Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-05-31
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Permits for the erection Of 44s
licences have been issued in At
tia since January /. The Nav
ord was 130 residences, the hign-
for a single month since 1910.
The farmers of Georgia are en-
8Aged in race with the boil weevil.
cording to J. J. Brown, commission
Of agriculture. Mr.. Brown de-
res that there never have been
many weevils in Georgia. No sec
b. is free of the pest, and the sal
ton of the farmers, he adds, le-
nds almost entirely upon weather
nditions that are adverse to The
& eevils.
B. L. Lane, a prominent naval
& pres man and farmer, Of Milien,
ed Monday morning from wounds
ceived Sunday night in a difficult
with lJesse NJ. Johnson, neigh
D. Johnson was unhurt and is
II W in jail here.
Ralph Harrington, four-year-uld
n Of M. G. Harrington, of Milldke.
s. le, was killed in Athens Sunday
n ben hit by an automobile driven by
harIie Miller, Of Clermont The
Mtle boy was running across the
rect to get onto his fathers car
then hit by MillerS machine.
Barrow county's handsome new
Jurt house is rapidly nearing com.
81 elton. Ordinary Charles W. Park
announces that the building will
4 bst around $4,000 and that it will
Il obably be ready for the June term
"a court.
The McGlawn farms, seven miles
8uth of Hawkinsville, have chang
n hands, the Massel Realty coin
1.lny, Of Atlanta, being the new own
H.. IL is understood that the con
liberation was around 100000.
q Upon his return to Atlanta from
Washington Monday GovernOr-elect
Nardwick announced that when he
i sumes office in June he will i'm
Anediately appoint d. B. Blalock,
III Fayette county, as his private sec
sctary. The office was rendered A.
II. Spence, of Mitchell county, who
Ryas unable to accept owing to prl-
5 ate business matte
q. G.. B. Hogan, wealthy planter
BIZ laurens county, charged with
8eonage, has waived his preliminary
learing, which was to have been
tuesday before Commissioner W. +.
Martin in United States court at Ma
bon. The hearing was postponed
lhree times, the first being set for
Monday, May %, and the second,
Monday, May 80, The bond remains
ht $4,000.
Stockholders of the Midland City
Hotel company, the holding compa-
nv for the Hotel Dempsey Of Macon,
Monday voted to issue preferred
stock to the amount of 100000,
$4,000 of it to be used to redeem
common stock of the first issue and
the other $4,000 to be used in i'm
brewing the hotel
Mayor G. Glen Toole, of Macon,
lin a four-car race down College
street with an estimated speed OF
Sorty-five miles an hour, sidesWlped
u Dodge car driven by C. W. Jones,
III GAINESVILLE, tearing off one wheel
of the Dodge and sending it into the
lawn of a home and on down the
sidewalk where crowd OF chlidren
are usually playing, says the Ieie-
graph. As a result of the escapade,
in which the mayor was showing the
Shriners of AL Chymia Temple, Mem
phis. the town. C. W. Jones was IN
iured. and the occupants of both cars
in the collision narrowly escaped
death. The residents Of that sec
ton were warm in their denuncia-
tions over the example which the
mayor of the city was setting me
citizens, and the danger to Whlch ne
was exposing the children OF the VI
The $50 members of the Al Chy-
mia Temple of Shriners of Mem
phis. headed by F. A. Rome, poten-
tate who were the guests Of honor
Of The members of the Al Shah
Tennle in Macon Monday at a bril-
liant ceremonial lin which seventy
were driven across t2e
fiery sands of the desert, left Mon
dav night for Jacksonville.
An unidentified negro woman
went raving crazy in the Fort Hill
section of East Macon Monday, nlght;,
tore all clothing from her body 6 ana
annlied the torch to Central CITY
College. = negro institution, with an
onr ,oI Of 900. She is in the
hospital cell of the Bibb county gan
The school plant was totally destroy
al n loco If 800 600.