Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-05-13
HIGH SPOTS IN
GEORGIA NEWS

Miss Helen A. Willis. school
teacher at Talbotton. died Tbursda,-
after 80 years service in tbo scnooIs
IN which time she had missed onIv -
ngle day prior to Sunday, that one
day beng due to her fathers Illness
her mother is past 90.
Indictments charging riotjng wore
returned against b. Z. Hathaway I
q. hathaway, j. G, Hewitt. {. NJ Nc.
Ngll, Pete Coleman and Millard Ho1,
rclI by the jefferson county end
Jury at Louisville, Ga. Thursday in
connection with the alleged attGmnt
tc lynch Edward Fleming. = neoro
near this place during the latter bart
of April. Fleming is in an Az.
. gusta hospital.
kilograms from prominent citi
zens all over the state are being re-
ccived by United States District A.
toney John W. Bennett. coneratu-
lating him on the statement Gc issued
icnOuncing the 'unWarranted public-
ity of peOnage' in Georgia given out
by Governor Hugh Nj. Dorsey and
Hooper Alexander.
The Georgia Society in Washino-
ton will construct d clubhouse which
will be a replica of Bulloch Hall in
Roswell, Ga, the birthplace of the
mother of Theodore Roosevelt.
Mrs. W. E. Reeves, of Augusta,
was reelected president Of the Geor-
gia State Branch of the Kings
Daughters and Sons at THURSDAYS
session of the twenty-fifth annual
convention of that body held in At
lanta.
John Waits, farmer of the Satil-
Ia River settlement in Pierce county.
was shot and instantly killed bv rev
enue officers as the result of a pitch
ed battle fought between Waits and
the officers while the latter were in
the act Of searching his farm for
whisky Many shots were fired .bvI
both the farmer and the officers.
Election was held at Helena We'd
nesday for the purpose of bonding
the city of Helena to the amount of
$4,000, which amount is to be-
spent for installing waterworks
Bonds carried by a light vote. Nine
ty-two votes polled, "a for bonds
and & against bonds. .----
Nh and Mrs. j. H. Pullen of
Meigs, have been notified by the
government that the body of their
son, Emory PuIIen, who died in
France during the war, would ar
rive in New York this week. They
have decided to allow the body to
be inferred in the National Gene
terry at Arlington and members of
the family have gone on to meet it.
Young Pullcn enlisted in 1917 and
WAS at Fort Oglethorpe until going
overseas, whore he died of pneu-
monia. ~, ~,
Moultrie wholesale lumber deal
ers declare that business with them
IS better than it has been at any time
in more than a year. "Our saics were
more than a million feet greater in
April than in March," the manager
Of one local concern stated. The
dealers say the most of the big or
dcrs are coming from Pennsylvania,
New York and New Jersey.
The Augusta retail jewellers, at a /
meeting Tuesday afternoon took
steps to prepare for the annual con
vcntion Of the Georgia Retail Jewel |
ers, which meets there on July -, !
for a two day session
w. A. Holley, president of the
Bank of Fort Gaines, Ga, died at
the infirmary at Eufaula, Ala, Mon
day night of blood poison from cut
ting a corn on his foot The leg
was amputated several days ago, but
the poison had filled the entire sys-
TEN. The body was taken to Fort
Gaines for interment.
Prof. Roland B. Daniel has just
been reelected as superintendent of /
the Columbia Public schools. Pro-
fessors T. c. Kendrick and Frank P.
Bradford were again named princi-
pals of the High and Industrial High |
school respectively. DR.. Mercer
Blanchard was named chief medical