Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-02-21
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The hard times and scarcity o
oney seems to have affected tn,
ice Of shine in Thomas county ant
is said that it can be bought now
pr S1.50 a quart where formerly il
s5 S4 and S. a quart.
Isaac Goldberg, one of the best
nown defendants in liquor cases in
avannah and who has been serving
sentence in Savannah for violating
e prohibition law, was released Sat
rday, having received q pardon from
PRESIDENT Wilson.
A terrific explosion of unknown
rigin Sunday morning set fire to and
completely destroyed the mill a
arge amount of cotton seed and
manufactured products of the Carter
sJil company at Hazlehurst, causing
lamage estimated at 100000. The
re is believed to have been of in
nendiary origin.
c. W. Stokes, wife, son and daugh
fer of Valdosta, were seriously in.
cured Sunday in an automobile col
3lision with a street car.
E. Johnson was elected mayor of
8Irwinton in the election there recent,
ly. Women participated in the vot-
ing.
Smallpox, which broke out in
Thomaston and surrounding county,
has been checked by the quick &C
ton of the Board of Health.
Col Henry L. Woodruff, proml-
nent Columbus citizen, died there last
week after short illness.
An industrial development depart
ment at Georgia Tech, planned as an
outgrowth of the 100000 campaign
next April, was announced Saturday
by the Tech board of trustees. This
is probably the first department OF
its kind ever inaugurated by any tech
MICA lcollege.
Thirty-three years and four months
service without the loss CT day is
the record of Stephen R. Harris,
agent of the Atlantic Coast Line
wharf at Savannah who will retire
from service March l.
Carl Devers Ford, former finance
officer at Camp Gordon, who is in
iail in Atlanta on a charge of big
amy, two women claiming him as
their husband now faces more COM
plications. Saturday it was learned
that Mrs. Ernie Ford, of Hinton, W.
Va, his first wife, had never been
divorced as was supposed.
Governor Dorsey offered Satur-
day rewards totalling $4,000 for the
arrest and conviction of parties tax
ing part in the storming Of CLAIR
county's Jail and securing John Lee
Eberhardt and those taking part If
the lynching of Eberhardt. Eber-
hardt was the negro who shot and
killed Mrs. Walter Lee, of Athens
Tuesday.
Fire which swept an entire block
broke out in Lexington Saturday
night. The damage is estimated
S2Q9,90O. --s.s
The cut-rate war among Maeo'
grocers, started by the cash and car
ry stores, has spread to the old lin;
stores, they advertising Saturday
eggs as low as 80 cents dozen ant
the cut extending to other things a.
we'll. The price of sugar, which ma.
1 been selling at TIP cents suddenly
7 advanced to s IL cents by the re
J tqilers, they saying that the whole
saers advanced the price to them,
Former Chief of Police John A
Woods, of the Savannah department
\ former Marshal A. NJ Kea and 5. M
Moye, prohibition enforcement OF
ficer, were indicted Saturday by Fed
eral grand jury for accepting none,
: from parties in protection" of Il
4 legal liquor business.
Plans for the beginning of actua
operation for the branch fishing an'
reduction station of the Ocean Leath
d er company in Brunswick are under
way and Jointer's Island, near Bruins
wick, has been purchased by thu
company as a site for the plant.
George w. Waters, Of Augusta
has filed suit against the Atlantl
4 Coast Line Railway company 10
$4,000 damages on the ground tina
he was so injured by the railroad
that he is unable to close his mouth
lie was injured when his auto wa
struck by train as he was crosslnI
the tracks and his face was so 'caVeo
in that the upper and lower jaws WI
never meet again.
President-elect Harding is in sym
pathy with the efforts being MAD
by the representative white Kepup
Leans of the South to establish Whlt
control of Republican affairs IN TN
section of the country and on tn
basis of that control to begin Tn
building of an organized white he
publican party in state AFFAIRS &C