Sumter County preps for cotton with new weevil plan
A Sumter County committee of bankers farmers and weevil experts outlined a program to combat boll weevil damage. Led by George O Marshall and Frank Ward the plan urges destroying all cotton stalks now to prevent weevil reproduction, reducing acres per plow, and early poisoning with a calcium arsenate molasses mix followed by dry calcium spraying.
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Sumter County
Chamber of Commerce
George O. Marshall
Frank Ward
State College of Agriculture
George Marshall
Marshall
Marhall
Rotary hearing on constitution talks by Justice Gilbert
Associate Justice Price Gilbert of the State Supreme Court addressed the Rotary club during Constitution Week, stressing study of the federal constitution and its guarantees. The event highlighted the bar association's call for public understanding of constitutional rights and duties.
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State Supreme Court
Price Gilbert
Rotary Club
Judge Gilbert
W. W. Dykes
American Bar Association
Bar Association
Supreme Court
Atlanta
Gilbert
Stewart County
Columbus
Steve Pace
Georgin
Ebeges
Rome
Great Britain
Laurers Laurens Solon Says Agricultural OEP Sought His Defeat
Atlanta Sept 20 Representative Parker New of Laurens county testified that the agricultural department actively worked against his 1922 bid for the legislature. Other witnesses said department expenditures were excessive but not unlawful, within Commissioner Brown’s authority. Representative Stewart said he would appear tomorrow to testify before the committee.
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Atlanta
Agricultural
Parker New
Laurens County
Brown
Stewart
Selma survey finds strong poultry market near city
Selma Alabama survey shows a poultry market and cold storage system is being formed by the chamber of commerce with a local business firm. The study indicates Nashville, Memphis, Atlanta, Birmingham and New Orleans will take all poultry offered and could support expansion. Turkeys on foot fetch 36 cents a pound in the southern market, up from 30 cents, encouraging more producers to raise birds for sale.
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Selma
Ala
Chamber of Commerce
Nashville
Memphis
Atlanta
Birmingham
New Orleans
Evidence finished in Copeland trial in Statenville
In Statenville on September 20 the evidence in the case of Mrs. Joe Copeland charged with murder was completed before noon. The defense began presenting its case as Mrs. Copeland testified that Roberts attacked her with a stick, prompting her to fire four shots.
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Statenville
Joe Copeland
Joe Roberts
Chief Justice Taylor of Florida Resigns After 32 Years
Chief Justice Robert F. Taylor, a Florida Supreme Court member for nearly 32 years, resigns effective January 12, 1923. He is noted as one of the country’s oldest jurists and will depart the bench at year end.
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Taylor
Florida
Tallahassee
Robert F. Taylor
Florida Supreme Court
Justice Taylor
Notables to Speak in Atlanta Lecture Series
Russell Bridges announces Atlanta winter lecture series at the Atlanta Women's Club auditorium featuring Ruth Bryan daughter of William Jennings Bryan, Sir Wilfred Grenfell, Stephen Leacock, S Parkes Cadman, Raymond Robins, Will Rogers, Houdini, and Houdini among others in an exposition of spiritualism.
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Atlanta
Russell Bridges
Southern Musical Bureau
Ruth Bryan
William Jennings Bryan
Wilfred T. Grenfall
Stephen D. Leacock
McGill University
S. Parkes Cadman
Brooklyn
N. Y
Resolutions Condemn Ku Klux Klan Work
Baton Rouge reports: Governor Parker released resolutions from a Jackson Parish mass meeting accusing a “super government” of disrupting courts, punishing innocents, freeing the guilty, and disenfranchising voters unsympathetic to the Ku Klux Klan.
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Baton Rouge
Parker
Jackson Parish
Sumter County Fair prep. Littlejohn arrives to lead
P Littlejohn general manager of the Sumter County fair arrives in Americus from Troy to supervise opening preparations for the fair next Tuesday. He promises a record showing with new attractions, renovated paraphernalia, active women exhibitors, and standout cattle and poultry displays, predicting attendance will surpass previous years by several thousand. He will stay through closing night September 29 and can be reached at the Chamber of Commerce headquarters.
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P. Littlejohn
Sumter County
Americus
Troy
Henry P. Everett
Chamber of Commerce
Sumter Punty
Littlejohn
Better Service Promised After Americus Power Dispute
The ordinance committee chaired by Alderman Harris reported after a conference with L. L. Ferree that improved lighting service will be provided in Americus. City Attorney Lane said Ferree noted a dead hawk on transmission lines between Americus and Albany caused outages, while denying any machinery defect. He added newly built high tension lines may intermittently fail but all issues have been found and corrected, promising uninterrupted service as far as possible.
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Council
Harris
L. L. Ferree
Americus
Lane
Ferree
Albany
Cotton Association Officers 10 Meet in Columbia
J S Wannamaker president announces a meeting of official American Cotton association members from the South in Columbia October 16. Formal addresses are to be eliminated with discussions on boll weevil, farm labor, and financing and marketing of crops.
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Columbia
D. C
American Cotton Association
South
J. S. Wannamaker
Commission withdraws approval of Carolina Clinchfield lease
The South Carolina railroad commission voted to withdraw its approval of the proposed lease of the Carolina Clinchfield and Ohio railroad by the Louisville and Nashville and Atlantic Coast Line.
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Columbia
South Carolina Railroad Commission
Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio Railroad
Louisville & Nashville and
Atlantic Coast Line
Lower Car Fares In Effect In Birmingham
Birmingham Sept 20 In a long fight the street railway won over the jitney as a public carrier and today riders pay seven cents cash a reduction of one cent in a three year old schedule. When tickets are purchased the fare is six cents. School children ride for two and a half cents.
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Birmingham
Street
City set to settle suit with Central of Georgia railroad
City council agreed to compromise a $700 claim for repairs to a trestle used to unload coal at the water plant. The 1919 repairs were disputed, with negotiations led by City Attorney Lane and railroad and city representatives. Lane proposed paying 50 percent as an advantageous settlement, subject to further talks with railroad authorities.
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Central of Georgia Railroad
Dodd
R. L. Maynard
John B. Ansley
Charles H. Wheatley
W. T. Lane
Ansley
Lane
Maynard
Attorney Lane
Bill to Abolish Ku Klux Klan Offered in Oklahoma
Oklahoma lawmakers announce plans to introduce a bill in the next session banning Ku Klux Klan activities in the state. The move counters Governor Walton's charges that the Klan inspired the assembly movement to probe the executive.
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Oklahoma
Walton
Two Arrested For Murder Of Girl In Park Attack
Police and fire crews hunted West Central park and adjacent districts for six men after George Volland and his companion were stabbed on a park bench. Volland survived a serious wounding, while the girl was found injured nearby. Two suspects were captured after a chase from a 20 foot cliff. the search continues for others.
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New York
West Central Park
George Volland
Witt objects to tax levy for schools in city budget
Alderman Witt blocked a 20 mill tax rate by opposing an 8 mill school levy, arguing the budget does not justify such a levy. He pressed for a written legal opinion on the school year versus fiscal year overlap and objected to a North Jackson street sewer dig, stating no budget provision exists for permanent improvements. He vowed to oppose any expenditures not covered in the adopted budget.
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Witt
Carswell
Finance Committee
Lane
Jackson Street
Farmer loses finger joint to mule kick in Georgia
Clay Fletcher a prominent farmer from the Bumphead district near Americus had the first joint of his right forefinger severed when a sick mule kicked him as he prodded it with a broken hoe handle to keep the animal on its feet. He searched the yard but could not find the missing joint.
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Clay Fletcher
Bumphead
Americus
Mr. Fletcher
Atlanta workers paid 5 percent to support reelection bid
Testimony from J M Hilburn former Agriculture Department employee claims 5 percent salary deductions funded Commissioner J J Brown during his reelection campaign. Walter Vance says false hotel bill stories circulated about C H Kittrell port and harbor official. Treasury halted payment after secretary McLendon approved, notes say no Brown or Jackson approval. Vance says voucher was paid after drawing, hotel manager testified Kittrell paid with currency. Committee to include division of entomology in Agriculture probe, next hearing postponed to Monday for Brown counsel Sam Olive to prepare case.
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Atlanta
Department of Agriculture
J. J. Brown
J. M. Hilburn
Hilburn
Walter Vance
Thomas W. Hardwick
C. H. Kittrell
Laurens County
Port and Harbor Commission
Brown
L. B. Jackson
Market Bureau
Hardwick
Treasury Department
State McLendon
Port Commission
Mrydle Wen
Vance
Jackson
Kittrell
Division of
Entomology
Sam Olive
Charles B. Stewart
Atkinson
Solicitor defies governor over Banner mines probe
Birmingham Sept 20 Solicitor Davis will continue the investigation into how convicts were treated at Banner mines despite Governor Brandon's warning that inquiry would not be tolerated. The solicitor says final convict authority rests with the governor and plans to appear before the grand jury today.
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Birmingham
Davis
Banner Mines
Brandon
Cairo district approves bonds for school equipment
Sept 20 An issue of 3500 in school bonds was authorized by Cairo voters. The Cairo school election resulted 314 in favor and 35 against, about nine to one, to equip the auditorium of the new school building since the earlier bond issue failed to fund it.
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Cairo
Catro
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Justice Hilbert
Constitution
Seaboard Air Line
Liwest
Alderman Witt
Mize, Carswell, Allison
Mitchell
Laurers Solon
Representative Stewart
Copeland
Sumter Fair
Cotton Association
Wannamaker
CITY
Central
Alabama
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