Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-04-29
HIGH SPOTS IN
GEORGIA NEWS

IN Thomas court this week on a
charge Of burglary. He admitted
entering the Hanna, Walker and
Reid homes at Thomasville, and was
captured by ]. W. Red after mis-
tol fight, in which both he and the
negro were wounded.
Ihomasvllle Confederate veterans
nave gone on record as opposing the
recent pension ruling.
Capt. James H. Preston, u S. A.
now at Alcatraz, Calf, has been
elected head of the new Georgia
School for the Feeble Minded, lust
completed at Augusta, and will take
charge and begin receiving children
for training between June / and L..
the state board of health an
nounces.
While climbing down a ladder
from a tree where he was placing
swing, Rev. j. w. Hartsfield, of Toe
Goa. suffered broken leg when the
ladder broke.
The widow of the late Warren Ed
wards, of Milledgeville, has been en-
dorsed by the citizens for the post
mastership there. Her husband, post
master under Tafe, had been expect
ed to get the place
The Georgia Master Plumbers. in
convention in Macon, have voted to
call themselves Domestic Engineers
hereafter
Nearly 5000 acres have been add
ed to the Nanthala forest reserve in
North Georgia by condemnation pro- +!
cecdlngs in the Federal district court |
The reserve contains more than 100 |
600 acres in Habersham and Ra, |
bun counties, and includes the head
waters of the Tennessee and Sa-
vannah rivers.
Melville E. Stone, formerly general
manager of the Associated Press, will
come to Atlanta on May to q at
tend the Grady celebration, accordd-
ing to a letter received from him
Thursday by Charles F. Robertson
secretary of the Chamber of Com,
merCe.
Another effort to wreck an Allan
ia, Birmingham and Atlantic passen-
ger train in Coffee county was avert
ed Wednesday by the timely discov-
cry by the section foreman at Am
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located on an embankment two miles
east of Ambrose in which every
spike of the rail had been carefully
pulled out and all Of the bolts of the
rail had been taken out and thrown
away.
The merchants of Dawson are put
ting on a community sale Thursday =,
Friday and Saturday of this week.
Free outdoor attractions are offered
and preparations are UCing made for
large crowds.
Moultre stores will observe the
Thursday half holiday from May 81
to August /
A Piggy Wiggly store opened in
Moultrie Wednesday, it being the
latest addition to chain rapidly
spreading over South Georgia. \
G. w. Brown, department Of jus
tice agent, who obtained much of the
evidence on which John S. Williams
was convicted in the murder farm;
trial" left the department Thursday
to re-enter business in Birmingham
In addition to the Grand Opera
stars at the Georgian Terrace in At
lanta Thursday afternoon was Clara
Kimball Young. famous screen &C.
tress. who arrived amid a burst of
band music and shower OBJ bouquets
at the Terminal station. Miss Young,
riding in a decorated automobile.
made her way to her hotel preceded
bv the band and followe by crowd
of several thousand people,
When he attempted to fire a naval
gun detonator in his shotgun Will
liam W. Dykes, 90 eX-gob, of F1tz-
gerald, was seriously injured by the
explosion which burst the breech OF
his gun and sent a two-inch fragment
tearing through his forearm, breaking
both bones.
An automobile collision that oc-
CURED on the Milledgeville road, near
Macon on the day after Christmas III
which Henry Merkel and his wife
were injured, the latter seriously, led
to the finding of two indictments
Thursday by the BIB county grand
Jury. charging assault with intent to
murder
The contract for the Atlanta Wash
inpton-New York airplane mail
service has been Cancelled. The
new service was to start May
10, ana iilt COiitl cttC wac Nv NN'>i
months apo to Alfrew W. Lawson, of
Milwaukee. The agreement was re-
voked by the postoffice department
because the Milwaukeean had failed
to make preparations to handle the
service.
Miss Kathleen Duggan, daughter
of DR.. J. H. Duggan, OF Laurens
county, has been named as one of the
debaters to represent George Wash
ington University, of Washington, D.
c.. in the annual debate of this uni
versity with West Virginia Univer-
sity at Morgantown, next Friday,
April 20.
Dean and Melton, Terrell county's
only commercial growers of aspara-
gus have shipped their last crate for
this season, the total shipments
amounting to something over 900
crates as compared with about 400
last season.
Miss Flossie L. Love and 7. E.
Zellner arrived at Quitman, Wednes-
dav morning at o'clock and went to
Judge Mays office hunting mar
riage license. They had travelled all