Lawyers Leave for Mount Airy
A half dozen Macon attorneys travel to Mount Airy to argue before Judge Emory Speer in a U S court case testing the right of railroads and freight haulers to raise lumber rates two cents per hundred pounds from Georgia to Chattanooga. The dispute, filed May 27, has been argued in several places and sent to the Interstate Commerce Commission for interpretation. The Mount Airy hearing centers on an injunction and will attract leading lawyers from across the state as observers.
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By & C
United States
Interstate Commerce Commission
Southeastern Freight Association
Georgia Saw Mill Association
Lasue
Mount Airy
Nothing Done on Schedules
General Passenger Agent J C Haile of the Central Railroad conferred with Macon’s schedule committee about train requests from business firms. He said adding trains was not feasible and that Athens favored the present timetable. The chamber will present a report and plan at a joint meeting with the Business Men's League next Thursday at 3 o'clock.
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E. C. Bruffey
Constitution Bureau
Second Street
Stacon
J. C. Haile
Centre Railroad
Macon
Chamber of Commerce
Halle
Chamber of Commerce Committee
Central Railway
Athens
Athény
Central
Champber of Commerce
Ament Haile
Creed Is Issue In This Fight In Augusta
Augusta July 14 Special The city primary election in August is intense with little campaigning public yet candidates and supporters work daily. In wards two through five Catholic and A P A forces clash while Mayor race pits E T Rice and C J Crawford against J L Cartledge and others. The fight centers on Catholic influence and Irish politics, with cautions over AS A involvement and strong local voter pressure.
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Augusta
Auguata
N Bocialist
W M. Dunbar
R EB Allen
J Alien Mette
Mette
Labor
Allen
A. P A
E T Rice
C J. Crawford
E. J. Doris
J L Cartledge
A. P
Welch-Herr-Dunbar
Oliver slated for Root's job
Washington July 14 Officials of the war department expect Robert Shaw Oliver to be favored as secretary of war when Secretary Root retires. Root plans to return to New York to resume law practice after duties abroad as Alaska boundary commission chairman. He may remain secretary of war if unsettled matters delay his departure.
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Washington
War Department
Robert Shaw Oliver
Root
New York
England
American Commission
Alaska
Congress
Philippine
Cuba
Oyster Bay
War
Savannah Approves Six Story City Hall Plan
Savannah officials approved K. W. Witcover of Savannah to build a new city hall replacing the 102 year old city exchange. The six story building will be on the current site and cost $150000 after a selection process from a dozen architects' plans.
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Savannah
K. W. Witcover
City Exchange
Witcover
Protracted Meeting Continues at Cuthbert Methodist Church
Protracted meetings at the Methodist church in Cuthbert Georgia will extend through this week. Rev Harmon, the pastor, will be assisted by Presiding Elder Smith of Dawson.
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Cuthbert
Methodist Church
Harmon
Smith
Dawson
Ball Pitcher in the Pulpit in Minneapolis
H G Crabbill, pitcher for the Columbus American Association team, preached to volunteers of America in Minneapolis on July 14. The event highlights a rare blend of sports figures engaging in religious outreach.
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Minneapolis
Minn
H G Crabill
Columbus American Association
Volunteers of America
Apache Indian kills wife in gambling rage at Rice area
In San Carlos Arizona this July an Apache man named Auffman, a Rice government school graduate, struck his 7 month old child with a club after his wife scolded him for gambling and fatally wounded the woman. He was captured by mounted Indian police.
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San Carlos
Ariz
Auffman
Government School
Rice, Ariz
Chiild
Resignation Withdrawn Over City Printer Talk
In Augusta E B Hook withdraws his resignation after the mayor says it must go before council. The Chronicle owners plan to publish the registry list to spare him embarrassment, and public printing for the year will be completed in The Chronicle. Nearby in Quitman melon shipments soar with twenty carloads sent from Mabbett Grover Meyland Fla area and railroads handling about 200 cars to date.
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Augusta
E. B. Hook
Hook
Chronicle
Quitman
Mabbett & Grover
Quitmay
Meyland
Fla
South Georgia Railroad
Handicraft teaching lecture in Athens GA campus chapel
Mrs. Ida Hood Clark of Nashville city schools spoke at the University of Georgia Summer School in Athens on Handicraft and Elementary Manual Training. She argued handwork builds body and mind, with clay modeling, cooking, sewing, and art as core activities, linking manual training to health, self-activity, and citizenship.
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Aescoe
Athens
University of Georgia
Ida Hood Clark
Nashville City
University Chapel
Ark
Warm Springs is Their Mecca
Columbus July 14 Special The annual convention of the County Officers Association of Georgia will open at Warm Springs tomorrow. Dr John W Nelms of Atlanta is president but sick so Vice Presidents Wiley and Hooper likely preside. Powell of Montezuma, secretary treasurer, travels to Warm Springs. Sheriff Williams and ex president from Columbus will attend.
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Columbus
County Officers’ Association of Georgia
Warm Springs
John W Nelms
Atlanta
C M. Wiley
Macon
Frank A. Hooper
Americus
C. A Powell
Montezuma
Run Springs
Sheriiris
Wiley Willams
Columbus Ga
Columbus Automatic Telephone Company
Phenix City
Southern Bell Telephone Company
Itf
Girard
Averett
Stewart County
Unclear text item about remedies and secrecy
Fragmentary OCR mentions drunkenness cures and family reference but lacks coherent facts or names. The legible parts describe secret remedies and a hint of a daughter, yet no verifiable events, dates, places, or organizations are identifiable.
Five Men Fall From Scaffold At Macon Street Work Site
At Hazel Street in Macon a scaffold about thirty feet high collapsed while five men worked, burying them in brick and timber. Foreman Willis Stevens died en route to hospital, other workers suffered severe injuries including a broken back, fractured skull, and dislocations, with two Negro workers sent home after treatment. The scene prompted ambulances and city officials to investigate the cause as doctors warned Stevens likely could not survive.
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Constitution Bureau
Second Street
Macon
Hazel Street
Robert Williams Church
Hart
Willis Stevens
Elbert Street
Stevens
Miles Wantfelter
Chestnut Street
John Jenks
Elm Street
Jenks
Frank Almstead
Pieasant Hill
Howard Fairfax
East Macon
Wastfalter
Anti-Baloon League to wage state campaign in all counties
Raleigh July 14 The central executive committee of the state Anti-Baloon League met to organize a statewide campaign. Six thousand dollars is needed to fund the effort and general workers will be deployed across the state following the recent convention in the city.
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Raleigh
N. C
State
Prominent Man Under Charges in Savannah Case
Savannah July 14 Special A preliminary hearing before a United States commissioner on the Brinson cigars case opened today. Prominent Savannah resident William L Wilson testified he had received deliveries at his home. Wilson denied buying cigars from Brinson or his wife, who had died three weeks earlier. the commissioner allowed a continuance for legal review. Professor WS Childs elected president of Bethel Male College in Cuthbert. Beaumont crude oil prices declined further with Beaumont crude at 42 cents per gallon and Sour Lake products at 25 cents, reflecting storage constraints and increased production pressures.
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Savannah
United States
Judson B. Brinson
Cuba
WiHam L. Wilson
Bavannah
Wilson
Brinson
Grinson
S B Adams
Childs
Cuthbert
WS Childs
Bethel Male College
Professo Childs
Jonés County
Beaumont
Tex
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Philadia
John
James Dobson
Schuylkill
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G. Y. Tigner
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Columbus Railroad Company
Sam Hudson
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Birmingham
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