Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-01-21
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GEORGIA NEWS;

nv. with headquarters at Quitman.
will reduce the salaries of all en-
Moves. The Officials state that thew
hope to restore the present wages at
The expiration of 80 days.
TIE Atlanta city council passed a
resolution Thursday requesting rep
resentatives from Fulton and De
Kalb counties to introduce in the
state legislature a bill to amend the
city charter so as to raise the tax
rate from $1.25 to $3.50.
A petition asking for an injunc-
ton restraining the Mitchell coun-
tv board of commissioners from
:. building a convict stockade near Sale
SIS ity and has been filed by citizens
Mitchell county. The petition al
leges that the erection of the build
ing was an unnecessary exDendi-
lures of the tax payers money.
Norman j. Day, % years old. has
been arrested in Atlanta for the at
tempted robbery of the Bank of
Hapevile Tuesday. He states that
he tried to rob the bank to get mon
ey to provide a home in which his
young wife might give birth to their
child.
Walter H. Freeman has been APP
pointed postmaster at Toombsboro.
Much improvement is noted in the
condition of Walter Garrett and ].
f. Bryant, the two Worth county
farmers shot by Ed Smith, negro
tenant, Saturday.
Preliminary hearing Of Napoleon
Garrett, Taylor county farmer,
charged with killing R. w. Jackson,
internal revenue officer, was post
poned Thursday to Saturday morn
ing because of the absence of E. G.
English, the star witness in the
case.
pun II an epidemic of smallpox
in Atlanta house to house canvass
is being made, and everybody not al
ready immune will have to be vacci-
mated.
Rev. Hugh S. Wallace, pastor of
the Woodlawn Baptist church, Au-
gusta, has declined the call to the
Tabernacle Baptist church, Macon
Seven large stills, one having a
capacity of 1900 gallons, were dis
covered and destroyed by Sheriff
Jesse Beard, of Muscogee county and
a party of officers Wednesday. More
than 1000 gallons of mash were
poured out of barrels near the stills.
The equipment destroyed was worth
$4,000 and the mash $4,000
A verdict Of involuntary man
slaughter was taken by agreement
in the case of ]. L. Coleman, young
white man, charged with the murder
of Bud" Ashley at Coleman's home
near Rebecca in 1918. He was SEN
fenced to one years Imprisonment.
The bankers of Wheeler county
met Friday to organize for the pur
pose of helping the farmers of the
county reduce their cotton acreage.
Fred C. Bond, Formerly assistant
cashier of the Bank of Lithonia, was
arrested in Atlanta by a Federal in
spector with morphine valued at ST.
OUN III MS pOSScSSlOi. IiC 10 DCiilS
held under 81 900 bond,
The Garrison-Cook-Mor Candy
company, plant Of Macon, was de
.atrcyod by fire early Friday morning.
Women of Macon are registering
fast fer the next mayorality election
months off
Mayor John E. TaImadge, promi-
nent Athens citizen, died at his home
there Thursday.
The county commissioners of
Clarke county Thursday cancelled a
contract with Hagedorn Construction
company of Montgomery for the pay
ing of the Lexington and Daniels
vile road and awarded it to the Da-
Wis Construction company of Macon.
The Alabama company failed to
make the required bond.
Mrs. D. d, Mercer, of Elberton,
shot and killed a mad dog Wednes
day as it was entering her door.
ira Caldwell has been elected
president of the jefferson county
fair association.
The county board of roads and
revenue of Floyd county decided not
to employ a county agricultural
agent or a home demonstration agent
after County Attorney Maddox de
clared he could find no authority for
the payment of the salaries.
The Elberta Crate Company, the
largest Of it's kind in the world, 10,
Gated at cambridge, has reopened
after being closed since Christmas
for, repairs. An extra unit has been
built to help take care of the in
creased trade of the company.
DR.. j. S. B. Holmes, former presl-
dent of the Georgia Board of Med
cal Examiners, died at his home I'M
Lakeland, Fla, Thursday. He for
merly lived in Atlanta and Valdosta.
Three soldiers and two civilians
have been arrested in Atlanta in
Atlanta in connection with what IS
believed to be a conspiracy to rob
the government of thousands of dol
lars through the theft of auto tires
from Camp Jesup.
man thought to be H. 7. Alblltz,
of Center Hill, died at the Grady
hoSn;tal in Atlanta shortly before