Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-09-23
HIGH SPOTSIN
GEORGIA NEWS
Busy Mans Summary Of State
Events Of Interest Gather
ed From Many Sources

NItpn tIItSICu III VI 4fIOlSdli, IOlOss
land will be brought back to Lowndes
4 county to continue serving his SEN
Etence.
81 Fire Of undetermined origin de,
b strGyed a large new barn on the farm
Of Thomas B. Raines and Gay Raines,
e four miles northwest of Dawson
s. Fifteen tons of cotton seed, sixteen
|sGales of cotton, several vehicles and a
~ lantity of harness were DESTROYED
q bv the flames. The damage is esti-
u mated at between $4,000 and $4,000,
s with S1,100 of this covered by in,
a surance.
e Carl Mays and Edna Mays, charged
with assault in connection with the
u shooting Of woman at Hawkinsville
q recently, were acquitted in the Supe-
q rior court there Wednesday. They
We're recently arrested in Florida and
q brought here for trial.
Mayor James A. Tribbler, of For
syth, has just issued a warning that
4 unnecessary loafing upon the cor
ners and in front of drug stores will
n no longer be allowed and that drivers
8 Of automobiles will not be permitted
to drive in such a way as to cause
q inconvenience to people going to or
returning from church.
II Ras Cobb, negro ringleader of a
d ra,.al clash at Byronville aeveral
months ago, resulting in the death of
one white man, one negro and wound
Il ing Of several more blacks, was con.
I Wcted in the Dooly Superior court
4 Wednesday on a charge of murder
q and was given life sentence. Cobb
\ escaped from the county officers
Immediately after the shooting and
was captured several weeks later in
4 Florida At the last term of this
u court five of his alleged followers
q We're convicted on murder charges
and sentenced to life imprisonment.
3 Twenty-One including two women,
we're indicted, but the charges against
n the rest were mol pressed. Fate Chap.
q man, who is alleged to have been
Il the cause of the clash, will be placed
D on trial at the next term of court.
& Directors of the Middle Georgia
n Melon Growers Association, at
y meeting held Thursday in Macon,
q adopted a resolution no; TO accept
for shipment next season any melons
3 under an average of twenty-four
& pounds The shipment of melons
U smaller than that they declared is
4 without profit.
81 j, Pope Brown, former state treas
&mer by appointment, former men,
q Der Of the State Railroad Commits
n sion, fer some years a conspicuous
Aof the state legislature, has
40 epteT the tended made to him by
q the State Prison Commission of the
d office of the superintendent of the
state farm at Milledgeville to sue
coed Capt. J. NJ. Burke on October
4 !, The Prison Commission will, af.
4 ter the first of October, announce
&ther reorganization plans at thl
Prison farm.
Il Andrew Moore, an elderly white
man, attempted to flag a Seaboard
q passenger train at Grady, near Ced
& artown, Wednesday night. The engi-
neer failed to get off the track. He
4 was struck and his mangled body was
q picked up some distance away.
DR.. A. l.. Hirleman of Atlanta
u United States inspector in charge of
q tuberculosis control, was elected pres
ident of the Georgia State Ceterina-
4 mans at the business session, which
q closed the fifteenth annual conven-
4 ton at Macon. DR.. G.. c. Richard
4 son, dean of the veterinary depart
8ment at the University of Georgia, at
Athens, was elected vice-president
and DR.. Peter F. Bahnsen, of Ameri-
Gus, was reelected secretary and
treasurer. The next convention was
voted to Albany and will take place
next year in September, the date not
being set
In a sensational statement just
made public through his counsel,
Glen M. Hudson, charged with the
murder of the two little sons of his
wife, Mrs Bennie Hudson, near Al.
o9ny last July, accuses local officers
OF treating him with harshness in eff
lorts to induce him to confess the
crime. Hudson alleges that the Off
GERS brought his wife into his pres
ehce and instructed her to nag him
Vou! ne confessed, that on the night
OF the same day he was taken into
lhe presence of two strange men and
told that he would be handcuffed and
lhe electricity would be turned on;
mat he would be lynched. He also
minated that efforts were made to
put a dictaphone in his cell, but that
i ne discovered the wires and told his
attorney about it.
flfe broke out in the Georgia
southern and Florida yards Thurs
gay afternoon and destroyed twenty
1--WE or more box cars on the seven
iacHS awaiting repairs. This was
NE Ihlrd large fire in that part of
ts2"h within the past four days. The
a,LaI was Monday when thirty-two
Il sTIS IN the same yard burned; the
oitgI4 Of the first as yet is unknown,
EGaIph Fountain has just returned
NJ NJ sycamore from Atlanta and East
9lal, where he purchased a carload
" % milk cows which he will dis
oSe y to the farmers of the coun-
S VINO expect to patronize the new
lioaanery which will be ready for
i uS I'll at Ashburn October l.
me Macon Kiwanis club has
UNANIMOUSLY Endorsed General Wal
vs.! 4. Harris as a candidate for dis
s m,cJ governor, his name to be pre-
sgHled before the state convention
ggnlcG will be held in Macon October
Judge G. T Orr IT. associate