Fort Sells Old Columbus Home Amid Georgia News
Georgia week in review notes move of Hon. T Hicks Fort to a new home and sale of his former Columbus residence. The blotted roundup lists deaths in Milledgeville and Statesboro, police actions in Muscogee and Newnan, welfare and highway patrol developments, regional tax and census notes, Wesleyan college registrations, and a Cuba trip report from Brown Tyler.
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Hon. T. Hicks Fort
Columbus
G. C.' ‘Griswo
Brown Tyler
Fulton County Review
Hopeville
Campbell News
Fairburn
Cuba
Haiti
Santo Domingo
Fulton County
United States
Anneciate
Epworth Conference Reports Alcohol Evils and Resolutions
Delegates from several Americus District Methodist churches met at Dooly Camp Ground for an Epworth Training Conference led by Rev. Alton Davis. They studied "A Methodist and His Church" and "Alcohol and Ourselves" and approved resolutions condemning alcohol, urging church school materials, lectures, cooperation with schools, leisure-program emphasis, and scientific teaching methods.
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Americus
Dooly County Camp Ground
Epworth
Alton Davis
Leslie
Park Smith
G. E B. Clary
United States
Masonic Contest Winners Enter State Competition
Luther H. Lewis of Lewis Ga wins first prize in the Sumter County Masonic proverb contest and will enter his essay in the state contest at Macon. Second prize papers by Cliff Snider F R Coman Jr Harold Sutton and Wiley Hart also advance to the Macon event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Americas
Sumter County
Luther H. Lewis
Lewis, Ga
Macon
Cliff Snider
F. R. Coman, Jr
Harold Sutton
Wiley Hart
Americus to Start Soon on Civic Center Work
Americus Georgia reports work on a 32500 dollar civic center to begin this week. Initial tasks include grading and excavation for the gymnasium and recreational building at the northeast corner of the 1 4 acre site. Grading for the baseball park will follow shortly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Americus
Groom of Month Dies in Crash. Bride Critical
Eddie Calhoun a Ft. Valley plumber contractor died in an automobile accident near Vienna on August 15. His bride of a month was reported critically injured. The couple were en route to Cordelo for the marriage of Calhoun’s brother when the crash occurred. they were rushed to a Macon hospital.
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Ft. Valley
Eddie Calhoun
Vienna
Cordelo
Macon County Plant Expands as Timber Heavily Shipped Abroad
In Oglethorpe Georgia on August 13 the Southeastern Lumber and Timber Company announced a new band mill and increased equipment. The plant now produces about one million feet of lumber monthly and ships much of its timber to Germany. Co managers Rooper Bennett of Riiwata and J Lester Souter of Oglethorpe oversee operations.
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Perry
Highway Patrol of
Georgia
Judie C. FE. Sutton
Department of Public Safety
Monroe County
Telfair County
Oglethorpe, Ga
Macon County
Southeastern Lumber and Timber Company
Oglethorpe
Germany
Rooper Bennett
Riiwata
J. Lester Souter
Tribute to Governor Stephens and Georgia politics saga
The report portrays Governor Alexander H. Stephens as a symbol of charity and virtue, honoring his memory and noting the election of Henry D. McDaniel to finish Stephens’ term. It recounts Stephens’s clash with Judge Cone over alleged traitor remarks, the ensuing duel of words and a violent confrontation, and Stephens’s refusal to seek retribution.
Biographical sketch of Mr. Stephens Confederate VP and Georgia Governor
Born February 11, 1812 in Wilkes County Georgia Stephens studied with the Georgia Educational Society for the ministry but did not enter the ministry. At 24 he joined the Georgia House of Representatives for six years. Elected to Congress in 1842 and Vice-President of the Confederate States in 1861. Elected Governor of Georgia in 1882. he died March 4, 1883 at Liberty Hall Crawfordville in Taliaferro County, a focal point for friends and admirers from Georgia and beyond.
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Stephens
Wilkes
Taliaferro
County
Georgia Educational Society
Georgia
Liberty Hall
Crawfordville
Taliaferro County
Cotton Act Amendments for Classification and Information
The document details amendments to the 1927 cotton statistics act. It adds Sec 3A authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture to classify cotton for producer groups, cover transport and sample costs, and credit proceeds to the Treasury. It also charges the Secretary to publish market information and post price data in cotton regions, with Sec 80 allowing necessary rules.
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Secretary of Agriculture
Pace
Senate
House of Representatives
United States of America
Congress
United States
Treasury of the
Home-Coming and Singing at Society Hill Church
A Home-Coming and all day singing event is set for Sunday August 22 at Society Hill Church near Byron Crawford county. The 122 year old church, long quiet, will host Rev Gideon and Col W D Aultman with other notables who will speak. Attendees are urged to bring companions and a well filled basket for a fellowship day.
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Society Hill
Byron
Crawford County
Congregational Church
Gideon
Col. W. D. Aultman
Americus Man Builds Seven Foot Model Of 1954 World Fair
Americus resident 77 year old Buford Opperman crafted a seven by five by eighty inch mechanical model of a Chicago World's Fair section. The display included a federal building and miniature Georgia and Texas pavilions with electric lighting and a moving aurora borealis effect. Opperman, a night watchman and former sign painter, based the project on astronomy interest and has previously created Indian council house models. he described lighting inspired by Arcturus and showcased the work in Macon and Americus venues.
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Buford Boone
Macon
J. Opperman
Americus
Grand Theater
Georgia
Texas
Mepperman
Georgia Southwestern College
Georgia Academy of the Blind
Mt. de Sales
Georgian missionary to China plans return despite war threats
Rev. W. B. Burke, 78, oldest Southern M. E. Church missionary to China, prepares to sail from New York in October for another term near Shanghai. He has spent about 50 years of service in the Orient, with family roots in Macon and new danger rising as China tensions grow. His son Gordon serves as a U. S. consul general in the region, while others await next steps after summer graduations and business roles in Macon.
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Macon
China
W. B. Burke
Gordon
U. S
Shanghai
Marine Corps
Peat Preservation Corps
Burke
New York
William
New Yor
James
Emory
Princeton
Chin
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Ed. S. Vinson
Carl Vinson
Milledgeville
J. R. Vansant
Statesboro
Georgia Power Company
L. M. Mallard
Robert F. Hicks, Jr
Barnesville
Roberta
Central of Georgia
Dawson
James Mathis
J. L. Mathis
Roy Barrett
J. A. Campbell, Jr
Muscogee County
Haingang
Newnan
College Park
Rockmart
Federal Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Atlanta
Nashville
Tenn
Vincent Baker
Troup County
Dhaingang
Baker
Julia Price
G. Thurston
Butts County
Evelyn Sayers Wilson
State Welfare Board
Muscogee
H. K. Parks
Muscogee Commission
Withur Burke Mann
Alexander Lumber Company
Ellaville
Mann
Richard B. Russell
New Haven, Conn
Minn Wee
Morgan Trust Company
Mexico City
Mexico
Wesleyan College
Sara L. Turner
Abbott Turner
Geo. F. Pierce
Eloise Ainsworth
Malcolm Ainsworth
W. N. Ainsworth
Mary Nicholson Ainsworth
Camp Ground
Laoorter
Butler
Alexander
Republic
J. D. Russ
A. A. Carson W. P. Edards
Mr. Russ
Southland
R. A. Green
Albert A. Cargon
Henry D. McDaniel
Walton County
McDaniel
Monroe
Northern Virginia
Gettysburg
Anderson
Lee
Law
Hood
B. J. Roach
Johnson’s Island
Judge Cone
California
New Mexico
Mr. Stephens
Cone
Alexander Stephens
No On
Cane
Holt
Ness
Society Hill Church
Americus Man
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