Wiggins optimistic on centenary drive in Athens churches
Dr. S P Wiggins, Athens district presiding elder, hails the Methodist Centenary drive starting May 18 as the greatest church movement and pledges strong district unity. He cites active support from clergy and laypeople, business leaders, and farmers, noting pledges and partnerships across classes.
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S .P. Wiggins
Athens
Wiggins
Bishop Hendricks
Missouri
West Virginia
Georgia
Dr. Wiggins
John 8. Candler
H. ¥. McCord
Atlanta
W. H Park
Soochow
Chna
Elam F. Dempsey
Southern Baptists Plan North American Conference Aid
The Southern Baptists approved a conference plan for all Baptists in North America to study Christian problems and voted to raise five million dollars for an underfunded ministerial relief fund. They backed education for African American preachers and demanded equal protection of law, with Dr Gambrell criticizing Southern politicians who incited racial prejudice.
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Associated Press
Atlanta
Southern Baptists Today
Conference of All Baptists of North America
de. Gambrell
LaGrange Hog Sale Sets Georgia High Price Record
LaGrange Ga May 15 LaGrange held its first hog auction of the day and set a new Georgia record for meat hog prices. A sale of 161 head reached 19.35 per hundred while Plains on May 7 sold 300 head at 19.20. The auctions were led by the Animal Husbandry division of the State College of Agriculture and drew large crowds with strong enthusiasm.
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LaGrange
Georgia
Plains
Women Wake to University Opportunities in Georgia
Women across Georgia embrace new educational access since the university opened to them. At the Sev enth district clubs session in Cartersville, Nellie Peters Black urged greater state educational development and child welfare. Speakers highlighted dormitory needs and urged endowment for Tallulah Falls school.
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Georgia
Seveth District Cluba
Georgia Federation
Cartersville
Nellie Peters Black
Estelle Bozeman
Rosa Woodberry
Rogers Winter
Black
The
State University
Roger Winters
Tallulah Falls
Japanese Not Going To Mexico In Any Great Number
Washington reports quote Japanese embassy officials denying rumors of large Chinese and Japanese emigration to Mexico. They refute claims that five thousand Asiatics were sent to Mexico in March or any recent month, attributing such reports to German propaganda.
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Mexico
Washington
Mexico City
Grand Jury Returns True Bill Against Arthur Eberhart
The county grand jury, revealed by Judge Andrew J Cobb, returns a true bill against Arthur Eberhart in an assault and attempt to murder case stemming from a May 4 shooting on Hancock Avenue. Freddie Smith was shot in the jaw. both men are hospitalized with Eberhart in serious condition. Freddie was not indicted.
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Andrew J Cobb
Summerlin
W. G. Water
W. C. Dean
Arthur Eberhart
Freddie Smith
Hancock Avenue
Eberhart
Freddie
Alumni Day Memorial Occasion at University
The Alumni Day programme this year is a memorial event honoring alumni who fell in the world war. The memorial address will be delivered by Hon. Murphey Candler through the Alumni Society with remarks from other distinguished members, promising unusual interest to all university friends.
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Murphey Candler
Additional Travel Allowance For Dis charged Soldiers
The director of finance near completion of the $60 bonus now settles additional travel allowance for enlisted men honorably discharged since November 11, 1918 at 5 cents per mile to their home or original muster place. The War Department can settle the 11.2 cent difference from discharge to entry. Blank forms and affidavits are available via army recruiting officers Red Cross or aiding agencies.
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Comptroller of the Treasury
War Department
Red Cross
U.S Army
Shackelford Building
Colles Avenue
Clayton Street
Athenee Ga
Southern Presbyterian General Assembly Elects Frazer Moderator
In New Orleans on May 15 Dr. A. M. Frazer of Staunton Virginia was elected moderator at the 59th general assembly session succeeding Dr. James Vance of Nashville Tennessee. The assembly heard a report from the foreign missions committee highlighting steady progress toward world evangelization.
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New Orleans
A. M. Frazer
Staunton
59Th General Assembly
Southern Presbyterian Lechurch
James Vance
Nashville
Tenn
Dorseys Return From Atlanta
Mr and Mrs E H Dorsey have returned from Atlanta. The notice notes their travel and arrival status with no additional details.
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Mrs. E. H. Dorsey
Atlanta
Peace terms nearly ready for Austria Hungary
Paris May 15. Allied powers near complete peace terms for Austria calling Austrians before the peace congress next Wednesday. Hungary unsettled, delegates to Ko to St. ymain. military terms include demobilization, conscription ban, Skoda plant dismantling. Clemenceau hosted Orlando and Sonnino with no conference announcements. American stance on Fiume remains firm. Poland seeks parts of the German navy for defense.
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Associated Press
Paris
Associated
Teaxon
Hungary
St. Ymain
Austran
Skoda
Clemenceau
Orlando
Sonnino
War Ministry
Fiume
Salvation Army Campaign Heads Encouraged Across District
Mr. S. A. Wardlaw assistant zone manager for the Salvation Army campaign reports encouragement after visits to Kiberton Comer and other northern district points. He will travel to Winder and Jefferson, noting strong public interest and willingness to aid the soldiers and their work over the past two years.
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S. A. Wardlaw
Salvation Army
Kiberton
Comer
Ditrict
Winder and
Jefferson
Wardlaw
Commission Adopts Scale Inheritance Tax Plan
The state tax commission adopted an amended inheritance tax scale proposed by Dr J Wt McPherson and Dr Edgar H Johnson. A public hearing in Atlanta is set for May 29 at 10 o clock in the Senate chamber, with prior hearings already held in Rome Gainesville Macon Savannah Waycross and Albany. The four-tier plan taxes up to 25 000 at 1 3 5 and 7 percent respectively, with higher bequests taxed at the same rates beyond 25 000 for each grade.
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State Tax Commission
Atlanta
J. WT. McPherson
Mons
Edgar H. Johnson
Commission
Senate
State Capitol
Rome
Gainesville
Macon
Savannah
Waycross
Albany
McPherson
Fo'on
New Orleans Seeks Support for Cotton Export Company
May 15 New Orleans delegates heard Governor Harding urge Southern cotton interests to unite behind a proposed hundred million dollar cotton export corporation. The charter would be submitted tonight. Crop reports show most states cut acreage about twenty percent, with Alabama up five percent.
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New Orleans
Harding
Federal Reserve Board
Alabama
Big Gas Bag Adrift in West Wind Delays Transatlantic Plan
St Johns May 15 Misfortune struck the giant American naval airship C5 when a west wind tore it from hangars and blew it to sea with some aboard. destruction is feared, naval experts aboard were destroyed and a search ordered to locate the vessel and crew.
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West Wind
St. Johns
Trans Athantic
Edwards
Captain Reed Enjoys Civilian Luxuries in New York Barber Shop
Captain Albon Reed of the city, stationed at Camp Upton and awaiting demobilization, reports in from a New York hotel with other 82nd Georgia officers that civilian comforts are welcome. They indulged in barbering, manicures, bootblacks, new clothes, and silk shirts before deciding to rest a camp day.
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Albon Reed
New York
Camp Upton
Uni
Atlanta Journal
Georgia
82Nd
Reet
Civilization
Captain Hamilton
Reed
Upton
Berger Seeks Seat in House Amid Espionage Case
Victor Teriger, Wisconsin socialist representative-elect and jailed for wartime espionage, arrived in Washington to present credentials and seek seating as Congress convenes. He declined to discuss legal strategy or possible Supreme Court appeal, or consequences if the House refuses to seat him. He also faces tax implications with progressive primary tax penalties across income brackets referenced in the report.
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Washington
Victor Teriger
Wisconsin
House
Congress
United States Supreme Court
Southern business and professional women form federation
The Business and Professional Women's clubs of the southern states are federating in preparation for national representation at a St. Louis conference July 14 18. The effort promises strong southern input as the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs is formed.
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St. Louis
National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs
South
Moonshine Raids Net Whiskey and Stills in County
U S agents and deputies seized eighty eight gallons of whiskey two stills and public safety items in two raids conducted yesterday. Seventy five gallons were found at a northern county location and thirteen at a still near Watkinsville. A Black man Zack Jackson was captured at the latter site while attempting to reach a public safety item. Jackson fled as officers closed in and Deputy Black person prevented him from escaping. The whiskey and two stills were taken to Athens with evidence secured under lock and key. Officers expect two more moonshiners to be identified and located today. All parties are Black.
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U.S
Jackson
Oconee
Watkinsville
Zack Jackson
Zack
8. W. Sambo
Athens
Marshal Jackson
Georgia Negro Hanged for Attempted Assault
Associated Press report from Dublin May 15 states Jim Waters a Black man accused of assaulting a white girl in Johnson county two weeks earlier was lynched near Ne today. He was seized from Deputy Sheriff Smith while leaving the county jail at Ma con. Waters had worked on the victim’s family farm for years and was trusted. He disappeared after the crime and was captured at Sunhill Washington county Wednesday night. Officers said Waters confessed.
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Associated Press
Dublin
Jim Waters
Johnson County
Macon
Sheri S Smith
Waters
Sunhill
Washington County
Centenary Faithful to Victory Says Deacon Stephenson
G F Stephenson deacon in the Christian Church asserts the Centenary of American Methodist Episcopal will be a complete success. He lauds the campaign's thorough organization and pervasive faith and prayer, predicting Southern Methodists will raise the $25,000,000 goal.
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Southern Methodists
G. F. Stephenson
Christian Church
Guernsey Calf Sells for Record $25,000 at Madison Auction
Florham the two months old Guernsey bull calf sold at auction in Madison New Jersey for 25000 dollars a record price for its breed.
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Associated Press
Madison, N. J
Florham
Second Meeting of Athens Women’s Club Doubles Members
The Business and Professional Women of Athens report rapid growth, rising from 26 to 60 members in two weeks, with most members in business or a profession. The group plans charter membership to 100 by the June state federation meeting in Atlanta and will join the Georgia State Federation of Women’s Clubs.
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Business and Professional Women's Club of
Athens
State Federation of Business and Professional Women
Atlanta
Y. M. C. A. Annex
Ella Clare Mey Kellar
T. F. Green
Georgia State Federation of Women's Clubs
Miss McKellar
Madge Moore
Eighth District Federation
Good Roads
Salvation~Army Home Service
Women’s Club of
Painted Monument Defacement Under Government Probe
Americus Ga May 15 Blame for the defacement of the monument to Major Henry E Wirz at Andersonville was laid today by an investigation board at Southerfeld on two soldiers now out of service and Private McAnnelly still in service A special courtmartial was convened to try McAnally the result of which was not announced Others implicated were Harold Law discharged officer Myron Lackey Private both believed to be in California The monument was painted in German colors one night recently
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Associated Press
Americus
Andersonville
Henry E. Wirz
Southerfeld
McAnnally
Souther Myint
Harold Law
Myron Lackey
California
Restrictions Lifted on Gasoline and Oil Production
Washington May 15 All rules governing the production manufacture and distribution of oil in all forms including gasoline and of natural gas were removed today by order of Fuel Administrator Garfeld.
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Associated Press
Washington
Garfeld
Woman's suffrage gets a boost in Congress
Washington May 15 reports show the prospect of ratifying the suffrage amendment improving as information arrives that Senator elect Keyes of New Hampshire would vote for the measure. Thirteen senators elect have declared support, leaders said.
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Associated Press
Washington
Congress
Keyes
New Hampshire
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N. Y
Berger
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