Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-01
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krernorarv organization of a coun-
oInb has Just been perfected in
him bv business men and others
Eterested in a social asset of this
a and the membership is already
In m the way to the limit set by
charter members. Only 100
E.mberships will be allowed, and six
q nj these nave already been taken.
-. Stevens was made PRESIDENT;
D. Simmons, first vice-president;
III R Rains, secretary and treasurer.
Farm crops IN Ware county are IN
srrbe condition, some being COM
etpIy washed away, as result of
series of storms, each resembling
u cloudburst, during the latter part
this month, it is reported. Total
ainfal for July was 10 1-2 inches,
8 ccording to the weather observer,
70 greatest for any month in the
nemorv of the oldest resident of this
rountv. Most of this rainfall occur
ID during the last three days.
q Under a court order from the Fed
sral court of the Southern District
n New York, all of the manfactur-
Il plywood at the local plant of the
@FIOra-American Plywood company, at
sNaon, in bankruptcy, has been sold
h Baird and Roberts, Chicago, at a
Guarantee price of $4,000. This
Nstock, it is said, would have brought
Ns25O.O in the period prior to or
Earring the World War.
4 A number of Savannah people,
some of who nit is declared repre-
Rented the local Ku Klux Khan, have
ScsIed up Mrs. M. M. Dodge, sister
IF Walter A. Chafee, a wei! known
sccntrsctor, who left Savannah a
vqfk ago after receiving a warning
believed to have come from the Ku
NKlux Ian and asked that she no.
Stify her brother to return to Savan-
Ansb at once. The visitors declared
Ethe Ku Klux had nothing to do with
4 The notice sent Chafee, who is now
en- route to Los Angeles. Calif.,
wnl he lived be- re coming to Sa-
Nannah. Mrs. Dodge said she would
hot leave as she had intended doing
and would advise her brother to re-
#tmn
Governor Hardwick has granted
spardon to W. L. Darby, of Vidalia,
8convicted 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
Malta. The pardon was issued on rec
kOmmendation of the state Prison
commission, backed by recommended
Stions from tie trial judge, members
Scf the jury, the county officers and
z number of citizens.
The appeal for new trial for
8Clyde S. Manning, negro chief wit
Hness for the state, against his en-
sployer, John S. Williams, was de-
Snied in Superior court at Decatur
Saturday by Judge John B. Hutche-
&oyA who took cognizance of reports
uplagittempts had been made to make
Sfhe negro change his statements re-
harding the alleged murder of negro
farm hands on the Williams farm
land ordered that he not be allowed to
bee visitors in future,
u The steam Jewel, which plies the
cmulgee river from Hawkinsville to
points down the river, hit the pier of
sthe drawbridge at Hawkinsville Sun
hay 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,
Nit being the second boat he has lost
SIecently.
The committee appointed by the
zAshburn Board of Trade to raise
Enough money to make the first pay
sment on the machinery for cream
Ferry there, reported Friday that the
necessary funds had been raised and
THAT the machinery would be shipped
Rn few DAYS.
L. Marvin Underwood and Edgar
H. Pomeroy, well-known Atlanta at
Norneys, have announced the forma-
stlon of partnership for the general
Apractice of law, under the firm name
Nj Underwood and Pomeroy. Asso-
NcIated with the new firm will be
HAlex koplin. w. W. Hood, W. Percy
7ColeS and Joseph H. Ross. Offices
#are in the Gambler building.
Nick klimnes, of Tarpon Springs,
a., PILOT of launch, was killed in
BS'antly and j. W. Granthan. of Villa
foochee, Ga, and Waldo Henderson,
~ DELLA, Ga, received severe burns
NSulnday when fishing launch was
8nit by lightning 20 miles off Keaton
sb9each' Fla. Two other men receiv-
II less serious injuries.
Walter B. Chapman, at one time an
asuerman and later chief-of police,
IN Macon, died Sunday morning at
Luz Macon hospital, following an OPP
la'lon 10 appendicitis, performed
last Thursday.