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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1908
Page
6
An inquest followed a quarrel over a man on Theatre Street in a Lancaster area. The coroner ruled the dead man was murdered. Kimbrough and Hardview faced charges as true bills were anticipated. a grand jury may hear evidence on the 17th.
Dr A M Soule presides over Georgia Farmers Institutes to be held in Washington and Atlanta. The program, featuring lectures by E A Cantine, F Worsham, and other agricultural experts, covers cotton pests, diversified farming, and dairy improvements. The sessions aim to boost farm practices amid rising cotton challenges and discuss seed meal feeding for higher milk quality.
The item mixes casual weather remarks with playful bickering about straw hats and the Atlanta baseball pennant chase. It mentions warm days in July and August, a mild 65 degrees at noon rising to 70, and general crowd mood.
Preparations are being made for the annual Mt Zion campmeeting in Spalding county Grffin starting Friday before the fourth Sunday in August. Able preachers will be present and many from middle Georgia as well as Atlanta will attend the gathering.
A dealer touts silver tea sets with enduring appeal and craftsman quality. They offer lasting beauty and patterns the artist would approve of, promising heirloom value for a century.
John Cufton Elder, son of Edward Filer of Bampsville, has been named special agent for the immigration commission covering Georgia, Florida, and Alabama. The role involves special investigations for the government, leveraging his familiarity with Southern conditions. The appointment was secured by influential friends from his New York residence, offering good pay and responsibility.
In the coming days two new amusements will debut at Ponce de Leon Park. The prominent feature is a studio of aerial statuary in the Little Casino theater, a vaudeville act rarely seen in Atlanta. Three wax merry widows will perch on a garden wall by the Squeeze, with hats awarded to those who place a hat on a widow’s head.
At the National Travelers' Association of America convention in Milwaukee Wisconsin in August a resolution was adopted condemning the parcels post with instructions for the secretary to send a copy to every congressman and senator nationwide.
The Georgia Senate faces three-day decision on potential extra session to finish 1908 legislative work. House shifted burden to upper chamber and may hold night sessions tonight through Wednesday while considering bills on convict lease reform education funding and primary reform. The governor’s urging and the unfinished convict inquiry loom large as lawmakers balance adjournment with possible special session costs.
The piece outlines legislative activity as the calendar advances with pension resolutions and juvenile court proposals moving toward final passage. It notes multiple measures facing deadline risk, including fireman and policeman exemptions from anti pass rules and dog related bills, with Senate action possible tonight.
Mos Harper of Atlanta with Alex Math and E L Bell of Americus acquire the Americus Oil Mill from the Kentucky Refining Company of Louisville. Harper named president, Rol McMath vice president and general manager, Bell secretary and treasurer. The mill includes five districts and a yard in Americus. operations shift to Harper’s oversight from this city.
A Lumpkin operation near Lumpkin Wee ton Jiavtile Leslie and Americus is described at a price of 106 900 dollars. It features four day capacity for cotton seed and a fully modern design with five gin plants connected, including four in and out, making it a notably complete facility in the state.
The contract for the erection of the Suda School annex of the Methodist Church in Dawson was set at 7740.35 dollars, not including furnishings or church improvements. A thunderstorm struck Mrs Sage White's barn in the southern Dawson area, lightning set it ablaze and it burned, stock and wagon destroyed while livestock escaped.
The annual campmeeting at Shingle Roof campground in Hearm county begins Thursday night August 20 with locals preparing to tent and attend. Prominent preachers from Griffin, Atlanta, Jackson, Thomaston, Jonesboro, Stockbridge and Jenkinburt will join the effort led by Dr J H Bakes, the district presiding elder, with other pastors listed as speakers.
Civil engineers have reached the main line near Griffin and are surveying eight branches of the Central for improvements. The project aims to straighten bends, remove curves, and enhance the route between Atlanta and Savannah. A new survey along a line north of Griffin plans to extend progress toward the city, with expectations of substantial upgrades under new management.
Griffin on August 9 saw Fred Farris, bookkeeper for the Griffin Growers Company, struck a heavy blow to the head with a billiard cue by Walter Jeffries of the LaGrange bar team that played here Saturday. The injury required several stitches after doctors treated him. Farris says he received a telephoned message from his brother asking him to hurry home to play at Talladega Monday. He alleges Jeffries called his brother a vile name. Jeffries claims Farris cursed him.
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