Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-07-18
HIGH SPOTS IN
cTEORGIA NEWS

That shortage in the accounts OF
sB.rrv H. Coulter, clerk Of the town
ri.ard Ala, a suburb of Column
!. amounting to something over
4 9oo had been found by auditors
r. the city and an adjuster for the
/, otionaI Surety company, his bonds
IN, and that Coulter has left for
IS unknown has just become
" Clerk Coulter was former
nOG, man, and was drawing a PEN
en- from The government amounting
W. abont $1,000 a year for disaDll;-
!,r yospived in service overseas. II
sstated that he is known tc have
gsasbed his last government cheek
B T%5, night and he is believed to
nTa left Girarl under cover OF
,rEness the same night.
4 More than a hundred former stu
lontg Of Mercer University will COM
4 'T lime the Mercer members OF the
ATanrgia legislature at a banquet
Thursday night at the Piedmont hotel
il, Atlanta. The Atlanta Alumni as
4 ociation of which Judge George
&IijIver is president and Johnny
$u'es,stmoreland vice president, are also
4 nnonncing that the banquet this
IT,, is in celebration of the fact that
y here are nearly twice as many Mer-
Der men in the senate and house OF
CONSERVATIVES as from all other
i w W F, Livingston, 62, died at his
5one in Pitts, Ga, a few days ago
6yom INJURIES sustained when mule
#itched to wagon, in which Mr..
n iyingston was riding became fright
med and ran away. Mr.. Livingston
#mas thrown from the vehicle and his
hack broken.
n The Federal Trade Commission has
Sheen requested by Senator Harris,
IN Genggia, to make an investigation
hi It'd high prices for bagging and
ties for cotton. The senator said
ScompIaints were reaching him that
he prices of bagging and ties were
REMAINING high, while many other
Hproducts of lutte and iron had suffer
I'D great declines, such as fertilizer
@bags.
q Tom Moran, postmaster of Moran,
Mwas arrested at Macon Saturday,
chagred with havino a gallon of
&mOonshine in his possession. Moran's
was seized and the whisky con-
#fscated. Officers say that Moran
was regularly bringing whisky into
Macon and disposing of it.
d The Georgia Railroad commission,
lin addition to citing all the railroads
the state to show cause on August
Il 10 why there should not be general
Hrevision of freight rates, has also is
II sued a notice citing all railroads to
#show cause on August 10 why the
#surcharge now being collected on
Il Pullman car transportation should
# not be Immediately suspended.
Y Wesleyan college will have no
n new dormtory this year, plans for
d the $l5O,OOO building which were en-
#dOSed by the board of trustees at its
Injecting in May having been aban-
- for the present. They may ma
lx1rialize next year, DR.. w F. Quill
III president of Wesleyan, said, but
LR1Eill be impossible to eliminate
lem this fall or winter. The fail
NFe of the Methodist church, South,
Jraise its full quota of $33,000,0f
IN educational purposes having made
'he postponement of the building
program necessary.
& ColQuitt county will gin its first
d bale of cotton of the 1921 season be-
8 fore Saturday night, according to
n farmers, if the weather is fair this
Il week. 1t is said that the staple is
3 opening rapidly and that the fields
d around MOultrie will soon be white.
n Sheric Jones, of Cochran, raided a
q still Saturday and secured a barrel
Of moonshine whisky. The sheriff
\ poured it on the ground near the