Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-02-03
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bonued Dy bonding company for
the performance of his duty, hence
his arrest.
The $4,000 bond issue recently
voted by the Lagrange citizens was
validated by Judge Charles Roop of
the Superior court Monday.
Clyde G. Monroe, railway mail
clerk, charged with completely in the
100000 mail robbery from a South.
ern Railway train near CorneIia last
September, pleaded guilty in U. s
Court Tuesday and was sentenced to
serve Is months in the Fedora, peni-
tertiary.
The new steel bridge being built
at Holmes Ferry across the Flint
river in Epson county is nearing
completion and will be ready for use
in March.
J. H. McLarty was elected mayor
of Douglasville Wednesday.
Mrs. Miriam Gamble, 15-years old.
of Talalpoosa, Ga, is held there un-
der $500 bond on charge of forg-
cry. She is said to have written
the name Of Arthur Lee Bentley, of
Tallapoosa, to three checks and pass
ed them on local department stores,
Lewis E. Kinsey, prominent Sum-
merville citizen, disappeared Thurs
day and no trace has been found.
It is believed that he was murdered
and his body hidden near Summer.
vile. -..
Work on the new Bib county
courthouse for which bonds Of $4OO,-
600 were voted last March, will be
gin in a short time.
Paul Swicord, twelve year old son
Of W. P. Swicord, of Whigham, Ca,
was found Tuesday night in an i'm
provised camp near New Albany,
Ind. and William ]. Knight, 40, who
was with the youth, was taken into
custody. Knight denies kidnapping
the boy but states that when he left
Whigham the boy followed him and
despite his repeated offers to pay
the lads fare home he would not
go. The lads father has gone after
him.
The annual reunion of the Georgia
Confederate veterans will be held IN
Albany May 10 and IA.
Mrs. Monteen Slower Manor, one
of the states principal witnesses IN
the famous Leo Frank case, was in
dicted by the Fulton grand jury
Tuesday on a charge of being impli-
Gated in the theft of number OF
expensive furs from |. Prizes, an At
lanta furrier.
The setter dog, DR.. John Crom-
we'll, owned by Scott Hudson, of At
lanta, won the derby of the United
States field trials at Grand Junction.
Tenn.
A marble slab erected at the river
bridge as a memorial to the Laurens
county lads who died in the recent
war, has been suggested to the Lau-
rens county commissioners by the
Chamber of Commerce.
The overcoat of Vice-Prcsident-
elect Coolidge was stolen when he
visited the Y. NJ. C. A. building while
in Atlanta last week. It was left
unprarded while he inspected the
building.
The Valdosta, Moultrie and West
ern Railway is blamed for the ire
which destroyed the Aycock Lumber
company at Moultrie last October
and the company has filed damage
suit in the Colquitt Superior court
for $4,000.
Rev. and Mrs. T. M. Gaultney
held a family reunion at their nome
near Butler a few days ago. Ten
children and forty-eight grand chill
dren were present.
James P. Butler, who lives on the
Burkhalter road near Savannah
slept in the bed with the dead body
of his wife underneath it. Monday
Butler went to Savannah to look TOT
work. His wife was i'll when he left
When he returned two days later
y could not find her but thinking
he had gone to Savannah, ne went
TO bed, The next morning he found
the body under the bed, she hao
been dead more than a day.
John naygoUu, of Monroe county
Georgia, who sb>c and killed Edoie
Parson, a negro, August, lSZo'
walked into the sheriff's office IN
Crawford county Tuesday and gave
himself up. There. was an lnaic'-
ment against Haygood and when
Haygood learned Of it, though holu-
ing a position in another state re
returned to Georgia for trial.
The store of Powell-Key Drug
company at Vienna, was rope"
Tuesday night. Only $40 was st0l-
en-. ,.,.n
Withdrawal from sale of all BOOKS
If street car tickets by the Georgia
Railway and Power company lues.
dav revealed that counterfeit tickets
have been sold for weeks IN Atla . lI
Between 100000 and $4,000 OF the
counterfeit tickets have been SOLD =
band of street car men, declared TO
have caused the printing ana Sale