Convict Reform Talk At Georgia Joint Session
Georgia prison and county commissioners plan a joint meeting within a week to study the Fulton county convict camps grand jury report. Talks include replacing the Donaldson brothers, creating a convict welfare warden post, and possibly bringing in an outside penal expert as reforms move forward by next Saturday.
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Prison Commission of
Georgia
County Commissioners
Fulton County
County Commission Board
Tull C. Waters
Donaldson Brothers
Donaldson
Maddox
Philip Weltner
Paul McDonald
Commpsalonaia
Southern Railway sells $10 million notes and plans $4 million stock
Washington reports Southern Railway announces the sale of $10 million three year notes secured by its mortgage bonds and a $5 million equipment trust. Proceeds fund shop, yard and terminal improvements plus acquisition of steel rolling stock to boost capacity and support growth.
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Washington
Southern Railway Company
Fairfax Harrison
Harrison
Siance
Eoost
Put Packages Inside Not on Top of Mail Boxes
Postmaster urges the public to place packages inside mailboxes after rain damaged several left atop boxes. He warns the post office will not be responsible for items left on top and promises to take care of packages kept inside.
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Peat Office
Monroe Man Dies From Bullet Wounds In Georgia
Emory Long, 36, died from wounds after Alva Camp shot him near a Monroe town store. The incident drew a crowd. Long claimed the shooting was unprovoked. Camp was arrested, charged with murder, and an indictment followed by bail hearings. Burial set for Good Hope district.
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Emory Long
Alva
Camp
Grand Jury
Long
J L. Long
Frank Camp
Brand
Athens
Good Hope
Armed guards stood over strike breakers in Hancock
Hancock, Mich February 20 Unemployed men brought to take copper mine jobs testified before a congressional committee that they believed the strike was near end and that guards accompanied them from Detroit. They claimed they were kept under guard in bunk houses and that pay and deductions left them unpaid.
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Hancock
Mich
Congressional Committee
Minime Com
Calumete
Christmas Ave
Hilton
Western Federation of Miners
Hus
Tie Charans
Harry Parks
Albert G. Shann
Detroit
Saginaw
Parka
Shawn
Snc
Girl Robbed in Athens Stripped and Beaten En Route to Atlanta
Dorothy Milam, formerly of Athens and now traveling toward Cartersville, describes a robbery by white men after being lured from a friend's home. She was assaulted in a cab on desolate outskirts, robbed of jewelry, and left with facial injuries. She mentions two women named in the crime.
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Dorothy Milam
Athens
Atlanta
Cty
Garnett Street
Cartersville
Funeral for Judge J. F. Foster Draws Athens Crowd
Athens Ga February 20 Special Judge James Flournoy Foster aged 60 long a peace officer and jurist buried this morning as courts suspended and the city mayor and council attended. Foster a bar member and long councilor died after wife passed away a year earlier leaving three daughters and a sister. He ran for magistrate and council many times, never defeated, famed for honesty and service.
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Athens
James Flournoy “Foster
Bar Association
Foster
Law School
the University
Miss Foster
Greensboro
Helen
Annie Foster
John Prater
Missionary Society to Meet in Augusta
The 1915 session of the North Georgia conference Women’s Missionary Society of the Methodist church will be held in Augusta at St James church. All old officers were re elected led by Mrs Wo B Higginbotham of West Point beginning the sixteenth year of service as president.
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Athens
North Georgia
Womena Missionary Society of the Methodist Church
Augusta
St James Church
Mra Wo
Higginbotham
West Paint
Jefferson Primary Date Set for May 6 in County Race
A mass meeting in Jefferson fixes May 6 as the date for the county officer nomination primary. Regul regulations will be drawn up at the executive committee meeting on March 20 in Jefferson. Prospective candidates include HL N Rainey of Winder T Nix of Jefferson Dr I L Allen of Hushton WW Stark and PT Harber of this place. SC Potts the current sheriff will not run again. B H Collier and George E Smith have announced for sheriff and treasurer respectively.
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Commerce
Jefferson
Executive Committee
HL N Rainey
Winder
Nix
Il ¢ Allen
Huscthion
WW. Stark
P T Harber
Potts
H Collier
George E Smith
Polk County Primary Dates Announced for White Primary
The Democratic Executive Committee of Polk County announces the county white primary will be held Saturday May 16. The move, intended as convenient for farmers, sets the stage for many candidates to begin active campaigning across numerous offices.
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Cedartown
Tina
Polk Pension Checks in Polk County Confederate Veterans
Ordinary W G M Sinenons of Polk county has issued pension checks to Confederate veterans in the county. The number of battle scarred veterans is shrinking as the annual pension is welcomed by those remaining.
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Cedartown
WGM
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