Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-05-22
HIGH SPOTS IN
GEORGIA NEWS

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Charles t. Page, for manv voorn
one of the foremost citizens Of A.
lanta, and one of the founders Of
organized baseball in America diod
at his home in that city THURSDAY
He had resided there since ne rotirod
from active business in Chicago eLont
fifteen years ago.
Rev. V. NJ. Tumlin. seventy, ,i,,,,
years old, died at his home in AZ
lanta Thursday. He had been 1n-
parentIy in good health. and bg5
lain down to take his usual aftar'
noon nap, when death came. Mr. TnIn.
lin had often expressed = wish t I','
his death should come in noano am
sleep: When his wife went TO avaE-
en- hlm' she found that his passing
- been as he had wished. p
- Mrs. Mary Brooke, of Dalton euf-
fered for two days in the belief that
her son, James Brooke, had been kill
ed IN an explosion in Louisville XIV
learning afterward that it was SOM,
one else.
The Wilkinson county board of O l.
ucatlon has accepted the julius Ros-
enWald fund to aid in the building of
a large coIorcd industrial institute,
1t is to be located at Toomsbo"o, in.
the midst of a thick negro por3la-
ton and when completed will be Cre
Of the largest Shoots for the co}orod
race in Georgia.
1t is reported that c. r. Smith, the
rNoIg L /
of Jones county, has reduced his ,wn|
salary from $l25 to 800 per month.
The salary of the county warden has
been reduced from $125 to 500 rer
month, and all other county caploy 3
have had their wages cut to pre-warI
figures.
A. l.. Henson, Of Calhoun, com
mander Of the Georgia department IF
the American Legion, has wired toI
National Adjutant Lemuel Bolles. inI
Indianapolis, a second protest against
the granting of executive clemencv to
Eugene V. Debs held in the federal
pcnitentjary in Atlanta, and insisting
that the national organization take
the same stand in regard to the Dnbs
case during this administration that
it did during the last, when il E r.
mally protested a pardon for the So
cilaist leader
The authorities at Washington look
favorablly upon the rentention Of
Camn Gordon as citi2en~army camp =,
w. Zode Smith, who has just return
ed to Atlanta from trip to the ma
tional capital, reported on his trip.
at A meeting Of prominent cit;zons
and a committee from the Fulton
County Medical Association.
Sandersonvillc is becoming an i'm
rortant center for peanuts. A local
firm has shipped several carloads to
Canada and to points in the North
and East A modern peanut shelter
and grader was erected there some
time ago and for several weeks was
operated night and day in order to
keep up with the demand for the
pcnders.
1t is announced by Rev. Earl Camp,
attorney for the Bank of Dublin,
which has been closed for nearly eight
months, that this bank is expected to
reorganize and open for business
again soon.
The city of Savannah has decided
- has enough gasoline filling sta
1ns scattered over the sidewalks
End no more permits are being is
sued.
The validity of sugar contracts
involving more than a quarter of
million dollars and vitality affecting
the business interests of many GeOr-
gia merchants has been established
in a decision by Judge Meldrim of
the Chatham Superior court.
Fire of undetermined origin de-
stroycd the Sandersville Oil Mills
Friday morning, with loss of about
$4,000, including 700 tons of seed.
Judge Beverly d. Evans Of the
federal court of the Southern District
of Georgia, saws he approves the pro
poeal to establish a new federal dis
trict in Georgia or some other ar
rangemcnt to relieve the two federal
Judges of the state of part of the
litigation that has arisen through the
enforcement of the prohibition law.