Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-02-02
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auto in front of the Georgian Ter
race hotel, Atlanta, Tuesday. His
death was thought to be the result
Of stroke of apoplexy.
Milton A. Camp, who is said to
have absconded with $1,000 of the
funds Of the Bank of Shiloh, at
Shiloh, Ca, was arrested in San An
tonic, Tex, Monday.
Georgia farmers will begin the cot.
ton season with as many boil weevils
to contend with as is commonly the
case II midsummer, according to
Commissioner of Agriculture ]. ].
Brown. The winter has not been suf-
Recently cold to kill the weevils, he
says.
Broughton Simon, a young negro,
convicted in Superior court at Val
dosta Monday of an assault on the
wife of farmer in Lowndes county
was sentenced to be hanged on Feb.
rs.
The new High school building at
Cordele was formally accepted by
the Board of Education Monday.
The Lowndes. county grand jury
was called by Judge Thomas of the
Superior court to meet in adjourned
session Monday to consider methods
for enforcing the cattle dipping law.
Mace Giddens, the negro who kill
ed Bailiff W. P. Giddens of Worth
county at Doles a few weeks ago,
has been captured in Chicago and is
being held for requisition papers.
]. F. Roberts, special investigator
for Tax Collector H. J. Fullbright,
is in Macon to arrange conference
between the heirs of the late Alfred
SHEPARD, father of Fred Shepard,
whose death caused the Shepard-El-
mer trial last December, to decide
what action will be taken on the
states claim for $4,000 back tax
es alleged to be due on the estate
Of the older Shepard.
The railroad station at Scottsdale
was burglari8ed Saturday night and
the agents razor, shaving mug and
brush were taken with seven cents
found in the cash drawer.
W. E. Dunwoody. of Macon, was
elected president of the National
Brick Manufacturers association at
their annual convention in New York.
Samuel E. Barton, alias Paul D.
Dillon, who was married last Thurs
day in CHATTANOOGA and while in Ma
con on his honeymoon was arrested
Tuesday for passing worthless
checks and forgery. His Awife left
him after she heard of his arrest
and went back to Chattanooga.
Theo Orange, of Macon, was ar
rested Tuesday by United States
Deputy Marshall Mosely for sending
obscene matter through the mails. 1t
is alleged that Orange sent two in
sulting letter to a Twiggs county
woman.
Rev. H. D. Gober, for the last four
years a student of theology at Mer-
Ger, Tuesday accepted call to the
Norwich Street Baptist church at
Brunswick.
The Quitman county court house
was destroyed by fire Tuesday with
loss of $1,000. The courthouse,
a wooden building, was one of the
landmarks of the county.
Rufus Peters, Rutledge farmer,
killed himself at his home there
Tuesday. Worry over financial trou-
bles was the cause Of his act.
The Piedmont Cotton Mills and the
Egan Cotton Mills, between East
Point and Hapeville, have CONSOLE
dated and will be operated under one
control.
Police Chief Bates, of Dalton, was
bound over to the grand jury on
charge of assault and battery made
by Mckinley Wright, negro.
The personal property of X. +.
Wiliiagham, bankrupt, was sold Tues
day before the Bib county court
house for $90,220 The mortgages
on the property total approximately
$4,000.
The death of William M. Blake
after his transfer from the Fulton
tower to the Davis-Fisher sanitarium
Monday night, was declared by his
attorney, John S. McClelland, to be
the result of gross neglect on the
part of DR.. J. W. Hurt, county and
Federal physician, who handles
all Jail cases. Blake was indicted
BY the Federal grand jury for send
ing obscene letters through the mails,
The Macon city council Tuesday
night authorized Mayor Glenn Tooie
to negotiate a loan for $4,000 to
lift the Macon city hospital out OF
debt.
Nancy, a twenty-five foot python
of the Sparks circus, wintering in
Macon, bit the hand of Earl Liv-
> ingston, attendant who was feeding
the reptile. Nancy eats about six
times year, when she finishes she'd
ding her skin. She finished shedding
Monday and the keeper went to feed
Aer. Nancy swallowed chicken he
held above her head and took the
keepers hand, too. 1t took fifteen