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HIGH SPOTS GEORGIA NEWS A large barn, nine mules and horses and 1,000 bushels of corn were destroyed by fire on the farm of the Hatcher Land Company in Pulaski county last week. The annual convention of the Georgia state society of the Colonial Dames of America began in Savannah Thursday. With a bullet in his brain and a bullet hole through his mouth, h. D. Thompson, Savannah street car conductor, who attempted suicide Thursday, was still alive late Thursday afternoon and able to talk. He shot himself after a quarrel with his wife. The boll weevil in Monroe county came through the winter in good condition and are reported to be in great abundance in all parts of the county. The city attorney of Rome, at the direction of the Rome city council, has filed with the railroad commission a request that the Rome Mumcipal Gas Company be cited to appear before it and explain why it has not complied with the requirements of the commission to increase its facilities. Colonel Clarence R. Edwards, who commanded the Twenty-sixth National Guard division in France and who is now in command of Camp Benning was among those promoted to a major-general by President Harding Wednesday. A meeting of former navy men was held at Columbus Friday night for the organization of a Columbus Naval Militia division. W. R. Neal, member of the executive committee of the Georgia State Highway officials' association, was among the road experts who conferred Thursday with President Harding regarding the roads policy of the federal government. The Morgan County Bank, at Mad ison, and the Shiloh Bank, at Shiloh, have been permitted to reopen by T. R. Bennett, state bank superintendent, after being suspended for several weeks. W. W. Blanchard, Cherokee county prisoner, who escaped Tuesday, voluntarily surrendered Thursday in order to release his wife, who is being held on charge of assisting him in escaping. Blanchard was allowed, under custody of a bailiff, to visit his wife in the hotel before be. ing taken to serve a two-year sentence, and when he entered the room his wife held the door while Blanchard escaped by the fire escape. The Columbus High school is now a part of the R. O. T. C., a cadet unit having been commissioned there. A barbecue and ball game is be ing arranged at Gray for the families of ex-soldiers. The farmers of the Alpine district of Chatooga county have formed an agricultural club. That motto of the club is, "Better farming, better socially, to cultivate each other, and make life better and happier for all." Ferdinand Neuberger of Savannah was elected president of the Georgia division of the Travelers' Protective association at the close of its annual meeting in Valdosta Friday Willet Fudge was sentenced to 13