Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-01-14
HIGH SPOTS IN
GEORGIA NEWS

Eleven stills, four of extraordi-
nary capacity land 5000 gallons beer
mash were confscated in raids made
in Muscogee county by county Of
ficials Tuesday.
ColQuitt county farmers are plan
ming to plant more than a thousand
acres to lespedeza and carpet grass
as permanent pastures. Lack of suf
ticient pasturage has been the cause
CT high death rate among hogs in
that count, according to the county
demonstration
DR.. W. W. Griffith, young Balm
bridge physician, died there Tuesday
of cerebral meningitis.
= Mayor Key, of Atlanta, urged the
D doption of Sunday movies in an
address to a gathering of Atlanta
ministers in the Y. NJ. c. A.
President-elect Harding discussed
the selection of a secretary of agri-
culture Wednesday with Charles s.
Barrett, of Georgia, president of the
Farmers's Union. Barrett is said TO
be a supporter of Henry Wallace, of
Iowa, for the place.
Mrs. Bessie Mills and daughter.
Miss Belle Mills, of near Kite, were
fined 5000 each in Federal court
at Savannah Wednesday on a charge
Of making moonshine whisky.
The Macon Music Festival for the
1921 season has been cancelled by
the trustees because of lack of facili-
ties. The board will preserve inter
est in the festival and will revive
1t as soon as a suitable place can
be obtained for holding the event.
Milton A. Camp, cashier of the
Shiloh bank, has disappeared and his
accounts are $4,000 short. The
bank has been turned over to the
state banking department.
MGjor-General Wood will make an
inspection tour of Camp Benning
on or about January 90
Twelfth district bankers, in
meeting in Dublin Thursday, called
upon farmers to cut cotton acreage
80 per cent this year in order to
SFCiA " NGlIC NOCJOll III the IdlI.
Henry w. Miller, of Atlanta. who
has been acting vice president in
charge Of operations Of the South
ern railroad since March, was an
pointed vice president in charge OF
operations Thursday. Ee will sue
coed Z. H. Coapman, who died a few
days ago.
The new Baptist church at Unadil
Ia was formally opened Tuesday
nigh by reception in honor of the
new pastor and his wife, Rev. and
Mrs. 7. A. Cline The church was
built at a cost of $4,000.
Georgia's electoral vote for Cox
and Roosevelt was delivered to Vice
President Marshall Thursday by NJ.
A. Ncvin, CT Atlanta. Georgia's re-
turns We're the twelfth received.
There are SO divorce cases to be
tried Saturday by the Floyd county
Superior court. This is about half
the number that usually appear in
AFloyd county court.
y Gold pins have been presented by
ClAC All lllSS hlNdulaIS 10 tlle new
president, T. B. Montcref and to the
retiring president, Mayor S. H. Dun
son.
Cotton mills at Granville have re
sumed operations after a shutdown
Of several weeks.
The wages of dockworkers in
Brunswick have been cut.
The Georgia Veneer and Package
company at Brunswick resumes OPP
Grafton Monday after being shut
down on account of insufficient la
Dor.
Fire, of unknown origin, destroy
ed $4,000 worth Of lumber belong
ing to VIII McCurdy of Stone Noun
tain, Ga, Thursday.
Judge William V. Davis, chair
man Of the courthouse and jail com
mittee Of the Chatham county com
missioners, declared after an inspec-
ton Of the county Jail that the place
was entirely too comfortable for the
good of the prisoners. He said that
the life they lead will be a tempta-
ton for them to return.
In his opening statement to the
Ben Hill county grand jury Judge
Cove" said that the Cordele circuit