Wind and windswept Georgia week features
Readable items show Bronewick hit by a terrific wind storm on Monday. Clay county leader L. J. Gwynn resigns as chairman. Indian Springs camp attendance rises to twenty thousand. Ellaville merchants cut kerosene to eight cents a gallon amid recent runs. Muscogee court disposes of eighty eight divorces and alimony cases on opening day. Postal receipts rise in Atlanta while tragic deaths and damages ripple across the state.
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Muscogee Superior Court
Book Store Sold in Americus by Hightower Family
Americus Georgia August 2 Hightower's Book Store of Americus has sold to James and Frank Buchanan. The store will move to the Buchanan hardware store operated by the brothers. A chain clothing firm reportedly plans to occupy the vacated building. The book store has been a long standing Americus institution for more than 100 years.
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Americus
Hightower
James
Frank Buchanan
Buchanan Hardware
Thomaston Farmer Is Reported Slain
Thomaston Ga Aug 2 The sheriff s office said John Penely 40 a farmer was shot to death by his wife late Thursday but no arrest had been made. Investigators said the woman fired when her husband advanced with a knife and she could not stop him any other way.
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Thomaston
John Penely
Sheriff's Office
Retired Minister Robert Walker Cannon Dies in McIntosh
The Rev. Robert Walker Cannon, 60, a retired Methodist minister who served several South Georgia conference churches for 19 years, died in a Brunswick hospital after an extended illness. A Townsends resident, he last served Glenville, Ga., 11 years ago and had been in poor health for years, confined to his Shellman’s Bluff summer home in McIntosh County.
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Brunswick
Robert Walker Cannon
Brunswick Hospital
Cannon
Townsend
Glenville
Shellman's Bluff
McIntosh County
Entomology Bureau urges cattle owners cooperation on screw worm
The U S Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine has run a screw worm control campaign in this and neighboring counties since the season began. Free benzol and pine tar oil are provided to farmers for animal treatment. Farmers and livestock owners should report all screw worm cases to district supervisor Thomas Luck Jr of Americus.
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U. S. Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine
Thomas Luck, Jr
Americus
Ol Frank Hayne Cotton Leader Dies at 77
New Orleans Aug 8 Colonel Frank Hayne 77 a leading figure in the cotton trade died Saturday at his summer home near Manvilleville La from a heart attack He was a prominent factor in prewar merchandising era and remained a daily visitor to the cotton exchange keeping prices and crop news at his fingertips with reminiscences of his powerful role in trade.
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New Orleans
Frank BR. Hayne
Manileville
Hayne
Cotton Exchange
Roosevelt Jr. Works as Truck Driver in Yeast Plant
Franklin D Roosevelt Jr the son of the President works at National Grain Yeast Corporation in Belleville New Jersey as a truck driver and trainee. He rises at 5 am from Port Washington Long Island to deliver yeast to bakers and enjoys the early starts. He also aids in the laboratory sales and attends conferences while considering a permanent future at the firm after Harvard.
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Belleville
N. J
National Grain Yeast Corporation
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr
Young Roosevelt
James
Long Island
Port Washington
Roosevelt
Harvard
Former Muscogee Police Chief Indicted on Extortion
Columbus Ga Aug 5 The Muscogee county grand jury indicted R S Shirley former chief of Muscogee county police on four counts of extortion alleging he obtained $2 from each of several Black suspects in a July 28 card game raid Shirley resigned last week after a county commission inquiry officers cannot locate him and it is reported he may be in Birmingham Ala The indictment alleges he demanded and received $22 under color of office.
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Columbus
Muscogee County Grand Jury
R.S. Shirley
Muscogee County
Shirleyn
Shirle
Shirley
Birmingham
Ala
Muscotee County
Jackson Sheriff Protects Negro in Georgia
Jefferson, Georgia, August 2. Sheriff J M Culberson refused to surrender a Black man accused of breaking into a white girl’s bedroom to a mob of about 75 men. The sheriff warned the crowd and pledged to uphold the law, keeping the prisoner in custody. A manhunt earlier led to a farm shooting incident as a suspect was pursued and wounded. Mrs Culberson said she did not know the accused’s name.
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Jefferson
J. M. Culberson
Jackson County
Texas newspapermen fined for contempt for disobeying judge
Angleton Texas August six editors and reporters were fined by a district court for violating a gag order on printing testimony in a murder trial. Fines ranged from $100 for editors to $5 for reporters. The group appealed, signaling possible Supreme Court involvement. The judge argued for a balance between free press and fair justice, questioning where the power to restrict the press should reside.
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Angleton
Tex
United States Supreme Court
The
Press
Ed Rider
Chronicle
Frank White
Post
Harry McCormick
Gulf Coast Tick Infestations and Screw Worm Prevention
Dr E W Dove reports Gulf Coast Ticks are common in July to September and infest most wounds on animals, especially in ears. Pine Tar Oil applied biweekly to ears kills attached ticks, repels new ticks, and also prevents screw worm fly from laying eggs to curb infestations.
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E. W. Dove
Screw Worm Control
Atlanta
Gulf Coast
Georgia adds Lawrence W. Rember to Grady School staff
John R. Drewery announces Lawrence W. Rember an honor graduate of the University of Wisconsin will join the Henry W Grady School of Journalism at the University of Georgia as an instructor. Rember will begin his duties at the opening of the 125th annual UGA session in September.
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Harry Moses
Macon
Valdosta
Lawrence W. Rember
University of Wisconsin
Henry W
Public sale on Taylor County land for loan default
The Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation will tax sale under a deed to secure debt executed by Herman 4 Lawhorn to the Land Bank Commissioner dated November 26 1983 and recorded in Taylor County court. The 10.42 acre tract lies in the Twelfth District, Lot 190 north of the A B and C Railroad, with bounds and plat on file, sale on September 3 1935 at the Taylor County courthouse for cash to satisfy the indebtedness.
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Georgia
Taylor County
Herman
Lawhorn
Land Bank
Taylor County Superior Court
Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation
Congress
Court House
Taylor Conty
A. B. and c
M. G. Wells
J. T. Cochran
H. G. Cooper
Grace Hill
W. R. Lawhorn
Federal Land Bank of Columbia
Columbia
South Carolina
C. B. Marshall
Legal sale to satisfy loan on Muscogee land in Taylor County
Florence Smith declares default on a November 22 1924 deed to secure debt to satisfy the loan plus interest and advances. Under power of sale the property described as 100 acres West of Lot 217 in the 13th district originally Muscogee now Taylor County will be sold at public auction at the Taylor County Courthouse on September 3 1935 during legal hours for cash. The line dividing the lot runs North and South and the same property was deeded to W E Griggs by L H Wright and Stella T Butler on November 30 1918. The undersigned will convey a deed to the purchaser as authorized by the prior deed.
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Georgia
Taylor County
Wesley E. Griggs
Superior Court
Towit
Muscogee County
Geordie
W. E. Griggs
L. H. Wright
Stella T. Butler
Florence Smith
C. B. Marshall
Petition for Divorce in Taylor Superior Court
The petition filed by Mrs. G. J. Downs against G. J. Downs seeks a divorce. Notified by publication for service. G. J. Downs must appear at the Taylor Superior Court on the first Monday in October 1985 to answer the complaint. Judge C. F. McLaughlin signs the notice dated June 14.
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G. J. Downs
Taylor Superior Court
Petiton
C. F. McLaughlin
Superior Court
Georgia to Produce 424,599 Tags at State Prison Farm
Third straight year the Georgia 1986 automobile license plates will feature reverse colors from 1935 order with orange numbers on blue. In 1984 style the top reads Georgia at the top and 1946 at the bottom, reversing the current order. Tags to be produced by prisoners at the State Prison Farm, with 424,599 tags planned for next year.
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Georgia
Pris
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Buster) Hartley
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