Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-11-30
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cago. He will take possession this
week and will spend the winter there
with his family.
The tobacco season in Tiff county
has been very successful, four million
pounds of tobacco being handled at
the Triton warehouses.
The Tenth Street school at Column
bus was dismissed yesterday morn
ing because of lack of heat. lnvesti-
CATION showed that the janitor was
being held at police headquarters,
charged with disorderly conduct.
The body of Robert c. Hazlehurst,
who died in a New York sanitarium
Sunday will arrive in Macon tonight.
Jack Britton, welterweight cham
MON of the world, was awarded the
referees decision at the end OF
ten-round bout in Atlanta last night
with Jake Abel, Atlanta welterwelgnt.
The state Baptist convention to be
held December z, and at the
Baptist Tabernacle in Atlanta, Will
make a strong bid for the location IN
this state of the great Baptist theo-
logical seminary of the Southeast,
whcih is to be established. AT the
present time the strongest contest
seems to be between Macon and At
lanta.
Will Harrel, negro charged with the
murder of his wife at Fort Gaines,
about two weeks ago, and also want
ed on the charge of escaping from the
L - tho nIQPQ WAS
arrested yesterday in Columbus. Har-
rel is known in Columbus as Taylor
Cook. He escaped from the chain
gang in Monroe county in 1913.
Deputy Sheriff Royal Smith, of
Rome, has resigned, giving as his rea-
son that he could not bear to levy on
property of very poor persons who
are dependent entirely on the little
goods levied on to satisfy creditors.
DIR. NJ. H. Blandford Columbus
city physician, was acquitted by
jury in the Superior court last night
of having killed Ace Bishop, owner
of grocery story. The jury was out
for thirty minutes.
The Nashville, Ca. city council
has provided for women voting in
the municipal election.
DIR. GEORGE T. Pate, chairman, OF
the Savannah city council and tax
collector-elect of Chatham county,
has resigned from the board of al
dermen, defective December 29. A
state law has been unearthed, said
DR.. Pate today, which prohibits citi-
IN from holding a county and city
office at the same time. For this
reason he has resigned from council
in order to be able to take the oath
of office as tax collector on jan
uary /.
A dollar a mile for speed in excess
of the legal limit has been adopted as
the scale of fines for speeders in
Moultrie by Recorder Covle.
Thirty thousand dollars cash was
paid few days ago by a North
Georgia farmer for the Anderson
place of 200 acres, in Colquitt county
on the Moultrie Savannah road.
A. R. Lawton, well known Sa-
vannah lawyer, has been elected pres
ident of the Telfair Academy of Arts
and Sciences under its recent reor-
ganization
The bodies of Frank Havanich and
Natal Scarpona, Savannah men who
were drowned recently off the North
Carolina coast, are reported to have
washed ashore near Wilmington, N
C. Relatives will bring the bodies
to Savannah for burial.
The body of Thad Fisher, former
Moultrian, who was killed in an auto
mobile accident in Jacksonville, Fla,
was brought to Moultrie yesterday
for burial. Fisher received fatal in
juries, the report received here stat
ed, when an automobile that he was
driving collided with a taxicab. Three
other persons were hurt.
Mills B. Lane, of Savannah, head of
the Citizens and Southern banking
system in Georgia. has pledged his
full cooperation in the organization
of the Federal international Banking
COMPANY of New Orleans an author
lied stock subscription of $4,000
in the enterprise, according to an
nouncement by Robert E. Harvey,
state field director for Georgia,
Fire last night in the Towers and
Sullivan Manufacturing company at
Rome DESTROYED the machine shop and
considerably damaged other parts OF
the building. The loss, estimated at
$50 900 to 100000, is covered by in
surance. Il
D. ]. CAN'T, federal director OF
prohibition enforcement, says that
the supply of liquor in Atlanta is
very scarce and that the Christmas
HOLIDAYS are going to be the dryest
Atlanta has ever seen.
Persons using the Lyndale tele-
nbone line as a pistol target, put
several holes in the cable and put
the whole line out of commission yes
terdav. This is the second instance
of the kind, and reward has been
offered.
Harding Republican club OF Geor-
gia, has asked the governors OF sew
eral Southern states to urge Presi-
dent-elect and Mrs. Harding to at
tend the conference of the South
ern Tariff association to be held in
Atlanta in January.
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