Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-07-08
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GEORGIA NEWS


The South Georgia tobacco mar
kets will open July Is, with a good
crop ir prospect.
Miss Edwina wood has been elect
ed member of the Columbus board
of education, being the first woman
ever to serve in that capacity in
Columbus She was named by the
cty council to fill a vacancy.
3 Columbus will vote November II
on a proposed $4,000 bond issue
for park purposes.
Robert c. Reid, Jr., aged 10, Of
Atlanta, is dead as a result of breath
ing poisonous gases in experimental
ton work while a student at Tech.
The Rotary Club Of Elberton was
chartered Wednesday evening.
With its steering gear deranged,
The American steamship Walden. on
the Savannah river at Savannah and
its anchor catching a telephone cable
across the river, demolished the cable
and a section of wharf Damage is
estimated at $125,000.
A new pharmacy law for Georgia
was advocated in resolutions passel
by the forty-sixth annual co.ran-
ton of the Georgia Pharmaceutical
association in Atlanta Thursday.
The new law proposed by the pha--
macists provides radical changes il|
the law Of 1881, now in force. l.|
provides that pharmacists apply to
the pharmacy board for registration
shall have at least two years train
ing in an accredited school of phGr-|
macy and at least two years prac-
tlcal experience. The new law, it is
said, will assure that Georgia regis
tered pharmacists will have as high
an educational standard as any in
the country.
James Douglas, on trial for the
murder of Sheriff A. G. Catron at
Lafayette, admitted on the stand
that he killed the sheriff, thinking
he was a hold-up man intent on rob-
blng him of his cargo Of moonshine
whisky. The sheriff was killed near
thntstone several weeks ago byI
blockade runners.
lie Forsyth Hosiery Mil at Juli-I
cite, which was closed during the
worst period of business depression,
is now running full time andSat full
capacity, and it is expected that or
ders will soon warrant the addition
of a night force.
Governor Hardwick Thursday de-
clined to honor a requisition by the
governor of Louisiana for Andrew /
j. Derbin, a soldier of the World
War now undergoing treatment in a |
rehabilitation hospital near Atlanta, |
who was wanted in Louisiana on a |
charge of obtaining money or goods !
of value under false pretenses. AT |
ter hearing both sides of the ques-
ton, Governor hardwick decided |
that real purpose of the warrant !
sworn out against the soldier was |
the collection of a debt.
If the peace resolution passed by |
the senate last week is carried out /
by the Harding administration in
good faith without any reference to
the Versailles treaty." said Senator
Thomas E. Watson, Of Georgia, in
Washington, "and free commercial !
intercourse with Germany is restor-
ed, the price of cotton Immediately
will go up and we at once will be-
gin to get the German potash when
is so necessary for the Georgia cot
ton growers and peach growers for
fertilizer"
Senator L. C. Brown, Of Athens,
announces that he has dropped his
fight against the State Department
of Agriculture because agents of
the department have travelled over
the state for the last four months
at the expense of the taxpayers
building up propaganda against
investigation of it's affairs"
DR.. j. J. Heizman, of Atlanta, has
filed suit in Superior court for the
recovery of 1925 said to have botn
lost by him in a game of stud poker
about June IS.
Among the eight candidates for
tax collector in Grady county one
of the announcements comes from