Georgia horticultural and agricultural groups set for Athens meetings
Thomasville reports a busy Georgia State Horticultural Society session with papers on pecan production fruit tree diseases and conservation in Georgia. officers elected L A Berckmans of Augusta becomes president. next meeting slated for Athens in January 1912 with joint sessions planned with the State Agricultural Society and Dairymen's association.
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Athens
Georgia
State Agricultural Society
South
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Thomasville
The
Georgia State Horticultural Society
Finley
Southern Railway
J. B. Wight
Cairo
Wight
Craig
Cornell University
Albany
Soule
State College of Agriculture
T. H. McHatton
University of Georgia Agricultural School
H. W. Hunt
Eatonton
H. P. Stuckey
Georgia Experiment Station
P. FP. Williams
Alabama Experiment Station
P. J. Hart
Col. I. C. Wade
Cornelia
L. A. Berckmans
Augusta
B. W. Hunt
Dairymen's Association
Pan American Union prepares for Commercial Congress
Washington D C February 9 The Pan American Union is finalizing plans for the Pan American Commercial Congress to be held next week Its aim is to stir Pan American business circles to seize the opportunities of Pan American trade and Panama Canal opening The event will eschew platforms and controversial resolutions In Texas a streetcar ride costs three cents for a five cent fare as a light jab at car owners The Savannah Press suggests car owners may be at fault rather than riders
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Washington, D. C
Pan-American Union
Bureau of American Republics
Pan-American Commercial Congress
North
South
Aemaica
Panama Canal
Texas
Savannah
Arizona Ratification Debate Looms After State Constitution Vote
Washington awaits Arizona voters on the constitutional ratification with key provisions including initiative referendum recall and nonpartisan judiciary. President Taft may oppose aspects prior to approval while progressives in Congress push for passage led by La Follette Cummins Clapp Dixon Brown and Bristow.
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Washington
D. C
Arizona
Congress
Constitutional Convention of
Phoenix
Oklahoma
Taft
Senate
Senator la Follette
Wisconsin
Cummins
Iowa
Clapp
Minnesota
Dixon
Montana
Brown
Nebraska
Bristow
Kansas
Illinois Y M C A Delegates Open Four Day State Convention
Delegations from YMCA branches across Illinois gather in Freeport for a four day state convention ending with a farewell service Saturday. The theme, The Conservation of Young Manhood, guides most remarks. Speakers include Bishop Anderson of Chicago Dr J Acheson president Caldwell College and Charles P Towson and Dr Charles J Fisher from the International committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caldwell College
Charles P. Towson
Charles J. Fisher
North American Fish and Game Protective Association Convention Opens
In Montreal Sir Lomer Gouin presides as delegates from Canada and the United States gather for the association's two day meeting. The group aims to push legislation and measures to shield fish and game in America with talks by Cy Warman Hornday of the New York Zoo and President Dutcher of the Associated Audubon Societies among others.
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Montreal
Que
Lomer Gouin
Canada
United States
North American Fish and Game Protective Association
America
Cy Warman
Hornaday
New York
Strange and Peculiar Haps and Mishaps in New York City
In New York on February 9 officials and the public debated docking the harbor, noting that expanding piers and extending ships would cost money while affecting Hudson navigation. Pennsylvania Station proves inadequate, prompting remodel plans for commuter traffic. Columbia University to trial an honor system against cheating among seniors, with expulsions for guilty students. Two English women using their mother’s maiden name Clifford arrive seeking to settle. A minor snowfall triggers a chain reaction ending in a rooftop quarrel, gunfire, a fire alarm, a toppled fire engine, injuries, and arrests.
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New York
Tils City
United States
New York Bay
North River
Hudson
Hudson River
Pennsylvania Station
Manhattan
Transportation Service
Columbia
Columbia University School of
England
Gladys
Clifford
de Clifford
Lron de Clifford
Ifhiantare
Man with Arm Lost Years Ago Breaks Shoulder in Tricycle Mishap
Mr. N. B. Davis of Athens area, a familiar county figure who lost an arm in a gun accident twelve years ago, fractured his shoulder when he tripped over a toy tricycle left in his dark hallway. He is confined at home six miles from the city, but is listed as doing fairly well despite the serious injury.
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N. B. Davis
Athens
Hetle
Sent Him To Sunday School He Ran Away And Stole A Wheel
A mother from Comer retrieved her eight year old son who had been picked up by Athens police after he ran away from Sunday school and stole a bicycle. The boy, under age, was held in Athens jail until his mother arrived and carried him home in a buggy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens
Comer
Columbus to Welcome President Taft
Plans are set for President Taft to visit Columbus Ohio to speak at the National Corn Exposition. He will arrive by special train at 1 45 pm and tour the city by automobile after delivering his address at the Ohio fair grounds.
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Columbus
Taft
Union Station
Ohio Fair Grounds
Springfeld
Tick Eradication Plan Aims to Free Clarke County Cattle
Dr. W K Lewis and Dr. E M Neighbert oversee federal tick eradication efforts in Georgia as part of a national program with $250000 annual funding. Six counties including Rabun, Union and Stephens have been cleared. Hart Greene and Putnam under work. Clarke County awaits inspection, with hopes two year removal, inspectors to curb spread, and state and county cooperation to enable shipping once tick-free. Campaigns also move through Gainesville and Jackson to extend efforts county by county.
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W. K. Lewis
E. M. Neighbert
United States
Yesterlas
Clarke County
Spartanburg
D. C
Neighbert
Bureau of Animal Industry
Department of Agriculture
Washington
South
Georgia
Rabun
Union
White
Towne
Stephens
Mabersham
Lewis
State College of Agriculture
Clarke
South Carolina
College of Agriculture Ta
Athens
Jackson
Gainesville
E. M. Nighbert
Hall County
Jackson County
Pensions Expected to Be Paid Across Counties Soon
State officials report pension funds sufficient to cover 1,114,524 in total pensions. Checks will be drawn and sent to ordinaries, with payments likely by Tuesday or Wednesday. Governor Brown to issue warrant. treasury balance around 1.22 million with funds spread across depositories.
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Wingfield
Capitol
Treasury
J. B. Brown
Joseph Brown
Richmond County
Stae
American Pomological Society Meets in Tampa
Members of the American Pomological Society gather in Tampa for its thirty second biennial meeting. The convention runs through the week with sessions on systematic pomology nut culture breeding orchard pests fruit transport storage and tropical fruit culture. An exhibition accompanies the meeting and medals will be awarded for new fruit varieties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tampa
Fla
American Pomological Society
United States
No title available from the fragment
The excerpt suggests a discussion on cattle raiding in Georgia, claiming continued rural action will move the line further south until the entire state is free of ticks and Georgia joins leading cattle raiding states of the union.
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Georgia
Union
Manitoba Legislature Meets in Winnipeg February Session
Winnipeg Manitoba February 9 The Manitoba legislature assembled today with ceremonial rites. The session is expected to address reciprocity, initiative and referendum, government ownership and the province’s boundary extensions amid other public interest measures.
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Manitoba
Winnipeg
Man
Bad Case of Grip Free of Tonsil Trouble
Mr W H Housley of Baton Point Tennessee recalls a severe bout with la grippe five years earlier that left him bedbound for weeks and with tonsillitis. After trying to cure it for eighteen months he avoided surgery, used Peruna and reports his throat improved after one bottle and he continued with a dozen bottles, then recovered.
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W. H. Housley
Btony Point
Tennessee
Programme for Georgia Odd Fellows meet in Elberton
The semi annual meeting of the sixteenth division of the Grand Lodge of Georgia IOOF convenes in Elberton on Feb 15 16 with A B Carter Athens as division deputy grand master. The program lists receptions addresses committee appointments elections and nocturnal public exercises with various Georgian officials and lodge officers slated to speak and confer degrees.
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Sixteenth Division of
Odd Fellows of Georgia
Grand Lodge
State of Georgia
Independent
Order of Odd Fellows
Elberton
A. B. Carter
Athens
Williame
Glenn
Elberton Lodge
J. H. Orr
Elberton, Gy
Carter
Geo. C. Thomas
Ll. B. Clark
Atlanta
R. B, Russell
Odd Fellows Hall
T. H. Robertson
Gainesville
Takes Athens Girl for Bride and Leaves for Ohio Town
Mr and Mrs Frank Muldoon left yesterday for Shearsville Ohio where he will work as an engineer Accompanying them was Mr George Potter brother of the bride Misa Ethel Potter who was before her recent marriage Muldoon had never been to Athens before meeting and marrying his choice among southern women
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Frank Muldoon
Shearsville
Ohio
Muldoon
George Potter
Misa
Ethel Potter
Athens
South
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Government Bureau of Animal Industry
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Kener
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Pertna
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E. L. Sisk
J. F. Holmes
Statham
J. T. Rainey
H. D. Ray
A. T. Clark
J. A. H. McEwin
W. L. Harris
F. F. Lampkin
W. W. Copeland
J.T. Rainey
J. L. Strickland
W. F. Gilham
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