Week in Georgia brings deaths and fires across the state
MEWS summary covers W. S. Sikes found dead in Metter, a major fire at Douglas negro high school in Thomasville, two convicts escaping Milledgeville prison, and multiple auto accidents leaving 14 dead on Georgia highways. It notes highway contracts, court rites for Jack C. Reddick, Jr., and various local government updates including Thomaston construction plans and city elections in Albany and Hapeville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William G. Duncan
Albert Turcker
Milledgeville
Jack C. Reddick, Sr
Screven
Sylvania
Harris elected Buena Vista mayor in 56 to 44 win
Buena Vista Georgia December 6 O P Harris Marion county judge defeats opponent John Butts for mayor in a Monday election tally Harris 56 votes Butts 44 votes and Harris becomes mayor effective immediately.
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Harris IS
Buena Vista
O. P. Harris
Marion County
John Butts
Harris
Butts
Whiskey Bill Presented to the Lower House
A bill to legalize manufacture and sale of liquor in 25 Georgia counties was introduced in the state house by Ross Thomas of Chattooga. The counties listed include Bacon Baker Atkinson Berrien Bryan Bulloch Candler Camden Chatham Dougherty Echols Emanuel Brantley Fulton Glynn Lowndes Miller Mitchell McIntosh Muscogee Pierce Richmond Seminole Treutlen and Ware. The counties are those where 60 percent or more voted for repeal on June 8.
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Atlanta
Georgia
House of Representatives
Ross Thomas
Chattooga County
Bacon, Baker
Atkinson
Berrien
Bryan
Bulloch
Candler
Camden
Chatham
Dougherty
Echols
Emanuel
Brantley
Fulton
Glynn
Lowndes
Miller
Mitchell
McIntosh
Muscogee
Pierce
Richmond
Seminole
Treutlen
Ware
Two Derby Youths Complete 200 Mile Hike to Atlanta
Tired and cold University of the South hikers David Rose and Chas Robinson of Nashville reached Atlanta after a rough 70 hour trek from Sewanee. Two companions Bellford and Kirchoffer dropped out due to foot trouble and injuries before finishing the journey.
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Atlanta
University of the South
Sewanee
David Rose
Chas
Robinson
Nashville
Tenn
Lee Bellford
Savannah
Dick Kirchoffer
Mobile
Ala
Bellford
Jasper
Kirchoffer
Chattanooga
Bishop H. J. Mikell
Status of Major Bills In Assembly In Atlanta
Summary of major bills in Georgia’s extra session. Senate measures include $300 exemption on household and kitchen furniture and $2,000 exemption on owner occupied homes. civil service for state employees with non competitive tests. and a widows pension act for Confederate veterans pre 1920. House measures cover beer tax increase, treasury stabilization fund about $1.5 million, intangibles tax, tax commissioner, soft drink and amusement taxes, and theater tax.
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Senate
Ways and Means Committee
House
Treasury Stabilization Fund
Ways and Means
Columbus Lions and Firemen Assemble Christmas Toys
In Columbus Georgia on December 6 the Lions Club reports more than 3000 discarded toys donated for a Christmas effort. The Columbus fire department repairs the toys for distribution by the Family Welfare Bureau to needy city children.
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Columbus, Ga
Columbus
Lions’ Club
Columbus Fire Department
Family Welfare Bureau
Back Salary Claim Lost by Ex Jurist
Former Judge G H Howard of Fulton superior court lost his bid to collect 3166.65 in back salaries as the Georgia Supreme Court reversed a lower court ruling. The high court held Fulton County Commission could reduce salaries including supplements provided by the county with two justices dissenting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
G. H. Howard
Fulton Superior Court
Supreme Court
High Court
Fulton County Commission
Safety Leader Latids Plan to Instruct Georgia Children
Miss Marian Telford of New York, consultant for the National Safety Council, gave preliminary approval in Atlanta to Georgia's plan to teach safety to about 700,000 elementary students. She met State Superintendent M. D. Collins and Assistant L. L. Perry and urged uniform safety instruction and broad cooperation with safety educators statewide.
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Marian Telford
New York
National Safety Council
Georgia
Atlanta
M. D. Collins
L. L. Perry
Telford
Plans Set for Third Annual Fat Beef Cattle Show
Atlanta plans a three to be fat beef cattle show and sale next April 1920 under the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce with 4-H Club Boys and Future Farmers of America participation. Homeraised cattle compete for added prizes in sections for 4-H and FFA exhibits restricted to Georgia. Entries via secretary of the pest cattle show.
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Atlanta
Atlanta Chamber of Commerce
Liv
Farmers of America
Georgia
FFA
Pest Cattle Show
Moore to Direct Georgia Campaign for 1940 Funds
J N Moore, editor of the Mill edgeville Union Recorder and Georgia Press Association president, was named director of the 1940 Georgia Democratic campaign. A statewide committee system will solicit $25 000 with 25 percent allocated regionally. The drive runs to January 8 ending with a Jackson Day dinner in Atlanta.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. D. Rivers
Virginia Price
Chas S. Neid
Democratic Executive Committee
Zach Arnold
J. N. Moore
Georgia
Moore
Milledgeville Union Recorder
Georgia Press Association
Atlanta
Kingman P. Lowe dies in Roberta after illness
Kingman P. Lowe aged 67, former Crawford County Clerk of Court, died at his Roberta home after an extended illness. He served 18 years as county clerk and led the Federal Land Bank savings in Crawford County. Survived by wife Maggie Walker, son K. P. Lowe Jr, daughter Mrs. John Clark, brother C. B. Lowe, sister Mrs. Kizzie Painter, and other relatives. He was active as a trustee and steward of the Roberta Methodist Church.
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Roberta
Kingman P. Lowe
Crawford County
Federal Land Bank
Crawford
Butts
Upson
Lowe
Jacob Lowe
Josephine Culverhouse Lowe
Maggie Walker
K. P. Lowe, Jr
John Clark
C. B. Lowe
Kizzie Painter
Tampa
Fla
Huge Road Fund Ready for State
Georgia received 3,643,150 dollars in federal road funds for 1937 highway construction. At the start of the current fiscal year the state held a credit balance of 13,264,792 dollars awaiting approved construction plans before payment.
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Washington
Georgia
Bureau of Public Roads
Would-Be Police to Start Course in Georgia
Forty-five high ranking applicants for Georgia highway patrol trooper positions begin a six weeks training. They were chosen from 603 applicants by competitive exams. Special instructors include Major Walter Lecraw teaching elementary criminal law, Attorney General M. J. Yeomans on motor vehicle laws, and Lieut. Don L. Kooken on police methods.
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State Highway Patrol
Atlanta
Georgia
Highway Patrol
Walter Lecraw
M. J. Yeomans
Don L. Kooken
Indiana
Six safes looted in Atlanta crime wave
Thieves cracked five safes and forced a grocery man to open another in what police call the worst safe cracking spree in years. Losses exceed $2,200 with cash and checks taken from Standard Oil warehouse and other DeKalb County stores including Wocord Oil Campbell Coal and Great Savings Store.
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Macon
Danville
Emhart
Jeffersonville Road
Atlanta
DeKalb County
Standard Oil Company
Wocord Oil Company
Campbell Coal Company
National Shirt Shops
Regal Shoe Co
Great Savings Store
Negro Bandit
Hyman Roseman
Orphans Home Truck Drive by Epworth League
The County Epworth League Union plans a truck load of food for the South Georgia Orphans Home in Macon next week. Readers are urged to donate produce or canned goods at central gathering points in Reynolds Butler Crowell Union Wesley Howard Mark and other towns to send a big truck to Macon.
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Epworth League Union
South Georgia Orphans Home
Macon
Reynolds
Butler
Crowell
Union
Wesley
Howard
Mark
Pinehurst
Baptists of
Georgia
Hapeville
Edgar A
Martin
Taylor Woman Farmer Asks Bankruptcy Aid
In Columbus Georgia on December 6 Mrs Cora Spillers Vann of Taylor county filed a petition for an extension of time to pay debts under section 76 of the bankruptcy act for farmers. She asks to enjoin Ed Youngblood who holds a 1400 dollar judgment and Sheriff J M Bone from selling her 105 acres under foreclosure set for December 7. A temporary restraining order was signed by Judge Deaver. Debts total 1492 with assets 860 including land.
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Columbus
Cora Spillers Vann
Taylor County
Chas
C. Stone
Butler
Deaver
Life and marriage told in a Sunday reminiscence
The piece treats married life as a gradual, comic yet real journey from courtship to building a home. It contrasts the fantasy of romance with daily routine, hunger for stability, and the joys of family, home, and church life over the years. It reflects on commitment, children, and the calm rhythms of Sundays.
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John
Charlie
Embezzlement Charge Outlined Against Carswell in Macon
Jno M Carswell 38 of Macon held in Bibb county jail on a warrant accusing embezzlement from Kingman and Everett Inc where he worked for about 12 years. Kingman reports shortage running into thousands of dollars and Carswell had not posted 19000 bond. Sheriff deputies arrested him in the company's offices after he had served as clerk and traveling salesman. Carswell says Kingman overreacted and declined to comment further.
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Macon
Jno
Bibowel
Kingman and Everett, Inc
R. H. Kingman
Wholesale Grocery Company
Carswell
Harris
W. H. Bowden
Kingman
Everett
Anchor of Home Amid Life’s Storms
A meditation on the home as a family refuge and anchor. The text describes the house as a harbor from life's storms and a steadying force that sustains families both in this world and beyond. It stresses rest, reading the paper, and finding stability in a right kind of home.
A Woman's Heart and Life Demand A True Love
A dramatic poem by Lena Lathrop argues a woman's worth rests on moral perfection and devotion, not domestic service. It questions if a man can match a woman's elevated standards and vows a life of true love or else forsakes a hoped union.
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Uou
Heaven
Hell
Lena Lathrop
Atlanta lottery violators get straight chain gang terms
Four defendants in Fulton County Criminal Court were sentenced to hard labor on Monday under Judge Jesse M. Wood’s no-fine policy for convicted "bug" men.
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Atlanta
Fulton Criminal Court
Jesse M. Wood
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W. S. Sikes
Iron Lung Fund
Thomasville
State Highway Board
East Lee and
South Green Streets
Thomaston
Willie Bob Crittenden
Shellman
Dawson-Albany
Albert W
Corn” Shepherd
Little Rock
Ark
T. G. Head
State Revenue Commission
W. H. Carroll
W. J. Collins
Albany
W. B. Owens
R. E. Davis
W. A. Pye
City Commission
W. T. Wisdom
A. L. Page
Catauta
Columbus City Hospital
Bill Schaffer
Bull Davis
Alex Jonason
Americus
F. McLaughlin
Superior Court
Chattahoochee
Fulton County Superior Court
E. D. Thomas
R. H. Barwick
Barnesville
Macedonia Primitive Baptist Church
Sasser
Dawson
The
Georgia Press Institute
Henry W. Grady School of Journalism
University of Georgia
Joseph New
Emerson Thomas
Starke
Vidalia
J. M. Thrash
South Georgia College At
Douglas
Brunswick
South Atlantic
G. B. Patterson
Florida
Georgia Bureau of Unemployment Compensation
Maud Curtis
Edgar B. Dunlap
Gainesville
Keith Morgan
N. J. Edgerly
Albany, Ga
Edgerly
Chicago
M. P. Jarnagin
University of Georgia College of Agriculture
United States
Canada
Albert W. Shepherd
Little Neck
Shepherd
Army Air Corns
Jimmy Buffington
Barbara Johnson
Florence Johnson
Buffington
Capitol Avenue
Mss Johnson
DERBY
General Assembly
Columbus Lions
Latids
Jene N. Moore
Democratic Party
Orphans Home
Taylor
Ino
Oa Weng
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