Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-01
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Temporary organization of coun-
n onh has Just been perfected in
n.bIir bv business men and others
,torasred in social asset of this
Lad and the membership is already
a ~an on the way to the limit set by
charter members. Only 100
g. oabqrships will be allowed, and six
y NJ these nave already been taken.
Stevens was made president;
simmons, first vice-president;
z Rains, secretary and treasurer.
harm crops in Ware county are IN
..,rible condition, some being COM
nIetely washed away, as result of
series of storms, each resembling
cIoudburst, during the latter part
! n this month, it is reported. Total
B 'snfall for July was 10 IL inches,
/ sccording to the weather observer,
,ba greatest for any month in the
memory of the oldest resident of this
oonnty, Most of this rainfall occur
rsd during the last three days.
Under court order from the Fed
s,aI court of the Southern District
If New York, all of the manfactur-
ID plywood at the local plant of the
American Plywood company, at
Macon. in bankruptcy, has been sold
IA Bajld and Roberts, Chicago, at a
guarantee price of $4,000. This
stock, it is said, would have brought
s25O,OOO in the period prior to or
during the World War.
number of Savannah people,
some of who nit is declared repre-
serted the local Ku KluX Khan, have
called up Mrs. M. M. Dodge, sister
Of Walter A. Chafee, a wei! known
contractor, who left Savannah a
week ago after receiving a warning
believed to have come from the ku
KIux Ian and asked that she no
tjfy her brother to return to Savan-
nah at once. The visitors declared
the Ku Klux had nothing to do with
the notice sent Chafee, who is now
en- route to Los Angeles. CaljfY
%n, he Iiv,3 be- re coming to Sa-
vganah Mrs. Dodge said she would
not leave as she had intended doing
and would advise her brother to re-
turn
Governor Hardwick has granted a
pardon to W. l.. Darby, of Vidalia,
convicted in Toombs Superior court
in 1916, of manslaughter for the kill
ing of man by the name of Moore
on the main business street of vi
daIia. The pardon was issued on rec
ommendation of the state Prison
Commission, backed by recommended,
tons from tie trial judge, members
Of the jury, the county officers and
number of citizens.
The appeal for new trial fol
Clyde S. Manning, negro chief wit
ness for the state, against his en-
ployer, John S. Williams, was de-
a. in Superior court at Decatur
Yarday by Judge John B. Hutche'
son, who took cognizance of reports
that attempts had been made to make
the negro change his statements re
garding the alleged murder of negro
farm hands on the Williams farm
h and ordered that he not be allowed t.
Ssee visitors in future.
The steam Jewel, which plies the
0cmulgee river from Hawkinsville to
points down the river, hit the pier OF
the drawbridge at Hawkinsville Sun
day and sank heavily loaded with
steel for the new bridge being built
at that point. The boat was owned
and operated by Capt. Jack Roebuck
it being the second boat he has los
recently.
The committee appointed by the
AShbum Board of Trade to raist
enough money to make the first pay,
ment on the machinery for cream
cry there, reported Friday that the
necessary funds had been raised ano
that the machinery would be shipped
in few days.
Z. Marvin Underwood and Edgar
E. Pomeroy, well-known Atlanta at
tomeys, have announced the forma
ton Of partnership for the genera
practice of law, under the firm name
Of Underwood and Pomeroy. Asso
clated with the new firm will b.
Alex Koplin, w. w. Hood, w. Perc!
Coles, and Joseph H Ross. Office
are in the Gambler building.
Nick Klimnes, of Tarpon Springs
Fla, pilot of a launch, was killed in
Stantly and j. W. Granthan, of Villa
cooochee, Ga, and Waldo Henderson
OF DELLA, Ga, received severe burns
Sunday when a fishing launch wa
mt by lightning 20 miles off Keator
Beach, Fla Two other men receiv
Ell less serious injuries.
Walter B. Chapman, at one time al
alderman and later chief-of police
OF Macon, died Sunday morning a
the Macon hospital, following an OPP
erauon 10 rappendicitis, performe
last Thursday.