Show harry adams robbed on upper main st saturday 0 last saturday evening while har ry adams eagle blue bell em was on his way home he was held up and robbed of a small sum of money the robbery took place at a point near the mccullough ga rage on u upper main street adams says that as he turned the corner a man who was apparently waiting for someone shoved a gun in his face and said hands up the lone hichwa highwayman y nan I 1 lost st no time in ingo go adaa liev ing through adamki pockets arefiev ing him of his Is chan change ae and ordering 11 g 4 rapina a him to mc move on as rapidly ly P pos 3 sible the matter w wis 8 pr promptly re ported to the local effic f ce e who 0 ar rested a suspect or t two 0 ant t as there was no evidence to connect n in act them with the crime they were e ere re later re pleased leased I 1 T two w ra finns also reported that they had been held up and robbed of 0 about 30 on the same evening but they were so thoroughly pickled and told such conflicting stories that the officers are inclined to place but little credence in the report it has been many years since drunkenness was so common as dur ing last saturday and sunday liau or seemed to be as plentiful as water a and ed I 1 freely reely during the progress of drunken brawls one business house was ordered to close by chief of po lice boyer but it was permitted to reopen twenty four hours later the jail was filled up then emptied to make room for another crop of drunks few if any of the offend ers were taken into police court be ing given floaters or an eunity of sobering up and returning to their work |