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CIVIL CALENDAR
HOUSTON SUPERIOR COURT OCTOBER
TERM 1923
MONDAY, OCT. tj 1923
Oliver Felder, et al,
vs No 914
Milus Subton
Muscogee Guano Go
vs 1137
M H Hardison as Administrator
of H G Hardison eb al.
Lakeland Phosphate Co
vs
M H Hardison, Adnar. etc*
1138
B H Ray, Transferee, Plaintiff in
Fi Fa
vs 1145
W W Harris et al, Glmts ahd
Brown & Green Clmts.
^3 H Ray Transferee
vs 1146
W W Harris et al Defts and
Brown & Green Clmts.
J L Brown
vs
Frank H Hiley
1287
R F Brantley
vs
1290
Samuel Faun Deft., ct. al
Estella Williams
vs
Charlie Williams
1291
J W Story
.vs
J D Grace
1292
Furst & Thomas
vs
C E Holly et. al
1293
PETITION FOR DVORCE
Rochelle Hodge
- Petittou for Divorce
- In Houston Superior
- Cmirt. October Term
- 1923.
3
James Hodge
To the defendant, James Hodge:-
Sumter Tax Rate 12 1/2 Mills
Americus.—The hoard of county
commissioners of Sumter county
have fixed the tax rate at a total
of 12 1/2 mills for county purposes.
Of this total 9 mills go into the general
fund, with 3 1/2 mills, or a little more
than one-third of the county’s total
revenue, put into the road fund. Last
year there was a total of 10 mills,
levied for general purposes, and 3
The plautiff, Rochelle Hodge, having
filed he| potitio" for divorce against „
James Hodge, in this court, returnable. m hls for road purposes, there being
to this torn of the Court, and it being a net reduction in the net this year
made to appear that James Hodge is not, of half a mill. Total taxable values
a resident of said county, and also that he
does not reside within the State, and an
order having been made lor service on
him, James Hodge. ( 'y publication, this,
therefore, is to notify you, .James Hodge,
to be and appear at the next Term of
Houston Supetior Court to be held on the
First Monday in October, 1928, then and
there to answer said fomplniui.
Witness tee Honorable it A Mathews,
Judge of the Superior Court. This July
9th 1923.
H T. Wasson, Clerk.
J W Story
vs
J D Grace deft eb. al
3294
B H Bay Transferee
vs ‘ 1147
W W Harris et al Defts and
Brown & Green Clmts.
L O Benton
vs
J E Holsenbeek
1165
Duke Bros
vs
Central of Georgia Ry Co
1232
Geo D Tucker and J A Walton
vs 1217
W E Wimpy et ot al
Duke Bros
vs
Southern Ry Go
1283
A J Evans
vs
Southern Ry Co
1234
A J Evans
vs
Southern Ry Co
1235
Smisson & Miller
vs
Central of Ga Ry Co
1236
Mrs. Chas. L Bateman
vs 1295
J V Reynolds, L S Hays & R L
Pulliam defts et. al & J W Uhels.
Glmt
TUESDAY OCT. 2ND
W 0 Coles
vs
Mamie Coles
1296
Wright & Solomon
vs
Southern Ry Go
1237
Hugh M Dorsey, Governor
V8
Will Smith, et al
1236
J C Davis Director Gen’l
vs
1239
National Contracting Co
Jack Jones
vs
Alice Jones
1244
A C Gledhill
vs
1250
L B Aultman, et ai
Jake Jones
vs
Lizzie & Andrew Tooko
1297
•Uv.
Jake .Tones
vs
Mariak Little
1298
GAN elson
vs
F M Nelson
1299
Now York Chicago & St.. Louis
Railroad Ce.
vs 1302
A Evans
Adams Bros Co.
vs
J A Blizzard et al
1303
Mrs. Kate Copeland
vs
Frank H Copeland
1304
Eld ora Fuller
vs
Canty D Fuller.
1305
Armour Fert. Works
vs
Mrs. F E Tomlinson
1306
Mrs. Fannie E Warren
vs
F E Cosey
1307
Susie Yeneble
vs
J J Veneble
1308
J B Thompson et. al
vs
J R Ammons Exeo. of
Thompson
1309
Chas. H
Pauline Self Marshall
vs
Louis Marshall
1310
in the county, upon which the com
missioners base their levy, are $9,-
339,778, which, it is expected, will
yield a total revenue for all county
purposes of approximately $150,000.
Last year the county expended a to
tal of $165,379.51 for all purposes, and
thpre remains now on deposit in Sum
ter county banks for Hie credit of the
road funds a balance of $165,686.95.
r Oeprhl* Railroad Help* Studenti
j Atlanta—Enrollment for the flrsl
{engineering classes under the co-oper-
'stive plan between the Georgia School
'of Technology and the Central of
{Georgia railway has been completed.
Forty-nine boys from all parts of the
'state are at work and eight are an
■the waiting list. The plan, which has
'Just been put into effect, gives boys
an opportunity to earn their . Way'
through college by wording half their
time at the shops of the Central of
Georgia in Macon, Columbus and Sa
vannah, and spending the remaining
half of the time at Tech. .They ^re
ceive regular apprentice wages and
will earn a sufficient amount to pay
all their college expenses. The course
leads to the regular degrees, but takes
five years instead of foUr for com
pletion. The Central of Georgia Js
the first railway in the South to adopt
this plan and the experiment is being
watched with much interest in in
dustrial circles. The first section of
PETITION FOR DIVORCE
Georgia, Houston County.
Will H Ford
VB
Daisy Wilconson Ford
No. 1323
Petition for divorce in Houston
perior Court, October Term, 1923.
To Daisy Wilconson Ford:
Su-
Greater Wesleyan To Take First Rank students has been at work for four
weeks and the master. mechanics in
the several shops report that the
BtudentB have done splendid work.
All of them are graduates from ac
credited high schools or have quali
fied' with the entrance requirements
Macon.—Dr. William F. Quillian,
president of Wesleyan college, who
has returned from a trip up East,
whore he visited a dozen of thb lead
ing colleges for women in the United
States, announces that With the pur
chase of the Wesleyan site at R’ivoli, °f Tech.
the college has all the requisites nec-!
essary for making it as large and up- j Policeman's Wife Held For Killing
to-date as any one of those in the! Atlanta. — Sensational testimony
East. A campaign to raise fine mil- against the character of Mrs. W. W.
lion dollars for the college is to be Evans, held in connection with the
The plaintiff, Will H Ford,. havingj launched this fall. This money is to fatal, shoting of her husband, Police-
filed his petition for divorce against be used in erecting a modern plant on m®n ,W. W. Evans, featured the • cor-
Daisy Wiloonson Ford, in this Court, t ho newly acquired site and the pres- oner’s inquest whloh resulted id, a
returnable to this term of the Court, and, en ^ college property is to be convert- verdict, instructing that the widow h e
HHMphl hw ««!-? In, ° a ” od r | f§
Countv, and also that she does not reside 1 sic, according to the program adopted coroner s Jury agreed that Evans met
... i .... .... ------- . .. .... his death from gutmhot wounde. The
next action will he the preliminary
hearing of Mrs. EVans in the city
court of.Deqstidr on a warrant charg
ing her with' the murder of Evanp.
According to her attorney, Ben Typ,
the hearing will bo held at Decatut.
Testimony that Evans accused hlii.
wife of undue friendliness with other
men Just a tew minutes prior to hip
death was given by C! J. Christian,
whose Wte is a niece of Mrs. Evans, j
and who is a tenant of the same'
house with the Evans family.
within the state, and an order having
been made for service upon her, Daisy
Wilconsb* Ford, by publication, this,
therefore, is to notify you, Daisy Wil
oonson Ford, to bo and appear at the
next term of the Houston Superior
Court to be held on the third Monday in
October, 1923, then and there to answer
said complaint.
Witness the Honorable H A Mathews
Judge of the Superior Court. This
August 15, 1923.
H L Wasden, Clerk.
Mrs. Fannie Self
W G Watson Adrar
Jas Anderson
vs
Ellen Anderson
Mattie Lou Wootson
Adolphus Wootson
County of Crawford
L P Taylor and Mrs M H Taylor
43 W Smith
vs
Sam Davis
1254
1271
1272
1276
A J Evans
vs
Southern By Co
1278
1283
PETITION FOR DIVORCE
Georgia, Houston County.
A. P. Sanders
VB
Mrs Conie Garolton Sanders
No. 1321 i
Petition for divoroe in Superior Court,
October term, 1923,
To the defendant, Mrs Conie Carlton
Sanders.
The plantiff, A. P. Sunders, having
filed his petition for divorce against Mrs
Conie Carltou Sanders, in this Court re
turnable to the October term of this
Court, and it being made to appear that
Conie Carlton Sanders is not a resident
of said County, and also that she does
not reside within tho State, and an order
having been made for service upon her,
Conie Carlton Sanders, by publication,
this, therefore is to notify you Conie
Carlton Sanders, to be and appear at the
next term of the Houston Superior Court
to be held on the 3rd Monday in Oc
tober, 1923, then and there to answer
satd complaint.
Witness the Honorable H A Mathews,*
Judge of the Superior Court. This 7th
day of August, 1923.
H. L. Wasden, Clerk.
H F Rape
V a 1310a
Jas. Hawkins deft & C O Richard
son Exec Clmt.
by the trustees at their meeting laBt
June. Methodists throughout the
South will be called on to aid In this
campaign.
Dog Leads To Tragio Discovery
Alma.—A dog with a human hand
in its mouth revealed a double trag
edy here^recently. Luther and Estell
Knowles, 17 and 15 yoars old, are
dead, horribly mangled, as the result
of being run over by a train after they
had dropped to sleep en the track
here, their bodies being discovered by
a dog, which' carried the hand of oire
of the boys to the front porch of the
man to whom the dog belonged, who
lived near the railroad yards. Search
was instituted immediately after the
dismembered portion of a human body
had been seen in the dog’s mouth by
a young woman whp lived in the
house, and the bodies were discover
ed on the track.
Editors WiJI Confer In Athens
Athens.—Preparations for the con
ference of editors of the Eighth and
Ninth congressional districts in Ath
ens September 14 are completed. Er
nest Camp of Monroe and John F.
Shannon of Commerce are arranging
the program for the joint session of
the two press associations of the two
districts. Charles D. Rrountreo, pres
Expert Approval Of Railroad Lease
Savannah?—That tip Georgia Pub
lic ' Service commission will re
port favorably upon the proposed
lease of the Carolina, Gllnchfibld &
Ohio railroad 'by ,the Atlantic Coast
Line,, was the confident opinion ex
pressed here by John L. Tye, Atlanta
lawyer, who represented the Louis
ville &” Nashville railroad at the re
cent hearing In the matter. The pro
posed lease is, for 99 years and the
Atlantic Coast Line declares that In
desiring to take over this road it
.wishers to establish a straight line
from the Kentucky coal field's through
to Savannah, and on‘to other jfolntl.
Mr. Tye said, when interrogated, that
the Georgia railroad doesn’t want the
_ JJH Savannah & Atlanta road, whioh
ident of the Georgia Press association,4 rumor has had It might be taken over
by the Georgia railroad whioh it joins
at Camak.
Is scheduled to be present and de
liver an address. Subjects of direct
interest to the business of publishing
newspapers will be discussed.
Mrs. C H Hardison
Transferee
vs 1311
C H Hardison Deft & W F Wool-
folk Clmt
Downs Motor Co
vs
H C McArthur
1312
PETITION FOR DIVORCE
Georgia Houston County,
Pauline Self Marshall
vs
Louis Marshall
Petition for divorce in Superior Court,
October term, 1923.
To the defendant, Louis Marshall:-
The plaiutiff, Pauline Self Marshall
having filed her petition for divorce
against Louis Marshall in this Court, re
turnable to this October tern of this
Court, and it being made to appear that
Louis Marshall is not a resident
of said County, and also that ho does
not reside within the State, and an
order having been made for service upon
him Louis Marshall by publi
cation, this, therefore, is to notify you
LouiB Marshall, to be and appear
at the next term of the Houston Superior
Court to be held on the first Monday in
October, 1923, then and there to answer
said complaint. '
Witness the Honorablo H A Mathews,
Judge of the Superior Ceurt. This 22nd
day of August, 1923.
H. L. Wasden, Clerk.
DROP IN INCOME OF U. S.
CRACKS TAX CUT CHANCE
Internal Revenue Collections Fall Off
9576,000,000 In Year, 8aye\Report
From Treasury
Waashington.—Hop© for a reduction
of taxes has been given another set-
$jf,pOO Is Prize For Fastest Plane Pilot
St. Louis, Mo.—High speed races for
the Pulitzer trophy and $4,000 'to
prizes are to be run off Lere the
last day of the international air races,
October 1, 2 and 3, according to an,
announcement by the St. Louis air
board and the Flying Club of St? Louis.
-ewls Supports Pinchot's Latest Effort
Philadelphia. —President John LJ
Lewis of the United Mine Workers!
back. The government's income rrom „ . .. . _ .. . _ ,
an Internal revanue, Including mom.
R L Marchman
?s
Houston Banking Co
1314
T 15 Tharpe Tax Coll
vs
R G Hardison
1315
National Fruit Farm
vs 1285
3 l Thompson and E L Sammons
im
C B Willingham
vs
H N Stipe
1318
Walter Hawthorne Clmt
vs 1314
Jeff rey s- McBlrath Co Employer &
Ga, Ca#a»lty Gt. Insurers
J. GUY JACKSON
INSURANCE COUNSELOR
LIFE-AOOIDENT-HEALTH-GROUP
The GUY that puts the SURE in
your Insurance.
305-306 Citizens & Southern Bank
Building.
Telephones 1142-3514-w
ONLY AUTHORIZED REPRESEN
TATIVE MISSOURI STATE LIFE IN
SURANCE COMPANY FOR
HOUSTON COUNTY.
It costs no more to get the host
policy and the most efficient ser
vice so why m»t gel it Am jest
as eloit terou asyom telephone*
supporting the suggestion -of Governor
Pinchot that the interstate commerce
commission Investigate' anthracite
taxes and- excluding customs duties,
was nearly $676,000,000'less laBt year
•than for the fiscal year 1922. - coal fTel ht t The „ overnor Mr
JU 1‘ Lewis Says, has placed his finger'with
unerring precision “upon the method
by which the consumers of anthracite!
may be given substantial relief from!
present excessive prices and the pos
punw&hed by the treasury, will be
used by opponents of tax reduction to
the next congress to withstand on
slaughts made in the name of the
terg came as a surprise.
eSates! 1 ! UP ^ bUdg0t sibYlity The let'-!
The ‘figures show that total collec
tions of internal revenue from all
sources was $2,621,745,227.56 for the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1923; as
Former Police Chief Slain In Georgia,
Stone Mountain, Ga.—-W. C. Camp
bell, 53 years old, a farmer living near,
compared with $3,197,461,083 for 1922 stone Mountain; and at one time chief
falling off of $575,706,856.43. De- 0 f police of Phoenix City, Ala., was
spite recent improvement in income S hot and instantly killed by his father
tax collections, income and profits tax in-law, J. Monroe Gresham, the trag-i
returns for 1923 were over $397,000,000 being precipitated by an attack!
less than for 1922. Collections of ma ^e by Campbell upon his wife and!
miscellaneous taxes dropped nearly by alleged threats against the life of
$178,000,000. bis mother-in-law, who is said to have
r-—- —■ ■ . j 'ntervened in an-effort to proteot her
Wagner Will Direct American Music daughter. The slayer is held in De-
Bayreuth, Bavaria.-Grandfather, § >, H ** 1 oa a char «® ot muT '
father and son will be represented on
the programs which Siegfried Wag
ner will direct id his American tour
beginning in New York next January.
His concerts will consist of compo
sitions by Liszt, who was Siegfried
Wagner's maternal grandfather, of
the wbrk of his father, Richard Wag
ner, and of his own contributions to
the wealth of classic music which has
been created by the group of which,
he Is the last representative who Is;
Dgyltvlpg,
tor..
given a* trip to Chicago to the Inter
national Live Stock Show in 1923.
This trip will be financed by the
PUlsbury Flour Mills, of Minneapolis;
The National Cereal Laboratory, of
Washington, and other friends.
In addition to this the Southeastern
Fair will pay the expenses of the
wfcmtag teams at the district contests
to the Fair Contest to a maximum ot
$33$. Mias- Etta Colclough win be su*
ill
y