Georgia News Summary Brings Deaths and Developments
A weekly Georgia roundup notes Baby Mary Heart Rafel of Manila dying with a heart exposed, Macon police chief widow Mrs Russell E Glenn dies in Miami, and a revival for men at Thomaston near Five Points. Also reported are highway improvments, a fatal mule fall, railway injuries, legal pleas, tax figures, and plans for a central heating plant in Milledgeville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russell E. Glenn
Macon
Miami
Milledgeville
Montezuma Airport Under Construction
Montezuma Ga August 11 construction of an airport for Montezuma is well under way in the Stall ing community about two miles from town. The field is on the Duke farm and the airport is being constructed by H A Ivey and W J Duke local aviators. A hangar is under construction.
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Montezuma
Stpalling
Duke Farm
H. A. Ivey
W. J. Duke
Judge McClellan Is Seriously Ill In Macon Hospital
Macon Georgia August 16 Superior Court Judge W A McClellan remained in critical condition at the local hospital where he is being treated for a stomach ailment and heart trouble. He had been ill at home for several weeks and was moved to the hospital on August 9.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Macon
Superior Court
W. A. McClellan
Macon Hospital
School Superintendents Resign to Take Other Jobs
Atlanta August 14 Two County School Superintendents resign to accept other roles Carroll Long leaves Irwin county to become a boy scout executive in New Jersey Phillip Newborn succeeds him J L Fricks resigns in Dade county to become postmaster at Rising Fawn
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Atlanta
Carroll Long
Irwin County
New Jersey
Phillip Newborn
J. L. Fricks
Dade County
Rising Fawn
Atlanta Declares Dogwood as Official City Flower
The Atlanta Chamber of Commerce inquiry traced the city’s official floral emblem to Mayor Hartsfield. The mayor signed a measure naming the dogwood as the city’s official floral adornment within the last week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce
Atlanta
Hartsfield
Jefferson Man Found Hanged In Georgia Editor Dies At Work
Jefferson Ga Aug 12 Assistant Editor Wade Hampton Williamson 63 of the Jackson Herald was found hanging near the press he supervised for 40 years Sheriff Culberson said likely no inquest Survivors include his widow Mrs Clyde Story Williamson a daughter Mrs Fred Northcutt of Toccoa and two sons W H Williamson Jr a Georgia Tech student back from Europe and Frank Williamson of Bainbridge.
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Jefferson
Wade Hampton Williamson
Jackson Herald
R. M. Culberson
Culberson
Clyde Story Williamson
Fred Northcutt
Toccoa
W. H. Williamson, Jr
Georgia Tech
Europe
Frank Williamson
Bainbridge
Gainesville Gets 15000 Chicks Trade Feed Boost at South's Largest Market
Gainesville Ga August 12 15000 baby chicks from Wallingford Conn arrive to Gainesville the largest southern broiler market per Jesse Jewell who received them He distributed them to local growers the same day A special messenger was sent to keep car temperature at 76 during the 900 mile journey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gainesville
Wallingford
Girl and jail door disappear puzzle in Georgia
Smithville Georgia August 12 police officer Charlie Thompson found a young woman prisoner at jail on a drunk charge who refused to identify herself and then breakfast arrived to discover both she and the jail front door had vanished leaving mystery around her origin and escape.
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Smithville
Charlie Thompson
St Simons Man Inherits Riches From Tyrant Estate
Elizabeth M Horne of Sewickley Heights Pa died Jan 10 leaving a net estate of 4 487 937 transfer tax appraisal shows Three children share equally in income from residuary estate Specific bequests of cash real estate jewelry and furniture were made for the children Franklin Jones Horne of St Simons Island Ga receives 500 000 plus Long Island real estate valued at 234 000 Mrs Madelaine Horne Austin of Catawba Farms Old Westbury Long Island receives 600 000 furniture and jewelry and Mrs Elsa Horne Voss of Monkton Md receives furniture and jewelry
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New York
Elizabeth M. Horne
Sewickley Heights
Franklin Jones Horne
St. Simons Island
Long Island
Madelaine Horne Austin
Catawba Farms
Old Westbury
Elsa Horne Voss
Monkton, Md
Mechanic jailed in Fayetteville kidnap case
J B Hammock a 23 year old Fayetteville mechanic was arrested in a Columbus rooming house and jailed in Troup county on charges he kidnapped Arline Chapman a 17 year old high school student. State Highway Patrol Sergt G C Alexander made the arrest on a warrant by the girl's father C M Chapman of Fayetteville. A car owned by Redwine Brothers Hammocks employers used in the alleged abduction was found parked on a Columbus street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
J. B. Hammock
Fayetteville
Troup County
Arline Chapman
G. C. Alexander
State Highway Patrol
C. M. Chapman
Redwine Brothers
Hammock
Hogansville
President Roosevelt veto requires $868.01 claim from Macon woman
Aug 15 Macon. A veto of President Roosevelt forces former postal clerk Mrs Marijo McMillan Williams of Macon to settle a government claim for 868.01 dollars. While acting as postmaster at Sycamore Ga she accepted a clerkship in Macon and her father received pay for two salaries with checks made out to her. The veto upholds the claim as the record shows two salaries from Aug 24 1924 to Mar 31 1935, making the claim valid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Macon
Roosevelt
Marijo McMillan Williams
Sycamore
Williams
National honor asked for poppy day founder Miss Michael
Athens residents and American Legionnaires urge Washington post office officials to issue a special stamp honoring Miss Moiia Michael originator of Poppy Day. Michael who observes her 70th birthday this week retired from the University of Georgia after 25 years. The day raises funds to aid disabled veterans and was adopted by the Legion in 1920. In 1930 she received the Distinguished Service Cross from the Legion Auxiliary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens
American
Georgians Granted $5000 Death Compensation
Mrs. S. F. Sewell of Vienna Georgia will receive five thousand dollars from the government for the death of her husband. The payment was authorized in a bill signed by President Roosevelt. Sewell, a Dooly County bridge foreman, was killed January 19 1939 by a falling tree cut by WPA employees on the Moccasin Branch on the Wandilla Hawkinsville highway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
S. F. Sewell
Vienna
Roosevelt
Sewell
Dooly County
WPA
Moccasin Branch
Wandilla-Hawkinsville
Ellaville Homecoming Week Planned With August Events
Ellaville Georgia announces Homecoming Week August 13 to 19 to welcome former Schley countians. A Friday basket dinner on the courthouse square August 18 is the highlight, with a brief 11 am welcome program. Mayor S W Miles forms committees to assist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ellaville
Court House Square
S. W. Miles
Quitman County Negro Captured Near Cuthbert Sunday
Georgetown Ga Aug 13 Seven teen year old Daniel Peterson Quitman county negro charged with attempted assault of two white women lodged in undisclosed jail after capture about 15 miles south of Cuthbert Ga A four day search by Georgia Alabama officials highway patrolmen and about 100 posse men ended with his arrest amid high local tension.
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Georgetown
Daniel Peterson
Quitman County
W. G. Gay
Gay
Peterson
Cuthbert
Georgia
Alabama
Prom Page 1 lists Bazemore and McGee families across Georgia
A long lineup of Bazemore, McGee and allied families from Macon Butler Palm Beach Miami Atlanta and Columbus appears on Prom Page 1. The list includes Elsie Bazemore Wood James B McGee Sr Jr Edward McGee and many others with addresses in Butler Macon Adgatesville Pine Mountain and beyond, showing a large social network. The names span numerous households and towns, reflecting a community gathering or reunion snapshot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion Bostick
Macon
Gordon Bazemore
W. B. Bazemore
LeRoy
Bobbie
Cooper
Merrell Wells
Dorothy Bazemore
Butler
Elsie Bazemore- Wood
William Bazemore
Mary Elsie Wood
Harvey Wood, Jr
Palm Beach
Fla
James B. McGee
Albert ‘Baze
More
Miami
J. Lane McGee
Albert S. McGee
J. L. Mc
Gee
Helen Bazemore
Hollywood
J. B. McGee
E Y. Stokes
Emily Stokes
Eamett Stokes
William Childres
Bobby
Billy Childres
Irene Mc‘Gee
Abe Bostick
J. B McGee, Sr
Harold Loyern
James Bazemore
Frances Bazemore
But
Lex C.W. Bazemore
Aiken
Bill Bazemore
Bill Jr
C. M. Bazemore
Bazemore
Carolyn
Gloria Bazemore
C. W. Bazemore
S. C
J. B. McManus
Roberta
Lillian Bazemore
Baldwin
H. 8
Godsfry
Pine Mountain
Tabor
Helen Tabor
A. R. Smith
Louise Smith
P. M. McGee
Eunice McGee
Dorothy I. McGee
Homer King
Lucile King
Harold McGee
Amy McGee
Kathryn McGee
J. S. McGee
Eugene Anderson
Macon Daily Telegraph
Nannie Joe McGee
Ma Con
J. R. Baldwin
Atlanta
C. M. Baldwin
Lester Bazemore
L. N.bazemore
Adgatesville
Ollie Bazemore
B. H. Bazemore
Harol
Carol Bazemore
Louise Bazemore Harper
Rabin
William Harper
Eugenia Harper
Elizabeth Bazemore
Columbus
Margaret J. Bazemore
Lucile Bazemore
Lois and Bertha Bazemore
Alvah Bazemore
Myrtle Wells
Wesley Bankston
Rev. R. ©. Howard
Ellaville
Esther Kemp
Georgia Exports in June Almost Double 1938
Atlanta reports June 1939 Georgia exports totaled 1,696,574, up from 992,727 in June 1938, with imports at 665,681 versus 450,782 last year. For the first six months of 1939 exports reached 8,536,529, against 7,472,476 in the same period of 1938, with tobacco exports rising by 1,818,178 to 4,405,285 dollars and 48,856,881 pounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Georgia
W. H. Schroder
Atlanta Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Great Britain
Feud Turns Fatal as Twiggs Farmer is Shot
In Macon August 15 Dan Floyd a 25 year old Twiggs county farmer was shot to death by his uncle Morgan Floyd about 50 on the Twiggs county farm near Jeffersonville. Sheriff Sam Kitchens reported Morgan Floyd was arrested on murder charges and coroner E B Sauls ordered a preliminary inquest. The fatal shot ended a long family feud tied to a prior altercation between their black workers years earlier. An eyewitness Morgan Floyds 16 year old son said the men had been arguing before the shooting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Macon
Dan Floyd
Twiggs
Sam Kitchens
Morgan Floyd
E. B. Sauls
Floyd
Jeffersonville
Kitchens
Notable Out-Of-Town Guests Attend Georgia Event
No. 2 ran one ter are the order of the day. Distinguished men and women from Georgia gathered as out of town guests. Attendees included Judge Warren Grice, Eugene Anderson, Uncle Joe Neel, Curtis DeLamar of Macon, W. J. McKenzie, Sherman Gardner, Bob Clements of Montezuma, Scott Edwards of Savannah, Rev. Carriker of Sarasota, Clyde Wilson, Price Heard of Cordele, Ben Persons, C. B. Benns, Charles Benna, J. L. Fountain, Ly R. Adams, Thelmon Jarrell, Charlie Stone, H. B. Walker, Julian Edwards, Harold Moore, and Aaron Dreizin of Butler.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren Grice
Eugene Anderson
Joe Neel
Curtis DeLamar
Macon
W. J. McKenzie
Sherman Gardner
Bob Clements
Montezuma
Scott Edwards
Savannah
Carriker
Sarasota
Clyde Wilson
Price Heard
Cordele
Ben Persons
C. B. Benns
Charles Benna
J. L. Fountain
Ly R. Adams
Thelmon Jarrell
Charlie Stone
H. B. Walker
Julian Edwards
Harold Moore
Aaron Dreizin
Butler
Georgia Taylor County W Foy Seeks Dismission Letters
W Foy as administrator of the estate of W L Foy deceased petitions for discharge. The court is to cite all interested parties to show cause why the administrator should not be discharged and receive Letters of Dismission on the first Monday in September 1930. Witness my hand and official signature this 7th day of August, 1999. L PRED Ordinary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia
Taylor County
Rosa Turner
Little Mack Turner
W. Foy
W. L. Foy
L.l
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mary Heart
Rafel
Manila
RPA
Thomaston
First Congregational Tabernacle
Five Points
Jack Watts
Dublin Brick Company
Lumpkin County
Dahlonega
Ellijay
Sam Roberts
Central of Georgia Railway Roadhouse
Seattle
Grady Superior Court
Georgia Department of State
John B Wilson
Ella Handley
Joe Clements
Moultrie
Ben E. Rice
Ft. Benning
City of
Tenth Avenue
Thirteenth Street
Linwood Boulevard
J. C. Watts
Talbotton and
Woodland
City of Columbus
First National Bank of Columbus
W. Floyd Dalton Jr
DeSoto
DeSoto Baptist Church
Claire A. Henderson
Terrell County
United States
Torre
G. L. Spann
Department of Agriculture
Governor Rivers
Alfred S. Bennett
Camilla
Camilla Hosiery Company
B. S. Deaver
Mion Construction Co
C. G. Glover
Belmont Dennis
Covington News
Barbara Page
Washington Seminary
Georgia Girl's
Marshall Lodge
Preston
Abbeville
Flint
Albany
English
Eufaula, Ala
Louise
George Donaldson
Claxton
Russell County
PWA
H. L. Blake
Russell County Commission
J. W. Graham
Jeff Davis County
Satilla Free Will Baptist Church
Hazlehurst
Mr. Joyner
Reporting Service
C.D. Stowers
Way
Cross Sunday
South Georgia
Dallas
Texas
Martha Estes Dimon
Joseph H. Dimon
Roanoke
Ala
Methodist Church
West Point
Calvin Pinkard
Fairfax Methodist Church
T. G. Pound
Monticello
G. V. Cunningham
Evry
Camp Fulton
College Park
University of Georgia
John Dozier Little
Lee County
Leesburg
Atlanta Constitution
Little
Carlsbad
Germany
J. H. Coffey
Clyde Reeves
Reeves
McMillan
Georgia Bar <Association
Savannah Beach
Savannah Bar Association
Cheechee
Atlantic Judicial Circuit
J. L. Tye, Jr
Georgia Bar Association
Tyrus Butler
Griffin
Henry Grady
John E. Drewery
Ed C. Crouse
Drama
Carrollton
Mr. Butler
Griffin High School
Oglethorpe University
Russell Thomas
Americas
Dr. Thomas
F. A. Thomas
Americus
Marine Hospital
Boston
Mass
Louisville
Judge McClellan
ST. Simons
No. 2
L.T. Peed
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