Acon Chosen for Georgia Rifle Practice Week
Colonel George T. Cann announced Georgia state encampment for rifle practice will be at Macon from June 7 for one week. Each military company will send five men for rifle practice and instruction in camp duties, guard mount, and drill. The Savannah shoot offers 3900 in prizes with teams from several states expected for the Interstate shoot in August.
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Savannah
George T. Cann
Georgia
Macon
Cann
Prayed Over Man He Shot in Tennessee Standoff
Florence Alabama May 16 Special Tom Gilbert was killed by Deputy Sheriff Dave McCroy near St Joseph Tennessee just over the county line Details say Gilbert attacked McCroy after an altercation over a supper drawing Gilbert wounded McCroy and a struggle ensued Gilbert was wounded in a knife clash and McCroy shot Gilbert McCroy later surrendered in Lawrenceburg Tennessee and prayed with the dying man
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Florence
Ala
Tom Gilbert
Dave McCroy
St. Joseph
Tenn
McCrey
Gilbert
MacCrey
McCroy
Lawrenceburg
Mobile to Fight the Pests Addresses Mosquito Extermination
Mobile adopts health department ordinance to combat mosquitoes. City council approves kerosene based control program and an appropriation to fund enforcement and execution of the measure.
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Mobile
Nobile
Ale
Poase of Health
Champion Phi Kappa Debate Winners at Athens May 16
In the Phi Kappa Literary Society preliminary for the big debate Go lucke wins first and Bond second amid four contestants in the chancellor's lecture room. The motion favored is that the Fryellanna ship subsidy bill serves U S interests. Prelim prizes are 15 and 10 dollars with the final at commencement Saturday night. Equitable Life offers three scholarships via Atlanta agent for senior class members and selects WN P Park S S H Blackshear and R L Blackwell for the opportunity to study insurance in New York.
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Athens
Phi Kappa Literary Society
Messrs
Golucke
Bond
United States
Phi Kappa
Equitable Life Assurance Company
Atlanta
New York
Messrs. WN. P Park
S&s
Excitement at Rayville Sheriff Requests Troops
Governor wired Sheriff W N Traylor to protect a prisoner as a mob forms in Rayville Louisiana. He ordered Captain Stubbs company of militia from Monros to Rayville by special train to uphold the law and prevent lynching.
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Baton Rouge
Heard
W. N. Traylor
Rayville
Stubbs
Monros
Traylor
HH is charged with larceny arrest of A M Taylor in Macon
A M Taylor, a young solicitor for New York Life through R H Plants agency in Macon, was arrested by Detective Amerson on a warrant charging larceny of 165 dollars, alleged to be a premium. He waived committal, posted 500 dollar bond, and was treated at the city hospital for a hurt foot. He awaits trial in Americus on another case with a 30 dollar bond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. M. Taylor
Macon
New York Life Insurance Company
R H. Plants Agency
Amerson
Justice Dorsett
Taylor
Americus
Public reception planned for H. Clay Evans in Chattanooga
Citizens of Chattanooga will host a non political public reception for H. Clay Evans when he returns home late next week. Democrats lead the effort with Mayor Chambliss presiding to honor his pension bureau leadership and London consul general appointment.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
H. Clay Evans
Fivans
Pension Bureau
London
Chambliss
Resignation Shakes Huntsville Railway Company
Huntsville Alabama May 16 Special A L Sweeney president of the Huntsville Railway Light and Power Company has resigned and returned to New York A new president will be elected and until then the business of the corporation will be in charge of Robert E Spragins attorney for the company
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huntsville
Ala
A. L. Sweeney
Huntsville Railway, Light and Power Company
New York
Robert E. Spragins
Observance of Virginia Day by Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Observed in Norfolk Virginia on May 16 with a steamer excursion to the navy yard shipyard at Newport News and Fort Monroe A trip to Chesapeake is contemplated next week and the convention will begin business tomorrow
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Norfolk
Brotherhood of Logomotive Engineers
Steater
Navy Yard
Newport Jews
Fort Monroe
Cahriesto
Knoxville Men See the Show at Charleston Expo
Five hundred Knoxvillians arrived by special train to attend the exposition and West Indian trade conference. A business delegation toured the grounds as speeches by F. Wagner, J. R. Johnson, and Averill outlined plans to boost trade between interior western and southern cities and the West Indies. Delegates from Cincinnati New Orleans Knoxville Richmond and other cities joined the sessions with harbor excursions scheduled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
Knoxville
Knoxvillians
West Indian
West
South and West Indies
Annual Episcopal Diocese Council Opens in South Carolina
In Georgetown at Prince George Winyah Colonial Church the 2th annual council of the South Carolina diocese convenes under Bishop Capers with a large clergy and lay attendance. The central issue is whether women may vote, a matter debated for years without resolution.
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Episcopal Diocese of
South Carolina
Columbia
S. C
Diocese of
Prince George Winyah
Georgetown
Capers
LaGrange Youth Pinson Dies After Self-Inflicted Wound
LaGrange May 16 Special Mitlard Pinson aged about 18 to 20 died this afternoon at about 1 o clock from a self-inflicted wound. The bullet entered the left breast, was not probed, and so could not be located. His mother and brother were present. He had lived in LaGrange about a year, keeping books for E R Bradfield. The body was taken to Newnan, his mother's home, for interment.
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LaGrange
Mitlard Pinson
Pinson
E. R. Bradfield
Newnan
Picnic at Bennett's Shoals in Lawrenceville Honor Visitors
A grand picnic Tuesday at Bennett's Shoals seven miles south of Lawrenceville, held by R L Webb of Athens in honor of Miss Sadie Avary and Miss Mattie Haralson of Atlanta. Amusements included card playing, target shooting, boat riding, fishing and music with chaperones Mr and Mrs Cvu Born and a list of attendees.
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Atlanta
Lawrenceville
Bennett’s Beautiful Shoals
Here
Lawrenceville and Loganville
R. L. Webb
Athens
Sadie Avary
Mattie Haralson
C. Vu
J. W.W. Chapman
Mark Kilgore
Evelyne Hutchins
Sam George
Clara Spence
Tyler Peeples
Blanch Hutchins
C. M Morecock
Misa Leize Vose
W. A. Orr
Misa Kister
Augusta Strike Talks Move to End After Six Weeks
In Augusta Georgia May 16 non union workers sign a petition urging resumption of operations at King mill as unions pledge to stay out until demands are met. The effort seeks to settle the six week old cotton mill strike with non unionists showing willingness to work.
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Augusta
King Mill
Lucas to bore in Georgia dirt near Camp Pinckney
Folkston Ga May 16 Special Captain A F Lucas who discovered Beaumont air wells has been in Georgia prospecting for oil. He secured a lease on 20000 acres near the Okeefenokee swamp and ordered machinery for trial wells. The first bore site is 112 miles from Folkston near St Mary river.
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Folkston
A. F. Lucas
Beaumont
Take
Georgia
Okeefenokes
St. Mary River
Old Camp Pinckney
Lucas
Rose Display At Covington Declared Finest Ever Held
The Ladies' Floral Club of Covington held its annual rose show at Mrs. E. O. Lee’s residence. Prizes went to Mrs. B. O. Lee for artistic design a harp. Mrs. E. O. Lee for most handsome rose group Marechal Neils. Mrs. Owsley for six red roses. Mrs. Lester for six handsomest mealmaisons. Mrs. Clark for best collection of paulucorites. Proceeds added to Confederate monument fund.
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Covington
Ladies’ Floral Club
E. O. Lee
Confederate Monument Fund
IB. O. Lee
Marechal Neils
Owsley
Lester
Eastern Star Lodge Formed in Washington Georgia
Washington Ga May 16 Special The local order of the Eastern Star was organized Wednesday afternoon with officers elected including Worthy patron Mrs Sarah Boyd Sims and Rev Ellison R Cook as worthy patron secretary Mrs M F Sims and treasurer Mrs S T Robins. Thirty four initiated twenty four ladies and ten Master Masons. Another initiation is set for the 28th.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, Ga
Order of the Eastern Star
Sarah Boyd Sims
Ellison R. Cook
Kate Anthony Wilkes
M. FR. Sims
S. T. Robins
May Sims
Tunison
Susie Smith
M. A. Pharr
Fannie Tunison
Adah
Clifford Sims
Ruth
Anna Heard Callaway
Esther
Willie Pratr Massey
Martha
Sarah Anthony
Helecta
Wound Up With a Banquet Alabama Fire Underwriters Finish Business
The Alabama Fire Underwriters Association adjourned after two days of work ending with a log banquet at the Hillman Hotel in Birmingham. John G. Smith was reelected president, M. M. Sweatt secretary, and a resolution condemned brokerage by nonresident agents while endorsing the Southeastern Tariff Association. The meeting discussed taxes, insurance rates, and REC reappointment for Ned R. McDavid.
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Alabama Fire Underwriters
Birmingham
Ala
Alabama Fire Underwriters’ Association
Hillman Hotel
Montgomery
John G. Smith
M. M. Sweatt
State of
Alabama
Southeastern Tariff Association
Southeastern ‘Tariff Association
Ned R. McDavid
McDavid
Insurance
Association
Paying of the Soldiers at Chickamauga Park
Chattanooga Tenn May 16 Special The Seventh cavalry at Chickamauga park has been paid off with a payroll of 15000 dollars When the remainder of the regiment arrives paymasters' headquarters for the south will be established here They are expected to arrive about June 1 For you business man a new city directory for Atlanta is available Miller 29 Marietta
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Seventh Cavalry
Chickamauga Park
South
City of
Pardoned in Blackmail Case for Washington of Colleton
The governor pardoned George Washington a 61 year old Black man once of Colleton county and Augusta Ga. He had been convicted in 1876 of criminal assault and sentenced to 15 years. The pardon followed a blackmail scheme by a former mistress and another man. Washington was released from the South Carolina penitentiary and traveled to Augusta to rejoin his family.
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Columbia
D. C
George Washington
Colleton County
Augusta
Washington
Maher
Calteton
W. P. Burbage
State
Georgia
South Carolina
Burbadge
Burbage
Annie Blount
Mississippi to raze old penitentiary for new state house
Historic project in Jackson will remove the old cell building near the Mississippi State House site. Demolition will use contract labor as convicts stay off the job. Bricks from the structure will be reused for the new insane hospital laundry. The capitol commission plans landscaping and grading around the $31 million state house within six months.
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Mississippi
Jackson
Miss
State House
Capitol Commission
Tolbert Family Reunion in Madison County Georgia
Tolbert family reunion planned for May 22 in Madison County Georgia. Mrs Permella Tolbert aged 84 is noted as the oldest member with six living children and seventy six great grandchildren residing within a small radius of Madison county. Monuments to General Sumter in Columbia planned with possible $25 000 funding from Congress.
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Madison County
Athans
H. N. Tolbert
Tolbert
Georgia
Permella Tolbert
Alabama Tennessee and Missouri railroad charter filed
Will form line from Gadsden to Sheffield Florence Alabama then Tennessee toward St Louis to reach coal and iron lands NW of Gadsden. Incorporators from New York and Gadsden include Chap man Vannatwert Brantley Cushman Elliott Christopher Boyken Lee. Capital stock 30 000 and ore coal lands purchased for 60 000 and 70 000 respectively. Old Corea furnace near Gadsden bought to supply wheel iron.
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Montgomery
Ala
Gadsden
Sheffield
Florence
Alabama
Tennessee
St. Louis
Southern Car and Foundry Company
Greasy Cave
Corea
Cordelia Childers Surrenders From Nebraska
Raleigh May 16 Special A search for Miss Cordelia Childers who left Hickory last month ends as she writes from Sterling Nebraska begging her uncle to excuse the departure. Also notes Alice Register’s acquittal on a $350 theft from letters, and related NC college and public school events including Pullen Memorial Hall dedication and cadet reviews. An outbreak of smallpox in Union county and other North Carolina notices are summarized with local officials involved.
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Sterling
Nebraska
Raleigh
N. C
Cordelia Childers
Hickory
Nebr
Alice Register
Vineland
Winston
State Agricultural and Mechanical College
Pullen Memorial Hall
Gardner
United States Army
Port Cassell
Wavermor Aycock
Cleveland County
Charlotte
Masonic Temple
Union County
Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows
Greensboro
R. W. Murray
Grand Lodge
State Normal and Industrial College
North Carolina
Corporation Commission
Agricultural Department
Herbert H. Brimley
State Museum
United States
Nyden
Pitt County
Delta planter denies cotton acreage drop in delta
Jackson Mississippi May 16 Special Hon LeRoy Percy prominent attorney and planter refutes reports of a material reduction in delta cotton acreage this season, stating no more than 500 acres differ from last year and that idle land is rare due to labor and advances. He notes seed costs rise though and minor land idle rate remains low. Only about 6 percent of available delta acreage is under cultivation. A Gold Fellows Lodge formed in Waco Georgia with officers elected.
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Jackson
Miss
LeRoy Percy
Delta
Percy
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