Col Gantt Acquires Controlling Interest in Whiteville News Reporter
Col Gantt of Columbus county has taken a controlling stake in the News Reporter of Whiteville North Carolina a weekly paper. Georgia journalism figures congratulate him and praise his past work including editorship of the Athens Evening Call and the Southern Field. He is expected to boost the paper and the Whiteville area with strong business community support.
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Col
T. L. Gantt
Thin City
News-Reporter
Whitevile
N.C
Col. Gantt
Georgia
Athens Evening Call
Southern Field
Whiteville
Columbus County
Farmers Build Private Telephone Lines Near Hull Ga
Farmers around Hull Georgia plan to build private lines and interconnect with Mull exchange. Led by Meases, W F Matthews, J A Glenn, R Y Smith, B M Chandler, J A Epps, and B B Chandler, they will erect lines in a few weeks and extend through the next months. The group aims to reduce Bell tolls by sharing internal lines and using Bell lines only when needed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bell Telephone Company
Bell Company
Bell
Meases
W. F. Matthews
J. A. Glenn
R. Y. Smith
B. M. Chandler
J. A. Epps
B. B. Chandler
Lving
Hull
Mull Exchange
Georgian killed at Tioga La
Tioga La Jan 20 John Arnold about twenty five employed on the skidder of Lee Lumber Company here was accidentally killed today by a tree being knocked down striking him on the head. There were no papers on his person to indicate his home but he said he came from about twenty miles north of Atlanta.
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Tioga
John Arnold
Lee Lumber Company
Atlanta
Tenth annual Iowa conference of charities opens in Des Moines
Des Moines hosts the tenth annual meeting of the Iowa conference of charities and corrections with prominent visitors attending. Over three days the program covers juvenile courts, loan agency evils, role of physicians and district nurses in relief, jail and penal institution reforms, endowed philanthropies, and care of epileptics and the mentally deficient.
Allgood Offers Horses and Mules at Washington Street Stable
F Y Allgood, sales stable, 364 Washington street, invites friends and patrons to view any kind, clue or priced horses or mules. If a sale isn’t possible, he remains ready to show stock by appointment at the stable with phone contact 301.
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F. Y. Allgood
Washington Street
Clarke County Health Rules and Quarantine Measures 1909
Legal notice detailing Clarke County Georgia health rules for contagious diseases, quarantines, vaccination and treatment duties by a county physician, penalties for noncompliance, and appointments of health officers, issued January 14 1909. Also includes related guardianship, administration, road change, and corporate charter notices.
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State OF Georgia
Clarke County
Board of Commissionera
Biante Board of Health
Board of Commissioners
Anleas
Chao County
Georgia Auburn games to be played here
City officials and the public back a park fund to acquire land for a new park with a children’s playground and baseball grounds. Georgia plans to make Athens a permanent site for Thanksgiving contests with Auburn, moving future games to Athens. A spring festival in April and a new outdoor show line from Barkoot Amusement Co. are expected to draw thousands, boosting local business.
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Athens
Montgomery
Georgia
Auburn
Aata
Savannah
Macon
Bla
Ely
Barkoot Amusement Co
Petition for Charter and Property Sale Notices in Clarke County
Legal notices from Clarke County Georgia dated January 1909 include a petition for charter of a standard lumber and manufacturing company with clerk affidavits, a 1909 sale of electrical goods and office furniture to satisfy city court judgments, an estate appraisal and year's support notice for Elizabeth Eldson, and a request for administration on J T Johnson Jr estate with instructions to heirs and creditors to appear in February 1909. The items specify locations such as College Avenue Athens and reference authorities including Ordinary S B Wingfield and Clerk E J Crawford.
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Georgia
Clarke County
Rhodes
W. H. Mathews
Virgil F. H. Mathews
Ples Hull
Evaline Hull
Court of Ordinary
Witneas
B. Wingfield
Ordinary Clarke Co., Ga
State OF Georgia
Clarke
Athens
Winterville
C. M. Strahan
Jas. B. Williams
W. H. Hale
F. L. Johnson
Las
Board of Commissioners of Roads
Southern Mutual Building
John B. Gamble
Clare
Said County
Henry Hull
Said
Marion Smith
Fulton County
Standard Lumber & Manufacturing Company
Jos, L. Hull
E. J. Crawford
Clark Superior Court
Clarke Co
T. Elmer J. Crawford
Standard Lumber and Manufacturing Company
Dey
Court House
Eald
Fording Described
College Avenue
E. P. Taylor
City Court of
Taylor
T. A. Burke
F. M
W. E. Jackson
Rdinary’s
Elizabeth Eldson
Joseph E. Eldson
J. H. Shelton
J T. Johnson, Jr
J. T. Johnson, Jr
Prohibition Bill Receives Veto in Tennessee Senate
Nashville Tenn Jan 20 Governor Patterson vetoes statewide prohibition bill after senate passage. Original vote 20 to 13. veto to be read tomorrow for possible override. Bill would prohibit liquor manufacture, become effective July 1 1909, with amendments causing January 1 1910 start for enforcement.
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Nashville
Tenn
Goverth
Patterson
Senate
Tennessee
Memphis
Chattanooga
Commonwealth
President Helps Orphans at Ma con Ga
The president of the Industrial and Orphans Home at Macon Georgia touts Electric Bitters as a nine year staple in the institution. He cites benefits for stomach liver kidney troubles and general vitality. The medicine is described as ideal for building strength in weak children and for female complaints, available at local stores for 60 cents.
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Industrial and Orphans' Home
Macon
W. J. Smith & Bro
H. R. Palmer i& Som
President's salary to be increased to $100000
Washington January 20 The senate democrats backed economy and Jeffersonian simplicity yet approved an amendment to raise the president's salary to 100000 including travel expenses The chief justice salary set at 15000 and associate justices at 14500 The vote was 35 to 80 with eight Republicans voting no and no Democrats voting for the increase The debate centered on eliminating perquisites and recent traveling allowances seen as unconstitutional by Georgia and most of the senate
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Washington, D. C
Senate
United States
House
Supreme Court
Beveridge
Borah
Brown
Burkett
Clapp
Dolliver
LaFollette
Piles
Clay
Georgia
Willett Remarks May Be Expunged
Washington January 20 A five member committee was named to consider expunging Representative Willett of New Yorks remarks about President Roosevelt from the Congressional Record. The panel will report within ten days.
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Washington
Jan
Howard
Georgia
Clayton
Alabama
Roosevelt
Willett
New York
Billings Gate
Hughes
Aively Row
House
Secret Service
West Virginia
Mann
Illinois
Perkins
Foster
Vermont
Clark
Missouri
Club Women to Visit Panama on Union Mission
Newark January 20 two officers of the general federation of women's clubs sail on the steamship Alliance bound for Panama. Mrs Jonitip N Moore of St Louis president and Mrs John Dickinson Sherman of Chicago vice president travel to inspect eight affiliated clubs and their work in the canal zone.
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Panama
Newark
Steamship Alliance For
Jonitip N. Moore
St. Louis
John Dickinson Sherman
Chicago
General Federation of Women's Clubs
Canal Sone
General Federation
Real estate agents promise cheap Athens dirt today
Real estate agents urge readers to visit their Athens offices claiming current land prices are at a low point and will rise in the future. They assert consultants can convince buyers that purchasing now is the best financial move.
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Athens
Totare
Athens plans bid for Georgia Dairy and Live Stock meet
A committee led by Mayor Dorsey and including Councilmen Rowe Griffith and Snelling will travel to Madison on February 3 to secure the next annual Georgia Dairy and Live Stock Association meeting for Athens. The group will advocate Athens claims, citing the University Farm and agriculture colleges as supporting factors for hosting the 1910 gathering.
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Dorsey
Rowe, Griffith and Snelling
Madison
Georgia Dairy and Live Stock Association
Athens
Eity
President Roosevelt Objects To California Anti Japanese Bills
Roosevelt asks California governor to hold anti Japanese legislation until he can be heard. A telegram from Roosevelt warns of incalculable damage to California and the nation if such laws pass, and Governor Gillette replies that bills are being held up pending Roosevelt’s letter and guidance.
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Sacramento
Cal
Roosevelt
California
Roosevels
Washington
Hes
James N. Gillette
Califorenia
Legislawre
United States
Theodore Roosevelt
Gillette
Washington, D. C
J. N. Gillette
John W Gates alarmed by hydrophobia risk in dog bites
El Paso Texas Jan 20 Possibility of hydrophobia from a scratch by a pet dog causes grave concern for John W Gates his wife and others He was traveling in a private car to Pasadena to visit his son when told to isolate his Boston bull pup because three dogs at his Port Arthur home bitten by a tramp car dog have developed hydrophobia The Gates party had been scratched and bitten by the pup during travel and play
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el Paso
Texas
John W. Gates
Mr. Gates
Mrs. Gates
Chamberlains Cough Remedy praised for croup and whooping cough
A reader from Pauls Valley endorses Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as especially effective against croup and whooping cough for children. The ad notes availability through H. R. Palmer Bone Drug Co and Warren J. Fraith, with Camalen Street listed among sellers.
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Chikiram
M. Davenport
Pauls Valley
Ind
Ter
H. R. Palmer Bone
Gr Drug Co
Warren J. Fraith
Mero
Camalen Sturt
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Whiteville, N. C
Tioga, LA
Iowa
Beathery
Warren Street
Newort
M. F
Board of Commissioners of Bunds
Enuey
Samuel C. Benedict
State Board of Health
Isham H. Goss
State Board
James C. Bloomfield
Pres. Board of Health
Athens, Ga
B. Wingfeild, SR
Ordinary Clarke Co
Law
Superior Court Clarke Co
Jokn W. Gates
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