Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-09-30
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A man who takes his wife to ride
in an automobile and injuries her in
an accident is not liable under the law
to pay her damages, according to a
decision on the records of thu sS.te
court of appeals in a uniqjS ease
coming up from Augusta, some}Eears
ago.
A well known woman of Camilla
hired negro man to cook last Sat
urday and on the appointed time
on Monday morning he came driving
up in his automobile. He makes his
regular returns in his car and rides
away after the meal is over. He will
probably demand a garage to keep his
car in.
One of the largest verdicts render
ed in Decatur county in some time
is that against the United States Rail
road Administration in favor of Mrs.
Joanna Allen of Climax in the CITY
court here, now in session. The award
which was for $4,000 was for the
killing of Mrs Aliens son Hugh who
was killed in wreck on the Atlantic
Coast Line between Climax and Balm
bridge early last year.
At the request of Rev. C. r. Nc
Daniel, Macon evangelist preacher,
and of his friends over the state, the
committee of ministers from Macon
district appointed to hear his case in
church court has consented to give no
further publicity to the hearing in
Macon, according to Rev. P. w. FL
lis, presiding elder of the Macon dis
trict of the South Georgia conference
of the Methodist church.
Major General John F. Morrison
commanding the fourth army area,
with headquarters at Charleston, has
issued an order closing the Charles
ton offices az midnight of November
Is, the new headquarters at Fort Nc
Pherson, Ga, being opened at that
time.
Falling prices in the cotton market
has almost put a stop to selling by
farmers in Laurens county and the
holding movement here is beginning
to take very definite and positive
form.
Marion P. Purvis formerly post
master at Eden, Ca, is out on $400
bond to appear for trial in the feder-
al court at Savannah on a charge of
embezzlement. A postoffice Inspector
arrested him, charging that while
postmaster he appropriated more than
$500 worth of money orders.
Lawyers who have prepared bank
ruptcy schedules for the Willingham
Warehouse, which will be filed in the
federal court at Macon Friday, now
predict that the warehouse will pay
the creditors approximately 80 cents
on a dollar, and the R. F. Willing
ham Corporation. the canning con-
Germ at Franklinton, should pay ap-
proximatelv 35 cents on a dollar. The
report of the auditor placed the total
assets at S956.951.83 and the liabili
ties at S1.723,232.54 a shortage of
1866 .280.71.
Judge Roscoe Luke and family at
Townsville are recovering from what
is thought to have been an attack of
ptomaine poisoning a few days; ago;
Forsyth women will not be allowed
to vote for mayor and aldermen IN
the approaching primary.
= William Jennings Bryan and Mrs.
Brvan A~~p+ho~ With n oir con. W. ].
BRYAN. Jr.. and wife and children,
travelling in two automobiles en- route
from Asheville to Miami stopped a
few minutes in Milledgeville yester-
dav afternoon. Mr. Bryan called on
his friend, DR. Marvin Parks, presi-
dent of G. N. & I. c. The party spent
the night in Macon.
Petitions of the Gas Light compa-
nv and the Columbus Railroad COM
panv for permission to charge com
pensatory'' rates for street car SER
vice and gas will be heard by the
state railroad commission on October
&c. it is announced.
Six nurses trained at the Macon
bospital, left Tuesday for Wichita
Falls. Tex, where they have accepted
positions in a hospital under the di-
rection of 0. E. Nelson, former su-
perintendent of the Macon hospital.
They are Misses Margaret Summer
lin, Savannah; Minnie Clary, South
Carolina: Stella Gibson, Donaldson
vile: Ruth Jones, Macon; Ethel Pow
ers. Lorraine; Matte Redding, Cuth-
bert.
The International Cotton mill at
Hogansville has suspended operations
for a temporary period. The mill is