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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1923
Page
7
Thomasville defeated Albany 16 to 17 on Glenarven course to clinch the 1923 league cup as the Georgia Florida Golf League season ended. Valdosta’s title hopes faded as Thomasville’s win eliminated any chance of a tie for first with Tallahassee.
Milledgeville June 22. If the necessary additional appropriations for the maintenance of the Georgia State Sanitarium are not provided by the Georgia Legislature at its coming session it will be absolutely necessary to limit admissions to the hospital to the number the appropriation can care for. This will mean that possibly in the present year and certainly during the next year a number of insane persons will have to be confined with criminals in the county jails because there will be no room for them in the Sanitarium.
Legal ad announces a proposed 1923 bill to amend Americus charter to raise ad valorem taxes for public schools to eight mills and total levies to twenty mills, funding present indebtedness. The measure targets the City of Americus under the Mayor and City Council, with noted date May 30, 1923.
Notices detail bills to amend Americus tax and school funding laws, allowance of a five mill ad valorem levy with restrictions, and assignment of voucher oversight to the Board of Education. Also announced are a local legislation notice for Sumter county road boards, and a property sale by execution for C E Johnson in Sumter County with details of property parcels and sale terms.
Legal ad announces bill 600 to amend an 1873 act establishing a permanent Board of Education for the City of Americas. The caption shows the act will be introduced at the upcoming Georgia General Assembly session at the request of the Mayor and Council of Americas.
The McKinstry Studio will be open June 18 to June 23, 1923, to return deposits on unfinished work and all prints copies and photographs left at the studio to their owners. Call during that week if you have article of value. Mrs Helena R McKinstry, Executrix.
Public notice requires every business in Americus to place a galvanized iron trash can with a lid at their front and deposit all trash and waste paper until collected by the street wagon. Failure to provide or improper disposal subjects violators to conviction and punishment.
The document states that cases will be made against any person firm or corporation failing to comply with the ordinance within ten days from the date. By order of the Mayor and City Council of Americas. This the 7th day of June 1923. A. D. Gatewood, Ja. Clerk & Treasurer.
Legal ad announces immediate payment of all debts to T. F. Snell grove and demands presentment of all claims against T. E. Snell grove. Dated May 9 1923 with administrators R S Oliver of Plains Georgia and W E Mitchell of Americus Georgia.
An advertised remedy claims to cure malaria chills fever dengue and bilious fever by killing the germs that cause the illness. The wording emphasizes rapid relief and broad effectiveness against tropical diseases.
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