Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-01-16
HIGH SPOTS IN
GEORGIA NEWS

The Rome city commission Thurs
dav passed an ordinance requiring
the board of education to have the
Bible read in the Rome public
schools.
John NJ. Graham, president of the
National City Bank of Rome. has
been appointed a member of the U.
s. assay commission.
A new Ford auto belonging to the
Marietta chief of police was stolen
Thursday.
There was a slight fall of sIeet in
Columbus Friday.
Governor Dorsey was elected presi-
Aient of the Georgia Cotton Trust
~orporation at a stockholders meet
ing Friday.
Hartwell, Ga, has voted a $40
coo school bond issue.
The Ben Hill County Civic League
has called upon the grand jury to
employ secret service men to fer
ret out prohibition law violators.
w. R. Hewlett, city tax assessor
Of Savannah, has been indicted by
the Chatham county grand jury on
charge of larceny after trust.
When the charge became known he
was forced to resign his city posi-
ton.
The private sanitarium of DR.. W.
II. Lewis at Carrollton, was destroy
ed by fire Friday
A resolution was adopted by the
National Association of Real Estate
Boards to change the name off the
organization the American Realtors
Association at it's meeting in Allan
! ia Friday.
An aviation unit is being organ
\ lied at Georgia Tech. Capt. L. E.
Cooler, Jr., air service veteran. will
be in charge. More than 100 Tech
students have applied for enroll
me0t.
A woman left standed in Macon
hv Snowman Christmas day died at
4 the Macon hospital Friday where she
4 had been a patient three weeks. She
B was known at the hotel where she
was left by the man, as Mrs. J. A.
4 Faust but her right name appears
( to be Anna Van Denmark. Her home
/ is thought to be in Pennsylvania.
H. D. Dunn has been elected presi-
dent and DR. B. H. Minchew vice
Npresidpnt of the WaVcrOss Chamber
i of Commerce.
A. H. Hendricks, former cashier
4 Ct ire Bank of Mauk at Mauk, Ca,
h"s been arrested in Franklin on
u charge fembezzlement and forgery.
At th" time of the failure of the
Sbank Hendricks accounts were sew
B uaI thousand dollars short.
A freight train on the South
Georgia Railroad jumped the track
near Quitman Friday and destroyed
a planning mill near the track.
Judge D. R. Bryan, of cambridge,
#has been appointed and qualified as
Va Federal prohibition inspector for
MGeorgia.
y The Dawson city council Friday
PRAISED the taxes on carnivals to $500I
Hper week. The tax on tent shows
{ was raised from SIG per day to $25
and from $26 per week to 500.
Thomas L. Wales, 80 years old
Sand for many years a justice of the
Nneace in Emanuel count, was acquit-
ted Friday in Federal court at Sa-
Av2Nnah of the prohibition laws.
The Central of Georgia will layI
off l13 men at the Macon shops
sno%t Wednesday, making 400 for the
season.
A woman's auxiliary of the Rome
Chamber of Commerce has been or
ganized.
V. Stefansson, famous Arctic eX-
plorer, gave 15-minute address on
land-lots in the Arctic circle a. the
meeting of American Realtors Asso-
citation in Atlanta Friday.
The case of Sharon VS.. the A.,
B. & A. railroad, in which Governor
eject Hardwick represents the plain
tiff, has been given the right 0f-way
IN the Ben Hill Superior court over
other cases as a special courtesy to
the goVernor-elect. The case is
damage suit for $4,000.
The 1921 expense budget for La
'HJngc has been set at $401 SOC,