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THURSDAY, JUNE 16,1921. '
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THE WEEKLY TIMES-RECORDER.
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AMERICUS BOY, IN FLOOD CITY OF
PUEBLO, WRITES EYE-STORY OF DISASTER
LIFE FOR RIOT
Lee Adams, Ring Lead
er, Draws Same Pen-
alty As First
VIENNA, June 11.—-A life term
n the penitentiary war, the sentence 1
returned after an hour’s deliberation
late Friday night by a jury in the
special term of the Superior court
_ !,* °L L . c i. Adan W ‘he second
IT t , W S nty indl , ct * d negroes placed on
V * rial tor murder for his part in the
.tiyromvillo riot of a short time ago.
Co ^r t „f <l ^ ourned after ‘he verdict
Uatu , Wednesday, when regular term
cnminal business will be taken up
and the others placed on trial. r
Adams was placed on trial Friday
morning on practically the samo ev
idence as that submitted against Law
yer West, the first of the negroes to
be placed on trial, and who was
found guilty Thursday and sentenced
to life imprisonment.
The state put on the stand negroes,
who arc under indictment for the
same offense, who have practically,
admitted that a plot had been formu
lated, with Lee Adams and Rass Cobb
as ring leaders, to shoot up the town
of Byromville, on the night of May
* reprisal for the wounding
of Fate Chapman, negro, by Poliee-
man Cunningham early in the day
when the negro and the officer clash
ed over a tax dispute.
The state placed West on trial first , , . , .
for the purpose of proving that a con- ot Amcricus, who has been employed
spiracy to kill the white citizenry of in Pueblo, Colo., for some time, has
the little town had been formulated
J following the wounding of Fate
A freakish example of the activity of the; waters that flooded Pueblo,
Col. By all the rules this undermined housc'ought to fall—but it doesn’t.
Writing by candle light, with deso-lwhen there is no light, no water, no
lation all about. Brooks Williams, I gas and no transportation. The mat-
son of Mr. and/Mrs. G. L. Williams, ter of sanitation may become serious
for not only is the sewage system out,
ich Davis and Ben Brown, two
negroes under indictment, charging
murder and rioting, were placed on
the stand by the state and they ad
mitted the conspiracy, and told in
detail how Lee Adams and Ross Cobb,
alsQ under indictments, went to the
negro lodge hall and fired many shots
in an effort to get white men to coma
down into the negro settlement.
The state also introduced several
shotguns, pistols and rifles and a
piece of rope, which they found in
the house of Fate Chapman follow
ing the battle, which lasted for sev-
eral hours, resulting in one white
man and one negro being killed and
four negroes wounded. The state, il
is understood, will attempt to prove
during the trial of Adams (hat the
ic was for the purpose of hanging
t marshal in the event of his cap-
Jmkaa *mtn fold of Cobb and
Adams calling to arms all of the tary,
negroes residing in the settlement,
they claiming that the pair went to
each house in the settlement and
passed the word along. ’ The state
also put on the stand a Montcbuma
marchant, who testified that Adams
came to his store during (ho after
noon before the bnttle and purchased
A a large nunntity of shotgun shells
™ loaded with buckshot. It was this
i, type of shell. that resulted in the
death of Davis.
Tin! defense introduced no ev
idence, relying on the statement ot
so-
th c accused
Hoodlums Hang Fine
Cow By Legs to
Tree; She Dies
VALDOSTA, Juno 11.—Hoodlum-
ism reached its peak a few days ago
in Lowndes county- when a fine cow
was tied by the hind legs with bait
ing wire and she was suspended from
the limb of a tree and left to die
there.
The act occurred in a swamp near
the “Juat-a-Mcre" farm belonging to
J. F. Turner, and the cow waa a val
uable animal also belonging to him.
Just who committed the act and
what motive prompted it cannot be
surmised unless it was to punish
Mr. .Turner for some alleged official
act regarding dipping vats. It is said
that a dipping vat was blown lip in
that section of the county some time
ago, and it is possible that dynamit
ing was connected in soma way with
the cow hanging episode.
At any rate, the cow wi,
to hang there until she died, dither
of starvation or from suffering to
which she was subjected. The ani
mal discovered by "Shack Shiver,
who resides on the Brooks county sic
of the river. The animal hid pral
ably been dead a day or tVvo when
he found her.
Such an act of kaldalisAi against a
poor dumb brute, and one having
value for domestic usefulness,,is al
most unthinkable. It shows I
civilizing influence is at a low
among the authors of such an act.
written a letter home telling of the
great disaster that hit that city last
week. The letter arrived Friday
morning from the town, which was
cut off from railroad communication
with the outside world for several
days. ’
Mr. Williams* who is a graduate; of
Georgia Tech in electrical engineer
ing, is employed in Pueblo by the H.
L. Doherty interests, owners and op
erators of the gas and electric plants
there. He is a graduate of\the Do
herty School ,of Eclcctricnl Engineer
ing, w«a sent to Pueblo some time
ago from Denver. His letter tells
intimately of the flood and - the com
pleteness of the disaster. ’
Enclosed with his letter, written
last Sunday evening, was a copy of
the 4 o'clock extra, edition of that
day of the Pueblo Chieftain; an im
portant dally paper of the west. The
paper is a single sheet of '44 columns,
about 12 inches deep, and nrinted on
ono side only on a job press. It is
devoted to general orders, of the mili-
iry, the city being under martial
w, and to brief bulletins having to
do with flood information.
Following is his letter in full:
"Pueblo, Colo., Sunday blight,
Dear Folks. I Jjupposc you have
read in the newspapers something of
the flood disaster that has struck
Pueblo. Hppe you have not worried
any on my account for I can assure
you that it would have to bo somo
flood to bring enough water for mak
ing me uneasy.' Of eourze I do not
mean to say that this has not been
somo flood, for believe me it could
hardly have been worse or more de
structive of life and property. No
estimates of the life loss can be made
yet but guesses run nil the way from
a couplo of hundred to a thousand.
Not only has Pueblo suffered u sick
ening toll but the smaller towns and
isolated farmers along the flood riv
ers are heavy sufferers.
"Materially speaking, Pueblo, is n
ined town over practicnlly the en
tile business section and all the low
er and poorer part. Every public
utility, street cars, gas, water and
lights,
M
Iti Wife- Slaye*
WF^erUFresd
DOUGLASVILLE, June 11.—Mrs.
Mary Easterlin, the wife of a tenant
farmer on the place of Maas C. Teal,
In this county about eight miles frotrt
Austell, was exonerated by a DouglM
county coroner’s jury of killing Teal
Wednesday. ..
According to the testimony, there
been many arguments of late
..cen the fanner and Easterlin
relative to the disposition of the
crops. A bout 8 o’clock Wednesday
morning, according to the woman,
Teal came’ to their home while she
was alone washing dishes, hor hus
band having gone to tho home of a
"uThb^T aft iked Mm to leave,
not wishing to talk to him relative
to the recent arguments he had had
with her husband. *
Instead of leaving, she (Md.lv
struck her on the head, and she
seized a small rifle, hoping to force
him to leave. He grabbed the gun
end they engaged In a lively tussle
for it. going out into the yard. Dur
ing thtt-ttrugglc. the gun was d£
charged. The young woman said that
she did not know whether she pulled
the tripper or whether,the gun wont
off by accident. AJbulIet wound in
the heart killed Teal. Neighbors
testified
electric 11 gilts, arc suspended indefi
nitely. Water stood twelve feet deep
nt tho gas works and so far as wo can
tell now, has ruined the gas making
retort* Mud df the stickiest kind
covers the whole plant inside and out,
upstairs and down to a depth of ot
least one foot. Business houses are
in the same fix with basements full
of mud and in most cases even the
second stories together with the mer
chandise in perfect tangle of mud and
*“The city is under etrlct military
control and no one is allowed on the
streets after 7 p. m. All railroads
anil bridges are destroyed, so that no
railway service is to be had. This,
together with the fact that moot of
tho food houses were in the destroy
ed district has made food a precious
" Vand none can be bought with-
lertnit. Luck of water Jeven to
: is a very, serious orobleni. A
ones started now would com
plete the disaster for It could not be
chntrolled without water. But so for
and even during tho flood the only
thing that held down the numerous
fires has been mill. Even the large
ureas have been burned and the night
of the main flood fires of large size
were raging in different parts of the
‘The floods 'Were due to cloud
bursts and continued excessive ruins
on the streams flowing through the
town. Dikes and embankments were
mid horses, arc becoming noticeable.
In the ice plant alpne, which is next
to the gas plant, 48 horses were
drowned In one barn. The gas plant
lost three. A dead cow and a dead
calf were also washed on the plant’,
property, so you can get some idea
of the number of dead animats lying
around.
“The water receded sufficiently
yesterday for us to begin getting the
plant in shape. By three o’clock to
day we were just getting enough ol
the mud cleared out to get around in
one of the buildings where we could
make water gas. Fires were started
in tho machines and the boilers. At
0 o'clock another cloudburst had
brought the river up again and ev
erything is under water. We art
hoping it does not rise any highei
than it did tho'flrst time, which bet
tered by nine'feet the record higl
mark made in 18D4.
"Well, it’s a great life if one doer
not weaken. I am writing without
any idea that thia letter will get out
for somo'days (until railway connec
tions arc ngain made). But at any
rate,, there is no use to worry. It is
n great experience to have, once,
Will probably get a full news paper
uccount and mail you when they re
sume nublishing. Tho enclosed Is f
small hand-set and printed sheet that
one of tho papers have gotten out.
Lots of love. , „
"BROOKS.”
inper, at. —
the Dublin Courier-Herald and oho
of the best known newspaper men in
who recently resigned to accept
similar position in Evansville, Ind
Propaganda for legislative act
to ipwer the age limit in the compul
sory education law of tho state, or t
to make it include provisions for
Mn ‘ S
citizens of Augusta have become
highly aroused over the situation.
C. W. Tico, treasurer of tho Rose
Hill Lodge of Odd Fellows at Co
lumbus, is undor arrest charged witli
larceny after trust. It is charged
that between January 1 and May 0
he embezzled funds of tho lodge to
g .too extent of |857. Bond was
kindergarten departments for public scssed at $1,200.
schools was initiated this week in Sa- Cantaloupe shipments from Vnl-
vnnnah nt a meeting of the Waters dbsta started with a rush and have
avenue school. kept up all tho week. Tho Atlantic
Poker in its various forms and Coast Lino haB handled to date 30
manifestations is the favorite pastime cars out of Valdosta and the South-
of a majority of the members of the em about fifteen cars making the
{ [cncral assembly of Georgia, accord- shipments run up tp about DU cars
ng to the unpublished information of for the first week in JOne. Before
the Chamber of Commerce of At- this season the record pn shipments
lanta in connection with a directory wks one car on June G. (
of the legislature which that organize- Dr. A. P. Gordy, of Columbus, was
tlon has just issued from tho press elected president of the Gcorgin
in accordance with ite biennial cus- State Dental Society ot Macon Thurs-
tom when a now set of lawmakers day night. Dr. N. A. Teague, ol
como into office. ' Augusta, was chosen president-elect
Josephus Daniels, former secretary DF.: C. C,. Howard, of Atlanta, vice
of tho navy, -will deliver tho com- president, and Dr. J. Russell Mitchell,
mencement address at the thirty- *
. at the .
third annual commencement at the
Georgia School of Technology at 10
o’clock Monday, June 13. Chancel
tor David C. Barrow of the Univcrsi
ty of Georgia, also will address the
graduates, and N. E. Harris, former
governor of Georgia, will make the
closing address. The class numbers
165 men .
Ah Young has cento to Ath%)l«
from Honolulu to attend the con
vention theronext week of the Asso
ciated Advertising Clubs of the
World and to obtain an American -
education at Georgia Tech. Ilo nr- his body was dragged into tho shnrp-
C. L. HOLLAND.
BRONWOOD, June 11. — C.
Holland, aged 60 years, prominent
throughout this 'section, died hero
Thrusday afternoon of pneumonia,
Mr. Holland is survived by his wife.
Win? was Milts Carrie Derrick, of
Plains: 3 sons and 2 daughters, J. D.
Holland, of Macon; C. P. and Edwin
Holland, of Bronwood, nnd Mrs. Otis
Kennedy nnd Miss Snide Holland.
The funcrcl was held from Bronwood
Methodist church Friday afternoon at
4 o’clock.
to the low districts. And even then
the people—or a gFeat many of them
—refused to move. They are the
not believe It would be until too late.
And when It started women and
children coold not got out.
"Not a house Is left In that pa*
ticular part and hundreds of, houses
even on- higher ground were taken en-
tlroly off their foundations and pos
sibly deposited blocks away or were
tU “THe°eity is divided into three
arts by the two streams which con-
erge hero and sortie half dosen steel
Dridges connected the three parts.
Only one of the bridges remain and
the third section of the city is prac
tically isolated. To replace these
bridges alone-would Just about bank-
upt the town ond together with the
thcr large sections destroyed. I do
no. sec how it will recover m yei
'I am writing by candle light,
here are rifts in the line of
ars.
it, so
if there are rifts in the line of my
thoughts, just btarrm it on rtWMPOOr
MRS. R. E. PARKER.
Mcsr Willie Check Parker, 32 years
old. • died Thursday morning at 0
o’clock at her home on McGarrah
street, after an illness of ■ several
months. 1 ; . _
She is survived by her husband, R.
E. Parker, and two children. Verna
Louise and Hugh Parker/ Other sur
viving relatives arc her mother, Mrs.'
Susie Check, of Leslie, two sisters,
Mrs. Ed Kinard, of Leslie; Mrs. Wal
ter Guerrry, of Smithville; two
brothers, T. T. Check, of Smithville,
and A. T. Cheek, at Leslie. She also
lcavas a large family conncetion.
Funeral services were held from
tha family residence, 702 McGar-
rah street, Friday afternoon at 3:30
o'clock, with Rev. Guyton Fisher,
tutor of the First Methodist church,
ifficiatbig. Interment will be in.
Oak Grove cemetery.
Pallbearers will be J. B. Clements,
W. P. McArthur. V. N. Maddux, G.
M. Bragg, T, E. Castleberry and H.
E. Allen.
Mrs. Parker had been in failing
health since November of last year,
but her condition Was not regarded
as critical until-Friday of Use-week,
when a nervous collapse resulted
from a continued weakness front
Which she never rallied.
She waa a member of the Meth
odist church, and was an active work
er in the congregation of her church,
at Leslie, where shc.tvas reared. She
wai widely knhwh for her great
kindness of heart and warm
tides for those in utiftirtuna
cumstances, and her homo was ever
open to hej friends, with whom the
constantly surrounded herself. A sad
incident connected with her death
Is that she leaves a little son of 4
years who has been afflicted since
Ms birth with a throht trouble, for
which he has had several operations
recently.
T. A. Acree, Jr., a broker and com
mission merchant of Camilla, has filed
in United States court at Albany a
voluntary petition in bankruptcy,
through his attorneys, Gardner and
Gardner,* of Camilla. Liabilities of
the petitioner are listed at $29,99.17,
with no assets.
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The first carload of Colquitt conn:
ty watermelons sold on the track at
Moultrie brought $460 Tuesday. They
man screaming 1
fired.
*t killed xeai. .. . " p PO nl* can not seem to realise Many young Chir
convenience and importance of. taking courses in tei
iarnmg before the sho public utilities until a time like this, | trading at Annul, Cl
trie tcritory . , ■
Many young Chinese students nre
' tea culture and tea
China.
rived last week and expects to remain toothed disc,
in Atlanta four years. Ah Young A committee from the
is a Chinese, born M Hawaii, son of Shrine club, consisting of Early H.
a wealthy merchant and 21 yearn of Johnson, T^Joff Kelley, and W. E.
aRe Page, left Thursday for Des Moines
-• • • were filed to appear before the dispensation
and charter committee of. tho Im
perial Council in an effort to secure
favorable consideration of the appli
cation of Columbus Shriners for
Injunction proceedings
in Fatten Superior Court Tuesday
against Commissioner of Agriculture
1. J. Brown, State Oil Inspector Mar
vin P. Roan, State Treasurer W. J.
Speer and Ru9sc!I Shirley by the
Dunham Oil company. The injunc
tion seeks to prohibit the payment
into tho state treasury of inspection
feta collected for inspection of kero
sene and gasoline on the ground that
the Georgia law is unconstitutional.
A complete review < of his four
years of administration;-recommen
dations that an improved budget sys
tem be inaugurated; that legislation
be enacted to provide for rigid and
immediate enforcement of the law,
and that amendments to the state tax
equalization measure bo adopted, will
be embodied In Governor Hugh M.
Dorsey's final message to the general
assembly when It convenes the Iqt-
tre part of this month, says the At
lanta. Constitution.
Georgia ranks second among states
in bauxite production, nccording to
figures of the United States geolog-
teal survey. Counties in-order of u " nnK - 1 timc ’
Quantity produced arc: Sumter, Wil
kinson, Floyd, Rs
dormitories at Bessie Tift college, the
regular summer season at that in
stitution will not bo held this year,
it is announced by President J. H.
Foster,
Felix Chapman, who left Macon 22
years ago at the age of 10 as a sol-
Her In the Spanish war, has just re
turned homo for the first time, nnd
it Is the first time Ills mother lias
teen him in those years. Kc saw serv-
ec in tho Philippines and served in
[•’rapcc in the recent war, ami is
now a member of the Transport
eon*
A committe was appointed, to or-
B tnizc county committees in Centra)
corgia and to launch a campaign
for the developments of tho dairy in
dustry in this section and the estab
lishment of a medern creamery ir
Macon at a meeting of 100 men al
the Macon Chamber of Commerce
Wednesday. , -.. .. -
Miaa Bessie Taylor, a graduate o:
tha Macon Hospital training school
for nurses, has been elected super
intendent of the Nurses Training
school to succed Miss Julia Clark, re-
signed. Miss Taylor announced that
she with accept the position only
temporary. Miss Mattie Redding will
signed j
everything it in reediness to begin the
work which will complete the new
$100,000 high school building at
Quitman.
“The r
lmwIT m ■ I „
’ect, no problem at all. Racial hos-
;ility exists only between bad whits
men and bad black men," Dr. Rufus
W. Weaver, chancellor of Mercer
Uni varsity, declared Wednesday in
Ida baccalaureate addresa to the grad
uating class of the university.
Business worries are believed to
ave caused J. D. Burnett, cashier
of the Bank of Sparta, to commit sui
cide at his home Wednesday. He
■hot himself through the head, using
large calibre revolver. The Bank
of:Spurts closed its doors more than
O months ago and its affairs are
now in the hands of the State Bank-
Department.
!1i
n a pistol duel staged^ in the Jt
ter county court house at Monticel
o Wednesday, Frank Wilson, a no-
ot commission.
William C.-McDonough, one of the
best known citizens of Savannah,
died Wedniyiday night in a hospital
from tile effects ef injuries received
ed during the day when he was
struck by a motorcycle ridden by
W. F. North, the accident being un
avoidable, witnesses said.
- i -The Federal court at Atlanta has
granted the Augusta-Aiken Street
Railway t ompany at Augusta the
right to charge 10 cent farts foliow-
ng its injunction against the Geor
gia Railroad Commission, which or-
COLI
of Atlanta, a member of the execu
tive couneil.
Sergeant Clifford S. Dean, tank
corps, Camp Bcnning, committed
suicide by shooting himself through
the heart, in a'Columbus hotel Wed
nesday night.
Tho body of Cliff Hammock, 24
was slashed in two by a large cir
cular saw at ono of the Gordon saw
mills Tuesday. Hammock was carry
ing off slabs from tho saw at the
time of the accident. It was Stated
that oqe of the slabs, which he was
holding, was caught by the saw and
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in a hospital at Savannah
temple.
Mildrei
. JLJ H ....
Thursday from the effects of a bite
of a rattlesnake, the first death from
melt cause, it is said, occurring thore
in a quarter of u century.
An officUl order has been issued
for the sale of the property and
equipment of tho Brunswick
Street Railway company to tho high
est bidder • beforo the court house
Joor Tuesday, July 6. At thia sale, 11
,s understood, tho property, equip
ment, etc., will be offered only t
& going concern, subject to confirm!
on of the court. If n satisfactory
bid is not received, howover, it is
certain that tho property will later
>e
: placed on sale’as junk.
Tho Eatonton Cottou Mills, which
have been closed for several months
n- uim-il operations Monday and an
time.
occurred in tho Gcorgin
rngedy
lisrict Tuesday, when Mrs. Mat
ur Mncon and Bajto^V^^*^' tic* McCullough, a'mill, worker, was
According to the nnnual report of '| , ' ot h pJ) r ““^ h ^vanon?^McCullounh
the state railroad commission, just J’X 11?"’, JJ 1 , 11 h^i,t £ l „ 0uK '
sent to tho governor, more than four 1,8
million dollnrs was paid in taxes in - l n 5t "ni "m „ a n „ I •*
eS^*Au 20 .ho y wr» b n <! increare his wife, who attempted sut
of more than a million dollars since g*jf "‘o rohc^anarimcn't'to extort
1017, which year is used for com- C, e " h ,/ n “ pa 1r"L? l x ‘°u
parison by the commission. '
- of -4k* crazy. She will recover and will not
crazy,
cstify against him if ho withdraws
tis accusation of insanity.
Dougherty county's first car of
icachcs has just been shipp by C. R.
Menton.
J. Van Holt Nash, adjutant general
af the Georgia National Guard, was
in Atlanta F * *
Mrs. Albert Rankin
More than 1600 Savannahans have
igned a petition to bo sent to Kcp-
•escntatlvc John P. Hill, who has in-
-roduccd a bill in tho house which
would rcpenl the Volstead act.
The body of CharlcB Archibald
Owen, ^lio was killed at Langley
’ield, Tuesday afternoon, arrived at
■is home at Quitman Friday and tho
’uncral was held under the escort of
he American Legion, tho high school
cadets and the military escort. The
hews of Mr. Bowen’s tragic death
deeply affected Quitman.
The department of Georgia, of the
Atnerican Legion, through its com
mander A. L. Henson, of Calhoun, In
vited Adjutant-General Peter C. (kar
ris to deliver an address to the third
annual convention of the legion
which is to be held in Columbus, July
6 and 46. General Harris has
accepted tne invitation.
The Georgia Press Association wih
nvenc in Washington, Gq., Mon
day, July 11, next, for a three ^sys 1
seslon.
convene in Waihington,
:, for n
Mrs. William H. Felton, the "grand
Old woman" of Georgia, Friday cele-
irated her 86th birthday. Mrs. Fel-
racial isauc is no longer see- ton> w h 0 is brilliant and aggressive,
The negro proMem is. in ef- has defied the infirmities of advanc-
at all. Racial hos- sge, and is alert of mind and
active in body, filling many engage
ments annually.
Marked by appropriate exercises,
h which some of the most prominent
member* of the medical and surgi
cal professions of the itate will par
ticipate.- The monument ond medal
lion to Dr, Crawford W. Long, pre
sented to the University of Georgia
>y Dr. Joseph Jacobs, of Atlanta, will
>e unveiled on the campus on the af-
emoon of June 14, Alumni day, dur
ing commencement week.
J. A. McDonald planted ten pecks
ot potatoes on about one-fourth of
in acre of ground on his farm In
Lie conuty, 7 miles from Albany, at
J t of $4,76 for the seed. The
has yielded at the rate of more
:ro, who had been arretted for vio- than 240 bushel* per acre. He sold
atlng hia parole, was killed and.Po- about half of the crop at $2 a bushel.
Ilceman Cal Price was slightly wound- Mrs. J. S. Ifowkins, president of
ed, his life being saved, it is said, the Savannah Woman's Federation,
>y a bullet from his pistol, whtich hit speaking of the recent action of At-
tho weapon in the negro’s hands, re- lanta mothers in bettering conditions
suiting in tho lead spattering Into the at dances, declared that she believes
cylinder of the gun, putting it out that proper chaperonage at dunces,
‘—- " ‘ '■"* Whether the dances are public in halls,
pavilion, or street dances, will go
urther to correct possible evils than
ipy oliu-r direct action that could
.taken. * *
W. D. Nottingham, Sr., at one time
dgc of the Macon City court and
also of the Houston court at Perry,
died Thursday night in a private hos
pital near Baltimore, where he went
several weeks ago.
The Georgia Bee Keepers’ Asso-
Augnsta wne selected as the meeting
place of the 1922 annual convention
the doting session of the '
State Dental Society at Macon Fri
day.
The state university board of trus
tees has voted honorary degree be
conferred upen the following at
graduating exercises to be held Wed
nesday; William H. Fleming, Au*l "
gusta; LL. D,^ Benjamin M. Ilnle, | 74 Gallon8 Found
One Man's Place
„ ... L1 ..i'.vBy Raiders ™
Cant, Dnhlonega, doctor pedagogy;’
Joseph Jacobs, Atlanta, B. S.
When Edgar'N. Hudson, nn East
Macon plumber, found his clothes
afire while repairing nn auto engine
Saturday, ho had presence of mind
enough to run into the house, jump
into Led nnd wrap himself tightly
in the quilts, smothering the flames.
He will recover.
count)
Allison Gravely, nged 10, of Rome,
Ims been left $50,0011 by Ed Cousins,
a blind Man whom the Ind piloted
about the town for several years
Relatives, who had not given Cousins
much attention, were cut off.
Hoke Smith will be president of
concern which will erect a half mil
lion dollar motion picture theater in
Washington,
Cecil Neill, of Columbus, and How
ard Ennis, of MIlledgeviHC, rival can
didates for speaker of tho coming
Georgia house, have both returnee
homo from a canvass of the stnto
and each expresses- confidence that
he will be elected speaker without
any difficulty.
K. G. Bartlett has Just been re
elected secretary of the Dublin and
Laurens county chamber qt com
merce for the sixth time.
Tho watermelon crop of South
Georgia gives promise of being the
best ever seen in this section of the
country, according to the farmers
at Waycross. The vines nre in good
condition nnd already the fruit has
proved to be of excellent quality. Sev
eral wagon loads of melons have been
sold in Waycross up to data but as
a whole the crop will be rather late.
-With tho rrgulnr faculty of the
university teaching during the sum
mer session the Mercer Summer
School, according to tho advance ma
triculation of students, will this year
ho a record attondnneo for the in
stitution. Doan Peyton Jacobs, dl
rector of the Summer school, stated
that more than fifty students had
already registered for the course, al
COLUMBUS, June 11. — Cdii'tl
uing a veritable ccuaaue against tl
liquor traffic a party of tne ct
officers captured 74 gallona-of
ky and arrested John JL White,
haul being made on his place i
four miles the other sido of
toe. White speared before Jud.
John Ik. Lewis of the Municip
court and made $1,000 hand.. Tl
major portion of the whisky waa ■
found in five gallons glass contain-,,
era buried in the ground under the
White residence but four gallon were
found in a barn loft and other small
quantities were found in various
places of concealment about the
place, .
Like the 50(1 gallons that was
brought to the city during the first' '
of the week this was poured in tho*;
First avenue newer near' the' court '•
hods*
.Just previous to the raid at tho
White residence two 1(1!) gallon stills '
were found nbogt two miles from the -
Buena Vista road on RandaH’s-ereek
but no whisky was foulid nnd : no or- "
Iwere made tl-ere.
RICHLAND.
RICHLAND, June 11.—Geo. Luns
ford, of Jacksonville, Fla., is .aprnri-
injC a few days with ’ friends arid
relatives here. On his return home
the first of next week he wiH'tufcr '
his daughter, Mrs. W. C. Coffin and
hildrcn with; him for a month's ,*visit.* \
Mrs. F. H. McGalla. of Albany,
the guest of Mrs. W. C. Dixon, spent
a couple of days thi? week in Ameri
ca*. .*- ; . r
Mjss Miriam McCnlla, of. Albany, 1
the guest of Miss Elizabeth West, who ?
recently returned from Andrew Goi- -
egc, where she has been, in school","
he past year. —
W. C. Alston, Jr., Sam Beall. ’
Charlie Morgan, J, C., Layfield and
re spending ,th« M
. Burke Nicholson! T _, v
Lhough the official registration books week at Dead Lakes, Fla., fishing,
do not open until this morning.
open until this morning.
R. Occa Perkins, ono of Muscogee
three representatives in the Georgia
legislature, will place Cecil Neill in
nomination for speakership \at the
coming session, according to an an
nouncement just made from
Neill’s headquarters.
Mrs. R, W. Rose Is spending some
time with her mother, Mrs. Robert
Hurhannn, at her home on Lamar
street. Mrs. Rose wsm formerly Miss
Lucy Buchanan, and her many friends
arc giving her a cordial welcome upon
‘he qccasion of her return visit.
Samuel Harrison has gone to Tam
, Fla., whero ho is, engaged
mkiness. '
Little Ktttc Harris, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. ,J. W. Harris, Jr., who has
been ill for tho past several weeks
with fever, was removed from the
city hospital'earlier in tho week to
her homo oh B(orno street, where she
is convalescing rapidly.
Grey Tillman is ill at his home here
,with a severe cold. •
Mr. nnd Mrs. D. S. Hogg, and Mrs.
Jeff Tatum, of Richland, were the
guests Friday of Mrs. George B. Tur
pin at hor homo on K’orne street. *
A 300-pound alligator crossing the
public road was caught nine mile:
south of Valdosta Saturday.
Mayor Couch, of Columbus, ha
llr.cd up for tho commission plan of
government in the campaign being
waged , there.
The Georgia Rural Letter Carriers'
Association will hold lt» annual con
vention in Savannah July 4 and f»,
Mayor Stewart will welcome the dele
gates. Clifford Walker will speak.
C. C. Wall, of Kllaville, Sibley coun
ty, is president of the association.
In a letter to Governor-elect T
W.Hirdwipk, President Harding ex-
>rcsscd regrets that lie would not
>o able to attend the Inaugural cere
monies to be held next Saturday
week in Atlanta, but that' he has
planned to visit Atlanta and Georgia
in tho coming fall or winter.
Julian Hunt, a 14-ycar-old white
boy, was seriously stabbed at Bale
City Monday by his playmate, Wil
liam Abridge, 13 years old. It is
slid that the boys became involved i
a playful dispute resulting In young
Akridgc losing control ot his temper
and putting hhr fcnife into play.
Young Hunt was taken to Moultrie
for medical attention. He is stabbed
in the left kidney. He may die.
The body of J. H. McGhee, negro
>reacher, who committed suicide by
umping into the Chattahoochco river
at Columbus December 18 of Mst
rcar, was found Sunddy by two white
toy, not more than ficc blocks from
tbe point where the negro leaped to
dealfe
Rapping the senate's refusal
Mrs. Jakd Giles and children ro».
turned Monday from a visit to relo- .
tives in McDonough. K
Mrs. John French, who has been'.,
visiting Mrs. J. E. French and Mrs.
W. W. Mabry returned, to Vidajia. n
Tuesday. -;,h
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Coffin, Mrf, ...
Martha Coffin, Miss Georgia Coffin*
Mr. nnd Mrs. L. Coffin and Master.
Lee Coffin arc camping this week *
at Kidd's mill.
Mrs. R. A. Kelley and children*?!
who have been visiting Mrs. W. C.‘
Dixon, has returned to her home
Tifton. . *:
Freeman Strickland returned home<*. -
from Georgia Tech Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Mayo have
moved into the house Yormcrl
cuniod by, Mr. and Mrs’ G. H5 T '
Mrs. Mulkie, recently'moved te$
ity, is desperately ill - from- -
poisoning. «.
Mrs. W. R. Arnold and Miss Ncliif
Arnold left for Parrot Saturday £or.^
hurt visit before going to Plains j*
to make their home.
I. Carter went to CpJurabus F|n
lay to meet Tom Carter, his.son, 4)9^ ^
Rufus Brown, who came home
Tech for the summer holidays. (/ ;
Effio Ponder returned homo from
Riverside school Saturday. ‘ w ,. t
Mrs. Edgar Kimbrough, is aligbUy
proved.
The revival at the Baptist cktin
to start the fourth Sunday
his month. It will he conduct
by the pastor, Rev. Crnatfoi
The singing will bo led by J.
Fry. of Atlanta.
Mrs. Grimes had as.hef guest*
pend-the-day party Tuesday nt nre
country home Mrs. W. C. pixnn.iinil’*
li\ McCalla, Miss Miriam McCalln.,
Miss Katherine Dixon and M-aster W.
Dixon, Jr. f .
II. M. Dixon's filling station is,
nearing completion and wfll soon bc‘“
ready for service.
The annual picnic of tho. Richland
Sunday school is planned for. Thuf*-.. ,
day, June, lfi, at Ponder'H irfill. .
Mrs. Gussie Grimes is spending the ,2
week-end with Mrs. W. C. DlXonl “.
Mrs. Leroy Chappell and young
daughter have returned home after
h tt/o weeks’ visit to .Mrs. Gcofge
Morton at Randall’s Crossing.
Quite a number froiii
motored to Dawson to* see the-min
strel shoVv put on by the American
Legion of. that.‘cl* * ' ‘
PRMH
Josephus Daniels, secretary of the
navy under Woodrow Wilson, told
pftattatcf of Georgia Tech at Atlanta
londay at their commencement that
the way for the United States to
start reduction of Uk«s is to-reduce
joth the army arid navy to 100,003
nen each. During hia addreaa Mr.
Daniels lauded Georgians for their
support of Tech ond stressed indus
trial education aa the work to lead
the South from ite bid Idea of in-<
dividualism, which he characterized
as ite greatest strength and at tha
same time it* greatest weakm
Other addresses at tho thirty
2 de
— -ity last week. Soflie
declared it to be the best minstrel
show they over saw. _ ,
The Board of Education mcLre- 1
cently and elected R. W. Wood, of
Atlanta, as principal; Miss Nett Rbb- ‘
ns, of Jesup, seventh grade teacher;’
[isu Ruth Chappell, of Jefferson
ville, Gs., fourth grade and M#s
Francis Porter of Danville, Ga.,.‘
third grade and domestic teaChcl*. ’
An assistant principal has not beevr.'*
elected to fill Miss Lydia Dixon'a ’
place who resigned to take up !y*
count work.
J. Webb is quite sick in the Plains
hospital. i
Miss Mildred Layfield is home 'for
the Summer. She has been teach
ing in Noriii Georgia.
The young people who attended the
Rylander dance in Americus Tuesday;
‘ rht had a most enjoyuble time. ‘
Mrs. Maurice Majors, who has been
visiting her mother, Mr*. Fannie Wil
liams, for a few weeks, returned to
her home in Sylvester Mondhy.
annual
amounting to 14,000
The govo rnment has closed the
narcotic cli *“ ’ -- — —
J. W. Morqan returned home from
•third 1 scll ° o1 Monday.
--,»„**-**. /*iiu*r Tl'e buseball team from Souther
*h hep ' Fitld met the Richland team on the
1 b L^ rt,„n?etLe n«vl,f C BnJ'l RlchlBnd dinmond Wednesday aftere
rls . and Chancellor j* „ Bar J noon and defeated Riehland by «ir»-
row of the University of Georgia. 1 - Dlm ii: n « acorp
The Macon couneil kJJ.ato.ptod p Mi " s Carrie j- rance , Pondcr
an increase in street lighting lata , th)|t in sh , Um , n thl . w „ k .
, ... I Quite a number from here wei
* °‘f,„ l “ to Myrtle Sprinqs to the dance r
... **!- 1 ' 0S- eently. The spendtd music was fui
its), the Isst ni the ^ouiheast r.ished hv the Richland orchestra,
A train of 1* freiqht ears. 17 of R u th Chappell and Miss S'
them loaded with cinders went Kir.ma rhnnpcll who are vialtinr
through a trestle over Perch Creek. tive , in Birmingham. »re
near Wayerose, on the Coast Line, home soon,
stopping transportation on the line ‘
for two or three days. Yielding to the earnest
Dr. Leon M. Latimer, of Anni:
Ala., has announced Ijis acceptance]
* the recent rail extended ‘
tiona Off
hundreds <
onion.
the pastorate of the
; worth of Griffin.