Bonds to Be Issued for Beaverdam Creek Drainage District
Clarke County Georgia notices outline Beaverdam Creek Drainage District No 1 plans to issue bonds totaling 40000 with 7 percent interest payable annually starting March 1 1918 and principal in ten annual installments beginning March 1 1921 Landowners may prepay by March 1 1918 at listed per acre rates Class A B C curbing assessment releases land from future levies but remains eligible for other assessments.
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Beaverdam Creek Drainage District No. 1
Clarke County
Georgia
Board of Drainage Commissioners
Beaverdam Creek Drainage District No
Athens
Said County
Barberville Road
Sandy Creek Bridge
Oruvnary
Betsy Cole
Nald Betsy Cole
Big Figures Mark South Farm Demonstrations 1916 19
In Athens for training, county agents summarize the 1916 17 season across the South. About 160,000 farmers conducted demonstrations, influencing tenfold more to adopt better farming methods. Demonstrations covered corn and cotton expanses, tobacco, grains, hay and cover crops, legumes, potatoes, and pasture updates, with extensive land improvements and drainage actions.
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Athens
State College of Agriculture
South
College Men Named for Camp Gordon Training School
Atlanta Ga Jan 10 Lieutenant Colonel John H Thomas announced the forty eight college men in the officers training school at Camp Gordon from seven colleges including the University of Georgia with twenty two from U G A and five from North Georgia Agricultural College at Dablon ega. The list names candidates by city state and institution with several other nominees disqualified.
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Camp Gordon
Officers’ Training School
University of Georgia
North Georgia Agricultural College
Dablonega
University
Atlanta
John H. Thomas
Fi Fleetwood Lanter
Athens
Lucian H. Tout
Madison
Henry G. McKee
Ellenwood
Douglas
Franklin
Youngstown
Ohio
Georgia Military Academy
Milton Sizer
Roy E. Lanham
Rome
William M. Martin
Ocala
Fla
Edward 8. Gay
William M. Redman
Jackson, Ga
Guy Kemp
Marietta
Glover F. Dodd
Kingston
Emmett
Cabaniss
Maxeys
Richard R. White
Orlando
University of Florida
Gordon Hart
Lakeland
Utto T. Amster
Teakesville
Miss
William M. Hopkins
Jasper
Elliott Chealton
Jacob
George W. Lanier
Robert
McCarty
Edward F
Gray
Claude F
Augusta
Stoar
Silas H
Wagner
John N
Newborn
Ammons
Ernest G
Morgantown
Coombs
Ira Dupree
McRae
Georgia Military College
Pope
Codesman
Maddox
Joe Glenn
Barnesville
Gordon Institute
Fincher
Robert ‘F
Macon
Hill
Alabama Governor Orders Coal Diversion Amid Fuel Strain
Montgomery Jan 10 Associated Press reports Governor Henderson overrode federal fuel administrator orders directing Alabama coal operators. The move accompanied extensive farm uplift: 83,389 implements purchased, 544,658 trees sprayed and pruned, 4,367 new silos built, 3,829 stock dips erected, and millions saved through manure care and fertilizer programs. County agents logged 809,714 visits, 3,509,567 miles traveled, 132,355 attendees at 1,108 field meetings, and 130,761 participants in 837 extension courses. Also noted is the death of English track star and rower Captain W F C Holland.
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Montgomery
Ala
Henderson
Alabama
Cemaate of Agriculture
Unclaimed registrants in Clarke listed as undelivered
A list of eighty Clarke registrants without mailed questionnaires due to undelivered post, with notes such as gone to parts unknown and in France. Names follow including Davenport Athens. Edwards Mills. Hays Winterville. Hawkes Winterville. many more across Athens, Winterville, Bogart, Decatur, Commerce, and Atlanta.
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Clarke
Atlanta
France
Newport
New
Will Henry Davenport
Athens
Robt
Lee Edwards
Son
Mills
Connie Hays
Winterville
Clinton Harlan
Will Pinkerton
Second Street
Baford Park
David Hill
Bogart
Fred Jones
Miller St. Eddye
Newton St
Charlie Henderson
Broad St
Will Oglesby
Box 105
Walter Collins
Secretary Baker Defends War Prep as American Army Rises
Secretary Baker outlined the war department’s work before the Senate military committee noting more than a million and a half Americans are under arms with a substantial force in France ready for service. He admitted delays in equipment but said weapons and rifles were provided or on the way and praised a massive mobilization effort.
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Associated Press
Washington
War Department
Germany
Baker
Senate
Department
France
Chamberlain
Songto
America
Senate War Investigating Committee
Regular Army
National Guard
Reserve
It.s
Army of the United States
National Army
Spain
Army of
United States
Two Athens Men Seek Spruce Division Enlistment
Two Athens men of draft age Thomas Burton Gibson and Fred Lewis Parr have signed up with the local board to join the spruce department of the aviation section of the signal corps and be sent to Vancouver Barracks near Seattle Washington. They will be trained to cut and prepare timber used in airplanes and depart for the extreme northwest in a few days.
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Athens
Spruce Department
Signal Corps of
Army
Vancouver Barracks
Seattle
Washington
Thomas Burton Gibson
Fred Lewis Parr
Rifle Practice for High Schools Is Recommended
Washington reports the national board for the promotion of rifle practice recommended plans to provide rifle practice in all high schools nationwide. The statement emphasizes teacher training, safety standards, and orderly range procedures.
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Washington
National Board For
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H. H. Hampton
W. M. Hartman
James O. Spinks
James BE. Spinks
James E. Spinks
James C. Spinks
R. C. Orr
Bart Bruce
City of Athens
Said
Jackson County
D. D. Holland
A. P. Deadwyler
J. G. Deadwyler & Company
Allen Chandler
Emily J. Deaiwyler
Lena Deadwyler
Emily J. Deadwyler
Lem@la Davis
Nips Racker Davis
Peoples Bank
Albert Eidam
Robert KK. Saye
Robert Paul Saye
Wade Spencer Saye
Evelyn Saye
Albert Eldam
Orr
James R. Crane
Henry Lay
Crane
coun _ty
Lynwood Park
Court of Ordinary
M. Stern
Jesse Howard
University Georgia
Department of Agriculture
Fase
W.F. C. Holland
England
Oxford
Oxford Boating Club
Yale
Henley
Frank Davis
Sam Stephens
Decatur
Andrew Pitts
Cherry
James L. Hawkes
Andrew Rhodes
Broad
Isigh Clements
Fourth St
Ernest Earl Bailey
Barber St
Sam Hunter
Pearl St
Henry Burdell Barber
Madison Ave
Edwin Oscar Kennebrew
Normal
Alfred Bennett Dillard
Oconee St
Clarence O. McDorman
Milton Doggett
Jackson St
Wm. Bolton
Waddell St
Jas
Harold Lester
E. Broad St
Charlie Brown
Geo
John Jackson
Charlie Thomas
Herache
Walker
Frank Porter
College Ave
Fred Henry Jackson
W. Hroad
Joe Cox
Lyndon Ave
Frank Smith
Willie Jackson
Gideon Stephens
Newt Norris
Pope St. Wm
Ed Wilkins
Hoyt
Henry Leonard Samuels
Gilbert
Akron
Joel Thomas Fitzpatrick
Commerce
Mason Williams
John Billups
Chase St
Henry Thompkins
Daniel Davenport
Lumpkin
Henry Lamar Payne
Newton
Dink Callahan
Pulaski St. James
Columbus McKenzie
State St
Byron Parks
Robert Mack
Pulaski St
Jas. Eberhart
Robert Lee Jordan
Charlie Handy
Robt. Benton
Rock Spring
Will Rucker
Joshua Eberhart
Andy Simmons
Frank Foster
Wm. J. Sims
Vine St
Eddie Dean
R F. D
Peter Frank Hawkins
Oconee
Ernest Jordan
Nacoochee
Walter Cooper
Samle Payne
Newton Bt
D. W. Wingfield
Reese St
Attica Moore
Houston Howard
Morton Alley
Thos Wylie Hackett
Elwood
Ora Bell
Billups
James C. Breedlove
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