Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-05-16
HIGH SPOTS IN
GEORGIA NEWS

Mrs. Nina NJ. Walton. wife Of !
4. Walton, and one of the beSt
known and most highly esteemek W..
men Of Columbus, fell dead in la
& wood cemetery the Saturday aft
4 enoon a, he resI't Of a stoke I'll
L anJp.eXy. ker Sc vas pres,al
Inc L's'ness A.uses Of Cordeie
I Nil Ct.sc II 8 p. C,uC,. gacn after
! noon hereafter until September ev-
3 ger, Saturday, and on Thursd.,
5 The ores and other places or ,u,j-
nts- will Csc at I oclocE For 4 saIf
! holiday.
The Augusta Board of Education
/ has adopted a resolution providing
definitely for the construction of a
modern nigh school building on the
Richmond Academy campus TO cost
q least 100000. The new buiId- |
viii be constructed with view
10 accommodating l 900 students
A curb market has been organized
for Cordele and will begin its activ-
tiles next Saturday morning. The
market will be established on the
courthouse grounds. 1t will be omen
every Wednesday and Saturday
Only two of the men found guilty
Of conspiracy to rob the American
Railway Express Company of ST.
100000 and sentenced by Judge
Beverly D. Evans at Macon on Sat
urday. April 80, failed to pay their
fines. make appeal for bonds or TO
report TO the United States marshal |
there last Saturday. These two are
J. O. Hood, of Albany, Ga. and vii
lard Hackney, Of Montgomery, Ala.
Rawis RoSser. negro, accused of |
shooting and fatally wounding Dep
ugy Sheriff Kempton of Coweta
county was shot TO death near Grant
vile late Saturday by a posse which
opened fire, it was declared. after
the negro fired two shots at his pur-
suers. Deputy hempton died Satu- |
day.
Mayor Miller s. Bell, of Milledge-
vile, was again nominated to succeed |
himself IN the primary held Satur- |
day. Il viii be his eighth term of two
years.
The semi-annual divorce mill at
Augusta Saturday ground out $50
divorces. No single petition was re-
fused, though upon one occasion the |
court remarked to the pretty young
petitioner, that he thought you're |
telling me 4 big story"
To write into the public school
laws Of Georgia that singing is as
important a part Of common school |
education as reading, writing or
'ritametic, is the purpose Of a bill
that will be introduced in the next
legislature by Judge 7. J. Luke, rep
resentative-elect from Ben Hill
county and president of the South
Georgia singing society.
A report from Meigs received by
The Townsville Times-EnterpriseI
stated that watermelon was
brought to town by Mr.. Thomas
Davis from a field of Davis and |
Smith that weighed two pounds. The
crop in that section is good and ship |
meuts Of melons and cantaloupes will
begin the early part Of June.
An income tax for Georgia, to be |
levied By constitutional amendment, |
is one Of the recommendations con- |
tanned in the annual report of II. }.
futlbrght state tax commissioner, |
(which was communicated to Comp |
Il ro!Ier-General William A. Wright. |
~General opinion Of experts, Mr.. Full |
bright maintained, establishes the |
income tax as most satisfactory OF |
all.
Charles n. Hudson, white farmer,
Of Bib county, now serving years |
sentence on the gang after having |
been found guilty Of involuntary
4 with
death of Miss Drusilla Devlln, which |
was caused by car driven by Hud- |
son striking her, will file an appli- |
cation for a pardon with the prison |
commission as a result of the law /
under which he was convicted being |
declared invalid. Habeaus corpus
proceedings also have been insti-
tuted in an effort to gain the free
dom of Ohio Hart, negro. now serV-
ing nine months on the Blbb coun- |
ty gang for violating the motor We
hlce law. /
Governor Dorsey has appointed !
Judge Hugh NJ Cannon, Of Savan-
nah. on the board Of trustees of the
Training School for Boys at Mil |
ledgeviIie-the old reformatory-to
fill the place made vacant by the
resignation of J. L. Herring Of Tiff
ton, The vacancy caused by the
resignation of Mrs. J. E. hays, of
Motezuma. has not yet been filled.
The flat assertion that freight and |
passenger rates now in effect, both
intrastate and interstate, are eXces- |
sive, is contained in the forty-eighth |
annual report of the state railroad |
Commission, which has just been sub
mitted to the governor. Consider
able attention is devoted to the in
crease of approximately so per cent
in passenger and freight rates over
those of June, 1918, and declares
that the rate on cotton, cotton lint
nr, ii Lrini, ,rithtn. the state Of