Trustees Laud University Report and Chancellor Hill
The board of trustees released a comprehensive report praising Chancellor Hill for his administration and detailing recommendations across departments. It commends the English department under Professor R F Park, calls for more staff and a new gym, criticizes tutor appointments, and endorses a stronger library and bulletin system. The board also notes disciplinary praise, building plans, and a forthcoming stenographer for the chancellor.
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Athens Galancy
Board of Visitors
Board of Trustees
Hill
Wilte
State College of Agriculture and
Weehanic Arts
R F Park
Tus
Hugh Sturges
Department of Agriculture
Boara
Beard
FB Chapmen
Morena
Profregor
J. W Hendricks
University Bulletin
Julie Howell Cobb
Athens
Brantley A. Denmark
Clarke County
Stanley
Roy J . Patton
Marietta
WH Davenport
Manly Vigor Book Promises Health Advice
An advertisement claims a book on private chronic disease and sexuality offers detailed information on nutrition, treatments, and remedies. It promises free delivery by mail to interested readers, urging requests via a sealed envelope to a Atlanta address.
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United States
Young Man Skinner Trial Ends in Mistrial at Americus
Walter Skinner, accused of assaulting an imported machinist brought to replace striking workers, faced a grand jury in Americus. The jury hung, the court discharged them, and no conviction followed. The strike of forty machinists remains unresolved after three weeks with foreign workers unsettled and some returning north.
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Americus Gai
Walter Skinner
Beachgard
Skinner
Kere
Americas Light Infantry Camps at Bainbridge June Sixteen
The Americas Light Infantry camp will depart by special train Tuesday morning for Bainbridge to join the annual Fourth Georgia encampment. A court officer presentation of an 80 gold purse honored the unit for service rendered, amid a period of unrest including a May 204 incident with armed negroes and a trial yielding nearly 1000 in fines.
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Americas Light Infantry
Bainbridge
Americas
Georgia
Sumter
Unita
Andersonville
Missionary Society Meeting Underway in Dubli Ga
The annual meeting of the Woman's Missionary Society of the South Georgia conference of the Methodist Church convened in Dubli with Mrs G W Matthews of Americus presiding. About 100 delegates attended as sessions began yesterday morning in the Methodist Church, with devotional exercises planned. Rev M A Morgan will preside for the day and Dr Young J Allen, famed missionary to China, is scheduled to preach Monday night.
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Dablia Gagune
Womans Vilegionary Society
South Georgia
Methodist Church
Dublin Education Board Chooses Miss Whittaker for Miss Hightower’s Post
At a Dublin board meeting on June 16 Miss Maggie Whittaker of Milledgeville was elected to teach at Dublin public schools, taking over the grade of Miss Ruby Hightower who declined reelection. Whittaker, a graduate of Girls Normal and Industrial School Milledgeville, is pursuing studies at the State Normal School Athens. The board also set the Dublin schools to open September and close December 20, with the spring term starting January.
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Miss Whittaker
Hightower
Dublin
Board of Education of
Maggie Whittaker
Milledgeville
Ruby Iightower
Girls Normal and Industrial School of
State Normal School
Athens
Dismissal in Claudia Moore Infanticide Case
In Columbus the case of Claudia Moore, 19, arrested on infanticide charges, was voluntarily dismissed after a thorough investigation deemed the charges flimsy. Moore returned with her father to their Chattahoochee County home.
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Claudia Moore
Columbus
Chattahoochea County
Family in court seeks custody of granddaughter in Columbus
The Wallar family case in Columbus asks habeas corpus to grant George Wallar possession of his granddaughter, a fourteen year old. Beulah Bhattie faces questions of fitness while a police court case against Mrs Shattle for assault and battery ends with a settlement. The court trial is set for Monday with further hearings noted for Tuesday.
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Columbus
Speria
George Wallar
Beuleh Bhattie
Shattle
Waller
Referee to Hear Chapman Case in Georgia Hearings
Brunswick Ga June 16 special judge Alfrel J Crovat will hear Chapman of Haslehurst and opposing creditors in a case tied to financial compromises at 40 cents on the dollar. The proceedings involve a planned settlement among merchants and creditors with details pending in Macon area references.
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Chapman
Brunswick Ga
Alfrel J Crovat
Dank Ruutes
Rt F
Sth
Hares & Chapman of
Haslehurst
Peabody Adds 3500 Endowment Gift To Georgia Fund
The University of Georgia alumni endowment gains a sizable boost as George Foster Peabody sends a 3500 donation via a New York mailed check. Chancellor Hill expresses gratitude and notes the gift should attract further philanthropic support. Peabody visits Athens for the centennial events, meeting local officials and observing Georgia educational efforts.
Deaths hit multiple veterans and citizens in Georgia towns
Obituaries from Augusta and Jonesboro report General Gardner a West Point graduate and Mexican War veteran dying at seventy eight in Memphis Town local veteran W B Stewart of Jonesboro dies after illness. Sam Davitte of Rockmart dies of consumption near home after Phoenix winter. Lelle Hearn of LaGrange and EsGrange Ga resident also noted in terse notices.
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Wative
Augusta
Memphis
William Montgomery Gardner
Gardner
Uiitary Academy
West Point
Mexico
Scott
Contreras
McClellan Beane
Cherubusco
States
Highth
Georgia
Jed Hire
Manassas
Hieles
Stewart
Jonesboro
Fayetteville
OT Derney
Athinta
W Cousing
Davitte
Rockmart
Sam Davitte
Phoenix Arizona
Teraina
Lelle Hearn
LaGrange
EsGrange
Tspielia Heern
Ve Latrange
Athens sermon by Rev Dr Palmer draws large crowd
In the university chapel at Athens a crowded audience heard Rev Dr Palmer of New Orleans and Dr Willingham of Richmond Va preach eloquent sermons. The baccalaureate addressed the divine nature and the awareness of God making the Unknown God a focal point, with lamentations on human dependence and the search for truth.
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Athens
University Chapel
Palmer
New Orleans
Willingham
Richmond
Sermans
Jesus
de Archuteus
W Mitchell
Pericles
Tarsuy
Damascus
Arabia
Tonis
Ledee
Paula
God
Rome
Germany
Vana
The Divine Image in Man and the Call to Worship
The speaker argues conscience and aesthetic sense reflect God endowed traits guiding toward Him. Affections arise from childhood memories, nature, and human bonds, all pointing to God through revelation in Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit, who sanctifies desire into true worship beyond mere symbols.
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Isha
Yal
Homer
Avery
Remsinger
Sven
Tawell
Eulf
Picticla
San Fe
Eli
Walla
Mnit
Jesus Ghriat
Stagard
God
Kitmenut
Garden of Eden
Goa
Jacarinte
Jesus
Greece
Earth
Christ
Father
Bon
Ana
Crosa
Mercer President Praises Athens School in Centennial Year
Dr P D Pollock, Mercer University president, will travel to Athens to hear Judge Speer and deliver Mercer greetings to the University of Georgia in its centennial year. He lauds the 106 year history as a unique southern educational fact and notes alumni plan to place a purse on the altar of their alma mater during the celebration to inspire broader deeds.
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Macon
P D Pollock
Mercer University
Athena
Athens
Judge Speera
University of Georgia
Pollock
Wsotus
South
Emory
Mercer
Sunday in Macon Churches
In Macon on June 18 several services featured farewell messages and sermons. Rev 41 A Jenking preached his departure from East Macon Baptist Church as he moves to be pastor in Publin og. The Macon church showed large attendance and growth during his tenure. Rev S K Winn of Petersburg Way preached at First Presbyterian. Baptism occurred at Second Baptist with Rev Mr Pressly briefly supplying the pulpit. Rev Julien Rodgers in Atlanta handled pulpit duties at Dr Broughton White’s vacancy roaming Europe. Rev M A Jenkins spoke at the Lounge Men Christian Association event.
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Macon
A Jenking
East Macon
Publin
Baptist Church
S K Winn
Petersburg
Second Baptist Church
Mr Pressly
Julien Rodgers
Atlanta
Broughton White
Divine
Europe
M A Jenkins
Loung Mena Christian Associaton
Rev Carter Delivers Sixty Sixth Anniversary Sermon in Macon
The sixty sixth anniversary of the colored First Baptist Church of Macon was celebrated with services. Rev E R Cutter of Atlanta preached the morning and night sermons. The church is among the largest in the state and recently rebuilt. Rev SifhsT Floyd of Augusta, Sunday school missionary for the American Baptist Publishing Society, preached this afternoon.
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Macon
E R Cutter
Atlanta
Sifhst Floyd
Augusta Sunday School
The
American Baptist Publishing Society
Ninth annual Robert Emmet Club picnic in Macon Beech Haven
Wewa notes from Macon recount the ninth annual Robert Emmet Club picnic at Beech Haven on June 8. The report also mentions Frank Moseley en route from Africa, a mistrial in a whisky sale case, funeral for Mrs Amerson, Mount de Soles academy exercises, and various local notes including sermons and personal visits.
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Wewa
Macon
Macon Ga
Robert Emmet Club
Beech Heven
Emmet Club
Frank Moseley
Africa
London
America
Moseley
Wise Dillard
Chattanooga
City Court
Dar
Cass
Lafayette Tilley
Mra Amerson
Mount de Soles Academy
Cora Wynn
Vr J
Fegum
Atlanta
Aca
Mary Evans
Warren
Graves In Two States Stand as Coffins Reclaimed
Shelved details tell of coffins taken from graves and moved between states. Mrs Sims claimed her husband’s remains and ordered reburial in Waco after a planned interment in Cusseta, with three coffins and grave markers transported and returned.
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Columbus Galern
Nad
Hichee
Taco
Bros
Cerund
Bia
Alsa
Cerry
Cusseta
Sims
Chattabooche
Rey
de Nour
Barly
Bey
Hovenia
Waco
Jandfair Widow Reaches Eighty in Tiny Town
Mrs Nancy Cochran of Georgia notes Jandfair who lived in the early township era is buried after reaching eighty. The account recalls the town’s first settlers, the old stage routes, creek lands, and pioneer life with mentions of Avesta and Gochrans.
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Jandfair
Anitain Arid
St Will
Beta
Stroud shoots Moxley in self defense in Swainsboro
Swainsboro June 16 Special Bipot north of here John W. Stroud shot and killed JT Moxley his nephew after a long family feud. Stroud says Moxley fired first with a pistol, Stroud used a shotgun loaded with bird shot. Moxley died instantly. Both men were respected in the community.
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Swainsborore
John W. Strovud
Moxley
Prisoner Seeks Escape From Warg County Sheriff
Sheriff Waycross Ga reports a message directing the arrest of W A Hosks under arrest for marrying a brother twice, with Wing Lois Reed charged with carrying one time more than allowed. Authorities could not locate the parties as they had fled the area.
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Waycross Ga
T. “Oo McMellan
Warg County
W A. Hosks
Brother Mane
Wing Lois Reed
Unclear text about Brunei and Birmingham rail issue
Fragmentary OCR text mentions Brunei and Birmingham rail terms and a potential vow or plan. Limited readable names and dates prevent clear facts or outcomes.
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Chancellor Hill
Wilam U. Slaton
W Sanford
FREE
Pirie
Atlanta, Gu
Tury
Surse FO
Woman’s Missionary Society
Dubli
Board OF Education
Mie
Indian Spring
Jof Macon
Peabody
Chancellor Hall
Gadune I
University of Georgia Alumni Endowment Fund
Morning Mail
New York
George Foster Peabody
the University
Chanvilur WU
Hig
Edward R Hodgson
Nia Ald
Hon Oserr S Straus
Ndt
Cpportunis
Lucy Cobb Institute
Douglas
Mobile
Ala
Hile Jatter
Bill
DR. Palmer
Orleans
Rev Carter
Ilah
Centraman
Jehovah
Essig Bros
Arenas
Popular Outfitters
Whitehall
Trust Company OF Georgia, Equitable Building
Texas
Thor
Stroud
Brunswen
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