Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-01-11
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irectors for the present year. A bird
supper will be served at the i'm
mense tobacco warehouse; the hunt
ers are already at work to secure
the necessary quail. The following
| VIII be the program: Invocation,
Rev. c. A. Jackson; T. L. STUDIOS,
president, presiding; report Of off
GERS; election of officers; addresses,
Selling Georgia to Georgians, w. Z.
Anderson, Macon; fve-minute talks
by home folks. Music will be fur
nished by the Lions band Of Triton.
NJ trace of John Theas, a convist
serving life sentence on the COT
fee county gang, who escaped last
Saturday night after overpowerirg
a gaurd, has been found, officers an
Inounced at Douglas. Nina Broxton,
Iheas' companion in the escape, was
captured yesterday afternoon near
his ohme in BroXton, Ware coun-
ty, by Warden J. D. Pridgen. Theas
was convicted more than two years
ago of the murder of an eigh--year-
old girl, member of the Rowell fam
lily Of Coffee. Broxton was found
guilty in Waycross two years ago
in connection with the Staying Of
James and Truman McQuaig, young
sons of j. W. McQuaig, Ware coun,
ty tax receiver. Lem Walters, an
other young white man, was convict
ed with Broxton of the McQuaig
youths murder.
The Savannah Kiwanis club took
steps to begin movement to bring
back the war veterans bureau, if pos
slble. The bureau headquarters
were recently transferred to Macon.
The club also got underway to head
off the threatened removal of the
coast guard cutter Yamacraw to
some other port in the district on
account of alleged complaint of a
lack of docking facilities here.
A meeting of the Laurens County
Poultry club is to be held in Dublin
on January Is, next, when it is de-
sired that all poultry growers Of not
only Laurens, but all over this sec
tIon, be present. J. H. Wood, pouI- |
Try expert at the Georgia State Col
Iege of Agriculture, will be presen,
and discuss spring breeding and
Matching
Members of the sheriff's force in
Blbb county are looking. for the
driver o fan automobile that ran
down and painfully injured Alice
Gornto, daughter Of William Gornto,
former foreman at the Central of !
Georgia shops, at Mikado Place late |
yesterday afternoon. The child was
picked upand taken to the Macon |
hospital where her injuries were |
dressed. Her scalp was lacerated |
Witnesses said that woman was |
driving the automobile that struck |
the child and did not stop. The num- |
Der was taken, but does not appear |
on the automobile directory.
Usher Wynn, 81, died Tuesday
night at Rome from injuries receiv-
ed when a truck driven by him was |
nit by fast Southern passenger
tram at Rockmart early Monday |
morning.
Frank A. Blount, Chandler VIM |
berly and F. hamp Blount were |
elected to the city council of Way |
nesboro after a spirited contest il |
which 257 votes were poued. c. w. !
Wimberly received lat votas owe.
his opponenr, Cliff Hargroges, 1I0
from the First ward; Han p Blount |
from the Second ward received 256
votes, and in the Third ward Frank |
BIount received 100 to his opponent,
Sidney Planners, 81 votes.
Fire destroyed the buildings oc-
cupied by Thackston's Restaurant
and the Harold Smith JeweIry Store
at Statesboro yesterday. The build
ing was occupied by Barnes brothers
was damaged
Miss Annie Gober, %, member of
a well known Marietta family, was
killed last night when the automo-
bile of Herbert Clay, former presi-
dent of the state senate, in which
she was riding, crashed into a guy
wire on the Atlanta road. Neither
Mr. Clay, who was driving the ma
chine at the time of the accident,
nor Mrs. P. L. Knott, wife of a Ma
Metta physician, the third occupant,
was injured. According to reports
the glare from the headlight of an
electric interurban car caused Mr..
Clay to lose control Of his machine,
which plunged into ditch. Broken
glass severed Miss Gobers jugular
vein and she die dbefore al could
be reached.
At the invitation of Senator j. K.
Larkins and other of Brantley coun-
ty, the Waycross Dairy association
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