Southern Mutual Holds Forty Year Service Award At Annual Meeting
The Southern Mutual Fire Insurance Company held its annual policy holders meeting to re elect officers including Billups Phinizy as president and treasurer Arthur E. Griffith as secretary. Mr Griffith received a 40 year service award and the 65 percent dividend for 1913 was announced along with the Sixty Fifth Annual Report showing premiums of 384,433.09 and total profits to policyholders of 7,063,947.73. The next meeting is set for June 1914 in Athens Georgia.
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Southern Mutual Fire Insurance
A. B. + Griffith
compa + ny
United + States
France
Geor +gia
Griffith
Segathik
Southern Mutual Insurance Company
Billups Phinisy
Arthur E. Griffith
Thomas L. Mitchell
Herschel Carthers
Edward
Lyndon
Athens
Arthur BE. Griffith
James White
Howard R. Hodgson
Wiliam T. Bryan
John R. White
James Y. Carthers
Hamilton McWhorter
Charles H. Phinizy
John W. Grant
Auanta
Henry B. King
Augusta
A. Miges
Columbus
Robert J. Taylor
Macon
M. A. O'Byrne
Savannah
Board of Directors
Georgia
Gainesville
Borsyth
Madison
Newnan
Valdosta
DuBosq & DuBose
Albany
Jos
Davis & Co
Americus
J. A. Davenport
Atlanta
Patillo & Lipscomb
F. Phinizy & Co
Barnesville
R. P. Lester
Cuthbert
George McDonald
Dalton
Frank
Pruden
Eatonton
G. W. Adams
Forsyth
Pearson & Pearsons
Dozier & Dozier
Greensboro
E. W. Copelaw
Griffin
W. H. Beck
LaGrange
Evans
W. D. Griffith
R. A. Thomason & Son
Marietta
Jas
Billup
Phinizy
The
Miscellaneous Georgia names and firms listed
Rome Hamilton Yancey Sandersville Geo. D. Warthen Savannah W D Dearing Son Sparta J D Burnett Thomasville Hansell Merrill Valdosta R A Peeples Sons Washington Jos R Dyson West Point Philip Lanier
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Rome
Hamilton Yancey
Sandersville
Geo. D. Warthen
Savannah
W. D. Dearing & Son
Sparta
J. D. Burnett
Thomasville
Hansell & Merrill
Valdosta
R. A. Peeples & Sons
Washington
Jos
R. Dyson
West Point
Philip Lanier
Reform Antiquated Penal Code of Georgia
Atlanta June 3 John Y Smith Fulton county representative elect urges a special Georgia assembly commission to study reform and modernize the antiquated penal code and prison conditions He backs testimony leading witnesses and a comprehensive report to guide future legislation He also supports suspending sentences by judges with safeguards citing a recent supreme court ruling and Prison Association recommendations
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Atlanta
John Y. Smith
Fulton County
Georgia Assembly
Smith
Mr. Smith
Georgia
Prison Association of Georgia
Audit Commission
Supreme Court
Candler County Advocates Push for New County Status
Report from Metter says Candler county supporters plan a large turnout in Atlanta to back a proposed 361 square mile, 12,275 population new county. They seek 133 sq mi from Bulloch, 108 from Tattnall, 120 from Emanuel with over $3 million in taxable value, including railroad property.
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Atlanta
Candler
Metter
Candler County
General Assembly
Bulloch
Tattnall
Emanuel
Georgia
Monument Unveiling Honors Georgia Governor Allen Candler
Athens news reports the unveiling of a monument to late Allen Daniel Candler in Alta Vista cemetery. Speakers include Judge Hamilton McWhorter, with relatives of Candler present. The inscription details his public service and Civil War service, underscoring his integrity and devotion to Georgia.
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Gainesville
Allen D. Candler
Alta Vista Cemetery
James M. Smith
James Long Street
Atlanta
Athens
Hamilton McWhorter
Athena
Mre. Candler
Jefferson Davis
Col. Candler
Special Authority for Riot Duties
Atlanta June 3 Representative J J Slade of Muscogee seeks to amend state military law at the next session to vest riot time control in special authorities rather than the military. He cites Augusta during the strike as effectively martial law and argues current law grants excessive military license. He aims to repeal that feature without altering the rest of the law.
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Atlanta
J. J. Slade
Muscogee
Augusta
Slade
Intercollegiate Athletics Debate at Emory Trustees Meeting
Emory College in Oxford Georgia prepares for a June 9 trustees meeting to consider intercollegiate athletics under faculty supervision. A student petition and alumni opinions will be presented as “Intercollegiate Athletic Day” actions stir debate among supporters and opponents.
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Emory College
Oxford
Emory
Board of Trustees
Friends of the Movement
State High Schools to Hold July Athens Contests
The Lierary and track events of the Twelve Congressional District High School Associations will be staged in Athens on July 3 and 4 with about 150 contestants. A debate on Woman Suffrage is added, and Dr H A Hollister of the University of Illinois will lecture on high school administration. Conferences cover algebra geometry and general curricula, July 1–5, with topics on standardization, vocational schools, and teaching methods.
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Athens
H. A. Hollister
University of Illinois
Hollister
Georgia
Dr. Hollister
Storm hits Gainesville children at safety brick debris
A severe storm in Gainesville on June 3 damaged homes and utilities. Lightning struck the Dobbs place on North Bradford, blew bricks from the chimney into the cellar where a little girl and baby took shelter, the child losing consciousness and a brick striking the infant with minor injuries. Hail caused further damage.
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Gainesville
Dobbs’ Place
Bradford Street
J. T. Rogers
Brother
Remarkable Barville well feeds street with running water
In Barberville Mr. Jack Dudley sank ten feet to strike a bold water vein. He laid a short ditch and pipe from the well to the street forming a fountain trough. Water flows day and night, overflowing the basin and creating a new creek for horses to drink from on their way through town.
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Jack Dudley
Barberville
Dudley
Fiddlers Convention Planned in Athens in July
Athens plans a fiddlers convention with contests and crowds. B Ambrose of Dacula met yesterday to organize the event likely for the first week in July. He and his uncle R M Stanley, known from the Atlanta convention, consulted the chamber of commerce secretary, the mayor, and auditorium owners.
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Fiddlers
Athens
Front
B. Ambrose
Dacula
R. M. Stanley
Atlanta
Mr. Ambrose
Chamber of Commerce
Calvin Hitch Denied Federal Posts by Georgia Senators
Calvin M. Hitch longtime aide to Senator Hoke Smith and former secretary to Senator A. O. Bacon, sought Atlanta postmaster or collector of Internal Revenue but failed to win a federal appointment. Reports say Bacon hopefuls to aid Hitch are limited as present regime limits prospects. Hitch remains a prominent Georgia political figure with unclear national advancement.
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Atlanta
Calvin M. Hitch
A. O. Bacon
Washington
Hoke Smith
Smith
Georgia
Hitch
Internal Revenue
Mr. Hitch
Dovntees
Bacon
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Seer
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State of Georgia
Clarke County
Mercer University
Confederate States
House of Representatives of
Congress of the
United States
Emory Athletics
Calvin Hitch
Senator Smith
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