Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-02
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GEORGIA NEWS

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~. Savannah mill of the Atlantic
nor and Pulp Mills re-opened Mon
- with IT'S employees and expects
8 5orbio this number in the near
.rro The mill has been closed
~r several weeks. 1t normally
nrIovs 400 workers.
4 Mrs Rosa Lee Harris, lying in bed
- her husband, |. L. Harris, at
FL home in Decatur, reached under
i husbands pillow drew out his re-
4 .i~er and fired a bullet through her
- about 4:3O Monday morning.
H. Harris was 10 years old.
4 That there has been a decrease in
Z !, number of deaths from pellagra
Il Georgia during the past year in
#a,od If an increase is shown in a
Zonort from the State Bureau of vi
I Statistics, according to the state
pent issued by the Macon Chamber
Ia Commerce, which has wired the
EbnbIic Health Service to either back
H. or retract its statement that the
|Eputb is endangered by famine and
8,Iogpp The death rate from pella-
bra during the first six months of
loo was fifteen persons to every
E0OOOO. the Vital Statistics report
&bows. For the same period of this
lear the death rate was 1874 persons
Ia every 100000.
Frank J. Stukes, Southern Railway
cent at Hazlehurst, who mysterious
IN disappeared from his home city a
|reek ago and who, it was believed,
hi from a ferry boat crossing the
SOcmuIgee river near Lumber City, is
salye and is now under the care of
Il physician at Birmingham, Ala, ac-
sEordiug to Geographic information
deceived from the Alabama city. His
Swife says she disbelives his reported
Shortage.
Two women were appointed to Of
Me- on the Civil Service commission,
Mi Augusta, by city council in regu-
ar session Monday night. They are,
Mrs L. S. Arlington, local club wo-
|man and society leader, and Mrs.
HAIRY NJ. Carpenter, prominently
identified with social work here.
Their appointment followed the resig-
nations of Commissioners M. M. H.
|Duyall and Z. ]. Lyons.
A cotton condition figure of SO
per cent of normal( forecasting a
Yield of about 144.6 pounds per acre
and total production of 1,O77,800
bales of 500 pounds gross, was an
bounced Monday for the State of
Georgia by the Cooperative Crop
Reporting Service, a joint agency of
the Federal Bureau of Crop Esti-
mates and the State Department Of
Agriculture.
]. R. Brooks, one of the three
white men apprehended for the day
light robbery of the Bank of College
Park on June 28, escaped Sunday
from the United States Public Serv-
ice Hospital on Peachtree road, where
he had been sent for treatment for
AEs. ]. W. Lindsay. widow of
IlaN owner in the County Cork, Ire
land, and aunt of Mrs. j. Wallace
Dmant of Savannah, has been exc
Cuted, according to a dispatch from
London. Mrs. Lindsay was so years
old.
A two cent reduction in the light
end power rates went into effect
in Dublin Monday, much to the relief
of patrons The light rate is reduced
fro Ia cents to IL cents and power is
reduced accordingly.
W. C. Mitchell, Macon negro physi-
clan, convicted of poisoning his
nephew at Montezua where he for
merly lived to collect his insurance
and given a life term, has been de
MED a new trial. An appeal will be
made to a higher court Mitchell
was the beneficiary of insurance
amounting to about $4,000, carried
on the life of his nephew, who was
soldier during the World War. His
BODY was eXhumed in Dooly county
during the Investigation.
Construction of a navigable water
way between the Flint and 0cmulgee
rivers In Georgia is inadvisable, ac-
ccofdlng to a report Of army engineers
transmitted u. to congress by Secretary
Weeks.