Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-07-14

requiring them to remove the
source OF mosquitoes here and this
Inotice has brought dispute ex-
Rting during some time past to
an acute stage. The conditions
which brought about service of the
notice, are declared by Golf club
Officers, to be the result of insani-
tary arrangements connected with
La sewage disposal system belong
ing to DR.. Peter f. Bahnsen, state
veterinarian of Georgia, and used
IN connection with the operation
of his dairy farm as well as the
Bahnsen home.
Col. George R. Ellis, president of
the Golf club, told a Times Record
er man today that he had written
DR.. Bahnsen number of letters in
connection with an effort to abata.
the alleged nuisance, but that to
date he had been unable to get
a reply. from him. Col. Ellis ex-
planned that Golf club officers are
greatly interest in abatement of
the nuisance complained of by DR..
Chambliss, which he said was not
discovered by club authorities un-
til the mosquito season was we'll
advanced this summer. Since that
time diIigent efforts hav been
made to have the source of this
water, with the effIuent contained
therein, stopped, Col. Ellis said, but
these efforts have sof ar been in
effectuaI.
According to Dr.. B. F. Bond,
county health commissioner; DR..
j. w. Chambliss, president of the
County Board OF Health, and Col.
Ellis, mosquitoes breed constantly
in certain water accommodating on
the property of the Golf club
course No. 6, and this water comes
from a pipe running onto the
Golf club land from the property
of DR.. Peter F. Bahnsen. That
the water coming from this pipe
is polluted with raw sewage is also
agreed among the three gentlemen
named, the question involved be-
ing whether it is the duty of the
Golf club or DR.. Bahnsen to purify
the stream, which is described as
laffording admirable facilities for
breeding mosquitoes and spreading
malaria Golf club authorities on
Friday placed a quantity of creo-
sote and crude oil in the stream,
which DR.. Chambliss said would
be sufficient to kill all larvae and
mosquitoes that were there at the
time.
The effort, however, is to re-
move the source of this water, and
golf club officers are determined
to test out their rights in the courts
unless Dr. Bahnsen will cooperate
with them in ending the source of
mosquitoes. Col. Ellis, in CON
Iveying this information to the
Times Recorder this mroning, said
that club officials are very anxious
to effect a peaceful settlement of
the issue, but that the health Of
more than a hundred representa-
| tive citizens, memL ers of the Golf
club and their families, are endan-
Egered every day present conditions
Iremain unchanged, and that some
thing must be done soon. Having
failed to receive any 1eply to sew
eral letters addressed 20 DR. Balm
sen, Col. Ellis said he had read the
law on the subject and was Of the
opinion that sufficient remedy is
provided in existing statutes to af-
ford whatever relief may be nee
! essary.
The Golf club, Col. Ellis said,
has at some expense installed a
modern septic tank to dispose of
all its sewage, and officials Of the
lSeaboard Air Line, having their at
tention called to certain objection
able drainage facilities about the
Americus shops affecting the Golf
club ground, have agreed to rem
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