Clarke County to Have Nine Months of Rural Schooling Next Year
Clarke county will sustain nine months of school for rural districts next year following passage of the local school taxation measure. After years of four to five months due to funding gaps, nine months becomes possible with tax support. Fall term openings show strong attendance though some schools start later due to harvest. County Supt. T. H. Dozier toured Winterville and noted a crowded new building with sixty high school students from Oglethorpe County and widespread patron enthusiasm for tax-backed school funding.
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Clarke County
Clarke
T. H. Dozier
Winterville
Oglethorpe
businessmen invited to inspect Lucy Cobb Institute
The Athens Chamber of Commerce directors will meet tomorrow at 4 PM in the Holman building then visit Lucy Cobb Institute. President Mildred Rutherford invites the directors to tour the refreshed dormitory chapel and facilities while the school is temporarily open and welcoming visitors.
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Chamber of Commerce
Holman
Mies Mildred Rutherford
Lucy Cobb Institute
Lucy Cobb
Athens
Athens Presbytery Fall Sessions Held at Jefferson Church
The Athens Presbytery held its fall sessions at Jefferson Presbyterian Church Sept. 12 to 13 with sermons by Ray E. B. Telford and Sam Cartledge. Hon. H. H. Dean was elected moderator. Rev. M. McG. Shields preached the closing sermon. Distant visitors and three candidates for ministry attended, including Chas. My Gibbs and H. H. Key.
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Jefferson, Ga
Athens
C. M. Gibbs
Danielsvile
Hoy
Sam Cartledge
Maide
M. McG. Shields
Atlanta
The
Presbyterian Church
South
Presbytery
Jefferson
S. J. Cartledge
EB. L. Hill
J. M. Hodgson
G. H. Williamson
W. R. Henderson
Claud Little
Commerce
E. M. Munro
H. H. Key
Comer
T. K. Boone
Maysville
Sells Floto Circus Advance Guard Arrives in Athens
The advance guard of the Sells Floto Great Circus arrived in Athens by special cars last evening over the Georgia Railroad. Twenty five men travel ahead to post and bill for the big show arriving Thursday September 27. Frederick McMann leads the crew, famed for spreading notice of forthcoming attractions nationwide.
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Sells-Floto Circus
Athens
Mammoth Sells
Floto Great Circus
Georgia
Phants
Frederick McMann
Athens Boy in France Gains Twenty Pounds Since He Reached Continent
A. C. Dunaway writes from France to Mr. and Mrs. Dunaway in Athens detailing weight gain and daily drills. He notes cheerful spirits and asks about his brother Clarence, who will soon join the army, and mentions both he and Clarence volunteered early in the war.
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Athens
France
Continent
B. Dunaway
Dunaway
Clarence Dunaway
Mr. Dunaway
A. C
Clarence
Quartermaster’s Corps
Hattiesburg, Miss
40 Percent Georgia Quota to Send All White Recruits
Atlanta dispatch details war mobilization plans for Georgia selectmen. A 40 percent quota beginning Sept 19 will send white men to Camp Gordon, with counties bearing unequal racial mixes offset by drawing from other counties. A subsequent October call will route 40 percent of negroes to camp, leaving a final 15 percent mixed white and black intake.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Camp Gordon
Crowder
State Military Department
State of
Chatham
Chatham County
Soldier seeks U S transfer to join American forces
W H Harris, a Black soldier in the British Expeditionary Forces in France, asks his father in Athens to secure his U S citizen papers from the federal court and forward them so he can transfer from the Canadian unit to American troops and serve alongside his brother servicemen in France.
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W. H. Harris
France
Dufallon Harris
Fifth Street
Athens
United States
U. 8
Naval Exhibition Proposed by Navy Recruiting Officer
The county ordinary received a letter from Lieutenant J F Atkinson of the U S Navy requesting a naval display at the county fair this fall. The display would show life in the Navy and opportunities for young men to enroll, with the Navy Department appreciating any courtesy.
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Navy
Atlanta
Enller
Navy Department
J. F. Atkinson
U. S. Navy
Queen of Bulgaria Dies After Illness
Sofia date, Queen Eleanore of Bulgaria died today after a period of illness. King Ferdinand and the two crown princes were summoned to her bedside before her death.
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Associated Press
Sofia
Bulgaria
Eleanore
Ferdinand
Sunday School Worker's Institute at Ebenezer Church
The first general county convention of colored Sunday schools closed at Ebenezer Baptist. White speakers Prof. K. D. Reddick and Prof. D. L. Earnest led sessions with D. W. Sims and B. F. Sperow, covering organizing classes, superintendent qualifications, and methods to obtain and hold pupils over two days.
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Ebenezer Baptist Church
D. W. Sims
B. F. Sperow
D. L. Earnest
State Normal School
K. D. Reddick
South
Macedonia
St. Paul M
L. 8. Clark
Goas
W. B. Lawrence
Georgia Sunday School Association
H. M. Smith
E. Clark
N. J. McCombs
First Congregational
Hills First Baptist
J. L. Pendley
Banner Sunday School
Jas. Morton
St. Luke
K. K. Reddick
D. G. Bickers
The
Athens Banner
C. 8. Haynes
J. T. Dorsey
E. K. Nichols
B. B. Dunn
Meat Packing Next Under Administration
Government regulation of the meat packing industry will be the next move of the food administration. At a conference of Administrator Hoover and packers, it was arranged to put meat packing plants under the licensing system.
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Associated Press
Washington
The
Food Administration
Hoover and Packers
Lower Milk Prices Hinted By Food Administration
Washington reports indicate cheaper milk for consumers as a likely outcome from reduced cattle feed costs. A voluntary agreement between producers and distributors may follow after the food administration completes its milk production investigation. Government experts urge buying coal for immediate use amid rising wood prices and limited supply.
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Associated Press
Washington
Food Administration
Liberty Motor for Airplanes Definite U.S. Supremacy Claimed
Washington reports that the Liberty motor, key to U.S. air supremacy over Germany, has passed final tests with gratifying success. Secretary Baker outlined the nation's top engineers developing a guarded design, with two engineers secluded in hotel rooms to finalize a practical engine promised to the government.
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Associated Press
Washington
Liberty Motor
United States
Baker
Free week of Georgia boys' agricultural courses at Southeastern Fair
Georgia Fair Association with the State College of Agriculture and USDA offers two boys from each Georgia county a free week at the Southeastern Fair October 13 to 20. Selection by exams, ages 15 to 18, includes transport, camping, meals, and instruction from top teachers in agriculture and livestock. Each boy will keep notes and publish a home paper report.
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Atlanta
Georgia
The
Fair Association
Georgia State College of Agriculture
United States Department of Agriculture
Free Scholarship Notices in Atlanta
Authorities ask State Superintendent M. L. Brittain and Prof. J Phil Campbell of the state agricultural college to jointly nominate a promising young woman for the Hastings scholarship worth 100 dollars a year for the term September 1917 to May 1918. Miss Lucile Finney of Madison is appointed to the Montgomery Ward scholarship at Peabody College in Nashville Tennessee.
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Atlanta
M. L. Brittain
J. Phil Camp- I Kent
State Agricultural College
Hastings
Lucile Finney
Madison
Peabody College
Nashville
Trading With Enemy Bill Passes Senate
Washington Sept 12 The trading with the enemy bill sailed through the Senate with amendments granting the president embargo power on imports and forbidding German language war comment without English translation. Senator King urged suppression of German press for stirring sedition and war unpopularity.
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Washington
House
Senate
King
Means Receives Near Million in King Estate Deal
Documentary evidence in the Gaston Means case reveals a formal agreement with Mrs. Maude King promising Means nearly a million dollars if certain funds are collected. The discovery ties to Means role as business agent in the Concord murder investigation.
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Associated Press
New York
Gaston Means
Maude King
Concord
N. C
Means
Jefferson and Madison Enlistees Recruited Yesterday
Enlistments reported yesterday by Captain Heidt at Georgia recruiting stations in Atlanta include Jefferson and Madison residents. Charlie Williamson Jim Walden and Oredille Carter all of Jefferson plus Howard Catlett of Jefferson joined for various units. John Shields Ben McGetomy Corrie Mapp of Madison selected for the Stevedore Regiment to serve at Fort McPherson and Newport News.
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Heidt
Georgia
Atlanta
Jefferson
Commerce
Madison
Charlie Williamson
Jim Walden
Oredille Carter
Howard T. Catlett
National Army
John Shields Ben McGetomy
Corrie Mapp
Stevedore
Fort McPherson
Newport News
Words of Berton Braley on war and service
The poem praises those who go to war while those at home envy their courage and glory. It asserts the heroes will face adventure and pain, endure tumult, remake the world, and sacrifice even death, while supporters wish them God speed.
Federal Agents Raid Nearing Home In Disloyalist Probe
Federal agents raided the Toledo home of Prof. Scott Nearing in search of literature used against selective conscription. The raid extended to the Industrial Workers of the World headquarters while a broader critique of patriotism and war echoed in a public pamphlet by Clarence Watt Hazlit.
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Associated Press
Toledo
Ohio
Scott Nearing
Industrial Workers of
World
Ursula Baypes Triumphs Over Hardship Through Community Aid
Caleb Peastee recalls Ursula Baypes, a widow in Bilmouth, turning misfortune into progress by mobilizing neighbors Norris Waring Jim Elder Orene Bidnett to swap tasks. She repaired clothing and prepared pumpkin pies while others shined hens, gathered apples, cleaned cellars, and mended boots showing real grit and mutual support.
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Bilmouth
Mr. Peastee
Mr. Hyne
Caleb
Ursula
Cordin
Arauia
Mr. Peaster
Mr. Penslee
Mr. Peasles
Araula
Norris Waring
Jim Elder
Orene Bidnett
Jim
Jethee
Clem
Norrie
Norris
Howe
Tye
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Jefferson Church
U. S
Ueen
Shiloh
Chestnut Grove
J. H. Brown
F. Harris
J. T. Edwards
J. Johnson
J. H. Horton
J. F. Henry Rey
J. T. Johnson
Meat Packing
AIR Corps
Mar
Berton Braley
War
Earth
Bundrum
Mart
Federal
Eeseeenveeeen Pee
Clarence Watt Hazlit
Vigilantes
Lincolnton
George
Caleb Peas Tee
Ursula Baypes
Lysander Hyne
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