Judge Speer Rules Draft Law Valid under Thirteenth Amendment
Col H P Wallace to act for local board as Jeffersonian magazine case faces mail denial. Judge Speer upholds draft law stating military service is not slavery and compares Congress powers to send armies beyond seas with building railroads and canals. Albert Jones and John Story seek habeas corpus, arguing select draft law unconstitutional. government to audit discharge exemptions.
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Speer
United States
Panama Canal
Confederate Veterans and Sons of Veterans Urge Slavery Legacy Reassessed
A letter argues that Confederate Veterans and the Sons of Veterans fail to maintain traditions of slavery and that nations do not pension slaves. It contends that naming, memorial sculpture, and awarding tribute should not entrench a slave era.
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Confederate Veterans
Sons of Veterans
White man killed by eastbound freight train near Musslewhite farm
A white man about 55, who repairs umbrellas and traveled from Butler to Reynolds, was struck and killed by an eastbound freight train near J. W. Musslewhite's farm. The engineer and crew say all possible precautions were taken. The man’s identity was listed as Black, from Athens Georgia, found in his pocket. Bishop Warren A. Candler is to preach at Talbotton next Sunday at 11 AM drawing visitors from the area.
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J. W. Musslewhite
Butler
Reynolds
Athens
Warren A. Candler
Talbotton
Backbone of Anti-Draft Fight Has Been Broken
Attorney Guytj McLendon voices split views on the Watson selective draft case and its related mail exclusion matter. He condemns anti-draft rhetoric while opposing Watson in one case and supports him in the other, underscoring a torn stance in the unfolding legal fight.
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Emory Speer
Tom Watson
Watson
Atlanta
Mt. Airy
Guytj McLendon
McLendon
Jeffersonian
Tom Hardwick
U. S. Survey Party in Butler Last Week
A U S Coast and Geodetic Survey party led by Geo D Cowie worked in Butler last week to determine latitudes and longitudes between Macon and Columbus using primary traversing. The effort supports War Department topographic maps for railways highways irrigation and military needs with star observations for accuracy.
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Geo. D. Cowie
U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
Department of Commerce
Butler
Macon
Columbus
War Department
Cowie
Coast and Geodetic Survey
Brunswick
Atlanta
Savannah
Raymond V. Miller
Casper M. Durgin
Miller
New York
Durgin
New Hampshire
W. Mussetter
Ohio
A. J. Byington
Georgia
P. A. Peyton
Virginia
G. Munn
Taylor County Fair Promises Largest Georgia Event This Year
The plea urges local merchants and businessmen to promote the Taylor County Fair and to encourage rural residents to bring more goods than last year, aiming to boost attendance and offerings in this Georgia region.
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Georgia
Local draft board postpones second call notices
The Taylor county Georgia Local Board reports postponement of August 21 and 22 examinations by order of the Provost Marshal General. A past discrepancy in quotas prompts purge of the first call to determine exact needs before a new draft.
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Taylor County
Georgia
J. R. Beeland
O. T. Montfort
Taylor
Butler
Red Cross Meeting at Wesley Sunday
The Wesley community hosts a rare Red Cross event with Hon. W. A. Ellis of Atlanta headlining a Sunday afternoon talk on Red Cross work and goals. Sunday evening Ellis joins special Red Cross exercises at Butler Methodist Church, open to all.
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Wesley Community
American Red Cross
W. A. Ellis
Atlanta
Red Cross Society
Red Cross
Ellis
Butler Methodist Church
Red Cross Funds Seen Focusing on Relief Work
A local notice clarifies Red Cross donations with a claim that under one percent is used for collecting. It states that a $10 donation leaves about $9.90 for relief items such as ambulance wagons bandages medicine after collecting expenses.
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Red Cross
Negro Wanted Here For Murder Arrested At Buffalo
Zach Smith, alias Eugene J. Felton, was arrested in Buffalo New York on murder charges connected to the killing of Jim Montfort. A requisition will bring him to Butler jail for trial at the October term following county indictment from August 1914.
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Smith
Augusta
Taylor Superior Court
Eugene J. Felton
Buffalo
New York
Beeland
This
Jim Montfort
E. J. Pool
Reynolds
Butler
Taylor County Sunday School Convention at Mount Pisgah
County workers and Sunday School officers gather for the Taylor County convention at Mount Pisgah Church on the 23rd and 24th. Delegations are expected from many Sunday Schools with talks on new methods and helpful suggestions. Daisy Magee, Elementary Superintendent of the Geo Sunday School Association, will be a featured speaker.
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Taylor Cow
Pisgah Church
Counday Sunday School
Asery
Deugg County
Daisy Magee
Elementa
Geo Sunday School Association
Magee
Gin
U. S
First New Bale Come to Town
The first new bale of cotton marketed in Buttem arrived Tuesday August 21 brought by farmer J C Greathouse who grows land for I F Peebles. The bale weighed 314 pounds classed middling and ginned at J W Phillips gin. Purchaser was C W Bazemore proprietor of Bazemore warehouse. Last year the first bale arrived August 16 by J M Haywood at 16 cents per pound.
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Buttem
J.C. Greathouse
I. F. Peebles
Greathouse
J. W. Phillips
C. W. Bazemore
Bazemore
J. M. Haywood
Feed Mill To Be Built At Rupert In County
Messrs J. T. Cochran and A. F. Harvey have bought a No 2 Gruendler feed mill for chopping velvet beans hay corn and other cattle feed. When finished late in the fall the mill will have capacity to supply all animal food in the southern county and will aid farmers and bolster local commerce.
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Messrs
J. T. Cochran
A. F. Harvey
Gruendler
Anti-Draft Meeting at Macon Called Off
Tom Watson's anti-draft gathering at Macon was canceled as delegates statewide were urged not to attend. Sibley of Milledgeville, acting manager for Watson, stated the meeting would not proceed without him.
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Macon
Tom Watson
Sibley
Millegeville
Watson
Notice of Trespass Restricts Hunting on Local Lots
Notice restricts all persons from hunting or entering lots 67 68 and 69 with a warning of vigorous prosecution for violations. The fragment mentions a Spring cleaning promotion for Waters Bright and a cleanser product, but details are unclear.
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Waters Brgth
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Col. H. P. Wallace
Speer forTtore
Jeffesonian
Thomson
Gover Ment
Taylor County Fair
Wesley
N. Y
Zach Smith
Mount Pisgah
Rupert
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