Sumter Grand Jury Presents County Road and School Reforms
The Grand Jury of Sumter County for the May term 1908 reports a drop in crime due to prohibition and enforcement. It urges better roads, a county map, and stricter weapon laws, recommends a road squad, and supports local school taxes. It commends officials, notes minor county facility repairs, and requests publication of the presentment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand Jury
Sumter Superior Court
Sumter County
Crystal Ice Company Charter Petition in Americus Georgia
Walter T. Maynard R L Maynard and J B Hightower petition to incorporate Crystal Ice Company in Americus Sumter County for twenty years with renewal. Capital stock set at 7000 dollars, to be increased up to 30000 dollars. Business includes ice manufacturing cold storage dray services coal and wood trading and related activities. Attorneys filed petition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia
Sumter County
Superior Court
Said County
Walter T. Maynard
R. Ll. Maynard
J. B. Hightower
Crystal Ice Company
Americus
Ethright
Incorporation Petition for Maynard and Hooper Firm
A legal petition seeks incorporation as a body politic under the name and style indicated, with power to sue, lae to borrow money, to take security, and to own real and personal property, to carry on the proposed business as per law. Filed May 20 1908 in Sumpter County Georgia with Deputy Clerk notes and certification of true copy by S. R. Heys.
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W. Nunn
B. F. Marksett
A. W. Buchanan
J. N. Mott
G. M
J.P
Z. A. Littlejohn
F. A. Hooper
Alice Nall
Americus Pupses
Americus
Maynard & Hooper
R. Heys
Georgia
Sumnter County
Superior Court
Said County
Application for Second Class Public Road in Sumter County Georgia
R R Stewart Mrs M W Salter W C Gray and others seek a second class public road from Sears school house toward New Point along land lines between Gray Logan and Stewart then northwest through Mrs W Salters land to the Americus and Plaing road. The board will grant on the first Monday in July 1908 if no cause is shown. May 4 1908 W L Thomas Clerk Co Com.
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Individnal
Eden
Sumter County
County Commissioners of Roads
Americas
Americus
Sumter
Board of County Commissioners of Roads and Revenue
General Assembly
Georgia
R. R. Stewart
M. W. Salter
W. C. Gray
Sears School House
New Point
Logan and Andrews
W. C Gray
Said Gray
Logan
Gray
Pullum and Stewart
W. Salter
Americus and Plaing Road
Commissioners of Roads
W. L. Thomas
Clerk Co. Com
Notice on Insertion Deadlines for Legal Ads
Legal advertisement rule requires notices be brought to the business office by Wednesday noon of a month and accompanied by the insertion fee. The rule will be enforced.
Foley’s Urino Laxative and Kidney Cure Endorsements
Letters from Ww Ward of Dyersburg Tennessee and Mrs L Bowen of Wayne West Virginia praise Foley’s Urino Laxative for chronic constipation and Foley’s Kidney Cure for kidney disease. Both claim complete relief after using the remedies sold by all druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ww. R. Ward
Dyersburg
Tenn
Foley
Eod
L. Bowen
Wayne
W. Va
South Resists Crumpacker Bill and Loss of Representation
The speaker argues that the Crumpacker bill threatens the South by eroding state remedies for local diseases and shifting representation. He warns it endangers racial order, northern influences, and the balance of power, claiming the nation risks mixing populations and abandoning constitutional protections forged after Appomattox. He calls for protection of local rights and warns of penalties for the South if representation diminishes.
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Hardwick
Georgia
South
Rhode Island
Hayes
White House
Washington
Valeis
Congress
Appomattox
Supreme Court
Bench Vacancies and Reform to Qualified Voter Basis
A fragment notes vacant bench seats unless justices become martyrs and signals a shift in representation from population to qualified voters, then moves to another point. The limited text depicts a reform debate emphasizing structural changes in how representation is determined and who qualifies to vote.
Wright brothers claim solve of aerial navigation at last
Wilbur Wright at Park Avenue Hotel says Orville Wright solved aerial navigation after three flights at Manteo North Carolina totaling eighteen twenty four and thirty two miles at about forty miles per hour. He estimates the machine’s accident cost under fifty dollars and notes heavy newspaper scrutiny during experiments. Charles R. Flint is said to be providing finances for the aerial program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Wright Brothers
Manteo
N. C
Wilburn Wright
Park Avenue Hotel
Orville
Wright
Wrights Brothers
Orville Wright
Wilbur
Charles R. Flint
Eclipse Shirts and Men’s Summer Attire Featured in Aninns
Chaos of garbled ad text references Eclipse shirts best line styles and men’s summer robes at low prices from 25 to 100 cents. Mentions Chicago women and Washington Post with stray phrases about shoes and Brow crowding a quart foot. The readable fragments hint at sales and apparel promotions rather than a clear event.
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America
L. Ansley
Chicago
Siri
Also Mentioned on This Page
Thomas Carlyle
W. S. Moore
Board of Education
J. I Hiller
T. J. Wade
F. W. Griffin
K. M. McDonald
J. L. Johnson
Huntington
T. M. Merritt
County Commissioners of Roads and Revenues
P. H. Williams
Banka
Te Ines
Agsccial
John A. Cobb
Justice of the Peace
H. T. Davenport
Norman C. Miller
W. C
Baldwin
W. Smith
Roleys
Jacksonville Times
Uunion
Kiiney
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