Taylor County Fair Opens Exhibits Across Departments
Taylor County fair entries showcase farm products and livestock with awards for best displays, including top prizes for home raised crops, best animal exhibits, and premium ribbons. Rules require exhibitor ownership or lease of judged displays and set ground rules for animal entries and space charges.
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Taylor County
CTC TS
Rerra
Poultry Department
The
Fair Association
Girl's Story May Send Jim Looney to the Gallows
Athens August 13. The Jackson county grand jury began examining the case of Jim Looney charged with the death of his wife after a coroner's inquest. Investigators seek motive and question a 16 year old sister of the deceased while recalling Looney's tumultuous marriages and earlier life in Georgia and Tennessee.
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Jim Looney
Athens
Maysville
Jefferson
Jackson County Superior Court
Willie Marlowe
Chattanooga
Looney
Grand
Atlanta
Looney’s
Georgia
Tennessee
Loone
Old Town
Fan Sailors
Demi-Monde
Jackson
Lou Vickery
Fairburn
Ney
The
Oil Company
Miss Marlowe
Ollie Marlowe
Loones
Chatta
Nooga
Protracted Services Begin At Crowell Church Sunday
Rev. W. C. McGill to lead a series of meetings at Crowell church in Panhandle starting Sunday at 11 oclock. The notice frames a broader narrative of Rev. Looney and a series of marriages and deaths linked to alleged suspicious circumstances and court challenges dating from 1907 to recent years.
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Crowell Church
Rev. W. C. McGill
Panhandle
Macon Battalion Heads to France in World War I
Three Macon Georgia Infantry companies are ordered to prepare for transport to France as part of the first National Guard contingent joining the expeditionary force. Departure date unspecified, with reports that the units may convert to machine gun companies and leave Camp Harris for the 42d Division concentration camp soon, possibly next Wednesday.
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Macon
Second
Georgia Infantry
France
Georgia
Camp Harris
42D
Watson's Jeffersonian Loses Second Class Mail Privileges
Macon Georgia August 13 officials report the Postmaster General revoked Tom Watson's Jeffersonian mail status as second class matter under postal laws invoked from the espionage act. Postmasters at Thomson Savannah and others blocked issues while awaiting a final decision. The government cites draft law attacks and incitement as grounds, foretelling the paper's potential permanent removal.
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Macon
Tom Watson
Thomson
Savannah
United States District Attorney
Washington
Postoffice Department
Department
Jeffersonian
Talbotton Editor Chosen for Georgia Officers Camp
Jones Perryman Jr., a Talbotton attorney and editor of the Talbotton New Era, is among 582 Georgians selected to attend the Fort Oglethorpe officers training camp starting August 27. He will edit the paper from the camp for several months while remaining connected to his newspaper.
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A Jones Perryman, Jr
Talbotton
New Era
Georgia
Fort Oglethorpe
Red Cross Meeting Set For Tomorrow Afternoon
Red Cross members and interested individuals are invited to meet at the Presbyterian church tomorrow at four o'clock in the afternoon for a scheduled gathering.
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Red Cross
Presbyterian Church
Bright Prospects For a Good School This Fall
A school board and council announce careful teacher selection for the coming fall and spring terms at Butler Male and Female College. They will visit the school twice a month, undertake repairs to improve facilities, invite country patrons to inspect the school, and urge prompt action to enroll children and cooperate with teachers and council.
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Butler
Farmer of Schley Invents a U Boat
Marvin Williams, a Schley county farmer, claims to have invented a submarine that remains upright, submerges via movable fins and planes, and surfaces when propellers stop. He demonstrated a model for Congressman Charles R. Crisp and plans a larger craft and Washington, D. C., visit to present to the Navy.
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Americus
Chattahoochee
Marvin Williams
Schley County
Navy Department
Williams
Charles R. Crisp
Congressman Crisp
Washington, D. C
Ford Cylinder Reboring and Bearing Specialists
To Ford Owners. We offer mobile auto work unique to this area with re boring Ford cylinders and bearings. All bearings are manufactured in our shop at Montezuma Georgia by E F Rickerson and Son.
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Ford
E. F. Rickerson & Son
Montezuma
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Iits and
Queen of
Olive Anderson
Gainesville
Buford
Campbell County
St Louis
Watson
A. Jones Perryman, Jr
Farmer
Schley
Navy
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