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HIGH SPOTS IN GEORGIA NEWS The Citizens Bank of Butler has been organized at Butler to take the place of the Butler Banking company, which suspended operations a few weeks ago. James Thornton, young white man arrested in Brunswick Monday in connection with the death of Horace Woodward, was exonerated at a preliminary hearing Wednesday. Ben Childres, living near Talbotton, was attacked by a bull Wednesday and several ribs broken. The coroner's jury holding an in& quest over John Lee Eberhardt, the negro who was burned at the stake by a mob of 7,000 at Athens Wednesday night, announced that the wrong man was not lynched. The decision reached was that Mrs. Lee met her death from gunshot wounds inflicted by a weapon in the hands of Eberhardt. Mace Giddens, the former Sumter county negro who killed Deputy Sheriff W. P. Giddens at Sylvester several weeks ago, went on trial in the Worth county Superior court Thursday, having been indicted by the grand jury. Several prominent citizens of Columbus, headed by W. W. McKenzie, have purchased a camp site and have given it to the Boy Scouts as a permanent camp. So far as is known this is the first permanent Boy Scout camp ever given to the Scout organization in America. It will be named Camp McKenzie in honor of Mr. McKenzie. Major General Wood and his aide, Col. Gordon Johnson, who arrived in Columbus Wednesday night on an inspection tour of Camp Benning, viewed a wonderful sham battle staged for his benefit Thursday. An emphatic denial was made by Major General Wood at Columbus Thursday of reports that he was on his way to St. Augustine, Fla., to confer with President-elect Harding. He will leave Friday for Chicago, he stated. The Waycross city council has voted to employ a public nurse at not less than $50 per month, $50 to be paid by the city and the remainder by other sources. The watermelon growers of Dooly county have been called to meet at the court house at Vienna Saturday at 3 o'clock. A Buick car driven by Miss Dunwoody Forehand, of Vienna, killed Charley Ziegler, a 4-year-old negro, in that city a few days ago, the child running in front of the car. Eph Dudlin, 25-year-old negro, of LaGrange, shot himself in the head and may die, after wounding his wife in the arm. His wife left him a week ago. A musical program rendered by the Savannah High school Sunday night was heard in the Mississippi University by use of the radio tele-
