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GEORGIA AND GEORGIANS 3023census bureau of the Department of Commerce, in the collection of manufacturing statistics, with headquarters in the national metropolis, he contributedto the Greensboro Herald-Journal an interesting series of articles under thetitle of '' Glimpses and Glances of New York.'' Mr. Williams is an enthusiastin his chosen profession, which never loses its lure to those who have beenfor any considerable time identified therewith. On the 13th of August, 1914,he was retained as managing editor of the Americus Times-Recorder, and onthe 1st of January, 1916, there came further recognition of his ability andsterling character, in that he was then advanced to his present position, thatof editor and general manager of this important paper. The paper andbusiness are owned by the Times-Recorder Company, which is incorporatedunder the laws of the state and of which George R. Ellis is president. TheTimes-Recorder, which wields much influence along political lines and as anexponent of local interests, dates its inception back to the year 1879, when itwas founded as a weekly paper. Within a few years it expanded its functionsand became a morning daily. In the autumn of 1914 it was changed to anafternoon daily, and in 1915 was instituted the issuing of a Sunday morningedition, with the afternoon daily continued each day except Saturday. TheTimes-Recorder has a thoroughly modern office, with the most approved,equipment in all departments, and its daily circulation, as well as that of itsweekly edition has been expanded to fully 1,500 copies, a corps often persons being employed in the offices of this specially up-to-date andinfluential Georgia paper. Within the past its editorial department has beenin charge of Mrs. Marie Louise Myrick, now of Savannah; Thomas Gamble,who likewise resides in that fine old Georgia city; Prank T. Long, now ofSoutherland, Florida; and Quimby Melton, city editor of Atlanta Constitution. An able and honored representative of the paper was the late J. WalterFurlow, who served as its city editor for more than thirty years and whowas the incumbent of this position at the time of his death, on the 1st ofJanuary, 1916. The Times-Recorder has stood indomitably for law enforcement, for civic order and for the cause of prohibition of the liquor traffic,while in a general and specific sense it has been specially influential in themoulding and directing of political sentiment and action, the present editorbeing an effective advocate of the principles and policies for which the democratic party stands sponsor in a basic way.Mr. Williams is affiliated with the Sigma Nu, a national college fraternity,and is a member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, South, at Americus,his earnest association with religious work having continued since he unitedwith the church during the memorable college revival at Emory College, in1911. He is a popular factor in the business and social life of his home cityand his name is enrolled on the list of eligible young bad ^lors in Americus.J. R. POTTLE. Depending upon his own resources in making his way tothe goal of his high ambition, Judge Pottle has won secure vantage groundas one of the able lawyers and jurists of his native state and is now engagedin the successful practice of his profession at Albany, in which city he hasbuilt up a large and representative law business and made for himself a placeas one of the leading members of the bar of Dougherty County.Judge Pottle was born at Warrenton, judicial center of Warren County,Georgia, and the date of his nativity was January 6, 1875. He is a son ofJudge Edward H. and Mary Virginia (Hudson) Pottle, the former of whomwas born at St. Mary's, Camden County, this state, and the latter in WarrenCounty. Judge Edward H. Pottle became one of the prominent and honoredmembers of the bar of Georgia, and in 1874-5 he served with marked abilityand distinction on the bench of the Superior Court of the Northern judicialcircuit. He gave gallant service as a soldier of the Confederacy in the Civilwar, having been colonel of the First Georgia State Troops at the close of