Purchase approval for Georgia forest lands by national commission
Washington January 17 special report that the national forest reservation commission led by Representative Gordon Lee of Georgia approved purchasing 44 757 acres of forest land across Georgia Alabama and North Carolina with 30 437 acres in Habun county Georgia at an average price of 7 95 per acre. The list of owners and acreages includes John Lochbrie Ransom and Lomax F A Hull Oak Mountain Lumber Company Vandiver Anderson Farm er Rafter Holden Hamby Whitmire Rabin Orchard Company Apple Val and N company Lafayette Wal l Rabin Bald apple company Lahden Hamby Whitmire J H Johnson Hamby A J Hamby V Hamby Martin Simpson DL M Rogers A J Billingsley J A Heed J Owens J J Ramey F L Norcop W G Russell J E P McCall and many others totaling 32 035 acres in Gre ene county South Carolina and numerous other named owners in the territory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Corrigan, Jr
Washington
National Forest Reservation Commission
Gordon Lee
Georgia
Alabama
North Carolina
Habun County
John Lochbrie
Ransom and Lomax
F. A. Hull
Oaky Mountain Lumber Company
Vandiver, Anderson & Farmer
Rafter, Holden, Hamby & Whitemire
Rabin Orchard Company
Apple Val. and
N. Company
Lafayette Wall
Rabin Bald Apple Company
Lialden, Hamby & Whitmire
J. H Jonnson
C. Hamby
A. J. Hamby
V. Hamby
Martin & Simpson
DL. M. Rogers
A. J. Billingsley
J. AL Heed
J. Owens
J. J. Ramey
FL . Norcop
W. G. Russell
J. EP. McCall
E Watkins
W. Bruce Dayly
W. J. Watkins
William Nichols
W. Holden
J.C. Powell
J. EB. Ure
N. Rouletter
T. J. Adams
J. M. Adams
W. OT
Furton
Chas
Nathan
J. W. Smith
JS Carter
Julius Ramsay
Mrs
Letha Kell
UU. Mealor
B. Johnson
D. Price
D. Len
Sv. Wee
D. Hams
K . Williams
Taylor
Oscar Swalford
Philips
J. C. Cannon
Ter Page
Lil. Mmery Carvey
W. G. Mckay
J. A. Turpin
A. J
Marcus Lee
J. S. Bleckley
B. H. Atkins
Believing Wife Dead He Remarries Twice in Error
Brownstown Ind January 17 Eldridge Emerson 80 learned his first wife is alive after believing she died fifty years. A pension examiner said his wife had applied for a pension. Emerson, whose third wife is living, has sued for divorce. He served in the federal army in Alabama during the Civil War and once received a letter from his brother claiming his wife died in a Vermont hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brownstown
Ind
Eldridge Emerson
Fromm
Emerson
Alabama
Vermont
Boys Find Baby In Pasteboard Box In Brooklyn
In a vacant Brooklyn lot on a January afternoon, about four dozen boys playing football discovered a naked four days old baby inside a pasteboard box. They released the strings, found the infant, and a passerby policeman took it to a hospital. The baby cried half an hour later and may live.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Brooklyn
January 1913 warmer than 1912 in Atlanta
Weather summary for Atlanta notes January 1 15 average temperatures are 16 degrees higher than last year. Normal January Atlanta is 42 degrees, while last January averaged 11 degrees below it. Forecast calls for rain today and cooler afternoon and Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weather Bureau
Atlanta
Negro Jubilee Bill Doomed to Defeat in House
John Corrigan Jr. reports from Washington that the emancipation exposition bill carrying 250000 dollars for the emancipation semi centennial celebration was recommitted to the industrial expositions committees chaired by Thomas Heflin of Alabama. The committee opposes the measure and it is unlikely to be heard again this season despite Senate passage urged by Senator Bacon. Representative Fitzgerald of New York moved to refer the bill to Chief Ali’s committee, over protests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Corrigan, Jr
Washington
Whic
Thomas J. Heflin
Alabama
Bacon
Senate
Fitzgerald
New York
chhefAli
Immigration Bill Passed by House in Turbulent Session
Washington January 17 The Burnett Dillingham immigration bill with literacy tests passed the house after six hours of parliamentary turmoil. The measure faced strong opposition over the certificates of character for migrants lacking such papers. A final Bartholdt motion to recommit failed 70 to 149. Old Gunmaker Dies in Mobile. Andrew N. Spear aged 73 Confederate veteran dies at home after founding a Selma gun works and later serving in the U.S. customs service. Townsend resolution to probe Crow Indians of Montana passes Senate without opposition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Burnett-Dillingham
House
Bartholdt
Missouri
Conference Committee
Mobile
Ala
Andrew N. Spear
Selma
United States Customs Office
Townsend
Wickersham
Montana
Senate
Renewed Demand for Dictionary Repeats in Ad Insert
A newspaper appeal extols the New Modern English Illustrated Dictionary urging readers to avoid common word mistakes like angle vs angel and stationery vs stationary. It cites certificates clipped from The Constitution to show public interest and invites visitors to examine the books at the Dictionary Department to verify claims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C&m
Dictionary
Worsham Honored at National Science Council Convention
Professor W M Worsham of Atlanta the state college of agriculture has been named secretary of the Council for the Advancement of Science a major national group. The next convention will be in Atlanta next December. Over 1 000 members attended the last meeting in Cleveland Ohio. Governor Commutes Boys Sentence. Governor Brown on Friday commuted the eight month chain gang sentence of two Missouri boys found guilty of stealing four sugar cane stalks from a Decatur county farmer freeing them. The boys home is Missouri and their parents were unaware of the case. A Missouri minister helped secure their freedom. Insurance Department After Spiegel. The Georgia Department of Insurance issued an ultimatum to the Georgia Medical Company an unincorporated concern operating from the Austell building. Max Spiegel offers 25 cent monthly certificates claiming free medical care and medicine in sickness. Spiegel denies operating an insurance company and has hired Attorney Hudson Moore to resist efforts to shut him down. Insurance Commissioner Wright will seek prosecution by Attorney General Welder. Money for State s Teachers. The state will pay 65 percent of last year s salaries to Georgia school teachers around February 1 about 1 600 000 to 14 000 teachers. The 1912 appropriation was 2 500 000 with about 35 percent already paid. Clerk J A Northcutt will prepare a statement for warrants drawn on the treasury. Due to a constitutional amendment corporations may pay taxes by September 1, reducing future teacher delays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. M. Worsham
Atlanta
State College of Agriculture
Council For the Advancement of Science
United States
Cleveland
Ohio
Brown
Decatur County
Missouri
Georgia
Florida
Insurance Department
Spiegel
State Department of Insurance
W. A. Wright
T. S. Welder
J. A. Northcutt
State Department of Education
Mother and children with two hearts found in Easton
In Easton on January 7, Dr James Morgenstern reports a family where the mother Mrs Burton Perkins and her three children Ann Allen and Doris all possess two functioning hearts. Physicians confirmed the condition with one heart on each side of the chest. The family is reportedly healthy, and a child will debut for examination before the Northampton County Medical Society at its next meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Easton
James Morgenstern
Burton Perkins
Ann
Allen
Doris
Local Hero Dies Aiding Flood Sufferer in Covington
Andrew Weger a houseboat resident on the Ohio River died while trying to rescue a waterbound mother and infant from a partly submerged home. He rowed them to safety before losing consciousness. the boat and a crew battled a fleet of coal barges as rescuers saved the mother and child, Weger's body never recovered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Covington
Efort
Andrew Weger
Ohio
Weger
Lfe
Children Ask Mayor to Make Greer School Chair
Four hundred pupils from Davis Street School petitioned Mayor Woodward to appoint Council member John J. Greer as chairman of the school committee. Alderman A H Van Dyke was offered the post by the mayor, but declined for business reasons. The mayor noted Van Dyke’s resignation not yet accepted and promised to consider the request and seek a new Davis Street School building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodward
John J. Greer
A. H. van Dyke
Julia Riordan
Davis Street
Afth
Greer
Miss Riordan
van Dyke
Southern Publishers Take Trip to Panama
New Orleans January 17. After a two day convention the Southern Publishers association and the Southwestern Association of the Associated Press elected officers and adjourned About thirty editors and their wives will sail tomorrow on the steamship Arenas for a Panama trip Guests at a luncheon at the Country club the day included A F Sanford Knoxville Journal and Tribune FL W R Hinman Jacksonville Times Union and William Clemens Birmingham News Sanford Hinman Clemens were named president vice president and secretary treasurer for their groups Barbes Thompson Warner and Toomey were elected to leading posts in the AP division and Texas Oklahoma and Arkansas division respectively The two organizations will meet in Mobile next year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Southern Publishers’ Association
Southwestern Association of the Associated Press
Panama
Country Club
Publishers ‘Association
A. F. Sanford
Knoxville Journal and Tribune
FL. W. R. Hinman
Jacksonville Times- Union
William Clemens
Birmingham News
J. R. Barbes
Mobile Register
J. M. Thompson
New Orleans Item
Harry T. Warner
Houston
Texas
Mobile
Ala
Parcel post too much for this postmaster
Branchville New Jersey January 17 Burdened with an increase in business since the parcel post law began the postmaster Warren C Hurch today sent his resignation to Washington authorities He has held the office many years and after seventeen days of extra packages said he is not the man for the place now.
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Branchville
N. J
Warren C. Hurch
Washington
Hurc
Underwood Typewriters for Rent at 52 North Broad Street
Office listing noting Underwood typewriters available for rent at the Underwood Office located at 52 North Broad Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Underwood
North Broad Street
Judge Maddox resigns from Rome Home judiciary circuit
Judge J W Maddox of Rome known statewide and judge of the Home circuit resigns effective February 1 for business reasons. Governor Brown will appoint a successor with candidates including G R Hutchens Herm Wesley Shropshire R A Denny and R M W Glenn. The Rome circuit covers Floyd Chattooga and Walker counties. Underwood Typewriter office offers stenographers.
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J. W. Maddox
Rome
Home Judiciary
Brown
Maddox
G. R. Hutchens
Herm Wesley Shropshire
Chattooga County
R. A Denny
R. M. W. Glenn
Lafayette
Walker County
Mose Wright
Congress
Floyd
Chattooga
Walker Counties
Emergency appropriation to fund Wilson protection
Washington considers an emergency appropriation of 3000 dollars to pay for Secret Service protection for President elect Wilson until his inauguration. This action reflects early congressional measures to secure presidential safety ahead of the upcoming transition.
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Washington
Secret Service
Wilson
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W. Z. Turner
Mgr
Fairfax
C.” Maier & Berkele, Inc. Gold and
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Gossif
John W. Maddox
John Greer
Underwood Typewriter
Loy
McVeagh
Jellico Lump
Piedmont Coal . Company
Trust Company OF Georgia
Equitable
Pryor Street
Tterbury Syste Digies
Atterbury
Cloud-Stanford Co
Peachtree Street
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