Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-01-19
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Edward S. Chollman, 6-year-old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. R. E. Chollman.
Of Atlanta, was accidentally shot and
killed by George Maddox, his chun.
while playing Tuesday. The Mad
dox boy was shooting at sparrow
with 8 small pistol when Edward sud
denly ran in front Of him.
Commander John H Towers. of
Rome, Ga, division commander Of
the NC naval seaplanes on flight
from San Diego, Cal, to Panama.
was stricken with appendicitis while
at sea and was transferred, in a seri
US condition, to the hospital ship
l8Nercy, of the Pacific fleet. He was
operated on at once and will recov-
er.
The Mems Bible class of the First
Presbyterian church of Moultrie, |
composed of 43 of the business men
of Moultrie, voiced approval of Sun
day amusements, operation of pub. |
lie utilities on Sunday and Sunday
newspapers and disapproval of the
blue law enactement at its regular
meeting Sunday.
A vice commissioner, to have gem
era charge of the county and city
rolice force, the forces of the sher-
ifs office and the military police |
has been suggested for Muscogee |
county to suppress the whisky traf- |
fic there, by Frank Garard, chair
man of the county board.
Walter E. Duncan, formerly of !
Columbus, where he was reporter on
the Enquirer-Sun, was sworn in |
Tuesday as comptroller-general of |
South Carolina. Mr.. Duncan has
served on many Georgia newspapers. |
Walter Garrett and J. E. Bryant, |
the two Worth county farmers shot |
and seriously wounded by Ed Smith, |
negro, Saturday, have shown i'm
provement, according to a statement
from the hospital at Albany.
Rev. r. J. O'Bryan, of Geneva,
Ala, has been called to the Bync |
Memorial Baptist church at Albany |
and has accepted He will succeed |
Rev. Allen s. Shuler who recently
resigned because Of his inability to
find suitable home.
R. B. Reeves, who succeeded Fl. L. |
Cromartie as county agent for |
Dougherty county, assumed his du-
ties Monday morning.
Commander Emory Winship, Of
Macon, has been named executor of
lis wife's estate and guardian of
their two children under provisions
of the will of Mrs. Katherine Dill
lion Winship filed in Macon Tues
day. Her estate is valued at mil
lions and is to be kept intact until
their youngest child is thirty years
old.
The mercantile establishment of
Silver & Mackey Of Fort Valley, was
partially destroyed by fire Tuesday
with a damage to merchandise OF
10000.
y The trial of U. H. Patrick, former
cashier of the Citizens bank of Coch- |
ran, who is charged with embezzle- |
ment on eighteen counts, has been
postponed indefinitely after Sollcl-
tor General Boyer has stated that
several material witnesses could not
be at the trial.
The Southeastern Express compa- |
NY, a corporation recently formed |
in Birmingham, will open offices IN |
Macon March / and will handle husl-
ness. over the Southern Railway Sys-
TEN and the Mobile and Ohio rail-
road.
B. Landy, a Dawson merchant, has
filed a petition of bankruptcy IN the !
office of U. S. Commissioner Brown
at Columbus He gives his lablll- |
ties at $11.08084 and assets $500.
The Dublin Kiwanis club has de-
cided to change it's routine of lunch
cons by meeting each month at the
home of some members of the club.
Deaths outnumber births in Alba
ny. according to statistics kept at the
city hall there. Deaths reported
during December were thirty while !
births were %. 1t is said that
discrepancy on the part of physicians
in reporting births keeps the ottlclal
birth record lower.
Sam Burnley, a young white man
of Dublin, was painfully injured