Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-02-20
DORSEY To VISIT
ACC|E SCHOOL IN
AMER|CUs FRIDAY
COMING AT INVITATION OF COUG-
TY COUNCIL OF DEFENSE, WEIsEs
INSPECT COLLEGE WHILE I'M
CITY.

The big patriotic demonstration ag-
ranged under auspices of the SRnEsr
County Council of Defense and at
which Governor Hugh Dorsey WIFI de-
liver an address promises to be one al
the greatest rallies ever staged in
Americus, and Chairman Franc Maa~
gum and members of the council iaave
received numerous letters from our
of town people who will be here for
the occasion. This is the first oc-
casion since his inauguration ON
which Governor Dorsey has delivered
public address and unusal interest
centers in this feature of the gather
ing.
tt IS announced that the governors
talk will be along patriotic lines.
but his reputation as an orator ana
speaker is such that hundreds Of peO-
pie will be here from Lee, AEaeeaz-
Webster, Terrell and Schley counties
to- hear him There will also bG
numerous parties from Plains, Leslie
De Soto, Cobb, Huntington, AndersDn-
Vile and Sumter here to attend the
demonstration, and hear Governor
Dorseys address. The governor IS
coming here expressly to attend tbs
demonstration, but the invitation Og
Chairman Crawford Wheatley, OF the
board of trustees of the Third District
Agricultural and Mechanical College.
will pay that institution an officiak
visit while in Americus He VIII ar
rive on the afternoon train from At
lanta and will be the dinner guest OF
Franc Mangum, chairman of the SUM
ter County Council of Defense, after
his visit to the college.
The program of community singing
compiled by Miss Ella Polk and Prof
j. E. Mathis, of the city schools, ana
included as part of the patriotic FaiTg
arranged by the county council OF de-
fense will be carried out in the audi
tcrium of the First Methodist church,
the program in full being printed ON
page one in this issue of The Times
Recorder. Governor Dorsey lIi he
introduced at this gathering by Frame
Mangum and will Immediately deliver
his address, leaving the stage at IT'S
cSnclusion, to permit the staging Of q
very pretty tableaux in which several
school children will participate.
In order that the governor may de-
vote ample time to the inspection OF
the college here, it has been arranged
for him to go there Immediately fol-
lowing his address at the First Metho-
dist church, and before the conclusion
of the exercises there. He will be ac-
companied to the college by COM
rlittee of prominent citizens, and the
entire college cadet corps win be
drawn UP on the parade ground and
there will be inspected by the governor
and members of the committee. Gov
ernor Dorsey has evinced much in-
terest in the agricultural schools OF
the state since their establishment sew
eral years ago, and is especially in
terested in the Americus school be-
cause of the splendid success it has
attained under the guidance of Princi-
pal ]. NJ. Collum, and Chairman Craw-
ford Wheatley, of the board of trustees.
both of which officials have devoted
much time and attention to advancing
the interests of the institution In adj
dition to Chairman WheatIey and
Principal CollYm, there will be sevral
members of the board of trustees OF
the institution present on the occasion
of the governors visit and every
building on the campus as well as the.
fine college farm win be personally
inspected by the party.