Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-09-02
HIGH SPOTS IN
GEORGIA NEWS

The week of Sept. IL will be EN-
poyment week in Savannah when
every person will be asked to employ
someone or help someone out of en-
pIoyment get job. City officials
have begun the movement.
C. w. Smith, one of LaGrange's
leading and influential business men,
died suddenly Wednesday at Shaw
NUT, Ala. Mr.. Smith, early in the
day motored to Shawmut to transact
some business and while standing In
front of the Shawnut Drug Store
talking to friend was seized with
stroke of apoplexy, falling to the
sidewalk and dying instantly.
Alec Temple, Mobiles of the Mystic
Shrine of Savannah, will put on big
bazaar this winter to raise funds to
carry the members of the temple to
San Francisco for the annual con-
vention next year Savannah's dele
CATION will be headed by f. A. Cults,
imperial potentate.
Army officers, acting directly I'M
der order of the war department, has
reached Atlanta to take up the work
of scrapping and salvaging Camp Cor
don. The officers, it is declared
plan Immediately to scrap the camp
and dispose of the buildings and sup
plies there. 1t is said that they will
then offer the realty for sale.
Twelve of the twenty-three grand
jurors called at Fitzgerald to investi-
gate the cases connected with the
strike of the A.. B. & A were dis
qualified when the cases came upI
for investigation Thursday. Judge
Cover subpoenaed sixty-two extra
grand Jurors.
The "unwrtten law" was upheld
by jury in Monroe county Superior
court at Forsyth this week when J |
AR Parham, accused Of the murder of
- wife, was acquitted. Parham
/ p'ade no denial that he shot his wife
on June 26, saying that he found her
in compromising position with
Charlie Haygood, a young man of
this community Several other Incl
59nts of infidelitv were named.
4 The Savannah Elks are planning al
celebration at the Country club on
Feptember 27. The occasion will be
dthe burning of the last note, for S10,-
900, on their handsome home on Ogle-
thorpe avenue.
Warrants were sworn out Wednes-
day in Augusta against seven girls
employed by local 10-cent store, the
employees of which have been on a
strike for the past week. The girls
are charged with disorderly conduct
and m'sdemeanor Mrs. John Riley
an employe of the store. alleges thatl
the strikers came to her home Sunday
and used abusive language toward
her because she had accepted work
at the store.
neclarip" an intention of sticking
nv her husband no matter what hap-I
noned. Mrs Walter Krout, of Rome,
Ca, bride of two weeks, accOmpa
MED her husband from Washington,
n. C.. to Baltimore Thursday where
he is to be arraigned on charges OF
forgery, in connection with the forg-
cry of number of checks in several
Eastern cities
Miss Cecil Leitch, British woman
8ooIf CHAMPION. and Miss AleXa Stir
ling, of Atlanta holder of the Amer
lean and Canadian women titles, will
meet for the first time on the West |
] ern continent in the Canadian cham
#rionship tournament oneninr at OF
4 ava. September 10. Miss Teitch isl
r. route to Canada. During her tour
r. Europe several months ago Missl
stirling was defeated by the English
#gjrla.
Actual work has been started att
n Dalton on the building that will be
lsed for Whitfield countys first
II community cheese factory Just out
81 de the northern limits of the city