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# HIGH SPOTS IN GEORGIA NEWS
Because he was a member of General Pershing's expedition into Mexico, and because he is in bad physical condition, Louie Bazemore, convicted of violating the prohibition law at Columbus, will not be forced to serve a three months sentence unless he is again convicted. Judge G. Tigner, hearing the defendant's statement that he was partially paralyzed and that he had served his country during the Mexican trouble, stated that he would be lenient with Bazemore by suspending a three months' sentence.
Improvements representing a total investment of $100,000, are underway in the Columbus telephone system.
The jury in the case of Grover C. Curtis, at Savannah, for the killing of Iris Broom, returned a verdict of manslaughter, fixing the sentence at from two to five years in the penitentiary. Two negroes were on the jury. This is believed to be the first time in Georgia a negro has sat on a jury trying a white man on a charge of murder.
Depositors of the defunct Bank of Sparta will realize forty per cent of their demands, according to a statement made by Joseph E. Pottle, attorney for the state banking department.
Four persons have been arrested at Milledgeville for the mysterious murder August 16, 1919, of Carl Watson. They are Genie Moran, John Simmons, Jacob Brookins, and Miss Winnie Brookins, sister of one of the men. Indictments were returned as a result of information secured by the sheriff nearly two years of quiet work.
Charged with highway robbery, W. D. Surpeon, Columbus, former bailiff of a justice of peace court, has been brought back from Knoxville, Tenn., and will face trial during the August term of Superior court.
That an undertaking establishment in a residential section constitutes an abatable nuisance is the decision rendered by Judge R. C. Bell of the Albany circuit Superior court in granting a permanent injunction against the Morrision Funeral home which was about to be opened in Albany by W. F. Morrison. The case will be carried to the Supreme court.
J. J. Holloway has been appointed by Commissioner of Agriculture J. J. Brown to succeed Marvin P. Roane, who recently resigned the office of state oil inspector.
J. W. Williams, machinist of the Eagle and Pheonix cotton mills at Columbus, fell backward from a dye tub, a distance of four feet to concrete floor late Wednesday and suffered a broken neck, killing him almost instantly.
Joseph A. Eve, of Augusta, was run down by an automobile Wednesday night and died shortly afterwards in a local hospital, from internal injuries.
With a black streak across the lower part of his neck made by a bolt of lightning, A. W. Tisdale, a Baldwin county farmer, still lives. Tisdale was sowing peas when the bolt descended. Tisdale fell unconscious and lay in the field for twenty minutes before he was able to rise.
"Macon people eat thirty tons of honey annually," F. Roger Miller, secretary of the Macon Chamber of Commerce declares.
Conductor S. F. Webb, of Valdosta, was killed, and Fireman P. E. Ward, also of Valdosta, was probably fatally injured, when southbound freight train No. 55, on the G. S. & F. struck a cow near Chula shortly before noon yesterday. Engineer C. M. Dunn escaped injury.
For using profane and improper language in the presence of his stepdaughter, J. M. Breedon, of Thomasville, has been sentenced to a year in the pen by Judge Thomas.
