Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-12-22
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GEORGIA NEWS

A fire that destroyed the Avera
residence in Montezuma Yesterday
nearly resulted in a disastrous fire.
The Avera home is in a closely built
section of the city and but for the
good work of the fire department. the
fire would have spread over the bust
ness part of the city.
President-elect Harding, in replv
to an invitation by the City of Sa-
vannah to visit that city during the
winter; has written that if he visits
the South he will not pass the City
of Savannah by lightly"
M. L. Nickols, of Gordon, former
ly of Savannah, becomes heir to an
estate in Massachusetts left by a
Massachusetts woman, Miss Sarah
Kelly. Miss Kelly left her fortune
to relatives of a wartime sweetheart
who was killd in the Civil war and
Nichols is a nephew of that soldier. !
The Laurens County Farmers
Union elected 1921 officers at a re-
cent meeting. W. D. Dixon was
elected president and ]. C. Wyatt |
vice-president.
H. NJ. Fletcher was elected mayor
Of Jackson by a majority of two
votes at the annual election there,
Two mail pouches were stolen |
from the Montezuma postoffice early |
yesterday morning and taken to a |
secluded place and rifled of their |
contents.
After an investigation the State
Board of Public Welfare has declar- !
ed the Bibb county jail too full for
the health Of the prisoners. There
are 210 prisoners there with accom-
modations for only IS. Discrimina-
ton between Federal prisoners and
others, with preference given the
Federals, is also charged.
A fire, thought to be of incendiary
origin, occurred at Cave Springs,
fourteen miles from Rome Tuesday
morning and entirely destroyed the
store building and stock of the Tum- |
lin Mercantile company, with loss
of probably 100000.
The Eldorado district of Tiff
county went for no-fence in the cleo |
ton held in that district Saturday
by majority of four votes.
Preliminary hearing for Will Gar
ret, his sons, Alfred and Enoch, his |
son-in-law, G. A. Wadsworth and
two negroes, held in connection with |
the murder of revenue officer near !
Butler, scheduled for yesterday at |
Columbus, was postponed until |
Thursday, the defendants requesting |
additional time in order to secure !
witnesses.
Dodge county has been released |
from cattle tick quarantine except a !
Few communities not yet freed by
dipping.
A severe smallpox epidemic, l1iD-
clpally among coiorad people, is pre-
valling in Eastman and surrounding
territory.
Farmers near Brunswick are re-
ceiving 60 cents to rs cents a gallon
for syrup that has sold for several
years past at 81, and sweet potatoes
rs cents which have also been ST..
C. H. Kittrell, representative
elect from Laurens county for the
next legislature, introduced a reso-
luton at the meeting of the Farmers
Union in Atlanta yesterday endors-
ing the plan of a state concentration
point on the seacoast for Georgia
produce from her farms, equipped
with railroads, docks, elevators, and
all facilities for handling and ship
ping, also storage.
julius H. Otto was reelected presi-
dent of the Georgia State Fair asso-
citation for the year 1921, and other
officers of the past year were re-
elected at the annual meeting of the
stockholders of that association in
Macon last night.
George M. Napier, successful can
didate for attorney general in the re-
cent election has called upon Gov
ernor Dorsey, with counsel, to give
notice that he will make formal de-
mand for commission to that office
the first of January.
Fire of unknown origin Tuesday