Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-09-01
To Protect City Hospital
Given AS Their
Purpose
$22,5OO BID is
TOPPED BY $500
Property To Go On
Block AT Courthouse
Tuesday

Matters relating to the sale at
public outcry tomorrow at II o'clock
for debt of the Y. NJ. C. A. property
in Americas came rapidly to a head
today, and incidentally an interest
Il ing situation arose wherein two sets
of physicians were pitted against
each other as bidders for the prop
erty, one set composed of the Drs.
Wise, of Plains, who submitted a pri-
vate bid for the property, and the
other composed of four Amelicus
physicians, banding together and
topping" the Wise bid, for the pur-
pose, they announced, of keeping
another hospital out of Americas and
thus protecting the city hospital,
which already is having a hard
enough time existing, they said. The
local physicians were Drs. Prather,
Grubbs, Smith and Glenn. The Drs.
Wise bid $22,500 and the local doc
tors 5000.
The bid of the DIS. Wose was sub
mitted by DR.. Samuel Wise, wh5 came
10 Americus this morning for the ~
pose following the visit to the Wise
hospital at Plains Saturday by a dele
cation of Americas citizens rep-
resenting the creditors Of the prom
erty and who were oesfrous of assur-
ing bid large enough to cover the
IN iebtedness of the property Icing
received by the time the property
went to sale.
No Previous Bids.
Up to that time not a bid hal baan
received, although the advertisement
OF the sale stated that private bids
would be taken The committee
which went to Plains to consult tba
Wlses was composed Of W w
Dykes, Frank Sheffield, H. O. ZONES
mayor j. E. Sheppard and Josepb
Perkins. After hearing their re-
guest and the statement that S22
eoO would cover the debt on tbe
property, DR.. Samuel Wise THANKED
Ine committee but made no comn,a,,+
ne next heard from him was tb;s
morning when he appeared at the of-
nee OF Shipp & Sheppard, attorneys
VINO brought the foreclosure aetio,,
prepared to submit the bid. which ha
ald to I. 0. Marshall receiver for
the property. ~
Shortly after the action of r.
wise mass meeting of Y. M g A
contributors at the Chamber of Cor,
meree, who were acting to protect
thelr interests in the property. mass
ga resolution recommending that
the bid of DR.. Wise be accented
ana 1t was taken at once to Jpdoe
LittleJohn, of the Superior court IN
chambers, where he was asked 70
confirm it Immediately. closing tba
sale. 'iie
Attorneys Recommended l.
Attorneys representing various
creditors, including J. E. Sheppard
Hollis Fort and W. w. Dykes, con-
Cured in the request that the sale
TO Dr. Wise be confirmed, but Re-
celver Marshall refused to recon-
mend the sale, taking the position
that the advertisement for bids an
nounced that it would be disposed of
at public outery and that to close
the sale before the hour set for the
sale might shut out others contem-
plating bidding. He admitted in re-
ply to questions that he knew of no
other proposed bids, but said the
Salvation Army had promised to send
a man from Atlanta tonight to pre-
sent a bid.
Mayor Sheppard, as one Of the at
torneys, urged Judge Littlejohn to
confirm the sale, declaring that the
bid fully protected the creditors,
which it had been feared might not
be accomplished, and, in addition,
/ the bringing of Rr. Wise here would
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