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* THE WEEKLY T1MES-REC0RDER. ■ , ■ ' '. - v ! '' - - •; ’ • - • • ■■’■r ■ -; ■ • 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 HIGH SPOTS IN GEORGIA NEWS lithlc company, a Virginia corpora-{star witness in suits of bank dep?si tion, has been withdrawn and the citi zens have agreed to pay the cost of paving assessed against them.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;