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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1914
Page
1
Governor John M. Slaton releases a statement based on official returns showing his lead in county unit votes and popular ballots for the junior U.S. Senate race. He argues the people’s choice should govern the convention and urges fair play against tampering or trickery.
Official Taylor county returns show Harris leading for governor with 702 votes. Senate results list Brown over Smith for long term, Cooper over Felder and Hardwick, Hutchens, Slaton in the short term, plus multiple state and district offices and a 3rd district congress race outcome.
In Schley county Georgia near Americus Judge E B Barrow dies instantly when a horse team hauling a marble monument to his son’s grave at La Crosse runs away and overturns the wagon crushing him. He was an esteemed citizen and court official.
A key bill from the Legislature orders the abolition of county treasurer offices in several Georgia counties. The measure advances to a November referendum where most counties likely will opt to end this unnecessary role.
Aug 21 Talbotton J J Lumpkin, 31, a rural mail carrier, shot himself in his room about 11 am. He left notes to his mother and Postmaster W O DeLoach citing financial trouble after his accounts were found straight. Survived by his mother and two brothers in the county.
In Jackson Mississippi on August 19 Bishop W L Lambuth of the Methodist Episcopal Church South appeals to Southern Methodists to raise at least 1000 dollars for relief of Belgian sick and wounded soldiers.
Georgia voters and counties show Governor John M. Slaton leading in unit votes and the popular tally for the upcoming state convention in Macon on September 1. He appeals to supporters to resist political tricks and stay the course as official returns confirm his lead.
Washington August 19. Attorney General James C. McReynolds of Tennessee was nominated by President Wilson to succeed the late H. H. Lurton as a justice of the Supreme Court. Thomas Watt Gregory of Texas was nominated for Attorney General.
Washington Aug 14 The southern cotton congress endorsed cooperation with federal and state authorities to weather the market crisis from the war. It backed financing and marketing measures, approved a Wingo bill for federal reserve notes on cotton, and urged growers to hold cotton at 12 1 2 cents per pound based on middling. A plan urges a $30,000,000 reserve loan pool in southern banks and farmer loans secured by half their crop, with notes due in six months and renewable.
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