Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-02
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Savannah mill of the Atlantic
~ and Pulp Mills re-opened Mon
with 175 employees and expects
& ioubIe this number in the near
40 The mill has been closed
q IN several weeks. 1t normally
NrIoys 400 workers.
4 Mrs Rosa Lee Harris, lying in bed
4 Ne her husband, l. L. Harris, at
home in Decatur, reached under
Y 5nsband's pillow drew out his re-
4 ~or and fired a bullet through her
w about 1880 Monday morning.
Il Harris was 10 years old.
4 That there has been a decrease in
nnmber of deaths from pellagra
/ Georgia during the past year in
I'd of an increase is shown in a
&nor from the State Bureau of VII
/ Statistics, according to the state
s ant issued by the Macon Chamber
4 commerce, which has wired the
S,bIic Health Service to either back
or retract its statement that the
81 is endangered by famine and
oanp The death rate from pella-
during the first six months of
En- was fifteen persons to every
H. 000 the Vital Statistics report
i avs For the same period of this
H. the death rate was 1874 persons
4 every 100000.
Frank ]. Stukes, Southern Railway
spprt at Hazlehurst, who mysterious
4 disappeared from his home city a
H. ago and who, it was believed,
Ii from a ferry boat crossing the
6cmulgee river near Lumber City, is
sIiye and is now under the care of
physician at Birmingham, Ala, ac-
sordjng to telegraphic information
Deceived from the Alabama city. His
/ ifq says she disbelives his reported
sOtage.
Two women were appointed to of
/ &c on the Civil Service commission,
II Augusta, by city council in regu-
Er session Monday night. They are,
|Irs. L. S. Arlington, local club wo-
han and society leader, and Mrs.
Harry NJ. Carpenter, prominently
Identified with social work here.
their appointment followed the resig-
Sations of Commissioners M. M. H.
DuvalI and E. J. Lyons.
A cotton condition figure of SO
Der cent of normal { forecasting a
held of about 144.6 pounds per acre
ind total production of 1,077800
BALES of 500 pounds gross, was an
bounced Monday for the State of
Georgia by the Cooperative Crop
Reporting Service, a joint agency of
he Federal Bureau of Crop EST
mates and the State Department of
Agriculture.
J. R. Brooks, one of the three
White men apprehended for the day
light robberyHof the Bank of College
Park on June 28, escaped Sunday
rom the United States Public Serv-
&c Hospital on Peachtree road, where
lie had been sent for treatment for
ppendicitis.
Ms ]. w. Lindsay, widow of
- ,wner in the County Cork, Ire
and and aunt of Mrs. j. Wallace
)urant of Savannah, has been exc
uted, according to a dispatch from
,ondon. Mrs. Lindsay was 60 years
Id.
A two cent reduction in the light
nd power rates went into effect
Dublin Monday, much to the relief
+ patrons. The light rate is reduced
70 Ia cents to IL cents and power is
educed accordingly.
W. c. Mitchell, Macon negro physi-
Ian, convicted of poisoning his
ephew at Montezua where he for
lerIy lived to collect his insurance
nd given a life term, has been de
ned a new trial. An appeal will be
made to a higher court Mitchell
'aS the beneficiary of insurance
mounting to about $4,000, carried
II the life Of his nephew, who was
soldier during the World War. His
ody was eXhumed in Dolly county
uung the investigation.
Construction of navigable water
way between the Flint and Ocmulgee
Vers in Georgia is inadvisable, ac-
ordlng to report of army engineers
Weeks