Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-05-12
HIGH SPOTS IN
GEORGIA NEWS

Client W. Hager, of Atlanta, is fol
succeed Hooper Alexander as United
States district attorney for the
northern district of Georgia, saws
a Washington report.
J. Warren Blackwell, of Jasnar
county, indicted in federal court in
Atlanta for peonage for compelling
negro TO work out a debt of S125
having the negro arrested and
brought back to his place from At
lanta, was arraigned in Macon Wed.
Bcsday and made bond.
A class of sixty received Scottish
Rite Masonic degrees in Macon
Thursday at the annual reunion of
the Valley of Macon.
Miss lsma Dooly, woman's depar+-
lkhent editor of The Atlanta Constitn-
ton, died Wednesday of angina nee
toris. Her fathers name was Flvnn.
but she was adopted as child by an
aunt, taking her name.
j. D. Boone, of Macon was re-
elected president of the Georgia Re-
tail Food Dealers in convention in
Macon.
Bunk" Cooper, Macon attorney
was fined S25 for contempt by Judge
Thomas, IN superior court at Quit
man, Wednesday, for vulgar state
ments' during the trial of j. Lewis
Hamlln, of Macon, on trial there for
attempted assault on a woman. The
Judge fined Cooper after the case
had gone to the jury so as not to in
tluence the Ilal, he said Hamlin
was convicted and given a sentence
Of one year.
Fitzgerald is to seek a city court
in the coming session of the legisla-
ture. 1t was abolished six years
ago.
Lowndes county commissioners
have protested to the state high
way department the quality of paw
ing recently laid in that county as
not up to requirements. The paving
Is concrete and is said to be crack
ing.
Because his attorney was not
present when the verdict was return
ed and sentence passed, the supreme
court has reversed the Warren
IN the case of John Brown, Jr., con-
vIcted and given life sentence for
murder. The case is sent back for
re-trial, which had been denied bvI
The lower court
l.. }. Moye was elected mayor of
DaVisboro over two opponents in
Wednesdays primary, receiving FOL
votes to 22 and Is for his rivals.
DR.. j. R. Hopkins, rich Albanian.
was married Tuesday at Jacksonville
to Mrs. Kate Holmes Peacock, of
Montgomery. DR.. Hopkins is the
father of the late Russell Hopkins
who once startled the country byI
clipping with an Eastern heiress.
Russell Hopkins was United States
consul to Panama for several years.
John Phinizy was elected active
VIce-president of the Georgia Rail
road Bank, succeeding the late Ru-
tus H. Brown, at the meeting of the
directors of the institution at Au-
gusta Wednesday.
Alex r. mcdonnell has been
elected major of the Second Battal- !
ion, of the First Georgia Field arti
lery, National Guard of Savannah. |
Mlajor MacDonell saw service on the
leXican border and in the World
war.
A bond issue of 100000 for a !
sewerage system was voted at VII
dalia Tuesday About 200 women
cast their first ballot.
j. Oscar Blalock, aged &c, for
mer legislator, widely known, died
Wednesday at his home in Jones'
boro. He was cousin of A. O. Bla-
lock, United States collector of in
ternal revenue, and had served inI
the state house of representatives
from 1916 through 1920.
The federal grand jury at Savan-
nah here is investigating charges
against the Savannah Hawkeye, al
daily paper published here The
charge is sending obscene matter
through the mails.
Bonds for high school, water and
sewer extension weer carried over
whelmingly in the election at Car
rollton Tuesday. Out Of total vote
of SIS there were 1913 ballots castI
by women. Bonds for $125,000 are
to be issued, of which 100000 isl
for high school, $4,000 for sewers
and $1,000 for water extension.
Governor Dorsey Wednesday ap-
pointed seven delegates to represent
Georgia at conference called BY
the commissioner of agriculture of
the United States to be held at
Washington May Is to discuss plans
for fighting the pink boil weevil.
Those appointed were: DR.. A. NJ.
Soule. Athens; Dir. L. G. Hartman,
Commerce: N. M. Weaver, Cuthbert;
Charles ]. Haden, Atlanta; J. ].
Brown. commissioner of agriculture;
Prof. r. c. Berckmans. Augusta; J.
H. Mills, Jenkinsburg.
In charging the new federal grand
iury at Savannah Judpe Beverly D.
Evans on Tuesday paid only passlng
notice to peonage. After explaining