Doctors Named on Committee for Volunteer Medical Service Corps
The Central Governing Board announces the Georgia State Executive Committee of the Volunteer Medical Service Corps. It lists Floyd Wo Meitae chairman in Atlanta and other doctors including Mardin in Atlanta, Abercrombie in Atlanta, Doughty, Bloomfield, White of Savannah, Clark of Macon, Dean of Dawson, and Clarke's county rep Dr H Goss. The panel will cooperate with the central board to mobilize and enroll members across Georgia.
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Volunteer Medical Service Corpa
Council National Defense
Georgia
Volunteer Medical Service Corps
Floyd Wo Meitae
Atlanta
Los
Mardin
Atelanta
F Abercrombie
Winff Doughty
M.D
Aue
Wate
James © Bloomfield
Athene
Geo. T White
Savannah
M.A Clark
Macon
JS Dean
Dawson
Central Goveerning Board
Clarke
Goss
Criticize Bill but Will Vote For If
Republican spokesmen in the House debated the war revenue bill criticizing inequalities in taxation and wasteful government spending. Fordney of Michigan and Moore of Pennsylvania voiced concerns but pledged to vote for the bill to support American war aims, while Senate Finance Committee remarks were limited to minor provisions.
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Associated Press
Washington
House
Fordney
Michigan
Moore
Pennsylvania
Sound Means Committee
Hoth
Senate Finance Committee
Japanese General on Siberian Status Report
Shimonoseki Aug 15 Major General M Nakashima of the Japanese army says Siberia is disintegrating and people see the Ventnite government as German puppets. He notes demand for Allied intervention, refugees arriving from European Russia, and fears of famine as intellectuals lose property and agriculture lacks seed. Bolshevik forces include 1000 former prisoners. Conditions remain chaotic with German and Austrian influence in China, and many seek help or even Germans if Allies fail.
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Shimonoseki
Japan
Associated Press
Siberia
M. Nakashima
Alles
Illesia
China
Gemeral Semenof
Chamber Urges Early Shipments in Athens Georgia
At a directors meeting the Athens Chamber of Commerce passes a resolution urging all shippers and dealers who use railroads to secure fall and winter supplies as early as possible to ease freight congestion next season. Regional Railroad Director R L Winchel makes the appeal citing last winter as justification. The chamber stresses compliance with the suggestion.
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Chamber of Commerce
Athens
Georg
R. L. Winchel
Mr Felix Peek Dies in Late Sunday 70
Mr Felix Peek died Sunday the 7th at 207 a.m. in St Marys hospital in his 70th year. His remains were taken to Philomath Georgia for burial beside his wife who preceded him seven years. His funeral was preached by Rev Dr Doggett, pastor of the Presbyterian church where he had been a member for fifty nine years. He leaves six children: Will Peek Athens Cicero A Peek New York Edward D. Peek Atlanta Mrs R J Arnold Philomath Ga Jno S D Peek Atlanta and Marie A Peek New York. He exemplified the old Southern gentleman and his loss is mourned by all.
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Fog
Peek
St. Mary's Hospital
Philomath
Dogzett
Presbyterian Church
Will Peek
Athens
Cicero A. Peek
New York
Edward D. Peek
Atlanta
R. J. Arnold
Jno
S$. D. Peek
Marie A. Peek
I W W Prisoners Delivered to Federal Penitentiary
Leavenworth Kansas reports that ninety three Industrial Workers of the World recently convicted in Chicago for violation of the espionage act were delivered to the federal penitentiary here on Saturday afternoon.
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Associated Press
Leavenworth, Kas
Chicago
Federal Centary
Mr Watson Dies at Arnoldsville in Georgia
Mr EP Watson a former Athens resident died Sunday afternoon at his home near Arnoldsville from rupture of a blood vessel. He is survived by his wife five children one brother and three half brothers Andrew Watson of Oglethorpe W T Butler of Atlanta Frank Butler of Oglethorpe and Pred Butler of Florida.
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EP. Watson
Athens
Arnoldsville
Andrew Watson
Oglethorpe
W. T. Butler
Atlanta
Frank Butler
Pred Butler
Florida
Road to Fair Roisel Poem Belied by War Ruins
Bugler Hubert W. Kelley of the Twelfth Engineers (Railway) unit in the United States Army in France reflects on a false hope of a romantic road to Roisel. The verse contrasts gypsy imagery with wartime desolation, noting trampled hedges, crumbling walls, and marching troops replacing the imagined journey.
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Hubert W. Kelley
Twenlfth Engineers
United States Army
France
Germans Tighten Line As British Push Gouzeaucourt Wood
German resistance stiffens along the Arras to Rheims front as British and French American forces press forward. Gouzeaucourt wood falls to British forces on high ground northwest of Gouzeaucourt, a key vantage point three and a half miles north of Rochy. French and American troops probe toward a new line near Ailette and Aisne as fresh troops arrive to bolster defenses.
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Arras
Rheims
Cambrai
St. Quentin
la Fere
St. Gobain Forest
Aisne Front
Gouzeaucourt Wood
France
Reuter’s
Gouzeaucourt
Rochy
Ailette
Aisne
Pershing Fore Fathers French Descent Traced
Okmulgee Oklahoma September records show General John J Pershing a direct descendant of French Huguenots of Alsace. Mia Herthe L Hagar holds a family tree tracing Frederick Pershing born 1724 to the present, noting name changes from Pfoerschin to Pershin then Pershing. General Pershing born September 15 1860 in Laclede Missouri.
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Associated Press
Okmulgee
Okla
Mia
Herthe L. Hagar
John J. Pershing
France
Alsace
Pershing Et al
Rhine
Frederick Pershing
General Pershing
Aterten
Pershin
Isaac Pershin
United States
Daniel Pershing
Frederick
Pennsylvania
Derry Township
Joseph
John Fletcher Pershing
Pensylvania
Laclede
Hon J D Price Here Saturday Campaign Visit
Hon J D Price, candidate for county commissioner, was seen passing through Athens Saturday on his way to home county. His car, driven by his daughter, was reported by locals. His three sons are serving in the military, having volunteered at the war’s outset.
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JD. Price
Athens
Iits
Innocenee
Roy
American troops rescue tapestries from German dugouts
American troops inspecting enemy dugouts after the German retreat found elaborate furnishings from the Louis XV period. Tapestries, grand pianos, carved tables, chairs, and beds were used to furnish officer quarters and regimental headquarters in subterranean rooms dug twenty to thirty feet underground.
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Associated Press de Priceles
Thun
Canteaus Thierry
Chateau Thierry
Wilson ends Liberty Loan tour plan for war duties
President Wilson abandons a transcontinental Liberty loan tour and stays in Washington. He says absence from the capital would hinder handling critical wartime questions and discussions with citizens about the loan program.
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Wilson
Liberty Loan
Associated Press
Washington
Ramsey Verdict Is For Acquittal In Murder Case
Danielsville Ga Sept 9 The Madison superior court adjourned after a busy week. The State versus K P Ramsey for murder, who shot Model 4 last March and lingering wounds three weeks, was tried Wednesday to Thursday night. The jury returned a not guilty verdict at 1 am Saturday. Ramsey had been jailed since the death of Mr Ayers prior to the acquittal.
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Danielsville
Madison Superior Court
State
K. P. Ramsey
Tite
Col
C.] Adams
Focal Bar
Geo
Thomas
Athena
Solic
Neral Skelton
Hartwell
Col. W. B. Sloan
Washington Casualties Report From War Fronts
Casualties listed by the American Expeditionary Forces include Killed in action Missing in action and Wounded in various degrees. Georgia names among the wounded and missing appear, with several Private ranks and towns cited such as Adel Carrollton and Hinesville.
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Washington
Ennai
Wagoner
John B. Thomas
Adel
Thomas W Crockett
Carroliten
Joseph Lynch
Columbus
William Z. Matley
Douglis
Harvey Duhose
Hoboken
Washington, D.C
Washington, D. C
Winterville Loses Prominent Citizen Robert A Christian
Winterville mourns the death of 51 year old Robert A Christian who died at his home at 7 this morning. A respected planter and Methodist, he is survived by his wife Vera Anthony Christian, father James S Christian, brother Walter D Christian of Birmingham, sister Mrs RR Maxwell of Jefferson, and nephew Allen Pittard of Chicago.
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Robert A. Christian
Winterville
Christin
Ilé
Tie
Methodist Church
Aw WO
Wl Heta
Vera Anthony "Christan
James S. Christian
Winter
Discord Now 18 Disloyalty Vigilantes Poem By Leroy Huron Kelsey
A poem titled Discord Now 18 Disloyalty by Leroy Huron Kelsey of the Vigilantes urges scrutiny of refusers and penalizing those who undermine government during wartime. It reflects vigilante rhetoric and calls for punishment of unpatriotic acts. Misa Carolyne Cobb begins a winter public speaking course to train women in wartime war work, following Mrs. Linton Hopkins's guidance from the Georgia national defense council.
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Leroy Huron Kelsey
The
Vigilantes
Misa Carolyne Cobb
Miss Cobb
Linton Hopkins
Georgia
Council of National Defense
Woman's Committee
Sunday American
Hooper White Wedding Solemnized in Athens
The wedding of Miss Florence Louise Hooper and Captain William Jesmond White U S A was held Sunday afternoon at the First Presbyterian Church Athens with Prof W J Hooper and Dr Jere M Pound attending. The event united prominent Southern families and followed by a war time move to San Antonio Texas for the couple.
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Jere M. Pound
Cal
M. Snelling
Fred Orr
Dick Treanor
Mary Lee Davin
Barrington Flanigen
Harriet Brnedter
Louise Dorsey
Jennie Arnold
Martha Nicholson
Red Cross
Lohengrin
Tanhauser
Lucy Cobb
Athens Banner
Capt. White
Wrelao White
Savanah
Athens
Mrs White
Captain Henry Brown in hospital in France
Word from Atlanta says Captain Henry Brown of the 26th Infantry, son of Colonel and Mrs. Ed T. Brown, has been ill for some time in a French hospital and is now convalescent. Colonel and Mrs. Brown are in New York at present.
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Henry Brown
France
Atlanta
D26th Infantry
Ed T. Brown
Dean's Kidney Pills Endorsement Ad by Local Resident
Athens resident John Henry Becker of Lumpkin Street extols Dean's Kidney Pills for kidney disorders and back pain. He cites ten years of use with satisfactory results and recommends Doan's Kidney Pills as the same effective remedy priced at 60 cents at dealers.
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Athens
John Henry Becker
Lumpkin St
Dean
Doan
Becker
Foster-Milburn Co
Msgrs
Buffalo
N. Y
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Athens Physicians
Siberian
Chamber
Felix Peek
MR. Watson
Fair Roisel
Tevens
Fair Reisel
Pershing
J. D. Price
Ramsey
William J. Spencer
Milan
Dexter Allen
Stateshoro
Richard Singleton, Jr
Hinesville
Francis M. Lovelace
Athinta
Joe Bagley
Porterdale
James J. Dee
Augusta
George Eliott
Lithonia
Charlie 1
Hatfield
Atlanta, Ga
Augustus M. Edmondson
Walter Foster
Mauk, Ga
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