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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1903
Page
6
Sarge Plunkett argues the South can escape restlessness by concentrating capital and brains on farming. He warns against migration, urges large farming syndicates, modern equipment, better homes, and organized labor to revive Georgia’s abundance and prosperity in agriculture for the 1904 crop season.
The piece contrasts daring leisure with risk in activities like motoring and climbing, cites Alpine ventures by women, warns of danger signals and reckless behavior, and discusses cemetery maintenance triggering state police powers. It references Palmer v Hickory Grove Cemetery and Bransch Cemetery Association, noting courts may enjoin burial grounds if nearby health or air is harmed, while nearby dwellings do not mandate interference without clear proof.
Cordele has grown from a plantation town to a thriving civic center with well kept streets a strong sewer system and educating facilities. The Cordele Sash Door and Lumber Company led by R L Wilson president W L Robuck secretary treasurer and F A Williams superintendent aims to compete with other builders in the region signaling continued prosperity for Cordele.
Tomlin Harris Machine Co founders and machinists of hydraulic wheel presses. The Cor dele plant, established 1890 and reorganized 1895, covers over two acres with foundry boiler shop machine shop blacksmithing pattern shop and office. It operates by steam with plans for an air plant and pneumatic tools. About thirty men are employed.
The Clegg Lumber Company based in Cordele controls three lumber saw units within twenty miles, plus two shingle mills with 50 000 shingles daily capacity. It ships by Beaboard, Atlantic and Birmingham, and Georgia Southern and Florida rail routes, selling wholesale by car load. Manager C Cregg also farms, operating forty four plows and producing five to six hundred bales of cotton yearly.
Cordele trade features Parker Willis & Co as the leading wholesale grocers and provision dealers. The firm, established in 1898, traces its lineage through Wills & Fayne to the current business occupying a store and warehouse on the Seaboard Albany and Northern and the Atlantic and Birmingham lines.
Cordele Sash Door and Lumber Company leads regional manufacturing with planing mill and factory for sash doors and blinds. They operate a three acre plant with electric light, stock of half a million feet dressed timber, and employ seventy five. They ship cotton mill columns nationwide and serve ten counties with groceries and meats via Armor & Co. The Tomlin-Harris Machine Company is famed for hydraulic wheel presses and locomotive repairs. Officers include RC Harris general manager RR Harris secretary Fred Hard superintendent. Tomlin longtime president recently died.
In Cordele, GG Cutts, leading auctioneer and real estate dealer, presents abundant opportunities in farm, timber, and citrus land. He notes a shift of growth to the south, predicting many intelligent settlers will relocate here, boosting prosperity with solid foundations and local expertise.
The Hutchinson Lumber Company, successor to Hutchinson Lumber and Supply, operates two mills with 82,000 feet daily capacity and controls output of four more mills totaling 100,000 feet daily. They also manage three shingle mills and two lath mills, plus planing mills with 20,000 feet daily each. Under manager J W Byrd, the firm serves northern eastern and western markets with a policy of reliability in major dealings.
The oldest Cordele agency Cobb Bros and a partner firm promote the exclusive agency and reliable protection for commercial and industrial development. Representing Aetna Insurance Company of North America Liverpool London and Globe Firemans Fund Philadelphia Underwriters Springfield and St Paul, they offer prompt loss adjustment and responsible indemnity. The brothers are skilled underwriters with growing annual demand.
The Chicago Record Herald notes Miss May Goelet storia to the duke of Roxburghe will transfer about 40 million in stocks and property to England. It details a long public table of American dowries totaling 208 million, with many titled recipients and cash sums, and compares this union to Consuelo Vanderbilt and the duke of Marlborough in social attention.
Reproductions from Burne-Jones Mueller Bouguereau Van Dyck LaBells and Correggio. The Betrayal of David Northcutt. By Lollie O Bell the tale of 4 Mountain Christmas. A Ghostly Camp. By Guy Boothby. A well known sea writer furnishes an imitable conceit for boys and for grown ups.
By Beulah R. Stevens and Dr. R. J. Massey the page offers inexpensive gift ideas for parents that please, plus features on Old South customs, plantation and town Christmas celebrations, a new serial Under the Rose, a pithy editorial with holiday notes, the Literary Page on holiday books, and Mary E. Bryan’s department with Christmas letters from the South.
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