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...capture the recreants. The two shot from ambush, killed Chief Freeman, wounded two others. The hunters caught George Grant, 40, locked him in jail. Georgia is restive these days. So Col. Roy Neal of the Georgia National Guard hastened to Darien with 25 men and machine guns. Armed townsmen tramped past the machine guns, grim and unmolested, entered Darien's jail, shot George Grant dead-lynching No. 13 of this year. Gov. Lamartine Griffin Hardman ordered Darien under martial...
...artists, authors, actors, musicians, dilet- tantes and onlookers was preparing for its annual Maverick? Festival, a day-&-night bacchanale to which annually troop thousands of non-colonists to see arty fun. As the day (Aug. 29) approached indications were that in a long-standing feud between colonists and townsmen, the townsmen were for the moment a little ahead...
...Late in the afternoon a costume promenade winds infor- mally up & down wooded slope and dale. In the evening the campfires glow and a pageant is enacted. Always there has been a midnight costume ball but this year it was called off to placate (and fill with triumph) the townsmen. As the night wears on, tippling, done at first covertly, becomes rowdy. In the cold light of morning the sun rises on dead ashes and a dwindling Woodstock. Art's autumnal migration back to the city is underway...
...convictions at Mays Landing last week were part of a general house-cleaning anticipated by long-suffering townsmen. The procuress, Kitty Harris, operated her lupanar at No. 2128 Arctic Ave., Atlantic City. Shrewd Journal reporters alleged that she had not only enjoyed official patronage, but was the Mayor's tenant. The bookmaker, Louis O'Donnell, had the distinction of being the first member of his profession to be sent to prison by the rusty wheels of Atlantic County justice in 33 years...
...school tries to get into Vassar. Smith, Wellesley or Bryn Mawr, she is often unable to meet the formal admission requirements. To provide for such girls, the residents of Old Bennington, Vt., laid plans six years ago to establish a college. Under the leadership of Dr. Vincent Ravi-Booth, townsmen and summer visitors raised over $500,000 and provided a campus on a slope of the Green Mountains where oldtime Mount Anthony Seminary was founded...