Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-07-25
HIGH SPOTS IN
GEORGIA NEWS

B. a. OYnard, president of The Sa-
vannah Sugar Refinery, predicts a
slight rise in the price Of sugar.
Crops in Chattooga county have
shOwn2. marked Improvement during
the past two weeks, and prospects
now are that fair production will
be made, despite the rayagcs o. yho
boil weevil and the seven weeks
d1outh~of the carly summer
Thomas county grown apples are
on the market at ThamasY.I!e Tho
farmers are finding that apples are
g good selling crop there and mere
trees are being planted every year.
4 mass meeting 10 Investigate the
city manager CT commission form Of
government is to be held at Thomas
Vile next Wednesday night at the
court house.
Ben Cunbus, postmaster at Ha-
hira, Ga, suddenly came to himself
at Los Angeles, Calf, Saturday,
when man sitting on a bench IN d
park saw him nodding and woke him
up TO keep him from falling. Cumbus
has been missing from home since
March /. He explained that the last
he remembered was applying for a
vacation. Physicians thought him q
victim Of amnes.a. He served over
seas and was she!l-shocked.
The jury in the case OF D. Stan
ford, one Of the three men charged
with the murder Of Justice Of the
Peace j. c. Medders, Of Alma. d
year ago, returned a verdict of guilty
Friday morning and Stanford was
sentenced to life imprisonment.
The Brotherhood Of Locomotive
Firemen and Engineer VIII hold its
1922 convention in Savannah.
Sheriff Holmes, of Dade county,
declares that large number Of cases
of bottled in bond whisky, a part Of
the carload recently seized while in
transfer on the A. G. S. railroad
through Trenton, has heeM stolen
from the Jail, aad he thinks 1t is
reaching Chattanooga by automo-
bills
Georgias peaches and watermel0ns
y e,
according to figures on carload ship
inents announced Saturday by the
Fruit Grokers' Express. The esti-
mated valuation Of these two crops
for the year IS placed at more than
S10,000,000.
Approximately 2275 Camp Ben
ming soldiers have been discharged
from the army or have received ia
v0rable action on their applications,
according to recent announcement.
There is on foot movement to
construct sweet potato curing house
in. West Point, and also a cold stor-
age house for meats, butter, etc.
The vice conditions in Columbus
and Muscogee are daily improving,
according to the general present
ments Of the Muscogee county grand
jurors. -
j. c, Wilson, University Of Geor-
gia student from hiawassee, Ga, re-
ported missing in the mountains of
Patrick county, was located Friday
night IN a farm house ten miles out
from Stuart. He was suffering from
the effects of sunstroke.
More than 1000 participated in the
big barbecue given by the Tiff coun-
ty farm bureau at the Second Dis
trict A. & M. school Thursday
Robbers who had a wagon, drove
up to the rear of the Jones wholesale
grocery in Macon Sunday morning,
climbed to the roof and then de
scended through a skyhght. They
stole 10000 cigarettes and escaped.
Senator Harris, Saturday accepted
the invitation of the Belleau Wood
Memorial association to become q
member of their national committee.
The purpose of the organization is.
to rebuild the town cf Belleau nth
out frills, just as it was before the
World War.