Farmers Union Meets at Macon Georgia Division Sessions
National President C S Barrett and Georgia Division officers arrived to open sessions at the city auditorium in Macon on July 21. Mayor Miller Thomas Ayer and Attorney Andrew Lane will deliver welcome addresses with hundreds of delegates arriving by train. Local officials and Bibb County farmers unionists prepared elaborate arrangements as business meetings concluded for the opening of the sessions.
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Macon
C. S.barrett
J. L. Lee
Georgia Division
D. A. Carmichael
R. F. Duckworth
J. T. DeDaniel
Georgia
Farmers’ Union
City Auditorium
A. L. Miller
Thomas R. Ayer
Whisky for youths case ends with fine and stockade
A. Kennedy, a white man, was fined 509.75 and sentenced to 30 days in the stockade by Recorder Broyles for procuring whisky for two youths. He faces a 5000 bond for violating state prohibition law as youths Shockley and Wooten testified a dollar bought the liquor and led to their intoxication.
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W. A. Kennedy
Broyles
Joseph L. Shockley
L. D. Wooten
Kennedy
Georgia House Acts On Liability Bill And Other Measures
The Georgia house general judiciary committee favorably acted on the employers liability bill and a substitute limits recovery by the injured if they contributed to the accident. Railroad counsel opposed the measure while rail interests faced opposition from Hon. Jon Hittell. The committee also reported favorably short bills on criminal assault naming women, constable fees, stenographer salaries, and minor homicide recovery. Railroads faced defeat on a bill to require stopping trains at county seats and on examiner boards. Fertilizer makers urged no change to marking and sale rules as current law stands.
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House General Judiciary Committee
Georgia
Jon Hittell
John D. Little
John L. Tye
Robert c. Alston
General Judiciary Committee
House
Esterday
Vermileermus
House Committee On General Agriculture
McMichael
Marlow
Edwards
Walton
Harry C. Fisher
Atlanta
Harry Hodgson
Athens
Robert F. Maddox
Committee On Appropriations
Milledgeville
University of Georgia
Pee
Georgia School of Technology
Street Car Strike Settled and Health Ad Advice
A large city ends a major street car strike after arbitration and editors urge wider use of common sense settlements. The piece then uses a health metaphor urging Hostetter s Stomach Bitters to settle stomach troubles and prevent a range of ailments.
Georgia Law Debates Fertilizer Labels And Agricultural Funding
The Senate committee on agriculture heard arguments on labeling fertilizers with composition and potash sources, and farmer remedies against misbranding. Discussion covered funding to combat cattle ticks, state veterinarian salaries, and a Griffin park encampment ground use bill. Appropriations for state institutions rose, and education and banking bills faced opposition.
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Senate Committee On Agriculture
R. F Wright
Georgia
Methodist conference closes in Rome Georgia
A large number of delegates attended the Methodist conference in North Rome Methodist church with Presiding Elder Jenkins in chair. A new district board of church extension was formed, chaired by Rev. B. P. Allen of Cedartown, and Dr. John Hammond delivered a German and spoke on education before the conference adjourned in the afternoon.
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Rome
North Rome
Board of Education
Nashville
Tenn
31000 Melinite Shells Destroyed Off Toulon Coast
Toulon July 21 commandeered 31000 melinite shells were removed from ships as their calibres no longer matched French warships. They were taken to sea and sunk two miles offshore in a controlled disposal operation.
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Toulon
Man Fires Twice Wounds Man and Wife in Bystander Case
Augustus Davis, a Black resident of 261 West Mitchell, nearly died yesterday at 10 AM when Walter J. Smith, of 221 Chestnut Street, shot him in the arm as he entered Smith's home with Davis's wife. Smith struck Davis's wife on the head with a pistol shot. she was hospitalized at Grady. Judge Broyles released Smith, while Davis and his wife were bound over and sent to the Tower. Davis posted bond. Officers Norris and Belcher reported the incident to the day police watch.
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Augustus Davis
West
Mitchell Street
Walter J. Smith
Chestnut Strees
Smith
Davis
Grady Hospital
Norris
Belcher
Missing Cashier May Face Death by Own Action
Anderson South Carolina July 21 Bank Examiner Wilson reports Bank of Anderson cashier J T Holleman disappeared Sunday. Shortage is a little over 3600. Banks and financiers send letters and telegrams from near and far. Bank has surplus to cover loss. Holleman’s friends search for him to reassure he will return. His whereabouts unknown and friends fear he may commit suicide.
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Anderson
S. C
Wilson
Bank of Anderson
Holleman
Tess
Suidh
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