Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-01-24

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rest of Archie Willingham, 19-year-
old Mitchell county youth, wanted
8 in connection with the killing of Fate
q SILVER Willingham shot SILVER aft
81 ter SILVER refused to give him drink
n of whisky.
John Cook, white, has been SEN
fenced form one to three years in the
penitentiary for attempted assault
On the wife of a Colquitt county far
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Rev. John M. Faulkner, of Mercer
s. University, began passionate of the
81 Lumpkin Baptist church Sunday.
Governor-elect Hardwick has an
nounced that he will not live at the
executive mansion but will continue
to reside at the Georgian Terrace, At
liant. The mansion, according to
Hardwick's statement, is dilapidated
and not fit to live in. He favors
selling the mansion site, which is il
the heart of the business district,
and building a new masnion with the
proceeds.
L. C. Mccall, tank inspector of
the G. S. & F., ran into freight
train Friday at Valdosta when his
auto brakes refused to work. The
car was hardly damaged but the oc-
cupants were uninjured. Three lit
tie girls were in the car with him.
Two carloads of peanuts sold in
Lowndes county last week brought
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ment in prices over several weeks
ago.
A big lion, belonging to the Shoes
ley Shows wintering in Valdosta,
was operated on last week by Valdos-
Ia veterinarians for abcessed teeth,
and is reported to be getting we'll
rapidly.
Rev. M. u. Boykin, of Sylvester,
has been appointed to the Hahira
charge to succeed Rev. R. P Fain,
deceased.
Cole L. Glover, four weeks old son
Of Mr.. and Mrs. j. H. Glover, of
Columbus, found dead in bed Sat
urady, was accidentally suffocated
according to the coroner's jury.
Laurens county Superior court has
been postponed until the second Mon
day in February because Of a case
of small pox in the county Jail caus-
ing the jail to be quarantined
Rev. Caleb A. Ridley, pastor of
the Atlanta Central Baptist church,
was acquitted in recorders court Sat
urday on a charge of flirting. The
case was made by Mrs. J. B. Hamil-
ton. Ridley, in church Sunday,
charged his accusers with plotting to
make him a victim of a badger
game"
Dan Harris, a negro in jail
at bearing for burglary, lost his life
Sunday when he tried to burn his
gAy out of Jail.
49, man claiming to be R. c. Bach
elor, of Atlanta, wanted there in
connection with embezzlement from
the Palmetto Bank, surrendered at
Dallas, Tex. The embezzlement
amounted to about $4,000, it is said.
A commission appointing H. D.
Russell, of Macon, colonel of the
First Regiment of the National
Guard has been signed by Adjutant
General Van Holt Nash and forward |
cd 10 Gov. Dorsey for his signature.
A. F. Waters, of Macon, whose son
disappeared several days ago, has re
ceived information that the boy was
going to New Orleans. He has mott
fled police there to assist him to find
the young man.
The flag of the Savannah Cotton
Exchange was placed at half mast
Saturday for the first time in its his
tory in honor of negro, Philip L.
Smith, for forty years porter at the
exchange, who died Saturday.
Napoleon Garrett, charged with
killing R. w. Jackson revenue of
ficer, in December, near Butler, was
bound over under $4,000 bond at
preliminary hearing in Macon Sat
urday.
A passport was issued Saturday to
S. C. Dobbs, Atlanta business man,
to visit several European countries.
He goes in interest of the Coca Cola
exports.
G. E. Ogg, former lieutenant at
camp GOTuOu, WAS brought " nv
lanta from Columbia, S. c., for trial
on a charge of misuse of the mails.
He is said to have written improper
letters to young married woman,
the daughter of a Columbia banker,
despite the fact that he had never
met her.
Miss Elizabeth Lanier, granddaugh-
ter of Sidney Lanier, the great South
ern poet, will spend a month at the
Berry school at Rome, instructing
the girls there in physical culture
and gymnastics.
Charles Harris, negro convicted N
Floyd Superior court of killing Geo.
Pierce, his white employer, last
April, and Henry Anderson, also
convicted of murder, have been SEN
fenced to hang on the same day,
Friday, Feb. s.
Charles Purcell was killed in the
gga&ant building, Atlanta, Saturday, by
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