzgerald public schools has
been raised to $42,940 for 1921.
A mass meeting of the citizens of
Swainsboro has been called for Fri-
diya to arouse enthusiasm in plans
being made for the schools' welfare.
At a meeting of thc farmers of
Bupke county at Waynesboro Thurs
day it was planned to reduce the cot
ton acreage of the county this year.
With the Ocmulgce river 18 inches
nbove the flood stage, the waters
are creeping up to the floors of a
fringe of small houses in east Ma
con. Tho rise is expected to contin
a result of the recent rain-
above Macon. (
W. O. Swift, former Macon detec
tive, charged with thc murder of
Philip Lamar, was found not guilty
by a jury in Bibb Superior court
after being out 17 hours.
Maco Giddens, negro fugitive in
jail in Crown Point, Ind., who is
wanted in Sylvester on a charge of
murder, will be returned for trial
announced at the office of
Governor McCrary.
A movement is on foot io estab
lish a new bank at Montezuma to
take the place of the First National
Bank which closed its doors last.
Walter Lankford, former private
at Camp Bcnning, has been arrest
ed in Columubus on a charge of
stealing military property from the
camp.
A young man giving his name as
Mack Palmer Haygood and his home
as Alpharetta, Ga., has surrendered
to authorities at Indianapolis .and
confessed to the robbery of thc bank
at Suwancc, Ga., with two compan
ions. . .
Aunt Martha Jackson, ante-bellum
negress, was burned to death nt her
home in Quitman when her clothing
caught as she was lighting a fire.
A clue to the theft two weeks i
from the mails of a letter containing
$14,000 in registered l-ouds was
found when a young man was ar
rested in an Atlanta pawnshop try
ing to dispose of a $509 registered
bond. The young man stated that
he had found the bond in front of
the Bijou theater. The authorities do
not believe he is the guilty person
but arc holding him pending investi
gation.
An organization of the swine grow
s of Upson county, with u member
ship of lfi men, mainly interested in
the breeding of Duroc hogs, has be
formed*at Thomaston.
M. R. E. Carter, Jr., was cdcclej
commander of the Wilbur Oglesby
Post, ‘American Legion, at Quitman
nt the meeting Thursday.
An intensive campaign for crop
divesrification and self-support for
every farm in Hart county was un
dertaken at a meeting of the farm
ers and business men at the court
house at Hartwell Wednesday.
Mayor J. Gordon Jones, of Cordell
states that at the next meeting of
the city council he will introduce
resolution calling for an flection for
bonds to build and equip in connec
tion with the city water plant a mu
nicipal light and power plant.
At a called meeting of the Colum
bus health control board Wednesday
Dr. James A. Thrasher was named
city health officer in the place of
Dr. B. J. Fitzmaurice. “For the good
of the service” is the only reason
the body will assign for the sudden
change.
There are 81 prisoners in the Mus
cogee county jail, the highest num
ber ever imprisoned there at one
time. The large number is due‘to
the activity of the grand jury an 1
superior court in the past few days.
An unidentifed negro man was
electrocuted in Atlanta Thursday
when u street lamp fell on an auto
be was, driving and the high power
wire which supplied the lamp came
into contact with the auto.
The Savannah Home .Guards,
which was organized when the war
bloke out, has been formally muster
ed out.
William B. Green, former vice-
dent of the Fairburn bank, who
tors to recover $6,000.
On account of sentiment against
him at Summerville, Clint Mathis,
young man who was arrested in Ma
rion, S. C., after the disappearance
of Lewis E. Kinsey, mail carrier, was
carried to Fulton conuty jail for safe
keeping.
William Suller.s, of Hall county,
who was sentenced to sc/vc four
months in Fulton county jail for vio
lation of the dry law ,may have to
serve a month and a half of the sen
tence over again. Hall was allowed
a leave of four weeks so that his
agricultural affairs might be arrang
ed. At the end of the time, he re
ported at thc Hall county jail instead
of the Fulton county jail and after
a month had passed the Fulton au
Ihorities, finding that he uid not ap
pear forfeited his bond and a bench
warrant issued for his arrest. An ef
fort will be made by Hooper Alex
andcr to have the bond forfeiture an
nulled and allowed made for the time
spent in the Hall jail,
Becoming interested in thc case o
Dave Smith, a negro of Rancocic
county,,who was the sole support of
six people including his 100-year-
old mother, Mrs. I. Springer, of Spar
ta, secured a pardon for the negro
throe hours after her application.
Smith was convicted of violating the
prohibition law.
W. G. Kelley, prominent Jaspe:
county farmer, has made arrange
ments to build a permanent test past
ure on bis farm near Monticello.
The Crown Cotton*Mills at Daltoi
will resume op* ration Monday.
Thc Houston county farmers held
a meeting in Perry Wednesday and
agreed to cut their cotton crop for
1921.
The Railroad Commission ha.
granted the Atlanta Gas company
rate increase of 45 cents in Atlanta
and suburbs. The company asked for
70 cents per 1 000 cu.dc feet in At
lanta and for 85 cents in the suburb:
The new rate is $1.90 for Atlanta
and $2 for the suburbs. Commissioner
Boifeullet vote “No. 1
The Consolidated Telephone com
pany has been allowed a rate of $ r
for business and $2.10 for residence
service at Moultrie. The company
asked for $5 and $3.25
James L. Leonard, of Cincinnati,
was elected president of thc associa
tion of melon distributors at tho
close k>f the convention in Macon Sat
urday. Thomasville was selected as
the next convention city.
August Vincenzi, Rome merchant
Saturday filed a petition in the Floyd
county Superior court asking that G,
P. Roser, plumber, be enjoined from
hugging and kissing thc complain
ant’s wife during his absence froi:
the store. #
Work on thc automobile highway
from Brunswick to St. Simon’s Is
land is now underway.
Fire Sunday, destroyed four wood- wwuancss.
Ashton Stunland, county surveyor
Thomas county, was hold up and
bbed near Meigs n few nights ago. j is serving a five-year
Judge rt;,-. • ! * * u * 5100,006 damage suit against defalcation, was brought from Mil-
vwige Oo'Aer, of the Vienna court, 1 Moultrie
i .* ... .. „ , , ... „ . . , a blanket rope but it was t«>o short
men by the Atlant.c Bitu- ledgeville to I-airbuin Thursday as a-«* he jumped a distance of about
cn buildings and the brick Masonii
bjiilding nt Sand .rville with a loss o
$60,000.
The management of the Gaines
ville Eagle announce, that beginning
next Thursday they will begin the
publication of a daily. The weekly
will be continued.
At a meeting held Friday night
a brass band was organized at Mil
ledgeville.
Fully 800 acres yf pimento poppers
have been planted in Spalding coun
ty, tho canners having guaranteed
the price per bushel. The pimento
industry was started in thc county
on a small scale and has now de
veloped into the largest pepper pro
duction in the United States.
The body of Mitchell Phelps, ma
chinist’s mate, IT. S. N., who was
killed at Pensacola when a naval
plane in which he was a passenger
crashed into'n telegraph pole and
burned, was accorded full military
honors when shipped to his home in
Pelham
The farmers cf Brooks county,
meeting Saturday nt Quitman, adopt
ed a resolution cnlling on the farm-
Georgia lo co-operate witli
them in their fight against what they
call the prohibitive price of fertiliz
A copper still «f 200 gallons ca
pacity. 300 gallons of whisky, 3,500
gallons'of beer and mash and 1.000
pounds of sugar and ten men were
captured in a raid by city and coun
ty officers on two bouses cn reach-
tree Hill. Atlanta, Saturday.
A partial quarantine has been es
tablished at Mercer University at Ma
con ns a result of the development
of three cases of smallpox among the
students.
Frank Treadway woj instantly kill
ed nt Byron ville Thursday by n log
rolling over his body while he was
working nt a saw-mill.
Stephen L. Burts, traffic superin
tendent of the Western Union, died
at bis home in Atlanta Saturday
from an attack of pleurisy.
The Davis Construction company,
of Macon, was the successful bidder
for the contract for grading 14 miles
of road from Sylvester to the Col
quitt county line, preparatory to
turning the road over to the State
Highway department for paving.
The American Firoproofiing com
pany at Milledgevillc, has opened its
new plant.
Senator Hoke Smith has announc
ed that upon his retirement from the
senate he will resume the practice
of law in Atlanta and Washington.
Major O. H. B. Bloodworth, Jr., who
has been his secretary since his dis
charge from the army, will be asso
ciated with him in the Washington
office.
George Williams, one of the alleg-
d “bunco” men in the Atlanta pris
on, attempted to escape Sunday from
third floor of the jail. He used
30 feet. He wrenched , his ankle,
sprained his back and it is thought he
is internally injured.
Horace Woodard, of Hoboken, died
Sunday from the effects of a blow
on the head with club received while
fighting James Thornton Sunday
morning.
Representatives of one of the larg
est moving picture companies in the
country have been in Brunswick for
the past week looking over the aban
doned picric acid plant statioh there,
which was built by the government
at a cost of millions of dollars, to
determine its possibilities for adap
tion to the motion picture business.
Homer.J. Musslcwhite and his wife,
Mrs. Lydia Musslcwhite, of Cordele,
both deaf mutes, have filed a dam
age suit against the Seaboard rail
road for alleged permanent injuries
received last december when a Sea
board train struck an auto in which
they were riding.
Lott Warren, former state repre
sentative from Turner county, drop
ped dead in his home in Sycamort
Sunday as he arose from the break
fast table.
The farmers of Mitchell county
have joined the general movement to
finish the tick eradication work thi
year.
J. E. Newby, his father and sister
of Grantville, were bitten by a mad
bulldog Thursday. They will be giv-
Pasteur treatment.
Sam Howell, clerk at the post of
Tice at White Plains, has been ar
rested, charged with rifling the mails.
The annual convention of the* Na
tional Association of Builders' Ex
changes met in Savannah Tuesday.
Franklin D. Roosevelt will speak.
Recorder Lewis J. Kent, of the
Augusta court, will arraign himself
before himself as recorder for vio
lating thc new traffic code of the
city Traffic Policeman Hewitt will
appear against Recorder Kent.
L. D. Lawson, who as policemen at
Buford last fall, arrested Senator-
lect Tohmas E. Watson, has been ar
rested in Atlanta on charges of as
sault and battery and attempt to mur
der.
George Washington Brock, aged
, of Atlanta, killed himself Sun
day morning. Despondency because
he was out of work was the caust
of his act.
Joe Hill Hall, of Macon, spoke at
Vienna at the noon recess of the Su
perior court along lines of reduction
of taxes. %
A case of talking sickness has ap
peared in Macon, the patient talkin;
17 hours before she was brought
back to consciouness. Mrs. D. W.
Rittenbury was awakened Wednesday
morning about 4 o’clock by her aged
ister carrying on an imaginary con
versation wifh a number of visitors
whom she thought to be present. It
was 9 o'clock Wednesday night be
fore the patient returned to con
Mrs. Gladys Prcsnell, ticket sell
er at the Strand theater, ^tlanta, was
terribly ^burned about the face and
arms so that she may lose her eye
sight by Mrs. Nellie G. Rolader, who
threw a bottle of carbolic acid in her
face. Mrs. Rolader, who is being held
by the police, says that she threw
the acid because Mrs. Presncll would
not stop going with her husband, Ar
thur Rolader. Mrs. Rolader was also
badly .burned.
In a sensational sermon at tho
Baptist Tabernacle in Atlanta, Dr.
John Roach Straton, of New York.
native Georgia and graduate of
Mercer college, Macon, used this
language, “If it was the eating of
an apple that opened the eyes of
Eve to nakedness In the Garden of
Eden, then I say that it is about time
wo were passing the apples to the
women again.”
Berner Goddard, the 8-eyar-oM
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. God
dard, of Grogansvillc, who some
months ago was affected with Ray
naud's disease, causing tho decay of
her finger tips, is now improving ami
4t is thought will have no further bad
effects of the malady.
to the pastorate of the Mt. Pleas
ant Primitive Baptist church in Jones
county. He will preach on the second
Saturdays and Sundays in each
months.
An appeal by the defendants to
the United States Circuit court at
Moultrie held up the sale of thc Barn
well Pecan Groves, Valued at more
than $100,000, which was to have
taken place Tuesday. More than a
year ago several actions were brought
by persons holding securities of the
company and the grove was ordered
sold by Judge Evans of the United
States court
Walter Kline, of Cleveland, was
elected president of the National As
sociation of Builders’ Exchanges at
its meeting in Savannah Tuesday.
A bronze honor roll containing thc
names of the relotives of tho mem
bers of the Savannah Chapter,
Daughters of the Confederacy, who
served in the world war, was unveil
ed by the Daughters of the Confed
eracy there Tuesday.
Food prices in Fitzerald have been
reduced by proprietors of three gro
eery stores and the leading restau
rant has issued a new bill of fare
with price reduction’s averaging 1
per cent.
Holeman Potts, 17 years old, of Ca
milla. was seriously wounded when
the trigger o fa gun, which he was
dragging by the barrel, caught in the
grass and discharged. He is in the
hospital at Albany.
There were in Sunday school at
Colquitt last Sunday 41C persons,
this being over half of the total pop
ulation, white, and black. This was
only in the white schools. It Is plan
ned to have every white person in
the city in Sunday school next Sun
day.
The injunction of the Atlantic
Coast Line railroad against the
board of commissioner? of Mitchell
county, which restrained thc commis
sioners from alleged encroachment on
the right-of-way of thc company’s
property between Pelham and Meigs,
has been settled by agreement be
tween the board and the railroad and
work will be resumed soon.
Both oil mills at Dawson resumed
operations Monday after having been
closed down for ten dayr.
Mayor Johnson, of Moultrie, has
issued an order forbidding the stag
ing of a ten round bout between
two local boxers within the city lim
its of Moultrie. The bout has been
advertised and considerable expense
incurred by the promoters.
Out of eighteen births reported In
Albany during January, onl^ five
were white, the remainder being ne
groes, according to records of the
city clerk. City Clerk deGaffenreid
states that thc full number of births
in Albany has never been reported
and that the shortage in January was
pronounced.
Rufus Wilmot, aged moonshiner,
was drowned (Monday night as ho
was attempting to cross a swoleu
stream near Tolonu, Go., with
wagon-of whisky, according to rev-
enyo officers. Lee Crump,-23, who
was assisting Wilmot, escaped death
by jumping from the wagon and
swimming to safety. ,
Miss Emily Bancroft, assistant
superintendent of tho Oglethorpe
sanitarium at Savannah, was robbed
and slugged in her room at the
Nurses Home Tuesday night by a
mulatto. Sho was awakened by the
man who made her tell where her
money was. When ho got the money
lie hit her over the head with a pis
tol. She ran out of the room shoutng
for help and he threw the pistol ai
her and ran. He has not beer, cap
tured.
Thc Valdosta Times states that
Federal officer* are after dove
shooters In that section.
Mrs. A. M. Stead and little Miss
v . Winifred Stead, returned yesterday
The Boy Scout movement in Ter* from Americus, Mrs. Stead having
roll county will he pushed, with the been called there on account of thc
organization of on w * or more Scout Hines sof her nephew. Dr. Brooks
troops. Warren Parks has been ap- Shipp. Friends here will he gratifieJ
pointed county chairman for Terrell I to know that he is now much improv-
county for the Boy Scout movement
in the Third district.
Jake Thompson and John Buchan
an have been moved from thc jail
at Sandersville, where they were sent
for safekeeping, to Alamo, where
they will be given a preliminary trial,
alleged that the two men kill
'd Robert Wilcox, prominent Telfair
county man.
Joseph Meador, aged 87, was
found dead in bed at the home of his
on, Judge A. D. Meador, at Coving
ton.
The Chatham county branch of the
League of Women Voters has invited
the state league to hold its conven
tion in Savannah May 9-10.
John M. Shaw, 85, prominent mer-
chant and best known man in Pierce
county, died at his home in Black-
shear Monday following a stroke of
apoplexy.
Seven of the eight clauses of the
constitution providing for student
government at Mercer University
i*re unanimously passed by the stu
dents at chapel exercises Tuesday.
The fifth clause, providing that upon
entering college a student shall swear
not to cheat in his work, shall con
duct himself in manner becoming a
ntieman, and not to reflect dishon-
upon the university, was to be vot
ed on later.
On tne farm cf Mr. and Mrs. Wade
Shiver near Quitman, strawberries
are ripe and the vines are full of
fruit. Cherry, plum and apple trees
are beginning to bloom there add
Ml.—Cordele Dispatch.
Frank Ferguson was a business
visitor here Thursday from Leslie
^ W. M. Humber spent Thursday Ir.
Columbus on business.
Miss Louise Rodgers is visiting
Mrs. Walter Curtiss, Jr., at her jiome
in Wynnton.
Mrs. W. A. Webb was a shopper
here Friday from Sumter.
Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Pryor, of Sniith-
ville, spent a few hours in Anieri-
cus Friday afteroon.
W. A.'Calhoun, of Columbus,
Seaboard commercial agent, was in
Americus Friday on business.
Mr. and Mrs. Allen Burkhalter, of
Roanoke. Ala., arrived on the Semi
nole Friday morning to visit Dr. and
Mrs. Carl W t . Minor at their home
on I.ee street.
Mrs. J. L. Knowles, who has been
spending the past few days with her
palvntz, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Persons,
nt their homo on Jackson street, re
turned Saturday to her home in
Ba inbridge.
Sam Dedman, of Columbus, form
erly of Americus, is vi. iting friend?
in Americus.
Mrs. Glenn Chrissman, of Cincin
nati, is viting Mrs. Chns. U. Rogers
at the Windsor hotel here for several
days. Mrs. Chrissnian will be pleas
antly remembered here as Miss Nina
McKean where she made many
friends whilo teaching in the Amcri-
cus Grammar school.
Miss Bessie Hill, Jewell Hill. Mat-
tie Booth, Eunice Hill and V.
a 'visitor in Ameticui Tuesday.
Mrs. J. A. Hill, Miss Harriet Hill
and Miss Lizzie Windsor wero shop
pers here Wednesday from Smith-
VUle.
Mrs. E. L. Bridges, Misses Jewell
Bridges and Callie Ratliff, of Leslie,
spent a few hours shopping in Am
ericus Tuesday.
Mrs. G. L. Williams has been dan
gerously ill and unconsicious at her
home for the last 36 hours, but was
reported today to be showing evi-
dences of certain improvement.
Mrs. Hudson J. Malone, who has
been spending several days with her
parents, Mr.-and Mrs. Otis D. Reese,
at their home on Jackson avenue, re«
turned today to her home In Albany.
R. L. Jennings, of Plains, spent a
few hours in Americus Tuesday.
Mrs. Louise Purvis, who has been
ill at the Americus hospital, has re
turned to her home and is improving
greatly.
Dr. B. L. Bridges* of Ellaville, was
a business visitor in Americus Tues-
dny. ^
J. C. Pace, of Leslie, was in Am
ericus Tuesday on business.
E. E. Cooke, of Plains, spent a
short while in Americus on business
Tuesday.
Mr. and Mr*. Oscar Martin and
the former’s mother, Mrs. Mary Ella
Martin, of Americus, have been
guests of Mrs. B. *F. Foster—Pleas-
unt Hill column in Dawson News.
Mrs. Russell Speer has returned
fron# Atlanta, where -she spent the
past few days visiting the millinery
shops for new ideas for Americus
friends.
Alex Slappey was a business visitor
hero Monday from Andersonviile.
Miss Belle 2f<*n».nleJ hos been call
ed to Macon to the bedside of her
mother, who is very ill.
Mrs. J. H. Williams, Mrs. S. H.
Timmerman, Mrs. J. L. Slappey and
Mrs. E. Timmerman, Jr., were shop
pers in Americus Friday from Plains.
David Courtney, of Columbus, was
visiting friends in Americus Friday
afternoon. «* {
C. C. Hardin, of Andersonviile, was
a visitor in Americus Saturday after
noon.
Mrs. T. R. Easterlin and Mrs. P.
M. Wimbush were shoppers here Sat
urday from Andrew Chapel.
Frank Ferguson, of DcSoto, was
a business visitor in Americus Satur
day.
Mr. and Mrs. B. T. Johnson, of
Huntington, were in Amcricur. Satur
day for » few hours.
Mr. a**.J Mrs. T. H. Bradley and
baby, of Fitzgerald, spent a few
hours in America.: Friday afternoon.
Miss Annie Ivey has returney from
Columbus, where she attended the
Bachelors' drr.ee and visited friends.
L. A. Thomas, of the 17th district,
was in Americus Saturday.
C. D. Hunt, of Columbus, was in
Americus Saturday on business.
S. W. Coney, of Savannah, is vis
iting his sister, Mrs. George Oliver.
Col. C. C. McCrory, solicitor of
the City court nt Eljnvillo, was a vis
itor in Americus Saturday.
E. B. Slappey, of Andersonviile,
was in Americus Saturday.
L. F. Humber, of Columbus, was
in v Americus Saturday, coming down
to look after his farm near here.
C. C. Sheppard was a visitor hero
Saturday from Ihintington.
H .A. Countryman, of SmUhvlfie,
spent n few hours in Americus Sat
urday.
B. A. Bradley was a visitor in Am
ericus Saturday afternoon.
T. M. Ethridge, of Huntington,
wns in Americus Saturday.
Thad Barrow wns a visitor hero
Saturday from Shady Dell.
E. R. Hart, of Ellaville, spent a
few hours in Americus Saturday.
Mrs. Lee Johnson, of Huntington,
was shopping in Americiis Saturday.
Jeff Dean was a visitor here Sat
urday afternoon from Sumter.
R. D. McNeill, of New Era, was
in Americus Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Webb, of Sum
ter, were in Americus Monday. /
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Holliday, of
Rochelle, spent Sunday with their
nephew, C. C. Holliday, at his homo
on Brooklyn Heights.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Register and
little son, Jack, who visited here last
week, have returned to their home at
Waycross.
Dick Williams spent Sunday in Eu-
fnula, Aia., with friends.
A fire, caused by a spark from a
torch used while gathering kind
ling, burned a fence and outhouse
in the yard of T. C. Tillman on Lee
street Sunday night. Thc tiro depart
ment extinguished the blaze before
the fire reached the house. >
Miss Alice Blumbery, of Chatta
nooga, Tenn., is spending several
days here with her sister, Mrs. Pearl-
mnn.
I L. R. Coffin, of Richland, wns a
business visitor in Ampricus Monday.
A. J. Timmerman, of Plains, spent
Sunday afternoon in Americus with
friends.
L.' B. Horne, of Valdosta, was in
Americus Sunday nfternoon.
Mrs. J. H. Miller and George Ball
spent Sunday arternoon in Cordele
with relatives.
C. L. Battle was o business visitor .
in Americus Monday from Ellaville.
W. .E. Carter, of Andersonviile,
spent a few hours in Americus Mon
day on business.
Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Alexander have
returned from a motor trip to White
Springs, Lake City and other points
in Florida.
T.
A few doses 006 break a cold. If
llie sprinK flowers that usually come, T’itts motored down from Montezuma
May are now in full blossom. I Tuesday to see Mary Picl.ford at the
Killer T. O, Wright, Baptist min- Rylonder theater,
iater at Macon, has accepted a call i K. E. Livingston, of Richland, waa
Mrs. Fannie Evcrcttc, formerly of
Tcnrcll county, died Saturday at
Andaluiia, Ala., and was buried at
Dawson Sunday.
To break a cold take 060;
