Dixie Highway Movement Gains in Georgia Counties
A fifty member women’s group forms at Guyton to aid Effingham county on the Dixie Highway drive. Counties from Chattanooga to Atlanta push road work, with Grafton predicting good routes by November via Rome and Dalton. Dalton funds an hotel project and clubs plant trees along the highway with Boy Scout sections named for members.
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Guyton
Effingham
Chattanooga
Atlanta
Grafton
Dixie Highway Association
Rome
Dalton
Georgia
Highway Commission
Indiana
Midigam
Florida
Acroass
Atlantic
Pacific
Central
Miami
Manufacturers
Washington
Dixie Highway
Wold Southern
Federations of Women
Boy Scouts
Work Club Women Plan Dixie Highway Landscaping
Mrs Julia Lester Dillon outlines a Georgia club led effort to conserve native growth along the Dixie Highway from Chicago to Miami. She urges county committees to secure owners’ permission to leave natural plantings, proposes landscape surveys, and favors a unified plan using dogwood and elderberry bands with azaleas and Cherokee rose avoided for practicality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fligpatrick
Dixie Highway
Julia Lester Dillon
Augusta
Irs
Dillon
Ary
Lester Dillon
Georgia
Chicago
Miami
Planting the highway backbone with shrubs and wildflowers
A plan urges mass plantings of deciduous shrubs such as dogwoods elder and sumach along highways to create year round interest adaptable to many soils. Hawthorn holly and wildflowers like goldenrod and susans would enrich vistas, with education and youth involvement to teach transplanting and landscape care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Unes
Boy Scouts
Meumtans
National Geographic Magazine
Marietta Civic League to Hold Big Carnival
The Marietta Civic League stages a city carnival on September 24 in Mari etta. All auto owners may enter a car for the parade with a $1 entry fee. Prizes await the most artistically decorated cars along with a baby show and queen coronation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Civic League
Marietta
Mrs McCall Indorsed For State Regent D A R
Atlanta Chapter D A R endorses Mrs. Howard McCall for state regent at the forthcoming state conference. Letters from Georgia chapters and D A R members urged placing her name before the conference. Mrs Joseph Madison high regent and Mrs A A Little executive board chair note strong support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard
McCall
Georgia
McCailte
Atlanta
Joseph Madison
A. A. Little
Suggestions for Conservation Chairmen
Create an increased interest in good roads in your community. Learn the condition in your state of the roads on public lands, state and federal. Know the laws governing the road management in your city, country and state. Are the laws adequate? Is your road appropriation being intelligently administered? Are your roads properly maintained? Are your road officials trained workers? Gain knowledge of road construction with attention to forms best fitted to conditions in your state.
Seattle schools adopt citizenship graded lessons
In Seattle Washington the schools use citizenship as a grading criterion for each child. A copy of Hila Lyman Cabot's A Course in Citizenship is given to every grade teacher. Arthur Dunn's The Community and the Citizen is used in eighth grade across all Seattle schools.
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Seattle
Waxh
Hila Lyman Cabot
Arthur Dunn
Coffee County Tax Values Show Strong Increase
Douglas, Ga September 4 Special. Coffee county tax values show an increase of about 372000. Douglas is adding 2600 feet of 6 inch water main and has added a double cylinder deluge chemical fire engine to the fire department as part of a broader upgrade signaling a better day ahead.
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Douglas
Coffee County
Six Silos in Crisp County Progress in Georgia
Crisp County reports six silos for storage with mix of concrete and stave construction. The latest, built this week on the arm of GL Williams by R0 McCord agricultural agent and J A Johnson Crisp demonstration agent, backs Williams as he fattens cattle for beef using silo forage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cordele
Crisp County
GL. Williams
R.0. McCord
Georgia Southern and Florida Railway
J. A. Johnson
Crisp
Williams
Decreasing Trouble From Baltimore American
Fonple says her troubles are growing less. In what way she explains the change a fireless cooker fills the kitchen while her husband sits in the parlor. A lighthearted domestic vignette appears in the humor column from Baltimore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore American
Fonple
United Daughters of the Confederacy Officers Named
A list of Georgia chapter officers is published with roles such as president vice president recording secretary and historian. Names include Mrs W D Lamar Mrs Franklin Mrs Walker Mrs Vereen and others with addresses in Macon Canton Moultrie Atlanta Athens and tracking notes for membership certificates and fund contributions.
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ZL Fidapatrick
Thomasville
J. E. Haya
Montemuma
W. L. Davis
Albany
Howard McCall
Atlanta
H. H. Merry
Pelham
Trox Bankston
West Point
W. L. Hines
Calhoun
General Federation
Robert Daniel
Griffin
Mias Hoan
Woodberry
W. D. Lamar
Macon
Gaz Fiat
Bi MM. Franklin
Tempilic
Serulon Walker
Canton
Pesident
W. C. Vereen
Moultrie
Secretayy
J. M. Hayes
Mon
Emma Gi Correeponding
Seecreta
Duncan Brown
Arlington Place
Wemurer
Rise Wative Shielses
Rom Regintrar
Howard M'Call
Peace de Leon Avenue
Atlaritator
James ‘J. Pixon
Mildred Rutherford
Athens
3. W. Reeves
Barevsille
Georgia Room
Confederate Museum
Inlehmond
Mra
HL. Neabitt
Ag Wa
Appeal to Chapters by State Treasurer
Joyous thoughts turn to convention season for the U D C with the twenty second UD C convention in San Francisco October 1923. Treasurer Mrs Tate warns chapters to remit both general and state dues before September 19 to avoid delinquencies and ensure a Georgia reportable balance.
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UD. C
San Fransisco
Cal
Golden West
Mra. Tate
U. D
Treasury
Georgia
Thomanville
Hastman
Thomasville
Thormasville
Mattie B. Sheibley
Georgia Division
Changing Ideals in the New South Year
The piece argues for adjusting social ideals in the South as the new year begins. It cites a clergyman’s letter about two young women seeking work in Atlanta, contrasting factory and department store wages and status. It calls on the United Daughters of the Confederacy to champion dignified roles for women and address class perceptions to strengthen the region’s industrial maturity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brotherhood of Man
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Daughters of
Geogia
Atlanta
Daughters of the South
South
Relics of Winnie Davis Presented by Mrs Lamar
Mrs Lamar of Macon presented to the Winnie Davis memorial hall several Winnie Davis relics at a Laura Rutherford chapter Daughters of the Confederacy meeting in Athens. Items included a Bible from Winnie Davis’s mother and a velvet hand painted invitation from the Athenaeum to Davis in 1887. The display will be kept in a glass cabinet at the Winnie Davis memorial hall as cherished souvenirs of Dixie’s heroine.
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Winnie Davis
Germany
Athenaeum
Athena
Athens
CSA
Cheee
Dixie
Lamar
Ud,g
Alwo
Stane Mountain
Monuname
Miadaraain
Defense of Ex Governor Slaton by Judge Adams in Georgia
Savannah judge Samuel B Adams defends Governor Slaton amid public vilification over Clemeny of Frank. Adams argues Slaton had lawful power to commute, cites constitutional provisions and precedents, denies improper motives, notes broad public support for clemency and lists prominent supporters. He appeals to law and decency to counter mob mentality.
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S. B. Adams
Savannah
Slaton
Georgia
John M. Slaton
Frank
Slater
Brown
Tan
Supreme Court of Georgia
Supreme Court
Ft Ad
Canley
United States
District Court For
Northern District of Georgia
Supreme Court of the United States
Teehied Canadentic
New York
Becker
Crank
Rosser, & Branton
Messrs
Busineas
Staton
Consolidated
Atlanta
Goveanoer Slaton
Slai
Wood Daith
Harris
Gavr Enor Harris
Andrew J. Cobb
Athens
Spencer R. Atkinson
Atania
Pottle and Powell
Court of Appeals
Cumming
Black
Boykin, Wright
W. Kck. Miller
Augusta
Colonel Brewster
Mr. Heyman
Solicitor General
A. ¢. King
Robert C. Alston
J. J
Spalding
Hollins Randolph
Z.D. Harrison
Hooper Alexander
Judge Pardee
United States Court of Appeals
Macon
A. L. Miller
William H. Felten
Joe Ti01
Hall
Joel Branham
Rome
Bishopg” Candier
Nelson and Treese
John D. Mell
Marietta
Wake Smitch
New York Sun & Paper
Wake Smith
Sinton
Macon J Telegraph
Thestate
Hart
Teckleas
Cardices
Foto
Leity
Samuel B. Adams
Negroes to Discuss Recent Crime Wave Labor Day Event
Ten thousand negroes will celebrate Labor Day on Morris Brown campus with baseball games and amusements. A 3 PM meeting will discuss a wave of crime among the colored community and how to check it. Speakers include Bishop J. Flipper and W A Fountain among others. B R Holmes to MC.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morris Brown University
Jackson McHenry
Bishop J. & Flipper
W. A. Fountain
Keys
FR. Simg
C. M. Tanner
A. Ailer
Horace Willane
H. H. Oliver
B. G. Dawson
J. A. Hadley
H. L Johnson
M. J. Davia
W. Dawson
Anias Brown
J. M. Robinson
B.R. Holmes
The
Holmes Institute
Cordele Tigers Spotted in Police Court Docket
Cordele Georgia on September 4 reports spotters have tracked down blind tigers. Eleven cases were docketed in the police court against alleged tigers as a result of the week long crackdown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cordele
Lime Combats Tuberculosis Health Claim Ad
An antique health advertisement cites a 1912 NS New York Medical Herald article noting lime assimilation as a key to tuberculosis resistance. It touts Eckman’s alterative, says it contains no opiates or narcotics, and urges readers to ask their druggist for Eckman Laboratory products in Philadelphia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iro van Glenon
NS. X. Medical Herald
Pat Eckman
Oder Direct
Eckman Laboratory
Philadelphia
Found Cures for Pellagra Promises Testimonial Letter
A letter from Mrs. Harvey of Ua-Mrs. 8. W. Sprusell claims her child recovered from pellagra after using Baughn’s remedy. It urges readers to obtain a free Pellagra book from American Compounding Co. Box 2003, Jasper, Alabama, with a money back guarantee if not cured.
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Baughn
American Compending Co
Jasper
Ala
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