Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-11-15
HIGH SPOTS IN
GEORGIA NEWS

R. w. Page, aged publisher of the
Columbus Ledger, died Saturday al
ter a long illness. His funeral Sun
day was a large affair.
The estimate of the late Joseph
Hull, of Savannah, left to members
of his family, is estimated to bel
worth $2,000,000.
The Dawson Cotton Oil mill has
closed down for lack of seed to crush.
-. Miss Alice M. Roberts, elected to
the next congress from Oklahoma,
and whose picture was published IN
this paper Sunday, is native OF
Georgia.
W H. Marchman, Of Greensboro,
attributes his good cotton crop on
a patch near his house to the chick
ems eating the weevils.
In the face of adverse cotton con-
d;tions. a record breaking grain acre
age is being planted in Colqultt coun-
ty. , Of
Atlanta, has been indicted IN Feoeral
court on several counts for pro1iCeer-
ing. One count charges that tne
company sold the same coal l. 0. 0.
mines, to one firm at S1l.5U ton
and to another at $3.50 ton.
Jane and Mary King, two beau
tiful girls starring on Broadway IN
Jim Jam Jems" are from Roswell,
Ga.
The Georgia Bankers Association
will meet in Macon Tuesday. Dele
gates who will attend will be expect
ed to have full power to act on mat
tiers coming before the convention.
The meeting will be big one. Plans
for the formation of Banking
Corporation to open a market for
cotton win be taken up at this meet
ing.
Fire Saturday completely destroy
ed the Seventh Day Adventist's sani-
tarius at Reeves Station, near Rome,
CT what is known as the Hurlbutt
Farm. The loss was between $25,-
900 and 100000.
Macon is we'll supplied with coal
for the present cold snap and prob
ably will be able to obtain plenty of
coal throughout the winter, accord
ing to coal dealers.
Through the efforts of the Dublin
Chamber of Commerce, the board of
commissioners of Laurens county
have agreed to sell 100000 worth
of bridge bonds and put the money
in local banks to assist bankers to
aid the farmers with their market
ing problems. The original issue of
bridge and road bonds, 100000 was
voted several months ago and to date
only 100000 worth has been sold.
J. J. Brown, commissioner of agrl-
culture, has addressed to the Geor
gia Bankers Association an urgent
request for them to take hold at once,
in an energetic and organized way
of the movement looking to reduced
cotton acreage and increased food
and feed crop acreage, for the COM
ing year.
Judge Evans, in the United States
court at Savannah declined to remove
T. B. Richie as trustee for the Viii
bingham Warehouse of Macon.
The United States treasury vii
pay $70,000,OO0 in interest to hold
ers of Liberty bonds on November
Is, it is announced from the Atlanta
Federal Reserve bank. The sugges-
ton was made in the announcement
that holders of bonds put their IN
terest in War Savings stamps.
The general educational board OF
New York city, the outgrowth of the
Rockefeller foundation, has come To-
the rescue of the Georgia School of
Technology in its financial stringency
by donating $4,000 to help meet the
increase in teachers salaries and ex-
penses of general maintenance of
the school during the current year
only.
Highway projects aggregating 81
100000 have been completed within
the past twelve months, and pro
jects aggregating $10,500,000 are
now in progress, it was announced
q by the state highway department,
which has begun on big scale the
construction of state highway sys-
tenn linking together every county
seat in Georgia.
A large party of prominent Geor-
gians will leave Atlanta November
II on the industrial tour of the north
and east The tour is being made I'M
der the auspices of the Georgia