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

That a shortage in the accounts OF
uorrv H. Coulter, clerk of the town
e cirard. Ala, suburb of Column
" Sns amounting to something over
., }oo had been found by auditors
80 the city and an adiuster for the
NationaI Surety company, his bonds
4 on. and that Coulter has left for
arts unknown has just become
Nnown Clerk Coulter was former
fooryice man, and was drawing a pen
S o from The government amounting
- about $1,000 a year for dlsabiL-
vs. " re,aiyed in service overseas. It
= stated that be is known &c have
aosbed his last government check
T.,,rsdav night and he is believed to
howe left GirarI under cover of
Ddsrkness the same night.
More than a hundred former stu
donts Of Mercer University will COM
nTment the Mercer members OF the
Georgia legislature at a banquet
thursday night at the Piedmont hotel
N Atlanta. The Atlanta Alumni as
sociation. of which Judge George
4iIlver is president and Johnny
W,'eetmoreland vice president, are also
onnouncing that the banquet this
g ,l,a, is in celebration of the fact that
there are nearly twice as many Mer-
cay men in the senate and house of
4 CONSERVATIVES as from all other
I colleges. 90 ~ -
home in Pitts, Ga, a few days ago
from injuries sustained when mule
4 btchpd to a wagon, in which Mr..
livingston was riding became fright
oned and ran away. Mr.. Livingston
was thrown from the vehicle and his
back broken.
The Federal Trade Commission has
been requested by Senator Harris,
Of Georgia, to make an investigation
u of the high prices for bagging and
ties for cotton. The senator said
d complaints were reaching him that
j the prices of bagging and ties were
4 remaining high, while many other
4 products of lutte and iron had suffer
q ed great declines, such as fertilizer
4 bags.
II Tom Moran, postmaster of Moran,
a was arrested at Macon Saturday,
chagred with havino a gallon of
moonshine in his possession. Moran's
q Ford was seized and the whisky con-
4 fscated. Officers say that Moran
81 was regularly bringing whisky into
I Macon and disposing of it.
y The Georgia Railroad commission,
" in addition to citing all the railroads
q in the state to show cause on August
n IS why there should not be general
N revision Of freight rates, has also is
u sued a notice citing all railroads to
d show cause on August 10 why the
n surcharge now being collected on
Pullman car transportation should
not be Immediately suspended.
Wesleyan college will have no
u new dormitory this year, plans for
the $l50,00O building which were en-
VI dOrsed by the board of trustees at its
NJ meeting in May having been aban-
80 for the present. They may ma
q eralize next year, DR.. W. F. Quill
0l2, president of Wesleyan, said, but
Nh will be impossible to eliminate
HAHem this fall or winter. The fail
#Ere Of the Methodist church, South,
70 raise its full quota of 10000"
~ for educational purposes having made
Fthe postponement of the, building
81 program necessary.
ColQuitt county will gin its first
bale of cotton of the 1921 season be-
II fore Saturday night, according to
u farmers, if the weather is fair this
week. 1t is said that the staple is
II opening rapidly and that the fields
" around Moultrie will soon be white.
Sheric Jones, of Cochran, raided a
n still SATURDAY. and secured a barrel
" OF moonshine whisky. The sheriff
s poured it on the ground near the