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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1925
Page
4
An unusually large group from Americus has left for colleges across Georgia, Virginia, the Carolinas, Florida, and beyond. The list includes students bound for Agnes Scott Converse College Shorter College Lucy Cobb Theological and normal schools, Emory University, University of Georgia, Georgia Tech, Auburn, Oglethorpe, and more.
Mr and Mrs W D Martin plan to move Thursday from Americus to Quitman where he will farm. Miss Rossie Andrews returns to Macon to resume Wesleyan college studies. The Martins’ Marion county visit noted as guests of Mrs Martin’s brothers J C and G M Benson. Malcolm Andrews to enter Emory University in Atlanta for winter term. Robert Hollis to Athens for State University studies. Miss Lillian Medford heads to Tallahassee for Florida State College for Women. Mrs O L Neundorfer and children June and Lewis arrive from Okeechobee Florida to stay with sister Mrs C E Guerry on Lee street. Miss Bernice McArthur returns from Tampa to resume duties at Furlow Grammar School. Mrs Henry Johnson and daughters Anne Eugenia and Catherine return from Detroit. Martha Johnson to remain in Michigan for winter schooling.
Washington reports that nine rural mail carriers were killed in the fiscal year ending June 30. Causes include two by trains, one by drowning, one horse accident, one from a falling tree, two struck by autos, and two found dead under overturned cars. The year added 498 new free delivery routes and extended 4,228 others, with rural routes totaling 1,223,391 miles serving 6,591,178 families or 30,351,618 people.
News from Geneva reports border areas near Mosul and Turkey seeing large scale Christian deportations. About 300 refugees reached a British post in early September, claiming 8000 Christians are being sent to interior regions. Predominantly Chaldeans and Assyrians, they previously endured years of displacement aided by Near East Relief.
The body of Dr. Thomas Brent Moore, 48, associate professor of economics at the University of Oklahoma, was found Monday hanging by a wire from a bridge near Lexington Oklahoma. Identification was made by Dr. A B Adams, a university faculty member. Dr Moore had arrived in Norman from Sumter South Carolina and was unmarried.
Helena dispatch reports first snow across Montana with falling temperatures and rain. An aurora borealis lit the northern skies while Casper Wyoming saw a white earth and Wyoming plains received rain. Massachusetts planted over 4,000,000 trees in spring.
West Point Ga Sept 22 session of the Georgia Press Association opened with editors addressing issues of waste cotton used to make high grade paper and continuing discussions on press concerns and publication standards.
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