Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-03-16
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While on her way to place flowers
on the grave of her husband, Mrs.
Mary Marmack, of Atlanta, was kill
ed Tuesday when the car in which
she was riding was struck by a Cen
trail Of Georgia train.
The citizens of Edison have filed a
petition with Secretary of State Nc
Tendon stating that the county seat
removal election recently held in
Calhoun couny and which Morgan
won over Edison, was illegal, owing
to the conduct Of some of the man
ayers. Secretary McLendon will
set date for hearing within the next
several days.
Capt. Carl D. Ford, World war
veteran and former finance officer
at Camp Gordon, was indicted Tues
day by the Federal grand jury for
violation of the Mann white slave
act. Ford married three wives.
w. f. Persons, sheriff of Jasper
county, was indicted by federal
grand jury of the false arrest of
negro and holding him as a slave
The charges grew out of the illegal
arrest of Lee Griggs, negro farm
hand by Sheriff Persons, who after
ward turned him over to a farmer
Twelve hundred acres of tobacco
are being planted in the Fitzgerald
district, it is stated by farmers Of
that vicinity.
Secretary of State McLendon
stated Tuesday that up to date he
had deposited motor vehicle revenue
amounting to 908,021.75, all sub
ject to highway commission opera
tions. He stated that the present
revenue and rate of tax collections
indicated that at the end of the year
the total amount would fall short
by 20 percent of the 1920 funds.
The price of rosin dropped Tues
day from 81 a barrel, the nominal
quotation, to S4.25. Turpentine
dropped four cents.
Alderman B. J. Dasher stated in
Macon city council Tuesday night
that Macon is in desperate financia
straits and that auditors now at WORT
on the books of the city will show .
deficit of $168,000 on the first Of
January of this year. He said that
the Toole administration is not keep
ing campaign pledges.
J. D. Gardner, Dolphicus Bradley
and Fred Sumner, of PULASKI coun
ty, were drowned in the Ocmugcc
river Saturday while on a turkey
hunt.
The body of Gardner has been
recovered and searching parties are
looking for the other two. 1t is
thought that their boat, in which
they were making their trip to the
swamps, struck a snag and capsized
Rev. DR.. S. Y. Jameson, so, SUI
perintendent of the enlistment OF
the home mission board of the
Southern Baptist convention and
former president Of Mercer UniVe'
sity, died Tuesday at Macon Of acute
Indigestion.
j. W. Stalnecker, peach grower
near Fort Valley, died Tuesday as a
result of injuries received Monday
when negro, Lonnie Everett, threN
him to the ground, his head striking
a brick. Everett has been carried
to the Bib county jail for safe
keeping. $3.50,
The Metropolitan Shows, which
were at the fair in Americas last
fall and have been spending the win
ter in Macon, will open the spring
season in Macon Saturday, Ma'ch
10.
Mrs. Iona Wilson, of LindaIc,
near Rome, has been arrested u
Marion, S. c., in connection with the
murder of Lewis Kinsey, Summer
vile mail carrier, January II, an"
will be brought to Summerviuc. Mar
ion is the same place whore Clin'
Mathis. now in the Atlanta tower
charged with Kinsey's murder, was
arrested a short while ago.
Miss Matte Wall, nurse IN charge
of the office of DR.. J. w. Edmund,
son. of Dublin, was attacked and
knocked unconscious Tuesday by an
alleged dope fiend when she caught
him attempting to steal poWdeI
which he mistook for morphine. Inc
man has not been caught,
Regimental headquarters com
pany. under command Of Capt
Charles M. Haguley, and the SAM.
tary detachment, under command
of Major j. M. Sigman, both Macon
organizations, were mustered into
federal service Tuesday night:
John j. Murph, one of the largest
peach growers in Macon county
county, died at Marshallville Tues
dav after an illness of ten days.
The fact that w. S. Coburn, at
torney for the Ku Klux Khan, has
been engaged to defend Edwin
Shute, Homer Pitts and H. J. Nor,
ton, the men who were with Fred
G. Thompson when he was cut TO
death by J. c. Thomas, at Lake
wood Park, Atlanta, has given r RS
to a report that these men were M u
Klux 'tVigilence Committeeman
and were acting under klan direc'
, tions when Thomas, the committee, S
intended victim, killed the commit
tees leader. These four men TOOK