Troup County Fair Opens Next Tuesday in LaGrange
The Troup County Fair begins next Tuesday in LaGrange Ga with liberal cash prizes for crops including oats rye barley peas alfalfa and more. Exhibits feature farm products poultry handmade crafts and new buildings for farm displays plus daily horse racing and free attractions drawing crowds from surrounding counties.
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LaGrange
Troup
Troun County
Hugh Diver
Guammense
Hung
Sheen
A’ Holmes
A 7 Abraham
Taldwell
Cams
Howard Wooding
A Fincher
Mary Nix
Carrie Nis
Little Gardeners Prize Winners At Atlanta Garden League
The branch garden league No. 1 of the Atlanta and Suburban Home Garden league met at the Anne Wallace annex Friday at 3 30 with eighty children present. A chrysanthemum show and bird box exhibit, created by boys for money prizes, highlighted the event. Prizes went to Harold Hollowell Herman Cook Marie Warren Ola Belle Cullum for the bird boxes and flower exhibit. Twenty five children competed for flower prizes. Mass Prentica spoke on Atlanta birds, showing a Dodson bird box. Elizabeth Hayes was elected registrar and monthly meetings are planned at the Anne Wallace Annex on Luckie Street. Civic workers teachers parents and club women are invited to attend.
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Branch Garden League No. 1
Atlanta and Suburban Home Garden League
Anne Wallace Annex
Harold Hollowell
Herman Cook
Marie Warren
Ola Belle Cullum
Mass
Prentica
Atlanta
West End
Elizabeth Hayes
Beaufort Matthews
Ann Wallace
Home Garden League
Anne Wallace
Luckie Street
School Children’s Day Planned by Local Executive Committee
The executive committee led by chairman Bob Key and members John Faver Vernon O’Neal Nat Pike and H W Caldwell promote Friday and Saturday November 6 and 7 as School Children’s Day.
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Bob Key
John Faver
Vernon O'Neal
Nat Pike
H. W. Caldwell
Negro hero saves women by shoving auto off track
Brunswick Georgia October 21 a negro named William Houston saved four prominent Brunswick women by pushing their stalled car across a railroad crossing as a fast freight train bore down. The engine died just as the car mounted the rails. The women were frightened but unharmed.
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Brunswick
William Houston
Crossie
Houston
Georgia farmers urged to order nitrogen-setting bacteria
Commissioner JD Price announced Georgia farmers can save seven eighths on nitrogen-setting bacteria by ordering free from the agricultural department. The department will sell inoculants at 25 to 26 cents per acre for legumes including hairy vetch crimson clover burr clover alfalfa and alsire. Farmers are urged to plant these crops and inoculate seed immediately with 25 cents per acre to receive directions with each order.
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JD. Price
Georgia
Department of Agriculture
Price
Agricultural Department
Thaw's Sister Arrives at Cumberland Island Estate
Mrs George E Carnegie formerly Miss Margaret Thaw sister of Harry K Thaw reached Dungeness Cumberland Island this week to spend the winter with Mrs Lucy Carnegie. She came from Pittsburgh on a special train with three cars including a Pullman and 26 trunks plus maids and servants.
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Brunswick
George E. Carnegie
Margaret Thaw
Harry K. Thaw
Dungeness
Lucy Carnegie
Cumberland Island
Carnemie
Pittsburg
W Troy Kelly Buried In Monticello Georgia
W Troy Kelly of Louisville Kentucky died Wednesday at Johns Hopkins Hospital Baltimore. His funeral was held at the local Methodist church and burial followed at West View cemetery. He was a Georgia law graduate, former Senate clerk, and recent financial editor for The Courier Journal and The Louisville Times. He is survived by a Louisville sister, Monticello brother, and several half siblings in Monticello and Florida.
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Monticello
W. Troy Kelly
Louisville
Johns Siopkins
University of Georgia
University of Virginia
Rome
Senate
Georgia
Louisville, Ky
Courier-Journal
Louisville Times
Petrie
Louisville Ky
E. Clyde Kelly
First National Bank of
J H. Kelly
Barron Kelly
Sam Bruton
Fort Myers
Fla
Martha Kelly
Mary Kelly
Monticcllo
Millionaires flock south to winter Brunswick resort
October 21 Brunswick Ga Special The first visitors of the season arrive tomorrow to the millionaire resort at Jekyl Island Edwin Gould and associates travel by rail Commodore Bourne of the New York Yacht Club leads a party aboard Mc Bourne's Randsome yacht The season opens a month earlier and is expected to be the largest in the resort's history.
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Brunswick
Avdeky Island
Edwin Gould
Vaw
Commodore Bourne
New York Yacht Club
Mc Bourne
Jeks
Tobacco Habit Easily Conquered
A New Yorker author Edward J. Woods promises a three day cure for tobacco or snuff habit with health benefits. He claims calm sleep clear eyes good digestion and restored vigor after nicotine is cut from the system and offers a free pamphlet in reply to written requests.
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Edward J. Woods
New York City
Hank
Haa
Georgia Florida Fair Closes in Valdosta After Success
The Georgia Florida Fair in Valdosta closed after five days of strong success with broad exhibitor variety. Attendance matched last year, peaking at five thousand on Friday and again tonight. Many top displays will move to Macon for the state fair, including Hertford cattle from Red Pebble farm Ashburn and bulk poultry exhibits. Lowndes county earned two strong fairs with the Hakiar fair preceding.
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Valdosta
Macon
Ashburn
Hertford
Lowndes
Georga
Mother Snatches Baby From Fire Too Late to Prevent Burns
Valdosta Ga October 31 Spemaly Vera Ruth Cowart infant daughter of Mr and Mrs J W Cowart of this city was fearfully burned yesterday when she fell from a rocking chair into the fire The child s face head and right arm fell into the coals The mother snatched her from the grate but the burns are not yet known to be fatal.
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Valdosta
Vera Ruth Cowart
J W. Cowart
Col Grayson Speaks for Waycross Elks in December
Waycross Georgia will host memorial exercises for the Elks Lodge with Colonel W. L. Grayson of Savannah delivering the memorial address in December. Hengevald will read Phantopsis at the Savannah lodge exercises.
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Col
Grayson
Waycross Elks
Waycross
W. L Grayson
Savannah
Savannah Lodge of Elks
The
Eagles
EE Hengevald
Brunswick Masons Honor N H Ballard in Georgia
Brunswick ga October 31 specials The two Brunswick Masonic lodges will give a reception Monday night in honor of N H Ballard newly crafted grand master of the Masons of Georgia The affair will be elaborate and attended by all Masons of the city gratified over the election of a fellow Mason as head of the great order in Georgia The reception will mark Ballard s first official visit to a lodge as grand master.
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Brunswick
N. H. Ballard
Masong of
Georgia
Great Order
Ballard
Home of J M McLaughlin Burns at Hogansville
In LaGrange Georgia on Friday night the home of J M McLaughlin in Heronaville was destroyed by fire of unknown origin. The seven room house owned by Mrs W E Lee of Grantville was recently rebuilt after a prior blaze. Total loss estimated at $2000 with partial insurance.
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LaGrange
Georgia Ships Cargoes to Porto Rico from Brunswick
The schooner Orlando Wooten will sail from Brunswick for Porto Rico in a few days with a full cargo of crates and boxes manufactured by the Georgia Veneer and Package company of Brunswick. This is one of the large cargoes ever shipped and includes thousands of crates and boxes for Porto Rico.
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Brunswick
Orlando Wooten Wall
Porto Rica
Georgia Veneer and Package Company
Porto Rico
J T Hill Shoots Self in Breast in Jesup Ga
Jesup Georgia October 31 Special J T Hill shot himself through the breast last night in an incident investigated by local authorities. Two young white men living near Odum were reported as witnesses with uncertain prognosis for Hill's recovery.
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J. T. Hill
Jesup, Ga
JT. Wi
Mad dog scare grips North Augusta in Georgia
North Augusta, Georgia, faces a mad-dog scare as Dr J K Mealing orders all dogs confined until further notice after an alleged mad dog bit a child, Allie May Faulkner, and later bit several dogs before escaping to Augusta across the river. The child is being treated and the dogs are under watch.
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Augusta
North Augusta
J K. Mealing
Board of Health
Allie May Faulkner
Lutheran Synod Sets Next Meeting at Plains Ga
Evangelical Lutheran synod sessions run for two days with speakers including Rev A G Volet D D dean of the Theological seminary Rev A J Bowers of Newberry Rev M J Epting of Summerland. Last night P W Weber of Macon Ga was ordained to the ministry. The next gathering will be in Plains Ga bringing parts of Georgia Florida and Alabama.
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Augusta
Evangelical Lutheran Synod
A. G. Volet
The
Theological Seminary
Columbia, & C
A. J. Bowers
Lutheran School
Newberry
M. J. Epting
Summerland Female College
Summerland
D. C
P. €. Weber
Heavy Meat Eaters Have Slow Kidneys
A noted authority warns regular meat eaters strain the kidneys by building up aric acid which overworks and slows filtration. Kidney-related ailments, headaches, rheumatism, and nervous issues may stem from this. Jad Salts, a grape and lemon acid lithia mix, is advised to flush the kidneys and keep blood pure.
Second suit filed against Macon bank over receivership
In Macon Georgia the US district court heard a second suit against Commercial National Bank after its affairs moved to American National Bank of Macon. Plaintiffs Patterson of New Orleans and Payne of Macon seek a receiver and injunctions while alleging charter violations and risky loans to two directors Jelks and Parker. Patterson holds fifty shares, Payne five, with total stock 000 shares held by various stockholders.
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Macon
Commercial Bank
American National Bank
Mar Eon
United States District Court
Commercial National Bank
Bible Superior Court
A. H. Birdsey
Savannah
Mathews
A. L. Patterson
New Orleans
J. W. Payne
E N. Jelks
T. C. Parker
Jelka
Parker
Patterson
Payne
Grant Succeeds Keen at Georgian Terrace
Robert Lee Grant arrives to become manager of the Georgian Terrace in Chicago, succeeding Albert B. Keen who returns to New York. Grant, long active in hotel trade in Chicago, Cleveland and California, plans immediate improvements to revitalize Terrace valley with details to follow.
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Robert Lee Grant
Chicago
City
Georgian Terrace
Albert B. Keen
New York
Grant
Cleveland
California
Terrace Valley
Boy Accidentally Shot in the Toe at Bulledge
Bulledge Ga October 31 Special William Almand 13 son of Mr and Mrs Wood Almand was hunting yesterday afternoon when his own gun discharged striking his toe The injury is not serious and expected to heal without complication He was roading the gun at the time of the accident
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Bulledge
William Almand
Wood Almand
Lord's Supper Pictures Saved by Judge Pendleton
Judge John T. Pendleton returned from Europe amid wartime peril with two small but priceless pictures of the Lord's Supper rescued from a wrecked luggage shipment. He entrusted one to Dr John E. White and the other to Dr A. T. Spalding, both lifelong friends, promising to keep them in their families as treasured heirlooms.
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Pendleton
John T. Pendleton
Europe
Judge Pendleton
Atlanta
America
John EF. White
Second Baptist Church
A. T. Spalding
White
Spalding
Gather Linen for Soldiers Wounded in European War
The Salvation Army in the United States launches a blue cross program to collect 25 000 old linens for sterilization into bandages and handkerchiefs for wounded soldiers in Europe. Dr Harlow Brooks and other doctors will supervise sterilization and 360 to 400 women will prepare the materials. Brigadier Crawford at Atlanta directs the effort with a New York shipment plan and seeks cooperation from belligerent ambassadors.
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Salvation Army
United States
New York
Hnen
Harlow Brooks
Evangeline Booth
Atlanta
Crawford
Blue Cross Society
Brigner Crawford
Blue Cross Movement
Booth
Washington
Doctor Opens Atlanta Office In McKenzie Building
Special message notes the return to Atlanta for permanent medical practice with offices at the McKenzie building opposite the Candler, Peachtree James corner. The practitioner promises honest safe scientific treatment and cites national reputation as guarantee of care for all, including the ill and poor.
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Ager
Atlanta
McKenzie
Candler
Peachtree and
James Streets
United States
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Robert Smite
South Ave
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Harold Hallowell
Katherine Reeves
Jim Price
Harry Thaw
Brunswick Masons
J. M. M’laughlin
Hogansville
Lutheran Synod
Plains
Macon Bank
Keen
Humphreys
Atlanta Telephone & Telegraph Co
Dr. Hathaway
J. Newton Hathaway
Hathaway System of Treatment
South
DR. J. Newton
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